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/ /TV jcl / R, A/ c THE DAILY SUN. Published by the Atlanta Sun Publishing' Company. Alexander H. Stephen** J. Ilmly Smith, Proprietor*. Alexander H. Stephens* Political Editor. A. R. Watson, - - - - Xews Editor. J. Ilcnly Smith, General Editor and Busi ness Manager. Terms of Subscription * flincle Copy Pot Annum $10 00 Single oopy 81t Montbg 5 uO ■< “ For ales* period than Six Hon tbs - (per month) 100 CLUBS FOB THE DAILY. Three Copies One Year ;. 27 00 B» •• ; : SP : :: SSS Single Co jilt* Centt. WEEEXY PER ANNUM : Single Copy., H'~ ? JJ" ThreeCorie* ••• " Fire ** 8 00 Ten " 18 80 One Hundred Copies ....125 00 WEEKLY—SIX MONTHS: Slnglo Copy, J 00 Ten " 7 60 .Twenty » J5 00 Fifty * 04 00 One Hundred Copies, Six Months..! 66 00 Single Vopln ...D t’oill. FOR GOVERNOR: Ho*. JAMESAt. SMITH Or MVSCOGEE. world, that the people of this country, , The hill provides that nothing con- are still capable of Self-Government. 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In order to establish uniform rates of advertising for the Daily Press of Atlanta, we have adopted tho foregoing schedule of prices, and will be governed by them in the future. W. A. HEMPHILL & CO., Proprietors of the Constitution. S. W..OBUBB, BusinessManagor, of tho New Eta. J. HENLY SMITH, Manager. Of Tho Atlanta Sun, CONTENTS Election: Tuesday, December 19,-1871 This can only be done by allowing every one entitled to vote, under the Constitution and the laws, to exercise his own free choice; and iu not permitting any one to vote, who is not so entitled. A. H. S. Tuesday, December 12th, 1871. “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” FOB TDK WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 1871. Page 1—The Retirement of Mr. Speights. Tho Governor’s Election. Editorial Notes, Etc. Page The Strides of Empire. The Accounts of Henry Clews & Co. Sun-Strokes. The Great Cotton Case. Georgia Western Railroad. Mayor’s Court. 8booting Affair. Georgia Matters. Geor gia Legislature—Twenty-Ninth Day’s Proceedings, etc., etc. Page 3.—Telegrams. The Supreme Court of Georgia Once More. The Democratic Nominee for Governor. A Railroad to Elberton. Sun-Strokes. Burned to Death with Petro OIL Divided. Elbert Branch Air,Lino Railroad. Page 4.—Card to the Public. The President’s Message. The Georgia Scnatorship. Degrading the Service. The Public Debt. Riding a Hobby Outside of the Ring. Adopting Radical Slanders. Next Conference. Sun-Strokes. “For Cowes and a Market.” Swedish Servants. Murder in Jackson County, Florida. Errors. Negro Riot. Mayor’s Court. Georgia Legislature—Thirty-Second Day’s Proceedings. Page 5.—Telegrams. Tho Nomination of Col. Smith. The Home Fire Insurance Company. A Bond Meeting. Mayor's Court. “At.” The Kill- lug of Dr. McDaniel In Bartow. Telegrams. Sun Strokes. Soul and Body. I'so Paid my Tax. Obit uary. New Advertisements, etc. Page G.—Proceedings of tho Democratic Conven tion. Democratic Rally. The Great Work of tho Day. Georgia Legislature—Thirtieth Day’s Pro ceedings. No Candidate. Page 7.—Meeting in Columbia County. State Matters. Mulish. Telegrams. A Ring of the True Metal. Sun-Strokes. Trial of Rev. J. L. Pierce. The Arrests in Union, South Carolina. Appointments of North Georgia Conference for 1872. Telegraph News. Georgia Sheriff Sties— Sale Day First Tuesday in January, etc. Page 8.—Georgia Legislature. Commercial, etc. The Retirement of ftlr. Speights. Oar readers were informed by the card of Mr. A M. Speights, in the Saturday’s isane of this paper, or his retirement from The Atlanta Sun Publishing Company, and of the assignment by him of his en tire interest in the same to the under signed. For the kind terms in which he was pleased to speak of the undersigned in that cord, and onr uniform kind relations while associated in this enterprise, we very mnch regret that continued absence from Atlanta, and confinement at home, prevented that immediate response to these sentiments of his valedictory, which tho feelings of cordial friendship so in stantly prompted; and which, but for the reason staged, would have gone with it to the country. Wo now say that our ac quaintance with him commenced with our joint connection with The Sun office. We have found him, upon all occasions, as we expected, a prompt, energetic, de cided mom Not a jar ever occurred be tween us upon matters of politics, busi ness or anything else. He leaves with onr kindest feelings and best wishes. In whatever new pursuit or enterprise he may engage, he carries with him our eainest desire that he may be as success ful as he has been in the establishment of The Atlanta Sun. Without boasting, we may take the occasion to say to its friends and patrons, that it now has a circulation in every State and organized Territory of the Uni ted States, with rapidily increasing lists of subscribers from all quarters and sections. This is encouraging.— The Sun is enlisted in behalf of no par tisan Clique, Combination or “Ring” what ever. Its cause is that of the people, and Constitutional Liberty, upon Democratic Principles, everywhere. A H. S. I cordially unite with Mr. Stephens in all that he says in the foregoing card con cerning Mr. Speights and his retirement from the copartnership heretofore exist ing between us. Our intercourse has been harmonious, and. the work of build ing up The Sun from the first to its pres ent position has engaged his earnest thoughts and efforts, and its success is a matter of pride to himself as well as to all concerned. Our circulation, we have no donbt, is the largest in the State, and is rapidly increasing every day. We are truly tlankful to the pnblio for the popular favor with which The Sun has been re ceived, and we hope soon to have the largest circulation of any paper in the whole South. J. Henly Smith. Washington, December 11.—The case of Ward vs. the State of Maryland, in error from the Supreme Court of Mary land, was up to-day. In this case the plaintiff in error was indicted in the State Court for violation of the Statute against sales by sample by non-residents without lieense, and the Court affirmed the right of the State to exact the license. This court holds that the Statute of Maryland is a violation of that clause of the Constitu tion which guarantees to the citizens of each State all the rights, privileges, &c., of the citizens of the several States, and that it is, therefore void. But the view is taken that it is not a violation of the commercial clause of the Constitution if the tax is equally laid on residents and non-residents. Mr. Justice Clifford de livered the opinion of the Conrt. Mr. Justice Bradley concurred in the opinion as to the first brauch of the decision; but dissented as to the second, holding that tho statute is a violation of the com mercial clause of the Constitution, be cause it is a regulation of commerce be tween the States and that is repugnant to this clause of the Constitution, with out regard to the equity of the tax. The Treasury of the United States, at Uie request of Spinner, has been placed in the hands of a committee appointed by BoutwelL The investigation will consume several months. In the mean time there will be no interruption of bu siness, as the committee will, from day to day, supply Spinner with the funds needed for the day. The Law for the Special Elec tion for Governor. This Act was passed by the Legislature, over Conley’s veto, on the 23d November, and provides for a special election to be held on Tuesday, the 19th instant, for a Governor, to fill Bullock’s unexpired term. • , # . It requires the managers of the election to seal up the returns, and direct them “to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the. House of the Representa tives;” and to transmit the same to .“.the person exercising the duties of Governor for the time being, who shall, without opening said returns, cause the same to be laid before the Senate, if the Senate be in session when received;” and if re ceived during the recess, then so soon as the General Assembly convenes. The Senate is required forthwith to transmit said returns to the House of Representatives; and the two Houses, convened in the Representative Chamber, are to open the returns, count and pub lish the vote, and “declare the result of said election, as provided by Article 4, Section 1, Paragraph 3 of the Constitu tion;” and the Governor thus chosen shall be inaugurated the next day thereafter at 12 ii. An act' supplemental to this has been passed, and becomes a law. It provides as follows: In addition to the returns provided for by law, said managers of the election to be held on the 3d Tuesday in Decem ber, 1871, shall also make out a second original of their consolidated returns, signed precisely as the one already re quired by law, and certified in the same mode. After sealing up the same care fully in an envelope directed to the President of tho Senate and Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, at Atlanta, Georgia, said managers shall enclose the same in an other envelope directed to the President of the Senate, Atlanta, Goorgia. These election returns shall be received and counted as the returns are now re ceived and counted by law, and shall have as much weight as evidence to determine who is elected Governor ; Provided that nothing in this act contained shall he held so as to relieve any officer of our State, from any duties now provided by law in relation to returns of the elec tion of Governor of the State. to pledgejhe State of Georgia to the pay ment of any bonds issued or indorsed by the State since the4th day of July, 1SGS, by reason of said bonds being registered, should it afterwards appear that the same have been illegally or fraudulently issued. This is a full and clear statement of the provisions of the bilk There is nothing in it to which an honest man will object. It is only those who have ill-gotten gains in their hands, which they fear they will have to disgorge, who can can find any fault with the bill—so it seems to us Tlse Qualiflcatioa of Voters. The law, as it now stands, prohibits any one from voting, who has not paid his tax for last year-1870. The Bul lock Legislature declared the poll tax of 1868, 1869 and 1870, illegal, and forbade its collection. The present Legislature has repealed that act, and requires every body to pay up all taxes for the three years past; so that all who were relieved by the act of the Bullock Legislature must yet pay up all back due3 for taxes. The Constitution requires that all vot ers shall have paid tax, for the year preced ing that in which the election is held; consequently those who have paid all tax for 1870, can vote, and those who have not cannot vote. The Governor’s Election. We urge upon the Democracy of Geor gia to bear in mind that next Tuesday, the 19th instant, is the day fixed by law, for the election of a Governor, to fill tho vacancy occasioned by the res ignation and flight of Bollock. The time is short. The weekly issue of Tun Sun for this week, is the last before the day of election, and we appeal to every well wisher of the State’s best in terests, to bestir himself during the few intervening days, in giving information to his neighbors, and seeing to it, that no one who can attend shall be absent from the polls. The present indications are that the Radical Party will have no candidate in the field; but how this will turn out in the end, no one can now venture positively to affirm. Their ways are dark, and their schemes are as wiley as they are wicked. Let every Democrat, therefore, be at his post This is the post of duty as well as safety. We republish, in another column, the substance of the law under which the election is to be held, that there may be no mistake, either as to the time, or how, the election is to be held, or how the returns are properly to be made. We are, as we have often said, for law and order in all things; and in this election we urge upon the Democrats throughout the State, to conform strictly to the law. Let them resort to no improper means; we trust that no one will attempt any vi olence, intimidation or influences, ex cept such as accompany appeals to the good sense of men in inducing them to rectify abuses in Government, and vin dicate the dignity of the elective fran chise. The Ruling Dynasty are endeavoring to bring our whole Representative System ofFree Institutions into disrepute, by a degradation of the franchise. Let it be the honor and glory of the Democracy, Tlie Bill to Protect the People of Georgia Against the Fraud ulent Issue of Bonds and Secu rities. This important Bill, which acting Gov ernor Conley has vetoed, and which is absolutely necessary to save ns from the huge swindle of Kimball, Bullock, Blodgett, Clews, and the remainder of the Plundering Ring, recites that divers bonds, purporting to be bonds of the State of Georgia, and divers bonds bear ing the indorsement of the State, have been issued and put in circulation by Rnfos B. Bullock, and that divers bonds issaed prior to his administration have been negotiated by him ; and Further; that it is believed that a large portion of said bonds have been illegally and fraudulently issued and ne gotiated, the extent and amount of which is unknown to the General Assembly, It is, therefore, enacted that a commit tee of three—one from the Senate and two from the House—be appointed, who shall have full power and authority to examine and ascertain the number of bonds which have been issued, and the aggregate amount thereof, and so far as they have been sold or hypothecated, by whom sold, the amonnt of money paid, to whom paid, when paid, for what pur pose negotiated, and all other facts con nected with the history of said bonds, and to report the same to the General Assembly at its next session. The committee is required to meet and sit in the city of Atlanta daring a term not exceeding sixty days, commencing March 1, 1872, and are invested with full power and authority to examine witnesses under oath, to send for persons, books and papers, and to exercise such other powers as may be necessary to earry into effect the provisions of the act. And all persons holding bonds of the State of Georgia, or having the indorse ment of said State, issued since July, 1868, are hereby required to report the same to said committee for registration on or before the 1st day of April, 1872, and upon failure so to report said bonds, and to submit the same for registration, the same shall be deemed (prima facie) to have been illegally or fraudulently issued; and the Treasurer of the State is prohibited from paying any interest on any b nds issued, negotiated or indorsed by the State since the 4th day of July, 1868, until the said committee shall have Benjamin Conley seems to be fighting for the Bond Ring. He wants the Legislature to adjourn, and is resorting to untenable measures to force them to do so. He seems not to want the illgot- ten gains of the Ring legislated out of their hands. The Constitution provides that the [ this emergency Impostor produced $220 Pickpockets Make a Perilous Leap Some days ago an unsuspecting emigrant from South Carolina, whilo waiting at the Passenger Depot for a connecting train which was to bear him, with his family, to the Far West, was approached by an individual who introduced himself an emigrant bound for the same destina tion. After somo commonplace conver sation, the impostor, (for’ such ho was) under pretense of showing him tho city, induced the South Carolinian to walk with him up tho street. Impostor was presently approached and accosted by a man who represented himself as the Ex press Agent, and threatened to con fiscate his baggage unless the freight was paid on them instantly. In Trying to Ruin the State.—Benj. Conley, now exercising the functions of Governor, vetoed the bill to protect the people against fraud! He seems opposed to honesty and in favor of fraud. His veto message is ridiculous. It looks like he was aiming to save an infa mous, plundering Ring. We publish a fair abstract of the bill. We have not the space to-day to publish the veto, or notice its errors and sophis try. We state the following facts: It is ascertained that Bullock has hy pothecated—pawned—hundreds of thou sands of dollars of Gold Ronds upon which he has had advanced from 40 to 70 cents on the dollar. One banking house in New York holds Nine Hundred Tkottsand Dollars, of onr bonds, on which they have advanced only $370,- 000. Another has $150,000, on which they have advanced $130,000, and another has $50,000, on .vhich they have advanced $35,000. It is charged, and we believe definitely known, that Bollock and others hypoth ecated currency bonds of the State, which had been redeemed and taken up and shoo) ! have been canceled. Tttie coupons on all these bonds are lithographed and the Treasurer’s name forged on thepa. These coupons cannot be paid, unless the bonds are brought to the Treasurer’s office and by him de tached. They can be easily counterfeited, can be lithographed by the million. It is suspected that there are numerous bonds out which are forgeries—not even having the merits of “illegal is sues.” It will require Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars a year, to pay the interest on the bonds of - the State, which are known to be legal and right, while it will take about a million and a half! to pay the interest on the bonds which are known and believed to be out—most of them unlawfully, and for which the State has never obtained “val ue received.” What else than an intention to conceal the truth and a desire to defraud the State and the people, can actuate those •who oppose full investigation, and a com plete showing of hand? Those who value their reputation had better put themselves on the side of the people and favor protecting them against fraud. No honest man is afraid to show his hand, or will oppose the fullest ex hibit. It is only those who are dishon est who will object to letting— not only the Legislature, but the world —know what they have and how they came by it. We don’t care how much trouble and expense are imposed upon dishonest men, thieves and public plun derers. The Ringmen cry out against the cost and trouble of sending in their bonds and submitting them to an honest scrutiny, as a great hardship. Why ?— It will cut down their dishonest emolu ments to an honest standard—that is all. These men who raise this cry of repu diation, are advocating a course that will forever ruin our credit. They want us to assume and agree to pay obligations which are dishonest, and which we cannot and should not pay; and which will ne cessitate repudiation. The way to sus tain our credit and, keep the State from reproach is, to ascertain clearly what is right and pay it, and ^indignantly refuse to pay what is not right, and send to the penitentiary those who make dishonest demands upon ns. Legislature may prolong its session be yond 40 days, by a vote of two-thirds of each branch. Conley claims that such a resolution most be submitted to him for approval, and either receive his sanction, or be passed over his veto, as in case of other bills. He quotes Article^, Section 6, Paragraph 5 of the Constitution, as follows: “No provision in this Constitution for a two-thirds vote of both houses of the General Assembly shall be construed to waive the necessity for tiie signature of the Governor as in other cases, except in the case of the two-thirds vote required to over-ride the veto.” This claim is sophistical and untenable. It is. captious and contemptible, and would not be urged by one except a Rad ical or a friend of the Bond Ring, for an unworthy purpose. This provision of the Constitution has special reference to others in the same article, such as the organization of new counties, granting bank charters, &c., and does not refer to any provision of the Constitution outside of article 3, which any fair minded man will readily acknowledge, who takes the trouble to read it carefully. Article 4, Section 2, Paragraph 7, pro vides that “every vote, resolution or or der to which the concurrence of both honses may be necessary except on a ques tion of election or adjournment shall be presented to the Govornor,” etc. Both Houses, on Saturday, passed a resolution to continne the session until next Saturday by a two-thirds vote. That was a vote on a “ question of adjourn ment.” The subject of adjournment, and that alone, was involved in it. The question was, should the session be pro longed? They decided not to adjourn at that time, and therefore it was a question of adjournment, which, according to the Constitution, does not require tl;e Gov ernor’s approval His captions conduct is discreditable to his intellect. The Bond Meeting a Bust.—The meet ing of the Bond Ring, advertised to come off last night, was a dead failure; or if it was held, it was a secret conclave of the conspirators. Those handbills were not circulated. The truth is, nobody wanted that meeting, except the members of the rascally Ring, or their tools or dupes. The people of Atlanta could hot be hired to get up such a meeting; neither is there money enough in the State of Georgia to indace our citizens to attend such a meet ing, except for the purpose of giving their unqualified condemnation to any such demonstration. Every honest man aiding snch a demonstration cannot, in onr opinion, be anything else than the deceived dupe or agent of the Ring. Hauled Down.—Some one has kept the United States flag flying upon the Capi tol every day since the Legislature began its present session, till yesterday. It was Relaxed.—Both Honses of the Legis lature were in session till 12 o’clock last night, and transacted a very large amount of business. The acting Governor got off his stilts and sent in quite a number of messages approving bills, &o. It is understood that he is abont to cease his opposition to a continuance of the ses sion. Just before adjourning, both branches adopted a resolution that the continuance of the session was legal, and it was the duty of all departments of the State Government to recognize the same. The night proceedings will ap pear in onr next issue. Snarling Impudence.—The Constitu tion, of Sunday morning, contains the following dispatch: Private Dispatch to Private Parties in Atlanta.—New York, December 8, 1871.—Tom Scott will be elected next week as President of the Sonthern Pa cific, and unless the State of Georgia dis graces itself, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad will be connected with the enter prise. Otherwise, Georgia will have no connection with it, and the Southern Pa cific route will be from Marshall, Texas, via Little Rock, Memphis and Nashville to New York. We are at a loss to understand how it is that such a contemptibly impudent item as the foregoing appeared in the columns of the Constitution without a word of comment. The Yazoo Fraud.—A writer in Sun day’s Constitution, signing himself “An Old-Line Democrat,” says: The present Legislature of the State will be remembered as long as a noted Mississippi Legislature. The Democrat ic party can never stand this. Repudia tion will sink any party. When the pres ent excitement dies away the people will hold them to a terrible reckoning, blash for the State. • That man may may have been a Dem ocrat in days gone by, but we would not give mnch for lxis Democracy row. If he don’t own any bonds, and is not the the agent or attorney of some of the Bond Ring, he is in bad company. The xepu diation of the Yazoo Fraud, which was not half so villainous in principle as the great bond swindle of the present swin- in gold, and asked the L. C. Emigrant to accept that iu exchange for the same amount of greenbacks, promising to re deem the gold when they had arrived at Chattanooga. The emigrant suspecting nothing, readily made the exohange. After the parties had separated, the emigrant returned to the depot, and to satisfy himself, questioned the Express agent, who immediately told him he had been robbed, Upon examination of the gold, it turned to be counterfeit coin of a base metal. Capfc. Johnson, chief of tho police, was immediately acquainted with all the facts. After hearing a description of the parties he readily recognized them as William Gist and George L. Gist, notorious pick pockets. The pretended emigrant and bogus express agent were brothers and accomplices iu an infamous design to swindle the honest and unsuspecting South Carolinian. They were immedi ately arrested and committed to prison. Yesterday they were conducted to the court house to consult counsel for their ’ defense. They were placed in one of the rooms adjoining the court room. Dur ing a moment’s absence of the officer they both leaped from the window —a height of 25 feet—and rapidly took to flight. They were both recaptured— one before he had pro needed fifty yards, the other in a very few minutes. They said, after a few moments’ survey, they were convinced that criminals had no mercy before that court, and incurred the peril of breaking their necks as the wisest alternative. They have been re committed to prison, and will be tried * at an early day. Farmers, quit wearing out yonr hands shelling corn. Buy that Com Shelter from Evans & Walker. Death of an Aged Negro.—Creasy Hardy, a negro woman, said to be 116 years old, died at Hogansville, on tho 29th November. Her children say they have a family record, and that she was bom in Virginia, in 1755. It was reported on the streets last even ing that Benjamin Conley had de termined to close the doors of tho Senate and Representative Chambers this morning, and thus forcibly terminate the session of the Legislature. We baldly* suppose this is true—though we should/ not be surprised if such desperate thing should be attempted. Trying to Smoke Them Out.—We no ticed yesterday that the water supply in the Capitol was cut off, the water pipes out of order and the slops from the ab lations of members were accumulating, making the retiring rooms disgusting. Is this an attempt to force the Legislature to adjourn—to smoke them out, or stink, them to a close? Armed Guard.—A few persons last, evening predicted that this morning, Conley would have an armed guard sta tioned at the entrances of the Senate and Representative Chambers, to bring the session of the Legislature to a close. We- could not learn whether there was any foundation to base this prediction upon or not. John Wilkes Booth.—A gentleman was in this city on Sunday who amused some persons by declaring that Booth- was not dead, that the person killed in.. the spring of ’65, generally supposed to- have been Booth, was a Confederate soldier who had been wounded; that he knew certainly whereof he spoke, and that some day the people of this country would see his words verified. He even went so far as to say he knew where Booth was at present. A crowd stood abont him and listened te what he said.. suggested and believed that this was done because Mr. Conley regarded the session | dling Ring, did rot sink the party which as it is their high mission, to rescue and made their report, and the General As-1 at an end, and would not allow the flag repudiated it, nor injure the credit of save these Institutions, by showing to the sembly shall otherwise direct. to be hoisted. the State. The President recommends an increase - of the salary of the heads of bureaux in the various departments—men who hold “positions of responsibility, and requir ing ability and character to fill;” and adds: But few of the officials receive a compensation equal to the respectable support of a family, while their duties are such as to involve millions of inter est. In private life services demand compensation equal to the services rendered. A wise economy would dictate the same rule in the Government ser vice.” That sounds very well, no doubt, but. he says nothing about allowing these tal ented gentlemen to secure their living by services in “private life,” if the pay of their offices is not enough; neither does he say a word about increasing the pay of the common clerks in the Depart ments, who need it far more than the. heads of bureaux. Our opinion is that both the heads of bureaux, and the clerks also, are already paid enough, but that the latter are more- justly entitled to an increase than the - former. Mayor’s Court.—His Honor yesterday threw the city’s card right dexterously. At the conclusion of the first game he raked off $50 for the oity’s coffers.