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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
3.
THE DAILY SUN
Tlmrbday ? January 4tti ? 1871.
MARTIAL, JLA.WIN THE SOUTH
Suspension of the Charter of
Liberty.
Conclusion of the Speech of Hon.
John C. Conner, of Texas.
We published yesterday morning the
greater portion of a speech delivered at
Noblesville, Indiana, on the 18th of No
vember, by Hon. John C. Conner, Mem
ber of Congress from Texas. The con
cluding portions of that admirable ad
dress we have reserved for a separate
chapter, and they are given below. They
refer especially to the great wrong inflic
ted upon the people of certain sections of
the South, by the suspension of the writ
of Habeas Corpus, and the subjection of
civil to military authority. Mr. Conner
speaks forth the words of truth and so
berness, and what he says is worthy the
most careful attention of the readers of
The Sun. He deals some terrific blows
upon Badical doings in Texas—blows
that will be felt because they are armed
with the truth.
Mr. Conner said:
Speaking of martial law, calls to mind
the fact that the fathers had somethincr
to say upon that subject. You all under
stand that a declaration of martial law
involves the suspension of the privileges
of
THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS,
with all civil courts and civil tribunals.
And what is this writ of habeas corpus ?
It is everything. Without it no man can
be a freeman, and human liberty becomes
extinct. James Kent, the great Ameri
can commentator, says “it is a writ of
right, which every person is entitled to,
It is the base of English freedom and is
older than the Government of the United
States. It was extorted by our ancestors,
the Barons of England, when they gath
ered around the throne of their King at
Jlunnymede, long before the establish
ment of a white settlement on this conti
nent; and when fleeing from British op
pression, they came to settle in the wilds
of this Western land, Ihey brought with
them that sacred guarantee of English
freemen, and finally, having achieved
their independence of the mother coun
try-having carved out a nationality with
the sword, they framed a Constitution
for their government, and in it they
placed these words:
‘•Tho privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall
not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion
dr invasion the public safety may require it/*
That, my countrymen, is the language
of the Constitution, and the Supreme
Court of the United States has decided
in a case that went up from your own
State, that even in cases of rebellion and
invasion, when the public safety might
require it, as expressed in the Constitu
tion, there is but one power in this
country that can suspend the writ of ha
beas corpus, and that is the Congress of
tbe United States. The President can-
net legally suspend the writ of habeas cor
pus, though he is usurping that power
every now and then. The language of
the Constitution of the United States is
copied, word for word, in the Constitu
te : of the State of Texas, with the ad
ditional provision that in tho contingen
cy of rebellion or invasion, the Legisla
ture alone has the power to act. Iu the
face of these expressed constitutional
provisions, both State and National, we
have Grunt suspending the habeas corpus
iu South Caroiiua, and Governor Davis
declaring martial law in Texas. And
when we ask them why it is that
they do these things, they will answer
that it is all done in the name of law and
order.
LAW AND ORDER!
I know of no two words in the English
language that have been so outraged and
abused by tbe paid emissaries of despot
ism as those words. “Law” and “order*”
Whenever there is a fresh crime to be
perpetrated, or a new aggression to be
inode upon tho constitutional guar
antee of personal* freedom, it is always
made necessary, say these advocates
or friends of despotism, by the demands
of law and order. It was in tho name
of law and order that the second
Phillip made a graveyard of Belgium.
It was law and order which struck Po
land from the roll of nationalities. It
was law and order that tempered the axe
for the head of Madame Boland. It was
law and order that erected the scaffold
upon which tlie youthful Emmett stood.
It was law and order that burned the
Maid of Orleans at the stake. It was
law and order which, but a few months
ago put to death 20,000 of the beat men
of France, and caused the Boulevards of
Paris to run ankle-deep with the blood of
patriotic Frenchmen; and here, iu our
own beloved land, it is in the name of
law and order that the President blots
• out human freedom in certain sections of
South Carolina, aud that Governor Davis
tramples ruthlessly upon a Constitution
which he is sworn to protect and enforce.
This day and this hour there is no human
liberty in this land. We have the form
of a republic without auy of its substan
tial benefits. You, gentlemen, come out
to hear me talk to-night, by no right of
your own, but by the gracious indulgence
of Ulysses S. Grant, lor he, as President,
with the powers conferred by tbe Ku-
Klnx bill, may at any moment declare
Indiana a military camp, as has Governor
Davis the county of Limestone, in Texas.
You may close your eyes to these facts
if you will, and vote to sustain
THE GRANT-MOBTON-BCTLER DYNASTY,
with the hope that these existing usurpa
tions will always be confined to, or never
extend beyond the limits of the Sonthem
States, but let me ask you if such reflec
tions are in keeping with the history of
the past ? You go into the quarry, and
it is not the first lick that burst the gran
ite rock; you pass into the forest and it
is not the first stroke that fells the giant
oak. Though each successive stroke
makes the oak grow weaker, many
must be stricken before the forest re
sounds with the crashing of its breaking
aims. Thus is it with our institutions.
\\ ltn our increased resources and the
great industry and intelligence of our
people, our system of government,
though republican, becomes a strong
one. It can stand many blows and many
usurpations.
THE SCHEMES OF THE AMBITIOUS SOLDIER
who sits at the head of this government
io-day, and occupies tbe place once filled
by good and pure meu, is dreaming of
an easy victory, and confidently counting
upon the hour when he shall apportion
the several States of this Union as
princely dependencies among his faithful
favorites. And should lie be re-elected
President he may realize his dream. He
knows the people with whom he has to
deal, and like a good General, as he is,
he is vanquishing this country by de
tail. His attention is now directed to
the Southern wing, and when he has
prepared that section for tbe empire he
will direct tiis energies Northward. He
is playing a deep game. He knows full
well that no coup d dal can be successful
in this country so long as the people re
main uncorrupted or return their respect
for Bepublican institutions. Hence his
endeavors to corrupt those who are not
incorruptable, and disgust those who re
main honest. This is already the case in
South Carolina, and I will wager my ex
istence that her people to-day would wel
come an empire or any other form of
government that would or could protect
life or property, or secure them from the
organized and systematized plundering
and robbery to which they have been
subjected for the past few years. Do not
understand me to say that I believe that
tbe empire will come. I only say that
Grant desires it, and that it is possible.
THE HOPE OF THE COUNTRY
rests with the honest people. If they
are prepared to discard passions and re
turn to reason all may yet be well. But
it must be done by the honest laboring
people, and they must unite. The lead
ers, those of them who are disposed to
be honest, can not stay the revolution
which they inaugurated any more than
Bobespierre could stay the proceedings
of the revolutionary Assembly of France,
though he had organized it and been its
life and spirit. Since the day Charles
Sumner was caned in the United States
Senate Chamber he has been tbe life,
spirit and recognized leader of the Be
publican party. He gave it ideas and
fought its battles, when Grant drank
common whisky at the charity of his
friends in an obscure village of Illinois.
Last winter tbe Massachusetts Senator
dared to oppose tbe Sau Domingo job,
which was favored by the President.—
Grant issued his pronunciamento to the
Senate, and Charles Sumner as Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Dela
tions, is no more. Trumbull, Schurz,
Cox of Ohio, and a score of other lead
ers, have gone down iu their party at
the nod of the Executive, and the day
has passed when the political leaders can
save the country. The last hope is with
the people. The men of toil—the farm
era and mechanics, they are the last hope
of the country. The time nas come-
when the people must hold their officers
to a strict accountability. I
More than five thousand years ago the
allwise and the ever-living God, who
watches over the destinies of nationali
ties and of men, proclaimed from amid
the burning heavens, as a commandment
to men, these words:
“THOU SHALt NOT STEAL.”
OLD JELBERT AROUSING.
i
Railroad Meeting at Elberton.
A Most Important Enterprise—
The Air-Line Railroad and the
City of Atlanta Specially In
terested.
Let the American people take that for
a battle cry. Let them impress it upon
their hearts and stami) it upon their
banners, and then move forward steadily
and with a will, and all may yet be well.
Corruption will then cease, and the plun
derers who now disgrace official positions
will leave the country, or the State pris
ons will claim their own.
In conclusion, it affords me pleasure to
extend an invitation to all honest men to
come to Texas. I care not what may be
your party politis, if you are a good citi
zen you will meet with nothing but kind
ness*from our people. And more espe
cially do I call upon my young friends,
who are desirous of bettering their for
tunes by emigrating to a new State, to
remember that there is no spot on this
plunet where honest merit is more readi
ly rewarded than in the State of Texas,
The End of the World.
of
Just as we are entering another year of
trials and anxieties with the joyous an
ticipation that the next will be the anni
versary of peace and prosperity, a lunatic
soothsayer comes forward with a fore
boding prophesy of the end of the world
1873. These crazy predictions
crazier false prophets have harassed
few credulous people for every year for
tho last twenty, “aud the end is not yet.
The last convention of the mounte
bank hierarchs of the world’s destiny
assembled recently in Bochester, N. Y,
and decreed its destruction.
Dr. Barbour, is tbe wizzard harbin
ger of this anticipated catastrophe,
which, we presume, will he an event cal
culated to endanger human life in the
vicinity of its occurrence. He has been
lecturing on the subject from Boston to
Bochester. He has a series of charts,
whose mysterious Arabics demonstrate
this event with mathematical accuracy,
One of the prognostics of the coming of
Christ, be says, is the enormous propor
tions of the Commune, and tho threat
ening aspect. Wendell Phillips,
affirms, is a member; and, wben
in Boston he said that “Europe wasrest-
We ask the special attention of our
readers to the following proceedings of a
public meeting held in Elberton, Ga., on
the 28th instant, reported specially for
The Sun, making an auspicious move
ment in a most important enterprise.
We have, heretofore, noticed the great
importance of this connection to the
Air-Line Bailroad Company, and to this
city. It is an enterprise in which the
great Pennsylvania Central will find one
of the best investments it could possibly
make in this country:
At a meeting of the corporators, and
other citizens of Elbert and of Hart
counties, held at Elberton on the 2Sth of
December, 1871, for the purpose of adop
ting measures preparatory to a perma
neut organization of the Elberton Air-
Line Bailroad Company, John H. Gro
gan was called to the chair, and J. H.
Jones made Secretary.
Dr. D. A. Mathews being called upon,
explained the object of tbe meeting, also
the object had in view by the citizens of
this and adjoining counties in applying
for and obtaining a charter for the con
struction of a railroad from this town up
wards to the Air-Line.
He pointed out the great advantage it
would be to the community generally to
secure, by railroad, connection with the
railroad system of tbe Soutb, and alluded
to the fruitless efforts that had been made
in years past for tbe construction of a
road in the opposite direction, and insis
ted that the time had come when, by our
own efforts and the use of such means
as we can command, we must break out
from railroad isolation.
He had made estimates of the amount
of products of the county, and felt con
fident that, when the road is built, it will
prove to be, not only an important feeder
to the Air-Line, but itself a paying road;
*and he believed that when their attention
was properly called to it, those interested
iu the Air-Line would see this, and not
be reluctant in tendering reasonable aid.
He felt confident the result would be
that the produce of this country, chiefly
cotton, would be shipped as cheaply from
Elberton to Baltimore and other North
ern cities as from Augusta; and if so,
would render Elberton as good a cotton
market as Augusta.
Mr. Bowers, of Hart county, said he
was disposed to aid and take an active
part in the enterprise, and he felt assured
the people of Hart and Franklin would
do the same. Though the project had
been started but recently, the people had
got information of it and comprehended
its importance to them.
Mr. Van Duzer, of Elbert, said that as
to the question of means, the surplus
lands of the country were more than suf
ficient, if brought forward by the land
holder aud put into the enterprise on
prudent terms. He thought that a pru
dent use of the lands as a means, and
good management of the same by the
company when organized, would make
the undertaking a success. We want no
bogus subscription. Let every one who
subscribes stock make good his subscrip
tion by pledge of real estate.
Mr. Jones made an earnest speech ad
vocating the bnildiug of the road.
Mr. YanDuzer moved the appointment
of a committee of three for each of the
following counties, with power to add
others, to solicit subscriptions, to report
at a meeting to be held on the first day
of February next, at Elberton, for per
manent organization.
Accordingly, Dr. D. A. Mathews,
Clark Mattox and B. P. Eberhart, were
appointed the committee for Elbert.
Wm. F. Bowers, C. W. Christian and
John G. McCurry, for Hart.
S. W. Crawford, Joseph Yickery and
Wm. Knox, for Franklin.
Asa Deadwyler, Thurmon Sanders and
Wm. Scott, for Madison.
John Eberhart, Dr. Wm. Davenport
and John Martin, for Oglethorpe.
The meeting adjourned to meet, for
permanent organization, on the first day
of February, 1872.
J. H. Jones, Secretary.
Cartersville and Van >Vert Rail
road— -The Double Issue of
Bonds.
The disclosures iu this case are very
damaging to Clews and Conley, as well as
to the Bullock-Blodgett ring. They go
very far to extinguish the little glimmer
of hope that the friends of that shining
financial light and super loyal Republican,
Henry Clews, may have entertained as
to the fairness of his dealing in devdoping
Georgia credit and resources. The course
of Gov. Conley in seizing the road aud
placing it in tbe bands of a Beceiver for
Given under my hand and the seal of
office. David G. Coiting.
Secretary of State.
To all whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given, that we, tne
undersigned joint committee, appointed
by tlie President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House of Bepresentatives,
under authority of the foregoing act of
the General Assembly of Georgia, will
begin our sittings in the city of Atlanta,
State of Georgia, United States of Amer
ica, on the first day of Match, 1872, and
will remain in session until the first dav
Siebenefit ofthefraoJnJentbond holders ? f Ma J> ^ indicated
shows a degree of sympathy,, if not ofl^mu i- p
complicity, with this swindling ring, that I, a . t . ten l tlon 1 ° f f ow W or
must cut off from him the respect of fair boldiflgthe bonds o f t1 !® state pf Geor-
dealing men. There has been touch said | &% OV 5°. bonds of ? ailr0 . aas indorsed
by Conley in behalf of State honor and b y the of Geor S ia > and expect
the stain of repudiation. But these ut- tov^entthesame ‘r the f m “ ltte , e > lS
terances all show an undiscriminating to he ^ section of said act, as
bearing towards the interests of theplun- to £ he natl ? e °* the testimony required
derers, rather than for a vindication of Pelsons desmug to communicate mth
the right and justice to a plundered peo- comEQ1 ‘£f e ’. Wl11 address Tbomas J.
p\e.-Augusta, Ga., Conditulionalisf, 3d\ S ™ m ™ s ,' Chairman care of N. L. Au-
j an * gier, State Treasurer, Atlanta, Ga.
Signed at the Capitol, in the city of
Atlanta, State of Georgia, United
States of America, the 12th day of
December, 1871.
Thomas J. Simmons,
On the part of the Senate, and Chair
man of Joint Committee;
Garnett McMillan,
John L Hall,
On the part of the House.
LOCAL NOTES.
The Star of the South Lodge of
THE BONDS OF GEORGIA.
Official Notice to tlie Bondhold
ers.
AN ACT
To protect the people of the State of
Georgia against the illegal and fraudu
lent issue of bonds and securities, and
for other purposes connected with the
same.
Whereas, Divers bonds, purporting to __
the State, have been issued and put in streets on Monday, was organized on the
circulation by Bufus B. Bullock, late 14th November, 1870, by the efforts of
Governor of said State, and divers bonds Francis J. Peck, District Master,
issued prior to bis administration, have •_ ^
been negotiated by him: And, whereas, ^ ^ect is to diffuse thepnnciples
ifc is believed tliat a large portion of said Friendship, Love and Truth. Politics
bonds have been illegally aud fraudulent- are never mentioned in their Temple,
ly issued and negotiated, and the extent but Industry, Intelligence and Christian
of said bonds so issued and negotiated virtues are tauglit its members,
is unknown to this General Assembly. b _ .
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate The Order was established in this
and House of Bepresentatives of the State country by Peter Ogden, a colored man
of Georgia, That there shall be a commit- who went to England for that purpose,
Wttf Selena
Speaker of the House of Bepresenta- organized Lodges,
tives, who shall have full power and au- At their annual meeting in October
thovity to examine and ascertain the I last, the number of members reported in
number of bonds which have been is-
Geobgia Western Bailroad—Cham
ber of Commerce.—Tlie called meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce, we trust
will be largely attended. A question of
vital importance to tlie people of Atlanta
and the city at large, will bo discussed.
The matter of constructing the Georgia
Western Bailroad, has reached a ciisis
and we trust every citizen, and especially
every merchant and capitalist, will rally
to the rescue o£ this enterprise, of such
momentous interest to our future pros
perity. It seems to be the prevailing be
lief of the Board of Directors, that At
lanta ought to subscribe 81,000,000 stock
without delay, and thus invite capital to
an established enterprise. Maj. Camp
bell Wallace will address tho assembled
Chamber of Commerce on this question.
Mayor’s Court.—One poor offender
was dragged before the city tribunal yes
terday morning to encounter the last few-
tender sympathetic words of His Honor,
ere he abdicates his inquisitorial chair.
obadlah booney
as a diplomatic embassador from Au
gusta. He sought as an ally a lot of At
lanta benzine. This beverage invested
him with plenipotentiary powers, and in
his various exercises ho tried standing on
his head in a gutter. This species of
agility somewhat disarranged his cos
tume, to the detriment of the city’s idea
decency aud virgin modesty. For
such barbarous conduct he paid $10 and
costs.
sued as hereinbefore recited in the pre-
the United States was 8369; brethren re
amble of this act, and the aggregate h ir ed, 567; buried, 107; widows relieved,
amount thereof ; and so far as they have 90; amount paid to the sick during the
bt-en sold or hypothecated, by whom year, $9,247 42; for funerals, §5,650 06;
sold the amount of money paid, to whom for widow3 $ 2 ,290 98; for charity, §482
paid, when paid, for what purpose nego-1,., m
tiated, and all other facts connected with | k" - Total amount paid out, §_o,Si^ 00
tne history of said bonds, aud to report total invested, §14,080 91. Yalue of
the same to the General Assembly at its property on hand, §32,887 45. Cash on
next session. .. hand, $22,160 03. Total amount of cash,
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That 1
said committee so appointed, lie author
ized and required to meet and sit in the
city of Atlanta during a term not exceed
ing sixty days, commencing March 1,
property and investments, §70,299 56.
Already the Lodge in Atlanta has paid
out more than §200 for benevolent calls.
The members of the Order are among
1872, for the purpose named in the first „ , ,
section of this act, and said committee tbe mosfc orderl y and ™ d «strious colored
are hereby invested with fall power and men. No one having any bad habits, or
authority to examine witnesses under w ho is not earning an honest livelihood
oath, to send for persons, books and pa- | can become a member.
pers, and to exercise such other power as
may be necessary to carry into effect the
provisions of this act.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of said committee,
immediately after the appointment to
give notice of the time and place' of sit
ting by publishing this preamble and
The officers of this Lodge are Joseph
Hankerson, N. G,; David Howard, Y.
G.; Mitchell Cargyle, E. S.; Francis
Grant, Treasurer, and Francis J. Peck
P. N. G. District Master.
We commend this organization, and
act, at least two months prior to their I v?ish them every success in their efforts
sitting, in two newspapers in the city of e i eva t e their race, and make them
Atlanta two in the citv,«f New-SorJ, better men. In all such they shall
two in the city of London, and one in *
the city of Frankfort. have our hearty encouragement and good
Section 4. Be it enacted further, That wishes.
all persons holding bonds of the State of
Georgia, or bearing the indorsement of Investigating Committees. The com-
said State, issued since July, 1868, are mittees appointed near the close of the
hereby required to report the same tosaid session of the Legislature have been de-
srErgJXs?*•»
failure so to report said bonds, and to That on
submit tbe same for registration, tlie same j the conduct of bullock
shall be deemed prima facie to have been ^ investigating books connected with his
illegally or fraudulently issued.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, That
the Treasurer of said State be, and he is
hereby prohibited from paying any in
terest on any bonds issued, negotiated
They have not yet heard
The following is the or-
Georgia Western Bailroad Board.—
The Board of Directors of the Georgia
Western railroad, yesterday, adjourned
until Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock,
to meet in the office of John H. James,
without taking any decisive action, and
without pronouncing upon the report of
the Engineering Corps of the road. The
Chamber of Commerce will meet on
Tuesday night, and official action will be
deferred until after that time.
A Slight Error.—Maj. George B.
Chamberlain, U. S. Marshal, requests
to state that Mr. Holcome has not
been making arrests, nor was he accom
panied by United States soldiers. It
seems that he has been carrying on a sys
tem of black-mailing, with the hope of
bettering his financial condition at the ex
pense of the people of the counties
named. • There is no doubt that he has
acted the scamp to perfection.
We mentioned yesterday the return of
Bev. B A. Bonnbeim with his bride. On
Wednesday, the scholars of his school
assembled to offier their congratulations
to Mr. B. .and his lady, on which occas
ion some hours were pleasantly spent.
All partook of the good cheer which had
been bountifully provided. Mrs. L. C.
Scudder, who has had charge of the
English Department of the school, was
present, and contributed much to the
pleasure of the occasion.
TTut/p One Another.—The Singer
Sewing Machine Company, in its parade
New Years’ day, announced that they
spend their money where it is made. We
find that Mr. A. T. Finney of this city,
is making some fifteen or twenty wagons
for the company, and they are now hav
ing, in all, seventy-five wagons built in
the State. As good wagons can be made
in Georgia, as are made any where.
administration,
any testimony,
ganization:
John G. Nicholls, chairman, and C. J.
Important Arrest.—A notorious scal
awag by the name of Greene B. Hol
combe, of White county, who has been
playing the same role in White, Union,
Towns and other counties in North
east Georgia, that Skyles recently did,
in Dade, Gwinnett, and other places—
though in a far more offensive and outra
geous manner, has, at last come to grief,
after a carreer of villainy unparalleled in
this country.
This is the same creature who, we be
lieve, was instrumental in the ar
rest of Messrs. Palmer and Merritt, of
White—the one a bold and unswerving
lawyer, who has been prominent in con
demning the highhanded outrages of
or indorsed by the State since the 4th Wdlb of the Senate; alld E. F. Hoge,
day of July, 1868, until said committee „ . ,,-kivui +i,~
shall have made their report and the Gen- W. H. Payne, S. A. McNeil, o
eral Assembly shall otherwise direct. House. W. G. Irwin is employed as
Section 6. Be it further enacted, That c i e rk to the Committee. He is a short
nothing contained iu this act shall bo so L •*
construed as to pledge the State of * ,
Georgia to the payment of any bonds the management of the stateroad,
issued or indorsed by the State since the This Committee is investigating sus-
4th day of July, 1868, by reason of said | picious and unexplained claims, andmak-
bonds being registered as prescribed in • docketg G f tie same. They have is-
this act, should it afterwards appear that °. , , ... __ • fTlocc , oc ,
the same have been illegally or fraudu- saed subpoenas for eight or ten witnesses
lently issued. ! and solicit testimony from auy souice.
Section 7. Be it further enacted, That
Holcomb aud those ut his bidding; the
ieg on a volcano that threatened the de-! 0 ^ er> the Tax Collectorof White county,
struction of all her thrones,” he was only
predicting the civil convulsions that were
to precede the final grand overthrow.
Moreover, he said that if the church
failed to discern the signs of the times,
the world would; for “men’s hearts were
failing them for fear and for looking af
ter the things that are coming on earth.”
We trust the Doctor may i^ake a my
riad of converts, if by that means he will
institute a wholesome reform in these de
generate days.
Thanks, Thanks.—The editors and
printers in The Sun Office return their
sincere thanks to the ladies of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church South
for a New Year’s present of most deli
cious cake. It was much enjoyed by all.
The ladies of that Church have accom
plished much during the past year in
raising funds for the building of their
splendid Church edifice, which is still
incomplete. ^
The Federal Union announces the death
of John A. Breedlove, for many years
Sheriff of Baldwin county.
A negro man and a white woman got
themselves into it in Macon, by miscege-
nating.
the Governor be and is hereby author
ized and required to draw his warrant
upon the Treasury, in favor of said com
mittee or such persons as they may des
The Committee is composed of M. A
Candler, chairman, and W. L. Clark, of
the Senate; C. Snead, B. W. Phillips, W.
L. Goldsmith, of the House. CoL Phil-
ignate for an amount sufficient to defray fip Clayton, bookkeeper; John Doane.
the expenses of publishing this pream- c j er j^
ble. and such other printing as may be *
necessary to carry into effect the pro- t-airness or unfairness of the state
visions of this act. ROAD lease.
Sections. Be it further enacted, That This Committee has not yet fully or-
all laws and parts of laws militating ganized but wifi do so to-day. Judge
against this act be andthe same are here-1 cliairmaQj Df Nnn .
while coming here to settle with the'
Treasurer—an account of which arrests
we published recently.
This man Holcombe, we have been in
formed, has been arresting men, against
whom no gennine complaint had ever
been made by any one.
He bad a squad of soldiers to do his
bidding. He would trump up charges,
and have warrants issued having the ap
pearance of being legal; and on these
would arrest men of means, and compro
mise with them—turning them loose by
their paying such sums of money as he
would see fit to demand.
Our information may not be accurate,
and perhaps the facts are not exactly as
set for£h above; but what we have said
will give a fair idea of the manner in
which he has been behaving.
We learn that that the United States
Deputy Marshal arrested Holcombe on
the 1st inst. He will be brought to this
city for trial. His outrageous conduct
has been brought to the notice of the
United States authorities, and they have
moved in this matter.
The end approacheth. Let us be
thankful, be patient, and take courage.
by repealed.
L. N. Trammell,
President of the Senate.
T. W. J. Hell,
Secretary of the Senate.
James M, Smith,
Speaker House of Bepresentatives.
J. D. Y/addell,
Clerk House of Bepresentatives.
nally, of the Senate; Geo. F. Pierce, Jr.,
E. B. Hudson and G. M. Netherland, of
the House. A clerk will be elected to
day.
An Excursion to Florida.—We learn
j that Judge Hopkins, Solicitor-General
| Howell, and a few others, contemplate
taking a trip to Florida in a short time,
Pears.—-Messrs Garrett & Bro, receiv
ed another consignment of pears direct
from California yesterday. They were
superb specimens of that delicious fruit.
None such grow this side of the Bocky
Mountains. They are very large, very
luscious and very rare in this market.
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United States Court.—Tho case in
Equity, Egbert P. Smith, vs. Sheriff of
Spalding county, was remanded back to
the Superior Court of the same county.
The Court has adjourned until the sec
ond Monday in March, when a full dock
et may he expected.
Takes the Blame Himself.—We learn
that Bullock has furnished Foster Blodg
ett with a written statement, exhonerat
ing the latter from all blame in the Ten
nessee Car Company job—avowing that
all was done by his orders.
That Committee, chosen by acting
Gov. Conley to consider his case, and
advise him what course to pursue, we
have heard stated, consists of Hon. J. S.
Bigby, Hon. J. B. Parrott, and Ex-Gov.
J. E. Brown.
Subfcenas.—The Committee to in
vestigate the management of the Western
and Atlantic Bailroad under Blodgett,
have issued a big string of summons’
for a number of prominent officials on
the Boad at that time.
In Senate, December 9th, 1871.
Notwithstanding the veto of His Ex-. , . ,. , . ,,
cellency, the Governor, this bill has this and taking some recreation before the
day passed the Senate by a Constitution-1 meeting of the Superior Court,
al vote of two-thirds, being yeas 25, nays Both these gentlemen have been zeal
10 * k* Trammell, | ous ^ deYO ted their time earnestly to
President of the Senate.
W. A. Little, pro tern.
Secretary of the Senate.
In House, December 9,1871.
the discharge of their official duties
Judge Hopkins has won the confidence
and respect of the legal profession and the
community by the ability displayed, and
Notwithstanding the veto of his Excel- w'. jZ ,T"T Y 77T J .T -
lency the Governor, this bill has this day the impartiality shown in administering
passed the House of Bepresentatives by the law. He he truly become a terror to
a constitutional vote of two-thirds, being | evil-doers. Capt. Howell has been equal-
yeas 117, nays 20.
James M. Smith,
Speaker House Bepresentatives.
L. CABRiNGTON,
Clerk House Bepresentatives pro tern
I ly earnest and acceptable in the dis
charge of his duties. He makes a good
i officer.
Office Secretary of State, )
Atlanta, Ga., December 12,1871. i
The above and foregoing four pages of
written matter contain a true and correct
copy of the original of file in this office.
Theft.—Beuben Neal (colored), was
convicted of stealing harness from Mr.
A. Lu Fowler, on tho night of the 30th
December. He was required to give
bail
The many who have been recipients of
the polite attention of Mr. Pat. Fitz-
gibbon, the efficient keeper of the City
TTnll, hope that he will retain the posi
tion under the new Council. He is
surely the right man in the right place.
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The Injunction Case of Walton vs.
Benson, complaining of slaughter pen as
a nuisance has not yet been disposed of.
Judge Hopkins will render decision to
day, we learn.
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Ordinary’s Election in Sumter. On
Wednesday N. L. Dorman was elected
Ordinary in Sumter County to fill a va
cancy for an unexpired term.
Sheriff’s Sales.—See the advertise
ments of the Sheriff of Taliaferro
county.