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THE ATLANTA SUN
Ixexakder n. Stephens, political Editor.
VrT WATSON, New* Editor.
HENLY SMITH, General Editor and E tininess
Manager. .
Traveling Agents.
j, II. W. HILL, •
Agents for the Rub.
jiXZS Aixf.n Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.
J.L. Wiuuht, Woodstock, Ga.
j.G.CaunvKU, Thompson, Ga.
j.C. Hamilton, Dalton, Ga.
tf.G. Davis. Jr., Eatonton, Ga.
XtrrtM, IbvrftOo, White Plains, Green co. t Go.
]. L. Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn.
1.0. Paeham, LaGrange, Ga.
8. A. Vabmsdoe. Thomasrille, Ga.
j. G. Williams, Union Point.
VOL. 2, NO. 39.1 ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1872. f :»5SSSi, ©1.
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CONTENTS
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“ATLANTA WJ2EKLY SUN,”
/ ' TOB THE WEEX r HD ISO
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Gth, 1872.
page 1.—Poor, Modest, Victimized Henry Clews.
Washington—Tho Cotton Tax—The Fiospect of
Its Being Refunded—What the South would Get—
The Seventeenth Section—Tax to be Paid In
Bond*—The Educational Iniquity—Col. McIntyre's
Speech—Mr. Biggs of Delaware on Maasachn-
sstte—a Spicy Expose of New England Morality.
Another St. Louis Planters’ Hotel Occurrence.
Deliberate Persecutions by the Party in Power-
Shad Conley’s Malicious Prosecutions, etc.
p a g. 2.—Refunding the Cotton Tex. The Results
of ••Repudiation.” Cotton Tax of 1865, '06 and
•67. Cotton Claims. The Cotton Tax. The Bill to
Refund the Cotton Tax. Sonnet—(with a letter.)
Sun-Strokes. The Labor Party—Its Platform of
principle*' -Davis a Refugee. The Cartersrille
and Van Wert Railroad Injunction Case—Note
from Judge Harvey. Amount of Cotton Tax Col
lected. A Considerate Parent Experts In Hand
writing, eta., etc.
Page 3.—Col. John Forajrth. Resignation of
Judge Pope. Hchurs as a Wit.—Unnecessary
Painstaking. The Triumph of Honorable In
stinct*. The Refunding of the Cotton Tax—A
Point to be Guarded. The Alabama Claims—Their
Absurdity. A Good Notice. Georgia Matters.
How Grant was First Nominated. Murder—The
Body Found Floating In the Savannah River. One
More Unfortunate. Photograph of “His Excel
lency.” Secretary of the State Agricultural Soci
ety. Humors of the Pension Office.
Page 4 •—Meteorological—Rain FaU. Important
Injunction Case To-day—Tho Cartersvllle and Van
Wert Railroad. A Large Sum—Who Owns the Car-
tcrsvlUe and Van Wort Railroad? State Road
Committee. The Bond Committee. Recorder’s
Court. A Tale of Two Cities. What the Flirt
Said. Sun-Strokes. Georgia Matters. ExcerptB
of Humor and Fnn. Who is Judge Davis? The
Devil .on two Sticks—A Pen-Picture of Senator
Morton. 'A United States Marshal Attempts to
Murder ond Bob an Old Man. Telegrams.
Page ft.—Illicit Distillers. A Rumor. Wbero is
N. P. Hotchkiss. Henry Clews’ Injunction Case.
Ku-Klux-so-called —White County Prisoners.
Plain Language from Truthful Bull. Sun-Strokes.
A Mutual Confession. Telegrams. Excerpts of Fun
and Humor, its.
Page 6.—The Address of the Pennsylvania De
mocracy, and tho 4th of July. The Fourth of
July. Liberality of the Pilgrim Fathers. The
Labor Movement. Georgia Matters. Father Ry
an’s Last Poem. From Polk County—The Polk
County Prisoners—The Perjured Aired—His Vil
lainous Objects—Judge Pope—Conley, &c., &c.
Sun-Strokes. Telegraph Newa. Singular Death.
Advertisements, otc. N
Page 7.—Death of CoL T. B. Harris. Telegrams.
Supreme Court Decisions. “Sweet Spirit, Meet
Me Then." 8un-Strokos, etc.
Poor, Victimized, Silent and
Modest Clews!
firm in the straightforward and legitimate
banking transactions with the State.
I stamp with the same brand of utter
The following card from Henry Clews falsehood the allegation made by you in
appeared in the organ of the Bond Bing your correspondence in regard to an in-
in this city, on Sunday morning, without 5 emew ba /* me y<“ in New York
_ . 'L., ,, i . m regard to the currency bonds. In re-,
comment. While Mr. Clews seeks osten- pjy to questions which you asked in re-
sibly to vindicate himself, he really at- gard to the currency issue of bonds, I
tempts to defame the character of Col. stated to you that I could say nothing to
Avery, who, we think, will be able to sur- f ou about them. *1 did not say that “I
v-ive this slander, though it did emanate *$£’£££? t?W
from the immaculate lips of Henry Clews, language on this occasion have been
the apostolic patron saint of Georgia’s | availed of by the “Hon.” N. L. Angier,
Georgia’s State Treasurer, in a published
letter making frivolous personal charges
against me with a view of diverting at
tention from the finding of a judicial
committee frQm testimony, taken under
oath, in regard to his own conduct while
in office, for which he shonld have been
impeached and removed.
Mr. Johns also denies .that he made
any such a statement as Angier imputes
Treasury:
A Card from Ilenry Clews, of New York,
Banking Housbof Henry Clews & Co.,
32 Wall St., New York, Feb. 26,1872.
To the Editor of the “Daily Constitution,”
Atlanta Ga.:
Dear Sir : My attention has been call
ed to an article in your issue of the 3rd
in~t M containing accusations and impli-
Pnge 8—Telegrams,
raeute, Etc.
Commercial. Advertiee-
SUTf-STJROKES.
— The New York Tribune favors the
election of Postmasters by the people.
— Farming operations are about be
ginning, but no nnnsnal demand for seed
corn is noticed.
— “Where is the fool-killer?” asks the
Chattanooga Herald. If he is living and
were to go to Chattanooga, the Herald
would not live to ask anymore questions,
— Tho Chattanooga Herald announces
the approach of “J. N.” With S. B,
and “J. N.” both foraging there, Chatta
nooga will have a hard time of it.
—“The National Exposition at Lima,
Peril, has been postponed until May.”
This is mentioned in order to show the
people that the time has been arrranged
as not to conflict with the Georgia State
Fair.
— The Memphis Avalanche says: “Jus
ns all Democratic opposition to the ‘Now
Departure’ has ceased, some of the Geor
gia editors are discovering that the doc
trine is dead.” The fact that the Ava
lanche advocates the doctrine; indicates
that it “is dead,” or soon will be.
— The citizens of Nashville have sub
scribed $24,855 toward re-building the
Southern Methodist Publishing House
in that city. The Agent, Bev. A. H.
Bedford, announces that work will be
commenced as soon as the subscription
reaches $30,000. He also states that sub
scriptions are beginning to come in from
other quarters, and has no doubt that
the required amount will 60on be raised,
cations in regard to myself which are en- ?° bun about “noticing a fine portly man”
tirely false, and which must have been m °” r office * inquiring “if it was Gover-
known to the writer to have been so at ? or Bullock;” and that he stayed until he
the time. • - ' learned that the identical person, whom
I depart from the planof silence, which S! e . wa sa id 'was not Buhock, was Bullock.
! had determined npon, to confute once immaterial and idle sort of gossip,
for rU, the lying accusations contained , . Al Y>! er s ? em8 delight in, is
in the article,; with the hope that readers shown by Mr. Johns letter, to be entirely
of vour paper for the future, will recoe-
niz<_ in all articles in relation to myself, * venture to think that m this com-
tbe unvarying system of false represen- “unity, •where I am known, my reputa-
tation which has characterized every tl0n18 such tlmtitwouldbe unnecessary to
publication against me in your paper. answer such false and frivolous attempts
In yc or editorial of February 3rd you *° mab f^ m y character. But as they are
say, in connection with financial dealings brought forward by you m a community
between the Fulton Bank, of Brooklyn, 1 am comparatively a stranger, I
and H. L Kimball, asfollows: i eel \ fc necessary to meet them by sliow-
“Mr. Johns took the Currency Bonds 1D S the char 1 acfc ?r and motives of my ae
on Mr. Clews’ recommendations, though cusers and the falseness of their charges.
Mr. Clews knew they were illegal * * * . very respectfully.
He scored Mr. Clews soundly for deceiv- Henry Clews.
ing him.” This effort to calumniate CoL Avery
Again, you say :— will be duly appreciatedby all who know
e in^n J °4 b ^- 8t l te H tha «?lAno l0 f a 4L d Mm * Oar “tizeps, of course, at the very
$100,000 to Kimball on $133,000 of the L. . ’ , , ’ , J
bonds of the second indorsement of the j “^glimpse of Mr. Johns’oracular name,
State to the Brunswick and Albany Bail- will be convinced that he has been teinpfc-
road. They were gold State bonds, pre- ed into the most malicious misrepresenta-
ded to be secured by second mort- tions against Cleite and Johns, all for the
gage bonas of the road $8,000 for 810,000. , .. , , . .... * .
He had one of the bonds with him. The mere sake of indulging a little satire, for
writer examined it. It must be remem- Col* Avery could not have been actuated
bered that two issues of these bonds were by any other motive. True Georgians,
temporary lithographed issue of we sup p 0Se , will hardly disbelieve Col.
$880,000, and a'permanent engraved is-1 . , , , , , . ,
sue of $1,880,000, to be substituted for Aver y 8 statement and eagerly embrace
the first. The second issue was out, and 1 words of Mr. Johns, who, to say
the first issue should have been in the I the least, is altogether unknown to them.
Treasurer’s office, canceled, yet Mr. \y esa y this much in justice to CoL Avery,
Johns bond was one of the substituted I , . , , . ,, ., , ,
invalid lithograph'd issue for which the who is now absent from the city, and who,
secord engraved issue was out in some- doubtless, can substantiate his words
body else’s hands. . when it becomes necessary.
■ “We called his attention to the feet We make no assault on Mr. Johns as
that his $133,000 of bonds were so much I. ... . . . . , r
waste paper. We advised him to go back LJ* though it seems to be dearly Mr.
and see Clews and tell that individual • ^l ews intention to implicate liim in liis
tlr i he had to get him out of the scrape own infamous transactions to defraud our
or take the consequences. ^ State of a fabnlons amonnt of money.
“He left on the next tram. In ten days „„ , , .... ,
the same bands of Johns' were sentbyClZs] .^ e ® a ^ seems to be published
ifc Co. to the State Treasurer, to be cancelled, j with a possible hope that it may
with the statement that they had been a long I invite a controversy with Mr.
time in the office unused, overlooked through Johns, and thus divert, in a degree,
a clerk's negligence. And no further com- suspicions of guilt from
plaint or claim has been put in by Mr. L ®
Johns. Mr. Clews. Whatever be the intention
It is hard to get over such facts as or the consequences, Mr. Clews may rest
these. They talk loudly.” assured tbit Georgians will always have
I have written to Mr. Johns in relation
to these charges made by you. I ap-
end a notarial copy of the letter which
he has written me in reply on this sub
ject. He denies totally having ever had
cause to remember him—very ungrate
fully—for his wise (?) and,j,timely inter
terference in our finances.
In the next to the last paragraph, Mr.
WASHINGTON.
The Cotton Tax—The Prospect
of its Being Refunded—-What
the South Would get —The
Seventh Section-Tax to toe Paid
In Bonds—The Educational
Iniquity — Col. Mclntyp#>s
Speech—Mr. Biggs of Delaware
on Massachusetts — a. Snicy
Expose of New England Mo
rality.
Washington City, D. C., 1
Thursday, February 29th, 1872. J
Editors Sun:—A bill to refund certain
“taxes collected by the Government of
the United S&tesipn raw cotton during
the years eighteen hundred and sixty-
five and sixtyisix, eighteen .hundred
and sixty-seven,” and eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, has been introduced
and referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.
Notwithstanding the IXth section of
the 1st article of the Federal Constitution,
declares that, “no tax or duty shall be
laid on articles exported from any State,”
yet, by act of Congress the Bevenue
Agents of the United States collected
from the impoverished people of the
South, at least
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS
as a tax on raw cotton. Au effort is now
being made to induce Congress to refund
the cotton tex collected. The prospect
ior the passage of such a bill are not,
however, favorable by any means; reports
to the contrary notwithstanding.
The records of the Treasury Depart
ment show that of the one hundred and
fifty millions paid by the people of
the South as a tax on raw
cotton, only sixty-five millions
are reported to have reached the
vaults of the United States Treasury.
Therefore, if Congress would
CONDESCEND TO REFUND,
it will not be the amount paid by the
planter, but simply the sum reported as
having been paid into the Federal Treas
ury.
The. 7th section of the bill declares
‘that it shall be the duty of the Secreta
ry of the Treasury to cause bonds of the
United States to be prepared, in sums of
five hundred dollars each and one thpus
and dollars each, payable at the Treasury
of the United States, to bearer, at the end
of forty years from date, in gold, bearing
interest at the rate of four and one-half
pet'centum pe\' annum, payable semi-an
nually in gold, to be called cotton tax
bonds,” &c.
This, to say the least, is a very objec
tionable section, for the reason that if the
&TAX WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
as it unquestionably was, it would be
refunded in currency with interest, and
not in bv .Ca., which the, holder would
have to soil < artainly below their nominal
value. Besides, the burden of liquida
ting such bonds would fall as well on the
planter, who had been unjustly taxed in
the first instance, as those never paying
such a tax.
While every principle of law and equity
demands the refunding of the cotton tax,
yet legislation granting ftfid authorizing
such action shonld be so guarded that the
cotton producer, who paid the tax in
e* ary instance, would be the beneficiary,
and not the merchant or speculator.
I learn that the Government records
show that
Deliberate Persecutions toy ttoe
Party in Power-—Sliad Con
ley’s Malicious Prosecutions.
that ** a-™ 4
had any acquaintance with me at the
time he contracted his loan with Mr.
Kimbpll on the currency bonds.
Mr. Johns writes as follows:
“Brooklyn, L. L, February 23,1872.
He .ry Clews, Esq., present: Dear Sir:
a certain statement connected with meet
ing Bollock. We will only observe that
such a denial does not appear in his note
to Mr. Clews.
These remarks are made only in justice
Sudden Death of a Traveler.—Mr.
John Grant, of Guelph, Canada, died at
the Cannon House, in this city, of con
sumption. It seems that he was hasten
ing to Florida in hopes of arresting the
fatal disease, but arriving here, he found
himself completely exhausted.
Mr. Bobert Middleton, of Mobile, his
brother-in-law, who has been telegraphed
will roach this city this morning, and
proceed immediately to make arrange
ments for expressing the remains to Can
ada.
The deceased was, to all appearance,
an elegant, hightoned gentleman, of fin
ished education, and from letters found
in his possession, seemed to be a General
Express Agent in Guelph, Canada.
He had every care and attention ne
cessary to his comfort and the best med
ical aid the city afforded.
In reply to yonr note of this date, I beg to CoL Avery, who, we regret is absent
to cay that I have read the article in the at this time. We shall probably refer
Constilulion, which says that I showed t 0 this extraordinary “card.
the editor of that paper a specimen of a >-*-4—
lithographed gold bond of the State of If, says the Savannah News, our Char-
assuring him that I held $133,- leston f r i en ds are sincere in their pro-
000 of them as collateral for a loan to H. , , . . , .
1 Kimball fessed apprehensions of the lease or pur-
“In answer, I beg to assure you that 11 chase of the South Carolina Bailroad by
have never, at any time, had a single one j the Central Bailroad Company—which
of this issue of bonds in my possession, J very much doubt—we hope the 'fol-
tide states that I was in- note trom President Wadley ^1
duced, on your recommendation, to lend | dissipate all such idle fears:,
coir e money on Currency Bonds of the! Central Bailroad Bank,
State of Georgia. j Savannah, Ga., March 1, 1872.
“In answer to this I have no hesita-1 Editor Morning Hews:
tion in saying that at time of makiug the I I have recently learned, through
lean I had no acquaintance with you Bor I friend, what seems to ne confirmed by an
any representations from yon in regard to I article in your issue of this day, that it is
the security. I still believed by many persons in Augusta
1 and Charleston that the Central Bailroad
rnent that I was deceived by you in re . I Company is in some way connected with
card to the identity of Goveriior Bullock “ I , eff ^ t 1 to c sec " re * 1,e P 0S88Ssl .? n °F
once in yonr office. *rol Of the South Carolina Bailroad. As
lTrr , T . , . I these impressions are so persistently re-
Whfie I remember having asked if the J it is perhaps due to the stock-
person I saw in your counting room was 1 - - - - - - - - -
that gentleman, I have never had reason
to doubt your statement that it was not
him.
“I am yours very truly,
A. G. Johns.”
Died.—Capt. F. M. Allen, of the firm
of Allen & Fierce. Conyers, died in this
city yesterday, at the residence of J. W.
Cason. His remains will be removed to
Stone Mountain to-day at 12 o’clock.
Becorder’s Court.—Out of nine cases
before His Honor yesterday the court
realized $20.
State of Nrw York, 1
City and County of New York, ss. j
I, William E. Stiger, a Notary Public
duly commissioned and sworn, residing
in said city and county of New York, do
hereby certify that I have compared the
foregoing copy of a certain letter dated
February 23d, 1872, from one A. G. Johns
to Henry Clews, with the original there
of, and that the same is an accurate and
exact copy of the said original and of the
whole thereof.
In' witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my official seal
this 23d day of February, A. D. 1872.
WfT.T.i am E. Stiger,
[SeaL J Notary Publio New York Co.
You may remark “it is hard to get
over such facts as these. They talk
1 mdly.” It is, indeed, bard to get over
such allegations, demonstrated by Mr.
Johns’ letter to have been unqualified
p ud willful falsehoods from the beginning,
framed evidently with the sole purpose
of injuring in the ’public mind of Geor
gia the estimate of the conduct of my for Savannah early next week.
holders of both companies that I should
notice them.
The simple fact is, that no such pro
ject has been conceived or entertained,
either by the Board of Directors of this
Company, or by me as its President.
The first information on the subject
reached tho Board end the President
through the Charleston newspapers, and
th ; s was only met with the expression of
astonishment that a rumor so entirely
unfounded had taken such possession of
the public mind in the city of Charles
ton. Wm. M. Wadlex, President.
Of cotton, the Tdegraph of Saturday
says:
The total receipts of this season in
Macon up to yesterday evening were 51,-
688 bales, against 92,000 to same date
last year, showing a defect of 40,312 bales
this season.
- Columbus has an JEblian Band.
Savannah amusements have culminated
in an earthquake.
The Washington correspondent of the
Savannah News writing on the 1st, says
CoL Atkins, whose nomination was
confirmed by the Senate to-day, leaves
Another St. Louis Planters Ho
tel Occurrence.
NORTH CAROLINA PAID
into the Treasury of the United States,
as a tax on new cotton, two and one-half
millions of dollars; South Carolina, five
millions; Florida, two and a half mil
lions; Georgia, ten millions; Alabama,
ten millions; Mississippi, ten millions;
Louisiana, ten millions; Texas, five mil
lions; Arkansas, five millions; and Ten
nessee, five millions.
The House of Bepregentatives has
passed a bill entitled, “An Act to estab
lish an
“educational fund,
“and to apply the proceeds of the public
lands to the education of the people.”
This is a most .centralizing as well as in
iquitous measure.
COL. MACINTYRE
of the Savannah district, made avery
able and exhaustive speech against this
act—of infamies, but his voice was un
heeded.
The debate on the passage of this act
was quite acrimonious. Mr. Hoar of
Massachusetts, was very abusive of the
South—commenting at great length on
the ignorant, irreligious and immoral
Sonth. To which Mr. Biggs of Delaware
replied as follows:
Mr. Biggs. Not just now. My time 1* limited,
and I must first address myself to that great State of
Massachusetts. I was about to say, sir, that after
the gentleman's statements I was a little curious to
inquire into the history of Massachusetts. And what
do you suppose, sir, I found ? »
I find, sir, according to the State Constable’s report
to the State of Massachusetts, in four years—1866,
1367, lSG8and 1869 -prosecutions, exclusive of liquor
cases, amounting to ten thousand and thirty-six.—
What were these prosecutions for ? What crimes
had the people of the State of Massachusetts com
mitted? Why sir, in listening to the honorable
gentlemen, you would suppose that they were all
saints up there with their great learning. Let me
read to you some of tho crimes they have com
mitted, and I will read them alphabetically,
because they are guilty of crimes for as many
letters asjthere arc in the English language, except
the four-last letters of the alphabet. [Great laugh
ter.] Let me say, however, before reading
the list, that you would suppose, from the
remarks of the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts, that crime was decreasing in that State;
but, instead of that, in 1S66 there were nineteen
hundred and forty-five cases, and in 1869 there were
thirty-four hundred and fifty-nine, an increase of
nearly double in three years. And what were theBe
crimes, Mr.. Speaker? I will recite a few of them.
Arson, adultery, [laughter] burglary, bigamy, [laugh
ter] conspiring to defraud, drunkenness, defacing
tombstones, [great laughter] forgery, horse-itealing,
[laughterl highway robbery, keeping hotel without
license. [Great laughter.]
Hr. Speaker, I must claim your protection. I pro
ceed with the list. Night walking, [laughter] ob
taining money under false pretences, perjury,polyga
my, [laughter] playing cards on Sunday, present at
cock fight, [great laughter] refusing to pay their rail
road fare, [great laughter] settingup a lottery, selling
obscene prints, selling unmeasured wood, [laughter]
selling diseased meat, [laughter] threatening to burn
a church [great laughter]. Mr. Speaker. I will read
no more of tho ten tho isand.
Now, sir, when the gentleman from Massachusetts
talks about the illiteracy of the State of Delaware,
let me tell him that the criminal record of that State
does not present any such dark record as that of the
State of Massachusetts does to-day—a record darker
than night piled npon midnight. [Laughter.]
The Senate is still debating that na
tional scandal—the sale of arms to France
by Gen. Grant and his “military ring.”
Banquo of Castle Grex.
Gainesville, March 2,1872.
Editor Atlanta Sun—Dear Sir: I am
here on my return from Atlanta. Some
time since you will recollect that Mr.
Merritt and myself were earned prison
ers to Atlanta under a United States war
rant sworn out by an old detestable ne
gro wench, charging that we, and many
others, were guilty of Ku-Klux outrages
(n White county. Among the number
included in said charge are some of the
most wealthy, respectable and moral
citizens in said county. This disreputa
ble old wench had once, or oftener,- been
before the United States Grand Jury, and
failed to -get indictments against us.
However, meeting with encouragements
from certain quarters in Atlanta, as well
as from certain government officials in
White county,who were there in the in
terests of Green B. Holcomb, a notorious
scoundrel and criminal, she swore out
United States Commissioner’s Warrants
against Merritt and myseif, and those
above alluded to. About this time there-
were quartered in White county a squad
of United States soldiers under the com
mand of a citizen Lieutenant named
Taylor, and Henry Martin, United States
Deputy Marshal, who were spending
their time, taking their daily walks and
having their conversations with that no
torious ‘‘scalawag,” Green B. Holcomb,
and a few others, but little better than
himself.
These warrants were handed over to
them, and Mr. Merritt and myself were
arrested under the outrageous circum
stances, before alluded to in The Sun.
When Judge Pope, United States Dis
trict- Attorney, refused to prosecute
said warrants, being thus baffled
in their wicked purposes, certain parties
induced this same old wench to go before
another U. S. Commissioner, John L.
Conley, and take out a warrant against
the same parties, charging them with the
same offense. Thereupon the U. S.
Deputy Marshal, Henry Martin, with a
squad of U. S. soldiersproceeded to White
county, and after they had made several
arrests, sent me a list of the names agninsi
whom they held warrants, requesting us
to report in Gainesville next day. Con
sidering it a most merciful privilege to
escape the humiliation of an arrest, ard
the exposure of being prisoners we punc
tually reported as requested.
We met with Mr. Martin, as expected,
who carried us all, seventeen in number,
on this morning’s train to Atlanta, where
we gave bond for our appearance at the
approaching United States District Court.
Now, sirs,, all this was done while the
United States authorities in Atlanta and
their appointees knew the facts of the
failure to get indictments, and of the
issuing of the former warrants, and
the knowledge on their part, that neither
Radicals nor negroes would believe tbat
old negro wench on oath. With these
facts before their faces, the United States
authorities issued new warrants upon the
affidavit of said wench, had innocent cit
izens dragged away from ikeir homes
and business pursuits, and tom from
their families, who were left in fitful
anxiety as to their safety—all that said
authorities might make a few dollars or
gratify the bitterness of their feelings
against our citizens.
After a full consideration of this matter,
I charge and accuse the United States
authorities in Atlanta, with the offense of
wilfully and intentionally committing
deliberate outrages en our innocent citi
zens, knowing at 1ke time they did it that
they were outrages.
In these times of military rule, this
may appear rather plain talk, bnt how
ever plain it may seem, yet it is true, and
the people shall knowhow these pamper
ed despots and tools of office are acting,
These outrages have been thus perpetra
ted upon ns, and we were tnmed loose
ninety miles fromhome, without offering
us a dollar to return us to our families.
Under the pretense that he was a prison
er, these very same authorities in Atlanta
held Green B. Holcombe as a pet prisoner
for months, in order to keep the State au
thorities from arresting him and prosecu
ting him for false s Rearing, assault with
intent to commit a rape on a poor, nnpro
tected orphan girl, carrying concealed
weapons, cheating and swindling, and
malicious mischief; and when Col. Find
ley, of this place, a United States Dep
uty Marshal, attempted to arrest him by
virtue of a United States Commissioner’!
warrant, for representing himself as
United States revenue officer, under
which representation he obtained nearly
two thousand dollars from the citizens
Union county, said authorities refused
surrender him, defended him, and defeat
ed the arrest.
And under the shadow of their wing,
and the hollow of their hand, these same
authorities are holding a thief and notori
ously bad negro, John |Horshaw, as a pet
prisoner, while he is acting as guide and
United States evidence against the citi
zens of Union and Towns counties,
All this to secure his wicked services and
protect him from State prosecutions. But
more hereafter. Bespectfully,
' M. K. Palmer.
Gainesville, Ga., March 2,1872.
Editors Sun: Last night a squad of
United States Soldiers, on their way from,
White county with some prisoners, put
up at the Christian Hotel in this place.
The officers were drunk and not well cal
culated to preserve order among their
subordinates. They had with them a
negro, John Horshaw, who is traveling
with them as a kind of guide'and gene-
re! government witness.
When the bell rang for supper, the
Lieutenant suggested to this negro to
go to supper, but as he approached the
table in the dining room, he was met by
the landlord’s son and informed that a
negro could not eat there. Whereupon
<he negro was sent by a back-way to the
negro kitchen, where he was informed
that, notwithstanding his pretentions
and present associates, he was neverthe
less a negro.
The landlord, Mr. Christian, will do all
in his power to make his guests comfort
able autl happy, but he wishes it distinct-
understood that those who wish to
practice negro equality will have to seek
ot v sr headquarters.
Quei'y. In doing what he did, did Mr.
Christian violate the “Fifteenth Amend
ment” or ‘-'Civil Bights Bill,” or in some
ay lay himself liable for violating the
Enforcement Act?” A Guest.
;
Tlie Sale of Arms to France—
How the Committee was
Bailroad Accident.—While a freight
train was passing between Butledge and
Madison on Saturday night, a rail broke,
and precipated nine box cars from the
track. They were almost entirely des
troyed. In consequence of this accident
the np passenger train from Augusta,
due here at 5:35, a. m, was delayed until
3} p. m.
Packed.
The Savannah News' Washington cor
respondent, gives the following account
of the scheming by the Grantites in the
Senate, to cut off a full and fair investi
gation of the question of the sale of
arms to France. It is very apparent that
this question has given Grant and his
henchmen more trouble than any that
has been sprung during the present ses
sion of Congress. They fought for every
inch of ground during the discussion of
the resolution; and when the resolution
was passed, in spite of them, they resort
to the low trick of a packed committee to
defeat its purposes. Hero is what the
writer in the Neics says:
The Administration Senators, 'with an
audacity and lack of decency heretofore
unparalleled, have, in the face of all their
boasts that they wanted the fullest inves
tigation into the sales of arms.to France,
packed the Investigating Committee with •
the most unscrupulous and brazen adhe
rents of Grant.
The list was determined upon this
morning at a consultation held before the
meeting of the Senate. It was knowp
that Sumner’s feeble health would not
admit of his going on the eommittee,
and therefore the corruptionists, to make
show of fairness, named him as the
Chairman. Sumner declined, however,
as was anticipated. The committee, as
presented to the Senate, is composed of
Hamlin, Carpenter, Sherman, Sawyer,
Logan, Stevenson and Harian.
Logan and Stevenson are the only men
on the committee who will make any
effort to ferret out the wrong, and they
will be impotent with the five against ’
them, whose'sole effort will be to cover
up the villainy. Trumbull insisted that
Schurz be put on the Committee in place
of Sherman, who asked to he relieved on
account of his pressing duties as Chair
man of the Finance Committee.
Cameron, who was engineering the
resolution which named the committee,
refused to let Schurz go on, and Trum
bull then made a direct motion to that
effect. The Senate did not vote on the
resolution to-day, and it will probably
come up to-morrow.
It is reported that Conkling is one of
Bemington’s partners, and to conceal
this was one reason why Bemington’s
books were altered. One effort of the
packed committee will of course be to
prevent this coming to light.
Bead ! Bead !! Bead !!!—It is.
well known to Doctors and to Ladies,
that women are subject to numerous dis
eases peculiar to their sex—such as sup
pression of the Menses, "Whites, Painful
Monthly Periods, Bheumatism of the
Back and Womb, Irregular Menstruation,
Hemorrhage or Excessive “Flow,” and
Prolapsus Uteri, or fall of the Womb.—
The profession has .in vain, for many
years, sought diligently for some remedy
tbat would enable them to treat these
diseases with success. At last that reme
dy has been discovered, by one of the
most skillful physicians in Georgia.
That remedy is
DB. J. BBADFIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR.
Blooming in all her Pristine Beauty,
Strength and Elasticity—Iried Doctor
after Doctor.
Butledge, Ga., Feb. 16,1871.
This is to certify that my wife was an
invalid for six years. Had disease of the
womb, attended with headache, weight
in lower part of the back; suffered from
languor, exhaustion and nervousness, loss
of appetite and flesh. She had become
so exhausted and weak, her friends were
apprehensive she would never get welL I
tried doctor after doctor, and many pat
ent medicines—had dispaired of her im
provement, when fortunately she com
menced taking Dr. J. Bradfield’s Female
Begulator. She is now well, and three
or four bottles cured her, Improved in
health, appetite and flesh, she is bloom
ing in all her pristine beauty, strength
and elasticity. I regard you as her sa
vior from the dark portals of death, and
my benefactor. May your shadow never
grow less, and you never become weaiy
in well-doing.
mh2 '
John Sham?.