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HANCOCK. GRAHAM A REILLY
AMERICUS. GEORGIA;
Friday Morning, Jane 17, 1370.
Official Organ of Sumter Co.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF SCHLEY COUNTY.
Official Organ of Lee County.
Glticial Organ of Webster County
To Sctracnmns.—In accordance with
the programme adopt**! by tbe Southern
Press Association at its “to session m
Savannah, we have determined that the
subscription price of the Republican
umst be paid in advance bj subscribers.
Those who are in arrears and who have
lteen repeatedly donned by the ,t X" mark
on their papers or otherwise, will be
dropped from our books if they do not
immediately settle up. We are compell
ed to pay the cash for every article used
in this office and therefore adopt this sys
tem so that we may be able to meet all
demands against ns. Those who do not
wish to comply with the above can not
expect ns to continue to send the paper
to them, if they do, they will be sadly
disappointed.
Persons who are advertising under con
tract must pay quarterly in advance, as
]>er agreement. We cannot afford to lose
time to don a man two or three dozen
times bef ore wc can get money that he
has promised to pay when called for. If
he cannot fill his part of the contract and
will let us know it, we will appropriate
the space devoted to his advertisement to
something moro profitable.
A French surgeon has discovered
a process of performing operations with
out pain. He uses instruments heated
to white heat by means of electricity.
He was led to the discovery by observing
that boros caused by intense heat pro
duced no pain. The absence of pain is
owing to the distinction of the nerves by
the great heat.
Our Blessed Revenue Laws.—Mer
chants and others interested will bear in
mind that revenue laws strictly require
that every check drawn by them since
the first of May last, on banks or individu
als, to have the necessary stamps affixed
thereto, and that such checks must be
then cancelled by having the initials of
the drawer and date of check written dis
tinctly on the stamp. A neglect of this
order of the Government carries with it
heavy penalty.
SOT Mrs. Woodhull is still in the field
as a candidate for the Presidency. She
probably forgets that the candidate who
wins mnst strip for the race.
fioF* Alvin Adorns, just thirty years
ago, began to run on express between
Boston and New York. He was his own
messenger, and on his first trip his way
bill was worth less than four dollars.
The Adams Express Company, with its
immense business and wealth, was
result of that humble beginning; and |it
may indeed be said that Mr. Adams was
the pioneer in the Express businessof
this country.
BGU An exchange crowds a whole lec
ture on political economy into the follow
ing spicy paragraph : “ Sunday being
balmy day, all the styles were brought
out. The most richly dressed lady
saw is the wife of a man who has owed
this office thirteen dollars for nearly three
years, he says he cannot raise the money
to pay us, and we believe him. ”
A Sublime Thought.—The more we
siuk iuto the infirmities of age, the near
er we ore to immortal youth. All per
sons are young in the other world. That
state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and
flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight
into noon on the sudden—to be decrepid
one minute, and all spirit and activity
the next—mnst be n delightful change.
To call this dying is an abuse of lan
guage.
Newspaper Influence.—The Rev. De
witt Talmndge, in a recent Philadelphia
lecture, said of the press: "I now de
clare that I consider the newspaper to be
the grand agency by which the gospel is
cast out, oppression dethroned, crime ex
tirpated, the world raised, heaven rejoic
ed, and God be glorified. In the clank
ing of the printing press, as sheets fly
ont, I hear the voiceof the Lord Almighty
proclaiming to all the dead nations of the
earth, "Lazarus, come forth !’ and to the
retreating surges of darkness, ‘Let there
l»e light! ’ ”
Mr. Charles Welford, in his last
London letter to the Book Bnyer, pub
lished in New York by Scribner, Wel
ford & Co., gives ’an account of the re
markable announcement just made by
Sir Henry Bawlinaon before the Asiatic
Society. It is not merely that this emin
ent oriental scholar to have dis
covered the original records from which
the book of Genesis was composed, but
he illustrates his position with details of
the most striking kind. He himself said:
The progress now reached in the collec
tion and arrangement of the Nineveh in
scribed fragments, made it beyond a
doubt that they would be able to derive
the whole of the history given in the
Book of Genesis, from the time'of Abra
ham, from the original documents; and
it was not too much to expect that almost
the same facts and descriptions would
be found in the Bible.
—A subterranean lake has been dis
covered near Lancaster, Pa., seventy
feet below the surface.
—The body of General Thomas F.
Meagher, wlio was drowned off a steam-
boat nt Fort Benton, in 1807, nl;re
cently discovered. It bad been rescued
from the river by an old trapper, and
buried on the bank.
—Five London theatros are now closed
for want of patronage.
—The Fenians declare that their ex
pedition is not over; that they will make
another raid on Canada iu a quarter least
expected. Indications are that they will
show their strength iu the Red River
country.
—Fears are indulged by the Minneso
ta delegation in Congress that the north
western frontier may l>e involved iu the
coming war l»ctweeii Roil and the Cana
dian Government.
— "A colored Riehardson-McFarlaud
case” has just broke ont iu Washington.
They have any number of white cases of
that sort there, though the McFarlands
don't seem to take auy interest in them.
-Wade Hampton and family are in
Memphis.
—Jeffersonville was sixty-two years of
age last Friday.
—For what port are you bound during
courtship? Bound to Havre.
—All servant girls North having lovers
e now being discharged.
—At a wedding in Janesville, Missis
sippi, lately,'the guests were made happy
with four gallons of wine, four gallons of
whisky and ten gallons of beer.
—Two German beer drinkers, Dr. Fir-
an and Frederick Fries, at Williams-
bnrgh, New York, made a wager
who conld drink the most beer. At the
fiftieth glass the former was taken away,
while the latter drank forty-five and also
retired. Firman died soon after.
—"Mr. Speaker,I straddle that blind,”
was the phrase in which a poker-playing
California legislator seconded the mo
tion.
From Dooly County—Railroad
Meeting.
Vienna, Ga., June Oth, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Pur
suant to previous call, a meeting was this
day held at Drayton, Dooly county,for the
purpose of ascertaining the probable sub
scription of our citizens to the stock of
the Dranch road of the Macon & Bruns
wick Railroad Co., from Hawkiusvillo to
Americas.
On motion, Capt John B. Lewis
called to the Chair, and J. H. Woodward
ippointed as Secretary. a
The Chairman requested Judge S.
Rogers to explain the object of the meet
ing and to moke the report of the com
mittee recently appointed at Hawkinsville
to confer with the M. k B. Railrord Co.,
N. W. Collier, the Chairman of said ot
ittee, not being present
The object of the meeting being
plained by the Judge, he then proceed
ed to make the report, as requested by the
Chair. The report was received mid
unanimously adopted. The Judge in a
short speech, urged npon tho people the
rtance of our going to work, with a
letermination of doing Dooly’s share
of building the road, and yielded’the floor
to
T. K. Lewis, Esq., who, being called
for, entertained the audience with a
thrilling and stirring speech just suitable
to the occasion, and it is needless to say
that it was received with good effect.—
Mr. Lewis;retiring from the stand,
Dr. P. Timberlake was called for, and
sponded in his usual happy maimer,
along a well-timed appeal to our citi-
:ns to subscribe liberally to the stock of
the company.
The speeches all proved clearly that it
was to the interest of Dooly to build, or
rather assist, and liberally too, in build
ing the contemplated railroad.
On motion of J. H. Woodard the books
of tho Company were then announced as
opened and read v to receive subscription
to said stock, whereupon most persons
present came forward and subscribed lib
erally to the stock. The day being un-
propituous, on aoconnt of inclement
weather, the meeting was comparatively
small; for which reason, it was on motion
agreed to liave a- Railroad meeting at
Vienna, on the 24th inst, and at the same
time and place to have a large public bar
becue, to which all, and more especially
the ladies, and you gentlemen of the quill,
are respectfully invited to attend and
participate with ns in our dinner and onr
now fair prospects of ere long having
daily visitation of the iron hone, throngli
Dooly, ranting, snorting, but still punn
ing lus affixed course to the end of his
destination, and loaded and freighted
with the necessaries, the comforts and the
luxuries of life, to be discharged almost
at onr doors, and then to return laden
with ample freights of King Cotton,
which supplies ns with ample means to
make glad onr hearts and give cheerful
faces to the queens and princes of
own domestic firesides.
We will easily raise onr quota of the
suliscription to the proposed branch road,
therefore, we look ,upon the completion
of the road as a fixed fact, which nas al
ready given ns an impetus to improve
ments and has enhanced the value of our
property.
On motion, resolved, that the citizens
of Pulaski and Sumter be requested to
hold similar meetings and proceed at
once to solicit subscriptions to the stock of
the Macon k Brunswick Branch Rail
road.
Resolved, That a copy of the proceed
ings of this meeting be furnished the
Editor of the Telegraph Messenger,
with a request to publish the same, and
that tho Americas and Hawkinsville ]»•
pers lie requested to copy them.
DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE
OF GEORGIA.
Washington, D. C., Jnne_4, 1870.
To tks Honorable Members of the Semite
and House afRepresentatives of the Con
gress of the Hailed State* :
As the State of Georgia is uct now per
mitted to have representation, or a voice
in Congress, I adopt this method of
addressing you in defence of the reputa-
lion, the right anil iuterests of her peo
ple.
Under pretense of defending himself
against tho partial exposure of his crimes
by the honorable Judiciary Committee of
the Senate, Gov. Bnllock, in his letter of
May 23, addressed to certain members of
Congress, continues to fabricate and
peat falsehoods and slanders against
people of Georgia, through the instru
mentality of which, and the means of cor
ruption drawn from the Treasury, he has
now fur two years agitated Cougress, pro
moted discord, delayed the restoration of
peace and good-fellowship amuug the peo
ple and States of the Union, retarded “
prosperity of tho State, violated tin
stitntiou and laws, usurped the aut]J ^
ml Kicrificed tho rights of our peopled
The statement made by the Senate Ju
diciary Committee that Gov. Bullock did
"use improper means to iulluenco the
vote of Senators upon the Georgia ques
tion,” and the statement of Hon. Senator
Ferry, that, "had Georgia for the last
two years been in the bauds of men o(
high patriotism, if it had«been iu the
hands of men who were looking to the
welfare of the nation instead if their own
pecuniary advancement, we might have
had a different state of things from what
exists to-day,” are troths mildly stated,
and well known by sad experience to the
people of Georgia.
Gov. Bullock, in his letter, with an ef-
frontry which would make Satan smile
in approbation, states that, in his repre
sentations concerning ^Georgia, he has
" been careful to avoid exaggerations and
to state only the literal troth,” and he
challenges contradiction.
I do not think of a single important
statement made by Gov. Bollock, relative
to the condition of affairs in Georgia,
which has not been exaggerated or false.
The slanders which he caused to be raked
from all parts of the State and presented
to the Reconstruction Committee of the
40th Congress, 3d session, were disap
proved by tho unanimous testimony of
more than one hundred judges, ordinaries,
mayors of cities, and sworn witnesses,
who were amongst the best citizens
To-day, after five yeara of nominal
peace, by the invitation and suggestion,
of Governor Bollock, the State of Geor
gia is ruled by a military despotism under
General Terry, who suspends the writ of
habeas corpus, and removes and appoints
civil officers a| his will, in violation of
the Constitution and laws of the United
States and of tho State of Georgia.
To-day onr petty tyrant, Governor Bul
lock, is urging and threatening mem
bers of Congress to secure a perpetuation
of his infamons rnlo over the people of
Georgia. From such a Government
even military despotism is a relief, and
would ’
gia, up’
restored. .. . .. . , „
Will not the Congress and tho people
—Some chap in Richmond sent to one
of the papers there, os original, an ex
tract from the Song of Solomon, and the
editor introduces it by styling it trash,
and saying that it is a fair specimen of
the poetical efinaions which are daily
thrown in his waste basket
CftRBOf.M Acid.—Some twenty years ago the
method of prodadag this “esotaot of smoke,"
from what was then a worthless offid; the coil
tar of gas works. It was used in 1837 ia a erode
state by Mr. John Bethel, in England, for pro.
erring railway sleepers, which wen found to
ant over twenty years, when saturated with
carboUcfrd* while in the ordinary stste throe or
four years was the limit of their life-time. Wood
preserved in this manner resists the destructive
mfloepess of water as well as of sir, while the
acid was soon found to protect it from the ran
ges of that destructive insect,' (he teb
EQ. It is aboard fora man who lias
goods to sell to settle himself and stock
in a house and then wait for customers
to drop in at their leisure to bay, without
advertising. Such people ore dot ener
getic enough to keep a new stock ou hand,
and are always complaining of dull times.
Montgomery & Shaw will verify this os’
sertion, for they are continually receiv
ing new articles of merchandise, and os
their friends ore immediately made
aware.of it by their advertisements they
seldom keep articles longer than ten days.
Now, ladies, ye who lufVe charge
of the eating department at home, when
ever yon want something nice for yonr
table send word to onr energetic young
friend, John Shaw, and if he has it not,
give him a little time and he will certain
ly get it. * Try him once, and yon will be
so much pleased, that yon will ever after
buy yonr Groceries of Montgomefy &
Sliaw. SeeadterUiemeni
A number of ladies in Paris have
formed themselves into a society called
"LTJnion des Femmes Chretienne, ” for
the purpose of reforming tho fashions.
Each one promises to pay so mnch a year
for her toilettes, and not to employ any
dressmaker or bay goods unless the can
pay for them right away.
Won't the ladissof Americus plans tty
such a society?
1 and
ding in different parts of tho State, and
many of whom were among the best Re
publicans in the State.
The false statement of his conversations
with President Grant, which ho telegraph
ed over the country to influence legisla
tion a.'jainst Georgia, were denied by
thoritv from President Grout
His late letter, his testimony before the
Judiciary Committee, are made up of ex
aggerations and falsehoods.
In his letter, he repeats the uow demon
strated falsehood, that there were “thirty
or more” ineligible members in the orig
inal organization of the Georgia Legisla
ture. He then kuew that of the fourteen
" flagrant” cases tried by General Terry’p
Military Commission, but three had
been declared ineligible, and that eleven
were declared eligible. He also knew,
that the sixteen men who declined to
qualify, were iuduced to do so by
threats and promises, his falsehood :
treachery.
Iu his letter he refers to his official
communication to tho Legislature, ou tl
expulsion of, the colored members.
In that communication ho denounced
the seating of tho minority cmididates, os
a violation of the Constitution, tho law
of Congress, and the principals of repub
lican government, and he threatened tin
Legislature with Congressional action.
But circumstances change, ami so does
Governor Bullock. In Geu. Terry’s re-
l>ort (Senate doc. No. 41) is an argument
of twelve pages, which he Rays, (page 12)
a presentation of tho law of tho whole
u in behalf of Bullock.” In the argu
ment lie says: * * " Without ques
tion, if a person nominally elected ii
found ineligible, that body (tho Legisla
ture) would declare the next highest elect-
and givo him tho seat * * Indeed,
there has never been iu tho State any
doubt of the application of this law to the
Legislature until tho present crisis has
given its birth.
Gen. Terry, was finally convinced (see
| that lio could '
report) t
ubordinates, Govern-
Legislature to Heat
liis acknowledged
or Bullock aud
Reventeen of them, thus giving Governor
Bullock control of the Legislature which
he uow seeks to perpetuate.
Governor Bullock, iu his letter, refers
i an examination into his official con
duct by a committee of the Georgia House
of Representatives iu January, 1869, and
says, that they “finally reported back a
resolution to tho effect that they could
find nothing affecting my official or per
sonal integrity." In this Governor Bol
lock has suppressed facts, which is the
equivalent of intentional falsehood. The
majority of this committee made a
“ whitewashing” report. The .minority
of the committee reported in substance,
the fact that Governor Bullock was guilty
in numerous instances of appropriating
the public money contrary to law. The
minority report was adopted in the House
i of 86 yeas, 37 nays’ and to-day
by a vote
he stands charged by that action
impeachable offences for violations of the
Constitution which he had sworn to sup
port
Gov. Bnllock, in his letter, boasts that
ho “ shall leave the office of Governor of
Georgia with clean hands,” but with his
‘"private fortune greatly diminished,”
Ac. If pnblic reputation and the tax-
books can be relied upon, he had no
" private fortune” when he took the office
of Governor; and even now the State
Treasurer, N. L. Angier, who has pub
lished eleven distinct charges and speci
fications against him for violations of the
constitution and laws in the use of the
public funds, Ac., states that "the Gov.
neither gives in nor pays any State,
county, city, or revenue |income] tax;”
and yet he spent 814,500 in Washington
between the fifth of March*and the
twenty-first of April last, nsing "improp
er means” to influence Congress against
the State. The rate of expenditure for
the twenty-five months which he has been
Governor, wonld have required a pri
vate fortune of 8246,800.
Read the report of tho the thirteen
pages of Governor Bnllock’s testimony
before the Senate Judiciary Committee
forau illustration both of the "unwilling”
and the "swift” witnesses. In answer
to the third and fourth questions he de
nies all distinct knowledge of why the
colored members of the Georgia Legisla
ture came to Washington. In his fourth
answer ho says: "I do not know that I
con say that! knew of any dispatches sent
to have them come;’’ ana it required the
following questions by the committee to
to draw from him tho fact that he did
telegraph to Atlanta for them to come to
Washington with the " design” and pur
pose of exercising an influence in oppo
sition to the Bingham amendment”—
Bach was the general character of his
testimony until ho came to Chapman and
Senator Pomeroy.
No candid man can read carefully
Gov. Bnllock’s testimony concerning
Senator Pomeroy from page 143 to page
148, and especially in the light of Sena-
tor Pomeroy*B statement on page 149*
without a conviction, too strong to be re
sisted, that] the whole story is either the
result of a conspiracy between Chapman
and Gov. Bnllock, or a cold-blooded ma
lignant fabrication to injure the reputa
tion and destroy the influence ox an
honorable Senator who had opposed some
of hfc wicked designs npon Georgia. In
this part of the testimony, there are three
distinct object* to ‘ “ '
roj who opposes his schemes in Congress;
to slander Captain Bryant a Republican
member who opposes his schemes in the
Georgia Legislature; and to divert atten
tion from his alleged scheme of selling
the State -Railroad to the "Southern
^preM^^^j^^y,”^ an^odious^ bill for
passage before the committees.
If it were necessaty I could go on, but
I tire of the humiliating record of his
crimes, and trust that I have said enough
to convince yon of tbe character and pur
poses of Governor Bullock, and show yon
that the good people of Georgia can have
no legal protectioifor their ngbts except
through tho action of Congress.
Governor Bollock has worked with a
desperate purpose and energy to the
point which ho has now almost attained.
When the Legislature of Georgia was
organized under the new constitution ir
1868, and he found that he conld not con
trol a majority of its members, he quar
relled with General Meade because he
wonld not apply the "test oath” to
clndo his opponents telling General
Meade at the same time that "his friends
been relieved by Congress.
It is believed by many that he sugges
ted and aided secretly in the expulsion
of tho colored members of the Legisla
ture to make a pretext for reorganization
by Congress.
He voted a joint resolution of the Legis
lature pledging the State to abide by the
decision of the State Supreme Court os
to the eligiblity of negroes to hold office
in Georgia, and when the Court had de
clared the negroes eligible, he failed to
call the Legislature, or to give them an
opportunity to comply with the decis-
He defeated, through his friends in the
Legislature, the adoption of the fifteenth
amendment, at a time when it was be
lieved that its adoption wonld have set
tled the Georgia question.
He lias, with the aid of the military,
grossly and palpably violated the law of
of Congress of December 22, 1869, aud
has thus finally succeeded in acquiring
control over the Legislature, illegally or
ganized.
But Governor Bollock is not satisfied
with his present “fruits of victory ;” he
demands of Congress a perpetuation of
his role, and to accomplish this end
speedily, he has commenced a course of
discipline among members of the Repub
lican party.
In Georgia, with the usurped power of
the State government, backed by the
military and his unscrupulous “ring,”
whilst he maligns the people and con
sumes the vitals of the State under the
pretence of loyalty and terrible sacrifices
for the Republican party, he has assailed
the character, and to the extent of his
means destroyed the influence of every
Republican who, outraged or -disgusted
irith his illegal and corrupt course, has
openly opposed his schemes.
And now because some honorable mem
bers of Congress of the Republican party
have obtained a glimpse behind the scene
of his corruptions, and dare to say so, ho
holds them up in his letter as repeaters
of slanders, sympathizers with the rebels
and Kn Klnx, making “ investigation”
with the vain hope that lies of interested
rebels may have some foundation in fact,”
and ho threatens Congress with the " re-
sposibility for the uttfir destruction of
Republicanism in Georgia” if th^y should
adopt the “Bingham amendment, or uny
proviso substantially like it,” because it
would prevent him and the present illegal
ly organized Legislature from carrying
out liis avowed purpose of depriving the
people of the whole State of the right to
vote for representatives, aud of perpet
uating tho Legislature for two years be
yond tho time for which they were elected
— violation of tho State constitution.
The constitution of Georgia arcticlo 3,
c. 1, par. 2, says, “Tho members of tbe
Senate shall bo elected for four years, ex
cept that tho members elected from the
twenty-two senatorial district numbered
iutliis constitution with odd uumbers,
shall only hold their,oflice for two years.
The members of the House of Bepresen-
tives shall be elected for two years.”
This is clear and absolute, and what
follows gives no authority to the Legisla
ture to alter the term of office The
time” or day of election may be chang
ed and the members hold until their suc
cessors are elected and qualified,” so that
the old members would sit iu any extra
ordinary session, held before the
regular term at which the new members
•e to be qualified.
A most important question
itself upon the public mind. Will not
Congress vindicate its own dignity and
the violated law of December 22, 1869?
Ml ■ii hiugr asya that there ia
calculated to call oab the deep
ess of a true woman and enlist
; earnest devotion, as doing up
1 bopreferre by the people of Geor-
nptil constitutional liberty eau be
authorities iu Ha
ng brave warfare on
men. Ladies of culture and refinement
are handcuffed and led through the
streets to the Home for Fallen Women,
where they are lodged.
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tho evils which snrrouuded ns, am
the means necessary to save us aud the
country from the abyss of anarchy or
despotism which we seem to l>e so rapid
ly approaching?
Never since the formation of the Con
stitution has it been in greater peril, nor
has there been a time when it was more
important for patriotic members of Con
gress, and officers and citizens of all
i»1il«bu>s and parties and creeds, to unite
their effiort for its preservation.
Tho constitution of government for the
United States was formed and established
by our fathers in a spirit of mutual con
cession and fordearance and confidence,
which is necessary to its integrity and
continuance. Its sacred and ever bind
ing purposes were—"to form a more
perfect union, establich justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general
welfare and secure the blessings of liber
ty to ourselves and our posterity.”
If we will but earnestly put away the
evils and corruption which like a swell
ing tide threaten our destruction—if we
will earnestly strive to emulate the gener
ous spirit aud self-sacrificing devotion of
our fathers—God Almighty will bless us
in the consummation of their designs.
Very respectfnlly, your ob’t serv’t,
NELSON TIFT.
Tho New York Sex publishes tho following
tier, which contains a number ot very impor
tant statements, if they aro only correct
Browxsyillk, June 1, 1870.—A filibustering
expedition into Mexico is now organizing. Tbe
preliminary steps wero taken several months
ago, when, yon recollect, General Roeecrana,
late of the United States Army, paid a visit to
that country, and traversed it extensively. The
leaders of the expedition will bo former officers
of the United States army and of tho late Con
federacy, with Gen. Roeecrana in supremo com
mand. The headquarters are in New York city.
The principal subordinate departments are Chi
cago, St. Louis, Philadelphia! Houston, Texas,
New Oilcans and Shreveport, Louisiana. Major
R. Shelly, a ImnusE correspondent during tho
■, has something to do with this expedition,
lie lias ltecn iu Chicago for the past month; and
may still bo there. Tho Confederate General,
J. Bankhead Magrmlcr is tbe commander of the
expedition; and, from all I hear, will play
prominent part in tho affair.' The Federal au
thorities at Washington are fully aware of tli
the decisivo steps about to be taken, and, as tli
6aying is, “wink at it.”
Tho grand passage over the Rio Grande aud
ito the Mexican territory will take place twe
months lienee. Tho plan is as follows: Rose-
uns aud the Mexican General Escobedo, who,
un informed, is their hero, and in supreme
moanil of the Mexican forces in the northeast,
id who fought .the late Emperor Maximilian
i well, have come to a satisfactory understand
ing, and in consideration of a largo
nouey paid to Escobedo, it is mutually
tood aud agreed to conduct tiio enterprise as
bllow
Tlte
v presses
Having undertaken by that law to restore
the expelled colored members to the
Legislature, and to purge it of ineligible
members, will they now sanctipn the ille
gal violence and fraud by which eligible
members were expelled, and, seventeen
members seated who were not elected?
Bnt if past violations of the laws cannot
be corrected, if the people of Georgia
must, for the time being, continue to be
the prey of wicked rulers, then another
important question is presented. Will
Congress by its action, either directly
or indirectly, sanction the orowed pur
pose of Governor Bnllock to prevent an
election in Georgia for members of the
General Assembly, on "Tuesday after
the first Monday in November of this
year,” as required by the constitution?
Or will not Congress, knowing the pur
pose of Governor Bullock, declare
plain terms, that tho election shall
held as therein required, and represen
tative government maintained?
In behalf of the people of Georgia, I
appeal to Congress to secure to qs the
common rights and libei ties of American
citizens, and the common rights of a
State of the American Union.
It is now five yean since the dose of
the war. When tho people^of Georgia
surrendered their arms they also surren
dered the cause of independent govern
ment for which they had contended.—
With hopes crushed, with property des
troyed, with the wail of the widow and
orplian still ringing in their ears, they,
did not play the hypocrite and glory in
their defeat or curse their dead comrades
as traitors, but they did surrender ii
good faith, they did pledge an honest
support to the Constitution and laws of
the United States, and they kept their
pledge. Tho great mass of people have
been law abiding, moral, indostrous and
earnestly desirous of peace and a perfect
restoration of the Union.
They appreciated the managnimity of
the officers and men tojwhom they surren
dered, and they relied on tho promises of
the Government, and the common in
terests of the country, to restore them to
their common rights, whilst they wonld
cheerfully bear the common burdens of
American citizens.
When tho war was over, as a general
rule, the officers and soldiers and a large
proportion of the citizens, on both sides,
with the generosity which characterize
bravo and true men, recognized the set
tlement of a qpestson which had divided
and agitated the country from the begin
ning of tho Government, shook hands,
wero again friends, and determined to
work together to allay prejudice, restore
fraternal relations, and secure the union,
peace, and prosperity of the whole
^Why^have the efforts of these patriotic
men been unavailing? Why Is peace de
layed and strife and enmity continued?
It ia because there (is another though
■null rims of men who were generally
skulkers in the way, or ajieculaiora in the
misfortunes of its victims, who, when the
war of arms had ended, oommenoed their
War of bombast andtlenunciation of false
hood and plunder, against individnels
and communities of men, women, and
This war of these demons of
peace, these moral beast and birds of
prey, has been continued five years, and
has been little less disastrous to the in
terest of the country than the war of arms
which proceeded it
SQL. Some musical genius in the vici
ity of tho Barlow House, grinds out a
sort of a dead mart'll every day, much to
the disgust and annoyance of all lovers of
good mnsic. Wo think the cemetery
wonld be the most appropriate place for
this yontli’s performances.
fi*ay In one of our city churches, on
last Sunday, daring the sermon, two
small boys annoyed the clergyman by
exchanging their love letters. The cler
gyman stopped his sermon, and asked
the congregation to kneel with him
prayer for the young sinners, which they
did. This prompt aetjon had a remarka
bly quieting effect.
r* Miss Mitford, writing of a certain
authoress, says: "She is ugly, of course ;
all literary ladies are so. I never met
one in my life (except Jane Porter, and
she ia rather posse,) that might not have
served for a scarecrow to keep the birds
from the cherries. It’s a prodigiously
strange and disagreeable peculiarity.
f' A New York judge sentenced a
rough to tho penitentiary for an assault.
fallen woman, remarking that these
poor creatures were doubly under the
protection of the law, inasmuch as it
happened only too often that lawless
men took advantage of them, hoping that
the fact of their dishonor wonld impeach
their credibility.
Projected New Countt.—The Val
dosta Times learns that at the coming ses
sion of tho Georgia Legislature an effort
will be made to form a new county, from
portions of tho counties of Wayne and
Appling, with Jessup as the county site.
proposed to call the new county
Ashby, after the lamented General Ashby
of Virginia fame.
Poor Whittemore. An informal
canvass of the House shows that Whitte
more will hardly get the seat to which
his ignorant negro constituents have re
turned him. Members very generally
say that they cannot vote consistently to
admit him when they have voted at the
1 session that lie is unworthy to be a
representative of tbe people in Congress.
General Logan will tako the position, it is
said, that Wliittewore’s re-election is an
iusult to the House.
filibuatoro will cut* r the country along
e border in squads of 20 and upwards,
if they were immigrants, miners on their way
the gold mines of New Mexico, cattle tiro-
rs, and tho like. General Escobedo i.-
withdraw hie army one or two hundred miles
away from the border to enable tho expedition
enter the country, organize and then advance
a military foroo. Then both armies supposed
be hostile are to advance and to liave a short
am engagement, at the termination of w
Escobedo is to break aud fail back in nttcr
fusion, and then to aid aud assist the carpet
baggers to conquor the country, aud establish
government with Rosecraus or some one else at
its head, which government will ultimately bo
turned pvor to tho United Slates authorities.
From tho Bouton (Ilk) .Standard.
Swift Retribution for Crime—A Woman
Shoots and Kills her Ravisher.
Ou Tuesday morning last, the citizens of this
place wero aitouiahod by the announcement
the streets that John K. Ressler had been shot
and killed by a woman, the evening previous,:
Spring settlement, iu this county, and abont five
miles west of Benton
It appears that Mr. Reeelerleft Benton late
Monday Evening, on horseback, and went to the
residence of Thomas P. McFee, hi Spring Settle
ment, where ho arrived about half-past eight
o’clock, and, without dismounting, called for
Mr. McFee, when Mrs. McFee, came to the door
and informed him that her lmsband was :
the house, but that ho was somewhere <
farm. It appears from the statement of Mrs.
McFee that tho deceased then dismounted,
hitched his horse, and came into the house, and
alter being seated a few minutes, the alleges
that he took hold of bet, threw her down <
floor and violated her person, aud that immedi
ately afterward she went into an adjoining
and procured a loaded pistol, and, returning,
shot the deceased, who instantly ran out of the
house into the yard, where he fell down, and the
infuriated woman, noticing his straggle, shot
him again in the back of his head while he
lying on the ground.
Tho husband who was some distance from the
house at the time, hearing the reports of the
the pistol, hastened to the house, where ho found
his wife stauding near the corps, with the revol
ver in her hand, bnt he states Mr. Ressler was,
to all aiipcarance, dead when he arrived. The
news or the sad affair soon spread around among
tho neighbors, and several of them visited the
scene or the terrible tragedy; bnt it produced
sncli a profound consternation that no oho felt
it to be his duty to notify tho family or friends of
tho deceased of the sad affair, and the corpse
permitted to remain in the yard where it first
fell uutil the next morning, ami was not removed
from the spot until about leu o’clock. Ou
^Tuesday morning, about eight o*clock, Mrs. Mc-
"Fce, who shot and killed the deceased, arrived
in Benton and voluntarily gave hcrsell up to the
proper authorities, which was tho first informa
tion conveyed to this place of the homicide. The
body of the deceased was brought to Benton;
where iu the absence of a coroner, Justices
Lopaa and Hall iinpauueled a jury and held the
naual inquest. The Jury, after hearing the
statements of fthe woman, aud other evidence,
rendered a verdict accordingly, Mrs. Sarah Mo-
Fee was committed to prison to await her trial
for the killing of John K. Rcesler.
WILLET & STEWART
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AMERICUS, Ga.
,u ° coU "“*' u “ u ' ra '“ J ■'*“**•*.a-V W iL»a u to
BROWN COTTON GIN.
For the coming season, and now have a gin at our nUoa of i i . ,
friends ami the public generally. These Gins aro loo well inspection of our
tion at onr hands. They aro made of tho best material with “f particular deecrit^
al supervision of Mr. ISRAEL F. BROWN. (fomertv^ML 0 , S™* 1 * under the
andof their successors, W. G. Clemons. Brown A cSJ(XXX5 Vf rtJ ? er , of «• **• Taylor aTo
enco of npwirJ. of forty ran ia their muorictnJr We>‘*‘1 •» etp,.„:
believe they will be found upou trial unrivalled for confidently recommend them.
Perfect Finish, Strength, Simplicity, Durability, F»st and clean «i„
ning, Light Running, and Superior^- of Lint
season as practicable, thus avoiding the loss ot time which the dclnv .w ** e*rir in the
price will be found to be as low and as liberal as that of am- ft rB t C \SLoocasions. The
call on ^K5W5 l * r * Address or
BILLET A STEWART.
WE ARE AT .SO AGENTS FOB THE CELEBRATED
BOTTOMS’S HORSE POWER,
GIN F E E I) E R S ,
COTTON SEED HULLERS,
DIMOND’S CORN & GRISTMILL,
B R E Hi/L E R M A INT’S
IMPROVED
THIMBLE-SKEIN WAGGON,
, - - (THE LIGHTE8T RUNNING WAGGON KNOWN,)
WAGGON AND BUGGY HARNESS,
DURHAM BOOTH’S AND WOOSTER’S CELEBRATED
PATENT WHEEL BUGGIES,
SUB-SOIL & TURN PLOWS,
lG-Sm AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS GENERALLY.
SU Brick Pomeroy says: The marri
age of General Ames to Miss Blanche
Butler, daughter of the spoon-thief, will
come off at an early day. Blanche says
she wouldn’t be in such a hurry to liitcb,
but in this marriage she Ames to get lid
of the odious name of Bntler. Still, she
likes licr iutended well enough,' and he
dotes on her, though not half as spooney
2r own pa. Mrs. Gruudy says that
the bridal presents from Benjamin will
consist of costly silverware, with the
initials of the owners carefnlly erased.
L. On iuvitation of the Connecticut
Legislature, three ladies appeared before
a committee of that body last Wednes
day to plead the cause of female suffrage.
One of them, the Rev. Mrs. Hanoford,
opened tho session of the Honse with
prayer, and was installed as “pastrees”
of tho Universolist church last Thurs
day. Rev. Dr. Chapiu preached the in
stallation sermon, assisted by Rev. Mrs.
Olympia Brown, of Bridgeport, Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, of Boston, and the
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Livermore. The
hind of steady habits appears to be going
it strong. L*»
SU A fire has raged in Canada in the
Saguenay region. The fire broke out in
the 19th May, and from Miatassinie to
St. Alphonso, the greater part of the
habitations \v$re destroyed, rendering
over 5,000 persons shelterless. The area
covered by the flames was abont five
miles wide by thirty-six iu length, and
extended from Lake St John to Chioon-
timi. The work of destruction was
completed between two o’clock
in the afternoon and nine o’clock
in the evening of the same day. The
origin of the fire is attributable to th*/
stupidity of cextain farmers in setting
fire in an extremely dry time to the
woods in different places. Many of the
sufferers have reached Quebec, and re
port that six; adult persons aud two
children perished in the flames. The
total number of families who are left d<
titnteisC55. The fire traveled in a cir
cuitous direction, covering only 1500
miles in snperfices, and 100 miles from
one extreme point to the other. One
poor woniau who had bnta few hours be
fore the fire reached her domicil given
birth to a child, was removed, with the
new-born infant, by the husband to a
swamp, where she passed the night
alone, os the husband hod returned to
the house to save some of his wearing
apparel, aud got cut off by the fire.
Equal Rights.—Tbe “local” of the
Atlanta Constitution, has thrown off the
garb of “General,” and insists upon his
right to be considered a young lady. In
the issue of June 8, he says:
“This reporter, CoL Fleming and two
other young ladies visited Marietta yester
day.”
What a delicate bit of femininity he
(she) wonld moke. Cannot oar friend
Watson, of the Sun, keep an eye oh this
blooming maiden, that he (she) may not
be led astray?
J©- A negro working on a farm near
Albany, New York, fell out with his em
ployer the other day, and denounced him
him as “i. d d black Republican.”
Webster’s unabridged furnishes no mate
rials for constructing a form of denuncia
tion more severe than that
Manufactures, South and North.—
Au article in De Bow's Review contains a
few figures which show tho loss suffered
by tho ootton-growing States in sending
tkfrir raw cotton to foreign mills to be
manufactured. Of 2,392,254 boles, one
and a half millions are said to have been
exported to foreign countries. Northern
mills spun 767,512 bales, or 32 per cent,
and Southern mills 64^99 balps, or about
11 per cent The Review says: “ When
we reflect on the immense addition to the
value of onr crop to bo imparted by the
employment of machinery and labor, we
really deem it a subject of paramount im
portnuce to every statesman. ”
—The whisky ring are preparing
benefit for Rev. Chao. B. Smythe. Sub
scription lists have been circulated among
the principal liquorjdealers and saloon
proprietors, and liberal sums hare been
subscribed. The programme requires Mr.
Smythe to deliver a temperance lecture
in the Academy or in Stein way Hall, his
text to be St Paul’s injunction to Timo
thy, “Drink no longer water, bnt use a
little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and
thine often infirmities.”
WILLET & STEWART,
Americus, Ga.
WILCOX & GIBB’S
SILENT
. A PERFECT WONDER
its simplicity, strength of stitcli, apd beaut v
of finish. Needle is self-adjusting and cannot
be set wrong. It tacks, coras, hems, fells, em
broiders, braids, quilts and does all kinds of
plain and fancy sewing, with neatness and dis-
11 ** ~ sale at manufacturer'sjirices by
patch. For s
apric
L N. HART & CO., agent
Canary Heed, Rape Heed and Cuttlefish bone.
BACON at {vices to correspond with the do-
L N. HART & CO.
dine in gold and cotton by
NOTICE
IIi\ing the liabilities of W. A. COOK & CO
left upon onr hands to pay, and
NOTHING TO PAY
them with, except the accounts mode, and the
stock of
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
those indebted will please settle with us. We
propose to sell tho stock now on hand for
CASH,
until we can pay the indebtedness, and to ena
ble us to do so, we offer the same
AT A REDUCED PRICE.
So now is the time aud here is the place to buy
cheap drags.
A. R. BROWN,
sss. i Benjamin Weaver, applies for
the guardianship ot the persons and property
of Marion Hammock, Henry Hammock, Mary
Hammock and Silas Hammock,minora of W. U.
kindred
„ other persons concerned,
to be aud appear at my oAoa within
tho time praicnbed by law, and flip their objee-
v — “'•“letter* of guardian-
—, otherwise they will
in terms of law.
and
1870.
Given under my hand end official signature
this16th day of Jui
JunlG-lm
B. F. BELL, Ordinary.
Dividend No. 38.
j
A DIVIDEND of ($1) Four Dolton per ahar
A has this day been declared by tbe board c
directors on the stock as held on the night«
the 81st May, ultimo, payable on and after 1541
inetaut in United States currency as nowr*
ceived. The Government tax will be paid by
this company. Stock holders in Savanna will
receive their dividends at Central Railroad
•““V . Jon T. Boirronxrr,
tcll-lm Hoc. ATTeas.
GETTING MARRIED—Es-
VI siys foryornigmen.-*ra tlio/.elighti of
Borne, uid the propriety orimpropriety of get-,
ting Hurried, mth unlttry he[p (or thoie who
feel unfitted (or m.trtmonUl luppme««. 8ent
free in eealcd envclopee. Ad a rM» Howud A*,
eociation. Box P: Philadelphia, Fa,. m ya*
Laths & Kiln-Dried Flooring,
CO.VSTAWTI.Y ON HAND AT
Wetlierell & Fisher’s Mill,
NO. 2, SOU Til WESTERN BAIIJiOAU.
AclclrbiqiFoworavillo
juu!4-3m
TH0S. M. EDEN,
[GUN & LOCKSMITH,
Doalor in
GUNS, PISTOLS,
Powder, shot, caps of all kinds, wads, leads, cu-
t ridges, pie to] buwUrs, molds, ladles, and port
ing ammunition of every kind. Wesson’s Drcarb-
loading Rifles. Now on hand a large and fine
assortment of fishing tackle, conaisUng iu pert
of grass, tdlk, cotton and linen lines, 1»(A».
«... •-— ‘-—tod and reed poles, set lists,
spoon and spinning bait, Uit
k—Agency of the c"
Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machines.
boxes, etc. N.B.—Agency ot the celebrated
Wilson 8hnttle Sewing Machines. East tide
Public Square, next door to Win. Sirrine A Sot»
Carriage Manufactory. witwly
E |IS SOLUTION.-The
f p
* partnership heretofore existing betswi
tne undersigned under the firm name aid *»)£
ot W. A. Cook ACo. was dissolved on thelfth
May. 1870, by the withdrawal cf W. A. Cool.
tho debts of rtie old firm will be paid by tk
new one. A. It. BROWN, Tnufoe.
A. R. BROWN,
jun 0-ltn W. A. COOK-
torto UwfiS»a»th«i.pnp«IS •’
kinds of
CUSTOM-HADE WORK
,tlb.ihuctctnotice. Wch.ro
Two European Workmen,
who will eiro itUrfwtioo to the trtfinOijhh
to Uie toct tUt ho ta. tod *
fourteen win from the potoft w-Vo-td,
I*
low prices, so as to eave tneiatnes ^
making them, as lie can then
BfasMtser
TAX NOTICE.
MV HOOKS WILL CUB* 5 1,1
DAYS AFTER THIS DAI*-
All perrons who have not given their
State aqd County Ta*
Are requested to come and gi*« 1
, tbeM«* ,l
T. B. GLOVER,
TaxReeeiwr,
SuaUtOoadJ'
WIUTE OZNTDXMXN’8
Fashionable Barber Shoft
5 now famished jnfa* r
uuaooiBset*