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(Sarin (Lountn Ildus.
THIS IS
STRICTLY A WHITE MAN’S PAPER.
E. H. OtOLHV W. FLEMING.
GROUBY & FLEMING,
EDITORS & PROPRIETORS.
Blakely, Ga., July 21,1871.
We arc requested to ask those who have
fubseribed tothc building of the new Meth j
r> list Church in Blakely, to call at the of-1
fice of our young friond, Len. G. Cartledge,
Esq., and pay up their subscriptions, as it
is desired to commence the erection of the
Luiliing at once.
The Act to incorporate the town of
Blakely has at last arrived, and will bo
found in our columns. Wo hope the In
corpontofs will Organize at os early a day
ns possible, and put the machinery in mo
tion.
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Our old friend, L. Gay, Sr., has oar ,
thanks for sonic line, largo bell pears, as i
good as ever we ate anywhere. This sample
s hows what can be done in fruit raising in
our county by trying. “ Undo J,uko” has
given more attention to the raising of fine
fruit than any other person iu the county,
and desen cs much credit for it.
We heard a gcutlemen say the other day,
that his opinion was, that the “ path of
rectitude ” was traveled so little in these
days, that it had grown up in grass. We
fully ngree with him in his opinion.
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Our “ Devil ” thinks we should got tired
of writing “squibbs” about him. But
we must beg to differ with him, as the “old
boy’’ is a particular friend of the Senior
of the News.
In the course of a month we will com
mence the publication ol' the “ History of
l'larly county ” from the date of its forma
tion up to the present time. It will be
furnished us by one of our oldest and most
intelligent citizens, who we feed assured is
fully competent to the ta.-k. It will run
iu a series of about two mouths. Now is
the time to subscribe to tho News, as all
that over did or now live in the original or
present couuty will look with interest to a
true and complete history of Early county.
It will be as complete as can be obtained
from the records and the recollection of
“ the oldest inhabitant.”
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The I. (). B. B.’s sent a delegation to the
Buptibt Church on Sunday evening last.
Thp preacher recognised their presence.
We would liko to know how Hays, of
tho Bainbridge Sun, got out his paper oi
the IHth inst., without saying a word about
tlrouby. We haven’t known him guilty
of such an oversight for over two months.
Will he pleaso inform us how the thing was
“did?” _
Mr. W. I’. Jeter will accept our thanks
for four fine water melons sent us ou last
Tuesday morning. They made us feel
good—but they made the “ Devil ” feci
“ gooder,” for he very much needed an
inward “ cooling off,” in consequence ot a
late feverish trip.
Lightning & Wtbe Clothes Lines.
A negro wmnau was killed by lightning,
in Brooks county, a short time since, while
sitting iu her cabin. The lightningstruck
a wire clothes Hue, one end of which was
attached to the cabin— thenoo passed into
the building, killing the woman. We get
this from the Quitman Banuer.
Lightning struck in the yard of our Sen
ior, where was stretched one of these Hues,
ou Sunday last, lie now decides to hang
llis linen on a cotton line alter this, as he
don’t feci ready to follow that woman.
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Tester Blodgett and A. K. Seago, of At
lanta, are just now engaged in a sort of
dog eat deg controversy. Blodgett's rep
utation is notoriously bad, and he is mak
ing a pretty plain ease of it, that Seago is
no better than he ought to be. These gen
tlemen are both piotnincnt members of the
company that bid against the Brown com
pany for the lease of the State Road, and
if the balance of the company arc ns great
scoundrels as these fellows make each oth
er out to be, we think it fortunate for the
State that the Road fell into the hands of
the other company.
Hog cholera is vory destructive iu Brooks
county. The Quitman Banuer estimates
that at least one fourth of the hog crop in
that county has perished since the first of
March last.
Tho Sandcrsville Uoorgiau says the ne
groes of that sectiou are becoming uneasy
at the immigration of the Swedes, and are
beginning to ask : “ What is to become
of us ? ”
Thu question will undoubtedly be ask
tdby many thousands of the black, lazy,
loa&ug to\o„ g) b e f ore
many years roll ; (
V'un-j. Ihe day of the negro controlling
| th» whites of this country in the way of la-
Wia abort, and at * £ \ jd 0 p i( .
Sunday School Celebration at Bluffton-
It was our pleasure, on Friday last, to
ba present at the Sunday School Celebra- |
tion at Bluffton ; and, for a small place, we
must say it was a big affair. Both schools !
lrom Blakely were well represented ; also
the schools from Whitney aud Ft. Gaines.
These, added to the membership of the .
“ Duncan Sunday School,” at Bluffton,
made up the number of at least three hun
dred Sunday School pupils and teachers.
Our estimate is that there were at least
three hundred others present, making in .
j all, six hundred persons. Wo have heard
other estimates, placing the crowd at eight i
hundred to a thousand.
The exercises of the day consisted of
processions, speeches, music and feasting ;
uud for a first effort, we will do the Blufi- ,
ton community the justice, to say, that the .
programme was well conceived, and exccu
ted with quite as much satisfaction to all j
present as could well be expected, under j
all the circumstances.
The welcoming speech was made by Mas- ,
i ter Gideon Garner, a member of the Dun- j
J can School, and was followed in response
by Master Jimmie Smith, of the Blakely
Methodist Sunday School. Both boys ac
quitted themselves very well. A preces
sion was then formed, under tho direction
of Professor Dozier, Marshal of the day,
1 aud marched down by the residence of Col.
Thomas F. Jones —thence back to the
Church, wliorc the crowd were entertained
by speeches from two Messrs. Boynton and
Mr. Richard It Blocker, interspersed with j
music by members of tho Duncan School
and others. After which came dinner,
under the Bluff—“anJ which we ure free :
to maintain” ought to have been on the
Bluff. As is customary on such occasions,
tho dear children had preference at the
table, and of course fared very well—and
so did we, for we had the good luck to be j
long to tho “ carving committee.” How |
others fared who came after Ifc, this depo- I
nent sayeth not, as we soon ascended to the
top of the Bluff, after replenishing our in
ner man. It is usually the case at home,
that wo don’t leuve much thut’s worth the
looking after by any one else; but, being
a very modest man, we don’t go in so brash
when anroad ; besides, on this occasion our
better half kept a sharp eye upon us, which
served to keep us in bounds, and we have I
no doubt we left plenty behind for others.
. After dinuer, the schools were addressed
by Ilev. Mr. Wilson, of Whitney. We
could not remain to hear this address, but
we were told, by “ one who knows,” that
the speaker paid a most beautiful tribute j
to the Bible.
We did not hear the whole of any one
of the speeches delivered during the day,
but have heard them all spoken of as able j
productions in their way, and would have j
suited very well fov the occasion, if another
one had been worked in, more suitcd’to :
the children. As we heard one gentleman !
say, “ a feast had been prepared for the 1
little ones, but the tables were spread a lit
tle too high for them to reach the viands.”
In looking around Bluffton, we -could
not but think that there ought to be quite
a village there, and we doubt not there
will be some day. Aside from its plods
ant, healthy location and excellent water,
it is just about a proper distance from other
surrounding towns, to insure a good neigh
borhood trado.
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Serious Affray in Miller County.
From the Bainbridge Suu we get the fol
lowing particulars of an affray iu Miller
county. We had heard something of the
matter before, but had no particulars to j
warrant publication. Usually, such occur
rences arc attributable to whiskey, but from
what we know of the parties, it could not
have been so in this case. The Sun says:
“ On the 7th inst , at McLain’s Mill, iu
Miller couu'y,a difficulty occurred between
Dr. Guest and Mr. Stephen Spooner, iu
. which Dr. (}. was stabbed, it is thought,
fatally—he being completely disemboweled
by Spooner. Dr. Clifton interfered to
quell the affray, and was fearfully cut iu
the arm —the knife going through that
limb, terribly laseerating the leaders, and
disjointing them to the wrist. The parties
ure all prominent citizens of Millet county.
The difficulty grew out of an old feud.”
Our last information, up to Saturday last,
is that Dr. G. was still alive, and with
some prospect of recovering. It is thought
ampututiou of the arm will be necessary in
Dr. Cliftou’s case.
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Drunkenness is >llll on the decline in
this city, ten cent doggeries to the contra
ry notwithstanding. — Bainbridge Sun.
Then Hays’ ten cent pieces must have
“gin out.” When we last saw him, lie
was running two groceries iu partnership
with his friends—that is, he did the drink
ing, and his friends the paying.
A dog, a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog,
A dog, a dog, a dog, a dog, a dog.
The above is the last poetical effusion of
Bill Rutherford. — Bainbridge Sun.
TheD why don’t frieud Rutherford call
ou Hays, of the Sun ?—he’s in the trade,
according to last accounts.
See leading matter eu fourth page.
Tricks and Tricksters.
There are some people in this world of
ours, who, il we should judge of them by
; their acts, were bogotten by a trick—nurs
i ed by a trick—brought up by a trick, and
whose very existence seems tube maintain
ed by a trick. Such people never do any- i
thing in a straight-foTWurd way; they are.
! always susnicious that some one else is
I ready to step between them and the accom
i plishment of their purposes. They there
fore go to work industriously to devise some
trick to effect their object. It matters not
j that the end might have been attained
i much more readily by direct means, they j
are so given to tricks, that they seem not
j to know how to do anything in a fair, bon
! cst, manly way. Such an individual gen
erally has some friends, or- hangers on,
; whom he uses on all occasions to further
1 his designs, and he frequently uses them
I without their knowing it. If be wishes to
1 purchase a piece of property, for instance,
j he works altogether through others, until
deeds are ready to be made, when he is
j first seen in his true character. If he de
-1 sires an offioe, he manages, by trickery, to
••have his name and claims brought promt- j
neatly before the public without his np- ,
pearing to have anything to do with it, al- j
though lie has been the main spring to the
whole matter. If he is a young man, and
wants a wife, lie first selects the object of
his designs, and then goes to work to have
himself made to appear as the possessor of
the virtues most admired by the object as i
his intrigues Tn short, there is nothing
that lie does, or desires to do, but he re
sorts to some indirect means to accomplish
lie doesn’t seem to know what it is not to
have some design which is not apparent to
the public, in all bis sayings and doings.
How despicable is such a character as
compared with him who always means just
i what he says, and says what he means—
! who, if he desires a favor at your hands,
J don’t hesitate to ask it in a plain way, and
if he shake you by the hand in a friendly
manner, you know there is no deceit con
cealed behind.
A Conecticut Borgia.—Derby, Con
nectieut, can boast of a Lucretia Borgia, in
the person of a Mrs. Sherman. She has
| poisoned three husbands and eight chil
| dren. Strange to say, she had poisoned
two husbands and eight children, in the
course of a few years, before suspicions of
foul play were excited, although all her
victims had died very suddenly, and with
the same symptoms of disease.
I A few years since, Pittburg, Pa., had a
! similar ease iu a woman who had succeeded
! in poisoning Several of her neighbors bo-
I fore.she was detected and brought to jus
j tice. It is astonishing, to us law-abiding
! people ot the South, how common crimes
of a revolting character are in the North
| ern States. It is but a few days since we
read of the whipping ami torturing to death
| of a lad of a boy, by liis step-father in the
| State of Indiana —the details of which we
' deemed too horrible for publication io our
| columns. This monster received his do
| serts at the hands of Judge Lynch.
Several friends of General Hancock met
j recently in Washington, and each pledged
| himself to give one thousand dollars to aid
the democratic cause, iu case Hancock is
the nominee of the Democratic party for
President in 1872, and to see that it be in
creased to the amount of one hundred
thousand dollars.
As the town of Blakely is soon to be
| incorporated, and as every body is after
Hi Kimball, of Atlanta, we propose that
he be immediately sent lor, and elected
Council, Mayor, Clerk. Marshal, &c., &c , |
of Blakely!
i i Jeff. Long —A Northern correspon
-1 dent, who recently interviewed the col
-1 ored Congressman, Jeff. Long, has this:
Passing down a street in Macon a sign
, inf.'lines you that Jeff. Long keeps a gro
! eery store. Jeff, is a colored man, who
. repiesented this Congressional district at
I Washington during the Forty-first Con- i
"less. IK- ma'de a bitter speech iu favor j
ot the Ku Klux bill, but he says now that
he “aint never seen no Ku-Klux.” Jeff,
savs lie lived economically in Washington
and saved his salary as a Congressman.
That enabled him to open a store with ap
parently $3,01)0 wor'h ofstoek in it, aud
he is doing well. The colored people
! mostly deal with him, and as their trade
is all cash it is the safest kind of a busi
ness. Jeff, was formerly a tailor, but got
tired of that business. He serves his cus
tomers in court dress —a shiny hat, fault
less white shirt, Nilsson necktie aod white
Marseilles vest.
The convention of Kentucky Baptists,
at Louisville, offer three hundred thousand
dollars to remove the Baptist University
from Greenville, S. C., to an eligible point
! in Kentucky', provided the other Southern
States raise two hundred thousand dollars
more.
The Radicals are abusing ex-Senator
Doolittle, of Wisconsin, because he served
twelve years in the Senate, and came out <
poor. They concluded he must have been j
honest, aud consequently have no use for !
him.
Bullock & Company.
A correspondent of the New iTjrk Jour
nal of Commerce has been sojourning in
Atlanta. We make the following extracts
from one of bis letters to that paper :
This is the Capital of the State, and
here the Governor lives and the Legisla- :
: tare meets. The taxes flow to this centre, 1
and the money is paid out here. Men
who steal, steal here. As to the great ;
question of finances, only the ridiculous '
aspect is presented here. The finances '
are the taxes, and they arc absorbed by
the politicians.
* * * *
GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND IIIS ECONOMY.
Governor Bullock lives in the best pri
| vate residence in Atlanta. The Legisla
; ture paid 8100,000 of Slate funds for it.
Governor Bullock is not as economical as
i lie might be. Witness a comparison of
expenses under hisadministration and those
ot his predecessors. The Bullock Legis
lature, from its organization in July, 1868,
! to January, 1871, cost for its expenses
! over $1,000,000 cash. From 1855 to
1862 (seven years) the entire cost was
8806,000. Last year the legialature ex
penses were greater than for any five years
I before the war. The clerk hire expenses
I last year were 882,000, being two clerks
for each three members of the legislature. j
i The legislative clerk hire from 1860 to ,
1 1863 was only $43,000, and part of that |
| was paid in Confederate money. The |
cost of the entire Legislature, clerks and I
! all, iu 1862, was only $62,849. In 1870 i
i the cost was sixteen times the amount.
Governor Bullock’s incidental expenses
amounted up "to November last to $23,-
800; those of his predecessor to $350 for
fifteen months. Governor Bullock’s extra
printing to November last footed up $76,*
000. 11 is predecessor got along a year
with $1,070 for that purpose. Among j
other expenses of the present Governor
arc : $34,000 attorney’s fees for work the
Attorney-General should have performed ;
810,000 for executive clerks, fully four
times what the law allows or lias been cus
tomary at any time; $300,000 for special
services to his predecessor’s $7,412, or in
a ratio of forty to one. He hired Mr.
Conley to make an analysis of the State
Constitution, and took 10,000 copies at
$1 15 each. They are worth probably
20 or possibly 25 cts. each at retail. The
State Road —the Western and Atlantic—
paid to the State last year $45,000, but
at the end of the year it was found that it
accumulated a floating debt of $700,000,
and the State was obliged to-assume it.
There must have been elegant pickings
for somebody in that transaction, because
it is well known that the road, well equip
ped as it is, does a business that pays
handsomely. Before the war it paid a
very large portion of all the State expen
ses. As the Congressional Ku-Klux Com
mittee does not pay me for unearthing
these evidences against the real Georgia.
Ku Kluxes, I propose to stop. Everyone
seems to be talking of them, but I get my
data from the books, aud there are plenty
more where I left off.
*TIIE LAST KU-KLUX OUTRAGE
was the roccnt offer by Governor Bullock
of large rewards for the arrest and delivery
(not conviction), of alleged Ku-Kluxes.
Three days after lie issued his proclama
tion he commenced drawing warrants on
the State' Treasurer, amounting to $1,500
each.
It would seem by this that Gov. Bul
lock wants to raise a Ku-Klux-Klan of
his own, for the purpose of creating bogus
outrages in order to secure the offered re
wards. This is the only organized Ku-
Klux-Klan iu the State of Georgia.
A Remarkable Incident.
Capt. John O. Martin, Agent Central
liine of Steamers, furnishes us with the
following wonderful incident:
On last Friday, as a sloop was coming
into Apalachicola, Fla., under a very gen
tle breeze, with fifty bars of rail road iron,
taken from the vessel wrecked some weeks
since on the breakers off Dog Island, she
was thrown on her side by a sudden gale,
filled with water aud commenced siuking
in about tweDty-one feet of water. This
occurred about one mile from shore, and
two of the three men who composed the
i crew clung to the rigging while the other
was swimming at large. After siuking for
awhile, the sloop careened over, the iron
rolled off her decks, and she immediately
commenced to rise. Having reached the
surface, she was carried ashore, pumped
dry and carried iDto port uninjured. Two
j of the crew were bitten by sharks, one of
| them badly in several places.
; It sounds somewhat “ suakish,” but all
those desiring further particulars are re
ferred to Capt. Martin. —Eufaula News.
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Interviewed Again.
General Tuouibs and his lovely and es
-1 tunable wife have, while on their way to
the Greenbrier and other \ irgiuia springs,
beeu sojourning for some days during the
I session of the Supreme Court, at the Kim
ball House, where they have, as usual,
been surrounded by admiring friends.—r-
With years'and reverses “General Toombs’
magnetic attraction seems to increase, but
grand as is the Great Irrepressible, he
cannot, even among friends escape inter
viewing.
In conversation with several friends, a
i lady asked:
‘•General Toombs, did you say half the
terrible things Mr. Smalley reported to
the New York Tribune?”
“Madam,” replied Mr. Toouibs, “the
; scoundrel did not say half I did tell him
;to say. I told him to be particular to say
I to his people that they had stolen the
I graves of their hirelings, stolen them from
‘ an aid woman, a lame old woman who had
not the power to commit treason, the yrand
daughter of Martha Washington!”
Albany News. •
Savannah sent 5,362 watermelons to
1 New Yolk u few days since. 1
Th 9 New York Riot.
The expected riot in New York, came
off, sure eaough, on the 12th inst. The
Superintendent of Police, with a view of
preventing the threatened disturbance, is
sued his orders forbidiDg the parade of the
Orangemen. The paramount authority
1 of the Governor, however, was brought in
; to requisition and he issued his proclaina
! (ion not only permitting the pvocession, but !
1 guaranteeing its protection to the extent j
af the power of the State. W e take the
following account of the riot from a special
dispatch to the Atlanta Sun :
New York, July 12th, r. m After
much delay the Orange procession started,
at balf past 3 p. in., down Ninth avenue,
amidst confusion, crowded windows and a
dense multitude. Their strength was only
four hundred. They moved off to the
tune of “Hail! Columbia,” with King
William’s banner and the Stars aud Stripes
flying, and deafening and enthusiastic
ckcci'3.
Marshal Johnston headed the proces
sion on horseback. The Orangemen all j
wore rosettes and badges, or other insig
nia. As tho procession moved down the
river, several severe fights took place with
the police, who made frequent sorties on
! the crowd of twenty-five hundred. Sever-
I al shots were fired from wiuduws, house
i tops, from and behind trucks, one striking
I an officer of the 7th regiment who imme
diately levelled his rifle and tired iuto the
! crowd. This appeared to be the signal for
1 a general tusiiade, and tho Bth regiment
immediately fired iuto the crowd. The
7th aud 9th regiments immo.diate!y follow
! ed suit, some tiring indiscriminately into
windows, others taking more deadly aim
and firing into tho crowd of men, womcD
and children, mowing them down in a
1 shocking manner.
The scene that ensued baffles all descrip
tion. Numerous crowds assembled on the
corners of blocks adjacent to tho bloody
soenes in the direction followed by the po
lice, who clubbed men unmercifully. The
shrikes of women from the windows were
heartrending, aDd some Irish women tore
their bonnets and hats from their heads,
and waving them at the military, cried,
“Down with the Orangemen !” Tho de
tectives, in the meanwhile were busy club
bing and arresting all persons having arms
about them.
Between fifty and sixty were killed, and
eighty-two wounded by the firing : of the
military into the crowd. The wounded
were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital. Many
legs and arms were amputated.
The police kept clear passage. As.the
Orangemen moved iDto Uuiou Square they
were met with yells and hisses. On arriv
ing at Cooper institute, procession halted
and bivouacked. A vast crowd had as
sembled iu the neighborhood. The mili
tary and police fell back ou different crowds,
and mauaged by dividieg public attention
to enable Oraogcmen to disperse unobserv
ed.
From dispatches wo sec in tbc papers,
the military are blamed for firing unneces
sarily, and thereby causing au unwarrant
ed destruction of life.
A JUDICIAL OUTRAGE.
We have lived to see the day when the
law, intended originally for the protection
of the citizen, has become a most powerful
agency for assailing his rights and liber-,
1 ties. We need go no farther than the
Uuifed States Court room, in this city, for
a proof of the justice of'lhis remark.—
For several days there iqis been progress
before the United States Commissioners,
under the Ku-Klux act of Congress, a
prosecution that would be disgraceful to
any government that has pretension to de
cency, much less this blasted “land of lib
erty and law.” In tbe midst of the crop
ping season, and at a sultry period of the
year, eight or ten highly respectable and
law-abiding citizens of Washington county
are arrested at their homes and dragged
away to a point some hundred and fifty
miles distant ta answer for a flagrant crime
against the laws of Congress. These gen
tlemen are not evon informed of the nature
of the charges alleged against them, nor
served with a list of the witnesses. They
are brought to Savannah, and when ar
raigned in open court are for the first time
informed that they arc charged with a vi
olation of the Ku-Klux act of Congress,
and that their accusers and witness are a
batch of idle, worthless negroes in the
county ot their residence. The investi
-1 gation commenced Friday or Saturday
last, and being unfinished at the latter day,
these Washington county gentlemen, for
want of bail, are thrown into the common
jail of Chatham county and there confined
until yesterday, when the investigation
should be resumed. All this, to their cred
it be it said, they have borne uncomplain
ingly conscious of their innocence and as
sured that it could be satisfactorily estab
lished. The testimony has appeared from
day to day in the Republican, and we hope
it will be generally read, for it illustrates
the ora of injustice aud oppression that
now curses a once free people under the
high-handed usurpations of the Radical
party. Such testimony as was given iD
by these black scoundrels would not, before
an honest jury, convict a dog. They saw
through meal-bags and disguises so clear
ly that not a doubt of tbe identity of the
persons was left in their minds. No doubt,
if a millstone had intervened, they would
have seen through it just as clearly. It
is evident that their imaginations were
the soul groundwork of their convictions.
During the investigation yesterday, every
solitary man of the accused party estab
lished, by the testimony of men of tbe
highest character and standing in their
respective neighborhoods, that they could
not have committed the offences alleg
ed against them —whipping a brace of ras
cally negroes—for they were miles away
when the circumstances occurred.
! Now ; of course, tho Commissioners will
acquit the prisoners and discharge them
custody, but what indemnity have they
for this outrage upon their personal rights
and liberty? Who is to pay them for the
lossof time, tor the necessary expenses in
curred, and damages for the humiliation
and imprisonment to which they have
been subjected? Nobody. The negro is
worthless pecuniarily as well as morally,
and testifies in such cases without that res
ponsibility that attaches to white men un
| der similar circumstances. These meu
1 are wholly without redress, and, when re
leased from tho iron grip of the law, they
must return to their homes, making the
best of what has happened and venting
their well merited curses against the vilo
party which has usurped their government
and is using its power for the oppression
and enslavement of honest citizens. Is it
auy wonder that there are disorders in a
country thus outraged? Can wo complain
of Ku-Klux, or auy other combination,
when the law regards every deecnt man
in the*countr-y as au enemy and object of
persecution? How long, oh how long are
these things to be endured !
Since the foregoing was written, all the
i parties accused have been acquitted, the
jury only taking time to write out their
verdict.— Savannah Rcpitblican.
Attempted Outrage.—About one
o’clock on the night of the 3d inst., a
daughter of Mr. Grant, living in this coun
ty, was aronsed from her slumbers by the
forcible entrance of a negro man into her
room. Upon giving the alarm, the negro
made his escape. The young lady’s fath
er and brother came quickly to the rescue,
and were told the direction taken by the
negro, and also that he was iu a state of
nudity. These gentlemen proceeded to
the cabin of a wegro man employed on the
farm, and sure enough found him iu the
act of dressing. They carried "him out in
to the woods to give him another kind of
“dressing,” but he made his .escape, fol
lowed by a few pistol balls—the effect of
which is unknown. Nothing has been
seen rs the negro since. His wife came
to town on Tuesday, and had Mr. Grant
and his son arrested on a charge of mur
der. They were released upon giving
bond for their appearanoe at the next Su
perior Court.— Outhlert Appeal.
It is asserted that the widely extended
movement to make Hancock the Demo
cratic candidate fur the Presidency, is en
gineered in St. Louis under G. T. Glover,
a leading lawyer of the State, cx-Senator
Trustee Polk, Mr. Mantz, President of an
insurance company, and others. Hancock
is exceedingly popular in St. Louis, where
he married, aud it is claimed by his friends
that a number of conservative republicans,
including Senator Sehurz aDd ex-Seuator
Henderson; favor bis nomination.
See new advertisements, if you cau find
them.
AN ACT
To Incorporate the Town of Blakely,
in the County of Early and State
of Georgia, appoint Commis
sioners for the same, and
for other purposes.
The General Assembly of the State of
Georgia do enact, That Janies B. Brown,
: Jas. Buchannon, Bolling 11. Robinson, Reu
ben W. Wade and Benj. M. Fryer, and their
successors in office, be and they are hereby
.. appointed Commissioners, and made a body
, corporate under the name and ale o! the
. Town Council of Blakei y, and shall h their
office until the first Saturday in January,
1871, and until their successors are electc-d
aud qualified.
, Sec. 2d. It is further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That on the first Saturday
i in January, 1871, and on tbe first Saturday
. of each subsequent year, an election shall be
. held at the Court House in said town for five
Commissioners to serve for one year next af
ter their election, and until their successors
[ a ‘ e elected and qualified, at which election
no person shall be entitled to vote who is not
' a resident within the corporate limits ot said
| town who are entitled to vote for members
j of the General Assembly, at which election
• three freeholders resident in said town may
preside and conduct the same.
, Sec. 3d. It is further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That the corporate limits
of said town shall extend one mile in all di
’ rectjpns from tho Court House,
Sec. 4th. It is further enacted by the au
i thority aforesaid, That the Town Council
. shall, at its first meeting after their election
and qualification, elect from their own num
’ her a presiding officer, who shall be styled
Chairman of Council, and appoint a Clerk
and Marshal, who shall hold their offices
■ during the pleasure of the Council.
1 Sec. Dis further enacted by the au
, thoritv aforesaid, lhat a majority of said
. Council shall constitute a quorum for busi
i ness, and shall have power to pass Ordinanc
. es necessary to regulate liquor trafic within
the corporate limits of said town, to'grant
1 license and fix the price for the same, to sun
- press gambling and any and all species of
■ i crime, the punishment of which is usually
. j vested in the Council of corporate towns to
. compel all persons residents of said town,
i . who are under the laws of this State subject
. to road duty, to work the streets of said town,
, or in lieu thereof to pay an annual tax, to
' ! be assessed by said Council, to pass all Or
- dinances necessary to promote the interest
i of said town, not repugnant to the Constitu-
I tion and Laws of Georgia, and the Constitu
tion of the United States ; they shall have
power to enforce obedience to their Ordinanc
, ! es of fine or imprisonment, or both.
Sec. Gtii. It is further enacted, That tho
; persons n inmd in this Act, and those here
-1 after elected Commissioners, shall, before en
i tering upon the discharge of their duties as
! Town Council, take au oath faithfully and
; j impartially to discharge the duties of their
, office.
Sec. 7Tn- It is enacted further, That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
Act as hereby repealed.
r. l. McWhorter,
Speaker House of Representatives.
JOHN J. NEWTON,
Clerk House of Representatives.
BENJAMIN CONLEY,
President of the Senate.
J. G. W. MILLS,
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved Oct. 24, 1870.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.