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THE WEEKLY SUN. T. DEWOLF. T. GILBERT. THM. GILBERT * CO.. PBOPBIETOEB. TERTIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. <»ne yeartin advance) t 3.00 <\i months, “ 1-M CLUB BATES: Vive copies, one year $13.75 , Ten •< “ 25.00 I Firteen “ “ 33.75 *■ Twenty “ “ 40 00 j Twenty-five “ 43.75 f Thirty copies “ 45.00 ADVERTISING RATES: f Advertisements Inserted at H per square (ten kesor less, in small type,) first insertion, and fifty cents each subseqnentinsertion. | TUESDAY MOR.MXG, JULY 14. Is The Constitutional Amendment A;GAIN. —We are informed by private advices from Atlanta that Democratic ia«nibers of the Legislature are hard pressed to vote for the Constitutional Amendment, upon the ground that it lirll benefit the Columbus Prisoners. We refer to the matter again to urge ttion all true Democrats to spurn this jjpbe and to stand by tbeir principles. Me Columbus Prisoners and their Mends do not desire to become parties j Many such iniquitous bargains They j Bel satisfied that they can make their i Hidicaiioa sure before the militry tri bunal which has arraigned them, and tha' they can fully expose the enormity in 1 business of the oppression worked E, i them. Sit will be well enough also for Demo crats to recollect that they are dealing tritii men who do not. keep faith. Those -Aho persistently deny outrages and JSruel treatment to the prisoners, which Jpn be fully established by a mass of Evidence, will not scruple at anything accomplish their purposes. ■More of tjik Cruelties Practiced in Military Officers and Detec SRJfEH. —The Radical press of the North has industriously circulated the denials ’Rplie Military tyrants in Qeorgia, as the cruelties practiced upon the Co lumbus Prisoners, and the means adopt ed'Ao force confessions from negro wit nesses, to be used against innocent men We do not intend to let this matter rest until it is sifted to the very bottom, and in pursuance of this deter mination, wo publish the affidavit of 4phn Stapler, (colored,) who has just been released from confinement, after Saving had his pockets stuffed with greenbacks to keep his mouth shut. We have more of the same sort, which shall appear at the proper time, aufli cient in any country where law and justice is administered, to consign Meade and many of his underlings to worse punishment than those inflicted Yjpder their orders upon innocent men. M Georgia Legislature. —The Senate did not sit on Saturday, that body hav ing adjourned on Friday over to Mon day. The House met puisuant to adjourn ment. After roll call, and while the minutes •of the previous day were being read, ({fts the Clerk reached the resolution of Iffr. O’Neal, as adopted yesterday)— jb Mr. Phillips, of Echols, arose and gave notice that he should move for a reconsideration of that resolution, which motion was seconded by— Mr. Scott, of Floyd, who supported the motion in a speech of about two hours. , Mr. Auderson, of Cobb, followed Mr. Scott in remaiks of ten minutes dura tlou favoring the motion of re-consider tion. “i Mr. Bryant, of Richmond, followed in opposition to the motion until the hour of adjournment arrived, when the Speaker’s hammer fell, and the House was declared adjourned until Monday .morning, at 10 o’clock. ii List of Georgians Relieved The following is a list of the Georgians relieved of political disabilities by the late bill passed by Congress: P. M B Young, Cartersville; R. W ■Bell, Bauks county; H H Took, Thomas county; Walker Brock, State Senator elect; W. C. Daniel, Savannah; gjV. T. Marlin, Bauks county; John W. H Underwood, Augustus Wright; C. E Boyle 9, Dalton, ail of Georgia. ® The Wright referred to must be Judgo A. R. Wright of Floyd county, and not Gen. Ransc Wright. It is stated that the name of Gen. Young, member of Congress from the Atlanta District, was pushed through by the influence of Bullock. If this be so, the enquiry naturally arises why he did not have the cases of the members of the Georgia Legislature attended to,and thus save 1 lie delay and injustice of the purging process. If‘Bullock is sincere in his protestations of fairness, honesty and a desire to pacificate, and build up the in! crests of the State, lie certainly tak< s a strange method of showing his faith be his works. But for the fraud an|l ui .nagement of Hulbert, he would scarcely have a handful of Radicals at hiiback in either branch of the Legis lature. Having enjoyed the amplest opportunity to fix up things to suit hilt seif, the simplest justice would de mand that he should stand by his pro fessions, and the work of himself and his associates. Letter front Barbour. § Bcshville, Ala., July 10,1868. 'Jpl/r. Editor —l see from your paper yOu desire information from different portions of the country relating to cwps. In the vicinity of Bushville, we hSvo had but two very light showers sipce about the 10th of May ; not enough at any one time to run in our hill side ditches. So you may judge of our corn crops. Just two whole months of excessively hot parching weather, with but two slight sprinkles of rain. It is pot so all over Barbour county; in some localities they had good rains in time to save the crops, and they are looking Well. Here the drought is still contin uing. Y ours, very respectfully, A Fakmek. , Thanks to Chief Justice Chase.— lifthe late New York National Demo, cratic Convention, Mr. Kernan, of New York, moved, at the suggestion of many members of the convention, that the thanks of the Convention be tendered to Chief Justice Chase for the able and im partial manner in which he presided o\(er the impeachment trial of President Jtjhnson. The resolution was received w|th general applause and unanimously adopted. Col. H. M. Ashbt Killed. —We learn that on Friday last, Col. H. M. Ashby, the gallant Confederate officer Who was recently acquitted of treason by the Slate Court at Knoxville, had a difficulty with Mr. E. C. Camp of that place which resulted in no injury to j&ither party. On Saturday Camp came ■tip behind Ashby and shot him without .^warning—like a cowardly scoundrel JjSvould do. Comp was arrested. B The Dahlonega Signal mentions the Breath of Mr. A. M. Russell, which oc |» Urre< * at l^at Pl ace suddenly, of apo- Bfcexy, on the Bth inst. The Signal says Russell was a lawyer, and on sev eral occasions served as a member of P»e Georgia Legeilatur* VOL. X. The Amnesty Proclamation and Us Effects. Before the vote on the adoption of the “Constitutional Amendment" shall be given by the members of the present General Assembly, says the Atlanta Intelligencer, it would be well for each democratic member to consider what effect the last Amnesty Proclamation of the President has upon disfranchised citizens, and to gravely consider, those who think of voting for it, how, in that event, antagonistic their position would be to that of the National Democratic Platform upon which Horatio G. Sey mour has been placed as a candidate for the Presidency. With regard to this latter proposition we have nothing to say at present, and with reference to the first, we beg leave only to invite their serious attention to the views of the Charleston Courier, which, in re gard to the effects which the Amnesty Proclamation has upon the disfran chised, are thus expressed: “The President of the United States has proclaimed a complete amnesty to all who sympathized with or aided the Confederate States in the recent con diet, with the exception of those under actual indictment. It is therefore, practically, a general amnesty. It con veys a full and unconditional remission of all penalties which may flow from any participation, whether direct or in direct, in the recent civil war. Not only does it restore all personal disabil ities, but all rights of property, except as to slaves and that which has already been divested. “It is a proclamation in the interests of peace. It is a great fraternal act, which cariies healing under its wiug. It is a message which advocates the cause of good government and a real repose. The war over, it is evident to the plainest understanding that confis cation, penalties and disfranchisement have no place where concord is sought or prosperity is desired. “And in opposing this, so manifest for (he common welfare, the Radical party have proved themselves the advo cates of continued hostility and the en mies of restoration. “Os the right and authority of this proclamation there can be uo doubt. “The President derives his power from the Constitution of the country. This is ids high warrant and charter. Thiß expressly declares that in the President alone is vested the preroga tive of reprieve aud pardon. The fra mers of the Constitution placed it iu the President, aud nowhere else.— Whenever, therefore, exercised by him, it is complete and efficacious. Other wise the grant of the power would be ineffectual and nugatory. “It takes effect from its date, and un less there be some constitutional obsta cle, it is evident restores every one in cluded within its terms, to all his rights, whether of suffrage, property or office. A pardon, according to the law, re stores the person to whom it is granted, as completely to all his rights as if there never had been any offence. Not only so, but it entirely wipes out the offence as if it had never existed. So much so, that it is laid down as one of the cardi nal legal principles, that to call oue, although convicted, who has been par doned of treason, a traitor, is an action able offence. The reason is, that the pardon obliterates sentence, conviction, accusation, and all, as if it had never existed. “To this result, in our judgment, there is no constitutional obstacle. ‘ Congress clearly could impose no disabilities. If it could, it would long since have attempted it. It sought, however, to reach the same object by what is known as the Howard amend ment, which disfranchises all of certain classes who participated in the late war. This has not yet been adopted by three fourths of the States. It is, therefore, not a part of the Constitution of the United States. The President’s proc lamation has remitted all penalties.— flow, then, can the States undertake, even by au amendment to the Constitu tion, to create penalties for an offense which has already been pardoned by the authority in whom that power has been lodged by the Constitution. Can either Congress or the States affix new penalties for a past participation in the late struggle, for which each participa tor holds a complete and sufficient re- mission? In our opinion, such an amendment would be plainly in the teeth of the law. As well might Con gress or the States undertake to disfran chise those accused or convicted of treason in years long gone by, and who have been pardoned by the act of the Executive. “If, therefore, the voice of the law is to be held supreme, or justice is to have her free course, the Howard amendment falls before the proclamation of the Ex ecutive, and the Southern people are once more citizens of the Union, disen thralled of all political disabilities and restored to their unfettered rights and privileges. Any other mandate is that of power, and not of right. ” A Prediction Fulfilled.—The fol owing is an extract from a letter written in 1805 by lion. J. H. Hammond,of South Carolina, to Thomas Clarkson, Esq., of England. The prediction of the consequences following the abolition of slavery has been remarkably verified, aud is becoming more so every day : Released from their present obliga tions, their first impulse would be to go somewhere. At first they would seek the towns and rapidly accumulate in squalid groups upon their outskirts.— Driven thence by the armed police force which would immediately spring into existence, they would immediately scat ter in all directions. Some bodies of them might wander to the free States, or to the Western wilderness, marking their tracks by their depredations and their corpses. Many of them would .roam wild in our big woods. Many more would seek the recesses of our swamps for secure covert. Few, very few ot them, could be prevailed upon to do a stroke of work ; none to labor con tinuously, while a head of cattle, sheep or swine could be found in our ranges, or an ear of corn nodded in our aban doned fields. These exhausted, our folds and poultry yards, barns and store houses would become a prey. Finally, our scattered dwellings would be plan dered, perhaps burned, and the inmates murdered. The whole country will not fail to contrast the conduct and bearing of the eminent citizens of the Southern States w ho were delegates to the Natinal Demo, cratic Convention, and the Cheap John carpet-bagging beggars at Chicago, who peddled their votes to the agents of Fen ton and other aspirants for sums rang ing from SSO to the price of new boots. Meie York World. Harry Murdoch, the “colored Shaka peare reader,” is in jail in Cleveland or stealing baa*. THE WEEKLY SUN. Stapler's Affidavit. Muscogee County, State of Georgia. John Stapler, being duly sworn, says, on the 14th ot May, 1868, he was driv ing a wagon in the peaceful pursuit of his business, when a United States sol dier came up to him and seized him, leaving his wagon and horses in the street, without anybody in charge but a boy, who he (Stapler) induced to mind them while he was under arrest. He was then taken to the military guard house in Columbus, detained there about one hour and then carried under guard to the Muscogee Depot and taken thence to Savannah in com pany with John Wells, James Barber and Wade Stevens. Remained at Sa vannah in the guardhouse about an hour and a hail; we were taken thence to the steamer and carried to Fort Pulaski. After some delay we were carried in,one at a time. Deponent was carried to a cell, and there confined. After being in the cell about oue hour and a halt, Whitley, a Government detective, (the same man who has since frequently vis ited us at McPheraon Barracks, Atlan ta,) and Capt Cook, who commands at Fort Pulaski, came to the cell and un locked it and made deponent come to the door, when Capt. Cook directed bis Orderly to search thoroughly the per son and pockets.of deponent. Whitley and Capt. Cook then spoke together, and Capt. Cook ordered the barber sent for to shave deponent’s head in one hour ! Deponent was then put back in cell. In about an hour he was brought out blindfolded, carried down into a room, seated in a chair and the bandage taken from his eyes. Then he was ask ed by Whitley “if he ever was discours ed by a minister betore-hc was put through," and he said he had an order from Gen. Meade “to put him through," and then asked Capt. Cook to allow him a little while before he put depon ent through, to which Capt. Cook re plied lie would not do it. Whitley in sisted, and at last Capt Cook consented to give Whitley fifteen minutes by his wutch“to put deponent through.” When the bandage was taken from deponent s eyes, he saw a soldier stand ing near a brass cannon with a string from the cannon to his hand, and wher ever deponent turned the cannon was ranged upon him. Deponent’s head was then lathered with two scrubbing brushes; there were two or three ru zors lying on the table. Deponent was made to stand up and be measured against the wall. During this time he was asked by Whitley if he knew, or had ever heard the people say anything about the Ashburn murder. He said he did not know anything and had not heard anything about it. Whitley re plied, you need not tell me a lie, the Rebels have been posting you but it is no use. Whitley then gave deponent till the next day to consult and study and see if it would not bring some good. Deponent was then put back in his cell and there remained in solitary confine ment, never seeing Whitley again for four or five days, when he came there, took him out of his cell, carried him to another part of the Fort, and showed “the sweat box,” and told him if he didn’t up and tell all he knowed about it, he would put deponent in that sweat box and keep him there thirty days. Deponent told him he didn’t know nothing, and couldn’t tell anything without it was a lie; but he must tell him all he knew 1 He then pul depon ent in the sweat box, which is a closet in the walls of the Fort, a little wider than deponent’s body, the door closes within three or four inches of the breast, the only air admitted is through a few auger holes in the door. He was left in this condition under the beliet that he was to remain there thirty days, unless he told about the Ashburn murder. He remained iu this position about thirty three hours, when Mr Reed and Capt Cook came and took him out. Whitley came up and said he allowed they had taken deponent out too soon, and he would have deponent back unless he told what he knew. When deponent, was taken out his limbs were swollen and painful, and to this day he suffers from the confinement. He was then turned loose and allowed to walk about the Fort, where he remained until the 9th June, he was then put under guard and carried to Atlanta. During all this time he was strictly forbid to talk to anyone. About the 10th June he was put in McPherson Barracks, where he was very well treated, except that he was under orders not to talk to anyone without permission. On Saturday the 11th July, in the afternoon, Whitley came to deponent and other colored persons who had been detained iu pns on, and told us to go to Maj Smythe’s office. When he got there Maj. Smythe gave him an order for $146, which he supposed was for witness fees and trans portation. Deponent further says that he was never used as a witness, and never knew r anything to witness about. Deponent further says that Stevens and Barber both knew that he had been put in the sweat box, and how he had been treated. his JohnK Stapler. mark. Sworn to and subscribed before me, July 13, 1868. John King, Notary Public. Cotton Reclamations.—The Jour nal of Commerce contains the following, which interest those engaged in the cot ton trade. The cotton dealers have ; been for some time discussing the diffi culties connected with the adjustment of claims and disputes in regard to sales I and deliveries of this staple, and have at I last agreed upon a rule which will ob- i viate nearly all tho trouble. The fol- | lowing document, resulting from this j agreement, has been signed by the j whole trade: We, the undersigned, receivers of | and dealers in cotton, do hereby author- j ize all brokers through whom we may ' sell cotton, to insert in all contracts of sale made on our account, the following j clauses and pledge ourselves to enforce I the same on all sales made for us, on and after this date, viz : “No reclamations allowed cn any cot- i ton of the grade of ‘low middling,’ and below, unless the difference in qualities in any one bale is to the extent of one full grade, and even in such cases no ie clamation to be allowed unless claimed on delivery of the cotton. No reclama tion allowed for iron hoops or bands to the number of six on each bale, if not of unusual weight.” Mu. Eldridge not Hurt.—The fol lowing is a copy of a special telegram to the Mobile Register from New York: While a salute was being fired in Union Square, Mr. Eldridge, Repre sentative in Congress from Wisconsin, was mortally wounded by the prema ture discharge of a can Don. We are gratified to notice from dis patches to onr Western exchanges that Mr. Eldridge is unhurt in his seat at Washington, and that the gentleman injured by the premature explosion was a resident of New York. They Give it Up.—The Jackson Clarion says the “Committee of Five,” admits that “from present indications, it would appear the Constitution has been defeated by a small majority,” The “Committee of Five” are the mani pulators of the election returns, and oc cupy the position in Mississippi, Hul bert & Cos. did in Georgia. The majori ty in Mississippi is something over eight thousand against the Constitution. Joe Brown Frantic.—Joe Brown is said to be perfectly frantic on the sub ject of Senatorship. “Gentlemen," said he to a knot of Radical legislators the other day, “you must elect me The Radical party will be ruined if you don’t. I can’t live in Georgia if you don’t elect me.” Never was a man more hated by any people, than is this man Brown by the people of Georgia. His name is never pronounced without ! a oum on the lip or in the heart. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1868. The Military Appointed Coun cil-White Man Ousted and a Ne gro Elected to his Office.— There was a full Board yesterday, including Capt. Mills. The first thing done was to reconsid er the salaries fixed two weeks ago. Salary of City Physician was made $800; City Attorney $300; Wharfinger, all the fees of the present quarter; Clerk of Market S3OO and perquisites. This last was increased against the express provision of the city ordinances that the salaries of an officer shall not be increas ed or diminished during his term of of fice. Oliver Saunders, a negro, holds the position. Other salaries unchanged. They then went into the. election of the officers. Some of those announced as chosen did not, two weeks ago, re ceive six votes, the number legally re quired, (the whole affair is Illegal.) The following is the result: City Physician AUer two ballots Dr. J. H. Whittlesey was elected. The last ballot was as follows: Whittlesey 7, Chas. Arnold 2, Dr. Roper 1. City Attorneys—Peabody & Brannon —(present incumbents.) Bridge Keeper—A. Fleming, present incumbent, was elected. The vote stood: Fleming 6; Oliver Saunders, ne gro, (proposed by Walter Johnson) 2; John Flynn, 1; blank 1. Magazine Keeper—Oliver Saunders, negro, (proposed by Walter Johnson,) was elected over James Lynata, the present incumbent. Vote: Lynah 4, Saunders 6. Walter Johnson then proposed to re consider the vote for Bridge Keeper. Such a motion was never heard of in the annals of sense or folly, yet the Council permitted him to change his vote in favor of Mr. Fleming in order to make it. Yeas and nays were called and he was the only one who could be found to favor such a silly proposition. P. M. Hogan complimented the legal fraternity las: afternoon by stating there was not a sea: iwag lawyer in the place. New bridge transferred to Horace King on condition that he insure in two companies, $5,000 in each, and give $5,000 bond for the completion of stone piers, and perform other stipula tions. A resolution requiring the “Mashal” to do his duty in reference the license tax was adopted. Board adjourned to Monday next 4 p. m. Released. —Joe Clark, the barber, and John Stapler, colored men, reached home Sunday from the Ailauta military prison. They were released uncondi tionally. John’s affidavit is published elsewhere. Joe is warmly eulogistic of the Southern ladies of Atlanta who treat ed him with great kindness. All the colored people who have been arrested were released. No cause assigned for the imprisoning or freeing. Among others who came back, is the negress, Hannah Flournoy. Aid for the Columbus Prisoners. The Rome Courier says: Mr. Charles M. Harper was yesterday engaged in making collections to aid the Columbus prisoners in defraying the expense of their iniquitous and corrupt prosecution, before a military tribunal at Atlanta. We ought to re member these prisoners as being bound with them. Persons who fail to see Mr. Harper, can leave their donations either with Mr. Adams, at the bauking house of W. 8. Cothran, Son & Cos., or at the Courier office, and they will be duly forwarded. What Can We Expect from a Hog but a Grunt ! —The disgraceful man ner in which Gov. Brown has acted to ward’s the ladies who, yesterdap and the clay before, testified for the defense in the trial of the Columbus prisoners, is enough to weary contempt. These laidies are from the very best society in Columbus. The abortive ef fort of Gov Brown to cast suspicion upon their veracity, by his cunning and unwarranted style of cross examination, can do them no hurt beyond a momen tray unpleasantness. On his name the dishonor is imperishable.— All. Consti tution. Result of Freedom.—The Eufaula News mentions an instance which oc curred in that city recently of a negro who was driven from her place of lodging by parties of her own color, j because the occupants of the house i thought the disease with which she was afflicted, was catching. Having no place to go.and no one to whom she could look for succor, she managed to I crawl under the Methodist church where j she was found after life was extinct and her body became offensive. This is but one of the many evidences of the care the race have for each other. Fatal Affray at Pass Christian. ; —We learn that Ben Orr, a member of the Mississippi Convention and a busy Radical, was killed yesterday (9th) at Pass Christian by P. K. Meyers, Esq., editor of the Handsboro’ Democrat, who was shot in the arm, but not seri j ously. The information is contained in a letter to a gentleman in this city, and no particulars are given.— Mobile Register , Mth. Solid Improvements —We are glad to see that the Messrs. Edwards are at work in earnest preparing the foun dation for their new large brick stores. The structure will have two elegant basement storerooms, with upper story, containing rooms, offices, &c. This looks like substantial improvements. We understand that 170,000 brick are now on the way from Montgomery for buildings now on hand in Opelika.—- Opelika Recorder. Query.—How is it that Gen. Dunn, a Federal General, can afford to be-po iite, considerate aud gentlemanly to the lady witnesses for the defense in the trial of the Columbus prisoners, while Gov. Brown, a Southern man. the hero of Pulaski and once an honored Chiel Magistrate of this old Commonwealth I is abrupt, domineering, insulting and unger,tlemanly the very reverse of Gen. Dunn? — Atlanta Constitution Wth. Poison Oak.—Prof. G. Dowell’ in the Galveston Medical Journal, recom mends in cases of poisoning by Rhus Texicodendron , and other poisonous species ot the Rhus, to bathe the parts with a solution of eaustie potash, sufii ciently strong to render the skin soapy. This “has never failed to cure it imme diately,” although he has used It in hundreds of cases, including himself. The potash is used in the proportion of ten grains to the ounce of water, but may be increased in strength as needed. Louis Rikschen thus vertises bis delinquent wife in a Chicago paper : “My wife, Barbara Rikchen, nee Roe»- lern, has either run away from me or been stolen. I shall smash the bead of the person that brings her back to me. As I do not pay my own debts, it is not probable that I shall pay hers.” Major A. 8. Vandegraaff, formerly a j prominent citizen of Sumter county, Alabama, died recently in California, where he had gone to recuperate lost 1 fortune. From Wasbimrton. Washington, July 13. Specie cx ports last week approximate to four million dollars. House—Under the regular call, bills were introduced allowing citizens to bring suits against railroad companies in Federal Courts; constructing a rail road from Washington to Cincinnati, and many unimportant matters. A bilflegalizing the acts of the Ar kansas tax commissioners, passed. Freedmen’s Bureau bill passed by the Senate, making Howard’s Com missionership independent, passed.— Wilk’s amendment, making a discon tinuance of the Bureau absolute in the represented States on the Ist of Janu ary, except as regards the education bill, goes to the Senate for concurrence. Dockery and Boyden, members from North Carolina, from whom disa bilities had been removed, were seated. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff Bill, by vote of 84 to 57. This is regarded as a test vote, indicating the intention of a mv jority in both Houses to modify. A debate ensued, after which the House adjourned to 7 o’clock to-night. Senate—A numlier of different peti tions from different army officers, ask ing increased pay. The Funding bill was resumed and discussed at great length. Morton, of Indiana, and Sherman, of Ohio, favored the payment of bonds, unless otherwise stipulated in legal tenders. The ques tion elicited much bitterness and con tinued to adjournment. Judge Fisher, from Mississippi, re ports to the Republican Committee that Mississippi is Democratic by 7,000, but claims he can prove 15,000 fraudulent votes. A Radical Committee is here from Virginia, urging a change in the re cently passed election bill, as that will open the registration bill, and according to their views will probably be intro duced in the Senate. Commodore James F. Miller, forty two years in service, is dead. A delegation from Atlanta have ar rived and urge Congress to remove political disabilities from Radical mem bers of the Georgia Legislature. Con siderable talk and some positive asser tions of the third party. Fremont. Gen. Carry. John Quincy Adams, promin ently named. Chase declines to co operate in the movement. From Yew Orleans, New Orleans, July 13.—Warmoutli, the new 7 Governor, was inaugurated to day in the hall of House of Repre sentative, iu the presence of both Houses and densely packed lobbies. The oath was administered by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A number of out going and incoming officials were pre sent on the platform. Inaugural brief, well written and not very explicit as to the future course. Says he refrains at this time from entering into any discus sion of measures deemed of importance. Urges, however, immediate measures for repression of lawlessness and dis order now 7 rife in the State; that we want peace and order, without it, w 7 e can have no prosperity. i'roni 3lont^omory« Montgomery, July 13.—Another of the Provisional Military Governments was set on foot to day. Gov. Smith and Lieut. Gov. Applegate were sw 7 orn in as provisional officers. The Senate met at 12 m. and elected officers. The Fourteenth Amendment was rati fied and adjourned until to-morrow. Iu the House officers were elected and the 14th amendment ratified. About 5 o’clock, in pursuance of or ders from Gen. Shepherd,—the same who rebuked private soldiers for groan ing for Grant—two pieces of artillery were brought to Capitol Hill, and a sa lute fired in honor of the ratification of the 14th article. Gen. Shepherd failed to have salutes fired in honor of the 4th of July. Rnliflcstion Meeting. Selma, Ala., July 13.—There was a grand Seymour and Blair ratification meeting iu this city on Saturday night last. Bonfires were built, fireworks burnt, and cannon thundered. Several thousand people,in eluding colored, were present, who made the meeting merry with shouts for the Democratic nomi nees. Speeches were made by Gener als Morgan, Pettus and Shelly, Judges Brooks and Wood, Ex Mayor M. J. Williams, Col. Colby, late of the Fed eral army, and several others. The meeting was the largest and most en thusiastic ever held here. From South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., July 13—Iu the Legislaiure a bill passed a second read ing validating law r s of the provisional government of the State. A bill was introduced for the preservation of homesteads. Partisanship in the election of Sena tor threatens schism in the radical ranks. Election to-morrow. Charleston, July 13.—Gen. Canby issued an order to-day, directing mili tary officers in this State to cease exer cieing any civil authority when the President proclaims the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment, at which time the prisoners under their charge will be turned over to the civil author ities. All prisoners serving out their sentences by military sentence will be held. Writs of habeas corpus from U. S. Courts are to be responded to, but no w T rits from State Courts—reply is to be made that prisoner is held under au thority of the laws of the United States, and jurisdition is exclusively in U. S. Courts. Alabama Legislature.— This body - so called—Legislature of Alabama, con vened at the Capitol in Montgomery on Monday. The Senate was called to order by Applegate, the Lieutenant Governor elect, and President of the Senate in virtue of the office. M. P. Blue was elected Principal Secretary of the Senate, and Wade McDonald, As sistant Secretary ; W. M. Jones, Ser geant at Arms, and H. H. Craig, Door keeper. After making their organiza tion known to the House, the Senate adjourned. The House was organized by the election of McCraw, of Chambers, Speaker, over Harrington, of Mobile. Cloud was elected Principal Clerk, Goodfellow Assistant Clerk, Perry Ser geant-at-Arms, and Ellsworth, Door keeper. After the appointment of a Committee on Privileges and Elections, to examine the credentials of members, the House ft djourned. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 15. C. 8., oftlie Cincinnati Commercial. The Cincinnati Commercial keeps a correspondent at Atlanta, who signs himself C. B His daily duty is to write to that journal about the progress of the Ashburn trial, or rather to give prominent notice to such portion of the evidence against the prisoners as C. B. thinks is likely to create a belief as to their guilt among the radicals, and to elicit editorials calculated to drive the court up to the point of conviction. In addition to being a first class specimen of a low down lying dog, of that num erous pack which have wandered about the South since the war to slander her people and to strengthen the preju dices of the Northern mind against them, C. B. seems to be a susceptible youth. He speaks of the little dirty nigger wench, Sally Bedell, as “a likely look ing colored girl of some twenty years, candid and honest face.” of the lying strumpet, Amanda Patterson, who herded with Hannah Flournoy, in a vile negro brothel, as “a good looking, smooth faced girl of eighteen.” If we did not know that Sally Bedell and Atnanda Patterson, low and de praved as they are, would scorn the society and companionship of such a creature as C. 8., wo might look for a nuptial ceremony at McPherson Bar racks, and as a “consekens of that ma noover,” as Mr. Weller would have it, a plentiful stock of C. B’s, who even in their infancy, would put to blush the liveliest efforts of Baron Memchausen. C. B. has a poor opinion of the Law yers engaged in the defence, and puts his opinion upon record as follows : The testimony for the prosecution is nearly closed, and as the case stands it looks badly—very badly—for the pris oners. The cross examination, whether from design or from the necessity of the case, I will not undertake to say, has been exceedingly weak, and has made no impression upon the testimony go ing to the vital points of the case. The seven distinguished counsel for the defense had, the other day, in their hands for cross examination, an illiter ate, ignorant young girl of eighteen. If a suborned witness, she should, in the nature of things, have been made to leave the court au agitated, weeping, self-convicted falsifier. Educated, ex perienced, keen, shrewd men who car ried a lie with them on to the witness stand, have, often and again, so to speak, been turned inside out like- a glove, and their lie, like themselves, brought to nought, by even moderately talented lawyers. Mr. Stephens and bis associates will feel very badly about this, so badly indeed that they may abandon the case. In order to distract attention from himself, C. B. shouts “stop thiei” after the following fashion : An almost incredible amount of lying concerning barbarous treatment of sus pected persons, is done in your North ern Democratic papers. I refer particu larly to a telegraphic dispatch appear ing under that head in a late number of the New Yoik Herald. The substance of the dispatch had already appeared iu the National Intelligencer. Here is an extract: “These gentlemen,” viz ,several dele gates from Georgia to the New York Convention, “state that one of the meth ods recently employed on the reticent witnesses, was confinement in a sweat box, an instrument of torture so con trived as to exert a constant pressure upon the cnest by the working of a screw. The sides of'this box are gradu ally pressed against the lungs until there is no longer room for the least ex pansion. Then the victim is placed in a room heated with steam or hot air, where the oppression upon tho-lungs is so great that the exertion to breath amounts to an indescribable agony.” These practices are said to have taken place in Fort Pulaski. It is hoped that models of those wonderful boxes and miraculous screws will be placed on exhibition and patented. President Johnson has full authority—let him have this matter investigated, and have severely punished all who have had any thing to do wiih it. Seriously, though, if the gentlemen from Georgia in question believe the half of what they have stated, they are in a condition of gross ignorance pro foundly to be pitied. This is a fair specimen of the way Meade and his understrappers and de tectives propose to shelter themselves from the charges of lying, cruelty and barbarity, alledged against them. The “gentlemen from Georgia” have stated nothing not susceptible of the plainest proof, nor have the horrible details pub lished in Democratic journals, express ed a tithe of the cowardly and cruel practices adopted to place upon inno cent men the crime of Murder. We stand ready to prove all that has been asserted in this particular and more, and have made the extracts and com ments contained above, partly to exhibit to our people the vindictiveness with which the proposed assasination of in nocent men is followed up, and in the faint hope that we may yet succeed in getting a fair and impartial investiga tion of the matter. County Matters. Sickness has prevented our looking over the records of the Inferior Court, since May, until yesterday. Th military appointed Jus tices are now C. W. Chapman, Jno. W. Duer and Jas. Torrey, with R. A. Mun ro as Clerk. C. W. Chapman has been selected by the body as Chairman.— The appointments were made .Tune 3d. R. W. B. Munro was named as a Jus tice, but, at his request, Gen. Meade revoked the appointment. In June the bond of J. H. McCormac, as Constable of the 6GBth District, was accepted. June 10th the Justices advertised for the sale of §2,000 worth county bonds, bearing interest at 20 per cent, payable January, IB6o—bonds receivable for county taxes. June 17th the proposi tion of John King, banker, to take §I,OOO worth of the bonds at 121 per cent, premium, was accepted. Dr. Thus. S. Tuggle, on June 30th, was chosen as County Physician. We understand he verbally refused to serve. Tuesday there was a regular meeting. The report from Judge N. L. Howard, of the County Court, was received. He had been installed May 10th, 18GG, and bad served two years and two months, for which service, after deducting eco nomical expenses for clerk hire, &c., he had received in fees $9Bl. The Court decided this was no fair compensation, and as the Act left it to their discretion, if fees were not sufficient, to give him reasonable pay, the Justices ordered the further sum of $1,618 -IS paid him, so as to make his salary $1,200 per annum. Court resolved to employ Dr. Roper to visit sick in Muscogee Poor Asylum, Jail, Hospital, &c., until a county phy sician is elected or appointed. Medicines are to be purchased of A. M. Brannon, he agreeing to sell them at same prices charged city. Numberless orders passed. “Beecher Hot,” is now the fashiona j ble way of saying hot as , the un mentionable place THURSDAY MORNING, JCI.Y 10. PATHOS. Northern journals just now contain accounts of a very weak, silly, and pitiful exhibition which took place in the , Senate a few days since. It seems that j Mr. Reverdy Johnson who has arrived at that time of life which is commonly know as dotage, and when men are apt to betray weaknesses that nride and policy have kept concealed from public view, thought proper to prepare a speech upon taking farewell of what is called the Senate of the United States. Upon attempting its delivery he blub bered like a school boy about to be flogged for some delinquency, aud was obliged to give it up. A radical cor respondent thus tersely describes the scene: ‘‘Reverdy Johnson delivered his farewell speech in the Senate to day. He was very much affected, and was unable to finish his Address. He hand ed the manuscript to Senator Vickers, who read it to the close.” We are informed that after lie had partially recovered from the hysterical attack, Senators gathered around him, grasped him by the hand, and that Sumner made a motion to adjourn, which was voted down. We have at tentively perused the valedictory of Mr. Johnson and have been unablo to find a word or a sentence in it calculated to draw a tear from the tonderest heart, and arose from the perusal with a feel ing of profound pity for “an intellect, once bold and vigorous, now emascu lated by age and infirmity. People of ordinary common sense and feeltng naturally reach the conclusion that a gentleman of the rearing, education and antecedents of Reverdy Johnson would have quitted the vile company, which official duties have forced upon him, with a sense ot relief, and would havo been happy in the anticipation, if he lived long enough to get back from England, that the high places of the nation would surely bo rid of the un clean crew which have desecrated them for years past. Not Hospitable, but Brave. in the editorial columns of the New York Tribune, of the lltk instant, \vc notice the following elegant extract : ■ During tho session of the Democratic Convention two loyal soldiers, who had experienced the horrors of captivity in Richmond during the war, met the keeper of tho Libby Prison wearing a delegate’s badge ! They fell upou iifm and gave him a dreadful beating, which was not hospitable, certainly, but uot unnatural either. It was very natural that two “loyal soldiers" of the class most delighted in j by the Tribune, should fall upon a de. j senseless and unarmed man and give j him a “dreadful beating.” Doubtless i the Tribune considers it a very brave i affair, and it would uot be at all surpris ing if these cowardly bummers were i honored in some way by the attention of the Radical Congress. This incident i strikingly illustrates the temper and in telligence of the Radical faction, of which the New York Tribune is a lead ing exponent. It is considered quite right and proper, natural, though not exactly hospitable for two roughs to fall upon a man in the streets of New York City and attempt to murder him, for the reason that Uo once kept a prison in wliieh they were confined, in all prob abilty because they deserted their col ors or did not have pluck sufficient to stand by them. It is not even offered in palliation of this brutal aud coward ly assault, that these rowdies had been the recipient of any special harsh treat j ment. A visitor to New York, and a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, received a “dreadful beat ing” and the leading Radical organ of the country applauds the ruffianism.— It may be that in the coining time some of the prison keepers of the North may be hauled to account for barbarities and cruelties practiced upon Southern pris oners. Itmay happen that some of tho military men and bureau agents, who have insulted women, children, and old men, and who have oppressed and outraged those over whom they bail control by forco of the bayonets at their backs, will receive their deserts. In place of characterizing such things, should they occur, as incipient, rebel lious, and the blood-thirsty vindictive ness of Southern “rebels,” we trust that the “Tribune” will stick to t he record, and set them down as instaces only of “not hospitable” but not “ unnatural ” treatment. ” The First Radical Gun. —The spe- ; cial to the Louisville Journal says ; The j first active movement of the Campaign was made in the Senate on Thursday last. t The thing came up in debate on the joint resolution excluding the yet unor- j ganized Southern States from the Elec toral College. The Radicals led by Morton, of Indiana, are very mad.— They are mad because Forrest and Wade ; Hampton, horrid rebel Generals, were i in the New York Convention, and they are mad because there were no negroes in it, as there were in their own Chica go Convention. Free use was made of the platform and Frank Blair’s recent letter. The demonstration is not con sidered dangerous by the Democrats.” A Hard Blow at Radicalism.—The Montgomery Advertiser says the Speak er elect, Mr. McCraw, immediately after his election made a speech return ing thanks, and had the courage to say I in the face of the assemblage he was ad dressing “That the civilization under which we were raised is passing away.” He may not have intended it, but it was a fitting remark to an appropriate body of men. Seven acres of the Parma Christa or Castor bean are said to be in cultivation in. Texas this year. Highway Robbery.—A white man, Jesse Duke by name, watchman at the Columbus Iron Works, as be was on I his way to his mother’s house was at tacked by a negro man Sunday night ’ about 10 o’clock. The affair happened just beyond Bull Creek bridge, near Mr. Gamel’s place. Mr. D. was on foot and on his shoulder, suspended to a stick, carried a bundle, to which was attached a pair of shoes. The negro came suddenly from behind, stabbed Mr. D. twice in the right breast with a dull knife. The third blow was ward ed off, but the negro finally accomplish ed his main purpose and captured the bundle and shoes. Mr. D. walked to a house near by where he procured assis tance. Hia wounds are not dangerous. We give the occurrence as related. The Montgomery Advertiser mentions reports from several farmers in Mont i gomery county of the appearance of the cotton worm. NO. 19 From Washington. Washington, July 14. —Seymour’s journey homeward was a continued ovation. The weather northward is hotter than for many years. Man} 7 deaths, inclu ding seven in Buffalo. Senate—Pinkney White seated vice Reverdy Johnson. A bill temporarily supplying vacan cies in the Executive Department, passed. The bill authorizing a temporary loan of 3 per cent, certificates came up, leading to another wild discussion on finance; Trumbull favoring keeping gold in the treasury down to forty mil lions; Morton favoring investment of gold in redeeming legal tenders, as an important step towards the resumption of specie payment. Morton’s amend ment to this effect lost 7 to 30. Bill postponed. Funding bill resumed. House, —Alter local business, affect ing the District of Columbia, the House resumed the Alaska appropriation— which passed, 114 to 42; with Rider de daring the right of the House to partic ipate iu making the treaty. Bill authorizing temporary executive appointments passed; when, alter lur ther District business, adjourned. Meade has transferred Florida to the civil authorities. It Is stated Howard is preparing to reduce the employees of the Freedmen’s i Bureau. New treaty with China has been sent to tho Senate for ratification. Graut won’t return from tho West until middle of September. Full Cabinet and an unusual number of visitors at the White House. Steamer Idaho arrived off Nayaanki, j Japan; all well. Yaiandigham visited the House to day. Senate had a brief executive session. Nothing important. Both houses iu session to-night. Committee on Reconstruction called for to morrow to hear Mississippi radi cal delegation regarding alleged election frauds. Senator Doolittle has written a letter strongly discouraging a third party movement. Well informed parlies think there is no real base for third par ty rumors. Washington, July 15.—'Tho Senate passed last night the funding bill, and bills appropriating twenty thousand dollars to Mrs. Potter, of Charleston, S. C., for relieving Union prisoners, and discoivi iuuing the Freedmen’a Bureau i m January. | A fire occurred last night, but the tel egraph failed. A group of displaced firemen iu the neighborhood subdued the fire. Wm. M. Evarts has been confirmed as Attorney General. Geo. W. Summers nominated as P. M. at Augusta, Ga. Seward reports that 23 States have ratified the 14th Article, from which Ohio and New Jersey havo receded. He also reports that Arkansas, North Car ! oliua and Florida have given notice of j ratification. It is alleged that the Leg- I islatures of those States are necessary . to elect. Senate —A bill amending various bills, relating to the navy and marine corps, passed, without amendment. The bill reducing the military peace establishment, referred to the military committee. A bill subsidizing tiro mail line bo tween New York and Europe, was laid over. Appropriation bill resumed. Conference report on tax adjusted. Executive session and adjourned. House—Committee of five has been appointed to Investigate how House contingent of 1867 was expended. Heaton, representative from N. C., seated. Bill removing disabilities from cer tain parties, as amended by the Senate, passed. Conference Committee on tax bill adopted. The Senate having previously adopt ed it, it goes to the President. Conference Committee struck out all relating to bnnks. Storekeepers are to be paid by the United States. Special agents are limited to twenty live. Min eral oils are on the same footing as oth er manufactures. Spirits must he re moved from bond within nine mouths. Wholesale liquor dealers pay one per cent. In other respects the bill remains as passed by the House. • Recess. House—The thermometer readied 91 when the House met. It was 94 at re cess. Schenck estimates the loss by remov ing the tax on mineral oils at $2,000, 000. The provisions of the tax bill will dispense with about 1700 inspectors. Collector Smythe, of New York, is here, engineering hia confirmation to Austria, with feeble prospects. Revenue to-day $558,000. From New Orleans. New Orleans, July 14 —After the inauguration yesterday, Gov. Warmolh sent a communication to Gen. Buchan an officially notifying the latter of the ratification of the 14th Amendment,and his (Warwotb’s) inauguration. On receipt of this communication Gen’l Buchanan issued an order of Which the following is an extract: The Commanding General having been notified of the ratification ot the 14ih Article of Amendment to the Con atitulion of the United Slates by the Legislature of the Slate of Louisiana, on the 9th inst., it becomes his duty, under the act ot Congress which be came a law June 25ih, 1808, and the or ders of the General of the army to an nounce to the people of the State, and to the troops under his command, thut the provisions of the reconstruction acts of Congress cease to operate in Louisiana from this date. Military an thority will no longer be exercised un der the reconstruction acts in said State, and all officers commanding posts or detachments are forbidden to interlure with civil affairs unless upon a proper . application by the civil authorities to preserve the peace, or under instruc tions duly received from the Command ing General of the District. Military law no longer exists; the civil law is the supreme order of the State. All civil officers acting under military ap pointments, will transfer their offices, and everything pertaining thereto, to their successors, who have been declar ed duly elected, and who have qualified under the laws of the State. The order concludes by congratulating the people of Louisiana upon their restoration to the Union, and good wishes for the tu ture. From Kalotjtli. .Raleigh, July 14.—Democratic nom inations aud platform at New York re ceived with acclamations throughout the State among all classes of Con servatives. Ratification meetings will be hold generally. Ouo in this city to morrow night at Jucker Hall. Able speakers expected. General Assembly proceedings unim portant. According to caucus resolution last night the General Assembly elected J. Poole of Pasquotank, U. S. Senator for ihc long term till the 4th of March 1873, and J. C. Abbott, of N. H., now of New Hanover, for tho short term, which expires 4th March, 1871. Tho contest in tho caucus between Abbott and Dockery, made the matter for some lime doubtful. Both Senators from the east. Gov. Holden, on yesterday, without notice appointed anew board of Com missioners for the city, thus supplanting without law the municipal officers of the city. The authorities believing that the Governor had usurped or transcen ded his powers, referred the ease to able counsel— B. F. Moore, Col. E. C. Hay ward and Judge Merryman couusel were unanimously of tho opinion that tho Governor was acting without law or authority, aud so advised the city au thorities, upon which the city authori ties notified the now board that they should not give place to them until they were legally elected or appointed. It is rumored that Gov. Holden has called upou Gen. Canby to allow him military support to entorco his order. No one whatever is disposed to resist lawful authority, hut Gov. Ilolden is I doing several things which the \ people of this State believe he has no I authority, for it is with them a question of duly whether to submit longer to what is not law, or to test tho claim of unlawful authority, no matter by whom set up. Finm Atlanta. Atlanta, July 15—A resolution passed the Senate to enquire into the eligibility of officers of the Senate. Candler offered a resolution request ing the Governor to furnish the Senate such papers or documents affecting the eligibility of Senators as lie may have in bis possession. It wus strongly op posed by the republicans as disrespect ful to the Governor. The democrats disclaimed any disrespect, hut cluimed the right to deny mutters. Resolution adopted. Adjourned to Friday. The trial of the Columbus prisoners resumed to day. Stephens recovered sufficiently to at tend to his duties ns leading counsel for the defense. Dr. Styles sworn— Testifies that at 5 or 6 p m. of the day of Ashburu’s death he met Wm. Duke at tile residence of his father, about 40 miles Northeast of Columbus. I)r. Styles’ testimony states that Ash burn was noted among the whites and blacks as a cruel overseer nnd bad mnn, j and the fact of his passing away by the hands of masked assassins left a deep impression on his min i. From Montgomery. Montgomery, July 15.—The Legis lature of Alabama that met by order of Gen. Meade yesterday, contains about thirty negro members. The Senate Doorkeeper is a negro, and tho Door keeper, Sergeant at-Arms and Chaplain of the House are negroes. To day Gov. Smith was inaugurated in the presence of the two Houses. lie ! sent in a message which is iu tho main more conservative than was expected, i He recommends in strong language tho | removal of all disabilities from the pco ! pie of Alabama, and bitterly opposes i any disfranchisement except for crime. Gen. Shepherd hauled his cannon to to the Capitol to day and fired a salute [ in honor of the inauguration. From Mobile. Mobile, July 14.—Ail immense and enthusiastic meeting of the Democrats was held last night. Eloquent speeches were made by Admiral Semmes, Jones, Percy Walker, Major St Paul, Colonol Herndon, Price, Williams and others. The following resolution was unani mously adopted: Resolved, That we, the people of Mo bile do cordially endorse and ratify' the nomination by the Democratic Nation al Convention of Horatio Seymour for President and Frank Blair for Vice President. From Ansnsta. Augusta, July 15 —Hottest day of the season—9B in tho shade. The Democrats anticipate a sufficient number of their party will be ejected from the Legislature to secure a majori ty in each bouse for the Radicals.— Much indignation aud denunciation of Bullock aud Meade by the Democratic press in consequence of recommending the Legislature to purge itself of mom hers ineligible under the 3d section of the 14th article. It is believed Con gress will remove disabilities from all Radical members. From MiKHiKHfpjkl. Jackson, July 14.—Governor Hum pbreys and family were yesterday eject ed from the Executive Mansion by the military authorities. From Richmond.. Richmond, June 14.—Weather ex cessively hot, Thermometer last night 90. Samuel H. Ilulstin, clerk at the Spottswood Hotel, died to day of sun stroke. From New York. New Yoke, July 15.—Tho Herald reports forty five fatal sun strokes yes terday. _ Another Letter from Pendleton. —The following private letter tiom Mr. Pendleton was addressed to Washing ton McLean, ot the Ohio delegation, before that delegation left Ohio, and was handed to John A Green, jr., ot tlicir arrival in New York : Cincinnati, June 25, 1888 My Dear Sir : You left my office this morning before L was aware of it. I seek you at home, but you are not here. I must say what I want to by note. As soon as you get to New York see Governor Seymour. You know well wbat was my feeling before, and I heard from him last fall. He is to-day the foremost man in our jmrty in the i'nited States in his ability, cultivation and experience, which putß him at the head of our statesmen. He commands my entire confidence* ntul 1 would rather trust him than myself with the delicate duties of the next four years. You know I am sincere ; make him fee! this, and that he can rely on me and on my friends. I have a natural pride— an honest pride—in the good will of my country men; but you know better than anyone else it is neither egotistical nor over ruling, and that I an. ready and anxious to give up the nomination to anybody who can gel one single vole more than mvself Kxpruxs all this frankly to the Governor, but delicatel, and let him understand my views of men and mean ures, as I have frequently given them to you. Good by. God bless you. Yours truly, Geo. H. Pendleton. To Whshingtou McLean, Esq. The State Journal, a scallawag sheet started in Jackson, Miss., about six months ago, has suspended since the electiou. The editor lias taken up his carpet-bag—that was all he had—and left for a more congenial held. Gone to Arkansas, of course.
