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From the Constitution.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
MILITARY COMMISSION
ASSEMBLED FOR THE TRIAL OF THE
COJLUiIIiSU.S PKISOKERS.
ELEVENTH DAY.
McPherson Barracks, July 11, 1868. i
Court met pusuaat to adjournment.
Tne ceatim my of Mrs. J. B. xVio »ie and ot
Edward .-hephem, was read for ttieir hearing
by the Juvjge Advocate, when Mjrs. xVloore
made ihe oliowiug cone tions, to-wit: in
stead oi s tying occasionally, 1 meant to say
tnat my si ter, Mis Kirkscuy. invariMy sent
for some member ot the lainity, to come and
stay with her when the Doctor was absent. I
meant to say tint we were not delighted to
hear of the ueath oi Kadicals, only such men
as ABhburn, who was trying to negioes
to in&urr«etion and i.eeds of violence agamst
their ormer owners.
Edwaru ohei-herd had no corrections to
make.
Hu record as amended was then adopted.
Mrs. Clifford W>nne sworn. By r. Moses
for the dc.ease.—i live in «ank> county, (da.
The night of . A.’s murder, 1 was siayii.g at.
Col .Shepherd's ooi. ..'shepherd’s fiuiily, no
one else, was staying in the house with me; I
my s»Bter was theie, 1 know whether Dr. Iv.
was at home th tt n ght; i had a sick hea ache
and was wage nearly all night; old not he r
any one come in or go out of the hou.-e that
night; three other members of the lamiiy were
Sica als thatuight, Mrs.iVloore.Dr. Kirkscey’s
baby and Eddie shepherd ; Eddie had tooth- \
ache, Dr. K.’s baby the croup, .Mrs. Moore a
nervous headache ; I occupied the room with j
Mrs JVluore.
By Gov. Brown, for the Prosecution.—What
time of the night did the family eat supper
that night?
Ana *er Sometime after dark. It was in the
latter part oi M rcli ; don't remember the
day of the mo th, nor what time dark comes
in ihe latter part ot March ;it comes earlier
in March than in July ; don’t know wkai time
of night it was ; Col. shepherd and his family,
Dr. K., myself and sister Mattie, werep.eaent
at supper that night : Edward bhepherd and
Mrs. Moore were there; Mrs. Moore took
some coffee—so did I—nothing else ; don't re
member of Eddie’s eating anything at table ;
they were ail there hut him ; don’t remember
wiiat Dr. K. cat lor supper, After supper 1
went into Mrs. Moore’s room ; 1 slept with Mrs.
Moore; IreiLed very late that night, having
a sick headache ; when very sick 1 sometimes
lie down on the bed ;on that night 1 think I
laid down about 11 o’clock, but did not go to
sleep till near day ; Mrs. Moore and myself
Slept on the same bed ; it was nearly day
when she went to sleep ; she went to sleep be
fore I did—not very long beiore; she had been
to sleep once and waked up again ; it was
near.y day before she went to sleep again ;
c inn t tell exactly when she went to sleep
first; it was some ime after I went to bed,
about hours, 1 think ; she did n »t sleep
very long; when she woke she called Wooddie
to go to Dr. K.’s room to get medicine tor her ;
Wooddie was in the next room to ours; after
Wooddie came back with the medicine she sat
on the bed in Mrs Moore’s room as much as
an hour I strap so ; do not think it was as
much as two hours ; about an hour, I reckon ;
Woodie then went to her room ; did not see
her any more tha t night; before A.’s death 1
had been staying at Col. she j herd’s about 3
months ; duiiog this t.me Dr K. was rot
often out at night; recollect no instance ; lie
had calls from patients at night occasionally ;
ho went very oltou ; he was then out at
night; l was incorrect in saying that he was
not out at night during the three months ; do
not remember whether his c »lls nt night were
frequent or not; remember no cail »n particu
lar ; do u< t think i am mistaken when 1 said
ho had calls at night ; Mrs shepherd was u."u
ally at home ; sue would hive know it the
Doctor had been c ille to patients at night ;
Edward was usually there at night; he would
have known it ; Airs Moore was usual y there;
she also would hive known it ; 1 believe Dr.
K. some times went out at night to attend the
meetings ot the Ma ouic fraternity; do not
remember that he went at n gtu to attend the
Democratic Club ; Do usual.y went in his
buggy at night. I heard ot A.’s and .ath next
morning ; was at Col. he] herd's in the 2d
room on the right hand of the hall ; Mrs.
Moore’s room ; don’t r< member who told me ; I
think i servant came in ami told Mrs. Moore ;
Miss Wooddie was oil studying; don t know
where she wa> ; don’t remember now whether
it was be ore or alter breakfast, ihave not talli
ed with Airs. Mo re in the last 2u hours ol where
Miss Woo do- was at that time ; have not read
any of Mrs. Moore’s testimony ; not heard it
retd or anybody spu«k ot it. Mrs. Moore
Mrs MiepLerd, Mu- Wooddie and myself are
staying at the same nouse. Since the Court
adjourned y ...-ternay i have heard no conversa
tion about what Mrs. Moore or Miss Wooddie
stated in their testimony ; have heard a good
deal of lalk about how Mias Wooddie acted in
the court room ; heard nothing of what she or
Mrs Moore sa.u in their testimony. When I
firat heard of A.’s death, Edward .shepherd was
at school, i believe; don’t remember what
time ihe family took dinner, about l o’clock :
don’t remember whether or not Miss Wooddie
was at dinner that day ; 1 first saw her some
time during the day wo heard of Ashburn’s
death ; when they first commenced making
the arrest oi the young men belonging to the
Democratic Club 1 hist heard i. uDcussed
about where Dr. K. was when A. was lulled;
when they arretted Dr. K. and put him in the
Court lloute, and then we located where he
was that nig up—found ho was at homo; don’t
remember when the Dr. was arrested ; when I
say the young men of the Democratic (.dub, I
I mean ail who were arrested and belonged to
the Club : I am not acquainetd with any oi
them except Dr. K ; I heard i hat those arrested
belonged to the Demo- ratio Club.
B> Mr. Moses for the t.ereuse—ln the early
Eartof the year Dr. K. was living at Col. Sbep
erd’s; he did not live there all the time from
the Ist of January to tl.e killing of Asitburn ;
he was stayiug part of the timo at Cook’s Hutel
In Columbus.
By request of counsel for the defense, the
Coui t allowed the te.-timony of this witness to
be read over to tier at once, in consideration of
the tact that she lives in Banks county and
wisues to go home. On hearing the testimony
read witnesses made the following correction,
to-wit:
When Dr. Kirkseey was called out to his pa
tients he went.
Witness was then discharged.
Andrew shepherd, sworn. By Mr. Moses
for the Defense.—What is yojir name! Where
do you live! Andre w shepherd is my name; I
live in Wynn ton, near Columbus: on the night
of A.’s murder 1 was at home; Dr. K. was at
home between 10 and It o’clock, as far as I
know; i saw him go to his room at that time;
don’t know where he was the rest of the night
By Gov. Brown, for the Prosecution—l think
a. was killed on the ;>oth March; dou’t know
what time the sun sets on that day; the nights
are longer than in July. The lamiiy usually
take supper aboutßo clock; the rule applies as
well in winter as in summer; in mid winter 1
think that is about two hours after dark; eight
o’clock now comes just about dark or a little
after; in the winter the lamiiy take supper
about two hours alter dark; they now take
supper a little alter dusk: take supper about j
8 o’clock generally. Father, mother, Dr. K. ,
and wife, Mrs. Moore and my sister and two !
brothers were ai supper that night. I went to
bed a l.ttie beti.ro l l o’clock; it was a little
before I went to bed that I saw Dr. K. go into
his room. 1 was not up any more that night;
did not sleep with Edward; slept by myselt in
the room opposite Dr. K.’s. Edward slept
with my brother Andrew. Mother slept in the
middle room opposite Mrs. Moore’s room. My
brothers slept in the 3d room ou the side where
my mother slept. Father is in a different part
of the house altog ther. Between supper and
the time 1 retired I was studying in ihe hall,
at a tai lo about twenty leet from Dr. K.’s
room. ’ I studied there until i retired.
[Here Gen. Meade entered the c urt room.]
Judge Advocate said that the witness about
to be examined is to testily concerning Win.
Duke, and if any other witness for Duke is in
the court room he must retire.
O. T. Arrington, sworn. By Mr. Stephens !
for the defense.—l reside in Carroll county;
when I beard of «he killing of A. I was down
at Mr. Duke’s; when 1 first hoard it 1 was in
tli blacksmith shop; it was Tuesday or Wed
nesday; Mr Duke, the accuse and was present at
the shop; went to Mr. Duke’s lather’s on the
Sunday before; I staid there :our days on that
visit; Win. Duke, the accused, was at his
father’s when I reached theie on Sunday; on
Sunday night after 1 got there, he was in the
house with the balance of the lam ly: l step'
with him; M nday nigh' he was ht re, ho slept
wi h me in tfio house; in tne same ro >m where
his mother and lather and some of liis ."isters;
Tuesday night he was sti.l there; we slept n
the same bed every uight whi e 1 was there
during that visit; I returned home on Thurs
day; nuke’s is about forty imies from Colum
bus; Wm. Duke’s m (her C my sister.
By Gen. Dunn, for th Prosecution.—l am a
mm of family, myself; T reside i Carroll
county ab -ut 43 miles fr-m my brother-in-law
Duke; 1 walked m»m wnere i lived; no particu
lar b siness to take me there, only to go on a
visit; ii took me a day ana a piece’to get from
my residence to Mr. Dukes; during he trip
don’t re ollect what sort of we iher we had;
left home on sat inlay; a <n’t remember whe h
eritriinedon aturaay or Sunday whi.o I
w»s pursuing my j urney; J got to Du -e’s
about two h urs ysu i,or a little more than
that; no ; e sou wa> with me on my arrival at
Duke’> I found t>e utility there: Wm Duke
w s at h m wuen I ar.Dei here; he was pit
ting by the fi e wh .i 1 w»*nt i ; it was not cold
but he wa» sitting befuo the fire. Monday
f llowing my arrival at Duke g, 1 was at the
bl ck?m.»th fchop ne riy all day; a negro man
and one oi M Dikes brothers wt re there;
Duke's father hud been down be ow Columbus;
he was th re, too, at the o aokMiiith ."hop on
Monday; part ot the day 1 was at the shop
and part at the hou-e; don’t know what time
I went o bed that uight; it was sometime be
tween 9 and lo o’clock i think Lhoie were 3
beds in the room in which 1 slept. L believe;
the bed I slept in was at the back part of the
room; it was a go and large room: it had three
doors, 1 think; the front door faced the big
road, *ou;h, 1 think it is, the bed I slept in
w s hack t the tight o. that door, ns 1 entered
the front door it wa- on my right; don't kn w
whe hei it was against the wall or n t; u was
ai the right hand corner of the opposite cud
of the house as you enter the ;ront door; tne
rest of tue beds stood on the leit. His father
and mother, two sisters .nd I slept in thort;
he has two or three married sisters; his mar
ried Biste. and her husband slept in an adjoin
ing room. No one of his married brothers
and his wife slept in that room that as I
know ot. ihe lueMay h i,. wing the morning
that 1 sptak of 1 was at the house and ,hop,
backwards und forwards; so, also in Wednes
day. there were other men there but Id n’t
recollect the names. 1 am a firmer; I flist
heard of the murder of a. on t'uesday or
Wedue day; seems ike it was In the evening;
I think it was auesday. not certain;dont know
who brought the news—some man in the set
tlement there, who cune to the shop: there
were tight nights ab uc that'ime, I think. I
heard it was the 8 *th of March that Mr
Ashbum was kiled; it was only a day
or two after that 1 heard cf it, which
makes me know it must have been Tuesday or
'Wednesday; 80th ot March came on Monday,
I think, I traveled thirty miles that day, stop
ped that night at a house about three-fourtns
of a mile from Dr. Pierce's; Dr. P. lives in
Merriwether county, on the'columbus road, I
place 1 stopped at was a little
ot! th*? blx ! or l^ he left hand sJ de of the road,
when I ,hC UI V uw < s after niglit a while
few steM- close hy the road, just a
tween it and Pierce'e also a I?f,,nil, rancll
right hand side of the road S -, on the
litUe oloody when I stopped
think the moon was shining, don’t ?ememw
whether Sunday was a moonlight night or not
nor the Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday foil
lowing. I think the moon was shining during
those nights, when it was not cloudy. I left
Duke on Thursday to go home soon In the
morning. I came the first night eight miles
this side of LaGrange, staid at my father-in
law’s—Reynolds’—in Troupe county; it was in
the evening, just before night, when I arrived
a my father-in-law’s house; think it rained
that evening, and a little that night; staid
there till Friday, and from there went home.
My lathe>-ln-law’6 house is between thirty-five
and forty miles from home. I leit soon in the
morning ; did not reach home the same day;
staid at my brother-in-law’s house that night;
his name is Handy; I staid in the room with
him; he lives in Carroll, near Chattahoochee
river, with a man by the name of Akers; he
lives on Five Notch Road, which runs up and
down the Chattahoochee river. I arrived
home on Saturday, I think; had been absent
six days. At the nouse where I staid the first
night after I left home, a black man—a chunky
man, about 45 years old, lived; there was a
woman and thiee or four children in the house;
the voman looked like she would weigh 200;
don’t know the age of the eldest child. I first
heard that Duke was connected with tne mur
der of A. (one week ago last night, at home;)
Mr. Duke's brother told me of it—his brother
Wayne Duke. I remember what occurred
about the 30th ot March, alter so long a time,
because I recollect about being there at that
time and hearing ot a man being killed then.
By the Court—When you visited Puxe .-
home, what time of the moon was it
Answer —1 thick the moon was full, or about
full—may-be it was done full: I don t recollect,
exactly.
Robt. T. C. Tucker, sworn—By Mr. Ste
phens. for the defense—My name is R. 1. C.
Tucker; I live in Merriwether county; I know
Mr. Wm. Duke, (witness pointed turn out;)
the first I heard o the death ot A. 1 was at
Mr. Duke’s shop; I think it was on Wednes
day; Duke was there Wednesday evening; *
that was the time that I went up to the shop;
had seen him twice previously since his return;
did not see him near enough Saturday even
ing to speak to him; saw him between Satur
day and Wednesday; saw him at the shop Mon
day evening after tne sun was down: saw Mr.
Reese, Mr Parron, Mr. Woodward, and the
young men that belonged there at the shop:
late in the evening a man came down that I
understood was a brother of Mrs. Duke.
(Here Mr >tephens asked that the previous
wi ness be brought in, which was done, when
Mr. Lucker recognized him at once, as the
man who came to the shop Mate in the even- j
ing.”) Mr .Stephens—ls taat the gentleman j
who was there ? Yes, sir, that is he. Witness
continued : Duke’s house is about forty miles
from Columbus
By Gov. Brown, for the Prosecution—l have
lived 3 0 or 400 yar s from the blacksmith shop
for about sixteen years; Mr. Duke moved to
where he now lives about a year And a hall
ago. I am frequently at his shop; have all ;
my work done there: sometimes 1 am there '
every day in the week and sometimes not once
in three weeks, depends on circumstances; his
shop is the place of rendezvous for the neigh j
bornood; 1 wafl there almost every week; I was
preparing implements to plant cotton; th 1 1
took me up nearly every week; cannot call to
mind was at the shop the next timo alter '
the time to which I testified; I was there some .
day in the week after Wednesday; what directs
my mind to who was there on Wednesday, is
the lact that someone at the shop mentioned
that A. had been killed on Monday; I had
made arrangements on Tuesday to start my
son and son-in-law, with a load of cotton, for a
friend, to LaGrange, and they started next
day; they returned on Thursday night and :
confirmed the report; Wednesday was the Ist
ot April; it has been nearly three and a half ■
months since Ist of April; 1 had finished plant- !
ing corn and was preparing to plant cotton.
[Witness went on to explain various particu
lars very clearly, but spoke so rapidly that
Reporter could not record them.] 1 frequent
ly mark in iny Almanac when I commence
planting and when 1 get through; I did not
mark this year when I planted corn or finished
planting cotton; I speak from no memoran
dum, but from positive knowledge of tho fact,
because I have planted earlier than usual and
have regretted it ever since ; 1 have a bundle
of Almanacs that 1 have kept; some are mark
ed and some are not; I could not have located
1 these days had it not been from concurrent
| circumstances; I had set apart the oth day ot
April to commence planting cotton, and 1 re
! member the e things as well as 1 ever did any
-1 thing in my life; I never thought anything
about Duke being there on that day, until 1
heard that ho was arrested—Wednesday or
I Thursday—about two weeks ago; 1 pointed out
; his house to the party that arrested him; I did
not know what to think about the arrest of
Duke; both the death oi Asliburn and the ar
! re.-t oi Duko made a decided impression on my
1 min i; the arrest oi Duke, under the circum
stances, made a very oecided impression on
my mind, because I knew where lie was at the
time A. was kil .ed, and that he could not have
! had anything to do with it; I know Duke was
|at home at tho time the murder was commit
ted, and that as he was arrested innocently, I
| did not know but that I, or any other man
might be arrested; 1 know that at the time A.
| was kil led D was at home at sunset, at his fath
er’s home, 40 miles irorn Columbus. I should
not have thought again about the day I ii* ish
;ed planting uij c>rn had these occurrences
j not. transpired; I recollect the day I commenced
j planting corn; it was tl.e 16th of March; don’t
; always commenco on that day; always com
i mence Irorn the 12th to the loth; I marked
! the day in my mind that it was the 16th day
! of March when I commenced planting corn
The last day ot J une we were planting cotton ;
1 commenced planting cotton the oth day of
i April; don’t remember tho time of the moon
on the 30th of March ; don’t pay much atten
tion, as a tanner, to the moon only in a few
things ; I did not bear of Duke being charged
as connected with tho.murder of A. until the
next day alter he was arrested ; prior to that
time I never suspected that he would be charg
ed with it. Ido not recollect every per.-on 1
saw on Monday the 30th of March ; was at
home until alter « inner; then walked to the
shop and remained there until after sunset;
was not busy in the forenoon of that day ; was
setting in the house—reading perhaps. On
-unday, the day before, I was at church ; and
I recollect very well what I was doing on the
day before that. On Tuesday, 1 was wart of
the day at my son-in-law’s, ana part of tne day
at ho «.e. I came home fr >m my son-in-law’s
to prepare tho wagon to take tho cotton to La-
Grange I would not have been home till
■ night it' it had nut been for the cotton. On
Wednesday, 1 was at home part of the day—
; part of the day at the shop. I saw Mr
Woodward at 'the 6hop; there was some
other person thore; 1 xhink it was
James (Jrowdor. but am not positive
Thursday, I think I was at home all day. I
commenced trying to stock a double plough
on that day; don’t think I was at the shop on
that day. On Friday, 1 was.working on this
same double plough ; don’t think I was at the
shoo that day ; saw no nerson but my own
family, as I recollect; cannot say that 1 did
j not see any other person ; on Saturday I was
probably fishing—don’t remember; Sunday I
was at Trinity Church —the church 1 belong to;
we had no preaching that day ; next Monday
I was at home. I suppose; no distinct recollec
tion about any other day of the week ; the
Monday after Monday 30th of March, I was
planting cotton ; Wednesday week after the
30thof March, I don’t know what I myself was
doing—my people were planting cotton ; Tues
day week alter the 30th of March, it is proba
ble that 1 was about the field part of the day,
and part about tho house. Tne Wednesday
before the 30th of March, ray people were pie
paring the ground for planting cotton. I don’t
keep a diary of wnat 1 do every day, and I
don t think many men do in this country. The
! Friday before the 30t.h of March, 1 and my son
i were out shooting birds. On Saturday before
30th March, my son told mo the Duke boys
were burning the sedge-field, and asked me to
go up tiiere—perhaps we could kill some rab
bits I was at home in the morning ; after
dinner wo walked up there with the guns ; the
sedge did not burn well, and we spent the bal
ance of the evening in shooting birds; I saw
Mr. Duke there, John and Wayne Duke, Jo
seph Jackson and Nor an; I observed to Nor
man “has Billy got back” and he said “yes”—
Billy was about fifty yards off—l did not speak j
to him; don’t think I saw old man Duke there
on Saturday. Mr. Duke has been backwards
and forwards to Columbus, since his father liv
ed there.
By the Defence—What is your age and occu
pation ? 1 havo been a farmer all my life—67
years old next October.
By the Prosecution—ls your memory as good
as when you were a young man I By no means.
By the Defense—l am positive as to the lead
ing facts I have stated here. I have held an
office at home ; 1 was a Judge of the Inferior
Court or several years.
By the Prosecution—Was not the sensation
produced iu your mind by the arrest of Duke
as great as that when you heard of the death
oi Aidiburn ? I think it was greater, sir.
Court then adiourned until ten o’clock Mon
day morning.
TWELFTH DAY.
McPherson’s Barracks. )
July 13, 1868. ' }
Court met pursuant to adjournment.
The proceedings of Saturday were
read. Andrew Shepherd desired to
make the following correction in the
record of his testimony, to wit:
“Brother Eddie was not present at
supper. lie had the toothache.”
Correction by C. T. Arrington: “I
was 8 days Iroui home.”
Mr. Tucker had no correction to
make.
Gov. Brown asked leave to propound
a few questions to Mr. Tucker, which
was allowed.
By Gov. Brown—To whom did the
cotton belong and who carried it to La
Grange? The cotton belonged to a
young man by the name of Burke; he
had bought it from Parrhan, about six
bales, I belie ve. Who drove your wag
ou? My son-in law. What is the name
of your sou in law? Bluemcr W. Wil
liams. Who did he deliver the cotton
to in LaGruuge? Don’t Know; did not
hear him say to whom he delivered it.
Mr. Burke was at that time buying cot
ton. Parrhan lives near me—about
miles from me. Buike, I suppose,lives
in LaGrange; have seen him there fre
quently; he has no place of business, as
I know of, iu LaGrange; I generally
meet him on the street. Burke’3 chris
tian name is Joseph. Don’t know
whether he bought it for himself or not.
Burke told me that he bought the cotton
trom Parrhan.
Witness was then allowed to retire.
Recess of ten minutes.
Juab Abney—By Mr. Stephens, for
the Deiense—l have been peddling for
the last three or four years; have been
in bad health. When I first heard oi
the death of A. I was in the porch of
my house, and heard from neighbors
passing. My house is in the neighbor
hood of the C;ty Mills, outside of Co
lumbus; it was Thursday morning;
black people passing; the Monday be
fore I was at home; the day beiore I
was at home from 11 o’clock till night.
I left home on Thursday .evening to
carry Wm. Duke to his father’s, in
Merriwether county, Georgia. Got
there with him that night after sunset;
remained there all night, next morning
went to my brother’s, fourteen miles
further; James Abney; there I remained i
Friday night and got home 11 o’clock
Sunday; 1 am absolutely certain of the
facts I have sworn to.
From the Intelligencer.
Cross Examined.—l have lived in my
house since a month before Christmas, j
I moved from a house situated 60 yards j
irom it. I have lived ia Columbus 8 \
Cross Examined.—l have lived in my
house since a month before Christmas.
I moved from a house situated 60 yards
from it. I have lived in Columbus 8
years. lam not in tbe habit of carry
ing persons for pay. I took Duke borne
because I wanted to go to my brother’s,
and, as Duke was sick and asked ma to
take him home, I did so. Afler Duke’s
father moved to Merriwether, I saw him
in Columbus sometimes boarding at
Martin Beck’s. I can’t tell how long
he had been in Columbus prior to the
time I carried him. I saw him there
every few days within the last two
weeks before the time. He boarded
about six hundred yards from ray house.
It is forty miles from Columbus to his
father’s house. We made the trip in
one day. We traveled in the same
buggy. We had but one horse. He
was a large bay horse about 12 years
old. The buggy was a common, ordi
nary buggy. They did not belong to
me. The horse belonged to my son.
The buggy belonged to another man.
I don’t think the horse and buggy were
at my house at all before we started.
They were brought up there that morn
ing by a small son of mine. I started
on the last Thursday in March. I re
collect that it was the last Thursday in
March, because when I got out to my
brother’s they were grumbling because
they had not finished planting corn. I
first heard of Duke’s being accused of
Ashburn’s murder about two months
alter the occurrence. My sou told me
ol it. He said he heard of it at Cook’s
Hotel. Before hearing of his being
suspected, I had no distinct recollection
of the day I went home with him. My
attention was first called to the fact
when I heard of his arrest. That was
about two months after I went home
with Duke. Ido not always recollect
the date of an occurrence two months
ago. I did not make any memorandum
of ilie date I went home with Duke. I
am not in the habit of doing so. I
would be liable to be mistaken about a
date, if there was not anything inter
estiug connected with it. When I went
with him, I don’t think there was any
thing interesting in it. I think it rained
oh me ten miles before I got to Meriweth
er. It was a very dark night, I think, I
don’t recollect seeing any moon. I
stayed at Duke’s until 8 o’clock next
morning. I stayed at my brother’s
from 1 o’clock that day until about tbe
same time next day. It rained that
morning before I started. I left his
house on Saturday about eight or niue
o’clock in the forenoon. It is fifty two
miles from my brother’s to Columbus
I drove to Columbus about eleven
o’clock next day. I stayed all night at
old man Whitehead’s. He lives on the
road that leads from Columbus to the
several forks that leads most anywhere.
His given name is Thomas. He lives
21 miles from Columbus. I stopped a
mile after I passed his house. I stop
ped at a log house on the left handside
of the road. I mean the left haudside
as you go towards Columbus. I think
there is only one room in it. I can’t
recollect the name of the gentleman
who lived there. He is a tolerably
small man, looks like he was about 30
years old. I disremember his complex
ion, and the color of his eyes and hair.
He has a wife and children. I don’t re
member the complexion of his wife.
She was complaining of being sick.
He has stables. I saw tho horse ted.
He was in a lot. He was loose I think.
There are two houses between White
beta’s and the house I stayed all night
in I have heard their names but dou’t
remember them. I have been there
since. I was there five weeks ago. The
same man has lived there since. I
tried to refresh his memory about the
time I stayed there before. I stopped
for the purpose of payiug him my bill
for the last night I stayed there. We
did not then say anything about tbe day
of the month when I first stayed there.
I have never seen hint since then. At
that time there was no conversation
between us about Duke or Ashburn.
It was a dark night, I think. I don’t
recollect what time of the nioon it was.
I got home on Sunday and lay
down until 3 o'clock, and we had a
prayer-meeting at my house, and
I attended that. I was at home
on Monday. I was doing nothing that
day. I was up town with my son.
The upper end of the street I was at
on Monday is about 300 yards from tbe
Perry House. I don’t recollect who I
saw that day. I expect I conversed
with some of them, but I don’t recollect
who they were. I first saw black peo
ple on Tuesday morning after the mur
der. I don’t recollect the names of any
of them. I heard them talking, and as
ked them what was going on. They
told me A. was killed. I don’t know
the names of any of them, but I could
!go and put my finger on them. After I
got to my son’s, I heard several white
persons speak of it. I can’t name any
of them: there was not many there. I
heard several speak of the occurrence.
I heard my son and Wm. Brooks speak
of it, as well ns I can recollect. Brooks
lives at Girard, Alabama. I can’t recol
lect any others except my own family, j
I will be G3 years of age noon. My
memory is tolerable, but not as good as
it formerly was. There wu9 no occur
rence took place in Columbus three :
months ago that I now remember the
date of. I don’t recollect any ether oc
currenee that took place in March or
April, that I can now mention the day
on which it occurred. There is one day
in June on which occurrences took
place that I recollect. I don’t recollect,
the day on which it occurred.
To Mr. Stephens—l recollect my vis
it to Columbus because there was a
prayer meeting coming off at my house
before I left home, and I told them I
W’ould be back in time.
To Gov. Brown—l had a good many
praver meetings at my house during
the’ spring. They were usually on
Sundays in the afternoon. It was ap
pointed a week before it came off. I
can’t tell the exact day when it was
appointed. I can’t name the day of the
month when any one of them took
place. I can look at the almanac, and
tell most all of them.
Witness was here handed an almanac,
but liis sight not being good, he was
unable to read even with the assistance
of Gov. Brown’s glasses. They don’t
see things alike.
There was a meeting there four or
five Sundays handrunuing. lam sure
that was the first meeting held iu my
house. There were several persons
present.
Witness here mentioned some of the
parties who were there. He also named
some of the persons who were present
at some of the other meetings.
To Mr. Stephens.—l first heard that
my testimony would be required in this
case week before last. I heard it from
two different persons then. I next heard
of it when I was in the East corner of
Marion connty, 47 miles from Colum
bus. It was there I was subpeened.
By the Court—On your return from
your brother’s to Columbus in March
last, did you pass by Duke’s?
Answer—No sir, I did not.
Question —Was the first prayer meet
ing held in your house, held in April ?
Answer—lt was held the last Sunday
in March.
This witness is very deaf and it was
with difficulty that he could hear what
was said to him.
TESTIMONY OF S. . PARHAM.
I reside in Meriwether county. I
know Wm. Duke. There he is. I live
about a mile and a half from his father’s
residence. I saw him at his father’s in
the last week in March. I suppose it
was about the 30th. That was on Mon
day. He was at his father’s shop, and
I suppose the sun was an hour high, or
later. I saw him there next morning.
The sun was not then, I suppose, more
than two boors high, ihe circum
stance is fixed on my mind by the tact
that a gentleman tiougm tome timber
from me and I went up there the next
morning to see him about it The land
the timber was on belonged to me.—
The wood was to be sawed into lum
ber. The father of Mr. Duke lived on
that tract of land. There was some
thing special on Tuesday that called me
there, I went up to see about the haul
ing of the timbtr off. There was a
young man of the name of Hanley who
hauled the timber. I heard of the death
of A first in LaGrange. I think it was
on Wednesday c-r l'uesday. When 1
went to see about the timber, it was the
Tuesday before I went to see about the
timber, it was the Tuesday before 1
went to LaGrange. I went thereto sell
some cotton. It was my father’s cotton
and mine. I went to the shop on
Tuesday because the rein of the ox
yoke had been broken by Mr. Hanley,
who was hauling the logs, and I wanted
to have it fixed. lam positive that it
wa9 the evening of the Monday before
I went to LaGrange that I saw Duke at
hiß father’s house.
Cross Examined—My cotton was hauled by
Mr. Williams. He is the son-in-law ot Mr.
Tucker, who testified here as a witness. The
cotton wap lold beiore it left home, and I went
todcliverit. 1 delivered it at the railroad depot
ill LaGrange. Air. Williami anda neariiinan
carried it - here. The wagou carrieu si.\ bales. \
1 daa’t recollect who paid for it. I received '
the money irom Air. Araham?. i don’t know ,
who eui" me to them lor money. Mr. Frost
bought the cotton. Mr. Abrahams io a mer
chant. I think there was a momjra,.<lum or
receipt gicen ior the money. Idi I not sgn it.
1 don’t lecoileet the exact amo .nt t received.
I suppose it was between SBOO and S9OO. It was
on Thursday, I think lam certain of that. It
was the secoud day of April. 1 stayed there
until one or two o’clo kin the evening. It is
about tweDty miles from my residence to La-
Grange. I don’t recolleet whether it was a
dark night or not when 1 got home. I don’t
recollect whether it rained or not that day.
The next day 1 went down to my father’s. 1
dou’i recollect what I did the next day. Where 1
1 was ihe Monday beiore thoSoth of March I
don’t recollect. 1 first heard ol Duke’s arrest
when I w.-.s summoned to come here. I w r as
at home when l was summoned. I don’t
recollect ot hearing of Duse’s arrest beiore I
was summoned. 1 don’t recollect the month 1 !
w-assummonedto come here. It was some time j
last week. It didn’t made a decided imprts- |
sion on my mindxvhen 1 heard oi Duke’s being
arrested. 1 suppose it did in the neighborh .0(1.
I was not at home It made an impression on j
my mind. IDs arrest made a more dec.ded im
pression on the people than the hauling of
the stocks to the mill. 1 don’t know why it is j
that 1 could locate the day of the hauling ‘
oi tue log*, and cannot rscoilect the day on
which ho was a re ted. D Duke had ueveV
been arrested I believe I would have recollect- j
ed the day of the haulingo the timber. I sup- ;
pose thore were someii ty stocks hauled. They
w re ueiivered to Air. Oglesby, and I suppose
made an entry of the delivery When I was
at,the shop, the Saturday beiore toe 81st of |
March 1 saw several persons. There were
Tucker. Kee-e, Norwood, and others, x went
lhere frequently—every day or no. 1 siw j
Kooert Tucker that day, late in the evening.
I left him there. 1 wa.- there Tuesday morn
ing. I have no recollection oi any other day |
that 1 was there that week, becau-e I went I
up to LaGrauae. I have no recollection wdro !
was them when i was there. I an’t locate
any particular day I was lhere, except Natur
<lay beiore the 30th of Mutch, anl Tuesday
after it. I can’t swear it positively, but 1
Uiink 1 commenced planting corn about the
10th day of March last.
By Mr. St .-phene—lf your mind was directed
to any of these events, is it not probable you i
would recollect the day on which it occurred 1 1
Answei—li I had been summoned to appear !
here or at any other place,’ I tliiuk I euuld re
collect when the circumstance occur,cd. I
am positive that these even s haven’t occurred !
in connection with any other day. 1 recollec
hearing of the death of A. on my visit to La
G-range.
To Gov. Brown —I atn positive as to that
incident, and cann- t be positiv about any
(finer within ihe last six months, on account
oi the circumstances attending it.
TKSTiMONY OK DU. CLIFFORD H. STYLES.
I am brother ol Hon. Wm. Styles, formerly
United States Minister to Au.-trm, and Kev. j
Dr. Joseph U. Styles. I reside in Meuwether '
county. lam a physician. I know Wm.
Duk»s. I see him here—that is him. I reside
about three miles from his lather’s. I saw him
at his father’s on Monday, 30th March, 1888,
about 40 miles from Columbus. It was be
tween 5 and e o’el .ek p. m. 1 recollect when
Ashburn was assassinated. 1 was in Duke’s
workshop at the time I heard the news first, j
Wm. Duke was there then. I think it was on |
Thursday. lam certain it was the Monday
evening of the death ol A Alburn that J saw j
him there.
C it one-examined. — l am enabled to recollect .
; the tacts because I was called in the neighbor
! hood to see some p itients. Mr. Greer was
; one. Ho lived about three miles from the
i shop, and I stopped at a plantation about two j
j miles from the shop.
Witness here named several places at which
! he had stopped, varying short distances irom i
Duke’s shop.
j l can’t give the precise days of the week and
i month on wli eh I visited each one ol those
! patients. 1 have not got my record with me.
' I merely referred to the record as to tho 30th
| March.
| The prosecution objected to anything being
! said about liis reference.
I 1 have not got my record with me because I
did not think I would be called on to refer to
it. lam not certain whether I was subpoeiiled
; or not. I have not received an> writtensiate
: ment to come here. lam in the habit oi pass
ing there gen rally about twice a week J
j can’t locale any other day of tho week or
i month I pas ed iliore. I have been prac icing
i in the neighborhood about three years. 1
looked at my record in relerence to this par
' tieuiardato. Af er having rotreshed my mem
ory in that way, I am now able to state from
j my memory, and not from the record that I
! visited the neighborhood that day. I passed
j there a few da>s a ter and Mr. Dukeasked me
| if I had heard of the assassination of Ashburn.
I examined my re -ord in regard to this ease
; first about a week an 1 a half ago I tuink.
I Before the testimony of this witness had
I been concluded, the Court adjourned to 10 a.
i m. to-morrow.
TIIIBTEENTII DAY.
McPhekson’ Bahuacks, \
July 14, 1803. )
i Court met pursuant to adjournment.
The record of the testimony of Joab
Abney and of S. 11. Parrhan was read
over in their hearing. Mr. Abney had
no corrections to make. Mr. Parrliau
stated that, upon reflection, he recol
lected to have left home on the 7th, and
that he arrived here on the Bth of July.
The record, as thus amended, was then
approved.
The reading of Dr. Styles’ testimony
was deferred until to morrow, by the
adjournment of the Court in conse
quence of the indisposition of Mr Ste
phens, leading counsel for the defense.
Mr. Stephens was not present to day,
but Col. Crawford,, associate counsel,
staled that it is probable Mr. 8. will be
able to attend at 10 o’clock to morrow
morning.
Soniiienst Electoral Totes.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post, writing on the 10th, thus
ventilates the manuevering in Congress
to stave off the chances of the Southern
Slates carrying llie Presidential elec
tion again! Grant. The writer says :
The question whether or not the elec
toral votes of the Southern States shall
be counted for President is now agita
ting the American Senate, and although
the cloud it presents is“not bigger than
a man’s hand,” yet it is one which may
spread and expand until it shall darken
ouv whole political firmament. Refer
euce has before been made to this sub
ject when it was anticipated that Con
gross would endeavor to place the
Southern States iu such a position as to
guard against the possibility of their
casting a Democratic vote iu the elec
toral coliege. Prior to the late elections
in Mississippi, the subject has never
been mooted in Congress, hut since it
has discovered that the negro votes are
not given necessarily to. the carpet-bag
gers the greatest alarm has seized the
| dominant party, and the deepest inter
| est is manifested in placing the South
ern States beyond a possible contingen
; cy. The fact that these States, or at
least a portion of them, have been de
dared to be again in lull communion
i with the other States of the Union
j appears to have little weight with Sen
j ators who are determined to seize upon
i the Executive branch of the Government
in order to perpetuate party ascendancy.
It was not until within a few weeks
past that any danger was apprehended
and that this dangerous question was
sprung upon Congress. A few bold
spirits among the Radicals who dare to
do right are loud iu their denunciation
of the whole scheme. Senator Trum
bull a few days since cautioned his allies
against the stupendous wrong which
was proposed, and said the result might
be another civil war. Nothing is more
; evident than that frauds and violence
i are to be resorted to, to secure the
i Southern electoral vote for Grant, or the
| vote will be ruled out as far as may be
; considered necessary to accomplish the
: purpose of seizing the Presidency. This
I is a desperate game, and it is fearful to
! contemplate the possible consequences,
i Senator Edwards reports in favor of re
! jecting the Southern vote. Trumbull
tells him it may lead to another civil
war. While the South only was inter
: ested in the result of her election, fraud
: and violence could be committed with
j impunity, but the case will be material
’ iy changed when the great States of
| of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
] are to be the sufferers. Well may Sen
| ator Trumbull give warning to the Ja
cobin while considering the great ques
tion now pending before the Senate.
Horatio Seymour, in his speech be
! fore the nominating Convention, utter
! ed the following great truths —the duties
j the great Democratic Party have to
perform to save the country from im
pending wreck, from the misrule of
Radicalism. These gfeat truths should
be printed in letters of gold. He said :
“It is not a mere party triumph we
seek. We are trying to save our coun
try from the dangers which overhang it.
We wish lo lilt off the perplexities and
the shackles which, in the shape of bad
laws and of crushing taxation, now
paraliza the business and labor of our
land. We hope, too, that we can give
order, prosperity and happiness to those
sections of our country which suffer so
deeply to-day in their homes, and in all
the fields of their industry, fromtheun
happy events of the last eight years.”
In the spirit then of Geo, Washing
ton, and of the patriots of the revolu
tion, let us take the step to reinaugurate
our Government, and to start it once
again ou its course to greatness and
prosperity. May Almighty God give us
the wisdom to carry out our purposes,
to give every State of our Union the
blessings of peace, good order and
fraternal affection.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Standard-Bearers of the People.
The New York Democtatic Conserva- i
tive Convention on Thursday nominat
ed Horatio Seymour, of New York,
and General Francis P. Blair, of Mis
souri, the standard-bearers of the people
in the approaching contest, on whose
bauneraare inscribed the heart-stirring
motto of all true Americans, and of all
who are resolved upon a restored and
regenerated country— the Union, the
Constitution, and the laws.
On the maintenance of these lies the
pith and marrow of our cause. It was
for these that we set out long ago to
fight. It is for these that we propose to
fight now and hereafter ; and with these
as the compendium of our political
faith, we propose to triumph. We
take them because they’are fundament
al ; because they are indispensible to
tbe national welfare—-nay, to the na
tional existence, because in them lies
the anchor of our country’s hope; and
because they stir, with deep vibrations, i
the spontaneous sympathies, aud are
responded to by the yearning desires
of the American heart. To any candi
dates, whoever they might have been,
would we have given them, as the con
densed policy and platform of the pco- j
pie, on which alone success is worth
atrivinf for. To those who, after long
and patient deliberation, ami with a
sincere desire on the part ot the Con
vention to do the best possible for the
country, under the circumstances have
been chosen Mr. Seymour and General
Blair, do we give them as the creed in
which they and all patriots unfaltering
ly believe, the chart by which they
will unshrinkingly fight-, and the
vindication ami triumph of which
secures, beyond, peradventure, tho bar
monv, peace, power, and prosperity
of the country. With these principles,
ibis brief but comprehensive creed,
which is at once the only sure
l tdieuee and the chief glory of this peo
ple, do our candidates go forward, con
quering and to conquer, it we are as a
people but true to ourselves, true to the
teachings of the past, true to the pro
found meaning of that Constitution
which is as light to our path, and true
to those fundamental and far reaching
principles of Government, bounded and
illuminated by one supreme law, which
we cannot separate from our national
! existence.
Though we put forth as a candidate
l for the first place on our ticket by iar
the ablest statesman, the most profound
I political thinker, the most lofty and ir
reproachable character, and one of the
most accomplished gentlemen now in
| or out ot American politics; aud for the
| second place a brave and gallant soi
' diet', whose name is inscribed on the
rolls of fame as one of the saviours of
j his country in the death dealing hour of
! battle—it is with us not so much a mat
ter of men as it is of the principles
which they represent, and for which,
iu the name of their country aud civil
liberty they go forth to fight. We care
1 nothing about men; the country should
care nothing about them. We should
all look to the principles which they
| embody, and what they propose, with
. the aid ol the mighty masses of the
people, to accomplish for us. It is our
cause that should enlist our sympathies
—our active, indomitable energies, our
| constant, utmost, unflagging zeal. _ It
! is a grand aud glorious cause, being
nothing less than the preservation of a
; fiee government, and the salvation of a
mighly nation. Our mission is a glo
rious mission, for it is to redeem our
land from tyranny, disunion, disorgan
ization and disgrace. Our cause is just
iu the signt of men and angels, wrung
from conflicts of fire and blood, bap
tized in the tears of a whole land of-j
widows and orphans, sanctified by the
sacrifice in its behalf of a million of
souls, and should by the smiles of heav
en and the patriotism of the people,
prevail. Men, then, to us arc little—
our cause all. Let us put on the breast
plate of true loyalty, and bear this in
mind. Let us go to work with a will,
with a heart-, and an energy that shall
never fail, until with “trials past and
duty done, we place our tom and battle
stained banners on the ramparts of vic
tory.
Xeyiuoirr’N Speech of Acceptance :
Delivered at the Ratification meeting in
New York on the night of the 10 th.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee:
I thank you for the courteous terms
in which you have communicated to rhe
the action of the Democratic National
Convention. [Cheers.] I have no
words adequate to express my gratitude
forthe good will and kindness which that
body has shown to me. Its nomination
was unsought and unexpected. It was
my ambition to take an active part, from
which 1 am now excluded, in the great
struggle going on for the restoration ot
good government, of peace, and pros
parity to our country. [Great cheering. ]
But 1 have been caugut tip by the
whelming tide that is hearing us on to
a great political change, and find my
seif unable to resist its pressure. [Loud
cheers.
You have also given to me a copy of
the resolutions put forth by the conven
tion, showing its position upon all the i
great questions which now agitate the I
country. As the presiding officer of j
that convention, I am familiar with
their scope and import, and as one of
its members I am a party to their terms.
They .are in accord with my wish,and I
stand upon them in the contest into
which we are now entering, and I shall
strive to carry them out in future wher
ever I may be placed in public or pri
vate life. [Cheers.]
I congraulate you, and all conserva
vative men who seek to restore order,
peace, prosperity, and good govern
ment to our land, upon the evidences
shown that we are to triumph at the 1
next election. [Prolonged cheers.] —
Those who are politically opposed to
U3 flattered themselves there would be
discord in our councils. They mistook
the differences of our views as to the
methods of carrying out our purposes
for differences of opinion with regard
to these purposes. They mistook an
intense anxiety to do no act which
should not be wise and judicious for a
spirit of discord. But during the
lengthened proceedings and earnest dis
cussions of the convention there pre
vailed an entire harmony of intercourse,
a patient forbearance, and a self sacri
ficing spirit which are the sure tokens
of a coming victory.
Accept for yourselves gentlemen, my
wishes for your future welfare and
happiness, [Cheers.] In a few days
I will answer the communication you
have just handed me by letter, as is the
customary form. [Tremendous and
long continued cheering.]
The Sweat Box. —This institution,
one of the enlighteners of the stupid
intellects of dull witnesses, in use at
Fort Pulaski, through which John
Wells and John Stapler complain of
having passed a severe drill, is thus ex
plained and described by Gen. Meade :
The Telegraph says, “In conversa
tion with one of the most eminent citi
zens of Macon yesterday, he assured us
that Gen. Meade explained to him in
Atlanta, week before last, the whole
modus operandi of this instrument of
torture. Meade described it as a box
sufficiently capacious to admit the vic
tim, aud then arranged for compression
by screws, by which a lorce could be
brought upon the prisoner sufficient to
‘squeeze the breath out of him.’ It
was also provided with a steam appa
ratus connected with the throttling box
by pipes, and upon turning a fosset jets
of steam were thrown in, which added
materially to the anguish of suffocation.
This machine wa3 applied to three wit
nesses—Betz, Bennett, and a negro,
with entire efficacy—the negro gave iu,
in a moment, and cried out that he
would swear to anything ii they would
only let him out of that box.
“The foregoing is the statement of a
leading citizen of Macon —a man whose
word nobody doubts—as to what was
voluntarily 9aid in his hearing by Gen.
Meade himself. Are more words want
ed by way of improvement ? Is it pos
sible to add to the force of the facts
themselves in showing the depth of de.
gradation to which Radical rqle has
brought the American Government
From the Confutation.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Atlanta, July 13, 1868.«
Senate met persuantto adjournment,
and was opened with prayer.
In order to give further time to the
committee on eligibility, on motion of
Mr. Spear the Senate adjourned until
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock.
house.
Monday, July 13, 1863.
House met pursuant to adjournment.
Speaker McWhorter in the chair.
Prayer by llev. J. Spillman.
Roll called and proceedings of Satur
day’s session read and adopted.
Mr. Bryant, of Richmond, having
the floor, resumed his speech of Satur
day in reply to Mr. Scott, ot Floyd, iu
support of the O'Neal resolution tor its
reconsideration.
Mr. O’Neal, of Lowndes, author qf
the resolution, followed at some length
in support of it, and in reply to Mr.
Scott, of Floyd. In concluding, he
called for the previous question.
This latter motion, the Democratic
side of the House Claimed, was diseour
teous, as it did uot permit the opponents
of the resolution to respond.
Alter some little discussion it was
withdrawn, when
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, replied at
some length in favor of the reconsider
ation of the O’Neal resolution, and iu
response to the arguments of Messrs.
Bryant aud O' Neal. He deprecated the
party spirit which had been permitted
to enter the discussion, and insisted
that such a course could result in no
good. He favored an open, and fair
investigation of the eligibilityot mem-
bers, etc.
When lie concluded, the previous
question was called tor, and resulted as
follows: Yeas 79, nay<B2, by which the
motion to reconsider was lost.
[And here, lest the reader .shall ior
get the character aud import ol the res
olution under discussion, wo republish
it. It was introduced by Mr. O Neal
of Lowndes, and reads as follows:
Kesolved, That there be a committee
of five appointed : by the House, whose
duty it shall he to proceed immediately
to investigate tfic case of each membei
of this House, and report the facts in
reference to the eligibility of each under
the actruf Congress referred to iu the
message of his Excellency, the Gover
nor, and that said committee have pow
er to send for persons and papers, and
to swear aud take evidence ot witnesses
who, under the laws ot this State and
of the United States, arfc competent wit
nesses in civil cases.
And a£ the effort to reconsider this
resoiution failed, it stands as the only
business now before the House. J
The Speaker then appointed as the
committee called for by the resolution :
J. W. O’Neal, of Lowndes, (rad.); I.
E. Bryant, of Richmond, (rad.); A. H.
Lee, of Newlon, (rad.); I. E. Shumate,
of Whitfield, (deui.); F. M. Harper of
Terreli, (dom.)
Leaves of absence were granted ior a
few days to Messrs. Hall of Glynn,
Powell, of Decatur, and Butt, of Ma
rion.
The House then adjourned to eleven
o’clock on Thursday next.
The House Investigating Commit
tee. —This Committee, composed oi J. |
W. O’Neal, of Lowndes, J. E. Bryant,
of Richmond, A. 11. Lee 1 , ot Newton, I. ]
E. Shumate, of Whitfield, aud F. M. j
Harper, of Terrell, were in session in |
the hall of the House this morning, j
The Committee agreed upon the follow- j
ing interrogatories as sufficiently appli- t
cable to tbe cases of ineligibility which i
might come before them,:
1. Were you a member of Congress; J
or of any State Legislature ; or did you j
hold any executive or judicial office in j
any State prior to the war ? j
2. Did you prior to the war tako an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States?
3: Did you engage iu the rebellion j
against the United States ; or give aid j
or comfort to the enemies thereof? '
These questions are being propounded 1
to each and every member who comes j
before the Committee, and will be put j
to every member of tire House before |
the investigation shall end. If the first
two questions are answered in tbe neg j
ative, (under oath) the person is at
once dismissed. The iuvesigation was
. progressing very satisfactorily and har
moniously this morning.
A few certificates were necessary in
the cases of several, and it is the design
j of the Committee to base their report
; upon such as are unable to answer the
i three questions in tbe negative. The
! report will then become matter for tlie
House to act upon. Up to 12 o’clock
about seventy five members had been
; examined.— Atlanta Constitution , 15 th.
Mopalio Key ill our.
The people’s candidate for the Presi
dency at me next election is a native of
Utica, New York. His lather, who was j
one of the earlier inhabitants of that. :
city, and a native of Middlubury, Ver
mont, was one of the most distinguish
ed citizens of Central New York, and
at the time of his death, which occurred
about thirty five years ago, held the of
fice of Canal Commissioner.
Horatio Seymour, after receiving a
liberal education, studied the law, and
was admitted to the bar. Being pos
sessed of an ample fortune, and having
embarked at an early age in that career
in which lie has been so successful aud
so justly popular, he never practised his
profession. Asa very young man he
was the acknowledgetl favorite of the
young Democracy ot New York. Ilis
pure and spotless character, his sound
judgement, and his fine oratorical pow
ers rendered him, thirty years ago, by
far the most conspicuous of the younger
members of the Democratic party of the
Empire State. _
Iu 1850 Mr. Seymour was elected
Governor of New York by a small ma
jority, over Governor Washington
Hunt. Iu 1852 he was reelected by a
majority of over twenty thousand. In
1862 he was again elected to the same
high office, his term expiring in Janua
ry, 1865. He was therefore, Governor
of New York for two of the most im
portant years of the late civil war ; and
it is a matter of record t hat he cordially
cooperated with Mr. Lincoln’s admin
istration in all just measures for vigor
ous prosecution of the war, and received
the thanks of Mr. Lincoln for his
exertions a short time previous to the
death of the latter.
Governor Seymour is about fifty-six
years of age. His wife, a daughter of
the late John R. Bleecber, of Albany,
is universally admired for her intelli
gence, loveliness of character, and ele
gant manners. They have no children.
Oi Mr. Seymour’s three sisters, one
married Ledyard Sinclair, of Caseuovia;
another Mr. Shonnarri, of Westchester;
and another the Hon. Roscoe Conkling,
United States Senator from New York.
Governor Seymour’s speeches on
subjects of great public interest during
the last three or four years have been
universally read, and have secured for
him a national reputation. It is not
extravagant to state that few speeches
of tiie present day have ma lea deeper
mpression on the public miud than
ose of Governor Seymour.
If elected to the Presidency—as he
undoubtedly will be, by an overwhelm
ing majority—ho will bring to the
Presidential office talents equalled by
but few of his predecessors. Iu patriot
ism and purity of character he will not
suffer by a comparison with the bright
est names in American history.
Horrible Homicide. Mr. M. V.
Wood, a quiet and peaceful citizen,
died, at his residence, in this city, last
Sunday evening, from the effects of a
large number of blows received from
John Oswalt, appointee of Gen. Meade,
as Deputy Marshal of Rome.
It seems that Mr. Oswalt put Mr.
Wood iu the Callaboose about 2 o’clock
Sunday morning—for what offense we
are not apprized—though it is said that
he had been drinking. The other in
mates of the Collaboose discovered, at
daylight, that he was in an insensible
condition. About Bor 9 o’clock, a citi
zen happening to hear of his condition,
called a physician, and had Mr. Wood
carried to his home—where, without
speaking, he died about 3 o’clock p. m.
A post mortem examination showed
that he had received about a dozen se
vere blows, one of which severely frac
tured his skull. As the matter is now
undergoing a legal investion, we retrain
' from further particulars.— Rome Cour.
It is said that only one white face vo
ted the Radical ticket in D.sota county,
; Mississippi, and that he has since picked
I up his carpet bag and put for Arkansas
TO COLORED MEN.
The following letter, addressed to the |
colored rneif ot Tennessee, is equally ap- i
plicable to the colored men of Georgia
and Alabama. The editor of the Mem
phis Avalanche, to whom the note re
questing its publication,’ is addressed,
says the author of the letter is one of the
most intelligent colored men of Mem
phis, and until recently, has been a
leading member of the Radical party
in that city. We commend the letter ol
Harris to the collored people within the
bounds of our circulation, and- especial
ly to those of Radical proclivities in Co
lumbus :
Col. M. C. Galloway—l have been
working faithfully for sometime with
the Republican party in this city, but
have become convinced that the white
men of that party among us are not the
true friends of my race—that they only
wish to set us against the Southern men
to gain power for themselves, aud then
leave us to suffer the consequences of
having foolishly made enemies of the
men who are our true friends, lo try
to turn mv people from a course 1 fear
will lead to their ruin, I have written a
letter, which please print in the Ava-
J lanebe, so they all may see it, and you
will do us a great good, ior which x
>'"i’'“"l' , Si F HARRIS.
Memphis, July 8, 1868.
My Dear Colored Friends : The
j destitution and suffering among us
have set mo thinking of the causes that
! have brought about ibis unhappy con
dition. The colored man is worse off
in this part oi the State than he has
S been at any time since his freedom, and
j why is it so ? It is because you cannot
| get work. \ou know two years ago
you commenced voting with the Repub
i iican party, and .you have been true to
that party. At that time you were
getting all the woik-you could do, and
were well paid lor it. Now the men
| who gave you work and paid you for it
say you are voting to deny them the
I right to vote, anil they are not willing
jto give you work. aVud can you blame
; them, after voting to deny them the
! rights you claim for yourselves ?
! The Republican party has had the
■ rule here, and managed everything
their own way for nearly ihree years,
! and yet things have got worse and
j worse, and taxes higher and higher,
! till nearly all the money and Ihe enter
prise of the country has been driven
away, and business of all sorts nearly
dead.
You have sense enough to kuow tnat
strangers don’t care whether you do
well or not. What care they about
your getting work or anything else, just
so they iu power, through you.
And when tbe so called Republican
party goes out of power, the men who
have been urging you to work against
the Southern white man—not ior your
good aud theirs, but for their own self
ish purposes alone, will leave Ibis coun
try. Then what will you do? Now, I
say, if you intend to make this your
home, stop working against the men of
this country. The very idea of ihe
men who pay the taxes not being able
to vote, or have anything to do with
making the laws under which t bey live,
is shameful to he* said of a free aud in
dependent people. I, for one, will
never take part in keeping any man
from tho right to vote. It seems so
very foolish to talk about the time not
come to allow the Southern white
man the light to vote. It is a right
that should never have been denied
them. The builders of the Republican
party say it is a right that all men
should have. I shall contend for that
right for all men, and shall never rest
contented till the men who pay the taxes
are allowed all the rights that you and I
have under the laws of the United States.
To say nothing of the light, just look at
the unmanliness and unfairness of your
wishing to deny to the educated men of
the country, who pay nearly all the
taxes, a privilege which you, who are
! not educated, freely enjoy. I tell you,
! my suffering friends, it takes education
j to know how to use the ballot box prop
] erly. You must strive to become edu
cated, and think and act for yourselves
j like men. I believe that the only thing
that will make peace in this country is
universal suffrage and universal utnnee
ty. I can say tor one, as I have been a
slave for thirty years—yes, a slave as
late as July, 1865, anu am not ashamed
ot it—that it is hard to be denied the
rights of man. Our race has beeu ae
nied these rights lor near two hundred
aud fifty years, aud you should ho no
party to anything oi that kind toward \
your fellow man. I hope to live to see j
you farmers and mechanics and mer j
chants, and to have taints and work
shops of your owu, aud I believe by
a proper course on your part toward the
men of this country you will make them
your friends, anJ they will cut up their I
large farms into small tracts, and sell,
lease aud t ent to you, and that you will
be perfectly sate on them ; and then,
with industry and soberness, you will
be able to earn a comfortable living,
and school your children, aud lay up
something for old age. You may think
me wrong now, but you will learn that
I am right, and many of you will tell
me so. If lam wrong, then Greeley,
Wilson aud Stevens are wrong.
Now let us notice the amendment to
the Constitution. Article 1 says: “Con
gress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of speech, or the right ot the
people peaceably to assemble and peti
tion for the redress of grievances.”
These people have sent up petition
after petition, and they have been an
swered only with wrongs. Take into
consideration the thirteenth amendment
to the Constitution ofthe United States,
and I say denying any man the right to
vote is a violation of the Constitution.
Ten of these amend meats were the sen
timents of the American people in 1789,
when they knew no North, no East, no
West, no South, but the Union, the
Constitution, and the enforcement of
the laws. Come down to 1865, when
the 13th amendment was passed, which
says ; “Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude shall ever exist in the United
States, except as a punishment for
crime, whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted.” Well, now,
will any one pretend that these people
have been duly convicted of any crime ?
Aud yet they are punished by reducing
them to slavery, to a certain extern,
and depriving them of a right they had
under the Constitution. These men,
whom wo have been working to keep
from voting, acknowledge all these
amendmedts as binding, and these se
cure you in all your rights What more
do you want of them ? Some men try
to persuade you that the Southern men
would make slaves of you all again,
Do not listen to such men. The South
ern people would not,if they could, and
could not if they would, reduce you to
slavery. The men who tell you so, and
promise to do so much for you, only
want power,and want you to help them
to it, and then they care no more for
you till next election time comes, for
some of them in this very city have
been known to say, “damn the negro,
let him go lo bell; what do I care for
him ndw ?”
At the proper time I will call names.
I shall at all times confine myself to
facts, and fear no man, for I advocate
truth and justice to all men, and know
they will win in spite of what corrupt
politicians may say and do.
If you want land, you must work for
it; if you want shops, you must work
for them and make them your own, and
then nobody can take them from you.
Do not think that controlling local
elections in favor of strangers will se
cure you these things or do you any
good. If you do, you will find to your
cost in the end that you are wrong.
Yoiir friend,
John F. Harris.
The scallawag D. H. < ht, killed in a
difficulty with the editor of the Hands
boro Democrat last week, is supposed
to he a brother, or near relative of Gov.
Orr, of South Carolina. He was a
member of the Mississippi scallawag
piebald— so called — Stale Convention
The poor editor will be hunted to the
ends of the earth, no doubt, if be at
tempted lo escape. It is terrible fora
white man to kill a scallawag, but no
harm for a scallawag to kill a white man.
As evidence of this, we cite the case of
Morse and Thomas.
The Milledgeville Recorder of Tues
day says the drought still continues iu
part of Georgia, and that every
thing is parching up. Only one Jight
j rain in eight weeks.
REPORT OP THE PRESIDENT
of tho
Navnnuah and Memphis Kallrnail. i
To the Directors and Stockholders of the !
Savannah and Memphis Railroad :
The time for the annual election ol j
Directors arid Officers of this Company i
has again arrived without any material
change having been made in the condi
tion of this great enterprise. Our polit- ;
ical difficulties, not yet adjusted, and
tho monied interest ot the country still I
depressed and deranged, we have been ,
unable to make any monied arrange- .
meuts, either to commence operations |
or to complete the survey from Tuseum- j
bia to Opelika. Hut there are some
hopeful indications ot a reaction in the
affairs ot the Company. Many excel
lent, enterprising citizens are setting in
aud near Opelika, which will give to
the enterprise more energy and power.
Our political troubles are likely to be
adjusted within the next twelve months,
which will open new avenues to capital
trom abroad, aud restore confidence at
home in the enter rise.
Aud again, wo learn from tho news
papers, that the Georgia Central Rail
Road has made arrangements to control
all of the railroads Horn Savannah to
Columbus, and design making arrange
ments by a cheap tariff ot through
freights, to draw cotton, ami control
return freights to Meridian, Miss., over
this line via Savannah to New Yotk,
and to Europe, and having her gulf
Hues nearly completed Southwest, with
Savannah’s great lines ot steamers to
New York and to Liverpool, will only
need our link running Northwest via
Tuscttmbia to Memphis, to -control ti
large amount of cotton and trade tn the
middle and upper Mississippi and its
tributaries, to Savannah, and make it
the greatest shipping port on the South
ern Atlantic. The shortness of this
Railroad line from Memphis to Havan
nail, with the directness, expedition,
and light insurance freight bills upon
this route could be so arranged as to
defy competition.
It is proposed that we make our first
effort to build from Opelika to the Ala
bania and Tennessee Rivers Railroad.—
We sent a committee along this line to
Childersburg in 1859 to ascertain how
much cotton would likely he drawn over
it to our South-eastern markets, if this
road was built to that point. The Com
mittee reported then about 60,000 hales
per annum. 1 have no means ol knott
ing now,but as the country is a healthy,
extensive woodland, and asa majority ol
the labor then, as now, is white, I sup
pose that the-falling off would not he
more than one third.
This much of the Road being complet
ed would pass through the gold and
copper veins of Tallapoosa and Coosa,
and the Marble, Slate, Iron and Coal
mines of Talladega, and would indirect
ly connect with the Coosa and Cahaba
coal and iron, and would be a very im
portant road to Opelika and Columbus.
The latter would soon became the Lo
well of the South,-on account of her
foundries, shops and factories, and
greatly increase her commercial impor.
tttnee.
These considerations, with others now
maintained, should so stimulate the
friends of this great enterprise as to in
sure success when the times become so
quieted as to restore confidence to the
country. Our able engineer, rOol.
Hal'lde, proposed that if Columbus
would subscribe §500,000. Opelika $50,-
000, Lee county SIOO,OOO, Tallapoosa,
$200,000, in twenty year bonds to be
sold in European or Northern markets,
that the Company, with the aid it would
receive by the endorsee.eht of the State
to procure iron and rolling stock, would
be quite sufficient to insure the road to
tire Alabama & Tennessee Rivers Rail
road, a distance of 82 miles. This ac
complished, it could be built through to
Tuscumbia at no very distant day. The
proposition for Tallapoosa to subscribe
$200,000 of her bonds was laid beiore
tho Commissionere Court last fall and
an ordinance passed to lay it. before the
voters of the county, but tho Judgo of
Probate concluded on the unsettled
j condition oi the country, to postpone
the election until this crop was develop
ed. The proposition was favorably re
ceived by the intelligent portion of our
people, aud doubtless will be sustained
if the people have a fair opportunity of
voting on it.
I refer you to tbe report of our Treas
urer and Secretary fora statement of the
financial condition of the Company as
stated in a former report to a former
board.
I was unexpectedly called to preside
over its board of directors, and have
been ready to retire when tbe interest of
tbe Company demand it. The mistor
tunes of the war with increasing years,
seems now to demand that I should re
tire.
It will be the duty and the interest of
the friends of the" enterprise to cast
around and secure the services of one to
till my place, aud hoping that he may
he able to fill it with much more abili y
and success than I have done, is the
humble prayer and wish ofyour humble
servant.
.T. R. Slaughter, President
tiongresu Armliia: the S inthKrn !Ve-
Itrues.—“Let ns Have Peace.”
What Geu. Grant meant when he said
“lbt us have peace,” has been explained
by the action of his friends in Congress.
He meant that all the powers and re
sources of the country are to he employ
ed to sustain military usurpations, and
! to enforce submission to negro suprem
| aC y. We take the following from the
j Congressional Globe of July 4:
1 Mr. Paine, from the Committee on
| Reconstruction, by unanimous consent,
\ reported a bill to provide for the issue
| of arms for the use of the militia, which
| was read a first aud second time.
| The bill, which was read, authorizes
| and requires the Secretary ot War to
| deliver to the Governor of each Stale
I and Territory represented in the Con
i gress of the United States, at the seat of
| goverment of such State or Teritory for
the use of the militia thereof, as many
I serviceable Springfield rifle muskets, ot
I calibre fifty-eight, with accoutrements
I and equipments, and serviceable field
pieces’ with carriages, caissons, equip
-1 ments, and implements, as the Gover
! nor of such State or Territory shall re
quire for the use of the loyal militia
! therein, not exceeding two thousand
rifled muskets, with equipments and
I accoutrements, and two field pieces,with
j carriages, caisons, equipments and im
plements,for each Congressional District
! and Territory so represented, upon the
I certificate ofthe Governor showing to
! tne satisfaction of the General of the
! army that the regiments and companies
! for which such ordnance and ordnance
j stores are required are duly organized
I of loyal citizens of such Stato or Terri-
I tory under tho laws thereof; and the
l ordnance and ordnance stores shall re
: main the property of the United States,
! subject to the control of Congress.
! Mr. Paine—l demand the previous
question.
The previous question was seconded
and the mam question ordered.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed
and read a third time, and, being on
grossed, it was accordingly read a third
time and passed.
Mr. Paine then moved to reconsider
the vote by which the bill was passed,
and also moved that the motion to re
consider be laid on the table.
The latter motion was agreed to.
Charles B. Lewis, a local editor of
Lansing, Mich., was blown up on the
Magnolia, near Cincinnati. He lias
published his experience, which is not
at all pleasant. He winds up as fol
lows :
“Getting home—my friends had been
looking to see me come in a coffin—my
wounds had all filled up with ‘proud
flesh.’ This of course had to be burned
out —driving mo crazy for a night and
a day—and compelling me to use a so
! lution of blue vtriol twice a day lor for
ty days. Bo you can form a slight idea
of the pain and suffering, and how much
‘ye local' can endure without becoming
'dead matter.’
“Now, after a lapse of almost one
hundrty.l days, 1 fiud myself once more
about, but condemned to wear the sav
age marks of the steam-fiend to my
grave. A balu spot where the iron
missile crushed my skull, a ‘ piebald ’
eye, a face that resembles a beet, and
over my arms, body and limbs are sears
that resemble great slices of fresh beef
laid upon the skin. But after all, I am
yet alive and getting ready to once
more pursue the ‘itemizing’ business,
which you know is vastly better than
being fished out of the Ohio some torpid
day, with no Coroner handy for an in
i quest.”
Letter from president j o i„.
Reply to a Democratlc.t'o,,,,'"" '»
New York, July 6.—a nun)
citizens of New York, on the 2j '
June, addressed a letter to p t '
Johnson asking permission
name be presented to the D en '
Convention as a candidate for
cy. Mr. Johnson replied , w foi:' 1 "
Washington, July 6, iggo '' r „ s
tlemen : To youi friendly IT,
whether, if deemed desirable i '
preservation aud unity of the eon'
tive interests of the country I
permit my name to be prescnti
Democratic Convention ns « ( .
for the office of President of tin l '
States, I would respectfully rt . B | v ul; '
lam uot ambitious of further ser a'
I may say, indeed, of further endm-!!''
in that elevated position unU-.,!"
call so general and unequivocal' t| '
would be an indorsement by tin- n!*, '
of my endeavors to defend the p
union and the reserved rights 1/
several Commonwealths conn,
what was once In fact the p,
Union. Cf sucli approval, in tin
cut temper of parties, I can, i,,.,-' !
have no reasonable expectation
, history proves that men, who j„ t
j cial position, oppose for any reason
| cherished schemes devised by tai l
j to acquire power, usually find mi,-,
! terminud assailants than open aud LT
I est defenders; hence, in resistingu,,
ures which, although sustained hyp
I gress, I honest ly believe to he unerna
| meuts upon the Constitution, mv'.
! has been made arduous and stouiiu,
; ungracious, by an opposition
fully well organized, and posseMii
! controlling influence in the halls of j
! islatiou unprecedented in the history
i the country, been compelled lo Uy,
1 my entire* timo to the issues tluuk
been forced upon me, and to ront ; -
aguinst a majority represented hyp
thirds of each house ol Cougres.
have been unable, while striving to -
tect and maintain the liberties of ti,
people, to check tne extravagant cxHq
(liturea for objects not contemplated
the Constitution, and to lighten t,
- burden of taxations, which now rest;
oppressively upon the nation.
In the midst of these tnibarraseon:.
1 have not been discouraged. \\
from the public prints, or from 5...
j unusually frank and outspoken Irk
1 have heard that I have no party, ti.
suggestion has only served to rem
me of a memorable remaik, uttc
when faction ruled high in Home, 1
I Ctesar had a party, and Pompeysi,
Cressus each had a party, hut that
| Commonwealth had one aiming n.
] as the representatives of the peopk,■
- stand by the lights of llm Conn ,
| wealth. May I not pointedly nuk , h
| application to my own case ? Conemit
ed, in occupying my position as
! Federal Executive, to abide in si!
| with the wrong aud encroachment!
i the most insidious as well us du-i- .
i characters, or sometimes when they a
j incapable of arresting them, and pt:
' mitted only to employ the futile pr
iests, aud compelled with only Ik
privilege of remonstrance, or the ten
; hie alternative of counter revolmit.
to resist the revolutionary projects a:
obliged to stand in the attitude ot.
mere spectator, whilst the iuvalual
time of the nation has been wust
j in careless assaults upon myself an.
! office for the benefit of a party
I cannot complain of the peop
while witnessing I have uot bet:
able to make my cause thorough
ly their own, the defense of tit
Constitution aud laws their on:
battle until, however, the people at.
representatives will recognize non
plainly tho imperative needs ol Ik
country, by lightening tho burdwA a\
and onerous taxation as.
preventing oppressive imports upon
same article, beginning with its era
: state and following it through the so
cessive stages of manufacture to Hu:
use aud cost, the people being tbs
| made to pay extortionate accumulate
tax. Till tho time appropriated iu Cot
gross to partisan schemes is devolt
more to legislating for the people
wants, the nation will have to lie cot
tent with the more delusive hope of be!
ter times. Since mere parly politic
will continue to be considered of mor
moment than the study and practice!
political ecoiVbnty, the reduction of IK
ill's and making a precedent of mot
consequence than tho domination of a
national indebtedness, and a retutn I
sound currency and specie payment
with the people, there must rest It
correction of whatever is wrong iu it
respect indicated; and if their pub!:
servants fiud them careless of their t:
sponsibility; if tho people will not 4
their duty iu seeing that their repmet
tatives perform theirs, no Executiv
will ever have any power lo successful
ly defend their rights, and few wiliest
to hear the apology consequent upc:
j the attempt. lam now, however, at
have ever been, in the hands of tit.
people and at their disposal. My sirs:
I gle for the Union aud the integrity o
| the Government began long years w
I Conscious of having honestly discing
ed my duties, and satisfied that tit
! contest in which I have been compcllt
I to engage, will in the end, at least, it
ure to the benefit, aud, indeed, to •'
safety of constitutional liberty and lit
j man rights, I can well afford, 1 thin;
{ to look calmly on the present and tvs
patiently the verdict of the luture.-
: Whilst 1 know that the struggle tm tl
rights of the people and the defense
the Constitution is not yet over, y
believing that the late palpable faile:
to do violence to that great iiistrunu:
and the executive office, the worst th
faction can do for the present has he;
accomplished. I would only in conc’.tt
ding this brief statement of my viev
and feelings, express the hope that:
the selection by the convention ot
candidate for the Presidency, wlni;
duty it will be if elected, to present
protect and defend the Constitution,at
to execute the laws made in pursuat
| of its provisions, the public good, as
| leading well defended principles, v
; not be sacrificed to the meagre purpe
of party ascendency.
Iu conclusion, gentlemen, permit i
to thank you most earnestly for t
kind expression of your abiding co:
dence in me as a public servant, t
sure you that the approval ot the
pie is all that is requisite to tmil;
feel that the efforts that 1 have i
to restore the Union ou the basis of >;
lice and conciliation have not beet s
together in vain. Leaving myselt «
my course in their hands, should '-
continuance and conclusion of the ce:
test to vindicate and preserve const:-
tional government bo confided hy t» !
to abler and more worthy haitts,
shall cordially acquiesce, as has
my habit, in the decision of the At®
cun people.
I have the honor to be, gentlei®
very respectfully yours,
Andrew Johns®*'
Under a mortgage executed in 1“
by the North East and South
Alabama Rail Road Company,
State of Alabama, Gov. Patton 8 J
tises for sale, ou the 10th day ®J ? ;
tember, 1868, at public auction, ni
j city of Montgomery, “all the said.',
East and South West Alabama
j Road, without distinction Os stciie
together with all and singular th '
purtenances and franchises; the - -
ing and local work, the rolling
every description including loconnt' J
all warehouses, workshops, aml'i -
houses, together with all fixture
whatsoever nature, belonging t 0 !1
road.”
This road was commenced to ® 1
structed before the war, from Men ■
Miss., to Chattanooga, via Livinp
Eutaw and Tuscaloosa. Most ot ‘
grading from Meridicn to Tusca >’
has been done, and 18 miles ot the
at the Western terminus, is n° w !
used by the Selma and Moiidicu r ‘■
We learn from the Claiborne
Eagle, ol the Bth, that a Mr. I’ 1 ’"' 1 ,
Nettles had a personal difficult) 1
days previous, at Bell’s Landing)
Alabama river, in which the
shot and instantly killed.
difficulty is not stated.
i Free.—Gentlemen from „
state that Bennett and Wad®
appear to he at liberty to move a
please around Atlanta. Norestu
' are placed upon them.
Most too Good. —Informal! 1 ’ 11 *
very direct that James dj , hm\ U s pip 0 :
been removed from the , ...giiiij l ;
the port of Savannah. Un ,, L “ c4 u th*
we aro glad of it. We can
j name of tho new appointed.
