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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST I.
In a recent speech in'Cincinnati, ex-
Stenator Pugh described the carpet bag
ger* who infest the South, as “a class
of vermin, meaner than the meanest .
thing ever before known on the face of ;
the earth.” _
Floating Straw s Show the Course
o*f»Hh Wind.—At an immense and
enthusiastic Ratification demostration,
held at FernandiDa on the 21st ult., the
meeting adjourned amid great cheering
fofioeyroour and Blair, joined in by a
number of United States troops who
wire afoul tber Court House.
A Kentuckian in the French
Ak mv. Captain Joseph Richard
oiley, formerly of Ilarrodsburgh,
;JX., and late of the Confederate army,
"Up been appointed a Lieutenant in the
Cuirassier of the Imperiale Guarde of
thi French army, and has been ordered
toareport for duty at Marseilles, between
..at Ist of August and the istof.Tanua-
Tiik Wset for Seymour.—kTlirough
the entire West a most active cam
paign is being had. The evidences are
that our candidates are the favorites.
Inpndiana, debateable ground, the con
test is lively. Oy Monday next a mass
meeting commences at Fort Wayne,
Which is to be addressed by Clement
Valliiuligli am and others. Among the
young Democrats upon the stump in
that State, wo notice C. Carroll Hicks,
Esq;, formerly of Columbus.
Political Changes in Ohio.—The
Dayton Ledger says Charles Morris, of
T»oy, Ohio, one of the leading lawyers
ofiMiami county, and hitherto an active
Republican, has publicly announced
his intention to support Seymour and
Blair. Quite a number of. other promi
nent Republicans in Miami county have
renounced their former faith, and the
Democracy there are even confident of
being able to carry the county this fall-
A most scurrilous communication up-
Ajwionie ladies of the highest social po
sition -in the society of Tuscaloosa, ap
pearing in tko scalawag organ in that
city, last week, Ryland Randolph called j
on Dykous, the editor, for the name of J
the author, and Dykouß declining to
give the name until he could have an
interview with the author, Randolph
slapped his face. Served him right.
40n Saturday before last, iu Tuscaloo
sa,! Alabama, Thomas Forrester was
shot and mortally wounded by W. A.
Hfeila. The shooting was done with
a double barreled gun. The deceased
had been heard to threaten the life of
Lyerla during tho morning of the day
of the occurrence, and had jusffcmergqd
from behind a building with a loaded
musket in his hands when he was shot.
Lyerla surrendered himself and gave a
bond of SIOOO for his appearance before
tho Circuit Court.
It is related of the colored Represen
tative from Mobile, who introduced the
bill in tho Alabama Legislature, for
bidding Rail Roads and Steamboats in
that State to make distinction on ac
count of color, between passengers,
that lie should have said that if the hill
dees not pass thore will be a devil of a
rlgt in Mobile. Meaning that the test
will be made on the street cars of that
City. Well, we rather suspect the white
people of Mobile will be prepared for
the rioter and his friends.
Tttb Dili, Prisoners.—' The Cliarlcs
ton Courier learns that those uufortun
ate men arrested some months ago—
like the young men of Columbus on the
bare suspicion of having been concern
ed in the murder of an obnoxious white
Radical —have at last been turned over
to the civil authorities. It is understood
that the surrender was accompanied
with the strange stipulation that they
were to be treated exactly in the same
way as tin y lmd been treated by the
military.
Con siderable excitement was occa !
sioi|ed at St. Augustine, Florida, last
week, by the killing of two soldiers. It
appears that two citizens of that place—
James Miekler and Frank Arnau—had
a w&tonnolon patch a little outside the
ciljl but had been unable to get the
fruit on account of the nightly visits of \
unknown marauders. They according- j
ly set a spring gun in the field, and on !
thelifo 11 owing night the gun went off,
woandiug a soldier, who, with a com
rade, appear to have been there for no
good purpose. The other soldier was shot,
on the road and died soon afterwards, j
Miekler and Arnau were arrested by J
theftnilitary, but there being no proof
|Wnst them they were discharged.— j
Wfl presume that melon patch was not j
fttr|ber molested.
sond of Roasting Ears. —We learn
from Mr. Abe Gammel, that at least
five bushels of roasting ears were taken
from his cornfield on Bull creek near
thi3 city Sunday night. So careful were 1
thet'thieves to be noiseless, they cut the
ears off with a knife. This is really
IpiVoking. The lazy, worthless negro
■Kup all day and prowls all night,
aaimitting depredations on the indus
try of those who attempt to live by the
IIP of the brow. We have been ask
ed for a remedy. We answer—buck
shot in a trusty double barrelled gun.
Nothing milder will reach the case.—
When we get a government not found
ed on the will of these worthless pests,
a fiemedy in part will be found in the
rigid enforcement of the laws against
■ Jpgrancy. Until then every man must
Ip&rd his property and.protect it with
we bullet. A few successful shots will
lave a happy effect in abating the nui
sance.
A petition is being extensively circu
lated among the colored voters of Bed
ford county, Tennessee, in which they
urge on the Governor and Legislature
the early restoration to their rights of
all disfranchised citizens. They state
|kat their recommendation is not the
Jesuit of fear nor the suggestion of time
prying policy, but is the Earnest desire
of their hearts.
Brigadier Gen. Charles E. Hovey, of
■lllinois, has recently been brevetted to
The rank of Major General, for gallant
-Jnd meritorious conduct, and the brevet
by the Senate.
Kov- C. H. Albert, pastor of the Epis
copal Church at Batesviile, Arkansas,
pas thrown from his buggy on the 13th
July , and died from the injuries. He
*ett a wife and three children.
VOL. X.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, August 3. —A negro
named Willis Rollins has been making
democratic speeches to negroes in this
city for a week past. He has aroused
the enmity of both white and black.
Several attempts have been made on
; his life. On Saturday night a crowd
followed him for several squares, trying
to drag him from the street car. In
making his escape he was arrested and
charged with inciting riot.. He was re
leased on bail yesterday. Another at
tack w ith a slung shot was made on him
This morning on appearing before the
Mayor it was found that the original
charge of inciting riot was dropped;
the charge of carrying concealed weap
ons was suspended, but he was di3
charged by the Recorder. On being re
leased Rollins was again threatened by
negroes ; but was escorted by friends to
the rooms of the Constitution Club, on
Canal street. In the neighborhood the
crowd and excitement increased. Gov.
Warmouth appeared and made a short
but effective speech, telling the negfoes
that they should rather protect Rollins
in the public expression of his opinions
than seek to deprive him that Tight; ad
vising the crowd to disperse and go
home ; which they did. Warmouth’s
speech was highly spoken of.
Pretty Expensive Institution.—
The jail of Shelby county, Tennessee,
i in Memphis, is a right costly institu
! tion. We copy the following ventila
tion from the report of the Grand Jury
| of that county, to the Criminal Court.
i This-is Radical rule, and right well are
' they providing for favorites of the party.
j The Grand Jury say—
We find two jailers at a salary of $125
j per month; one book-keeper at a salary
| of 115; twelve guards at a salary of SIOO
; per month; an engineer at a salary of
j $125 per month. The aggregate cost
j of jailers, guards, etc , at this rate, will
he $20,280 per annum; add to this the
| cost of feeding 180 prisoners at GOc. per
I day each, 38,880, also amount paid for
j wood, 3,000, and we have a cost of
$62,100, to say nothing of gas, coal, sta
tionary and other incidentals that nec
essarily occur.
A letter from Thomasville—the pres
ent terminus of the Mobile and Girard
road —dated July 30th, says too much
rain for cotton has fallen iu that sec
tion recently. The corn crop, tl.e wri
ter say, is good, never having suffered
much for rain, it is about as good as the
land can make. Without some disas
ter to the cot*ou crop, the writer thinks
about as much will be made as can he
conveniently gathered. Old corn is
selling at one dollar per bushel.
The writer says the freedmen are
conducting themselve better than at any
time since the close of the war. There
are no Loyal Leagues or other corrup
ting influences to disturb their minds,
and they seem to have gone to work in
earnest to make and lay up something.
Crops in Bullock. — A friend writ
ing us on business, from Arbor Vitae
Post Office, Bullock county, Alabama,
concludes his litter with the following
reference to crops in that section :
“We have had a great deal of rain
within the past ten days. Previous to
this, the crops, both corn and cotton,
looked beautiful—as good as the land
could make them—not having suffered
materially, as did tho adjoining neigh
borhoods, from the late drought. Now
the cotton is “shedding off very much,
aud upon every farm a good sprinkling
of “rust” is to be seen. There being a
smaller quantity of cotton planted than
usual, if it continues to “shed off” and
the “rust” injures it to any great ex
tent, the scarcity of money will be as
perceptible and felt equally as much,
if not more, as did the “tight times” of
last winter. But thank God, we will
have enough to eat in “ Scottand ” —
corn, peas, Sorgham, sugar-cane, and
potatoes, where they have been properly
worked, as good as the land can make
them.”
Alabama Aid to Rail Roads. —The |
Mail says the Alabama Legislature has i
passed a bill permitting the Slate to 1
endorse the bonds of the South j
and North Railroad, and Eufaula
Railroad, upon the completion of
each five miles. As the law stood
before, twenty miles were to be com
pleted before aid could be given. The
law as affecting the North and South
Railroad, was also amended so as to
consider a point on the other side of the ;
river, one of the terminus of the road. '
This permits the road to receive aid
even before the bridge is completed.
Carpet-Baggers tn a Straight.— j
The Louisville Journal’s Washington
specail, writing from the Federal city
the day after the adjournment, says, ,
“Washington is nearly deserted. A j
few disappointed gentlemen are con
fined here by pecuniary strangulation,
a disease to which the carpet-baggers
arc peculiarly susceptible. They will
of courso.be obliged to await the arri
val of remittances.” If that be their
dependence for clearing Washington,
wc are inclined to think most of them
will have to remain over.
TnE Cotton Claims.— The Charles
ton News has private and trustworthy 1
advices from Washington that no action
will be taken upon such of the Charles
ton and Savannah cotton claims as are
still unpaid until next November. The
News says the aggregate of these claims
represented by residents of Charleston
is in the neighborhood of one million
dollars. The Savannah claims amount
to a much larger sum.
Pretty Good. —When the speaker,
as ordered by the House, was about to
swear in the carpet-bag members from
Alabama, objections were made to some
of them on the ground that they were
itinerants and not representatives of
the State. Mr. Ross very dryly re
marked that he would not object to one
of the gentlemen becaus he was a
i friend of one of his neighbors in Illi
-1 nois!
Sensible Officer. —We were han
ded the following card, on yesterday,
! which tells its own tale :
A CARD.
The undersigned having been appoin-
I ted Justice of the Peace by the military'
authorities, aud their powers having
ceased, I will no longer exercise the
powers of said office.
Michael McCahey.
August 3, 18G8.
A convention of the corporators of
the Memphis, Holly Springs, Okalona
and Selma Railroad was held last Tues
day at Holly Springs, Gen. N. B. For
rest, chairman, and committees were
appointed to solicit land subscriptions
along the route. A meeting of corpora
tors and friends of the enterprise is to
be held at Aberdeen on the first Mon
day in September.
The Cuthbert Appeal says a noble
i lot of fat bullocks and cows, from Baker
county, in charge of Mr. James Cal
houn, passed through that place on
: Tuesday last en route for Columbus,
THE WEEKLY SUN.
A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK.
There is an ancient and funny saw
about the antics a beggar will cut upon
being placed on horseback, which is
too familiar to our readers and the pub
lic to be repeated in these columns.
The fortunes, or we should rather say
the misfortunes of war, -have left so
many beggars and so few horses in this
country that we are seldom treated to
an exhibition of the farcical tricks which
follow the mount of the one upon the
other. Our friends in Atlanta are in
better luck. They have lately enjoyed
the luxury of the spectacle. Mr. Joshua
Hill who, it will be recollected, has
wandered about from Washington City
! to Georgia and back again, as a political
' mendicant for these many days, by a
; combination of circumstances as unex
! pected to himself as unacceptable to the
people of Georgia, has been recently
mounted upon a Senatorial hobby horse.
I The poor man’s brains have been dazed
by the sudden elevation, and he fur
nishes another name to the long lists of
those who have exemplified the saying
that prosperity presents severer tests to
manhood, than all of the trials of ad
versity. After feeling himself firmly
seated in the saddle, he proceeds to de
liver a speech to a lot of Radicals, black
and white—a report of which we find
.in the Atlanta Era of the Ist inst. We
propose a few comments upon the per
formance of Mr. Joshua Hill. The Era
j says lie opened his harangue with an al
lusion to the “unkind remarks” which
| had been made by the (Radicals of
| course) about the manner of his elec
tion aud “admitted frankly that his
election was due to the unswerving
friendship of thirteen Republicans, who
had stood by him, shared his sentiments
and his persecutions during the rebell
ion.”
It Had been generally supposed that
Mr. Hill was indebted for his success
and happiness to the Democratic mem
hers of the Legislature who, being com
pelled to choose either himself or Jo
seph Brown, like wise men selected the
lesser ot the two evils. It may not
gratify the vanity of Mr. Joshua Hill,
but the truth is and needs now to he
told, that the strongest consideration
which induced the choice, was not the
difference in desire between himself and
Joseph to persecute and destroy men of
their own race and blood, but the im
mense contrast in their capacity to per
form that benign and missionary labor.
The persecutions of Mr. Hill and his
thirteen brethren who shared them to
gether with his sentiments “during the
rebellion,” we are compelled to regard
as a rhetorical flourish. He was perse
euted by nobody save his friend Sher
man, who burned his gin house and
stole his potatoes per order of his other
friend Grant: without his defeat for
Governor by Joseph Brown may be so
considered. It is possible that the
“thirteen” may have been marshalled
by Joseph into that Militia of his which
alternately fought the invaders and
sucked sorghum. If so they suffered
and sucked, and sucked aud suffered.
“Only this, and nothing more.”
The Era further quotes him as say
ing.
“He stood just where he did over two
years ago when the secessionists defeat
ed him for the position, which the best
among them cannot now enjoy.”
Os course Mr. H. did not mean that he
stood in the Representative Hall in Mil
ledgeville, but that he endorsed and re
peated the sentiments and language of
the speech lie delivered there two years
since, which for malignity, temper, bit
terness, and incoherence of ideas and
expression has rarely been equalled and
never surpassed. Mr. Hill could surely
not have been ignorant of the fact
that any one of the “Secessionists” al
luded to could have borne the honors
he then wore, by a whisper in the ear
of Joseph Brown a few days before, and
that the reason why Southern gentle
men have not been admitted to Con
gress is because the party with which
he affiliates unfortunately holds the
power in that concern. TJhe Era tells
of Mr. Hill’s modesty as to himself, and
his unbounded admiration' for Grant
and Colfax. We deeply regret that we
have not space for this portion of the
speech. It would be base ingratitude
in him not to admire Grant, for Grant
admired him sufficiently to give him a
letter to John Pope, him of the saddle
and truthful memory—recommending
liis appointment as Provisional Gover
nor of Georgia, which letter Mr. Hill
thumbed into a dirty pulp in endeavor
ing to get old Hindquarters to act upon.
We cannot forbear however the repro
duction of his closing sentence on this
; subject which is as follows:
Among other things he said: “I do
not regard myself as possessing the
qualities necessary fora President of
j the United States. I could not stand
up all day, receive and dismiss three
hundred visitors with a word to each
one, but Grant can."
■ People acquainted with the habits of
Grant and Mr. Hill would naturally be
| in doubt which could stand the longer
time, but absolutely certain that neither
of them could outstand three hundred
social callers.
According to the Era, Mr. Hill rather
admitted that he killed the relief clause
in the Georgia Constitution, framed by
the Mulatto Convention, or that if he
did not, he desired to do so, and tried
I to accomplish the object. Mr. Hill was
not prancing, but at sober work about
i this time. He also indulges in some
I sensible remarks about the honesty of
the carpet-bagger Bullock, who evinced
a desire to buy up the Judiciary of the
State. For all of this, we commend
him. Towards the close of his remarks,
the Era says :
He administered a scathing rebuke to
those who would tear down a govern
ment that administers just and whole
some laws, and protects life, liberty and
property.
Mr. Hill meant this stroke for the
Democratic Party, but unfortunately
for himself, like the unskillful thrower
of the “Boomerang,” the weapon re
bounded and wounded himself. He
once recognized a Government built up
by honest, intelligent white men, select
ed fairly by their fellow citizens, suffi
ciently to ask to represent that Govern
ment as a Senator. It was a Govern
ment of “just and wholesome laws,”
and one that protected “life, liberty
and property.” Yet Mr. Hill, has been
for two years past, and is still laboring
with a gang of paupers, criminals, bar
barians and adventurers, to tear that
Gpvernment down, and to replace it by
one in which vice and ignorance shall
reign supreme in tho person of Carpet
bagger Bullock and his creatures. Mr.
Hill is a man full of crotchets and
quavers, and with but few well-settled'
1 or sensible ideas about Law or Govern
j ment. His imagined persecutions and
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1868.
a powerful and restless personal vanity
makes him often ridiculous, at times
I insufferable. We have in a kind and
amiable way endeavored to prune him
down a little. As he has notified a
■ meeting of Blodgett’s nigger constit
uents, at Augusta, that he intends to
1 stump the State for Grant and Colfax,
it is highly probable that he may ride
in this direction. We shall eagerly
avail ourself of the opportunity of list
ening to his attempt to show that in the
election of a butcher aud a buffoon, lies
the only hope of this country. If he
does not elucidate the proposition to
our satisfaction, we promise to do noth
ing more terrible to him than to aid
him in his caracoling by another little
: editorial switching.
We are still glad that Mr. Hill was
1 selected in place of Joseph Brown, but
candor compels us to confess that noth
ing hut the hope held out by the tri
umph of Seymour and Blair could com
pensate us for the chagrin of being
| compelled to acknowledge Mr. Joshua
Hill as a Senator from Georgia. In
| conclusion, and in justice, we should
| say, it may be that Mr. Hill never utter
ed a single sentiment, quoted or com
mented upon, in this article. The only
authority for assuming that he did is
the “Atlanta Era.”
Why the President Didn’t Sign
the Fundino Bill. “Data,” the
Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun, gives the reason. This
writer says : “There are numerous in
quiries this evening as to the action
taken by the President with reference
to the funding bill passed by the Senate
last night and by the House to-day.
Upon inquiry in the proper direction it
is found that the bill was presented to
the President but a few minutes before
the adjournment of Congress, and at
the time when the committees of the
two houses were waiting upon Mr.
Johnson to know if he had any further
communication to make to Congress.
Under the cireu nstanccs the President
could not have lime to even carefully
read the hill, much less to give it that
consideration and scrutiny which a
measure of such vital importance de
mands. For this reason, if for no other,
Mr. Johnson felt that he would not be
justified in approving the bill, and
therefore did not sign it. There are
other reasons, however, that would
probably have induced the President,
under any circumstances, to withhold
his approval of the bill, and among j
them may he mentioned the fact that |
the bonds were to be exempt from tax- j
ation.”
We clip the following paragraph from
the last Cincinnati Commercial:
Ex Governor G. A. Miller of Georgia,
an original Union man, who, when the
war broke out, left his fine plantation in
Georgia, came North, entered the army
and rose to the rank of Brigadier Gen
eral before its close, has taken the stump
for Grant and Colfax. He is reported
to have made a very brilliant speech at
Union, Summit county, Ohio, on Tues
day evening, and handled Seymour and
Blair without gloves.
We assure the Commercial man he
has been imposed on. No such man as
Ex-Governor Miller ever lived in Geor
gia. We have in Georgia, a very clever
man of the name of G. A. Miller, who
was a Union man in the secession con
test, but who, when Georgia seceded,
espoused the “lost cause,” and is now
in tliis State, the warm advocate of the
election of Seymour aud Blair. Tell
your Ex-Goveruor G. A. Miller he had
better hail from somewhere else. Your
orator, may, per chance, be a scalawag
from Georgia, sailing under an assumed
name—a counterfeit on our clever friend
and fellow citizen, Gustavns A. Miller.
The Cuthbert Appeal says that whole
region of country has been visited by
repeated sweeping rains for the past ten
days. It says “the sun seldoms shows
its face and cataracts of water daily de
scend. Grass has taken a sudden and
vigorous start, and the fields already
are carpeted with green. We- consider
the cotton crop even now seriously in
jured. It is putting on anew and rank
growth at the expense of all save the
well matured fruit. Two conditions
alone can still ensure a tolerable yield ;
Ist, the absence of worm and caterpillar,
which are much to be dreaded in such
wet spells, and 2nd, a long and favora
ble fall to mature the top crop, which
will constitute the largest portion of the
fruit. On the whole the prospect is de
cidedly gloomy. Late corn will do
well—corn crop however generally
short.
White Blackberries. —We were
shown yesterday, a bunch of white
blackberries. They have the form and
' taste of blackberries, but are, strange to
say, white. They were discovered
| near the city, growing in some profu
: sion. The spot was marked and speci
-1 mens of the plants are to be obtained
for the information and inspection of all
i interested. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
| This species of the Blackberry is, or
was in the early settlement of Texas,
common over most portions of that ter
ritory, and we presume it was from
Texas that the seed was brought to
| Georgia. We saw specimens of the
Texas white blackberry more than thir
! ty years ago.
Commerce on the Upper Coosa
River, — Among the freights taken up
I to Rome by the steamboat Etowah last
| week was 560 sacks of wheat, 531 sacks
of corn, and 481 watermelons. This
speaks well for the country in the val
ley of the Coo9a. Corn is going from
the farm to the market, instead, as in
1867, in the same section, from the mar
ket to the farm.
Seward’s Position —The Louisville
Journal’s special says : “In conversa
tion a few days ago with a distinguish
ed member of the diplomatic corps, Mr.
Seward expressed bis great disgust at
the present status of American politics.
He declares among other things, that if
Mr. Chase had been nominated by the
National Democratic Convention, he
would have supported him. As it is,
: he is for neither ticket. ”
The Louisville Journal’s special says
that among the persons at the White
House in attendance on the President’6
levee on the 30th, was one of the car
pet-bag Senators left behind for want
of funds. The writer says this fellow
1 is regarded with suspicion by the Radi
cals, who say he is about to sell out to
Andy Johnson. May be he sees things
in a light from the new stand
point.
Mr. Edward Lacy, an old and much
esteemed citizen of Washington City,
died in that city on Wednesday last,
. aged about eighty years. He was in
his earlier days a successful merchant
i of that city.
From Washington.
Washington, Aug. 3. McCulloch
has issued orders to the Headquarters
of Department to classify the clerks ac
cording to capacity and attention to
business with a view of retaining the
more skillful and faithful.
R. J. Brent, Esq., in a speech, pro
nounces Butler’s statement, regarding
his arrest in Baltimore, unequivocally
false.
Lieut. Marie has at last received his
SIO,OOO for betraying Surratt, and is off
for Europe.
Howard, of the Freedmen’s Bureau,
started South this afternoon to visit the
principal bureau stations and make
preparations to wind up the concern by
January.
The Secretary of Treasury has deci
ded to receive no more applications for
clerkship.
Rousseau is in town and will leave iD
a few days for New Orleans.
It is rumored that an ad interim Com
mittee of Internal Revenue may be ap
pointed at any moment to relieve Mr.
Rollins, and that the subject of placing
Gen. Banks in the Russian Mission as
an ad interim, vice Cassius M. Clay, is
seriously discussed at the White House.
Mr. Evarts, the Attorney General, is
away, however, and the President has
decided to await his opinion on such
delicate matters before taking any de
cisive step.
Revenue receipts over one and a half
millions.
A telegram from Colfax states that he
will decline any public demonstrations
on his trip to the Rocky Mountains.
Three gamblers were lynched last
week, at Sioux City, for cheating.
From Florida.
Tallahassee, Aug. 3— The Legisla
ture to-day passed a bill requiring all
telegraph operators in the State to take
an oath of secresy, and making it fine
and imprisonment for divulging any
message.
Also a bill taking the election of del
egates to the electoral college from the
people and placing it in the Legislature, i
The bill to charter the Oceanic Tele
graph to the injury of the International
Telegraph, unless reconsidered this af
ternoon, was finally defeated.
Also passed a bill .giving negroes ev
ery privilege of the whites on all rail
roads.
A similar bill relating to hotels has
been introduced and will probably pass.
A large Democratic ratification meet
ing and nominating convention was
held here on the Ist instant. W. D.
Baines, of Jackson county, was nomi
nated for Congress. Large torchlight
procession and fireworks at night. It |
passed off without disturbance.
From ttiinlKumcrj'.
Montgomery, Aug. 3.—ln the Sen- j
ate the only bill ol importance discuss
ed, was the disability bill. No definite
action was had.
In the House a large number of bills
of local interest only, was passed.
The Common Carrier bill created an
excited discussion. The speaker made
the point of order, that only the orig
inal bill could be properly put to the
House, and that the clerk had no right
to read from a printed copy. The orig
inal bill could not be found, having been
lost by the Committee, to which it was ■
referred. This created great confusion.
Motions were made and appeal taken in
rapid succession. Iu much disorder the
House adjourned until 9 o’clock to
morrow.
This bill is the pet scheme of the ex
treme men. Its passage is doubtful.
The rains are doing immense damage,
and worms are appearing in all this
section. It is estimated that the cotton
crop is already cut short one-lialf.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, Aug. 3. —Last Friday an
affray took place between whites and
negroes at the Geoby school house, in
Gwinnett county. It was caused by ne--
groes selling whisky at the school ex
hibition. The students became indig
nant at the sale, and in the general
melee four negroes were seriously and
one mortally wounded.
Joint resolution in the House and
Senate to elect the State House officers
on the 6th.
Motion in the House to reconsider
a resolution to suspend levies and sales,
was lost by a vote of 60 to 63.
In the Scnato, Bradley, negro, intro
duced a resolution that the Committee
on Militia be instructed to bring in a
bill organizing able-bodied loyal citizens
to serve as militia, irrespective of race
or color. Tabled.
Accident at Manchester.
Manchester, England, Aug. 3. —A
dreadful accident occurred here night
before last, during the regular perform
ance at Lang’s Music Hall. An alarm
of fire was raised and the entire audi
ence immediately rushed for the doors,
completely blocking up the passage
ways, and the wildest excitement pre
vailed. When order was restored by
the repeated announcement “there was
no fire,” it was found that no less than
23 persons, mainly women and chil
dren, had been crushed to death in the
stampede. A large number had limbs
broken and were otherwise injured.
From New York.
New York, Aug. 3.—The following
was received this afternoon by tho Su
perintendent of the New York, London
and Newfoundland Telegraph Com
pany :
London, Monday Afternoon.—The
cable of 1866 ceased to work at 12:35
this afternoon. Tests show fault at the
Newfoundland side. The cable has
probably been damaged by an iceberg.
Cyrus W Field.
The First Cotton Bale of 1868.
The New Orleans Times of August 2d
says: “We have before us a sample of
the first bale of cotton—crop of 1868 —
which was grown near Houston, Texas.
The staple is long, silky and superior to
any we have Been last year. The
fortunate owner of the snowy fleeces
has sent them to New York to obtain
the prize which is annually awarded for
the first bale.”
In connection with the above notice,
the Times adds that “there is no cause
to apprehend any injury by the worms
iu this advanced condition of the crop.”
This statement shows that the writer
knows nothing of the nature of the
cotton plant or the fatalities to which
the crop is subject. The age of the
plant to which allusion is made, is
about the time fatalities begin, and
from that time till the middle of Sep
tember or first of October, is a critical
time with it. It is damaged by too
much wet weather, which causes the
boll worm to operate on large bolls,
while it makes forms and small bolls
to fall off. The destructive caterpillar,
I which strips the stalk, makes itsappear-
I ance after the season mentioned.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUSTS.
We find the announcement in the
Atlanta Intelligencer, of the death of
Win. Herring, one of Atlanta’s oldest
and best citizens.
Released on Bail. —The prisoners
confined by the mititary authorities in
| Charleston, South Carolina, charged
with the killing of one Dill, a Radical,
have had a hearing before a civil tribu
nal, and have been discharged on bail.
There must be a loose screw about
the Jail of Tallapoosa county, Ala. A
short time ago a white man name Jones,
charged with murder, made his escape,
j Last week a couple of negroes escaped
—one charged with burglary and horse
stealing, and the other, with an attempt
to violate a respectable white lady.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says the Repub
j licans there are very glad that Gov.
Brown and Foster Blodget w'ere de
feated for United States Senators. They
seem to have no confidence in the ren
egades. The former was governor of
Georgia during the rebellion, and the
latter was Captain in the Confederate
service, and is now under indictment
; in the United States Court at Savannah,
lor perjury iu taking the “iron clad
oath.”
Not Pleased with Miller.— The
Louisville Journal’s Washington spe
cial says the election of Miller to the
Senate by the Georgia Legislature, has
disgusted the Radicals in Washington
awfully. They are determined that he
shall not take his seat, and are already
hatching a scheme to exclude him. If
they adhere to this determination, Mr.
Miller must “revert” to private life, for
a contested election ease in the Fortieth
Congress inevitably results in the ex
clusion of the party who is entitled to
the place.
The Charleston News says it seems to
be a peculiarity of the South Carolina
Radicals, botn foreign and native horn,
to vow that they are Democrats as soon
as they are elected to office by the suf
frage of their colored friends. Judge
Moses, the renegade Carolinian, who
was the other day elected Chief Justice,
declares that he has no sympathy with
Radicalism. Hoge, the Ohio carpet
bagging Solomon come to judgment,
and who has been elected Associate
Justice of the Supreme court, is now
said to be a thorough going Democrat.
Good Prospect of Peace in Ten
nessee.—The Nashville Union, of Sun
day, says: “We are gratified to learn on
what we deem satisfactory authority,
that the mission of Judge John M. Lea
to Governor Brownlow has been alto
gether satisfactory. If we are not mis
informed, the Governor has determined,
on further consideration, to open the
subject of the re-enfranchisement of
those who have been so UDjustiy de
prived of the right to vote, to the Legis
lature, so as to place it in their power
to do this great act of public justice and
of wise and magnanimous etatesmaii
ship, in such mode as they may deem
most advisable. It was rumored in the
city last evening, and generally credit
ed, that Gov. Brownlow had already
sent Iris message to this city to be pre
sented to the Legislature to-morrow,
in which he so places the subject before
that body that it can take the initiatory
steps to relieve the white men of this
State and make them once more free
men. We congratulate the country upon
the favorable turn which it seems things
have taken, and trust that nothing will
occur to defeat a consummation sn much
to be desired, not only by the parties
immediately interested, but by the
friends of good government everywhere.
We have received additional assurances
also that the Legislature will not deem
it necessary to set on foot the military
organization heretofore spoken of, the
very existence of which would inevita
bly be productive of violence and blood
shed. Should it turn out, after all our
well grounded solicitation on this sub
ject, that the various pacific and con
ciliatory expedients which have been
resorted to, have had the effect of saving
us from the horrors of an internecine
war, our whole country will have
abundant reason to rejoice.”
A Horrible Petition.— On the 3d
of February, 1865, Mr. Colfax signed
the following protest “against any com
mutation of, or any interference in any
manner or form,” with the hanging of
Milligan and Bowles:
Washington, Feb. 3.— His Excellen
cy, the President of the United States—
Sir: The undersigned, members of Con
gress from the State of Indiana, in be
half of the loyal people of the State, re
spectfully, but earnestly, protest against
any commutation of the sentence of the
military commission against the Indiana
conspirators recently tried by it, and
against any interference in any manner
or form with that sentenco.
H. S. Lane,
Schuyler Colfax,
Speaker H. R. U. S.
Godlove S. Orth,
George W. Julian.
Mr. Lincoln, it is well known, bad
declared that he would never permit the
hanging of Milligan and Bowles. It
was his intention, says the New Albany
Ledger, to allow them to lie in jail till
the close of the war, and then release
them. But this mild policy did not
suit the blood-thirsty Colfax and his
associates, and they demanded the blood
of these men, a demand, however, with
which Mr. Lincoln refused to comply.
A few months after this bloody peti
tion was sent to Mr. Lincoln, the Su
preme Court of the United States de
cided that this military commission had
no jurisdiction whatever in such cases
as this, and that Milligan and Bowles
were unjustly and illegally tried and
convicted. And yet Mr. Colfax wanted
Mr. Lincoln to bring these men to an
ignominious death upon a conviction
thus illegally and unlawfully obtained.
In other words they prayed the Presi
dent to connive at a judicial murder.
Mr. Lincoln relieved himself of this
dreadful crime. But what shall be said
of Mr. Colfax ? Can he be held guilt
less of endeavoring to hasten the death
of these men thus unlawfully commit
ted?
It is stated that the names sent to tho
Senate last week by Gov. Bullock, for
confirmation to the Supreme Court
Judgeships, and withdrawn without
being opened in that body, were those
of Joseph E. Brown, Chief Justice, and
McKay and D. A. Walker, Associates.
It is further stated that the withdraw
al was made for a revision of the list,
and that it is now*determinded to pre
sent the name of Hiram Warner, the
present Chief Justice for the same posi
tson, and Joseph E. Brown, and D. A.
Walker, for Associates,
A Threat Carried Ont—A Devil of a
Riot in Mobile.
The Legislature of Alabama has been
for days engaged in the discussion of a
Bill, forbidding Hotels, Steamboats,
Railroads, &c., from making distinct
ions on account of color. The bill was
introduced by a nigger representative
from the city of Mobile, whose argu
ment in favor of its passage may be
summed up in the language of his threat,
“that there would he a devil of a riot in
Mobile if it was not passed.” When
the impudent scoundrel, Carraway, ut
tered this threat, it might have been
reasonably supposed by those who
heard him, and probably was, that it
amounted to nothing but the ravings of
a mad and mischievous nigger, whose
head had been filled with false notions
by the infamous carpet-baggers and
scalawags who surrounded him. It
turns out, however, that “a devil of a
riot in Mobile” was part and parcel of
the plan by whicL the defenceless and
unrepresented white people of Alabama
were to be forced upon a social equality
with their former slaves. Tho riot came
off at the appointed time, and but for
the prompt and energetic action of the
police authorities of Mobile, that city
might have been drenched in blood,
many of its valuable citizens murdered,
and the Radicals of the North furnished
with tho food for which they are perish
ing, viz: a Southern riot. The Mobile
Register of Saturday last, gives the fol
lowing account of the demonstration,
adding that the outbreak was excited
by a dispatch from Carraway, stating
that his bill had been defeated. The
Register says :
Being foiled in their efforts on Thurs
day evening to ride in the Davis Avenue
Cars, the negroes congregated yester
day morning in squads in different parts
of the city, and from their conversation
and bearing it was very evident that
they contemplated another movement
on the cars. About 12 o’clock the no
torious negro Wm. Lankford, and
another negro named Alexander, ad
dressed a crowd of negroes from the
steps of the old Court House, on Gov
ernment street, using the most violent
and incendiary language, advising the
negroes to ride in the cars, and inciting
them to riot. After the harangue, the
negroes assembled in strong force on
the streets, especially on Government.
About 4 o’clock a squad stopped a Gov
ernment street car, opposite the Barton
Academy, entered it and rode to the
Front street terminus, the four whites
in the car getting out. No disturbance
of any kind occurred. Another party,
about the same time, entered a Wash
ington Avenue car, on Eslava street,
and rode as far as Government, when
the driver refused to go any farther,
and drove back to the stables.
Soon after an attempt was made by
five or six negroes to get aboard a car
on the Dauphin Street Road, opposite
Bienville Square, but were deterred
from carrying out their purpose by the
prompt action of a passenger, who
drew a revolver and threatened to use
it it they entered the car. At this time
a serious disturbance seemed imminent,
but was prevented by the arrival of a
squad of policemen, who arrested five
of the riotous negroes—George Wil
liams, Charles Williams, Henry Easeiy,
Gus Butler and Dennis Butler—and
carried them to the guardhouse, where
they were locked up and the charge of
“Inciting Riot” entered against them.
The negroes now seemed to oe very
much excited, and assembled iu stroug
force on the line of the various street
railroads. The conduct of the negroes
was now beginning to be so outrage
ous, they threatening violence, that a
serious difficulty would undoubtedly
have ensued had it not been for the
prompt action of Mayor Price, who
gave orders that the street cars Bhould
be run, and enforced his order by sta
tioning a number of policemen upon
every car, who prevented the negroes
from entering. The entire police force
were immediately placed on duty, and
in a short while, through the efficiency
and promptness of Col. Dimon, Chief
of Police, the excited crowd of negroes
was dispersed, and quiet restored with
out any bloodshed. To the credit of
the negro police, we will say that they
did their duty fearlessly and impartially,
and seemed to be able to do more to
wards keeping the negroes quiet than
the white policemen. Officer Croch
eron particularly distinguished himself
by the zeal he manifested in carrying
out his orders.
Later in the evening, and fearing an I
outbreak during the night among the !
negroes, Mayor Price deemed it pru
dent to swear in two hundred and fifty j
special policemen, 100 of whom were I
firemen and twenty-one negroes. The |
day and night force—regular—were j
placed on duty, and every possible ar- j
rangement and precaution made to;
guard against any disturbance on the
part of the negroes during the night.
The Cotton Crop. —The Charleston
Courier of Saturday last, says: “We
are in receipt of a letter from a gentle
man who is planting in the Northern
part of the State, from which we gather
that less than half a cotton crop has been
planted this year in his neighborhood.
Speaking of the expected largo yield of
cotton, he says: ‘We are bona fide plan
ters. Last year’s crop was not larger
(in the average) than usual; we were
not so badly hurt by the war as many
planters; we have had peaceful and
law-abiding laborers comparatively, and
in every respect think we compare fa
vorably with an average of the South.
But we are not able to put in quite Half
a crop of cotton.’ From a table fur
nished us by the writer wo learn that in
the neighborhood of Beech Island, on
the Savannah River, near the Barnwell
and Edgefield line, the number of acres
of land planted in cotton last year by a
number of planters was 2,945, while ihe
number of acres planted this year by
the same gentlemen amounts to 1,274,
showing not quite half the amount as
stated in the letter.”
West Florida Cotton.— The Mali I
ana Courier, of July 30, says “the sea
sons until recently, have been propici
ous in this section for the cotton plant,
and it has attained a good size ; hut the
late excessive rains have tended to
stimulate it too much, caused it to throw
off its fruit aud take a second growth.
The caterpillar, some planters say, has
already passed the second hatching, and
fears are entcitained should the seasons
favor, the destruction of the crop will
be rapid and certain. Last year altho’
appearing about the same time, the
damage to the crop was not uniform.
Some crops were benefitted, others but
slightly affected, a very large propor
tion was entirely denuded, and but lit
tle saved from tho field. Sunshine is
now much needed to develope the plant,
with continued adapted seasons to make
a full crop from the area of land.”
Orville Grant, a respectable merchant
of Chicago, and brother of Gen. Grant,
recently gave a check of SI,OOO to a
Democratic Club of that city. In con
sequence of the habits of his brother,
the now General, he has not, for a Long
time, been on very familiar terms with
him, and will not vote for him, deeming
him utterly unfit for the office to which
the negro party have nominated him.
NO. 22.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST O.
Tnn Surratts.— The coffin contain
ing the body of Mrs. Surratt was re
cently opened by tho members of the
family, and the remains of tho murder
ed lady were found to be in a perfect
state of preservation.
We learn from the Montgomery Ad
vertiser that on Monday last, Charles
T. Pollard, W. M. Wadley, Holt,
H. C. Semple, and A. Taylor, were
elected Directors of tho Western Rail
Road. This road is the connecting link
between Montgomery aud Selma.
Mcade’a Drum in Wnnltlngtou.
It seems that ex-Gov. Meade has sent
his Adjutant General Drum, to Wash
ington City, to slander the gentlemen
that he and his detectives failed to hang.
Drum knew that the prisoners were not
turned over to the “civil authorities” of
this place. They gave bonds to Gen.
Meade—to answer to Gen. Meade. He
furthermore knew that Meade did not
desire tho trial to be concluded by Mil
itary Commission. If he had done so,
he could have controlled Bullock and
prevented the organization of the Legis
lature. Meade was ashamed and afraid
to have the full testimony for the do
fenco made public, and now seeks to
cover up his own infamy by assailing,
through Drum, gentlemen whom he
had once fondly hoped to’offer up upon
the scaffold, to tho demon of Radical
ism. Is the following a specimen of
the way in which Meade proposes to
vindicate himself? We tako it from
the Washington correspondence of the
New York Times :
Among the recent arrivals in this city
is Gen. It. C. Drum, Adjutant General
on tho staff of Gen. Meade, at Atlanta.
Gen. Drum has hud abundant opportu
nity to become thoroughly informed as
to the true condition of affairs in the
Third Military District. He regards
reconstruction in Georgia as having
been effected upon a more enduring
basis than perhaps in almost any other
State, for the reason that a large and
powerful white element, under the lead
of such men as Ez-Gov. Brown and
others, has taken a leading part in favor
of the Congressional policy. The re
sult is that Georgia, in her Legislature,
State Government aud local authorities,
though under Republican control in the
main, is governed, not by adventurers
from tho North, hut chiefly by Geor
gians, white aud black, who are actual
or native residents. He also reports an
increasing disposition among the white
people of Georgia to concede negro
suffrage as an accomplished fact, and to
build politically in the futuro upon thut
basis.
One of tho results attendant upon the
restoration of civil authority in Georgia,
which may be looked upon as unfortun
ate, was the necessary surrender of the
Ashburn murderers by the military to
civil authorities. Gen. Meade had so
thoroughly ferreted out the facts con
nected with tho ÜBsasination that he
had, beyond question, the guilty men.
Just as the trial wbb about concluded,
civil government was restored, and the
prisoners were surrendered to the civil
authorities of Columbus, where they
have been released on bail, with no
prospect that they will ever be brought
to trial, for the simple reason that no
jury can be found that will dare to con
vict them. Tho stories sent forth by
rahai oorro«pomiunis ot Northern news
papers, concerning tho cruel treatment
of these prisoners by tho military au
tliorities at Atlanta, I am authorized to
contradict as wholly false. No prison
er confined for petty larceny at the North
was ever more leniently treated than
these men, guilty of the horrible crime
of midnight assassination.
Mayor’s Office, )
Columbus, August 4, 1868.)
To the Citizens of Columbus :
In accordance with Military orders,
announcing the fact that military rule
and force has censed to exist, and all
officers appointed by the same being
ordered to turn over to the proper civil
officers all things appertaining to their
offices:
I therefore claim that 1 aud the Al
dermen who were removed on the 27th
of May last, by Military force, are the
true and rightful Mayor and Council of
the city of Columbus, and demand
and require that the Military appointees,
acting as Mayor and Council, yield to
us all claim of right to said Mayor and
Council, and cease from the exorcise of
the rights and powers thereof; and
upon failure to do so I counsel and ad
vise all citizens who may be molested
in any way, arrested or imprisoned by
any officer of the so-called Council, to
commence au action at law for damages
for false imprisonment or otherwise, as
the case may be.
F. Q. Wilkins, Mayor
City of Columbus.
TnK Georgia Outrages. —Wo pub :
lish elsewhere tho card of the nine Cos ,
lumbus prisoners who, after a long and
painful imprisonment, amounting to '
positive torture, and disgraceful in the |
highest degree to tho national character |
—after the subornation of witnesses to i
swear away their lives, and a trial by a [
military commission, which showed
that this prosecution was simply a ma-!
lignant and murderous persecution—
have at last been released. We entreat
every free citizen of America, and every
fair-minded man of whatever party, to
read this recital, and to remember that;
this infamy is the fruit of a government 1
set up by the Radical leaders, and,
which, if they had the power, they
would to day extend to the whole coun
try. To elect Gen. Grant is to perpet
uate these men iu power, and stamp
their tyranny permanently upon the
country. This is the price we are called
on to pay for the elevation of one utter
ly ignorant and unskilled iu civil afiairs.
—National Intelligencer.
Sergeant Bates’ Triumphal
March. This iB the title of a neat
pamphlet of thirty-six pages, containing
the recital of the experience of Sergeant
Sates during his triumphal march, hear
ing the flag of the Union, alone and uu
armed, from Vicksburg to Washington.
This diary is full of charming incidents
of genuine patriotism and devotion to
the old flag manifested by all classes of
people in the South. Altogether it is
otic of the most readable documents we
have met with, and will go farther than
a hundred political speeches in convinc
ing the people of the North and West
that they have been grossly deceived by
the Radical leaders in regard to the real
sentiments of the Southern people.
Many thousand of these pamphlets
have already been ordered as campaign
documents. They will be lurniahed at
eight dollars por hundred, upon orders
addressed to Sergeant Gilbert H. Bates,
National Intelligencer Office ; or Con
servative Army and Navy Union, 397
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D.
C. —National Intelligencer.
The Common Carrier Bill introduced
in the Alabama House of Representa
tives early in the session, by Carraway,
negro, from Mobile, forbidding hotel
keepers, steamboats, rail roads, and
public conveyances, from making dis
tinction ai to persons on account ol col
or, passed the House on Tuesday by a
vote of 44 to 32.
We learn that McCraw, of Chambers,
Speaker of the House, has entered his
protest against the passage of the bill.
The Advertiser thinks its adoption by
the Senate not very probable.
City Government Huddle.
Upon the evacuation of the United
Btates forces recently occupying this
place, a military Council was ffift iu
charge of the City Government. Upon
the abdication of authority by Ex-Gov
ernor Meade, it was supposed, as a
matter of course, that all of his ap
pointments ceased to be of any validity.
Acting upon this supposition, Col. F.
G. Wilkins, the Mayor of this city, by
a demapd in writing, asked of Col. R.
L. Mott to turn over the City Govern
ment to the parties legally elected to
administer the same. This request, we
understand, has been peremptorily re
fused. So Col. Mott, the parties acting
under him as Aldermen, and the offi
cers serving under them, have assumed
all responsibility for what they may do.
There the matter stands, and must ne
cessarily stand, until there can bo an
election held. And this state of things,
unpleasant as it may be, must be acqui
esced In, for there is at present no legal
remedy left to the deposed officers or
the wronged citizen. We arc just now
in a chaotic state. If tho present
Judge of this circuit should decide to
grant and hear a “quo warranto,” the
carpet bag Governor Bullock would at
onco appoint a successor in his place.
This creature, who has been foisted by
military power upon the people of
Georgia, knows nothing of law and
cares less for right or justice. He is
determined to play into the hands of
the military, and the military are kept
in Georgia to support him.
The following document will explain
the State of affairs to all parties inter
ested:
Executive Department, j
State ok Georgia, J
Atlanta, Ga., July 28, 1868. j
Daniel N. Lane, Savannah , Qa.:
Sir:—l am in receipt of your com
munication of tho 24th inst., setting
forth that you were appointed Justice
of the Peace in and for the Fourth Dis
trict, and City of Savnanah, on the 7th
of July, 1867, by Maj. Gen. John Pope,
commanding Third Military District,
to the vacancy caused by tho death of
the elected incumbent; and further that
tho jailor and other officers now refuse
to respect your authority as Magistrate.
In reply I have to say that the order of
tho 23d inst. from Military Headquar
ters of this District, does not debar you
from the further exercise of your offi
cial duties. You will continue to exer
cise the functions of your office, yid
must he obeyed and respected as Jus
tice of tho Ponce until your elected
successor is qualified and liis cominis
sion issued. You will please inform
me promptly of any failure to respect
warrants issued by you.
Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Rufus B. Bullock,
Governor.
By the Govcrnot:
B. B. deGraffenreid,
Soc’y Ex. Department.
It must bo the opinion of every intel
ligent aud fuir minded man that tho
present City Government is unauthor
ized and illegal. But there is wanting
the requisite power to give practical
force and expression to this opinion.
As good citizens, then, all must submit
to a state of thiugs harrassing aud un
pleasant, and patiently abide the time
when a legal remedy may be obtained
for tho wrongs done. The parties in
power do not intend to abandon their
positions. Meade placed them wliero
they are ostensibly to punish tho Coun
cil aud community for the Ashburn af
fair, hut really for tho purpose of plac
ing aud continuing tho city under Rad
ical rulo. The mou exercising tho
powers conferred upon them know full
well that they arc unacceptable to tho
people over whose lights and property
they are exercising control; it therefore
| behoves them to bo exceedingly cautious
| in the exercise of the powers conferred
j upon them by the sword. There iB
likely to be a time, we might say almost
certain to come a day, when they will
be called ono and, all to a strict account
ability for their official doings. While
on the subject wo may just as well re
fer to a matter pertinent to tho issuo.—
Among the late Council proceedings
we find the following:
Aid. Bostick moved that a committee
of threo be appointed with full power
to compromise and settle tho claim of
tho city against the M. R. R. Cos., for
accrued annuities for connecting with
tho M. & W. P. R. R.
Aid. Downing moved to amend by
appointing his Honor the Mnyor to act
in conjunction with the City Attorney.
The amendment was accepted and
the motion then adopted.
In behalf of the citizens we protest
against any such action as is contem
plated by the foregoing resolution. In
the first place we submit that tho pres
ent Council is not the proper body to
take action on this important matter.
In the second place we submit that the
City Attorney is not tho proper person
to compromise a claim amounting to
near thirty thousand dollars. As the
law officer of the city, if he settles at
all, he must settle according to law and
the terms of the contract, *and wo un
derstand that there are circumstances
which admH of, if they do not demand,
something of compromise or concession.
Again we submit, that Col. R. L. Mott,
Mayor pro tem., and Col. John L.
Mustian are not the proper persons to
settle a claim in which every citizen is
interested. They are related by family
ties and have been business partners i.,r
a lone term of years. The one holds a
position of doubtful tenure, the other
is the largest stockholder in the corpo
ration against which the indebtedness
stands. Disclaiming any intention to
impugn in the slightest degree any
thing improper to either ol the parties
named, it is, we think, patent and un
deniablo to every one, that the settle
ment made by them would be open to
attack by parties unwilliug to acquiesce
in it.
We rcc no good reason why this set
tlement should not bo left to the Coun
cil that may be next selected according
to law, but if it is imperative that it
must be made, then we say let it bn
made by parties not of interest on eith
er side.
Picture of a Carpet Bagger.—
The Charleston Mercury is responsible
for the following:
We ask again did the Times ever seo
a “carpet-bagger ?” Did it over sec a
man with a lank head of dry hair —a
lank stomach, and long legs—club knees,
and splay feet—dried legs, and lank
I jaws—with eyes like a fish and a mouth
like a shark ? Has the Times ever seen
, the mans If so, he is a “carper-bag
ger.” Add to this, a habit of sneaking
! and dodging about in unknown places
! —habiting, and cohabitiugiwith negroes
ii n dark dens, and back streets—a look
I like a hound, and the smell of a skunk?
Has the Times seen the man ? He
would rob a dead negro, and forge his
dead father’s name to a draft lor live
dollars.
We confess that the above portrait is
true of many of tho carpet-baggers.
The Mercury man must have bad See
ley the Junk Dealer” from Savannah
beforo him when he penned it. But
they are not all of the same pattern.
Builock is a carpet-bagger, and he looks
as though he was stuffed with pumpkin
pies and sour cheese. Joshua Hill does
fill the bill, and it turns out that he is a
carpet - bagger also. He moved to
Georgetown, D. C., sometime since,
and was only down in Georgia on a lit
tle office-hunting expedition.
Anna Dickinson maliciously declares
that Grant’s whisky record is not ho.,
•o infamous as his Indian beby record
in California.
