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COLUMBUS:
IHIDJIY JIOHSIMi, FKBKI'ARV 4.
Counterfeits—There are said to be
many spurious fifty cent notes in circu
lation, the counterfeit being almost too
accurate for detection.
Mobile and Girahd Railboad.—
Trains are expected at Jonesville, five
miles of Troy, about the middle of next
week. This will put the road several
miles beyond the Conecuh river. A
month’s more work ought to enable
trains to reach Troy.
Valuable Land fob Sale— Mrs: L.
M. Thompson offers for sale her dower
interest, some 600 acres, in the Wool
folk bend land. The land is perhaps
the richest on our river, and produces
splendid crops. A better investment
cannot be desired.
Cobtor’s Standard Preparations.
-They are pronounced invaluable by
all who have tried them. We refer to
notice for particulars.
Benninoeb’s Old London Dock
Gin. We refer readers to the adver
tisement. Dr. R. A. Ware has it for
sale.
Staple and Fancy Groceries. —
J. 11. Hamilton advertises a large stock
of groceries and country produce,wines
and liquors--in a few words,a firstclass
family store. Hamilton is an experi
enced and popular merchant, who
knows what the peoplo require, ami
has so purchased his supplies as to sel 1
the very best goods at tho lowest possi
ble figures. We advise numerous calls
there.
Helps to Vision. —Dr. Bernhardt
will remain but a short time longer in
Columbus, and those who may desire
glasses to assist the sight would do well
to call on him immediately, His sue.
cess has been encouraging, many have
availed themselves of his services, whose
testimonials to the great benefit they
have received, could be given by scores
and hunderds. It is better to “take
time by the forelook,” and supply
yourselves with glasses while an op
portunity offers, than to regret it when
it is past.
Office at the Perry House.
A Senatorial Horse Saddled and
Bridled.—One of Bullock’s Atlanta
organs thus announces one of the en
trees to the great Senatoiial race :
Col. R. lr. Mott, of Columbus—the
man who owns four acres of Georgia
soil which, as he told Gen. Wilson,
“never seceded”—reached the city yes
terday, in fine health and spirits.
Col. Mott is one of the representative
capitalists of the South, a Union man
and a Republican of singularly consist
ent record.
Telegrams from Washington indicate
tha'tthe interesting raec has been indefi
nitely postponed, and the nags all
saddled and bridled and trained, and
the tied out horses are all out, and all
bets are off. There must be wailing and
weeping and gnashing af teeth in some
quarters.
Doings op the Legislature. —One
of Bollock’s organs says : "Some pry
ing thief penetrated into tho store of
Hunnieutt & Bellingrath on Saturday
night, and appropriated all the loose
cash on hand, after exploring around
generally for valuables. The burglary
was exected from the rear of the build,
ing.
A Dr. liryden believes that ho has
found the birthplace of cholera, in what
is described as “the endemic area of
Lower Bengal.’’ Carried thence by the
monsoons, and rendered active by heat
and moisture, it behaves in a way that
may be predicted, and in which water
and human beings play but a subordin
ate part.
James W. Marshall, who first discov
ered gold in California, at Sutter’s mill,
is still alive. He is now living at a
place called Kelsey’s Diggings, in EIJ
dorado county. He is upwards of 50
years of age, and is so reduced in cir
cumstances Jhat, though feeble, he is
compelled to work for his board and
clothes.
Compliments op the Season. —The
Cincinnati Commercial (Radical), re
ferring to the bad luck of one of the Eg
gleston family, who carpet-bagged to
Mississippi and was defeated, first for
Governor and lastly for Senator, by the
negro Revel, consols him with this re
mark : that tho average carpet-bag Con
gressman is far inferior to the average
negro, both in capacity and honesty.
The i’ticE. — Bullock’s Notary in
Atlanta, has charged Eef Tweedy five
dollars for whipping Bryant., and Fitz
patrick twenty-five for striking Bryant
with a shilalah. Lochrane, Gartrell
Hillyer, and numerous other sprigs
of the law, wasted eloquence oil the
case, which Bryant is going to take to
the Grand Jury of Fulton county.
More Fraud and Outrage.— The
House of Representatives of the Georgia
Legislature passed the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments withouta quorum
of members voting. Bob McWhorter,
the Speaker, refused to entertain points
of order raised after the vote wa3 taken.
Pups Don’t Pay.—Grant has just
declined to receive a present. Some
one sent him a Spanish dog from Cleve
land, on which the express charges
were ten dollars. The President refus
ed to pay, and the express man decided
to sell the "purp” to get the tolls.
The mediums of New York have call
ed up a spirit answering to the name of
Daniel Webster. The spirit states that
his chief regret in dying was that he
had not had the opportunity to revise
his dictionary.
The Eligibility Question. —Tho
Atlanta Constitution publishes a letter
from Judge Warner, which fully sus
tains the position taken by Joseph
Brown on the question of eligibility of
members of the Legislature.
Central Bank of Alabama. —Par- j
ties had better bold them. It is said i
a bill will shortly be introduced into the
the Alabama Legislature providing for
the redemption, by the State, of all the
bills of this bank.
Slcles. —The Atlanta Constitution}
says during the month of January last,
four hundred and thirty-two car loads,
or 9,072 mules were received in Atlanta.
Os this, over 2,000 were sold in this
market. Prices range from SIOO to
$240 per head, wholesale.
Talladega papers express their inten
tion to fight heavy for the connection,
at that point, of the Memphis and Sa
vannan R. R. with the Beltna, Rome
and Dalton Road.
Liberal.— Terry has let Wilcher
and Bennett into the House after the :
important voting has been done.
Sec report of John Johnson, Treasu- .
urer Muscogee county.
Cotton at Macon— Receipts for the
weekending Wednesday, February 2d,
2,123 bales ; total receipts 67,909-, stock
February 2, 1870, 17,243. Price 23c.
for middlings.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Bj Telegraph from Europe
Paris, Feb. 3.— Letters come on time
but American newspapers are much de
layed by the failure of the mail treaty.
A proposition empowering the pres
ent officers of the French legislative
chambers to demand troops to protect
their deliberations was lost by a vote of
217 to 42.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2.—The General
Assembly received a message to-day
from the Governor including a corres
pondence with Gen. Terry, in which
Terry acknowledges the Governor’s no
tification of the organization of the
General Assembly, and informs the
Governor that both Houses are now
properly organized for the purpose
of assenting and complying with
the conditions imposed by Congress for
the restoration of the State to its origi
i nal relations with the nation.
The Governor reviews the action of
! the Old organization in expelling colored
i members and quotes the several acts of
i Congress relative to the reconstruction
j of the late rebel States, also General
i Terry’s report to Congress of August
14th, and action and report to Congress
| of the Judiciary Committee appointed
I to investigate the credentials of Joshua
Hill, Senator elect from Georgia, reca
pituiates the facts covering political
history of the State from the adoption
| of act March, 28 1867, declaring that
; until the people of the rebel States are
admitted in representation to Congress,
and the civil government that exist,
\ shall be provisional only, and are sub
ject to paramount authority of the
! United States Army, for a time to
i abolish and modify control until super
seded by the same, and up to the
i present time that right reserved by
Congress was never withdrawn or ex
pired by any legal act of Georgia. The
! Governor recommended the adoption of
! the 14th and 15th amendments, and
concludes with a desire for the good of
| the whole people that a citizen’s worth
shall be determined by his own acts,
and neither advanced nor retarded by
birth, color, relation or politics.
House adopted the 14th amendment
by a unanimous vote, and the 15th by
53 to 24.
Senate ratified both 14th and 15th
amendments by a vote of 27 to 10.
Both houses adjourned till 14th inst.
From WaHliigiitou.
Wabiiinoton, February 3. —Ames is
before the Reconstruction Committee
to day regarding Mississippi reconstruc
tion.
The House is discussing the Fenian
prisoners.
Senate unimportant.
The Judiciary Committee of the Sen
ate, not having official papers from Mis
sissippi, took no action. They will
have a special meeting on the arrival of
documents.
The Reconstruction Committee heard
Ames to the effect that the admission of
Misaissippi would probably result in
Yerger’s discharge. In answering the
question whether, if the State was ad
mitted she would remain loyal, he re
plied, in effect, yes, for several years at
least, as in addition to carrying out the
military provisions of the reconstruc
tion acts, ho had selected civil officers
who would protect the rights of all the
people, regardless of race or color.
Finally, with Butler in the Chair, the
Committee adopted the Virginia bill for
Mississippi, merely changing names,
and adding the clause that conscientious
people might affirm instead of swear.
Senate, later —Abbott introduced a
bill preambling violence in certain
States, and providing for a national
police.
Banking and Currency Committee
examined the telegraphers through
whose hands Boutwell’s order to sell
$4,000,000 gold passed; also, Boutwell’s
messenger and his private secretary.
So far no leak is found between Bout
well and Butterfield. The telegraphers
who handled the dispatch at New Y r ork
have been sent for.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in a
communication to the House, called at
tention to immediate action regarding
estimates for repairing custom houses
at Mobile and Savannah.
General Terry has been ordered to
Washington on important business,
after attending to which he will return
to Georgia.
The agent of Frazer, Treuholm & Cos,
late agents of the Confederacy, are here
endeavoring to induce the Government
to accept eighty thousand dollars prom
issory notes, and dismiss ail suits here
and in England.
Executive session voted again ad
versely to Hoar fop the Supreme bench.
Vote 34 against 24
No confirmations interesting the
South.
Nothing confirmatory received of the
following, published by the Cuban, in
New York, this morning. It is most
likely a canard:
Abbott offered a resolution setting
forth that violations of the public peace
are of frequent occurrence in various
Southern States, and that protection for
life and property by the General Gov
ernment are the right of every citizen,
and instructing the Judiciary Commit
tee to inquire what is the power of the
General Government in the premises;
also, to inquire into the constitutionality
and expediency of establishing a nation
al police for the better enforcement of
law. Adopted.
Ferry offered a resolution asking for
information regarding the late postmas
ter at Augusta, Ga., Foster Blodgett,
and his claim for salary while suspend
ed.
House —New York cigar makers peti
tion for one dollar per pound and fifty
per cent, ad valorem on imported ci
gars ; representing that few cigars arc
made here from imported tobacco, and
many workmen are unemployed.
A bill containing 36 sections was re
ported by the committee on territories
against polygamy in Utah.
Committee on public lands reported
a bill aiding railroads from Mobile to
the western boundary of Louisiana.
Tax bill was made special order for
Ist of March.
Mississippi bill as reported at noon
passed after a long discussion.
Appropriations for naval engineering
increased half a million for construction,
one million for repairs.
From JiewOrleans.
!New Orleans, Feb. B —Capt. Bleak
ney, of steamship Tappahannock, re
ports 18 feet of water on Pass a’Loutre
bar.
Suit has been instituted in the United
States Court against the securities of
Taliaferro, late "postmaster at Hew Or
leans, for nearly $29,000 deficit in sale
sale of revenue stamps.
Soapstone. —We have been shown
some specimens of soapstone, fonnd on
the plantation of Mr. Jones, of DeKalb
county, ten, miles from this city, which
is said to be the best material for the
back of grates, as it resists beat most
wonderfully. One gentleman has a fire
back of soapatone that has been in use
twenty-seven years. Coal being rapid
ly on the increase, and grates in de
mand, this article will be a valuable
addition. —Altanta Const.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
I.KOIIGIA EEUIKLATtJKK.
. Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1870.
SENATE.
Senate met at 12 o’clock, M., and was
called to order by the President.
Prayer by Ml. Prettyman.
Roll called’and journal of Monday
read and approved.
The message from Gjv. Bullock was
then received arid read.
Mr. Candler arose, after the reading
of the Message, i ut the Chair decided
that Mr. Dunning was entitled to the
lloor, and that resolutions were in order.
Mr. Dunning offered three resolu
tions: one ratifying the 14th Amend
ment; one assenting to the act of Con
gress striking out the Relief clauses of
the Constitution; one ratifying the 15th
Amendment.
The first resolution to ratify the 14th.
Amendment was read, when Mr. Dun
ning moved its adoption, which motion
was seconded.
Mr. Candler arose, but the President
stated that Mr. Dunning had not yield
ed the floor.
The whole resolutions were then
read.
Mr. Dunning supported his motion to
adopt the resolution to ratify the 14th.
Amendment, in a few pertinent re
in arks.
Mr. Candler offered as a substitute
that the Governor’s Message, wit.i the
exception of the recommendation to rat
ify the 14th Amendment, be referred to
a joint committee of three members
from each branch of the General As
sembly.
Mr. Candler made one of his best ef
forts in support of bis motion. His re
buke of the Governor’s charges against
the people of Georgia, was withering
and scathing.
The President stopped Mr. Candler
from commenting on tho Governor’s
assertion that all legislative action since
July, 1868, was illegal, and said that
Mr. Candler must confine himself to
the subject before the Senate.
Mr. Candler’s response to the remark
of the President was crushing. He de
monstrated from the acts of Governor
Bullock that Georgia had a legal gov
ernment.
Mr. Brock favored the adoption of
the resolution to ratify the 14th Amend
ment.
Mr. Nunnally asked Mr. Brock if we
were not acting under the 14th Amend
ment?
Mr. Brock replied yes.
Mr. Nunnally asked Mr. Brock if the
Senate were now to reject the amend
ment would it render it less valid?
Mr. Brock replied no.
Mr. Wooten offered as a substitute a
resolution that the Legislature of Geor
gia having ratified the 14th Amend
ment, it is unnecessary to vote on it
again.
Mr. Speer called the previous ques
tion, and the vote stood yeas 10, nays
23.
By consent, Mr. Candler withdrew
his resolution, and the vote taken on
Mr. Dunning’s resolution to ratify the
14th Amendment, with the following
result:
Yeas—Messrs. Bowers, Brock, Brad
ley, Benton, Campbell, Colman, Cor
bitt, Dickey, Harris, Higbee, Hunger
ford, Jones, McWhorter, Richardson,
Sherman, Smith, 3Gih, Stringer, Wal
lace, Dunning, Griffin, 6th, Griffin, 21st,
Jordan, Tray wick, and Mr. President—
-25.
Nays—Messrs. Nunnally, Smith, 7th,
McArthur, Hicks, Burns (under pro
test), Wellborn, Candler, Fain, Hol
combe and Wootten —10.
During the calling of the yeas and
nays, the Democrats declined to vote,
but the President decided that they
must vote.
Mr. Dunning’s resolution assenting
to tho act of Congress striking out the
relief clauses in the State Constitution,
was put on its passage and adopted by,
yeas 28, nays 8.
Mr. Nunnally said he voted “nay,”
because he was in favor of relief.
Mr. Dunning’s resolution ratifying
the 15th Amendment was then taken up
and rushed through, being adopted by
the following vote :
Yeas—Bowers, Bradley, Brock, Ben
ton, Campbell, Colman, Corbitt, Dick
ey, Griffin (6th), Griffin (21st), Harris,
Higbee, Hungerford, Jones, Jordan,
McWhorter, Richardson, Sherman,
Smith (3Gth), Speer, Stringer, Wallace,
Welch, Dunning, Traywick, and Mr.
President —26.
Nays—Burns, Chandler, Fain, Hicks,
Holcomb, McArther, Nunnally, Smith
(7th), Wellborn and Wootten—lo.
President Conley asked permission
to vote on the adoption of the resolu
tion, but Mr. Burns objected. Permis
sion was granted.
A message was received from the
House, announcing the ratification of
the 14th and 15th Amendments, and the
ratification of the expunging of the
Relief Laws from the Constitution by
Congress.
On motion of Mr. Harris, the action
of the House was concurred in, by yeas
24, nays 10.
Mr. Harris offered a resolution for the
appointment of a joint committee of five
from the Senate and seven from the
House to investigate the charges prefer,
red against Gov. Bullock for the unlaw
ful use of public funds.
Mr. Candler suggested that the Legis
lature still being illegal, and the Gover
nor provisional, such a resolution would
be illegal.
The resolution was adopted, and the
President appointed Harris, Dunning,
Fain, Nunnally, and Brock as the com
mittee.
Mr W ooten, from the committee, re
ported rules for the government of the
Senate. j
Ffty copies ordered printed foj the |
use of the Senate,
Mr. Higbee moved that 500 copies of ;
the Governor’s Message be printed, '
which motion prevailed.
Mr. Speer offered a resolution that |
the General Assembly, when it does j
adjourn, take a recess until 10 o’clock, j
A. m., on the 14th inst.
Mr. Candler moved to amend by in
serting the 16th for 14th, which did not
prevail.
Mr. Speer’s resolution was adopted
and the Senate took a recess until 4 o’cl’k j
p. si.
Four O'clock p. m. ]
Message received from the House an- j
uouncing its concurrence in the resolu
tion to take a recess until Monday, 14th !
instant.
On motion, the Senate took a recess
until that time.
The House having failed to concur in
passing the joint resolution to appoint
a committee of investigation into Gov.
Bullock’s illegal and unlawful use of
public funds, the Senate resolution
amounts to nothing.
HOUSE.
Wednesday, February 2.
House met at 10, a. m., and was call
ed to order by the Speaker.
Prayer by Rev. M. Smith.
Calling of the roll dispensed with.
Journal of Saturday read.
Message from “His Excellency, the
Provisional Governor,” was announced
by 11. Paul Lester.
Mr. Bryant arose to a point of order
—there was unfinished business before
the House—and it was a question
whether his protest be entered upon
the Journal.
Mr. Bryant then moved to have the
protest entered.
Mr. Fitzpatrick objected.
Motion put, and the Speaker an
nounced it carried.
Mr. Fitzpatrick said he questioned if
jt was carried.
The message was then read.
O’Heal, of Lowndes, offered a lesolu
lion adopting the 14th Amendment,
and proceeded to comment thereon.
He said he was aware that many thought
this amendment had already been
adopted. Many thought otherwise.
Mr. Tweedy called the previous ques
tion. Carred.
Main question put. Carried.
Division called for. No Democrats
voted. Yeas 71, nays nothing.
O’Neal, of Lowndes, announced with
a slight blush, that he was paired off
with someone, Mr. Turnipseed, he be
lieved.
Mr. Maul paired off with Mr. Hark
ness, who had gone home on account of
family sickness.
Mr. Scott desired to know why Mr.
Wilcher's named was not called, as he
was a member of the House ?
The Speaker said, his named would
be entered at the proper time, when they
had official information.
The Speaker declared the resolution
earried. .
Mr. Bryant made the point of order ,
bit a quorum of the House had not j
voted for the resolution, and therefore
it was not carried.
The Speaker overruled him.
Mr. Bryant then arose to a personal
explanation. He had not voted for the
amendment, and read the following
reason :
It is well known that the 14th Amend
ment to the Constitution of the Uuited
Slates has been ratified by both Houses
of the General Assembly of this State
I believe we have already legally rati
tied the said amendment, and therefore I
decline to vote for itß ratification. 1
also believe, that this House has been
illegally organized, and 1 therefore de
eiine to vote for the ratification.
J. E. Bryant.
Os Richmond county.
O’Neal, of Lowndes, offered another
resolution, adopting “fundamental con
ditions, resigned the floor to an
other Radical, who called the previous
question.
Yeas and nays called for.
The roll was being called, when, on
request, the resolution was again read,
as some thought the resolution was up
on the adoption of the 15th amendment.
Some Democrats voted no, the rest
did not vote.
The Democrats then withdrew their
votes, and the Speaker announced that
the vote stood thus —yeas 71, nays 1,
and that it was carried.
Mr. Bryant rose to a point of order.
A majority of the quorum of the House
had not voted, and therefore, the resolu
tion was not carried.
The Speaker admitted the correctness
of Mr. Bryant’s position ; but said he
was in the hands of a greater than he ;
after he got out of this thraldom, he
would sustain Mr. Bryant’s position, but
not now.
O’Neal, of Lowndes, proposed a reso
lution adopting the 15th Amendment,
but resigned the floor to Lane,of Brooks,
who called the previous question.
On tbis motion the yeas and nays
were called.
Mr. Anderson said he considered him
self gagged, and declined to vote.
Hall, of Glynn, voted “no,” and ex
plained that he did so because Congress
had declared Georgia not a State in the
Union, and not being a State, her ac
tion on this Amendment must be void.
Parks, of Gwinnett, said he was in
structed by his constituents, and voted
“yes.”
Mr. Tuinlin voted “no,” and had read
the following :
‘ A proposition to adopt the 15th
Amendment meets witn the uncompro
mising reprobation of the noble, true
anu brave people whom I represent,and
also with the feeling of their Represen
tative, and 1 can but, in this as well as
in all other hours of trial, remain true
to them and true to the principles upon
which they elected ru**. And though it
may be passed over my head, I shall
leave for them to behold, spread upon
the journals .of this House, my deter
mined protest against this crowning act
of Radicalism and treason against all
good people of the South.”
Price, of Lumpkin, explained that a
year ago he headed (not beheaded)those
who favored the adoption; and therefore
voted “yes.”
Mr. Bryant declined to vote.
1 am in favor of the ratification of the
15th Amendment; but believing as I do
that this House has not been legally or
ganized, and that persons are permitted
to participate in its proceedings who
are not legally entitled to do so. I de
cline to vote. J. E. Bryant,
Richmond county.
The Speaker announced that the vote
stood thus: Yeas 55; nays 29; and the
resolution was carried.
Mr. Tweedy, of Richmond, moved to
transmit the action of the House to the
Senate. Carried.
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, offered a resolu
tion requesting the Governor to order,
within twenty days, an election to fill
vacancies, caused by death or other
wise, and moved to take up the resolu
tion.
The Speaker said he did not believe
this was consistent with his "orders”
from above; but as he had been arbitra
ry heretofore, he would waive his privi
lege and put the question to the House.
A message from the Governor (Provi
sional) waß here announced and read.
It restored, under Gen. Terry’s Order
13, Mr. Wilchar, of Taylor county, and
Mr. A. T. Bennett, of Jackson county,
to their seats in the House.
Mr. Caldwell, of Troup, offered a res
olution requesting Congress to relieve
all persons in the State of Georgia,
from all their disabilities, and moved to
take up the resolution. Yeas and nays
called.
Watkins said as the Democrats had
declined to vote on the adoption of the
15th Amendment, he would decline to
vote on this.
Yea 9, 61; nays, 50.
Lost, as it required a three fourth
vote.
Mr. Bethune offered a resolution to
appoint a committee to investigate the
charges of Treasurer Angier against
Gov. Bullock.
Loßt on motion to take up resolution.
Madden offered a resolution adjourn
ing the House until Monday, the 14th
instant.
Williams offered an amendment to
suspend the pay of members during the
interval.
Bethune offered a resolution request
ing Gen. Terry to suspend the collection
of debts contracted prior to June 1,
1865, until the Legislature can act upon
the question of relief from the same.
Motion to take up this resolution lost.
Message from the Senate announcing
its concurrence with the House in the
ratification of the 15th Amendment and
the fundamental conditions.
The Chaplain Committee reported
that they could secure the services of
Rev. W. P. Harrison and R. W. Fuller,
and recommended them to the House.
Committee on “Rules” recommended
the adoption of the Rules of the preced
ing session. Report adopted.
Message from the Senate announcing
the appointment of a committee of five
in the Senate to investigate the charges
of Treasurer Angier against Provisional
Governor Bullock, and requesting the
appointment of a committee of seven
to co-operate with the Senate Commit
tee.
Yeas and nays called on the motion
to take up the message. Yeas 73, nays
44. Motion lost.
Mr. Bryant said he wanted the charges
investigated, but first desired the offices
all filled. [He seems to think Bullock
will be replaced.] He voted “no.”
Mr. Bryant moved to adjourn.
Message from the Senate asking con
currence in their adjournment to the
14th instant.
Amendment offered and a desperate
attempt made by Mr. Bryant to be
heard, but the Speaker put a motion of
someone to concur in Senate adjourn
ment to the 14th inst. This was carried.
[lmmense applause from the Radicals.]
The Franking Privilege Bill.—
The House of Representatives, under
popular pressure, passed a bill abolish
ing the franking privilege, and sent it
to the Senate. A clause was incorpo
rated which the men who passed the bill
knew would defeat it. Leo, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, writes about the matter as fol
lows :
The clamor against the franking priv
ilege, has been renewed under the rep
resentations of the Postmaster General.
There are, no doubt, abuses in the ex
ercise of the privilege, but the money
to be made by its abolition is shown to
be mueb exaggerated. Memorials from
all quarters have been pressed upon
Congress at the instance of the Post
master General for the withdrawal of
the franking privilege. The Postmas
ter General furnished blank petitions
for tne Postmasters everywhere. The
result we see in the passage by the
House of a Bill completely suppressing
the nse of franks. The bill passed with
only fourteen dissenting votes.
This Bill goes beyond anything the
people desired and the newspapers call
ed for. All matter that goes Into the
mail is to be paid for; not excepting
newspaper exchanges, and newspapers
mailed within the counties where they
are published. The press will now be
active in opposition to this invasion of
their privileges. The Senate may
amend the Bill, bnt it must be passed in
some form.
Telegrspjs from Washington state
that Senator Morten will oppose the
bill, and that it will not become a law.
By this dodge, Representatives stop
popular clamor, and at the same time
reserve the dear privilege of sending
their dirty shirts home free by mail.
1> UCISIONb
OF THE
SUPREME COURT OF C.bOLUA.
Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, Feb. 1.
[Reported expressly for the Constitution, by N.
J. Hammond, Supremo Court Reporter.]
James A. Hoy, Plaintiff in error, vs.
the Slate ot Georgia, defendant in
error. From Bibb. Indictment for
murder.
BROWN, C. J.
1. When from the nature of the case
the defense set up as an excuse for the
killing was that it was justifiable homi
cide iu self defense, it was not error in
tue court to give iu charge section 4267
of the Revised Code, as the law appli-
I cable to the case.
2. Previous threats by the deceased
that he would take the life of the ac
cused, if he did not pay him some mo
| nty he owed him, which were not
communicated to the slayer before the
| fatal deed, are not admissible In evi
dence in justification of the killing in
self defense, and anew trial will not be
granted to let in newly discovered evi
! dence of such threats.
3. Anew trial will not be granted for
newly discovered evidence which is
' only cumulative, or intended to impeach
a witness, or when it would not, if
heard on the trial, probably, have pro
duced a different result.
4. Jurors will not be heard to impeach
thdir own verdict.
5. It is the imperative duty of the
Judge of the Superior courts to bold the
courts at the regular terms fixed by law,
and he has no right to adjourn any of
said courts from the regular term to
some other time, by order in vacation,
unless it is in the language of the statute
i “not possible for him to attend the regu
lar term of said court, from sickness of
himself or family, or other unavoidable
cause.” And in case the Judge, by or
' der in vacation, adjourns over the reg
ular term of the court to any other time,
ior any other cause than those expressed
by the statute, no party litigant can be
compelled to try his case before the
Judge at such irregular term. But if
the parties in a civil case go to trial
without objection, they will not after
wards be heard to set up the irregular
i ity. »
6. A defendant who is charged with a
j crime involving his life or liberty, is
not held to have waived anything, an
| less he does it by express agreement for
; the purposes of the trial. If the term of
! the court has been illegally adjourned,
| and a party at such adjourned term is
convicted of murder or manslaughter,
he is not bound by the proceedings,and
is entitled to anew trial on motion.
Judgment reversed.
John B. Weems, John Rutherford for
defendant in error.
E. W. Crocker, by S. Hunter, for the
State.
Mary A. Day, plaintiff in error, versus
Peter Solomon, defendant iu error.
From Bibb. • Motion to lay off' Dower.
BROWN, C. J.
1. The widow is entitled to dower out
of all lands of which her husband was
seized and possessed at the time of his
death.
2. When the deceased entered into a
contract ior the sale of the land iu his
lifetime, and gave bonds lor titles, and
the purchase money was due and un
paid at the time of his death, and part
of it is still due, the legal title remained
in the vendor, and the purchaser held
the land in subordination to the right
of the vendor, who was in contempla
tion of law seized and possessed of the
land at his death, and his widow was ;
entitled to her dower out of it.
3. If the obligee, in a bond for titles
to land, fail to pay the purchase money ;
within the time specified by the agree
ment between the parties; the legal title
remains in the obligor, upon which he
may maintain ejectment without de
mand of possession, or notice to quit.
Judgment reversed.
Whittle and Gustin for plaintiff in
error. S. Hunter, by R F. Lyou, for
defendant.
Robert N. Parker, plaintiff' in error, vs.
The Mayor and Council of Macon,
defendants in error. Action for dam
ages from Bibb.
BROWN, C. J.
1. The Mayor and Council ot the city
of Macon have full power and authority
given them, by the Charter, to remove
or cause to be removed any buildings,
poßts, steps, fences, or other obstruc
tions, or nuisance , in the public streets,
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, or public
squares of the city. Under this power
conferred for the public good, they are
bound to keep the streets, lanes, alleys
and sidewalks in such condition that it
is safe and convenient to pass them,and
in case of failure they are liable to any
person injured by their neglect.
2. A two-story, brick wall of a house,
that had been burnt down some months
previous, standing at the edge of the
sidew&lk, though private property, if
it be so much dilapidated or decayed
as to endanger the lives of persons pass
ing the streets, is a nuisance, which the
Mayor and Council are bound to have
removed, and if they fail and damage
results to any person by reason of such
neglect, the city is liable for the damages
sustained. If the walls were sound and
steady, and did not, under any ordinary
circumstances, endanger any one pass
ing the streets, and it should be thrown
down by tempest or other act of God, a
person injured by the fall would have
no right to recover damages for such
injury from the city.
Judgment reversed.
Bacon and Simmons for plaintiff in
error.
S. Hunter, by Iverson L. Harris, for
defendant.
Ordinary of Bibb county vs. The Cen
tral Railroad and Banking company,
et. al. From Bibb.
WARNER, J.
When, by the Charters of certain
Railroad Companies, they are author
ized "to purchase and hold all real es
tate, that may be necessary and proper,
for the purpose of laying, building and
sustaining” said railroads, and when
it is declared in said charters, "that the
said railroads and the appurtenances of
the same, shall not be subjected to be
taxed higher than one-halt of one per
cent, upon their net income ; and no
municipal, or other corporation, shall
have power to tax the stock of said com
panies, but may tax any property, _ real
or personal of said companies within
the jurisdiction of said corporation, in
the ratio of taxation of like property.
Held : That all the property of said com
panies that is necessary and proper for
the purpose of laying, building and sus
taining said railroads, constitutes a part
of the capital stock of said companies,
and is not liable to be taxed in any oth
er manner than is specified in their re
spective charters; but that any other
property owned by said companies,
which is not necessary and proper for the
purpose of laying, building and sustain
ing said roads and not appertaining
thereto, may be taxed by the county or
other corporation in the same ratio of
taxation of like property. Held further:
That the property of the respective
railroad companies specified in the re
cord is not liable to be taxed by the
county of Bibb, except lot number 2, in
block 74, and that the Court below er
red in holding and deciding that said
lot number 2, in blook 74 was exempt
from taxation by the county.
Judgment reversed.
James C. Mcßurney vs. W. F. Hollings
worth. New trial, from Bibb.
McCay, J.
If there be evidence to support a ver
dict, and the presiding Judge refuses a
new trial, and there be no error of law,
this Court, although it may not be sat
isfiedwith the verdict, it will not reverse
the decision of the court below.
Affirmed.
O. A. Lochrane, R. H. Clark, Bacon
& Summers for plaintiff in error.
Lamar & Anderson for defendant.
Southwestern Railroad Company vs.
Oscar Thomason, et al. Bill and de
murrer from Bibb.
McCay, J.
Railroad stock, under our law, is per
sonal assets.
When there are no debts unpaid, and
the administrator of an estate illegally
disposes of property of the estate, and
is insolvent, equity will entertain a bill
£led by the heirs at law to recover the
property so illegally disposed of, or to
decree an account of its proceeds.
When an administrator, without au
thority, disposed at private sale of
Southwestern Railroad stock, and the
same was by direction of the adminis
trator transferred to the purchaser on
the books of the company, and it is not
i known to the heirs who is the present
holder of the stock,
Held: That as the company is bound
to pay the dividends to the true owner
only, it is a proper party to a bill filed
to discover the present owner, and
praying a retransfer of the stock, and
an account of the dividends.
Held further: That the present holder
of the stock is also a necessary party,
and when discovered by the answer, he
must be proceeded against as such before
any final decree can be had, either as to
the transfer or the dividends.
Judgment affirmed.
Lyon, DeGraffenreid & Irwin, Law
i ton tor plaintiff in error.
Whittle & Gustin, B. Hill for defend
ant.
J. R. Harne and A. J. Pound vs. Thom
as Young, et al. Complaint from
! Dooly.
I McCay, J.
Where, in 1864, the holder of a prom-
I issory note, made in 1860, at the de
j mand of the security, gave up the note
| and took from the principal anew note
with other security, which last note was
to be paid in Confederate money. Held:
That this was anew contract, and the
amount due thereon is to be ascertained
under the ordinance of 1865, relating to
contracts made during the war.
2. Held further, That in adjusting the
Equities between the parties the jury
j may look into the original consideration,
i the value of the old note at the time of
the new contract, the consideration of
j the new contract and the different re
lation of the principal and securities to
that consideration, and should the evi
dence so authorize, they may, under
| our law, find a verdict for one amount
: against the securities, accordingly as
| they may find the true Equities of the
parties.
3. Iu cases arising under the ordi
nance of 1865, for the adjustment of
- Confederate contracts, either party may
be a witness notwithstandine one of the
contracting parties is dead.
Judgment reversed.
8. Hall, S. Rogers, Pate A Ryan, for
plaintiffs in error.
J. Armstrong for deleudaut.
M. A. Huson vs. G. B. Roberts, et al.
New trial—from Bibb,
WARNER, J.
When a suit was instituted by oue
partner against his co partners, to re
cover his share of the proceeds or • prof.
I its of the co- partnership, and it appears,
in evidence, that the co parnership con
l tract was for the purchase and sale of
| tobacco, for, the mutual benefit and prof
it of the partners themselves, one of
whom was to furnish the transporta
i tion of the tobacco, from Augusta to
j Macon, and the partner who was to
! furnish the transportation of the tohac
| co made a contract for the transports
tion of the same, with a Quartermaster
of the Confederate Government, with
the knowledge and consent ot the other
| partners,to have the tobacco transported
i in Confederate Government wagons, as
the same were returning empty from
the Railroad depot, ami agreed to pay
for such transportation of the tobacco
j either iu bacon or Confederate money.
Held, that this was not such an execu
: tory contract, made with the intention
■ and for the purjsose of aiding and en-
I eouraging the rebellion, as made it il
! legal and void ; that the intention and
purpose of the contracting parties was
I to aid and benefit themselves,and not to
aid and encourage the rebellion, and that
the court below erred in granting anew
trial in the case, on that ground.
Held, also, that there is sufficient evi
dence in the record to sustain the ver
dict of the jury.
Judgment reversed.
R. F. Lyon, John Rutherford, for
plaintiff in error.
W. R. DeGraffenreid, B. H. Hill, for
defendants.
F. E. Bowdon, Trustee Macon and
Brunswick Railroad Company. Ille
gality from Bibb.
WARNER, J.
When, on the trial of an issue as to
the amount due on a Confederate con
tract, under the ordinance of 1865, the
plaintiff proposed to prove, by a witness,
that the defendant had invested the
Confederate money received from the
plaintiff in cotton, at ten and twenty
cents per pound, and got for it forty
cents after the war, which evidence, so
proposed to be offered, was rejected by
the court: Held, that it not error
in the court in rejecting the evidence.
Held, further, that although the court
may give a wrong reason for its judg
ment, still if the judgment is right, this
court will not reverse it.
Judgment affirmed.
W. Poe S. Hall, for plaintiff in error.
Whittle and Gustin, for defendant.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Wednesday.—ln Senate a bill to
compensate solicitors under the Revised
Constitution of Alabama, was ordered
to a second reading.
The following bills were passed : For
support of negro hospital patients and
paupers left bv.Freedman’s Bureau in
hospital at Talladega; appropriates
$5,200; memorial and joint resolutions
to Congress for removal of political dis
abilities imposed by the XlVth Amend
ment wass, after an angry discussion,
passed by yeas 17, nays 9; House bill
making appropriation for the institution
for the deaf, dumb and blind, at Talla
dega, was passed.
The following bills were introduced :
To allow ail women in Alabama, 21
years old, to vote; providing for the
payment to the counties of this State
the amounts which may be due from
the school fund for years of 1866 and
1867.
Mr. Coon introduced a bill to relieve
Lawrence Speed, and such other per
sons as may be included and named in
a certain indictment against them, for
the offense of holding an unlawful as
sembly, lately found in Circuit Court of
Bullock county. Provides that Law
rence Speed, and other parties named
in the indictment recently found in
Bullock county for unlawful assemblage,
be and they are hereby relieved from
such indictment. Section 3, repeals all
contravening laws. Read twice, aud
referred to Judiciary Committee.
Iu House, Senate bill to establish the
City Court of Eufauia was passed.
A bill was introduced for tlie relief of
C. 11. May, late Sheriff of Russell
county.
Thursday. —ln Senate, were referred
bills to extend State aid to the Alabama
and Georgia R. R. Cos; to better protect
holders of insurance policies in this
State; to regulate the agencies of insur
ance Companies not incorporated in
the State; to regulate appeals from Jus
tice of the Peace in; certain, cases; to
legalize the exemption of real estate
from levy and sale by any legal process;
to provide for the removal of jurisdic
tion of estates of decedents of Bullock
county.
House referred bills to amend the
charter of the Opelika and Talladega R.
R. Cos.; to change the boundary lines
between Macon and Bullock.
The following bills were passed :
To repeal the act authorizing Justices
to appoint overseers of roads; to aid es
tablislunents of cotton spinning ma
chinery; to amend the act establishing a
system of Internal Improvements.—
[Provides for the extension of State aid
to railroads $16,000 a mile until Nov.
1871]; to pay public school teachers
from Oct, 1868 to Sept, 1869, and to
pay teachers for 1860 and 1867 [Pro
vides $208,000 be appropriated for the
purpose, if there was money to spare.]
with a proviso that the claims be paid
in the manner directed by the law un
der which the claims were contracted.
To make Victoria L. Harris and Su
san E. Colwell, of Macon county, free
dealers.
Pretty Good —They tell a fair story
on one of our best river pilots. During
a dense fcg, the steamer took a landing.
A traveler, impatient to get ahead, came
up to the unperturbed manager of the
wheel, and asked why the boat was
stopped. “Too much fog, can’t see the
river,” answered him of the helm.
“But you can see stars overhead, came
back from him who had paid his fare.
“Yes, replied the urbane pilot, “but till
the biler busts we ain’t going that way, ”
Passenger went to bed satisfied.
The Chattanooga Times says the
Nashville and Chattanooga depot has at
last been emptied of its great accumula
tion of freight at Nashville. This will
be good news to our merchants.
SUNDAY -UIIKHM., FEBRUARY 6.
A handsome church edifice is being
built in Dalton, Ga., by the Catholics.
Polygamy. —The House has attacked
polygamy in Utah in a bill of thirty-six
sections. If Polygamy don’t run before
such an assault as that, she will show a
good deal of pluck.
Acceptable News to Alabamians.
—The Radical organ at Montgomery
make3 the following announcement:
Lieut. Gov. Applegate is so ill that
doubts are entertained ,in regard to his
recovery.
Brick Pomeroy was thrown from his
carriage in Central Park a few days ago
and narrowly escaped with his life.
The accident happened near the spot
where Peter Cagger was killed by a
similar accident last year.
Mr. John C. Gordon, a native of
Union District, 8. C., and for several
years a resident of Franklin and Burke
counties, Ga., died on the 10th ult., at
Coffeeville, Upshur county, Texas, aged
87 years.
Returning to Specif, Payments.
—The Montgomery Advertiser says a
drunken fellow yesterday demonstrated
a way of reducing the currency. He
stuffed a roll of money iu hia horse’s
mouth and compelled the poor animal
to swallow it. Gen. Spinner has not
been notified of this method of return
ing to specie payments.
Return of Eford. —We learn that
Giles C. Eford, of Louisville, Barbour
county, Alabama, who some weeks ago
shot and killed John Smoot, has recent
ly returned and given himself up to the
authorities. The preliminary examina
tion occupied three days, and was con
ducted on both sides by eminent coun
sel—among others, Ex Judge Rice,
Ex Gov. Snorter, Gen. Clayton, and
Col. Seals. He was allowed and gave
bond iu (be sum of $3,000.
Married Woman’s I-aw.- The Leg
islalure of South Carolina has passed
an act w Inch provides that no real or per
s-mal property held by a woman at the
time of her marriage, shall he subject to
levy of sale for tier husband’s debts,
but shall be her separate property, to be
managed and disposed of by her in all
respects as though she were a man.
The Athens Watchman says the unu
sual number of deaths which have oc
ctirred in that community within the
past fortnight, is the subject of a general
remark. Among others, Charlie Kirk
patrick, George Carleton, and Willie
Mell, have died. It says this mortality
is not the result of the prevalence of
any looal epidemic—the town is free
from everything of the kind—no two
persons, so far as it has learned, died of
the same disease.
The Dilemma of ReconsTuctlon.
—The New York Herald makes a sharp
point iu regard to the Southern States
being required to ratify the fifteenth
amendment as a condition of restoration
to the Union. As they could not be
trusted to come in and then ratify it,
they ratified first and then came in.
They were, therefore, not in the Union
when they acted on the constitution, or
else they were never out of the Union.
Either, then, says the Herald, all the
reconstruction laws of Congress are in
valid, or these Southern ratifications of
the fifteenth amendment are invalid. If
the States were in the Union there was
no need to admit them, and if they
were not in the Union they could not
participate in making law for States
that are not in.
John Robinson’s Combination Cir
cus and Menagerie.— Robinson’s Cir
cus is coming, and old and young will
be on the gui vive till the show is over.
By reference to the advertisement it
will be seen that it will visit Columbus
on the 15th and 16th inst. The Louis
ville (Ky.) Journal says of it:
“This monster combination, the last
and most successful enterprise of the
old and veteran showman, will be in
our city, on the 21st. This concern,
claimed now to be the largest iu the
world, has been newly organized, the
material, animal dens fourteen in
number—and the entire paraphernalia
being of the newest order and fashion,
and were only obtained at an actual out
lay of sixty thousand dollars. The pro
cession i9 of the most gorgeous, impos
ing, and novel character, and is a mov
ing oriental pageant never to be forgot
ten when once witnessed.”
Resurrection of a Murderer.—
Kriel, a German, was hanged a few
days since in the city of Louisville, Ky.,
for the murder of his wife. The Couri
er Journal of that place tells the follow
ing startling story about his subsequent
restoration to life. It says :
After hanging some minutes Kriel’s
body was placed in a coffin and rapidly
driven away to the cemetery vault. A
surgeon of skill, and a firm believer in
the theory of resuscitation through the
galvanic process, is said to have been
driven in a wagon, containing a mat
tress and blankets, to the cemetery ;
shortly thereafter the vehicle returned
with the body of Kriel, which was con
veyed to the surgery of another skillful
and learned physician. The body was
placed in a recumbent position on the
table, the galvanic battery applied, and
in less than fifteen minutes the warm
blood commenced to course,through the
chilled body, and at last the eyes open
ed. One of the doctors asked Kriel if
he was sensible ; the eyes answered ex
pressively, and the lips opened ineffec
tually, for no speech came forth. Siiim
ulents were poured down the throat of
the revived criminal, and in less than
one hour after he had been placed in the
surgery, Kriel sat up and asked them,
“What have you done ? Am I alive ?”
He was then disguised and hurried away
to a place of safety.
Columbus Industrial Associa
tion —Meeting of Board of Direc
tors. —The Board of Directors of the
Columbus Industrial Association held a
meeting yesterday, in the office of Capt.
J. M. Bivins, the following members
being present:
N. J. Bussey, E. T. Shepherd, John
Mcllhenny, W. A. Cobb, B. F. Cole
man, W. H. Chambers, G. B. Heard,
W. D. Chipiey; W. L. Salisbury in the
Chair; John King acting Secretary.
On motion of W. H. Chainbeis, a
committee of three was appointed to
draft by-laws for the government of the
Association.
The Chair named as the committee
W. H. Chambers, W. D. Chipiey and
G. B. Heard.
On motion of W. D. Chipiey, N. J.
Bussey, J. F. Bozeman, E. T. Shep
herd and B. F. Coleman were appointed
a committee co arrange with the City
Council for the use of such portion of
the South Commons as may be required
by the Association, said committee hav
ing full power to act.
On motion of B. F. Coleman, the
Board adjourned, to meet again at 10
o’clock on Tuesday next, at the office of
Capt. Bivins, over Messrs. Joseph &
Bros, store.
Other objects were effected, but these
are all necessary to general interest;.
BIULLOCK'N MKVSA(.K
We have not thought proper to bur
den our columns and afflict our readers
with the cumbrous rehash of military
orders mingled with abuse and slander
of the people of Georgia, which Bullock
has sent to the Legislature and which
is called by courtesy, his message.—
Everything in it, even to the lies and
slanders, have been again and again
reproduced during the progress of re
construction, by the Press of the State.
It starts out with a correspondence be
tween Bullock and Terry, the sum and
substance of which is au endorsement
by the latter of the organization per
fected through the aid of a military
commissiou. The points made by Bui
lock are:
Ist. That the State baa not been re
lieved of military government at any
time.
2nd. That the admission of Repre
sentatives by Congress and the turning
i over of the State to the civil authorities
by Meade, did not complete reconstruc
tion, for the reason that persons ineligi
ble were admitted to seats in both
branches of the Legislature.
3d. That for this same reason there
has been no legal election of Senators,
aud that the Senatorial election will be
held on the 15th inst.
4th. That the State is uow properly
organized as to Us Legislature, aud that
so soon as Senators, State House officers,
Judges, &c., are elected and appointed,
! ti.en the Legislators and other offl-
I cers commence their terms as provided
| for by the Constitution. This will per-
I petuato Radical rule for years to come.
In support of his opinious he interpo
lates a report from Terry which endorsee
in detail every position assumed by
, Bullock.
A single extract will exhibit the tem
per of the document. Bullock writes of
the people of Georgia :
In pursuing their opposition to Con
gress, these political charlatans have re
sorted to every conceivable baseness,
abandoning argument to take up with
murder and assassination ; disregarding
, principles to indulge iu villification,
and now, in their hopeless despair, we
find them endeavoring to grasp a Re
publican livery, under which they hope
to bide their nefarious purposes. They
now loudly proclaim their hot haste to
promote reconstruction and to adopt
measures which will successfully per
i feet it.
Iu the following sentence he retracts
all of his letters and telegrams from the
Atlanta Slander Mill, iu which all the
decent and honest people of Georgia
were charged with either being members
of the Ku Klux, or active sympathizers
with the same.
The wrongs which have been done,
the lawless outrages which have been
committed in many parts of the State,
are the acta of but a few irresponsible
persons.
He fixed up a nice little trick by which
his peculations aud rascalities might,
with the aid of Terry, be successfully
whitewashed during the recess, but the
House would not agree, and the follow
ing recommendation fell still born :
I shall esteem it a personal and an
official favor if your honorable body
will authorize a Joint Committee to sit
during the recess, and investigate the
indirect charges made by the Treasurer
through the public prints against the
Executive,as well as any and all charges
fie may now have to present. I would
respectfully recommend that the Com
mittee be authorized to send for persons
and papers, and to administer oaths;
and I am confident that such validity
will be given to the acts of the commit
tee, by the Commander of the District,
as may be necessary to insuro justice.
When the question of the admission
of Georgia comes up in the Congress,
Bullock’s position must bo either en
dorsed or overruled. If Grant and Sher.
man are correctly reported, they do not
stand by him on the Senatorial question.
In this is involved the point upon which
his policy hinges. If Grant does not
backdown, we may expect a lively con
test, for Bullock evidently feels his
strength and support among the Radi
cals in Congress. We entertain no hope
but that he will be sustained iu every
particular. Georgia will have to remain
under the miserable rule of him and his
rabscallious until another election offers
opportunity for escape.
THE ATLANTA MUDDLE AUAIN.
The thing in Atlanta has again got
into a muddle and we can’t understand.
Grant and Sherman have ordered Terry
to break up the Senatorial race, and the
noses of the “little perjurer” and other
aspirants are badly out of joint. Bul
lock did not understand this new move,
or in his message he assails Joshua
Hill, one of the Senators elect, and one
of his Atlanta organs charges that gen
tleman with perjury, and institutes an
odious comparison between him and
| Blodgett. The breaking up of the Sena
torial race will muddle things dreadful
ly. All the little bargains and sales,
combinations, schemes and corruptions
generally have come to sudden and un
expected grief. And then the thing
passes the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments. In the Senate the vote
was strictly a party one on both meas
ures. In the House one goes through
unanimously and the other by a slim
and straggling vote.
In the meantime Congress is exercis
ed over the Georgia muddle. The Cab
inet and the Senate labor grievously
over the matter, but nothing definite
reaches the public ear. Howard, of
Michigan, backs Bullock. Edmunds
and Terry stand up to Bryant. The
question of the admission of Georgia
must come up speedily. Until then,
we think it profitless to attempt to look
further into the muddle.
The Impolicy of Silence.— Under
this heading the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger reads the public a strong
and well limed lecture against the im
policy of leaving to rumor facts that
should be at once fully and correctly
stated by the Press ; and then makes
the following statement about an affair
which has caused much feeling through
out the State : •»"
A few evenings ago, a distinguished
lady of this city, passing through a lane
near her house, was violently assaulted
by a negro man. The struggle was
very brief—the lady heroically and suc
cessfully defended herself, and the ne- j
gro fled abruptly so soon as he heard !
her namo uttered in a threat as to what |
her husband would do, and the lady j
then continued her way home.
This is the sum and substance of an j
unhappy event which has been exag- 1
gerated by rumors and contemporaries j
into a much more fearful and injurious
story. But, we are happy to say, none
of the statements, beyond these, have
the slightest foundation In fact.
The roof of the Americau Hotel in
Atlanta, took fire Wednesday night.
The roof of the Hotel was almost en
tirely destroyed before the fire could be i
Checked. The furniture in the building
was much damaged by fire and water.
The building is the property of Mrs.
Johnson, and is kept by Messrs. White
& Lykes. The amount of damage is
not stated.
Outrage in Henry County.—A
dastardly attempt was made to commit
a rape upon the person of a respectable
lady in Henry county, one day last
week, by a negro scoundrel named Ben
Usher. The fellow failed, by the su
perhuman efforts of the lady, and ran !
away, terribly alarmed. A number of
persons started in pursuit of him, but at
last accounts he was still a t large.
Whit® Labor.
The experiment of importing white
laborers to work on the plantations in
Mississippi, at first undertaken on a
small scale, aud with some doubt as to
the result, has proved so successful that
in nearly every portion of the State,
and more particularly iu the northern
and western portions, the plauters
look to this source almost entirely to
procure bauds to till their lands. At
Okolona alone, where there is an ciui
grant society, live hundred emigrants
have been brought into that section, a
great many of whom have gone to
work for the planters already settled
there, while others have bought or
rented lands, and are working them on
their own account. The Aberdeen Ex
atniner says that a large number ol
Swedes, Danes and other foreign immi
grants have lately arrived in that sec
tion of Mississippi, and have thus far
given their employers the most entire
satisfaction. Papers from other parts
of the State also mention the arrival of
numbers of Scaadiviansand immigrants
from other foreign nations, who readily
obtain employment, and are proving
much more valuable as field hands than
the negroes in their new relations.
We shall look anxiously for the result
of the experiment in Mississippi, It is
reported to have begun well. Ifit shall
prove a success and end well in that
State, there is no reason why it cannot
be made a suceess in Georgia and Ala
bama, also. The disposition of our
people has been, ;to use the negro both
for farm and kitchen service. They
have borne patiently with and tried him,
in some cases with success,whilst many
have had their patience exhausted, lost
their time and been poorly compensated.
This year many have not been able to
obtain any of this class of laborers,
where but few have got the samo num
bar they bad last year. The indisposi
tion to work under the supervision of
land owners, is increasing every yoar.
If then, Mississippians find the class of
laborers above referred to useful, easily
managed and profitable, then our people
will, from necessity, look to the samo
sources for it. There is no disguising
the fact that negro labor for successful
planting in many parts of Georgia and
Alabama, is fast proving itself to be a
poor dependence.
Ueu. Tate ami Ueu. Orient
The only colored member of Con
gress, i9 Senator Revels of Mississippi,
The only colored minister from a tor
eign Government residing at Washing
ton, is Gen. Tate, resident minister
from the Republic of Hayti, of which
Sy van Saluave was the President. But
Salnave has been captured and executed.
We presume that is the end of the Sal
nave negro Republic of Hayti, and with
it the termination of the ministerial du
ties of of Gen. Tate. The reception of
the colored repubicau, on hig arrival iu
Washington by President Grant, was
said by Radical papers to have been
all that it should be.
A lew days since Gen. Tate and lady
were invited by the President to the
next Statu dinner. The untimely death
of President Salnave intervened to pre
vent the General and his lady from
dining with the President and his lady
at the State dinner. It is doubtless a
matter of deep regret to the Washing
ton Bohemians, as it would certainly
have furnished matter for a column or
two of sensation. The General and
lady decline the invitation of President
Grant in the following letter :
“General and Madam Tate have the
honor to present their respectful compli
ments to his Excellency, the President
and Mrs. Grant, and beg them to accept
their sincere thanks for the invitation
which they have received. While they
feel profoundly the honor which is thus
conferred upon them, and highly appre
elated the grandeur ot the motives which
have caused them to be invited to the
table of the first Magistrate of one of the
greatest powers of the world, the mourn
lul condition in which they have just
been placed by the late announcement
this morning of the execution in
Hayti of the Chief whoso government
they represent, obliges them to decline
his generous invitation, while they will
always retain in their hearts, a profound
and eternal recognition, which will be
shared by the friends of humanity, by
all the defenders of justice aud equality
among men to this glorious chieftain,
standing alone in history, who has not
disdained to extend personally his pow
erful hand to the most humble, to the
poor proscribed, to aid them to rise iu
the grand interest of humanity, of broth
erhood and of cultivation."
Atlanta Items
We clip the following from the Intel
ligencer of the 4th :
Affairs About Town. —A greatei
portion of members of the Legislature
seem to have left the city. We miss
the usual crowd and hustle around the
hotels so common during the session ot
the Legislature.
Meningitis.—The alarm throughout
the city on account of the prevalence ot
this horrible disease seemed to have
subsided somewhat yesterday. We
heard several conflicting rumors about
it, but hope that it is on the decline,
and that the fears of our people on the
subject may soon be allayed.
A Colored Member In vests Per
Diem in Real Estate.— Saw a colored
member of the Legislature yesterday
afternoon investing his per diem in city
lots—he is to pay the greater portion in
certain installments, probably as tho
per diem accrues and is paid over. He
was also exhibiting certain admonitory
documents from the imaginary Ku
Klux, which he claims to have received
about two years ago. This “cullud
gemrnan” is now a resident of Atlanta,
but represents a county in some other
portion of the State.
Registering Letters No Skcckitt
for the Money.— The general im
pression prevails that when a person
registers a letter at the postoffice, to he
sent through the mails, the Government
is responsible for the loss, should the
letter and contents not go safe to baud.
Such is not the fact, however, as ap
pears from a recent decision of the
Postmaster General. In answer to a
gentleman who sent ten dollars by mail
in a registered letter that was never re
ceived or beard of since, he says the
Postofflce Department “is not liable for
losses by mails.” Under this ruling of
the Department, persons sendiug money
in letters by mail will do well not to
register, as the registry only answers as
a notice to dishonest postal officials
where to look for perquisites, without
the trouble of closely scrutinizing letters
to ascertain their contents.
Take Simmons’ Liver Regulator reg
u’arly, enjoy health yourself and give
gratification to those about you.
You will have cause to bless the day
you heard of Simmons’ Liver Regula
tor.
Facts for the Ladies.—John Sib
ley deposod : I must declare the Wheel
er A Wilson to be the most wonderful
and comprehensive sewing mechanism
ever put in the American market. It
is the simplest as well as the most cun
ning in principle. There is genius and
high mechanical ability in its arrange
ment, and therefore it is most reliable
and easy to keep in order. There is a
directness of connection between the
power and the result, never found by
me in the devices of any other
tor, and the mechanical results follow
of the highest possible speed, quiet and
easy movement, which make it a de
light to mechanicians- I think it just
to denominate it one of the marvels
the age.