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t m - Jlmnum Z, The Columbns Prisoners NEWNAN, GEORGIA. Priday Morning, July &, 1BB8. i tend if not too voluminous, to con dense from tbe Atlanta Intelligencer the sub stance of the proceedings of the Military Com mission iu the trial of these gentlemen. tVe on ; »at, June 29.—The court met at 10jl-2 ctock a. m.. when the order convening ithe Irangre Dist. Meeting M. E. Church, |° ,, , , , ■j- - , commission was read l*y the Judge Ad vocafe. DOutii, J q'he following a r e the charge and specjfica- Fill be held in LaGrange, Ga., commencing . tion which were read at this stage of theppro- . 9th. 1808, with Divine service at eight j flings, in order that the prisoners flight >"lo my mind that he had better be out . ; understand them, and not for the purpose of of the community than in it \\ hat as- \ Pn ? n . , . .. . iirnugnmeut: / sociations do you refer to? The people terial Brethren who expect to attend ' “ Charge and 6peciflcation preferred against J r r lease notify Rev. R. W. Bingham, I/t Elisha J Kirkscey. Col urn bus C Bedell, James .e, Ga. Bedell looked into the room'where Ash burn was immediately after he fell. There was candle burning in A.'» rtx>m at the time of the attack. The party remained “ uot any time all” in the house after A. was billed. They dispersed: I went home to my quarters. Hud- ! sition to the Constitution and in active co-ope son stooped down and fired at A , who was be- ration with all these parties? Yes. sir. What hind the table where he had fallen. Question.— What induced you to take part in the killing of Ashburn ? Weil, sir, a great many inducements. The as sociations I had, sir. I had it instilled Protest of the Democratic Members of | law making, and more ignorant than our j Atlanta .and West Point Railroad will ^legates to and from the meeting at one L. J. Davies, P. E. The Adamic Race. ARIEL,” nns. TOUNG AXD BLACK IK, ON T1IK NEUBO, Barber, William A Duke, Robert Hudson. Wil liam D Chipley. Alva C Roper, James L Wig gins, Robert A Wood: ^’Charge—Murder “ Specification—In this: that the said Elisha J Kirkscey, Columbus 0 Bedell. James W Bar ber, William A Duke, Robert Hudson, William D Chipley, Alva C Roper, James L Wiggins and Robert A Wood, on the 31st day of March, 1808. in the city of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee. State of Georgia, in and upon one was vour position in the company l>efo:e the election? First Sergeant. Ik-fore the election I was arrested by Capt. Mills and reduced to first duty Sergeant for trying to influence the election. \\ as not Mayor Wilkins an opponent • of the Constitution, and did not the opponents, of the Constitution generally express syinpa- ' thy with vou on account of tlie course you had taken ? Yes. sir. After you were reduced, did you not immediately apply for a furlough, and did you not know tlie money Mayor Wil kins let you have was raised by contributions from the people ? I applied for a furlough first. I dw not know how the money was raised.— My furlough was d ried April'ibe 2oth. about three days after I was reduced. How long after this was it that Wilkins let you have the tuon- was away from my command: had I taken e >; an< * did - von . no J; ,li,n J" 011 wanted it to take you home? On Friday night I told him in the town, sir. Was there any sort ol organization relative to the putting away of Ashburn at this time ? Not as I kuow of. How did it get instilled into your mind that A. ought to tje disposed of? From conversation with various people—1 does not belong to the Adamic 1’—“He is .not a Descendant of Ad- Georgc W Ashburn, then and the peace of the said State, feloniously and wilfully did make an assault; and did then Eve He is not the Offspring of j and there feloniously, unlawfully, wilfully He is not a Beast; he is a Human ' and wifi: malice aforethought, discharge pistols " He has an Immortal Soul ; but not loaded with powder and leaden balls at the i V image of Goo” —And every at- to civilize him, after on: form, lias |i in his speedy and certain destruc- ittle book takes bold ground on the [t of the origin of the races of mea, and rove it by the Bible, profane history, ^e science of geology. The writer’s different from most authorities worthy of close consideration. Ishcd by Russell Bros., New York, by Phillips & Crews, Atlanta, Ga., return our thanks for a copy.— Let us have Peace ” , fi incut in Grant's letter of nccep- •nsively commented upon by his ends. While it reads well and looks ipaper,. we are sure an acquaintance it's record would have caused them ss lightly over this inconsistent sentence, it not slreer naked necessity that drove to it, for there is no other idea or sen- in it which will hear comment. The .and only other idea that, regardless of Constitution or pledges, he will carry out [ill of the people—meaning thereby the fal party as expressed by their Represen ts— is too ridiculous for serious discussion, let, Grant wrote a very bungling letter, ^attributing this fact to his inability to do jb administration, if elected, will be a failure. (return. What sort of peace does he is to have? Who has opposed peace? raised any disturbance in three years? Truling race of tlie South have sought peace .’cry honorable avenue. The Southern sol- istacked their arms according to the terms rrender, and at no time, even under the 1 trying circumstances, sought to retake They have offered no physical resis- [;e even to the wicked designs of their vile lies. They have quietly submitted to the ts and jeers of home-born traitors, and sd obedience to despotic decrees of upstart ftiu agents. Then what have we of the Rh done to break the peace ? Our oppres- i are challenged to bring forward the charge. , earnest opposition to the She*man bill and -dements, were strictly legal according to tacts themselves and (he orders of military ftps- h ! here lies the danger. Radicalism U- Virtue of force, overturned our government, bed us of our rights, while its leading spirits leated in power, and the earnest and just fals of this wronged people to heaven and for a restoration of lost rights and fes, promise to disturb their lease of r, and hence quiet is what they crave.— 5ry furnishes similar appeals for peace by •wicked oppressors of men, Napoleon Id for peace after overthrowing tlie king- and dukedoms of Italy, the palatinates jlermany, dismembering the Prussian, Span- tnd Austrian monarchies, and seating all iis kindred upon thrones. Nothing was so to Napoleon /hen as peace ; but an outraged ftinent said restore what you have unlaw- seized and you shall have peace. A ve il on the part of this great warrior not only It him the crowns of his tools but that of [nice also, and he died au involuntary exile lthe lone rock of St. Helena. Austria cried ice after her Hayuau had committed name- wrongs and outrages upon the fair daugh- and brave sons of Hungary. Russia cried Nice after dismembering Poland and trans porting to the frigid dime of Siberia the truest and firmest friends of their native land. Ah ! yes, the groans of the Magyars and agonizing 6obs of the Teles rendered unhappy the in mates of the imperial palaces of Vienna and St. Petersburg. Britain cries peace after bind ing Ireland hand and foot, and the Fenian agi tation .of the sons of Erin manifest the discon tent of her Irish subjects. Though Europe exiled Napoleon, the Almighty permits the Poles, Hungarians and Irish to suffer yet lon ger, still a just God cannot answer the prayers of these trembling crowned heads when they pray for such a peace. In his own good time he will avenge the oppressed people. Like the European despots, after committing countless outrages, violating the Constitution which they were sworn to support, overturn ing by fraud and violence the lawful govern ments of . ten States, depriving the citizens of id Gc<>rge W Ashburn; and with the said balls, discharged as aforesaid, did wound the said George W Ashburn in the left leg, above and near the ankle joint: and with the said balls, discharged as aforesaid, did wound the said George W Ashburn in the lower part of the nates ; and with the said balls, discharged as foresaid, did wound the said George W Ash burn in the forehead, which said wound, in flicted in the. forehead as aforesaid, was mortal, and of which said mortal wound, inflicted in tlie manner and form aforesaid, the said George W Ashburn then and there died ; and the said Elisha J Kirkscey, Columbus C Bedell, James W Barber, William A Duke, Robert Hudson. William D Chipley, Alva C Roper, James L Wiggins and Robert A Wood, the said George W Ashburn, in the manner and form aforesaid, feloniously,- unlawfully, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought, did then and there kili and murder, contrary to the laws of said .Stale, the good order, peace and dignity thereof. (Signed) W. H Smyth, Capt. lfilnft’yand Br’vtMaj. U. S A., Acting Judge Advocate.” The names of the prisoners were called, when each one answered “Here.” The prisoners were then asked if they had any objection to be tried by any member of the court, when they answered individually and under instructions of their counsel. Mr. Chip- ley said, lie had no objection personally, but would not waive the right to object in the fu ture. Mr. Bedell—had no objection on personal grounds, but would uot waive the right to fu ture jurisdiction. The rema ning prisoners did not offer any objection on personal grounds. The officers of the court were sworn, also Mr Eugene Davis, as reporter for the govern ment. The prisoners were then arraigned and the charge and specification read to them a second time, when the Judge Advocate was about to interrogate them as to their guilt or innocence, Hon. A. 11. Stephens rose and requested an ad journment unlil to-mor*ow, for tlie purpose of filing pleas for the defendants, as he had not seen any of them before, and had not until a short time before seen the charge and specifi cation. The Judge Advocate requested Mr. Stephens to reduce his application to writing, which he did. The board of officers then retired to consider the application of counsel ; soon after which they returned, and as there was no objection offered by counsel on either side, or by any member of the court, the application for ad journment was granted till 10 a. m. to-morrow morning. The following counsel appeared for the defense and were admitted: Alexander H. Stephens, Martin J. Crawford, James M. Smith. James M. Ramsey, L. J. Gartrell, Henry L. Benning, Robert J. Moses.' Gen. Banning ami Major Moses were absent, but are expected soon. The counsel for the prosecution are: General Dunn, Judge Advocate, with Ex-Governor JOSEPH E, BROWN and Mnj. W.H. Smyth, assisting. advice, l would not have been in this fix now—1 went headlong. I used to know nearly all of the men. (meaning the there being in ; prisoners). I hui no acquaintance with the defendant Chipley; never spoke to him in my life tiil after the occurrence. Have received from the people of Colum bus a gold hunting case watch, worth So00 or $400. It was handed to me by u clerk in a jewelry store on the night of the 24th of May. Ingmire was his name. I do not know who provided the present for me. limber, Uuuby and Williams spoke to me about it before I received a watch and chain. I am not much ac I wanted it to take me home. Without concluding the cross-examination, on motion of Mr. Stephens, the Court adjourn ed till to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The examination of this witness was resum ed Wednesday. No new developments. George F. Betts, another prisoner, testified to some of the same facts, under promise of exemption from prosecution. We have heretofore insisted that Grant was responsible for the outrages perpetrated upon the Columbus prisoners. So thinks President I Johnson, for he has not only despatched a special agent to this State to investigate the SECOND DAY. June, 30 1863. Pope, Brown’s law partner took part for the prosecution ami Mr. Wellborn for the defence. A plea of not guilty and also reserving to themselves the right of objecting to the legality of the court was filed for the prisoners. Sergeant Charles Marshall, was the first witness introduced. lie swore. 1 am aged 27 and a soldier belonging to Company G-., 16tli U. S. Infantry. Been on duty in ColumDus for the last year. Was acquainted with Ashburn. Was pre sent at his death— Ur. Kirkscey one of the prisoners induced me to go. The Dr. spoke to him about three weeks before ! of the c;ty, ou Ashburn’sdeath. Dr. Iv. said if 1 would j house was it at? join a party to put Ashburn out of the way it would be all right. I consented. Got notice to meet the party on the uight of the killing. A negro boy brought it. The note was in writing and wrapped in a piece of brown paper. I tore it up as soon as I opened it. It was a notice to meet to-night at 12 o’clock. 1 did not know the negro bov who left the bundle. quainted with Ingmire. 1 also received $1UU in money from Mr. Wilkins, former ly Mayor <4 Columbus, in the form of a loan; after A.’s death I asked Mr. Wil kins to lend it to me, and he let me have it about a week after 1 asked for it. I had to d hjm l wanted to go home, and lie said he would let me have it before I went. I bad previously been on intimate terms with him. No one suggested to me to apply to Mr. Wilkins for a loau,-^- i went home on a furlough from the 26th of May. Have never returned or been asked to return the money I borrowed ; gave no note or showing for the loan.— When Ingmire handed me the watch and chain he said, “ take this and take care of it.” This was about all the remark he made; he said the present was from a friend- I did not know positively what friend he referred to. I have seen him several times, since my return. Ash burn was kiiled Monday, the 30th of March, about midnight, between Monday, the 30th, and Tuesday, the 31st of the month, 1868. Columbus is in the State of Georgia, and, I believe, Musco/ec coun ty. My interviews with Kirkscey were in the day time, by ourselves. I have known him nearly a year. There were ten or fifteen shots fired at Ashburn — My pistol was loaded with powder and oblong ball. I fired oae shot at Ashburn. Don’t know whether I hit him. Have had no conversation with any of these prisoners siuee the killing. All the per sons engaged iu the affair were not in the house that night. There were others outside beside those iu the house with me. Was the person whom you thought was Mr. Chipley disguised ? Yes sir, disguis ed with a mask, lie seemed to have all to say in the party, sir. Do you know what was the object of this party in kill ing Ashburn ? The object was to kill him, I suppose. Most every one had an animosity against the man. Politically he was opposed to the majority of the people, which was, I suppose, the reason of this organization to kill him. What makes you so suppose ? Hearsay, sir.— Why did you take part in the killing? Influence was so great on me that I could not or did not resist it? What influence ? Association, sir. Were these influences social or political? Both, sir. Were you opposed to Ashburn politically ? I was, sir. Was that fact well known among your associates in the city ? Yes, sir. The Judge Advocate here announced that he was through with the witness, as far as the examination in chief was con cerned. Witness was then turned over to the defense. Mr. Stephens—Did you have a person al difficulty yourself with Ashburn ? Yes, sir, I did. Did you uot slap his jaws or strike him the day before he was killed? Can’t say whether I struck him or not; I was under the influence of liquor.— Where did this occur ? Iu the upper part Broad street. Whose Nobody’s house, sir; it was on the street. Was it not at Jack Clark’s grocery ? No, sir. Were you not too much intoxicated to recollect what occurred and when it occurred ? No, sir. I do recollect wheu it occurred.— But you do not recollect whether you | slapped his jaws or not ? I think 1 did ; not. Do you recollect whether }ou struck charges of cruelty, but has notified Gen U. S. Grant, the Radical nominee for President^ that unless he (Grant) moves in the matter, as is his duty, he (the President) will. Georgians, can you vote for a man who thus winks at outrages upon your countrymen, and will only move, if at all, for their relief when driven by the President? The Gadsden Times gays the squirrels are so numerous in Noith Alabama that the hunter can scarcely keep them out of his pockets as he walks through tlie woods. Mrs. Rhody Berg, a widow of seventy-six, died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a few days ago, from the effects of a slight scratch upon her hand made my a tame rabbit. A negro down South who was in ecstasies over a sermon he had heard, when asked to repeat a part of it, replied, “ I nebber mock de preacher. ’ ’ Tlie I urkish army on a peace footing num bers 148,680 men. The Christian governments of France, Rus sia and Prussia will expend this year for im proved guns with which to arm their soldiers, one hundred million of dollars, while many of their subjects are dying from sheer starvation. Brig. Gen. Ruger, by military authority act ing as Governor, has sent a messenger to Mil- ledgeville to disrobe the old Capitol building of its furniture and bring it to Atlanta. The trial of Surratt has been postponed to 21st of September, a special term of the Court. One W. H. Smith, styling himself “Gover nor elect” of Alabama, has issued a procla mation convening “the Legislature” July loth, Dr. Taz. Anderson, of Wilkes county, Ga., has reaped over tv. o tons of hay fro;n two acres sown in clover. " Thomas W. Osborn was, on the 30th of June, seated as Senator from Florida, The House passed a joiut resolution to ad journ the loth, but the Senate tabled it. On the 25th tilt., the Omnibus Bill, admit ting to representation in Congress Georgia and other States, passed by a strict party vote. By proclamation the Legislature convenes in Atlanta to-morrow, Hamilton, member from Florida, was sworn in July 1st, . it -r mm* i 9 * The following is an old joke, but it has a moral suited to the present time, or rather to the time just passed : There was a man before an Irish jury on his trial for murder. It was a bull of a trial; for the defence produced in court, alive and well, the man who was said to have been killed. But the trial went on, and the jury went out; aud not to be daunted by any such little fact as the presence alive of the man who should have been dead, they brought one prisou- The recognized presence of three per- J of this, and in opposition to all this, we, sons on the floor of this House from the | re present;*, rives of the people from the free I State of Arkansas, sent here by military i States, in behalf of our constituents and, force acting under a . Brigadier General J of thousands and tens of thousands o , of the army, but nevertheless claiming to ■ others who would be here represented ol ; be members off this Congress, aud to share j the popular power without, coqld t fey j with us the representations of free States now constitutionally act here wul.un,; in the imposition of taxes and customs earnestly and solemnly^ piotcat agaiusf j and other laws upon our people, makes it j this violence upon our Constitution and our imperative duty jn this, the first case, j upon our people, aud do hereby counsel to remonstrate most solemnly, and to pro- and advise all friends of popular govern- H AVTNG bought out the Messrs. Jol ln , 0n I now offer a new and wcli-selc ctp 3 , stock of test as solemnly agqinst this perilous aud destructive innovation upon the princi pies and practices of our hitherto constitu ment to submit to this force and fraud onlv until at the ballot box, operating through the elections, this great wrong Calicoes, Muslins, Mosenbique, Plain and striped Jaconets, Swiss Nansooks, Black, and brown Shirting and Shcctin«> Dres-s Trimmings, Hosiery. Handkerchiefs, Linens, Cassimers. Piece Goods, Cottonades, Stripes, Ticking, Osnaburgs, fioual self government. The so called Re- can be put right. There is no jaw in tfie j '{ MADE bLitil iilivjj construction acts which created the mili tary governments in other Southern States to share v.in* us in the legislative power of the Northern and Western free peo ple, we have every reason to believe have been held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States; the public declaration of which fact was nvojdcd, only by the extraordinary aud strange devices of this Congress, to snatch ing jurisdiction from the Court in the McArdle case, when such a public de cision was about to be made of the three great branches of the Government; and it seems then, that after the Executive vetoed these acts as unconstitutional, the judiciary adjudicated them to be so, while a Congress, the creation of but twenty- seven of the thirty seven States of the Union, overrides these equal and co-or dinate branches of that Government, first by voting down the vetoes, next by mul tiplying amendments to the Constitution. In an era of profound peaes, when pot an armed man rises against the Govern ment from the jfotomae to the Rio Grande, there, in ten States, our American and historical way of creating the organic law has been utterly subverted by -the bayonet. Ever-siuce ,he Declaration of Indepen dence, with scarcely an exception, and ever amid the battles of the Revolution, conventions have been convoked through, and Constitutions created by the electors of the States, tilt; only authorized deposi tories of the sovereign power of every Stote, without exterior dictation ?s under the existing Federal Constitution. The hardest and harshest test oath required from IJT'O £o the peace of 1783 was an abjuration oath of allegiance to George Hi., while some of the now so-called bayonet Constitutions from the South pro pose absurd and cruel tests—absurd as in Arkansas where is interwoven in the or ganic law a mere party test between the Radical ileconstructioiiists and the Demo cratic Conservatives, such as would ex clude from voting, if living there, the thousands, the tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of Democrats in the free States, (article 8, section 4,) and cruel as in Alabama, where no white man can vote who will not forever foreswear his own race and color, aud perjure him self by swearing in defiance of the law of God that the negro is equal, and forever to be las equal at the ballot box, in the jury box, with the- cartouche box, iu the chool, in the college, in the house aud by the fire-side—in short, in every way, everywhere (article 7, section 4.) now in these and the other Southern States. In the midst of the war, President Lincoln, in his proclamation of Dec. 8, 1863, of fered amnesty and pardon to the rebels then in arms if they would lay down their arms and take the oath of fidelity ; while now not a Union man in Arkansas or Alabama can vote unless in the first place be swears allegianee to the majesty of this Congress, and in the next swears off his Americanism ami Africanism him self. Hitherto constitutions with us have been the outgrowth of p >pular life, spring ing from the exuberance of our enterprise and energy in the settlement of the forests or prairies of our country. But here be fore, as now, are nine constitutions, with one, if nut three more yet to come from Texas, which have all been imposed upon the people by five military satraps or pent- archv, i*4 a manner never before known under our laws, but borrowed, at best, from Imperial Roman Colonization, or of the French revolution. France is then in land over the constitutional government, and hence all bayonet-made, all Congress- \ imposed constitutions gre pf no weight, authority, or sanction, save that enforced by arms—an element of power unknown to Americans in'peace and never requir ed. But as it acts in and under supreme civil ’aw, the Constitution and the statutes enacted in pursuance thereof, wo protest then, in behalf of the free people of the North and West, against the right of this military oligarchy established in Arkan sas, or elsewhere in the now re-enslaved States of the South, to impose upon ps through Congress taxes or customs, or other laws to maintain this oligarchy or its freedmen’s bureau. We protest against going into the now } r »posed co-partner ship of military dictators and negroes iu the administration of this Government.— We demand in the manner of the Fathers 0? the Constitution, and the same for posterity, not its reconstruction, but the restoration of that sacred instrument which has been to us all a “pillar of fire” from 1787, on to its present overthrow; and in all solemnity, before God and man, under a full sense of the responsibility of all we utter, we do hereby fix our names to this protest against the admission of these three persons claiming to be mem bers of Congress from Arkansas. Jaimes Brooks, W Mungen, J B Beck, Stephen Taber, P Van Trump, Asa P Grover, Charles A Eldridge, L S Trimble, Samuel J Randall, George M Adams, A J Glossbrenner, Steveus F Archer, John A Nicholson, John Morrissey, Thomas Lawrens Jones, Win II Barnum, John W Chanler, S B Axtell, L S Marshall, W S Holman, C W R Haight, Charles Sitgreavcs, Lewis M Ross, II McCulloch, J Proctor Knott, J S Golladay, J W Humphrey, Fernando Wood,|J Lawrence Getz, T Stone, M C Kerr, John Fox, James R Johnson, John Y L Pruyu, W E Robinson, B 31 Boyer, George W Woodward, C E Phelps, A G Burr, W E Niblack, Julius Hotchkiss, D M Van Anken, J li McCormick, Demas Barnes and James M Cavanaugh. Respited.—Green Pierson, colored, who was to have been hung in Monticello, Jasper county, Ga., on last Friday, for the murder of young Leverette, has been respited by Provisional Governor Ruger, until the assembling of the Georgia, Leg islature. Satan rebuking sip—Grant “ Lep us have peace.” We read to a Republican the other day—“ Satan rebuking sin ” wfiat is it ? Republican—Some low mean,swell r*eaJed villian giving advice—True we replied and read Grant—“Let us have peace” Exit Republican. “Lewis, did Mrs. Green get the medicine I ordered T’ u i guess so,” replied Lewis, for I saw crape 0a tfie door next morning.” -■ ■' —»■ -f- A Quaker gentleman riding in a car riage with a fashionable lady decked with a profusion of jewelry, heard her com plain of the cold. Shivering in her lace bonnet and shawl as light as cob wed, she exclaimed : “ What shall I do to get warm ? “ I really don’t know,” replied the Quaker, solemnly, “unless thee should put on another breast pin !” er in guilty. “ Hows tins? says the • j , 1 1 1 j J rpe xrencu revolution. Prance is th judge ; “ there has been no murder; the , . . , , . n . r t n £k xt- 11 * 1 recurdeu to have had five constitutions man is alive in court. “Well, your!,. , . , , , „ . , . 1 tlirftfi Venrs SO trpnnpnMB mnrio ‘inrl honor, said the convinced that the prisoner did not mur der this man, but ho is g. dangerous per son. T am sure he killed my gray mare, and wo believe that hanging him is neoessary to the peace of the country.” A Saratoga citizen said of another that , he, the other, was the meanest man he, foreman “ theVur’y^s ' t j 1 - ree y ears > s0 frequently made and so | the citizen, ever saw, and a .slander suit „ nvisnner did not mnr-1 }ref l uent, y changed that they were ironi- has been brought. The defendant, in his cally classed by the French people with * ** 1 til ui uii ui live • A viiti i'll i&v liljlL" " ’ the notice nor did I , L)id not say to W . H. Williams, Capt. left quarters about t J . , J . . , ’ - he partv below the ! f-' ire company in Columbus, that you He had on a mask made out of pasteboard.— j him at all or not ? I did strike him.— There was no signature to the notice, nor did know the handwriting. I 11 1-2 o’clock, and met the pi Perry House, on an open square. Before meet- j intended to kill Ashburn, or words to .{fiat ing the party I was handed a eoat by Henry ; t fleet ? I might have said so that night, Uennis, «b* Mid, - put this on." I had m, I bo . wouldB . t SKear t0 j,. dou . t recollect, previous arrangement with lum about a coat j . , , . ’ . , for the occasion. I did with Dr. Kirkscey, who knd he have a pistol, or did jou S£e a said it would be left. I wanted a rig because 1 j pistol in his hands ? I did cot see a pis- did not want to wear my uniform. Dr. K. in- . Are you certain and positive that formed me. in our second interview, that there ; Kirkscey, Bedell, Duke, Barber, would be a rig there tor me. Bv rig 1 mean a -J. , . ’ T _ ’ . ’ suit. It was a gray coat-an English walking | Hudson, the accused, now before you. m 1 coat. Shortly after Hennis gave me the coat I ! the house where Aslibarc was killed that the rich heritage of liberty bequeathed them by I met tbe oth ' er party-Hudson, Duke, Barber, j night? I didn't see a]l in the house. Duke, their ancestors of revolutionary fame, and ] Bedell Kirkscey end Malone. Malone is not (judson, nod Bef be r wc-re inside, “ in the iining their pockets with ill- gotten gold *nd j | door, out of tie 2d room into the 3d room, possessing themseh os of place ani power, iran ! l ) 10!U r ig> lt ^cioss from the house where Ash- I seen them all before 1 went in. Kirk- anil his friends on let us have peace. j barn was killed, in a vacant lot 200 yards dis- j gcey and Bedell were in the 2d rocm.- reply to the writ, re affirms under oath that the plaigtiff is the meanest man he ever saw, ? STILLS i STILLS I T\TE J W c HATE };.st received the largest lot of i the periodical literature of the day. Louisiana, a colony of that France, has had fuur constitution in four years, and a constitutions there has now become periodical as in France in the agonies and The True Life-—The mere lease of thioes of the great revolution. Laws, years is not life. To eat and drink and statute laws, which caa never be sleep; to pace round the mill or habit, crpa t c d by constitutions, are appended and turn the wheel of wealth ; to make j m ,. re or less to all these constitutions, and reason our bookkeeper, and to turn into 1 t j u . se baronets created one branch of °uv- an implement of trade—this is not life.— j fcraaieii U w j t h no Executive, no Seu- In all this, but a poor fraction of the con- j ate> no House of Representatives, po seiousness of humanity is awakened, and J J n diciary, they have ordained irrepealable, the sanctifies still slumber which make it, irreversible laws in the very organism of most worth while living Knowledge, truth, j lhe State such as cannot be created by love, beauty, faith, alone can give vitality j the Executive, the Senate, and the House to the mechanism of existence, the laugh | of Representatives of legitimate govern- ot mirth which vibrates through the j !ii£nts when ^ in uaisoa and all eo , n . heart, the tears that freshen the dry waste | bined . A}1 ihis bas been done without within the music that brings childhood ; r(] ^ preced j ug constitutions, or pre- back, the aeath which startles us w rih j eede nt,«, or tq the laws of the nation.— fthprifR* mystery, the hardships that force us to , The ln ; jitary> V( - hich under legitimate in- ^ eai 4 s ^ le - struggle, the anxiety that ends m tnist, j strmjtiouSj a , a OB J ybe Qsed in times of On thejrsi Tuesday in August nert, are the true nourishment of rgtiomu ^ j Peace t0 conserve or preserve the State, \\/ be sold before the Court House floor , ; , , j , , o j f f m Franklin, Heard county, within the ** 3 I nave .iere been used to destroy the States ■ legal hou-s of sale, tte following property, ^ ’ The General of the army, who represents ! to-wit: " this city since the war, which we will sell cheaper than any other house in the State.— We are agents for the which took the first Prize Medal at the Paris Exposition in 1S67. We are also manufacturing all size3 of COP PER STILLS to order. Just the thing for making Peach Brandy with. Jque ’ LANGFORD & McGRATR. mmWB, ai§IS & BATS. A fine assortment of Crockery and Glass Ware, Hard Ware, Powder, Shot, ISpiee, Rep.ner, Ginger, Soda, Cqpperqs, Sulphur, ■ Indigo, Madder, Coffee, Sugar, Spades, Hoes, Shovelsr Scythe Blades, flames, Tr§ces, Buggy Whips, Umbrellas, Trunks, Buckets, Ropes, IBacou, Flour, Meal, *nlL A fine lot of T O B .A. C CJ O _ Together with a great many other things too tedious to mention, all of which will be sold at reasonable prices. jgg^T’Coine and see and be convinced. gtg’f’Mr. R. L. Hunter, as pleasing as ever, will be on hand at all times to serve the La. dies, or those who wish to look or buy. 1 return my thanks to all former customers, aid solicit a continuance of their patronage, !m. ping to be able to satisfy them in future as it has been my desire to do in the past. Newnan, Ga., May 23-tf. J. T. KIRBY. pw GOODS! NEW GOODS! We have received our new Stock of Good.; from New York, Purchased Entirely for Cash, Consisting of Dry Goods and Notions, Boots, Shoes Hats, Clothing, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Shoe Findings of every descript’/i, Buggy Trimming of all kinds, Saddlery, Harness Leather, Sole Leather, Calf Skins, In fact everything usually kept in a Mixed Sfock. All of which wu will sell LOW FOE We are agents for one of tbe best importing houses in New York for the sale of nil kinds of Mill Ston.es and Spindles, Rqlfcing Cloths, Smut Machines and fixtures, Hoisting Screws and Bales, All of which wo will sell at New York whole sale prices, with freight added to this place. Persons wishing to purchase Mill Materials, before makiug their purchases will find it great ly to their advantage to compare our price list with those from other houses. Thankful for the very liberal patronage be stowed upon us heretofore, we respectfully solicit a continuance of the same at the old stand of RED WINE & CULPEPPER, North-East Comer of Public Square, May 30-tf. NEWNAN, GA. WM. S. HILL HU Age sat a aid Cosaa allies on MERCHANT, (Store on tub South-West Corner or PteHo Square,) EALER in all kinds q£ Provisions, Family Groceries, Shoes and Crockery. Country Produce talcen in Exchange Goods. He will sell as cheap as the cheapest. P' public are respecffiqlly solicited to call # B '‘ examine his Stock. Come and see—you rW get bargains. [May 2-P t:- The other two in the room; Ma- South, for perhaps your cries will be heard by j aUoufc twenty or thirty iu the party. Saw the Democrats North, and wc will lose all we j George Betts m the party. He \v;is in the ^ j one vvas iu that r 00 m. t0 a the 2d. room.” now possess.' For God's sake let us have ] house with me. There were others in the i y u nr* certain then that ell iAeve nar house also, but atn not positive who they were ou ui certain uitn itiai 0 .1 m e pai -peace.” A wicked prayer, but the petition will not be granted, for the peace of Radical ism is the death of liberty. Its quiet is the unending si umber of constitutional government and the destruction of the hopes of freedom. Then we say to Grant, he shall not have the peace he craves until the wrongs of Southern frepmen arc righted and their blood-bought heritage is restored. No physical weapon will be used in the warfare, but the justice of our cause -will be portrayed and reportrayed until the wicked Radical plotters are content to ob serve their oaths and acknowledge the suprem acy of tlje Constitution. These done, and peace, true peace, heaven-approvetj peace, will bless our lajpl &ftd the struggling tpHRons of other lands will take courage and toil on for the at tain inept of tfieir God-given rights. It is impossible for me to know all. The party was large and I was with them only a*short time before the affair commenced. All I saw and talked with were disguised with a manner of mask—majority of them. Amanda Patter son (white woman) and Hannah Flournoy (col ored woman) were iu the house with Ashburn. The party went to the back room where A. was; commenced firing, and A. was killed there. The party in the doOr fired upon him —the door of his room. Myself, Duke, Barber. Hudson, and, I think, Betts, formed that party. All these persons fired at A. A. asked, “ Who is there?” One of our party remarked— “Here’s the d—d s—t,” and fired upon him. j Hudson made the remark. armed with revolvers. I saw Ashburn fall.— w ho (Here Whitley, the detective, went over to Gov. Brown and whispered in his ear.) I am not certain whether Kirkscey and Bedell wont in after A. fell. Some one said, “come on boys,” and the party went out Kirkscey and Jones, was or believed he was near his death, and the doctor calling", he held a long and eaasest conversation with, him about the chances of life. “ Y hy, man” said the physician, “you are likely to die at ties tee re in the htusc at and about the hour. You have been living fifteen time of the hilling? les sir. Are vou years without any constitution—lungs just as positive in this statement as in any gone, liver diseased, aqd all that sort of you have made. 1 am. Had you any thing.” personal association with Hudson ? Not « y ou don T mean to say,” replied ot any account—seen him several tunes. Jones questioDingly, that a man can live Did you ever sp nd five minqtes of con versation with Hudson in your life ?— Don’t know as I have. Who talked with you about the present of the watch ? A young man by the name of Gunbv, and Barber, also told me about it. You said Our party was j somebody else on the direct exainin^tiqu : was it ? Williams-**-one of the brothers, I don't know which—Dan. Wil liams I think, sir. When did yon say the watch was given you? j would go .On the night of the 24th April. Was this the i wide. the sword, and only the sword of the Re public, has been exalted by acts oi Con gress above the constitutional eommander- ia chief of the army and navy, in order to. execute those military decrees, and as the surer way to route out every vestige left of constitutional law or liberty, the same General of the army, in order to prolong or to perpetuate his military dom- inatiQB with North acd West, as well as the South, has been selected in party con vention ac Chicago to head the electoral vote for tbe Presidency in ten of our States, which gq-e as much under his feet ns Turkey is under tbe Suitaii, or Poland under the Czar of Russia. But, as if only to add insult to the injury of this military j outrage upon the popupr government ia * 1 ~ T i f' u 'Se ten States, they have made ten Con- There are 85,000 miles ox- lasted calico, g titatioD3 at a cosr ?f $250,000; the fifteen years without a popstiLutiou ?” “ Yes, 1 do,” petorted the doctor, “and you are an example ” ‘•Then, doctor.” and a bright smile il luminated the pallid face ol the doomed man, “ I’ll go it ten 3 ears longer on the j by laws,” and he did. made in Fall River. Mass, every year. This . „ ... around the earth trsKQ breadths j ^L,^ a ' e been disfranchised, while | 1 dOjOOO negroes—inexperienced in all 0»e oat cutter, one cross cut saw, one set wagon breeching and harness, cqe. ami table, one large map: levity 00 as the proper ty of J W Weaver to satisfy two tax fi fas vs said Weaver. F;v« sides of leather—three upper and two sole: levied oa as the property of J P Howell to satisfy one tax fi fa vs J P Howell. One lot of land No. 133. in the loth district of originally Carroll now Heard county: levied on as the property of S Strickland to satisfy two tax fi Las vs said Strickland, July 3, 1868. ML S. ECHOLS, Sheriff. GEORGIA—Coweta County W r EEREAS Josiah D. Green, administra tor cf LariJ Lincb, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered ou record, that he has fully administered David Lirjrh’s- estate: This is therefore to cite all persons concern ed to be and appear at my office within tbe time prescribed by law, and show cause, i£any they can, why letters of dismission should ny>t be granted.oh the first Monday in January. I860, J'.U- 3-6ta.' B, LL-MJ f Cl IE C L ,0 r d ’y. Economy and Home Industry' SATE TOUR HAGSll THE CHICKASABOGUE iiiU iill llilLvu Are now prepared to purchase Good, . Cotton and Linen Rags, in any quantity, -- to pay for them the Highest Market Price in Cask They have established a depot North Water street, for the receipt a.r* 1 of Rags and Paper Stock of all 501 the immediate charge of Capt. Thomas ' it who.is authorized to pay a liberal a[ .j stock required by the Company» - 1 * s > brought to him in a suitable condition- j Rags may be either white, colored, * ^ but they must be free of woolens, C Y. • well handled. ’ .. j ; n te- Dealors jn paper stock ia the CT)’ a ,, rior will find it to their advantage to - nicate with before disposing ot f"- elsewhere. _ ; u teresb Newspapers will advance their own ^ by lending their influence to secure jv, arid collection of all the rags to be their respective localities. V- o win ern^ ^ ^ in exchange for paper at libera. the merchantable Rags they may se ° ( v or the;.t Rags sent by the rivers and Grea - . ;in y -Railroad, should he addressed to tec at Mobile,' Alabama. , , ,, ( >pj 0 FT*' an tfo rK=- H- at lhe JfpFoU further information app ) gtrt et, Company’s Depot, No. 51, Nortu > ■ ‘ letter, or t’d the undersigned, by person o - jste . at the office of the Advertiser and W. G. CLARE-1 ^ glTAU newspapers publishing ^ meat one month, and calling ,i,eir re£ , $'- ; tvili receive crqdit for the same ^ (V op Ju ra, tes f '