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THETHOMASTON HERALD.
CIIAH. G. liEARCE,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
TIIQMASTON, GA., AP’L. 15,1871"
The THOM ASTON HERA LD hus a Large
Circulation In Epson, Pike, Meriwether,
Talbot, Spalding, Monroe, Bibb, Mnwogre
anJ Butts.
Who Is It.
Documents are being received at the South
under the frank of “Poster Blodgett, U. S.
Senator from Georgia.” When, where, and
by whom was this man made Senator from
Georgia? We thought fiis case was still
tinder discussion at Washington. This
must be “not that man. but another man."
The Way the People’s Money Goes.
The last financial and official exploit, of
Jlusset Boots Bullock is thus stated by the
Rome Commercial ;
“Bullock offered one thousand dollars for
the arrest of Aaron Lainb. Lamb was ar
rested; the thousand dollars paid ; and now,
in less than two months, the infamous
Governor pardons the said Lamb out of
jail.”
This Lamb must .be of the fold of the
Radical party. We do not know whether
the Lamb is a black or a while sheep. At
nny rate, lie has cost the State a round sum
to get the mischievous buck penned, and
now the Bullock turns him loose again to
commit depredations.
A New Movement.
We notice that in some parts of the coun
try, societies are being formed upon a novel
principle. The members are allowed to
drink wines and liquors themselves, hut are
pledged “not to invite any one else to drink
with them.” We are curious to see how
the thing works. Speaking of pledges, we
are reminded that many years since, in a
certain locality North of Mason and Dixon’s
Liue, a good old farmer was urged to sign
the pledge on account of the influence it
would exert. lie consented to do so with
the proviso “that he should be allowed to
take a little something warming when lie
washed his sheep,” which acc mlingto cus
tom occurred once a year, in the month of
May. Ilis name was accepted upon these
conditions, and the result was, summer and
winter there were two of the cleanest sheep
on that place to be found anywhere in the
country. The society was afterwards re
constructed.
The Reason Os It.
Many of the Northern people in the Re
publican party profess that “they cannot
understand why so many of the (sensible)
negroes South vote the Democratic ticket.”
Perhaps the following from a correspondent
of the New York Sun, (Republican author
ity), may throw some light upon the subject.
Speaking of the negroes he says:
Moreover, os they begin to have means of
their own and are required to pay taxes, they
become sensitive to the villainy of the carpet
bag governments, and disposed to revolt
ut n / itjjiiun, ivM< a tugs suc/i ex
traordinary burdens upon the people.
Make a visit South Mr. editor of the Sun
“or any other mar,” and you will soon
“know how it is yourself,” Radicalism is
played out here, Ku-Klux bills won’t save
it, Grant may as well shut up shop. Had
his “let us have peace” meant anything, he
might have been a very popular man at the
South, but it is too late now, the people of
the South want peace, ar and will have it under
a Democratic administration of the govern
ment.
The Senator from Georgia.
When in the Senate of the United States
recently, the concurrent resolution “for the
appointment of a Joint Committee to in
vestigate affairs in the South” was taken
up, we find the Georgia Senator thus
reported:
“Mr Hill doubted the necessity of organ
izing this committee of investigation, now
that a bill was pending in the Senate. He
lmd been in favor of a committee coming
down to Georgia and seeing the people for
themselves, lie was satisfied that no regu
lar Ku-Klux organization existed in Geor
gia, that there was no general lawlessness
yn that State. In the old slave belt of
Middle Georgia*—where the blacks largely
predominate—where he resided, it could be
testified by forty Northern families who had
settled there that perfect tranquillity pre
vailed, that they could travel anywhere, by
clay or night, in perfect security. lie
[ Mr. ll.] did not like to see these general
charges made against the whole South. It
was a cruel imputation upon the people of
Georgia generally to include them in these
charges. Asa mass the people of Georgia
were as good as any people under the sun.
If this commission did go to Georgia, he
wanted them to see the material evidences
of her prosperity, and they would see that
her agricultural and mechanical industry
had not been disturbed. Where crime had
occurred, it had not been in such proportion
as to interfere with her material interests.
Ha was willing for almost anything to be
done that would not interfere too much with
the liberty of the citizens, that would have
the tendency to expose and repress crime ;
but he must confess that he had as yet seen
no proposition which he thought would
amount to anything practical.
Upon this speech the Washington Patriot
thus remarks; *
Mr. Hill’s speech was very distasteful to
the Ku-Klux of. the Senate. Mr. Morton
could not conceal his dissatisfaction, for
•what is to become of all his thunder when
Representative after Representative of the
South—and Radicals at that—rise in their
places and practically proclaim his asser
tions to be destitute ot any foundation.
Notes for Slaves.
The Supreme Court of the United States
pronounced an opinion Monday that is of
vast importance in every section of the
country. In a case from Louisiana, it sus
tained the validity of notes given for the
purchase of slaves previous to the war, thus
affirming the decision below. The decis
ions of the Supreme Court are the supreme
law of the land, and the State courts are
bound to enforce them. This decision
places the makers of such.notes, who have
refused to compromise with their creditors
heretofore, in rather an unpleasant position).
A Good Speech on A Bad Subject.
In the debate recently on the Ku Klux
Bill in tbe House of Representatives at
Washingtoa Mr. Van Trump a Democratic
member from Ohio spoke as follows :
Mr. Van Trump, of Ohio, charged that
the Republican party had been guilty of in
consistency in the construction of the Con
stitution at .various times, as it was
considered to operate for or against their
retention of power. When toe Presidential
chair was occupied by Andrew J ihnson it
was subverted to bring the Executive into
submission to the Legislative branch of the
Government, and now when the same chair
is tilled by a military chieftain, elevated
into power without the education or expe
rience necessary far tbe position—a man on
horseback —it was sought to set aside the
Constitution to give him despotic power.
The causes which led to the rebellion
were peculiar. The heated and aciimot.i*
ous debated which occurred in these haHs
between a Huyneand a Webster and a Clay
were but the conflicts of mind that preced
ed the shocks of Antietam and Gettysburg.
lie examined the debates upon the adop
tion of the Constitution, to show that the
same differences of opinion prevailed even
at that day, and said that while he had
never admitted or believed in the doerrine of
secession, there was much that might be
urged in palliation of the cause of the South
which should lead to a spirit of forgiveness
and reconciliation. In the administration of
mercy the question of who begau the war
cannot be considered, although it might be
left for history to record whether John
Brown, at Harper's Ferry, or Gdstavus T.
Beauregard, at Charleston, fired the first
gun ; and it might be, that, as time reveal
ed the true history of the contest, it would
be written that it commenced long before
either event. The bill now proposed was
the most gigantic attempt to establish the
one-man power that was ever attemped in
any country whh a written constitution,
entirely at variance with the spirit of the
Constitution and the intention of the found
ers of the Government.
That the C •institution gave power to sus
pend the habeas Corpus lie did not question,
.hut he claimed that it vested wholly in the
legislative, and not with the executive,
branch of the Government. Even in Great
Britain this power lay with Parliament,
and not with the Crown, and this, he claim
ed, was the view taken by the fathers of
the Republic aud the most eminent jurists
of the country. This view was taken by
President Jefferson, who sent a message to
Congress, asking them to suspend the writ
of habeas corpus. If this power could be
delegated to tbe President, why not dele
gate to him the power to levy taxes, raise
armies, make war, and all the other powers
held by them ? It was a settled principle
that no power held in trust could be delegat
ed, and this, he held, was a power of that
character.
But he held even Congress had not the
power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
in a state of affairs like that represented by
the President in his message. That power
was 0 1 lv%i ven by the Constitution in case
of rebellion, and that instrument made a
wide distiction between rebellion and in
surrection.
In conclusion, be appealed *o the mem
bers on the other side, who had been once
Whigs, to remember the ground taken bv
that party, and supported bv the eloquence
of a Webster and a Clay, in opposition to
Executive usurpations.
Tiie Ku-Klux Rian.
The Courier-Journal affirms that the Ku-
Klux Kian, as it was originally constituted,,
has been dissolved and is no longer in ex
istence. What now goes under the name
is simply gangs of thieves and rnaurauders,
without organization, without any relation
between the different bands, and without
any other purpose than plunder. The
Courier-Journal gives the following,account
of the original Ku-Klux:
“The Ku-Klux Ivlan was peculiarly of
Southern origin, and was intended to conn
eract the ‘Grand Army of the Republic’
and the ‘Loyal League/ and for the better
protection of the families of Southern men
from the depredations of tbe robbers turned
loose on society’afier the war. Their object
was to protect, not to depredate ; to buiid
up, not to destroy. As evidence of their
motives—peace and good order—the oath
which each member took upon himself was
a pledge to ‘support the Constitution as
given ns by our forefathers, and to protect
the weak against tbe strong.’
“This shows that it was only the disturb
ers of the public peace, the land-pirates
who follow close upon the heels of such
disorganization of society as ensues afrer a
long war, who had any cause to fear the
terrible bugbear of Kukluxism.
‘ Its name was suggested by the noise
which the old army musket makes when
springing the lock and discharging the
piece. Ku Klux Klang—the first two
syllables made by the lock, the last was the
bang, or clang, of the discharge, the final
‘g’ being afterwards dropped for the sake of
euphony.
“Their signs and grips were few and
simple. A member was recognized by re
turning twice a gentle pressure of the hand,
or when hand shaking was not practicable,
passing the fingers of the right hand gently
through the hair, in response to a like mo
tion from the inquirer.
“The Klan was organized, as before
stated, in a sentiment of peace and good
will to all and malice toward none. It
was established by the very best men in
tbe country, the.leaders of the Confederate
armies, and expended from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande. It was composed of men
who loved peace for its own sake; it was a
perfect knight errantry of the Southern
States, as harmless and intend and to be far
more useful and subservient of good morals
than the Loyal League and the Grand
Army.”
Legality of the Income Tax.
Henry E. Davis, Jonathan Sturges, Au
gust Belmont, John Jacob Astor, Ptter
Cooper, Wm. Cullen Bryant, and numerous
other well known gentlemen of New York,
have issued an address in which they an
nounce their purpose to test the legality of
the Income Tax. The address states that
the tax is continued by flag; ant breach of
faith, the terms of the act being express
that it should be “levied and collected un
til and including the year 187 and no
longer is unconstitutional ex be
ing neither duty, impost, nor excise, which
burdens are alone to be constitutionally
made uniform as this is. no other tax being
allowable unless according to tbe principles
of electorial appointment, which this is not ;
and that it should be resisted now. so that
present acquiescence may give no eolur for
it to harden into future permanency.
Sarcastic on “Little ltlio<lic. M
They have engaged two hacks for the
purpose of taking the Rhode Island voters
to the polls at the next State election.
Plain Talk.
They was not a man of sound sense in
the United States, at the close of the war,
who did not know that the best—indeed the
only effectual—way to restore the South to
a state of peace and order, was to leave it
to itself, with unobstructed freedom, on
the part of the people, to repair their social
and political condition. That they were
not permitted to do this, was due, partly, to
blind fanaticism, but more to party reckless
ness and dishonesty. Peace and order at
the South were sacrificed for the real of im
aginary exigencies of the Republican parry,
end the cupidity of the horde of desperate
politicians and worthless camp-followers
which it had enlisted and patronized. The
anarchy that now prevails was bespoken.
The Republican leaders wanted an excuse
for bolding the South in a state of subjec
tion and disfranchisement, and they got it ;
with no gain to the country, unless it was
a gain to elect a President whose term, thus
far, has been spent in showing that he was
unfit f r the place, and a Congress which
afforded to tbe country the only relief it
was capable to afford, when it expired.
The present condition of the South is the
palpable effect of the purely party measures
which were employed to place it in that
condition. Philanthropic fanaticism, which
is even more reckless and cruel than party
rapacity, came in with its bitier malice
concealed under a mask of pretended ben
evolence to heap upon the helpless South
every possible element of disorder. The
people were represented to be in love with
anarchy ; to be destitute of that desire for
tranquility which is common to every hu
man being who has anything to lose, or
anything to snffer, from a state of social
dislocation. Under a false pretense of pun
ishing disloyalty, the conservative element
of Southern society was kept in a state of
suppression, while the dangerous element
was encouraged to agitate and encroach,
and make itself as obnoxious as possible.
It is not to be supposed that such wrong*,
as these do not react upon those by whom
they are committed. In a <Liff:rent, but io
a not less dangerous, way the North has
becorrm demoralized by them. For a polit
ical party to be dish >nest upon another, is,
in the nature of things, impossible. Power
wrongfully gained is always wrongfully
used. If there were not retributions at
tached as consequences to wicked acts, there
would be no such thing as a moral govern
ment in the world ; and the difference be
tween right an 1 wrong would be impalpa
ble. These things gave us an untrusty
Congress and an incapable President. It
leaded the Republican party with the dis
credit which attaches to its headstrong,
grasping and dishonest actuaries. It has
given us legislative encroachment, unfaith
fulness and extravagance. It has turned
government aside from the purpose for
which it was constructed, and made it an
implement to minister to base greed and
unhallowed ambition.— Chicago Republi
can.
Kcsitjua i sou.
The resignation of Judge Gonder, which
vve publish below, will speak f>r itself.
We believe many “doubt the legality of the
acts of the District Court” as well as Judge
Gonder, and question its constitutionality,
but hear the Judge himself:
Milledgevillk. April 4, 1871.
Governor R. B. Bullock —Dear Sir : -I
have had for Sometime seri >us doubts as to
the constitutionality <>f- the District Court,
and the legality of the official acts of its
Judges, and on m .lure n flection ha*<" u me
to the conclusion that the act of the 28:h
October, 1870, organizing the court, was a
special or local act, having excepted twen
ty of the forty-four Senatorial distrets,
whilst th« constitution, in its provisions for
the court, required a general law (A court
for each district.) And in the second place.
I learn that the act was pa-0 after forty
days had expired, without a two thirds vote
for its prolongation, which is palpably in
violation of the plainly exjyessed terms of
the.constitution, f know that an interpre
tation of the constitution, by some, makes
the third session the second one, but the
trouble is. the constitution donj say so.
And in the third place, I am neither a de
jure nor a de facto Judge, because my nom
ination was not confirmed by the Senate.
The Governor has the power to fill vacancies
occurring otherwise than by death or resig
nation. bir it shoul 1 be done according to
law, allowing thata*vacancy can occur where
the office had never been previously tilled
yet the Governor’s power to fill vacancies
applies only where there is no other mode
of filling them pointed out by law. Now this
very act organizing the court points anoth
er mode, to-wit, appointment by the Gov
ernor and enate.
You will, therefore, please accept my
resignation. Yours respectfully,
Jo.-ettt B Gonder.
The Connecticut Election.
Iu regard to this election, in which En
gli.-h was the Democratic, and Jewell the
Republican candidates for Governor, the
result of which is so near a tie that the
official count of votes can alone decide it,
the New York Sun (Republican) says:
Forewarned, Gov. Jewell was f rearmed.
As soon as he heard the thunder ot the
Democratic guns from the Granite State, he
let Grant slide, with his San Domingo
swindle, his unconstitutional Ku Klux pro
gramme to secure his renominatioo, and
especially the outrage upon Senator Sum
ner.
Other causes contributed to strengthen
Jewell. Whenever the negroes iu any State
vote for the first or even the second time,
they go almost in a body for the Republi
cans. This is natural, and it is ern ditnble
to them. So soon, however, as they b“gin
to find that no special benefit accrues from
aa exclusive support of Republican mini -
nees, a portion of them fall off, like other
classes, to the Democratic party, ns has
been exhibited in the Southern States.
Now, the twelve or fifteen hundred negroes
of Connecticut voted for the tirit time on
Monday ; and of course, while a fragment
went f >r English, the mass supported Jew
ell. This alone «wept away the 800 major
ity which English received hist year.
Indeed, but for this negro vote, the Repub
lican defection from Grant and his meas
ures was sufficient, in spite <>j Jewell’s
great personal popularity and of his mu*
tious repudiation of Grant, and his policy,
to have given English jit least u thousand
majority.
Ilotv Tl»ey Voletl.
On the passage of th* iriiquit ms Ku-Klux
bill in the House lust Thursday, the Geor
gia delegation voted ns follows ; For the
bitl. Big by and White, (Bads,) Against it
Dußose, Meiutry and Young, (Hems.)
Brice, (Derm) from the flth district, did not
vote, having paired off with Runnel), (Rad.)
from Minnesota. lie would have voted
nay if ho hud boon present. Speer, (Had.)
from this district did not voto «t nil, and,
we luppowe, may bo classed as “dodging.”
Synopsis of Telegraphic News
DOMESTIC.
Washington, April 10.—In the* Semite
to-day Mr Carpenter spoke against seating
Blodgett. Trumbull, in Course <f the de
bate, called for the reading of Blodgett's
credentials, which were found defective as
to when and by whom be was elected.
Cameron called for Trumbull's creden*
tia 1 8, asserting that they would be found
equally defective. Trum-bull's were read.
They contained a full statement of when,
how and by whom he was elected. The
little crowd of disappointed Republicans
had a general laugh over the denoument.
W AsniNGTON, April 10.—The amnesty
bill which passed the House this evening
by a vote of 134 to 46 excepts those who
were inembers of Congress, officers of the
army and navy who left to join the rebel
lion, and members of the State conventions
who voted for the ordinance of secession.
The bill was supported by all the Demo era's
and many of the leading Republic iris.
Among the Southern Republicans who
voted nay are Mayuard, Wallace, Porter
and Elliott.
The amnesty bill passed under a suspen
sion of tlfe rules. [Applause on the llour
and galleries.
Washington, April 11. —ln the Senate
the Blodgett and Gnldthwaite case was
tabled, and will probably not come up again
Uiis session. Robertson gave notice that he
would call up the House amnesty bill at an
early day. The discussion of the ICu-klux
bill is progressing.
Washington, April 12.—At the second
session of the Southern Claims Commis
sion several cases were set for further
hearing. The Commission considered tiie
claim of Sixth Auditor Martin, for articles
taken from his plantation in Alabama dur
ing Grierson's raid.
Public notice is given of the desire of the
Commission to have the petitions addressed,
‘ For Allowance of Claims," accompanied
by all the writteu evidence, of whatever
character, in possession of the claimants.
They also decided that their rules did not
require the iron clad oath to be attached to
the petitions or to be wholly in writing,
but that a printed form may be used.
Senate —Sherman’s resolution instruct
ing the Finance Committee to consider
during recess the best system of reducing
taxes, was adopted. Robertson moved to
amend the order of business, so as to allow
a consideration on the House Amnesty bill.
Edmunds objected, and it goes over till
to-morrow. The Ku Klux bill was debated
without a voting.
House. —Resumed, the Deficiency Ap
propriation bill The Senate amendment,
appropriating $12,000 for the benefit of the
destitute aged persons in the District of
Columbia, was concurred in. A long dis
cussion ensued on the amendment repealing
the law requiring Congress to meet on
March 4th, out r,o action. The amendment
had passed, but is being reconsidered.
Richmond, April 12 —The suit for $5,-
000 damages instituted in the United States
Court by Judge J. P. Wright, colored, of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina,
against the Richmond and Danville Rail*
road, was compromised this morning by
the payment of $1,200 by the Railroad to
the plaintiff. The damages claimed by the
plaintiff, on the ground that he was forcibly
ejected f-om it first-class caron said road,
solely on account of color, notwithstanding
that he held a first-class ticket. The case
was partially heard yesterday.
FOREIGN.
Paris, x\pril 10.—Unless the Germans
save us Paris must soon swim with bio and.
The Commune hourly grows more desper
ate, and resorts to fierce excusses. The
Concierge is filled with priests and nuns
who have been arrested on warrants calling
them citizens styled the servants of the
person called God.
Archbishop Durfoy was stripped naked
and bound to a pillar aod scourged and
mocked for two hours by a band of two
hundred Reds.
Paris, April 11.—The cannonade before
Paris has recommenced, and*many shells
are falling about Porte Maillot and in the
Champs Elysoes.
The women of Paris have been invited to
form military organizations for the defense
of the city.
Extract/from file Speech of Mr. Beck, of
Kentucky, Against the Ku-klux Bill.
I hold in my hand a volume of evidence
taken before us relative to ku-klux and
e ther outrages in Georgia. Men, white and
black, appeared before the committee,
claiming to be persecuted because of their
loyalty, and told tales of horrid out
rages commuted by ku-klux and rebels on
loyal men that made the blood run cold
Some of them swore that they had been
beaten with clubs, whipped with cowhides,
and forced to leave the country ; that the
courts and juries refused them justice; in
short, told tales precisely like those manu
factured and retailed now, so like that I
sometimes suppose the current series are
copied from the old set. The committee
was horrified. Authority was given to take
the affidavits ot the judges and other lead
ing men of Georgia. One hundred and
eight gentlemen responded, embracing a'l
the judges of their supreme and ether courts.
The sneak-thieves who bad sworn to such
monstrous outrages were convicted of the
boldest and- most infamous perjury, and
they slunk away from the committee-room
like detected robbers or sheep-killing dogs.
The committee ceased .to consider the
ease and threw the evidence asb’e and it
was only published on my motion, as I was
determined the world should know what
infamous scoundrels the Freedmen’s Bu
reau agents, loyal leagues, and other vam
pires were, who had overrun the South to
rob and plunder her people aud shield
themselves under the pretence of loyalty.
It is Miscellaneous Document No. 32, third
session of the Fortieth Congress. The
proof there made saved Georgia at the time
from the attempted reconstruction, though
the President usurped the power afterward
to reconstruct her again under Gen. Terry,
as 1 shall show hereafter.
Frctl. Dougina on Sumutr and San Do.
iningo.
'I be Washington Republican gives an
account of an Interview between one of its*
reporters and Frederick Douglas, as fol
lows :
“Fred. Douglass was enthsiastic in favor
of annexation. Speaking of Senator Sum
nor, he said : 'lie is uow the greatest ene
,my of the colored race. The arm of Dem
ocratic hate raised to strike at the liberties
of our people finds its inspiration in the
utterance of Senator Sumner. He has been
the object of my greatest admiration, but
he is now doing the work of our most im
placable foe—the Democratic party'.
Don glum# is satisfied with Dominica, and
believes it would be a valuable acquisition
to this country ”
Butler said he “could go through the
South." Ilis spoons attest that he has been
“through” it already. —Boston Post.
State News.
The taxation of La Grange, Ga., is one
dollar on every thousand.
Savannah shipped $J94;885 worth of
cotton to Liverpool one day last week.
Thomson hae a school which boasts of a
daily attendance of two hundred pupils.
Cobb county will have an agricultural
fair at Marietta on the 15th.
Columbus merchants think they have
done a pretty brisk business during the
past six months.
Augusta has a plan on foot to establish a
City Park on Green street, between Monu
ment and Center streets.
The Marietta Paper Mill Company has
rebuilt its mill, wltich was destroyed by
fire las! November, and commenced the
manufacture of newspaper.
The new passenger depot in Atlanta will
be completed in a few days. It is said to
be one of the handsomest structures of the
kind in the Uuited States.
Mr. O. 11. Jones, a prominent livery
stable man of Atlanta, purchased one hun
dred head of mules in St. Louis, the other
day, for the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road.
The Phi Kappa Society of the University
of Georgia has chosen ex-Senator Millor to
deliver the annual address before the two
literary societies of that institution, at the
commencement in August.
* A Mr. Dean, from EJgfield, S. C., was
robbed in Augusta, by a negro who volt n
teerei “to show him round," during which
performance he got drunk, and his pocket
book vamoosed. No matter for him.
We never saw a finer prospect for a big
wheat crop than there is at the present time.
The breadth sown in this county is hardly
so great as last year, but it will average
with the seasons since the war.— Forsyth
Advertiser.
The Savannah News says: “A strang-r
attempted to have a forged cheek cashed by
the Savannah Bank and Trust Company.
Thursday last. The forgery was detected
but in the mean time the stranger made off
and had not, been arrested. The check
purported to be signed by Messrs. Purse &
Thomas.
Some of our large farmers have com
menced planting cotton this week. While
it is true that much more corn and small
grain has been planted than last year, our
best information is to the effect that the
acreage in cotton will about equal that of
last year. Ench plantar seems trying to
fool his neighbor. We have made careful
inquiry, and this appears to be the average
dondition of affairs in this section.—* Colum
bus Sun.
The Eatonton Press and Messenger says :
“Mr. L. J. Barnard, a justice of the peace
of this county, married on the 21st nltimo
a colored couple—Booker '-Jokes and Tiney
Howard—whose combined age is one hun
dred and fifty eight years. Stoke has seen
eighty-two summers, and his partner, Tin
ey, has trudged along through seventy-six
years ; though enfeebled by age. they are
said to be looking forward for many fruit
ful years of married bliss."
We had the pleasure of examining yes
terday at the H I Kimball House, a very
beautiful silk banner, about six feet by
five, bearing the following inscriptions,
which explain themselves: “Presented bv
11. I. Kimball, E-q., under the award of
the State Agricultural Society of Georgia,
A. D. 18T0. tor the best average and great
est variety of products." On the reverse,
“Philadelphia Agricultural Society of Clay
ton County." The banner is composed of
.the finest blue silk, the lettering and orna
ments being in gold. The staff, which is
of oak, is surmounted with sv handsome
eagle, from which hangs substantial bullion
cord which inns down each side of the
banner and termina'e in two tassels. The
top and bottom of the banner are also orna*»
mented with bullion fringe. It is a rich
and costly present. New Era.
The Invasion of the Capitol*
Yerilv, there is progress ! In ancient
days, if a President had so far forgotten
propriety as during a discussion of the pol
icy of his Administration to have come on
the floor of either House, or reported him
self in attendance in the corridors or apart
ments which belong to it or them, he would
have been denounced without hesitation.
On Thursday last the President, accompa
nied by his aids of the Treasury and Navy,
not soldiers yet, came to the Capitol. Then,
according to a “loyal" witness, “various
Senators were sent for. among them Messrs.
Wilson, Pomeroy, Morton, and Chandler,
and several members of the House, includ
ing Messrs. Maynard and Mercur. They
were an hour or more in consultation. The
result was, a rnesage to both Houses, re
commencing legislation in view of the dis
turbances at the South !" “Senators were
sent j or and they went, and a hybrid cau
cus was held, and a message was concoct
ed f The “master" did not like to venture
into the Senate Chamber. He is a modest
man. Few as are the Democrats there,
they are brave, determined men, who would
to his face have denounced the intrusion,
Mr. Sumner was there, and at that Very
moment on his feet. Judge Trumbull and
Senator Patterson, men not to be trifled
with, were there, and they yet “stand by
their order." So he whistled, or touched
a bell, or, in royal phrase, ordered the at
tendance of his “faithful Commons," and,
lo ! Wilson and Pomeroy and Morton and
Chandler, hilarious henchmen, obeyed the
g»11, and the message was reshaped.— Wash.
Patriot.
Tlie lion. Gideon Welles.
The Hon. Gideon Welles, of Connecticut,
who was in the Cabinet of Abraham Lin
coln from first to last, and who now declares
that he is a Republican, is-out in a strong
letter against the policy pursued by Gener”
al Grant and the Radical party, towards the
States and'people of the South. lie declares
“it the people of the States respectively
cannot make and execute their own laws',
but are to be governed and controlled in
their local municipal affairs by a central
power, then American Democracy and
American Republ canism are mere shams
and delusions." He also denounces the
plea of necessity set up by the Radicals as
an excuse of their acts, and says that this
is'always the tyrant’s plea for crime, op
pression and wrong
M'hat is in a Name.
The Courier-Journal insists that while
sensible Republicans at the North don’t
like the name of St ite rights, they are real
ly falling in love with the thing. ‘ Our con
temporary thinks if it could be called by
any other name—one that does not .smell o's
“Southern rights," “scepticism," &c.—it
would command a strong party among the
Redublicans, many of whom see the coun
hy going to perdition under the centralizing
policy ot their party. c
Pcnn.ylvn.il,
Our telegraphic despatch,, rev . *
ble condition of thiols at tin i ld ‘ ■
Scranton, Pennsylvania w k;!r m I
mend to the careful coasiflerah,,, ?* ■
Scott, chairman of the Invest; v M
rnittee. He has exercised hi* r"* - J
sacrificed all claims to candor ,a ° e l ?
in manufacturing a huge v„l Utr '' r f fa * |
ded outrages in North Carofi,'
which, so far as they have „,' v )' " ■
whatever, were perpetrated J ■
ruffians like Kirk and
summoned here as
the peaceful people whom they
dered and persecuted in every r .,, r '■
We undertake to say that the m ' I
ton, which now riots in ex Ce , s . 1 'i®
mines, exceeds, both'in I
all the so called Ku-klux outrii ■
Carolina, with its million or u,"! r /' ‘B
lation, for a whole year past t* ' : ■
ter a thousand strong, are well r
besides brutally murdering ... C fl
citizens, have blown up several,'F' ■
mines and utterly ruined the »■
the Radical press from Maine t
would have shouted over an “ outr o "fl
this in Pennsylvania, had it oocurr-. I
the Potomac 1 What a feast it w ■
hoen for the party of “ m iral pL
Washington Patriot. fl
Tlic Way They Do it.
The Manchester (X. H ) Ui,j i)n
“In a town not very far distant, a V*.'
tried to get no kottrnt lirinz, f, r
nnk family, by binding shoes, wj,
took to her home. She had a lot r
finished on election day. Soon aft.*
were taken away, in their unfinished
dition, because the lady’s husband tov ?
the Democratic candidate for Govcr
‘The lond of the free, and the hump f
brave!’"
]N[EW /OVERTISEMEtyT?,
Tax Collector's Notice.
To Tax Payers of tlie 589th Dis.
I HILL be at Ilootenville on fie A .
instant, for the purpose of collecting Seh.
oft the taxable property of said f>99th District ‘
county. .JAMES lIOLI Iv i\ ‘
apfii 5-2 t Tax Coli!
Doyal
Law, Griffin. Ga. WfH practice in nil tpJ
til's comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit and
-of Meriwether, Clayton, Fayette »ni
Will practice in the 8u prenip Court of Ge, ir . a ’
DtetrfetConrt of the United States iorthe North
South ern Districts of Georgia
A. D. NUNXAI.LY. [apl 15-1 y] LT ,
P EORGr A—UPSON county-KU
V V William T. Cowles applies for the Ailmirs--
of the estate of Mrs A. M. Cowles, late of mu ]
deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish thek -■■
and creditors to show cause it any they lm. .
first Monday in dune next, why the prayer of tVy
, tioner should not be granted
Given under my hand, this 10th day of \prl k
nplls-td WM. A.’COBB. Ordiwi
GRANT II OF Si
GEO. W. GRANT, Proprietor.
a II IFFIN E O RG IA
r f^HOUGHOUT the S f a'o. Griffin bus
1 been justly ce ehra'ed for its high nmnl •
cultivated and intellectual society, excellent <<•'
chnrehes. and healthful c imate.' These jvtun’n
together with easy access by rail from all parts'.
State, have rendered it a favorite
SUMMER RESORT.
The above named Hotel is centrally located, wit!,m i
minutes walk of the Depot, and in close proximo
most off lir schools and churches. Board V/ Od »C
The rabies will be furnished with the belt the mart
affords. Persons stopping at the Grant House tree
sured that everything will be done to n-n.br '
sojourn pleasant. aprills-tf
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