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She UcJJttffie gcnrnal.
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Wednesday, April 24, 1872.
Thu Content Ojx.n*
Ins:.
Thi>re can be no powible doubt but that the
!jmp»tbiter» of ttnmtaud but tncL'ou or* already
making deaperale efforts to tenure his reuouiinalion.
fiirate l-tters frow prominent Radicals are being
roDMienily sddr.-aued to lending Southern men ask
ing for au Mpnxeioii of epiiiion as to what ccumo
the Bemocraoy will be likely l<> take in case • t the
nomination of a Liberal Repnaiican Candidale ? It
sUI g <1 that the Democracy «po» “square imraes”
( annul pomibty carry the election, m ease a D-uio-
Oraiio camlalnte is brought in the Held, hence these
leading spirits are de-nrout to know what part the
Democracy will play in this grand national drama.
For our part we have no confidence, at all, in the
new I. lieral It pulilu au movement, and can nee no
UiUcrenoe between the Mine and that of ganuiue
tirnnl Impetinlmm.
Wo do not be iove that t lie true Demon acy wil
le sold in (he coming election, but will -laud squire
up to its old t ioie-booored creed. If the Do nocracy
< aunol succeed in the coming fight the party will
tw more glorious in defeat than to blnckea its reoord
ly n coalition ailb the oniuuru to C'on.tliaiional
liberty.
f Communicated, ]
OIK rROUIICNKIVE! H FI
FO 1C NATION.
Good HO star, t>ltt muoli nhond
-to hr ilono.
Edito' S ok McDukfik Journal :
I am no luvvyer, nor dlo I propose to
keep posted as to the many laws that
at each successive session of the Gene
ral Assembly of our State are a Ided to
the long list on the statute books. Some
are ultered in part, certain sections
struck out entire, radically changed.
Again, Benton’s expunging lines ore
drawn around others in their totality :
thus making it difficult for even those
whose business it is to keep pace with
the changes, to keep up with this con
stant —constant change. The spirit of
i hangu is abroad in tlie land, and in
these too frequent manipulations of our
.Statute Laws, it is plain to bo seen, and
manifest that the good and the general
interest of the State aro not inquired
into, while the real motives governing
arc of a stilish and parti/an character.
Many laws arc on our statute books,
doubtless, that, should not bo; and again,
thero muy bo the sin of omiss'.on laid at
cur doors. The complectiou of the latu
Radical Legislature, und the animus of a
majority of its members precluded the
idea of an udoption of a well digested
and properly coacusved Code. Up to
that, time we were living under and
governed by a wise, wmdesome system
pmv laws, modified to suit our change !
condition. ! Our Slave Code was altered
to conform to tho emancipation and the
c itizenships of that portion of our popu
lation. Tho Courts were ojemd to
them where they might sue ano be sueJ,
their rights maintained. But while
they wore made subjects ol tho law, and
subject to the law, it win not :Ireamed
of in our philosophy that they were to
become forthwith and without any sort
of preparation, counselors, lawgivers
ami legislators. \Vhut was to be ex
pected from a Legislature composed of
ignorant negroes, and thieving, spiteful,
lean and hungry carpet-baggers, aud
miserable scalawags, but bungling legis
lation and the adopt,on of a disgraceful
set of laws. Tho present Democratic
Legislature, though very much ham
pdh'd in their action, in view of the
complex relationships of the State with
the General Government, revised cor
rected, muilo a great improvement on
the jurisprudence ofour Stat.\ They
Intd hulore them a Herculian task the
col lection of errors aud of abuses ol the
Bullock, Blodgett, McCoy, Lochrune
and Farrow Ring, with their ac
complices in the Legislative Department.
The forty days expired betoie it was
possible for these good men and true
to bring out ol ebaos this mass of cor
ioption and fraud, and to restore the
outraged Code of the State to a sound
legal Constitutional basis, while u
wholesale system of peculations uud
bauds were iuai gu rated and carried oil
by the higher officials; there were others,
outsiders, jwrticej* criminal to this State
plundering, lot whose names were as
yet shb rom. But time, the great de
veloper, will bring out iti the Hash that
which is in the bone. Agu Ity govern
or. one who has been noting in the
llesh pots, whose robes are reeking in
the filth of corruption and dislu nor
tearing investigation of his official de
partment, and the verdict of an honest
tribunal, vacates the ollicc and Hats the
State. He throw’s his tarnished mantle
upon a woithy successor—worthy to be
the friend of such a man, but unworthy
the high office. With this tool in pow
er, bucked up as be hopes he will be by
the tyrannous powers at Washington,
he leaves Conley to hold the bag w’hiie
lie has vamoosed with thecontents. For
this high honor conferred, thus holJtug
an empty bag, the grateful usurper not
t nly attempts to carry out the orders oi
bis master, but has the brazen attrontery
to proclaim the absconded governor—
absconding because he kuovvs tie is
guilty aud desevres puuishiueut--an hon-
! cat man, unjusfy persecuted. But
.fortunately for the renagade and hia ;
foul administration, but fortunately for j
the State, the power that be shrank
from this stretch of power, and refused .
to enterfere in and oppose the will of
our people os expressed through the
ballot box ; so the userper had to walk
the plank, and James M. Smith, the
I people's choice, our worthy Governor
i inaugurated, and now honors the office
while the office honors him. To him has
, lately been restored the Great Seal of
I the State, which that Noble Old Ro
man, Charles J. Jenkins, in conformity
with his oath of office responsive to the
honeest, patriotic impulses of an honest
heart had preserved inviolate arid free
from the contaminating touch, aud vio
lating hands of those who had usurped
authority. I have pronoun ed this
good and great rnan—he, who in the
lace of bayonets and Federal swords,
grunted not, and feared nothing but to
do wrong—that noble, noble Old Ro
man, I will change the title, and sub
stitute there for a prouder distinction,
and call him that noble, true, old Geor
gian—a type even above that the world
accorded to Rome’s best citizen in her
palmiest days. He has been near and
dear to Georgia’s big heart for lo these
many years ; but this last net perhaps
in his pclitical carreer, has made him
nearer and dearer to his people, and in his
voluntary retirncy from the political are
na, he carries with him the sincere affec
tionate devotion and best wishes of every
true Georgian. A State that he ever loved,
and whose honor and best interest were
always und to the last safe in his keep
ing. What a beautiful commentary is
here presented. Contrast the acts,
private and official, of this true man with
some of Georgia’s recreant sons in high
places. While some from the summit
of the mountain viewed the green fields
of clover below where they might “live
all over” (but now they are dead I, for
one, hope they may “die all over”) to
the smaller fry, who took all that was
allowed them—all, all have shown that
they are unworthy of trust. These (but
I am proud in the belief that this charge
is applicable to but comparatively few)
were willing to sell their birth-right
and barter away the honor of the State
for a small mess of pottage, served up
and concocted in the leaky, miserable
shunty—the gambling depot ol Federal
fiovver and bayonet-rule. These few,
o the manor born, either in the fenr ol
punishment, or in the hopes, yea, the
promise of reward, abandoned their State
to join tho thieving Vandals in a cru
sude of wrong, usurpations and tyran
nies, such as the world never before
witneeßsed even in the dark.st of tho
dark ague. This is no sweeping chjjrge
made by at» interested witness, uu
sustuined by my other testimony,
i place upon the witness'stand an out
sider, one whose testimony should be
respected, because lie speaks what he
has seen, and what he knows. I com
mend to tho reading public in Ois and
trans-Atlantic America, to every man
of every clime who has the sense to dis
tinguish between right and wrong, and
the heart to appreciate the one and con
demn the other, the late speech of the
lion. Daniel W. Vorhees, of Indiana,
in the Congress of the United States,
aud in the faces of the very men who
helped to inaugurate and carry on this
vile and infamous onslaught on a help
less people whoso only crime was they
failed to establish the Right/ Yea, I
may say a speech delivered under the
very shadow of tho White House—
once a V\ hite House in verity, but now
thrown in the shade, and white only
from paint on the outside, but black
within with tho dark deeds, infamous
conceptions and awful responsibilities
in bloody tragedies. Mr. Vorhees
speaks from the card, f r he was one of
the Ku-Klux Investigating Committee,
(in minority, of course,) to investigate
and report upon tho actual ‘Condition
and status of the Southern States.—
With tho pencil of the painter, he
paints a picture true to life. It cannot
be said of a truth that there is too much
red in his brush, for we who have been
the sufferers, and are the real characters
represented by this master in his art,
know that the half has not been told.
He speaks with the tongue of eloquence,
aud in his b'.il of indictment —yes,
“Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
Which in a set hand, fairly is engrogssed!”
with the caption significant and true—
it reads : “Plundering of tlovon States
by the Radical Party ! ’ In this speed)
he presents to the world an organized
system of infamy, outlawry, and specu
lations sufficient to damn to eternal in
famy IJ. 8. Grant and ail his blood and
marriage kin, and the entire party,
which like oaron-crows have been flut
tering on the carcasses that they have
stayed. U. S. Grant was a poor whis
ky drinkiug hemlock tanner of leather
at the begnning of the war. To day he
can count Lis wealth by hundreds of
thousands. Rufus B. Bullock, an ex
press agent, paying only a pole tax
when he proclaimed himself, by a swin
dle, Governor of Georgia—flees the
State—having fleeced her treasury, and
made nabobs of many who like himself
were mere worshipers at the shrine of
mammon. Mr. Vorhees deserves the
thanks of our people, and I hope the
Legislature at its next session will pay
him the respect that is due to one who
had the courage to speak the truth.—
But we have passed from darkness to
light; the locusts of Egypt have passed
leaving the soil of Georgia, and anew
era is being inaugurated. The small
men. but big thieves, who of late have
been figuring in our down trodden State
and holding high carnival in the “Tem -
pie Baal,” or Bullock, for we dow»
here don't ionw “tothe?«fr<|m which,”
;they are so much alike, these men have
had their day. Georgia stands redeem
ed, regenerated and disenthralled from
the yoke of bondage and the strayiings
of a carpet-bag oligarchy, and is now in
the hands and under the guidance of her
own chosen officers. Am I not then
justified in saying that our reformation
is progressive and good so far. We
are now in the Legis
lature adjourned to a given day, in or
der that we may await the action of the
present Congress now in session. When
that body re-assembles it will continue
the good work arid not stop short, it is
hoped and expected by its constit
uents, of bringing to justice and to the
bar of an honest tribunal all these cul
prits. The statute-book must be thor
oughly revised, and wten our layvs are
passed they should be ele fibred. ‘Have
this understood, and have it proclaimed
that Executive pardons will not now de
feat the ends of justice, and wc may ex
pect fewer crimes committed. While
our State, as a whole, is law abiding,
and her citizens laudably engaged in the
reclaimation of their lost fortunes, there
are now and then instances of violations
of law by men who are too lazy to
work, yet willing to steal. Such char
acters are common in all countries after
all great revolutions. They come some
times in the guise of gentlemen, and in
sinuating themselves into our midst,
command our sympathies and our en
dorsement. Strangers in our midst,
refugeeing from a neighboring State, by
reciting the great wrongs that have
been perpetrated upon them by the
Radical party, they are ftttofred with
warm hearts and open doors. We are
sometimes very much imposed uptn in
this way; they prove to be wolves in
sheep’s clothing. These men should be
severely dealt with wherever and
whenever found. The South is pecu
liarly exposed to the visits of these im
posters. The heart of the South is
open to receive all who are fleeing from
injustice and misrule. A stranger, he
comes among us—a refugee from home
and prosperity, which lie says has been
ruthlessly despoiled or by the hand of
power taken away from him. lie finds
here an asylum and a welcome that is
defied him in his own State. With
these representations, wltfckare
toms iutdunces
gains acm-ss to our bear voeretjfjpffij'
endorsed by some of our best citizens.
Not only is reform neeued in our laws,
but also in our society. The strong
s tfe-guards that were once (jjniwn
aronnd our sacred altars have been
slackened. The care and vigil which
were once exercised and depended on to
keep its spotless ermine pure ami unde
tiled, is uow in a great degree lessened.
Ours is not the recherche circle which
was once the boast of the F. F. Gs.
This comes as one of the sad results of
the war. Wars are always demorali
zing in their tendencies ; hut we are
now fast rising from the dust, the ashes
and the smouldering ruins of our late
revolution, and as we are thus recupe
rating, one by one will we lop off these
excrescences and fungi whieh infect the
government or society, nnd in a Jew
years it will be the pleasure, as well as
the duty of Georgia's historiau to write
her as enjoying the fair motto that em
blazons her coat of arms.
S. Q. Lai'ius.
A. Warrant Immimml for the
Arrest of llulloek.
Governor Hoffman , of New York , Quibbles
Before Approving a Requisition. The
Bird Flown.
The Augusta Constitutionalist con
tains a brief notice of the fact that a
a warrant for Bullock's arrest was out.
The tacts have been in our posessiou
lor some time, but withheld for reasons
of sound policy. It is unfortunate that,
the matter has crept into the newspa
pers at this stage of the game.
As the matter is out, we give the de
tails.
The mortgage of $(50,000 on the
State Housa bought from Kimball was
not discovered until after the pur
chase. Kimball secured the State by a
deposit of $120,000 of Atlanta city
bonds in the Executive office. These
bonds were abstracted by Bullock, sent
by him North, sold by Henry Clews &
Cos., aud the money appropriated to
private uses. The offense was ‘Larce
ny after a Trust.’
An affidavit was drawn by General
Toombs carefully conforming to the
Georgia law, and thereupon a warrrant
issued for Bullock’s arrest. Governor
Smith made a requisition on Governor
Hoffman, of New York, for Bullock,
through Colonel John B. Gumming, of
Macon, as the State’s agent. Colonel
Camming had previously ascertained
tile whereabouts of Bullock, who has
been oscillating from New York to
Canada, staying principally at Modina
and Albion.
’ Governor Hoffman objected to the
affidavit as being defective, mentioning
his objections, among which the chief
was that in the absence of indictment
the affidavit should be very full.
On the return of the papers, Gov.
Smith re-drew the affidavit, with the
State and Federal law before him, and
with a special reference to the objec
-tions of Hoffman. The second affidavit
-was very full, covering three or four pa
ges of legal cap, and framed with exceed
ing particularity. The papers were
sent again, and arrived in Albany on
Saturday two weeks ago, Governor
Hoffman being absent. On Monday he
returned, and the affidavit was again
objected to.
At this juncture Govet nor Smith lost
his patience. He telegraphed to his
agent to state to Governor Hoffman
that he was now satisfied that Governor
11. did riot mean to deliver up the fugi
tive horn justice; that he was convin
ced he could not frame papers to meet
Governor Hoffman's quibbles, and for
the agent to withdraw the documents
and return home. .
On Tuesday morning Governor Hoff
man approved the requisition and is
sued the warrant. That night Col.
Gbinining left Albany to execute the
warrant, but the bird had flown. In
Bulloch’s stables was found a saddle
horse very much jaded and lamed, indi
cating immediate hard usage. Nothing
has been heard of him since.
The probabilities are very strong
that the delays over the papers were to
give Bullock time to flee. Governor
Hoffman, as the ease now stands unex
plained by him, is open to.damaging re
flection.
These are the facts of this grave mat
ter. It will be a satisfactory day for
Georgia when the great chief of her
Radical plunderers is brought bac& to
meet the justice so richly due him.
[Atlanta Constitution.
From the Grifiiu New*.
Kfl'orts of NcKfcx H to f«ot in
to tlio State University tiw
llcnofleiiirlcs of t 1»<? College
Lmul Grant.
Atlanta, April 17.—The following
correspondence between Gov. Smith,
Prof. \V. Leroy Broun, and the Presi
dent of the colored College here lias, tu
ken place:
Processor JVarc. of the Atlanta University,
to Gov. Smith anil Professor Broun .
I have the honor to inquire, whether,
when the entire income of the Agricul
tural College Scrip was granted to the
State University, at Athens, it was un
derstood that the University would
> make provision for the admission of col-
Hjisd, as we)La» white students ? *).
To the above question the reply was
as follows !
Executive DepaRTM Sff, State or Ga..*
Atlanti, Ga., April 11, 1872,
Mr. E. A. Ware, President of the Atlan
ta University, Atlanta, Gu.
Slit- His Excellency, the Governor
directs me to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 9th inst., and in an
swere thereto, to say, that in granting
the income of the Agricultural Fund to
the Univ -rsity of Georgia, he carefully
refrained from any action except such
us lie deemed absolutely necessary to
prevent the grant from ceasing under
the provisions of the act of Congress.
To secure the benefits of the fund to
the State, it was necessary to organize
a College, such as is described in the
granting tlie donation before July 2d,
1572, but to organize such a College,
which the University had tho authority
to do under its charter, it was not requi
red that the Governor should determine
the question proposed by your letter.
Respectfully, your ob’dt servant.
P. W* Alexander, Sec. Ex. Dept.
Professor Broun replied as follows :
University, of o'a.
Athens, April 12, 1572.
E. A. Ware, President Board Trustees,
Atlanta University.
Dear Sir .- In answer to your in
quiry, whether colored students, if they
apply, will be admitted to the Agricul
tural Department of the State Universi
have the honor to reply, they wil
not be admitted under the present pro
visional organization.
No income is receivable from the pro
ceeds of the sale of the land scrip under
a year, and then there will be available
only the interest of a fractional part. In
about two years and a half from the
present time, according to the terms of
the sale made by Governor Conley, tho
income of the whole fund will be avail
able. Hence, you perceive in this pre
paratory organization, we are not using
funds appropriated by the United States
Government, and, therefore, the ques
tion you propose does not properly arise
at the present time. The Legislature
or the Trustees will decide hereafter,
and I have no means of knowing what
the decision will be ; therefore, my in
dividual opinion about it would be of
no value. * * # * •
I am, very respectfully, your obedi
ent servant,
W. Leroy Broun.
The country imports $15,000,000
worth of spool cotton yearly from Great
Britain.
YOU BBT THAT
Christopher Ctray & Cos,,
OF AUGUSTA, GA.,
CAN SELL THE CHE A.PEST DPI ‘ST GOODS
To be had in the city. And they not only Can, but they Do Sell ir. all cases as
cheap, and some articles
MUCH CHEAPER THAN
They are sold by any other person in the trade. One of the members of the firm
lives all the >
Year Hound in the City of New York
Where lie Imijs goods For Cash
And takes advantages of all bargains in the market. That's the reason why.
So call in the Store (recently enlarged)
aOPtISTEH. BROAD <sc JMITISITOSH STREETS
Where you wil! find every kind of Dry Goods and receive the best attention from
a t rlom3 CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
AUGUSTA CLOTHING EMPORIUM.
W, A, R A M H E Y ,
Takes pleasure in calling attention to his Large and varied stock of
SPUING AM) SUMMER READY-MADE CLOTHING,
.Manufactured expressly for the Augusta market, by those celebrated Clothiers,
Jas. Wilde, jr. & Cos., Chas. B, Poet & Cos.
Having every facility to procure Goods from first hands, I will at all times
Keep the Best of Goods at lowest Prices. My stock of
FURNISHING GOODS,
is of the most elegant style and finish ever brought to this market, and of the
greatest variety. The smallest to the largest man can be fitted.
Clothing’ Cut and Made to Order, at short Notice, in the
most Elegant style.
I have also a full stock of Fine and Medium Hats of the very latest styles, also
Trunks and Valises, and gents furnishing goods of every variety
W, A. RAMSEY,
Opposite Nalional Exchingj Bank Next door to Butt, Boyco &. Co
nprlOm-3 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
tiheej atj o-itsta
Root Arvu Bhhl Emf»rici*
PETER KEENAN,
VJXK & l YE &QQT & $-JXQE MBJRGS4&T QF tfruc'E V.t
TENDERS his thanks to his McDuffie friends for past favors, and respect
fully invites them to call and examine bis large and
Well Assorted Stock of Boots and Shoes,
which ho has recently purchased for the Spring anj Summer' (rat'.
THE ONE PRICE SYSTEM
is still adhered to, and a strict, observance of the principles of honor and integritv.
He guarantees perfect satisfaction in every instance for a --'des purchased at his
store, and he holds himself personally responsible to make reclamations in all
cases when the articles sold fail to be as represented. He employs no Drummers,
and hence adds no per cent, upon his shoes for fees of that nature. Call and exam
ine iiis elegant Stock, at No. 220 Broad Street, (at the store lately occupied by
James A. Gray & Cos.)
aprlOuia PETEK KEENAN.
NEW GOODS HF’OJFI 1872.
—AT THE—
ONE: PRICE HOUSE
H. L.* A. BALK,
174 Rroad Street, Augusta, c«a.
Great Bargains in Dress Goods!
Great Bargains in Jeans and Woolens!
Great Bargains in Cassimere and Flannels!
Great Bargains in Linsey Woolsey, Bed Tick! &c.
H. L A. BALK,
Wholesale ami Retail Dealer in Dry Goods,
172 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
TIIE ONE PRICE HOUSE!
I am now receiving the latest styles of Dress Goods, which were carefully se
lected by me, for this market, at prices so low as to enable me to defy competi
tion ! Beginning with Plaids at 15 ots., Delaines at 20 cts., Poplins at only 25
cts., Handsome Colored Silks at only 75 cts.
Also, a large aud fuil assortment of Cassimere, Jeans, Woolsey, &e., beginning
with Jeans at 20 cts., Jeans (extra heavy) at 2-5 cts., all-wool Cassimeres at 60.
cts., Linsey Woolsey at 1-5 cts., heavy Mattrass Tick at 15 cts., up to the best
heavy Tick for holding feathers, together with a full line of Prints, Flannels,
Sheetings, Shirtings, Shawls, Cloaks, Boots, Shoes, and Ladies’ Trimmed Hats,,
at prices that will please the most fastidious.
£7p“f!ut out this card and be sure to find the One Prick House, and you will
save time and money. 11. L. A. BALK, 172 Broad Street,
jat.3lm?" Augusta, Ga.