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■!** . •'■•■■ • * ‘ * • ; - ; v.saS * The Georgia, "W^eekly Telcgra/pli and Journal & :er. Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, JUNE H-WOf Wars and Humors of War—Stand ,, :) ftom w**jP®^* B I — M l AU of a sudden a portentous war cloud-is said to overshadow Europe. Russia, “so they say,” is at last preparing to consummate her darling and long-cherished project—the acquisi tion of Turkey. She pants for the the genial climate—the rich soil and the grand maritime outlets of the Ottoman Empire, and busily foments and backs the quarrel between the Sul' tan and the ambitions Khedive of Egypt, as a favorable e^sion to push her conquests.— France and the other continental powers are, however, watching her with jealous eyes and will not permit the European balance to be so seriously disturbed without a struggle. It is stated that general apprehensions of war have caused the recent advances in wheat on jhia side of the water, and that last Saturday foreign bnyers, in the New York market, took two hundred thousand bushels of wheat and were looking for farther orders. We trust they are all mistaken and Turk and Cossack will keep the peace. If they don’t, what will the Georgia planters do, who have staked their fortunes on cotton ? With the foreign cotton market crippled and prices of American grain stimulated by an extraordinary demand from abroad, we shall all be in a bad case. Hold on, Cossack! Prithee, keep the peace, mad Egyptian. Be quiet, Mr. Saltan. We are just now in a bad fix to bear your can- traps. If you have not had enough of war, we’ll bring the testimony of half a million Georgians to prove it a poor business, ever so well fol lowed. True Bill. The Baltimore Gazette does but anticipate the trath of the history which will surely be written one day, when it declares that there is nothing more contemptible in the history of the Badical party than the fanatical persecution of the South which it keeps up through its organs and its leaders. Without confidence in its own strength, conscious that it can only maintain itself by the abuse of the power which it wields, no opportunity is lost to vilify a conquered peo ple, to excite hostility and to foster bitterness of feeling, in order to give some excuse for its unmanly persecution. If a negro outrages a woman and i3 not caught, the sin is laid at the door of a rebel. If an Indian commits a mur der and escapes, it is a wandering rebel who is tho criminal. If a carpet-bagger behaves like a blackguard and is kicked out of decent com pany, it is his loyal virtues which earn him such martyrdom. And so on to the end of the chap ter. Congress and Georgia. The New York Express, of Monday evening, has the following: The House (Georgia) reconstruction bill, ready to be reported at the first opportunity, goes even far ahead of the Bingham amend ment. It is specially provided therein that a new election in the State shall be beld the com ing fall, as is provided in the State Constitu tion. The bill differs in all its essential features from tho Senate bill, which was some time since passed in that body in such an incongruous shape after a very protracted debate. It is gravely apprehended that the present status of tho question, and the seeming incompatibility of views in Congress, will, after all, put off an adjustment of Georgia till the next session. We are not sure that this is to be regretted. The present condition of Georgia is bad enough, and any additional Badical legislation can only have the effect to aggravate her sufferings. Georgia, of course, prefers the present status to the worse one which is sought to bo imposed upon her in the practical abolition of represent ative government and perpetuation of tyranny, fraud and usurpation. But certainly every pa triotic citizen would regret to see Congress ad journ without extending to the people an op portunity for self protection by the election of a new Legislature, according to the provisions of the Constitution. Bessemer .Steeling! The New York Tribune of Monday solemnly indicts tho “Democrats (in Congress) who have been most clamorous for a redaction of the Tariff,” with the crime of defeating, by dilato ry motions Schenck’s amendment to reduce the Tariff. The following editorial from the New York Express of the same date explains the mat ter and exposes the fraud and villainy ,which characterizes all of this protective legislation : A CONGRESS or BIO JOBS. The Northern Pacific Bailroad waa put through Congress, wo might say bought through, with mil lions upon millions of lands, to be bonded to for eigners, to build it—but that job was a small job, compared with what is now going through, in other measures. The pneumatic, or Bessemer, process of con verting pig iron almost directly into steel, is monopolized in this country by three men—one Mr. Griswold, of Troy, late a member of Con gress, but later, the Eepublican candidate in New York for Governor, (running in the Presi dential race with Oen. Grant;) another, Mr. Morrell, a member of Congress from Pennsylva nia, and tho- powerful owner of the Cambria Iron Works there ; and the third, Mr. Winslow, of Albany, or Mr. Ward, of Detroit, tho great Protectionist there, (it is not certain which of the two.) These three gentlemen have a twelve years’ patent to run in the United States, and what they want of Congress is a prohibitory duty upon English, Belgian, or German steel rails so that they can make them all themselves, in the renowal of the existing 55,000 miles of railroads in this country, and increasing every year 2,000, miles, or more. Now, to do this, Gen. Schcnck, we seo by Saturday’s proceedings in the House, has hitch ed on to the Internal Revenue bill a Tariff bill— and in this bill, is this enormous bounty to these three steel patentees—which is worth to them, if smartly lobbied through Congress, over $5,- 000,000, probably $10,000,000. A bounty so unpalatable, if left alone, all see, could hardly pass—and therefore, to sweeten it, Mr. Sehenck proposed a redaction of taxes-npon sugar, tea and coffee—in the belief that, before the peo ple, a gift, douceur of millions to three steel monopolists can b*e maintained by demagoging upon tea, coffee and sugar! To bring about this iniquitous legislation, it became necessary for Mr. Schenck to carry the previons question, Saturday—so that the people could not see the direct vote upon the millions given to the mon opolists—but could be humbugged by the cry, “We have taken off taxes npon tea, coffee and sugar!" The previons question failed at first by a small majority—but honesty in Congress being too weak against bounty and monopoly, it was finally carried, and doubtless to-day, Messrs. Griswold, Morrell and Winslow will have the millions voted into their pockets by the House, Mr. Morrell, as a member, voting or It himself! The fact is, there never was such a shameless Congress as this, and scarcely any Legislature so shameless, not even the carpet-bag negro leg islatures of the South, where negroes now aire quoted from $50 to $100 per head, who, under the old Slavery system, cost from $800 to $1,200. If Congress does not adjourn soon there will not be left any public-lands for the people to settle npon—no, not even a dollar in the Treas ury—for all are being disbursed as fast as Con gress can disburse them. How long, oh how long, will the Northern Republicans be duped into being thieves and robbers, under the dead cay of “slavery” and reconstruction! What slavery is. greater than this, which for twelve years subjects the million of peoplo and all the transportation in this country, to the monopoly patent^ of Messrs. Griswold, Morrill & Co. '- It is stated, we see, in the Philadelphia cor respondence of “The Iron Age," of this oity, a paper run by the iron monopolists, that these new steel rails can be made for $ ir,p er ton, about twice the oost of pig iron, and what Messrs. Griswold, Morrell and Winslow (or Ward) ask of Congress, is to levy a prohibitory duty of 1} oents per pound on steel rails—that is, $38 CO per ton upon a home cost of $42 per ton!—so that, with their patents here, they oan charge $90, or $100 per ton, and no foreigners from abroad compete with their twelve years’ patents here 1 Central City Condition Powders the best medi ans on tUt continent for live stock. Rip Tan Winkle Begins to Stir. .Macon is giving some spasmodic signs of wak ing up from her comfortable snooze. She is begining to give some foundation for the belief that all that essence known as public spirit has not been dried up in her veins, and that when she has fairly stretched her stiffened joints and nibbed the sleep out of her eyes, she will really do something. We .never chronicled anything with more hearty satisfaction. It is the best news we could hear if away from -home, as it will be to all, everywhere, who take, the slightest interest in her future. We know no place that needs to cultivate and’ stimnlate this thing of public spirit more than Macon. It has been allowed to languish and droop too long, already. It has become chronic almost in its atrophy—when putting it in a vig orous condition of high, robust health meant solid prosperity and steady growth. Nature has done much, very mnch for Macon, but Macon has done, in comparison,'very little for herself. This everybody has seen and known ever so long, but. nobody has moved. To snooze along at a good old Kip Van Winkleish pace while all the world besides was up and striking for for tune, was so comfortable and so economical, apparently. Bents were high enough to nett at least ten per cent, on the investment, and the few stock companies we had paid their few stockholders very snug dividends, and why dis turb so comfortable a situation? This was the question and the answer was, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of tho hands together upon fat rents and plethoric dividends. And all this time the world moved, and moved fast, and Macon was being left al most out of sight. This was our status until very recently. We are cheered to think that although we are still stationary, we are not asleep, and that action bids very fair to follow awakening. There is a spirit abroad that will, we trust, prove the lever to move the sluggish mass from its rusty bed. There are men already not only fully aroused, but on their feet and in motion, whose brains, tongues, and purses are moving to drive out the evil spirit of apathy and narrow minded selfishness. They have appreciated the dan gers that threaten us, and are buckling down to the work of meeting and averting them. They are active men and earnest men, bat they are not omnipotent. They need, and must have stont backing. They have opponents, strange to say—men of prestige, too, whose influence has been powerfully felt in the past, but whose ideas have neither kept step with the progress of the times, nor ceased to run in tho narrow groove of personal interests. They think we are all doing very well because, forsooth, they are They hold that we must lie fiat on onr backs when we should be crawling at least, and that wo should bo crawling when we ought to be getting over the ground with a man’s lusty strides. Wo give them-due credit for sincerity of purpose and honesty of judgment, but we feel it in our bones that they do not appreciate tho situation. They are not fully awake. They don’t recognize the difference between the needs, aye and the perils of the Macon of to day, and tho needs of the Macon of ten years ago. They are not made of the stuff that lead ership in almost everything demands, now.— They may make good privates, but officers we fear, never. It is for the people to choose between these leaders. The great mass of the people of Ma con expect to live and die here. A majority of them, perhaps, must stay in any event. They are interested in Macon’s future most vitally. We hope, nay we are sure, they will sustain any and eveiy proposition that, with due regard to sound judgment, promises results that cannot fail to better Macon’s condition, and therefore their condition." They are not called npon for any extraordinary efforts. All that i3 asked is for them to use their natural advantages. Their limbs have been cramped by an un natural and paralyzed inquietude. Let them rise and stretch themselves. That is all that is asked now, all that is demanded by the exigencies of the present. We move that Kip Van Winkle not only stand up but that ho step out at quick time, and on that motion we de mand the yeas and nays. Slow to Learn. The Northern Eepublican papers are clamor ous for tho rejection of Whittemoro by tho Honse, and among them the Philadelphia Even ing Telegraph, of the 2d inst, remarks gener ally as follows: “The Eepublican party mnst wash its hands of theso political abortions called State officials in the reconstructed States, or it must cease to rule in a single commonwealth of the Sonth. When reconstruction began it was impossible to place competent and honest men in power in the Southern States, but reconstruction is set tled, and the Eepublican party most demand ability and integrity in its representative men or it must die.” A patent fact, but tardily recognized. The Bepublican party must commend itself in som6 way to the judgment, intelligence, virtue and patriotism of the people, or it not only “must die," bnt everybody will say it ought to die. Bnt how shall it begin to cancel its horrid re cord in the South since the surrender? its ram pant oppression—its lawless caprice—its reck less contempt of tho will of the people and the publio welfare ? How get rid of its wretched parasites and instruments of tyranny, who are mentally and morally the fitting link between a black semi-barbarian constituency and the vin dictive policy of Congress ? How could they put representative men of the Sonth in snch a position ? No snch a man wonld consent to oc cupy it. How conld any men of “ability and integrity,” become prompters and agents of the counsels of a sottish ignorance and stupidity, on the one hand, and a vindictive and lawless bigotry and intolerance on the other? Who can fail to see that from the capes of Florida to the Potomao—from the AUantio to tho Bio Grande, the official exponents of Badi- calism are jost such men as they are, only be cause none others are fitted to the work. There’s a perfect harmony in the Congressional concep tions and the instrumentalities which are em ployed to enforce them. When law, reason, pnblio liberty, private rights, sound polioy and good government are to be overthrown and well disposed communities are to be embarrassed and harrassed by persistent mal-administration, men of ability, virtue, integrity and moral worth wonld be out of place as instruments in the business. We say, then, the waste of fraud, corruption, abuse and tyranny which now covers the Southern States like a deluge, filly repre sents the policy of the Government; and such a policy conld have.no other consummation. When different instruments shall be em ployed, there must be a corresponding change of policy, purpose and feeling, upon the part of the Badical organization. They must be willing that justice, truth, righteousness, good govern ment and harmony shall substitute tortuous mis-govemment in the interests of hatred Sand discord. They must be willing that wheat shall be sown instead of tares. They must be will ing that the oppressed intelligence of the coun try shall exert its benign influence and healing counsels * to consolidate pnblio and private se curity on the basis of even-handed justice, and a vigorous assertion of publio order. But when will that be ? It will be when the Radical party ceases to be the Badical party! When it conceives one serious idea of adminis tering the government for the good of the peo ple and not merely to perpetuate its own grasp of the publio purse and sword. In a word, it will be when Radicalism is regenerated or buried. lofe*c» > J The Georgia Press. Bryant’s paper, the Georgia Bepublican, will hereafter be printed at Augusta. Mr. J. A. Bitting, of North Carolina, is soon to establish a tobecoo factory in Augusta. The monthly sales, Tuesday, in Augusta, were duIL- Very little property was offered, and what was sold brought much less than its value. We quote as follows from the Savannah Ee publican : Hutchinson’s Island.—Mr. John A. Staley proposes to purchase this island for the sum of ten thousand dollars, and in case the City Fath ers shall accept his proposal, he will make im provements which cannot fail to promote the health'of the city. We learn that his intention is to surround the whole island with a dike of sufficient height to prevent the tide from overflowing the gronnds, and to interseot it with a sufficient number of ditches to thoroughly drain it, and to get rid of the surplus water by means of pumps to be driven by wind-mills. By this means he will be enabled to make one of the finest garden spots in America, and at the same time destroy a fruitful source of poisonous gasses. Yesterday morning a few white gentlemen, who had seated themselves in the colored ear of the inbound train from the Isle of Hope, were invited into another car by the conductor. The conductor gave as a reason for the invitation, that the two colored gentlemen of the colored car objected to white gentlemen sitting and smoking in that car. ■ The monthly sales, Tuesday, at Columbus' were a duplicate of those at Augusta. Prices were low, and a great deal of property with drawn from sale. At a large sale of groceries, damaged corn bronght $115 a bushel, fine flour $7 25 a barrel, syrup 05 cents a gallon, and common sugar 10 cents a pound. The thermometer for the past few days, in Columbus, has ranged from 85 to 90 degrees in cool shady places. The Enquirer says: A’M-AT/ivM-AnrmTHTg.—The parties to the mar riage Monday were taken from the guard-house at 10 o’clock, yesterday, and again carried be fore Jnstice Shivers for farther examination, at which time they were bound over in tho sum.of $500 each, and in defaclt were committed to jaiL E. B. Backer, the colored parson, was re leased on a bond of $300 and is now at liberty on bail. We presume tho parties will be arraigned before the Superior Court now in session. The colored peoplo of the city flocked in numbers to the guard-house to see the now- aspirants for matrimonial felicity, and seemed to hail the event as a triumph of the principle of social equality. Heard one woman say, “I hope 80 more just sich will marry to-night.” A Greensboro correspondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel writes: We have fine growing weather. The com crop is promising. The area in corn is about that of last year. The price of old com varies $1 GO to $1 75 per busheL Cotton crops are as a general rale, more promising than at the same time last year. Cotton is the king that the far mers of old Greene worshp, and the farmers call all hands and the cook daily now to defend hi3 majesty and kill his enemy, the grass. The breadth of land in cotton is greater than last year. Smaller farmers who have gone in debt for fertilizers and provisions, begin to speculate doubtingly of the coming price of the growing crop, and are showing some anxiety about the coming ides of November. The wheat crop is being harvested and is exceedingly fine. Wheat commands a price of‘$1 40 to $1 45 per bushel, much of it therefore, will be fed to stock with the straw, and not sent to market; wheat also is being ground to meal and distributed as bread rations instead of com meal to save buying com. The Cartersville Express has ^this crop sum mary: Fine rains continue. Crops growing rapidly; harvesting commenced this week; grain good, and heads well filled. Oat crop improving rap idly under tho recent rains. Clover has also improved. The Atlanta negroes will exoursionize to Nashville, July 1st Fare $5 for the round trip. Conld white folks go that cheap ? Fos ter, dear Foster, won’t you tell ? Mrs. Teat, of Atlanta, died Tuesday night from an overdoso of morphine administered by one of her family. The Hawkinsville Dispatch has heard of one farmer in that county who has 300 acres in oot- ton, and only GO in com. The Dispatch notes good rains and fine grow ing weather in that county. Crops are reported as doing remarkably well. The Dispatch says a good tinner is very much needed in that place." Of crops about Athens, the Watchman says: The late frequent and abundant showers have thoroughly saturated the earth, and wo now have fine growing weather. Spring oats have stretched up wonderfully. Wheat is ready to harvest—a fine crop-^-no rust, “no nothing” bos hurt it, and there is a fine prospect of an extraordinary crop. Com and cotton are doing well, and garden vegetables growing finely. If the weather continues favorable, we shall have a great crop year. Of crops around Bamesvillo tho Gazette re ports as follows: The crops are growing finely, and cotton is rapidly producing “squares.” Wheat is being harvested and promises a good yield. Oats have improved from the recent rains bnt cannot make half a good crop. The Bev. W. T. Brantly, D.D., of Atlanta, was married, Tuesday, to Mrs. Mattie Marston, of Madison. Under the head “A Good Neighborhood,” the Savannah News says: A few days since we published a table show ing the number of deaths in onr city, which completely refuted the ideas of outsiders in re gard to its sanitary condition. In addition to that truly remarkable evidence of healthiness, we are informed, and requested to place on record, the fact that on one block, in the south ern part of the city, there are fifty-two babies whose ages range from two years to two weeks. The Dawson Journal, of yesterday, says: Drought,—We are surprised, and exceeding ly regret to hear the reports from a large por tion of Calhoun and this (Terrell) county, ns to the extent of damage done by reason of the continued drought. Fully two-thirds of the area of these two counties have not had a season since the first of April. It is thought that com is too small to make one-half a crop, under the most favorable seasons. But for the bad stand, cotton has time to recuperate and make a me dium crop. The best planters tell ns it is impossible to make a good crop of either com or cotton in theso dry localities. P. S.—Since the above was in type' we have had a most delightful Tain, and from tho man ner in which the clouds came looming up Irom every quarter we hope it was pretty general. Excitement at Tnskegee, Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser, of Wednesday, says: • Advices from Tnskegee last night represent that armed negroes are guarding the Btreets leading to the town, and firing upon all persons who do not give tho countersign. Women and children have fled from the place, seeking ref uge in Montgomery and places alofig the rail road. The Badical whites have told the negroes that the negro legislator, Alston, was shot at the instance of white men, and they have declared that the town shall be destroyed, and fixed np on last night or to-day as the time. This negro, Alston, was a member of the last Alabama Legislature, so-called, and was shot Saturday night, by a parly of negroes who were jealous of his position, and who, in a League meeting the same night, had threatened his life. National Bank Circulation. —A new bill is to be reported this week in the Honse. Under the old law Virginia was entitled to $8,596,020 more than she got, but will get under the new bill only $1,845,732. West Virginia was en titled to $800,450, but receives $479,G22.— North and Sputh Carolina and Alabama were entitled to over $21,000,000, but will not get, if this new bill passes, over $4,000,000. Georgia’s quota is $8,166,000, but she is pot down in the Garfield bill for $1,620,326. Txx fare from Chicago to New York is now only $90. DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. Being a Reply to Governor Bullock, by Hon. . Nelson Tift, late Representative Seoond Con gressional District of Georgia. Washington, D. G., June 4, 1870. To the Honorable Members of the Senate mid House of Bepresentatives of the Congress of the United States: As the State of Georgia is not now permitted to have representation or a voice in CoDgress, I adopt this method of addressing you in de fence of the reputation, the rights,' and inter ests of her people. Under pretence of defending himself against the partial exposure of his crimes by the hon orable Judiciary Committee of the Senate, Governor Bollock, in his jlitter of May 23d, ad dressed to certain members of Congress, con tinues to fabricate and repeat falsehoods and slanders against the people of the State of Georgia*, through the instrumentality of which, and the means of corruption drawn from the treasury, he has now for two years agitated Congress, promoted discord, delayed the res toration of peace and good fellowship among the people and States of the Union, retarded the prosperity of the State, violated the Con stitution and laws, usurped the authority, and sacrificed the rights of our people. The statement made by the Senate Judiciary Committee that Gov. Bullock did “use improp er means to influence the vote upon the Geor gia question,” and the statement of Hon. Sen ator Ferry, that, “had Georgia for the last two years been in the hands of men of high patriot ism, if it had been in the hands of men who were looking to the welfare of the nation in stead of their own pecuniary advancement, we might have had a different state of things from what exists to-day,” are truths mildly stated, and well knoign.by sad experience to the peo ple of Georgia. * Gov. Bullock, in hi3 letter, with an effron tery which would make Satan smile in approba tion, states that, in representations concerning Georgia, he has “been careful to avoid exag geration and to state only the literal trath,” and he challenges contradiction. I do not now think of a single important statement made by Gov. Bollock, relative to the condition of affairs in Georgia, which has not been exaggerated or false. . The slanders which he caused to be raked from alt parts of the State end presented to the Beconstruction Committee of the 40th Congress, 3d session, were disapproved by the unanimous testimony of more thaa one hundred judges, ordinaries, mayors of cities, and sworn witnesses, who were among the best citizens residing in differ ent parts of the State, and many of whom were among the best Bepublicans in the State. . The false statement of his conversations with President Grant, which he telegraphed over the country to iniuence legislation against Georgia, were denied by anthority from President Grant. His late letter and his testimony before the Judiciary Committee, are made up of exagger ations and falsehoods. In his letter he repeats the now demonstrated falsehood, that there were “thirty or more” in eligible members in the original organization of the Georgia Legislature. He then knew that of the fourteen “flagrant” cases tried by Gen. Terry’s Military Commission, hut three had been declared ineligible, and that eleven were declared eligible. He also knew that tho six teen men who declined to qualify were induced to do so by his threats and promises, his false hood and'treachery. In his letter he refers to his official commu nication to the Legislature, on the expulsion of the colored members. In that communication he denounced the seating of the minority can didates, as a violation of the Constitution, the laws of Congress, and the principles of repub lican government, and he threatened the Legis lature vith Congressional action. But drcumstances change, and so does Gov ernor Enllock. In General Terry’s report (Sen ate doo. No. 41.) is an argument of twelve pages, which he says, (page 12) “is a presentation of the law of the whole case in behalf of Bullock.” In this argument he says: * * “Without question, if a person nominally elected is found inelligible, that body (the Legislature) wonld declare the next highest elected and give him the seat. * * Indeed, there has never been in the State any doubt of the application of this law to the Legislature until the present crisis has given it birth.” General Terry was finally convinced (see his report) that be could not legally seat the minor ity candidates, but he allowed his acknowledged subordinates, Gov. Bullock and tho Legislature to seat seventeen of them, thus giving Govern or Bollock control of the Legislature which he now seeks to perpetuate. Gov. Bollock, in his letter, refers to an ex amination in his official conduct by a committee of the Georgia Honse of Bepresentatives in January, 1809, and sera that they finally re ported back a resolution to the effect that they could find nothing affecting my official or per sonal integrity.” In this Gov. Bullock has sup pressed facts, which is the equivalent of inten tional falsehood. Tfie majority of this com mittee made a “white-washing” report. The minority of the committee-reported in substance, the fact that Gov. Bullock vas guilty in numer ous instances of appropriating the publio money contrary to law. The minority report was adopted in tho House by a vote of 80 yeas to 37 nays, and to-day he stands charged by that action with impeachable offences for violations of the Constitution which ho had sworn to sup port; Governor Bullock, in his letter, boasts that he “shall leave the office of Governor of Geor gia with clean hands,” bnt with his “private fortune greatly diminished,” etc. If public reputation and the tax-books can be relied upon, he had no “private fortune” when he took the office of Governor; and even now the State Treasurer, N. L. Angier, who has published eleven distinct charges and specifications against him for violations of the Constitution and laws in the use of the publio funds, eto., states that “tho Governor neither gives in nor pays any State, county, or revenue (income) taxand and yet he spent $14,500 in Washington be tween the 5th of March and tho 21st of April last, using “improper means” to influence Con gress against the State. This rate of expendi ture for the twenty-five months which ho has been Governor, would have required a private fortune of $240,800. Bead the report of tho thirteen pages of Gov. Bullock’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an illustration both of the “un willing” and the “swift” witness. In answer to tho third and fourth questions he denies all dis tinct knowledge of why the colored members of the Georgia Legislature came to Washington. In his fourth answer he says: “I do not know that I can say that I knew of any dispatches sent to have them comeand it required the twelve following questions by the committee to draw from him the fact that he did telegraph to 'Atlanta for them to come to Washington with the “design” and “purpose of exercising an in fluence in opposition to the Bingham Amend ment.” Such was the general character of his testimony until he came to Chapman and Sena tor Pomeroy. No candid man can read carefully Gov. Bul lock’s testimony concerning Senator Pomeroy, from page 143 to page 148, and especially in the light of Senator Pomeroy’s statement on page 149, wlthont a conviction, too strong to be resisted, that the whole story is either the result of a conspiracy between Chapman and Governor Bullock, ora coldblooded malignant fabrica tion to injure the reputation and destroy the influence of an honorable Senator who had op posed some of his wicked designs upon Geor gia. In this part of his testimony, there are three distinct objects: to slander Senator Pome roy, who opposes his schemes in Congress ; to slander Capt. Bryant, a Bepublican member, who opposes his schemes in the Georgia Legis lature ; and to divert attention from his alleged scheme of selling the State Bailroad to the “Sonthem Express Company,” an odious bill for the incorporation of whiohhe has now be fore Congress, and has solicited itsjpassago be fore the committees. If it were necessary I oould go on, but I tire of the humiliating reoord of his crimes, and trust that I have said enough to convince you of the character and purposes of Gov. Bullock, and to show you that the good people of Geor gia can have no legal protection for their rights exoept through the'action of Congress. Gov. Bollock has worked with a desperate pnrposeand energy to the point which he has now almost attained. When the Legislature of Georgia was organ ized under the new Constitution in 1868, ana he found that ho could not control a majority of its members, he quarrelled with General Meade because he would not apply the “test oath” to exclude his opponents, telling Gen. Meade at the same time that “his friends” had been re lieved by Congress. It is believed by many that he suggested and aided secretly in the expulsion of the oolored members of the Legislature to make a pretext for reorganization by Congress. • He vetoed a joint resolution of the Legisla ture pledging the State to abide by the decision of the State Supreme Court as to the eligibility of negroes to hold office in Georgia, aim when the Court had declared the negroes eligible, he failed to call the Legislature, or to give them an opportunity to- comply with the decision. He defeated, through his friends in the Leg islature, the adoption of the Fifteenth Amend ment, at a time when it was believed that its adoption would have settled the Georgia ques tion. He has, with the aid of the military, grossly and palpably violated the law of Congress of December 22, 1869, and has thus finally suc ceeded in acquiring control over the Legislature, illegally organized. But Gov. Bullock is not satisfied with his present “fruitsofvictory;” hedemauds erf Con gress a perpetuation of his rule, and to accom plish this end speedily, he has commenced a course of discipline among members of the Ee publican party. In Georgia,^ with the usurped power Of the State government, backed by the military and bia unscrupulous “ring,” whilst he maligns the people and consumes the vitals of the State under the pretence of loyalty and terrible sac rifices for the Bepublican party, he has assailed the character, and. to the extent of his means destroyed the influence of every Republican who, outraged or disgusted with his illegal and corrupt course, has openly opposed his schemes. And now, because some honorable members of Congress of the Republican party have ob tained a glimpse behind, the scene of his corrup tions, and dare to say so, he holds them up in his letter as repeaters of danders, sympathizers with the rebels and Ku-Klux, making “investi gation” with the vain hope that lies of interested rebels may have some “foundation in fact,” and he threaten^ Congress with the “responsi bility for the utter destruction of Republicanism in Georgia” if they should adopt the “Bingham amendment, or any proviso substantially like it,” because it would prevent him and the present the whole State of the right to vote for repre sentatives, and of perpetuating the Legislature for two years beyond the time for which they were elected, in violation of the State constitu tion. - au«si«j yor The constitution of Georgia, article 3, sec. 1, par 2, says, “The-members of the Senate shall be elected for four years, except that the mem bers elected at the first eleetion from the twen ty-two senatorial districts numbered in this con stitution with odd numbers, shall only hold their office for two years. The members of the House of Representatives shall le elected for two years." This is clear and absolute, and what follows gives no authority to the Legislatnre to alter the term of office. The “time” or day “of elee tion” may be “changed,” and the members “hold until their successors are elected and qualified,” so that the “old members" would sit in any entraordinary session, held before the re gular term at which the new members are to be qualified. ■ A most important question now presses itself upon the public mind. Will not Congress vin dicate its own dignity and the violated law of December 22, 1869? Having undertaken by that law to restore the expelled colored mem bers to the Legislature, and to purge it of ineli gible members, will they now sanction the illegal violence and fraud by which eligible members were expelled, and seventeen members seated who were not elected? Bat if past violations of tho laws cannot be corrected, if the people of Georgia must, for the time being, continue to be the prey of wick ed rulers, then another important question is presented. Will Congress by its action, either directly or indirectly, sanotion the avowed pur pose of Gov. Bullook to prevent an eleetion in Georgia for members of the General Assembly, on ^Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem ber of this year,” as required by the Constitu tion? Or will not Congress, knowing the pur pose of Gov. Ballock, declare in plain torus, that tho election shall be held as therein re quired, and representative government main tained? In behalf of tho people of Georgia, I appeal to Congress to secure to us the common rights and liberties of American citizens, and tho com mon rights of a State of the American Union. It is now five years since the close of the war. When the people of Georgia surrendered their arms they also surrendered the cause of inde pendent government for which they had con tended. With hopes crushed, with property destroyed, with the wail of tho widow and or phan still ringing in their ears, they did not play tho hypocrite and glory in their defeat, or curse their dead comrades as traitors, but they did surrender in good faith, they did pledge an honest support to the Constitution and laws of tho United States, and they have kept their pledge. The great mass of tho peoplo have been law-abiding, moral, industrious and earn estly desirous of peace and a perfect restora tion of the Union. They appreciated the magnanimity of tho offi cers and men to whom they surrendered, and they relied on the promises of tho Government and tho common interests of the country, to re store them to their common rights, whilst thoy would cheerfully bear the common burdens of American citizens. When tfib war was over, 83 a general rale, the officers and soldiers and a large proportion of tho citizens, on both sides, with the generos ity which characterizes brave and true men, recognized the settlement of a question which had divided and agitated the country from tho beginning of the Government, shook hands, were again friends, and determined to work to gether to allay prejudice, restore fraternal re lations, and secure the union, peace and pros perity of the whole country. Why have the efforts of these patriotic men been unavailing ? Why is peace delayed and strife and enmity continued? It is because there is another though small class of men, who were generally skulkers in the war, or speculators in the misfortunes of its victims, who, when the war of arms had ended, commenced their war of bombast and denunci ation, of falsehood and plnnder, against indi viduals and communities of men, women and children. This war of these demons of peace, these moral beasts and birds of prey, has been continued five years, and has been little less disastrous to the interests of the country than the war of arms which preceded it. To-day, after five years of nominal peace, by the invitation and suggestion of Gov. Ballock, the State of Georgia is ruled by a military des potism under Gen. Terry, who suspends the writ of habeas corpus, and removes and ap points civil offioers at his will, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Georgia. To day our petty tyrant, Gov. Ballock, is urg ing and threatening members of Congress to secure a perpetuation of his infamous rule over the people of Georgia. From auoh a gov ernment even military despotism is a relief, and would be preferred by the people of Georgia, until constitutional liberty can be restored. Will not the Congress and tho people of the United States open their eyes to the evils whioh surround ns, and adopt the means necessary to save ns and tho country from the abyss of anarchy and despotism which we seem to be so Iforer since the formation of the Constitution has it been in greater peril, nor has there been a time when it was more important for patriotio members of Congress, and officers'and citizens of all classes and parties and creeds, to unite their efforts for its preservation. ... The Constitution of government for the United States was formed and established by our fathers in a spirit of mutual concession and forbearance and confidence, whlclTis necessary to its integrity and continuance.' Its sacred and ever-abiding purposes were—“to form a more perfect union, establish justice,'insure domes tic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos it we will hut earnestly put away the evils and corruption, which, like a swelling tide, threaten our destruction—if we will earnestly striveHo emulate the generous spirit and self- pacrificing devotion of our fathers—God Al mighty will bless ns in the consummation of our designs. 7 J - ■ • • >' Very respectfully, 7 Your obedient servant, luu ' ! haa '** io Nelson Tut, Late Representative in Congress, 2d Congres- ; siohal district. Deer Hunting in Laurens. ' • tv Dublin, Ga., June 5, 1870. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I see a hunt published in one of your num bers of a party from Thomas county and, there fore, send you the following which you cah pub lish if you wish: Mr. William T. Coleman and myself killed seven deer, at seven shots, in one day's hunt. We have been hunting together for four years in this county, and during that time have killed one hundred and seventy deer. The above facte can be testified to by numbers of our neighbors, as they generally get the venison, for neither of our families eat it. We hunt for the amuse ment. I have the honor to be, rogpectfally^onrs, Supreme Court of Georgia. June 8,1830. Argument in No. 14, Southwestern Circuit— Walker & Co., vs. Mercer & DeGraffinried, cer tiorari from Dougherty—was resumed.and con cluded. Judge D. A. Vason and Gen. G. J. Wright for plaintiffs in error,and Wm. E. Smith, Esq., for defendant in error. No. 15, Southwestern Curcuit—Tison & Bal- dy. vs. Morgan, quo warranto from Lee—was dismissed because the record had not been cer tified by the Clerk of the Superior Court as re quired by law. y--»—y jy- -‘a No. 16, Southwestern Circuit—Cross, Admin istrator, et. aLj'vsr Cross, sent on-Administra tors Bond from Lee—was argued few plaintiff by Col. W. A. Hawkins, and for defendant by Jadge B. F. Lyon. No. 17, Southwestern Circuit—McCree vs. the Mayor and Council of Americas, refusal of in junction—was dismissed because prematurely brought. No. 6, Southwestern Circuit—Green Keieh- ens vs. the State, assault with intent to mur- tiehtTv bv the . omoe » heiftjZ I der, from Lee This case having been tW I ferred to the heel of the circuit came up in. its order, and was argued for plaintiff in error by W. A Hawkins. No appearance for defendant in error. No. 7, Southwestern Circuit—Holliman, eh aL. vs. Ford, Administrator. Equity from Worth— had also been transferred to the heel of the cir cuit and was withdrawn because prematurely brought. - . The Bar from the PataulaCircnit havingbeen unavoidably detained at Macon, the Court an nounced that it would call only, such cases as were represented. No. 11, Pataula Circuit—Whitten vs. Whor- ton, Sheriff—a continued case was withdrawn. No. 22, Pataula Circuit—Kirptland& Co., vs. Herrington, Administrator, is a continued case and was argued for plaintiff in error by Judge B. H. Clark. No appearance for defendant in error. No. 2. Pataula Circnit-Mooinough vs. Munroe. Dissolution of an Injunction from Kmdolph— was withdrawn because prematurely brought. No. 4. Pataula Circuit—Lamar vs. Thornton & Sale, complaint from Randolph—was argued for plaintiff in error, by Judge Lyon. No ap pearance for defendant in error. No. 13. Pataula Circuit—Treadwell vs. Phin- izy, complaint from’ Terrell—was argued for plaintiff in error by Judge Yason, and for de fendant by Judge Clark. No. 21. PataulaCircnit—Matthews vs. Brown ing, Possessory Warrant from Webster—was argued for plaintiff in error by Col. W. A. Haw kins. No appearance for defendant in error. By consent Nos. 9, 17, 18, 19 and 20 are ar gued together. They are all Bales vs. Road ’Commissioners of Webster county. Pending this argument the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a. il, to-morrow.—Era, 9th. June 9, 1870. Argument in five cases, to-wit: Nos. 9, 17, 18, 19 and 20 Pataula Circuit, all of which are Buies vs. Boad Commissioners of Webster county, was resumed and concluded. CoL W. A. Hawkins for plaintiff in errors, and W. Parker for defendant in error. On motion, and by consent of the Bar, No. 27 Patanla Circuit, was next called. It is the case of John H. David, prochien ami, vs. The Southwestern Bailroad Company, from Ran dolph. Argued by CoL H. Fielder for plaintiff in error, and by Judge Lyon for defendant in error. By consent No. 31, Pataula Circuit, was call ed, and pending the concluding argument by CoL Felder, the Conrt adjourned till 10 A. m to-morrow.—Era, 10 th. June 10,1870. Argument was resumed and concluded in No. 31, Pataula Circuit—Bryan & Bryan vs. the Southwestern Bailroad Company. Assumpsit from Randolph. CoL H. Fielder for plaintiff in error and Judge Lyon for defendant in error. The regular order of the docket was resumed. No. 2, Patanla Circuit—a continued case Feagan, Sheriff, vs. Avon, rule vs. the Sheriff from Stewart, was dismissed for want of prose cution. No. 1, Patanla Circuit—Baldwin & Co., vs. Brown, Sheriff, rule against the Sheriff from Quitman, was dismissed for want of prosecu tion. No. 2 having been previously disposed of, was passed. No. 3, Patanla Circuit— Ozmore vs. Ozmore, libel for divorce and petitioo for alimony from Eaadolph—was argued for plaintiff by Mr. Kid- doo, and for defendant in error by Mr. B. S. WorrelL No. 4, having been previously disposed of, waspassea. No. 5, Pataula Circuit—Cobb vs. Morris & Morris—award from Randolph, argued for plain tiff by B. S. Worrill and for defendant by CoL Fielder. Court then adjourned. [Atlanta Era, 11th. The English Tragedy Near Uxbridge —A Whole Family Butchered. Prom the Daily Xcits, May 14lft.j One of the most extraordinary tragedies which has taken place for many years was dis- coveied last evening at' the village of Den ham, about two miles from Uxbridge. It seems that a family named Marshall resided at a cottage in that village, the husband car rying on business as aja engineer. Besides Marshall, there lived in the cottage his wife and three children, wbo;e ages ran between three and nine years, and also the mother and sister of Marshall. This day (Tuesday) had been fixed for the marriage of the sister, and it is to the lact of her weddmg dress being brought home that the discovery of the mur der is to be attributed. Nothing had been seen of the murdered persons since Saturday; but upon a young girl going to the cottage yesterday with the garment referred to, and gaining no reply, the neighbors had their sus picions aroused, and an entry was soon effected into the house. A scene of the most horrible descripiion presented itself On the ground floor the bodies of Mrs. Marshall and her sis ter-in law were found dead—the former lying on her back, and the latter, who had her night dress on, and was evidently preparing for bed, was placed across her. Both had their-heads fearfully mutilated, and the absence of blood about the place was remarked by those who who witnessed the dreadful discovery. At the right hand, on entering the cottage^ and near the fire-place, three children belonging to Mr. Marshall were also found with their heads frightfully battered, and also quite dead. The mother of (Marshall was likewise found, hav ing been brutally murdered in the same way; and on entering the shop where Marshall had been at work, wearing a smock-frock, his body was also found. It was covered with sacks, and it was apparent that he had had a des perate struggle. His hands were scratched in several places and there were marks as if he had been drag ged about the ground. His head had also been beaten in the same manner as those of the other victims. There was another child belonging to Marshall—a little boy, aged six teen months—who had been sent to his grand father’s to be “out of the way” during the wedding of Marshall’s sister; and hut for that circumstance there is very small doubt that the little creature would have been added to to the list of the murdered members of the family. Tho medical gentlemen called' were Dm.'Ferris and Macnamara, and it is their opinion that the awful deed has been perpe trated as long since as Saturday night or Sun day morning. The county constabulary have been unable, up to the present time to obtain any clue as to the murderer, or the cause of the dreadfal crime. A forge hammer and an ordinary ax—with which the murders are sup posed to have been committed—have been dis covered with traces of blood upon:them. Whatever the motive by which the murderer or murderers—for it seems difficult to imagine the fearful work can have been done by one person—robbery does not seem to have been the object, for nothing appears to have been disturbed; the rings ana several articles of jew elry worn by the unfortunate persons not nav- ingboen removed. The excitement in the village is intense. Marshall and his wife and aster were, it is said, much respected by their neighbors. Flobida Crops—Tho Floridian of Tuesday »»y» : \ The reports relative to the oondition of the creps, from all parts of the State, are in the highest degree saaisfaotoiy. Seasonable rains have fallen. Cotton, though small, was never more promising at this season, while oom Is looking remarkably well. _ Dreadful Ritlboad Aocemqtt.—A night pas senger train from Boston for Rutland, Vermont, ran into a culvert on Wednesday night, killing three passengers and seriously scalding and otherwise injuring thirteen others. A Tebbisle Case of Hydrophobia n, B lyx.—The passengers in the frentl«™ of a Fultim Ferryboat on lyn, about half-past 5 o’clock vested noon, were surprised at the antics rf 1 some and well-dressed boy, of about fourteen, who had been noticed for looking with an expression of dread at the water through the cabin wind “ when he suddenly howled like a doc 2?? iffl I of the terrible trath came over them I gentleman called aloud, “Gentlemen g* hydrophobia.” Two stout men seatoN the lad had presence of mind enouri, , Mm instantly and keep him in his me rest of the passengers gathered dumb pity at the horrible fate thTt-t/^i i little victim. On the arrival of tee ^ I ton Ferry slip, oh the Brooklyn side t ’ 11 ^ I wart policemen appeared and took’tiT? *4 | the station-house in York street % U On tho -sray up Fulton street’and large crowd followed the offi*Trs stricken little prisoner. The offiSrs hL^’ 1 tightly by the wrists, and kept onctW? 1 * pressed against his cheeks to prevent Itt 6 ** I them, while a third officer cleared the I of the gaping and pitying throng, qv*?? fellows eyes were bloodshot and hitf! ^ and flushed with agony and exhaustion^ every three or four paces he would howl and attempt to leap forward like a do* would try to snap at the policeman him in charge. At the station house all “ ^ were excluded, but the curious thronr.^^®* around the dens for some time 2“^ were unable to find out the boy’s naZl®'*® dence, or any farther facts connected , [New Tort [Better that every dog in the counts ^ killed than that one such boy should bo with hydrophobia.] J To toe Changed. We arc glad to know that the htet-. offensive offal generated at the gas ; which is now passed off through the of the Central Trotting Park, is to becbS in its direction from the works, andZS through a pipe, or underground coadV^ straight downward into the river. ThW : remove the last an J only offensive object, i ing the summer months, iu or about £ grounds of the Park. * Albany, June 5.1574 Editors Telegraph and Messenger ■ Th above paragraph I cut from your local uC of la t Friday, and believing a little infor- 1 tion might not be thrown away I send yon following: I When the Westminster Gas Light Coke Company went into operation abc- 1816, the Gas Company passed their rafo gas water through the common sewer into &> river Thames, at London; but in a short fix* it was found detrimental to the fishing tnc< and on an investigation taking place by c -£ of the Lord Mayor of London, whose authar over the river Thames was supreme, it ^ found that some healthy fish, placed inati 1 of clean water and some of the gas wa*» thrown in, the fish in a very short time did and the opinion was expressed so strongly tS I the water was not fit for domestic use, that tie j Chelsea Water Works Company wa; compel j to erect a filtering stone in their works to She I the water through before it could be usedh I inhabitants of the west end of London. As! I speak from memory you must make some i!-| lowance; but of the main fact 1 am come; and as I see there is some talk of erectk I water works in Macon, I think preventions | better than cure. Respectfully, A Subscribes. A chap named De Long, whom Grant nil* | Minister to Japan, writes home-that he cast | live on $7,500 a year, whereupon the San Fit-1 cisco Figaro shows by the following hot: I* I Long is putting on airs: Minister De Long finds it impossible to fin I comfortably in Japan on a salary of $7,5091 | year. Things mnst be very expensive intis I country. IVo knew Mr. De Long to lire me-I fortably on a salary of $10 a month and tis hash, when he was tending bar for John Edi son, at Foster’s Bar, Yuba county. Mr. Potteb Palmes, of Chicago, a well bar I nabob, gives a notice in teo pap-*** of tLat 1 that oa u» nrst of July he will commence Ik I erection of a hotel, probably the largest in lie j country. It will front on State street two tx- dred and fifty-three feet, be eight stories hii 1 and contain seven hundred and fifty rooms. I: I will be built in the style of the Louvre Palact I Paris, and will cost, including the groond, ere | $2,500,000. Letter From Georgetown Quitman county, dated the 9ih, sirs th 1 weather is extremely dry and there had been a: I rain for eight weeks. Crops are very unpros-1 ising. The Huntsville Democrat says com is selkn: J in that county (Madison( for $1 50 a bushel-n connty in which “we have known, years sp I corn to be so abundant as to go begging at t::l cents a barrel, at points 18 or 20 miles Huntsville!’ TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. | HALT, OF REYNOLDS LODGE,' j No. 255, F. A. II., Ketxolds, Ga.^ June 4, 1670. ) I Whereas, it has pleased the Supreme Ruler;.'-I Universe, in the dispensation of anaRwieep’l denee, to take from ns onr worthy and ee!e3»I brother, Asa Mabbhat.t., who died at his reeil&T in Taylor county, Ga., 8th ultimo, in the 74th ?| of hie age, after several years of ill and dec'Di health; having many years since castthac>'J of his soul in that peaceful harbor where the cease from troubling, and the weary shall £nd:j*| he endured the misfortunes, vicissitudes tions of life with patience, reverence and fortisi J and shuddered not at the tyrant, death, KJ received him asa kind messenger sent fremoz*I preme Grand Master to translate him frcn^l transitory scene to that undiscovered cotmtij^I whose bourne no traveler retnms, thereto ft’I the peace and happiness of his spiritual tfto I long and diligently labored to build agreeaN. rH jl rules and designs laid down by the Supreme i— ; I tectof the Universe on our moral, spiritad^l Masonic trestle board; the Lodge being I pay the last tribute of respect consigned to the tomb with the happy reflection of, *■*“ I tliou good and faithful servant," cbeorfuLy -•■*' . I ting to tho will of Him who doeth all thkg* I In his death we deplore to the community I of a good citizen—courteous to all alike, tae ^ 9 and low, rich and poor—charitable to the Ee ^Vj, I distressed, divested of all the vices and sop* 1 , fJ I of life, one of the noblest lights of socie.j-j^ I committed an error it was lost amid tl e j I host of his acts of benevolence and the a I the highest characteristics of mankind; 5 ^ | possessed. True to his conn try, God, and just to his fellow man; to kind and affectionate parent; to the a ■ nity a true and faithful member, ever respond to the call of duty in evory reJti j time-honored Order, by practicing the ons lessons which it teaches. ihe^l Resolved, That in the death of onr A* I Marshall, we deplore the loss of a worth/. J ons member, hoping to profit by hie e ji| meet him in the celestial lodge above. Supreme Architect of the universe P 1 * 81 ^ Resolved, That we tender to the * ^ti friends of the deoeased our sincere A their Bad bereavement, and would P 011 ^ many excellent qualities for comfort »n .. trusting his many valuable precepts ®*S v iii life and console In death. n Resolved. That these proceedings w the minutes of the Lodge, and a ,*'''1 be inscribed with his name and a ® e ’tgi^\ these proceedings famished biso 1 ^ tfie same be published in the senger. ontbes DIED* Died at Union Springs, Alabama, June 4th, 1870, Moral*** 7 fant son of George E. Hazlehufft,« and 11 days. icA- In the city of New York on sumption, after a tong and ^ gd Boas, wife of David H. Bo* of *** years 5, months and 20 days* Bet t«md in Woodlawn Cam**?-