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CJ;eca "Weekly Telegraph, and. Journal Messen^eu.
Telefeffil aiid Messier.
til", BEtiEMBw
Tlie Elcctiou.
Tho Manager
of tho Election ccnimvbcail
the c
on iff of -vo
ta oa Thijr«l*y nigut at eight
o'c'.o’.
k, and con
i-nyed eto-iriily at the i-smcm. il
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♦i bj>ioiinvi tic. .V i> r r
soL.nl
dhacuniO;
-n .vualj- *; ui to, say to our
fridni
. -’ ', .V,
i.yuutin;; ot voles was all prop-
Oil., :
ou ,'^FXlie vote waa large, hud
clear!
liISliJ ill*
voles w’oto.casi. The
suit i
r.vnA sai
.1 rm.jp: ily-ag>«ii;st iv. nn 6ur
L-g.a
i.iji'va ;:-k-
, but we trusi. iho Dm- c:. k
candi
nkes v.ial o
oqti-^t thq,Seats of those who
will.
ciecle.i; for We -Can hurrly
prove
n; rf.l-flj
fcuat our iiu-nibrrs before any
who V 01 X
iV justice to ns. Bibb -county
Wf.S h
qipoaud'Co
).-avp in it ’>y tbo xecer'. U. S.
cearu
- nbout^4,C
io j oils’. l ot r.s jvJk ti.d to go
throu
..1 i>[ - G-K-e d»ys ckciion,
ample
cp-oit n i
y •.* a -d* d-for voting from
thdTc
jali.-r; : -l v., T.ro sitiifijd it
•* vc-re 5,511 votes pollt d. The
•i.i-.s Cvll**l
not, without kuo\v!td 0 o thrm-
selves
of teha p.1
ttltk, da.'otherwise-than take
their’t
•riv-: b::'
'll •'Ti !s ft trili'insl—the next
Loglsl
aiure—wl
■h will do ns justice.
The Nows.
Rt
u-rs -rc tc
: t.-rl'jg. The Dcnaocruts, out
o; tbo
savea C;-
’; > ur.atu, h -.v-j elected either
four,
Ive, fix or
s -.ter - .—we cii.aut tell which,
i- JKIl-slblo
nut i r->i i*t!y either. Th -t is.
•o t y
tt.sLaw.or
i .; <: F*i irth District h .s 28a
mij
ity. for th:
41st Congress, and 389 for the
421 ip
Pike con:
ty, 1 e may bo elected for the
oro ru
d defeat€r
for the oil:, r. It is thought
tho co
Ltest will bo o. As forihe Legihl.itnre
D
'iricccat^ It.
»-i elected iti least, about two-
tin .-2s
of the Iliinse, *ud all bat one of the can-
(] f?
i' for the
B.n-tc, from which wo have
1 -r,<.
'*•6 baUt*
iu vj .uif-r uewfi before going
to ; :i
Tiny r
.- ■tit, on ti. ■ whole, llUi ' ;U
'; f.
-lory.
■The
tUtclH’S
give f ivurable reparffi from
'{»i>- Ui«r;ii*a r.tKcdon. .,
Tap. hi • -election in Georgia lifts been bol«l
tp.dec bn a- bearing snnctip , and said to bo
lb- aela i b • -,d!ivurk of Ames T. ASenSoan, At-,
tornej'-Gtueul of the United Siat-s. It goes
XIic Kc.Milt in Kibb County..
The Ueinocc/tht of Bibb county, after one of
the most gallant fight, on record, iiavo boon
defeated. They fought-tegtinst tremendous
odds, contending not only sguint-t the Radicals
ciidtdlef in-
tonic!
Qnr!
y cold
•c:tl 2!
veather.
rnl for n Fair Elect! :>u at
Kb me.
Tho'.eUhnm.i aiat:dZichJlargrove,c.t Borne,
who (if erv'iii fire* si advertisement. Ho
el dined to bo u Jemicrit, but ran as a bolter
again-t tba regular :l).mvciat;c nominees, and
for that service was reyutdeu by ltalloek with
the appointment of election manager, llo hed
tho shamelessness to .icccpt and act as such, and
with the other B.tilor-k mhungers refused to
allow iho Dctu ieridi j managers to havo any
thing to di'wih (ha,1 allot bos—he (Hargrove)
hooping tho box, and a eonfedvrcle (Penny)
tho lie y. IIo jtl-.-i u o. '.'-d that ho ahuuld receive
tho ballots and Penny pnt them in the box liar
grovo justified h..s actions on the ground that it
was id; a .,1k jllou of pow. r! We got these facts
from a car-.l of the D-.-mooratio managers pub
is d in iho I'. 'iue Commercial.
'&?u Demo v i of Bibb county owe a debt cf
gratitude to htev rs. Good ill end Ellis for tho
faithful nuum r ij which thc-y havo discharged
their duties ; ; managers at tho late election.
They were untiring and watchful.
Wo return cur thinks to tho managers and
clerks, Messrs.-Dunn, Seifert, Mean, Tinsley,
Smith, Comp.on, Salk and Backus; also to the
ITavaftkl and members of Police for courtesies
daring the coimting of votes.
Mayor Ilr.ff und Marshal Marlin, and the po
lice i f Macon, Messrs. Wiley, Pridgen and
other* - -, and C iplain Williamson, City Treasurer,
took good c iT6 of those engagid in the duty of
connting votes. They provid.d them with cveiy
aojjojfort. . -**■
Who Dm It ?—The Griffin papers of Thurs
day both state that Long, tho negro who ran
for tho 11 at Congress on the Radical ticket in
this district, boasted, in a speech there Satur
day—showing a roll of money at the same lime
—that the Democrats had given it to him to
electioneer for them, but that ho was using it
;o cleot Radical candidates, and that his hear
ers, the negroes, mint do so, too. Tuko nil tho
money from the Democrats they could get, and
then turn around and use it for Radical purpos
es. We want to know tho narnoof the Democratio
greenhorn who givo Long money? Or, Las
Lang lied? Wo prefer to think the latter. We
caanot believe thero is any Democrat, in this
section, at least, who is as big a fool ns that.
( old H eather.
Our first cold snap of the winter set ia Thurs
day, wita a northwester f.esh from the Arctic
regions. By Fiiclay moraing all demand for
iced ilrIrks had coated—Africa ebook in its
boots, and .worm clothing and bright fires were
above par. We conceited ihe thermometer a
lktlo after eight o’clock and it indicated twenty-
tvo plus very distinctly. All day Friday the
wind held its course with much strength and
persistency, and, at this present moment, in the
afternoon of Friday, there ij every' prospect
of a bitter cold night.
The Houston Journal is the title of a very
neat and readable piper lately established by
our friend J. T. Waterman, in Perry, Ga. Wo
congratulate him on the taste and judgment
displaye d in his first, number, end commend him
to the hearty co-operation of the people of that
Urge and intelligent county.
The Georgia Press.—Oar usual budget of
State news under the above head comes up
missing this morning. The election, with its
attendant excitement nnd exultation, seems to
havo crowded all thonghls of loerd news out of
the hea ls of our contempoiaries.
Swedu3 jx Flobida.—A movement has been
inaugurated in Florid), to soouro a Swedish im
migration to that Siate. Judge DuPont in ad
dressing a mee'iog in Leon county, stated that
a small number of Swedes had already beon in
troduced into that connty, who g.ivo great sat
isfaction by their docility, aptness and industry.
Dr. Hen&ht-ru, a Sw.-du-li gentleman, was pre3-
ent at the meeting, and stated that tho hubits
of his countrymen well adapted them to a. use
ful and profitable position as immigrants to
Florida. __
NomxaiiAM ron Christmas.—Mr. Notting
ham, just below ns, desires special attention
directed to his advertisement. He has arrang
ed particularly for Christmas with fruits, fowls,
sweet meats, wines, brandies, eggs, fireworks,
al! everything right. Go and see him.
Fears, Bartley. A; Co. buy meats for the
Southern market by the ton. They yesterday
filled orders for two hundred thousand pounds
of bacon, wlikli ought to hrve been raised in
Georgia, but were not. Buying heavily, they
can do the best Tor people who will not raise
their owu pork.
PulaKki County.—Hawkinsville, Deo. 23.—
Tho Democratic ticket is elected in this county
by four hundred majority.
Goon Farming—Mr. Thomas Moore, who re,
bide3 sixteen miles east of Tampa, raised this
year on oaa acre of pine land, 22 bushels of
ooru and four hundred pounds of long oorion*
Coi runt's cottcn receipts up to Thursday,
were 41 011 bales.
j by the name tf th-..-“ri/.vv/.era/f/W.” Itisone of this county, Bn .those of Houston, Jones,
of ttoxudsi ex : ^ordinary statutes ever enacU d . Twiggs nnd Mon-rio also. Elsewhere will be
and pul:or;o, cvcrttn tho dark-si eras' of found an'official ft itcment of the vote for Con-
.Legislative hittui-y. I* fi mtcdj.hu constitution gross, members of the Legislature tend county
.of iLo 5(-.te fa the fvea, in every one cf its pro- officers. I* will bo scon that tho average Radi-
visions for an honest b.iilat. No judge on earth, ; cabmtjority for the Legislature is only, thirty-
toot sold to S-.tan, could have .pronounced that eight, .vthi'.a for Congress it is only fifty-one.
statute otherwise than null and void in till its Viewed from the stand point of a Radical ma-
principa'. features. Any man’s iipi would have {jority of over nine hundred two years ago, these
quivered wi'u conscious falsehood, who should ' figures are very suggestive. Oaa more such
I vq df.rpd ho say that that law was’ cone aired ; Radical triumph and they are tinned,
in «'.y hoac.it purpose, or with any other design There were same little Radical ‘urregulari-
thr.a that cf overslaughing the popular will of ties” mthis election that may possibly bo re-
Ge irgia by wholesale fraudulent voting—colon-.{ viewed I >y a Democratic House of Repreasnta-
g nog. o»; from one coanty to another—for j .fives, with a view to correction . In that event,
faci itatrog which fr.idds the election was post- | the will of the voters of Bibb county will find
poa> d by'the till,.from the constitutional time [ legitima'e and triumphant expression.* Messrs,
in November, until ti e Christmas holidays, . Boss* Nutt.ng end Bacon are the legally elected
when the negro population was more afloat and i R*'p(%;S aula fives to the General Assembly from
at leisure. | this county, nnd we have strong hopes of seeing.
- For tLo same nefarious purpose, the el ctiou them ia their seat) within thirty days after the
w..s protracted by the bill from the constitu- • «*seinLl!ng«f the next Loglsl ituru.
tional term of one d .y, aud extended over three i4ad{ ^ t si t ai -d in
days—the 20th, 2lst and 22J—that the negroes j Fleritlil
might move freely around from county to j Florida is on, of the sm blast, most sparsely
county. j populated, and poorest States in ilfo Union, yet
The more certainly to eecure the deadly i thero fire bnt Slates whoso Governors re-
frands contemplated by the bill, it prohibited ceivo a hjghf:r pal „ V ; No Si ^ e h )s as nmnv’
all challenge or question by the bystanders- j Cltbjne . tbe £Kai fotal of their salfl ‘.
sealed their months by heavy penalties, when ^ u th , n that of nav oltuP state i
the Cojistitulioa expressly recognize, the free lbe Uaioa . Ta1i9 Kew Y ork with hpr 4,000,00
1* —|k" Cf C:.».leB a e. nnnnl.Hnn f... I n.t ....... . I. .. — iTr... — ..el.'... —.. .. .
To insure further the slice, m < f ’the infernal
bfeino, t il nesr approach to the p.-rson of the
m-.a offeri ng to vole was strict v prohibited, so
that nobody should recognize a sooty repeater
or colonist from abroad by close examination.
A negro with a changed hat, coat and muffler
000
population for instance : Her St.v.e officers c.s.
$15,000 a year, while Florida, with 190,000 pop
ulation, pays hers $24,000. The Governor of
Now Voik gets $4,000 a year—Florida pays hr-r
Governor $5,000. The Chief Justice and Asso
ciate Just ices of .New York receive a salary of
$3,500 a year each—Florida gives her Cuiet
would 1h> bard !o identify closo-tosny nothing ! JnstIce <a 4 500, and her Aaiociate Jus’iecs $4,-
cf fif:oen feet .1 stance which evary other voter j C(l0 easb . New York p:,vs her L : ou(cn-.nt Gov-
was sVruly l.y tb.-bill required to maintain, and erao - ^ ftB dihe members of the LegsUtnrr
_ 0 $500 a
the bill, as it came from the plastic hpnds ot vbi<sh u ovtT &7 a d for the fi s stand over
Akermr.n. took from the county aulborities the U L42 ft a for lle ^ tlw wholj ,. r thf0a >b
appointment and control of the mahagera of ] Sanaiys iliClu(led !
These figures, tak a from iho Floridian,
show how deep the it * jical thieves down there
hiva dipped into the people’s pockets. Is it
tho election, and vested them in Bullock, who
every where .■•ormht out tho most cunning and
reckless R i.l c .1. to ri.cc-i vc and count the volts
It is true, eS if ai liamed of thelranspareut
character of the scheme acd willing to reUeve it
by one little touch of apparent fairness, the
Lvgi Iituro did emend Akenaan’s hindiwoik so
far as to provi-Je for t *o add tional conniy can
vassers to bo named by tho Ordinary of each
unty. But tv ri after this amendment hud
passed, B .llock foiight it with tho absurd con-
slrnetion, (which the Senate sustained,) that
these nominees of the county authorities must
c ’fQo before the Srata Senate for ordirmation.
But, although a majority of tie county Ord -
uirics are Radicals, we say to their credit that
in general they did exercise their appointing
power with a fair regard to the integrity of the
ballet. Outside of these appointments the Rad
icals havo dona their very be.-fc to administer
this a’rocious law in the spirit and with tho ob
ject, for which it was passed.
But wo believe all tho rascality has born of
little avail. At this time wo are under the im
pression that an overwhelming majority of
Democrats has bt-ea elected to the Legislature,
and the Congressional ticket will show, at least,
four Democrats out of tho seveD.
Georgia, upon an honest poll, has fifty thou
sand Democratic majority,and it wes a thorough
knowledge of this fact which suggested at
Washington this horrid conspiracy with Bullock-
to drown tho popular suffrage under a deluge
of fraud. Bollock knew better than the Wash
ington Cc' :r,t. lie did not moan to trust
Georgians again with tho ballot. He proposed
to hold on to power by open usurpation. He
was what they call a “prolongation^.”
But tho Cabinet could not back him in this
scheme. They feared the effect of such an
open usurpation upon tho other States. They
won! t not boldly challenge the infamy of a di
rect and murderous assault upon tli3 ballot and
republican liberty. They chose tho more sinn-
ous, but as they thought equally fatal alterna
tive, of an election which should be no election ;
but in which tbc-ir i.lsck confederates organized
in secret leagues all over the State—officered
by cunning white fuglemen, and furnished with
money from Washington and Atlanta, should
be moved and voted from county to county, and
all legal defences against the stupendous fraud
annihilated.
If the Democratic press in o‘hor States fail
to call tho attention of tho peop’o to the enor
mity of this crime of the Washington authorities
against a pare suffrage—against republicanism
and American liberty, the.y v ill, in our opinion,
negl.ct an important duty. Wo a-!: their at
tention to if. We wish the American people to
see a practical iliustraiion cf Gonerdl Grant’s
boasted attachment to a free and pnre bailot.
Wo wish au administration which prates about
frauds and intimidation by tho Southern Dem-
ocra's and illnstratcsits own ideas of tho Amer
ican ballot by such a bill as this, to be held up
to the reprubvi 'n of every honest man in the
land.
A S’rovUIcut Legislator.
Hon. D. J. Morrell is a gentleman who, for
tunately for himself, combines in his owu per
son the right to n Radical seat in tho House of
Representatives from Pennsylvania, and the
chief ownership of the Cambria Iron Works.
The Hon. D. J. Morrell has, in pursuance of
his rightful prerogatives, introduced into Con
gress a bill to encourage American ship build
ing and American commerce. One provision
of his bill is that nil dutiable goods imported iu
American ships shall be entitled to a drawback;
and there shall lie h drawback n’so upon all ma
chinery impoited fur the purpose of Imildiog
wooden or iron ships.
Bat, says the World, “the enormity of this
proposition is lost when we coioo to contem
plate tho second sectiun. Tnia proposes to pro
vide that on all machinery used for building
ships there bhall bo allowed a drawback equal
to tbe duty on tbe material of which it is made.
Or, in the plain words in which even tho cssnr-
ance of Mr. Morrell did not venture to put it. j
for 6very ton of iron'bought by John Roach,
ship-builder, of D. J. Morrell, iron-raosier, tbo
said Morrell is to receive from the Treasury a
bonus of from $70 to $75 in gold, being tho
amount of duty that the iron would have' paid
if it had been imported from Scotland.”
If these Protectionists ever come to poverty,
Urey can console themselves with the reflection
that they have exercised a sleepless vigilenco
and activity to make ev^ry act of Congress
tributary to their own pockets.
any wouder that tbs rogues r- sort to any means
to keep Uiemselvci in such fat places?
A| Political Hcarcerow.
Tho H'erald must have been very heavilysnb-
sidized of late iu the interests cf Grant. Pur
suing its onslaught upon the Radical mdcon-
t'-uU iu Congress, the Herald of Tuesday at
tempts a big scare on Iho bondholders. Tho
revolt means the divi ion of the psrly, and tho
division cf the party means a Presid.-atiil scrub
rsao -ia 1872, anrl a scrub race menus chaos,
civil war, hleeished, repudiation of tho bones,
and every sort of nationai mischief. Si vs the
ii . aid.:
Strong as our national bondholders feel in
their securities, we can toll them that their only
rehablasecnri’y is General Grant, lieis pledged
19 the faithful redemption of the nebt, and we
all know that ho is safe and sound on this great
ij re .tiou. We are sure so far, but no Gr h- r.
tirtek up the party identified with Grant’s ad
ministration, cut oil Grant and give qs a scrub
race candidate for our next President, and wu
shall have a scrub administration, a scrub C in
gress, and a condition of political aud financial
chaos worse than that of Franco under Gaia-
betta. Take away General Grant, and you can
carry rv;-n tt.e negro vote of the South to-day
for repudiation, and you may carry tie
Vote ot the West in tho same direction to
morrow. * * * * * * Bat,
oh! it may bo said, these horrid foreshadow-
ings are absurd. So it wlS thought of the
warnings of the late rebellion. We are sure of
nothing in this ago of startling events, and
nothing revolutionary is impossible. We ven
ture, therefore, another prediction. Let these
mutinous leaders of tbe Republican party con
tinue their mischievous work against tho admin-
i.-tralion, so as to make, in lS7t, General
Grant’s retirement from tho Presidential field
or his defeat a foregone conclusion, and by the
year 1872, such distrust and fear will come
upon our national securities nnd such deprecia
tion that repudiation will become the ruling
condition of the Presidential election.
So the Herdld leads off as the great champi
on of Grant’s renominatiou.* While the recog
nized Radiol orgaas are hesitating and halting
and shivering in the wind, the Herald thrown
itself unreservedly at the head of the Grant
column, and leaves the lame captains far iu the
rear. AH this ia the work of a few days, and
shews the operation of powerful and active in
fluences. Somebody has seen tbo Herald, and
put the facts aud arguments in the ca-e verj
powerfully before his mind.
Vote of nii>I> County.
The following is the official voto of Bibb
county, os polled at the late election. It will bo
seen that tho entire Radical ticket was elected:
Foe Fobty itbst Congeess.
Jeff. Long (colored) 2781)
W. J. Lawton 2738
Long’s majority 51
Fob Foety-secvNd Cosobess.
Tucs. J. Speer 2785
W. J. Lawton ....2745
Speer’s majority. 40
Fun the Leoisuatuee.
Bkdical 'licket.
James Fitzpatrick
H M. Turner (colored)
Moses Pollock (colored)
l)emoceatic Ticket.
O. A. Nutting
J. B. Ross ‘4717
A. O. Bacon 2705
Average Radical majority 38
Fob Sheriff.
Pat Doyle 2735
T. L. hiassenburg *GS0
Doyle’s majority 115
Fob Clerk of Superior Court.
M. J. Ed^erly..... 2772
J. H. King 2G93
Edgerly’s majority.
Fob Tax Receiver.
W. G. Engelko -
It. A. Benson
Engelke’a majority.
Fob Tax Collector.
Ira Jennings
F. M. Heqtb •••?
27C8
..2734
2747
2713
..2774
..2627
147
..27G7
..2706
Jenning’a majority «...
•Foe County Subveyob.
Thos. Pullen
Thos. Butler
Pullen’s majority
Fob County Treasures.
Peter Perkins (oolorod)....r.
J.W. Stubbs
.2755
,..2701
2707
51
To hope to touch by toe same sermon hearers
of vanor.^ v s/rsu.k.-anl education, ia
to <: ee 1 lo-.-ks wuh ihe same key.
Governor Hoffman not a Presidential Can- ’
didate.—The New York Leader, owned and ed
ited by Mayor Hall, and the official organ of
Tammany, declaies that neither Governor Hoff
man nor his immediate friends have ever pre
ferred any claims for him as a Presidential can
didate. It says:
la 1868 th - New York delegation with per-
Perkin’s majority.
County- Coroner.
Lewis Smith (oolored)..; : ....2753
I A. Dewberry 2719
Smith’s majority 34
Tbe Result.
Macon, "Deoember 24, 1870.
A citizen of Bibb oounty makes this note ■ on
the reoent election: By an infamous election
law, and the ballot-box stuffed with fraud, those
, _ _ citizens who' desire a “pure and honest govorn-
aistcnce put forward, npoa b illot after ballot, ment » have been defeated, and the white race
Senator Hendricks, of Indiana If the latter . , .... , v.i„.w u„
wan their choice then, how can they in 1872 are under the heel of the black man, headed by
sbonUcr tbe Western pressure? Besides, under * few pimps of power, demagogues aad offioe-
the pr^ce leu’s of tbe p.ts’, the next candidate seekers. Young men of Bibb ! let this be tho
of th« Democracy belongs to tue West. Whether j t ©ver the tax-pay era, the intclUy/nce
HcnilricKD, or h-ir, or Il. ncock, or Xburmun, * - , , , .
ot Some -iTi)* hoc prominent fr-'in ike North shall aD< ^ wealth ot the land, and pass o woi , ^
be bicui' i fo.-w rd as a candidate. ‘ Organize.
. ‘A Merry Christmas.
Yfo bid our readers, this bright cold morning,’
one and all, •“a.merry Christmas.” Lef'us cast
.off care to-cuy, and titling down by the bright
fire be comfortable and happy. One source of
i comfort to every true . and intelligent Georgian
to-day must be the certain prospect opened tip
by the late election that^J’.i rime, the intelli
gence and patriotism of the-State willjoo able
to control bor destinies, and the tempest of
misrule*, 'waste, .-firaul - and demoralization
sve-epiog over us will be staffed. No power
will be able ta arrest our self-assertion b/ and
by; an d when the time comes we will'deni with
the case as becomes fair, honest and patriotic
men. With tho 'hnge debts -piled up by the
Radicals, we will act like the man in the Scrip
ture who drew fish up in his net of every kind.
We will take care of the good ami cist the bad
away. We will restore official resrionsibilily.
We will provide for the purity of elections by a
good registry law and reqairiDg every man to
vote within his own election district. Such
elections as the Radicals give us would swamp
the State in universal knavery. We will curtail
expenses—diminish taxes, inaugurate agood
police system and provide for the more speedy
administration of public justice.
Our agricultural hopes this year have been
floored; but even that will help us in time, by
compelling us to raise our own bread and meat.
Were we to grow cotton fit twenty cants a pouud
for a decade, while we bought Wes'ern corn and
wea f , we should never improve our- condition.
Oa the other hand, if wa will betake ourselves
industriously tofanniny, the process of reca-
[na'ioa will be rapid Let ev.' rr man; hor. af
ter, aim at independent, self-supplying farm
ing’,, anil in ten years we should hate abundant
capital. We might easily lay by ten millions a
year from our cotton crops if we would pursue
a wise pluming economy.
There is niching to hinder us from a injnd
growth and development iu all the elements of
power—nothing which wa cannot easily remove,
libe StV.q has already made tome progress in
the work of resioratioa, and is destined to move
much more rapidly in the future. Let us thank
God and take courage.
Intli'CCMf.
'Bullock was guilty of great indecency and a
shapn tut violation of the spirit, if not the letter
of the eleoiion law in tho appointment of some
of his election managers.
A notable case was that of Hargrove, r.tEocie,
who was a Candida! o for the Legislature, and
whose conduct we criticized yesterday. Another
case was tho appointment of Kryzanowski in
this county. This man, so far as wo know, no
move lives ix Bibb county than he does in half
dozen ethers. Ha is a Revenue supervisor or
something of that sort—a Federal effiakd, any
way, and, it is presumable, has, or ought to
have, hi j hinds so fail of Federal Government
business r-s to leave him little leisure for med
dling in State and county po'it'cs There was
not one reason why Bullock should havo made
him an election manager, except that he is
known'as one of the most vet.emous Rid.ca’a
and bitterest haters of the white people to be
found anywhere. These are all his qnshfiea-
tiuos for the position,aud we suppose it was wifh
iefe.cneo to them that his appointment was
ina>)e.
A pivt 'y pass we have come to, indeed, when
a laid upon Federal offisids has to be made
to fill out a list of State tltcliou managers.
Bullock and Kryzanowski are pretty well kuowu
by the people of Bibb county, now, but they,
know nothing to the credit either of patioa or
protege. We hope this is the Inst lime the in
decent spectacle will be seen in Georgia of a
Federal official notorious for his malignant hos
tility to the people among whom he is stationed,
and his eagerness to sea them put uuder the
feet of their former slaves, noting as manager
at a local election, Kryzanowski may bo nn
honest man, but he hates the whites too bitterly
to bo trusted anywhere, or at any time, with
such power to degrade aril injure them ns the
infamous Akerman election law givo him
as an election manager. Let him slick to his
legitimate business, hereafter, if ho has any.
Elcctiou Returns.
We have returns from a few adjacent coun
ties. Upson goes Democratio as does Pike.
For Congress, in Upson, Lawton, for 41st
Congress, has 80 majority ; for 42d Congress,
84 majority. Matthews, (Dem.,) for Senate,
has 1G2 majority. Hall, for Representative,
has 422 majority, and an entire Democratio
couaty ticket is elected. Iu Pike county Law-
ton hr.s 2SS majority for 41st Congress, and 389
majority for 42d Congress. Pike is tho home
of Speer, Radical candidate for 42J Congress,
who, it will be seen, run3 101 voles behind
Long, the negro candidate. His neighbors seem
to appreciate him.
The whole Democratio Legislature and conn
ty ti.kct, except Clerk of Superior Court, was
elected in Pike.
Janes connty gives somewhere in the neigh
borhood of 100 majority for the Radicals.
We learn that Clark coanty elects one neg o
Radical, and Hull, Demoornt, to the Log>!j-
tnre, nnd that the 27th Senatorial District, ccm-
poH.-.J uf Clark, Monroe and Walton counties,
elocto S.eudiuau, Democrat, by a handsome ma
jority. We also learn, from the same source,
that Price, Demoorat, has carried the Gth Con
gressional Distriot by an overwhelming majori
ty over Boyd — sorehead and bolter — and
Wimpy—“Wogau’s” Wimpy, tho celebrated
cou.'i’erfeit detective - Radical. Morgan has
g-ru: Radios 1 , and Greene was reported close.
Terrell county has gone Democratio, giving
Tift, for Congress, and the legislative and
connty tickets, 407 majority.
From - Butts we hear nothing offioial, bnt
enough is known to warrant the statement that
the Democrats have carried tbe oounty by from
140 to 180 majority. Henry county gives Law-
ton for Congress, ucd the legislative and county
ticket 300 majority.
Vote of I*i>koii Caunty.
awe r.,4 ! at C"nKro«s t ..tV5i I Lirp. 4let C-.nfrro ?,—815
l.atvton, 474 Corerei<s...9-t0 I gpser, 42d Congr;r?,...HtG
Ma»hcw? # 8cnate,...-..„911 1 Guii'orS, Senate .A)
Hail, lloivo 1055 | Bell, Sooate 653
Lawton’s majority 86 ; Mathews’ 1G2; Hall’s
422, Good for Upson.
; Dodge, the new connty, elects the entire
Democratic ticket. Vote for Congress: Tift,
104; Whitely, 21.
Pike—Tho whole Democratio ticket
elected, exoept Clerk of Court. Lawton for
41st Congress, has a majority of 288; for 42d
Congress, 389.
Jones.—The election passed off quietly, and
the votes are being counted. Tbe Democratio
ticket will be beaten 100.
The First General Conference of the colored
membership of tbe M. E Church South, has
jnst closed in Jackson, Tenn. The colored
Church was set apart into a separate and inde
pendent organization, and henceforth takes the
name of the “Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church in America.” Two Bishops were elect
ed—Yanderbast of Georgia, and Myers of Ken
tucky Full reports will be given in a few days.
Mt. Zion Select School.—We call special at
tention to the advertisement of this select school,
found elsewhere. It has enjoyed universal re
pute in tbe past, and we are assured is now in
the zenith of its fame and excellence. Mr.
Northen has a reputation as an in-truotor sec
ond to no man in Georgia'. Boys who are put
under-his- charge will have (he fullest justice
done them in every respect.
THE .’GEORGIA FT5IiS,<?. "
A fight at toe polls in Augusta, Wednesday,
I betw. ea..two white men, resulted in a blight
w..urd fuc band fo a police offier:
MnvRabun Hall, of Washing'.on cotsniy, uiado
this year, S5 gallons of extra Lice syrup from
.one-fourth of an acre of cane, besides r.rvicg
plenty of heed for next year, and having enough
for-eating purposes. ^ f
Nineteen hundred and eighty-nine bales of
cotton weighing 921,310 pounds, and valued at
$140,161 6f| were shipped from Savannah fur
Liverpool,.on.Wednesday. • 'r~i
We clip as follows from tho.Sivnuiiuh News,
of Wednesday: -r - . l
• Bow! Wow! ! Wow ii-! —A young man was
yesterday arrested by order of Deputy United
States MarshalSmythe, and takouto the United
States Marshal’s office, there to be held to an
swer for the crime of barking like a dog at a
man named Jones, who iu good old' times used
to gain an honest living by hunting' negroes
with dogs through the swamts, but who, now is
a candidate for Sheriff Of Chatham county oa’
the Republican ticket,yuifl that is euongh.
City Marshal’s Sales. —Ikib following sal^s
took place yesterday: H”
■ Lot No. 17, city valuation $2,COO ; increased
value $1,700; sold for $4,20 ). v.
Lot .No. 18, city valau $2,500 ;_-i,aereaied
value $1,350; sold for $3,850.
Lot No. 20, city value: $2,800; increased
v l ie $1,500 f.spV| for $4,300 . ..
Lot ..No. G2, city value $2,1X10; increased
value $800; sold fox $2,800. .
The above safes were regarded as the best
that havo occurred this season, .*
Siys tho Chronicle and Sint inti, of' Weduc-s-
diy: ’ ’ ?
DaiiDg yesterday and the day before, any
number <>f Scipios, Hanaibals, (kossra and
Pompt-ys voted the'aentawag ticket; r-s'did also
five or six troorge Washingtons, ope John Ad
ams,-Thauias Jefferson, James M idisou, three
Andrew Jacksons, two Mania Van Bureau, and
William Iieury Harrison. Among the icala-
wugs too were found John Brown, General Bo
naparte, L ml M-.nsfiald aud Sir Isaac Newton.
But the queerest thing which took place hap
pened nhcn JOHN O CALHOUN—listen, ye
tkadcs of South Carolina nu'.lifiers!—marched
to tho polls aud voted a f ill scahiwag ticket.
CniLD Burning.— \ Lorriblo ca^e of child
burnitg occurred on yesterday morning. At
about twelve yesterday morning a negro woman
who lived on the west side of Washington, street
between Telfair and Greene, Loerd disastrous
reports from the City Hall, nad cuncoiV, d it to
be her duty to fly to; the .scene of action and'
woifc for tho success of the straight Republican
ticket. She accordingly Lft her house and re
paired io tho polls, leaving a blazing fire behind
hcr'aud her little boj, ag>id three years, locked
up in the room. A short time after she left
piercing screams isatted from the house, and the
neighbors rushing iu found that the child hud
fallen in the fire aud was fearfully burned.
The pews iu the Goiurnbns Baptist Church
were rented Tuesday ovening. Thirty-four
psws—about half—were rented at the following
figures: The I’areo highest pews went for $159
each; the three /.ext highest for $100; one for
$80; two for $75; one for $65; two for $60;
nine for $30;, tw > for $40; two for $25; nine
for $20—aggregating® 1,925,
Charles Obadiaii Johnson, tho R adical candi
date for the Logidi'ure in Spalding county,
was caught Dying to vote iu Atlanta, on Thurs
day. ’ *
Five tUon-Jind-rav • ’e tudred and two votes
was the total poll in Filu-i ccir t,;.
There was quite a r« - pc snow in Bolton
aud vicinity l ist Frid >y.
The negroes of Will'll-At cnnfy generally
voted the Democra io tleki t
A man named Worthy shot and killed his
brother-iu law, a man named Nelson, in Mur
ray conniy, last Sunday. Tbe difficulty was
about land, and had been on hana some time.
Tho Dalton Citizen tells the following story :
Euchred.—A white Radical, who h is charge
of one of the sections of ihs Smte Road above
Ibis plaa.T, was handsomely euchred on his own
dual. IIo brongUt down a squad of road hands
from Tunnel Hilt to vote them; having previ
ously exacted a promise from thorn to vo'e Lis
way. On his arrival, some one dislr.baud
Democratic tickets among them, which they
voted to a man. The section boss was wiathy
when he found out how things had gone; bnt
pshaw! the thing had been “did,” and it wasn’t
any nse to feel hurt with his colored brethren.
Death of a Georgian in Philadelphia.—
About half-past six o'clock, r si, on Sunday a
gentleman was taken suddenly ill in front of
Holy Trinity Church, northwest corner of Sixth
and Spruce ’streets. Falling to the pavo-
ment, ho was carried to tho Penusylvania Hos
pital, where he shortly expired. The deceased
was abont forty-five years of age. Oa his per
son wore found five dollars in cash, the manu
script of two sermons, and a book containing
tho names of subscribers to tho Macon Female
College of tbe M. E. Church at Macon, Geor
gia, and a card stating that the bearer R. E.
Stenfiald, was au>horized to collect for that in
stitution.—Philadelphia Jye.
It is, perhaps, fortuuate for mankind that
this so-called ‘'Georaiuu” is dead ut last. He
or some otie r pcr-iou or persons have been
practicing that swindle oa tho publio for a long
time. Thero is no “Macon Female College of
the M. G. Church, at Macon, Georgia." ' Thero
ia a “Wesleyan Female College,” bnt item-
ploys no beggars. Aud if anybody iu Mioon
knows “iho bearer, R. H. S onfield” we a:e not
apprise) of the fact. Stonfiold was, undoubt
edly. one of those industrious people who make
u living by imposture and swindling.
Th:; Arlington Estate.—“Occasional'’ writes
as follows from Washington City to theCourier-
Jonraal:
Notwithstanding the Senate has contemptu
ously rojccitd tho proposition to consider the
propriety ot rt storing tbe Arlington estate to
tho Leo family, there is no doubt ihat it will
bo done ultimately, or tho Government will
compensate the owners therefor. The proper
ty was not confiscated, as the public generally
suppose; bat it was bought oa account of the
Government foi thispiciul war tax laid on Vir
ginia as well as other States. And, if tbe law
under which the purchaso was made had been
complied with, the sate, possibly may have been
legal. But ydnr correspondent is informed by
a distinguished legal gentleman who is familiar
with tho case, that tbe law was not complied
with, and he predicts when the case shall be ad
judicated legally, the Supreme Court will restore
the property. In a case from Arkansas, where
this precise print was made, a former Secretary
of the Treasury ordered the restoration of
lands valued at $5,000,000 Mrs. Lee, some
time since, tendered to the Government the
amount of taxes, with interest, which was de
clined. ’
Germans Around Paris.—Mr. Goode, the
World’s correspondent at Versailles, writing on
the 15th instant, says it is impossible for the
Germans to bombard Paris from their present
positions. He also states that the anxiety for
peace among tbe German troops is intense, and
' they are so homesick and discontented as to be
on the point of mo tiny. He adds:
The bombardment of Paris having been post
poned to the Greek kalends, the bombardment
of Versailles is now every moment expected.
The French havo guns in position which are
capable of throwing shell through the head
quarters of King William in the Palace of Ver
sailles, aud of driving the Germans from their
works to the east and north of Versailles.
Areestxd.—A report was current here yester
day that Hon. Linton Stephens had been ax-
rested at Sparta and carried to Atlanta. Wheth
er by United States Marshal or the military,
wo did not learn.
General Beauregard.—The statement that
General Beauregard bos goLe to Europe to take
a command in the French army is contradicted.
He is still in this country.
A Strict Jew.—There is in Pesth, Hungary,
a Jew named Dr. Hasenfield, whose fidelity to
the Jewish law excites great surprise. He is
having a flue mui^ion built at the expense of
$100,000, nnd forbids that ony work shalibe
done on the Jewish Sabbath. As tho worksfcn
are thus compelled to rori on a day, when they
would be-.willing to w»:k, ho pays them their
tegular wages for that d iy, et-* additional
txpeDso of $2,0C0, which he pays for the luxury
of a good conscience.
rerrisalKotfS. ’ '
Julius Von Wickede, tbe military ccrrehpon-
dent of ibe C logne Gazette, who possesses a
imhnti; ku6«Ietlge~qf Fraroe.aad the FreLch
army, thus expresses Lis views in an article':
“Tl o French I'ortves»es and their inhabitants.”
Who.-oevci', tli-» writer says, has followed the
coup-e of the war with nn impirti.il military,
judgment, could never indulge in fl itfeiing illn,
sinus that t’ae French veil'd be unable to con
tinue th- rt*ri-h*Y« i : ’ ic.r.ths l -'i’l, if they
v.’: re Mdiy iujemAn J Hi *rti$ there
w s ra in-.'.t.y :> -pi- ii th-'.ri eren fuili-
f ary men, whn, nft-: th » cap.t .lailon ui Sedan,'
professed tl:e belief that no v within a few veek-t
Franco would lie pro'-trateat our f--c t.' I must
confess I nevor shared these sanguine hopes,,
find, from my clpso observations />f French cir
cumstances!, I formed quite a d'Cerent opinion.
After the battle Of Sedan’tue French we'd len-
dert-d powtile.-s to t. ’to the ofA :•.* ! ut to
carry on a long and ob-‘innie defensive war.
they still ct-mmandvd-auiph) resources. France
is a large, wealthy country, i uhubited by it brave
and intelligent popnlattor, which -is'fwea with
great national pride, often bordering- on eelf-
concoit. There is a gr^ac number of vos* ar
senals and military establishments of every
kind; which, together with the highly develop-
ed in'unfilry c " the'country, eriablo the govern
ment to equip au army within a short time.
France is also greatly strengthened in a d»fen-
sivc warfare by her many fortresses. The most
important strongholds, Metz and Strasbnrg,
have fallen after a siege, lasting several months,
and costing us .'enormous sacrifices. Sohlett-
studl, Bieisuoil, To 1 F' ’ ' u-;. V-rdnn, Sois-
sons, Laon, Thionvilie and Mezlbros are also in
onr hands; bnt there is quite a list of other
in.po.-laat foriified placo, as Belfort, Bisnncon,
Lille; Lyons, Arrrfe, Cherbourg, Brest, r.ot to
apeak of tho fortre-. r es ia the rion'h of France
still iu the power of tho enemy, and their bc-
leagerlng aiidfirial capture would cod us much
time nnd nainy sacrifices. As long as there are
any ioiir'oihSiS held by thS’-Freijch-Mithin the
province's occupied by our troops, the popula
tion will notbeliove in our final n-iumph They
offer,' moreover, safe supports for the Frane-
tireurs ia_ their guerrilla warfare. I d-iem it,
therefore,* of the utmost importance to bring
the remaining fortie ses within onr power, and,
to hasten this consummation, it would be best
io offer tho French commanders as light # nnd
honorable conditions ns' possible. After this
principle f. i. Verdun were granted very favor
able terms with a view of securing an early
capitulation.”
General Trochu is said tp havo rustle a writ
ten promise-to the Fnpal CuUH that France,
when delivered from the Gtrmr.n°, will favor
)n titer re est)blishmeut of tho temporal
power of tho Pope. The French princes of tho
Church, one after another, are beginning to
preach a crusade against the foreign barbarians.
The B>hop of- Angers took the load; he was
folliwed by tho_ Cardinal, Archbishop of Bor
deaux, vh »has called upon the students of the
ology ia bis .diocese to take. up .arms for the
deliverance cf France. Thoi-o who have al
ready been consecrated shalf place themselves
as nurses at the dispos-il of the military author
ities. Dnpaul-iup, the Bishop cf Orleans, has
a ! so made the first victory of the army of the
Loire the subject of a pastoral letter. After
having bestowed great praise upon the brave
soldiers who had given Orleans back to France,
the Bishop alludes ia a prophetic manner to At-
tilla and his wild hordes, whose triumphal
march h id also been cheeked on the Caialauni-
an fields.
The Geitnsn official list mentions a dragoon
in the 19th regiment, who, in the battle of Vi-
onville was wounded by four thrusht in the back,
three ia the side, two in tire left arm, cue in
tire right arm, and one in the herd. Yethe has
fully recovered, and joined his re Jmeirt again
The “Pester Lloyd,” Hungary has published,
au interesting C'.mparifou V-;w on the first and
third French repu*d c. “fhe idea of the_re-
public of to-d>y.” Fao paper s^ys, “and the
idea of the republic of three generations'ago,
are two very different things. The rrpublic
now establiflied Ja only iregsiive ; it signifies
meie’-y the absence of a son reign, while eighty
yo »rs ago it was rich in positive sigutfiear.ee
and included everyhiog great and univ-isd
Which the age had produced. The republican
form of government, in its naked simplicity,
however desirable it m-sy appear to some, could
never have such a mirveloui charm over tho
minds cf men ;.s were ctiled forth by the great
French revolution. This effect is less to be at
tributed to the poiiiical features cf the first Re
public than to the material and social ideas it
embodied. If tho first revolution had done no
more than to dothrone the dynasty; if it bad
nut inscribed on its banners the names of lib
erty and equality, which were then new ideas,
nnd, therefore, possessed of a tenfold power, it
would Ro{ . svo formed a new era in the history
cf t: e world. Its greatness consists in the fdet
that it overthrew not only a throne bnt a social
system which had existed for a thousand years,
ami substituted for an unjust adjust form of so
ciety. Its unexampled influence over the
whole of Em ope arose from the fact that the
best and most important ideas it embodied
were not iu‘-eparati-ly connected with any sin
gle form of government, but might be realized
os well in a monarchy as in a republic. And
these ideas were expressed in short and simple
language which every citizen could understand
aud remember. They were grand and simple
like tho Copernican system, and as the latter
completely changed the views of mankind re
garding tho construction of the universe, the
French Revolution introduced a new, popular
and cosily comprehensible theory of political
and Staciel life.
In this fact lay the secret of its unoonquer.ibla
power. In ordor to produce outbursts uf popu
lar passion, not equal, but somewh it simil.ir to
tbo-e of the first French Republic, the pri-sea:
leaders wonld have to enter the field of social
ism. There alone cm grand, new system) be
found; there a'oue is it possible to proclnim
dogmas to the peoplo with the air of a prophet
Bnt socislism is a pure chimera, while the doc
trines of the revolution are eternal truths,” It
is impossible to deny that the French nation li is
not given admirable proofs of heroism in this,
desperate war, bat the c o have been prompted
ra'hor by patriotism thin by their republican
ism. They have shown the world that patriot
ism oan do much, bat no; everything.
The debate iu the North German Reich-teg
on tbe supplies fur the war eaded.in tbe unooii-
ditionul acceptance of the bill, with only four
dissenting voles. The debate, however, owing
to the defiant attitude of two social democrats,
having assumed larger proportions, all the other
parties unanimously expressed their opinion
that Alsace and Lorraine should be annexed to
Germany. The social-democratic fraction iu
the House was silneced by an outburst of gene
ral aoom and indignation. The new loan,
amounting to one hundred million thalers, has
found'a very favorable reoeption Of the for
mer credit one hundred and twenty millions,
granted by ths law of the 21st of July, 1870, the
sum of 119,104,000 tim ers had been expended
up to November 15th, about two millions of
which were required for tbe navy.
It has been reported that the Prussian Gov
ernment will undertake to restore the temporal
power of the Pope. We cannot place any reli-
anoe in this intelligence, which we derm but
an idle rumor. It is against common sense to
presume that Prussia, which has becu the bul
wark of Protestantism in Germtny. will, false
to all her traditions, moke herself tho champion
of Romo. The fact that tbe Kiug of Prussia,
invited by the German princes, has assumed
tbe title of Emperor of Germany, does not al
ter his position. The Holy Roman German
Empire, embracing a dozen different nationali
ties anil there hundred sovereign states, was an
nnwieldly body, and rested on feudal princi
ples. The new German Empire, has noth
ing in common with its predecessor, but the
nawo is eminently national, and founded on the
idea of the modern state.. The Emperor of
the OKI Empire, captivated by the phantom
of tho Roman Universal Monarchy, sacrificed
the flower of German chivalry iu the vain at
tempt of redueing Italy to vassalage; led away
by ronwntio feudal illusions, and the dreamy
deaire of being crowned in Rome, they neglect,
ed their affairs at home, where growiug dissen
sions weakened tho body politic, nntil the peace
of Westphalia reduced tbe Empire to a mere
shadow of its former greatness.
The Emperor and the Pope have not alway-
beeu on good terms. Henry I., was compelled
o cry for mercy at tho feet of the Pope, whosen-
enoed the Head of ihe German nation to do pen-
nce bare-fo ited and in sackoloth,in the Court of
the Castle of Canoa^a. The whole reign of the
Hohenstaufen was almost a perpetual warfare
against the supremacy and encroachments of
Rome.; Only since the House of Hapsburgheld
tho Imperial Crown, tbe Holy See secured the
G.rmau Emperors as i’a friends and protectors.
Germany has paid dearly for tius alliance. Bnt
for the rising power uf Prussia, Austria, ruled
by Rome, would -have overshadowed all Ger
many with her fatal empire. The le.eeons of
the past are not thrown away upon the German
people. Prussia cannot really have any inten
tion of imitating thesuioidal policy of Austria,
which, ever ret.dy to side with, the foreigner to
crash Gerai iu liberty, h d brought the nation
on the brink tf rulft Jarko.
jrooF. mxtw Warm. » ~
He tlis Iteneuna f,, r ". - “
Mrong iweauirnt, • ta *^er tetlarj- t
ProtuUie Atlanta Co>fxtHuUon\ "
. Atlanta, Ga., DacemHcr in .
HoN.TIir.AM ViARnat—ltear Jfr-'ri Kn0 ’
if Sot all Judges, holding office bef’n.A A
sage of the late bill increasing thl iU '■ ras -
the Judges of this Btete, except cf
irig.res.gaea,- have been re-am.oinVi"'ll b .^'
Governor, aud confirm-d bv th» r 5 i{l -
now iv,ceinug tbo increased sahry
by r.r:u bill. and there being
peris ;u Circulation as to the truo c
deC.uticg to resign, ns the other J u ,icZ C lr
do-e, ll.i for the- purpose, donbtUs- iv.^ Ts
‘uueh’ohiK;
"J rl1 usyour nmreicrs
bv giving a rt>. teillfa; 0 j
ana >OTTrir-w., . - *
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are
ltd f ot
rc-
ase of youj
jseacr _
di cr.gh the S
the f.’cts iu the p _
■the j; .iusc yo ; have purf.ue l ?h Tie ’ i -
. Very truly, jour oVr serving '
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Guefnvillk, December*'* js-o
Bepr Sir—On my reloru home from
n:;h, I received your letter of tb , if,.! . ‘ n '- n -
..ww — ™ bo aDDGitifxrl
most cf iho Other Judges in the Sir 08
and request mo to mate the
course ; ursued by me in relation lot'- ,
The.cneln-ed copy uf a letter aiWres^i ^T;
lonel N. J. linnsmopd, m renlvio Go
by me from uiiu,' w.li, it is plel-u^nf f ,^ e ? wd
ly explain theobjee: of jour it.n n trv>n,u j 1 ^
I hope, will m-et with the EtlfH
judgmsnt. ' • rr ' jl tf Jour
Very respectfully, jour o’p.d; SI _t SnyAc f
‘ lIlB .M
G i'.fxnvilll, November 111 is7a
Bear Sir : I-duly roce vr-n v-ur ! e tt»V
Gth inst., in which you siate that Jn i n ic
ami McKay hr, 1 stated to you tii.v
of my resignafion'Uf the < ffi> c of * vcat
ticeof the Supreme Omit, th# v' P 'c\, 1s *‘
had assured them that he would J ZI r
the efiice, so as to enable B9 tor^iv''^
creased salary provided by j-n f
General Assembly, ami tba^the Senate ^d
coLlirm snchTerproiLtxmr.t -, mdth .t iffi-vrl
queslea yon to inform me of thei e f C 's ’
Eiitertainicg no doubt thattWo
acted with entire good faith towar.is CtTj
mg that statfement to you, ami that the Govern-
or and benate would set in like cool fa'th
making and confirming such re-appolriic^t in
the event of any resignation, so as to e^bk
me to rcoeive the extra -Compensation m J
vide! by She act of the Leg sktnre; atVl the
proposition itself does cot meet with the’ a-
prov.il of my judgment Without p.f tendm»
to question the acts o: c • ti'— of ottc,,
name can never, wilh my com, .t, b,- c rolled
on the list of those who are even remr t- ly ras .
pccted, under anypreUx 1 , h ss'i'ivr vUtmible
with having HUynlhj plnnderod the pe«pl« ’ 0 f
tho State for their oxn pirschalb. refit. ; a
July, 1808,1 was app .iute I r a Associate Jcsticc
of the Supreme Court of the State, for tbo
term of fonryesrs, which t.tm bse cel Ttfex-
pired. Tbe salary then fixul by hi- its full
compensation for .the eei vices to !>»- reruciel
understanding, that I wR3 to re-i ive tbit ccta- '
pensotion for my ecit.ci* during m.v term of
office, and no more—for tbe Constitution ofithe
State expressly prohibits the Judges thtreol
from receiving any other perquisites, or emolu
ments whatever, from parties or other*, oa ac
count of any duty required of than, other than
their respective salaries us fired.by he-, pbe
term “perquisite,”in its common andcrdicarv
s -ii-e, as defined by on eminent !< x cegrapber,
is aa ul'owanceto r.n tfficer for se.vices, hyorid
hie ordinary salary, or sdt'cl wayie. The
term ‘Vmolum. nt” is tbe p bfic aiiring from
office, or employment, that -„h ch is received as
a comp'-nsutiun f.-rsoivic-e-s. My contr- ct vilh
tneStuto a‘ tba'.ime cf the .a ce./.a! coof the
office, was to perform the duti. s th reef, fer the
term of fo ;r y e .rs. for tho sum cf twenty-five
hundred debars |+r annum, and iu my jnih-
ment, I mu leg ti y and honorably bound to per
form tlist cou'rict, ;n good faith on my part
and not fo vit late' th-i fiirdamen a! lnir of the
State, by receiving ary other, or great* i finonnt
for my services, for the time fc/which the ap
pointment was made.
-The C-institution of the United Str.tes de
clares. that tho compensition of the Judges
thereof rtall not be c’imii-tb’ed dutir.g their
continuance in office, bnt the Constitution of
this S.Ato- declar<s, that the salaries of her
Judgts shall not be increased or diminished
during their c-mtinnanco iu office, and that they
shall not receive any other pcrquiiiles or e.nolu-
ments, tvhatever, from parties or othci*, on ac
count of any dnty reqnired of them. The last
General Assembly increased the salaries of the
Judges of the Supreme Conrt from twenty-five
hundred dollars per annum, to thirty five hun- '
dred dol'ars per annum. In my judgment the
increased salary is not too much for the per
formance of the onerous duties required of the
Judges of that Coutt, but thirty-five hundred
dollars per annum was not the srdary which the
State agreed to pay me when the office was ao
cepted on my part. My contract with the State
was, to perform the duties of the office for four
years, for thirty-five hundred dollars per an
num, and no more.
My pecuniary necessities resulting • from tho
creat losscf property hy the war, w..u!d render
the increased comj-eus.iti.vr- quite as Acceptable
to me as others, if il c u'd be lega'ly and hon
estly teceived, in view of the fund .rneutel liV
of the State, rnd my cot.fiacl with b*-r when
the office'was scoe'j.ted. To re-ign the tfiice,
with the mteo(io , and for iltf-pu- . 'UC of being
continued in office, so as to r. ceive the increased
compi-iis.-ition~f.ir tho balance of (hfe term for
which.the appointment was originaUy made and
acceptcil, would, according to uiy v.tw ot it, ha
nothing more than a i-pocious prefrll an art
ful, cunningly devised trick to evade a plain
provision of the Constitution of the Suit .which
declares that the s-.l .rk-s of the Judge ishall uni
be increased during th.-ir cont;nnauc-> ini-Soe-
Thtfl process'uf rtsignug, with tbo intention
aud for the purpose of bi iog continu'dm "fid
by reipro'n‘’ncni, at a .’linen a > ed soUr-t,U such
» pl-riu viola 1 ion of the Ccnsti r.tkn taut it will
dcceivo no one, espr cistly the I^OLSst t .x payers
of the Siate. Whatever may be s. d t-> the con
trary, it is the motive, the iatentlqn, the pnr-
pnse, with which the act of resig. kg the office
is done, that tnd Ubly staaaps upon its Fceitt
true character. If, by tbis cunningly devised
prooess of resigning and re-appointment, with
the m’ention and for the purpose of being con
tinued ia office at an increased salary, tho P*o*
pie of the State could bo deceived as to its true
object,.it is quite certain that I cannot deceive
mys-elf iu regard to it. Whenever those in au
thority, whose .sw-.ru duty it is to administer
aud execute the laws of ihe State, vielate iheni,
either iu letter or spirit, to promote their own
individual interests, thtro will always be found
many apt se-.i-lais in every community vho will
not be slo-v to imitate tkeir examp'e.
Inde; en-leut of uiy legal arid mors! obi - gat ion
as a jnd o.al <.£i er to tm. people uf the I 318 "’
who have h i ofieu iu the past honoiod me witn
their e.-nud-i.ee m-. l support, I have no desire
nor iutentioti, nor, a : ihi» period of uiy lifet
eUrnonstrale to chem, tba' I am h lineal dri-cciiu-
unt, a triio heir nt law, of that impendent
who atoned for his crimes upon the cross more
than eighteen hundred years ago, without Wj
least compunction of conscience, therefore mow
respectfully decline io resign tho officte of Asso
ciate Justico of the Supreme Court, with the im
tention, and for the purpose of being cnr.tdiuet
in office by reappointment, so as to receive tn
inoream d compeasatiou provided by the late a»
of the General Assembly. .
Very respectfully, yonr ob t serv t,
Hikam Waunke.
N. J. Hrmmond, E-q, Reporter Supreme
Court, Atlanta. .
Bandebsville, Deoember 23—2 p. m-
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: u
Washington is all right yet The entire Den»
orntio ticket is elected by a large majority- a*
this writing 2.000 votes have been oount*®'
giving 541 majority for the ticket, which
be iaoreased. Everything passed °S qm»te;
The |-oor scalawag, sirnamed Woods, woo
graces ihe po.titioh of AasisUnt luternti KeTe
nue man, came down from Gordon to w0 *
the negro ticket, ivpr-srntinghimself sswe^
ty United 8tatss Slarsh.h He celled
negroes to rallv; they didn t ^
asked forius papers, ana not having ay,
was advised to go to his *°?™! W J 1 *T j eDO t,
The hack-driver, who carried him to tha
tells u» he was avfully sesred.
need not be frightened «■ Washington
men Me ebovp hurting gfeeh as he. ^
people do say this ebmuto doea not sff* 6
SC SofflceTt to eajlt liegtad«»
calism oan never get a footing in old
•*«'V
fee.