Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Th.© Greoro-ia Weekly Telegraph and Journal & Messenger,
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, APRIL 25, 1871.
Passage of tbe Kn-klnx Bill*
The Ka-klux bill finally got through yesterday
with Sherman’s amendment struck out and the
iron clad juror’s test oath made applicable at
the discretion of the U. 8. Judge and District
Attorney trying and prosecuting the case. Wo
will print the bill so soon as a reliable copy
comes to hand. The New York Herald says it
has got teeth and is intended to bite. Some of
the Northern papers look upon it as a scheme to
dragoon the Southern States into the support
of Grant or to prevent them from voting at all.
We incline to think that it will prove, in practice,
mere self-stultification, like all the rest of this
barbarous and oppressive legislation against the
Southern States. We think it will hurt nobody
so much as the Radicals themselves—and as
like as not all the Ku-klux proceedings will just
as probably wind up in a general guffaw of ridi
cule as in any grand sensation of popular horror
and indignation which shall waft Grant a second
timo into'the Presidential chair.
One good effect of the Ku-klux fuss so far,
has been to draw the attention of the people to
the character and practical working of these
Southern reconstructions, and it will puzzle the
Radicals to display anything more lawless, un
just and disgusting in the South than their own
precious handiwork.
Meantime, it behooves the Southern people
to keep quiet—preserve the peace—frown down
all violence and “let the pizen work.” When
Grant shall have marched bia victorious legions
through the South in quest of what few South
ern men have seen—a Ku-klux—and marched
them back again—and the committee have pub
lished a quarto volume of negro affidavits, and
all is over—if that will not prove a stale rallying
cry for a Presidential election, we shall have
misjudged. Working up popular sensations by
the mouth is too slow for the business, and will
prove a poor partisan investment. There will
be more fuss over the committee’s bills of mile
age, per diem and expenses, than the supper of
horrors they may be able to servo up oimegro
testimony in their report. However, we shall
see what wo shall see.
Frnlfs of Negro SnUrage.
The Radicals of St. Louis explain their over
whelming defeat by asserting that the white
voters—oven the Germans—were so disgusted
with negro suffrage that they turned tail on the
Radical party and voted the Democratic ticket,
and this result has been very general. Indiana,
which gave 9,572 Radical majority in 1869,
added thousands of negro voters in 1870, and
then gave 2,558 Radical majority. New Hamp
shire gave 1,853 majority for the Radicals on a
white basis, and when the negro votes were
added she gave a Democratic majority. The
result in New York of the addition of the large
force of the negro voters to the Radical ticket
was an increase of Hoffman’s majority 5000.
Connecticut did better for the Radicals, appa
rcntly; yet the heavy addition of about 1500
negro voters there, did not suffice to wipe out
English's previous majority of 843. The negro
vote is a sword without a handle—it guts the
holders as well as the smitten.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Mr. Daniel Lee, of Terrell county, has a plan
tation on which he has planted all com and no
cotton. He may make a good thing of it, too.
Col. Halbert was to tell the Columbus people
all he knew about the narrow gauge system of
railways on Wednesday night.
The river plantations below Columbus were
overflowed last week. Com will have to be re
planted on many places.
In his lecture on “the Great Virginian” at
Savannah, the other night, Dr. Hicks called
Louis Napoleon “a coward,” and was hissed
therefor by some of Ms audience.
The Internal Revenue Department at Savan
nah is out of stamps, literally as well as figur
atively. GoHld must have made a clean sweep.
A so-called white man down at Savannah has
been arrested for eloping with a negro girl, by
the girl’s father who took out a warrant for “de
kid-nabber.”
A party of negro rafts-men and a white man
were Ku-kluxed by a lot of Bradley’s henchmen
on the Ogeecheo river, last Sunday. The Ku-
klux now rest from their labors in the Savannah
jail.
The Change in the Post-Olilce.
The telegrams from Washington, yesterday,
announced that Mr. Elijah Bond had been con-
firmedas postmaster of Macon, vice J. H. Wash
ington, Esq., present incumbent
Of the reasons inducing this change we have
no positive information. We believe, however,
it is generally understood that Mr. Washington
was not “ultra” enough to suit the “powers that
be”—that he has not used the patronage and
prestige of Ms office with sufficient zeal in the in
terests of the extremists of the Republican par
ty in this section. In short, that he has not for
feited the respect of Ms fellow-oitizens by fu
rious championship of partisan legislation and
practices dosigned to still farther embarrass and
annoy them. As we nnderstand the matter Mr.
Washington belongs to the moderate, respecta
ble wing of the party, and hence was offensive to
those who think moderation in politics—especial
ly where “rebels” are concerned—the gravest of
crimes. This is the generally received explana
tion of Ms removal.
Now that the matter has been settled, wo may
be permitted to say that Mr. WasMngton lisa
proved Mmself a most courteous, efficient and
thoroughly reliable official—that be has been em
phatically ‘clear in Ms office,’and that so far as we
know, Ms retirement will be mnch regretted by
a large majority of the business men of this city,
and the pnblic generally. Mr. Bond is an old citi
zen of Macon, and will, we presume, discharge
Ms now duties acceptably—provided his age
and physical feebleness do not necessitate Ms
reliance too mnch npon others, probably neither"
so well disposed nor so competent as Mmself.
With the exception of the expression of some
such fear, wo hear no objection expressed to
Mm, personally.
Confirmation of Elijah Bond.
Let ns console ourselves that, bad as they are
generally, in some things, the Radicals show
improvement. They once displayed their taste
and judgment two years ago by appointing Tur
ner to the Macon Postoffice, and all will agree
that they have made a considerable improve
ment on that start. Bat, as an outsider, we
must say they have been very tardy in xocogni-
zing the claims of Mr. Rond. He is one of the
few men of character and position in Georgia
who was a steady Unionist daring the war, and
has been a firm adhorent of the Republican
party ever since, and yet he has been passed by
with conspicuous neglect for five or six years,
in order to fill appointments by importation or
with men of for less personal or party claims;
and many of them with no claims at all, except
bTpnblio distrust. At the eleventh honr he has
at last received some small token of recogni
tion, and we trust will find the office acceptable
-to Mmself and the pnblio. We have no com
plaint to make of Mr. WasMngton, who, so far
us we know, has discharged Ms duties with im
partiality ; and we think we shall have as little
cause to regret the incumbency of Postmaster
Bond.
Joseph Simmons, of-Savannah, an ingenuous
and ingenious yonth of the trooly loil color, has
been sent to the House of Befnge for nine
months, for capturing some of Ms Uncle Sam’s
mail matters from the poBtoffioo—the same with
intent to put money in his parse.
Benjamin Gousal and Wm. Thorne, (loth’s)
while amusing themselves with a small game of
“draw” at Savannah, Tuesday, got excited, and
the latter proved a veritable thorn in the side
of the former by shooting and mortally wound
ing Mm.
We clip the following items from the Chron
icle and Sentinel, of Wednesday:
Discruukatixo Against Augusta.—It
charged by several of our merchants who pur
chase largely in Western markets, that the tariff
of through freights discriminate against the
city of Augusta, and in favor of Macon, Savan
nah and Charleston; or, in other words, that
the rate on flour and bacon is less to Macon,
Savannah and Charleston, than to Angosta.
It is further asserted that flour and bacon can
bo shipped through to Savannah from either
Louisville, Cincinnati or CMcago, and reshipped
over the Central Iioad to Augusta, for less than
cither class of goods can be laid down in tMs
city direct from the West,, over the Georgia
Road. If these statements be correct, we think
that the discrimination is unjust to our mer
chants. The matter ought to be looked into
and remedied at once.
A District Judge Cannot Issue Bench War
rants.—Some time since, Judge J. L. Ells was
accnsed in the District Court, by the Attorney
General (upon an affidavit made by M. J. Tony,)
of takiDg costs illegally. Tho facts were that
Mr. Tony, having been arrested and brought
before Judge Ells, under a warrant for assault
add battery and a peace warrant, gave bond for
his appearance at a higher court, and was re
quired to pay tho costs. Subsequently, Judge
Elis was arrested, under a bench warrant issued
by the Judge of the District Court. On Monday
he applied, through Ms counsel, for. a writ of
habeas corpus, and the case wad tried yesterday
morning. The Solicitor-General represented
the State. After hearing argument on both sides
of tho question, Jndge Levy, without giving any
decision npon the validity of tho appointments
of the District Judge and Attorney General, de
cided that the former could not issue a bench
warrant, because a warrant can only be issued
after an indictment by a grand jury, and order
ed the prisoner to be discharged.
Tho Atlanta Constitution learns from a pri
vato letter from Athens, that the Jackson coun
ty merchants are having their goods shipped
over the Air Line Railroad to Buford, because
the freight is less than by tbe Georgia Road.
We noticed a day or two ago tho purchase by
Messrs H. F. Andrews & Co. of the Washing
ton (Wilkes county) Gazette. Tho senior part
ner wo know well, and if we over had any doubt
aa to the levelness of Ms bead, the following
from the salutatory of the new firm wonld set
them at rest: _
One word as to our manner of doing bnsi-
ness: it is all included in the little monosyllable
Cash. When any one wishes our paper he can
get it by paying for it, and when the time for
which ho has paid expires, his paper will be sent
to him no longer. All former subscribers will
be given till the first of May proximo to renew;
new subscriptions will, of coarse, be received
at any time.
We do not intend to have onr columns en
cumbered by onr own pitiful appeals for money,
and prayers to delinquent subscribers to come
forward and settle. We intend to have no de
linquent subscribers. Nor do we intend, at the
close of a year of hard work, to have onr solo
profits consist in numberless worthless accounts.
David Hogan’s mills, about two miles from
Irwinville, Irwin county, were burned Thurs
day night of last week. Loss $1,500.
Of forming prsopects in Pulaski county, the
Hawkin3ville Dispatch, of yesterday, says:
This has been a very unfavorable spring with
planters. The heavy rains of the past week have
done great injury—the uplands being washed
to pieces and tho lowlands overflowed. Those
who have used guano under their com on undu
lating lands will not receive a great deal of ben
efit from its use the present year. Cotton plant
ing has been considerably delayed in conse-
qnence of so mucb wet weather.
We clip the following items from the Athens
Watchman, of Wednesday:
New Potatoes.—Dr. M. P. Alexander, of
Banks county, left at our office on Thursday
last, a sample of new Irish potatoes large
enough for table uso—about the size of a guinea
egga, or larger 1 When it is remembered that
they grew thirty miles north of this place, and
were taken from tho vines on the 13th of April,
it is something very remarkable. They are of
the Earlv Rose variety.
Read Estate Looking up.—Tho fractional
lots sold by the Prudential Committee of the
University last week, commanded such prices
as to convince everybody that Athens is not
dead yet. Two of them were located in the
rear of business blocks on Broad street, on a
solid rock, and one or two others joining the
old cemetery. None of them considered desir
able. The first ono, containing 9-10 of an acre,
brought $700; the second containing 4-10 of an
acre, sold for $635. Tho lots Joining the cem
etery sold at the rate of $600 per acre.
Northeastern Railroad.—We are pleased to
learn that during the past week jnr citizens
have been subscribing to the stock of this road
with some degree of liberality. We hope the
good work will goon. Much yet remains un
done.
Surrounded by Committees.—The Northern
papers say tho joint Ku-klux investigating Com
mittee, consisting of twenty-one members in all,
will be deyided into seven sab-committees of
three each, with unlimited powers, to rove
abont the South and charge mileage and ex
penses. Service on that committee will be
profitable employment—a fine job for tbe dull
season. Bat let the committee push their in
quiries, and if they stumble on a live Ka-klux
in Georgia, let them have Mm daguorreotyped
and illustrate their report with Ms picture done
in wood. And farther, Harper’s Illustrated
Weekly might perhaps further the cause of the
high morality party with similar illustrations of
the witnesses.
Deserting their Posts.—The House yester
day adopted the Kn-klnx bill as it came from
tho last conference by a strictly party vote of
93. to 74. If there are 101 Democratic members
of the House, this shows that 27 were absent.
It is true they probably paired off with as many
Radicals, and tho actual result may not, there
fore, have been materially affected. But when
a Democrat goes to Congress in these times, he
s,f„. v there, to hear the last amen, and
time to ward off, if possible,
<h e Constitution and the
Visit to Admiral Semites.—Mr. Reemelin
writes to the Commercial from Mobile:
“After my arrival in Mobile I called, as might
be expected, on Admiral Semm^s, the man who
lives in Alabama, in Alabama memories, and
who could Bottle a question by that name by
simply pleading guilty. He received me cordial,
Iy, inquired after some relatives in Oincinnati-
and soon tamed to matters and things in gene
ral. His conversation is very entertaining, for
he is still a seaman and in the habit of taking
Ms glass before Ms mind’s eye and sweeping the
horizon. In his vision America is a land whose
large outlines are ever before him, bnt he la
looking at them from the sea. His views have a
large sweep and wide scope. There is more of
the cosmopolitan in Mm than any American I
ever met, and he rises way above the littlenesses
around him. lie talked of a strangely enough
overlooked gnlf question, with a natural com
mercial supremacy in those who hold the north
ern shores on the gnlf, and spoke of the instruc
tions given to Cortez by Velasquez, the Spanish
Governor of Cuba, and I saw plainly that Mr.
Semmes is an admiral of tho Colnmbns type,
whoso thoughts will wander over the whole globe,
and bring forth ideas, and plans beyond the ken
of kings and priests, and all kinds of men in
authority.”
Cotton.—There was some excitement in the
Liverpool cotton market yesterday morning,
though no change of quotations is noted. Hold-
■ .ers were pressing sales. The same results have
■been the case in New York, where the sales
were eqnal to those in Liverpool, in both cases
ten thousand bales. '
Struck by Lightning.—A' small low CMna
tree in front of Mr. Taylor’s boose in Vinc-
villo, was struck by lightning in the storm of
Thursday morning, and tho trunk considerably
shattered.
What is Wanted From tbe Kn-blux
Bill.
The World says that the passage of the Ku-
klux bill by the Radicals in Congress is a virtu
al concession that they mean to present Gran
for re-election, and tho use to be made of it is
tMs: .• •
It is not probable that General Grant, who
has no small share of low cunning, will “push
things” till after he has seouredhis nomination.
He will covertly foment distnrbanoes, keeping
the South irritated and the North uneasy, for
the next year. To provoke a great reaction
now would be fatal to the Republican party, as
it w.ould also be to allow the Sonth to settle into
tranquillity and the Northern Republicans to
lose their sense of grievance. It ia for Grant’s
interest to keep np a series of sporadic disturb
ances in various parts of the Southern States,
without any great outbreak; just enough to
furnish topics of inveotive to the Republican
press. Rat as soon as he is nominated, he will
hatch a great brood of “outrages,” and get up a
pretext for proclaiming martial law, and sus
pending the • habeas corpus throughout the
Sonth. Ho can then call ont the militia to any
extent he chooses, and existing laws enable
him to retain them in service until “thirty
days after the commencement of the next
session of Congress;” that is, sixty- days
after the next Presidential election. Under laws
passed daring the late war, the militia in actual
service can vote in their camps: so the Repub
licans will lose notMng by the absence of their
voters from home, .while Democrats serving in
the militia will have their votes counted and the
returns falsified by Grant’s agents. He can
order ont the militia for service in the Sonth
from any States he chooses, and by selecting
doubtfnl or Democratic States he will get the
chance of nullifying a great many Northern
Democratic votes. In the Sonth the freedom
of elections will be completely overborne by
military terror and coercion. There is notMng
in this programme which General Grant cannot
do under color of law after the passago of the
Ku-klux bill. And he will not scruple to do it
if he deem3 it necessary to secure his election.
How the Democratic party will meet such an
emergency, will appear in due time. It is onr
policy, for the present, to appeal to the reason
of the country, and detach from the Grant party
those candid and considerate Republicans who
retain some respect for the Constitution. The
certainly that Grant will be the Republican can
didate precludes them from any hopo of getting
rid of him through their own organization. He
has hosts of enemies in the Republican party,
and their only remaining chance for working
effectively against Min is by co-operation with
the Democrats. For tMs purpose the Democratio
party will meet them in a liberal spirit, and
consent that bygones shall be bygones.
Tlie Great Bridge over tfce Mississ
ippi.
The great bridge apross tho Mississippi river
at St. Louis promises to bo, when completed,
one of the grandest momuments of engineer
ing skill and gcnio3 in tho world. Between the
abutments it will consist of three steel arches,,
each of abont five hundred feet span, resting
upon massive piers of solid masonry. Mr. Jas.
B. Eads, the chief engineer, has issued a very
interesting report of tho progress which has
been made ia this great undertaking. Among
those which most forcibly illustrate the power
of science to overcome difficulties wMch wonld
seem almost insurmountable are some relating
to the construction of .the west abutment,
which, at the date of the report, had been com
pleted from tbe bed rock of tho river to a point
thirty-one feet above low watermark, a height
of forty-four feet altogether. Atthongh the bed
rock at tho right of the abutment is seventy-three
and a half feet Mgher than at the east pier, the
difficulties encountered in building its founda
tion were more serious than at either of the
others. Its site had been for over sixty years a
part of the steamboat landing of tbe city, and
as such bad received every kind of useless ma
terial thrown overboard from the various steam
ers lying over it during that timo. The old
sheet iron enveloping their furnaces, worn-ont
grate bars, old firebricks, ports of smokestacks,
with cool cinders, clinker, and a mass of heter
ogeneous substances, formed a deposit averag
ing 12 feet in depth over the rock.^Not only
were these, miscellaneous obstructions in the
way, but.the coffer dam constructed to enclose
the site had to be put down through the wrecks
of no les3 than three steamboats which were
imbedded in the sand, tho hoik of either of
wMch was not 'probably of less than 400 tons
measurement. Prom the enclosure within the
dam were taken parts of several old and burnt
steamboat engines, the iron parts of which had
lobe cutoff; four wrecks, of barges, some of
them probably in use beforo the era of steam;
likewise several oak saw logs, some anchors,
chains, and a variety of smaller articles. This
incongruous deposit made it very difficult to
maintain the integrity of tho dam, and freqnent
floodings occurred which delayed and increased
the cost of the work; bnt all difficulties were
surmounted, and the bed rock within was finally
exposed to view. The piers were sunk by means
of caissons, compressed air, and sand pumps,
similar in many respeots to those in use for the
East River bridge. The oast pier of tho St.
Lonis bridge had on the 1st of October been
carried up to the height of 117 feet above tho
bed rock on wMch it rests, about 20 feet above
the level of tho water at that that time. It
measures at its base, in the 'direction of tho
current, 82 feet, and transversely 60 feet. This
pier was placed on the rock in 12C days after
the laying of tho first stone, work being sus
pended on it during twenty days of this time on
account of bad weather. The west abutment of
the bridge when completed to tho carriage way
will be 115 feet Mgh above tho bed rock of the
river, and will contain 11,800 cnbio yards of
masonry.
Tlie Texas (or Southern) Pacific
Hallway.
From a notice in tho New York World, of
Sunday, of the meeting and organization, the
day before, in that city, of the incorporators
of this grand work, we extract the following:
The road will be 1,515 mile3 in length, and,
as soon as tho formulas of organization are
complete, work will be commenced from t jth
ends and pushed forward as rapidly as poss 1 Ale.
By the consolidation, with this enterpris e, of
the Memphis and El Paso Road, wMch has
eighty-five miles graded, and the Southern Pa
cific, which has fifty-five miles in actual opera
tion, a good start is obtained, and so many ad
vantages are offered by the country through
wMch the line passes, that the work of con
struction may be expected to be quite rapid.
For 250 miles the road will be an airline. In a
sti-atchof 815 miles there willbeonly 3ixbridges,
neither of these over four hundred feet in length,
and nearly all through a fine, rolling, prairie
country where the grading will be extremely
light.- On the line of the Trans-Continental
road, also consolidated with, this, nothing has
thus far been done. Government owns no land
on thisline, bnt the State has, os will bo seen
by the acoompanving extract of the charter of
corporation, made very liberal grants to aid the
work of construction. Along the line is the
riohest land, for agricultural pursuits, in the
country—a deep-soiled, rolling prairie, fit for
cotton, wheat, and almost every other product
of the temperate, and many of those of the
torrid zones. Timber is also in abundance, and
in the Ouachita country, forty to sixty miles
north of the line rich mines of silver, copper,
iron, and ooal are reported. There is a little
difficulty in the way of development of these
mines just at present, in the shape of large
tribes of hostile Indians, bnt as civilization
ponrs in with the progress of tho now road and
the filling np of the country with settlers, the
red-sMns mnst inevitably soon fade away. The
Eastern connections will be at Shreveport and
Chickasaw, the former first, with the Vicksburg
and Meridian Railroad. By an extension of the
line down to Baton Rouge, connection will be
given for New Orieans.
The distance from New Yorkto San Francisco
via CMcago and Omaha, is 8,373 milos. By the
Texas and Paoifio route to San Diego, the dis
tance will be bnt 3,094 miles, as follows: New
York to Washington, 226 miles; WasMngton
to Chattanooga, 624; to Meridian, by the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad, 295 miles; to
Vicksburg, by the Vicksburg and Meridian
Railroad, 140 miles; from Vicksburg to the
eastern boundary of Texas, via Monroe and
Shreveport, 188 miles; from eastern boundary
of Texas to El Paso, 783 miles; through New
Mexico on the 32d parallel, 578 miles; and
through California, on same parallel, to San
Diego on the Pacifio, 260 miles; making 8,094
miles.
Taken to Cover.—The Communists and their
Nationals took to cover on Tuesday last, placing
within the fortifications of Paris by tho Porte
Maillot, shouting “all is lost.” The civilians
taunted thorn with cowardice, and a hot fight is
said to have followed among themselves. Tho
story of the miseries of this wretched civil war
1 is shocking.
BY TELidlGKR^JPIT.
Washington, April 20.—A final effort-to con
firm Blanchard, as Postmaster of New Orleans,
failed by a handsome majority. Dunn was con
firmed Assistant Appraiser of Merchandize.
The Senate adopted the Ku-klux Conference
report by 36 to 13—Robertson and Hill voting
nay; and then adopted the resolution to ad
journ sine die at two o’clock. Depreoating tho
concessions to the House on--the Kn-klnx bill,
Sherman said not one offender wonld bo con
victed—not a dollar of damages would-be ob
tained under it. The only virtue left ia the
bill, was the employment of United States
forces when necessary.'» Thurman opposing the
juror test-oath clause, said the selection of jur
ors would depend upon the Judge oand District
Attorney—it excluded from jury service tho
Attorney-General of tho United States, Senators
on the floor, and many others now in Mgh pnb
lio positions. ■ , ' I
The Senate is in Executive session.
The House has adopted the Ku-Klnxbill by
a vote of 93 to 74. Itrwas by a strict party vote.
If also concurred in a resolntion. to adjourn to
2-okfiook to-day. in-
The district election is progressing quietly.
The Democrats are more cheerful and hopeful
than yesterday. It is impossible to hedge bets
made yesterday that the Republicans wonld
have a thousand majority.
Later information from Paris says the Insur-
surgents were driven from Asnieres by tho heavy
naval guns at Gonnovilliers, supported by two
columns of the Versaillists, whoso heavy cross
lire drive tho Insurgents across the Seine. Dom
browski personally led a’ forlorn hope. ~By four
o’clock on Wednesday all was over at Neuilly.
The Insurgents had taken refuge through Porte
Maillot. • Tho Versaillists gradually won all tho
Gennevilliers Peninsula. Tho Insurgents were
driven entirely to their own side of tho Seine.
The Commune has suppressed the Opinion
Nationalo, Cloche, Soir and Bien Publique.
A hot fight occurred between the fugitive Na
tionals from Asnieres and some oivil adhorents
Of the Commune. Tho Nationals entered Porto
Maillot crying, “All is lost.” Tho citizens re
sponded with the shout of “Cowards.”
Tho spectaole at Lovallio was horrible. The
Nationals were carousing, and tbo wounded
groaning in the streets. - 7 '
Shells fell in the Faubourg St. Honore. Thfi
Commandant of the artillery at Neuilly has
been denounced as a traitor and arrested..
The Nationals are retreating in large num
bers and firing houses in their rear. Many wo
men and children seeking refuge in the cellars
were burned. A number of houses in -Ver
sailles wero fired by th® shells. The Commun
ists are firing oh Pntoaux, doing groat damage.
The road to St. Dennis is crowded with people,
fleeing'from Paris. ’ »
. Tho foregoing war nows from Paris and Ver
sailles is only up to tho night of tho eighteenth.
Tho following is later: “ ’
Paris, 19.—Thoro was a panic at tho out
posts yesterday. Tho Nationals were rallied
with difficulty. ' •-'• —
Washington, April 20,—-A proclamation has
been issued convening tbo Senate in extra ses
sion on tho -10 th of May.
.No confirmations. Both houses adjourned
to 2 o’clock. Butler made a personal explana
tion defending Mmself from various charges,
and denouncing Mr. Davis, of : Kentucky, and
Farnsworth,, of Illinois. Farnsworth replied,
closing Ms speosh with tho remark that he
oould convict the gentleman from Massachu
setts of embezzlement and perjury before any
jnry in tho cotinlry. Beck -roplied in defence
of Mr. Davis, impeaching Butler’s truthfulness
and personal courage.. .......
Tho following is the substitute for. Sherman’s
amendment, aa passod: „ .. j .. i
That any person or persons havingknowledge
that any of the wrongs conspired to bo done
and mentioned in tho second seotion of this act
are about to bo committed, and having power
to prevent, or aid in preventing the same, shall
neglect or refuse to do so before such wrongful
act shall bo committed; suoh person or persona
shall be liable to tho person injured, or his le
gal representatives, for all damages caused by
any such wrongful aot, which such first named
person or persons by reasonable diligonce could
have prevented, and such damages may be re
cognised in an actioMon the case in tho proper
circuit court of the United States; and any
number of persons guilty of such wrongful neg
lect or refusal, may be joined as defendants in
such action. Provided, that such action shall
bo commenced within one yoar after such cause
of action shall have accrued, and if the death
of any person shall be caused by any such
wrongful acts_and neglect, the legal representa
tives of such deceased person shall have suoh
action therefor, and may recover not exceeding
five thousand dollars damages therein, for the
benefit of the.widow of suoh deceased person,
if any there be; or if there bo no widow, for
the benefit of tho next of kin of isuoh deceased
peraon.
The case of Klion against the United States,
and another case from the Court of Claims, is
now being argued before tbo Supreme Court.,
Tho question involves a' decision of the consti
tutionality of tho proviso relating to amnesty
and pardon in the appropriation act of Jnly,
1870. That act provides that no pardon or
amnesty granted by the President should be
considered by the oourts in deciding npon any
claim against the United States.
Among the Dominations which failed of con
firmation was Nimmo, Inspector General of
Steamboats.
The Deficiency Appropriation bill passed to
day. It enables the Census Bureau to settle
with census marshals, including fifty per cent,
increase of pay.
The polls closed at 7 o’clook. Partial returns
indicate the success of the Republicans.
Paris, April 20.—Dombrowski reports that
histroopshave re captured certain positions, with
provisions and some prisoners. He asks for
additional reinforcements. The battle con
tinues. Okalowilz maintains Ms position at
Asnieres against all the efforts of the Versail
lists to dislodge him. Mot D’Orde condemns
the Commune for the suppression of various
journals.
Synopsis or WeatbcrlStatement.
War Dep’t, Oeeioe Cnmr Signal Oefioeb, >
WasMngton, April 20,1871, 7:30 r. K, J
Probabilities: Rising barometer and olearing
np weather with fresh winds are probable for
Friday over the country south of the Lakes and
east of the Mississippi, fresh westerly winds on
the lower Lakes and northwestern winds on
Lake Superior, and cloudy weather in the
Eastern States. .
New York, April 20.—A man giving Ms name
as Berrion Gay, claiming to be a merchant from
Archer, Fla., has been arrested here charged
with passing a forged check for $8,000 on Sam-
nel Bosevelt & Co. Binoe his arrest several
other merchants have entered similar charges
against Gay.
• New Orleans, April 20.—A crevasse occurred
near Bonne Carre , point, on the left bank, 38
miles above the city. Tho Jackson Railroad
offered to furnish the means and an effort will
be made to close it. .ft
Savannah, April 20.—Cleared, steamships
Herman Livingston, for Now York, and North
Point, for Baltimore; schooners Georgia, for
Bridgeport, Annie Lewis, Mystic, and Cora La
mar, for Now York; H. F. Willink, for Now
York; M. B. Bramhall, for Philadelphia; Som-
eisett, for Nassau.
London, April 20.—Ashbury is re-elected
Commodore of the Harwich Yacht Club. A
special to the Telegraph says tho Arch De Tri
umph is destroyed by tho fire of batteries. Ad
vices from Versailles to-day report that fighting
still continues at Asnieres, where the Insur
gents are making desperate and bloody at
tempts to regain a lost position. The Versailles
troops have succeeded in obtaining possession
of Asnieres, and found the . suburb suffered
severely from the pillage and marauders of the
insurgent troops. The streets are lined with
furniture and articles of wearing apparel. An
endeavor was made by Dombrowski to rally the
Nationals, but resulted in a failure. Officers
of his staff have been arrested on suspicion of
treachery. The Versailles.troops show no sign
of wavering, and keep the advantageous posi
tion they have secured with calmness and deter
mination. All the railroads are'now command
ed by the Versailles troops, and the. Insurgents
will be unable to reciove supplies of provisions
from outside of the city.
Versailles, April 20.—Olanrobert is here.
The troops who surrendered with him are en
route hither. Tho insurgent firo is gradually
slacking. It is rumored that arrangements are
made whereby France pays Germany 500,000-
000. down.
Washington, .April 20.—Beck’s defence of
Davis: Beck asked and obtained leave to
make a statement on behalf of the Senator
from Kentucky, who he said had been so foully
denounced by the member from Massachusetts.
That Senator and that member bad had a con
troversy on the floor of the Senate.
Batter interrupting—Ah, no, I had no contro
versy with Mm. *‘ *'V
Be.ok—The Senator denounced the member iri
the Senate as a damned scoundrel,' and I would
characterize that as a controversy. [Laughter. J
They had a quarrel on the floor of the Senate,
and it ought to have ended there, and would
have ended there but for the fact that the mem
ber from Massachusetts saw fit to come bn the
floor of-the House and use language grossly of
fensive to tho Senatpr from Kentucky, and it
was after tha^that the Senator had pronounced
the speech which had been quoted by the mem
ber—the member from Massachusetts. If he had
a personal explanation to make he should have
made it at puce, but he had waited until last
Tuesday, the day that Congress was to adjourn,
and then asked leavo to make it, having seht
printed slips of it in advanoe to Boston and to
the New York Herald, knowing that the Sena
tor would have left the city before ho could
have seen it in print. Therefore I objected
because it bad been held up so long and not be
cause I. did not want to give the gentleman a
chance of replication.
Batter, interrupting—The reason given by the
•gentleman was that ho would not let me speak
so long as the indictment against Ms State was.
continued.
Beck—If I had had an opportunity to reply to.
that indictment, I wonld have dpne it in a way
wMch I hope would have been worthy of tho
Senate. When the gentleman was trying to get
leave to-day I asked Mm whether.ho wonld as
sail the Senator from Kentucky, and he replied
. that ho wonldn’t,and on thatstalementDcmocret
after Democrat voted to give him the privilege,
I did not believe what ho said, and therefore
voted against it. . [Laughter.] ; When the mem
ber rises and announces that the Senator from
Kentucky hns been guilty of falsehood, I .deny it
and hnrl it back, and’I say that tho character of
that Senator is as good as that of any man on
earth. He never did, wilfully, tell a lie, and no
man before ever accnsed Mm of. it. When the
member said that the Senator was shielded by
Ms age, and that he did not seek the proper
redress, I have only to say, that wMle
my Senatpr is neither a bully nor a blackguard,
tho - member can get any redress from him that
bo seeks ontsido of this hall, or anwhero else.-
[Laughter.] I do not believe that italics in
tho month of the member from Massachu
setts to talk abont my Senator being sMelded
by Ms ago, or not seeking proper redress. I
have witnessed scenes with that member wMch
satisfied mo that ho would not seek tho redress
to wMch ho alludes. [Laughter.] He does npt
forget that I have, ia the presence of fifteen
members tho House, seen the member from Illi
nois, Mr. Farnsworth, put his fist in tho face
of the member from Massachusetts and de
nounce him in every way that one man can de
nounce another, until I had to say to the other
members of the committee standing by, that 1
did not think thatawMte man wonld take it
without a fight, and that the decent negroes in
my State would fight over it. [Uproarious laugh
ter.]
Farnsworth—derisively—It was on account
of Ms extreme ago, perhaps. [Shouts of laugh
ter.] ’
Butlor—pointing to Farnsworth—He is not
a white man.
Eldridge—Now is tho proper time to call in
the chaplain. [Continuous laughter.]
Cox—The coroner should be also sent tor.
Tho address of the Democratic Congressmen
to tho people of tho country has been issued,
and is signed by 14 Senators and 95 members
of tho House. From the conelading portion of
the address the following i3 an extract:
Everything that malioions ingenuity could
suggest, has been done to irritate the people of
the Middle and Southern States. Gross and ex
aggerated charges of disorder and violence owe
their origin to the miscMevous minds of poten
tial managers in the Senate and House—rep
resentations to wMch the Executive has, we re
gret to say, lent Ms aid, and thus helped to in
flame the popular feeling in all this course of
hostile legislation and harsh resentment. No
word of conciliation, of kind encouragement,
or fraternal fellowsMp, has ever been spoken
by the President, or by Congress, to the people
of the Southern States; they have been ad
dressed only in the language of proscription.
We earnestly entreat onr fellow citizens in all
parts of the Union to spare no efforts to main
tain peace and order, and to carefully protect the
rights of every citizen, and to preserve kindly
relations among alljnQn, and to disoountenance
and discourage any violations of the rights of
any portion of the people secured under the
constitution, or any of its amendments, etc.
In conclusion, we earnestly beg of yon not to
aid the present attempts of Radical partisans to
stir np strife in the land, to renew the issues of
or to obstruot the return of peace and
Decisions-of the Supreme Conrt of
(Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TEUSDAY, APRIL 11, 1871.
From'the Constitution.
David Pounds vs. the State. Murder,.from
Wilkes.. •> •> &6I i! ■ r •'
Loch bake, C. J.—When, upon the trial of an
indictment for murder, the Judge admitted
evidence of the character of the accnsed' for
violence, arid also of the deceased for peaceable
ness, the same not being in rebuttal, and ob
jected to by the prisoner:
Held, That such ruling was error under the
well established principles of the law of evi
dence. . fysj ia - , jjj
Where the acoused, by Ms counsel, offered in
evidence the testimony of a witness taken down
by the conrt in a former trial, and the court re
jected it, exoept such parts as he decided to be
in conflict, characterizing such testimony as
heresay:
Held, That such testimony taken down in
writing on a former trial, when properly proven,
may be offered in evidence by either party to.
discredit the witness, in whole or in part—iff
whole to show the negative of something staled,
not testified to on a former examination, or in
part to contradict the witness, and snoh evi
dence may’be read to the jnry, who will apply
it by their memory of what was then sworn to
before them, and adjudge the question of its
conflict or its materiality, and snoh application
and consideration is a question for tbe jury
under the charge of the conrt.
When the court admitted in evidenco a par
ticular act of insult, a quarrel between the
prisoner and deceased, occurring several months
before the homicide, and not connected with'
the cause occasioning it:
Held, That the admission of acts of previous
quarrels of particular acts, to be admissible
against the prisoner, must not be a separate,
distinct and independent act, bnt there most
be some link of association—something which
draws together the preceding and subsequent
acts, sometMcg which gives color of cause and
effect to the transaction, and sheds light upon,
the motive of the parties, to render such par
ticular act or acts admissible. The state of
feeling generally between them may go in evi
dence to illustrate their conduct at the time.
When the court charged the jury upon tho
facts, that the case was without the provisions
of section 4266 of. the Code, but such section
was qualified by the provisions of section 4207.
Held, That the conrt erred in the application
of section 4267 to the cases provided for by
section 4266, as that section is applicable to
oases only wherg, after persuasion, remon
strance or other gentle measures used, a forci
ble attack and invasion on the property or habi
tation of another cannot be prevented, it shall
be* justifiable homicide to kill the eperson so
forcibly attacking and invading the property or
habitation of another, and the only justification
to that seotion is?-“but it must appear that
such killing was absolutely necessary to prevent
such attack and invasion, and that a serious
personal injury was intended or might accrue
to the person, property or family of the person
killing.” - .
: Held again, Under, this section 4266, con
strrie'd with the other : sections Upon the same
subject matter,- the use of the' word person in
the concluding paragraph is to be taken. in its
connection with habitation, property or family,
and virtually .only such cases as arise when the
party is attacked in the manner prescribed
in the view of his domicil and in the protec
tion, of either person or property connected
therewith.
When several witnesses were introduced in a
case, and tho Judge selectsione by name, gnd
charges the jnry. If you believe A., then the
homicide set ont in the indictment is murder:
Held, To be error for it excluded the consid
eration of the whole case from tha jury, and
such' exclusion involved material questions of
-£aot in the oase.
When the court complimented a witness for
the prosecution, the mere fact of compliment
being certified without giving the language used:
' Held, That such action by the conrt was cal
culated to give an improper potency to the in
fluence of his testimony, and was not proper in
a case involving life.
When the fact appeared upon motion for new
trial by the affidavit of the sheriff, that he had
at the request of the jury brought to them in
their room, loose papers purporting to be tho
evidence in the ease, not knowing what the pa
pers consisted of, and no exculpatory explana
tions given ;■'• • * - - ■%
Held, That in a case of murder, a new trial
ought to have been granted upon. this ground.
For tho purity of jury trials nothing is more to
bo guarded than tho introduction into their
rooms of papers relating to the case without the
sanction of the court. The question is not.
what material injury they did, butthe possi
bility of injury resulting-froman illegal act.
Judgment reversed upon the ground that the
court erred in refusing to grant a new trial in
this case. . -
Linton Stephens, R. Toombs, O. W. DnBose,
•for plaintiff in error. ...
J. M.' Mathews, Solicitor General, M. P.
Reese, by Z. D. Harrison, for the State. - i:
land was sold, under that i
•was worth in the market attbSfi*e’
paying off the judgment—the
The . court decided that tMs latw f $*,<51
debt due., by Dickson, as' *»h il
Cheeley, and entitled to priorityof ,0 kal
of his assets: * P a ymen|q *
Held, That the i
son, at Executor’s sale, was not vnisd 7 ^
able, at the election of the let-ott..!
m^fet have treated that sale as a that %
thejkrt of the executor, or ratift u^'os!
option, but having acquiesced in th»t at ^
for a considerable length "of time
the debt dne Hir titm i Mid
prosperity to the Southern States, because it is
thus that they seek to divert the attention of
the country from the corruption 'and extrava
gance in their administration of pnblio affairs
and the dangerous and profligate attempt they
are making towards the creation of centralized
military government. .
CMpman, Republican, was eleoted delegate
in Gongress from this territory to-day, over
Merrick, Demoorat.
Versailles, April 20.—Thieks, in a circular
announcing the capture of Asnieres, declares
the end of criminal resistance to the Govern
ment is approaching.
Havana April 19.—Telegrams from Bantfcgo
to the 18 th report an encounter between a
column of Quientins and insurgents, twelve of
the latter being killed, among them their chief,
Trnjillo. Gapt. Lunas’ command met insur
gents near Bayamo and killed ten. Forces un
der Col. Conezcl operating in Manaqaitas had
a series of engagements with rebels, killing six,
taking four prisoners. " Engagements of less
importance also reported. Spanish losses not
given.
New York, April 20.—Specie export $500,-
000.
the debt due by Mm therefor, as Lia M . —
debt, and having received the larae*
the juagmentin payment for theirck^
land, founded on that-individual
.himfor the land, they cannot nowh« v dne
say, that the balance due on the
debt due by him as Executor
the larger amount of the judgment'
against Mm for the land as a debt si
in Ms individual capacity: thev
have repudiated the sale of the land ,t a M
eontor’s sale, and treated it asa , 6 &l
ratified and confirmed it, but thev
this sale of toe land in part, andrpS 0 !'®?!
part;-in other words, they cannot “I
of the money for the land as duabu£v ap * il l
his individual capacity, and as
ual debt as a purchaser of the landau!I
tor 8 sale, and claim that the balarL I
same debt is fine hv Mm <.» - MSnce of I
same debt is due by him as exeantJ1 01 .
nnstamt. 5n TrawVnainr. i„_ jaTTv *• l % I
vastavit in purchasing the land at his
a? set forth in the record. ‘
individual pro^erty^f Dici^nthtotet^f' j
for less they cannot now, after the fe? 1
been sold in due course of admiaistn*?,™ I
der the vendor’s lien, asserted tytoesn^' I
executor, who represented the interest^
legatees of Cheeley’s estate,
knowledge of the factson their part.VcUsS
in the same, and received the proceed;
land; they must now be held toSJSfaSl
the purchase of Dickson at the eiecmorwf
and that his debt for the land, was his I
ual debt, and not a debt due by him as w!
iitor for a devastavit in purchasing the land m I
bis own sale.- -a - --
Judgment reversed.
Toombs & DnBose, for plaintiff in error
Linton Stephens, for defendant! \
Railroad Meeting at Cainmin^ i,,
There was a large and interesting , I
the citizens of Forsyth county called to-;* I
As-
M. E. Fischerer vs. Thomas J. Heard,
snmpsit from Elbert. : •
MoOAY,jr.—If toe owner ota. specific sum of
money loan it to another, for a special purpose,
as that the borrower shall pledge it to secure Ms
forthcoming to answer on a bail bond, and the
pledge if accordingly made:
Held, That when the bond is complied with,
the original lender and true owner of the money
may maintain assumpsit against the pledgee for
the recovery of toe money.
Judgment reversed.
J. M. Mathews, for plaintiff in error.
Toombs & DnBose, for defendant.
John S. Poole vs. Joseph W. 'Wllkenson.
Certiorari from Wilkes.
MoOat, J.—Where there was a suit pending
in a Justice Court, and the defendant moved to
oontinne on account of the absence of a witness,
the payee of the note, by whom he could prove
that the note was given in liquidation of a debt
due to the payee, fof medical services rendered
by Mm to the defendant’s wards, and that it
was not the intent of the parties, in giving or
taking of the note, to bind toe defendant per
sonally for the debt:
Held, That there was nothing in this evidence,
as stated, to show such a mistake, either of law
or fact, as to authorize a reformation of the
note, and tho oontinnance was properly over
ruled. •
W. M. & M. P. Reese by Bleckley, for plain
tiff in error.
D. M. DnBose by R. Toombs, for defendant
James Banks vs. the State. Murder, from'
Elbert.
MgOay, J.—On a trial for murder proof was
given of the oonfessions of the prisoner, that
the deceased had met Mm in the pnblio road
and attacked Mm suddenly and violently, by
beating Mm with a stick; that he had remon
strated, and finally, holding the stick with one
band, he had with the other taken ont Ms knife,
and opening it with Ms teeth, he had stabbed
the deceased twice, and deceased was shortly
after found dead. Bnt it was proven, in addi
tion, that deceased was stabbed in four places;
that the prisoner, on examination at the rime,
was without bruise or hurt, and that he was
found in possession of the pistol, and the jury
found a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, And
the Court below refused a new IriaL
Held, That this oonrt will not disturb the
judgment of the oonrt below.
Judgment affirmed.
E. P. Edwards, John P. Shannon, by W. G.
Johnson, for plaintiff in error.
J. M. Matthews, Solioitor General, by Z. D.
Harrison, for defendant
W. H. Brantley, vs. Mary Oheeley, et ah
Equity, from Hancock.
Warner, J.—A bill was filedfor direction and
to marshal the assets of a deceased intestate’s
estate, and the question as to priority of pay
ment was made between a mortgage oreditor of
the intestate and toe legatees of a testator, on
the following statement of faois : Dickson, Da
vis and Mary Oheeley were the executors and
executrix of John Oheeley, deceased; in Decem
ber, 1860, the executors sold at pnblio outcry a
tract of land as the property of their testator,
the terms of the sale being a credit of twelve
months, with notes and approved seeurity; the
land of said executor’s sale was bid off by Dick
son, one of the executors, for the sum of $9,041,
who gave Ms individual note to Davis, one of
the executors, for the amount, and went into
mmediate possession of the land, and remained
in possession of it up to the time of his death,
controlling and using it as Ms own' property.
Dickson gave no security on the note, and re
fused to give any. The land was worth, at the
time of the sale, in the market, what Dickson
bid for it. Afterwards, Mre. Cheeley, one of
tho executors, (Davis being dead), instituted a
suit in equity against Dickson on the note given
by him for the land, and claimed a vendor's lien
for the purchase money due therefor by Dick
son, obtained judgment for What was then due
on the noto, and established the vendor’s lien
on the land for unpaid purchase money due
therefor by Dickson. After Dickson’s death the
March 7th, 1871, at the Conrt-honsj Wj I
purpose of taking preliminary steps forioctfiT 1
the Maoon, Ocmulgee and Knoxville lb'-,
through Forsyth county, Ga. The leadigte S
ness men of onr county were present, aa' 1
an active part in all of its deliberations.
The meeting being called to order, Ha.? I
M. Hawkins was appointed Chairman, asi £ I
P. H. Nichols, Secretary, j
Upon motion of E. O. McAfee, Mesa H. 1
Graham, "George Kellogg, Jesse B. to
Robert Eakes, John T. Ezzard, Marrlaj £ I
James and Dr. Pool, were appointed a"conch I
tee to draft resolutions expressive of the wishet I
and determination of this meeting. j
In the absence of the committee, the ceife I
was'addressed by Judge Clemens &ndoii«J
who cogently urged immediate < action on th I
part of the people of Forsyth county, andthl
propriety of their tendering promptly and fee I
ly the’ right of-way to thi3 railroad conpin I
through our county, and prospectively diet I
upon the many advantages, its conetnmul
would immediately confer upon us. I
The committee reported, through their cIh- I
man, the following resolutions, which, ife I
careful consideration, were separately adopted!
unanimously: [
Resolved, 1. That tMs meeting appoint Hex I
H. O. Kellogg, - Captain T. Irish, Dr. J. LI
Hughes, Dr. James Baily and Dr. F; E S&l
olsa special committee, with instructions til
communicate and lay before the Board 61EI
rectors of the Maoon, Ocmnlgee and Knoirlel
Railroad, the-wishes of-the people of Postil
county, and to represent to them and to lie I
Engineers the practicability of a good route k-1
ing found from Lawrencsville to Cnmcisj;!
crossing the Chattahoochee River at orne»ithl
mouth of Richard Creek, thence- running norfl
centrally through Forsyth, Dawson and Luop-I
kin counties, and passing over the Blue Hfyl
by way of the Amicolola andFendlys Gaps,;:':I
Eastern Tennessee, so as to form direct coek-I
tion with the Great Sbathern Railroad, dot tel
iDg projected and built from Cincinnati, Obo l
through Kentucky. I
Resolved 2, That this meeting ganrieelisl
free and unincumbered right of way to thhl
railroad-company through Forsyth couair, sail
hereby authorize this committee to pledge i|
free right of way to the Board of Directosdl
said company, and ask a preliminary snirejctJ
this'route—believing it to be much the besl
route for the construction of this great trril
road. v |
CoL H. P. Bell offered the following
tions, which were also unanimously adopted I
Resolved, That tMs meeting pledge a Bril
subscription to this railroad, provided ther*l
is located centrally through onr county. I
Resolved farther, That a mass meetingof aI
the citizens of Forsyth county be called tobs«"|
at the Court-house next sale day, (April) fell
general expression of opinion on this sutystl
and that a special committee report to UK*
meeting. _
On. motion, toe Secretary was requests. J
forward a full copy of this day’s proceeds:? 11
the proprietors of the Atlanta Constitution, --1
Line Eagle and Mountain Signal, for pt"® I
tion, hoping that they and all other ?*:**
friendly to this great enterprise, will give a w I
daily insertion. ,
A direct route from Cincinnali, Ohio.bjn-1
road to the oity of Brunswick, Ga._, isspJ
and noble undertaking. Already it
and located to Lawrenceville, Ga. ©PHt'I
are gathering forces to accomplish the pug ji
- -- * ,n section after secUoaW|
undertaking, and soon section after s
bei let ont under contraot, and we hop-- £ .
completed. Once built and equipped)I
nn r.A.n realize itsstuDendaoUS results 13 • I
ns can realize its stupendnous;
to onr country wealth and population.
F. H. Hawkins, Chairs^
P. H. Nichols, Secretary.
Principles for the Coining EIeC ^|
Both political parlies, in xnafcingtheir■
nations for the next Presidency, sho
candidates who do not smoke cigaw-
Mr. Trask of Massachusetts wrilnoi t
any man who smokes. Georgo^asm^.,
temperate in all his habils, and oly
ally smoked ft pipe. It is disag re ^‘ [a
the odor of ’cigars around the White
The ladies of both sexes object o i- ^*
The President of the United SW-Jf’S*
a man who has studied
honest, who knows somettog jvatioa*]
who understands pubho p l ffl ndillg U
affairs, who is capable o v fl3t{lW a
lation ana law, who is a a bout H
diplomacy, who knows » ^aa at hr
country and other ^ j p i e s of cirri
heard of the fundamental!? T jj 0 iaori.
iy, who can write good, fan ^ flft pdoog
the difference between to andwtoH
who keeps the ten Kimman « ^ be
lieves in toe moral tow. K
sense enough to nominate oDS>1|(e |i.j
dates who fulfill these simp cooli^'
eulogize their oonduct and wish w
both tickets. . , tha trotible »\
The Demoorats need not take
nominating candidates *9**^ ^
they intend that their platfo nppoa^j
the three following planta: !■■ ’xfconfj
negro suffrage. 2. Oppoation^. [0 g,el»-
tional amendments. 3.
est and honorable payment of then»o ^ ^
If they should nominate a candw, j,gg
above basis, his “ stope-pipe J» 0 8
“ knocked into a cocked hat. ..rjjitS
The Democrats need not think oi ^
jiuouruu) ROOM , B
any man for the next_ Presidency ^11
loyally true to the Union cause i»»
beMon. The Republicans need
nominating ahy man for the F ran
cannot give some other evidence * {oi vi
for the place than that of having
right side during the war. ^ .,
The next President ought to be
knows something about grammar,
tion. President Lincoln* was a gm?
man, but Ms literary style was g ^
fective. President Johnson was afl
fective. President Jonnson u*-
personage, but he frequency ah { fo#
rlocniond lanrmOffA PrflSiufiBt .
despised language. Presiaeni ,
from Donelson to Appomattox, ^
shown that he can triumph o . s cd 3 “-f
English. Let us have a gramma^ ^ |
ioal President for a chan go. c
When Dr. Mary WMker oalled to^
Grant, the other day, he told her a ^ J
-no communication with her u . ; . nan tl? re ‘ j|
of her pantaloons. p. 0^
I'jfcr.i
Mary
money enough to buy Ins bream
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