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to perform thesB. public duties against
the trill of tho citizens and without his
have. This authority must be confer
red upon the citizen by some ;public
({gainst that right now claimed by the
defendant.
The insurmountable obstacle in the
wav of the defendant claiming a legal
lav of'the State from that class of her right to hold office in this State under
citizens which, in her judgment, will the provisions of the Code, is the fact
best promote the general welfare of, that he was not a citizen of the State
the State. The right to have and en- 1 at the time of its adoption. The class of
joy the privileges and immunities of a persons to which he belongs ivere not
citizen of the State docs not confer up- recognized by it as citizens, and there
on him the right to serve the State in | fore lie is not included in any of its
any ojjicial capacity, until that right is i provisions which confer the right to
expressly granted to him by law. Mr.
Justice Curtis, in his dissenting opin
ion in the case of Dred Scott vs. San
ford, (19th Howard’s Rep. 5 and 3)
says : “ So in all the States, numerous
persons, though citizens, cannot vote
or cannot hold office, either on account
of their age or sex, or the want of the
necessary Ifgal qualifications.” Cor-
field vs. Corvell, 4 Washington Cir
cuit Court Reports, 3 and 1 to the
same point.
The defendant, therefore, cannot
legally claim any right to hold office
either under the 14th amendment of
the Constitution of the United States,
or the Constitution of this State, which
make him a citizen, and guarantee un
to him the privileges or immun ties of
a citizen, for he mav well have and en
joy all the privileges and immunities
of a citizen, in the State, without hold
ing any office, or exercising any public
or official duty under the authority of
the State.
The privileges and immunities of a
citizen of the State do not confer the
legal right to hold office under the pub
lic authority of the State, and receive
the emoluments thereof. Does the pub
lic law of the State, recognized and
adopted by the Constitution of ISOS,
(known as Irwin’s Code) confer upon
the defendant the legal right to hold
office in tiiis State'?
Tiie Code took effect as the public
law of this State on the 1st day of
January, 1S63. By the 4Gth Section
hold oJfice upon the class of citizens
specified in the Code. The Code makes no
provision whatever for colored citizens
to hold office in this State ; all its pro
visions apply exclusively to white citi
zens and to no other class of citizens
The Convention which framed the
present State Constitution and declar
ed persons of color to be citizens,
could have couferred the right upon
them to hold office, hut declined to do
so by a very decided vote of that
body, and went before the people
claiming its ratification upon the
ground that colored citizens were not
entitled to hold office under it; and there
can be no doubt that the people of the
State voted for its ratification at the
ballot box with that understanding.
But now it is contended that the de
fendant, thoi?gh a colored person, is
made a citizen of the State and of the
United States, and that no enabling
act has ever been passed to allow a
naturalized citizen to hold office in
this State—when he possessed the
other requisite qualifications prescribed
bv law ; that the defendant bavins?
office- therein, and consequently that
the defendant has no legal right to hold
and exercise the duties of the office
which he claims under her authority.
and that the judgment of the court
below, overruling the demurrer,should
be affirmed.
thereof, it is declared, “All white per
sons, born in this State, or in any other
State of this Union, wiio are, or may
become, residents of tiiis State with
the intention of remaining herein; all
while persons naturalized under the
laws of the United States, and who
are or may become residents of this
State with the intention of remaining
herein; all persons who have obtained a
right to citizenship under fanner lavs,
all children wherever born, whose and
father was a citizen of this State at the
time of the birth of such children, or
iu case of posthumous childien, at the
time of his death, are held and deemed
citizens of this State. Persons having
one-eighth or more of negro or Afri
can blood in their veins are not “ white
persons in the meaning of this Code.’ ”
The 1646th Section declares that “Na
tural persons are distinguished accord
ing to their rights and status, into 1st,
citizens', 2d, residents not citizens; 3d,
alieus ; 4th, persons of color.'*
The persons to whom belong the
rights of citizenship, and the mode of
acquiring and losing the same, have
been specified m a former article : (re
ferring to Article 40, before cited.)
Among the rights of citizens are the
enjoyment of personal security, of per
sonal liberty, private property and the
disposition* thereof, the elective frau
chise, the right to hold office, to appeal
to the courts, to testify as a witness,
to perform any civil function, and to
keep and bear arms. All citizens are
entitled to exercise all these rights, as
such, unless specially prohibited by
law.” fractions 1047, 1G4S, 1649,
1650,1651, 1652, 1653, of the Code.
It will be remembered that at the
time of the adoption of the Code, in
1S63, the defendant was not a citizen
of this State, and was not recognized
by the Code as a citizen thereof. By
the 1646th ejection, the status of the
defendant is defined to be that of a
jterson of color, and not that of a citizen!*
The revised Code adopted by the
Constitution of 1^63 includes the act
of 1S66, which declares that, “All ne
groes, mulattoes, mistizoes and their
descendants, having one-eighth of ne
gro or African blood in their veins,
shall be known in this State as persons
of color,” and especially defines tht ir
legal rights, but the right to hold office
is not one of them. Revised Code—
Section 1561.
It is true that since the adoption of
the Code the defendant has been made
a citizen, but all the legal rights con
ferred upon citizens by the Code were
conferred upon that class of persons
only who are declared and recognized
by the Code as citizens of the State at
the time of its adoption. 'A lien tiie Code
declares that it shall be the right of a
citizen to hold office, such right is con
fined to that class of persons who rre
recognized and declared therein to be
citizens of the State, and not to any
other class of persons uiho might there
after become citizens. 8o where the
Code declares tint “All citizens are
entitled to exercise all their rights^as
such, unless prohibited by law.” it is
applicable to that class of persons only
who were declared to be citizens of
the State at that time, and not to any
other class of persons who might there
after be made citizens of the State, such
as Chinese, Africans, or persons of
color. The truth is that the public
will of the State has never been ex
pressed by any legislative enactment
in favor of the right of the colored
citizens to hold office in this State
since they became citizens thereof.
Although these several classes of
persons might be made citizens of the
State with the privileges and immuni
ties of citizens, still they could not
legally hold office under the authority oj
the Stale until that right shall be con
ferred upon them by some public law
of the State, subsequent to the time at
which they became citizens, so as to
include them in its provisions. The
public will of the State, as to the legal
right of that class of her citizens to
hold office, has never been affirmatively
expressed ; but on the contrary, when
the proposition was distinctly made in
the Convention which formed the pres
ent Constitution, to confer the right
upon colored citizens to hold office in
this State, it was voted down by a
large majority. (See Journal of Con
vention, page 312). So far as there
has been any expressfon of the public
will of the State as to the legal right
of that class of citizens known as col
ored citizens, and since they became
such, to bold office in this State, it is
been made a citizen of the State is en
titled to hold office in the same man
ner as a naturalized citizen could do.
The reply is, that naturalized citizens
were while persons, and as such had a
common law right to hold office—a right
founded upon immemorial usage and
custom, which has existed so long that
“ the memory ot man runneth not to
the contrary.” The 1644th Section
of the Code simply affirms the com
mon law as to the right of a while citi
zen to hold office in tiiis Slate. No
such common law right, however, can
be claimed in this State in favor of
persons of color to hold office. They
have but recently became entitled to
citizenship, and have never held office in
this State. In 1343, in the case of
Cooper and Worsham against the
Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Savannah—(4th Georgia Reports, 72)
—it was unanimously held and decided
by this court that free persons of color
were not entitled to hold any civil
office iu this State. Tiie naturalized
white citizen can claim his common law
light to hold office in this State; the
colored citizen cannot claim any such
common law right for the reason that
•he has never exercised and enjoyed it;
and that constitutes the difference be
tween the legal right of a naturalized
white citizen to hold office in this St ite,
and a person of color who has recent
ly been made a citizen “ since the
adoption of the Code, and who is not
embraced within its provisions.'*
The one can claim this common
law right to hold office in the State,
the other cannot; and until tlie State
shall declare by some legislative en
actment that it is her will and desire
that her colored citizens shall hold
office under her authority, they cannot
claim the legal right to do so, for we
must not forget that the State is the
fountain and parent of office, and may
confer or refuse to confer the right to
hold office upon any class of her citizens
she may think proper and expedient.
When a new class of persons are intro
duced into the body politic of the
State and made citizens thereof, who
cannot claim a common law right to
hold office therein, it is incumbent on
them to show affirmatively that such
right has been conferred upon them
by some public law of the State since
they were made citizens thereof, to
entitle them to have and enjoy such
right. In other words, they must
show the public law of the State en-
aeted since they became citizens there
of, which confers the legal right claimed
before they can demand a judgment of
the Court in favor of such legal right.
All male white citizens of the State,
whether native born or naturalized
citizens, (having the necessary legal
qualifications) have a commo^ law
right to hold office in this State; and
in order to deprive them of that com
mon law right, a prohibitory statute is
necessary. A naturalized citizen had
a common law right to hold the office
of President of the United States;
hence the prohibition in the Constitu
tion of the United States. But as
colored citizens of the State who have
recently been made such, cannot claim
a common law right to hold office in
the State, as no prohibitory statute is
necessary to deprive them of a right
which they never had under the com
mon or statute law ot the State.—
When, therefore, it is said that color
ed citizens have the right to hold office
in the State, unless specially prohibited
by Jaw, it must be shown affirmatively
that they had previously enjoyed the
right. It they c; mot show their right
to hold office in the State, either un
der the common law, the Constitution
or statutes of the State, the fact that
they are not specially prohibited from
exercising a right which they never
Had, amounts to nothing so far as in
vesting them with the right to hold
effiee is concerned.
IVhot and where, and by what-public
law of the State was the legal right
to hold office therein conferred on the
colored citizens thereof'? If tiiis ques
tion cannot be answered in the affir
mative, and the ’legal authority under
which the right is claimed cannot be
shown, then the argument that inas
much as there is no special prohibition
in the law against the right of colored
citizens to hold office, falls to the
ground. If there was no existing legal
right to hold office to be prohibited,
the fact that there is no prohibition
does not confer such legal right.—
There was no legal necessity to pro
hibit that which did not exist.
It is not the business or duty of
courts to mahe the laws, but simply to
expound and enforce eristing laws
which have been prescribed by the
supreme power of the State.
After the most careful examination
of this question, I am clearly of opin
ion that there is no existing law of
this State which confers the right up
on the colored citizens thereof to hold
THE FEDERAL UN 105,
( Corneiof Hancockand Wilkinsorstretls.)
Tnesday Morning, June 29, I8G9.
Chancely vs. Bailer & Cleveland.
The C. R. R. & Banking Co. vs.
John E. Ward & Geo. L. Owens.
In the Supreme Court of Georgia June
Term, 1868.
In the 37th volume of Georgia Re
ports, p. 543, which has just issued
from the press, we find the dissentient
opinion of Judge Iverson L. Harris,
then of the Supreme Bench, in which
the great questions of the sovereignty
of tiie States before the formation ot
the Federal Constitution and since—
what is public war—what is insunec-
tion—what is civil war—what consti
tutes a Government, de facto, or an
acknowledged belligerent power, and
the consequences of such recognition—
the right of a belligerant to confiscate
enemies property—the doctrine of the
ins postliminy, Ac., are discussed as con
cisely as they could be, so as to admit
of the line of his argument, to be
comprehended without burthening it
with all the illustrations and quota
tions of authorities which the subjects
would have admitted.
More important questions were
never at any time, in any country, be
fore any Court, ever considered and
passed upon ; they are of great mo
ment now to every Southern man—in
deed, to every American citizen ; they
must continue to be felt and applied
through all time whilst Governments
or States exist.
Impressed with the transcendent
magnitude of the questions discussed,
we have thought that this dissentient
opinion of Judge H. should not be
permitted to slumber in law libraries,
but should be spread before the whole
people in the newspapers, that they
might be induced to recur to funda
mental principles.
The only hope for the future of the
United States is, that the American
people will endeavor to learn the struc
ture of their Federal Government and
confiue it to its delegated powers.
[Southern Recorder.
We copy in to-day’s paper the edi
torial notice by our contemporary and
neighbor the Southern Recorder, of
the dissentient opinion of Judge Iver
son L. Harris in the two cases men
tioned. Both of the cases are govern
ed by the same general principles of
international law, as will be readily
perceived by those who pursue the ar
gument.
Concurring with the Recorder as to
the value and magnitude of the prin
ciples applied to the decision of the
questions involved in the cases, and of
their continuing importance through
all time to come—we have been led
to spread before our readers at this
time this dissentient opinion, in conse
quence of the high commendation of
it by one of the most distinguished
Statesmen of America, in a letter to
au intimate personal friend. From
that letter we take the liberty of mak
ing the following extract, as we feel
confident if the author was near us he
would readily grant permission:
“ Harris’ dissentient opinion I regard
as one of the ablest judicial exposi
tions of international law I ever saw.
It will stand as a monument to his
memory long after we of tiiis genera
tion shall have passed from the stage
of action. I do wish our newspapers
would take it up and spread it before
the people. The principles therein
set forth are the only ones upon which
theie is any hope for this country in
the future.”
the Southern people. Our abject sub
mission is the theme of Yankee boast
ing on all occasions. We do not ad
vise any rash unavailing resistance,
but we do advise lawful resistance to
all of their unlawful encroachments.
Let us take advantage of all of their
blunders, and whenever weean flank any
of their movements let us do it with
effect. We have found out that pray
ers and supplications will not avail.
These only encourage cowards to
place new burdens upon us. Let us
have done with promises of good be
haviour, but bide our time in silence.
The devil, it is said, can not go be
yond the length of his chain, i If
that is so, we have reason to hope
that Radicals will soon get to the
end of theirs. We surely may hope
that even their ingenuity in invent
ing mischief is nearly exhausted.—
Already they are quarrelling among
themselves over the public plunder.
The laboring men at the North are
groaning under the burdens they have
heaped upon them, and they will soon
be willingto join us in relieving them
selves and us from the oppression of
these infamous t) rants. Until the time
for our deliverance comes, we must
live on faith and hope: trust in God
and keep a bright look out for all of
the chances which he throws into our
hands. The time will come when
some of those villains who now op
press us will repent in dust and ashes.
The Great Boston Jubilee, Jubilonim!
High diddle, diddle, the cat and tho fiddle;
The cow jumped over the moon.
AH Boston laughed to see the sport,
Aud Butler took care of the spoons.
The great musical festival is over,
and Boston is as well as could be ex
pected. But when shall we hear the
last of it? What a sublime sight!
What an infernal noise! Three thous
and men beating upon anvils, with
three thousand sledgehammers! Five
thousand men blowing: live thousand
l.rllrra of n Mrntiaseutal Idler, from Greece, j MtEmOKI At,
Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and the Holy Land. By j
Hakuy Hauehood Leech. With a Portrait of|
the author. Engravings of Oriental Life, etc., etc.,
New York : D. Appleton Sl Company, IIP, 92 and
91 Grand street. 18G9. 12 mo. pp. 4157.
We conv above the complete title
page of this interesting volume. Books
of travel in the East, written by Ameri
cans, have not been wanting for many
years past; but we regard this as the
most fascinating of all.
The source of its fascination is no
secret. Most of travelers, and writers
of books of travel, delight in display
ing their profundity in the art of
reasoning by copious generalizations.
Since the day of the wise Lord Veru-
lam, “Inductive Reasoning” has been
the “ rage” among mankind. To col
lect facts, and then to generalize, has
been a mania. The world has been
full of little Francis Bacons ever
since the great Francis Bacon trod un-
voi,nn: of nox. now-
EM. (II8B,
We have seen some of the p^oof
sheets oi the Memorial Volume of
General Cobb, now passing througli
the press oI J. B. Lippincott & Co,
ot Philadelphia, and edited by our
townsman, Rev. S. Boykin. Judging
from appearances, and from what the
editor tells us will be the character of
the volume, we doubt not that the
book will be alike creditable to the
publishers, and to the lamented dead.
It will be gotten up in Lippincott’s
best style, in large, clear type, ele
gantly bound and enriched by two cap
ital steel engravings of General Cobb,
one of which is from a photograph
taken just previous to his death. As
yet the publishers have not announced
the size and price of the Volume ; but
those items will be given in due time.
The contents of the volume will be
varied and interesting, and will be
composed of the addresses delivered in
der foot the scholastic philosophy of j honor of General Cobb at Athens and
past ages and mounted the ladder of j Macon ; of the sermons delivered at
reasoning from facts unattainable by j the funeral; the able sketch by Hon.
all preceding philosophers who were L. A. Nisbet; an interesting commu-
in the habit, before that time, of fol- mention concerning the last moments
lowing their way up in theory to the jot Gen. Cobb, by Bishop Beckwith,
highest clouds of conclusions without j and various interesting cornmurtica-
Personai Among the passenger*
on the Ohio, which left Baltimore f 0 r
Liverpool, June 16, were ex-Governor
Jenkins and wife ot Georgia.
Emory College has 245 students in
attendance, of which 142 are fi, t |
Preparatory and loin the Scientifi!
Department.
Several German cities are formic
clubs of tourist to visit the United
States this year.
tin horns went before, whilst five
thousand beating upon tin pans follow
ed after. Then followed ten thousand
shoe makers from Lynn, each with a
bag in one hand, and a pair of pinchers
in the other. In each bag was a pig,
and at a concerted signal each shoe
maker pinched a pig’s tail, and all of
the pigs squeeled in concert. Then
followed a thousand witches from Sa
lem, and upon eacli shoulder of every
witch sat a large black cat, and at a
concerted signal each witch twisted
the tails of the cats, which produced
a grand chorus of catterwauling which
can neither be described nor imagined.
w
“ The pipfB all squealefi, the cats all wauled;
Up flew the windows nil,
And every one cried out well done,
As loud ns they could bawi.”
Submission too Much.
There never was a greater waste of
breath and printers’ ink than that
lately spent in Georgia in persuading
the people to submit to the decision
of the Supreme Court. They never
thought of resisting. They*are by far
too willing to submit to that, and to
almost anything else that is put upon
them. All history teaches us that
when a brave people have been crushed
down by overwhelming numbers, they
are too prone to become discouraged
and to sink down into sycophants
aud cowards. Look at the modern
Greeks and Italians who are descended
from heroic Greek and Roman ances
tors. The brave Poles and Hungari
ans are degenerating into sycophantic
and obedient slaves. The people of
the South have submitted to one in
dignity after another until there is
great danger they will' lose all of that
proud spirit and lofty sense of honor
that once characterized them. And
what has all of our submission and de
precations availed us? Nothing ex
cept to eucourage our tormeutors'to
invent new means of torture. All of
our complaints have been “ set in a note
book, learned and conned by rote, to
cast into our teeth.” Our groans have
been set to music and sung through
the nose at Radical festivals, from Cape
Cod to Lake Superior. There is no
music which so delights a true Radi
cal fanatic as the groans and sighs of
Can the Negroes who were Expelled from
the Legislature be allowed to take
their seats again?
This question lias been very exten
sively and ably discussed by the Press
of Georgia. As we do not profess to
be very learned in the law, we shall
not pretend to decide this as a le<jral
question ; but it appears to us tluk
common sense would teach any man
that when the two houses of liie Geor
gia Legislature decided that these ne
groes were not members, that settles
the question so far as those negroes are
concerned. If the Legislature can go
back aud declare that part of their leg
islation null and void, then it appears
to us that all of the .balance which
they did during the session is null and
void also. One of the best lawyers in
this part of the State says that the ac
tion of the Legislature was filial and
can never be reversed, even if the
Legislature was disposed to reverse it.
It appears to us clear, tlxe seats of these
negroes have been disposed of , and the
question already settled. As for the
future let us take care that no more of
them are elected to positions for which
they are not qualified. The white men
aud conservative colored men cau man
age that if they act wisely and in con
cert.
any of the dull delay human reason
requires.
Lord Bacon conferred an inestima
ble boon upon mankind; but several
hundreds of thousands of his general
izing imitators have rendered them
selves ridiculous merely by attempt
ing to carry his philosophy into de
partments where it is not needed.—
What we want in a book of travel is a
graphic narrative of facts. We wish
to draw our own conclusions; or if we
are willing to read those of the sapient
traveler, still we wish to know all the
facts on which he builds his reasoning.
We prefer facts without conclusions
rather than conclusions without facts.
tiotis from distinguished individuals—
all voluntary tributes from friendly
hearts.
The proceedings of the Bar, in vari
ous parts of the State, are given, and
all is thrown together in a manner
that makes the volume one continued
whole.
Orders for the book may be sent to
8. Boykin, Macon, Ga., and if any
particular style of binding is desired
that may be stated.
We feel certain that each of the
| many friends of Gov. Cobb will desire j
la copy of this work, because of its in
trinsic value and oil account of the
I admirable likenesses it will contain.
Hence we very greatly admire these [We have seen a private lettei from
“ Letters of a Sentimental Idler.’* He | the Publishers, in which they say:—
paints the scenes he passes through to
The Kimballs want to sell their Opera
House.
So says the New Era, and we have
no doubt it is so. We should think
they would like to sell the old tum
ble down concern. No vendor of
tainted fish ever wanted to sell his
unsavory articles more and worse than
the Kimballs want to dispose of that
old owl roost called the Opera House.
But where can they find a man fool
enough to take i£ off their hands ?
They don’t expect any man will be
so foolish, but they expect to put
their bad bargain off on the State.—
The Kimballs consider the State as the
goose which lays golden eggs for them,
or as a lemon which _ they intend to
squeeze dry. We shall see how many
of the members of the Legislature
can be bribed to buy their old Rookery
with the people’s money.
Appleton’s Journal for July 3rd
has come to hand. The new novel
“The Three Brothers”, is continued
in this volume and bids f$ir to be in
teresting. Victor Hugo’s novel, “The
man who laughs”, continues to increase
in iuterest, and the Journal is, alto
gether, very interesting.
^°We have received the Hearth
& Home for July 3d. It continues to
be very interesting and is very cheap.
16 pages of interesting reading every
week for 34 per year. Address Pet-
tingill & Co., No. 37 Park Row, New
York.
the mind’s eye admirably, and shows
that he is not only a close observer,
but a man of excellent taste to select
that alone which is calculated to inter
est the intelligent reader, and that he
is a skilful master of English composi
tion in describing them.
Mr. Leech’s wanderings, of which
the volume before us contains a narra
tive, took place in 1866-7. We leain
that the tide of travel in Egypt at that
time was made up chiefly ot Americans.
The decline of English travel, and in
crease of that of Americans, was shrewd
ly accounted for by someof Mr. Leech’s
Arabic attendants on the ground that
in the recent great American war, the
Americans had conquered the English,
pillaged London, grown rich themselves
and impoverished the English ! The
traveler does not state that he contra
dicted a theory so fruitful of respect
ful attention to him as one of’lhe great
nation of England’s conquerors.
The accounts in the volume before us
of the Eastern World impress us with
one general idea. The great magician
Change has gone actively to work there.
Not alone in Europe and America have
this magician’s master-spirits. Steam
and Electricity, wrought out new phases
of life and added new elements to liu
man existence. The spell-bound East
awakes from her long trance of fixed
ness. Occidental civilization rises upon
that dream-land like a strange sun
coming up from the West. In the book
before us we see the first glimpses of
that mighty metamorphosis which our
children will live to see sweep over
Asia and Africa, and blend the nations
of the globe into one bond of civilized
brotherhood.
We intended to present extracts, but
we have scribbled hastily our own
thoughts until we have not left ourselves
space. Only one brief paragraph can
we give ; and we make room for that
because we have always been of opin
ion that the Eastern etiquette referred
to is more rational than that of Europe
and America.
“ In the Western world, when two
people of different stations meet, it is
the inferior who salutes the superior.
In the East, on the contrary, it is the
superior who initials the polite forms.
It is the highest who does honor to the
men who, by fortune, title, employ
ment, or caste, are found in a position
inferior to his own. And in this I find
very delicate and generouspoliteness.
Page 34.
The mechanical execution of the
book exhibits that admirable style
characteristic of the great book-manb-
facturing establishment of Mr. Apple-
ton.
Legal Decision.
We publish in our present issue the
great legal argument and decision of
of Judge Warner of the Supreme
Court of Georgia on the negro elegi-
bility question, and also a decision of
Judge Harris, when he was a member
of the Supreme Court, on Chancelv
vs. Baily & Cleveland. The C. R. R.
& Banking Co. vs. John E. Ward and
Geo. L. Owens.
TnE Macon Postmaster.—We learn
that Turner takes possession of the
Macon post office to-morrow. The
people ot Macon see in this appoint
ment an unmerited and unworthy in
sult, which, in due time, will disclose
its natural results to the perpetrators.
Unless we are wholly misinformed,
Gen. Grant, in forcing this appoint
ment upon us, broke faith with the
delegation who waited on him to pro
test agaiust it in the name of the peo
ple.— Telegraph, 27th.
Small Business.—A special order
just issued from the War Department
directs that Hospital Steward W. P.
Toury be discharged from service.
Toury, it will be remembered, was
married to Miss Annie Surratt a few
days since.
From Cuba.—June 26, p. m.—Ma
rines are now guarding forts Moro and
Cubanas, the volunteers disavowing
any intention to resist, Derodas hav
ing retired.
Eight, hundred Spaniards were de
feated and lost their convoy near Loe
Tunas. Spaniards at Cinco Villas
and Los Tunas are calling for rein
forcements. General Puello says five
thousand men are required in Cinco
Villas district. *
“ We will be answerable for tbe ele
gance of the book, and think you vvill
be satisfied when we are done with it.”
[Macon Telegraph.
What are the Military Doing in
Georgia?—We all know how vio
lently the Radical organs denounced
the civil authorities of Georgia for fail
ing to arrest the authors of two or three
murders recently committed in that
State. They proclaimed that the mur
derers were known ; that they neither
denied their guilt nor made any at
tempt to conceal themselves—that,
they moved about in public, bold and
defiant, glorying in what they had
done. At length the Grant adminis
tration, as if not knowing that this was
all humbug, ordered the military forces
in Georgia to give vigorous aid in
bringing the bloody criminals to jus
tice. As these criminals were said to
be notorious, their immediate arrest
might have been considered a thing of
course. But weeks have gone bv, a
month is drawing to a close, and not
only are arrests not made, but they
cease to be called for. They are no
longer even talked about. The Rad
ical lettor-writers, who pretended to
know every tiling, now claim to know
nothing. What was palpable to all
eyes has suddenly become inscrutable.
Tiie sharp cry of vengeance is turned
to a mere vague noise. It is a fact
that, since General Terry and the offi
cers and soldiers of his command were
instructed from Washington to use all
their resources in bringing to justice
the Georgia murderers, who were said
to fill the roads nightly with the bodies
of dead negroes, but an arrest has been
reported. The orders to Terry and
bis troops turn out to have been a po
litical blunder. There should boa full
understanding between tiie Federal
administration and the Georgia scala
wags. Let there be no more bung-
1 i ng.—Courier-Journal.
The Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune thus relates an incident
of General Grant’s visit, which occur
red on Wednesday : “At last the Pres
ident came, escorted by more dignita
ries, and introduced by the Hon. A.
H. Rice. What the Governor said,
and what Grant said, the telegraph
has told you, but not how Grant look
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Every word was spoken as though,
like a swollen cork, it had been drawn
with great difficulty: and the speech
was delivered in so low a voice as to
be unintelligible except to the illu
minated. Finally, the President fal
tered and stuck ! It was no use. He
could not make a speech.
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