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Ity .1. W. Burke Ac Cos. Georgia Journal & Messenger. J. W. HI KKE A; CO.* Proprietor*. o S. hose* ) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1868. 1.1 IE OK DEATH ? Shall the Commonwealth live or die? Freemen of Georgia, are you ready for the question? In less than a week, now, you will be called upon to answer it at the I Kills. We have tried to do our whole duty in arousing you to the full sense of your vital interest in this grave crisis. We have sliowed you the awful consequences that are trembling in the balance of your de cision—how a vote for Bullock, the adven turer, and leader of the bandit raid upon the offices of your Htate, means a vote for ruin irreparable, and shame that de fies illustration—how it will saddle upon your Htate, and your already heavily laden shoulders a burden that will crush you to the earth, and how, finally, it will „tain your honor, and emasculate your manhood. W« have held up to your gaze the character and purposes of the traitors who are plotting this foul conspiracy against your liberties and your pockets how, having been spewed out of their na tive dens, they have trooped hither to plot with knaves, and sponge upon dupes for that living they hail neither the will nor the capacity to earn at home. All these things have been faithfully and constant ly kept before you. If you are blind now, yours the fault, not ours. Now, are you ready for the question ? We beg you to be even more fully.aroused, than we hope and believe you are. We have an enemy to deal witli who will stick at nothing—who Is backed by the bayonet and the purse of the Radical party of the North. They have possession of the reg istry lists, and all the machinery that will control the election. They are served by tools, and pimps, and spies that will do anything, and swear to anything. The h ive resorted to tricks, ami devices, and lies such as were never before known to any party in theHtato. When ilattery, and cozening, and wheedling would not serve, they have resorted to threats, and, as if not satisfied with the well-earned in famy of playing upon and arousing the basest passions of man’s nature to seize the knife of the assassin and the torch of the incendiary, nnd to wrap the laud in the blood and flame of a war of races, have held up the lash and the gallows as u penalty for disobedience of their orders. I hit why recount these tilings? Why re capitulate these sickening details? You are obliged to lie fully informed of them Now, men and brethren, fall to your work with a will, and let us save our good ..id State, if possible, from this awful doom, You can do it if you will. The skies are bright, and hrighteniug every day. The manhood of the people is being quickened and informed by the power of a heroic resolve. Their hearts beat high, and their nerves are gallantly strung. Ret the motto be: Haye Georgia! Gordon 1 nr> Vmtokvl Ret the double-quick slide into a run, and the run into a resist-* less onset, me OTHU.W ... Tytanny must give way, and Georgia will lie saved, and the Temple of our Riberties rescued from pollution. sf<> r mm; Spot tho white man whom you hear talking about getting back into the Union, and restoring prosperity to Georgia by the success of Bullock and his banditti. lie is either knave or fool. He lias cheated either the asylum or the penitentiary, and lias no business to be ut large. He is dan gerous. Bullock’s election means, at home, Four Mn.r.ioNS of Dollars to he wrung by non-tax-paying legislators from the ini|H)verished property owners of Georgia, to support a hungry mob of loafers, beg gars, and miscellaneous vagabonds from the Rord knows where. It means Ten nessee reproduced in Georgia, and the respectability, wisdom and virtue of the State under tho foul yoke of the ignorant, the vicious and the worthless. It means rogues in oillce, and honest meu paying to support them in their corruption and profligacy. It means a saturnalia of fraud, peculation, and downright robbery. It means disgrace and shame, and finally hopeless bankruptcy, both moral and financial. This is wiialit means at home. Vt Washington city it means seven pliaut tools of Stevens and the Beast; spaniels cringing to the Radical lash, and only too happy, in obedience to its threat, to vote and act still further to rob, and ruin, and degradetiie decent people of Georgia. It means New England ideas, New England morals, and New Euglaud malignity as mmiug to represent Georgia, and, in the name of her sovereignty, voting to destroy her liberties, and ruin her people. There lore we say, when you hear a man advo cating Bullock’s election on any such grounds, spot him. He is your enemy. (UPEACHJIEXT, We give, from day to day, and without comment, all the information that reaches ns, i" • mail and telegraph, concerning the farce now going on at Washington City, and dignified by the nameof the impeach ment trial. We say farce, because we have never believed it was the intention : the prosecution to give the President a ’air trial, or that his doom was not sealed bom the moment the articles were re ported to the House. We have ueithei time nor inclination for speculation upon the result, or animadversion upon the act, itself. The fate of Georgia is of much more consequence, as we conceive it, than the conviction or acquittal of Mr. John son, and we hold it our bouuden duty to let everything else go by the run, rather than tail to do one act, or say one word taut maj, by auy possibility, save our • • > me from ruin. We have no eyes, and ' , we almost said no hopes or nations—beyotnl the geographical lim its of Georgia just now. We iuteud, first, 0 ; :Ul ‘ Georgia, if possible, and then, if ‘.i assistance is invoked, help save the Nation. ° ur '•eaders will, therefore, we trust, . ‘ ' rstiU, d our reticence on National af i t' in general and impeachment in par "tu ar. our mission, just now, is to de >■•l t u Bullock banditti in their raid upon ‘ *- lockets of the people and the life, 1 ‘bid dignity of the Commonwealth. 1 1 ear'i'n!■ '», • 1 A gentleman who l«art« » 1 * er s speech at Newuan, re- Bu11 i „ | U! tliat gentleman (who was with Bulli>,.l H ' e C° nvenlion ) charged that lose SU ' l * ,e Express Company would Un l<*sThe > ite. l i ,U f ,U,re ’ 1 tlu>Us “ ml doUare IN Washington. —Passengers - arrived here last night, report a snow t<J Unt!“ the towu of Washington, Wilkes u i. on Tuesday afternoon. WATCH THEM ! We beg our friends, everywhere, as they cherish a hope of saving their Htate and themselves next week from threatened ruin, to be on the look-out for frauds in the registration bureau. What was done iu the Newton, Walton and Clark conn ty district, and which we called attention to yesterday, may be going on all over the Htate. Hulbert, doubtless, has sent orders to every registrar in Georgia to have the lists so purged as to make a Radical suc cess almost certain. Retour friends keep a sharp look-out, aud they can find out and catch his agents at it—if not in one way, then io another. It must be found out, and explanations demanded. Wher ever it is pretty well ascertained that such frauds have been committed, let a deputa tion go at once to Atlanta and demand justice of Gen. Meade. He has promised a fair election. Ret us have it, or put him in the attitude of falsifying his pledge. Above all tilings don’t allow yourselves to be intimidated or deterred from doing your whole duty in these premises. It is your right. We believe Gen. Meade will see justice done iu this matter. At any rate let not the failure to secure it rest upon your shoulders. I*. B.— Since writing the above, we have been furnished with a copy of the follow ing order, bearing upon this point: H'ikj’ks Third Military District, ) (Dep’t Georgia, Florida, and Alalmma,) v Atlanta, Ga., April 13, lHtiK. j General Orders, No. 59. Wher can, It has been reported to the Commanding General, from several parts of the Htate of Georgia, that very many names have been stricken from the list of registered voters, without auy cause being assigned for said striking off, or an oppor tunity given to voters heretofore registered to meet the objections received in their cases; and whereas.it is the determina tion of the Commanding General that all candidates iu the approaching election shall have every opportunity to show, from official data, whether said registra tion and election has been honestly aud fairly conducted, and in accordance witli law ; it is hereby ordered, That all managers of e'ections shall re ceive tiie votes of all such persons as shall have been stricken from the registered list during the last five days’ revision, not counting said votes, but keeping them separate, witli the names of tho pejsous presenting them written on the back; and said votes shall be sent in a separate envelope, with the returns made of the election, to he compared with the reasons lequired by law to be sent to these Head quarters, whenever auy Board of Regis tration shall deem it proper to strike names from tHe registration lists. By order of Major General Meade. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant General. For the Journal & Messenger, A WARNING TO LABORERS. Gen. Meade’s Order, No. 57, wa3 in tended to keep Expressman Bullock and “Sand Q ” Hulbert from “discharging from employment a laborer, on account of his having voted as ho pleases,”—as in the eases of Ciaskell and Cooledge. Capital! But our impartial military ruler has not covered all theground. An order is needed now which shall compel these Radicals, (who are proscribing employees for think ing for themselves,) to give employment —when hiring, after the election—to the many laborers who are going to vote tiie Democratic ticket. Unless such order is issued, it may happen that we shall find, layers, nnd carpenters, and blacksmiths, and gardeners, and their wives and chil ,jn,n_wa iters and drivers, and cooks and washers—standing idle, because no Radi cal will ever again Hire them; because Bullock’s proscriptive creed forbids it. I invite tiie attention of the true Demo cracy to this probability, aud beg that they look after these friends of Georgia aud her true sons, aud give employment to them, when they have done their duty to their State. If the Radicals will persist in seeking out aud employing only those who have voted with them, of course the others (I mean after the election) must confine tlieir favors to their own friends, or they will suffer want. Jack Straw. ■ lon. 11. 11. Hill and Col. Cares W. Styles Answer 11. P. Farrow’* #IOOU Card. Albany, Ga , April 11th, 1868. Editors Atlanta Intelligencer: I hand you herewith a letter addressed to me by Col. Carey W. Styles, which ex plains itself. I did not see the communication of H. p. Farrow until my attention was call ed to it by Colonel Styles. I cau but regret that auy mail should be so badly exposed as these facts expose H. P. Farrow. I scarcely know the man, but do know a brother of his, and he is an excellent gen tleman and a white man ! I supposed every mail knew my authority for the quotation in my letter to Colonel Styles, and none knew my authority bet ter than Farrow. How base that he should affect not to know the authority, and call on me for it. Was the testimony I quoted from Far row correct? Even Farrow does not deny it, but only denies that he wrote it down and signed his signature! Nobody said he did sign it. You will perceive that Col. Styles says that the language I quoted “was reduced to writing by me, (Styles,) fresh from the Ups of the speaker .” Nearly all testimony in criminal cases is taken down by clerks, or others, from the lips of the witness. Is it not the wituess’ evi dence? “What one does by another, he does by himself,’’ is such a familiar law maxim that even Farrow ought to know it. But read the letter which Farrow did write and did sign, (at least his name is to it.) What a shame that such a man should be now a public adviser of the poor deluded black race! I shall not receive the reward of SI,OOO. Farrow having joined those “ whose only object is to plunder,” as he himself testi ties, this reward may be a part of the plun der; and it is a penal offence, by the laws of Georgia, to receive stolen mouey, espe cially from a negro or his equal. Os course it is uot necessary for me to notice anything else this man has said. He and his gang, “ whose only object is to plunder,” can not defame. When they in timate that I countenance or approve vio lence, even the negroes will laugh at them. Will the papers which published the ad vertisement of the reward, publish Col. Styles’ letter, and at least this much of mine? No man iu Georgia has a better character than Col. Styles. Now, Mr. Editor, a word on another subject’. lam delighted with the prospect in this portion of the State. Thousands of negroes will vote for Gordon, and many against the Constitution. Relief is de spised as a cheat down here. Gov. Brown’s eifort to mislead the whites of Cherokee, with the idea that negroes cannot hold office under the Constitution, is re-acting here. People (black and white) are only made to believe that the whole Constitu tion is a cheat. Radicals complain here that they are compelled to nominate ne groes for office, to prove that Gov. Brown’s version of the Constitution is not correct. I am now fully satisfied that if the white people of Upper Georgia will do their du ty, we shall elect Gordon and defeat the Constitution by a large majority. \N c shall save our State from disgrace. A very large torchlight procession of Demo erotic negroes are marching through the streets while I write. I have addressed an immenseaudienceto-nightin theeourt house square—the larger proportion being negroes. They carried transparencies with most appropriate Democratic mottoes. — Proclaim it throughout Upper Georgia that everything is safe —honor saved, peace secured, democracy triumphant, and the plunderers badly disappointed, if only the while people of Cherokee will do their duty. I addressed one of the largest and best audiences I have seen, at Atnericus, on Thursday. Splendid feeling prevailed. I never saw a canvass doing better. The poor white Radicals have lost character and are now losing the offices. They are alarmed aud mad—driven from white so ciety, and cursing the negroes! Again I say, all we ask is, that the white people of Upper Georgia will show themselves above being bribed by a cheat called “ Relief;” above being entrapped by rogues; and above the ignominy of usiug deluded ne groes to force a hated Constitution upon their white race in low er Georgia. Very truly yours, B. H. Hill. Office Tri-Weekly News, 1 Albany, Ga., April 11th, 1868. / Hon. 11. H. Hill : Dear Sir—My attention having been called to a communication in the Atlanta New Era, over the signature of H. P. Far row, headed, “ SI,OOO Reward for B. H. Hill,” it is probably my duty, as it is surely my pleasure, to place in your pos session the facts relative thereto. The following article appeared in the Albany Tri- Weekly News iu March last: the robber band. “ Let the prophet speak and others judge.” “ By thy words thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be con demned.” “ No greater calamity could befall the people of Georgia, than the election of Bullock and his carpet-bag faction. Their object is plunder, and if the Government fall into their hands, they will bankrupt Georgia in less thau twelve months.” Joseph E. Brown, Just twenty minutes before he sold himself for the promise of the United Htates Henatorship. “ I am playing a heavy hand, and God knows I am seeking my country’s good more than my own aggrandisement. I will go to the verge of the precipice, but will never take the damning leap—l will go to the mouth of the yawning gulf, but will not throw myself into it, to be swal lowed up. “The Treasury of Georgia, the present and future hopes of a recuperating Htate, cannot, and shall not, if in my power to prevent it, be surrendered to those whose only object is to PLUNDER a people with whom they arein noway identified, and of whose Htate they are not bona fide citizens.” Henry P. Farrow, 4tli of March, IS6B, iu black and white. “This Constitution confers extraordi nary and dangerous powers upon the Ex ecutive—it erects a kingdom—a despotism, and iu the hands of bad men, can be wielded for unparalleled oppression and the utter ruin of the people. If it fall into the hands of the carpet-baggers and ne groes, with Bullock at their head, they will plunder the people and bankrupt the Htate in one year. They care nothing for the good of the people; their object is spoils, and their game is legalized rob bery. The greatest calamity that can befall the people of Georgia, will be the success of these carpet-baggers and negroes. I will sutler martyrdom before I will give my consent to tiie domination of such a faction over the property aud tiie white men of Georgia. I know their schemes and tlieir purposes, and will stump the Htate from the seaboard to the mountains, and expose their designs and defeat their aims. I will work in harmony with the Dem ocratic party for tlieir defeat, and, asking no pledges for place commensurate with my services, will make a full baud in tiie fight for whoever may he selected as the opposition standard hearer.” Henry P. Farrow, in divers conversations witli divers Demo crats Humiay and Monday, 15th and 16th. “Fellow citizeus! I shall speak to you with that frankness, candor and honesty of purpose that have characterized my life thus far, and which 1 hope may distin guish my conduct in future. __ I am here to endorse vnar.CiiosU.fjit ion tution ever presented to tiie people of Georgia, and you have acted wisely in your selection of a standard bearer to carry it before them. We will plant ourselves upon that Constitution and rally to the standard of the noble leader you have chosen.” Henry P. Farrow, before the Convention Wednesday, 18th, after a second “high mountain” view of a Henatorship anil golden prospects. The rest and the worst, we hold iu re serve for occasion. Thesealof confidence is broken, aud moral ethics release us from the obligation. If we speak with the “candor, frankness aud honesty of pur pose tiiat have characterized our life thus far” “Shake not thy gory locks at me, Thou can’st not say "I dill it.” You will perceive that but one para graph is quoted as being in “ black and white,” or over Farrow’s signature. Home of my exchanges, in publishing this “tes timony,” dropped the notes, and the whole has appeared as being contained in Far row’s letter. In tiiis way the mistake has occurred. IJrl'he following is Mr. Farrow’s letter of tiie 4th of March, from which he says "garbled exracts are published 1 ” I give it to you verbatim ct literatim : Atlanta, Ga., Marcli 4th, IS6B. Dear Carey : I am playing a heavy hand, and God knows I am seeking my coun try’s good more than my own aggrandize ment. I will go to the verge of the preci pice, but will never take tiie damning leap; I will go to the mouth ofthe yawning gulf, but will not throw myself into it to be swallowed up. You will barely have read this until the die will have been cast. The Treasury of Georgia, the present and future hopes of a recuperating State, can not and shall not, if in my power to prevent it, be surrendered to those whose only object is to plunder a people with whom they are iu no way identified, and of whose Htate they are not bona fide citizens !! Should the Augusta clique succeed, the Opinion will suspend immediately. It can be bought on reasonable terms, for if I fail to whip the fight, it will not issue eveu next week. Come here immediately, and don’t let it suspend for a single day. Let it, iu the event I fail, run straight on, hut in the new line. I will make a full hand in the fight if I enter. I herewith send you a slip which I have been send ing out by the thousand, aud it is now germinating throughout the up country. I will try to prepare the Union for the swindle and make a general stampede. You may predict Bullock’s defeat. You are at liberty to quote tbe first paragraph of this in your Tuesday’s issue if Bullock succeeds, just saying it is from a Radical, and not intimating or insinuating from whom, but saying they may look out for squalls. Yours, in haste, H. P. Farrow. P. S.—Quote tiie above paragraph as in a letter to a gentleman of Albany, and not as directed to you. Would it not have more effect that way ? The paragraphs commencing “ The Constitution,” and ending with “standard bearer,” were not by Mr. Farrow reduced to writing, but they are iu spirit, substance aud effect, His language, used upon divers occasions, iu tiie presence of myself aud a number of other gentlemen; aud the ouly difference between the lauguage quoted aud that used by Mr. F., is, that the for mer is not strong enough. That quoted was reduced to writing by me first from the Hps of the speakei-, and is substantially correct. „ I observe that Mr. Farrow does uot deny using tiie language, but rests his character upon the quibble that lie did not put it iu writing. I have no objection to the ad vantage he hopes to derive from this dodge. If called upon, lam prepared to verify my statement on oath, and other gentlemen will endorse it. Very truly, your obedieut servant, Carey W. Styles, Editor Albany News. The Legislature of Connecticut.— There are some who may not understand how it was that the Radicals carried the Legislature of Connecticut, while the democrats elected the Governor. We will explain. Every town iu Connecticut has one member of the Legislature, however small its population. No town or city has more than two members. The large towns, such as New Haven and Harford, are Democratic, but they have no more votes in the Legislature than small towns with one tenth their population. It is under this system, based on towns, and not on population, that the Radicals al ways carry the Legislature. — Cincinnati Enquirer. Macon, Ga., Tuesday, April ~1, 1868. THURSDAY, APRIL IG, 1868. RIGHT ! We are glad to see that the State Medical Association at its late meeting in Augusta, set such a good example to our people of ignoring the creatures who are doing the dirty work of Radicalism in Georgia, through the press. We judge from a whine in the “orgau” at that place, that the Association gave its attaches tiie cut direct. We cannot too highly commend this policy to all our friends, acting either iu their private or public capacities. These creatures are engaged iu a crusade, not only against tiie political sentiments of the respectable people of Georgia, but against their lives, their liberties and tlieir honor —against the peace, good order, aud dig nity of society, and tiie well-being of their wives aud little ones. They seek to put the white meu of Georgia and tlieir fami lies under the social aud political domi nation of characterless adventurers, and needy vagabonds, both white and black. They would force social equality between the intelligent, the refined, and the vir tuous, aud the ignorant, vulgar and de- i praved. In one word, Bullock aud his banditti aim at tiie destruction of tiie white race of Georgia, socially, politically and financially. We have always counseled our people to submit quietly to tiie presence of these vermin in tlieir midst, and to bear with patience aud dignity the outrages and an noyances they perpetrate. This is very hard to do, we admit; but it is by far the best policy. But while urging such a course, we have advised, and shall con tinue to advise, absolute social and busi ness non-intercourse with them, carried through all the relations of life, in sick ness or in health, in public and in private- Let them know and feel themselves out casts from society, Pariahs aud lepers, whom it were pollution to associate with, or even speak to. Ret them ever be re minded of their crime and its penalty, in the hearty and unanimous expression of public contempt that their presence in spires. Let no violeuoe be used. Avoid tiiis above all things. Ret public execra tion take tiie form of unvarying non-in tercourse, at all times and under all cir cumstances. Thus we will not overleap the barriers erected around our liberties by the bayonet, and at the same time escape much temptation aud provocation to resort to other means of vindicating our dignity and maintaining our rights. WIIIPI'EU ! The Bullock banditti are whipped. Joe Brown lias returned from Upper Georgia to Atlanta, completely disgusted with the result of his canvass. He was met every where witli ill-concealed evidences of pop ular contempt and indignation. He has found out that tiie people will neither he driven, coaxed, nor deceived into the sup port of a man whose election lie (Brown) has declared would “bankrupt the Htate.” He has made a last, dying ettbrt, and lias failed. GORDON and VICTORY is the watchword and rallying cry from Dade to Rabun. Like the voice of many waters is the rush of the mountaineers ral lying to the rescue of tlieir Htate. They have been slow to act, hut are now fully 07.<J"seil-.-Thev will seud Gordon across Friends of Middle and Rower Georgia, Rally! Rally! Rally! No matter whether you be black or white, for or against tiie Constitution, vote for Gordon and an honest administration of tiie new government—vote for Gordon and econo my, light taxes, aud “Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation” in higli places. We in voke every man who expects to live in Georgia to give four days next week to his Htate and its future. Count no cost in tHis grand struggle. Time, money, argument, appeal, persuasion, yea, even life itself, would not be too great a price to pay for victory. God seud a fire aud vim, an ear nest resolve and heroic action among Georgians, for Georgia, next week, that will rout the enemy and save our proud old Mother from a dishonored grave. Hlie asks it of you on her bended knees, and with tears streaming down her war fur rowed face. Will you deny her? GOOD NEWS IKON NORTH GEORGIA. We have information from tiiis section of the most cheering nature. Tiie white meu of the mountains are gathering in their might, anil will give Gordon a “Highland welcome” at the polls. They have listened with shame, contempt and loathing, to the demagogue harangues of Georgia’s curse, and, each time, witli re newed determination to put a brand upon him that even his brazen front will blusli to hear. The cry that is ringing through the land, “Have Georgia!” has been heard aud caught up from county to coun ty above Atlanta, and they have resolved that Georgia shall be saved. Speed thf good work freemen of the mountains The men, women and children of Middle and Lower Georgia cry unto you from tin brink of a precipice, over which the Bui lock banditti are threatening to precipi tate them. Our fight is your fight, our fat your fate. Let but tiiis banditti elute power, and you are lost. The day thi sees this accursed horde put in possessio of the offices of the State, witnesses you decline into a hopeless, helpless, despise! minority —tied to the black Juggernaut o Radicalism, and compelled to march with it, or perish. IN THE LAST DITCH. The carpet sack and paper collar bum mers and renegades who are heading the, Bullock raid against the offices of the State and the substance of the jieople, are con fessing defeat in advance. They have been driven to the last ditch, and, with tiie mad blindness of desperation, are howling inelegibility against Gordon, they are doomed, and they know it. This cry con fesses it. If Gordon is ineligible, why fight him so hard ? If he cannot take his seat, why seek to drive off votes from him ? Let no man be deceived. General Meade will give Gordon tbe certificate if elected. He has decided him eligible, and will back his judgment when the people declare him their choice. The enemies of your race and country, the thieves aud money-changers who seek to defile the Temple of your Liberties, are desperate. They are in the last ditch. One more push, and they perish in tiie mud at its bottom. Again we warn the people against being deceived. When you bear a man say that Gordon is not eligible, ask him if he don’t belong to tiie Bullock gang, and if he has not been promised a share of the “swag.” Michigan has voted down negro suff rage by a majority of thirty thousand. There fs not a single Htate in tiie Union, North or Houth, East or West, which is in favor of that measure. There is not one i which would not reject it to-morrow. But what do you see? A lot of men, calling themselves the Representatives of the States, at Washington, seeking to force negro suffrage upon the whole country! Are they not beautiful Representatives ? Cincinnati Enquirer. The Valuable Testimony of the Witness Blodgett.— The witness Foster Blodgett, who was examined yesterday in the impeachment trial, and who testified that he was suspended by the President from his office of postmaster iu Georgia, aud that the notice of suspeusion was uot given to the Seuate, did uot give the de tails of his suspension. It appears, from the records of the Postolliee Department, that this witness was indicted by a grand jury iu the United Htates District Court iu Georgia, the charge being that he had takeu tiie test oath substantially, when the fact was that he had been an officer in tho Confederate army. Postmaster-Gen - eral Randall received official notice of these facts, and. upon his own responsi bility, removed Blodgett as post master at Augusta, and placed the office in charge of an agent of the department. The whole proceeding was under the direction of Governor Randall, and without tiie knowledge of the President, who had nothing whatever to do with the transac tion, and had no information of the facts until sotpe time after the occurrence. [ IfoA. Cor. New York World. The perjured renegade did not tell, and of course was not expected to tell, any part of the truth in connection with his riglueous suspension from an office that he had indulged in the luxury of false swearing to obtain. He was put on the stand to still 'further intensify the venom and “stiffen the backs” of the packed jury that sit in judgment on the President, and perhaps to give him some character among his fellow-conspirators at home. The World is deserving the thanks of all respectable men, everywhere, for this fresh proof of the “Augusta Mink’s” ha tred of the truth. THE CHANCES. Surmisings about Impeachment—How the President's Counsel Peel. “Agate,” the Radical Washington cor respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writes: There is no probability that the election returns will have any appreciable effect upon tbe impeachment trial. If it should, by any strange possibility, prove true, as the Democrats are now boasting, that enough of the men counted as Republi cans in tiie estimateof the Legislature, are pledged to Dixon, as to secure his re elec tion by the aid of the Democratic vote, that gentleman might be a little bolder in his opposition, but he issure to vote against impeachment any way. Mr.Stanton, who holds quite a levee every night, at the War Department before retiring to bed, has of late been expressing bis fears as to the votes of Grimes, Trumbull and Fessenden; but these are not men to be affected by the oscillation, either way, of Connecticut. Mr. Fowler, of Tennessee, is quite often spoken of now-a-days, as sure to vote against impeachment, hut if that be so, its cause is to lie sought outside of and beyond tiie Htate of Connecticut. And, practical ly, these are the only men concerning whom there is any where any serious doubt. They number only four, while a change of seven would be required for Mr. Johnson's escape. Yet it must be confessed that now, after the managers have made up tlieir case, have proved tiie President’s speeches, have proved his own declaration that lie sus pended Htanton under the tenure-of-offiee act, have proved his threats of force, and, in short, every mental allegation of their charges (unless that of conspiracy may be excepted), the President's counsel are, after all, serenely confident. What their confidence may mean, nobody knows; and that it exists, nobody doubts. Mr. Htan bery-iu particular, although he litis seemed at times completely cowed by the mana gers, and has studiously refrained from his habitual tendency to hector his up ,,'OiuinvMits, appears, nevertheless, abso lutely secure as to the result. . s •aino, ic may be said that it was marked by some of Butler’s defects, and by nearly all his strong qualities. He was often impertinent to tbe President’s counsel; lie once ventured upon a similar bearing towards the Chief Justice (though he next day saw occasion to regret it); iiis general bearing quite often smacked of the police court, rather than of file gravest trial of history; but he was wonderfully admit in the examination of witnesses, antlskillful to a degree lu the order in wlibh lie presented the testimony; while, on ill interlocutory questions, he was very reaiy in defending his positions, and gen eraly very successful. In the written re port, many of his offensive personal pecu liatities disappear, and to the country at larje Gen. Butler has uudoubtedly made a bitter figure than he has before the au dieices in the Senate chamber. THE CAPITAL. coiviction of the president a fore gone CONCLUSION. Special to the Louisiille Courier. Washington, April 12. Tie ruling of the Court yesteiday will excide nearly all the evidence by which the. J resident’s counsel could clearly have exclpated him. The rejection of ihisev idece by the Court confirms the iinpres siottbat his conviction is a foregone con clusou. Te President’s counsel profess that thei confidence is unabated in the acquit tal i the President, but the opinion of the puke is altogether different. If the Court colinues to rule out testimony concern in the declarations of the President, lie fas to establish his intent in removing Hinton. ut the counsel of the President insist tilt the Court cannot reject the evidence ofinembers of the Cabinet, whose proof isar more important than Sherman’s. ’he pitiable exhibition General Thomas aide on the stand yesterday, together w.h Butler’s impudence, and the pliancy ofthe Court, seemed to dumbfound the Pesident’s counsel, aud created au im passion unfavorable to the cause. Ilie Radicals express doubts that Wil ley, Van Winkle, Anthony, Trumbull and Ross will vote for conviction, but it will be surprising if it is uot carried by a party vote Sprague, hitherto supposed against it, has changed ba u e, and will vote for cou vietbn. Kalicals say Johnson lias just one w.eePs lease of the Executive mansion, aiiduo matter what evidence lie may ad duce, he is lost. Southern Jluriter*— Who Commit Them f Whenever any Radical firebrand. Loyal Leaguer or negro is killed or hurt iu the Sout. 1 !, the Radical press aud orators of he North make a terrible uoise about it. ['hey ring the changes and howl day after [ay tbout rebel outrages, rebel haired and •bel murderers, but we never hear any jii'ng from them concerning the murdered lutheru whites aud black outrages. The radical papers are full of sensation ao ■ unts aud denunciations of the murder of Ishburn, in Georgia, but they say notli i g about the white oue-armed ex-Confed ate soldier who was shot dead upon his >rse recently near Helrna, Ala., or of the her four white men who have been mur tred in the same vicinity since the war, id uo one arrested for these murders, o, we hear nothing from these Radicals the numerous other murders of the con lered Southern whites and outrages on em in other localities of the South, be use there is every reason to believe this the work of the black Loyal Leaguers, t a public procession and meeting of 'groes at Macou, Ga., ou March 30, tbe oyal blacks” carried a banner on which e figure of a negro, cut in pasteboard, mg dangling from a gallows, and to hich was attached, on a piece of white tper, the following inscription: “Every an that don’t vote a Radical ticket, this the way we want to do him—hang him ' the neck.” These Radical Loyal eague negroes boldly proclaimed, too, tat the negro who failed to register should Ceive thirty-nine lashes if he failed to ite at the election, two jiundred lashes, id if he voted the Democratic ticket he ould he hanged. Need we lie surprised, .eu, that white Southerners are murdered I every part of the South, and that the urderers are not arrested? The North n friends of these black barbarians pre pd not to know anything about their urlerous doings. It is clear that the •uth under Radical rule is fast tending anarchy and to a worse condition than i Domingo was ever in.—2V. Y. Herald. The Conservative Meeting Last Night. 1 he meeting of Conservative citizeus at Masouie Hall was largely attended by all classes of our citizeus, tbe large hall being filled to ite utmost capacity. Among the audience we were pleased to observe sev eral of our most respectable colored citi zens, who listened attentively to the speeches, giving frequent manifestations of their approval of the sentimeuts of the speakers. The meeting was ojtened by a very ap propriate and forcible address from Dr. Arnold, tbe Chairman, who was followed by Hamuel Hall, Ksq., of Southwestern Georgia, iu an able ami eloquent speech, in which lie impressed upon his hearers the importance of the crisis, and tiie ne cessity of zealous and united efforts on the part of tiie Conservative people of Georgia to rescue the Htate from threatened dis grace and ruin. He passed in review the fraud, injustice and studied ambiguities of tho Atlanta Constitution, aud warned his hearers of tlie evils which would result from its ratification. He paid a high com pliment to tiie ability and character of Gen. Gordon, the Conservative nominee lor Governor, and expressed his confidence tiiat lie would be elected. Hon. D. A. Vason, of Albany, was next introduced. He gave a very encouraging report of tiie prospect iu Houth western Georgia and other sections of the State, where the nomination of Gen. Gordon had been greeted with enthusiasm by the peo ple. He expressed the opinion that the intelligent colored men of the State were beginning to understand the character and designs of the carpet-baggers, and that if properly encouraged and informed by the white people of tiie true issues involved in the coming election, thousands of them would come out from the League, aud support good aud true men for the offices of the State. He counseled activity and conciliation. The interests of tiie white and black people of Georgia were identi cal, and it was a duty we owe ourselves and to them to instruct and counsel them. He appealed to the young men to take an active partln the canvass, and to useevery proper means in tlieir power to promote tiie success of tiie Conservative party. Mr. Lester, our Senatorial nominee, be ing loudly called for made au able address, which was enthusiastically received by the meeeting. Taking the meeting as indicative of the spirit witli which our people are going into the contest, it was well calculated to in spire confidence of success. Let every man who has at heart the true interests of tiie State do his whole duty aud all will be well.— Sav. News, 14 th. FIGURING IT VP. Calculations concerning the Electoral Vote in the next Presidential Election. From the New York World. The Radicals have staked their all on Connecticut, and proclaimed far and wide that tiie election of Jewell would bean in dorsement of General Grant for President; and still further, having adorned tlieir ballots with tiie head line, “Grant and Jewell,” under which were pictures of these worthies, it becomes interesting to forecast the probable result of the Presi dential election, based upon that of the recent contest in Connecticut. We have, therefore, collated a few figures bearing upon tiie point, showing tiie majorities given by tiie States to be enumerated at tlieir last general election, tbeir probable majorities next fall, based upon tiie vote of the two contending parties in Connec ticut, and theelectora! votes to which they will lie entitled, and which they will be likely to cast for tiie Democratic candi date : EAST VOTE. Esttmat- ed Deni. Klee -BTATES. Deni. I Rep. nr.nj. in toral maj. mnj. istis. Vote. California 7,155| II,IST 5 Conneeiicul I,(i Hi ?,:kxi h Delaware 1,212 J,MH) 3 Indiana | 11,21 c 4,501 13 Maryland Il,li2!i[ !fj’ 111 7 Kentucky 5!l,280 It Sew York 17,11,(i| ...J*'. 7(iSlf.| ;i;j <>l‘io | 2.HS3J J4HK! 21 Oregon.. 327 15»j 3 Peniihylvauia 9221 „..| 1,353| 2<i Total electoral votes 13, s Necessary to a choice ’ "’.’.’.124 Several States which tiie Democrats will contest closely with the Radicals, and w hich they hope to carry for their candi date in tiie fall, areomitted from the above table, to-wit: Minnesota, Maine, Neva dti, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and possi bly Kansas, inasmuch as the latter State is gradually approaching the Democratic Jine. The calculation is made without including the electoral votes of the South ern Htates, since at the present rate of re construction (if the Radicals should have a perpetual majority in Congress) they would not be readmitted to the Union in time to participate iu the I’residential election of 1572. Ouf Democratic friends throughout the country will please hear these figures in mind, and remember that (hey are to strain every nerve to make what is a fore cast in April a reality iu November. To accomplish this, they must begin to work now. THE COURTS. I lifted State* Circuit Court for tbe Southern District nt Georgia. HON. JOHN EKSKINE, 4UIMJE, I'KESITIINO. Monday, April 13, 1868.—The April term of the United States Circuit Court for tiie Southern District of Georgia com menced to-day, the Hon. John Erskine, Judge, presiding. There was a goodly attendance of mem bers of the bar at the opening of Court, and in addition to the prominent lawyers of our city, we noticed many distinguished gentlemen from other sections of the State, and among them, Hon. Howeil Cobb, ot Macon; Colonel Dougherty, of Atlanta ; Judges Nisbet and Lyon, of Macon ; Judge Vason, of Albany ; Washington Poe, Esq , of Macon ; Hope Hull, Esq., of Athens; Win. E. Smith, Esq., of Albany ; aud Mr. DeGraffenried, of Macon. Upon tbe north wall of the court room we observed hanging a fine portrait in oil of the late Justice Wayne, tiie work of the celebrated artist Meier, of Atlanta, who painted the portraits of Governors Troup and Clark, which adorn the walls of the capitol, at Milledgeville. The likeness is striking, and the coloring exquisite. The picture was procured by subscription by the members of the bar, as was resolved at the last term of the Circuit Court. The following attorneys were re-admit ted to practice in tiiis Court: Louis P. D. Warren, Washington Poe, Barnard Hill, Willis A. Hawkins, Richard F. Lyon. The following named persons were, on petition, admitted to practice in the United States Courts: Ed. Randolph Harden, Phillip Cook, Samuel Hall, Nathan A. Smith, David A. Vason, Howell Cobb, Wtn. H. Robinson, ifletcher T. Snead.— Savannah Republican, 14 th. Gen. Meade’s Proclamation against Incendiaries. —“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth ” it must be to the radical managers that they cannot get a general to take charge of any military district who knows exactly when iie ought to be blind and when he ought to see. Now here is General Meade—a most pro voking person. He did gratifying tlungs at first, and radicalism was loud in its ap plause. Scarcely, however, had the radi cals committed themselves to positive laudations of the General’s honest courses than he made a report in relation to tbe election on the constitution, and plainly told his spoilsers in Washington tiiat tiie trouble was a little too much nigger, aud that if they had been content to require no mere in the constitution than was required iu the reconstruction acts all would have been well. That was under the fifth rib. But there is a worse place than the fifth rib. It is what the I 1 reucli philosophers call the vital knot; and Gen. Meade has just put forth a proclamation that lays vio lent hands on this delicate thing. He says: “ All public writers and speakers are enjoined to refrain from iutlaminatory appeals to the passions and prejudices of the people.” Now, this will absolutely shut up every orator tiiat tbe Republican party lias in its pay in Gen. Meade’s dis trict. Gen. Meade also practically orders the suppression of au organization w hose object is to “ affect the results of pending elections in this district.” This means the Loyal League clubs. It has been stated that this order was aimed at the Ku Klux Klan ; but this is evidently wrong, as it so distinctly describes tbe evil courses of rad ical agitation. Gen. Meade is too intelli gent a man not to have known what he was proclaiming. — N. Y. Herald. FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1868. A SUGGESTION. Since it is demonstrated beyond dispu tation that/rauciof a most deep and damn able character may he expected at the bauds of Boards of Registration through out the State during the approaching elec tion, it is of vital importance tiiat the true men of the country should resort to every legitimate means iu their power to thwart the wretches. For instance, at every bal lot box let there be stationed challengers, and let one of the challengers keep a list of the voters’ names, aud the day on which he voted. The colored voters should be marked with a c after the name. Tiiis cau easily be done, as the voting will be necessarily slow, the registrar having to find the name ou his list. In this way may fraud be detected, and only in this way! And when registrars shall make their returns—and those returns prove to be inaccurate— the proof will be at baud to fasten the infamy upon them! }Ve would further suggest that the lists which challengers may thus prepare be sent to Dr. J. F. Alexander, Chairman of the Democratic Committee of Fulton county, who will make proper use of the proof at Military Headquarters. We can protect ourselves in tiiis way, and we appeal to Die leading Democrats in every town and city in Georgia to carry out our suggestion. A military order authorizes two men of tiie Democratic party to assist at tiie counting ofthe ballots, hut that of itself will not suffice, for the fraud will then have been perpetrated without t4ie lio|ie of detection, unless our precautionary suggestion is adopted. The ballot-boxes will remain in the keeping of registrars for three or four nights, and what assurance have we—with the game fully in their hands—that those boxes will not be tampered with to tliedet riment of tlieir opponents. Tile manner in which names have been stricken from the lists is proof sufficient tiiat we cannot trust them, and we should not. Let good and true challengers be chosen for each day, and with tiie correct lists which those challengers will make, the Demo cracy of Georgia will he iu a position to defy their enemies !—Atlanta Intelligencer. RE ON VOLK GI AHDI We warn tiie friends of free government and of Georgia, not to listen to any of the numberless lies tiiat the carpet-sack and paper collar banditti, who train under Bullock’s freebooter flag, are circulating all over the country just now. They will increase, too, as the day of election draws near, just as Hies swarm in a carcase the nearer it approaches putrefaction. They feel that their infamous plot against (lie lives, and liberties, and pockets of tiie peo ple of Georgia litis failed, and they are mad with reckless rage and hate. They are like a blind rattle snake in August, striking at everything within its reach. They are howling ineligibility against Gordon just now, and hiring negroes to peddle the chatge all over the country. That’s tlieir last card. It won’t win, and they know it. It will deceive no man who does not wish an excuse to join the raid. Laugh at the miserable creatures who have been so completely foiled and dis graced. You can afford if. They are whipped already. Go for them with a will, next week, and they will lie annilii ot a ! and the pirates are done for. another outrage on kkadeey. We call the attention of Bullock, and his man Friday, “Sharp aud Quick” Hul bert, to tiie action of tiie Savannah Board of Registration in strikiug from tiie regis try list the name of that pure patriot and specimen Bullockile, tho negro Aaron Al peoria Bradley, ex-Boston jail bird, ex niember of the sword aud bayonet Con vention, and now ex-Bullock candidate for the Htate Senate. Shall such uu out rage go unpunished? Shall one of the most faithful and trusted of all Bullock’s coadjutors in the Convention, simply be cause iie happens to have a black skin, and to have been in the penitentiary, not only be driven from a convention of the party, but prevented from being one of those fifty members of the Legislature that Bullock relies upon, if elected Governor, to control tiiat body? Wo understand tiiat Bullock is suspected of being at the bottom of tiiis mean trick, this stall under the fifth rib, hut we cannot believe it. Hucli duplicity and ingratitude is too mon strous for credence. Anyhow, We give him the opportunity of denying his com plicity in the act. Did you, or did you uot have it done, sir? You are defeated, already, so there can bo uo harm in speak ing out. Let us hear from you. FRESH DEVEI.OFMNFTS— 111 LKEKT CATCHES IT, We print, below, the report of a com mittee of citizens of Columbus, sent to Atlanta to confer with Oeneral Meade in relation to frauds iu registration, and the rascality of the Registrars at tiiat place. We have great gratification, too, in call ing attention to the fact that General Meade lias had his eyes opened, iu a measure, to tiie character of “Hliarp aud Quick” Hulbert, and tiie tools he is using to cheat the people of Georgia, and nullify the promise of General M. that there should be a “fair election.” We joiu our coteinporary of the Sun, however, in ex pressing the hope that General Meade will not let Hulbert off with a “reproof,” no matter how severe. He has been clear ly convicted of fraud of the most unblush ing and palpable character. If lie were punished according to his deserts, a crimi nal prosecution and a conviction that would put even personal liberty out of his reach, for some time to come, would be his portion. Report ofthe Committee of Citizen* Sent to Atlanta to confer with Gen. Meade in relation to Frauds in Registration and the Misconduct of Registrars. Columbus, Ga., April 14, 1868. Your Committee called upon General Meade, accompanied by General Gordon and Colonel Pace, of Covington, and pre sented him with the written petition upon our grievances accompanying this report. Colonel Pace also presented a petition al leging tiiat seven hundred voters bad l>ee stricken from the registry of tiie 27ih district, without any public revision, and without the knowledge of the parties stricken. General Meade said tiiat tiie jiower of revision was given by the reconstruction acts to the local registrars; that in the act there were no particular instructions as to how that revision should be made; but tiiat tiie spirit of it evidently intended that a party registered, and whose qualifi cation was being canvassed, should have notice; that the reason of these stiikes had to be reported to him ; and that if he discovered that fraud had been committed he would unhesitatingly give certificates to that effect, and that he had no idea that Congress would sanction an election where fraud was manifest. It was sug gested to Jiim tiiat unless the persons who had been registered and improperly strick en were allowed to deposit their ballots, it would be impossible to tell with certainty how tbe names left oil’ the registry would have affected the final result ; but if a uumliered list of all the voters was kept, and tbe number of each voter placed upon his ballot, and all who had been once reg istered were allowed to deposit their bal lots, that then In certifying the election all such votes could be counted which were improperly stricken, and all such re jected as were uot entitled to registry. Vol. LX.. >•„. r . This suggestion met the approval of <Ten oral Meade, but he said lie would haw L examine his powers under the reconst rue tion acts before he could dually determine upon it; hut he would do everything In his power to Reoure to the people >» tree aud fair election. Mr. Mustian s case was then presented General Meade thought that holding the ontce of Legislator before the war and tlie office of Postmaster after the war dis qualified him. Me seemed well satisiied with Mr. Muslim)'s Lnion sentiments, hut thought that consenting to hold office under the Confederate Government, how ever much lie might have opposed the war, was giving aid to the rehellion, and came within the fourteenth articleaiiicnd atory of the Constitution. He considered it one of the hard cases coming within a general ruie. which he could not control. He said: "I am not here to prouounco upon the wisdom of patticular sections of the reconstruction acts, but to execute them as they are.” In the violations charged upon the Registrars, both in the manner of their revisiou aud the fact that Registrars were candidates, he promptly determined to send an officer to each point to make an investigation. lie was then asked ‘‘if these Registrars run for offiwa uud received u majuiityuf votes, whether he would grant them cer tificates of election?” He replied: *J shall not wait for that T shall have the facts investigated, and if they have vio lated my orders, 1 will have them prom pt ly arrested, tried, and if found guilty, punished for disobedience of orders. It was then suggested to him to give the negroes assurance that they would he pro tected in the free exercise of the franchise, lie replied, 1 have already done so, and referred to Orders 51,52 and 57. One of us stated that Order 51 was supposed to Vie di rected to the Ku Klux Klan. He said lie could not help what persons considered, that he did not believe there was any aueli organization as the Ku Klux Klau ; but he believed had men, as was the case in Columbus, took advantage of the general impression that existed as to such an or ganization, and by various means intimi dated voters ; and that his order was in tended for all colors, ami all persons who by intimidation or threats attempted to influence the tree exercise of the ballot. He said further, bring mo any instance of any man intimidating a voter by threats of violence, and 1 will have him arrested and punished if lie is the most extreme man in the State, of either side of politics, it will make no difference about that; hut 1 cannot acton general information ; bring me a particular case and I will deal with it promptly. This is substantially the conversation that occurred, and throughout our inter view Gen. Meade was frank and unre served, and evinced an evident desire to secure to the people of Georgia, without distinction, a fair and free eiectiou. Jno. A. IdajUlliHT. R. J. Mokks. J. L. Mustian. N. It.—laiter in the day, two of your committee, John L. Mustian and R. .1. Moses, called on Gen. Meade and submit ted the report to him which they should make to their fellow-citizens, in order I hot lie might correct any errors which might have been committed iu reducing the con versation to writing. Gen. Meade said that it was substantially correct, hut that his remarks in regard to C. W. Chapman and l)uer would have been less decided had he then iiad the in- I formation which lie had since obtained; that he had sent for Mr. 11 ultiert, and Mr. Huliiert had informed him that Chapman and Ruer hud resigned their office, but it being found impracticable to get parlies to serve as registrars, lie had iustructed them to go on and complete the registry, Cor this Gen. Meade said lie had severely re proved Halbert; that the fact should liavo been communicated to liis headi|uarlurs, and that he would, of necessity, have as signed two officers to net as registrars. That he would appoint ui»~-* **<■»*«- •mers (tv “• i would allow CTrapmai) and Duer to continue as candi dates; that he could not punish them for disobedience of orders, when (hey had intention to disobey, but were aifw.... .... der the instructions of the Chief of Regis tration. General Meade further said that he wan theu having an order prepared to apply throughout theWtate, which would require the managers of elections to receive all ballots that might be offered, whether the same hud been stricken from the registry or not. The ballots of persons stricken not to be counted by the managers, but forwarded to him in separate packages, tiiat tiiey might be examined by him, and tiie cause of their being stricken oil inves tigated ; that in this manner it could lie ascertained how the erasures of the reg istry would affect the general result. ATLANTA, Ga., April 12, IHUS. General Gxtrf/e (>. Mead) , (JominawHuy Third Military JMriet: Gknkkat,—The undersigned, a Commit tee appointed by a large number of their fellow-citizens, having your assurance that the election now approachingslmll be con ducted fairly, deem it only necessary to bring your attention to the following facts (which they believe to If general through out the (State) to secure through you a cor rection of the abuses referred to: TN THK COUNTY OF MUSCOOKE O. W. Chapman, Chief of Registration, and an officer of the Frecdoien's Bureau for said county, is a candidate for State Senator. Duer, a member of the Hoard of Regis tration, for said county, is a candidate Jyr Ordinary. During the five days that the registra tion was open for revision and additional registry, the registered voters were in formed that they could get no in formation as to whose names were stricken off, as this was being done at Atlanta. They could not ascertain tiiat any objections were being made to any one. Ao public revision was made during the live days. The citizens were advised that but three, names had been stricken oft, and perhaps twoof them restored. John A. Urquhart. one of your Committee, was informed by the Chief of Registration for said county that his name had been stricken off, but liad been restored. And finally, when the registration was dosed, John L. Mo— tian, the candidate for Htate Senator, in opposition to C. VV. Chapman, the Chief Registrar, was informed by him that hi (Mustian’s) name had been stricken ofT; also, the name of John A. IJ rej u hart.. Porter Ingrain and others, amounting in all to about 277 votes. Ao information could be obtained of the causes, and John L. Mustian, one of your Committee, from this conversation, was led to understand that the strikes were made at this point. Hence the mission of your Committee. On arriving here, two of your Commit tee—John A. Urquhart and It. J. Moses called on Mr. Huliiert, the Chief of Regis tration for the rttate, who informed them tiiat under the sth aud 7th clauses of the act of July 19, ISO 7, this duty devolved ou the local registrars, and had been entirely managed and controlled by them, so that the very |>ersons deeply interested in the election have made themselves the judges of qualification of voters, and 277 persons, registered voters, will be deprived of tire privileges of voting without ever having had an opportunity of attending to the re vision of the list, or knowing theoaune lyr which they have been disfranchised, or even who they are, with the three excep tions above stated. As these Registrars are the appointees of your predecessor, and are amenable to ! you for their conduct in the di-chaj«e <»f | tlieir official duties, and as the course pur sued shows an evident intention on tlieir part to deprive a large number of <>ur citi zens of the rights secured to them by the reconstruction acts of Congress, we n - reoiiest that you will use tne powers of your ottice which we doubt not you will take pleasure in doing; to *«»«> to the Citizen* of the State a fair opj>or tu nity of electing candidates of tlieir choice wlio mav be oualifiefl to serve. In Thbs connection we would further say that the negroes are, many of tben», intimidated by Loyal Mireatheued from the rostrum by fiaodi , . e with certain <lea.tn, it tiß*y darTtov/ue against the Radical ticket, and we regretfully ask that some order may emanate from your oflice, giving as surance to the colored people that they will be protected in the Jree exercise qj (he right of luffraye! Respectfully, Your oh’t serv’ts, R. J. Moses, JNO. A. UHCiCEAKV, Jno. L- Musxxan.