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TO OBHU •• ’ , ftr the following are the “"SSto'Sw-"* 4c-—AO ®e PA... .« .»• ;>tor , , ••» s'» 'Thirty o»v*' Notice* (5 25 SKit2t“F.w«r*«^. ; :. : ::: tt sixty Urns’Notices 10 00 sit Months’ sotted • •• • 200 T n T>nv-’ N‘ fj ie Sales, for every fi Ta SH*Rirrr salv.s * Mortvape Saks \|U/ q d forthe Mine an other adver- Onituar.es are Charged 10 r tlseineitts^ mmm pruffssiiiiial Carts- JW TIHJBMAN, Attorney at Low, . Ttiimesville Ga. Will Practice in the Courts of Kiln” Sit, and Elseatheae by Special Contract. Prompt attention given to all collection of claims. june4-ly __________ TOSKPH H. SMITH. Attorney and J Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and Peters streets Atlanta, Ga. W.n practice *n the Su perior Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the . u- Lome Court of ihe State, and the United States Dis trict Court All communications addressed to him at Atlanta will receive prompt attention. apnlD-ly ISO. H. HART & J. Y ALLEN, have • I united for the purpose of practicing Law. One or both mav always be found in their office. By strict attention to business and fair dealing with all they hope to merit a liberal share of patronage. The senior member of the firm refers with confidence to all for whom he has done business during the past ' will practice by contract in any of the courts, or in any portion of the State. Thomson Ga., Jan. 22,1870. ian2*>-3m 4 N PERSON & McCALLA. Attorneys J\ at Law. Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu larly, and Practice in the Superior Courts of the counties of Newton, llutts, Henry, Spalding. Pike, Monroe, Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas per. dec 0-ly I AMES M. MATHEWS. Attorney at t| laws, Talbutton, Ga . will practice all the counties composim: file Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by peci&l contract declO-ly UfffiMS k WILLIS, Attorneys at Law Tilh'tton, *>a Prompt attention given to business placed in our hands. declO-ly H'WERT P. TPJPPK Avornev a- Law ll Forsyth, Ga Will practice in the State Courts 1411,1 'n the United States' District Court at Atlanta and Savannah, Ga, dec 0-ly I A HUNT. Attorney at Law, Barnesw • ville, Ca Will practice in all the counties of th** Flint Circuit and Supreme Court of the State. MARION BETHUNE, Attorney fit haw, Talboton, Ga. Will practice in all the counties of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and Meriwether counties declß-ly r pHOMAS BEALL. Attorney Low, *■ o| naston Ga. Will practice In the Flint Cir vmt.and elsewhere by specL.l contract. declS-ly ROGERS will e<»nti one the practice of Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway's Drug declß-ly TAR G. W. T IIaNN All. is pleased to .?/ "<>% citizens of Upson that he will continue practice ot Medicine in its various branches at fhoinastim, Ga. declß-ly TAMERS WALKER Attorney at Law .T .hoGaner, On. Will practice in Circuit Courts o dechM anJ n United states District Courts. dbkttistry. I pE undersigned Seine permanently seni!" CI ) te,i . tn Thomston,still tenders thier professional (• ces in practice of Dentistry to the citlxens of silvpr' i ail ' otn ' n * eounties Teeth inserted on g -Id, 4 and or robber. All work warranted and OliphantV'dratTlS?* ° ffi ° e n l> Bt, ‘ irß over 8u KS s * ' f BRYAN A SAWYRR. 1 1 have m»ved up to Invr and sni'n J.V.H'*” ( hen , e y and Allen’s newbuild cinennd n r ‘j , enif; *lM in the practice of rnedi- Ht an y lilue Persons wishing Perrt mans it I . •!* ®y office, can call on Messrs, tinn th< v run , • , an '‘ lawyer’s and obtain ir.fonna pr..ni[itl \ ls DR J O. HUNT JtlisffllflUffltts. family bible f I no , w P po P°Bing to sell, by subscrip- Bible th ft t s plend»d edition of the lie. It; i ve labowq offered to the pub and coml' 8U^ Btant ’ R ne iy bound, tTaa «latio^ S a c JJ ncise hißtl,r y of different Sensed Vt«t A . le dictionary—a con tions table '^ r* a lj religious denomina~ coins— a com i We '?h tB * measures and ful Fami| v n r ' ete concor dance—a beauti teen portrait * co r^. an d an Album for sixs Dess Pubii.sh; S ' i® Polished by a busi- Dat i°nul P ur cbase fo/th* 108 e may wish to their childran emße l ve ". or as presents to do 80 * Ifc is a Bt " W. Q art A A specimen can be seen to subscribe win e an d those wishing c WUI app\ y t 0 l* p *e, Monroe and'? 00, n Ken *’ f- ana b pson Counties. - —— may7-tf gLi on credit ! I l Oats r? m, B n hlDS bacon. corn, I the FUNIW 11A y- E,c ’ and not ■h 1 can malra • on land t 0 pay f° r I *t,N at pud e,r arran Sfements with I ' tV win a “ 4 ‘“ko ALL I . We i NEXI FALL to ~ay for f It ‘'SEIIOI?SP C,1 k tt '*. caßcß . » <iraft on I “coti. * either in Savannah or a who are hungry TINSLEY & CO., Macon, G%. THOMABTON, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1870. The systoms of liver ■fl I Hff W a it n «■ complaint are uneasiness |\ 111 111 (I \\ \ "| and P aln In the side. 1 if! ill V il 13 I Sometimes the pain is in I I the shoulder, and is mis- F ri—■iiytiiFpm w iif ii m taken for rheumatism. The stomach is affected with loss of appetite and sick ness, bowels in general costive, sometimes alternating with lax. The head Is troubled with pain, and dull, heavy sensation considerable lo*s of tnemorr, accom panied with painful sensation of having left undone something Which ought to have been done. Often com plaining of weakness, debility, and low spirits. Kom«_ I""" Itimes, 1 times, some of the above t I l r rt n I symptom* attend the dis ! I I If II l ease ’ and at other times 1J 1 V H It I very few of them; hut I the Liver is generally the ■■■(■■■■■■■■■■■■Ml organ most involved. Cure the Liver with DR. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, I A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strict ly vegetable, and c<»n do no injury to anyone. It has been used by hundreds, and known for the last So years as one of the most reliable, efficacious an<i harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering if taken regularly and persistently, ii is sure to cure. Dyspepsia, headache, ißtfrill ITAR I lUibl L I I Ull.l affections of the B ■ bladder, camp dysentery, ■■■■■■■■■■■ affections of the kidneys, fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the skin. Impurity of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head, fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs, asthma, erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis eases generally. Prepared only by J. 11. ZEILIN & CO., Price *1: by mail 41.85. Druggists, Macon, Ga. The following highly respectable persons can fully at test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to whom We most respectfully refer: Gen. W. 8. Holt, President S. W. R. R. Company; R.rv .7. Felder, Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany, Ga.; George J Lunsford, Esq., Conductor 8. W R. K.; C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts, P.ainbridge, Ga ; Dykes it Sparhawk, Editors Floridian, Tallahassee; Rev. J W. Burke. Macon, Ga.; Virgil Powers Esq., Superintendent 8. W. R. K.; Daniel Bui lard, Bullard's Station. Macon and Brunswick R. R., Twiggs county, Ga ; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory, Macon. Ga; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E Florida Con ference; Major A. V. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Mac n Telegraph. For sale by -John F ITenry, New York, Jno D. Park, -Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drug gists " npl2-ly TIN AND .STOVE STORE. II AVING at last procured the services or a first class Tinner I am prepared to do all kind of Tin Work. T IN-WARE Manufactured and sold at the lowest possible prices and all kinds of repairing at the shortest notice. Act ing as agent for P. M. RICHARDSON’S justly celebrated Stove and Tin House, in Atlanta, 1 am prepared to offer the greatest inducements to all those in want of a Stove of any kind. COOKING STOVES splendidly furnished, and guaranteed to give perfect satislaction. lam also agent for the celebrated “COMMON SENSE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE.” The very best made, high priced or low, only S2O. Call and examine my stock, and I will be thankiul for pa tronage. W. W. IIARTSFIELD, Agent. jan29-tf GOLDEN MOMENTS! OLIVER S. HIGGIN’S New Jp.WELRY STORE, Rarnesville, Ga., as I keep on hand and are constantly receiving fresh from New York ihe latest and most improved style of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, which I am offering at astonishingly low prices, as I am dealing diiectly with i -porters I feel confident that I can furnish this class of Goods as cheap as any House in Georgia. I am determined to keep on hand a GENUINE WaTCII and CLOCK, which we can sell to our customers and WARRANT AS REPRESENTED I am permanently located in BARNESVILLE, and am going to build up a business in this line purely on merit, so if you want a FINE WATCH or CLOCK call «t the sign of the “BIG WATCH,’ in the new BRICK BLOCK, next door to Bloodworth & Murphey, East side public square. Watches and Clocks carefully repaired and warranted. OLIVER $. HIGGINS. ian‘22-tf Barnesville, Ga. JOHNSON, timßliL & CO. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES MR PROVISIONS, MACON, GA., Planter’s Supplies on TIME for Macon or Savannah Warehouse Accept* ance. may2l-4m ALBANY HOUSE, MERRICK BARNES, Pro. CORNER PINE AND JACKSON STS., AL.BA3STY, pr* Polite Servants constantly in attendance, and the comfort, of Guest studiously regarded. 0T Hacks always ready to cobt o’' 0 ’' Passengers to a ad twm Depot. JanW-lj Cjje (£brp |)eralb, TH 0 MASTO n7(> 18/7^ DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. Bcin<i a Reply to Governor Biilhelc, by Hon ISelson Tift, late Representative Second Congressional District of Georgia Washington, D. C., June 4, 1870. To the Honorable Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States: As the State of Georgia is not now permitted to have representation, or a voice in Congress, I adopt this method of addressing you in defence of the reputation, the rights and in terests of her people. Under pretense of defending him self against the partial exposure of his crimes by the honorable Judiciary Committee of the Senate, Governor Bullock, in his letter of May 23, addressed to certain members of Con gress, continues to fabricate and re peat falsehoods and slanders against the people of the State of Georgia, through the instrumentality of which, and the means of corruption drawn from the Treasury, he has now for two years agitated Congress, promo ted discord, delayed the restoration of peace and good-fellowship among the people and States of the Union, retarded the prosperity of the State, violated the constitution and laws, usurped the authority, and sacrificed the rights of our people. The statement made by the Senate Judiciary Committee that Governor Bullock did “use improper means to influence the vote of Senators upon the Georgia question ,” and the statement of lion. Senator Ferry, that, “ had Georgia for the last two years been in the hands of men of high patriotism, if it had been in the hands of men who were looking to the welfare of the nation instead of their own pecuniary advance ment, we might have had a different slate of things from what exists to-day," are truths mildly stated, and well known by sad experience to the people of Georgia. Governor Bullock, in his letter, with an effrontery which would make Satan smile in approbation, states that, in his representations concern ing Georgia, he has “been careful to avoid exageration and to state only the literal truth,” and he challenges contradiction. Ido not now think of a single important statement made by Gover nor Bullock, relative to the condition of affairs in Georgia, which has not been exaggerated or false. The slanders which he caused to be raked from all parts of the State and pre sented to the Reconstruction Com mittee of the 40th Congress, 3d ses sion, were disproved by the unani mous testimony of more than one hundred judges, ordinaries, mayors of cities, and sworn witnesses, who were among the best citizens residing in different parts of the State, and many of whom were among the best Republicans in the State. The false statement of his conver sations with President Grant, which he telegraphed over the country to influence legislation against Georgia, were denied by authority from Pres ident Grant. His late letter, and his testimony before the Judiciary Committee, are made up of exaggerations and false hoods. In his letter, he repeats the now demonstrated falsehood, that there were “thirty or more” ineligible members in the original organization of the Georgia Legislature. He then knew that of the fourteen “flagrant” cases tried by General Terry’s Mili tary Commissioner, but three had been declared ineligible, and that eleven were declared eligible. He also knew, that the sixteen men who declined to qualify, were induced to do so by his threats and promises, his falsehood and treachery. In his letter he refers to his official communication to the Legislature, on the expulsion of the colored members. In that communication he denounced the seating of the minority candi dates, as a violation of the Constitu tion, the laws of Congress, and the principals of republican goverment, and he threatened the Legislature with Congressional action. But circumstances change, and so does Governor Bullock. In General Terry’s report (Senate doc. No. 41) is an argument of twelve pages, which he says, (page 12 “i3 a presentation of the law of the whole case in be half of Bullock.” In this argument he says: + + Without question, if a person nominally elected is found ineligible, that body (the Legislature) would declare the next highest elect ed and give him the seat. 4 + In* deed, there has never been in the State any doubt of the application of this law to the Legislature until the present crisis has given it birth/’ General Terry, was finally con vinced (see his report) that he could not legally seat the minority candi dates, but he allowed his acknowledg ed subordinates, Governor Bullock and the Legislature to seat seventeen of them, thus giving Governor Bul lock control of the Legislature which he nows seeks to perpetuate. Oovemor Bullock, in his letter, refers to an examination into his offi cial conduct by a comfeuttee'*of the Georgia House of Representatives in January, 1809, and says, that they “finally reported back a resolution to the effect that they could find nothing affecting ray official or per sonal integrity.” In this Governor Bullock has suppressed facts, which is the equivalent of intentional false* hood. The majority of this commit tee made a “white-washing’’ report. The minority of the committee re ported in substance, the fnct that Governor Bullock was guilty in numerous instances of appropriating the public money contrary to law. The minority report was adopted in House by a vote of yeas, to 37 nays, and to-day he stands changed by that action with impeachable offences for violations of the Consti tution which he had sworn to sup* port. Governor Bullock, in his letter, boasts that he “shall leave the office of Governor of Georgia with clean hands,” bat with his “private fortune greatly diminished,” &c. If public reputation and the can be relied upon, he had no “private for tune” when he took the office of Governor ; and even now T the State Treasurer, N. L. Angier, who has published eleven distinct charges and specifications against him for viola tions of the constitution and laws in the use of the public funds, &c., states that “the Governor neither gives in nor pays any State, county, city, or revenue (income) tax and yet he spent $14,500 in Washington between the fifth of March and the twenty-first of April last, using “im proper means” to influence Congress against the State. This rate of ex penditure for the twenty-five months which he has been Governor, would have required a private fortune of $246,800. Read the report of the thirteen pages of Governor Bullock’s testimo ny before the Senate Judiciary Com mittee for an illustration both of the “unwilling” and the “swift” witness. In answer to the third and fourth questions he denies all distinct knowledge of why the colored mem bers of the Georgia Legislature came to Washington. In his fourth answer he says: “I do not know that I can say that I knew of any despatches sent to have them come and it required the twelve following ques tions by the committee to draw from him the fact that he did telegraph to Atlanta for them to come to Wash ington with the “design” and “pur pose of exercising an influence in opposition to the Bigham amend ment.” Such was the general charac ter of his testimony until he came to Chapmam and Senator Pomeroy. No candid man can read carefully Governor Bullock’s testimony con cerning Senator Pomeroy from page 143 to page 148, and especially in the light of Senator Pomeroy’s state ment on page 149, without a convic tion, too strong to be resisted, that the whole story is either the result of a conspiracy between Chapman and Governor Bullock, or a cold-blooded malignant fabrication to injure the reputation and destroy the influence of an honorable Senator who had opposed some of his wicked designs upon Georgia. In this part of his testimony, there are three distinct objects: to slander Senator Pomeroy, who opposes his schems in Congress ; to slander Captain Bryant, a Repub lican member, who opposes his schemes in the Georgia Legislature; and to divert attention from his alleged scheme of selling the State railroad to the “Southern Express Company,” an odious bill for the incorporation of which he has now before Congress, and has solicited its passage before the committees. If it were necessary I could go on, but I tire of the humiliating record of his crimes, and trust that I have said enough to convince you of the character and purposes of Governor Bullock, and to show you that the good people of Georgia can have no legal protection for their rights ex cept through the action of Congress. Governor Bullodk has worked with a desperate purpose and enegy to the point which he has now almost attain ed. When the Legislature of Georgia was organized under the new consti tution in 1868, and he found that he could not control a majority of its members, he quarrelled with General Meade because he would not apply the “test oath” to exclude his oppon* ents, telling General Meade at the same time that “his friends” had been relieved by Congress. It is believed by many that he sug gested and aided secretly in the ex pulsion of the colored members of the Legislature to make a pretext for reorganizing by Congress. He voted a joint resolution of the Legislature pledging the State to abide by the deeision of the State Supreme Court as to the eligibility of negroes to hold office in Georgia, and when the Court had declared the ne groes eligible, he failed to call the Legislature, or to give them an op portunity to comply with the decis ion. He defeated, through his friends in the Legislature, the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, at a time when it was believed that its adop* tion would have settled the Georgia question. He has, with the aid of the mili tary, grossly and palpably violated the law of Congrecs of December 22, 1869, and has thus fiually succeeded in acquiring control over the Legis lature, illagally organized. But Governor Bullock is not sat isfied with his present “fruits of vic tory he demands of Congress a perpetuation of his rule, and to ac complish this end speedily, he has commenced a course of discipline among members of the Republican party. In Georgia, with the usurped pow» er of the State government, backed by the military and his unscrupulous “ring,” whilst he maligns the people and consumes the vitals of the State under the pretence of loyalty and terrible sacrifices for the Republican party, he has assailed the character, and to the extent of his means des troyed the influence of every Repub lican who, outraged or disgusted with his illegal and corrupt course, has openly opposed his schemes. And now because some honorable members of Congress of the Republi can party have obtained a glimpse behind the scene of bis corruptions, and dare to say so, he holds them up in his letter as repeaters of slanders, sympathisers with the rebels and Ku Klux, making “investigasion” with the vain hope that lies of interested rebels may have some foundation in fact,” and he threatens Congress with the “responsibility for the utter destruction of Republicanism in Georgia” if they should adopt the “Bingham amendment, or any pro viso substantially like it,” because it would prevent him and present ille gally organized Legislature from carrying out his avowed purpose of depriving the people of the whole State of the right to vote for repre sentatives, and of perpetuating the Legislature for two years beyond the time for which they were elected, in violation of the State constitution. The constitution of Georgia, article 3, sec. 1, par. 2, says, “The members of the Senate shall be elected for four years, except that the members elect ed at the first election from the twen ty-two senatorial districts number in this constitution with odd number, shall only hold their office for two years. The members of the house of Representatives shall be elected for two years.” This is clear and absolute, and what follows gives no authority to the Legislature to alter the term of office. The “time” or day “of elec tion” may be “changed,” and the members “hold until their successors are elected and qualified,” so that the “old members ” would sit in any extra ordinary session, hold, before the reg ular term at which the new members are to be qualified. A most important question now presses itself upon the public mind* Will not Congress vindicate its own dignity and the violated law of De cember 22, 1869 ? Having under taken by that law to restore the ex pelled, colored members to the Leg islature, and to purge it of ineligible members, will they now sanction the illegal violence and fraud by which eligible members were expelled, and seventeen members seated who were not elected ? But if past violations of the laws canuot be corrected, if the people of Georgia must, for the time being, continued to be the prey of wicked rulers, then another important ques tion is presented. Will Congress by its action, either directly or indirect, ly, sanction the avowed purpose of Governor Bullock to prevent an elec tion in Georgia for members of the General Assembly, on ‘‘Tuesday af ter the tirst Monday in November of this year,” as required by the con • stitution? Or will not Congress, knowiug the purpose of Governor Bullock, declare in plain terms, that the election shall be held as therein required, and representative govern ment maintained ? In behalf of the people of Georgia, I appeal to Congress to secure to us the common rights and liberties of American citizens, and the common rights of a State of the American Union. It is now five years since the close of the war. When the people of Georgia surrendered their arms they also surrendered the cause of inde pendent government for which they had contended. With hopes crushed, with property destroyed, with the wail of the widow and orphan still ringing in their ears, they did not play the hypocrite and glory in their defeat or curse their dead comrades as traitors, but they did surrender in good faith, they did pledge and hon est support to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and they have kept their pledge. The great mass of people have been law abide* ing, inoral, industrious and earnestly desirous of peace and a perfect res toration of the Union. They appreciated the magnanim ity of the officers and men to whom they surrendered, and they relied on the promises of the Government, and the common interests of the country, to restore them to their Common rights, whilst they would cheerfully boar the common burdens of Amer ican citizens. When the war was over, as a gen eral rule, the officers and soldiers and a large proportion of the citizens, on both sides, with the generosity which characterizes brave and true men, re cognized the settlement of a question which had divided and agitated the country from the begining of the Government, shook hands, were again friends, and determined to work together to allay prejudice, re store fraternal relations, and secure the union, peace, and prosperity of the whole country. Why have the efforts of these patriotic men been unavailing ? Why is peace delayed and strife and enmi ty continued. It is because there is ar other though small class ot men who were generally skulkers in the war, or speculators in the misfortunes of its victims, who, when the war of arms had ended, commenced their war of bombast and denunciation of false'' hood and plunder, against individuals and communities of men, women, and children. This war of these demons of peace, those moral beasts and birds of prey, has been continued five years, and has been little less disastrous to the interests of the country than the war of arms which preceded it. To-day, after five years of nominal peace, by the invitation and sugges tion of Governor Bullock, the State of Georgia is ruled by a military despotism under General Terry, who suspends tne writ of habeas corpus , and removes and appoints civil offi cers at his will, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Georgia. To day our petty tyrant, Governor Bullock, is urging and threatening members of Congress to secure a per petuation of his infamous rule over the people of Georgia. From such a Government even military despotism is a relief, and would be preferred by the people of Georgia, unbl constitU' tional liberty can be restored. Will not the Congress and the peo pie of the United States open their eyes to the evils which surround us, and adopt the means necessary to save us and the country from the abyss of anarchy or despotism which we seem to be so rapidly approach* ing ? Never s : n e the formation of the Constitur v .i has it been in greater peril, nor has there been a time when it was mure important for patriotic members of Congress, and officers and citizens of all classes and parties and creeds, to unite their effort for its preservation. The constitution of government for the United States was formed and es tablished by our fathers in a spirit of mutual concession and forbearance and confidence, which is necessary to its integrity and continuance. Its sacred and ever binding purpose were —“to form a more perfect union, es tablish justice, insure domestic trano r>V FOURTH PAGE ] NO. ‘2B.