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TIlb Greorgia, Telegraph.*
MACON, FRIDAY APRIL 24, 1886.
Blodgett Senator.-TIic debate in the
Impeachment Court, on Monday. t *
Blodgett’s political destiny. Bens ^
told the Court and the country tttt
the Radicals triumph in Georgia,
io bo United States Senator! Just think o
such a man taking the place of Crawford,
Banning and Toombs. Verily, the Empire
State of the South will have sunk low enough
when that shall arrive.
StaNton Tired op Office.—As imprison
ment is the condition of office with Stanton,
•wo aro not surprised that he has become dis
gusted with his present position. He is said
to have recently addressed the following let
ter to Simon Cameron, which probably refers
to an “appointment" to be made by “Presi
dent Wade
War Department, \
Washington, April 14. J
To Hon. Simon Cameron :
Dear Sir : Perceiving in this morning’s
Chronicle that a communication lias been
signed by the Governor of your State and
the members of tlio Legislature, and other
persons, asking your recommendation for
my transfer, upon a certain contingency, to
the head of the Treasury Department, I has
ten to request earnestly that no such recom
mendation be made. Enough of my life has
boon devoted to publio duties, and no con-
sidcration can induce me to assume those ol
tho Treasury Department, or continue in tne
War Department longer than may be required
for the appointment and confirmation of my
Rnccc'sor. I ours truly,
successor. EmvIK m. Stanton.
juj overseer killed by plantation hands.
Painful Occurence.—A most sad acci
dent occurred in our city late Tuesday af
ternoon, by which an excellent citizen and
well-known merchant, Mr. Adolphus Trout
man, lost his life. Full particulars will be
found under our local head. The deplorable
event Las cast a gloom over our whole com
munity, all of whom deeply sympathize with
the family of the deceased in their sudden
and overwhelming bereavement.
Central Railroad.—The temporary re
pairs on this road, it is said, will require ful
ly a week longer, when the trains will resume
their regular trips. A gentleman who passed
over this end of tho road a day or two since
informs us that it will cost fully one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to repair the dam
ages of the late storm. In tho meantime the
loss from the suspension of business will be
heavy. t
Significant.—We learn, from a letter to
:ho Atlanta New Era, that Juda? Iscariot
3rown was groaned out of Newuan some days
lg0 by the white people when he went to
;akc the cars. Such will ever bo the punish-
nent of traitors.
Chief Justice Chase and the Radicals.
The New York Independent formally reads
Judge Chase out of the Kadical party. It
says:
“We now have reason to believe that Mr.
Chase would not accept the Republican nom
ination for the Presidency, even if it were
tendered. Wo have equal reason to believe,
also, that he would accept the Democratic
nomination, if it could be tendered on a plat
form not inconsistent with his well-known
views of negro suffrage.”
Whereupon the New York Post (Republi
can) remarks:
“There must be something seriously wrong
or rotten in the Republican party, if it is
true, as tho Independent so pointedly asserts,
that a statesman ot as high principle and
frreat abilities as Mr. Chase is, stands ready
to abandon it, and refuses even to be its stand
ard-bearer. Tho Independent flings Mr.
Chase away with quite a royal air; but it
will occur to many, not Mr. Chase s special
friends, that a party has need to bo rich in
statesmen which
Chief Justice.”
[We gather the following horrid details
from the Savannah Republican of the 18th
inst.' The murdered man, whose name is not
given, was James Martin, a native of Forsyth,
Monroe county, of highly respectable family
and greatly esteemed by all who knew him.
—Eds. Tel-J
One of the most brutal and savage murders
over recorded occurred onJWcdnesday last, in
Barnwell District, South Carolina, which
shows that the seed of Radicalism, so thickly
sown in that State, is bearing fruit with a
vengeance. We are indebted to a gentleman
from that locality for thp particulars of the
horrible tragedy. .
It appears that on the day mentioned the
overseer on the plantation of 4 Williani J. Law-
ton, Esq., (a cousin of General Lawton, of
this city,) near Allendale, Barnwell District,
South Carolina, told one of the field bands to
go to work and commence plowing. To this
tho ne"ro objected and a difficulty ensued,
and the wife of the negro came up, and by
her violent language further increased his ire.,
and lie raised a heavy hoe that he had in his
hand and attempted to strike the overseer on
the head, but he managed to evade the blow
The negro then attempted to strike t
second blow, but the overseer drew a pistol
and shot him in the face, inflicting a slight
wound. He then retired to hi3 house, and
for about half an hour all remained quiet.
The negro, meanwhile, had been among
his fellows, inciting them to violence, and
soon a crowd of them assembled around the
overseer’s bouse. Nearly all the negroes on
tho plantation were in tbo assembly, and the
overseer seeing that bis lifo was in clanger,
iumped out of a window and ran. Shots were
fired after him, one of which wounded him
He still continued to run, however, thus
wounded and bleeding, and pursued by the
savage crowd of brutes, now inflamed to a
perfect fury. After a chase of about a mile,
the overseer reached the house of Mrs. Mal-
lod whose husband was absent at the time.
He "implored her to take him in and shelter
him from the yelling pursuers, who wercseek-
bis life, which she did most willingly.—
Then she took her stand outside the door, and
for more than an hour held the murderers at
bay, resisting all their efforts to effect an en
trance, and refusing to accede to their de
mand to give up their victim. They strove
to "et her away, but she struggled nobly, he
roically maintaining her position, and receiv
in'* many bruises at tbeir hands.
Finding that they could not intimidate tins
courageous lady, the foremost of them broke
in the"window of tho house, ancl they were
nuickly followed by others, and the wounded
man inside soon fell a victim to their savage
fury. Shots were fired at him, and eleven
buckshot entered his breast. While he lay
upon the floor, in the agonies of death, negro
women came up and beat him with sticks, and
some of the worst among them declared that
they would not leave without a piece of his
flesh to carry home with them.
A more brutal or diabolical murder lias
perhaps never been committed, and those who
perpetrated the bloody deed while in the act
of executing their horrid purpose, acted more
like demons let loose from Pandemonium
than anything in the semblance of humanity.
While engaged in their murderous work they
were frequently heard A.o cry out that the
Radicals would protect them—thus showing
that the responsibility for the terrible death ol
this poor man rests with those who have scat
tered broadcast throughout the South the
seeds of bloodshed and disorder.
Our informant could not recollect tho name
of the murdered man, but said that he came
from Southwestern Georgia. He was a good
overseer, and an excellent man in every re
spect. There were thirty-one negroes en
gaged in the affair, fifteen of whom
have been arrested, and arc now held in con
finement, but if the Radical party has carried
the day in South Carolina, there is little hope
that anything will ever be done with them.
VULCANIA, near Litlionia, Ga., )
' 1 April 18,1808. S
Mr. Editor : A month or more has elapsed
since the adjournment of the Grand Manage
rs of tho Sons of Rimmon, ttill the scent
lingers around the Court-house to such a de
cree that the City Fathers have had to paint
fts roof with coal tar ! The hugest joke
perpetrated at the winding up, was when
Dunning came in with the flag bearing the
inscription, “New Men,” and explained that
by new men he meant men that were not worn
<nt! Since tho adjournment capsules have
been in greater demand ! The Convention is
a thing of the past Let her r. i. p.
The country has been exercised of late
about anew supernatural order, called “Ku-
Klux,” and they have been a source of terror
to many, who, feeling their guilt, imagine
“every bush an officer” and each stump a K.
K. When the first notices were placarded at
the Postoffice, Joseph E. asked leave of ab
sence from tbo United States Court, and
mounting old Bob Tail, made an extended
body-envelop narrative for home. As soon
as he reached there he began to dig up his
collards at 2:40 speed, rJady to migrate,
while the sweat poured from his brow, aud
he labored under almost as great excitement
as when lie met Ben Hill on a stump once !—
The keeper of his Bob Tail, tbo editor of the
Era, came up after discharging bis duty to
that animal, and exclaimed,
UllJ
i can drum out u man like the
The Carpet-Bagger—Political and
rnEOLOOlOAl.—The following portrait,
Irawn by the Augusta Constitutionalist, is
ruthful tp life: .
"When your Skowhegan skuuk turns politi
cian and invades tho South, it is a part of bis
programme to abase himself and seek admira
tion by rolling in the mire. He is rabid after
office and a general support at somebody’s
expense. Finding it impossible to deceive
or placate the decent whites, bo bargains
with outlaws as venal and despicable as him
self, and playing into each others bonds,
they deludo the negro population by fa sc
promises, filch tbeir bard-earned money by
cajolery, and ride into power on the backs of
those who aro foolish enough to trust them
and their ignominious coalition. This is to
be expected of tlie adventurer vomited forth
from Skowliegnn and the adjacent provinces
of New England, but we did hope that when
a Skowlieganitc turned his attention to the
ology, a lovely scorn of ambition and lucre
would, in some measure, expiate the baseness
of his political compeer. Such, however, is
not tlic case. The “friendsof tbefreedraan,
hailing from those States _ that trample him
down whenever ho lifts his head, are just as
bad when they get hold of Sambo with the
spirit of Cotton Mather, as those who now
bold liim with the spirit of the late-lamentccl
Richardson. One bangs him over the head
with the Bible and tbo other with a copy of
the new Constitution. All of them plunder
him and seek his scandal and destruction.
A “TnooLY Loil” Man in Trouble.
Jones, now in jail at Montgomery for rob
bing the mail on the Selma, Rome & Dalton
Railroad, on which ho was route agent, is en
titled to a first rank among the “trooly loil”
in this State. His career illustrates all the
special Southern Radical virtues. And for
one of his age he lias been pretty well re
warded for bis services to the “party of
moral ideas.” , _ .
At nineteen be stole a horse in Chambers
county, for which he was sentenced to the
penitentiary, where he remained one year.—
Afterwards lie volunteered in a Confederate
regiment; then he deserted and joined a
Maine regiment; then he turned up in Mont
gomery as a small gambler and general vaga-
band; then he was made doorkeeper of the
Georgia Convention ; then he was recom
mended by that body for the position of route
agent on the S. R. & D. R. R; then lie robbed
the mail; and now be is in jail.
Isn’t this a “trooly loil” record t
And by men of the class to which he be
longs it is proposed that the Government
of Alabama and Georgia will be in future ad
ministered, and under the acts of Congress,
Gen. Meade and the President, are confined
raaiuly to such in selecting the incumbents of
State and Federal offices in tbo South.
[Selma (Ala.) Mess.
Great God 1 what a wander
Gen. Jackson, lloll and Ihunder!
California Rebellious.—It seems that
his “loyal” State can no longer stand New
Jngland teachers and schoolbooks, and are
aking steps to rid themselves of those pio-
lcers of a “higher civilization.” The Brook-
yn Eagle says:
News comes from San Francisco to the
.fleet that male teachers in tlie public schools
ilicro who were favorable to the Union cause
"luring the war arc being discharged, and per
sons of Southern proclivities placed in their
stead. Three gentlemen connected with tho
schools from ten to fifteen years have received
tickets of leave, and ethers arc marked.—
Text books containing favorable mention of
the Union causa arc thrown out, and refer
ence in any manner to the subject is forbid
den.
pjyThc Richmond Dispatch.thus charac
terizes the new Oonstitution adopted by tbo
Convention of that State:
The Midnight Constitution.—The vote
on tbo Constitution in the monstrous Con
vention was taken last night at 12 o’clock.—
Fit hour—when ghosts arc abroad, and
“secret black and midnight hags” do deeds
without names—for the completion of a work
of shame and outrage to civil society and
justice. , . .
The work of ignorant negroes and ol de
praved white men, who, having been traitors
to both sides in tlie late bloody, war, crown
tbeir infamy by warring upon civilization—
becoming the enemies of mankind ! One of
these wretches declared that neither Hcuvcd
nor Hell could defeat tlie Constitution ! It
will be seen that more than one Republican
member declared open war upon it. Of
course this abominable instrument, the work
of ignorance and brutality, will be trampled
into the dust by Virginia!
Election Scene.—The Atlanta Opinion
elates the following:
The negroes were all excitement, and en
tered iiTcxpounding the new Constitution
la “volubly, if not as intelligently, as so
nany Webstcrs might have done. Some
•atlier rich scenes occurred.
One negro came in, elbowing lus way
brougb the crowd, saying he wanted to
rote.
“Have you a ticket,” asked a young gen
tleman with a roll of blue tickets In bis hand
Just at this moment another young man ap
proaclicd the colored man, and asked him to
take a white ticket. “0," yes,” said the
shade, “I’ll take it and remember you when
I see you again. 0
Another negro cried out: “Gib me de Ex
pres ticket; I goes on dat train.”
“I can’t ride on dat Bullock concern, it’s
too near busted; I goes on do Gordon wag
gon,” saidan oilier.
J37*TUo New York correspondent of tho Char
s~ton Courier says that Grant Is opposed to the
j:.victim of Mr Johnson, and that a movcim
> on loot, headed by bis particular friend Wash
uirn, to prevent Wade’s accession the Presi-
ency
The Fresiiet.—We learn from passengers
by the Georgia Railroad that the Oconee has
risen higher than at any time since 1840.
Golding’s creek bridge, on tlie Macon and
Au"ustn Road, has been carried away; also
one other bridge between Warrcnton and
Sparta. There nas been extensive land slides
on this road. The Ogcccliee, it is said, is
higher than ever before known.
A letter from Mr. J.N. Treadwell, Southern
Express Agent at Camnk, to tlie Assistant
Superintendent here, Mr. Hugh Dempsey,
states that information from Culvcrton, on
the Macon and Augusta Road, reports three
breaches in Gordon’s Creek trestle, two on
Rackcomfort trestle and one of tlie rock piers
in Fulsom Creek bridge arc washed away.—
Nothin'* lias been beard from the road west
of Culvcrton. The letter also states it will
be five or six days before a train can be run
ns fur as Culvcrton.—Augusta Chronicle
Scntincl, 18iA.
The Chicken Fioiit Explained.—The
facts of the chicken fight at Calhoun, when
Joseph E. Brown spoke, arc at lost out. A
Federal soldier had a rooster of good game
qualities, and named it General Gordon. A
citizen of Calhoun had another that lie want
cd to see tried, and being a strong Bullock
man, named bis Bullock. The chickens.wero
put to fighting, and the Gordon chicken
whipped out tlie Bullock in two minutes and
a half This citizen ot Calhoun is now a
strong Democrat, and has been advocatin
Gordon’s election from that day to this.
[At. Intel.
53?" Several Radical members of Congress
declare they regret impeachment, and would
withdraw it if in their power.
Don’t bo alarmed, I and Meade will fix up
an order that’ll scatter them to tho four winds!
We’ll give ’em fits,” and he left Joseph, Jubi
lant and humble, muttering as he departed,
Tlie world knows only two—I and Grant!
Ky roof receives me not—’tis air I tread,
and at every step J feel my advanced head
knock out a star in Heaven!
Entre Nous ! My wife Camelia Ann thinks
that you are doing wrong to employ the Era
to abuse you. She says that where you are
known if can do you no good, and where it
is known no harm.
Bnt to return to the Ku-Klux. Last year
he, she or it, made bis, her or its, first appear
ance at Stone Mountain to a crowd of boys
assembled near a burning brush pile. When
with a voice, a cross between that which is
“ma"nificent liko the melodious music of a
bastinadoed child,” and the “loud note of
hungry swine, petititioning for swill,” he,
she or it, gave a booh, they fled! Col. Wash
Lee formed the men in line of battle, and
assigning Lieut. Col. Jim Goldsmith to the
command of the right wing and Maj. Fed
Stoy to the left, while be led the centre, ad
vanced in force to reconnoitre. Adjutant
John Stewart, with a bunch of red tapo in
his hand, incited the men on! They
marched with precipitate reluctancy, like
treading on eggs. The right wing double-
quicked under the promise, from their com
mander, that if successful, like good soldiers,
they might sack Rogan’s bar I Advancing
by parallels, and fortifying every two or three
feet, they reached the canip of he, 9he or it,
in about three hundred yards. When dis
covered, he, she or it, was apparently on all-
fours, engaged in excavating the earth and
heedless of the foe. Here the Colonel re
viewed bis troops with calmness, and entreat
ed them not to falter, but to form into a
crescent, and when he gave the order to
charge to do so with tho velocity of the
whirl-wind. When the Colonel said “charge”
he, she or it, slightly raised its head and gave
loud booh! boh!! ' ,
The crescent was soon formed, but formed
in the opposite direction. The men retreat
ed with reluctant precipitancy, and fortified
at Rogan’s bar. He, she or it, thinking tlie
new movement a flanking one, retired in good
order, without loss, tho’ it is said, a few hoy
hairs were found in bis, hers, or its camp af
terwards. To this day, he, she, or it, remains
uncapturcd. A few nights ago, this new or
der commenced operations in Lithoma and
its vicinage, and has caused a “shaking
among the Dry Bones.” As Elleck Potts
was going home with a fine rooster and sev
eral hens, “confiscated from some neighbor's
chicken roost, he met a gigantic figure, strid-
in" twelve feet at a step and every motion
attended by rattling of bones, who told El
leck where he bad taken tho fowls, and to
hand ’em right over. With great trepidation
Elleck forked them over and the Ku-Klux
bolted them alive! Elleck says he heard the
old rooster when he struck the bottom of the
Ku-Klux’s stomach, and immediately flap bis
wings and crow ! Elleck beat a hasty re
treat, and the last time he looked back be
heard the rooster crowing and the bens cack
ling (over new laid eggs ?) Pretty much the
same happened to Jim Phillips, only for
chickens, read pig, and for crowing and
cackling, read squealing! As Bill Penuley,
tlie other night, was about to water liis whis
ky, a spirit poked its bead from tho bung
hole ot tlie barrel, and said, “Bill, I’m too
tctmfcnow! Give me something strony. .
With legs strident, hair up-pendent, shirt,
extremity streament, and eyes wident, Bill
got up and dusted. Next morning when be
returned, the barrel contained no spir
its, nor nary spirit, for all bad been
spirited away 1 The Ku-Klux arc a thirsty
set! Need Whitley had a “pansion”
the other night. Mr. Sneed, you ought to
know Need! He’a more spernt-ual than
letter-ary ! He believes in planting bis truck
when moon-shiney nights are the order, “bc-
kase den you see dey kin see how to grow by
night as well as by day;” and says that peo
ple give tbeir hogs too much corn, ’stead of
saving it for whisky. “Why, Dave, you
knows my liogsallere fat as moles? ’ says he
to me. not long ago. Says I, “True, Need,
they are so.” “Well,I don’t guv ’em butyice
qrains of corn at a time, and apply Sukey
Blue Skin to their backs to make tbeir skins
loose and cause ’em to grow. What I lack in
corn I make up in raw-hide, and sometimes
tlieir hides are raw enough, I tell you,” (ag
ricultural item of importance that!) The
other night Need says as he was giving his
hogs their castigatory feed, “thinking sure
’nou"li Congress would compcacli the Presi
dent,” a lean and lank figure emerged from a
stump, and in hollow cadence said; “Swinca-
yle nix cum rouse," and disappeared. Need
says that after this he’ll give his hogs more
corn, for he don’t want bis sicinc to cat him
up in his house !
The gentlemen who stand the hazard of
tho dice in order to cross the rubicon into
fortune hold a convention in Atlanta on tho
25th, in order to change the name of one of
their "antes called faro, because the laurels of
its honest fame will be withered by reason of
its similarity to the name of an Atlanta poli
tician, who, though ho “holds a heavy hand”
when he shuffles or deals, turns up a jack or
a knave!
It is surprising that the Savannah Democ
racy should be ambitious of having it an
nounced that their Postmaster was one of
’em 1 or was it a cute dodge to let the world
know lie wasn’t V Isn’t Bob a very appro*
priatc name for a Rad ? He appeared as
highly indignant at such “imputed righteous
ness” ns did the gawky damsel tho other
day, when Tom Willingham was trying to
sell her a pair of cotton cards (not Joe’s pat
tern), and brought them up to a level with
liis eves, who exclaimed “you winked at me,
sirl” But the Democracy retorted, as did
Tom, “you winked at mo first!”
On the 11th the Rad3 had a tremendous
meeting of tlie m-asscs at Stone Mountain.
The trains, both upward and downward
bound, from three o’clock in the rooming,
went by filled with passengers bound for—
other points. About ten o’clock Joe Waikcr
hove iu town, one pocket filled with consti
tutions, and the other with a constitutional
amendment iu a black bottle, tbo’ some said
it contained camphcnc, Greek fire, or some
thing else to fire up the m-asscs. Joe isgreat
on jokes, and they are so rich that his wife
makes all her dressing by selling the butter
made|from the cream! Bracewell and another
swinge cat from Gwinnett came in a buggy
loaded with ginger cakes and “red-eye” for
the Faithful! Dr. Mathews, from the same
county, brought up the rear on a horsei from
whose eyes tears were streaming at the degra
dation in bearing such a load of infamy. I e
Doctor’s pockets were filled with tar babies
and black base balls for the children of the
Faithful! Shumate aarived at eleven with a
load of gourds, and Arnold “closed the rear
with a lot of old clothes he bought a bargain
from Prettyman! The hour of meeting
having arrived, and no more delegates ap—
pearin, the large assembly above named,
proceeded to Buzzard’s Roost on the moun
tain. (Since then the buzzards have aban
doned the spot.) Joe Walker was called o
tho chair, and Arnold requested to act as Sec
retary. Bracewell moved that a Committee
of one from each county be appointed to re
port the name of a suitable gentleman or
Senator from the 34tb District The Chair
appointed Messrs. Bracewell, Shumate and
Arnold that Committee, who, after consulta
tion, reported Jthe name of J. Radamanthus
On motion of Dr. Mathews, a Committee of
two was appointed to suggest the names of
two persons for Representatives from Gwin
nett Dr. Mathews and J. Smgglefritz were
appointed, and unanimously agreed in sug
gesting, as the most suitable persons, Dr.
Mathews and J. Snigglefntz. .
On motion of B. D. Shumate, a Committee
of one was appointed to suggest a candidate
for Representative from DeKalb. Mr. Shu
mate was appointed, aud the Committee with
great unanimity, reported the name of B. D.
Sl On motion of % Arnold, a Committee of
one was appointed to report the name of a
person to represent Henry in tho Legislature.
Mr Arnold was made Chairman of the Com
mittee, and that body unanimously presented
the name of B. Arnold 1 The reports were
adopted amid intense enthusiasm, and the
candidates made rousing speeches, (to the
lizards and toads.) Walker advised them to
stand firm, (they stood on a rock) and to em
ulate tne character of Bro. Prettyman, - as
vividly portrayed by that venerable divine,
Lovick P. Thomas, when he said that Bro.
P.’a motto was ll watch and prey by night and
day.” These are troublous and trying times.
iJro. Brown, when be goes up in Cherokee,
lias to be guarded by twenty “boys in blue
to protect him from the Ku-Klux, or some
other Bronchial affection ! ,
Bracewell can em-brace-well, but dont
hanker after cream puffs. When attendin
the Convention he purchased one of Was
Jack’s superb cream puffs; upon breaking, it
open and discovering the cream, he returned
it to Jack and demanded his money, say ing,
“the durn thing aint done 1”
Yours in triplo bars,
Dave Longshore, Black-Smith
P. S. A new theological sect has sprung up,
witli Col. James Atkins as its head. He says
the decalogue proved defective, and did not
meet the requirements of the Jewish race ._
Col. Tom Howard to-day conferred on him
the degree of D. D. D.-Dirty Dealing De
serter 1 D. L., B. fo.
Interview
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HIS TRIP FROM
VICKSBURG—MESSAGES FROM THE SOUTH
ERN PEOPLE TO THE PRESIDENT—DEVO
TION TO THE “OLD FLAG”—REASONS FOR
UNDERTAKING THE JOURNEY—MONEY OF
FERINGS AND HOSPITALITY ON TnE ROUTE
—A RECOVERED FLAG.
p<iT° Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecti
cut, at the anniversary dinner of the New
York States-Rights party on Monday, in nl
luding to “the powers of the General Gov
ernment,” archly added : “Not the Briga
dier General Government!”
Interesting Correspondence.
Sergeant Bates with
President.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore San.']
Washington, April 15.—Sergeant Bates
called upon the President to-day to perform
what he considered a very agreeable duty;
that duty, be said, was to deliver to tlie Pres
ident the kind messages for the chief magis
trate of the nation which he had received in
the swamps and in the woods, along the
stretches of pine forest through wbiob bis
route now and then lay. At the lonely farm
house and in the villages, dries and towns :
“Tell the President,” said a gray-haired man,
“we are praying for him.” “Say to him,” said
hundreds “God bless him.” Many, very many,
bc"ged the sergeant to tell the President
that 3 their hope was that Heaven would bless
Andrew Johnson in his efforts.to secure tlieir
rights “in the old-Union.”
“At Richmond, Virginia,” continued Ser
geant Bates, “a fine looking old lady, pushing
through the crowd, came to me as I was
making my way out of the city, and with
the tears coursing her cheeks, said, as she
took my hand. ‘Tell Andrew Johnson that
he has the earnest prayers of the matrons of
Virginia for his welfare and happmes. —
'Grayhaired men, trembling with age, invoked
upon President Johnson Heaven’s blessing.
“Just beyond Montgomery, Ala., my fla^
was decorated with flowers and _ a laurel
wreath by a young lady, who said to her
mother, as she returned to my colors, ‘I wish
I could send by Sergeant Bates a bouquet to
President-Johnson ” They would dismiss
schools to meet me, and many of the little
"iris would want to kiss me and to wave my
fl a «r. My rooms have been decorated with
evergreens, and in North Carolina. girls
strewed my way with flowers and pinned
bouquets upon my breast _
“In passing through North Carolina and
Virginia I had a bouquet in my hand_ every
hour of the day. I honestly believe, sir, that
in every State through which I have passed
in my long journey, I could raise a thousand
men for the defence of the flag as quickly as
I could anywhere in the entire Union. I have
taken by tho hand dozens of ex Confederate
soldiers, whose warm grasp, quiverin" lips
aud moistened eyes could not lie. In Geor
gia, for instance, I met a man who had served
in the rebel armies, and who had been watch
ing for me along the road. He had been en
On the “First Sunday after Trinity,” 1735,
in tho Church of Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, a
youn" clergyman preached with such ferven
cy and correctness of appeal to the conscience,
that complaint was made to the Bishop “that
he had driven fifteen persons mad by nis first
sermon.” Thi9 youth, who was destined to
commit many other similar “irregularities,
had, four years previously, been “common
drawer”—i. c., potboy—“to his mother’s cus
tomers” at the Bell Inn, in that same city.—
All this being known to the good Bishop, lie
made reply to the complainants, that “lie
hoped the madness might not be forgotten
before the next Sunday.” So George Wlnte-
field for a time escaped Episcopal condemna
tion. . , , . .
In 1737, after a sojourn at Oxford, during
which he graduated, he visited London to
assist a friend who had been appointed cu
rate at the Tower, and there his wonderful
career as a preacher fairly commenced. After
he had been a month in town, he received
letters from the Wesleys, giving glowing ac
counts of their work in Georgia, America;
“and from this time,” he says, “he longed to
go abroad and help them in that province.”
The letter of John Wesley, which finally de
termined him to do so, is eminently charac
teristic of that wonderful man. During the
three months he remained in London, he gen
erally preached nine times a week. So great
was the crowd on these occasions, that con
stables had to .be stationed at tlie church
doors to keep order or prevent accidents, and
thousands often went away from the largest
churches for want of room.. Like results at
tended his preaching at Bristol and Glouces
ter. Large collections for the Georgia mission
were obtained. His friends often entreated
him to spare himself, but his invariable reply
was, “I had rather wear out than rust out.
No nestling, no nestling on this side eternity.”
On the 7th of May, 1738, after a pleasant
but long voyage, he reached Savannah. He
found that Jolm Wesley had left for London,
and he himself, after a short stay of four
months in the colony, returned. He had
however, formed a project which was des
tined to influence the whole of his after life
—the establishment of a home for orphans
in Georgia. On his arrival in London he
found all the churches closed against him ;
what were called the “irregularities” of the
Wesleys had brought hitn also into suspicion.
A clergvman who allowed him to preach was
shortly'afterwards deprived of his lecture
ship. At Bristol the Chancellor threatened
him with excommunication if he dared to
preach or expound in the diocese. Then he
turned to tho colliers at Kingswood, who
needed conversion, his friends said, as much
i - -• Ahh His first sermon
ness of his labors, the number ofhu -er-
the vastness of the multitudes who a ! IC?I
bled to hear them, were alike wondern"
In spite of failing strength and .-ore nS.,
labored to the end. * 11 “e
“On Saturday, September 29, 1779,,
-jrvant, Richard Smith, tells us, d-, “■*
field rode from Portsmouth (New ,' !e ‘
to Exeter, fifteen miles, in the morni-^
preached to a very great multitude ;
fields. It i3 remarkable, that before he°
out to preach that day which proved tol^
last sermon, Mr. Clarkson, sen., observ’
him more uneasy than usual, said to y
“Sir, you are more fit to go to bed
preach.” To which Mr. WkitefielH anto
swered, “True, sir,” but turning asid»T
clasped his hands together, ancl lookin* ° e
spoke: “Lord Jesus, I am weary in°'N?'
work, but not of Thy work. If I h &T g 1
yet finished my course, let me go and
for Thee once more in the fields, sealTh
truth, and come home and die.” The tew d
preached from was 2 Cor. xiii, 5." Then
day the Master called liis wearied ten
home. Thus ended a life of labor never ^
passed since the days of the apostles, w'
remains were interred at Newburyport j
Boston, a spot where he had often expr’e
a wish to be buried, if his death should tst
place near enough to make it practicable^
In Cowper’s well-known poem, “Hon -
there occurs a singular testimony to ther >
worth of White-field’s character. So
was the prejudice against evangelical reli"i 1
even iu Cowper’s time, that in vindica’-it 1
this eloquent preacher, he thought it be J
not to call him by name:
“Lcuconomus (bcnc.-ith well-sonnding Q re »v
I slur a namo a poet must not speak)
Stood pilloried on Infamy’s high stage.
And boro tho pelting scorn of half an age.
The very butt of Slander, and the blot
For every dart that Malice over shot.
ing for me along tne roaci. lie nau uuu Indians in Geor"ia.
gaged in chopping wood I accompanied was / preached onamo ^tt
him to his home, distant about two miles.—
On the way be told me that the grave of his
brother, who had fallen in the rebel cause,
was not far from the roadside. I went with
him to the spot; he stood upon one side of
the grave and I upon the other. A plain
wooaen headboard marked the place, and as
I was reading the inscription, he asked why
such a bad state of feeling should continue to
prevail—reaching his baud over the grave of
f • 1 ii t if ■ nnrl will nnxr nnft
03UUJ AUWiuuo ~ '-''“O ,
was “preached on a mount to upwards ot two
hundred.” On the next occasion upwards o.
ten thousand were assembled. “All was bush,”
he says: “I spoke for an hour, and so loud
that all, I was told, could hear.” Wherever
he went vast throngs assembled to hear him
The Gentleman’s Magazine, for 1739 tells us,
that “on Saturday, 18th of March, ■ instant,
he preached at Hanham Mount to 0000 per-
An exposition of the elective franchise, as
:ed in Georgia under present Radical
practiced iu — jr- - .
auspices, is fully demonstrated by the follow
ing correspondence:
Headquarters Military District, 1
Bureau of Registration, >
Atlanta, Ga., August 29,18G7. )
S. D. Diclson, President Board Registration,
First Senatorial District, Savannah, Ga. :
Sir-Yours of the 27th instant received.—
Look sharp after the colored people. Don t
miss any entitled to register. I will send
you an oath book before you go over tho Dis-
trict. fourteen days before the election, when,
by giving proper notice, you can take in all
the remnant that is left.
Yours, etc.,
E. Hulbert,
Supt. Registration State Ga.
Headquarters Military District,
Bureau of Registration, ,
Atlanta, Ga., September 16, 1868..
S. D. Diclson, President Board Registration,
1st Senatorial District, Savannah, Ga. :
Sir: I will send you an oath book and
proper instructions in ample time. Pay rolls
will be sent in a day or two. Leave the co -
urnn blank as to the rate of pay. We will
arrange that here. The late law rejects “new
born rebs.” Yours, etc.,
E. Hulbert,
Supt. Registration for Georgia.
We respectfully recommend the import and
tendency of this correspondence to the con
sideration of tlie Commanding General of this
Department, and ask his judgment of the
present official position of tlie author of
these letters, in view of tho orders issued
from Headquarters of this Department in
relation to tho registration of voters in this
State.—Sav. Adv.
The Begal Rights of Rebels.
an important decision.
From the Neu Orleans Crescent, April 9»4.J
Third District Court—Judah P. Benjamin
vs. Alexander Norton.—In July, 1867, a suit
was instituted in the Third District in behalf
of Judah P. Benjamin, Secretaay of War of
the late Confederate States, for the recovery
of a large fee from Alexander Norton for lc-
"al services rendered by Benjamin & Micou,
m a suit entered in the United States Court
in 1863, for said Nortou, and successmlly
prosecuted for his benefit through the His-
trict and Circuit Courts.
Mr. Benjamin’s claim was made in his own
behalf and in behalf of the heirs of liis de
ceased partner, Mr. Micou. The amount
claimed was $200 and twenty per cent, upon
the judgment obtained, which was for *10-V
500. The whole claim, therefore, was §2-,-
100.
In November, 1867, peremptory exception
was filed by defendant, on the ground that
plaintiff bad no right to institute an action,
either for liimself or for the use of any other
person before this Court, and was debarred
from being heard because be was an unpar-
doned rebel and a public enemy,” and was
disfranchised from the exercise of any civil
rights by tho laws of Congress and tlie pro
clamations of tho President. ...
In behalf of plaintiff, it was admitted that
he had been Secretary ofWarof theCon-
federate States Government, and that he had
resided abroad since the termination of the
" 'judge Emerson has decided in favor of de
fendant, and dismissed the suit. In the rea
sons given for his judgment, mamtainin 0
exception, he says: , , ,
“The National Government had the right
and power to enact laws confiscatin" the
property of the insurgents, and it had the
same right and power to prescribe tbeir civil
status. It has done so in an act entitled An
act to suppress insurrection, approved July
17 1862.’ ”
For plaintiff—Campbell, Spofford * Camp
bell. For defendant—Sullivan, Billings A
Hughes.
Jail BuRNED.-The jail hero was burned
down last Saturday night. There were two
persons confined in it, a white man and a
negro, both for horse stealing. They cut a
bole near one cf tlio windows, enough
and fastened their blankets together by which
they reached the ground unhurt I hey set
the room they occupied on fire, which soon
spread over tho entire roof and rendered it
impossible to save the house from burning.
From the signs on the wall of tlie jail, the
prisoners were furnished the means of escape
—a hatchet and hand-saw.
Since writing the above wc learn that jIi.
P. Ward shot one of tlie jail-birds (the negro)
while attempting to break open his smoke
house. The negro was shot in the thigh and
slightly wounded.—Forsyth Ado. 21s(.
his brother. I clasped it; and will any one
say I did wrong in taking by the hand one,
a"ainst whom I had fought, but wbo now
was willing to stand by the good old flag ?
“In North Carolina I met an old man who
had served in the rebel forces. He was quite
old for one who, but a short time since, had
carried a gun and knapsack. The poor old
man during tlie war bad lost two sons and a
son-in-law, his only supports. It was eight
miles to the Catawba, the bridge over which
had been destroyed by Steedman. It bad
been rebuilt; was very high, and bad to cross.
This old soldipr took such interest in me—I
had stopped over night in the house where
lie lived—that he went with me to the bridge
and led mo over for fear I might fall and
hurt mysself. .
“Between Selma and Montgomery, in Ala
bama, I went to an elegant residence, occupied
by ft gentleman named White, on a planta
tion called White Hall. Mr. White, himself,
came to the door. My flag was unfurled, but
he did not know me, nor had he heard of my
singular journey. He, however, warmly
welcomed me, and I explained bow I bad
come to seek shelter under his roof. During
the war, he told me, Wilson had passed
through that country and destroyed all lie
had. During a talk of two hours there was
hardly a moment that his eyes were not
moistened with tears. In the rnorning I
found my flag decorated by his daughter
with wreaths of laurel and flowers. He went
with me on my way about'a mile, and finally
said he would have to leave me. I took him
by the hand. A gentle breeze was blowing,
ancl the flag, held in my left hand, was fly-
in". The old man tried to bid me good-by,
but be broke down, and for minutes wept
like a child.”
At -the request of the President, tlie Ser
vant explained the circumstances under
which he had undertaken the long journey
which he has just concluded. “Persons,”
said he, “made assertions which I believed to
be both foolish and unfounded. I contra
dicted them, saying that I did not care for
their individual opinions, but as perhaps
thousands believed as they did, I would make
a proposition that, if carried out, would
disprove their theory. I thereupon made an
offer to do what I have done. I did not
think my proposition would be accepted,
nor did the principal person of those to
whom I refer think I would dare carry out
my plan. He, however, at once accepted my
offer, aud dared me to fulfil his terms. He
had declared, for instance, that if the Gov
ernment would withdraw the military forces
from the South, and leave the flags flying, the
Union soldiers would hardly bo out of sight
before the colors would be torn down and
trampled in tbo dust. I replied that I was a
poor man, that I was not in a condition to
undertake tlio journey, but tbat if bo would
oivc me a dollar a day for my family while I
was gone I would go to Vicksburg and would
alone, unarmed and witboutmoney, carry the
American flag from that place to Washing
ton. I was told that my life would not bo
worth a cent; that indeed, I would never be
permitted to leave Vicksburg alive.
“Articles ofagreement were drawn up and
I was dared to sign them. I did so anti thus
bound myself to their performance. I went
home, thought over tlie matter; saw it was a
novel enterprise and would attract some at
tention, but did not think it would receive
the notico it has. I felt sure I would be
treated well and that the flag would be re
spected ; but I had no idea that the people
would take so much pains to show their re
spect for the flag, or that I would receive
such an ovation. There was, sir, during the
entire journey, not a breath uttered against
the flag or myself, whether in the rich man s
parlor or in the poor man’s cabin; whether
on tho road or in tho city, the old flag re
ceived the respect aud homage of all, and
myself welcomed with hospitality.
“I was determined to carry out the plan,
I have done so, and when I reached Wash
ington I had not a penny in my pocket. I
did not know where I was to get a meal, or
where to find a resting-place. I have had
money enough oflercd *»e on the route to
make me rich for life; but I have not accep
ted a cent, nor have I sold a photograph, as
some have said, during my journey.
“Mr. President, I recaptured one of our
flags without expending a shot. It was a
flag that had been taken from us at Chancel-
lorsville, and it was banded to me by an ex-
Confedcrafc soldier, who had preserved it at
his home.
“Before I leave I will again call on you to
show a sash presented to me by the ladies of
Montgomery, Alabama, and which I promised
when"! reached Washington you should see. I
hope on Monday next to leave for my home,
near Edgerton, Wisconsin, where I have a
wife and two children. The last work I did
before I left, was tlio cutting of two cords of
wood. I left a tree partially cut and I want
to get home to finish it.”
Two Texas negroes recently fought a
duel about a negress. At the first lire six
persons fell, one principal and_ four seconds
wounded, and the other principal knocked
down by tbo recoil of his musket.
UVyUUU MW »
In the evening he removed to the
Common ; it was crowded with so great a
multitude of coaches, foot and horsemen
that they covered three acres, and were com
puted at twenty thousand * * * The
25th of April, he arrived in London by way
of Oxford, where be was prohibited preach-
in" by the Vice-Chancellor. On the27tlihc
•preached on a tomb in Islington Churchyard,
being denied the pulpit. Sunday he preached
at Moorfields ; in the afternoon at Kenmng-
ton Common.” At the latter service between
thirty and forty thousand persons were pres
ent. Wbitefield preached for an hour and a
half. - -i f
In August of the same year he sailed tor
America. The opposition he had met with
in England, on the part of the clergy, had
not yet spread to the New World, and W hite-
field was welcomed by them as before.—
Whenever he was announced to preach, im
mense congregations assembled. Arrived at
Savannah, he proceeded to parry out Ins
cherished project of founding an orphan
asylum. This soon involved him in dim
cutties, from which, notwithstanding his her
culean labors, lit* never escaped. Jtle took
upon himself a burden far beyond his strength
to bear. In 1741, we find him again in Lon
don, complaining tbat he had a’ family of up
wards of a hundred to maintain, that he
owed a thousand pounds, and that lie had
not twenty pounds in the world * * *
At this time also, the views he adopted
upon the subject of election, alienated lrom
him most of bis former friends. The people
no longer flocked to bear him as formerly.—
Instead of the thousands who used to assem
ble whenever lie was announced to preach,
only two or three hundred could now be
brought together. The breach between liim
and The Wesleys was a bitter grief to liim,
but he as honestly felt bound to defend the
Calvinistic doctrine as they felt constrained
to denounce them. .
In Scotland he found for several months
congenial sphere of labor, yet even there be
was not without his trials. On his arrival in
Edinburgh, the Erskines, those great and
;ood men, demanded that he should confine
iiis ministrations to the Covenanters. “I was
asked,” he says, “to preach only for them,
until I had further light. I inquired, why
only for them ? “Because,” said Ralph Er-
skine, “they were tlie Lord’s people.” I then
asked, were there no other Lord’s people but
themselves ? and supposing all others were
the devil’s people, they certainly had more
need to be preached to, and therefore I was
more determined to go into the highways and
heJges, and that if tlie Pope liimself would
lencf me his pulpit, I would gladly proclaim
the righteousness of Christ therein.”
In the same year his friends built a chapel
for him—the celebrated Tabernacle iu Moor
fields. By the year following lie had re
gained all bis old popularity. Whit-Monday,
1742, was probably the greatest and most
eventful day in his eventful life. Moorfields
was then an open space, on which, every
Whitsuntide, a fair was held, and where vast
mobs of the vilest character assembled. I o
these he determined to preach. Notwithstand
ing the most violent opposition, he held three
successful services in the course of the day.
On the two following days he held similar
services. Rotten eggs, stones, and dead cats
were flung at him. One man lashed at nun
with a long whip. Another assaulted him
with a drawn sword. Drums were employed
to drown bis voice.
auu ni*se
ms ui ilu*-5 nuu ouuu 00 boaom never knew
And Perjury stood up. to swear all true: ’
His aim was mischief, and his zeal pretence-
His speech rebellion against common een<e-
A knave when tried on honesty’s plain rnie-
And when by that of reason, a mere foot ’
The world’s best comfort was. his doom was cuai
Die when he might, lxo must be damned at lit '
Now, Truth, perform thine office: waftaiide
Tho curtain drawn by Prejudice and Pride,
Reveal (the man is dead) to wondering eyes
The more than monster in his proper gni«e
He loved the world that hated him; the tear
That dropped upon his Bibl6 was sineere;
Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife.
His only answer was a blameless life:
And he that forged, and he that drew the dart
Had each a brother’s interest in his heart
Paul’s love of Christ, and steadiness unbribei
Were copied close in him, and well transcribed
He followed Paul: his zeal a kindred dim.
Liko him, crossed cheerfully tempestuous sen
Forsaking country, kindred, friends and eve •'
Like him, he labored ; and, like him, content'
To bear it, suffered shame, where’er be went
Blush 1 Calumny ! and write it on the tomb
If honest eulogy can spare thee room, '
Thy deep repentance of a thousand lie?.
Which, aimed at him, have pierced the offendei
skies;
And say. Blot out my sin, confessed, deplored
Against Thine image in Thy servant Lord!”
•This article is taken from an English publication•
Newburyport isabout forty miles distant from Boston!
Many years after Whitefield’s remains had been in
terred in a tomb under tho pulpit of a Presbyteries
meeting-house in tbat town, where they still sre,sf,ae
British admirer of the great preacher contrived, opes
a irleS* flin tnmh. tn rpmovfi n. nriniMnal KrmwAf
X>nilsU uuuuia ut tuu feit-av, ptcavuti uvmirnco, upda
a visit to the tomb, to remove a principal bone of ose
of .Whitefield’s arms, and took it to Europe with bin.
Ol ,91 IllUiUUiU O ituu.'i auu iu iv wuunia.
It wks eventually sent back, however, and Againde-
posited in the coffin.
Tlie Vote of the South,
In 1744, after a narrow escape from assasi-
nation by a drunken naval officer, be sailed a
third time for America, where lie was active-
ly”employed until July, 1748. At this time,
strange to say, he actively abetted the intro
duction of slavery into Georgia. Without
the use of slaves, he imagined the inhabi
tants could not subsist, “As for the lawfulness
of keeping slaves,” he says, “I have no doubt,
since I hear of some that were bought with
Abraham’s money, and some that were born
in bis house; and I cannot help thinking
that some of those servants mentioned by the
apostles in their epistles were, or had been,
slaves. It is plain tbat the Gibeonitcs were
doomed to perpetual slavery; and though
liberty is a sweet thing to such as are born
free, yet to those who never knew the sweets
of it, slavery may, perhaps, not be so irk-
somel”
Shortly after his return to England, lie be -
came acquainted with the Countess ot Hunt
ingdon, who made him one of her chaplains
and in whose drawing-room he had frequent
mill Hi >t iiuab UlUHiUjj , ... n
opportunities of preaching to the nobility of
Eii'dand. This meeting with Lady Hunt-
jejunum.!. Amo p — .
in"don completed the circle of the influences
that determined the whole of his after career
No new element was afterwards introduced
into it The remaining twenty-two years of
l)i3 life were spent in expeditions to America,
in efforts to sustain his orphan house, in an
nual “circuits” for outdoor preaching, which
embraced the whole of Great Britain, and
extended from tho departure of the frost in^
early Spring to its return in the late Autumn”
and'ii Winter ministrations in the “Taberna
cle” at Moorfields, and iu a chapel which was
also erected for him iu Tottenham Court,
road. Seven times iu all he visited America
making thirteen voyages across the Atlantic.
The length of his journeys, the continuous-
swered a “personal"
peared 111 one of the N<-r< y or k. -
a week since, and ,, ca m - ‘
which time every effort i..j ,,^-a
findthem.imt these '!->k;
cessful, though skillful detects
ferreting out the affair.
The New York Herald has some remarks
on the political relations of the two races it
the South that are worthy of public atten
tion. We append an extract:
The total registration in 1887 was as fd-
lows:—Whites, 631,791; blacks 687,950-
showing an aggregate black majority of 6S,-
259. That this majority has been more tin
overbalanced by the increased white regis
tration in 1868 under revision isalmostca-
tain. It only remains, then, for the Consul-
atives to adopt a policy towards the blacks
ia order to carry the whole Southern c-onntij
like a whirlwind over the Kadicais. Tie
white Conservatives—the natives of the soil,
those to the manor born—have not come or.
in tbeir strength upon any political contest
yet had at the polls since the beginning of
the rebellion. .
The blacks have not yet seen their u
masters going in a body to desposit tieu
votes. Instead, they have 'followed thcleiu
or have beeu led by the arm by some Nona-
ern rapscallion who had beeu expelled Iron-
his own regiou because he would no longer
be tolerated therein and Med South to ben
efit his fortunes and humbug the poor olacu.
Now, when the Southern whites conclude u
vote—a conclusion they should not nesm
to arrive at promptly—the blacks wil. ns
rally be inclined to- think twice betore .ntj
shackle themselves to aNorthera and
odious taskmaster than the intelligent
them were ever aecastomed to obey m -
South. , A -a
That they will in large numoers go
their old masters, tlieir old friends, their 0.
neighbors, tbeir old protectors, is » ,
ably to be expected as that the Prod gaU- j
return to his father’s welcome roofar.er |
season of inappreciable mental suffenn =
bodily torture. By the whites votoji JJ ,
trill bring the blacks to them: and oncewu
them they well know how, with
conciliation and familiar treatment, J
be managed. . 1
By this means the Conservatives
at least half of the Southern States
vote, and, securing majorities in th «
tures, may send Senators to Con„ »
wil! be admitted, while those sent w lb .
er House will' be admitted as friends t
Radicals, but will eventually prove tr*>
the old Coustitution^.aud to human ng^ I
white as well as black. We therefore
upon every white Southern Conservan^
put his shoulder to the wheel, and, witli«j I
off aud sleeves ro cdup, push omthej
of reform and civilization so much needed-
this beautiful but suffering land.
“Ritualism.”—The celebrated ease Va
lias been some time pending in the Loan-
Court of Arches to test the legality of * bcr «. I
alistic practices introduced by the K* T - ' |
Mackonochio at St. Alban’s church,
has been decided, and the judgment is, j
tbo whole, unfavorable to tlie “■ tua
though, like most legal judgments j I
Church matters, it will probably not W'»
effectual. Mr. Mackonochie is forbiaa
mix water with wine in the chalice, or .,- {
vate the bread and wine “for an app««
time,” or to toss liis censor toward ,
or things”; yet he may burn iucensc a-
as he pleases, may perform a s.ignt ci«»
of the host, and may use lighted canO^,
the communion table. _ The c '} ar S ^
cessive kneeling,” which !,ac * . %s tl!
brought against the reverend g cntl * n ? tt ’tli I
court declines to P.as 3 u P 0D -^ ul „ „ e « ho i e ,tl:
judgment of the Bishop. On tb ^
trial seems to have left ritualism about *
it waS before.— Tribune.
S3T* A few days before tne lan ^ e /tf
triotf Colonel Ashburn, "' as a ^uni^ aot I
received the usual annoymouscomnm ^
from the K. K. K’s.—'Montgomery’ t jtshbu* 8
We have noldoubt of the fact
received warning of the fate in st ^ j
We have positive information to ^
that the day before liis death, on<^
leagues in
— ■ » , rtolit*-' I
the Convention, 10 * § tbit
speech in Cherokee Georgia, pre
he would be killed by fail1
and for party purposes.—Qolumo^
Returning Sense.—With in |
weeks the writer of this has trav’e* of ttl irtJ
large district of country, tor
miles in different directions
and was gratified to f.od, th« tn°J^ &
ing the rise in the pucelofcotton,
of land has beci planted 1Ilc “ r :’“ t ton i- ;l f j
than last year, and of course
in" planted. The young corn M
and the stand is generally
Two young ladies of