Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1869.
The Brunswick Railroad Case.
It was expected that the motion to dissolve
the injunction in this case, by which the Rail
road Company are restrained under a bond of
£50,000 from issuing any more of its bonds for
tbs indorsement of the State, would be heard on
yesterday morning; but the counsel represent
ing the complainants insisted upon a continu-
moo, upon the ground that all of the parties
against whom the injunction was prayed had
not filed their answer to the bilL
This motion for continuance was resisted upon
the ground that the Railroad Company had filed
thur answer, swearing off whatever equity was
contained in the bill of injunction, and that upon
iftear answer the motion to dissolve the injunc
tion should be heard. It further appeared that
tbs defendants whose names had not been filed
areno non-residents, and had not been served.
The motion was ably discussed by "William
Dougherty, Esq., for the complainants, who was
followed by Gen. Robert Toombs, "W. Hope
Han, Esq., and Judge Nisbet for the road. The
argument, which was ably and learnedly con
ducted on both sides, was concluded by A. R.
Lawton, Esq., of Savannah, in behalf of the
complainants.
At the time of this writing the presiding
Judge, Hon. C. B. Cole, had not pronounced
fns decision, bnt we opine that, inasmuch as the
answer of tho Brunswick Railroad Company
swore off whatever equity was contained in the
MU of complainants, that the presiding Judge
would overrule the motion to continue and
would hear the motion to dissolve.
P. S.—Since the foregoing was in type, we
learn (hat the Court overruled the motion to
continue, and the motion to dissolve is now be
fore the Court, and under discussion. The ar
gument in the case was opened yesterday after
noon and will be continued to-morrow.
In our next paper wo shall endeavor to give
-a dear and concise statement, of this case, for
Ota benefit of our readers, generally. *
Fifteenth Amendment Passed.
It will be seen that the 15th amendment,
with the modification suggested by the Confer-
«eneo Committee, passed the Senate yesterday—
the House having previously agreed to the Con
ference report. We believe the following to bo
its precise shape:
Art. 15, Sec. 1. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by any State on account of race,
■odor, nativity, property, creed, or previous
condition of servitude.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
The words “and hold office” were stricken
out. This amendment changes the character of
government, as well as debases the suffrage.
Tho suffrage is by the Constitution exclusively a
q^Ter of State jurisdiction. It is true, the pas-
. - T p.vw* the amendment will not effect Georgia.
Here to (W ve suffrage by fiat of Con
gress, and nrtrmra to 8 et ridof itina hur
ry; and there wodl&/ , l.‘ J ’ soinet ^ in S like retribu
tive justice in the-’Soufhsm States assisting to
adjust the black oollar rounJ thC necks of the
Jfarthem-States, which the latter have been so
•• assiduous in fitting to ours. But .wo could
* aoocientiously be a party to an amendment con-
: stftctionalizing tho nsurpations already perpe-
' tested by Congress upon the rights of the States.
The Next Census and Apportionment.
The Radicals in Congress, it is said, have been
"Scoring upon tho results of the next census and
apportionment of representation, and are afflict
ed by the conclusion arrived at. The abolition
«f what is- called the Federal Basis by which five
slaves counted in representation as two white
persons-'.-and the counting of the fnll negro total
* wbiolrmnst now bo done, will add on the pro-
V&at ratio of representation forty-eight Repre
sentatives to the Southern States. This it is
.w^pposeH-will operate unfavorably to radicalism
unfavorably to tariff robbery and sundry other
'.afeosoB which it is desired to perpetuate.
Chinese Immigration and Negro Suf
frage and Labor.
Certain recent events indicate on the part of
the Radicals a very lively consciousness of a
new and momentous problem impending in con
nection with their great dogma of “ manhood
suffrage.” There has been a wonderful per
plexity manifested by both Houses of Congress
about the wording of the 15th Amendment, and,
at present writing, there appears to be a dead
lock between them about it, which threatens to
prove fatal to the passage of the amendment
during the few remaining days of the present
session.
Mach of this trouble has sprung, as we are
informed, from the extreme reluctance of the
California and Western members to engraft
upon the Constitution a provision which must,
by all logic and common sense, commit the
country to the extreme radical policy of “man
hood suffrage,” and admit the vast hordes of
Chinese, now working their way all over the
American continent eastward through the golden
gate.
To say that the negro shall vote and hold
office and the Chinaman shall not, is to make
distinction on account of color and race,” so ir
rational, arbitrary and ridiculous that the mind
of man revolts at it The Chinaman is in every
intellectual, social and moral aspect a better
subject for the suffrage than the negro. The
Constitution forbids religions tests, and if it did
not, the Chinese paganism is certainly no worse
than the fetish and vandoo of the African.
But, if suffrage is the rightful endowment of
universal “manhood,” as the radicals tell us; if
it is not % strictly civil and conventional priv-
bnt a clear, natural right of man, as a
member of society, then the Chinese must come
in, be they many or few, and the attempt
to shut them out, while the negro is admitted,
is equally a violation of principle and common
sense. Nothing, in fact, can exclude them from
an extraordinary political influence on this con
tinent, bnt a rigid adherence to the Democratic
doctrine, that the government of this country
most be in the hands of the white race.
We have already seen the lamentable absurd
ities which have grown out of this attempt, for
duslry, on the one hand, and wastefulness, in~
difference to the future, andlaziness,on the other.
The negro most, of necessity, disappear in
the conflict. Cheap labor must and will drive
out dear labor. The law is as inexorable as any
other of Nature’s laws. This is the probable
fate which the Puritan has prepared for his
friend, the negro, on the American continent.
Our system of slavery might have saved his race
from destruction—nothing else can.—Semmes'
Memoirs of Service Afloat—p. 712—714
The Weekly Telegraph.
The edition of Friday being ont, we shall be
compelled to forward semi-weeklies to new sub
BY TELEGEAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Mitchell Claim still in the Senate.
Oconee Judicial Circuit Created.
Macon Municipal Election Bill Vetoed
Other Important Matters.
Special to the Telegraph.’]
Atlanta, February 26—Night.
Senate.—The Senate consumed most of the mom-
scribers to the weekly, another edition is' ins session in discussing the claims of the heirs of
printed. Wo closed on Saturday a month of Mitchell, the State property known as the City
•Hanleitcr’s .Southern Miscellany.
CoL C. R. Hanleiter sends ns a prospectus of
anew weekly sixteen page paper, which he pro
poses to start in Atlanta the 15th April next,
style as above. We will print his prospectus
as soon as wo get a little more space in the ad
vertising.columns.
A War with the Chinese.
The telegrams chronicle a lamentable on-
4hmght upon the Chinese in California. Ws
—meet white and Chinese labor cannot co-
aiild.
Cultivation op Sugar Cane is Talbot Coun
ty.—Wo learn from the West Georgia Gazette
r fiat Mr. James Hndson, near Box Spring, last
-year made 220 gallons of syrup off of threo-
. quarters of an acre of red cane; and he sup-
. poses enough was used ont of the patch before
- gjrindiug time to make a barrel more.
Messrs. Roquemor & Parker, of Box Spring,
mado SG0 gallons on one acre, planted in green
—<t red cane. The land is very rich and was
cultivated with great skill.
"The Livingston (Ala.) Journal says that one
- aama of the scarcity of labor in that section is
the mania of the negroes for planting “on
flbmr-own hook” this year, hoping on account of
€hn present high price of cotton to got rich in
one season. One of these would-be-planters
was seen in a store a few days ago trying to get
a pair of shoes for a ’ bale of cotton yet to be
ndsed.
Condition of Mr. Wilpong.—Yesterday mom-
1 ing, (says the Savannah News of Friday,) Me.
WEfong’s condition was very critical, and great
, Eur was entertained for his safety, bnt during
\fba afternoon he rallied considerably, and we
m glad to report that ho is much improved.
A Boubbon Countx Ox.—'fbere is on exhibi
tion in Montgomery an ox of extraordinary
.abmmmnwL He is of the Durham breed, is 18
•1—high, 13 feet in length, 11$ feet round
(tea girth, 6 years old, and weighs 4,540 pounds.
He was raised in Bourbon county, Ky.
•ye, b. B. deGbatfenbied.—The Finance
• Oommitteo unanimously acquit Secretary de-
• dtaffenreid of having done wrong in the matter
• of £2000, collected by him for Fort on account
. of vaccine matter. The report was adopted
' with no dissenting voices.—Atlanta Mew Era.
Marion County.—The Columbus Enquirer
. informed, by a letter from Marion, that Wm. B.
Bolt has'beon elected a Representative in the
Legislature for that county, to fill the vacancy
. by the death of Wm. Ml Butt.
The dusty and weary traveler will find excel
lent bath rooms at the American House, Boston.
Airy rooms, billiard halls, vertical railway, cafe,
mending room, »nd a superior cuisine, render
Him a favorite house with travelers.
Oolumbus Cotton Market.—We dip the fol
lowing from the Sun of Friday:
Warehouse sales 17 bales. Receipts 158 bales
—34 by 8. W. R. R., 124 by wagons. Shipments
fi5 bales—228 by S. W.R. B., l2for home oori-
i ORmption.
Total receipts since September 1,1868 (inclu-
Amg 280 bales, stock at that date), 43,690; total
idnpznents 27,490: stock 16,200.
Receipts same day last season 326; shipments
168; total receipts 77,805; total shipments 65,
700 j stock 12,186.
tho most miserable partizan purposes, to hy
bridize dtizenship of the United States. Take
the following as an illustration:
According to a recent decision in one of the
petty Courts of California, in the case of the
robbery of a Chinaman by a negro, the China
man in California has no rights which a negro
is bound to respect. It was decided that whereas
the Chinaman, by the laws of California, cannot
testify against a white man, and whereas by the
dvil rights bill of Congress, a negro has the
same dvil rights as a white man, therefore,
John Chinaman against Sambo had no case, be
cause he could make no charge.
The Chinese are flocking into California in
such numbers that the people of that State see
that, in a short time, if the Chinaman be invest
ed with political rights, he will take the State
out of (heir hands. Hence, they go so far as
unjustlyto deny him a civil status. He is almost
without protection of law, and yet not a word is
said about it. California is not reconstructed,
and why ? Simlpy because the victim of this
injustice is a yellow-skinned, industrious, inge
nious Asiatic instead of a stolid, coal-black Afri- Highly
can! There is a nice and philosophical applica
tion of “ manhood suffrage” for you! But is it
possible the white race in America can degrade
their common sense so low as to accept and
sustain a national policy resting on no better
foundation than this ? Is it not “ a distinction
on account of race and color” really abhorrent
to every man’s reason and intelligence ?
But meanwhile the Chinese, unlike the ne
groes and their radical allies, havo no concern
at all about civil and political rights. They are
pouring in, in a vast tide, and every were, by
their extreme frugality and industry, acquiring
wealth and strengthening their foothold upon
American soiL We append an interesting ex
tract from Admiral Semmes’late boook, “Me
moirs of Service Afloat,” showing their pro
gress Eastward, and tho invariable success with
which they compete with white labor and enter
prise in all the departments of life.
China proper has a population of four hundred
millions—incomputable resources with which
to flood the American continent. The Chinese
are to be found in all parts of the country now,
and in a very short while this immigration will
vastly exceed all others combined. It can flour
ish and grow rich where any other immigration
would starve, and as the trade of New York and
other great commercial centres is now rapidly
and surely slipping ont of native hands and in-
those of Germans and other immigrants who
can conduct it less expensively, so in time, tho
Germans themselves must yield to a race, who
are quite as sharp as, and far more frugal than,
themselves.
Thus, not to pursue this subject further, we
we can see just where this “no distinction on
account of race and color”—this radical hybrid
ization of tho Government is bound eventually
to lead, unless the people take warning in time.
It cannot be adopted as to the African, and re
jected as to the Asiatic. It may be (and must
be, if at all,) rejected as to the African and
the Asiatic races, by insisting that the Govern
ment is properly, reasonably and lawfully that
of the white race alone. Unless this ground be
token we shall be cursed with a mongrelism
fatal to the peace, prosperity and dignity of tho
country.
"We append the extract referred to, which
touches more particularly upon the influence
of *hia Chinese immigration upon the labor
problem:
“A few years back, and China was a sealed
book to us. Our merchants were confined to
certain “factories” ontside of the walls of Can
ton, and we were permitted to trade at no other
points. But since we have gotten a glimpse of
this wonderful people, we have been astonished
at the extraordinary productiveness and vitali
ty of Chinese commerce. We have been
amazed whilst we have looked upon the won
derful stir and hum and bustle of so immense a
hive of human beings, all living and prospering
by the mechanic arts and commerce. The
nhinaman is born to industry, as naturally as
the negro is to sloth. He is the cheapest pro
ducer on the face of the earth, because his hab
its are simple and fugaL The proof of this is,
that no "Western nation can sell its goods in the
Chinese market. We are all compelled to pur
chase whatever we want from them, for cash.
When we can work cheaper than the Chinese
we may hope to exchange our manufactured
goods with them, but not until then.
“Singapore is a miniature Canton and the vis
itor as ne passes through its streets has an ex
cellent opportunity of comparing tho industry
of the Chinese with that of other nations. As a
freo port Singapore is open to immigration from
all parts of the earth, on equal terms. There
are no jealous laws, guilds or monopolies to
shackle the limbs or weaken the energy or en
terprise of any one. Free competition is the
presiding genius of the place. The climate is
healthy. The English call it the Madeira of the
East, and the European artisan can labor in it
as well as the East Indian or the Chinese. All
nations flock hither to trade, as has already been
remarked. Now what is the result ? Almost
all the business of every description is in the
hands of the Chinese. Large Chinese houses
monopolize the trade, and the Chinese artisan
and day-laborer have driven out all others.—
Ninety thousand of the one hundred thousand of
the population are Chinese.
“Now that the exclusiveness of China has
been broken in upon, and the emigration per
mitted, what a destiny awaits such a people in
the workshops and fields of the western world!
Already they are filling up the States on the
Pacific coast, and silently, but surely, possessing
themselves of the avenues of industry in those
States, thrusting aside the more expensive Eu
ropean and American laborers. They will cross
the Rocky Mountains, and effect, in course of
time, a similar revolution in the "Western and
extraordinary prosperity for the weekly, with
tho following letter, which we take the liberty
to print:
Schley County, February 21, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : Please continue to send
me your very valuable and interesting paper,
the "Weekly Telegraph. Enclosed yon will find
$3 for subscription. I am an old man; old
age and disease have so seized upon me that I
cannot see to read a word, but my family of
daughters, three in number, do all my reading.
I am in the 74th year of my age. I served in
tho Indian war of 1812, and got a wound from a
rifle by the enemy, which has caused me to walk
lame ever since. As a family paper, the Tele
graph is surpassed by none, and therefore, in
my hnmble opinion, should be taken by every
family throughout the North and South, and
even the European tongues should read it
Your humble servant S. Bivins.
Promising Chance for a War with
Great Britian.
A special Washington telegram in tho Lou
isville Courier-Journal of the 25tb, says:
A prominent Republican Senator, who has
had interviews within a day or two with the
President elect, represents that one of the ear-
liest and most important features of the admin
istration will be a change in our foreign policy,
eciallywith regard to England. Reverdy
Johnson is to be recalled at once, and after his
successor is appointed, an entirely new proposi
tion is to be made for settlement of tho Alaba
ma claims. It is intended to demand of Great
Britain not only pay for actual damages done to
American shipping, bnt indemnity for the loss
to American commerce, never fully made up,
occasioned by the fear of rebel cruisers, which
drove the carrying trade to British bottoms, and
to other foreign flags. The present treaty only
covers the detailed and actual personal damages.
It should bo added here that thero is no truth
in the report that Minister Reverdy Johnson has
asked for leave to return at once. Secretary
Seward says ke knows of no such application.
That telegram harmonizes very well with a
report of a conversation with Gen. Grant on
the subject of the Alabama claims, published a
month ago. Gen. Grant was then represented
as declaring that the British Government should
be compelled to pay all actual and incidental
damages growing ont of the operations of the
Alabama; and if that be the demand, we shall
have a war on onr hands pretty shortly, in which
greenbacks will be worth about five cents a
bushel, and cotton will command a hundred dol
lars a pound in currency. If there’s any truth
in this story Georgia planters had better be put
ting in a little com this spring.
Important Dispatch from
Washington.
GEORGIA DECLARED NOT RECONSTRUCTED.
The following highly important special dis
patch was received by us yesterday morning,
from Mr. Edward P. Brooks, of "Washington
City, who is one of the reporters of the New
York Times. It epeaks for itself:
“Washington^ D. C., February 25, 1869,
“Dr. Samuel Bard, Editor Atlanta New Era :
“The Reconstruction Committee to-day de
cided that Georgia was not reconstructed. Mir.
McPherson, Clerk of the House, therefore; will
omit the names of the Georgia members on*roll
call for the new Congress."
This dispatch proves the wisdom of our-' sug
gestion to the Legislature to promptly adopt tho
15th amendment. Lets it be done at once.—At
lanta New Era.
To which we have to say, that if remaining
in the Union depended on voting for the lSth
amendment, we shouldpack up for a journey out
to-morrow morning bysanrise.
Governor’s Veto Message.
T~V"S~rnTrTE DEPARTMENT,"^
Atlanta, Ga- T February26, 1863! )
To the Nouse of Representatives :
An Act to amend tile charter of the eity of
Macon”" is herewith respectfully retumedvwith
out the approval of the-Executive.
By section VI of this Act, the voter is reqpired
to present bis certificate of Registration at the
time of voting, and in rase of his failure to pro*
duce such certificate, either by the presentation
of the ordinal certificate, or a renewal as pro
vided for in section VIZ, he is not allowed to
vote.
The practical working;of a system- which re
quires the presentationlof registry certificates,
at the time of voting, has been found by expe
rience in ether cities leng before the resent en
largement of the franchise to be advantageous
only to such persons as. were disposed, to use
improper or fraudulent means, to control tho
result of an election, by-reason of the facilities
thus afforded for the purchase of votes- in the
buying up of certificates of. registration from
poor and ignorant citizens; and thereby either
compel the voter to cast his ballot in the direc
tion ordered by the purahaser, or withhold fxcaaa
him entirely llis right efi franchise. It is pre
sumed that your honorable body will not justify
or tolerate- any measuro-which tends to-make- the
elective franchise a merchantable article.
The bi3 under consideration is repugnant to
the Constitution in that by the 9th section it re
quires a person applying for registration to
swear that he has considered this State his home
for the feet twelve months. It need hardly be
repeated that the Constitution guarantees the
right to vote to all citizens of the United States
who have-resided in this- State- for six months,
and in the comity in which he proposes to vote
for thirty days.
Rurus B. Bullock, Governor.
We are informed that this was the provision
of the bill as passed, though not as originally in
troduced.
Ominous—Speaking of the letter we copied
a few days ago from "Washington to Comptroller
General Bell, which predicted harsh action by
Congress towards Georgia, the Augusta Daily
Press says:
The above is really ominous. It almost shat
ters the fond hopes which we had began to en
tertain—that the next Congress would quietly
drop the Georgia question. We give its con
tents importance because we are assured that
the author is Hon. Amos T. Akerman, who is
working on the Bard line, and therefore is not
likely to pen such statements from enthusiasm,
or because the “wish is father to the thought.”
Of course the Legislature will not ratify the Fit
tee nth Article, or restore the negroes voluntari
ly. Hence we fear Akerman’s predictions will
be verified. Poor Georgia.
Sample Reconstruction.— The presa dis
patches of the 25th, from Washington, in the
Western papers say:
General Grant, in conversation yesterday with
Senator Paul, of North Carolina, expressed
himself as particularly anxious for substantial
reconstruction in South and North Carolina and
Alabama. He said they were among the best
reconstructed States. "When the rest were as
safely and pleasantly back in the Union, he
thought ours would be the happiest oountry on
the globe. It is deduced from a conversation
that General Grant held with General Terry and
another gentleman, yesterday, that all the South
ern military commanders removed by President
Johnson will be replaced.
' Immigration into South Carolina. —The
Newberry Herald of the 24th instant says:
Since onr last issue some twenty or more im
migrants arrived here, the most of them being
engaged on farms near town, while others are
on the way, and will be here during the course
of the week, We are pleased to see this art
Park, and ceded for railroad purposes.
Mr. Wellborn made an able speech in favor of
the bill.
Hr. Candler combatted the same.
Upon constitutional grounds Mr. Candler yielded
the floor, and tho Senato adjourned till 3 o’clock,
he to resume his argument to-morrow.
House—The bill to create a new Judicial Circuit
from Tatnall, Montgomery, Johnson, Laurens, Tel
fair, Pulaski, Wilcox and Irwin counties, to be call
ed the Oconee Circuit, was passed.
Tho bill of Mr. Sparks, from Bibb county, in ref
erence to the municipal election of Macon, has been
vetoed, on the ground that it required the voter to
present a certificate of registration when voting,
and also because it requires twelve months’ resi
dence in tho State before voting in any city election
of the same.
On motion of Mr. Sparks tho subject was made
the special order for Monday next.
The bill for increasing tho fees of Sheriffs, Ordi
naries, and Clerks, was lost
Tho House refused to create the office of State
Geologist.
The bill to appropriate money to the State Agri
cultural Society was lost.
The bill that not more than twenty convicts be
hired to the same person; also, to authorize the
principal keeper of tho penitentiary to appoint his
own’ overseers, who must be master mechanics,
passed.
There was some excitement over the news from
Washington this morning. After canvassing it most
persons agree that it amounts simply to nothing,
and refers only to tho next session of Congress.
It is considered favorable to the Democrats, and
a desire is manifested by some to prevent members
holding over to next session.
The speech of Mr. Wooten, of the Seventh, upon
the Mitchell claim, is looked for with much anxiety.
His remarks will be a legal argument in favor of tho
claimants. W.
The Bill Granting Aid to the Memphis
Braneh Railroad Passed.
More Useless Consumption of Time in
the House.
City Connell of Atlanta Snubbed.
$15,000 lor Maimed Soldiers*
Special to the Telegraph.]
Atlanta, February 27—night.’
Senate—The Senate to-day refused to reconsider
the bill granting State aid to tho Memphis Branch
Railroad. Both houses having passed this bill, it
now only requires tiie Governor’s signature to'make
it slaw.
The Senate reconsidered the bill granting State
aid to the Dalton and Morgan ton Railroad.
Mr. Candler consumed the balance of the session;
in discussing the Mitchell bill
House—On motion of Mr. Seale, tho bill creating
a new Judicial Circuit to be colled Oconee, was re
considered.
Other motions to' reconsider various hills, acted;
on by tbe House yesterday, occupied considerable
time of the House today.
The bill to compel county officers to take the oath'
prescribed by the 14th Amendment, passed its third
reading; as did also the biHtohavo but three Sheriff
sale days annually.
Resolutions were adopted that no meetings, unles3 >
the people of the whole were represented, should be
held in the Capitol room.
A communication- was received from the City
Council of Atlanta, requesting tho appointment of a
Joint Committee to investigate the contract of said
Council with the Constitutional Convention.
Mr. Anderson moved that the committee be ap
pointed.
Messrs. Sisson, Scott and Duncan discussed tho
motion.
Mr. McComb moved to lay the motion on the ta
ble. Carried—ayes-65; nay* 3.
The bill appropriating 815,000 to bny artificial
limbs for maimed soldiers was passed.
The bill to remove tho comity site of Wilkinson
county by a vote of tho peopfewas lost.
From, "Washington.
Washington, February 26.—Tho naturalization
treaty with Mexico- prorides reciprocally that five-
years uninterrupted residence secures alienation
and citizenship. Tho declaration of intention don’t
secure the rights of citizenship. Naturalization can
be voided and original citizenship renewed by two.
years residence in the original country.
The extradition treaties remain in force.
The lobby has lost: all hopes of action on private;
lulls this session.
A fnll Cabinet to-day.
It is understood that tho Senate will amend:
the Memphis and El" oRailroad,requiring the
completion within.a'Sta._u time.
Gen. R. S. Granger is erdered to report to Gen,
Stoneman for duty-
A delegation of. Baltimore ladies visited the Pres
ident to-day in. behalf of Lieut. Braino. The Presi
dent’s reply is regarded so favorable.
The following, are among the various versions of
Gen. Grant’s reply to McClure, of Pennsylvania,
who ventured to. advice him regarding the Cabinet
officer to be chosen frees Pennsylvania: “I am not
the representative of a political party, although a
party voted forme." McClure said: “Then, in my
conversation,on the subject of your administration,
I havo spoken,froma miataken standpoint, and they
have been illogical to-you. I have nothing more to
say on tha subject.’"
Gen. Sherman baa arrived. He will mai-ri»iw. his
domestic establishment till June.
Gen. Clingman,of North Carolina, visited- Grant
to-day. :
The Clerk of the House excludes Louisiana,
Georgia, and oilier contested States, fram.llis ini
tiatory roll’ of the next House.
The, Naval Paymaster Winslow, son, of Com
mander Winslow, is dead. He died of malignant
scarlet fever.
Representative Delano bad a very leng;interriew
with Commissioner Rollins to-day.
The habeas corpus for tbe Tortugas prisoners was
argued to-day; Philip Phillips for tho prisoners,
Assistant Attorney General Ashley opposing.
Washington, February 27.—Governor Goaty and
Judges Drew and Williams, all declare MeChiro’a
papers urging Grant to appoint a cabinet officer from
Pennsylvania forgeries.
The Senate has passed tho 15th. Amendment. It
goes to the State Legislature. It confess no right
to hold office.
Tho Herald Cuban special says tho Spanish troops
have been ordered to take no prisoners in arms, but
to shoot them down.
The President of the Union- Pacific Railroad tele
graphs, under date of yesterday, that the road has
been blocked since the 12th, but would be opened in
a week.
McClure publishes a cud which discredits the ex
actness of the reports of his interview with Grant.
. It is stated that McCulloch and Browning have re
signed, to take effect on Monday.
. The Senate wing of the Capitol will be dosed, ex
cept to holders of tickets, on the 4th of March.
Grant visited the House to-day. He sent for
Boutwdl, with whom he had a long conversation re
garding Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi and Texas.
He also conversed with Bingham, sod afterwards
with members generally who gathered around him.
Grant's father and sister have arrived.
Revenue receipts for the month $10,250,000; for
the fiscal year, up to date, $92,000,000.
Gen. Grant opposes the unseating^; the Georgia
Representatives. The postponement of the Georgia
matter by the Reconstruction Committee Sa attrib
uted to his influence.
Gen. Young, member of Congress from Georgia,
who has warm personal relations with Grant, had an
ing with her at all. Gen. Grant’s visit to Bontwell
this morning grew ont of this interview.
The Senate is considering the bill to strengthen
the public credit
Congressional.
Washington, February 26.—House.—The House
is discussing the Deficiency bill.
The Military Committee reported the evidence in
regard to the army, showing that the Quartermas
ter General has 14,000 men under Ms control. The
Committee recommend that the staff Should receive
orders from the General instead of the Secretary of
War; the consolidation of the Quartermaster, Pay
and Subsistence Department; also, of the Ord
nance, Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps.
The report makes other recommendations.
The deficiency bill was again considered, and
amounts now to twenty millions.
The appropriation to pay Mr. Harvey, Minister to
Portugal, was again erased.
Recess.
Senate.—The Senato is discussing tho payment
of Southern Senators for a fnll term. Objections
were made on the ground that some held Federal
offices duringthe time. Kellogg stated that he had
held an office and would not avail himself of Sena
tors pay if awarded. Nearly all are in the same fix.
• The Senate Finance ComnutteereportodSchneck’s
bill strengthening public credit, without tho amend
ment, which was made the special order for one
o’clock to-morrow.
Tho Senato postponed the consideration of paying
the Southern Senators, and considered the confer
ence committee’s report on the suffrage amendment
to the receBs.
The discussion was renewed to-night
Washington, February 27.—The Reconstruction
Committee have refused to make a report regarding
Georgia—thus leaving her representation in statu
quo. -
The Senate considered a resolution retaining a
portion of the Pacific Railroad Bonds as a guarantee
to insure a first-class road, bnt postponed it in order
to consider Schenck’s bill to strengthen the public
credit.
The Senate resolution directing the President to
transmit immediately a copy of the constitutional
amendment to the State Legislatures, meeting with
objection, went over.
Tho bill strengthening tho public credit was re
ported. Mr. Daria proposed an amendment paying
coin in the redemption of bonds, at their value when
issudd; that the interest be reduced to per cent,
and that the excess of interest, at the above rate, al
ready paid be applied to the reduction of the prin
cipal. Hceson proposed to amend the second sec
tion so as to authorize the legality of future coin
contracts. Rejected—yeas 19; nays 35. Bayard’s
amendment^ striking out the section, was lost—yeas
7; nays 37. Recess.
Tho Louisiana election was resumed. Maynard
moved that Menard be sworn in.
Pending tho oontCBt a. squabble ensued, daring
which Colfax had occasion to say to Chandler, of
Now York: “The remarks of the gentlemen from
New York are not: respectful to the Chair, nor are
they true.”
Chandler replied: “Very well, sir, I will leave
that question to-be decided by the record.”
Upsom from the Election; Committee, proceeded
to argue in favor of the majority resolution, that
neither Hun* nos Menard are entitled to a seat.
Kerr argued in favor of the minority report, that
Hunt was entitled.
The first vote uas on the minority report declar
ing Hunt elected. It'was defeated—yeas 41; nays
136. The next vote was on Paine’s amendment
seating Menard. It was defeated—yeas 47; nays
130.
Dawes now moved that the whole subject be laid
on tho table. Carried -without division.
Dawes then moved'that Jones and Menard be
allowed 82500 each to 'pay their contest
Kerr moved to include Hunt.
Dawes accepted the amendment, but yielded to
Chandler for a personal explanation regarding, tho
difficulty between himself and tho Speaker.
The resolution paying the Louisiana contestants
82500 each was passed.
Bontwell reported t-bSI technically amending tho
bill removing disabilities on July 7th,. 1868, passed.
In the House, Blackburn moved an amendment
to the resolution on tho contested seat from Louis
iana, that Simon Jones be entitled to the seat. Tho
majority of the committee’s resolution that Jones is
not entitled, passed. The resolution; declaring the
seat vacant as between Hunt and Menard came up,
and the contestants were allowed fifteen minutes to
address tho Houso. Tho suggestion; that Menard
speak from the Clerk’s-desk was objected to Me
nard then said he appeared more to acknowledge
the privilege than to make an argument, but would
he recreant to the good of his race, whose votes sent
him there, did he not vindicate their rights. He
claimed no special privileges on account of hiB color.
Hunt declined to speak. The case is progressing.
Pending tho resolution directing an inquiry wheth
er certain relics of George Washington were about
being delivered to Gen.R. E. Lee, tha- House took
POLITICAL STATUS OF GEORGIA.
Hon. Nelson Tift to the Reconstruction
* *' ■ Committee.
To the Honorable Chairman and Members of the
Committee on Reconstruction:
By your permission, I present this statement con
cerning the affairs of Georgia, which are being con
sidered by your Committee, and I respectfully ask
for it your Usual careful attention. I think you will
agree with me that this case has no precedent or
parallel.
' Governor R. B. Bullock, holding his commission,
and performing the functions of Governor under tho
Constitution amd laws of Georgia, comes before Con
gress and this Committee and asks that the civil
government of the State shall be destroyed, and
dence of progress on the part of the fanners,
and look forward to the day, which we firmly . . .
Southern States. In the latter States their sue- believe is not far distant, when these industrious * n * erriew ' wl “ 1 “bn last night regarding Georgia
cess wOl be most triumphant; for in these States, people will be scattered broadcast over the whole : aatters. General Grant said Congress oonld not
where the negro is the chief laborer, the competi- district and State. The very active agent of the get around recognizing Georgia as a State in the
HonuMbe between frugality, foreeast and in- Newberry Society is entitled to all pram Union, and that he himself was opposed to interfer-
Frosa Cuba.
Havana, February 2G.—Bodua’ superceding Duke
causes excitement.
The steamer Cricket, Irom Charleston for Havana,
has not arrived. It is supposed abo- landed provi
sions on the coast.
The Government hasiordered all available troops
toCtenfuegos and other-inland towns.
Foreign News.
Madrid, February 26.—The Ministry has made
important statements^ of its motives for religious
interference.
St. Vincent Jesuit, Allege has- been suppressed
because its members .construed against tho Govern
ment.
The civil authorities are ordered to tiki charge of
certain church property because ef the conduct of
the clerical party who exposed, objects of art in
churches to destruction.
Serano urged thenninority to pursue a consfiiatory
policy, in view of the firmly rooted and inexcusable
principles held by tho majority. As for himself, he
promised them loyalty, patriotism and abrogation.
Paris, February 2G The bullion in the Bank of
France has increased 11,000,000 francs.
The Snltan has issued a circnlar thanking the
Great Powers fosthe attitude taken by them in the
jate Conference-
Athens, February 28.—Friendly relations with
Turkey are officially announced.
Madrid, Febmary 27.—Serrano, addressing the
Cortes, said tbe programme; which
may be summedup in three distinct charges against
the people of Georgia:
1st. That the reconstruction acta of Congress,
providing for the admission of the State to repre
sentation, were not complied with.
2d. That certain colored members who were elect
ed to the Legislature were declared ineligible under
the Constitution and lawB.
3d. That the laws are not faithfully executed, and
that crime is unpunished.
In examining these charges I shall purposely omit
all comment on the extraordinary proceedings of the
gentleman who at the same time occupies and ig
nores the position of Governor of Georgia.
The laws of Congress for the reconstruction and
admission of Georgia have been complied with in
in every single particular.
The election f&r delegates to the Convention to
form a Constitution, the meeting and action of the
Convention, the adoption of the Constitution, and
the election of officers by the people, the organiza
tion of tho Legislature, the striking out by the Leg
islature of certain sections of the Georgia Constitu
tion according to the expressed will of Congress,
the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of tho United States, the inaugnration
of the Governor, the announcement of the withdraw
al of military and tho establishment and suprema
cy of civil law, and the proclamation of the President
certifying the compliance of Georgia with the condi
tions prescribed by Congress for admission to re
presentation, are all In perfect accordance with the
letter and spirit of the law. And finally, as if to set
tle any question which could be made' in future on
this point, the House of Representatives gave their
assent, by a unanimous vote, to the fact that recon
struction was accomplished in Georgia by the ad
mission of Representatives to scats in the House.
Thus we have the laws of Congress; the sanction
of General Grant, who was made responsible for
tho administration of the. law, to the declaration of
General Meade; the proclamation of the President;
and the solemn action of the House of Representa
tives, all in effect declaring that Georgia is now a
recognized State in the Union, on an equal footing
with her sister StateB.
The only statement which I have seen or heard,
intended to show that the organization of tho State
Government was not legal, and consequently void,
is in the paper addressed to Congress, without date,
by Governor It. B. Bullock. The sum of this state
ment is, that tho members of the Legislature elect
were not required by General Meade to take what is
known as the “test oath,” but were all to take their
seats on taking the oath prescribed by the Consti-
tion of the State.
It is a sufficient answer to this to say, that abont
the time the Legislature of Georgia was being or
ganized, Governor Bullock called the attention of
General Meade to this subject, and insisted that the
members of tho Legislature should be required to
take the “test oath.” General Meade delayed his
decision until he could consult General Grant.
General Grant had already consulted the honorable
chairman and other members of the Beconstruction
Committee in a similar case in Louisiana. The re
sult was instructions from General Grant that the
test oath could not be applied to members of tho
State Legislature. This has been the uniform deci
sion and practice in all the reconstructed States of
the South. These facts settle the question of right
on this subject. \
In Governor Bullock’s testimony before the Be-,
construction Committee, he makes a similar ques
tion on the legality of the organization, and sayB,
that in his opinion, twenty-five or thirty members
bolding seats in the Legislature are ineligible under
the fourteenth amendment.
This is the mere opinion of a single individual,
whose legal duties have no connection with the sub
ject.
On the other side, we have the-legal testimony of
the members themselves, and of the respective leg
islative bodies of which they are members, that not
(me in either House is ineligible under the fourteenth
amendment.
When the Legislature was organized in July last,
under the military command of Gen. Meade, the
respective Houses of the Legislature, after a care
ful examination of each member as to their eligibil
ity under section three, Constitutional Amendment,
article fourteen, reported that they found nonein-
etigible. «
it is worthy of remark, that upon this question of
igibility, of the two hundred and seventeen mem-
ira in tho Legislature, and including the colored
men who were then present^ there were only two
dissenting voices—Mr. Adkins, who believed that
tiro Senators were ineligible, and Mr. Higbee, who
believed that four Senators, who had not been re
lieved by Congress, were ineligible under the four
teenth amendment of the Constitution.
Governor Bullock, at that time, in hiB report to
General Meade, agreed withMr. Higbee in opinion,
that there were four ineligible members, and disa
greed with General Meade and two hundred and fif
teen members of the General Assembly, whoseduty
it was to know and determine the facts under tho
law.
Without any proper evidence to the contrary, it is
to be presumed that the members of the Legislature
have faithfully performed their duties, and that
there are none now holding-their seats in violation
of the Constitution.
Bnt let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that
there are four members, oe even more, who are hold-
ing their seats in violatiomof the fourteenth amend
ment. What is the remedy?. Surely not the destruc
tion of the State government by Congres; not retal
iatory laws which shall deprive the whole people of
Georgia of their rights under, the Constitution, bnt
evidently such proper enforcement of the Constitu
tion and" laws as will remove such members as are
ineligible under the fourteenth amendment of the
Constitution.
The declaration of tbe Legislature, that colored
men are not eligible as members under the Consti
tution of Georgia, has been denounced here and
elsewhere, as a violation of the conditions upon
which Georgia was restored to civil government and
to representation in. Congress, a violation of the
State Constitution, and a wrong to the people of the
State.
Tho answer is—
1st. Neither the reconstruction acte. nor tho civil
rights bill, nor the- fourteenth amendment of the
Constitution, require any State to provide that col
ored citizens shall be eligible to office. Consequent
ly neither the Constitution or the laws of Congress
havo been violated in this respeck
2d. The construction placed upon the Constitu
tion by tho Legislature has doubtless been influenced
by the apparent intention of its- framers. In the
Convention whish framed the Constitution, the tenth
section of tho article relating to franchise provided
that “All qualified electors, and none others, shall
bo eligible to any office imthis State, unless disquali
fied by the Coastitution of this State or by the Con
stitution of the United States.” If this provision
had been adopted, it would have, settled all doubt.
It was reported to tbe Convention from a commit
tee, and ordered to bo printed on tbe 14th of Jan
uary. On the :14th of February, after discussion
and proposed amendments, the section was stricken
out, by a vote of 126 to 12. This left the Constitu
tion silent as, to qualifications for holding office. Tha
action of the Convention.was construed to mean that
the simple qualification of elector was not sufficient.
It was contended that the right to hold office was in
herent in those who were bom citizens; that it was
union : and that, consequently, there is a nsceecitv
and Justification for the interposition of Conerem
and the re-organization of the State.
The testimony on “The condition of affairs in
Georgia” lute been printed, and I ask it as a matter
of justice to my State, that every member of the
committee examine it carefully before any decided
action is taken. Mush of the testimony given against
the people and State of Georgia carries on its ttm
nvHinvumnfiuiAinJ:.. __ — a: * ■<
established would be followed. Efforts will be made I before they could exercise it; and that this bad aotr
to disarm tbe attacks of tbeSepublicans by reducing • °uly been done in. the Constitution, but the Conren-
expenditures.. He regretted that the Uberal reform j **
0 mtemplated- for Cuba wan delayed by insurrection. ^ othel facte snd arguments were used
Omml irini j to B«cure votes for the adoption of tho Constitution
ueuerat news. • by tho people, ae-wellaato justify the action of the
ASjrvTLLE. February zfn—Senior. Speaker of the Legislature in. the exclusion of colored members.
House, waa to-day inaugurated Governor. His in- 1 Let us suppose, for the Bake of tho argument,
augural foreshadows no policy. , t? 1 ® J^flklature is wrong, ana
^ _. . _ , ^ .. that the Constitution ngktlv construed makes every
Key WesCj.Fia., February 26—A Spanish man- Sector eligible to office. What is the proper reme-
of-war is outside Sand Key, watching the Peruvian dy ? I answer without hesitation or a doebt: In
monitors. i Georgia, as in in every republican State, the only
Lotus. Bock, Arkansas, February 26:—Tha Proper remsdy tor ttis and aU similar evfie is in the
’ , *_ . ballot and the Courts. These means are as ample.
House has passed a. tall outlawing members of the; and will be as potent in Georgia as in any other
Ku-KluxKlan. State.
The Senate is considering pensions and the Houm
appropriations. - w . .. . - *
Harrisburg,. Penn., February 26,-Gov. Geary £ e »Jto°Ma Sunder t^C^Son
declares he never wrote or telegraphed to General • and laws of the State, passed the following reeoln-
Grant in regard to his cabinet; if presented they
Both branches of the Legislature of Georgia have
recently, in deference to the opinion of those who
were forgeries.
Louisville, Ky., February 26.—Thos. E. Wilson,
senior partner of Wilson, Isler & Co., druggists,
committed suicide to-day, aged 61 years.
PiMiADKt.phia, February 26.—The bill creating
a Metropolitan Police for this city has been defeated
in the Legislature.
Wheeling, Va., Febmary 26.—Tha WU locating
the Capitol of West Virginia at Charlestown, Kana
wha county, passed the Legislature.
San Francisco, February 27.—Intense feeling
prevails against the Chinese. A distilieiy where
they were employed, and a church where they tanght,
have been burned.
St. Locus, February 27.—Arizona advices report
many engagements between the Indians and troops.
The Central Pacific Road is again open.
Death or Col. A. Q. Perryman.—The Talbot-
ton Gazette says that Col. A. G. Perryman, one
of the ablest lawyers of West Georgia, died at
bis residence in that plaoe on Monday morning,
the 22d inst He leaves a sorrowing family and
many warm friends to mourn his loss. Col. P.'s
age was about 52 years.
“Whereas it is believed that a judicial decision of
the question of the. colored man’s right to hold of
fice in Georgia under the Constitution now in force
Would restore the State to her proper position in the
Union ; and whereas said question is one which the
Courts of the State can property take cognisance of;
and whereas we, the representatives of the people
of Georgia, are unwilling that any effort Bhould be
spared on our part to bring about a state of peace
and happiness to the people, and a settlement of
that important question; be it, therefore,
“Resolved bv the Senrte an ’
tatives
convened, ______ _
ored man to hold office, shall, "as soon as the same
can be properly brought before the Supreme Court
of the State, be heard and determined by said court,
and we believe that the people of the State will, as
they have heretofore always done, in good faith
abide the decision of the highest judicial tribunal of
the State, whenever so declared.’ 7
This seems to be the only proper response which
could have been given to the charges of wrong
which hare been brought against them here. It
shows a consciousness of right, and a desire at all
times to abide by the Constitution and laws, as they
may be expounded by the courts.
But it is charged that the laws of Georgia are not
faithfully executed; that they are resisted; that tbe
officers are unfaithful; that the disposition, t<
On the other hand, ootumendng at page 149 of
the printed testimony, the official and sworn testi
mony of nearly one hundred fudges of courts, may
ors of cities, and others, chiefly BepnbUcans, oover
ingall parts of the State, is so uniform and ^-1,
tent as to carry conviction of its truth to every un
prejudiced mind. According to this testimony, th B
laws of Georgia are faithfully and impartially exe
cuted ; there is no reelstauce to the taws; the offl
cere are faithful to their duties; the disposition'
feeling, and treatment of the people towards the
black people and towards Republicans and Northern
men is, as a general rule, kind and conciliatory •
there is a universal desire for peace and a reetoral
tion of their proper relation to the States and Gov-
emment of the Union; and that there is no neces-
sity or justification for the destruction of the present
government of Georgia, and the eetaUishment of a
military or provisional government.
The condition of affairs has been steadily improv-
ing_since tho establishment of civil government es
pecially since the Presidential election, and there
can be no doubt that any interposition bv Congress
to ^ubvert and reorganize the State government
would be disastrous to the interests of the whole
people. Disorders would increase, capital would be
withdrawn, improvements would cease, industry
would be crippled, productions, incomes, the prices
of property and the ability to pay taxes would all bo
diminished; and the people of the whole Union
would be sufferers to some extent with the people of
Georgia.
An examination of all tho. facts shows—
1st. That tho law of Congress recognizes Georgia
as a State in tha Union, entitled to representation
in Congress, and of necessity having equal rights
with other States.
2d. That the action of the Legislature, in their
decision that colored men were not, under the Con
stitution and laws of Georgia, eligible to office, was
a question confided to their jurisdiction by the Con
stitution, so far as members of the Legislature are
concerned; and if they have committed an error in
their judgment, it can only be property corrected by
the Court, whose judgment, when pronounced
will be the law.
3d. That, according to the most reliable official
testimony, the'eondition of affairs in Georgia, con
sidering tho circumstances which have surrounded
the people, and the trials through which they have
passed, is better than the most ardent friend of
peaco could have expected, and is still improving.
I have said that the case of Georgia now before
Congress for consideration has no precedent or par
allel.
Will Congress make a precedent in tho case of
Georgia which in future may bo used, by largo par
ty majorities, in times of great political excitement,
to suspend or practically destroy tho government of
any State which shall stand in the way of, their pol
icy or purposes ? Surety not
Local and temporary errors of government are
easily corrected by powers provided for that pur
pose in our admirable system. Violations of funda
mental law are apt to become chronic and incurable.
The patriots and the statesmen, looking to the wel
fare and interests of the whole country, and to the
far distant future, will rise above the atmosphere of
sectional prejudices which havB been engendered by
the war, and make it his pleasure, as well as his
most sacred duty, to aid in uniting all the States and
all the people once more in bonds of peace and feel
ings of friendship.
This can be done by giving equal rights and equal
justice to all, it being an indisputable truth, that
with them the people of allthe States have a. com
mon interest in the unity, glory and perpetutity of
the American Union.
Finally, if the State of Georgia, as a State in the
Union, entitled to representation in Congress, can
ever be fixed beyond controversy, then it has already
been done by acts which have been passed, and un
der which her representatives has been admitted to
the House.
There must be a time- when errors are cured,
when doubt and agitation most cease, when stability
and confidence are assured, or discord would reign
forever. For Georgia that time has arrived.
In the name of her good people, and tor the sake
of the common interests, harmonious Union, and.
perpetual peace of our common counter, I ask that
Congress will stand by the law which recognizes
Georgia as a State in the Union, entitled to repre
sentation in Congress, and on an equal footing with
her sister States. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
Nelson Tax.
A Carpet-bag Wins its Owner a Wile.
Prom the Paris Kentuckian.]
Coming up on the Kentucky Central train the
other day, we observed a newly married couple
—Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, the bride the late widow
of Benjamin Ellis tony deceased, of Covington.
We have seldom seen, a finer locking couple.
Mrs. Wilson is well known as the former kind,
amiable and esteemed landlady of the Elliston
House.
Feeling onr forlorn, bachelorhood as a sort of
reproach to us, and. anxious to discover a way
out of our single difficulty, we remarked to the
happy bridegroom that we had been long vainly
trying to get married, and asked him how he
managed the matter. In answer he told us that
he had lost his carpet-bag and won a model wife.
Going down on tha- train to Covington, a fellow
passenger carried the satchel away by mistake.
Patting up at the Central Hotel, one of the
'oprietors of which is a relative, he mode
town his loss, when it was suggested that he
might find his property at the Elliston House,
where many central Kentucky travelers stop.
Acting upon the suggestion, he went to the El
liston, and in making inquiries concerning the
lost article he made the acquaintance of Mrs.
E. He was at once forcibly impressed with the
appearance and manners of the lady. Indeed,
it was a case of “love at first sight.” He came,
he saw, he was conquered.
It is needless" to follow the details of the
courtship. Suffice it to say that, being a gentle
man of pleasing address and irreproachable
character, the lady’s heart responded favorably
to his ardent wooing, and the story ends, as all
such stories- should, with a happy marriage.
Thus he lost his carpet-bag and won his" wife.
"Whether ha ever got the sack or not, he rejoices
in the fact that the lady did not give it to him.
Who would&it be a carpet-bagger for such a re
ward?
Motive for Negro "Vote*. »•
Sumner,, upon the resolution, now before the
Senate, says:
“ You need votes in Connecticut, do you not?
Thero are three thousand fellow-citizens in. that
State ready at the call of Congress to take: their
place- at the ballot-box. You need them alto in
Pennsylvania, do you not ? There are at least
fifteen thousand in that great State waiting for
your summons. "Wherever you most need them,
there they are.”
To which the New York Express says: “One
knows not which most to admire, the candor or
audacity of this avowal. To Ake tho eontrol of
suffrage from the States, where it has rested
from the foundation of the Government,'is as
offensive aa it is unwise. By-and-by, too, re
action. -will eorne, and then the authors or States
advocating such a resolution may be the first to
recoil against it, for, as the Newbnrypori Her
ald (Rep.) forcibly says:
the rights of jftates[ for some^lay there may
come a party to power asking reconstruction os
the basis of equality, and where ■ then will onr
twelve Senators be ?’
“But fanatics like Sumner and Wilson heeu
not the future, and have no respect for the past
The wonder is that men from the Northwest
consent to follow their lead.”
Riot at Jacksonville between United
States Soldiers and Negroes.
Our correspondent at Jacksonville, writing
hurriedly under date of the 23d, states that the
negroes and soldiers had a riot on the nigMo*
the 22d, which resulted in one negro being kill
ed, one Boldier mortally wounded, and savor* 1
citizens wounded. .
The negroes raised a difficulty with a patro 1
of soldiers on the night mentioned, and mortal
ly wounded a soldier. The soldiers turned out
to the rescue of their oomrades, and a genet* 1
melee ensued. About two hundred shots wei*
fired. A number of balls entered private resi
dences, and wounded citizens, while some were
also wounded while in the street. The flgbbng
was not oonflned to any particular locality, ho
shifted every few minutes, making all parts ot
the town unsafe to its inhabitants. The citizeo®
took no part whatever in the affair.
The above" is clipped from the Savannah New*
of Thursday; and as it is but one of many
simitar oonflicts which have arisen in the South
since the Northern soldiery had us in charge,
the people of the North could learn from theW
if they would not shut their eyes, something
the extraordinary self-command amd forbear
ance, which the Southern whites have been ft®”
quently called upon to exercise In order tomshi-
tain peace. In these oases the nagroturns upon
those he regards as the peculiar champion* o>
his race—sent, here by the Government, mo*
especially for his defence and protection. Hh*
can brook no opposition from t&jm, **** I" -
dress and moderation must frequently ****“*
necessary, to prevent oonffiett
whites whom he is
trust and despite ?