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Wcrftlg pew <$m Onicial Journal of the United States. Official Journal of the State of Georgia. OESERAL GRANT, The Pilot who oik akd will ogihi thi Ship or State hatelt theodoh eteet stork. THE NEW ERA Will Vindicate the Principles and the Policy or the Republican Party, and Sup port its Nokinees, State and National. TERMS OP THE WEEKLY: 1 Copjone year.... jj oo. Clnb. of Twenty or more $1 Unch 1 Copy dz months fl oo THE DAILY: 1 Copy one year $10 00 1 Copy six months 5 00 Copy, loss timo $100 per month. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 27. OUR TICKET FOR 1872, (SaWect to U» action of too Republican National Contention,) FOR PRESIDENT, ULYSSES S. GRANT. FOB VICE PRESIDENT, AMOS T. AKERMAN. KEEP IT BEFORE TUB PEOPLE! FIGURES DO NOT LIE! WHERE IS THE EXTRA VAOANCE? Who Squander it the People', Money J READ! READ! READ! When Governor Jenkins was inaugurated the total debtof this State was oni; $2,356,- GSo—when he was removed from office, hav ing been in only a few months more than two yearn, the debtof the Stato was $6,256,635 —showing an increase in the pnblie debt of nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Under the present State Government, the pnblie debt has not increased a single dollar, . ^(withstanding the extraordinary legislative expenses forced upon the Stato by the new Democratic rebellion of September, 1868, and under which the colored members were forced to secede. The expenses of Gov. Jenkins' administra tion from October ICth, 1866, to October ICtb, 1867, was $2,700,950,58 less *11,586,73 cash in Treasury at lost named date, making the total expenses for the year$2,689,363,- 85. The expenses for Gov. Bollock's adminis tration from October 1st, 1868, to October 1st, 1869, were *1,444,895 00 less *116,695 00 eash in Treasury at last named date, mating the total expenses for the year $1,328,. 200 OO being ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE DOL LARS less than tho expenses of tho econom ical "Democracy” under Governor Jenkins for the same length of time. THE PUBLIC DEBT HAS NOT BEEN INCREASED ONE DOLLAR UNDER GOV ERNOR BULLOCK’S ADMINISTRATION. Tire State Road. Attention is invited to the address of the Su perintendent of this Road, published else where. Every fair minded and candid man, of whatever party, will give it a critical perusal. It answers many queries now uppermost in tho minds of tho pnblie, and answers them satisfactorily. It is a fair and full statement of facts and figures; and abundantly sustains our remarks of a fow days since, bearing upon this important subject. Tho Super intendent states the case plainly and pointedly, and then leaves the responsibility with the Legislature. trannah aid Her “Democratic Ring*** The Veto Message of his Excellency, the Governor, on the Savannah Bill, will be found in onr reports of the Senate’s proceedings of yes terday. It is a vigorous document, containing some important suggestions to the Legislature, and some startling disclosures to the public respecting the manner in which the Demo cratic Junta at Savannah have been in the habit of enforcing fraudulent elections. Tho Bill which the Governor returns with his disapproval, requires a residence of three months within the limits of the city, in order to entitle a citizen to his ballot for city officers. The Constitution of the State requires but a six months residence in the State, and one month’s residence is the county (or city) to enable an elector to Tote for local officers. Here, then, is a flagrant violation of the Con stitution, proposed by the Democracy of the State, in order the better to enable the Democ racy of Savannah to carry the municipal elec tion contrary to tho will of the legal voters of tho city! This alone would folly justify the Executive in his disapproval of the measure. Then are, however, other features incident to tho operation of this Bill, which show con clusively that tho Democracy of Savannah dread nothing so much as a ram suction. The municipal election takes place in October next - The registration of voters dosed in September; and a foe of cm dollarwas demand ed of every voter applying for the registration of his name. This tax was not only extrnror- dinary, but likewise unconstitutional. It was, however, part and parcel of a scheme to dis franchise a large number of voters, by exclud ing them from the registration books. Its op eration may be seen at a glance. For instance, in 1868, there were three thousand five hun dred and sixty-five ooiored voters registered as living within the corporate limits of the city; but by the snbaeqnent fraudulent registration there are only one thousand and forty-four col ored voters in the City! Hus mokes a foiling off of two thousand five hundred and twenty- one colored voters in twelve months! By tho first registration, conducted by tho United States authorities, there was a large majority of blacks; by this last registration, conducted by the Democratic “ring" of the city, there are over twenty-five hundred blacks disfran chised, and hence the majority is shifted to the other side! Now all that the real people of Savannah, and the Republicans throughout the State, de sire is, a free and untrammelled registration and a fair and an honeat expression of the will of the people at the ballot box. But un der the operation of such laws as the one here proposed, this is simply impossible. It not only packs the votes and pre-determines tho election by false registration records, but it crowds the voters together at one precinct, where it is simply impossible for ail to vote; all this in order that such os are suspected of being Republicans, may be drivea away, as was the ease at the Presidential election in 1868. and Iti, ath ndant uncertainties and disadvantages, should not hesitate longer to place themselves in hanhanv with The late the will of the Government. A fraudulent election in 1870, would do for Georgia just what the revolutionary ttatioi^,of her, Demo cratic leaders did for 1 the Stato In 1868. All should remember that, outside of mere legal technicalities, it is just as treasonable to at- j jy Nazareth. The latter was wounded by s tempt the overthrow of the Government by I pistol bullet... .A white man tried to procure ballots as by bullets; and that, to make popu-1 poison at a drug store, the other day, with the lar government worth preserving, ample seen- intention of committing suicide. The drug- rity must be thrown around the ballot-box. | gist gave him an innocent dose of something and the party left in a hurry. Southern Democratic Jo 1 COVINGTON. The true status of the Southern Democracy J The College Chapel will elect a Pastor neq is very foiiiy represented by the majority of I Sunday.... Interesting Methodist revival goiuj its newspaper “organs.’’ If they rested upon | on under Bev. J. D. Myrick ; eighteen mem- their merits alone, what could bo mid in their bog added to the Church... .Superior Court behalf? Established in tho interests of dis-1 stm jn a^doo. Besides the local bar there loyal men, for the purpose of spreading false were present: Judge Speer and Colonel Pee- and dangerous principles, they have degen- pies, 0 f Griffin ; Judge Hammond and Colonel erated into the sewers of sectional prejudices, jiynatt, of Atlanta; Colonel Glenn, Iawrence- Intelligent Democrats, men who have some I Tine; j adg0 Hook, of Augusta; and Messrs, claims to intelleetnal culture and refinement, Hutchison and Key, of Honticello. view the degradation of their party “ organs ” dawson. with mingled sorrow and disgust In all this Dr. A. L. Hamilton has been lecturing on brood Southern kind, how many Democratic physical training, papers ore thtre to be found that occupy macon. a respectable position os neics journals ? They I ^ young man named James Raymond bug are nearly oil published and edited in tho in ^ arrests for swingling Messrs. King t terests of party; their columns are prostituted of Augusta, out of seventy dollars... W. for partisan purposes, and their editorials ore c Smith, colored Conservative, spoke lait a tangled wilderness of misrepresentation, and night j,, reply to Gen. Kryzauowski... .The in some instances, of downright mendacity. Brass Band celebrated their fourth anniversary There ore some honorable exceptions. ThnIs day .... Tho residence of Mr. S. H. "" are edited by professional journalists— Holmes was robbed Wednesday night Tom Tlie Republican Party STATE NEWS. of the Superior Court was principally occupied with criminal business. The Baptist revival netted fifteen Cot- tod coming in freely..... A difficulty occurred lost Saturday at Fellowship church, in a de bating society, between Tom Smith'and Hen- that the exploded dogma of State Rights may be revived, I would say that tho sun which is to shino upon this “Union broken and dis membered”—the only legitimate consequence of that pernicious doctrine—has not yet fallen from the great'Creative hand, and while justice and mercy are by Him dispensed, it must- remain unformed. To yon then, I appeal to lay aside the dead and embrace the living ideas of the present; plant yourselves on the broad platform of Liberty and Truth which will bring you of necessity within the ranks of the Republican party. Let the ani mosities of the post be buried with the times which gave them birth, and let Reason rule where Passion has so long held sway, and you will be Republican 1 In those who have been true to our party’s principles, true to our country’s honor, need I appeal to aid in sustaining and strengthening anew the National and State administrations and in bringing the good work begun to its fullest and an everlasting completion ? Therefore, to the end that reason may sup plant passion—that truth may be triumphant and that peace and harmony may prevail, appeal to the young men of Georgia, without regard to post party affiliation, to align them selves with the Republican Party and organ ize with us for the coming election that victory may crown our efforts. S. A. Darnell. Th< men who h»vo too high n regard for ihe dig-1 &llteri a remar tabIo horse, is nit; and importance of the “ Fourth Estate” to descend to the regions of political filth and | Gas pipe is being laid down on upper Broad slime, in which the majority of their Demo- strect .Prayer meeting every morning and •ratic contemporaries delight to wallow. It is I preaching every night at the Baptist Church in vain to hope for a reform until the Demo- Four hundred and fifty dollars have been crate of tho South aro ready to heed the “ sec rai3ed to porchage a prize for the Tournament ond sober thought,’; which is, even now, Dr Ayer ig dc!M j T Jefferson Ponder, speaking to them in# “ still small voice.” of Wa lker county, cat liis throat tho other It is a matter of snrpriso that the .pnblie j a y > but b e “still lives, should consider every man a journalist who is savannah. able to control a font of typo and squeeze out Republican meeting the other night Mr. of his torpid brain n dilated apology for an ggjjg llead It ia proposed to extend the idea, at long and irregular intervals. Yet tho city southward, majority of onr Democratic editors ia the CABTEBSTILLE. South are just aneh men. “It is. needless for I Superior Court progressing with business ns to enumerate.” We have examples in our I very quietly... .Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, mind from Georgia. I will deliver ihe annual addresss at the ap- There is something, in all this, foil of poaching Fair, promise for the future. Tho fact that tho majority of tho Democratic journals of I The Sixth Congressional District. Georgia and tho South aro unable to win a Basks County, September 20, 1870. support, unless they pander to tho lowest and Editor Kew Era: Observing that you indi edge. If there was another—a “caucus”—the 11 understood and. .appreciated; and while onus of proof is upon him. If there was not, I was glid (o part with him I was not then I dare him to prove his allegations, or willing to fast his ernjo notiak of Republi- else acknowledge judgment in my favor for canism upon that growing, promising territory willful lying. in tho north-west He did finally obtain the With the foregoing statement I dismiss the personal and official influence of Governor snbject, with the simple remark that if the Bollock, with Senators, to secure his confir- said editor knows anything of the meeting he knows his allegations were false. If ho knows I In that way, and in that way alone, he nothing of it then he simply gave utterance secured his confirmation, and upon tho un- what was a base, willful, ond slanderous derstanding with Senators—as he wanted to country to participate in this exhibition. Wo hope this invitation will receive large accept ance from such of .our citizens as may bo able to attend. Atlanta has ample accommodations for 100,000 guests, and its citizens aro deter mined to do olUhat is possible to make tho visit of strangers pleasant and profitable. THE HUNTINGDON (TEXN.) COURIER Says that it is gratifying to sec the “desire oi Georgians to Cultivate the acquaintance of thfeir brethren from other parts of the Union.” lie, and he knew it when he made them. Jas. G. Maull. Letter from lion- Virgil Ilillycr. save himself tho mortification of rejection— that he would resign immediately, or soon confirmation, (at least that was my theory,) everybody in. Washington, and other sections outside of the Senate, were as tonished at the unanimity or unanimous I confirmation, but subsequent eventsrevealed 1 the secret of his success. In order to make him .saleable to the Dem ocracy, it was necessary for Bard to have some kind of endorsement from President Grant THE MARYLAND UNION North Calhoun Street, ) Atlanta, Ga., September 26,1870. [ Says of our Fair that “tho arrangements are ample and complete in every particular^” THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN AND COMMERCIAL AD VERTISER Pays a high compliment to the managers of the Riir. * over from Friday p. m. to Monday a. m., gives me a leisure day, otherwise I should not think of trespassing upon your columns. It is amusing to see how “Bard” winces un- , ,. . a , der a simple narration of facte. His villainous oUtaul " 1 by his appointment and inuendos I pass unnoticed, and commence at | confirmation, he returns hero under the title THE NORTH ALABAMIAN AND TIMES Says ample grounds, beautifully located and adorned with taste, possessing every requisite accommodation for the care and display of all articles of every kind exhibited; together with nicely prepared buildings and grounds ar ranged for the comfort and amusement of all - once with other nuts for him to crack. Jndg- j °* “Governor,” and renews his efforts to da- visitors, are among the primary attractions. Samuel Bard ami lii* Mi*reprc«entutiou«. House of Refeesentatives, Atlanta, Ga., Sept 24,1870. Coasl.tent In All Tiling.. Tho Democrats of Georgia aro consistent in their opposition to the Federal Government Their hostility extends not only to the Chief Executive of the nation and his officers, political personages, but it takes the form of personal spite and shows itself in season and out of season. In the nouse yesterday, Ur. Hillycr, a Republican member, offered a reso lution inviting President Grant and his Cabi net to visit our State Fair in October next; and a motion was made to suspend the rules in order to take it up. The Republicans de sired to do so, but, owing to the stubborn resistanco of tho Democratic members the attempt was a failure. Now this is very little—the very qutates- enco ol littleness. There was nothing politi cal in the resolution. It was merely an. invi tation to the President and his Cabinet to at tend an Agricultural Exhibition which was designed to call public attention to the won derful resources of Georgia, and the enter prise of her citizens. Bat the Bourbon De mocracy, true to their original prejudices, which servo them for principles, refused to entertain the proposition. They regard their al legiance to the Federal Government compulsory, and will not by ' word or deed, intimate that they regard its au thority, or the officers exercising it, with any thing like friendly feelings. And yet these men claim to be loyal, and to “accept the situa tion.” They consider themselves thoroughly reconstructed, and demand, as a right, what theyahouldsueforosafavor. In the present in stance, as in most others, their impulses out stripped their judgment; and they have pfoeed on record on act which will he regarded as conclusive evidence against them. Such is the Georgia Democracy! DI*qn.liAction, for Office. As our Democratic friends just now are dis- cussing tho matter of certain disqualifying clauses embraced in the constitutional amend ments and the act of Congress prescribing a test of loyalty in an official oath ; and as those friends seem to consider the action of Con gress in this matter to be the “greatest out rage ever perpetrated upon a free people,” we would jnst jog their memories a little to remind them what action was taken on the subject of office-holding, only a few years since, by themselves. On the 141(1 day of February, 1861, the Legislature of Florida passed an act providing that any person convicted of holding office un der the Federal Government should sran death !! I! Comment is unnecessary—we leave the mat ter for the consideration of Judge Stephens of Georgia, and 8am. J. Randall of Washington. And in Virginia, the Secession Convention passed an ordinance “that any citizen of Vir ginia holding office under the Government the United States, after the 31st of July, 1861, should he forever banished from Ihe Slate-, also that any citizen thereafter undertaking represent Virginia in the Congress of the United States, should inadditton to tho above penalty, have his property made liable to con fiscation ! The Pope has been invited by Cardinal Manning, a former Protestant, to visit Eng land. If his Holiness should accept tho invi tation it is thought be will visit Inland, where his presence would create a perfect furore of enthusiasm. As the Italians have kindly taken the hardens and cares of civil government from his shoulders he might as well take this Uttl. trip. It would do him good and the hearts of tho faithful would be gladdened. All political parties have their parasites and their bummers; men who vibrate from one ride to the other, according as their self inter est or their predatory habits may suggest Principle, they have none; they ore incapable of entertaining an honest conviction, or of forming a settled opinion upon any given sub ject They are the mere creatures of an hour; the puppets of circumstances, whose party al legiance always accommodates itself to the exigencies of the moment, and whose patriotic instincts are pliant to the party of the highest bidder. The Republican party has bad its fall quota of these bummers. In Missouri, for instance, there is a “bolter's ticket” Its leaders claim recognition by the Federal Administra tion, and even assume, there os in Georgia, that they have the ear of the President and the confidence of the Government! Of oourse no wall informed Republican can be deceived by these ridienlons assumptions. Intelligent Republicans know that President Grant can never bo induced to lend bis moral support to political adventurers who, while profess ing Republicanism, are virtually, if not in tentionally, conspiring to distract and divide the party by factions and irregnlar practices. This will apply with equal appropriateness the hammers and suckers in each of the States of tho Union; and, in regard to Mis souri, where the foetionista assert some show of respectability, upon the score of talent and position churned for their leaders, the Presi dent uses this very significant language, in a letter addressed to the United States Revenue Collector at St. Lonis: I regard the movement headed by Carl Schurz, Brown A Co., as similar to the Ten nessee and Virginia movements, intended to carry a portion of the Republican party over to the Democrats and thus give the Demo crats control. I hope you will all seo your way clear to give the regular ticket your support" This emphatic language is characteristic of the man. It was lolly justified by the occasion. President Grant is a man of two much politi cal sagacity, and is too true to the party where- of he is the recognised head, to be cajoled and misled by shallow pretences; and so he sup ports the regular organization of the party, even in Missouri where the foetionista and schismatics have soma just claim to talent and social position. And so of Tennessee and Virginia. There are in those States on un certain element claiming recognition as Repub licans, but whose influence is all virtually given to the Democracy. In Georgia, we have hod efforts in the same direction; but it has about died out for the want of that talent which made the schismatics in the other States named, conspicuous before tho public. For a time, a few well-meaning Republicans were demoralized by an insane effort to construct a “middle party,” claim ing as it falsely did the recognition and conn- tenanca of the Federal Administration. But time proved how utterly shallow and ridicu lous were there assumptions; and tha fow Re publicans who ever had any jnst claim to recognition as such, have long since abandoned this jack o'lantern faction, and ore now in per fect accord with the regular organization, and with the State and National Administrations. This conld not be otherwise, in the very na ture of things. All who would support Presi dent Grant, most support the regular party es. Thera is no other alternative; and chief among these measures in Georgia is tha Election Bill, revised And approved by the law officer of President Grant's Cabinet, and en dorsed by the State Executive Committee the party. Thus folly endorsed and approved, both by the regular party organization of the State and by tha constitutional adviser of the Federal Administration, no man or clique can claim or expect President Grant’s approval, who now foils to boldly advocate its passage. Anything short of this, the President will just ly condemn, as “intended to cany a portion of ihe Republican party over to ihe Democ racy, and thus give the Democrats control. Independent, however, of mere party con siderations, them is a powerful incentive, the mind of every candid man in Georgia, support this measure. It comes to them the voles of the Government, and it simply provides for a nix and rxra expression of the Popular Will. It is easy to ibresco the conse quences of an unfair and fraudulent election, had before the final admission of Stale; and all good citizens, who really desire an ending of this probationary basest passions, is fall of significance. The I cated some days since, the name of Hon. W. people ore beginning to think. They perceive K. Bell, of Banks, as a suitable Republican the rottenness of Democracy, and now under- candidate to run for Congress in the Sixth stand why it is that Democratic “organs” aro I District, and since that time, an intimation mere party “hacks,” without a spark of] that some objections had been made to the independence. They now understand why I preference urns anown, l nave deemed it but their papers reflect prejudices instead J an act or justice to Dr. Bell, and as a citizen of principles, and deal in personal of his county, feel it my dnty to say that I abase, instead of calmly discussing the know of no more fit and proper person to re- questions of the hour; It is because these I ceive the nomination of the Republican party inexperienced political scribblers dare not even of this district His public and private char- state a question which will overthrow their acter are without reproach, and in all the pub- poaition and expose its weakness. Their only lie positions he lias occupied he has shown ca- safety, for tho present, consists in misrepre- parity, firmness, and a desire to promote the sentation, Blander and seditious appeals. But true interests of the country. It should also this is no time to “fire the Southern heart” I bo remembered that be has ever been a true It bas been “fired” once too often. Let I and persistent Union man. As a member of the smouldering embers return to cold the State Convention he voted against seces- and lifeless dust The hand that sion, and all his efforts since the war have again tans them into a blaze is been persistently directed to the restoration the hand of a traitor, and is forfeited by its of our glorious old Stato to her true position treason. Tho following lines, from an ex- in the Union. Dr, Bell is emphatically a peo- change, slightly altered, give a faithful picture pies man, ever ready to promote their interests of the majority of our Southern Democratic and happiness. Amidst the wreck of fortunes journals: They have contributed more than all resulting from the war, the wail of the widow the other papers of the South to lower the and the orphan, his voice and his vote have standard of the public press by their personal been freely given to the cause of relief. North- and malicious abuse, both of public and pri- cast Georgia, particularly, has reason to thank vate citizens; by their miserable demagogism him for his efforts in her behalf For years and bitter partisanship. They have been con- her interests have been neglected—her very stoutly influential for evil, by arraying one I existence almost ignored. Now the sun of class of tho community against the other; prosperity begins to dawn there—as the pandering to the worst passions of the masses. 1 engineer and surveyors proceed in lo- and at one time or other, they have denounced eating the track of that great enterprise, tho and betrayed every party with which they have Air-Line Railroad, ond no man in Georgia has acted. ertinns since, nor will he until the great enter- mocracy" is, to destroy what it cannot appro priate to itrelf. It acts upon the hjJthesis. Mtll For somo Um0i ^ that government ts vrortklcss provided ,t does 1 of ^ ^ cntircly deati _ not recognize tho divine rigid of Democrats to • , .. ...... ' , ... tute of mail facilities, and its people had to recognize tbe mviue rigid of role. And, when they can no longer rule.., ^ By his 1>ersi * t . then Revolution and Anarchy are not only jus-1 ... . , ent exertions, post offices were re-established, tumble, bntUkewiaestnctly "constitutional 11^^ ^ opened> ana now that people Thus fortified in their own consciences, they resorted to revolution and anarchy in I860; omuou ,um Although Dr. Bell has been a firm, consistent and six years later, objected to ltecoustruc-1 j^bltam, und wanu snorter of the State tion solely upon the ground that it did not re- administrat ’ ioI1 M weU as the National, in his cognize the Southern Confederacy, and mvite ^ ^ ^ ^ no p» rt i- Is.. J —— 1 .nd itn e..lwls* nZtVADOtfl I * * ... its deposed officials and its early advocates to positions of honor sud emolument in tho Fed- mm. m mo n the contairy he ercr been ready to eral Government! Two years later, it formed | ^ # hc]pfag ^ ^ commanltieK M wclI M new alliances, and sought the overthrow of toe I v . dQaU> re(Jar(Ucs3 „f politics. No con. State Governments, set np in vtrtne of the Re- wouM caa3e him to swer¥0 from his construction Acte of Congress,^solely because liUcaI principlM> yet bis kind, benevolent those governments were u. the hands of others incapaMc of h ence his back than these same Democratic leaders! XniL ^^ tnnI0 a upon acoustituent.no now, 1870, this same Democracy threatens a ^ ^ were, when called on new revolution, solely because there is a rea-1 ^ and Ivent ure the assertion that no sonable probability that tho election laws of ^ district would be likely to Whdd a the State will be so amended and adapted to ^ bent . ficMin flueuce at Washington ia the the new Constitution as win secure a free and interest of j, the ^ of our district, than rant election ! | Dr. William B. Bell. “Banxs. These demented leaders dread nothing I done more for this enterprise than he has. a member of the Senate of tho General As- Oftting ucMirruic, ixueea. scmbly of 18G5-’C,his active efforts commenced, One of the cardinal principles of tho “Da-1 ^^ ^ ^ Qr wered in bi s ex .. enjoy 4 their former privileges in that respect, zan prejudice has influenced his actions, but much as the free anduntrammelcd expression An Appeal t* the Young Men of tlie state, of that popular will which it has been their Headquarters Youno Men s ' .. . A . , . rri.nf wroii Republican Central Club op Georgia, practice to ignore for years past. They well Atlanta, September 23, 1870. know that the real people of the State have no Jn obc di c nce to the request of the State Cen- aympathy for or confidence in them; and that ^ Committoe of th 9 Yonng Men’s Ropubli when the time does con»e when every voter can ^ c< . ntral ci ab of Geoigia, of which I have go to the polls, free and nntrammeled, and d[e honnr to the President, I beg to submit cast his ballot in accordance with the dictates | tothe yonng men of the State an appeal for of his own judgment, the days of these reck- their sapportofan d co-operation with the Re- less leaders are forever numbered. publican party. Therefore, in their desperation at the bare Young men of GeofBia ; upcn you ^ n0 dig. prospect of the passage of the proposed Elec- (aQt - devolve the responsibilities of tion Bill, prepared by tho law offioerof the I goTernmenL y on be recreant to the Government, they get boisterous, even | oneron s duties and responsible trusts which threaten ns with another Rebellion! I will so shortly be imposed upon you. Speaking of this bill, a prominent Demo-1 thcae duties, it will bo neces- cratic journal in this State (tho XsiGrange -1 sar y y OU should^be guided by the enlight- porter) says: I ened principles of Justice, Liberty and Union. believe that, if Ahennro'. bill Leconte, i law, no com. they have been nurtured, by and through the munlty ahonld snffer auch an outracein their midst Republican party. It it p~d cause of rrtrtrom «! rrrry pe Lfiwf. - It la an [ it has been through the agency and hercu- taanlttoth. PKpte. I ‘teaa»»9dn«,fliaera<»t«eiv.j 1<#nefrorteof Union of flteim and the canao of fro. government It is a Republican fraud ought not to bcanhlnitted to," Now we respectfully invito tha attention of the Northern Democracy to such utterances as our Fathers has been preserved, and stands to day a protecting haven for ihe down-trodden and oppressed. It is through its agency that Zs^^s^U^^n wtihUmtate *bis institution of slavery ha. been displncodb, Uus. It reans weu moonmicHon wuninu mie h rtl;wt uui tho doctrine of State Rights revolutionary letters of Judge Stephens! The - frrevoca- Election Bill to which the above extract refers, was prepared by the ta. officer eff the Govern I - ^ri^” bTrtTf?^ to^dyfog numt «nd ih Kimnlv ilcsiLmcd to nrotcct flocb * * .. _ . . forever buried with the errors of an irrevoca ble past. It is through its agency that the | deeds of valor and patriotism on the field of battle lives to .nim.to and inspire the heart of ment, and is simply designed to protect each and every legal elector in Georgia,in the excr- cfoeof his eonAUufional right to rote for the, ^ ^ deeds of moral heroism and loyalty at men and the measures of h.s own free choice. ££££ £ £ ^ ^ instrumental . Thism all thero is at it And^yot this, says ho bcantifnUdeas of HumanLiberty the Georgia Democracy, is ‘.‘good cause for | 'y , , „ \ , rebellion at every precinct!” . Peaceable and order-taving citizens, nmnlnn longer be ex-. Mul upon onr enjoys the priv- borted to abandon the lead nfffifoh. reddess ^ humanities cud pri( , e or an American and revolutionary junta as this rotten Do- J citizen. ..... . . , . _i These few of the party’s many noble deeds mocracy;" and menof soundaense will seo the wisdom of keeping out ofpowsr-ji class of men who threaten to go into revolntion lo regain it! Progrrs*. Bavaria leads tbe movement for a / new Con- history, appeal to the reason of every honest nian~for his cordial and earnest support Of the opposition, I have but few words to federacy under the title of “The United States ] say. Its record is written in the devastation of Germany.” That hits the nail directly on of bloody war, and its principles warn us that the head. MembenTof the House of Hohen- the record is but begun if they aro triumphant Editor Era: Mach as I regret to appear in a newspaper controversy, should I remain silent when I seo my name used in connection with premeditated slander and villainous falsehood, it would certainly be considered by all good men as highly culpable. Therefore, I take this occasion, and throngh the medinm of your paper, if yon will allow me, to make some statements showing the position I occupy rela tive to certain publications by Samuel Bard, in reference to a “ caucus ” of the colored mem bers of the Legislature, which he says was held in the Capitol on the 13th day of August last, and, also, as to what the author of those publications has stated was said in a “speech’, made by his Excellency, Governor Bullock, to that “caucus.” At my own solicitation, a number of the col ored members of the Legislature met in one of the rooms of tho Capitol, at 3 o’clock on tho evening of the 13th day of August last My object in requesting them to meet with me on that occasion was, to get them to har monize on a measure then before the House, and soon to come up for action, and NOT for the purpose of consulting in refer ence to the action of tho House of tho previ ous day upon tho “prolongation” question. Nor was it in any-wiso connected with the election or election laws, as intimated by the author of those publications. About half after 3 o'clock, I arrived at tho room designated, and found several members there, and in the course of half hour longer, several others came in, numbering in all about fifteen. The Hon. Virgil Hillycr, though not having been invited by myself, came in, and was invited to remain, which he did. After some discussion as to the object of the meet ing, some one, (and to the best of my recollec tion now it was Mr. Hillyer,) proposed to in vite Governor Bullock to be present This was unanimously agreed to. The Governor was notified of the wish of tho meeting, and he did meet with us, coming in about half af ter four,-or nearly 5 o’clock. After Ihe .Gov ernor came in, somo conversation took placb upon different topics, in which most if nk$ all present participated, but “prolongation” was not the theme discussed. It is not my pur pose to defend Gov. Bullock against the shafts of calumny and falsehood leveled at him, ns in this instance, nor 'do I believe he would have me do it, from the fact ho is more capa ble than m3’self s^uld he stoop to notice the source from which it emanates. The Governor always looks to the source, and his good sense teaches him to say, “Go it Bamboozler,” and thus lets him “slide,” Unnoticed, nnhonored and unming, As the greatest liar now unhung. Nevertheless, it is but justice to the Gove- nor that I should say that he made no “.vpeec/t, 1 nor was he called upon by any one to make •a speech,” nor did he make use of the lan guage attributed to him by this Samuel Bard. Having accomplished the object for which had invited the members to confer with me, the meeting dispersed, it being then near sunset. I have been thus minute to show that if this was not the meeting to which Bard alluded, and which he called a “ Caucus,” then there must have been a caucus of tho colored members held, either before throe o’clock or after sunset, on the 13th of August last That there was caucus” of the colored members on the 13th day of August, is well known, aud can be cosily proven. Hence, that the meeting above referred to, and which Bard called a caucus,” was the one to which he referred, there can be no doubt Hence that he has been •ither egregiously imposed upon by some liar more lucky than himself,” or has most wilfully manufactured a tissue of villain ous, time-serving falsehoods there can be no question. But to show that the latter hypothe sis is correct, it is only necessary to advert to his publication of yesterday, where the same allegations and interrogatories are pro pounded to the Hon. Virgil Hillyer that were propounded to Governor Bol lock in a previous publication of his; thus showing conclusively that the meeting which I had called together on the evening of the 13th day of August, in room No. 48 of the Capitol, mast have been the one, and tho only ** caucus” of the colored men that Bard, ever knew of or heard of os having taken place tkat day, and therefore the identical one he in tended his allegations to apply to. Taking this for granted, it is impossible for him to get around it in any other way than by a characteristic flank movement, which implies a total disregard of troth. An instance will suffice to show his dexterity when about to bo “cornered.” Soon after his first pub lication had appeared, I took occasion, meet ing this Bard in the Hall of Representatives, to coll his attention to his false statements, and stated that, if he alluded to the meeting which the colored members had on the even ing of the 13th of August, in one of the rooms of the Capitol bnilding, that his allegations were false j that I was present at that meet ing; that it was not a “caucus;” that Gov ernor Bollock made no “speech,” and that he mode use of no sue/* remarks as he (Bard) had stated that he did. Bard then took me by tho arm, in a very soothing and friend ly manner, and complacently remarked that “it was not that meeting that you were at, Doctor' that I alluded to; it was the ‘caucus 4 which the colored members had on that day. You were not at it.” I told him that I was not aware that the colored members had had any caucus on that day. To this ho replied: ‘Oh yes they had, and Governor Bullock was at it, and did make a speech, and said jnst wlxat I stated ho did, and I dare him to deny it, and then I shall prove it upon him.” Thus he “flanked” me, and thus the matter ended; and {here, so far os I was concerned, it should have rested but for seeing my name in connec tion witji the Hon. Virgil Hillyer in Bard’s lame defense of yesterday. This last publication of liiti aAnalnci valtf nmYPQ tfr IB A tllfit til A ‘'ftltlftlls" tag from the others, they will keep him the «*« KeptiWican party of Georgia, balance of the session at work. On tho 21st Thc bargain and sale lias beenaccomphshed, inst, I addressed a eommnnication to your P”* *B«ta takes sides with bin old allies, the paper, in which tbe misrepresentations of rebe,8 ‘ in <kvorof for °taS a “ olocUo f‘ “ tUe this Samuel Bard, relating to the Governor, on this foil, and, as is alleged, with Demo- the 20th of August last, were corrected. In I craUc attem I' t8 to establish, another that communication I used the following Un- nOTr W“ tcre anJ re8Qmc ' i ^ ori 8hml prac- gua^e* tice (tries to repudiate his contract in relation No “speech” was made by the Governor or to U * c P QbUc ‘ printing) losing the Gov- any one else, and no conversation was held by I croor and misrepresenting the Republican the Governor that would even give color to party in trying to create the impression abroad, the charge made against him by the individ- wher0 Ue and his sheet aro not as well known ual who has had no other political capital for .. . two years post than personal abuse of Gov- “‘hey aro here, that there is a division or eraor Bollock. I disunion within the party lines in this State. This refat&tion of Bard’s misrepresentations I Refuses to sustain the^Election bill prepared was signed l»y every member vho imu present at I by Attorney General Akerman aud endorsed the meeting referred to, and is, I think, suffi- by tho Republican party, keeping up through cieatly explicit to leave no one in donbt that I it all a pop-gtm paragraphic fu si lade of feeble tho allegations m*da hy Bard, on the 20th of I hurrahs for Ooiwrul Grant which serves him August, and reoeated by him almost every I as the sheeps* clothing to hide the wolf within, day since that time, is flatly contradicted. I Here, where Bard is known, tho soubriquet Bard hits frequently asserted that if the cor- given him, by a cotemporary of “Social Evil, 1 rectness of hi« report was called in question, j is fully approved and appreciated. To those he had the pro*/ at hand to sustain himself, who do not know Bard I commend it as being and would publish it the very best possible exponent of his political In a publication of his, however, on tho day | character, record and influence. I am done. succeeding my publication, he labors in a long I But from his hypocritical Republicanism “good articlo, again snarling at tho Governor; bnt he I Lord deliver us” and ouroommon conntry. officers of the Western and Atlantic Railway feel an especial interest in contribu ting, by facilities of transportation, everything s “ their power towards consummating the de es of the Society and the people of the State; and, in aiding this purpose, arrangements have been made with all the important con necting Railway and other transportation lines of the country, by which any and all articles intended for exhibition will be transported to Atlanta at existing tariff rates, and return til free. does not produce the proof. He, however, in forms the public that I am on the witness stand, and proceeds to repeat a scries of ques tions, all of which ore fully answered in the quotation which I have made from my origi nal communication, And in his publication Virgil Hillyer, Representative Camden county. the city chronicle, Published at Kniglitstowu, Indiana, says that our Fair will bo one of the most extensive ex hibitions of the kind in the United States during the preseut year. THE EUFAULA (ALA.) BLUFP CITY TIMES Predicts that the Fair will far surpass the ex hibition in Macon last year, and thiuks that it will be something mognificen THE ELVIRA (N. T.) ADVERTISER Wants to visit our Fair. It is convinced thut will be a “big thing,” and compliments At lanta, the Kimballs, the hotels, the Western and Atlantic Railroad, aud everything else. THE PONTIOC (MICH. ) GAZETTE Says: Judging from the programme laid down, and from the libemlity of the premium list, this THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR. What Our Exchanges say about It THE MODEL FARMER, of the 24th, ho devotes much space to myself I An agricultural periodical, published at Cor- pcrsonally, in which thero seems to bo no I inth, Miss., says of our State Fair: point, except that I once ^sucked my mother, I We havo no doubt but that this will be and am now old, gray-headed and stoop-shoul-1 grand affair, and we hope as manyof our rea d- rxvv v . „ • „ • I ers ns possibly can will attend. Tho reduced dcred. Then. .o«r days having intervened rate3 ^ ^ ^ the railroad will enable all to since my letter, and the proof not having been I attend with very little expense. Political and presented to the public by Bard, I would leave I other conventions are usually largely attended him precisely where Colonel Styles left him in at considerable cost, and often with little prof- hl. card where I »*• Here is something all are interested in— hiuoara, where he SWK something designed tn advance the great agn- Dr. Bard announced lus ability to prove the I cultural interest of tho country, which is par- charge, in the event Mr. Kimball denied it, and I amount to every other interest asserted to mo the evening after its appearance I that he had positive proof, and would produce 1 ™ newbebry (s. c.) herald it if the charge was denied. He not only failed among other complimentary things: to produce tho proof, but craw-fished out of I ^ . . .. . , « his dilemma by saying that he made no charge, | . ^ ° expense, or labor, or ingenuity is 1 • and denying that a charge conld he embraced doae P™ tha largest amount of ^faction in an inion.T^.in.. ® I and proht to the immense number of visitors, m an interrogatory. | from *' all parts o{ the coantry , who w m be He stands self-convicted of r. bold slander, ! ™ 1 and la UlArofnrAnnttelu, believed in nnvntter. I tfierO. The accommodations ta_ the Way Of i thereforenottobe believed in any utter- '“-ceimuounuu ^ ances about the gentleman he slandered. Such I k°t®ls at Atlanta are ample, the KimbaUH use -laftsssa-fis _ , _ . , , . Park, will, it is said, afford room for at least Bnt Bard says that I am on the witness I j00,000 guests, and wo havo no donbt of it. stand—a volunteer witness—and being so, I propose to testify to a few facts in relation to 'Ttar THE NEW TOUK EXPRESS Jifrd’s history which will not need “additional S P eaks in haud30mfi termH of lhe e ? er S7 and proof,” because they aro well known by almost enterprise manifested in the preporatioos for every man in this section, and better known at I ®" a * r ‘ the North among all classes of politicians. I TnE SUMTER °*) NKWS Bard, originally hailing from the North River I Gives a lengthy and very complimentary in New York, and after living in various parts I notice to the Fair, and speaks of tho elegant of the South, came to Georgia after the close j grounds, hotel accommodations, etc. of the war, and connected himself with the | TUE merchants* and travelers’ guide, New Era newspaper. In this^paper he was | Pablished at Richmond, Va., notices the Fair at some length, and in very high terms. will be one of the grandest exhibitions of the iroducts of American industry and skill ever ield under tho auspices of a State Society. We take pleasure in calling attention to it,, and hope the gentlemen who have the matter in charge may realize their most sangniuc ex pectations concerning it THE AMERICAN RESCUE, Published at Shelbyville, Tenu., says in its notice: The approaching State Fair of Georgia, which assembles in Oglethorpe Park, two miles from the city of Atlanta, is making prepara tions for the accommodation of at least 100,000 visitors on tho most gigantic scale. This fair will open on the 19th of October, anil •will probably continue ten or fifteen days. The grounds are elegantly fitted for the pur- ] x>se, and well watered. The completion of lihe H. L Kimball House, having 317 rooms, exclusive of offices, with the National, St James, United States, American and Tremont. Hotels, besides numerous boarding houses and five hundred tents to be erected in the Park, will afford ample accommodation for at least 100,000 persons. Trains will leave Atlanta for the Fair Ground every fifteen minutesduriugt the day. THE JASPER (TKNN.) TIMES, Speaking of the management, says: They have in their resolutions ignored al sectional feelings, and extended an iuvitatiou to all to meet them, and, as a band of broth ers, exhibit their mechanical and agricultural skill. And the clever and gentlemanly officers of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, ever awake to the interests of tho State, have made arrangements to carry parties to the Fair at Atlanta, and return, for half fare. l Meriwether THE WASHINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE Mentions our Fair as one of “exceeding impor tance.” THE NORTOLK DAY BOOK intense in his denunciation of the radical con clave known as tho United Stifles Congress.— When, however, that conclave passed the final act of reconstruction, Bard abandoned * ‘Andy” and claimed to be. in favor of reconstruction, at least that part of it which did not embrace the enfranchisement of the colored ]>eople, I Gives the Fair a lengthy notice, and daring tho campaign which ensued he claimed to be in favor of relief and recon-. . at „ , 4 .. „ . .. , , I Devotes about half a column to the State Fair, struction, but indignantly repudiated any con- 1 nection with the Republican party. Tho election having been carried by the Be- Has a long article nbont the Fair, publicans, and Bard being on aspirant for the I the moroan (va.) mercury office of public .printer, he immediately ad-1 Prai,** the liberal and generous spirit display- dressed a printed circular to-etcnrj&epnblicau I e d in the orrancements aud calls the Fair positive success. THE SUNDAY MOENINO NEWS, elect, and on the day before ins ination published an article claiming to be a Republican. , Political events progressed, aud the question | Ptblishefi at Cotamb^ Ohio. say, : of the right of colored members to their seats, his conclusively proves to me that the “caucus’ to which he referred was'the identical meeting which I called together, and the only one of An Act To amend on Act entitled “ An Act for tho Re lief of Debtors, and to authorize the Adjust ment of Debts upon Principles of Equity.” Section 1. The General Assembly of tho State of Georgia do enact. That in all suits now pending in the several courts of this State for the recovery of debts created upon con tracts made prior to tho first day of June, Tho Georgia State Fair commences on the _ . , ■ _ . . ,, _ , 19th of October next, at Atlanta, and the peo- was agitated in the General Assembly. Dor- I pj 0 0 f that imperial State seem inclined to ing the contest not a line was published by I make of it a demonstration that will show the Bard sustaining the right of the colored men I world the vast commercml and industrial ad- . , . * . • * - . vantages which the state possesses. We a< to their seats, or denunciatory of the outrage receipt of an invitation and - . F ~ . which was abont to be, and which subsequent- costless passage to attend it, and regret the in- referred to, or included iu, tlie abo\ ly was perpetrated by their expulsion. ability thatpreventa the acceptance, for noftfo wsM.Ant.ao conit shall be • WlnTr great oa.rage was brought to the forSttSkSTtSSi^ - attention of the country, by a speech from nu<vr in ^ perfect operation that it would be % Governor Bullock, in September, 1868, pend- 1 comfort to ride over it; and, from all repre- ing tho Presidential election, then it was that sentations made by guest^ the Kmballlloaw a x ,. ' a- . .. . . . .. at Atlanta, inst completed, wouM be a hotne. Bard—true to his native instincts, true to his I j r former fulsom articles, which appeared in his J TUE NEW TORK evenino i*o8T paper denouncing “niggers” (as he called I Gives its readers a fqll account of our Stato them) for talking politics on the corners of the I Fair audits arrangements, streets of Atla^a—took tho rebel si do of the I Tint Cincinnati chronicle, cause, and denounced the Governor and all After men ti on j n g the State Fair in highly others who were in fovor of Congressional ac- comp i imcnU ry terms, says: tion for the restoration oi the expelled mem- ^ g ape rintendent of the State rood, him- bore. I self a man of indomitable energy, has freely When delegations of Republicans went to given his wannest personal and official assut- Washington to lay the case before members of -c toihe ff Congress, they were villainously denounced by unrem ittiogly to tho work of preparation, and Bard, and this gave rise to the murderous wish I ; n addition to his direct efforts, for the fair, has' expressed by him that they might “peris/, fcy in an incredibly abort spaoe of time erected at * on their way home. In fnlfii- * **? ment of this wish, good old Dr. Ayer and ben- 1 buyqtuxm men ot Southern Ohio Cannot ator Adkins did “perish by the way-side.” I afford to neglect this opportunity to advertise Bat, Bard like, when held responsible for this to the great crowds who win attend this expo- ingnago by a member ^delega&ta he 'crawfished" and, like a good Christian man, in tho way of xnaenu. 'iy« iron-ware, asked forgiveness. wood-work, agricultural implements etc. In December I»t, when Congress passed “Open to the World,” is the motto of tha tho act overcoming the revolutionary action of I TOu’to'fOrWid tom^draWy! tho Democracy, and restoring colored and ex-1 our chamber of Commerce, and Board of pelling disqualified members from the General I Trade, quite a liberal supply oCpremium lists. Assembly, Baril feeling himself utterly and en tirely defeated “crawfished” again, and plead . that ho had differed with Republicans and Speaking-ot tho Fair, says: with congress as to the host course to pnrsn„ but that he was then ready fully to sustain the J turning, will offer visitors the best, of opportu- action of the Government and of the President, I nities for visiting the great fair, and at the same and would bchavo better in Ihe future ; that bmc ofmeeting and mingling with the thon- “ . .. , .. sands who will be m daily attendance. Tho he was very anxious to retire from the pro- cUy of AUanta u now one of the most attract- fession of journalism—that he had made a I jyn piop^a in th ft Its immense growth record that he was ashamed of, and could no I and extensive enterprise is the wonder aud ad- longer conttane tho management of his paper, miration of all. changing its tone to an honest support pf tlic I the.suenandoah (va. y herald National anil State administrations, and by I Mentions ju couiplimentory terms the prepar ing pleadings and his beseeching* ho succeed- I ations fij>r *h A visitors, ed in indneing Republicans to bay the New I the advantages of attending the Fair, Era establishment, and recommnnd him for ^ , AWIWrA oonstitotionaust an office which would fortunately take him b^ | yea a , noticc , nnd keepa ita yond the pale of civilization. Upon the rccom- I _ , _ ” mendation of Gov. Bullock, Hon. Foster Blod- J ers posted, gett, Gen. Terry, and other Republicans, Bard the quitman banner was nominated by tho President for Governor Thinks that 100,000 visi^i^ wftl be present of Idaho, and after his nomination had been the I yoar •{ foot-ball of the committee in the Scnato for J g^yg most liberal arrangements havo been several months with a very strong probability made for the accommodation of exhibitors, of being rejected, ho sought iny influence. 11 nnd the general public, and the exhibition was courteously invited to his room in ’Wash ington, but did not go—his former h; .cause, upon the groins that said picas do not connect the plaintiff with n»« loss of property of defendant; and no court shall revise to hear all evidence under said plea, offered the reasons aforesaid. • Sec. 2. Should any plaintiff move to strike the picas of defendant, or object to the intro duction of any evidence allowed by said above recited Act, or refuse to submit to the adjust ment of the equities as contemplated by said Relief Act, then it shall bo the duty of the court, upon motion of defendant, to require plaintiff to prove that all legal taxes have been paid upon said debt, and no plaintiff shall prove tho payment of taxes by his own oath, from the time of making said contract to the time of said trial, and before the passage of tiiin Act; upon failure so to do it shall be the duty of the court to strike said cause from the docket. Sec. 3. That the same rulo shall apply to all .^ues found upon the trial of causes when tho said debt has been reduced to judgment: Pro vided nevertheless. That nothing herein con tained shall apply to causes already determin ed by said Relief Law, where no objection was made to the adjustment of the equities of the cause, as contemplated by said Relief Act Sec. 4. That all contracts in renewal, and all judgments founded upon the renewal of debts created prior to the first day of June, 1865, shall be, and they are hereby, included in the provisions of this Act • THE OPELXXA REOOBDSE, Republican Meeting i . County. At a meeting of a large number of IlepuW licans of Meriwether county, on the 20th in stant, at which George W. Martin presided as chairman, the following delegates were ap pointed to represent the connty in the Conven tion to be held at Geneva, on the 8th of next month to nominate candidates for Congress: H. AbelTurrentine, Warner Johnson, Isliam Harris, Jacob Wimbish. The following resolutions were also uuani- lonsly adopted: Resolved, That we recoguize in Rufus B. Bullock an able, conscientious and upright Execntive, the unflinching and uncompromi sing advocate of equal rights and of human progress. Resolved, That we believe economy, justice and wisdom characterize our National Admin istration, and that it is the solemn duty of ev ery true Republican to maintain and defend the same. William Henry Hunter, Sec y. American Women Abroad. A correspondent writing from Paris, admin istered a severe but deserved robuko to those republican women of America, who act as snobs and fawners upon royalty to such a nwc- ulous extent. One of tho most lamentable failings of our American women traveling, is their, admiration for rank, buttons, jingling of swords, and the clash of the poor people** money in tho cash-boxes of smutty tyrants. Boston women, and the best of wo men they aro too, become quite frantic over the Tuileries receptions, and struggle for a place at a court into which very little of mo rality or sincerity has ever entered. It is a court of parvenus too; of shoddy men and women; ot hybrid Spaniards, like those of Offenbach’s last play; a court at which Pierre Bonaparte would not be entirely out of place; and, singularly enongh, at which bat few real worthy Frenchmen are to be seen. “See Rome and die,” should be changed in these days to See Paris and become demoralized.” A Bloody Mnp. The New York World publishes what it calls a “murder map” of New York, in which, by daggers and pistols, it indicates the locations where seventy-eight murders have token place within ten years. These include only those mys terious butcheries which may be called tho his toric murders of New