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Newspaper Page Text‘ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON JS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—JiJTemn. VOLUME XIX. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1867. NUMBER 41. tilltrklQ JutfUigcnffr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, October 9, 1867. A Requisition or (be miliary Arts. By a provision in one of the military acts it is made the duty of the several District Command ers to protect all persons in their rights ot person and property, and to punish all or cause to be punished all disturbers of the public peace.— How important it is that this provision of the aforesaid congressional enactments should l*e rigidly enforced—that the protection it requires should be given, and the punishment it demands should be inflicted—transpiring events in the several military districts indicate. We shall pass by for the present, without comment, that requirement ot Congress which relates to pro lection of person and property, involved though as both person and property ever are in a d'is turbance of the public peace, no matter hy whom nor by what character of persons such an of fense is committed, and direct our attention to the latter. We scarcely pick up one of our Southern exchangee, that does not contain some account of a disturbance of the public peace in some one ot the military districts, and the in stances are rare indeed that do not establish the (act, that such disturbances owe their origin to negro agitators, or to white men urging the nc groes on to violations of the public peace. Re eenily in South Caroliua, a negro named Ifayne lias been busily engaged, says a Charleston co temporary, in “endeavoring to excite a disturb ance of the public peace,” and, says the aforesaid cotemporary, “if he succeed bis aims, the rights of person and proper ty of the white people of Lexington”—the district in which the fellow lias been sowing the seed of discord and contention between the two races—“ will certainly be imperilled.” More reoently still, the telegraph reports, that the fel low Bradley, who has heretofore given the citi zens of Savannah, as well as the military author ities there, so much trouble, has agaiu taken the field as.a disturber of the public peace, to the imminent hazard of both the persons and prop erly of the residents of that city. To such an extent did this audacious fellow carry out his fel! purposes, that It has required the utmost vigi lance not only of the city police to resist his ef forth but that of the military also. Now, there are but two instances out of many we could cite, which go to demonstrate how necessary it is that prompt and severe punishment should be administered by tbe military to all such viola tors of the public peace. In a few weeks the election will come of! in this State, and we have no doubt that all such agitators will embrace that occasion to excite the blacks and bring on a collis ion witli the whites, if they be not in advance intimidated by the military authorities, especially in the large cities, from the pursuance of such a course. The punishment at once of the fellow Bradley wonld have a most wholesome effect, especially upon his followers and dupes. And if some of bis white co-operators could but have the punishment which is his just due, we should have but little apprehension of any disturbances occurring during the progress of the election in any section of our State. Where the majority hies. The Macon Telegraph of Sunday morning last aays that “ according to General Pope's appor tionment, the 95,808 whites have majorities in districts electing only 65 delegates to the Con vention, while the 93,417 blacks have majorities in districts electing 102 delegates!” It also adds: “ Does General Pope pretend to say that such an apportionment of the voters of Georgia is a fair and honest one? Taking the Senatorial Districts, which were arranged exclu sively with reference to white voters, he has shamefully gerymaudered the Slate so as to com pletely crush out the white majority. So much for omnipotence without a conscience.” We had noticed the unfair apportionment re ferred to in the foregoing by our Macon cotem porary. Aware, however, that remonstrance would be unavailing—that the decree had gone forth, and tiiat it, like the laws of the Medesand Persians, would be irrevocable—we refrained, for a time, calling public attention to it. Here we must submit to the infliction, but could this apportionment of our Military Commandant reach Pennsylvania previous to the electiou in that State next week, and be understood there, it would be worth ten thousand votes to the Demo cratic ticket. It is negro supremacy throughout. The whites have no more chance, so far as the Convention is concerned, than they had in Ten nessee, at the last election iu that State, under Browniow’s edicts. The Atlanta Opinion thinks “it wonld not be a bad idea to make a negro colony of South Car- olino." Let the “little potato patch” be “Afri canized.” An infamous sentiment, and one that would disgrace any human being but a Southern Radical. He is proof against all attacks of that disease.—Macon Journal & Messenger. Return of Col. W. T. Thompson.—By the steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Baker, our long-time associate and esteemed friend, Col. W. T. Thompson, arrived at his home in Savan nah, after an extended tour of Europe. Most ol our readers have perused his letters with gratifi cation, and will be pleased to learn that the Colonel has returned safely and in good health, and will in a day or two resume his editorial duties at the desk he has occupied so successfully tor more than fifteen years. Iu this connection we can also properly announce that Colonel Thompson has the full materials for a book en titled, “Major Jones in Europe,” which will soon be issued.—Savannah Mews <£ Herald. Yellow Fever at thf. Dry Tortugas.—A telegram from Key West, Fla., says: “Michael O'Laughlin, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, has fulfilled his sentence. He died of yellow fever on the 23d. “All the alleged conspirators have been very attentive to the sick at Dry Tortugas.” The following is from the North Carolina Re publican, of Friday last: “We learn that out of four hundred prisoners at Dry Tortugas one hundred are sick with yel low fever. The commanding officer of the post and the surgeon of the hospital are sick with the same disease. “Dr. Henry Clay Mudd, sentenced to imprison ment there for an alleged connection with the conspiracy to assassinate the late President Lin coln, is rendering medical assistance to those who are stricken with yellow fever at Dry Tor- togas, and among his patients are the officers mentioned. “It is said that Dr. Mudd treats his patients with eminent success, and that most ot them are j ff0vermn ent as a subordinate provisional govern- in a lair way of recovery." ment. Lord Brougham be ninety on the 19th. j 5th. In commanding a convention to be held On bis latest return from Cannes he had to be > form a new Constitution, and the terms of carried in a chair from the depot to the car- j 111:11 Constitution dicta! v ougres?. I And lastly that the citizens of the State would r " l ® e * —-* ! fie acting in their own wrong in sustaining and A HE>"CH cl rural magistrates iu England sanctioning those unconstitutional acts of Con- lawly sentenced a man, who pot his babv on a • ,_ ress fi v favorably for holding the pro- fire, to six months’ hard labor. He was ■ fc ’ ' . charged, according to heading of report, with j posed convention. ‘inflicting greivous bodily harm.” J I have, only submitted a dry and tire- [rflR THE ATLEKTA IXTKLUGESCER.l Communicated. Marietta, Ga., Sept. 27, 1867. Judge Harris assumes that the act of Georgia, in her Convention of 1861, in passing the ordi nance of secession, “ did dissolve her, connection with the Federal Union, and renounce the Fed eral Constitutionand that “ this act put Geor gia out of the Federal Union.” Coukt I accept these premises ot the Judge, his conclusions might be maintained; but bis premises being false, liis conclusions necessarily fail, and his advice to the people, to give their support to the proposed convention, be without force. The falsity of tire Judge’s premises arises from liis conviction of the truth of a very doubtful principle in the Constitution of the Federal Gov ernment—rA/? right of secession.. Rad that right been retained by the States, and unequivocally possessed, then the secession ordinance would have placed the State in the position in which he assumes it was; and it becoming, then, a separate nationality, a subsequent war between it and the Federal Government, resulting as our recent war did, would, by the principles of in ternalional laws, subject it to the dictation of the will of the conqueror; just the right which the Federal Congress now clatms to exercise over it, and which Judge Harris yields as right and proper. But so far from the right of secession being clear and unequivocal, the probabilities are greatly against its having been retained and possessed at all by the States. In this state of doubt in regard to the constitutionality of secession, the act ot the Convention in 1861 could not have established for Georgia a separate nationality from the Federal Government; to effect that purpose an additional act was necessary, either: 1st, the determination of the Federal Judiciary that the right efoimed by the State was pos sessed hy it under the Constitution ; or 2d, by the consent ot its co-members of the Federal Union; or 3d, by a successful resort to arms.— Neither of these additional necessary acts hav ing occurred to support and sanction the act of secession, that act becomes as null and void as if it had never been passed, or like every other act of a Slate in conflict with the Constitution of the United States, it is of no force, and the State enacting it continues in the same condition and retains the same constitutional status in the Union as if no such act had ever beeu adopted. The result of the war, in a failure, could no more cllect the original political status ol the State than would have been effected by an ad verse decision of the Federal Judiciary. The State still retains intact all its former rights and privileges under the Constitution, and the indi vidual citizens of the State alone can be exposed to penalties for rebellion and wrong doing, after the measure of guilt shall have been determined in the manner appointed by the Federal Consti tution ; not as citizens of a conquered nation, but as citizens engaged in rebellion against their government The property of the non-rebelling citizens could not be lawfully taken nor the po litical rights of the States impaired. Had the Federal Government acknowledged the State as a separate nationality by its ordi nance ot secession, then there existed no cause for war, and the war it waged was in violation of the principles of tbe law of nations. And in treating the State as aconquerednaiion.it would become, by the laws of nations, responsible for the debts of the State. The Federal Government has never recognized the State as a separate na tionality, but by proclamations and laws during tbe war, and since its termination, has treated the act of secession as a nullity, and the State as having been all the time a component part of the Union, and subject to the obligations and parta ker of the benefits of the Federal Constitution, in the same manner as before the adoption of the ordinance of secession; thus, in submitting amendments of the Constitution to it for adop tion; in collecting Federal taxes levied during tire war; and in exacting fines for the non-com pliance with the stamp acts during the war.— The Federal Government thus acknowledges that the State of Georgia has never been out ot the Federal Union, but an uninterrupted member of it, and oulv in a state of unsuccessful rebel lion; which I conceive to be the present politi cal status of Georgia—not as a conquered nation, subject to the will of the conqueror, as indicated by the laws of nations, but as a State lately in rebellion, now subdued and to be dealt with as ndicated by the Constitution. Whenever the Federal Government, therefore, places restraints, withholds rights or commands acts of the State (as is now the case) beyond the power vested by the Constitution, it is an assumption of authori ty, which cannot be justly sustained by the Ju diciary, and will doubtless be adjudged null and oid, so soon as judgment shall have again ta ken the place ot national passion. If I have been successful in establishing, by my present argument, the correctness ol the present political status of the State ot Georgia, then I have demonstrated the unsoundness of Judge Harris’ premises and the fallacy of his conclusions, and have fortified the following poiuis: 1st. The State has never beeu out of the Fed- nil Union siuce the adoption of the Constitu tion, which gave reality and vitality to the Fed eral Government. 2d. That after the rebellion was suppressed, the State immediately possessed all its Constitu tional rights in the Union, as existed prior to the adoption ot the ordinance of secession, and of which it had never been disposessed. 3d. That the rebellion has invested the Federal Government with no additional rights nor pow er ; but they remain as limited at the close of the rebellion, as they were at its commencement, ami as fully defined in the Constitution. 4th. That the Federal Government would in cur the guilt of a usurpation of power, in at tempting to deprive the State of any of its Con stitutional rights, or iu depriving non-rebellions citizens ot their personal rights and property. 5th. That no other of its citizens are liable to pains and penalties, thau those who were en gaged iu the rebellion, and not such until they sliall have had a lair trial as provided for in the Constitution. And tf these principles are the true principles of our Federal Government, then are irresistibly developed the following facts, that the Congress ot the United States has violated the Federal Constitution: 1st. In enacting and enforeingtlie Military bill in the State. 2d. In sending a large laxly of troops into the State, to remain without application from the Legislature or Executive of the State. 3d. Iu interfering with the right of regulatin the elective franchise in the State. 4ih. In interrupting the municipal civil author ities of the State, and treating its constituted some argument; carefully avoiding the ex pression of any opinion or predilection of niv own; that the important question at issue may be deliberately considered by the people of onr State. So vital an issue, involving the honor and constitutional rights of our State, and so forcibly assailed by one of our prominent jurists, and incidentally admitted by one of our leading journals; demands tbe calm, dispassionate and serious reflection and examination of the people, before they shall have so committed their State, as to place its wrongs beyond the hope of redress by a future appeal to the Federal Judiciary. Iu conclusion, permit me to state that I have never been a secessionist; but have incurred in my native State, my full share of odium for my Union proclivities, and I now^ield to none in a more ardent anxiety for a practical, just, and permanent reconstruction of the Federal Gov ernment. K. A Judge of tbe Olden Time. From Wallace's work entitled “The Report ers,” an interesting volume to be found in most Law Libraries, we take the following account of an old English Judge—Judge Jenkins—whom neither blandishments nor threats, reward nor punishment, could swerve from a conscien tious discharge ol duty, and whose example in these trying times it were well for all wearing the judicial ermine, from the Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court of the United Stales, down to a District Court Judge in our own State, to ob serve, that no soil, by implication or otherwise, should sully the garments they wear, nor stain their memories in after time. We copy from the work before us as lollows: JENKINS. EX., CH., AND IN ERROR. 4 Hen. III.—21 Jac. I. (1220-1623.) “Jenkins w’as a contemporary of Coke, and com piled these reports during the civil wars between Charles and the Parliament. The volume, as would be conjectured from the term which it embraces, is more in the nature of a digest than of reports; but it contains several cases not found in any other work. The author, who was a Welsh Judge, was a dauntless adherent to the King, and on this account was put into the Tower and Newgate, by order of the Long Par liament It was in prison that he composed his book, and it is to the hard treatment which he had received that he refers in the preface to them. ‘ They were written,’ he says, 4 amidst the sounds of drums and trumpets,’ when he was * broken with old age and confinement in prisons, where Lis fellow-subjects, grown wild with rage, had detained him for fifteen years.’ Notwithstand ing the inconvenient chambers in which the ven erable Judge composed this memorial of his learning, it is a work of admitted accuracy, and, though rather brief in the style of abridgment, possesses very considerable authority, and is fre quently cited in the older books. It is usually called Jenkin’s Centuries; a name which it de rives from the works being divided into several books, of which each contains a hundred cases. “An interesting account of Judge Jenkins is given by Mr. D’Israeli. ‘ A mighty Athlet,’ says this author, ‘ in the vast arena of the first Eng lish revolution, was one of our greatest lawyers; whose moral intrepidity exceeded even his pro found erudition in the laws of our Constitution. * * * Judge Jenkins tabes no station in the page of our historians; yet he is a statue which should be placed in a niche.’ He was brought before the Parliament for the loyalty of his con duct, but dreading to execute a man in whose learning and honesty the nation bad such confi dence, these reformers of courtly corruption of fered to settle a pension upon him, if he would acknowledge their authority. Jenkins treated their proposition with scorn; and when threat ened with execution, defied all forms of martyr dom they could iuvent * To put me to death in this cause,’ said he, ‘ is the greatest honor I can possibly receive in this world: and for a lawyer and judge to die for obedience to the laws, will be deemed by the good men of this time a sweet- smelling sacrifice, and, by this and future times, that I died full of years, and had an honest and honored end.’ ‘ I will tell you,’ he continues, in full prospect of the event of his execution, ‘ ail that I intend to do and say at that time. First; I will eat much liquorice and gingerbread to strengthen my lungs, that I may extend my voice far and near. Multitudes, no doubt, will come to see the old Welsh Judge hanged. I shall go witli venerable Bracton’s boob hung on my left shoulder, and the Statutes at Large on my right. I will have the Bible, with a ribbon, put round my neck, hanging on my breast. * All these were my civil counsellors, and they must be hanged with me! So, when they shall see me die, affirmingsuch things, thousands will inquire iuto these matters; and having found all I told them to be true, they will come to loathe and detest tbe present tyranny.’ “ In fact, this brave old man bore himself with such successful heroism, that he quite put tbe Par liament to bay, and so effectually condemned to live ‘ in Siuope ’ the rebels who had condemned him to die elsewhere, that after the day had been named for putting him to death, one of the Par liament moved that the house should suspend the day of execution, and in the meantime force him to live in spite ot his teeth. “ Jenkins was the author ot the well-known treatise, Lex Term, as also of oilier tracts written against the proceedings of 4 the rebellious Long Parliament,’ and which are recommended as ' very seasonable to be perused by all such as would not lie deluded by the unparalleled pro ceedings and seditious pamphlets of this licen tious and ungrateful age.’ 4 They consist,’ says Mr. DTsraeli, 4 of a microscopal volume, where, as if it was designed as a satire on all other law books, is contained the erudition of a folio.’ “ Though so loyal a subject, Jenkins appears to have been strongly animated by a love of con stitutional liberty, in the best and catholic sense of that word. He withstood the King in the outset. 4 We did, and do,’ savs he, 4 detest mon opolies and ship-money, and all the grievances of the people, as much as any men living; we do well know that our estates, lives, and fortunes are preserved by the laws, and that the King is bouud by bis laws.’ But when he found that Charles was to be stripped ot all his rights, and a despotism worse than his tyranny to be estab lished by usurpers, with the same resolution, and with indomitable energy,be maintained his royal master’s cause. He appears, withal, to have been a man of enlarged policy and conciliating views. 4 Let not the prevailing party,’ he writes in one place, 4 be obdurate. That which is past is not revocable. Restore his Majesty. Receive from him an act of oblivion, a general pardon, assu rance for the arrears ot the soldier}-, and meet satisfaction for tender consciences.' Born 1586, at Hensol, Glamorganshire; educa ted at Oxford, member of Gray’s Inn; died December 6th, 1663, setat. 81. (Edns.—Fr. fol. 1661; Eng. fol. 1734,1771-77.”) A Radical correspondent from Mississippi, after boasting of the power of the Loyal Leagues among the blacks, says : “The Loyal Leagues are perhaps the chief political power in the State, but besides these there are other more radical and secret societies among the blacks themselves, looking to the accomplishmeut of ulterior designs, in which the interests and the [WHITTEN FOR THE INTELUOHNCBR. J Conservative meeting in Gwinnett. In obedience to a previous ceU made, a re spectable portion of the peopled! Gwinnett as sembled in the court house at jLawrenceville, October 1st, 1867, and the meetihg was duly or ganized by calling Maj. Richard D. Winn to the Chair, and requesting Dr. W. 8. Malt hie to act as Seccretary. The Chairman thereupon, in a few appropri ate remarks, explained the object of the meeting to be the appointment of delegates to the District Convention called to assemble Stone Moun tain on the 12tli October instantf&G Maj. W. E. Simmons then inti Winced a pream ble and resolutions, which were read, and on motion of Col. Sam. J. Winn, referred to a spe cial committee of five, who should also be charged witli the duty of reporting the names of two suitable persons from each .militia district to represent this county in the approaching Dis trict Meeting. Tiie Chair appoiu&d as that com mittee, Col. Sam. J. Winn, CoL St N. Glenn, Dr. Samuel H. Freeman, A. A. Tribble, and Hope J. Brogdon. With some immatJfial alterations and slight additions to the preamble and resolu tions as originally read, the toilofriug were sub mitted by the Committee, and frlopted unani mously, viz: Whereas, The General Coi Third Military District, pursuant^) the require ments of an act of Congress, entlttod “An Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” adopted March 7tjt, 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto, has issued an order for an election to be held in the State ot Geor gia, commencing on Tuesday, tire 29th day of October, 1867, and continuing ; three days, at which the registered voters of said State shall vote for or against a Convention, for the purpose of establishing a new constitutiou and civil gov ernment for Georgia, and for delegates to said Convention, in case a majority of the qualified voters of the State cast their votes “for a Con vention” at said election; And Whereas, The State Senatorial Districts have been adopted for the purposes of represen tation in said Convention, and an apportionment of delegates made from the several districts, in stead ot from the several counties of the State: And Whereas, The interests of Georgia im periously demand that her people be represented in said Convention by her best, her ablest and most patriotic sons; and believing that this end cannot be attained withont the earnest and tho rough co-operation ot the good people of the several districts: And Whereas, It is vitally important to the public welfare that the passions and bitterness incident to a heated political contest should be avoided, as far as practicable, in, the present pe culiar condition of the country,‘and that there should be the utmost harmony and unity of ac tion among our people: therefore, Resolved, That we cordially endorse the propo sition to hold a meeting at Stone Mountain, on Saturday, the 12th instant, fefethe purpose of selecting candidates to represent the people of the Thirty-Fourth Senatorial District in the pro posed State Convention, in the event that it shall be called. Resolved, That it is essential to harmony, and the triumph ot good principles, that our people, who desire the welfare of Georgia, should abide by the selections made by said district meeting, thus avoiding a political scrambfe for place and power. Resolved, That it is the expressed wish of the people of this county that the question of “ Con vention or no Convention ” shall be ignored by said district meeting, leaving those who support the persons selected thereby free to vote for a Convention or against a Convention, as the judgment of each may dictate. Resolved, That iwo delegates from each militia district of this county tie appointed to represent Gwinnett in said district meeting, and that in case any delegate so chosen shall be unable to attend, he shall have authority to nominate an other in his stead. Resolved, That all other voters of this county, who accord in sentiment with tire spirit of these resolutions, be invited to attend said district meeting. The following are the names of the delegates to said district meeting, a9 recommended by the committee, and unanimously adopted by the meeting, viz: Town District—W. E. Simmons, and Samuel H. Freeman. Harbins District—Thomas Davis, and James O. Whitworth. Hog Mountain District—James M. Patterson, and John King. Cain’s District—W. A. Cain, and Charles Mc Connell. Sugar Hill District—Burton Cloud, and John T. Glower. Goodwiu’s District—A. C. Jackson, and Wm. Kemp. Pinckneyville D.strict—H. H. Dean, and John W. Shamblee. Martin’s District—Tandy W. Brown, and T. H. Mitchell. Berkshire District—R. D. Pounds, and John Cain. Rockbridge District—John W. Clower, and Miles M. Mason. Cates’ District—Lewis Nash, and Thomas E. Kennedy. Ben. Smith’s District—Oliver Cosby, and W. H. Robinson It was, on motion, Resolved, That the Atlanta Intelligencer be requested to publish the proceedings of thiB meeting. Richard D. Winn, Chairman. W. S- Maltbie, Secretary. The Bradley Affair, No. 2. In onr issue of yesterday morning we men tioned that several arrests were made after the Chippewa Square demonstration. The parties arrested were committed to the barracks and brought up before the Mayor yesterday morning. Lieutenant Bell, who was in charge of the bar racks when the prisoners were brought in, pre sented a miscellaneous assortment of pistols of various descriptions, razors, knives, powder and caps, which had been taken from the prisoners. There were sixteen of them brought up to an swer, all of whom professed perfect innocence. Not one acknowledged that he knew where Bradley lived, or that he had any thing to do with him. The evidence, however, showed that each one was a participant in the crowd which re fused to disperse at the command of the police. William Johnson resisted the arresting officer, and was sentenced to serve sixty days at the U. S. barracks. Jim- Habersham, Albert Gibbons, and Jim Harris, were each sentenced to thirty days. Cornelia Thompson and Maria Habersham, who were influential in raising a disturbance, were each fined six dollars or twenty days in jail. The other negroes who were arraigned, hav in'* only been present out of curiosity, and prov ing good characters, were dismissed after an ad monition from the Mayor as to the evil of being in bad company. Hi3 Honor considered that they had been already sufficiently punished by being locked up since two o’clock the day be- °One exception was made against John Brown, who had recently come from Augusts, and re sisted the officer who arrested him. He was fined five dollars.—Savannah Advertiser. An enterprising firm in Philadelphia has con structed a private telegraph line to New York, [fob the intklxigknckr.] The Light Case. Cartersvlllb, Oct. 2,1867. In the Express, published at this place, on the 27th ultimo, there is an article on the 44 Light Case ” that demands some notice. The writer of it (I do not believe the editor wrote it) profes ses to give “ a true version of the affair,” and says “ that many false and exaggerated rumors have gained circulation which do great injustice to the military authorities.” After these statements one would reasonably suppose that the truth would be written. But what follows? The writer slates that after Wil liam Light was acquitted in July “a suspicion arose that, although under bond to appearand stand his trial at this term of the court, under the charge of having murdered J. L. Satterfield tn this county, on the 18th day of November, 1864, that he would flee’ the county and not ap pear for trial. * * Under these circumstances he was arrested by order of General Pope, and kept in custody by the military until tbe court was ready to try him. There being none but a temporary and insecure jail in this county, he was kept in military custody at Rome. * * * When the jury “returned with a verdict ot not guilty, whereupon, by special order, Mr. Light v :_ was released from military arrest.” In these last tding the extracts the purpose and intention are to make a false impression. The writer of the words quo ted knew his statements were false, if he knew the facts in the case. He tries to make the readers of the Express believe that Light was arrested that he might be here to be tried for another of fense. There is not one word of truth in this Light was arrested because he had been acquit ted, and General Pope’s order says improperly acquitted. The Solicitor General, Josiah R. Par rott, wrote a-statement of the case on whicli Light had been tried and acquitted, and this statement was carried to General Pope, and he then ordered Light to be arrested. Light’s counsel then went to see General Pope and tried to have him discharged; but, while General Pope admitted that he knew he could not try him again, he refused to discharge him, saying he had sent all the papers to Washington. But this falsifier says there was an “insecure jail” here, and Light was sent to Rome. Yes, he was sent to Rome in irons, while under bond to appear at court, but not because the jail was insecure; for there was a negro then in the “in secure jail” under sentence of death for murder. And there was a guard of United States soldiers to protect the “ insecure jail.” And this same insecure jail kept Light in it for nearly two weeks during court, after he was brought back from Rome. But this same truth-telling writer says that when Light was acquitted of the charge of mur dering Satterfield, he was “by special order re leased from military arrest.” I happened to be tbe court house when the verdict of “not guilty” was read, and one of Light’s counsel asked for an order discharging him from custo dy, and the Judge ordered him released ; but a military officer stepped up to the Judge on the bench, and told him that he could not discharge Light without an order from General Pope, and then walked out of the court house with Light guarded by a -file of soldiers. Now, it Light was arrested, taken out of the custody ot bis bail, and kept by the military that he might be tried for another offense, why was he not set at liberty when be was acquitted and the Judge of the Superior Court ordered his dis charge ? The jail was guarded while Light was in it, before he was carried to Rome; it was guarded while he was in Rome; and was guard ed after his return, and this same guard was around him in the Court House while he was on trial, and he was in the custody of this same guard until some time in the night after he was acquitted. The indignation ot the people was so great against some of the instruments—the truly loyal—who caused Light to be arrested by the military, that a dispatch by telegraph was sent to Atlanta, urging his release, and then came the “special order” of General Pope, as I am informed. The jail of this county, with a military guard around it, held Light aud other prisoners while Light was in it. But since Light was discharged, there has beeu a “geueral jail delivery,” and the negro who had been convicted of murder, and twice respited by General Pope, and & while man convicted of simple, larceny, (horse stealing,) on Monday night, by some means, broke open the jail, and, eluding the watchful vigilance of the military guard, made their escape. The gallows is cheated of its due, but the murderer is a loyal” freedman. When prisoners escaped from the jail of this county last March, the Sheriff and his deputy were secretly charged, secretly tried, (they know- nothing of it,) secretly condemned, and then openly punished by removal from office. Won der if the present loyal officers (General Pope’s appointees) will receive the same just and con stitutional tried and judgment? Subscriber. From tlie National Intelligencer. Negro Rule iu Hie Soulli IMeeenisarj- tu Keep up Kadieat Sway in the North. “ The condition startlingly confirms the views of General Sickles, frequently asserted in this correspondence, that without the rotes if the color ed men in the recent r, !* I States, ail the interests of the country would revert into the hands of the au thors of the rebellion, and that not only would the Union piirty be at the mercy of those who failed iu their attempt to destroy the Government, but every great institution sand by their overthrow would be Occasional!' sacrificed by their fital ascendancy.- in Philadelphia .Petss!' The above is an admission that the North, for the most part, is irretrievably lost to the rotten Radicals. “Occasional” follows up tins admis sion that the negro rule over the whites of the South, which is made sure by numberless frauds upon the registry, and by the terrorism inspired among the whites through the presence of bayonets, by asking it the enemies of “ Edwin M.-Stanton, of the'District ot Columbia; Thad- deus Stevens, of Pennsylvania ; Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts; or Benjamin F. Wade, ot Ohio,” are to triumph. Then follow the other questions: _ “Shall they succeed? Shall they succeed by Republican votes? Shall they succeed bv Re publican cowardice—by Republican prejudice— and, more than all, by Republican ingratitude?" For our part, it is very immaterial whether the merits of the rotten Radical party ot dis union be discussed by its acts or its personnel as above named. If any Republican approves tyranny, profli gacy, and corruption, he has but to applaud Stanton, the sWissdccslst hefryfc the w-r, mid the man who characterized Lincoln as a gorilla.— “Why,” cried he, “need we semi to Africa for the gorilla, when we (referring to the arrival ot Mr. Lincoln) have one in our midst ?” If any Republican approves “legislation outside of the Constitutionand is disposed to support one who has perjured liimsell by so doing, let him applaud Thaddeus Stevens, a man at whom Colonel Forney spoke at the date (1839) of Ste vens’ effort to subvert the State Government ol Pennsylvania, and “treat the electiou as if it had not taken place; that he was a‘villain at heart? ” If any Republican desires to supplant all sound views of public policy, as justified by men of experieuced ability iu statesmanship, by ex treme measures, embracing Boston theorisnis or extremisms, let him applaud Charles Sumner. If any Republican is in favor of temale suf frage and of agrarianism, let him applaud Ben. Wade, the heart aud soul leader of the Radical Congress. P. S.—Since writing the above, lam informed that a military officer says a Yankee soldier broke the jail open and let out the prisoners.— Where were the soldiers who were guarding the jail ? Would the jail have been opened if Light had been in it? Whobeiieves it? If tbe negro condemned to be hung had not been in it, would the jail have been broken open ? S. ambitions of the blacks are the objects of su- for the special large preme regard.” ] business establishments in that city. Tike Convention Election In Alabama. Of this election the Montgomery Mail, of the 2d instant, says: The election farce passed off yesterday to the entire satisfaction of the bogus voters and the white swindlers who managed them, and to the utter disgust ot the legitimate voters. No Com ■servatives went near the polls. The Radical ne groes were supplied with Radical ballots, were conducted to the polls, and puttiieir pieces of pa per into a box—and the thing was over! Never perhaps was such a revolting scene witnessed in any enlightened country upon the face of tbe globe—an attempt to prostrate intelligence and property before ignorance and pauperism, an at tempt to overthrow fundamental law by the bay onet. at a period ol profound peace and in the name of liberty and justice. The election held yesterday in Alabama was a serious, delusive, wicked farce, performed in defiance of public opinion and at the expense of the intelligent tax payers of the State. The newly enfranchised Black Republicans and the red Radicals of tbe fitch ing palm’ had the affair all to themselves, for the white men saw clearly enough how the political black legs had stocked the cards, and they determined to have no hand or part in so treacherous a game.” Comment upon the foregoing is unnecessary '■ -* •- General Sherman’s recent words to the In dians were as blunt as theirs, and as shrewd as good. He could not help displeasing the evil- minded Turkey-loot; for the savage Sioux are not easy converts. The General emphasized the fact that the Great Father or Grandfather desired bis soldiers to be kind and liberal to the Indians. He also made them understand— though the lact itself cannot be very awful to the Indian mind—that the soldiers of the United States can come to the Plains in numbers thick as a herd of buffaloes; and that the savages, therefore, ought to be too cautious to butt their heads against the locomotive. Pawnee-Kiiler’s reply was unique: 44 My Great Grandfather may have some mighty good notions in his head; I have some very good ones also.” The Great Reaction—Ohio and Penn sylvania.—The Herald lias no doubt how Ohio and Pennsylvania are going: “From close observation ot the canvass in both of these States we are satisfied that a marvelous reaction is taking place. Distrust of the Radi cal leaders and disgust of negro suffrage appear to have taken possession of the rank and tile of the party, and thus we find apathy prevailing to-day where enthusiasm existed - :! year ago.— All the discipline, the organization and the money so lavishly expended have failed to di vert the thoughts of the people from tile prom inent questions with which the Radical party is saddled,negro supremacy and a thoroughly rotten system of finance that is robbing the public in order to enrich the politicians and the capitalists. Pondering upon these subjects the quondam supporters ot the radical ticket hesitate to go into the campaign with the vim that made them the most earnest supporters ot the party during the war. They are callous to the inspiration ot republican documents, and they are disposed to stay at home when called upon to attend radical meetings and listen to the eloquence of the stump speakers. ******* * Looking over these battle fields, then, with their wavering hosts ot combatants, we see, through the clouds and mists of political con flicts, a great reaction going on—greater, in fact, than that in Maine and California—a reaction that in ten days from now may assume the form of a revolution, may affix the hand-writing upon the wall that is to doom radicalism, with oil its offensive aggression, its limitless corruption, its Puritanism, sumptuary laws, cant and demorali zation, to eternal perdition. When the celebrated Patrick Henry 7 , of Vir ginia, was near the close of his life, and in fee ble health, he laid his hand on the Bible, and ad dressed a friend who was with him : “Here is a book worth more than all others printed ; yet it is my misfortune never to have read it with pro per attention until lately.” About thu same time he wrote to his daughter: “I have heard it said that Deists have claimed me. Tiie thought pained me more than tiie appellation of Tory ; lor I consider religion of infinitely higher impor tance than politics, and I find much cause to re proach myself that I have lived s > long and given no decided public proof of my being a Christian.” Terrible Hail Storm in Philadelphia.— Our Philadelphia exchanges bring accounts ot a feartnl hail storm which prevailed for a half hour in that vicinity on Wednesday last. Hail stones fell with great rapidity, many of them being the size ot a hen’s egg. The destruction of property in the breaking of glass, cutting of awnings, demolishing fruit trees, &c., was very heavy. W hole squares of houses facing North had entire windows demolished. Huge limbs were swept from trees in Ihc public squares and along the sidewalks. Travel was entirely sus pended during the prevalence of the storm, and car drivers and others having charge ot horses found great difficulty in managing them. The streets wera flooded with . hail and rain. It is feared that the ungathered crops will suffer hea vily. Wholesale dry goods merchants on Mar ket street suffered severely by the damage done their stock through the breaking of skylights and windows. The loss of individual firms va ries from $1,000 to $5,000. At the Blind Asylum, where there was a pub lic celebration, a panic was caused hy the break ing of windows and the falling of bricks blown from a chimney on the premises. No one was hurt.—Charleston Courier. Scrap*. Dr. 31. V. Garman, Nat. Kenay, and Miss Caroline Heron, were arrested on Thursday night, in Philadelphia, on a charge of manufac turing counterfeit bank notes. The officers also seized $32,500 of finished notes, $100,000 of un finished notes, and the plates for printing notes on the Fourth National Bank of New York city, aud fifly-cent fractional currency, together with the presses, inks, &e. Since the arrest of Dr. Gar man, it has been ascertained that he bad a contract to supply notes on the First National Bank of Philadelphia, tbe work to be executed next week. Garman is supposed to be the man who first issued counterfeit fractional currency notes. A special revenue inspector, who has just returned to make his report to Commissioner Rollins, alter a six months’ tour through the West aud Southwest, represents the frauds upon the revenue in the tobacco business as scarcely inferior in extent and enormity to the whisky frauds. His attention was directed to the to bacco trade exclusively, and he states that in the brief time he ha9 been away he has discov ered frauds to the extent of half a million of dollars. These were mostly brought to light in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Cairo, and Memphis, The stencil marks used by the to bacco inspectors of the several revenue districts are freely counterfeited and used. A private letter from New Orleans says: The mortality among the children from the pre vailing epidemic is wholly unprecedented.— Some days, a third or more of the deaths from yellow fever are among children of from four to ten years of age. Those from the latter to fifteen or sixteen seem proof against the fever. We arc not aware that onr doctors have taken any particular note of this. Sterling Price, the Confederate General of Missouri, is residing at St. Louis, engaged in a large commission business. He av < 9 politics, and attends strictly to his private aff.ies. He shows strongly the marks of age. His hair is white; his form is less erect; his step begins to grow feeble and unsteady. Gen. Marcy, while returning from a tour of inspection in New 3Iexico, was attacked by In dians near Pawnee Forks, and in the fight one man was killed and four wounded. A stage was also attacked at Pawnee Forks. 3Iajor Ro.lney Smith, Paymaster, with an escort of forty men, was attacked at Cameron’s Crossing, but sustained no loss. Resumption of Specie Payments.—A plan has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, which, it is understood, meets the ap proval of bankers and financial men, who have conferred on the subject in New York, by means of which it will he practicable to accomplish the following important objects: It will be prac ticable to resume specie payments in five years, retire all the national bank currency notes within ninety days, substitute greenbacks as the sole currency of the country, give commerce and the West ninety millions increased bank circulation, (greenbacks,) and reduce the coin interest debt three hundred millions; and all in a planner satisfactory to the banking ancl financial inter ests of all sections. Tiie story goes that the gentle Greeley was perplexed and astonished to receive no answer to a note to Mrs. Yelverton which he signed in his cabalistic manner with his initials, * H. G." After much tribulation a personal interview was secured, and it then became manifest that tbe lady had been able to make out of the signature only “109.” One of the South Carolina registrars says that wheu the negroes come to 44 receive the election franchise” they generally bring along bugs or baskets to put it in. Several, after registration, being asked what they had done said that “ de gemblin wid de big whisker make me swar to deport (support) de laws of the United Souf Car- lina.” A young Detroit girl jilted a youth of 21, to whom she was engaged, for the affections of an admirer of the riper age of 56. The youngster thereupon shot liis rival; the girl has got crazy, and the murderer will doubtless bang, making a pleasant and complete denouement. A man in Tennessee thought to gratify his spite against a deceased enemy by abusing him over his open grave, when a son of the latter quieted his father’s maligner forever by a blow from a stone. There is a well laid out city, with municipal government, formed of run-away slaves, among the mountains of Brazil. They got women by raiding upon tiie settlements, and have just been discovered by the escape ot one of their captives. Noting the recovery of Thad. Steveus from his late illness, a cotemporary says; “ He is alive to reconstruction, revenue and revenge.” TnE New York Herald says the Republicans of that State were 44 afraid to enunciate clearly any principle;” that they “have no avowed policy hut hostility to the Executive;” and that it is a very narrow platform to stand upon, but seems to lie the best they can find.” Which?—A question agitating New York just now is; 44 Which is the woist enemy of so ciety, tbe family that keeps a parrot, or the one whose eldest son is learning to play the bugle?” No Judge vet in the Ocmulgee Circuit.— The business of Baldwin court was but partially disposed of. No court in Putnam last week, nor can we bear of the likely being any in Ihc county of Wilkinson next Week. A criminal lies iu jail at considerable expense to the county who ought to he tried. Then Jones and Jasper courts follow each week seccessively.—Southern Recorder, 1 st. Charles D. Harris, brother ot Col, S. D. Harris, of the Ohio Farmer, shot his only son, twenty-two years old, at Kent, Portage county, on Friday night. The wound is pronounced fatal. A difficulty about money caused the hor rible crime. Harris was arrested. Information from tiie rural districts of Vir ginia, says a dispatch to the New York Herald, represents that the Union Leagues formed by the Radical negropholists are disintegrating.— White men wno joined for tear of confiscation are becoming ashamed of tbe company in which they find themselves, and the Degroes begin to see that they are to be the tools of designing men, and nothing more. Affair of Honor.—Another affair of honor was nipped in the bud last evening by Lieuten ant Hendricks and his corps ot detectives. Tbe principals, with their seconds, were arrested and held to bail in tbe 9um ot $10,000 each to keep the peace.—Charleston Courier. Some Snaix.—A few days ago, some gentle men at Mont vale Springs concluded they would go a snaking. They had not gone more than a mile before they jumped the game. They found The Fever in Galveston.—The yellow fever at Galveston is gradually dying out. On Saturday and Sunday there was a slight increase in the mortality, due to the coolness of the weather. The Civilian says ail the cases under treatment, with one or two exceptions, are doing well. At the rooms of the Howard Association there have been hut two new cases reported from the 21st to the 23d, and as far a3 tiie city is con cerned, the directors have comparatively nothing to do. But from the interior towns of the State still comes the sad waii ot distress and suffering. Some eighty-seven nurses and several physici ans, together with ice, lemons, medicine, etc., have already been forwarded by the Howard , and private citizens are doing all in their power to alleviate the sufferings ot their afflicted neigh bors, but the demand increases, and the cry is still for help. Kune of the Deity. It is singular, says the Charleston Courier, that “the name of God should be spelt with four let ters in almost every language. It is in Latin, Deus; French, Dieu; Greek, Zeus; German, Gott; Scandavinian, Odin; Sweedeo, Codd; Hebrew 7 , Adon; Syrian, Adad; Persian, 3yra; Tartarian, ldga; Spanish, Dias; East Indian, Esgi, orZeul ; Turkish, Addi; Egyptian, Aumn, orZuet; Japanese, Zain; Peruvian, Lian; Wal- lachian, Zene; Etruirian, Chur; Tyrrhenian, Eher; Irish, Dieh; Crotian, Doga; 3tagyarian, Oese; Arabian, Alla; Dalmatian, Rogl.” In connection with the foregoing, how appro priate—how grand—how sublime—was Pope’s conception of the Deity when, in his “ Univer sal Prayer,” he penned the following lines : “ Father of all, in every age. In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by aage, Jehovah, Jove, or Loud.” .. 7*1*" v ,.t n L | tliirty-six rattle-snakes under one rock, and Washington dispatches say tiiat the dispatch : . J „ , . .. , , f ,, i ! eight under another. They succeeded in killing to a Boston paper, saying that Secretary 3IcCnl- i = . . , ... , . „ .... c al but eiirht, making in all thirty-six snakes.— loch intended to sell twenty millions of irohl tins - „ , - . . ... We would not tell this were it not for the fact i week, was whoby untounded. All gold sales are „ . „ , , - .. made by the Sub-Treasurer in New York, and that Bob Hood vouches for its truth. He says the Department is confident that he will not sell , they would have done better, but it was not a that amount in the next six weeks. | } or snakes.—KnoomUe Free Press,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, October 09, 1867, Image 1