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‘ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT — Jefferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1870.
NUMBER 51
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I’P'I, "HEi> 1) iLT AND WEAKLY BY
i^VViM WHITAKER,
1* r o i» r I o t or.
F'om th- Chariertoo C-cniier.
Tbe Senate and General Lee.
The debate >n tbe United States Senate on
the resolution ot benaior McCre o ry, ot Ken
tucky, instructive ltoson though it be. will
awaken in tbe breast of every sobT-ti'inking
Southerner es much 01 regret a* ot irritation.
It was proposed that a committee be aopoiDted
to inquire whether General Lee had any right
or title to tbe Arlington estate, which made it
liablf- to forfeiture on account of hts parucif.-a-
t on in ihe rer*lHoe, and it was desired that the
es'ate be restored to Mrs Lee and her children,
if it were found that the property was theirs
alone There was no evidence ot a desire on
the part ot Senator McCreery to lure Congress
into even a tacit approval of the cause ot se
cession. It was merely asked that the Arling
ton estate might be returned to its rightful
owner?, it it were known to have been wrong-
Senator McCret ry
supplies which she can raise in abundance and I <l:d, as he might properly do, eulogize the vir
tu i-pi r e on her own soil That “cotton is
kin^, ’ mav or may not be true; and whether
T
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, December ?8, >870.
The Agricultural Intrrt«t« «1 Georgia.
Evidences ot permanent prosperity in agri-
culture have born observed during tbe year in
var ; ut movements by the operators in this
ess. n ial industrial pur-nit.
During th*- Agricultural Association held in
this ci’y. our attention was called to the popu
larity of certain measures tending to make
Geo'-'ia independent of other States for hose j fully <akeu sway irom 'hem.
From tha Monroe Adrtrtiaer, Dee. SO, 1370.
Tbe Atianta IutellUreneer and tbe Address
of the Democratic Executive Commit*
tec.
1 he Intelligences, in its issue of the 10th
instant, says :
We publish the address of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee to tbe Democracy
ot Georgia, and eall special attention of onr
readers to the address, and, especially, to that
portion or it which reterg to the colored people.
We do not agree with the committee when they
sav “ we wouid not if we coaid, and that we j
could not if we would, take away their poiiti- ‘
cal riaht*. n And this attempt on the part of
the Executive Committee to commit tbe Democ
racy of Georgia to the surrender of one-ot tbe
great principles of the party, is not only a mis
take on their part, but will tend to disarm that
gallant band of Northern Democrats who have
oeen true to the country and tbe Constitution,
and who have so openly and manfully opposed
tru<- or iiui, the farmer who expends his means
aud 'K ctiple his whole time from the beginning
to the rod of tti<- year in the production of »his
COQiDie Uty, finds, a 1 , the present price, be docs
nut i'mI z - cost fur it end cannot, fjora the
means left aher its sale, raise the same amount
the next yeir Grain and grasses may be’raised
by him eijusper than they can tie 1 ought, to say
nothing of tur convenience of having these
supplies on ttie premises where they are re
quired. without the trouble and expense of
Iran-r-ortation 'from marke's where they are to
be bat. These facts rre brought home to the
farmer who finds on calculation that his income
lrom a coiton crop does not equal his direct
outlay ol money and a reasonable price tor tbe
rent of land cultivated, to say nothing of his
labor, ripk and vexation in running a cotton
farm.
Block from the West was brought to Georgia
last winter in larger quantity than was ever
known helore, to supply the demand lor farm
ing purposes This large amount was neces
sary to supply farmers with the necessary
amount for runn’ng farms on even an economi
cal plan, to pi rform railroad work, and to fur
nish those intending to try their hand at cotton
raising on a large scale. These demands being
filled Inst winter nnd opting, and the surplus on
farms whose operations will be curtailed from
losses of the present year, the sale of stock will
necessarily be small this season. A reliable
dealer informs us 'hut with a large supply In
the West, the irarle up to this time does not ex
ceed one-sixth ot tiie amount sold last winter
We propose in our next to give tacts aod figures
going ;o prove the direct pecuniary advantage
to larmers in giving moie attention to the pro
duction of grain Bird grasses. Having devoted
several t ears i f our life iu the practical opera
tions of agriculture, we always feel a lively in
terest in that which concerns the farmer.
From the Mlsnonrt Republican, December 15, 1870.
Bradley va. Wilson.
Way down in happy Georgia there dwells
among a numerous population of the same com
plexion, a lively aua enthusiastic African, who
rejoices in the name of A. Alpeoria Bradley.
Bo much life and eDthnsiasm has Bradley, on
poiiti. itl subjects in particular, that he is called
by his admirers “ the blood aud thunder nigger.”
Now it comes to pass in the natural coarse of
events, that this neat combination of gore and
electricity aspires to a scat in Congress, an
nounces his name as a candidate, and secures
tiie nomination ot a Radical convention He
deteals in the contest a white man and a copper-
colored brother, nnd these two get up an oppo
sition nioveim nt and nominate somebody else.
More than this, iheysend word to Senator Wilson
of Muss., tha 1 Bradley is a bad egg, a bolter, and
wauls to break up the party. Whereupon Wilson,
who is disposed to gather the whole colored
race under Ins protecting wing«, even as a hen
gavheteih her chickens, writes a litter to Brad
ley, rebukes him tor his wickedness, and tells
him to su p running lor Congress ou pain ot
losing lorcver tiie Wilsonian fritndship aud
patioimge. But A. Alpeoria, like “Young Gos
ling” in ihe play, on the garden wail, says em
phatically, “ 1 will not come down! " He also
throws a tew rays ot light over Wilson’s be
nighted soul, bv informing him that he, Brad
ley, is “ tin 1 irgtilur nominee, duly chosen by a
duly Huth i t/, ti convt ntion,” that alter this con
vention va- vi r, “a d> fund committee held a
nn enng and nominated an ineligible Indian,
and sm unknown nai vein Ohio; thus seeking
to elevate a second r oe abor.giuee aud a third
ra'e win < niun, over a th si-class colored man.”
This inti resting correspondence between a Geor
gia darky and a United States Senator, is pub
lished hv ih<- form- r in 'he sh ipe ot a circular,
illustrated with wood-cuts. VVe congratulate
JBi.uliey upon knowing hisrighis, aud knowing,
caiing to maintain them.
Messrs. Wil.-on .(white) and Bradly (colored)
are n .th known in Attains. Mr Wilson is a
Be-a or in the Undid States Crngtess, lrom
Massae.hu tt*. aud Bradley is a Senator in tbe
Georgia L gi - a ure, lrom the Fust Senatorial
District, uu-i now a candidate tor Congress.
The Heoublicaus wh / Conferred political privi
leges noon tbe negroes in the South more to
punish the 8outuern white people than any
th ng els-, w di soon experience what they did
not expect, and that i- the practical efl-ct ot
having mgroes iu the United Slates Congress.
The Arm noun Government is not what it.
was, and is not what it ought to be—a pure
white man’s Government, Our loiih is that it
wii- yet be.
Fltrlitlosr tor Their Wlvau.
The New Orleans lime* araws ibis parallel
between the vaiuo < f wedlock ties in Chicago
and Montreal:
Chicago and Montreal, although only five or
six hundred miles apart, geographically, are
martially antipodal to each other. While the
oue city ha> derived its chief celebrity for the
ease ami facility with which it dissolves the
golden tics ot wedlock, the other has just been
the scene ol a riot, in which several lives were
lost, growing out of an attempt upou the part
ot her Majesty’s Government to separate sev
eral ol its ied-coated sons aud their soldie>a’
brides. Th# difficulty in the case, as in to many
other unfortunate circumstances, lay in the
strength oI “red tape,” tar greater than wed
lock's letters or sacred rites ever can be. It
seems mat the sixty-ninth regiment had been
idling away Its time m quarters for the past
three tears, a id when Mars is in a sleepy hu
mor, Venus al •ays comes wooing. No won
der, then, that several of these heroes fell,
“ pierced through the heart by a while wench’s
black eye,” auo submitted to be led captive by
their respective Circes. For awhile all went as
merry as the marriage bell itself, until one day
lately came an order to move, aud the stern
mandate went forth that these gallant new-
fl-dged husbands must leave their girls behind
th m. It would appear that Chicago morality
lias not yet extended its influence as far north as
Montreal, tor, instead ot rejoicing in the bsppy
relief troui connubial responsibilities, the untu
tored Britons rebelled. Moreover, they “attacked
the officers with demoniacal tury," uring their ri
des freely and fatally, and they won a victory, fir
l.ord Lisgar, the Governor General, places oue
of her Majesty’s steamers, me Tamar, at the
disposal ot the wouid-have-been deserted fami
lies, and sent them on their way rej./icing to the
destination of their ravished husbands. As
members of me human family, we are forced to
rejoice :n mis iriuinph ot inn.icem virtue, even
to regaruing me dead aud wounded, as paying
a just peDaity for their temerity in endeavoring
vo put man and wife asunder; but. as Ameri
cans, as brethren ot the citizens ol Chicago and
of the Siate of Connecticut, we cannot but
weep over the ignorance and folly of the mis
guided sons of Viars, who thus missed a splendid
chance ot escaping aunoying responsibilities,
and ot experiencing the exquisite happiness to
be always* tell in toasting “the girl I left be
bind me.”
It is not remarkab e that there are two Na
tional Woman Suflrage Associations. Twin*
are not uncouunou among the sex.
A Kuiland, Yu. lager beer vender was *o
over-joyed by au honest fellow returning him
$600 lost money, that he offered “to shake him
lor tne lager.”
A disagreement over the exchange by a post
sutler ot a none ior a squaw, ;ed to the infuri
ated aboriginal squaw-uealcr pounding the
lamb like sutler. Let bheridan be ordered
home.
Mr. Eng'aud, of Alexandria, Ya., was bitten
by a mad dog iu Augu-t and na» just died,
alter several nays ot uarkiug, growimg aud
o her canine symptoms ot aminy.
Amsterdam, N. Y., ha- a bewitching female
higunayman, aua lue \ou-'g meu a>d her all id
their power; it is so swiet to Be rob oea by such
loveljfles*
tue, the valor and the military genius of our ! the conferring of political rights upon the ne-
Grcat Cap ain; nor did he go one step too far j gross and negro supremacy in the South,
in demaude g justice ter me nob-e Virginia mat- i VVe think the Inteli.igenckr does injustice to
tod, who b-lougs to a race fond of oestowing j the Committee when it charges tb*» wi*h an
a chanty which poverty cannot force them tc “attempt to commit the Democracy of Gecrgia
accept. But the Senate took alarm, and the
mildest w ords spoken on the Radical sice were
tbo.e of Senator Edmunds, wbo avowed his
retrial that General i.<-e had not died in Ui£
youth, or in bis “patriotic manhood,” or by the
hand of the executioner.
Senator Mm ton branded General Lee as the
“great eiuneiSenator Scott stigma'ized him
ss the “chief conspirator;” Senator Nye de-
denounced him “a traitor;” Senator Turner
was willing—ss the whole South is willing—to
hand General Lee over to “ the avenging pen of
history.” It was to be expected that a body
wnich, with ghoulish glee, could revile and in
sult the foremost man of his time, should boast
ot “ the unparalleled magnanimity” which pre
vented it from according to the dead hero and
his tami'y the impartial justice which is the
right oi the poorest and humblest citizen.
This it is which causes us a deep regret—
Northern statesmen, Northern journalists,
Northern citizens appeal to the South to bury
tbe past and unite with them in defending the
common country, and in maintaining and in
creasing its prosperity. General B F. Butler
goes so far »s to indulge in the beliet that the
old Confederates are anxious to fight once more
under tne flaunting flag of the Union. And
these appeals have not been without eflect. We
have tried, and are trying, to allay animosity,
and to show by our conduct that we have an
interest in the whole country, and are ready to
march with the East and the West, aide by side,
in the paths of amity and peace. There is but
one reservation. The South cannot, and will
not, eflace lrom her loving memory the unselfish
soldiers, bone ot her bone and flesh of her
flesh, who gave up their lives during the war
between the States. And what the South can
not do herself, she wi.l not countenance in
others. What we ask is that our dead brothers
he permitted to rest in peace; that there shall
be no contumely lor those who fell—no up
braiding lor those who survived the carnage of
the years of blood, identified with tbe names of
Jackson and Lee, Jenkins and Gregg, Johnston
and Bee; no reproach upon the ten thousand
South Carolinians whose blood incardinated the
sands of the coast and the forests ot the Caro
lines, as well as the historic fields of Virginia.
Only silence 1 This was not much to ask or
expect
But the Senate of the United States mocks at
our sorrows and jeers at our bereavement. The
grave Senators heap scorn and abuse upon tbe
head ot him who was the Representative Chris
tian soldier of the South. They declare that a
bald suggestion that plain justice be done to
him who was just and meieiiul to all is “insult
ing aud shocking” to the sense of “the Senate
and the country,” aud is, besides, “abnorrent to
humanity.” Is this charity? Is tnis magna
nimity ? Is Uus patriotism ? Is this the way to
sotten the hearts and win the confidence ol
twelve millions of people who reverence Gen
eral Lee as a gentleman without a stain, and a
soldier without repro »ch ? We say, emphati
cally, that while Congress talks in this strain it
is impossible that the country should be united
It is impossible that any Southerner can nave a
little ot liking or respect lor men of ihe stamp
of Sutnuer and Davis, Morton and Scott I hey
draw the dividing line between us and them.
They must make aionemeut ere they can c asp
hands with any soldiei ot the South.
Aud yet we t>opt! We hope that these ma
lignant politicians do not represent the wi ht-t-
and thoughts ol tbe intelligence aud virtu- of
the Noiihern and Western States. It,is poesi
ble, as we know by sad experience, tor a wnule
people to be misrepresented and be I ray ed cy
those who arc, in name, the guardians ol their
welfare and the exponents ot (heir opinions.
We appeal, then, lrom the Senators to ihe legis
lative in.iiies which elected them, aDd lrom
those bodies to the millions of Americans who
know what manhood is, and have no syinp ituy
with shiiffi ng renegade or political buff ion.
The South, we teii mein, can be won by justice
aud respect, but it cannot be v.ou by eiander
and abuse.
It does not become us to d eel ire motives or to
judge unheard ; but this we know; the debate
id the United Mates Senate, on Tuesday last,
must cliul :be hearts of the South, and rekindle
in the p unilar mind, lor a time at least, the
hitter memories which, if wii hoped, might
sleep lorcver.
Front 'be A'r-Ltre Eagle.
ISnur/Ing & riewipsper.
The newspapv r business is very exacting on
all connected with it, nnd the Pay is compara
tively small, :he proprietors risk more money
for smaller profits, aud the editors, reporters
and printers work harder and cheaper than the
same number of men in any other protession
requiring the given amount of intelligence,
training and drudgery. The life has its charms
and its pleasant associations, scarcely known by
the outside world ; but it has its earnest work
and anxieties and hours of exhaustion, which,
likewise, are not known to those who pleasure
think the business all. The idea that uewspa-
perdom is a charmed circle, where the favored
members live a lile of esse and tree from care,
and go to the circus at night on a free ticket,
and to the springs on a free pass in the summer,
is an idea which we desire to explode practi
cally and theoretically. Business is business,
and the journal that succeeds is run on a square
business footing, the same as banking or build
ing bridges, .keeping a hotel or running a live
ry stable.
The newspaper business is not what it might
be. Those engaged in the business ^could do
better if they would, and they have it in their
power to do it. Let the standard be raised by
giving a faithful account ot transpiring events
without jersonal abuse and slander, and our
word for it, the influence of newspaper men
will increase ten-fold, and business also, in pro
portion.
How to Advebtise.—Hints m regard to ad-
vei using are always of value to our merchants
Many schemes are devised, but there are dozens
in this city who have ansndoned many tor
which they have paid much money and got lit
tle in return. They are importuned almost
every day by tramps to give them from $5 to
4U5 lor inserting cards in "directories lor this or
that. Common sense ought to tell any man
that if he has any money to spend for advertis
ing, the proper way to do it, is to advertise in
his home patters and then order a hundred or a
thousand extra copies aDd inaii them to his
customers. By this means you not only en
courage your borne payers, but at the same time
benefit the city, lor its papers go out among the
viry class ot people you want to reach, while
$25 may be thrown away in a card in a direc
tory that is got up to advertise other places, and
is thrown away and never seen. It our mer
chants would advertise in their home papers,
atid send out extra numbers, they would get
more direct benefit tban by tbe plan of mailing
circulars. Persons who receive a newspaper
in which an advertisement is plainly marked,
will read it, when a circular wouid scarcely be
looked for.
Bib BcsttTEss.—A Northern print states that
the office < f Jack-on & H itnmond, swindlers in
New York, was seaichcd last week, and 700
letters lrom parties in various States were dis
covered, ordering counierteit money to the
smount ot $575,000 It is said the firm received
nearly $5,000 a week by their iufmioas traffic
The crop ol tools i6 evidently on tue increase.
The ques’ien of tue State aebt wa= up in the
Virginia S>" ate, and tne tenor of the si>i-eche<-
were in lav r of carrying tQc matt-.r of West
Yintinsa's share ol me debt before the Uni'ed
States Supreme Court, uci if paymen not
compelled there, then Virginia to • 't e ibe
whoie. AU opposed any idea of repud muou.
to the surrender of one of the great principles
of the party,” to-wi*: “ Opposition to the con
ferring of political rights upon tbe negroes, and
nsgro supremacy in the South.” We do not so
understand the address ot the Committee. We
read the address as recommending tbe most en
ergetic action on tbe part of the Democracy
to defeat Radical and ‘ negro supremacy” in
this State. So tar frmn committing the Demo
cratic party to “negro supremacy,” the recom
mends'Ion ot the Committee is the very reverse.
I s object is to organise the party for vigorous
action, and to present a united front against
Radical rule and “negro supremacy.”
With ail due respect, we must differ with our
cotemporary. It was not our intention to do
“injustice to the Committee," and for the pur
pose of supporting what wesaid on the 10th inst.,
we call the attention of the Advertiser to the
following language used by the Committee in
their address to the people of Georgia.
The Committee in speaking of the negroes
say:
“ They will Dot be longer misled by the false
accusation that we wish to pnt them bad* into
slavery or to take away their political rights.
They well know that we would not do either, if
we could, and that we could not if we would.”
What more is necessary? Is it not clear
beyond doutit that the Committee did in their
address, not only surrender one of the great
principles of the party, but actually went so
far as to say that they would not if they could
take away from the negroes their political rights,
and in this the Committee on their part really did
surrender * the great principle of the Democratic
party.” It is not only a lull and complete
surrender, but it is more tban a usual surrender
when the Committee say that they would not
it ther could, and that they could not if they
would. With all due difference to the Com
mittee, we say it can be done it the people
should so desire it, and we would not hesitate
to do it it we conld, and such we believe to be
the teal sentiment and purpose ol the National
and State Democracy.
This is tbe great question between the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties, and one upon
which the Democracy will continue to succeed
until the party will get control of the Gov
ernment ; and then we may expect to see those
political rights withdrawn, and negro govern
ment and supremacy removed irom the peo
ple ol the South.
Mrs. Stanton is lecturing on the “ True Re
public” in the West.
The Genii who presided on Lord Mayor's
Day -Fog, Gog and Magog.
The burglars of Puringfleld, O., are having a
most successful fall trade.
Drake de Kay ha* gone to San Francisco.
Jokes on the Kayden-s of the Pacific slope are
in order.
A small hoy in Louisriiie sat down on a red-
hot stove, by way of celebrating Thanksgiving
Day. He got up without being told to.
An Iona farmer going to market on a load of
hay enjoyed a smoke. The iron work of the
wagon was saved.
Japanese carpenters use no nails in house-
omuting, but ali their woodwork, even to floor
timbers, is as smooth as if sand papered.
P tt'burg has a new daily paper—a sterling
D-mocrauc one—large, newsy, well-printed and
handsome.
Iuordinate use of tobacco and stimulants have
cut off Mrs Lu 11a Gross, oi Maine, at the un
timely »ge ot 107.
Foubtbun Indian tribes are represented at
tbe conierence now in session at Ocmnlgee,
Indian Territory, considering a plan lor the
organization of a Territorial Government. A
proposition is now under discussion and seems
likely to be adupted. *
Vance ha* been elected Senator irom North
Carolina Democrats may now say, add-Vance.
N. T. Leader.
We i dressed women in Wisconsin openly
whisky at public bars.
A New York hall-tbief, confronted by a board
er, said he was taking the armful of clothes he
bore to he cleaned. The guileless boarder there
upon added his own overcoat to the number.
He finds they were cleaned—out.
“IfEPEATEKs” to be Indicted—We are in
formed that Judge Johnson, m adjourning the
Superior Court of Muscogee county, declined to
discharge tbe Grand Jury, though thev were
through with the business belore them, but pro
longed their organization as a jury until the
January term. The object of this continuance,
os he charged them, was to make it their duty
to observe, inquire into, and present persons
guilty ol disorder during the election and the
Christmas holidays. He particularly charged
them to take cognizance of fraudulent voting
and the carrying oi concealed weapons. No
charge could have been more timely or appro
priate. We are convinced that it will be ob
served. Those who vole or attempt to vote out
of their counties, or who try to vote oftener
than once, will be very apt to be detected, and
will certainly be severely dealt with If defected.
We admonish the colored voters, particularly,
not to be cajoled by white meu into the casting
o< fraudulent votes or the attempt to cast them.
The white men might escape, because of the
difficulty ot obtaining proof to convict, but the
poor deluded voter would surely suffer. No
stronger proof that a white candidate cares
nothing ior the negro and only wants to use
him for his own selfish purposes, could be pre
sented than by bis attempt to make the negro
violate tne law for his (the candidate’s) benefit
and at a great risk to the voter only.
The charge against the carrying of concealed
weapons was also a very proper one, and we
trust that both white and colored men will be
careful not to violate the law in this particular.
—Telegraph <b Messenger.
Tap St Louis Home Journal, of December 17,
has the following trolhtul article on the subject
ot “ curiosity,” and we have thought it might
not do any harm to transfer it to the columns of
the Intelligences :
Curioeily.^ Nothing is much nobler than the
deair • lor knowledge—nothing much shabbier
than low curiosity. What does it signify to us
what others do or have, and why cannot we
leave them and theirs alone ? No one in the
world likes to be watched and pried alter : and
it does not seem very difficult to do to onr neigh
bor in this matter as we would he should do to
us. This curiosity is generally the great sin ot
small societies. For want ot a more healthy
outlet tor the dramatic instinct with which we
are all born, the dwellers in confined localities
turn upon each other, like so many spiders in a
tumbler, and try to mask the real starvation ot
this instinct by the lalse nourishment ot gosfip.
Commissioner Parker has received a letter
from J A. l ail. superintendent of the Indians
in Montana, saving that he has just returned
from Fort Parker, where he was five days in
council with ninety-seven lodges ot Mountain
Crows and twenty lodges ot River Crows.—
The Indians are almost unanimous iu favor cf
peace, and most ot them are anxious to “ live
as wnite people do,” and to cultivate the land.
Governor Geery, of Pennsylvania, announces
in a proclamation* the cancellation ol the s'ate
d- bt in the year ending with November 30,1870
of one million six hundred and two thousand
time hundred and twenty-one dollars and thir
ty-<'*ne cents, made up os tol'owa:
#1,315.906 31
.... ,46,400 00
15 00
Total *1,609,331 SI
F’ve p«i rent 'oan re ee-ned
six u--r cen: .oan redeemed ..
He ie' notes cancelled
NEWS BT TELEGBAPH.
Washington, December 20 —In the House
personal explanations were made.
In the Senate the Finance Committee report
ed in tavor of five hundred million additional
five per cent, bends, and adversely to the prop
osition making the issue of gold notes of banka
receivable for customs.
New Yore, December 20.—The brakemen’s
strike on the Erie Road is virtually over and
freight is coming forward regularly.
Cincinnati, December 20.—Gas sneter explo
ded. The report was beard several miles.—
Eight large columns supporting tht gas holders
were prostrated No lives lost
St. Louis, December 2-).—Jewett has been
appointed Drake’s successor.
Snow one bx-t deep.
London, D-cember 20.—A Berlin special
says the conference representatives of tbe neu
tral powers have agreed to the follqwing peace
basis :
1. Acquiescense iu the annexation of Luxem
burg
2. Tbe recognition of the German Empire,
3. Indemnity from Fr«i.eo to Germany of
twelve hundred millions of francs, razing ot two
fortresses on the German frontier, and the ces
sion of a portion of Alsace.
There has been no fighting around Paris
since the first of December.
Prince William, of Baden, was wounded in
thecapture of Nuite.
John Bright has resigned the Presidency o!
the Board ot Trade.
The lelegraph has a special from Brussels,
saylDg tbe late heavy calls lor ihe Landwehr,
denotes weakness m the besieging • forces, and
its operations are more defensive than offensive
One or two sorties like that ot last night, and
the siege of Paris will be raised.
A dispatch from Frankfort says it will be a
month before the bombardment is possible, the
German guns before Paris being worthless for
such a purpose, while Versailles itself is nearly
within range of the French guns.
Washington, December 20—The Commerce
Committee of tbe House heard arguments in
favor of the European line of steamers.
The President nominated Purnell as Marshal
of the Western District ot Texas.
No executive session of tbe Senate to-day.
HQUSE.
After some unimportant business the amnesty
bill was resumed.
Mr. Degener, of Texas, Bpoke in favor of a
General Amnesty, but it had been buried last
week under the Arlington Cemetery. Himself
and colleagues, therefore, had concluded that
the interest of the National Republican party
required them to vote first for Mr. Bingham’s
amendment, that failing, to vote for Mr. Beek’a.
Mr. Manning favored general amnesty.
Mr. Bingham said that the question touched
the honor, and in some sense, the prosperity of
the American people. The first vote would be
upon bis amendment which excluded only the
officers of the United States in 1860 and 1861,
and those who, since the first of June last, held
offiice, to which they were ineligible, and he
should vote against Mr Farnsworth’s bill for
general amnesty, as the country is not prepared
to take that step. Mr. Bingham’s bill only ex
cepted some two hundred. Those relieved
could not by any possibility harm the republic
M. Sheldon, of Louisiana, spoke. In favor of
universal amnesty, and remarked that his State,
which had 25,000 republican majority, had
abrogated every vestige of disability by a vote
of 103,000 in the affirmative, to less than 1,000
iu the negative; believing with the people of
his State, he was in favor of universal amnesty,
and he warned his political friends that the
time was comiDg when every oue of them
would take the same position. ,
Mr. Conner, ot Texas, spoke fa favor of uni
versal amnesty, and denounced the corrupt
Southern State Governments, especially that of
Texas.
Mr. Hamilton, of Florida, prottt.ed solemnly
against universal amnesty.
Mr. Butler moved the previous question upon
the pending amendments.
Mr. Bingham asked Butler to keen faith with
the House.
The previous question was seconded—91 to
84—when Butler yielded to the motion to
adjourn.
Mr Butler’s programme appears to be, to have
the amendments deteated, then to have ihe bill
reconsidered, wnich will defeat amnesty ol any
kind this session.
The vote on the amendment occurs to
morrow.
A struggle occurred between the friends of a
change in the sugar tariff and San Domingo.
Sherman favors the sugar bill, saying it is only
to clear an amtnquity and ought to pass
Mr, Edmunds asked lor the reading of the
Ban Domingo resmurions. He saw no objec
tion to them, as they ouly called for information.
He was opposed to the acquisition ot San Do
mingo, and probably should remain so, but
would be glad to get intormation which the res
olutions would elicit.
Messrs. Sumner aud Morton came into sharp
collision, and business was much clogged by the
struggle for precedence of various bills in which
Senators seemed to have personal interest
A motion to refer Sugar to tiie Finance
Committee was lost. The San Domingo ques
tion was resumed and discuesed until adjourn
mc-nt,
Brussels, Dccerr-bcr 20.—Government de
clines to publish Bismark’s reply until it reaches
King William.
Raleigh, December 20.—To-day at 11 o’clock
the Board of Managers appointed by he House
to conduct the impeachment of Gov. Hoiden,
attended by the Speaker cf the House Repre
sentatives, prnceeoed to the bar of the Senate,
and formally submitted the articles of impeach
ment. After the conclusion ot ceremonies, the
Lieutenant Governor vacated hia seat as Presi
dent ot the Senate, and shortly afterward took
charge ol the executive office. Gov. Holden
made no opposition to surrendering the office.—
The Court of Impeachment will convene as
soon as Chief Justice Pearson can arrive in the
city.
By the confession of a dying negro it has
been ascertained that the barn burning and dep
redations committed in this and adjoining conn*
ties for the past year was the result of a planned
conspiracy on the part of negroes of tbe Union
League. Forty names are in possession o! the
authorities, some arrests been made and officers
are in hot pursuit ot others.
Lexington, December 20.—Gov. Letcher is
much belter and out of danger.
Augusta, Decern hr 20—The election is pro
gressing in Georgia ior members ot Congress
and Legislature, and county officers. The
returns are meagre and unsatisfactory, but it is
believed the Democrats will carry the State.
The following have been received:
Angusta—2,000 votes polled. Democrats
ahead. Republicans divided. All quiet.
Savannah—No disturbance. Bradley, col
ored, independent candidate for Congress, is
reseiving a large portion of the colored vote at
the regular precincts. Precificts were opened
in the eastern portion of the city by the Repub
licans. Governor Bullock’s manages have pro
tested against this proceeding as illegal. Several
negroes have been arrested for voting more
than once. No violence or intimidation.
Macon—Gangs of negro women at the polls
electioneering for the Republican ticket. One
negro, who voted the Democratic ticket, was
set upon and mobbed. A row ensned and one
ot tbe assailants was shot and seriously
wounded, The military had to be called out to
disperse the mob, when quiet was restored. No
satisfactory returns can be given.
Columbus—1,100 votes polled, a majority of
negroes voting, Democrats ahead. All quiet.
Rome—The Democrats are over two to one
ahead. Some negroes have been arrested for
illegal vo T ing. All quiet.
Union Point—Notuing definite from Greens
boro and White Plains.
Montezuma—The Republicans are supposed
to be ahead.
Cuthbert— Republicans seven hundred ahead.
Nearly all blacks voting.
Fort Gaines—The Republicans are ahead to
day, but the Democrats will be at the close, as
they are reserving tbei strength for to-morrow.
Covington—Eight hundred votes polled. Re
sult not known.
Fort Valley—Republicans ahead to-day.—
Very few whites voting.
Philadelphia, December 20.—The election
in the first State Senatorial District resulted in
a majority of 1343 for Drazart, democrat. In
October the Republicans had 1.000 It is under
stood this gives Pennsylvania to the Democrats.
Vermont is charged with being the birth
place of Coluaibus Delano As it bapptned
sixty-one years ago, the pet pie there at pres- nt
think they ouzhi not to be blamed for it.—
Detroit Free Press
From Maoon Teiesrraph a-id Ates^enirer.
Pint Day ot tb* TCleettin-tfiob Violence
Tbe ItXliuary Called oat.
We regret to be called upon tbri morning to
chronicle the first pnLlic disturbance on onr
streets, of aD alarming character, that has ever
occurred here; and, at the same time, we are
glad to. say that belore it had got under head
way it was quelled and order* and quiet re
stored, by the coolness, daring and firmness ol
onr city officials, assisted by a few brave citi
zens and the military.
The election had proceeded quietly all the
morning at the City tjal), where was assembled
a great crowd of negroes from the surrounding
country and citizens of Macon. Occasionally,
a negro or a white man would appear on the
gronud with concealed weapons ab"irt him,
aud when it was dit-covered by the officers on
duty, he was immediately arrested and taken
to the guard house ; but, about noon, a man
was arrested for voting twice or illegally, which
seemed to exasperate a crowd of mwroes, and
they determined to make an eflort to rescue the
prisoner. The prisoner waa in charge of offi
cers Hurly, Daves and Granger, and when the
rush was made upou them, they drew their pis
tols and ordered the negroes to stand back.
They succeeded in keeping them ofi tmttl they
had got near the engine bouse ot Hook and
Ladder Company, on Poplar street, whea the
negroes, seeing a wagon near them loaned with
small green poles for firewood, rushed for ft
and armed themselves, while others of them
seized rocks, bricks or anything they could lay
hands upon, and with these they again assailed
the policemen having the prisoner, who by this
time were reinforced by several others, includ
ing a few citizens. But on the negroes rushed,
-whooping and yelling like so many infuriated
devils, the police and citizens still calling npon
them to stand back, as if dreading the alterna
tive of opening fire. At this moment, officer
G. H. Daves was struck a heavy blow with the
half of a brick on the left shoulder, which
knocked him down. Seeing that words of re
monstrance conld no longer avail anything, two
shots were fired into the squad of negroes rush
ing upon the police with up lifted clubs, rocks
and sticks, and two of them were wounded—
one mortally so, it is thought.
While all this was going on, white citizens
were running hither aud thither, arming them
selves as quickly as possible, and then returning
to the scene of the conflict. The police force of
the city were now well together, and surround
ing their prisoner they drew their revolvers and
ordered the mob to bear back, slowly falling
back themselves. At this juncture, several
prominent citizens bravely sprang in between
the negroes and policemen, to prevent a collis
ion and the use ol fire arms, first among whom
was Col. J. G. Deitz, to whom, more than any
one else we know, averted the threatened bloody
onslaught. His Honor, Judge Carlton B. Cole,
with his long, white locks and commanding
mien, also threw himself in front of the negroes
and urged them to advance no further. Several
other gentlemen, whom we do not now remem
ber, also acted very bravely and'prudently in
quelling the inflamed passions of both blacks
and whites, and while thus engaged, the cry
came that the military were approaching, and,
looking up Poplar street, all saw a squad of
United States soldiers, coming down at a doable
quick, with Mayor Huff and Major Layton, of
the 16th United States Infantry. Arriving on
the ground, Mayor Hull immediately ordered
the crowd to disperse and the streets to be
cleared, or he would order a charge of the sol
diers, and they in connection with the whole
police force of the city, soon scattered the crowd
and peace and order were restored.
We cannot praise our brave and handsome
young Mayor and his small police force too
highty, for their cool, firm and gallant behavior
on this occasion. And the thanks of our citi
zens are also due to Major Layton for the cool
ness, discretion and firmness with which he as
sisted the Mayor and city officials
Some eight or ten of the more prominent ne
groes engaged in the assault upon the police
were arrested and marched ofl to jail under the
eye of the military force, and it is likely they
now see that neither the military, Mayor, police
or citizens wib tamely submit to an outrage.
In conclusion, it may not be amis3 to say a
word to these negroes who brought on the diffi
culty yesterday. It was none ot their business
who the police arrested, and when ihey under
take to dictate in such matters they can spring
a tight almost at any time. It the police arresi
a man, it is between ihcin and the party arrested,
and the courts decide who is right and who is
wrong, and it is a felony to iuterlere with an
officer in the discharge ot his duty. Therefore,
every negro who took part in the assault upon
officers Hurly, Daves and Granger on ye-tt id.iy,
not ouiy endangered their lives, but laid them
selves liable to a long term ot service m the
penitentiary That fifty or one hundred ot
them were not killed yesterday, was owing to
the great forbearance on the part ol the i» lice
and those citizens who sprung to thei. defuuse
It is a great wonder they rese ved tire under so
great nnd pressmg a provocation as was oflered.
We solemnly warn the colored people to ib-taiu
lrom such conduct, for it they do t .rce a collis
ion with the whites and the sworn officers of the
law, they will rue the clay on which it occurred.
The whites ot Georgia will not be overrun by
lawless and irresponsible negroes, and the soon
er they learn this tact, the better it will be for
them.
A Chapter of S- crei History.
Ia SsHhners Monthly lor January Mr. L L
Crounee, Washington correspondent ot the New
York Times, contributes a chapter ot hitherto
secret history, showing “ How we Escaped War
with Spain,’ on a very recent occasion. The
story is that on January 21, 18G9,the steamer
Coiunel Lloyd Aspinwall, of New York, on a
vovage from Port au Prince to Havana, was
seized by a Spanish war steamer on the high
seas, near the Cuban coast. She was taken to
Nuevitas, and thence to Havana, where she was
detained more than three months, in spite of the
remonstrances and demands of our government;
although her officers, thus detained as pris
oners, were bearers cf official despatches for
the government ot the United States. It ap
pears, according to Mr. Crounes, that at one
time, provoked by the wanton negligence to
wards our claims at Madrid, and the insolent
behavior cf the authorities at Havana, Presi
dent Grant was on the point of directing armed
reprisals by our navy upon the Spanish ship
ping in New York. The secretaries of war
and of the navy, and the postmaster-general,
were in favor ot this course; but the secretary
of state, supported by the three remaining
members of the cabinet, so earnestly advocated
extreme forbearance and conciliation that Mr.
Fish was permitted to make one more eflort for
peace. He did so, informing the Spanish min
ister, unofficially, that unless immediate satis
faction was given, this government would con
sider the propriety ot resorting to the policy of
reprisals.
This communication had its eflect, and the
vessel was released as soon as Spanish red tape
would permit A commission was then ap
pointed by the two governments to arbitrate the
question of indemnity. Mr. Reeling, Consul
General of North Germany, was made referee;
and he last month, rendered judgment for the
United States for $48,450 in geld, ior damages
and demurrage, and $1,220 in gold for the crew
It this extraordinary statement be trae, as
we have every reason to suppose it is, it would
seem that the administration might arrive at a
more consistent foreign policy by striking an
average between its resolute determination to
keep peace with Spain and its evident anxiety
to hatch trouble with England. It might be
worth white for Butler, Chandler and Grant to
consider whether a war with Spain would not
meet the necessities of the Radical party, as
well as a war with England.
The Washington Star gives the following as
the exact relationship ot the Lee family to the
Arlington property. It never beloneed to Gen.
Lee. At the death ol George W. P. Custis a
life interest was bequeathed to Mrs. Lee, his
daughter, and at her death it waa to go to his
grandsons, Castis and Fitz Hngh Lee. The
taxes upon the property having accumulated
during the rebellion, it was sold therefor and
purchased by the government. Tons it will be
seen that it is held bv virtue of a tax title. Sub
sequent ettorts were made to redeem it by pay
ing the amount ot taxes, but they were onsuc-
ce&slul, and the title is still vested in the govern
ment by virtue ol the tax sale al naed to.
On Thursday evening Col. Robert Douglas,
private secretary to President Grant, was se
verely injured by being thrown lrom a hack
Mrs. Cutis, his grandmother, and another lady
also sustained severe injuries They were re
turning from the Chamy Fair in vVai-hiugioD
ana ihe horses were tngntened by tne vehicle
coming tn contact with the s eps of another
carriage.
Gleanings.
Not a barrel o! salt can be found in Nashville
for sale.
Thirty-three ladies, graduates of Vassar CdI-
legi*. ii-tve become bachelors of art.
In Sm Francisco, the street cars have a com
partment tor baggage and dogs.
The average ra'e of taxation in Brooklyn,
N* w York, is 3 87 per cent
Tne 349 manufacturing establishments of
Tr y pay $3,975,524 a year in wages, with a
j capital oi $8 571,500.
Tbe Teutonic element of St Louis is so strong
that the daitv consumption ot lager beer in that
city exceeds 6.003 gallons.
A new German daily paper, called the South
ern Post, has made its appearance in Ngw Or
leans.
General S’ocum has appeared before the house
naval committee and satisfied them that- the
government has a good title to the Brooklyn
navy-yard.
A sale of ready-made coffins at auction, took
place at Lincoln, Neb., recently. A black wal
nut article, with silver trimmings, brought $25;
the purchaser being a man whose wife was very
sielc.
It is claimed by friends of the old manage
ment of tbe Indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad,
that the road will be back in the hands of the
Ohio capitalists within two months. «
A project has been started in Canada to or
ganize a society to which none but natives are
to be admitted, the objects being similar to those
of our exploded Know Nothing movement of
some years ago.
A German sa vant of Coblentz has announced
the intention of leaving hie library to Strasbourg,
since his only son, also a literary man of emi
nence, has been killed at Metz.
A gentleman named Brown once said in com
pany that he had toasted a lady for twelve
months, and yet had little hopes of making her
Brown.
A considerable number of refugees from France
arrived at Montreal oa Tuesday, and were sent
to the emigrant office, where they will be pro
vided with employment
Savannah has developed a new public amuso-
ment, an Albino Minstrel Troupe. Every man
is a9 white as chalk can make him, hair, face,
clothing and boots, and appears on tke stage
like au alabaster stat ue.
Pennsylvania having ordered a $30,000 battle-
picture from Mr. Rothermei, that gentleman
has liberally painted ^Gettysburg on so large a
scale—thirty-six feet by eighteen—thatthe State
has to build a special edifice to hold it
jgTreasurer Spinner says that officers of the
national banks designated as depositories are
officers of the treasury, under treasury regula
tions, and may stamp the word counterfeit on
any counterfeit United States note.
Gen. Frank P. Blair, who wad elected by
the Democrats to the Missouri Legislature, is 1
spoken of as their probable candidate for
Speaker of the House ot Representatives.
The President declines to hold out an olive
branch to Senator Schurz, and the breach be
tween him and the Missouri Republicans is not
likely to be healed.
Official returns of the late election in Mis
souri show the total vote cast as 167,719, of
which Brown received 103,374, and AlcClurg
63.336, being a majority for Brown of 40,038.
The New York Sw thinks Grant didn’t fool
Greeley a bit by asking him to ride home from
a funeral, instead of giving him the English.—
The venerable farmer noticed the dillerence in
a minute.
The Senate judiciary committee have dis
cussed the proposed admission of the Georgia
Senators, who have presented themselves. It
is said the subject will be delayed till alter the
Georgia election next week.
she New York Democrat enquire?; “Now
what has not into Boston to go and elect a
Democratic Mayor, against the peace and dig
nity ot the State of Massachusetts? VVhat is
the reason that there were no troops sent to
Boston ?’’
The Syracuse Courier of yesterday makes the
announcement “ihar the Hon. Henry 8 Ran
dolt, lee Is compelled, by toe state of his health,
to decline t elng a candidate tor the Speaker
ship of the As-iembly.”
Secretary Robkson favors the election ci
ex Senator Frelirghuysen as successor to Mr.
f 'atiel, and Mr. Cattel < imsell is in ravor ot Mr
Freiinguuysen, about whose election people
fiOiu New Jersey h ive no doubt.
Admit? vL Porter s chance of confirmation
reccveu another blow yesterday. Wuen his
case came no in the executive session of the
•Senate »n adjournment immediately deci
de upon by n 1 aroje vote
Eflorts art making to place on the New York
Central Railroad titty new convenient cars for
the transportation of csttle, the cars to contain
all the newly introduced contrivances for feed
ing, watering, and resting the animals.
A larnL r’s boy on Muscatine island, Iowa,
has a very large rat which he has domesticated
and trained to do several things —among them
the getting upon irs hind feet, and at a"signal
trom its little mister, attempting to crow like a
rooster. The rat will follow the boy as a puppy
does its master.
It is reported iu Washington that the family
of Robert E. Lee were much mortified at the
gratuitous eflort of Senator McCreery to have
the Arlington estate restored to them. They
declare that they did not authorize the attempt,
and have not entertained the idea of recovering
the property.
It re stated that Senator Fenton’s resolutions
ou the New York custom house have produced
an unusual amount of squirming among certain
New York officials. General Merritt has been
in Washington tor some days, helping to work
up the case. Important revelations are pre
dicted.
During our late rebellion the society of friends
in Great Britain contributed more than $500,000
in gold tor the relief of freedmen in distress,
and now, through the medium of the friends in
this country, they ask contributions for the re
lief of the women and children and other non-
combatant victims of the war in France.
Daring the present year 584 vessels, with a
total tonnage of 292,699 tons, arrived in the
port of Montreal from the sea; showing an in
crease of 104 vessels and 41,142 tons over last
year’s returns. During the same period, there
arrived at the same port from the United States,
through Canadian canals, 539 sailing vessels and
15 steamers, with an aggregate of 389,380 tons,
showing an increase over last year’s returns ot
189 vessels and 117,042 tons.
A Cincinnati correspondent avers that while
passing a Wesleyan Female College, where
youDg ladies go to “ receive the last touches
of grace and gracefulness,” a feeble lady, hang
ing on her husband’s arm, wa3 cheerily saluted
from the group of misses in the yard with;
“Say! what are you boldin’ on to him for?
He ain’t a goin to run ofl ” TheD, in the word9
ot Artemus Ward, they all remarked, “ te-hee.”
He thinks they must have nearly finished their
education.
The water in the streams and lakes in the
Ottawa district is rising rapidly. This rise in
the water and the great fall has been predicted
by tbe Indians and trappers. They were led
to expect it from the unerring instinct of the
wild animals. The muskrat did not commence
to build his winter dwelling until late in the fall,
and then he took pains to build it very high
oat cf the water, allowing lor the expected rise
in the lakes or streams.
Surratt.—John H Surratt, who recently
told to empty benches, in New York, the story
of his connection with the assassination oi
Lincoln, has published a card in which he ex
plains that he does not appear as an exponent
ot political principles, and wonders at the
severity with which the Democratic press has
treated him VVe do not suppose any body re
garded his lecture as a contribution to political
polemics, and he flatters himsef “ most con-
eumedly” it he thinks it is capable of such a
construction. F(r pie dislike him and hia
lecture not on political grounds, but simply
because-i hey do not deem the autobiography of
crime fit paouluai ior the iyceum.
It is reported that Commodore Vanderbilt
has pureb red tbe SbeboyrraD and Fond du Itac
railroad, aud w h take possession on January 1.
Under ice new management the completion of
me road to the Mi-si= 3 ippi will f*ehastened. A
iine ol steamers writ b- paced upon the route
between She bo g ,n and Granu Haven next
-prine, to run in c •-mecu *n with : he road, tnus
i.'idling a through iue m N w York, via me
Dcror md >1 1 *»uk Great vVesmrn and Nev
York. C utrai rail*a;.s
A.. 1
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2, 1STO. |
We received the to!lowing ti uu Mr. J R
Lewis, ihe Siate School Comm -siouer, and as
it may be of some interest to our readers in th*
couthy and ciiy we publish it, and the Lmtel-
LIGENcer being a triced to education will use
all proper means to help, aid aud forward the
-interestof our people:
DErARTiiiNT rip KnucATtaK, State of Ga„
ofll.e Slat .-ciool
U a. ta, era.. L'tcember 12,
J. I Whitaker, Ed. Atlanta Intelligencer, At
lanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: B lieving that you desire the
most thorough and prompt execution ot the
Public- School law enacted oy the 1 ist General
Assembly, and that it can only be accomplished
by securing active, intelligent, houest. and im
partial school officers, 1 desire to eniret your
sympathies and labors in aid of efforts to secure
the choice ot such men, at the electiou to bo
held in each Militia District, incorporated town,
and ward ot any city, on the first Saturday in
January next Four school officers m each are
to be elected, viz: Three School Trustees, to
serve three, two, and one years, respectively,
and one member ot County Board ol Educa
tion, to serve two years.
I trust that pointed! and all other di (Terences
Will be made subordinate to the more important
consideration oi the educational interests of the
State, and that in the selection of these officers
the principal questions will be whether the can
didate is an earnest and sincere advocate ot the
Public School System, and competent to per
form the duties.
You will bear in mind that the County Board
ol Education are to elect a Secretary, who is
the County School Commissioner. Ha is the
only salaried officer iu the system, aud the most
important of oil.
It is verry essential that a wise selection should
be made. Ot this officer the Superintendent of
Public Instruction of Virginia, says: “He should
be a man ot force, purity, education, influence,
and popularity. His chief duties consist in ex
plaining Ahe school laws, examining and in-
structing teachers, counseling District Trustees,
apportioning funds, auditing accounts, attend
ing to all school interests, aau promoting gen
erally a spirit of education among the people.
A perlect County Superintendent of Schools
would be a young man, or middle aged man, of
successful experience as a teacher, ploasant
measures, irreproachable character, good speak
ing abilities, architectural taste, a turn for bu*-
iness. energy, talent, prudence, sound opinions,
public spirit, zeal tor the education of the peo
ple, and faith in the Public School System.
The man recommended lor the office should be
one wbo combines the most of these qualifica
tions, among thode whoso services can be ob
tained.”
The pay of tire County School Commissioner,
as fixed by the law is three dollars ($3) for each
day actually employed in the discharge of the
duties required by the act, the County Board
having power to determine the number of days
he shall be employed.
The remuneration should secure a man pos
sessing many ot the above qualifications.
I shall be most happy to co-operate with you,
and all interested, to secure the fullest benefit*
of tbe system for your county, and will cheer
fully furnish any intormation at my command.
1 am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. R. Lewis,
State School Commissioner.
Bo Beady fur Them.
We urge the Executive Committee of the
Democratic party ot Bibb county to have all
their preparations lor the arrest of illegal voters
thoroughly made. Let them have blank war
rants ready to fill up with the names ot repea
ters and swindlers just as soon as they have
deposited - their fraudulent ballots. The inla-
mous election law declares there shall be no
challenges at the polls, but no where says ille
gals voters shall not be arrested. Let the Rad
ical repeaters and ballot box stutters kaow, the
fire* day, they are waiebcd. and that the v. ry
first one Ol Idem ttiai ajcempfa iu'oueat will oo
handled by the law, mstanter. A ^ood dose ot
this physic administered to-day—ii tnere is any
need for it—will cure the disease in its first
stage. Have plenty of blank warrants on band,
then, aud when a m :q attempts to vote illegally,
harness him at one j.
Georgia, Bide County, personally
came , was on oatn, suth that, to the
best ot his knowledge and oeiiei, did, on
this, day "t December, 1870, iu the said
county oi B.ub, comma tbe odense ol felony
ay illegally voting at tne electiou uow being
tu id for members or i he Legislature ami county
officers ; an i d- ponenr malica this affidavit that
a warrant nrey ii-sue ior ui» arre.tt.
oworn to an J sun irined belore me this
day oi December, 1879
Warrant.
Georgia, Bibb County. -To any Sherifi,
Deputy Sberiti, Coroner, Constable, or Marshal
oi said Stale, greeting:
makes oatn hs-iore me that, on this,
day ol December, 1870, iu the county
aioresaid, did commit a telony by ille
gally voting. You are, therefore, com minded
to arrest the body of said , and bring him
bet ire me or some other judicial officer of this
State, to be dealt with as the law directs. You
will also levy on a sufficiency ot the property
of said accused to pay the cost iu the event of
his final conviction. Herein tail not.
, J. P. [L. e]
P. S.—Since writing the above, we are in
formed that blank warrants haye been primed
by the Executive Committee and can be pro
cured from arty one of them. Wc append the
form ot the affidavit and warrant to De used —
Bullock has attempted to create the impression
among the negroes that they cannot be arrested
ior anything they may do at this election, until
three days alter theelection. This is their idea,
as we learn ; bat illegal voting is felony, and
the Constitution exempts from arrest except tor
“ treason, telony and breach ot tbe peace.” The
right ot arrest is indisputable. Let it be exer
cised, if the necessity arises, treely and fearless
ly.—Macon Telegraph and Messenger, Dee. 20.
From the Nashville Union End American,
Jcdsment Azainst General Pillow.
It will be seen by reference to the proceed
ings in the House of Representatives yesterday,
that a petition was presented for Gen. Pillow,’
asking the State to take charge of the case in
the Federal Court against Major J. J. Murphy
aud himself aud iu favor of Kiddie & Co. We
published a few days since a detailed account
of the trial aud judgment in this cause. Gen
eral Pillow, in 1861, while in command at Mem
phis, as the senior Major General of the Ten
nessee forces, before the Tennessee troops were
tamed over to the Confederate States, by
authority of the State seized upon
some fiat boats loaded with coal which
belonged to Riddle & Co., citizens of Pitts
burg, Pa. Since the war Riddle & Oo.
have brought suit against General Pillow and
the other officers who acted under him iu the
seizure of the coal. In the recent trial before
the Federal Court at Memphis, Judge Etnmons
denied belligerent rights to the State, and held,
therefore, that General Pillow and those acting
with him must be held iu the light of trespass
ers. The result was a verdict against General
Pillow and Major J. J. Murphy for tha value of
the coal.
As the coal was taken for the State and used
by the State, there can be no doubt that the
State is morally, if not legally bound to protect
and defend the defendants in this cause and
save them harmless aganist any damages which
may be imposed by the Federal Court. g
Intimidating Votary—i’Ae insolent mu
latto who is running lor .Congress in this Dis
trict on the R idical ticket, made a speech Mon
day night, at the City Hall to the negroes, in
which he used the loilowing threats: He said
that if any negro voted the Democratic ticket
he would De denied all privileges ot church
memtk.rship—he should neither worship nor
commune with hi3 fellow members—that his
children should be driven trom Sunday school,
and denied even the privileges ol the seecular
scnools under Radical control. A curse ot t>it-
ter, malignant ostiacism, social and religious,
was pronounced upou all wuodid not vote me
Radical ticket. I'ms .unam > is language was
uea»i and taken down by Democrats present,
and will oe sworn to, if necessary. oetore a jury
in me Uuited Stales Court It wt-i luteaded to
also oy a Uni e<i mates revenue {final wno was
present aud wiluom reproof. These are tacts.
- Savannah itepublican
Yesterday ag> *l many illegal votes were
potted—,>ai ucuiarly lrom Jones county Batsing
inrougu tne turong o' negroes wo beard a uoisy
o;.e among tneai sa. : “ To-in >rr.»w, ooys, do
Houston nl-'oT- S j S -1 C I'll! ig, and Cla if gio
urn fits ’ — IcMjTaylt <fe Jf.stinger.