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ANTA~ GEORGIa7
tesday, April iO, 1871.
i. P. n. B. Yomig’a speech.
.• d mtch ol our editorial pace U'-day
u excellent pptech H our immediate Rep-
repreotatative in Congress II n. P. M. B.
Young. It should cou.mai.d the ...teution and
careful reading of his people.
I'olted States Circuit Court.
lion. Wm. B. Wood, United States Circuit
Judge, arrived in Savannah last Wednesnay,
and will sit with Judge Erskine holding the
Circuit Court.
Dcmocra'lc Cialnn.
It is now prety certain that Governor English
has been re-elected Governor of Connecticut,
and the returns from the municipal elections
in the West, in Missouri and Michigan, exhibit
large Democratic gains. These results show
that the movement ol the IU micraey is onward
both in the East and the West.
A Proteat Acolusl the OEatrlct Court.
The gnmil jury of Effingham county, pre
sented a protest against the District Court, od
the gr unds ihat there was no necessity for
said court, and that the attempt to organize it ie
contrary to both the spirit and letter of the law.
White Men t» be Tried by Xejro Juries.
The New York Tribune’s Washington cor
respondent says that Htorney General Aker-
man has expressed the opinion that much ol the
force of the Ku- Klux bill, which lately passed
the House, was sacrificed when the Hall amend
ment, abolishing the iron clad oath, was adopt
ed. The telegraphic dispatches of last night in
form us (bat, in th>- Senate, that amendment
was stricken out before the bill wa3 passed.—
The bill in this shape, should it become a law,
will practically place persons indicted under it
entirely at the mercy of the negroes, in several
of the States. In South Carolina, for instance,
a corporal’s guard ol white men, who can take
that oalb, cannot be found. And yet a South
ern wl ite man, an i a lawyer ol some standing,
approves such a monstrous law!
IIovt & Jones, Bankki s —Among the most
euterprisiDg hod accommodating banking corn-
pan cs in Atlanta, tire linn of Hoyt & Jones
stands conspicuous. With an ample capital,
they are ready at all tint's to accommodate
business nun with dome-tic and foreign ex
change, gold, silver, sticks, railroad securities,
&c Mr. D.irvin Jones, as Teller of the Geor
gia National Bank, has had much experience
in the bal king business ot Atlanta, and is ex
tensively and lavi rably kt own to all the busi
ness men ol the c ty. This bank is well worthy
a liberal share of public pntron-ge.
Man Terribly Beaten.—This afternoon,
we are informed, that a nun who was intoxi
cated, was arr&.ted by iln- | ohea on the corner
of Peachtree street. He i esisted a little, and
was terribly beaten by the officers with their
clubs.
Whiic it is the duty of the police to preserve
order and arrest defendants, yet to abuse the
power and maltreat citizens unnecessarily, is an
outrage on the community, and particularly so
upon the person abused. Let this case be look
ed into, and let the p< ople see whether the city
officers are ready to lake fines out of the pockets
of their employers as they are to assess them
upon other offenders against the law.
“ Pater blockade ’’ was an expression fre
quently uttered during the war—but the people i
on Peachtree ptreet have no sui It adjective as
paper to qualify the bit ckai’e of iheirstrcct.—
The large house in the t-tr < t It in reaches front
pavement to pavement vtitn its huge sides
braced up a> ninst the crushed boughs of the 01-
natneulal shade Irees on either aide. No vehicle
cau pass and (he - old house, us it stands mo
tionless and almost immovable, is Voted by all a
“ grand nuisance.”
Governor Gottry on I' cNldcnt Grant.
A correspondent ot the New York Herald
has lately interviewed Governor Geary ot Penn
sylvania, who, it will be remembered, in his
message to the Lcgis'alurc of lit t State, enter
ed a very strong and ear nest protest agaim-t
the act of Congress which authorizes the inter
ference of the military with elections. In the
interview the claims of several prominent men
lor the Presidency were discussed,and in the Gov
ernor’s estimation, “ the man who has the least
chance for winning the next Presidential race is
Grant.” In answer to the quts i n—"Do you
think Cameron is giving him any assistance,”
he replied :
“ Cmnt rou has politically luTc 1 every one he
has taken hold of. Why, Giant lolj me once
that he understood Cameron thoroughly ; that
he spurned him as he spurned the dust under
his teer, yet now we see the two working seem-
ingly in perteet h armony. Cameron has Grant
under Ida thumb.”
Henry Ward Beecher on ’I ho Kn-Klux
Bill.
Wha'eAcr may be said of Henry Ward Beech-
eu’a excentricities, or sensational d splavs in the
pulp:', he is ei titled to a high pi tec amongst the
bold and original thtr.kers ol the dry. When-,
ever he touches a subject he hand!, s it with a
masters hand. Upon the qn. stion of slavery, in
days gone by, lie has dealt the South many
a heavy blow. We consider it one of the favor
able sigus ot the times that this pop d tr divine
has given utterance to opinions and views ol the
situwtion of alia rs in the South, winch are di
rectly in conflict with the policy of the Wash
ington dynasty. In a leading editorial of the
Christum Uuiouto: Ust week be con ie mined the
measure, llieu and now pending in Congress,
commonly known as the “Ku-K iv bill,” as
“fli.gri.ntlv unconst t' tiot’hl,” a 1 u m wise as a
measure of policy. Upon the la - r point he
aays:
“The attempt to secure order and morality in
the South by Fn'cra' military suasion, at this
day, is an in pert m nee not to be to orated.—
Justine and or r in ti e Southern States are ex
ceedingly desirable, ’ tit they canoo be im
port. d ihtlh< r Tl.t o ly.u.et and th. conscience
aremver ni.< d t. > d It may b-. needlui to
maintain the frame*' rk of s.»c e y a d the form
ot government by ioree But that done, force
camot make men Pin i, ju-»i, g.uerous, or
peaceable Even ii lore. c> uld vvoiko edience,
to use t rce upon Euch u ream in Line u peace
wifi ts~inttaliy change the native t our gov-
eiun e t, and hi’ i' is too large a j me to pay
lor Older n a hundred A .» amasor Lo isianas.”
Tbe K.ii Eitix Bill.
The tehgraph.o u spaicues ot Saturday even
ing bring the intelligence that the Senate
amendments to the KuKiux bill, reqriring the
iron-clad oath from jurors in the Federal courts
and extending the right of the Prc ident to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus to tne end oi
the next regular s.srion, were rejected in the
House; also, the amendment ot which Mr.
Sherman was the author, asse&ing damages
upon communities tor Ku-Klux outrages. Atter
this action, a committee of conference was ap
pointed on the part of the Hous i.
This action of the House, if sustained bv the
Senate, and the clear majority 1 y v hich the
amendments were de'eated, renders this result
highly probable, deprives the bill t three very
objectionable matures; but i: r. 1 still
retain pr. visions which areonttag is violations
of the Constitution, and dsngeren- to the publ'c
liberty. It makes President Gray* >”cfr.tor of
the country, by giving him the p w : ' inter
fere in the domest c afi r. f t: 6 s, anc
to suspend the writ of hub. r. c.uj :;s a: iis
discretion. It suiKfcqJfs jLp S’i _■ ;
giving the Federal courts JurUdRU n <
which rightfully belong to tue jur:s<i
the former. There is no authority in the Fed
eral Constitution or ary ol Bg aipe/idiuenta lor
this flagrant violation oi the rignu t h - S»a»e«
One more step has been taken to« a G ihe final
overthrow o! R.'i ut.lican icsdoi'iou^ j o,.
fStablishment ot on empire, in ihi. co'u.; y.
:rts .by
•tenses
on of
Eulorcemeal of Fourteenth Amendment
SPEECH OF HOnTp. M. B. YOUNG,
OF GEORGIA,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 4, 1871.
Tbe Ho-«c bavins ander consideration the bin (N.
R. No. 310) to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution oi the United States,
and lor other purposes —
Mr. YOUNG said:
Mr. Speaker—I did not intend to address
the House on he great questions involved in
this bill, but learning that several of my south
ern friends who had intended to speak had
withdrawn tram the contest for the floor, I feel
that, not only as the Representative of my own
district, but as one of the Representatives of
that class ol citizens at whose honor and whose
liberties this bill is particularly intended to
strike, I cannot remain silent; and after listen
ing to all the false charges, the malignant as
persion, and the false accusations made against
the | eople ol the south during the debate, I
ieel, sir, to be siknt would be criminal.
1 stand here to-day the Representative of a
people whom I believe to have been grossly
wtotigeu and oppressed; a people who, after
lour years of a bloody, devastating war, la:d
down thtir arms and intrusted tbeir liberties to
your geuerosity. There never was an army dis
tanced after so long and so vio eDt a struggle,
with such quietness as were these armies of the
Confederacy. Worn, weary, hungry, shoeless,
and almost naked, and bleeding at every pore,
but gailant and still true to their honor, they
surrendered to what they believed to be the
magnanimity, or, ii you please, the mercies, of
whom, sir ? Not to the armies of a foreign
prince, not to the purchased hirelings of an in
vading despot, but to the armies composed of
their own countrymen ; men of their own flesh
anil blood, in whose honor, in whose magna-
n mity and sense ot justice they believed they
could trust.
With ihe kind treatment of the Federal gen
erals—and lei me say here, sir, that every soldier
ot the army of Northern Virginia acknowledges
with pleasure the kind and considerate treat
ment with which General Grant accepted thl>
surrremler ot General Lee and his army—I say,
whn this kind tieatment and the lair promises
of protection made by tue Federal commanders,
these soldiers threw down their arms and re
turned in peace to their ruined homes to abite
the consequences and accept the situation. 1
quote trom General Grant:
“ General Lee’s great influence throughout the
whole Mouth caused his example to be fol
lowed, and to-day the result is that the armies
lately under his leadership are at their homes,
desiriDg peace and quiet, and their arms are in
the hands ot our ordnance officers.”
Than began to be inagurated the schemes of
reconstruction. The first was the policy of
President Johnson, which was readily accepted
by the Southern States, but which was not rat
ified by Congress. We then had the recon-
slrfiction laws of Congress thrust upon us.
Tbe^e also were, alter a time, accepted by the
States of the South, and after five, almost six
years ot profound peace, these States are at lest
admitted to representation in both branches of
Congress. You came to the South after the
close ot the war and overthrew their State gev
ernmi nts, or rather yon required the people to
overthrow their own State governments, repu
diating their State dehts, repudiating their own
p; hate debts and contracts. You required them
to ratify the emancipation of their own slav s,
thus stripping them, in many cases, of their en
tile property, without remuneration or promise
of lernune ation. You required them to set up
and establish State governments in the lace ot
and in defiance of your own Constitution and
laws. Y. U required them to trame and ade pt
Constitutions for their government which stri p-
ped them, t' the right dearest to every American
citizen, the right to vote and hold office. You
rot only required them to renounce these righ .-,
but you required them at the same time to clothe
wiiii all tlie rights and immunities of Americ n
citizenship the igni rant black man who had so
recently been their slaves, and thus, in many oi
the States ot the South, placing the black man
in government and authority over the white
man, whom you deprived of his political rights
You sent your Government officers into those
Stntes to collect the revenues, and tor months
and ye re, while the levenues ot these impov
erished districts were flowing into your Treas
ury, you pi rsistently retusea them, in violathm
of the Constitution, you refused them repre-
sen’ation, though they were daily praying lor
Admission to Congiess and to be permitted to
par cipate in the Government, even under tee
proscriptive restrictions you had forced them to
accept.
A tier putting in motion these State govern
ments you sent the armed forces of the United
States into these States of the South during the
election to awe the people and in many ca es
deter them trom coming to the polls, and thus
by force ot arms controlling the elections, put
ting your instruments in power—men who hud
nothing iD common with the people over whom
they were sent to rule. Under all this wrong,
oppression, and punitive leg slatlon these peo
ple have been quiet and peaceable, and they
have borne with forbearance and Christian for
titude all these wrongs, and volumes of others
which it would take me days and weeks to re
count. They have prayed to the Government
tor relief. This moment, sir, there are ten thou
sand applications, praying for the removal of
political disabilities lying unheeded in the com
mittee-rooms ci this Capitol.
In the tit ate ot Georgia, which I have the
honor in part to represent on the floor of this
House, there is not one white man in every
twenty ot the intelligent, law abiding, tax-pay
ing cittzt ns ot the State who is eligible to hold
a Federal office. But, sir, every black man in
the S ate above the age ot twenty-one years is
eligible to hold any and every office in the gif
ot the people or the Executive ; and yet,sir, tli
Slate ot Georgia has the most liberal constitu
tion ot any State in the South. But we have
borne all this and much more in peace, I can
hardly say with patience. I can give a few facts
coucernt g the expense to the people of my
Mate ot this intsmous rule ot the Legislature ot
Gt-orgia, and it affords a tale ot plunder and
illegality without a precedent in the hiEtory ot
de iberative assemblies. I can only give the
records ol the last and fifth session of the
Legislature, lasting one hundred and twelve
days.
I'nis session cost in pay and mileage of mem
bers f330,000. Ot this amount $82,807, or over
one fourth, was for clerk hire. The clerk hire
alone cost more the expenses of former Legis
latures. And all this for one session out ol five.
Was there ever a greater outrage perpetrated
upon a people ? 1 will further quote, sir, from
the reports of the Comptroller ot the State oi
Georgia, which shows that the expenses of Leg
islatures ot Georgia for nine years previous fell
far short ot the present ODe Legislature:
for )S55 and 1066, (biennial session) J16S.446 08
ForlSST 114,242 25
For 1S5S 95.539 40
For 1S59 115,84 9«
For 1 Still 111.42? 53
tor 1861 62,848 36
For ls,C2 94,601 66
Toia' expenses for nine years 866,385 53
Expenses o. last Legislature lor little over
two years ", 979,055 00
Excess $112,669 47
“Showing that the expenses oi the last Legis
lature for pay of its own memi-ers and officers
to be $lld,G(39 47 more than that of other Leg-
islatures for uine years ! And, what is more,
during one oi these nine years (1863) the cur
rency that the members then received was
worth but five cents on the dollar for gold. And,
what makes the matter look still more extraor
dinary, during six ot these years (1855, 1S66,
1S58,1859, and 1860) the number ot the mem
bers the Legislature ranged from fifty-four to
eighty-two more than the present Legislature.
From 1855 to 1S60 each county had a Senator;
now there is but one Senator to three counties.
In 1855 to 185S there were 11S senators and
155 representatives—273 in all; 54 more than
the present Legislature, which consists ol 44
senators and 175 representatives—219 in all;
ia 1858.126 senators and representatives—289
in aU; 70 more than the present Legislature In
1859 and 1860 there were 132 senators and 169
representatives—101 in all. or 82 members more
ihan the present Legislature. In 1861, 1862.
o d l8S3. (tnroe ol :he nine year.-,) there w.-re
45 senators and 169 re pro sen tad ves—212 in all,
and only six members less than the presen;
Legislature.
“ And mark it here that these nine years’ ex
penditures were made when the people of Geor
gia had from five to seven hundred million dol
lars i f property, while the two yens’ expenai-
ter s ’.ire made wbaa they had bi t ab. ut two
liu: fired mim >’i do!' :rs of property
* rii-it o ...st amount, $979,035,000, over
$125,000 was tor clerk hire by the tast Legisla
ture.
“ The comptroller’s reports, from which we
obtained the above gross amounts expended for
members’ and officers’ pay for the years above
stated, did not separate the gross am >unt paid
tor clerk hire except lor the years 1S60, 1861,
1S62 and 1803. For these years the pay of the
Secretary oi he senate and Clerk of the House
: rid their cl< rss, vas as follows :
F.r 1860 $15,564
FirlS«i 7 880
For 1863 12,425
For 1863 8,800
Total $43.896
“ Fcrty-three thousand eight hundred and
ninety ~:s dollars for clerk-hire against over one
hundred and tweuty-five thou ana dofiars for a
little over two years, will show an average ex
penditure, I think, ot anout six dollars to one
by this last legislature, when compared with
these other Legislatures, for clerk-hire.”
Mr. 8peaker, we are told constantly on the
floor of this House that there is no peace en
joyed by ‘ Union men ” at the South. We have
been repeatedly told that, ever since thec’oseof
the war, a spirit of discontent acd disloyalty
existed in all the States of the South. General
Grant, with no escort but a few members of his
stafl, visited, I believe, every one ot the South
ern States, and in making his report what says
he about the disloyalty acd the discontented
spirit of the Southern people ? Hear the Presi
dent Mark his words, sir:
“ My observations lead me to the conclusion
that the citizens of the Southern States are snx
ions to return to self-government, within the
Union, as soon as possible; that while recon
structing they want and require protection from
the Government; that they are in earnest in
wishing to do what they think is required by
the Government not humiliating to them es
citizens.”
And, sir, I endorse every word ot General
Grant here recorded; it wa3 uttered in a spirit
of kindness, and it is every word the trutn.
They are anxious to do that which is required
by the Constitution and laws, but they are not
willing to be humiliated.
Is it a surprise, sir, that unlawful acts will oc
cur while these States are bound down by the
proscriptive measures which place such Legis
latures in power over the people? And yet,
sir, there are, according to the statistics of crime,
fewer acts of lawlessness recorded in these
States than in the States of the North. Geor
gia has always been distinguished for her mod
eration and the conservative spirit of her peo
ple. Ia the election for the adoption of the
new reconstructed Constitution, although a ma
jority of the voters were white men, the C n-
stiturion was adopted by a large majority; and
I firmly believe the Democratic candidate for
Governor was elected, and that he was swin
dled out of it by illegal and fraudulent means.
But we have borne all ot it in peace. Listen
to what the Governor of Georgia says of the
recent election in that State:
“ The election held on the 20th, 21st, and 22d
of December last, taken as a whole, was as near
a peaceful, fair, and unbiased expression of pub
lic opinion and preference through the ballot-
box as it is possible to have had in this State
at this time.
“ So far as my knowledge extends, there was
not a voting precinct in the State where votes
were objected to, either by the managers or by
partisan leaders, on the ground that the persons
ofleriDg to vote were colored. All parties and
all citizens freely concede the right of the black
man to the ballot. But it cannot, and I pre
sume will not be denied that, in many cases,
improper and unlawful means were exercised
to compel the colored citizen to cast ballots of a
different character from those cast by a majority
ot his race, and in opposition to his own pre
ference, but the enthusiastic practice ot various
devices to influence the votes of citizens bas
been notable, both in this country and abroad,
ever since the elective franchise has been en
joyed ; and we cannot expect to prove an ex
ception to the natural eflect of partisan ambi
tion for party success, stimulated by personal
desire for afficial position. The great contest
in this and other Southern States has been to
secure a universal admission of acquiescence in
the right of the colored man to vote, and this
seems to have been fully gained in Georgia.
The question of how or for whom the colored
man shall vote, is secondary and local.
“ I repeat, that the contest has been to secure
from the people of our State a universal admis
sion ot or acquiescence in the right ot the col
ored man to civil and political privileges ; and,
in the presence of the late election, no sane
man will deny that this desirable result has been
accomplished. To be sure there have been ex
ceptional cases in parts of the State where this
right has not been fully accorded, but the num
ber is comparatively inconsiderable, and should
not be allowed to prejudice a judgment in favor
of the State as a whole.”
This is the evidence of the Governor of Geor
gia. Who has read, sir, without a shudder the
recent election law passed by the Legislature of
Georgia, and under which the election was held ?
For three long years of oppression, fraud and
maladministration by the Executive and a so-
called Legislature we have suffered in silence
and prayed for the dawn of day. We have
,-utfered long, keenly, sorrowfully, prayerfully;
out, thanks be to God, I believe not in vaiD.
From all our suffering, pain, and tribulation,
our friends o'f the North have learned a lesson.
They have at last discovered the jron hand
reached out to grasp their liberties and to crush
the Constitution to atoms. They have started
from their apathy. They have awakened from
a dream, and they are coming to the rescue oi a
lorn and broken Constitution. The sun that
riso3 fresh-from the mountains of New Hamp
shire bids us hope for the future. The day is at
last beginning to dawn upon us, atter years ol
dark and cheerless night. You have played
wild havoc with the rights of the States and
the liberties of the people long enough, and
when they have complained of your inroads and
encroachments upon the Constitution, you have
lulled their fears to sleep by crying “ Outrages,”
“ Ku Klux,” “ Rebellion in the South.” And
while with one hand you pointed to the glowing
pictures and eloquent recitals ol wrongs, outra
ges, and murders in the South that never exist
ed, you have reached with the other deep clown
into the Treasury and taken out and squandered
hundreds ot millions of the people’s money.—
You have not only impoverished the States of
the South, but you have levied heavy, burden
some, and enormous taxes upon the people of
he North. You have not only taken possession
by orce of arms of the elections and prostituted
the elective francises in the States of the South,
but elated with your temporary success in those
downir;.fid. n and oppressed eistricts, you have
boldly -Jared to try tne experiment with the loy-
u! States of tue North. It is fresh in the mem
ory of every memoer of this House how the
President attempted to take possession of the
ballot-box in the state ot New York at the re
cent election in that State, and by for force ot
aims, by the “ moral eflect ol his guns,” carry
the election in the interest ot his own (action.
Sir, I thank God that there are but few things
in this world out ot which we cannot get some
good. During the six years since the war, and
while at every step made by the majority ol
this House in its wicked march of reconstruc
tion, you were told by the small but devoted
band of Democrats that these unconstitutional
measures would one day come back upon you.
You were told that these same acts would in
the future serve as precedents to be used by
some party or faction to deprive even the loyal
States of their rights under the Constitution.
But who so credulous, sir, as to believe this
prohecy would so soon be verified ? It was all
right to override and to sneer at the rights and
liberties of a conquered people; all right to
send the soldiers of the United States to brow
beat and bully the people ot poor downtrodden
Georgia; all right to crerte mobs, under the
name of militia, composed of cut-throats,
hieves, robbers, and scoundrels, to seize and
control the ballot-boxes ol unfortunate North
Carolina, and place in power such monsters oi
moral depravity as Holden, Bergen, an.1 Kirk;
all right to deprive the people in ah these States
of the Sonth of the right to think freely, to
speak freely, and to vote freely. All these out
rages were tolerated, countenanced, indorsed;
but when in the last election in New York your
President thought proper to send over a few
scldiers to awe the people and give his friends
in that State the “moral support of his guns”
the American people stood aghast.
Mr. Speaker, the Republican party has taken
a stride too lar. The sending of those troops
to control the elections in New York, Pennsyl
vania, and Maryland was to you the crossing of
the Rubicon. You have crossed the river, you
have made the passage, and this proposed legis
lation to-day shows that you are continuing
your invading march. Sir, I hope the House
will pause. Why the necessity ot this legisla
tion ? Is the President not clothed with all the
necessary powers by the Constitution to enforce
the laws and insure peace ? Has it come to the
pass that the existence ol a mob of probably
not more than twenty men in any State or iD
any locality can justify us in this hurried man
ner investing the President with this imperial
power? I ask members topmse. Tc-day we
constitute a high court, and the already man
gled form of the Constitution stands in trial be
fore us; will yon condemn it ?
Sir, it is in danger. I fear the result; hut,
thanks to God, there is a higher court, a higher
tribunal to which we may appeal—the great
tribunal ot the American people To them we
■nay appea’ to reverse the decision, acd to re
- ore the Constitution to its pristine parity. Mr.
-pe lie l appeal to tuis IIuu-x: to give my peo-
;-ls pea,!-. Give them the peace oi liberty;
give ’hem the peace you promised when we in
augurated your President; give them the peace
which can only come from a restoration of their
rights as American ci* : z»na.
Mr. Speaker, I desire to call the attention of
the House to one point in this bill which, to
my surprise, has not been fully developed by
any one ol my friends on this side et the House.
One ot the great frrad mental rights ot the citi
zen, and one whicn has never been denied by
the Government ot Great Britain, is the right of
the accused to be tried by a jury ol his country
men or his vicinage. In the first section ot the
biil before us, inline eleven, it provides “that all
ofienses enumerated in the bill shall be tried by
United States Courts.”
This, sir, deprives from sitting upon juries for
all such trials, and in all the cases to be tried
under the provisions of this bill, every man who
served In any of the armies of the confederacy,
and every one who sympathized with or parti
cipated in any way, or in any capacity, in the
confederate cause. Though he may have been
a youth during the wa^^and never have borne
arms, yet he is deprived of sitting upon the
juries chosen to try all the cases that may come
under the provisions of ibis bill. In doing so
yon confer on the black not equal, but superior
rights to those enjoyed by the white man. This
provision of the bill vinpilly turns over to the
mercies of nezro juries every white man, wo
man, and child who may be charged with any
of the offenses enumerated in the bill, in nearly
every State ot the South, white men from sit
ting on juries in the United States courts. I
here desire to call the attention ot the House to
a statute in Brightly’s digest, volume two, page
384, which establishes the qualifications lor ju
rors of United States ccuBte :
“ 1. Iu addition to thelxisting causes of dis
qualification and challenge of grand and petit
jurors in the courts of the United States, the
following are hereby declared and established
D&mely: without duress and coercion to have
taken up arms or to have joined any insurrec
tion and rebellion against the United States; to
have adhered to any rebfiilion, giving it aid and
comfort; to have given,^directiy or indirectly,
any assistance in money, arms, horses, clothes,
or anything whatever, tow for the use or bene
fit oi any person or persons whom the person
giving such assistance knew to have joined, or
or to be about to join, any insurrection or rebel
lion, or to have resisted, or to be about to resist
with force of arms, the execution ol the laws ot
the United States, or who he had good ground
to beiieve bad joined, or was about to join, aDy
insurrection or rebellion, or had resisted, or was
about to resist, with force ot arms, the execu
tion of the laws ot the United States, or to have
counseled and advised any person or persons to
join any insurrection and rebellion, or to resist
with force of arms the laws of the United
States.
“2. At each and every- term of any court of
the United States the district attorney, or other
person acting for and on* behalf of the United
States in said court, may move, and the court
in their discretion may vacuire the clerk to ten
der to each and evosy- p£?Bon who may be sum
moned to serve as a grand or petit juror or
venireman or talesman aa said court, the follow
ing oath or affirmation, namely: “You do sol
emnly swear (or affirm, & the case may be) that
you will support the Constitution ot the United
States of America; that you have not, without
duress and constraint, taken up arms or joined
any insurrection or rebellion against the United
States; that you have not adhered to any insur-
raclion or rebellion, giving it aid and comfort;
that you have not directly or indirectly given
any assistance, in money or any other thing, to
any person or persons who you knew, or had
good ground to believe had joined, or was about
to join said insurrection and rebellion, or had
resisted or was about to resist with force oi
arms the execution of the laws of the United
States; and that you have not ccuselled or ad
vised any person or persons declining to take
said oath shall be discharged by the court trom
serving on the grand or petit jury or ventre to
which he may have been summoned.
“3. Each and every person who shall take the
oath herein prescribed, and who shall swear
falsely to any matterot fact embraced by it, shall
be held to have committed the crime of perjury,
and shall be subject to the pains and penalties
declaired against that crime.”
This provision oi the bill is. both unconstitu
tional and proscriptive. It is not aimed at vital
principle ot our constitutional liberty, but, sir,
in the desperation of party zeal, the authors of
the bill have dared here, at this advanced”period
ol the world’s ci vilization, to declare against a
principle of right which was acknowledged cen
turies ago by English kings, and has ever since
formed the basis of English liberty.
Mr. Speaker, with the right of trial before a
jury of your peer abrogated, the very genius of
our Government is destroyed. Your courts be
come but the stage ou which to enact the tra
gedy ot refined barbarity, in the torture of vic
tims whose doom had been sealed before the act
Commenced. You at once inaugurate despotism
in its most revolting torm; the despotism malig
nity controlled only for partisan purposes, the
despotism ot a mob, where passion and preju
dice usurp the throne of power, and every means
resorted to oppress and destroy a people whose
only fault is a love of the liberty guarantied by
the Constitution of their fathers.
Mr. Speaker, in recounting some of the
wrongs under which the people ol the South
have sufiered, and which they have endured with
such forbearance, I cannot pass on without call
ing the attention of the House to the condition
of South Carolina—poor, unfortunate South
Carolina! How my heart bleeds, sir, when I
think ot the condition to which the people ot
this noble State have been reduced. Tbe pages
of her history blaze with the names of some of
the grandest orators, the^figst brilliant states
men, and gallant solSiefS thiiT country has ever
produced. The Hails ol this Capitol once re
sounded with the eloquence of her statesmen,
and when she is now, as she often is, assailed on
the floor ot this House, we vainly listen for
words of el quent indignation to break forth in
her defense. But, alas! it is met with silence.
I know, sir, that the virtuous, the intelligent,
and the tax-paying citizens have no voice in
the government ot their own State. The Legis
lature that once was justly considered as tne
most intelligent and eloquent State assembly of
aDy in the Union is now the haunt ot adven
turers, thieves, and robbers. It is well known
that the last appropriation bill passed by this
shameless body was so infamously outrageous
and fraudulent that it was vetoed by the present
Governor, Scott. Just before the election in
October the negro militia, all over the State,
were armed and organized ; armed with breech-
loading rifles—I cannot name the number. My
information is that tnere were seventy thousand
rifles issued. In many localities they were in
solent, insulting, and boisterous, causing rows
and dissensions wherever tbey went.
Sir, the people ot this downtrodden State ap
peal to be permitted to take part in the admin
istration ot their own local, State affairs, and
to be relieved to some extent trom the oppres
sion aud rum brought upon them by the tnta-
mous legislation of plunderers, strangers, and
thieves. I desire to have read a letter just re
ceived by me, trom a gentleman of that State :
Chesterville, S. C., April 1, 187L
Mv Dear Sir—By your permission I will
revive the acquaintance that once existed be
tween us in the days “that man's heart felt ior
man,” and ask you to contribute your influence
in behalt of the people of this State, and espe
cially of the people of the section in which 1
live. 1 have written to Hon. A. S. Wallace,
our immediate Representative in Congress, on
tbis subject.
We have had much trouble here, and it will
not stop here, and it will not stop here unless
we can have some assurance ot better times.
We, sir, have no share in the administration ot
our local affairs. We have to pay the enormous
taxis imposed upon us by the most infamous,
irresponsible, and corrupt Legislature that ever
had a pretense of existence, and that, too, with
out any share ot representation in that body.
We have remonstrated, but in vain ; we have
petitioned, but the result has been the same;
and what is left to us you, as a Southern man,
can readily imagine. We have no need of the
bayonet to tell us that all appeal is hushed by
its appearance. All we ask is, that our rights
as citizens ol a once prosperous Government
should have some respect shown them ; that
we should have at least a small share in the
administration of the government besides the
payment of the taxes I have before alluded to.
We have no necessity tor any congressional
legislation on this subject at ♦his time. It this
cau be averted we may have some hope yet.
I hope, General, this letter, written in great
haste, may not be amiss, and its demands not
UDreatoabie, on the part of one who has known
so well and so favorably.
I am, your very respectfully,
W. A. Walker.
General P. M. B Young.
1 find, from such statistics as I am enabled to
reach at this time, that the bonded debt of the
State of South Carolina at the beginning of the
present Siate administration was about five mil
lion dollas. It has now reached the enormous
sum ot $16,000,000. I wish to call the attention
of the House to the following estimates:
The average tax ioi ten years previona to 1860 was
hut - $431,000
The year 1860 being only 392,0<J0
The tax for 1868 was 1,868,000
The taxable value of the property oi the State
in 1S60 490.000,000
Taxable vaiue in 1871 184,010,000
“It will be perceived that in 1860 the taxes
were not quite lor hundred thousand dollars on a
tax ble basis ot a out five hundred million dol
lars, whereas the taxes ot 1368 amount to $,858,-
000, on a basis of only $184.000,000; so that
» hile tn- prope; ty ol the State was reduced to
one third its former value, the taxes are in
creased nearly five hundred per cent.
“It is true that this enormous increase is com
posed, in part, oi the money spent in reconstruc
tion expenses, and perhaps some additional in
terest on the public debt. I find other items
more striking in the year:
1S5S, expenses of the Legislature $51,000
186S. expenses of the Legislature 270,000
X35S, executive expenses. 5,UX>
lS6S,execuave expenses 40,Q00
1S58, civil expenses 97,000
186S civil expenses .. . 218,0U)
“ And the legislative appropriations ior the
four months’ session which closed last month
amount to the enormous sum of $525,000.
“ Two years’ taxes are required to be paid
tbis year, amounting to over four million dol
lars, more than sevenfold of the animal tax be
fore the war.”
This is, Mr. Speaker, a frightfu 1 exhibit for
the impoverished people ot that unfortunate
State. And yet, sir, they are a peaceable, law-
abiding, chivalrouss people, and loyal to this
Government. They are, sir, daily de'am.d and
maligned because they ciy out and writhe under
the tyranny of this ignorant mob miscalled a
Legislature.
Sir, we want peace; that peace you have so
long promised us, that peace whiqh is guarantied
by the Constitution, and which to-day is enjoyed
bo the people of every State in the North and
in the West. We only ask to be permitted to
participate in tbe Government, and to feel that
it is our Government as well as yours. Restore
to us our old Government; we wish to be citi
zens of no other. We want no other Govern
ment ; it is the Government ot our lathers and
of yours; it is the Government we desire to
transmit to our posterity. The Government ol
the United States administered according to the
Constitution I believe is the best Government in
the world.
For one, sir, I can say without successful con
tradiction that since the fail of the banner of the
Lost Cause, I have labored zealously to smooth
over the bitterness and the asperities of tbe past,
and I have done all in my power to bring peace,
quiet and harmony to our distracted country.
Lawless acts have been committed in some lo
calities of the South, but to no such extent bus
been alledeed so often in this House. Lawless
acts occur everywhere. They are not produced
in the South from any spirit of disloyalty to tbe
Government; they are but the natural offspring
of oppression, insult, and outrage, perpetrated
upon the people, and lor which iliey have no
legal redress.
Mr. Speaker, there is a remedy for all these
troubles. Restore to these people their rights
under the Constitution ; restore to them the res-
ponsiLiUtioa of citizenship in the ’’Government;
extend to them Uxo hand of fellowship, and let
them know that they aio <>nce more restored to
ihe confidence oi the Government. Lift trom
them all their legal and political disabilities, pa-
don all their political ofienses. Then, sir, you
will have a country, not only bound together by
its mountains, its rivers, its laws, and its com
mon interests, but a country and a Government
bound and cemented by the affections ot its peo
ple. Padon them. It is the spirit of peace; it
is the spirit ol justice; it is the spirit of charity ;
it is the command ot God.
A Stranse Story.
„ Crushed to Death in a Cathedral Clock
The bellringer in the Cathedral of Wurtzburg
bas perished under very singular circumstances.
The church possesses a splendid elock, with
ponderous and complicated works, while a pen
dulum ol proportionate length vibrates to and
fro with a dull and monptonous “ thud.” Re
cently the
CLOCK NEEDED CLEANING,
and the ringer was deputed to superintend tin
work, though he ruefully endeavored to be ex
cused from the task. It seems that he never
willingly approached the beltry,from certain un
pleasant associations. About twenty years ago
he had killed his predecessor in office, accusing
him ot carrying on a criminal intrigue with his
wife. When brought to trial he
ESCAPED THE GALLOWS,
owing to a deficiency of legal proof.
The patronage of one of the Canona then pro
cured him the appointment vacant through the
death of his victim. Hence, it is said, arose his
superstitious dread in connection with the ueliry,
which was supposed to be haunted by the
GHOST OF THE MURDERED RING ER.
On the morning when tne clock was to be
cleaned it was suddenly stopped, and the bei i
ringer was nowhere to be found. A workman
from the town was sent lor, and ascended the
lower, when he was horrified to find tb.e pendu
turn and lower works
DRIPPING WITH BLOOD.
Upon searching further, the body of the bell
ringer was found entangled in the works, fright
fully mangled and crushed. One supposition is,
that he committed suicide by climbing up the
pendulum and then pitching himsell into the
middle ot the machinery of the clock.
But the wonder-loving gossips of the place,
with a thoroughly German
PROPENSITY FOR THE HORRIBLE,
declare that the guilty man. upon reaching the
gloomy chamber wherein the works resolved,
was horror struck by the apparition of this mur
dered predecessor sitting astride the great bal
ance-wheel oi the clock, and had then beeu
drawn into the works by a species of horrible
and
IRRESISTIBLE FASCINATION
similar to that which the rattlesnake is said to
exercise over its prey. There sat the spectr
rubbing its gory haDds with hideous glee as the
victim was slowly drawn in among the cogged-
wheeis and ratchets ot the machery. An ago
nized yell, a crushing ot bones, and all was still!
3uch, according to the Italie, is the newest le
gend ot the belfry of Wurtemburg.
Small Clippings.
The Independent calls the rabid Reds ot Pari3
the French Ku-Klux.
A man in Indiana laughed himself to death
on reading a funny tale. It was one oi Mr.
Greeley’s leaders on salt.
After two years of legal quarrelling about
the estate ot a Mr. Bennett, late of Troy, N. Y.,
his will was recently found hidden in an old bu
reau.
The Saturday Review is anxious to know the
sex ot the “ person named Tennie C. Chaflin.”
We give it up.—W. T. World.
One John M. Pitcairn is making much ado in
London because he tailed to receive a letter oi
importance, mailed at the posti ffice at 9 a. m.,
until the next day at 4 p. M. If John lived
here, he would be lost in wonder at such extra
ordinary dispatch.
That was a sly dodge of the Connecticut Re
publicans in having deputy United States Mar
shals at the poils ou Monday last in order to
spot New York lepeatcrs, when no New York
repeaters were there to be spotted. It was the
“ Sharp game” over again.—N. T. Herald.
The following marriaee notice appears in tbe
Bangor Whig: “in South piolunkus, by Rev.
Hugh Reed, Col. J. F. Mwitchell, of Oldtown,
and Clara L. Clemons, of South Molunkus No
cards, no cake, nobody’s business. Clam chow-
da - this evening, March 22. Friends and rela
tives are invited.”
A lad, arrested a few days ago for theft, when
taken before the magistrate and asked what his
occupation was, frankly answered, “ Stealing P
“ Your candor astonishes me,” said the judge.
“I thought it would,” replied the lad, “seeing
how many big ’uns there be in the same busi
ness as is ashamed to own up their trade.”
One of tbe benefits to the morals oi a com
munity ot having a good theatre has been shown
in the tact that since the opening of the dra
matic temple in Titusville, Pa., the low concert
saloons have been compelled to close up. The
Titusvillians deserve honorable mention lor
this.
She had him there.—The New Orleans
Picayune is responsible for the iollowing:
It is not always the practice of pretty ladies
to wear veils. No even coquetry will dispense
with ihe phasure of showing a lovely counte
nance, and the most modest and retiring beauty
likes to be admired for tbe regularity of her
features.
Tnese reflections passed rapidly through the
mind of a well-known magistrate riding up town
recently. By his side sat a lady who, by a sin
gle glimpse of her countenance, he imagined
that he knew. At last he ventured the remark
that the day was pleasant.
“Yes,” murmured she female.
“JiVhy do you wear a veil ?” inquired the dis
penser of justice.
“Lest I attract attention.”
“It is the province of gentlemen to admire,”
replied the gallant man oi law.
“Not when they are married.”
“But I am not.”
‘Indeed!”
“Oh no; I’m a bachelor 1”
The lady quietly removed the veil, disclosing
to the astonished magistrate the lace of his
mother-in-law. He had business elsewhere
suddenly.
Bill or Fare.
A gentleman who has just returned to New
Orleans Irom Paris, where he remained daring
the siege, has furnished the Picayune with the
following bill of fare, giving tbe several dishes
which were served at a dinner to which he was
invited during that tr^ ing period. Without the
hope of any practical result to come from it in
the art cuisine, we venture to call the attention
of Atlanta caterers tc this bill. For several of
the dishes, there is an abundant supply of
material in this city—especially the hash. The
literal translation is as follows:
Horse Soup.
Reliefs:
Cat Mince Meat, Sauce Magynnaise.
Entrees:
Dog Shoulder, with Tomato Sauce.
Cat Stew and Champignons,
Dog Ribs, with. Green Peas.
Rat Hash, a la Ropert.
Roasts:
Hind Legs of Dog, flanked with Mice in Pepper
Sauce.
Vegetables :
Salade a Pitalienne, with Bologne Sauce.
Dessert:
Plum Pudding, with Horse Marrow.
imSlTUltiPHIC HEMS
Washington, April 15.—The famous coun
terfeiter, George Wendel Ken, alias Dutch
George, has been arrested in New York.
In the Senate, the proceedings on the House
Amnesty bill are considered unfavorable.
In tbe House, the Ku Klux bill, as amended
by the Senate, was put over in favor of the de
ficiency bill.
Jackson, April 15.—A terrible hail storm
passed over this vicinity, seriously damaging
gardens, field crops and fruits.
Paris, April 15.—The situation of affairs is
without material’ change—everything awaiting
the grand attack of MacMahon.
Plundering of churches continues.
The news via London is, that a bill giving
municipal rights to Paris has passed the As
sembly at Versailles. The concentration of
troops continues there.
Washington, April 14.—The Senate passed
tbe Ku-Klux bill with amendment from com
mittee striking out the clause repealing the test
oath for United States jurors, and another
oflered by Sherman, which, in substance, pro
vides that the city, county or parish, in which
any damage shall be inflicted upon persons or
proper by persons committing Ku Klux outrages,
shall be liable to pay the same, and that the
United States Court shall have jurisdiction in
such cases. The bill as amended passed the
Senate by a vote of 45 to 19. Hill, Robertson,
Schurz, Upton, Trumbull, voting nay.
" House—A resolution was oflered in the House
'o expunge from the Globe a letter read by Rep*
resentative Garnet, from the Vicksburg Herald,
in a speech made by him in the House, and also
reprimanding him for quoting it. The letter
stating that Senator Ames was “ a shoulder
strap poppy and poltroon, a most consummate
liar and lool.”
Deficiency debated—and an amendment ap
propriating $20,000 to rebuild the Orphans’
Asylum of the Sisters of one Lady Mary at
Charleston.
Paris, April 14.—The general situation is
unchanged, but the Versailles forces have been
repulsed at all points around the city.
Versailles, April 14.—Several battalions of
the national guards have been disarmed on ac
count of their hostility to the Commune.
General McMahon will remain on the defen
sive till his army is greatly re-inforced. The
ultimate triumph of the Versailles government
is probable.
Washington, April 17.—The Republican
caucus tabled Robertson’s amnesty proposition
by a vote ot 20 to 16, which defeats it for this
session.
The Senate refuses to recede from its Ku*Klux
amendments.
Committee of conference ordered.
Versailles, April 17.—The Versailles gov*
inment says that Paris is completely invested,
The Prussians are massing around Paris aud
preparing to intervene.
The Communists are defiant.
There is firing iu all directions.
Shells struck the residence ot the American
legation.
Mr. Washburn’s family have departed.
A summons wiil be sent for the surrender of
•lie city within 24 hours.
Chusuretsays it will be treated with contempt
and that gunpowder will bear back the reply.
Washington, April 15.—House—The Sen
ate amendment to the deficiency bill authorizing
the reprinting of National Bank bills and asses,
sing banks tor the expense was rejected.
The flfenate amendments to the Ku-Klux bill,
extending time for the President to suspend
the habeas corpus, requiring juries in Federal
Courts to take the iron clad oath, and making
communities liable for damages for Ku-Klux
outrages, were all rejected—the two last by large
majorities.
Committee of conference ordered.
New York, April 15-The incorporators of the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company had a meeting
to-day, at which Samuel Sloan was appointed
Treasurer, and arrangements were made by
which Marshal O’Roberts was secured the con
trol ox the road and the Presidency it he wants it.
Paris, April 16.—The Government troops
nave made no serious attack upon Paris.
Dissensions exist in the city between the Cen
tral Committee and the Commune.
Fighting has continued at various points
around the city, but the latest news is, that
important military events have taken place.
Paris, April 15.—Nothing definite as to oper
ations about Pans, but Ciureset is commanding
the insurgents, and claims to have repulsed the
army of the assembly.
Washington, April 15.—Mr. Robertson,
Senator trom South Carolina, moved to take up
the amnesty bill. It was objected to, and finally
the toenate went into Executive Session.
CITY ITEMS.
The project of opening Broad street has been
killed. See report of City Council proceedings.
Death in the Pulpit.—The Rev. Benjamin
Eaton, first and ODly rector ot Trinity Episcopal
(Jhurch, Galveston, Texas, was stricken with
death while standing in his pulpit on Sunday
week. The Galveston News thus describes the
aflecting scene:
He ascended the pulpit. Announcing his text,
“ There is yet room,” all trembling beneath the
weight of his last message, he referred to one
alter another ot the lriends of his youth and the
communicants of his church that had gone be
tore. He painted death entering the church
door, passing up the broad aisle, laying his bony
hand to the right and to the left ; breathing his
co’d, clamy breath on the cheek of beauty, and
waiter the silver hairs of age; now touching
the lather, then the son ; here the mother, there
the daughter, as the spectre jo plain to his en
tranced vision advanced to tne chancel rail, and
as he saw that his time had come, his words
struggled for utterance. He faltered. His
weakening limbs staggered. A gentleman who
advanced to his assistance was waved back.—
For ten minutes more he spoke, his words only
audible to those near him. The excitement of
the audience was tearful. Three times he
struggled to continue, saying: “ I am very sick,
but I must say.” Again he staggered. He tell
into the arms of Mr. C. R. Hughes as he raised
his hands to pronounce the benediction. Like
Moses, that other servant of God, he was too
weak to hold up his hands, which was done by
Mr. Hughes, as he said his last pulpit words,
“ To God the Father. 1 ’ His tongue refused to
speak turther, his hands dropped. He was car
ried to his rectory, where he died.
The Supreme Court will soon be on the Oc-
rnulgec Circuit.
Mr. S. H. Hardeman was admitted to the
Bar ot the Supreme Court yesterday.
Pic-Nics.—We learn that several pic-nic
excursions are to come ofl at a very early day.
White hats are quite common on the streets
now, and occasiolly we see a full suit bordering
on summer style.
We regret to learn that a little daughter of
Dr O’Keife was very painfully hurt this morn
ing by falling a^fcnst a stove.
We learn that S' me per on entered Smith &
Hewitt’s Cafe Saturday night, and stole some
money therefrom.
A countryman wa3 arrested on Saturday
afternoon for refusal to help the police in their
assault on Mr. Durand.
The Mayor’s Court proceedings are termed
by Atlanta negroes “ Council Scrapes.” Perhaps
if they had seen the number ot “ scrapes ” ahead
they would not have voted so solidly tor Ham
mond.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad Company
has received a handsome new engine irom
Philadelphia, named after Gov. Bollock. A
very good likeness ot the Governor is on each
side of it.
An unusually large number of country peo
ple were in tbe city, this morning. Mitchell
and Peachtree streets were crowded with their
wagons, and merchants were busy supplying
their demands.
The last two days of flue weather have not
only improved the condition of the streets, but
have proportionately increased the amount of
business transacted throughout the city.
We Learn that some of the places along the
Air Line Railroad are rapidiy improving. An
Atlanta painter savs that at one ol the stations
he has been employed to paint a large number
of buildings.
Atlanta will probably try as hard at tbe
next session of the Legislature to repeal the
law which elected Hammond, as Savannah did
.to prevent the passage of a law which would
have elected the Radical candidate there.
The Result.—A letter was received at the
poatoffice the other day directed “ To the Pret
tiest Ctrl in Columbus, Georgia.” It was post
marked “ California.” Many a follow has
begged Fred Wilhelm, the delivery clerk, for
that letter, some with cuss words, others on
bended knee. There are more pretty girls in
Columbus than any place in Georgia, Augusta,
perhaps, excepted, and the postoffice men could
not agree. Atlanta and Macon can boast some
very pretty ones. A young lady from Russell
county drew the prize. Friend Fred delivered
it to her on condition that he be allowed to see
its contents. She agreed. All written was :
“ Young Miss, you are mistaken. Epsilon.”—
(Jslumbat Han, 13.
“If the stars,” writes Emmerson, “Bhould ap
pear only one night in a thousand yeare, how
would men believe and adore, and preserve lor
many generations, the remembrance of the city
of God which had been shown. But every night
come out these preachers of beauty, and light
the universe with their =mile.”
We hear of a youcg man in Gloucester
county, who, up n being asked why the nair on
the top of his head was so thin, exclaimed:
“The girls pulled it out, pulling me in at the win
dows.”
Every observing person will have noticed
the great improvement in appearance, as well
as strength and duraoiiity, of many ot our pub
lic aud private buildings in the past few years.
The rapidly increasing use of iron as building
material, in place ot wood and stone, has mainly
contributed to this result. Its perfect adaption
to EVERY STYLE ol architecture, affords the
architect lull scope for his taste and genius, and
when seconded by the skill and ample resource
of such eminent Iron Founders and Workers as
the Messrs. Jas. L. Jackson & Bro., 28th Saint
and 2d avenue to 29th street, New York, the re
suit cannot be otherwise than flattering. Over
thirty years successful experience with their
most extensive, perteet and complete Iron
Works, enables these gentlemen to offer patterns
in variety and beauty, worthy the attention ol
architects and builders, tebSft—3ia
Look a Tbia !
Mr. Editor : A ieeling for all who suffer from
Cancer, induces me to give publicity to the fol
lowing : On the 16th ol March I called on Dr.
EX N. Calhoun to treat a Cancer that was mak
ing rapid inroads upon the general health of my
aged mother. On the 17tu he applied a plaster
that remained on twenty-four hours, it was
then removed anu poultices substituted, and at
the end of the eighth day, the cancer came out
in a plug, root and branch, and at this date the
cavity has healed up, and the general health im
proving rapidly. Is this not proot that we have,
iocated^n our midst, a physician, that can cure
Cancer.
I do hope that all the editors of papers will
copy this for the sake of poor suffering humani
ty, and oblige, Martha Robinson.
P. S.—This Cancer is suspended in aieohol in
Dr. Calhoun’s office.
April 7th, 1871.
The Mayor’s Court.—This tribunal was
booming again this morning and “fines” and
■‘work gang” meted out to those who were so
unfortunate as to fall into the clutches ol the
Mayor of Atlanta. Since Mayor Hammond’s
inauguration the most remarkable features of
his administration have been higher fines and a
greater increase of the number of cases before
his court, and an unrelenting persecution of
those nymphs da pave so common in all cities.
These heavy fines usually fall upon negroes and
the poorer class of the community, and must be
burdensome and sometimes cruel in their effects
on the families ol the victims. It a poor man
should accidentally take a little too much ardent
spirits and be pounced upon by the police, his
fine ot ten or twenty five dollars and cost
would take the bread out ot the mouths ot bis
children and teach him no better lesson than
half that amount, besides many, very many of
the persons couvioied are not able to pay the
ones and are put Lo breaking rocks, where it is
very probable that they will become rather a
burden than a profit to the city, it being very
questionable as to whether negro women and
others can make enough revenue in that city to
reimburse tho eiLy lor tne expense of foeUing
and guarding them.
In regard to Mayor Hammond’s attempt to
rid the city oi me women iu question, we
would say amen, it mere was any chaace tor
success, but me attempt has ueeu made in this
country and Europe, and hus never succeeded—
in so much hus it tutted in some places that we
are informed, mey are regularly licensed.
We have ln-ard some Severe criticisms passed
upon the manner ol conducting these prosecu
tions, but retrain Irom commaiUug ou mem.—
However, it remains to be seen wuomer the
successiui accomplishment oi this sebeme has
been lelt to form a brignt spot in the present
gloomy looking administration ot our city gov
ernment.
Last Night’s Proceedings of the City
Council.—Tne Major and a lull Board oi Al
dermen present.
The minutes ot the last meeting were read
and approved.
The charges which had been preferred against
a policeman were investigated, and final action
by the City Council was deterred.
Mrs. Conley’s petition lor tree license was
granted.
Various reports of committees were acted on,
most ot them uninportant.
A number ot petitions, which had been pre
sented, were laid over until the next regular
meeting.
A resolution, giving the power to arrest, and
pay for such service, to the watchman ot the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, was adopted.
A resolution, authorizing an electioa by the
people ot Atlanta to determine whether the
city shall subsetibe tor stock in the Atlanta &
Savannah Railroad, was postponed for final ac
tion by the Council, at a special meeting to be
held on next Tuesday night.
A petition to open Wheat street was referred
to the Street Committee.
THE BROAD STREET EXTENSION.
The Assessors reported that they had assessed
the damages of opening Broad street, seventy
teet wide at a cost of $17,150 00, and at $10,-
750 00 for an opening ol fiity feet.
Col. Spencer addressed the Council in oppo
sition to the extension, contending that opening
the street but fifty teet would do but little or no
good, and that if opened at all, it should be
opened seventy teet; Lut he. was opposed to
either proposition.
Mr. Gaskill took the opposite side of the
question and advocated the opening.
A vote was taken on the fiity feet proposition
and resulted, yeas—Messrs. Wells, Cassin, Rice,
and Finch, colored.
Nays—Messrs. Lowry, Grubb, McLendon,
Snyder, Fowler and Graham, colored.
On the proposition to open seventy feet the
vote stood, yeas—Messrs. Cassin and Wells.
Nays—Messrs. Rice, Lowry, McLendon
Grubb, Snyder, Fowler, Graham and Finch.
A resolution, to pay a tee for the defense of a
policeman, who was tried for false imprison
ment, was adopted.
A resolution, notifying persons on Pryor
street to draw in tbeir lenses, was adopted ;
A resolution, to extend a sewer on Marietta
street
Finance Committee reported $6,829 60 as cur
rent expenses.
Council then went into secret session,