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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGHT ST A, GA.
MORNING. JAN. 19,1868
EEVERDY JOHNSON'S PLEA-
Senator Rkverdy Johnson, of Mary
land, was elected to the upper house ot
Congress through Radical auspices and
during a period when the liberties of the
“ Old Land ” were in eclipse. It was im
possible for him to out-rant the New Eng
land members; but, in spite of his splendid
talents, he lias never been regarded as a
prophetic statesman and a true representa
tive of that majority which so nobly disen
thralled the State. He is essentially a
trimmer—the Halifax of American poli
ticians—and as such, no genuine leader
for those who have risen iu their might and
determined to avenge every memory of
wrong and dethrone every individual, no
matter how conspicuous, who has had co
partnership in deeds of darkness. Reverdy
Johnson’s vote on the Reconstruction Bill
proved Ins death-warrant. No subsequent
pamphlet, however ably argued, can wipe
out the blindness of that proceeding; no
special pleading, however ingenious, can
palliate conduct in contravention of rea
son, law, conscience and honor. Surpass
ingras Mr. Reverdy Johnson's abilities
are, he committed an unpardonable error of
judgment; profoundly learned as he may
be in constitutional jurisprudence, he prov-
ed recreant when it was most necessary to
have been faithful. Under such circum
stances, we are not surprised to learn that,
iu spite of much wire-working to the con
trary, the Democratic Legislature of Mary
land has determined to lill his place
with some member of its own politi
cal creed —some bold, bright man who
has not cowered before the tempest
and counselled the thirty pieces of silver in
order to compromise with the circumveut
orsof God. To arrest, if possible, this con
templated action of the Legislature, Rev
ekdy Johnson has written an excusatory
letter, which we give below. His strongest
point is in allusion to the endorsement of
Generals Johnston, Bf.aukegard, Long
street and Taylor, not to speak of a host
of anonymous citizens. We arc sorry to
know that the first-named Generals were
found m this category, and presume that
they, as times go, are equally full of re
grets at their want of sagacity. Though
every great General of the Confederacy had
been quoted in palliation by Reverdy
Johnson, he cannot persuade the world
that he is a far-seeing statesman or a pa
triot who preferred temporary misfortune
to permanent ignominy. Not by such
casuists is the country to lie redeemed and
its ancient landmarks restored. The State
of Maryland has many worthy sons, and,
in the abundance of her fruitfulness, she
need not labor to discover a successor for
Reverdy Johnson. Brilliant talents, fo
rensic erudition, burning eloquence—truly,
these are great gifts; but lldelity to princi
ple, even unto chains and martyrdom, is a
diviner attribute Ilian any of these, and
worth a universe of fame.
Mr. Johnson’s letter is as follows :
Washington, January 0,1808.
My Dear Sot:
******
Before the veto message of the President of
the 11 reconstruction bill ” was sent to the Sen
ate I had voted for tke bill, and stated my
reasons for so doing in a speech delivered Feb
ruary 20tli, 1867. In that speech I repeated
iny opinion that the bill was unconstitutional,
but that I give it my vote for the sole purpose
of saving the South from total destruction.
Sure as I believed to be the result if that mea
sure was not accepted. My association with
the members of Congress of both parties, uud
particularly with those of the majority, who
almost entirely fashioned the policy of the par
ty, satisfied me that, this measure failing, such
destruction would be inevitable, and Horn legis
lation, which I was apprehensive—and this ap
prehension has not since been remedied —tbe
judiciary would fie impotent to redrest. 1 bad
in vain used every effort iu roy power to induce
my political friends iu the House to accept the
bill as it was passed iu the first instauee by the
Senate. I did this because I believed that if it
was not done it would be modilied by the dom
inant party so as to he much more objectiona
ble and injurious to the South. In this I was
not mistaken. It was so modified when it was
returned to the Senate. The President vetoed
it; and 011 the 3d March, in a short speech,
I assigned my reasons for continuing to vote
for the measure. That speech, as well as
the one of February, and the one in reply
to Senator Buekalew, are published in a
pamphlet, with a short explanatory note, and
with this you will receive a copy. In no part
of either speech did I pronounce any opinion
contained in the veto message to be “ uncon
stitutional doctrine.” On tbe contrary, so far
from thinking so, the President maintained the
unconstitutionality ot the bills upon grounds
substantially the same as those which I had
urged upon the Senate when the measure was
Urst before that body. I did slate, in the speech
of the 2d of March, that I regretted the tone
of a part of the message, it being, as I thought,
calculated to exasperate the majority in Con
gress, and not necessary to his constitutional
argument. I also said that it contained some
legal propositions which I believed to be un
sound, but these had nothing whatever to do
with the question of the constitutionality of the
bill. So far from assailing him iu that speech,
or any other made by tue in the Senate or else
where since Mr. Johnson became President, I
Lave, witlioi full conviction that it was his due,
given him credit for purity of motive and a pa
triotic desire to secure to the States and the
people every right to which they are enti
tled ; and I am glad to know that he
Las uever for a moment questioned my
determination to give Lis administration
every proper support, and to serve the
whole country to the full measure of my
ability ; and lain also glad to know that the
confidence reposed in me by my party asso
ciates in the Senate and the House remains uu
diminished. And what, if possible, is more
gratifying, my course iu relation to the meas
ure was approved by most of the intelligent
citizens of the South. This was made known
to me soon after ray vote by many letters from
civilians in that section aud from gentlemen
who bad belonged to the Confederate army,
whose devotion to their local interests is not to
be doubted, they having periled life aud for
tune in the endeavor to achieve for their States
a separate independence. Amougstthe names
of this class were Gens. J. E. Johnston, Beaure
gard, Longstreet, Taylor aud Chalmers. May
1 not, therefore, be permitted to say that iny
conduct cannot be properly considered as a
voluntary abandonment of the rights of onr
Southern brethren, or a disregard of their wel
fare, when it was sanctioned as wise and pa
triotic by those immediately concerned, and
whose intelligence and knowledge of the actual
condition of their States made them peculiarly
capable of forming a correct Judgment; and, in
eonelusioD, I add, that if re-elected to the posi
tion which I now hold I shall, us I have done
in the past, devote myself with untiring indus
try to the protection of the rights of all the
States, to the maintenance of tfic just authority
of the General Government, and the welfare of
our whole country.
I remain, with great regard, •
Your obedient servant,
Reverdt Johnson.
Ron. John Lee Carroll, Annapolis.
RICH, RARE AND RACY-
We advise a careful perusal of the pro
ceedings of the Bones and Banjo Conven
tion. They arc unusually unctuous and
farcical. Several negroes, envious of Aaron
Alpeoria, have appeared upon the stage
and add to the general attractiveness of the
show. A mutual exchange of compliments,
on the score of roguery, passed between the
black and white animals. If Gen. Meade
has an artistic relish for a genuine cala
boose scrimmage, the debate published this
morning should make his loyal sword rattle
and his Republican heart stand still.
Good Authority.— The greatest finan
cial authority in England, and one of the
greatest in the world, thus pronounces sen
tence on American taxation:
“Every sort of industry—almost every
kind of available aud conspicuous act—is
seized upon and taxed. A ninety-ninth part
of this interference in England would hare
earned a rebellion." •
In the face of this judgment, Mr. Gree
ley’s appeal to the “ holy aspirations ” of
discharged laborers and clerks lias the
force of a conundrum.
Letting the Light In.—The Revolution
ist is anew paper and the organ of Wo
man’s Rights. The editor, or editress, thus
exposes the sham morality of Massachu
setts:
“ With sixteen hundred divorce cases in one
year in Massachusetts, we should think the
family relation was already somewhat disturbed
even at the Huh, and while woman in that
State has no right to the joint earnings of the
marriage co-partnership, and is ranked in the
constitution with idiots, lunatics, minors, pau
pers and criminals, she is already as degraded
politically as she well can be.”
This is Yankee evidence, mind you. And
yet, the carpet-bag gentry desire to recon
struct Georgia after this filthy fashion.
A Knowing Editor. —We find this neat
bit of satire in the New York World :
“ Flake, of the Galveston (Texas) Bul’etin,
writing about the National Banks, profanely
heads his article ‘I know that my Redeemer
Liveth.’ If he refers to redemption by the
National Banks he knows a deal more than p :o
plg generally.”
Pope vs. Meade.— Gen. Pope was re
moved, so it is said, because he connived at
fraudulent registration. Gen. Meade should
right this infamous wrong. It will not do
to become the recipient of Pope’s soiled
linen.
Riot at Marshall, Texas.
RADICAL plots—incendiary teachings—
VIOLENT HARANGUES OF A SUPREME
COURT JUDGE —IUOT PROVOKED —NOBODY
HURT.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Picayune , writing from Marshall, Texas,
on the Ist inst., makes the following state
ment in regard to the late riot at that place:
It is known that Gen. Hancock, the able
and accomplished commander of the fifth
military district, lias ordered ail election
for a convention in Texas, to be held on
the 10th and 14t,h of February, including
five days, and that while all the negroes
have been allowed to register as voters, a
large proportion of the whites have been
illegally and arbitrarily refused the privi
lege. But still the whites have 0 000 ma
jority in the .State. There may be that
number of white Radicals in the State;
and sbme of the negroes have spoken in fa
vor of the Conservative ticket. To pre
vent this, a conspiracy lias beern formed in
the State by the white Radicals, who have
determined to send men over the Stale to
harangue the negroes to incite them to acts
of violence, so as to secure a majority of
the votes for the Radicals. 'Their plan
had its first development in Jefferson,
Texas, on the 28th of December, when
Judge Caldwell, of the Radical Supreme
Court of Texas, appointed against the will
and wishes of Ihc people of Texas, and
one A. B. Norton, of whom I will speak
hereafter, secretly got up a meeting of
negroes, and addressed them in the most,
violent and incendiary language, tell
ing them that the hell-hounds who
had formerly held them in slavery, and
driven them from morning till night with
bull whips, were now advising them not to
vote. But I advise yon, said one of these
speakers, to go to the polls and vote, if you
have to wade up to your necks in blood. A
similar secret meeting of the negroes was
appointed by these worthies, at Marshall,
on Monday, the 30th ult,., and Judge Cald
well reached Marshall on the evening of
the 211th, and stopped at one of our hotels.
On the same evening, citizens of Jefferson
reached Marshall, and informed some of
the people that a negro meeting was to be
held next day, and to be addressed by Judge
Caldwell, of the Supreme Court of Texas,
and what language had been held at the
different meetings. This information went
over town like lightning, and there was
necessarily some excitement. The citizens
generally kept away from the meeting, not
being willing to witness tile prostitution of
his high office by a Judge of our Bupmne
Court, in haranguing a crowd of ignorant
Africans, at a meeting of which no public
notice was given, aud to which the whites
were not invited. A crowd of negroes were
in attendance at the courthouse, and this
Judge, who lias never attained the position
of a third-rate lawyer in the State, and
who could not be elected by the peo
ple a county court Judge, began his
address to the negroes. As might have
been expected, the indecent and incendi
ary language used by this Supreme Judge
excited indignation among Hie few white
people present, and some indiscreet person
in the crowd fired off a pistol into the
ceiling of the house—of course a general
stampede ensued, and the meeting dispersed.
A deputy sheriff rushed into the crowd
with a drawn pistol ahd commanded all
persons to keep the peace. This caused the
Judge to git, and it is said he never stopped
till he reached the headquarters of Hie
military commander at this post, where he
made an affidavit that this little deputy
sheriff tried to assassinate him, and he
insisted on the arrest by the military of
the sheriff, the deputy, and the citizen
who accidentally tired the pistol. These
men are now in military custody, and I
suppose General Hancock will be asked to
remove tiie sheriff from office !! Truly, we
have fallen upon evil times. Jf anyone had
said ten years ago that the Supreme Bench
of Texas, adorned by such men as Lips
comb, Hemphill and Wheeler, would ever
be degraded by such men as uow sit upon
it, Caldwell, Morrell, Latimer, etc., no one
could have believed it—that the former,
among the brightest stars that ever adorn
ed the galaxy of American jurisprudence,
should be succeed by the phosphorescent
exaltations of ordinary pettifoggers. But
such is the condition *of Texas at this
time. To such straits are the Radicals
driven that they send out their Supreme
Judges to harangue negroes about voting;
to excite them against the white people,
and to inaugurate a war of races. If Judge
Caldwell should make his appearance in
New Orleans and harangue the negroes and
poorer white people, and tell them that
their labor had built all those line houses,
and put all the money in those banks, and
that it properly belonged to them, and that
they ought to take it if they have to wade
in blood up to their necks, you would call
him an incendiary aud a disturber of the
public peace, and you would arrest him and
punish him.
But here he escapes unscathed. He knew
before he came here what would result
from his speech, and he has accomplished
all he desired. He wanted to be made a
martyr and he has succeeded so far, at
least, as his runuing right cleverly for a
few hundred yards, constitutes martyrdom.
He has made now all the capital lie' wants.
He will, no doubt, howl through the Radi
cal newspapers of the North as loudly and
lustily as the poltroon Sumner howled
through the back door of the courts of Eu
rope when Brooks caned him. Sumner
was a martyr—he got scared.
Twentieth Day's Proceedings of the Georgia
Unconstitutional Convention.
REPORTED FOR TIIE ATLANTA DAILY INTELLI
GENCER.
Thursday, January 16th, IS6B.
The convention opened this morning in the
usual way.
The Journal was read,
A. T. Akennan asked for leave of absence
on account of necessary and unavoidable busi
ness. Granted.
Leave ot absence was also granted for two
sick members.
E. L. Hi ghee presented a report from the
Committee on Enrollment. »
H. V. M. Miller handed in a report from the
Committee on Militia, which included all male
citizens of the State of Georgia between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and as
such, subject to military law, which specified
that they should be equipped according to
law, subject to the authority of Congress. It
also specified that no person conscientiously
opposed to bearing arms should be compelled
to do so, but they should pay an equivalent for
exemption, the amount to be prescribed by
law and appropriated to the common school
fund.
J. L. Dunning moved that a committee of
five be appointed on miscellaneous matters,
and on suggestion of a member the words “per
taining to the Constitution” were added.
BILL OF RIGHTS.
The discussion of t'ue 4th section of tiie Bill
of Rights was taken up, pursuant to adjourn
ment, and W. T. Crane resumed his argument
. lie proceeded to say that he was in favor of
a just code of laws being framed which would
do justice to all parties, and to all the citizens
of the State of Georgia, it appeared to him
that the discussion on this subject was drifting
altogetbei in one direction, and that was that it
was proposed to protect, altogether,the debtor,
while all sight wast lost oT the honest creditor
ft was said that it was a very bard matter to
imprison an honest man for debt, but such was
not the object of the section. That section
would have no terrors for the honest man who
was willing to pay what he honestly owed. It
would never interfere with him ; but its great
object was to reach tbe dishonest man and the
swindler, and to protect the honest creditor
from imposition. He was not there to uphold
any bill that would tend to thwart the ends ot
justice, but was of opinion that if any portion
of the section was stricken it would result in
injury to the honest qnd well meaning creditor.
It was proposed to strike out all of the section
alter the words “ except for debt,” but he be
lieved the bill was not iutended to deprive the
hones t poor man of any of his rights any more
than it did the rich man ; it only proposed to
give the creditor the right to defend himself
against the thieves and the swindlers,
OEMS OF ELOQUENCE—AFRICA SPEAKS A UIECE.
M. H. Bentley (negro) was on his feet and
the Chair said the “gentleman had the floor,”
and he proceeded to speak.
lie commenced by hoping the reporter woniil
not take it down wrong, as he did yesterday,
and so the reporter is very careful now, and
must necessarily be in the future, after this re
buke.
“ Now, gentlemen, I want to know from you,
where is all the honest men of Georgia gone,
to? that's what 1 want to know now. I want
to know from you what became of them ; that’s
the question, t think this is the best thing you
can do for the honest man. VV.hy, gentlemen,
in the place where i live the Jews sell poor col
ored men clothes for fifteen dollars that is not
worth five. Yes, that’s what he does. It is
found out and the Jew goes to the judge and
gives him a couple o’ dollars aud he gives the
bailiff about a dollar am] a half and That’s all
that’s ever said about tt."
It would be impossible to do this individual
justice by attempting to report verbatim what
neither himself nor any body else understood ;
besides, the reporter could not catch enough of
liia language audibly to know what he was
driving at. It will suffice, perhaps, to say, that
if he repQrte{l him wrong yesterday, when he
did not speak at ali, he is doing here an act of
clemency now, by concealing his unfortunate
ignorance and assurance from the World.
a men scene. ■
11. Cromley (negro) the Citlalineof the most
potent, grave, and reverend eeniors, was the
next orator, and such an individual, and such
an oratory ! It is vain to attempt to describe
the oratorical powers of this sable geuiti . He
was one moment in the pulpit, another i.j the
prison, (where rumor whispered he ought to
be in reality,) and another moment legislating
for a nation. Shades of Webster, of Clay, ol
Madison, of Calhoun, and others, whither have
ye fled ? Will ye never more revisit the land
ye loved so well, .and inspire your degenerate
successors with that pure ami undying patrio
tism that once pervaded the breasts of Ameri
cans ?
Let the public take a specimen of what our
legislators can do,
“ I want,” said (lie negro, “ the gentlemen of
the convention to understand here, this tnoru
iug, that the whole inhabitants of the State of
Georgia are my people.” Aye, that, is the ex
pression. “My people,” (irrespective ol race
or color,) *' anti I think 1 know something
about human nature, and lam satisfied that
every sensible man in the convention knows
what human nature is.” [Laughter.]
Here Ihe distinguished Orator wag interrupt
ed by i he preceding brother, who took occasion
to ask hint : “ Were you never a driver on a
plantation ?” Whereupon said Cromley, rais
ing himself up iu his dignity, replied : “ Thank
you, sir, 1 have always beeff above driver on a
plantation.-” That passed off very well, for the
indignant proapjicr (for such he is) whose pride
in the moment of victory was but, ajag, too
soon to be humbled by a brother of the white
species. He, Cromley, was in the act of saying
that every man who did not pay his honest
debts ought to be sent to jail. Now this would
indicate a good sound principle on his part,
hut he evidently bad forgotten that those who
>' live in glass houses should not throw stones,”
for G. G. Richardson stood up on the moment
and put unto him the pertinent question :
“At the time you were coming here was
there not a hail warrant taken out against you
because they thought you were about to leave
the Stale?”
i’oor Cromley reeled but a moment beneath
the weight of this last assault, but he did not
flinch for a moment. 011 the contrary, he came
up to his work with renewed energy, for this
was not a time to quail, and said;
“ Well, I will reply to that. It is very true,
your honor, I was owing a little money, and
the man had a right to collect it, and if I did
not pay it he had a right to send me to jail”
“ 1 here is,” said he, “ a great channel opened
up by tlijs amendment for thieves and scouu
drels, both black and y/hile, and I tell you in
this convention to-day, that the whole State of
Georgia is corrupt. [Laughter.] The white
man takes cvetv-advantage lie can of the poor
negro, and I tell you another thing, and i want
you ali to understand me, too, that there is not
a colored man in the house who has done more
lor this.eonvention than i.”
A. Alpeoria Bradley (negro) in a low tone.
“ He lies.”
Cromley continued—“ It is as creditable to
pay a Dutchman as an Englishman, and I am
satisfied the man that would not pay a Dutch
man would uot pay me.” [Laughter.]
While he was thus discoursing, another col
ored brother, named Joiner, stood ud and said:
“ If every man that does not pay liis debts
should be sen; to jail, you ought‘to be sent
there too.” [Loud laughter.]
Cromley again proceeded. “ Well, I will tell
you 1 have heard a good deal of speaking here
to-day. I want you to give me some water here
little boy.” [Laughter.] On he went again.
“ Well, God Almighty help this convention, if
there is to be no imprisonment for debt.”
[Continued laughter, and cries of“ silence and
order ” from the Chair.]
A. Alpeoria Bradley (negro) came tip at last.
He could stand it no longer, and as lie is usually
finding fault with everything done by the Presi
dent, or whoever occupies tiie Chair, he thought
it high time that he should rise to a point of
order.
The Chairman said he was out of order,
whereupon he sat down, saying: “Hecan "o
on now, we have no rules.”
Cromley again speaks. “ I want these gentle
men to understand that while I am on the floor
I know what I am talking about. [Laughter. 1
And 1 say to you that if you accept this amend
ment, you will be confirming the words of Ben.
Hill, and all them persons that speak about this
convention and sav it is composed of thieves
and blackguards. [Prolonged laughter and some
confusion, with cries of “ order, order,” from
the Chair. |
Bradley (negro) arose once more aud said,
with a r.iost offensive insinuation towards the
£hair:
“I want to ask the gentleman (the speaker),
as we have no rules,, will the Cretans probably
succeed against the Turks?” [Laughter.)
Chairman —That is not in order.
Bradley (negro), “By what rule do you call
me out of order ?’’
Chairman—“ By such rules as we have them
here.”
Some confusion here ensued, in which Brad
ley (negro) took :i leading part, and was told
by the Chair that Croiuh yj (negro) had the
floor.
Here and there colored delegates asked a
question which we could not understand.
He was yielded the floor by Cromley, who
was about to resume, when Bradly (negro) arose
to a point of order, saying the speaker had
yielded the floor, aud he wanted to know if he
(the speaker) could address them again.
Chairman—The gentleman has the floor.
Cromley (negro) proceeded in the most vehe
ment and excited manner. “And I’ll tell yon
what’s more, gentlemen, whenever you hear of
me going to jail it will be because I have a right
to go there.”
Bradley, (negro) hear! hear! [Laughter.]
At this stage of the proceedings several mem
bers tried to put a stop to brother Cromley’s
effusions, but in vain. Some moved to ad
journ ; some cried out question ; but they were
met by the cool reply from Cromley— “ I tell
you I wont yield any more until I get through.”
Soon after, however, finding mat the excite
ment aud eoutusion were on the increase, he
said, “well, I will stop,” and sat down.
No sooner had Cromley kink “from our
gaze,” than A. Alpeoria Bradley (ucgfoj made
his appearance. Hij countenance actually glis
tened with rage and disappointment. Helook
cd to where the negro who had last spoken sat,
and scowled with such a fiendish expression of
features (if they might be so caked), as left but
little hope for the feelings of the unfortunate
wretch. If it would not be pibfaue.to apply
poetry to such an impersonation of ignorauce
and audacity, well might the words of Byron
be introduced :
“ And where liis frown of hatred dnrk’y fell,
Hope, with’rinsr, fled, and mercy BigheUprewelk”
All eyes were turned at once on the (object of
his vindictiveness, and while all were Prepared
to hear something rich, he eommonecji by say
ing that “he would first proceed with his re
marks ou the subject under discussion, and for
fear his feelings might overcome him too soon,
and then dome to his friend af tfce cluse. He
spoke of the law r of the different'Slates and of
the United States, and he went op to show the
absurdity of imprisoning poor tnen for debt,
and when he had reasoned with (hat great lo
gic so peculiar to liirose 11 unon the matters
touching the question at issue, qad- satisfied
himself, if nobody else, that nevus what is
commonly called now-a-dfys a “griksl common
er,” he faced his man. Then occtrred a scene
which it would be difficult to piortray. He
smiled and sneered, and it would bp difficult to
say which was the more uuearthiy of the two.
He lashed Cromley with a vengeance. He
spoke about some person wlio had tfa-len some
chickens front a man’s premises. When spo
ken to on the subject, said he would uot do so
again, and the next night was at the same work
as fresh as ever. \Y ho (this was intepded to ap
ply to there could be but little doubt, and his
language, though low and scnrrilops, had one
redeeming feature, which was, that it left 1.0
mystery in the minds of his hearers.
It is to be regretted tbat we cannot follow
him, word for word, so as that the world might
be able to judge for itself of the state to which
the people of the South are reduced. He was
very mad, very mad indeed, about thjyaiannon
iu which he was treated by the ncVfs{»rCrs, and
lie conld not help feeling very iudigyint at be
ing called a “ Massachusetts import:# digger,”
when the fact was, he was a native ot South
Carolina. The newspapers took great, delight
in misrepresenting him. They made him say
dis, dat, and t’other, and yet be coiß# ,jsot see
why they should so ill use him. Ruer, outrag
ed A. Alpeoria Brad,ley! (negro.)
Members Sherman, Richardson, Bedford, and
Whitcly favored the amendment, and, spoke at
some length on the outrages which Fere sure
to result to the poor man from its rejection.—
They denounced the origual section as placing
the debtor altogether at the mercy of-rteli cre
ditors, aud trusted the amendment »ould be
accepted by the convention. The cause of
humanity demanded it, and all other States that
had rejected arrest for debts had flourished
very well.
J. E. Bryant also favored ibearaendqufit in a
brief address. , ]
L. N. Trammell moved that the entire-section
be stricken, ashe had grown tired ot:the dis
cussion. The motion was lost.
Mr. Akennan theu addressed the committee,
aud showed the statements of brt-eediug
speakers to the effect that the constitutions of
the loyal Slates forbid, imprisonment for debt
were incorrect. He read from the constitu
tions of six or seven Northern States provisions
similar to that in the old Constitution of Geor
gia. which allowed a fraudulent or absconding
debtor to be imprisoned. He exposed Brad
ley’s misrepresentations of the law of Georgia,
and said that if there was oppression iff- Savan
nah, the fault was not iu the law, but iti the
administration of it.
Referring to the arrest of Georgians for debt
in New York, be asked why should not Georgia
creditors have the same remedy against New
York debtors when found here? Bradley,
(negro) interrupted with the answer, ‘•Because
the New Yorkers put down the rebellion in
Georgia.” To which Mr. A. responded by
quoting the Constitution of the United States
on the subject of the equal rights ol the citizens
of !he several States. He pfossed this argument
with so mlicit effect that even the noisy Bradley
was silenced for the time.
no replied to Mr. Whitcley’s argument that
Texas had abolished imprisonment for debt in
her constitution, reminding his hearers that
when Texas made her constitution she was the
asylum of all the outlaws of the continent, and
that such a rule was very naturally adopted by
such a people.
the Did rule wonted ye|j iq the eounfcv por
tion of tfio State, and ilsis embraced ltint-penlhs
of her population. A good rule-ought not to
be set aside for occasional abuses.
The question of the proposition to strike out
next came in order, and the votes counted
standing. They stood ayes, 70; nays, 43.
The fourth section as amended was then read
as ffillpyvs;
“ There shall lie po Imprisonment for debt.”
Adopted.
The disegssion of this question created - con
siderable anxiety among the parties on either
side, and its close seemed to give relict) yen to
those who were defeated. if
The Committee of the Wlnjlc, into VqAMNfb*
house had fcsolved itself in the moniOT iffi-w
rose and reported progress.
The convention then adjo urned to Tt\, < ,._*n.,
next day.
Rushing Upon tiieiti Fate. —“ Whom
the gods would destroy they' first make
mad.” The wildest visionary of Radical
extremism, says the National Intelligencer t
never could have dreamed of the startling
excesses to which tl,e wadtqen of the Radi
cal faction in Congress committed them
selves yesterday (Monday). Each House
seemed to vie with the other in the adoption
of outrageous measures, revolting to the
whole nation. Crazed by Hie unmistakable
evidences of popular condemnation and
utter hopelessness of retrieving thei? broken
fortunes by any other means except open
revolution, they have cast ashle all reserve,
all shame, and all decency, and unblijshing
ly avow their purpose to destroy every ves
tige of constitutional liberty and republi
can government. As an iinportaqt nart of
this programme, the Senate have attempted
the reinstatement of their henchman, Stan
ton, as Secretary of War, while the House
passed a bill striking down the indepen
dence of the Supreme Court, and brought
fonyapd another subordinating to a single
military despot the executive, judicial and
legislative departments of the Government;
and at last, in their terrible desperation,
after striking at the departments, descended
to the lowest depth of meanness in attack
ing a single individual, a noble and gallant
soldier. The end is near at hand.
[official.]
Headq’rs, Third Military District, 1
(Dept. Georgia, Florida and Alabama,\ >
Atlanta, Ga., January 17,1868. y
General Orders, )
No. 11. J
I. —JobnT. Burns, Comptroller of the State
of Georgia, having declined to respect the in
tructious of, and failed to co operate wjth tbe
Major General Commanding the Third Military
District, is hereby removed from office.
11. —Captain Charles Wheaton, 33d Infantry,
U. 8. Army, is hereby detailed for duty, in tbe
District of Georgia as Comptroller of the State
of Georgia. He will repair without dulay to
Milledgeville, Georgia and enter upon the dis
charge of the duties devolving upon him, sub
ject to instructions from these Headquarters.
By order of Major General Meade.
R..C. Drum, A. A. G.
Sumter Superior Court.— Adjourned term
of the Superior Court, for this county, is now
being held in Americus. Among other busi
ness of importance is the re-trial of the negroes
concerned in the killing of Judge Horne, last
summer. On appeal ot the ease to the Su
preme Court, that tribunal granted a ucw trial,
on the ground, we beljeve, that the accused had
the right, each, to a separate trial.
011 yesterday a jury was empanelled and (he
case of Edmund was entered upon and wit
nesses examined. Judge Lyon ami Judge
Scarborough-, being assigned lo the defense,
and Hawkins and McCay and ttffe Solic tor Gen
era) for the prosecution. Late in the evening
the case was submitted to the jury and the ver
dict of murder iu the first degree was return
ed.— Citizen.
Certainties.— He who cannot find time to
consult his Bible, will find one day that lie has
time to be sick ; he wbo has no time to pray,
must find time to die ; lie who can not find time
to reflect, is most likely to find tiiue.to slu ;*be
who cannot find time for repentance, will find
an eternity in which repentance will be of no
avail.
Ftre in Friendship.— We uuder.Mtrad that
a destructive fire occurred in the village of
Friendship ou Sunday afternoon last, by which
Messrs. Wadsworth and Statham, merchants,
lost some seven thousand dollars, iii ’money
and goods. During the absence of those gen
tlemen, the store was set on fire by some vile
incendiary, probably to cover up a previous
robbery. —Sumter Citizen. t
J From the Southern Recorder.
Decisions of the Supreme Court, now in
Session in Milledgeville.
Moses P. Green !
vs. > From Richmond. -
Benj. F. Hall. )
Warner, C. J.
Where a note was executed on the 10th
of October, 1851, due one day after date,
upon which there was entered the follow
ing credit, subscribed by the holder thereof:
“ Received of James A. Templeton for Ann
C. Fulcher, executrix on the estate of Wil
liam Fulcher, deceased, the sum of two
hundred aud forty-four dollars and fifty-six
cents.” Held, that this credit on the note,
not being subscribed by the maker thereof,
and there being no evidence that it was
done by her authority as required by the
act of 1854, did not prevent the running of
the statute of limitation. Held also, that
the act of 1854 took effect from the time of
its passage and not from the time of its
publication. Judgment affirmed.
F. 11. Miller, H. W. Hilliard for Pl’ff in
Error.
John T. Shewmake for Deft in Error.
James S. Greene!
vs. > From Sumter.
John A. Shields.)
Harris, J.
1. When the motion is made to make an
award the judgment of the court, the par
ty dissatisfied should then make his ob
jections, and especially such as are author
ized by the arbitrament under which the
award was made.
2. The notice given by the arbitrators to
the party plaintiff in error of the award,
previously to the motion in court to make
the award the judgment of the court, was
a substantial compliance with the require
ment of the arbitration act.
3. If the rights of the plaintiff in error
had been essentially prejudiced by the
omission to give him notice previous to the
commencement of the term of the court at
which the judgment on the award was
rendered, lie cannot, by the process of ille
gality, which lie has employed in this case,
go behind the judgment to procure the re
xlress sought. Judgment affirmed.
G. T. Goode for plaintiff in error.
11. K. McCay for defendant in error.
David Meyer !
vs. > From Fulton.
G. W. Reed & Cos.)
Harris, J.
Interest on the notes sued on in this case
was suspended during the continuance of
hostilities in the regent war betweeu the
citizens of Pennsylvania and of Georgia,
and is not recoverable for that period of
time. Judgment reversed.
Brown & Pope for plaintiff in error.
A. W. Hammond & Soil for defendant in
error,
S. S. Jones !
vs. > From Sumter.
A. McCrea.)
Harris, J.
After a verdict at law in Ejectment, a
bill in equity for anew trial so as to enable
a witness who was examined op the trial
below to correct a mistake in his testimony
as to the commencement of the occupancy
of the defendant in said Ejectment suit,
who relied on a statuory title, ought not to
lie entertained. This case is within the
decision in Mitchell vs. Printup, 25 Gen.
Rep., 182. Judgment affirmed.
McCay A Hawkins for Pl’ff in Error.
J. J. Scarborough for Deft iu Error.
S. 11. Williams!
vs. > From Lee.
Jas. D. Green.)
Harris, J.
Upon the written contract between the
parties in this case, the complainant, Green,
yyhq rented the land to Willianis for the
year IbUt, ia utmost, upon the foots in the
record, entitled only to the restraining pro
cess of injunction to prevent the said Wil
liams from carrying off the cotton made on
the plantation to any place except to the
points mentioned in the contract, and to
them for the purpose of complying with the
contract or disposing of any of it by sale or
otljcrwbe, until tiff rent, \yhqteypl: it may
rightfully be is paid. Complainant has no
legal or equitable right to dispossess Wil
liams and to have the premises and gather
ed aud ungathered crop placed in the hands
of a receiver.
Holding that the granting of the injunc
tion in the cause beyoud the limit stated
was erroneous, we direct the Judge below
to rescind his order appointing a yepciyey,
qpcfeF Williams tQ he restored to pos
session. And further, that the Judge should
continue the injunction, to mould it so as
to conform to these instructions. Judg
ment reversed.
West, Kimbrough and Hawkins, for Pl’ff
in Error.
C. T. Goode for Deft in Err.G*;.
Wm. S. Jones I Prom lhe City
Edw’d W.‘ Ilarkcr, $ Court of An S usta -
Harris, J.
The Judge below ruled in this case that
the act of Congress of the United States
declaring certain Treasury Ncffes qf the
United States to be a legal tender for tho
payment of debts from one citizen to an
other, so far as that act relates to contracts
made and entered into prior to the passage
of that act to be unconstitutional aud void.
This decision is reversed for the reason
that we arc absolutely controlled by the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States recognizing the constitutionality of
the act of Congress making Treasury notes
a legal tender. [See case of J. W. & Wm.
Thompson vs. George W. Riggs and Adol
phus Kickherfee. Opinion delivered by
Justice Clifford, December Term, 18G6.] —
Judgment reversed.
Matthews & Reed for plaintiff in error.
L. Stephens for defendant in error.
William J. Reidd
vs. > From Dougherty.
Newton Brinson.)
Harris, J.
Upon an issue formed by a distress war
rant for rent and the counter affidavit
made by the renter, denying his indebted
ness as due, in whole or in part, the affida
vit upon which the distress warrant issued
and the warrant are not either separately
or conjointly evidence for the plaintiff in
the support of his demaud on the trial of
such issue. The demand of plaintiff should
be established by such testimony as would
be sufficient in courts of law upon the trial
of other monied demands. Judgment in
certiorari reversed.
In the above case the court did decide as
the point was not necessary to the disposi
tion of it, but intimated its opinion,
“ that the counter affidavit of the defend
ant should specifically state the amount of
plaintiff’s demand for rent which is denied
to be due; and that a denial in the mere
words of the Act of the Legislature, was
not a compliance with its spirit and inten
tention.
Strozier & Smith for plaintiff in error.
Wright & Warren for defendant in error.
Wm. L. Aycock, Sheriff, i Prom Bartow
Wm. D Martin. $ CoUnty -
Joshua T. Cunningham, Sh’ffA From
vs. > Oglethorpe
Wm. A. Colcough. ) County.
Alexander B. Hendry, 1
vs. > From Randolph.
John McGunn, el. id. )
Harris, J.
The judgments of the Superior Courts in
the three above stated cases are affirmed.
A majority of the Supreme Court holding
that the first and fourth sections of the act
of the Legislature of Georgia passed the
12th December, 1866, entitled an act for the
relief of the people of Georgia and to pre
vent the levy and sale of property under
certain circumstances are in violation of
that clause of the Constitution of the
United States, which prohibits any State
Legislature from passing any law impairing
the obligation of contracts.
Also that said act of December, 1866, is
violative of that clause of the Constitution
of Georgia which prohibits the Legislature
from passing any retroactive law operating
injuriously upon the right of the citizen.
Judge Walker dissenting.
In addition to the above grounds upon
which the above cases have been disposed
of. I state two others to which the act of
1866 is obnoxious.
8. That the 4th section of the act of De
cember, 1866, is an interference with the
execution of the judicial process of the
courts by the officer of the courts, and is in
this respect violative of those clauses of
the Constitution of Georgia distributing
the powers of the Government among the
three departments thereof, and prohibiting
the exercise by the Legislature of any of
the powers belonging to the Judiciary.
4. And farther: that the Legislature have
no power to alter or modify any judgment
of the Superior Courts of this State or by
law to arrest or suspend the enforcement
of such judgment.— llarris, J.
Wofford, Parrott & Coxe, Matthews &
Reid, H. Felder for plaintiffs in error.
Akin L. Stephens, E. R. Harden, A. Hood
& Kiddoo for defendants in error.
5 ‘ 7 -r. •
Fashion on the Brain.
It semus to raa the women now
Dregs up most awful queer,
In narrow skirts and litile hoops—
How funny they appear I
Their hair they l'riz in fancy si,apes ;
I’ve laughed, and laughed again,
To see how queer the women look
. With chignon on lhe brain.
Last night I meVa little miss,
Rigged up in wondrous style,
She xad a little bonnet on
That ready made me smile.
’Twas smaller than a catibage
Dried up for want of rain ;
How very queer the women look
With bonnet or the brain !
They say they wear the dresses short
To show their pretty feet.,
But if their shoes are No. 7’s,
Extremes will never meet;
And when they wear their dresses long,
And dragring in a tram,
I always t lute of bran poles with
tiored dresses on the brain.
Oh well, this is a curious world,
False teeth, false calves, and oh I
They speak of palpitators, hut
The trutii I do not know ;
But let them wear whate’r they will,
ltemoustrance is in vain,
And they are really charming with
The fashions on the brain.
Superior Court. —Friday—Judge Gibson
presiding—the case of William Griffin, uegio,
charged with the murder of his half-brother,
Milton Parker, in this county, in August last,
was concluded. From the evidence, it appear
ed an old feud existed between the brothers;
they met on the road ; harsh words were ex
changed ; the deceased was not armed ; each
brother had a companion ; the friend of the de
ceased was also unarmed, the friend of the
prisoner was armed, as was the prisoner; after
the exchange of words the parties passed on;
Griffin turned and discharged his gun, which
had been loaded with bail and slugs; his
brother threw up his hands, fell to the earth
and expired.
Solicitor Whitehead was assisted by T. B.
Long, Esq., in the prosecution. Judges Hook
and Aldrich, and A. D. IMcquet, Esq., appeared
for the prisoner.
At one time it appeared, in view of the great
exertion of the array of talent in behalf of the
prisoner, that there was little chance for his
conviction, hut on the conclusion ol the prose
cuting attorney’s exceedingly thorough and
effective argument on the testimouy ami the
law, the opiuions of spectators were conflicting,
many asserting that a verdict of “ guilty of
murder ” would be rendered, while, perhaps,
as many more believed the prisoner would be
acquitted.
The'chargc of his Honor was confined to a
concise exposition of the law as applicable in
the premises. The jury retired, and during the
afternoon returned with a verdict of guilty of
voluntary macslanghtor.
The case of the State t-s. Egypt Brown, negro,
charged with burglary in the night, was taken
up and disposed of iu the conviction of Egypt.
Egypt did “ break through, and steal ” from, the
house of Foster Blodgett, articles of wearing
apparel. Egypt is a notorious rascal, aud has
been in tjie stealing often prior to stealing
the habits of the acting Mayor.
A. D. Picquet, Esq., assisted Solicitor White
head for the Stale and Col. John Miilcilgc de
fended the Egyptiau Brown.
Petition to Remove the So-Called May
or and Aldermen.—Friday, according to
notice, many citizens interested in Iho petition
for the removal of Blodgett, Bullock, Levy, and
others who had so faithfully illustrated the
saying of the wise man, “ When the wicked
rule, the people mourn,” assembled in the
Oottncll Chamber to meet Captains Sanderson
and MeKibben, for the purpose of testifying to
instances of mal-adminkstratfou Oh the part of
the aforesaid professed municipal authorities.
Thcso officers stated to General Wright and
Joseph Ganald, Esq., that they purposed ta
king the sworn statements ol citizens having
knowledge of such acts of mal-feasancc
as had been complained of in the petition, and
then call for counter Os explanatory statements
frotq Iho accused parties. On learning this,
Messrs. Wright and Ganahl then asked for time
in order to arrange the testimony and have the
affidavits made out in proper form. This was
assented to by the gentlemen composing the
military commission, aud one of the officers so
announced to the assemblage.
ALer this, it tyas requested by Messrs.
Wright and Ganahi that the people would re
main lor the purpose of organization prepara
tory to a division of labor in procuring the ne
cessary affidavits.
The crowd remained. Judge A. P. Robert
son was called tq the chair, and James A. Gray
requested to act as secretary.
On motion, two representatives from each
ward were appointed to select a committee of
twenty-one, which should take the matter in
hand, in order that the wishes of the military
commission might be complied with.
The meeting then adjourned.
Brilliant LitpiT.— We are indebted to
Messrs, Scofield, Williams & Cos. for a speci
men of their new lamps and oil. The light
given by this oil is ol the most brilliant and
lambent character, far surpassing anything in
the way of kerosene. Wo arc assured that the
oil is non-explosive and perfectly harmless. Qf
Us illuminatipg properties we can not speak
too highly, and advise any of our friends, in
want of a superior article, to call upon Messrs.
8., W. Cos., and examine for themselves.
The same gentlemen are agents for the fa
mous “Olive Branch ” stove, the most perfect
and economical we have ever seen—to cooks
and gastronomes a genuine treasure.
Accident.— Friday afternoon, a horse be
longing to the editor of this paper met with
serious and, doubtless, fatal injuries. Asa
young man was driving him up Broad street,
just below the market house, the animal be
came frightened, ran away, and, by some mis
chance, struck his head against a tree. The
buggy to which he was attached was consid
erably damaged. The driver was fortunately
unhurt.
This loss is a severe one to ye poor editor ;
but, like a good Christian, he thanks heaven it
is no worse.
The Patent TitANSPLANTEn.— Messrs. J. A.
Ansley & Cos. have for sale anew implement
of husbandry, Ellerbe’s plaut transplanter, by
which plants of every description can be
quickly transplanted without injury. We have
seen one, and advise those of our readers who
are planters, farmers or gardeners to go and
examine them.
Direct from Ireland.— Messrs. James A.
Gray & Cos. have received a large stock of
Irish liueu and cambric handkerchiefs direct
from Ireland; also, a large assortment of kid
gloves and long cloth, to which they invite the
attention of buyers.
Godev’s Lady’s Book. —Mr. George A.
Oates has received an installment of “Godcys
for February.
Scott’s Monthly.— This excellent magazine
for January comes to ns greatly enlarged and
improved.
Hobees says the minister who boasted of
preaching without notes, didn’t mean to be
understood to refer to greenbacks. None of
the brethren are above the “root of all evil.”
Constitution Water Is a certain cure for
Diabetes and all diseases of the Kidneys. For
sale by all Druggists. octll-6m
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Congressional.
Washington, January 17.
Senate.—No session.
House.—The Ways and Means Committee
reported anti-contraction, with recommenda
tion of non-coucurrence with the Senate
mendments. Adopted.
Several private bills were disposed of.
The vote on reconstruction was postponed
to Monday, with a session to-morrow for de
bate only.
Discussion resumed. Brooks made a strong
speech in opposition. Alluding to the Radical
programme, he said : “We dou’t intend to be
ruled by any such government as that, aud the
processes of legislation by which it is to be
reached will be undone by the people. Many
of the Opposition members arc acting in utter
defiance of the expressed will of their con
stituents.”
Referring to the Supreme Court bill, Mr.
Brooks said: “You may overthrow Andew
Johnson; you may destroy the Executive; you
may turn whole States into Haytis, Jamalcas
and Africas, hut when you throw yourselves
against that bulwark of the Constitution, your
puny arms will shake and quiver and be blast
ed in the first blow you strike against it.”
Mr. Hubbard, of Connecticut, to.lowed in
bitter denunciation of the bill and the emascu
lation of the Supreme Court, He denounced
the proposed legislation as felony against the
Stales. He would not say Congress was iufa
mous, hut this bill was more than infamous.
He gave notice that should Grant accept the
law and carry it out as proposed, he would
break his hack before the people. He (Grant)
would forfeit all the honors he had won. This
bill and all others were got up for Africanizing
the States, thus Repubiicanizing them, and
making use of them to neutralize majorities at
the North.
The debate proceeded. The .Republicans
evidently ou the defensive throughout,
The Committee on Frecdmen reported a bill
for the sale of certaiu lands and lots in the Sea
Island, Beaufort District, S. C.
Petitions from citizens of Louisiana,’.asking
aid in constructing the Opelousas Railroad,
were offered.
Adjourned.
From Washington.
Washington, January 17.
Last night’s session was devoted to discuss
ing the reconstruction bill with several angry
colloquies.
Col. W. D. Mann, Assessor of Internal Re
venue at Mobile, is here urging changes in cot
ton regulations whereby it is claimed annoyance
connected with the use of tags will be lessened,
and possibly the abolishment, of tags altogether.
Maun submitted an extended argument to the
department yesterday, detailing annoyances
experienced by merchants and planters under
present regulations. He presented a memorial
lrom leading cotton dealers ot Alabama support
ing His views.
The Senate confirmed Egbert 11. Grandin
United Stales Attorney lor the Southern Dis
trict of Alabama.
The Supreme Court is crowded to hear ex
parte MeCardle to-day. The court reserved
decision. The point argued wu3 advancement
of the ease on the docket.
Howard was on the floor of the House, con
sulting with Eliot, chairman ot the Freed
meu’s Committee.
Customs for the week ending Janury 11th,
three million three hundred and eighty-eight
thousand.
Judge Sharkey staled, in arguing tho Me-
Cardle case, that there are several persons iu
Mississippi whom an early decision of this
case may save from hanging.
Gov. Flanders, of Louisiana, is here.
Tuere was a regular Cabinet meeting to-day;
Stanton did not approach.
The Military Committee, in view of the unset
tled state of tlie South, decided to defer action
for reducing the army.
Persons whoimve conversed with Grant say
he is very guarded in his language regarding
the pending reconstruction hill.
The Supreme Court of Now York divorced
Belle Boyd from her husband to-day.
The Committee on Ways and Means adopt
ed iho following:
Resolved , As the sense of tins committee,
that §150,000,000 of revenue shall he considered
as the whole amount of revenue to he obtained
from internal taxes, and that the same, as far
as practicable, be collected from —first, distill
ed spirits and fermented liquors; second, to
bacco apd manufactures of tobacco; third,
stamps; fourth, special taxes; fifth, income ;
sixth, dividends; seventh, luxuries and amuse
ments; eighth, banks and railroads; ninth,
legacies and, successions, leaving the least pos
sible sum to he collected from industrial pur
suits, or releiving that class of interest entirely.
lion. Will. T. Hamilton is elected to tho
Federal Senate from Maryland,
From Mississippi.
Jacicson, January 17.
The following were referred to appropriate
committees :
A resolution to appoint a special committee
t« inquire into the propriety of removing the
capital of the State to home more loyal and con
venient place,
Au ordinance forbidding corporations, &c.,
to levy a poll tax exceeding one dollar ; resolu
tions authorizing the Legislature to provide for
repairs of the Mississippi river.
An ordinance declaring, among other essen
tial qualifications for ebetors, acceptance of
civil aud political equality of all men, and obli
gation never to countenance secession of the
State lrorn the United States.
A resolution requesting the Committee on
Ordinance to report an ordinance providing lor
the abolition of county courts and enlarging
the powers and jurisdiction_of magistrates.
The following were adopted : A resolution
providing a committee of live to receive the
games of citizens in whose behalf Congress he
petitioned for removal of disabilities; a resolu.
lion instructing the Committee on Schedule to
report an ordinance providing that hereafter no
official bond be required of persons elected or
appointed to office in this State, but providing
fine, imprisonment aud perpetual disfranchise
ment for malfeasance in office.
The following were made the special order
for Tuesday : An oidinagcu providing for pub
lication of convention proceedings and ordi
nances in the three Republican papers ot the
State, allowing fifty ceuts per square and sub
scribing tor one hundred each of said papers,
authorising the Auditor to issue warrants to
pay for the same on the certificate of the Secre
tary.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, January 17.
With some dissenting votes the convention
adopted a resolution thanking Gen. Meade for
the course he has pursued in regard to recon
struction.
The President laid a letter before the conven
tion, from a Connecticut firm engaged in guano
importation, stating that it had lost an order
from Savannah for 3,000 tons, and could not
collect for what had already been furnished
Georgia planters, on account of the action ol
the convention in forbidding legal collections,
and protesting against such action as tending
to destroy the credit of .the South.
Three additional sections of i he bill of rights
were adopted. The militia section is the usual
one about a well regulated militia, Ac., but has
added thereto that the General Assembly shall
have power to prescribe by law the mastner in
which arms shall be borne by private persons.
Three phonographic reporters have been en
gaged in New York to make verbatim reports
of the convention proceedings.
From Charleston.
Charleston, January 17.
In the convention to-day, Parker introduced
an ordinance to establish a homestead law, ex
empting property to the amount of $3,500 from
levy or seizure. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Hurley proposed an ordinance to declare all
outstanding obligations for the purchase of
slaves’ null and void. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Langley introduced a resolution declaring
that the public good required that all ideas of
confiscation or further disfranchisement be
abandoned. Laid on the table.
The yeas and nays being called for upon a
motion to reconsider, it was lost by 61 nays to
46 yeas ; sixteen being absent.
Gov. Orr addressed the convention by invita
tion tonight.
From Rnlei
Raleigh, January 17.
The convention to-day adopted rules of or
der, and elected J. W. Peck, of Wilmington,
Scrgcant-at-Arms.
The Committee on the Constitution reported
an order drafting that instrument.
Mr. Rodman, of Beaulort, offered an ordi
nance providing relief for the people. Referred
to Committee of the Whole lor discussion.
Mr. Durham, of Cleveland, Conservative, of
fered resolutions declaring the people of North
Carolina sincerely desirous to resume constitu
tional relations with the Government and sister
States, and acknowledges the power of Con
gress to enforce the reconstruction acts, but
they believe them unwise, unconstitutional, un
just and oppressive.
From ISTew Orleans.
New Orleans, January 17.
In convention, the Committee on Contingent
Expenses reported that exhorbitant prices had
been charged for stationery and other articles,
and recommend the non-payment of several
accounts unless deductions of fifty per cent,
we re made, and offered a resolution that the
extravagant expenses of the convention con
tribute greatly toward its necessary expenses
and render its collection more difficult.
Article 83 of the constitution —adopted yes
terday, providing for the election of Judges of
the District Courts—was reconsidered to-day
and rejected. Several speeches were made fa
voring tbeir appointment by the Government
instead of election.
Pending this discussion, the convention ad
journed.
No quorum was present at the eveniug
session.
From IS! ow ork.
Buffalo, N. Y., January 17.
A negro has commenced suit against the
manager of the Opera tor ejecting the negro
aud his wife from seats.
New York, January 17.
A Southerner named Dcbillieux, bank clerk,
fractured A. J. Pemberton’s skull in a duel—
Pemberton offended Debellieuxi’s sister.
Foreign.
[by the cable. |
London, January 17.
Hurricane at Tenriffe, ships driven to sea,
houses unroofed and damage great.
From Selma.
Selma, Ala., Januaiy 17.
Hon. P. G. Wood has decided that he could
not comply with Gen. Pope’s neirro jury order,
without the violation of his official oath, and
yesterday the court was suppressed by military
authority.
At a meeting of the Bar of Dallas county
Judge Wood was unanimously sustaiued.
From Richmond.
Richmond, Va., January 17.
In cOLventiou there was nothing important.
It has resolved to hold ruoruing and afternoon
sessions.
[Marine News.
New York, Jannary 17.
Arrived—Hatteras, Europaand Eagle.
Savannah, Jauuaryl7.
Arrived—Steamer Leo, from New York.
Cleared—Bark Hypatia, for Liverpool; schrs.
Irena, Meseeary and Alice G. Grace, for New
York.
The steamer Anna, an old blockade runner,
sunk at her wharf I his morning. A heavy wind,
storm from the West prevails.
Charleston, January 17.
Arrived—Schooner N. W. Smith, from New
York.
Sailed—Ship Richard 111., for Liverpool; brig
Manuel, for Barcelona; selirs. S. J. Waring, lor
Boston ; M. B. Bramhall, lor Savannah.
[Markets.
FOREIGN ANL) DOMESTIC.
London, January 17—Noon.
Consols, 92%@93. Bonds, 71%.
London, January 17 —Evening.
Consols, 92%. Bonds, 71%.
Liverpool, January 17—Noou.
Cotton opens firm ; sales, 12,000 hales; sales
for the week, 1)8,000 bales, including 17,000 for
export and 0,000 for speculation ; stock, 434,000,
including 111,000 American. Breadstuff's and
provisions quiet aud steady.
Liverpool, January 17—Evening.
Cotton closed active—advanced % ; upland?,
7% ; Orleans, 8; sales, 20,000 bales.
Frankfort, January 17.
Bonds, 75%.
New York, January 17—Noon.
Stocks active ami strong. Gold, 138%. —
Sterling, 9%@9%. ’O2 coupons, 9%. Tennes
see sixes, (50%. Virginias, 40.
New York, January 17— P. M.
Gold, 138%. ’O3 coupons, 100%.
New York, Jauuary 17—Noon.
Flour dull and drooping. Wheat dull and
heavy. Corn a shade firmer. Ryu dull. Oats
steady. Pork dull at §2l 87%. Lard dull.—
Cotton steady at 10%. Freights firm. Turpen
tine —more doing aL 53@58%. Rosin firm ;
strained, §3.
Ne w York, Janunryl7— P. M.
Cotton fully % higher and decidedly more
active; sates, 7,000 bales at 17 cents. Flour
dull at ?3 30@I0 00; Southern, §9
Wheat heavy. Corn steady. Oats unchanged.
Provisions quiet and steady. Lard, 12%<g13%.
Groceries quiet and steady. Turpentine, 53®
54. Freights firmer.
Baltimore, January 17.
Cotton dull and .nominal at 16. Flour,
nothing doing. Corn weak ; white, §1 16@
1 20; yellow, §1 IC@llß O its, 74@7G. Rye,
50(3)55. Provisions firmer. Bacon in good dc
inaud.
Louisvii.lb, January 17.
Flour unchanged. Corn, 75@80. Lard.
12%. Mess pork, §2l. Bacon—shoulders,
9% ; clear sides, 12%.
Wilmington, January 17.
Spirits turpentine firm at 40. Rosin easier—
common, §3. Cotton advanced % ; middling,
14%. Tar, §1 85.
Mobile, January 17.
Sales of cotton to-day. 4,500 t ales ; market
closed firm ; middlings, 15%@15% ; receipts,
6,223 bales ; sales ol the week, 19,600 bales ;
exports, coastwise, 4,173; foreign, 11,065;
stock, 74,387.
New Orleans, January 17.
Sugar firm; common, !)@9%; fair, 11%@
12%; prime to choice, 13%@13%. Molasses
uctivc; common, 50@55; prime, 77%. Flour
very dull; superfine quoted §9@9 25; double
extra, §9 50@9 75; choice, §13@14 50. Corn
firm at 95. Oats dull at 80. Pork quiet and
firm at $22(3/25. Lard quiet; tierce, 12%; keg,
14(®14%. Bacon—shoulders firm at 10; clear,
13. Sterling. 49@51%. New York sight, %
discount. Gold, 187%. Cotton active; mid
dling, 16@10%; sales to-day, S, OOO bales; re
ceipts, 4,344; exports, 13,896; sales for the
week, 27,000 bales ; receipts for the week,
20,800 ; exports lor the week, coastwise, 1,800;
foreigu, 25,671; stock, 108,408.
Savannah, January 17.
Cotton opened firm and closed excited and
advancing; middlings, 16; sales, 2,527 bales ;
receipts, 3,010 bales ; exports, 3,105 bales.
Charleston, January 1 .
Cotton improved ; sales, 1,300 bales; mid
dlings, 16@16K; receipts, 1,320.
Augusta Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, ;
Friday, January 17—P. M. >
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GOLD.—Buying at 138 and selling at 140.
SlLVEß—Buying at 132 and selling at 135.
COTTON—The market has been steady with price*
firm and full at 15c. for Middling : Wo quote stained
cotton 12@13)£ and blue 13@14; sales, 1,155 bales;
receipts, 731 bales.
BACON—Shoulders, 12*©13; rib sides, 14@14N ;
clear rib sides, 14 15 ; dry salt, long clear sides, 14 ;
bellies, 1316 ; shoulders,
see, hog round, 15c.
CORN —Prime dry new white, $1 10 for lots, with
only a moderate stock offering.
WHEAT—Red, $2 Ss@2 50; white, $2 80@2 00.
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