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WKMNRBDAI MORMAti. DECEMBER 22.
KullorkN Slander Mill Still Working.
l’he following is a copy ofa dispatch taken
from the New York Tribune of the 14th.
The tissue of falsehoods at the bottom
prove very conclusively the quarter from
whence it emanated. This is a sample of
the means resor.ed to by Bullock & Cos. to
influence the minds of Congressmen aD-1
have the State turned over to a negro
militia ;
By TcLcgraph to t*€ TYibune.
Atlanta, Dec* rnber 13, —Gen. Morgan,
a leading Democratic member of the G or
gia Legislature, has published a rejoinder
to Congressman Tift’s letter, in which he
says:
“Neither the .Senate or House intended
to submit the question of the eligibility of
colored members to seats in the Legisla
ture to the Supreme Court. The presen
Legislature never will reseat negroes, nor
will it pass the Fifteenth Amendment.
These are settled facts. For myself, I have
been a submisJonist as long as I intend to
be, and have gone as far as 1 intend to go
to gratify the unhallowed will and domi
necring spirit of a corrupt Congress.”
The Democratic papers quote the above
as a manly sentiment, and having the ring
of true metal. General Morgan oocupies
the seat of an expelled negro member.
The Ku-klux press denounce Gen. Teiry
as an iofamous liar, and advocate making
the State too hot to hold the friends of the
Administration.
An attempt was made to assassinate the
Hon. H. A. Darnell and the Hon. Peter
O’Neill, Republican members of the Leg
islature, at Milledgeviile a few days since.
Radical Promotion.
The Tribune announces,among the arri
vals in New York, that of General Foster
Blodgett, of Georgia. That he is a gene
ral perjurer, and generally corrupt and in
famous in his public and social relations,
none who know him will gainsay. But we
think Radical honors are getting quite
cheap when such a creature as Blodgett is
dubbed General.
Cotton—Us Production and Manufac
ture.
The Charleston Nevis publishes the 10l
lowing as a specal from Washington. It
is what the Commissioner of Agriculture
says in his annual report under the head
of “Southern Agriculture. ” We think the
Commissioner will find himself sadly mis
taken in bis estimate that tho crop of this
year will exceed that of last:
“The continued high price of cotton has
made its culture more profitable than at
any former period, aod the crop of 1868
has yielded a larger amount of money than
that of 1809. Tho yield of the past year
exceeded very slightly the estimate of this
Department, which was 2,380.000 bales.
The present season has witnessed great
activity in this culture, an increase of area
cultivated, aod more general and generous
fertilization, and has also been characteriz
ed by drought in tho seaboard States, and
other causes of diminished production,
which have modified the expectations of
planters ; yet the crop will exoeed that of
last year, aod may reach 2,700,000 bales.
“I regret to observe, from official corre
spondence and during a brief tour through
the cotton States, the tendency to neglect
other crops and concentrate all available
labor and capital upon a single product,
however profitable. Thejinevitable result
v ill be more cotton and smaller net re
turns in money after the purchase of need
ed supplies, and, as further result, a slower
improvement of neglected lands. This
bane of Southern agriculture is still opera
tive, and may cease to exist only when
low pricoe, disaster and despondency shall
arrest the impolitic and irrational course
of production. I would not advise an at
tempt to keep up prices by limiting the
yield ; a somewhat large supply of the
staple is needed iu the markets of the
world ; the present rates cannot be sus
tained indefinitely ; but I would not foster
the suicidal mania for cheapening the
money producing crop while rendering
dearer every other that must«be purchased
as an auxiliary of its production.
“It is gratifying, however, to note the
increase of cotton manufactures in the cot
ton region, their flourishing condition,
their large dividends, nnd the quality of
their yarns and fabrios. Operatives are
easily obtained at reasonable wages, becom
ing readily inured to habits of systematic
industry, and rapidly acquiring the requi
site skill. At the commencement of the
present year there were eighty-six cotton
mills reported from Southern States to the'
National Association of Cotton Manufac
turers and Planters, running 225,053
spindles, oonsuming 31,415,350 pounds.
The following are details of returns from
the ootton States:
Average per
spindle.
Cotton spun...
Average yarn..
Spindles
Mills
STATE.
Virginia W ».M» MX 4,ulU,i»w 111.1*
Nunli (Jurolim, 17 54.2 W 10W 8,637,000 M 5 85
South Carotin* l! K 1.558 lS*i 4 174.100 182. U
11.-o.gla 20 69 782 12* 10. 61,850 155 70
Alabuma 8 25,198 17 2 820.*) 112.00
MlMlsalppl.... li 8 852 9 1,457,000 188 48
Trxtu 4 Bp2B >% 1,871,104 188 90
Ark ,nans 2 924 8)j 268 400 2(4188
Ttimmoea .... 10 18.780 19 1.80,7(0 154.00
“The cotton manufactured in the United
States in 1860 was 422,704,975 pounds; in
1868, by these returns,4so,ooo,ooo pounds
At th former date the home consumption
was twenty per cent, of the crop; it is now
forty per eent. As the ratio of consump
tion shall be further increased, the pros
perity of the country and of the cotton
section will advance.
“The sugar interest is rapidly attaining
its former proportions. A disposition is
indicated to extend its culture beyond the
oane plantations of the Mississippi River
to Florida, Southern Georgia and Texas.
Fruit culture is gaining a prominence
which it never before enjoyed; vineyards
ot hundreds of acres in extent have been
established, and orchards of thousands
of aores, with groves of oranges and
other tropical fruits. There is evi
dence of progress also in the use ot im
proved agricultural implements, the em
ployment of fertilizers, and in the mental
activity and spirit ol inquiry which are
moving the rural mind of this section.
The Georgia Revenue Troubles
Some time since we stated that there
was a movement on loot having for its ob
ject the removal of the negro Belcher from
his position as Assessor of Internal Reve
nue for this (the thiid) District. The
following from the Washington Republi
can (Radical), of last Wednesday, gives
additional color to the report;
“Supervisor Krzyzanowski, of Georgia,
accompanied by Assessoi Belcher, of the
Third Georgia District, arrived here yes
terday, and during the day had an inter
view with Commissioner Delano respecting
the condition of affairs in that section of
the State. Belcher is a oolored man, and
was appointed in pl.tee of Mr. Bowles,
relative of Senator Hill, ot that State, and
it is alleged the disturbances in that dis
trict are in the main duo to this change.
It is a question whether the government
will sustain its own appointments. The
Sufi rvisor also justly complains that the
revenue officers in other sections ofthe
State are not as efficient and firm in the
discharge ol their duties as the interests of
the revenue demand. Iu fact, without 1
the aid of the military it is doubtful 1
whether the revenue oould be collected as
it is in other districts of the Southern
States. The dissatisfaction is attributed to
the unsettled condition of political matters
within the State limits, and the attention
ol Congress will doubtless be called to it
without delay.”
Venezuela Cotton.—No doubt there
are as great a number of possibilities in
the science of agriculture as in most of
the other departments of research, and
the State of Georgia, we perceive, seems
to have made a notable one in the Vene
zuela cotton introduced and cultivated by
Dr. Leitner, who makes two bolls grow
where only one grew before. This beauti
ful a."id silky plant put down in July will
mature sooner than the home species
planted in Spring, and it gives one hun
dred and fifty ix»lls on a stalk—fifty bolls
making one poem.
Georgia State DEs-tal Society.—
This Society will meet in Savannah on the
28th December. We learn that Urn hotels
and railroads have put down the face to
halt price tor delegates. There should be
a full attendance.
The Death Penalty:—The readers of
the Chronicle & Sentinel, will remem
ber that, some time in last July a most
brutal murder was committed in the ad
joining county of Burke—Mr Adkins D.
Lewis, being subbed in a horrible manner
by a negro man named Ben Godby, whom
he had in his employ. On Thursday the
prisoner was put on trial for the offence
in the Superior Court of Burke «ounty
and found guilty of murder. His Honor
Judge Gibson sentenced him to be carried
to the jail of this county for aaie keeping
and on the fourteenth of next January to be
taken back to Waynesboro and there
hung. The condemned arrived here on
Fiiday morning and wa* coufinod in accord
ance with his sentence.
IhM Georgia hill—How It Affects hs. j
'ihert- scc-r.it to be much mere excite
ment. i: not aiarm, in the public mind, on
account of the Georgia situation, than we
think the status fti our affairs justify. We
have met aud conversed freely with very
many gentlemen within the last few weeks
from a ! parts oftheState, and wefeelquite
confident that the Legislature at its next
session would have re seated the expelled
negroes and ratified the Fifteenth Amend
ment. We have diligently sought inform
ation on these points and reluctantly
came to the conclusion jus: stated.
The course of this paper upon both of
these propositions has been long known t r
the public. From the firat, we have un
qualifiedly opposed both, and urged, with
all the ability we possessed. that the adop
tion ot them would not only bring disgrace
and tuirj upon our own State but upon the
bes 1 interests ot ail the States of the Union.
We have opposed the re-seating of the
negroes because we believe that question is
ret adjudicata, and that no legal and con
stitutional action could now be adopted
which would restore them to seats from
which, after full argument and fair hear
ing, they have been expe led. The adop
tion of the Fifteenth Amendment, while
its immediate effects would not change or
modify in the slightest degree the rights of
negroes to vote in this State as now secur-
I ed by the Constitution of 1868, would, in
our judgment, be a death-blow to our con
] federative system. It would deprive the
| States of the Union of one of their dear
■ est :nd most valuable rights, and open
the way for the eDtire destruction of the
State Governments.
This amendment involves questions j
of far more importance than the mere
expediency of right of negro suffrage.
If negro suffrage was all that it con
tained, then Georgia and Georgians
gians would perhaps feel very little inter
est in its defeat or adoption. It is not the
thing which is proposed to be accomplish
ed by the amendment, so much as the man
ner in which it is proposed to be done and
the authority which assumes to act on the
question. If the right claimed by Con
gress in the proposed amendment shall be
granted by tt.e several States; if this pro
vision is engrafted on the Constitution of
the United States ; if the States permit
Congress to interfere with the elective
franchise and manipulate tho ballot-boxes
all over the Union, then the great bul
wark of American liberty is forever de
stroyed.
Our opposition and the opposition of
the people of Georgia to this proposition
has been based upon higher reasons than
those ol a local or personal nature. Negro
suffrage has been forced on us. Wo sub
mit because we can’t help ourselves, not
because we believe it wise, proper or just.
On the contrary, we believe that indis
criminate negro suffrage is a wrong upon
the white peonle of the country and really
an injury to the negro themselves. Yet
because we have this injury fastened upon
us, because we see aDd feel its bad results,
is no reason why we should desire or con
sent to its infliction upon other States.
Because we entertained these views we have
always opposed the ratification of the pro
posed 15th amendment.
Congress now proposes to compel the
State of Georgia to ratify this iniquitous
proposition, and aP "to do an illegal act
in reseating the expelled negro members of
the L egislature. We say the State of
Georgia because the present and the last
Congiess, and both of tho other coordinate
departments of the Government have fully
and clearly recognized her as a State. By
the provisions of the bill which has just
passed the Senate, if we understand them
correctly, our status as a State is wholly
ignored. The bill reported by the Ju
diciary Committee in accordance with the
recommendation of General Grant pro
posed to deal with us as a State, and its
provisions were claimed to be based upon
the last clause of the 14th amendment of
the Constitution,which authorizes Congress
to enforce by appropriate legislation the
principles embraced and the rights con
ferred in that amendment. The Commit
tee claim, as did General Grant, that the
expulsion ofthe negroes from the Legisla
ture was in violation of the 14th amend
ment, and the actioc they proposed weDt
only so far as to compel the recognition of
their rights as members, and the exclusion
ofthose members disqualified by the dis
franchising clause of this amendment. In
this there was nothing which was antago
nistic to our status as a State. Neither the
Judiciary Committee or General Grant, :o
far as we are advised or believe, desired
further or other action. The pressure of
the extreme Radicals wa3 so great, how
ever, that to prevent revolutionary and
dangerous act bn by Congress the more
Conservative Republicans yielded the
points injected in the bill by Mr. Morton
and his particular friends. The bill as it
passed the Senate, so far as we understand
it, is a sort of compromise or middle ground
between the recommendation of General
Grant and the iomands of the Bullock fac
tion.
As to its practical effects, we fail to dis
cover any cause for the blood and thunder
prognostics ot some of our friends. The
negroes will be re-seated—this the Legisla
ture would have done voluntarily. Those
members ineligible under the Fourteenth
Amendment will be unseated—this test
has already been applied and none of the
members were found within the disfran
chisement of that amendment. The fifteenth
amendment will bo ratified—the Legisla
ture had already determined to do that.
These aro the three things required by
Congress before we shall be fully repre
sented as a State. These three things, in
our humble judgment, would have been
done without the coercion of this bill.
We cannot give the precise strength of
parties in the Legislature when the negroes
are reseated. We believe that there will
be a small Democratic majority in both
houses. The Senate was originally Radi
cal, but the loss of two Radical Senators
by death and resignation, and the election
in their places of Democrats, if Bullock
will permit an election to be held, will
make tha. body secure against the Bullock
faction. In tho House the question is in
volved in some doubt, but we incline to the
opionion that the Democrats and Conser
vatives will control that body. Several
Radical members of the Senate and of the
House are now disqualified by reason of
holding Federal offices. Two of the negro
members of the House are now holding office
in this city and. we believe, also one or two
qf thewhito.Tladicals-1 Throughoutjthe State
there are perhaps ten or twelve Radical
members of the House who canuot now take
their seats. If elections are held to fill j
these vacancies Democrats will be return
ed. If no elections are held we believe i
that both houses can be relied on to op
pose Bullock in all his infamous plans to
bring about disorder and violence and a
war of r; cs in the State.
We hail b able to speak more definite
ly of the probable effects of this bill when
we arc fully informed in regard to its seve
ral provisions. In the meantime we repeat
that 9i far, we can discover no specisl J
cause for alarm other than that which the
people of every State should feel at the j
violent an! revolutionary action of Con- ;
grc*--. The people of the Jiorth are evi- j
deotly as interested in this legislation as
we are. They should scan this action well.
GetUns on the Bight Track.
The Intelligencer gives promise of a
sincere disgust with its Radical friends Bul
lock and Blodgett. We harelong wondered
how it was possible tor such a journal,
with it past record unclouded and its pro
prietor a Southern gentleman, could have
wandered so far from the only true and
manly course, of hostility to Radicalism
in ail its protean shapes. We are glad
to find that its recent flirtation with the
great incendiaries, has not wholly destroy
ed its old love for justice and State rights.
It shows a becoming alacrity aow, in op
posing the mad schemes of its Radical
friends, and places itself in the foremost
ranks vs those who denounce the efforts of
Congress to destroy our State government
and place our people under the absolute
control of the unprinciple I Bullock.
The Intelligencer makes a slight mistake
when it asserts that the Chronicle k
Sentinel was “among the last ’ of the
Democratic press to take position against
thr, reseating ol the negroes and the rati
fication of the 15th amendment. If tljg
Intelligencer had not been at the time so
much engaged with its flirtation with Bul
lock and Blodgett it would have discovered
that this paper took open ground against
both of the.-e propasiiioni some months
since and in advance of several papers
which now claim credit for their recent op
position. We feei quite sure that the Intel
ligencer,noaMl not intentionally misrepresent
our position, and vre must, therefore, at
tribute its unjust charge to lack es informa
tion. If it wiii take the trouble to consult
owr fiies as far back as January last it wiil
find that then we opposed the loth amend
ment, and if it wiil leek through June and
July last it will also find that we opposed
then the re-scating ofthe expelled negroes.
Tne State to be Reconstructed.
Bullock has so fa r succeeded in his in
famous ryle of tbief, liai, coward and
traitor as to induce Congress to lay violent
hands on tho rights and liberties of the
people of this Commonwealth.
By reference to our special dispatches
from Washington it will be seen that
Morton's amendment has been adopted in
the Senate. This requires the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment by the Legis
lature before the State can be admitted to
representation in Congres. The vote on
this amendment was taken after 11 p. m.,
when our last dispatch was sent. As the
Senate continued in session after that hour
it is highly probable that tte bill, as re
ported by the Judiciary Committee, was
adopted before adjournment. This bill
provides for the assembling of the original
Legislature at the call of Buileck, which
means that all the negroes are to be re
seated, and that all persons ineligible un
der the fourteenth amendment shall be
excluded, and that the Legislature is to be
I regarded as provisional only until the fur
| ther action of Congress. Bullock, it pro
‘ vides further, is to be backed by the army
P and navy of the United States to carry
; into execution these inlamous provisions.
! In a word, it leaves the people and prop
! erty of this great State at the mercy of
; Bullock and his horde of thieves and
assassins.
We look for no justice from the lower
house, and it may be regarded as certain
that Bullock has succeeded in his schemes
for the destruction, temporarily, of the
peace and well being of our people.
This hasty, indecent, unjust and par
tizan action of Congress is a great calamity
—a great wrong ana an unpardonable
orime against the material interests, peace
aud liberties of all classes of our people-
Left at the mercy of Bullock, there is
neither justice to be expected, nor protection
to be looked for from him or the min’ons
by whom he is surrounded.
But if tho worst comes to pass this
whole infamy can be bu„ temporary in its
effects. Our people possess those in
herent qualities which will and shall over
come the base machinations of cowards
and tyrants. The day of retribution is
sure to come.
Beast Batter and Greeley.
Beast Butler publishes a long reply to
the letter recently writteu to him by
Greeley urging that Butler should takc
the lead in the Radical party for a prompt
removal of all the political disabilities im
posed on the people of the South by the
14th amendment.
As might have been expected, the old
Dragon is violently opposed to such lenity
and insists that “the men at the South
why wore true to the Union during the
w;r”need the protection still of the dis
franchisement of that amendment. lie
fears that as Tennessee has thrown off the
Radical yoke and has set so work in earn
est to repeal all the proscriptive legisla
tion enacted by tho intense Radicals for
the last few years, that even so all the
other Southern States will act as soon as
they are fully restored to the Union. He
thinks Congress has been retting aloDg too
fast with the reconstruction business, and
that to expedite reconstruction now is to
speedily kill the Radical party.
He cites the case of Georgia to show
that unrepentant Rebels should not be for
given, and thirks that it was a mistaken
policy in the “best Government on the
Planet,” not to have hung several of
the leading men of the “Rebellion,”
particularly those who had been educated
by tho Government and who resign jd
offices in the army to accept Confederate
Commissions, and particularly regrets that
Jefferson Davis, and those leading spirits
who left tho Ilalls of Congress to inaugu
rate “Rebellion” were not treated with a
short shrive and a hasty rope. He taunts
Greeley with the fact that the latter run
behind his party in the late election in
New York, and congratulates himself that
his own popularity was strengthened from
the fact that he was known to be opposed
to the universal amnesty dogma of the
Tribune.
The whole letter shows the deep malig
nity of his feelings toward the people of
the South, and forecasts his determina
tion to harry and harass us as much and
as lo g as he can. We have never had
any faith in the pretensions of this old
sinner to fairness and candor, but we
confess that this letter hr.s shown him to
be plain and outspoken in bis desire for
further tortures and humiliations of the
Southern people.
How Cotton is Manipulated bt
toe “Bears” in New York.—The fol
lowing from the Journal of Commerce will
be understood and appreciated by holders
of tbe staple in Augusta, showing as it
does the “bear” arrangements unscrupu
lously carried out to depreciate tho value
of our staple:
Money Market, Saturday, Dec. 4.
Our friend the “Cotton Merchant” need
not blame the Journal of Commerce, nor
even the Associated Press for the sensation
created in the cotto .larket ye-terday.
The history of that affair appears to be as
follows: Seme bear in cotton desiring to
bring about a panic in the cotton market,
entered into collusion with someone in the
New York Tribune office and procured the
interpolation among tße items of the As
sociated Press dkpatch in that paper the
following paragraph :
“Reports to the Agricultural Bureau
show that the cotton crop for the South for
Dus year is larger than wasat first estimat
ed, and it is now believed the yield will be
nearly 3,000,000 bales, mort of which is of
excellent quality.”
Over the whole body of items were
’printed in large capitals:
the cotton crop.
{•SNSBAL PE ESS DISPATCH. |
It is doubtful if the item came
by telegraph at all, but if i did
it came neither from the “Agricul
tural Bureau,” nor in the “General Press
Dispatch." It was the adroit invention of
a speculator. Had it been published as a
“Special to t v e Tribune," it wou:d have
produced no effect, but being circulated
about the city as a statement of the Asso
ciated Press from our very reliable corps
of reporters at Washington, its effect was
marked, and but for the prompt action of
the Journal of Commerce ia obtaining t e
contradiction, would Lave been disastrous.
The editors of the Tribune owe it to them
selves to trace the falsehood to its source,
and to deal promptly with the conspirator
in their office who allowed it to be inter
polated among the items of regular tele
graphic news. We waited until this morn
ing in the hope tk3t the Trikune would
take the lead in the work of rerara f 'on.
It is needless to add that the Tribune
made no reparation for the great wrong to
which it lent itself.
Convicts from Jllrke County.—The
Superior Court of Burke county has been
in session during the past two weeks and
this week the criminal docket has been
disposed of. On last Friday morning a
large batch of prisoners, who had been
convicted of different offences, reached this
city, having been sent to the county jail
for safe keeping until their sentences could
be carried into execution. The prisoners
had been found guilty of the following of
fences :
Two of them had been convicted of
grand larceny and sentenced, each, to two
years imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
Three plead guilty to having been con
cerned in the miniature insurrection which
took place on the plantation of Mr. Henry
Wilkes JoDes last August, and were sen
tenced, each, to twelve months hard labor
on the chain-gang.
One was convicted of the offence of petty
larceny and sentenced to four months hard
labor os the chain-gang.
Another was also found guilty of the
same offence and setenoed to three months
bard labor on the cbain-gang.
Probable Murder of John B. Miner,
Esq.
John B. Miller, a member of the Bar
of Brunswick, and formerly a resident of
Waynesboro, Georgia, left Camden Coun
ty Court on the 16th of November, and
has been ever since missing. His friends
suspect foul play, and that he has been
assassinated and his body concealed.
Hard to Beat.
Mr. John Bass, of Washington county,
with two males, made this year thirty-six
bales of cotton, averaging 450 pounds, 250
bushels of corn, and 150 bushels of pota
toes, with an abundance of vegetable? for
his family, and in addition raised pork
enough for his supply for the next year.
This crop was made on the ordinary
lands of this region, and is the result oi
: skillful cultivation acd proper fertilizing.
This crop shows what Middle Georgia can
do if her stalwart sons bring to their aid
I the improvements which are being daily
made iu the system of modern aeri
! culture.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
i General Grant Trying to Rule on both
Sides—His “ Mental ” Labors—Butler
and Boutwell have Bottled Grant—
Bruke and the Supreme Court—Cuban
Independence a Humbug—Congress will
Give us a Rest — Airs. Grant's Police
Arrangements.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, December 13.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
President Grant is in a curious fix. Ha
want3 to gain piestigc for conservatism,
or, rather, for opposition to the further
proscription ofthe Southern people, and
for first-class loyal Radicalism both at the
same time, lie is anxious to propitiate
the favor oi the ultra Radical Congress
men, ot whom he stands io some fear, and
to hold the lespect of the people
of the country, of which he stands
in some doubt. Be must lose one
or the other, and as he has pledg
ed timseif to faithfully execute all the laws
that may be passed by Congress, it is not
likely tliat he will take well with the peo
ple. There is one thing, however, which
he could do, aud the wonder is why he
is not quick to accomplish it—and that is,
i to mane public by a message to Congress
his inward convictions concerning the re
moval ot test-oaths aud other disabling
causes which stand in tho way of the
proper development of the good will he so
earnest y asserts this administration has
for the entire South. There is no good
wnl evident when he, by a simple para
graph, could do much toward alleviating
the sufferings of a vast number of his
couDtrymeD, besides gaiciug their sympa
taies and assistance in support of his admin
istration, and refuses to do it. Grant knows
that his party of progress is going to its
death more by reason of its odious pro
scriptions than otherwise—other promi
nent Radicals here know the same thing,
aod some are attempting to remedy it by
the adoption of laws of just charac
ter which they feel to be the
only prop that can sustain the
P* r .t> a t the bar of political judgment.
Ibis turn in the Radical lane is to be
made more visible as the session advances.
One of tho results will be a division in the
party ranks.
Grant hankers after his old army asso
ciations, which have been made to give
way topobtical one.?. He would like to he
guided and advised by Sherman and
Schojeld rather than by Boutwell acd
Butler; but the party won’t allow ibat
and he is forced to submit. He consoles
himself, however, by fraternizing toeially
as little as possible with the lights of Radi
calism. Evidently he is tired of Presidential
honors. 1 saw him yesterday (Sunday)
afternoon a short distance into the eoun
try obtaining a little mental relaxation by
a pretty fast drive—particularly for a Sab
bath d*y. He held the reins himself and
was perched upon the box of his Park
phaeton like a veritable jehu; by his side
was one of his brothers-in-law and in tho
back seat the children. The President was
in his element, and thoughts of finance,
Boutwell, Sumner, foreign relations, But
ler and Reconstruction evidently had no
place in his mind. The dust scattered, the
wheels flew round and the Chief Magis
trate cracked his whip as if “all Chcapside
were mad.”
Senator Drake, of Missouri, opened fire
again on the Supreme Court to-day. He
takes the ground that the Supreme Court
has no r ght to tbiuk that any member of
Congress will violate his oath to support
the Constitution which lie asserts is the
basis of the Supre oe Court’s claim for
jurisdiction. So far the ultras have been
chary of recognizing Drake’s attempt to
break: up entirely the foundation of the
liberties “of the people. One prominent
Radical says he cannot “seethe policy of
endorsing schemes that lead the party
straight to perdition without benefit
of clergy.” Drake will never carry
his infamous measure through and is bring
ing himself into very merited contempt
with the able jurists in the Senate. He
sensibly admitted in his harangue to-day
that he feared his views cn the subject
would not be imparted forcibly to others in
the Senate.
Not a day passes but witnesses a bill or
resolution either in the House or Senate,
and often in both, having reference to rec
ognizing the independence of Cuba. The
Cuban sympathizers place all their hopes
on Congress now, as Grant dashed the
coldest of cold water over them in his
message. Boutwell and Sutnner are the
enemies of Cuba, and the friends of the
Republic think that they can influence
Congress, as thei’ have the President.
Both houses will probably adjourn over
from a week after next Wedoeso’ay until
the first Monday in January, and then a
great many of the Senators and Represent
atives will leaye this city for the pur
pose of spending their Christmas holiday
at their homes.
Some comments having appeared recent
ly concerning a i order from the lady of
the White House feroidding the great
American public from resting their weary
bones on the mahogany chairs in the east
room ofthe Executive Mansion, one ofthe
attaches of tho White House explains the
reason for this in a very satisfactory man
ner. “People come here,” said he, and
bring their lunches with them, they eat
dinner in the East room, grease the car
pet all over, and make the room unfit for
day visitors to look at. These are the
things tha> Mrs. Grant is determined to
remedy. Turing the war the Executive
mansion was treated very badly; teamsters
with cavalry boots and lot g blue overcoats
used to raid on it oecasionaily and make
the surrounding atmosphere anything but
agreeable. On one occasion a loyal Penn
sylvania wagoner took off his boots and,
making a pillow of his overcoat, indulged
in a quiet snooze. The present mistress of
the Executive mansion refuses to allow
these favors, and consequently the edict
prohibiting visitors from seating them
selves in the East room.
Another hill was introduced to day pro
viding for the abolition of the franking
privilege. The wonder is whether any of
them will pass. Jasper.
SOUTH CASOLISA.
Reconstruction of Columbia—Constables
Above Law--Air Line Railroad--Colum
bia Canal— Immigration—Barnburners
—Radical Ku-lclaxes —lce Manufac
tures.
[from our own correspondent.]
Columbia, December 15, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
The subject most exercising the minds
of Columbians just now is the bill to ex
tend the corporate limits of the city, and
to have municipal elections held in Feb
ruary. lb’s i a Radical job similar to
the one perpetrated ia Charleston ; but is,
if possible, more infamous and r.arfe-faced
in its insolent provisions- Under the act
of this same Legislature an election of
municipal officers was held last November
(1S68), and Democrats were duly elected.
Now the Radicals propose to have the city
limits extended so as to bring in the ;
suburban regions inhabited mainly by ne-!
groes. and have an election in February,
so as to get Radicals into office. The un
blushing effrontery of the measure is wor- I
thy the vile means resorted to to get it 1
through. It is proposed by Sam. B. !
Thompson, a negro of Columbia, who is
thus pushed forward as the pitiable tool j
of the defeated Radical candidate for \
Mayor in the last election.
STATE CONSTABLES.
A bill was introduced, but reported on j
unfavorably, to exempt the State con- j
stabulary from arrest for anything they j
might see fit to do in the discharge of their !
official duties. This measure was pro- !
posed by Beverly Nash, a negro of this
city, who has jumped at every chance of j
power that he has heard of since ] 865, ;
and has consequently been on both sides of,
every question that has divided his race
since the war. Illiterate as a hotel waiter
(which he was) he puts on the airs of a I
Solon sometimes, apparently unconscious
of the enormity of his measures.
AIR-LINE RAILROAD.
Bills have been introduced into both
houses to repeal the Act incorporating j
this road. Georgia feels more interest in j
this, probably, than South Carolina, but
the interest of neitbeitate will at all in
fluence the action upatbis matter. The
bill, it ts understood, nil pass with very
little discussion.
THE COLUMA CANAL.
This immense war-power is an ad
mirable sire for eottt icctorie?, ob any
scale, however large. A ytar ago it was
sold to Senator Sprsg?. of Rhode Island,
for the nominal sums S2OO. no forfeits
attached, with one ye to put it in order
Senator; Sprague bat New England fac
tories, and did not ’ant any Shut hero I
competition, acd not ring in a condition !
himself’to build, hektiia year pass with
out striking a blow athe Canal. He for- 1
feits his S2OO, but b he not gained a
whole year of time t his New England
factories? The preset Legislature have
• patched up the tnaer so that Sprague
can come in again, pi Hr a mere soeg
keep the Cana! out b„tLr hands for
about a year longer.
IMMIGBTIO-V.
We have in this S’*’ several nuclei for
German imojigration,nd each is drawing
its share of Europeanabor into our agri
cultural districts.
First - The Immigtion Society of New
, berry, established eiaen months ago. It
has already brougtyin 274 able-bodied
men in*o the middle yrtiou of tho State,
j principally into Ngberry county. The
1 > resident is Rev. * S. Boines’; F. W.
Bruggemann is nger in the North just
now, managing thishipment of imtni
i grants Southward. \V J. Feriove i? also
an agent, at preset! in Sweden. These
men mean wort, andmndreds of laborers
(and voters too 1 wiil robubly be added to
our labor-needisg atl vote-needing coun
try. she foreigner thus brought in are
mostly Germani andSwedes.
| Second—Ths Geman settlement of
Wadballa in Deone connty’, near the
i mountains. Tiis litla town was started
| before the war, andnow numbers six or
eight hundred inhaiitants All these—
j they are principally Germans—lead the
j way to the coming oftheir friends acd rel
i atives.
Third —A saailcr German settlement in
Richland coutvy, thirty mile* from Colum
bia. This wai started ibout a year ago,
and numbers ts>w about ten families.
Besides then centrrs, there are several
agencies, bo’h 'i rth and South, that are
ready to extend facilities to the incoming
European. And uany of our citizens en
eourago th: idea t/Chinese immigration-
One plaofr (Hon. John Townsend, of
j Edisto.) tear Charleston, has one install
i mentof2> Chine* already en route lor his
i farm, am this exptriment, if successful,
j will brin; others.
BARNBURNERS.
The orch ccntinues its destructive
work. -in houses continue to be burned;
hardly. week pasies without bringing us
news o’at least twy fires, Bet by the ene
mies oi white Democrats.
RADICAL BLOODTHIRSTINESS.
J. V. Meade, a colored Legislator from
York ounty, twodays ago shot a negro
worn* in her owt bed. Her name is
MettiiStokes. fle has not been, and
probaly will uot be, arrested for the deed.
Degratd Dickson, a Democratic negro of
Darlinjton (father of the Radical Senator
from Pat county), was recently murdered
by a ladicsl negro. When Robinson’s
circus vas here list week, two negroes—
me re bys—drew their pocket pistols upon
each offer, and one wan mortally wounded.
So -hat., in South Carolina at least,
Demoiratic Ivu-kluxes are not tho only
bloody pistol-shootirg desperadoes to be
abuse! by the newspapers.
ICE MANUFACTURE.
An Ice Manufacturing Company in
Hambirg is seekiag incorporation iu this
State Legislature. Very few facts have
transired concerning their operations ;
and ilis to be presumed that tho meas
ure istentative, m3 the extensiveness of
the ppposed operations will depend upon
the siccess at the work.
In Columbia we have a movement mads
in the bamc _ direction by a private iadi
vidua —a Swiss German na*ied IVahreos,
who ias ordered a freezing machine from
Germany. His plan is to have it ready
for jperation before the Pot weather
of nixt M«y shall come. Lli.s estimates
arc tiat iee can be made here at perhaps
two Bilk a pound , whereas it hs? been
selliig here at lronr ten to thirty times
thatprice. Juntos.
LETTER PROM ATLANTA.
A Peasant Situation—ln the Mud—At
lanta's Motto is Excelsior— It's a Great
Gty—No Drones in the Tlivc — Im
provements Going On — New Buildings
— Personal—The Pi ess.
FROM OCR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15th, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
“Oh 1 the mud, the mud, the warisome
mud.
The slippery mud, slimy sloshy mud.’’
Andlmay well say mud. as I never
saw a mtjdier place, muddier streets or
muddier hsngs generally than I have seen
, in this ety during tho past two days,
winch is i| striking contrast to our own
city of Augusta, A citizen informs me
that a geitleman with his family came to
this city vith the intention of residing,
but in oonsiquenee ofthe extremely mud
dy conditior of the stroets in wet weather,
sirch as we rave had during the last two
days, and the unparalleled dust of dry
weather, ho hesitates, and will, no doubt,
choose some more congenial or pleasanter
place ofresidence.
Atlanta is age-ahead place, appropriate
ly dubbel the Chicago qf the South in one
sense, bu, may wo hope that she will not
emulate tie Chicago of Illinois in the
divorce trade.
The wart of a Union Depot is much feit
here. An old antiquated shed is the only
apology for one that cau be seen, hardly
sufficient to.shelter a dozen persons; and
during a wild, as has been prevailing to
day, affording no protection whatever to
passengers arriving or departing. All the
roads centre at the odo place and use the
samt* “Depit.” and, from the nature of
the accommodations afforded, the,neces
sity of erecting a Union Depot is
pressing iticlf upon the different roads
terminating here. Psseengcrs on the day
train on theGuorgia Road frequently have
to alight at ;he muddy cro«eing of Pryor
street belowffbe platform, as the A. & W.
Point train irriving just before, takes up
the track an j tho former train is unable to
move up to ibe depot.
This is euphatically a railroad town
trains rnovirg all the time, every hour
during the dry, directly through the city,
giving it an aitive business appearance.
To give you an idea of the “go-ahead
business” o f ’the plieo, there are small
wooden ‘-tarnfi erected on the burnt lots
where green groceries, candy stands, &c.,
&c.. are established. Every nook an f cor
ner is taken advantage of to establish a
business of some kind.
Many new Biddings are in course of
erection. On Marietta Street just below
the new Opers House a whole block of
stores are being built on the site of the
extensive fire ia September last; a part of
these are the prosperity of L. G. Grant,
Esq., a gentleman who came here some
twenty years ago, a poor man, and is
now considered very wealthy. Nearly
opposite the above property is the building
first commenced as the Masonic Hall,
but the projectors bei.-.g unable to com- |
olete it, put it up at auetio i with an ad
jacent when it was bought by ‘fire
Belgian Consul, as I understood, from
parties residing adjacent. The building is
said to have the best foundation of any in
the city, but I think that, anything that j
can exceed the durability of the foundation '
ofthe new Catholic Church now ia course !
of erection hero, must, indeed, be better j
than the be«t. It is of solid rock, and I
when completed, it is said, the church* will ;
be the finest edifice of the kind in the j
South. Work on it at present is progress
ing very slowly in consequence of the
weather, but duriDg the Spring and Sum- |
mer it will be pushed to completion.
The R ght Rev. M. O’Connor, D. D., j
who lately lectured in Augusta, is adver- j
tised to lee'ure on Tuesday eveniog, the!
21st inst., for the benefit of the above j
church.
The many fine buildings that have been
j erected within the last few years is proof
of the energy- of the people and the re
; cuperative powers ofthe South. Any one
who renumbers the condition and appear
ance of the city at the close of thr war
would bo ioat in astonishment in viewing
(or interviewing ?) it now aftdr a lapse of
a few years. Then, nothing W2s going on,
hardly titty people to be seen during the day.
Now, crowds are always to be seen, always
moving from “early morn to dewy eve,”
and late at night. During my short stay
here I have seen but few idlers or loafers.
The United States continues to be the j
resort of all who delight in good, varied
and substantial fare. It is the stopping j
place of most of the newspaper men who 1
visit here, which is proof positive of its ;
good character and management as a hoteL
The Oates Burlesque Opera Troupe is j
in full sway here, drawing nightly tolerably *
good houses in spite of the disagreeable
weather, but the business manager does ,
not appreciate the journalistic fraternity j
enough to al ow them to view the per- j
formance without depositing their dollar, j
i. e., excepting the local press.
A Concert Saloon is in full sway on !
Decatur street, under the name of the la
rieties. A peep into the hall to-night did j
not disclose to view any “Evening Stars” :
(Police) in attendance.
I have visited Dearly all of the editorial
staff of each paper. Colonel Avery,of the :
Constitution, I found polite, affable and 1
obliging, with aD invitation to make his :
office my headquarters, as he dashed his
exchanges with an impetuous motion to
the left after glancing over their contents.
W. W. Screws, Esq., with Major Steele
atid Judge hitaker of the Intelligencer,
happy to meet any member of the pres-',
and were entertaining and obliging and, aa
usual, talking polities, and particularly dis
cussing Terry’s report on the condition of
Georgia. Watson, of the Fra, was in one
ol his humorous ways and very much con
tented with himself aud the world, being a
good Methodist, and interested in the Con
ference sitting at Rome.
_ I am indebted to Mr. C. Herbert, of the
Young Men's Library Association, tor
favorß and the liberty of the Association
rooms.
On dit. I observed yesterday in the
Constitution, in a list of “Georgians just
relieved ol their disabilities,” the Dames
of Foster BLdgett, W. C. Dillon, Benj.
Conley \Y. 11. (?) Davis, Geoige M. Hood
and Charles P. McCalla, all of Richmond
county.
The present aspect of the weather leads
us to hope for a clear day to-morrow,
when we may have an opportunity of
viewing Atlanta’s fair daughters who have
Deen caged up by the inclement weather
iof the past few days, weather which
I is a fit emblem of the clouds that dow ob
| scure the clear blue sky of our beloved
Georgia’s prosperity. The old adage,
| ‘‘Tis always darkest just before day,”
‘ may bo fittingly applied to our State now.
Lit us always look cheerfully on the bright
side of the picture and weather the storm
manfully, cheered on and encouraged by
the beautiful womeu of the South who
have ever been true to their native land,
and we will eventually rise head and
shoulders above the machinations of our
mercenary enemies, purified by the ordeal
and giving an example of true Southern
nature and herediiary pride to our equally
unfortuoate sister States ol the South.
Pardon this digression, as I only intend
ed at the outset to give your readers a lit
tle gossip about Atlanta. More anon.
Jennings.
From the Rome (Ga.) Courier .
Appointments of the North Georgia
Conference for 1810.
Augusta District. —Weyrnan H Potter,
PR- St John’s, A T Mann; City Mission,
J Morris, D W Calhoun, Sup; St James’,
II H Parks; Ashury, C W Key; Richmond,
Jas M Armstrong; Bel-Air, to be sup
plied, E P Bonner; Appling, William A
Paris?; Warrenton Circuit, Thomas A
Seal; Sparta, Wesley P Pledger; Hancock
Circuit, Josiah Lewis, Sen; Taliafcro Mis
sion, F P Brown; Milledgeville, Wesley P
Arnold; Baldwin Cir.uit, John W Stipe;
Thompson Circuit, Leonard Rush.
Athens District. —Thomas F Pierce, P
E. Athens, Clem A Evans; 2nd Charge
and Mission, P A Heard; Factory Mission,
to be supplied; Watkinsville Circuit, (one
to be supplied) EG Murrah; Madison,
W A FI rence; Morgan Circuit, to be sup
plied by Benj M Hume, Morgan Mission,
W R Foote; Greensboro, Jas M Dickey;
White Plains, John M Lowery; Lexington
Circuit and Colored Charge, W A Sim
mons; Lexington Mission, R< bt R John
son; \\ ashmg, E W Spear; Broad River,
J W Ileide and R Seals sup; Little River,
James H Baxter; Fatonton, W P Kramer;
Putnam Circuit, John W Knight and T H
Timmons.
Elberton District.—3 H Grogan, PE.
Elberton circuit, A G Wooley ; Elbert cir
cuit, W T Norman; Linoolntou circuit, W
F Quillian; Jefferson, Robt A Connor and
Benj E Ledbetter; Carnesville, J H Mash
burn; Franklin Spring miss, to be sup-i
plied; Homer circuit, Brit Sanders ; Hart
well, A W Williams; Clarksville, Jno R
Parker; Clayton to be supplied by I G
Parks.
Dohlonega District. —A T Caldwell, P
E. Dahlonega station and mission, Fran
cis G Hughes; Dawconville circuit to be
supplied by JE Hughes; Cummingcircuit,
Alfred G Carpenter, Cumming, colored
charge to besupplied by L Washington,col;
Canton circuit, to be s-pplied, C M Mc-
Clure; Cherokee circuit to be supplied,
J Newell; Jasper mission, to be supplied,
A C Carson; Elijny mission, to be sup
pliou, J N Sullivan; Blairsville, Milford G
Hamby; Cleveland circuit, M H Eaker;
Gainesville, E K Akin; Gwinnett, J W
Baker; Alnbare ta, J Chambers.
Home Distrut —H J Adams, PE. Rome
Station, W F Cook; Romo Circuit, A
Odem; Cave Spring Circuit, W P Rivers;
Kingston Circuit, R H Jones; Calhoun
Circuit, to be supplied by Thocs V Pled
ger; Tilton Mission, to be supplied by
Samuel W McWhorter; LaFayette, Jas
N Lupo: Subligna, to b" supplied by
Samuel Brice; Dalton Station, Geo W
Yarbrough; Daltou Circui', Wiley T
Hamilton; Ringgold, Chas J Oliver; Sum
merville, W D Heath; Spring Place, to be
supplied by H H Porter; Oostanaula Cir
cuit, J T Norris; Cedartown, Jno A Rey
nolds.
Marietta District— P M Ryburn, PE.
Marietta Station, A J Jarrel; Marietta
Circuit, supplied by W L Davenport; Ac
worth, W J Scott; Roswell Mission, Sam’l
J Bellab; Powder Springs Circuit, R J
Harwell; Dallas, supplied by N G Mor
ton; Carolton and Bowden, M F Malsby;
Villa Rica, Jos N Myers; liaralson Mis
sion, supplied by A H Norton, Sandtown,
Wiley Steed; Cambelton, John J Davis;
Cartersviile, Jas L Pierce; Euharlee, to
be supp ied; Bartow, to be supplied; W
A Rogers, President Marietta Female Col
lege.
La Grange District— L J Davis, P E.
LaGra-ge Station, 11 W Bigham ; Troup
Circuit and Colored, W J Cotter, one to be
supplied ; West Point and Long Cane,
E P Birch ; LsGrange and W P Colored
Charge, to be supplied; Whiteviile Cir
cuit, T H Haiwell ; Greenville and F, A M
Thigpen, Jno, W McGheehee; Concord
Colored, supplied by J N Maddox; Granl
villo Circuit, H J Ellis ; Chalybiate
Springs and colored, supplied by J J Lit
tle ; Merriweather and colored, R F
Jones ; Palmetto Circui; and colored, J T
Lowe; one to b* supplied, J W Hunni
cutt ; Francis W Baggerly, Sup.; New
naa, D D Cox ; Franklin Circuit, Jno M
Bowden ; Morgan Callaway, President
LaGrange Female College ; Y G Allen,
Missionary to China ; W A Parks, Bible
Agent.
Atlanta District —A G Haywood; P E.
Wesley Chapel, W P Harrison; 3d and
4th Ward Miss., sup., A G Dempsey;
Trinity,W M Crumley; Evans Chapel and
Mission, W A Dodge; Paynes Chapel W
C Dunlap; Atlanta Circuit, W J Wardiaw;
Fulton, sup. Jas R Nayson; Decatur Cir
cuit. YV H Evans; Covington and Brick
store, J D Myrick; Oxford Circuit, M W
Arnold; Conyers. A Gray; Monticello, L
B Davies; Ocmulgee, sup.; Jasper county,
A W Rowland; Monroe, J W Turner ;
Lawrenceville Circuit, B J Johnson; for
Orphans Home,Jesse Boring, agent; Joi-i
--ah Lewie; jr. Prof Emory College; G J
Pearce, arent Sunday School Society,
Northern Georgia Conference,
Griffin District. —W R Branham, P E
Griffin, A Wright; Griffin city mission, J
PDuncan; Zcbulon circuit, JW Reynolds;
Pike and Pine Mount mission, sup. YV H
Graham; Thomaston, D Kelsey; Barnes
ville; W W Oslin; McDonough, J II Har
ris; Jonesboro, Levi P Neeee; Forest
S'atjon mission, sup. D Stripling: Fayette
ville, Robert Stripling; Culloden, YV F
Smith; Clinton, C A Mitchell; Jackson,
David Nolan; Liberty Hill and Indian
Springs, Wesley G Hanson; Forsyth, F A
Kimball; Forsyth circuit, J J Singleton;
Wo Winn transferred to Mobile Confer
ence: J D Anthony transferred to Mobile'
Conference; Julius T Bridges, transferred
io Northern Texas Conference; Julius T
Curtiss, transfer!cd to Mississippi Confer
ence; Cyrcs H Ellis, transferred to Arkan
sas Conference; Sydney II Babcock, trans
ferred to Arkansas Conference; Geo Kra
mer, transferred to Baltimore Conference;
Geo H Patilto, .transferred to South Ga. !
Conference.
| Georgians Just Relieved erom Dis
ability.—Noah L Cloud, of Decatur
I couoty; Wm F Wright, of Coweta county;
I Foster Blodgett and W C Dillon, of iticb
: mood county; H H Pettis and John L
| Harris, of Fulton couoty ; George H
I Letter, cf Oglethorpe county; W W Paine,
ofChataw county; William H Edwards
and Amos T Akerman, of Elbert county :
i FB Hsseil, of Jones county; T W Thur
mond, o! Spalding coun y; T W King, of
Monroe county, E C Granniss, of Bibb
e 'unty;*John C Hendrix, Atlanta; James
M Bishop, Jesse Hendricks, and William
Kelly, of Dawson oounty; Robert D Har
vt'v,of Forsyth county; Enoch Hum hrcys,
of Gordon county; G M T Ware, of Pierce
county; G T Davis, of Brooks county;
K 8 Griffin, and James Hammock, of
Twiggs couoty; John R Hill, E Richard
son, and J M Cooper, of Dougherty coun
ty; Beni Conley, of Richmond county;
B B DeGraffenried. of Baldwin county ;
James W Green, of Upson county; Nathan
Gunnels, of Banks county; Thomas J
Speer, of Pike county; Henry C Wayne, of
City of Brunswick; Charles D Davis, of
Walton county; J W Somers, of Newton
county; Joel F Thornton, ofOriene coun
ty; William H Davis, George M Hood,
and Charles P McCalla, of Richmond
county; William M Moore, of Warren
county; Dickerson H Walker, of Waiton
county ; Dr Thoma3 F Green, of Mil
ledgeviile; Joseph McWorther, of Ogle
thorpe county. —Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
Another Good Week for the Hen
derson Prize Scheme. Four times as
many tickets were sold during the past
week as the week before. Ciub agents
everywhere are hurryingon their orders to
the principal financial agents for more
tickets, and these latter are overwhelmed
with the rush of both local and general
business. This argues well iorthe enter
prise, and we wish it an abundant success.
Let the good work go on and get your
tickets while you can. This is no Paschal
House affair, and no one need have any
fears but that perfect fairness will charac
terize the whole scheme. We believe that
the complete success of this enterprise
would do more to kiii off unauthorized
swindling affairs than any other thing
that couldbedone. If no club agents are
near you, form a club yourself and send
for your tickets at ODce, or come to this
office and we will send for you. Messrs.
L. & A. H. McLaws are agents it, this
city for the sale of tickets.
declS—ddtwl
BY TELEGJtAPii
FROM WASHINGTON.
PASSAGE OF THE GEORGIA BILL
BY THE SENATE.
THE PROVISIONS OF THE INFA
MOUS ACT.
A NEW DEAL FOR THE JUDICIAL
SPOILS.
WARNER TO BE PUT OUT IN THE
COLD.
GEORGIABON DS IN WALL STREET
TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OP THE
CHRONICLE A SENTINEL
Washington, December 16, p. m. —The
features of interest in Congress to-day
were the Census bill in the House of Rep
resentatives and the Georgia bill in the
Senate. The former was rushed through
the House, but a loug and animated de
bate took place upon the latter.
For some time past the friends and
enemies of Georgia have been hard at work
here, the former endeavoring to avert a .and
the latter to insure the. destruction of the
peace aud prosperity of the State. The lat
ter class being, unfortunately, far the more
numerous and influential, besides having
the sympathies of most of the Congress
men on their side, had achieved a partial
triumph before the Judiciary Committee
and had induced that body to report a bill
embodying the views contained in the
President’s Message, but, not going as fur
as the Bullock party desired. To-day this
bill was to come up for debate and much
interest was manifested hero in the matter.
The extremists had determined to tack on
the fifteenth amendment, and toe Demo
crats were equally determined not to let
this iniquity pass without a struggle,
THE BILL REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE:
The bill was taken up in the Senate aud
read as it had been previously | amended-
The bill provided for convening the old Leg.
islature on a certain day to be named by
the Governor. Its organization shall be
effected by summoning all persons elected
to the General Assembly of the State, as
appears by the proclamation of General
Meade, dated June 25, 1868, aud ex
cluding all persons ineligible under the
fourteenth amendment. No persons snail
be refused a seat in the Legislature on ac
count of race, color or previous condition
of servitude. The Presidout is authorized
to employ,on application of the Governor,
the military and naval forces of the United
States to enforce the provisions of this
act. Finally, it is provided that the
Legislature of Georgia shall bo regarded
as provisional only until the further action
of Congress.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT MUST BE SWAL
LOWED.
When the reading of the bill was finish
ed Senator Morton, of Indiana, in accord
ance with ths previous programme, rose
and moved thatfit be farther amended by
adding that when the Legislature had been
assembled it should adopt the Fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution before the
State could be allowed to re-enter the
Union and be entitled to representation in
Congress.
Upon this new amendment a long and
brilliant debate ensued, which was partici
pated in by the best talent contaiued in the
Senate.
OHIO OPPOSES THE INFAMY.
The most prominent part in the debate
was taken by the Democratic Senator from
Ohio, Judge Thurman. He delivered a
long and most brilliant speech in opposi
tion to the measure. He rested his argu
ment on the broadest constitutional
grounds, proving that it would be a most
flagrant and unheard of usurpation of pow
er on the part of Congress to make a State
adopt any amendment to the Constitution
by force and violence. Ho contended that
Congress had no right to interfere with the
present government of Georgia and cer
tainly none to add fresh terms to those al
ready imposed. He also warmly defend
ed the action of the Georgia Legislature.
The speech of Judge Thurman has pro
duced a profound sensation here in all cir
cles, and is admitted to be the finest Sena
torial effort which has been made in years.
Meu who remember the Senate as it was
thirty years ago, say that it reminds them
of the speeches which used to be delivered
before that body by Henry Clay and Jno.
C. Calhoun.
A BAYARD TO THE RESCUE.
The efforts of Senator Thurman to de
feat the bill and amendment were warmly
seconded by the Senator from Delaware,
Mr. Bayard. He came ta the rescue of his
Democratic colleague, and delivered a
speech of great power in opposition to the
bill and in defence of the State.
GEORGIA’S CHAMPIONS PROCURE A RE
SPITE.
These speeches were not without effect
and procured a temporary respite, at least,
for the State. After a long struggle the
bill was not forced upon its passage,
was referred a second time to the Judici.
ary Committee to be again reported upon.
PROBABLE POSTPONEMENT. TILL AFTER
CHRISTMAS.
Though the bill was recommitted in the
expectation of an early report, it does not
seem probable that any further action will
be taken upon it just at this time.
It is believed that the bill will ba called
up again to-morrow with the other un
finished business of the session, but it is
not expected that if it is brought up it
will be passed. Judging from the action of
the Senate to-day the friends of Georgia
here state they have every reason to think
that it will be a matter of impossibility to dis
pose of the affairs of the State until after
the expiration of the Christmas recess
which will shortly be taken by both Houses
of Congress. J. G. B.
Washington, December 17, 10 p, m.—
To day has been an exciting one to the
friends and enemies of Georgia and belore
it is finished there is every reason to be
lieve that the fate of the State will be de
cided ; for if the Senate pass the bill to
night before adjournmenl it will take but
a short time to rush it through the House,
where but very little opposition is to be
expected, except from the few Democrats
who are powerless to accomplish anything-
MORTON S BILL IN THE SENATE.
There has been evident to-day a deter
mination on the part of the Senate toseitle
the Georc ia matter as quickly as possible and
to give it preference ovtr everything else.
When the Senate met the census bill was
set aside and Morton’s bill, which had
been recommitted, called up under the
head of unfinished buisness. Many amend
ments were offered to it by as many Sena
tors and the debate has been warm as
well as lengthy. There seems to be little
doutt now that the original bill will pass
and abo the ammendment requiring a
ratification of the fifteenth amendment by
the Legislature belore the Senate shall be
admitted. There is a possibility also
that large powers will be delegated to
General Terry for the enforcement of the
prvoisions of the act.
IT WILL MAKE DEXTER TIME IN THE HOUSE.
The leader of the House of Representa
tives General Butler has been taking ac
tive interest in the matterto-day and has
used all his influence with Senators to get
action on the bill before the adjournment.
Os the result in the House he says there
can be no fear and announced openly to-day
that it the Senate would pas3 it he would
engage to have the bill put through the
House in fifteen minutes-
BULLOCK HAS BEEN LYING
around the Senate Chamber all day, and
seemed to be greatly interested in the dis
cussion. Between the acts he has been
gorging himself with the Senators in the
lunch room or restaurant of the Senate. He
is still going it with a high hand, and os
spending somebody’s money liko water.
He gave another supper to Congressmen
and other officials last Thursday night,
which is represented to have beeD a most
magnificent affair. He has a Georgian
named P. M- Shiebly here with him, the
Secretary of the State Senate, who writes
and spells for him, and acts as an assistant
generally.
1 OENERAL’ IBLODUETTAS AN'ACCOUNTANT.
I ister Blodgett and a lawyer from At
lanta, named H. O. Hoyt, are in New
York, where they plaiur, each, the title oi
General. Their mission is to see Mr.
Calhoun, the President of the Fourth Na
tional Bank, tor the purpose of fixing up
Bullock s littie financial transactions with
that institution.
THE STATE BONDS IN NEW YORK.
The probable actioa of Congress on the
affairs of Georgia has created much un
easiness in financial circles in New York
with regard to the bonds of that State
Should Congress decide to overturn the
present government and make the State
undergo a second reconstruction, the bonds
will greatly depreciate in value.
FINANCIAL.
Financial matters in Wall street are be
ginning to look decidedly blue again. The
recent numerous and heavy failures have
had the effect of creating a feeling of gen
eral distrust and uneasiness. The Treas
ury to day is sailing chocks South at J a
quarter premium. J. G. B.
SECOND DISPATCH.
PASSAGE OF MORTON’S AMEND
MENT.
FIVE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
VOTE AGAINST IT.
Senate Chamber, Washington, De
cember IT, 11:15 p. in. —As shadowed in
former dispatch the Senate stuck to the
Georgia bill all night. A vote has just
been tafcen on the amendment offered to
the original bill of Senator Morton, of In
diana, which requires, in addition to the
provision of the orig nai bill as re
ported by the Judiciary Committee
that the Legislature, after being convened
and purged, shall ratify the Fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution as a con
dition precedent to the admission of the
State into the Union, arid the amend
ment has been adopted by an overwhelm
ing majority. The vote stood : for the
adoption of the amendment, thirty-eight;
against it fifteen. The full strength of
the Senate is sixty six votes, but only
fifty-three were polled, showing that thir
teen members were absent when the vote
was taken.
FIVE REPUBLICANS VOTE “NO.”
In addition to the Democrats jvho op
posed the amendment, were several of the
Republican Senators. The debate upon it
was long and pungent, aud fighting in the
front ranks with Thurman and the other
Democrats were Iloscoe ConkliDg and
Mathew Carpenter. When the amend
ment was finally put upon its passage and
the Secretary called the yeas aad nays the
following Republican Senators cast their
votes in the negative; Rjscoe Conkling, ol
New York; Mithew H. Carpenter, of
Wisconsin; Benjamin F. Rice, carpet
bagger, of Arkansas; Henry W. Corbett,
of Oregou, and Waitman T. Willey, of
West Virginia.
THE ORIGINAL BILL.
At the time 1 write it is considered cer
tain that the original bill will be put upon
its passage and carried before the adjourn
ment of the Senate to-night. Not much
discussion expected upon that as Morton’s
amendment was the most vulnerable point
of attack and the great fight has been made
upon that and lost. The fate of Georgia
may now be looked upon as decided so far
as Congress is coocernod. As soon after
the bill is passed in the Senate as possible
it will be taken to the House,where But er
has promised that the matter shall be
taken in band and disposed of at once.
BULLOCK JUBILANT.
Bullock and his faction are greatly elat
ed over the victory achieved to-night and
say that everything is all right now.
J. G. B.
Senate Chamber, I
Washington, Dec. 18,1869. j
After an all-night session ofit.,thc Senate
has decided the Georgia matter, so far as
that body is concerned. After a discus
sion of two hours and a quarter on the
original bill reported by the Judiciary
Committee after the amendment requiring
the ratification of tho fifteenth amend
ment had been debated and adopt
ed, the former was put to a vote at haif
pastone o’clock this morning, and carried
by a largely increased majority. The vote
when called upon the final rassage stood,
forty-five for to nine against it, showing a
decrease of six fromjtho and ’ mber of Sena
tors who voted against Morton's amend
ment. Although numorOus other amend
meats were proposed, the hill adopted is
substantially the same in its provisions as
that one reported !rom the Judiciary Com
mittee.
[The above dispatch, thr,ugh some
mischance, arrived at too late an hour yes
terday for publication in that day’s issue.
The substance of it was placed on the
bulletin board yesterday.— Eds. Chroni
cle & Sentinel. - )
Washington, December 18, p. m.- -
The bill which was passed by the Senate
this morning providing for a second recon
struction of Georgia, is neither the Ed
munds’ bill, which was introduced and
referred at the last session, nor the bill
drawn up by Senator Morton, and present
ed soon after the opening of the present
Congress, but is a substitute for them
both agreed upon by the Judiciary Com
mittee. The following is a full synopsis of
the bill as amended and adopted by the
Senate:
THE OLD ISSUE TO BE SUMMONED.
The bill provides first that immediately
upon the passage of the act the Governor
of Georgia is required to issue his proc
lamation calling upon all the persons who
were shown to have been duly elected
members of the Legislature by the proc
lamation of General Meade, dated June
25th, 1868, to assemble together at (he
State House, in Atlanta, on a day to be
named by the Governor.
L DOUBLE-BARRELLED OATH TO BE SWAL
LOWED.
When the members of the original Leg
islature have assembled as prescribed the
greatest care is to be taken to see that no
inelgiblesj get among the faithful. To en
sure this result two oaths are required to
be taken by the members before they will
be allowed to take their seats in addition
to the one which they will have to take to
support the constitution of the State and
of the United States, and the same, when
subscribed, muspbc filed the in office of the
Secretary of State. The first of these
oaths requires the members of the Leg
islature to swear that they have never
held any United States office, never been
a member of Congress or a member of
ar.y State Legislature, nor held any office
whatever, for the administration of justice
under any State government, which re
quired them to take an oath to support
the Constitution of the United States,and
afterwards engaged in or rendered any
aid or comfort to the rebellion— except
it was done in consequence and by means
of direct physical force---or accepted and
held any office under the government of
the so-called Confederate States.
The second oath requires the members
to swear that they have been relieved of
their political disabilities by an act of
Congress. Those members who refuse to
take the oath shall be regarded as ineligi
ble and shail nut he allowed to take the
seats they claim. Those members, in
eligible, who may take these oaths falsely j
are declared to be guilty of a felony, and 1
shall be indicted and tried for the offense :
in the District Court of the United States.
A NEW ORGANIZATION REQUIRED.
After the Legislature has been thorough
ly purged of all ineligible members the
eligible members shall commence the
work of reorganizing the two houses
by the election of officers. All the legis
lation of the last Legislature is declared
to be only provisional.
To guard against a second expulsion of
the negroes the till declares that the
Legislature shall not exclude any mem
bers of that body on account of their race
or color.
BULLOCK TO HAVE THE BOYS IN BLUE TO
PROIECT THE BOYS IN BLACK.
In order that the provisions of this may
be properly enforced the President is au
thorized to employ the military forces of
the Umted States wi"ni,r if, ; Governor
of the Estate should think.it, uecetiary lo
apply for them.
By virtue of Morton’s amendment the
General Assembly i- required to adpotthe
fifteenth amendment to the constitution
before the State shall be decided to be in
the union or its Senators and Representa
tives admitted into Congress-
A NEW DIVISION OF THE LOAVES AND
FISHES.
It is the general Ttprefsion that the
eneot of this bill will hi to vacate all the
State offices which have been filled by
men elected or confirmed by the Legisla
ture, and that there will have to be anew
division of the spoils. All the political
acts of the present Legislature are declared
to be swept away. It is regarded certain
that an election (?) will have to take place
for Judges ot the Supreme and Superior
Courts, ami that many changes will take
plaee. In the Supreme Judgeships Hiram
M arner will be left out and prof ably Joe
Brown (?).
the railroad bonds
The holders of the Railroad bonds, en
dorsed by the State, profess to feel much
easier and more relieved since the action
of the Senate. J. (J, g
kECOVI) DISPATCH.
JUGGLERY IN THE RECONSTRUC
TION COMMITTEE.
PARTIAL DEFEAT OF BEAST
BUTLER.
THE SAME GAME TORE PLAYED
OX MONDAY.
Washington, December 18, 11 P. m.
--On this morning the greatest farce of
the season was ptr'. rated iu the rooms of
the Reconstruct: a Committee. It was
announced sorn ■ days since that, the case of
Virginia would come up to-day before this
Committee for definite action and the lob
byists here from that State were very
jubilent. In accordance with the scheme
concocted by Butler and Bullock, the Com
mittee as soon as it met, took np the case
of Virginia, and went very seriously to
work in order to give time for the Georgia
Bill passed by the Senate last night
to be engrossed and prepared for the
consideration of the Committee.
Virginia’s disgust at the ruse.
Bullock was anxious to have the Com
mittee decide on the Georgia bill to-day, so
that on Monday, wheD it came up in the
House, Butler might move to have it put
upon its passage without its being referred
to the Committee, The Committee had
not been long in session when the Vir
gin', ms and others began to suspect some
thing wrong and see the little game and in
a few minutes all doubt on the subject was
removed when Bullock entered the Com
mittee Room holding the engrossed bill in
his hand. To the disgust of the Virgini
ans, as soon as ho came in the doors were
immediately closed and the case of their
State was announced postponed until after
the Christmas recess.
THE BEAST RE-BUFFED.
As soon as this had been done Butler
proposed that the Committee should take
up the Georgia bill. He did not quite
get through,however, with the programme;
for the proposition earned a good deal of
feeling to be displayed by some of the
members, and it was finally decided that
the bill should merely be read at that
meeting.
THE PROGRAMME FOR MONDAY.
Undeterred by his rebuff in the Com
mittee room, Butler has called another
meeting ot the Committoe, to be held on
Monday morning, when he will make an
other effort to have the Georgia bill con
sidered. Then when the House meets
later on Monday Butler will make a mo
tion to take up the bill and put it upon
final passage without reference. This
motion rill be carried and then the bill is
to be rushed through the House at quar
ter-horse speed. But very little time will
be allowed for debate and no Democratic
members will be allowed to obtain the
floor except those who have not studied
up the facts of the case and are presumed
to know but little about the matter.
THE PASSAGE OP THE BILL CERTAIN.
A great dsal of feeling is manifested
here at the indecent haste with which this
important measure has been acted upon by
Congress, and especially at the attempted
action in the committee-room this morn
ing. The passage of the bill in the House
on Monday, however, is considered a fore
gone conclusion - The idea upon which the
extremists arc acting is to get the hi 11
through the House on Monday, and the n
carry it to the President and. get his signa
ture to it before Congress adjourns for th
holidays, which it will do on Wednesday .
By doing this they are enabled (o head off
the effects which the anticipated action o
the Legislature would have had u»on Con
gress if the matter was to bo postponed
until after the recess-
BULLOCK JUBILANT.
Bullock and the other Georgia Radicals
who are here are iu high glee to-night
and cannot cone-at their delight at th
speedy accomplishment of their designs.
J. G. B
TO THF. ASSOCIATED PRESS.
I l '/om Macon.
Macon, December 18, p. m.— In re
sponse to a dispatch from ourselves to Mr.
S- N. Boughton, asking the facts as to an
alleged outrage upon Darnell and O’Neal,
telegraphed to the New York Tribune from
Atlanta, we received the following :
“Milledgeville, Deo 18.
“1 know nothing about an assault on
Darnell or I’eter O’Neal; there has been
none so far as I can learn. There has
been a final! dispute between Peter O’Neal
arid a man by the name of Walls—whiskey
too much. Darnel! professed to believe he
was in danger, hut no one else thought to;
it was a very trifling affair altogether. I
never heard anything of it until yesterday.
“[Signed! S. N. Boughtosi.”
Proceedings of donums.
HOUSE
( Washington, December 10, noon.—
Committees have done nothing.
House j roceedings to-day unimportant.
senate.
Th; Attorney General was asked fi r
correspondence regarding Yerger
The Georgia bill is up.^
SENATE.
Washington, December 10 v m
Thurman introduced a resolution request
ing the Attorney General to iifbrm 'he
Senate immediately if any arrangement, to
which he, on the part of the United States,
is a party, exists whereby Yerg< r, now un
der arrest and held by the military au
thorities of the United States, will be dis
■charged or turned over to the civil authori
ties of Mississippi or otherwise disposed of
in case Congress, by legislation, should
take away or restrict the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court to hear aod determine
proceeding said court for the dis
charge of Yerger on habeas corpus', and
also ifaay arrangement exists whereby the
hearing of eaid proceeding or of any appli
cation for issue o! a writ of habeas corpus
therein, has been delayed or is now de
layed, and that he furnish the Senate
copies of'all arrangements entered into be
tween him, as Attorney General, and the
counsel of Yerger in relation to said case
under the release. Objection being made
the resolution went over.
A sharp contest occurred over Morton’s
amendment that Georgia’s readmission be
preceded by the adoption of the 14th and
15th amendments.
Thurman made a strong impression on
the Senate in opposition.
Senator Bayard spoke strongly in oppo
sition.
Judiciary Bill was postpon
ed by a vote oi'3l to 24.
The Georgia bill comes up to-morrow as
unfinished business.
house.
A bill was introduced to repeal the 10 per
cent, tax on the circulation of State banks.
The Census hill was passed.
Dox was added to the Flections Com
mittee.
The President deems the information
called for regarding Spain unadvisable.
The House went into Committee on the
President’s Message.
Mungcn read an argument favoring the
repudiation of the National debt. At the
conclusion Brooks,Randall, Slocum, ('ox,
Kerr and Woodward repudiated Mungen’s
views. The following is the resoiutio i sub
mitted :
Resolved, That a proposition, direct or
indirect, to repudiate the national debt is
unworthy the honor and good name of the
nation, and this house, without distinction
of party, sets the seal of condemnation
on such a proposition. Adopted by a
vote of 123 to 1.
The House adjourned to Monday.