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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & jmtiuel
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wiimiAT mint Mounts 20.
Mr. Hll! on the Situation.
We are quite sur&that the able, dignified
and timely letter of the Ron. B. H. Hill,
which we lay before our readers to-day,
needs no commendation of ours to secure
for it the calm and dispassionate considera
tion of all true Georgians.
We are gratified to know that the views
which we expressed upot the Georgia
situation in our issue of .Sunday last, are
fully endorsed by this di.-ainguished gentle
man.
The more we reflect upon the subject the
more fully convinced we become that if
our people wilt only act with moderate
prudence and sagacity we can yet defeat
Bullock in his infamous attempts to in
sult and wrong our people. The action of
Congress, so far, does not go to the extent
that Bullock desired, and does not neces
sarily place us at the mercy of that wretch
or his more infamous satellites. If our
people will only remain calm and self
possessed— set their faces sternly against
anything like forcible resistance to this
legislation, wc can turn it to our favor and
yet overthrow the corrupt dynaoty in
whose interests it was euaeted.
It will be seen that Mr. Hill concurs in
the opinion we expressed that.this legisla
tion of Congress only anticipated the
action of the Legislature in regard to
reseating the eg roes and the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment. What,
then, do re lose by Congressional intetfer
ence? It may be answered that the Bill
provides for the use of the military by
Bullock. Well, what of that ? Without
this stipulation in the Bill, and if Congress
had taken rio action in our case, upon the
demand of Bullock for troops Grant
would compelled to send him
aid to repress insurrection if Bullock
claimed that such a state of things ex
isted here-
But some of cur people are terribly
alarmed at tho idea that our State
Government is to be provisional only, until
Congress admits the Stuteinto the Union.
Grant that this is true, are we not al
ready helu by Congress as without a State
Government? Bo they not contend that our
present condition is only provisional ?
VVill it he changed when this Bill finally
passes and receives the Executive sanc
tion?
We urge our people to take the advice
of Mr Hill and do nothing or say
ncthing in regard to this last great iniquity
which may put us in apparent conflict with
the power of Congress. If we only will
to do so, we can, as just stated, control our
own destiny yet, despite the deviltry of
Bullock and his crew. Lot all tho fair
minded men of the State unite in well"
considered efforts to protect tho State from
tho deadly machinations of her enemies.
We believe that thore are a largo num
ber of Conservative Republicans in tho
State who will no longer be dragged under
the filthy car driven by Bullock and Blod
gett. These moderate men see now the
extent to which Bullock and his little rob
ber band desire to go, and they will not
longer follow in his wake. Tho Democrats
and Conservative Republicans will have a
docided majority in both branches of the
Legislature and if they will unite can still
hold the destiny of the State and of our
pooplo in their own hands. Let us all join
in peaceful and determined efforts to route
Bullock uud save the State.
flic Ueorgla Bill In tLe House of Kcprc- 1
sen lull ves.
The fate of tho Senate bill to destroy j
our State government in the House of Rep- I
rosentativos Monday causes us some Mir |
prise. We had thought that it would j
have been rushed through the latter body
at a two-forty speed. The result shows j
that its friends were doubtful of its sue- j
ctss if forced to a vote, and, therefore, con
sented to postpone the final vote on its
passage until to-morrow.
Tho old feud between Bingham and
Butler is again developed, and if Sohenck
should again join in the opposition to
Butler as he did at the last session, the
hill may be postponed until after tho re
cess.
Although Bingham’s motion will be to
postpone till the 3d of January, wo are
quite satisfied that if it prevails final
action will not bo taken until after the
meeting of tho Legislature to enable that
body to comply with the requirements of
tho Bill without tho direct coercion of
Congress. If this direction should be
givou to the question, the issue thus pre
sented to the Legislature will require
that body a degree of patriotism, true
statesmanship and Roman courage which
we fear it does oot possess.
What German Opera can Do.— A
German Opera Troupe, under the direc
tion of Mr. H. Grau, saug last week in
Richmond, and seems to have created
thero something like a religious revival.
The most hopeful awakening seems to
have been produced by “Don Giovanni,’’
after which the editor of the Examiner
went straight to his offioe (or as straight as j
he could) and wrote a column leader about :
it. “Richmond,’’ he said, been in a
decidedly religious frame since the arrival !
of the German Opera. The immense in
fluence exerted by the opera in awaken
ing the religious convictions of the public
has never beeu duly acknowledged, except
in a very indirect and disingenuous man
ner. A young lady at the opera last night
remarked to us, “how much better that
air is rendered by the orchestra than it is
by our organist!” And she said, ‘for tny
part I olten tell pa. a that I want to live
in New York so that I may hear those
things in perfection, and make that reli
gious progress which I cannot do with our
miserable musk.’ ” This is very consoling
aud proves that people are much better
in Richmond than they are in Augusta.
We have heard the artists of Mr. H.
Grau's troupe, and the frame of mind to
which most of them disposed us was not
at all religious.
St. John’s Lodge, No. 269, F.\ A. '.
M.\ —At the regular communication for
election of officers of St. John’s Lodge.
No, 269, F.'. A.'. M.\ of Scrivcn eonnty,
the following named gentlemen were elect
ed and appointed for the next ensuing
Masonic year:
W. D. Hamilton, W.\ M.
Thomas Andrews, S.\ W.\
Win. M. Henderson, J.'• W. \
Robert D. Sharpe, Secretary.
\T m. Walker. Treasurer.
Wm.R- Williams, S.\ D.'•
Ben. S. McGee. J.-. I).\
Rev. Win. B. Jarrell, Chaplain.
James M Robbins and Jar. C. Burke,
Stewards
James Billing, Tyler.
Disastrous Collision at Sea. —The
Savannah papers bring us accounts ol the
collision at sea between the British ship
Golconda and the American brig Annie
E. Carver , which caused the abandonment
of the latter. The - Golconda was bound
from New Orleans to Liverpool with a car
go of cotton, sailing on the first instant.
The oause of the occurence was purely
the neglect on the part of the captain of
the brig in not obeying the rules of the
road at sea. The brig's boat—the only
one she had —was saved and brought to
iSarannah The brig .4. E. Carver,
Captain Sylvester, was bound from Oar
denas to St. Mary’s Ga., in ballast, and
had a crew consisting of thg mate and six
hands. There were two ladies on board,
all of whom were brought to Savannah by
the Golconda. The brig was owned by
H W. Bracket, Seth W. Wyman and
others of Maine.and was partially insured.
She was two hundred and seventy-three
jons burthen.
The Georgia Iniquity Passed.
Contrary to the prevailing opinion at
the time of adjournment on Monday nigbt
i the House of Representatives passed the
•Senate bill for the reconstruction of Geor
gia yesterday afternoon, without altera-
I tiou, as it came from the Senate. There
is not the slightest doubt but that General
Grant will give it a speedy approval,when
it becomes the law of our case.
We are left somewhat toeonjecture as to
thedetailsof the bill as passed. Some of
our ootemporaries, among them the Sa
vannah Newt and Atlanta Constitution,
say it is the Morton Bill, and publish the
latter as it was introduced in the Senate*
Our own opinion i.s, and in this we have
the concurrence of the leading Northern
journals, that the bill is one made out by
the Senate Judiciary Committee in lieu of
the Edmunds’ bill of the last session, and
amended by having engrafted upon it dur
ing its passage in the Senate, some of tie I
provisions of the Morton Bill, and par
ticularly the clause requiring the ratifies- 1
tion of the 15th amendment before the !
State is admitted to representation in Con- ;
gross. We shall lay before our readers a j
full copy bf the bill as soon as we can get
a full and authentic version of it.
The act is passed and the suspense is
over. Bullock has partially succeeded in
his efforts to insult and injure our people.
llis main object in urging this cruel and
unnecessary legislation has been to secure
for himself a high position from the State
where he would not he com lulled to live
among our people. He aspires to a seat
in the Senate. lie knows that he can on
-1) -each that once exalted position through
ignorant negro votes and thieving scalawag
wireworking. In this project he must be
defeated. The good people of the ‘State
can prevent this most foul consummation.
Every man who is a friend to peace and
loves order, virtue and morality, must
lend himself to such efforts as will secure
the ove throw ol the miserable robber
ana his traitor band. We know that many
persons who voted for him for Governor
cannot and will not support him further.
All that is necessary is to secure concert of
action and harmony among those who op
pose him. Hu will call the Legislature
together at an early day, and issue writs of
election to fill the existing vacancies. When
the latter is done let every constituency
see to it that none but good
men and true arc returned. As
before stated in these columns
we believe that when the negroes are
reseated and the Legislature honestly
purged of all members ineligible under the
14th amendment, that there will still be a
majority in both Houses against Bullock.
If our people will make assurance doubly
sure, let them begin at ouce in all the coun
ties where vacancies exist to prepare for a
vigorous and successful canvass. If this
is done we shall have but little fear for the
result.
But above all things we would impress
upon our friends the necessity of keeping
cool and self-possessed under this trying
emergency. Nothing can bo accomplished
by encouraging or giving way toexeitement
or bitter invectives. Let us nurse our
wrath for a more suitable occasion. The
time will come when Georgia will be
avenged upon her enemies, but it is not
now. Let us make sure of the advantages
whioh we still possess and patiently bide
our time lor rcvongc.
John A, Wimpy as a Member of the
Firm of Wogan & Cos., Counterfeiters.
The readers of the Chronicle & Senti
nel may remombor that on several occa
sions during the last Fall we printed what
pretended to be a confidential circular
of Wogan & Cos., of New York, dealers in
counterfeit greenbacks, and warned the
public against these consummate scoun
drels. Wc were surprised to find the
number and extent of tho circulation of
their confidential letters to Southern gen
tlemen, and wondered how it was possible
for these villains to procure the names
and addresses of so many hone9t, upright
people. This, wo now learn, was accom
plished by purchasing, at a small price,
lists of the subscribers to the leading po
litical, religious and literary papers and
periodicals. Os course some employee
in these offices acted treacherously in ;
furnishing the lists, but we have all j
learned, to our sorrow, that in this age j
the power of money, when combined with j
villainy, is veally omnipotent.
Wogan & Cos. found in a Radical mem- J
her of Congress elect from this State, or
at least a Radical who claims to be the
member elect for the Sixth District, a
suitable tool and croney in their infamous
plans to cheat the Government, and rob
our unoffending and too confiding people.
We blush to acknowledge that even one
man should be found in Georgia, though
he be a white Radical, who could consent
to take part in this vile swindle of Wogan
& Company.
The New York Tribune of Saturday
last contains full particulars of the dis
l covery, in the city of Now York, of the
‘ private correspondence of the bogus firm
; of Wogan & Cos., and among their effects j
selects and publishes the following letter !
from John A, Wimpy of Dahlonega, !
Ga. This fellow Wimpy is a loud
mouthed follower of his master Bullock,
aud has been and stilHs one of the latter’s '
most trusted adherents. The damnable
villainy of this creature Wimpey is ex- i
posed by the leading paper of his own
party. It cannot, therefore, be asserted, as
in the case of bis prototype Blodgett, that
the oharge is made for political effect. It
■ is by far too serious and too great a crime !
tobj avoided by the puny cry of party
| spite or malignity. It shows what sort of
j men a Radioal Congress has entrusted with
the lives and reputation and property of
1 the people of Georgia. Bullock, Blodgett,.
| Turner, Wimpy—these are they of the
Radical brotherhood who now have the
| ear and voice of Congress.
But we have neither the time or the
heart to pursue this most revolting theme.
Below we give the letters, with the running
! remarks of the Tribune, which says in
opening the subject : “W e now introduce
to our readers a gentleman who tells us all
I about himself and his aspirations. This is
: no less a personage than
THE HON. JOHN A. WIMPY.
of Dahlonega, Georgia. Mr. Wimpy j
writes with a highly ornamental printed t
heading, and dates his letter at the above
named place, October 16, 1869. The en- j
velope contains a note to the Postmaster
| “to return, if not called for within ten days,
to the writer’s address.” He says :
“Gents: Your letter of the 15th ult.,
which was sent to a friend in East Ten
nessee, was the other day confidentially
handed me, asking that he embark into
the business of Circulating counterfeit
money. I am a lawyer here at this
place, in good standing. Have a lu
crative practice, and above suspicion. I
have a vast deal of influence before the
; people, as an evidence ot this I was
ELECTED TO THE XI.tlD CONGRESS
last April was a year ago—so I want to
try to eiicuiate some of yosr counterfeit
money.”
We pause to say that Mr. Wimpy is
guilty of an anachronism, for it must have
been the XLth Congress, and the second
session. Mark Mr. Wimpy’s reasons,
however, for wishing to go into the busi
ness:
“This section of the State,” continue.-
Mr. Wimpy, “is far off from the railroad,
and the people are ignorant and are
without a currency—cannot pay their taxes
without a great sacrifice. You may put
me down as
ONE OF THE TRUE BLUE,
and will not blow on you ? I know I ean
1 eirottlate a large quantity of your currency
I and can make it profitable to me as well as
fYo you. You will therefore send to me
I five hundred dollars in ooe hundred dollar
j bills and five hundred in five dol.ar bills.
: Send me the above by express and direct
thus, “Hon. John A. Wimpy, Dahlonfega,
; Ga., via of Atlanta, Ga.” C. O. D. By
this means J will be sure to get the pack
age. According to your letter above refer
red to the amount ordered will come to
three hundred dollars, which I will pay at
the express office. You will order that the
money be collected oa delivery. lam will
ing to invest largely in the matter for I
know
I CAN MAKE IT PAY.
“I need not reiterate to you what can
be done. Be sure and send the counterfeit
money .as ordered above so that I can get
it at an early day. I will he in New York
in December next and will see you per
sonally on the matter. * *
“Yours, &c., John A. Wimpy.”
“P. S.— You will find out who I am by
consulting McKillop, Sprague & Cos., New
Ysrk, as well as John Livingston.”
The receivers ol the letter were appa
rently suspicious of Mr. Wimpy’s frank
ness ana returned the letter, endorsed on
the back as follows: “We return your let
ter, supposing that seme ODe got the letter
heads out of your office and wrote this. If
you are in earnest, write again.” To this
comment the writer of the letter respond
ed by returning the same letter, with this
note endorsed underneath the comment:
Dahlonega, Ga., Oct , 30th, 1809. —
Gents: —l am in earnest. Send the goods
as ordered herein, and (ail not. I return
this letter as being toy instructions in the
matter. Yours &c. John A. Wimpy. I
\\ rite me by return mail what you dj in
the premises.”
Again, on November 14, Mr. Wimpy ;
writes to Wogan & Cos., evidently in reply I
to a letter he has received, as follows:
“Dear Sirs: —Your letter of the 9th J
iost. intorming me that you had sent me j
$3,571 in ones and two, and fives, is to-day
received, and I thank you much for your j
promptness, and in answer will say that j
I STILL MEAN BUSINESS,
but I will leave in a few days in New York
to see you and have a persona! interview
with you before I take the package out of
the office. Aud it becomes necessary for
me to explain to you the reasons for this
which has come to trie since I last wrote
you. Sirs, you may have the utmost con
fidence in me; for I will not betray you or
any one else engaged in the business—but
to the reason why 1 want to see you before
I left the package. I wrote to a firm by
the name of
Noyes & Cos., 9T Wall-st.,
on the 28th of Sept, last for SIOO worth of
you. On the 20th day of Oct. the said
Neyes & Cos. wrote to this effect. (Here
is a copy of the letter): “Oct. 20th, 1869.
Hon John A- Wimpy, Dear Sir: Goods
have been sent as desired, C, O- D. SIOO.
Have you paid it or not? Let us know.
Respectfully, Noyes& Cos, 65 Wall st.”
The above is a copy of their letter to
me. Immediately upon the receipt of this
letter, I sent SIOO id the hands of my
clerk, who did not suspicion anything of
the kind, to lift the package out of the
office at Atlanta, which he did by paying
the SIOO and express charges, and brought
the box to me, and when I opened the box
to my great astonishment, sirs ! there was
nothing in the box except newspapers
wadded up, and a piece of ore weighing
about three *-ounds. So my SIOO and
other expenses were gone, and I have not
yet received what I ordered; but in the
bottom of tho box was a slip of writing, of
which the following is a copy: “This is
done to mislead the detectives. It will be
sent to you free of charge by express. Keep
cool—do not mention our name, destroy
all trace of our letters. Shall wc send your
letters along with it
I HAVE BEEN “KEEPING COOL”
and waiting patiently for the package to
come, but it has not come—and I fear I
am swindled out of one hundred dollars,
besides other expenses to the amount of
sls. The receipt which is signed by
Noyes & Cos. is dated on the 9 h of Octo
ber last at 96 Wall street, New York. Now
I was acting in good faith and meant
nothing but business with Sirs Noj'es & Cos.
I received a letter from them which led mo
to correspond with them. * * If Noyes
& Cos. send on the package ordered by me
and I receive it before I start to New York
to see you iu person, I shall be induced to
lift your package sent me out of the ex
press office at Atlanta. Having lost SIOO
up to this time in the business of trying to
get and obtain *• I shall know
that I am
DEALING WITH FAIR MEN,
who would not take any advantage of me.
Sirs: I shall not betray you, neither shall
I even mention your name to any person
living. I want to start from here about
the 23d of this month for Washington,
and when I get to Atlanta I will send you
a telegram what day I will be at your No.
73 Nassau street; and if I can be made
satisfied that, your box contains what you
say is in it, I will lift it out of the office. I
am of too limited means to iet any more
money slip out of my fingers as I did to
Noyes & Cos., 96 Wall street. t would
break me. If your money is what you
say it is, and is so wed executed as repre
sented, I can make
A “big thing”
out of it: for I, tell you there is no money
and change in this section of the State. |
1 know I can make great use of it, but I
am satisfied that I can make better use of j
5s than Is and 2s, because there is no sus
picion resting against the fives bills, but j
there is in this country suspicion against
Is and 2s, as being counterfeit.
“Your letter, I must confess, has the
WRING OF THE RIGHT METAL,
and is much more satisfactory to me than
those of Messrs. Noyes its Cos.; but to be
sure I am right and to know that I am
dealing with business men, I must see you
in person before I can pay you any money
without seeing just what I get.
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.
“I hope you will not think hard of me
fir doing thus, but I will be satisfied, my
self, by seeing you in person before the
thirty days are out. I will come myself,
without any person with me. I have been
raided bore in the mountains, and never
have been further North than Washington.
You may know I will be
, A ‘GREEN HORN’
when Iget to New York.
“I waut to make a ‘big thing’ oat of
this thing, a-d believing I can doit suc
cessfully, with my standing, and influence
in the Mountains, I shall telegraph you for
information where to find you and how.
And, sirs, believe me ever to be yours in
confidence.
[Signed] “John A. Wimpy.”
“p. S. I have destroyed your letters as
| directed.”
Mr. Wimpy, before mailing the above
i letter, sleeps on it over night, and the
next day (Sunday) bethinks himself in
1 another postscript to say that if Messrs.
t Wogan & Cos. will let him take the box
I from the express office relieved of the bars
j and bolts of its “,C- O. D.,” he will imme
| diately come to New York and pay in per
l son. His reason for this is that
A BURNT CHILD DREADS THE FIRE?
And inasmuch as SIOO has been burnt
out of me by Noyes & Go., I do not desire
to be burnt again.
Our reporter was not present at the
ir. erview between “W ogan & Cos. and
Wimpy. Or aught we know the com
pany name has been changed to “Wogan,
Wimpy & Cos.” We have official informa
tion, however, that the firm of “Wogan &
Cos.” is no more- Amisunderstandmg arose
between the partners;-the senior member
gave notice to Postmaster Jones that the
Company wa - dissolved and that no more
letters should be delivered to the firm.
Mr. Wogan was subsequently informed
that hereafter their correspondence would
go direetly to the Dead Letter Office at
Washington, for the benefit of the Gov
ernment.
Debate In the Senate on the Georgia
BUI.
We present below the very full and
graphic report published in the Now York
World, of the running debate in the Sen
ate on the Georgia bill. This question is
one of absorbing interest just now to our
people, and we devote the most of our
available space to the publication of full
! reports upon it that our readers may judge
for themselves of the feelings which
auimatc those who are pressing this legisla
tion upon us:
A FIELD DAY IN THE SENATE.
The Senate began to-day with a pretty
lull attendance ol members, it being un
derstood that this was to be a field-day.
i and that the Radicals would strive to push
i the Georgia bill to a vote for the double
j reason of manufacturing a Radical prov
j inee and of stopping a debate which had
already elicited a damaging controversy
I among their own Senators.
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1869
DEBATE ON GEORGLA RECONSTRUCTION.
The bill came up as unfinished business,
; Mr, Saulsbury having the floor. This
gentleman made a very strong speech, ex
• posing with much power and sarcasm the
principles of the bill and the course of the
Radical party. Bullock, the carpet-bag
1 lobbyitc and engineer of the bill, came in
far a notice, which was caustic, but only
i revealed a little of his mischief.
! THE ENGINEER OF THE BILL—CABPET-BAG
IMPUDENCE.
This worthy was conspicuous on the
floor to-day, as usual, superintending
the proceedingsldesigned specially to secure
him a seat in the Senate. It is said that
1 he has already selected his place in the
, chamber, and it is oertain that to-day he
was to be seen lounging about with a
brazen look, and a segar in his mouth, as
if to mark his contempt for the body he
was then using to shield his vitality and
promote his ambition.
A VOTE TO BE PRESSED.
When Mr. Saulsbury had finished,Mr.
Carpenter gave notice of the determination
to press the bill to a vote this day, thus
giving promise of a night session.
SPEECH OF SENATOR STOCKTON.
After a brief executive session the de
bate was resumed by Mr. Stockton (New
Jersey) in a speech which was compli
mented even by his opponents as forcible
and impressive.
THE RADICALS OVERREACHING THEM
SELVES.
Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, was ready to
support the bill, but not to require the
fourteenth amendment, and his point that
to demand a ratification by Georgia raised
a doubt ofits validity, led Mr. Morton, at
a later hour, to withdraw this part of his
proposition—a mo;e severe commentary j
on the crudity of his amendment than any !
Conservative could possibly make. Mr.
Conkling (Radical, of New York) also op
posed the requirement of the ratification
of these amendments, on the ground that
it would give fixed ammunition to the
enemy.
A RADICAL DILEMMA.
$o many Radicals had spoiled his amend
ment that Mr. Morton now thought it was
time to say something in its favor. He
showed that the objections of Messrs.
Carpenter and Conkling applied equally to
the ratification of the fourteenth amend
ment by the rebel States to the ratification
by Virginia of the fifteenth. The vote of
Georgia was essential, he said, in order to
make sure of Ohio and Rhode Island.
TOO LATE FOR RADIOAL REPENTANCE.
“ Finally,” said Mr. Morton, very
honestly, and with some appearance of
contempt for the hesitating Senators, “if
we have done wremg, it is too late to talk
now. It looks like weakness and coward
ice.”
A NON SEQUITUR.
Thi3 made a marked sensation, but Mr.
Edmunds still further startled his party
friends by asking Mr. Morton, “Why not
at once require the military commander to
pat through the ratification of the amend
ment ?”
A TILT BETWEEN THURMAtTAND SHERMAN.
Avery interesting encounter then fol
lowed between Messrs. Sherman and
Thurman in respect to £)hio politics, in
which the former was decidedly unhorsed,
Judge Thurman speaking with even more
than trfs usual power. Mr. Nye put in an
interjection from his seat, and he, too, got
a quietus.
.CLAMOR FOR A VOTE—A RECESS.
Mr. Drake and his brother Radicals now
clamored for a vote, but the Conservatives
lad some speeches to put in, and the
Radicals bad to fall back on their dinners
and a night session.
THE NIGHT SESSION.
After the recess the Senators generally
came back, and the galleries were lull of
people, attracted by the unusual circum
stance of a night session.
SENATOR DAVIS SPEAKS.
Mr. Garrett Davis continued a long
speech’em the question, receiving no at
tention from his political opponents, but a
good deal from the galleries, aud it began
to look as if the vote would not come on
till a late hour; but the Radicals plainly
meant to pass the bill, either with or with
out Morton’s amendment,
NORTON—NYE—OASSERLY.
The evening waned. The audience in
the galleries thinned, but that on the Sen
ate floor increased. The sofas and lobbies
in rear of the Chamber were thronged by
members of the House and other privileg
ed persons. Mr. Norton, taking the floor
after Mr. Davis concluded, made a vigor
ous protest against the bill. Mr. Nye fol
lowed in a post prandial speech in his old
style, his voice being thick from some
cause —probably from emotion. He was
followed by Mr. Casserly, the new Demo
cratic Senator from California, whose re
marks drew the respectful attention of all
in the Chamber. He delivered a strong
and, in some respects, a brilliant argument,
•attacking without gloves the ineasur; before
the Senate and the Senators on the oppo
site side of the Chamber tor their tergiver
sations in regard to it. In tho course of
his remarks, he replied to Mr. Conkling,
who had assumed that the Democratic par
ty were bound by the reconstruction policy
of Mr. Johnson: that he had never ap
proved of it; the Democratic party had
never endorsed it.
A FOUR-SIDED DISCUSSION.
An interesting and exciting debate here
ensued, three or four Senators joining in
it, among them Judge Thurman, who
said that in the autumn of 1865 the Re
publican party of Ohio had endorsed the
policy of Andrew Johnson up to the hub.
There Mr. Sherman rose and said that this
resolution was a year ahead of tho struggle
with Congress. Mr. Thurman said it was
after the development and inauguration of
the policy of Mr. Johnson. “It was not,”
said Mr. Sherman, “the policy was an
nounced in September.” Mr. Conkling,
correcting, said it was in October, and
neither seemed to know the notorious fact
that in May, 1565, Mr. Johnson, in the.
North Carolina proclamation, had de
veloped his whole reconstruction policy.
THE VOTE.
After Mr. Casserly had finished, at j
about 11 o’clock, the vote ensued on Mor
ton’s amendment requiring the ratification
of the Fifteenth Amendment as a condition
precedent. There was general silence as
the vote was taken, but the first names
showed the Radical camp for extreme |
measures ; only a few Radicals voted no. j
The yeas were 88, the noes 15. The next j
amendment was one to punish persons j
for holding office who were embraced in ,
certain categories of a very wide-sweeping
character. Mr. Thurman said it would
embrace ninety-nine out of every hundred j
persons. He went on to show how much j
broader it was than the Fourteenth Amend- j
rneot, and that involuntary aid to the j
confederacy was punishable by this act. :
Under the effect of this discussion Mr. i
Morton proceeded to withdraw his amend- !
ment. Mr. Thurman then went on to
make a logical, animated, incisive dissec
tion of the bill and of the history of the
Legislature of Georgia.
BULLOCK AS A PROMPTER.
Among the scenes during its delivery
were an interruption by Mr. Drake, who j
was instantly snubbed and dispatched; I
Bullock, the carpet-bagger, moving about j
uneasily and trying various seats of Sena- j
: tors, as if to see which would suit him
be3t; and, lastly, Mr. Nye, leaning back
in • his chair fast asleep, with a face, cer
tainly not handsome, turned to the ceiling,
and his hands folded like those of a departed
I saint who had gone to his rest. But these
things did not turn the speaker from hi?
line of argument, which was as close and •
effective as his denunciations of this wrong I
, were powerful and excoriating. Mr. Gas- 1
' serly moved to strike out the words “in
i voluntary aid” from the bill, and even
i Mr. Morton said it ought to come out.
Mr. Carpenter seemed ready also to con
-1 cede this, but Bullock went over and to >k
! a seat by the Senator, who rose and object -
]cd to the change. In a word, the Radical
Senators appeared throughout the debate
like half-trained actors rehearsing apiece,
with Bulloek for stage prompter.
Even Mr. Sawyer, of South Carolina,
rose to protest against this feature. He
said it would embrace nearly everybody.
He himself was forced to do duty in the
home guard.
THE VOTE TAKEN.
The vote was taken amid deep interest,
many Radicals voting aye. and others with
, loud noes, as if indignant at this desertion
■by their friends. The amendment wa^
! carried by 20 to 22.
WHY IS THIS ?
J Sumner appeared to be iurious ; his pri-
I vate talk was loud and disorderly. Bullock
seemed terribly put out, and there was
certainly a screw loose in the Republican
camp. Carpenter moved to adjourn, and
then, withdrawing it, moved that when
the Senate adjourn it adjourn to meet on
Monday next. , , ,
Mr. Drakerose excitedly, and denounced
with heat the motion to adjourn. He said,
! to the surprise of the Senate, that he did
not understand this proceeding on the part
j of Republican Senators to adjourn because
; the bill had been amended. Georgia
l might suy out forever before he would
1 vote to punish a man for invoiumary aid
to the rebellion. More confusion ensued
until Mr. Carpenter ithdrew the motion.
1 It was now 12:30 o’clock.
Mr. Casserly, who fought the bill with
; great ability and tact, now worried the
Radicals with various amendments to it,
designed totakethe control of the military
from Bullock, and vest it entirely in the
President, all of which was voted down.
Mr. Trumbull was absent He isunder
i stood to oppose the’ bill.
Mr. Howard moved an amendment so
as to relieve from disabilities only those
| acting under direct physical force, md this
; was agreed to.
Two ultra Radicals finally fashioned the
j bill their own way, and then passed it by
j a party vote at 1:30 o’clock.
The session, which was of unusual inter
| est; and lasted thirteen hours; and a State
admitted but yesterday into the Union is,
if the Senate has its way, remanded to be
i a military province.
SUMMED UP.
On the whole, to-day's debate in’ the
j Senate, like yesterday’s, was decidedly
damaging to the Republicans. The differ
; enee between the positions of Messrs.
; Conkling and'Carpenter, on the one side,
and Morton, on the other, was simply
whether Georgia should be coerced directly
by condition precedent or by condition
subsequent, in order to make up the num
ber requisite to enable Congress to declare
the J sth amendment carried ; but the de
bate elicited many damaging confessions,
and, as Mr. Morton rightly argued, it in
volved an emphatic condemnatiou of all
the proceedings by which the ratification
of the 14th amendment was alleged to be
secured, and also vitiated both the 14th
aud Isih auienumeute. These violent pro
ceedings were now admitted to be too inde
fensible to be repeated; on Mr. Edmund’s
theory, the bill was wrorg; all that the
Radicals now agreed in was the one end of
making Goorgia a Radical State-and pack
ing a Legislature so as to secure two ad
ditional Radical Senators. It is said that
the bill will be reported in the llcuse of
Representatives on Monday next, and put
through under the gag after a very brief
debate.
MITES OJi TBS SITUATION.
BY B. H. HILL.
NO Z3.
“What shall we do now?” is a question
every hour repeated. Perhaps the wisest
answer that could be given to this ques
tion is this: Do nothing', say nothing. All
I shall add, is only added to make the
wisdom ofthis answer apparent.
Os the legislation now being hurried
through Congress concerning Georgia two
remarks may be predicated:
First. This legislation intends both
injury and insult to our people.
Second. So great is the injury, and so
inexcusable the insult intended, that the
men in the Congress who propose them
anticipate violent resistance by our people,
and, therefore, have authorized the
President, on the'requisition of Bullock,
to employ the army and navy of the United
States to enforce'the legislation.
What a commentary is this on free gov
ernment 1 What a work for the army and
navy of the United States in a time of
peace!
This is not the Union of our fathers.
This is, emphatica'iv, a Reconstructed
Union. Alas, tor such a Union! The in
genuity of man, in its most devilish exer
cise, could not provide more certain
schemes to promote hate and to produce
wars and successions of wars iu tho far(?)
future than these measures of Congress,
which, under pretence of reconstructing
the Southern States, are really destroying
all the States, and the liberties of all the
people of all the States.
But this legislation now being enacted
by CongreSs suggests some valuable lessons
which, if well learned by our people, will
go far to compensate for the evils pro
posed.
1. When the Reconstruction measures
were- first proposed in 1867, there were
some good men among us who thought it
would be better for our people to partici
pate in the work of reconstructing the
State government, with a view to miti
gating or defeating its evils. To these I
humbly, but most earnestly replied, that
we could not succeed by participation in
defeating the work of reconstruction, be
cause that work would be entrusted to
men who, under military protection and by
frauds and false counting of votes, would,
in any event, declare the measures success
ful, while, by participation, we should be
hypocritical in seeming to help a purpose
wc despised; would relievo the iniquity of
much of its odium by giving it our seem
ing assent, and would thus be parties to
our own degradation and bound by the re
sults. Or,jfby any means, we should
succeed in mitigating the evils, Congress
would either not accept the work, or,
after accepting, would, under pre
tence of fraud and deception ou our
part, recall their acceptance and order the
work of Reconstruction to be done over
again. In the light of subsequent events,
and, especially in view of the present
legislation, will any man longer doubt the
wisdom, propriety and decency of non
participation in this work of self-destruc
tion and self degradation ? The only result
to us of participation is to lose our own
respectability by imparting it to the scheme
for our ruin.
2. The itching for office which too many
have manifested during this rule of in
famy has been a source of no little mortifica
tion to many of'ourpeople. Webave been
constantly assured of great horrors if we
did not have Representatives in Gongress!
For myself I am free to confess, 1 have
always thought that our people ought not
even to desire representation, until they
could choose their own representatives.
Indeed, a man of true honor, should feel
insulted if even suspected of a wish to get
an office while his superiors were proscrib
ed by a wioked and unconstitutional dis
franchisement. When thieves seek agen*s
it is honorable to be rejected as unworthy.
If, then, this legislation shall convince
our people that they can gain nothing by
accept ng and taking part in this recon
struction iniquity, and styll act as a caus
tic to burn out all desirmfbr Federal office
in every decent Southern man, its evils
will become mere tolerable, and what our
enemies intend for our utter discomfiture
may become tht beginning of our redemp
tion.
There is anther effect of this legisla
tion to reconstruct the State again which
is not wholly destitute of a compensating
consideration. i
There was quite a number, perhaps a ;
majority of ou: people, who had be
come disposed to make a conces
sion to Gongiess and the feelings
of the Northern people in a spirit
ot conciliation for peace. In this spirit I
am of the opinicn the Democrats of the
Legislature bad soncluded to rc-seat the
negroes and ratifr the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The resut of such voluntary action
would either hate dismembered the Demo
cratic party of tie State, and caused the
formation of a Republican party, which
might have ccntroled the State; or, to
prevent this restlt, it would have com
pelled the Democrats to be reconciled to
these acts, and mt to have made the sup
port of these measures a test of party
fidelity. But Congress has prevented the
voluntary adoption of the measures, and
[ has provided fir their forcible adoption.
I Gongress has oidered that these measures
, shall not be adopted by those who could
have had any chinos to represent the in
telligence, aQd virtue, and will of the
i State, and has ordered them :o be adopted
; by those who wll mo6t certainly represent
neither the people, nor the honor, nor in
terest nor will o; me people of this State.
Thus we are telie'cd of all odium which
might attach to a voluntary adoption of
these measures ; of all danger of a dis
memberment of tie Democratic party by
reason of such adiption ; and of all obliga
tion to respect he adoption as binding
when made by tht Carpet-bag strangers,
deluded Degrees, and thieving outlaws
whom Congress las entrusted with these
measures as aloie worthy to pass upon
them. I confess here is much in this fact
to gratify me. The real people of our
i State are relieve! from the necessity of
1 passing through .he only ordeal in which
i had reason to fiar their manhood would
be forgotten, opinion upon the eligi
bility of the agrees under the negro
Constitution wa well known. But
, the Legislature was the sole judge of
1 this question hr themselves. To re
seat them after unseating them would
have been to adnit themselves stultified,
and to abdicate tleir own independence as a
eo-ordinate department of the State gov
ernment. So tie principle .of the 15th
amendment is aiother subversion of the
whole system ol the American Govern
ment, and no eaithly consideration could
i nance me to export it. Yet, I confess
; 1 had made upmy mind to regard with
i tolerance those vho should differ with me
on these questions, especially where it was
known that Bullock was really anxious for
the defeat of both the negroes and the 15th
amendment, as means of enabling him to
induce Congress to remand the State to a
Provisional Government in order to extend
and enlarge his own powers for thieving.
But Congress, afraid the excuse for op
pressing us would be averted by the Leg
islature, has relieved the Legislature of
the humiliating iniquity of averting it.
It is well known again that the present
Legislature has been lavish—even reckless
—in creating debts in behalf of plunderers
for the people to pay. Now that Congress
has declared the Legislature whieh creat
ed these debts only Provisional, the people
will not hesitate to declare the debts so
created to be only Provisional also, and
that, too, in spite of any provision by Con
gress to the contrary.
My humble opiuion, therefore, is that
our people should receive this additional
attempt by Congress to destroy them as
the Roman Senate received the invaders of
their country—with quiet dignity and stolid
indifference. Lee it be our study hence
forth to care as little aspossibiefor Federal
affairs and as much as possible for our
own. If President Grant shall deem it
his duty to employ the army and navy of
the United States to guard and protect
unassaulted th'eves ami robbers, let him
so do. If he shall go farther and use that
army and navy in arresting unoffending
citizens who are only engaged peacefully
attending their private affiirs, why let him
arrest —yea imprison, shoot and hang !
“The blood ot the martyrs is the seed of the
Church.” He is not worthy of liberty
who is not willing to be its martyr-
Above all, let us still preserve our man
hood, and do nothing which can possibly
lie construed into our assent to their recon
struction infamies however often repeated.
W e still have bright skies, fertile soils,
and a healthful climate. These are the
gifts of God, and are above the power of
Congress to reconstruct, aud beyond the
reach of even Radicals to-steal or carry
away.
Let us devote all our energies to the sole
work ofenriching ouriields,beautifyingour
homes, multiplying our productions.erect
ing foundries, building factories, and de
veloping in every form our vast materia]
resources.
Toward the colored race let us redouble
our efforts to be just, kind and forbearing.
They are not the authors of our wrongs.
Nine out of ten of them wish to do right.
I doubt whether the same number of any
other color or race of the human family
could pass the same ordeals through which
they have passed during the last four
years and do as well as they have done.
With a few wicked or deluded exceptions,
they will join us in bringing contempt on
all these Congressional iniquities and on
their authors.
The black angel of political, social and
moral death is deepening the shadows of
his wings over the Continent. Those
shadows will certainly settle in the thick
darkness of despotism and sorrow on the
Northern people. Then the sun of Lib
erty will dawn again upon the South.
That dawning will reveal us with coffers
refilled, with waste places rebuilt, with
resources of all kinds at home, and with
sustained honor and unsullied manhood
preserved. And, to these, whatever else
honor can commend, or virtue desire, will
bo added for us and for our children.
I thank God that I was born in the
South, and with a spirit that knows no
fear of her enemies, and would not escape
a full share of her sufferings.
OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
On the Wing, Dee. 17, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
For the last two weeks my travels and
labors have been so constant and arduous,
that I could not write you and cannot now
attempt a recital of the scones and events
through which I have passed.
My observations in Tennessee and lower
Georgia disclosed nothing of importance,
and I shall, therefore, be confined to the in
cidents of the present week. On Monday I
arrived at Washington, where the adjourned
term of the Superior Court for Wilkes
county was in se-sion, Judge Andrews
presiding. But few citizens from tho
oountry were in attendance, owing to the
inclemency of tho weather and the limited
amount of business they had in the
Court. A few cases were brought
from other counties, whieh seemed to
excite considerable feeling with parties
interested. Among them was one
from Oglethorpe' county, which I will
mention for the benefit of those accustom
ed to similar indiscretions. It seems that
a lady prosecuted a man for the use of
vulgar and obscene language in her pres
ence, and obtained a verdict against him
in a Magistrate’s Court for one hundred
dollars and cost, to which the accused,
through his attorney, took exceptions, re
ferring the case to his Iloaor Judge An
drews, who confirmed the decision of the
court below, whieh we hope will be a
warning to those who so little regard the
conventional rules of refined society.
Men who are so unscrupulous of the
principles of civilization and refinement
should be made to suffer the just .penalties
of the law.
On Tuesday morning Mr. Milton B.
Reese, of Wilkes, and son of Judge Reese,
was examined and admitted to the bar.
The knowledge he evinced ol the science
was highly creditable, and but lew young
men promise a more brilliant career in the
profession. As Judge Cone once remark
ed in a speech before the Georgia Senate,
“If a young man ever arrives at
tinctioD in the legal profession he
has a tall and rugged mountain to climb,
but when he reached the top he would
fully enjoys its honors and rewards.” Dili
gence, industry, perseverance and sobriety
are the handmaids to success in all pur
suits, and lam assured that young Reese
possesses these qualities in an eminent de
gree. I feel a deep interest in the suc
cess of such young men. The bench and
the bar should take them by the hand,
bear them up, and guide them on, and the
people should give them their confidence
and support.
When I see so many young men aban
doned to habits of dissipation and vice,
wrecked and ruined upon.the vt-ry shores
of the sea of life, I can but feel that an
example worthy of admiration should be
made of those who consecrate their lives to
noble and worthy ends.. On Tuesday
while sitting with the lobby as observant
of the rules of order as the business of my
mission would admit, the Sheriff politely
approached and presented me with a note
from His Honor Judge Andrews, which
proved to be a very cordial -invitatioD to
dine with him that day, which, I must
assure you, I accepted, and enjoyed in the
highest degree.
It was truly a pleasure to me to visit
the homestead, and observe the home
circle of one whose name is so familiar to
the people of Georgia, and forms one of
the few connecting links between the judi
ciary of the present, and past generation.
Our party consisted of several distin
guished gentlemen ot the Bar, who were
in attendance upon the Court, and the re
past that we enjoyed was worthy of our
host, his very pleasant and interesting
family. Such occasions detract much from
the monotony of the Courts, strengthen
the ties of mutual triendship, and conspire
to our grateful appreciation of noble
hospitality.
Washington has improved considerably
within the last few months. New brick
stores have gone up, old ones have "been
added to and re-painted, giving to the
town an air highly creditable to the taste,
and refinement, of her business men.
Really it is becoming a pretty place, and
the trade increasing. Traveller.
AFFAIKS IN NEW I’OKK.
An Exciting Finale to an Exciting Week —
Extraordinary Scenes in Wall Street —
Grand Rush to and from the Treasury
Building—Boutwell Bagged by the
Br oilier s—The Jackass of the Treasury —
The Frauds of the Period—The Fail
ures of the Week—A Large Number
Retiring from Business with the New
Yea) — The Holidays and the Retail
Establishments—A Religious Revival to
Follow the Scandals of the Day—lnter
esting Testimony Forthcoming on the
McFarland ' Trial Mare Domestic
Misery, etc., etc.
FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
Editors Chronicle <Sc Sentinel :
New York, Dec. 18th, 1869.
The week closes in financial circles with
as much excitement as followed in the
wake of that memorable Friday, Septem
i her 24th, which inaugurated the great
Gold panic. In fact, yesterday, we had
somewhat of a Gold panic, which, though
not so intense as the one of two months
ago, nevertheless kept Wall Street and its
surrounding thoroughfares in as complete
a state of excitement as did its famous
predecessor. Your readers, no doubt, re-
! member that at the close of last month at
; one of the Government sales, Boutwcll
refused to accept the highest bid made for
the Treasury gold, because he could not
get 122 for it. Yesterday another Govern
ment sale of gold took place and the
result was
INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN WALL STREET.
The brokers this time had put up a
game for the Yankee Secretary of the
Treasury. Instead of sending in as usual
bids for three timos the amount of gold
offered, they only sent in bids for a paltry
$400,000, allowing Mr- Boutwell to bag
his gold the best way he could, and for
these $400,000, in the face of his refusal
to take less than 122, they offered him
an average of 1214. This bid was sent
to Washington, and while the people were
waiting for an answer, to see what the Sec
retary would say to that, the street in front,
the steps and corridors of the Treasury
building were crowded by as motley a set of
brokers and speculators as ever congregat
ed in Wall street. Finally the reply came
“Mr. Boutwell accepts the bids, but will
not sell the remainder under 122.” This
was a good joke, as nobody wanted “the
remainder,” and the Hon. Secretary of the
Treasury might as well endeavor to eat it
as sell it. Tbe fact all important to Wall
street was that he had sold—no matter
how small an amount—at a figure less than
122, and hence there followed
A GRAND RUSn
to tho gold rooms. Here the excitement
suddenly was raised to fever heat, and the
bears succeeded in obtaining full control
of the market, 121;, |, J, }, {, 120, 120f,
i, J, J,id again, where it stands at the hour
of writing, with every prospect of its going
still lower on Monday. The Secretary
acted like an ass; the greenest broker on
the street would have done.better. There
was a combination formed to compel him
to disgorge his gold at a low figure. The
jackass sitting in his office in Washing
ton, instead of seeing this and withholding
his assent, surrenders all that is bid for
and thus discloses his cards. While, if he
had refused to accept any bids gold would
have gone up at once and he would have
obtained his price on Monday. But the
fool not only access the bids at a low
figure, but when he sees he has made the
mistake makes himself the laughing stock
of o lr gay and shrewd brokers by inform
ing them that he will not sell the rest un
der 122. Boutwell is a genius! he’ll do
for Grant’s administration.
EFFECT ON BUSINESS GENERALLY.
Os course there will be another flare up
in the premium. It may. and no doubt
will, go up again two or three per cent.,
but only for a few days. The tendency of
pyerything is down, down, and with it go
the priflfcof all sorts of merchandize. The
first effect of this decline in prices was
felt for the first time during the week,
closing to-day. No less than a dozen large
houses have suspended since my last, and
almost every day we hive to add to the
list of failures. Among the most promi
nent, wlioclosed their doors this week, were
Richard Patrick & Cos., hardware mer
chants, and 8. Edgerton & Co-, carpet
importers. These houses were very
wealthy, and it is simply owing to their
large stocks on band bought,at gold prices,
that they were compelled to suspend.
THE IMMENSE FRAUDS
Which have been brought to light during
the week only add to the general conster
nation and fear prevailing iu all business
circles. The operations of Gray & Go.,
men who were introduced in the street by
prominent Senators and Representatives
from Washington, have entirely shaken
confidence, just at a time when confidence
was most needed to pass safely over our
mercantile troubles. But the injurious
and rascally frauds of these men, who
made it a business to alter bonds and hand
them in as collaterals par loan, upon which
they succeeded in raising about $300,000,
has made everybody afraid to trust his
neighbor. Then, agarn, the arrest of the
Superintendent of the Assay office for
robbing the Government out of some
$25,000, aud that a man, who, above all,
ought to be beyond suspicion, has so far
succeeded in making our best and most
enterprising men disgusted with ' business
in New York, and hence with the
NEW YEAR
You will hear of any number of men go
inp out of business. Those who have a
good capital left refuse to risk it aDy longer
amid the heavy taxation, unheard ol
frauds and instability of all sorts of securi
ties and merchandize. As usual, there
will be any number ot new combinations
formed, but a larger number of wealthy
men will retire than at any previous year.
Amidst it all, however, our retail stores
are doing a lively business, but I must ac
knwoledgo it is only business incidental to
the
holidays.
The novelties displayed in our leading
establishments are really equal to those in
the shops of Paris, Berlin and Vienna,
and, of course, are in all respects more ele
gant than the clumsy articles usually dis
played at this season in the Londou estab
lis jinente. I can, however, not call the
season gay here. The stores along Broad
way are doing tolerably well and would do
better with the business now offering, if
their expenses were not so enormously
heavy; but after all thfe people do not ap
pear ,to have so much money to spend on
these holiday preparations as in years past.
The number of rec‘ptions, soirees, parties,
balls, etc., etc ,is not so great this year,
and those that are given are gotten up on
a less liberal scale than usual. It is quite
likely that owing to the licentiousness
which has characterized some circles dur
ing the year now closing, we may see the
people walk in quite a different direction
for some weeks to come, as would appear
from the extraordinary efforts now made
in the press and in the pulpit to impress
upon all the' “inviolability of the marriage
contract” and “the sanctity of our homes.”
Id fact, it should not surprise me, judging
from the characteristics of the people, that
quite a religious revival would follow the
mass of scandal we have been listening to
pf late.
THE FREE LOVE SENSATION.
McFarland his been indicted by the
Grand Jury and his case will be set down
for trial on the calendar of the Court in a
day or two. His counsel are exceedingly
busy and will make, on the trial, an extra
ordinary expose of the crowd of free lovers
that have their headquarters in the Tri
bune office. Several of this class have
already been subfoenaed. I know of one
physician who will swear that Horace
Greeley long, long ago, urged Mr. McFar
land to let his wife go to h —11; in fact he
told him, “.Mac, why don’t you get rid of
her ? by G —d, I should have done so long
ago.” You know Mr. Greeley, that great
good man, swears like a trooper. * It will
also be proven that Mrs. Calhoun, the
woman who induced Beecher to marry the
adulterers, has taken an extraordinary
share of interest in the entire business, and
now is very anxious not to figure in the
case and is trying hard to keep her name
out of print in regard to this matter.
THE W .MEN
are a great source of trouble to some peo
ple here just now. A fellow named Hickey,
who killed his wife and another man when
finding them, as he supposed in too close
proximity, but really while his vision was
befogged by too much whiskey, is being
tried for his life over in Bergen county,
New Jersey,and it looks very much as if he
is going to be hanged- Another individual
named Cunningham, returned from Canada
to his home in Brooklyn on Monday night
and there found Mrs. C. comfortably en
sconced with another man in a bed in his
own house. Cunningham broke the in
truder’s two arms,making them useless for
further embraces. And these sort of oc
currencescao now be found almost daily on
our criminal records. Argus,,
Wimpy, Wogan k Co.— John A.
Wimpy, who claims to be a Radical Con
gressman elect from the Sixth Georgia
District, denies that he was in earnest
when he wrote his letters to Wogan & Cos.,
offering to help them shove the queer
upod the simple men of the mountains.
He says that he was engaged in a scheme
to trap the counterfeiters, and would have
been t aid handsomely had he succeeded.
It looks a little singular that the Govern
ment should have employed Wimpy as a
detective to arrest parties whom it was
well-known were not passing counterfeit
money, but only taking in would-be scoun
drels with worthless photographs of the
National currency.
A Portrait of Bullock.—A corre
spondent of the New York World, describ
ing the debate on the Georgia bill in the
Senate on Thursday, after paying a high
compliment to Senator Thurman and
Bayard, says: “While Mr. Bayard was
speaking, the author of all this rascality
was sitting on a sofa in the Senate, with
folded arms and dramatic style, but he
changed position repeatedly, wandered
about uneasily, and finally took a seat by
Mr. Morton. This was Bullock, the oar
pet-bag Governor of Georgia, who wants
to have himself made. Senator in place of
Hill or Miiler. Bullock is a large, portly,
! vulgar-looking man, of about fifty-five,
wears a full, reddish beard, and a large
necktie with long projecting ends. ’ ’ If the
ereature had his deserts he would wear a
more appropriate necktie, with but one
j “long projecting end, ” and that properly
! fastened above a drop.
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXYIII. NO. 52
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE GEORGIA BILL IN THE
HOUSE.
BULLOCK AND BLODGETT BUZ
ZING THE CARPET-BAGGERS.
“A RESPITE UNDER THE GAL
LOWS. ”
THE BILL POSTPONED UNTIL
THIS MORNING.
TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE
CHRONICLE k SENTINEL
Washington, December 20, p. m.—
After Butler’s failure to get the Georgia
bill passed by the Senate through the Re
construction Committee on last Saturday,
his plan, as I have before stated, was to
call another meeting of this Committee to
day and get the bill favorably reported
upon so that he might rush it through the
House of Representatives this morning
without a reference or debate, get the
President’s signature and make it a law
before the adjournment of Congress for the
holidays.
ANOTHER BULL-BAITING BEFORE THE RE
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.
In accordance with this programme
General Butler summoned tbe members of
tbe Reconstruction Committee to a meet
ing of that body to be held at an early
hour this morning. When the Committee
had met the Georgia Bill was taken up and
discussed t ome time. Governor Bullock
appeared before the Committee and, in or
der to seoure its favorable report upon the
measure, made a lengthy address on the
condition of affairs in Georgia. He again
called atlention to the manner iu whioh
loyal men were treated in that State, and
made an urgent appeal to the Committee
to take immediate action in the matter, if
it wished to see the State under the oon
trol of a government that would afford pro
tection to its citizens. Hon. Nelson Tifl,
a member of Congress from Georgia, was
also present in the Committee Room dur
ing the meeting and heard the speech of
Bullock. When the latter had finished
Mr. Tift arose and replied to him. He
made a very bold and able argument
against the bill and stated what was the
true history of affairs in Georgia. As on a
previous occasion, he completely used up
Bullock and did not leave him a bit of
ground to stand upon. Despite his ex
ertions, however, Butler carried the Bill
safely through thqCommittee and it was
reported favorably to the House.
SCALAWAGS SWARM IN THE LOBBIES.
Inspired by their success in the Senate
on Friday night and in the Committee this
morning, the band of scalawags here from
Georgia were in high glee, and long before
the hour arrived at which Congress was to
assemble, they swarmed like bees in the
lobbies of the House of Representatives,
zealously and energetically working for the
accomplishment of their nefarious scheme.
Every member that made his appeaiance
was seized and made to listen to their rep
resentations.
THE BUSY BEES BUZZ THE CARPET BAG
GERS.
As soon as the Speaker had called the
House to order Gov. Bullock, “General”
Blodgett and others of the gang made their
appearance upon the floor and kept up the
lobbying business with the members. It
was observed that,while they electioneered
very generally with all the Republican
Congressmen,they paid more particular at
tention to those who represented the
Southern States.
THE WOMAN-MURDERER VERSUS THE
SPOON THIEF.
Although, of course, despairing of a
successful resistance to the measure, the
Democratic members of the House early
and quietly prepared themselves to do all
in their power against it. At three o’clock
this afternoon the bill was called up and
after some little filibustering, in order to
stave off a vote, Butler’s plan was partial
ly uefeated by a compromise . being made
betweon the Democrats and Republicans
in accordance with the terms of which a
final vote upon the bill has been postponed
until three, o’clock to-morrow afternoon.
General Butler’s old enemy, Mr. Bing
ham, of Massachusetts, will vote and
work against the final passage of the bill
to-morrow and gave notice to-day that he
would move to postpone the measure until
the 3d day of next January. Several other
members also gave notice that they would
offer various amendments to tbe bill when
it came up again. J. G. B.
SECOND DISPATCH*.
THE BULL-BAITING WORSE AND
WORSE.
BULLOCK INFORMED OF HIS
PROPER HOME.
EXCITING TIME ANTICIPATED TO
MORROW.
THE DEMOCRATS BATTLING MAN
FULLY.
Washington, December 20, 10 P. M.
THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
At this hour (10 o’clock P. M.) the
House is still engaged in debating the
Georgia bill. The Radical members have
□early all left the hall disgusted aud not
more than a dozen of that party are at
present on the floor. As soon a9 the de
bate was opened by the Democrats Bul
lock, Blodgett and the reat-of tbeir clique
hastily got up from their seats aud beat a
precipitate retreat, anticipating the casti
gation they would receive. The galleries
are crowded with interested spectators
who are listening earnestly to the debate.
The Democratic members have come
squarely and courageously up to the issue,
and are making a noble aod gallant fight
in defence of Georgia.
bullock’s second castigation.
In the reply which Mr. Tift, made to
Governor Bullock to-day before the Recon
struction Committee carpet-bagger re
ceived a most terrible castigation from
the fiery and excited Southerner, ‘ enraged
by the manner in which Buliock had as
persed and slandered, the people of
Georgia in his speech. Mr. Tilt, after
he had made an able argument exposing
the schemes of the conspirators and
showing the injustice of the propose 1 leg
islation, turned Upon the former and
lashed him unmercifully. Ha openly
charged him with stealing the money be
longing to the State aud said to the Com
mittee “if Bullock had proper judicial
attention paid him he would soon be
transferred from the Gubernatorial man
sion to a ceil in the penitentiary, where it
would cost much less for the State to
support.him than it does at the present.”
During the delivery of this, invective
Bullock writhed and twisted himself about
but made no movement to resent it, and
when the storm of abuse.was over got up
and whined a reply to the effect that his
“political (and not his private character
was under investigation."
interest felt in the matter.
The Georgia matter is exciting the most
intense interest in all political circles here
and is the absorbing topic of conversation,
A most exciting time is anticipated to-mor
row.
DECAPITATION OF WASHINGTON OFFICIALS.
The Governor of Washington Territory,
the United States Marshal, the United
States Judge and the Collector of Coeloms
of that territory have all been removed
from their positions for polical reasons.
THE INFAMOUS STANTON ON THE SUPREME
BENCH
Tae President to-day sent to the Senate
the nomination of Edwin M. Stanton as a
Justice of the Supreme Court, to take the
place of Judge Grier, who has resigned.
The Senate, as a mark of respect to the
nominee, refer the nomination, in
accordance with the customary usage, but
confirmed the appointment immediately—
only eleven Senators voting against it.
J. G. B.
Washington, December 21, p. m.-In
the House of Representatives the Senate
Georgia Bill was called up at the regular
hour this morning and the debate upon it
commenced. As previously agreed upon
between the Democrats and Republieans,
the debate continued until three o’clock
this afternoon, when argument dosed and
action commenced. Mr. Bingham's mo
tion to postpone its farther consideration
until the 3d day of next January was put
and lost.
The various amendments proposed were
then put to a vote and defeated and the
original bill as it came from the Senate was
put upon its final passage. At half-past,
three o’clock the vote was taken and the
result proved as had been expected. The
bill was carried by an overwhelming ma
jority, the vote standing one hundred and
twenty-ono yeas to fifty-one nays.
[The substance of the above appeared
upon our bulletin board yesterday atter
noon in advance of the general Press dis
patches—Eds. C. & S.J J. G. B.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Washington, December 21, 11 p.m.-As
I telegraphed this afternoon, Bullock and
his faotion have succeeded in then- efforts
to have the State of Georgia remanded to
the condition of a military province, with
himself as Diotator. The Georgia bill
passed the House of Representatives just
as it came from the Senate without altera
tion or amendment. On to-morrow morn
ing at an early hour it will be taken to the
President for the purpose of obtaining his
signature to the document before the ad
journment of Congress for the holidays.
This approval it will certainly get, and
the bill will in a few hours become a law.
THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
The interest here in political circles with
regard to the measure has been very great
and was considerably increased as the
time for the final disposition of the matter
approached. Galleries crowded with inter
ested listeners had heard the debate on
the bill in the House yesterday evening
and last night, and they were again filled
when the discussion was resumed this
morning. It was known that the Demo
crats would still oontinue the contest to
day assisted by a leading Republican,
Bingham, and that some among the most
elegant men in the Democratic ranks
would take part in the debate.
NEW TORK OPENS THE BALL.
The debate was opened by Hon. Clark
son N. Potter, of New York, and a strong
Democrat. He made a most bold and
manly argument against the passage of
the bill. He declared that if it should re
ceive the final sanction of Congress it
would be but another one of the many
strides which that body had already taken
within the past few years toward cen
tralization and the creation of an absolute
government on the ruins of the one estab
lished by the patriots and statesmen of
the Revolution. He said that if the bill
was passed it would be another, and a
deadly blow aimed at the system of Re
publican government, and callpd upon
members to reflect upon the consequence
of their votes upon tfiis question.
THE “SYCAMORE OF THE WAISASII” FOL
LOW.
When Mr. Potter had finished he was
succeeded by another Democrat, Daniel
W. Yoorhees, of Indiana, who took the
floor in opposition to the bill. Mr. Voor
hees’ speeoh was one of the most eloquent
efforts that has been heard in the House
for many years. He fully reviewed and
exposed the encroachments made in the
provisions of the Georgia bill upon
all the law and liberty of the land. He
was very severe upon the recommendation
of the scheme contained in the President’s
Message to Congress, and piled up the
record on him in tho most spirited and
forcible manner.
To illustrate the President’s unjusti
fiable course in the matter .he read to the
House the telegrams sent from Atlanta to
Grant by General Meade when the Geor
gia Legislature assembled in July, 1868,
showing that Georgia tiad fully complied
with the letter of the Reconstruction laws.
“SUN-SEt” COX FIGHTS THE GOOD FIGHT.
“Sun-Set” Cox, of New York,also made
a telling and eloquent speech against the
passage of the Bill. Hon. Charles A;
Eldridge, of Wisconsin, and other loading
Democratic members followed upon the
same line.
BINGHAM DELIVERS AN ABLE SPEECH.
John H. Bingham, of Ohio, followed,
and, after moving to postpone further ac
tion of Congress until the third Monday
in January, delivered an able and eloquent
speech in opposition to the Bill, He de
clared the Bill in conflict with the order of
General Grant relative’ to Georgia, aod
with every Reconstruction Act of Con’
gress, and in conflict with the opinion of
Attorney-General Hoar in reference to
Virginia. He said that portion of the
President’s message in reference to Geor
gia simply meant that the Fourteenth
Amendment and not the test-oath should
be applied. Bingham forth)r denied
that the President ever called on Congress
to pass this law, and taunted the Radicals
with the fact Os the Fifteenth Amendment
being defeated in the Georgia Senate by
Bullock’s influence.
SPEECH OF JOHN F. FARNSWORTH.
.John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, followed
Bingham, and delivered an able speech
approving all that had been previously said
against this infamous bill.
BULLOCK HOLDING HIGH CARNIVAL.
Last night while the Georgia bill was
being debated, Bullock was holdihg high
carnival at the negro restaurant with But
ler and Others, spending the State funds
in a profuse manner.
THE FLORIDA CARPET-BAGGERS.
The delegation of Florida carpet-baggers
are still fiere asking for troops to protect
life aud property in that State. But Gen.
Sherman has put a quietus upon -this
scheme by saying that he has no troops to
spare. J. G. B.
An Attendant at the Asylum Kill'
ed by a Lunatic.—From the Milledge
ville Union we learn that, on Wednesday
last, Berry Hall (colored) the principal at
tendant in the department for the colored
insane, was killed by one of the negro pa
tients, named William Albert. Hall and
another attendant were eating their din
ner, when Albert entered the room, and
observing an axe near the door of a closet
where wood was kept, seized it and struck
Hall, cutting a frightful gash in his. head
aud neck, which produced death almost
immediately. The madman was seized by
the other attendants, whose cries soon
brought help, when he was disarmed and
locked in his room.
Wheat Head Reaper.—J. A. Varde
man, of Harris county, exhibited to us
yesterday the model of a machine designed
to reap the heads of Wheat, and leave the
stalks in the field. It is intended for one
or two horses. On a revolving axle, pro
pelled by the motion of the wheels of the
vehicle, is attached a number of long, in
ward curved teeth, at the Base of which is
a knife kept by the same power in horizon
tal movement. As the machine passes
through the fields the heads are combed
inward by the teeth and severed from the
stalks by the blade and delivered into a
box. It seems impossible for a grain to
escape ; for ifono should be scraped off by
the teeth it would fall into the box. The
economy consists in the fact that all
“shocking” is avoided, the wheat can be
taken direct to the barns, around which,
after threshing, no piles of stalks would
accumulate, and the stalks, which are use
less for anything else, are left in the fields
to be plowedrfn aod enrich the soil. Other
advantages can be readily imagined. The
number of laborers are greatTy lessened.
A caveat has been filed- Columbus Sun ,