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■ 1 " "" ' ' ' x oin) .SERIES, VOL. LXXVII. Chtouicle & Sentinel TEH <>» HLPTIOfV. On -n »atfl #1 M Tft-***n -,t'.« 350 hi» rros.U* 1i.!.'.! « W TLrte tz 00 » * * Kh lyT ' I*> « m*nth« . 1 50 i that */*./; * w ALCiI’STA, CiA : mil Util HOKM.NU, .UM ART 26. The Chronicle A Sentinel. The telegraphic reports which appear daily in the CHRONICLE & Sentinel of tho progress of reconstruction at the State Capital are ail, accurate and reliable. We ahail continue to make these specials a leading feature in the conduct of cur paper. To the Chronicle & Sentinel belong-) the credit of having inaugurated thi.-» system in the Htate, and, as we were the first, so shall we endeavor to continue in the had in this particular. We give now daily full details of every thing of interest occurring at Atlanta. Our means of infermstioi are such that our reporter receives and transmits to us in advance, even of the local papers, the cream of the Atlanta news. This entails upon us a heavy expanse, but wc look for remuneration in a largo increase iri our subscription list. If our friends ap preciate our eff .its to secure for them the earliest and most interesting news, we hope they will each show it by sending us a few new subscribers. If properly sus tained by the public, we proposs to add stiil further to the interest and attractions of our columns. Frierds send us in your lists ! T’lic Case of Mr. John .1 Collier,Senator from the lith District. Same of our Demon atic friends are dis posed to bo somewhat harsh in their com ments upon the course of Senator Collier, who, after taking the oath of office as Senator, petitioned Bullock for permission to withdraw it. That Mr. Collier made a grave mistake, all will admit. His appli cation fir permission to take back his oath is tantamount to an admission that the oath was false, Such an admin ion would be damaging to the ch aracter of any man. In*taking this step Mr. Collier has placed himself in a very serious dilemma. Ho either admits the falsity of his oath or proves that, while betook the oath truth fully and conscientiously, be has not the firmness and stability of character neces sary to withstand tho bribery of Bullock. The inducements offered to Mr. Coilier and other members to influence them to withdraw their oaths of office, were the promise on tho part of Bui ock that he would have their disabilities removed by Congress, and that the pains and penalties incurred by the false swearing, should be remitted and the crime condoned. That any Democrat should have been ensnared i with such bait is a matter of serious mortification to the party. The injury done by such a course is not confined alone to the character of tho member who takes it. It is a grave reflection upon his party, and is calculated to affect very seriously tho cases of other members against whom protests have been made. It has been flashed over the wires throughout the entire country that a large number of Democratic members had taken tho oath falsely. Then follows the state ment that one member has admitted his guilt, and the impression is fixed on the public mind that as ono so promptly ad mits false swearing, the whole number are likewise guilty. Alroady tho North ern press has seized this fact to show that Bullock’s telegrams to Washington were in tho main correct. The Cin-innati Ga zette says: "General Terry has begun the "work of investigation into tho character “of tho men who have taken the oath of "office. Thai such an investigation teas "needed is shown by the fact that no sooner "was it announced as to occur than one “nu mber withdrew the oath that he had "sworn. Probably others will find that it "would have been better for them to do “the same thing.” The faols in tire ease of Mr. Collier, as reported, are as follows: Before the war ho hold the office of Justice of the Inferior Court of Dooly county. This did not alone disqualify him. Having hold this office he was not disqualified, unless be | subsequently e: gaged in the war against the United States, or gave aid and comfort to those thus engaged. This Mr. Collier denied having done. A Union man boforo and during tho war, he asserted that he had done nothiug inconsistent with such a position. There could be no mistake about his ease. There was no room for difference of opinion as to the scopo of the law. Such a question is not involved in his case. It was one of fact alone, and he knew as well before lie took the oath as afterward whether he had engaged in the cause ot the South, or giveu it aid and comfort. Tho course of Mr. Collier is sincerely I regretted by all his friends. He is well thought of by the people if his District, ; and has always been considered an honest, conscientious man. Bullock has seriously j injured his character and impaired the confidence of bis friends. Let this case | staud as a solemn warning to those, if j there be such, who would purchase Bul lock's tavor by a forfeiture of their own honor and the esteem of the good peo ple of the State. No member should have taken the oath unless satisfied that he was right in so doing. None can withdraw their oaths without admitting that they have sworn falsely. A Foul Slander. Under the recent act of Congress all | uu’infers are required to take the test oath and those who cannot take it are excluded, j 01 course, all who voluntary participated ! in the rebellion are disabled, and cannot j consequently date this oath. There are ' mauy such among the chosen members. ! >< ith their exclusion it is known that the ! majority in both {louses would be friendly to the Fifteenth Amendment, and the statement we copy therefore implies that the representatives of the rebel element are widire. for the sake of embarrassing ree instruction, to forswear themselves H e have heard from other private sources that such is actually the tact. Nothing could more strikingly display the unscrupulous malignity and desperate wicked:;, -ifthi element which has al ready.caused so much trouble in Georgia. This indifference to perjury, if it be the tact, si w the moral depravity to which they have sunk in their advocacy of a bad cnusc. Tl . e is,no room here for casu istry. 1 here is no chance for mental re servation- 1 1 i s do- an oath fluturc al legiance, but i; p3-t loyalty, it is a direct oath that the party has uot voluntarily borne arms against <he Goverment of the United Stavs, And this is to be takeD, as we uudu-taid. by men who willingly foughtwi the nbtl side throughout the war, and who attained rank in the rebel service ! la no other way can the ratification of the tliteeoth Amendment be defeated in the Georgia Legislature. If only those members hold their places who are under no disability the amendment will have a clear majority in both houses. Nor ought it to be defeated in this way. When it is notorious that men are committing perjurv. their action camiot stand. It au oath wtd uot suffice, there must be some other remedy. We fiud the above.extract from a Wash ington telegram to the New York tttst copied without comment and rather ap provingly in the new organ of Bullock and Blodgett at Atlanta. There la room for the possibility of a belief that the writer of this precious falsehood, may have been honestly mistaken in regard to the charac ter of the oath required of members. The Atlanta organ knew that the statement was false, yet true to its masters’ interest and to its own instincts it gives publicity to the falsehood. The publication of such a version of the requirements of the Georgia horror in a cspectable Northern Journal, shows to ! what lengths party drill and party neces sity will drive Radical papers. The class of persons who read the Post take its statements as truthful. They see that according to the Post's version of the ; act, large cumbers of Southern Democrats, members of our Legislature, are willing to commit Perjury in order to defeat the I adoption of the 15th Amendment. These j I people will never learn that the Georgia j hill does not require the application of toe i | Test Oath— that members may honestly I and conscientiously take the oath required ; in the bill who may have steeped their j arms to their elbows in Union blood—that | no amount or character of service in the I Southern armies worked disqualification under the law unless coupled with the j previous holding of office under the State ! or United States Government. The truths are carefully concealed from the Northern public in order to excite the honest indignation which every good man must entertain against willful and cor. rupt perjury. If the Northern mind could read the oath required by the act —if the Krdical papers would publish that oath, such malicious and willful falsehoods as are contained in the Post’s telegrams could do no harm. T-c truth is suppressed by virtuous II tdical organs in order the more easily to procure credit for their base slanders of the Southern people. The evidence developed in the investi gation before the military commission on Saturday last in Atlanta, shows how foul ly honest mon have been maligned and traduced —shows wnat base and infamous means are used by Bullock and Blodgett to damage the character and impair the reputation of scrupulously honest and conscientous men. Senator Hinton show ed that he never held an office before the war—that Potash Farrow, the prosecutor for Blodgett and Bullock, had been con sulted by him before he took the oath, and that Potash told him. “that if he was a juryman he would sit ten years before Hinton could be convicted on the state of thefacts.” After saying this to Hinton,and | with all the evidenoe then before him. he subsequently, under the inspiration of the Perjurer Blodgett, makes the attempt to j show that Hinton was guilty of swearing I falsely The case of Senator Winn is another proof of the utterly unworthy motives which have prompted this investiga tion. Mr. Winn was Mayor of Marietta in the years 1854 and 1863. He was a Notary Public in 1844. ’4B and ’SO. Far row knew that previous to the act of 1856 Notaries Public were not clothed with the power to administer oaths and issue at tachments. Farrow know farther, and Blodgett and Bullock knew it, that he never gave anv aid or support to the Southern army. The charge in this par ticular was that he butchered for the Con federate army. The proof showed that in 1863 he purchased a negro and butcher pen, and permitted the negro to carry on the business on his own book. These are the two leading cases in the Senate. Those are tho cases of gentlemen whose conduct in taking the oath of office is characterized by the Post as “strikingly “displaying the unscrupulous malignity “and desperate wickedness of tho clement “which has already caused so much trouble “in Georgia.” These are the facts—these arc the oases which embolden the Post to declare that “this indifference to perjury, “if it boa fact, shows the moral depravity “to which they (tho pen le of Georgia) “have sunk in the advocacy of a bad cause.” We will publish to-morrow the full report of the proceedings in these two cases, and ask that the Northern papers, especially the Post, lay it before their readers and the oath which the act of Congress required to be taken. Terry vs. Bullock. We are inclined to believe from what we saw and hoard in Atlanta last week, that Gen. Terry is very fully informed as to the character of Bullock and his schemes of plunder and revengj. It is quite impos sible tbat Gon. Terry should have the least respect for his intelligence or regard for his moral worth. Terry is a man of too much intelligence himself not to have ascertained long since the true value of Bullock’s character. That he has discov ered his frauds, trickery and corruption, is made quite apparent from the tone of his lata dispatch to Gen. Grant, and published in another column of this paper. He tells Grant that Bullock is delaying and ob structing the organization of the Legisla ture for his own private purposes. That his object in making war upon members is to strike enough Democrats from the list to secure his own election to the Senate. The same correspondent who gives these disclosures as to the tone of Terry’s dis patches, significantly adds: “Bullock is nothing but a Provisional Governor, he is subject to removal by the commanding General.” Has Terry intimated in his dispatches to Washington that as Bullock is obstructing reconstruction, it may become necessary to remove him from office to accomplish tho reorganization of the Legislature. If this i Radical dispatch is to bo believed, this would appear to be a logical sequence. K. if. Flournoy. The R. W. Fionn mentioned in late telegrams from Mississippi as a prominent Radical candidate for the United States Senate from that State, is Robert Wai kins Flournoy, who formerly resided in Washington county in this State, and was long a prominent member of the Democratic party in that section. Watt (the name by which he was formerly known here) re. moved from the State about fifteen years a go under a cloud. His course since he reach ed his present home, has not been of such a character as to atone in the slightest de gree for his previous bad conduct. He has since the war occupied iu Mississippi very much the position wtiich Blodgett has maintained here. The Little Perjurer is the meanest and most disreputable of his party in Georgia, so Watt Flournoy is also regarded in Mississippi. The lamented and brilliant member of our Legislature from W ashiDgton county, who was murdered near Sandersville last Spring by a negro, was the son of the Mississippi renegade. Ho was, however, a very different man from his disreoutable ; ire. How the Georgia Situation Is Viewed at Washington. General Terry, Military Commander in Georgia, is in constant cipher correspon dence with General Sherman, making statements and asking for instructions in reference to matters daily coming before him for decision. Gen. Shcrsian stated to-day that the correspondence, in a great measure, was purely military, and that he did not desire its publication ; that Gen. Terry is the Military Governor ol Georgia, as implied by the Reconstruction acts, and that he (Gen. Terry) was ofa very sensitive nature, and perfectly pmoctilions and honest, atii that his object was to try and get in proper condition in the State. So far he (Gen- Sherman) would approve Gen. Terry - acts, and would give instruc tions, etc. But that in no case would he allow Gen. Terry to view any question in a partisan light, or render any decision, or give any order in which a partisan view would or could be taken. But he had not i ordered Gen. Ter.y to arrest any of the members ol the Legislature for alleged perjury. The courts are in existence, and if - any ol them have been guilty of such an i offeuce, they should be properly indicted i and tried, but T until so tried and found ! guilty, they should not be deprived of their seats in the Legislature. If it shall become necessary, court-martial trials will be held, in absence of civil courts. Up to 2 o’clock to-day Gtn. Sherman had re ceived no advices from Gen. Terry an nouncing the arrest of any of the members of the Legislature. No order has gene from the President instructing Gen. Ter ry to make the arrests. It is reported that Gen. Belknap is in favor of arresting these alleged perjureis j and that the Presides is inclined that way. , i The above we find in the telepraphic cor respondence of the B.himore American of | the 15th inst. from Washington city. The I American is an intensely Radical paper j and it is not likely that its correspondent would take a more favorable view of the Georgia situation than that entertained by i j leading men of ilsowd party at the Federal | j Capital. The view3 he expresses in rela- 1 | lion to the extent and scope of General ! Terry’s instructions are similar to those : I contained in our dispatches from Atlanta on Friday and Saturday last. The Court of Inquiry, dow in session, I was, we have reason to believe, very ro- j luctantly conceded, to give Bullock an ep- I portunity of proving the assertions which he made, that a large number of the mem bers were wilfully taking the oath falsely, j Neither Generals Grant or Sherman put j aDy faith in Bullock’s declarations on this , point and General Teriy likewiso serionsly doubted the whole story. It is vety prob- I able that the order for the inquiry was j granted to satisfy the extreme Radicals in j Congress that Bullock’s statements were ; false and that he was using his official posi- j tion to defeat reconstruction in order that j his power hero might be prolonged and his revolutionary acts supported by military , force. It is stated, on good authority, that Bullock and Blodgett are well understood by Grant and Sherman, and that both of j these high officials feel a supreme disgust j and contempt for this brace of robbers. The eases of five members of the Senate have been fully investigated out of the seven against whom protests were made. One has withdrawn his oath, thereby ad mitring hehad sworn falsely, and the protest was voluntarily withdrawn in the case of another (Candler), because there was not the slightest ground for suspicion in his case. The investigation of the eases of Messrs. Hinton, Winn, Anderson, Hol combe and Welborn shows that theso gen tlemen are all fully and unmistakably eli gible, even under the most latitudina rian construction of the late act. Thus, out of seven members charged by Bullock with perjury, only one has been shown to be guilty, and he through fraudulent ma nipulations was induced to admit the charge, when in truth it was utterly false. The results of this investigation, so far as the members of tho Senate are con corned, must go very far to show the Rad icals in Washington that Bullock’s state ments in relation to Georgia affairs are not to b; relied 00. It must also prove that however desirable and necessary it may be deemed by the people of Georgia to have a majority in the Senate opposed to Blodgett’s and Bullock’s thieving schemes, that, to secure such a majority, not a i-ingle member has been influenced to take the oath when there was the slightest doubt of his right to do so. The application of Bullock, heretofore reported in the Chronicle & Sentinel, to have members arres ed upon the pre sentation of his printed protests against them, is fully confirmed in tho above tele gram. and was peremptorily refused by General Sherman when referred to him by General Terry. Some persons thought we were mistaken when we stated that such was Bullock’s intention. They supposed that even ho, bad as he was known to be, would not attempt so extreme a measure. We knew him better. We knew further that he was tho mere tool of other and baser men than himself. The power be hind the throce is greater than the throne itself. This power is not wielded by Blodgett alone. There are other parties who are quite as powerful as the Little Perjurer. Some of these waik our streets at midday, holding their heads high in the air, and pretending to be bitterly opposed to Bullock, worm out of too confiding Demoerats ail that is said and done to check Bullock’s power, and then report what is said to their friend, the Governor. Some of these live in Augusta. We know them. The Intelligencer Don’t Like Us. The Intelligencer Ins always been and is still a consistent Democratic journal, and on that account the Chronicle & Senti nel has persistently opposed and misrep resented the Intelligencer. The truth is the Intelligencer has no use for the Chronicle & Sentinel, and the Chronicle & Sentinel has no use for the Intelligencer. We trust, however, that the CHRONICLE & Sentinel may have a pleasant time with the recent affiliations with J. E Bryant and other ultra Radicals. — Atlanta Intelligencer. We are much grieved to find that the I Intelligencer has no use for the Chronicle j (ft Sentinel. A few other persons in the j State profess to have no use for our paper i —Bullock, Blodgett, Swayze, don’t like j the Chronicle & Sentinel, and hence their organ turns up its honest nose at our modest columns. We have often noticed that the' crop-eared-stump-tail ,! yal!ar dog” which follows the master’s cart al ways "snaps” at those indicated by the master’s manner as offensive to him. The robbers indicate tbeir dislike to the Chronicle & Sentinel and straightway the Intelligencer snarls at our heels. Our Atlanta cotemporary, however, is quite mistaken in declaring that the Chronicle k Sentinel has no use tor the Intelligencer. It is uselul to us and our readers in many ways. We cannot spare ' it from our sanctum. Its daily appearance clad in the uniform of Democracy, while its columns teem with articles defending and excusing the gang of Radical robbers at Atlanta, shows the power of stolen j money and points a moral ot great value | to the public. It is useful because we can, by looking I through its columns, pretty closely ap i proximate the amount of money in the | State Road Treasury. ! It. is useful because it gives information wholly new and startling in relation to the I management of the State Road as is ! evidenced by the following extract taken ] from the same issue as that which heads j this article. It says “We do not hesitate to say that the ad ministration of the Western & Atlantic Railway, under Governor Bullock and his efficient and faithful ojfficcrs , will compare f&voratdy wim any preceding administra tions of the road. ’ The italics are our own. It is useful to show how far from its friends and its past record a journal must j go, when it openly espouses the cause of thieves and robbers and boldly attempts to palliate, excuse and justify their conduct. |We have use for the Intelligencer. We trust it will not fail, now that it is in the heyday of its prosperity—now that State I Ro»d greenbacks are plenty—new that it has found able and compatible friends—to make its appearance daily at our plain Democratic board. We thank the Intelligencer for its good wishes that "we may have a pleasant time with our recent affiliations with J. E. Bryant and other ultra Rad'cais.” We appreciate this good wish, for has not the Intelligencer found out how pleasant it is to be intimate with ultra Radicals, how sweet to associate with Radical thieves and perjurers. It the Intelligencer enjoys so much its associations with its dear friends. Bullock and Blodgett, it is qnite natural that it should wish its old friends some of 1 its own good luck. AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, IS7O But that last wish was intended for j “sawkasm.” W e accept it as «uch, and r;ply that if our “association” with j Bryant and other ultra Radicals, as j charged, shall result in preventing the peo ple’s money from finding its way into the ! pockets of those who have no right to it we shall certainly feel that the association ' is not only pleasant but useful. What does the Intelligencer think of that ? Let the Supreme Court Decide. The suggestion made to General Terry by the Democratic and Conservative mem bers of the Legislature to submit the ques , tion of eligibility, raised by Bullock’s I protests against certain members, to the decision of the Supreme Court, must I satisfy the General and all other fairmind ed men that members have not taken the oatlm of office without a full conviction that they were right in so doing. If any other tribunal than that designated by the Constitution is to pass upon the questions raised by Bullock’s protests, certainly none more appropriate than the Supreme Judicatory of the State could be chosen. The members of the Court were all selected by Bullock, they are all pro nounced Republicans, and, on the question of negro eligibility to hold office, have de cided in accordance with Radical ideas on that subject. So far, then, as the Radicals i are concerned there ought to be no objection to a reference of these questions to that tribunal. The Democrats, and partieula ly the members whose rights to seats are contest ed, prefer that the matter should be de cided by the Court, rather than any other commission which could be organized by General Terry. The members of the Court are famiiar with our political system and our State and local organization. They are able and learned m the law, have much experience in the investigation and decision of abstruse legal propositions, and, withal, are strictly “loyal men.” If General Terry desires a fair, just and honest exposition of the scope and extent of the ineligibility clausein the “Georgia Horror,” and the class of offices under our Constitution embraced within its inhibi tions, let him accept the proposition «made to him by members of both parties in both Houses of the Legislature, and submit the whole matter to the Supreme Court. We are glad the suggestion has been made directly to General Terry, as it will test his disposition to do full justice to all parties in the State. The Proposed Fair. We trust that there will be a full at tendance at the meeting to-night, called for the purpose of making arrangements for the holding of an Agricultural Fair in this city next Fall. The merchants and business men, the mechanics and artizans, the manufacturer and the banker, the shop-keepers aud the merchants, the grocery dealers and the dry goods mer chants, the laborer and the professional map, all arc interested in this movement. Augusta, from her geographical situa tion and her extensive railroad connections, offers facilities for a successful Fair pos sessed by no other city in the State. Be sides, our hotel accommodations and our private bearding houses are ample and ex tensive. We can afford comfortable quar ters for a very lar-ge crowd. Our location near-the line of the most prosperous por tion of South Carolina, and our intimate business connection with the popular dis tricts lying along the Savannah river, will enable u» to draw largely, both ii ex hibition and visitors from that State. If the matter i3 properly taken in hand we are satisfied that it will be quite a success. Two plans we learn will be sibmitted to the meeting to night. One that the Rich mond County Agricultural Club take the matter in hand, the other that a stock company be organized for the purpose of accomplishing the object in view. We rather thiok the latter plan most likely to succeed. If fifty gentlemen will take stock to the extent of one hundred dollars each, it will, in our opinion, ensure a good Fair. A large part of this would be returned from the profits of the exhibition, 'and if the company should make the fair a permanent thing, the dividends would, in a few years, with good management equal the amount of original subscriptions. This plan has been adopted of late years in several of the Northern and Western States, and with very decided success. We learn that the people of Rome tried it last Fall, aud the receipts from the Fair ena bled them to pay a very handsome divi dend on the capital subscribed. If the joint stock plan is decided upon we would suggest the propriety of having the com pany incorporated uader the laws of the State. We shall net attempt to argue upon the benefits which would accrue to all interests n the city from the holding of a large fair here every Fall. These will occur to every reflecting mind. We hope that our peo ple feel sufficient interest in the matter to attend the meeting to night at the City Hall. Fertilizers. The communication of Professor Willet on this subject, published in another column, will attract very general attention. His remarks are well timed and will, we think, be oi great value to our planting friends. The high character of the Profes sor and his acknowledged fitness for form ing and expressing correct vievts on a sub : ject of so much importance to Southern planters induces us to believe that the pa i pers which he has kindly prepared for the 1 Chronicle & Sentinel will be read with i more than ordinary interest. ■ At the beginning of the last season we took occasion to warn our readers of the risks incurred by the purchase of new ferti lizers prepared and sold by unknown per sons. The results of Professor Willct’s analysis, which shows that as high as forty-four per cent, of sand was found in some of the samples submitted to him, proves that our warning was not entirely I without foundation. W e shall have occasion to refer to this i subject again. In the meantime we urge j our planting friends to study well the truths which will be found developed in i this and the succeeding articles of the Professor upon the same subject. Let There be So More Vassal States. "In the noble language of Mr. Bingham, we want no more vassal States. The Re ; publican party will be most true to its solid foundations of equal rights to all, if it will hut remember that a dominant party has duties as well as privileges.” The above language is used by Forney in his comments upon the passage of the Virginia bill in the House of Representa tives. If Mr. Bingham and Forney are | really sincere in the declaration that they "want no more vassal States,” let them go to work at once and relieve Georgia from the grasp of the military tyranny re cently setup in this State by the Radical j Congress. If the necessities of their party require the ratification of the 15th Amendment by ! Georgia, let them lift the heavy hand of ! Gen. Terry, which now tbrott : es the Leg- I islature and prevents its organization. Loading members of their party in this State have assured them that if the Leg islature is permitted to organize under the provisions of the late act to promote re construction in Georgia, that the State will immediately ratify the much coveted 1 amendment. The action of Bullock, backed as he is by Terry, can have no other effect ! if persevered id, than to continue Georgia |as a vassal State. If the policy of the Re- publican party, as well as the true inter ests of the whole country require that the system of vassalage, jnposedby Congresson the Southern States should cease, why do not these leading njm of the party inter pose in the case of Georgia? Do they not know that the late ait has been shameful ly violated by Bullcgk in taking the con trol ot the organization of the Legislature from that body, aifl placing the whole management in the tend- ot irresponsible and illegal tools o' hia own selection? Do they not know tint the organization of the House of Representatives has been delayed tea days by the fraudulent and improper manipulations of Bullock back ed as he has been by he military ? Georgia is held it vassalage to-day, solely because the people of the State will not sustain Blodgett and Bullock in their personal aspirations, ani refuse to sub mit in silence to their open profligacy in the conduct of our finandal affairs. The people make no war upon the inevitable. They have vigorously and honestly op posed the reconstruction neasures of Con gress while these were open questions. They have patiently submitted when de feated in their attempts to 1 save the State from passing into the bawls of the band of thieves who, under the operation of the reconstruction law, have Icon foisted into power. They have ready and prompt obedience to the laws of the State and of the United States, but they refuse to bow down and worship the Radical leaders who harry and perstcute them- for opinion’s sake. They oppose Bullock’s and Blodgett’s schemes to plunder the people and bring the State into hopeless bank ruptcy. They are tired of ejhausting un rest and uncertainty, which la3 hung as a black pall over their social md material interests for the last four years, and earnestly yearn for a definite settlement of political affairs and the peace and quiet and contentment which wouid flow from the restoration of our State to her old relations toward the Federal Government, and the establishment of a fixol, legal and permanent Government. The opposition to Blodgett tnd Bullock is not that of political hostility abne. These men are personally unworthy of the posi tion which, by force of the . reconstruction laws, they have attained. They ar« known to be weak, dishonest and corrupt. Destitute alike of virtue or intelligence—low and contemptible in social position—bitter and malignant in their prejudices—they are no less a disgrace to the State than to the Re publican party. It is very true that a large majority of the people of the State are opposed politi cally to the Republiom party. This op position is natural and, we think, in every way proper and justifiable. Taat this opa position in our State partakes of contempt and disgust is not the fault of tbe Demo cratic party. TLe men who control the Radical party in tbe State are responsible for this condition of affairs. While the Democrats oppose such men as Akerman and Hill and Andrews and Fannin and Saffold, they oppose them merely as politi cians—as in the past Federalists opposed Republicans and Democrats opposed Whigs. With the vile crew who, under the skilful manipulations of Blodgett, now control the affairs of State, the case is very different. The opposition is not merely political—it is also social and personal. It is the opposition which virtue and intelli gence always wages against vice and ignor ance- It is an opposition which neither Congressionalenactinents or military edicts can suppress. It is of higher origin than human regulations and will survive all the decrees of human law-makers. If Radical members of Congress, who are disposed to treat this Georgia question with any de gree of fairness—and, we believe, that a few are willing to do so—will take the trouble to inquire into the causes of tbe irreconcilable hostility which Democrats feel towards the Bullock-Blodgott ring, they will find that we have given the true reasons. Bullock knows why he is opposed He feels the necessity for an organization of tho Legislature which will give him the control of both Houses. He knows that his conduct since occupying the Guberna torial chair will not bear investigation. He is determined to prevent an investiga tion at all hazards. His efforts to control the organization are persisted in not be cause te desires to benefit the party, but to promote his own personal interests. Loading Republicans in the State—the men who gave tho party what little of character it has ever had—know that the opposition on the part of members of the Legislature, both Democratic and Repub lican, towards Bullock and his ring, is prompted by the best of motives. They are satisfied, from a careful canvass of the members, that if the General Assem bly had been permitted to organize on the 15th, it would have ratified tho fifteenth amendment. From our own intercourse with membra during the last week, we concur in this opinion. Yet Bullock, with out just cause, and contrary to the letter and spirit of the late act, obstructs the or ganization of that body. Surely, if Forney is right in his decla ration that the Republican party have dutiest I perform towards the oountry, here is the place for them to begin the good work. A Reign of Terror. The accounts which reach us from a portion of Major Kline’s dominions, and which appear in our local columns this morning, show a fearful state of anarchy and despotism in Warren and Taliaferro counties. Doubtless, these reports are somewhat exaggerated, yet enoug his true to show us what a perilous condition I our people are in, who may for any ! cause fall under the censure of the de despicable creature known as Chap Norris. The effects of this man’s conduct are not alone confined to his immediate vic tims, many of them, aware of his fiendish purpose, will leave the county rather than subject tliems Ives to an arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment. The damage to society and to the material interests cf the county by these arbitrary proceedings, will be fearful and extensive. Heads of families will be driven from their homes, ! women and children abandoned, prepara tions for a crop neglected, labor disorgan ized, and the very foundations of society uprooted and overthrown. This is an appalling prospect, yit our people must make up their minds to submit patiently until a remedy—peaceful and legal—can be applied. Any attempt to meet force with force — to resist the military authority—will only increase the difficulties and add to the embarrassments of the situation. I The order of Gen. Terry declaring the j counties of Warren, Wilkes, Columbia, Taliaferro, Glasscock and Hancock under military law, was issued upon representa tions made to him by parties from those j counties detailing a list ol outrages which ought to shock the humanity even of a i Camanehe Indian. That these reports were false or else greatly exaggerated, we j have good to believe. That they have produced a decided effect upon Gen. : Terry’s mind is shown from the order he has issued and the steps he has taken to j redress them. We do not hesitate to declare that Gen. Terry has made a capital mistake—com mitted an egregious blunder—in selecting Chap Norris as an instrument to vindicate the lows. The very presenee of this man, hateFul and despised as he knows himself to be by all the g iod men of the county, but adds to the difficulties of the situation, while it enables him basely to take advan tage of his position to wreak his vengeance on those whom he knows hold him in the most sovereign contempt. We suggest to the people ot the counties embraced in the military district just cre ated by General Terry, that they cal! public meetings and select committees, composed of their best and most conserva tive citizens, to proceed to Atlanta and communicate with General Terry. Let them also to exert their whole power and influence for the vindication ot the laws, and the prompt punishment by law of all lawlessness and violence in their respective counties. If outrages have been com mitted, let them aid General Terry ana co operate with him in securing the arrest and punishment, by the proper civil tri bunals, of the guilty parties. If this is done promptly and in good faith, we believe that the present condition of affairs can be greatly ameliorated, if not entirely relieved. From our knowledge of General Terry, we believe he is disposed to act justly. In a long interview we had with him last week he impressed us quite favorably. Let him be appealed to by the good men of the District, and a fair and fall statement of their grievances laid be fore him. It can do no harm —it may ac complish much good. Hon. B. H. Hill—The fifteen column speech by a carpet-bag congressman could not combine more practical wisdom and good sense than the Hon. B. H. Hill ut ters to the people of Georgia in four words: “Do nothing; say nothingt” He of course means non-resistance, in its most literal sense, to the usurpation of Con gress. They cannot “do” anything to avert the blow ; they cannot “say” any thing which the Government will listen to ; bat the time will sooner or later come when what has been done and said upon the other side will receive its ample retri bution.—St. Louis Times. A Painful Rumor.— The Nashville Union &.American learns, from a gentle man who came from Chattanooga Satur day, that Mrs. Augusta J. Evans Wilson, of Mobile, author of “St. Elmo” and “Vashti,” was on the train which was thrown from the track near Cleveland, Teen., Friday, and was seriously and per haps fatally injured. The name of Mrs. Wilson does not appear upon the list of the wounded given by the Chattanooga Times , and we (rust that the Union & American’s information is not true. LETTER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. South Carolina Drama Eclipsed by Georgia — Gharleston to be Reconstructed Again—Negroes at the Opera—A Mod ern Mackey-avelli—Scott for Governor Again—Pardoning Convicts into Voters Scotch Labor—German Immigration —Negroes no longer Invited to Parties. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Columbia, Jan. 12, 1870. Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel : The lifting of tho curtain upon the At lanta stage—where the play is Georgia— is so full of tragic power that all eyes are turned in that direction- For a farce, these opening scenes are sensational be yond precedent. Tho fingers of the comic muse are at the outset soiled with gun powder ; and if this gay and festive spirit be kept up, then our play of South Caro lina here in Columbia will be utterly eclipsed. Here, with all ado, our actors never rise above the dignity of first-clasN robbery, or bribery, or peculation, or some of the more vulgar grades of farce; whereas in Atlanta, at the outlet, there is the gleam of half-drawn daggers, the muzzles of full-cartridged pistols, and an odor of morphine pervading the stage. Here an actor hardly ever goes beyond the courteous retort of “Youlie !” butthere— bravo ! —there is something princely— something like Pierre Bonaparte and Mods. Noir—in these opening tragics. Our Othellos must look to their laurels. But in their humble way our Ctesars (also our Pompeys), are doing well. Tak ing the cue from the bill to enlarge the oorporate limits of Columbia, and to hold anew election of municipal officers, they are now pushing through a similar bill for Charleston. The bill provides for an ex tension of the limits ot that city and an election of anew set of city officers. The present officers arc Radical enough in all conscience, but not sufficiently so for the maw of this monster Legislature. The bill will probably pass. Mayor Pillsbury, of Charleston, and his Council, in getting their places, had to make such enormous promises to the unwashed that now, since only a tenth of the promises could possibly he kept, they must lose their heads for another set. There is another bone of contention in The City by the Sea. It has an opera house leased and run this season by a Mr. Ford, of Baltimore. But Mr. Ford, not having the fear of the civil rights bill be fore his eyes, refuses to allow negroes to take boxes among the whites. This raises a delicate question. The Radicals arc in a quandary. Magistrate and ex-Alderman T. J. Mackey comes to the rescue. Two negroes apply for seats. Manager Ford refuses. Magistrate Mackey, the redoubt able leader of the unwashed, the never washed, and the unwashable, issues warrants of arrest ; and Manager Ford is arrested and held to ap pear at the May term of tbe Court of Ses sions. How does it work ? Manager Ford will have finished bis session be fore May. Cuffee can’t get an opera box until after the trial. Then it will be too late for this year. But why does Magis trate Mackey take a course that manifest ly defeats his apparent end ? Because he wishes his party appear to be the champ ion of the negro party, and does not wish to break up the opera, and he kills both birds with one stone. Magistrate Mackey is not doing this as a private uudividual, but as a Radical. Personally he is proba bly well aware that it is tetter to not mix things, but the negro must be conciliated and kept to his party. This is one of the' cleverest strokes of policy that the Radical party has ever made. lam not informed where the idea originated. If it originated with Magistrate Mackey, then that gen tleman is entitled to>ank as the prince of diplomats—the Maehi-avelli— of his party. OUR NEXT GOVERNOR. Governor Seott is to be our next Gov ernor, that is to say, he is to run for it ; and with his advantages he will probably get it. Besides his immense favor with his party in general, he has means in his office of gaining votes. Executive favors may fly in a hundred directions and every hit is a vote for him when the day of election comes, as it will in the Fall of the present year. Let us look at one single vote-making power of hi t —the par i doning power, in the State Penitentiary there are about three hundred convicts. Within the ten months preceding Gov ernor Scott’s last November message there have come out of that institution fifty one by expirations of their terms of sentence, whereas one hundred and thiry sixhad been pardoned by the Governor. This is at the rate of one hundred and i sixty-three pardons a year; and every , convict sj pardoned has an influence | extending throughout his family and friends, making several hundreds, if not ! thousands, in the two years of his official j term. Let us look at these figures a little more j closely. The rate of discharges from the Penitentiary has been two hundred and fifty-three a year ; and of these one hun . dred and sixty-three came out by pardon, : sixty-one by expiration of sentence, and | the rest by escape, disease, and all other I causes. That is to say, the rate of dis i charge by pardon is 64.42 per cent; by i expiration of sentence, 24 11 per cant; | and by all other causes, 11.46 percent. ! Is there a parallel to this discipline in all the annals of crime V SCOTCH LABOR. Some Scots have been brought to this i county; and as laborers they .are found, j upon trial, to do just three times as much as the negroes will do. Cuffee must see to this or he wiil be elbowed out of work i after awhile ; and all of them cannot be i legislators and office-holders. ULILIAN IMMIGRATION. • These industrious and worthy people are coming into South Carolina, through : the Newberry Immigration Society, now l at several points. Most of them come to Newberry and Lexington ; but others seek j other counties. Twenty settled the other day in Laurens ; some in Fairfield : and a lew in other parts of the State. No Chi nese yet. THE COLD SHOULDER. Oar Radical officials and dignitaries , generally, in Columbia, do not invite ne groes to tbeir parties any longer. And 1 Coffee is beginning to see it. Junius. BY TELEGRAPH. j FROM ATLANTA. Atlanta, January 17, P- M. To-day a week ago the Legislature met i and its two branches are not yet even or ganized, nor is there much prospeot that obey will be yet for some time, and it is even said that the members of the Senate will have to be sworn over again. SUNDAY AT THE CAPITAL. Yesterday being Sunday there was, of course, no session held Vy the Military Board g>f Inquisition or Court-Martial, and nothing done, officially, in the Opera House. But though nothing official trans pired here it was far from being a quiet Sabbath. The numerous members of the Lobby, who are here representing Bullock, Blodgett & Cos., were hard at work on the Democratic or Conservative Republican members of the Legislature trying to bribe or blarney them to their opposition to the little schemes of the Bulioekitcs. The usual caucussing was going on and frequent attacks made upon those mem bers of the House against whom Bullock has preferred charges of ineligibility and whoso cases have been referred by Terry to his Court-Martial. Every inducement was*offered and argument used to get these men to withdraw the oaths which they had taken and filed, and thus acknowledge that they had committed perjury. So far, how ever, there seems to be no indications of their suocess, and, from present prospects, the members accused will remain firm. MEETING OF THE ELIGIBILITY COMMISSION. The Military Eligibility Commission, or Court Martial, assembled this morning at ten o’clock in the Kimball Bullock Opera House for the purpose of continuing their investigation into the eligibility of the Senators whom Bullock has accused of having committed perjury. Present: Brevet Major General T. H Ruger, Major General T. ri. Haines and Major Henry Goodfellow, Judge Advocate. The Public Prosecutor and Attorney General, Pot- Ash Farrow, was at his post prosecutiD S the Senators in tho name of the State, and Hon. George N. Lester and Judges Collier and Clarke, for the defense, were present. Charges were originally pre ferred against seven Senators—Collier. Winu, Hinton, Holcombe, Candler, We! born aul Anderson. The charges agaiost the first having been withdrawn by Bul lock after he had succeeded in frightening that worthy out of his seat in the Senate, and the cases of Senators Winn and Hin ton having been investigated by the Court Martial on Saturday, there were only left four more to try. Us these two were finished during the day. The first case called was that of 0. J. Wellborn, of Union county, Senator from the fortieth district. When arraigned a written charge and specification was made against him. The specification was that prior to the late war Senator Wellborn had held the office of State Librarian, and that during the war he had given aid and assistance to the rebellion. To prove the charge inado, tho Attorney General exhibited to the Commission a certificate of Mr. Wellborn’s appointmcnf to the office of Librarian by the then Gov ernor, Joseph E. Brown, and that he had continued to hold the office from the year 1857 to 1801. JOE BROWN ON THE WITNESS STAND. Ttie Chief Justice, Joseph E. Brown, was present at this session of the Board, having been summoned as a witness, and was put upon the stand. He was asked if Senator Wellborn did not hold an office prior to the war? To this question tho Chief Justice re plied that, in his judgment, Senator Well born, while State Librarian, did not hold an office while filling tbat place, as he con sidered it to be nothing more than an ap pointment or position similar in character to that of Sergeant.at-Arms of the Senate or House ot Representatives, messenger for either, or keepers appointed to take charge of buildings or grounds that be longed to the State. At the time Senator Wellborn held the place he did not con sider it au office. lie thought that even now it could only be considered au office by taking the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Georgia and the Reconstruction acts and 1 aws altogether. The Board ruled, that it would decide what constituted an office. The Chief Justice being further ex amined, stated that the place of Librarian was held under the direction and control and entirely at the will and pleasure of the Executive. WHAT THE STATE TROOPS DID. The counsel for the defence showed to the Board that the Code of Georgia, a section of which defines the duties to be performed by the State Librarian, was not adopted by the Legislature of Georgia until the year 1863, which was some years after Senator Wellborn had retired from that position. Col. Wm. Wright was then put upon the stand and sworn. He testified that during the war he commanded a regiment of what were known as State troops, and that Senator Wellborn was assigned to his command in the capacity of regimental Quartermaster. The witness in the course of his examination relieved the tedioasness of the pioceedings by a little joke at the ex pense of the State forces, which caused a good deal of laughter. When asked what wa« done by these troops during the rebel lion, he replied that his command had been stationed on the coast .at' Savannah, under Gen. W. H. T. Walker, and while there the principal duties of his regiment were to turn out on drill and parade and eat the provisions which ought to have been sent to the Confederate soldiers in the field. At the conclus : on of the testimony, the Attorney General made a short speech, in which he beemed to be very indignant with Joe Brown. Inclusions to the lat ter’s testimony, he said that Governor Brown had no right to offer his legal ad vioe to the Board. He thought that the Board was perfectly well qualified to con strue law for itself. The Boa-d then adjourned until the afternoon. RING-MASTER HARRIS CRACKS HIS WHIP OVER THE HOUSE. At twelve o'clock to-day the llouso of Representatives met pursuant to the ad journment ordered by Bollock on last Wednesday. Fatty Harris still occupied the i Chair, and acted as ring master over the i menagerie for Bullock, j The exercises were opened with prayer, and then Harris ordered to he read an or j der signed by Bufus B. Builock, Provis ional Governor, which directed that time should be given for the swearing in of those members who wars present now, but who had been absent from Providential causes on the first days of the se sion, and that after this was done the House should be adjourned until next Wednesday, she 19th instant, at twelve o’clock. After the edict of His Expresslency had been delivered to the House, one of his ! henchmen, Parson .Sheibley, intoned the ' oath, and several additional members were | sworn in and took their seats. Hon. Dun'ap Scott, of Floyd, asked ! Hams if members who had been elected l to fill vacancies under election proclama ! tion issued by Bullock, but not named in General Meade's election order, would be l allowed to have the oath administered ? The ring-master did cot feel competent i to decide the question until he eould re ! oeive instructions from the proprietor of I the exhibition, and announced that he i would reserve his decision on the subject. SERIES, YOL. XXYIII. NO. 4. FIFTY DOLLARS PER CAPUr Another order was ' h n read from the “provisional” Governs, which seemed to be equally well received bv both parties. It was an order upon N. L Angier, the State Treasurer, directing to pay to each member of the House who had been sworn in, the sum of fifty dollars. THE SENATE. The Senate met to-day at 12 o’clock, the President, Benjamin Conley, in the Chair. The Journal was then read, but beyond his nothing was done, except to hear an order from Bullock read, similar to the one to the House, announcing that the Treasurer had been instructed to pay each member fifty dollars, and the Senate ad journed until next Wednesday at 12 o’clock. AFTERNOON SESSION OF THE INQUISITION. The afternoon session of the inquisition was held this evening at 3 o'clock. The testimony agiinst Wellborn having closed, the next case np was tbat against Senator A. W. Holcombe, from the 39th District. The specification was that the accused had held the office of Captain of a militia company in South Carolina prior to the war, and during the war had givea aid and comfort to the rebellion. One of the witnesses for the prosecution testified that he was in tho militia com pany commanded by Senator Holcombe, and that the company was militia cavalry. Senator Holcotnbe commanded this com pany in the year 1837, and he did not know whether he had ever received a commis sion. He said that the Ssnator once ad mitted to Mr. Westmoreland that he had received a commission, and afterward ren dered assistance to the rebellion. THE CHARGE AGAINST SENATOR ANDERSON The case against Senator Holcombe rested here, and the next charge taken up was the one against Senator W. J. Ander son, from the twenty-third district. The specification was that in eighteen hun dred and fifty-eight Senator Anderson held the position of Notary Public and afterwards gave aid and oomfort to the rebellion. The true history of the matter as sworn lo on the stand to- day was as follows : In tho year above mentioned, Senator Anderson was cashier ot the branch Bank of the State of Georgia, which was lo cated at Fort Valley. There being no Notary Public convenient who could protest or do any bank business of that kind, the Senator made application for the appointment of Notary Public himself. He heard nothing directly from his appli cation, but some time afterwards was in formed by a Justice of the Inferior Court of that county, that he (Senator Ander son) hadbeeu appointed a Notary Publio. He received no offioial notification of his appointment, had sent to him no com mission, and never took any oath. Senator Anderson admitted that, though he never took any oath, he had acted as a Notary Public and protested notes, etc. He also admitted that when the war broke out he took sides with the Confederate arid against the United States government. Thexase of Collier having been with drawn, the investigation of Sonator An derson’s eligibility closed up the business of the Board, so far as the Senate is con cerned. On Wednesday morning the argument by the counsel for the defenoe and the prosecution will be submitted in writing. SENATOR EDMONDS DENOUNCES BULLOCK'S ACTS AS UNWARRANTED ‘ Captain Dunlap Scott read a telegram here to-day from an extreme Radical United States Senator, whieh shows that some of that party in Washington are be ginning to get disgusted with the usurpa- tion of power practised by Bullock. The telegram was from Senator Ed monds, of Vermont, the leader of the movement to rereconstruot Georgia, hav ing, as far back as last Wwter, introduced a Bill in the Senate to that effect. Id his telegram Senator Edmunds stated that Governor Bullock’s recent acts were not warranted by law as contained in the Geor gia Bill. He aho said that he had called on President Grant and the Secretary of War and requested them not to allow the military to mtertere with the matter. He said that the members of the Legislature alono had the sole power to organize and nothing would be recognized unless it were done honestly and fairly BULLOCK’S OVERSEER TO BE ARRESTED. It :s reported and believed here to-night that a movement will be made to check mate Bullock’s little game by having a warrant issued for the arrest of his over seer of the House of Representatives, Harris. The warrant will be procured because of his refusal to allow Mr. Hall, of Glynn, a moderate Republican, to take the oath and his seat in the House, because he was detained at home by sickness and unable to be present on the day his oou ity was called, though he allowed Madden, a rank Bullockite, to take the oath after his name had been passed. The warrant will be issued under the fifth section of the act to promote reconstruction of Georgia, which prescribes punishment for any person who shall by force or fiaud wilfully hinder or interrupt from taking the oath and his seat, any member declared elected by Gen. Meade. MORE SWEARING NECESSARY. It is rumored that the swearing in of the members of the House of Representa tives is to be done over again, as it is claimed that the first swearing process was illegal, the oath having been administered by a Register in Bankruptcy. Anew order on this subject is daily expected. Atlanta, January 18th, P. M. To-day has been the dullest day spent in the Capital since the Legislature met, or attempted to meet, on last Monday. Neither branch of the Legislature has been in session to-day, and the Board of Inqui sition appointed by General Terry, has al so suspended operations in its eligibility in vestigations until to-morrow. THE REPRESENTATIVES TO .UK ITU ED. On to-morrow the argument of Messrs. Lester, Clarke aud Collier, counsel for the defense, wifi he submitted to the Board in the eases of the five Senators whose eligi bility had been investigated during the past few days. The charges against the Senators having been investigated, the cases of the mem bers of the House of Representatives ac oused of being ineligible to seats in the House, will next hi brought heiqic the military inquisitors. Bullock asserted in Washington city last December, when he was trying to get the Stgtq re-reconstructed, to the Radical Congressmen that there were forty-five members of the Legislature ineligible to seats in that body uoder the previsions of the Fourteenth Amendment, yet, even af j ter the passage of the new bill, and under Attorney General Potash Farrow s noto j riqqaly false interpretation of is provis ; i in.-i. he can only find fi teen meiuhqrg of the House and five of the against whom to prefer charges Ol the Senators, not a single m? n has Deen proveD ineligi ble, ami the same result may be expected ; when the Representatives are arraigned. [ The following are the names of the mem bers of the House who will name next be fore the miluary commission: l*kam Raffishi of Appling ooucty ; R W. Phi lips, of Echols county • E M. Taliaferro, of Fulton County ; J. l{. Nunn, ot Glass cock county ; R- A. Donaldson, of Gordon county • W. P- Price, of Lumpkin county ; J. N. Harris, of Murray county , L II Walthal. of Polk ren, of Quitman county ; The?. P. Rainey, ,of Schley WWuy i C C. Humber, ot Stewart county; G. N. Harper, of Sum r ter county; Frank Wilehar, of Taylor | county; John B. Sorrells, of Walton .county; and J. D. Smith, of Ware ! county. ; It will he aeea that among those whom 1 Bullock charges with having committed i perjury in taking their seats, is Col. W. . P. Price, of Lumpkin, whom bat a few days ago the Rullockites agreed to sup port for the Speakership of the House, promising to drop McWhorter it the Democrats and Conservative Republicans would consent to drop Bryant. The scheme baviog been rejected, they now prefer charges of ineligibility against the man whom they promised to support. THE COLE CASE AT LAST DECIDED. The celebrated case of Cole against the State of Georgia has at last been decided ostensibly in favor of the plaintiffs, but eally in favor of the tiiate. The olaim | was made for work done on the Western a Atlantic Railroad many years ago. As far tiaek as the time when Herschel V. Johnson was Governor of Georgia, Cole had a contract on the State Road for con structing the culvert and earthworks at Alatoona Creek. With the approval of Chief Engineer of the road, he sublet the oontract for the masonry to another party.. When the work was finished the ma-’ sonrv was done so badly that it crumbled to pieces, and the Stato refused to pay for the work. The claim amounted to $35,000, and has been pend ing for a long time. The matter was finally referred to a Board of Arbitrators, and the deoision of this Board was rendered this morning- The decision is that the plaintiff is entitled to the sum of $3,500, with interest added, making a total of $6,000. Thus ends the case, as the de cision of the Board of Arbitration is final and admits of no appeal. THE MILITARY TO ASSIST THE CIVIL AU THORITIES. Tho military rule which has been Diaced upon the counties of Warren Wilkes, Co lumbia, Linooln, Glasscock, Taliaferro, and, latterly, Hancock, by forming them into a sub distriot will not prove so hard as it was first anticipated. I learn to-day that no extraordinay or unusual powers have been conferred by General Terry upon Major Kline, the commandant of the sub-district, whoso headquarters are at Barnett. On the contrary that officers instructions arc to aid the civil authorities of the counties in executing processes, where the assistance of the military is required. Both parties have been hard at work all day to-day preparing for to-morrow. From appearances here to-night there can be no doubt but that an important movement is on foot for to-morrow when tho House of Representatives assembles, as it will, at twelve o’clock. The members of the Bullockite faction have been cauoussing apd plotting during the entire day and up to the present time to-night. Whether Bullock has determin ed to again adjourn tho House, without allowing it to take any action, in order to await the decision of General Terry on the eligibility of its members, or whether he feels strong enough to allow the eleotion for Speaker to take place, has not yet trans pired. Many, however, favor the latter opinion and think that an election will take place. The Conservative Republicans, upon whom the fate of the battle will rest, still appear to stand, firm, and their leaders, Josh. Hill, J. E. Bryant, J. H. Caldwell and Amos. T. Akerman have been as busy as beavers all day, and seem to feel con fident of gaining tho victory. [communicated, j Sub Military District of Geo. | Washington, Jan. 17, 1870. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : In your estimable paper a few days since, I saw the letter of your correspondent “Warren” informing you of how much the people of his county were TERRY-fied at th a receDt order of the General Com marding the Province of Georgia. I write you this to let you know how the people in this part of the sub district are affected by and how they regard this last desire of the man who rules what was ooee the Empire State of the South. As yet we travel about from one part of the district to the other without passes ap proved by the officers in command ; tho cars run as usual; the merchants open their stores and sell their goods; the various artisans pursue their usual avoca tions without let or hindrance, and the negroes, directed by the farmers of the oounty, are preparing the land for the cot ton crop of 1870. And, indeed, if it was not for the high sounding name of Sub- Military District , this would be, as of old, Wilkes county, State ot Georgia. Our people instead of feeling that we have been dishonored and made infamous by the order of satrap Terry, which, in these parts, we believe was insti gated by the creature who writes himself Provisional Governor of Georgia, all con- sider that though unintentional on the part of Bullock and Terry, we have had placed on us a badge of honorable distinc tion, of which •we are very proud. As the re has been no political disturbance, no failure to perform their political duty by tho oivil officers of this county, there is no apparent reason whioh should have in fluenced the action of those who rule, in declaring martial law in this county. Our people, white and black, have been quietly at work at their aocustomcd vocations. The garrison whioh was sent here some time Binoo when the office of the Revenue Assessor was broken open, “which great outrage on law and order very many of us now believe was done by the officer him self for political effect, have had nothing whatever to do but lay around their camp and dig a few stumps for amusement, we Ruppose. What then can be the object of declaring martial law in Wilkes ? The only ground upon which we oan put ’it is, that his Express eUency has a spite at us because we up hold all that is left us of constitutional liberty—-because we condemn his lawless usurpations of authority, even as granted at the hinds of a Radical Congress, and because on elections days we pile up a majority of hundreds against Radicalism If for this he beoomes enraged and says we shall be upheld to the world as a miser able set of knaves and scoundrels, unfit to govern ourselves and must have a military Governor, we are very willing to leave the issue to an impartial public to deci e who is the knave and who is the sooundre). lie sh uld bear in mind that every dog has his day, and though the dog, Bullock, is now having his, it must come to a close.and then let him beware, for the people of Georgia intend to have a settlement in foil for all the outrages he has committed and wioDgshohas perpetrated on them while, for the time being, ho has them under his control. Lei Bullock read the histnyy of Robespierre, the great leader of the French revolution, whose career to “rule or ruin” he has laid out for himself, and there learn the destiny which awaits him in the future, and God grant it may not be the distant future- Yours truly, “Old Wilkes.” Washington Telegrams to Cincinnati Ga zette (Radical). The Troubled Times la Georgia. The situation in Georgia is regarded as very grave and important. Telegrams have been going back and forth from this point to Atlanta yesterday and to-day, in great numbers. Some of the facts in the matter were given last night. Gov Bul lock telegraphs that twelve of the mombors of the Legislature who took the oath com mitted peijurv in so doing; that the Dem ocrats are jubilant and defiant; that they will overthrow the loyalists unless Terry turns out the disqualified members and scat others, and that the case is critical and demands immediate attention from the President. Capt. Bryant, one of the members of the lower branch, aud Post mast r at Augusta, sends a long dispatch saving that he stands by his record as a Union soldser and Republican, and has resigned his oostoffice in order to serve his State, and that no matter what any body charges, he intends remaining iu nis party and doing what he can to purify it. lie charges Bullack with corruption; with acting illegally in the organization of the L-gislature; with trying to serve seifish eul-; with being willing to jeopardize everj thing else for the sake of securing his election to the United States Sen ate. He says if Bullock permits the orir.fozation of the General Assembly, it wd! piomptly ratify the 15th Amendment elect inti-BuUook Senators, and fully com | ply with the requirements of the Recon -1 Struodon laws. The tenor of other dis j patches from Atlanta, including something /Yum General Terry, is that Bullock, it trying his best so as to get elected to (he United States Senate. The General tele graphed yesterday that there was con siderable excitement, but says to-day things are comparatively quiet. He fur ther inqu res of the War Department what be may do in the case of a snenff who is making a good deal o. trouble, and Sherman responds that be may be removed at Terry's discretion. Terry, ajs.tele graphed to-day inquiring what might be done iu cases where members of the Leg islature were unseated, and Sherman was at the capital this afternoon consulting Irith Senator Trumbull-and other lawyer This evening he telegrahed to General Terrv that the persons receiving the next highest number of votes for seats shouid bo sworn into them, in accordance with the laws of Georgia. The President has instructed Terry to proceed with the utmost caution in the whole work of re organization, but to use decisive measures if they become neeoessary. It may be icell enough to add that, as Bullock is nothing but Provisional Governor, he is subject to removal by the Commanding General.
