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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1870)
Chronicle & sentinel. WKBSKSIH! MORMH6. PKSKt'AKV S. Death of Bn Old Georgian. Colonel Wm. S. Rockwell, for many 1 years a citixen of this State, and a leading ! member of the Bar in Middle Georgia, died near Baltimore on Sunday last. Colonel Rockwell spent the greater por- j tion of his life in Milledgeville, where he 5 had a large and lucrative practice, but just before the war removed to Savannah, and when that city fell into the hands of Sherman he took part in a union meeting there which was the cause of some estrange ment between him and many of his old friends and which ultimately induced him to remove to Baltimore. Colonel Rockwell was for many years j Grand Master of the Grand Lodge A. Y. i M., of the State of Georgia, and was con- ! ceded to be one of the brightest, if not the I brightest, Mason in the United States. At the request of the Grand Lodge of the j State he prepared and published a valuable contribution to Masonic law and literature and which is now regarded as a standard authority in Southern Masonic circles. The deceased was a genial, amiable and intelligent gentleman, an able lawyer and fine scholar. We have spent many pleas ant hours in his company while “on the circuit,” and, when ourselves young in the profession, received from him assistance in the Court House whioh we shall always gratefully remember. The (ontest for Speaker. .McWhorter, the Radical caucus nomi nee was elected Speaker by a majority of 24 votes. Five Democrats voted for Mc- W hortcr and five threw away their votes. If these had all voted for Bryant, Mc- Whorter’s majority would have been only nine. The Constitution says that if all the Democrats had voted for Bryant five Re publicans would have gone for him who voted for McWhorter. This fixes the re sponsibility of the defeat of the Conserva tives upon the bolting Democrats. It is a bad thing for a few members of a party to set up their judgment, iu mere questions of party expediency, in opposition to the views of a large majority of their party. In this case it leaves room for suspicion that undue influences were used to defeat the Conservatives. We trust that in future there will be no further defection in the Conservative ranks. The battle against the extremists is hardly begun. The people of Georgia require the exertions and vote of every honest man in the Legislature in opposi tion to the schemes of Bullock and Blodgett. Unadulterated Despotism. .Since the Reconstruction business began no act has been committed by the Federal authorities which compares with that of General Terry declaring the seats of mem bers of the Legislature vacant who have failed to appear in Atlanta and take their seats. We have looked in vain through the re cent bill to tind the authority under which this order is issued. The order of General Grant making this Stato a military dis trict, and assigning General Terry to the command of it, gives no such power. It is an act of pure despotism, unauthorized by law, and wholly unsustained by a fair interpretation of military orders. There is not a civilized government on the earth where a mere military com mander, in a timo of profound peace, would dare to interfere with the rights of legislators in such a manner as General Terry has done. The right of members to seats in the Legislature was not derived from General Terry or the United States Government. They are the legally chosen representatives of the people, and can only be deprived of their seats by the decision of their own body. Yielding the power claimed by General Terry and exercised by him in the oase of throe of tho members of deciding upon their eligibility, where does he derive the power to declare the seats of members vacant who, from Provi dential or other causes, have not yet ap peared in Atlanta to claim their seats ? The fact is transparent that Gen. Terry soeks, by this order, to deprive legally elected and legally qualified members from taking their scats, in order that the Radi cal majority, so adroitly manipulated by him, may be sustained and perpetuated. It is the act of despotism perpetrated in the interests of a revolutionary faction. The Hloeliolders Meeting or the Fair Association fo-Mgnt. The Fair, which it is proposed to hold here this fall, is a matter of no small in terest to our city. It will afford Augusta merohants and business men raro facilities for extending their acquaintance with the planters of tho surrounding country, and of the entire cotton producing States. It will bring prominontly before the country the great facilities offered here tor the establishment of mills and machinery for manufacturing cotton, wool, paper, agri cultural implements, plantation wagons and carts, furniture of all kinds, brooms, buckets, and the various modern imple ments which are now so" indispensable to the thrifty housewife. It will, if properly managed, bring to the city, and place in general circulation here, a large amount of money, and afford a tine trade to the retail merchants and small traders generally. Our great wator power will bo brought prominently before the country—our fine climate tested and appreciated, our river navigation and railroad connections with the interior and tho seaboard closely exam ined, and our fine, central, healthy, conve nient and advantageous location for a groat manufacturing and commercial city fully advertised and made xnown to that class of persons who are looking out for favorable manufacturing locations in the Southern States. To insure, however, the best results, it is absolutely necessary that the parties to whom is intrusted the preparations for and management of the Fair shall be men of large ideas and sound practical business ex perience. It is quite a mistake to suppose that any given amount of money will make tho Fair a suoeess unless it is expended ju diciously, and with the view mainly to se curing a large and varied list of exhibitors and the attendance oi a sufficient number of visitors to make the occasion attractive and useful. A meeting of the shareholders will be held to-night at Masonio Hall at 7 o’clock torthe purpose of completing the organisa tion of the Association. We learn that the whole amount of money originally desired has been subscribed, and that a consider able number of our citizens desire to be come subscribers who have not had an op portunity to do so. There are also several of our friends in the country who would like to fhke stock in the Company. It will greatly contribute to the success.'of the Fair to have in all the surrounding country, both in this State and Carolina, members of the Association who would take an active interest in the exhibition. To secure this 00-operatiou of our country friends and to afford an opportunity to those of our own citizens who have not yet subscribed, we suggest the propriety of extending the capital stock to two hundred shares of one hundred dollars each. If it should be lound that twenty thousand dollars is more than is required to secure the objects in view, the whole of the stock need not be eat Jed in, but only so much as should he founo- 1“ the progress of the preparations, to be actually necessary. By thus en larging the number of subscribers we in crease the individual interest which will bo taken to cuake the lair a suoeess. In regard to the officers of the Associa tion, we have but a word to S3y, and that merely by way of suggestion. IVe believe it has been found convenient, in similar associations, to have a President, a I ice President, Secretary, Treasurer, aad an Executive Committee, who act as a Board of Directors, and, with the President and Vice President, are responsible for the good management of the affairs of the concern. It will be seen how important it is to have good practical and active business men on the Executive Committee. The Secretary also has an important part to fill, requiring much time, labor, tact and idscretion, , The doming l.ssne. Gen. Grant has doliherately decided to make tljc impulariiy of his administration in the coming election turn upon the Fif teenth Amendment. Before the first of March, the Fifteenth Amendment will have been declared a part and parcel of the Constitution of the United States. It will have gone through ail the forms of law, an 1 passed by States loyal and of the Union, and by States “loil,” which, “if out of the Union, are not in it.” It will be regarded as fundamental law. It will be enforced, quant, tuff, as the medi cal prescriptions go, as law. Maryland Kentucky and Pennsylvania and. Ohio are the objective points. So far as Maryland, Kentucky and Pennsylvania are concern ed, doubtless a demonstration in force will probably secure external observance, if not hearty acquiescence. But how about Cal ifornia, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio? Will the “Rapubs” of these States stand by and »cc whatever of States’ rights that may be left to them wrested from them, and centralized in a partisan Congress by the control of the suffrage question, and the consequent control of the Btate Legis latures ? The ratification of the fifteenth amend ment brings home the question to the people of the Northern States and of the Pacific coast. This is the issue which the Democracy of the North foretold must arise. This was the point which the gal lant Stockton made in his speech against the “act to promote Reconstruction in Georg'a ” He “did not speak for Geor- j gia;” he and others bad already spoken nobly before; and again and again asserted that Georgia and other Southern States were being kept in the Union for taxa tion, and kept out of toe Union for representation, merely to keep the Republican party in power. But speak ing entirely in the interest of the Northern States, those States which are co‘ and have not been at all tainted by rebellion, the gallant Senator appeals to the loyal of the loyal States. The Senator from New Jersey, not abashed by having suffered by the inquisitorial power of a Radical Sena tor, dared to put the question fully and fairly before the people of the North, of the loyal Uoioo, and challenge the Re publicans North to weigh well the effects of the loth Amendment reconstruction. For the purpose of indicating when and where the rights of States must find vindication, if vindication is found at all hereafter, we quote a paragiaph from the speech of the Senator from gallant little New Jersey. The Senator said: Mr' President: I know that the use of the word “State rights” is getting offen sive to some of my friends on the other side; but as the distinguished Senator from Ohio said this morning, they must admit even in their view that the States have some rights. Now it is said that Congress is omnipotent it is saie that Congress can do anything. Mr. President, Congress is not omnipotent. Congress is a body of limited powers—limited by the Constitu tion; ana it is in addition to that the mere reservoir of powers given by the States, the remainder of which are still in the people and in the States. That, as a prin ciple of government, is not disputed, and therefore I say that Congress has no right to pas-i an act, which this bill is, to alter the Constitution of the United States. It is an act to alter the Constitution of the United States in an easier mode than the mode provided therein. It has been proposed here within a few days to react that the Supreme Court shall no longer determine questions which are pohtieul, and that Congress shall de cide wha' to political questions. A hill has been introduced to authorize a de partment of the Government to deteimine when an amendment to the Constitution is adopted. Then by the passage of this act, and by det riving the Supreme Court by calling it a political question, of the power of acting oo the constitutionality of the so called amendment, and by referring the determination of its ratification to one of the departments of the Government, you absolutely alter by legislation the Constitu tion of the United States in a manner not provided therein, and in a different man ner. 1 insist upon it that 6uch an altera tion is totally and entirely illegal, and in violation of the instrument its.’lf, nay—l cannot use a milder expression ; I use the word in its proper sense—it is revolution ; that is, it overturns the government of our fathers. It requires, as l have said, throe-fourths of the Slates to amend the Constitution. That, of course, meant three-foui tbs of the sovereign States, three-fourths of such States as met together originally as in dependent sovereignties, and for ths pro tection of these very rights of which I speak gave up some of their individual liberty that they might be better protected against foreign nations. That was the object of the formation of this Government, to pro tect these very home liberties of which you now seek to deprive us ; and, as I said, it requires throe-fourths of these sovereign States to amend the compact. Rut now if this military Stato, this provisional gov ernment, is to have a voice in amending the Constitution before she is admitted as a State of tho Union, how much is she to oount? Is she to count a sud State or what fraction of a State? If these other three States are to speak under your compulsion after they have got iD, h >w much are they to oount? What is the ratio? They certainly do not stand in the same position as these original States who made the bargain. This course certainly breaks the relations of the State of Ohio, the State of New Jersey, and the State of Now York with ono another, and breaks their relations with the Federal Govern ment. It establishes anew principle; it takes a position never before taken in this country: that you have a right to come in and strike tho word “white” out of the Constitution of my State, a Constitution that I have sworn over and over again to support, which contains the word “white” in it, which you mean to strike out by an attempt to alter the Constitution of the United States in this way. Now, Mr. President, I have a remedy if you do not take it from me. The Consti tution has given us a remedy. We bave a right to appeal to the courts. It is singu lar to see these bills all standing pari passu, by one of which you take that right aw»y, that is a part of your scheme, by which you propose to deprive me ot the resort which is yet left, to the court. Sir, does a State where the habeas corpus is suspended stand in such a position as to adopt a constitutional amendment ? Can a State where a man, in violation of the test of the Constitution itself, can be tried for his life, and condemned and hanged, without the indiotment &r presentment of a grand jnrv and without a trial by a petty jury—can such a State adopt an alteration of the constitution of my State? Sir, when yotl can tear a man away from the very altar of liberty, wl en you can tear a man away who is clinging to your Supremo Court for his life and claiming the protec tion of the judiciary, when you can do that in a State, and are doing it every day, do yon mean t« tell me that the military pro visional government ot a State where that is tolerated can alter theconstitutiun of my State and ot the United States? I make these remarks in sorrow; I make them simply that they ybe recorded ; and I believe the day will come when this amendment, if it is pretended to be adop ted in this way. will be pronounced to be no part of the Constitution of the United States. I have not spoken for Georgia ; I have spoken entirely in the interest of the Northern States, those States which have not been at all tainted with rebellion. Judicial Honors. There is a sharp canvass in the South Carolina Legislature for the election of a Judge o! the Supreme Court of that State. The candidates are two ignorant Yarntee Degrees, who drilled down South at the dose of the war, in connection with the Southern Pandora’s Box, the Freedman’s Bureau- These two ebony aspirants for Judicial honors, arc both members of th: Legisla ture from Beaufort, one in the Senate and one in the House. It is a little strange that then- is no white candidate for so dis tinguished s posi ion. desired the place, aid his name was suggested as a candidate. but his friends discovered that the negro, \Vtapper, would certainly heat him and therefore withdrew him from the canvass. Wright, negro Sena tor. was put up in plaee of Orr, and now the contest is re-aroused down to a choice between these two worthies. What a commentary is this upon South ern Reconstruction. ' The Fifteenth Am ndment. Radical journals claim that the fifteenth amendment has been ratified by twenty seven States, being only one less than a constitutional majority. Nebraska, Texas and Georgia may be relied upon, we think, from which one more vote will be obtained in its favor. Sherman will construct anew military department for Canby, which will include Virginia; Impeaching a Radical Governor. The Florida Radicals are iust now giv~ j iog us some striking illustrations of the bcau'ies of Congressional reconstruction. Florida was reconstructed after the mos* i approved plan of Congressional military violence, acting opon and with the ignor ant and besotted negro maj irify in that j State. A State government was organize! thoroughly Radical and proscriptive in all j its departments- The Governor, United j States Senator, Judge of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, members of Congress, and a large majority of the State Legislature are ail Radicals. A little family quarrel has been brewing for some months between the Governor and some of the leading Radicals in the Legislature in regard to the share or por tion in the public plunder which the re spective parties claim. The Governor has not divided the stolen spoils fairly with his legislative friends, and the latter are de termined to be revenged for He wrong done them. The Hour-e of Representa tives has appointed a committee to inves tigate Governor Reed’s financial manage ment, with instructions to prepare articles of impeachment, if the facts disclosed by the investigation will justify such action. The Senate, thoroughly Radical, is cLimed as certain to sustain the impeachment if submitted to that body. We have no doubt hut that the Gover nor’s conduct would fully authorize his im peachment ; yet, we doubi the motives which induce this movement against him. However, it is a Radical quarrel in which honest people will feel little interest, let it end as it may. Presentments of the Flojd County Grand Jury-The Power or Public Opinion. We clip from the Rome Courier the fol lowing extract from the presentments of '■ the Grand Jury during the recent sitting j of the Superior Court for Floyd county : ! The moral condition of our county will j compare favorably with that of any county i in the State'; while some evils exists, of i course, that cannot be eradicated in a com- I munity of such a population, yet we feel I that we caD, in truth, say that the citizens of our county are willing subjects of good order and law. Gambling and vagrancy can scarcely be claimed to exist in our county. In regard to the state of the country we are happy to state we have heard of no outbreaks of any kind in our county, but that our citizens are peaceful and law abiding, and we think public opinion suf ficient to have our civil law executed. We regret to hear from your Honor of the dis turbance in our sister county, and we as sure you we condemn all acta of law’ess ness, from whatever quarter they may come, and we are sorry to hear that you I and your family (for whom we have the I highest regard) have been disturbed. We believe the Grand Jury speak truly of the “peaceful and law abiding char acter” ot the people of their county, and do not hesitate to affirm that the same may be said of every county in the State. The jury were right also in declaring that “pub lic opinion is s iffieient to have the civil law executed.” If public opinion fails to ac complish this, it is utterly futile to attempt to enforce civil law by military bayonets. Bayonets, it is true, are the favorite weapons of despots who have, in all ages, indulged the belief that they were all suf ficient to enforce the edicts of power and compel obedience to arbitrary and unlaw ful commands. They may succeed for a time in throtling public sentiment, but as soon as they are withdrawn from the prostrate form of the body politic public sentiment rises iu its might and asserts its power. It is a serious question now for the con sideration of the American public, whether the constant employment of a huge mili tary force throughout the Southern States, for the purpose of enforcing laws and or ders, obnoxious to the people, can be main tained fw any considerable length of time. If the people of the United States are prepared to pay the enormous expenses required to keep up such a system as a permanent arrangement, perhaps it is well for them to make the experiment. But they should know that, howevor effective the constant presence of bayonets, eon trolled by military despots may be, while spread in sufficient number over the whole country as to overawe the body of the people, that, as soon as they are with drawn a reaction will inevitably take place, which will re-enthrone “public sentiment” in all its majesty and in ali its power. Gen. Terry is now trying the bayonet . remedy in seven counties of Middle Geor gia. For more than ten days his under- I strappers have wielded more than auto | eratic powers over the people of the con demned district. The rough heel of his hireling soldiery has cut in deep and rugged wrinkios the highways and byways of the country in their fruitless search for the several hundred evil-doers reported by Chap. Norris and other graceless scamps as existing in and overrunning every dis trict of the county of Warren. He has im pressed farm horses, seized plow animals, and saddle stcck, upon which his blue coats have been mounted to tacilitate speedy movements upon their doomed vic tims. Labor is disorganized. Women and children are deoerted, and, in many in j stances, left without food or the means of j procuring it; society dismayed, public af | fairs neglected, and a general reign of tcr- I or pervades the entire district. Wc look j in vain for compensating results for those j highhanded and despotic measures. In stead of compelling peace and a due ob servance of the law, the peace is rudely broken by the clang of the sword, and the law violated by the mere presence of these hostile forces. I’ublic opinion does not approve or sus tain military interference with civil affairs. Public opinion does not aid by its moral weight and power the enforcement of the law by the sharp pointof the bayonet. Public opinion stickles for civil supremacy, and defies military interference. Public opin ion is not crashed bicause, when overawed by the presence of a strong military force, it ceases to assert its power. Public opin ion waits wish bated breath for its opportu nity, and is not slow to seize and use it when occasion presents. Public opinion is the supreme law ot taiv land, nor Grant, nor Terry, nor Kline, can destroy its pow er nr diminish its iofluecc'. The Grand Jury of Floyd are right. Public opinion is the best, the safest and speediest corrector of social evils. Ifleft to its own workings, evil-doers and law breakers will be discovered—lawlessness and disorders promptly punished. Will Gen. Terry think well of these truths? The Progress of Centralization and liespoilsm. Step by step, says the Baltimore Ga zette, the Radicals continue their policy of centralization. Their design is to ride rough shod over the Constitution, and to make the w:H of Congress the supreme law of the land. They are bent on re ducing ‘he Federal Judiciary and the Fed eral Executive to the corditinn of subor dinate departments of the Government, and under cover ot law, and by . means of the machinery of law, are gradually but surely changing our form of government as it was establi>hed by the founders of the Republic. Thev hold in i-V hand o , at this day, the purse and the sword. In ten of the Southern States they dictate who ehaii vote and who shall be deprived of the elective franchise. By putting a false interpretation Upon the right of Con gress to judge of the qualifications of mem bers, they have expelled men who were legally elected to the Senate and to the House of Representatives, and have in stalled their owncreatures in the seats thus summarily vacated. To swell their major ides in the Senate they have erected into States Territories which contain bat a few thousands of permanent population, and bave thus crushed out the opposition of the larger Slates where the Democracy are in the ascendancy. All the barriers which protected the in dependence of the States from Federal en croachments are being thrown down and levelled with the ground. Even the equality of the States as members of a common ÜBion is no longer respected. The work of reconstruction is still to go on in the States south of the Potomac. The most solemn pledges given by the Radicals have been violated time after time with impunity. No sooDer had a Southern State accepted the conditions exacted of her than fresh conditions were imposed. Georgia was thrust out of the Union after her members had been admitted to scats in the House of Representatives. Vir ginia is only to lv admitted on terms which are derogatory to her dignity as a State, and to the manhood of her people. No Southern State, unless it be thoroughly and submissively Radical, can hope to be represented in Congress- There is talk, even bow, of putting Ten nessee once more under military rule, and of Radical interposition in the affairs of Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware. Into the new amendments to the Constitution — amendments which were carried in the | Southern States by a system of terrorism, and in many of the Northern and Western States bv trickery and fraud—they have incorporated a clause which gives to Con gress the power to enforce them by what is sarcastically called “appropriate legisla tion.” Under color of this authority they can and will, before long, interfere with the i electoral vote in all of the States, their purpose being to take from the latter the right of regulating the suffrage within their limits. Nor is this all. The legisla tion of the States is to be supervised by Congress; the functions of Smte Gover nors are to be reduced below those of pro- Consuls in the Roman times; and, under the pica of the power of Congress to regu i iato commerce, the right of eminent do j main, which has always appertained to the ! States, is to be contemptuously disre garded, and the will of Congress is to set aside the will of the people of a State, even in matters or local concern. All these revolution-.ry proceedings tend but 10 one point -the centralization and perpetuation of a i the powers of the Gov ernment iu the hands of a Radical oli garchy. As the New York Jouiiffd of Commerce well remarks : “The fbeal point is Congress—and that is the most alarming thiDg about it. The leading spirits in the scheme in the Senate and House are gradually absorbing the powers of the Executive —so that he is already but a passive instrument in their hands—and they clearly aim to monopolize also the functions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Controlling the patronage of the whole Government, and dictating the judicial decisions, having at their beck and command vast multitudes of bene ficiaries and tools all over the country,they hope and expect to insure their re-election perpetually. Centralization is but another name for a ring, composed of the Radical master politicians, to whom the humbler members pay fealty and receive their re ward, It is insatiable, and must continue to grow in ’ avarice and insolence, UDtil it extends its baleful effects over all the States of the Union, or is broken up and forever overthrown by an indignant peo ple.” Sad. While Bullock keeps the Legislature awaiting an organization, the Radicals are improving the opportunity to hoai di visions in th% ranks. On Monday night there was an imtupose rally of the Bulloek ites in Atlanta. Blodgett was there, and Parrott and Maule, and the two McWhor ters, and a long list of “Honorables,” white and black. Akerman was) the orator. Akermin has been reported as opposed to Bullock. His speech does not indicate it. Os the nfany very bad speeches we have read and heard during this reconstruction business, his effort on this occasion was by far the worst. It was absolutely devilish in its malignity and utterly false in statement and conclusion. We can pay its temper no higher compli ment than to say that ex-President Governor James] Johnson or Joshua, Hill could not have improved it when in their most unamiable moods. It is not suprising that Akerman should make such a speech. He was imported into this country by a gentleman, placed in the society of gentlemen, and fur nished with opportunity to make a re pectable livelihood; but ho is a fanatic—a New Hamshire fanatic-~and makes the same return for kindnesses that all fanat ics do. There was nothing sad in Aker man’s making this speech. Nor was there anything sad or surprising in the fact that Parrott, Mauie, the McWhorters and others, applauded it. Nobody who knew any of these worthies well, ever entertain ed for them the same respec. that "'as ac oorded a runaway nigger. They all fell like Akerman, but none of them havt> either the pluck or ability to talk like him. The sad part of it was that John Miliedge rose up, complimented and en dorsed the foul and malignant slander on the people of Georgia. It is sad that a man born and bred in Georgia, honorably connected, aud beating the name of one of the honored Governors of the State, should be so utterly lost to a sense of what he was and should he. Radical re construction has furnished no sadder pic ture than this. — Columbus Sun. Hold Gambling-Mrs. Grant’s Share. We clip from the Nashville Union and Avsericjn the following condensation of the evidence of Fisk and Gould before the Congressional Smelling Committee: In their examination they said they were anxious to have the crops of 1869 moved at as high a price as in 1868, to furnish transportation for the Erie road, bat this could not be done without an increase in the price of gold. They at once sought to ascertain what the financial | obey of the Administration would be, and to that end broached the matter first to Gen. Grant, on June 15, when he was on his way to the Peace Jubilee in Boston. This wa3 at dinner, on board of one of the Fisk steam ers. It appeared in the conversation that Grant was in favor of an early resumption of specie payments. He was told that it would bring a crash, and that gold was too low for good business even theD. But Grant replied; “Gentlemen, well, any way, wo might as well prick the bubble.” Grant was again sounded by the witnesses at Long Branch, but did not make any definite replies on financial topics. In the meantime Gould became acquainted with Corbin, the President’s brother-in law, and some plan was developed by which Butterfield was to be made Assistant Trea surer, which was afterward done in July. Grant went tc Newport, and Gould wrote him a letter, which Fisk carried, ar guing against reducing the price of gold, stating that the time was near at hand when the crops of the country would be moved, and that if the Administration would not sell gold, they (Fi-k & Cos.) would put up the price. Corbin said he could fix things all right with Grant. Feeling assured of this, $2,500,000 of gold were bought---$500,000 for Mrs. Gra it, and $500,000 for Porter, Secretary to the President. The rest was divided between Corbin and Jay Gould, for, up to this time, Fisk had not bought any gold. Gould at this stage introduced Fisk to Corbin, and Corbin said that Mrs. Grate's gold had been sold and the profit $25,500 had been remitted to ber at Washington. Corbin explained to Fisk all his arrange ments with Gould,and said that he (Corbin) was behind the throne; that he could regu late Grant; that the Government would not sell gold; that Mrs. Grant's letter to Mrs. Corbin said so, and that there was to be no uneasiness, etc. Fisk says that at first he was not disposed to believe Cor bin, but the latter’s points were so positive that he placed full faith in him. To make assuranoe doubly sure, before more purchases were made, Corbin said he vrrte to Gra t, who was then (Septem ber 15th) at Washington, Pennsylvania, and sent the letter by Fisk’s confidential man. The messenger, Chapin by name, reached Washington, near Pittsburg, at 7 A. M., hunted up General Grant, and handed him the letter. He read part oi it, then went into another room, and in fifteen minutes returned and said “all right.” Chapin went at once to the near est telegraph office and telegratphed to Fisk: “Letters delivered. Grant says all right.” Fisk says that on the day before the dark Friday he saw Corbin, who said, “All is now right. That letter to Grant hasdinched matters.” Fisk and Gould then commenced to buy gold, and it rose from 137 to 141, and opened at 141 on the dark Friday. A broker, named William Belden, asked to participate in the trans action, and gave Fisk power to buy gold for him. Ope Albert Speyers was Bela en’s broker in these purchases. Gold rose I to 143, and Speyers theD jumped in for ] himself and bought till it rose to 160, be lieving that it would go higher. Then j came the order of the Government to sell four millions, which immediately smashed down the market; and that, said Fisk, is the story of the combina tion; Relying on Corbin's statements of his influence with Grant and the letter, we bought heavily, believing that tha Government would not sell gold. Fist" says he sought Corbin after the bottom was out of the speculation by the Govern tcent sale, and testifies that he said to him : “You d—d old villian—ihis is a hell of a muss you have got us into. ” Corbin inquired: “What situation arc you in.” Frik replied : “Wo do pot know : we can’t tell in all this excitement, bat we may be ruined.” Corbin blandly replied that it must be a mistake. His information was explicit that Boutwell should not sell gold, and, if he had, he had doubtless done so without consulting Grant. Mrs. Corbin j came into the room and said she agreed I with her husband. She said she had a letter from Mrs. Grant, wishing the whole speculation was over, for it made her hus band nervous. Both of them agreed at once to go Washington to see the Presi dent, as they said, aed have the sale of gold withdrawn, hut they never did this, i Gould testified that Gen. Butterfield, the i Assistant Treasurer, was privy to the speculation, and that he had bought j SIOO,OOO of gold on Baiterfield’s account. Fisk concluded his evidence by asking that Corbin, Mrs. Corbin and Mrs- Grant be summoned before the committee. THE COTTO™sTaTES FAIR. ORGANIZATION OF THE ASSO CIATION. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. In accordance with the adjournment of the previous meeting, the stockholders in the Fair company and other citizens met in convention at Masonic Hall, last night, to hear the report of the committee ap pointed to solicit subscriptions, and trans act such other business as might be deemed necessary- The President, Gen. R Y. Harris, called the meeting to order. He stated the busi ness to be to rueeivc the report of the com mittee appointed to receive subscriptions. J. H. Nelsoi, as Chairman of the Com mittee, reported that the full number of shares (100) had been subscribed, and that it recommended the number of shares be increased to 200. Mr. Rogers moved that the report be received and adopted. Mr. Levy thought the best plan would be to let the books remain open until a certain length of time. Mr. Butt thought it would be best to re ceive the report and then discuss the movement to extend the capital, Mr. Rogers withdrew his motion to adopt, and the report was received. Mr. Barrett moved that the number of citizens and the amount of stock repre sented he ascertained. Mr. Cohen said this was a citizens’ aod not a stockholders’ meeting, and moved that the meeting adjourn sine die. Car ried. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. The stockholders’ meeting was then held, and Gea. Harris, on motion of Mr. Cohen, called to the Chair, and Mr. Gray acted as Secretary. On motion, the list of stockholders was called, and thirty four members found present, representing —shares of stock. Mr. Butt said he was confident there were fifty stockholders present; but the men answered so indistinctly that it was impossible to hear them Col. Branch said that if the first meeting was competent to open the books, the present meeting was competent to keep them open. He moved that the books be kept open until 200 shares were taken. Mr. Barrett moved that the books be kept open until ordered closed, for receiv ing additional subscriptions. Gen. Wright said that he thought the meeting was called to-night for the purpose of organisation. As many were present now as there would be, and be thought the organization should be perfected imme diately. Col' Branch would not withdraw his motion, »nd offered it as amended by-Mr. Barrett. Mr- Cohen moved to lay the motion on the table for the present, but upon an ex planation from the Chairman, withdrew it, and Col. Branch’s motion was carried. The Chairman then invited additional subscribers to put down their names, and sixteen shares wete subscribed. Mr. Nelson said the Committee had consulted, and had drawn up the form of a constitution for the Company, which he read to the meeting for acceptance or re jection Mr. Butt moved to name the Society the Cotton States Agricultural and Me chanical Fair ot Augu-ta, Georgia. Mr. Cohen thought the Middle Geor gia Fair was the best name. General Wright objected to the name because it tended to confine the Fair to a too restricted section of country. Mr. Cohen said the Committee was not particularly in favor of that name but adopted it as the best. Mr. Stovall moved to call it the South ern Agricultural and Mechanical Exposi tion. Colonel Moore said this name had been adopted by a Kentucky corporation and there was a Southern Exposition in Balti more. He favored Mr. Butt’s motion. Mr. Cohen moved to substitute Mr. Butt’s motion. General Wright moved to amend by calling it the Cotton States’ Mechanics and Agricultural Fair Association, at Augusta, Georgia. i ■■ The amendment was accepted and adopted. CAPITAL STOCK. Mr. Cohen moved that the capital stock should not exceed $30,000 in 300 shares of SIOO each. Mr. Barrett moved to leave the amount blank, to bo fixed by the Board of Man agers. Carried. OFFICERS. Mr. Cohen moved that there be a Presi dent, four Vice-Presidents and twenty managers. After a long and animated discussion it was decided, 05 motion, of Gen. Wright, to have a Piesidnt, three Vice-Presidents and nine as an Executive Committee, from whom all the cimmittees shall be selected, and a Secretaiy and a Treasurer. The sections definint the duties of the officers were adopted. Tho section making a two thirds stock veto necessary to change the constitution w»s adopted. Mr. Butt m)ved to adopt the fifteenth amendment. 'Not put as the meeting was unreconstructed). It nould ba7e been impossible for the best phonog.-aiher to have kept up with the debate, which took place on several sec ions of the constitution. The rule of procedure, when an article was read, was for some member to offer an amendment and a speech, tken would come a substitute for the amendnont and then an amend ment tor the substitute, and so on ad libi tum. The other sections of detail were adopt ed, and Mr. But moved that the Consti tution be provsional only. The Constitition was adopted as a whole. Gen. Wrightmoved that an election be held for President and Vice President and a Board of Managers (more substitutes, amendments and substitutes). Col. Branch moved to appoint, a Com mittee to solicit subscriptions and adjourn until Monday night (substitutes and amendments). Tie motion was lest and the original motion carried. On motion of Ik. Tutt the Chair ap pointed a Committee of five—Messrs. Tutt, O'Dowd, Mcliwaine, Butt and Hope —to select candidates for the offices. The Comuiitte« reported the following names, which were accepted and the meet ing adjourned : President, W E Tutt- Vice-President, R Y Harriss. board of managers. P J Berkmans, E H Rogers, T H Nelson, A R Wright, T P S'ovall, Jas W Bones. G A Oates, W II Warren. Dr. Beckwith. Committee appointed to solicit addi tional subscriptions : T G Barrett, J A Gray, W H Warren, W Stevenson and E H Rogers. The Graniteville Factory.— A bill in relation to the amendment of the char ter ot the Graniteville Manufacturing Company has been introduced in the South Carolina Legislature. It provides that the Graniteville Manufacturing Company shall be authorized to issue new scrip for the capita! stock of the company, in shares of one hundred dollars each, on surrendering and cancellation of the old scrip, and for the repealing of so much of section first of the act to amend the charter, ratified on the 15th of December, 1845, as fixes the shares at five hundred dollars each. The New Democracy. —A new party was organized in New York on Wednesday last, under the name of “New Democracy.” The founders base the party on the fun damental principle of requiring the ref erence to the people of all laws passed by their legislative representatives, as is done in several gs the Swiss cantons. A shrewd bid is made in the platform for the votes of the women. The new Democrats favor the running of all the railroads and tele graphs by the government, and the em ployment of everybody who wants work by the national and local authorities. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE k SENTINEL. Atlanta, January 27, P. M. senate. The Senate met in pursuance to adjourn ment, and but very littie was done. F. 0. Welch, of the Tenth, aod B. F. BruttoD, of the Lightn District, were qualified. ANOTHER TURN OF THE SCREW. Bullock and his flic ion are not yet sat isfied. They are fearful that the House is not sufficiently in their-control, and in order to provide against failure to their schemes, they are working to pack it by placing their own parrizans in the seats vacated by order of General Terry. HOW IT IS TO i>„ On the assembling of the House the Clerk read a communication from Bullock recommending the House to seat certain persons who received the next highest vote to the members declared ineligible under Orders Nos. 9 and 10, and that General Terry endorsed this course, but that he was willing to submit the matter to the House and let it decide the question. BULLOCK S RECOMMENDATION OPPOSED. Bryant obtained the floor. He opposed the Governor’s recommendation, and moved to lay it on the table. He advo cated his motion in a brief argument, claiming that the members declared ineli gible by General Terrv were not constitu tionally disqualified. He argued against seating the persons mentioned in Bullock’s communication, quoting the Code of Geor gia and the speech of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, to sustain him. m’wHORTER TRYS TO GAG BRYANT. At tbis stage McWhorter, Bullock’s henchman, said he would notentertaiu the "motion of Bryant to lay Bullock’s com munication od the table. Bryant proceeded with his argument. He proclaimed himself a Republican. Turner, negro, (interrupting,) asked Bryant what he did with the precedent set by Cougress in the case of two ineligible members, where Congress seated the next highest ? Bryant said that there was no such pre cedent, aud concluded by moving to lay the Governor’s communication on the table. McWhorter, the Speaker, said he would rule iu favor of seating the next highest. AN APPEAL. J. E. Shumate, of Whitfield, appealed from the decision of the Chair. He was astounded to hear the Speaker state that the House was organizing under the pro visions of the Code. He would ask, where was the section cf the Code authorizing the Supervisor of the State Road to or ganize the House ? What section of the Code contains the oaths required of mem bers ? The House was not organized ac cording to law. No Speaker pro tern, had been elected. Mr. Shumate maintained that no member could participate in the proceedings unless his name appears in Meade’s proclamation, and that no other persons were summoned by the Governor’s proclamation. The House was convened under the law of Congress. He was for carrying out that law, and it would be in violation of its letter and spirit to allow any person not named in General Meade’s proclamation to taka a seat in the House. There exists no similar precedent in the annals of any country. The Coda is as silent as the grave on the subject. The act of Congress is the law controlling the organization of the Legislature. REPRESENTATIVE FROM LOWNDES AFRAID OF MILITARY. Mr. John W. O’Neal, Radical repre sentative from Lowndes, followed in oppo sition to Shumate’s appeal from the decis ion of the Chair. He said that the Gov ernor’s communication war before the House, and should receive due considera tion. He said he preferred to leave the matter referred to, and therein contained, to the discretion of the House, without calling in the aid of the military wisdom. If there was no provision in ihe Code controlling the question, then precedent must govern. He argued that the provis ion in the Code referring to the next highest as being entitled to seats did afiply in these cases, and appealed for confirma tion to intelligent Democrats in the House who had sustained similar ruling of the Speaker in the session 0f.186b and ad vised Democrats not to stultify themselves by opposing similar ruling now. the provisional speaks. Maj. McWhorter, Representative from Greene county, and the newly elected Pro visional Speaker, here said that the dis eusdon must be brought to a close. He was oDly a Provisional officer of a Provis ional Legislature. SCOTT PUTS A PUZZLER. Capt. Dunlap Scott here arose, and in the blandest manner begged to ask the Honorable Provisional Speaker if the House was organizing under a law of Con gress. The Provisional replied promptly yes ! The affable member .from Floyd then begged to know if that law, the act to pro mote reconstruction iu the State of Geor gia, calls or styles this a I rovi-ioua! Legis lature. The Provisional refused to answer. Capt. Scott then tartly said that the Leg islature was provisional only by the as sumption of Bullock and the Speaker, who filled the chair of the House. REMARKS OF MR. PRICE. Hon. W. P. Price (Dem.), member of the House from the county of Lumpkin, obtained the floor by the recognition of the Chair. He said he indulged the hope that the House would he permitted to organize quietly, but tnought it clear that it was not organized now, as every one would agree. He h ped that the message of Governor Bullock would be laid on the table for the present. Governor Bullock had no right, under the act of Congress, to insist upon his recommendation. The whole matter should be referred at the proper time to the usual Committee on Privileges and Elections, to be hereafter appointed. Governor Bullock had not been, as yet, officially advised of the elec tion of Speaker. When the House was organized he hoped that it would be or ganized in strict conformity with the act to promote reconstruction in Georgia. It would be a fraud on the Legislature to force the decision of the Speaker on the House at this time. He would vote in favor of the appeal on the proper occa sion, and he be ieved he should vote to sustain the Speaker’s decision, but this was not the proper time- It was the first duty of the House that it should proceed with the election of the remaining officers. BULLOCK DEFEATED. The Speaker then put the question on appeal from the ruling of the Chair. The appeal was sustained, and Bullock’s re commendation was defeated by a vote of, yeas 63, nays 65. Seott, ot Floyd, then moved that the House do now go into the election of Speak er pro tem. A member moved that the House do now adjourn to 3 p. m- Scott denied the right of any member to make anew motion while his was pending before the House. The Chair decided the motion to ad journ in order at all times, and proceeded to put the motion for adjournment, which was carried —yeas, 65, nays, 63. menagerie wrangles. Pursuant to adjournment, the House reassembled at three p. m., but spent the time in wrangling over and re-reading Bullock’s communication, without result, and then adjourned. CANDIDATES FOR SENATORS. The acknowledged candidates for the Senatorship, to which Hon. Joshua Hill and Dr. H. V. Miller were elected by the original Reconstruction Legislature, and whose credentials are now on file with the Clerk of the Senate at Washington, are Genera, Foster Blodgett, General Super intendent of the State Road and late Captain of Blodgett's Confederate Ar tillery; Parrott, Radical Judge of Supe rior Court and Speaker of the late Recon slruction Convention ; Mott, late Military Mayor of Columbus, and Honorable At torney General for the State of Georgia, aod public prosecutor before the Military Eligibility Commission. All o' those reach out expectantly, expecting to promote re construction in the Senat. of the United States. Blodgett, however, has proved harper than all,even Farrow who had the making ot the Legislature, and evidently has the iaside-track. CHIEF JUSTICE BROWN TO BE REMOVED. It is rumored that -John Underwood, of Floyd, is engaged to take the seat of re calcitrant Chief Justice Joseph E. Brown. Present officers of the State House arc all to remain in office except Treasurer Angier, who is exceedingly obnoxious to his Provisional Excellency. THE RADICAL GAME. The Bullockites arc working hard, leav ing no stone unturned to have those hav ing next highest votes to the ineligible seated before proceeding to perfect the or ganization of the House. Atlanta, January 28, P. M. To-day has been the most exciting one of the session and another victory, by means of fraud, has beeu gained by the Bullockites. THE BALL OPENS IN THE LOUSE. The House ot Representatives met to day at twelve o’clocx, R L. McWhorter in the Chair. The Clerk pro tern, read the journal of yesterday’s proceedings. W. D. Anderson, of Cobb, objected to the reading. J. W. O’Neal, of Lowndes, moved that the action of the House yesterday on the message from Bullock, asking that the men receiving the next highest number of votes be given the seats of the members declared ineligible, be reconsidered. W. P. Price, of Lumpkin, objected to the motion to reconsider ou the ground that no notice had been given on yesterday as the rules required. The Speaker decided that the rule came too late to bo entertained. When this ruling was made, the excite ment became great, aud the confusion was such that it was almost impossible to hear distinctly anything that was transpiring. Several members from the Democratic side took the floor and attempted to get a hearing in opposition to the motion to re consider and the unfair ruling of the Speaker- McWhorter, however, refused to allrw any of them to speak, and put before the House the motion to reconsider. SCOTT MOVES TO ADJOURN. Amid the disorder and confusion which reigned, Dunlap Scott, of Floyd, moved that the Hcuse adjourn. McWhorter refused to hear or put to the vote the motion to adjourn, and the confusion increased every minute. Having overruled all the motions made, and refused to listen to anything the Dem ocrats wished to say, McWhorter put the motion to reconsider, and declared it to be carried. An appeal was then made against the decision of the Chair. McWhorter put to the House the ques tion : “t-hall the decision of the Speaker bo sustained ?” auo, the vote being taken, declared that it was sustained by a vote of sixry-eight yeas to fifty-eight nays. W. M. Tumliu, of Randolph, when his name was called, declared that the whole thing was premature, and voted against sustaining the Speaker. A FRAUDULENT DECISION. Tom tit Tweedy, ol Richmond, intro duced a resolution giving seats in the House toW L Goodwin, of Cass county; James R Thomasson, of Carroll county; William Guilford, of Upson county; James A Jackson, of Randolph county; Jacob P Hutchings, of Jones county; Henry C Holcomb, of Fulton county; Joseph Arm strong, of Booley county, and J B Nesbit, of Gordon county, in place of the mem bers from those counties who had been de clared ineligible. J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, rose twice and demanded to be beard ou a point of order, but the Speaker refused to recog nize him or to allow him to state his point of order, and put the Tweedy resolution to the House. The vote upon this resolution was then taken, but the noise and confusion was so great that the votes announced by many members were neither heard nor recorded. McWhorter decided that the resolution had been carried by a vote of yeas sixty five (05) to nays fifty (50), and called npon the parties named in the resolution to come forward and take the oath and their seats. SCOTT GIVES NOTICE OF RECONSIDERATION. Dunlap Saott, of Floyd, said ho gave notice that on to-morrow he would move a reconsideration of the vote, an 1 that consequonily the swearing m of these par ties could not proceed. lie also offjred a protest against it. McWhorter overruled the objection, and called upon the parties to come forward and be qualified. Dunlap Scott said that he would now make another motion to adjourn, and if the Ssoaker was aa honest man he would hear it. Another scene of confusion here ensued, and several members were speaking at once. Among others were Tweedy and Bryant, who came near having a collision upon the floor, Bryant denouncing TWEEDY AS A MISERABLE LIAR. McWhorter, in a vain endeavor to show that he was an honest man, put the motion to adjourn, and declared it lost. EIOHT INTERLOPING BULLOCKITES. The following persons then came for ward and were qualified ; W L Goodwin, of Cass county; James R Thomason (colored), of Carroll county; William Guilford (colored), of ' UpsoD county; Jacob P Hutchings (colored), of Jones county; Henry C Holcombe, of Ful ton county; C 0 Johnson, of Scalding county; Joseph Armstrongs, of Dooley county, and J B Ncsbit, of Gordon county. No credentials were offered by these men, but the whole were put through in a lump. ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE. The Speaker then ordere l an election for Clerk of the House to be held. Mr Scott rose to a point of order. He said there were others present to be sworn in, and called the names of the Representa tives who had been elected from the coun ties of Madison, Telfair, Marion, Wilcox and Irwin counties, under an election pro clamation from Bullock, aod demanded that they be sworn in. The Speaker said that they might be sworn in after a while, but that it could not be done at the present time. Mr. Scott then rose and said he and sired to say that, that if it were, as the Speaser had asserted, that he (McWhorter) was acting under positive orders from Bullock and General Terry then be had no more to say, but would submit to the bayonet; but if this unlawful thing was being done fey the Speaker’s own absolute will then he would be found attempting to prevent this and all other outrages of this day upon the constitution and laws of Georgia, and this flagrantly unjust trampling upon the rights of the House and the good people of this grand old, but down-trodden, com monwealth. This sentence drew forth immense applause from the crowded galleries, and the Speaker said he would have them cleared and his dignity (?) preserved. The election for Clerk was then ordered to proceed. When Scott’s name was called be de clined to vote as, he said, that he believed the Constitution and the laws of the State were being over ridden. THE BULLOCKITES MAKE A CLEAN SW’EEP. The vote for the Clerk having been taken, the Speaker declared that the re suit was as follows : Number of votes cast 128 Necessary to a choice 65 J. L. Newton (Bnllockite) 78 M. A. Harden 26 C.C. Cleg born 13 L. CarriDgton 7 Spalding 3 ! A. L. Harris 1 Another motion to adjourn was made 1 and declared to he lost, M. A. Harden. THE DOOR-KEEPER. An elcofion was then entered into for door keeper, and the result of the voting was declared to be as follows : ~r — Limcbcrger gj A. 11. Gaston, colored 57 A COLORED MESSENGER. An election for Messenger was then held and the result declared to be as follows : M. H. Bendy, colored 65 Jesse Oslin ......53 The House then adjourned. The galleries were orowded during the session, and their occupants see ned to greatly enjoy the row in the House which came near endieg several times in a general fight. TOM TIT TWEEDY AS THE BENIdA BOY. After the House bad adjourned, an assault was made by two or three of the Bullockites upon Bryant, which resulted in rather seriously injuring the latter. As has been stated, during the row in the House Bryant and Tweedy bocatne en gaged in a personal altercation, in which much hard language was used, and which resulted in Bryant's deaouneing Tweedy as a miserable liar. As soon as Bryant left the hall after the adjournment, Tweedy followed him out and demanded a retraction of the offensive epithet and an apology. . Bryant said he declined retracting it un less Tweedy would first retract the lan guage which caused him to be denounced as a liar. The fight then commenced by (tom-tit) Tweedy seudiag in one on Bryant’s jaw with his bunch of fives which inflicted slight damage. Bryant at this lifted his cane to strike, but was too slow, and Tweedy smashed him over the head with his stick. Bryant also received severe blows ou the head from several other parties and turning beat a retread into the Hall of the House. As he was going in the door J. 11. Fitzpatrick, ot Bibb, saw his head going by, let drive at it with a stick and followed Bryant into the Hall. Here Bryant turned on him with an up lifted chair and Fitzpatrick retreated. Bryant’s head is in a bad condition trom the blows of his uumerous assailants, and the physicians are now attending him. Atlanta, January 29, P M. After the storm of yesterday this has been comparatively a quiet day in the capital and the Senate proceedings have been of more interest than those of the House. terry reconstructs the senate. The Senate was called to order at ten o’clock this morning, and. after the read ing of the journal, an orJer from General Terry was read on the subject ol the eligibility of certain Senators. Ahhough Bullock had preferred charges against the Senators some time before he did the Representatives, yet, as he already had a good majority in that body, General Terry delayed making a decision in their cases until after he had manipulated the House so as to suit the Express Agent. Having accomplished this latter scheme it seems that Bullock, not satisfied with the strength which he already had in the Sen ate, desired to make assurance doubly sure, and, therefore, called upon Terry a second time for assistance. This succor was rendered to-day by the delivering to the Senate GENERAL ORDER NUMBER ELEVEN. This order as read was, in substance, as follows; Headquarters, j Military District of Georgia, j- Atlanta January 29, 1870. J General Order No. 11: Whereas, it appears, from the evidence submitted to the Board appointed by or ders from these Headquarters, for the purpose of inquiring into the right of cer tain persons to bold seats in the Senate, the Board finds that C. D. Graham, of the Third District, and C. B. Moore, of the Twelfth District, are ineligible to seats in the Senate. These persons are forbid den to take their sea s or exercise any of the functions of member-i of that body. And whereas, John J. Collier, of the Fourteenth Distriqj, havihg failed to take the oaths required in the act to promote reconstruction in Georgia, and having filed an application with the Governor tor the removai of his disabilities by Congress, thus admitting his ineligibility, he is also forbidden to take his seat in the Senate, or to participate in any of the proceedings of that body: * A.’ H. Terry, Brevet Major General Commanding. ineligible senators sworn in. As soon as the order had been read, a resolution was introduced and adopted, providing that a committee should be ap pointed to wait upon the Governor and inquire of him the names of those persons who had received the next highest number of votes to those members declared ineli gible. Messrs. Burns f.nd Candler opposed this motion but without success. ■The President appointed as this commit tee John Harris, Joel C. Fain and A. D. Nunnally- The committee after waiting upon Bub lock returned and stated that it had re ceived the names of Thomas Crayton, colored, Merritt Henderson, J. S. Dun ning, W. A. Mathews and J. W. Tray wick. A. LX Nunnally moved that a commit tee of three be appointed to inquire into the eligibility of these persons, but the motion was laid upon the table. After some discussion on tho subject, participated in by Messrs. Burns, Wooten, Merrill and Speer, Crayton, Dunning and Traywick were sworn in and took their seats in the Sen ate. THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS. An election .as then hel 1 lor Messen ger of the Senate, and A. A. Cameron was dec ared elected. An election was held for Door keeper, aod a neg j named William DeLyoD, from Richmond (?), was declared elected. An election was next ordered for a Speaker pro tem., and C. R. Wooten and John Harris were Dominated for the posi tion. After a ballot had been taken the vote was announced as follows: John Harris 19 C. B. Wooten 17 Harrii’ majority 2 When Karris’ name was called he re futed to vote, and when Wooten’s name was called he cast his vote for Harris. 0 a motion the President was instructed lo appoint a committee of five to draft rules for governing the deliberations of the Senate. The President appointed John Harris, C- B. Wooten, T. G. Campbell, colored, T. J Speer, and George Wallace, ai this committee. The Senate adjourned until Monday. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House of Representatives met this morniDg at ten 10 o’clock, R. L. McWhor ter in the Chair. Oo motion of J. M. Rio**, of Columbia, the oailing of tie roll was omitted. Dunlap Bcott, of Floyd, stated to the Speaker that be had given notice rhat ho would move a reconsider ition of the action taken by the House on yesterday. The Speaker ruled that it was a novel thing to make a motion to reconsider the election of members of the House. J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, arose to a point of order. He said the motion for reconsideration was made upon the resolu tion to seat the .members and not upon their election and qualification. The Speaker ruled that he would not allow the motion for a reconsideration to be put. BryaDt appealed from the decision of the Speaker. J. Ji Shumate said he hoped that the appeal wonld be withdrawn, as io a case like this anappeai oouldnot be entertained. Dunlap Scott, of Floyd, asked, by way of a com premise, to have the Journal cor reoted so that this notice of a motion to reconsider might appear upon it. The Speaker ruled that the notice had been of such a character that it was not entertained, and he would not allow it to appear on the Journal. J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, gave notice that he entered his protest against aDy action which might be taken by the House, on the ground that it bad been illegally organized. O’Neal, of Lowndes, moved that the Chair appoint a Committee to wait upon the Governor aud inform him that the or ganization of the House had been perfect ed and that it was now ready for the trans action of business. Carried. W. A. Line, of Brooks, offered a resolution that the Chair appoint a Com mittee or three to prepare rules for the government of the House. Carried. The Chair appointed as this Committee v A. Line, of Brooks ; R. W. Phillips of Echols, and J. W. O’Neal, of Lowndes’. annexation. James c. Nesbitt, of Dade, offered a resolution that the General Assembly should appoint a Board of Commission ers, consisting of 1 three members of the House and two from the Senate, to ne gotiate with the State of Tennessee fer the purchaic of that portio 1 of the terri tory of the latter, over which the right-of way of the Western & Atlantic or State road extends. The resolution was laid over uaril Mon day, and the House adjourned until tb it time. arrest of the little perjurer and TOM TIT TWEEDY. The assault made yesterday by Tweedy, the Little Perjurer, his cub El, and Fitz patrick, upon J. E. Bryant, caused the latter to-day to have a warrant issued against the Little Perjurer aud Tweedy on a charge of having made an assault upon him with intent to murder. Blodgett and Tweedy were arrested upon the warrant and carried belore a magis trate. The preliminary examination of the accused commenced this afternoon. [communicated ] I*l us Have the Law. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel; The following notice is from a late issue of your paper : Shippers and consignees of guano are notified that the Company will not be re sponsible for any damages .to guano that ( tnay accrue from rains or exposure. The guano being loaded and do ivered prompt ly at stations, it becomes the duty of con signees to receive immediately, ar.d not allow it to accumulate as it is now doing. By direction of the President. W. T. Williams, Agent. Will you allow one who is a considerable purchaser of guauo, to ask it this is not a mere bold attempt at the bluff game, in tended on the part oft he authorities of the Columbia Road to frighten planters from claiming their rights? We are accustomed to believe in the country that the railroads are obliged to take reasonable care of our guano when they receive it, and keep it for a reasonable time, or till after reasona ble notice to remove it, aod not that they can demand immediate removal and be re -1 lieved from all responsibility for damage. A planter wao buys five or ten tons even of ■ guano cannot remove it immediately, eve a i under the must favorable circu nstanees. | Has he not a rig it to use .inly 1 reasona -1 ble degree of diligence to do so, and hold j the road responsible for daung.-s iu the mi antime ? And if by such a notice as the above all the responsibility of the carrier of freights can be removed as to damage by rains or exposure, cannot it be as ca-ily applied to damage by fire or theft, or auy other cause ? Ido not know, personally, to what ex tent guano is “accumulating” on the Columbia Road, but the whole difficulty is that none ot the railroads have any provis ion or storage for guauo at all. They do aa immense business in hauling it, but go to no expense to taka e ire of it. If they provide facilities commensurate wiih their business, there would bo no complaints; because planters are generally reasonable aad prompt enough iu taking charge of their freights. Every other railroad in the country is hauling guano and getting on as well as it can, witliout attempting.such a fraud on its customers as to pretend to rid themselves of all care or responsibility’ by a bombastic DOtice. This Columbia Road has notori ously tho smallest depots and the least "ac coinmodation of facilities for business of any road leading out of Aug-i- ta. Its at tempt to remedy their faults is calculated to alarm planters along its route about their fertilizers, but it should not impose upod any one who will hold the road to is true responsibility as a common carrier. let us have the law of them if they suf fer our property to be damaged in their hands. Chistopiier. The Assault on Bryant. - On yes ter - day morning the Chronicle & Sentinel contained a special dispaieh from Atlanta giving an account of the cowardly assault made upon J. E. Bryant by Tom-tit Tweedy and others. The Constitution , of yesterday, gives the following account of the affair, from which it will be seen that the a sault was even more cowardlv than at first reported, and that the Little Per jurer and his cub also took a hand in the affair ; It seems that J. E. Bryant (Radical), in course of debate yesterday, alluded t Mr. Ephraim Tweedy as an “infamous lying scoundrel,” (thought by some to be a mild expletive). When the House adjourned,Mr. Tweedy met Mr. Bryant in the Hal! and demand ed a retraction of abusive language used by Bryant towards him in the House. Mr. Bryant refused tn retract. Mr. Tweedv struck at Mr. Bryant’s face, and Mr. Bryant replied by breaking his cane over Tweedy’s head. A whole pack of them now set upon Mr. Bryant, and Fitzpatrick, of Bibb, dealt him a blow on the bead from behind with a sbelalah. Mr. Holden happened up at this, time and held off Mr. Tweedy and tha Messrs. Blodgett, when Mr. Bryant unarmed ex cept with the Code of Georgia (a dead let ter now),, and exhausted from loss of blood, retreated into the Representative Hall, where he gathered a chair and de fended himself until rescue came. It is said there were ravenous cries among the assailants of “kill him.” A Disgraceful Business. A piece of petty trickery ha-just boco brought to our notice which de-crvis xpo: u -. Mr. George Long, the English classical sub-da r and editor of several cla-s ; c«, translated int i English the “Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurebus,” Ap American publisher proceeded io pinte this work, as there was no law to prevent bri do-ng, and and took the extraordinary liberty of prefixing a dedication to Ralph Waldo Emerson. This, readers were naturally led to infer, was a votive tribute Irorn the translator, instead of a mere interpolation of th piratical publisher. Thereupon Mr. Lon prefixed to the second English edition at, ue, from which this is an extract; “I have been informed that the Ameri can publishers have dedicated ihis tfau.la tion to an American. T have no objection to the book being dedicated to an Ameri can, but in doing this without my consent, the publisher has transgressed th ; bounds of decency. I have uover dedicate 1 a book to any man, and if £ dedicated this, l should choose the man who ■ mm, ed to me the most w irthy to i„- j i 1 t> that of the Roman • -Idler anl nhil e oplior * * * If I dedicated this litti book many man, I shonld dedicate it to him who 1,-1 the. Confederate armies again.-t th power fa! invader, aud reti-od from an uueq iai contest defeated, but rut dishonored ; t the noble Virginian soldier whose -alcnts and virtues place him’ by the side of the best and wisest man who sat on the throne of the Imperial Caspars.” A Baltimorian, who had beard of this tribute to General Lee, ordered the book, for the sake of it, through a bookseller of Baltimore. When it arrived from New York, he found that the note had been cut out, although it was the same edition from which the note had been quoted. Ao other Baltimore bookseller, who hi i u coffimi-sion to get a copy of the book in New York, with the note, reports that it cannot be had in New York. The conclu sion is ioevitabb; that British books are expurgated in New York to suit tie senti ments of American booksellers. The raoraiity of such a potformance Deeds to comment. The correspondent to whom we owe these facts exculpates Messrs. Pott & Amory, through wii m this expurgated copy of the book wa, o; ui.oed, from the meanness of multilatir.g it, aud concludes that it must ha-r been done before it came into tl. ir band . The book itself, in the original edition, \ , :n one o:‘ B iha’s series, aDd it behooves the American agents ot those libraries to investigate the outrage committed upon print;'pals and American bookbuyers.—A7 Y. Times. Jan. 24. Prevalence of Meningetis.—ln our last issue, we ohronicled the prevalence and fatality,in Edgefield, of this violent disease. We regret to say it has not yet' abated; Within the past week, there have been three deaths from it among the whites, and a larger number still among the negroes. The whites were youDg Pinckney another youth of fine character and pro mise (the taird within a fortnight,) and two interesting little boys of our esteemed friend the Rev. J. W. Barr. There have also been several deaths among black people of mature age, not caused by men ingetis. In the meantime, the weather is exceed ingly bad, changing constantly from Sum mer heat and thunder showers to intense cold and storms of pelting, wintrv rain Edgefield Ad ertistr. ' ’
