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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.
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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. ' ’