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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1870)
OLD SEMES, VOL. LXXVII. € urontclc & jh’nUnrl. TH-. *ls <iv KI'KDCKimoR. .. i>aii,t. : ■ .jp < i«c Till WHU X. ’ H 00 r mom '"'.'.'.'.'l'.'.'. V.'.Y.Y.ri uo W £ ZKJ. Y #,n ’ ■ 1 f» iwr...',!:!"'.:.!!"". 5 $ M KJiMi.'PAY MOKMIUJ, SKPTKMBKR2I. I'u kind. The Columbus Sun in commenting upon a recent speech of Capt. Durltp geitt, <lolivered in Home, insinuates that the viewi of that gentleman are influenced by i bo tact that 1.0 i.i hims.lf a candidate for Congress oral honors, and cannot take the test oath. We are sorry to find our friend of the Sun indulging in such unkind, and in this instance, wo arc quite sure, unjust stric ture j. We are pained to find a disposition among public journals to impute improper motives fur actions of gentlemen of their own party. Iho Sun has not, heretofore, indulged in snob argument! to support any of its o ' n positions, and wc think that its comments upon Cant. Scott’s speech Lite rcrult, m >ro of histe in the expression of its v,(!«r», than a deliberate intention to do Capt. K. injustice. Ho vv is This J Ibe Koine Courier asks how it is that the election of Judge Stephen’* by the Executive Committee is applauded by some who insist that the other action of the committee was illegal. Wo think we can give the Courier the desired information. I here were hut five members of tlie committee present— it required eight to make a quorum. Judge Jackson, General Wright and another member of the coin- j mittoe, whose name escapo us, sent proxies with authority to cant their votesfor Judge Stephen!. He received t fie fee votes of the members present, and the votes of the three proxies, making eight in all— a. major ity of the members composing the Com mittee. In regard t,o the other action of the Committee, ils the published call for the meeting contemplated only the election of a Chairman, no instructions or authority was given, as wo learn, to the proxies for any such acth n. Hence, while the elec tion of Judge Stephens was formal and legal, (lie recommendation of the Commit tee, in regard to candidates, coming as it did, from a minority, i* without authority and is not binding upon the party. The State University. A correspondent of an Atlanta paper, writing from Athens, charges the Chboni <i k A Sentinel witli being engaged in pnbishieg libels upon tbo Htato University. Wo would prefer attributing this gross falsehood to the ignorance rather than the malevolence of tlie writer. The Chronicle Hi Sentinel has never at any time ad mitted into its columns libellous matter against the University. On the contrary, this paper lias been the uniform, constant and warm supporter of the institution ever since it lias been under our control. We have supported it, and urged its claims upon tho patronage of the publio, not be cause of the existence within its precincts of secret oath-bound clans, but despite of their existence, and becuuso we thought that, with these serious drawbacks, tlie high character of its officers, the learning and intelligence, and cultivation and moral worth of its Professors, entitled it to ii geiummat patroxiMflc. The degree of credibility to bo extended to this correspondent will lie best deter mined by reference to the following extract from his letter : “Your journal “has twenty subscribers among ns where “other journals have one.” Until lie can make this statement good, which wo call on him to do, he had better confmo his literary ami epistolary efforts to the dark recesses of his secret conclave. Another lhuilel Home to Judgment. Sain’l J. Randall, chairman, may be en dowed with extraordinary powers. Among these ho may possess tho power of prophecy or divination. He may ho tho seventh son of a seventh son; he may have been born with a caul; his birth may have produced a serious convulsion of tlie elements ter restrial and celestial; a bloody moon, an obscure sun and blood red sky may have attended tlie entrance amongst us of a prodigy who should, in alter years, com mand tlie admiration of an entranced world. All these things may be true, though the only evidence which as yet tho world has had of his wonderful powers is to lie found in the following special tele gram to the Atlanta Constitution : Special Dispatch to the Constitution. Washington, September 10.—No mem ber of Congress who cannot take tlie iron , bid oath will be admitted. Mr. Stephens’ advice will bo fatal, if followed Wo respectfully urge the nomination of only such as can take that oath. Sam. J. Randall, Chairman. The honorable Samuel speaks of the ac tion of a Congress not. yet elected, and which dots not meet until one year from next December, with as much certainty as a seer or a prophet, llow does he know that the next Congress will continue to exact the iron-clad oath ? Does he speak thus of its future action from what lie knows of the past conduct of the Radical party ? Is his decision based upon the idea that the Radicals will “probably hare » majority in the next House? Does he believe they will? .Mr. Randall had better ask himself, and answer these interrogatories, before* he volunteers advice in a matter where such advice is justly regarded as impertinence. The very committee of which Mr. Ran dall is chairman has announced to the public the belief that the Democracy would have a handsome majority in the next House of Representatives. If we arc not mistaken they have tigurod up the ex pected majority and it amounts to ten votes. Does be intend to say that a Home with ten Democratic majority will continue to insist upon tha requirement of the test o ith from Southern members ? If this be true it is t : me ike fact was made known to the Southern public. We have been again and again ■ a’d by tho Northern Demo j cratic Press, and speakers that this odious J tost oath would be abolished as soon as the Democrats obtained tho power. They Love made votes at the North and West upon this pledge, and they have secured ! friends a' the South upon it. If it is j false —as Mr. Randall’s telegram seems to ; imply—it is rime that tho shabby false hood should be exposed. Will Mr. Randall favor us with another , telegram on this subject--wo are anxious to hear his “sweet voice again.” m Extensive Hardware House.—One ! of the most extons.ve hardware bouses in the South is that of Messrs. Hart & Cos., Charleston, S. C-, whoso advertisement will be found in this morning’s paper. 'They have the most complete stock cl hardwaroofall kinds, of which they are, in a great measure, direct importers. They have their wholesale establishment at 39 Hayne street, while their retail busi ness is conducted at tho old stand, corner King and Market streets, and occupied by them for many years. The fact of their beiDg direct importers enables them to offet inducement* to interior merchants and dealers, even better than can be ob tained in New York. Merchants visiting Charleston tlis fall will find it to their iu~ terest to tall on Messrs. Hart & Cos. Unjust Attack npon Judge Stephens. A correspondent of the Constitution cads on Judge Stephens to resign the post of Chairman of the State Executive Com mittee, the reason given being that, the views of the Judge on the eligibility ques tion are not io unison with the great bod, of the Democracy in the State. If this correspondent bad said that Mr. Stephen’s views were not in unison with a little clique or ring of Atlanta wirepullers who imagine they carry the Democracy ot the State in their breeches pocket, he would have been very Dear the truth. Bat it will be quite difficult for the Constitution or its correspondent to show that a ma jority of the people da not concur with j Judge Stephens. We insist that Judge Stephens has dor.e i nor sai'l nothing which wanants such au open and gratuitous insult —except, per haps, he has failed to recognize the At- j lanta clique as the whole Democratic party ’ of the State—and that neither the Con- I'itution or its correspondent reflects the j popular sentiment in making this insult* ■ ing demand. It may be and it is quite likely that it is true that Judge Stephens differs from large numbers of tbs parly on certain questions of expediency not affecting tho great principles upon which the party is founded, but does such supposed differences upon mere questions of policy require that for the good of the party be should resign tho high position to which he has so reoently been unani mously elected? We differ from Judge 3tephens in relatior to the eligibility question. Ours is a difference of opinion, quite as serious we are led to believe, as any which exists in the State. Wo think that the 14th Amendment having been pro claimed by the proper authorities as legally and constitutionally adopted, is a part and p-irceljof that instrument, to be obeyed as sueh until it is repealed, or judicially declared inoperative. On this question we are willing to allow as wide a latitude of opinion as we claim for our hclvcb. The Democratic party has not made a strong devotion to that amendment a part of their creed. Asa party ques tion it has no place at all. We agree to tlie proposition that no one should con tin le to hold the place which Judge Stephens now Gils, who is opopsed to bis party on the groat questions involved in the canvass, sfod upon which the party itself is formed. It would be an exceedingly bad prece dent to establish, that when upon any question of mere party expediency an in significant minority of the party shall differ from the Chairman of the Executive Committee, the malcontents have the right to (loinaml his resignation. Such a rule would work great wrong upon the great body of the party, whose voice would thus he stilled by tlie bluster of a few. In the name of common decency, ami in the name and on behalf of tbo real Demo, cracy of tho State, we protest against this unjust and ill-advised attack upon Mr. Stephens. We insist that the good of the party, and its prospects for future success depend upon his firmly maintaining his present unsought position. No Autliorify for the Action of the “Five.” The recommendation ofthc]Congrcssion al Executive Conunitlco to tho peoplo of tho Southern States in relation to tho se lection of candidates for office in the ap proaching elections, seems to be relied on by those who insist that none but test oath men shall b; nominated for Congress. The roconi rendition—tho entire address ot that Committee was read in the late Dem ocratic State Convention, on tho mofion ot a distinguished delegate from Thomas county. After that address was read the business Comuimitte was appointed, who reported a platform of principles and advice to the party, in which not one word was said about eligibility! It is well known that this matter wa3 freely talked over among tic leading mem bers of the Convention, tho evening and morning before the Convention assembled, and it was the unanimous opinion of mem bers that this subject should not bo mooted—that it should bo left to the dis cretion of the party in each district, to bo acted on in each, just as the exigencies of the occasion might require. If this wise contlusiou had been adhered to by the floe gentlemen of the Executive Com mittee, who met on the Ist instant to sc leot a Chairman, wc we would have had no trouble whatever on the question. If the assembled wisdom of tho Convention, consisting as it aid of several hundred of the most patriotic and intelligent gentle men of the State, hositated to assume the power of directing the party on this deli cate subject, upon what pretext could the five gcDtlemen of the Committee assume to act on so grave a matter ? lint those who defend this action of tho five say that tlio Congressional Executive Convention advised the course adopted by them. But we have shown that tho Con vention itself declined to tako action on the ad tice of this Congressional Commit tee, and thcreforo the State Executive Committee, the creature of the Conven tion, had no right to involve the party in a squabble upon issues which the body who created it had refused to recognize os le gitimate. If trouble arise out, of this unfortunate controversy it will all justly lie at the door of the five who, unwisely and without warrant, thrust it before tho public. It is j in no sense a party question, and as it has ! been made, perhaps the best thing that can now be done is for each constituency to act in regard to it just as they may think best tinder the circumstances by which they arc surrounded when they come to make their Congre.sional nominations. Tlie Military in Jefferson. We learn that tho military force now in Jefferson will ho withdrawn on the 21st instant. The cit zmsof that county speak i in the highest terms of the firmness, cour ' tesy and gentlemanly bearing of the officers, and the general goo ! conduct of the meD, during the time they have been quartered j with them. Since the termination of the trials of the negroes, the officer in chatge of the command at Louisvillo has been directed by Gercral Terry to confer with our cor respondent there and endeavor to ascer tain the truth of Cudjo Fye's dtclara’.ioDs of the complicity of high civil officers in his la*c insurrectionary attempts. We trust he will give the matter a thorough investi gation. [communicated ] Striven Delegates to tae Agricultural Congress. EiUtors Chronicle it Sentinel: The Paris Hill Agricultural Club, of Scrivcn county, met to-day, September 10th, and after discussing the business for tho day, the Chairman, on motion of Captain J. R. Cooper, seem Jed fcy J. R. Humphries, Esq., appointed the following gentlemen delegates to the Agricultural Congress to be held in the city of Augusta on the 26th October, 1870 : Captain J. R. Cooper, Geo C. Dixop, J. R. Humphries and J, C. HoJingsworfb, and, on motion of the Chairman, R. T. Lawton was added. , It was then requested by the members of tho Club that the names of the delegates be published in the Chronicle Sen tinel. of Augusta, Ga., and the Savan nah Daily Republican. Geo. C. Dixon, Secretary pro tern. September 10, 1870. The Stowe pavoment is to be laid in Sa ; van nub this week, on Bay street, from 1 Drayton to Whittaker, A Good Man ha* Fallen. A special telegram from Milledgeville conveys the sad intelligence of the death of General John AY. A. Sanford, long and favorably known to the people of Georgia as a leading citizen and patriotic gentle , man. For more than a third of a century Gen. I Sanford has been prominently before the | public as a tried and trusted public ser ! vant. AVhen qnite a young man lie com j raanded the Georgia troops in tlie Indian wars in which the State was engaged with I the savage tribes on our Southern and ! Western borders. During the Seminole j and Creek wars he acted with conspicuous ! gallantry, and received honorable recog nition for liis valuable services. In the latter campaigns he won the esteem and favor of General Scott, who very early discovered his strong and marked abilities, and on different occasions entrusted to him the directiou of important movements. AVhen tlie late war between the States broke out General Sanford, then more than sixty years of age, volunteered as a private in the 4th Georgia regiment, and strapping his knapsack upon his back, shouldered his musket, and marched to the defence of Virginia npon the first call for troops for the defence of that State. His regiment was stationed near Norfolk for the protection of that place and the navy yard, and for many months lie per formed the duties, and bore the fatigue of constant camp and guard duty, so trying to the health and spirits of a Southern soldier. In the election which was held for Colonel of tlie regimont he refused to permit his name to be run, esteeming a private station the post of honor. The long months of heavy guard duty, and the inactive campaign which followed, broke down bis health, and, at the earnest so licitations of his friends, he reluctantly consented to retire from a service in which it was impossible for him to per form active duty. Returning to the State he did not, like many others, lose his in terest, or diminish his zeal in the good cause, but devoted his time and influence in strengthening tho arms of tlie brave men who he had left in the field. General Sanford was for many years a leading member of the Democratic party, and in 1850 was the President of the Union Convention which nominated Gen eral Cobb for Governor. He was frequent ly in tho Legislature of the State, and, we believe, was :> member of tho State Convention of 1861. He was appointed a commissioner to Texas from tho State of Georgia to inform that State of the seces sion ofGeorgia andaik her to unite her destiny with the young republic. Since the war he has been a steady and uncomprcmising opponent of Radical re construction, and on a memorable occasion refused, in a large assembly, to take the hand ol Governor Brown, just after the lat ter bad joined the Radicals. General Sanford, we suoroap. was up wa;ds of seventy years of ago. He was a good neighbor, a devoted friend, an af fectionate husband and father, and leaves many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. We esteemed him as a patriot and ioved him as a friend, and sincere’y sympathise with his family in their sod bereavement. His Exereseency in Trouble. We devote a large portion of our avail able space to day to the publication of tho correspondence between hi? excrescency, Rufus 15. Bullock and Joseph H. Wilkins, Esq., in relation to the Jefferson insurrec tion. It will be seen that Bullock comes oil second best from the encounter. The affidavits with which Mr. Wilkins backs up the statements of his previous letters to the Chronicle At Sentinel, show satisfactorily to our mind that Bullock was the prime mover in the whole outrageous affair. The fact that Cudjo Fye had but just returned from Atlanta, whither ho had been sent by the negroes as a representa tive man, when he immediately commenc ed the organization of his “benevolent clubs,” ana his repeated declarations that he was fully authorzed by Bullook to per fect these organizations; his fl : ght and attempt to reach Atlanta immediately af ter the outbreak in Jefferson to report to Bullock his action, '•’ho fact that the conduct of Cjdjoand his “benevolent” as sociates was in the direct line of Bullock's! oentmued and persistent efforts to produce! a collision between the races, when taken together, shows a chain of strong presumptions which nothing in the past official conduct of Bullock sufficiently re pots. We admit that such testimony produced against a man of strong personal character —of faithful administration and honest im partiality in tho enforcement of tho laws, would be of less weight than when offered against such a known piomoter of race-, disturbances as Bullock. Nothing in his past ifficial conduct rebuts the strong pre sumptions raised by these declarations of the Jefferson conspirators. They confirm the popular judgment upon his course, aod we believe them to be true. LETTER FROM MORGAN. * On the Wing, September 10, 1870. Editors Chronicle <fe Sentinel.' The adjourned term of tho Morgan County Superior Court, convened on the 7th inst., Judge Robinson presiding. As usual at such courts, there was a small attendance except on Tuesday and Wednesday, which were occupied in the trial of a railroad case, which elicited con siderable feelmg and interest. It seems that several months ago the wife of Mr. Wynn, of Putram county, wa9 travelling in a carriage, and when near the Georgia Road a train passed, at which the mules took fright and started to run, aDd she leaped out and fulling Iractured her skull, from which, in a short time she died, and the hu-band waged suit aeaiDSt the com pany for damages to the amount of twenty thousand dollars. Judre Rccfc, of Mor gau, and Col. Lawson, of Putnam, were for the plaintiff, and Cols- Billups and Foster, of Madison, for the defence. Alter a trial of near three days the jury returned a j verdict aeainst the road for seven thousand ! dollars. I heard some express their sur prise at the verdict, and thought railroad e.irpoiations had a poor showing before the courts c.f the country. Several other eases were disposed of, -nil ihe docket is quite heavy for the regular session in November. The crops through Morgan and adjoin ing counties are said to be very good. The cotton crop will not yield as much as was expected, but most of the farmers will | make plenty of corn. Improvements are still goiDg on in Madison and by another year this town will present as tine business houses as any other in Middle Georgia. The hotel is now in tho keeping of Messrs. Morgau & oon, who well sustains its reputation, and vie with their predecessors in catering to the public taste. Traveller. State News. Talbot county is talking about an agri cultural fair another year. Bainbridge has two baas ball clubs and two debating societies. Albany has a debating club and now wants a skating rink. Anew National Bank has been char tered in Rome. The Brown House, Macon, has from sixty to one hundred new guests daily. Temporary sheds are to be erected on the north side of Bay street, pending the building of the new market house in Sa vannah. The game for tho championship of base ball in the State is to be played at the Ceotral Fair, Maoon, next month. The Wesleyan Female College, Macon, will open on October 3d ; its thirty-second annual session. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 870. The Agricultural Congress. The following named agricultural socie ties have appointed delegates to the Agri cultural Congress as follows: The Tennessee Agricultural and Me chanic Association of Nashville will be represented by Messrs. R. H. Gardner, Robert C. Foster, H. A'aughn, John Over ton and A. G. Adams. The Gcodwyn Agricultural Club cf Ox ford, North Carolina, appoint Messrs. S. A. Goodwyn, R. A. Gregory, C. A- Gregory, D. M. Dunlap, E. H. Hicks, R. J. Hicks, and N. A. Gregory. The Farmers’ Club, of Montgomery oouniy, Georgia, appoint Messrs. Durean J. Mcßae, John A. McMillan, and Geo- H. Ratehford. The Spalding (Ga.) County Agricultural Society appoint Messrs. S. AV. Blood worth, C. Peeples, W. W. Chapman, 11. P. Johnson, and John H. Mitchell. The State Societies of Louisiana and Mississippi have called their Directors to gether to take action in the matter- Almost every Scciety throughout the Cotton States have signified their hearty approval of the Congress, and will be rep resented. Can’t be Driven. Those members of the Democratic party who are in favor of presetving their own self-respect, and the honor of the State untarnished, will hardly be driven from the ranks by the clamor and ill matured criti cism indulged in by certain Democratic presses. For the sake of harmony and for the higher and nobler purpose of preserv ing the integrity ot the party, and thereby securing the defeat of the Radicals, these' advanced Democrats may be induced to yield somewhat of their own views on mere questions of expediency. But, we under take to say that such articles as that which appeared in the Macon Telegraph & Messenger on the 11th iost., headed “Found a Champion,” will never influence them in the slightest degree. The Messen ger would do well to remember that the party in which it assumes leadership is not too numerous when all true Democrats are included within its folds. ■ Tho Meesenger may need the assistance of true Democrats even in its own district, to securo the elec tion of its whitewashed candidate. But if the course adopted by that paper is follow ed to any extent by the Democratic papers and speakers in the State, tho defeat ot the party is already produced. As good men in every respect as the Messenger and its friends—those who were as true to the people of the State and tho cause of tho South during the war—those who stood foremost in the ranks of the noble and daring band who dared to oppose the iniquities of the original and subsequent reconstruction acts—those whose influence and courage contributed so largely to hold the white men of the State in a firm, com pact and invinc'ble mass against the en croachments of Federal power, and the treachery of Southern scalawags—the men who have stood proof against the blan dishments of bribes and the threatening* of power—these men form no insignificant number of the Democracy of the day, and when the white washed begin to road such men out of the party we think they will find that they have undertaken rather a big job. There arc no truer, nobler, abler, pa triotic men in the State than those who believe that the policy of selecting candi dates for Congress alone from the ranks of those who have been white-washed by the influence of Radical friends, and gal vanized into political existence by the edicts of a revolutionary Congress, is hurt ful to the party, ami to people of the State, while it offers inducements, to weak men to look to Congress alone for future political promotion. These men can be illy spared from the councils of the party at this moment. Yet the Telegraph & Messenger declares that they “deserve “public censure and an indefinite exile “from the honors and favor of the Demo “cratic party.” The men who are thus threatened with party disgrace and party humiliation have made no war upon a single Democratic principle. They have not failed in any of their party obligations. They have cautiously abstained from making unkind or ungenerous remarks about tbe conduct of those who differ from them in mere matters of party expediency. They even now- desire to preservo harmony and good feeling among all the members of the party. And, what is more, they are determined that the little band of white washed disorganizes in tho State shall not drive them from the party organiza tion. They claim, and justly claim, that they are the true Democracy. They have interpolated no new creed in the time honored principles of the party. They have required no new and infamous tests for party patronage. They stand by the principles of tbe party as laid down by tbe late State Convention, and all they ask is that no further or new tests be grafted on those principles. It will be a sad day for tlie people of tbe State when the Telegraph & Messenger and its friends attempt to drive from the Democratic party the men who have stood by it in sunshine and sorrow—who have defended its principles when to do so in curred the wrath of military despots and subjected them to the dangers of military bastiles —who have given their time and talents, and money and labor, in the cause when timid time-servers were hiding in secret places or making terms 'openly with the bitterest enemies of the State. The people are just. The people are true- The people know their friends. The peo ple do not resort to the lists of the galvan ized, by Congressional pardons, to find the names of those who have been true to them through evil as well as good re port. To the people we look with con fidence in the approaching canvass. We wish it to be understood, we have made no war on those who honestly differ from us in relation to these ques j tions of mere expediency. We are willing 1 to allow the same latitude in tho forma | tion and expression of their opinions that we claim for ourselves. We have not and do not propose to make concurrence of viers on this question, a test for party } fealty. We are quite willing that our Democratic fiends shall be allowed the I largest latitude on this point. But we deny the right of any one to set tbem i selves up as par exeeUence the party, and require an abject and complete submis sion to their views. Nine-tenths of the Democratic party we are satisfied agree ' with ns in the main io the views which we have expressed. They will not permit a ; little minority, to crack the party whip ! over their heads. We desire'harmony. We ! arc willing to do any thing to preserve and I promote it except to surrender princi ple or to betray the true men of the coun ! try. Kflomi Canvass In South Carolina Special Telegram to the Courier. Marion, 8. C., September 12. There was a large and enthusiastic Re form meeting here to-day. General W. W. liarlee was in the Chair, and very effective speeches were made by Jud.e Carpenter, General Butler, Colonel Ken nedy, and the Rev. Jonas Byrd. The arguments advanced by the Re formers had a most excellent effect on the hearers, and it is positively believed from circumstances surrounding those present, that the colored men were awakened by the truths they heard, and went off with greatly changed view3 of the two parties. The white and many of the colored men are ve r y sanguine that the country will give the Reformers over a thousand ma jority. After the meeting Hayne, a Radical candidate for the Legislature, tried to get up a short notice row, but he was utterly unsuccessful. News from me Capital, Ihe Atlanta Cabal—The Rexcutive Com mittee — Judge. Sttjhens' Letter— Demo crats Bough t by B’odgett. [special oorkesposdeice of the CHRONICLE A SENTINEL-1 Atianta, September 13th, 1870. Editors Chronicle k Sentinel; _ As the action of ihc Democratic Ex ecutive Committee, which net here on the Ist instant, has earned considerable fer ment in the parly, it may jo ot some in terest to your readers to ifcrn the cause which led to this unprctjdented action. There is a small knot <i noisy Demo crats here who endeavof to create the impression that they are the Democratic party. They make morecoi* in the bar rooms, in the billiard salsons, on the street corners, and in thelobijes and ante chambers of the Opera Hone, than any other cla=s ot persons. Tiny affect to dictate Democratic measures' and assume the right to apportion Detmfratic offices, among their own class and t£ir adherents. It is true that many of the:| are suspected of “beiDg no better than thy oeglit to be” —some are believed to recede financial aid and assistance from the limbali-Bullock ring—some are warm shut friends ot Blodgett—some are: ctiviobby agents at the capital and some g os their living no body knows how. / These men arc active/.? will as noisy. They fly from the h/els to the Opera House —from the Op/ a l House to the lager beer saloons—frqft the beer saioons to the railroad offiee— p fact they are ap parently übiquitous-Eeeming to be every where at the same tine, and always earnest workers for the natter in hand They assume the privilege of dictating party platforms, and forcatheir candidates upon the public as itnpqiously as Louis Na poleon dictated thi vote on plebiscitum They make and untrake party favorites— they create or they tistroy at will, public reputation or fame. No one out s.de of the charmjd circle of this self constituted star chamber is permitted to enter tho arena if politics with the slightest hope of siccess. No bill is al lowed to pass the orjeals of the Legisla tive Committee rtprns without their sanction and approval. They supervise legislation, direct political movements, control party nominatijns and dictate the’r own terms and views « the people gen erally. Their organiz'tion is perfect, their drill and di-cipline aduirable. Every one here, feels their powei and inwardly fear as they outwardly cringe to it. There happens to hi, just now, an ani mated canvass in thisfiistnet for CoDgress. One of the candidate's the favorite of the Atlanta ring. Ihe opposition to him is able, vigilant and actre. The whole dis trict is aroused, and the feelings of the masses are supposed o be strongly against the “ring’s” favorite. It happens furth er that the favorite Las been whitewashed —his strongest opporants have not been. It still further happens (hut, a personal friend of the favorite is a uember of the State Executive Committee, and was present conducting and coctrtiliing tho meeting ot five members on the Ist instant. It hap pens—strango coincidence —that the per sonal friend of a candidate for Congress in the sixth distriet, was also among the im mortal five. This sixth district candidate has been kindly relieved by a Radical Con gress of his political disabilities. It hap pens that the friends of two other gentle men in the sixth district arc urging their claims for a nomination—neither of them have been relieve and of the necessity of sub scribing to the test oath. These latter gentlemen are very popular in the district, and if the people were allowed to select a candidate, free from outside pressure, one or the e ther of them would be nominated, and the ‘believed” friend of the Commit tee man left out in the cold. Now, if your readers will take tbe trouble to put these facts together they will find no difficulty in arriving at the true reasons which induced the Commit tee’s action. But five members of the Committee were present. Two of these had personal friends to serve. The At lanta ring influence was brought fully to bear on the Committee, and the result was —Young in the SeveDth and Adams in the Sixth Districts are secured a nomination, and tho party is dissatisfied, torn and dis traded. , ■me here are reeling now under the able and manly blows dealt them in the splendid letter of Judge Stephens. Unable to answer his arguments, or to ap preciate the high patriotic motives which prompted it, they run from street corner to street corner, frantically calling upon him to resign. The truth is the letter of Judge S. broke the back of their little cabal and they whine and squirm and twist like a “Pig broken down in tbe loins.” If for no other cause the country should thank Mr. Stephens lor this salu torv effect of his letter. Your readers must not understand me to assert that the cabal alluded to in this letter embraces the body of the in telligent and earnest men of the party here. This is by no means true. The Democracy of Fulton county and of At lanta outside of the cabal, are devoted to the welfare of tlie party without reference to its effect upon friends or favorites. They do not assume to dictate to or control the Democracy ot the State. They affect nosuperior acumen, no exclusive privilege. They are bound to the great body of the party in the State by the strongest ties of principle aod make common cause with all who upon principle oppose the present corrupt State Government. There is a general desiro expressed in Democratic circles for an immediate meet ing of the Executive Committee. It is said that memb. rs of the Committee have written to the Chairman requesting him to call a meeting at once. The Legislature still drags monotonously along. Having already disposed of the “hundred and one” railroad State aid bills, the lobby is sensibly diminished in numbers and rapacity. Some little excite ment is caused by the recent introduction of a bill to postpone the fall elections until late in December. The opinion seems to be general that such a bill cannot pass without the aid of so-called Democratic member". It is openly charged here that Blodgett has pledges trosn si sufficient number of this class to insure tho passage ot the bill. It is not generally believed that those pledges will be maintained. Fulton. From Columbia County. Columbia. County, Sept. 9,1870. Editors Chronicle <& Sentinel: The citizens of Columbia county met a., Appling on the 7tli inst. for the purpose of discussing the propriety of nominating candidates for the next Legislature. J. P. Williams, Esq., was elected Chair man, and, by request, Dr. H. R. Casey, in a few' pertinent remarks, stated the ob ject of the meeting, after which he offer ed the following preamble and resolutions: Whereas, An attempt has been made, by members of the Radical party, to effect a split in the Democratic party of this county, by urging inlividuals to announce themselves independtnt candidates tor the Legislature, and promising the assistance of the Radical party in electing such men, and, Wiiei:ka3, Me believe this course is intended to defeat tie Democratic party in the approaching campaign ; therefore, Be it resolved. That it is tho sense of this meeting that ii is inopportune and premature to annoince at this time can didates for theLegidature. Resolved, That mtiee be published in the Chronicle & Sentinel, and in va- j rious public plaees in the county, that on Tuesday of the next Superior ; Court, on the adjournment of 6aid Court for dinner, a meeting be held for the pur pose of nominating candidates ler the Legislature. Resolved, That we hold it as not cniy impolitic, but assuming on the part of any man or men to anootnee himseli or them ■ selves candidates in advance of the pubuc sentiment which we iopc to have expressed ; on that occasion. i On motion the mieting adjourned. W. T. Williams, President. W. T- O’Neal, Secretary. The Columbia Crnnty Agricultural »o --i fifty also had a meeting, aDd elected the j eollowing gentlemen to represent the Sq i eiety at the approaching Fair and Agri ' cultural Congress : H. R. Casey, Charles i H. Shockley, J. E. Benton and George 1. j Stovall. j. Wayne Moore, convicted of forgery in Savannah, and seJtenced to four years imprisonment by Judge Sable?, in June j last, has been pardoned by Budock. i Captain L. E. Johnson, a Savannah merchant, died a few aay3 since of para j lysis. The third annual agricultural fair will be held in Eatonton, Ga., the 12th, 13th and 14. hof October, 1870. Books open for entries October Ist. The grand jury of Monroe county cen sure the Ordinary for the issue of county money, and recommend that no further issue of it be made. JEFFEHSOY COUNTY! THE NEGRO INSURRECTION ! AFFIDAA'ITS IMPLICATING BUL LOCK! CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BULLOCK AND OUR COR RESPONDENT ! [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE te SENTINEL.] Louisville, Jefferson County, | September 13, 1870. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : I send you herewith some affidavits, and a cony of a correspondence between Gov. Bullock and myself: [copy.] Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5, IS7O. «/. 77. Wilkins, Esq , Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga. : Dear Sir : — I have read a letter signed by yourself, published in the Chronicle k Sentinel of the 3d inst., dated Louis ville, Ga., August 30, 1870. In the course of this letter, you speak once or twice of the allegation that the ne groes in Jefferson county had authority from me to organize clubs and enforce cer tain rules therein mentioned, which rules were, iu effect, to take the law in their own hands. You say. “their leader an nounced that he had seen Governor Bul lock, and had his authority from him to organize these clubs, and to enfoice these rules.” I have seen similar intimations in edi torial articles and anonymous correspond ence in the several newspapers within this State, but yours is the first publication of it that has appeared over a responsible signature ; and I trust you will do mo the favor to give me specifically the evidence upon which you make this statement, that the negro made the announcement referred to, together with any evidence which would be likely to lead yourself or any other respectable citizen to believe that such, or any similar authority, had been given by me to this or any other negro. It is perhaps unnecessary for me to add that the allegations are entirely without foundation in fact. I have solicited Judge Gibson to do me the favor of presenting this letter to you in person. I am, sir, very respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock. Louisville, Ga., Sept.'7, 1870. Governor K■ B. Bulloch: Dear Sir :- -Your favor through Judge Gibson is just received. Perhaps half tbe prisoners now in jail awaiting their trial, at their commitment trial, stated in their defence, or rather in their confessions, that their leader, Cudjo Fye, had stated to them at their meeting that he had seen you, and had his orde.s from you author izing him to carry out what be proposed. To-morrow, if I can spare the time, I will get up some affidavits from these and for ward them to you. Only a few minutes since one of the prisoners, (Richard) Roberson, in pleading guilty, stated to the Court, in the hearing of a large audience, that Cudj ) Fye was the “head man” of all their clubs, ia the county, and that he had showed books or papers, which he said had came from you, authorizing him to carry into execution the plans which had brought him into trouble ; and had ho not, have believed that Fye was acting under jieur ciders thet he never would have joined with him in breaking open the jail, &c., &c. ' I will further add that when I arrested Fye, in M icon, that he was then on his way to Atlanta to report to you and to place himself under your protection. Os course I do not and have not vouched for any of these statements, I regret that the negroes in this county have been laboring under such erroneous ideas, as it has already caused much trouble—been the of subjecting the county to heavy expenses—and I do cot know how long the had effects arising from the belief will las*. I will add further that many of the negroes now believe that when they are sentenced to undergo imprisonment in ttial Jou will either abridge their time or pardon I Would like very much to eradicate such ideas from their minds, and will adopt any method cr suggestion whereby they can he convinced that you will not uph.ld them in doing violence to the law. I bavo made these statements not through any desire to say unkind things, but merely to vindicate myself, and to cor rectly inform you of the true state of affairs. I am now reporting for tho Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel a full account of these trials, and asl know that your name will be mentioned by many of the prisoners—would it not he doing justice to yourself, and all parties to publish your letter and this reply? I am, veiy truly, yours, J. 11. Wilkins. Atlanta, Ga., September Bth. 1870 J, IT. Wjllcms, E q , Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga : Dear Sir lam in receipt of your esteemed favor of the 7ih inet., in reply to mine of the Sthiust., and by it I atn ad vised that the only foundation for the al legations against myself arc the state ments that are made by colored men, now prisoners, who relate certain sayings and doings of one Cudjo Fye, whom they say has shown bo As or papers which lit said had come from me, authorizing him to carry into execution the plans which had brought them into trouble. Now this seems to me to be hardly suffi cient to justify even a reasonable suspicion that I had instigated insurrection, es pecially in view of tbe other fact, that this Cudjo Fye, has himself, been a prisoner since the fust report was made, and in the hands .ot tlie feed authorities, and from him the book or papers, if any or some thing tangible, could ha-e been de rived to sustain these allegations again-t me if the allegations real'y had any foun dation in fact. I am under obligations for the courtcsty of your reply, and will not object to the correspondence being published, although my preference is to avoid everything of the kind. It was not my purpose to attem't the correction of reports that are made against myself for political effect, but simply to ascertain what ground you whom I believe to bo one of our best citi zens—had for believing this outrageous allegation, and to satisfy you that it was untrue and unjust to rue, both personally and officially. I aui, Vey respectfully, Rufus B. Bullock. [cop? J Louisville, Ga., Sept, 10, 1870. Governor R. B. Bullock, Atlanta, Ga. : Dear Sir : You favor of the 18th inst. just received. For your kind and flitter ing allusions to myself please accept my thank". Ia ano politician—h-ve never had or wished for any office —and have no desire or ambition even to mingle in the muddy waters of party and politics. The interest I have displayed in these negro troubles has been prompted purely from a desire to allay ail unnecessary excitement, and to brirg to light everything connected with them —their origin, their inception—in or der that no similar efforts in the future will ever be attempted. You will notice in all my communica tions your name is very prominent, and, perhaps, you will think that L must have some motive in making such frequent reference to ycurself. I will be candid and state fully my reasons, and, though you may not approve of them, yeti trust you will give me credit for sincerity and an honest earnestness to do my duty. My reasons for laying such particular s,tress upon the statements made by Cudgo Fye to his clubi are, because, in Jn'y, he wan the only delegate from this county to the Radical or Republican Convention in At lanta. He was nominated by a large as semblage of his party. They. raised money to defray his expenses, and, of course, the reports brought back by him were credited. As soon as he returned from this convention he organized these clubs, making the statements everywhere that he had gotten his orders from you I while at the convention. To strengthen this vie-w of the matter, in an adjoining j county the same statements were made by | a prominent representative fronl that : oounty, and clubs were organized upon pre j eisely the same basis. Now, while I i would not have you think that I fling j these charges at you, yet candor constrains i me to say that almost the entire negro population in these counties believed these reports-, brought back to them by their I delegates, and were ready and anxious to \ act them out, simply because they believed j they emanated from you, I regret to ! state that the negroes in this section are j firmiy of the opinion that you will uphold : them in any combination they may enter | into against the whites. During our late j excitement, in attempting to intimidate j them from their lawless endeavors, I sev -1 eral times remarked that if toe had not the force to arrest and punish them, that I would ca 1 upon you, and that it was your duty, asTrovemor of ihe State, to come to our rescue and see that they were punish ed. But every time I was taunted with the remark that you was their friend, and would do nothing agaiDSt them. Fye, on the day of the breaking open of the j til, remarked to several o: our most prominent citizens that he was perfectly willing for you to pass judgment on his acts, and that he intended to report what he had done to you. Now, whether mean, designing politicians have been thus de luding and pa dering to their prejudices, or through their ignorance, taking it for granted that, inasmuch as they contributed so largely to your election, that, therefore, you were under obligations to protect and uphold them, I know not. But it is patent, that this idea, coming from whatever source it may, is firmly believed by them ; and if such a belief is continued, is ‘per sisted in, it will be a fruitful source of trouble for the future. My motive, there fore, in giving sueh publicity to these pro cedures, is that you may know them and they may know them, and the whole coun try tray know them. Then, perhaps, some step will be taken to correct such false im pressions, and the negroes be made to un derstand that there is but one irrevocable law, and that I, and they, and the highest officials must obey this law, and that the Governor of the State is sworn to, and will see to it, that this law is faithfully exec ited. The negroes iu this section are very ignorant, not one in an hundred can read or even sign his name. They have no idea but that the large proportion of our law is but mere fiction, gotten up espc dally for their detriment, and that they can never get justice. They know not what is transpiring outside the limits of their own observation, they get all their information from a few leaders ; whatever reports these leaders give them they im plicitly believe. 7 may tell them that they are being Lad astray, that their Cudjo Fves are bad, mean men, and will not bo able to carry out their promises in upholding and protecting them. But it is talking against the wind. To illustatc, as soon as I returned from Atlanta with the soldiers sent by General Terry fur our pro tection, I went down with Lieutenant Mil ler (the officer in command of these sol diers), to the Neely plantation, where there were reported several hundred discontented negroes with arms had assemlfed. When we reached there the most of them were secreted in the woods, perhaps twenty of them appeared and conversed with Lieut. Miller. To his conversation with them Lieut. M. remarked that it was against the law to break open a jail, that it was wronc to band together aud resist the constituted authorities, and that if they persisted in mch things that the State and Government would punish them. Ooe of their spokes men would frequently interrupt Lieutenant M., by remarking “You are no Yan kee,” “that aiut the wav they talk to us.” Many of them actually believing that these United States officerswero some ot our men dressed up in uniform to in timidate them. What course can we then pursue with such ignorant, deluded peo ple—if white men under the guise of friendship will thus deceive, and prejudice and mislead them ? Do you blame us for being over active in making everything public, after they have been arrested and thwarted in efforts which, had they been successfully carried out, would have in volved cur county in confusion, lawless ness and bloodshed? Ido not attempt to fasten the guilt upon any one. I only do sire to give prominence to all the facts, so that the whole people may know the exist ting state of affairs—and theo perhaps some united plan may be suggested and adopted, whereby such evils for tho future can be prevented. In reply to a portion of your letter, 1 will state that Fye himself ha’ made no confessions since his arrest. He ba3 denied everything, even his leadership, or even having taken any active, prominent part. He has shown himself a thorough, hard ened, fearless scoundrel. All those state ments wero made by him prior to hia arrest. After his anest, he woulJ give noevidence against himself or any one. Ho went away to the penitentiary expressing his belief that he itoaid be alio ,’ed to remain there od!v a short time. At this trial I was opposed to the con sent being given that if he plead guihy that the jury would recommend him to mercy, and thus the death penalty be com muted to an imprisonment. But the prosecu i*> s ■Atio’rirciy oYmrrxftnl HIC, and, pardon me for saying it, their reason for overruling me was their belief that if he was sentenced to be hung that ho would be pardoned and again turned loose upon this community. I hope you have taken no offence at the exceeding openness and plainness of my statements, for no offence is intended. I think it but right that you should be made acquainted with everything that has trans pired. I am, truly, yours, J. F. Wilkins. P. S.—The reason why no papers or books have been gotten from Fye is, be cause he was arrested in Macm. lie had only one note about his person—this note was from one of his officers of a club at Bartow, saying that he had forty men at his call. .The supposition, of course, is that Fye, before leaving home secreted all his papers, and they have not yet been dis covered. rcorv. i Georgia - Jefferson County. Personally appeared before me, John G. Jordan, a Justice of the Peace of said county, the undersigned, who, being duly sworn, say, that Cudjo Fye has stated iu their hearing that he had authority from Governor Bullock to organize clubs, tbe object of which should be: To release from rhe jails all members of the club whose sentence they did not approve of; to col lect all debts due any member, the pay ment of which was relumed. Sworn to and subscribed before me, September 8, 1870. John G. Jordan, J. P. his Andrew pj Scott, mark, his Richard Bank.-’, mark, his Eli Adams, mark. his George fxj Sherman, mark, his Mace '/i, Jackson, mark, his Furry pj Beall, mark, his Tom PI Brewer, mark, his Moses pi Cunningham, mark, iris Dave pi King, mark, his Sol. tp Shr.lmas. mark. ! i" I'r' rc pi Burton, mark. I,to Sol. PJ Wuiichead, mark. his Madison pi Walker, mark. b’S Robert Pi Jones, mark, his Ardiey pi Hubbard, mark. [copy.] Georgia -Jefferson County. Personally appeared before me, John G. Jordan, a Justice of the Peace of said county, the undersigned, who, being duly sworn, say that Cudjo Fy s has stated in our hearing that he had authority from Governor Bullock to organize clubs, the object of which should be: To release from tbe jails all members of the clubs whose sentence they did not approve of; to collect all debts due any member, the payment of which was refused ; to compel officers at elections to receive tire votes of members whose votes might be refused on account of the non-payment of taxes. Sworn to and subscribed before me, September Bth, 1870. John G. Jordan, J. P. his James Pi Sherman, mark, his Roger pi Shelman, mark, his - Wesley pi Cuming- mark. The venerable Dr. Lovick Picree, the father of Bishop Pierce, is at his home in Sparta, in feeble health, from the recent accident on the railroad. It is hardly possible that the contractors 1 will get the bonus of $5,000 for tbe com j pletion of the new Atlanta depot by 00-1 1 tober 10. i NEW SERIES, YOU. XXTill. NO. 38. TJic European War. PRUSSIAN LOSSES. The Berlin correspondent of tho Times, writing tindci date of August L 2 says: “At length the first official loss' ? iu ths field have been made public. They only fulfil too complote’y the melancholy antici pations with which we saw the troops go *UK “ut to tho war. Although restricted to ntacers, and referring only to a few in troductory engagements, they oontain figures which will not easily be erased from the minds of men. 1 will just you a few examples. As 3’ou may be aware, a Prussian regiment on a war foe ing has 3.000 men, with 09 officers. Os these 09 officers, the 74th regiment (Hanoverians) lost no less than 30 in killed and wounded at kVisemburg. “The 77tfi (also Hanoverian: ) on the same occasion lost 25 officers; tho 30th (Rhinelanders), 26; the 82d (Hessians), 19; the 9V.h (Thuringians), 16 ; tho 83,1 (Hessians), 14; the 531 (Westphalians), 11; the 88th (Nassauer.-), 9; the SOth (Hessians), 8, etc. Still worse was it at Woerih, where the Prussians were for five mortal hours opposed to the French, who were stationed on the hills and could not be dislodged until taken in flank by Wur temburgers aDd Bavarians. There the 58th regiment (Poseners) hati 32 dead and wounded officers; the 59th (Poseners), 23; the 7th (King’s Grenadiers—Lower Silesians and German Poseners), 35 ; the 47th (Lower Silesians), 29; the 40th (Lower Silesians), 33; the 57th (Lower Silesians). 30; the Gth (Westphalians, 28; the 37th (Westphalians), 25, etc. What terrible conclusions must be derived from these statistics in respect of the higher grades as to tho number ot" casual ties among rank and file I need not say. But tho most frightful carnage of all in the earlier part of the campaign was at Spicheren, whose steep and precipitous heights, defended by a tearing fire from cannon, mitraliousos, and chassopots, were ihrice assaulted iu vain, and at last carried at tho point of the bayonet. On this spot 10,000 Prussians, gradually increased to 2LOOO, and struggled against 40,000 French. Though the official list docs not yet extend to this sanguinary encounter, there can La no doubt as to the correctness of the private intelligence forwarded me, which tivos the total losses as 2,297, of whom 811 arc dead and 1,450 wounded. Accordingly, every twcifih man was killed or wounded. Some companies left nearly halt their men on tho spot, as, for in stance, tho fifth company of tho Forty eigth (Rhinelanders), which went with 250 men into tho fire and came out with 129, and the first company of the Eighth (King’s Own, Braudenburgers), v/hicli, on the evening of the battle, consigned 107 comrades either to the grave or the hos pital. Passing on to the tremendous three days’ battle near Melz, wo have but private intelligence, and this only re ferring to individual detachments; yet wc know already enough to imagine the rest. On the fourteenth, in the aetion named after Pangc or Courceiles, the Forty-eighth (Rhinelanders) lost thirty-two officers and 891 rank and file; in other words, about one-third its complement. A rifle battalion in the same local ity was by the enemy’s fire deprived of 9 of its officers and 270 rank andfilo—t. e., of a tuird of tho officers and a fourth of the men. On the 14th as well as on.the 16th —the latter being the battle of Mars-la- Tour or Vionville— the losses of the Prus sians wore comparatively greater than those of the French, the former being ou both occasions greatly outnumbered, ye. helding fast to the enemy with a bull do-.’s tenacity to give their main force time to come tip and engage him in rigßt earnest. At Mars-la-Tour the best blood of the, country was spilt like water. Within a’ few moments, t y the unexpected unmask ing of a mitrailleuse battery, Gaunt Wes tarp, Count Wesdelen, Baron Kleist, Henry VII., Prince of lleu-s, Baron Grimm, Baron Witzleben, ami many other noblemen of high rank and position, were killed. The grand finale at Ktzonville, cr Gravelotte, on the 18th, where the Prus sian hosts at last assembled in strength, are said to have suffered a loss of 18,00(1 combatants, was worthy of the beginning. Nor did the French suffer less. In the three actions near Me’.z they had nearly 15,000 dead, and 40,000 dead, wounded, and prisoners together. THE PF.USSIAN ARMIES. Mr. Halstead, editor of tho Cincinnat Commercial, writes a letter from Pont-n --ilousson, dated August 10, in which ho tints speaks of the Prussian armies: “1 was endeavoring to say something of that hill, which is almost a high mountain, and which I ascended yesterday evening. The ruins of tho castle, on the very sum mit, are very extensive and most interest ing. There are heavy, rugged walls, heaps of debris fallen ages ago, and upon the precipitous side of the mountain (our folks w ill not, unless I call it a mountain, think of it as high enough), are reinainsof a wall four feet thick and ten high. There is not within twenty miles a point of land equal to tliis in elevation, and if I had not used up tho word magnificent I would employ it now in describing the landscape. Allow me, any how, to say tho scene was one whose magnificence exceeded even its historical Interest; and of the tilings seen were six columns of troops drawn from the roads into the fields to rest for the night, ami w-agon trains—shall I say again those trains are endless ?—toiling along. “I do not know what we are to do with this German army. It it continues to come during the next as during the last eighteen hours, I shall have doubts as to the capacity ot Franca to furnish it stand ing room. For half an hour an artillery train has been passing my window, which looks upon the principal street, on the westward descent from the stono bridge. The drivers are giinsr by with the.r horses on tho lope—keepioir the gunners on the keen run—guns and wagons clang aDd clatter, dust and roar; whips popping, horses snorting, men saying never a word. I d'd not intend to allow myself to bo as tonished by the proportions of the Prus sian army, but [ must confess to a feeling akin to amaz moot. This is not, indeed, an army so much as a nation on the march. Here are forty armies-a deluge of men and horses. Napoleon’s army, as it started for M i-eow, had not half the number of combatants in this colossal horde.” VICTOR HUGO AS GENERAL BRAG—HIS ADDRESS TO THE GERMANS. Paris, September 9.—Victor Hugo has written an address to the Germans, of which the following is an extract: “You may take tho fortress—you will find the rampart. You may take the ram part—you will find the barricade. You may take the barricade, and then who knows the resource i ol patriotism *in dis tress? ‘ You will find the sewers mines of pow dcr, ready to blow whole streets into the air. This will be the terrible sentence. You must expect to take Paris stone by stone ; to slaughter Europe on tho spot; to kill France in detail—in each street—in each house. Th it great light must be ex back. Pari-is formidable. Think awhile before her walls. “All transformations arc passive for her. Her indolence gives you the measure of her energy. She seems to sleep ; she will awake. Her thought will leap from its scabbard like a sword, and this city, which yesterday was Sybaris, to-morrow may be Saragossa.” IIaDAME GEORGIA SAND’S SALUTE. Georgia Sand salutes the new regime in tbe following words: “Republic! She must have life in her, sineo she rises again from her ashes by the voice of all; by the will of which she is worthy; without the spilling of blood ; without fratricidal strife. Behold her third awakening ! It is ideally beautiful. The third? Say rather the fourth, for we must not forget that in 1830 she was republican at the beginning. We have fought for her only to !ose_ her. To day she rises complete, with a single word, Vive la France ! This, then, is the nor mal state which the conscience of humani ty desires, this i3 the inevitable end of the prodigious toil of humanity. It it wed. It is the law of intelligence. The manli ness of man can only develop in the air of freedom. Behold the God of Armies; his name is country and liberty. Had to the Republic. Thou art in good hand-, and a great people are marching under thy banner. After tho bloody expiation thy task is hard, but should it happen to thee to fall once mere, thou wilt rise again. The rights of man are imperishable. These and similar appeals have effect on the people, and strengthen their determi nation to defend the city to the last. THE CARE or THE WOUNDED. Brusseir, September 9.—Mr. Sanford, Minister of the United States, has jnst returned from a visit to Bouillon and along the French frontier. He writes a letter to the Independence Beige, in which he asks tho Belgian Government to send an official to tho frontier to supervise measures for the relief ot wounded prisoners. In what has already bten done he says the conque rors have acquired fre-h title to the re speet and esteem of mankind, while forging anew link in.the chain binding the brotherhood of nations. BY TELEGEAPH. From Atlanta, [SPECIAL DISPATCH to THE CHRONICLE it SENTINEL. | Atlanta, Ga., September 12,1870. Senate. Bradley moved to reconsider tae bkidaway Railroad bill, which was tablet. Among the bills passed are the follow * -1 o create a Board of Commissioners t >r Ivoads and .Revenues for Glynn county: to authorise tho Southwestern Railroad to subscribe stock to the Americus and iOorence Rairoads; to amend an act in corpoiaUng the Camilla and Cuthbert H ill road; and to grant State aid io the Georgia and Western Railroad. House. A resolution to pay eaoh mem- K hundred dollars, was passed. A hill was read the first ttrno for an elec tiuuoi members of the General Assembly, and a.so to suspend the statute of limita tion uatil the State is fully restored—De cember twenty-seventh. I he School bill is made tho special order • r to morrow, m the House. A resolution of enquiry relative to the i- .utes quota of Congressional grant of land mr the Agricultural College, was adopted. A reso.ution to appoint a Joint Commit tee on wild land bills, was adopted ; also, a resolution to appoint a Joint Committee to ascertain what price the lot adjoining tae capitol could be bought for. A point, was raised that a quorum was not present, eighty-two members answer ed Ihe roll call. -he Speaker decided that a quorum was present. A bill to authorize the Central Railroad to straighten their track was passed. AFTERNOON SESSION. Fitzpatrick demanded a roll call. Only seventy-one answered. Half an hour af terwards eighty-one answered. Captain B>cOi t made a point of order that 3 c ,?u 3l ]! ut ' oDal Quorum consisted of 88. the Speaker ruled the point well taken. Motions to adjourn were lost. After one hour s delay, Tweedy iu tho Chair, ru ™ there was a quorum present. I ho bill to authorize Bibb county to levy a lax on property of tho Central Railroad ior county purposes was recommitted. Fitzpatrick again made a point that there was no quorum. Pending tho roll oa 1 the House adjourned. bfifteen or twenty colored employees of the Cartersvillo and Vanwcrt Railroad are ■ r -°‘ , cy s ?„ y they were never paid for their labor. ffi>ey havo been ordered to the Brunswick and Albany Railroad with PR/ rolls. Ihe negroes don’t like the move ments. V U^, ted States District Court for .Northern Georgia, in consequence of the ajsence ol Jadgo Erskine, was adjourned until Thursday by the United States Mar shal. It is proposed to call a Sunday School C invention during the Fair to consider t *!tir wants and tho best measures to pup-" piy them. Ati.antv, September 13, 1870. Senate. —Tho morning was devoted to the consideration of a bill to render bonds granting State aid to railroads— illegally used and sold under ninety cents in i ;iu dollar—null and void, and granting the right of any citizen to be a party to the proceedings to restrain a company • ' "'it illegal use. The bill was passed ever. There is strong opposition to it. 1 Omsk.—Rawls offered a resolution seating the representatives from Irwin and Telfair connties. Darnell made a point of order that it was not a privileged question, and could not be taken up without a suspension of tho rules. The Speaker pro tern, Tweed v, over ruled the point. Johnson, of Towns, made a point of or der that ai question, ouce determined, could not be entertained. Tweedy ruled the point well taken. 1 .awls appealed from the decision of the Chair. liv eedy said if those members were suited the J louse goes behind General Meade’s proclamation, and that would bo revolutionary. The ruling was overruled by yens fortv nfm-, nays forty-rtnir. Johnson, of Towns, moved to indefinite ly postpone the resolution. The motion was not entertained. Ou a call for a division, Simms and Por tzr, and about one-half of the Republican members left the house. f here were but seventy-one members led, when the Speaker pro tern, decided that no quorum was present. Shumate offered a resolution that the House now adjourn sine die, and that the Governor be informed that it was necessa ry to disoslve the General Assembly, inas imich as there was a sufficient number of disaffected members to defeat legislation. The resolution was not acted on. • AFTERNOON SESSION. After one and a half hout’s delay there wcis no quorum present. The Republicans dispersed in order to dodge the question. Gen. P. M. B. Young was unanimous ly nominated at Cartcrsville, to-day, for Congress for both terms. Iho Convention oppose tho nomination of ineligibles. L. N. Trammell, o! Dalton, has been nominated as Senator for the forty-third district. Atlanta, September 14,1870. a ? E!, i A ™-i —® c ‘ Date considered the oCiiool Bnl, and adopted four sections. Among tho bills introduced were the following: To prevent minor children marrying; to lease the State Road or to sell the State Road for five million dollars, lo bo paid for in Georgia bonds, to a Northern Company. House.—A resolution, imposing a fine ol eighteen dollars on members absent without leave or without good excuse, was adopted. Yeas 88 ; nays, 15. A resolution to scat Messrs. Wilcox and Smith of Telfair and Irwin counties, was ad'uitad. Yeas 57 ; nays, 49. Price offered a resolution to seat Samuel Ward, ol Madison county : M. Clower, of Monroe ; J. V. Heard, of Miller ; and W. B. Butts, of Marion. Turner moved to refer to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. He said tho Radical party was dead in the House and State for the next twenty years. Lost. Fitzatrick offered a joint resolution to adjourn sine die. Tabled. Price's resolution was adopted—yeas 52 ; nays 23. AVTEIiNOON SESSION. The afternoon session was excited. (Shumate offered a resolution to adjourn sine die, on account of tnrbulent members preventing business. linled out. The Governor informed the House that the State cannot get her quota of public lands until representatives are admitted to A resolution to expel members acting a turbulent manner by a two-thirds vote was passed. A resolution to meet at ten A. M. and adjourn at one P. M. and to meet at eight P. M. and adjourn at ten P. M. daily, was passed. A bill authorizing public schools in At lanta was passed. Judge Linton Stephens, in a letter, de clines to run for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District. lie declares tho Chairmanship of the Democratic Execu tive Committee vacant. Reason—no quo rum. Attorney General Akerman is here sick Untraceable Quotations.— A liter ary correspondent of the New Orleans Sunday Times solves the question of the origin of two hither-to untraceable quota tions, which have puzzled literary circles in the Orescent Oily, as well as in the North. They are ''consistency’s a jewel,” and 'Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear.” The first appeared originally in >lur tagh’s Collection of Ancient Engli-h and .'c tch ballads, 1754. In the ballad of ‘ J dly Robyn lioughhead” is the follow ing iines in which it appears : Tush! tush my lasse ! such thoughts re signs, Comparisons are cruel), Fine pictures suit in frames as line, Consistencies a jeweL For thee and me coarse clothes are best, Rude folks iu bomeiyo raiment drest, vVi/e Joan and goo'datau Robyn.” The second first appeared in verses written in an old memorandum book, tho author not recollected: “Sweetheart, good bye ! the flutt’riog sail Is spread to waft die far from thee, And soon before the fav’ring gale, My ship shall bound upon the sea, Perchance, all desolate and forlorn. These eyes shall miss thee many a year, But uoforgotten every charm Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear.” The first, like many others that have become household words, from frequent use, has been attributed to Shakspeare, from whose prolific brain, came so many similar rich and sparkling gems.
