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WSDXSBBAT MOR!H!»e, JULY 26.
OIK ATLANTA LKTTBB.
Tbc letter of our Atlanta correspondent
is worthy of general attention. The facte
disclosed show an amount of venality and
corruption in the Executive office, which
almost staggers belief. We have, on
several occasions, called attention to the
profligate and wasteful expenditures of the
State’s monies by Bullock, with the hope
that exposure would deter him from
further spoliations upon the people. But
we have been disappointed. Money flows
like water from the Treasury vaults into
the pockets of his favorites and accom
plices. This matter must be thoroughly
probed by the next Legislature. It is due
to the people that their representatives
shall diligently inquire into the score of
“pardons" and "rewards'’ which have
been granted.
It will be seen that the evidence in the
State Treasurer’s office proves conclusively
the statements which we made yesterday
in commenting upon Bullock a letter to
the Congressional Ku-Klux Committee,
in relation to the comparative expense of
the present and Governor Jenkins’ ad
ministration. We direct special attention
to this portion of our correspondents
letter. _____ .
MB. CULYKK’S LITTIB.
We again repeat that we are not re
sponsible for the political views expressed
by the correspondents of this paper. In
publishing these communications we do
so merely that our readers may see for
themselves the drift of public opinion.
Mr. Culver states hit views with force and
clearness, yet we venture to say that he
greatly mistakes the tone of publio senti
ment in the South in relation to the action
of the Radical party since the close of the
war.
Mr. Culver says “ they (the Democratic
party) have (acquiesced) and will ac
quicsoo in the amended Constitution and
all laws made in pursuance thereof.” If
to “ acquiesoe ’’ means to submit, no oon
fusion can arise; but if it means to rest
satisfied—to concur upon conviction—to
acknowledge willingly—then there is a
wide difference in our views. In our ap
prehension, the Democratic party “ ac
quiesces” in two of the amendments, and
the laws made in pursuance thereof, now
just as the Democracy in the days of the
elder Adams aod of Jefferson acquiesced in
tho Alien and Sedition laws. No more, no
less. The Democracy of that day acquiesced
in laws which eveD that rabid Federalist,
liildretb, the historian, was forced to ad
mit “might have proved” “a terrible
instrument of tyranny,” and rather ex
pressed relief because they no longer dis
graoed tho statute book of the Great Re
public. It is true that the Sedition law
expired by limitation on the 4th of March,
1801, But tho people “ acquiesced” or
submitted to the law so long as it remain
ed operative. Lyons, of Vermont, and
five or six others, suffered the iniquitious
penalties of this infamous law. But the
sort of acquiescence which obtained work
ed a political revolution whioh hurled the
Federal party from power and ejected
John Adams from the Presidential chair.
This is tho original Ku-Klux bill, and,
whilo it possessed the cover of no special
amendment to tho Constitution, and af
forded no protoxt for open interference
with tho ballot, \ it nevertheless aroused
tho fiercest indignation among the people.
Our modern Ku Klux bill promises a like
result.
Alabama Teachers’ Convent ion.
Montgomery, Am., July 19, 1871.
Editor* Chronicle tfc Sentinel:
Pursuant to a call issued by 001. Joseph
llodgoon, the accomplished and indefati
gable Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion in this State, the county superinten
dents and teachers of public and a large
number of college professors assembled at
the capitol this morning.
Colonel Hodgson waß chosen permanent
President, and Mr. Langham, formerly of
Warren county, Georgia, but now of this
city, was elected Secretary.
Rev. B. F. Peters, of Fayette, set down
lor an address on the “Public School Sys
tem of Alabama,” did not arrive in time,
hence this part of an excellently arranged
programme was postponed.
Gov. Lindsay was invited to address
tho Convention. Ho soon made his ap
pearance in the hall, and proceeded to
make a plain, practical speech, in the
course of which he proclaimed his friend
ship to the public school work, commend
ed the good objects of the Convention,
and pledged any assistance in his power
in furtherance of the laudable aims of the
school men of Alabama.
The Governor has just returned from
New York, where he disposed of the
Htato’s quota of agricultural land scrip at
90 cents per aore—realizing about $200,-
000, which, under the law, must be ap
plied to the support of a College of Agri
culture and Mechanio Arts. This institu
tion will doubtless constitute a part of the
State University.
Commodore Maury and his newly elect
ed professors in the State University are
here. The Commodore has aocepted the
Presidency of tho University, tie advo
cates pursuing the polytechnic line of
study in the establishment. Whether his
oolleaguas will agreo with him or not re
mains to bo seoD. The Commodore is
certainly on the right line. We want more
practical and less superfluous oumculums.
Rev. Dr. Wadsworth read a most ex
cellent and eloquent ossay on the “ Educa
tion of Morals. The Doctor is well and
favorably knowo in Georgia. He is a man
of fine presenco and great earnestness.
His views were concurred in by the Con
vention.
At night, Col. Jno. W. A. Sanford, a
relative of our own Professor Sanford, of
Mercer University, delivered one of the
most chaste, thorough, oharming, and
elevating addresses to which it has ever
been my privilege to listen. Os command
ing figure, ho has beautiful eyes, a sono
rous voice, and captivating grace in
delivery. His theme was: “Tho In
fluence of Literary Studies Upon a Peo
ple.” He left nothing unsaid.
Loraine.
During the month of« June, 338,110
letters were sent to the Dead Letter offioe.
Os those, 235,600 were ordinary domestic
letters ; 42,600 were leoal or drop-letters ;
28,582 were held foe postage, misdirected,
or otherwise unmailablo ; 2,825 letters
wore addressed to parties who had left,
and whose whereabouts oould not be as
certained ; 3,878 were addressed with
fictitious names ; 607 wore registered let
ters ; 8,750 wero letters originating in the
United States and returned from foreign
countries; and 18,266 were sent from
abroad to persons in the United States
who oonld not be found. During the
same period were returned to the senders,
without enclosures, 172,536 letters ; 1,815
letters enclosing in the aggregate $8,675 02;
1.594 letters containing drafts and cheeks;
2,310 with receipts and other papers of
value; 946 with jewelry and other prop
erty enclosed ; 3,693 containing photo
graphs ; 1,345 with small amounts of
fractional currency ; and 3,6b7 containing
postage stamps to different amounts.
An Important Decision. —The United
States Supreme Court has decided that
tbe limitation laws of the Southern States
were suspended for the full period between
the proclamation of blockade of the South
ern ports of April 19th, 1801, and the pro
clamation of restoration of Federal author
ty of August 20th, 1866, The effect of
this decision will be to reopen the Courts
of the Southern States to ante-war claims
of Northern creditors, and to give vitality
to obligations which have been barred by
limitation under the hitherto reoeived
ruling of State Courts, The principle
will apply equally to Federal and State
Courts.
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition,
1871. —We have received * beautifully
printed premium list from the Prtmdent ot
the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, which
opens at Cincinnati Wednesday, Septem
ber C, 1871, and continues until October 7.
We have also received the report for U"0.
The exhibition this year is promised to be
on a much more extensive scale than that
of last, and exhibitors are invited to make
early application for space.
Letter from Atlanta.
Bullock's Raids on the Treasury—As
tounding Development! —Immense Sums
Paid on Executive Proclamation* Who
Got the Money 1- Judge Gibson in At
lanta— Bullock's Statement About the
Comparative Expenses of. His Oku
and Governor Jenkins' Admnutrations
Moved False -Heavy Haul on the
Treasury in favor of Bullock, Conley <&
f/0., as Proprietor* of the Georgia
Printing Company, dec , Ac,
[special correspondence op the CHRON- I
IDLE k SENTINEL.! J
Atlanta, Ga., July 18, 1871.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Events are transpiring in and around
the Capital about as usual, but I propose
in this communication to give you only
some of the late doings of oar (?) Govern
or. Bullock is oo one of his extravagant
sprees again, and State money is flowing
freely from the State Treasury into the
pockets of bis favorites.
On the 6’.h instant a warrant was paid
in favor of E. C. Murphy and W. W.
Rasbury for six thousand dollars “ for j
services rendered under Executive order- |
This amount was paid them for their ser
vices in- the Fish murder case in Macon
county. That murder has been a most
expensive one to the State, the various
sums paid out already amounting to Dear
ly ten thousand dollars, viz.: To Colonel
W. A. Hawkins and General Phillip
Cook, one thousand dollars each for fcgal
services; other attorneys, five hundred
dollars ; Murphy and Rasbury, six thou
sand dollars, besides the expenses of the
Attorney General.
But Bullock’s latest and best is a fixe
thousand dollar warrant drawn id favor
of G. M. Hood for simply arresting Jas.
Oxford, charged with the crime of murder
in Hancock county. Tho circumstances
are about as follows: Sometime in 1867
or 1868 Oxford committed murder, was
arrested and confined in the Hancock
county jaii. In October, 1869, a party of
Oxford’s friends went to tho jail, over
powered the jailor, and released him.
Bullock, oo tho 31st of Janaary, 1870, of
fered (by proclamation) a reward of five
thousand dollars for the arrest of, "with
evidence to convict,” said Oxford. Time
passed on, and on the 23d of last March
Bullock, by special order, revoked his
proclamation of 31st January, 1870, and
on same day (231 March, 1871) issued an
other proclamation, offering a reward of
five thousand dollars simply for the arrest
of said Oxford, leaving out the words ‘ with
evidence sufficient to convict.” When this
last named proclamation was sent from
the Executive office to the Secretary ol
State’s office to be recorded, I found,
upon an examination of said record, the
following note, which was Bullock’s in
structions regarding said proclamation :
"Mi. Flesh (who is one jof Bullock’s
private clerks) says it is the Governor's
order that the above (referring to said
proclamation) be recorded , but not pub
lishedin the newspapers, until farther or
der, of which time the Governor will not ify
the Department of State, and that Judge
Gibson be furnished with a certified copy.”
Said proclamation has never been publish
ed. Judge Gibson was in Atlanta on the
22d and 23d of March last and left on the
24tb. Judge Gibson was furnished a
certified copy of said proclamation.
The most peculiar thiDg in connection
with these large rewards is that tho war
rants are seldom presented at tho Treas
urer’s counter by the parties named there
in, but by someone of Bullock’s particular
favorites’. Don’t you think this rather
queer ? Now, who Mr. G. M. Hood is,
I do not know (may be Judge Gibson
does), but the warrant for five thousand
dollars, drawn in his name, was not pre
sented by him, but by a Mr. McCalla,
the present proprietor and keeper of the
reoords of the late management of the
Stato Road.
Now, to an inquiring mind, taking all
things into consideration, the question na
turally arises: Would any one be so
wasteful of the people’s money, and so
reckless and profligate with his reputation,
unless he derived some benefit from these
large rewards ? Ido not say such is tho
case, but I have heard tho same inquiry
many, many times of late.
Bullock has paid, by Executive war
rants, to one Allen J. Bell, brother of the
Comptroller General, five thousand dol
lars for making a list of returned wild
lands in the State, when he has been re
ceiving regularly for more than two years
a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per
annum as Wild Land Clerk in the Comp
troller General’s office.
According to Bullock’s financial state
ments, made to the Ku-Klux Committee at
Washington, Governor Jenkins expenses
for the last ten months of his administra
tion were only two hundred and seventy
one thousand one hundred and forty five
dollars and fifty-six cents, while Bullock’s
expenses for the year 1869 were one mil
lion eight hundred and fifty-seven thousand
eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and
ninety eight cents, showing Bullock’s aver
age expenses per month to be one hundred
and fifty-four thousand eight hundred and
eighteen dollars, while Governor Jenkins
average expenses per month were only
twenty-seven thousand one hundred and
fourteen dollars , making Bullock’s average
monthly expenses one hundred and twenty
seven thousand seven hundred and four dol
lars more than Governor Jenkins. The
other period of comparison in Bullock’s
report, showing Governor Jenkins’ ex
penses for twelve months, ending October
16th, 1867, embraces the amount on account
of State bonds that fell due during and af
ter the war, and the very large amounts
realized from the sale of seven per cent,
mortgage bonds to be applied to the re
placing the destructions and. repairing in
juries to the State Road during the war,
and its equipment ; and the large amounts
paid for the purchase of corn for the "des
titute of the State.”
1 am compiling from the records in the
Treasurer's office a consolidated statement
of Bullock’s extravagance, which I will
forward you in a few days. It will be as
tounding.
A friend places in my hands another
pieoo of information which may be inter
esting to some persons in your city. The
Georgia Printing Company have two large
accounts against the State for printing
done in 1868. I “give you” far simile
copies of these unpaid accounts. But
now for the cream of the joke. Mr. Bell,
the Comptroller, audited these ac
counts to-day, and no doubt they will be
paid ne w, immediately, if not sooner. The
following are the accounts, with their en
dorsements:
Loopy.]
Augusta, Ga., August 3, 1868. •
State of Georgia to Georgia Minting Cos.
Dr.
For printing 24S p&goe of Jour
nal of Constitutional Conven
tion 1867-68, under resolution
of said Convention, 1,500 copies
at Ic. per page $3,720 00
Binding 150 copies of same in
full binding, at $3 per copy •• • • 450 00
$4,170 00
Atlanta, Ga-, August 5, 186S.
Examined and approved:
A. L. Harris, Chairman Printing Com
mittee Georgia Constitutional Con
vention.
I do hereby certify that the within ac
count is just aDd correct as stated—that
no part of the same has been paid, and
the same is now due, this July 14th, IS7I.
Joseph P. Carr,
Attorney ol Georgia Printing Cos.,
and Parties in Interest.
Audited for four thousand one hundred
and seventy dollars.
R. B. Bullock,
Chairman Auditing Committee
Constitutional Convention
(COPY-l
Augusta, Ga., July 15, 1868.
State of Georgia to Georgia Printing^Co.
For printing 400 pages of Jour
nal of the Constitutional Con
vention 1867-68, under resolu
tion of said Convention, 1,500
copies, at lc. per page $5,000 00 j
Atlanta, Ga., July 17,1868;
Examined and approved :
A. L- HaRRIR Chairman Printing Com
mittee Georgia Constitutional Con
vention.
I do hereby certify that the within ac
count is just and correct as stated—that no
part of the same has been paid, and the
same is now due, this July 14th, 1871.
Joseph P. Carp.,
Attorney of Georgia Printing Cos.,
and Parties in lotcresf.
Audited for six thousand dollars.
R. B. Bullock,
Chairman Auditing Committee
Constitutional Convention.
Truth.
'* On What Issue Shall We Go Into the
Fight ?”
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
This is a question which no longer ad
mits of a doubt. Indeed, it is tacitly
settled so far as the Democratic party is
concerned, both North and South. That
they have and will “ acquiesce ” in the
amended Constitution, and all laws made
in “pursuance thereof,” is now the settled
conviction of the country.
When Senator Morton mads his famous
obsequious speech here in Washington
some three months ago, in which he took
occasion to slitter Gsneral Grant to bis
face with the pleasing idea that he-would be
the Radical Republican candidate for the
Presidency in 1872,"he then and there made
up the issues of the parties by felling his
hearers and the country that the Democratic
party would most assuredly oppose the
amendments to the Constitution, and tbns
reopen the issues that would lead to sec
tional strife, and a glorious Republican
victory. These predictions are by no
means likely to prove true, and Grant,
Morton, Botler, aDd the other Radical as
pirants are terribly incensed to think that
the Democracy will not take the positions
these Radical high priests have assigned
them.
As long as there was an nntrammeled
recognition of the rights of States, which
it was the duty of Congress to respect,
the Democratic party opposed negro suf
frage by virtue of any Congressional en
actment, and so did a large portion of the
Republican party in the North and North
west. The Democracy, as well as a large
body of Republicans, held that this was a
right reserved to the States. But as this
question is now settled by a change in the
organic law, a discussion of the question
must cease, as among the “ dead issues,”
and one of the great living issues to which
our attention is now called, is the one so
briefly but so pointedly stated by the St.
Louis Republican, and so heartily en
dorsed by Alexander H, Stephens, on the
part of the Southern Democracy, and
which is in these words:
“ The constitutional question before the
“ people, then, is not whether a State has
“ a right to secede, or to nullify any act
“of Congress. That was decided, in fact,
“by the late war; but whether a State
“ has any rights which the National (Fed
“ eral) Government may not, at its pleas
“ ure, set aside. When a central govern
“ ment begins to appropriate the powers
“of surrounding States or provinces, it,
“ never, of its own accord, ceases from the
“ process. It continues the encroachment
“if unresisted, until it has become iinpe
“rialized, and the States reduced to out
“ lying dependencies.”
This is the issue in a nutshell. It in
volves no change of principles. It simply
proposes to submit to constitutional law,’
and to compel the Government to do the
same, and to retrieve it from its wander
ings “ after strange gods.” •
Now let us, for a moment, analyze the
amendments to the Constitution, and I
think you will agree with me, that’there
is no valid ground upon which to base an
issue.
The Thirteenth Amendment provides
that slavery shall not exist in the United
States, except as a punishment for crime.
This we have all accepted in good faith,
and, therefore, is no longer an issue.
The Fourteenth Amendment provides
that ail persons born and naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, shall be citizens ot
the United States ar.d of the States in
which they res’de. and that their rights
as citizens of the United States shall not
be abridged by the States, and that no
person shall bo deprived of life, liberty or
property, without due process of law. It
further provides for an apportionment, ac
knowledges the validity of the Federal
debt, and makes void the Corfedcrate
debt. But it is in this amendment that
the odious discrimination between Federals
and Confederates is made, and which may
be remedied by provisions made, if carried
out, of general amnesty, and which would
be done with the Democratic party in
power. There cannot, therefore, be any
issue upon this. It is true, we did oppose
the principles involved in the amendment
ou the ground that it gave too much power
to CoDgrcss, and would so oppose it again,
but in what manner can we take issue up
on it now ?
The Fifteen Amendment provides that
the rights of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be abridged by any State,
on account of race, color, or previous ser
vitude.
Previous to the passage of the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments, tbc
Democracy opposed them, and we believe
very justly, too. And why did we oppose
them ? I will tell you why we did.
First. When these two last amendments
were proposed the country was unsettled;
ten of the States were controlled by military
power, and were held as conquered prov
inces—as out-lying Territories — and yet
whose ratifications of these amendments
were received as though they were States
within the Union.
Second. At the time of their adoption
it was impossible, under the then existing
state of affairs, to obtain a free expression
of the will of tho people, for in all these
military governments the people were
allowed no representation whatever in
State or federal government,
Third, Wo opposed thjSse amendments
because they were in direct contravention
of the rights and sovereignty of the States,
and tended to a centralization of power in
the Federal Confess, which was alike
dangerous to the freedom and indepen
dence of tjm States and the liberty of tho
people, anJ utterly pt variance with the
time-honored principles of the democracy.
I consider these arguments, when
elaborated, as unanswerable, and as made
by our friends at tho time, were never
answered. The Radical party did not act
upon arguments, but upon impulses, in
fluenced by passions and prejudices grow
ing out of the late civil war between the
States. We still believe, however, that
these amendments were earned by fraud
and violence, that they embody certain
doctrines that aro revolutionary and
wrong, and that they wero enacted prin
cipally to perpetuate the po.wcr of the
Republican party.
Now, if this be true, you will ask,
“Why should we accept of them?” I
will answer. Ary opposition to the en
forcement of the law cannot test its
validity. Poetics cannot reach it. The
Supreme Court must /bet pass upon it.
Then follows our remedy. Not before.
But suppose you matte it au issue , noth’
<Dg could result from it except to con
solidate our enemies and create dissections
and strife in our own ranks. It is purely
i a question now between each State and
*he Federal Government, and which can
find no solution in the political arena.
Opposition to the enforcement of these
amendments, regardless of the manner of
their enactment, earn only result in dis
tracting public opinion from the issues
that must form the basis of the presi
dential conte.-t of 1872, And tho princi
pal among these is fcbe one state;] by the
St. Louis Republican and endorsed by
Mr. Stephens. It is not as to what rights
the States have surrendered through
these amendments; but it is as to whether
they have retained' any rights which the
Federal Government may not at its pleas
ure set aside.
Upon this issue the Democratic party
may oppose the Radical election bill the
Ku-Klux till, the Protectionary Tariff
bills; the stealing ot millions of acres of
Government lands, 3cd the formation of
railroad rings ; the San Domingo iob ; the
policy that compels us to pay over thirty
millions of dollars a year for an inferior
and irredeemable currency ; and the thou
sand and one other legislative follies and
imbecilities of the Radical Republican
party now in power and Gontrol of the
Government.
And here we stand embracing principles
and polioies of government which are
endorsed by thousands of good men now
in the ranks of the conservative Republi
can party. That party drew its forces
from the Democracy in 1860 and 1564,
and we expect to draw them back again.
They left us at that time under the mis
takened idea that if successful, we would
extend slavery into the Territories, but did
not propose to interfere with the institu
tion in the States where it existed, and
dreaming as little as did we of the fright
ful war that would ensue. They have
gotten all. and even more than they
desired. The Government, through the
unwarranted aad revolutionary acts of
their party, has gone far beyond their
expectations, and they now, in common
with the Democratic party, desire a re
turn to the fundamental Constitutional
Government of our fathers, and which
they are now satisied can only be done
through a sound Democratic administra
tion. - C. P. Culver.
San Fraxcisco, Ju \j 22.—A water
spout in Nevada lifted a pisstoger train
from the track.
An incendiary fire destroyed the busi
ness portion of the town of Terucker.
Upon the withdrawal of the military
from Armaia county, leagued miners re
solved that t,h§y would work for them
selves and families. ' They have armed
themselves, and declare that they wilt de
fend themselves to the last. Fighting is
anticipated. .
Commencement Week in Mad
ison.
GALA TIMES— CONCERTS GRAND BALL, ETO.
[CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE A SENTI
NEL.]
Madison, Ga., July 17,'1871.
The commencement exercises of the
Georgia Female College of this city passed
off in a most pleasing and satisfactory
manner. It was truly a gala week, and
forcibly reminded one of the grand old
times that used to be experienced in this
beautiful and lovely city, ere the dread
tocsin of war and the clash of arms re
sounded throughout err South
land. The College, which was closed
during the war, was re-opened the first of
the present year ( under the management
of its former popular and indefatigable
President, Rev. Geo. Y. Browne. During
the first term, the pupilage reached near
one hundred, and the prospects now are
that the next session will commence with
a much larger number. In days gone by,
the Georgia Female College was regarded
as among the finest institutions of learn
ing in the State, and there are no reasons
now, that under its same old management,
it should not at once assume rank with
the foremost of its c!a*ss.
The examination of the several classes
was exceedingly creditable, and surprised
even the most sanguine parents and friends
of the pupils. The proficiency and accu
rate promptness of the multiplication
class, composed of the younger scholars,
was wonderful, and the subject of general
commendation.
On Tuesday night. 4th instant, the
young ladies of the College gave a concert,
which was very largely attended, notwith
standing the fact that a charge for admit
tance was made. This act has been very
severely censured by many ot the parents
and relatives of the scholars, as well as
the public generally. It has not been cus
tomary heretofore, and in order to pre
vent uncharitable remarks, we hope that
the clever President will have all future
concerts during commencement free, and
as a part of the exercises.of the week.
The young ladies, draped in garments of
white, resembled more the angelic choir
of the etherial realms than songsters of
this lower sphere. All did well, but the
vocal powers of Misses Florence Durdin,
Jennie Jones, Jessie Glendenning, Julia
Martin, and Alice Leverett, are especially
worthy of notice, and the instrumental
performances of Misses Mamie and Katie
Browne, Mattie Weaver, and Lizzie Mur
ray, were really superb.
Wednesday night was “commencement.”
The College Hall was filled to the extent
of its capacity. The exercises were inter
spersed with music of a most delightful
character, by the young ladies who par
ticipated in the concert of the evening
previous. The graduates, five in number,
vied with each other in loveliness of looks,
modesty of demeanor, and excellence of
reading. Composed in manner, distinct in
utterance, and pleasant in voice, they
were taplurously applauded at the con
clusion of each reading. We cannot at
tempt to gi.-e you either the subjects
treated upon, or to speak as we would
like, and our heart dictates, of the charm
ing young ladies who on that night re
ceived their diplomas from their Alma
Mater. We must content ourselt with
merely giving their names—Misses Lizzie
Murray and Fannie Gerald, of McDuffie
county ; Miss Mattie Weaver, of Putnam,
and Misses Julia Martin, and Fannie
Chiles, of Morgan.
Thursday night the pupils of Mrs.
Ruff’s Music School gave one of the most
delightful ar.d entertaining concerts that
the people of Madison have ever been
treated to. The programme was full and
attractive. We were especially pleased
with the singing and character acting of
Misses Liura Carroll, Belle Hill, Lena
Foster, and Lucy and Mollie Pow. Mas
ter Mustin, on the vioiin, deserves much
praise; in fact we might mention all the
young ladies and masters who took part
in a very praiseworthy manner, reflecting
much credit upon their admirable and
earnest teacher, Mrs. Ruff.
Friday night tho pupils of Prof.
Townes’ Male High School gave a very
agieeable and interesting exhibition in
declamation. Many of tho boys evince
considerable oratorical powers, and with
further training, will become good eloqu
tioners.
But the cream of the week’s entertain
ment was the “commencement hop,” at
Foster’s Hall, on Friday night. Without
exception, it was tho most elite and
delightful terpsichorean entertainment
given in Madison since the war. Much
credit is due our genial young friend, W.
H. C., for the active interest he manifest
ed in the success of the ball. Augusta
was charmingly represented in the lovely
personage of one of her fairest daughters,
Miss Emma D. H. Misses C. O. and L.
P., from Clarke county, and the Misses
of Athens, added their joyous presenco
to the occasion, whiLt tho beauty and life
of MadisoD was out in fuil force. The
beautiful danseusc. Miss Blanche D., tho
entertaining Miss Mary F., the beautiful
Miss Lucy P., the attractive Miss Bettie
H., the fascinating Mrs. Tommie G., the
stately Miss Otelia charmmg Miss
Florence D., and a host of others, rendered
tho evening one of the most pleasant that
could be desired. The hop wound up the
entertainments of the week, which have
given anew impulse to the life and feel
ings of our people. Claude.
Letter from Wilkes.
Washington. Wilkes Cos., Ga., 1
July 20th, 1871. j
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
There is at present an adjourned term
of the Superior Court of Wilkes county
in session here, called principally for the
trial of a esse committed in the county of
Warren, and transferred here because of
the difficulty in obtaining a jury in that
county, The case was that of Willis
Beckwith, charged with committing the
murder of a colored man .named Isaac
Lynn, and from the evidence elicited on
the trial the fact has been proved beyond
a shadow of a doubt that an organization
known as the KmKlux has existed in
Georgia, and that this death was com
mitted by one of that Klan,
The facts of the case were as follows:
In February, 1869, a bodjt of armed men,
dressed in mysterious cloaks or gowns,
and faces hooded or masked, went to the
plantation on which this negro lived, to
gether with other negroes in adjoining
houses, tor the supposed intention of
whipping one of them for stealing a hog.
They went late at night to these negro
cabins and made all sorts of alarm by
shooting in the cabin, &c., thereby scatter
ing the negroes yelijng iD eyery direction.
The killed negro, more courageous than the
rest, took his axe and ran out towards the
Ku-Klux lor the purpose of making battle,
which resulted in the prisoner shooting the
negro thiee times, from which shots he
die*] yery soon afterwards.
Several oi jt>i3 witnesses testified that
they had belonged To a vFPwd ft which
they took an obligation not to disniose any
of the acts of their associates; thus
proving conclusively that an organization
haa existed which bears p c'ose resem
blance to tiitf .awful Ku-Klux that the
Northern powers pave toljj us so much
about, and which we have always sup
posed was only in existence in the imagi
nation or s he Yankees or earpet*bag£ ers
in our midst.
The prisoner was ably defended by
Judge Linton Stephens and E- H. Pottle,
Esq. The prosecution was conducted
by X. Morcton, Esq., a young lawyer
of much future premise. Judge Ste
phens made a splendid and able speech
ior the defense, and showed one point
conclusively, aud never to be disputed
that our juries are both the judges of the
law and the fact in criminal cases, “which
is a heritage handed down to them from
time immemorial, originating from the
date of the Magna Charta, and which has
ever since been the inalienable right ot j
freemen, never to be encroached upon by :
any power whatever over a free people.
The defense showed conclusively that
there had teen no crime committed ; that .
it was done in self-defense, and after a
charge of the law of the case with much
(dearness by his Honor Judge Andrews,
the jury at once brought in a verdict of
“ not guilty."
These disturbances known §.s the h.u-
Klux are very much to be regretted. They,
perhaps, may have been the means, and
the only means, of keeping the negro from
insurrection, owing to his sudden freedom,
and also the sudden teaching of his carpet
bag doctors of divinity after his freedom,
who have labored so faithfully in instilling
their minds with all sorts of absurdities ; j
and, perhaps, for this reason in thickly set- j
tied counties some such patrolling has 1
been necessary in times past. But we j
sincerely believe that it has only oeen in .
the past, and that it is impossible to sand
any such organization in existence to-day
in Georgia, and all the Ku-Klux that is j
being done now, is done by Radical men
for Radical purposes, and Radical effect.
Hastily,
Greenbrier White Sulphur Sprinos,
July 20.—The Dental Association of the
Unitea States will hold its annual con
vention here, commencing the first Tues
day in August, About three hundred will
be in attendance, and three hundred room*
have been reserved for the tooth-pullers.
Memphis, July £0 —The rain has washed
awav a portion of the tVsa'te sis ,the Mem
phis' and Charleston Road, one mdeeaat
of Grand Junction. An eastward bound
train, engine, tender, baggage and two
passenger cars went into the ditch. Killed
—Gee. Gibbes, engineer; Montgomery,
firemen, and several passengers hurt, ,
The Journal ofConinerce Commissioner
at the South.
Letter No. 19.
[Correspondence of the Journal of Com
merce.]
Atlanta, June, 1871.
GEORGIA POLITICS. FROM CENTRE TO CIR
CUMFERENCE.
There is always a method to fled out at
the capital of a State the general theories
and a moderate amount of the details of
the political feelitgs of the State. I have
gone through Georgia and seen a gord
deal cf the condition of things for myself .
I have talked wiffi the high and low, from
the State officers, elected and appointed,
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
and the most prominent men in the State,
to the field hand on the plantation.
A FeDian speeeh to an Irish audießce at
the Nor:h would be folk wed by a loud
collision of applauding hands, while the
better judgment of the same audience
would prevent the subscription of SIOO,
or the enlistment of a discreet man to
fight for the principle that caused the
plaudit. Jast so to-day, in the South,
Jefferson Davis might give notice that he
would address an audience at a given place,
and from the time he would outer the
door till he would reach the platiorm, the
large concourse would 6tand and make the
building shake to its foundation with ap
plause. But they would do nothing more.
The memories in the near past still ling
er afresh in the minds of the Southern
people. Mr. Davis was their sectional
President, and they remember the fact in
connection with the cause for which one
halt of the living young men of the South
took up arms. But aside from their ap
plause, their better judgment would not
carry them to excesses, even if advised to
such a course by Mr. Davis. They re
member the cause they fought tor, but
they remember it was lost, and there the
matter ends.
Mr. Toombs is regarded as an elegant
gentleman, a most brilliant orator, liber
ally endowed with ideas, easy ot access,
and the best phrase-maker in Georgia, or
perhaps in the ctuntry. The people cf
Georgia accord to aim all the honor that
belongs to his great intellectual attain
ments, but still fail to credit him with
judgment or discretion, because they be
lieve he lacks balance. Mr. Alexander
Stephens could demelish,any fabric reared
by Mr. Toombs. Tnoso two men were
Whigs together, became Democrats to
gether, but split on the question of seces
sion. Whenever they met at issue Mr.
Stephens won the confidence of the audi
ence. Even in the Legislature Mr. Stephens,
in a few moments, postponed the act of
secession against the appeals of Mr.
Toomb=. Now, Mr. Stephens advises the
acceptance of tbe Democratic platform of
1868. „ ,
Here you have three men of whom the
Northern newspapers say a good deal.
Now let us examine their present status :
Mr. Toombs leads nobody here except
himself, and he changes his opinion as of
ten as three times a day.
Mr. Davis is not now recognized as a
politician, and the people are sorry when
ever he speaks in public of polities. They
entertain high regard for him, but he does
not lead them.
Mr. Stephens has a strong hold upon
the sincere affections of the Southern peo
pie. Yet he does not control aDy consid
erable portion of them, even in Georgia.
I mention these things as facts. They
are facts, not because the peopje cf Geor
gia despise those men, but because they
feel that they cannot effect any goed re
i Rult by continuing in strife. They were
satisfied to support the principles laid
down in the address of the Democratio
Committee because they oouldsnot do bet
ter. They accepted tho situation boldly.
The New Departure theory denounces
what they opposed, and then accepts the
denounced legislation as settled issues.
They are satisfied with that.
Th? people of Georgia care little what
platiorm the Democrats adopt. By the
people of Georgia is meant, of course, the
intelligent white population, nearly ail of
whom vote one way. They realize that
the battle ground of the next political
oontest must be in the North. Georgia,
then, being opposed to Radicalism by a
majority of 50,000, will cast her electoral
vote for any 60rt of acceptable candidate
or platform adopted by the Democratic
parly of the North. Not only will the
Conservative men do it, but every man in
Georgia who opposes Radicalism will vote
for the Democratic nominee.
The young men of Georgia hold
the balance of power to-day. Probably
the three most influential men in the par
ty in the State are Clifford Anderson, of
Maoon, Chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee ; James M. Smith,
of Muscogee, and Julian Hartridge, of
Savannah who were hardly known
before the war. Probably the next nom
inee for Governor will be Alfred H. Col
quitt.
The Dimoeratic party of Georgia, with
them, will accept the situation.
Georgia is just now engaged in raising
herself to a proud eminence among the
prosperous States. • Her people want to
go on in the path they have marked out,
and they bav6 embarked in the enterprise
with a determined energy that will not
stop short of success, They seem to
have imbibed an idea that every time one
of their anti-war leaders spreads his views
before the people the effeot is to set them
back in prep -rtion to the bitterness of his
harrangue. Hence they begin to feel that
the worst enemies to their prosperity are
to be found in the house of their frieDds.
HOW THEY AMEND THE CONSTITUTION OF
GEORGIA,
Among the most conspicuous infamies
of the last Legislature was the passage of
several very curious and disgraceful
amendments to the election laws, The
Constitution of Georgia, framed and
adopted in pursuance of the Reconstruc
tion acts, makes the usual provision re
garding voters, specifying “ all male”
citizens, " twenty-one years old or up
wards,” &a. It goes on to confer the right
of challenge upon any voter who sees fit to
challenge another, and says “no person
shall vote who, if challenged, shall refuse
to taka the following oath.” Then it goes
on to define the oath ; the voter swears,
“I have not given, or received, nor do I
expect to give, or receive, any money,
treat, or other thing ol value, by which
my vote, or any vote is affected or expected
to bo affected at this election ; noi have I
given or promised any reward, or made
any threat by which to prevent any per
son from voting.” Then, again, the Con
stitution says ; “Legislative acts in vio
lation if this Constitution, or the Oonsitu
tion of the United States, are void , and
the Judiciary shall so declare them.”
Now, mark the intelligence of this negro
Legislature by what will follow. In Octo
ber last they deemed it best to pass an
election law for the purpose of carrying
the fall election. They changed the method
of voting ffrotn humerous precincts in each
qoupty jo on.e polling place, the pounty
seat, except in cities, The election offioers
are called managers, and they, of course,
are Republicans, but I understand the
Democrats were, at the last election, al
lowed by the Governor a kind of minority
supervision. The reduction in number of
polling places was in order to permit ne
cessary concentration of military force if
necessary in carrying the ejections for the
Radical ticket. Then, under pretense of
fixing a system for securing fair elections,
preventing intimidation or the forcing of
voters from their places at the polls, a
provision was inserted that voters shall
form in line and approach the polls in
that manner j that no more than ohe per
son shall app:e? n, ‘ Within fifteen feet of
the polling place at a time; ihat no one
who is not in the line shall go nearer than
fifty fget of the polling place. Only the
managers and their .clerks are pljowed by
this new law to see the ballots wfien de
posited or afterward. The managers must
swear that they will not permit any one
to “challenge, delay or tinder” any voter
from the speedy casting of his vote. They
j are compelled to arrest aDy one who at
tempts to challenge a voter or “ disturb
| the peace.” The law also extends the
j time for the conduct of the election to
three days instead of one day as was cus
tomary before. It will be seen by this,
that while the State constitution expressly
provides the free and untrammeled right :
1 of challenge, and even goes so far as to |
j oblige every challenged man to make
I oath to certain things above enumerated, j
j the law passed by the Legislature over- !
| rides that feature of the constitution and
j repeals it entirely. It goes on, in defiance
I of the constitutian, and gives the right of j
i suffrage to every male person of the “ ap- !
I parent age of 21 years or upwards,” and
■ thns makes the Radical managers the
j judges of a voters age. As there is prob
ably only one Democrat among the elee
-1 tion officers of each polling place, the
j effect may be imagined. The field negroes j
j seldom know their ages or even their j
i names. They nsnalJy take the last name
j of the man who owned them and go by
! that. Their ages are guessed at by the
1 managers of election. I am convinced
! that boys aged 16, IT, 18 and 19 years are
\ always allowed to register and vote, pro
vided they hold in their hands a Radical
ticket. No one can get near enough to
challenge them, and even if such a man
could make himself heard while attempt
ing to challenge a person who offers a
vote, he would bo arrested for disturbing
the peace.
Bat the deprivation of the right to
challenge has acted injuriously to the in
terests of the Radicals in Georgia and de
feated the*:, till now the Democratic ma
jority in the State is at 54,000.
If challenges wefc permitted no negro
Jell ms vote,-.but I have good reason j
for believing t£st at the last election many
negro votes were'bought over by the De
mocracy at prices varying from a drink or
a flask of whisky to $3 in cash each.
The system of voting three days has also
acted against the Radical?, because the
opposition thereby had a better chance to
eet the negroes warmed up in their in
terest?. In Eastern Georgia the D.’mc
crats can get as many negro votes as they
want for a small sum. They subscribed a
few dollars towards the fund of a colored
church there, and the colored minister
exhorted his congregation, from the pulpit,
to vote for the Democratic candidates.
Though the last election law was un
constitutional in all its essentia! provisions,
though it contemplated the depositing of
votes under the guidance of bayonets;
though it was intended that the Radical
managers should virtually do the voting—
yet the originators were badly worsted at
their own game, and a two-thirds Demo
cratic Legislature was the result. This
infamous proceeding has recoiled upon the
heads of its originators, and the taxpay
ers of Georgia anxi.usly await the day
upon which they can dispose of Governor
Bullock as summarily as they disposed of
bis corrupt Legislature, and thus save the
little money that is left and the credit of
the State.
RESOURCES OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
The number of acres of land in Geor
gia as reported to the Comptroller Gen
eral was, at the beginning of 1870, 32,552,-
399 acres, valued at $84,577,166 ; average
value $2 60 per acre, against an average
valne of $2 49 per acre in 1868, Ct these,
26,353,004 acres, valued at $82,338,475,
were improved, and 6,199,336, valaed at
$2,338,610 were wild or unimproved
lands.
The value of city and town property
amounted at the beginning of 1870 to
$44,368,096, against $40,000,000 the year
before. The amount of money and sol
vent debts in the State amounted at the
beginning of 1870 to $24,143,967, against
$23,000,000 the year before.
The number of expert hands employed
in agricultural pursuits at the beginning
of the year 1870 was 106,739 against
86,413 at the same time the year before.
The following table will show other im
portant facts in relation to material affairs
in the State:
I Vslua cf
Capl- la cot- taxable
'Value of tal la • t ton I property
Stocks vested! Mina- la Iron latteritMac
and In ship- facto- I Min- Foun- in - S2OO tn
I Bonds. 1 pin*. | Ties. | ine. I dries.je-ich case.
'B*B 771*4.0*8,774:250749,2 SS3 01SI15 3951476 9201 *l7B f57,316
1889.. | 5,184 Bi2j | | | |»158,813,247
The report for this year wiil show a great
increase in all branches of business, and
especially in investments iu enterprises
calculated to develop the resources of the
State.
The principal productions of the State
are cotton, corn, rice, wheat, oats, buck
wheat, potatoes, peas, and some sugar,
besides a considerable amount of fruit. In
fact, the climate of some portions of
Georgia is capable of producing at once
tho fruits and plants of the tropics and
the grain and heavier products of the cold
North States.
The State is traversed in all directions
by well equipped railroads, having connec
tions from all its eities with cities jn every
quarter of the United States. Many more
are in course of construction, to be com
pleted in a short time.
Libor that oan be depended on is in de
mand all over the State. A Noithern
working farmer will experience no difficul
ty whatever in securing permanent em
ployment. For the experiment, no capi
tal is needed. But to thrifty firmer?,
with small capital, great inducements are
offered; in fact, all through this countiy
the inducements ate wonderful. A man
oan come hero and buy a small farm on
long time. Ha oan grow cotton and corn
in the same field, and all varieties of things,
side by side, of many of them two crops a
year. The labor of one man, besides his
other productions, enough to support his
family, will produce five bales ol cotton at
a minimum average, valued at about SSOO.
This average value of his cotton produc
tion is easily maintained. Good lands,
improved with bouses, orchards, Ac., may
be purchased at from $4 to $lO per acre,
in localities as healthy and pleasant as in
any under the sunr. With his SSOO profit
on his individual labor, to say nothing of
the profit on employed labor, ho can pur
chase 100 acres, of good land each year.
The hired labor is usually paid by propor
tionate interest in the crops, or by a cash
payment averaging SIOO per annum and
subsistence, which is estimated to cost
about $65. The northern part of the
State teems with just such a population
as tho class to which it is suited. The
white settlers in the old Cherokee country
above this point, are increasing rapidly,
and lands enhancing in value. The effect
is to drive the colored thriftless population
into the middle and southern sections of
the State- The same result is observed in
Tennessee and Virginia, as a great many
of the colored men from there have grad
ually worked into Georgia, and their
tendency seems to be towards the Gulf
States.
As to the climate and statements made
derogatory to it, I know of no better proof
of its salubrity than the fact that scores
of foreigners, who came here twenty and
thirty years ago, are still living, and look
as fresh and ruddy and vigorous as i£they
had just landed at Castle Garden.
W. P. c.
A Georgian Before the Ku-Klux Com
mittee.
Judge A. R. Wright, of Rome, was be
fore the Ku-Klux Committee last week.
His replies to the interrogatories of Pool,
of North Carolina, are characteristic. We
append a portion of his testimony :
Mr. Poo) wanted to know if the Judge
was loyal to the Government.
Said the Judge, “that depends on what
you mean by the word loyal.”
“But,” said Mr. Pool, “I want a direct
answer.”
“Then,” said the Judge, “you cannot
have it.” He then proceeded to say that
the Irish people were loyal to the British
Crown, in that they did not try to resist
the English dominion. They submitted
to the English rule. But the English
Government did not hold out any induce
ments to that people to be loyal in their
souls to it. If Mr. Pool meant that
loyalty which has its seat in the sonl of
the oitizen ; which is true to a principle
because that principle is true, and which
adheres to the Government because it be
lieves the Government to be just and
honest to the citizens, then he did not
think there was much of such loyalty in
the South. They don’t feel it in that way.
You cannot expect a people to love a
Government that refuses their rights ot
citizenship. The witness himself could
not to-day be a bailiff to one of his former
slaves if one of them were elected a magis
trate. There is no denying that the
Southern people think the Government
made a grave mistake in conferring un
limited suffrage on the negroes. The
whites down there don’t believe the negro
race is fit for self-government; and where
a race so wanting in balance, and intelli
gence, and other self-governing qualities,
largely dominates, as in many sections if
the Southern oountry, and has unrestrained
right to control elections, anything like
good government is simply impossible.”
“Weil,” said Mr. Poo), “would you
repeal that part of the Constitution which
gives the negroes that right?”
Judge Wright— 11 Yes; but wo would
do it by appealing to the sense of justice
of the whole people, North and South.
We would amend our State Constitution
so as to give a liberal, but qualified, suf
frage to the colored meD, and would give
them the ballot in every Southern State,
subject to a slight properly qualification,
until they could be made intelligent enough
to vote ihteliigpnjly.
“No nation of white men upon earth is
capable of self-government bat the Ameri
can nation, except, perhaps, the English
and Prussians. How, then, could any
sane person believe in the capacity of the
negrd race to govern themselves?
“ The great ground of otjcniiou to Grant
is that he seems to have! a particular ha
tred of the South- He has uniformly
sided with the negroes and despicable
scallawags, and thus far they have done
nothing but give us local governments that
have plundered and robbed the people.
Bullock has in this sqyt of prac
tioe. He never waH elected by a majority
of the people. Under his rule the treasu
ry has been plundered. He was in two
vears and a half, and paid $36,000 in law
yers’ fees, and a good part of it to Demo
cratip lawyers, whop hp had a great fancy
for feeing, and some of whom were unable
to resist his advance in this regard.
“ Daring tbe time be ws° in, hg paid
out $58,000 in rewards for the apprehen
sion of fugitives. He paid out $98,000
for advertising his proclamations, which
were unheard of expenditures in this re
gard. He expended between
and $500,000 for contingencies, and never
showed a voucher for the mouey so spent.
He put Foster Blodgett in charge of the
Atlanta and Georgia State Railroad, who
knew as much about railroading as the
‘ learned pig.' Blodgett paid the State j
$25,000 the first month and $20,000 the i
second month ; and, After that, never
paid a cent or made a return. He ran the
road down, wore out its stock, and brought I
it in debt to the extent of s¥oo,ooo, which |
the State of Georgia is now paying off. Is
is generally believed that Blodgett plun- i
dered the State to the extent of two or !
three millions, in tbs meantime ‘ a bill j
was worked through the Legislature leas
ing the road to Senators Cameron, Scott
and others, for twenty years, at $25,000 a
month, or $300,000 a year. To show what
a good thing fhis party have of it, it is
only necessary to state that, before tpe !
war, the road brought in s©oo,ooo a year,
and that at a time when its business was ! 1
not a third of what it is now. Thus the :
people nave been robbed by the local gov- 1
ernments the Federal Governments has '
given them to the present time.” ]
County Monaghan, Ireland, will return
Charles Powell Leslie to Parliament. - 1
[From the Neio York Express.]
The Riots of ’6l-’63 anil ’7l.
Wlien the civil war broke out in 1861,
newspaper offices were threatened or
mobbed, as the Express Journal of Com- <
merce. the World, the News, the Day
Book , among others. Tills was all right
in the estimation of the class of men who
could tolerate no criticism upon Congress,
the President, or the Federal Administra
tion. Differences of opinion as to the
proper mode of conducting the war, de
nunciations of the shoddy jobs and shod
dy men rising to the surface -were not
tolerated, and it was right enough then to
destroy the property or take their lives.
So thought those who pass for respectable
law-breakers, men of good clothes and
full purses. The mob of 1863, which com
menced in resistance to the Federal draft,
and which riot a wiser administration of
affairs could have prevented, ended in
handing the city for two or three days
over to the thieves, and every good citi
zen felt common alarm and indignation at
its progress. The cost in life and wounds
aud disgrace is not to be estimated, but in
money it was, or will be in the end, nearly
four millions of dollars, as follows;
Riot damages indemnity bonds,
1877-1879 $1,000,000
Riot damages indemnity bonds,
1882 200,000
Riot damages indemnity bonds,
No. 2, 1882 648,000
Total $1,848,000
Including the interest to bo paid, it will
be found the draft riot of 1863, excluding
olher items of expense, cost the county
nearly $4 ot*o,ooo
- beg leave to differ from all those
who would like the possible repetition of
all this, merely to give place to a public
parade, commemorating a battle fought
160 years ago in Ireland. '
The riots of 1871 were as senseless as
they were criminal. They arose among
ignorant, vicious, and passionate men,
whose eyes and ears could not tolerate,
even in this free land, an insult to their
country, and among those whodimand
more freedom for themselvos than they
would tolerate in others ; but these were
discountenanced by tho whole Catholic
Church, and by the leaders of, the Catho
lic benevolent sooieties. By the dash of a
a pen, and an official signature, it was
hoped to prevent any excuse tor other
bad elements in tho streets of New York.
The attempt failed, and the result was a
riot, in which nearly all the killed and
wounded were innocent or careless people,
and in whisb, if wo are to believe the
police, there was at one time a ciuseless
and cruel firing upon the crowd.
These three riots, two of which started
from the use of Federal power, and one
from the folly and vice of a small body of
citizens, should be remembered as a warn
ing—a warning first of all to remove the
cause of riots—a warning to keep foreign
quarrels far from our country and home —
a warning to obey the laws, and a warn
ing to keep at home, or about one’s busi
ness, if not in tho public seryiee, on the
day of a riot.
The Boston Press on Gen. But
ler’s Manifesto.
General Butler docs not receive an very
substantial support from the leading Bos
ton papers in his aspirations to the guber
natorial chair. The Advertiser boldly in
sinuates that Butler, if not successful in
obtaining the regular nomination, will run
as Wendell Phillips ran last year—as the
candidate of tho Libor Reformers and
Prohibitionists- Says the Advertiser :
His correspondents have omitted one
point from (heir list of questions—and
there is do allusion to it in his reply—
about which there has been a good deal of
gossip and some public dispute. It is
whether, in the event of his failing to re
ceive the Republican nomination, he would
still be the'candidate of the discontented,as
Mr. Phillies was last year. These, inclu
ding the Labor Reformers, and a part of
the Women Suffragists and Prohibitionist?,
together with the personal friends of Mr.
Phillips, mustered 21,000 votes last year.
They could not hope to exceed that num
ber this year, under the most favorable
circumstances; but many of them have
exalted views of the personal prestige of
General Butler, and have promised them
selves a large accession of strength from
the use of his name. The question now
is, whether they are using his name with
his consent, and will be allowed to use it
after the Republican Convention ?
The Journal attacks the General for bis
unkind cut of Dr. Loring:
General Butler, in his letter, destroys at
once the idea whiclphas been so persistent
ly put forth regarding his obligation to
Dr. Loring in times past for valuable ser
vices rendered, and he very cruelly says:
“ My first candidature for Congress, when
Dr. Loring was at all in the field, was in
1866, two years only after he came into
the Republican paHy,” etc. This twitting
on facts, however, is very dangerous war
fare, for, if General Butler proposes to
base the superiority of his claims to the
nomination over those of Dr. George B.
Loring upon the ground that he became a
member of the party a few months earlier
than his Essex opponent, the Republicans
may he able to find a candidate who was
pretty firm in the faith and had rendered
valuable party service prior to the time
when Gen. Butler was indulging iu a con
troversy with Gov. Andrew and granting
commissions to men who did not seek to
make interest with Gen. Butler by their
record as Republicans.
The Post (Democratic) says':
The Butler platform is short, sharp and
decisivo. It plainly tells the recalcitrants
in the party that, whether they want him
or not, they must take him and put as
good a face on the sorry business as pos
sible. It is brushing away Dr. LoriDg
with a contempt that arouses one’s sympa
thy for the accomplished and genial agri
culturist, and is a polite aDd conciliatory
treatment of the Prohibitionists, who can
now find no excuse for the elevation of
Dr. Miner into the dignity of availability.
For so brief an epistle it is a model of in
genuity and industry. It skillfully ap
propriates the strength of tho party from
Grant to Miner ; it exposes the short
period of Dr. Loring’s “real sentiments,”
meaning Republican ones; and it spurns
with the most irritating effrontery any
consideration of the doubts of Governor
Glaflin as to another and compromising
term, the vexations of tho party, the sen
sibilities of other and coarsely styied “frog
pond candidates," and in brief tue safety,
harmony and success of the organization
iu the State. It means Butler from end
to end, aDd it also means that unless treat
ed with tho respect due his charms, his
popularity in his district, and the trouble
be is able to create, ho will split the party
from Cape Cod to Berkshire.
The Foreign Policy of Austria,
The Vienna correspondent of the East
ern Budget , under date July 3, sajs:
Count Beust’s speech in the Austrian del
egation, on the Ist instant, ha-i met with
warm approval from all parties in the
country except the Ultramontanes, who
are of course dissatisfied with the policy of
non-intervention practiced toward Italy.
It produced so good an impression oh the
delegation that the whole of the Budget of
the Foreign Department, including the
item for secret service money, was passed
without question. The following are the
most important passages of this speech :
“Our policy for the last fpw years has
always been free from all external influ
ences, and it is mainly due to this circum
stance that many sources of complication
contained in the Treaty of Prague have
been avoided, thus paving the way for a
peaceful development and consolidation of
affairs. Even before it had been officially
constituted, the new German Empire
mode overtures to us in terms full of re
spect and confidence, and wc did Dot hesi
tate cordially to accept these overtures.
The exchange of dispatches which took
place on this occasion forms the basis of
relations, resting on a policy of equality
and mutqal interest, whien have been
maintained ever since. I do not
share the anxieties of those who ex
pect a reversal of the edifice which
has so recently been built, from
looking to the past in a spirit of fruitless
complaint and enviouk ill-will, we hope
that the new state of things will follow
its natural development, ft is a histori
cal error to represent the old Germanic
Confederation as a guarantee of peace.
The guarantee consisted in the co-opera
tion of Austria and Prussia, pud a com
pensation for the great changes which
have occurred in the relations between
those Powers, is given by the disappear
ance of the object for which they strove.
We can, whenever we wish it, now place
ourselves on an eqnal footing by thf side
of a friendly and strengthened German/
j In new atfitude toward Ger
many is hailed with lively satisfaction.
Oar relations with Russia are in a favor
able state if only because it is not easy to
become the enemy of your friends friend.
How tnat a bulwark' of peace has been
erected in Central Europe, a spirit of
moderation and mutual respect must regu
late her relations with the East. France
will always find in Anstro-Hnngary a sin
cere friend. In Italy she has gained, by
the principle of non-intervention, a per
manently iTieudly neighbor; and the con
ciliatory spirit fi&w n by ;;,e Porte in the
question of the regulation of the Danube,
shows that' our amicab}e relations with
Turkey have not changed.'’ The Chan
cellor concluded by saying that the above
statement should not be regarded as an
ephemeral programme, but a9 indicating
the principles by which Austria’s foreign
policy is to be permanently guided.
London, July 20, evening. Parepa
Rosa sails on Saturday for America.
Telegraphic Summary
Washington, July 20. —Secretary
Boutwi l !, Special Treasury-Aged Madge
and Collector Robb, thoroughly overhauled
the accounts of the Savannah Custom
House tc-day. A defalcation of eight
thousand dollars is found, which deputy
Collector Wi lrnan, under sworn statement,
confesses was appropriated by himself.
The confession concludes: "His(Robbs)
only fault has been in reposing a degree
of confidence and trust iu me which I
have abused, as before stated.Bout
well exonerates Robb. There will be no
change in the Collectoiship.
Gov. Reed, of Florida, is here looking
after the defalcation of about eight
thousand dollars in the Jacksonville post
office. The money was taken by the
money order clerk. Tho postmaster bas
made tho amount good to the Govern
ment.
. The Postmaster General gives permis
sion to tho Japanese Logatiou here to
send official dispatches toToknhomi, via
San Francisco, iu the United States mail,
free of chargo.
Information from the general post office
at Berlin announoos that the steamer
which was to leave Stettin for Now York
on July Bth wa3 delayed, and mails in
tended for that route wore sent by Ham
burg.
The following is furnished by a well
posted railroad man ; The Texas Pacific
Railroad Company have adopted the three
foot gauge, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior, who must de
cide whether that gauge is a first class
road. The controlling advocate of this
gauge is Mr. Thomas A. Scott, of the
Pennsylvania Central, who is building that
gauge ou the Denver AEI Passo Road. If
the Texas Pacific adopt the three loot, then
all tho business from tho Pacifio coast will
naturally branch off at El Paso across to
Denver and over Scott’s road on to the
Union Pacific, which road will soon bo in
the hands if the Pennsylvania Central.
This is a sharp move of tho railroad king,
Scott, as it makes him, with the Union
Pacifio and Pennsylvania Central, indepen
dent of the Central Pacifio, which, while
Huntington lives, eanuot bo absorbed
by the Pennsylvania Central. '1 he move
is not likely to meet with iavor
in Texas, Dor the South generally, as it
violently takes away from the lino of the
through business of the Southern Pacific;
besides, it is seriously questioned whether
a three foot gauge is wide enough to eco
nomically and conveniently carrv the
light, bulky cotton freights of the South,
and the stock of Texas. It is generally
ooDcrfued that the present gauge of roads
in this country is too wide, but is not
three foot the extreme the other way, is
asked. Col. Mann, who is building the
Mobile and Northwestern Road, advocates
a four foot gauge for all roads South, as
adopted, for the demands, and as com
bining cheapness in construction and oper
ation. He says light rails and rolling stock
can bo used on t hat gauge as well as on
three foot, aod greater room and speed
oan be secured.
The Democratic members of the Ku-
Klux Committee regret tho tardiness of
their witnesses, including Generals Wright
and Gordon, Colonel Christy and lion.
Thomas Hardeman.
Chap Norris, sheriff of Warren county,
testified to-day, giving a terrible account
of affairs in Georgia.
Havana, July 19, night.—The insur
gent General Guillermo Lerda and Colonel
Chuicho Corsuegrada, were oaptured and
executed at Villa Clara yesterday. Fran
cisco JuaileSj adjutant, anil Domingo
Guirel, secretary ot Gen. Agromonte, sur
rendered at Puerto Principe.
Paeis, July 20, evening.—The Germans
have evacuated Eexeuil in favor of in
valids visiting the baths.
The Budget for 1871 has been reduced
one hundred aud .twenty-four millions
francs, without charging appropriations.
Letlru Rollin is a candidate for the As
sembly.
The Siecle, editorially, favors an income
tax. The Assembly voted the imposition
of a stamp tax of 10 centimes on bills over
ten francs.
Cmr cf Mexico, July 11, via Ha
vana, July 20. —Lerdista and Porfiristi
are uniting closely to oppose Juarez, but
the triumph of Juarez is considered cer
tain.
The Mexican Government is relieving*
distressed Americans from Magdalena
colony.
The report of negotiations to resume di
plomatic relations with France is denied.
A Roman Catholic entered a Protestant
Church in the oapital, intending to kill
the minister, but being prevented, stabbed
one of the congregation.
The country is generally quiet- Kid
napping continues.
Berlin, July 20, night.— lt is officially
reported that the Government reoeived
four hundred and Dine and a half million
francs to the 15th, and fffty-two and a half
million has been received sinoc.
London, July 20, Dight. —Gladstone
announced iu tho Houso that the Queen
had withdrawn the warrant legalizing the
purchase of commissions.
Montgomery, July 20.—Tho Stato
Convention of Teachers and Sohool Bu
perintendonts of Alabama resolved to-daj’,
by a unanimous vote, that tho education
of the colored race was a duty and high
privilege of tho white race, and that the
Convention concur iu any measure calcu
lated to accomplish the result.
Madrid, July 20, noon.—Marshal
Serraoo has been entrusted by the King
with the formation of a now Ministry, and
has already designated the following mem
bers : Minister of Justioe, Honor Gomez;
Foreign Affairs, Condan ; Marine, Admi
ral Maloampo ; Finance, Senor Camadro,
Tho Cortes adjourned amid tumultuous
protests from the minority.
London, July 20, noon.—All the papers
contain editorials on the subject of cancel
lation by royal warrant of the act legaliz
ing the purchase of army commissions.
The Times, Post and Standard believes
the course of the Ministry unconstitution
al, whdo the Daily News and Telegraph
approve to the fullest extent the step
taken by the Ministry.
Dispatches from the East represent ter
rible cholera ravages in Persia.
The Germans are evaouatiDg Amiens,
Rouen, and the Departments of Somme,
Lower Seine and Eure.
New York, July 21, noon.—A storm
on tho coast of Newfoundland and Labra
dor destroyed three hundred and fifty fish
ing smacks, twenty-three dwellings and
forty storep, One million and a half in
property, and ninety-three lives were lost,
Mail advices from Cuba report that
Gen. Covado was shot on tho 7th instead
of the Ist of July, and after orders had
been received from Madrid that he bo par
doned and sent to this country.
Riots have occurred at Nanuat, on the
Erie Road, between the Jrish and Fenian
laborers. Tho picked the quarrel in
a lager saloon, trom which they drove tho
proprietor and his family. Subsequently,
two Irish laborers were terribly beaten by
Germans—one Darned Ryan, possibly, fa
tally. The Irish again attacked the lager
saloon, with clubs and stones, and were
replied to by the Germans with repeated
volleys from shot guns. The Irish beat a
retreat. Patrick MoMahop was shot in
several places, but mjt necessarily fatal.
Isaac CulleD was shot iD two plaoos; his
recovery is doubtful. Martin Googebsn
was shot wo or three times, and severely
clubbed. It is not known how many oth
ers were injured.
The Orange and Hibernian Lodges are
receiving large accessions since the riot.
John % Pickerell has been sent to South
Carolina on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the Wilmington, Charlotte and
Rutherford post office.
The work of rebuilding the docks and
piers, under General McClellan’s plans,
Las commenced near Castle Garden, in
the southern end of the city.
The Cotton Exchange will probably
lease the extensive warehouses at Atlantic
docks, Brooklyn, for storage and sampling
of cotton.
Nine elephants, from Gey ton, arrived
yesterday on the hark Neherniah.
St. Locih. July 21.—The case of Mil
lier vs. Shepherd, manager of Bradstreet’s
commercial agency, was before the Circuit
Court yesterday, hearing b»ing on a mo
tion of ito defendant to dissolve the in
junction granted a few days ago, enjoining
circulation of July number of Bradstrcct’s
Commtrcial Reports, on the ground of
false and injurious rating ot plaintiff. Sev
eral witnesses tistified to tho solvency of
Millier, his business qualifications, integ
rity, &e.; also, that he is doing a large
and prosperous business. King, formerly
in the employ of tho agenay, testified as
to the mode of tjansaoting the business of
the agency. He said most of the reports
were manufactured in the office. From
the time Shepherd took charge, the re
ports were based on old reports, and all
copied into the letter hook, and then for
warded so New York. A book called the
“black book” waß kept, in which all unfa
vorable reports were copied. Every one
in tho office had access to this hook. lie
testified that the Riadstrcet agency was
partial tQ subscribers, and that a gold
headed cane would often raise a man’s re
ting. Tho Plaintiff had been reduced
from the rating of CC JXD —a very high
rating—to D which meant that ho is
doing business with capital of less than
SSOO. Subscription to tho agency gencr
ly meant increase of credit. Witness fur
ther stated that bo had manufactured hun
dreds of reports himself. . '
Y/ashingion, July 21. 4 bos, A.
bought into tho Louisiana Levee Com
pany, and propose to oommcooe active
operations immediately. It 18 under
wood that the transaction was consum
mated through the intervention of Sena-.
tor West, of Louisiana,
Lpndon, July 23. noon—The Spanish
Ministerial crisis is unsettled.
A deputation of German, Dutch and
Austrian bankers sailed from Europe for
the United States for tho purpose of mak
ing an examination of the routo, condition
es work and financial prospects of the
North Pacific Railroad.
_Pabi3, July 22, evening.— Algerian ad
vices indioate tho iDsumotion about
crushed out.
Versailles, July 22,- evening.—Thiers
a.dressed the Assembly in support of
duty ou raw ootton. It, is thought, never
theless, that the hill will bo rejected
p ,?- N P ON, I 22, ovoniog. —The Prince
ol Vvales has ieiurned from tho Oonti
nent. Jhe Princess remains at Kessingen.
Toronto, July 22, evening.— lt is offi
cially announced that emigrants may enter
the United States with uatllc and baggage
upon personal bond.
Madiud, July 22, evening.—Seuors Sa
gosta and Herresa, and Admiral Tople,
had a long interview yesterday with the
King. The Ministerial crisis is still un
settled.
London, July 22, night.—A letter from
Count Persigney, published in the London
papers, attributes the Frenoh disasters
during the war with Germany to the iso
lation of the French armies.
Buisson, Communist commander of the
Paris fpee-shooters, lias beeu arrested in
Paris.
Favre promised to acoelerato proceed
ings relative to the fate of foreigners,
prisoners and political agents.
Count Cliamhprd has resigned the seat
to which ho was chosen in the Assembly.
It is probable that the sentence of death
imposed tipou political insurgents will ho
commuted to exile, transportation, or im
prisonment for life.
It is reported that an agreement has
been reached between the Legitimist, Fn
sionist aud Orleaqist deputies in the
Assembly. ,
Versailles, July 22, night.—Commuu
isls convicted by military commissions at
Marseilles have been sentenced to various
terms of imprisonment.
Count (Jhambord is passing the sum
mer iu Belgium,-ucar Ostcnd.
In the Assembly tc-day, there was a
very exciting debate upon (he subject of
the petition of Bishops in reference to tho
temporal power of the Pope. President
Thiers, who is chief speaker, declared un
equivocally that he would not in any way
compromise the policy cf the country. Ho
would do his best to secure tho Pope’s inde
pendence.
Uauibetta followed in a speech approv
ing ihc sentiments of Thiers, and sup
ported the motion for tho order of the day,
which was rejected by the Assembly. Tho
petition was then referred to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
Little Rock, July 22. —All mail con
tractors of lines leading hence huvo failed-
A special mail agent is here, endeavoring
to make special contraots for tho pooplo
inoonveoienced.
Louisville, July 22. —Nino alleged
Ku-Klux havo been brought hero from
Estelle county, one of whom, it is stated,
poiohcd. It appears that the band is
local to Estello and Powell counties. Tho
prisoners were held in SI,OOO each, to au
swor at the Ootober torm.
Philadelphia, July 22. -- Pennsyl
vania’s property in the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad was sold to-day and
purchased by Senator Thurmuu and Gun.
McClellan, in behalf of the trus ees. It
was sold in three sections. ’Tho price
aggregates $620,000, of which SII,OOO is
oash.
6t. Louis, July 22.— Hearing in tho
case of Miller ngaiust the Bradstreet Com
mercial Agency continues. Miller intro
duced further intesihnony ns to bis solvon
oy, and stated that the report published
in the July number of the Agency's re
port had injured his standing.
J. 8. Eames testified that ho had boon
sent for by Mr. Shepard, Superintendent
of the Agobcy, and told by him that lie
(Eames) oould havo good rating if ho
would pay for hunting up evidenoe of Hit*
credr. This would cost from $25 to SSOO.
Eames refused the offer.
Shepard was then plaoed on the stand
and flatly contradicted the statement of
Eames, and said Eames offered him moqey
for favorablo rating; that ho (wilneps)
told him he ought to bo kicked out of the
office lor making euoh an oner. He never
received presents, and money eonsirlora
tions had no influence with him. King,
whose testimony was reported yesterday,
had been discharged for making incorrect
reports, falsifyng index and(gcnoral disobe
dience of ordors. King had threatened to
injure the firm, and assaulted tho witness
with brass knuckles. The rating of Miller
was based on information received from
men who he regarded well versed in trade
and business, and who stated that Miller’s
assets and liabilities were so nearly equal
as to justify the witness iu rating him ta
be trusted with caulioo.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
New York,, July 23.—the cotton
movement shows a largo lulling off in re
ceipts, and considerable inoronse in ex
ports. Receipts at all ports 19,661, against
15,386 last, 18.468 provious, and 18,197
three weeks sinca. Total reooipts since
September 3,936,798, against 2,843,084
for the corresponding period the previous
year, showing an inoroase of 1,113,714 iu
lavor of tho present soason. Exports from
all ports for tho week 19,271, against 12,-
712 for the same week last year. Total
exports for tho expired portion of tho
ootton year 3,095,547, against 2,159,899
for the samo time last year. Stock at all
ports 156,319, ugainst 126,384 tho samo
time last year. StoekH at interior towns
10,216, against 26,326 last year. Stock in
Liverpool 660,000, against 607,000 last
year. Amerioan ootton afloat for Great
Britain 80,000, against 62,000 last yoar.
Indian afloat tor Europe 575 585, against
414,000 last year. At the South during
the week more rain has fallen, but it was
needed in many section?.
Cotton was heavy and lower oarly in tho
week, but afterwards partially reoovered
f ho decline. _ Sales for tho weok, 78,500
bales, ot whioh 65,500 wore for iuturo de
livery, and 13,000 on Iho spot aod to ar -
rive. Os tho spot ootton, exporters took
about 1,125 bales; spinners, 4,100, and
speculator?, 1,500.
. Hog products havo boon moderately ac
tive, but without any marked improve
ment in prices. Root products have boon
quiet. Dairy produota have declined. To- (
baoco bas boon activo in Kentucky leal, '
and prices. have advanced. Naval stores
advanoed in spirits, but have been quiot in
oihor articles. Petroleum has boon unset
tled, but closed firmer. Hops—there lias
been a largo movement for export, at'full
price?. Woo! and metal? have been firm,
with a fair business. In other domestic
products tho thankee havo not been im
portant. The goneral trade of tho city has
not developed any now features during tho
week, and dullness prevails in all depart
ments.
Dry goods have been dull, even in do
mestic cotton fabrics. Prices are general
ly firm. In the carpet trade, orders for
goods for tall trade are still being placed
with tho manufacturers fit value wheD do-,
livered. Tho advauoo ot about five cents
per yard, madq early in the prceeDt mouth,
u well sustained. The boot and shoo trade
continues dull, and tho only relief to the
market this week was the appearanee c f
a sow Southern buyers. Spring and sum
mer goods are ottered at, a slight conces
sion, to close out stocks ; hut fall aud win
ter goods are held firmly. In tho hard
ware trade, some of the large firms aio
preparing for tho fait trade, but business
generally is very dull.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, July 23.— Eighty-two thou
sand dollar;! have been subscribed for the
erection of anew first class German thea
tre. for which $200,000 aro i.i ho raised.
Immigration to this port the quarter
ending June 30, amounted to 101,015, in
cluding 30,814 Germans and 20,149 Irish.
About SBOO has been privately sub
scribed for the widow of Sergt. Wyatt,
killed in tbe riot of the 12th, and subscrip
tion continues brisk.
The memory of Benjamin Nathan,mur
dered a year ago, was observed yesterday
by the Synagogue of Mount Sinai Hospit
al, of whioh ho was Prcsidonf.
Two of the East river docks have sunk,
supposed iiom holes made by evil disposed
persons. Tho docks were raised and re
paired, Put the oorapany 10539 $15,000 to
$20, 000.
Privato loiters from Cuba,tho. Jamaica,
sth inst., mention several important en
gagemento, in whioh the Cubans were suc
cessful Ono of them is said to have last
ed five Cl fix hours, and resulted in the
capture of six hundred Spanish prisoners.
In another, forty-fir® Spaniards wero kill
ed and one hundred and fifty prisoners
taken. The Cabans control tho De
partment of Guantonamo.
from WASHINGTON.
Washington. July 23. —Tho Solicitor
of tho Treasury, in a long c pinion, holds
that whero parties act under a decision of
t },„ Commissioner of Revenue, they are
D ot liablo should the Judiciary Depart
ment subsequently ovcrrnlo tho Commis
sioner’s decision. This defeats the claim
of the Government for tax on bonds, cou
pons and dividends, for tho five months
between September, 18W, and January,
1871, where officer-, of corporations, under
the Commissioner’s decision, failed to
withhold the tax. Tho opinion holds that
in withholding tax, officers of corporations
act as agents of the Government, and
are not equitably responsible for tho legali
ty of the Commissioner’s opinions and in
structions.
miscEUANEora,
San Francisco, July 23.—An im
mense Dcmocratio mass meeting was held
last night.
Salt Lake, July 22,—Tho City Coun
oil appointed a committee of prominent
Mormons to make grand preparations to
receive President Grant in August.
The Corrinno Journal will be removed
to this oity, thus making two Gontilo pa
pers for the Mormons to oontond with,