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company, commanding him, and others through 

 him, to move toward station 11, on the Central 

 Railroad, ahout twenty miles from Sandersville, 

 and kill and rob the whites. on every hand. 

 The discovery of the supposed plot led to 

 prompt action on the part of 'the Governor 

 and other authorities, and several leaders of 

 the military organization and of the supposed 

 conspirators for an insurrection of the negroes, 

 were arrested. A special term of the Superior 

 Court was called, to be held on the 20th of 

 August, at Sandersville. Judge Herschell V. 

 Johnson delivered a charge to the grand-jury, 

 in which he directed an examination in the 

 premises, and counseled the utmost calmness 

 and fairness, warning the jurors against being 

 affected by prejudice or excited feeling. He 

 impressed upon them the fact that colored 

 citizens had an equal right with others to fair 

 and impartial treatment. An indictment was 

 found, charging 



Prince E. Elvers, Joseph Morris, Francis Murker- 

 son, Corday Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Huston, alias 

 Neil Wood, and Jerry Simmons, of the county and 

 State aforesaid, with the offense of an attempt to in- 

 cite insurrection, for that the said Prince E. Eivers, 

 Joseph Harris, Francis Murkerson, Corday Harris, 

 Asa Gilmore, Neil Huston, alias Neil Wood, and 

 Jerry Simmons, in the county aforesaid, on the 

 twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord 

 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and 

 on divers other days before and since said day, and 

 before the finding of this "true bill," with force 

 and arms unlawfully and feloniously did attempt by 

 persuasion of the colored citizens of said county and 

 the adjoining counties, and organizing the male col- 

 ored citizens of said county into military companies, 

 oath-bound to follow the orders of their officers, and 

 by falsely representing to Jake Mooreman, Benjamin 

 Davis, Benjamin Wrignt, John Chillis, James Wright, 

 Tobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, and other male citi- 

 zens of color of said counties, that the laws of said 

 State generally, and especially as to juries, public 

 schools, and the tenure of real and personal proper- 

 ty, are partial to the white citizens and unjust and 

 oppressive to the colored citizens of said State, and 

 of said counties, and by other means to the jurors 

 aforesaid unknown, to induce the said Jake Moore- 

 man, Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Wright, John Chil- 

 lis, James Wright, Tobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, and 

 other colored citizens of said counties, to join in 

 combined resistance to the lawful authority of said 

 State, by which jurors are empaneled, public schools 

 are organized, and rights of property are secured, 

 with intent then and there to the denial of said au- 

 thority in said counties, and then and there intending 

 that said denial of said authority should be by the col- 

 ored citizens of said counties unlawfully manifested 

 by acts of violence, to wit, by the practical abrogation 

 and subversion of laws in said counties unlawfully 

 by the burning of the court-houses and consequent 

 destruction of the evidences of the tenure of the 

 land in said counties, and by the forcible and un- 

 lawful taking away from the white citizens of said 

 counties their lands and household property, and 

 unlawfully and forcibly appropriating the same to 

 the colored citizens of said counties, and by the in- 

 discriminate, unlawful killing of the officers of said 

 counties, and all other of the white citizens thereof 

 who dared to oppofee them in their said nefarious 

 des'ign, contrary to the laws of said State, the peace, 

 good order, and dignity thereof. 



Corday Harris was first put on trial, hut, 

 though there was evidence of the existence 



of the secret military organization and a good 

 deal of incendiary talk, the special offense 

 with which he was charged was not proved, 

 and a verdict of " not guilty " was rendered 

 on the 2d of September. The next day the 

 grand-jury made a special presentment, rec- 

 ommending the discharge of the other prison- 

 ers. This was immediately effected. Judge 

 Johnson, in his response to the grand-jury, said : 



I, therefore, implore all my fellow-citizens, after 

 this calm investigation has been made, to coincide in 

 the result and to endeavor to establish and maintain 

 relations of harmony and good-will with all, of every 

 race, color, and condition. Be sure you do not cher- 

 ish the spirit of enmity and revenge against those 

 of the opposite race. 



The question of holding a convention for the 

 revision of the constitution of the State, which 

 was considered but not acted upon by the last 

 Legislature, is likely to come into greater prom- 

 inence next year. The grand -jury of Wilkes 

 County, in December, submitted among its 

 presentments to the Superior Court the follow- 

 ing recommendation : 



We would recommend our representatives to use 

 their influence in calling a constitutional Conven- 

 tion to undo the work of the corrupt radical party 

 which framed the unjust constitution under which 

 we, as Democrats, still continue to live ; and espe- 

 cially the iniquitous homestead law, which we con- 

 sider unreasonably large for the present impoverished 

 condition of our country, and entailing endless litiga- 

 tion and unnecessary taxation, and a premium for dis- 

 honesty and the violation of contracts, injuring the 

 credit of the honest, industrious planters and crip- 

 pling that of the merchants, and enforcing stagnation 

 of the mercantile and agricultural interests of the 

 country. 



Prof. Little, the State geologist, is making 

 fair progress with his scientific survey of the 

 State, but says that with the present means 

 and appliances for its prosecution it will re- 

 quire ten years to complete it. It promis'es 

 valuable results in exhibiting the undeveloped 

 and almost unknown mineral resources of the 

 State. The State Board of Health was or- 

 ganized on the 9th of June, consisting of one 

 commissioner from each congressional district, 

 together with the Attorney-General, Control- 

 ler-General, and State geologist. 



GERMANY, an empire in Europe, reestab- 

 lished January 18, 1871. The Emperor, Wil- 

 liam L, was born March 22, 1797, and was 

 married June 11, 1829, to Augusta, daughter 

 of the Grand-duke Charles Frederick of Saxe- 

 Weimar. The heir-apparent, Frederick Wil- 

 liam, born October 18, 1831, has the official 

 title of Crown-prince of the German Empire, 

 and Crown-prince of Prussia. He was mar- 

 ried January 25, 1858, to Victoria, Princess 

 Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, born No- 

 vember 21, 1840. Offspring of the union are, 

 three sons : Frederick William, born 1859 ; 

 Henry, born 1862 ; Waldemar, born 1868 ; and 

 four daughters: Charlotte, born 1860; Victoria, 

 born 1866; Sophia, born 1870; Margaretta, 

 born 1872. Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanz- 

 ler), Otto, Prince von Bismarck- Schonhausen. 



