The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-22
THE NEK REBELLIOM.
A Colored Preacher snot in his Pulpit

A COlored Preacher shot tn ms
An ex-member Of the t, SeSagia nrmyI nv hut whJ
now subscribes himself "a ,,d ulsgusSio g,Hroio under
crat, writes from pm aawkinso1e. 5i W. f6owS:
ugSe Nc LONGER ago than last night colored
preacher was shot in the pulpit In tne gIns suOu0s
OF this city, while he was engaged IN IeusIous
services with bis people. Something IKE a
week ago, not far from this place, . negro vsst.,
church that he died yesterday. The clubs com
mobly called Grant clubs. among the negroes,
are the theatre of vast number OF oeaLnsj the
leaders or officers are usually hunted and
shot as mere game; see mo reHei ior ro
merd the negFees ghe state BACK to the military
power. And cannot see how Congress can do
otherwise II the negro members OF the Legisla.
ture are declared Ineligible; for according to
that theory, the Constitutional Amendment Is
not adopted This much Will tell the counIry
In GeoTgia's present condition no fair election
can be held within her limits. Thousands OF
negroes must either vote for Seymour against
their will, or be KILLED or starved to death.
Congress would act wisely to throw Georgia
ont OF the ELECTORAL count at the coming cleo
tion.
Persecution of an Editor in Georgia.
]. Clarke Swayze. editor of the Macon Union,
has been long fighting an uneven fight with
the Rebels Of Ihst section. ,r,,, These Rebels.
compositors so that he was compelled to re-
| duce the size of his paper That he may be able
| TO do all the work upon 1t himself, he thus
In the last II onth or two the Democracy of
Macon have left no stone unturned that the
turning wOuld injure us. or lend to force The
american linton 10 abandon It's chosen field, or
sink 1t into oblivion. 1t has been successful
| this fsr:-It has forced us to the wall: IL has
stripped us of the last assistant and lett us upon
| our own resources Now we strip for the fray
carry no surplus weight. We renew the CON
| test sipglebanded, but with redoubed deter
in Macon, and our friends and patrons 'isGt are
| patriotic enough to sustain us In the effort: sc
that nothing now but the assassin shall him
| der us.
| A First-cIass Rebel Account of the Pi-
| racy Near Memphis.
| The Memphis (Oct. 14) correspondence o
| Brick Pomeroy's Democrat relates the folio wi uS q
The excitement in this quarter concerning
| the shipment OF 5000 stand of arms from the
Detroit Arsenal to the Loyal Leaguers and mig.
gers Of Arkansas had nearly subsidized, and
would soon have become mere thing of tne
past, but to-day the news comes hither that
The steamer Hesper Is on Its way from Little
| Rock, having one hundred Arkansas militia
| on board to protect the shipment. So, you per.
ceive. we are being invaded by a militia force
from another State, which. 1 believe is contrary
TO the spirit of that antlquated and obsolete law
of tbe ned edce sates The WSoe vde srTl
cerniDg these Arkansas arms is, that the fel.
low Clayton, who is the accidental Governor OF
named w. @. Hodges, purchased, at the Detroit
| Arsenal, 5000 stands of Prussian arms, at Il
res hip 10 Arkansas, where they propose to sci
them TO the state at profitable prices that viii
suit inemselyes soo The militia and LSya
weapons for several weeks past and many o
them have threatened all sorts of wickec
things that will ensue when they get them int
their hands But really, we cannot SCI
that they will be nearly SO dapgerou
then as they are now. for, inasmuct
as the arms are speculation, SO verify the,
are the most useless lot of guns, with
out ammunition that ever were seen. The,
are about as useless ordnance as were tn
Springfield fintlock muskets that fell into th
hands OF the Confeds. in 1861, and L remembe
well that the most effective OF those had to b.
touched of from the powder pan with Lighted
cigars and hot Goals. The principal OBJECT o
the enterprise is to make big speculation ou
OF the State of Arkansas, and By placing tin
weapons in the hands OF the melish to intimi
date the cowed and dfearfaly-subjugated Rack
epsecks against voting adversely TO radical be
hests: l fear that Arkansas is awfully whipped
and that, too by niggers.