Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-14

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Bill Cannot Agree-Cuban Intel
| ligenee-Mectfng of the Orange
! nen--They Propose TO Defend
Themselves from Future Assaults
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Herald's
Washington special says the Conference
Committee on the Georgia bill had two
sessions and failed to agree. 1t was de-
cided at the last meeting to report that
the Committee could not agree, and ask
ed to be discharged Butler tried to get
the floor for this purpose during the
afternoon, but failed The Committee
stood four to two, fhe obstinate being
Hamlin and Sherman Of the Senate,
They stood out for Pomeroy's bill, which
remands Georgia back to military au-
thority till an election can be made this
fall. Other members favored the House
bill, which simply admits Georgia to
representation in Congress without con-
ditions. A new conference will be
ordered to-day.
The Times Washington special says it
is asserted that Attorney General Acker-
man has expressed the opinion that it
would be both legal and proper for the
President to order an election in Georgia
this fall, and that the President has given
some thought as to the propriety Of such
an order, and may possibly formally ask
the opinion of the Attorney General
thereon.
Dispatches from Havana, just arrived,
say that on the I'D Of last June twenty
Or thirty of the Masons imprisoned there,
charged with having held secret meetings
and conspiring with the revolutionists.
we're released Nine spaniards and
zen Cubans are still prisoners.
A short time ago one Of the Cuban
Masons was tortured for refusing to tell
what he knew Of the rebellion Another
was put in dark cell and kept on bread
and water for over a week, and from
thence taken and whipped while naked,
but refused 70 disclose what had been
told him, saying, Ny oath as Mason
aud a man is sacred; death is an honor
Ten Cubans were killed in prison.
Col. Carlos Graeia with eighiy-four
men lately made raid on the village
of San Felipe, capturing S25, 900 in spe-
Gle, number Of cattle, horses, arms,
etc. with all Of which be successfully |
escaped with no loss Of men. San Felipe
is only twenty-one miles from Havana.
The Times says the Orangemen held
meeting Tuesday night, after they had
escaped from the clutches Of the mob,
and after an excited and stormy discus
sion, decided that they considered they
as much right TO parade in re-
gala with appropriate banners on any
day they pleased, to select as mem
bers Of the St. Patrick society. They |
spoke Of the fact that the celebration
of the Battle of the Boyne was simply a
a picnic, and that their families partiei-
pated in The pleasures Of the day, and did
not see any occasion or proyocation for
an assault upon them.
The sense Of the meeting was then
taken on the question Of their right to
hold picnics and parade, and decided in
the affirmative by a unanimous vote.
Amid much enthusiasm the Orangemcn
then decided that, believing they were
entitled to as much protection as their
fellow-counirymen Of opposite faith, they
would hold another celebration ia An-
gust, and ask the authorizes for neces-
sary and proper protection. II q Mna
not granted they would proceed win
their celebration. and If interfercd Ni,h
OF assaulted. would defend themselves ~
a thorough sad determined manner