Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-24

BLoDGErT refuses to wear the Sena-
toraI toga, because he has been in
dicted by a grand jury in Georgia.
" only for political effect" He wants
TO wait until he is whitewashed,
which will not be for political
effect certainly not. Aside from the
indictment, those who know him best
speak of him in no very compliment
airy terms; the Columbus SIN ever
going so far as to say his Senatorial
Excellency is " as low a creature as it
is possible for humanity to becOme,"
/ We have heard of men being elected
on the cry Of persecution, because they
had stolen something. BLoDGETr
and REVELs seem to have feathers Of
that sort in their caps, which give a
very satisfactory explanation Of their
election. 1t is already understood
that the United States District At
torney, ACKERMAN, win enter a nOAe
proseqoi in the case of the " United
States against FOSTER B%LoDGETT-
perjury" and so the honorable gen.
tleman will be purified as much as is
necessary TO a seat by the side Of
REvELs, AsIEs, WmTTEMoRE and
SMITH. The Columbus SIN says:
The proof to convict Blodgett is
strong, conclusive, overwhelming and
i~rrefutable. No honest and intelli-
/ gent Jury could leave the box to make
Up a verdict after hearing it. But the
case will never be sounded, save to be
| stricken from the docket. In due
/ time BlOdgett will be " triumphantly
acquitted " by a technical device, and
another chapter added to the infa-
nous history of the Radical recon-
s~tructiOn of the South. The Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel contains an ac-
count Of the interview of Bryant and
/ BlOdgett with the Reconstruction
/ Committee in Washington. Bryant
charged BIOdgett with perjury and
/ peculation. Furthermore, he pro-
duced the proof, and made BlOdgett
acknowledge that the parties furnish
ing the evidence were of the highest
respectability and credibility.
OF the other Georgia dignitary the
New York Herald recalls some inter
esting incidents, as follows:
Some years ago a black rogue was
put in Sing Sing prison and served
out his term. On graduating he be-
Games protege Of Mr.. Summers, prac-
ticed with such success at the Boston
bar as to be stricken from the rolls.
] -M-a IongHnaD hon aarvaar-LnN -
pent as q pacifcatOr OF the South
| having, in tact, helped to frame the
reconstructed Constitution of Georgia,
/ until expelled the Convention by his
associates. For a season greatness
/ seems to have sUrfeited this worthy
! Senegambian, but of late he appears
radiant in a halo of dispatches to Mr..
! Grant. Under the late reconstruction
Of Georgia, the eX-convict turns up as
a Georgia State Senator, and, dev0ur-
ed by a dreadful fear that the thing
still needs patching, telegraphs the
following:
"ATLANTA, Ca, February Z, 1870.
ITO Vice President Colfax, Washington,
@Sir. If we elect Senators before
revising the barbarOus code of Geor-
ola, and enaeting a mixed jury and
militia bill, the Republicans are de-
feated. A. ALPB0RA BRADLEY"
1t does not appear that Mr.. COlfax
smiled at receiving this dispatch, nor,
in fact. that he noticed the same at all;
whereupon the following is sent:
"ATLANTA, February 9, 1870.
ITO President Grant, Washington, D. c.:
"Please answer quickly, yes or no,