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THE ATLANTA W E E K L Y S U N.
[continued on page 2.]
ie Convention, which assembles in this
city to-morrow, and providing for the
adjournment of this House from to-day
over until 9 a. m. Thursdny. •
Mr. Bacon offered a substitute provid
ing for taking a recess from Hi o’clock
A. M. to-morro t until 7 P. M. The sub
stitute was adopted.
The bill to make penal the Bale of ag
ricultural prodncts between the hours of
sunset and sunrise was read the third
time.
Messrs. Griffin of Houston and Davis
of Clark opposed it. Various amend
ments were offered.
Mr. Johnson of Spalding moved to
lay the whole matter on the table. On
fin's motion the yeas and nays were
called. Yeas, 78; nays, 55.
The Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions reported on the case of Mr. Tarver
of Baker, declaring that from the law
and evidence, it is the opinion of said
Committee that Mr. Tarver is a citizen
of Baker county. •• 1 lvi
On motion of Mr. Phillips the report
was taken up, and on motion of Mn
Simmons of Gwinnet it was laid on the
fable.
A report of A. B. Woodruff, an Arch
itect, on the safety of the Capitol baild-
ing, was read. This report says that the
building is safe under ordinary circum
stances, and recommends some changes,
such as the removal of the library to a
lower floor, and the removal of the water
tank from its present position.
Bill to incorporate the Merchants’ and
Mechanics’ Saving Bank of Columbus;
passed.
Bill to promote the propagation of
shad fish in the Savannah river wa3 read.
Mr. Bawls moved to strike out Monday
from the clause of the bill which prevents
fishing on Sunday and Monday.
Mr. Bawls’ amendment was lost. The
bill was then passed.
Bill to incorporate the Macon and
Chattahoochee liailroad Company passed.
The Governor approved the act to
change tho line between the counties of
McIntosh and Liberty.
The House adjourned until 3 p. si.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House met at 3 p si.
The following bills were read the third
time and passed:
To authorize the construction of a rail
road from Elberton, Georgia, to intersect
the New York and New Orleans Air-Line
Bailroad; to authorize the corporate au
thorities of Daltou to purchase and do-
nate lands to the Selma, Borne and Dal
ton Bailroad Co.; to change the time of
holding Worth Superior Court; to more
effectually protect religious worship; to
incorporato the town of Tilton; to
require the Tax Collector of Ware
county to receive county scrip for taxes,
to prevent the hounding and killing of
deer in the counties of Talbot, Marion,
Taylor and Laurens in certain months.
A message from the Governor was re
ceived, saying that the act to exempt
firemen from jury duty and a resolution
providing for the arrest of certain parties
had been approved and signed. A sub
stitute for the bill to extend the juris
diction of * the City Court of Augusta,
passed. Bill to authorize the Ordinary
of Randolph county to issue bonds to
build a court-house, passed. Bill to au
thorize the sale of personal property at
any place within tho limits of Milton
county, passed. Bill to authorize Cal
loway Campbell, of Murray county, to
erect a mill dam across Connesauga river,
passed.
To allow persons to make tax returns
to Clerks of the Superior Court in cer
tain cases; passed.
To regulate the system of farming out
Penitentiary convicts, laid on the table.
To require ull declarations and defenses
in causes at common law to be complete
at the first term was read.
Mr. McMillan moved to disagree to
the report of tho committee, which was
adverse to the passage of the bill. He
argued that the present practice of allow-
'ing amendments was calculated to delay
the udiinimtraiiuu of justice.
Mr. Pierce said that the bill proposed
to place the case where it stood at com
mon law.
Mr. Huge, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, said that he was never better
satisfied with any report of of his com
mittee, and hoped tho report would be
adopted.
The report was adopted and the bill
was lost.
To refund to Charles Latimer certain
erroneously collected tax; lost
To lay out a new county from the
counties of Coweta, Meriwether, Spald
ing nud Fayette, to be called Waddell,
was laid on the table.
To ameud the usury law so as to make
it lawful for persons to charge and collect
10 per cent, per annum, and to fix the
rate nr. 7 per cent, when no rate is men
tioned, was read.
Mr. Hunter moved to disagree to the
report of the committee, which was ad
verse to the bill.
Mr. Hoge said that he thought the re
port was adverse on account of the pend-
iug Senate bill to repeal the usury law;
but since tho latter bill had been indefi
nitely postponed, ho believed the major
ity of the Committee would favor tho bill.
Mr. Hunter’s motion prevailed.
Mr. Fain called the previous question,
which was sustained.
Oh the passage of the bill the yeas and
nays were called; Yeas 85; nays 49.
Mr. Simmons of Gwinnett moved to
transmit the bill immediately to the Sen
ate; lost.
House adjourned until 7 p.m.
Those who were in favor of the bill
urged that the law is used principally for
levying black mail.
On the motion to disagree to the re
port of the committee, the yeas and nays
were called. Yeas 63; nays 69.
The bill was then passed.
To change the line between the coun
ties of Warren and McDuffie; passed.
To alter the road laws so far as they
relate to Bibb county; passed. .«
House adjourned until 9 a. m. to
morrow.
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T E L EG BAMS
Charleston, December 5.—la the Ku-
Klux trail ut Columbia yesterday, Mr.
Stanberry, for the defense, moved to
quash the indictment against Crosby and
others, upon these, among other grounds:
That tlienaine’of the'persous indicted are
not mentioned in the indictment; that
the grand jury had decided as to.the law,
instead .of the. facts; .that the indictment
was defective iu stating the deprivation
of the right "to vote as taking place at a
future date as the United States Consti
tution and law do not secure to any citi
zens the right to vote, and that the State,
and not the Federal courts, must redress
such personal grievances as those com
plained of. Stanberry argued two hours
in support of his objection. Counsel for
the Government, asked for, time, and re
replies to-morrow.
Messrs. Chamberlain and Corbin, for
the Government, made elaborate replies
to Stanberry’s argument yesterday—the
main point of both replies being that the
indictment was drawn in the exact words
of the Congressional Statute, andj was,
therefore, patent.
Bcverdy Johnson will begin the dos
ing argument for the defense, on the
motion to quash, at 10 to-morrow.
Selma, Nov. 5.—The Agricultural Con
gress met in this, city to-day. Delegates
from Kentucky, South Carolina, North
Carolina,. Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama were present, and ethers are still
arriving. An important session is an
ticipated. The hospitality of the city
has been extended. General Lawton,
of South Carolina, will address the Con
gress at 11 o’clock to-morrow.
Louisville, December 5.—Dorsey’s
stallion, Gold Dust, is dead. He was
valued at §50,000.
The Kentucky Legislature has con
vened. No organization.
St. Louis, December 5.—The river is
choked below. The ferries here
stopped. >
Annapolis, December 5.—The jury in
Mrs. Wharton’s case was completed to
day. <
Omaha, December 5.—The eastward
trains are now bound atElm Creek. Two
engines bave been sent to their assist
ance. They are either off the track or
disabled. The snow is severe all along
the entire track. The mercury was six
teen degrees below yesterday morning.
New Orleans, December 5.—The Sec
ond District Court decides that Mrs.
Gaines is not the legitimate heir of Da
vid Clark nor Ms universal legatee, and
revokes the probate of Clark’s will of
1813, probated in 1855, as invalid. Mrs.
Gaines relied mainly on this will to sub
stantiate her claims.
THE DA^Y SUN.
Thursday, December 7, 1871
The Supreme Court of Georgia
Once More.
In pur last article upon this subject,
we indicated a purpose to recur to it
again, and especially in reference to the
proper mode of filling vacancies as they
occur upon the Bench.
This highest of our Judicial Tribunals,
important at all times, is rendered vitally
so by the present struggle wMch is going
on between Law and Order on the
side, and Usurpation, Lawlessness and
Public Plunder on the other. If the Su
preme Court shall be composed of Judges
whose ability, inteqrity and courage will
command the respect and confidence of
the country, all may yet be well. If the
Legislature can, without delay, give us
such Judges in a perfectly legal way, and
shall fail to do so, they will beheld re
sponsible for all the incalculable evil con
sequences of the failure,
The crisis is dangerous only as there is
danger that it may not be wisely met; and
in every crisis of danger, the Mghest
courage is the highest wisdom. The
course of safety is to follow, unflinching
ly, wherever duty and law shall point the
way.
In addition to what we have heretofore
said, and on further investigation of the
subject under consideration, we affirm
that there are now two vacancies on the
Supreme Bench, aud that it is the duly of
the General Assembly, under the law, to
fill them with men of their own choice.
Oae of these vacancies occurred by the
resignation of Judge McCay (who resign
ed to get increased pay under a new ap
pointment), and was reappoint3d ky Gov
ernor Bullock, with the advice and con
sent of the Senate. We hold that this
reappointment expired at the meeting of
the present General Assembly; for the
advice and consent of the Senate has
nothing to do with filling vacancies on the
Supreme Court Bench, as we have con
clusively shown; and the Governor’s ap
pointment for that vacancy lasted, under
the laic, only till the meeting of the pres
ent General Assembly, whose duty it now
is to fill the unexpired term by an elec
tion.
The other of these vacancies occurred
t I by the resignation of Jndge Brown. He
r ^° com Pen3ate Jurors in Crawford; resigned twice: the first time, like Judge
« i- , McCay, to get increased pay under anew
ties of CatSosa aVrWMker°mSd COnn ' a PP ointment; and tlie second time > to
To regulate the pay of Jurors iu the! charge of the State Road under the
county of Newton; uassed 1 ~
To require the Tax Receiver to take
NIGHT SESSION.
The following bills wore read the third
time:
To repeal the act consolidating offices
of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver for
Dade county; passed.
For relief of B. Chaucey of Early
county; passed.
To incorporate the town of Dublin;
passed.
To lay out a new county from the coun-
ty of Jeflerson; laid on the table.
Senate bills were read first time:
The circumstance that Judge McCay’s
reappointment was made with the advice
and consent of the Senate, and that Judge
Lochra lie’s Appointment was not so made,
cann.-.t make the slightest difference be
tween the two oases. It is certain that
both these offices were vacant, whatever
they may be now; and w© say that they
are both vacant now, because the uuex-
pired terms have never been filled in the
mode required by law.
Oar argument, in our issue of the 29th
nit, as applied to Judge Lochrane, is
equally applicable to that of Judge Mc
Cay. 1 It has' not betm. answered—we are
bold to say it will hot be. The objec
tions which were made to it, by our co
temporaries, the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel, and oar neighbor the Constitu
tion, in their issues of the 3d insfc., and
to which we replied "briefly on the 5th,
are founded on obvious inattention to the
very terms which they quote from the
Constitution of the State, and from the
Code, and npon a vital mistake of fad.
They both fall into the same error of
fad, jo. stating that ’section 202 of the
Code, in relation to filling vacancies, so
far as concerns the Supreme Court Bench,
went into operation under a Constitution
which made election by the General As
sembly the mode of filling whole or en
tire terms of these offices. On the con
trary, thel.very reverse of this is true.—
The Code went into operation under the
Constitution of 18G1; and that Constitu
tion and the present one are identical, not
only as to the mode of appointing
Supreme Court Judges, for ©nitre
terms, but also as to the mode of
filling vacancies, with the single excep
tion that the Constitution of 1861 re
quired the appointment for whole terms,
to be made with the advice and consent
of “two-thirds of the Senate,” instead of,
with the advice and consent of a bare
majority of the Senate. The fact, when
correctly stated, throws a flood of light
on the question under consideration.—
Our cotemporaries have probably mista
ken the intervening Constitution of 1865,
for that of 1861. They both maintain
that Section 202 of the Code is inconsis
tent with the present Constitution, which
provides that Judges of the Supreme
Court “shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor, with the advice and consent of
the Senate.” If so, it was equally incon
sistent with the Constitution of 1861,
which provided that Judges of the Su
preme Court should be “appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of
two-thirds of the Senate !
But where, as we aske 1, iu our article
of the 5th inst., is the slightest inconsis
tency between the language of the Code,
and either the Constitution of 1861 or
the present one of 1868 ? This provis
ion, in both of the Constitutions, re
lates solely to original appointments, or
those for whols and entire terms. Close
attention to the language will show, that
if it relates to the filling of vacancies,
then we have the very inconvenience,
not to say calamity, which is most erro
neously charged as a consequence of our
construction; for, in the event of two
vacancies occurring in the recess of the
Legislature, we should most clearly be
without a court: in other words, a vacancy
can never be filled in a recess of the Leg
islature. They say that because of this
provision the appointment must be made
by the Governor in all cases, whether it
be for a whole term or only for a vacancy,
Our neighbor of the Constitution, puts
it thus: “It is as if the Constitution had
said, no man shall be Judge unless he is
appointed by the Governor."
"Why lay so much stress on the Gover
nor, and none at all on “the advice and
consent of the Senate ? ” "Why not
equally well say—“It is as if the Consti
tution had said, no man shall be Judge
unless he is appointed with the advice and
consent of. the Senate ?”
Would this provision be any more
violated by an eledion than by an ap
pointment wilho’ui the advice and consent
of the Senate? If this provision pro
hibits the filling of a vacancy by election
of the General Assembly, does it not
equally proMbit the filling of a vacancy
by appointment of the Governor without
the advice and consent of the Senate?
With that view, has Judge Lochrane any
rightful claim to the office whatever? Is
he not upon the Bench without any
rightful authority ? Is there any possi
ble escape from this reasoning, if .the as
sumption of our neighbor be correct?
We agree with both of our cotempo
raries, that the appointment of Judge
Lochrane was legal when made, but not
on their views of the Constitution. It
was legal only because the'particular pro
vision of the Constitution now under
consideration—that on which thoy rely
for the legality of his appointment—has
no sort of application to the filling of va
cancies, or the circumstances under
which he did oome rightfully into office.
He came in under another clause wMch
provides for filling vacancies.
Let us now put another test of the
alleged inconsistency between the Code
and the Constitution. When are two
things inconsistent? It is when both of
them cannot stand together; when both
cannot be true. If the Constitution, after
saying that the Judges of the Supreme
Court shall be appointed by the Gover-
and have full effect, one being in the j perpetuation of’ their ill-gotten power. I
Constitution and the other in a Stat- The rescue of this Department is, of it- !
ute? If there is conflict or inconsisten-j self, likely soou to secure that of the j
cy between the two tMngs, is that con- Executive also; for the crimes of the I
flict or inconsistency any the less intense late incumbent of tho Gubernatorial I
or conspicuous by placing the two conflict- i Chair were so numerous, so great, so fla-1
ing things in immediate proximity with j grant, that, by self-confession, his only J
each other in the same instrument? If j safety from condemnation and punish-1 ' 300 ^ as n future President,
thoy were so placed, would not the ment lay in “flight and escape from all I *©■
meaning of the whole plainly be j investigation into his official conduct by j
that the appointment by the Gov
ernor, with the advice and consent
the true Representatives of the people.
It is only by continued like resorts; on
of the Senate, was applicable only to j the part of the people, and their Kepre-
original appointments, or those for whole! sentatives, that the good old State, under
terms; and that diction by tbe General, the Providence of God,{will, ere long, be,
Assembly was applicable to the filling of I iu like manner, completely disenthralled
vacancies<? Is it not equally clear that 1 and redeemed in every Department of her
with tax returns the number of acres of
land cultivated in cereals; passed.)
To reduce the bond of the Sheriff of
Banks oonnty; passed.
To repeal the bastardy laws of this
State was read third time.
Mr. Bryan moved to disagree to the
report of the committee, which was in
favor of the bill.
Lease.
After his second resignation (wMch I nor, with the adveie and consent of the
occurred wheu the General Assembly Senate, had added, “but vacancies may
was not in session), Judge Lochrane was be filled by eledion of the General As-
appointed in his place by Governor Bol
lock: aud this appointment, like the reap
pointment of Jndge McCay, expired,
under the law, at the meeting of the pres
ent General Asserab.y.
sembly,” would it have occurred to any
body that there was any inconsistency be
tween the two things ? If both can stand
together, and have full effect in the Con
'.stiiution. why cu:not both stand together
SUN-STROKES.
£Sr“ Tho President appoiuteth “a
cheerful giver. ”
111 boats are in an ice fix on the
on the Hudson Canal.
1KJU The flattest thin
#
out—T om
This is tbe season for
They call ’em sausages.
ground
the Constitution, as it now stands, pro
vides one mode for filling whole temns,
and another mode for filling vacancies,
or pails of terms ?
What effed is to be given to that other
provision of the Constitution, wMch de
clares that, “When any office shall be
come vacant by death, resignation,- or
otherwise, the Governor,”i(uot with, but
without, the advice and consent of the
Senate,) “shall have power to fill such
vacancy, unless otherwise provided by law?"
Is it possible that any oue will maintain
that this provision has no application to
Judge of the Supreme Court, because
different mode of appointing Judges of
the Supreme Courtis provided in another
part of the Constitution ?
Then, can it be applicable to County
Officers, who, by the express terms of the
Constitution, are to beeleded by the People?
If not to such officers as these Judges,
and others, then to whom can this pro
vision have any application at all ? If it
is applicable to vacancies in any offices
whatever, then why is it not equally ap
plicable to vacancies in tbe Supreme
Court ?
Shall we be told that where eledion by
the people is the mode prescribed by the
Constitution for filling whole terms, va
cancies may be filled by the Governor, if
there is no provision by law for filling
them, and may be filled according to the
provision of law; when there is such pro
vision; but that when appointment by
the Governor, with the advice and con
sent of the Senate, is tbe mode pre
scribed by the Constitution for filling
whole terms, vacancies can not be filled
by the Governor, if there is no provision
otherwise by law, and can not be filled in
accordance with the provision by law, if
there is such a provision ?
Can further argument be needed to show
that in the case of Judges who are ap
pointed by the Governor, with die advice
and consent of the Senate, just as in the
case of County Officers who are elected
by the people, the mode of appointment
or election specified in the Constitution,
is applicable to whole terms, while vacan
cies are to be filled by the Governor, if
there is no provision by law for filling
them, and to be filled according to the
provisions of law, where any such law ex
ists? When there is no provision of law
on the subject, then appointment by the
Governor alone, without any concurrence
of the Senate, is the sole mode of filling
vacancies on the Bench, and when there
is provision of law to meet the case,
then that is the sole mode.
With our existing provision of law for
filling vacancies in the Supreme Court, a
Judge appointed for a vacancy by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of
the Senate, would be, or rather is, (for
we have the actual case) an unconstitu
tional Judge,, just as another eleded for a
whole term by the General Assembly
would be an unconstitutional Judge.
On the other hand, two Judges elected
by the General Assembly to fill vacancies
would be as much constitutional Judges
as another is, who was appointed for a
whole term by the Governor, with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate.
The door is open. The duty is plain.
If the Legislature shall refuse to dis
charge that duty, and throw away the
present opportunity to inaugurate so
great a reformation in the reforma
tion of Justice, they will make them*-
selves largely responsible for the evils
and wrongs which must ever attend the
official abuse and perversion of the laws
among a free people;
We are for law and order in all things.
Even in righting the great wrongs heaped
upon us, and in rescuing our State from
the hands of the spoilers and plunderers
who have trampled npon our liberties,
and devoured our substance, we are
for resorting solely .to the instrumentali
ties of the organic law, as they them
selves made it. They overturned our
entire system of State Government—Ex
ecutive, Legislative, and Judicial Depart
ments—by open usurpation—backed with
bayonets. We propose to. restore peace,
quiet, law, order, and the right
ful administration of Justrice through
the primary medium of ballots
alone. These are sufficient for
our ultimate riddance from the terrible
misrule under which we have suffered,
if we shall but prove true to principle
in the maintenance of right. These
clearly legal and constitutional instru
mentalities are weapons wMch no people
who are fit to be free, will fail or refuse
to wield for their protection and security,
whenever and wherever occasion calls
for their use.
It was by resorts of this character,
with an unfaltering firmness, an patient
forbearance, unsurpassed in history, that
the Legislative Department of the State
Government has been [rescued at the
pods, and that, too, through the tribula
tion of the most iniquitous election law
ever concocted by wicked Rnlers for the
Public Affairs. The people have done
their part thus far. Will their Represen
tatives do theirs with equal nerve, integ
rity and Patriotism ? A. H. S.
; —
The Democratic Nominee for
Governor.
The Hon. James M. Smith of Musco
gee, Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, was yesterday nominated by accla
mation as the Democratic candidate for
Governor.
He was bom in the county of Twiggs,
of honest and poor parents. At an early
age his father removed to Culloden, in
Monroe county, where the subject of this
notice obtained a limited education at
the village school. At all spare times,
however, he devoted himself to study,
and read everything within his reach.—
He took part in the village debating
society, and his gifts as a speaker were
so striking, though a mere boy, as to at
tract the attention of his neighbors, who
urged Mm to read law and apply for ad
mission to the bar. This he did, and
entered the law office of the Hon. L. T.
Doyle, then of Culloden, but now a resi
dent of Griffin.
Mr. Smith was soon admitted to prac
tice, and in a short time obtained con
siderable business. He subsequently re
moved to the adjoining county of Upson,
and soon rose to distinction in all the
counties of the Flint Circuit.
It should be stated that during these
years he was a close student, and that he
did not confine his reading to the law;
but extended it to all branches of useful
knowledge, and is now one of the best in
formed men in the State of Georgia. The
county and Congressional District in
which he lived were strongly Whig, and
though he was more than once called
upon to lead a forlorn hope in the Con
gressional contests, he was never elected.
Mr. Smith was opposed to the seces
sion movement; but the war came and he
cast his lot with his friends and neigh
bora, and led the old Thirteenth regiment
in the battles around Richmond in 1862
He was disabled in the fight, but contin
ued to lead his regiment until after the
battle of Gettysburg.
At the next election of members to the
Confederate Congress, he was chosen by
a large majority, and remained at Ms
post until the close of the struggle.
Upon the cessation of hostilities, he
resumed the practice of his profession,
and in 1867 went to Columbus, where he
now resides.
At the State election last winter, Mr.
Smith was elected by a large
majority a member of the Legislature,
though much opposed to entering upon
public life. Upon the assembling of the
Legislature, he was made Speaker of the
House, and yesterday he was nominated
as the Democratic Candidate for Gov
ernor.
Mr. Smith is in the prime of life, a
man of eommarding person, a forcible
speaker, of robust honesty and devotion
to principle, conservative in his senti
ments, and a great favorite among the
people from whose vigorous loins he
sprung.
He is somewhat shy among strangers,
and has no taste for public life; but the
people have forced Mm out, and we trust
and believe he will soon be Governor of
Georgia.
1*55°“ The editor of Godey's Lady's Book
is 84 years old and still Sarah J. is Hale.
Brownlow has arrived in Wash-
inoton, in improved health. “The good,”
&c.
Grant has been President not
quite three years, and is worth only a
million of dollars.
Trumbull and Tilden for Presi
dent add Vice-President, is tho'" latest
conceit of the New York Sun.
lf5y*“‘Tke Divine Tragedy” is the name
of Longfellow’s new poem, which Jos. B.
Osgood & Co. have just issued.
JJgf'Teunyson’s “Last Tournament” is
published iu full iu tho Loqisville Ledger
of Monday. There is about a thousand
lines of it
Pleasanton, is preparing to have
his case laid before the Senate. He
thinks ho can make some strong points
;ainst Boutwell.
“The philosopher’s stone—Sena-
ca.”—Boston Post. That is possibly the
first time it was ever intimated that
Grant is a “philosopher.”
The Boston Post announces that
‘more whisky will be distilled tMs year
than last.” The G.-J. lifts its emaciated
head and whispers “will it be Bourbon?”
The cold weather has had a bad
effect upon the mails. They have be
come very irregular in their habits.—
Those from the East fail oftener than
they'come on time.
H. G., the national farmer, was
applied to for a remedy for “scratches”
in horses. “Pare their toe nails close,”
responded the renowned agriculturalist,
‘and they can’t scratch any more.”
BcS- It is stated that an order has been
issued by the Internal Revenue Bureau,
at "Washington, that “board, lodging and
washing must be paid for ou demand, or
that the employee be deemed unworthy
of holding any place of trust or profit
under the Government of the United
States.”
Speakiug of the speculative ten
dency of our foreign ambassadors, but
most especially of “Emma” Soheuck, the
Litchfield, Connecticut, Sen'iueloilers an
apology for them by saying: “Having
been obliged to buy their positions, it is
no more than fair that they should be al
lowed to engage in some business or
speculation to get their money^fiaek. If
an official position has a money value,
why not use it to get money ? Shall our
Chief Magistrate be allowed to receive
houses, lands, libraries, horses, dogs and
greenbacks, and a diplomatic agent be
forbidden to feather his nest ? Surely
not; and General Grant will do the man
ly thing by retaining Mr. Schenck in
office.”
A RAILROAD TO ELBERTON
A. Matter of Special Interest to th.e Peo-
pic of Atlanta and to tbe Air-Line
Railroad.
We invite special attention to the com
munication of “Elbart” in *our paper
to-day. The people of Atlanta and the
Stockholders of the Air-Line Railroad,
it seems to us, should be deeply inter
ested in the matter presented.
Elbert is a wealthy county. A very
large amount of cotton, as well as other
produce, is made there. The people are
extensive purchasers of merchandise, and
the trade of the county is very large. All
this trade goes to Augusta, and Elbert is
one of the heaviest patrons of the Au
gusta Market.
Elberton is thirty miles from the Rail
road, at the nearest point—Lexington.—
The people have long desired the Wash
ington Branch of the Georgia Railroad
to be extended to Elberton, but its con
struction would be very expensive—espe
cially in the cost and difficulty of cross
ing Broad river.
A branch of the Air-Line could be
built at comparatively small cost—the
proposed route for most of the distance
being on a Mgh level ridge.
This branch once built would make
Atlanta the market for the cotton and
other trade of Elbert and the country
contiguous.
We have not time to go into details or
give statistics. We throw out the gener
al idea, and hope it will be taken hold of
and elaborated by those immediately in
terested.
Burned to death with Petbo Oil.—A
negro woman named Mary Spence, about
45 years old, who lived with Mrs. Payne,
corner of Simpson and Hull streets, at
tempted to kindle a fire with the aid of
petro oil, Monday night. She took a
gallon can containing some oil and began
pouring from the can upon the fire. The
oil,of course,took fire and the flames were
immediately communicated to the can,
wMch exploded, the oil flying over the
unfortunate woman and completely en
veloping her in flames. Before she could
be relieved, her clothes were burned off
of her, and her body was so badly burned
that nearly all the skin peeled off. In
this condition she lingered for twenty-
four hours, suffering excruciating pains
and then died. She said she had always
heard that petro oil was not explosive,and
thought 'there could be no danger in
using some of it in kindling her fire.
That it will explode was proven by her
experiment, as the bottom was completely
tone out of the can.
Divided.—The Republican party is inharmoni
ous. A portion is in favor of running a candidate,
and are opposed to tbe mulish policy of Benjamin
Conley. This wing of tbe party, also, had ameeting
last night, and adopted tbe following:
“Resolved, That tbe Chairman of this meeting
appoint a committee to he composed of two from
each Congressional District, and five from the State
at large, who shaU select and present to our party
the name of a suitable candidate for Governor in the
election to be held on the 19th instant.”
Among those present were H. P. Farrow, James
Atkins, James L.JDunning, Jonathan Norcross, H. B.
Clower, Madison Bell, Z. B, Hargrove, H. P. Burnett,
and others. Jamss Atkins was chairman.
It is understood that another meeting will be held
to-day at 12, it.
Elbert Branch Air-Line Rail
road.
Elberton, Ga., Dec. 4,1871.
Editors Daily Sun : The people of old
Elbert, Hart, and Franklin, have begun
to make efforts to have a Railroad built
from Elberton to .intersect the Air-Line
Railroad.
The prospect for a large landed sub
scription seems to be very flattering.
Our plan is to secure all the subscription
for stock by bonds for titles to real estate.
When the road is completed, the land to
be estimated at its present value. We
expect to use these land bonds as collat
eral security to the bonds of the compa
ny, believing that they will be better than
State aid bonds. With energy on our
part, and encouragement from Atlanta
and Air-Line Railroad, we expect to be
able to raise the land subscription to from
one hundred to one hundred and fifty
thousand acres. This, at v>5 per acre,
will realize from five to seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. . .
If the city of Atlanta and the Air-Line
Railroad will join ns, we doubt not that
this road can be built in a short tune,
and will be of benefit to all parties con
cerned’ Elbeki.