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THE VOLUME IV ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1870. NUMBER 10 I~ve.ll gat ommittce 11 his charge, Revival of Uy, en- •eported an yes- ptroller Gen- Tha hundred and forty-fiv ban five minutes thci dolla after rlcan Come gla*» Seaports. Facilities for interchange of commodities and ideas between peoples, are the greatest civilizers. They are the means by which mau- , I kind are approximating to an unity of aim and . purpose. They open out the mental field of fitted the p; Gov. Ash I Hodm the very pin alleging that i the Treasury i isd of intellec educate the mi tuaEty. Thq 3 to a higher grade Sror- | When the state of public sentiment at the time of the separation, and the excitable and irritable disposition of the sk pre-holders of that day are considered, perhaps it was then better for Christianity that the separation took place. Now, for many reasons, it would seem unfortunate that it exists ; or rather that ex- sting, the nfix of the name of one branch of unpt Ml with Ml fd “howling wilde go, if they fa Star of Empire noon Montana \ We understa I and remove sectional and national prejudice Georgia, possessing two excellent harbors on of Montana, write* to Julia | the South Atlantic, viz: Savannah andBruns- Boston, that Lis Territory is ! wick, is much interested in the revival of r women to emi'n-ate to. The American commerce. What reasonable esti- that section are profoundly mate can be placed upon the advantages, the conviction that “it is not j which would accrue to the people of the State, to be alone,” especially in a I were numerous merchant vessels owned by ness.” By all means, let them | Goorgians, and employed actively in trade cy it Let them follow the with foreign nations ? With an already ex- m its western way, and very J tensive system of railroads, which is being ill “blossom as the rose." * ! constantly extended, the whole people of the —. State are being brought in close vicinity with ‘So Pnod*." their seaport towns. Those far inland I that State Treasurer Angier or in the np-country, have no reason to be liberalize their minds j the Church should be suggestive of sectional- in AVnslx- has refused to pay certain warrants of late, al leging that he had “no funds” except what are set apart for educational purposes, Ac., and that he conldfnot trouble that. An eccentric old lady placed all her money iu bank, and then tried to beg % small amount from her neighbors. When remonstrated with, jealous of the increasing importance of the cities on the coast; nor do the enlightened indulge the feeling of jealousy on account of the maratime advantages they pos sess. Those cities are the gates and doors through which we pass, or ought to pass, in our commercial intercourse with the rest of the The Cincinnati Chronicle hints that Con gress will levy a duty on peanuts. This won’t do, Messieurs of the Corps Legi&latif! You have the power to “regulate commerce,” but exer cise this power wisely and well. In the name and behalf of those who love “goobers" (and their name is legion,) we protest against this abominable, detestable and unbeard of—but we pause! Intense expressions fails! Language is beggared; and, in despair, wc turn the mat ter over to our Radical Democratic exchanges! The PI on. of futanlfy* Iu a message to the Legislature of Missis sippi, Gov. Alcorn recommends that when the plea of insanity is filed in cases of homi cide, it shall be referred to the Chancery Judges; and if they find the accused to be not insane, their record shall settle that ques tion, and the prisoner shall be tried for the crime. When the plea is filed in a Circuit Court, let it be sworn to, and not come in un der the plea of “Not Guilty.” If found insane, the prisoner shall be confined in the Lunatic Asylum. The recommendation might do if it was not an infringement upon the right, of a trial by jmy. and asked why she di.l not draw from the world; provided that transportation in that di bank, replied, that she “did not like to trouble rection can be obtained on eqnal terms with that, as it was paying intrust” those on any other route to foreign markets. ■ ■ •< ■» » ■■■ -■ Inland cities, agriculture, mining and manu- AVho arc Ccutrniuu: factares, are elements of ^civilization. So Ever since the days of Old Hickory Jackson, too are commerce and the carrying trade. The there Lave been Democrats who substantially former, arts are often pursued far inland. The agreed w ith the Federalists in the proposition latter has its chief seat on the tide-water, and that Government implies allegiance; and that appropriates the pathway of nations in ac- this ollegianc e is not du»l nor conflicting, but coraplishing the interchange of commodities that it is due to the Government, not to gov- | The respectability of n nation outside of ita eminent*. In a word the Jacksonian Democ-1 territorial line, greatly depends upon ita racy nsmt, according to Major Jack Down- mercantile marine and ita public navy, ing, “one great wheel, and that a smasher;" The whole Nation is, therefore, deeply in- the only question a ith tills wing of the Do- terested in the revival of American Commerce. 111 ex-racy has always been, Who shall be that The subject comes home to every Georgian as smasher? one of individual interest Few States in the j Union, considering its inland and coastwise advantages, is so well adapted to an independ ent existence as Georgia. She can raise pro visions enough to support a large, dense popu lation engaged in inland industrial pursuits. She can, add does produce a large surplus of raw and manufactured material, which seek foreign markets ; and her own people had as well receive the profits oi the carrying trade os to giro them to strangers. While Georgians ore higgling over the Re construction of the State, the question of the Revival of American Commerce is agitating Congress. The President is urging that some thing practical be inaugurated for the accom plishment of this desirable object. It is to be regretted that the State of Georgia is without a representation in the halls of Congress, when this question of vital interest to her, is demand ing tM thoughts and the energies of her wisest men. Never before, (were our people in position to urge their claims,) has there been such an opportunity to secure lines of mail steamships that shall sail direct from Savannah to Euro pean seaports. If Congress, by subsidies and drawbacks, offers inducements to revive the ship-building industry in this country, why, sooner or later, may not ships, owned by Geor gia capitalists, or controlled by Georgia mer- ehaata. whiten every sea as did those of Uos- chuxetts in former times ? With the Revival of American Ship-building, Georgia ought to take an even start with the sea cowtatates North of her. Yet with all the facts and con siderations touching a subject that now ag itates Congress, the press of onr State have al most entirely ignored it. It is high time that partisan teal should be so moderated, as to per mit Georgians to study those vast and impoi- tsnt interests which may be so much enhanced by the action of the National Legislature. From the lal I f the Western Lit erary Bureau, it appears that the Lecture Sys tem, in the West, is afailnre. Some forty-fire societies connected with the Bnreau withdrew without paying their dues—some SC00. In the Eastern States it is altogether different, and it is to be hoped the day will come when the sys tem will be sust lined in every section of the conntiy. To listen, during the long winter evenings, to distinguished orators, poets, statesmen and scholars is a rare privilege, and one well worth paying for. Still Orthodox. One Rogers, that is 11 Jack Rogers,” or Hon. A. J. Rogers, formerly Democratic member of Congress from New Jersey, has been rotten- egged, and that hy his own party! He essayed to wake a speech to the jnvenile Democracy of Gotham one day last week; and the jnveniles aforesaid, not liking the style of the Hon. Jack, naturally resorted to the recognized method of political disputation among the faithful, and showered him with rotten-eggs. This broke up the meeting, and the speakers adjourned to thejaath rooms, and from thence to the nearest drinkery. fOMMN. The Ago—a Democratic paper published in Philadelphia—states that “in city and coun try the Democratic party is a unit in opposi tion to the fraudulent and infamous XVth Amendment. There is not a break in the line." Among all the evidences of lunacy mani fested by the thing calling itself “Democracy,” this perhaps stands pre-eminent. It (the thing uforcssid) might with sbont as much reason talk sbont reviving the Roman Empire, or of repealing tho Ten Commandments, as of re pealing the XVth Amendment! More of tlie McFarland Scandal. The McFarlands continue to thrust them selves before the public. The case has been adjourned from the Courts to the newspapers; and, as we published the wife's statement yes terday, it is proper to publish that of the hus band to-day. With this installment, we hope the matter may close. And yet nothing is read with so much avidity as are these scan dalous and disgusting details of the broils and infidelities of domestic life; and we presume it will remain thus until the Millenium. The ease in question, owes its Jirominence to the fact that it originated with, and involves in its disgusting details, the literati of the American Metropolis. It gives the public an insight in to the domestio circle of parties whose emi- nenoi as authors and journalists is recognized hy the reading people of both Continents. The Motlrrn Novel. In these days the vehicles of thought are so various and so numerous, that the bantlings of the puniest brains may ride to the uttermost ends of the earth. But we cannot always judge these cKldrcn of thought by the charac ter of their conveyance. Fiction has ita scav enger carts it is true; but then they are some times freighted with jewels of the purest ray serene. Statesmen, Divines and Philosophers, when they desire to address the general public, feel no hesitancy in doing so through the me dium of the modern novel. When they record their lncnbrations in ponderous tones called Essays, Treatises, etc., they know very well that the masses of reading people will never go farther than the title-pages, and so they very gracefully adapt themselves to tin situation lr selecting less pretentious conveyances o thongbt, and in this they arc vise. Eict i, .1 will assume more dignity without 1.-sing an; of its charms, and (singular paradox) will l* valued in proportion to the truth it contains Disraeli. The appearance of Disraeli’s new novel Lothair ” creates considerable excitement in the literary world. Apart from the merits of the work itself, there is a degree of interest at tached to it by the reputation of its distin guished author. Disraeli is one of the first statesmen of the nineteenth century. Bold, brilliant and unscrupulous; ardent, aspiring and daring, his life is a romance in itself. At eighteen, he made his mark in' the world by the publication of “ Vivior Grey," n novel full of power, brilliancy and bad taste. For several years, he continued to delight the lovers of fic tion by the productions of his snbtle, imagi native and ingenious brain. All these were political novels. Disraeli then got into Par liament, and by his find speech succeeded in drawing upon himself the ridicule of the na tion. The practical statesmen of England, went into convulsions of laughter over his gor geous rhetoric, hit highly wrought metaphors, and the guileless inexperience which led him to address the British Parliament in a strain of floweiy metaphor suited only to Debating So cieties and College Commencements. Amid the jeers and laughter of (he boisterous Commons, Disraeli, choking with indignation, hailed into their teeth the prophetic words. “ You may put me down now, bnt the day will come when you shall hear me! ” The prediction was ver ified. Disraeli reformed his style and become one of the most powerful Parliamentary ora tors of the day. It was a proud moment for him when he attained the distinguished emi nence of Prime Minister. He had been re viled, abused and ridiculed, but he had suc ceeded! We regard Disraeli as a brilliant and gifted political charlatan—all head and no heart; and wa shall read his novel for the worldly wisdom it contains, and not with the expecta tion of profiting hy its moral lessons, for it doubtless has none. Sectional Cliurthu. Prior to and during the war, the division of several large and powerful denominations of Christians occurred. Among these, and one of the most notable, was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This schism grew out of the interpretation of the Discipline of the Church, upon the ques tion of Slavery. The Discipline contained a claose condemning the sin of buying and sell ing human beings. Bishop Andrew, of this State, by marriage had acquired property in a considerable number of slaves. In the Gen eral Conference, the questioner the propriety of a Methodist Bishop holding slaves was sprung, and after a long and excited debate, terms of separation were agreed upon. ’ The ministers and members of the Church in the Southern States, with few exceptions, went into a separate organization and desig nated it as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The suffix “South" was adopted in pref erence to the adjective “Southern;” for it was claimed by them that they proposed to make no essential change in tho creed and Disci pline. The Annual Conferences iu the Northern, and some of the border States continued their Church organization und^r the original name of Methodist Episcopal Church. ism. For it recalls the irritating cause of the original separation, and serves to keep alive ancient bickerings and heart-burnings among brethren, who ought to strive with each other as to who can best agree in performing the work given them to do. There was never any difference between the two branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, except upon the question of Slavery. Now that slavery is dead, either these two branches ought to reunite, with a hearty good will, or if determined to remain separate, they should cultivate feelings of the most cordial good will towards each other. It is a singular fact in the liistory of re ligious sects, that the more nearly any two of them approximate in faith, practice, and church government, the more cordially do they hate and persecute each other. It re mains to be seen whether or not the many able and useful ministers of the two branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, can now rise so far above the prejudices engendered by the vexed question” of the Bast, as not to in jure their capacity for usefulness. A Cme of Evidence. Sometime ago, this journal was authorized to say, on behalf of “a responsible party,” that a reward of $500 would be paid to any one who would produce the pxoof of the assertion that the statements made by the At lanta correspondent of the Washington Chronicle, were false, or that they were not fuBy sustained by the facts at the time. The Atlanta Constitution (the accredited Organ of the Bryant wing of the Democracy,) had, it seems, asserted that the dispatches referred to were false; and, as in most other matters, sub mitted the issue solely upon the assertions thus made. Under these circumstances, the Bryant Organ felt it incumbent to say something in substantiation of an assertion for the proof of which a liberal reward bad been offered. And bow did it meet the cose? Simply by assert ing that its assertions were true! When pressed for someting more tangible, it en deavored to squirm out of the mire by saying that it had not had access to the dispatches (or something to that effect,) and by calling upon the Ena to furnish an accredited copy of the dispatches sent the Chronicle! Disposed to be patient with the erring and charitable toward the weak* we referred the Organ to the files of the Washington Chronicle, suggesting that it could gain access thereto through its (the Organ's) regular Washington corres pondent Thus the matter rested for some days, when the Organ blundered upon an editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal, in which a (hear say) statement was made to the effect that General Terry should have said, some six or eight months precious, that peace, harmony, and quiet reigned supreme in Georgia. Seiz ing upon this statement (which hod not itself been authenticated, and which purported to have been made prior to the date of the Chron icle's dispatches) the Organ impatiently, and we may say, stupidly claimed-, lhr-r. ~ j io i-hilosopHy, and make arragements with new virtue of* the fact that this hear say evidence was conclusive! In a spirit of pure forbear ance, this blander of the Organ was allowed to pass; when, mistaking civility and leniency for indifference, the Organ announced with surpassing simplicity and innocence, that *the responsible party” who offered the re ward had “backed down!” These, we believe, are all the material facts connected with the proposition; and they cer tainly exhibit a compound of ignorance and assumption on the part of the Bryant Organ that is refreshingly rare in enlightened journal- And the case is all the more refresh ing in view of the fact that the Organ first (virtually) acknowledged its ignorance of the contents of the dispatches referred to, by call ing on the Era for the files of a contemporary journal containing them; and this, too, after its own assertion that those dispatches were false and slanderous! Its simplicity farther appears in its failure to give the date of its hearsay evidence; in its failure to show that General Terry’s statements (as repeated in the Courier-Journal) were made either at the time, or subsequent to the time, the Atlanta dis patches were sent to the Chronicle; in its fail ure to show that these hearsay statements had any reference, mediately or remotely, to the dispatches in question; and, lastly, in its fail ure to prove that General Terry ever used the language (or language equivalent thereto) at tributed to him by tho Louisville paper! “My Son Must be Paid.” The following items are compiled from the Comptroller General's Report They are not without significance: 1889 January 18, Alton Aagier drew tor extras $120 00 April 1st Salary 400 00 July lat “ " 400 00 Oct 1st “ “ ...... 400 00 1870. The Code allow* the Treasurer ooe Clerk toaaaiat him in the duties of hia office, and such Clerk shall receive a salary of $1^00 per annum $1,000 00 Extras in the fiunily 1,000 00 We prefer that the reader should draw his own conclusions and make his own comments. The figures are plain. They tell the whole stoiy. The attention of the Bryant Organ (which seems to be studying the Comptroller’s port) is respectfully invjted to the following items: 1870. January », N. L. Angier, for Stationery, printing letter-heads, telegraph*, ex- $882 65 July 19, 2f. L, Angier far Stationery, Ex change, Express charges, 785 40 Dec. 11, N. L. Angier Telegraph. Sta tionery and personal expenset, sdf and AUm to Nsm Ym1c $1.»7 90 - 3.G03 85 The last item is particularly interesting to Tax Payers; likewise pleasant reading to hold ers of warrants uncashed, because there axe *no funds!” Democracy Advances! 'The Democratic members of Congress, with Shinbone Brooks at their head, have entered an appearance in behalf of the Beer drinkers and Beer jerkers; and Sunset Cox has appeared in behalf of the consumers of pea nuts. These distinguished leaders of “the Northern Democ racy ” find beer and pea-nut discussions more in accordance with the demands of their party than either the Tariff, the XVth Amendment or “Reconstruction." all'/ je Washington Chronicle of the 17th says? - Georgia bill will be reported from the Re. 1 [attraction Committee of the House early rek, perhaps to-day. In justice to Gov. and the proscribed Republicans of ate, it i* to be hoped that the Judiciary 'f the Senate will promptly report [suit of their ; retracted inquiries into tho d efforts to vcure votes for Georgia by measures. If tho accusation is true, TTll on the heads of the guilty; if false,* .me fall on tho heads of the base invent- The cause of Georgia, painfully already •d by all manner of mean argument, Qger be held in suspense to gratify ;eful :.nd rebellious men. n the Senate committee have made up ceord on this last attempt to destroy or Bullock, the publisher of the Wash- Morning Chronicle will take occasion nent upon the manner in which he and ismess assistant were treated when suni- lswerthe extraordinary questions aordinory inquisition. As .many their evidence have been regularly con Jwuicated to the distant press, most of tb,: J unjust, and many of them untrue, the Dublf^r * 1 the Chronicle will exercise his nd himself and that pope*as soon ;t becomes a matter for honorable ssion.” as tl J Noah Webster has been dead twenty-seven i years. In his Unabridged Dictionary, he left. a legacy •which embalms his memory in the hearts of all men wherever the English lan guage is spoken or written. It was a triumph of American genius and scholarship, of which every American citizen felt proud at the time. Sectionalism had no claims upon it, and can now have none; for, independent of the fact that science is beyond- tho fetid confines of sectionalism, the work itself was the result of an unity of labor by one of South Carolina’s brightest intellects (Percy,) and New England’s greatest scholar. Thus the Lexicon has a national title, first, by reason of ifs intrinsic merits; and, second, because it emLodies a sort.of literary compro mise measure between fire-eating South Caro lina, and the Commonwealth of wooden nut megs! It is more than National. It is Cos mopolitan; for the British Crown and tho English literati did ‘ the compliment to Ameri can scholarship and genius to adopt “Web ster" as the standard of their native tongue. James K. Polk, the Southern statesman and scholar, united with the Massachusetts jurist and philosopher (Choate,) in the opinion that “ Webster” was the legitimate standard of our national language. Even Clay and Calhoun could agree as to Webster’s claim to recognition as a correct National Standard, when theyj_^ ats could agree upon no ~cimcr in pol ices, law or theology! It therefore remained for a modem Demo cratic politician, who flourishes in the year of Grace 1S70, to discover that Webster’s Diction ary is “a Yankee School Book,” and that it is culpably sectional and unjust, in its bias to wards “Centralization 1" Lesser lights in the Democratic constellation, who have been ma king predatory raids upon the Algebras and Grammars published north of tho misty traces of a partisan division, erewhilo known as Ma son &, Dixon’sline, have taken up the mournful refrain; and they now want “ Webster” ban ished from tho school room because he does violence to the doctrine of ** Stato Rights V Webster’s offense is found in the following definition of the word State: “ In the United “ States, one of the commonwealths or bodies “politic, the people of which make up the “body of the nation, and which, under .the “national Constitution, stand in certain spec- J? I * B * “ ifiod relations with the national Government, Conelrtent Democracy. “and are invested, m commonwealths, with xt is seldom we meet with a more lunatic “ frill power in their several spheres, over aU south,-cnttlian the following stab at Popular “matters not expressly inhibited," or forbid-1 Education which appears in the Baltimore den expressly by the Federal Constitution. I OtaetUi, a radical Democratic journal: Now let Sillamau's Chemisby and Davies’ Universal education is not yet sufficiently r ,, T> , .. . I do 1 j,.?d in France to make umveral suffrage Is: 0 indre come next Eten old Peter Parley ctlrs( , , 0 ita pe 0 pj e . The time will no doubt (Mr. Goodrich) was a New England Federal- J cornu soon enough when every one will read, 1st, and therefore a bane to the Democratic ju- and when the many will follow blindly in the veniles of the Common School! The mind of 1 ? " 1 »f the sponting demagogues who hairy , ,, . , . tlum on to destruction; but, as yet, the our youth should not be poisoned by his lusid- * - * r «— — a —*■ Rcr. J. H. De Volte, D. D. 1 icon the fortune of but few Christian s to gain the love and esteem of their ^ntions, or the respect and confidence 1 outside world, to the extent enjoyed by rainent Divine whose name heads this paragraph.. His resignation of the Pastorate of th«> P,:» p t ist Chnrch in Columbus, seems to have cast a gloom over th$ minds of the good peop t- of that city, irrespective of mere denominational lines; and the following reso lution, (which we copy from the Index,) so u mnimously adopted by the Church re ferred to, shows how reluctant are the mem bers fjf his congregation to give him up: Resolved, That we sincerely regret the resig nation of our beloved pastor. Dr. J. H. De- Votfej and earnestly request him to withdraw it, and continue his pastoral relation, at least until the end of the fiscal year. eous stories about Ann Hutchins and the Pil grim Fathers! Lindly Murray happened to be an English pedagogue who, like Milton, was a Puritan; therefore banish his verbs and prepositions as the embodiment of a moral and political leprosy! Blackstone and Kent and Story and St&rkie and Greenleof and Russell, were all of them, Abolitionists; there fore let their works be hurled first from our Law Schools and Universities, and thence from our civil tribunals! Wayland and Up- ham held the some political opinions; therefore let our Theological Seminaries dispense with their present text books u.m.lu Publishing Houses for new authors! Who does not see that this raid by ignorant and half educated politicians upon textbooks, is simply ridiculous ? Who so infatuated by party zeal, or so blinded by stupid prejudice, as not to discern either the grossest ignorance or the most inexcusable selfishness in all tins bluster about (so called) “Northern School books ?”* Is it a transparent trick of Northern Publishers to turn the rapidly waning preju dices of the Southern people to practical ac count, through the instrumentality of South ern demagogues ? Or is it the incentive of pure and unadulterated ignorance—of that ignor ance whose darkness is so dense that it may be felt? The PnicUrc of Defaming Public Men. In his preface to the “Life of Bismarck,” John George Louis Hezekiel says: “Should we fee 1 disposed to credit vulgar report, noble motives and heroic lives are no longer extant in our present state of society. The eyes of detraction are everywhere curiously—too curi ously fixed upon the deeds of men of mark, and mingled feelings pull down from the pe destal of fame every man who has ascended to the eminence awarded to the patriot and statesman. Truly such a condition of things bodes no good to the common weal of society, either in England, Prussia, or any port of Europe. The present writer can see no utility in the practice of soiling the reputation and actions of men who, by slow degrees have worked their way into positions of merit and mark.” Though written for Europe, how well do these words apply to America! The time is not far distant, let ns hope, when this ill- bred and disgusting practice of defaming polit ical opponents, will meet a response only in those precincts where bullies and bruisers are allotted supremacy. The Bunghole Party. The New York Democracy, which has been deeply interested in all things pertaining to beer and beer jerkers, petitioned Congress, through its Democratic delegation, setting forth, amongst numerous other things, the im portance of a decree by the National authority that there shall be but one bunghole to a lager beer barrel! And this petition has been favorably re ceived. We mention the fact for the benefit of lager beer dealers, who may be able to comprehend the philosophy of the Bunghole law and its champions.. - It is presumed this provision is had to pre vent retailers inserting into a barrel the pipe attached to a beer pump; and that it proceeds upon the theory that every hole made in a barrel is necessarily a bunghole! French peasant lias evidently not outgrown his old education and his old dependence. Oue of tho hardest things for the fossil D( iuib racy to comprehend is that there have been important changes within the last half century. A recent Washington dispatch says that fears are expressed by some of the warm personal friends of Chief Justice Chase that his health is so rapidly breaking down that fie will not mm U longer be able to sit on the bench. This is bnt another of the ever-recurring but never- lit died warnings that fall upon tho driving, i ashing resting, r- dlcss mad of the times.— Gov. Andrew, Rawlins, Stanton and now Cfiose. Overwork is the bane of the public men of tho United States—the skeleton in the house of Judge Kelley Re-noiulnateil. Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, Representative in Congress from the 4th Philadelphia District, will, it is said, be re-nominated by the Repub licans of his District for re-election. Mr. Kelley is one of the ablest and best men in the lower House of the National Leg islature; and his re-election will be gratifying to his many friends outside the limits of his own State. He is emphatically the leader of the Protectionist parly in Congress; and is now, as ho has ever been, an enthusiast on tho subject of Home Manufactures. As therefore, Protection is a matter in which the South isnow interested, Judge Kelley’s return to the House, where his services are so much needed, would be a matter of congratulation. • In Wisconsin the Democracy will hold no State Convention and make no nominations this year. They have wisely concluded to save their time, money, and temper. Hon. Rufus B. Bullock, of Geoigia, reached Washington on Sunday evening, and on Mon day morning (yesterday) called on Mr. Trum bull, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, stating that he was ready to be “investigated” in accordance with the sum mons. The Republican caucus taking place last evening, the Governor will not be called before the committee until some time during this day and evening. The Governor left Atlanta after having been triumphantly sus tained by a united party, all his propositions to the Legislature having been complied with, the contrivers of “investigation” there having failed to establish a single one of their allega tions.— Washington Chronicle, 17. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Some Interesting Decisions. The New Orleans Times and the Picayune, of that city, are discussing Writs of Error from the State Supreme Courts to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Times con tends that, in a Writ of Error and supersedeas from a State Supreme Court to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the citation issues from the State Judge, the amount of the bond is to be fixed by the Judge of the State Court The Judiciary Act of 1789 is quoted in support of this position. The Picayune, per contra, seems to misapprehend the nature of the proceeding, and confounds it with cases where the citation is issued by a Justice of the Supreme Court of tho United States. The Louisiana Courts seem to be staggering under a heavy load of criminal business. In the Supreme Court of South Carolina, on the 13th inst, the slave debt cases were re sumed. Mr. de Saussure resumed and con cluded his argument for their validity. Mr. McGowan was heard against their validity. General McGowan divided his argument into two heads—the political and the legal- delivering his views in that earnest, vigorous and exhaustive manner so peculiarly his own. We regret that our space will only allow us to give his legal argument, which was as fol lows: L The change of the Constitution abolish ing slavery by the Government in its funda mental law, and a refusal to compensate, was a breach of the covenant of warranty of title on the part of the vendor, and, pleaded as a coun ter claim, must prevent him from recovering the purchase money. 2. Emancipation by the Government was neither an event to which the property or its nature was subject nor within the purview of either of the parties. The consideration has firiled, and there is neither legal nor moral ob ligation to pay these bonds. 3. These contracts, though legal at the time made, are now illegal and void. There is no law, common or statute, which authorizes the Court to give judgment and process to en force it. 4. These contracts are against the well de fined policy of the realm. Policy, as declared in the Constitution, both State and Federal, is as binding as an express enactment. 5. Property in slaves was the creature of lo cal ter. It was, in the nature of a privilege, a franchise—an office. Being in its nature po litical, the State could repeal the law without giving compensation, and consequently there should be no recovery upon contracts for slaves still executory. Judge Field, of the United States Supreme Court, will leave New York for San Francisco by the Pacific Railroad on Monday next. He will visit Oregon and Nevada this summer to hold his courts, and will return to Washing ton some time in August. In the Superior Court of Hamilton county, Ohio, last week, in the case of Perkins vs. Gay. Judge Taft delivered the opinion in General Term. The suit was brought on a judgment recovered twfcbfe' years ago, in Erie, Ohio, f< ruptcy, discharging the defendant in October, ,1867. The plaintiff replies that defendant conceal ed valuable estate in Indiana, and did not in clude it in bis schedule at the time of his bankruptcy. Tho defendant, to sustain his demurrer to the plaintiff’s reply, relies on the thirty-fourth section of the Bankrupt Act of 1867, which prorides that “a discharge duly granted under this act, shall, vnth the exceptions aforesaid, re lease the bankrupt from all his debts, and that the certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and regularity of the discharge.” The plaintiff claims that under the twenty- ninth section the discharge is not valid if the bankrupt has concealed any part of his estate. The defendant contends that the validity of the discharge is to be determined, in view of the thirty-fourth section, which provides that the creditor shall specify some one of the acts of fraud mentioned in section twenty-nine. This construction is adopted by Avery and Hobbs, in their work on bankruptcy, while Mr. James in his work on tho same subject, takes a different view. Such a construction as is claimed by defend ant, the Court supposed would encourage fraud. The discharge from personal liability for his debts, is the great object of tile bank rupt, and this he is entitled to if he 'gives up his property. A dishonest bankrupt may hope successfully to conceal property for two years, and if he can secure an effectual dis charge he can afford to run the risk of losing his concealed property, after the two years have elapsed. The creditor would have less motive to detect the fraud upon the law, as he could not, therefore, deprive the bankrupt of his ill-gotten certificate, or hold him liable personally. The Court was unwilling to adopt a construction which would so obvi ously tend to encourage deception and fraud, unless the language of the act clearly requir ed it. It has been the unifom policy of all bank rupt acts in this country and in England to guard against concealment of property by the bankrupt The temptation is so strong to hide, and the facilities so great for hiding as sets, tho existence of winch the bankrupt alone may know, that the severest enactments had not prevented it It is not to be presumed that the legislators of the present day would intend to remove any of the guards against temptation and fraud on this critical point, nor is it to be regarded as a hardship that the bankrupt shall be required to be ready to meet any charge of this kind. The burden of proof is on the creditor who asserts such a concealment, and if the bankrupt is innocent he need not be very much embarrassed iu bis defense. The Court was of opinion therefore, that the provisiou in the thirty-fourth section, making the certificate conclusive and allowing an ap plication within two years in the United States Court to annul it, did not intend to cut off the creditor from setting up a fradulent conceal ment by the bankrupt of his property. In the McFarland trial, Monday, iu refer ring to Mrs. Calhoun’s disputed “J. R. Y.” letter, Mr. Graham argued that the writer must have referred to the opposite sex, “be cause how could one lady say to another she was much in the flesh ?’’ An impulsive lady in the audience exclaimed, “We all say so!” and was gently but peremptorily put out of the court room for her audacity. A New York paper makes this comment: “Fitz Hugh Ludlow is a caution to all law yers; bnt lie is a very mild caution. He will neither stab, shoot, nor slap. . He confines himself to expressing opinions in a way calcu lated to be more terrible than the effects of powder and b*ill. His sarcasm is of the with ering sort If you don’t believe it, recall what Fitz said to Judge Davis, of counsel for the prosecution in the McFarland trial. “But I can tell you,” says Fitz, “what is a gentle man’s opinion of a sneak (fearful emphasis on sneaks)—it is too contet. ptuous even to al low him to slap his face.” So Fitz did not slap Judge Davis’ face. Indiana divorces are to be thoroughly sifted. McFarland proposes to head the crusade against them. In Chatham Superior Court, on Tuesday last, the Civil Docket was called, and the case of Davant & Weplca vs. N. B. E. Bickford. Action on draft. AtfintemtilUll^al question was raisedgduring the progress of this^ase. The note or draft sued upon wiw* destroyed by the fire which consumed the law office of Messrs. Jackson, Lawton & Basinger, in 1869. Counsel for the defendants objected to evi dence establishing the contents of said note, and quoted the sections of the Code referring to how lost papers could be legally established, and contending that the statute was direct and imperative, acting as a complete estoppel to any evidence on the trial of the general issue. Mr. Sussy and Mr. Stone for the defendant, and Messrs. Lawton & Basinger for the plain tiff, had quite a legal tilt. The Court finally decided that the evidence was admissible. The case went to the jury on the merits^ and verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $2,000 and interest, the amount of the draft sued upon. t Court then adjourned to meet at ten o’clock this morning. The Superior Court of Muscogee county is now in session. 460 cases on the Docket Charles O’Connor, the eminent lawyer, is elected President of the New York Bar Asso ciation. McFarland’s Insanity.—Dr. Wm. A. Ham mond, formerly of Maryland, physician-in chief of the New York State Hospital, who testified in the recent McFarland trial as to the evidence of the prisoner’s insanity, read a ? vper before the Medico-Legal Society of New ork, on Thursday evening, entitled a “Medi co-legal Study of the case of Daniel McFar- and.” He demonstrated that the prisoner was insane for a long time before the homicide, and that three months after he was still suffer ing from acute cerebral congestion, his confine ment having a curative effect upon him and preventing its development into a condition of greater severity. Dr. Hammond is of the opinion that McFarland is yet liable on slight cause to another explosion of mania. New York has a Junior Bar Association. The U. S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, holds that birds are tive animals, and subject to a duty under the act of Con gress imposing a duty on all “ live animals.” TENNESSEE. The Mineral Home Railroad Investign- I lion—A Big Swindle—Partie* Concerned in it—Rich Development*—A Regiment of Politicians Mixed up in it. The special committee on the Mineral Home Railroad, in Johnson county, find that $100,- 000 in bonds of the State have been issued to said company, on condition that they should in no event be sold under their par value, and that they should be used for the construction of the road. J. H. M. Grayson testifies that he has been President of said road from -the 10th of Octo ber, 1869; that he entered upon his official du ties about the first of November, 1869 ; that none of said road is under construction, nor has there been an experimental survey made of the route ; that the road is contemplated to bo about twenty-eight miles long; that about $14,000 of solvent subscriptions has been banked, and paid together; that 42,390 came into his hands when he was made President, being the proceeds of sale of ninety-nine bonds of one thousand dollars each ; one bond was returned to the Comptroller, it being im properly signed; that none of the private sub scriptions came into his hands; that H. P. Murphy refuses to give up the books and proceeds of subscription; that he has- drawn from the Exchange and Deposit Bank, of Knoxville, $12,370, and turned over to the Secretary and Treasurer, files of copies of his receipts; that $370 of this amount is in the hands of Mr. Wagoner, and files copies of his receipts with the Commit tee; that the balance of the funds is in the hands of the Exchange and Deposit Bank, of Knoxville, and subject to his orders ; that the bonds were sold by resolution of tho Direc tors; that the road, under the original charter, would not connect with any other road, but under the amended charter, should connect with the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, at Doe River Cove, and run by way of Taylorsville, to the North Carolina line, at Paine’s Lancer Gap, and upon the lo cation of tho Norfolk and Great Western Rail road; that he does not know whether he used any of the money for his private use or not; he borrowed some money from Mr. Butler The r answer sets up a decree in bank- ■ the Treasurer; had money deposited with him, but could not say whether it was the sale money; that the bonds were sold by the Bank, in its discretion, without special order from him, the Bank had general authority to sell tho bonds at the best market price; that copies oi the re ceipts of R. W. Donnelly, the Treasurer, and of M. M. Wagoner & Sons, and a statement of the Bank amount, is attached to his deposi tion. The Committee find from the testimony of Thomrs S. Smythe that he was President of the Company from its organization, in the early part of 1868, until the last of September or October, 1869; that- he has been a director since, and has Ulso acted as attorney for the road; that, when the company was organ ized, the amount of capital stock subscribed was something over five hundred shares, of twenty-five dollars per share; that he was elected President and XL P. Murphy was elected Secretary and Treasurer; that he was the first President, and that J. H. M. Grayson and H. P. Murphy, both, claim to be his successors; that an election was held the last of September or the first of October, 1869, and both claim to have been elected President; that he had no books in his possession, and that he delivered the receipts, for the bonds, to J. IL M. Gray son; that he hod no other assets than those he drew from the State, one hundred bonds, for said road, October 2, 1869, and drew them as President of the road; that he deposited said bonds in the Exchange and Deposit Bank of Knoxville; that he paid one hundred dollars to the Comptroller, G. W. Blackburn, and one hundred dollars to A. J. Fletcher, Secretary of State, for the issuance of* said bonds, and that ho borrowed the money to do so from the Ex change and Deposit Bank of Knoxville, on the day that he deposited the bonds with them; that he drew five hundred dollars from said bank on the faith and credit of said bonds; that ho paid two hundred dollars, as above stated, and the balance is in bands or has been ex pended in the payment of an allowance made to him by the board; that he drew five hun dred dollars from the board at different times, two hundred and fifty dollars on the 1st of Oc tober, 1869, and two hundred and fifty dollars 1 the 11th of December, 1869. The committee find from the testimony of H. P. Murphy, that he was one of the first di rectors, and also Secretary and Treasurer of the first board, that Tbos. S. Smythe was the first President, and that there are two rival boards of directors on said road; that according to a lien the State Directors can call a meeting of the Stockholders at any time and change the company directors. They called a meet ing on the 28th of September, 1869. The stockholders met and elected a new board of Company Directors, aud the directors subse quently met and elected him President, and gave him a certificte to that effect A few days subsequent to tlii3 the judges and clerks of the election met and decided that some of the votes cast by himself were illegal. They pro ceeded to re-organize a different board with out a new election; the some judges and clerks gave certificates to another board, who are acting now. The objection raised to the stock voted by himself was that some of it had not been subscribed three mouths previous to elec tion ; that he had the poll books and certifi cates of election and attaches the same to his deposition os an exhibit; that he consid ers the board first elected the legal board; that the books showing subscription of stock ore in bis possession; that there is subscribed 767 shares, of $25 per share, amounting to $19,175; that the stock holders are solvent and the subscriptions bona fide; that $767 has been paid, being one dollar on each share; that no action has been taken toward building said road; not even a preliminary survey has been made; that the $767 is in his possession; that the board he is connected with and which lie considers the legal board, has never employed any engineer or other person; the legal board authorized Thomas S. Smith to go to Nashville and draw one hundred bonds from the State, and he left for Nashville the day before the bogus board was elected; J. H. M. Grayson is President of the bogus board, and that R. H. Donnelly is secretary and treasurer of tho bogus board, and that he is secretary and treasurer of the legal board; that he files as a pari of his depo sition the order of the board of directors, di recting Smythe to place said bonds in the Ex change and Deposit Bank of Knoxville; that the legal board has passed no resolution in re gard to said bonds since they were deposited with said bank; that he gave notice in Octo ber, 16G0, to the Exchange aixl Deposit Bank not to dispose of said bonds upon the order of Grayson, and that Grayson qpd the whole con cern was bogus; that they had better be cau tious how they dealt with them; that J. H. M. Grayson had for some months past been en gaged in buying lands and cattle; that twelve months ago Grayson was a man of limited means and hard run for money; that now Gray son has plenty of money and is engaged large ly in trading in lands and cattle; that the State Directors are nearly oil stockholders, and two of them, R. R. Butler and It. H. Donnelly, claim to be Company Directors in the bogus board. The Committee find from the testimony of John Baxter that he is interested in tbe busi ness of the Exchange and Deposit Bank at Knoxville; that Thomas S. Smythe deposited ninety-nine bonds with said bank and hypoth ecated one bond; that the only officers ot the Mineral Home Railroad that he ever knew was the said Smythe and Col. J. H. M. Grayson; that the bonds were sent to the Bank of Amer ica, New York, in January, 1870, for sale, and were sold on the 11th and 20th of January, 1870, at forty-six cents on the dollar, less three cents for one coupon not attached; that the bonds were sent to New York by order of J. H. M. Grayson, President, and Thomas J. Smythe; that he attaches an exhibit to his deposition showing the condition of the account of the road with the Exchange and Deposit Bank, April 6th, 1870. The state ment shows that there was placed to tbe credit of the road, from sale of bonds $43,000, and that there has been drawn from tbe Bank $12,636 48, and that there was to the credit of the Company, April 6, 1870, $30,363 52. The Committee found on file in the office of the Secretary of State, a resolution of the Direc tors of said Company, accepting the State Di rectors, under act of February 25, 1868, and admitting them to all the rights and privileges of Company Directors; said resolution was adopted June 2d, 1868. The Committee also find the certificate of the State Directors, sworn by them that said Company had com plied with all the provisions of the general in ternal improvement law of the State, so far as the same applied to said Company; said cer tificate is dated September 4th, 1868. The Committee also find a resolution of the Direc tors, that the bonds appropriated by the act of December 10th, 1866, shall be faithfully used and applied to the purposes contemplated in said act, and to no other purpose. The Com mittee, in concluding their report upon the Mineral Home Railroad, would most respect fully call tbe attention of the Legislature to the fact that these bonds were sold at less than par, being sold at forty-three cents on the dollar; and, consequently, in violation of a positive provision of the law; that no work has ever been performed upon said road at all, even to the employing of an engineer, to make the preliminary survey for tho location of the road. In fact, the whole matter has the ap pearance of a pre-determined effort to swindle the Stato out of one hundred thousand dollars. The only thing they seem to have been desirous about, was to get the necessary papers to draw the bonds with; and the Committee would re spectfully call tho attention of the Legisla ture to the affidavit of those State Directors, who have been so ready to assist in robbing the State. HOW TO BE AN EDITOR. A paper of the antedelurian school is re sponsible for the following opinion: A good editor must combine the loquacity of a magician with the impudence of the devil He must knowhow to time a horse-race, gaff a cock; teach a Sunday school, preach a charity sermon, run a saw-mill, keep a hotel and brew whisky. He must bo insensible to tho crudest snubs, and manifest no sense of anger when kicked down stairs. He must throw modesty to the dogs, and let the tigers howl. But above all, ho must be an adept in the art of puffing. He must be enthusiastic on the subject of liams, verbose in extolling hardware, aud high ly imaginative injthe matter of dry goods. lie must talk learnedly of programmes, with a lib eral mixture of glowing words, such as “warmth,” “foreshortening,” “high limits,” “prospective,” etc. He must be heavy on a concert, with a capacity to appreciate Miss Squeak’s execution of difficult feats in the up per si rata, ecstatic and doquent on behalf of lat women, and of living skeletons. MRS. McFARLAND-RICIIARDSON. Graphic Description oflxcx* Personal Ap pearance—Literary Ta*te«, &e. A New York correspondent says that Mrs. McFarland-Richardson now enjoys, through circumstances she could not control, a no toriety as painful as it has been unsought I doubt if any pure, good, modest woman was ever so lied about m this generation. Her story is before the public, and seems to have all the qualities of sincerity and truth. She has been so misrepresented, personally and in character, that it is not singular great curiosi ty exists to know what kind of looking and appearing lady she is. She is not beautiful, as she has been called (all women in misfortune become lovely in per son); but she has a winning and interesting face, whose prevailing expression is sweetness and truth. She is nearly 30, but she has a fresh and girlish look, and a mobility of fea ture which makes her seem eight or ten years vounger than she is. Sho has blue eyes, hair brown in tho shadow, golden in the sun, fea tures not regular but harmonious, and indica tive at once of tenderness and strength. She is a bright blonde of the English type, though her ancestors are of New England birth for five or six generations; above the medium height, she is round and symmetrical in figure, graceful in movement, cosy and elegant in manner, with an influence that is always win ning. Her voice is remarkably rich and sweet, and her conversation highly eloquent and in tellectual. Her acqaintance with literature is deep and varied, extending from the earliest Greek tragedies and ancient philosophy down to the modern poets, and thinkers like Emer son and Buckle. Her tastes are entirely do mestic, and beyond a home of her own, which she has never had, her hopes and aspirations do not extend. Notwithstanding the notoriety, from which she instinctively shrinks, she has hardly fifty personal acquaintances in the whole city of New York. If she were to walk from the Battery to. Union Square a dozen times during these dolightful afternoons, it is doubtful if a single person would now recog nize in her widow’s weeds the ill-fated heroine of this most mournful tragedy. The Marrictl Man’s Soliloquy. BY ONE WHO KNOWS. Blast the women! They are always fretting about something or other! Yesterday the coal wouldn’t bum; and the grate must be set; and the furnace must be repaired; and mercy knows what all; and to-day its hot os ! Save us from the wants of an incon siderate woman! Only let her get the upper hand and she’ll drive like blazes ! But I won’t be driven ! Not I! If she wants the doors fixed or wood dried, or the water brought, or the leech set, or tubs hooped, she may do it herself! Confound it! I can’t go into the house, hut something is wanting ! If it isn’t one thing it is another. Til leave my boots iu the parlor every night if I have a mind, and she may help herself J See if I don’t !— We’ll see who will be master. Before wo were married, it was—“If you please, my dear!”—but cracky! If her tone hasn’’t changed. She shall and shant, from week’s end, to week’s end, and if I venture to put in a word edgewise I’m shut up by her infernal clatter! Talk about late hours and extrava gance ! Wonder what she calls late hours! I could stay out once until broad daylight, and she too, if tho party was agreeable. But now if I chance to tend the club once a week, there is a pretty muss directly. And don't ever think of her! Gracious me ! I wish I could forget her five minutes, just to seo how it would seem. If young men only knew! Bnt no if a man says'a word he Is set down for a ninny. He must grin and bear it, if it cuts ever so close. Awl oyster suppers. Wonder if she don’t like oysters! Tell mo about the propri ety of sitting down to the breakfast table-with her hair uncombed! Once she was all curls and smiles! Now she’s slatternly as a wash erwoman! Blast the race! They ought to be indicted for obtaining husbands under false pretences! If they’d only show out, the men wouldn’t be such gudgeons! But no; they’ll smiB? and smirk and twitter till a fellow is fairly caught, and then, by Jupiter, if they don’t haul down their coi- o.*8! And then the baby tending! Its worth a fortune to be compelled to hear the squalling brats, night after night! Croup or cholic is the eternal complaint. If I had my way IM shake tbe-choli^ fut of ’em in u htuxy! But no; they must be dosed with 1 : u,'i and onions and the deuce only knows what, and trotted till their gizzards are fairly shaken out! and then if any one is to be kept np, why Slocum can set up, it won't hurl him l But I’ve done with it; I won’t, that’s a fact What's that you say ! Mended my pants ? And four new shirts, and a neckcloth! Well, I declare, Mrs. Slocum is clever after all! If she didn’t scold so like but no matter, I know I provoke her, or she wouldn’t do it I’ll give in, I'll own up—I’ll——. The remainder was lost in some thing like a kiss. Five shirts must have done it—for Slocum forgot to swear when he was asked to tend the baby. A Married Woman's Soliloquy. BY “ OHS WHO HEABD IT." Yes, its go! go! go! and get! get! get! for every body on earth but one’s own wife. If I should ask Mr. Slocum to go out at such a time of day for a water paii and basket of oranges, d’ye think he’d go? Not he; Imight want one while and take it out in wanting! Oranges, forsooth! *Twas only yesterday I asked him to call at William’s for Charley’s shoes. Wouldn’t you have liked to have heard him scold, though ! If he didn’t turn up! Always something wanting! Wish he could go to the store and back again without calling fora dozen parcels ! And when he came in and put them on Charley’s feet, slapped him for crying because the pegs hurt him ! Poor fellow! he limped round till his father had gone, ami then pulled them off The pegs were an inch long, at least calculation. And now, just be cause Mrs. Brown hints at a water pail, he’s up and off in a minute! Why couldn’t Brown go? Just as though her own husband wasn’t good enough to wait on her. I’d show him the difference if I was Brown! A pretty d’do we shall have of it, if things go on at this rate, ril ask Brown to do my errands, see if I don’t! and then see how he likes it If the girls only knewL But no! They would’t believe a word of it You might tell them till doomsday and they’d determine to try it! “ Bought wit is the best if you don’t pay too dear for it” Dear! I wonder what some folks call dear? There’s Nellie Bly. You might talk to her till next July and she wouldn’t be lieve it But she’ll see ! She will learn a les son for herself she’ll not forget soon. If I were a girl again I wouldn’t change my condition again in a hurry! Not I! There was Slocum, always ready to run his legs off— but now, he’ll go sooner for that Mrs. Brown than for his own flesh and blood. But I’ll pay him; see if I don’t! I won’t get him a mouthful of supper. He may get his meals where he does his work 1 See how he’ll like that If I should do so; always try ing to please other folks’ husbands instead ot ray own, wo should have a pretty kettle of fish. There’s Willie, he’s teased for an orange these three days, and not the peel of one lias been seen yet* There he comes puffing like a steamboat! If I bad sent him he wouldn't have been back these two hours. Calling at Mr. Brown’s, too! if it ain’t enough to provoke a saint I’ll tell him ril quit—I’ll—Til—but no ! he’ll like that too well! the brute! I won’t please him so much. Fll stay if it kills me, and Willie shall havo an orange if he wants, and no thanks to him either. There he comes again, and both hands are full.— Wonder what he has got now, and who else is he running for? Coming through the gate, and—yes, noth pockets full of oranges. The dear soul! I knew he wouldn’t forget his own children! Won’t Willie have a good meal ? And I will—yes, he shall have muffins for his supper; Slocum loves muffins! ^ That’s all we heard, reader; for when Slo cum opened the hall door, Charley, Willie, wife and aU ran out to meet him and get some of those same oranges. Mrs. Slocum did get supper, and Slocum had muffins. The Nashville Banner says Colonel J. W. Sloss, President Nashville and Decatur Rail road, returned from New York iu time to at tend the meeting of the stockholders of that road at Pulaski Monday. The stockholders accepted the various enactments passed at the last session of the Legislature for the benefit