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|jflroriwfev FRIDAY. bates of weekly. One tier. - ejx Months Tt,r ' C M0 ^TE3 FOB'TEi-WEEKLY. *3 00 1 75 1 00 One J**; Clr Vont* 1 ^ ** 31onth3. Three Months $5 00 2 50 1 25 invariably is advasce. Tl , -lube of Five or more en. copy will be fur- ^*gt. B«g» "outcd m exchange for the ,*per »t Ibrcl! ccntS per ’ M. DWINELL, Proprietor. iegal advertisements. rT.ml bv Adnrnistrators, Exector* or Sales of gj uire d by law to be held on juard«» n5 - ar , 9 eIlCfl month, between the lb. Sat e orenoon end three in the bonri Of lee ■ c<mrt Honsc in tie county.in ^SSSSs^psLrr previous to sale day. ‘ Debmre and Creditors .f en estate, made to the (loort of Ordinary fqr.loeve to sell laud must bo lienibip Adminjstration, monthly fix io”hs-for dismission, from Guardianship, 40 J Rules for the forecloseure of Mortgages must e pubHshed monthly for four mo^-for A«- utKine lost papers, for the full spare of three for compelling titles ,rom Executors or fw, for the full space of three mouths. h publ cations Wilt. .[way. be contmued aecord- «to these, the legal requirements, unless oth- rwise ordered, at the fallowing RATES. UAlJjir^ eheriiFs Sales per levy often lines or Jess S3 0* Shears Mortgage fi. fa. sales, per ; l«*y, 5 00 Tax CtllectorV sales, per Iery,™-.^*-. r Citations for letter* ol AUimmstraiion„,. r 3 00. Citations for letters of Guardianship...,™.3 00 Notice ot application for dismission from Administration, Xotic# of application for dismission from * Guardianship,- ........ ———J 00 >1 00 5 00 , 2 00 . 4 00 "wios'er. of Mortgage, per square. 4 00 V, Ji-in adrertising his wife, tin sdranee) 10 0 Guardianship,. Application to sell laniL.....«..- ——; •• Notice to Debtors and Creditors, cal. of band, persquare,........... - sal. of perishable property, 10 days........ Estrsv Notice., ^60 days, eiosi " Sale of Confederate Spoils. We learn from the Chronicle & Senti nel foat-od*flife-21st‘ih8t., a large amount of goods and chattels was sold ah the United States Arsenal, near Augusta, formerly the p&perty of the Confederate goVerunjent and the State of Georgia. This arsenal, it will be remembered,, was captured by. J.iE. Brown; in the spring of 1861, assisted by R.B Bullock, afterwards Colonel in! the Confederate States Tjelegraph Service.^ Speaking of this sale, the Chronifcle Wyst-MUfomt < a “These sales comprised axles, cannon spikes, sword’BayohetsJ’sabres, carbines, ar- tillcry'liafniss, cartridge 1 bags, horsi shoes, saddle-trees, gunboat plates, 360 pounds Ctnfederate gnnpowder, many tons of iron scraps, fire and cast, etc., etc. Bat the most remarkable of all the arti cles sold was 1,000 joe brown’s pikes. gotten np expressly to defend the last ditch of States riglifc*. under h s Excellency's own eye and after models designed under his immediate supervision.. These Georgia Pikes are of three -models. The original model is after the fashion of the Homan dagger, placed upon a stont hickory staff, some 7 feet long, properly polished hud fer- ruled. The second model was a combina tion of the Roman dagger and the farmer’s brier hook—the design being in case the thrust of the dagger was ' partied,“p hack- ward pull of the pikenian would decapitate the infhntry soldier or bisect a .Tdsiptmg cavalry man. The 1 '' third' 5 model —mark the progtess- of'-invention—was a double-barrel, spring acting dagger,, which sbJDtout from between two oval suctions of hickory, upon coming in contact with an unfortunate enemy. These _ terrible arti cles of warfare were bought by; Mr. Morri son,, of South Carolina. Rumor has at they are intended to supply the wants of the loyal Governor, for supplying with most approved arms his South Carolina militia, which is now being organixed.” . Radical Veracity. Itiia part of our duty, as a public journalist, to let the people know what kind of men hold official position over them. If public trroanU are unfaithful or dishonest the sovereign* ought to know it. The following specimen of Radical tes timony appears in the published speech of Mr. Beck, of Kentucky : Executive Department, 1 Atlanta, Ga, Jauuary 28,1869. J As appears from the records in this de partment, the following named persons known or supposed to he members of the present General Assembly of this State, who took their seats on or since the 4th day of July, 1S6S, and who bad, before the commencement of the late war of re bellion against the United States, held of. lice ie this State; and who as such offi cers, took an oath to support the Constitu tion of this State, and of the United States; and who afterward, as I am informed, gave aid and comfort t > the rebellion by recog- uiiing and coutitenancing'a-so-called gov ernment hostile to the Uoited States; whose disabilities have not been removed by Con gress. namely : Brassel was representative in 1858;. P- II. Brassell is representative from jayette county at this time. Clark was Represen tative iu 1858; IV. II. Clark is Represen tative from DeK rift county at this time, And the certificate is as follows : Executive Department; ) Atlanta, Ga. January 28, 1869. j I hereby certify that H. H. Watters is a reliable employee of this Department,’ and frnui his examination of the records of file in this office, the statements made in the foregoing pages have been carefully com piled, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the same are true. ° ' 0 * Rufus B. Bullock, Governor. In regard to the Representative from De- Kalb county, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution states most positively and urn- equivocally that Mr. W. H. Clark was not a Representative from that or any otheT county, in .1858,-and never in his lifehehlr any office! previous to the one he nowboldsf The abovo shows towhat resorts Mr. Bul lock and his employees, resorted in their effort to induce CongTOss to behove that in- elligible members were holding seats in the present Legislature. lG TSJiJ : While the statement in the above named extract is not a straight out lie, the natural and legitimate, and evidently intended in ference from it, is false, because, as we un derstand it, the testimony was introduced to prove that ineligible members , were holding seats. Does the reader notice how the evidence is worded f The witness does not state that IU B. Clark was Repre sentative of DeKalb county in -1858, bit Clark was Representative in 1858; W.' H, Clark is Representative from DeKalb coun ty at this time;” thus leaving a sneaking- hole through which to escape from perju- ’!• ‘ . y „ u .. As to the statement regarding P. ;H. Brassell, of Fayette, we know nothing,but since the i timation in Clark’s case is false, we have no reason to believe this to be true. WHAT A GOVERNOR 111 . WHAT A “RELIABLE EMPLOYEE "; The Flood. l# The high crater here has been slowly •ubsidiog, since about midnight l^t street, near the‘depot, and no ' mate* mage has been done in Rome. learn from Capt HBlliott, who. come up the koosa from Gadsden, on Thursday, that at least thre^-fffhrlhs'dflheSiTer (oHoiiis were tfte BdSKm sen planted. The corn- was up .two. op] V t ree inches, the cotton justcoming up j and the wheat about half leg high. c . The extent of damagj? done will depend *ery much upon the weather that may fol- *?*’ ^ “ball be moderntelycool fora few y»i and then a- moderate rain, to prevent n .. n J" 'i-' „1. il. . ^e^ounij from bniahg, amL-'to. .’wash; the “* a *om the growing plants;'very - little lu ss wdl result from tins flood. But if it One Word to the La lies of Rome. Next Monday will bo the 36th of April, the anniversary day for decorating the graves of the Confederate d ad. .... { , It is not treasonable to the government for you to show respect to the memory of those who, beiDg excited to deeds of noble daring" by your approving smiles—gave their lives to tho “lost cause” and there are now no FederaTTiayoncts here to intimidate or make you afraid to give a full expres sion to your feelings. Did you have a Fatherm Brother, a Cous in, or a dear friend, whose mortal remains now moulder oirtoiitt'fiit'pff battle field? If so,what will be your emotions of affec tionate regard towards those loving sisters who will strew their graves with flowers on this anniversary day '^Asjre would that others should dp unjoyou, do. ye even so unto them.” '/.] XIR— ui.'v'l As there havo- been no' - arrangement made by the officers of the Memorial Asso ciation of this place for a formal meeting oq that day,we would ^suggest, that every lady ofRomeond vicinity, who feth-dia- posed todo so, gather such flowers and deco^ rating foliage as’she may be able, 1 a’nd, ac companied by_ane, ot^,uiQre of her Lady friends, repair to the .cemqtry a t 5 o’clock P. M. next Monday (and i thus show her own respect for the memory • 1 of the Fallen brave Extensive preparations are being made iu nearly all SiiiithTrn towns and cities to celebrate’ this sad day, and would we not feel a little mortified if qpr duty in. this respect should be Utterly neglec- ted"■! ' v ' Tbe Cedartown Mail Again. We regret exceedingly jhat it is still diffi cult to get mail matter to aud i through the Cave Spring Post Office at its proper time. We received the followinghcte from the anting Postmaster at Cedartown a few days sinee A 1 * - 0 " 1 '. 1 . CipARTOWN, Ga .'jipril.ZO^lSGfl. Mr. Dicincll : . t> •••' Dear Sir : IamTequhsted by some of; your suiiscribers to report the failure of your Tri-Weekly of”$atnrday. / Wo only received the Thursdays edition on . Satur day. .yqprs,respectfully, . ; -li. A. Huntington. We learn from Mr. Chas. Mills, the mail agent who went down on the Selma’train on the morning of Saturday, the 17th, that he had the mail for Cave Spring, ready to ^ deliver, but there gas qoope there to re ceive ita and Mr.Brnmlay informfi^jfj.t^e same thing happened on Thursday morn ing, the 16th. inst.. i . It is due to ’ onr . sub-' scribers at Gave Spring and • Cedartown that' tbfey should know 'wherq the fault g^Hfhbi^‘ they fail to get their papers dt the proper time, and if they.vjtll KejjT'ns.,^ip|ed we wpi.try ^ferretlt.ogt. uIi (!i J. . l ^" > ^ . i- 1 .* T oouhin f -Nkw Form of DiSpAwd^iSESiENt^ For Ac firiit time’ in our najdqnal. his 1 ?^ ry, says tbe N. O. Times, tho census is to dccission lias been brought out by New En gland .wine;'polling. Upon tbe old basis, she would bare lost seven members which tbe West would h!rt% giiUeffTbesides twen ty-eight others. - So that during the'^next ten years both her Sentorial and . Congres- Vedneaday. The water dbTMt come into^^^- sio “* influence trill-aimost iu double tb e streets except .fi-r a short distance ini™ 1 ' 0 to her P°P uIation - when , compared South ' ... ‘ Jwith other States—«Ho»-long-thj Ameri- can. people..contemplate Bubmiting to this usurpation remains to be aeon. WeaWeeit no: longer inveigh 1 against privileged classes, while The'people of NewEnglaUd possesses more then Wo votes to tbe citizen of any other Stste’s one. . — The pqfeiis.u^of 1‘Qnob A.Moj«TH”.of-’. i| ? fer to send She first six months’ numberafor 1 1866 (froiii'Jdnnafy’ ’’ior' fifty cents, in order, to let the peiplo pee ; the ’Magazine and become acquainted with the rare excellence 'qfijs euteitainjng reading to be had. Send to T. S. Ant^pr &;So“f, Philadelphia, -the trifle oS^lieSfts^ tsnib tou will, take our word fdr B#?rfdt8itaflr6t- class investment. .Seima, Rome Ac Dalton Railroad. ! b The annual meetinguf-the stockholders of this Toad was hcld at the Chamber of Commerce in this! city yesterday.. .There was a full attendance, apd - the proceedings were eonducted with the utmost unanimity and harmony. 1,1 '«. • 3 • ’*’ 'Mr: Barney^jras called on' t i give” An ‘jae-. count of the condition and .future prospects of the rqjd,..which he did in.,, a clear and satisfactory inauneri: i. • i I. The fol!owing qfEcer8 r 'w6re elected for, the finmiiog year‘j’ , ‘ 1 President—Franklin H. Delano. of JNes York. 1 Directors—U. A.Mnrdock, .Win. Puton Isaac H. Knox, jno. T. Agnew, C. C. F. Dambmann, David Crawford, of New York, A. G: Mabry, J. W. Lapsley, of Selma, Le vi W. Lawler, ofMobile, Daniel S. Prin tup, of Rome. The following resolutions were presented and adopted ■ BY COL. LAPSLEY, 5 ' ’ i “ !1 Resolcrd,- That we deem it'to he vitally important to the interest of this company aid the country gcnertlly, that the city ’ of Selma should he conneeted by railway, ear ly as.practicable, with the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile and Pensacola, and to that’ end recommend to the Presideht and ‘ Directors of this company, to render all the aid in their power to-the oonstrnotion of roads to it: '8: to N^tTP, Resolved, That lhe Board of Directors of this company be authorized and instructed togeve and tiansfer all right of franchise, and road-bed graded ortobograded, which this company now own or possess’, OQ the line from Jacksonville to Gadsden in this State, to any person, or to any comptihy du ly organized orto be organized, who will give sufficient gnarnntee to build or put the same in operation between said places. Whereas, A'bill is now pending in Congress ent'tled an act to revive the gram of lands to aid in the construction of a rail road from Selma to Gadsden, in the'State of Alabama, and io confirm the same to the Selma, Rome & Dalton railroad cotnpauy; and whereas it is desirable*', that the same should be passed and approved at as early a day as possible, in order to - enable the company to havesaid lands settled and oc- cupied by bona fido settlers, Und ! the miner al lands properly develop.d; therefore,"’^ 1 Resolved, that the stockholders ’of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad Company, here assembled, do hereby most respectfully yeti tion the Congress of £the'United’States to pass stud bill. And 'Resolved That the Board ofdirectors of of-this company do ■petition the Legislatures of theStates of Alabama and Georgia to give their influence, by resolution or other wise; to the favorable consideration and pas^ sage of said - biU by Congress. Tbe meeting was a very interesting one, and we regret that onr limited space pre vents ns from giving a more extended no tice of it.—Selma Times, 22. The Times on tbe Alabama IVSkty. The' LondonTimes, in aiTarticle on the qpp^ritme.q{,6f’jig.^^qfley .ito England, says .^rijsaixaiui - i ib oiu» The country has gone to the extreme of concession in the matter of the Alabama claims It has. agreed to refer everything; except itfl i own, honor.,, to the- arbitration and the judgment of a mixed commission. It has agreed,to give the Americans,, who profess to have been wronged, every oppor tunity to assert their , claims by providing that, that contortion shall hold its sittings at Washington. Except absolute submis sion to every demand, the Americans may choose to make, therei: is nothing further that could be conceded. ■ -i-icj^ie > ■ The Convention, in which all this stipu lated, has been tbe work of their own min ister and Secretary of State, and has re ceived tbe assent of their Own President.— If they now set it aside onr doty will sunk ply be to abstain altogether from further overtures, and let any proposals for a re-' newal of negotiations proceed from tbe American government. As for that down> right dem’andforpayment, which onr Phil adelphia correspondent described as being advocated in the United States, this coun try would of course, know how to treat it; but we have not- the smallest belief that President Grant’s government contemplates a cohrse of action so unfriendly and offen- . - :ltn ! ;! sive. • . It id likely,'-assuming thU 'present' Ala- buma conTention to be set aside, that Mi- Motley will be instructed to' open negotia., tidnsfor any bther, differing somewhat in machinery, bnt embodying sitnilaT .princi- pieff.'I Should-thtt 6e;tbe<etad, ; dnr fenveitr-i nkebt Mill’l»TeRdj‘fc'gifB*tti6 fair consideration. Should it, on' the other hand, be'the desire of Americato keep the will not feel bound to initiate fresh negotia tions! 'In any case she wHl welcome -Mr. M. u ndt ’only aS^an old 1 J frie'ndl,' Sal! v ' as ’ one wbd'bafi the confidence of a really 'miwdr-. ful executive and'of the most powerful par ty in the United. Stfltfu. - - Bteamer,Etowah; , , . Arrived at her wharf on April the 224 si iff -do a- bringing the following r-"'!’-2passenger^. 11 bainusUrt aan •oat ’ --■ ■ ■ Miss Manning, Dr. Smith,-J.iF- Stocks; neat. Another _ w 'uring the third or fonrth year of the war, Congress passed an act to pay every loyal slave own-, er in the border States $300 for each of his slaves who enlisted in the Federal army. The money was appropriated and set aside for.the purpose oat ofthe draft commuta tion fund, then in the hands of the Secre tary of .War, and a commission was ap pointed to sit in each of tbe adhering slave States and make the properawards. On the faith of this pledge and contract, a large number of negro troops were raised and mastered into the service. la Kentucky alone tturty-five thousand were enlisted— and now tbe Fourteenth Amendment de clares (hat neither State nor National mon ey shall be appropriated to pay for the en franchisement of slaves. It is interesting to note as a sign of the times how tho public mind is looking at these facts of history, and with what won derful plansability tho thread of the argu ment begins to unravel. Starved to Death- The lifeless body of a negro m Alfred Williams, was fonnd yesterday in a house in CoolbyviUe, beyond the brick yard. An inquest was held by Coroner McCahay. Samnel Roper was foreman of jury. . Dr. E J. Kirkscey, ccnnty physi cian, examined tbe body and fonnd marks of violence, showing that he eoidd not have been foully dealt with. .The negro was a hearty looking fellow, bnt hiid an intensely lazy look. He was abont middle aged. Tbe verdict of the jury was the deceased came to his death from star vation. The only reason why a man should starve now-days in this section is beeanse be wont work. The evidence showed he was not willing to labor for a livllihood.— His wife had left him beeanse be would nothelphei support their children. He had been\ n the chain gang for stealing meat from Maj. R. J. Moses, and having served oat bis time, was discharged last Thursday.—Columbus Sun. ery^ Jn^’Guffin^Ssteeragejiisingers. Robt. Johnson,^W. S- Cothran, Son & Co., Berrys,& Co., Fishel & Bra, Evans, r^iicovifc*. Wi- F. * Alsabrook, Hopkins, Bright ^ & faiih’ was as sacredlyAnd solemnly pi Trowbridge; S. N. Noble, T. N Pdnlllnh, ■ ,; -'i ■--i-*. -r A- , ( r FRjpiG JT HiSes bf cotton, 20 'ic . bales of shucks, 100 bushels of corn. from Savannah sold at $5 50 pets barrel..; ii pie Darby’ft, Propbylactiq .Fluid...will core any qtptepf colic in horses, instantly., jQ_Forncj thinks tbe appointment of Lqngstfeet dp^fnt. “mak;e tresson o'dions.” IfForney reaffjriabes to. mq|c)J.,freason. 'oflious let him then turn'traitor. ’{ Igj-Darby’s Prophylaytic Fluid is the best thing in the world for a burn. . as it is to the payment of onr present pub- . lie debfc^iqr will any American affirm that eT pig ; , iron;' in respect to moral .obligation on the part of ° -— 1 ’ 1 tbe people individualiy, the holders of the Continchtal inoney had not a claim quite as strong as the holders of our public debt have now. But notwithstanding the pro- coeds-of the Continental money ■ bonghtonr liberties for ns, that debt -was effectnally and 1 finally repudiated by - tbe genera tion; and to some extent ’by the very pub- lio.mon.who contracted it u if Not onlyidid the: United States repudi- s fhe oontinental debti bnt they have Safety of LrmasTONTr -A telegram from London says • iu Accounts of tho safety of Livingstone, the; 1 African traveler, are received. He is reported to have left .Zanibar .itt January; for England, going overland via Carihit .... ;> „.| at nitlef: tK s. ttal. : • 3nwn!tltt yvnvTAnr.v.gjiN Hew York.—-Green, peas, shipped from . Charleston,South Caro-, ate foe continental , debt; lina, were, sold in New York last Saturday since repndintedlnnd arcto-daji repudiating at from $7, to 7; 25 per bushel; and lettuce two other debts to which their f ith is ” ' “ v 1 . - . -• » ■ 0 £ these is,that due nr _____ Sa/4i? r ffly^B' on Spanish’citizens'{n Florida; am ,_ ed for by special treaty—the treaty of 1819 —and carefully adjudicated upon since by the.United States.Courts, and, ; their pay ment provided for; by act of .Congress, the money still lying subject to this very . df?r maid. This debt has been virtually re- pudiated, and we find that after half a cen- tury tbe Spanish Minister is still demand- Dcclslon Affecting the Bnreae. Judge Mndd has just decided that all trials qf civilians by tbe Freedman’s Bu reau, or military authority of the United States, are unconstitutional and nnU and void. Tuis decision be gives, he says, in confer uity with the case of Milligan. It results, therefore, that all trials under the Parson’s military dictatorship are noil and void, and all judgments from April, 1865, to July, 1868, most be re-opened. If the period from the close of the war to the ac cession of the Smith government was net a military government, what was it ?—Mont. Mail. do. [From tho Montgomery, AJa., Mail.ingits paymi 1 Precedents for Repudiation. r tion is rtill more flagrant. care having; books and pamphlets idled advocating repudiation of the 'ational dqbt.an i showing that it. is nec- cssary and propel. , These arguments are being scattered over foe .land and are, tel ling powerfully upon the,people. The first stepiW to familiarize the public, mind with the history of debts of other nations and ,what was done with them. In looking in- rto.iuch a,history some startling disclosure-: are nude. It is found that after long wars, civil or foreign, foe accumulated debts ofi the first nations: of ,tfle world have been jqiyaijutbly repudiated. ■ In., the case of England, after the war of theiljoses, to which old Judge Pack allnd- cd not: long ago in his wonderful de facto decision, the Parliament freely, liberally and absolutely gave and granted unto foe K ng’s (Henry 8th ) Highness all and ev ery sum or sums of money, which were due by h’m on any and every promise bond or obligation of every . kind and nature whatsoever, which was about as polite r way to repudiate the national debt as could well be imagined. Later still we find, af ter the Crooiwelian resolution, that Charles JI closed . the Exchequer and defrauded the creditors of, the State out of £2,800,- 000 pounds; bat a compromise was after ward trade, by which £664,226 was recog nized; and this was the origin of the pres ent National debt. The government has also often debased the national coinage—a. ipost contemptible mode of repudiation. Tliat even.the.present debt of England is in eflgctrepudiated, is shown by the fol lowing 'extract from the London Times, of May 18,1368: ’ We have accepted the position of ten ants paying a fixed rent, and having a good long lease, we regard the public funds simply as the stock of a commercial Com pany on the largest and grandest scale. The nominal capital sum, which never had any rcal.existence. has now vauished.. out- of sight altogether, . and enters neither into the arithmetical nor the moral question.— Americans must decide whether they too will accept the position of tenants paying a fixed rent forever on a nominal capital which never had any rial existence; or whether they will not. The next few years will determine the question for all time. > ., ...... i France has repudiated many, times and in many forms. One of her kings chang ed the value of her national coin twenty- two times in less than twenty years. With the outline of her financial history daring the revalutionary period, most readers are familiar. She issued assignants to tbe ampunt in circulation at one time is stated Tiy Thiers at 20,000,000,0.00 Cranes. The assignants were a national paper currency; and to their redemption tho public faith was pledged in the most positive manner. The usual means of penalties, regulation of prices, etc,, were resorted to, to give them credit and circulation among foe peo ple, and with the usual resnlt. They sank to ono-half of one per cent of their nomi nal value, and finally went out, though a portion of them were redeemed with man date at foe rate of thirty-eight to one of nominal values. But the mandats consti tuted$ national currency of substantially the same character; and they shared sub stantially the same fate. Other nations of Eorope have not been hind-England and France. .Blackwood’s agazine for December, 1S49, speaks of a mania for investing in foreign loans twen ty-five years before. On sixteen of these loans interest has ceased to be paid. It names several Spanish American govern ments among the delinquents; not to men. tion Greece,-Portugal and Spain, countries which have set to Europe a scandalous ex ample of repudiation. - In the ; United States repudiation has beeu the: rule ever since the revolution.— Not to come down to the cases of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and even to our own municipal plank road bonds, it is well to keep in mind that the colony of Massa chusetts, in the year 1749, redeemed its public deLt of £2,20p,00 by paying one- twelfthof that sum in silver; and that Vir ginia, soon after the revolution, redeemed, or retired her State paper money by fund ing it jat.the rate of one thousand for one. Never,, perhaps, was the public faith more soieipnly. pledged to public creditors than in the case of our old Continental money; and certainly no national obligation was ever more effectually , repudiated.— When that money showed signs of . depre ciation, it was rnmored it wonld be allow ed to die in the hands ofthe holders. But Congress denounced such rumors as false and derogatory' fo the honor of Congress.— The same body declared that this money shoqli be redeemed, dollar for dollar, and that the liberties of. the people wonld be cheaply bought at that price. Congress sed legal tender acts, penal laws and a,limiting prices -bnt aU to no purpose., As.earjy as 1782-3 : nllbands agreed that it should not be,paid. . Before .the, close of the ^wapCpngresft iteplfprppqssfc to repudi ate ninety-nine .do^ara of every hundred by funding the mgptjy at. the.fatoi of one hundred to pne., Bqfcnotlung of fop. bind waj,eyer.aecomplisVd- - went pa.till,ft -thousand ,.for one,and, ftten-it dropped, out bf, circulation foa occasional sub ject or consideration by Congress up to the close of , the, .war. But in q, schedule of the pqbilc debt of tJhp.Ujai'ed; States , pre- redby the graddeomnuftoe qf Congress, Appl,.17,83, tfte ,ftm .of,Contanentol money is’noi wen mentioned, so effectual- ly jiad its repqdiation become 11 fact accpm- m,j^e estimation of &afc committee et foe issue of Continental money were estimated by Alexander Hamilton at 8357- 476,541, while the public debt recognized by tbe grand committee amounted to but. pledged to tbe payment of tbe Continental money Am I not a man and a Brother 7— It is stated that there are in Massachu setts about 700 colored Freemasons, who have seven flourishing lodges in existei They have never been acknowledged recognized by tbe white Freemasons of Massachusetts, and have for a long time been trying to secure what they term their rights. If the negro is not to be reoog- nized by his natural parents, in tbe very cradle of negroism, whither shall he go for comfort 7—Utica Observer. Washburne’s Nominees. It appears that nearly seven-eighths of the diplomatic and consular appointments sent to the Senate yesterday were made by Secretary Fish over the prostrate forms of Washburn’s nominees, who bad been assur ed by tbe latter, just before he retired from the department of State, that they were certain of the appointment.— Wash. Cor. Louisville Cour-Jour. A Lunatic Astray. The Wilmington Jonrsal says, Mary McConville. who claims to be the wife of Jas. MeGonville, daughter of Jas. McCew- en, mother of Eli and Preston McConville, and a captive of the Yankees sometime during the war, came in Stamp Sound Dis trict, Onslow county, North Carolina, about the year 1865. She expresses a desire to return borne, bnt is unable to find the way herself, or to tell the connty, State or town in which she lived during her sanity. For further infoimation of foe above named lunatic, address Elijah Williams, Wilmington, North Carolina, care of Hug gins & Co. All Southern editors will please copy. Attention Constables.—The follow ing act of foe General Assembly of Geore gia, approved March I8th, 1869, is publish ed for information: An act to extend foe jurisdiction of Constables in the several counties ofthe State/ Be it resolved, See., That from and after the passage of this act, that it shall be lawful for any constable of tbe several coun- ties of the' State to execute and return Any process issued by a Justice ofthe Peace or Notary Public of a&id counties; bnt he shouMtretnn»foe«aid; : proeeas-tb% Justior ofthe Peace residing in fob mUitia district where the 1 defendant or 'defendants re sides at the timeoffoe issuing of said pro- Teial of Assessor Bowles.—The trial of CoL J. C. Bowles Assessor of In ternal Revenue for this district,commenced yesterday morning in foeroomof J.M. Saf- fold, anotherVevenne dignitary,at the Plan ters Hotel The witnesses against were: Pnghe, Blodgett and others. The witnes ses testified, we learn, that Bowles had sent private property through foe mails at foe government expenses; that he allowed Bry ant to hold his office dnder him up to the £ resent time, though fob latter is a mem- er of the State Legislature, and that he committed a whole host of ofoer offences The trial continues this morning. The Assessor may oonsider himself a‘gone, coon” if Blodgett is swearing against him. —Ckrtm & Sen. , v mj *@*A gang of negro thieves got ' info a row in Savannah on Wednesday, among themselves, in which one, a notorious char acter, received a fatal wound, and another was shot in the hip. Let ns have war, if it will come in ~ •©“The tax payers of Thomas held a meeting on the 6th inst, and resolv ed to oppose foe act of the last Legislature granting aid to tho amount of 15,000 per mile in coin to foe Brunswick and Albany Railroad. They pledge foemaelves to ex- banst bqfo their legal power and four po litical influence to defeat tho whole scheme. •. . 8®“Cieere gives expression to a very i beautiful thought, when he ftrom life as from an inn, not home. Imfprtaat stead Act. Judge Erskine, iu a recent decision, at Savannah, has derided: L. The bankrupt is not entitled: to < the exemption of a homestead out of land mo t- gaged by him at the time of the purchase, to secure tho payment of 1 the purchase money, until the stud ; mortgage Ja satis fied. 2. Tbe cost and expenses - of the bank ruptcy proceedings are entitled .to priority of payment out of the fnnd.in court deriv ed from the sale of property. . His.derision sustained a derision of reg ister Hesseltine, made upon tbe following On foe 16th day ot November, 1868, John B. Whitehead, the bankrupt, pur chased from one W. W. Cheever, a tract of land in the State of Georgia, receiving a deed to the land and giving his notes, se cured by mortgage on the said land for the purchase money. On the 28th of November, 1858, Chee ver transfers said notes and mortgage to G. B. Lamat, who has proven his claim in this court. Tbe tract of land constitutes tbe bank rupts entire estate, and under paragraph 2013 of tbe Code of Georgia, and section 14 of the bankrupt aet, he claims for him self and two children sixty acres of said land, including foe dwelling HoUse thereon, as a homestead, or in lien thereof five hun dred and twenty dollars in money to be de rived from the sale of said land ‘ As to the first question submitted “is the bankrupt entitled to tbe exemption of homestead ont of land mortgaged by him at the time of the purchase to secure the payment of foe purchase money 7” it is in my opinion that he is not. I am well satified from a careful exami nation of the law as laid down in foe Code of Georgia, that it does not give to the bead of a family a homestead ont of tend' thus encumbered. That lien is n valid Hen, au thorized by statute; and tbe law does' not anywhere provide for i‘s displacement in favor of the creator of foe Hen, • for the purpose of providing him with a home stead.' ■ ... ■ l qqe oi 7t hF It is true foot on the delivery to him of foe deed, the title of the land is in tbe pur chaser, and that a mortgage in-this State is only a security for a debt, and passes no ti tle. (Irwin’s Code, §1,944.) Yet the Su preme Court in this State, in Scott, Car- hart & Co., vs Warren & Spicer, 21 Ga. Rep. 468, decided that a judgment of old er date than a moitgage could not first' be satisfied out of land where tbe mortgage was taken as security for the purchase mon ey at foe time of its sale. The conveyance and mortgage were regarded as the sever al parts of one argreement —the sale as on ly a conditional oqe, the condition being expressed in foe mortgage passed to the vendor at the the time of this delivery of the deed. Tbe courts, by many derisions that I need not cite, seem to regard tbe title to real estate not paid for and obtained by giving back to foe grantor at foe time. of bis deed, a mortgage deed to secure tbe faithful payment of tbe purchase money, as at foe’best bnt a conditional title, good and complete when the terms and condi tions of the sals shall be complied info by the payment of tbe purchase money. The Code under the section an “Property ex empt from sale,” paragraph 2013, says : “The following property of every debtor who is the bead of a family shall be exempt from levy and sale; * * * nor shall any valid Hen be created thereon, etc.” From this, and from what is contained in aU this section tonchiffg exemption, I de termine tbatfoe debtor who seeks to have a homestead set apart for himself and family, most first have a full and complete owner ship and title to property; it must be en tirely bis pr perty, unsaddled with any en cumbrance, lienor condition, effecting bis title thereto. To use the phrase I have *iven above to express such titles ss the isnkrupt’s, it must not be a conditional ti tle. And further, that after he has bad set off to him a homestead out of his property, be cannot of himself create any valid lien thereon. The Code does not deny tbe head of a family the right to create a lien on property exempted in accordance with foe provisions of foe homestead aet. ' He is free to do what he will with his own, convey or mortgage it; and I hold that if hemortgagea bnk'laiidto seenre the pay ment of foe purchase money, it is a • good and valid lien, such as the iawwin uphold and protect-for the vendor against the mortgage of any other person. • ' By the new Constitution of foel State of Georgia, it is specially provided tiat the homestead shall Dot ha exempt from levy or execution for tiie parebase m iney ‘-of the EQ-In Georgia there are in process of erection eeventy-two mills for -foe prtduo-' turn of cotton and wollen goods alone, and attention is turned in the direction of cali coes and printed fabrics. This is ’a sur prising-fact; bnt it is a natural consequence following on the events of foe last fiVe years At Augusta one factory has turned out foe last year 6,410,000 yardsof cloth} andihas a capital of $200,000. v .nmioi m t ( -• i.-. i wsi-. . ; Justifiable HtualcMe. naut/ We learn that,on foe evenWof the 11th iustent, Sheriff MHtonjirf' Gilmer cbmifftt while trying to prevent a disturbance, id his offieuli-eapaoity^was set upon by one of foe-party,who snapped a pistol id his’ •uponthe Sheriff -quickly-:drew his pistol and shot, foe 1 mini; through - the lungs, killing him' in a short-{time. The deceased, we learn; was:0 bad character,and had previously threatened Sheriff Milton.— Dalton' Citjzml . :*f it ■ ,nij .-J ''i ii»iti^ a|i51'I* "JR The scalawags can have no pleasure' in living, and foeii only oonsolatian in dying will be that tljeir friend Satan. wfil nit “leave. them out'in’ foe cold.*?—/Yotr tick ’ L "‘■ ■'' ' ' , ■ ' says, “I as from my Graphic.—Hie New York-. Courier de scribes Grant’s appointments aa “a set of lean crows, foe like of whom .never perched, onthe fence of Unole Sam’s- cornfield . be fore, or cawed their beggarly satisfaction from foe epen doors of Ms crib.” .. : . ■/ .. If •©"The Macon & Western Railroad Com- Dy have declared a stock dividend of foirty-tbreo and a third per cent, payable on and after May 15th. •©'Freight was shipped at New York by the steamer Gen. Barnes on tbe 8th and reached Atlanta on, the 13th—making five days only from New York to Atlanta, yiqNavaniub- iJl v»cu i-sbuq -i J-. ■ -o bov Tbe following , nominations were made' to^ay: A. W. Patterson’, Marshal of {forth Mississippi. * •! Ludef D. Bradley, Assessor 4th District, . J'-'^P^IocI,Indian Agent, Little Ropk, Ark. Eleven other Indian agents, for all qiiar- ters; 'including Friend Laurie Tatum for foe Apachees, Homanches and the Kio- was. Among the confirmations was Sinclair, for Assessor 3d District. North Carolina. 1 Further details ofthe rain' storm Vfost and North, represent it' as Unprecedented for extent aud destructiveness. Boutwell forbids tbe banks exchanging securities iu treasury, partly ou the ground that securities withdrawn are' always niore valuable than those substituted. It is understood that Motley’s instruc tions are being prepared by Evarte ' and Cashing and embody points ^foreshadowed in Sumner’s speech. there were one hundred and eighty thons* and bids. The compensation ranges higher this year than ever before. . The Senate ratified a treaty with Trance protecting the trade marks of respective Forney, headed by a Pennsylvania 'pair- ty, proposes an extensive Southern tour. In a visit to foe President, Sumner in formed Fish to-day that the Foreign Be lations Committee had agreed to reporjt ad versely on Pile, for Brazil and Carlisle far Stockholm. * u leixocr : Fish replied itwas determined to' inalte no more nominations, but that Under certain circumstances, foe President woold proba bly make new jyyqiqgtioQsTor those posi tions. During foe debate on foe resolution of. appointment of employees in the 'dej menta according to tbe state of poptda Mr.Sawyer complained that' Democratic Kentrcky had received more appointmenis than the sir republican Southern plates, and bitterly commented . on the' remark made to him by a member of the' Cabinet, that he must remember that the white Re publican vote of his State wa3 very small, 'and he must not ask too much. A North ern Senator said it 'niast not he fbrgotti that foe Sonth * formerly, bad twice her share of patronage; 'Much ill-feeling manifested by foe Senators. ■ In replyiagto Forney’s delegation, Grant is reported to have said he was veiy happy to’hear that they intended'to make t l ’ and hoped it would be productive of best results; nothing would do more (6 properly reconstruct the South than white loyal emigration; he had ne doubt North ern capital and Northern men wonld readi ly avail themselves of the superior induce ments offered'by foe South as soon fo they could be assured of protection and cordial welcome. appointment of. ? 'be Assessor oj-thq-Third it of Georgia, vice J. C. Btnvlcs, reiuoVcu.was. aiinonneed in yesterday’s telegraph. Bel cher was one of the members of foe Geor gia Legislature declared' lUelligible on ac count of color, Bowles, who has been re* moved, to make room for him, is a member of the family of Hon. Joshua Hill. Bel cher is a'protege ot Blodgett, and Blodgett is one of the parties now engaged &s witnes ses against Bo vies in a trial for alleged malversation in office.! We will leave the triad of B’sto settl^ their conflicts^ and t foe public to draw- its own inferences as to. foe personal signification of tbe appoint ment,under foe circumstances. Gen. GraDtis evidently bent on bringing all the moral power of tbe Government to bear on the question of negro eligibility to office in Georgia. This is foe question of negro eligibility to office in' Georgia. This is the fonrth negro appointment in the State, and two of tbe four are expelled members—to wit: Simms and Belcher. The administration thus says to Georgia, ‘*110 matter what may be your ideas on foe subject,!' we bold the' negro eligible to' office, and mean hi shall have it.” ' These appointments are also no doubt de signed to impose an outside pressure on foe Georgia Judiciary, who have ,foe- con stitutional question in process pf adjudica tion. If any man donbts the thorough de votion of Grant to the idea of the civil and political equality of fob'negro, he may as well dismiss his donbts at once. The de termination to incorporate that dogma into American politics was sufficiently avowed in foe inaugural,and foe appointments-have been shaped to enforce it. ;i'; .vWelljall wo have got to say . is, that it is against onr judgment; bat we cannot help ourselves. It is a policy which is honnd to be fatal to the existence of tiny effective Radical party in the South. The- white wing.of the existing - Radical organization is based on foe plan of foe negro regiments in which tbe blacks made up the file -and foe whites foe rank., Jf Mr.’SbbuEIersfrap had besn required to lay aside his epaulets, take a musket and insert his brilliant white phiz, like a chalk streak,in the dusty line of Ethiopian privates,he would have resigned! And so “de white ossifera” in this grand Ethiopian party phalanx in the South will be very happy to resign,so soon as tiny find the negroes wearing the epanlets and they asked to take ^ position -as high privates under'them. The stupid bigots of’ party ■may prate tiU their teeth drop ont,bnt never will intelligent and respectable white organizations in America, whether social, 'g religions,or politiqjl^ccept the leadership of the blacks—or, for the matter of that, the companionship either.—Macon Tel. From Chicago. Chicago, April 20.—Galveston Moo ney arrived in this city this evening via Pacifie Road in eight and half days from San Francisco, including nine -honrs stag ing, thirty eigb4-hotur» delay in making con nection, and three honrs and twenty min utes on slow moving . of-the construction trains. At foe ends of the roads on the 17tk inst., there .were,- bnt .fifty miles of road to build. .The junction of the -Union and, Central Pacifie tracks would I .be- com pleted by foe 1st of May, thus forming a continuous .railroad . across the continent from Eastportto Sau Francisco, a distance of very nearly 3,500. nuleq, New York, April 22.—Flour dull de clining. Wheat doU; spring declining. Corn quiet. Pork steady at 31 00. Lard doll; steam !t8|al8}. Cotton quiet 28} 28}. , Money steady, 7. Sterling 8}. Gold Liverpool, April 22.—Noon.—Cotton, opened flat; middling upland 12al2|; Or leans 12}; sales 8000 bides. Bombay ship- mens to 17th, since last report, 43,000 bales. TheDeloge. - ’*•! Louisville; April 21.—Telegrams from New York, New England and foe Canadas report very extensive rains, and the eonii- tiy almost submerged. The destruction to property reported. as. being very great. Vashington, April 19.-r~Bulloek r s pol icy forever dead. Let the press: and the people.discourage all violence: ■ -r-.-dm- i - Mil id vll,.lil»i«'.ffl©Elimifc bimro « tried. >• - - JJHL-fljHwMI, i..m i Thomas G. Simms. - ill b-.-juiu (Atlanta Erie, 20th.' Salaries of U. srHidiiterutUVorelgu Couu- i tries. <*:• tlsssMsdT The enrious may be pleased to learn that the ministers to England and France re ceive 817500 a year each; the ministers to Bnssia, Austria,Spain and Mexico, $12000 each; foe Ministers to Hayti and Liberia, 87500; foe ministers resident in Sweden, Belgium Gautamala/ 'Bogota;- Bolivia and Nicaragua, $7600^ ! -n» .TTvrro’I vjrjiiail . B^gre-ipied enifoe Mafion * Road. , Wetlefewt'Sbri aqttiitfnj{bi'i|lltb lefiae bn foe l¥ jt:tn.‘,traiii, yesterday,'from 'Atlan ta; that a hearty man was killed by a freight train’’ Ot-Forrest’s station on Monday night, while they were'in'tiibtisn—foe wheels cut ting his head open and bafllr mangling his shoulder—aqd kiflinghim instantly. -He had got npin the hnmper. between two can, for foe purpose of stealing trans portation over foe road, and as a train band wsApaasbgloverfoe: can adjusting foe bell-rope, which had got tangled, foe' ne- grosaw the train handoverfoim and at tempted to-jump, off, but the rapid mo tion of the cars tripped him tandlhdl fell with foe above result. The train was soon stopped and backed to where the accident occurred, and the body was brought down to:Jonesboro; but it could not be identi- fiedvinr Uiauanfi v bLnoU 7 sJT The MANUFAbruRE of Umbrel las.—Very Ettle has ever been written about the important branch of mannfac- turers whose name heads this article. The immense umbrella fitetory of the Wright Brothers & Co., in Philladelphia; contains in itself an epitome of oil knowledge of this subject This is the oldest house in that branch of mannfaeture in the country, and we believe, the largest in the world. This firm have recently made a valuable improvement in umbrellas by using the Lowrey’s patent process for rendering fab? rics rerpdlant and of fad color, which besides,- renders them more durable. We have i it demonstrated that apiece of umbrel la cloth, which had been subject to this process, when made into a cup form, would, hold water until it evaporated. Messrs Wright have secured the exclusive control ofthe application of this valuable patent: process to umbrellas for foe United They use also a small contrivance of their own invention^which will hereafter be attached to all their umbrellas, and Which will prevent them from turning'“ln- side out,” another disagreeable fault in foe ordinary make of goods.’—Chronicle & Sen. Medicinal Properties of Celery.— a correspondent of foe Practical Farmer gives some very interesting information abont foe beneficial effect of celery upon the inervona system. ; He says: “I have known as many men and women -too. who, from'foriou3 carries, had become so much affeoibdwith nervousness that when they stretched.out theiv hands tbey shook like aspen leaves on wiidy days!—and by a dai ly moderate ute of the blanched foot stalks of celery leaves they became ns strong and steady.in limbi”as other people. I have' known others si very nervous that foe > least annoyanoe putthemin a state > ofagi tation,«nd they were almost in constant- ilexity and feat,who-warealso effectual- urpd by, a. drily, moderate use. of blannh- m others cored by using celery for palpitation of the 1 ' heart. Everybody en gaged in labor weakening, to the nerves fowld»BeifltlciJidsilyljp h 8 season;-.and orions jg. 1 _ | it<i lL stead when not ,..in.sea- The L»|ie ] The Nashville correspondent of foe Ntiw York Times,a radical organ, writes to that paper that nine-tenths of tho Radical vo ters in East Tennessee are swum members of that secret and infamous association, “foe Union League” that this fact Has exerted amost pernicious influence over the courts and religious societies of that portion of foe State; that under foe League’s careful man ipulation foe negroes, have _been as pliant *nd manageqhje, .°4 W. ateilitKy., prganiza- tion subjected to foe longest aud severest dicipline; aud that, in many counties, it is impossible to get justice from any of the courts without meeting all the League’s.re- qrisitions and demands. Truly this is a pleasant, condition,of things for foe Radi cals to contemp’ate as foe acknowledged work of their,party where that party has so lofig held Hmitlesssway. Hard on Grant.—Tho New ; ff©rThere are said to be seventy-fiTe day schools in Atlanta, for the edneation of children. dispatch from. £t-Loris' states that foe people from. N*if, Mexico, and ar my officers from the Plains,' say they antic ipate the worst Indian war this summer rs-rsrZ’zsL'z they will make a general warfare on foe whites. Frcailicut Callaway Dying. We were pained to learn last ni"ht,tkat the condition of President Thomas H. Cal laway,was regarded as hopeless by his phy sician,. The dispatch states that he was expected to live through foe night, and probably before this announcement meets foe eye of the reader,he wilT have passed from among us.—Knoxville Press of 22nd. Macon and Brunswick Road.— Twenty additional miles of this road ha’ just been completed,and foe trains are nr running over it daily- 1 Administer foe Government, as be tered upon, on the principle of de