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■WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION."
VOLUME XXIII.
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ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 9, 1869.
NEW SERIES-NO 45.
M. DWINELL,
Proprietor.
Sales of k anl r p? u , r ed by lawto.be held on
^eaca month, between the
a, first Tuesday!v on ftnd three in the
hours of to” JJ e ‘Court House in the county in
StoP^ali 1 'roust*!*£>"» in a P ub '
litjuetto fA^bofpSonal property must
Notice 5 of J“ " j„ n er, through a public gaz-
(, c given m a w sale day.
alteicdzjs P 1 ;*" ttod creditors of an estate,
■.. Promptly Paid.
The Cherokee Masonic Aid • Associa
tion, on the 1st inst., paid over to the heirs
of Daniel D. Johnson, one of their mem
bers, who fell dead while threshing wheat
in the field, in Oglethorpe county, on the
25th ult., four hundred and eighty-one dol-
—the amonnt at that time dne to members
of Class C, of that Association.
The fact that Mr. Jchnroc had paid in
only ten dollars, and yet his family prompt
ly received the above named amount, shows
the great advantage of the Institution.
•rttarfWfitaSS.wffl be made to the
, cave t ° sell laud must be
‘.ublisbed f’ rt *°®° nl of Administration, Guar-
Citations f» r ‘ e ‘“ r ^ publisbod 3b days-for
Hansbip vd ministrotioii, three months—
lijmUsio-n Guardianship, 40 .ays.
for dismivU'P^ , 0 r Mortgages must
Balts for the fo ™ “ or fuUr months—for cs-
e publishes, mouth y space of three
rilbhing lost rom Exeeotors or
' Mth! .^or°"iPwh«eCd ha. been given by
idomutrafom, _ iM ,t three months.
i,ed?cearc J , for the tut P continncd accord-
Pipjlications vrilll J niremonts , unless oth-
■—^iTfsassSSI#
Sheriff’s Mer s*g« “•‘ 00
TalCoU, r Cl °l4S 5 C ofAdminSratioa 3 00
Citation, for _ ( Q ulr diunship 3 00
for dismission from - g
|!! 4 00
gniraiinihip,. ... 6 00
rJe'c^ShiK^peky. 10 days......... 2 00
K«trav Notice?, oU<lfl}-j . __
Rifle Stolen.
Maj. Jacob Boss hud a rifle gnn stolen a
•few days since. Information in regard-to
it or the thief will be thankfully received—
See adr.
^IXfuKHAY MORNING, July 3.
A Heroic Boy,
Quite a sensation was created in the lower
en d of Broad Street on last Thursdry after
noon, b)- the startling rumor that Mr.
fobersc.'n, wbo was engaged in digging a
well for the City Sexton, on Cemetery Hill,
had fallen iut» the well, and was probably
tilled. A number of gentlemen went with
all possible speed to the scene of excite
ment, to know the truth of the rumor, and
to render what service they could in extri
cating the unfortunate victim.
They t'ouud a man lying in the bottom of
swell between twenty and thirty feet deep,
in which gas had accumulated until it could
he plainly seen, like a blue smoke, from the
top, but no one could tell whether the man
wa6 alive or not. All felt impressed with
the idea that something had to be done im
mediately, hut there were three dangers star
ing t'ew in the face. In the first place, • it
was necessary lor some one who had never
bcca in a well before, to go down; and then
the certain presence and danger of the gas,
and the last and not the least danger, was
from the blast that had just been prepared,
and fire throwu in. There was one present
who was ready fur the emergency—a
little boy—son of Mr. R., 12 or 13 years
old. lie begged Col. -J It. Towers, who
was one of the first to arrive, and who ren
dered very effectual and timely aid, to let
him down. This was done immediately
by lying a rope around the boy’s
body. The boy carried a rope
in his hand, which lie tied around
his father's body, just below his arms, and
hoth lather and son were drawn out—the
t nrmer in a perfect helpless aod insensible
Mnflition; in fact, the presence of life was
scarcely visible. But he begun gradually
to revive, and in an hour or two he was re
stored to consciousness, and was able to set
up.
Mr. Roberson went into the well to see
why the fire he threw in did not- explode
the blast that had been prepared. He was
immediately overcome by the gas, and call
ed to his little son to have him drawn out.
Mr. Stafford, the City Sexton, was at work
a few hundred yards off, and ran as fist as
he was able to the relief of the little boy,
hut when he got there. Mr. R. was hardly
able to speak. The tub was let down, Mr.
A got on, and they drew him 8 or 10 feet
from the bottom, when he fainted and fell
hack. Rat as above stated, he was snatched
from the jaws of death by the presence of
mind and the heroic exertions of his glori-
ouslittle son, whose name is Arthur Rob
erson .
A Foolish' Contest.—Two Germans in
Knoxville, recently drank Larger Bear for
championship. One drank a little over six-
teen glasses and the other eighteen. Time
one hour—result both drank, speechless
and motionless, lying on the floor.
Good Cotton.—We have received from
James-M. Pryor of Polk Co., a cotton
stock containing one full bloom and 27 weU
formed squares. It is 21 feet high Who
can heat it?
Who Wants European Laborers.
An arrangement is being made by which
the planters in this section can secure as
many laborers for next year as they may
desire, from Belgium and Holland. These
laborers are generally sol er, industrious
and frugal, and will pr ibnbly, in a few
years, becriue land owners, and make good
and usefnl citizens.
A gentleman proposes to leave here for
Euiope about the 1st of August, lor the
purpose of obtaining laborers, and desires
that parties wishing this help, to give him
their orders. See adv.
Chinese Labor for tUe South.
1 he experiment of employing Chinese
laborers in California has resulted in a suc
cess that labor there being both cheap and
reliable. A movement is now being made
■a Memphis to bring Chinese laborers into
the South iu large numbers. A conven-
tfon for the purpose of furthering this ob
ject will be he'd in that city on the 13th
inst. The princip -1 Chinese importer Ka-
apmauschoop, of San Francisco, will he
there, and the Chamber of Commerce in
cites each county, city and town, in the
-Miith, to rend delegates.
f he great object of the Convention is to
mature a plan of eooporatiou, and thus, if
possib'e, secure the influx of a large
amount of cheap and reliable labor The
object is a good one, and well deserves the
intention of the agricultural interests.
[Communicated.
Hogs at Large.
Mr. Editor :
Dear Sir—All who read your interest-
g journal must know that yon have ev
er felt an anxions solicitude for the im
provement and prosperity of Rome, as also
for the whole State and people of Georgia.
One thing, however, yon and our city Fath
ers have overlooked—I allude to the many
hogs which infest our streets, which should
be considered a perfect nuisance in every
respectable community, besides the dam
age they do to property, etc. They nn-
dermino buildings, root under garden
fences and destroy onr vegetables, and that
in the night season.
They roll in the gutters, run on the side
walk in Broad street, and beianb ladies’
fine dresses with mad. They throw down
aged and decrepit people, and make them a
laughing stock for the vulgar. I have, my
self, seen a large hog upset an infant’s car
riage.—the child thrown ont and badly
hurt.' Yon recommend a fair. Should
such a thing take place in onr city, and the
swinish multitudes are not placed where
they Ehonld be, they wiil cause much eon-
fusion, and leave an unfavorable impres
sion on the minds of strangers, as to the
taste and refinement of Modern Rome.—-
perched as it may be on seven hills. I
submit to your consideration, and, if yon
think well of it, please correct as yon may
think proper, and give it a place in yonr
excellent paper.
One thing 1 very much wish, viz: that
some enterprising gentleman wonld put up
a hath house, on each river, one for ladies,'
the other for gentlemen. They wonld
prove a luxury during the summer months,
and be very conducive to health. They
need not be made expensive, and I am sure
a moderate charge would pay well. If you
think such an enterprise wonld answer
here, please make the suggestion.
H.M.
Look Oat. .
Spurious $50 and $100 bills on the First
National Bank of New Jersey,one in circu
lation in Augusta. They were stolen from
the Treasury at Washington without the
signatures of the President and Cashier,
though impressions from the gennine
plates. The numbers of the notes stolen
range as follows: Upper numbers from
19,609 to 19688; lower numbers from 671
to 750. _
Election or Officers of tbs Lunatic Asylum
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Lu
natic Asylum, last week, for the election
of officess of the Institnti.n, all the old of
ficers were retained except E. J. White,
Steward, and Treasurer, who has been suc
ceeded by M. R. Bell, our present Ordina-
ry, and Mr. J. G. Fowler, Assistant Stew
ard, succeeded by Col. James Green, _ for
mer Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary.
—-Recorder, 29/h.
Price of Wheat at Different Markets
Our last news from the North West is
fiated June 30th. At that time wheat was
quoted at St. Louis atjl lOal 15; Chica-
e e §l 20; Cincinnati,^$1 20 and Nash-:
'■file, on July 1st, new red $1 00, and new
white 1 05
In the Rome market a good article of
good new red, readily commands SI 50.—
Ihe latest reports from all quarters, .con
firm previous statement that a very largo
er op has nearly everywhere been made.
t^Wc have seen Darby’s Prophylactic
uid very successfully applied to the treat
ment of chrome sores.
A Subscriber.
The World, in announcing the appoint
ment of General Daniel E. Butterfield as
Assistant Treasurer at New York, .in place
o' H. H. Van Dyck, resigned^ says Mr
Butterfied waslone of the principal parties
in getting up the subscription to purchase
Grant’a house in Washington. Stock in
the great gift enterprise is still good. Divi
dends are large and frequent
Chinese Workmen.
An agent of the Wills Valley, the new
railroad being constructed southwest from
Chattanooga, Tenn;, loft Nashville on Mon
day on hisway to San Francisco to employ
three thousand Chinamen and bring them
to work on that road. The subject of
bringing Chinamen to take the place of ne
groes on plantations and in the construe
tion or public works is receiving favorabl-
consideration, and the opinion fs becoming
f-encral that in a few years labor in the South
which has heretofore been done by negiocs
will be performed entirely by Chinamen.-
Knoxville Press.
Masonic Fe
sate College at Csvlngtou—
Comm eneement.
Mr. Editor—I ask space in yonr ex
cellent paper to say that the recent Com
mencement Exercises of the Gcoigia Ma-
sanic Female College, at Covington, were a
decided success. The Commencement Ser
mon was preached on Sunday, 20th of June
by Rev. E. Stead, a Baptist Minister,
was not so fortunate as to hear the dis
course, but have bsen informed that it was
such a sermon as a cultivated Christian
Minister might be expected to deliver be
fore a cultivated andience, upon such an
occasion.
On Monday night the young ladies of
the Sophomore Class read selections for
prizes. I was much impressed with the ev
idence these yonng ladies gave of thorough
training in the important and grossly neg
lected accomplishment of reading. Really,
Mr. editor, the reading of some of these
carefully trained pupils, was remarkably
good.
On Tuesday morning we had a very fine
exhibition from the junior class. On
Tuesday afternoon Rev A. G. Haygood de
livered t he annual address before the Orr
and Butler Societies. He talked very ear'
nestly to the girls upon the tone sphere
and high duties of Southern women in
these uvil days. “He gave thanks that
Southern society coaid. not in n thousand
years have produced such a prodigy as Ca
dy Stanton, nor have brought to the light
ef astonished day, such a spectacle to men
and angels as Miss Dr Mary Walker, and
—“all the people said amen 1”
Tuesday night we had a superb musical
entertainment, conducted by the accom
plished teachers of music—Mrs. Virginia
Conyers and Miss Florida Floyd.
Wednesday morning a very large andi
ence assembled to witness the closing ex-
crc : ses of the commencement. Diplomas
were granted to fiftcin young ladies from
different parts of the State. Owing to the
noise incident to so large a crowd, it is to
he feared that very few peop’e heard the
Compositions of these young ladies. I was
so fortunate as to be near enough to hear
every word, and I do not hesitate to pay
that these graduating compositions were
very highly creditable to the beautiful girls
wbo read them. President Orr delivered
most masterly baccalaureate address,
showing that bo thoroughly understands
the duties of an instructor of girls.
I believe that this is the only Female
College under the special care of the Ma
sonic Fraternity in the South. It is emi
nently worthy cf patronage. Having very
recently examined a number of catalogues
and circulars of colleges, North and South,I
have come to the oonclnsion that there
not the least reason for sending onr chil
dren to our enemies to be edneated. When
Georgians pass by Franklin College and
E nory and Mercer, to send their sons to
Yale, and deny patronage to the old “Wes
leyan” at Macon, and to the Masonie Fe
male College at Covington, and send their
daughters Northward, why, sir, it smells of
8HODY.” Visitor.
A Diabolical Plot Exposed.
From the Atlanta Near Era.]
WniTES vuxe, Harris Co., Ga., V
June 20,1869. j
Dr. Bard: I am a Methodist preacher,
belong to the mother church. I occasion-
ly travel over the fonr adjoining counties.
The coloed people are doing better than
they have done since freedom. . We live in
peape with the white folks. Bnt I heard
of a darkey, the other day, who was travel
ing through the country, telling the color
ed people that a white man in Atlanta told
him to go through the country and tell
all the darkeys that if they could get np a
fight with the white folks, they oonld get the
State ont of the Union, and Bollock wonld
give us forty acres of land and a mule. They
say this fellow told them not to hit first.
If they did, it wonld ruin everything.
Bnt he said we had lived with white folks
long enough to know how ' o make them
mad, and, when they hit, for ns to pitch
I want you to warn all such folks to
stay ont of Harris county, if they know
whatis good for them. We are in the Uni
on, and want to stay there. I want my race to
hold office, if the people give it to them,
if they are qualified for it. I want to see
them sit on the jury. And I want peace,
too. We have got that in onr section, and
beleive Gen. Grant will see to it that we
get. onr rights, I believe more than that;
[ believe that in' less than two years the
whites here will be as willing for ns to have
it as the President is himself. Why, sir,
they are helping >us now, with onr church
es and with our schools. I don’t know how
the white folks do in other places, but I
know there has been a mighty change
through here.
* . * * * *
Frank Joseph.
Election in Virginia.
The election in Virginia comes ofl July
6th. Walker will he elected beyond
doubt.
Wbat about those 5,000 Copies oftho De
cision!
Who pays for the five thousand extra copies
of the Supreme Coart Decision, on the eli-
gility of negroes to civil office? They were
ordered to he printed by G overner Bullock, at
the office of his Democratic organ in this-
city. Will there he a warrant drawn upon
the Treasurer in payment for this little
job ?—Or will it be paid out of money al
ready drawn from the State funds ? If by
warrant upon the Treasurer, under what
particular act of the Legislatme can the
Treasurer legally cash snch a warrant.
Now, we bel'cve there is not a paper pub
lished in Georgia that did not publish this
decision. All the reading people of the
State Lave read it ■; and those who cannot
read have heard, and all know the nature
and effect of that decision.—At. Bra.
BSJ-The administration at Washington
hfis sided with the Wells faction in Virgin
ia and the Stokes faction in Tennessee. _
We expected nothing else from* it.—
Wherever it is a question of - decency and
right the administration mustier sc be in
opposition. The official that eonld saddle
Turner upon a community, after the ven
tilation of his character that was made, of
course, must endorse the party that is con-,
genial, and that is best fitted to further his
purposes.—At. Constitution.
5®*Prentice thinks the Radicals have
no cause to complain of Grant’s appointing
incompetent men to office, since they set the
example last November.
From the Chronicle k Sentinel. -
The Legal Status of tile Expelled Xegio
Members of the Legislature.
Letter from Judge Junius □ llycr—All i
answerable Argument.
Athens, June £4,1869
Gen. A. 11. Wright vr-beaKl Wfri
My Dear Sir—I received by yester
day’s mail your letter referring “to the re
cent decision of the Supreme Court of this
State in relation to the clligibility of ne
groes to hold office,” and asking my ’ opin
ion upon the effect of this decision upon the
status of the expelled negro members of the
present Legislature.
At yonr request, General, I willingly
give you'my opinion upon the question s'
ted. In doing.su I think it best not
crowd the columns of yonr paper by
elaborate argument, but to content myself
with a.simple statement of my opinion, with
such reasons and remarks as may be nec
essary to make it clear and intelligible..
I have all my life been a law-abiding
man, and have made the-principle of obe
dience to the laws of my country a part of
my religion and a matter of conscience, and
while I regard the Supreme Court of the
State as the proper arbiter of. all questions
which come within its exclusive jurisdic
tion, yet I am clear and decided in\,the
opinion that the decision referred to in yonr
letter does not effect the power and duty of
each Here of the General Assembly to de
termine the right of the negro to seats in
their respective bodies.
There is no court in this world which is
clothed with power or jurisdiction to jndge
of the election returns and qualifications of
tbe members of the General Assembly of
the State of Georgia.
The Constitution expressly devolves that
high dnty upon each House to determine
for itself Ana when the Constitution de-.
elares that “each House shall judge of the
election returns and qualifications of its
members,’’ it means that each House shall
pass its own judgment according' to the
view taken by it of the law of the case be
fore it. It does not mean that each House
shall endeavor to make'fts views conform
to the supposed opinions of other depart
ments of the government, bnt, like every
other judicial tribunal, eaoh House is bound
by the Constitution to announce its own
judgment according to its own opinion of
the law. And this judgment, when an
nounced—is final. From it there is no ap
peal. The power is not given to reverse
their own decisions, and in the case before
ns, in my judgment, the negroes expelled
by the two Houses of the General Assem
bly cannot be reseated according to law.—
With them the case is res adjudicata, and
no tribnnal.has jurisdiction further to act
upon it. 'A
It may be said that the Xegi
ought to follow the decision of the Supreme
Court as a high authoritative precedent. I
don’t think so. Tbe question of precedent
don’t apply in this case. It is expressly
excluded. Fur the Constitution declares
that the jurisdiction of the two Houses
shall be exclusive over the election returns
and qualifications ofthe members of each.
Each for itself independent of each oth
er, and indepehdent of every other tribu
nal It would be equivolent to abrogating
that salatary clause of the Constitution to
adopt the rule that the two Houses of the
General Assembly onght to follow the rul
ings of the Supreme Court in cases sup
posed to he analogous. It wonld reduce
that clear, comprehensive clause to this
absurdity that “the two Houses shall judge
of the election returns and qualifications of
their members except where they have
reason to suppose that the Supreme Court
wonld differ from them, and in all snch
they shall decide according to what
they think wonli probably be the opinion
of the Supreme Court.” For it will be re
membered that the Supreme Court have
not decided that negroes are elligible to
seats in the .Legislature, and never can so
decide, for the question never can be
brought before it.
It has simply derided that a negro was
elligible to bq Clerk of the Superior Court
of Chatham county, and it is inferred that
two members ofthe Court are of opinion
that negroes are elligible to . the Legisla
ture. And this is the authority which we
are called on to respect, when it is urged
that every cautions judicial tribunal will
always respect the adjudications of the
same questions by other tribunals. When
we come to view this derision in the light
as authority, and to consider how much
weight should be given to it, then we meet
{he important fact that it was made by a
divided court—and the two Houses of the
General .Assembly may well inquire, and
they ought to inquire (if they refer to the
decision at all as authority) whethor Judge
Warner, the dissenting Ju ; ge, is not entitled
to more weight and his opinion, as a mere
matter of legal authority, entitled more to-
spect by aff careful, conscientious tribunals
than both tho other members of the conrt
together. In making this point, I mean ho
disrespect to Judge Brown and McCay.—-
It is a fact well known that in Georgia, on
a point of law. Judge Warner’s opinion
would weigh down half the bench and bar
of the State.
If precedent is to govern this question
we may well inquire why the Supreme
Court ventured to disregard the high au
thority of the two Houses ofthe General
Assembly, who w«re clothed in the Con
stitution with jurisdiction to try and deter
mine the question before them ? Why did
not the Supreme Court infer that the Len-
ate and House were of opinion that' under
the lavs ofGeorgia a negro could not hold
office and give effect to what they suppos
ed to he an authority in point ?
Here we have two decisions made upon
wbat most persons consider analagous cases
by two distinct tribunals,- independent of
each other, and both having jurisdictian to
try the question made in the case before
each. And strange to say the tribunal
which rendered the first decision is called
upon to reverse its own deliberate judg
ment and adopt the decision of the ether
tribunal. Can they do this without virtu
al admission of their own intellectual infe
riority ?
I am aware that I have gone somewhat
beyond the precise point made in your letter
which is confined to the status of tbe cx-
lelled negro members of the present Legis-
ature. I am of opinion that as to them
the decision ofthe two Houses is final and
irrevocable, and they cannot be reseated
without a violation of the law. I am fur.
ther of opinion that in all future cases the
Constitntio i makes it the duty of each
House ofthe General Assembly to judge
or itself of the election returns and quali
fications of its members. They are bound
to pas3 their own judgment. They are not
permitted to adopt the judgment of other
department of the government.
General, there are questions of policy
and political results involved in the con
templated aotion of the Senate and House
of Representatives that I do not wish - to
discuss. I greatly regret that there is
reason to fear that our cruel conquerors,
after compelling the members of the Leg
islature to swear that they will judge ofthe
e’ectiou returns and qualifications cf their
members, will then punish the people of
Georgia because they will not violate* their
oaths by making a decision contrary to
their judgment. Let the Legislature do
what they believe to be right and let us all
cheerfully abide the consequences.
Junius Hillter.
Rome—The Masonic Celebration, etc.
The following complimentary notice we
clip from the editorial correspondence of
the Dalton Uitizen ofthe 1st inst:
We left our post a day ortwo last week
for the purpose of takiDg a brief respite
from our arduous editorial 'abors. Dur
ing our absence wp made it convenient to
stop ov r at Rome on the 24th to witness
the Masonic Celebration on that day. We
found this beautiful and wide-awake little
city among the hills entertaining a goodly
numberoi tie “mystic brethren,”and_alive
with excitement consequent npon the ap
proaching festivities.
Though not a -member of the brother
hood, we were-oevertheless most cordially
and pressingly invited to the City Hall to
listen to the oration of onr venerable fel
low townsman, Rev. H. C. Carter, and io
partake of the collation of good things at
the Court House in the evening.
The address of the aged orator was one
of the best we ever-heard for the beauty of
its dietion and inatehiessness of its imagery
and pathos. AJ1 were delighted with this
rare literary feast, especially the Fraternity,
many of whom pronounced it a very able Ma
sonic address.
The tables were beautifully decorated
and bountifully spread with rare daiuties
and rich luxuries. The most fastidious ep
icure could not have found fault with the
finely prepared substantiate, the delic : ons
cakos and lncions fruits and confectiona
ries. Indeed, we never feasted at a richer
or more beautiful hanqnet, at least seven
hundred partaking-of the good things pre
pared by the generous hearted Romanites.
In all our peregrinations we have never
met more hospitable and social people than
the dwelleisof our fair sister city. The
polite and elegant courtesies extended ns
upon this festive occasion by tho “fair wo
men and brave men” there assembled, fol
ly evinced the refined hospitality and good
breeding which existed among them.
Since we visited Rome, last October,
many new, substantial and imposihg brick
store houses and beautiful residences have
gone np, and the spirit of improvement still
goef on with unabated vigor, there being
several millions of brick engaged and mak
ing fn the vicinity of the place for the
erection of additional business and dwelling
houses. The Messrs. Notle are erecting,
in connection with their commodious and
well appointed Foundry, a Rolling mill,
which will, when completed, be one of the
largest establishments of the kind in the
South. Truly Rome is a wide awake place,
and if onr people had half the energy that
her inhabitants passess, Dalton would, with
her many natural and superior advantages,
ere long go far ahead of her in prosperity
and commercial importance. Onr people
mnst awaken from their lethargic sleep, if
they wonld not have the “seven hilled
city” overshadow Dalton.
LETTER FROM ALEXANDER H. STE
PHENS TO A FRIEND IN' THIS CITY.
Ills Opinion ofthe PoliticalSituatiou--The
Work to Which lhc Remainder of His
Lifcl3 to be DcTotcd.
Cheap Freights.
The New Orleans Picayune hears of a
shipment of flour from St Paul, Minnesso-
ta, to New York, down the Mississippi and
via New Orleans at $105 per barrel. The
railroads running east out of Chicago that
have hereto'ore had a monoply of that busi
ness are beginning to quake . under such
facts, bnt the grain growers of the West
are exceedingly jubilant thereat Like
people elsewhere they know what it
costs to fall into the hands of monopo
lies.
Heavy Life Insurance.
A man in Chicago, by the name of Drake
baker, had for some months had a pre
sentment that he was going to die, and that
he most abandon the baking business if he
wonld live. He came home one day and
laid himself down on the sofa and died.—
His life was insured for nearly $150,000.
Among companies known to be concerned
are the Charter Oak, $10,000, Jdna Life
$10,000, Connecticut Mutual $18,000—
all of Hartford, Connecticut; and the Equi
table 40,000, and Northwestern $20,000.
BgkJ3ome one in the Editor’s drawer of
“Harper’s Monthly” says:—“Levi. Rock
well, of East Windsor Connecticut, is a
gentleman who seems to have had certain
notions relative to the expenditures requi
site for the comfortable maintenance of his
household that differed from the views of
hiis spouse Julia. Julia, having decided
upon making sundry little purchases that
Levi calculated he could not and would
not afford, and deeming it his duty to ap
prise the public that he went npon the
cashplai, announced the fact to the pub
lic in the folia wing stanja:
“Jnlia,my wife, has grown quite rude,
She has left me in a lonesome mood;
She has left my hoard,
She has took my bed,
She has gave away my meat and bread;
She has left me in spite of friends and
church,
She has carried with her all my shirts.
Now ye who read this paper,
Since she has cut this reckless caper,
will not pay one single fraction
For any debts of her contraction.”
SSrA carious incident is related of a
Theater in Saxony. Daring tho perform
ance of Hamlet, when the melanoholly
prince soliloquized : *
“Bnt that the dread of something after
death.
The undiscovered country from whose
bonrn
No raveller returns,”
A country feller in the gallery exclaim
ed, “Stupid ! did’nt you see yonr fathers’
spirit last night ? Where do you think
he-came from ?”
A Georgia Patriarch.
The following announcement appeals in
tho Valdosta Times:
“Died at his residence in Clinch county,
Ga., on the 8th of April last, Samuel Reg*
ister,agcd.83 years and 9 months. Ho was
by occupation a farmer—a useful man be
loved by his friends and respected by all. He
had seven sons and seven danghters—one
hundred and twenty grandchildren—end
one hundred and fifty-five great grand
children, making in the aggregate an inter
esting family of two hundred and eighty-
one souls.”
t^rPaper peticoats are now sold in Lon
don at six pense e».ch. - Shoes are made of
the same material.
Liberty Hall,
Crawfordsvilll, Ga., June 13.
31 r Dear Sir :. , Yonr very kind and
highly appreciated favor of the 6th inst.
was received .yesterday Allow me to re
turn my thanks for it. I am improving
slowly, very slowly, however, from my hart
some four ni inths or more ago. I can now
sit up part oftho day, but can neither stand
nor v alk yet without aid of some sort. I
have, notwithstanding this affliction, resum
ed work on the second volume ofthe “Con
stitutional View of the Late War Botween
the States.” I agree with you in styling
it the worst and most > culpable that ever
took place on earth. I greatly fear, too, that
it will, in its ultimate consequences, prove
to be tho most disastrous one that ever
occnred to the principles of constitutional
liberty. Onr Constitution, as made by the
fathers, was one of the most wonderfal po
litical aeheivements ever attained by genius
and patriotism. Had its principles been ad
hered to, this late terrible war never would
have occurred, and the only hope now for
tho present and fatnre of the country is to
bring back the Federal administration to
the trne principles of the Constitution.
This can only be doDe by a virtuous, intelli-
ligent and patriotic people.
When bad men conspire to impose their
usurpations “outside” the Constitution, good
men everywhere must combine to keep all
snch men ont of power. This can only be
done by the publication of troths and by
awaking in the minds of the people the
sense of the dangers which threaten them,
and arousing them to fatnre action before
it is too late. The only proper remedy for
all existing evils and the greater ones which
appear in the future is at the ballot
box.
The great object with me in the remnant
of my days is to do ail in my power towards
the inculcation of snch truths and princi
ples as arc essential for tho maintenance of
onr institutions as handed down irom the
fathers. To this coarse the fatnre of my
life is devoted. And notwithstanding all
that is said and'has beon said about the re
bellion and the disloyalty of the rebels, etc.,
I know of one test of true loyalty in this
country, and that is loyalty to the princi
ples of the Constitution of the United States.
In this, and in answering devotion to them,
I yield to no man that ever breathed the
vital air of Heaven
I can say no more now, bnt repeat my
thanks for yonr letter, and send yon my
kindest regard and best wishes.
Yours truly!
Allexander H. Stephens.
New Tori: World, 22d.
of the Supreme Court legally affect iu aay
way the action ofthe two' homm lit tfce
premises. It can lave no binding or obfig-
atory effect whatever upon lltfnt or fu
ture action of tbe houses of the General
Assembly upon the question involved, for
by the constitution, as stated above, each
house is the sokaud exclusive judge of ^he Police have advices of the departure
ol a schooner with a lot of horses aboard.
Tbe Legal Status of tbe Expelled Negro
Members of (bo Legislature.
WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHRONICLE
A SENTINEL.
LETTER FROM HON.
PHENS.
A. H. STE-
LlBERTY HALL,
Crawfordville, Ga., Juuo 29,1869.
Gen. W. A. Right, Chronicle ifc Sentinel
Office, Augusta, Ga:
Dear Sir :—Your letter of the 21st
insant was duly received, bnt it found me in
worse condition physically than I have been
for several weeks. This, with other pressing
correspondence, has prevented u_e from
giving yon my opinion upon the the ques
tion propounded sooner.
I most now be brief. Indeed there is
no necessity for any extended views. The
argument' is . already exhausted by you,
your neighbor of the Constitutionalist, the
Constitution at Atlanta, the letter of Judge
Fleming, and the communication of Tolly
in your paper, some days ago, to say noth
ing of the labors and productions of oth-
But in what I have to say, it is prop
er to premise by stating that 1 beleive tbe
decision of the Supreme Conrt on the ques
tion of the negro eligibility to office in this
State to be in accordance with the law and
Constitution which were their guide. Had
I been on the Bench I should have come
to the same conclusion under the same law
and Constitution, that a majority of the
Court did, though not exactly by the same
process-of reasoning pursued by these learn
ed Judges. The result of my judgment,
however, would have been the same.
I thought the two Houses of our Gener
al Assembly committed an error in dedd-
that those members who had been elec-
and returned to their ref pective bodies
with an eigth or more of African blood,
were thereby disqualified to hold seats in
the Legislature under the law and Con
stitution of the State os they now stand.
But it was a question which they alone—
each House for - itself—had the right and
power under the Constitution to adjudicate
and determine. By the Constitution of
tho State, each House is made tho sole jndge
to decide npon election returns and qualifi
cations of its members. This question of
eligibility and qualification to hold office
on the part of this class of persons, who are
elevated to the si tus of citizenship by the
present Constitution of the State, I knew
was one not free irom donht,one on which
able and trne men might and did differ.
Therefore, while I thought the decision
was erroneous, I also thought that all
charges against these Legislative bodies up
on the grounds that their judgement had
been made from captious and factious mo
tives were altogether unjust.
This now clearly appears from the able
dissentient opinion of Jndge Warner, an
eminent jurist ofthe Republican.party, who
still maintains, after all the discussion since
had, that the decision of the Houses was
right. Mcn'on both sides, thorefore, should
learn to be more charitable in their "opin
ions of tho motives of men in the discharge
of public duties.
Bnt your question to me is, what effect
this decision of tho Supreme Court now ren
dered,can have upon the cases of those
members, who w'ere decided by the respect
ive Houses of the Legislature, not to he
qualified to hold scats therein? Will it be to
reseat the members, or are they legally en
titled to be reseated thereby? To this there
can be but one legal and judicial answer.
That is, no! These cases have been decid
ed by the only tribunal having constitu
tional jurisdiction over them, and having
been decided they cannot be again opened
even by tbe Houses who decided them.
Their judgment after being finally render
ed cannot be again taken up or rovers d by
themselves,any more than the Supreme
Court itself can go back to the docket of
*ts own judgments when rendered to,the un
settling of the rights of the parties therein
adjudicated. Much less can this judgment
this question so far as membership of their
respective bodies is concerned for all time
to come,or so long as the constitution shall
remain as it is on that point._ No change,
it is presumed, will. ever be made in itia
this particular, for it is strict conformity
with that universal law in all representative
governments whenever and wherever es
tablished, cither civil or ecclesiastical, by
which tho solo power to decide absolutely
upon the qualifications of the members of
the Legislative bodies is and has been,with
out exception I believe,vested in those bod
ies. From their decision there is no appeal
to any other tribunal; and from the very
nature or the subject there cannot properly
be. This power, like all other delegated
powers, has often been very grossly abased
in this as well as in other counties. It has
been grossly abused repeatedly, perhaps by
one house or the other of the Legislature,
in every State of the Union, as it has un-*
questionably often been'most grossly abus
ed by Congess. Its gross abases in the
British Parliament are well known by stu
dents of history. Still this arrangement in
distribution of the powers of Government
is the oDly one, or the best one,yet discov-
covered for keepingseparate, distinct and
perfectly independent of each other the
three great Departments, to-wit:the Exe
cutive, J ndiciary and Legislature. Mon
strous as the doetrine seems to some, yet it
has come down to us stamped with the wis
dom of our ancestors after the experience
of centuries
This sole power to decide upon the elec
tion, returns and disqualifications of the
members o each House which is vested in
it by tbe Coastitution.is, however, by no
means an unlimited power, Because there
is no appeal from its exercise,this by no
means justifies a capricious or illegal de.
cision under it. It. is a power of great trust
to bo exercised as all other jndical powers
are. Each House is constituted a judge for
the purpose—this Court so constituted is to
hear and decide both the law and the facts
in each case as it comes before them. First,
to hear the fac'ls and then apply the Jaw
to them. In forming their judgment npon
the facts, they are to be govered by the same
general j rmciples which govern all other,
courts in arriving at truth,right and jostico.
Their decisions when [made in any case
stand as the decisions of all other courts,
from which no appeal or writ of error lies
This is the law and the case.
Bnt how far members of the Legislature
might very properly be influenced (in decid
ing doubfol questions of law involved io-tbe
qualifications of those elected, by the judg
ment of the highest judioial trubunal in
the State npon the same question in all
other offices of the State, is a very different
question. My opinion is that in all doubt
ful questions, or where their own convic
tions are not both clear and ^strong, they
should be influenced, bat not otherwise.
The two Houses of onr General Assenihl;
at the last session, I hare been informed
concurred in a resolution submitting this
qnestiou as one on which they had doubts
to the Supreme Conrt,with a pledge to con
form to the detoision of that Conrt in their
action. Howhis is, I do not know, bnt if
my inferma- tion is correct^t'certainly re
lieves them of all imputation of improper or
factions motives in their first action. The
effect of th* decision now rendered under
that resoln tion, would by a requirement of
them in all fnturo like cases which may
come beforo them to decide, in accordance
with the principle established by the judg
ment ofthe Supreme Court. This is all
the fulfillment of the pledge that they can
legally and con stitutional render. This,
I think, the most the same Judges who
made * this decision wonld, if inquired of,
pronounce to be a right view of the) sub
ject. .
Yours most respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephen?.
District Columbia.
Washington, Jaly 1.—The three Cu
ba* crafts captured Is New Fork harbor,
oootoined only one hundred and fifty men.
The maie expedition is aadonbtely far to
The ho. sea will probably perish for tbe want
of hay aboard.
Banks after consulting with Cubans visit
ed the President, and Rawlins. Banks
thinks the Cnbans will obtain an early in
dependence, and that the Government
wonld declare them billilgerents before
many weeks.
Yesterday’s Express has the following
regarding the money panic:
It has leaked ont, to-day, that above five
million dollars of greenbacks are locked np
by parties who are manipulating the money
market, in order to affect prices generally.
The present distress in the money market
conld never have been reached, at this sea
son, but for the remarkable sesistaaee from
the Treasury Department. Wall street
bas locked up five millions. Bontwell has
locked up nearly thirty millions.
New York.
New York, June 29.—During tbe past
two days, late borrowers, in order to make
their accounts at bank, bare been forced
to pay as high as half of one per cent,
iuterest for the use of funds over night.
Yesterday the demand continued until after
fonr o’clock, some of the banks having to
remain open to accommodate customers
who were tardy in making up their balan
ces; the interest paid for one day, wasat
the rate of one hundred and eighty per cent
per annum.
IMPORTANT CASE-
Decision in the Gold Contract Case.
Baltimore, June 18.—In the suit of
Abell & Co., ofthe Baltimore San. against
the Chesapeake Bank of Baltimore, to re
cover $3,000 in gold, deposited in 1861,
the jury rendered a verdict this morning
awarding the plaintiff $3,000 in goli, with
$909 50 interest, also in gold.
Memphis, Jane 30. —The storm this af
ternoon unroofed and otherwise injured
some twenty buildings. In various portions
of the city it blew down chimneys. A lady
and three men are reported to have been
drowned while crossing the river in a
skiff.
Markets.
New York, July 1.—Stocks strong.
Money quiet at 7, with J commission. Ster
ling 9}. Gold 1 37i.
Floor 5al0 cents better, on shipping
grades. Wheat laSo. better. Corn a
shade better. Pork 32 12}. Lard dolL
Cotton quiet, firm at 34}.
Liverpool, July 1.—Cotton a shade
firmer; uplands 12}al2}; Orleans 12|al2};
sales 12 000 bales.
SIcmorlal Volume Of Hon. Howell Cobb.
We have seen some of the proof sheets
of the memorial volume of Gen. Cobb, now
sing through the press of J. B. Lippin-
cott & Co., of Philadelphia, and edited by
our townsman, Rev. S Boykin. Judging
a appearances, and from what the edi
tor tells ns will be the character of tbe
Volume we doubt not that the book will
be alike oreditabe to the publishers and to
the lamented dead.
It will be gotten np in Lippincott’s best
style, in large, clear type, elegantly bound
and enriched by two capital steel engrav
ings cf Gen. Cobb, one of which is from a
photograph taken just previous to his death
As yet the publishers have not announced
the size and price ofthe volume; bnt those
items will be given in due time.
The contents ofthe volume will be varied
and interesting, and will be composed of the
addresses delivered in honor of General
Cobb at Atheos and Macon; of the ser
mons delivered at the funeral; the able
sketch by Hon. E. A. Nisbet; an interest
ing communication concerning tbe last mo
ments of Gen Cobb, by Bishop Beckwith,
and various interesting communications
from distinguished individuate—all volun
tary tributes from friendly hearts.
The proceedings of tbe bar, in varirous
parts of the State, are given, and all is
thrown together in a manner that makes
the volume one continued whole.
Orders for tbe book may be sent to S.
Boykin,* Maooo, Ga.,*and if any particular
style of binding is desired that may be sta
ted.—J/aeon Telegraph.
Tbe Augusta PMtoSce.
From undoubted authority, we learn
that the fight over the Augusta Poet mas
tership be'ween Blodgett and Bryant, has
at last terminated and that victory has
again perched itself on the banner of Sko-
hegan. The war between the rival* has
been conducted outside the State of Geor
gia and the field of conflict has been within
thewalte ot the department of Washington.
It appears that the Post Master General,
Cresswell, was a strong supporter of the
Little Perjurer, and promised the latter
that he shonld receive the appointment as
soon as Grant returned to the city—the
President having been absent from Wash
ington for tbe past few weeks. I! honune
propose mat's Dicn Dispose. Thera is ma
ny a slip 'twixt the cap and the lip. When
Grant returned a few days since and the
Postmaster General urged upon him the
appointment of his favorite, the President
informed him that be wonld not give the
position to Blodgett, and that he Wished
the commission given to Bryant. This
command has been obeyed, and Bryant
will arrive here to day or to-morrow and
take charge ofthe office.—Chron. 27th.
90%. A North Carolina mother, forty
years of age has her twentj-aeeond child
in her arms.
Challenges Renter
Duel.
to Fight a
Knoxville, Tenn., June 30.
Special to the Republican Banner.
At Clinton, to-day, Stokes challenged
Senter to fight a duel. In his speech he
said he had a wife and children, bnt wonld j
insist on Senter’s meeting him after the
election.
Senter told him that he wished to settle
the affair withont delay. Bnt Stokes re
sponded that there wonld be time enongh
after the election.
Fine Wheat.
Col. Joel A. Billups has threshed ont 31
bushels of wheat this season—the product
one bushel. He expended about $5 in en
riching material—cotton seed. This boats ,
th'e brag wheat growers of Athens, when
we take into consideration the large sum ex- j
deqded by them in the purchase of fertili
zers, and iu the labor bestowed in th e prep- ,
■ration of grounds. Col. B.’s entire crop j
was'extra good.—Madison Journal.
A Quo Waur vnto.— We learn that a I
quo warranto was issued by Jndge John D
Pops yesterday, directing Thomas Spencer j
to show by what authority he is exercising (
the functions of Justice of the Peaoe in the
1,026th District. The 20th of July is set f
down for a hearing of the case. Messrs. i|
Collier & Hoyt, L. E. Bleckley, and Can- l
dler and Hill, represent the claims of Judge
W. M. Bntt, who Whs elected Justice of j’
the Peace for that district by a large major
ity. The Governor exercising judicial pow- j
ers refused to commission Jndge Bntt and,
appointed Spencer. The Govereor claim*
that Judge Bntt is disqualified from having
filled offices before the war, although he has
commissioned others as Justices of tbe Peace
and Notaries Public who labor under the
very same disqualification. The case will
be an exceedingly interesting* one.—At.
Constitution.
Manufaetare or Draining Pipes,
At Ne. 1 Milledgeville and Gordan nil-;
road, mere commonly known as Stevens’
Mills,we caw the other day person* engaged
in the mannfactnre from the clay of that
section, inexhanstable quantities of which
are to be found there, piping suited fort
draining of buildings, sewerage and under fl
drainage of tends. Mr. Henry Stevens,who t
is one of the most enterprising men we,j
have, has commenced this manufacture,
is under the direction of a gentleman
came from New Jersey for the pan
They are now preparing about seven nan-.
dred feet per day of eight'ornine inoh pipe,'
The furnace for burning it is eompleb
When it in finished Mr. Stevens will
mate tbe cost and fin a price upon it
is confident he will be able to sell it
cheaper rate than it can be imported,
are glad to see this manufaetare introda
in Georgia, and hope it will be eno
by the people.—Macon Tel.
^They have a two headed and
legged negro girl in Chicago, and are m
ing a great ado about her. The
headed and two legged negroes are ct
excitement and trouble enough. I
Sambos and Dinahs are mining upon
double-headaded and doable limbed, it
hard to imagine what will become of u*.
•^Dentists who use Darby’s Prophy
lactic Fluid praise its dissinfeeting virt
in the strongest terms, and they ought
know something abcut bad smells.
ia-The only way to he a gentleman i*
have the feelings of one; to be #lnv J
above others in sentiment rather than 1
ation, and to let the benevolenee nf
heart be manifested in the general <
and affability of the