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A Very Important Xegal Decision.
We publish to-day one of the most im
portant decisions that the Supreme Court
of the State has ye* made. The substance
of this decision—made by, Chief Justice
Brown and concurred in by McCay—is
that thestatuteof limitations, during the
war, continued to ran agpinstyj fas, jnst
the same as if there had been no stay laics
whatever. This may be ’in accordance
with 7au>, but it is certainly a long ways
from justice. But as Judge Warner; : the
most profound lawyer on the bench, dis
sents from this decision, the presumption to
onr mind is, that it is contrary to law even.
The case was that of Nathan Chapman, of
Bartow, Plaintiff ini error, vs. Warren Akin
defendant.
~^TDRDAY~MOitNING, July 10.
Election for Congress-
men in Georgia Next Fall 1
Ihe above question has been repeatedly
propounded to us, and we frankly confess
oor inability to answer it satisfactorily. .
Would it not be well for the Demo-ratic
Executive Committee for the several Con :
gnsaoaal Districts of the State, to look in
to the law of the case and determine wheth
cr such an election can be legally held. It
is the regular time uuderthe old law has
it been changed, aud if so, to what extent?
That is the question, and it is an important
one. Under the old law, and old Consti
tution of the United States, and all former
precedent-, the commission of members of
the House ofllcpresentativcs in Congress
expired with that Congress. The 40th Con
gress expired on the Jth of March, 1869.
Has Georgia, therefore, any Representa
tives to the Xatiooal Legislature, even if
Congress would allow them to take their
A Charleston Commission Merchant.
We had the pleasure of a call on yester
day from Mr. J. N. Robson, one of the best
and most reliable of the 'merchants in
Charleston. Re has been in the same
house in that city over 20 years and his
standing, in every way, is that of a No. 1
merchant* Consignments of produce' may
be made to him with perfect safety.—See
adv.
Can’t be Beat.
The bread now made at Frank Kane’s
Bakery, has never been excelled in this
city city. Try it.'
Were not the members who were elected
in April, 18G8, elected to fill the unexpired
term of the 40th Congress, and if so, can
they hold over under the Constitution and
the laws? Section 2 of Article 1 of the Con-
stitntkm of the United States, says that the
House of Representatives shall be com
posed of members chasm evert/ second year
hy the. people of the several Stales." Sec
tion 4 of the same article declares that “the
times, places and manner of holding elec
tions for Senators and Representatives,” (in
Congress) “shall be prescribed in each
State by tl e Legislatures thereof.” The
Lsgislatu-fc of Georgia provided for such
elections to be held “on the 1st Wednes
day in October, 1861, and Menially there
after.” The new Constitution and the ord
nance of the Convention changed it to
“rues J ay after the first Monday in Novem
ber.” The Legislature of the State has
provided for no other time.
Can a member elected to the 40th Con
gress, without being chosen again by the
people, legally take his seat in the 41st
Congrees. Even if the Convention and the
Legislature of Georgia had attempted such
a thing, they could not have overridden the
Constitution of the; United States—the
paramount law of the laud.
The Code, Section 1326, says, “members
of the United States Congress are elected at
same time and place that the Governor
and members of the General Assembly are
regularly elected.” Section 1313 provides
for such elections‘-'to bo held on the first
Wednesday in October, 1861, and bienial-
ally thereafter,” and changed as hefire
stated, to “Tuesday after the first Monday
in November,” after the year 1868, by the
new Constitution. An ordnance of the
Convention, adopted March 10, 1868, pro
vides that all the officers “shall continue in
office till the regular succession provided
for after the year 1868, and their succes-
ccssots Me elected and qualified; so that
said officers shall, each of them, hold their
offices as though they were elected on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem
ber, 1868 ”
The Governor, members of the Legisla
ture and of Congress, were elected in April
for what length of time were they
elected, and when did that time begin tn run
and when does it expire ? The Code pro
vides for the election of Congressmen at the
same time that the Governor and General
Assembly are elected. The Governor and
half the Senate are elected every four
years. Congressmen must, therefore be
elected only every four years, if elected on-
'? when the Governor • and half the Senate
(which is part of the General Assembly)
are chosen. But the Constitution of the
’United States declares that Representatives
in Congress shall be chosen every two
years fay the people of the State. When
should the election, therefore, be held? r
Pay the Printer.
We have indulged quite, a number of
subscribers j until the wheat crop should
come in. Now is the time that promise
should he filled. Will you disappoint us.
We wish all who are indebted j to this office
either subscription or advertising would
come in and have a settlement. “Short
settlements make long friends.”
Turner Certainly Arrested.
H. M. Turner, negro Postmasrsr at Ma
con, waB arrested in that city last Wednes
day. In addition,to the facts which We
copy from the Telegraph, a dispatch to. the
Chronicle & Sentinel states that' several
prominent politicians, both white and col
ored, of Macon and Augusta, are impli
cated in this crime. We hope the nutter
will be thorougnly sifted and ventilated—
not particularly because Turner is .a negro,
bntbecanse there is so much corruption
among Radical po'iticians.
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Arrest of Turner, tlie Colored Post Has.
ter of Macon.
The following dispatch, or its substance,
went over the wires yesterday to Wash
ington':
, “Turner has been arrested to-day by a
Deputy United States Marshal; for coun
terfeiting. (He was not arrested before,
Painful Accident.
Mr. Isaac Hawkins was badly burned at
the Foundry lest Thursday. ’ He drew some
melted iron into a ladle that was wet and.
the iron flew up bespattering and burning
him badly.
The Convicts Gone.
The Penitentiary ccnvicts that have been
at work on the Selma, Rome & Dalton
Railroad, near this city, were all marched
off to Kingston yesterday. We presume
they are bound for the Macon & Bruns
wick road.
Election In Mississippi.
The President has issued a- proclamation
ordering an election in Missi-sippi on the
30th of November. In the submission of
the Constitution the. disfranchising and
disability clauses, also, the clause prohibi
ting the loan of the credit of the State, and
tho oath of office are aU submitted to a sep
arate vote.
Personal.—We hai a delightful call
yesterday, from Col. A. W. Reese, late ed
itor of the Macon Messenger Anderson is
a capital good fellow, any way and any
where, hut he works so elegantly in the ed-
torial harness that' we long to see him in
those traces again.
Mysterious Disappearance.
We have reliable information that a well
man mysteriously disappeaaed from
Cave Springs list Tuesday morning. He
arrived on the train at 21 o’clock that morn-,
ing, and took rooms at Pinson’s Hotel, Af
ter breakfast he enquired the way to the
Cave, and went in that direction, and up to
Thursday night, has not beep seen or heard
from, since. ■-
On Thursday a thorough search. was
made in the Cave by some of the citizens,
and diligent enquiry made in the neigh
borhood, hut nothing, in regard to his
whereabouts was elicited. His trunk was
opened, and its eontents examined, but no
clue to the stranger’s name or place of resi
dence was there found. Ho was flfigenteel
appearance^ and, though rather taciturn,
gave no evidence of mental derangement.
The matter is shrouded in complete mys
tery, and, as is quite natural, excites great
interest at Cave Springs-
' -Brady’s Family Bitters.
We puhlish in this issue a conspicuous
Advertisement of the ahove named <
ted Tonic. It is highly recommended for
Dyspepsia, General Debility, and diseases
of the Kidneys and liver. The Manufoc-
torieVmotto,” everybody takes it” is being
rapidly verified where ever theseJBittcrs
are known. They are for sale ~ v ”
Coleman & Morefield. \ ”,. - *■ ji
Suicide by a Convict
Luke Arnold, convicted of mulder in
Wilkes county, and senteneed to the Peni
tentiary for life, hung himsejf w his cc on
Thursday night last. He was rcceivi
the Penitentiary, the evening' previous, and
worked, with the other convicts, on the
railroad Thursday. He was a. negro or
very bad character, having committed one
of the most, fiendish murders that ever black
ened the criminal records of this. State. ‘
Federal TJvm, -
The arrest was made by this officer about
four o’clock yesterday evening, and it was
somewhat precipitated by the news from
Atlanta that Turner’s accomplice, Marion
or Martha Harris, had been unexpectedly
discharged on baiL Most of tbe facts up
on which the arrest was predicated have
been in the course of elaboration by the
United States police for three- weeks, and
the Telegraph was early in possession of
then., bat of course, under imperative ob
ligations of sccresy. It was of great pub-
lio interest, in several respects, that we
should refrain from betraying the slightest
knowledge or consciousness in the pretn-
ss. .
We intend now only to say that one of
the charges against Tnrner is that of coun
terfeiting the signatures to genuine bank
notes offirst National bark of New Jersey,
which notes were purloinedjfrom the Unit-
ed States. Treasmy Department, after they
had been made ready to be turned over to
the bank officers
We have been told that the case is a
very clear one. The signatures are very
inartificiaUy executed, and manifestly in
Turner’s handwriting.
Tnrner was taken for preliminaiy. exami
nation before W. C. Morrill Collector' of
Revenue for this District, and also United
States Commissioner.
The examination now going on is private
but such additional facts as may be com
municated to the public, we expect to learn
before going to press.
The Postoffice is now in the charge . of
Mr. Woodward, Special Agent, Postoffice
Department, and so ends, for the present,
and we hope for aU future time, the expe
riment of negro postmasters in Macon. The
administration has gained no glory in it,
and we are informed the Postmaster Gen
eral wrote some days ago that a new a )-
pointmect would very shortly be made,—
Let them appoint a white Georgian, of
honor, character and position.
Later.—Commissioner Morrill has
bonnd over Turner, under a bond of85,000
for his appearance to-morrow morning at 10
o'clock. The District Attorney, Col. John
Milledge, telegraphs to continue the case
till Friday, at teu o’clock, when he will be
present—Macon Telegraph.
The Campaign In Ohio.
The Democratic State Convention, of.
Ohio, assembled at Colnmhns on the 7th
inst., and on the second ballot nominated
for Governor j Gen. W. R. Rosencrans,
late Minister to Mexico, and a distinguished
officer in tlie late war.
The convention which nominated Gen.
Rosecrans declared 1st for taxing govern
ment bonds; 2d, for their payment in green
3d, .denounces a high protective tar
iff as designed only in the interest of New
England manufacture.s; 4th, protection of
the rights and interests of the laboring man
■—liberal homestead laws and grants of
public domain to aetual settlers without
cost.
The eighth resolution declared that it is
the right of each State to decide for itself
who shall possess the elective franchise
within it; that the attempt to regulate
suffrage in Ohio by means of the so-called
Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment is
subversive of the principles of the Federal
Constitution.
The tenth resolution denounces the Na
tional Banking system as one of the worst
outgrowths of the bonded debt, which un
necessarily increases, the burden of the
people $30,000,000 annually, and demands
its immediate repeal.
The Convention furthermore declares in
the eleventh resolution “that the trial and
sentence to death by mLitary commission
of citizens of Texas, not in the military or
naval service when tho civil courts were in
unobstructed exercise of their functions in
that State, and in the time of profound
leace, and the approval of that sentence by
President Grant, are violations of the most
sacred rights of American citizens guaran
teed them by tli^ Constitution, State and
federal, and deserve, and should receive
tbe earnest condemnation of every lover of
liberty and constitutional government,”
The chances of success are decidedly
good, and the defeat of the. Radical party
altogether probable.
In the gubernatorial contest in 1867, the
democratic candidate for Governor, Mr.
Thurman, was defeated hy only 2,983 votes.
Grant’s majority.in Ohio last.fall was 40.-
000, but that is no fair test. _
The prospect in Ohio is bright,
c 'ie this question, and set the pnblio mind
»t rest.
Another GoodMan Gono.—We have
de- the painful cntelligence to announce this
morning, that the beloved pastor of the
T /'.I < ?“ n S circus rider won a horse at
ot ker day, by turning tweu-
»*ve ssmersaulta in succession.
morning* — — . , _ ,,
Central Presbyterian Church, the Rey. K.
K. Porter, died last evening at 8 o clock.
The loss of this good man, wiU be severely
felt in this community.—A ( - Coust. "
15ft.
A SCALY FELLOW.
How a Nashville Married Man Courted a
Southern Girl In Memphis.
The Villi on Unmasked—Indignant Friends.
The Memphis Ledger of Saturday has
the following piece of scandal, in which a
would-be bigamist is effectually unmasked:
Some fonr months ago a pious looking
man of thirty years, or perhaps thirty-five,
but calling himself twenty-nine, came to
Memphis as a traveling agent for Fair-
hank’s scales. He hailed from Nashville,
and has an office; if we are not mistaken in
the man, not for from 77, South Market
street. He was introduced to a highly re
spectable family on Madison street, and by
his gospel-like manners soon win the con
fidence of the entire family circle, particu
larly the female portion. Daring the day
he made his headquarters at the hardware
establishment of McCombs & Co., on the
Main street. Asian agent jf Fairbanks
scales, he appeared fair enough, bnt he
turned out to be scaly enough afterward.
In the family on Madison street he met an
accomplished and charming young lady
from a distant Southern city. To this la
dy he made love from the start, and,
strange to say, she foU deeply in lore with
the smocth-tonged stranger, jnst as many
women do sometimes, and always will while
the world lasts. She declined to take any
advice, or to. doubt for a moment that he
was'not what he claimed, and had the most
honorable intentions.' In a short time
they became engaged to be married.
~ ime of the lady’s friends bad. doubts
about the character of this scales agent,
and warned her against him; hat this was
only heaping fuel npoii the fire. The fel
low wrote back to her that ho would marry
her or die, and she resolved to take at least
a quart of arsenic if she could not get the
oian of her choiey. Her friends then wrote
to Jldge Turley', ia Franklin, inquiring if
Mr. Scales Agent did not marry iu that
town once. Judge Turley replied in tbe
affirmative, and stated that be had exam
ined the records and found that Scales
Agent procured on the 9th of November,
1865, in that town, a license to marry.—
Another letter was addressed to a promi
nent railroad official in Nashville, inquir
ing whether the individual, Scales Agent,
has, or has not a wife in that'city. A tele
gram was sent at once saying, “yes; be has
a wife and child in Nashville.”
The railroad man, like most of his class,
who never do anything by halves, foUowed
the telegram by a letter setting forth the
fact that the follow had a respectaole wife
and one child, and gave some details of
minor importance.
Whether the wife of the man is the lady
he married in Franklin, we know not, for
it appears that he was married in Chic'go
in 1861, and obtained a divorce at his con
venience. How many times he was mar
ried daring the interval, is not known yec,
bnt it is likely that a man of bis fine matri
monial talents wodld not let them be dormant
long at a time, whether married or single.
The friends of the yonng lady wrote to him
that they had heard something unfavorable
about his character, and unless he conld
clear it up, they did not wish to see him at
their honse. He retnrncl to the city soon
afterward and avhided seeing any of the
family, putting np at the Overton Hotel.—
Bnt he contrived to send word to the yonng
lady that he was in the city, and she met
him at Cour* Square. From that point she
accompanied him on a long hack ride.—
While in the city he managed to meet her
several times, bnt eluded his acquaintances,
and did not even call at the honse of Mc
Combs & Co.
The yonng lady has gone to her distant
home, where we hope, for her sake, she has
some sensible, male relatives—particularly
big brother? The Matrimonial marrying
man from Wisconsin, Chicago, NaslmUe,
Franklin, and various other places too nu
merous to mention, is on the wing, writing
love letters to the deluded Southern girl.
We have omitted names lest the innocent
should suffer, but the foregoing is a plain,
nnvarnisheJ narrative of the trnth, and we
are ready to fnrnish the name of the scoun
drel, who is trying to rain an innocent
girl, to any one who is personally interest
ed—particularly to any of his wives. He
was in the Federal army, and after the
close of the war was stationed sometime at
Franklin, where he had some fine shade
tr 'es cut down to sell the wood. This fact
was reported to the authorities at Nash
ville, and he was removed, and that has not
been a healthy locality for him since. Tbe
scoundrel now denies that he was ever in
the Federal.army. Asa cloak to his black
designs, he pretends to great morality, and
claims to.he an Odd Fellow and a Ma
son. . . ■ . .
plaintiff in error, vs.
ken defendant in error. Claim
BROl
1. A fi fa levied upon real estate in 1859
unexplained, is not such presumptive evi
dence of payment, as to prevent a levy on
other property, in 1867, when the fi fo is
not dormant.
-2. Akin held a judgment dated in 1859,
against Stone. Bronson, in December,
1862, purchased the tract of land in dis
pute from Stone, bona fide, and went into
possession, and afterwards sold to Chap
man, who succeeded him in the possession,
which has been continuous from-1862 to
the present time. In 1867, Akin had his
fi fa levied on the land, and Chapman in
terposed hi3 claim. Held: that Chapman,
a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consid
eration, with continuous and uninterrupted
possesion for more than fonr years, acquir
ed title to the land, discharged from the
lieu of Akin’s judgment.
I The Supreme Coart of this State hav
ing ruled that the stay law was unconstitu
tional and void, under that ruling, the
plaintiff in fi fa was never under any legal
disability to enforce the coUection of tho
money doe on his fi fa; and as the lav, as
ruled by this court, did not restrain a levy,
the proscription did not cease to ran in fo-
vor of the bona fide purchaser, in posses
sion; and as the plaintiff was under no oth
er legal disability, to proceed with the fi fo,
the lien of the judgment njon the land
ceased to exist at the end of the fonr years
NEGRO J. P.
Emulating the liberality of Grant in ele
vating to official dignity negro stupidity and
ignorance, the,Governor of Georgia has im
posed upon Augusta a light colored repre
sentative of-tte negro persuasion, George
Snowden, as a Notary Publio and ex officio
Justice of the Peace. This appointee, se-
lectedin the 122d District, (First Ward)
as the limit of his jurisdiction, and quali
fied before Judge Levy, yes.erday. Con
stables will hear in mind that * although
they may serve papers einenating from this
modern and model court, they are hot nec
essarily returnable to tins appointee, hut
mity l?e returned to any convenient Magis
trate. Wo trust that this intimation may
be sufficient to starve out the ipstymnejit
whioh the Governor has employed . to de
grade an office which should be filled by
men of the best character and of the attain
ments adequate to the dispensation .of ■ oven
handed instice between man and'man. For
all practical good, consumate ignorance is
as much to he deployed as wilful corrup
tion in the administration of any part of
the judicial functions of Government. This
appointment reveals beyond donbt the ani
mus whioh nerves the Executive in the ex
ercise of privileges which, unfqrtnnately,
reoeive the unqualified
inteUigent men, of whatever palltioal folth.
—Constitutionalist...
The Military in Milledqeville.—
We have nojv, sojourning in our midst,
three officers and thirty mpn of the 18th
U. 8. Infantry. They are encamped un
der the cool and pleasant shade trees of
the old Court House square. They arriv
ed on last Saturday, evening, and are un
derstood to he on a tour of inspection merer
Iy; although we haye beard rumors on the
street that the principal object is to inves
tigate charges of cruel treatment of con
victs by Messrs. Grant, Alexander &Co.
Railroad contractors. We know nothin;
about the charges, whether true or false, and
merely allude to the rumor for what iti*
worth.—Federal Union.
4. Section 3525 of the Code, is not class
ed with and does not foil under the classi
fication of a statute of limitations, and its
running in favor of a bona fide purchaser,
was not suspended by the acts suspending
the running of the statute of limitations.
The right, whatever it may be of the plain
tiff in fi fo to enforce his lien on the lands
sold by the defendant-, and held in posses
sion by a bona fide purchaser, existed with
the condition annexed, that the levy be
made within four years after the commence
ment of the possession; and as the plaintiff
made no snch levy, he lost his lien by fail-,
ure to enforce it, in accordance with the
condition to wh-ch it was subject, and'with
which he never complied.
M’llAY, Judge, concurring.
Section 3525 of the Code, and the stat
ute existing prior to the Code, providing
that a bona fide purchaser, for a valuable
consideration of real property, who has
been in possession fonr years, shall-hold it,
discharged from the lien of a judgment
against the person from whom he purchased
it, are strictly, neither statutes of limitation
nor statutes, providing for the attainment
of a proscriptive right, hut conditions, im-
>osed by law, on the lien, given to the
ndgment and the plaintiff 'Cannot excuse
limselffor foiling to levy within- the fonr
years, by setting hp a disability, od> his
part, to proceed.
W ABLER J. dissenting.
Whether the possession of a bona fide
purchaser of land for fonr years, under tho
42525 section of the Code, be a presumptive
right so as not to be within the provisions
of the statute of limitations; the lien of
judgment creditor is clearly within the pro
visions of the statute of limitations, and has
been repeatedly so recognized by this
Conrt, and the question is, whether time
should ran in favor of the purchaser of the
land, subject to the plaintiff's fi fa, as
agairnt snch plaintiff, daring the time the
statute oflimitations was suspended by the
public laws of the State, or daring the
' ;imo snch plaintiff in fi fo was prohibited
by law from haying the same Held : that
the purchaser of the land conld not; hy a
fur construction of this question of the
Code and the respective statutes of this
State for including the ordinance of 1865
compute the time as running in his favor,
as against the plaintiff in fi fo, during the
time of the suspension of the Btatnte of lim
itations, or during the time the plaintiff in
fi & was prohibited by law from levying his
fi fo, to enforce this judgment lien, or when
daring tl e war, the territory where the
land was situate was in possession of the
military authorities, so that no civil pro
cess conld be executed, and the more es-
] leciaHy as the 1935th section of the Code
leclaresthe rights of creditors shaU be fa
vored by the courts, and every remedy and
facility afforded to them to detect, defeat
and annul any ^effort to defraud them of
•’ eir jnst rights.
W.T. Wofford, W. H. Pritchett for
plaintiff in error.
W. ^kin, L. E. Bleckley for defendant
in error.
1869.
The Confederacy a De Facto Government.
Judge Theard,of theFourh District Conrt
Louisiana has recently rendered a decision,
in which he still adheres to the opinions
enunciated by him in 1865, that the Con
federacy wasa de facto governa.ent. The
particulars may be briefly stated: In Jan-
nary, 1863, in the parish of De Soto, Louis
iana, the administrators of tbe succession of
Hamilton Sloan sold to J. J. Green forty-
trhee bales of cotton on private sale. This
cotton was subsequently pnrehared by John
A. Stevenson, for account of tbe Louisiana
State Bank, and in July,1865, the sale was
approved by Major General Herron, U. 8.
army, who ordered the delivery of the eot-
ton to Stevenson. The administrators in
his suit allege that Stevenson has no legal
right to said cotton, because the sale to
Green was without any jnd : cial authority,
and because the price was paid in Confed-
ate money, and they pray that the cotton,or
value threof, may be returned to them. The
judge decides that this salt is untenable,for
the following reasons:
J 1. Administrators cannot take advantage
of their own wrongs. They cannot allege
their own tnrpitnde. A subsequent admin
istrator might complain of the wrongful
actsof his predecessor, hut not the gnilty
party himself.
2. The sale is otherwise valid, because
it was made' under a de facto govern
ment.
3. The Confederate notes given in pay
ment were the only currency at the time,
.recognized by tbe de facto government and
by the people. The plaintiffs, besides, in
failing to retnra the identical notes, show
that they have been benefited to that ex
tent. -
4. The delivery of the cotton took place
by virtue of an order from Major General
Herron, the military commander, acting in
the -lame of the government. That order
is a fall and complete ratification of the
sale.
And for these reasons plaintiff’s claim is
rejected with costs.
NEW SERIES—No
Tbe Grand Jury o! Richmond County on the
; Abuse of the Pardoning Power.
On yesterday morning the Grand Jury
for the county of Richmond had read
among their special presentation* a very
867ere attack on his Exprcsselency, Gov
ernor Bollock, for his recent abuse of the
pardoning power in commuting the sen
tences of the Broodbacker murderers, in
Chatham county, from death to one years’
imprisonment in the Peuitentiary. When
the presentments had been read, Judge
Gibson suggested that it should not go oa
the minute* of the court, on the ground
that the jurisdiction of the Grand Jury of
Richmond did not extend as far as Chath
am county, and asked the jury to retire
to theirroom and consider the matter a lit
tle before.coming to a final decision. The
jury complied with the request, and return
ed in a few minutes with the objectionable
presentment stricken out, but with another
one equnUy severe substituted in its stead
In this presentment, the jury states that
it is very desirable that the county should
be rid of the desperadoes and criminals
in that direction unavailing- ’ That uudpr
this state of affairs the Grand Jury meets
with no encouragement to do their duty, as
pointed out to them, by the Judge, and
make presentments against the perpetra
tor! of crimes; for when the guilty parties
are tried, convicted and punished, Execu
tive clemency 4s oertain to defeat the sen
tence of the law. That this being the case
jt seems to the Grand Jury that it is hard-
iy necessary or right to tax the citizens of
the county so heavily for the support of the
courts, when the action of the latter, with
regard to the punishment of criniiaals is so
often rendered null and void by tho Gov
ernor of the State.— Chronicle & Sentinel.
Large Confirmation In the CalhoUc Church
On last Sunday morning there was con
firmation service m s St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
i'i this city, and an*unusually large num
ber of persons confirmed. The rites_ of
confirmation were administered by Right
Reverend Augustine Yerot, of Savannah,
Bishop of the Diocese, to two hundred and
fifty persons, fifty of whom were converts
from other churches.—Chron. de Sqi.
A Touching Story.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia,
at a meeting at Alexandria, for the benefit
of the Orphan Asylum and Free School of
that city, related the following anecdote :
“A poor little boy, on a cold night, with
no home nor roof to shelter his head, no
paternal or maternal guardian or guide to
protect or guide him on his way, reached
at nightfall the home of a wealty planter,
who took him in, and sent him on his way
with a blessing. These kind attentions
cheered his heart and inspired him with
fresh courage to battle with the obstacles
of life. Years rolled round, Providence
led him on, and he reached the legal pro
fession/ his host had died, the comorants
that prey on the snbstance of a man had
formed a conspiracy to get from the wic ow
her estate. She sent for the nearest coun
sel to commit her cause to him, and that
counsel proved to be the orphan hoy long
before welcomed and entertained by her de
ceased hnsjiand. I
The stimn]as of a warm and tenacious
gratitude was now added to the ordinary
motive connected with the profession. He
undertook her cause with a will not easy to
he resisted, he gained it; the widow’s^ es
tate was secured to her in perpetuity,”
and Mr. Stephens added, with an _ empha
sis of emotion that sent an electric thrill
throughout the house. “ That boy stands
before you."
The Bainbridge Argus,of Saturday says,
that Creswell, the galvanized rebel, has ap
pointed Lewis Pleasant, a bright mulatto,
Route Agent for this end of the A. & _G-
R. R. Said negro took the position' and
made his first trip on Monday last.
Responsibibity op Sureties.—In the
United States Conrt there were tried yes
terday a number of cases which involve
the qnestion of the responsibility of sureties
on official bonds. As tbe qnestion is one
of a public interest wo give the facts. Af
ter the close of the war G. L. Ketch was
Dinted postmaster at Aiken, S. C-, and
Messrs. Wm. Gregg and Nathaniel O.
-Tilton were sureties on his official bond. In
December, 1866, the soreties notified the
Government that tbe postmaster was mis
applying the funds, and that they would
no longer be responsible for his official good
conduct Keach was, however, not remov
ed until some time after, when it was dis
covered that he was in default to the
amount of 8697. Action was brought by
the-Goverament against him and against
his sureties. Under the charge of the
Judge the jury returned a verdict against
the sureties for $290, with interest from
the 31st of December, 1866, upon the
ground that the notification of the defend
ants and the fact that the Government
took no notice of it at the time, released
the soreties from responsibility after that
time. Tbe District Attorney gave notice
of an appeal—Charleston Courier.
A VOICE FROM AFRICA.
Advice to the Colored People of ike Sooth.
Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 3,1869.
I_ have lived now in this home of the
African nearly twenty years, but I have
not forgotten the old scenes in Virginia,
nor the kindness of many white friends in
former days. 1 wish it was in my power
to return, for a time, that my voice might
be heard by my colored brethren of the
Southern States.
I am anxious for their fate. As I sit
here, on the shores of this continent, filled
with a native black population, and look
across the great waters over your continent
filled with white men, I cannot but be fear-
fill in regard to the fatnre of the few mil
lions of people of my own blood in the
Sonth, now left to their own resources. I
see a tide of white men pouring over those
fields which have heretofore fed them; a
tide coming from the overflowing popula
tion of the Northern States and Europe. I
remember how that tide, when slow and
feeble, swept off the native Indians; an d
now, as it rushes in its might, what is to
shield the transplanted African from its
waves? lean think of hat one hope for
him. ; -
If, as a body, the colored people of the
South should identity themselves with the
white people, who now occupy and hold the
soil, gain their affection and confidence, and
become useful members of their communi
ties, they may float above the torrent and
still dwell in peace among the associations
of the past; otherwise they must, in the
lapse of years, he bnried beneath it, or
washed, like drift wood, into the burning
zone around the' Equator. And yet the oc
casional letters and papers we receive here
from the United States tell ns that political
demagogues from the North, peddling^ poli
tics for their own profit, are exciting onr
race to hostility towards the whites. If
they shall become the dopes of snch emis
saries their fate is sealed. The stattered
white men on thb continent of Africa,
might as well array themselves against the
native tribes of black men, with the expec
tation of meeting anytLing but destruction
in the pursuit of snch folly.
I feel some confidence that the moroin-
iligent portion of the colored people will
not be led astray by adventurers who will
will nse them while they reap any personal
profit from the pretended'/friendship, and
desert them when they please. Bnt the
mass have not had time to learn lessons of
political wisdom, and the prospect fills me
with sadness. If I conld but make them
hear me, I wonld appeal to them to make
common cause with the white people of
their own land, to take advice and counsel
from snch men as have been known to them
through their lives for their high charac
ter and honesty and intelligence, to seek
the welfare of the people on whom they
most depend through all time for their own
prosperity, to do no act which shall give to
the white population just cause for enmity,
and thus indemnifying themselves with the
commomties in which they dwell, obtain
for themselves the mist powerful of allies
in the straggle against-those .forces which
threaten their very existence. Say this
to them for me. S. W W.
At Bainbridge, on Wednesday evening,
while the jailor was giving supper to the
prisoners, he was thrown down and before
he conld recover himself,three of the“birds”'
had made good their escape.
Negro Lawyers.
It is calculated, says the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette,
that the Howard University” will, daring
the current year, tnrn ont eighty negro
lawyers, presumed to be intended for the
Southern and Western markets. Many of
them received-' diplomas,"at the current
examination. “The law school” (says the
negro professor, Langston,) “is a labor of
love” on all sides, “is the only one of the
kind in the world,” and is part and parcel
of‘ Gen. Howard's magnificent plan for the
education of the(colored yontt of America
in the high walks of learning.” Mr Lang
ston, (colored,) is one of the law professors,
as I have intimated, A. G. Riddle (white)
the other. Altogether this institution is
unique indeed. Scholars are admitted
pell-mell -without regard to age, sex race,
color,qualifications or “previous condition."
The inteUigent white of nine or nineteen,
and the ignorant Congo feminine of seven
or seventy are equally entitled to admission
and so with the other sex. Bnt “higher
walks of learning” are positively aimed at,
and in .some of the more abstruse sciences,
it is said, considerable progress has already
been made. Altogether the people of this
model metropolis are in a fair way of
becoming the admiration of aU civiliza
tion!
Redemption op Mutilated Fraction
AJ. Currency.—The following are the reg
ulations adopted by the Treasury Depart
ment in Tegard to the redemption of muti
lated fractional enrresey :
“Defaced fractional notes, if whole, are
not consideredos mutilated when presented
for redemption ; nor is an evidently acci
dental diminntion reducing the note by
not more than one-tenth of its size regarded
as a- mutilation.
“1. Fragments o a note will not be re
deemed unless it shaU be clearly evident
that they constitute one half or more of one
original note; in which case a note, howev
er mutilated, will be redeemed in propor
tion to the whole note, reckoning by fifths,
except three-cent notes, which wiU be reck
oned by thirds.
“2. Mutilations less than one-tenth, will
be disregarded, unless fraudulent; bnt any
mutilation which destroys more than one-
tenth of the original note wfll reduce the
redemption value, or, if a three-cent note,
by one-third its original value.
‘•3. Fragments of a three-eent note will
not he redeemed, unless snch fragments con-
stitnte folly two-thirds of the note in its
original form,
“4. Mutilated notes presented for redemp
tion most he in sums not less than 83 of
their original value.”
SmaU amounts, as abo\ e, can be sent by
mail, postage free, directed to “Treasurer of
the United States, Washington, D. C.” Re
mittances by mail to the Treasurer are inva
riably at the risk of the owner. Money inten
ded for redemption should be sealed or tied np
in paper of suitable strength and-plainly
marked on the outside with the owner’s
name and fall address, and with the amount
enclosed ; tbepackage should then beseal-
ed up in an envelope, together with a
letter of advice, written on not less than a
half sheet of commercial note-paper, stating
the name and foil post office address of the
owner, the valoe ol the remittance, and the
manner in which returns shall he made.
BftJDr. James Green, of Macon, Ga.,
says that he considers Prof. Darby’s Proph
ylactic Fluid infinitely superior to the pure
French liquor of Labareque, which opin
ion is being daily confirmed hy the best
physicians in the South,
Jasper (be Banner County.
Tho Madison is ir formed that M. E. J.
Walton, of Shady Dale, Jasper * county,
grew wheat this year at the most extraor
dinary rate of 115 bushels from one acre.
Messrs. Hean and Bullard threshed out,
measured the wheat and vouch for this
statement. We therefore pronounce Jasper
the ‘Banner County.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg, July 14.—The Committee
on Resolntions made their report. The
resolutions declared against the exercise of
doubtful constitutional powers; that Penn
sylvania wonld |never give np self-govern
ment; that the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment should go before the people;
that the negro should not have the ballot;
that finances need reform; that labor re
forms should be encouraged; that the whole
reconstruction policy tends to destroy re
publican government and establish tyranny;
that onr soldiers should not be forgotten;
that onr sympathies should be given to na
tions straggling for liberty; and that onr
system of taxation is burdensome and should
be done away with. The report was unani
mously accepted.
Hancock’s name w*s received with im
mense applause. A letter from Gen. Han'
cock, dated May 21st, positively prohibit
ing the use of has name, was read. Several
declared their determination to vote for
him in spite of it.
First Ballot, Am Packer 58; Gen. W. S.
Hancock 22; oar W. Cam; -fftir Ftt.
McCandles 5. Second bsllot, Pecker 68;
Cass 48, Hancock 19; Packer was declared
the nominee.
Galyes.on, July 13.—Specials from
Columbus, Texas, say that the Colorado
river is higher than ever known before.
The water rose 47 feet and 8 inches, but is
now falling slowly. The whole valley is
entirely nnder water, and the crops destroy
ed. The railroad between Alleyton and
Colnmhns was washed away for several
hundred yards,and badly damaged between
Eagle Lake and Alleyton. A number of
persons were drowned below Colnmhns.
Alleyton is six feet nnder water, and dead
bodies have been seen floating past, there.
The water cut off Dnnovant’a - and other
plantations at Eagle Lake, and it
is supposed that the occupants have per
ished.
The water is falling slowly. At La-
Grange the water is still fonr feet on the
pahlic'square. It is rumored that Bastrop
and Webberville is washed away and many
lives lost. The latter townissitnated on
lower lands than Laarange. The Brazoe is
very high- and is still rising.
Gov. Bullock of Georgia.
The most outrageous slander that has
yet teen perpetrated upon the people of
Georgia is the conduct of Gov. BnDbck in
surrounding his residence in Atlanta, day
and night, with a miliiary guard, thereby
attempting (and alas, to a considerable ex
tent, successful) to convey to the federal au
thorities in Washington and the people of
the North the idea that the life of the Gov
eraor of the State is not even safe at the
Capital of the State. ' • _
Gov. Bollock and every man of sense in
Georgia well knows that he, Bollock, is
not in the least danger, and that although
he stinks in the nostrils of all decent peo
ple in the State, yet there is eo one more
1’ree from molestation and harm than he.—
Well do the people of Georgia know that:
the assasrinatipn or taking. off of Bullock
WQuld bring down upon their devoted heads
the hottest wrath of the Radical party,
which would doubtless flood.the State with
solders, and at once inaugurate a reign of
terror forhei people, and that bastiles would
be erected in different portions of the State
and be filled with her best people; hence,
re say, that common prndence and the
lives and liberty of many of her people, all
demand of the people of Georgia to keep
Bollock safe and harmless, and thatnot on-
ly will he not be molested, but that sacri
fices, were they necessary, would be made
to protect him.
He knows these things, and well knows
that he is safer in Georgia than he would
be in Washington City, yet he has the au
dacity and devilish malignity to slander the
people of Georgia and to prejudice them to
tho Northern people by surrounding hjs
cowardcarcass with a military guaid. This
guard is Eimply a part of the plan some time
since inaugurated to overturn the civil au
thorities and remit the Staft back to the
control of federal officers, with its attendant
train of arbitrary illegal arrests, drumhead
conrU martial, dungeons, sweat boxes, etc.,
though partially foiled, he still persists in
his diabolical and monstrous attempts.
Let him go on, for the day will yet come
when ho will meet with just retribution.—
Selma. Ala., rimes.
From the Mobile Tribune.
The Negro Doomed*
We are temporarily in need of the ne
gro’s laber. Let us, as soon as possible, do
away with such a need. It can be done by
the importation of Asiatics. The latter
are coming, without any effort on our part
to bring them. The exodus from-China
has already begun. They are coning to
the Sonth in numbers that will render, in
comparison with them, the German migra
tion to the great West an insignificant af
fair.
The disposition of the negro to imitate
the follies of the white race—without being
able to emulate their virtues —renders his
extermination from the 'North American
continent as certain as his existence. If he
had been contented to be a negro as God
made him, and not striven to cast his skin
and be a white man—exercising the high
est privileges of white men, the law-mak
ing power—his fatnre, as a race, might
have been assured. As it is, he is doomed.
Every Chinaman that steps into a South
ern cotton field, does so as the executioner
of a negro. It is with pain and sorrow that
we see such a fate befalling the negro, but
he has brought it on himself. He does not
show even the manliness and independence
of an Indian—of getting out of the way in
time. _
J&*The Journeyman House-carpenter’s
Association of Washington have amended
their Constitution ro that no negro eitpenter
can become a member.
Growing roees on apple trees is the latest
trinmph of Dlinois genius.
GALVESTON.
Galveston, July 4.—To-day the cars
were sent from Harrisburg, Texas with
boats to rescue the snfferers by the flood in
the Colorado Valley, who had taken refuge
od the tree tops in Eagle Lake bottom,and
who had been two days in that condition.
Itis said the water is two feet deep over
the telegraph poles in Eagle Lake bot
tom.
Markets.
New York, July 15.-—Stocks strong.
Money sharp at 7 Sterling 9J. Goldl
36f.
Floor drooping. Wheat dull, favors buy
ers Corn a shade firmer. Fork doll; new
mess 32 25. Laid nominal. Cotton quiet
at34Ja34i.
London, July 16 noon.
The Bank of England has reduced the
rate of interest to 3 per cent.
Liverpool, July 15. noon. —■ Cot
ton steady ; upland 12£al2i ; Orleans 13a
13i; sales 10,000 bales.
Death From Sun Stroke.—About
four o’clock last Saturday afternoon, a yonng
man named Denniss O'Sullivan, about twen
ty-nine years of age, while engaged in
moving lumber in the yard of the Atlantic
and Golf Railroad, was prostrated by the
heat of the sun. He was removed to his
residence, corner of Congress and Haber
sham streets, where he died at half paBt
one o'clock Sunday morning,—Savannah
Republican.
j@“Atthe recent Alnmni dinner at
Washington College, the following toast
was given: “The development of the mate
rial lesourccs of the South is the one great
necessity of the age. God bless the men
who are engaged in the noble work.” Com
modore M. F. Maury, in responding
used the following strong words,
and there is a world of truth in them: “Di
rect trade.and emigration are the two great
resources of the Sonth. ‘Muscle’is capital,
one strong hearty emigrant being worth,
computed in money, one thousand dollars
in the way of capital. It only needs for
the Sonth to let her wants he known on
the other side, her resources; etc., and soon
nothing will be left undone to spring the
tide of immigration to her rich fields and
fertile valley.”
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
A Bold aud Undisguised Proposition.
A citizen of an adjoining county sends
us, says the Nashville Banner, the follow
ing circular letter, which he received the,
other day. Wc make no doubt but that
hundreds of the same sort have been sent
to this part of the country :
Dear Sir—Reposing implicit confidence
in you, we desire to call your attention to
the fact that we have on hand ’.bout 885-
COO in 50 cent stamps, the very beet that
were ever turned out. They were struck
from a die that was abstracted from the
Treasury Department, and are as mach
like the genuine as one drop of water is
like another. They cannot poreibly be de
tected hy bankers or experts.
The stamp is rather shorter than the
genuine, as oar paper cutter is not to the
point, and the bron* work on the backs of
ours migb^be improved. Bnt these dif
ferences are immaterial, and would not be
noticed by one person in 100,000. We
will send you a stamp for 25 cents, and if 1
you wish to go in we will supply them t#
you at 820 per 8100, 8200 per 1,000. We ,
cannot furnish you anything larger or smal i
ler, and at the same time insure your safe- ;
t-7. You will never in the world be de-
tested in passing these. Always send mon
ey by express, and we will send the “stuff 7 I
by express, then nothing will be loet, ana I
everything will work smoothly. Address I
plainly, DIilyA Co., 148, Fulton,St NY. f
(Strictly confidential.)
I9»A Young man of Memphis has ap-|
peared in St. Louis to claim the reward of
one hundred dollars advertised for news or
missing girl. He married her the other |
day after a successful elopement.
humorous person describes Grant*
administration as one-third to-bacco, *
two-thirds negroes.
ttr-Vietor Hugo ought to be the
who laughs. He gets 81 30 a line fori
best story.