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DWINELL, Proprietor. tEfiA fd AdnrcistratoM, Electors or !,]a«f LlIld ^nnired by Uwtobe holifoon JSliuu- «c/month, between the jTlni Teesdaj' t „ and three in the M» » f le “ I?, 1 Cenrt Honse in the county ,n tic pStt ftjKXof 1 ’pSonal property must Xotices of ^ a nner, through a publu SfcM fcJ* JgJSS Creditors, of an estate, ,wof® fo r leave to. .uMisled for l® 0 ™ 011 of Administration, Guar- CiUtions fo.T lettors uiahod S 0 days-fbr 'i“ !hip . ,Sou Admiuist?ation, three' “»=‘hs- |i*raissi°- ,t0U A Guardianship, 40 days. * fr TheTecloseure »f Mortgages must e E publishe<l m0,1 *j ly f P ® r t bo a fun space of three fishing lost pavers. ^ “ troin Executors or ‘“' h! 7ir^re g b nd has been given by administrators, where ,, three months, ledeceai* for t -,, ‘S, a ya be continued aecord- F S Mhetgal requimnieots, unless oth- live of ten lines or less S3 00 ** ^ro".«o» fm emission from 6 ^ V ( m>fafTppStfoa fo-rTismissio^oni ^ ^ JjSn^J^d55S?| 3 00 Sale ofLand,persquare-~~“-^2;_ 2 00 SSBS»SSA~~ r *“ !3sdSn!C93£ft! 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. • ‘ 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.