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Newspaper Page TextVol. LI. - R _ ;MI_ O IR-M jE &: S O 2NT 3 EDITORS and proprietors. fer.iD—> -1.DD per annum, in Advance. . u v euTISINU—Per square of ten lines, eacli rtion, $ 1 '>0. Merchants and others forall 1 a j ants over g> 25, twenty-five per cent, off llgal advertising. 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Wicefor the sale of personal property must, be situated. t,- oropci., “ ... • i n .r-hese sales must be given in a public ice ot ^ . ,, , c eiveii inlike manner 10 days previous to sale day. , debtors and creditors of an estate must also be pu NjnCeaL ° mblished 40 days. cation will be made to the ^ J11 °?qrdLiary tor leave to sell laud, must be io mouths. Courtot jobushe ot lyUers 0 f Administration, Guai- o..,must be published 30days—for dis Citations unship, & mtlilysix months; ■ dismissiontrornguardianshi , for foreclosure of Mortgages must be v 'i i inthlu for four months—tor estabush- pubhshed space of three months- i«* lost ! ' Executors or Adminis- iur0,,,1 fire biid h*8 been given by the de- full space of three months. Charge, ;?i»l)p square of tea lines for each insertion. S ns will always be continued accord . , ,, a ,1 ministration, mor> ' IS|,)U ,u ’ -ardiansbip, 40 days. Publication the 1 e „al requirements, unless oth MILLED GEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1870. JOHN HARIG No. 4. P f * r* S a (1 d SAVANNAH, GA., WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IN Fine Families, FRENCH CONFECTIONERY, Chotohides, Frutts, Nuts, Syrups and Cordials.—Foreign and Domestic loijs and Fancy Goods.— Tin and Mechanical Toys, Chi na and Wax Dulls and Doll Heads. China Vases and Ornaments, RUBBER GOODS. Accordeous and other Musical Instru merits, Cutlery, Pocket-Books, Work-Boxes, Dressing Cases, Fancy Baskets, Willow- Ware,. Fire-Works, Sec., See., See. V A line Tuft’s Arctic. Soda Fountain with finest Fruit Syrups. £/*- Orders from the Country -promptly j Sjy attended to and. solicited. Qur motto, is, FAIR DEALING a/ld GOOD GOODS. I Corner of Broughton &. Whitaker Streets, SAVANNAH, BA. g Drit y'.T.t r»nrtTrpto u !J.lA A » J_J J.{_KJ JL JLXJU JCl>A. 14 Third Street, Macon, Georgia. 3>/L aimfaoturers or I e s, Harness, Collars .A. Xu 3 Wholesale and XUctnil Dealers IN Sadalory, Hardware, Tools die- Harness, Skirting, Lace, Sole, Upper, -Belting, Patent and Enameled Leather, Enameled Cloths, Calf and Lining Skins. Our Saddles, Harness &c.,jare of our own Man ufacture ; and we refer to those who have used pur work, concerning its merits; To Manufacturers, we would say : Our stock of Leather and other Goods in our line, is Large, and wo aim to please ill Price as well as Quality. Wc offer a great variety of Whips, from which the most fastidious cannot fail to make a selec tion. As also, Horseand Saddle Blankets, Bug gy Mats, Ac. THE CHANGE of schedule. geseral SUPERISTESDENT’S office, 1 ATLANTIC & Gl'LF, R. R. COMPANY, , Savannah, January 7, lb70. ) AN - AND AFTER SUNDAY, the 9th instant, w Passenger Trains ou this Road will run as foUmvs: night EPXPK eSS TRAIN. Leave Savannah every day at..- — -4.30 P M Arrive at Jesup junction, M &. B _ Arrive at Live Oak every day . j A M Arrive at Jacksonville every day 7.02 A il Arrive at Tallahassee every day < A M Arrive at Quincy every day A iA Arrive at Bainbridge Mondays ex- ^ ^ ^ Leave Bainbridge, Sundays excepted-9 30 P M Leave Quincy every day ,, ^ Leave Tallahassee every day Tf Leave Jacksonville everyday f 1 Leave Live Oak every day if” f Leave Jesup every day... FA, f M Arrive at Savannah everyday 10.50 A M MACON A BRUNSWICK ACCOMMODATION train. Leave Savannah, Sundays except- 2.JO P M Arrive at Jesups Sundays except* ..5.00 PM Arrive at Brunswick daily at 6.20 i M Leave Macon daily at *•; A M Leave Jesup daily at £ rt Arrive at Savannah daily at 9.30 P M On Sunday this Train will leave Savannah at 7 15 A. M., connecting with Trains for Macon i\ Brunswick, aud connecting with trains from Ma con and Brunswick will arrive at Savannah at 9,30 PM. DAY TRAIN. Leave Savannah, Sundays except ed at — 1 - - - Arrive at Jesups, Sundays except- . 7.15 A M .10.45 A M Arrive at Live Oak, Sundays ex cepted at Arrive at Alacon duly at Leave Live Oak, Sundays except- . 7.00 P M . 7 50 P M . 6.00 A M Leave Jesups, Sundays except- . 2.16 P M Arrive at Savannah .Sundays ex cepted at . 5.35 P M Pig Passengers for Macon take 7.1 o A M train from Savannah, leaving daily. Passengers for Brunswick take 2.10 P M. train from Savannah. Passengers leaving Macon at, 8 30 A 51 connect at Jesup with express train for Florida and M est- ern Division, and with train for Savannah, arriv ing at 9.30 I J M . Passengers from Brunswick connect at Jesup with train for Savannah, arriving at 5 35 P M except on Sundays, when it arrives at 9 30 P. M at Jesup "ith Express Train for Savannah, arriving at 10 50 A M. Connect at Macon with Train for Atlanta, leav ing at'.(.HOP M. SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA R- R- TRAIM. Leave Tliomasville Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8.00 A M Arrive at Pelham, Tuesdays Thursdays aud Sat urdays at 9.55 A M Leave Pelham, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days at ......... .3 45 P M Ar iive atfhomaVvYlle',* Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.00 P M H. S. HAINES, General Superintendent. Jaunuary 18, 1870 ^ tp Jo tf & BAULK OLGAS .£0. WINNERS Op THE PAKIS EXPOSITION MEDAL, Who have uniformly been awarded HIGHEST HONORS At Industrial Exhibit ions IN THIS COUNTRY, So that their work is the acknovrletlfed standard of excellence in its department, respectfully an nounce that; with’ ‘extended ami perfected 'facili ties, and by the exclusive use ot recent improve ments, they are now .producing yen more perfect Organs than ever before, in great Variety as to style aud price, adapted to all public and private uses; for Drawing Rooms, Lfbntfies, "Music Rooms, Concert Halls, Lodges. Churches. Sbtjoois, &c . in plain and elegant cases, ail ot which they are enabled by their unequalled facilities for man ufacture to sell at .prices of inferior work. The recent improvements in these Organs.have so increased their usefulness and popularity that they are unquestionably the most desirable in struments obtainable for family 'use, as well as Churches, Schools, &c., while the prices at which they can be afforded ($50 to $L0b0) adapt them to the means and requirements of nil elasses.— They are equally adapted to secular and sacred music, are elegant as furniture, occupy little space, are not liable to get out of order, (not requiring tuning once where a pianoforte is tuned twenty times) are very durable, and easy to learn to piay upon. The M. & II. Organ Co. are now selling FOUR OCTAVE OKGAN8 for $50 each; FIVE OC TAVE ORGANS, FIVE STOPS, uiihtwo sets of VIBRATORS for $123, and other styles at proportionate rates. For testimony to the superiority of their Organs, the Mason X Hamlin Organ Co respectfully 're fer to the musical profession generally ; a majori ty of the most prominent musicians in the coun try, with many of eminence in Lun.pe, having given public testimony that the Mason & Hamlin Organs excel all others. A circular containing this testimony in full will be sent free to any one desiring it, also a descrip tive circular, containing full particulars respect ing these instruments, with correct drawings of the different' styles and the lowest, prices, which are fixed and invariable. Address THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 590 Broadway, New York ; 154 Tremontst., Boston November 30, 1869 48 ot 1669 39 3in Schedule Macon & Brunswick it. IF Januakv, 7th, 1870 Regular thro’ passenger trains * will commence running on this Road on “Utulay, the 9th iust., as follows : Leave Jfacon at 8.30 A M. Arrive at Brunswick at 8.20 P M. Arrive at Savannah at.... 9.00 P M- RETURNING : Leave Brunswick at 8.00 A M- Leave Savannah at 7.15 A M. Arrive at Macon at...... .7.50 P M- I rains make direct connections at Jesap, wavs, with trains for Bainbridge, Thomas- .* crossing of the Atlantic and Gulf Rond. v Gk, and all points on that Road, as well as with nose for Jacksonville, Tallahassee, aud all sta- hoiis on the Florida Roads. I are to Savannah and Brunswick—. $ 8 00 I are to Jacksonville...— 12 00 lareto Tallahassee...— I? 00 I*re to Bainbridge — • 1«* 90 * &re to New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, by steamers 27 00 Lndei reci-nt arrangements made with the At- u “ t »c & Gulf Road, freights to and from Savan »diand New York have increased dispatch. ... E* Southern Express Company will operate on u « line to Brunswick, points in Southern Geor- ?‘ 4 * n din Florida, commencing on Monday, the ,Utl > instant. ROBERT SC1IMIDT. January 18,1670 Master transportation. 3 tf NOTICE. 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Address, S3. £, 3MSX,23£I, Tudlisher. 108 Fulton Street, Now York. 3 tf January 18, 1670 Low Prices. W HITE DINNER SETS. NEW LIMOGE Shapes, 157 pieces, $25. Smaller size sets proportionately low in prices. WHITE TOILET SETS, 11 pieces, §3 20. WHITE TEA SETS, 44 pieces, $4 00. GOOD WATER-GOBLETS, per dozen, $1 50. GOOD WINE GLASSES, per dozen, ,?1 00. aji other goods in our line equally low. ^ Goods packed for the country, or forwarded by Express, C. O. D. WASHINB'tOiV HADLEYS, Middle Cooper Institute Block, Third and Fourth A ves., between 7th and 8th Sts., NEW YORK. xgrSend for Illustrated Photograph and Cata logue of Lining.- Dinner, Tea and Toilet Sets, mailed free. October 19. I8fi9 42 3m Love of Country and of Home. There is a land, of ev -ry land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o’er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the night; A laud of beauty, virtue, vaior. truth, Time-tutor’d pge, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touch’d by remembrance, trembles to that pole. For in this land of Heaven’s peculiar grace, The heritage < f nature’^ noblest race. There is a sp< t of e; rth s ipremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot man all the rest. Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepter, pageantry and pride, While, in his soften’d looks, benignly- blend The sire, the son, the husband, father, friend. Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter wife. Strews the fresh flowers the. narrow way-of life ; Iu the clear Heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves aud graces lie; Around her knees domestic duties meet. And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that laud, that spot of earth be found ? Art thou a man ? a patriot? look around ; Oh! thou shaltfind,howe!er thy footsteps roam, That land THY country, and that spot thy home. ZOE. Canton Corr., Cincinnati Commercial. Visitto a Chinese Silk factory. A Young Doctor Sleeps While Playing the figures on pp. 596^and 597 of Cur ‘•Oiir I*dent Adjustable Plough Backhand commends itself to the Planter, by its being aaapMjfito large or smilf Uiiiuials, and-obviating the necessity of moving it to the joins., when shaf- low ploughing is dr sired. Wc buy Hides, Fui's, Wax, Wool, Moss and Tallow. Sopteaibe I directed my guide to take me into the silk-weaving streets. We soon entered them. I at once dismounted to make a careful observation ot their modus operandi for the production of this renowned fabric of Oriental looms. All around me was silk, silk, nothing but silk. In small dark houses^ little little better than a hovel, were seen people chiefly women, dyeing (his del icate texile. Outside, in little filthy yards and pig styes, over the ground where the family swine were wallow ing, were placed bamboo poles, where on were hanging skeins of colored silk just from the dye, and glowing with the most vivid hues as they hung lor drying in the sunshine over the loath some pools below. I visited several of their weaving shops. They were quite similar in their fixtures and ar- fangements. I spent some time in examining one of the-largest. It was, perhaps one hundred feel long and about sixteen feet wide. The walls were of course cl^y block, unpierced by a single aperture for air or light I walks, thereafter save at the front which was entirely open the whole breadth of the building. The floor was simply of trodden clay uneven an untidy. An isle ran down the centre just room enough for one person to pass; on either side of ibis were ranged die nearest looms and standing as close together as they could be placed. Two or three persons were employ ed otr the work of each loom. The looms are plain, common looking af fairs, almost the same kind, as to ap pearance and mode of manipulation, as were those upon which our grand mothers in Ohio used to weave the liusey woolsey for the wear of us wes tern boys, when even the preacher was almost a stranger to broadcloth. the Bass Viol, Winning a, Game if F.ucltrc, and Dosing His Patients— Altogether lie markable Somnain bulism. The following interesting history of a case of somnambulism, from the Chicago Medical Journal, was furnish ed by Dr. J. A. Alien, formerly a pro fessor i n the medical department of the Michigan University. The event narrated ocenred while he was employ ed in the University and furnishes one of the most remarkable cases on record : It was mv fortune, during a series of vears, to have under direct observa- iion a case of somnambulism, in some respects morefremarkable than any up on record. The subject was a family relative and private medical student of my own. The first time he was ever known to walk in his sleep was in the spring of 1S47, and the first attempt was an un fortunate one, as he fell into a stair way unprotected by balusters, injuring imselfconsiderably, although tractur mg no bones. He had arisen and dressed himself, but when awakened by his fall was utterly ignorant of his whereabouts. I saw him a few mo ments afterward and found nothing unusal about him, but he remarked that he had not tell quite well when he went to bed. For some months subse quently he would now and then get up dress himself and go about the house without any apparent object, and, us ually, after a while return to his bed voluntarily, awakening in the morning with not the slightest recoleetion even of a dream. My young friend was an enthusiast in music, and a very respectable am ateur. About ihe summer of 1S47, a somewhat dilapidated bass viol, which was a kind of heirloom in the family, was brought into the house, and lie devoted spare moments to learning how to play upon it. Unfortunately, the antiquity ot the instrument had told upon its keys, and unless they were wetted at time of use it would not remain in tune. He was determin ed, however, to command its notes, and succeeded. His comnambulic d him from his penter’s Principles, in the edition o! 185*3. His were taken from a previ ous edition not now in my possession. These drawings are now in the series used for illustration in Rush Medical College. Although we had a light in the room while watching him, lie went on with his work entirely regardless of it. Be fore completing the work, be went to to bed am! slept until the usual hour in the morning. When at the breakfist table he asked il he had been up in the night, as he had dreamed that he had. This was the only time he ever remem bered even dreaming about being up or occupied in anything. He bad bv this time become sc fully aware of his habits, that nothing ofihe sort astonish ed him. Shortly after this he went to spend the night with a fellow studeit, hut a little afier midnight he rose, dressed himself and went out followed by the other gentleman, walked down to the Excha ge Hotel, where there wefe a number of his acquaintances and others waiting for a train ofcars due that time. Some one rallied him on his being out so late, but, being cau tioned lav his companion, they did not attempt to awake him, but watched his movements. On being invited, he took a gtass o’ ale, and then said he would onl}'- have time to go home and get his dinner before the afternoon lecture hour. He walked with his friend to outdoor, and was indignant to find it locked. His room-male (a cousin) admitted him, and awaken ed myself and wife. He asked if din ner was ready, and seemed astonished that it was not ; then said he would get a drink of water and he off, “for old D. (one ot the faculty) would he mad if he was late.” I told him he had plenty of time, and he need m The alarm of my poor friend at the possible consequences of a similar act in the future may well be conceived. Important Correspondence Chief Justice Broven's Opinion Upon the Disabilities of Legislators. Atlanta, Ga., January—,1870. Hon. Joseph E. Brown, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: 1 The undersigned committee, ap pointed by a meeting of Republican and Democratic members of the Gen eral Assembly, respectfully call your particular attention to the opinion of the Attorney General of the State, late ly published, relative to the disqualifi cation of members of the Legislature, and request your opinion as to its cor rectness. We desire more particularly to know whether the persons who filled the po sitions of iState Librarian Notaries Fublic, Road Commissioners, -Officers of the Militia or Officers of Municipal Corporation, as they existed prior to the secession of the fState, and after wards engaged in insurrection or re bellion against the United Suites, are disqualified as members of the Legrs- iat'ire, or can they safely take the oath prescribed by the late act of Congress under which the Legislature is being re-organized. An early reply is respectfully solici ted. We are, very truly, yours, etc., J. E. Bryant, Dunlap 8eolt, Milton A. Candler. W. E, Holden. J. H. Caldwell, C. K. Osgood, W. P. Price. Atlanta, Ga., January 1870. Gentlemen : I have received vour I. E. Shumate, F. M. Harper, W. C. Smith, A. J. Williams, C. B. Wooten, J. T. Burns, chamber to the parlor, and to the bass viol, arid the family would be awaked in the small hours by the invitable tun ing up prelude, mingled with slipping of the old kgys, and quite objurgations on his part. Sometimes the bridge would fall down when the keys slip ped, and sometimes a string would snap or escape from the keys ; never theless he would persevere, repair damages, tune up, and then execute all varieties of music of which the ma chine was capable, not unfrequently accompanying it with his voice. All this would he done in total darkness. When any one entered the room with a light, he took not die least notice, although when spoken to he would re in a hurry. He then walked into the ‘communication and after some consid- kitchen, drank a tumbler full of water, eralion, I have concluded to comply and looking up to the clock, although it w ith your request, was totally dark, remarked the lime As the question connected with the and started for the front door. I then disabilities of members of the Legisla tor him that I was not feeling well, was pretty blue, and wished he would sit down and play euchre with us. This seemed lo please took off his overcoat am Lure, cannot, under the laws of the land come before the courts of this Slate for ajjudication. I do not see, in the midst lim, and he • of an emergency of so great interest to said he would Jhe people of the Stale, why the judges piv in monosyllables or with consider- Squalting mvself down by one of these a bl e asperity. His face was usually friendly acquaintances of my boyhood, flushed, although sometimes pale—the 1 leisurely watched the delicate and features immobile and passive, the eye diligent manipulations of the weaver open, pupil dilated ; the surface glaz- and his assistants as their shuttles flew e ,j j an q j| ie |j ( | g apparently motionless, to and from in the mazy mystery of fig-1 The extremities warm and the pulse full, frequent and soft. Ye ry often the skin would be bathed with free per- spiration. Remarkably sensiiive to titillations when awake, there seemed a total absence of reflex movements from this cause, while in the somnam buiism state. As he extended his aequamtance with music and musical instruments, his leafs became wonderful. While in attendance upon the Medical College at Laporte, the household looked forward with high anticipations to the hours when his skillful touch of the melode- on would wake them. He had a voice of the purest tone, and very considera ble compass, in fact of rare sweetness. Iain enabled to say, from a multitude of observations, that he played with a precision and skill while asleep that he could not approximate while awake. Besides this, he would execute music which he had heard, perhaps but once, the evening previous, or after a long interval—no note of which he could recall in his waking moments. His memory here seemed wonderfully ex alted. Ifinlcrrupted, he was irritable in the extreme, but would go on with his music exactly from the point of in terruption. Whilst attending lectures at Ann Arbor, where I was then lecturing on physiology, I requested his assistance in enlarging some of the drawings il lustrative of minute anatomy and his- toiogv Kir use in class demonstration. He entered into the work with great zeal, and proved very expert and rap id of execution. Evening, previous to the day on which I was about to lec ture on the kidney, I wished the cuts in “Carpenter’s Physiologs,” illustra ting the tubular arrangements, ftc., made ready. He had an engagement ures and flowers that came gradually out larger and plainer upon the grow ing surface of the gorgeous fabric which these skillful workmen , were there creating under my eve. So complex were the movements ot the men of these simple looking machines, and so marveluosly beautiful were the products resulting therefrom, that I gazed with unbounded amazement upon thus work of silk-weaving as it progressed before me. The weather being warm and the shop crowded, the workmen were al most naked. My visit interested them manifestly, yet not a loom ceasing its clicking clacking noise, not a man left his em ployment to gaze ; but I detected them giving furtive glances and ex changing mutual smiles among them selves at the curious stranger who had thus unceremoneously squatted him- himself down in their midst, by one of these humble looking looms, on a com mon dirt floor, within homely clad walls, where nevertheless are produc ed those magnificent fabrics which for ages and throughout the world have been the pride ol wealth, the envy of beauty and the admiration and desire of royalty. Far down and nearly to the extreme limit of this long room was a plain board counter extending quite across the room. Behind it stood the proprietor of the factory, a smooth faced, richly clad Chinaman. Direct ly over him the building was unroofed, thereby affording a spacious skylight ; except this window, there was none.— Through this skylight, aud down upon the counter below, the sunshine fell upon the finished work of the dingy, dirty, squalid looking work shop. The proprietor was busy measuring off and packing up the products ot his looms. And as the sunlight streamed full upon the gorgeous colors of those magnificent silks, satins and brocade? which the proprietor was tossing about in billowy radiance, it seemed lo me as I stood far up in the feeble light of the centre of the room, as though he were toying with rainbows. From places so humble and surroundings so squalid as this come those royal fabrics which are to decorate palaces and lo adorn the persons of princes and mmi- acohs of the earth. ild tr, and prepare them in the morning, During the night he rose, dressed him* -elf played a few tunes on the giutar, part of die lime singing, (and, by the way, the guitar was about as dilap idated as the bass viol before noticed, tnd he had to knot one or two ofihe airings first), and then arranged the drawing paper, prepared his India ink and brushes, took the parallels and pencils and laid off the spaces, and worked for half an hour or more rapid ly and perfectly, nearly completing as lief play until “old D.” was through lecturing, as to go* His c usin sat down at the table with us, and we played “three-handed (cut-throat) euchre.” He dealt the cards in his turn cor rectly, and ‘played according to Hovle.’ In one hand, spades were trumps, he held the jack of clubs. Clubs being led, he first threw down the jack then quickly picked it up, saying, “I forgot the iett bower.” It is somewhat hurniiiating to record that, notwith standing our tricks and devices, he beat us in the game. On its conclusion, he got up hastily and insisted upon going to the college. We only prevented him this time by throwing water in his face—the only method by the wav, in which we could awake him without great vio lence.. Pungent bdors, ammonia, cam phor, etc., be seemed to disregard, or merely pushed away the object. On regaining consciousness, he al ways appeared like one stunned or suffering from a severe shock. The influence upon the pulse or nervous system was also so severe that we nev er awakened him at these times ir we could help it. Whenever out of health, as from trifling attacks of indigestion, or after watching with the sick, or fatigue, he would be sure to be up arid doing something notable ir. the somnambulic slate. One of ihe most remarkable of his exploits occuried several years after the incident just given. 1 think il was in I860 or 1S61. He gave me the particulars himself, and I have had the necessary concurrent evidence from others. The circumstances were so extraor dinary that they almost caused him to determine never to practice medicine again. In the rounds of his practice he had a patient abou whom very anxious. Il was in the coldest winter weather, and the residence of the pa tient was about two miles distant. Visiting him early in the evening, he found him in a state so unsatisfactory that he informed the family that if he did not find him bettet the next visit he should change the medicine en tirely. On rising the nex? morning, lie went to the barn to put h’ 3 horse to ihe cutter for an early 5lart -* He was a little puzzled at finding things some what misplaced, but naturally suppos ed some person bail been in the stable in search of a missing article. On visitiii" the patient he was gratified to find a marked improvement. He in quired when the improvement com menced, and was answered, “Immedi ately after he had taken the powder which was given in the, night.” The. rection or rebellion : truth flashed upon him at “nee, but j or given aid or comfi. concealing his emotion be inquired, j thereof; but Congre? with as careless an air as he could as-j of" two-thirds of eat surne “About what time was it when | such disability. I was here?” They replied: “Betwenj The act of 2d Mar two and three ol o’clock.” This prov- j as the Sherman Bill, ed to be the case, as he was afterwards 1 person excluded fror told by the family where he boarded holding office, by said He had been giving the patient some j ment to the Constitut fluid medicine which he ordered discon tinued, and he then put up several pow ders, such as he hail concluded upon the night previous, combining them as usual and administering the fluid one himself. of the Stale courts, who, as a general rule, should avoid, all political strife, and public discussions of political questions, may not express their opin- i ms when desired by their feliow-cil- zens. As you are well aware my duties upon the Supreme Bench are now very onerous, and I have not the time lo appropriate to the preparation of a written opinion upon a question outside of my duties on the bench, which l could desire. I, however, submit the following reflections and am satisfied in my own mind of the correctness of the conclusions at which I have arri ved. I consent to the publication of my views on this question, the more cheer fully because I was denied the privi lege of giving my reasons for the opin ion expressed under oath in Senator Welborn’s case, before the military commission now sitting to inquire into the eligibility of members of the Geor gia Legislature, when I stated that I did not consider the position field bv him such an office as is contemplated by the Constitution and the reconstruc tion acts of Congress. I appeared be fore the commission under a militarv order, as a witness c ” prosecution, and as expressed goes on t’r reason why I should ner do what I urns n to do—put upon re which have led me t Article G, section f tiori of the United teenth Constitutional the different acts of as the reconstiuction materia, like all othe subject matter is the well known rule of eo sidered and construe! The 3d section of the Constitution of t declares that the met eral State Legislator utive anti Judicial of led States, and of tl ihall be bound by oat support the Constitut The 3d section o Constitutional Amen words : No person shall be resentative in Congr President and Vice- any office, civil or in United States, or und having previously ta member of Congress of the United States of any State Legislat ecutive or Judicial o to support the Consti ted States, shall have Stales (the 4th) shall tion as a member of frame a Constitution rebel Stales, nor shal vote for members of s The first supplerr.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, January 25, 1870, Image 1