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A STRICT OONSTBVOTIOM OP THU CONSTITUTION—AN HONEST AN9 BCONUXIOAb AONINISTHATION OP TIM OOVEBNNENT.
Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1871.
Volume XLDL—No. 49.
JOHN II. MARTIN Editob.
COLUMBUS:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 80, 1871.
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RADICAL OPPOSITION TO OR ANT.
V>e copy from the New York Evening
Telegram a special dispatch concerning an
appointed meeting of Republican politi
cians, opposed to tho re-election of Gen.
Grant, to give direction and organisation
to their opposition. The New York //«■•
ihl regards this aa an earnest movement,
hut thinks that it can hardly be made ef-
,ivo in defeating either the re-nomina-
tiou or tho reflection of Gen. Grant.
The HeraUl now regards opposition to
Gen. Grant by any party or combination
as utmost useless, and this confidence in
his re-election may make it undervalue the
weight of the active opposition of such
Radical leaders as are named. The re
ported conference will, at all events.
Hervo to develop the strength of the anti-
Gnnt Republican diversion, and we can
then form a better idea of the policy of
such a movement as that suggested by the
St. Louis Hepublican and Gen. Blair. If
the Anti-Grant Republican leaders “moan
business," and are determined to push
their opposition to the extreme of a party
rupture, the best course they can pursue
will be to call a convention or a confer
ence, of ull politicians opposed to Grant,
to assemble early next spring. It should
not only be national in its scope, but no
distinction betwoen existing political (tar-
ties should be mode. Under this call,
men of ull (tarties* could assemble and
< onfor without breaking their old (tarty
associations, and they could in such a
conference form a pretty accurate opinion
> its to the practicability of such an alliauco
k*»s has been proposed, as well as the prob
ability of its success when formed. At
present these are not well enough defined
to justify a call upon the Democratic
(»arty to give up its regular organization.
A dispatch of the 25th inst., from
Lonisiville, sa^stnat sinco the lynchiu,
cf three negroes in Clark eounty, Indians,
who were suspcc ».d of the murder of the
Turk family, “numbers of negroes are
leaving the county." It seems to ns
that this condition of things presents to
f Gen. Grant a bettor occasion and locality
for the faithful execution ->f the “Kn-
Klux" law than any that he haa found in
the South. But of course ho will not put
any part of a Northorn State under
tial law, even to prevent all the negroos
being driven from it, because thereby ho
would injure his own ohanoes for re-elec
tion!
We learn from the Atlanta dun of Sat
urday that the bonds of the State over-
\ j issued to the Brunswick A Albany Rail-
■ road have been returned to the Treaauiy.
\ The Sun says it seems that Gov. Bullock
., had turned them over to Mr. Kimball,
> who hud hypothecated them. The party
;F;.;,%* 1 olding them, no doubt, had a wholesome
/'”$i^fear cf the wrath to come, and has vol
> untiri’y surrende.ed them to the State.
The trial of George F. Pago, the Radi.
( cal Representative of Lee oounty, for
tho ’unrdor of Wm. Miller, wae oocollided
( '■ in the Hdporior Court of Sumter county
on Thursday night last. The jury brought
In a verdict of “voluntary manslaughter.''
'T he trial had occupied four dsys of the
term. The counsel of Page gave notice
* of an application for a new trial.
i
Wo clip tho following items from the
Cnthbort Appeal of Friday last:
Our Railroads.—ltamor has it that
vork will be resumed in a few days on
the 1L, C. A C., and B. A A. Railroads,
lad be prossed through as rapidly as pos-
ble. Wo were unable to learn any par-
icularR.
. Ratified. —The taxpayers of Cuthbert,
on Tuesday lust, by an overwhelming ma
jor*, y ratified the appropriation of $5,000
made by the City Oouucil, for the pur
pose of oreoting a suitable building for our
Male Institute.
Homicide.—We are informed that a
difficulty occurred in Clay county, near
the Calhouu line, on Saturday list, be
tween Jasper Lewis and Eldrige Fain, in
which Fain struck Lewis on the head and
killed him. We have not learnod the
particulars.
Lu-Klux.—Martin Talmer, J. H. Cross,
J. x-hilip* snd W. Jenny, all of Dade
county, Georgia, were arreeted on last
Monday nignt, by a squad of United
Stages soldiers, and were brought to Chat
tanooga yeaterday morning and lodged in
jail. They left last evening under a se
cure guard for Atlanta, to anewer the
charge of knkluxing. They appeared
cheerful and in high spirits, stating that
it was an easy matter to prove their inno
cence, if given a fair trial. They suppo
sed the person*who reported them to be
one Andrew Gober, who, it wae reported,
had been whipped twice, recently, by mas
ked men, but on charge of which they
knew nothing;—Home Cont., 25th.
North A South Railroad—Right or
Wav is Polk Couwrr.—Maj. S. N. H.
Byrd is authorized to secure the Right
of Way for the above named Roed.
We are informed that nearly every man
^i in that connty, through whoee land this
'% Road is laid, haa already signified his
■? willingness to give the right of way.
This hberallity is commendable, and we
& do hope no one will obstruct this good
K enterprise.—Home Cour., 25th.
0 Paying Off the Debt.
On July 21, 1868, Mr. Boutwell stated,
the House of Representatives, that the
m debt hod been reduoed, between April,
. V J865, and January. 2808, one thousand
J p‘-w and sixlv-six mil Leas of dollem. Aooord-
-* ing to the public debt statement, it haa
been further reduced, sinoe March 1,1871,
$273,749,811.08, making a total reduction
(according to the Secretary of the Trea-
* snryj of over $1,349,000,000 in the laet
- six years.
& On June 30, 1865, the
total debt.was $2,680,647,889.74
* Deduct from this the re
duction stated by the
Secretary of the Trea
sury, namely 1,349,749,811.98
ALABAMA LEGISLATI'RK.
Saturday, 25th.—The Senate reconsid
ered and p weed the bill “to restrain the
County Commissioners of Coffee eounty."
Mr. Mariio of Tuscaloosa introduced a
joint rcaolution to amond Article XI. of
the Constitution of the State (the Educa
tional article.) It provides for an organi
sation of the department of Public In
st* action not materially different from
that now existing ; for n poll tax of $1.50
on every male between tho ages of 21 and
00, to be specially applied to the school
fund ; authorizes special State and oonnty
taxes for the same fund; for a specific
tax on railroads, navigation, banking aud
insurance companies, Ac., for the same
purpose: also that tl
lands that have been or may be granted
by the United States to tho State for
Educational purposes; of the swamp
lauds; and of oil lands or other property
given by individuals or appropriated by
the State for like purposes; and of all
estates of deceased persons who have
died without leaving a.willorhoiflt and
all monies which may be paid as an equiv
alent for exemption from military duty,
shall be and remain a perpetual fund,
which may be increased, but not dimin
ished, aud tho interest and income of
which, together wi h the rents of all such
lands as may remain unsold, aud such
other means as tho General Assembly
uusy provide, shr.ll be inviolably appropri
ated to educational purposes, and to no
other purpose whatever. The proposed
amendment also provides for tho estab
lishment of au Agricultural College.
This joint resolution was referred to tho
Committee on Education. A bill intro
duced by Mr. Pennington, to authorize
the Governor to raise money by loan
otherwise, to meet tho interest on the.
Alabama A Chattanooga Railroad bonds,
was roferrod to the Committee on Finance,
with instructions to report by 11 o'clock
Monday.
Ie the House, the following now bills,
with others, were introduced: To pre
vent railroad companies from discrimina
ting between local and through freights ;
to keep the Educational funds in the
State Treasury distinct and separate; al
so requiring County Superintendents to
keep township funds distinct aud sepa
rate ; to decrease the pay of the Commis
sioners' Court of Chambers oonnty ; two
bills t repeal pnrts of the Revenue law ;
to abolish a county Criminal Court—
whieh was amouded by instructing the
Judiciary Committee to report a general
bill abolisning such courts. All the above
named bills were referred to committees.
The House passed a resolution authoriz
ing a committee of seven to confer with a
committee from the Board of Education
to dov*se means to carry into effeot tho
Educational system of the State.
By leave, Mr. Honry offered tho follow
ing resolution :
Resolved, Ry the House of Representa
tives of the General Assembly of Ala
bama.
That it is the request of the Honso that
each member, or one at least from each
couuty of the State, filo with the clerk on
or beforo Monday next, the 27th inst., or
as soon thereafter as practicable an an
swer to the qnoationH propounded in the
communication of Albert Straasburger,
President Board of Trads, in relation to
the increase o* decrease of the cotton
crop of 1871 in thir State, which is in
words as follow s:
1st. As compared with last year, how
much cotton will be produoed in your
oounty this season ?
2d. Wl *t will be the falling off, on
the average, for the whole of your oouu-
tyt
.‘id. Givo a brie* review of tho progress
of the plant for the vear, showing tho
effeot of each month’s weather on the
crop.
4tb. State what proportion of tho total
crop will be gathered from the bottom
what from the middle crop, and what
from the top crop.
5lh. If you have any facts with regard
to the product of any adjoining State
please give them to —
UKOTH.IA LWHSLATI KK.
From tho Atlanta CoiiDtitQtiou.)
Saturd ,v, Nov. 25.—Skhatf-—The
Stnute met it 10 a. *., Mr. Vice Presi
dent pro tern. Hinton in tbo chair.
A House resolution instructing the
Joint Committee on Finance to examino
certain bonds issued December 11th, 18*;8,
to inquire for what purpose tncy were is
sued, and report in regard to a recommen
dation of the Stato Board of Eduoatiou
that the interest of the same shall bo ap
plied .o educational purposes, was tabled.
Bills wore read tho second time.
A message was received from tho Gov
ernor, stating the approval of an aot to
remove the county site of Clarke county
from Watkinsville to Athons.
Mr. Brnton offered a reso’ution provi
ding for a joint committee to take into
consideration tho advantage of granting
further aid to the Atlantic aud Cult Rail
road, in which tho State owns 10,000
shares, for the purpose of extending the
same from Baiubridge to Mobile,
thereby making it a part of the Pacific
route, which was not acted on.
A bill to alter and explaining section 211
of the Code, rclsting to attorneys at law
end permitting the Clerk of the City
Court of Savannah to pructico in other
courts, was passed.
On motion, the Sonate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Honso mot at 9 o’clock a. m., Speaker
Smith presiding.
Mr. Bacon moved to reconsider so much
of yesterday s proceedings as relate to tho
action of this House itt relation to per
dioui. He said that he outdo this motion
to reconsider in order to iusort three dol
lars instead of six.
Mr. McMillan said that it would cost
the. State as much ns a reduction of one
dollar per dny of per diem would amount
to to discuss this matter one hour, but
that if ho thought Mr. Bacon woh in ear
nest he would support tho motion to ro-
consider for tho purpose named.
Mr. Bacon said that he was in earnest,
and was decidedly in favor of firing tho
per diem at three dollars, which amount
would pny tho reasonable expenses of
members of th%General Assembly.
Mr. Phillips was in favor of retrench
ment but urged that a icusouable compen
sation should be allowed to metubors. He
was in fuvor of the reconsideration in
order that tho bill tuay be completed so
as to embrace nil parties receiving pny.
Mr. Woodward called the previous ques
tion.
Tho call was sustained.
Tho yens and nays were called for on
tho motion to reconsider. Yeas 71, nays
'»•
m
And total debt should
sow be *1,330,8*8,057.70
But, rxcording to the public debt state
ment of the 1st tost., it i* *2,3*1,051,.
842.81, • discrepancy of over • thonssod
millions of dollar*—precisely *1,(130,158, -
785.05!
These are the figures of the Treasury
Department, and the statement* of it*
chief. It is not for us to reooadle or
explain them. Th*y are msltsri of ra
ce re, snd we call upon th* supporters of
the Administration to attempt their denial
or r-fetation. W# can ahow book and
peg* truer* they een be found *f reoord,
.dared then by -he Secretary of the Trea
sury, *ad v* challenge eontradtutton.
[WMKftrirt, j adamant* rasdmd dating th* vac.
The resolution was adopted, thereupon
the House adjourned until 10 a. u. Mon
day.
Monday, Nov. 27th.—In the Senate,
the Committee on Finance reported fav
orably on the bill to authorize the Gover
nor to raise money by loan or otherwise,
and it was passed unanimously and or
dered to be sent to the House immediate
ly. The following new bills were re
ferred : Exempting fruit distillation from
the tax of $25 ; Relieving the Montgom
ery A Eufaula, Mobile A Ohio, Selma A
Meridian, South A North, and the Gaines
ville A Tuscaloosa Railroad companies of
the 10 per cont. penalty required of de
linquent tax-payers on lat of January of
each year. Mr. Martin of Rnssell intro
duced a bill to require holders of Rnssell
eounty treasury notes to present them for
redemption; which wss passed. The
Senate indefinitely postponed the House
resolution to appoint a joint committee
to confer with a committee raised by the
Board of Education to devise wsys snd
means to carry into effeot the Educational
system of tbo State. When the Senate
adjourned it had under consideration the
resolution of Mr. Sevier proposing
amendments to the Constitution.
In the House, a special committee re
ported in lieu of the bill to provide funds
for the Fire Departments of the State, a
substitute making it. ul’Awful fora fire
company to carry on business without
fiast pacing $200 to the Fire Department
of the city or town in wbioh it is pro-
posed to carry on business. Substitute
adopted, and bill ordered to a third read
ing. Bills—To secure physicians’ fees in
oertain esses; to regulate proceedings
for the sale of lands in cases of insolven
cy ; to prevent the barter, exchange or
sale of agricultural products on whieh
there is a lien, or of whieh a division baa
not been made—ware referred to oommit-
teee. The bills requiring the State Treas
urer to keep the Reboot funds of the State
separate, aud the County Superintendents
to keep school funds belonging to each
township separata, were passed. BH1 to
define and punish malicious misehief was
amended and ordered to a third reading.
Adverse reports on a number of MUs
ware concurred in. Senate bill to author
ise the Governor to raise money by
povarydoan or othenrisa, was read twioe
and referred. Among the new bills in
troduced and referred were the following:
To regulate the right of challenge at eleo-
to give foil force and effeot to
Mr. Scott moved to suspend rules to
take up the bill just reconsidered. Car
ried.
Mr. Jackson moved to iusort three dol
lars nor day for mouthers aud five dollars
(»or day for oftRors.
Mr. Howell moved to insert eight dol-
ars per day for officers and 11 vo dollars
for mouthers.
Mr. Einiuions, of Gwiuuett, moved that
tho House go in coiniuiUee of the whole
and (>utfeet tho hill. Tho motion pro
vailutl.
Mr. Goodman moved to report hack
the hill rooommondod l»y tho eoniiuitteo.
Hudson said he voted yesterday
for six dollars per day, and is itt favor of
that still. Mr. Jackson lives iu Atlanta,
the homo citelo und has no addi
tional expenses, so that he iriay he nblo to
afford to represent his couuty for throe
dollars, for evory hour wasted iu debate
costs over $300; and some of those who
want Hitch low per diem waste more than
tho difference in diNettsHing this and oth-
or measures.
Mr. 1‘hillips moved to fix pay of officers
at $10 per day, uiul of members at $7.
Mr. Jackson favored redaction to the
actual expenses of nioiuhers. He said that
the whole people demand it.
Mr. McMillan favored tho (>1an fixing
tho pay of officers at $7 aud members
at $0.
Mr. Crittenden said that Hie Finance
Committee carefully investigated this
matter aud made a report, which he mov
ed to adopt.
Tho motion to striko out' six and in
sert t.eveu, as por diem of members, pre
vailed.
The motion to striko out $3 for ev
ery twenty miles and insert $5 pre
vailed.
The committee roso and reported back
tho bill as untended.
Mr. Huge moved to adopt tho report of
tho committee. The hill as amended
fixes the pay of officers at ten dollurs,
members ut seven dollurs, and five dol
lars fo.r every twenty miles traveled.
Mr. Jackson moved again to striko cut
$10 aud insert $5 ; striko out $7 aud in
sort $3 ; strike out $5 in miloage and in
sort $3.
Mr. Himmons, of Gwinnett, moved to
striko $ 10 and insert $8 ; striko out $7
and insert $5.
Mr. Hudson called tho previous ques
tion. Bustuined.
The motion to adopt Mr. Himmons'
amendments was lost.
Mr. Jackson’s motion was lost also.
On motion to pass tho bill reported by
the Finance Committee, the yeas and
nays were called. YoasllO; nays 11.—
The bill as passed, fixes the pay of officers
ut $10; of members ut $7, and $5 for ev
ery twenty miles traveled.
On motion, the rules wore suspended
and the following bills were read first
time.
Mr. Jones, of Terrell—A bill to incorpo
rate the city of Dawson.
Mr. Wofford, of Bartow—A resolution
directing committee to inquire why disa
bled soldiers have not been famished
with artificial limbs under an act passed
for that purpose.
Mr. Hudson—A bill to amend the char
ter of the Newnan and Americus Railroad
Company.
Also, a bill to provide for payment of
two judgments obtained against the Htate
by B. J. Head.
Mr. Craig—A resolution to appoint a
committee to roceive certain transcripts
of land books aud to fix tho value thereof.
Mr. Wofford, of Bartow—A bill to in
corporate tho Georgia and Alabama Coal,
Iron, Mining and Manufa luring Co.
Mr. Jenkins—A bill to authorize Ordi
naries to appoint Constables in certain
oaaea.
Mr. Lipsey—A bill to provide for col
lection of insolvent cost.
Mr. Payne—A bill to amend the charter
of the Atlanta and Lookout Jt. It. Co.
Mr. Converse—A bill to incorporate the
Grand Bay Paper Manufacturing
Mr. Craig—A bill to amend «.ho road
laws.
Mr. Bash—A » ; 11 to provide for tho di-
virions of homesteads.
Mr. Murphy of Harris—A bill to reduce
tho pay of the Glerjc of tho Supreme
Court.
Mr. Glover—A bill to authorize the
Governor to order an election in Bamter
connty.
BILLS ON THIRD RFADINO.
Bill to repeal an act to alter and amend
section 4245 of the Code in relation to
the ebain g-mg. Passed.
Bill to repeal District{Cotirt bilk Lost.
Bill to alter section 3472 relating to
continuances in civil eases. Passed.
Bill to repeal en act to secure profits,
etc., arising from homestead. Passed.
Bill to order on election for Governor.
Laid on the table. *
Bill to incorporate the LaG range Bank
ing and Trust Company. Passed.
A bill for the relief of the Tax Collec
tor of Clay. Passed.
A message wss received from the Gov
ernor transmitting the report of the com
mittee appointed to revise the Code. Re
ferred to the Judiciary Ctonmittee.
Another meaoago transmitting the re-
fwtrf th* Trust** of th* Academy *f
tho Blind. Referred to a committee. |
Bill to amend section 2261 of the Code
in relation to Mens of landlord was lost.
Bill to repeal that section of revised
Codo which provides tor the beating of
minority candidates. Passed.
Bill to ohange the line between the
oountioR of Upson and Pike. Passod.
Rill to lcgaltzo actions of Clerk of Wil
cox eounty as Ordinary, etc., passed.
Bill to authorize the Coroner of Chat
ham eounty to hold inquests in certain
onMCS. Pushed.
Bill to punish portions not elected snd
qualified by law, who presume to aot as
Constables iu Chatham county. Passed.
Bill to nuthorizo agents aud attorneys
of defendants to swear to pleas in all civil
eases passed.
The House then adjourned until 10 a.
m. on Monday.
Monday, Nov. 27, 1871.
Senate.—Tho Senate was called to or
der at 10 a. m., by President Trammel 1 ,
aud opened with prayer by Rev. Mr.
Ketclmtu.
Roll called aud jburnal road and ap
proved.
Tho following bills were read tho first
time:
By Mr. Clarko—A bill to enoonrago
emigration in the State of Georgia—ex
empting emigrants from taxatiou for a
limited tiiuo on various conditions.
By Mr. Wellborn—A bill to regulato
State aid when granted to narrow gaugo
raili'oads—allowing any railroad to which
State aid has been grauted to construct a
narrow gauge road without forfeiture.
By Mr. Smith—A bill to point out the
lttotlo of paying tho feos of the clerks of
court, sheriff and Solicitor General of tho
Tallapoosa Circuit iu criminal casus; also,
a bill to incorporate tho town of llockby
Mount, Meriwether county.
Mr. Kihboo offered a resolution that
hereafter tho hour of meeting shall bo
10 o'clock a. m., unloss otherwise ordered
by a majority of tho Sonate. Agreed to.
Mr. Nuuually offered a resolution that
horoaiter no leave of absence shall be
grunted except iu extreme cases, and then
upon tlio stat finont of the time for which
it is desired by applicant,aud t hut upon the
roll call it should bo tho dnty of each
Senator to uuHwor to his name, aud that
the Secretary ho instructed to furnish tho
reporter of the press with a list of the
names answered to, and roqnest that tho
same bo published. Adopted.
dills on third reading.
A bib to fix the compensation of grand,
traverse and petit jurors of the oounty of
DeKalb.
Mr. Hillyor moved to amend by adding
the county of Fulton. Adopted and the
bill was passed.
A bill to repeal on act organizing the
District Court. Passed.
A bill to repoal au act to declare tho
poll tax of this State for 1868, 1869 and
1879, yet uncollected, moonsHtutionul
aud to provent tuo collection of tho same.
Passed.
A bill to limit the Iiol* of judgments iu
Justice Courts. Lost.
A bill to rtqioal an set to provido for an
elooliou, ond to alter and amend the luw
relating to tho holding of elec
tions, approved October 3, 1870. Pas
sed.
A bill to ebango the oliurlor of tho Uni
versity of Georgia, so as allow four ad
ditional trustooH, und to givo the elootiou
of said trustees to the Alumni Society.—
Passed.
HOUSE DILLS ON FIRST READING.
A bill to incorporate tbo La Grange
Banking au 1 Trust Company.
A bill to require the Coroner of Chat
ham oounty to hold inquest in certain ca
ses, and to provido additional fees not
now ullowod by law.
A bill to rcpoul an act to sectiro profits
arising from homestoad in certniu cases.
Approved in 1869. m
A bill to repeal soction 121 of the Code,
which allows university candidates to take
au office.
A bill to relieve O. B. Anthony, tax col
lector, of Clay county.
A lull to repeal nu act to amend .motion
4245 of the Code, by striking ont the
words “to work on a chain gang.
A bill to consolidate the offices of tux
receivor and collector of Chatham coun
ty.
A bill to amend section 3231 of the
Codo, relating to tho granting contiuuan-
A bill to punish any peraon acting as
constable without authority in Chatham
eounty.
A bill to allow attorneys at law to swoar
to all dofencos required to be putin under
outh.
A bill to amend section 178 of tho Code
relating to tho pay of officers and mem
bers of the General Assembly.
Honso bills wore read the second time.
Bijla on third reading resumed.—A bill
to provido for paying off tho public debt
of this State—appropriating the funds
arising from the Western und Atlantic
Railroad to tho purchase of bonds. Ta
bled for the present.
A bill to provido for a eounty board of
commissioners for tho county of Decatur,
and to provide the powers and duties there
of. Passed.
A bill to amend section 61 of the Code
in relation to the offering of rewards for
criminals. Hsid rewards in cases of crime
punishable by capital punishment not to
exceed $500; in felonies not capital, $250,
and to bo recovered by petition iu court.
Passed.
A bill to regulato the ordor of business
in the Superior Courts. Lost.
A bill to define und declare what shall
bo considered a lawful fence. Lost.
A bill to secure tho several counties of
the State from costs in criminal cusoh.—
Passod.
A bill to legalize the acts of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Wilcox county as
Ordinary. Tabled.
A bill to create assessors of roal estate in
eaeh county of the State. Tabled.
A bill to amend the law of this State
iu relation to habeas cor pun—refusing to
ordtnuries the power of granting writs
when refused by a Judge of tho Superior
Court. Passed.
A bill to amend section 8640 of the
Codo of Georgia in relation to sheriffs'
fees. Lost.
A bill to make it penal to withhold
money or persoual property belonging to
tho Stato of Georgia. Passed.
A bill to change the lino between Cow
eta and Troup counties. Passed.
A bill to incorporate au Agricultural
Land Grant Board to provide for the aale
of Agricultural College scrip, and for oth
er purposes. Recommitted.
A hill to provido a general remedy for
the enforcement of liens. Recommit
ted.
A bill to suppress crime, rotating to
carrying concealed weapons. Lost.
A bill to authorize married >vomt« in
this State to sne for and recovor a penalty
in the nature of damages against L-'j per
son selling spiritons liquors to the hus
band of the plantiff while said husband is
intoxicated—making ono hundred dollars
liquidated damages iu such cases, which
shall be the sole property of the wife.—
Panned, ayes 15, nays 12.
A bill to repoal section 1977 of tbo Code,
giving tbo factors sud merchants a lien
on growing crops. Lost.
A bill to repeal an act to preserve the
peace and harmony of this 8tate, approv
ed October 1870. Passed.
A bill to protect purchasers of real aa-
tate in the improvement of the same
when judgment lien* exist on the same.-—
Loat.
A bill to oarry into effect the true in
tent of the Constitution in requiring da-
fences to l>e filed on oath, and to author
ize amended plena to be filed without be
ing sworn to. Lost.
A bill to amend an aot incorporating
the Savannah Medical College and to ax-
^ain an act granting aid to the laat.—
A bill to limit tho time of acrvico of
petit jurors in the county of Chatham.—
Passed.
A bill to amend the law establishing tbo
police court of Savannah. Passed.
A bill to provide for oertain salon with
the right of redemption bv the vendor,
aud to fix the penalty for illogal acts done
in connection therewith. The Judi
ciary Committee reported as a substi
tute:
A bill to provido for tho sale of per
sonal property to secure loans and other
debts.
Mr. Roeso stated that the bill provides
for seenriug proporty given as security
for a loan from t?:o homestead by allow
ing the borrower to mako au absolute
deed to the lender, reserving the right of
redemption, said property to revert and
bocoute thereby Bubjoot to homostead on
ly on tho exorcise of that right.
Mr. Nuuually offered tut amendment
provided the couseut of the wife be first
obtained.
The hour of adjournment having ar
rived the Senate adjourned.
House of Representatives.—Tho
House met pursuant to adjournment, was
called to order by the Speaker, and
opened with prayer by Rov. Mr. Cox.
Saturday’s journal was read und ap
proved.
On motion of Mr. Hudson, the report
of the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions declaring that L. C. Joues is not a
citizen el' Macon county, und recotmnoml-
ing that his seat as member from said
couuty bo declared vacant, woh taken up.
The evidu.ico introduced beforo tho com-
mittoo was road.
Tho report of the eommitteo was adopt
ed.
On motion of Mr. Hoge, tho rules
were suspended, and a Senate bill to ro-
peitl tho 2(>tli suction of the appropriation
act of 1870, wus rcud tliu third time and
passed.
On motion of Mr. Simmons, of Gwin
nett, the Senate bill, iu relation to public
priming, was road the third time, aud
passed.
On motion of Mr. Graham, tho Sonate
substitute for the llouso resolution to ap
point a joint oommittco to investigate the
affairs of this State, was taken up and
concurred in.
Tho Hpocial ordor of to-day was takoti
up. It is tho resolution offered by Mr.
Bacon, declaring that where the credit of
this Stuto lias boon loaned to railroad
companies iu violation of the constitu
tion, whether by issuing bonds of tbo
Stato to said companies, or by placing tho
State’s endorsement upon tho bonds of
said companies, said bonds aud endorse
ments so issued, and made iu violation of
law, aro without binding force upon tho
Stute, aud should bo declared null and
void.
Mr. Scott moved to refer tho resolution
to tho Judiciary Committee, with instruc
tions to roport a suitable bill on tho sub
ject at au early day.
Mr. Cummiug said no reference was
necessary ; the question was too plain to
require it. Resides, if action is promptly
taken, no one but guilty parties and
sharpers will be hurt. The ad«>ptiou of
tho resolution will put purtioH upon no
tice that bonds issued in violation of plain
law will not bo hold as binding upon the
Stato.
Mr. Scott thought that it would not be
doubted that sumo railroad bonds ltuvo
been legally issued, and this resolution
would throw a cloud over all bonds, good
as well as bad. *
Mr. Rawls did not think thoro was any
need to refor tho mntlor, and said he was
opposed to paying one cont of bonds ille
gally issued; at tho siuno time lie would
favor paying all bonds loyally issued.
Mr. McMillan snid the resolution was in
exact conformity with tho law aud Consti
tution, and should now bo iidoptud.
Mr. Jackson said tho resolution did not
look to repudiation because that term
would not apply to bonds iUcyally and
fraudulently issued—if tho resolution is
adopted tho whereabouts of these bonds
will be discovered. Ho hoped it would
be adopted.
Mr. Richards called tho previous-ques
tion. (’ail sustained.
Motion to commit ivas lost, and tho res
olution was agreed to.
The following bills wero rend tho first
time, and threo hundred copies of each or
dered to bo printed:
A bill to secure to educational purposes
the fund now duo to tho department of
edneutiqp, to fund the same, etc.; and a
bill to.ainond the net to establish a system
of public instruction, apt roved 1870.
Mr. McMillan offered a resolution in
structing tho Joint Committoo to investi
gate the affairs of this Stnte, to ltnvo war
rants issued for tho arrest of partins whom
they suspect of ltuvjng couiiuitttcd crimes
or misdemeanors, etc., and to make de
mands upon the Governors of ether States
for tbo return of such offenders to this
Stute, which was adopted.
DILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to charter tho Romo and Raleigh
Railroad Company was passed.
Bill to amend the acts relative to fees
of tho clerks of Cbatkuni Superior Courts,
and of Savannah City Court and tho Sher
iffs thereof, was passed.
Bill to allow muiuted soldiers and blind
persons to peddle without license. Passed.
Rill to repeal an act to organize district
courts. Lost.
Bill to regulato the trial of causes at
equity und luw in the Superior Courts,
was lost.
BUI to provido for cortoin sales, to pro
vide for the redemption by vondor, etc.,
was reud the third time, and recommitted
to Judiciary Committee.
The bill to make it legal for levying offi
core to sell cortoin property without expo
sing same at the court hose was passed.
Tl,,. TfonoA niiinnmml until 21 n in
Til8 SPECIAL FLECTION ACT. . Cnlventlt) of Ge.trgU-UraduateH of 1884.
An Aot to provide for a special election ' —
for Governor, to fill the unexpired term Woodland Cottage, Stewart Co., Ga., '
The House adjourned until 3 p. m.
That Coincidence.—It is well worth
remembering. It was a remarkable coin
cidence. May 22, 1869. Ninety-seven
acres of land in Cook eounty, Illinois.
Chicago is in Cook eounty. It is quite
probublo that land in Cook oounty or auy
other couutv near Chicago is very valua
ble. Joseph U. Jones and wife to Ulysses
S. Grant. Joseph R. Jones appointed,
on tho 22d of May, 1869, by the President
of the Unitrd States,. Minister Resident
of tho United States at the Court of Brus
sels, where Leopold sits in state. On that
day the deed for the ninety-seven acres of
Cook oounty land was mode by Joseph It.
Jones and wife to Ulysses 8. Grant for
the nominal consideration of one dollar.
On that same day the President of tho
United States, whose name is Ulysses S.
Grant, appointed one Jones, one Joseph
R. Jones, Minister to Belgium. A re
markable coincidence. Iu brief, How is
that for high*—NathviUe Union.
Some.—An old Dutehman who some
years ago was elected a member of tho
Canadian Legislature, said, in his broken
English style: “Yen I vc-*, to tbo lochia-
lature i tougbt I vould find detu all Solo
moos dore, but I soon found dere vas
some os pick fools dere as I vas.”
Tho Boston Post, says that a mau in
Troy left a boanliug-liouse just becauso a
rat bit off bi» ear. When pooplo get to
bo that particular about trifles, they ought
to quit boarding and go to keeping house.
The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal writes, Nov.
23d: “Letters have been received in
thia city from prominent Democrats who
have been invited to enter into a move
ment for the formation of a third party,
•aserting positive objection to such pro
ceedings at present, and anggesting that
slow haste be made in ooming to conclu
sions upon the subject of wandering from
the Democratic organization, or of merg
ing into a new party without fall and
complete consultation and oonnatl among
tfca Utdiog w( U 0* p»itjr."
of Rufus B. Bullock, late Governor, and
for other purposes.
Whereas, By the resignation of Rnfus
B. Bullock, lute Governor, the office of
Governor has become vacant, and the du
ties of said ouiee are now being discharged
by Honorable Benjamin Conley, Presi
dent of the Souato at tho tiiuo of said re
signation ;
And Whereas, The Constitution provides
that tho General Assembly shall have pow
er to provide by law for filling uuexpired
terms by special eloction ; therefore
Section i. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by au
thority of the same, That a special elec
tion for Governor shall be held through
out tho Stuto, on the third Tuesday iu De
cember, 1871, U\fill the unexpired torm
for w hich Rufus B. Bullock was eloctod,
which said eloction shall bo hold os is pro
vided by Irwin’s Revised Code, os of force
prior to tho third day of October, 1870,
and tho Constitution of this State, for tho
regular election for Governor aud mem
bers of the Legislature.
See. 2. Bo it further enacted, Ac., That
tho returns for said election shall be sealed
up by the Managers, and bo diroctod to
the President of tho Sonato und Speaker
of tho House of Representatives, und
transmitted to tho person exercising the
duties uf Governor for the tiiuo beiug,
who shc.ll, without opening tho said re
turns, cause the same to be luid before the
Sonate, if tho Senate bo in sossion when
received, and if received during tho recoss
of the General Assembly, thou so soon as
the General Assembly oonvonos tho same
shall bo luid beforo tho Senate.
Soc. 3. Tho Senate shall forthwith trans
mit to the House of Representatives said
returns, if the General Assembly shall
then tie iu session, or so soou thereafter
as tho Gunoral Assembly convenes, and
such proceedings shall thoruuftor be bad
for convening tno two Houses in tho Rep
resentative Chumbor, counting, publish
ing the voto, and declaring the result of
said election, as is provided by nrticlo four,
section one, paragraph three of the Con
stitution, and the Governor thus chosen
shull bo inaugurated for such unexpired
term iu the mauner heretofore practiced
in this Stato on tho next day thereafter,
ut 12 o'clock iu.
Sec. 4. Be it further onaoted, That if
no person ho fouud to hnvo received a
majority of the whole number oust ut suid
election, then from the two persons hav
ing the highest number of votuR, who
shall bo iu life and not dcclinouu election,
at tho timo appointed for the Legislature
to elect, tho General Assembly shall im-
modiuloly elect a Governor viva voce; or
if tho olection bo contested, then the two
Houses of tho General Assembly, in joint
session, presided over l>y the President of
the Senate, shall hour tho coutostauts aud
docido which contestant bus been elected,
and iu such joint session, a majority shall
decide.
See. 5. All laws and parts of laws con
flicting with this Act be, and the same are
hereby, repealed.
Kadicsl AiiU'ttraiit Movement.
[Bliociitl to th« N. Y. KvfiiiiiK ToleKiwm.]
Washington, Nov. 20, 1871.
I have just been privately inter mod of
the fact that a most important political
movement is soon to take pluco uuioug
tbo auti*Gruut men of the Rudicul party.
Who are the priino movers aud manipula
tors of tho uffuir 1 am unable to ascertum;
but 1 think it is some thing like a round
robiu arrangement. Tho story oh it
vouched mu is ubout as follows:
On the 30th of November, Thanksgiv
ing Day, aud four days beforo tho meet
ing ot Congress, a convocation will bo
held, either in Philadelphia, Bultimore or
Harrisburg, probably tho latter place,
whieh will be composed of Buujumiu F.
Butler, member ol Congress gram Massa
chusetts; Carl Schurz, United States Sen
ator from Missouri; William M. Evarts,
of Now York ; Jacob D. Cox, ex-Seoretary
of the Interior, of ('hio ; George E. Spen
cer, United States Kenutor from Alabama;
Charles A. Danu, of New York; Lyman
Trumbull, United Statue Senator from Il
linois ; Tburlc v Weed, Horace Greeley
and George Wilkes, of New York, with
some hall-dozen or more others, whoso
numos it would not bu policy at present
tw make public.
Charles Sumnor and Henry Wilson,
United States Senators Trom Massachu
setts, will huvo considerable to do with
the deliberations, but will not bo present
on the occasion.
Tho main object of the asemblage will
bo to arrange a program mo for the com
ing Congress to heud off General Grant
and to unite the Republicans who aro op
posed to his nomination upon some gen-
oral plan of operations. What tho ar
rangement* will be it is impossible yet to
foreshadow, but that there is a deter
mined spirit afloat antagonistic to the
President is quite apparent. It is thought
that tho National Republican Executive
Committee have an inkling of this move
ment, and a meeting of that body bus
therefore beeu called, ostensibly to fix a
day for the meeting of the National Nom-
nuting Convention, but moro iu reality
to arrange a plan to meet tne emergen
cies ‘hat may emanate from thia secret
meeuug. The Republican horizou beto
kens a coming storm.
State Koid FrasrfN.
lire report of the intelligent committee
of oitizous that has had tho Stato Road
books in charge for several months, will
be found in our evening edition. It is
interesting. Tho tales of those missing
vouchors will prove racy, if they can be
w ritten. For instance, there is Sproullo,
who comes back after four or five years'
honest repose in a respectable grave, to
sign a $1500 voucher. What in the world
his respected spirit oould do with this
special amount of State Road cash iu the
regions beyond the tomb, is left unex
plained by tho jocular Blodgett. Other
equally remarkable matters, we doubt not,
will turn to light, and provo the humorous
Foiftor to be the champion romancist of
the age.
The oopying of the vouchers was a good
thing.
The comparative statement of Blod
gett’s administration, aud Hulbert’a and
Wallace’s, is instructive. Wallace earned
$1,162,450 63, and spent $832,248 15.
Uulbert earned $1,288,620 02, and spent
$916,75/ 77.
Blvdgott, the great joker, earned $1,-
410,455 05 aud spent abo'.t $1,800,000.
The allusions to the fortunate individu
als connected v/ith the Stale Road, who,
on two and three thousand dollar salaries,
sprung into the enjoyment of large and
sudden wealth by tue “exorcise of the
most rigid economy,” we are afraid will
arouse the ire of these virtuous and no-
blo examples of well-directed thrift and
euterpriss. Tho Legislature will not
make these grand me# mad more than
necessary. Their footings will be har
rowed up, and should be soared as much
as possible. To disgorge is bad enough.
Wo venture to suggest that any legiria-
tive allusions to their “economy” will be
cruel, aud tho proepect of the penitentia
ry jB itself sufficiently diecombubboraling
to meet the full neceesitiee of the rascally
November 23d, 1871. f
Editor Enquirer—The following was
tho order of tho Commencement exorcises
of tho Junior and Senior classes of the
University of Goorgis, at Athens, August
6th, 1884.
As soiuo of tho names whioh are men
tioned arc inseparably connected with tho
history of Georgia, I send it to yon as a
rcminiseenco that may bo interesting to
somo of your readers.
Yon will see from the perusrl of it that
wo aro carriod back to the school days of
‘Old Rock" ond of our own beloved
Bartow. Respectfully,
Jno. Barton Gilbert.
junior CLASS.
0 M. Troup—Onght tho Jn tfU Statoi to Attarli
Tuxuh itiul Cumulii to tlmir Territory T
I). II. J.
Vigilance.’
if l.ilterty In RtorllM
Sillily of the Anulout
-The 1'ath of Beioncu ia Strewed
W. W
ItU Vlowei
J. A. Wingfield—We have few Greet Men!
Why r
8. M. Strong—American Literature vermt Eng-
lieli GritlcH and Scotch Iteviow-ra.
W. 0. Smith—Political A«nm;utloiH.
11. Y. Martin—Thu 1'rogrtms and Achievement*
of I'oliticul Sell
F. S. llnrtow—'The Influenco of Mental Philoso
phy on Nutiouul CliAiuctei
W. it. llriuilmtn—The Foundation mint lie Laid
before the Superatructure can Iw Reared.
SENIOR CLASS.
F. J. Walker—Salutatory. Subject-Benov
id With FI. ...
T. M. Cohli—"Whatever in, in right
John Milledge—The Conflict or Mind with Miud,
Develop* Truth.
Juillum It. Sayo—Mental IMiilomiphy.
Aug. ItecHu—Ought the Uoveruiueut of Georgia
t" reel iK t money Icndcra to a epeeitlo p
Throw* Light upon Everything."
THE COTTON TAX,
From tho N. O. Picayune.]
Tho Chamber of Commerce, through a
regularly appointed eommitteo, aro me
morializing Congress for restitution of
the money paid to the Government as a
cotton tax under various acts of Oongri
and Treasury regulations from tho year
1864 and up to and including 18G7.
They claim- and very justly, too—that
the tax was illegal, and expressly prohibi
ted by various articles of the Gonstitu-
tiou. As for instance:
“Representatives and direct taxes shall
bo appoi-tiouod among the several States
which may be included within this Union,
according to their respective numbers,
etc.; that
“No capitation or other direct tax shall
bo laid, unless in proportion to tbe census
or enumeration hereinbefore directed to
bo takon ; that
“All duties, imposts and excises Bhall
he uniform throughout the United States;
that
“No tax or duty shall be laid on articles
exported from any State.’’
These provisions dearly indicate that
the raw production of no portion of the
country are to besubjeoted to invidious tax
ation ; otherwise ono section of the country
would bo compelled to endure burdens
that other sections were free from. But
iu the instance of the cotton tax, the im
position was peculiarly onerous aud op-
prearive. It was levied upon a people
who hail no representative in Congress;
it was not apportioned among the several
States as contemplated by the constitu
tion ; it was not uniform in its bearing,
and was iu effect a tax or duty on raw ma
terial constituting tho uhief, if not tbe
solo stuplo production of * the extreme
Southern States.
Accurate data, at the disposal of the
memorialists, assure them that this heavy
tax, in inauv cases, led to the bankruptcy 4
of tho planters, amounting, as it did not
unfrequently, to more than the net pro
ceeds of tho year's business. It involved,
not ouly the burdens of an opprossive
tax, but draiued tho capital of the plant
ing interests, since it amounted in the
aggrogato to fully twenty-five per cent, of
the value of cotton.
Tho lax was exacted beforo tbe cotton
even reached our domestic markets, and
was invariably paid before it wi s exported
to a foreigu country. It was, in conse
quence, a direct burden on the prodneers
of tho eotton, for the reason that the Uni
ted States being unable to consume the
yield, from two-thirds to three-fourths of
it had to be sent to foreign markets. In
Europe it came in competition wit!, a like
growth from Brazil, Egypt snd ludia, and
tho value of it was regulated by the price
paid for foreigu cotton. 'Jccanse of the
local tax the foreign buyer would not pey
more for it. He cured nothing for the
duty levied upon our exports. With him
tho only question wss whether foreign.or
American cotton wus relatively the cheap
est.
Hence (lie produce of cotton in thoae
yeurs incuru U un invidious and oppres
sive tax whieh the productions of no oth
er purl of the country had to endure.—
The peoplo at the time were peculiarly
unfitted to bear these burdens, and are
even vet suffering from the rigor they im
posed. It was an illegal imposition, cruel
aud unjust, and it is but right that the
money so exaoted should be returned to
its proper and legitimate ownere.
It is u debt due to the planting interest
—a debt of honor from the Government
of the oountry.
We yearn to see the legislative commit
tee tako good earnest hold of this matter.
Tbe people begin to get impatient to sea
the fur fly.—Atlanta Constitution, 25th.
Fine Potatoes.—Mr. J. 11. Stroud, ot
Lee oounty, feted very sensibly and did a
clever thins yesterday when ha lift at this
office a bushel basket of fine large Span
ish potatoes. Booh acta svkUnoe two
a gantlaman who can
raise plenty of Mich potatoes most ha ia
“ oirninstances «
comfortable
second, that ha beatova his favors wham
wv Mf utov t« m «n*wt*M>
CHINA, Ac.
t th« Now York Evening Express,
lie Hon. J ii in ms Brooks.
Pekino, Angwi 24, 1871.
To-day I have had two grand visits; one
to the living temple of the great Gonfn-
cius. and the other to the grand temples
of the Buddhist Lamas, who here repre
sent tho Grand Lama of Thibet and the
Lamas of Mongolia. I approach the tem-
J le of Gonfucius as I once approaohed
ernsalem, or tho Aroopsgus, or the Pan
theon, or Westminster Abbey, or the Bor-
bonne. It is the well of knowledge in
Ohina—the light, the only light, where no
Bible is read. Confucius was born about
550 B. 0., and from tbe day of his death,
seventy-three years after, his book* have
ruled the kings, the mandarins, the people
of Ohina—that L, now about one-third of
the human race. Christianity and Confu
cianism are yot dividing the empire of the
world. Over two thousand yean Confu
cianism has kept together, under stable
government, now tbo oldest government
on earth—ono which has survived all the
empires and wrecks of 'the European
world. Hence, ono must go up to the
temple of Confucius as one goes up to tha
Areopagus, if not to Mars Hill and Jeru
salem. Confucius was wiser and greater
than Aristotle, or Plato, or Cicero, or Sen
eca. His political and social leesons, and
obedionoe to them, have saved China from
tbe wreck and ruin of countless other
nations in Asia, Europo, and Africa.
There is nothing very romarkablG in
this temple of Confucius to look at. The
association is tho only inspiration. The
hall is lofty, tho roof supported by large
teak pillars from Southwestern China.
The front is a broad and handsome mar
ble terraco, with balustrades, asoended on
three sides by seventeen steps. Tbe in
scription on tho tablet, in Chinese and
Manchu, is:
"Tlio tablet of tin* until uf the iuhrI holy ancestral
teacher, Confut'iua."
Tablet* of othor four distinguished
sages—Mencius, Txeng-tsi, Yon-hw.y, and
Tsse-sze—are placed, two on each side;
and six more, colokratad men of the
school, occupy a lower position on each
side. On tho walls nre handsome tablets
in praiee of Confucius. Each new empe
ror presents ono in token of veneiation
for the ssge. Homo of these are :
“or ALL MEN 1U>UN, TIME UNRIVALLED."
“EljUAL WITH HEAVEN AND EARTH."
“EXAMPLE AND TEACHLS OF ALL AUER. ’’
On oach aide of the court is a range of
buildings whero there are tablets of more
than a hundred celebrated scholars. On
the east side are Baventy-eight virtnous
men, and on tbe west fifty-four learned
men. Then, there are rows of tablets, or
monuments with tbe names of the success
ful competitive scholars who, at the trien
nial examinations in Peking, win their
honors on topics given to them when
•hnt ehnt np for three dsys with only pen-
oil snd ink for companions, all books and
all other oompunioaaexaluded. These tab
lets look os if they ran back for three or
four hundred years; but the names of
thoae over a century old cannot be deci
phered, as timo has obliterated the engra
vings made of them upon tbe tnarbl*.
Whut better shows the vanity of human
pursuit of ambition, of the love of glory?
It reminded me of the Consular tablet, on
th* Oapitoline Hill of Horn*—but what
vanity 1* it *11!
Nevortheless, these competitive exami-
uations and oontesta have tbe widest and
greatest influence over the OhiDeee Em
pire. They open tbe door of promotion
to the very poor a* well as to the rich,
and they make every humble person feel
—“I can be a mandarin;” “I can hsva
th* government of ■ province;" I cun see,
kneel by and adviaa the EmperorThey
convert th. absolute, hereditary, rod oth
erwise uneoDlrollable and snpposed-ro-be-
heaven-given despotism into au educated
democracy. Learning, must govern—not
blookheada and ignorance. A man must
know something in order to rale. The Go
vernment, in short, ie put in the hands of
the intelligent elaaeea—snob intelligence
a* it is! But what on extraordinary spe
cies of inteiligenoe 1 What strange stad
ias! What onrious themes! In our bar-
barons ages, our European metaphysical
fathers dupnled long and londly ‘ ‘whether
angels eotud see in the derk,” or “wheth
er yon peas from ona point of epee* to
another without going through the inter
mediate points"; but here tbe atudiee an
of tbe eight Diagram., of Fo-hy, or of the
Yang and Yin, the active and passive
principle of the muodano egg, etc., eto.
The knowledge ie great; the seholariam ia
wonderful—bnt cui bono! It runs no
railroads, raises no telegraph poles, cre
ates no gnat power (military or naval),
cleans no streets, make* no sewers, diffu
ses no practioal knowledge 1 Onee more,
the whole system proves that reading and
writing an not knowledge, and boob an
not knowledge.
The Ire* Has* es Keith Cordlss.
B.i xioe, Nov. 25.—A warrant has been
issued for th* street of Hon. J. M. Leech,
member of Congress from the 5th North
Caroline District, on the charge that he is
* member of the Ku Klax ohm. Several
members ef th* Legislature hav. also
been arrested on the same charge.
Senator Vance will not press bis claim*
before tbe Senate at the ooming session,
aa it is well understood that the Sonata
will not agree to remove his political dis
abilities so that ha stay take his seat.
Ex-Senator Abbott, who claim* that he
received a majority of all tbe loyal votes
at the time of Vance's election, it prepar
ing to urge his claims before the Senate
Judiciary Committee in • full and com
plete form.
Dm. Gbeblbx'* Advice to a Scxentcvio
Colored Gentleman.—Wo were sitting
with Horaoa one afternoon in that little
disreputable aanotum of hit adjoining tho
counting room of th* Tribune. The old
gentlemen was in one of Ms ohronio con
ditions ef gnuable and discontent. Ha
bed that mealy sppearanoe, ao eornman
to him, that mads bias resemble e bland*
miller fresh from the dust of his floor
mill, and was expressing his private opin
ion in * publlo end somewhat profane
way, whan a oolored gentlaman was an-
nonnosd. “Let him eome in,” roared the
Southern Kait.koads.—Hays a Wash
ington special of the 20th;
“The report of tbe 8eoi*tory of War
will show that of tho Southern Railroads
which, under the Executive older, Mere
allowed at the close of the war t* pur
chase rolling stock and other railroad rap-
plies and material from the United States,,
twenty-seven have paid their debts in
full, with interest, smonntieg to *2,4S5,-
5ii7. Twenty-four are still ia debt to the
United States, the amount dn* being *4,-
721,350. In June the Secretary of Wat
accepted a proposition 'rum the Nashville
aud Ctaattauouga Railroad Company to eane, heeded with th* eame precious
pay iu full of its debt of *1,857,832, fhe mein 1 . Stalked in.
philosopher, end *n aged derby clod in
broadcloth, gold rimmed apeetselee, and «
sum of *1,000,000—ona-balf in ten yearn
aud ons-bolf in iweu'y yean, from lb*
1st of June, 1870, with interest at 4 per
cout., payable semi-annually. Large
claims presented by several of th. rath
roads for uso and damage by tb* United
presented, considered, end rejeoted.
A New Radical Can kb.—Iks Wash
ington correspondent of th. Charleston
Courier writes that a polities! organisation
called the “the National Guard 1 ' will take
tbe place of the Union League* In tb*
Southern States. This organisation is
enterely in the interest of th* aiaWoo of
General Grant. Ita declared obaot I* to
secure voters for Grant, particularly lbs
timid, from apprehended intarfarenoa
from any other petty. The “Gnaip,” fol
lowing in the wake of tbo anti-Ku-Klux
operatives, will be relied upon to oarry
Southern for General Grant.
Mister Greeley, I believe?" he in
quired.
“Iw, I'm Mists* Greeley; whet do yuu
want?” was the gruff nepooe*.
“Well. 4th," arid old Ebony Spasm
- w , , a^tolSA JriBBMw ii b# dapoaitod hta feat im
Steles army during the war have bean osnis oo the floor—“Wall, sab, I’ve been
nruMAntr.d Minaid.r.A .nS Miows.* tulaklu* that eur rao* don't pay .naff at
tention to peiratiio pursuits, aah."
W* a*w tb* cbd gutter on th* total-
l.etoal ooUDtea.no. of th* great journal
istic Bohemian. It broke to thunder at
that point. In • vote* wherein wan
blended the shrill tpnw of a histories!
■mb aad tb* growl of a tiger, baton
itoMfi:
‘Dlriratifl* pur suite I you d—d oM fool;
you waatTba* haadl. aad a pateh ef Mew
Jersey—that's tbs eotentiflo puraatt ran
sat. Get out,"—-Pan fWr Ctapftat
Tsa Ono toumMm.—T)m mini
for United States SeaUor to Okie tosae*
orad Senator Shaman la deeply totalsal
ing tha pMMilsiiaf that Btete, w I g*lb-
Tbs Danbury New*
feeling people, thoae Bridgt
an. A loriug wife, on tha dt
husband, rant th* following I
yam to a distent Maud i “
Another link has beau added to tbo tel-
S o girdle that oo* day will soao-
■uitoaad tbs glob*. A ngbVtha*
lawfully Irifbto Betovtor dun,
to Part Darwin, Austndie, sad to I
days the tariff of ainaigii ftato Nr
Awmlii wltt l$mim(li""i
*r taua wall prated ara of both nardra.
A loiter front» towabar ateat of tha Ls#-
Stet
BapitilifTM TPttt, kaxriU&oM
Vive of th* sine majority *f I
