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“THE DAILY SUN
WeDNESDAV MofoSTNO JuiiT 12.
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Hon
WASHINGTON CORRESPON
DENCE.
Alex. H. Stephens of Georgia, |
;lias &Sun.—Columbia [Tenn.) Herald, 1th
July.
/"When first that ‘Sun’ its lifo-giving beams displays,
It draws np vapors which obscure its rays;
■ But e'en those clouds at last adorn its way,
• Reflect new glories, and augment the dav 1”
A. H. S.
The “Plantation Publishing Compa
ny” lias just been organized at Atlanta,
with Gen. John B. Gordon, Rev. 0. W.
Howard, and Messrs. W. G. Morris, O.
R. Hanleiter, and B. 0. Yancey as stock
holders. The latter is President, and
Mr. Hanleiter, manager of the mechani
cal department. The Intellfgencer office
will be united with the “Plantation,”
but the Intelligencer newspaper is still
for sale.—Colunibus [6a.) Sun, 9th July.
We hail with pleasure the an
nouncement thus made — of “the
Plantation Publishing Company.”—
From the character of the men en
gaged in it, we can but believe they
will meet with abundant success, and
that the agricultural interest through
out the Southern States will be greatly
benefitted by the enteiprise.
A. H. S.
»-♦-<
What Is to be the Future of At
lanta?
j What wiU not be done in these Letters
and what will be done—A Radical
Plan to make capital oat of some State
Democratic Conventions — They will
Pile on the Agony—The light in 187*
npon the litnc of 18G8—What the
44 New Departure” Platform offers the
South—The Boutwell-Pleasanton Im
broglio.
REV. LOVICK PIERCE, D. D.
His Impromptu Address Before
the Sophomore Exhibition of
Wesleyan Female College,
Tuesday Evening, July lOth,
1871. ::tSJSK> 7 :"
Special Washington Correspondence of The Sun.
Washington, July 7, 1871.
In the letters I propose writing for The
Sun, from this quarter, I shall not
make a point of noting the departures
and arrivals of those personages who do
the business of assistants to the Secreta
ries, although they may have have had
Reported Specially for the Atlanta Daily Sun.
Brown’s Hotel, Macon, Ga., 1
July 11th, 1871. • J
Editors Sun : In my yesterday’s re-
| port, I promised to give the address of
{Dr. Lovick Pierce, in response to the
| glowing enlogy of Miss Swoll, of Sa-
vannah. The theme of her essay was
Gray Hairs as you remember, and what
more fit illustration could she have found
than the venerable hierarch of the
Christian host, who sat there with his
head of silvery hair, which she said,
speaking after the manner of Solomon,
was “a crown of glory?” MissS. turned
the prefix of “ Honorable” put to their
sur-names of Higgins and Spriggins, and j toe"audience to Dr. R, and with
the like, by a venal local press. Either | nl dignifc y t graceful, earnest deliv-
shall I note the transfers of this or that j and beautiflll i angaag e, pronounced
military or naval officer (be he high or ^ ft glowing tribate to this noble hero
f I
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The answer to this question de
pends mainly upon the energy and
enterprise of the business men of the
G ate Ci ty. Like a you ng man started
in life, with almost everything that
nature can do for him, Atlanta must
be the architect of her own future
fortunes. Two things enter into
the growth of all cities. These are
manufactures and commerce. Towns
and cities, to grow, must make and
produce, as well as sell and transfer.
For the full development of both of
these co-ordinate parts, with their
vital functions, six natural elements
are essential:
1. Salubrity of climate.
2. Abundance of pure water.
3. Abundance of accessible and
suitable raw material.
4. Cheapness of subsistence.
5. Cheapness of fuel, and
6. Central position for distribu
tion.
Five of these elements Atlanta has
(taken in combination) in a degree
unsurpassed by any point on the Con
tinent. Her climate is eminently
distinguished for its mildness of tem
perature and dryness of atmosphere,
with freedom from impurities at all
seasons of the year.
The purest of water in the greatest
abundance is at her command. The
Chattahoochee could easily be made
to flow through her streets, for all
purposes connected with health or
machinery.
Raw material—lumber, cotton and
all sorts of ores—surround her.
Subsistence to any extent, and at
moderate cost, is almost at her door.
Her Railroad Connections — the
Georgia, the Macon, the West Point
and Montgomery, the Air Line, the
great Western and Atlantic, with all
its feeders—make her the grand
Centre of a Circle of distribution for
thousands of miles.
What lacks she now of all the es
sential natural elements for future
growth to give her a place amongst
the first cities in the land? But one;
and that is an abundance of cheap
fuel
Her neighboring forests will not
supply this. She must look elsewhere
for it. What nature has failed to do
for her in this instance she must by-
her own exertions do for herself. She
must stretch forth her hands and
grasp the nearest coal-fields in her
reach. Where are these ? In Ala
bama, so far as discoveries have yet
been made. Towards these fields her
every energy should now be directed.
The Georgia Western Railroad leads
to these on the shortest line. Let
this important work, therefore, he
pushed through with the greatest pos
sible speed. With an abundant sup
ply of cheap coal, Atlanta will have
every natural requisite for her becom
ing the largest city on the Atlantic
slope. Let this be her high aim, with-
low) from one vessel to another, or from
one barracks to another. All such weighty
matters may well be left to the sound
judgment and nice discrimination dis
played in the Associated Press dispatches.
It is even to be doubted whether the
perigrinations of his Excellency himself
are worthy to be specially sjnd at large
reverted to every day in the year. As a
matter of news, such items must be little
relished by the people, especially those
of the South. If these constant refer
ences to Gen. Grant’s whereabouts are,
however, meant as so many friendly at
tempts to keep his mane btfore the people,
on the one side, and as so many re
proaches, calculated, in the pretended
opinion of weak-kneed Democrats, to
impair his popularity, then I have to say
that it is impossible to conceive of more
peurile partizan contrivances. The Pre
sident is already too well known as an
avowed candidate in 1872, to require fur
ther notoriety. And, pray, what impres
sion can be expected to be made by sucii
puny objections as this gadding about of
his Highness from Dan to Bersbebu,
upon a people who have “accepted the
situation,” which enables him not only
to go to Long Branch and stay as long as
he likes, but to invade that virtuous lo
cality; at the head of an army, aud im
prison every sojourner there, without the
benefit of the habeas corpus?
So, I very respectfully, also, turn over
to the agents of the associated telegraphic
companies all that pertains to the Gen
eral's wanderings, his cigars, his horses
and his asses ! It is not perceived how
such small matters can weigh a feather
in the coming contest. I doubt even if
San Domingo, or the tariff, or “ civil re
form,” as it is called, will change a hun
dred votes in the whole country.
But my province is to furnish news aud
not opinions:
I learn to-day that the Radical Central
National Committee, have agreed upon a
plan to turn the erratic coarse of some of
the Democratic State Conventions to de
cisive account at the next session of Con
gress. Of course o6e, and the first, leg
islative movement will be to endeavor to
force Democratic members, (so-called) to
** swallow the leek” bodily. This, I learn,
(and from a source not to be questioned)
will be done by general declaratory rest -
lutions of what 4 ‘the situation" really is, that
such men have so foolishly “accepted.” If
this were all the mischief to be appre
hended, the rebuke would, perhaps, be
richly deserved. But the probability is
that those men (at least one-half of the
conservative members) will utterly refuse
to “ bite,” having recorded their solemn
votes a dozen times against the principle
of the whole reconstruction system. In
what a dilemma, then, will “our side” of
the House and Senate be placed ! The
best thing that could happen, (and that
is bad enough) would be for “our repre
sentatives” in both Houses to “own up,”
through their votes and speeches, that
all this flim-flam about a “new departure”
is simply a “little game,” got up by Bill
Nye, formerly of San Francisco, but now
of the city of New York, and chairman
of Tweed’s Secret Central Committee,
and editor-in-chief of the World news
paper.
I learn further that Che Radical party,
emboldened by the indiscreetly worded
resolutions passed by the Ohio and other
State Democratic Conventions, design to
“pile on the agony." “ Give Cmb-foot au
inch, and he’ll take an ell.” Accordingly,
upon the suborned testimony raked to
gether by the House and Senate Joint
K.u tvIriT Committee, a proposition will
be made at an early day of the session
to place all these States, which, [rallying
raider a fraudulent flag cn-e likely to go
“JDemoa-aticas the tenn is) back under
military rule. This is the natural result
of the current thimble-rigging of profess
ed and unscrupulous politicians. But
what do they care ? No section will be
hurt but the South, and its people are
the “bora thralls of Cedric, the Saxon,”
say they.
No one party can make a political issue
for its adversary. “It takes two to moke
a bargain.” The fight in 1872 must needs
be upon the issues of 1868. We could
not, if so desiring, get rid of the troth.
The “new departure” platform offers the
South, “universal amnesty” as a salvo for
its loss of everything else. Suppose, for
a moment, that what they offer should be
accepted by the Radicals" as really the
issue? It takes a three-fourth vote in
the Senate to remove existing disabilitie j
imposed by an amendment of the Con
stitution, ••accepted” by the
in Christian strife, and with such thrill'
ing effect, that pearly teardrops could be
seen glistening, not only in the eyes of
the venerable divine, but throughout the
whole audience.
The Doctor, then amid the profound-
est silence, and with the deepest emotion,
(which he could scarcely restrain), arosf
and said: .
“Duty and gratitude require that I
should acknowledge the flattering tribute
which the lady from Savannah has so
gracefully delivered in my hearing, I
have passed three-score years and ten;
I have lived to be eighty-seven years of
;ige, and under all circumstances and in
all emergencies, I have never failed to
find something in the word of God to
meet man in everv phase of life; and in
that blessed Book nothing is more strik
ingly appropriate to the occasion' than the
words which you have just cited from
Solomon, “a hoary-head is a crown of
glory.”
I "have been a bappy participant in the
pleasures of youth. I have reaped the
blessed fruits of early piety, and listened
to the praise of friends, whom it was a
pleasure to love; but not until torday have
I ever tasted earthly pleasure so unalloyed
as that administered by the generous
words of your last essayist. (Applause.)
I thank my friend from Savannah for
the compliment so gracefully bestowed,
[t was so gracious and overpowering that
I could scarcely endure it; and reproach
myself for attempting to express my
gratitude; I fear I may deface the pic
ture she has so glowingly painted.
Nothing outside of my immediate fami
ly has ever possessed for me the interest
that the prosperity of the Wesleyan Fe
male College has inspired. My son was
its first President. I labored throughout
the State for its success. I found oppo
sition, and sometimes the strongest pre
judices, to overcome. It had enemies,
and has a few now. They objected to
Seniors and Simiorsappearing before the
public to read original compositions. It
might destroy their maiden modesty,
impair their virgin purity of thought, or
deface the memory of sacred family ties,
they said, and these very persons who
manifested such violent antagonism to
the enterprise for fear it might blast the
modesty of their girls, placed their daugh
ters in the care and surrendered them to
the instruction of dancing-masters who
were tmworthy to loose the latchets of
my shoe, and who should not dean my
boots. There is no danger of blasting
their modesty. Our curriculum.has im
proved them. No woman has ever left
our College halls and afterwards attained
the celebrity of being “fast."
We have taught them to be. graceful in
our way, and we feel assured they have
never suffered from want of the dancing
master’s instruction. They have gone
from us with our fondest wishes to beau
tify, adorn and bless many a household;
ana nearly all who have severed their as
sociation with us on earth have gone to
share a more blessed communion in
heaven.
For thirty-three snccessfnl years I have
attended your Commencements. Every
time I think it my last; but thanks to a
ruling Providence I have been spared to
witness another triumph for this institu
tion and the cause of woman’s education
the world over.
May the praises of her founders, her
patrons, her pupils and her teachers, go
sounding down through Time until the
last trump shall sound, when the great
multitude of her friends and supporters
shall be gathered to their homes to reap
the rich reward that awaits them.”
The Doctor sat down amid tumultuons
and prolonged applause.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
out jealousy towards any of iter sisters makers! The Democrats and Conserva
tives combined number but fourteen
enralously competing for the same
honorable distinction, remembering'
that from him to whom much is given
much will be expected. -
t A. H. S.
Railroad Meeting at Poplur Springs,
Clayton County.
The friends of the Columbus A Atlanta
Railroad have called a meeting at Poplar
Springs, Clayton county, twelve miles
from Atlanta, on Wednesday, the 19th
instant. The citizens of Clayton aud
Fayette will be out in large numbers,
with well-filled baskets, aud desire to
meet tbeir friends of Fulton and Atlanta. The negro woman alluded to in Mon-
A good time generally has been provided day’s issue as being so dreadfnlly burnt
for. So come all of yon. Addresses will j by the explosion of a lamp, lingered in
l>e made by a number of distinguished j great agony until yesterday, when she
gentlemen from Atlanta and other places, died,
Reported Especially for The Sun.
July 11, 1871.
Judgments of affirmance were rendered
in the following cases, to-wit:
Xo. 5. Blue Ridge Circuit—W. A.
Smith and J. W. Looper vs. W. L. Byers,
et at—Illegality from Dawson. The Court
awarded 10 per cent, damages to the de
fendant in error, against the plaintiff in
error, for the delay eaused in bringing the
case to this Court.
No. 1, Southern Circuit—Jimpney A.
Hunter vs. The State—Murder from
Brooks. jJur'
No. 2, Southern Circuit—Thomas A.
Parsons vs. The State—Larceny from
mischief 1 Laurens.
No. 2, Albany Circuit—Aaron L. Reid
vs. Wm. Godwin—Foreclosure of mart
Senators. If this point be forced as a
party test, I should like to see the astrol
oger who could make a reasonable pre
diction of the time in the far future
when “amnesty” could be obtained.
There are rumors to-day of thdresigua-
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, as
there have been heretofore. But I have
good grounds for believing- that Pieu>an-
ton, of the Internal Revenue' Rnreau,
(Boutwell’s pugnacious opponent,) will
be permitted to retire, together with a ma
jority of his understrappers. Cameron
now*rules the roost, and a protege of his
will supplant Pleasanton. *
gage from Dougherty.
Xo. 3. Albany Circuit—Nicholas Cruger
v.>. Chester M. Clark and Martin A Erd-
man—New trial from -Dougherty.
Xo. 4, Albany Circuit—Jeremiah Wal
ters vs. B. Rowland Croasdale—New trial
from Dougherty.
No. 6, Albany Circuit—John F. Cargile.
adm’r. v.s. Abner P. Belcher—Foreclosure
of mortgage from Dougherty.
Xo. 7, Albany Circuit—John G. Tyus
vs. Y. G. Rust-—Trover from Dougherty.
No. 8, Albany Circuit—parte motiou
of R. S. Rust, et al—Motion- to relieve
firemen from jury duty. The Court
held, that the Constitution of*1868 and
the Act of 18(39 relative to persons liable
to jury duty repeal all previous local and
general acts exempting jurors in certain
cases.
trial, under the law and facts of the case.
No. 4, Blue Ridge Circuit—Sarah E.
Kilgo, etaL vs. M. H. Vandyke—Equity
from Lumpkin, was reversed, on the
ground that the Court erred in overrul
ing the demurrer filed in this case.
No. 3, Blue Ridge Circuit—Lester A
Lester vs. J. M. Fowler and Ira
Dunnaway—Certiorari from Forsfyth
reversed, on the ground that
that the Court below erred in sus
taining the certiorari and ordering a new
trial in the Justices’ Court.
No. 1, Albany Circuit—Nelson Tift vs.
D. P. H»11—Equity from Dougherty, was
reversed, on the ground that the Court
below erred in overruling the demurrer
to complainants bill.
No. 6, Bine Ridge Circuit—Stephen
Cantrel vs. James M. Cobb—Equity from
Dawson, was reversed, on the ground
that the Court below erred in overruling
the demurrer to the complainants bill
and in refusing to dissolve the injunction.
No. 2, Blue Ridge Circuit—The Geor
gia Company vs. R. J. Castleberry—Cer
tiorari from Lumpkin, was reversed, on
the ground that the Court below erred in
sustaining the certiorari, the Court being
of opinion that under the facts set forth
in the answer of the Magistrate, the cor
poration chartered as the Georgia Com
pany is not liable for the debt sued on.
D. P. Hill, adm’r. of Davis, vs. Nelson
Tift—Equity from Dougherty.
Warner, J.
This is a bill filed by the administra
tor of Davis to set aside a Sheriff’s sale
of a city lot in the city of Albany, on the
ground that the consideration on which
judgment was obtained, was a slave or
slaves. It does not appear on the face of
the judgment or the execution, that the
original consideration on which the judg
ment was rendered, was for slaves. Judg
ment was obtained on the 24th of Novem
ber, 1864; the lot was sold by the Sheriff
on the 5th day of January, 1869, and
purchased by Tift, for the sum of 8250.
The prayer of the biil is that the Sheriff’s
sale be set aside, and that the title of de
fendant be declared void. The defend
ant demurred to the bill,and the demurrer
was overruled.
Held that the sale by the Sheriff under
a judgment by a Court of competent
jurisdiction, under an execution regular
upon its face at the time, and the same
not being a void judgment, a purchaser
at the Sheriff’s sale, who paid his money
for the lot, acquired the title as against
the defendant aud his legal represent?
tivea, and that the Court below erred in
overruling the demurrer to the bill.
Judgment reversed.
J. G. Tyus, plaintiff in error, vs. Y. G.
Rust, defendant iu error—Trover from
Dougherty.
Warner, J.
This was an action brought by plaintiff
against the defendant as a warehouse
man, to recover the valne of fifty-two
bales of cotton, which the plaiutiff alleges
were sold contrary to his instructions,
and without his authority. The evidence
was conflicting. The. jury found a ver
dict for the defendant, and the plaintiff
made a motion for a new trial, which was
overruled.
Held, that although there may have
been a preponderance of evidence on the
part of the plaintiff, still it was a ques
tion for the jury to determine as to the
credibility and weight which they would
give the evidence of the respective wit
nesses sworn in the case, and there being
sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict
this Court will not disturb it. This is a
Court alone for the correction of legal
errors, and it will not interfere to deter
mine what credibility witnesses sworn on
the trial are entitled to receive, in deter
mining questions of fact. Where no rule
of law has been violated and where the
verdict of the jury is not decidedly and
strongly against the weight of evidence,
this Court will not interfere ; and this we
have earnestly endeavored to impress on
the minds of parties and their counsel
by the repeated rulings of this Court,
Judgment affirmed.
The Georgia Company vs. Castleberry—
Certiorari from Lumpkin.
McCay, J.
A corporation of the same name with
a partnership doing business by the same
agent before the Company, had a charter,
is not the same person as the partnership,
nor liable for a debt due the former part
nership. A parol promise by the Presi
dent of the corporation, withont due con
sideration, to pay a debt contracted by
the agent of the partnership, is not suffi
cient. There must be a promise in writ
ing, or it must be shown that the corpo
ration has received a consideration.
Judgment reversed.
W. A. Smith and J. W. Looper vs. W.
L. Byers et ah—Equity from Dawson.
McCay, J.
A judgment in equity directing the re
moval of a trustee for maladministration,
and that he pay a certain amount into
the hands of a receiver that it may go
into thehands of a new trustee, to be man
aged properly, is a judgment of a court
of competent jurisdiction, is conclusive
between the same parties as to all the
matters at issue; nor is the trustee re
moved under the judgment allowed to
deny that he has mismanaged the trust.
Judgment affirmed with 10 per cent,
damages.
Parsons vs. the State—Larceny, acces
sory before the fact.
McCay, J.
The rule that a conviction cannot be
had on the uncorroborated testimony of
an accomplice, only applies to cases of
felony. In misdemeanors, the status of
the witness goes to the credibility, aDd
the jury are the judges of the credibility,
as in the cases of other witnesses.
Judgment affirmed.
will not Teyexae .the judgment, -q ytatw **>■
Judgment affirmed.
Lester A Lester va. Fowler A Dunaway
Certiorari from Forsyth.
Warner, J. .
Suit on promisory note. When a suit
was brought in Justices’ Court on a note
for $20, made by defendants in favor of
the plaintiff; on the trial the Justice al
lowed defendant to prove that the condi
tions of the contract were that the plain-
tiffs were to clear the defendants of a
charge on which they were indicted, or
they were to have nothin g, which evidence
was objected to by plaintiffs, on the
ground that it contradicted the note,
which was the best evidence of the con
tract between the parties. The case hav
ing been carried up to the Superior Court
bv writ of certiorari, the Court affirmed
the ruling of the Justice, and dismissed
the same.
Held, that the admission of parol evi
dence by the Justice, to contradict the
note and to prove conditions not ex
pressed therein, was error, and that the
court below erred in not sanctioning the
certiorari and ordering a new trial in the
Justice’s Court. " je»Y i
Judgment reversed.
Cantrell vs. Cobb—Iu equity from Daw-
son.. JHzm fttJbt4:
Warner, J.
When a bill was filed to set aside an
award of arbitrators on the ground of a
legal accident, without stating in what
particular that legal accident occurred,
and praying for an injunction to restrain
the collection of the purchase money for
a tract of land sold, on the ground that
the complainant has good reason and
does fear that the title and warranty to
at least a portion of the land will fail, be
cause a suit has been instituted on the
equity side of the court, against the de
fendant and other parties in relation to a
division of the land, and that the defen
dant is a non-resident of the State. There
was a demurrer to the bill for want of
equity and a motion to dissolve the in
junction on the filing of defendant’s an
swer—both of which were overruled by
the court below and the defendant ex
cepted.
. Held, that the allegation in complain
ant’s bill that the matters complained of
were a legal accident, without more, does
not suffice in law to set aside' the award.
Held, further, that a court of equity
will not enjoin the vendor of a tract of
land from the collection of the purchase
money due therefor by the vendee, when
the latter is in possession of the land, on
the ground of the fear of a failure' of the
vendor’s title. The complainant must
allege such' facts in his bill as will af
firmatively show such an encumbrance or
outstanding title as will defeat the title
under which the defendant holds the
land; and that the court below erred in
not sustaining the demurrer to the bill
and refusing to dissolve the injunction.
Judgment reversed. : ’
Croasdale, vs. Walters— Complaint from
Dougherty. *
Warner, J.
This was an action brought by the
plaintiff upon a prommissory note
against the defendant. He pleaded iu
defence thereto that the note was given
for a commercial fertilizer, known as
Croasdide’s Superphosphate of Lime,
and that the article was unfit for use as a
fertilizer, and tuat the consideration for
which the note was given had failed.
There was evidence on both sides as to
the value of -this fertilizer. The jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff. De
fendant made a motion for a new trial
on several grounds set forth in the
reconL *
Held, That the plaintiff warranted the
article to be sold, to be a merchantable
article and reasonably suited to the pur
pose intended.
There was no error in the Court.
Judgment affirmed.
turning.
The JYttc German Ambassador.
Berlin, Jnly 11.
Sohleser, the newly appointed German
Ambassador 4o the United States, will
start to Washington next week.
The principal Commercial German ci
ties are ascertaining, as far as possible,
the wishes of merchants relative to the
commercial policy to be adopted by
Schleser as the Representative of Ger
many in her relations with America.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Killed by Lightning.
Greenville, Indiana, Jnly 11.
Mrs. Snea, a widow lady, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
The Orangemen Suppressed—J\'o Disturbance
to Take Place.
New York, July 11.
Since the issuance of the order by Su
perintendent Kelso, last night, forbid
ding the parade of the Orangemen to
morrow, the excitement and apprehen
sion which prevailed throughout the city
has somewhat abated. The prompt action
of the Mayor and Superintendent, in the
matter, meets with general approval.—
No disturbances whatever will take place
to-morrow.
The Jersey Orangemen—Greal .Harm in Antic
ipation of a Itig JFight.
Jersey City, July 11.
The excitement with regard to the riot
which is expected to-morrow is intense.
There is no donbt but that the Orange
men of this city intend to parade, and
the greatest alarm exists in consequence.
The Hibernians make no secret of their
determination to attack the Orangemen
in case the parade should take place.
Their preparations for the fray are re
ported to be very complete. Meetings of
the several Hibernian societies were held
last evening at which the strongest threats
were used against the Orangemen. Sev
eral of the Hibernian organizations have
received orders to assemble to-night and
remain overnight, under arms, to be in
readiness for Wednesday. The United
Irishmen will also turn ont, numbering
several thousands.
A Shocking tf'.fe-Mur der.
Pittsburg, July 11.
A shocking mnrder was committed this
morning in Sligo, South Pittsburg. Pat
rick Bovery, afflicted with insanity, some
times ^accuses his wife, Catharine, of
spending too much money. This mor
ning while she was asleep, he took an
axe and pounded her head to a perfect
jelly. He gave himself up and was com
mitted to jail on the charge of murder.
He says he is willing to be hung.
Another It/til road Lease.
Louisville, July 11.
The transfer of tho Jeffersonville and
Indianapolis Railroad to the Panhandle
Road was consummated this evening—
giving the Panhandle the monopoly of a
through line South via the Ohio. River for
ninety-nine pars.
Arkansas Democracy.
Little Rock, July 11.
The Democratic Central Committee
met to-day, discussed the propriety of
action, and adjourned over till to-mor-
v. But few favored the proposition
to hold a convention, and it is now
thought it will not be held. A majority
of the mem /era are in favor of adopting
the Ohio platform, which it is believed
by them will be acceptable to the Demo
crats.
From the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, July 7
Col. E. H. Pottle, of Warreuton, writes
a long letter, republished in the Clipper-
in reply to false, scurilous aud maliciou.
charges made by the notorious Chap Non
ris, and published in the Goergia Repub
lican. Chap Norris is notoriously infa
mous, and charges coming from him can
injure the character of no one, much less
a gentleman of Col. Pottle’s position in
the State. We suggest to the Colonel
that the game he is pursuing is not worth
the candle.
TEBEtfKAPH. NEWS
Special Dispatches to The Sob.
By Atlanta and Nashville News Agency.
FOREIGN NEWS.
French JYtoct.
N. Cruger vs. C. M. Clarke, et. al.—New
trial from Dougherty.
McCay, J.
Where a question of fact has been fair
ly submitted to u jury who have found a
verdict and the Judge below refuses a
new trial, this Court will not reverse the
judgment unless there be a very strong
case made against the verdict- ’ i \
Judgment affirmed.
Jno. F. Cargile, vs. A. P. Belcher
■ B - 'i .. •• Paris, July 11.
A Commission of Inquiry has been
appointed ter examine into the course
pursued by the Count Pilatko at the head
of the government of National defence,
and into the conduct of Beuedette, the
French Minister to the Prussian Court,
prior to the Germau war.
A motion dissolving all the battalions
of the National Guards throughout
France, is about to be introduced into
the Assembly.
Spanish JVeeca.
f Madrid, July 11.
The attendance of members upon the
Chambers of Deputies in the Cortes, is
decreasing at such rate that appreheu
sions are felt as to the relation of a quo
mm more than a few days longer.
^jenor Sagosta has assumed charge ad
interim of the Ministry of Finance in the
place of Meret, who has finally left the
Cabinet.
-vitrt. rsrrrj. . Rome, July 11.
The Prussian Minister DeKesseloff,
and the attaches of legation, have ar
rived here from Florence.
Disaster at Sea.
London, July 11.
The ship Madagascar, from London,
bound for Quebic, collided on Sunday
with the steamer Midgur being a heavy
log in the British Channel, off Eddy stone
McCay, J.
Foreclosure of Mortgage— Daugherty. Light'House. Both vessels sank in
short time. The crew took to the boats,
Where a promissory note was given 1 and the sea being calm, reached laud in
during the war for $3500, at one year 1 safety.
after date, OU which 8-8-JO Was paid at | Agnatic Sports.
maturity in Couiederate mom-y, leaving The English crew who are to compete
due $700, and the jury, on a, suit brought I in the four-oared boat race on the Renue-
forthe balance, found for the plaiatiff becucsik River, with the St. John’s crew
$38 97, and the Jtidge granted a new tri- j iu August, will sail on on Friday next for
*1, on the ground that the jury did not America,
find their verdict iu vi» w of the eq lities Bayed TraseUn.
of the casa ; i London, July 11.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Groat ‘‘Goes Bade” on Senator Spencer.
Washington, July 11.—Senator Spen
cer, of Alabama, is highly indignant at
the announcement that Grant will not
return for two weeks. The Senator says
the President promised to meet him here
yesterday, and then settle the matter of
Warner’s appointment Spencer is in
clined to believe now that Grant had no
intention of keeping his promise when
it was made, but only told him so to get
the anti-Warner delegation from Long
Branch.
Akernxan Metises a Characteristic Appoint
ment.
Ex-Governor Parsons, a native of New
York, now of Alabama, who was appoint
ed Governor by President Johnson, and
who in 1868, strongly urged the Ku-Klux
organizations, iu order to prevent the
negroes of t-lie South from voting the
Radical ticket, will be rewarded by Aker-
man with the appointment of Acting As
sistant Attorney General, to go South and
prosecute the Ku-Klux cases. He will
probably be sent to Alabama.
Only a few years ago, Parsons claimed
to be a leader of the Democrats: but the
Radical bait of promised preferment led
him over. He testified before the Kn
Klux Committee, and was most bitter to
wards his own people; and in view of his
undisguised prejudices was appointed.—
His appointment is looked upon in Con
servative circles as a gross outrage npon
the people of the South.
Character of the Radical Jicidence.
Wallace, a scallawag Congressman from
South Cariolina, tried to create a great
deal of sympathy last winter by pretend
ing that it was not safe for him to go
home, on account of his loyal proclivities.
In one of Butler’s highly sensational
speeches on the Ku Klux bill, he pointed
to Wallace and stirred up the loyal feel
ings of the Radicals by picturing how the
venerable man did not dare go home un
less protected by the Ku Klux bill. After
Congress adjourned Wallace remained
here and made all the capital he could
out of his pretended political martyrdom,
and among other tilings got a good fat
office for his son. He then testified be
fore the Ku Klux Committee, and there
8wore that his life would be in danger if
he went to South Carolina. This was
several weeks ago, and yet as soon as he
got his fees as witness, did go home, and
has remained there ever since without-
molestation.
This is a fair specemen of the reliability
men by the Radicals before the Ku Klux
Committee.
Sharp JPracHce in the J*ostoflice /department•
The peculiar practices of the Postoffice
Department, in respect to accepting bids
for postal service, is exciting much at
tention. It appears that paries hold
ing contracts in Texas, Louisiana, and
other States, have shown bids put up by
their friends for services. These are ac
cepted, and the bids then forwarded,
whereupon the Department makes special
contracts for services, at enormously high
rates, with the old contractors. In this
way, and by the manipulation which
goes on, legitimate bidding is defeated,
and the government is made to pay
No. 1, Blue Ridge Circuit—Alexander _
Murray va Wm. Walker—Equity fmm j Held. That this was no abuse of the The-Prinoe and Princess of Wales have | fifty per cent, more than the service is
Union, was reversed, on the ground that discr* turn allowed tie-iu grautmg left Euglnud on a continued tour. They actually worth. Everything about the
the Court below erred in granting a new u* teiusuig a new trial, and this Cour. wifiprybably visit "Germany before re* Department is done by favorites.