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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY S TT_N«
THE DAILY SUN. supreme
Wednesday Morning September G.
Henry UIcws.
COURT DECISIONS, claims against him, except certain specific
liens, and the homestead and exemption
provisions of the Constitution of 18G8 do
not create snch a specific lien upon the
title, to his family, ns may be heard or
The last number of the New York
Leader is getting “clues to Clews'’—in
other words, is after Henry Clews, Gov.
Bullock’s Financial Agent in New York,
and, we believe also, the Financial Agent
of the United States Government.
The Leader speaks of him as “>ne of
the most distinguished Republican lead
ers” in New Yoi'k—a “boon companion
of President Grant,” and “one of Tom.
Murpbey’s adviser?.” who “boasts of
mjs eiious inter tie.vs with the. Secretary
of the Treasury, 1 ' and does not “hesitate
to denounce the hypocrisy of the De
mocracy,” &c.
He resided in* New York during the
war, and was intensely loyal to the U, S.
He gambled in stocks, bulled gold, and
was a “cunning, wideawake Wall street
gambler” all tlio time. He was a foreigner
bom—declared his intention to become
a citizen of the U. S. on the 27th of
Dec., 1854, and by the laws of
naturalization was entitled to fnll
citizenship in I860 — still lie did
not perfect liis naturalization, or vote,
•or exercise any of the privileges of
citizenship, all during the war—did not
even volunteer in the Union service or
place himself within the reach of Lin
ton’s drafts and conscriptions, but remain
ed a foreigner; and it was only on the 8th
day of May, 18G5, that he completed Iris
naturalization and took the oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United
States. The Leader adds :
Twelve eventful years an alien !’
There can be only one answer to the
Clews conundrums above put. Henry
Clews, like the cunning, crafty, wide
awake Wall street gambler that he is, was
waiting to see whether the South would
win or tho North. Like the true Wall
street gambler, he wanted to be on the
winning side.
And he didn’t wish to be drafted. Will
he who now wishes so much information
have any objection to giving a fnll account
of'the interview between himself and the
provost marshal while the draft was go
ing on, and to answering whether or not
he pleaded alienage as a reason why he
could not be drafted? He postponed
•lus full naturalization five years longer
±ban was necessary. In short, not until
Richmond was taken, and the Southern
rebellion had collapsed, did he appear in
the neglected Court of Common Pleas
and become a citizen of the United States.
As Squecrs would say, “Here’s richness.”
.September 5, 1871.
Willis Wood et ak, vs. A. B. Ko3s,
Adm’r. Motion for new trial. i - . • . . , .
O J | in tbe St;it6 courts,
When in a trial in the court below, the j thej iKinkruptcyjuoceedings. Whether
right of certain claimants to property
was predicated npon their rights as
announces
The Court-Journal
that tlic Queen “has to fill two vacancies
in the Garter,” Mostladie3 have to do
the same thing every morning.
The Bridgeport, Conn., Farmer
says: “Jefferson, with an instinctive sense
of propriety befitting tho high station of
President, refused during his eight years’
term to appoint any of his relations to
office, however worthy and eminent.
If this was the only thing in which Grant
is unlike what Jefferson was, the nation
•coukl bear with him ; but alas! he is un
like Jefferson in every particular.
One hundred thousand Irishmen
in procession, iu the city of Dublin, as
was the case last Sunday, gives plausibil
ity to the recent prophecy that the pres
ent generation will witness an Irish Par
liament in session in Dublin. That was
a grand Fenian demonstration; yet what
could England have done to prevent it?
An army of fifty thousand British sol
diers quartered in the Irish capital
would hardly have been able to suppress
the demonstration without bloodshed.
A Naked Usurpation.
Senator Schivrz in his speech at Chi
cago denounced the bayonet law as a
“naked usurpation” of power by a cor
rupt Congress. Here are his words, the
deliberate utterance of one of the ablest
leaders of the Republican party:
“There stands the naked usurpation.
No public danger provoked it; no public
interest was served by it; no public
voice called for it. The honor of the
country would have been far better
guarded without it. Not the shadow of
a valid justification excuses it. A naked
act of usurpation, performed merely to
further a
FAVOURITE SCHEME
of tho White House. And for this the
Constitution was violated, and the peace
of tho country endangered. And can
such nil act pass without the most ener
getic opposition of Congress, and without
emphatic public demonstration? It would
almost seem so. And more than this,
the same officer of the government who
ttas
GUILTY OF THIS ACT j •
is held up by a great many as the man
above all others to be reinvested with the
power mid honor of tbe National Execu
tive. Do you know what that means?
Wo are living in a country where pre
cedent often, but too often, acquires the
authority of law and constitution rule
What is a mere fact to-day is apt to be
looked upon as law to-morrow. If this
act of usurpation passes without
AUTHORITATIVE CENSURE,
thus passing as a precedent into our his
tory, future Presidents and other syco
phants will find thcreiu sufficient proof
that a President may arrogate to himself
such a po wer, for President Grant had
done so, and not only done so with im
punity, but tbe American people after he
had done so, bad again rewarded him
with the highest honors of the republic.
And w! iat will that signify ? That hence
forward a mod flagrant and wilful breach
of the Constitution by a President will
bo considered no reason why the same
position of trust and power should not
be confided to him again.
And, when the Republican party will
meet in national convention, to select a
candidate for the Presidency, the ques
tion will not merely be, do we prefer this
man to any other that is mentioned ? bat
the question will be, are wo prepared to
sanction EXECUTIVE USURPATION ?
grand-children of the deceased, and
there were several witnesses examined as
to their paternity, and tbe evidence sup
ports the verdict of the jury, and no rule
of law was violated in siibmittiDg the
case to the jury, and the judge below re
fused a new trial, this Court will not in
terfere to set aside the judgment of the
Court. . . . ,,
When a motion for a new trial on the
ground of newly discovered evidence was
overruled by the court below, and the
evidence does not accompany the motion,
and the character of the evidence sug
gested l>y tho movant is cumulative,
merely, it is not error in the court below
to refuse a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
Charles A. Nutting et ah, vs. J. M.
Boardman et al. Joinder of parties.
LOCHRANE, C. J.
Where a bill was filed by the heirs at
law against the administrator and the
parties to whom he had sold railroad
stock, property of the estate, to recover
back said stock, which had been sold by
such administrator without an order of
the Court of Ordinary, and the parties
who were the purchasers and defend
ants answered the bill, and in their
answer prayed that the securities of the
administrator be made parties to the
suit, and to which answer a demurrer was
filed and sustained, and the Court dis
missed such cross bill:
Held, That the administrator and
his securities were bound to respond for
any devastavit by the administrator of
the assets of the estate, to the heirs at
law or creditors of said estate. But in
an action brought by the heirs at law,
or bill filed by them, to recover back
property sold illegally by the adminis
trator, from the purchasers, the securities
on tbe administrator’s bond cannot be
made parties thereto at the iustance of
such purchasers.
Judgment affirmed.
Swift, Hamburger & Co. vs. A. H. Powell
—Speculation upon Chances.
LOCHRANE, J.
Where A agreed with B to deliver a
hundred bales of cotton, at twenty-one
cents a pound, at any time within sixty
days, and B knew that A expected to pur
chase himself to fulfill his contract, and
the contract was reduced to writing, and
recited “for value received,” and the
parties further agreed to put up a thou
sand dollars each, which they did, to
cover losses from non-compliance with
such contract:
■ Held, That inasmuch as the original
contract was reduced to writing, and re
cited a consideration, these wassuffipient
under the facts to take the contract out
of the illegality of such contracts, under
Section 2596 of the Code; that the thou
sand dollars put up by each party are to
befregarded as stipulated damages, and
tbat the plaintiff could recover no more
than this amount in his action.
Where the Court, upon tbe trial below,
from a misconception of the case, misdi
rected the jury and admitted illegal evi
dence as to consequential damages, but
upon motion granted a new trial:
Held, It was no error in the Court be
low to have granted a new trial, especial
ly as the amount was for an amount not
authorized by law.
Judgment affirmed.
William J. Pierce, etal., vs. W. H> de-
Graffenreid—Claim—Homestead.
McKAY, J.
Where one who was not in fact the
head of a family applied for a homestead
as such, under the act of 1868, and the
same was laid off to him, and being in
possession thereof, it was levied upon to
satisfy a fi. fa. against him, and he dying
the homestead was claimed by his 'heirs
at law:
Held, It was not error in the Court to
reject the record of the Court of Ordina-
ry, setting apart the land as a homestead,
the claimants not pretending that they
claimed under the family of the deceased.
In a claim case, where the defendant is
in possession, the claimant cannot defect
the plaintiff in fi. fa. by showing title in
a third person not a party to the record.
Judgment affirmed.
Patrick Kerwin vs. James and Cum
mings.—Proceedings against tenant.
McKAY, J. WhereK. rented the
premises of C. by the month, commenc
ing on the 7th day of May, with the un
derstanding that he would occupy them
until October; and the agent of 0., who
made the contract, testified that the
renting was only that the 1st October, but
there was also evidence to-wit: The re
gular receipt of the rent monthly, that
the renting might have been until the
7th: Held whether the renting was to
the 1st or the 7th, was a question of fact
for the jury, and they having found for
the plaintiff, and the Court having refused
a new trial, this Court will not under
the facts set forth in the record, disturb
the judgment of the Court, refusing a
new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
E. and S. Collins vs, A. P. and O. C.
Collins, Aecutors.—Relief act of1870.
Negro consideration.
McKAY, J.
Wherein 1863, A. soid to B. two negro
slaves for §5000 payable in pork at one
dollar a pound, and cotton at fifty cents
pound, but no note was given, and soon
after §2000 was paid in pork, and after
wards A. having died, his executors after
the 1st of June, 1865, adjusted the debt
with B., fixing the amount of the debt at
§1,700, part of which was then paid, and
B’s note with C. as security, was taken
for the balance:
Held that this was not a mere renewal
of the old debt, so as to bring it under
tbe acts of 1868 and 1870, but as there
was in act no new consideration, the
consideration of the note was still slaves,
and it was error in the Court to charge
the jury that this was such a noratiou cf
the contract as purged it of its negro con
sideration.
When there was evidence on one side
that the consideration of the note was the
price of slaves, aDd on the other side,
that it was given for cotton, it was the
duty of the Court to charge the jury as to
the law, arising under the evidence on
both sides.
Judgment reversed,
Gertrude J. Woolf oik, vs. Joseph E. Mur
ray. Homestead of Bankrupt
McKAY, J. *
Where the United States Court, under
tlm Bankrupt act of 1867, have acquired
jurisdiction of the estate of a bankrupt,
the State courts lose jurisdiction of all
such claim is such a one as may be proven
in bankruptcy before the Federal Court,
is a question for that court alone to de
cide.
Judgment affirmed.
Lavinia Williams, etui. vs. O. F. Adams.
Eiectment. defective record of deed.
WARNER, J.
Thi3 was an action of ejectment to re
cover a lot in the city of Macon. On the
trial of the case the plaintiff introduced
in evidence a deed to the lot, from Mar
tha Wiliams, dated the 11th of March,
1851, and recorded 7th April, 1854; also
the deed from Martha Williams to de
fendant, dated 21st August, I860, and re
corded the 28th, and proved the defend
ant in possession of the land.
The main question iu the case turned
on the effect of the record of the prior
deed. Thai deed was recorded with the
names of only two of the subscribing wit
nesses, neither of whom was a. judicial
officer, and there was no probate of the
deed by the others. There now ap
pears on .the face of the deed three sub
scribing witnesses, one of whom sub
scribes his name as a notary public, which
the clerk failed to record when he record
ed the deed, and the question is whether
tbe record of the prior deed, as the same
appeared on the record, was snch notice
under the law as will defeat the title of
the defendant as a subsequent purchaser
from Mrs. Williams. The point'in the
case is, whether an irregular registration
of a deed is notice to a subsequent pur
chaser w hose deed has been regularly re
corded according to law. The Court be
low decided_it was not, and so charged
the jury; a verdict was found tor the de
fendant. The plaintiff excepted to the
charge of the Court, and also moved for
a new trial, on the ground of surprise
and newly discovered evidence; that one
of the witnesses to the deed would swear
that the witness who had attested the
deed as Notary Public, subscribed his
name thereto at the time of its execution,
and that the clerk had failed so to record
ib This motion was overruled, and the
plaintiff excepted. The 2663d section of
the Code declares that “every deed con
veying lands shall be recorded in the of
fice of the Clerk of the Superior Court
qf the county where the land lies, within
one year from the date of such deed. On
failure to record within this time the re
cord may be made at any time thereafter,
but such deed loses its priority over a
subsequent deed from the same vendor
recorded in time and taken without no
tice of the existence of the first.” This
section of the Code is in substance the
same in its legal effect as the act of 1837.
The question in the case is whether a
prior deed from Mrs. Williams, never hav
ing been recorded within twelve months
from the date thereof, and when record
ed the record thereof did not show that
its execution had been attested as requir
ed by law, so as to admit the same to
probate, was legal notice to the defend
ant as a subsequent purchaser from her.
The defendant was only bound to know
what the record discloses, and the record
shows that the deed had been recorded
without any lawful authority to do so.
This Court held, 11th Ga. R., p. 637, that
the irregular registration of a deed was
no notice.
There was no .error in the charge of the
Court *in this case, or in refusing the
new trial. The newly discovered evi
dence will not alter the evidence as it ex
isted at the time the defendant purchas
ed the lot.
Judgment affirmed.
P. W. Doyle and Jas. Martin, sheriff, vs,
the Trustees of the African Methodist
Church and of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South in Equity.
WARNER, J.
This is a bill filed to set aside the sale
of a city lot in Macon, on the ground of
alleged fraud byMartin, the sheriff, and
the purchaser and also because of unfair
ness in the sale, the inadequacy of the
price paid for the proprety, and that the
title to the lot had not passed to the
purchaser. The lot was sold on the
following agreement: “The above case,
ofter stating it,^“is settled on the follow
ing terms to-wit: The lot of land in
dispute shall he sold by the sheriff of
Bibb County on the 1st Tuesday in Feb-
uary next, after advertising the same
once a week iu the Telegraph and Mes-
senBer, until the day of sale.' The' terms
of the sale cash ; after payment of costs
and expenses of sale, the balance of the
money arising from the sale, to be divid
ed equally between the Method^; Epis
vWfriean
copal church South, and the"
church.” Signed by the counsel of both
parties, whereupon the following order
was entered upon the minutes of The
Court. “November term, 1869—ordered
that the above settlement be, and it is
hereby made the judgment of the Court.
On the trial of the c ause, evidence was
introduced on both sides as to the fainess
or unfairness of the sale, and as to
the conduct of the sheriff and purchaser.
The Court charged the jury that this
was not a judicial sale under execution,
and that the law of the State' covering
judicial sales was inapplicable to said sale,
and that in a sale under this order, the
confirmation by the courbwas necessary
to make it valid and there being no such
confirmation, you should set aside the
sale, and decree the deed to he given up
to he canceled, to which charge the de
fendants excepted. The jury returned a
verdict setting aside the sale and ordering
a new sale, and further found that no
fraud was proven between the purchaser
and sheriff, but decreed-that the deed to
Doyle be rendered up, and canceled.
The defendants moved the court to set
aside the verdict on the ground that it was
against law and evidence, which motion
the coart overruled and defendants ex
cepted,
Admitting there was no fraud proven
between Doyle and the sheriff, there is
sufficient evidence in the record, inde
pendent of that fact, in relation to the
sale of the property, to sustain the ver
dict. This was not a judicial sale by the
sheriff, acting in his official capacity,
even if there had been an order of the
Court ordering him to sell the property,
and authorizing him to make a title
thereto to the purchaser thereof. In
our judgment there was no error of the
Court in ordering the property to be
sold. There was an agreement of the
parties that the property should be sold
by the sheriff, and the terms thereof, in
settlement of the snit pending between
them, and that settlement was made the
judgment of the Court, and that is all.
The parties by agreement could not con
fer upon the sheriff tbe authority to sell
the property, and to convey title thereto
to the purchaser without an order of said
Court to that effect. The judgment of
the Court confirming the settlement is
one thiDg. The order and judgment of
Court ordering the sale of the property
in pursuance of that settlement, and con
veying a title thereto, is another. A very
important question, so far as the ques
tion of the purchaser is concerned under
such sale.
Whenever a Court, by its judgment,
shall order a sale of property in pursu
ance of an agreement of parties, then it
will be the duty of the Court to see to it
that tlie sale has been made and the title
to the property executed in accordance
with its order and judgment, especially
if any objection shall be made thereto by
the parties interested. In view of the
facts of the record, the verdict of the
jury setting aside the sale of the city
lot was right, and there was error in the
Court refusing to set the verdict aside.
Judgment affirmed.
B. A. Thornton, Receiver, vs. T. F. Gib-
WARNER, J.
son. Question of fact fob the jury.
This was an action brought by the
plaintiff as receiver of the estate of Rals
ton against defendant, to recover
some §500, alleged to be due
the estate of Ralston for the rent of a
storehouse in Macon. The defendants
pleaded that at the time the storehouse
was rented, there was a co-partnership
existing between the plaintiff in his indi
vidual capacity and the defendant and
one Aurelius Gibson, to do- business as
merchants iu Macon, which partner
ship was afterwards dissolved. On the
trial of the case, after the- plaintiff had
closed his evidence, the defendant de
murred thereto and moved for a nonsuit,
on the ground that the plaintiff’s evi
dence showed the existence of a partner
ship as alleged by the defendant, at the
time the storehouse was rented. The
Court granted the nonsuit and the plain
tiff excepted
This was a demurrer to the plaintiff’s
evidence, and the question for the decis
ion of the Court upon that demurrer was
not as to the preponderance of the evi
dence in favor of the partnership, but
the question ior the decision of the Court
was whether there was any evidence de
nying the existence of the partnership at
the time the storehouse was rented. If
there was any evidence on which the
jury could have found that there was no
partnership, then they should have been
allowed to consider and pass upon that
evidence. 15 Ga. R., p. 491.. 5- Ga. R.,
172.
Thornton states in his answer that
there was a proposition made by him that
when the defendant and his. brother
should come to, Macon and commence
business, that he would put in §5,000, as
a partner, to which the defendant as
sented. There was no partnership
and there was to be none until
they come up to. Macon and com
menced business. They never came
and there never was any partner
ship confirmed. It was error in the court
to sustain the demurrer to plaintiff’s evi
dence as disclosed by the record and grant
ing the nonsuit. The question of part
nership or no partnership should have
been submitted to the Judge under the
evidence of this case. .
Judgment reversed,
GEORGIA NEWS-
eKEFFIN.
The? JIakSe Georgian of the 5th cBabes
the appended items:
The revival of religion in the various
churches of the city is progressing with
good results. .Many of our sterling
young men have become interested, and
are joining the Church,
The Methodist and Baptist Churches
at Jackson have fseen blessed with most
interesting revivals of religion. The
Methodist meeting has, however, closed,
but the Baptist continues, and many are
joining by letter and experience."
The Grand Jury of Monroe county last
week, found a true bill vs.^ Moses A. Potts,
Ordinary, for embezzlement of tlie
county funds. He is, we learn from the
Solicitor General pro iem: to*be tried this
week. He was a deserter from- the South
ern army in the late war.
The alarm of fire was given last Friday
night, between 9 and 10 o’clock, when it
was discovered that a large stable owned
by Mr. John H. George, w as burning.—
The flames spread so rapidly that no one
discovered the fire, although the stable is
in a thickly settled portion of the city,
until it was in a perfect blaze. Two val
uable dray mules were in the house, which
were burned to 'death.
Quite an exciting scene occurred at the
Baptist Church last Sunday night. The
house was crowded to such un extent as
to cause one of the sills to break. The
nois startled a few members of the audi
ence, and the terror spread so rapidly as
to cause a perfect stampede. Some
thought the house was on fire—others
followed the crowd because it moved.
There was quite a jam for a while,: and it
is fortunate that no one received the
slightest personal injury from any source.
We have seen the various cotton ware
housemen, of Griffin, and from their
books we gather the following facts:-
The warehouses of Griffin shipped the
last cotton year, ending September 1st:
Bales 23,359
Number of bales on hand 330
T E L EGR
St. Paul, September u a
storm passed over the town' ofV*
yesterday, and a number of
prostrated A man was fallv
mg blown from the cars. J
Kat/f TlAirca ' * -
^alt^Lake, September 5.__ A ^
Elder was arrested for conc'ealit?.
fusing to deliver up a convidfc&i i
to fifteen years imprisonment ' a N
The mining transactions
amounted to three-fourthsof 1 £39
TV* DTtV QT»A .
There are reports SFSsh
com all points. 1 di *x>T«
from all points.
The Episcopal Church was
to-day,
C J
, Charleston-,. September 5.—XV
of Health reports no yellow' fV,,
Lexington, September 5.
•The
meeting commenced on Monday ,
al noted horses are already ' .
sport promises to-be unusually J
I
The highest official majority J
derson, Superintendent of
struction—41,270. UJ;C
Michael Gormley, vs. J. H. Taylor, Dis
trict Attorney. Mandamus. District
Courts. Vacancies. Governor’s au
thority'to fill vacancies. Constitutional
law.
McKAY, J.
When the Constitution creates an office
to be filled by the appointment of the
Governor, by the advice and consent of
the Senate, but legislation is necessary
to carry the Constitutional provision into
effect, and an act for this purpose is
passed which, by its expressed terms, does
not take effect until the day after
the adjournment of the Senate, the
office is vacant and may be filled by
the appointment of the Governor, until
filled as provided by the Constitution.—
It is immaterial whether the office has
become vacant, or is vacant by having
never been filled. In the latter case he
may fill it under Section 66 of the Code,
which authorizes him to appoint all offi
cers and fill all vacancies, unless other
wise prescribed by the Constitution and
laws.
It is the duty of Courts, in passing up
on the constitutionality of laws, not to
pronounce against them, except in a
clear case, and to make every intendment
possible in favor of the constitutionality.
Art. 3, Sec. 1 and par. 3 of the Consti
tution prescribes that “ the first meeting
of the General Assembly shall be within
ninety days after the adjournment of this
Convention, after which, it shall meet
annually on the second Wednesday in
January, or on snch other day as the
General Assembly may direct;” and that
“no session of the General Assembly af
ter the second, under this Consti
tution, shall continue longer than forty
days, unless prolonged by a vote of two-
thirds of each branch thereof. ” The sea
sion of 1870 may, in a very just and pro
per sense, be the first or the second ses
sion, as provided for and specifically re
quired by this Constitution, so as to ex
clude from the two sessions, called and
extra sessions.
The session of the General Assembly
which poet on the 4th of July, 1868, more
than ninety days after the adjournment
of the Convention, under the order of
Gen. Meade, though a legal session, was
a called, or extra, or irregular session,
and not one of the sessions contemplated
by the Constitution.
- The session of the General Assembly
of 1870, it may be affirmed, was not a
session after the second session, under
the Constitution.
The act of October 27, 1870, to assess a
tax to pay the salary of the District
Jndge and Attorneys is sufficiently defi
nite, since from the census of 1870, the
amount due from each county can be ap
portioned, and the tax books in the
Comptroller General’s office will point
out the property to be taxed.
Lochrane, C. J., concurred.
Warner, J., dissented.
Total. 23,689
The above, however, is not a fair esti
mate of the amount shipped from Grif
fin, as many of our planters did not store
their cotton at'all, but shipped direct to
Factors in Savannah.
The following twinklings are from the
Star of yesterday:
Col. L. T. Doyal is well again.
Trade is beginning to look up, and in
a few weeks our merchants anticipate a
lively time.
We understand that there are quite a
number of Swedes employed in Jasper
county as laborers. %
Mr. W. H-. Dews killed a regular Sea
Gull at Osborn’s mill, about a mile from
Griffin, which measured two feet from
tip to tip.
MACON.
The Telegraph of yesterday has the fol
lowing report of the remarkable result of
a trial of the Snead bigamy case in Mil-
ledgeville:
The ease of the State vs. John T.
Snead, charged with Bigamy, was called
up on. Friday morning. It was proven
by Cowles that, in tho city of New York,
in May, 1868, the defendant introduced
to several gentlemen a lady as his wife;
and that she habitually called at his office
after the business of the day was over,
and was escorted by him out of the office
and through the. streets of the city. It
was further proven that, in January, 1869,
the defendant addressed a letter from
Boston to “Mrs. John T. Snead, Brook
lyn, N. Y.,” signing the same as “Your
affectionate Hubby. ” It was also proven
that the letter was in the hand-writing of
the defendant, and was received by ano
ther witness in New York during the past
summer from Mrs. Snead, who was in
court, and identified as the lady whom
the defendant had introduced as his wife,
and also the lady from whom the letter
in question was received.
Mr. Cowles further testified that, in
November last, in the city of Macon, he
met with the defendant whom he had nob
seen for several months, and inquired of
’ ’ “how and where is.Mrs. Snead now?”
him
Johns Hopkins, a Maryland Quaker,
began life in Baltimore as\a small grocer,
by industry, has brought himself to be
the richest man in the South of Mason
and Dixon’s line. He is now the largest
stock holder in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, worth §8,000,000, much of
which he has given to endow Johns Hop
kins University, on the outskirts of Bal
timore city. Mr. Hopkins is a plain
aged gentleman, still diligent and folly
in business, and was one of the proprie
tors and endowers of the line of iron
steamships between Baltimore and Bre
men.—Petersburg index.
Snead replied “she is very well, and is
still in New York. I will see her in a
few days, for I leave to-morrow.” During
the month of April last, and soon after
the marrage of Snead to the lady in Mil,
ledegville, the defendant met the witness,
Cowles, upon the streets in Macon. In
the course of their interview Snead said :
“Charlie I have the nicest young wife iu
Georgia.” They soon parted, and the
witness testified that the announcement
astonished him. Upon meeting him a
few days afterwards, Mr. Cowley asked
him what he meant about having a young
wife ? The defendant answered • that he
recently married a young lady in Georgia.
Cowles replied, “what has become
of the wife you introduced me to
in New York ; is’ehe dead ?” Snead,
much agitated, replied; “We don’t do
things in New York like you do in Geor
gia.” An exemplification from the rec
ords of Bedford county, Va,, -was next
introduced. It appeared that in May,
1861, application was made to the proper
authority for license for the marriage of
John T. Snead to Mrs. Annie H. Rob
bins—the names of the parents of the
respective parties, their residence, condi
tion, etc., being stated. With this evi
dence the State closed., Tlie defendant
introduced no testimony,
The charge of the court was unexcep
tionable to the gentleman representing
the State. About one o’clock, p. m.,
Saturday, the jury retired, and in a few
minutes brought in a verdict of “JTot
Guilty.” The result startled the whole
community, as well as the court and the
counsel for the prosecution. The excuse
given for the finding was, that there was
a doubt as to whether the lady introduced
by Snead, as above stated, into society in
New York, was the same lady whom he
married in 1861, in Bedford, Virginia.
Tbe Citizen has the following :
We learn from parties just from Wil
kinson county, tbat a diabolical murder
was committed at Toomsboro, on
Wednesday night, August 30th. Our
informant states that a party of un-
Memphis, September 5 —-Th P
reports since Friday are vervJL® 01
Shedding from drought ooSfa
low lands, especially”Tm-iSSf 1
Chicago, September 5 ; ,
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There i s a i
rious drought in Southern BBiiok
Brussels, September;.
number of workmen have struck 1
W and a reduction iu t!ie soaberl
Dublin, September 5.—There
fierce fighting all night. Tl* JJ
were driven to their barracks,, butr-l
ed reinforcements and charged; the or!
desperately. They were driven ki
barracks again. ‘ ' 1
The rally wa3 repeated several times.ll
with the same result. A bar of iron?
thrown from a public house at the-poli
which led to the storming of the ht
and the-capturing of the inmates,
attempt wus made to rescue tberxu bvl
THOU, T*n Ilia lviffla « »l
In the battle which followed
house was completely wrecked by 1
mob in its frantic rage. The pri^J
sang national songs all night, There!
great excitement and it is increasing
London, September 5.—Dr. Karfj
a leading spirit of the International
ciety, is dead.
The Confederate Cotton Bondlioldl
are about publishing a report and co:
pondence:
A special from Dublin says a
of the riots is apprehended. The poL
have been, ordered to use their revolv]
unmercifully. The soldiers are still
der arms for emergencies.
The Sheffield strike has been setill
by arbitration. A similar settlement
the Newcastle strikers expected.
Washington, September 5.—1
North Carolina Cherokee Indians will)
removed in. a few weeks to Indian Te
tory. ... H
The National Executive Resident C: j
mittee held a meeting here to-day,
which the- following statement was
thorized r
This committee have had their att
tion called, to an anonymous pm
entitled “Concession, or How the
'Cause may be regained and tlie indeper
ence of the South secured,” now l
circulated over the States as though,
nating from a Democratic source,
committee feel authorized to denoi
the same as a fraud, and the senti
therein expressed as antagonistic to I
principles and purposes of theDemoed
party. Further, this committee are|
the unanimous opinion that the sir
originated from a Radical source
the intention to deceive the peopk
prejudice them against the only (
which can reform the administration
the government and bring about a
to honesty and Constitutional law. Sij
Samuel J. Randall, .-b airman of the <
mittee. Messrs. Randall, Slocum, Si
Eldridge and Jeffries were persoi
present, and Messrs. Niblack, Yoi
Merrick and Smith were represented.
Versailles, September 5TheP
sian Cross Gazette says it was decided!
Gastein to leave the Roman question
tirely to Italy.
Paris, September 5.—There are
thousand in the city, and constant pet
is kept up. Government has beeai
formed of an intended demonstration!
the Internationals on the 4th inst.,
orders for its repression are absolute:
severe. Lyons, Marseilles, and Bonk
aae filled with troops.
Rome, September 5.—The annivei
of the occupation by the Italian *“
under Gen. Cordoua, on the 2Sth
tembeiywill be celebrated this year!
passage of the National Guards thro
the streets, theatrical entertainments,!
A resident of Michigan, who was
cused of chaining an apprentice boy,;
titles himself on the ground that the
would eat everything edible he could
his hands on, whether cooked or
and that he thought nothing of dei
ing at one time two or three pounce |
raw beef or pork.
L. Maria Child, in writing upon
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or eight miles in a winter evening,
dwelling of her husband. She bee*®
silent during the latter part of the
that the bridegroom was _ alarmed,
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on the day above mentioned gagged and
killed Matthew Deason, Sheriff- of Wil
kinson county, aud also a negro woman
in his employ, aud threw their bodies
into a mill pond near by. The bodies
were recovered on Friday morning and
Sheriff Deason was found to have a gun
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