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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN-
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THE DAILY SUN I U1U V“' "T flu" 7 1 Randolph Circuit-Star on, Mt. Zion,
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\\ ednesday Morning November In | iuhaling the odors of the kitchen, and Armstrong, Pastor.
Account of Henry Clews & Co.
• The acoonnt which this firm, who are
the agents end confederates of Kimball,
Bullock, Blodgett k Co., have presented
against the State of Georgia, is a fearful
one, a bare inspection of which is enough
to'make an honest man sick at heart.
We have not the time or space to de
vote to comments, bat mast content our
selves, this morning, with presenting a
few facts.
His claim against the State amonnts'to
over $1,000,000. Among the items are
numerous drafts drawn by Bullock for
large sums of money, the proceeds of
some of which have come into the State
Treasury, but others are unaccounted for.
There are large numbers of charges for
commissions, interest, advertising, tele
graphing, express charges) Ac., whose
amounts swell np enormously, and cause
astonishment at the impudence of the
man who can find the hardihood to pre
sent them.
The charge for commissions alone is
$93,749 45, and for advertising $14,320.
These commissions and advertising
charges are all for his efforts to sell bonds
which have been issued by Gov. Bullock.
The firm have a separate account for
transactions connected with the old bonds
of the State, redeeming such as were due,
paying interest, expenses, &c., amounting
in all to over $300,000; and his trans
actions in connection with new bonds to
over $700,000.
We give a few items of charges for ad
vertising, in connection with the old
bond account, beginning December 6th,
1870. Daring tho month of December,
he claims to have paid the following:—
New York Herald, $68 80; S. A. Sackett,
$227 50; Commercial Advertiser, $272 50;
New York Sun, $300; Evening Express,
$180; Evening Post, $110 25; Evening
Mail, $180; New York World, $203. |
In* January, 1871, New York Times,
$177; Standard, $1G3 80; Evening Post,
$183 60; Daily Star, 148 50.
In April, for advertising in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, $380 70.
In July following, from the 18tli to the
25th, in various papers, $2,695 57; and
from that time to tho end of the month,
$968. ,
In August last, the charges for adver
tising were $889 79, a single item of
which is publishing “Bullock’s letter,”
$300.
In December last, the firm claims to
have paid the Continental Bank Note
Company $3,467 for engraving. State
bonds.
On the 4th January last, $547 85 are
charged for “foreign dispatches,” and on
the 24th March last for “telegrams,”
$262 08, and on the 29th May last for
“foreign telegrams,” $208 32. On this
same day (29th May) he charges “expen
ses” on 717 bonds of $1000 each, sent
to Europe at various times, $1,792 50.
On the 1st September last, theyjcharge
“expenses on bonds to Europe,” $2,-
332 60, and on the same day “cable tele
grams,” $417 45, making a total of $2,-
750 05 on a batch of $933,000 of State
bonds sent to Europe.
All this is in addition to the claims on
account of State Road drafts and notes
of Foster Blodgett, which we laid before
onr readers a few days ago.
There are ^numerous items of Express
charges—indicating that Clews & Co,
paid the Express Company for delivering
to them State bonds sent for redemption,
which, if true, is a fraud upon tho
people of Georgia.
The debit items in this huge accpunt
fill ten or twelve closely written pages,
while there are only two items on the
credit side of. the account—both for the
proceeds of the sale of State bonds. On
tho 15th of February last credit is given
for the proceeds of sale of 500 gold
bonds of $1,000 each at 87}, equal to
$437,500; and on the 8th of September
of 1,150 bonds of $1,000 each at '86},
equal to $994,750; in all $1,432,250 for
the sale of $1,650,000 of bonds.
There is something suspicious on the
face of this statement of bonds sold. . A
gentleman of this city tried to sell some
of Bullock’s gold bonds in New York,
last Spring, and could not get an offer of
more than fifty cents on the dollar. Fi
nally, Mr. Clews gave him eighty-five,
rather than allow them to be thrust upon
the market for just what they .would
bring. We doubt if (Clews & Co. have
made a bona fide sale of a single bond;
for it is believed that the Bullock bonds
have had next to no negotiable value in
New York. It is particularly believed
that np one could be found on the 8tb of
September last who woald have given
86} for the new bonds which Bullock
and Company have been trying so hard
to sell. ^
One of the Operations of the
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therefore the necessity for its construe- Walton Circnit—Brown’s Chapel, Pen-
tion was very good. j Ho P e ~ ]ReT - K S * Mc ‘
Tlm work has not been paid for. Bui-1 hS? Circuit—Tucker’s Chapel—Rev.
lock and his friends have often been j ames Prophit, Pastor,
called upon to settle the bill, amounting] Gordon Circuit—John’s Creek, MtTa
to some $3,000, and reminded of their
solemn promises while the work was go
ing on to see that it was -promptly paid.
It was only the day before Bullock
left, in his flight to parts unknown, that
he was called upon by these contractors,
who had long needed their money,
They were assured by Bullock
most positively that they would be
paid without delay in a very few days;
and that be would see to it himself. This
promise was given by him with the
knowledge on his part that it would not
be performed, for he was then having his
carpet-bag packed for his secret flight.
That resignation and slanderous address
of his were, no doubt, already written
while making these promises; and he, no
donbt, knew that he would be many miles
away from this city when those contrac
tors would expect his promises to be com
plied with.
THE CAPITOL..
Senator Norwood.
This was the principal result of yes
terday’s proceedings of the General As
sembly. It was a very quiet and a very
orderly election. The result was not un
expected, as the matter had been settled
beyond a peradventure by the caucus
held last week. Before the caucus the
contest was pretty spicy. Several dis
tinguished gentlemen were mentioned in
connection with the high and honorable
office, all of whom were backed ky a
highly respectable number of friends in
the Assembly. It became a question of
who had most friends. The candidates
were all so suitable—so able and distin
guished, that it was a very nice point to
decide between them. But the caucus
was held, and a preference was expressed
for Hon. T. M. Norwood, of Savannah;
and this gentleman may well feel flat
tered, as his was no mean opposition,
but an opposition composed of some of
the best and strongest men in the State.
Thus, having secured the caucus nomi
nation, his election yesterday was a mere
matter of form, as there was no consid
erable opposition. The Radical Saints
trotted out no candidate, but fell back
upon the unadulterated Blodgett, as
their Senator, by right of a previous
election, which was irregular, illegal, un
constitutional, null and void, and no
more entitles him to a seat in the Senate,
as representative from Georgia, than one
of the savages of Otaheite is entitled to
it. The King of the Ashantees, and his
fragrant adjuncts, in both branches of
the Assembly, entered their protests
against the election of Mr. Norwood.
They have a right to protest as much as
they please, hut all their protests cannot
entitle the dapper Mr. Blodgett, intel
lectually, morally, or legally, to a seat in
the United States Senate. One. aromatic
Saint rallied all his intellectual and
physical forces, compressed them into a
single ballot, and exploded it for Ephraim
Tweedy.
The Senate declined to agree to the re
port of the Printing Committee, which
was adverse to letting the State work ont
to tli8 lowest bidder, r and committed the
matter into the hands of a special com
mittee of three, of which Senator Nnn-
nally is chairman. If this matter is pro
perly investigated, it will be found that
there is a vast deal of room for curtailing
expenses in this matter of State Print
ing, and as the Legislature appears to be
marking out a wisely economical line, it
were well to make a clean sweep as it
goes. A few thousand saved on Public
Printing annually is that much clear
gain.
Methodist Protestant Confer
ence.
bor and Mt Zion—Rev. O. Reeves, Pas
tor; Rev. W. S. Johnson, Assistant
SUN-STROKES.
“No yellow fever reported to
day,” jubilantly comes from Charleston.
The Japanese think a great deal
of fish. So does Grant.
Dickens is to have a bronze mon
ument in London.
Walker Circuit—Post Oak, Pine Grove,
Mill’s Chapel andNickajack—Rev. T. M.
Allen, Pastor.
Senoia Circuit—Cedar Rock, Emmaus
and Senoia—Rev. E. Corley, Pastor.
DeKnlb Circuit—Mt Zion, Clifton’s,
Morris’ and New Hope—Rev. G. W.
Morris, Pastor; Rev. A. W. Mitchell,
Assistant.
Irwin Mission—No Change—Rev. C.
Webb, Pastor.
Laurel Branch Circuit—Laurel Branch,
King’s Chapel and Scottsboro—Rev. J,
M. Langford, Pastor; Rev. J. W. Miller,
Assister.
Yan Wert Circuit—Pleasant Grove,
Mt Carmel and Black’s Chapel—Rev. J.
O. A. Radford, Pastor; T. P. Biggers,
Assistant.
McDuffie Circuit—Republican, Fellow
ship, Bethel, Thomson, Bonesville—Rev.
Jno. G. Caldwell, Pastor.
Sweetwater Circuit—Mt Zion—Rev.
W. Shadrack, Pastor.
MISSIONARIES I
T. M. Allen, J. G. Mitchell, T. T.
Key, J. B. Morris, E. Morris, W. T.
Griffin, unstationed; A. J. Bryant, loca
ted by request; H. Parks, transferred; B.
P. Biggers, home missionary; B. P. Ran
som, superannuated; J. A. Farabee,
transferred.
TheCommittee on Statistics has reported
as follows; Number of white communi
cants, 2,492; aggregate value of Church
property, $15,450.
The support of the Ministry, on a ma
jority of the Circuits, was reported their
claims satisfied.
Committee on Fraternal Relations of
fered the following:
Resolved, That this Conference ap
point two fraternal messengers to bear
the Christian Salutations of this Con
ference to the North Georgia Conference
M. E. Church South, which will convene
at Athens, Ga., on the 29th instant,
trusting that the bonds of Christian af
fection may he perpetuated and strength
ened to the end of time; adopted.
With the sanction of the Con Terence,
the President appointed Rev. J. G.
Mitchell and Rev. John G. Caldwell as
Messengers.
The Special Committee to employ a
Conference Missionary, with adequate
salary, presented the name of Rev. Dr.
Geo. Harlan, who was confirmed by the
unanimous vote of the Conference as
Missionary at large.
Resolved, That the interest manifest
ed by the citizens of Atlanta, for the
support and comfort of the members
composing this conference,deserves at our
hands something more than a favorite
return of thanks. We fed a great duty
would have been neglected, if we fail to
make a public expression of your kind
ness to us during our stay among you.
We bid you adieu, leaving our best
wishes for your prosperity, and remem
bering you in our prayers before the
Throne of Grace.
On motion the Conference adjourned,
sine die. . *■' 1
Closing services by Rev. J. G. Cald
well.
{fcaT* After the New York detectives
inform the Courts who killed Nathan;
perhaps they will go to Boston and as
certain who killed Kate Lehan.
Mobile poets frame their produc
tions and raffle them off at one dollar a
chance. This is a new trick of the Mu
ses, but it amuses.
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Among the curiosities, at a
Georgia Fair, was a velocipede.—(Boston
Post.) The curious part of it was not
the velocipede, but the man who had the
audacity to enter the thing.
J8Sr* Jim Fisk has 17,400 notices of
himself pasted in a scrap book. When
ever he feels his vanity about to over
come him, he goes to his scrap book and
reads.
»..#■-< ——
BST* If Spain meddles with our ves
sels, she will get into a Hornet’s nest—
(Boston Post.) At present, however, the
Hornet has got into Spain’s nest, and is
forced to lag there.
An exchange says: “ Sneer not at
old clothes. They are often made holy
by long sacrifices.” Pogue says his were
made hole-y by long wear. In fact that
is the way he sacrificed them.
“Canada is to be bored for petro
leum.” It seems eminently desirable
that the world should let this petroleum
business alone, until a few hundred in
cendiaries should have been caught and
hanged.
The President may receive pres
ents of houses, horses, or money to any
amount, but a poor letter-carrier is for
bidden anything of the kind. This
controverts the old adage, Like master
like man.—(Boston Post.) But the Presi
dent only gets $25,000 a year, and how
is a man to keep fine horses, smoke fine
segars, and travel ever so many thousand
miles a year, on that unless he had some
outside help. The Post is unreasonable.
Governor Bullock, last spring, em
ployed a prominent firm of builders in
this city to construct an addition to the
Governor’s Mansion, to be used as a
kitchen, and to contain the apparatus for
heating the entire building by steam.
One or two gentlemen, prominently con
nected with the big moneyed operations
by which the people of Georgia have
been so fearfully plundered, took an ac
tive part in the building, giving orders
for it to be done, directing the construe
tion and promising to see it paid for.
There was no authority of law to have
Evening Session, Second Day.
Atlanta, November 11th, 1871.
Conference met at two o’clock.
Committee on Orders and Itineracy,
reported the following candidates: For
Deacons’ Orders: Jas. Prophit; for El
ders’ Orders: Jno. G. Caldwell and G.
P. Southerland.
Rev. T. Weldon was received as an
Elder from the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The Conference resolved itself into a
missionary meeting, and consumed the
time up to the hour of adjournment, to
devise ways and means to visit many
churches, neglected since the late war,
by special missionaries. $300 00 was
subscribed by the members of the con
ference.
Third Day—-November 13,1871.
Tho Conference met at the appointed
hour. Religious services;by Rev. T. A.
Adams.
The Committee on Circuits and their
Pastors made the following report:
Carrol Circuit—No change—Rev. John
Thurman, Pastor; Revs. A. Tamer and
S. E. Smith, Assistants.
Coweta Circnit—Shady Grove, New
Hope and Monnt Zion—Rev. S. Moore,
Pastor; Revs. G. P. Southerland and G.
W. Bryant, Assistants.
Clayton Circuit—Key’s Chapel, Asbury ‘
Mt. Pleasant and Mt. Carmel—Rev. S.
H. Griffin, Pastor; Revs. N. Belcher, A.
C. McKenzie and H. G. Andrews, Assist
ants
Henry Circuit—Island Shoals, Centre,
Factory and Tirsa—Rev. T. A. Adams,
Pastor.
Spalding Circuit—Harmony, Shady
Grove and New Bethany—Rev. T. E.
Grant as a Logician.
The newspapers are making fun of the
President’s Portland speech. They ought
not to do it. Was it not a very good
speech? It will be remembered it ran
as follows:
“ Citizens of Portland: I have.very vivid
recollection of a, to me, gratifying visit I
made six years ago in your city. Now I
return from an equally pleasant one, both
here and in other parts of your State.
My reception has been most pleasing,
and I hope my visits will not he so far
apart in the future, otherwise I shall not
be able to visit you often before I am a
very old man. I thank you for this
greeting.”
Now, we contend that this was an emi
nently wise, patriotic, and conservative
speech. We can find no fanlt with it.
It was not tedious. Nobody could com
plain with being tired out with listening
to it. It was easily reported. Above all,
it was sound aDd true, which public
speeches sometimes are not.
It will bear the closest analysis. See
what a beautiful series of syllogisms may
be made of it—viz
(i.)
Six years is along time;
I have not seen you for six years.
Therefore, it is a long time since I saw
you.
(n.)
A few long times make a lifetime,
Six years is a long time.
Therefore a few times six years make a
lifetime.
(ra.)
In the course of lifetime I shall be a
very old man.
A few times six years make a lifetime.
Therefore, in the coarse of a few times
six years I shall be a very old man.
(iv.j
If I don’t see you oftener than hereto
fore,! shall see you only once in six years.
In the course of a few times six years I
shall be a very old man.
Therefore, if I see you no oftener than
before, I shall see you only a few times
before I am a very old man.
We really think Mr. Grant's speech
was one of the ^most lucid and logical
ever delivered by that distinguished
orator.—Exchange.
—
BSP* The Washington Chronicle of the
11th has this item:
We learn that Governor Sam Bard,late
of the True Georgian, will resume jour
nalism in a few weeks. Preparations are
being rapidly made for his new journal.
Let the Bourbon Democracy “stand from
under.”
The fact that this first appears in Wash
ington—the fact that it first appears in
the Washington Chronicle—means some
thing. The Chronicle is one of the most
ultra Radical papers in the country, and
somewhere or other, something is said
about a dog returning to his vomit.
It is hoped that Grant, or his
subordinates, will soon be sober enough
to let the public know what the admin
istration knows about South Carolina.—
A few weeks ago Marion county was de
clared to he under martial law. A sup
plementary proclamation said that it was
not Marion but Union, that was meant.
Still another proclamation came supend
ing habeas corpus in Marion, and the dis
patches published yesterday morning
again repeat, not Marion but Union.—
The popular belief is that some body is
muddled if not fuddled.
Confident..
Capt. Foster Blodgett, we learn, is
buoyantly hopeful of securing a seat in
the United States Senate when Congress
reassembles, and has so expressed him
self. Perhaps he has reason for the hope
that is in him, and perhaps not.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
A cow attacked a lady on the streets
in Savannah Saturday, and gored her
dress in a way not prescribed by the
mode.
Savannah jumps Hon. Julian Hartridge
os the man to make the race for Gov
ernor.
Rome hoists J. L Wright for Mayor.
That’s right.
A correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican suggests General Colquitt for
Governor.
Mr. Clark, of Savannah, died in Grif
fin Sunday.
Savannah acknowledges the receipt of
the fiist frost of the season.
Templeton will run St. Andrews Hall
during Fair week in Savannah.
Hon. T. M. Norwood, our Senator
elect, will leave the city this morning for
Savannah, where he will remain until
the approaching session of Congress.
The Nomination of a Candidate
for Governor.
Our neighbor, the Constitution, of yes
terday, has a short communication on
this subject, signed “Fas Poputi," from
which we extract the following, to give
it onr hearty indorsement:
It is expected andidemanded that the person nomi
nated ahaU be of the most unquestioned and un
questionable integrity. None other vriU suit the
times, and none other will satisfy the people. Let
be a man above suspicion.
The financial condition of the State requires that
a man of the most sterling integrity be placed at the
helm. No other than such a one can have the con
fidence of the people, and without their confidence,
his administration would be a source of continual
distrust. Let such a nomination be made without
regard to rings or cliques-or factions, and the peo
ple wiU acquiesce, otherwise dissatisfaction and dis
union will ensue.
A correspondent of Thh Sun, alluding
to the foregoing, says:
It expresses the real sentiments of the
people of Georgia. Radicals and cor
ruptionists, and rings for plunder, have
formed a powerful combination, and will,
no donbt, make a desperate effort, se
cretly, and by every means in their power,
to control the nomination; and, xf they
fail in this, will be defeated and theii
power broken and lost in Georgia.—
The great Democratic family of the
grand old Commonwealth will not be
satisfied with any man who is not above
suspicion, and can stand forth tried and
pure.
The destiny of the State is in the hands
of her sons. If we will be vigilant, true
to principle, true to our wives and chil
dren, our common heritage, our glorious
record and our noble dead, a bright fu
ture awaits our down-trodden State.
An Old Democrat.
T ELBGKAMS.
Washington, Nov. 14,—There was a
full Cabinet to-day, but a short session.
Caleb Cushing has resigned the coun-
selship before the American-Sjmnish
Commission.
The barometer here has fallen an inch
in the last twenty-four hours.
A cyclone to-day swept the entire
country from west to east, up the Gulf
and along the Atlantic coast.
Minnesota gives Austin 13,000 ma
jority. The Republicans have a ma
jority in the Legislature of 56 on joint
ballot.
There has been a cold rain all day.
The wires work slow.
General Howard’s report recommends
the abolition of what remains of the
Freedman’s Bureau.
New York; November 14.—A special
to the Herald denies the report that the
Pope has requested a residence in France.
Tweed’s counsel has filed exceptions to
Judge Barnard’s order. The plea is lack
of'jurisdiction.
The Wabash will sail on Thursday.
Captain Willis and a sailor of the brig
Scotland, from Port au Prince, died of
fever.
Honolula letters give details of the
wreck of the Schatzschaff in the Pacific
Ocean in July last. The crew and four
passengers perished. One hundred of
the crew were foreigners. Ashley Crane
and Charles Davis, of San Francisco, were
the only Americans aboard. The captain
was barely alive when the Moses Taylor
encountered her, on the 10th of October.
Tweed resigned on Thursday. The
Mayor is consulting prominent citizens
for a successor.
Fourteen additional cholera patients
the from Franklin have been admitted to
the hospital.
The American Woman Suffrage As
sociation will hold its third annual meet
ing in Philadelphia, on the 21st and 22d
of November.
Two cars, with a hundred passengers,
ran off the track of the Hudson River
Road, at Spuyten Duyvel bridge this
morning, stopping within a few inches of
the edge of the bank.
The Board of Aldermen organized and
county canvassers, to-day, proceeded to
count the votes. Several protests have
been received and referred to a commit
tee.
The Health Board feel no uneasiness
abont the cholera, but profess to feel un
easy relative to the small pox; but only
eight new cases have occurred in the
whole city since Saturday.
A new point has been brought up in
the Riverside Park case, to the effect
that all State laws allowing commis
sioners to assess damages, are void under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Na
tional Constitution, the defendants claim
ing that awards must be made by jury.
Tweed advanced $10,000 to-day to pay
the pipe laborers.
There has been a strong north-east
gale, with heavy rain, all the evening.—
No arrivals from the sea. Marine dis
asters are feared.
v The telegraph is working badly in all
directions.
Charleston, November 14.—A heavy
South-east gale last nigat and this morn
ing prevented the movements of ship
ping. No serious damage has been done
at this point. There has been no arri
vals and nj departures.
San Francisco, November 14.—The
Pinio Indians have made a raid on the
Apaches, killing thirty-five men, captur
ing eight children and a large quantity of
plunder taken the day previous from."the
white settlements.
Nashville, November 14.—It has been
snowing since 3 o’clock this morning. It
melts as fast as it falls.
Philadelphia, November 14.—There
were 491 cases of small pox last week—a
decrease of 85.
Rev. Alfred Cookman, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, is dead.
The Goldsmith Maid beat Lucy three
heats for $3,000. Time—2:25}. The
track was heavy.
Montgomery, Nov. 14.—Owing to in
clement weather, the Fair in Selma was
not opened to-day, but will open to-mor
row, and be closed on Monday, instead
of Saturday, as intended,
Boston, Nov. 14.—The Merchant’s
State National Bank has divided a loss of
over half a million of dollars paid on
Millen, Ward & Co.’s checks.
Charles Francis Adams sailed on the
Tripoli, for the Genoa conference.
Brussels, November 14.—The session
of the Belgian Chambers was opened to
day. Prince de Ligne was made Presi
dent of the Senate.
New York, Nov. 16.—There are six
new cases of cholera at quarantine, in
cluding the surgeon of the steamer Frank
lin. Two cases were fatal.
The race between American Girl and
Allen has been postponed until the first
fair day.
The storm ceased at daylight. It was
the severest that has been known for
years. Trees, awnings and chimneys were
alown down. The tide was unusually
high. The gale was directly from the
south-east. Many wrecks on Long
Island are apprehended.
General McClellan declines to succeed
Tweed.
CoL B. G. Stone, editor of the Platts-
burg Republican, is dead—aged 63.
The wind last night was 63 miles an
hour.
An unknown Cuban threw a pail of
filth in the face of the editor of a Spanish
paper. The affair occurred on the street
near the Change place, Broadway.
A railroad car ran into a street car,
hurting two fatally and six seriously.—
The driver of the car disappeared. The
accident was caused by a careless cross
ing-keeper, who also disappeared.
St. Louis, November 15.—A party of
practical bridge builders propose to
bridge the Mississippi at Carondolet with
in two years, at a cost of two millions of
dollars. Three railroad companies are
considering the proposition.
Cleveland, November 15.—There has
been considerable damage here from a
northeast gale. The Scow "Williams was
foundered, drowning the cook and a
sailor.
Nashville, November 15.—The Legis
lature has appointed 'a committee to in
vestigate the turning over of $72 OOn in
State bonds by the Chancery cS of
Davidson county to the Attorney for the
State. The matter grows out of the de
linquent railroad coses. Three attorned
claim each a see of $15,000. Chancellor
East would not allow tho claims but
turned over the bonds to them as custo
dians for the State.
_ San Francisco, November 15. Lo-
ring, who was murdered with others in
the stage in Arizona, last Sundav, was a
popular author and journalist. He was
on his way East, intending to lecture
against Collyer’s Indian policy.
Legal technicalities will postpone a de
cision in Mrs. Fair’s case till January
London, November 15.—The steamer
City of Brooklyn ran down the Ida in
the Mersey. An officer of the latter was
drowned.
Berlin, November 15.—The Provincial
Correspondence, Semi-Official, says- The
retirement from Chancellorship of the
Austrian Empire and Ministry of For
eign Affairs of .Baron Yon Beust, has no
effect on relations between Prussian and
Austrian friendliness, which is unim
paired.
Washington, Nov. 16.—General Allen,
Adjutant General of Alabama, has been
successful in obtaining the arms due that
State. The arms are of the most ap
proved pattern.
Louis H. Mayer has been appointed
Assessor of the First District of Alabama.
It is stated that charges are pending
against Prosser, Post-master at Nashville,
for accepting pay for getting claims
through Congress. Prosser was former
ly a member of Congress.
The Agricultural Department is pre
paring seeds seasonable for the South.
A supply may be obtained by application
to agents of the Department, or through
members of Congress. The distribution
is gratuitous, but the Department wants
some guarantee that the seed will not he
wasted.
MAYOR’S COURT.
Weilnciday’j Levee.
A little Hottentotish individual was
before His Honor yesterday morning,
charged with resorting to a mode of de
fense unli< ard of in civilized warfare.—
He doubtless imagined himself on the
pyramids of Egypt projecting huge stones
upon Napoleon’s Legion of Honor. Be
ing attacked by a member of a neighbor
ing tribe, he retreated up two or three
flights of stairs, and commenced rolling
stones on his antagonists with a despera
tion that—sent him to the calaboose, jj
MR. WARD
succeeded iu warding off a charge of
“ disorderly conduct” by proving that he
was playing, “jus funnin.” He paid
costs by affording the Court a hearty
laugh. *
A TOUCHING SCENE
was enacted before His Honor yesterday
morning, and no one knew better how to
dispose of the case. A young man re
cently married, somewhat intoxicated on
hell-brewed whisky, had met with a
profligate woman, who, under pretense
of seeking shelter from the storm, sought
the hospitalities of his house, with the
wicked design of violating the conjugal
sanctity of their humble home. The
young man consented. His young, lov
ing wife protested. He struck her for
the first time, and she came to the
Court, melting with tears to testify
against her wayward husband. His
Honor lectured him kindly told
the anonyma she was infamous,
charged $10 and costs and dismissed tho
sorrowful young wife with a heart full of
sympathy and the following admonition:
“ Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep tho wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find onr sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day,
With a patient hand removing
All the briars from our way.”
Mr. Croaliy,
The attorney of Messrs. Clews & Co.,
is in the city, for the purpose of pre
senting the claim of the latter against
the State, and giving any explanation in
connection with the same. He repre
sents the items in the accounts of bi3
clients as being strictly correct—all in
curred by order of Gov. Bullock; and
that any seeming extravagance in them
are not chargeable to Clews, hut to Bul
lock.
We have no desire to do injustice to
Mr. Clews or Gov. Bullock, or any one
else. The account presented by Clews
& Co. against the State is a fearful one,
which needs careful investigation.
Nashville, November 15.—An oil well,
thirty miles from Nashville, flows 100
gallons a day.
Louisville, November 15.—The citi
zens of Henryville, Indiana, put a rope
around a negro’s neck, and frightened
him into a confession of the murder of
the Park family, with two negro accom
plices. He planned the murder, believ
ing that Park had $500 or $600. They
got $140. The three are now in jail a
Jeffersonville.
Sale of fUe “True Georgian.’’
The office of this journal—including
type, presses, furniture, books, goad
•will, etc., was sold yesterday at public
outcry—the Hon. Joseph E. Brown be
ing the purchaser at $3,600. There was
but one article reserved, and that was the
picture of the late Editor, and Ex-Gov
ernor of the Territory of Idaho, which,
by special permission of the creditors,
was donated to Gen. Alfred Austell, as a
Souvenir from his friend Bard. Gov.
Brown bought the office to secure advan
ces, and we do not know that he will run
the paper.
State University.
The article in this morning’s paper
about the State University is from the
pen of of one of the ablest men and first
scholars in the Southern States. He has
been personally and closely identified
with education and educational institu
tions in this country for many years.—
His authority, experience and practicable
wisdom on this question, so all-important
to our prosperity as a State and people,
are unimpeachable, and his advice should
be seriously considered. Further ar
ticles, presenting the most liberal, catho
lic and wholesome designs for our ad
vancement to high rank iu education,
will appear in the columns of The Sun
at an early day.
