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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1871.
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Of The Atlanta Sun,
CONTENTS
“ATLANTA WEEK! A SUN,”
FOB THE WEEK ENDING
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 97th,1871
THE DAILY SUN
Sunday, December 24,1871.
The New Hampshire Democracy
We invite the attention of our readers
to-day to a letter in another column from
the land of Levi Woodbury and Franklin
Pierce. In the letter, a copy of the Res
olutions adopted by the late Convention,
at which Gov. Weston was unanimously
re-nominated for the office he has filled
with so much ability’, was enclosed. We
publish them, that Democrats everywhere
may see and know the principles on which
their brethren in New Hampshire go into
the contest for Constitutional Liberty.
The Resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the Convention, and are in
these words:
THE PLAIFOEM.
Resolved, That the Democracy of New Hampshire
firmly adhere to toe principles hereby enunciated:
1st. The perpetuity of the Union, a strict obedi
ence to the Constitution and an honest enforcement
of the laws.
2d. Tho protection of the rights of every citizen,
in accordance with the fundamental law.
3d. Opposition to every species of corruption in all
the departments of municipal, State and National
Governments.
4th. No privileged classes and no privileged capi
tal.
5th. A tariff that raises money for the necessary
expenses of the Federal Government, and not for
the benefit of monopolists.
Kesolvcd, That the recent declaration of marital
law over a portion of the Bcpnblic is an atrocious
use of an unconstitutional enactment; and wo here
by denounce that enactment as subversive of every
principle of civil liberty, .also in its pretexts, and .1
its enforcement an outrage demanding earnest re
monstrance and rebuke; and we invite aU patriotic
citizens of New Hampshire, who are opposed to the
present National Administration, to join with us in
efforts to stay the tide of corruption and cent-’iza-
tion which threatens to destroy the civU liberies of
tho people.
Be8olved, That we pledge ourselves to a reform of
the civil service of the General Government, to a
vigorous prosecution of reform in our own State,
tho reduction of its expenditures to the lowest prac
ticable limit, the elevation of the courts of justice
above the influence of any personal or partisan con
siderations, and the enactment of all necessary laws
which public sentiment will sustain and public offi
cers bo required to enforce.
liesolved, That we reaffirm our confidence in Gov.
James A. Weston, as personally an d officiary above
reproach; and we pledge our united efforts to secure
his re election.
These Resolutions breathe the right
spirit throughout.
There is in them no lowering of the
old Democratic Banner; no departure
from Jeffersonian principles. But in
them is presented a bold front agairist
the usurpations and corruptions of the
Party in Power, which have brought the
country to the verge of Rnin and Des
potism. A. H. S.
NEW HAMPSHIRE POLITICS.
Interesting Letter to The Sun.
I’n ge I—The New Hampshire Democracy. New
Hampshire Politics. Washington Correspondence
Mr. Stephens and Tho Sun. Son-Strokes. Geor
gia Mutiers. Local Notes, etc.
Page 9—Tho Suspended Taxei on the Press.—
Catching Wild Hogs. Benjarni : onley. Pub’<5
'Acii psssed by the Georgia Leg; ft star®, 1871. Lo
cal Notes. The Boys of tho Feriod. Telegrams.
Pngs C—Geor 0 ia Matters. Local Notes. Tele
grams. The Bonds of Georgia. Appoint uentsef
the South Georgia Conference for 1872. < oat’s
Military Police in IlPuois. Advertisements. .
d—"The Comptro ’er Generalship.” - _he
Legislature: id the Press. / t Anniversary. Son-
Stroke;. Georgia Matters. Lo 'Notes, etc.
Page 5—Telegrams. Communication from Flori
da. Commercial. Advertisements, etc.
Pago C—Temper of tho South. Death of a Fe
mur Prominent Citizen of Georgia. Washington
Items. Hebei in Ileal Life. Sun-Strokes. De
layed Telegrams. Georgia Matters. Local Notes.
Telegrams, etc.
Page 7—Sun-Strokes. Georgia Matters. Com
pensation of Jurors in DeKaib and Fulton Coun
ties. In Meiuoriam. Public Acts Passeu at the
Late Session of the General Assembly, 1871. The
Condition of the South. Sowing. Sun-Strokes.
Page 8—Tho Washington City Patriot The End
Approaching. Local Note*. Telegrams, etc.
Special Notices.
The Great Pictorial Annual.
Hostetler's United States Almanac for 1872, for
distribution, grails, throughout tho United States,
nud a’l civi'ized countries of the Western Hemis
phere, is now published and ready for delivery, in
tho English, German, French, Norwegian, Welsh,
Swedish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish languages,
«ud ad who wish to understand the true philosophy
of health should read and ponder the valuable sug
gestions it contains. In addition to an admirable
medical treatise on toe causes, prevention and cure
of a great variety of diseases, it embraces a large
amount of information interesting to the merchant,
the mechanic, the miner, the farmer, the planter,
and professional man; and the calculations have
been made for such meridians and latitudes as are
most suitable for a correct and comprehensive Na
tional Calendar.
The nature, uses, and extraordinary sanitary
effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the staple
tonic and alterative of more than half the Chris
tian world, are fully set forth in its pages, which
are also interspersed with pictorial illustrations, val
uable recipes for the household and farm, hamcrous
anecdotes, and other instructive and amusing read
ing matter, original and selected. Among the An
nuals to appear with tho opening of the year, this
will be one oi the most useful and may be had for the
asking. The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetler & Smith,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on receipt of a two-cent
stamp, will forward a copy by mail to any person
who cannot procure one in his neighborhood. The
Bitters are sold in every city, town and village, and
are extensively used throughout the entire civilized
world. deod&wlw.
Tiie problem of a fuel supply for tlie
Northern prairie country is solving itself.
Owtng to’the limited supply, wood ha^
cost at St. Paul from $10 to $12 per cord
for many years past—an enormous ex
pense when it came to heating a whole
dty. Now, however, the railroads are
taking a hand in it, and a ton of the best
Ohio coal, from Duluth, costs little or no
more than a cord of wood. As a natu
ral consequence, the whole community
ora shedding their ancient gear for con
suming wood, and the rush for coal stoves
is something marvellous to behold. The
zeroes will bo marked down in all parts
of the Northwest as soon as black dia
monds 1 ecomo sufficiently plentiful.
Chicago Post.
N , New Hampshire, Dec. 14, 1871.
Hon. Alexandeb H. Stephens: My
Dear Sir—Thinking a letter from this far
No: Lhe.-n State might be interesting, I
will endeavor to give you some idea of
the state of public feeling here in regard
to tho threatened danger of the complete
overthrow of those principles which form
the bulwark of our liberties and distin
guishes the Government from an Impe
rial Despotism. Our Slate Convention
met ou the 13th. It was one of the lullest
attended of any ever held in this State.
Delegates were present from every part
of the State, Jand their number was
about six hundred. The proceedings
were harmonious throughout, and the
greatest enthusiasm was manifest. I can
safely say the Old Granite State will
awake the people in ’72 by a victory which
shall send tidings of great joy to all lov
ers of Constitutional Liberty through
out tho land. Ours is a determined
front. There is no failing—no “ Pas
siveness” in our ranks. We are going to
win on principles, which we shall not
fear to own after victory has rested on
our banner.
The New York Herald says, “ the first
blast for the Democracy in 1872 has
Hashed in the pan by the fiat, Platform
of the £ New Hampshire Democracy.”
I suppose it lias become, at this day of
advanced moral ideas, “ flat” talk, to
speak of “tho Constitution” to which
tl”'s country gave birth, and to which it
was indebted for seventy years of unsur-
pa ,ed prosperity.
I would say to the Herald, as one of
the delegates who voted for those resolu
tions, that we did not meet to form a
platform ou which to elect U. S. Grant,
or any other man wuo believes in Central
ization. We formed a platform for the
I\ jple not for men who aim to be their
masters, nrd, with God’s help, we intend
to elect our men on that “fiat” Platform.
We want a flat Platform; one that will
hold the people of this whole country;
not around one, which ‘ rolls over” as soon
as the people attempt to stand ou it. We
do not take onr ideas of Republican Gov
ernment from men who, if they do ua-
<! erstand our form of Government, uarc
not stanu boldly out and maintain it at
all hazards.
If this be “fiat” doctrine, beware of
wliat decisive words mean; for the “flash
in the Democratic pan” of New Hamp
shire will be like the roar of many guns.
The time is passed for policy. That has
1 ad too much to do with our party of late
years. The Ilei-ald had better study that
mr s .y old doc ament once called “the
Constitution,” and see if it cannot get a
clearer idea of what a party means when
it says in its platform, that it stands by
the Constitution.
If the people never stand on any “flat
ter” platform than the New Hampshire
Democracy now stand on, our rights un
der the Constitution are safe, and the ad
vocates of a strong government routed.
Truly yours * * * *
WASHINGTON CORRESPOND
ENCE.
Smothering Investigation—Trumbull’®
Harpoon in the Radical Whale—Aker-
man— Senator Hill — Williams—H. I.
ELimhall—Bullock—Blodgett—Scruggs.
tration, was disposed of last night after a
protracted sea lion of nine hours. The
debate on this resolution has consumed
much of the time of the Senate from the
commencement of the session, and has
been the cause of several caucuses by the
Administration party.
The debate has been fierce, acrimoni-
ons, and most damaging to the opponents
of investigation and reform. As this
searching resolution may have escaped
the notice of some of your readers, and
as its discussion has produced a profound
sensation throughout the country,,I deem
it not inappropriate to give it in full.
“ Resolved, That the Committee of Investigation
and Betrencbment be instructed to inquire into the
expenditures in all branches of the service of the
United States, and to report whether any and what
offices ought to be abolished; whetoer any and what
salaries or allowances ought to be reduced; what are
the methods of procuring accountability in public
officers or agents in the care and disbursement of
public moneys; whether any moneys have been paid
ont illegally; whether any officers or agents, or other
persons, have been or are employed in the public
service without authority of law or unnecessarily;
and generally how and to what extent the expenses
of the service of the country may and ought to be
curtailed.
"And also to consider the expediency of so amend
ing the laws under which appointments to the pub
lic service are now made as to provide for withdraw
ing the public service from being used as an instru
ment of political or party xatronage.
“That said committee be authorized to sit during
the recess of Congress, to send for persons and pa
pers, and to report by bill or otherwise; and that said
committee may appoint a clerk.’’’
Its adoption and the appointment of a
committee in accordance with Parliamen
tary usages, would liave exposed a condi
tion of things, not only startling in the
extreme, but it would have been, in my
opinion, certain destruction to the vaunt
ed Republican party.
The result, however, has been the ap
pointment of a committee agreed on in
caucus, which was Selected for its known
subserviency to the Radical party. With
the exception of the two Democrats on it,
and contrary to all Parliamentary usage,
every Republican Senator who favored the
investigation has been ignored, and those
only appointed who are known and recog
nized as the most willing and subservient
tools of a corrupt and tyrannical admin
istration. An investigation made by
such a committee would be like the devil
quoting Scripture.
But the effect of the discussion, and
the partizan character of the committee
appointed, demonstrates the rottenness
of the party in power, and that an honest
investigation is feared and dreaded. The
managers know full well that it would
prove disastrous in the extreme. That
adroit political navigator, Senator Trum
bull, has, however, planted his harpoon
firmly in the vitals of the Radical whale,
and although he may swamp the boat of
investigation for a time, and obscure the
vision in the spray of “glittering gen
eralities,” yet the monster has already
sprinkled the body politic with his ebb
ing vitality, and we hope soon the blub
ber of his mighty carcass will be thrown
in the cauldron of public scrutiny.
Mr. Amos T. Akerman leaves the Cabi
net on the ICth day of January, 1872.—
Already Senator Joshua Hill has intro
duced a bill to make Georgia into two
judicial districts. If the bill becomes
law, the Upper, or Cherokee Dis
trict, will, probably, be assigned
to Mr. Akermau, although, Hon. Daw
son A. Walker—at present a member of
the Civil Service Commission—would not
object to being encumbered by such a
position, and it might be that his ac
quaintance and identification with the
people of Cherokee Georgia would
make him more acceptable than any
other Grantocrat.
But the serious question now is, are the
people of North Georgia to be afflicted
during the remainder of this century
with Judge Amos T. Akerman? Would
it not bo well for the people to commence
enlarging their jails ? for will not Judge
Akerman soon - fill up those in present
use ?
George H. Williams, of Oregon, the
newly appointed Attorney General
is a .native of New York, at
one time Circuit Court Judge
in the State of Oregon, a Senator in
Congress from 1865 to ’71, a member of
the High Joint Commission, and, as
lawyer and statesman, is “from fair to
middling.” And, like most Democrats
who deserted their party, he is an in'
tense Radical, and if not restrained by
policy, will show neither justice
friendship to the Southern people.
The great Georgia financier, Mr. H. L
Kimball, is said to be a raving maniac in
the asylum of graduated carpet-baggers.
New Haven, Connecticut.
Bullock sojourns at Buffalo, New York,
on the Canada border, and will cross over
immediately on the inauguration of Gov
ernor Smith. Blodgett, having been
defeated iu his Senatorial aspirations,
contemplates, we are informed, taking
service iu one of the Methodist churches
iu Boston, as an exhorter.
Scruggs, of the New Era, is here, look
ing sad and melancholy, and in his seve-
S UN-STROKES.
The “howl of rage’
with Indiana papers.
is idiomatic
A correspondent calls Thiers “a
duodecimo Louis XYL, or Napoleon L”
The Memphis Avalanche calls him
“the bilious lunatic, Geofrancistrain.”
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iBSs^Au exchange says “Tennessee de
clined the ‘new party’ movement;” and
yet she put one Foote ir.to it.
Valles, one of the “dead” Com
munists, has come to life in Germany. He
doesn’t “rest in the valley.”
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Illinois women treat their rivals
with vitriol That is a great State for
burning any how.
J62f“ The New York Callender was
made up of wrong calculations. Its circu
lation had to be stopped.
The name of the surgeon of the
Svetlana is Vladimer Popoff. He can
pop ’em off at long range.
JKSP* An enterprising Paducahan ad
vertises “ a lot of the prettiest little cof
fins for Christmas you ever saw.”
Olive Logan’s marriage with Wirt
Sykes calls to mind two lines from Saxe:
"She’s got a fool for a husband;
Ho’a got a fool for a wife.”
Senator Buckingham goes against
Woman Suffrage; and all the “advocates”
ar9 shouting, “Off with his head 1 So
much for Buckingham!”
Blegg, Blogg, Blagg, or whatever
his name was—groom of the Prince of
Wales—died with the typhoid fever. He
contracted the disease at the same time
that Wales and Chesterfield did.
The Supreme Court of Massachu
setts has decubd that suicide is not a
crime. Therefore, those who have wil
fully put themselves out of place, need
have no fear of a final “stake in their in
sides.”
JJSg® A Kentucky rural editor calls the
President’s Message “an able State pa
per.” That fellow is evidently laboring
to get an offer to go on the- Courier-Jour
nal as “inveterate joker.”
ral interviews with the President, he
seems to think that Georgia is forever
abandoned by the great “inscrutable,
feel sorry for Scruggs; but it is more than
likely that his present distress is aU ow
ing to having eaten some of Judge Don
ning’s apple*. Apples and other fruit
have brought much distress on poor hu
man nature. The juice of the apple is
better. D. Gbey.
Washington Crrr, D. C.,
Tuesday December 19, 1871.
Editors Sun: The resolution of Mr.
Trumbull, looking to an investigation of
the glaring corruptions of the Adminis- phens.
Mr. Stephens and The Sun.
From tho Lycoming Standard, (Williamsport, Pa.,)
13th December. 1871.
The Atlanta Sun is doing a great
amount of good by correcting, with au
thority, the ill advised plans of tho:
would-be leaders of the Democracy who
have in view only policy without princi
ple. Hon. A. H. Stephens, its editor, is
a man x»f power, and his calm and digni
fied discussion of political questions in
The Sun makes him tower high above
these mendacious and virulent characters
that constantly assail him. His paper is
widely circulated, and will do much to
wards opening the eyes of onr country
men to the spectacle that is presented in
onr national belittlement. It is pub
lished at Atlanta, Ga., by A. H. Ste
Columbus has had' “a miniature snow
storm,” which the Snn doesn’t think was
worth bragging about. It doesn’t even
quote a line of “The Beautiful Snow.”
The Colnmbus Sun says : “ The Trus
tees, ou the 19th, unanimously elected
Mr. C. P. Wilcox, of this city, Professor
of Modem Languages in the University
of Georgia, located at Athens, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Prof.
M. J. Sinead. He is one of the most cul
tivated men in this country. Having re
ceived a complete collegiate education,
shortly after his marriage he went to Eu
rope and, at Berlin, established a school
for American youths desiring to learn
languages. There and at other Capitals
of Europe, he spent fourteen years, we
believe. He is a brother of Sir. D. F.
Wilcox, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Georgia Home Insurance Company. He
speaks and writes fluently a number of
languages. The Trustees ’have made a
good choice.
A Macou and Western and a Central
Railroad train tried t > occupy identical
positions on the same track on Thursday.
Damages not material.
“Moulton’s golden notes” are now cir
culating in Macon.
Thomas J. Speer, IVll. C., our Tom, is
lying dangerously ill at Washington.
LaGrange has been startled by a suow.
Troupe county gave Smith 775 vot; s,
and “nothing for nobody” else.
The crop of Christmas trees promises
to be very large this year.
Coweta county polled 409 votes for
Col. Smith.
LOCAL NOTES.
Oakey Hall has been grandjuried.
I That word is promulgated here in order
to anticipate the reporter at Washington,
who has given birth to “suicided,” “in-
quested ! aul “revolvered”—all within
the last few months.)
They call the Democracy “dead,
do they ? But the indications now are
that a healthful and strong pulse is beat
ing through the whole body, and long
before next November it will be so alive
that no officious Gabriel will presume to
blow a single blast to call it to life.
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Grant is accused of making a pun
in Lis Message, when he .declared that
“agriculture i3 the ground-work of our
prosperity.” It is safe to guess, how
ever, that he is in blissful ignorance of
the fact, unless somebody has pointed it
out to him.
The Albany News of Friday has
the following paragraph:
The Atlanta Sun, on Wednesday
morning, 20th, reached us that afternoon
at 3. This is one of the advantages of
the new schedule on the M. & W. Rail
road. If the Atlanta papers will go to
press by midnight, they can compete
with Macon at this point, and get fifteen
hours ahead of Savannah.
The Sun’s aim is always to be on time
—to reach the most remote points just as
quickly as Uncle Sam’s baggage-wagons
will take it. If it is ever late, it is be
cause the mails don't go. The Sun has
not failed to make a connection since the
schedule was changed on the Macon and
Western Railroad.
JK3- Senator Davi3 has been poking a
long pole through the door of the White
House, to stir up the Radical lion. He
has offered a resolution in the Senate di
recting the Investigation Committee to
examine into Grant’s connection with the
contracts to furnish material for the Gov
ernment buildings, his acceptance of
bribes and presents in consideration for
offices, his appointment of his own rela
tions to office, the corruption of the San
Domingo job, and his absence from his
official duties. When the resolution
was read, it created such a howl of
indignation among the Grantites in
the Senate that it seemed as if “all
the fiends from heaven that fell had
pealed the banner-cry of hell,” or
somethiDg of that sort. There is obvi
ously a determination onthe part of some
Senators and Representatives to inter
view Grant with an investigating com
mittee.
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GEORGIA MATTERS.
The Covington Enterprise joins in the
universal cry of “no paper next week.”
Dan Rice’s circus is in Augusta and do
ing a good business.
Washington has had two inches of
snow.
Columbus, according to the Enquirer,
“in point of local interest, is very doll/
The Mayor’s Court.—His Honor the
Mayor’s reunion yesterday was of unus
ual interest. He mounted the rostrum
of justice, with smiles that made all of
his old, as well as his new friends, feel
that they were welcome. Johnson an
nounced the visitors with more grace than
usual—all attributable to the.approa h of
the Christmas holidays.
He first introduced two young gentle
men, who must have been brought up
under the law3 of Moses, as they had
been casting stones, to the great annoy
ance of their neighbors. As they had
received justice at the hands of another
and higher court, His Honor refused
them any more, and commanded them to
depart in peace.
The next presentation was a gentleman
who was not Beard-less, but had been
very profane, for which His Honor
thought “five and costs” would entitle
him to a free ticket on the floor.
The next was Alexander — not the
Great—as the Court could not have found
in him such a very sour disposition as this
one exhibited; for which he was kindly
told to pay cost of transportation, and he
could walk home.
Johnson then announced that some of
the Town Hoys desired an audience.—
One was not present, and the other ex
pressed great disappointment at being
denied an interview, but was reminded
by Johnson that it was not a free thing.
Some of the Smiths and Browns had
been doing and saying very naughty
things. They were allowed to pass pay
ing five and costs. The last introduc
tion was one that seemed to give
his Honor peculiar pleasure. This was a
committee from the boys in Blue, con
sisting of twelve in number. His Honor
made a very low bow as they approached
and listened attentively to the speeches
made by several of them. In reply he
told them he had discovered, that their
military education had been partially
neglected; and for his first lesson he
would only charge them five and costs;
but the second would cost more.
Johnson announced the material on
hand exhausted, but that there would be
another entertainment at the same hour
on next Monday, at which time Santa
Claus would make a general distribution
of presents.
Rapidly Disappearing.—It has been
customary for the Legislature to appro
priate $20,000 annually, as a “Contingent
Fund,” to be 'used by the Governor, in
his discretion, to meet such expenses as
may not be otherwise provided for by
law. Governors, in better days, very sel
dom used up this fund, but commonly
had a portion of it left at the end of the
year. Not so, however, with Bullock.
He used it up almost as if it were noth
ing; and his plundering Legislature,
passed the famous India Rubber, or 20th
section, in the Appropriation Act, under
which he squandered the'people’s money
uselessly to a most frightful extent.
The Legislature, at its late session, in
providing for the expenses of the Gov
ernment next year, appropriated the usu
al amount—$20,000—for contingent ex
penses. Already, since the adjournment,
nearly half that amount has been drawn
and expended by Acting Governor Con
ley—most of it, we believe, to meet
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claims arising under Bullock’s adminis
tration.
Frozen to Death.—On Friday morn
ing about 3 o’clock, policeman O’Shields
found a negro man about 30 or 35 years
old, on Marietta street, in a frozen and
dying condition. Mr. O’S. had him put
in a house near by and every attention
given him, but all efforts were fruitless;
he was too far gone to restore life. The
negro was seen the evening before in a
very drunken condition. He was evi
dently a stranger in the city, as no one
could be found that knew him. Funeral) Berry were discharged.
James Skyles—He Takes Waxes.
Yesterday at 10 o’clock was set for a
hearing of the habeas ccn-pus case of Mr.
Skyles.
Our readers will remember that he fig
ured conspicuously in the late unlawful
and outrage ous arrests of a large number
of the best citizens of Dade county-
dragging them away from home without
due process of law, and without prepara
tion, subjecting them to such hardships
and indignities as to cause a feeling of
indignation to rise up in the breast of
every honest man. His shameless disre
gard of personal rights, and that security
which the fundamental law of the land
guaranties to all persons—criminals not
excepted—was of the most wanton and
provoking character. Two of the
thirty odd men, under a decision which
appears to us to be as little warranted as
the arrests were at first, were placed
under bonds.
When these Dade county men reached
home, they resolved not to rest under
the indignities and wrongs which they
had suffered; and warrants for false im
prisonment were sued out, upon which
Skyles was arrested. To prevent being
carried to Dade county to be tried before
the civil courts, where the unlawful ar
rests were made by him, he first sought
military protection—so we were informed.
Failing in this, he sued out a writ of
habeas corpus before Judge Pittman.—
When the hour of trial arrived yesterday
morning, it was announced that Mr.
Skyles had compromised with those
whom he had so cruelly treated. He
agreed to have the prosecutions against
them abandoned, if they would do the
same towards him. This was agreed to,
and the cases on both sides are at an end;
and so, also, is the career of James Skyles,
as an oppressor of innocent people.—
Such, at any rate, is our hope and belief.
Morgan H. Looney.—Last evening wo
had the pleasure of meeting our old friend
Prof. Morgan H. Looney, of Fayetteville,
Ark., formerly of Franklin county in this
State, and a brother of Prof. George 0.
Looney, of Hogansville. He is stopping
at the Kimball House, and will, at an
early day visit his parents at his old home
in Franklin.
Christmas Presents to the Pastor.—
Thirteen members of the First Presby
terian Church yesterday presented Dr.
Wilson, then’ pastor, with one hundred
and thirty'dollars worth of groceries and
provisions, well selected from the very
best that the city afforded. It required
two dray loads to deliver it to the Doc
tor’s residence. Our friend J. R. Wal
lace was appointed a committee of one
to purchase and deliver the articles to
him, which duty he performed with his
usual good judgment—all sold to him for
the purpose at wholesale prices. Let
other congregations do likewise.
Office of the Superintendent of
Public Sghools.—Prof. B. Mallon has
permanently established his office in the
rooms over I. T. Banks’ shoe store, No.
66 Whitehall street. The rooms are well
fitted for the purpose, and everything
will be properly arranged for convenience
and the accommodation of teachers at
their meetings, and the proper transac
tion of the businc s with which he is
charged.
Rev. Arminius Wright.—This gentle
man, who has most acceptably served the
church and congregation of Wesley
Chapel during the last year, was, at the
late session of the Conference at Athens,
transferred to the South Georgia Con
ference, which, at its late session in
Americus, appointed him to the Pasto
rate of St. Paul’s Church, Columbus.
He gees from here with the best wishes
of those whom he basso faithfully served
as pastor, and returns to the charge of a
flock which he has before ministered to
iu spiritual things, who will gladly wel
come him back to the scene of his former
labors and enjoyments.
Verified.—While Dr. Bard was run
ning his True Georgian—so-called—we
several times alleged that it was, in onr
opinion, sustained by the authors of the
New Departure—the great Head Centres
of the Bond Rings in America—men who
professed to be Democrats, but who in
vented the New Departure expressly to
Tdll the Democi'alic parly forever.
That was their object. They were the
great Amei'ican plunderers, of which the
Kimball-Bullock-Blodgett Ring was only
an imitation upon a comparatively small
scale. These great peculators knew that
as soon as the Democratic party came
into power, their peculations would
cease and they would be made
to shell out some of their plunder—just
as the success of the party has terminated
the operations of the Georgia gang.
Dr. Bard has been forced into bank
ruptcy. This has revealed his creditors.
The first man on the list is Wm. M.
Tweed, $3,000; and the next Peter B.
Sweeney, $3,000. Onr predictions are
verified.
The list is an interesting study. The
amount of the whole is over $47,000.—
Among them we find the names of Mrs.
Foster Blodgett, $1,000; Gen. Austell,
$2,500; Hoyt & Jones, $1,700; Joseph E.
Brown, $6,848; Joshu'i Hill, $1,033,33;
A. G. Foster, $1,333.33; T. P. Saffold,
$1,333.33; N. L. Angier, $1,000; James
Connor’s Sons, $3,075; C. & G. Place,
$6,000; R. E. Glover, $4,500.
Illicit Distilling.—The cases of the
two Lance brothers, M. Lowe, M. A.
Berry and — Hampton, for illicit distil'
ling, was heard before United States
Commissioner W. B. Smith yesterday.
The Lance brothers, M. Lowe and M. A.
Mr. — Hamp-
at the city’s expense.
ton was bound over.