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4. THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN. THE DAILY Saturday, December S3, 1871. 1 ‘T he Comptroller Generalship.’ 3 Under this head, we find in the Mil- ledgeville Federal Union, of the 20tli in stant, nn article "which so fully corres ponds with onr own views upon the sub ject, that we republish it entire. The office of Comptroller General is, indeed, one of the most important in the State, ft is one in which the tax payers have more direct interest than in any other. Without any disparagement to others, wo have no hesitancy in 6aying that we these addresses, until duty to himself, as well as to the public, required it? Has he “come out” at all except in reply to insidious attacks, not upon his merits or qualifications for the office—because t hese are beyond assault—but upon his Demo cratic fidelity. Was it not proper and necessary for him to “come out” when even so at tacked ? Is not his vindication in these addresses upon these points ample and complete? Can any one say that they are not ? This writer seems to feel the force of these, and attempts to break it by saying that “when Major Burns was elected he came out as often then as now.” In this again we think great injustice is done Colonel Thweatt. It is true that Major Bums was elected over him in 1865. It is also, true, we believe, that at this election, certain per- AN ANNIVERSARY. aV A. E. WATSON. Nine years! Anti does it seem so long. Dear wife, that we have stood together? The rapid years but prove we’ve had Some sunshine ’mid our stormy weather. ln-licve that Colonel Thweatt has no su perior in the State, in all those qualifies- j SO ual charges were made against him tioiia which eminently fit him for taking | wholly unfounded in fad, and which, he charge of this Department of the Public interests. Others may or might dis charge the duties of th ; office satisfacto rily—none cun do it more so than he lias di*ue. We indulge in no exaggerated ex pression cf opinion in giving it as onr belief that Col. Thweatt, by his vigilance, watchfulness, fidelity and perfect acquain tance with the business of the office, if elected, will save to the treasury annually, by stopping leakages alone, of various sorts, not less than five times his salary. No one at all acquainted with his admin istration of the office for the eight years he held it, will question the correctness of this opinion. The Senate, near the close of the late session of the Legislature, adopted the most admirable report of the Committee upon the State of the Republic, which, after speaking, among other things, of the mismangament of our financial af fairs within the last few years, concluded with this, among other resolutions: “Resolved 3. That in the opinion of this body, our only sure plan of restoring thought, as we know, cansed bis defeat. But at that time lie did not ™ come out” He silently bore the Only those days are long that bring Their bitter burdens for our bearing; While those that glide on pleasure’s wings Are all too fleetly disappearing. But wo have walked in sun and shade; There havo been storms no hand-could tether; And yet through all these years, dear love, In spite of storms, we’ve walked together. If Fortune came, or fair or foul, In her own proper form we took her, Though she has trundled to our door No burdena of convenient lucre. last seen of the man, he was perfectly blue in the face, and was calling lustily for somebody to sit on him to keep him from bursting. The chances are that if he is called upon to read many more such paragraphs the Coroner will have to be called in to sit on him. One Settle is United States Min ister to Pern. He is home on sick leave, drawing foil pay for his services as Min ister, and employing himself in trying to secure the Radical nomination for Gover nor of North Carolina. “That do Settle it” Fortune at best is what wa will, And luck is but a rapid prancer; We taka the good the gods provide While ill goes fiddling for a dancer. peace and order in this State is to place in positions of honor and trust, men of integrity, ability and courage, and those possessing the confidence of the people, This resolution announces a great truth, and rests upon an impregnable principle, Let it be strictly conformed to, is all we insist upon. If any one can bo selected for Comp troller General who is superior in integ rity, ability for the position, conrage in the discharge of its duties, or possessing a ore of the confidence of the people than Co'\ Thweatt, then, by all means, let such one be chosen. We are controlled in all we have said on this subject solely by consid orations of the Public interests. We subjoin the article of the Federal Union, to which reference has been made. A. H. S. From the Federal Union. Tlie Comptroller Generalship. We have heretofore expressed our very decided preference in favor of Col. Pe terson Thweatt for this office. In doing so, it was not our purpose to bo considered as underrating or dispar aging the qualifications of any other aspi rant to this high and responsible positjpn. It is indeed one of the most important offices in the State; the duty to fill it de- 'volves upon the General Assembly; and our wish—and we believe it to be the wish of the people of the State, whose interests are so deeply in it—is, that it may be filled mainly with a view to pub lic considerations and the fitness and merits of the applicant on whom it may be conferred. We were in hopes that personal matters having no connection with the office or its dnties would not have been brought into the canvass. Bat our hopes in this regard have been dis appointed, and we take occasion to ex press our regret at seeing in the Atlanta Constitution of the 16th instant, an anony mous communication upon the subject, which we think does Col. Thweatt great injustice. This writer urges the claims of Col. Magill for the office. Against this wo have nothing to say, nor against the merits of Col. Magill as set forth. It may be that he is well qualified for the place, and that he would make a good Comptroller-General; this we grant may be so. The question however is, would he make as good or a better one than Col. Thweatt? On the one side there is at best but a speculative probability, while on the other the public has the as surance of eight years by actual experi ment. In this connection, too, it may be asked if Col. Magill is sack an able mathematician and efficient insurance agent as this writer represents him to be, and as we do not donbt at all or pretend to question, is it probable that the pros perous company whose business he is conducting, will be willing to part with him, or that Col. Magill would be willing to give up his present salary of four or five thousand dollars in the position be now holds, for a salary of two thousand dollars as Comptroller General? * * * As we have said, we do not wish to de tract in the least from the merits of Col. Magill, nor from his claims to popular favor, because of the armless sleeve by bis side—armless in consequence of gal lant services in the field. * * * * What we intended, however, more par ticularly to allude to in the communica tion in the Constitution, are the personal attacks therein made upon CoL Thweatt No one, as yet, has questioned bis em inent ability. No one has ventured to question his thorough competency. No one has assailed either his qualifications or his official integrity. No one lias had aught to say against any act of his admin istration during the whole period of eight years that he filled the office with such general satisfaction to the people of the State, irrespective of party. The personal assaults of the writer to which we allude, now made, amount to these two charges: 1st. That he is arrogant in his assump tions and seems to claim the office as lus own, as a matter of right. We give bnt what we deem the substance of the charge, and in reply say, we think it does him great injustice. When and to whom, we ask, has he ever shown any such disposition? 2d. Allusion is made to Ms late cards or addresses, to the public upon this sub ject, in a spirit, as we conceive, quite as unjust as unkind. Were not these cards necessary jfor his own vindication? Did he “come but,” as tMs writer rather sarcastically speaks of in their refutation, consequences. To say at this time, therefore, that he came out “then as often as now,” with the inferential intimation that his pres ent vindication of himself in the matters lately charged will be as ineffectual as it was before, seems to us to bo the “un- dindest cut” of all. Without in any way connecting our selves with the personal matters dis cussed in Col. Thweatt’s addresses, we feel it nothing bnt due to him on this occasion to say that we think he has com pletely silenced the authors of the stories concocted against him, and to his preju dice. Bnt our wish is that the contest, where other things are equal, shall be decided upon the merits of the candidates and their qualifications for the office; and that the canvass shall be conducted on this basis and not npon personal detrac tion of any sort. On this basis we feel perfectly assuied, and so do the people of Georgia, that the interests of the State will be safe in the hands of Colonel Thweatt; and upon the score of need—losses from thf results of the war—and the dependence of his own family, as well as that of others, widows and orphans, looking to him for aid and support, we also feel assured that no one has stronger claims than he npon the generous sympathy of the State. From tlie Greensboro, Ua., Herald, Dec. 21,1871, The Legislature and the Dress. A cheerful heart is more than wealth: A gentle hand is more than beauty: And faith and love are more than all, When walking, side by side, with duty. Then, wife, onr years, although they’ve had Some rugged days of stormy weather. When multiplied by nine wiU be But a brief day thus spent together. December 23,1872. SUN-STROKES. The proposition :o exempt the news paper press of Georgia from taxation, elicited quite a protracted discussion in the Legislature last week. The tools of the mechanic are usually exempt from taxation. Why should not the types and presses of the journalist? And here we remark, that there is a wide difference between large publishing establishments which do only a book and job publishing business, and simply a newspaper office. The well conducted journal unquestion ably promotes the general welfare of the country, by the dissemination of useful intelligence upon all subjects. It is in deed a public benefactor. Few agences for the mental and moral improvement of the people are in motion without its instrumentality. There is no class of workers who do so much free work for Church and State, as journalists—no profession that is so poorly paid. We confess our surprise and mortification, that gentlemen who are supposed to pos sess sufficient intelligence to represent a Georgia constituency, and who doubtless owe their position mainly to tbe influ ence of the art which is “preservative of all others,” and elevates all classes, should disparage Georgia journalism. We hope they will be marked and hereafter “left severely alone,” by the profession they are unable to appreciate. Heretofore the press of Georgia has received certain courtesies from certain institutions and interests, but we have yet to learn that it has not in return always given a full con sideration for all such favors. We repel the notion that editors are in any sense dead-heads,’ and our Legislators in try ing to stultify us only injure themselves. Let them mark that. We feel less em barrassment in writing upon this subject, because we have paid regularly a tax up on our material, and have neither asked or received any patronage from the State. EgU People who, at their homes in the North, are troubled with achin’, are flee ing to Aiken as a winter resort. J(Say The English people are raising a subscription for the benefit of the family of Mark Lemon. p- The Mobile Register says “ A Georgia paper rejoices in sausages and other hog-killing perduities, which, per haps, is Cherokee for perquisites.” jggy “The churches Was all well atten ded on Sunday,” is tbe way in which the Griffin Sfcn• rings the death-knell of poor old Lindley Murray. Emma mine is about to under mine Schenck’s reputation abroad. He will be apt to be allowed to come home when he can give more immediate atten tion to his mining interests. JCQy The Communist General Wro- blowski has arrived in New York. The nomenclature of the General adequately explains his connection with the Com mune. There is no other place for an individual with such a name. EQfe, “A political clown,” “an escaped lunatic,” “a peripotetic madman,” howling idiot,” are a few of the compli mentary terms applied to Geo. Francis Train by the press of the country. A Radical writer says that the present administration “cannot be shaken by tbe winds of disaffection or the storms of opposition, because- il is built upon a rock.” They do say a good part of it is built upon Seneca sandstone. IGrant, the eminent contractor for stone work, not having, as yet, disposed his interest in the Seneca quarries, is still receiving bids for all work in his line, not excluding the masonry of public buildings. A vicious New York poet has writ ten thirty-two nine-line stanzas on the Chicago fire, of which the following is an average sample: Of What trivial things sometimes decide the fate * cities and of nations as of men! The powers that human destiny arbitrate Are far beyond the reach of human ken: Too soon they saw the like, and worse, again! That night a woman, at the hour of nine, Went into a barn to milk a cow, and when The beast kick’d o’er her lamp, as vicious kine Will sometimes do, it in some straw and boards of pine.” The wit of the Atlanta Sun says that the expression, “Neither of our pul pits teas filled last Sunday,” is ungram matical. We stick to it that we were right. Consult your grammar, Bro. Wat son.—West Point News. Thomas Ducey, of Lowell, Massachu- seets, became a happy father for tbe thir ty-fourth time a few days ago. He is ninety years old, and is living with his third wife. He came to this country twenty-seven years ago, bringing bis wife and eleven children, leaving two in tbe old country, and one having died. The first wife died soon after his arrival. By a second he had seventeen children, and by the present wife three. A safe way of doing kindness is thus instanced by a Brownsville, Nebraska, paper of recent date: “ One of the coldest nights of the past week two women of the fallen sisterhood came to the house of a wealthy gentleman of this town, and frankly stated their condition—without money and without acquaintance. The worthy landlord was in a dilemma. To turn them out in the cold night was some thing he could not think of doing, and the possible consequences of sheltering them might be worse So he had supper prepared for them, which they devoured with the keen relish arising from hunger. They were then assigned to a room, shown to it by tbe landlady in person. When they were comfortably secured therein, the key was quietly turned from the outside and transferred to tbe land lord’s pocket. The night passed serenely, and the next morning the women were furnished with bieakfost and went on their way rejoicing.” Over 20,000,000 letters were exchanged between the United States and foreign countries daring the last year. There were 13,000,000 of pounds of mail matter exchanged between Europe and the United States daring the last year. Josh Billings says: “About the biggest joke there iz about the fall of man iz, that he has lamt how tew “rate bog or di.” This iz worth, in my opinyun very near fust cost. Bnt I flatter miself bi thinking in this way: that the man who lives in this world, and duz a good square thing thru life, none of yer 8- hour jobs, kaz more tew brag ov than any ov tbe angels up in heaveD.” GEORGIA MATTERS. The Rome Courier says: As Mr. Rol- land Bryant—one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Floyd coun ty—was coming into town last Tuesday morning, his horse took fright at the cars, and threw Mm, injuring him so seriously that he died in less than an hour, nis age was some seventy-five years. We learn, says the Rome Courier, that on last Tuesday night, Peter Turner, an employee of the Stove and Hollow-ware Manufacturing Company, was shot three times, the balls taking effect in his stom ach. It is believed that he will die from the effects. This man was intoxicated and turbulent, and bad been arrested by More Claims Coming In—Mobe of Bullock’s Tbicks and the Crooked Ways of the Ring.—Yesterday a gentle man representing the Rogers Locomo tive Works at Paterson, N. J., filed a claim against the State amounting to S59.923.64, the same being principal and interest on three notes given by Foster Blodgett, Superintendent W. & A. Rail road, in favor of tbe company. Each of these notes was dated 17th December, 1870, due on tbe 20fch April, 1871, for $19,041.52 — amounting to $57,124.56. They were all made payable at the office of Henry Clews & Co., in New York.— When they were due, they were pre sented, and Clews refused to pay them. They are still unpaid. They are bearing interest since the 20th of April, which, at 7 per cent., up to the 1st of January— 8 months and 12 days—gives $2,799.08— making the total debt, as first stated, $59,923.64. These notes were given for four loco motives, which are now on the road, aud had been for some time before the notes were given, viz: The “Gen. Terry,” “^Benjamin Conley,” “Jesse,” and “John H. Flynn.” It is, no doubt, a correct rienced in medicine and pharmacy, ai o desires a partner alike active as a man 0 . business. The store, stock. .... 1 and everytMng relative to the store, stock, trade, c itv same pr e . sent an opportunity to the right man with the necessary means that is ’ ^ —iwio tuacia rarelv offered. All communications will bo * garded as strictly confidential A I. S. C., box 573, P. 0., Atlanta. [From our knowledge of the advertising, and information on ject, we take pleasure in commend^ this enterprise to the attention of an °. Parties person desirous of a most excellent n -A . - Op* M. J. Wimpee aud Tobe Cooper. He olaim > *** ou e^t long since to have been resisted them, stabbed Mr. Wimpee in paid, though it has not been investigated, the wrist, and was making at Mm with an that we are aware of. open knife, when Mr Wimpee shot. He It is alleged tbat Bullock di shot twice. Two other shots are said to 1 have been fired. rected Clews not to pay these notes Old “Affairs in Geornin” of tiro Snvan- i mot ” rit * “ d £!" nl ! eg! ‘' nah News is uneasy. He mutters, “what fcl0n 18 true ’ Wb J shouM tbls order bave we will do for material for this column been given by Bnllock ? We can itnav- next week, the Lord only knows. The Me only one reason: that the debt was holiday movement is spreading among not created fo * {nmdulen t purposes; that our Georgia exchanges like a npe mfec- .. , . . . . tion ” it was not a thieving job; that the Rog ,, _ _ _ .... „ ... ers Locomotive Works had actually iurn- Mr. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah News, . . , .. ... , . ,, , publishes the following notice: We learn “ hed tbe en S ines to the road to tbe value that a party named E. A. Niven is going of their claim, and consequently were about the city representing himself as a not in a corrupt ring, and not willing to reporter of the Morning News. It is but divide with Bullock, Blodgett, Clews, inst to ourselves to state that there is no , .. , . such person connected with this establish- aod tlie otbers of the Ein S’ rbls ™ ment. E. A. Niven has been connected suggest as likely, with the reportorial corps of the News, Ku-Klux.—Every species of violence but his utter unreliability in every res- or d { SO rder in these days is called a Ku- pect occasioned his discharge. .. . T , 1 ° klux outrage. If the hanging of the Richmond county ^t l,°30 votes, biers by the populace in Natchez, Baldwin 650, Warren 345, Fioyd406, and 1 McDuffie 350—all for Smith. Cartersville proposes to amuse herself with a horse-race Christmas. And still the cry is ringing tM’ough the land, “no paper next week. “ We hear, says the Griffin Star, that a few nights since, a parcel of negroes, Vicksburg and San Francisco had taken place at any time in the last four years, it •would have been denounced by the Rad icals us a great Ku-klnx affair. Lawlessness of all kind$ is to bo depre cated. One kind is not more so than an other. There never was a people with said to be in the employ of the Railroad virtuous instincts who would not, at some contractors, made a raid upon our clever provocation, take the law into their own friend Joe. Dawson, of Henry county, hands and execute vengeance upon law- called Joe to tbe door, and riddled his , , , , dwelling with shot. Fortunately nobody takers who had defied and escaped the was hurt. punishment of law. An Augusta person is providing for We have no word of justification for a merry Christmas. The Chroniele and one 8 uilt y of ^lessness, whether it Sentinel says: be those wbo are called Ku ' Klax > or The cutting winds of yesterday made tbose wbo kwlessuess and °" fcra S e it anything bnt pleasant for the poor provoke said Ku-Klux to unlawful acts, people who were without a fire. Re- Lawlessness in some shape has always membering the necessities of this class, existed, and always will, no matter what some kind Christian, who will not allow I , . . » „ - Ms or her name tobe made public, con- maybC society or politics; tribnted fifty cords of wood to their re- iin( l it is wrong to ascn.be sucu things to lief. The wood was given out as soon as the alleged disloyally of those who per- received, and made many a pauper warm | petrate them, while protecting, excusing last night and this moraing. LOCAL NOTES. A subterranean lake has been struck in srnking a well at Loami. ILL, which boils and bubbles out to tho height of several feet at regular intervals, and roars “ like the ocean or the Gulf of Mexico,” besides making the ground tremble like an earth quake. Now make your quotations con-ectly, will you? The Sun quoted you as say ing, “Last Sunday morning neither of our three pulpits was filled,” which The Sun is still “free to maintain” is another illustration of what an amateur gram marian is able to do with a provincial newspaper. If you are unable to see in what your inaccuracy consists, ask some boy, who has just passed the juvenile era of grammatical lore, aud he will tell you. jG@“"Tlie "Washington correspondent of the Louisville Ledger states that just pre vious to the adjournment of the first ses sion of the forty-second Congress a peti tion was presented to the President, signed by eighteen Radical Senators and several Radical Representatives, recom mending that he recognize Foster Blodg ett as Senator eleet from Georgia, so as to give Mm control of the Federal pat ronage of the State. The petitioners said they had examined into the case, and were satisfied that Blodgett was legally elected, and ought to be seated. Yet so terrible has been the Radical fiasco in Georgia, that even those eighteen Re publican Senators did not have the ef frontery to stand up to Captain Blodgett M his last emergency. The heaviest blow the Radical party has ever received has been given it by the Radicals of Georgia. Even the Radical papers of this State have no heart to come up to the defense of their party leaders. JBSy The services of the laugMng ed itor of the Sun had to be called in yes terday to read the following brace of paragraphs, from the Courier-Journal The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, who will be remembered as the Georgia gen tleman who sometime since wrote a para graph M opposition to the “ new depart ure,” is now the sole proprietor ot Tee Atlanta Sun. The Atlanta Sun is dread and fearful thrng to be owned by a man of his age and size. Mr. Stephens, who has done all he could to kill the Democratic party, is now the owner of The Atlanta Sun. If The Sun hasn’t got its life insured, it is not half as discreet as a full-grown newspaper ought to be. Loose buttons have been lying about The Sun office ever since, and the day night, between two and four o’clock. One of the houses and contents were in sured for $2,000. It is believed to be the work of an iucendiary, and is the second effort to destroy it M the last ten days. I and jnsti.ying the outrages of those who provoke them. New Pbofessob of State University. | —We learn from private advices that the Prudential Committee of the Beard of Trustees of the State University have designated Mr. Wilcox of Columbus, to Illicit Distillers.—Eight persons— some citizens of Gilmer county—were arraigned before U. S. Commissioner W. Smith, yesterday, for illicit distilling. An investigation will take place to-day at I succeed Dr. Smead, deceased, as Profes- 2JP. M. sor of Modern Languages in the Univer- Fatal Accident in Augusta. A pri- s ity. This selection is subject to the ac- vate dispatch to our esteemed fellow citi- y 0 n of the Trustees, zen, Mr. J. A. Ansley, announces the Superior Court at Jonesboro.—A death of his nephew, Mr. John Wilcox, called session of the Superior Court for Sand Hills, near Augusta, loung Ci a jton County, for the trial of criminal Wilcox met his death by the accidental cases only, closed yesterday, at which discharge of his gun while in his own eight cases—five misdemeanors and three hands. felonies—were disposed of. Fire. The two houses occupied by| The State vs. Thos. O’Neal for the mur- Lizzie Clifton were burned down Tliurs- der of Joseph Anthony in Clayton Coun ty, on the 24tli December, 1870, con sumed most of the week. The case was closed and given to tho jury on Thursday evening about dark. In about half an hour they rendered a verdict of guilty.— A motion for a new trial was heard and portunity to enter npon a well establish^ i business.—Eds. Sun.] U Mechanics’ Testimonlvl Supper-, Season of Enjoyment Among Mechanics —Tho gentlemen employed by Messrs. Longley & Robinson, of the Phoenix Planing Mill, gave a supper last evenin. at P. H. Oelrich’s restaurant as a testing uial to their employers. It was surpris. ing to us to learn that this enterprising firm had nearly one hundred men in their employment. The following are the names of those uuiting M giving the supper: Jos A Johnson, J C Conley, T NFare- cloth, W R Millwood, George F Bnch- anan, C R Wellborn. E W Dyer, W H Frizzell, J W Head, H Myers, G Bishop F K Larrabee, D W M C Jones, R .( Monteith, J P Kelly, S H Ogletree, WH Jernigan, J W Cross,;R L Crotty, James Gilliam, W M Thomas, R E Thompson Wm Torrence, J F Calloway, J D Smith’ M Cain, W Wade, A Harris, P HSimms[ A McGilvary, J M Douglas, S T Johnsj A Baker, J C Head, G A Gilmore, Rob’t Okancey, F O White, J A Garrett, Dp Holloway, George Presnell, JM Hairs ton, C W Stevens, D Hollingsworth M Cusick. - ’ A general flow of good feeling pre- vailed, and all enjoyed the occasion. Toasts and speeches, wit and humor! marked the occasion. Messrs. Johnson, Jernigan, Conley, Robinson, Frizzell, Longley, and others! made addresses, and all passed, off with a happy effect This is the first occasion of the kind, so far as we are aware, iu this city. We hope it is but the beginning of innocent enjoyments which will spread its infla- ence to every fibre of society. Personal.—N. E. Harris, Esq., the talented editor of the Hancock Sentinel, was in our office last night. He was on his way to Tennessee to spend the holi days with his kindred. Foster Blodgett is eternally’ disgraced —even in the estimation of his accompli ces in crime. The Grand Jury found a true bill agaiust him last summer. He gave bond for his appearance at court. He went away, pretending to be looking after a seat in the Senate, but, no doubt, to keep out of the clutches of the law. His boud was declared forfeited at the late session of tlie Superior Court in this city, and a bench warrant for Ms arrest is now in tlie hands of the Sheriff. Besides this, tlie Grand Jury last week found another true bill against him. He has, no doubt, gone to join Bullock; and, we consider it altogether probable that neither o them will ever voluntarily again return to Georgia. They both went away from here with pretensions of being gone on legitimate business, both carefully giving out through the press here that they would return soon. Our readers will recollect that, we then expressed the opinion that neither would return while it. could be avoided. Ain’t I Brave?—Scott, the carpet bag Guberna - orial plunderer of South Carolina, v lio has played the same game that B tthick has in Georgia, in the mat ter of State bonds and public robberies generally, has performed a cute strategy upon the advocates of impeachment. He has shown him*. If to be almost as sharp Foster Blodgett, and assumed the James Skyles will have a hearing this overruled, and the Judge sentenced him morning at 10 o’clock, before Judge Pitt- to be executed in private, within half a man. mile of Jonesboro, on the 16tli Februa- Mabried.—Mr. A. Wellborn Hill, the r y next. Solicitor-General E. P. Howell, junior partner of the enterprising firm of and Col. J. D. Steward of Griffin, repre- Daniel & Hill, of Augusta, was married sented the State, and E. W. Beck and to Miss Sallie Buchanan, of Newnan, on M. M. Tidwell the defense. Wednesday evening, 20th instant. Ma- Robert Redding and Isaac Russell (col- ny of Wellborn’s friends would like to ored), were also tried. This was an im- extend the “right hand of fellowshsp,” portant case. For a long time Redding, but we can only wish him the happiness especially, has been a terror and a rutli- which we are left to pursue. less violator of law. About two years ago McLaughlin Sentenced.—Yesterday, be was convk ^ ed °* burglary M Spalding E. A. McLaughlin appeared before the Superior Court, and sent to the Peniten United States District Court. His Hon- tiar J- About one year ago Bullock par- or, Judge Erskine, refused a new trial, doned bim out o£ tbe Penitentiary, since and sentenced Mm to pay a fine of S5,058 wbicb time be bas been a terror to tbe —the amount of the embezzlement—and couu * r y such as burning Mr. Blalock s to be confined at hard labor in the peni- bouse ^ Fayette county—and about four tentiary for three years. The way of the montba a go made an assault, with intent transgressor is hard. to ra P e > a ^e girl in Fayette county. llAEBm.. on Thursday evening, tho Two months ago he broke open the 21st inst., at 8 o’clock, by the Eev. D. D. ‘ s ^° re ° E J ° hn Hale m Clajton eonnty „ ... .. i-nr r, .and stole about $o00 worth of goods. Cox, at the residence of Mrs. General „ t ‘ ^ j He was arrested two >days afterward and Mills, Lorens D. McDonald, Esq., Miss Carrie Octavia Mills, youngest | daughter of General E. R. and Mrs. Courtney Mills—all of Atlanta. We acknowledge a piece of the wed ding cake, which reminded ns of days I long since passed. We wish the new voy agers upon life’s matrimonial bark a strategy of a soldier, which Bullock n< ver attempted. But Scott would be a coward if he bad the Georgia Legislature to-deal with him: and if he ever has an honest set of men te face he, too, will tuck his tail and ran like a sl eep-stealing car, and will join Bullock, who has sought safety in flight, D. N. Madden, the gentleman who had that confidence game played upon him by the two brothers, Gist, alias Fames worth, and who w’as required by the May or to remain here and testify against the rascals, had a check for $25 passed up in his favor by the Council last night, to reimburse bim for actual expenses in re maiuing here. This was right—and the pay small enough. : This is a description of a terrible infant in Fentress county, Tennessee: “The prodigy is only three years old, and weighs seventy-five pounds, has as much beard as. a twenty-year-old, his feet are eight inches long, though small for one of his build; he is fond of the society of girls, but the boys he detests. His voice is coarse, and his fits of passion are ter rific.” was tried at this term of the court. He was convicted and sentenced to the Pen itentiary for twenty years. Isaac Rus sell, an accomplice, was also convicted and received the same sentence. Solic itor General Howell and J. L. Doyal for the State, and Beck and Stewart for the defense. A Rare Opportunity.—A rare oppor- pleasant jonmey, with a peaceful termi- tunity is presented for a partnersMp in nation when the scenes of earth shall the Drug trade, in a neighboring city, close upon them. ijjjq business has been established for Married, in Crawfordville, Ga., on many years; has always done a large and the evening of the 21st instant, by Rev. profitable trade. The retiring partner L. B. L. Jennings, Mr. Thomas Rhodes desires to sell, on account of increasing to Miss Corinne Kent, daughter of Dr. years and infirm health. The remain- John J. Kent, all of Taliaferro county. I Mg partner is an active man, long expe- Grant’s Mtlttauv Police in Illinois. —A Washington dispatch to the New York Post says: “There is much talk m Washington about the President’s inter ference with Governor Palmer in the lo cal work of Illinois. It is accounted for among candid men, by tlie weakness, or at least error of the Mayor of the city ip calling for troops, aud by the Presidents haste to support the cause of the public peace. No legal authority defends th® legality of the President’s or General Sheridan’s interference without a reqnes from the Governor of the State; butiti said that the President did not consul any legal authority, having no one * hand as an adviser but Mr. Akernuuj; whose ability in such matters ho did trust, and that lie was guided by the a vice of General Porter.”