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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
SUN-STROKES.
Ugjt- It is now about time for Dr. Liv
ingstone to be again roasted and eaten
raw by tbe savages. .
Katie Putnam is puttin em in a
good humor iu Chattanooga with hex
lively antics upon the stage.
In the system of condensed par-
agrnphy, the Bostom Post excels. Vuk-
“Michigan girl-lamp.”
A Missouri musician sat on a keg
of powder to smoke. His wife could not
positively identify a shirt button that was
found in that vicinity.
jpay- The Minnesotans are “souring”
on Agriculture by devoting a great deal
of time and land to the production of
cranberries.
jggy* It is thought in "Washington that
Sickles will not return to Spaiu, but will
remain in this country. “The most an-
kindest cut of all,” and with such a tooL
jj0„Froni the way in which the Graut-
ites in Congress oppose retrenchment,
the public is I d to believe that retrench
ment means refunding.
An international exposition will be
held at the Capital of Austria in 1873,
It will doubtless attract a great number
of lookors-on in Vienna.
The wife of Mr. S. Peck, of Ohio,
lately presented him with three girls at
a litter. It needed only one more little
Peck to make a bushel of them.
Bgi. The Agricultural Bureau says the
area of com in 1871 was greater than any
previous year. But Pogue says he has
been able to discover no abatement in
the price of whisky.
JB@“ The Colorado Transcript says:
“The Georgia Democratic Convention
has nominated J. M. Sweet, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, for Gover-
ESL. Says the Washington telegraphic
correspondent of the Savannah JVcics:
“Prominent Georgians now hero express
the opinion that Blodgett will never re
turn to Georgia, but will seek an asylum
along with his friend Bullock in Canada.”
It is sad to have to part with one’s friends
thus; but if the valiant Captain is obliged
to leave, he must be given up. He and
Bollock will be able to lament together—
somewhere, anywhere—where their sins
may not follow too closely upon their
track. Vale Bullock! Vale Blodgett.
The Castor and Pollux of Georgia’s mush
room politicians.
idenco that has ever fallen upon her.' to prescribe and define the powers and
But, to her iu this most afflictive be-[ duties thereof. Dee. 13.
1(37. To repeal an act entitled an act
to amend an net assented to August 27,
GEORGIA MATTERS.
reavement, she has that special consola
tion which springs from the full con
sciousness that her “loss is his gain.”
Had Frank lived, like another Prentiss/
he might, and most probably would have
attained a high position among the most
distinguished men of his country and
times: but it would have been with pro
longed pain and suffering. As it is, he
is removed from those scenes of trouble,
about which he used to talk so much,
and has gone to his eternal rest, in man-
1 sions beyond the skies, prepared by his
Heavenly Father. A. H. S.
ESP Two trains on the Michigan Cen
tral Railroad attempted to pass each oth
er on the same track one day last week.
The effort was • perfectly futile, though
two engines were smashed and three men
killed in making the experiment.
J5QT The Spanish Catholics have re
cently sent to the Pope a massive Virgin
in solid silver, valued at $6,000. If His
Holiness would now coin the image into
pennies, the Virgin might ,again “go about
doing good.”
ESP “According to the Edinburgh
Scotsman, Wendell Phillips is “a sort of
an American Kocliefort, Gambetta and
Victor Hugo rolled into one.” Tho(
Scotsman might have added to the con
glomeration Brownlow, the devil and
Tom Walker.
The Boston Post, (no other could
have done it), says: “Among Jie books
ordered by Senator Cameron as Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Dela
tions, is a copy of Byron’s poems, in or
der that he might study the San Juan
question.”
ESP Congress is without a Washburn
for the first time in sixteen years.
ESp Chicago, it is said, promises to be
a paradise for sign-painter*. They ought
to be required to use “fire-proof paint.”
JfcSS- “The Bridge of Sighs” is to be set
to music. Will the music be a pontoon ?
Very thiD. -
B. Hayes Mitchell, the first con
vict under the Ku-Klux Act, iu South
Carolina, is a carpet-bagger from New
York.
JBSa?” Efforts are being made to have
Pollok removed from the Philadelphia
Mint, and it is thought the eud will be
secured in “the course of time.”
The world has ceased its wails
over Wales. It is possible, though, that
Wales may cause the world more wails
living than he would have cost it had be
died.
JKS^Thc movement to impeach Gov
ernor Scott, of South Carolina, has com
menced. South Carolinians may soon
begin to sing,
‘‘Scott, wlia hue wi’ Bullock fled:
Scott, wha South Carolina bl^d,” *c.
The Griffin Middle Georgian, of
yesterday, says: “On last Wednesday
the Order of Good Templars buried one
of their members, who died lost week,
for the first time since their organiza
tion.” This effectually proves what ama
teur grammarians are able to do with a
“ provincial” newspaper.
Thb Atlanta, (Ga.) Sun, of De
cember 2d says: “Snow to the depth of
two inches fell in Athens last Thursday
night.” What has effected such climatic
changes as seem to have taken place in
the last few years ? It is hoped they are
not from Radical causes.—Bloomington
(III.) Democrat.
Certainly “Radical causes” had noth
ing to do with the snow, as it was per
fectly pure and white—two qualities
which aie neither parts of, nor results
from, such “causes.”
Robb will not be let alone ; and
what is crudest of all he receives his
worst treatment iu the house of his
friends. His persecutions and prosecu
tions have come from Radical quarters,
and make him very unhappy. After his
acquittal by the Federal Court in Savan
nah, the other day, he was hopeful that
he would be allowed to collect his scat
tered senses an 1 the customs in quiet;
but alas! upon the very heels of that ac
tion by the Court, comes the following
message from Washington, dated Sun
day : “The entire Republican delegation
in Congress from Georgia will to-morrow
pay a visit to the President and to Sec
retary Boutwell, for the purpose of en
deavoring to have the Savannah Custom
House question settled- by the appoint
ment of CoL Atkins ns Collector.” Robb
undoubtedly thinks it hard that he
should have left all the comforts of his
Illinois home, to come to Georgia and bo
so treated by his friends. _
Judge Lochrane is on a visit to Macon.
Upson county couples don’t give time
for their marriage license to be folded,
but marry at once in the Ordinary’s
office.
Bainbridge is downhearted—all for the
want of a baby show.
The Savannah News announces the
death of Mr. W. B. Mell.
Griffin lamentetk over the scarcity of
eggs. Hens do not shell out as they
should, in view of the fact that the egg-
nogtial season is at hand.
Clayton Superior Court met on Mon
day. The principal attraction is the trial
of the O’Neals for murder.
Morris Truewell did not illustrate the
qualities expressed in his name, and was
committed to jail in Griffin, in default of
bail, op the charge of theft.
Griffin has had a “right sharp sprink
ling of snow.”
Griffin is full of negroes trying to get
homes for next year.
The Middle Georgian learns that the
wood shop and grocery of W. J. Burks,
at Locust Grove, was burned down on
last Sunday night, the 17th inst., between
ten and eleven o’clock.
The denizens of Senoia propose to en
tertain themselves Friday night with
some domestic music and drama. These
new towns will put on so many airs.
Seven Swedish immigrants have ar
rived atCulverton, Hancock county.
The Geeat Gabsed Cotton Case.—
The great cotton lawsuit between Garsed
and the Bealls, in the Circuit Court of
the United States—the approaching trial
of which we noticed some time ago, and
which came to a hearing last week in Sa
vannah, was decided in favor of the
Bealls. An appeal has been entered,
taking it up to the Supreme Court of the
United States. It is said that a million
of dollars or more is involved in the case.
PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed at the Late Session of the
General Assembly, 1871.
1870. Dec. 13,
1G8. To authorize the appointment of
an Auditor in case of law or equity in
volving accounts. Dec. 13.
1G9. To authorize the local authorities
of Chatham county, to change or abob- ... _
ish the road leading from the Isle of the town of Hawkinsville, in the county
Hope to the main road, in Skidaway of Pulaski, to define the limits of the
Island. Dec. 13. same. Dec. 15
lTO. To limit the time of service of | 217. General Appropriation act.
manner of taking judgments thereon to
the Supreme Court. Dec. 15.
215. To amend sections 9 and 10 of an
act entitled an act to carry into effect the
2d clause of 13th section of 5th article
of the Constitution, approved February
15, 1869, so as to provide for the furnish
ing of panels of Jurors iu the trial of
criminal cases in cerjaiu cases. Dec. 15.
216. To amend an act to incorporate
Petit Jurors in the Superior Court of
Chatham county. Dec. 13.
171. To relieve joint debtors by judg
ment. Dec. 13.
THE DAILY_8UN.
Thursday, December 21, 1871,
Compensation of Jurors in De-
Kalb and Fulton Counties.
The Legislature, at its late session,
passed an act that all persons in Fulton
and DeKalb counties, serving as Grand
and Traverse Jurors in the Superior
Courts, shall be entitled to two dollars
for every day they serve as such, which
shall be paid to them, by the County
Treasurer on presentation of the certifi
cate of the Clerk of the Court.
Tax Collectors in these two counties
are required to receive such certificates iu
payment of county taxes.
The same act provides that Bailiffs
serving the Superior Court shall also be
entitled to two dollars a day, and that
certificates of their service shall be ac
cepted by the Collectors for county tax.
Prom the Constitution, 19th Dec., 1871.
IN MEMORIAM.
It was our mournful pleasure, on Sabbath after
noon, to be present among those who had assembled
to pay a last tribute of respect to the remains of
Frank K Brown.
Seldom have we seen so largo a concourse of sym
pathizing friends gathered to attest, with tears, their
heartfelt sorrow and condolence for the family, in
their extraordinary affliction.
The knowledge of his extreme illness and inevita
ble dissolution, robbed the painful announcement of
surprise to his many friends, but does not mitigate
the genuine sorrow felt by ad who knew him inti
mately.
Companionable, interesting, wonderful in mind,
and afllictcd from early youth, he had been regarded
with peculiar tenderness and devotion by his family
and friends, and most naturally do they bow with
grief to the severe dispensation.
We feel warranted in saying that, intellectually,
he had no superior in one of his age. Never did
Genius shine brighter in one so young. He found
his highest pleasure in literature, and was happiest
when pouriug over the various leading journals of
the country. Iu the midst of these he did not for
get the great interest of his soul’s salvation, but
gave sufficient proof of his preparation for the
chauge. Among the hut hours of his life he quoted
beautiful sacred verses, which were typical of his
resignation to meet his Maker.
His last illness was attended with much suffering,
which lasted till 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, llith
inst., when his spirit winged its flight to the God
who gave it, and the sufferer was at rest.
A large assemblage met the remains at the Second
Baptist Church at 3 o'clock, on Sabbath afternoon,
and after a fitting and touching requiem by the
choir, the man of God led in a solemn and appro
priate service. A long procession followed to the
Cemetery where was deposited all that was mortal of
Franklin Pierce Brown. E.
It was with feelings of deep grief for
the departed, and the profonudest sym
pathy for the near and dear ones he left
behind, that we received, through the
papers, the sad tidings of the premature
end of the earthly career of him, to
whose memory the foregoing tribute is
devoted.
We knew him from the time that he
had scarcely attained the fourth year of
his age, and, even, then, recognized in
him genius of the most extraordinary
character. He was, indeed, an intel
lectual prodigy. In conversing with
him, when under ten years of age, one
was reminded of all that has beeu said of
Safford, the boy Mathematician and As
tronomer, though the superior talents Of
“little Frank” lay not in that line.
He was an observer of men and things,
and, at twelve, evinced an insight ipto
character almost intuitive, and a matu
rity, as well as correctness, of judgment
upon public affairs, equaled by hat few of
the ablest men of the land. Being severely
afflicted with spinal disease, he never at
tended school in his life; and yet his
chief relief from pain and suffering was
in reading. Newspapers and Books
were his resort. His education was
cherished charge of one of the fondest
and most devoted of mothers, as well
as one of the best of women, with whom
it has been our fortune ever _ to meet.
This loss of her “darling boy” is, per
haps, the severest dispensation of Provi-
Below. we give the third installment,
and the last, of the list of the acts passed
by tlie General Assembly np to the time
of its adjournment last Friday night.
The list is full and correct, having been
obtained directly from the office of the
Secretary of State specially for The Sun.
The entire number of acts is 220.
129. To repeal an act entitled an act to
consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver
and Collector of the county of Dade.
Dec. 13.
130. To amend an act to incorporate
the Gate City Insurance Company of the
city of Atlanta, assented March 12,
I860, and to change its name. Dec. 13.
131 To amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Grand Lodge Knights of
Jericho of the State of Georgia, and for
other purposes therein named. Dee. 13.
132. To repeal all local road laws of
the county of Bryan, and for other pur
poses therein mentioned. Dec. 13.
133. To authorize Clerks of the Supe
rior Courts, in the connties of Lowndes,
Coffee, Clinch and Ware, to issue writs
that shall bear test in the name of J. R.
Alexander and Wm. M. Sessions. Dec.
13.
134. To require the Tax Collector of
the county of Ware to receive county
scrip for taxes due the county. Dec. 13.
135. To regulate and fix the pay of
Grand and Traverse Jurors in the county
of Crawford. Dec. 13,
136. To provide for opening and clear
ing out Cedar Creek, in the county of
Wilcox, and fixing a penalty for t he ob
structing of the said stream.
137. To repeal an act consolidating the
offices of Tax Receiver and Collector for
Charlton county. Dec. 13.
138. To compensate Grand and Petit
Jurors for the county of Paulding.
Dec. 13.
139. To repeal an act entitled an act to
authorize the payment of costs due the
officers of the Court of Bartow county,
and to provide therefor, approved Oct.
27, 1870. Dec. 13.
140. To amend an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Habersham and Union
Turnpike Company, and grant certain
privileges to the same, and for other pur
poses mentioned, and to change the
name of the same. Dee. 13.
141. To amend an act entitled an act
to authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Atlanta to provide for the introduc
tion of Water Works in said city, and for
other purposes, approved September 23,
1870. Dec.SIS. SMm
142. To incorporate the town of Rut
ledge, in Morgan county. Dec. 13.
143. To punish any person or persons
who shall assume to perform the duties
of Constable in the city of Savannah un
less he or they have been elected, ap
pointed or qualified in accordance with
the Statute of the State of Georgia.
Dec. 13.
144. To repeal certain sections of an
act entitled an act to charter the Georgia
Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Compa
ny, and the several acts amendatory
thereto. Dec. 13.
145. To constitute a Board of Commis
sioners for the county of Meriwether,
State of Georgia. Dec. 14.
146. To amend the charter of the city
of Atlanta by prescribing for the election
of a Recorder and Auditor, and to pre
scribe their duties. Dec. 12,
147. To incorporate the Dollar Savings
Bank of Fort Valley. Dec. 13.
148. To create a new Jndicial Circuit
of the counties composing the Southern.
Macon and Middle Circuits, to provide
for the appointment of Jndge thereof,
and for other purposes. Dee. 12.
149. To legalize the subscription of
Indian Springs to the Griffin, Monticello
and Madison Railroad Company. Dec,
13.
150. To change the time of holding the
fall term of Lee Superior Court. Dec,
13.
151. To authorize the Ordinary of Pu
laski county to issue bonds to bnild
court house. Dec. 13.
152. To make penal the selling of per
sonal property which has beeu mortgaged
as a security for the payment of debt,
and to provide for the punishment of the
same. Dec. 13.
153. To assist the Georgia Infirmary.
154. To require the several Judges of
the State to give specially in charge to
the grand juries sections* 4409 and 4491
of the Code. Dec. 13.
155. To exteud the provisions of the
11th section of the act approved Feb. 22,
1850, in relation to tax receivers and col
lectors of Chatham county. Dee 13.
156. To prevent hounding and killing
deer in the county of Laurens during the
mouths of May, June, July and August.
Dec. 13.
157. To incorporate the Georgia Dia
mond and Mining Company. Dec. 13.
158. To amend the road laws of the
State so far as they relate to the county
of Lumpkin. Dec. 13.
159. To amend the acts incorporating
the village of Cave Spring, Floyd coun
ty. Dec. 13.
160. For the relief of B. Chancey,
Tax Collector of Early county, for the
year 1869. Dec. 13.
161. To legalize the subscription of the
town of Madison to the Griffia, Monti
cello aud Madison Railroad Company
Dec. 13.
162. To provide for the ti ne of hold
iug the Superior Courts Eastern Judicial
Circuit. Dec. 13.
163. To require the Judges of the Su
perior Court of this State, to give
especial charge to the Grand Juries,
Section 1436 of the Code. Dec. 13.
Ifik For the relief of Zeba King.
165. To require Clerks Superior Court
to provide blanks with printed instruc
tlAne fm* falrinm- 1 O
218. Atlanta City Coart.
rating.)
219. To promote thetpropagation of
. shad fish in the Savannah river, and to
1(2. To incorporate the town of Re- impose a penalty for fishing in said river
saca, and for other purposes. Dec. 13. on Sunday or Monday. Dec. 14.
Ii3. To create a Board of Commis- 220. To provide for the mode of fiding
sioners for the county of Liberty, Ac.— vacancies in the office of Ordinary, which
rn may now, or her^a,ter, exist in tlie sev-
174 lo alter, change and amend an act era! counties of this State. Dec. 15.
entitled an act to incorporate the town of — :
Decatur. Dec. 13. The Condition of the South
175. To provide for taking bond of Says President Grant, “is unhappilv,
public officers and qualifying them. Dec. not such as all true, patriotic citizens
13. I would like to see.” Exactly so. And
176. To chauge the time of holding the who is responsible ? Nobody but Grant
Superior Court of the county of Jasper and Congress, who have’ caused this state
in the Ocmulgee Circuit. Dec. 13. of things by their “disabilitii s” and ty-
177. To repeal section 812 of Irwin’s rannical legislation. Ho accuses the
Code, and to prescribe the mode of tax- Southern people of encouraging “social
ing shares in banks and other corpora- ostracism for opinion’s sake, personal
tions having banking privileges. Dec. violence or threats towards persons enter-
"**'’• taining political views opposed to those
178. To create a board of roads and entertained by the majority of the old
revenue in the county of Dawson. Dec. citizens.” What sublime impudence to
13. speak thus of the Southern people, who
179. To enforce article 5, section 12, are to this day the victims of political
paragraph 2, of the Constitution. Dec. “ostracism for opinion’s sake,” subject to
13. “personal violence or threats,” from gov-
180. To authorize the. Ordinary of ernment officials “entertaining political
Campbell county to issue bonds to raise views opposed to those entertained by
money to pay for the building of a court by the majority of the old citizens. What
honse. Dec. 13. a multitude of camels this Northern mes-
181. To compensate Ordinaries, Sheriffs sage deliverer swallows, while straining at
and Clerks of the Superior Court, etc. Southern gnats! It is horriblef or the South-
Dec. 13. em people to measure out to others as it is
182. To authorize Calloway Campbell measured to them. Had there been a
of Murray county to erect a milldam general amnesty at the close of the war,
acro«s the Connesauga River on his own as originally agreed upon, there would
land in the 10th, 7th and 3d of Murray, have been as much harmony at the
Dec. 13. South to-day as at the North. But a
183. To amend an act passed by the cowardly and Truculent Northern Con-
Legislature of Georgia December 27, gress was afraid of the unconquered mind
1847, incorporating the Evergreen Cem- of the Southern people. They dared not
etery Company of Bonaventine. Dec. go into a conflict of argument, so they
politically gagged and bound their ad-
184. The legalize the actions of the versaries, aud have kept them in chains
Clerk of the Superior Court of Wilcox to this day. Remove this political ban-
county as Ordinary of said county, and dage and the Ku-Klux will expire for lack
to authorize said Clerk to levy a tax for of foed. Just look at this twaddle:
cqunty purposes for the year 1871. Dec. “It will be a happy condition of the
country when the old citizens of these
185. To incorporate the Macon and States will take an interest in public af-
Chattahoochee Railroad Company. Dec. fairs, promulgate ideas honestly enter
tained, vote for men representing their
186. To change the time of holding views, and permit the srrne freedom of
the Superior Court in Campbell county, expression and ballot in those entertain-
Dec. 14. ing different political convictions.”
187. To repeal an act to amend section What chance have they to “vote for
3151, part 2, title 9, chapter 14, of the men entertaining their views ?” Are not
Revised Code. Dec. 14. their elections invariably set aside ? Ev-
188. To incorporate the town of Law- erybody knows that no man entertaining
tonville. Southern opinions would be admitted to
189. To incorporate the town of Whit- Congress. —Pontiac, Michigan, Jack-
ney, in Calhoun, and for other purpo- j sonian.
ses therein mentioned, and to regulate
the retail of spirituous liquors within the
corporate limits. Dec. 14.
190. To alter and amend an act to in
corporate the town of Montezuma, in the
county of Macon, and to provide for an
election, approved November 12, 1870.
Dec. 14.
191. To amend an act incorporating the
Atlantic and Great Western Canal Com
pany. Dec. 14.
192. To provide the mode of adjudica
ting the rights of parties under article 7
of the Constitution of this State. Dec.
14.
193. To amend the 3d Section of an
act providing for the setting apart of
homestead of realty and personalty. Ap
proved Oct. 3, 1868. Dec. 14.
194 To secure the several counties of
the State of Georgia from costs. Dec. 14.
195. To abolish the offices of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, Ac.
Dec. 14.
196. To incorporate the Merchants
and Mechanics Savings Bank of Colum
bus. Dec. 14.
197. To make it penal to withhold
money or personal property belonging to
lh mr« 0 /fS“^ t D S-e 1 L™t»o I | ®
tlie Penitentiary of the State of Georgia, pleasure of the Philadelphians by obsti-
and for other purposes. Dec. 14. nately refusing to be vac inated.
199. To extend the right of dissolving | He is in Pennsylvania now, is 100
tions for taking interogatories. Dec. 13.
166. To pr -vide for a county Board
feOWING.
Are we sowing seeds of kindness ?
They shall blossom, bright erelong.
Are we sowing seeds of discord?
They shall ripen into wrong.
Are we sowing seeds of honor?
They shall bring forth golden grain.
Are we sqwing seeds of falsehood?
We shall yet reap bitter pain.
Whatsoe’er our sowing be,
Heaping, we its fruits must see.
We can never be too careful
What the seed our hands shall sow;
Lovo from love is sure to ripen,
Hate from hate is sure to grow.
Seeds of good or ill we scatter
Heedlessly along our way;
But a glad or grievous fruitage
Waits us at the harvest day.
Whatsoe’er our sowing be,
Reaping,'we its fruits must see.
SUN-STROKES.
The Watkins are in Selma. ^
The Smith family, of all others,
is the most John-tj.
J8®“ The great legal question now is—
will Captain Blodgett return to Georgia ?
ESP Medill will not meddle in news
papers while he is Mayor of Chicago.
garnishment to persons other than de
fendants. Dec. 14.
200. To refund to Jackson, Lawton A
Bassinger, a certain amount of money,
Ac. Dec. 14.
201. To provide for the payment of a
portion of the funds raised for school
purposes in the city of Columbus.—
December 14.
years old, and his name is Ebenezer
Shaw.
Blodgett is undoubtedly the most
disappointed man in America—in fact he
can claim the championship in that line.
figL. Woman is still free in Wyoming.
The Senate failed to pass, over the Exec-
202. To increase the pay of jurors in u tive veto, the act repealing woman suf-
the counties of Stewart, Webster, Troup, j e
Terre.l, Spalding, Gordon, Paulding, Jk . ,, , .. , „
Early, Miller, Grlen, Murray, Quitman, A Massachusetts woman made five
Fayette, Clayton, Lumpkin, Heard, hundred dollars last, year by the prbpaga-
Clarke, Cobb, Chattahoochee. Henry, | tion of lilies.
Taylor, Macon, Telfair, Thomas, Deca
tur, Habersham, Monroe, Dooly, Jasper,
Houston, Worth. Dec. 14.
203. To require the ordinaries of the
“Lo, the lilies of the field,
How their leaves the lucre yield.”
An Ohio boy husked enough corn
several counties in the State in issuing last Fall to buy bis mother a piano. So
orders on the several county treasurers much com having gone into the instru-
to specify in said order the particular men t it ought to be able to “shell out
fund out of which said order ought right- L , .
- - — - - D ° 1 lots or music.
fully to be paid. Dec. 15.
204 To allow plaintiffs in execution a
right to recover damages in certain cases.
Dec. 15.
ESP The Boston Post says: “Grant
will be glad that Christmas is coming, for
it is the time for presents.” As far as
205. To incorporate Doraville in the the presents can make it so, it is Christ-
county of DeKalb, and to appoint com- j mas a p the year with him.
missioned for the same, and for other ^ K Tennyson had known how
purposes therein mentioned. Dec. 15. _ , , • .. , ,
* rn . ,, t, , many Enoch Ard*ns there were to be m
206. To incorporate .the Rome aud , J , , ,, ,
Raleigh Railway Company, and for other ' vor ^ d > be never would have written
purposes. Dec. 15. “ his poem of that name, but would have
207. To provide for suits against joint continued to idyl away his time at the
obligors in the City Court of Savannah, j Round Table.
Dec. 15. j what most “sours” upon Captain
208. To p jo vide a remedy by which B!o dg e tt is, that the United State Senate
S *•«* «-■"» Ms vatable sex-
State or Western and Atlantic Railroad, vices iu gallantly aiding in the capture
mav be recovered, Ac. Dec. 15. I of the Augusta Arsenal early in the
209. To incorporate the town of East- war.
man, ami to repeal all previous acts in- ^ The Knoxville Chronicle says:
corporatiug the same. , , ... ,
210. To alter and amend section 4779 Abouttbe most absurd t1un S have
of Irwin’s Revised Code. Dec. 15. heard of recently is a rumor that Senator
211. To authorize the Ordinary of Brownlow is to resign liis seat in the Sen-
Edwin Forrest is playing in Nash
ville.
US?*’ “The howling idiot Train,” is}
what the Cincinnati Commercial calls that
lunatic who has’beeu allowed by his
keepers, for some years, to wander over
the world without restraint.
BSL. Montgomery county, Pennsylva
nia, has a man who is 95 years old, and
who has voted the straight-out Democrat
ic ticket 74 times. “The righteous shall
(liicorpo-1 live lon B in the land -”
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, has-
sent an agent to Washington to remon
strate with the President* upon the con
tinued usurpations, under color of mili
tary authority, in that State. The North
ern States, one by one, are beginning to
know how it is themselves. They will
become restless, after a while, under tho
gradual but steady departure of their
right of local self-gqvernment.
ESP Alas, poor Blodgett! away off"
where the woodbine twineth in gentlo
clasp, around the horns of Bullock, may
he find a safe asylum from the utter
shame that comes of his defeat. Within
his little brain he boro a wondrous great-
ambition; but to this complexion has it
come at last—where sturdy-thewed and
sinewy strength is needed, ’twero worse
than folly to lean upon a rotten straw.
He tempted fate, and would not dodge jt,
And tliat’a the last of Captain Blodgett.
JOS?” The Washington Chronicle sayst
“We do not know what truth there is in
the rumor that Mr. Akerman, in retiring,
is to accept a judgeship at the hands of
the President. We feel sure, however^
that there is not the slightest estrange
ment between the President and Mr.
Akerman, and that the latter has now, as
heretofore, the full confidence of the for
mer.” Nothing but the high reputation
for the strictest veracity which is enjoyed
by the Chronicle, could induce the public
to believe that the above is correct.
There is not a doubt that Akerman was
cordially invited to resign and eased out
of the office very willingly.
Mr. Stephens, when he writes
radical misrule, uses a capital R and a
capital M. When he writes true Demo
crat, however, he uses a small t in true,
aud contents himself with a big D for
Democrat. Are we to infer from this
that Mr. Stephens is not a True Demo
crat ?
This ifc the last joke of the Courier-
Journal, and has been just three weeks in
course of preparation. It is very com
pact, which accounts for its heaviness.
Probably, if Mr. Stephens were to apply
the term “true Democrat” to the Courier-
Joumial, he would not only use a small t
and a small d, but would give special in
structions to have both words “set up”
in type too small to be read, except with
a five hundred horse-power magnifying
glass.
For the first time since the war,
Georgia is represented in the National
Senate Chamber by a man of her own
choosing. Hon. Thomas M. Norwood,
was selected by men who represent the
political and social condition of Geor
gia, and, being thus entitled, the Senate,
without the ’most flagrant - injustice,
could not have done otherwise than al
low him to take his seat. But one other
thing is now needed to give the State
back into the hands of its own people,
and that is the inauguration of Hon.
James M. Smith, as Governor. This will
be done, at the appointed time, and, in
defiance of many j redictions to the con
trary, Mr. Conley will quietly submit to
the will of the people, as clearly ex
pressed through a due course of legal
legislation, and as clearly indorsed at the-
ballot box. It is hardly possible that he.
will attempt to wrangle, to hold on to
the position into which accident and ras
cality threw him, against the will of the
vast majority of the people of the State.
When Mr. Williams had received
the appointment, and was confirmed as-
Attorney-General, he was serenaded by
some of his friends. In acknowledgment
of the compliment, he made a few re
marks, in the course of which he said:
I deeply regret that iu some portions
of the country a spirit of lawlessness
seems to prevail. I will favor every con
sideration of kindness to induce obedi
ence to the law, but if no other means
wiil answer, then I am for using the-
whole power of the country, in the most
vigorous and effective manner, to crush,
out every conspiracy against the peace of
society and the safety of the inoffending
citizen. Governments were primarily es
tablished to protect the weak against the
strong, and ii this Government fails to
perform its functions in that respect it
has a poor claim upon the support and.
loyalty of its citizens.”
Of course this is a polite and delicate
intimation that in the Radical love-labor
of persecuting the South, he intends to
follow in the footsteps of his illustrious
predecessor, the highly-flavored Aker
man. He says, however, that- he will
favor [every consideration of kindness.
If he really means what he says, he
ought to be advised that the greatest
“ kindness” he can do the people of the
South, is to inform himself of the real
condition of affairs here, and then act
justly. Under such circumstances, the
South would no more fear the Kn-Klox
act than it fears the Declaration of Inde
pendence.
Cherokee connty to issue bonds of said
county for the purpose of building a
Court House. Dec. 15.
212. To incorporate the LaGrange and
Barnesville Railroad Company. Dec.
15.
213. To incorporate tho Mechanics’
and Traders’ Bank of Georgia. Dec. 15.
214 To ameud the act to prescribe the
practice in cases of injunction aud other
It is, however, about the only ab-
thing that Brownlow has never
ate.
surd
done.
Tennie Ciafliu, in tbe New York
Police Court, has preferred charges
against her father and mother for being
a source of jumoyanee to her and Yic.
Woodhuli. ft , os-i-fe t uit the old
folks retain s -urc [lespt-ct-.biii * -ml de-
Cominissiouers lor Decatur county, and ! extraordinary remedies in equity, aud the cency, whicu their ilaUg-Rt r
The new Methodist church in Forsyth
was dedicated last Sunday by Bishop
Pierce.
Died, on the 8th, near Indian Springs,
Joel Black well Byars, aged 71 years.
The Bainbridge Sun says two negroes
got into a little dispute some days ago,
when oue of them, Wesley Walter *>y
name, went into his iiouse near at mum,
and securing a shot gun, shot his opt'
uent-, named Jacob Cowart, dead.