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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
THE DAILY SUN
Thursday, January 18, 1872.
HENRY CLEWS.
He
“Addresses” the
Georgia.
People of
The Constitution of yesterday contains
a letter from Henry Clews filling over two
and a half columns, characterized by
special pleading and incorrect statements,
which neither do him nor his claims any
good.
He objects to what he styles a system
atic effort to link his name with Bullock
and Kimball, and the Bond Bing, and
produces a cumber of letters and tele
grams from Gov. Bullock and Mr. James,
on which he seems to rely to vindicate
himself.
He introduces a letter written. to him
20th November, 1809, by Bid lock, in
which the opinion is given that the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Will
be a profitable investment; that
the report of the Engineer gives
assurance that the work is being
well performed; that a large majority of
the Legislature passed the act granting
the State’s indorsement npon the bonds
of the road, und that nine-tenths of the
people in Georgia approved it; that it
passes through a rich timber section,
soon to be open to agriculture, &c., and
that the bonds of the company indorsed
by tbe State, give all the security which
a first mortgage bond upon first-class
railroad, indorsed by the Slate, can afford,
&c. He quotes this letter from Bullock,
tko representative of a sovereign State,
as being entitled to respect, and as evi
dence that the bonds of the company,
fee., wore all right, and issued according
to la\\', and binding upon the people.
He quotes a letter from Mr. Alton
Angier, of the Treasurer’s office, dated
17th March, 1871, stating that Dr. An-
gicr had indorsed for the State 1500
bonds of the company; nlso refers to
certificates from tbe Comptroller General
and Secretary of State that certain bonds
had been registered in their offices,
and, in a similar way, quotesseveral dis
patches and letters from Bullock, dated
at various times, from January to June,
1871—to all of which he points trium
phantly as evidence that he has not been
dealing in “illegal papers or bonds,” or
confederated with a ring.
It is a stretch of charity and credulity
not to believe that Clews was then deeper
iu the swindling scheme thnu any one
else—not even Bullock and Kimball ex
cepted. A portion of the testimony he
quotes was written before mnch of the
mischief was actually done; and some of
it long after he and all the world were
pnt on notice that the bonds were illegal
ly issued, and long after the most promi
nent bankers and financiers of New York
so regarded them.
On the 23d of November, 1870, a mem
ber of the great banking house of Jay
Cook & Co. was in Atlanta, and tried to
see Bullock—failing in which he address
ed him this letter:
Atlanta, November 23, 1870.
His Excellency, Gov. Bullock:
Dear Sib: Having the honor to repre
sent the house of Messrs. Jay Cook &
Co., aud feeling a deep interest in State
securities, especially of tbe Southern
States, I endeavored to avail myself of
your knowledge and experience, and am
greatly disappointed that I cannot have
the pleasure of seeing yon.
I ana sorry to learn from Mr. James
and others, that there is a controversy as
to the validity of the Georgia State Bonds.
The controversy appears to arise out of
the requirements of the law, making it the
duty of the State Treasurer to sign, offi
cially, all the coupons, &<•., and keep a
record and description of all bonds issued.
Now, without considering tbe merits
or demerits of either side, just so long as
the controversy' lasts between your Ex
cellency and others, just so long your
bonds cannot be negotiated; or, if nego
tiated, it must be done at a great sacri
fice to the State until this is settled.
I have examined yonr Code and the
different acts respecting State bonds, and
see no way to make your bonds what is
called “a good delivery,” short of the
State Treasurer signing them officially,
and placing them on record, with a full
description, ns required by the law. This
lone, I think yonr bonds will not only
[bring a good price, but you would find
:io difficulty in negotiating them.
I trust yon will not consider me inter
fering by recommending this course, as
t is done to promote your interest, and
hat of- your State. The Treasurer, as
r. James informs me, and ns he states
imself to me, will, if you desire, sign
he coupons of the gold bonds as they
now are, diagonally across the face.—
This, I think, meets the requirements of
jthe law; first being recorded in the
[Treasurer’s office before placing them on
the market.
I go from hero to Galveston, by way of
Columbus, Mobile and New Orleans, and
hope to have the pleasure of peeing your
Excellency on my return.
Your friend and obedient serv’r,,
B. W. Latham.
Early in January, 1871, Dr. Angier, as
Treasurer, made his report to the Gov
ernor, in which the following language
occurs:
“A large amount of new State bonds
have been isriied, greatly in excess of the
honest demands against the State, and
under circumstances that lead to the be
lief that these bonds have been used for
private purposes, to further tbe ends of
certain, individuals.”
Again:
“These bonds, so far as the coupons
are concerned, not being executed ac
cording to law, and not registered in the
Treasurer’s office as the law requires, I
have ko data by which I can arrive at
the exact amount of new bonds issued.—
I have made several attempts to learn the
amount and disposition made of the
bonds, but the financial agent, who has
them in charge in New York, has been
instructed by the Governor to withhold
all information concerning them.—
Enongh, however, has been learned to
authorize the statement that nearly five
millions have been issued and sent tc
New York. This attempt at conceal
ment leaves grounds for grave suspicions;
and it would well behoove an honest Ex
ecutive to expose such fraud against the
State.”
And further, the Treasurer states that
iu his previous annual report, his state
ment of the necessary disbursements for
the year was §500,000, and odds:
“This was ample for all honest and
practical purposes; but reckless and pil
laging hands have run them up to nearly
twice that amount.”
And the Treasurer concludes by say
ing: “ Oveb four and a halt? mtlli6ns
op new State bonds have been issued,
which the Governor, in his anxiety to
keep concealed from the Treasury De
partment, FAILED TO HAVE EXECUTED AND
REGISTERED AS THE LAW REQUIRES.”
This was published to the world, and a
copy furnished to Clews, early in Janua
ry. He was one of the principal officers
of the B. & A. It. R., and mnst have had
tbe law and the Constitution of Georgia
before him. He could not have helped
kuowing the bonds were unlawfully is
sued, and were intendedfrom the first to be
a swindle! So it seems to us.
Bullock not only issued these bonds in
violation of law, which Clews mnst have
known, but he kept what he did, conceal
ed from the Treasurer as far as possible,
and in this it looks like he had the assis
tance of Clews himself. If not, why did
he refuse to let Dr. Angier know what
bonds were in his hands ? Why disre
gard the law, and the facts which Angier
laid before him, and follow the advice of
Bullock ?
If Clews’ transactions with Bullock
and Kimball in relation to the bonds of
the State, and its indorsed bonds were
all fair, honorable, and well-intentioned,
why did he, on one occasion, in his own
office, when Bullock was sitting there,
and when inquired of by Mr. Johns,
President oi the Fulton Bank of
Brooklyn, if that person was Bullock,
reply that it was not ? We are informed
that Mr. Johns made this statement in the
presence of three responsible gentlemen
of this city, and that he learned, before
leaving Clew’s office, that the person he
inquired about really was Bullock. If
this be true, why was it ? We learn that
Mr. Johns had advanced some money on
Bullock’s bonds, and was becoming sus
picions.
Clews tries to ring in Mayor James to
sustain him, but the veil which he hangs
up is too thin to hide behind. It proves
too much, and condemns Clews. This
portion of his letter we will notice to
morrow. It contains an nngentlemanlv
and contemptible fling at Mr. James,
which no man with a good cause and a
a consciousness of integrity to sustain
him, would ever have indulged in.
Clews need not try to make the people
of Georgia believe that his claim is all
honest, or that he has not been one of
the chief members of the Bing which
was formed to plunder us. He occupied
the place where every man would go to
find the Bing-master.
The
It is proper for us to remark that, at
he date of this letter, Treasurer Angier
ad no knowledge of the amount of
rods which had been issued by Bullock,
e had not seen them, and none were
ported to him for registry in his office,
le did. not then know of any over-issue.
3c had taken pains to notify the world
ihat the bonds were illegally issued, and
Hews must have known it. It is inmos-
lible that a knowledge of the fact could
lave escaped him. Still he advanced
money oh these bonds—holding them as
collateral security. He supposed, no
doubt, that the State would not refuse to
pay them in full. He took the risk. He
“went in”—expecting to win. Ho is
confronted with the prospect of coining
out loser, and he affects a very large
amount of innocence, and assumes a vir
tuous indignation.
Alabama & Chattanooga
Railroad.
This is one of the railroads constructed
npon State indorsed bonds. It has failed
to pay the interest, and has been seized
by State authority. Georgia and Alabama
both indorsed the bonds of the road for
that portion which passed through the
territory of each of the States. Georgia,
through the acting Governor, Conley, ap
pointed Gen. Wofford receiver for one
end of the road, and Gov. Lindsay, of
Alabama, has appointed a Mr. Wheeler
receiver for the other end. There has
been some disagreement and conflict of
authority, and the arrangement does not
work well. It would be a good idea if
the Governors of the two States would
agree and appoint one man to be receiver
for the road, who would control it in its
entir length. We do not know Mr.
Wheeler, but we are very sure Gen. Wof
ford would put a degree; of efficiency in
its management, if he were master of the
situation, which he caauot under exist
ing circumstances.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
J. A. Hunt has been elected Mayor of
Barne3ville.
Forsyth has the scarlet fever and the
whooping cough.
Chattooga county lias organized an
Immigrant Association.
The Borne Couriet announces the
death of Mrs. J. C. Pemberton.
The Augusta Chief of Police has been
presented with saddle, bridle and spurs,
by the other police officers.
‘The versatile and radiant Mrs. Oates”
is the manner in which the Columbus
Sun is DeVotie-d to her.
Mr. Charles F. Butler, mangled by the
train of the Selma, Borne and Dalton
Railroad, at Selma, on Saturday last,
died from the effects of it soon after.
It is rumored that tho contract for en
larging the Augusta Canal will be award
ed to Grant, Alexander & Co. and a New
Yorker.
A little son of Mr. J. L. Miller, of
Dawson, was hit on the head with u rail
by a playfellow, in sport, last Sunday,
and died in a few hours.
The birth-day of Gen. Lee—to-mor
row—will be celebrated in Savannah :
The Mayor has been requested to issue
his proclamation, setting apart Friday the
19th, the birth-day of Gen. R. E. Lee, as
a public holiday, and requesting the citi
zens to close their places of business dur
ing the memorial services.
Young Edgeworth, says the Macon
Telegraph, who forg d the dispatch to
Plant & Son, a short time ago, on which
he drew one hundred and fifty dollars,
plead guilty in the Superior Court yes
terday morning, and was sentenced by
His Honor, Judge Cole, to two years hard
labor in the penitentiary.
The Macon Telegraph of Sunday says:
We heard a rumor ou the street yester
day that an old man by tbe name of Ed-
dings was murdered at his house in this
county, in Thursday, by a young man by
the name of John Tharpe. If the state
ment we heard is true, it was the most
cold-blooded and diabolical murder that
has occurred in this vicinity for many a
year.
The Monroe - Advertiser’says: “At the
annnal election of the Butts county Ag
ricultural Society, held on the 3d instant,
officers for the year were elected as fol
lows: Maj. B. F. "Ward, President; J. H.
Bryan, H. B. Fletcher, T. W. Harkness,
Felix Walthall, Joseph Jolly, A. T.
Towles, M. B. Wilkinson and G. W.
Thornton, Vice Presidents; M. Y. Mc-
Kibbon, Secretary; T. J. Saunders. Treas
urer; J. B. Dumble, G. B. Elder, T. L.
Williams, John Hoge and W. R. Thax
ton, Executive Committee.
Harris, of the Savannah News, assumes
the heavy responsibility of the following:
“During the holidays, a good, honest,
hard-working planter went to a little
town on the Central Railroad, not very
far from Savannah, for the purpose of
laying in supplies for the usual Christmas
nog. While making his purchases he
imbibed a little too freely, and proceed
ed to work off his hilarity by a series of
sharp arid sudden yells, that would have
been no discredit to an aborigine. This
brought down upon him the town mar
shal, who informed him that he was vio
lating the provisions of an ordinance,
The farmer, however, persisted in his
war-whoops, until he was finally taken
before the Intendant, who, after giving
him a pretty severe lecture, fined him
five dollars for boisterous conduct. He
paid the fine and was duly released, but
before retiring be gave ut'erance to a
prolonged whistle, and said in a very sub
dued tone: ‘I’ve been cornin’ to this town
off and on for twenty year, but dern my
skin if I ever knowed she’d took the
homestead.’ ”
The Americus Republican of Tuesday
has the following: Wo learn that an old
man named Henry Ellison, and his son,
were both killed by a man named Melson,
at Tazeweil, Marion county, on Saturday
last. An election was being held for a
Justice of the Peace, when Melson at
tempted to force a negro to vote against
his will, to which the elder Ellison—who
was acting as a manager in the election—
objected. Melson took offense at this,
and in the d spute which followed be
came so enraged that he struck Ellison
in the head with a knife, inflicting a fatal
wound. Young Ellison came up, and
seeing his father in danger, gave battle
to the assailant, and was killed almost in
stantly, being stabbed twice—once
through the heart. The elder Elli
son survived about two hours. Melson,
after giving the fatal blows, was struck
down with a chair in the hands of anoth
er son of Ellison, and left for dead by
the crowd which gathered around the
scene of the tragedy; but, while the at
tention of the parties present was taken
up by the victims of bis anger, recovered
and made good his escape, and, at last
accouuts, had not been captured.
The McDuffie Journal of yesterday has
the following: On Thursday night "last,
near Desiring, in this county, at the house
of Seaborn Baker, John Baker shot and
almost instantly killed John D. Thomson
The circnmstances of the shooting, from
what we have been able to gather from
the testimony at the Coroner’s Inquest
were, that Thomson, an employee on the
Georgia Railroad, bad gone that night to
a prayer meeting at Baker’s, and while
there created some disturbance, so as to
be ordered ont of the house by Mrs. Ba
ker. After going out aud remaining
short time, he returned, and found the
door closed. He begged permission to
enter, but Mrs. Baker securing a pistol,
opened the door, and ordered him. to
leave, or she would Ijill him. Almost in
an instant, John Baker, son of Mrs. Ba
ker, seized the pistol from his mother,
and shot Thomson five times in succes
sion, the first shot taking effect in his
head, and the other four in his body.
The last four shots were fired after Thom
son had fallen to the floor. A warrant
has been issued for Baker, bn; so far the
Sheriff has been unable to arrest him.
Public Education Papers—No. 2. j TELEGRAPH NEWS
Organizes “The Georgia State Board of I
Education,” consisting of “tbe Gover
nor, the Attorney General, the Secretary
of State, the Comptroller General and
the State School Commissioner.” “Of
this board the State School Commis
sioner shall be the chief executive officer.
The clerk of the State School Commis
sioner * * * shall be the clerk of the
State Board.”
After prescribing the duties of the
State board, the act then treats specially
of the State School Commissioner, fur
nishes him with an office at the seat of
government, requires him to “give a
reasonable attendance to the business
and duties of his office,” saddles the un
fortunate man with a salary of $2,500,
and allows him a clerk at a salary of
1200.
The county board of education, school
directors or trustees, teachers, ambula
tory schools and the common school fund
are then severally discussed aud dis
posed of.
The funds arising from the follow
ing sources of revenue are appro
priated for the support ol the common
school system: “The poll tax, special
tax on shows and exhibitions, on tho
sale of spirituous and malt liquors, the
proceeds arising from the commutation
of military services, all endowments, de
vises, gifts and bequests made, or here
after to be made, to the State or State
Board of Education, any and all educa
tional funds aud incomes not belonging
to and due the State University, and one
half of the net eamihgs of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad.”
This act defeats itself by the very ex
cess of the machinery which it attempts
to put in operation. No such act should
do more than outline the plan or system,
by the aid of a few bold strokes, and
then leave it to the "towns, cities and
counties to elaborate the details accord
ing to the necessity and means of each.
The present State School Commission
er,* Dame Rumor says, commanded a
negro regiment in the Federal army du
ring “our late unpleasantness,” and lost
an arm in the service. After the war, he
naturally gravitated into the “Freed
man’s Bureau” and carpet-baggery, and
by Gov. Bullock, “with the consent of
the Senate,” was gracefully and grateful
ly translated, though for what service, is
not known, to his prosent nest, cosily
feathered to the tune of §2,500 a year,
out of the pockets of the highly delight
ed and appreciative Georgians.
Je Marr.
*At tho time this communication was
written, Gen. Lewis was State School
Commissioner.—Ed. Sun.
the act or IS.0 j PAkts, January 17.—Tho Assembly
State Board ol agreed with the Comnrittee’sreport.on the
nf “the CWiver- 33m making offenses against the press
laws trvable by jury.
The Finale of a Fire Insurance
Swindle-Th e Southern Fire
Insurance Company of Nash-
Ville.
E3U Senator Wilson of Massachusetts,
has brought in a bill to pay a sum of mo
ney to Miss Anna Ella Carroll “for servi
ces in furnishing valuable information to
the War Department during the late re
bellion, and for preparing certain useful
publications, during the same period,
npon an understanding with the War
Department.” Whereupon the New York
Sun says: “If Mr. Wilson means to pre
sent Miss Carroll with a gratuity, let him
say so outright.” And the Sun might
have added—and donate the gratuity
out of his own pocket, and not pilfer it
out of the public Treasury.
SSL. A Fond du Lac doctor visited a
small-pox patient the other day, and re
marked, as he turned from the almost
dying man: “Dig the grave; the corpse
will be ready.” The grave was dug, bat
the man recovered, and now the grave
diggers bring suit against the physician
for their pay.
43?“A correspondent writes: “Mrs.
W barton never poisoned anybody. The
entire case against her is circumstantial,
helped on by gossip grown malignant,
abetted by mortified pride of science,
and ^hurried on by unthinking public
opinion.” All oi which is reasonable
enough to cost a good deal of “ridiculos-
ity” upon the great sensation of her trial
Soon after the war, a few unscrupulous
adventurers, organized the Southern Fire
Insurance Company of Nashville—no
doubt, for tne express purpose, and with
the deliberate intention, of defrauding
the impoverished people of the South.
Many innocent victims of this wicked
swindle, residing in Georgia, will be in
terested in the following item from the
Nashville Banner of the 14th instant,
giving the history of a ease before the
courts of Tennessee, and the judgment
of its highest tribunal, by which it will
be seen that those who gave premium
notes to that rotten concern are not lia
ble for the same.
We will add what we are informed and
believe, that several persons of promi
nence in Nashville are responsible for
this swindle to a very great extent.—
Gentlemen of character in this State
were induced to take hold of the con
cern, upon the personal recommendation
of those who had the means of knowing
that the whole thing was a wicked swin
dle.
Those having claims against the com
pany might as well take notice that it
had no assets except these premium notes
and as these are not collectable, they can
never recover anything:
k* Premium Notes.”—Tlie Ghost of the
“Southern Insurance Company.”
In the Supreme Court, yesterday, an
opinion was delivered by Justice Turney,
of a nature calculated to call np rather
unpleasant reminiscences in the minds of
those who were unlucky enough to bold
policies in the “Southern Insurance
Company.” The case decided was that
of Samuel N. Thomas vs. J. R. Berry.—
Thomas gave his “premium note” as a
policy holder, but soon scented some
thing wrong, and refused to pay it, and
was sued at Franklin by Berry, who will
be remembered as the originator and
manager of the swindle. This was in
November, 1868, just a few weeks before
tbe concern bursted. Berry got judg
ment for the “company,” and Thomas
took an appeal to the Supreme Court.—
The case was not reached until this term.
Justice Tumey’s opinion is brief but
emphatic, and to the point, concluding
as follows:
“Trying tbe record by the charter, the
safe conclusion is that the Southern In
surance Company was conceived in fraud,
and to iuforce the collection of this note
is not only to compel payment for no con
sideration, but would be to sustain a
fraud, but little, if at all, less than felo
ny.” t ^
The Suu in Farsyth County.
Cumming, Ga., Jan. 12, 1872.
Messrs. Editors: The penetrative rays
of yonr bright Sun areexercising a telling
influence in this section. They are en
tering every household, and illuminating
every mind. Our gray haired fathers,
who have grasped the hand of John C.
Calhoun, and listened with delight to the
burning words of his contemporaries,
put on their spectacles and read with de
light the editorials of Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, whom they call the greatest and
purest living American statesman. Let
us have more and still more of the Sle-
phensonian principles. Let the Sun pour
forth its light, which drives away the
fogs of error as the rays of a summer’s
sun disperse the darkness of night.
Respectfully, v*"’ 1 * * *
St. Louis, January 17.—A large meet
ing of Irishmen was held last night, pro
testing against the jinfair distribution of
offices by the party in power.
Annapolis, January 17.—The Legisla
ture, in joint session,—five ballots cast—
balloted as follows: Tickers, 28; Geo..R.
Dennis, 22; James, 7; Cresswell, 4; others
scattering. Vickers’ election, telegraphed
last night, was premature.
Washington, Jan. 17.—David Dillon,
a banker from Savannah, arrived to-day
to look after some cotton interests.
Akerman is quite ill.
New Orleans affairs havo lost their in
terest here. The investigating commit
tee will leave Saturday, probably; though
it has not fully determined to go at all.
Civil Rights was discussed all day in
St n ate.
HOUSE.
The merchants and mannfacturers of
Philadelphia petition for a uniform to-
oscco tax of 16 cents.
New York wine aud liquor dealers pe
tition for relief from numerous and com
plex taxes, and want a consolidation of
tax legislation.
The Executive and Judiciary appro
priation bill was reported, aggregating
§17,000,000.
The House asked for information re
garding tho Louisville and Portland
Canal.
London, January 17.—Riotous excesses
in Knightsbridge were reported last night.
At the school house the furniture was
smashed and the house fired. The police
dispersed the mob. No arrests.
It is stated that Baron Yon Offense-
burg succeeds Catacazy.
San Francisco, January 17.—There
was a serenade to the Japanese embassy,
last night, by a large crowd, who re
ceived Prince Iwa Kara enthusiastically.
He made a response in Japanese, which
was translated as follows: “ Citizens of
San Francisco—It is now a recognized
fact by Japan, since the conclusion of
the treaty with the United States, that
our true prosperity has greatly increased.
With our new commercial intercourse onr
advancement in the arts and sciences of
the Western Nations, we now consider a
substantial benefit to onr nation, and de
sire, with every increase of national in
course, that there snail be an increase of
international friendship. [Cheers.]—
With a view to hastening of
these results, and for the further facilita
ting the instruction of our people in the
civilization of the Western nations, His
Imperial majesty of Japan has commis
sioned us to visit all the countries hav
ing treaties with Japan, in the capacity of
Embassadors Plenipotentiary; first visit
ing your country. The warmth of our
reception is unquestionable proof, to us,
of American friendship, and I assure you
it is more than echoed in the hearts of
our people, (Cheers.) Your expression
of feeling, when announced to his Im
perial Majesty, will be known through
out Japan, and assist in cementing na
tional friendship between our countries,
which it is the wish of the Japanese peo
ple should instantly increase; as by in
tercourse we get to know each other bet
ter. (Cheers.)
Minister DeLong responded to a call
or the audieuce aud made a speech.
Columbia, January 17.—A new plan
has been devised for the adjustment of
the debt of youth Carolina. Mr. Wesley,
acting for the Union Trust Company of
New York, and Mr. Childs, President of
the Carolina National Bank of Columbia,
submitted the following proposition to
Gov. ycott: The Union Trust Company
to assume the Financial Agency of the
State; the entire State debt to be com
pounded by retiring all existing bonds of
whatever class, and issuing in exchange
new bonds at the rate of fifty cents on
the dollar; the Union Trust Company to
guarantee the fulfillment of the contract
to advance the cash to redeem the
bonds now hypothecated, charging only
legal interest therefor; to settle the in
debtedness of the State to Kimpton, pres
ent financial agent, and to advance cash
for the payment of the January interest.
Gov. Scott has assented to the scheme,
and Wesley returns to-day to New York
to draft the necessary legislation and
perfect the details of the arrangement.
Luldon, Jan. 17.—The King of Den
mark has sent his congratulations to Vic
toria on the recovery of the Prince of
Wales.
A dispatch from Beilin announces the
arrival of Prince Arthur in that city.
The Duke of Edinburg will shortly
take command of the iron-clad man-of-
war Snltan.
The Brighton poisoning cases were
brought to a conclusion yesterday, after
a protracted trial. The jury brought in
a verdiet of guilty against Christiana Ed
munds.
The Telegraph Construction and Main
tenance Company yesterday signed a
contract with Messrs. BischoSsheim for
laying an Atlantic Telegraph Cable to
New York direct.
I Yon Beusfc, tlie Austrian Embassador, to
to this country is about to depart for
Italy for the benefit of his health.
Milwaukee, January 17.—Near Peo-
seippe, Winnebago county, Wisconsin,
on the 7th inst., a little 10 year old daugh
ter of Benson White, returning from a
neighbors, was overtaken by a young
man, thrown down upon the snow, aud
brutally ravished. The child was threat
ened with death if she screamed. The
perpetrator of the crime was arrested.
UN •STROKES.
EgY. This is tl.o birth-day of (j men}
Robert E. Lee.
£*§?** “Who is there to mourn for*
Logan? General Grant?
BSL. Grant “fumes” while th peopl..
“fret.” So the “fretting and faming”
goes on.
£5?" The Melrlig-nity of the Boston
people, is to be gorged with three con
certs by Miss Anna. , ■ .«* " -
£&» Connolly is reported to have gone
to South America. Does the woodbine
twine down there ?
8®,The Boston Post says: “No ver
min at Chicagosince the fire. ” Wlu\t has
become of the Eepublicanr?. m^twrii
“ Tilton used to be in the dry
oods trade.” Pity ’tis he hadn’t re
mained there.
BgL, Schuyler Colfax has quit smok
ing. The question now is, will Grant
run with a man who don’t smoke ?
£3?“ Jesse R. Grant has resigned his
Postmastership. The next of fblood,
who may be unprovided for, can now
step forward.
IKS'* It is mentioned ns a singular fact
that not an actor attended the funeral of
Hackett. Possibly they had seen 11 aekett
“play” dead so often that they thought
the old man was merely sluu aniing.
Tho speech of Iwa Kura, at San
Francisco, is along way better than any
thing Alexis has done since he has been
on the continent. It is possible that tho
people have been lionizing the wrong
New Orleans, January 17.—The ab
sent Senators write the Senators who
are assembled in Mechanics’ Institute,
that they will not return until the armed
force is removed.
New York, January 17.—A letter ha3
been received by the Commissioners on
Emigration, stating that Fish had written
Scbeack to protest against the imoorta-
tion of British criminals.
Washington, January 16.—There was
a general attendance of the Democratic
members of Coegress to-night at their
caucus. Fernando Wood was chairman,
and Representatives Gates and Shober
secretaries. Several propositions rela
tive to a reduction of taxes, adjournment
of session, fee., were offered, but were
finally withdrawn—the caucus being of
the opinion that it is best not to take
definite action at present. The session
only lasted an hour.
St. Louis, January 16.—Geo. H. Mor
gan has been elected Secretary of the
Merchants’ Exchange for the eigiith time.
Paris, January 16.—The sale of the
Constitution^ and G inlois has been for
bidden by the Minister of the Interior.
Bg^Says the Boston Post: “The bereav
ed Georgians continue to yearn after a
knowledge of Bullock’s’prcsent boarding
place.” Nay, nay. It is hoarding place
that you mean, not boarding.
BQL. “A New Hampshire cow died of
heart disease.” Evidently she died
“.heart-broken,” because of her despair
of ever becoming the rival of “Mis.
Leary’s cow.” She ought to ho men
tioned kine-ly.
“Puorline oil” is tho way they
disguise it downin Mobile; but thenunae-
did not prevent the explosion of a can of
it the other day—burning to death Mrs-
Margaret Walker. It ought to be remem
bered that cil by any other name explodes
as well.
The New York Day-Book refers
to the Louisville Courier-Journal as tho
“ mulatto newspaper,” against which a
protest is entered, as that paper—tho
C.-J.,—is the cynocephalus of journalism,
the advent of which has been expected
ever since the death of the Texas Jimple-
cute.
The Savannah News cays: “Aii , "
eagle was recently killed in Tattnall
county by Mr. C. H. Mann, which meas
ured seven feet two inches from the tip
of one wing to the other.” The Neics,..
however, does not state why so fine a
specimen of this fine family of birds
should have been slaughtered.
8®=. The State Treasurer of South
Carolina denies that it cost Governor
Scott §100,000 to bribe the negro mem
bers of the Legislature to vote against his -
impeachment. He is undoubtedly right; ....
for Scott is not fool enough to pay $100,-
000 for a thing that he knows he could u
obtain just as well for one-fourth that
amount.
The Philadelphia Age says: “The
Rev. John Selby Watson, of London,.
England, who killed his wife with the
poker, has been convicted of the crime,,,
and will probably be hung for it. We
do not remember that a Clergyman of
the Church of England has been hung
since the execution ol Dr. Dodd, in 1777,..
for forgery.” When tho law becomes so-
Puritanical as to hang a man for the pit
iful offense of.forgery', it is no wonder
that English preachers are not hung;
oftener than one a century. In this
country, however, a man may forge and .
forge, and be a preacher still—if he wants
to. Indeed, it is possible that a minister
may slay his wife with a poker, and be
acquitted by an intelligent jury in time
to preach her funeral before the grass-
grows over her grave. Who says this is
not a free country?
tOy*. The Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot,
concludes an article on the inauguration
of Governor Smith, with the following
pleasing glance at thefutnre prospects
of Georgia:
For the first time since reconstruction
the people of Georgia have an Executive
of their own choice. Governor Bullock, .
who has been the author of so much po
litical mischief in that State, is a fugi
tive, while the whole political fabric
which he constructed has tumbled to the
ground with the weight of its own rot
tenness. No pretext now remains for
Federal interference with the affairs of-
the State, the carpet-bag domination is
at an end, aud the people may now have
the first opportunity since the war to in-
uugnrate measures for the advancement
of their prosperity. Georgia has the re
sources which are capable of making her
a great commonwealth, and, with tlie
blessings of peaceful and honest govern
ment, her people will n^arcli forward to
the great destiny which awaits them.—
No future attempt at carpet-bag rule or
military usurpation will be tolerated by
a people who appreciate the value of the
great victory which they have achieved .
over the Bullock dynasty, propped, as it
was, by Federal bayonets and negro bal
lots.
This is a cheerful aud practical view of
our “situation.” Georgia, sin. e the de-
veloijuients of the last few weeks, feels
the full inspiration of freed . . V* itk-
out wrong to any one, she h. -> vi covered
what is her own ; aud for th tirst tiiuo
since the war, she is prepared ^o tor-
ward in the great work o. u wlopuient-
Amid all tliesccmrginfsand pin • rings to
which she lias been subject- ■. Mie has
thus far maintained her inte, y and so
she will until the end.