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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
3.
THE DAILY SUN
Thursday, January 25th, 1872
Suggestions for Consideration.
Wo invite the attention of our readers
to-day to the letter of Observer, from
>'ew York city. His suggestions are
worthy, not only of pernsal, but mature
reflection.
We published, day before yesterday, a
portion of the Inaugural of Governor
Parker, to which allusion is made.
A. H. S.
The Sale of Public Offices.
The Legislature, at its late session,
passed an act to prevent the purchase
and sale, or farming out, of offices of this
State.
It provides that any person or persons
who have been or may hereafter be elected
to any office in this State, who shall sell
or farm out any office to which they shall
have been or may hereafter be elected; or
that any person or persons who shall pur
chase or agree to give any money or other
thing of value to a person elected for the
privilege of exercising the duties of Baid
office; or agree to divide the profits, fees
or emoluments with any person so elected,
shall be guilty of a felony; and, on in
dictment and conviction, shall be pun
ished by confinement and labor in the
penitentiary for a term not less than one
nor longer than three years.
Supreme Court Vacancies.
The Legislature at its late session
passed an act authorizing the Governor
to fill the vacancies for unexpired terms
of Judges of the Supreme Court and
other officers, in accordance with th'*
suggestions which have been made in
The Sun, in cennection with the discus
sions on the subject of the Supreme
Court vacancies—so that hereafter, it
will be lawful for the Governor to fill
unexpired terms in office by appoint
ment until the next meeting of the Leg
islature—a power which he did not be
fore have. The act provides :
Tlmt in case of a vacancy from an.
cause in any office, the full term of which
by the Constitution is to be filled by the
Governor with the advice and consent of
the Senate, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to appoint and commission
some qualified person to supply it until
the next meeting of the General Assem
bly, when said vacancy shall be filled in
the same way and manner described in
the Constitution for filling the full term
of such office.
And be it further enacted, That all ex
isting vacancies, and all such vacancies
which may hereafter occur during the
session of the General Assembly, or may
then exist, as aro provided for in clause
4, section 2, and article 4, of the Consti
tution, shall be filled in pursuance of the
provision of tliis Act, is any law to the con
trary notwithstanding.
NEW YORK CORRESPON
DENCE.
The Democratic Platform nntl
the Best Democratic Candidate
for 1872.
“The New Departure strategy” and
the Passive policy” having failed for
want of political wisdom, as well as virtue,
what is to be the next programme of our
leaders? For their serious-reflection,
your correspondent would make a sug
gestion or two.
In the inaugural address of the Gover
nor of New Jersey, published in the New
York World of Wednesday, the 17th of
January, there are the doctrines of Jef
ferson, the principles of the Constitution
of the United States, and the whole creed
of the Democratic party, as it wag in the
beginning, is now, and should be ever
more.
The Democracy of the United States,
need no better exposition of their politi
cal principles, than is expressed in
this inaugural of Governor Parker. It
contains the materials for the best Dem
oeratic platform, and there cannot be
found in the United States a better
Democratic candidate in the contest of
1872, than Governor Parker, of the
State of New Jersey.
Your correspondent has no personal
knevlidge—no porsonal acquaintance
with Governor Parker—but he knows
enough of his political life to have full
confidence in him that he is honest—
that he is capable, and his inaugural will
testify that he is faithful to the Consti
tution. Observer.
[For tho Atlanta Sun.]
A Parallel Between the Single
Republic of Rome and the
Federal Republic of the United
States.
m.
We have thus, in brief retrospect, seen
the dangers that environed the' Single
Republic of Rome, and its downfall.
We have seen how the same dangers were
averted by the principles of Federal
Union in onr Republio; but, at the same
time, we have seen an equally great dan
ger that threatens the destruction of that
system founded upon the essential prin
ciple of the right of local self-govern
ment—the safe-guard of extension in all
Representative Governments.
When central usurpation has destroyed
the principle of local self-government,
the Federative principle of our Constitu
tion will be lost, and tbe first immediate
result will, doubtless,be the establishment
of a Single Republic. This proposition
will not be denied—at least by the Cen
tralists—and it needs no argument. It
only remains then to show that a Single
Repnblic in these United States will ine
vitably eventuate in an Empire, and in
Despotism. An unanswerable argument
to prove this is to be drawn from the great
extent of country for which local legisla
tion will be had by a single Central Leg
islature. Forty large States—States ac
cording to natural boundaries—as large
as united Italy, with differing climates,
variety of soils, and productions, con
flicting material interests, different hab
its and pursuits, and popular character,
will compose this immense Single Re
public. Who will dare to say that
it would have more than
ephemeral existence ? — that
Those illustrious patriots, Snapp, Car
penter, and Morton, are giving them
selves a great deal of unnecessary trouble
about the rules recommended by the Civil
Service Commission. There is not the
slightest reason to believe that they will
ever be enforced by the present adminis
tration. General Grant says in his mes
sage communicating the report and rules
to Congress, that, in his opinion, “ the
authority is already invested in the Ex
ecutive to enforce these regulations, with
full power to abridge, alter or amend
them at pleasure.” The very first rule
requires the applicants for office to pass
a satisfactory examination in speaking,
reading and writing in the English lan
guage. Of course Grant will never
stand that—Louisville Ledger.
^11 of the.late Alexander Lorman,
of Baltimore, whose estate was valued at
one and a quarter millions, contains the
following bequests to the charitable insti-
cit ? : To the blind asylum,
$50,000; Baltimore orphan asylum, $10,-
000; aged women’s home, $10,000; aged
men s home, t?10,00Q; union orphan asy-
luin, 10,000; cliurcli liorae and iufirmary,
$10,000; home of the friendless, $10,000;
8t. Paul’s orphan asylum, $10,000; Mount
Hope retreat, $10,000; manual labor
school, $10,000; hoys’ home society,
$10,000; poor association, $10,000; Mary
land State Bible society, $10,000.
could survive the terrific shocks
of inevitable Faction ? No! dismember
ment must follow; or the strong hand of
Empire, suppressing the ballot-box, could
alone keep together this unwieldy mass.
Contentions and strifes and brawls over
conflicting interests in the halls of legis
lation would result in the predominance
of one or two, or more, parties by com-
lination, and the oppression of others.
L’here would be no relief at the ballot-
box. Relief must be had; revolution is
the only remedy; wars follow; immense
armies are raised; the revolted provinces
are alienated; standing armies must be
maintained; the able and ambitious sol
dier becomes the idolized chieftain; the
ballot-box is at his mercy;the “vox pop-
uli” is a myth; elections a farce; and
MeHEBCULE, “ MUTATIS MUTANDIS,” then
is seen re-enacted, on the American Thea
ter, the tragic story of the fate of Free
Rome. The parallel then becomes most
horribly striking, and most forcibly does
it appear that “history repeats itself. "
In the mind’s eye, we see the Gracchi
with their Agrarian laws;the distribution
of the public lauds by demagogues; the
donation of the public funds and public
corn to appease the rabble; tbe cry of
poor against rich assuming a most clam
orous shout from the hoarse and com
bined throats of the rabble of forty
States, instead of one; the strife of sec
tion against section; agriculture against
manulactures—the very products of na
ture in unnatural strife, as the result of
this consolidated Union and this viola
tion of the eternal principle of the right
of local self-government. From the
highest and most perfect form of free
Government ever devised by the act of
man, the Federal Constitution of our
fathers, we are retrograding to the form
of the Single Republic, despising the
teaching of history, and rushing the
rudderless ship of State into the mael
strom of Despotism.
Gone, gone, will be our perfect Con
stitution; alienated its memories; forgot
ten the labors of our forefathers; sold
fora mess of pottage, our birthright!!
Cut off from us by an impassable gulf,
will be the heroic achievements of the
patriots of ’76; the noble deeds of Wash
ington and the haio that circles Mt.
Vernon; the genius of Jefferson; the
patriotic purity of Clay; the logic of
Webster, and the eloquence of Calhoun.
And then, indeed, alas! will the Aker-
manic cant be true, and there will be,
not “new Georgia,” but a “new Empire,
without memories, without a history,
without landmarks of right, without a
Constitution; but with a parallel and
with the dreadful the rule of military Des
potism.
Shades of Washington and Madison
and Jefferson and a long line of patriot
statesmen! how eloquent would be your
lament over the destruction of our glo
rious Union as it was formed, and the
downfall of our model Federal Republic!
The “parallel” is complete. The fin
ger of Fate seems to point to Empire,
and the destruction of Liberty on the
American Continent. Such will be the
inevitable result, unless the people awake
from their lethargy to the real issue—
the struggle between the Federative
principle of local self-government, and
consolidation of Empire; between Truth
and Error-—Michael and Lucifer; between
Constitutionalism and Centralism. Let
them awake; look, startled, upon the
second Ulysses with his insidious horses,
and avert the portent of this poetic
prophecy:
•‘The star of Hope shone brightest in the West,
The hope of Liberty, the last, the best-
That, too, has set upon her darkened shore.
And Hope and Freedom light np earth no more.”
One of the People.
<sui\-strokes;
JBfST* Caleb Cushing is 72.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virgin
ia, is seriously ill.
BgL-Greeneville, Ala., has a Clantonian
Society.
A Nashville negro woman was fa
tally kerosened Monday.
jGST* The Independent Thinker is the
name of a new weekly paper that has
been started in Greenville, Alabama.
Twelve million of “pure Havana”
segars were made in Westfield, Massa-
ebussetts, last year.
The Monroe Advertiser says: “At
lanta wants a United States custom house.
What next. ? ”Why, “next” she will have
it, as a matter of course
The Democrats of New Hamp
shire are forming “Granite Clubs.
Strange that no “Seneca” clnbs are
heard of among the Radicals.
The end of the great hnnt for an
timony at Annapolis has come, and Mrs.
Wharton has been acquitted. What a
farce the whole thing has been !
The Memphis Avalanche falls
sharply upon Mr. Pendleton’s Demo
cracy. Mr. Pendleton however, has been
under many a heavier avalanche and he
still lingers with us.”
BgU Disraeli is said to be engaged
upon a sequel to “Lothair.” It has
been generally thought that “Lothair”
already had a sequel under the common
title of failure.
8@=. The Wilmington Journal of the
23d appears in deep mourning for Thom
as Bragg, Ex-Governor of North Caroli
na, and brother of General Braxton
Bragg, who died in Raleigh, Sunday
morning, the 21st.
JBSy* Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, the popu
lar writer for juvenile readers, at great
personal risk, has just saved the life of a
lad who fell through the ice on Spypond,
near Boston. He couldn’t afford to lose
a reader.
A point made by the Nashville
Union and American: “The Democracy
are unwilling to be traded off for ‘a pig
in a poke.’ They wish to see at least the
head of the pig before the trade is con
eluded.”
An exchange says: “Virginia has
the only insane asylum in the country.
This is a mistake, as Georgia has one,
with a large number of inmates; and the
Nashville Union and American says Ten
nessee has had one for many years.
IKgcjrhe St. Petersburg Journal, speak
ing of the reception of G. D. Alexis, Esq.,
says: “The peace of the world and the
progress of humanity will be promoted
by an entente cordiale between Russia and
the United States.” In other words, it
means that the world will soon be at
peace with the balance of mankind,
BSL, The following, variation of Saxe,
will do for an epilogue at the close of the
Radical farce which has been enacted in
Georgia:
JUST OF ACTS AND RESOLU
TIONS
Passed by the Legislature at the
Late Session, and Approved
by the Governor.
They served the State with perfect ease
Until there came the great revulsion;
Now, they who served for handsome fees.
Perchance may served upon compulsion.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
. Tho .debt of France is only S125
a head for every man, woman and child
in the country.
Leet. the
President’s
FriAul.
Young
[From the New Vork Tribune, January 20.]
Leet, as we are informed, continued
to hang about the White House, and
draw full pay and allowances as a colonel
in the regular army till August 5, 1870—
more than a year after he had obtained
control in good part of the “general
order” business here. Then he resigned,
taking the berefit of an act of Congress
which offered a year’s pay and extras to
those army officers who would do so.
He was thus actually paid as Colonel up
to August 5, 1871, by which time he and
his confederates in the enjoyment of this
“plum” must have gouged at least $200,-
000 out or the commerce of this port—a
sum which we presume they have since
raised to a quarter of million dollars.
A man who knocked another
down with a Bible justified himself that
he was only trying to “overcome evil
with good.”
Philip Phillips will ring in Rome Sat
urday night.
Griffin is radiant in the light of a fu
ture national bank.
Beau Campbell is in Augusta, getting
up a Man li Gras sensation.
Col. B. F. Harris, of Sparta, has been
quite ill, but is convalescing.
Mr. N. E. Harris has assumed sole edi
torial charge of the Hancock Sentinel.
The Milledgeville Minstrels magnified
Sparta a week ago.
E. F. Kirkscey has been elected Mayor
of Lumpkin.
A little daughter of Mr. Lewis Dennis,
of Coweta county, was burned, to death
Sunday evening.
Mr. David Thrash, aged ninety, died
in Monroe county on the 19th. Mrs. J.
D. Roddy died in Forsyth the same day.
Jim Gordon, a Cushite, whiskied him
self to death in Savannah. The opera
tion ended Sunday night.
Some enthusiastic Savannah boys sere
naded that “dashingyoung widow,” Mm.
Oates, Monday night.
The Americus Republican says: Tom
my Bradfield, son of Mr. James Brad-
field, shot himself through the hand
while carelessly handling a pistol which
was not supposed to be loaded.
Col. Mumford, “the veritable comman
der of the well-known Black Horse Cav
alry, which figured so conspicuously in
the army of Northern Virginia during
the late war,” officiated^n ChristChurch,
Savannah, last Sunday.
The Monroe Advertiser reports the fol
lowing accidents:
A little son of Rev. J. W. Morcock,
who was thrown from a mule a few days
since and severely injured, died on Fri
day last. He was riding to the field when
thrown, and became entangled in the
traces, and, thus helpless, was dashed
against the ground and trees by the
frightened animal running,at full speed.
We learn that Mr. P. Haynes, of Rus
sellville, while attempting to adjust a
“ whirl” over a well, a few days since,
accidentally fell to the bottom, a distance
of sixty feet. Several gentlemen hurried
to his assistance, and found him standing
in the water, immersed to the chin, un
hurt. Of course he was cool, and evi
denced the fact by requesting, when half
way drawn out, that he should be let
down again to secure a hat he had for
gotten.
The Monroe Advertiser says.* One
night last week, a negro living a mile or
two below town, fell into the hands of
“suah ’nuff Ku-Klux.” Three of his
sable brethren, disguised, demanded en
trance into bis cabin late at night, and
were refused admittance, notwithstand
ing they gave the names of Sheriff
Maury and C. A. King as tbe parties
seeking admission. Finally, a board
was pulled off, and the negro was shot
through the crack. Two of the invaders
were arrested and lodged in jail after con
fession, but purchased their freedom by
the payment of $5 each to the injured
party. The greater villain of the three
• has not been caught.
1. To incorporate the Central Insur
ance Company of Macon, Ga. Jan. 18.
2. To authorize His Excellency the
Governor to issue bonds with which to
redeem bonds of the State falling due in
the year 1872. Jan. 18.
3. To levy and collect a tax for the
support of the government for the vear
1872. Jan. 19.
4. To incorporate the Spalding Manu
facturing Company, of Griffin, Ga.—
Jan. 19.
5. For the relief of Arthur G. Butts,
of Baldwin county. Jan. 19.
6. To regulate the fees of County
Treasurer, the pay of jurors and bailiffs
for the county of Upson, and for other
purposes. Jan. 19.
7. To amend an act entitled an act to
establish a system of public instruction,
approved October 13, 1870, and for other
purposes. Jan. 19.
8. To establish a County Court in each
county in. this State, except certain coun
ties therein ^mentioned. Jan. 19.
9. To provide for filling vacancies
under the 4th Clause 2nd Section 4th
Article of the Constitution of this
State. Jan. 19.
10. To incorporate the People’s
11. To incorporate the Marietta Sav
ings Bank. Jan. 20.
Savings Bank of Newnan. (Jan. 20.)
12. To incorporate the town of New
ton, in the County of Baker, and to ap
point Commissioners for the same &c.
Jan. 20.
13. To authorize, and require the
Judge of the Superior Court of the circuit
in which the County of Hall now is, or
may hereafter be situated, to hold the
Superior Court of said county for two
consecutive weeks of each term thereof.
Jan. 20.
14. To change the line between the
counties of Greene and Morgan. Janu
ary 20.
15. To amend an act approved March
4, 1869, to incorporate the Darien Bank
ing Company, and for other purposes,
and the act amendatory thereof approved
October 22, 1870. January 20.
16. To amend an act to create a Board
of Commissioners of Roads and Reve
nue for the county of Glynn. January
20.
17. To repeal an act passed in 1831
authorizing justices of the peace to act
as Road Commissioners in the county of
Pulaski, and to apply the road laws now
of force in the State of Georgia to said
county of Pulaski. January 20.
18. To prevent the purchase and sale
or farming out of offices in this State,
January 20.
19. To change the line between the
counties of Dodge and Pulaski so as to
add a portion of the county of Dodge to
the county of Pulaski. January 20.
20. To change the time of holding the
Superior Courts of the Cherokee Circuit.
January 20.
21. To inoorporate the town of See-
ton, to appoint a town council for the
same, to confer certain rights, powers,
and privileges, and for other purposes.
January 20.
22. To legalize the adjournments of
Milton Superior Court. January 20.
23. To create a Board of Commission
ers of Roads and Revenues in Milton
county. January 20.
24. To incorporate the Southern Immi
gration Land Company, of the State of
Georgia. Jan. 20. . .
25. To raise a Revenue, and to appro
priate money for the use of the Govern
ment, and to make certain appropria
tions, and for other purposes therein
mentioned. Jan. 20.
26. To amend an act creating Com
missioners for the County of Me Intosh,
to define their powers &c., and for other
purposes, passed December 8th, 1871.
Jan. 20.
27. To amend the charter of the city of
Atlanta. Jan. 20.
28. To repeal an act fixing the term
for holding the Superior Courts of
Camden and Charlton counties, and to
fix the time for holding said courts.
Jan. 20.
LOCAL NOTES.
Recorder’s Court—“The "Wax op the
Transgressor is Hard.”—His Honor as
sumed a kind of savage expression, yes
terday morning, that sent terror among
his trembling victims. It was a most
portentous prognostic of vengeance on
the unholy violators of the peace; conse
quently, when
FERRY CODGER
was arraigned, he knew there was no ap
peal, and, terror-stricken, he exclaimed,
in broken accents: “Oh! yer Honor!
I’m guilty! I’m a scoundrel, a prod
igal, a Heathen, a Philistine, a
Hottentot, a Cannibal, a darned
Hippopotamus, a numbfoodled igno
ramus, a confounded villain, any
thing, anything. S5 and costs. Dis
graced ! Dander and Blitzen! Thunder
and Mud! Good morning 1” and onr
hero left the Court forming targets with
its eyes, and a rat hole of its mouth, and
the entire audience in astonishment.
After administering a few cordials, and
some encouraging words, Johnson, at
last, aroused the Court from its stupefac
tion, and directed his attention to
ANOTHER CODGER,
who stood trembling awaiting
his sentence. This poor, unfortu
nate transgressor, in the palmy days
childhood we saw killing flies in
school. For this innocent amusement
we, one. day saw the teacher balance him
on the stove as an illustration of the law
of Equilibrium. That was the only in
stance in which he has ever served the
world. We purposed to grant him a pen
sion—one solitary tear for his disgrace.
His Honor, also, moved by his penitence
gave him—the very deuce, chargingJSlO
and costs for a midnight debauch on
mud and whiskey.
GEORGE PUKEEZY
demonstrated the peculiar fitnesss of his
name by a gratuitous exhibition on
Peachtree on Thursday night. This was
however, only an episode in a more im
portant expedition against some im
aginary windmills. In vindication of
this knight-errant excursion, George
said:
Most Honored and Revered Sir : I’m
a man! (pause) I’m a deuced nice man
I’m a durned aristocratic gentleman, and
if you dare to offer my (hie) spotless
character a single indignity, I’ll be goll
darned if I don’t (hie);” and true to his
word he did—hie. His Honor
equal to the emergency, and allowed him
to vindicate his immaculate character
and restore the city’s injured virtue, by
patching it up with a $10 bill—the pana
cea of all evils.
Dr. Hepworth, of New York, in a late
sermon, uttered the folio .ving words,
which we print, leaving the reader to ap
prove or condemn as his notion dictates
Only one-quarter of our city worship
God in the Churches to-day. Ten thou
sand go to no Church; I would bring
them around me. I care for no free
stone church or rich upholstery, but to
preacu the Gospel of Christ. Give me a
barn, a hall, or out-doors, and keep it a
little warm, and I will preach to the
Lord’s people wherever found. I will
not be driven to controversy; I will not
reply ; I am in God’s hands—the proof
of me shall be in the hardest work I may
do in your mist. The whole world is in
the mire. Let us take public men. pub
lic deeds, and let tfs dissect them,
want no man’s influence or money. God
grant his spirit to the movement and
baptize it with his power.
Another Radical Falsehood Ex
posed.
A report has been going the rounds
of Northern and Western Radical news
papers to the effect that marked dis
courtesy was shown to Messrs. Johnson
and Stanberry, counsel for tbe Ku-Klux
prisoners, while in Columbia^ attending
those trials. •
Mr. Stanberry was, upon his return to
Ohio, interviewed by a reporter of the
Cincinnati Gazette (Radical), and prompt
ly pronounced the whole story as utterly
unfounded. He said (hat Mr. Johnson
and himself received in Columbia a warm
welcome from the citizens of that place,
and that frequent and warm expressions
of grateful appreciation of their personal
and professional services in defense of the
persecuted rictims of the Ku-Klux act
were tendered to them.
Mr. Stanberry also stated that their
reception in society was all they could
have desired, and that a public testimo
nial in their favor was tendered and
pressed upon them by the citizens, and
declined by himself and Mr. Johnson,
who found themselves too much occupied
by their business to admit of the accep
tance of such social pleasures.
Thus has this widely disseminated
falsehood been exposed, and the people
of Columbia relieved from the slanders
attempted to 1 a put upon them.—Chron
icle and Sentinel
Rev. Robert Colyer of Chicago
is to be run for Congress. Congress had
better be a Colyer-y than the “black
hole” that it is.
A FEW MORE CASES
realized for the city exchequer the sum
of $35. We trust His Honor will not
relent one jot or tittle in his resolution
to replenish the treasury at the expense
of evil-doers.
Yesterday we noticed the death of
Mr. Bonner, of Hancock, and the pecu
liarity of his having provided his own
coffin thirty years ago—at the same time
putting some brandy, of his own manu
facture, in it, to be drank by his friends
at his funeral, all of which—the coffin
and the brandy—were .preserved till his
death, a few days ago.
This circumstance has brought to our
knowledge the case of an old negro man
over 80 years of age, now residing in
Campbell county, known as Uncle Joe
Gorman. He was formerly the property
of Mr. Gorman, of that county, now de
ceased, and was most faithful to his mas
ter and the family. A number of years
ago he requested his master to give him
suit in which to be buried when he
should die, which request the master
very cheerfully complied with. He was
proud of his grave clothes, and pre
served them most sacredly for years—fre
quently exhibiting them to his darkey
associates, and expatiating on the kind
ness of his master for that act, and his
whole conduct towards all his slaves.
But the war came, and Sherman’s
army occupied the entire neighborhood,
and one day a half dozen soldiers entered
Joe’s cabin and robbed it of every thing
that could be carried off—among them
the old man’s grave clothes. The idolized
gift of his master whom he really loved,
and to wl^om he was devotedly attached—
the secured gift of a burying suit—he
was ruthlessly robbed fof, by what he
called “hateful Yankees.” It cost the
old man many tears, and bitter regrets,
and to this day, it is one of his greatest
of life’s griefs. He often speaks of it,
but with the bitterest execrations upon
the Yankee soldiers and most earnest ex
pressions of his hatred of them for that
deed.
A large number of volumes of the
Records of the Executive Office are ly
ing in a pile in one of the damp base
ment rooms of the Capitol Building.
Governor Smith, on being informed of
that fact yesterday, appointed Prof. A.
L. Hamilton to supervise their removal
and proper arrangement to an appropri
ate apartment, where they can be pre
served.
Leap Year Party.—The soiree at Mrs.
Barnard’s, on Mitchell street, on Tues
day evening, we learn, was the occasion
of much genuine enjoyment. The host
esses, Mrs. Barnard and Miss Nash, ex
erted themselves to render the evening
agreeable to their many guests. The
privileges of Leap Year were exercised
by the ladies with moderation and mag
nanimity, considering that they have just
been liberated from a four years’ subjec
tion; they bound their victims with “fet
ters of roses.” buck shackles sometimes,
however, prove adam»utiue and indisso-
Death of Dr. Scales, of Gwinnett.
On Sunday night last Dr. Scales died at
his residence, seven miles East of Law-
renceville, after a lingering illness. He
was a popular man, and a successful phy
sician—greatly esteemed by the people
of Gwinnett county.
Death of a Prominent Citizen.— ’
Moses M. Smith, of Douglas county, died
on Saturday last, after a short illness.
He was a thorough-going, public-spirited
citizen, who used his wealth, energy and
influence for the good of the community.
He was about 55 years old.
Illicit Distillers.—W. P. Phillips,
Isaac Storman, Sanford Apple, John
Storman, Wyly Patrick, Jesse Foster,
John Wallace and John L. Phillips, all
of Spalding county, were arraigned yes
terday before U. S. Commissioner Smith,
charged with illicit distilling. The last
five gave bond. The other three will
have an investigation to-day.
The Accident on the Georgia Rail
road, at Berzelia, on Monday night, was
caused by one freight running into an
other. The engine of the rear train was
considerably injured, and many cars were,
also, seriously damaged. One negro was
killed, and the engineer and conductor
were somewhat bruised.
New York. Fasliion Notes.
Kilt plaited flounces are more fashion
able than ever. They are worn very
wide.
Yellow seal of the color of the young
seal before the fur is dyed, has been in
troduced as a trimming for golden drab
and cafe' au lail silks.
Polonnaises are not so fashionable as
they were during the first of this season.
There is a tendency to revive tunics and
basques. ,
Basques are almost invariably made
a la .postillion. Tunics are long in the
back and looped tres bouffant, or in two
winglike puffs; while the front is ar
ranged in one, two or three aprons, looped
far back, and handsomely fringed.
Demi trained dresses are more appro
priate for small parties, receptions, and
balls, than court trains three yards in
length.
Trained dresses should be worn only
at very large balls or receptions, or rather
in very large apartments.
Marie Antoinette g!< ves aro a pretty
novelty, the imports! i l of which has
been monopolized by u large importing
house in New York.
Two, three aud four buttoned gloves
are worn almost to the exclusion of • the
one buttoned this season. The glove is
now worn to match the color of tho
’ dress, but generally a shade lighter.
Black kid gloves, with white stitchiugsare
very fashionable, worn with black or
dark cloth colored dresses.
Every lady should have among her
costlier dresses, “ costume de fatigue" of
Buffalo brand alpaca. She should be
careful to select the full jet black.buffalo
branch, of the heavier quality. Such a
dress should never be made to sweep the
sidewalks. The j upon should escape the
pavement at least two inches all around.
Overskirts, with fan-like, plaited, apron
fronts, heavy bouffants in tbe back are v
coming in vogue. They are beautifully
adapted for alpaca, mohair or brilliantine.
dresses.
Gilt stick fans, with white, black, and
colored satin tops, are very fashionable
for evening use. The Pompadour shape
is preferred.
Aigrettes, with jewels, and jeweled os
trich tips, gilt butteflies, and a variety of.
fanciful ornaments, are now used for
evening dress in the hair, almost to the
exclusion of flowers. .
Bridesmaids should not dress in pure
white. Indeed, it is better taste
,o wear colors when officiating
for a friend. Not only the ribbons and
trimmings, but the entire dress should
be of some delicate shade of blue, rose,
green, or of those intermediate and in
describable tints now so fashionifble.
Brides should not wear pearls nor
opals. Diamonds, orange flowers and
bridal roses should be their only orna
ments.
Satin is being revived as a substitute
for gros grain orfaille in evening dress.
Velvet is now considered inappropriate
for ball dressing.
Silk fringes, tassels and buttons are
very fashionable trimmings, but they
should never be used on the heavier ma
terial, such as water-proofs, serge, and
cloth.
Laced boots are more fashionable than
buttoned ones. Marie Antoinette slip
pers are worn for ball dress, but are not
considered so elegant as colored satin or
kid boots matching the dress.
Plaited* or fluted ruffles of lace or sheer
muslin are now more fashionable than
collars or cuffs. Graduated lace falls are
worn in the place of bows. E. V. B.
luble.
Immigration.
According to returns made to the
Bureau of Statistics it appears that dur
ing the quarter ended December 31, 1871,
there arrived at the port of San Francisco
1,865 immigrants, of whom 1,696 were
males and 169 females. The nationali
ties of the immigrants were as follows:
England, 48; Ireland, 67; Scotland, 23;
France, 8; Germany, 24; Mexico, 126;
Australia, 661; Tahiti, 16; Chili, 4; Peru,
7; China, 636, (610 males and 26 females)
Vancouver’s Island, 189 ; Sandwich
Islands, 66. Their occupations were:
Clergymen, 3; clerks, 42; cooks 3;
farmers, 60; laborers, 1,023; merchants,
54; mechanics, 256; miners, 133; mari
ners, 16; physicians. 8; without occupa-
tioe, 267. Ages: Under fifteen years of
age,. 132; fifteen and under forty, 1,583;
forty and over, 150. Deaths on the
voyage, 4 males and 1 female.
Macon makes the »olio wing cotton
statement up to the 22d:
Bales.
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1871.... * • 1,793
Received to-day 178
Received previously 47,433—47,611
, 49,404
Shipped to-day. 158
Shipped previously 35,477—35,635-
Stock on hand this evening.
13,769.
Augusta shows the following cotton,
statement up to the 19th:
Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1871
Receipts since to date 107,140
109,6S8
Exports aud home consumption.. 94,14o
Stock on hand Jan. 19, 1872 15,545
109,688