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MU. STKFHKXS’ A Vi <jRl> WIUI THE THE
GEORGIA DEMOCRACY.
The following is tha platform of prin
ciples laid down by the Georgia Democ
racy in 1870, Herein bled iu State Conven
tion, and reiterated on ti e 20tli day of
June lust year by a similar Convention:
Iitaolve'l, That the Lcmocra Ic, Party of Georgia
stand upon the j.riucii of tho Dornocratic Party
of the Union, bringing out iol >1 Hpec.al proininence,
a* applicable to the preat-nt ixtraordinary condition
of the coUDtry, the nnchaugca ie doctrine that
thla is a union of Ktatc-a, and of their rights,
and of theii'eqoality with each other ia an indispen
sable part of our politi-al system.
Resolved, That In the spproaebing election the
Democtstie party invtle* everybody to co-op«r>te
with tbem in a zealous determination to change
the present usurping end corrr.pt administration,
by placing in power men who are true to the prin
ciple* of Constitutional Government, and to a faith
ful and economical administration of public affairs.
Upon this pl.tlform tho Democracy of
Georgia, in 1870, defeated tho Radical
party and placed tho Government of the
State in tho hands of the intelligent and
tax paying people. In 1872, Gov. Smith
and the members of tho present House
of Representatives, and halt the Senate,
were elected upon this same platform of
pure Democracy. Upon it they stand
to-day. Upon it they must vote to-day,
if tney aro true to their solemnly de
clared principles—principles affirmed and
re-affirmed by two separate and full
State Conventions, end they aro the last
autnoiitative expressions of the Demo
cracy of the State.
This plutiorm was penned at “Liberty
Hall,” Hon. A. H. Stephens dictating
the phraseology of tho resolutions, while
they were put to paper by Dr. Casey, of
Columbia county. I hey were then
brought to Atlanta; and on tho 8th ol
August, 1870, at 9 o’cloak, r. m., iu
room in the National Hotel in a caucus of
seventeen or eighteen good and true
Democrats, the writer being one of them
Hon. Linton Stephens presented the
platform above published, and just as it
is published for consideration. Tho reso
lutious were unanimously adopted in
caucus, and ou the following day were
unanimously adopted by the State Demo
cratic Convention of Georgia.
Not only did Mr. Stephens occupy the
above platform during tho last State
canvass, disagreeing as he did, with the
main balk of tho party in regard to the
Presidential coutcst, but he advocated
and assiduously worked for the unity
and harmony of tho party ou all State
questions. Who was mardent in
bis support of Gov. S rnitb, the Demo
cratic candidates lor Congress and mem
bors of tne General Assembly than Mr.
Stephens ? Who plead more earnestly
for this harmony thau ho dul ? None
Ho not iu accord with the Democracy
Was there over audacity more presump
tuous iu the assertion of a falsehood.
Now those gentlemen who charge Mr.
Stephens with not being in accord with
tho Democracy of Georgia, will, v;e hope,
have no more to say ou that score. We
give this bit of history for the infor
mation of those who do not know it; and
close by stating that Mr. Stephens has
not got off tho G corgia Democratic plat
form to get upon any‘other to this day.
WEEKLY
SUN.
VOL. 3, NO. 35}
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY,
JANUARY
21, 1873.
WHOLJ1
N U M B E Kl»5D
THE coy TEST TO-DA Y,
The members ot the Legislature to-day
are called upon to perform a rerious duty
and to assume a heavy responsibility in
the selection of a United States Senator.
We oclieve the members have not been
particularly influenced by personal con
siderations in making np their minds as
TELEGRAPH.
GEORGIA SEX A TORSI! IT.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Cal
houn Times, iu his letter of the 14th, had
this sentence:
•* It i* cl)*r,j<Hl and iir- tty p.-ueraily believed that
Mr. IIUl is the State Road candidate, running iu tho
interest* of Cameron ami others o‘. that school; Gen,
Gordon’* friend* are malting much of hi* war re
cord. while the friend* of Mr. Stej heus advocate
him more particularly on the grouud of the weight
he will have in the United states Senate, on account
ot hi* abl— ty and statesmanship."
Will Georgians refuse to stud
Mr. Stephens to too Senate merely be
cause Moriou nud Cockling aro atraid of
him?
fcS-ThoD emoeratic members of tho
Legislature caiiu. t -a afraid to trust the
man who is the author of the platform !
upon which they were elected to their
seats.
JfcD" Georgians can place reliance iu
the mau whose discernment of men
dtuws tuto requisition the services of
such worthy workers as Gordon and
Wofford.
Gen. Gordon made a brave
soldier and was a gallant defender of
the “Gray.” Every victory he won was
a tribute to the , good judgment oi Mr.
Stephens, who insisted upon the issu
ance of that “Colonel’s commission.”
> which one of the gentlemen named
for the position they will vole for. They
see iu the capacities and claims of each
much to acknowledge. There is no dis
position, we believe, to make the contest
one of personal wrangling, and hence we
do not hear words of disparagement on
tho part of any in regard to the true
merits of either candidate.
Tlnoughout this contest, The Sun has
taken no undue advantage ot any of the
candidates tor Senatorial honors. It has
been prompt in acknowledging the merits
o£ all; and whatever has been published
in its columns, either editorially or from
correspondents, favorable to the election
of the Hon. A. H, Stephens, its honored
editor-in-chief, has been done without
hiB knowledge—the associate editors as
suming all i he responsibility of doing so,
It is but natural that we should desire
his election on personal grounds; but,
then, we place his claims upon far higher
grounds than that of personal friendship
and admiration.
We place his claims upon his merits as
a statesman, a scholar, a political philo
sopher and a true and unflinching Demo
crat—one whose record no man can suc
cessfully attack. We advocate his elec
tion because we believe his influence for
good in Congress for the South would be
greater than that of any other man’s in
tho State. His long experience, his great
fame as a statesman, and his profound
knowledge of the principles of human
government, especially his thorongh
knowledge of the origin, the progress,
and the principles of oar own form of
Government, make him eminently the
most influential man in Congress we
could elect. All of these qualifications,
which have made his name familiar
throughout the civilized world, would at
once give him an influence in Congress,
another inexperienced man of equal men
tal capacity, could not gain in two years.
We believe Mr. Stephens is entitled to
be made Senator for the reason that he
has been twice elected to that position
since tho war, and denied hia seat, first,
bec-aza no Southern State was a’lowed
a representative in Congress; and, second
ly, because he was disqualified by the re
construction laws. In this, the choice
of the people of Georgia was spurned
Mr. Stephens did all he could for his
State without avail, at his own personal
expense. Now that Georgia is doing
justice to others who were ejected from
office by the Federal authority, is it not
a good time to place Mr. Stephens in a
position once denied him, but which
cannot now be denied him by the same
power ?
This much, the associate editors of
The Sun deem it not inappropriate to say
ou a subject that becomes rather delicate
from the tact that Mr. Stephens is the
chief editor of this journal. In saying
this much, we have not disparaged the
true merits of others.
BOWEN VS. DELARGE.
Washington, January 19.—The report
of the Committee on Elections, in the
case of Christopher C. Bowen, contest
ing the seat of Robert C. DeLarge, from
tbe 2d Congressional District of South
Carolina, says the committee find, upon
the whole, evidence that DeLarge (lid not
receive a majority of votes legally
cast, und is not entitled to the seat. This
came before the committee tu be heard
at the December session of 1871 and
1872. Delarge then applied for a post
ponement, and for leave to take further
testimony, on the ground that the coun
sel employed by him to prepare his case
and take testimony in bis behalf, had
possession of the evidence, and refused
to surrender tbe same to be osed beiore
the committee; and farther, that said
counsel had been tampered with and
bribed by Bowen,to act for him. The com
mittee found both these allegations to be
proved. Some of the committee are of
opinion that this proceeding which would
furnish ground for the expulsion of the
contestant, if he were a member, would
justify a refusal to permit him to pro
ceed with the contest, or to award him
the seat. An apportunity to take further
testimony was granted to said member,
and for that purpose the case was post
poned to the present session of Congress.
An examination ot all the testimony, and
the statement on both sides, show the
frauds and irregularities iu the conduct
of the election were so great that it is im
possible to determine which had the
majority of the ballots legally cast, and
tor this reason the seat should
be called vacant. It farther appears
that on the 19th of October|1870, on the
same day when he appears to have been
elected to the House of Representatives,
the contestant was chosen as a member
of the House of Representatives of
South Carolina for a period of two years.
On tbe first of November he was
to take his seat as a member of said
House. It farther appears that in 1872
Bowen was elected Sheriff of Charleston
for a term of four years, and in Novem
ber last took the oath of office, and en
tered upon the dnties of the
same, which office he now holds.
These offices are in their nature incom
patible with the office of member of the
House, and are expressly declared to be
so by the Constitution of South Carolina,
Some of the Committee are of tbe
opinion that the acceptance of this
office by Bowen disqualifies him from
the further prosecution of
olaim to a seat, and from taking a seat
therein if he should be found to have
been duly eleoted. While the committee
are unanimous in finding these facts
they are not unanimous in holding that
either one of the reasons aloresaid is
sufficient of itself to disqualify the con
testant, but they are unanimously of the
opinion on the whole case that Bowen is
not entitled to the seat, and, therefore,
recommend the adoption of a resolution
that neither DeLarge nor Bowen is enti
tled to the seat.
by 140 to 30, that on the 13th of Febru
ary too Committee ou Commerce shall
be authorized to report a bill or bills re
lating to lines of internal water commu
nication.
Mr. Young, of Georgia, introduced,
and the Hous ■ passed, under suspension
of the rules, a bill to pay what is due to
the census-tikirs of the ccdsus ot 1860,
residing in the Southern States, whose
iiymeut was withheld on account of the
war, or ou account of their disloyally.
Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, from the Ju
diciary Committee, reported a oill de
fining the true intent aud meaning of
the act or 8th June, 1872, amending the
bankrupt act to be to make the exemp
tion under it the same as are allowed in
the various States.
Mr. Hazleton, of Wisconsin, moved as
substitute for Bingham’s bill one re
pealing the bankrupt law entirely. Car
ried by ye .s 139; nays 60. So under
suspension of the rules the bill repealing
the bankruptcy act was passed.
ABOUT THE r IX AT..
Washington, January 20.—The hear
ing before the Ways Committee, of the
cotton tax, is po stponed.
The House, on Saturday, by unani
mous consent, ordered printing of the
argument of Col. B. W. Frobell, in favor
ot tho Atlantic aud Great Western Canal.
In the House, to-day, Gen. Negley, of
Pennsylvania, moved to suspend the
rules for the purpose of taking up the
Canal bills and making them the spe
cial order for February 13, exclusive of
all other business.
Gen. Garfield opposed the motion.
Gen. Negley, Judge St.ellabarger and
others, sustained it warmly.
The motion was adopted by a vote of
146 ayes to 30 nays*
The vote is regarded as highly satisfac-
ory by t’uo friends of the enterprises.
COTTON TAX.
Washington, Jan. 20.—The bill for
the rctundmg of the cotton tax, as agreed
upon by the members of the House, from
the cotton growing States, in their meet
ing on Saturday last, to amend the bill
now pending before the Committee on
Ways and Means, by declaring, in the
first section, that the restitution of the
tax shall be made to the party who actu
ally paid the tax, whether paid by him
self, his agent, attorney or factor ; and
adding to tho fourth section a provision
that all entries, receipts or other official
testimony, shull enure to the benefit of
the producer, unless it shall affirmatively
appear t aat some other party paid said
tax, aud has not been repaid the same.
The bill, as above amended, was intro
duced this morning by Mr. Pierce, of
Mississippi, und referred to the Commit
tee cn Ways and Means.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISSISSIPPI.
— The Natchez Couier sava smallpox
prevails to a considerable extent in ull
the river towns along the Mississippi.
— Mr. James M. Swords has retired
from the Vicksburg Herald. The con
cern has been purchased by E. C. Cur-
roll A Co., who will publish the paper
hereafter.
— Tne Natchez Democrat of the 4th
says a negro outraged one of the most
respectable white ladies in Rodney a few
days before, and the people took him ami
hanged him to death.
—The Yasoo Democrat speaks hope
fully of the narrow guage railroad pro
jected from Yazoo City to some point on
the line of the Mississippi Central rail
road—either Canton or Vaughn’s.
TENNESSEE.
— Springfield has bo hotel.
— The Rutherford county poor house
has eleven inmates.
— This season bat little wheat is sown
in Ratberford county.
— Last year ItobertsoD county had oue
hundred and eighty-two marriages.
—A Rutherford county man has a razor
that has been in ure einoe 1812.
—The Rutherford County Court Clerk
issued 156 marriage licenses last year.
— Meny Rutherford county negroes
are emigrating Sonth and to West Ten
nessee.
—John A. Johnson, of Lawrence coun
ty, killed a catamount over_threo feet in
length.
—J. W. Childress has been elected Presi
dent of the First National at Mnrfrees
boro. . •
—Last year one firm in Rutherford coun
ty shipped $30,000 worth of fruit trees
to Texas.
—Dr. L. W. Knight, of Rutherford
county, lost $2,300 worth of jaokaases by
the epizooty.
— At the recent Mnnioipal election
Pulaski voters were required to bIiow
poll-tax receipts.
—Dr. B. Sears, agent of the Peabody
fond, has sent $1,500 of it to tbe Mem
phis school board.
— The Chattanooga cotton factory is to
be started next week. It will have 2,000
looms.
— Knoxville has a negro lawyer named
Yardly who has been admitted to practice
in the Federal Court.
THE SEXATORSUir.
A VOICE FROM NEW YORK.
Wo are permitted to extract the fol
lowing portion of a letter received by a
gentleman in tbis city from a friend in
New York, which shows the estimation
iu which Mr. Stephens is held by the
frieuds ot Constitutional Liberty in that
great State:
New Yobk, January 14th, 1873.
Mi De.ms.Sir: I have never seen in print, nor
have I heard any political speech of more elucida
tion of our system of Democratic Republican gov
ernment, State aud Federal, so clearly delineated as
in the extraordinary address of Alexander h. Ste
phen*, j nb ifched mini: Atlanta Sirs, of Decem
ber 2*2 J. 1872.
There is no party antagonism in it, for it holds
forth "peace and good-will amongst men,” and yet
it tells the truth, and netting but the truth, to the
American people.
1 have read. it with intense admiration of its
trntblul philanthropy and political philosophy. I
do i rust tnat tho Democracy of Georgia will return
Mr. Stephens to the United States Senate.
Iu addition to the foregoing, we cave
just conversed with a most accomplished
aud highly intelligent lady just returned
from New York. While in that city, she
had occasion and opportunity to converse
with many of the most intelligent and in
fluential friends oi the South in that city.
She states that it is the universal desire
of th. se persons that Mr. Stephens
the cotton tax.
Washington, Jan. 19.—Nearly all tne
members of Congress present in Wash
ington from the cotton States, at a con
ference last evening, agreed on a new bill
to refund tho cotton tux, which they wilt
press in Congress this session, instead oi
the bill hitherto introduced by McKee,
of Mississippi. Tho provisions of the
latter are materially changed, so as to
carefully look after the interests of the
planters and fretdmen, in securing to
them absolutely the return of tho cotton
tax that they have paid.
THE STOKES CASE.
New York, January 19.—The bill of
exceptions in the Stokes case was pre
sented by the counsel yesterday to the
District Attorney, and will be submitted
to Judge Boardman probably on Thurs
day.
a military pageant.
Berlin, January 19.—A grand dis
play, religious, military and civic, was
made at Potsdam to-day, in the Garrison
Church. Eighty-six flags, captured
from the French during the late war,
were hung from the walls with im
pressing ceremonies. The Em
peror, Empress and Princes and the
chief generals of the army were present.
The Emperor tnanked the army for its
heroism, the results of which, he said,
were eternally engraved ou the tablets ot
history.
THE SMALL-FOX
in Boston and viciuity is creating grave
apprehensions. Three thousand cases
are reported, and more deaths thau from
all other causes. The victims are Luiied
at night
JUDGE HUMPHRIES.
The statement that tho Senate had
confirmed Judge Humpkries.to be Uni
ted States District Judge of Alabama, in
place of Busteed, resigned, is not true,
The Senate has taken no action in the
matter anu will probably take none until
informed whether oi not the resignation
of Judges Humphries and Busteed are
unconditional.
AS ESTEEMED LADY DEAD.
BRIDGE REPAIRED.
New ore, January 20. —Stockport
.I 1 , < - the Hudson River Road, was
repaired at six o’clock tfiia morning;
since which time a thuusand loaded cars,
inc udiug 243 loaded witn live stock,
passed over.
THE HEALTH OF BOSTON.
Boston, January 20.—The Board of
Health urges the necessity of vaccina
tion, and requests prompt information of
new cases, and the co-operation of the
cifizens generally in carrying out the
proper sanitary measures for the extinc
tion of small-pox.
AN INDIAN BATTLE.
Washington, January 20.—Bernard
opened battle against Captain Jack, who
had about 250 warriors concealed among
♦ho rocks along a line of two miles in
length. Gt n. Wheaton beard the firing,
ami had no alternative but to move to
the aid of Captain Bernard. The troops
fought from 8 o’clock in the morning to
dark, under a terrific lire, during which
scarcely one Indian was seen. Loss to
the troops was forty killed and weunded.
Loss to tne Modoes is unknown. The
troops were finally obliged to retreat to
their camps. Bernard’s forces bore the
brunt of battle and suffered terribly. All
the cavalry fought on foot. Among the
killed me Frank Trimble and G. R.
Brown, ot Oregon. G. W. Roberts was
mortally wounded. Capt. Perry of the
regulars, was seriously, and Lieutenant
Kviy, slightly wounded. The movement
is called a f orced reconnoiscance on Capt.
Jack’s position. The leaders say they
think about one thousand men will be
require i to dislodge him from the lava
teas. The troops, for the present, will
only try to pievent the Modoes from
| rail bug on the settlement, and will wait
for reiiiiorcements.
FLOODS IN MARYLAND.
writ is not military renown, nor is
it splendid mental and oratorio U abilities
that we need so much ia the United
States Senate, as it is profound states
manship and large political and gov -rn-
meutal experience at d influence.
Iu the election tor Senator to-diy
every member sin uld U ar iu mind that
they are standing upon the Georgia plat
form of pure Democ
the Cincinnati
elected upon tk.‘ v
they will be ineon
man for Senator, v
the Georgia, ins
platform.
and m
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to vote ii
as not rep
the Cine
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Washington, January 20.—Mrs. Mary
B. Walker, widow of the late RoDert J.
Walker, died yesterday morning at her
Philadelphia, Jan. 20.—At Rock Run,
Maryland, via Port Deposit, a temporary
telegraph office has been established, the
operator having been forced to abandon
his office iu Port Deposit in consequence
oi the Hood. The platform in front of
the office was carried away by the water
soon utter he left. He wa* forced to take
to the hills so as to reach Rock Run. The
people of Port Deposit were leaving their
houseR, and many had to be removed in
boats, and it s feared that there has been
loss of life.
the saaiana lease.
this as the expression away from home.
The Judiciary Commit ee reported ad-
verseiy on the bill lor the relief of Bos-
Gecrgia to elect Mr. Stephens. W e give ton sufferers; also, adversely to several
bills amendatoiy of the bankrupt bill;
a so reported a new bankrupt bill.
The bill fixing the time oi the meeting
of the Supreme Conrt passed, and goes
to the President Adjourned,
j House.—A large number of bills were
j lLiioitUCi-’ii) including sxnctiv. r to
o __ _ London, January 20.—TheDailyNews
Tne* deceas- i £a T s °f the lease of the Samana bay to
^ ^ of the late j an American company, that it is not
Alexander James Dallas, and a great- ■ likely to give rise to any diplomatic com-
grand-daughter of Benjamin Franklin. plication, but the wholesomeness of this
Senate.—Wendell Plnllip. nnd others |
petitioned for a prohibition liquoi law.
should represent Georgia iu the United ed was ’ a g raJ1 a'daughter of the late j an American company,
States Senate. Not only was thh desire ~ "
expressed in New York but everywhere
on the route home, whenever the subject
was mentioned. She rays there is a de
sire almost amounting to pressure, for
—A
new town in
Philadelphia.
Liberia has been
Fury Ward Beecher
r.e '-t in Nevada.
j >n has 3,049 miles
■ration.
of rail-
—T1 o late lx. ug of Honolulu weighed
350 pounds.
i izo the Indian teiri.ory of Okaiokama;
that no pc-isou shall be promoted in the
army who is aiictnd to tn-j m,a oi iiquor
or drags.
On motion of Negley, of
Pennsylvania, it was ordered
continental limits is doubtful. The Uni
ted States present a spectacle of commu
nities maintaining liberty and order by
the exercise of absolute self-government.
Tnerefore the;Union is strong and re
spected.
Havana, January 17.—Advices from
Porte Rico lrom the 6th to the 12:h in
stant, suite that the inauguration of the
"e\v municipal reform laws for that Is-
lond have been postponed by older of
the'Spanish lords. It would also post
pone the date for carrying into effect the
proposed division of tine civil and mili
tary powers, and that military authori-
ti a wen d continue in control of civil
iff oils t : e same as heretofore.
VIRGINIA.
—Dr. Rosser has commenced a great
revival in Winchester.
—A lady near Mt. Crawford gave birth
to two boys and one girl last week.
—James Vowels, the oldest Mason
in Prince William county, died recently.
—Fourteen car loads of cattle passed
through Lynchbnrg Monday, going
Noth.
— An. “elopement case” occurred last
week near the Great Falls in Fairfax
oounty.
— Some of the Italians who recently
arrived in New York have been ret to
work on the Valley Railroad.
— A negro woman named Rose Harris
was bauly burned uy a Kerosene explosion
in Alexandria last week.
—Mr. Richard Mitchell, tailor, died
rather suddenly in Lynchburg Tuesday.
—Capt. T. C. Morton has bought 200
acres of the Greenfield tract in Botetourt
for $3,500.
—Ice thirteen inches thick is being
gathered from the Cat pond, near Lynch
burg.
—R. N. Pool & Co., have purchased
the factory, mills, farm, &c., of G. W.
Berlin, at Bridgewater, Rockingham, lor
$20,000.
—Richard Cox, a brakesman on the
Alexandria and Washington Railroad,
was caught between two cars Monday and
crashed to death.
—A man from Floyd county, named
Noah Wade, has been arrested in Lynch
bnrg for obtaining money nnder false
pretences.
—Mr. William Legon, engineer on the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, who
was recently badly injured by an acci
dent, is better.
—W. R. Stewart,a large cattle dealer of
Smythe, has mysteriously disappeared,
leaving a family and $15,000 unpaid
debt.
— There are twenty-seven widows and
thirty-seven widowers between 25 and
CO in Stannton; sixty-seven old maids
and forty-live old bachelors.
— Silver medals have been awarded
Messrs. Winfree & Loyd, Lynchburg, by
the Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition, for
best chewing and smoking tobacco.
—Repairs to V. M. L, since Hunter
burnt it, have cost $250,000, and not a
cent drawn from the State. If the Legis
lature was to break it up. “old Specs”
would build another in five years.
Married, on January 2d, 1873, in the
middle of the Harrisonborg Turnpike, at
Bnrketown, by the Rev. Mr. Tallhems,
on horseback, John Whiterell of Burke-
town, and Miss Jenetta Bowers, the bride
and grooom occupying front seats in a
buggy.
KENTUCKY.
Owensboro is to have a stove foundry
in a few weeks.
— Coal is retailing in Frankfort a;
thirty-six cents per bushel.
— The physicians cf Owensboro report
the health of that city as being excellent.
—The Janaary term of the Marion
Circuit Court will commence next Mon
day, Judge J. C. Wickliffe presiding.
—The Owensboro & Russellville rail
road is said to be doing a very large busi
ness, both in carrying freight and pas
sengers.
—J. W. Davis, former reprerentatiu
from Shelby oounty in the Kentnckj
Legislature, died at Shelbyville on the
12th insi,
London, January 19, 5 p. m.—UnL
vorable rumors in relation to the po.^i
tions of Russia and England ou the
Khivau question. They have a disquu -
jag effect and flatten the stook market.
REDCCTIOX OF THE SUM HER OF JUDICIAL
CIRCUITS.
The writer of the following article in*»
forms us that it was prepared at the in
stance ol, aud approved by, some of the
most eminent aud worthy members of
the Bar of the State, who desire its pub
lication. This we do without comment:
Mr. Editor; On Friday morning a mo
tion was made in the Honse to recon
sider the notion of the day previous, in
adopting a joint resolution from the Sen
ate, to raise a committee instructed to
report a bill reducing the number of Ju
dicial Circuits in the State to thirteen.
The motion failed, as I am persuaded,
from a want of a proper understanding
of the facts of the case.
The resolution is based upon a false
statement of the facts. It recites that
“before the war” the number of circuits
was never greater than thirteen. The
original Code, which contains the laws
only down to I860, gives us the follow
ing list of Judicial Circuits, viz:
Western, Talapoosa, Sontn-WesUni,
Southern, Paluutu, Ocin>algee. Northern,
Coweta, Eastern, Flint, Macon, Middle,
Blue Ridge, Brunswick, Chatiahoochee
and Cherokee—16.
- So tho resolution is founded iu an error.
See Code, lsted. sec. 3163.
Neittier is it true, tne resolution re
cites, that tne bitKineas of the Court* then
was greater thm u«.«w. Iu proot of this
assertion, I invoke tue< xjierieuoeoi the
Bench aud Bar of the State, and an in
vestigation of the dockets of tue Supreme
and Superior Courts.
Tho business of the Atlanta Circuit is
now from five to seven years behind hand.
The Augusta aud Macon Circuits, and
the circuits containing Savauuah aud
Columbus, are in the same category.
These circuits cannot, therefore, be in
creased. They contain only 23 counties.
Now reduce the number of Judges
to thirteen, without adding to any of
there, and you have one hundred and
thirteen oounties to apportion oat
among eight Judges. This would give
each Judge an average of foarteen
counties, on an equal divide. But many
of these counties hold their oourts fos
two, and some of them for three weeks
eaoh time. An equal apportionment as
to number could not therefore be made.
So that some circuits would oontain say
ten oounties, while others would have ta
contain at least twenty oounties. This
at one week to tbe term, twioe a year,
would require the Judge to be bolding
courts forty weeks in the year, to say
nothing of the immense amount of laboc
that he must neoesBarily perform at
chambers—business ot a very responsible
and laborious nature. Such, especially,
ns the sanctioning or refusing Bills m
Equity. And this immense amount of
labor must be performed, at an expense
to the Judge of at least one thousand
dollars for hotel bills, conveyance from
county to county and incideutials. His
salary being only $2,500, this would leave
him ouly about throe moderate fees of a
practicing Attorney for his year’s work,
and no time allowed him for reading and
keoping himself posted ou the changes
iu tho laws, which he must necessarily
do, or fall behind the profession. It be-
ci mes, therefoie, a very serious question
whether competent Judges will assume
so much labor for so little pay.
If this policy should be adopted, the
piesent session of tbe General Assembly
will not close before auother proposition
will be made, to-witu To increase the
salary of the Judges that are left. In
fact, it is understood to bo the intention
of the friends of this measure to do so.
Where is the economy iu :>il this ? .Vk I
Mr. E In or, it is hut t.o i>j>;:a.<-nt that
tne obj ?ct is not '••••r? uebrj-nt, bur. to
get rid of a lot of Judiros wh r '*e terras
of office are not yet expired. The writer
of this article had heard, long beiore tho
meeting i f tun Legislature, lhatthialine
oi policy had bceu det mined upon by
some of those who assume tho leadership
of the party in power. Will tho
party submit? Will th^y be led
into such measures ? It Bullock’s
appointees are obnoxious or incom
petent men, as some of them may
be, there are ample ways and means
provided to rid the State of them, and
put good men iu their places. Do gen
tlemen have the manhood to come square
ly up,to the work and not attempt to ac
complish by an “indirection” what you are
unwilling to accomplish by fair meanst
I. have in this article said nothing
on tho micoustitutionulity of the meas
ure of legislating men out of offices to
which they have been appointed for a
fixed time,and the impolicy of the State’s
violating her part of the contract under
which the Judges have given up their
practice at the bar; but as I have already
made the communication longer than I
intended I will close, at least for the pres
ent. Fair Play.
Commercial Items.
— A ship has arrived in tbe Thame*
freighted with manure from Australia for
trial iu England.
—Texas is to send samples of coal, lead,
slate, iron, marble, copper, silver and
gold to the Vienna Exposition.
The value of the mannlacturing
products of the State of New Hampshire
ten years ago was $37,000,000.
A company is to be organized at
Streator, Illinois, for the purpose of
putting into operation glass works and
rolling mills, $00,000 having already been
pledged,
—The quantity of lumber surveyed at
Bangor, between January and December
7, 1872, was 246,453,649 feet, against
227,401,675 feet in 1871, and 302,014,192
feet iu 1870.
— The Ueridien (Conn.) Britannia
Works are run night and day, which in
dicates a great demand for the goods
manufactured there.
One million six hundred thousand
feet of window glass, 32,000 boxes, were
manufactured at Ottawa, III., in the last
twelve months.
— Weil-posied judges estimate the to
bacco crop of Missouri last year at 30,-
000 hogsheads. The previous year it
reached 18,000 hogsheads.
—Orders were from the headquarters
of the Pennsylvania Railroau, directing
that after the 1st inst. all passenger and
freight agents ou the different divisions
ffiai* give bends for the fauhfn: perform
ance of their duties. Tne amount of tha
bond wid depend on the business done
by each ag.nt, but it will not be L than
c800 Lor more thau §5,000. Conductors
ou railroad trains have ueeu obliged to
give Don .Is for some time, and report says
.Jl employes through who hands
money of the company passes wi
to do likewise.
