Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

V AHSTEPHENS 1*110PillK1 OR Ai POMTirAL EDITOR S . A . EC h o~L s , A Hof i ate Ritltorund BmliifM TKIlMs OF HU It—« H IPTIP- DAILY und WBKKIjVI Ually—<-«»•>' * Twelro Month* $8 00 | Thr«» Month* 2 W 8U Month*. * 00 | One Mootli Wrck!y—Pi r Annum s Single Cony 1 l«> I Ton Co;.i.-» Ill ThreeCovie*........ 6 no • Tn'enty Cojnte*- -.-28 W. 71 v* Copi< a b 00 7iitJ Copie* ..64 Ofc 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 rpi,, „ - -Uxey to vote ii as not rep the Cine mnati 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.