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(fciuli) (County flctos. THIS IS STRICTLY A WHITE MAH’S PAPER. t. n. oKoI'BT w. w. n.KMiNO. GROUBY & FLEMING, EDITORS A PROPRIETORS. Blakely, Ga„ July 14,1871. To the Patrons of the News. As the business ol the office has been j increasing for the past year, its duties hav- \ ing become too onerous for one, and having an opportunity of securing a partner to our liking, wo have sold a one-half interest in the News to.our friend and old fellow citi sen, Judge W. W. Fleming, who conduct ed it during our “flight.” Me is entirely too well and favorably known to the peo- j pie of this section to need one word of praise or commendation at our hands. He , is himself a practical printer, and hence , will be of more than ordinary service as a copartner in the concern. ( Judge Fleming's interest in the News dates from the commencement of the pres ent subscriptions! year, 10th March. All debts due the concern up to that date are due the undersigned individually; those wade since, to the present firm. As Judge Fleming nnd ouvself natural j )y differ in our views in some public and individual matters —he being a church member and we a “ worldlian ” —we have agreed that articles written by us, in which we differ, shall be published over the ini tial letter of tho writer ; and where the article is irreconcilable, the same is not to j be published at all. Hoping that this new arrangement will prove mutually beneficial to proprietors and patrons, we remain, friend *, Yours Very Respectfully, K. 11. GROUBY. Blakely, Ga., July 14, 1871. t The foregoing sufficiently explains the , stains of the News as amattorof property. ( In commencing our career as an editor de | facto of tho News, our readers may look , for something like a declaration of princi- | pics from us. IVc shall write as the spirit | moves us. Our observation has been that ( he who makes the most promises is apt to , tell the most lies. We shall therefore b ’ , particular to avoid promising more than s we can reasonably expect to perform. Our a first effoit shall be to make tho News a paying institution to its proprietors, and at the same time advance the interests of its patrons. To this end we shall bring to bear all tho energy wo possess, aided bv an experience of several years in the printing business previous to embavking in other pursuits. For success, we shall rely upon fair dealing with an intelligent public, and insist upon the same treatment at their . hands. We shall always have a word oft praise for the meritorious, but shall not j fear to deal out just ceusure to what we may deetu reprehensible, hurt whom it may. [n polities, the News, under the joint editorship of Mr. (Jrouby and ourself, shall | be as uncompromisingly democratic as it lias becu in the past. Believing, aswedo, 1 that this is, “and of right ought to be," a white man’s government, ours shall be a white man’s paper. Yet, in advancing our ; ideas as to the rightful supremacy of the ! white race iu our government, wo shall be careful to accord to the black man every right nnd privilege granted him by our laws. Hoping that our intercourse with our readers, and with the press at large,, mav be pleasant, we make our bow. W. W. FLEMING. Latest News. Since our last issue, tho cotton market has slightly advanced. Latest dates, how ever, show a dull market at quotations. New York, June 11, Cotton dull; Mid- j dling Uplands 21o; Futures for October i sold at 191 ; for November,at 18J. I S Violent storms are reported iu various v parts of tho Northern States. j u Telegrams from New York, on the llth,! a report great apprehension in that city iu i c relation to an expected fight between the i Protestaut and Catholic Irish, which it is » feared would take place ou the 12th inst., I on the occasion of a grand parade to be got- i ten up by the Orangemeu, or Prrtestauis. ] The negro Kuklux are rampant in Rob eson couuty, North Carolina. A gang of | negro out-laws fired upon a sheriff's posse on the 10th iust., killing three and wound- j ing several others. The whole county is aroused, and a company is being raised to exterminate the outlaws. Crops. —One of our plautcrs has recent ly traveled through much of Miller, Baker & Dougherty counties, aud from his report, crops are much better in Early than any of the others. He puts dow n Miller as next to Early iu superiority of both corn aud oouou crops It is uot to be inferred from thi* that be means crops are good in Early, hut that they are wretchedly poor ut these other counties The Fourth of July Passed off in Blakely, as in most other ; Southern towns, unhonored. It is a sad thought that our condition at the South is such, that it would look like mockery in us to celebrate the nation’s freedom from the despotic rule of a tyrant King, when we are now the victims of a tyranny ten fold more oppressive than was that against which our fathers rebelled. We are of I those who hope for better days—when wc j shall be willing to celebrate, with loud huz | zas, the day of our deliverance from Radi-, ; cal misrule, and the restoration of our Go : vernment to the principles upon which it was founded. Professor Dozier 8 Examination and Exhibition were a success —both teacher j and pupil acquitting themselves with very . great credit Although we had been pres- I cut at most of the rehearsals for the exhi bition, and knew that all could “ play well their parts,” we take pleasure in stating thut the pupils acquitted themselves be yond our expectations; aad from the dem onstrations of the audience, wo decide their efforts to please were duly appreciated. The attendance was both night and day, and we have reason to believe all went away satisfied with the entertainment pre pared for both their mental and physical natures, | House Stolen. — On the night of the 20th ult., Mr. Wm. P. Jeter, living about four miles south of this place, had his best horse stolen from his lot. Circumstantial evidence goes to fasten the theft upon a ne- 1 gro noin hailing from Miller county. Just after dark the negro hailed at Mr. Jeter’s gate and wished to hire to hoe cotton. — : Mr. Jeter contracted with him to com- ; mence next morning. The darky then j begged his supper, and went oft' to Pul- | bin’s Mill, where ho said he had left his clothing, promising to be on hand early j next morning. The next morning Mr. J.’s horse was gooe, hut the cotton hoer did not come up. An examination of the j tracks at tho gate nnd in the lot identified tho thief and the would-be cotton hoer as the same person. Mr. Jeter followed him for several days, but failed to come up with j him, losing the trail near Newton, Baker i county, in the neighborhood of where the j negro lived before freedom. The thief is J well known in that vicinity as Zack Brin- j f son, alias Zack Martin, alius Peter Jones, , and several other aliases, aud will no doubt , f be picked up. J 1 - ♦ Our stomach-felt thunks are due to Col. r B. II Robinson for a basket of most de- j licious peaches; and to J. B. Mulligan, Esq., for some us nice apples us we have masticated in a long time. And also to . Mrs. T. E. Speight, of Clay county, for ; two cabbage heads large enough to do onr n families for a week to come. Still they come—since the foregoing was i put in type. Mr. Walton Grimsley has giv en us a real treat in the way of peaches, j for which ho has our thanks. Professor H. M. Wade will also accept our thanks r e for a nice basket of tomatoes. I Prolific Corn. —Mr. J. I>. McCul- t lough has shown us three stalks of corn— e or one stalk and two suckers—the pro- I duct of one grain—bearing seveu good { ears, and Mac reports plenty more of the h “ same sort ” in the field from which this o sample came. Some of our planters would n do well to get seed from him. j k * r Our friend, Judge John Gilbert, says that although the newspapers give doleful t accounts of the condition of the cotton crop, they don’t state the case half as bad as it is at his place. The Judge is one of our best fanners, and we therefore suppose r the condition of his crop is equal to the average of the county. Look out, then, s for short cotton crops, and, we hope, long s j prices. Being unable, either of us, to attend the j Sabbath School Celebration at Plattville, wo made arrangements with a competent j gentleman to represent us, and give us an account ot the sayings and doings on that j occasion. But as yet he has failed to give an account of himself. From the character j of the community in which the celebration took place, we doubt not everything was done up in good style. s s Some curiosity has been excited in our town, during tire past few days, by a suit of clothes being found hangingnn the hush es hy the side of the road near the meeting house branch. From appearance.the «-ar ment-s belong to a freedninii, and are quite too good to suppose he had thrown them away. The query is, how eume they there? The garments consist of coat, pants, shirt and hat. Shot. —A negro woman ou Mr. Ben May’s plantation, in this county, was acci dentally shot iu the face, by the careless ness of u negro boy, on Tuesday evening last. The wouud is said to be a painful but not dangerous one. * ♦ ♦ i See iccdlog matter on fourth page Liberal Pickings j We find the following parrgraph in the | Savannah Price Current of Thursday last. f In speaking of cotton it says: “To our receipts on the 17th inat, we 1 add 2500 bales, which is the number of > bales that have been exported of pickings, i wastage, sampling, etc., since the first of September, 1870, and had not been ac counted for in our receipts.” That is what might be termed liberal f pickings, indeed. In one season, and that 5 I not yet closed, the handlers of cotton at . j Savannah say they have made, clear, 2500 bales, worth at. the lowest calculation 850 per bale, or 8125,000 — Macon Telegraph. . To this article in the Telegraph, the Sa vannah Republican takes exceptions, and characterizes it as an illiberal insinuation I against the Savannah cotton merchants. We cannot but agree with the Telegraph that “pickings,” (if that is the name—we thirdi a harsher name would be just as ap propriate) must have been on a very liber al 9cale, on receipts of 710,000 bales. Let ’ us figure whittle : Allowing three quarters of a pound for each bale for wastage, sam pling, &c., we would have 1065 bales of 500 lbs. each on receipts of 710,000 bales. • Thrce-quui ters of a pound to the bale is I the basis of calculation suggested by the t Republican as being about right. Iu this wc will grant he is very nearly correct. I But when he assumes that this will amount to near 2500 bales, we differ with him. We don’t want him to make calculations for us. Allowing one pound to the hale for &e., we have 1420 hales on 710,000 bales i reeeivpd. Whence then comes the 1080 j or 1435 hales over this reasonable calcula tion '! Planters and country merchants would like to know. We don’t want to ; j 9 ! use hard words, and say Savannah is curs ed with a set of cotton thieves, but the ] i matter needs a good deal of explaining. j Whew! —The Early County News must 1 I be getting “ loil.” It actually notifies its 1 j readers that no paper will be issued from i that office during the week embracing the I ! 4th of .Toly. Some time ago we had occa- ! sion to allude to the United States flag. . . and spoke of it as the fiag of bUr country ; ! whereupon the News flew at us like an old j setting hen, and cackled out that wc (the I | Sun) might claim it.for our flag, but the j j News would never have anything to do ! j with the “dirty dish-rag.” We simply | ) refer to these facts in order to show the j ! News that it is sometimes a little inconsis- j : tent, notwithstanding its usual straight-fur- ! ward Democratic course. If it has no re spect for the “ dirty dish rag,” bow can it. respect the National holiday of tho United i States ? The News lias certainly repent ed.—Bainbridje Sun. Hays must certainly have been very hard run for something to fill up his Bullhead Proclamation paper with, and still harder up for a lick it us when he penned the above. It Inis always been our rule—as it is with nearly all country papers—to is sue but fifty numbers to a volume, and the only reason that we skip 4th of July week is that it occurs iu the middle of the year, when all hands most need rest, and not at all for the respect or honor wo have for the day or the “ditty dish-rag.” As to our being “loil,” we’ll simply say, that had we ever been, or were we uow, “ loil ” in the-* way Hays has been, wo’tl long before this time had a plenty of money to have retir ed from the newspaper business. Hays ! hasn’t made less thau 87,000 by bis “loil ty, ” fiom the Bulihead government alone, ! besides what he has received from others j of the “ ring,” which is undoubtedly as j much more. Hays, you can worship and kiss the “ dish-rag,” but wo never will not for 814,000, at least. We may have our price, but it’s uot quite so low, as poor as we are. G. Nicholas Said. The said Nicholas Said, the learned Af rican, was in our town for several days during the present week, canvassing for sunscribers to his Autibiography, which he says is now in press at the Constitution of flee in Atlautu. Said was to lecture in the Court House on Wednesday evening; hut ; during the day he came in contact with j some of our benzine establishments, and as i is conimou with his race, got worsted in the encounter, in consequence of which the leotuve did not come off—greatly to the disappointment of some. The said Nicho las is a queer cuss touier. and is evidently . pretty well educated ; has traveled exten sively, and remembers much of what he sees, hears and reads. The stockholders of the Montgomery A Etifaula Railroad, at their meetiog held in Montgomery on Tuesday, unanimously rat ified a contract entered into between the Directory aud Messrs. Opdyke & Co. of New York, the terms of which are as fol lows : 1. The Company assigns to Messrs Op dyke & Co., parlies of the second part, all the assets and a majority of the stock of the road (about 8550, 000 worth) without reserve. 2. Messrs. Opdyke & Co. agree to fur nish 8680,000 in cash, which sum it is , thought will be amply sufficient to pay off ' all outstanding liabilities and complete the ‘ road to Eufaula. ♦ The I. O. B. B’s. hold regular commu- j nications iu Blakely every Sunday 1 Meroer University. The Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni versity, we iearn from the Telegraph, held a meeting in Macon on the 4th instant. It was determined that the scholastic year of Mercer University in Macon shall commence on the first Wednesday in Octo ' her next, and close on the first Wednesday |in July, 1872. The Board appointed a | building committee to get up plans, speci fications and ‘•stimates for the final build* ing improves ents of the University, to be reported to the Board. The Board ex pects to expend a large amount of money, perhaps one hundred thousaud dollars, in buildings. The Board, as well as others, were sur prised at this meeting on receiving the re signation of the President, Rev. Dr. 11. H. Tucker. The kindest sentiments exist be tween himself and the Board, and the part ing was mutually painful. May prosperi ty attend the gifted Doctor. The Board elected unanimously Hon. J. L. M. Curry, L. L. D., of Richmond, Va, President of Mercer University. The Dr, is a native Georgian, and a gifted and elo ! rjuent man. | The price of tuition in the University I was fixed at 8100 per annum. A Real Luxury—We are indebted to ; Mr. Hunt, the inventor, for one of his pa j tent fans and fly-drivers, the greatest in j vention for warm weather and fly-time that ! mortal man ever originated. With this j machine we can sit at our desk and keep a delightful breeze stirring, keep off the mosquitos and flies, aud write, all at the same time. —Macon Telegraph. We here are in a fly, mosquito, gnat and flea country—and they buz like bumble bees and bite like gallinippers. The truth is, if there’s any place on earth where a fly-driver is any more needed than here, we’d like to hear of it. Could not Mr. Hunt send us down one of his machines, so we could introduce it here? We cau sing “shoo, fly! don’t bodder me!” to perfection, but the song ain’t worth a cuss to make the “ critters git up and git ” i no, not half a cusr. G. A white “ boy ” shot and instantly kill ed a “ young geutleman of color ” near Sa- j vannah, on last Sunday a week. The ac count given of the affair by the Savannah papers is, that n party of young Africans attacked a party of white boys, pelting them with rocks, &c., and driving them towards the city. The “ buekras ” gave back for some time, but finally decided to make a stand, one of the party drawing a pistol and putting a stop to the advancing colored troops by bringing one of them to the ground. A coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. Howl, Phillips, Greely k Co., “ a man and bro ther ” has gone up. The movement to make General Ilan- i cock the democratic candidate for the next j Presidency gains strength with time. We have yet to see or hear of the first demo cratic paper that opposes his nomination. All speak of him in complimentary terms. As a matter of principle, we are opposed to military men holding that position, but if wc must have a matt of that profession, let us have one endowed with good com mon sense, and having at least a smatter ing of Statesmanship to recotnmeud him - ♦ ♦ We are pained to learn that Mrs. Ken non, wife of our friend, Col. R. E. Kcn dod, died near Fort Gaines on Monday night last. Wc deeply sympathize with the Colonel in his bereaveuieut. G. * ♦ - ♦ Our “ Devil,” who has just returned from Fort Gaines,reports “all quiet” there, and Col. John L. Holland as just as “fat” and “hot” as ever. Take more ice in it* friend “John.” G. The Siamese Twins.— The Raleigh Telegram, of the 4th, says one of the Sia mese Twius is lying at the point of death. The other is in good health. Iu anticipa tion of death, arrangements are made for the immediate separation of the living from the dead brother. lion. Jefferson Davis has declined an In vitation to deliver a public lecture before the Mobile Franklin Society, giving as t reason : “It surely would not be difficult, with the freedom you allow in the selec tion of a subject, to avoid any expression which could fairly bo used to the injury of my Southern friends; but it would hardly be possible, under existing circumstances, to prevent my words from being abused for such a purpose.” The Famine in Persia.— New York, June 30.—Terrible accounts are still re ceived of the tarnine in Persia At Tezd about 500 children have been killed and eaten by the starving Mohamedan popula tion. So severe is this famine in certain parts, that not only have the dates and su gar of caravans been seized and eaten by the starviog inhabitants of villages through which they passed, but the pack mules were greedily devoured as well. Four George Washingtons, six Andrew JacksoDs, five Henry Clays, and two James K. Polks, all negroes, reside at present to the Lousia'ia peniteatiary! Brunswick and Albany Bail Road- Work on the line of this Road between Cutbbert and Eufaula was suddenly stop ped some two or three weeks ago. The Albany News gives the following as the reason for the cousre adopted by the com pany : This sadden change of front, we are au thentically informed, was caused by a com bination of land owners aloug the line to extort front the Company exorbitant dam ages for (be right of way. From Cotton Hill westward the work of locating aud staking off had, necessarily, to be very rapid, as contractors were wait ing for work. Ilence the right of way could not be secured in advance of the en gineers. Alter locating, auu when grading parties were about to commence work, they were met by the owners of the soil and lorbid den to cut a tree or move a spade of dirt till damages were assessed and paid. Enor mous prices were demanded, and finally le gal proceedings were instituted to stop the work. Contractors, with large forces, were idle and of course sustaining serious loss everv hour, Mr. 11. I. Kimball was in New York, and therefore the unreasonable demand of j the laud owners eould not be immediately I responded to. Just, reasonable and fatr i propositions were made by the officers in ' charge to allow the work to proceed and j have commissioners forthwith to assess dnm l ages, but the Shylucks, thinking they had ' the game dead, persisted in their demands j for the “ pound of flesh,” and refused to j wait for it till adjudged to them in the usu ! alway. The result is the abandonment of that section for the present, at least, and, it is to be hoped, forever. Another line can be found, and though it may cost more money, we trust it will prove to be the in terest of the Company to find aud adopt it. Wc arc of opiniou that these avaricious I land owners would be glad to “ change \ front ” now if they had the opportunity. Shylocks frequently lose all by dcuiaudiug too much. The Albany, Mobile and New Orleans Rail Road. Our railroad authorities have had this new enterprise under advisement for a day or two past, and while the result is not all we desired, it is, perhaps, as favorable as could be expected under all the circum- i stances. It at least guarantees the practi- J cal aid of one company to the work, and i the moral support aud influence of the oth- ; er, with a pretty fair assurance of a similar | actiou eventually on the part of both. The Central Board actually subscribed a \ half million to the road, on the condition j heretofore stated, viz: that three millions shall be subscribed aud ten per ceut of the amount paid in by the Ist December next. The Atlantic aud Gulf Board also held j a meeting, aud resolved to take half a mil lion as soon as the affairs of the company eould be put in a condition to justify the subscription. The new road is so manifestly necessary to the success of the Atlantic & 1 Gulf, that we have no doubt the friends of the latter will forthwith bend their ener gies in that direction, and soon place them selves in a condition to extend to it their active co-operation. We understand that a movement will soon be put on foot to ascertain the views of the city of Savannah with reference to a liberal subscription. We hope, though, that the pulses of Mobile and New Orleans will first be felt, having but little doubt that our city will handsomely respond to any interest they tnay manifest in the work. — Savannah Republican , 20th ult. Negro Ku-Klux. AUGUSTA, July 3.— On Saturday last 25 armed negroes went to the plantation ot Augus lied, in Barnwell county, S. C., about 12 miles below Augusta, on the Sa vaunuh River. Arriving at Red’s resi dence, the party fired a volley into it, kill ing Thos. A. Lowe and seriously wound ing Red and his wife and mother. After disarming Red, the negroes returned to Paul F. Hammond’s plantation, where the deputy sheriff tried to arrest them, but without success, as they refused to disarm The uegroes, however, promised to go to Aiken and stand an investigation. One of the parties implicated was arrested here this evening. llis version is that Red and Lowe attempted to chastise a negro for stealing from the premises of the for mer; that the negro escaped from them, and returned with an armed band who did the shooting, byway of retaliation. Tho affair causes uneasiness and alarm. The party arrested in this city represents himself as a school teacher, and says he was on bis way to Aiken to deliver himself up to the authorities. Railroad Disasters. Nashville, July 4.—A .train of two coaches and a sleeping car hence at 8:20 yesterday on the Nashville and Northwest ern Rail Road after the locomotive and baggage car went over, went through the bridge at Uarpcth river—ls killed and 22 wounded. New York, July B.— Trains from New ark aud New York collided, and the cars are a burning mass. Seven bodies have been taken from the ruius. It is supposed there are many more amid the wreck. The lists of passengers show no Southerners. ♦ Squirrel skins valuable. —Squir- rels are so great a nuisance in California that a bounty of 10 cents per head is paid for their destruction. Mr. Frank Tracy has killed and trapped 10,000 iu one sea son, for which he got 81,000 bounty. He sent the skins to Paris where they sold at 15 cents each, swelling his receipts to 82,- 500 for hie captures. The skins are said to be more valuable than thr*e of the rat or kid in the manufacture of gloves. - The Weather and Crops. The weather has been at welding heat for the past ten days, and only occasional showers of rain in some localities. We hear complaints from two opposite direc tions of the county in regard to the darn | aging effect of the dry weather on the corn 1 crop. After so much raiD, two weeks of dry weather tells seriously on that crop. Cotton is aeported as doing well just now in all parts of the county. ♦ » ♦ Rail Road Meeting at Morgan. Morgan, Ga., July 1, 1871. A meeting of a large number of the cit izens of Calhouu County was held this day at the Court House in 3lorgan for the pur pose of considering the interests of Calhouu County in the various lines of Rail Road about to be constructed through the same, when Elijah Padgett-, Esq., was requested to act as Chairman, aud J. John Beck as Secretary. The object of the meeting was fully and ably explained by Col. Thomas J. Dunn, who was followed by appropriate remaiks from Dr. Lewis A. Guild and Judge Jesse H. Griffin, when, upon motion of Hon. G. W. Colby, it was Resolved, That a committee of four, con sisting of John Colby, Thomas J. Dunn, : Jesse H. Griflin and L. A. Guild, be ap- I pointeil aud constituted as an Executive j Committee for the purpose of correspond | ing with the Presidents of the Albany & i Mobile R. R. Company, and the Southwes- I tern R. 11. Company, and advising tlicm ! selves fully of the means aud steps neces sary to be taken to insure the location of the contemplated Road byway of Morgan. Resolved, That the faith and property of the whole county is pledged to the sup port of the action of this committee. Which Resolutions were unanimously adopted. The meeting then adjourned, to be called together at the instance of said Executive and Corresponding Committee. ELIJAH PADGETT, Ch’n. J. John Beck, Sec’y. Card from Mr- Dobbins—He tells Bis Side of the Case. Atlanta, June 26, 1871. Editor Constitution : As there is some excitement growing out of the fact of the Gland Jury of this county at the lute teini of the Superior Court undertaking to in vestigate the acts of Colonel Foster Blod geet, lute Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and V. A. Gaskill, Esq., touching a claim I held against said railroad, I have thought it my duty to give the facts in the case to the public. The nature aud amount of the claim is eoirectly stated in au account made by Col. A. B. Culberson, my attorney in the case, and published by Col. Blodgett in his card of the 24th inst., amounting to 810 848 06. 1 agreed to settle the claim on the bus's of the actual loss sustained, with interest, Mr. Culberson ami myself examined the amount of cotton destroyed, and the dam ages otherwise sustained, and found that they amounted to the above amount, viz: 810,848 06, including interest. For that amount I agreed to take Foster Biodgi it’s Superintendent note at 60 days for *7,000 which was dated, I tliiuk, on the 7th of November, 1870, and was paid to me by Mr. Gaskill in his check on J. 11. James, on the 9th of January last. This note tor si,ooo is all the note I ever saw or heard ot until 1 was summoned to the grand jury room to testify in the case, then, instead of the $7,000 note, I saw one for $15,548 00 signed by Foster Blodgett, Superintendent, payable to me or bearer. This note seems to be founded on an account made out thus : For damages for loss of Cotton and for delays and injuries $lO 848 06 On account of failing todeliver 4,700 00 The last item in this account I deny ha.- ing any hand in adding, and i am satisfied Mr. Culberson is equally clear ot it. As regards Mr. Gaskill being tny attorney, l never considered him as such. If so, why the necessity of giving him a special power to sign iny name to a receipt to obtain a warrant founded on a note held by me on Foster Blodgett, Superintendent, geven me in settlement of my claim against the Wes tern and Atlantic Railroad. In regard to uiy promising Mr. Gaskill all he could get out of the claim over 87,- 000,1 may or may not have done so. My memory in that particular dors not servo me; but if I did, why did riot Mr Gaskill inform me what he did get? Instead of doiog so, he has kept me entirely in igno rance. So far as tny knowledge went I never knew he had received one cent above the $7,000 he paid tne on the 9th of Jar uary last. My understanding was that I was compromising a claim against the State with Mr. Gaskill as agent of the State, and not with Mr. Gaskill as an individual or as my attorney. How could I compromise a claim with my own attorney ? He made made no charge on me for services, tinrhad he any promise of any. I did say to him it the State was disposed to pay him any thing I thought they could well afford to do so, as the claim was settled at a very low rate, viz : 7,000. M. G. DOBBINS. The above statement of Col. Dobbins is correct in its leading features. I was the counsel of Col. Dobbins. I never recognized Col Gaskill as counsel of my client. Ou the contrary I negotiated with him as counsel for the State Road, and when we agreed to the settlement ou basis of Col. Dobbins’, and his counsel re ceiving some thousand dollars, and Colonel Gaskill said he must have eouosel fees, tny reply was, “ I have no objection to that." Gaskill having said in the communication that when he went into Col. Blodgett’s of fice he reserved the right to practice his profession in addition to the salary he was receiving as Seoretary of the Superintend ent, A B Culberson.