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pal matters.
The receipts of cotton throughout the
State have been heavy the past week.
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Lula Combination show a humbug of the
BFWr ;
The Brown House refajpa to pre-engage
Any of it s room tor the Fair week, but pro
poses to take visitors as they ijome.
AmericUs BCirt sllo to the sufferers at
Memphis.
It is now thought that the Thomasville
Fair will be biggest thing of the kind ever
held there.
The rice crops on the Big and Little
Ogeoehee have been seriously damaged by
the recent freshet.
The pay rolls of the Columbus manufac
tories foot ttf) beyond forty thousand dol
lars pet month.
Owing to the lack of orders, the Coliun
fron Works have been running on short
time since the panic commenced.
The Washington Gazelle proposes issu
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county, which is to commence on the 14th
instant.
A colored church in Columbus gave $22
to the Memphis sufferers.
Mr. Avcritt Yerby, of Athens, is dead.
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suggestions : “Don't loaf about the
streets and dtp end on the Lord for your
daily bread. Ho isn't running a bakery.”
The West Point editor says : “Our
prospects arc gloomy. Everybody has
turned against us and our enterprise, and,
witn tile exception of four men, we have
not a friend in West Point. We work
hard, live hard, act honestly with every
man, but by some unacconntable means Yve
we are despised and forsaken.
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bb found.
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of Savannah, is dead.
Benner, of Macon, offers to fight his pet
bear against any two dogs in Georgia, in
Fair week, for $1,901*.
Gen. Alfred Gumming, long known as
one of the most prominent men in the
State, is dead.
Fifty tents for the military companies
that propose to drill at the State Fair have
been ordered from New York.
Hon Nelson Tift has returned from New
York, where he has been in the interest of
direct trade with Europe-.
Tile Brunswick arid Albany Railroad
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tives of the German bondholders for $530,-
000. The telegraph line was bought by
C. O. Whitney for $2,900, subject to a five
years’ lease.
J. H. Campbell, of Perry, suggests that
Mayor Huff employ a number of Chaplains
for the State Fair.
The Atlanta Herald says that Mr. W m.
M. Tumlin. a young but promising finan
cier, tells the farmers to hold their cotton,
that is pledged to their commission mer
chants for their debts, till they can get 20
cents. The plan is a good one, but the
price ain’t high enough. They ought to
hold it until they are offered at least $1 25
a pound.
The Washington Chronicle mentions a
report, current in that city, that Hon. A.
H. Stephens, Herschel V. Johnson, and
one or two other prominent Southern pol
iticians, will start a daily paper in that
city on or about the first of December
liext.
Every Evening is the name of a tiew free
paper in Savannah, issued from the Fern
office.
Atlanta Independent is the name of a
new weekly in Atlanta.
Atlanta has a six legged calf.
Styles continues to run his double paper,
and a mighty good one it is.
Trains are running on the southwestern
extension to Arlington.
Mrs. Hansell, mother of A. H. Hansell,
died in Griffin-on Tuesday.
A White baby was found dead in a ditch
in Columbus the other day, evidently the
result of abortion.
Harris says that the citizens of Atlanta
are adding to the beauties of the landscape
scenery around their places by puttmg up
hitching posts.
A Baltimore dispatch announces that
ex-Governor Thomas King Carroll is dead.
A New York dispatch says that John
Hoard, a young money clerk in the Brook
lyn postoffice is missing.
THE COiiSTmmON AS AMENDED- TX3 UNION AS 2351022D.
BAINBIIIDGE, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 22, 1873.
THE HOMESTEAD,
Important Decision.*
[Reported expressly for the Atlanta Constitu
tion. ]
United States District Court, Northern
District of Georgia. Homestead Ex
emption, Ac., March Tern), 1873. In
re John W. A. Smith, a Bankrupt. Cer
tified question from Register Murray.
Krskine, J.—The assignee in considera
tion of the .fact thr/. there tire judgements
of force against the bankrupt—who filed
his petition in bunkrupey in this Court on
the 24 May, 1873—which had been render
ed in the State Courts, prior to July 21,
1868, refused to set apart other property
than that allowed by the exemption laws
of force in 1864. The bankrupt claihis the
exemption allowed by the Constitution
and laws of Georgia as existing in the year
1871, The Register after argument before
him held that the bankrupt was entitled
to the benefit of the exemptionlaws of this
State as they stood in 1871, and made the
following order :
“Lot the assignee set apart as axempted
property ; First—The necessary house
hold and kitchen furniture, and such other
articles and necessaries of the bankrupt as
he shall designate and set apart, having
reference in the amount to the family,con
dition and circumstances of the bankrupt,
but altogether not to exceed in value the
sum of five hundred dollars.
2d. The necessary wearing apparel of
the bankrupt and that of his Yvife and chil
dren without valuation. 0
3d. The uniform, arms and equipments
of a soldier in the militia, if he be such, or
if he is in the service of the United States.
4. Such other property as now is ex
empt from attachment, or seizure, or levy
on execution by the layvs of the United
States.
5. Real estate to the valuation of two
thousand dollars in specie, and personal
property to the value of one thousand dol
lars in specie.
4'he objects of the assignee wore confin
ed to this, the fifth, item of the Register’s
order. Here, as previously, before Mr.
Register Murray, the validity of certain
portions of the 14th section of the Bank
rupt Act of March 2d. 1867, audtheriniriti
datory Act of June 8, 1872, and that of
March 3,1873, was questioned. Bnt coun
sel jor the assignee pressed his argument
with more directness against the constitu
tionality of the Act of March 3, 1873, and
which is entitled “an Act to declare the
true intent and moaning of the Act ap
proved June 8, 1872, amendatory of the
general bankrupt law.” The 14th section
of the original Act exempts, in addition to
certain property of various kinds excepted
from the provisions of this section, “such
other property not included in the forego
ing exceptions as is exempted from levy
and sale upon execution or other process
or order of any court by the laws of the
State in which the bankrupt has his domi
cil at the time of the commencement of
proceedings in bankrupey, to an amount
not exceeding that allowed by such State
exemption laws in force in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty four.” The amendment
of June 8, 187*2; struck out the words
“eighteen hundred and sixty-four,” and in
serted in lieu thereof “eighteen hundred
and seventy one.” To this followed the
amendatory or declaratory Act of March 3,
1873, (just rferred to) which declares “that
the exemptions allowed the bankrupt by
said amendatory Act” (of June 8, 1872)
“should and it is hereby enacted that they
shall be the amount allowed by the Consti
tution and laws of each State,respectively.;
as existing in the year eighteen hundred
and seventy—one ; and that such exemp
tion be valid against debts contracted be
fore the adoption and passage of such
State Constitution and laws, as well as
those contracted after the same, and
against liens by judgement or decree of any
State Court, any decision of such Court
rendered since the adoption and passage of
such Constitution and laws to the contrary
notwithstanding.”
The Bankrupt Act of March 2, lS67,the
amendatory Acts, and the declaratory Act
of 1873, make but one system of law ; they
are therefore to be taken together, and in
terpreted and construed as one entire law
or statue. One of the objections taken by
counsel for the assignee to the constitu
tionality of this law. was that it does not: 1
in certain of its provisions, possess the ele
ment of uniformity as required by the
fourth clause of the eighth section of the
first article of the National Constitution—
the clause which confers on Congress the
power “to establish uniform laws on the
subject of bankruptcies throughout the
United States” —and the main reason pre
sented was that it gave a bankrupt, in one
State, property, as exempted from the pur
suit of his creditors, to a larger or lesser
amount of value than it bestowed upon a
bankrupt in another State ; and he illus
trated his theory by examples ; If the
bankrupt, he argued, domiciled in Georgia,
he will (at least if the head of a family) be
entitled to an exemption to the value of
$2,000 in specie in reality and one thons-
j and dollars in specie in peitocality ; if the
[bankrupt is a resident of Mississippi, he
i would be entitled to property, as exempted
f to the value of four thousand dollars ; if of
California to a still larger exemption, and
if cf Maine to an exemption far less in
volug than a'UoWed in any of thp States
named. This diversity, as , Was Urged,
showed clearly the want of uniformity iu
the statue, and, consequently, its repug
nance to the Constitution >f the United
States. vv
The argument is pkuat&v&Vnd
sonnd ; but when the mind rises from ef
fects to causes, the fallacy of the reason
ing is revealed ; for Congress has never
claimed the power, urider this or any other
provision of the Constitution, to annul
State exemption law3, or to mould them
to a uniformity and equality throughout
the United States. From this brief state
ment, it will, I apprehend, be seen that the
words “uniform laws,” as used in this clause
of the Constitution, have no refer,euce to,
or in any wise, effect the exemption la tvs of
the several States, no matter hoYv variant
they may be. And this view is not with
out authority to support it : In re Beck
erford 1 Dillon, 45—argued before Mr.
Justice Miller of the supreme Court of the
United States, and Krekel, J.,in the Fede
ral Circuit Court for the Westerh District
of Missouri, this question came up for de
cision, and Judge Krekel, in delivering the
opinion of the Court; said : “It is insist
ed that the 14th section, already cited, hav.
ing adopted the exemption laws of the
State in which the bankrupt is domiciled,
and these exemptions having no regaad to
uniformity, violate the constitutional pro
vision authorizing uniform laws through
out the United States to be passed. If
Congress saw cause to pass bankrupt
laws under the grant of power referred to,
the injunction is that they shall be uniform
throughout the United States. So far as
the distribution of the bankrupts’ assets—
the point under consideration —is concern
ed, the law is uniform. * * * *
Though the States vary in the extent of
their exemptions, yet what remains the
bankrupt law distributes equally among
the creditors.” A like view of this ques
tion was taken by Rivers, J., in re, Wylie.
5 A. L. TANARUS., 339 ; and in rg Kean and White,
Pump. 2. So likewise yA Ab J., in re,
Jordan, 8 N. B. 11., lalso Bump,
Ctli edition, 135. If the rnison which I
have advanced is too narrow* to show r that
the Bankrupt Act of 18(57, and the amend
ments cited are in harmony with the clause
of the Constitution, requiring laws on the
subject of bankruptcies to be uniform
throughout the United States, then I am
content to rest satisfied upon the broader
reason of the authorities quoted or referred
to.
A bankrupt system or law must be re
garded as comprehensive, and not partial
in its operation ;so too, it should be ac
companied with enlightened principles of
equity, that honesty may be encouraged
and protected, and fraud suppressed. True,
it is a general tenet of ethics, that the au
thor of any damage ought in conscience to
repair it. But if this rule be extended to
the case of a debtor who makes default of
payment at the time appointed, by means
whereof the creditor sustains some extra
ordinary detriment, a strict application of
the maxim would (in#iany cases) be un
just ; for it must be also recollected that
that men should not be held accountable
for unforeseen contingences—contingencies
proceeding from a concurrence of conflict
ing circumstances over which the debtor
could have had no control.
No one can peruse tlie declaratory act
of March 3,1873 —and which it may be
said, reenacts the amendatory act of June
8,1872 —without perceiving the prominence
of its retrospective features, also its power
to impair the obligations bf Contracts. and
to displace leins created by judgments and
decrees rendered in State courts. But if
their be no constitutional infirmity in this
enactment, it must be taken as absolute
and uncontrohtble. And there is nothing
iu the Federal Constitution which preclu
des Congress from passing laws impairing
the obligation of contracts, the inhibition
contained in the first clause ol the tenth
section of the first article of that instru
ment is confined to the States respectively.
—White vs Hart, 13 Wall. 646. Gunn vs
Barrv. id 610.* In modem days laws of
bankrupey are considered as laws calcula
ted for the benefit of trade, in its largest
sense, and are founded on principles of hu
manity as well as justice ; and being fur
the good of trade, the thought suggests
itself, that if a rational bankrupt law did
posess the element of retrospectiveness,
and the power to impair, or, if necessary,
to discharge the obligation of antecedent
contracts, it would but half perform its
functions. And, indeed, it does not strike
my mind that ii would be a purely specu
lative postulate to say. that if the Consti
tution had not expressly granted to con
gress the power to establish laws on the
subject of bankruptcies ; still the>igbt of
the Legislature to enact laws of this nature
.—laws so intimately connected with the
regulation of commerce at home and abroad
and with manufacturing and agricultural
interests—would, it seems to me, be within
its legitimate powers, as an attribute of
sovereignty in the nation—os essentially
so as the paramount right of eminent do
main, or the authority to pas3 embargo
laws, or laws for the erection of forts, light
houses or public buildings. But notwith
standing the expression of arty theoretical
ideas, the Court has been guided to its con
clusion soley by those reasons which were
fairly deducible from the laugtiage of the
Constitution itself. Cdofiuing'the decision
to the issues made, the validity of the gen
eral bankrupt law of 1867, the ainendato-y
act of 1872. and also, (so far at least as the
present matter iu controversy is involved,)
the declaratory act of 1873, is assumed,
and cannot, I think, be treated as debata
ble.
And that I may not fall into the mis
chievous habit of not indicating the sources
of my information I will name, and, when
necessary quote from the cases and author
ities mainly consulted, to sustain the views
exhibited.
The sth section of the act of Congress
of March 3, 1797, (1 stat 512) gave a prefe
rence to tlie United States in case of in
solvency, and the Supreme Court, in Unit
ed States vs. Fisher, 2 Crunch 358, decided
the act to be constitutional ; and also that
it was not confined to persons accountable
for public money, but extended to debtors
of the Government generally.
In KvatG vs. Eaton, Peters C. C. R. 323,
Mr. Justice Washington said: “There is
nothing in the Constitution of the United
States which forbids Congress to pass law’s
violating the obligation of contracts, al
though such a power is denied to the States
individually.” Similar language was held
by Air. Justice McLean, in Bloomer vs.
Statley, 5 McLean, 158 ; and see Satterlee
vs. Matthewson. 2 Peters, 330. Chief-Jus
tice Chase, in pronouncing the decision of
the court in Hepburn vs. Griswold, 8 Wall.,
603, remarked that “Congress has express
power to enact bankrupt law’s, and we do
not see that a law made in the execution
of any other express power, which, inciden
tally only, impairs the obligation of a con
tract, can be held to be unconstitutional
for that reasort.”
•Sir. Justice Miller, in his dissenting opin
ion in tlie same case (concurred in by Jus
tices Swayne and Davis,) said that “while
the Constitution forbids the States to pass
such laws” [laws impairing the obligation
of contracts] ‘Mt does not Forbid Congress.
On the contrary, Congress is expressiy au
thorized to establish a uniform system of
bankruptcy, the essence of which is to dis
charge debtors from the obligation of their
contracts.”
Mr. Justice Field, in his dissenting opin
ion in the Legal Tender cases, 12 Wall.,
457, said : “The only express authority for
any legislation affecting the obligation of
contracts is found iu the power to estab
lish a uniform system ol bankruptcy, the di
rect object of which is to release insolvent
debtors from their contracts upon the sur
render of their property.
AM Mr. Justice Strong, in giving the
judgment of the Court in the legal Tender
cases, supra, said ; “Nor can it be truly
asserted that Crngress may not, by its ac
tion, indirectly impair the obligation of
contracts, if by the expression be meant
rendering contracts fruitless or partially
fruitless. Directing it may. confessedly, by
passing, a bankrupt Act, embracing past
as well as future transactions. This is ob
literating contracts entirely. * * * *
And it is no sufficient answer to this to
say it is true only when the powers exert
ed were expressly granted. There is no
ground for any such distinction.”
Dick, J., in re, Jordan, an Rivers, J., in
re, Kean and White have held the Act of
1872. amendatory of the General Bankrupt!
Law, constitutional. And the Court is in
debted also to Register Murray for his writ- ;
ten opinion upholding the validity of the
Act.
The Act of 1873, as previously observed, i
declares that it w r as the true intent and ,
meaning of the act of 1872, that the ex
emptions “as existing in the year eighteen
hundred and seventy one,” shall be valid j
against debts contracted before the adop
tion and passage of such State Constitu- j
tion and laws as well as those contracted
after the same, and against liens by judge- ;
ment or decree of arty State court.” etc.—
This Court, in a series of cases which arose
prior to the declaratory act of 1873, ruled
that, under the General Bankrupt Act of
1867, and also under the Act of 1872,
State exemptions were paramount debts *
pre-existing the passage of these Acts; and
none of these ruling3 were ever seriously
questioned here. But whether, before the
passage of the declaratory Act of 1873, a
court would have been warranted in so in
terpreting and construing the Acts of 1867
or 1872 as to adjudge exemptions valid
against liens by judgment or decree of
State courts it is unnecessary to discuss.
Congress has, however, by the Act of 1873
declared the true intent and meaning of.
the Act of the proceeding year; and, so far
as the case now before me is concerned ;
the bankrupt having filed his petition in,
bankruptcy nearly two months subsequent
to the passage of the Act of 1873, —the
Court decides that the exemptions claimed
by this bankrupt, supplants the liens of
State judgments and decrees : See Coolly
on Constitutional Limitations. 2d edition,
90-94, and the cases cited by that learned
and accomplished jurist, and also, in re
Keau and white, supra.
T.he assignee is instructed to carry into
effect the order made by Register Murray.
Affirmed.
Filed October 3,1873.
♦ Peeples A. Howell, for the Assignee.
Boynton & Dismuke for the Bankrupt.
A Model Democratic Candidate,
Conservatism*/
Spicy Letter from the Hon. Geo. Rye—
His Estimate of Gen. Kempep.’s Char
acter.
Edinburg, Va., October 3,1873.
Judge Alfred Morton, Chairman of the
Republican Executive Committee:
Sir: —You are aware, perhaps, that I
have taken no partTn politics for a long
time; in deed, such has been my silence
that my immediate neighbors cannot tell
to-day for whom 1 will vote, or whether 1
will vote at all. And I would riot now
disturb this silence if both parties had re
mained on Republican platforms, arid have
placed candidates upon them, as standard
bearers, representing in sentiment and feel
ing tlie tenets therein expressed. Circum
stances are transpiring on all sides indicate
beyond a doubt that the spirit of intoler
ance and proscription will soon be as.
RAMPANT AS IT WAS BEFORE THE WAR
and during the war. As far as my observa
tion extends the canvass is being conduct
ed in a manner not very creditable to the
Conservative party. The passioH4 find
prejudices of the people are appealed to,
instead of their better'reason, and the dire
consequences of such a course are inevita
ble.
This week I had occasion to visit the
city of Staunton, and on iny Way therb I stop
ped a few hours at Harrisonburg. Learning
that public speaking was going on, and that
Mr. Gilman, of Richmond, was there, and
being desirous of seeing that gentleman, I
passed into t|ae court-house as the crowd
was dispersing. Jtiiige Harris was the first
to recognize me, and, after shaking hands,
lie turned to General Kemper and offered
to introduce me. General Kemper declin
ed. At the same moment I took hold of
Mr. Gilman’s hand with a hearty grasp, and
he, riot observing the movemclit of Judge
Harris, bent himself over another, gentle
man, offered the same service, and, upon
receiving the rebuff, he, in order to cover
the
CONTEMPTIBLE CONDUCT OF IIIS FRIEND,
threw his arm around me, and we moved a
few paces in the direction of the door, and,
after a few’ words, I passed out. In the
course of half an hour, while standing in
front 01 tlie hotel, Mr. Gilman and General
Kemper apprdached me, and Mr. Gilman
introduced him. Policy had mastered the
sentiment of the heart, as expressed at the'
court-house; hence ho came.
( ■ \
Througn respect to Mr. Gilman, and
that my manners should not be questioned,
I took his hand, but immediately turned to
Mr. Gilman and requested an interview.
We turned the corner of the building, and
I Said, in substance: ‘‘Sir, ydur candidate
is a jack-ass, and Ls not fit to govern a free
people. He, uo doubt, would be a proper
man to govern slaves, for as I read him,
airoganee and bombast are the leading
traits of his character; that 1 was riot
blind to wliat had transpired in the court
house, whatever attempt might be made to
hide it; that a man aspiring to be the
Governor of a State, or iu any public posi
tion. should be ready at all times to treat
with respect and common courtesy all the 1
people,” &c., kc. A short while after this
I met with Judge Harris, and the same
conversation in substance passed between
us, at the conclusion of which he asked me
whether I did not intend to vote for Gene
ral Kemper. I answered, No!” and now
add:
1 “AM I A DOG THAT I SHOULD
do this thing.” The attempt is being made
to revive the feuds, passions, and prejudices
engendered by slavery and war. This Yir
ginia upstart and some of his cohorts are
endeavoring by all means to arouse that
green-eyed monster, prejudice, with all its
hideous forms, the tendency of which will
be to frustrate the very aims and objects of
government, viz: to secure the peace and
order of society. Proscription for opinion,
slander and lies, will be the staple com
modity in every neighborhood. Let us read
the future by the past. This is the spirit
that controlled mob \iolence, that muzzled
the press, and destroy ed mail matter in the
United States post offices and then rewar
ded by giving the slai'e-holder thirty dol
lars a month for his slave to work ip the
trenches, and eleven dollars a month to the
poor white man to be shot at.
This is the spirit that formed the com
bination to drive oat of the State men who
entertained the opinion on the subject of
slavery of the founders of the Government,
viz: of
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j OFFICE, BROrUHTOY S'jr., )
Sanborn BuUkiiug.
WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, MADISON, ANd
ADAMS,
Aye, this is the spirit that spurned the
common law and drenched Virginia in
blood. Should General Kemper succeed
in his election tlie probability is, the main
pillar of our safety will l>e overthrown, and
\ ivginia made to antagonize the Federal
Government, and thus lose the sympathy
of the outside world. Every candid nUri, ‘
every well-w isher of the State, should ask
himself the question., can she If
then Ip the* rescue. God save the a *
Statel IVby don’t yon send Chandler
after him? Ten thousand tongues should
lash him around till made the jest of
bonds. It is to be hoped we will hear no
morb of the braying of this Democratic
quadruped in the Valley, at least, until his
groomsman can teach him bettor man
ners, And as it has been proclaimed that
he repiejents the gentleman's party par
excellence, it should he done at oh’ce.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, Geo. Ryf..
How a Match was Broken Off. —The
Hartford Times prints a Western Penn
sylvania reminiscence undcf the ebove
title, of which the following is the clhhax:
As it so happened they met ill tlie
dow on their way to church. Betsy waS
dressed out in all the colors of the rain
bow’, her tall form much enlarged by {he
fashion of hoop skirts, and a large Leghorti
flat, covered with ribbons, made her in
John's opinion the pink of the meadow.
"While she twirled her parasol, lurning and
flirting her skirts, and they were tete-a-trite,
John unconsciously had, while poking his
umbrella in the grass, stirred up a yellow
jacket’s nest, and neither having noticed it,
Betsy had managed to hive them under her
broad skirts. She had asked John how he
liked her new dress, when all at once she
gave a spring, and John said she jumped,
higher than his head—then another and
another, displaying her w’ardrobe in the
most reckless manner, jumping fences at a
pace of two forty ; and at last she disap
peared in the thicket of a w’oods; John
had by that time discovered, by a few stings,
what was the matter with Betsy. But
that was the last of John and Betsy’s
courting. Many of the neighbors were
sorry, but some evil disposed ones Yvould
say, w’iriking one eye, “that is one John’s
tricks.” But good old Parson E did
all he could to heal the wounded spirit of
Betsy, and have her forgive and forget that
unfortunate meeting in the meadow. It
was of no use; and I think they stiff live
in single blessedness.
Hon. James G. Blaine.
The St. Louis Democrat has a leading edi
torial article on a reported opposition to the
nomination of Speaker Blaine for the Speaker
ship of the next Congress, and says : “It is
the universal testimony of political foes *s
well as friends that Mr* Blaine has- been the
best Speaker Congress has seen for many
years, and this is a position in which the ef
ficiency of a man naturally increases bv ex
perience. Neither will it be forgotten by Re
publicans that the services of Mr. BlainA id
the last Presidential campaign were of apectr
liar character. Bnt for him the contest which
ended so handsomely might have be6n a
doubtful one to November, if not a desperate
one at the end. For the result in MAiUO
really broke the back of the coalition.”
Speaker Blaine is one of the mos{ fib
eral and enlightened statesmen of ritir pe
riod, and both commands und desrifvfea {he
united corifidcnce of the party of Uiricrif
Justice and Progress.
9 »♦-*
IN GENERAL.
Members of the Nebraska Legislature
individualize themselves by Wearing whole
buckskin suits.
Jay Cook k Co.’s affairs are said io be
in a fair way of settlement.
Gerald Massey, the popular English ly
ric poet, has just arrived in this country,
rind will be welcomed by his multitude of
friends.
Business keeps looking better and bet
ter, and has the best basis to improve «p
--ori that it has had since the war.
John Stuart Mill left an estate of seven
ty thousand dollars.
Specie payments continue to fond it
topic in almost all the speeches no# made.
The Evangelical Alliance will pay a visit
to the President at Washington.
Tlie Republicans and Imperialists of
France have united in opposition to the
establishment of a monarchy, which *t iff
proposed to establish on the basis of the
charter of 1814.
W'e have noticed less disposition dirloag
farmers and young men to sell out and gi
than formerly, and we hope a sob*
second thought will prevail to keep many
at home. The W'estern papers even be
gin to argue in favor of going East instead
of Wrist.
One hundred and seventy-two rats were
killed by workmen, in W ilmington, whtf
were tearing down an old house, f
There are now one hundred granges id
Alabama, and one hundred and sixfy-three
lodges of Good Templars.
A grange organ in Alabama is to be en
titled the “Mowing Machine,” Timothy
Hay editor. Kitty Clover will be among its
lady contributors. They ought to get
Mrs. Oates to give them a benefit.