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HIES DAY MORNIXO, FEBRI'ART 2.
Another Siceles. — Dr. Geo. B. Pe
ters, who killed Gen. Van Dorn, has
recently been united in the holy bonds
of matrimony with his former wife, from
whom he was divorced in consequence
ot her intimacy, as claimed, with Gen.
Van Dorn. Miss Peters, his daugh
ter. has, in consequence, renounced her
design of becoming a nun.
We learn from the Intelligencer, that
David A. Walker, a cleik in the Post
Oflice at Atlanta, has been detected in
piltr-riug money from letters received at
the Post Oflice in that city. The evi
dence was so clear against him that
when charged with the offense, he plead
guilty. He was arrested and committed
in default of $2,500 bail, for his appear
aiice at the next term of the United
States District Court. His depredations
had been going on for a considerable
time, and he was finally detected
through the combined efforts of the
Post Master, Mr. Simms, and the spe
ed agent of the Post Office Depart
ment, Mr. P. 11. Woodard.
A Keverendßook TniKK—The New
Voik World says, Boston has had a sen
sation in the discovery and arrest of a
hook thief, who has been in the habit
of lobbing publishers and booksellers,
and whose latest enormity was the theft
of “Don Quixote,” in two volumes,
and in Spanish. This thief turns out to
be a Unitarian clergyman, who had
adopted this method of replenishing his
library. Os course, there have been
some savage comments upon the course
of this clergyman, and that too, in Mas
sachusetts papers which have never said
anything about the volunteer ex-army
chaplains in New England whose libra
ries are fairly stuffed with volumes sto
len from houses and public institutions
in the South.
A GOOD MOTION.
We notice with pleasure that the
Hon. Win. A. McDougahl, representa
tive from the county of Chattahoochee,
has made a motion lookiug to the speedy
adjournment of the Legislature. We
sincerely trust Mr. McDougnhl’s motion
may find sufficient support in both
houses to insure its successs. We are
not informed as to any new develop
ments that may have originated the
motion. We support it upon its own
merits, and upon the state of affairs so
far developed. The Senate of the Uni
ted States is not going to admit Joshua
Hill to a seat “now.” We use the word
of the report. It is presumable that the
Legislature of Georgia is not going to
reseat the expelled negroes. The Radi
cal party fully understands Georgia,
and the Radical party is thoroughly in
formed as the political situation in this
section. The deadlock which has been
brought about is not likely to be relieved
prior to the incoming of the new ad
ministration. A prolonged session of
the Legislature cannot accomplish good;
it may do a sight of harm, and it will
certainly be grievously expensive. So
far no indications have been given that
would lead the people to expect wise
and beneficent legislation from their
Representatives. In both bodies there
appears to be a difference and wildness
of opinion, an apathy as to questions
that demand immediate and rigorous
handling, and a disposition to manmu
vre and harangue that bide no good to
any concerned. The Legislature does
not appear to have nerve enough to
bring Bullock to the bar and to fetter
his mischievous hands. It seems afraid
to touch upon the removal of the Capi
tal, a measure that recent developments
has rendered imminently necessary to
tho welfare of the State. It seems inca
pable of inaugurating any system of re
trenchment and economy. Members
are clamorous to give money to maimed
soldiers, who are not so badly crippled
hut that they can carry a ballot to the
polls, while they vote in solid phalanx
against giving a pittance to bury the
uucotilued dead, whoso remains strew
the highways and by-ways from Look
out to Atlanta. They are eager to pay
anadveulurous Yankee for certain rifles,
iu violation of the Constitution and
law, but stickle at the price of graves
for the dead of Georgia. They cannot
find ways and means to promote and
encourage the agricultural interests of
the State, but they are anxious toget up
a committee tc go junketing to Wash
ington, at a heavy expense, to be laugh
ed it by the Radicals who will put pun
ishment upon Georgia, if it will pay,
and who will find a way to let her up if
keeping her down threatens danger to
IJadlcalism in any shape or quarter.
The committees’ and clerks’ desks of
both houses are cumbered with bills of
a trifling and useless character, fairly
sprinkled with propositions hurtful in
character. From want of unity of sen
timent, lack of courage, composure or
brains, the Legislature appears to be
incompetent to discharge its duties.
Let it adjourn at once. Let the mem
bers come home. By the time it shall
be proper for them to return, if the
Congress w'ill permit their return, their
constituents may so enlighten and in
struct them, that they may find no trou
Me in discharging, in a wise, speedy
and economical way, the duties they
have been elected to perform. We hopo
Mr. McDougald’s motion may prevail,
and that he will, with his accustomed
energy and firmness of purpose, stick to
it until it does.
Claflin Academy. This is the
name by which the new building, erec
ted by the Government, near the ceme
tery, for freedmen’s schools, has been
designated. The structure will be formal
ly opened next Thursday. Why it is call
ed as it is, we do not know. A current
report has been in circulation for some
days that C. W. Chapman is to bo the
Principal. The building is a handsome
edifice and admirably adapted to school
purposes.
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Week’s Receipts at tub Pouts. —
TlieN. Y. Circular telegraphed. Monday
gives net recoipts of the week 5,815
against 8680 last week. Gross receipts
18,340 against 24,400 last week. Ex
ports to Great Britain 1380 against
4405 last week ; to the continent 635 ;
stock in New York by actual count 61,-
185; against 56,000 last week. Bales of
the week 18,111; receipts of the week at
all United States ports 90,000 against
80,000 last week.
Cotton at Montgomery. —Total re
eeipts from Sept. Ist to Sunday, 34,665
bales; stock 11,183 bales. In receipts
Columbus is about 5,000 bales ahead.
Montgomery last week received 599
bales.
YOL. X.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE,
Friday, Jan. 29, 18G9.
SENATE.
she Senate met this morning pursu
ant to adjournment, and was opened
with prayer by Rev. Mr. Adams.
Roll being called, and a quorum pres
ent, tho Secretary read the journal of
yesterday.
A message yesterday lrom the House
announced that a bill had passed that
body, to appoint a committee to visit
sections where disorder is reported to
prevail, and investigate the same, and
report what proceedings should he in
stituted. Senate concurred.
Mr. Hungerford was appointed from
the Senate.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Mr. Wooten—To authorize agents
and attorneys at law to make oath to
pleas in certain cases. Passed.
Mr. Smith—To designate who are
liable to road duly. Passed.
Mr. Candler—To amend section 3051
of Irwin’s Code. Lost. Also, to regu*
late tees of Cleiks of Superior Courts in
certain cases. Lost. Also, to fix fees
of Ordinaries iu certain cases. Lost.
Also, to fix fees of Sheriffs in certain
cases. Lost. Also, in relation to take
down evidences in certain cases in pho
nography. Passed.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th—To create the
office of State Geologist and define du
ties of the same. Lost.
Mr. Anderson—To protect planters in
the sale of fertilizers. Passed.
Mr. Anderson—To create the office of
State Geologist and 'efine duties of the
same, how elected, and salary. Laid
on the table.
Mr. Speer—To punish parties for re
moving partnership fences. Laid i>n
the table.
nOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To authorize the Ordinary of Stewart
county to draw his warrant on Treasu
ry of said county for fees due officers of
courts; amended, provided they do not
extend beyond June, 1805. Laid on
the table for the present.
A bill creating a State Geologist, de
fining his duties and salary of the same,
Was taken from the table and referred to
Judiciary Committee.
BILLS ON FIItST READING,
Mr. Speer—To amend section 789 of
the Code of Georgia.
Mr. Welch—To amend section 889 of
Irwin’s Code.
Mr. Anderson—To create anew conn
ty from Troup and Harris, called Win
sted.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Speer—That the Committee on
the State of the Republic take into con
sideration the extension of the right of
suffrage to females iu this State.
Mr. Holcombe—That Mrs. Stowe be
sent for to instruct the Committee.
Mr. Hungerford—Anamendmcnttliat
Horace Greeley be requested to come
before the Committee on the State of
the Republic and address them on the
subject of female suffrage.
Mr. Brock thought the right of suf
frage sufficiently extended now. He
spoke very complimentary of the fe
males of the State; thought them abun
dantly intelligent to vote, and compe
tent to act for the best interest of the
State; yet he thought the ladies did not
desire it, nor had the time come to ex
tend the right of suffrage to them.
Discussed by Messrs. Hungerford,
Speer, Adkins and Brock. The resolu
tion was lost.
Mr. Bruton—That a committee of
three bo appointed to inquire and report
what sums of money have been paid by
the Georgia National Bank for interest
on the daily balances of the public mo
ney deposited therein, and if any has
been paid, to whom and for whose ac
count, and if none has been paid,
whether any is to be, and to whom, and
for whose account.
HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING.
To build a branch road from Kingston
to VanWert, to be the exclusive prop
erty of the State. Referred to Commit
tee on Internal Improvements.
To define the duties of Notaries Pub
lic, Justices of the Peace, and for other
purposes. Referred to Judiciary Com
mittee.
To authorize the Governor to make
certain contracts with certain railroads,
relative to convicts in the penitentiary.
Referred to Committee on Internal Im
provements.
To protect the lives of citizens of this
State. Referred to Committee on the
State of the Republic.
To abolish lien judgments in this
State. Referred to Committee on Judi
ciary.
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Tlie House met pursuant to adjourn
ment at 10 A. M.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Cloud.
Mr. Saussey moved to reconsider tlie
bill appropriating money to the State
Agricultural Society. Motion to recon
sider prevailed.
Mr. Flournoy—A resolution discharg
ing at once all pages, guards, assistant
doorkeepers and assistant messengers of
the House.
Mr. Bryant opposed the resolution,
and thought the proper way to retrench
a reduction of the per diem of members.
Rules suspended, previous question
called lor and sustained and the reso
lution adopted.
Mr. Hall, of Glynn—A resolution ap
pointing a committee of three to exam
ine whether it be safe for the Legisla
ture to continue their sessions in the
Operatic Capitol. Rules suspended and
resolution adopted.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
A bill changing the time for holding
the Superior Court in the Southern Ju
dicial Circuit and providing for the
drawing of juries for the same. Passed.
A bill relieving from jury duty forty
members of the Watchful Fire Company
of Outhbert. Passed and transmitted to
the Senate.
Mr. Price —A resolution that the
clerks, who were employed last session
be first sent before the committee ap
pointed to investigate their qualifica
tions for clerical duties.
A bill authorizing the Governor to
draw his warrant on the Treasurer to
the amount of $4,450, to pay for artifi
cial limbs furnished to maimed soldiers.
Passed.
A bill changing section 1045 of Ir
win’s Code. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
A bill making it penal for ow T ners of j
billiard tables and ten pin alleys to al
low minors to play. First reading.
A bill regulating the practice of den
tistry in this State. First reading.
A bill appropriating a fund of ten
thousand dollars for the burial of Con- .
federate dead.
Mr. Hudson moved to strike out ten
thousand dollars and insert twenty-five
hundred. Motion prevailed.
The yeas and nays were called upon
the motion to indefinitely postpone the
bill—yeas 92, nays 19. So the motion
to indefinitely postpone the bill prevail
cd.
The Committee appointed to examine
llie Operatic Capitol reported that they
regarded the building as perfectly safe.
Report taken up and adopted.
Mr. Hudson—A resolution requiring
the Treasurer to pay to the University
of Georgia a sum of money for the edu
cation of indigent and maimed soldiers.
Rules were not suspended.
House adjourned.
Inspector of Fertilizers. Bul
lock has appointed Dr. C. B. Leitneras
Inspector of Fertilizers for the county
of Muscogee. The act authorizing the
appointment is entitled “An act to pro
tect the planters of this State from im
position in the sale of fertilizers.”
What It Brought. —The steam saw
and grist mill, with one and three-quar
ter acres of land, wa3 sold at the Ellises
auction sale yesterday for $1,550. The
property is situated near the Sodthwest
ern depot. It has not been used for
some time.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
s “P r cme Court of
uarTg"’ SS®. TeMd at Atlanta, Jan
i Furnished by N. J. Hammond, Supreme
tourt Reporter, Expressly for the Con
stitution.
John W. Henderson, Plaintiff in error,
vs. Win. P. Merrill, Defendant in
error. Debt from Henry.
Warner, J.—When an application
was made to the County Court for the
establishment of certain copy-notes in
lieu of the alleged lost original notes,
and the copies were established by lire
judgment of the County Court, although
the plea of non estfactum'h&A been filed,
and the defendant, being about to sue
out a writ of certiorari to the Superior
Court, for alleged errors committed on
t he trial in the County Court, the plain
tiff’s counsel entered into a parol ar
gument with the defendant’s counsel,
that if he would not sue out a writ of
certiorari in that case, he, the defendant,
should be allowed to file his plea of non
csl factum, and make his defense when
suit should be brought upon the estab
lished note, in the same manner and to
as full an extent as if no issue had ever
been had, or trial upon the motion to
establish said notes in the County
Court. When suit was instituted upon
the established notes the defendant filed
his plea of non est factum according to
the terms of said argument, and the
plain tiff moved the court to strike out the
defendant’s plea of non est factum on the
ground that the same plea had been filed
and passed upon in the County Court.
The defendent offered to prove the
afforsaid argument, which the Court re
jected : Held, that the argument not
to certiorari the suit from the County
Court, and forbearing to do so, was a
sufficient consideration to support it,
and the plaintiff Laving had the benefit j
of the agreement, it was a fraud upon '
the defendent not to execute it in good
faith, on his part, and that the court
erred in not allowing the defendant to
prove the agreement on the trial of the
ease, though not in writing, it was not
merely a consent between counsel, but
an agrement upon sufficient considera
tion, executed by one of the parties to
it. Good faith and fair dealing require
that the plaintiff -should perform his
part of the agreement, especially as he
lias had the benefit of it.
Judgment reversed.
M. Arnold, Peeples & Stewart for
plaintiff in error.
G. N. Nolan by J. J. Floyd and the
Reporter for the defendant in error.
Julius Kaufman, Plaintiff in error, vs.
Myers & Marcus, Defendants in er
ror. Distress warrant City Court of
Augusta.
Warner, J.—When a distress warrant,
for rent, due in American gold coin,
was taken out and issue made as to the
amount due in accordance with the pro
visions of the 4012th section of the Code:
Held, that it was not error for the Court
below to charge the jury in accordance
with the law as determined by this
Court in that particular case.
Judgment affirmed.
llook & Carr for Plaintiff m error.
Barnes ifc Cunningham, by Linton
Stephens, for Defendant iu error.
Campbell Wallace, Superintendent
Western and Atlantic Railroad, vs.
Mary E. Cannon, Defendant in error.
[Brown, C. J., having been engaged
in this case cause did not preside in the
same here.]
Warner, J.—When upon tbe trial of
an action against a Railroad Company
instituted by an employee of the Com
pany to recover damages for injury
done by tho negligence of another em
ployee of the Company, under the 2057
section of the Code. Held, that if the
Company and the employees of the
Company were voluntarily engaged in
tho transportation of Confederate sol
diers or munitions of war, for the pur
pose of making war against the United
States, at the time of the alleged injury
complained of, such transportation of
soldiers or munitions of war for that
purpose, was an illegal act, in violation
of the Constitution and laws of the
United States, and that the plaintiff is
not entitled to recover.
Upon the trial of the Court below, the
Court charged the Jury in relation to
this point in the case: “If you shall be
lieve from the evidence in this case,
that the deceased was voluntarily en
gaged iu the performance of acts in vio
lation of the Constitution and laws of
the United States, when he was killed,
and from that cause solely, from the
fault or negligence of the said Sylvester,
(Cannon,) at the time he lost liis life,
then the plaintiff is not entitled to re
cover. If the killing resulted solely from
the fault or negligence of the defendant,
or of an employer of the defendant,
then the plaintiff is entitled to recover:
Held, that this charge of tho Court, in
view of the evidence contained in the
record, so far as the same relates to the
illegal acts of the parties, was error.
It being the opinion and judgment of
this Court, that the Court below should
have charged the jury that if they be
lieved from the evidence, that at the
time Cannon was killed by the collision
of the Railroad trains, that the Railroad
Company and the employers of that
Company, (including Cannon, as well
as the other employees whose negligence
caused the injury,) were voluntarily en
gaged in tho transportation of Confede
rate soldiers on the road, for the pur
pose of making war upon the Govern
ment of the United States, then the
plaintiff is not entitled to recover.
Judgment reversed.
P. S. Mynatt, and L. E. Bleckley, for
Plaintiff in error.
S. B. Hoyt, and Robert Baugh, for
the defendant.
A Former Citiissn of Columbus !
Murdered. —From the “Bulletin” we j
learn that Mr. J. M. Dillon, who for a
long time was a resident of our city,was
murdered in Indianola, Texas, on the j
24th of October last. His age was
about forty years. He was born in Clan- ,
well; Ireland. lie was elected Aider- j
man of our city several times, from the
2d Ward, and for a long time was
“Freight Agent,” and for a little while j
acting Treasurer, of the Mobile and
Girard Railroad. Ho left Columbus
alter the war closed. A private letter
states that both parties were in liquor
at, the time of the murder. The follow- ;
ing is the newspaper account of the !
tragedy :
About 11 o’clock on Monday night as
Mr. J. M. Dillon, a clerk in the Reve
nue Department, was sitting on the
porch in front of Cahill’s restaurant, on
Main street, a man named Ducan Barr,
a Scotchman by birth, and who lately
resided at Tres Palacios, in Matagorda
county, came iu and used some offen
sive language which caused Mr. Dillon
to make the remark that no brave man
would carry weapons, or, something to
that effect; upon which Barr tossed his
pistool into the door of the restaurant
threatening any who dread to pick it up
w Uh a chastisement ; upon which Dil
lon picked up the pistol and walked
away with it, Barr following, deman
ding his weapon, when Dillon threw it
into the street; Barr then stabbed Dil
lon in the side, back and arm; the
gashes made were fearful-causing death
almost immediately. The only words
uttered by Mr. Dillon were: Tam
stabbed!” , . _, , .
Barr made his escape; but Captain
Bailey, commander of the post, inline
diately on learning of the murder, took
active steps towards effecting bis cap
ture. He probably took a boat from
the beach,, as one was missing, but
was found next morning at Old Town,
three miles above this. Strenuous
efforts are being made to capture him.
The coroner’s jury found a verdict in
accordance with the facts above stated.
: George W. Woodman, Esq., officiated
as coroner.
Danburv, Feb. 2.—The dams at the
water works broke away, causing a
terrible flood. Five bodies found, and
a number missing. Several bridges
1 swept away.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY" 9, 1869.
* From the Richmond Dispatch.
How to have Disabilities Removed.
The owner of the the original of the
paper published below (picked up in
the street yesterday) can have it on ap
plication at this office. We print it to
show our citizens the form of an appli
cation for relief from political disabili
ties, and how to fill it up. This appli
cation seems to have been passed upon
by all the Republican authorities in Vir
ginia, and now to be ready for the Re
construction Committee:
Bbown County, Virginia, )
January 29, 1869. f
To the Honorable Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States:
Gentlemen—The undetsigned respect
fully prays your honorable bodies to re
lieve him of the disabilities imposed
upon him by the fourteenth article of
the Constitution of the the United States
and the “reconstruction acts” ; and as
in duty bound he will ever pray, &c.
Eli Walsh.
REMARKS.
The following is an accurate statement
of the offices held before the war, the
acts committed in support of the rebel
lion, and the present political status of
the above named:
Was justice of the peace for the third
magisterial district before the war; dur
ing the war was a teamster iu Long
street’s corps, Army Northern Virginia,
and afterwards was fifer iu Benning’s
North Carolina brigade.
Believe the Southern Confederacy
and slavery are both dead; acquiesce
in the results of the war ; would have
voted for Grant had there been an elec
tion in Virginia ; agree to vote with the
Republican party hereafter, and would
like to have my old office as magistrate.
[Endorsed.]
Mr. Walsh is all right.
Pompey Blue (col’d),
Chairman Republican Committee,
Brown county, Va.
[Second Endorsement.]
Rooms Republican State h
Central Committee, >
Richmond, Va., Jan. 23, 1869, J
We recommend Mr. Walsh for a re
moval of Tiia disabilities, being satisfied
that lie will hereafter heartily support
the Republican party and the recon
struction acts of Congress.
L. Edwin Dudley, Ch’n.
Alpeoria Heard From.— The Sa
vaunah Ne\is says, Alpeoria Bradley
has acted wim iy iu putting the largest
possible spaev between himself and Sa
vannah, and v, e advise him to maintain
the same amount of prudence for and
during his natural life. We received
yesterday, under cover of an envelope
postmarked “Boston, January 23,” the
following characteristic communication,
which we publish just as written, not
from auy respect to tho wretch who
wrote it, hut as a judicial aud literary
curiosity and part of the history of these
disjointed times:
State of Georgia ) Tan oqih
Chatham County, j Jan23th 1869.
To the Superior Court of said county,
I pray that your honor will be pleased
to take judicial notice , of the law ami
the fact:—that sections 4250, 4251, and
4252 and the laws of 1866 p 154 p 152 3
are not enforced in the State of Geor
gia: as our new Constitution that gave
them legal existence is not as yet the
organic law of the State : and because
Maj. Gen. G. Mead has by an order,
withdrawn all his orders by which they
were made the provional law of Geor
gia. The Eleventh Article section third
of the State Constitution that makes
Irwin’s Code the law of Georgia, can
not compleat its work until Congress
hasadmited our Senators.
I submit to your honor, the law aud
the facts, that if the Ogechee colored peo
pie are Insurrectioni st it is against the
United States aud not the State of Geor
gia- . _
And again because Sheriff Dooner
did not take tlie Test oath as required
by the reconstruction acts of all officers
acting under provisional laws and there
fore he might be legally resisted as
Sheriff of Chatham county.
If these sections are to be enforced as
legal law: uniter Uiem the Republican
paity of Georgia they can have put to
death, the Editors, owners and news
boys of the Savannah Republican—and
the News and one-half the Printers of
the State: for what they write, print,
aud circulate for the purpose of exciting
resistance against the laws of the United
States. A. Alpeoua Bradley.
Elopenent in High Life- A Brook
lyn Sensation.— The quiet neighbor
hood of Plymouth Church and Brooklyn
Heights was thrown into excitement,
on Saturday, by a genuine sensation—
an elopement in high life. The princi
pals are the wife of a cotton broker in
Broad street, New York, and a son of a
wealthy grain merchant of Chicago.—
The woman was a Baltimore belle, but
made, as it appears, of bad metal.—
About eighteen months ago she w r as
wooed and won, and was married at
her father’s house. The couple boarded
awhile in New Y T ork, but tiring of this
kind of living, they hired a house on
Hicks street, "Brooklyn, where they re
sided very comfortably and happily,
visiting and being visited by friends
from all quarters. Among the visitors
was Mr. Tomlinson, an intimate friend
of the husband, who treated him as a
brother. After repeated call, Tomlin
son found his attachment to his friend’s
wife and his love for her society grow
ing warmer, and, as the sequel showed,
she generously reciprocated. The faith
ful husband doubted not his wife’s fidel
ity nor his friend’s integrity, until he
read the following note left on his table
on Saturday afternoon:
“Saturday Morning.
“Dear Charlie— l must, to day, bid
you good-bye forever. To day I leave
your house, never again to return. I
can not help it. For a long time I have
loved Ja in my heart, and I know he
loves me. When this reaches you I will
be on my way across the sea. Your
once loving Terese.”
The husband at once made inquiries
at several of tbe steamship offices, and
ascertained that his wife and her para
mour had sailed for Europe on the
steamer city of Antwerp. The wife
took with her jewelry valued at about
SIO,OOO and a number of other valuables,
and about $30,000 in money.— N. Y.
Sun.
Important Legal, Decision. —The
case of the State vs. Jane Gresham,
charged with the offense of perjury, was
taken before his Honor, Judge Pope, in
which the State was represented by
lion. William Ezzard and Mr. P. By
ington, and the defense by B. 11.
Thrasher.
In this case, the ground taken by the
defense was t hat the Court before which
said case had been heard, and defend
ant committed, was acting without au
thority of law.
Ist. Because W. M. Butt, Justice ot
the Peace sitting at said trial, was elec
ted under llui old law.
3d. That the adoption of the 14th ar
ticle by the Legislature, vacated all the
civil officers in the State who had been
elected or appointed under the law.
3d. That the new Constitution recog
nizes only one Justice to each district,
and as two were acting in a district,
their acts are void.
His Honor, Judge Pope, held that the
acts of a Justice to holding over, are le
gal until his successor is elected and
qualified. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
A certain little damsel, having been
aggravated beyond endurance by her
big brother, plumped down upon her
knees and cried—“Oh, Lord, bless my
brother Tom. He lies, be steals, he
swears ! All boys do ; us girls don’t. —
Amen.”
Sheriff’s Sale.— Some real estate
estate advertised was sold yesterday at
very low prices. None of it was very
valuable. The sale of the Flewellen
place was postponed.
TELEGRAPHIC.
From Washington.
Washington, Feb. I.—Senate—The
bill referring the claim of the Kentucky
University for damages during the war,
tabled.
Supreme Court delivering opinions.
None affecting the South yet been pro
pounded.
House—A petition of the President,
Professors and students of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons was pre
sented, asking a reorganization of the
Naval and Medical corps.
The following bills were referred:
regulating sales of bonds and bullion;
preventing States collecting illegal im
posts, including taxing railroad passen
gers; making Presdent’s salary $10,000;
paying Lincoln’s widow and children
75,000; giving Greek Government pos
session and title of two monitors, Mi
antonomah and Agawam; renewing
grant lauds to Alabama railroads; con
stitutional amendments affecting Fede
ral and Congressional elections; grant
ing aid to San Disce railroad; construc
tion of Southern Atlantic, Gulf and Pa
cific railroad; relieving political disabil
ities; granting lands to Arkansas for
Mississippi, Washita and Red River
railroad; promoting celerity of postal
service.
The resolution admitting the Domin
ican Republic as territory of the Union,
was tabled by a vote of 100 to 62.
Adjourned.
Senate—More female suffrage peti
tions.
The bill transferring the Indian Bu
reau to the War Department, and other
Indian bills, adopted.
The bill appropriating $50,000 to fill
up the store room for depositing models
in Patent office was discussed.
Conkling moved anew section that
the act shall not take effect until the
15th of April, 1809. He was utterly
opposed to giving any discretion to the
Administration which could, by any
possibility, be avoided without detri
ment to the public service.
The bill was finally passed authorizing
tin- 8. ( ivlary of the Interior to rent a
bui.ding fur si itr a ire, and authorizing
the destrucinn ni ni" ids • > 1.L■ r than 17
years, which have in Urn p Denied.
The Consular appropriaiiiui was dis
cussed.
Adjourned.
The Telegraph bill gives the Ameri
can and Asiatic Company exclusive
right for fourteen years to land cables
on the Pacific coast north of fortieth
parallel, provided they begin laying it
in one year. The Secretary is authorized
to detail ore or more steam vessels
to assist. Tiie Government has priority
in I lie use of l lie telegraph
Tlie Reconstruction Committee named
Paine, Norris and Beck, a Sub-Com
mittee to consider the report on appli
cations for removal of political disa
bilities.
The Supreme Court decided the busi
ness of the Assessor to be to reduce coin
returns'to currency,and a person or com
pany making coin returns is liable to tax
on amount thus reduced, iu currency,
ami ihat such income tax is not a direct
tax, tmt a duty or excise, and as such
is obligatory and valid.
The Supreme Court of the District
felt bound, while obeying maudamus
from the Supreme Court,to pass another
rule effectually excluding Bradley from
bis practice, until he apologises to
Judge Fisher.
Washington, Feb. 2— The Chronicle
has a powerful editorial urging Congress
to restore Col. Blanton Duncan’s prop
erty. The bill was tabled in the House
under its stated misapprehension of
facts. Upon a call of the yeas and nays
there was a tie; three members changed
front, however, and defeated the bill.
It is now revived in the Senate and will
probably pass both houses without diffi
culty. Importance is attached to this
case as indictative of the temper of Con
gress in the matter of restoring confis
cated property.
Supreme Court—Evarts arguing ad
versely to reclamation of certain import
and revenne exactions.
Committee on Foreign Rslations ar
gue against proposed Cable Company
touching American shores without the
previous consent of Congress.
House—A resolution was offered di
recting the Secretary of the Treasury to
withhold bonds from beneficiary rail
roads sufficient to secure the construc
tion of a first-class road.
The Secretary of War was interroga
ted as to whether any district command
er has turned over to civil authorities,
for trial or punishment, any persons
tried and convicted by military tribu
nals.
A bill was reported establishing a
bridge between New York and Brook
lyn. A long discussion ensued, when
finally, with an amendment that the
bridge should not obstruct navigation,
the bill passed.
A message was received from the
President covering the correspondence
regarding the Fenian prisoners held by
England.
Pensions were considered, with an
amendment. No widow, by marriage,
shall forfeit her pension.
Robinson said he would kick any man
into the middle of next week who talked
about treating with England, until im
prisoned Americans were liberated.
The correspondence was refeired to
the committee on foreign affairs.
The Senate amendment to the bill de
claaring offices vacant held by disqual
ified persons was passed, and now goes
to the President. The bill provides for
removal, within thirty days after the
passage, of officers ineligible under the
14th amendment, in Virginia, Missis
sippi and Texas.
Adjourned.
Senate—Judiciary Committee is dis
charged from further consideration of
female suffrage petitions.
Wilson will introduce a conslitutionol
amendment assuring suffrage and offices
to all except rebels
Appropriations discussed at great
length.
Adjourned.
Jos. Segar, a well known Virginian,
is sick of malignant erysipelas.
Bill introduced in the Senate advan
cing the pay of army officers under ma
jor generals, for two years from July,
1868, one-third.
Reconstruction Commiitee considers
Mississippi finally Saturday.
Argument before committee on posta*
telegraph concluded. Report expected
early.
College buildings at Adrian, Mich.,
destroyed.
Among the visitors at the President’s
to night are Messrs. Myers Cohen,
Jones and Gibbes Gardner, and W. J.
Brenner, of Augusta, Ga.
For the Sun and Times.
Tbe .Slave of the Dismal Scamp;
As reported in -V. Y. World.
Under a rattling whirligig,
Which a Yankee had taught to spin,
A maiden sat, with bosom flat,
And fingers long and thin;
And she was the slave of a dismal scamp,
A man with a soul of tin.
And hor’s was a chest like a coffin lid,
And cheeks like the church-yard clay,
Aud pulses that feel like the click of steel
Picking a life away.
Daily dying and toiling still,
For the dismal scamp in his dinual mill,
Under the shadow of Bunker Hill—
What does she sing or say I
“Oh! why are my eyes so large and bright,
And my fingers so long and thin 1”
“The better, my dear, for the spindles' flight,
The faster, my love, to spin”—
Spoke the maiden whose lungs wore lint,
And the man with the soul of—tin.
Would God that my skin were not so white.
And my brain of a lesser size!
And would that my hair were kinked so tight
That I couldn’t shut my eyes!
And oh! for an hour in the sunny fields,
Where the snowAs-liitc cotton grows;
For the heaviest, hardest task that yields
Free breath and sweet repose!
For a night that never knew a lamp,
And a day that has a close!
Sung to the rattle and roar and tramp,
In tho heart of a merciless mill,
Under the light of a dismal lamp,
And tho shadow ol Dunkor Hill.
Poets of doodledom! true and sweet,
What sensitive plants ye are,
Ready to faint at a cry from Crete,
Or Borioboola-Gha!
Ye have rhymed the slavo from his happy cave
And bloodhound in the swamp;
Givo us a stave for the maiden slavo
With the black woli’s bite and her living grave
In the den of the dismal scamp. T.
Dirty Shirts.
A Loving Epistle from an Indiana Stale
Senator to the Wife of his Bosom.
Tbe editor of the Indianapolis Mirror
snatches from oblivion the following
epistolary gem from a potent, grave,
&c., Senator to his wife, which was
picked up iu the streets of Indianapolis:
Senate Chamber,
Thursday Night, 14.
Dear Lotta— l just received your
letter of Sabbath this evening. Owing
to mistakes at the P. O. it had been
misplaced. Why did you not direct
your letter as I told you ? and why in
the devil did you not do as I told you
in regard to the baggage ? Now you
have gone and sent my things down
here, how in the bell do I know where
to find them? Y'ou just say, “Your
shirts will be in a box.” Now ain’t
that very diffinite information ? Where
did you send them, and how ? If you
wanted to depart from my instructions,
why did you not write to me at the same
time you sent the things, and how?
That is all I have to say on that sub
ject, and may be I will get tbe shirts,
aud may be not. If it will do you any
good, I will just tell you that I had no
clean shirt, and don’t intend to have
until I get one from home.
How do you suppose I am to know
what to expect it you don’t do as I tell
you ?
I am very sorry to hear that little
Louie is not well, but I hope she is bet
ter by this time. I shall feel very unea
sy until I hear from you again. I want
you to write to me right away again,
and tell me everything. Y'ou did not
say who had been staying with you.
Where did you sleep when yon stayed
down home.
Give best respects to all the folks
and write to me soou.
Yours, .
£. A. Pollard and Collector Mmytlie.
Richmond, Va., Wednesday )
Jan. 27, 1869. f
E. A. Pollard, in a published letter
to-day, says tho statements made by
Collector Bmythe to tbe Committee on
Retrenchment, in relation to his con
nection with tbe New York Custom
house, are utterly false. First, tbe Col
lector’s allegation that the name E. M.
Pollard missed him as to the character
of the individual, Pollard calls a paltry
falsehood, Smytlie being intimately ac
quainted with him and family, and the
mistake in the initial letters of his name
in the appointment was corrected by
direction of Smytlie. Second, as to the
oath taken, Pollard hesitated only at the
phrase “Support to the enemies of the
United States,” which Smythe’s Sec
retary explained did not incapacitate
him more than it did Wood or Valand
ingham. Third, Pollard states that, in
stead of removing him, the Collector
induced him to resign, on the distinet
agreement that he, Pollard, might con
tinue to draw bis salary, assigning as a
reason that bis appointment seriously
embarrassed Smythe’s confirmation as
Minister to Russia. The plan agreed
upon, that Pollard should send in his
resignation at tho request of Sinythe,
was at ouce carried into effect, but Pol
lard has not received any salary beyond
themonth of December, in the latter part
of which he resigned. He concludes
his letter by accusing Smythe of decep
tion and of commencing his diplomat
ic career by diplomatizing him out of
his situation, which was procured
through tho influence of powerful
friends.
An Important Bill—Tlae B«jnoval of
Disabilities.
Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, one of the
“truly loyal” members ot Congress
from that State, introduced a few days
ago, in the House of Representatives, a
bill to regulate the manner of applying
to Congress for the removal of political
disabilities imposed by the third section
of the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment. Its provisions, in brief, are that
all applications to Congress for removal
of political disabilities shall be by peti
tion; containing a statement of the na
ture of applicant’s participation in re
bellion; what offices requiring constitu
tional oath he has held; the grounds
upon which he rests his petition, and
an oath or affirmation of the applicant
that he will at all times support and
bear allegiance to the Government of
the United States. The bill further
provides that the petition shall be sworn
to by the petitioner and filed in the of
fice of the Attorney General, and by the
latter with the Clerk of the House of
Representatives, and that the Attorney
General shall also file with the Clerk all
evidence relating to the merits of the
application, and that he shall give no
tice by publication of his application;
that all United States commissioners
shall take and forward to the Attorney
General any affidavit which any citizens
may desire to make showing cause
against granting the petition, and show
ing whether the applicant has, since
April 9, 1865, committed or couunten
anced any violence or threats against
any citizen on account of political opin
ions or loyalty; that the falsely taking
of any oath contemplated by the act
shall tie punishable ft« perjury; and I hat.
the petitioner shall have access l<> all
affidavits, amt be entitled to lite any lie
may desire.
Should Ibis extraordinary Shellabar
ger bill become a law, there will not be
many petitions filed praying for the re
moval of disabilities from the so-called
Southern rebels, upon whom they are
now imposed. Nearly all of them will
be content to wear the shackles that
now bind them, and will not eat the
dirt which Mr. Shellabarger, it seem3,
invites them to do. They will wear
their disabilities rather to the end ot
time, for, in so doing, they will preserve
their self respect and honor. —Atlanta
Intel.
Swine not Safe in Ohio. —A Cin
cinnati paper says a negro was found
dead in Ohio recently on one side of a
fence and the stolen carcass of a hog on
the other side, hung by a gambrel stick
across the negro’s neck. It is supposed
the darkey got hung in climbing the
fence with the hog slung to him in this
fashion So it appears our neighbors
in Ohio are realizing the sweets of ne
gro liberty.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 3.
A Cobbler Puts a Gentleman in
Jail. —We learn from the Montgomery
papers that Col. HodgesoD, editor of the
Montgomery Mail, also a practicing at
torney of the Montgomery bar, has
been imprisoned by one J. Q. Smith, a
cobbler, whom Radical reconstruction
has elevated to the bench of that Cir
cuit. Col. Hodgeson refused to serve as a
juror, pleading his professional privi
lege in bar. The cobbler decided that
he had not paid the internal revenue tax
on lawyers, and was therefore bound to
serve.
That Faithful Colored Gemman—
We copied a short time ago, an extract
from a letter from Gen. Breckinridge to
a gentleman in this city, in which the
General paid a very high compliment to
a faithful servant that accompanied him
out of the country, and was returned
back, for his patriotism in declining to
become a candidate for the Constitu
tional Convention in Arkansas. It would
appear from tho following, which wo
copy from the Memphis Appeal, that a
material change has come over Thomas.
The Appeal says:
Iu our issue of yesterday we published
(copied from an exchange) an extract
of a letter from Gen. John C. Breckin
ridge, in which that distinguished gen
tleman mentioned, in very high terms,
a former servant, Tom Ferguson—
among other things credited him with
having refused to join the Radical Con
vention of Arkansas. We regret on
account of Gen. Breckinridge that. Tom
has proven himself anything but enti
tied to his confidence. Tom is not only
at the head of the Loyal League of La
conia, Arkansas, but one of tbe most
desperate and unmitigated villains in
the State overrun by villains. He has
headed every devilment of which the
Radical ruffians of that place could bo
guilty, and originated special occasions
of outrage, robbery and wrong. Tom
is a living proof that there is no “trust
ing a nigger.”
Niggers in the Gallery.— The
Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinuati Commercial, gives the following
account of the reason why negroes con
gregate in the galleries of the Legisla
tive Halls :
I was greatly amused at what one of
door keepers of the gallery said to ino
not long since. I remarked to him that
the colored people were not so fond
of attending the debates of Congress as
they were formerly.
“Tbe weather is toofluo,”ho respond
ed, senientiously.
“Why, what has the weather to do
with it ?” I asked.
“Every thing. When it is cold and
unconfortable and no warm side of a
wail to be had, they flock here, for they
have comfortable seats and a warm
place -wilitout paying for it. You come
here some bitter, cold, inclement day,
and see how crowded the galleries will
be with our colored friends. They will
sit and sleep aud snore here all day,like
black snakes in tbe sun of spring.”
Poor creatures. lam glad the galle
ries can be made so useful—lodgings for
improvident negroes.
After Horses and Mules.— Slock
about this time is not the cheapest thing
in the world and thieves have long since
discovered it. Farmers had better keep
a good watch on their horses and mules.
If not they can be easily stolen and dis
posed of. Sunday night a horse and mule
was taken from a poor man. It was all
he owned and he had intended to com
mence ploughing the next morning. It
was thought the rogues took refuge in
Alabama. If they will steal all a poor
man has, watch out, ye who have a
number of animals.
for the sun.
Tlie Study ol Physiology iu our
Schools.
Mr. Editor— -I have been much im
pressed of late with the idea that suita
ble text books on Anatomy, Physiology
and Hygiene, should be introduced into
all our schools.
As health requires an observance of
all the laws pertaining to our physical
being, not only boys, but girls should
be taught a knowledge of the structure
of the body, the functions of its differ
ent members, and also a knowledge of
whatever is best to preserve it in a con
dition of most healthful activity. And
all these things but especially the con
ditions upon which health and disease
depend, should be taught to children
from an early age almost as soon as they
can read and write, and then continual
ly as they advance to higher grades.
There is no study which they will find
as deeply interesting, and certainly none
so universally useful and of such practi
cal importance.
Let us suppose that our youth of both
sexes were thus constantly taught—first,
the structure of their different organs,
each so fearfully and so wonderfully
made; then the use of each—its own pe
culiar work, and its relation to others ;
last, the principles of health, and not
such general principles only as all of us
hear more or less of, but such particular
rules in reference to each part and organ
as a true knowledge in regard to it may
dictate. Suppose that in addition, the
young were taught such things as the
appropriate treatment for burns, woundß
and hemorrhage—the management of
persons asphyxiated from drowning or
strangling, and were given directions
for nurses and watches as to the case of
tho sick aud the avoidance of contagion
—and generally as far as possible what
should be done and what should not be
done until a physician can be called.
Suppose, we say, such knowledge regu
larly given the young, and who can es
timate the benefits that would accrue to
them and to succeding generations.
Having made some inquiries as to the
study of physiology in the schools of
our own city, we are sorry to say that
it is almost altogether neglected. In
public schools, the trustees and super
intendent who are doing such a noble
work, and one for which our citizens
can never be sufficiently grateful, have
not as yet directed their attention to this
subject, and have not introduced into
the grades of instruction any text books
on these subjects. Much to their cred
it, they have recently erected an excel
lent gymnastic apparatus for the schools,
but cannot they go farther ? Cannot
they have these hundreds of boys and
girls taught about their bodies, and how
to take such care of them that they shall
grow up to nobler specimens of man
hood and of womanhood ? And in our
private schools, as excellent as they are
now, may we not hope the same amend -
rnont will he made ?
But we trespass on the time and pa
tience oli-ur readers. We meant to speak
of the particular necessity that young
girls should be taught as tax as may be,
in what pertains to the peculiar organ
ism of their sox, and of the terrible dis
ease and suffering that thus might be
averted. And also to allude to the as
sistance that all physical wellbeing gives
to intellectual , moral , and to even spirit
ual progress, but we must forbear. Wo
only hope that these few thoughts may
not be without use. G. W. C.
Jan. 30th, 1869.
It is said that when last seen Gilles
pie, who killed Nancy Johnson, waßon
board a vessel, at Savannah, bound for
New York.— Col. Sun.
Gillespie was in Montgomery, say our
detectives. As for Blake, who was
charged with having allowed Gillespie
to escape, he was kept in jail four days.
The Columbus authorities were tele
graphed repeatedly, and still he was not
demanded from our anthorlties. Who
is to blame, or was the man innocent 1
—Ala, State Jaur.
NO. 48.
Speol&l of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
THE BUSTEED CASE.
The sub-Commillee on Judiciary in
charge of the case against Judge Bus
teed are very close mouthed and it Is
difficult to obtain information of the
progress of the investigation. There
are hints, however, that the decision of
the committee will be substantially that
he is weak and incompetent and unfit
for the position, but that the charges of
corruption are not established.
MENARD.
It is now evident that Menard, the
colored member elect from New Or
leans, will not get a seat iu tho present
Congress, beside the doubts being pro
bably resolved iu favor of tbe rights of
Jones, contestant, of the late sitting
member, Mann.
It appears that tbe committee does
not regard tbe argument of Menard as
at all conclusive as to his own right to
a seat, so that the advent of a colored
member upon the floor of the House
must be left to a future Congress, if
ever.
GEORGIA.
Representative Paine’s proposition to
inquire into the election of members ot
Congress from Georgia, to ascertain
what, action is necessary before admit
ting Geoegia Representatives, was un
der consideration by the Reconstruction
Committee to day, aud a pretty sharp
debate was said to have taken place
upon tho subject. It is understood that
tbe committee maintain that inasmuch
as tbe Senate Judiciary Committee re
ported against admitting the represent
atives in that body, they should be ex
cluded from representation in the House
until the State shall carry in good faith
tbe Reconstruction acts of Congress.
A Non Reducing Market.— There
are now in Columbus over 17,000 bales
of cotton. It is nearly 3,000 more than
was here at the corresponding date last
season. The market is a decidedly not
lallable one. Lot cotton advance a
farthing in Liverpool, and prices here
jump up two cents. Let there be a cor
responding decline abroad, and holders
are firm as grim death. They intend to
see the end of this season as owners of
cotton. No one can bo found who is
very impatient or exceedingly appre
hensive. Everybody who has any
thing to do with cotton in this section
is running an independent line, but just
about this time the connections do not
come to time.
A Confederate KemiiilHceuce.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times has givefi the public
some revelations concerning tbe attempt
to remove General Grant from the com
mand of the Federal Army during the
Mississippi campaign, and of a curious
correspondence between Generals Hal
leek and Banks pertaining to this point.
It appears, according to the Times’
narrative, that Halleck had become die
pleased with Grant after the battle of
Shiloh, and had sought his removal,
offering the position to a Quartermaster
by the name of Robert Allen, but had
failed. Iu the Fall of 1862, the attempt
was renewed by influences brought to
bear on Lincoln in favor of General Me
demand, who had been bold enough
to declare that “he was tired furnishing
brains for the Array of Tennessee.”
But this intrigue only resulted in as
signing McOlernaud to an independent
command. After the failure of the sec
ond assault on Vicksburg, a positive
order was sent to General iiauKs men
investing Port Hudson, to displace
Grant and assume the command of the
army and operations at Vicksburg.—
This drew forth an expostulation fiorn
Banks against the policy of abandoning
his position as tbe key of the Lower
Mississippi. This expostulation drew
forth a renewal of the command accom
panied by a sharp reprimand lor pro
vious disobedience of orders. The cor
respondenco and intrigues were closed
by the fall of Vicksburg. This corres
pondence, it is promised, will be pub
imbed to tbe world. Grant has come to
the knowledge of it, and Stanton, tired
of official honors, has announced his
determination to retire from public life.
The revelations recall an incident re
lated to the writer by the late Coufed
erate General, W. H. T. Walker.—
About the time of the second assault
on Vicksburg, a scout, attached, we
believe, to Wirt Adams’ command,
having duly reported, paid an evening
visit to some army acquaintances.—
Seated in a small circle of subalterns
around a camp fire of course, he was
the centre of attraction. Many inci
dents of adventures were told, and
items concerning tho news from the
United States, aud of operations of the
“Yanks” wero related. Among other
things he stated that a plan had been
proposed for creating a negro insurrec
tion, with a simultaneous co operative
movement of the Federal army, but
that Gen. Grant had refused to join in
carrying it out, saying that he would
march his army back uutil the negro
fighting was over ; ttiat that was not
his mode of warfare ; that this refusal
had occasioned great ill feeling toward
the Federal commander ; that his re
inoval was looked for; that Gen. Me
demand had come from Washington
with an order in his pocket from Lin
coln to assume command, which he had
presented to Grant ; but that Grant had
thrown the order into tbe fire, and told
tbe General that his Division would
move next morning at three o'clock, and
advised him to go with it.
It would be strange if subsequeno
historical developments should prov
tbe exactness and faithfulness of a Con
ferate scout. — Chronicle and Sentinel.
Exit of Messrs. Breckinridge and
Benjamin from tiie Oonfederacv.—
There are a few facts connected with
the escape of General Breckinridge and
Mr. Benjamin from the Confederacy
which are perhaps not generally known.
After the surrender of General Lee’s
army, both General Breckinridge and
Mr. Benjamin made their wuy to Flori
da. General B. struck the State near
Monticello, where he found friends who
assisted him in getting to Marion coun
ty from whence he hoped to find an op
portunity to get out of the country.
General Breckinridge spent a number
of days in hunting and visiting with his
friends in Marion, but knowing that he
could not remain there long bis friends
procured a small metallic boat, in which
he and his companions. Colonel Wilson
and Captain, Wood, and the General’s
faithful servant, soon found themselves
ascending the St. John’s river. The
party, after much toil, reached New
Smyrna, where they found a schooner
which carried them safely to Nassau, N
P. The General was known as Colonel
Cabel.
Mr. Benjamin also struck Florida
near Monticello, where he met friends
who assisted him on to the vicinity of
this place. Here Mr. Benjamin hoped
to find some way to Cuba, or one of the
Bahama Islands; but there was a strict
watch kept by the United States troops
stationed here, and thero were but a
few boats left on the coast. But Mr.
Benjamin finally procured a small boat
at Manatee, upon which the ex-U. S.
Senator and ex-C. 8. Secretary of State
embarked as cook, and in a few days
found himself under the protecting folds
of the British flag. Mr. Benjamin pass
ed himself off as a land hunter, named
Howard. There is quite an amusing
little anecdote connected with Mr. Ben
jamin during his stay with a friend of
ours, in this vicinity, but we refrain
from making it public.— Florida Penin
sular.
Contracts for the Hire of Laborers, a
neat printed form, for sale at
SUN OFFICE.
■Sfeol&l to tho Louisville Courier-Journal/
A ®a**s In Arkansas.
Little Rock, Jan. 25,1869.
Since the first of the year two officials
—one an aid of Gen. Grant and the oth
er an agent of the Government—have
visited the capital of Arkansas. They
were both guests of Gov. Clayton. No
one else was consulted, no one else was
visited ; and their “reports” were made
up exclusively from the Radical side of
tho question of peace or war, law or
order, which now distracts the State.
Before I write another line let me say
that my object is not partisan. I served
with Governor Clayton during tho war,
I was born in Massachusetts; I was
educated at Harvard; and I am now
and have always been a Republican. I
voted for Fremont iu 1856, for Lincoln
in 1860 aud 1864, and for Grant last
November. My purpose is to give a
fair notion of the condition of thiDgs in
Arkansas. That condition is terrible.
Nothing like it exists this sido of the
Cretan Islands. Common, every day
events remind one of the reign ot War
ren Hasting in India, or ol Mustapha
Asaph iu Greece.
Ever since Aaron Burr failed, and
Sam Houston succeeded in erecting a
sort of one horse empire on this side of
the Mississippi river, tbe idea has pre
dominated in the minds of the many en
terprising and ambitious leaders who
have, from time to time, held an ascend
ant in Arkansas and Texan affairs.—
You will readily conceive how natural
it is (hat such should be the case when
you consider the geographical situation
of the country aud the character of its
inhabitants. A great expanse of land,
almost a terre incognita, stretches out
from the borders of a water oourse that
has the nature of an inland sea, and Is
as complete a barrier separating iwo ad
jacent countries as the British channel
which separates the rival coasts of
Franco and Britain. The population of
tho region fartherest from the center of
civilization aud government is hetero
geneous and scattered. The Indian,
the pioneer or the pioneer’s descendant,
the adventurer, the honest tiller of the
soil, the wild hunter of the forest, the
vagrant, abound and have not always
lived on the best ol terms, perhaps could
not. Hence the old combustible char
acter of the times, which invited the
daring and tho ambition of partisans.
The Johnson family was for years an
autocracy. Then the star of Tom Hind
man rose to set forever iu blood. The
war increased the muddle ; and carpet
baggery and scalawaggery, negrophobia
and aborigiuism have perfected It under
the guidance of the present distator,
Clayton. He has Hindman’s courage
and audacity and genius ; .is a man with
out feeling, but aclivo and plausible;
and ho contemplates the erection of a
trans Mississippi empire in which he
shall be, of course, the sovereign spirit.
His ideas are simple and direct. He
was a Kansas jayhawker; and he has
faith in tho John Brown, principles of
war and politics. During the rebellion
he commanded a brigade of tho best
cavalry in tbe Union service, aud com
manded with vigor. After the peace ho
tried conservatism; found it uusuited to
his purpose; plunged into radicalism
and now openly declares his intention to
depopulate the State and to ropeople it
with loyal negroes.
This is the foundation of his militia.
This is the business as it is the basis of
his administration; and he calculates
with certainty that, so long as he is able
to keep Aakausas iu a disturbed condi
tion, bo is safe. Tranquility would be
fatal to his plan. The distance between
him and Washington ; the friendliness
of the Government; the ease with which
his acts may be concealed and the acts
of the people misrepresented, make him
bold and careless. He knows his game,
lie has studied the ground. And he
will not fail. Indeed, I sue no help for
Arkansas. Nothing this side of a dis
organization and reorganization of soci
ety will suffice, aud this can only be tlie
work of years. The quiet people will
move away. New comers will fight
and finally conquer a peace, not for
themselves, but for their children.
Ultimately carpet baggers will become
respectable. Ultimately the negro will
go to the wall. But for tho present tho
State is doomed; and Clayton is its exe
cutioner.
Old party differences have nothing to
do with tho matter. The term "rebel”
is used only as a pretext. One of Gov.
Clayton’s most trusty agents is a rebel
bushwhacker whom I captured and tried
by drum-head court martial in 1804.
He escaped my halter to becomo tho
surer prey ot my superior officer, whose
confidential friend he is now and has
been for twelve months. Tho very
meanest cut throat in all the militia was
a private in Terry’s body guard and af
terward a scout lor Wharton and fLirii
son. One of John Brown’s cronies,
who went from New Hampshire in 1857
with a Shaape’s rifle, served faithfully
through the war as a Union soldier, and
has since settled down with a wife on a
farm, was recently murdered by a ne
gro militia captain, who had been an
ostler for Kirby Smith and who killed,
as he says, "many and many a Yan
kee.”
These are facts and 1 give them for
what they are worth. Ido not say tho
people are unoffending. They resist as
desperate men only can resist. But if
they did not, it would be all the same.
Clayton’s policy is extermination.—
Nothing cau divert him. He is not a
milk-sop, but a man of genius; and the
Held is fruitful. All he has to do is to
pass his scythe over the land and reap a
full harvest of blood, which is the ce
ment of his power. I should also add
that he is personally intimate with Gen
Grant and all of Gen. Grant's military
family, particularly with General Ba
deau and Rawlins. Indeed I have heard
(though of this I cannot be sure) that
he is a kinsman of Mrs. Grant.
From these circumstances you can
judge how much chance there is for
peuce in Arkansas. You can judge
how much chanco there is for justice
from Washington. You can judge how
much there is to fear, how little to hope,
until the brushwood incident to the sii
nation has been burned away, and the
country cleared for honest, useful, so
cure, well directed and profitable labor.
Now it is the theater for the unrest iict
ed play of corrupt passions. With this
plain statement, let tue sign ni} s If,
what 1 really am,
A Fair Minded Cahpet-Baocikii
A Colored Sister Goes Back on a
WniTE Brother. The New Y.rk
Times says:
Mr. James W. Coates, residing in
104th street, brought borne a libei. .1
slave girl named Lavina Browns
years ago from ft relative’s planu mi
near Augusta, Ga., and she haß >iuce
continued in bis family ns a dom it
A few days ago Mrs. Coates had <. on
sion to chastise Lavina, who is l« ve
yearßof age, for some trifling off -••,
and nothing more was thought t I he
matter. Since then the refuse dm',
which had been scattered ovei : tic
strawberry bed in the garden to pi cl
it from the frost, was found 'oh< ■ • fire,
though the Barnes were i .dily • niu
guished. Incendiary fires in. v- also
been discovered and extinguish and under
the stoop of Mr. Coate's dwelii in
an outhouse, and once in the stab...—
Suspicion at length fell on Lavina, and
yesterday Mr. Coates concealed him
in the stable for the purpose of inv ibt i
gating the truth of these suspicions. -
He had not long been concealed b fore
the girl entered the stable, ligb' I a
match and was about to throw it in itiu
loose hay in the mow, when Mr. C*mtes
caught her band and prevented the
crime being committed. Lavina was
subsequently "arraigned before Chi. t
Clerk Sheldon, in the Fire Marshal’s of
flee, who suggested that she betaken lie
fore’ Justice Kelly, at the Yorkville
Court. This being done, the magis
trate committed the girl to the House
of Correction, as she evidently ;had not
realized the nature of the crime she bad
so persistently attempted.
How TO Kill a Town. -A late num
ber of the Dubuque Herald has the
following excellent suggestions.
If you wish to kill off a town, put up
no more buildings than you are obliged
to occupy yourself. If yon should ar
cidentally havo an empty building, and
any one should want to rent it, ask
about three times its actual value. Look
at every new comer with a scowl.
Turn a cold shoulder to every business
man and mechanic who seeks a home
among you. Go abroad for wares
rather than purchase of your own mer
chants and manufacturers at the sanio
prices. Refuse to advertise, so tnat
persons at a distance will not n w
that any business is being done in your
city. A prompt and close observance
of these roles will ruin any town In two
years.