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TUESDAY MORNING, HOV. 2 H.
Superior Court Yesterday.— The
Court met at 10 a. m. Judge James
Johnson presiding. Ilia favorite terrier,
Fannie, also took an interest in the
proceedings, for she mounted a chair
on the stand in rear of that occupied by
her owner, and gently alept during the
morning.
It was with difficulty juries could be
gotten. The Ist panel of the Petit Jury
consists of the following : Wni, Redd,
Jr., J. 8. Clark, John G. Cook, J.
Uuuby Jordan, Jamea Broadnax, 11. P.
Fortaon, A. C. Flewellen, John W.
Parsons, P. J. Puilips, E. P. da Graf
fenreid, W. C. Hammock, John Alli
son.
Bailiff, Solomon Bray. The above
were sworn.
On the Grand Jury the following
have been selected thus far: W. B.
Cooper, James Eunis, John J. David,
T. F. Ridenhour, W. C. Gray, Joseph
Huff, Wm. Burns, John Osborn, W. R.
Banks, W. R. Moore, J. L. Biggers, W.
B. Wise, Patrick, D. F. Wilcox,
C. Talialcrro, O. C. Harrell—l 6.
The Judge told the Sheriff he wanted
law abiding men on the Grand Jury,
not law breakers. The Grand Jury will
be organized this morning and the
charge delivered.
The Judge commenced calling the
equity docket. As several leading law
yers are away attending the U. S. Court
at Savannah, and Messrs. Smith and
Pou are members of the Legislature,
and all had been granted leaves of
absence, the docket was quickly called.
No case tried. Orders were taken to
perfect service by publication In seven
divorce caßes. Only one was tried. The
parteß were colored. Adultery was
alleged and proven, but as it appeared
the husband had pardoned the offense—
condoned the law calls it—after knowl
edge, the jury, under instructions from
the Court, found for the defendant.
One decree granted by consent —
Almand vs. Almand.
It is very probable the session will
not continue longer than two weeks.
On the criminal docket are three murder
cases.
Murder at Chattahoochee.— We
learn from the boats and the Flori
da papers that Roberts, one of the
guards at the Stale Penitentiary at
Chattahoochee, Florida, killed W. L.
Kyle, a turnkey of the institution.
They had quarreled about a tablo, and
Roberts had threatened Kyle. About
4 p. m., on the 17th, Roberts went to
the door of tho barracks and stood thore
until Kyle camo out to open the gate,
when he took aim at him with a rifle
and fired. The ball struck Kyle about
an inch and a half to the left of the
spine, near the hip, passed through the
body, coming out at the right groin,
and struck tho ground. Kyle ran a
few steps and fell. Roberts put down
his rifle, then got over tho wail and es
caped. Col. Martin, immediately sent
a party in pursuit, with orders io Dring
him back dead or alive, and he was
captured in the swamp. Kyle died
about six o’clock. Roberts was exam
ined before a Justice of the Peace, and
claimed that he shot Kyle by mistaks,
not knowing that the gun was loaded.
Roberts was committed to the Quincy
jail. __ a __
Hon. J. M. Smith. —This gentleman
has a very strong chance of being nomi
nated as Governor for tho unexpired
portion of Bullock’s term. The Atlanta
delegates have declared in his favor,
and Fulton Is joined by several coun
ties in Southwestern Georgia. Every
county in this portion of the State will
go for him on masse. Each county
can instruct the Representatives in the
Legislature to act as her delegates in
the convention. Where counties are
not on the line of railroads this is by far
the best policy. The selection should
have been left to the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature, as they are fresh
from the people and know the wishes of
their constituents.
Chas. A. Peabody, Esq , has presen
ted us with a box of home made Lati"
ake tobacco. The seed of this tobac
co was brought from Persia by the cel
ebrated writer and traveller, Bayard
Taylor. In the December number of the
Southern Cultivator, a treatise on the
cure and manufacture of this tobacco
by Mr. Peabody, may be found. One
or two puffs set the German side of us
laughing all over, and made us feel as
big as Sir Walter Raleigh did when he
first tasted the weed on Roanoke Is
land, off North Carolina.
Alabama and Chattanooga Rail
road Reopened.— -This road, so long a
bone of contention between Stanton
and his creditors, has been reopened,
says the Atlanta Sun.
Col. W. W. White, of Marietta, has
been made its Superintendent. With
his great ability as a railroad man,
coupled with his energy, we may soon
expect him to nave the through mail to
New Orleans, as well as travel. We
learn that Col. White will make the time
from Chattanooga to New Orleans
twelve hours quicker than any compet
ing line from Chattanooga.
Hoksk Recovered.— Capt. H. C.
Mitchell, of Russell county, had a good
horse stolen from him two weeks ago.
The animal was captured several days
past in the vicinity of Eufaula. He had
been traded for half price. The thief
narrowly escaped with his life. He is
well known and may be captured yet.
Horse stealing is very common now.
The rascals who perpetrate should In.
followed ano receive summary punish
meut Frequent cap'ures ot such
scoundrels will deter others and perhaps
slop the busiuess.
Encouraging to Southern Manu
facturers.—One of the largest stock
jobbers in Hew York and one also in
l’hiladelphia have stated that, while
only a few years ago not one-fifth of
the brown cottons they sold were
Southern goods, this year four fifths ol
all the heavy goods they sold were of
Southern manufacture. This should
encourage all Columbus men.
Senatorial Di:trict Court —This
court, Judge Butts presiding, met yes
terday morning at the Court House.
The roll of juries was called and the
court adjourned to the regular term
next month.
Judge Busteed has decided that Rail
road Companies are responsible for
carrying whisky barrels with the reve
nue stamps uncanceled. It is their
business to know it.
YOL. XIII.
Courier-Journal and Mr. Stephens.
The Louisville Courier-Journal,
Memphis Avalanche, Montgomery Ad
vertiser and “sich like,” cause or no
cause, provoked or not provoked, nev
er miss an opportunity to make a lick
at Mr. Stephens. The philosophy of
this hatred may be explained on two
common elements of human nature—
first, envy of superiors and second nev
er to forgive those we have injured. If
Mr. Btephens had returned railing for
railing and had answered their person
al reproaches in defence of a political
humbug by law attempts at wit and rid
cule, instead of calm argument and
truth, the cause ceasing, the effect
would have ceased, but the agency of
Mr. B. in the overthrow of their new
departure still rankles in their bosoms
and finds expressions in their ink just
as the ocean heaves and swells under a
sunny sky days after the spirit of the
storm has fled defeated from the con
flict.
lu its issue of the 24the, speaking of
the late fraudulent amendments, the
Courier-Journal uses this language:
But every intelligent man in the
country knows well enough that the
question has been disposed of, and that,
as far as it is concerned, there is not
the smallest danger of a reaction.—
Even Mr. Stephens’ batteries are si
lenced; and, dead or alive, the gist and
marrow of the “new departure,” the
settlement of the status of the blacks on
the basis of universal suffrage, have
become a part of the platform of every
faction of every party that is or may
be.
The Journal then adds:
Once restored to possession of the
National Administration there is not
the smallest doubt that the Democratic
party, chastened by disasters and taught
by experience, would march to the mu
sic of the Union as it marched when it
waß, indeed, the party of all progress.
Now we answer that every intelli
gent man knows the contrary of which
the Journal asserts; that Mr. Stephens’
batteries are not silenced except on the
principle that he considers it a waste of
ammunition to shoot into the dead-kill
ing them twice—and that ‘‘no music of
the Union” will ever be heard so long
as self-called Democrats like the Couri
er-Journal, are willingly consenting to
sacrifice truth and principle to policy
and power and destroy the very soul
which gives harmony to that music.
Whenever the people of theUnitedStates
are prepared to surrender all opposition
to fraud and force, then as captives and
slaves we will sit down and weep un
like bearded men, by the waters of a
political Babylon and hang our harps
forever on the willows. Our tears may
flow fast as medicinal gum from Arabi
an trees, but we will still remain the
Niobe of nations, holding in our with
ered hand the ashes of a dead people
and a shattered Constitution. When
the Democracy become so demoralized
as to shake hands with the authors of
our ruin, and the destroyers of our
States, then the Goths and Vandals
from the frozen loins of the North, will
have already stormed the citadel of our
liberties and we only await some Ctesar
to be clothed in the imperial purple.
The Courier-Journal further says:
We are not more interested in going
to the cunanrvativo Republicans than
they are interested in coming to us.
The‘‘new departure,” whose proposi
tions have crystalized into the Demo
cratic body politic, offered to meet the
liberalism of the country half way and
to strike hands over the settlement of
the negro question contained in the
amendments. It offered to make this
the basis of a square fight for local self
government and universal emancipa
tion; and the offer is as open now as it
was six months ago.
We think, and have always thought,
that the new departure was but a near
cut to Radicalism and it would end in
the exodus of the mountain departurists
to the Mahomet Republicans. A dis
affected few who are willing to accept
either in good, or bad faith, the works
of usurpation, force and fraud as a final
settlement and “ basis ” of our govern
ment, should go at once the entire
swine, bristles and narrative, and stand
not on the order of a final departure,
lock, stock and barrel.
COMMUNICATED.
Athens, Oa., Nov. 25, 1871.
Editor Sun: Having seen the call for
a Democratic Convention to meet in
Atlanta duriDg the monthof December,
for the purpose of nominating a candi
date for Governor, we deem it our duty
as a good and faithful citizen, to urge
the claims of Dr. N. L. Angier for that
highly important and honorable posi
tion. This is a peculiar situation in
which the State is placed. Her Gover
nor a fugitive from justice, after having
plundered the public treasury, as far as
the opposing circumstances would per
mit. Now in what did this opposition
consist '! It consisted in the honest in
tegrity of Dr. Angier, who never failed
to throw the weight of his influence
against this wholesale robbery, and
who, with the eyes and fierceness of
Cerberus, faithfully guarded the public
funds. Surely such adamantine resolu
tion demands a mark of appreciation,
even though no other claims to the po
sition could be urged. But there are
other and stronger reasons why Dr.
Angier should receive this nomination.
That he is in favor of retrenchment is
abundantly substantiated in his conduct
as State Treasurer. This is the great
desideratum. The people have been
long enough under a government whose
motto was reckless extravagance. They
want economy. In Dr. Angier’s theory
of government this principle stands
preeminent. I have said that the con
dition of the State was a peculiar one.
Peculiar inasmach as it is plainly de
picted that were s gentleman elected to
whom Congress could urge the most
trival objection, they would claim the
State to be in need of reconstruction
and again dose us with that nauseous
medicine.
iu pi tosiufc .hv iof Dr. Angier,
we are oonfiatui leal ino career has ai
ways been such as to he most able to
successfully combat any objection which
may be invented. We say invented,for
we are satisfied that were any objections
made, that they would be the creatures
ot the imagination. Dr. Angier has
never beeu an extremist. It hasalways
been his custom to survey circum
stances calmly, and to harken to the
voice of reason. He has accepted the
constitutional amendments; not but
what they were objectionable, but be
cause his sterling sense has taught him
that to fight these measures in our pres
ent condition would be but to add to
the capital of the other party. It was,
and is his idea though, to wait until we
are stronger, and then gird on the ar
mor and enter the field. Dr. Angier is
not an acrobat who contemplates a
somersault in the political arena merely
that it may redound to his advantage,
but he has the interest of the State at
heart, and will ever remember that it is
his duty to keep it as perpetually before
his mind as Ctesar kept the fact of his
mortality before him. We think that
the reasons presented above entitle Dr.
Angier to the consideration of the Dem
ocrotic party. Earle.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEDNESDAY MOBSIHO, HOT. 89.
Supebiob Coubt Yestebday. —The
i Court met promptly at 9 a. m.
The Grand Jury -was organized with
| the following members:
! John Bass, Fore’D, W. B. Cooper,
| Jno. I. David, F. F. Ridenhour,
Wm. Burrus, Jno. Osborn,
W. K. Banks, W. R. Moore,
J. L. Biggers, W. B. Wise,
P. Kelly, D. F. Willcox,
C. F. Taliaferro, O. C. Harrell,
j E. P. Willis, R. R. Thweatt,
I H. Henes, W. McFarland,
G. P. Swift, jr., E. F. Colzey,
G. W. Radcliff, Sam’i Cherry,
James Ennis.
Bailiff—Wm. Mehaffey.
Chabge of Judge Johnson—Honest
Men Regaining Poweb in the State.
—Judge Johnson charged the body in
substance as follows:
They had been selected to look into
the condition of the county in all of its
bearings and relations.
Their duty is to ferret out crime, and
whenever found, irrespective of indi
viduals, to present the perpetrators and
have them punished.
It is necessary for the promotion of
industry, that the roads leading to and
from the city be kept in good condition.
The Commissioners should be looked
after, and if the roads are not in good
condition, it is your duty to present the
officers in charge. It is not sufficient
that roads should be raked over just be
fore Court. They must be kept in or
der during the entire year.
Public works, property and buildings
must be looked tc, and if proper persons
are not in charge, the fact must be re
ported.
The finances of the county require
your special attention. Taxation is
now very onerous, and takes almost the
entire income to pay it. Every extrav
agance on the part of public officers
should be checked. The scenes through
which we have just passed should in
crease our diligence over our officers
and their acts. We should not encum
ber posterity with our extravagance.
All good men must combine for the se
lection of pure men to office, that the
taxes, cow so burdensome, may be re
duced. The future strife must be that
of honesty against corruption. We have
suffered greatly from demoralization,
and are now in a transition state when
good citizens are everywhere in the
State pressing to the rescue of honesty
and justice.
See whether the right of person and
property are inviolate, for the law is
made to protect the life, limb, and prop
erty of its subjects. You are also to
suppress immorality, for men are not
allowed to use false measures or false
weights; nor to bear false witness
against their neighbors, and if so are
guilty of perjury.
The Grand Jury must look into the
conduct of magistrates and constables.
There are a multitude of matters for
your attention, which I cannot detail.
Most of you are young men, interest
ed in society, and rearing families who
are to live after you, and it is your duty
to see that the laws are enforced, and
the guilty punished. This is your duty,
and you must enforce it, for though
you may receive temporary benefit by
avoiding the discharge of duty, you
cannot escape final punishment from
the men you attempt to shield. You
mußt make wrong doers suffer, or they
will make you suffer.
I must congratulate you on recent de
velopments in our affairs of state. The
past iB gone, and with it, I hope, the
dethronement of dishonest men; and we
are passing to new questions, which
hinge upon the ascendency of the honest
man over the rascal. The honest, best
men of our country, are coming for
ward, and when they do we will all be
a happier and more prosperous people.
Your councils must be secret, not di
vulged by words or acts.
If you should need instructions from
the Court, come in and it will be cheer
fully given you. You must regulate
your own hours of meeting and ad
journment. You can retire.
Petit Jury—2d Panel.—The fol
lowing were sworn as members:
J. M. Patrick, P. R. Dimon,
N. W. Haynes, J. M. Allen,
James Martin, W. O. Borders,
H. M. Brown, Wm. O’Brien,
W. P. Turner, O. C. Johnson,
W. C. Talbot, Woolfolk Walker.
James Ogletree, bailiff on 2d panel;
Thos. Greer, bailiff to the Court.
The Court announced regular hours
of sessions would be from 9 a. m. to 3
p. m.
The Common Law Docket was then
taken up.
In Court were Capt. W. S. Wallace,
of Butler, who is here to represent a
case for the 8. W. R. R. Present, also,
was E. N. Butt, Esq., of Marion coun
ty. He was a member of the former
Legislature and is now, we understand,
a delegate to the Democratic Conven
tion which meets in Atlanta next week,
to nominate a Governor.
Among the absent and excused law
yers are Hon. J. M. Smith and J. L.
Pou, members of the Legislature; (Mr.
Pou came home Saturday, but has re
turned to Atlanta); Gen. Benning and
Major R. J. Moses, who are attending
U. 8. Court at Savannah; Capt. J. M.
Russell and others.
The following cases were disposed of,
the others that were called being con
tinued :
L. H. & H. M. Jeter vs. Jno. L. Mus
tian, verdict and judgment, by consent,
for SIOOO.
Peabody & Brannon, receivers, vs.
Bedell & Cos., verdict for plaintiff.
McNeil & Stokesberry vs. J. A.
Chapman & Cos., verdict for plaintiffs.
Badkins vs. Bray, administrator de
bonis non , of David A. Winn, deceas
ed. Jury was out with this case when
Court adjourned at 2 p.m to 9 a. m. to
day.
All Washington letters are now allud
ing to the anti Grant movement. The
Republicans opposed to Grant are ex
pecting the Democrats to support an
independent Republican, who will
draw the heaviest strength from his
own party. According to this plan the
Democrats will make no nomination,
but will ratify, at their convention
held late in the year, the selection of
the bolters from the Republicans. Such
bitter Democrats as Senators Bayard
and Casserly, it is said, have given
their adhesion, and Republicans like
Senators Tipton and Fenton are willing
to do anything to defeat Grant.
On the 23d inst., J. C. Stanton, the
great played out railroad developer,had
a rough fight in Chattanooga, about a
warrant, with a negro constable. Part
ed. m
Col. Marmaduke Johnson, one of the
brightest ornaments of the legal pro
fession of Richmond, Va., is dead.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6,1871.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Atlanta. —Foster Blodgett has gone
to Washington to be ready to contest
the seat of Senator Norwood Pond
Dairy farm sold at auction to John Ry
an for $1,050, about SIOO per acre
| The gin house of Titus Richards, in
Taliaferro county, with seven bales of
>cotton, burned KuKlux prisoners
from Dale discharged... .Survey of
the Georgia Western Railroad is nearly
completed. The advance route is an
approximate air line from here to the
vicinity of Talladega, Ala., passing
through Campbell and Carroll counties
in Georgia, and Randolph and Talla
dega counties, in Alabama, intersecting
the Chattahoochee river, in Georgia,
and the Tallapoosa, in Alabama
Saturday a man called in at the South
ern Life Insurance Company and en
gaged the book-keeper (the only one in
the room) in conversation at the front
desk. An accomplice slipped in at the
side door on Broad street and entered
into the vault. Fortunately the book
keeper discovered it before the robber
had effected his purpose, and gave the
alarm. The parties fled.
Atlanta. A convention Monday
night selected the following : Col. R.
F. Maddox, Dr. C. L. Redwine, Col.
T. T. Smith, W. A. Wilson, Col. W.
R. Phillips and Capt. J. T. Glenn. The
Sun says a majority are in favor of
nominating Hon. J. M. Smith.... The
Republicans will nominate no candidate
for Mayor The Constitution learns
that Attorney General Farrow does not
approve the new departure of Governor
Conley in opposing the election of a
Governor under the election bill passed
over his veto Three thousand hogs
arrived Hi Kimball is reported sick
in New Haven, Connecticut; Bullock is
at Buffalo, New York, near the Canada
line Henry M. Law, Esq., lectures
Thursday, the House of Representatives
having been tendered him.
Atlanta. —Ex-Governor Brown ad
vertises the True Georgian for sale....
In Superior Court, Geo. W. Wiliams,
(col.) charged with rape, sentenced to
twenty years in penitentiary.... Otto
Falmer, charged with publishing a libel
in the Atlanta Deutsche Zietung was
awarded a verdict in consequence of a
legal technicality and a defect in the
indictment Cases of James Mullins,
W. D. R. Miller and N. P. Hotchkiss,
charged with complicity‘in the State
Road frauds, was continued because of
absence of witnesses for the defense
The case of E. F. Blodgett was
called, but he did not answer...,Thu
Sun understands that our ‘‘acting”
"ad interim" Governor declares his in
tention to hold on to the office in
which he is now a usurper.... A box of
fire crackers in the store of Wm. R.
Philips, exploded, and blew everybody
out of the establishment. No one in
jured Sun calls upon the Legislature
to elect a successor to ex Governor
Brown on the Supreme bench at once,
claiming Locbrane’s appointment to be
illegal, and suggests a strong doubt
whether uuder the Constitution of
Georgia the Chief Justice has a legal
existence.
LaGrange.—The Reporter is offered
for sale Store of N. T. Johnson,
near White’s Hill, burned. Loss S7OO
W. J. Hick’s gin house burned.
Loss SI2OO.
Talbotton. —The negro shot by
Finley is dead... .One hundred and two
negroes have joined the Temperance
Society.
Rome.— Water works finished and in
successful operation. Holley system.
Newnan. —Col. Gatewood robbed of
SBO by Edward Tison, colored... .John
Hunter, an old citizen of Coweta, died
Tuesday A man named Sidney
Nelson, was so severely burned last
Sunday, that ho died the next day.
Augusta. —Patrick Powers, police
man, shot some time since, had his
ankle broken by a cow Receipts of
cotton 45,265 against 59,132, showing a
falling off of 13,867....Mr5. 8. E.
Schley, relict of the late Gov. Wm.
Schley, of Georgia, is dead Cline &
Bibb’s planing mill at Greenville, S. C.,
burned. Loss $7,000.
Augusta. —The Catholic Parsonage
will soon be completed.... The Demo
cratic candidates for Mayor and Coun
cilmen have no opposition.... Augusta
proposes to revive her amateur brass
band Avery singular accident oc
curred on the Georgia Railroad last Fri
day night. Soon after the down night
train had passed a point about fifty
miles Augusta, and while proceed
at its usual speed, a defective rail threw
the engine from the track. No portion
of the machinery broke, nor did the en
gine fall over. It ran along on the
cross-ties for about a hundred yards or
more, when, in some unexplained way,
the wheels jumped on the track again,
and the train went along as if nothing
had happened.
Macon. —ln the Superior Court,
Amos Gordon, convicted of burglary,
was sentenced to 20 years in the peni
tentiary; Wm. Cox, plead guilty of
burglary, 5 years; Stephen Goolsby,
six months in jail. Court adjourned to
second Monday in January.
Houston County.— Saturday week,
near Byron, Joseph W. Harris stabbed
in the loins, thigh and shoulder, Geo.
Lissenbea. The wounded man died
Monday. Whisky, the cause. Harris
not arrested Geo. W. Singleton
killed four year-old hogs which weighed
I, pounds net.... Virgil Powers,
Esq., Superintendent ofthe Southwest
ern Railroad, is securing the right of
way for “our railroad.”
Savannah. —A two year old child of
John Cullen run over by a dray and
killed... .Mrs. Abegail M. Hart, aged
75, dropped dead... .Young B. D. Per
ry forged the name of Curtis, Rose &
Cos., lu eeviial small amounts end fled.
Mr. G. S. Ruble’s pocket picked of
S6O Col. Pelote engaged a Mr. Sim*
mons and a negro to watch his live
stock on Warsaw island. A party go
ing there Thursday, found that Sim
mons had been murdered. The negro
and some live stock are miscing The
Washington Hose Company, on Fri
day, ran 300 yards, reeled'off 200 feet of
hose and attached pipe, in 58 seconds.
Amebicus.— Town has voted $5,000
for erection of a male academy. Citi
zens have subscribed SB,OOO to SIO,OOO.
Macon. —Dr. Hicks dedicated his new
church Sunday, and raised, or was in
process of doing so, $3,000.
Upson County.— On Saturday eve
ning, about the southern corner of the
county, Moses F. Colvin was killed by
J. S. B. Williams, in an affray. Colvin
was stabbed in six different places. Wil
liams has been arrested and lodged in
Thomaston jail Sunday, Sidney Nel-
Bon was found in a house badly burned.
Had fallen into the fire. Whisky.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
London, Nov. 26.—The latest bulletin
of the condition of the Prince of Wales
says: All is going on well to-day. He
is suffering from a severe and regular
fever.
Paris, Nov. 26.— The decision of the
commission on pardons in the cases of
the condemned Communist prisoners is
still kept secret. There is great anxiety
of the classes to learn the fate of Gen.
Rossel. The father of this prisoner has
just had an interview with Thiers, in
which he begged that the life of his son
be spared. The President was greatly
affected. Gen. Rossel has written to
Thiers, and says he is ready to die, but
imploring that he may be spared from
military degradation. The General
displays great firmness, and works in
the prison indefatigably. He has just
finished the second volume of his work
on reorganization.
London, Nov. 27—10 a. m. —Prince
of Wales passed a sleepless night. His
fever iB increasing but the patient still
holds out against it. The Queen is con
stantly at his bedside.
Paris, Nov. 28. A dispatch from
Versailles officially announces that the
execution had taken place, and Rossel
and two of his Communist compan
ions were shot.
Berlin, Nov. 29.—The Government
iB advised that the German sailors im
prisoned at Rio Janeiro have been re
leased.
Bismarck is sick.
London, Nov. 29.—The Prince of
Wales obtains some sleep, but the anx
iety regarding the result is not removed.
Paris, Nov. 29.—The Germans have
commenced fortifying the passes in
Vosges.
Constantinople, Nov. 29.— Large
increase of cholera in Stamboul within
the past few days.
Madrid, Nov. 29.—Sickles’marriage
to Miss Creach was brilliant. He left
Madrid immediately for Liverpool,
hence by steamer to New York.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. 27.—There is an
article in the Tribune to day in answer
to the article in the Times, which says
Greeley committed a stupendous folly
in declining the candidacy of the Presi
dency. Greeley reasserts that he will
never seek an office, but will never de
cline a duty. The article claims that
the field is open, and says: “We re
spectfully protest against the acrimony,
the malevolence, the proscriptive ven
om, manifested by certain journals
which have been set on to clear the
field of all intruders.”
In the Supreme Court the case ot
Corley vs. O’Conner, from the Circuit
Court of South Carolina, was reversed.
The lower court held that a certificate
of tax sales signed by two commission
ers was void. The Supreme Court
holds that authority given to several
persons far public purposes may be ex
ecuted by a majority of their number.
Hanover vs. Doane, from Arkansas,
reversed. This case involved the right
to receive for goods, which the vendor
knew, or had reason tc believe, were
purchased for the Confederacy. The
Court holds that such transactions arc
illegal and void.
Court adjourned.
A Principe letter reports a Spanish
repulse near Camaqutz. One hundred
wounded Spaniards were brought to
Principe. The Cubans had American
rifles.
Senate.—Osborne called on the Pres
ident to day for the purpose of request
ing a proclamation to issued, suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus in Jack
son and Calhoun counties, Florida,
which he represents entirely nnder con
trol of Kuklux. The President will
consult Akerman.
Washinton Nov. 28.— A very brief
Cabinet to day.
The Treasurer of the United States
sends checks to-night for $8,000,000 in
coin to parties who have sent sixty twos
for redemption.
The charge against Prosser, the post
master at Nashville, for prosecuting
claims while a member of Congress,have
been dismissed.
Washington, Nov. 29.—A Mexican
special says the Government is concen
trating 6,000 troops near Orazo, where
Diaz has 5,000. A battle is expected
within three days.
The government troops are deserting
to Diaz.
Congress has granted ample means to
Juarez to put down the rebellion.
Several generals and colonels have
joined Diaz.
The revolt extends from Ban Luis
to the Rio Gande. Puebla is also in re
volt. The Revolutionists are hovering
about the capital roads.
Durango is occupied by the rebels.
Cuban affairs are attracting much at
tention. There are many sensational
dispatches. The matter was undoubt
edly discussed in the Cabinet yesterday
and the reinforcement of the North At
lantic fleet determined upon. The ves
sels of the fleet, withdrawn to honor the
coming of Alexis, will hurry back.
The Consul-General at[Havana wants
a war vessel in that harbor.
The execution of eight students, for
excesses over the grave of Odious, the
volunteer captain, is generally regarded
as barbarously horrible.
There is no excitement at the Span
ish Legation here. Minister Roberts
has no communication from his own or
our government, indicating other than
a pacific solution of the pending misun
derstanding.
It is said Grant laughed at Robeson’s
report of his guns in the West India wa
ters. They are pop guns in calibre and
inferior in number, to the Spanish fleet.
It is supposed at the Navy Depart
ment ihat the Terror, having yesterday
been ordered to Havana, will arrive
there to-day. The Worcester, now at
Boston, will be the flag ship of the North
Atlantic fleet, Admiral Lee having, it is
said, left Washington to day to join
her.
The authorities here do notapprehend
any difficulty at Havana with the Ameri
can citizens, but say that the return of
the squadron to the North Atlantic is in
accordance with the usage, to have a
force convenient for the protection of
our citizens, should need for it occur;
the recent disturbance at Havana is
merely of a local character, and is sig
nificant of the assumed importance of
the volunteers against the the Spanish
authorities.
The Court of Claims resumes its ses
sion on Monday.
wiscoHßiar.
Milwaukie, Nov. 28.—Reports from
the Northern Pacific Railroad says the
thermometer was 23 deg. below zero.
Trains stopped.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 26.—Greeley, at a
Republican meeting last night, refused
a union with the Grant wing.
New Y'ork, Nov. 27.—Connelly is
still under arrest. Bail will be raised
to-day.
Latest.—Connally is still in custody.
It is rumored that Hall, Sweeny,
and Bradley are to be arrested for com
plicity with Connolly and Tweed.
Sweeny still lacks $200,000 of a mill
ion bail.
New York, Nov. 28.—Connolly had
but $900,000 bail at a late hour last
night.
The Herald has a special from Cot
tenton, Salt Lake, representing the
storm unabated. Has not seen the sun
since the 17th. Another land slide,
whereby four lives were lost. Pratt
preached at the Tabernacle yesterday,
saying that the Mormon people would
not give up poligamy or any part of
the Mormon religion for any Govern
ment. [Loud cheers of “That’s so, we
won’t.”]
Forty Catholic children were ox
pelled from school at Hunter’s Point
for refusing to read the Bible.
Connolly’s bail is still short.
Thirteen new small pox cases since
Monday noon.
It is believed Mayor Hall will resign.
New York, Nov. 29.—Alexis had an
unprecedented naval display last night.
Connolly still lacks a quarter of a mil
lion of his bail. He is in custody at the
New York Hotel.
Senator Norton was robbed of his
wallet while entering the cars at Jersey
City.
A rumor reports that the Bowling
Green Savings Bannk assets are $461,-
130; liabilities $474,000.
Cotton Movements for the Week.
New York, November 26.—Cotton
movement as compared with last week
shows a slight decrease in receipts and
a small falling off in exports. Receipts
at all the ports for the week, 104,743
against 101,494 last week, 105,400 for
the previous week, and 96,708 for three
weeks since. Total receipts since Sep
tember, 772,274 against 918,663jf0r the
corresponding period of the previous
year, showing a decrease since Septem
ber 1, of this year, of 148,389. Exports
from all the ports for the week
52,428 against 88,000 for the same week
last year. Total exports for the expired
period of the cotton year 335,315 against
459,508 for same time last year. Stock at
all the ports 350,813 against 359,734 for
the same time last year. Stocks at all
the interior towns 67,941 against 72,824
for the same time last year. Stock in
Liverpool 526,000 against 374,000 for
same time last year. American cotton
afloat for Great Britain 124,000 against
228,000 for the same time last year.
Indian cotton afloat for Europe 304,312
against 180,000 for same time last year.
The weather at the South was unset
tled during the week. There was rain
and frost in many sections.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, Nov. 27.—A committee
of influential citizens, including Hon.
E. D. Page and ex-Gov. Orr, publish
the result of their examination of Treas
urer Parker’s debt statement, which
they find correct. The committee re
port the total debt of South Carolina
$11,996,306, exclusive of $900,000 ow
ing in New York. The American Bank
Note Company certify that they have in
their possession the whole $6,000,000 of
sterling funding bonds, sod Governor
Scott has instructed theni tn print no
more bonds, or stocks of u; _> kind, for
this State.
The Ku-Klux trials began in Colum
bia at 10 o’clock this morning, judges
Bond and Bryan on the bench. Dis
trict Attorney Corbin for the Govern
ment and Reverdy Johnson for the de
fense. Large audience. Corbin chal
lenged the whole array of jurors on the
ground that there was fatal irregularity
in drawing. Reverdy Johnson argued
that the objection was purely technical.
Judge Bond said the Court could not
proceed because only nine jurors were
present, and desired to consult on the
question raised by Corbin. Court ad
journed till 11 o’clock to-morrow.
Charleston, Nov. 28.—1n the Ku*
Klux trial at Columbia, to-day was
spent in the discussion of the manner
of selecting a jury, the District Attor
ney moving that the panel be sum
moned from the body of the district,
and Reverdy Johnson contending that
according to the Constitution jurors
must be selected from the judicial dis
trict in which the alleged offence is
committed. The court sustained the
District Attorney. Mr. Johnson re
serving objection, the court adjourned
till Friday, allowing 48 hours for sum
moning the panel.
Charleston. —Nov. 29. SixKu-
Klrx prisoners from York county
were brought before Judges Bond and
Bryan in Columbia to-day on a writ of
hebeas corpus and bailed in $3,000 bond
each.
Ex-Congressman Bowen is elected to
the Btate Legislature as Representative
from Charleston county.
CUBA.
Havana. Nov. 27.— Gen. Crespo re
viewed the volunteers in this neighbor
hood. Fine display.
The medical students of the Royal
University jumped the walls of the
cemetery and groceeded to demolish
the graves of Gonzalo and Costanoro.
They committed other excesses. This
Chaplain attempted to remonstrate, but
the students stoned the Chaplain. The
Governor visited the University on
Saturday and demanded the names of
the culprits. The students all remained
sile The case was then turned over
to the court, when several testified.
Bix students were imprisoned, who are
forbidden to communicate with each
other or outside. Court temporarily
detained iorty two, who were suspected
of complicity.
Havana, Nov. 28.—A special reports
eight students found guilty and sent
enced to death, and two negroes were
Immediately shot for killings volunteer
Captain. Business suspended.
Eight of the medical students tried
by court martial for violating the rules
of General Cestanor, were sentenced to
death this morning and executed this
afternoon.
CALirOHSIA.
Ban Francisco, Nov. 27.—Seasona
ble rain throughout the country. The
grapes have nearly all been gathered.
The vintage is the largest and the finest
over known.
A dispatch received by the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue this morning
states thatF. Mire, late assistant aeses
sor in Texas, has committed suicide in
consequence of a fear that be would be
arrested for collecting and embezzling
Government funds.
MEXICO.
Matamoras, Nov. 27.—The revolu
tionists under Gen. Tevino attacked
Saltillo on the 25th and fighting is still
going on. Gen. Rocha is advancing
from San Louis Potosi, with strong
Government forces within aiding die
iance. Trevino is reported short of
ammunition. Communication inter
rupted.
Three hundred reinforcements for I
Matamoras are expected by sea ftom
Vera Cruz.
Matamoras, Nov. 28.—A special of
the 27th says 4,000 Government troops
are nearing Saltillo to raise the seige. {
Cortina had appropriated the pay of
the troops, at Carmago, to himetlf,
causing revolt.
A general revolt against the Govern- {
ment is expected on December Ist.
MISSOURI.
Kansas City, Nov. 28.—The Sunday |
Times (publishes eleven columns of.
letters from prominent men of Missouri
endorsing passive Democratic policy. J
H. M. King, a negro preacher, who !
was arrested for bigamy, has fled and
forfeited his bond. His white wife “t
tempted suicide yesterday.
St. Louis, Nov. 28.—Herman Lude
mann, editor of the Zeitung, is dead.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Nov- 27. Alexis
spends Monday here. A grand hail !
Monday night.
Philadelphia, Nov. 18.— Alexis’
ball occurs at the Academy of Music.
Subscription to festivities SSO.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29.—A judge
ment of sequestration for four hundred
and seventy-eight thousand dollars
worth of ex-City Treasurer Mercer’s
property, has been rendered.
NOVA SCOTIA.
Halifax, Nov. 28. Cholera has
disappeared. All patients are rapidly
recovering. The infected district is
still quarantined.
The seventy-eighth regiment ol
Highlanders Eailed for Europe.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, Nov. 28. —The Union
Pacific Railroad passenger train is
twenty-seven hours late. Snow very
deep in cuts.
Salt Lake, Nov. 29.— A motion to
quash the indictments against Brigham
Young and others was argued all day.
Brigham, though three huudrod miles
away, is endeavoring to reach the city.
The snow has ceased, but the cold is
intense. Trains thirty hours behind
time.
MAINE.
Eastpout, Nov. 29.—The weather is
the coldest ever known in November.
The thermometer is 58 deg. below zero_
Bangor, Nov. 29.— Thermometer 15 j
degrees at noon. Vessels in port have !
difficulty in getting out.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, Nov. 27.—Four prison !
ers broke the Franklin, Ind., jail, three i
of whom escaped and one, charged with j
murder, was recaptured.
CONNECTICUT.
New Haven, Nov. 27.—The chemi
cal works burned. Loss half million —
partially insured.
CANADA.
Quebec, Nov. 28.—The thermometer
is 10 deg. below zero.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Nov. 27.— 8ixty small
pox deaths last week.
Ttae Grand Dnke.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charleston Courier says the Russian
Grand Duke will take a tour through
the South this winter.
He who made the deepest impression
was the aid-de-camp, who appeared at
the Washington reception in a gorgeous
scarlet uniform trimmed with gold bui
lion, and hanging from his shoulders at
the back, worn after the manner of
stage gallants, a white cloak with
sleeves trimmed all round with Rus
sian sable. He was a very handsome
young man with a splendid black mous
tache, and made inroads into the affic
tions of feminine beholders on the m
stant.
The Grand Duke and Col. Jim Fi.-.k,
who had behind him his band of 100
pieces, divided the honors in the march
up Broadway. One red header! young
lady, in a window at Stewart’s, threw
so many kisses that Alexis asked Gala
cazy if that was the custom of the young
ladies in this country.
Requested to Retire.—ln the
North Carolina Legislature, which met
on Monday last, a resolution calling
upon Zebulon B. Vance to return his
credentials as United States Senator
elect was agreed to. This is prepara
tory to electing someone who is not
disqualified under the Fourteenth
Amendment.— Balt. Sun.
And this is the end of the farce—a
sorry end , too, if not worse If the
North Carolina Legislature had consul
ted common sense instead of blind pas
sion and prejudice, when they elected
a Senator, their man would have been
in his seat long ago. As it is, they
have had no representative since
March 4, 1870, and the chances arc,
now, that Abbott, the noisome carpet
bagger, will get the scat, though Vance
beat him badly before the Legislature.
The Lord deliver the South fraom
any more such double-distilled stupid
ity!— Macon Telegraph.
A garrulous old lady once abused the
hero of a hundred battles in the pres
ence of the French Minister at Wash
ington. The Minister with national
politeness quietly replied that, on his
return home he would give her com
pliments to the Emperor, aa he well
knew how mortified he would be at her
ladyship’s ill opinion!
The North Carolina Legislature will
be much “disgust” when it hears of its
“double-distilled stupidity.” On the
whole, we think there was more com
mon sense in sending to a Congress of
Radicals, a dead lion , rather than a live
Our Judiciary.— We hope the Leg- j
isl-Dure will compel nur Superior Court j
Judges to itinerate. A Judge should
know nothing about a case except in
the Court House. As it is, passion and
prejudice is oficn excited, and a temp
tation is offered to decide against the
weak and poor in favor of the rich and
influential. The system of itinerary
circuits has been tried in other States
and given great satisfaction.
A bad and ignorant Judge fixed per
manently on a people, without a hope
of change, is the greatest of curses to
any community.
Hebrew Holidays. —During the re- j
maindcr of the Jewish year the following
holidays will be observed by our He
brew population: December 8, Feast of
Chamakal; December the 2d, Feast of i
Tebeth: March 21, 1872, Feast of Es
her; March 24, Purim; MLarch 25, Bhus
ten Purim; April 23, first day of Passo
ver; June 12, Feast of Weeks. July
23, Fast of Tamuz; August 13, Feaßt of
Abs.
NO. 43.
ALABAMA LEUIsuvfTRE.
SATURDAY.
Senate. —Mr. Martin, ot Tuscaloosa,
a bill to practically abolish me preseut
School Board and remit the whole sub
ject—so far as tlio Educational machine
ry is concerned, to the Legislature ot
the State. The bill proposes to dis
pense with the present Board of Edu
cation, as both an unnecessary expense
to the State, and as a body exercising
a sort of anomalous fifth wheel Legisla
tive authority heretofore unknown in
Alabama, or so far as we are informed
in any other State.
The main features of the plan, are
first, to make the General Assembly
itself the Board of Education for the
State; and, second, to substitute Dis
trict Superintendents for each Senato
rial District, thirty three in number,
for the present sixty-five County Su
perintendents.
It provides that the Superintendent
of Education as heretofore shall be
elected at same time with the Governor;
and that for Educational purposes shall
be devoted the sales ot all public lands;
a tax of $1 50 on each voter, and also
a general tax Referred.
House. —All bills referred. The fol
lowing are among those introduced:
To provide that purchasers at sales
made by Executors, "Administrators,
Guardians or Trustees shall return or
offer bo to do before he is entitled to set
up any defense as to the jurisdiction,
the informality or irregularities of the
Court governing the order of sale. 2d,
To require the return to the purchaser
at such sale, when he bids off property
and pays all the purchase money before
his right to the property shall be at
tacked in the Courts of this State on
account of the want of jurisdiction or
irregularities in the Court governing
the order of sale; to prohibit conversion
of money by Justices of the Peace and
Notaries Public. Punishes conversion
of funds by such officers by removal
from office, and as thefts are punished;
to prevent Railroad Companies from
discriminating between local and
ihrough freights; to decrease the pay of
the Commissioners Court of Chambers
county; to require Justices of the Peace
in Chambers county to act as supervis
ors and road inspectors.
MONDAY.
Senate. —The following were pass
ed:
Senate bill to authorize the Governor
to raise money by loan or otherw se, to
pay loan negotiated by him.
Mr. Martin, of Russell, to require the
holders of treasury notes of Russell to
preseut them for redemption.
The House joint resolution providing
for a joint committee of five of the
House, three of the Senate, and a com
mittee from the Board of Education, to
inquire into and report ways and means
to carry into execution the school laws
of the State, was taken up and indefi
nitely postponed.
Senators generally thought the pres
ent system a total failure.
Bill introduced to regulate the time
of holding beat elections; open polls at
9 o’clock a. m. and close at 3 p. m.
House.—A special committee report
ed a substitute for the insurance bill.
It requires all insurance companies to
deposit S2OO with the fire departments
of each town or city where agencies of
such companies are established. The
provisions of this act do not apply to
Mobile. Goes over.
The bill to require county superin
tendents to keep township funds sepa
rate, was passed.
Following were introduced and re
ferred:
To authorize married women to mort
[ gage, jointly with hUßband, property to
j borrow money to improve it.
By Horace King—To authorize John
Quin, of Georgia, to qualify as admin
istrator of the estate of James Torry, of
Russell county.
TUESDAY.
Senate. —The following House bills
were passed :
To repeal the act to authorize county
commissioners of Chambers county to
borrow money and provide means of
repaying the same.
To repeal the act giving the com
missioners court of Chambers county
full aud complete control of the county
funds.
Senate bill to prevent wanton de
struction of fish.
The bill was so amended as to apply
only to Madison county; Senate bill
to protect game (with amendment
that game shall not be killed between
the Ist day of of March and the Ist day
of September, except on the individual
premises ) A large number of coun
ties including nearly all in this section
excepted.
Bills were introduced to prevent petit
larceny (prevents buying or selling of
igricultural products after nightfall, un
less corn or cotton in bale lor shipment).
House.— Mr. Lowe introduced a bill
for the payment of certain sums of
money to Gen. Clanton, as attorney for
the State in the case of tho Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad Company.
Provides for the payment of $20,000 to
the widow of Gen. Clanton, for his ser
vices in behalf of tho State. Some of
the members thought the sum toolarge.
A proposition to make it $5,000 was
voted down. Others moved it be made
SIO,OOO. Made special order for next
day.
The House bill in relation to agri
cultural labors was taken up and amen
ded so as to secure landlords for ad
vancements this year; tabled.
Bills were passed authorizing sheriffs
to sell lands on any Monday after giv
ing due notice of such sale; to prohibit
the unlawful injury of animals.
The following were referred: To pre
vent the sale of spirituous liquors with
in two miles of Bradford Chapel church,
Tallapooßa county; to exempt from ad
ministration the property of deceased
persons, and to invest titles in widows
and children; a bill to allow defendants
when on trial in criminal courts to give
testimony.
A memorial of West Florida states
that the citizens of West Florida had
voted in favor of annexation to Ala
bama, and prays the action of our Leg
islature on the subject.
To authorize and require the Mayor
and Council of Union Bprings to levy
and collect a tax to pay tho bonds is
sued by the corporate authorities of
said town.
To prevent the sale of spirituous li
quors within 2. miles of Bradford Chap
el Church in Macon county, and Little
Zion Church in Lee county
To make it a 12 years penitentiary of
sense to steal chilnren.
A joint resolution providing for an
election for the people to vote for a
convention to revise the State consti
tution; laid on the table, and 150 copies
ordered to be printed.
The New Tore Sun on the State
Road Lease, &c. —The New Tork
Sun of the z7th contains a long double
leaded editorial, pitching into Grant,
Delano, Cameron, Bullock and Blod
gett for the fraudulent lease of the
Georgia State Road. The Sun expresses
the hope that the honest Legislature
now in session in Atlanta will thor
oughly investigate the details of this
swindling transaction.
It is thought the recent threats of
martial law in Georgia were made for
the purpose of intimidating the Legis
lature and deterring that body from
doing its duty in this matter.
Among the bills waiting the action
of Congress is one offered by Porter,
Virginia, which virtually proposes the
centralization of all judicial power in
fourteen States, including Georgia,
Florida and the two Carolina.
The Washington Patriot says: “The
cause of the postage stamps, bearing the
portraits of Washington, franklin, Jef
terson, Jackson and others, curling and
twisting in all kinds of shapes, is under
consideration by postofiice officials, and
the conclusion has about been reached
that those old fellows cannot lie still
amid the corruption and political ras
cality that ie going on all around them.”
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 30.
Two Fire* Yesterday—Heavy Loss
by tbe Last.
Fire in the Northern Liberties.
—About 1] o’clock in the morning, the
two tenements of George Taylor, a col
ored carpenter, situated near the river
above the first culvert on the North and
South Rail Road, were discovered to be
on fire, and were entirely consumed.
Quite a high wind was prevailing at the
time. The buildings were unoccupied,
but as one of tbe Building and Loan
Associations had a lien upon them, it
may be presumed that they were in
sured. The engines went no further
than io discover the fire was beyond
the city limits.
Col. W. A. Barden’s Stoke Burned
About 3 o’clock, some hour and a
halt alter the alarm mentioned above,
the ellß again pealed forth their sig
nals. I his time the flames wore dis
covered in the grocery store of Col.
Wm. A. Bardm, about hall a dozen
doors below the Georgia Home build
ing. The house was a large brick
structure of one story, the roof of which
was covered with slate.
The engines were quickly brought
into play and alter much work the
flames were confined to this single
house. At one time, a northern wind
was pretty high, but laller buildings
cut off its chief torce from the fire.
The entire rear portion of the structure
is a mere shell, the entire roof being
gone. The front is nut so badly injured.
The insurance covers all losses to the
house.
The greater | onion ol Col. Barden's
stock was destroyed or Irreparably
damaged, and his losses tar exceed the
insuiance. The goods were valued at
some $15,000. This loss tails heavy
upon one ol our most eu» rgetic young
ou‘U and go ahead, reliable merchants
and citizens. Some of the stock was
saved.
The building belongs to Mr. J. D.
Carter, and was insured lor $4,000 in
the Southern Mutual aud Phoenix, of
Hartford, R. 13 Muidoch, agent.
Col. Barden’s stock had an insurance
of $5,000 —$3,000 in the Georgia Home
aud s2,oooin the Southern Mutual.
The fire was evidently the workofau
iucindiary, but how he got into the
Store is not known. There had been
no fire during the dsy in the building,
and the establishment had been closed
securely by Col. Gua Shiuglour at 7p.
in. the evening before, and no employee
had been back.
Mr. Meyer, who has a shoe shop the
door above, packed bis goods, but did
not remove them Mr. George Betz,
the well known tailor, and Mr. LequiD,
jeweler, who occupy the house just be
low, were compelled to remove their
goods, and thereby, with the breakage
of glass cases and the missing of some
articles, sustained slight losses. Mr.
Lequin reports he saw no fire when
passing by twenty minutes before the
alarm.
The firemen worked ably and with a
will. They need more rubber hose and
should have it at once. The steamer
burst four sections yesterday.
Superior Court Yesterday.—Af
ter the minutes had been read, JohnM.
Brown, late student with the firm of
Smith & Alexander, and a nephew of
Speaker Smith, was admitted to the
bar. He passed a most creditable ex
amination.
At 10 o’clock the Grand Jury were
called into tbe court room, and instruct
ed by the Judge as to some charges re
quired by law, and which were omitted
the day before. Ist. The statute against
gambling. 2d. Retailing liquor with
out license. 3d. Carrying concealed
weapons.
During the morning the vonerable
and distinguished liev. Dr. Lovick
Pierce appeared in tbe court room, and
was escorted by our urbane sheriff to a
seat near the Judge’s stand. The rev
orend gentleman remained about two
hourß, apparently interested in the
pending proceedings. lie had jußt
reached the city from Macon.
The proceedings were very unimpor
tant. The majority of the chief cases
were passed over on account of the ab
sence of so many attorneys.
The only case that wont to the jury
was that of J. A. Cody vs. W. T. New
nan—Allen, Freer & Illges being gar
nishees. Verdict for SBB 04 and $lB 73
interest.
Six judgments were rendered by de
fault; three caßes dismissed for want of
affidavit; five for want of prosecution;
ten continued; four dismissed by plain
tiff; half dozen or more garnishees dis
charged; four or five settled; one judg
ment granted on bond.
Court, at 2 p. m., adjourned to 9 a.
m. to day.
Usury —An Important Cask to
Commission Merchants.— There was
decided, Wednesday, in the United
States Court at Savannah, a case which
involves very important results to our
commission mereUautß. The suit was
in favor of a New York firm sgainsttwo
farmers of Sumter county, Georgia.
The former had advanced about $15,-
000, in 1806, ior the Utter, and pur
chased for them 100 bales of cotton.
The contract was that the defendants
were to pay time-quarters of one per
cent, commission, aud six per cent, in
terest on the advance, as long as the
cotton was held. It wus to be sold only
upon the order of the parties owning it.
Under this contract the cotton was held
eight mouths. Like all other contracts
of a similar nature in the year 1866,
when cotton was held over, there was a
heavy loss, amounting to over $1,600.
The defendants gave their note ior the
amount, but afterward refused to pay
it, and upon suit brought plead usury.
The Judge charged the jury that, if
this contract tor commissions was made
to evade the ueurv statutes of Georgia,
then thr policy of the law forbade its
execution; but if the agreement was
made to pay the legal interest and a
commission to the factor, for each
month, for bis care, diligence, labor and
attention expended in the business of
defendants, it was proper they should
find tor the plaintiff The jury were
out but a few momenta when they re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff for the
full amount of principal and interest.
The parlies were— R T. Wilson *«
Jas. T. West and Phillip West. R. K.
Hines for plaintiff and Harden & Levy
for defendant.
Mr. J. M. Holmes, of Birmingham,
England, writing to Mr. B. H. True, of
Madison, in this State, says: “In con
nection with the introduction oi labor
era to your State, we think it would be
an excellent plan to also offer farms for
lease on the principle of stocking tho
farm with team and implements, and
giving the owner a share of the crops.
We think it would attract much atten
tion here, and he the means of drawing
a great many emigrants who would
pay their own passage.
The Democrats of Oglethorpe county
have designated their Representatives
in the Legislature to act as delegates in
the Stale Convention, and have instruct
ed them to vote for the nomination oi
the Hon James M. Smith, Speaker of
the House, as a candidate for Governor.
“Hon.” Geo. W. F»ge, who was
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter
at Sumter Superior Court, has been
sentenced to twenty years In the peni
tentiary.