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THE EASTMAN TIMES
M. L. BURGH, Editor & Proprietor
THURSDAY. AUG. 7, 1870.
Jt is thought the hoard of tru-le-s
low assembled in Athens, are plan,
ning for the establishment of branches
of the State University at Cutlibert
and T1 annasvilie.
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Columbus received her first bale of
new c >tton Wednesday evening. It
came from Florida, and was picked,
ginned, picked and shipped in one
day, and weighed fur hundred
pounds. Last year the first bale was
received at Columbus on the 7>h ins!.
We see the Legislature still deniej*
to Hon. Peterson Thwe itt the aid ol
the courts, to investigate his claim
against the State. We thought In:
would have been ucec >rded this p© »r
privilege, but our soloits thought oth¬
erwise. Since investigation seems to
be tlie order of the day, we suggest
that the Hon, Peters >u be investigated
ere he passes from public notice.
Among the many opponents to the
Paso and extension of the Macon and
Brunswick railroad at presept looming
up, we find none denying the palpable
Jaet that the lease and extension to At¬
lanta would bool vast adv'ntage to
the country through which the road
passes and to the whole of Southeast
Georgia, To this end therefore the el*
forts of our representatives sljjuld be
directed.
The Yellow Fever.
The fever has not spread as much
as was anticipated, and seems to be
confined to Memphis. Wo hope the
afflicted cty will be saved the terrible
scourge of last year.
The Late Decision of .Fudge
Hood.
Wo c*ll attention to the article ch¬
titled “The Wild Lmds—;ho late de¬
cision of Judge Jfood considered *’
contii>mtod by a correspondent from
Thoniasville Ga., to the ‘Atlanta Con¬
stitution/ of the 2 »d instant, It is
the best thing that has vet appearc I
in favor of the sides and the transfei
rees, and sounds very much like the
urgtimerit of a lawyer who was thor*
oughly enlisted in the cairn*. The
writer takes issue with the committee,
whose report is before the Legislature,
and even though iij.s conclusions m ay
be law, it does not jvniove the wrong
that has been perpetrated. Whether
the transfer of the li. fas. was legal or
illegal, it was contrary to tlie best and
wbe.st policy ot the State, and ought
to have been prevented; tlie injury lias
been committed, ami it seems there is
nothing for the Legislature to do, but
provide for the correction of the
abuse. We think there is a stitute
Against taxing illegal costs and equity
will relieve against any fraud in obtain
t«g the fi, las, It will require careful
consideration, and wo hope to see the
best remedy provided.
TF»e bUuatic Asylum,
A few days since the governor Avas
unanimously requested by the commit¬
tees of the senate and house to appoint
a skillful physician on the board of
trustees of tlie state lunatic asylum to
till the vacancy on the board occa¬
sioned by the death of Colonel J
Pinckard. The board of trustees it*
self favored this view of the matter.
Li accordance with this suggestion,
Governor Colquitt appointed on yes¬
terday I)r. W. II. Hal!, of Mil!edge
vilfe, Dr. Hal! is a physiean of prom¬
inence and distinction, and itf well
qualified in every way for the place.
The Ihe., that he resides at Millige*
vdle and can alway s be near the scene
of his duties is another reason that
induced the governor to make this
Appointment. It ; s a good one and
will be heartily indorsed— Constitution
Twenty Thousand Dollars An
Acre,
The Standard Oil Company of New
Yoik has purchased a farm of twenty
one acres at Berg n Point,New Jersey
paying therefore an aggregate price
ol $4 Iff,000 or $20,000 an aero, which
is the highest price ever paid f-r unim¬
proved farm land in the vicinity of
N«*w York. There is no dock, street
or improvement of any kind upon the
property. The company will erect a
refiner tanks, stills and necessary buil¬
dings which will be occupied in addi¬
tion to extensive works now at ll'in
Jer‘s Point. Tiny W3i*c compelled to
pureh ise the properly to « cure a
shipping point below the east river
bridge, as tlie Captains of tlie large
vessels which carry theii oils to
eign lands object to passi g under the
East River bridge as each time they
do so they obliged to house their
gallant masts to prevent a collision
with the cables, The farm for which
the fabulous sum has bee.i pii ; i was
THIS W1LI> LANDS.
The Late Decision of .Fudge
Hood Considered.
Tik.masvillk, Ga., July 31.— Edi¬
tors Constitution — In your issue of the
23d I find a d cision rendered by
Judge Hood onthe transferor wild
land tax fi. fas. In view of the fact
that the judiciary has been regarded
as the conservator of the inestimable
rights of life, liberty and property,
this decision is a remarkable one. The
essence of that decision is, ‘If money
is paid, no matter by whom, before a
sale under tax executions is made,
the reason for making as Deceases,
and the authority for making a sale
cease<, I therefore declare that these
sales were made without authority of
law, and are void/ In support of this
position Judge llood cites some very
respectable authorities. If he had only
turned to Illinois he could have found
additional authority for his position,
on the ground that there had been no
‘personal demand for the tax/ Had
he examined the records of Tennessee,
Ohio and Indiana, he might have
found still further support for his po¬
sition, No such power as that of sell¬
ing land for the nonpayment of taxes
is to be found in the revealed natural,
civil or common law. It is purely an
American principle. ’Ilie power to
levy and collect taxes is an incident of
sovereignty, without which no govern¬
ment could exeieise the powers ex*
pressly delegated to it. Judge Nisbet,
one of the first Judges of our Supreme
Court in point of time and ability,
in giving a very learned and elaborate
decision on the subject of taxation,
cited in one of tlie early reports, says,
the ‘sovereign right to lav and collect
taxes grows out of the necessities of
the government—an urgent necessity
ivbich admits no property in the citi¬
zen while it remains unsatisfied, The
light to tax is coeval with the govern¬
ment/ The Supreme Co irt of Ten¬
nessee in rendering a decision dec’ar
ing her summary tax laws to be con*
stitutional, took occasi >ii f> say, ‘It
is certainly true that they have the
character of summary proceedings,
and it is equally true that they must,
of necessity, be so ; for if the govern¬
ment were necessitated to take the
cautious and tedious steps of the c mi¬
llion law, in giving personal notice,
making up regular pleadings and liav
ing a trial by jury, judgment and ex¬
ecution, it would cease to exist for
want of money to carry on its neces*
sary operations ; loss of credit and a
total extinction of the national faith,
the basis of all regular governments,
must be the inevitable consequence.’
Tucse decisions show that the levying
of taxes and the collection of the same
by laws, however summary, has been
regarded by the courts as such an ex*
eroiso of sovereignty as they were not
disposed to restrict or circumscribe.
We m'ght multiply citations on this
point, but it is unnecessary lor the
purposes of this article. Now, we
have upon our statute bools a law de¬
riving its force from the inherent and
indestructible sovereignty of the State
providing tor the collection of taxes
from tbn property of unknown or re¬
cusant owners. This is the wild land
law of 1874. That this law is consti¬
tutional no one will question. In or¬
der to collect this tax the State was
compelled to issue a large number of
fi fas. By another law of thoStite,
deriving its force from that sovereign¬
ty which is boundless in extent and
incapable of definition, ‘all tax fi fas.
issued without the judgment of a court
under any law’ could be transferred
to any person who would pay the
same, and such transferee, the laws
declares, should have ‘the same rights
as to enforcing said execution and pri¬
ority of payment as might have been
exercised or claimed before said trans¬
fer/ Tne constitutionality of this
provision of our law is not questioned,
and we presume will not he. Now
how stands the case? The State, is
an incidental and under existing cir*
cumsUnecs, necessary exercise of her
sovereignty, issues in a perfectly con¬
stitutional manner fi fas for the collec¬
tion of a legiti sate part of her reve¬
nue. Her statutes declare all fi fas
issued without the intervention of
judgment of any c mrt transferable.
Citizens of the State, believing the
State incapable of d shonesty and bad
faith advance the money, have these
fi fas (which come entirely within the
broad rule allowing transfers) trans*
ferrod to them, and thereby, under the
express letter of the law, are subroga¬
ted to all the rights of tlie State.
Judge Hood declares this whole
matter void-—ah initio. Let us exam*
ine the grounds upon which this decis¬
ion is based, Ilis first point is that
Wiese transfers arc v<»id because the
law only authorizes the transfers of fi.
fas. i.*sued against‘persons/ and these
particular fi fas. not being against
persons arc therefore non*transferabb\
There is very little souse in this posi
tion. If the transfer of the fi. fa. is
void because not issued against a
person, why t an it n wit!
I > to h
be deprived of his property
due process of law / Due process o!
law is generally understood to mean
tlie law of the land/ Mr. Webster
defines the law of the land’ as follows;
r By the law of the land is most clearly
intended the general law—a law' which
hmirs h. f >re it condemns-—which pro¬
ceeds upon inquire and renders Judg¬
ment only after trial. Everything
which n»ay pass under the form of an
enactment is not to he considered as
the law of the land. The meaning is
that every citizen shall hold his life
liberty property and immunities under
the protection of general rules which
govern society,’ Why, then could not
owners should they ever appear avail
themselves of this constitutional pio*
vision and re-establish their titles on
the ground that they bad been dives¬
ted ot their property because the exe¬
cutions resulting in this divestiture
were not directed against ‘person?/
and these issued not under that law of
the land not defined by Daniel Web¬
ster, It strikes us that there is much
more reason and law r to sustain this
proposition than can l»e found to sup¬
port that announced by Judge Hood.
But, then, the judge gives his judicial
sanction to the law authorizing the is*
suing of these li .das. and he is estoped
fiom denial/
Judge Hood further holds that it
transferable at all these fi. fas. should
have been traitst'ered by sheriffs. There
is very little in this also No fraud is
charged no had faith and it would he
extremely ungracious in the state
through her Judicial or legislative
arm to repudiate her acts because an
innocent mistake wes made, whereby
one of her agents did what another
should have done. But perhaps the
most shockingly unjust position taken
by Judge Hood is that when trails*
ferrod these fi fas became functus
officio. In other words the state off*
ers an article for sale declaring it of a
certain value and as soon as sold she
declares It worthless. Gan it be that
a man who ministers at an altar upon
which is inscribed the name of Jehovah
around which are thrown the eternal
sanctions of truth and right will pro¬
nounce and uphold sueii a base doc*
trine? Can it he that the sacred science
ofjiiiH-prudenee in this the nineteenth
century of the world’s progress has
become so debassed and demoralized
as that those who wear its spotless
livery cm sanction such an outrage?
We cannot think it. By an exercise
of large charity we must conclude
mat Judge Hood did not comprehend
the force of his own words. If such
he the policy of the judiciary of the
state, that just and wise ituxini, ‘fiat
mat caff uni/ should he re¬
moved from its portals an 1 ill its stead
should be placed the inscription which
Dante saw over the gates ot hell —‘All
hope abandon, ye who enter in/
IVAN'ilOK.
Darien Timber Gazette : We are
glad to see that the assaults upon
Governor Colquitt are assuming a
more moderate form. Ho is recently,
not charged in so many words, as be¬
ing found wherever he can get a
chance to harangue a negro Sunday
school, but only in more delicate lan*
guage, with not giving the same de¬
gree of attention to the temporal ns to
the spiritual wants of the people of
Georgia. Tnis is really a great im¬
provement, and we congratulate his
critics upon tlie truly elegant and cor.
s Tvative style in which the objection
is now being put. We have been la*
boring under the impression for a con*
sideruble period that this is a Chris¬
tian country. Wc still have hopes
that we :rc not mistaken, but if libs
silt of thing is to go on, we shall be
inevitably forced to the conclusion
that we hayc been mistaken, and that
it will require not only Governor Col*
quitt, but a good many more like him
to make it worthy of that exalted name.
We were not aware, until these re¬
cent lights have been thrown upon the
subject, that too much attention could
be bestowed upon religion either per¬
sonal, or upon its diffusion amongst
others. Although a little troubled by
these objections to the Governor, avo
are still disposed to cling to the te icli*
ings ol our youth, that the more a man
discharges his duty to his God, the
more fully Im will acquit himself to¬
wards his felJoAV men in all tlie rela¬
tions of life.
Geo Woods was presented the big
bull frog oil exhibition at the Ogle
thoipe fair. When he gets dry now
he can path's frog in a puddle of wa¬
ter near the house and have a ‘jug of
ruin’ at a moment’s notice. The frog
is said to l e 1 irgest one evt ry manu*
factured in that section .—Atlanta
Phonograph
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A certain young lady avIio was a lit
tie behind in her summer outfit, stir*
pused her parents the other day by
asking why she avhs unlike George
Washington, When they gave it up
she told them because she had no little
lint* a et.
A MIDNIGHT ©OLIC.
Itill Arp’s Internal Troubles.
Atlanta Constitution.
I once hear I of a grumblin old far¬
mer who made a big crop of very fine
corn and on being congratulated about
it, said ;
‘Well, yes ; my corn is all miglitv
fine, l ut I don’t know how I’ll get
along without s nne nubbins to fe< il
the steers on.’
It’s a laining now every day, hut it
came a little too late, and we'll all
have plenty of steer food this year, I
reckon we will make some tolerable
corn on the bottoms, and tlie late
platting is coining out smartly. If
misery loves company we can take
comfort like the darkey did that Mr.
St»*phers t"ld about in his speech, for
poor crops are a pretty ‘general thing’
in this neighborhood.
But maybe its all right—for we did
make an abundance of wheat, and it
ain’t too late to make a right smart
cotton and get 15 cents a pound for it.
A man ought t» he reconciled to what
he cannot help that is unless lie owes
a little passel of money he can’t pay
and is renf tided of it once a month on
a postal card. Thats had ain’t it ? Or
unless lie lias got a lot of sickly no ac¬
count children. I tell Mrs. Arp wr¬
ought to be mighty thankful for theres
nary one of the ten thats cross-eyed
or knoek*need or pigun>toed or box*
ankled or sway.backed or hump*
shouldered or lame or blind or idiotic
and the grandchildren are an improve¬
ment upon the stock, and I dont be¬
lieve an) r of em will ever git to the
pool-house or carry a pistol or go to
the Legislature and have some feller
offer cm a hundred dollars for his
vote. A sound, healthy body is a
great blessing, and a fair set-off to
most every kind of bad luck that can
happen to a man. Mr. Beecher was
right when ho said the first rule to en¬
sure good health was to g- Ject good,
healthy parents to he born from. My
ruminations on this subject hare been
quite luminous of late, for I’ve been
powerful sick. Tim fact is, I like to
have died the other night, and all of a
sudden. You see I had overworked
myself a fixing up a turnip-p itch, and
got wet ht sides, and didn’t stop for
dinner, and was sorter hungry and
billions to start on and we had roas*
ten ears for supper and buttermilk and
honey, and t;»ki i it all together I took
the green corn dance about midnight
and the small of my back caved in
and from then until daybreak I never
got up, mu* lay down, nor stood still a
minute. D mbh d up and twisted and
jerked around with excrutiatin pains,
I cavorted over one side of the house*
for we had some Atlanta company on
the other, and my groanings were
worse than a f»un iered mule. It was
just awful to behold and awfuller to ex¬
perience. Spirits of turpentine, earn'
phor, hot water, mustard plaster, mush
poultice, paragoric, Jamiaea ginger
were all used externally and intern il¬
ly, but no relief, I trotted around
and paced and fox-trot tod and hugg»*d
the bed-post and laid down and rolled
over on the floor like a hundred dol
lirhorsn, and my wife, Mrs. Arp, she
trotted araund too and dosed me with
this thing tin 1 that thing and had the
stove firecl up and hollowed for hot
water forty tines before she got it.
‘I told you not to work so hard in
tlie hot sun,’ said she. ‘Oh, L >rdv ’
said I.
‘I asked you to change your clothes
as soon as you came to the house and
you didnt do it.’ ‘Oh my country,’
said I,
‘Don’t wake up the company,, she
continued, ‘And you would eat them
roas ten ears for supper and then wash
em down with buttermilk and honey/
‘Oh, my pom- back / said I.
‘Do you reckon its your back—aint
it further round in front?' ‘Ol., no,’
said I, ‘its everywhere, its lumbago,
its siatikor, its Bright’s dis ase, its
Etna and Vesuvious all mixed lip. Oh,
I’m so sick—cant nobody do nothin/
‘Poor follow, poor William. I'm sor*
ry lor you but you will wake up tlie
company if you don’t mind—I’m do¬
ing everything I can. You’ve taken
enough things now to kill you. I de¬
clare I doifft know what to do next
and all this comes from movin to the
country five miles from a drug store
or a d'-ctor. I told you how it would
be—plumbags and skyattiker and a
bright disease, and the Lord knows
what, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised
if you had the \ellow fever to boot—
caught it a Irampiu around Memphis
and its just broke out on you. Poor
man, it he does die what will become
of us ? But if he gets well he’ll go
and do the same thing over again.
Don’t grunt so loud. I declare you
make enough noise to Av.ike up a
grave-yard. I never saw such a man.
Here, try this mush poultice. 1 thought
that water never would ^et hot. Does
it burn you ?’ Oh, yes ; it burns, but
fire is nothin nr w, let it burn. Oh,
I‘m s > sick. ‘Bring me the paragonc
or the laudanum or something, I cant
stand it feu nrnutes longer, 4 said I.
t n i XT •jyc tn
maybe it w ill relieve y<<u W illiani. My
poor William, bow I do hate to see
you suffer so, but you will never do
as 1 tell yon. Do please dout wake
up the company !‘
‘Well, 1 took the chloroform and
went to sleep —to the happy land—all
blessed relief, and when I waked I was
easier, and in due time was restored
to niv normal condition. In my gyra¬
tions inv mind was exceedingly active.
I ruminated over my past life, and
could find a little comfort in what Lee
Hunt wrote about some Arab who
was admitted to heaven because lie
loved his fellow-men. Just so 1 have
loved mine, that is, except some. I
thought about money in comparison
with health and freedom from pain,
and I felt such an utter disgust for
riches; it made me sick at the stom
ach. I would !:avo given a house full
of gold for two minutes cessation of
those internal hostilities,
Well, 1 kept this numerous and in*
tercsting family in a lively state tor a
few long hours, and it taught me a
useful lesson. Fin going to take care
of myself ; I’m going to do every¬
thing Mrs. Arp tells me, for she has
got sense—she has. She takes care
of herselt—not a gray hair in her head,
and is as bl ight as the full mmil ; and
when she gives an opinion it is an
opinion. From that horrible night’s
experience I am more than ever satis*,
fied she loves me as well as ever and
wouldn’t swap me off for nobody.
When |I stand up before her and say
‘juror look upon the prisoner—prison*
er look upon the juror,’ she always
says ‘content/ And then she has such
a considerate regard for her ‘company/
Hill Aki\
The I npeach meat ot Compt roller
Goldsmith.
Articles of impeachment against
W. L. Gol Ismitli were reported on
Monday last. We clip the following
in reference thereto from the Tele¬
graph and Mesenger ot Tuesday :
At 12 «»’clock the report of the com¬
mittee of thirteen appointed to inves*
tigate the charges against Comptroller
Goldsmith was taken up on motion of
Mr. Phillips, of Cobb.
The report was made in three dis*
tinct puts, and included sixteen
counts against the conitroller. The
majority report was read first by Mr.
S. W. Small, clerk of the committee
Among the charges were the follow¬
ing, and which are the most impor¬
tant:
The Comptroller is charged with an
embezzlement of $11,000 of the funds
derived from tlie State for wild lands.
With speculating in wild lands
through his brother-in-law Thomas
L. Swift; with altering and falsifying
the records of the office through Ins
clerks, James L. Goldsmith and Allen
J. B II, lie being privy to the transac¬
tion; with tak'ng illegal costs for wild
land fi. fas ; with depositing funds
from the sale of wild lands in a batik
in Atlanta to his personal credit, and
drawing out t v e same on his personal
cheek instead of turning the said funds
over to the Treasurer of the State, ac*
cording to law; with making false
returns and with fraudulently repor*
ting the amount of tax received on
wild lands for 1877; with not giving
certain parties the proper credit fbr
f unds paid by them, a number of spec¬
ifications being made; with retaining
in office two clerks after charges had
been preferred against them and clos¬
ing with general charges of malprac*
tice in office. A supplementary report
was offered by some of tlie members
of the Committee signing the major¬
ity report pretering the charge of
bribery in addition to these preferred
in the general report.
A minority report was also submit¬
ted, some, of the committee not agree¬
ing to the entire bill of charges. The
majority report was adopted.
Ihe following tvs iluti >n was intro*
duccd and unanimously passed:
Resolved, That W. L- Goldsmith
Comptroller General of the State of
Georgia,be impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors in office.
Resolved, That the accompanying
testimony, statements, exhibits and
rescript of proceedi >gs with this report
he referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary with instructions to prepare
and report without unnecessary delay
suitable articles of impeachment of the
said W. L. Goldsmith Comptroller
General.
Resolve, this House That a committee of seven
of be appointed and in¬
structed to proceed at once to the bar
ot tlie Senate of Georgia and there, in
the name of tlie House of Representa¬
tives and all the people of the State
of Georgia impeach W. L Goldsmith.
Comptroller General, office, of high and crimes
and misdemeanor in to in¬
form that body that formal articles of
impeachment will, in due time, be pro*
sen ted, and to request the Senate to
take such order in the premises as
they deem appropriate.
The preliminary proceeding for the
impeachment were conducted quietly
but amid more interest than was ever
before seen manifsted in tlie halt. The
interest seemed to be that suppressed
kind which knows no demonstration
or tumult. The galleries were crow¬
ded. Nearly every member of the
house Avas in his seat and many Sena¬
tors came over from that body and
were ranged in the visitors circle ol
the chamber. Silence prevailed and
the scene bordered on the solemn.
Soon after the adoption of the reso¬
lution the House adjourned.
The impeachment proceedings will
be passed who is without delay. Judge
Warner, in the Northern part
of the State, will be recalled to Atlan*
: 1 ♦> « hn-W
Tlie Process of Impeachment.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The possibility that the Legislature
of the State will soon have an im*
peachinent trial to conduct suggests
that an explanation of the technical
process of impeachment will be inter¬
esting reading for the public.
The manner of impeachment in the
Senate of the United States does not
differ in essential respects from the
method of each State. The House is
the body that must prefer articles of
impeachment and the charges on which
these articles are based. If matters
strong enough to suggest impeachment
are discovered they are to be reported
to the House, and a motion for im¬
peachment is made. A committee is
then appointed, to which this motion
is referred. This committee investi¬
gates carefully and searchiugly and
reports the result of its investigation
to the House. If this repoit is that
impeachment must be proceeded with,
the matter is prosecuted. If not, it is
dropped. It will be see.i therefore,
that the course of the House in ap¬
pointing a special committee, before
which the motion for the impeachment
of Comptroller Goldsmith should go,
acted in accordance with the prescri¬
bed methods. The wild-laud com¬
mittee, which moved that lie be im¬
peached, merely put the matter be¬
fore the House, and the law entitled
Mr. Goldsmith to a special committee
of the House to decide whether or not
the charges were of sufficient gravity
to warrant an impeachment. Tito
wild-land committee was not even a
committee of the House, but of the
Senate and House combined. Hence
it could not bring articles of impeach¬
ment. After the special committee
on the charges shall have reported
that they are lit for impeachment, the
same, or another committee is ap¬
pointed to inform the Senate that the
House desires to prefer articles of im¬
peachment, and to ask the Senate to
prepare to try them. After the Sen¬
ate notifies the Hor.se that it is ready,
the same committee, or another com¬
mittee of the House prepares the arti¬
cles of impeachment and sends them
ii.to the Senete. The Senate then re¬
solves itself into a high court of im*
peachinent, the Chief Justice of the
State presiding, and announces ready
for the trial. The II >usc then apv
points (usually, but not necessarily,
we think, ol its own members) a com¬
mittee that is know’ll as a board of
mating, rs. This board has full charge
of the case, and conducts the prosecu*
tion. When the articles are in and
the hoard of managers are ready, the
impeached is served with notice that
he c»n appear before the bar of the
Senate and defend himself against
these charges. If lie does not appear,
the ease is proceeded with ex parte.
If he does appear (he may appear if
he desires it by attorney) the case is
then put upon trial. Tlie Senate sits
in its capacity as a jury, and if there
arise any points upon which the Sen¬
ate shall disagree, these points shall
he discussed and adjusted in private
session of the S.-nate alone, just as a
com non law jury would discuss any
case before it in the jury to m. This
court of impeachment has tlio l ight to
send for w itnesses and papers, and the
investigation is conducted pretty
much as it would be before the courts
of the country. At the close of the
testimony argument is made by the
managers on the one side, and the de¬
fendant’s counsel on the other. Tlie
Senate then goes into session and
takes its vote. This yote, as well as
all other votes that are taken during
the impeachment trial, must be upon
the call of the yeas and nays, It re¬
quires a two*thjrds vote to convict in
thoc.Si of officers of the United States
in case of a State officer. This is
provision that is inserted in the Con¬
of the United State*:, This
to two-thirds of the Senators
There is no limit to the time
in an impeachment case.
Tlie penalty ot being found guilty
the articles of impeachment is that
person impeached shall be removed
from office, and shall be disqualified
holding any other office, of profit
trust in the State. This penalty
not, however, make the ease
the person impeached res ad
J[o can be presented before
courts of the country on the charge
which lie has been tried for im¬
Tiiis is the course of procedure set
and preset ibed f<>r the bringing
trial of impeachment cases. It
will be seen that every step is most
guarded, and deliberation is
at every turn. It behooves
Legislature charged with this
duty to move with tlie ex¬
caution, and be sure of its
before it takes any position.
action of impeachment is one of
the most important and essential that
be brought in any emut or before
tribunal, and it always deals with
so high in position or cbarac
ter that its verdict must affect the pub¬
lic system for good or for evil.
i vn d t • >(]»>.tv man r<o> >r*s fifty*
The Question of ....... ......
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The arrivals in Now York from
ropean wards of ports 40,000 arc reported to be £ ^
fact per month. I s ’
not worthy the attention 0 f
people ?
The WcsU ’™ States—particQi^,
Ohio and I Him.is—owe their pros.^j
ty chiefly to this cause. There ^
nearly 10,000,000 foreign born
citizens in the Unite*! States. The-,
were From 1845 in 1870 1854, 1,690,533 German,'
to nine years \
302 Germans emigrated to the UuUjj
States. This is greater than the pop.
illation of Georgia. In one year,
155,505, Germans arrived. In Q t , (
giu there were in 1S70 only 2 -',
Germans, and the total number of
foreigners was 11,127.
In 1872 the arrivals at Castle G
don New ir .
# York, were 449^483 • j Q
1873 they numbered 437,004, and 731
emigrant vessels from twenty-thiw
different ports arrived.
The Chief of the Bureau of Static
tics, Mr. Young, estimates that foity.
six per cent, of male adult immigrants
have been trained to various pursuits
nearly halt being skilled laborers.
The fact that negroes are, with lew
exceptions, not entrusted with m.
proved implements or machinery, and
that no cotton factory in the South
employs any negro labor, suggests
that Georgia needs skilled labor.
About 25 per cent, of the immi¬
grants arc under 15 yews of age, and
less than 15 per cent, aie over 40
leaving more than 60 per cent in tlie
prime of life. The number of males
is largely in excess of that of females.
The most eminent statisticians of this
country agree with Dr. Engel, of Her.
I in, in assuming that the capita! value
of each male immigrant is $1,500, ami
of each female $750, making the avor
age value $1,125, Dr. Young Ootl.
aiders the average value to be $800.
At this rate the emigration to th B
United States in 1873 added about
$338,000,000 to the wealth of tlie
country.
It is urged by some that we haw
not room for more people. The area
of Georgia is 58,000 square miles, and
the population at the last census 1 i’
184,109.
The area of 3elgium is 11,37*2
square miles, and the population was
in 1870 5,200,000. With less than
one filth the area, Belgium has five
times the population of Georgia.
With one*twelflh the area the Grand
Duchy of Baden has as many people
as Georgia.— Atlanta Dispatch.
An Atlanta correspondent ol the
Augusta News furnishis that p:qHi
with the following synopsis ol tlie
acts passed at the present session of
the legislature :
1. Section 4411 of the code is
amended so as to make larceny from
the person punishable as a misdemean¬
or, under section 4310 of the code, ex*
oept wheic the property stolen ex.
coeds $50 in value, in which case the
punislimeut is to ho not less than two
nor longer than five yoars in the petii*
tentiary.
2. The insolvent lists of Tax Col¬
lectors are to be allowed only by tlie
Ordinary. County Judges or 0 >unty
Commissioners, an 1 not by the Grand
Juries, and the Collectors are to make
oath that their lists are really insol¬
vent, and the Ordinary, etc, if not
satisfied, may send the fi fas. back
for another effort at collection.
3. In event of a vacancy in the of*
lice of Governor at the end of ld»
term, the President of the Senate or
Speaker of the House, whichever may
become acting Governor, shall act till
the next election, but if the vacancy
occur ssx months before the end of the
term, the acting Governor shall act
till the next election, but if the vacan*
cy occur six months before the end of
the term, the acting Governor is t
order an election, not less than thirty
nor more than sixty days from theva*
cancy fbr a" Governor, and convene
the Legislatme to receive the returns
4. Justice of the Peace and ^° ta '
lies Public and ex-officio J. P/s are
given jurisdiction in cases of contract
and torts to personal propeity up ?
$100, and are to have no criminal j“ r ”
isdiction except as committing court*,
a nd are to hold their courts month/
at fixed times and places.
5, Allows municipal court3to iu^ c ‘
fines on persons violating tlie niunk
pal ordinance ‘with the ultinatjve of
•, tbe
other punishment alhovcd hyr
in case such fines are not paid. nt *
6 Where the plea of jreeoupinc
put in the defendant may recovet ‘ •
damages in excesss of those k*D k
the plaintiff.
A Lady who was suffering undti
slight indisposition told her
that it was with the greatest di«*
she could breathe and the effort
tressed her exceedingly, q vvouUD ‘
dear!’ he soothingly r< s p° nd^
try,my
Weston, the great American walk’
belt and *° l -eh
ist, won the champions, in
cash in a recent six days vva Ik
miles in t» ! 51 S
rt on. He made 550