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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBER 28, 18C9.
Mr. Wimpy’s “Explanation.”
Of certain correspondence which was copied in
to our edition of yesterday from the New York
Tribune^ of the 18th, is telegraphed to the same
paper, of the 20th, and reads in this wise.
The Hon. John A. Wimpy, of Dahlonega,
Georgia, representative elect from that State,
whose letters relating to the purchase of coun
terfeit money were published in Saturday’s
Tribune, is now here. He states that the letters
were written at the suggestion of several per
sons in his town. Counterfeit moncy_ had been
circulated to a considerable extent in that, re
gion, and while the matter was under discussion,
Wogan & Co.’s circular, offering to sell “the
queer,” was received by a clergyman. It was
then supposed that the persons might be caught,
and Col. Wimpy was induced to send the letters
now published, in the hope of obtaining some
substantial evidence. Gov. Bollock and other
Georgia gentlemen here, say they have no
doubt that such are the real facts regarding Mr.
Wimpy’s connection with the New York swin
dlers.
It was certainly very kind and patriotic in
“the Hon. John A. Wimpy, of Dahlonega,
Georgia, Representative-elect from that State,”
to undertake the work of a United States detect
ive, not only without commission, per-diem,
mileage, or any other traveling expenses, but
even to pay out bis own money by the hundred
dollars, as he said ho did, to the Atlanta ex
pressmen, for a-box of counterfeit money, and
found, “ to my astonishment, sirs,” that he had
got nothing for his cool hundred but a wad of
old newspapers and a piece of ore!
All this the “Hon. John A Wimpy, of Dah
lonega, Georgia, Representative-elect from that
State,” says ho did “ in tho hope of obtaining
some substantial evidence” against tho New
York swindlers; and tho Tribune says tele
graphically that “ Gov. Bullock and other
Georgia gentlemen here, *’ (Blodgett and Swayzo
perhaps) have no donbt these are tho real facts
in tho case! Why did not Wimpy deny tho hand
writing and call for proof ? Why not take old
Toney Weller’s suggestion and prove an “ alla-
bey ?” • Why not, in short, set tip any other plea
than this?
And that, too, after all his protestations to
.Wogan & Co., that ho was one of the “true
bine”—had the “wring of the right-metal”—
‘hneant -business”—intended a “big thing”—
and so on. “Sirs,” says tho “Hon. John A
Wimpey, -of> Dahlonega, Representative elect
from that State,” to Wogan & Co., “I will not
blow on yorf’—“you may have the utmost con
fidence in mo,-for I will not betray yon”—and
who could distrust such assurances as these
from “the Honz-John A. Wimpy, of Dahlonega,
Georgia,- Representative elect from that State ?”
And more especially when the Hon. John A.
Wimpy seis up the .very fact that he is a Repre
sentative to Congress as the reason why he must
do “a big riling;” ;;in the way or circulating
counterfeit money. “I was,” says he, “elected
to the Forty-second Congress, last April was a
year ago—so l want to- try and circulate some
of your counterfeit money.” He was in need of
funds to make a creditable appearance in Wash
ington, where people cannot always satisfactori
ly account -for funds -in-hand. Money was
scarce • in the Sixth District. “The people,”
says he, “are ignorant, and.without a currency.
I know I can circulate a targe quantity” of your
-counterfeits. “I am a lawyer here in good
standing.” .1 have a.vast deal of influence with
the people.”
All the conditions, in fact,.were as favorable
as the Hon. John A. Wimpy’s necessities were
pressing, and warranted his confidence that he
“could make a big thing” out of the enterprise
Is point of fact, had not the firms of “Noyes
& Co., 96 Wall street,” and “Wogan and Co.,
73 Nassau street,” turned to be mere myths—
decoy-ducks—bogus firms under which to carry
on tricks to get money from the weak -and the
wicked,-who were willing to pay out a-little
money tpnbny the facilities of extensive frauds;
we say, if 6uch firms really existed and .sold
counterfeit money as described, it seems to ns
very certain that “the Hon. John A. Wimpy, of
Dahlonega, Gs., Representative-elect from that
State,” instead.of losing what ho had paid for
counterfeits, would have made a big thing of
the business of eircnlating them, mnch to the
grief of his “ignorant” constituency, who were
“without a currency,” but would have found
themselves fully supplied with that article, such
as it was, by their indefatigable representative
in Congress.
And, finally, did it never occur to the “ Hon.
John A Wimpy, of Dahlonega, Georgia, Repre
sentative-elect from that State, and to Gov.
Bullock and Mr. Wimpy’s other underwriters,
that people who are playing detectives, whether
at their own expense or that of too government,
don’t -usually approach their qaaries in their
own names and much less with rfessences! Bat
tho Hon. John A Wimpy refers Wogan & Co.
to two creditable firms in New York in order to
satisfy Wogan fc Co. that he is the veritable
Wimpy, “Representative-elect from Georgia,”
who wants the counterfeit money. This is as
much as to say: Call on these firms, Messrs.
Wogan & Co. They have my hand-writing.
Compare, and seo for yourselves that this is the
same. That I am in dead earnest—want the
money; and, so far from your running any risk
in sending it, I put myself in advanco in yonr
hands.
To sum it all up, we think that neither “the
Hon. John A Wimpy, of Dahlonega, Georgia,
Representative-elect from that State,” or any of
his backers, can escape this unlucky collapse by
any such story as they have telegraphed to the
Tribune. It will not do, even for marines. By
Ins own testimony he was in correspondence not
only with one, but two firms for tho purpose of
“making a big thing” in tho way of circulating
counterfeit money. If he failed, it was not for
tho want of trying.
Georgia Matters.
The noon dispatches yesterday say that Gov.
Bullock will convene the Georgia Leeislaturo
on Monday, tho lOtlx January next. Doubts
are expressed whether there will be a quorum,
which doubts mnst be founded on the idea that
the Democratic members will not respect the
proclamation.
The bill in the Senate to repeal “so mnch of
the statutes as prohibits the State of Georgia
from organizing her militia,” is intended to
supply the omission of the State Guard pro
vision in the bill to promote reconstruction.
Cotton Seed as Food fob Cattle.—The Con-
stitntionalist has the following: Quito a discus
sion is going on about cotton seed as food for
cows. Somo persons contend that it detrimen
tally affects the milk and butter of cows thus
fed. Others contend that this kind of food is
admirable. We have some knowledge of the
matter. It is this: A great quantity of cotton
seed, used in the raw state, will undoubtedly
injure the milk and butter of cows. But a
small quantity, say two quarts per day, well
cooked and mixed with bran, meal, slops, etc.,
wifi, increase the cow’s yieldand do this without
any perceptible bad effects upon the milk or
butter.
The South Georgia Railroad, which is to con
nect Albany with tho Atlantic and Gulf road at
Thomas villa, ja qow running tri-weekly passen
ger trains from Thopsasville as far as Pelham.
The gap to complete tha rood to Albany is thir
ty-two miles, and we learn tho work is in tho
hand* of energetic contractors wjtlj a large foroe
at work. " *
Experiments with Manures.
Let ns turn a moment from reconstruction
and the bill to promote Georgia, to the hot less
fragrant, but mnch more useful topic of Fertil
izers. Col. T. J. Smith, of White Bluff, Wash
ington county, Ga., furnishes the Central Geor
gian of yesterday with a report of the result
of experiments carefully conducted by himself,
with twenty-two of the standard fertilizers and
combinations of them. As such information
iostnow is very timely and valuable, wo con
dense the following from tho longer report of
the OoloneL The land he selected was uniform
in quality and all very poor. Tho preparations
for the crop, application of the manures and
planting, he describes as follows:
In tho preparation I followed the ordinary
plan of running off the land with the common
shovel plough, running twice in the same row,
to tho dopth of six or seven inches, running tho
rows three feet nine inches apart, and a space
of five feet between each four rows, with tho
rows one hundred and forty yards long. In
each of these four furrows or rows, I had the
different fertilizers distributed at tho rate of
twelve dollars per acre, (equal monied value of
each brand.) Around these manured rows I had
a long scooter plow run on each side, forming
a ridge and covering tho mnnnres. Around this
I had a turning plow run forming a bed. In
these turn plow furrows I run a subsoil plow
deep inihe subsoil,breaking tho land thoroughly
to tho dopth of seven inches or more, the re
maining unbroken ridge I run a double winged
turning plow, completing the preparations for
planting.
On tho sixth day of May I opened the beds
and planted the seed with the Dow Law Cotton
Planter, a machine I used before and since the
war successfully; a planter that I think stands
yet at the head of snch machines.
The land being dry my cotton did not perfect
its stand beforo the sixth of June. The culti
vation adopted was the ordinary plan being
generally adopted by Georgia planters; sweep
ing with the Hancock or Dickson sweep, run
ning from one to two inches deep—not on the
modern mode of deep cnltnre and lifting the
land. The latter plan I am sure generally
adopted would control the production so materi
ally that the prices of the material would range
high. In this light we would bo benefitted as
producers, whilst the poor of the land would go
unclad and unfed.
The Colonel then reports tho result of three
different examinations of the progress of tho
crop on the 17th of Juno, 15th of July and tho
10th of August, which wo omit, and publish
only the productive result of seed cotton acta-
ally gathered, premising that where combina
tions of manures are reported the weights were
equal, and the area of land to which tho fertili
zers were applied is not given, but described as
less than an acre to each.
No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 801 lbs.; Georgia Fer.
tilizer, 781 lbs.; Georgia Fertilizer and Peru
vian, 779 lbs.; Peruvian and dissolved bones,
738 lbs.; Peruvian Phoenix, salt and Plaster,
736 lbs.; Gustin’s Rawbone, 734 lbs.; Peruvian
and Phoenix, 734 lbs.; Patapsco, 733 lbs.: Dick
son’s Compound, 731 lbs., Patapsco and Peru
vian, 731 lbs ; Sea Fowl and Peruvian, 729 lbs.;
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co., 729 lbs.; Sea Fowl, 727
lbs.; Peruvian andBaker’sIsland, 726;Peruvian
and Eureka, 726 lbs.; Peruvian and Pacifio, 724
lbs.; Eureka, 719 lbs.; Soluble Pacific, 718 lbs.;
Peruvian and Ammoniated Rodunda, 711 lbs.;
Phoenix Guano, 704 lbs.; Ammoniated Ro
dunda Guano, 409 lbs.; natural soil with noth'
ing, 383 lbs. ‘
Coni Convention.
SECOND DAY’S PBOCEEDINGS—CO-OPERATION OF THE
IS ATT/ROADS.
From the Intelligencer.
The Coal Convention met at 11 o’clock yes'
terday morning. CoL L. P. Grant nailed the
meeting to order, and asked for the report of
the Committee on Railroads. CoL E. Hulbert,
Chairman of that Committee, made the follow
ing report:
“That fully comprehending the great impor
tance of developing our Southern coal fields, and
that it can only be accomplished by and with
the assistance of the railway companies in fur
nishing prompt and ample transportation at low
rates, respectfully recommend that the present
rate of one and one quarter of one per cent, per
ton per mile, be maintained, and that the num
ber of coal cars be increased to three hnndred,
equitably proportioned among the roads inter
ested.”
The following resolutions were presented by
this committee:
•Resolved, That in the opinion of this Conven
tion it is both the interest and duty of onr rail
ways to use all legitimate means at their com
mand, to develop the coal fields of the South.
Resolved, That the stock of coal cars should
be increased to three hnndred as early as prac-
ticable, apportioned as follows:
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad 100
Western and Atlantic Railroad 115
Georgia Railroad. 25
Macon and Western Railroad 25
Atlanta and West Point Railroad 10
Montgomery and West Point Railroad. 25
The committee, on behalf of tho coal compa
nies and mining interests, made the following
report: The Tennessee mines and those in
North Georgia now being worked, ship from
490 to 500 tons doily, about three-fifths of which
is sold in Tennessee; the balance, two-fifths, is
shipped to' points south of Chattanooga and
passes over the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
This coal is produced by six different compa
nies, which are working upon an aggregate
capital of abont $1,590,000. This capital has
principally been invested and tho mines opened
since tho war, and the quantity of coal shipped
has increased more than 500 per cent, in four
years. The rapidly increasing demand for coal,
and the utter inability of the coal companies to
supply it, has made the business exceedingly
vexations—and yet not remunerative. The
capacity of the Tennessee and North Georgia
mines, opened and in good working order, is
four times greater than their actual product—
that is, about 1000 tons per day—and from a
careful estimate of the actual demands npon the
different companies in the shape of orders—it
is certain that 1000 tons per day could now bo
sold.
Tho Committee to whom was referred the
“demand for coal,” made tho following report
through thoir Chairman, Milo Pratt, Esq.: That
from all statistics and facts they have been able
to obtain, and a careful estimate where facts
could not be bad, they find that tho section
embracing Nashville, and all points this side as
far as Stevenson, and from that point west on
the M. & G. R. B., as far as Grand Junction,
will require 175,000 tons. Of this amount about
50,000 tons are furnished by the river com
munication; the balance, 125,000 tons, by rail,
taking Knoxville on the north, thence south and
east, including Chattanooga, and as far south
as Montgomery, Columbus, Macon and Augus
ta, and all intermediate points, it will require
fully 150,000 tons. These figures have been ar
rived at by absolute sales and orders received
from principal points mentionod, and a careful
estimate of infovmodiato potato, and it Is confi
dently believed that the amount above named
is under the real year’s demand. Yonr Com
mittee will add, that to move this amount of
coal named, will require 34,375 cars, of 8 tons
each. That allowing a car 7£ days to deliver
each car load, and counting three hundred
working days per annum, it will require 859
cars to perform this service. Taking tho
amount consumed, from Knoxville south, in
cluding Chattanooga, and npon the above basis
it will require 468 care. Tho present amount
of coal that is moved sonth per day below Dal
ton does not average pver 17 care per day; to
fill the present demand it would require 52 per
day. The coal demand next year will probably
bo twice as large as this year.
The committee are folly satisfied that there is
an existing and actunl demand for twice tho
amount of coal shipped; that there is a demand
for 1000 tons per day, and that this demand
would continue through six months of the year.
The demand at points south of Chattanooga is
less than one-half the whole amount, say from
300 to 400 tons per day; while the actual ship
ments to points south of Chattanooga do not
exceed I0O tuns per day. The difference be
tween the actnal shipments, and the demand is
500 ton per day, and the failure to supply the
demand is alone attributable to the want of
transportation. To the Railroads, if they could
furnish the transportation for this coal demand,
and not shipped, at an average of 8 cents per
bushoL tho income would be $50,000.
The committee beg leave further to report
that there is a contingent demand for coni not
taken into the above estimate, which would
cease to be contingent and becomo certain as
soon as the supply was assured, which would
swell tho demand greatly beyond the above fig
ures. This contingent demand comes from
that class of persons who inhabit all the cities
and towns of Georgia and Tennessee along the
lines of railway, who have pat in grates, or seen
their neighbors do it, to he taken ont upon the
first or second cold spell, when the promised]
coal did not come. And it embraces another
class not so numerous, but whose demands are
more mighty, so far as the commerce and pub-
lioweal are concerned, to-wit: those who have
suspended or failed to commence manufacturing
operations for the want of a uniform and certain
supply of cheap coal. The committee would
further report that tho coal fields of Tennessee,
and immediately on the different lines of rail
way are inexhaustible; they, have now been
thoroughly opened, and the quality of the coal'
folly tested for all purposes, so that the quantity
and quality are no longer matters of doubt or
speculation. The coal is well adapted to all the
uses to which the ingenuity of man has applied
it, either in England or America, and judging by
the light of tho past, as well in the old world as
the new, these immense coal fields now being
developed will soon totally change the business
of the country.
All over these beds of coal will be miners
towns, in tho valleys below these coal fields will
be large iron mills, and all along the line of
railway, extending out Sonth, and in daily com
munication with the coal fields, the world’s
great staple in its raw state, will be manufac
tured. All history will be an untruth, and it
will be an exception withont an examplo if this
unbedded wealth does not, in its own vicinity,
develope in mechanism, all that man is capable
of doing. It will drive your locomotives with
its licking flames, and load their trains with its
precious diamonds. It will propel your steamers
and ballast yonr ships. It will spin yonr yams
and weave yonr prints. It will soften yonr iron
for tho blacksmith and harden yonr steel for the
machinist. It will melt yonr limestone and
smelt yonr copper. It will give to tho me
chanic his tools and the farmer his implements
of husbandry. It'will cook yonr dinners and
warm yonr children. It will give yon a cheerful
firo and a happy home. _ £_
All history will bo a falsehood if this imbed
ded wealth does not make this a great manufac
turing country, with a vast population of thriv
ing and prosperous mechanics, artisans and
farmers, from whose varied pursuits the wealth
of toil is tho only wealth to4 ingenuity of man
has been able to preserve and transmit to a
second generation. Wo ask not the Railroads
to take care of us, and our especial interests,
but we ask them to unite with us in developing
in onr own day that wealth which a short-sighted
policy on our part will leave for future genera
tions.
The above figures abont tho supply of coal
have been made without any direct reference
to tho developments in iron which undoubtedly
will soon bo the greatest source of demand, os
the country adjacent these coal fields taken into
account, tho variety of ores in iron is perhaps
not surpassed by any portion of the United
States.
The following preamblo and resolutions wore
adopted by the Convention:
Whereas, Tho facilities afforded by the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, in the way of
transportation of coal and iron are in excess of its
pro rata; and whereas, this road has been the
pioneer, and has taken the lead in reducing the
rates on coal and iron to. a point whioh has
tended very materially to increase the con
sumption of these products; be it therefore
Resolved, That the hearty thanks of the mi
ners and dealers, assembled in this convention,
are duo and are hereby tendered to Col.E. Hal
bert, Superintendent of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, for tho very cordial, earnest
and efficient manner in which he has labored
to develop tho coal and iron interest of Georgia
and Tennessee.
A committee of five was appointed to confer
with the agent of tho English steamship line,
as to the shipment of coal to Brunswick, Ga.
After which the Convention adjourned.
Georgia AllUirs.
State Dental Association.—The Savannah
News learns that the State Dental Association
of Georgia will hold its annnal meeting in that
city on the 28th instant. This is the first meet
ing of the Association which has been held since
the war. It is expected that there will bo a
general attendance of the members of the Asso
ciation from all portions of the State.
The Atlantic and Gulp Raxlboad.—We paid
a visit to the depot of this road yesterday, and
were somewhat surprised at the immense
amount of freight which is now passing over
the road. We noticed large consignments of
goods for sixty-five different points in Georgia,
Florida and Alabama. From onr observations,
we are satisfied that tho business of the road is
rapidly increasing, and we think it is fair to
presume that in the course of two or three years
the company will be able to pay fair dividends
on the amount of the capital invested.
[Savannah Republican 22d.
Upon tho passage of the bill “promoting”
Georgia, the Nows says:
We consider the greatest danger passed, and
it now behooves onr people to consider how best
to meet and bear np under the wrongs to which
wo are subjected. We would counsel modera
tion, firmness, patience and forbearance—abovo
all, union and concert amongst ourselves. What
effect the rcseatiDg of the negroes, and the en
forcement of the test oath will have npon the
Legislature—whether it will give entire control
of that body to Bollock and his plundering
clique, we have no means at present of judging.
Should it not we may yet proteotthe State from
spoliation.
The Republican has the following npon the
same subject:
The first idea that occurs in the contemplation
of this extraordinary condition of affairs is that
the people of Georgia have no lot or part in the
matter. It is simply the work of a powerful and
overruling central despotism, backed irt all its
demands by the bayonets of Federal soldiery.
We are in no sense responsible for what this
Legislature shall do or say. They are purely
the creatures of Congress, the sympathizers
with its purposes and the exponents of its will.
Let them do what they may, the people of
Georgia will recognize no responsibilityas rest
ing on them for the acts of such a body.
The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel counsels as
follows:
But above all things we should impress upon
our friends the necessity of keeping cool and
self-possessed under this trying emergency.
Nothing can be accomplished by encouraging
or giving way to excitement or bitter invectives.
Let us nurse our wrath for a more suitable oc
casion. The time will come when Georgia will
be avenged upon her enemies, hut it is not
now.
The Constitutionalist gives the matter only
tho following paragraph:
Our readers may be disgusted but they will
hardly be surprised at the telegraphie announce
ment that the House of Representatives has
concurred in the Senate Bill for the re-recon-
strnctionof Georgia. The Radicals in and ont
of this State may find that their difficulties have
just begun. Meanwhile, we can safely promise
them that everything they force npon ns will be
undone at the very first practicable opportunity.
We dip the following from the Columbus Sun
and Times:
Change of Route.—An attempt is now being
made by influential parties to divert the Savan
nah and Memphis Railroad to Eufaula, and
thence to be continued and connect with the
road which will soon be completed to Chatta
hoochee. The proposed scheme, it is said, has
sen favorably received by the officers.
The Sandereville Central Georgian of the 22d
contains the following local items:
The remains of CoL R. W. Flournoy were re
moved from the old homestead on Monday last
and buried in the Sandereville cemetery. '
Mr. Joseph W. Scott, for many years a citizen
of Washington county, died, after a few hours’
illness, of congestive chill, on Friday lash
Mr. John A. Martin, of this county, slaugh
tered a thirty month hog, a few days ago,
weighing 437 pounds net, Who says we should
not have a fair?
The Confedebate Cemetery at Marietta,
Ga.—I have now closed my work here for the
year, having exhausted the appropriations of
$2,000 made by the State, and $2,000 more
gained by onr concerts last winter. With this
amount I removed from the battlefields of North
Georgia, daring the past summer, 1,127 bodies,
besides having a great deal of work done in the
way of improving the various sections by walks
and drives, making stone gutters and turfing
the graves, etc.
It now remains for the people of Georgia to
say whether this work shall be continued until
the last soldier who gavohislife for duty’s sake,
and nowlies scattered over the field of com and
wheat, and by lonely roadsides, shall receive
what his country owes him—a burial in conse
crated ground. Respectfully,
Mary J. Green, Trustee
Georgia Memorial Association.
Thiers was asked if. he should speak mnch
next session ; he said, “Not at all." “Not at
all ? and why ?” “Because you should never
make a noise in the Chamber of a sick man.”
Incisions or the Supreme Court ol
the State of Georgia.
Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, December 31.
(Reported expressly for the. Constitution, Jjy N.
J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter.)
John Atwell, exeentor, plaintiff in error, vs.
AnnE. Holliman, defendant in error. From
Quitman. Motion on assignment of dower.
Bsown, O. J.—The executor sold the lands
of the testator subject to the widow’s right of
dower. The widow and another person became
the purchasers at the sale,but had not complied
with the terms of the sale, and no title had been
made by die exeentor. Held: That the execu
tor bad such interest in the land as entitled him
to traverse the return of the Commissioners,
-under section 3974 of the Code.
Judgment reversed.
A. Hood, B. S. Worrill for plaintiff in erroa.
H. Fielder for defendant.
Addison B. Brown, plaintiff in error, vs. Wil
liam Sims, defendant in error. From Stewart
—Relief.
Brown, C. J.—A plea which simply alleges
that the defendant lost property during the war,
withont connecting the plaintiff with the loss,
is not sufficient, if sustained by proof, to au
thorize the jury to reduce the amount of debt,
no matter whether it was contracted before qr
since the first of June, 1865; and it was not
error in the Court to sustain a demurrer to the
.plea and order it to be stricken.
■Judgment affirmed.
E. H. Beall and J. L. Wimberly, for plaintiff
■in error.
M. Gillis, by the Reporter, for defendant.
M. S. Grubbs, administratrix, plaintiff in
error, vs. D. G. McGlaun, defendant in error.
From Webster—Motion to dissolve injunction.
Brown, C. J.—1. As the equity of this will is
not sworn off by the answer, this court will not
reverse the dicision of the Chancellor in refus
ing to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the
bilL
2. A purchase by an administrator, at her
own sale, is voidable, and may be set aside at
the instance of heirs, legatees or creditors,when
necessary to the security of the claims of the
latter, if proper proceedings are instituted for
that purpose within a reasonable time.
Judgment affirmed.
C. B. Wootten, J. L. Wimberly, by the re
porter, for plaintiff in error.
S. H. & W. A. Hawkins, for defendant.
Samuel A McNett, administrator, plaintiff in
error, vs. Cyrns B. Harkie, et al., defendants in
error. From Randolph—Distress for Rent.
Brown, C. J.—1. When property was levied
upon by a distress warrant for rent, and the de
fendant filed his affidavit under seelion 4012 of
the Code, and gave security for the eventual
condemnation money, and the property was re
plevied by him, and npon the trial the jury
found for the plaintiff, it was his right to sign
up judgment on that verdict against the defend
ant and his seenrities for the amount of the ver
dict as “eventualcondemnation money,” audit
was error in the Court to set aside the execution
issued upon such judgment
2. In such case it is the duty of the levying
officer to return the bond with security to the
Superior Court where the issue is to be “tried
by jury as provided for the trial of claims,” and
the Court should cause the same oath to be ad
ministered to the jnry as in claim cases.
Judgment reversed.
W. D. Kidoo, by A. Hood, for plaintiff in
error.
E. L. Douglas for defendant.
James Gardner and Dillard Spradly, plaintiffs
in error, vs. Alfred Kersy, et al., defendant
in error. Motion for injunction from Lee.
Bfown, C. J.—1. This Court will not control
the discretion of the Chancellor in refusing to
grant an injnnction, to stay the execution of a
writ of possession, after a recovery in eject
ment: upon the allegation that the plaintiff
npon whose demise the recovery was had, was
dead at tho rendition of the judgment, when
there wore fonr demises from as many different
lessors, and the defendant' in the bill answers
that he does not know whether the recovery
was npon the demise of the deceased plaintiff
or not, and the judge who tried the case certi
fies that he cannot undertake to say npon what
demise the recovery was had; and no copy of
the record is brought beforo this Court to ena
ble it to determine the fact.
2. The verdict and the judgment of the Court,
is to be upheld by every reasonable intendment,
and the allegation in the bill filed as above stated,
of a fact which is matter of record, should bo
judged by the rocord, and if it is not shown by
the record to be true, it is not error in the Chan
cellor on a motion for an injnnction to disre
gard it.
3. A plaintiff in Ejectment, who has judg
ment in his favor, is entitled to be placed in
possession of tho premises, including the grow
ing crop if any, as against the defendant and
those holding nnder him; provided, he has not
recovered as mesne profits the rent for that year.
4. A plaintiff in Ejectment who has recov
ered rents as mesne profits for the year in
which the recovery is had, is not entitled to the
crop of that year; While he is entitled to the
possession of the premises, he is bound to al
low the tenant ingress and egress, to gather
and carry away the crop. If he has recovered
rent for part of tho year, and the crop is grow
ing, but not gathered at the date of the recov
ery, the tenant is entitled to his pro rata part
of tho crop. But if no rent is recovered for
the year the growing crop goes with the land.
5. If the plaintiff, who has recovered the rent
for the year, takes possession of the premises,
and appropriates the crop, or refuses to permit
the tenant to gather it, tho tennnt has a
right at law to recover the value of the crop.
And as the complainant in this bill had a foil
and complete remedy at law, the Court did not
err in refusing to grant the Injunction.
Judgment affirmed.
F. H. West, Vason & Davis, for plaintiffs in
error.
Hawkins & Burke, for defendants.
John Bonner, plaintiff in error, vs. J. B.
Martin, administrator, defendant in error.
From Carroll. Motion to open judgment.
Brown, C. J. A. obtained judgment Against
B. in October, 1867, npon a note given daring
the war for “borrowed Confederate money.” B.
after the passage of the act known as the Re
lief Law> filed his application to open tho judg
ment, npon the ground, among others, that in
1863 he tendered to A tho foil amount of prin
cipal and interest due on tho noto, adding
thereto a Barn sufficient to make np the depre
ciation of said currency, and that the non-pay
ment of tho debt was owing to the refusal of
plaintiff to receive the money so tendered.
That in May, 1866, he tendered to the plaintiff
the fall value of said debt, according to the
usual rule in scaling, in United States currency,
which was refused, and that the non-payment
of said debt at that time was owing to said re
fusal. Held: That this created in equity in
favor of B., which, by the strict rales of law in
relation to tender, in existence at tho time the
judgment was rendered, he was not able to set
np as a defence, and that tho act of the Legis
lature, providing for the opening of the judg
ment, to let in this equitable defense, is Con-
stitntionaL
Judgment reversed.
McCay, J., concurred, but gave no written
reasons.
Wabneb, J.—dissenting.—The second section
of the Relief Act of 18G8, which authorizes the
opening and sealing judgments rendered prior
to tho 1st of June, 18G5, upon any of the
grounds specified in that act, is, in my my judg
ment, not only in violation of the 10th section
of 1st article of the Constitution of the United
States, but in violation of the express provisions
of the Constitution of 18G8 of this State.
(This case was argU6d at last term, and held
np by the Court.
Austin & Reese, by L. J. Glenn, for defend
ant in error. '
Merrills, for defendant.
Trowbridge, Dwight & Co., and Hines &
Hobbs, vs. Annio E. Rawson, Administratrix of
Charles W. Rawson. Motion to punish for con
tempt. From Dougherty.
McCay, J.—1. When tho courts of this State
and the courts of tho United States have con
current jurisdiction over tho subject matters
and parties to a controversy, that tribunal which
first actually takes the jurisdiction will retain it.
2. If a suit bo brought in a State court, and
that court, in the exercise of its proper powers,
enjoins ono of toe parties to toe suit before it
from reducing his demand to a judgment, until
certain assets shall be marshaled, and certain
questions of priority in toe distribution of those
assets be settled, it is a violation of the injunc
tion for toe party enjoined to attempt to escape
the effects of toe injunction by commencing
proceedings to get a judgment in the Cironit
Court. Courts of toe United States and toe
State laws may panlsh any one of toe enjoined
parties, or their agents, who thus act, for con
tempt of its process.
3. A State court cannot order a suit brought
in a United States court to be dismissed, or pro
ceedings in it to be stayed; bat it may punish
its own suitors for disobeying its process of in-
junction by bringing such suit in contempt of
said prooess.
Brown, C. J., concurred.—Laying down the
following rales, which are in his- opinion ap
plicable to the case.
. 1. The State courts are exempt from all in
terference by toe Federal tribunals, and toe
Federal courts are exempt from all interference
by the State tribunals, and each is destitute of
ail power to restrain either toe process or pro
ceedings in the other. Circuit courts of toe
United States, and State courts, act separately
and independently of each other; and in their
respective spheres of action, toe prooess issued
by the one, is as far beyond toe reach of toe
other, as if toe line of division between them
“was traced by landmarks and monuments visi
ble to toe eye.” Appellate relations exist in a
class of cases between the State courts and toe
Supreme Court of the United States; bnt there
are no such relations between toe State courts
and the Circuit courts.
2. The Circuit Court of toeUnited States and
the State courts, in certain controversies be
tween citizens of different States, are courts of
concurrent and co-ordinate jurisdiction, and
toe general rule is, that as between courts of
concurrent jurisdiction toe court that first ob
tains possession of the controversy, or of the
property in dispute, mnst be allowed to dispose
of it, withont interference or interruption from
too co-ordinate, court. Such questions usually
arise in respect to property attached on mesne
process, or property seized npon execution;
and the general rale is, that where there are
two or moro tribunals competent to issne pro
cess to bind toe goods of a party, the goods
shall be considered as effectually bound by tho
anth rity of tti- process under which they were
first attached or seized. 20 How. 583. 24 How.
454, 3 Wallace, 334, G Wallacs, 195-G.
3. In this case, the^plaintiffs in error having
gone voluntarily into the State Court, and an
injnnction having issued against them by that
Court, restraining farther action till the assets
of the estate conld be marshaled, it was a con
tempt of the authority of the State Court,, in to
whi<ch too parties had violently come, and which
had obtained possession of the controversy, for
the plaintifis to commence proceedings in toe
United States Court npon the same matter of
controversy, till toe dissolution of toe injunction
in toe State Court; and the State Court had
toe power to maintain its dignity, and enforce
its authority by punishing the attorneys of the
complainants for violating its injunction by
bringing a suit in the United States Court, or
otherwise disobeying its process, till it had final
ly disposed of toe matter in dispute.
4. But toe State Court cannot order the case
dismissed in the Circuit Court. It can only
punish those subject to its orders, who disobey
its injnnction; and it mnst leave toe other par
ty to toe litigation, to move in toe Circuit Court
to stay proceedings in the action there brought
in violation of toe injunction of the State Court
till the final disposition of toe case in that court.
10 Howard 71.
Warner, J., Concurring.—It appears from
the record that Trowbridge, Dwight & Co. aro
citizens of New York, and that they have insti
tuted a suit in toe Fifth Circuit Court of the
United States against Annie E. Rawson, admin
istratrix of C. W. Rawson, deceased, a citizen
of this State, to foreclose a mortgage. The
Court below passed an order “requiring Hines
& Hobbs, Attorneys at Law for Trowbridge,
Dwight & Co., to dismiss the said snit, or pro
viding in the said Fifth Circuit Court of the
United States for the foreclosure of said mort
gage, and in default thereof, that they be con
sidered in contempt of this Court.” Whilst I
do not question the power and authority of the
Court below to pnnish the defendants for a vio
lation of its process of injunction, (if indeed it
has been violated by them,) but. I do deny the
power of the State Court to order and require
Hines & Hobbs, the Attorneys at Law, of Messrs.
Trowbridge, Dwight & Co., to dismiss their suit
pending in toe Fifth Circuit Court of toe United
States; or in default thereof to be considered
in contempt. If toe State Conrt has too power
and authority to compel the attorneys of the non
resident creditor to dismiss his snit pending in
toe Circnit Conrt of the United States, it has toe
power and authority for all practical purposes
to repeal and render nugatory that provision of
the Federal Constitution and the acts of Con-
which secure to toe non-resident creditor tho
right to sue a citizen of Georgia in the Circnit
Court of the United States. The Constitution
of toe United States, and the laws of toe United
States, enacted in pureuance thereof, is the su
preme law of the land, and no department of
the State government has the power, either di*
rectly or indirectly, to violate or defeat that su
preme law of toe land. In my judgment, the
conrt below had no legal power or authority to
order the Attorneys of Trowbridge, Dwight &
Co., to dismiss their snit pending in the Circuit
Conrt of toe United States against a citizen of
this State in accordance with the Constitution
and laws thereof, to say nothing of toe impro
priety of interfering with the jurisdiction and
business of that Court by an order of the State
Court for that purpose. I am, therefore, of the
opinion that the judgment of toe court below
should be reversed.
Yason & Davis, Hines & Hobbs, Lochrane &
Clark for plaintiff in 'error.
Wright & Warren for defendants.
Michael Gormeley vs. John L. Larramore.
Motion to set aside verdict. From Randolph.
McCay, J.—A motion to set aside a verdict on
toe ground that one of toe jnrors was not upon
toe list required by law to be filed by tho com
missioners, to revise toe jnry box, is an objec
tion propter defectum, and arises too late after
the verdict, though tho movant did not know the
fact alleged, until after the verdict. ^
Judgment affirmed.
E. L. Douglass for plaintiffs in error.
A. Hood for defendant in error.
James R. Dawson vs. R. J. F. Grist. Motion
to set aside judgment. From Randolph.
McCay, j.—Tho Superior Courts of this State
have no jurisdiction to set asido and vacate a
judgment of a Superior Conrt in this State in
1866, on toe ground that it is founded on a debt,
the consideration of which was slaves or the
heir thereof. Whilst toe conrt and officers, as
now organized may not have jurisdiction to va
cate and annnl it
Judgment reversed.
John T. Clark for plaintiff in error.
Hood & Kiddoo, Fielder for defendant
John Neal, et al, vs. George Patton. Motion
for new trial—From MitchelL
McCay, J.—1. Sales by administrators and
executors, when it is not otherwise provided
by will, of any property of toe estate except
annual crops carried to market, must be at
public outcry to the highest bidder, and'a pur
chaser is bound to see that the administrator
or exeentor is apparently proceeding nnder the
prescribed forms.
2. To constitute a legal private sale by an
executor or administrator, of annnal crops,
they mnst be actually carried to market and
sold, they can not be sold on the plantation.
3. A mere direction in a will that the execu
tor, as soon as practicable, pay toe debts, does
not of itself authorize toe executor to sell, much
less to sell at private sale, too effects of toe
estate coming into his hands.
4. A witness may state that one acted as
agent, bnt this does not show his power to act,
nor the extent of toe authority, nor can a wit
ness prove an agency by Btating that he has
seen toe writing containing the appointment
The paper mnst be produced, or if properly ac
counted for, its execution and contents most be
proven.
5. Where there is prooT that an appointment
of an agent id in writing, and toe question is as
to the extent of the power, the paper must be
produced or accounted for, and toe agenoy is
not proven by showing complaints, by the prin
cipal of toe agent, and by his employing conn-
sel to get toe effects ont of the agent’s hands.
7. If there be statements in an answer in
equity, not responsive to the bill, and toe conrt
charge toe jury that the defendants answer in
response to the bill, is evidence, itis error in the
conrt if it fail to charge that matter notin reply
to the charges, is not evidence. The court ought
either by specific mention of the points not re
sponsive, or by general instructions, according
to toe nature of the case, point ont to the jnry
the application of toe rale to the billandanswer
to the court.
7. Where a hill charged that the defendant
had bought tho property of an estate from ono
who was neither ex'ecutornor administrator, and
the answer admitted toe purchase, bnt set np
that toe person selling was the agentofthe exe
cutor, and in proof annexed what purported to
be a copy of a power of attorney from toe exe
cutor, the answer sotting up toe ngency is not
evidence, and the power of attorney must bo
proven, in too manner prescribed in other cases.
Judgment reversed.
•Vason & Davis, Lyon, De Graffenreid and
Irvin, for plaintiffs iq error.
J. L. Seward, Henry Morgan, A. P. Wright,
for defendant.
Heinesken and Palmer, vs. Allen Barbry. At
tachment from Randolph.
McCay, J.—Where an action was brought for
damages against Commission Merchants, on
the ground that in violation of their oontract to
hold certain cotton until toe first of March,
they had, to the great loss of the plaintiff, sold
it on the first of the previons January, a state
ment by the plaintiff to defendant’s agent,
made after the sale took place, and the contro
versy had arisen that he would have been satis
fied had the cotton brought a certain sum,
(which was less than that claimed,) is not evi
dence. Itis at best but an offer of compro
mise, not acted npon by the parties.
Where the defendant in an attachment,
claimed nine hundred and eighty dollars and
eighty-eight cents, and the bond and declara
tion followed the attachment, as to toe amonntr
and the proof is such as to justify a verdict fo,
that amount. Held: That a verdict of a jnry
for the plaintiff for $980 88, will be taken,
(nothing otherwise appearing) to be a verdict
for nine hnndred and eighty dollars and eighty-
eight cents, the amount sworn to and claimed
by toe plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.
E. L. Douglass, J. H.'Taylor, by B. Lyon for
plaintiffs in error.
A Hood, for defendant.
Stephen King vs. toe State of Georgia. Big
amy. Webster.
MoCay, J.—1. An indictment for bigamy
mnst allege that toe first marriage was lawful,
or set forth snch facts as will amount to such
an allegation.
2. The net. of March 7,1866, Code 1865, con
firms, for all civil purposes, toe marriage of
persons of color, living together as man and
wife at toe date of toe act, and if after said act,
such persons continne to live together as man
and wife, it will be bigamy for one of them to
marry a third person, knowing that the wife or
the husband tons made by said act a lawful wife
or husband is Btill living, and is still the lawful
wife or husband.
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins & Burke, T. L. Clarke for plaintiff
in error.
S. W. Parker, Solicitor General, T. H. Pritch
ett, by A Hood, for the State.
Chas. Lynch, et. al,, vs. Brazil Pace. Home
stead. From Randolph.
Waener, J.—Where an application was‘made
to toe Ordinary of Randolph* county, for tho
benefit of a homestead, as provided in the act
of 1868; and there was a demurrer to toe ap
plication, on the ground that the applicant did
not allego therein that he was “the head of a
Jamily, or guardian, or trustee of a family of
minor children,” which demurrer was overruled.
Held: That the court below erred in overruling
too demurrer to the application of the parly
claiming too benefit of the homstead, as too
same did not affirmatively show that he was en
titled to a homestead under* the provisions of
toe act. Held also: That where an appeal is
taken from toe judgment of toe Ordinary in
allowing or refusing a homestead, as provided
by toe act of 18C8, toe whole case is brought up
by too appeal; and either party may, in toe
Appellate Court, raise any objections, or make
any other motion in relation thereto, author
ized by law, as in other appeal cases from toe
Court of Ordinary.
Judgment reversed.
Hood & Kiddoo, U. L. Douglass for plaintiff
in error.
L. S. Chastain, Y. H. Fielder for defendant.
Alexander Shaw vs. The State. Simple Lar
ceny, from Randolph.
Warner, J. — When two defendants were
jointly indicted for the offense of simple larceny,
and both charged in the indictment as the ac
tors, or absolute perpetrators of toe offense, and
npon toe trial of one of the defendants for said
offense, toe jury returned a verdict finding him
guilty of simple larceny in the second degree.—
Held: That such finding of the jurywas error
nnder the provisions of toe Code, and that toe
Court below erred in not setting the verdict
aside and granting a new tried. Held, also, that
the Conrt below erred in not allowing toe wit
ness Sheridan to relate all too facts to the jnry
as to how Paldo came by the money which was
paid to toe livery stable man for toe hire of toe
wagon and mules.
Judment reversed.
E. L. Douglrss, E. R. Harden, D. A Walker
for plaintiff in error.
S. W. Parker Solicitor General, by Hood for
the State.
Wm. McAffee vs. L. Mulkey. Motion for
new trial—From Lee.
Warner, J.—When a snit was instituted to
recover damages for a warranty of toe sound
ness of a slave sold by too defendant to the
plaintiff, on the 27th of December, 1862, the
consideration of which sale was a house and lot
in toe town of Fort Valley. Held: That toe
Court had jurisdiction to hear and determine
such cause of actipn upon the state of facts con
tained in the record. Held, also: That it was
not error for tho Court below to allow the plain
tiff’s declaration to be amended so as to charge
the defendant with a knowledge of tha unsound
ness of tho slave at the time of the Side. Held,
further: That when tho evidence was conflict
ing as to the soundness of the slave at toe time
of the sale, and there was evidence **> sustain
the verdict, this Conrt will not, according to its
repeated rulings, control the discretion of the
Court below in refusing to grant a new trial on
the ground that the verdict was contrary to toe
evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
Vason & Davis, for plaintiff in error.
W. A Hawkins, G. W. Warwick, for defen
dant.
Wm. Sirrine vs. Ropert Griffin. Motion to set
aside judgment. From Webster"
Warner, J.—When, on a motion made in toe
Court below to vacato and set aside : he entry of
satisfaction made by toe Sheriff on a fl. fa., and
npon the trial of an issne formed thereon, it ap
peared that the payment was made by the de
fendant in fi. fa. to toe Sheriff on the 27th of
April, 18G5, in Confederate treasury notes.
Held: That the payment having been made af
ter tho failure of the Confederate Government,
the Confederate Treasury notes failed with it,
and that the payment of "the fi. fa. in that cur
rency was not a good and valid payment at toe
time snch payment was made.
Judgment reversed.
N. A. Smith for plaintiff in error.
W. A. Hawkins for defendant.
fonad toH
P. 0. Parkerson vs. W. E. Sessions. Dis
tribution of money. From Randolph.
Warner, J.—When there , were several judg
ment creditors holding executions against the
some defendant, and Sessions, the oldest judg
ment creditor, levied his execution upon toe
land of the defendant, which was sold at Sher
iff’s sale for $3,010 00, which amount was not
more than sufficient to pay off Sessions' fi. fa.,
who at the sale became the purchaser of toe
land. After the sale the Sheriff was notified to
hold np too money by the attorneys for the
junior creditors. At the next term of the court
a motion was made calling on toe Sheriff to
show cause why he should not credit toe amonnt
of toe sale of too land on Sessions’ fi. fa. This
motion was resisted by toe attorney for toe jun
ior judgment creditors, on the ground that Ses
sions had promised Hendry, toe defendant in
fi. fa., that if he would not move to have the j udg-
ment opened nnder the relief law, nor attempt to
have a homestead laid off on toe land, bnt allow
the land to be sold nnder his judgment, and if
he should become the purchaser thereof at the
sheriff’s sale, he would carry to toe family of
toe defendant a certain described portion of toe
land, bnt if be should not become purchaser of
toe land, he would pay too debt, fifteen hnn
dred dollars, of toe proceeds arising from' the
sale of the land. There is no dispute as to the
fairness of the sale, or that the land was not
sold for its full value. The Court ordered
Sessions’ fi. fa. to be credited with the amount
of the sale of tho land,, less the costs, commis
sions of sale, etc. Held: That npon the fore
going statement of fuels, there was no error in
the judgment of the court below ordering Ses
sions’ fi. fa. to be credited with toe amount for
which the land was sold, the Bamo being the
oldest fi. fa. in the Sheriff’s hands.
Judgment affirmed.
W. D. Kiddoo, by A. Hood, for plaintiff in
error.
Fielder & Jones for defendant.
The Pittsburg Gazette tells an astonishing
-story of a dance for the prize of a gold ring at
a recent ball in that city. A dozen competitors
entered for toe contest. At toe. expiration of
twenty minutes four took their seats. Tho rest
whirled on, but at the end of an hoar only three
couples were on toe floor. Another hoar
elapsed, and another couple gave up from sheer
exhaustion. The fiddlers played and played, as
well as they were able, and the two couple
waltzod and waltzed as rapidly as they could.
After five hours and three minutes had elapsed
one of the ladies fainted,'and her partner po
litely followed her example. Amid feeble
cheers from the weary spectators the ring was
awarded to tho remaining couple, and all par
ticipants were carried home and pat under med
ical treatment.
Th© Atlanta Ooai(v nv *>-
Li accordance with the call Qf
some twenty-fonr or five railroad ^ Sail
operators and dealers, mauntactL^
bere of Board of Trade, assembfe,?® 3 a?
._„ k
» Railroad officials—Col V ^
tendent W. and A. R. b*. E q
Ga. R. R.; L. P. GrauL’Supt
R- 5 A* J* White, President AT © \
Got A. L/Colyar, President oL2**.fclf
M.R. Tuttle/ Presffient Kn 0 ^, nCe6
tucky R. R.; Col. Mark A cS S* 4
CartersviUe and Van Wert Railroad’ Pres- 4
Coal Operators—Mr. Hazelton xL
C°l- A• S. Colyar, Suwanee fi^
B. Gordon, Wm. Lenoir. Georlfv’m 5:1
Robson, Castle Rock; R. R 3;K -C
gM 08 " 5
Coal Dealers—Milo Pratt • P p.u,
Johnson; E. Parsons; J. if. Born t
Ladd & Parkhurst. 0ni1 Jr -> * <£
Manufacturers—W.' Pendleton, of P* ,, '
& Boardman, Fonndere, Auen^tB
Boards of Trade—W. F. Herrin™ .
J. Sw Peterson, Atlanta. An S^lj;
Col. Halbert briefly explained the
toe meeting. 1 0,1J6 Ejecta
J. S. Peterson, Esq., read letters ft™,
coal companies and dealers. rom «rec]
Tho Knoxville Iron Company striii*
had contracted to deliver 100 c-r
in Atlanta, in November, but if ? cosl
abont 40 car loads, in consequence ofJ $
transportation. They had orders flu? 01
loads for December. 01 Mr
McEwen, Wyley & Co., of Rnniriii
that they had ciders fSaoS''
and could fill them was their transMrtaaon^'
ficient. U0 “SJ.
Wilcox & Co., of Knoxville, gwo*,.
orders” 10 car loads per *arw*<58{
Tho Vulcan WoTks have orders for it™.
bushels monthly, and conld increase
bushels, with transportation. “"W
The Etna Mines has orders for 100
day, bnt is not half filling orders. AWneS
of orders are for factories. ICMJ
Unless riioro transportation can be ,
Schofield’s Rolling Mill will have tostoa ^
thing, owing to lack of cars. b •
A. C. Ladd conld sell ten carloads where b
now sells one, if he could get it promptly
E. Parsons has sold 70 carloads, f
700 carloads by April, if cars were pnt uu .
J. M. Bom, Jr., & Co. have sold iCCeir'oi®
Were there cars sufficient to transport tWM
20,000 tons would be used. ^
Suwannee Mines ship this season GOOOtoGOM
tons per day. They have now 25 cars incoi!
trade. To supply toe demand, 500 cars are m.
cessary.
Hon. Mark A Cooper, responded to calls in
few pointed remarks. The wealth of the «- 4 .
try depended on the coal trade. Tha railroad
should afford transportation.
Gen. JohnB. Gordon gave his experience i>
coal mining, depicting the great need of iV
trade, in forciblo and eloquent remarks, ei
demonstrating the economy of coal—its be'iefj
to factories and railroads.
A J. White, President of the HaoonnJ
Western Railroad, depicted the condition d
Sontnem railroads, in ’an able and poiitrf
speech. He urged a compromise between both i
parties.
CoL A S. Colyar made a pertinent and ssa
ble speech, demonstrating the community d
interests of railroads and coal miners. Hesaii
that both wotild make more money by siippiy
large quantities of coal at small* profits, thii
small quantities at large profits.
Mr. Hazelton of the Etna, spoke of Geoiji
as pre-eminently a manufacturing State, k
the importance of cheap coal to the derely
ment of manufacturing. Mr. Leroy Drew,
General Agent of several English lines of steam
ers, then addressed the Convention in behriol
establishing a coal depot at Brunswick, fi
had examined the harbor of Brunswick aril
was toe finest he had seen. Vessels of a
draft could come up to it any season of the ysi
without fear of disease. It would lead to ha-
ing np a return trade. CoL Hulbert endorsed
the suggestion, and expressed his vcillingnesstc
reduce the freight on coal to the cost of to
porta tion.
B. C. Robson suggested that the coal caj
might be used to bring lumber here on theiiir]
turn.
Gen. (Jordon stated that there was a gtssi
deal of lumber at Brunswick which conld k
purchased at a low price, which might k
brought there.
Capt. A J. White stated that the Macon aj
Western Road would furnish cars to supply ■
toe points along that Road. This annomc*
mont met with hearty applause. I
CoL L. B. Grant and S. K. Johnson M
themselves for their respective roads, to do l
they conld to supply care for the trade.
CoL Colyar stated that CoL E. W. CoM
the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, w»j
put on fifty coal care.
Between 340 and 400 cars are needed fo.' to
trade, There are only about 150 now inn»
On motion of CoL Hulbert, the foUMS
committee were appointed to report at 10 o o4|
this morning:
On Railrond Transportation—ColE. Hs
S. K. Johnson, A. J. -White, W. R. Tattle,
A. Cooper and L. P. Grant. ,
On Present and Prospective Demasd-rii
A S. Colyar, Mr. Hazelton, Gen. J. B. Gorfs
A. S. Mariner, A. O. Ladd. v
On Supply and Demand—Milo Pratt, 1- *
ham, E. Parson, J. M. Bom, jr.,R. A-f®*?,
Two little incidontsmarked the meeting- H
room was heated by a wood fire, and
there were many miners there, only o- SJ>
was present _ . J
The meeting adjourned until 10° Cl0Ci |
morning.— Constitution.
VYkat it Costs to Board at a YVa
ton Hotel.
From the Cincinnati Fnguircr.]
Tha Arlington i 8 the name of a newhoteij*|
opened here, on a scale of magnificences- J
penso never beforo heard of at the <»P: |
used to think toe charges at bil- arJ ' .1
pretty high, bnt they look like positive • ■
ities compared to the demands at tne ■
ton. It is very well located, in the ■** 'm
ionable part of toe city, and its f®®®™ |
appointments are much finer than «>. -
outside of New York, and than most'
it. At tho suggestion of'a friend, n- ...
company, I went np there the
ing we could find two rooms in wbicc
of bachelors conld spend a pleasant _
Yes, certainly, the landlord had ww (
just suit us. First, he showed ns sPi!’
bedroom on the second floor. Every 1
sew and beautifnL „ i
“How much for these ?” said my in-® *
“Well,” said the landlord, after a
ask $700 a week for theso two rooms.
“Jeewilikens,” said I, “d° (
name is Schenck, or my friend s barn ‘ ■ j
do you think I’m Ben Butler and n®
8 The landlord was surprised th^^^
think $700 a week a high figure for t
and assured ns that he was verycerta
ing toe apartpaents for that sum oa .
days. Several Congressmen had be
at them, and they didn’t seem to tmm* j
extravagant. roossi
Well, we didn’t look at anymowj, y J
that house. An neither of us bapP® M
long to the whisky ring, or the tann 6^
Pacifio Railroad ring, wo were*yerv ^,
couldn’t stand it, even on the mt“
was too way the second floor^ starte ^
whisky ring is “sour grapes vntn m .
us. Upon my word, I tried to ge- ,
they black-balled me on the 8*°“*
would tell all I knew about as soon as 6
terial for a good letter. Sharp 1
whisky ring men. [h ,t
I have since learned, Boweveb . r
week is not considered a high ng _
and accommodations at too Ariing
are two famib'es living there at tn» ^
009 per annum each. One » ,. j
General Fremont, and the fl®*
citizen of Washington, who tn
money by toe operation. _
Theacoustio imperfeetionsof
now spoken of as the cause of tn ^
of the Ecumenical Council, and j,-
the Council will reassemble m an
on toe 6th of January. ___j
Death op Mr. Joel CckhV' ^
Curry, one of the best and mo?
citizens of this county, we regre
nounce, died at bis residence oi
llth instant, of appoplexv,
J years.—Bainbridges Argu,
rifi