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Tli© Gr'eorgjia. ""W'eelsly Telegraph. EthcL JoTirinal & JVTessertger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
VIACON, AUGUST I, 1870.
let them be Closely Watched.
■Wo beg tho Constitution to keep a sharp
watch upon Democratic absentees from either
branch of the Agency when a vote is taken.-
Every day after they dodgo let their names be
published, and lot every Democratic newspaper
copy them. Wo believe Blodgett was not mak
ing an idle boast when he declared, in the Rad-
ical caucus, that he was sure of twelve Demo
crats when the vote on holding over was taken.
Wo believe he has made the bargain, already,
with certain of these shameless creatures. We
have their names on onr pen’s point, now, but
will not writ© them until they prove their shame.
We suspect some of them will be trying to
sneak into the Democratic Convention as mem
bers of the party. If the Constitution will pub
lish th pir record, from day today, the party will
be in a position to kick them out on good proof.
We know some men to be in that Convention
who will watch these creatures very narrowly,
and never hesitate to expose and denounce them.
No man can vote to continue his term of
office and bo a Democrat That settles the
question of his political orthodoxy. The vote
on the question will likely bo taken before the
Democratic Convention meets, so the Conven
tion will know who is who. Let this point be
made very clear. We repeat it: That any
ynnw who votes to prolong the term of office of
the present so-called Legislature, or who is ab
sent upon any business not providential, and,
therefore, absolutely necessary, when the vote
is taken, is a Radical, or as bad as the worst
ono to be found. For such traitors to prin
ciple, and to their fellow-citizens, to the in
terests of Georgia and to party faith there
should be, and there shall be, so far as we can
accomplish it, a heaping measure of public
loathing and condemnation. Their names shall
be hung in the chains of an unmeasured pop
ular scorn, and their memories loaded with a
weight of infamy that shall make him a stench
while time endures.
We trust wo shall have the co-operation of
every true Democratic journal in Georgia in
the work.
France Gone Up.
We sea from the New York papers that the
clergy of that city, on Sunday last, were very
heavy upon the French Emperor. They smote
him hip and thigh. They cut him off utterly
from among his people. We are sorry for
Louis. Once he was a respectable man, doing
a safe business; hut where is he now ? With
the awful thunder of the New York pulpit
against him, what can he hope for ? Here is a
point for Attorney General Akennan to con
sider: During the war, moral aid and comfort
to the rebellion was considered even worse than
shooting. The Sonthem clergyman who would
not pray for the Federal administration was
worse than the rebel who wore gray and put
stars on his collar. Now, Mr. Akerman, onr
Government is pledged to neutrality in this
fight; but will yon call that neutrality which
assails the French Emperor with the artillery
of heaven, and brings into play, for the benefit
of the .Prussians, all those weapons of offence
considered so peculiarly effective and objec
tionable “during the rebellion ? "
The Hot Weather Accounted for.
The Herald, of Monday, put on its thinking
cap about the weather and evolves the follow
ing:
Upon examination of our exchanges wo find
that this intense heat extends over a zone in
America of about eight hundred miles m width,
north, and South, and reaching from here to the
Pacific in loBgitnde. At nearly all points within
that zone .the temperature is admitted to bo
higher than was ever known there before for
the same length of time, and up to the latest
moment of advice there seems to have been no
diminution. If we now tumour attention to the
Eastern Continent a similar state of things con
fronts us there. The latitude of Paris swelters
under a heat of ninety-five degrees in the shade;
the parks of London aro so bared of herbage and
exhausted of water that their^deer are half fed
upon foliage and twigs dipped from the trees,
and the summits of the Alps, where they are
seen, gleam with a wavering and baleful efful
gence, as though they, too, were tongues of
I fire darting up from the earth in its agony. The
European belt of fervent heat corresponds al
most exactly with our own, and, no doubt, the
ocean link between is glowing with nearly equal
severity, the relief there, if any, resulting from
the fog3 and clouds, accompanied by gusts of
wind and dashes of rain which such intense
evaporation must occasion.
Astronomers and physiologists are busy en
deavoring to stndy out the causes of this excep
tional condition, the aggregate effect of which
upon our planet is equal to forces so stupen
dous os to strike the unaccustomed mind with
terror. The general conclusion is that the en
tire solar system is passing through a region of
the starry heavens, in its sublime circuit around
the remoter center, that exerts peculiar electri
cal effects upon not only all the attendant orbs,
but on the vast luminary which famishes our
chief supply of life and heat. The main ques
tion now, to thoughtful minds, is, how much
longer these heat phenomena are to last, and
what will be the summing up of their results
to the nations directly affected. That they are
to be followed by farther disturbance of the
dements—great storms of wind, thunder and
lightning, and possibly by visible electrical
manifestations in the heavens of remarkable
splendor and power—It is qnite natural, on sci
entific principles, to anticipate.
All of which is too clear for mistake. And
if the Herald will venture South of his zone,
ho will find a little of that same baleful effal-
gence prevalent in these regions, though he
may not be able to see the fiery tongues protru
ding from the earth in its agony. We look for
them to the clonds and the solar luminary. Our
men of science are conclusive ou the philoso
phy of the hot weather. “It’s dog days.” The
Herald gives the range of the thermometer last
week as follows:
97
Thursday....
93
98
Friday
92
94
Saturday
93
00
... 94
Doings of the Agency.
The Senate "Wednesday seated one William
Henry, as Senator from the 44th district in place
of R. E. McCntchcon, deceased, who had been
elected to that position. Henry, it was claim
ed, had the next highest number of vote, and
the Agency adopted the novel and convenient
expedient of securing a radical votes in this way
instead of loosing one by a new election. Bat
doth not the scripture say that “a bring dog is
bettter than a dead non t" After this perform
ance and some talk about extending their own
terms for two years more, that branch of the
Agency subsided.
The House passed a bill to amend the charter
of ( Cartersville, and after refusing to seat two
members who had been elected from Irwin and
Telfair, in a special election under proclamation
by Gen. meade, that concern followed suit and
went to pieces for the day. Great is the
Agency.
Georgia Masonic Insurance Company
Messrs. Editors.—Your type-setter made
mistake in his figures in the article published
yesterday, which is calculated still more to dis
courage our members. Ho should have put
§25,000, where he has only §2,500 invested
funds. As a matter of interest I give the fol
lowing list of investments:
14 shares Macon and Western Railroad Stock
- §1,400 00
13 Macon and Brunswick first Mortgage Bonds,
bearing 7 per cent, interest, endorsed by State
of Georgia 12,500 00
8 Western Railroad (Ala.) Bonds, first Mortgage,
bearing8percent, interest, endorsed by Cen
tral R. B. and Sonth-Westem B. B., Ga.
8.000 00
ldty of Macon special Mortgage Bond, bearini
7 per cent, interest 600 0<
1 Bona and Mortgage at 12 per cent 4,000 00
Total §26,400 00.
Wo sincerely hope none of those who now
remain in the company will lose their places.
If they leave now, they lose all they have paid
in; if they remain and die as members their
families will get as much or more than they
have paid in. If they live they will at least
have the satisfaction of knowing that they are
doing good, with but little prospect of losing a
dollar they have invested.
I am authorized to say by a large number of
members here, and elsewhere, that they do not
intend to give np the ship. Respectfully,
J. W. Bubke,
Sec’ty and Treas.
Doings ej Rome.—The Courier reports at the
length of three columns, the proceedings at the
Grand Railroad Barbecue, on Horse Leg Creek,
two miles from the city, held to celebrate the
completion of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail-
■ road. The Chief Speaker was Judge Bighorn,
of LaGrange. The Courier says:
We regret to learn that Gen. Le Hardy, Vis
count do Beaulieu, a veteran of the old French
army, well known by many of our citizens, died
on the 1st inst., at Brussels, Belgium, his birth
place, aged 90 years.
His son, Mr. Camilla La Hardy, is ono of our
citizens. Major Eagene Le Hardy, Civil En-'
gineer of this place and Y. O. Le Hardy, M. D.,
in Savannah, both well known in this city are
his nephews. i.-ri
The Daily says the Rome Rolling Mills are
turning ont largo quantities of iron daily.
Yesterday the thermometer was boiling over,
it was very hot.
Senator Sprague in Columbia.—A Columbia
correspondent of the Charleston News says Sen
ator Sprague has been there. He has examined
tho Columbia Canal in person; and now gives
1 -forth the impression that the work of excava
tion will bo ‘ommenced within six weeks, to be
then pushed to completion as rapidly as the na
ture Of the case will admit. He has had topo
graphical maps prepared which exhibit the
grounds with exact measurements in all direc
tions, and estimates of work can be made upon
these almost to the dollar. He farther exhibits
estimates for brick and other materials, but
does not appear to have secured contracts for
any .of them. _ _
Grkmau mass meetings to sustain the Father-
land, are /airly raging throughout the North,
West and Canada. If Napoleon don’t quake in
his boots when he gets copies of the resolutions,
i bora’s no use hMjng any boots.
Wednesday 00 j
Average, nearly,
The average in Macon for the some time was
I 88 degrees—that is six lower than in New York
city.
Tlie Specie Shipments to Europe.
The World of Monday last, commences its
money article as follows:
The activity in the money market and the ad
vanced price of gold since war was declared be
tween France and Prussia are misunderstood by
the general public so far as their cause is con.
ceraed. The popular notionis that the increased
activity in onr money market and the advance
in the priceof gold aro caused by the withdrawal
of European cash in the shape of gold from this
market. This is a fallacy. The rate of exchange
below the specie-shipping point demonstrates
beyond a question that what is called “the bal
ance of trade” at tho moment is in favor of tho
United States. In plain terms, there are at the
moment more bills of exchange on Europe for
sale than the demand.
The question then arises. How is it that wo
have shipped last week $2,740,2G7 and this
week §0,101,352 in specie, making a total of
§8,841,019 specie exports since the war excite
ment commenced, if bills can be purchased
cheaper than by shipping specie ? The answer
is: Foreign firms, chiefly German, who have
all the time afloat an enormous amount of six
ty-day bills of exchange—really “accommoda
tion” bills—were called upon by their corres
pondents in Europe to strengthen them by im-
mcdiotooIupia«n{a In«rSoi*fa»h«ythfl
gold, pay for it, and send it to Europe, these
foreign firms here drew additional sixty-day bills
of exchange, or “accommodation” bills, on their
friends in Europe, which they sold on this mar
ket for “Americancash.’’This“Americancash”
furnished them with tho means to ship the gold
to Europe which their friends wanted there in
order to sustain their credit. It is well known
among exchange dealers that about every forty
days throughout the whole year there is a “flur
ry” in the exchange market caused by the buy
ing of hills to cover these “accommodation”
bills in Europe, and when that is done, in re
selling the new batch of “accommodation” or
sixty-day bills of exchange to replace the de
funct series. "When these foreign firms were
called npon by their friends to remit gold to
Europe, they bought gold here on a very slim
margin, and in most cases through their brokers
on no margin at oil, to the extent of about §15,-
000,000, relying on their purchases to advance
the price and make a margin. They crowded
sales of their sixty-day bills of exchange on the
market for cash below the foil market rate, and
to as great an extent as possible, to enable
them to pay for the gold and ship it to Europe,
to maintain or restore the credit of their friends
there. Their specie shipments have been made
at a loss; but it was not a question of profit but
of necessity that they should ship specie, in
order to preserve the credit of themselves and
friends in European banking circles.
Hr. Stunner on the War.
A Herald Washington correspondent, of the
24th instant, writes that the late French Minis
ter Paradol, callod on Mr. Sumner a few days
before the melancholy suicide, with a letter of
introduction.
Mr. Snmner inquired how long the war would
continue between France and Prussia. To this
M. Prevost-Paradol replied that there would bo
but one or two battles, not more than two. He
could not tell which would be victorious, but
the history of modem warfare in Europe showed
that there was no longer the old fashioned mode
of making war that prevailed in the days of the
first Napoleon.
Senator Snmner coincides with Mr. Paradol in
this opinion. He says it is different in Earope
to what it is in onr country. , Take, for in
stance, Grant’s campaign in tho Wilderness in
Virginia. The country was new to him, and he
had to feel his way from day to day. He has
no donbt that every inch of ground on both
sides of the Rhine is as familiar to the leaders
of the French and Prussian r.rmies as the play
ground of their boyhood. They had maps of
every part of the country, showing every stream
and every clump of trees. Mr. Snmner thinks
that at the first ontset tho available power of
the contending forces will be massed against
each other, and that the battle will l»o decisive.
Or the recmU ho has no idea, but be thinks there
never were two men more equalled matched in
point of diplomacy and State craft than Napol
eon and Bismarck. The latter he regards as
the real head of the Prussian government, and
as the power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself. . .
Florida AUaira.
The Tallahassee Floridian of Tuesday an
nounces the' death of two' valuable citizens—
Edward Bradford, Jr., Marshal of the city, and
Mr. L W. Bowen, an old resident of the town
and a most estimable man. The Floridian
learns that a weekly line of sailing packets has
been established between New York and Jack
sonville. The first vessel of the line sailed
from New York on Saturday, the 16th inst.
The Floridian says :
The crops continue to do well. Cotton is in
fine condition, and promises to yield fully an
average crop. No cotton caterpillar has ap.
peered yet, though thousands of the grass
worms are seen daily. The com crop is not as
we had hoped and had reason to expect a
month ago. The yield will fall below that of
last year. A larger area should have been
planted. When will onr people learn wisdom
and become self-snstaining ?
Politics rage in Florida—if an exposure and
protest against the thefts and peculation s of
Reed, Littlefield, and Swepson can be called
politics. Those fellows are skinning the State
down to the bones.
The difficulties with the St. Crispins in Lynn
have bean settled.
The Georgia Press.
Aftaibs in Savannah.—The hot weather, or
something else, seems to have inspired an ex
tensive disrespect of the decalogue. The News,
of Wednesday, chronicles a few less than a doz
en fights, larcenies and assaults—tells how a
venerable senior and man of property was
brought up on complaint of a gushing widow
from Charleston of bastardy and desertion, and
made to enter into bonds to auswer. Also, the
following:
A Negro School Teacher Outrages Oxe of
His Scholars.—On Monday night at a lata hour
officer Kaufman, armed with tho necessary war
rant, arrested and lodged in jail a negro Echool
teacher, named Isaiah Blocker, who is engaged
as tho teacher of a school for colored persons,
ou the corner of Jefferson and Little Jones
streets, who is alleged to have committed an
outrage upon one of his scholars, a girl of thin
teen years old, named Sarah Burnett.
The affidavit of the father of the child states
that on Monday abont twelve o’clock, the usual
hour of recess, all the children were turned out
of school with the exception of the girl, who
was detained ostensibly for the purpose of giv
ing her a private lesson, when the villain took
the favorable opportunity of satisfying his lust
against the will and consent of the child.
When arrested, a large and excited crowd of
negroes followed, threatening to lynch and hang
the incestuous teacher of tho young ideas, but
by the firmness of tho officer they were prevent
ed, and the party safely lodged in jail. Blocker
hails from that land of moral ideas—Massachu
setts.
No Danger to North German Ships.—'The
Nows learns that the Captain of the North Ger
man bark Georg and Johann, now lying in Sa
vannah, telegraphed to the owners of the ves
sel in Germany for instructions as to what
course he had better pursue in view of the war.
Ho yesterday received instructions to continue
loading and to sail whenever he was ready, as
there was no danger. We fail to understand
that.
Banana Trees in Savannah.—The News says
that Mr. Graffeo, corner of Huntingdon and
Montgomery streets, has seventy banana trees
in fine condition, fifteen of which are now
bearing fruit and the others are in blossom.
The same paper chronicles another shipment of
Georgia lumber for Peru, via Cape Horn, of
course. Peru has abundance of timber but no
saw mills:
Lumber for Peru.—Messrs. F. W." Sims &
Co., on yesterday cleared the ship Emily Far-
num, for a port in Peru, with 11,142 pieces of
lumber, measuring 720,595 feet, value §17,292-
72, and 4,40G lumber sleepers, measuring 117,-
493 feet, value $2,2G1 75. Total measurement
844,188 feet. Total valuo §19,554 37.
M. E. Church South, vs. African Metho
dist Church.—A case invoking the possession
of Andrew Chapel, in Savannah, was decided
by Judge Schley, on Tuesday. After hearing
the evidence and the law in the cose elaborate
ly argued by the respective counsel, tho jury
retired, and after a short absence brought in a
verdict for the plaintiffs, which will have the
effect of restoring the trust to the original trus
tees of the M. E. Church, South, for the uses
and purposes for which it was created.
The Republican says the British ship Hamp
ton Court, arrived on Tuesday, from Liverpool.
The principal items of her cargo will be found
in our marina column. Among them are 4000
bnndles of arrow ties, consigned to various
parties on tho Bay, who will soon fix the price
of these imported ties, based npon gold. She
also brought 1,884 bars and 93 bundles of iron,
consigned to order.
The News has the following:
Maternal Inhumanity.—Yesterday a small
negro boy, apparently eight or nine years old,
went into an office on the Bay to beg something
to eat. The gentleman to whom he applied,
after relieving his wants, questioned him as to
where he came from, and he stated that he had
been brought from Dawfuskie, by his mother
on Saturday, and that she had left him in Sa
vannah on purpose to get rid of him.
Railroad to Indian String.—The Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel of Wednesday says
A raiuvoa Forsyth to the Springs could
he constructed at Uu expense of hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. This road, when
built, could be leased to the Macon and Western
road at seven per cent, per annum on the cost
of construction. The people along the line of
tho road are too poor to build the road. They
might, and doubtless would, lend their aid to
the extent of fifty thousand dollars. The bal
ance, two hundred thousand dollars, we would
have the State advance by the issue of its bonds
bearing seven per cent, interest. "This interest
would be met by the lessees and save the State
from any expense whatever.
The proposed road, while it would greatly en
hance the value of the property along its lii
would also increase the value of the State reser
vation. But the great benefits of the road would
be shared in by the people of all sections of the
State. Let the Forsyth and Indian Springs
people move in this matter at once. We are
quite sure that well directed efforts will be
crowned with success.
Fort Royal Railroad.—According to the
Chronicle and Sentinel, the employees of the
Fort Royal Railroad were in Augusta in force
on Tuesday, clamoring for their money, which
they did not get. The laborers are destitute,
and have been treated badly, being foroed to
play shuttlecock between two parties, each of
whom disclaims liability. H. H. Boody, the
Treasurer of the Company, was expected in
Augusta daily, and it was hoped he would ad
just the matter.
The Chronicle tells of a homicide on Beech
Island:
A party who arrived here from Beech Island,
South Carolina, on yesterday, reported that a
young man named Buck Griffin had been shot
and killed there by a negro that morning. The
family of the deceased resides in the lower part
of the city.
The Constitutionalist has the following:
Accident on the Georgia Railroad—Injury
to Dr. Lovick: Fierce.—One of the wheels of
the passenger car attached to the down way
freight train on the Georgia Railroad gave way
near the I4.mile post yesterday morning, throw
ing the car from the track. The venerable Dr.
Lovick Fierce, a passenger on the train, we re
gret to learn, received painfol injuries on one
of his feet, which is likely to interfere with his
walking for some time. The venerable divine
was on his way to Louisville to attend the Sa
vannah District meeting, and came to the city,
and is stopping with Rev. Dr. Mann, the pastor
of St. John’s (Methodist") Church.
Augusta & Hartwell Railroad.—The Con
stitutionalist aays a meeting of the Directors
was held in Augusta Tuesday morning, and
learns from areliahle source that this enterprise
assuming a definite shape, and now bids fair
be pressed to a successful completion.
Melancholy Affray at Union Springs.—The
Columbus Enquirer learns that on Tuesday
morning a man named Tarver, in company with
several yoting men, ran away from Union
Springs with a Miss Cook, to Columbus, to get
married. On their return that evening, the
father of the young lady and his son met them
near the depot and commenced shooting, Tar
ver’s shot taking effect in the top of young
Cook’s head and striking the brain—supposed
.be fatal. . Tarver was also shot in the side.
The wounded men were put on a dray and
carried np town, a crowd following. The
parties live at High Log.
The Condition in Columbus is thus reported
by the Sun :
Tuesday the weather was quite warm; ther
mometer at 8 p. M. 90 degrees; city quiet; me
chanics and laborers all profitably employed ;
improvements progressing rapidly; dog catchers
lessness. "We can’t say. much abont the insects,
or the heat either; for the writer sleeps in a
cool room; but an experience of years satisfies
us that a "bucket or two of cold water right
from the wall, applied abundantly, first to the
head and then all over, with a sponge which will
absorb half a gallon of water, is the grandest
application for health and comfort ever con
ceived in modern times. If your'health bo
feeble, so that reaction will not take place, begin
with water that has been drawn two or throe
hours and decrease the temperature as you can
bear it. Don’t get into the tub till you have
cooled the head well. Then souse the water over
you at the rate of forty miles an hour for five or
ton minutes—rub elf vigorously with a coarso
towel, and you wll feel like dancing a horn
pipe—sleep sweety and cooly and wake np lively
and clean. Thisisthe true way to go to the
Springs, but tho people don’t know it.
Emory Coljege.— The Southern Christian
Advocate of tie 29th, reporting the commence
ment exercises at Emory College, says:
We learn that the Board of Trustees are pro
jeering many improvements, external and inter
nal, for tho College. They elected Hon. L. Q.
0. Lamar, Professor of Belles Lettres, and tho
probabilities are that he will accept tho posi
tion. A Chsir of Agricultural Chemistry was
instituted, wih Dr. Means at its head. Other
schemes needing money are devised. It is in
proof that Eoory College is very dear to Geor
gia Methodisis, and if they will only bo as lib
eral as they aro loving, there need be no limit
to its capablities for usefulness.
These are most excellent appointments and
we trust will be accepted. CoL Lamar carries
with him the unmistakable impress of tho
scholar as wollas tho high-toned gentleman, and
ho has ono of the clearest minds with which we
over came in contaot. Unless we ore greatly mis-
takenhis abilities for commnnicating instruction
are also of ahigh order. In short, we know of no
man more likely to achieve distinguished use
fulness in training and directing youthful minds
than Mr. Lam at.
NEW INVENTIONS IN ARSIS.
The Cbassepot, BTcrillc-Gnn amt the Wall
BiHe.
The World says: It becomes doily more evi
dent that not only France, but also Prussia, has
for a number of years silently but steadily made
the most active preparations for the great strag
gle for European supremacy which has just now
commenced between them.
This is sot only indicated by a thorough re
organization of both tho French and German
armies, but also by the strenuous efforts of each
to produce weapons more improved and of
greater destructiveness than possessed by the
other.
It is claimed by the French that tho Chnsso-
pot Is an improvement on the Zundnadelgewehr,
and, as long as the latter served them os a mod
el, they ire probably all right thero. Besides
that, they have introduced into their artillery
service o light field pleco, a kind of revolving
canon, called the mitralleuse, said to be most
effective against infantry and cavalry.
All of a sudden one hears, however, of sever
al new inventions quietly introduced by Prussia,
and first amongst them a gun which can bo fired
twenty-two times a minute with ease, and said
to be a cecided improvement on both the Zund-
nadelgevelir and the Cbassepot. In connection
withthij they have an improved arrangement
for carrying 200 rounds of ammunition.
The superiority of this new gun becomes at
onee self-evident, inasmuch as the present
needle-gun can only ho fired off about ten or
twelve times a minute and a soldier carries only
sixty rounds of ammunition.
It is, therefore, at least twice as effective as
their piesent style of needle gun, and a consid
erable number of them has already been manu-
Tbe Needle Gnu and the Cbassepot. |
From the Chicago Tribune."]
The suddenness with "which Austria was over*
whelmed with disaster and defeat in her con
flict with Prussia, ia I860, was far "more im
pressive than her gradual withdrawal before
the combined forces of France and Italy, in
1859. The power of Austria was not materi
ally less in the latter war than in the earlier,
and it was certainly far more vigorously put
forth to resist Prussia than to resist France and
Italy combined. Moreover, while France wa-
not exhausted by her Italian war with Auss
tria, she certainly, for the time, put forth,
under the eye of tne Emperor Napoleon him
self,every energy that she could command.—
So far as the relative powers of France and
Prussia can be judged from the relative ease
with which they thrashed Austria, it is certain
that Prussia performed that feat far more
easily than France and Italy combined.
Indeed, her defeat of Austria was so over
whelming and terrific that Europe fairly held
her breath with astonishment. There was an
air of genius and dash in Prussia’s rapid vic
tories ending inSadowa, indicating that she
who could do so much, with such swiftness,
could do greater things if required. France,
at the. close of her war, had just begun her
campaign against the integrity of Austria,
while Prussia could have marched into Vien
na almost without another conflict. Austria
lay prostrate at her feet Judging from these
facts, Prussia must have some element of mil
itary strength that stands apart from the ques
tion of numbers. This, it was universally,
though on the part of high military authori
ties, reluctantly conceded, was the Prussian
needle-gun.
This arm had been subjected to partial tests
in England, France, Austria and the United
States, prior to its use in the war with Austria,
and had been voted down by tho cities of near
ly, or quite all these counties. Some had ob
jected that the needle was liable to rust and
break; that its rapidity of firing would cause
the soldier to fire away his ammunition in too
short a space of time; that it would kick so
powerfully as to disable the soldier; that its
cartridges, in which the ball, powder and per
cussion material are all included, would not
bear ordinary exposure to the weather; that it
could not be used during the rain, etc., etc.—
Men whose education is complete, learn with
great difficulty, as the results of a single cam
paign with the needle gun proved. It was
worth, perhaps, half a million of men to Prus
sia. The complaint of the Austrian troops
was that the needle gun mowed them down
with ease, before the Prussians came within
range of the Austrian arms. Under such cir
cumstances, they were beaten by the gun alone;
for it requires no valor to fight with a foe who
cannot get you within reach of his weapons.
None of the disadvantages which old fogy crit
ics attributed to the needle gun applied to it
in practice.
About this time tho French indulged in
some glorification or their own Chassepot rifle,
which is about the equivalent of a Sharpe’s
rifle. But this was more the result of nation
al egotism than of impartial experiment. The
needle gun is, without question, the most
formidable infantry arm ever constructed, and
the most rapid firer, and, unless some valid
objection can be brought, sufficient to out
weigh these sterling merits, it is the most de
sirable arm for military use in the world. It
is claimed that, by an inherent superiority in
its mode of igniting its charge so as to insure
its more perfect combustion, it attains about
double the power of any other arm, and will
throw its ball from four and a half, to five
miles, which is equal to the longest cannon
range.
lc is a breech-loading, single-barreled, non
revolving rifle. With a movement of an ap
parent trigger, a section of the top of the bar
rel slides hack far enough to admit the car-
SUPKEME COURT DECISIONS.
Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, July 26.
[reported fob the constitution. J
Catherine M. Blow, plaintiff in error, vs. Ada
G. White, executrix, defendant in error. Com
plaint, etc., from Jones.
Brown, C. J.
Where the note was given in January, 1865,
for Confederate treasury note loaned, the jury
may adjust the equities between the parties un
der the ordinance of 1S65, though it may not
be distinctly given in charge. There is nothing
in this case to distinguish it from other like
cases decided by this Court.
Judgment affirmed.
James H. Blount, Junius Wingfield, for plain
tiff in error.
W. A. Lofton for defendant
Thomas Whaley, plaintiff in error, vs. John
Cunningham et ad., defendants in error. Rule
to distribute money, from Greene.
Bbown, O. J.
lor
men
having it to be Lane’s, with no noti^T"
contrary, that Thrasher could not
his mortgage if they should find it 5
With trust funds W8a
add, That this Charge Of the Court in •
of the evidence contained in the
error; that a mortgage to the extent^ **»
terest In the land mortgaged standi f ius «>-
same footing as any other bona fide ™
without notice of the trust, and that aS
should have so charged the jury—th^ ^
pecially as this principle of the
tinctly recognized and adjudicated
Court, between these same parties in I?
reported in 37th Ga. Rep., 392, ordering $
junction granted to restrain Thrashp*
gagee, from enforcing his mortgage
land to be dissolved. From the tis
by the record, there was no error
below m refusing the motion for a contL^
for the purpose of allowing Lane tn
the return of the Sheriff as to the J? TeiSe
the biU on him, or in wfming tortE?"*
defendant and participated ia the lib!
Judgment reversed. ■
Mot.
B. H. Thrasher, J. D. Pope, J a u-i,
| for plaintiff in error. 1
A. Reese, for defendant.
I legal'?ower, or authority, to set ati&tk!?
I diet of a jury, on the ground, that it is alull
to the evidence; except, in cases where the™
getting tired of the fun for the “little money"
that is in it; young folks happy; old folks
happier; business good; workshops and rail
roads doing a living business; factories increas
ing their force; contractors for building have
enough to do for the season; everybody that
wishes work can get it; wages liberal; no
grumbling in our city; health of city never
better.
The medical staff of the Sun prescribes a
cold water bath just before going to bed as a
sure defence against beet, insects, and sleep.
factored and is ready to be distributed among u _ _
the army. Another new invention of which the j tridge to be placed in the cavity of the barrel,
Prussians seem to think much, is a kind of j which is done by the gunner with his left
heavy and very largo rifle with a east-steel bar.
rel four and a half feet long, and mounted on
two light wheels very much like a piece of artil
lery.
It is named the wall buechse, or wall rifle,
probably because a similar very heavy and long
rifle has been in usa during the middle ages for
the defence of the walls and turrets of castles
and other fortifications, This wall rifle has
been distributed extensively among the infan
try, every batallion of which has now a number
of them. It is aimed and fired off by a soldier
kneeling behind —- 1 in
order to steady the aim, by means of a padded
cushion or saddle. The distance at which this
new gnn carries is very great, the same as that
of the heaviest artillery. It shoots with great
precision, and seems to be more particularly
destined to be used against the enemy’s artil
lery, for the killing of the men serving the
guns, their horses and the explosion of ammu
nition chests, although it may also be used
against infantry and cavalry. The projectile is
two and a half inches long, of cast-iron, hollow,
and filled with a highly explosive substance.
It explodes, however, only when it strikes with
its point, which is famished with a slightly
projecting knob pressing a needle into the
charge, and thus causing an immediate explo
sion.
Besides these new inventions Humorous im-
provments have been introduced, particularly
in the artillery of both nations, and most of
such a destructiveness to life and limb that this
war will probably become tho bloodiest on rec
ord. . i
The Fortifications of Coblent*.
Ooblentz, near which city it is supposed the
first shock of arms between the French and
Prussian armies will be felt, is situated on the
left bank of the Rhine and the right bank of
the Moselle, at the confluence of those rivers.
It is abont seventy miles northeast of Metz, by
the post road, bat is more than doable that dis
tance by way of the river, owing to its sinuosi
ties: Ooblentz contains a population of abont
twenty thousand souls, and is one of the best
fortified places in Frnssia. The fortifications
surrounding it form a vast camp, capable of
containing one hundred thousand men, and
combine the systems of Carnot and Montalem-
bert. Four forts protect it on the left bank of
the Rhine. These fortifications, like the Fort-
tress Ehrenbreitstein, were over twenty years
in rebuilding, after the downfall of Napoleon,
and cost some $5,000,000.
The principal strength of the city lies in
Ehrenbreitstein (honor's broad atone,) a village
and fortress situated bn a large rook which
towers above everything for miles around. It
is impregnable to assault on three sides, but on
the northwest it is considerably exposed. Four
hundred heavy guns are mounted in the fortress,
and these sweep the Rhine in all directions and
the road to Nassau. On the top of the rock is
a great platform which serves as a parade
ground, and which covers large arched cisterns,
supplied with water by springs without the
walls, and capable of containing a three year’s
supply of the liquid. There is also a well, sunk
400 feet in tho rock, communicating with tho
•Rhine. ft ia not thought that any attempt will
be made by the French to take Coblentz by a
direct attack, bat a flank movement to drive
the Prussians from the place will doubtless be
toqst
The French Manifesto.
The Boston Post says:
The circular of the French Minister of* For
eign Affairs sets forth the position of Franoe
with dignity and strength. Prussia’s negleot of
treaties has been a • source 6f uneasiness to
Europe, which clearly perceived the intention
of that country, to aggrandize itself at the ex
pense of its own honor and of all justice. The
minister is certainly right in stigmatizing such
conduct as dangerous and unscrupulous. The
action of Prussia is recapitulated, her tergiver
sation exposed, and the responsibility of hostil
ities plaoed upon her. The moderation claimed
by France will be admitted byall whose zeal in
behalf of her enemies, and the enemies of Eu
rope, does not overwhelm their judgment. The
Emperor’s speech, like this oircular, shows a na
tional power that it will be difficult to'overcome.
The sentiment of Louis Napoleon’s remarks is
not bluster, but the reflection of an astute ruler
who, knowing all the hazards and" responsibili
ties of war, assumes them with a courage and
confidence participated in by the entire nation.
The Queen of Prussia, on leaving tho Rhine
provinces of Berlin, issued a farewell address
to tho inhabitants. She says she has lived
twenty years among them, and has experienced
nothing bat their attachment and devotion for
the King, his children, and herself. She would
willingly stay, but sacred duties call her else
where. Tho enthusiasm of Germany is the
voice of God. The sufferings in the past, and
the blessings which have followed them for half
a century, warrant continued trust in Him for
time and eternity.
hand, without removing the piece from his
shoulder, or, necessarily losing his aim. An
other movement restores the section of the
top of tho barrel to its place,-and firmly fas
tens it, ready at the instant for firing. It can
be fired, therefore, twelve times in a minute,
until the barrel is too hot to admit of the in
troduction of the cartridge,, and this is not
easily done, as the cartridge ignites by friction
only, and not by mere heat, and the time it
remains in the chamber before being fired is
hut an instant *"
Behind the cartridge, asit lies when the gun
is loaded, is the air-chamber, about two and a
half inches in length, through which the nee
dle darts forward horizontally to pierce the
charge. The cartridge is, of course, made up
with the ball iu front; then, without wadding
the powder, and then the percussion sub
stance, into which the needle strikes, by the
force of a common wire spring, when the trig
ger is pulled. In all ordinary guns, this charge,
having no access to any air, except that found
in the interstices of the powder after it is
tightly rammed down, attains only an imper
fect combustion, or burns in part after it
leaves the gnn. The quantity of smoke is a
measure of the imperfectness of the combus
tion, as only that portion of the carbon goes
off in smoke which is not perfectly exploded
into its constituent gasses, which are invisi
ble.
It is claimed, however, for the Prussian
gnn, that the air in the chamber through
which the needle darts to strike the cartridge,
supplies the exploding powder with all the
oxygen it can take until it leaves the muzzle
of the barrel. This, it is claimed, combines
the explosion with an expansion which, as the
powder burns from the rear forward, ensures
its total combustion and utmost explosive
force, increasing in intensity until it leaves tbe
barrel. This, too, enables the gunner to use
a tighter ball, and so discharge it with more
perfect rotation, thereby insuring greater ac
curacy of aim. It is owing to this peculiar
atmospheric arrangement that the recoil of the
Prussian gun becomes so serious a matter in
its use. But we do not remember that in the
Austrian campaign this Occasioned much com
ment, though some of those who have
brought them to the notice of our military
authorities have represented that the use of a
frame support to the gun might, under some
circumstances, be desirable. •
Another argument for the use of these sup
ports for the gun was, that it enabled the sol
dier, having once got bis aim, to keep it, so
that the smoke of his first volley would not
destroy his aim for his second or twentieth.
He might draw “a bead’’ on an advancing
column before receiving his order to fire, plant
his supports, and continue to fire alter the
smoke had gathered to any extent, knowing
that every ball must tell on the advancing, or
retrdUtiug foe. The waste of ammunition
among raw troops often arises from" their
tiring into the smoke without seeing the ene
my.. The Prussian gun explodes witiriless
smoke, and may be so mounted as to.preserve
its aim for any number of discharges, until
the barrel heats. r \
We have spoken of tho experiments "with
the needle-gun in other countries as “partial,”
because the elements of the ignition, or per
cussion, material were purchased as a chemi
cal secret by the Prussian Government, and
all possible pains have been taken to conceal
the exact process of manufacture. So far as
this was concerned, however, experimenters
in other countries have had no difficulty in
manufacturing a material that would explode
with, perhaps, sufficient ease and certainty by
being struck with the needle.
If the great claims put forth for the needle-
gun are true, as has scarcely been doubted
since the battle of Sadowa; if it combines
twice the projectile power, with greater cer
tainty, of aim and rapidity of firing; then the
Prussians have as great an advantage, rela
tively to the French, in the use of this arm,
as they found in it against the Austrians- The
Chassepot does not differ materially from any
other good breach-loading rifle. It has no
elements of peculiar or marvellous power. On
the contrary, the Austrians soon learned a
dread of the needle-gun, and a consciousness
of their inability to cope with it, only com
parable to the fear that bow-and-arrow war
riors have of the flash of gunpowder.
before bu older judgment creditor gets any
part of the fund.
In sucli case, the costs and reasonable attorn-
ey’sfees for which the party bringing the money
into court is liable, in the action against the defen
dant as well as the proceeding against the gar-I Thomas J. Finney, guardian vs u
nishee, aro included in the words, “expenses of Sanford. Complaint from Biidm"- SIy ^
the moving creditor," as used in section 3489 of Warner, J.
tho revised Code. When S. whose wife had a se D ar*t„
Judgment affirmed. purchased goods and family supnliea esti!e >
Columbus Heard, A. Reese, for plaintiff in cantile firm and cave his indiviri» n i« / 8
error. " tlement of the amount, md Sj ia *•
Jas. L. Brown, A. W. Hammond & Son, for note was given in exchance for
defendants. note of 8., the husband, signed Lv S?* 11 *
wife, and their son as secuntv odTtW
Evan Wells, plaintiff in error, vs. A. B. Flow- note suit was instituted, and on the triii ^
• ers, defendant in error. Certfyran from of, the main question in issue betwfp v fe -
Liberty. ties was, whether the goods and
Brown, O. J. t . for which the original note of the
Where a Justice of the Peace obtained a given, were purchased by him for th B **
memorandum of the evidence on the trialinhis benefit of the wife’s separate estate
court, taken down by plaintiff’s counsel, and main question in the case the eviden^ 11 ^
annexed it to the papers as his answer to the record is conflicting and’ contradietmt 111 ^ 8
Certiorari, and the answer was excepted to by jury found a verdict for the claintiff ’ i
the defendant in certiorari, on that ground: Conrt granted a new trial, which i s ilc’;™ 1
Held, That it was error in the Judge to dis- error here: ^ 18
miss the certiorari. He should have ordered Held, That in accordance with the m,
the Justice to make such answer as the law re- j rulings of this Court, the Court below
quired.
Judgment reversed.
William B. Gaulden, for plaintiff in error , „ uc
J. Beasley, for defendant. I diet is decidedly and strongly agMnsMfc^S
—— of the evidence, that when the evidence »*
Margaret A. O’Byme, et. aL plaintiff in error, tradictory, and conflicting, the jury and
vs. The Mayor and Council of Savannah. Com- the Court, are the exclusive judges as to 4
plaint, eto., from Chatham. credibility of the witnesses, and as to the weilv
Brown, O. J. I to which their evidence is entitled, ia visr^
1. The right of taxation is irherent in the their interest, their relation to the parties
sovereign. So far as it exists in a municipal other circumstances connected wite ffieuSmT
corporation, it is by grant, ana is called a fran- tion nnder investigation. There being no ™--
chise. alleged as to the ruling of the Court in
2. A de facto government which is able to ting the questions of fact to the jury andfe,'
maintain its supremacy by its armies may ex- having found a verdict for the plaintiff J
ercise this power, and those whs are subjeot to there being sufficient evidence in the recorh?
its control are bound to obedience. But if it sustain it, the Court below erred in
assesses u tax and is overthrown before it is col- aside and granting a new trial. - j
lected, tho rightful sovereign whose power is ~
established will not enforce such assessment
against the subjects of the government dejure.
3. In such case those who have paid the tax
to the de facto government while it was supreme ant
have no means of recovering it back; and those I
who did not pay till its overthrow, are under no F. W. Sims & Co. vs. Robert C. Hnnfc I
obligation to pay. v I Case from Chatham.
4. A note given since the war to the Mayor Warner, J.
and Council of Savannah, for tax assessed by When H. instituted suit against S. & Co.. I
the city authorities daring the existence of the I tors and commission merchants, to leccra |
Confederate Government but not collected, is j damages for making sale of cotton consigai I
void for want of consideration. to them contrary to the instructions of then I
5. A note given for such tax, and for ground signor, and the evidence on the trial was co-1
rent due the city, by contract made prior to the Aiding as to the main question involved § I
war, is void as to the tax, but good as to the I jury found a verdict for the defendants, ul
rent. The consideration is clearly severable, the court granted a new trial, on the cwffi
as the record shows precisely how much of it that the verdict was contrary to the euleset
was for tax, and how much for rent. and to the weight of the evidence:
Judgment reversed. Held, That iu accordance with the repeated j
John M. Guerard for plaintiff in error. 1 rulings of this court, the presiding JcCgecf
Edward J. Harden, A. W. Hammond & Son, j the Superior Court has no legal power c. sv I
for defendant. 1 - * 1
Judgment reversed.
William McKinly, by J. D. Pope, forp’aiid I
| in error.
L. E. Bleckley, by the Reporter, for defend-
thority to set aside the verdict of a jury when
the evidence is conflicting, unless the veruictis
decidedly and strongly against the weigh o!
evidence; that the jury, and not the court, n I
the exclusive judges as to the credibility of th
witnesses and of the weight of their testiserr,
S. B. Whipple, administrator de bonis non etc.,
vs. the heirs and creditors of A. O. Brown.
Bill from Wilkinson.
McOay, J. _
Where A approached B to perchase a lot of I and no rule of law having been violated in stt
mules upon credit, and B refused so to sell, and mitring the facts to the jury in this case, tin
thereupon A proposed to trade to B certain bags the verdict, under the evidence contained in tit
of cotton then on A’s plantation, which B de-1 record, is not so decidedly and strongly tpka
dined, as he knew nothing of the ootton trade, the weight of the evidence as to authorize the
but offered to let A have the mules if he would the court nnder the law, to set the verdict sal;
deliver the cotton at the warehouse of O, at Ma- and order a new trial,
con, to be sold for B’s benefit, in payment for Judgment reversed,
the mules, and both the parties i*Jin« I nearaeA. Mercer, by T. E. for pfc
warehonao-man ana seated the contract, and he | tiff in error,
undertook to be the agent of both parties, to j. m. Norwood for defendant
receive and sell the cotton, and pay to B the |
price agreed on for the mnles, out of the pro- I Jesse Brewer, administrator, vs. Stephen Ex
ceeds, and the mnlee were consequently deliv- j ter, et aL Trover from Liberty,
ered, and A, going home, commenced hauling Warmer, J.
the cotton to the depot, instructing the agentto "When an instrument in writing, erecaieh;
send it to C, under the contract, and after the B in the form of a deed, was offered in evidence
cotton was delivered, but before it was shipped, I as a deed, which was objected to on the groci
A suddenly died. that ho present interest in the property was to
Held, That under the facts B had acquired veved by it, and was therefore a testameilf
such an interest in the ootton, that to the extent [-paper and not a deed, the instrument contah
of the price of the mnles, it was not assets of the following words: “I give and devise Et]
A’s estate for distribution, and a Court of them (his three sons) and their heirs the w
Equity, in a bill filed for direction, will direct i lowing property: all my estate, both lealfr
so much of the proceeds of the cotton as equals j persona], consisting of land, ZMttvai*
the price of the mules to be paid to B, and thi3 denoe of debt, horses, cattle hogs, and all oil
error as against persons who claim that A is in-1 stock of all descriptions that I may die p 0 ® 5 * !
debted to them, as a trustee; and, consequently Q f to Uj em an a their heirs,” etc:
npon a debt of the highest dignity nnder the jgad, That this was a testamentary p»"
statute of distributions. - _ , and not a deed, that no present interest itt
John Rutherford, Nisbeis and Jackson, fori property was conveyed under iV but only sj
plaintiff in error. of the described property as the maker d 1|
Ockmgton, E. Camming, A. W. Ham- instrument should die possessed of, wiss-l
mond & Sod, for defendant. | ygye-J by jfc, Jf be was possessed of sll £
property mentioned in the instrument H- 1
James T. Hanson vs. Roht. Crawley. Com-1 time of his death, then it'wonld have «**
plaint from Morgan. I under it, if-legally executed, bat if he
McCay, J. j possessed of all or any of the described FP 81
Where a promissory note payable in money fat the time of his death, then none of it
generally, and dated in November, 1865, was I have been conveyed to his three sons.
signed by the principal and a security, and was strament conveys only such of the deac-*
delivered to the payer by the principal in the property as the maker thereof “may*?’
absenoe of the Bnrety; but before the delivery, j sensed of.” No present interest in thepx^
the principal, to induce the payee to accept it, ] was conveyed to the sons; and until the d*
added on the note a memorandum, Bignod by | of the maker of the instrument, no out *'
himself, that it was to be . “paid in gold, gold I know what portion of the property d* 8 *®?
having been the consideration.” I therein he would die possessed of; coo^^j
Hdd, That whether the security was or was j the instrument oonveyed only suoh P 01 ^
not released, depends npon whether or not the [ the described property as he might be
proof‘shows that the note was signed by him | of at the time of his death, and isinb' r * , j
with the understanding that it was to be paid in I tamentary disposition of the property,
gold—since a mere redaction to writing, by the | effect at the death of the master of the ^
principal, of what was, in-fact, the agreement | ment.
of both the principal and security at the time I Judgment reversed,
of the signing of the note, would not be a “
change of the contract:
Held, further, That it was error ia the court
to charge the jury that snoh a memorandum
did not release the security in the absence of
proof that he signed the cote with the under
standing it was to be paid in gold.
Judgment, re versed. -
Billups & Brobston, for plaintiff in error.
A. G. Foster, for defendant.
J. B. Tamer, William B. Ganldea, forp-** j
[ tiff in error. , il
A. H. Smith, by Julian Hariridge,
I fendant.
jforfi
A Ritualistic wedding in St. John’s Church,
East Hartford, Conn., makes some small stir.
The Eucharist was administered, the wedding
ring blessed, and the Bign of the cross made
over it and over the elements when admiatered;
a procession was headed by a crucifer with a
silver eroes; lighted candles were employed, and
embroidery decked the ushers and rector.
Wm.' B. Gaulden vis. John Stoddard. Motion
for new trial from liberty.
McCay, J. J, ;
"Whore a verdict was had in 1867, and a new
trial was moved for by the defendant at the
.same term of the court, on tbe ground-that the
court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the
defendant’s pleas, one of which stated the con
sideration'of the debt sued on was slaves, and
the motion for a new trial was not heard until
April, 1870, when the movant objected to its
consideration, on the ground that the court, un
der the Constitution of 1868, had no jurisdiction
to hear and determine the same
Supreme Conrt.
Wednesday, Sajy i..
Argument in No. 2, Brunswick ^ ir J aI „ l£0t J
et al, vs. Orme, et aL, was resumed
eluded. JohnM. Guerard, Esq., P,
in error, and General Henry L. BeD»m =
fendants in error. ■ ,,i tel
No. 3, Brunswick Circuit, was j.J
cause promaiurely brought to this ^ J
the ease of the Atlantic and Gall J - ju|
pany, etal.,vB.th8 Brunswick and ■
road Company, et &i.
No. 4.^ Brunswick Circuit; Jnha_*■. . cln gJ
. administratrix, and Eliza Jones, adm^; , ^1
vs. the Mayor and Aldermoaof liraasm l
dismissed.
The Cut Worm in (Jorros.—^ 6 ^
Times and Planter says:
Mr. J. W. Moore, of Culverton.
Sun
ate
Held, That toe whole”r^d,' including the I C0 ? nt J’ u haa 4V a lar f° ficld
demurrer, being before the court, that fact that , b ? c , ut ' wor “v „ The "limbs,
the. debt was for slaves stood as admitted, and I atnight and proy.ujwnthe^^ ^
toe court erred in- hearing and deciding the
motion for new trial, and ought to .have let toe
motion stand asit found it.
Judgment reversed; • |
Wm. B. Gaulden for plaintiff in error.
Win. S. Bassinger for "defendant.
fief.,
it*]
five
I off toe leaves and utterly deattoy&S
I He is now planting in peas with the a .
some instances the bands dig np ®
! worms where they deposit the pe*°;
I other farm8 in the neighborhood nau
tacked by them, and we understand m •
at Rook Mills, has a field serionsly
them. I ' -f " .
ithe &
D. B. Lane, et all, ; vs. Abner L. Partee and
wife. Equity from Morgan. j There aro 5,000 newspapers inH».
Warner, J, . I States, or one to every 7,000 of tb e ‘ n 7 w ^l
_ When a bill was filed by P and wife againgt 11,260 in Great Britain, and l,CW a* *' ^ I
T and others, for the purpose of enforcing a one to every 23,000 ; 700 m Iku®* 8 -“L, J
trust created by the last will and testament of J every 26,000; 506 in Italy, or one to
8 tailings, the grandfather of toe complainant’s j 000; 865 in Austria, or ono to every ’
wife, alleging that certain lands which were de- | 800 in Switzerland, or one to StWijj. gi
vised by the testator to his said granddaughter, j in Belgium, or one to every 15>V"V’
had been sold by the executors under the power j Holland, or one to every 16,000; &
and authority given to them by the will for toat J or only one to every 330,000; 200 m ,
purpose, which lands were purchased by Lane. I one to every 75,000; 150 in Norway
the father of the complainant, at sueh exeen- 1 den, or one to every 36,000; 100 »
tors sale, and the title thereto was conveyed by or one to every 20,000: and 100 m ■
said executors to said purchaser in his individ- j one to every 300,000
ual name, though alleged to have been paid for I ■« mi w —•
with the trust fund belonging to complainant J pamphlet, which has been ^
The land was sold by the executors in Decem- [ Archbishop Kenrick, of St ,
ber, 1858- In April, J866, Lane, the purchaser “What has nassed in Council,” nmd e .
of the land, borrowed from Thrasher §2600.00, . - _ * a , n „j caused *'
and executed a mortgage on the land to secure all0e 111 Rome > oa ® a ^“ r 1Tir> iaint
the payment of the money. On the trial of found sensation. A forma, comp _ ,| ; -.
the cause the Court charged the jury, “toat if lodged against it, signed by five
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