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The Georgia Weekly Telegraph, and Journal & Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger,
MACON, FEBRUARY 14, 1871.
Tlie Atlantic and Gall Railroad.
Wo aro indebted to the Savannah Advertiser,
of Wednesday, for a synopsis of tho annual re
port of the President of this road. Tho gross
eaming3 for tho year 1870, were §1,031,971 01
an increase of §247,641 20, or 31J per cent
over those of 18G9. This increaso is mainly de
rived from local business. Tho total expenses
of tho road for 1870, were 8810,C12 24. Tho
total assets of the road, foot up §364,905 11
against $5G1,368 48, total liabilities. The Com
pany stands pledged to the payment, principal
and Interest, of $GG4,000 worth of South Geor
gia and Florida Railroad bonds, and has also
issued to tho stockholders of that road, its
guaranteed stock to tho amount of §949,100.
The company during the year has made many
improvements, the most important of which is
an extension of its track—soon to be finished—
to the Savannah river, thus doing away tho ne
cessity of transhipments of freights destined
for export. |n
Suffrage Disqualification.—The World
prints the following interesting table, showing
the ratio of the votes to the population in four
States as follows:
Population. Vote.
Nevada 42,491 13,348
West Virginia 445,GIG 55,607
Missouri 1,715,000 167,710
Rhode Island 217,356 16,788
Nevada is a rotten-borough Radical State,
and gives a high average because it has a mining
population almost exclusively of male roughs.
In Rhode Island there is a real estate qualifica
tion which cuts down the suffrage to less than
one-half of what it would be. • West Virginia
has a "loyalty” qualification by which, on a
fair estimate, 25,000 voters are deprived of the
suffrage. Indiana, with a populationof 1,676,-
043, cast 317,550 votes in 1870, but Missouri,
with a population of 1,715,000, cast 167,710
votes by reason of her loyalty disqualification.
Accepting tho Indiana ratio for Missouri, then
158,000 voters were disfranchised in that State,
and her vote should have been one in 5.26, or
about 325,000. But free suffrage will soon bo
restored to Missouri and West Virginia, and
then radicalism will have a lively time of it in
those States. No wonder President Grant can
not stomach the Gratz Brown election.
Ratio.
1 in 3.10
lin 8.01
1 in 10.22
1 in 12.94
West Point Affairs—The Cadet Hazing.
According to a West Point correspondent of the
New York World, the three “hazed” cadets were
punished for lying. The discipline of the in
stitution is predicated on the truthfulness of
tho cadets. The custom is, on the nightly round
of tho sentry to see if all cadets are in quarters,
to accept the report "all right” as conclusive of
tho fact that both inmates of the room are in
their proper place. These cadets, however, had
repeatedly reported “all right,” when their
chums were out larking, and thirty-eight of the
class had compromised themselves in thus lying.
A part of tho first class, among whom was
young Grant, undertook to administer justice,
and took out three of the offending cadets in
tho night time and told them to put out and
never show faces there again. Tho writer says
that lying has become epidemic at West Point.
One of the Professors told him that Smith, if
he were white, would have been expelled half a
dozen times.
Laboe in Florida.—The Floridian says that
with tho large negro population of Leon county
and abandonee of laborers, few are disposed to
make contracts. Few of the planters have any
plows running, and the negroes are idling round
—either demanding exorbitant prices or refus
ing to labor for the whites upon any terms.
They insist upon renting lands and farming
upon their own hook, which experience shows
is but a pin hook. The Floridian says labor
generally, is very much demoralized and getting
worse all tho time. The planters will have to
look to other sources of supply. The Floridian
complains that although a fair com crop was
raised last year, comi3 scarce and meal is worth
§150 per bushel. So much com was stolen
from the fields before harvest, and the freed-
men have sold so much of their shares, all of
which has been shipped away, that now tho far
mers generally have barely sufficient to carry
them through to the next harvest.
A statement was copied in this paper on yes
terday from the Columbus Sun, that a large
firm in Savannah had suspended, with liabilities
large and assets small. We knew of the rumor
in this city several days ago, and as the firm is
one of the best- standing and character, com
posed of gentlemen who would not wrong any
one, we investigated the matter, and had hoped
to see no allusion to it in public print. We
state for the benefit of all concerned, that capi
talists in this city, who were as much or more
interested in the matter than any one else, have
looked thoroughly into it, and are satisfied that
•the gentlemen referred to will, in a very short
time, arrange all their business matters and
have a good surplus working capital in their
business left.
Settling the Fisheries Question.
According to a statement in the World, of
Wednesday, the Canadians don’t intend to give
the administration a chance for a fight on the
Fisheries and St. Lawrence question. A Wash
ington dispatch in that paper says:
It leaks out that the reasons why General
Schenck has been delayed so mysteriously in
departing for his post are to be found in the
fact that Sir John Rose was sent here by the
Canadian Government to assist Sir Edward
Thornton in settliDg the vexed differences be
tween onr Government and the Canadian Do.
minion, touching the Fisheries and the St. Law
rence. While these negotiations were pending,
Sir Edward was telegraphed to ask the deten
tion of General Schenck until instructions were
received, tendering the United Stales the Fish
eries and the free navigation of the St. Law
rence without compensation or favor in return.
From Dooly.
Vienna, February 8,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : The farm
ers of Dooly aro preparing to cultivate their
lands without guano or any other fertilizer.
They have been so badly deceived and swindled
in commercial manures that they are determined
now to strike for independence,* and in future
give no drafts, either for guano, com or bacon.
Independent farming is the idea here. We
shall form an agricultural club and send dele
gates to the State Convention at Macon, and
when we get our railroad, we shall be all right.
The people will guarantee the Macon and Brans-
wick road to pay for the survey from Hawkins-
ville to Vienna, and thance to Drayton and onto
Americas. Buncombe.
Now fob Corbin.—Tho New York Sun, now
that Kramer, Grant’s brother-in-law, has been
confirmed as Minister to Denmark—and whose
only qualifications for that office were, as stated
by Sumner, that relationship and utter worth
lessness, generally—suggests a fat place for
Corbin, another brother-in-law, who was up to
his eyes in the mire and muck of the great gold
conspiracy of I860. The Sun thinks the posi
tion of-Gtjneral Supervising Travelling Treasu
ry AgedBfe go around everywhere and gobble
up all he oould, would just fit Corbin, and so do
ire. Now let Oorbln Bend down to Atlanta and
get that ingenuous youth, Rookafellow, to oome
on end start * petition for him, and the thing
la as good as done.
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THE KEiV PROGRAMME.
What tho Change in tho Cabinet 3Icans.
Pink, the New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier," undertakes to tell ns all
abont it. Who Pink is, wo do not know, but
as be puts bis revelation upon universal gossip
in tho Northern political dubs and circles, it is
not so important to know. Pink says the change
in the Cabinet means a total and square change
in American diplomacy in respect to the United
•Kingdom. It means an end of toadying to tho
British lion. Tho world has learned- that his
roaring is as hollow as a drum or an empty hogs
head. The British lion has been successfully
bullied by Russia on tho Paris treaty and by
Prussia in sinking bis ships.
The glory of tho British lion has departed.
He has made up his mind to retire to his Island
den and snlk in isolated wealth and insignifi
cance. Ho will hold his deb, and he will hold
his East Indies—bat the latter not a moment
longer than Russia permits. Australia and New
England no longer respect the British lion, and
will soon set up for themselves. Canada has
no respect for the British lion, and the ques
tion of her annexation will bo the pivot of the
election in 1872. In short, tho British lion has
played onf, and whoever does not see it is a fool
and behind the time.
Butler, after a year’s thumping, has .succeeded
in brickbatting these ideas into Grant’s head.
Butler has told him, if you haven’t sense enough
to see the changed condition of affairs, the-
Democrats have, and will play their cards boldly
in 1872 and carry seven-eighths of tho people
with them. Bntler points with great signifi
cance to a recent pronunciamento of John
Quincy Adams, delivered in Albany, New
York, before the assembled wisdom of the Em
pire State Democracy, in which England is told
that she must knock under as becomes her or.
accept the sword. She is no friend to tho Uni
ted States, in any aspect, and need be at no
more pains to keep up her hypocritical pre
tences which deceive nobody. She might as
well take a hint and be getting oat of the con
tinent at once and stay not on the order of h8r
going, for there is no room on it for her.
Consequently, so soon as Fish takes himself
ont of the Cabinet and Morton comes in, and
Schenck gets to the Court of St. James, there
is to be an entire now deal with the British
Lion. He is to be notified, so soon as the Ala
bama question is settled to tho satisfaction of
the United States, that he will bo held as having
no concern whatever, with the Fishery Ques
tion. That is to be settled with the govern
ment of the Dominion of Canada, and Canada
is to be apprised that the United States will no
longer respect her trumpery pretensions to su
premacy over'any portion of the fishing waters,
and if she dare interfere any farther sho will be
taken in hand and swallowed by as sudden a
process of deglutition, as ducks sometimes ad
minister to Jane bugs.
Bat unluckily for this plot, if there be any
thing in it, it seems the Dominion will not be
forced into a quarrel on this question. It is
said they will voluntarily tender the United
States free fish and free navigation of the St.
Lawrenco without asking anything in return.
We hope Butler’s war programme will meet
with equal and speedy prostration an all its
points. __
Queen Shad.
Our city editor received yesterday from the
Walker Brothers, on Cherry street, an
Ogeecheo shad, which weighed five and a half
pounds, and was pronounced the largest of its
tribe which has been seen in Macon this season.
In disposing of that fish we will do our utmost
worthily to represent the city editor, and where
in wo fail, rely upon the supplemental efforts
of a numerous and interesting family.
Wo respect shads — especially the school
marms, or the heads of schools, schnles, or
shoals, or whatever may be the name of those
collections of these gallant Finians, as they
glide up our Georgia rivers flashing their silvery
sides in the bright sun. They are beautiful,
and they come on a benevolent and self-sacri
ficing errand—travelling on their own expenses;
bat tho fact that so many of them are stopped
by tho seine, shows that they have no through
tickets.
The solitary objection we hold io the shad
lies against few other people in Georgia, at this
time—they are too rich!—too oily—not for the
palate, bnt for the stomach. The same objec
tion lies against Salmon, with all people whose
digestion is not quite up to the point of a flour
ing mill or a sixty saw gin.
Some people iry shad, which is like greasing
a fat hog, and add3 fuel to tho fire of indiges
tion. Some bake them, which is better. Bnt
the best way is to split and broil them over
bright coals, bnt frying the roe.
This is plain household cookery; but if you
want a better way—take a good shad or any
other good fish, as it comes from the water, and
roll it in a dozen successive envelopes of good
stiff brown paper which ha3 been saturated
with water. Rake away the coals and ashes
from the hearth—deposite the fish on the hot
bricks and then cover coals and hot ashes. Let
it cook about forty or fifty minutes. When you
take off the envelope tho scales will come with
it—then the fish and entrails will be foond a little
wisp, easily removed. Apply salt, pepper and
bnlter, and yon will be surprised. This is the
way amateur fishermen cook fish, and one ex
periment will satisfy you that they are deeply
versed in the snbject.
The News.
We are rejoiced to see. that the government
of Great Britain, in order to leave no stone un
turned for an honorable adjustment of the mat
ters in controversy with the United States, has
proposed a joint commission to sit in Washing
ton and determine all matters at issue on the
Alabama claims and Fishery questions, and
that the United States government has assented
to the proposition “in the friendly spirit in
which it is made.”
We land the practical wisdom of the Glad
stone ministry in removing all these questions
equally from tho complications of party strife
and the schemes of party leaders, and from the
manipulations of such a diplomat as Schenok,
with Butler behind him. On tbe port of Great
Britain the commission will be composed of her
ablest and most august subjects. Such men as
Earl Derby and the Duke of Argyle, have been
mentioned by the English press, and the char
acter of tho proposition itself shows that Great
Britain is in sober earnest, and will not stop at
trifles in order to restore a good understanding
With onr government. She is prepared to ac-
quiesce in anything reasonable'and honorable.
If the Grant administration shall fail to ap
point commissioners on onr side equally dis
posed to be fair and reasonable; if it Khali se
lect men whose extreme views and hostile ful-
minations in the interests of a partisan war
shall justly offend the English commission—
wonnd the spirit in which it is oonceived, and
endanger its results, surely no denunciations
that an outraged English-speaking civilization
can heap upon them will be undeserved. Bat
we hope for better things.
Anxiety is felt in Washington about the Domin
ican commission—nothing having been heard
of the Tennessee steamship in which they sailed.
It was supposed that the President would al
low the bill to abolish the test oath to be oome a
law by his own inaction. He would not ap
prove it. Grant feels a strong animosity to the
Southern whites since they will vote against
him.
Thiers and an Orleaaist ticket seems to have
elected fapart of Paris.
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THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A passenger coach on tho morning train from
this city for Augusta took firo last Saturday,
nenr Milledgovillo, bui was soon extinguished
without doing any material harm.
Tho Southern Recorder says the freight on
tho Macon and Augusta railroad is increasing
very rapidly, and an extra train will Goon bo
put on.
Eight bales of cotton, classed as Liverpool
middlings, sold at Colnmbns on Wednesday at
12 5-16 per pound.
Tho monthly Court-house salo3 at Savannah,
on Tuesday, were very heavy. " Southwestern
railroad stock brought from §91.50 to §92.00 a
sharo; Atlantic and Gulf stock from §54.50 to
§56.00 per share; and Savannah Bank and
Trust Company stock from §101.00 to §101.50
per share.
A negro named Eli Chamberlain, killed
another named Wash Smith, at Augusta, Tues
day morning, for treading on his toes at a ball.
At the monthly Court-house sale at Augusta,
on Tuesday, horses and mules brought from
§22 50 to §142, and buggies from S40 to §60.
A great deal of real estate was withdrawn on
account of dull bidding. Twenty-sis thousand
nine hundred and fifty acres of Appling county
land sold at prices ranging from 10 to 25 cents
an aero, and 12,740 acres in Coffeo county at 10
cents an acre.
Bank Swindle in Savannah.—From tho Ad
vertiser, wo learn that a young man named Ja
cobs, who recently disappeared from that city,
13 suspected of playing tho “sharp” on tho Sa
vannah Bank and Trust Company. The partic
ulars aro thus stated :"
Abont a week since Jacobs informed a friend
of his that- he had jnst received a letter from
his mother, residing in Bangor, Maino, inform
ing him that she had sold sevoral town lots for
tho purpose of making a division of his father’s
estate, and that he might draw for his amount.
His friend congratulated him on his good luck,
Jacobs, remarking that ho supposed ho would
have tho money in a fow days.
It is supposed that Jacobs, on tho strength of
this and other letters, succeeded in raising the
wind by having his fictitious drafts cashed or
hypothecated by the Savannah Bank and Trust
Company, tho whole amount reaching several
thousand dollars. As ho hgs since been mis3iDg,
and tho said bank ha3 discovered that the bank
in Bangor, Maine, upon which the drafts were
drawn never had an existence, tho supposition
is very strong that Jacobs has been guilty of tho
offense of obtaining money under false preten
ces. Telegrams have been sent to several cities
in tbe' direction he and his companions.are said
to have gone, and the detectives here have boen
busily at work in their endeavors to ferret ont
the place of Jacob’s concealment, if he has not
left the city. The amounts drawn by Jacobs,
it is said, were for §1,970, §850 and §2,220,
making in all S5,040. The particulars relating
to tho bank swindle are somewhat unsatisfacto
ry, some reticence having been exhibited in the
matter. v
The Atlanta organ of the Georgia Radicals
says thieving and pickpockets abound in that ci ty.
Mr. John B. Nisbet, of Dade county, had his
pocket picked in Atlanta on Wednesday of §70
in money and papers to tho valuo of §1800.
Charles Broils, a conductor on tho Western
and Atlantio Railroad, had an arm and a leg
badly crushed at Kingston, on Tuesday. He
now lies at Dalton in a critical condition.
Tho Atlanta Sun, of yesterday, has the follow
ing paragraph:
The report has been circulated through the
papers that tho lessees of the State Road have
paid to the State Treasurer tho sum of §28,000,
on the lease, for tho month of January, and a
portional part of the month of December. This
has occasioned a good deal of inqniry from par
ties who hoid warrants. Treasurer Angier, for
the information of parties interested, requests
us to say that only §10,000 was paid into the
Treasury. We learn from anothes source that
the remainder of the amount was paid to con
necting roads.
Frank Butler, aged 18, stabbed and killed his
half brother, George Ellis, in Pike county, on
Friday. Ellis wa3 beating their mother.
A Strong Appeal.—We find the following in
an exchange:
A certain merchant in Georgia has printed
an appeal to his debtors which forces the be
lief that he is in earnest. It has been suggested
that the plain talk of this dealer might be need
ed in other localities than the one for which it
was intended. We make room for it entire, ex
cepting names. Hear him:
No Excuse.—For two years we have been
seelling goods to onr friends on a CREDIT! A
great many did not FAY THEIR BILLS last
year. This year there can be no such excuse.
Wo borrowed money to give YCU indulgence
on YOUR debt of honor, and this fall the MON
EY HAS TO BE PAID.
As most of our customers are praying people,
we hope every time you offer up your prayers
that you will pray the Lord to give you honest
hearts to pay poor old tho little which
you owe him.
Thinking many would respond to the appeal
who could not settle all of their indebtedness
with the cash, ho thought while he was at it, to
close his books, finish np the job and secure the
money, had some blank, notes printed for their
sort. Tho following is a correct copy:
187.
BY TELEGRAPH.
One day after date,
or bearer,
I promise to pay
Dollars, and hereby bind myself, my heirs, ex
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, to take no
advantage of the Homestead or any other ras
cally Georgia law, so far as this debt is concern
ed. So help me God and keep me steadfast in
due performance of the same.
Witness my hand and seal,
[seal.]
Vanderbilt’s Start.
The New York correspondent of tho Boston
Journal says: Every little while the newspapers
contain an acoonnt of Vanderbilt’s beginning.
Most of these accounts are apochryphal. His
own statement of his first tealj success is this:
He was a young man on Staten Island. He was
master of rowing. He was athletic, strong and
daring. One night a stranger came to the land
ing and wanted to be. rowed across to Gow-
anus. The night was dark and stormy, and
the wind blew a gale. Not a boatman could
be found who would leave. Tho landlord
said: “There is nobody who can row you
over hut Com Vanderbilt,” for he was so
called. It was doubtful, he said, whether
he would do it. Vanderbilt was^found, and in
answer to the request, replied: “It’s pretty
rough, bnt If you’ll give me ten dollars, lay
down in my boat and not stir, and do jnst what I
bid you, I’ll try.” He rowed the man over and
back in safety. As soon as he landed at Staten
Island, the stranger said: “Young man, how
would you like to run an opposition steamboat ?”
“Nothing would suit me better,” was the reply.
“Have you pluck enough to obey orders?” said
the stranger, “I have,” was the response.—
“Suppose I was to tell you to run into a steam
boat, what would you do ?” “run into her, by—
The bargain was sealed amid the storm that
night, on the island, and Vanderbilt entered
upon his well known career as a steamboatman.
Vert Persona*.—Gan it be that Greeley has
gone back on Beast Bntler? The following
paragraph in the Tribune, of Monday, has a
horrible smack of personality about it:
There seems to be some fatality about spoons,
whicb, it will be remembered, figured somewhat
in onr own military troubles. And here is a re
port that a Prussian officer stole the spoons from
a hotel table at Etampes, and his Prussian Maj
esty has ordered an investigation. The truth
is, there is nothing handier to steal than a
spoon. In publie places of entertainment its
custody is necessarily confided for a time to the
eating customer, and writers, however agile and
watchful, cannot be expected to have eyes in
the back of their head,. Spoons have given rise
to a good deal of saroasm. “I will send a friend
to boo yon,” says one irate gentlemen to an
other. “Thank you for the warning,” is the
withering reply; “I will look up the spoons.”
Thank You!—We are indebted to the Wash
ington Republican (troolyloil) of Monday, for
the following cheerful paragraph:
It is admitted by the friends of Foster Blodg
ett, who was elected by the Georgia Legislature
early in 1870 to succeed Miller after March 4
next, that his election was illegal, he having
been elected by the Legislature preceding the
one last elected.
Propositions from England Accepted for a
Settlement of nil Controversies with tho
United States—Election of Thiers and nn
Orlcnnfst Ticket in tho Department of
Sclnc-lnfcrienr—Uneasiness about the
Dominican Commission.
Washington, February 9.—The Herald has a
special from Kingston of tho 8th. The black
troops will bo withdrawn. The Government
cannot carry out tho English laws against the
squatters, until the white troops arrive. The
black troop3 are unreliable.
. Justice Nelson’s health has beon restored.
Resolutions censuring President Grant for
tho employment of troops in the elections havo
been defeated in tho Ohio Senate by a vote of
4 to 17.
Schenck will sail on tho first of March. It
is understood that ho will have full discretiona
ry power to settle the Alabama question.
An army officer reports that tho troubles in
Robeson county, N. C., aro in no way tho re
sult of political sentiments, either one way or
tbe other. He thinks that tho citizens by united
action as a posse eommitatus, under tbe Sheriff,
cotdd suppress the outlawing which is fast de
vastating that section.
The impression grows that tho President will
allow the act abolishing tho test oath to become
a law by his inaction.
There is no news whatever from the steam
ship Tennessee with the Dominican Commis
sion, and the absence of news causes uneasi
ness. . -
The Amerioan ship Southern Rights, from
Liverpool ofjDecember 24th, with a clean bill
of health, arrived at Savannah January 28th,
lost three from smnll pox, and brought in three
cases, one of which has since proved fatal. The
character of tho disease is very malignant. The
authorities have adopted every precaution
against its spread.'
Washington, February 9.—Tho House is fil-
libnstering over the income t ax. In tho Senate,
Mr. Trumbull introduced a resolution to seat
Miller from Georgia, on taking the ordinary
oath. The Senators, chiefly Oonklingfrom New
York, are talking ovor tho matter to push it past
tho time, when tho special order will prevent its
present consideration.
London, February 9.—John Locke, member
of Parliament for Southwark, addressed his
constituents in favor of a dower for the Princess
Louise. The mention of the Queen’s name pro
voked hisses. Tho workmen resolved to hold
public meetings and protest against the dower.
Jules Favro, thanking the Mayor of London
for provisions, writes on tho 8th that the dis
tress is very great and still continues, but the
city is tranquil.
The steamship Crescent City, from New Or
leans, is aground off the coast of Ireland,
total loss is apprehended. Tho passengers, crew
and specie aro safe. There is little hopo of
saving hor cargo.
A Havre dispatch says that Thiers, Cordier,
Dueriter and Buce, havo been chosen to tho
National Assembly for the department of tho
Seine. Tho Republicans carry Havre and Lille.
New York, Eebrnary 9.—Arrived, Aleppo,
Now York; Bucephalus, Mobile; Benton, New
York;’ Washington, New York; Lord Dalhousie,
Galveston; Catting, Savannah; Aurelia, Char
leston ; all with cotton lading.
. Washington, February 9.—The British Min
ister by instruction from his Government and
in a spirit of friendship, proposes to the United
States Government the appointment of a Joint
Commission to sit at Washington to settle the
fisheries and other questions. Our Government
has accepted tho proposition in a cordial man
ner, and the British Ministor replies under date
of February 1st, that tho settlement of the Ala
bama claims will also bo essential to a restora
tion of the cordial and amicable relations’be
tween the two Governments.
Washington, February 9.—A fuller statement
of correspondence says that in his first letter,
dated January 26, Mr. Thornton proposes the
appoinment of a joint high commission, the
members to be named by each Government, to
hold its sessions in this city, and to treat of and
discuss the mode of settling the different ques
tions which havo arisen ont of the fisheries, as
well as those which affect the relation of the
United States towards her Majesty’s possessions
in North America. In hisreply, dated January
26, Secretary Fish acknowledges the receipt of
Mr. Thornton’s letter and its" friendly spirit,
but sayft the President is of the opinion that
bnt little would bo accomplished by the pro
posed commission unless the Alabama claims
are also to be considered, and adds that this
Government is ready to proceed on that case.
To this note Mr. Thornton replies, under date
of the 1st of February, that the British Govern
ment would bo willing to include the Alabama
claims, provided that all other claims, both of
British subjects and citizens of the United
States, arising ont of acts committed during tho
recent civil war in this country, are also simi
larly referred. The final note from Mr. Fish,
dated the 3d inst., assents to the propriety of
the suggestions made by tho British Govern
ment, bnt suggests that only such other claims
shall be considered as may be presented by the
Governments of the respective claimants at an
early day, to bo agreed upon by the Commis
sion.
The Senate was in executive r ion from
half past two to five o’clock on coriuspondenco
between Fish and Thornton.
The following is an extract from the Queen’s
speech:
“I have therefore engaged in an amicable
communication with the President of the United
States in order to determine the most con
venient mode of treatment for these matters of
fisheries. I have suggested the appointment of
a joint committee and I have agreed to a pro
posal of the President that this commission be
authorized at tho same time and same manner
to resume the consideration of the questions
growing out of tho late war. This arrangement
will by common consent include all claims for
compensation which have or may be made by
each government or its citizens npon the other.”
The President’s mossage to the Senate, the
contents of whioh havo not transpired, is based
upon the above. There was no serious opposi
tion in the Senato to tho plan or to the commis
sioners nominated. Delay in the ratification
of both, however, was asked for until the doo-
uments could be printed, so that Senators might
have a more thorough understanding of tho
matter.
The Senate confirmed John R. G. Pitken Gen
eral Appraiser of Merchandise for the South,
vice Lucius D. Kellogg, resigned.
The President nominates Secretary Fish,
Minister Schenck, Judge Nelson, ex-Attomey
General Hoar and Senator Williams, as Com-
missioners on the part of the United States, to
act in conjunction with a similar committee ap
pointed by England, for the settlement of the
Alabama and Fishery questions. The Senate
will resume the consideration of the question
to-morrow.
The vote by which the House refused to go
into a Committee of the Whole for the repeal of
the income tax—103 to 107—was the largest
since the commencement of war. The vote
was politically mnch divided. It wa3 rather the
cities against the rnral districts. ,
Nominations, Henry Rives, collector for
tho 5th Virginia District; Geo. S. Smith, nsses-
or for the 5th Virginia Distriot; E. A. Massey
collector of customs, Yorktown, Virginia.
Senate.—Sherman introduced a bill to pro
mote the constructioti of tho Cincinnati and
Southern railway, giving tho Company incorpo
ration in Ohio, and a national charter to con
struct and maintain a railway and telegraph line
from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, Tenn.
Tho bill seating Miller npon the modified oath
was postponed to Monday. The Sohool ques
tion was also postponed.
Appropriations were discussed to Executive
session.
House.—Whitely, lately a contestant for a
scat in the Senate, was seated in the House as
Representative from the Second Georgia Dis
trict.
The House refused to consider the Income
Tax.
The Naval Appropriations were considered.
Tho death of Oovodor was announced, and
the House adjourned.
London, February 9.—The Queen opened
the session to-day in person. The Houses of
Lords and Commons mustered full forces.
There was a large attendance of spectators.
There was the usual military and civil display.
The weather is fine. The speech had no effect
upon stocks. "
Thiers’ majority exceeds all expectation.
The.military chest of the French army East,
containing a million and a half francs, was sur
rendered to the Swiss Government.
The Germans besieging Belfast, have carried
some detaohed forts.
The following are the opening paragraphs of
the speech
Lords and Gentlemen ; At an epoch of such
moment to the future fortunes of Europe I am
especially desirous to avail myself of your coun
sels. The war which broke ont in the month
of July between France and Germany has raged
until within the last few days with unremitting,
and, likewise, with.unexampled force, and its
ravages may be more, unless moderation and fore
thought prevailing over all impediments, shall
sway the councils of both parties whose well being
is so fatally concerned. At the time when you
separated, I promised a constant attention to the
Subject of neutral obligations, and I undertook
to use my best endeavors to prevent tho en
largement of the area of war and to contribute
to the ’ restoration of. an early and honorable
peace. In accordance with the first of these
declarations, I bave maintained the right and
strictly discharged tho dnties of neutrality. Tho
sphere of the war has not been extended be
yond tho two countries originally engaged.
Cherishing with care the cordiality of my rela
tions with tho belligerents, I have forborne
from whatever might havo boen construed as
gratuitous or unwarranted interference between
the parties, neitherof whom had shown a read
iness to propose terms of accommodation such
as to bear promise of acceptance by tho other.
I have been ablo on more than one occasion to
contribute towards placing the representatives
of the two countries iu confidential communica
tion, bnt until famine compelled the surrender
of Paris no farther result had been obtained.
The armistice now being employed for tho
convocation of an assembly in France has
brought about a pause in the constant accumu
lation on both sides of human suffering, and
has rekindled the hope of a complete accommo
dation. I pray that this suspension may result
in a peace compatible for the two great and
bravo nations involved, with security, and with
honor, and likely therefore to command the ap
proval of Europe, and to give reasonable hopes
of a long duration.
London, February 9.—Earl de Grey sails for
Washington to-morrow as President of the Com
mission to settle the Alabama claims.
Havana, February 9.—Nothing is heard yot
of the steamer Tennessee. * Enquires aro made
at all points in telegraphic communication with
Havana.
Florence, February 8.—The Chamber has
passed a bill assigning regal honors and a body
guard to the Pope.
New York, February 9.—Tammany Hall gave
tho returned Fenians a magnificent ovation this
afternoon.
There was an enthusiastic meeting for the re
lief of France this afternoon. The contribu
tions are quite large. Mr. Dodge thought
§100,000 can be raised here, and comparatively
large sums in smaller cities.
Savannah, February 9.—Tho telegram rela
tive to tho ship Southern Rights is incorreot in
several particulars. Tho ship remains in Ty-
bco Roads and has not been to the city. Three
cases of small pox were taken from hor and
sent to the Lazaretto.
Savannah, February 9.—Cleared, steamship
America, for Baltimore-; H. Livingston, New
York; L. O. O. Wilsbart, Baltimore..
New Hamburg, February 9.—Three more
bodies have been recovered from the recent
railway disastor.
of
Decisions of tlic Supreme Court
Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEB. 24, 1871.
From Hie Constitution.
Leroy Brown V3. E. N. Reed & Go. Rule
nisi from Terrell.
Lochbane, C. J.—Where the defendant is in
troduced as a witness for himself, and the jury
find a verdict against the testimony of such wit
ness, and he is not corroborated. And where
other witnesses prove sufficient to sustain tho
findings of tho jury.
Held, That this Court will not set aside the
verdict of tho jury on questions of fact fairly
submitted to their consideration, without such
verdict is strongly and decidedly against the
weight of the evidence, and that in cases where
the plaintiff or defendant are witnesses for
themselves, their interest goes to their credi
bility, to be judged of exclusively by the jury.
Judgment affirmed.
Lyon, deGraffenried & Irwin, for plaintiff in
error.
O. B. Wooten, for defendant
C. S. Darbey vs. Geo. W. Thomas. Rule
against Sheriff, etc., from Sumter.
Lochbane, C. J.—Where a rule nisi was
served at tho April term calling upon the Sheriff
to pay over money to plaintiff in fi. fa., and no
answer was filed at that term; and at the Octo
ber term following, the Sheriff agreed in writing
npon the proceeding for attachment if he did
not pay that week, it shonld be had as prayed
for, and the Court passes to the adjourned term,
and tho Sheriff neither answers nor pays over
tho money, bnt moves a continuance on the
ground of absent counsel, it appearing that he
had other counsel who had represented him in
he proceeding, and the absent counsel never
appeared or was known before in the case, and
the Court overruled the motion and granted the
rulo absolute:
Ildd, That the Judge was right.
Judgment affirmed.
W. A. Hawkins, J. A. Ansley, by B. F. Lyon,
for plaintiff in error.
Hawkins & Gnerry, Lanier & Anderson, for
defendant.
Margaret Johnson, by her next friend, vs.
John Jones, et.- al. Equity from Terrell.
Lochbane, O. J.—Where a bill is filed by a
ward through her prochein ami against her
guardian, and it appears from the facts of the
bill that the matter of complaint is against the
guardian for disposing of her property unlaw
fully:
Meld, That a Court of Equity has jurisdic
tion of the subject matter, and such ward may
institute suit against her guardian by her next
friend for the assertion and vindication of her
rights in the premises.
Vason & Davis, by R. H. Clark, for plaintiff
in error.
O. B. Wootten, by A. Hood, for defendant.
Calvin Watson vs. BorwellKemp. Complaint,
from Terrell.
Lochbane, O. J.—Where a party sets up by
his plea to a note sued-on, that it was fraudu
lently obtained by misrepresentation relative to
the ownership of a lot of land, on which the
defendant at the time was living and had in his
possession, and by sneh misrepresentation and
threatening to evict him, and the promise to
give him good title thereto, the note was ob
tained, and which he alleges to be false, and
sets np by allegation of facts in his plea that
the party had no title, and that he procured a
suit claim from a man who told him he had no
title, with intention to defraud defendant:
Held, That while, as a general role, a party
in possession will not be proteoted against the
payment of the purchase money; yet, if the plea
set np the foot that the possession did- not ac
crue from the purchase, hut that defendant was
in possession, and that by fraud the note sued
on was procured from lien, under misrepresen
tation of the party obtaining it that he had
jood title, when he had not, such plea made an
ssue of frand, whioh ought to have been sub
mitted to the jury.
Judgment reversed.
F. M. Harper, by B. H. Clark, for plaintiff
in error.
O. B. Wootten, for defendant.
E. B. Saunders, for plaintiff, vs. A. B. Mo-
Affo and J. R. Owen. Equity, vendor’s lien,
from Randolph.
MoCay, J.—The lien of the vendor of real es
tate for the unpaid purohase money, is not ab
solutely waived by taking the notes of the ven
dee, with a third person as security thereto.
Such an act isprima facie a waiver, bnt the ef
fect of the same, may be rebutted by proof that
it was not the interest of the parties to waive
the lion.
Judgment reversed.
Warner, J., concurring.—When, on the trial
of a bill filed to assert and enf oroe vendor’s lien
for the unpaid purohase money due for the land
sold, the court was requested in writing to oharge
the jury, “If they should believe, from the evi
dence, that defendants bought the land with no
tice that the purohase money due complainant
was unpaid, the fact that O. S. Anthony (being
only a security) signed the note with S. W. An
thony to complainant for the purohase money,
did not prevent complainant from having a ven
dor’s lien on tho land,” whioh charge the court
declined to give, bnt on the contrary, charged
the jury, “That if in fact, oomplainant made a
deed to S. W. Anthony, and took his note for
the purchase money, with O. S. Anthony’s name
also thereto, and if the latter was not interested,
bnt a security, complainant has no Uen on the
land.”
Held, That the mere faot of taking security
on the note given for the purchase money of the
land, does not, of itself, necessarily defeat the
vendor’s lien,, and that the Court below erred in
not charging the jury as requested, - and in
charging the jury as stated in the record, as the
oharge is given, withdrew frota the considera
tion of the jury that portion of the evidence,'
whioh went to show that the defendants pur
chased the land with notice that the purohase
money for the land had not been paid at the
time of the purchase. The jury should have
been allowed to oonsidor and pass upon that
evidence,’and to have given to it such credit
and weight as, in their judgment, it was entitled
to, under the circa instances which attended the
transaction between the parties. I also "concur
in the judgment of reversal, on the ground that
the Court below erred in rejecting the evidence
of Sanders, as stated in the record.
Jna T. Clark for plaintiff in error.
Herbert Fielder for defendant.
Madison Bell vs, the State. Larceny, from
Randolph.
McOay, J.—1. The Constitution of 1868, and
by tho laws therein adopted, the Superior Oourt
ha3 jurisdiction to hear and try criminal cases
not involving life, or imprisonment in the pen
itentiary.
2. In an indictment for larceny from the per
son, where the property stolen was described 03
“twelve five dollars and one ten dollars notes,”
to-wit: United States promissory or bank notes,'
of the value of seventy dollars, etc.:
Held, That after verdict it is too Iato to ob
ject to the description as insufficient, and as in
the alternative.
Judgment affirmed.
John T. Clark for plaintiff in error.
/ns. Kiddoo, S. W. Parker, Solicitor General,
by Newman & Harrison, for tho State.
James A- Foster vs. The State, Adultery
from Randolph. -
McCay, J.—Indictments for adultery, etc.,
under section 4,560 of the Revised Code cannot
be found jointly against the man and woman
charged. And an indictment against both will
be quashed on demurrer before trial.
Judgment reversed.
Hood & Kiddoo, and John T. Clarke, for
plaintiff in error.
S. W. Parker, Solicitor General, by Newman
& Harrison, for the State.
■ John B. Yanover, William Morrow, et al., vs.
John Doe, ex. dem., Vi. H. Tamer. Motion
for new trial, from Randolph.
McCay, J.—1. In a motion for a new trial, if
a brief of the testimony has been agreed npon
by tho counsel and filed in the Clerk’s office, and
the Court has granted a rule nisi, it is error in
the Court at the hearing to dismiss the motion
because the brief of testimony was not approved
by tho Court. The granting of the rule nisi is
a presumptive approval within the meaning of
the rules of Court.
2. A motion for a new trial, including the
brief of testimony, may be amended in the
same terms os other proceedings in the Superior
Court.
Judgment reversed.
E. H. Platt and E. L. Douglass, by B. 8.
Worrell, for plaintiff in error. •
W. D. Kiddoo, by A. Hood for defendant.
Adolph Cohen vs. Meyers, Cohen & Co., et
al. Bill for appointment of receiver, etc., from
Macon county.
McOay, J.—1. A bill by creditors charging
that the debtor, who is insolvent, has fraudu
lently transferred his property, a stock of dry
goods, to a third person who is in complicity
with the frand, and who is rapidly selling them
at retail to ether persons, and praying the ap
pointment of a receiver, is not demurrable on
the ground that the complainants do not show
that they have sued their claims, to a judgment
at law. ' * -
2. In a motion to revoke an order appointing
a receiver, on the ground that tho answer of the
defendants, with the supplemental affidavits
“swears off ” the equity of tho bill, is authorized
by law to grant or refuse the motion according
to his discretion under all the facts and circum
stances of the case, and this court will not con
trol his judgment unless his discretion has been
abused.
Judgment affirmed.
Morgan & McCarthy, Lanier & Anderson, for
plaintiff in error.
Nesbit & Jackson, for defendants.
John Sealy, trustee, vs. Edward Kuttner. Pro
ceeding against tenant, from Terrell.
Warner, J.—Where on the trial of an issue
for the removal of a tenant under the rent laws
of this State, and it appeared in evidence that
the premises were originally rented by the land
lord to Watts, and that Watts sab-let the prem
ises to Kuttner, the defendant. Tho Conrt was
requested by the plaintiff’s counsel to charge
the jury, that “if Harper, as the agent of the
landlord, did rent the premises to Watts for the
year 1869, that Watts could not, without the
consent of the landlord, snb-Iet the premises to
the defendant, Knttner, and that if he the de
fendant, got possession in that manner, without
contrary thereof r
chased the negroes in her own XTiTT-"
ecutor's sale of her deceased ’•->-/ : '-5‘
ty, and was indebted to the executor
and after ahe became the guardian of
dren, receipted to them for tho amo^tA^I
her as so much money received from dBe cjl
to ncr ward#, and thereby c..- ..-•‘V:■ - . I
indebtedness to them for the °»»l
chased, and charged herself, asIT*!?- 80 Pul
the debt as being due by her to tut*?’ ^il
it was, in law, a violation, and the orio, , M
tract between her and tho executor? 8 !? 11 '^ I
sideration of which, was shares ^ 9 «5:-|
gnished and at an end, and cannot boS.
the defendants in a suit on the cnanti. *51
as being a debt, tho consideration of
a snare or shares.
Judgment reversed.
0. B. Wootten, for plaintiff in error
Hoyt & Simmons for defendants.
A Shaw & Son vs. John McGonn. • n - ■
from Randolph. .
Warner, J.—Where, on tho trial of» , I
case, it appeared that eight bales of coiLt 5 !
been levied on as the property of h
fondant in execution, to satisfy a indtl
tained against him in favor ofth.f^^l
therein, dated tho 12 th of May, 18C6W?*|
cotton was claimed by A. Shaw & SonV.^I
property, having, as they alleged, pZj^l
said cotton in pursuance of an agree!® *5*1
tween them that the claimants shoiddwN
provisions and supplies to «n«R|e th e v® l *M
ants in fi. fa. to make a cron for the te»i2l
The claimants did not attempt to enfor« I
lien npon the cotton under the j
of tho Code, if, indeed, they corndhavedm I
in this case. The j ary found the proper ? I
ject, and a motion made for a new tnalo* *
oral grounds, which was refused by tha rvi?
Held, That there was no -error in the r :
below in refusing to continue the casetoemw
tho defendant to open the judgment owl
statement of facts presented by the
there being no affidavit showing snch&«*J
ment of facts as would havo authorized tv
judgment to have been opened. The nZ
charged the jury “that if they should
from the evidence, that the claimant.; rS
their contract with Hendy, had the right folk
mand the eight bales of cotton, and that He*'I
was bound to deliver the same to him iS
case they should find for the claimants.’” **
Held, That the charge of the Court, in v-
of tho facts of tho case, was quite as favon'5
to the claimants as they had a right to decaf
and the evidence being conflicting on sooerfl
the main points involved, there was no erne?
the Conrt below in refusing to grant tho eos I
for a non-trial upon any of the groundaVp
therein—the rejection of the evidence m J
sufficient, for had it been admitted, it coalin'
have changed the result under the law apdij:
ble to the facts of tho case.
Judgment affirmed.
D. H. Platt & B. S. Worrell, for plaintiffs*!
error.
Hood & Kiddoo, for defendant
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Judgment reversed.
Vason & Davis, by John T.
tiff in error.
Attachment, from Sumter.
was dated on the 27th day of March, 1SG8. The
that term. The counsel for plaintiff sta
his plea that if the time was allowed him he
could, and would, prove that the attachment
was issued on the 27th day of March, the date
of the bond, and asked time of the court to en
able him to prove that fact, and to amend the
attachment in accordance with the truth of the
fact as to tho day the attachment did issue.
The oourt refused to continue the ease so as to
allow the plaintiff to make the proof in relation
to the mistake in the date of the attachment,
and dismissed the same, to which the plaintiff
excepted:
Held, That as the law required the plaintiff
to give bond before the attachment issued, and
the bond was dated on the 27th of March, the
Conrt shonld, on the statement of plaintiff’s
counsel, have continued the case, so as to ena
ble him to have proved the mistake in the date
of the attachment, the more especially, as it
was not to be presumed that the attachment was
issued before the.bond was given.
Judgment reversed. -
Hawkins & Burke, by R. F. Lyon, for plain
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Lanier & Anderson, for defendant.
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use, eto. Action on bond, from TerrelL
■Warner, J.—Where an action was brought on
a guardian’s-bond against the principal and se
curities, in the name of the Ordinary, for the
use of the words of the guardian, to recover
damages for the alleged breach thereof by the
guardian, and on the trial, the plaintiff offered
: n evidence the receipts of the guardian, ac
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dren, received into her hands three negroes of
the value of §3,000, one note on Whaley for
§1,300 and one note’on Reddick, tho witness,
for §1,350; .that it was for said negroes and
notes that the receipts of the guardian to the
executors of Cherry were given; that no other
property except said negroes and notes, and
Borne §700 worth of property which she bought
at the sale, came into her hands; that witness
paid his note in Confederate money in 1863 or
1864, that the consideration of the note on
Whaley was a negro slave, and that Whaley has
boen since the war insolvent; that tho guardian
purchased said negroes at the sale of the prop
erty of F. Cherry at the price of §3,000; that
when she afterward became guardian of the
minor children, she, as such guardian, receipted
the executors for the estate of said minors; that
she and the executors inolnded the price of said
negroes in said receipt; that she held said ne
groes, and treated them as the property of said
wards, and that said negroes were set free by
the result of the war. The Court ruled out aU
this evidence, and excluded the same from the
jury, to which the defendants excepted:
field, That the court below should have ad
mitted the evidenoe to go to the jury, and have
given to them in oharge, the law applicable
thereto.
Ileld, also, That if Mrs. Cherry, before she
beoame guardian of her minor children, pur-
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