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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, FEBRUARY 21, 1871.
The News.
Reports from Borde&nx state that M. Grevy
was elected President of tho National Assembly,
by 519 out of 538 votes. We judge from pre
vious associations of M. Grovy’s name, that in
politics he is a conservative Republican. A de
liberative body of between five and six hundred
would be a noisy affair in any country at any
time. We are not surprised, therefore, to read
that violent scenes have already taken place,
and shall bo astonished if, with stakes of such
moment nnd passions so high and people so
demonstrative, the bayonets outside the French
National Assembly will not be necessary inside
to keep the peace. Wo sympathise with Mr.
President Grevy in all his efforts to maintain
parliamentary order—but what can one mallet
do in the tumult of 538 voices?
Meanwhile, the armistice is up to-morrow,
and the Germans are concentrating on the Loire
to be in readiness to renew the war, if they can
find anybody to fight them; and, in the absence
of that, to ravago and destroy. Surely tlioy will
find no military force to stand against them.
We hope the armistice will be extended.
The British Ministry come forward with a
budget for domestic defences calling for three
hundred million dollars. That looks very se
rious. Sheltered behind these enonnons coast
defences, Mr. Bull means to make himself, if
necessary, terrible on the high.seas, and to teach
the eld lesson that “Britanniarules the main.”
Sc-: a’or Davis, of Kentucky, yesterday was
before the Senate Committee on Commerce ar-
gning that the Federal government hr.d no power
to grant private acts of incorporation confer
ring right of way —rough the States. Tho Sen
ate :■ is quite right, but it will bo a year or two
yet before questions of constitutional power
will Lave any weight with Congress. Mean
while , ,ve regret that such an argument should
arise upon tho refusal of Kentucky to grant
right of way to a railway, for no better reason
th;.;. the fear that it may interfere with tho trade
of Louisviilo.
Nothing yet from the Domingo Commission
or steamship, and conclusions are postponed
until the arrival of the Tybeo with tho West
Indian mail, which is due on Wednesday next.
Mr antime, tho probabilities and possibilities arc
an engrossing theme of discourse with tho
•Nc .hern press.
Seiiaior Davis’ 'irgament.
I' it funny to read r.bsuta sober argument
Congress, ora committee thereof, against
the right of Congress to what is called “emi
nent domain” in tho States—the light to con-
fisc.ri', alienate and convey land; in ihe States.
V. -tii an abundant caution on this point, the
constitution provided that the Federal Govern
ment should not acqtiiro exsinsivo or para
mount jurisdiction over even such littlo parts
of States a" might be necessary fora federal
soof government, or tho construction of works
of common defence, except by the consent of
th Legislatures thereof.
Only cp a mere vendor of its own lands can
the- Federal government constitutionally put
snybedy in possession of one foot of property
in any of fhe States; and yet it noy assumes
not only to confer tho right of way through
States divesting and conferring title to and pos
session of land, but it has confiscated lands by
thousands of acres, to which it can never with
out a total change of the Constitution confer
the shadow of a legal title.
The “power to regulate commerce between
the States” under which the right to charter
this railway through Kentucky is claimed,
against tho assent of her Legislature, as Mr.
Madison cloarly points oat in the Federalist,
was suggested and granted in order to prevent
import and export duties which had been levied
by some of tho States under tho Articles of Con
federation, and wn3 suggested by tho examplo
of Switzerland, where such '0II3 on goods pass
ing between tho Cantons were prohibited, and
by tho existence of a similar provision in the
Germanic Empire. To claim the right of emi
nent domain in the States on such a grant of
power as that, 13 simply absurd.
The South Caeolina Railaoad.—We find
iho annual report of the President of tho South
Carolina Railroad, in the Charleston Courier, of
Wednesday. He reports a very gratifying
state of affairs for parties interested in the
read, there having been a marked increase in •
its business for the past year over that of tho
year previous, and up to its full average before
tho war. Tho business is thus stated:
Gross earnings of Road §1,468,340 53
Receipts from other sources 10,793 01
Total $I,4S5,138 54
And has been disposed of as
follows:
Road expenses, Including renew
al of rails... §910,075 82
Interest—Foreign Bonds 74,272 35
Interest—First Mortgage, Domes
tic Bonds GO,805 00
Interest—Domestic 0 and 7 per
cent. Bonds 142,621 50
Interest—General 45,003 00
Total §1„238,858 33
Tho net income of the year, after charging
up the road expenses and Foreign and Domestic
Interest, is... §240,280 21
Against this have been charged—
Dividends 116,388 00
Leaving a balance of. §129,892 21
Which has been carried to the “reduction of
debt, purchase of locomotives, cam and real
estate.”
What Causes the Teocble.—The Courior-
Journal’s Washington correspondent writing
under date of Tuesday, says:
The debate to-day in the House on the report
of the Military Committee for the expulsion of
the first class cadets from the West Point Acad
emy was of a most interesting character. Gen.
Slocum, himself a graduate of the Academy and
a member of the Committee, made tho charge
openly and broadly, and read from the evidence
to sustain what he said, that the course of the
President in pardoning, at tho request of cadet
Grant, tho cadets at tho Academy who had been
tried and convicted by courts-martial, had pro
duced a state of demoralization for which the
officers of tho Academy were not responsible,
and whioh they were, under such circumstances,
powerless to prevent. While Gen. Slocum
made these statements nearly all tho members
of tho House left thoir seats and gathered round
him to hear.
The New York Herald says: “There are now
seventy-two Postmistresses in the United
States, who receive salaries of §1,000 and up
ward, besidee women in minor Post-offices. The
Postmistress of Louisville, Kentucky, receives
§4,000; at Richmond, Virginia, §4,000; at
Hpringtfeld, Ohio, §3,000. The offices filled by
women are reported at Washington as the best
managed under the Government.”
The Rhode Island Senate, after considerable
discussion, has rejected by a decisive - vote, a
proposition to amend the Constitution so that
naturalized citizens can vote without owning
real estate, and yet Rhode Island was one of the
hotest among the Radical States for imposing
negro suffrage on the South.
A specimen- Iowa item: “AlSwalm, of the
Des Moines Register, advertises his left boot to
rent for one month. Ho met with an accident,
whereby he is obliged to do up his hoof in a
slipper about the size of cradle.”
A Virginia lady ascribes her ninety-six years
of life and her good health now to the fact that
she never took any medicine, save three pills.
Planters HefiindkanU.
Various causes have conspired to put the
Georgia planters two or three weeks behind
their state of progress at tho corresponding
period of last Spring. Two which wo will men
tion are these:—the laborers lhi3 year wore
slow in making contracts and reluctant and di
latory in settling down to plantation work.
This was perhaps more than any thing 6lse due
to tho election excitement in December, for the
negro cannot divest himself of the- idea that
some material results—something-in the pocket
or the Sack is to come from voting the straight
Radical ticket.
But after tho hands had begun to address
themselves- seriously to work, then long and
heavy rains set in—rendering field labor of any
kind impracticable, and the soil is even now so
thoroughly saturated with water as to be wholly
unfit for tho plow, unless it is of a very porous
and sandy character. Wo may say, therefore,
up to this time nothing important has been
done in. the way of preparation for the crop;
while last year a good deal of land had been
turned up and many fields were ready for the
seed so soon as the season of planting arrived.
This arrearage varies no doubt from two weeks
to a month.
The spring of last year, however, was behind
that of tho year previous which was very early
and found tho planters ra good preparation for
it. Tho philosophy of tho great crop of 1870-1
lay primarily in tho extraordinary lateness of
frost last fall and consequent length of the
maturing season. Supplementary to this was
tho lavish application of commercial fertilizers
and tho generally favorable weather throughout
tho whole cropping season.
Tho occurrence of all those conditions in a
single year was remarkable, and it is not likely
to happen again. As for commercial fertilizers
we donbt whether twenty-fivo per cent, of the
consumption of last year will be applied this
season. Tho two other conditions depend upon
the allotments of Providence, and we hope tho
farmers will not Joaso their corn estimates on
tho yield of last year, which, owing to timely
rains was at least fifty per cent above tho aver-
Surveying tho whole ground, wa do not doubt
that tho yield of cotton will bo materially di
minished this year. Indeed, it must he. We
are shut up to the necessity of raising moro
grain, or going into bankruptcy. But.wifh ail
this in prospect, any rise in market price must
bo predicated rather upon increased consump
tion than any probable diminution of tho pro-
dact. The business of the world is, howevor,
so seriously deranged by political disturbances,
and there is such meagre promise of future
quiet, that we look for no improvement in gen
eral trade.
As the accumulations of ages can be burned
up or otherwise destroyed in a few hours, man
kind cannot play tho role of destroyers without
incurring very severe and protracted punish
ment. Trade on the continent of Europe must
revivo slowly and remain for a long time in a
crippled condition. The people of neither
France nor Germany can afford the comforta
ble clothing they once had. The United Stat
are only now beginning seriously to feel what
they lost by the war, and we must continue in
the reactionary, stage probably for a long time
to come. Sober calculations, strict economy
and steady, persistent and judicious industry
are indispensable to cyc-ry material interest.
Foreign Immigration.
Colonel F. Sehaller sends us a copy of a let
ter which ho has addressed to the Committee
of the State Agricultural Society on Immigra
tion and Land Companies, which wo print else
where. Whilo wo nro not prepared to endorse
a state appropriation for this business, it seems
to us the State Agricultural Organization might
develop some scheme of organized co-apera-
tion among planters desiring to secure some
supplementary white foreign labor, which would
work efficiently. Florida is already, doing it
on a considerable scale. The planters iu our
neighboring. county of Jobgs, by an union
among themselves, have already secured "a con
siderable number of Swedish immigrants, who
have given universal satisfaction, and whose
industrious and thrifty habits and intelligent
minds will soon make them proprietors of the
soil and put them in the straight road to roputa-
tion and fortune. The Swedes, in a few years,
we venture to say, will bo employers, instead of
employed; but in either capacity they are a
valuable acquisition to tho State, and Jones
county is already after moro of them.
Every year brings an increasing scarcity of
labor in Georgia from various causes. The rapid
and now almost total withdrawal of negro women
and children from the field—the growing indis
position of the young negro men to agricultural
labor, and their increasing passion for the social
excitements and indulgencics afforded by the
towns, and the gradual decay and death of the
old plantation hands—are the most patent
among these causes. One effect this increas
ing scarcity of labor is, to seriously reduce the
standard of efficiency. Planters accept anybody
as a laborer, and almost anything as a day’s
work.
White immigrant labor cannot be had in suf
ficient quantity to supplant negro labor in any
perceptible degree—nor is it desirable; but it
may bo very serviceable in raising the standard
of labor efficiency. A few active and industri
ous white hands on any place, to show what is a
day’s work, may vastly improve the morale of
the whole force.
The Bupply of Swedish labor which may bo
drawn upon is very small. The entire popula
tion of Sweden is probably short of four mil
lions, and although owing to tho natural pov
erty and ruggednes3 of the soil, but a very
small portion of its area is arable land, yet we
suppose there is scarcely a population in Europe
so well provided universally with wholesome
bodily and mental aliment. Therefore, no
great proportion of the small sum total is likely
to become emigrants. Col. Schaller’s sugges
tions that French labor is likely to be accessi
ble under stress of the political situation of that
afflicted conntry, aro worthy of consideration.
The Arkansas Muddle.
The Radicals in Arkansas, having quarreled,
are on the point of a general fight, if you were
to believe them; but, as a matter of fact, such
fellows as they aro do not often subserve the
causo of truth and justice in that way. They
will never oblige the public by killing each
other off as they ought to do. We do not com
prehend the quarrel in its details. Clayton,
the Governor, so-called, is at sword’s points
with Johnson, tho Lieut. Governor. Clayton
has been elected to the United States Senate
and don’t want to leave a vacancy behind him
for the occupancy of Johnson. Clayton is a
terrible scoundrel—who has overran Arkansas
with his negro banditti. If Johnson is any
better we do not know it. Thopublio can feel
no interest in the fight except that they should
punish each other.
The Crystal Palace cf Phabmaoy.—A noto
from Dr. H. T. Hembold’s” Crystal Palace of
Pharmacy-says that Dr. Dyott, long known as
the publisher of the Oracle of Health, and
■Father of the Proprietary Medicine Business,
has been induced to enter into arrangements
with Dr. Henry T. Helmbold, the world-re
nowned druggist and manufacturer of the cele
brated fluid Extracts. Dr. Dyott will bo pleased
to see his olct friends at 594 Broadway. The
Crystal Palace of Pharmacy is daily visited by
thousands. There is no suoh store in the world.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Morgan Saxton was severely stabbed, Tuesday
night, at Columbus, by Pate Smith, and on
Wednesday they wont at it again, and Saxton
brought up in the guardhouse.-
The Columbus Euquier of Thursday says:
Preliminary Epamination.—Tho preliminary
trial of Daniel P. Dozier for tho killing of Bun-
jamin F. Odom, at No. 1 J, Southwestern Rail
road, Saturday night last,, commenced in tho
Superior Court room, under Jnstices Crawford,
Shivers andMcCahey, at 12 o’clock, yesterday.
The examination was opened by tho introduc
tion of threo State witnesses, Messrs. Daniel
Odom, J. D. Odom and Jonathan Jenkins, from
whom no material facts were elicited, as neither
of them saw the rencontre. Somo eight or ten
witnesses were next examined by the defense—
among them Conductor Jeter, Baggago Master
McIntyre, Supervisor Cosby, and a colored
train hand named Matt All of these witnessed
more or less of the killing, and all- concurred
that Dozier and Odom left the city together on
the same train, and occupied seats in tho same
ear; that when the parties reached No. 1 J,
Odom got ont first, secured a large sized stick
or clab, with which he felled Dozier as the lat
ter was passing him in tho dark; that in rising
Dozier fired, missing Msaim,-and on the second
fire deceased fell, the ball -taking effect in Ins
back, from which he expired in about half an
hour. After examination of the main witnesses,
several others were brought forward to testify
in relation to a previous diffidulty between the
parties at Johnson’s store, which is believed to
have given riso to tho unfortunate one which
resulted as above. Tho evidence was concluded
about five o’clock, when, by consent of parties,
the argument of counsel was postponed until
nine o’clock this morning.
Tho Savannah News is gratified at Grant’s
nominating O. K. Osgood as Postmaster of that
city. It says he is competent and honest.
At Atlanta, Thursday, Mr. Potts, of Ten
nessee, handed John Moon §10 wherewith to
buy him, the verdant Potts, a ticket to Chat
tanooga. At last accounts Potts was still look
ing for that Moon.
Major Thos. A. Grace, of Newman, had his
pocket picked of §175 at Atlanta, last Tuesday.
Harris and Hick’s grocery, comer of James
and Peachtree street, Atlanta, was burned by
an incendiary, Thursday morning, loss §1,200.
Mr. Hicks, who was sleeping in tho house bare
ly escaped suffocation.
A miller named Mabry, at Tomlin’s mill near
Cartersville, was drowned Wednesday morning.
Work will soon be resumed on tho Western
extension c-f tho Savannah, Griffin and North
Alabama railroad, with the intention of com-,
pletmg the road to the Chattahoochee river.
Mrs. Mary M. Scott, wife of Capt. Dunlap
Scott, late member of the Lc-gisiatnro from
Fiojd county, died at Rome, on Wednesday,
leaving an infant seventeen days old.
A Presbyterian Church has been organized
at Cave Spring, with Rev. S. E. Axson, of
Rome, as pastor.
W. It. Webster, was appointed Ordinary of
DeKalb county, on Thursday. His predecessor
died Wednesday. How very sharp set the
patriots up there must be!
The Dalton Citizen says:
Wo had occasion to go to Atlanta recently,
and were pleased to find that many important
changes have been made on tho State Road.
Tiio road is being improved rapidly, and is
now in much better condition than when under
the previous administration. System, thorough
system, is manifest everywhere along tho line.
Besides, being well managed, it is done eco
nomically; thereby showing what a vast amount
of mocoy Blodgett could have placed into the
treasury if he had been so disposed.
Dr. Tichenor, of Alabama, has been called to
accept the pastorato of the Baptist Church at
La Grange, vice Rev. H. C. Hornoday, resigned.
Tho editor of the Albany News hints at a
series of festivities which have put his thinking
aparatus out of order. Kimball, Hulbert and a
lot of other Brunswick and Albany R. R. officials
were rather too much for him.
Mr. A. W. Wood is now drawing Dougherty
County rations for being too familiar with some
body else’s pistol and shirt, and also a lot of
towels belonging to tho Towns Ilonso at Al
bany.
The editor of tho Talbotton Standard says tho
negroe3 of that county are working-better than
he ever saw them, and repairing and making
fences is more fashionable now than any year
since tho war.
The local of the Savannah Republican is
down oa baby carriages in the streets. P. -S.—
The “galoot” having no baby of his own, don’t
“know how it is yourself.”
Tho Savannah Advertiser, of Friday, says:
Taking the Veil.—At the Convent of St.
Vincent de Paul of the Sisters of Mercy, yester
day, very impressive and interesting ceremo
nies were observed, tho occasion being the
taking of the veil by three yonng ladies,* Misses
Kate Prendorgast and Agnes O’Brien, of Savan
nah, and Miss Ellen Rooney, of Augusta. They
were professed at half past seven a. m. at tho
Convent, and received the names respectively
of sister “Mary Genevieve, sister Mary Maga-
ret and sister Mary Pius.”
Mis3 Cole, daughter of Colonel A. H. Cole, of
Savannah, a beautiful girl of seventeen years,
was burned to death at Fernandina, on Wednes
day night. She was reading in bed and the bed
clothing took fire.
Daniel P. Dozier, of Columbus, who shot and
killed Benjamin F. Odom, at station 14 S.
W. R. R. last Saturday, has been discharged
from custody by the magistrates at Colnmbm
before whom tho preliminary examination was
held on Thursday.
Says the Columbus Sun of Friday:
A Sneak or an Assassin.—Colonel Blake was
stopped near Captain Van Marcus’ residence,
Tuesday night, by a man, who, presenting a
cocked pistol at his breast, said he (OoL B.) was
the one ho had been looking for. Tho Colonel
not knowing tho would-be assassin, was taken
somewhat aback at first at his impudence, and
very coolly told him that he was unarmed at the
time, bnt if ho would meet him in the morning
he would give him a depont thrashing or shoot
ing if ho preferred. Tho Colonel then an
nounced his name and demanded to know that
of his assailant. This tho latter rof used to give,
or rendered a wrong one; he said ho was mis
taken in his man, and slid* away in tho dark
ness. . .
J. T. McCormick, who misrepresented Tronp
county in tho Agency, loft Atlanta for that
county on foot somo three weeks since, and has
not been heaid from since. He was not in the
“ring,” evidently, as ho tried to borrow §10 to
pay railroad faro the day before he left.
P. F. Smith, of Newnan, has been appointed
Solicitor of the Tallapoosa Circuit.
The Atlanta Sun says:
Somo vagrants arrived recently, who reported
themselves from Macon, saying that the Mayor
of that city had furnished them free transporta
tion to this point We are also informed that
they were likewise returned to their native
home by the liberality of the Mayor of our city.
So it is that vagrants travel all around in a rail
road car and don’t pay a cent
An incendiary attempt to born tho drag store
of Heery & Rendleman, on Whitehall -street,
Atlanta, was made Thursday night
Miss Sallie Lou, oldest daughter of Capt
James Hendorson, of Jasper comity, was bnried
on Friday last, having died very suddenly from
a violent attack of inflammation of the bowels,
aged about sixteen years.
Oa Saturday night last, as Sheriff Penns
wagon was returning from Covington, the four
males of the teara^were drowned in the creek,
near Mr. John Pope’s residence, at MonticeUo.
The drivet saved himself by clinging to the
foot-log. All the load which was in tho wagon
was lost.
Bainbridge is putting on airs on tho strength'
of receiving 35,000 bales of cotton this season.
Tho Sumter Republican, of yesterday, says:
Arrested.—Tho negro who stabbed Mr. Wil
liam Miller after he had been shot by some par
ties in the difficulty that took place at Stark-
ville not long Bince, was arrested in Terrell
county a few days ago, and turned over to the
authorities of Lee county on Thursday last dur
ing the setting of the Superior Court. Ho was
brought to this place on Friday morning bv the
Sheriff of Leo, and lodged in jail, where he
will remain until the March term of Lee Supe
rior Court, when he will be tried for the offense
ofmurder. ,
mian to bo Kicked Ont For In-
competency.
A special Washington dispatch to tho Now
York Evening Post dated the 13th, says:
“Your correspondent is in possession of in
formation which leaves no doubt os to tho early
resignation of Mr. Akerman ns Attorney-Gen
eral;”
“Tho President has frequently of late been
urged to inako-a change in this office, not mere
ly for political reasons, bnt for other and higher
considerations. Within a few days past the af
fair has assumed Buch a shape as to require the
change to be made; and although the Presi
dent’s mind is said to be fully made up to it, he
hesitates as to the policy of making a break in
the Cabinet until after the 3d of March.”
“The necessity for Mr. Akerman’s resigna
tion is understood to be entirely professional,
and to bo attributed to his want of familiarity
with the law governing important cases in
which the Government is interested, now pend
ing in the Supreme Court.
-“Your*correspondent violates no confidence
In eaying that several of the justices of the Su
premo Court have advised the President to
make this change, asserting that Mr. Akerman
had not thus far displayed even ordinary legal
attainments in conducting cases for the United
States before the Supremo Court.”
And this is Amos’ reward for cooking up that
infamous law whereby he sought to prop Grant’s
falling fortunes in Georgia. Or perhaps he has
been a little backward in taking stock in. the
Great Grant Gift Enterprise. Let him come
down with the dust, hariHsomely, and perhaps
his legal attainments may reach tho necessary
standard. If he must go, though, we beg leave
to recommend to Mr. Grant, as his successor,
that distinguished legal luminary, P. B. Bed
ford, who represented tho Government in the’
recent case of the United States versus Hon.
Linton Stephens, tried here last month. Let
Bedford start a subscription, and hio to Wash
ington with it at once.
The Louisville Ledgek.—We have received
the first number of the daily issne of this new
paper, just commenced publication at Louis
ville, Ky. It is Democratic in politics, ■ and
shows decided ability and taste in its mako-up
and original matter. * On the snbject of “dead
issues” it holds tho following views:
The war decided secession to be dead; bnt It
didmot decido the Constitution to be dead, nor
did it decide the. edicts of the Radical party to
bo tho Constitution. There are results of the
war which because of the time whichhas elapsed,
and the rivets by which that time has enabled
tho Radical party to perpetuate them by forms
apparently regular, which it were vain to con
test at this lato moment, and these may be re
garded as dead issues, but all of the frenzied
excesses of that party do not make tho issues
entailed by it doad.
Messrs. Paul Shipman, formerly of the old
Louisville Journal, and M. W. Clusky, formerly
of tho Memphis 'Avalanche, aro understood to
be its principal editors, though no announce
ment is made of the fact. Tho Ledger will be
published at §S per annum, for its daily edition.
Highly Important Life Insurance De
cision.
A case involving somo points of great inter
est and impcrlance, both to Iifo insurance com
panies and policy holders, has just been decid
ed in Now York against a company in that city.
The Tribune, of Tuesday, has tho following in
referenco to it:
It will bo recollected that tho .person insured,
being in etnbarrased circumstances and harrass-
ed by creditors, procured policies to the amount
of §10,000 in his wife’s favor tho day before
his death, then, went on board a steamboat at
Louisville, was found in an insensible condition,
looked in his state-room, when tho boat reached
Cincinnati, and died shortly after. The testi
mony during the trial included a post-mortem
examination, showing that, at least, half a grain
of morphia was found in tho stomach and tis
sues of the deceased; while it was also proved
that ho was in excellent health and apparently
good spirits when going on board the steam
boat. Tho Judge charged the jury that if they
found that tho deceased had committed suicide
by taking morphia, tho presumption was that
ho was insane at the time; and the burden of
proof to the contrary rested with tho defendant.
Under such a ruling it would appear to bo al
most impossible for an insurance company to
defend a suit successfully on the ground of sui
cide of the insured. The view hitherto held
has been that if the suicide occurred within a
comparatively short period of the act of insur
ing, fraud might be suspected; but if a long
time had elapsed, fraud was impossible. Under
the new ruling the companies may as well take
the “suicide clause” out of their policies.
Tlic State -Agricultural Convention
Meets in this city next Wednesday. The Atlan
ta Sun says: .
We have no doubt that tho attendance at Ma
con next week will bo very largo and highly in
telligent. As will be seen from the list of dele
gates published in the Sun, men of distinguish
ed ability have been selected from many coun
ties, and, taken altogether, the body will be
fully as respectable and ablo as the best legisla
tive body ever assembled in tho State. The
Sun will, of course, keep its readers posted in
regard to tho action of the body.
During tho sitting of the convention, ad
dresses maybe expected from the following
named gentlemen, upon the subjects assigned
by tho Executive Committee: State Legislation
and State Agriculture—Samuel Barnett, of
Wilkes county. Federal Legislation and South
ern Agriculture—Governor Johnson, of Jeffer
son county. Grass and Glover—Colonel John
H. Fitten, of Bartow county. Rust in Grow
ing Crops—Judge Yason, of Dougherty county;
T. P. Jones, of Green county; Dr. Pendleton,
of Hancock county; Wm. Jones, - (Southern
Cultivator,) of Clarke county; Dr. Ellis, of Grif
fin; J. V. Jones, of Burke county; J. B. Wal
ker, of Madison. Agricultural Education—
General William M. Browne, of Bibb county.
Condition of Southern Agriculture—the Causes
and the Remedies—General R. Toombs, of
Wilkes county. Steam on tho Farm—Colonel
E. Steadman, of Newton county. Sheep Hus
bandry—Richard Peters, of Falton county.
Irrigation— Captain C. W. Howard, of Bartow
county. Immigration—Colonel Mark Schallor,
of Clhrke county. Planting with Fruit Culture
—W. W. Moses, of Washington county. Fruit
Growing in Georgia—Dr. W. P. Harden, of
Falton county; J. Van Bnren, of Habersham
county. Mechanism on the Plantation—Simon
Thomas, of Washington county. Wines and
Vines—J. Norcross, of Falton county. Factor
and Planter—Fertilizer and Profits—By the
whole Convention.
A Beetle too Strong.—Tho Radicals in Con
gress don’t seem to take to Elliott, the black
Congressman so-called from Sonth Carolina.
They stood Long and Rainey tolerably well, a3
both are bright mnlattoes, bnt Elliott being as
black os the devil himself, and tho temperature
of the House favorable to developing his strong
points, they rather fought shy of him. A Wash
ington correspondent writes that fflliott was on
the floor Tuesday, and received anything bnt a
warm welcome from his political allies. This
is the first symptom of that grand vomit the
man and brother is going to cause in bis pecu
liar friends at tho North before many years.
And if wo know anything of the purposes of
tho negroes in localities where they now have
political power, they intend at the next election
to follow up tho Elliott dose with many more of
the same sort, or even stronger.
The Next Cotton Cbop.—Speaking of the
next cotton crop, the New Orleans Picayune
says:
We have closely examined our country ex
changes for the last three or four weeks to as
certain the intention of tho planters with regard
to the next cotton crop. From nearly every
section of the Sonth the reports agree in stat
ing that the acreage under cotton will be largely
reduced this spring. In some districts it is said
not half as much cotton will be planted'as was
last season. On the whole, we may safely esti
mate from twenty-five to forty per cent, reduc
tion in acreage.
• Planters now fully realize the folly of their,
action last season in entirely neglecting food
crops. They have paid pretty dearly for their
experience; and the cotton crop of tho Sonth
wifi henceforth, no donbt, be kept within the
proper limit of 3,000,000 bales.
_ [COXniUNIOATXD.]
Sandzbsvhyle, Ga. , Feb. 11,1871.
General A. R Wright, Augusta :
Deab Sib—A number of the citizens of San-
dorsville, mot nt the office of J. N. Gilmore,
Esq., for the purpose of taking action in regard
to J. C. Gallaher, who recently left these parts;
whon it was
Resolved, That the annexed communication
be sent to tho Ohronido and Sentinel for pub
lication :
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: We beg the
use of your columns for tho statement of a few
facta in relation to one J. O. Gallaher, who,
writing over tho signature of “Enquirer,” in
the Atlanta Constitution, and over his own sig
nature in the Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger, has made a false and cowardly attack upon
one of our best and most highly esteemed citi
zens, Judge Twiggs.
Where this fellow Gallaher is known he is in
capable of injuring any one, bnt as he is a com
parative stranger in this State, a few facts about
this man’s character will show how totally un
worthy are any statements coming from him.
Gallaher came here about one year ago, a
total stranger. He claimed to have* been a
Major in tho Confederate army, end that he
lost an arm at the siege of Vicksburg.
This was all ho. chose to disclose of hia post
history.
He brought with .him a woman, whom he
claimed as his wife, and so introduced her into
such society as he could gain admittance to.
Soon after bo settled here, claiming to be a law
yer, bo began to stir up suits and engender
strife among our people. Being a good -talker
and, withal, exceeding plausible in his stories,
ho very soon obtained, to some extent, tho ear
and good-will of come of our citizens. Things
went on very quietly uutil our Spring Term of
the Superior Court, which sat in April, when,
having a littlo case appealed from a Justice
Court, against one of our oldest and leading
citizens, ho took occasion to abuse him in the
most scandalous and vulgar manner.
This speech of lawyer Gallaher caused our
people to begin an inquiry into his character,
and it soon became whispered about that he was
not exactly what he ought to be.
Among others, Judge Twiggs, then a practic
ing lawyer at the bar in this place (and whose
experience, like that of the other attorneys, only
confirmed and strengthed the distrust which be
gan to be entertained by the public generally);
commenced some inquiries in regard to tho
past history and antecedents of Gallaher; and
very soon a letter was received from one of the
most respectable citizens of .Eafaula, Alabama,
giving a very full history of Gallaher’s career
while a resident of Alabama, besides conveying
the intelligence that Gallaher had deserted his
wife then living in Tennessee, where he married
her, and had courted and seduced, whilo'Iiving
in Abbeville, Ala., a young lady from Mariana,
Fla., by whom he had a child born, and that tho
person with whom ho was living here was the
same.
It was also discovered from a lawyer of high
standing in Macon that Gallaher had been de
tected in some short-comings, in regard to money
matters in tho latter place. These facts, wa are
informed, were communicated to Gallaher by
Judgo Twiggs, who begged, in - justice to him-
'self and to the community, that he would make
to the people cf ibis village some explanation
of theso charges. Gallaher thanked Judge
Twiggs for his candor in making known these
facts to him, and assured him that they were en
tirely false and without foundation—that he had
never married any woman, other than the one
with whom he was then living as such. That
the charge about tho Macon money affair was
false, and gotten np with a view to injure his
character by a persona.! enemy. From that day
to the present Gallaher Luo; entertained tho most
bitter hatred and spite towards somo of the citi
zens of tho community, and particularly to
wards Judge Twiggs; and although he pre
tended to invite scrutiny Into .his history
and assumed an air of injured innocence only
to be counterfeited by one inured to vice, and
hardened by evil associations, ho constantly
watched for opportunities to injure those whoso
just sense of social security and propriety had
led to deserved exposure of his crimes.
For a time ho pretested so earnestly and with
such apparent truthfulness his entire innocence
of adultery or ligamy with tho woman he
brought here as his wife, that somo of the citi
zens thonght he must be slandered, and contin
ued to receive social visits from himself and
wife.
Somo time in the. early part of last fall,
farther evidenco was received here from differ
ent sources and by divers persons, not only of
Gallaher’s former marriage, bnt of attempts by
him to marry other women, and that by his for
mer marriage he had two children, one a blind
boy, some ten or twelve years, of age In con
firmation of these facts, gentlemen in Macon
stated that while there Gallaher had made in
quiries about the mode of getting children into
the Blind Asylum located there; was by them
introduced to the Superintendent of the same,
whom he informed that he had a blind child
which he wished to have admitted. These facts
were also communicated to Gallaher, and he de
nied them entirely—stating that the child was
that of another Galla^pr of the same initials,
whom he was befriending, and whose child he
sought to benefit by his efforts. When told,
however, that the Gallaher who had the blind
child had lost an arm and was a lawyer, he re
plied that the facts were singular he knew, bnt
that they were strange coincidences, and insist
ed that the mother of these children was not his
wife, and that he never had a blind child, boy
or girl. Theso statements he has made over
and over again to several gentlemen of this
place, (which will bo verified by them), ever
declaring most positively that the person with
whom he was then, and still is,* living, was the
only one he had ever married, and that his
child (an infant), was his only child.
Enquiries were continued, and in a few
months resulted in the receipt of the following
letter from two prominent gentlemen of Marys
ville, Tennessee:
Marysville, Tenn-, Dec. 31, 1870,
Deab Sri:—Your letter of the 28th inst., just
received. I have shown the letter to W. D.
MeGinley, an old lawyer of this place, Who to
gether with myself, know all abont the Major
JohnC. Gallaher yon speak of, as well as the
family into which he married. MeGinley lived
for a number of y$ars with the family of John
Ambrister, deceased,'and was well acquainted
with Mary Ambrister, before she mamed Galla-
hor, and knows that she did ma.rry John O.
Gallaher, who was at one time a carpenter by
trade, afterwards studied law and was admitted
to the bar. John O. Gallaher was a Major in
tho Southern army and lost bis arm while in the
service, wo are informed; ho left here with one
arm. Neither of us desire to make an affidavit
abont the matter, unless there should be somo
legal proceeding, instituted, bnt if legal pro
ceedings should be instituted, it could be proved
that he was married before ho left here to
Mary Ambrister, and that he has tho blind child
at his brother-in-law’s, Asa Ambristcr’s, at
Lenois Station, Tenn., and that Mb wife is
living at his brother-in-law’s, Asa Ambrister’s.
You will not be likely to get an answer from
Asa Ambrister, be causo he knows all abont the
matter, and the way Gallaher has treated his
sister, and does not want to have anytMng to*
do either for or against Gallaher; he does not
wish Ms sister to know anytMng about the con
duct of Gallaher, thinking that he has treated
her badly enough by Ms desertion, to say noth>
ing of marrying a second time.
If you desire to do so, you can got a certified
c6py of his marriage license to Mary Ambrister
by addressing R. O. Tucker, clerk of the county
court at this place, together With the return of
the minister of the Gospel who married them.
Very respectfully,
F. M. Hood.
W. D. Mo Gimlet.
Tho contents of this letter were also repeated
to Gallaher, and ho still protested that the
charge was false, and that it had referenoe to a
John Calhoun Gallaher, who had married the
lady referred to, and not himself. During the
time these investigations were going on, Galla
her still thrnst the woman living with him upon
our community as Ms wife, and was always open
and bold in hss assertion that she was Ms only
and lawful wife. The community felt outraged
at tMs and at other conduct quite as venal in
its nature, and, as yon have already heard,
some disguised parties, unknown to us, took
Mm one night from his boarding house and
carrying him jnst beyond the village Bhot Mm,
As soon as ho recovered from Ms wounds he
left for Macon, reporting there that some of
our leading citizens were implicated with tho
crowd wMch mobbed Mm, and even went sofar
as to insinuate that Judge Twiggs was privy to
the act. He has, we are informed, been indus
triously-circulating in Macon and Atlanta all
sorts of falsehoods against Judge Twiggs and
some of oar best citizens.
Pursuing onr investigations with regard to
Gallaher’s character still further, a gentleman
of this village wrote to Asa Ambrister, his re
puted brother-in-law, and below we send you
his reply, as well as a certified copy of a mar
riage license, which shows that Ms marriage
with Mary A. Ambrister was solemnized with all
the moralities and requirements of law.
To place Ms identity "beyond question, his
brother-in-law had the foresight to enclose the
photograph of the man who married his sister,
(wMch we transmit herewith,) and it is wholly
unnecessary to say that it is a most excellent
and striking picture of the man Gallaher who is
the object of this notice, and who fortunately
has left our community.
Lenoibs, Tenn», January 9,1871.
Deab Sib—Enclosed you will find a certified
copy of the marriage licenso of J. 0. Gallaher
and Mary A. Ambrister, wMoh will be sufficient
proof to satisfy any one that ho is the same gen
tleman. . .
You wish to know who is this lady. She is my
sister; has been living with me since tho year
1863, soon after her husband, J. O. Gallaher,
had enlisted in tho war. She has two children,
the elder a little blind boy—his name is Eddie
F. Gallaher, abont. twelve years old—and the
little girl’s name is Blanche, about'nine years
old.
You wished me to give a description of J. 0.
Gallaher. He is abont five feet ten inches Mgb,
black hair—Ms right arm off—lost at tho siege of
Vicksburg, l will send you a photograph which
was sent-to me from Abbeville afow years ago;
probably yon can trace some resemblance be
tween tbe original and tMs photograph, if not,
return it to me. I believe I have said all that
.is necessary and yon have sufficient proof in
this to convict him, which I think is nothing
but right, that he should be handled by the law.
He has not been to see his wife since the year
18G8—spent about two weeks. He has not writ
ten to his wife in a little over twelve months.
Wo never knew where he was-until wo received
your letter. If this is not -sufficient evidence,
and you wish my presence, I will come and his
wife also, if it is necessary.
Very respectfully,
Asa Ambrister.
* Wo have been requested by a meeting of the
citizens of this village, to make this expose of
Gallaher, as ho is now actively engaged in trying
to injure us through the columns of the news
papers and by verbal street corner slanders.
Mach more might have been said, and other
facts detailed of this man’s history, which aro
in our possession, and which aro revolting in
their nature, but wo think tho brief ontline
give,, will bo sufficient to answer the purpose for
which this is written, and to warn other com
munities wMch mny bo-imposed upon in a sim
ilar manner.
Oar peoplo have felt that it is dco them and
to Judge-Twiggs, who has taken an active part
in exposing Gallaher’s character, that it should
be ventilated, as he may otherwise be able to
do much harm. Your- paper circulates very
largely in the country, and, I-believe, has n gen
eral circulation, in the State, and, we,therefore
appeal to you to aid us in giving publicity to the
foregoing facts. -v v ’ ■ v/ '
[cosmonicactd:]
Albant, February 14, 1871
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I was very
much shocked on reading tho proceedings of the
“Cow Meeting,” reported in your very excellent
paper of Sunday morning last, to find that your
“Local” so murdered the old nursery story of
“The House that Jack Built” as to make the
“Beautiful cow with the crumpled horn
Toss the maiden all forlorn!”
Now, sirs, what man or woman is there in all
the land that has not treasured np in memory,
as among the choicest and richest of childhood’s
recollections, tho story of “the Honso that Jack
Bnilt ?” Who does not remember the triumph
of that honr, when, in the nursery, surrounded
by the whole famiLy of juveniles, they were able
for the first time, to repeat from memory, the
whole of that thrilling poem from beginning to
end ? Somo, perhaps, of the little circle could
never learn to repeat it all wiilioftt making mis
takes; bnt tbe veriest dolt among them all
could at least remember and quote correctly that
part commencing with—
“ This is tho maiden all forlorn,
That milked tbe cow with tho crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog.
That worried the cat,
That killed tho rat,
That eat-the malt,
That lay in the house
That Jack built ”
Oh! who can forget it? Your Local (Mr.
Shropshire, I .believe, his name is, sometimes
familiarly called “old Shrop,”) ought not to have
been guilty of such Bacrilege as to misquote,
mangle and murder that sublime creation of
immortal genius. I write this to protest against
such carelessness in fntnre. Murder, if yon
please, Byron, Shakspeare, Goldsmith, Yonng,
Pope, Moore; nay, all tbe standard poets; but’
lay not your bloody hands (or pens) upon the
immortal anthorof “The House that Jack Bnilt!”
or any other poet whose jingling numbers have
caused so mr-h youthful enjoyment in the nur
series of tho land for the last half century.
•-Woodman, spare that tree.
Touch not a single bough!
Iu early youth it sheltered me, *
And I’ll protect it now.”
Now, sirs, the object of this communication is
to vindicate the memory of that venerable
“cow with the crumpled horn.” She did not
“ toss the maiden ajl forlorn.” No, sirs; she
was too g&od a cow for that. She stood gentle
and submissive, while the milk-pail received the
life-giving, strengthening and invigorating fluid,
which streamed forth responsive to the pressure
of the tender fingers, of “ the maiden all for
lorn.” But there was a fellow—a naughty fel
low, who, in the language of tho immortal bard,
"kissed the maiden all forlorn.” Quite a dif
ference; I apprehend, to a maiden, between be
ing kissed, thongh by a “man all tattered and
torn,” and tossed by a “cow with crumpled
horn;” particularly when that man makes
amends by getting a “priest all shaven and
shorn,” to marry “ the man all tattered and
tom,” “that kissed the maiden all forlorn.’
Now the poet does not say, that “ the man all
tattered and torn,” married the “maiden all for
lorn,” bnt that is the inference of the youthful
mind, on reading the story. By the way, Messrs.
Editors, I don’t know, after all, if I have not ex
perienced more pleasure than pain, from tho
murderous misquotation of yonr local. But for
Ms alluding to the “cow With the crumpled
horn,” I should not have gono back in memory
to the time, so mas-y years ago—it matters not
how many—when “Tho House that Jack bnilt”
first made its appearance in onr nursbry. “Ah,
well do I remember that it was in bleak Decem
ber,” when many I then knew and loved were
clustered around me, to be seen and loved on
earth no moro forever. Eager hand3 were
stretched forth to catch, then to read, then to
memorize tho wonderful story of “ The House
that Jack built 1” A beautiful red book—com
panion to “Who Killed Cock Robin”—with il
lustrations of every incident in the pleasing nar
rative. Commencing first, with a picture of the
“house” itself; then, “ the malt that lay in ihe
House that Jack bnilt;” then, “the rat that eat
the malt that lay in tho Honse that Jack bnilt;”
then, “tho cat that caught tho rat,” etc; then,
“the dog that worried the cat that caught the
rat,” etc; then, “the cow with the crumpled
horn that tossed the wicked dog that worried
poor pussy cat, that caught the thieving rat, that
eat the precious malt, that lay in the honse
that Jack bnilt. Ah! well do I remember, how
my youthful mind was puzzled, to determine
what malt was. I could- very well comprehend,
what a “rat, cat, dog, cow, maiden all forlorn,
man all tattered and torn, priest all shaven and
shorn, cock that crewed in the morn, fox that
lived under the thorn, Jack with his hands and
horn, honso of beautiful form, stable so snug
and warm,” and all that sort of tMng was, bnt
that precious malt, that Jack bnilt a house for,
was beyond my comprehension. Seeing in the
fiction that it was tied np in bags, I could but
believe that it was .equally as valuable as the
gold tied np in bags, of wMohl also saw pic
tures, and read about in the “forty tMeves.”
Bnt I have done. My point is this, when “Ye
Local” attempts to quote “poetry as is poetry,”
do moke Mm qnote it correctly. Let him do
injustice to all the heroes and heroines of history
or romance, if he will; bnt leave, oh! leave un
touched the memory of the good old “cow with
the erampled horn” that never, no never,
*tossed the maiden all forlorn.”
She simply, so says tho poet,
“ Tosaed the doo,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That eat the malt,
That lay in the bouse,
That Jack built.”
And all the juveniles in the day when I was
one of them; said “she did right.”
Como,
Tho Prayer ol the
BY JOHN HAT. S ‘
Not done, but near its eedine
Where the blushes of dawn'ine*..
How long were onr fond dreams h,«i
Novara’s ead mischance
TlA 01Qn»’a n — -.. 1 1 • *
ed!_
Boutwell, it seems, is not to go ont of the
Cabinet on the 4th of March next. We didn’t
much think that he would, for suoh a radical
change in tho Treasury Department might ac
cidentally necessitate a reorganization of the
entire stealage system of the Government.
[ Courier-Journal.
The cost of carting documents to and from
the Lower House of Congress last year was
§7,500. How many of these “documents” were
simply drunken members the report of the con
tingent expenses does not say.
The Kriser’s sword and fetter-lock
Aad tbe traitor stab of Franco -
TUI at last camo glorious Venice ’
, storm and tempest home • ’
Lame Lion of Caprera!
And the stain of Mentona’s «od
- But forged the curse ofkinga that«««
From your breaking beau to GoF 3
Wo lift our souls to Thee. O Lora
Of Liberty and of Light' a
Ldt not earth’s kings.pollutetho work
•r d . on ,® m ttcir despito:
Let not Thy bgkt be darkened
In the ebade of a sordid crown.
Nor the Piedmont swine devour the f„-.
. Then shookst with an earth“a 8 k 0
Let the peopleeomo to their birth---, u ■
And crozier and ciowu pass awav’
Like phantasms that flit 0 cr the mawt-o
A t the glance of the clean wbS "
And. then from the lava of iEtua "
To the ice or the Alps let there ho
One freedom, one faith without fettew
One republic in Italy free! ■
Copy of a Letter Addressed to
Committee of the Agricultural
. on Emmigratiou and In-J
Companies. 804
Athens, Ga., February 13 jg;,
Deab Sib : It is my intention to bo at Mao*
during the spring meeting of tbe State AmS
tural Society, and to request, as Chairman ni
the Committee on Immigration and Lind Coa
panies, a meeting of said committee to consifo
what steps should be taken by tho Societv h
order to give a new impulse to proper efforts tn
establish emigration to Georgia.
For my part, I would recommend that tk
Society petition tbe State Legislature to mS!
another appropriation for this object, and tow
amend the Immigration act as to make tbe S‘ih
Agricultural Society the medium of disbar^-
tho fand; in short, to charge tho Society ^
the whole subject. Under existing circma.
stances, it would behest managed by that both
wMch has nottong to do with politics, and wfcjg
consist b of members generally accustomed.k
deal with practical matters and who aro neatb
all more or less directly interested in immigrc!
tion.
The bill, which was framed in January, ISC'
by the Special Committee, consisting of Her
Yancey, Howard, Schley, Burnett, Bloom, Cobh
Harris, Lewis, Hatton and myself, I yet c.j.
sider, and after a residence abroad of nearl-
two years, during wMch I have been entirely
occupied by the subject of immigration, as fe
one wMch, had it been fully adopted by ft
Legislature and carried out, would have esUb.
lished immigration to Georgia with the §10,-
000 appropriated, in the hand3 of men at.
quainted witlrthe basic ess. I judge that this
would have been the case from my own success
on the Continent and from that of Mr. Huttos
in England—both in behalf of Virginia.
Yet another element, experience has taught
mo, may be utilized with great advantage, »nj
that is, the formation of a joint stock land cod
pany among tho members of the Agrienltnnl
Society; for it is necessary to have always oa
hand various bodies of good- farming land at
accessible points at fixed and moderate rates,',
sell to immigrants, that we may guarantee to
the European Immigration agents a commissi -
for tho land purchased by the immigrants they
send ns, wMch is the mest effective way to ir-
terest them and to keep them interested in in
migration to onr State.
There i3 another snbject to wMch I should de
sire to oall attention at tMs time; Dating a
visit to France in tbe past summer, I psttica-
larly inquired into the possibility of induc\
French agriculturists with means, fruit, wine,
and silk growers to come South. Frenchaxi
do not often emigrate to Una country; but 1
found that emigration to the Sonth Amentia
Republics was greatly augmenting, '&monntii$
to some 10,000 in 1SG9. TMs was mainly ne.
I was informed at Paris, to the efforts of th \
Republics to establish more intimate commer
cial relations with France, wMch efforts had
been eminently successful. I was furthermore
enconraged to state at the South that if emigra
tion from France to the United States would
become a snbject of consideration there, tho!
the feeling in favor of the Sonth would be 1
natural consequence.
I apprehend, however, that for a few years,
it will be difficult to induce men with means to
settle here, because they will not be able to sell
their landed property, wMch is the case after
ever continental war.
On the other hand, tho misfortunes and tho
poverty wMch have befallen thousands of the
best farm-laborers in France, will lead tbemtt
look, with renewed interest, to these States.
Since my return I notice a disposition in som:
parts of the States to obtain European laborer"
by advancing their passage-money, to be repail
by future labor. Would it not be pof-tiblo tc
form among the members of the State Agrka*
tural Society an association for the purpose of
employing French agricultural labor, so as
send out for 500 to 1,000 handset once? L-
forts of small associations or individuals art
always more expensive, and I think that bj
sending such an order tho expense of transit
from Franco to Savannah would be materially
reduced.
The sympathy for Franco is alive in our peo
ple. French farming laborers are not surpassed
by any others in Europe, and as a demsmd if
steady labor is felt in many parts of the State,
it ought not to be difficult to give some practi
cal expression to onr sympathy, by giving t
somo of these snffefers a chance to greatly bet
ter their condition. „
These subjects, it appears to me, are of v- '•
dent importance to induce the committee •
recommend them to tbe attention of tta t
Agricultural Society. I would respectful’;'
quekt yon to meet the membera of the cowc
tee on the evening of the 21st inst., at Brc jc
Hotel, in Macon, and should yon not beenab ; ■
to do so, to send to the same place, to ms ■-
writing, an expression of opinioh as to the su.
jects indicated in this letter.
• I remain most truly yours,
F. Scania
Supreme Court or Georgia—Jann::-.
Term, 1871.
Wednesday, February 15,187L
W. H. Booker, Esq., of Cherokee Circuit,
admitted to the Bar. _
Argument in No. 12, Chattahoochee Cue®'"
Ellington vs. Dillard et aL, caveators—*"* *
sumed by Col. James M. Smith,, for defendants
in error, and concluded by Gen. Toombs, w
plaintiff in error. '
Upon motion, No. 15, Chattahoochee Circuit—
Barnett & Co. vs. Terry & Smith—was
and argued for plaintiffs by CoL John ■’
and for defendants by Col. M. H. Blandford.
Upon motion, No. 23, Chattahoochee Circuit—
Martin Jeter, administrator, vs. E. Barnaiu
Co. et al.—was called, and was *rgued forp."-
tiff by Judge E. H. Worrill, and for defendant
by Judge Crawford. ..
Upon motion, No. 25, Chattahoochee Circnu—
Isaao Cheney vs. Smith & Alexander—
called, and was argued for plaintiff in error 1
Judge E. H.* Worrill, and for defendants n*
error by CoL M. H. Blandford. l0
The regular order was,resumed, andho.
Chattahoochee Circuit—Polly Wynn vs. Seab°
J. Banning, administrator—was called, a
pending a motion to dismiss it, tho Court a •
joumed till 10 a, m. to-morrow.—Nrff, low-
• Freight Blockade at Chattanooga.
Chattanooga Times of Thursday says:
The paragraph in our local columns J 1 ester-
day, stating that the blockade on the ^\ e5 - e ..
and Atlantic Railroad is removed, was ijn» “
pleio. The sentence should have ended tn
horn.” The fact is, old sMppers agree that m
Western and Atlantic Railroad was never-
crowded with freights, and so little able to SH 1 '
ply the demands of shippers as at present, ad
depot iB crowded to overflowing with
Even the platforms ontside are piled np tea a
Mgh with com sacks. There are 200 l oa ~
through oars in the yard, for wMch transport'
tion cannot be provided, and we saw yesteWfi
00m being shipped on flat cars, exposed to 1
weather. ^
fob the Ladies.—I have nsedjny
witb-
Facts
Wheeler & Wilson MacMne seven P? 1 ®
out repairs, and one needle for all kinds of I
ily sewing for four years. It is the mos ", . „
uable piece of furniture for me that ooulu
purchased. ^ R R
Milton Mead, S. C.
