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Telegraph and Messenger.
JIACON, APRIL 18, 1871.
Morton's Dcmocralic Platform.
The Democratic papers need distress them
selves no further about a platform. Morton,
Grant and Colfax produced ono for them last
Saturday night from the balcony of the National
Hotel in Washington, where they had been tak
ing drinks. Morton did most of the talking to
a serenading crowd, and, as he said nothing
about running Grant again, some of the cor
respondents say his speech was in his own in
terest—for he expects to be a candidate. How
ever this may be, Morton first laid down the
Eadical platform for the company, and then
put four converse planks in the Democratic
platform, to-wit: Payment for the emancipated
slaves, amounting to two thousand millions;
pensions] for the disabled Confederate soldiers
and the widows and orphans of the dead; dis*
' franchisement of the negroes, and denying
them civil rights and equality.
Morton omitted a few other planks, which
might have been put in, while he was about it,
to-wit: The restoration of slavery and payment
of the lost time of the negroes, together with
interest on their capital value. The payment
for all property stolen, burnt and otherwise de
stroyed by the Federal troops, with interest
thereon from the time of the loss and destruc
tion. The redemption of the Confederate cur
rency at a par valuation. The consolidation of
the Confederate bonds with the United States se
curities at the same rates of interest. The re
affirmation of the right of secession. The sub
stitution of the Confederate Constitution for
the United States Constitution.
These and a few more planks, which Morton’s
ingenuity will suggest, would finish out his
platform architecture—give it harmony and
proportion, and afford him or Grant a square
issue with the late Confederacy, which Morton
and Grant seem particularly to desire.
It seems these ingenious gentlemen despair
of getting up any new issue for the next cam
paign. Grant tried Domingo, but it was a still
born issue, or breathedout its feeble soul in the
agonies of parturition, Butler tried his hand.
He was for getting up a war with England and
going in heavily on Canada annexation; but
that cock would not fight. After these failures
the business was turned over to Morton, and he
is for resurrecting and galvanizing the old issues
into life again. He knows they won two cam
paigns, and thinks, if properly revamped, they
will stand the wear and tear of a third one. And
if Morton can doctor up his ancient Bosenante
and then get the privilege of mounting the other
side on a horse of his own selection, he is bound
to win. Certainly he is a bad jockey if he can’t
win on such an arrangement. Bat suppose the
Democracy should put a young and fresh courser
against his spavined nag—what then ?
An Experimental Negro Republic.
We are told that Gerrit Smith and Mr. Sum
ner have been comparing notes on Domingo an
nexation. They are both very hostile to the
project They want the independence of that
lovely island maintained and protected, instead
of destroyed by the United States. They want
that model republic kept up under the general
supervision and encouragement of the United
States, 03 a sort of experimental school, in
which the negro can demonstrate and improve
his political, social, financial, commercial and
agricultural aptitudes, and show how high he
can climb without breaking his neck.
Well, that is better than annexation, at all
events. It is true, that judging the future by
the past, Sumner will have to reckon by depths
instead of altitudes. The San Domingo ne
groes have been working on this problem of
self-government within less than twenty years
as long as the people of the United States; and
so far every change of position they have made
has been produced by the process of sinking.
But, then,as a mere ethnological experiment it
may be as valuable to know how low a free ne
gro, under the forms of civilization, will de
scend, as how high he may go np. If, improv
ing by long experience, he can at last organize
anything worthy to be called government or
civil order in St. Domingo, it will go far to re
deem the character of his race. It will open
the way to colonization from our own soil, to a
country which, in point of natural resources
for comfort, abundance and wealth, is probably
unrivalled on the earth’s surface.
The Joint High Commission and the
Treaty.
It is announced that the Joint High Commis
sion will push their report in the next three
weeks, and that the Senate will be convened in
extraordinary session the first week in May to
consider such treaty or treaties as may have
been agreed upon by the international confer
ence. The treaty is proposed on the following
basis:
First—The privilege of American fishermen
to fish within the parts oi Canadian waters from
which they are now excluded, and to land and
dry their fish and clean their nets, etc. For the
privilege the United States is to pay Canada a
certain sum of money.
Second—Certain general international princi
ples are laid down, covering those of neutrality,
by which claims arising from the depredations
of the Alabama and Shenandoah, etc., are to be
adjusted.
Third—Commissioners to be hereafter ap
pointed to adjust the matters on the basis pro
posed. It is further said that this haoia has
been sent to England for approval.
Fixe Tbout.—'We bad ocular demonstration
last evening of the quality of fish that are of
fered daily at Vannucki Brothers, on Cotton
Avenue. We expect at dinner to test it in a
different way. The specimen sent ns is of the
kind to tempt an epicure—suoh are seldom seen
in this region. They are- caught in a lake be
low Savannah, lately discovered, whioh abounds
in all of the best varieties. Go and see for
yourselves. They ]are very much of the size
and shape of the best fed of our firm. The
gentlemen gave six hundred dollars for the use
of the lake for this year, from which they will
be able to supply every body in Macon with
fish. , -
Georgia Medical Association.—The annual
meeting of this body took place at Americas
on Wodnesday at 10 o’clock a. m. From a note
sent by our traveling agent then at that point,
we learn that there was a full attendance, and
that the President being absent the Vice Presi
dent, Dr. Thomas, of Savannah, presided, with
Dr. B. P. Myers, of Savannah, as Secretary.
An appropriate address of welcome, in behalf
of the citizens of Americas, was made by Dr.
Hinkle, to which Dr. Thomas responded. After
appointing a ooremittee on credentials the Con
vention took a recess. Its farther proceedings
will be published as soon as received.
Wash Weather in Amil.—The Northern
papers speak of a surprising temperature for
the month of April. Last Sunday in New York
City, the mercury ranged from 70 in the morn
ing to 81 at six in the evening. At Omaha the
mercury nearly reached 90. At Springfield,
Massachusetts, it registered 88. At Poughkeep
sie, 8c. At Philadelphia, 81, and at Washing
ton, 84.
A Fight with the Mexicans.—The story of
the fight of the United States troops with a party
of two hundred Mexican soldiers near the west
ern boundary of Texas, which figured in the tel-
e grains yesterday, we imagine, will do to lay
aside for further confirmation. At least, it
needs explanation badly.
Sleeting of lire Georgia Medical As
sociation.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIBST DAT.
Pursuant to adjournment the Georgia Medi
cal Asaocialion convened at Americas, and
being called to order by Vioe President Thomas,
followed with prayer by Eev. G. F. Cooper,
proceeded to business.
The Committee of Arrangements and Creden
tials made their report, which, upon motion of
Dr. Knott, was adopted.
After some discussion as to the order of bus
iness, a motion to admit new members was
adopted. The following gentlemen were ad
mitted: Drs. W. T. Goldsmith, W. T. Grant,
T. A. Simmons, K. M. Nunn, J. F. Cato, J. W.
Shropshire, W. M. Hardwick, M. D. McLeod,
W. D. Cooper, W. J. Eeese, S. B. Hawkins, W.
A. Judson, W. J. Hicks, Y. H. Morgan, J. N.
Daniel, A. Raiford, A. H. Clarke, J. T. John
son, G. F. Warren, W. H. Goodwin, J. D. Stal
lings, J. W. Carter, W. N. Judson, T. H. Stew
art, W. H. Cummings, L. C. Simpson, W. A.
Vance.
Dr. Myers moved that the city press, officials,
clergy, etc., be admitted to seats on the floor.
Adopted.
Dr. W. D. Hoyt moved that the report of the
Committee on Credentials bo recommitted.
Adopted.
Dr. Logan offered the following:
Eesolved, That the Committee of Arrange
ments be instructed to ignore all protests, and
report simply a list of members entitled to seats
in this body. Adopted.
Dr. Orme offered the following:
Eesolved, That the Committee on Creden
tials be instructed that a member’s credentials
shall consist in the evidence that he has been
elected a member of this body and has never
been expelled, or that be is a delegate from a
legal local society. Adopted.
The report of the Committee on Credentials
was then received.
The rnles were suspended to admit Drs. E.
J. Kirksey, of Columbus, and W. B. Swinney,
of Griffin.
The Constitution, as revised, was then read,
as per resolution of Dr. Crawford. After much
discussion, Dr. Gregg offered the following:
Eesolved, That a committee of five members
be appointed by the Chair on the Constitution
of this Association, to which the Constitution
offered shall be committed for consideration,
to be reported on to-morrow afternoon.—
Adopted.
The Chair appointed as the committee, Drs,
Gregg, Stowe, Logan, Knott and Cooper.
Dr. Goldsmith then presented, per the “Fnl.
ton county Medical Society,” a protest against
the “Atlanta Academy of Medicine,” which he
read.
The Chair then appointed Dr. W. O. Daniel
as Treasurer pro tern,
On motion, the Association then adjourned
till to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. M.
THE EAST IUUXOIS HORROR.
A Man Cats the Tbront of his Wife and Five
Children, and then Cats his Own,
The most complete and atrocious tragedy of
modem times is reported as having occurred on
the 26 th of March near Stone Fort, Saline
connty, Illinois, In a wild and sequestered spot
in the midst of a virgin forest. Here, in a small
log hut, lived up to that date a man named
Dakin with hi3 wife and five children, the eld
est twelve years old and the youngest not that
many months. On the day mentioned the entire
family were found weltering in their blood and
quite dead; and, from the condition of the
bodies, and other circumstances, there is no
doubt the husband and father committed the
seven-fold crime. Inside the hut, on some
qnilts and blankets stretched over a rough
frame-work which served as a bed, lay the wife
and mother. Not only was her throat ent,
but the head only remained attached to the
trunk by the vertebra. The woman’s hands
were frightfully gashed, showing she had made
a desperate fight for her life. On the hearth,
her head among the ashes, lay a fair-haired
girl—the eldest of the flock—and on the pallet,
where they evidently slept, were two little boys,
one five the other seven years of age. Under the
bed of the mother, a fourth child, of not more
than three, was found. All the children were
cold and stiff, and all had their throats cut from
ear to ear. The floor, the walls,thefumiture,were
with blood, and there were indications of along
struggle before the dismal work of the assassin
was consummated. It was finished at last, the
woman thrown on her bed and her children dis
posed as we have described. The murderer, it
seems, did not himself chose to die there. He
took the yonngest bom, an infant hardly ayear
old, and fled away into the darkness. There
was blood on the door-sill—and in trath every'
where else within—but a sanguinary train led
toward the northeast. This, of course, indicated
the line of Dakin’s flight, and the pursuers did
not go far ere they found him. He was stone
dead, like the rest, and with the same ghastly
wound—the razor that had inflicted if still
clutched in his right hand. Across his left arm
lay the poor little baby—its throat cut, too—but
nestling close to its murderer's side, as if all
unconscious that he who should have cherished
had destroyed it.
The New York Times, from which paper we
condense the foregoing facts, says nothing is
known positively as to the motive impelling to
this awful deed, but that Dakin was in the habit
of getting drunk, and that he and his wife did
not get on well together.
Women Toting*
Three women voted at the late Michigander
election, and the Detroit Post describes the
scene in all the pomp of Pompey. After Mrs.
Gardner had voted, abo presented to the Board
of Inspectors a beautiful bouquet of flowers in
a china vase, and also handed in a Urge and
elaborate device representing the capitol of our
nation, with crowds of joyons and cheering
men on its steps, with streams of fight pouring
in upon them. In the center of the picture was
an arch inscribed “Liberty,” upon which was
perched an eagle. The gates were thrown wide
open by Columbia and the Goddess of Justice.
A large crowd of women, all in darkness, ex
cept the froat one, were just ready to pass the
'portals. The leader held in her hands a scroll
labelled “The Fourteenth Amendment,” which
which she was presenting to Columbia. In the
comer at the right were imps of darkness re
presenting war, vice, eta, and barrels of whisky
were being rolled into the darkness. Black
clouds covered the whole of the pioture, except
the illuminated capitol and fire ground.
Underneath was the following verse:
“We come, free America, fire millioBS strong;
In darkness and bondage for many years long
We've inarched in deep silence, but now we unroll
The Fourteenth Amendment, which give* us a soul.
Glory, glory hallelujah, as we go maghing on.”
Columbia—“Welcome, beloved daughters,
Take your places beside my sons.”
Alter depositing her vote, Mrs. Gardner re
entered her oarriage and returned home. As
before stated, she is a widow, and quite a heavy
tax-payer in the ward, and she claims the ballot
in justice as well as by law. She insists on her
right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States.
This is affecting—very. Let us weep. But why
should Mrs. Gardner insist upon being the only
white woman in that voting crowd ?
Florida Congressmen.—It is now the Florida
Congressmen and ex-Oongreasmen who air their
dirty linen in Washington. Mr. O. M. Hamil
ton, ex-member of the House, has published
oert&in letters from a brother of Senator Osborn
tendering him bribes for aiding a Florida land
and railway scheme. We are left to infer from
the statement that the Senator himself was a
party to the alleged corruption, bnt of that we
lave yet to see the proofs. Thus far the matter
is between Mr. Hamilton and the Senator’s
brother.—Tribune.
Why call those people Florida Congressmen?
Democratic National Convention.—The
Louisville Journal thinks the National Conven
tion should be held in that city.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Mr. Alexander McDonald, father of Eev. Geo.
G. N. McDonald, of the South Georgia Confer
ence, now stationed at Savannah, died very
suddenly at Archer, Florida, Tuesday night.
H. F. Day, formerly of Augusta, bnt more
recently of Richmond, Ya., died of congestive
fever at the former place, Tuesday morning.
A trooly Ioil Iamb of the Grant flock, named
0. K. Holcombe, is in doable trouble down at
Savannah. He has been making false ccnsos
returns, and also swindling that swindling ma-
wants ns on the jury to try the latter oase let him
drop U3 a line.
A chap named Johnson who has a negro wife
at Columbus, and another party of the name of
Gaspin, have been nailed at Savannah for at
tempting to draw money from one of the banks
of that city on a forged check. Why isn’t John
son in a fat Federal office ? Seems to us his
qualifications are first-class.
The Savannah News, of Wednesday, says:
An Important Bill in Equity in the United
States Circuit Court.—It will be seen by ref
erence to the published proceedings in the
United States Circuit Court, now in session
here, that a vei$ important bill in equity is bo
fore that Court, and the suit is now pending.
The case is that of Wm. N. Marsh et al. vs.
Wm. Burrouchs et al., and is instituted by the
bill-holders of the Merchants’ and Planters’
Bank of Savannah, against the stockholders of
that bank, for the purpose of compelling them
to pay up the whole amount of the stock sub
scribed, with an eye to the equitable distribu
tion of the assets among the bill-holders.
An order was granted by the Court yesterday
to make additional parties complainants to the
bill, and several other names were added. Un
der the law governing these matters, no resi
dent of the State of Georgia can be made a
complainant iu this Coart against the stock
holders of the Bank, bnt those interested may
become defendants and be equally benefitted at
the conclusion of the suit. As, should the com
plainants be successful in gaining their suit,
there will be an equitable distribution of the
assets among all bill-holders concerned in the
suit.
The bill is a very lengthy, interesting, and
important doenment, and immense amounts of
money are involved in the issue. Everyone
who knows the history of the Merchants’ and
Planters’.Bank, is aware that only a very small
uer centage of the stock subscribed was ever
paid in. And this bill goes onto enumerate
the names of the different stockholders, the
amount subscribed by each, and the amount
paid in by each, and also the balance which
each stockholder is still duo the bank. As, for
instance, Hiram Boberts, Esq., subscribed four
hundred thousand dollars to said bank, paid in
ten per cent, of bis subscription, or forty thou
sand dollars, and is still due the bank the sum
of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
The names of other heavy stockholders are
mentioned in a similar manner, enumerating
the amount subscribed, eto. And it concludes
with the prayer of the complainants, that the
subscribers of the stock be required to pay np
the balance of the stock subscribed, in order
that there may be au equitable distribution of
the assets among the bill-holders. The suit is
one of the most important in its results, and in
volves immense interest to the parties con
corned. And it is not likely to be concluded in
the Circuit Coart of the United States in Savan
nah, bnt will probably be carried np to the
Supreme Court.
The following cases were passed upon in the
United States Circuit Court at Savannah, on
Tnesday:
Roper & Stoney, vs. John M. W. Hill—con
tinued ; Wm. Hone vs. The James Eiver Insur
ance Company—continued; H. M. Beach, As-
signe, vs. James Baggs; The Same vs. William
Cook; The Same vs. Bruten, Babet & Warfield,
three cases in trover—leave to amend declara
tion ; Isaias Mayer vs. Eloyd, Babet & William
Tongue—verdict by consent; Matthew S. Nel
son vs. Allen F. Holt and Thaddeos G. Holt—
verdict for plaintiff; Bruten B. Letten vs. W.
T. Swift, principal, and F. M. Furlow, security
—verdict against the principal and in favor of
security; David Valentino vs. E. Feuchtwanger
—verdict for plaintiff; Wm. Mann, Jr., Sc Co.,
vs. Wrigley Sc Knott—judgment by confession;
Backer Sc Cohen, vs. James M. Clark—verdict
for plaintiff; Philander Hold vs. A. S. Harrison
—verdict for plaintiff; S. J. Armstrong vs. Jas.
Bay—verdict for for plaintiff; Thomas Johnson
vs. D. B. Sc B. H. Melton—verdict for plaintiff
S. J. Armstrong vs. J. A. Bean and J.B. Heart l
•verdict for plaintiff; Howes, Hyatt Sc Co. vs.
J. D. Smith & Co.—verdict for plaintiff; W. A.
Hansom Sc Co. vs. Merritt & Turner—verdict
for plaintiff; I. L. Matthews vs. W. G. Wool-
bridge and G. H. Sapp—verdict for plaintiff; S.
J. Armstrong vs. Brown Sc Biddle—dismissed;
Thomas Inglis vs. Charles Crichton—verdictfor
plaintiff; A. A. Thompson Sc Co. vs. B. Falkner
and B. F. Woolfolk—dismissed; Edwin Parsons
vs. E. O. Wade—verdict for plaintiff—(this is a
verdict in one of the bank cases against the
stockholders;) Wm. N. Marsh et al., complain
ants, vs. Wm. H. Burroughs et al., defendants—
in Equity—Bank case—order to make parties.
Cyrus W. Field, the Atlantio cable man, was
in Atlanta, Wednesday.
Floyd county will elect a successor to the late
Captain H. A- Gartrell, in the Legislature, on
the 31st of May.
An Athens correspondent of the Constitution,
under date of the 10th inst., writes as follows:
Easter day was observed with unusual inter
est in this classic city. The weather was genial,
and the churches were all thronged with devout
worshippers. Two new houses of worship were
thrown open for religious seevices for the first
time—St Mary's Chapel, near the factory, and a
new ehorch erected by the Primitive Baptists in
the west part of the eity, the name of which I
have not learned. The first named edifice is a
beautiful gothic structure, of brick, and will seat
two or three hundred people. It was named in
memory of the late Mrs. Mary Baxter, a pious
lady, long a resident of this city, and a liberal
contributor to its erection.
We clip the following items from the Gonsti-
tntion of yesterday:
It is rnmored that the old railroad park has
been sold to the United States Government as
a site for post-office, District Cotut and other
pnblio buildings.
The police picked np, on Tnesday night, a
Dutcman in a state of entire nudity. They car
ried him to the calaboose, and after giving him
suitable clothing, turned him loose. He stated
that he lay oat in the woods all day, having
been robbed by persons clad in soldiers olothes
and stripped.
Says the Athens Watchman of Thursday:
Rapid Advancement of Spring.—The growth
of foliage on fruit and forest trees and of gar
den vegetables, daring the past half dozen warm
days has been very remarkable. If we have no
more frost, everything will soon be fall-fledged
here. Never have we seen a better prospect for
fruit—especially peaches; bnt we are admon
ished by the history of past years not to be too
sanguine. We remember that on Sunday night,
the 14th of April, 1849, we had a frost, snow
and freeze, which not only killed all the fruit,
bnt destroyed wheat and nearly everything else.
The Great German Peace Celebration in
New York on Monday numbered fifty thousand
in procession. The Commercial Advertiser
says:
As the procession filed down the Bowery
from Thirteenth street, the spectacle was really
magnificent Rich flags, banners and streamers
floated in the fight breeze; hundreds of bands
of music filled the air with inspiring notes of the
national airs, and the sidewalks were fined frith
thousands of enthusiastic Germans who hailed
with ringing cheers the different organizations
and the various]emblems commemorative of the
great victories achieved by the German armies.
The men presented a very floe appearance, and
showed plainly their consciousness of the im
portance of the occasion.
Tax New York Tribune is much vexed about
the movements of the Cincinnati Badioal rev
enue reformers—smells a coalition and predicts
against the dishonesty of setting np a protect
ive tariff test among Republicans. It would
probably scatter them as sheep without a shep
herd.
The So-called General Amnesty BUI.
We take from the Baltimore Gazette of Tues
day, the text of this bill as it passed the House
of Representatives on Monday, and also the
yeas and nays on its passage. The vote was as
follows. Radicals ia italics:
Yeas—Messrs. Acker, Adams, Archer, Arthur,
AveriU, Banks, Barry, Beck, Bell, Bird, Blair,
of Michigan, Braxton, Bright, Brooks, of Mas
sachusetts, Buckley, Burchard, Caldwell, Camp
bell, Carroll, Comingo, Cook, Cox, Crebs, Cross
land, Davis, Dawes, De Large, Donnan, Dox,
Duke, Eames, Edwards, Eldridge,
Du Bose, ———i —, ——~o-»
Ely, Farnsworth, Farwell, Finkelnburg, Foster,
chine, the Freedman’s bureau. If Holcombe
The New York Tribune In entering on its
31st year, says it began on a cash expense of
$525# week and is now running at a cost of
$20,000 a week, with a constant, Irresistible
tendency to increase.
A traveler, we are told,being ina wild coun
try where he could find no provisions for human
or dog, eat ofj the dog’s tail and boiled it for
his own supper, and gave the dog the bona
ton, Handley, Hanks, Harper, Harris, of Mis
sissippi, Harris, of Virginia, Hawley, Hay,
Hays, Hereford, Hibbard, Hill, Holman, Hoop
er, KeUy, Kendall, Kerr, Ketcham, King, Lam-
ison, Lamport, Leach, Lewis, Lynch, Manson,
Marshall, McClelland, McCormick, McOrew,
MoHenry, McIntyre, McKee, McKenny, MoNee-
ly, Merrick, Benj. T. Myers, Moore, Morey,
Niblack, Parker, of New Hampshire, Parker,
of Missouri, Peek, Pendleton, Perce, Perry, of
New York, Platt, Poland, Potter, Randall, Bice,
of Illinois, Bice, of Kentucky, W. B. Roberts,
Robinson, Rogers, Roosevelt, Scofield, Sheldon,
Sherwood, Shober, Slater, Slocam, Sloss, Sny
der, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Stoughton,
Sutherland,* Swann, Sypher, Terry, Thomas,
Turner, Twitched, Van Trump, Vaughan, Voor-
hees, Waddell, Waterman, Walls, Wells, White-
ley, Whitthome, Williams, of New York, Wilson,
of Ohio, Winchester, Wood and Young—134.
Nays—Messrs. Ambler, Barker, Beatty, Buf
fington, Cobum, Conger, Colton, Creeley, Dnn-
nell, Elliott, Havens, Hazleton of Missouri,
Hazleton of New Jersey, Hoar, Lansing, Lowe,
Maynard, McCrary, McJnnkin, Mercnr, Mer-
riam, Monroe, Orr, Packard, Packer, Palmer,
Porter, Prindle, Ellis EL Roberts, Busk, Saw
yer, Seeley, Shanks, Shellabarger, Smith of
Ohio, Sprague of St. John, Taffe, Townsend of
Pennsylvania, Tyner, Walden, Waldron, Wal
lace, Wheeler, Williams of Indiana, Wilson of
Indiana—4G—all Radicals.
There were 47 members reported absent or
not voting, among whom we notice Price, (Dem
ocrat) and Speer and Bigby, (Radicals) of Geor
gia. The bill as passed is as follows:
A bill for the removal of legal and political
disabilities imposed by the third section of the
fourteenth article of amendment to the Consti-
tution of the United States.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., two-thirds of
each Honse concurring therein, That all legal
and political disabilities imposed by the third
section of the fourteenth article of amendment
to the Constitution of the United States on per
sons therein mentioned, because of their having
engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the
United States, or given aid or comfort to the
armies thereof, be and the same are hereby re-
moved; provided that this act shall not apply
to or in any way affect or remove the disability
of hny persons included in either of the follow
ing classes, viz: First, members of the Con
gress of the United States, who withdrew there
from and aided the rebellion; second, officers
of the army and navy of the United States, who,
being above the age of twenty-one years, left
said army or navy and aided the rebellion;
third, members of the State conventions which
adopted the pretended ordinances of secession,
who voted for the adoption of anch ordinances.
Sea 2. Be it farther enacted, That before
any person shall be entitled to the benefit of
this act, be shall, within the District where he
resides, before a Clerk of some Court of the
United States, or a United States Commissioner,
take and subscribe an oath or affirmation to
support the Constitution of the United States,
and to bear true faith and allegiance to the
same, whioh oath or affirmation shall be for
warded by said offloer to the Secretary of State
of the United States, who shall cause a list of
all persons complying with the provisions of
this act to belaid before Congress at the open
ing of each session thereof; and the officer, be
fore whom such oath or affirmation is made,
Bhall give to the person taking it a certificate of
the fact, under such forma and regulations as
the Secretary of State may prescribe.
A Street Child’s First Impression of
the Bible.
In ‘‘Episodes of an Obscure Life” is the fol
lowing account of a little water-cress vender’s
early impressions of the Bible:
It was curiously interesting (says the author)
to note the gradual way in which the character
of Christ exercised its attraction on the little
London street girL At first she greatly pre
ferredthe Old Testament to the New. There
was “a deal more fan an’ figbtin’ ” in it, she
said. The stoiy of Samson ana the foxes great -
ly took her fancy. “Worn’fc that a knowin’
game ?” was her admiring comment on it. The
trick by which Miobal saved her husband's
life was another exploit which made Bessie
chuckle in a very infectiously indecorous man
ner ; and she gloated over accounts of pitched
battles and single combats. Owing to the bel-
lioosity which her street-life had bred in her, the
gentle forgiveness of the Saviour was to her at
storting a disagreeable puzzle. She liked him
for “goin’ about doctorin’ poor folks, an’ givin’
’em bread an’ fish when they was hungry,” bnt
according to her original notions of nobility of
character, it was cowardly not to resent an in
jury or “take your own part,” and therefore
the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount per
plexed her sorely, and she was utterly at a loss
to understand why Peter was told to put back
his sword into Ms sheath. “He’d ha’ fought
anyhow, if he’d been let, though they did all
on ’em cut away afterwards,” remarked Bessie,
trying in vain to make her newly-acqnired be
lief that all which Jesus did must be right, tally
with her old faith in the manliness of fighting.
The first time she read the fifth of St. Matthew,
she had a stiff argument with her teacher over
‘Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him the other also.” “It cant mean that,
I know," exclaimed Bessie, decidedly. “Do it
teacher ?”—“It means what it says—it’s in the
Bible, and that’s enough,” answered the teacher.
An nnsympathizing appeal to authority of this
kind, as a settler, or rather silencer, of moral
difficulties, does not, however, satisfy children,
any more than it satisfies adults. It is far more
likely to weaken the weight of the appealed-to
authority in the estimation of those who are
morally muddled.
Bessie was not so to be pnt down. I have no
doubt that she half became a little infidel —fan
cied that after all the Bible oould not be trne if
it taught things like this. “Bnt, teaoher,” she
persisted, “ if anybody was to fetch ye a olont
a-one side o’ yer face, would you let’em give ye
n o.fnflwn»9 TT/»Ti ma hnin* oIaVi • anff
I’d do all I knew to give it to ’em back agin.”
But as the months went by, Bessie’s character
underwent a striking change. She was as self-
reliant a little body as ever, but self (with half-
grudged sacrifice to Granny) was no longer the
centre of her little system of the universe.
An Astonished Donkey and a Dumb
founded Committee.
There is some idea of forming a mitrailleuse
camel battery in India. The gun is to be
mounted and fired from a camel’s back, the lat
ter kneeling down at the word “action.” At
present this idea is not even in an experimental
stage; bnt in all probability such trials will take
placa This reminds an English writer of an
amusing story connected with the Ordnance Se
lect Committee. It was atonetime proposed to
fire mounted guns off the backs of the mules that
carried them. It was urged that this would obvi
ate the necessity of dismounting the gun from
the mule’s back and mounting it on its carriage.
A mountain battery could thus come into ac
tion in less time. The proposal was warmly
token up by the committee, who forthwith pro
ceeded to test its feasibility. A mule or donkey
was procured, and a small gun strapped firmly
to a cradle resting on the pack-saddle, so that
the muzzle of the weapon pointed over the
donkey’s tail. The animal—so the story goes
—was then led Into the marshes at Woolwich,
accompanied by the committee and several
‘big wigs,” who were attracted by such a novel
experiment. On arrival at the butt, the gun
was loaded; the donkey turned with his tail to
ward the earthen mound, and the usual propor
tions made for firing by means of a lanyard and
friction tube. Hereupon, however, one of the
committee remarked that this mode of firing
might possibly derange the aim by the jerk on
pulling the lanyard.
A discussion followed, and it was finally ar
ranged to fire the gun by a pieoe of slow match
tied to the vent This was accordingly done,
and the match duly ignited. Hitherto the don
key had token rather a sleepy interest in the
proceedings, but somehow the fizzing of the
match on his back caused him first to prick his
ears, then to lay them back, and finally to begin
to torn round. The committee were thunder
struck, and stampeded in all directions; the
secretary threw himself flat on his face; there
was a moment of agonizing suspense, then-
bang—the shot went riooohetting away in one
direction, while the wretched donkey tuned a
complete somersault in the other.
London, April 13.—Dombronski is very pop
ular with his troops. He declares he will bum
Neuilly, Yilliers and Puteaur, if neoessary for
defence. A great concentration of troops is
reported before Versailles. MoMahonhas gone
to Villetonense and a decisive assault upon the
Insurgent position is expected.
Thiers now opposes conciliation, and thinks
sucoess certain.
A dispatch from Paris says the Nationals are
massed near the arch of Triomphe. Dombron
ski has selected Asnieres as the center of his
operations againfit Courbevoio. Longchamps
and Asnieres are both well fortified. Paris is
calm, bnt the exodus of inhabitants continues.
Washington, April 13.—A cable dispatch re
ports a tremendous firing in the direction of the
forts, bnt as yet no decisive or important ao-
tion.
Washington, April 13.—The Senate continued
the Ku-klux debate, and meets to-night for talk
only. The bill will be disposed of to-morrow.
The House is on the Deficiency Appropria
tion bilL The Senate amendment, repealing
the law fixing the time for the meeting of Con
gress on Maroh 4th, was concurred in—vote 99
to 98.
In the course of the discussion on that amend
ment, Dawes said he believed this session bad
been a mistake, and that there would be more
to repent than boast of. He alluded to the
wrangling in the Honse, and to the deeper
wounds in the Senate, which bled internally.
If anything induced the people to forgive them
it would be that moderate measues had pre
vailed in a few days.
Beck, in advocating the concurrence, said
that the next Congress will be Democratic, and
their Speaker would then be in the same em
barrassing position as the present Speaker was
now placed, in regard to the appointment of
committees before he became acquainted with
members. Besides, they would have a Demo
cratic President, and there would be no danger
of bis violating the provisions of the constitu
tion.
The Southern Claims Commission role that
in every case possible testimony of the
loyalty of the claimants and the facts of the
case be given before them orally. In oases
where the circumstances prevent witnesses from
coming to Washington, an explanation must be
made for permission to take testimony in some
other manner. The names of witnesses, and
the material facts to be proved by their testi
mony, and the respective causes of their ina
bility to be examined in Washington, being set
forth. Ex parte affidavits will not be received
as evidence.
The President to-day nominated a Senatorial
Council for this Territory, including three col-
ored—one of which is Fred Douglas.
It is probable that cloudy weather will, on
Friday, very generally prevail, with light rains
at a few points in the south and south-west.
Easterly winds on Lake Michigan and north
easterly winds on Lake Superior.
New York, April 13.—Arrived—Steamer Iowa,
towing the Sweedish bark Fieja from New York
for Constadt, laden with naval stores and cot
ton. She lost her masts and sprang a leak in
hurricane, April 2d. The crew had been seven
days at the pumps.
San Francisco, April 13.—The steamship
Avedale, carrying the southward, east, San
Francisco and European mails to tho 15th of
January was wrecked near Taranaki.
The schooner Banshee is a wreck on the
coast of Otago. All were lost except the cap
tain.
The steamer Rangilote, with Suez mails
foundered at Picauron.
Albany, April’13.—The Republicans in the
Legislature have passed caucus resolutions
against certain pending bills, declaring them
party measures and threaten to denounce any
Republicans voting for them as renegades.
Paris, April 13.—Dombronski reports to the
Communal Committee that bis troops are doing
excellent service—already holding three-fonrths
of the town of Neoilly, and hope to possess the
bridge across the Seine to-night. The Gri du
Penple says the Versailles troops have been
driven from Nenilly, flying towards Courbevoie.
The Orleans railway is ent by the Versailles
troops. Fort Valerien is firing heavily this
morning. The members of the Commune are
personally on the field to encourage the troops.
The British Consul in Paris warns Englishmen
to leave the city.
Versailles, April 13.—It is officially an
nounced that alleged Communal victories are
unfounded. No engagemnt to-day. All the
roads to Paris are occupied by Versailles, troops.
New York, April 13.—Arrived, Cuba, Periere
and Paraguay. Arrived out, Herman.
■Washington, April 13.—The Southern Claims
Commission to-day took up the cases of two
sons of ex-Adjutant General Thomas, who claim
damages for the seizure of a brick-kiln near Ar
lington.
Subscription to the national loan to-day
$2,000,000.
New Yore, April 13.—The sub-treasury sold
two millions gold at 1013 and 1012. Bids
aggregated near ten and a-half millions.
St. Louis, April 13.—-The Times claims St.
Louis as the proper place for holding the Dem
ocratic National Convention.
Versailles, April 13.—Thiers, in a circular
bearing [date of the evening of the 12th, de
scribes the situation as in the main unchanged,
and says the Government will act at the proper
time. The Commune accounts of victory at
Paris are as false as they are unprincipled—no
viotory will come bloodlesaly. The Paris dele
gates have arrived, and were received not be
cause they are Communists, bnt because they
are Republicans. My answer to them was that
no one menaces the Republic bnt assassins. The
lives of the Insurgents will be spared, bnt the
workmen temporary subsidized in Penis must
return to their labor, and secession be sup
pressed.
A dispatch from Marseilles says the city Is
quiet and the polioe force is being reorganized.
The delegates from tho party of conciliation
have returned to Paris. The conditions of peace
proposed to them by President Thiers were that
Paris shall first lay down her arms, and then the
municipal franchise will be granted to the eity.
Brussels, April 13.—The German financial
delegates, who are to assist is the peace con
ference here, arrived to-day.
Berlin, April 13.—The amount of the credit
to be asked of the German Parliament is one
hundred and twenty millions thalers.
General Herworth Von Brittenfield has been
promoted to the rank of Field Marshal
Hamburg, April 18.—It is reported that
France has undertaken to restore to the owners
all German ships taken by French cruisers not
condemned as prises of war.
Hayanna, April 13.—Advices to the 2d in
stant have been received from Porto Rico.
Gen. Baldock has again assumed the Captain
Generalship. Romero has been newly a ppointed
Secretary, bnt will not take possession of the
office for the present The list of deputies to
Cortes soon to be voted for have been pub
lished. The Convention party is making stren
uous efforts ro organize for efficient campaigns.
Somebody advertises for agents to sell a work
entitled ‘ ‘Hymeneal Instructor. ” A cotemporary
adds: “The best hymeneal instructor we know
of is a young widow. ’What she don’t know
there is no use in learning.”
‘ ‘A Religious Riot ” is a somewhat strange
Initiation—bnt we suppose the row alluded to at
Odeisa was a fight between the musselmen and
Christians of the Greek Church.
Decisions or the Supreme
Georgia.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TEU8DAY, APRIL 11, 1871.
From the Constitution.
M. Nicholas et al. vs. H. H. HoTener. Com
plaint from Dade.
Lochbane, O. J.—When an action was
brought by the guardians of minors to recover
a contract due and dated prior to the 1st of
June, 18C5, and the defendant introduced evi
dence under the 14th section of the act of 1870,
showing losses occasioned by the war, and the
court charged in effeot restricting the case to
the provisions of that section and the jury
found the whole amonnt' for the plaintiff, and
defendant’s motion for a new trial was over
ruled by the court below:
Held, That the 14th section of the act of 1870
relative to debts due widows or minors is excep
tional in the application of the general provi
sions of the act, and the settlement upon prin
ciples of equity therein provided for, is con
trolled by the decisions of this court, that to
constitute such equity it must appear that the
losses of the defendant were in some way the
fault of the plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.
D. A. Walker, R. H. Tatum, for plaintiffs in
error.
E. D. Graham, W. H. Dabney, for defendant.
Benjamin Longhridga vs. W. G. Harris.
Case, from Murray.
Lochbane, C. J.—When in an action brought
to recover damages for the overflow of land by
the erection of a mill-dam, the defendant
pleaded in bar the award of appraisers under
tho Act of 18G9, and tender of payment, etc.,
and the Judge sustained the demurrer to the
plea, eto.:
Held, That the Act of 18C9, which extends
the provisions of the 4th section of the Aot to
incorporate the Zebulon Branch Railroad of
1851-52, to all manufacturing companies and
individuals, whether corporate or not, provided
such company or individuals own both banks of
the stream upon which the mills are to be erect
ed, eto., and provides for tbe assessment of
damages for such taking of lands as may be
necessary is unconstitutional in its provision s
as applied to individual owners of mills in this
State:
Held again, Under article 3, section 5, part
1, of onr present Constitution, and the grant of
power to the Legislature to take private prop
erty for public use, that the exercise cf this
power is one over which the judiciary have ju
risdiction to prevent its abuse and to authorize
the taking of private property by legislative act.
Two things must concur:
1st. It must be taken for publie used only.
3d. It must be taken only upon provision or
jnst compensation, except in urgent and extra
ordinary cases. And while we recognize the
right of the Legislature to determine the neces
sity of the act, and when it is constitutionally
exercised, and when it is for the public use and
provision for jnst compensation has been made,
yet this is not a power which the Legislature
can delegate to individuals, to erect mills or
manufactories anywhere at their option, and in
their judgment take private property for their
use; and we do not think a mill, although it
has some of the attributes of public use and is
regulated by law for certain defined purposes;
can be xegardedsuchpublic use as the constitution
recognizes, to authorize the exercise of this
great constitutional power.
Judgment affirmed.
D. A. Walker, J. A. W. Johnson, for plaintiff
in error.
McGamy and Shumate, for defendant.
Edwin A. Turner vb. John R -
James Hunter. Bill i or
From DeKalb. 2?
MoOay, J.—When a suit wan
two joint and several obl1^ t “ dia
Campbell Wallace, Superintendent Western
and Atlantic Railroad, vs. W. C. Sanders. As-
snmsit from Fulton.
Lochbane, O. J.—A suit was brought against
the Western and Atlantic Railroad for the loss
of personal property delivered to them at Dal
ton for transportation to Atlanta, and plaintiff
proved the property sned for was put on board
the railroad car and not lost; and the evidence
for the defence consisted in part of an original
receipt produced by plaintiff or notice as fol
lows : “Received of Mr. W. O. Sanders (stat
ing the property) for shipment to Atlanta at his
own risk.” And the testimony of the agent
which showed that at the time, Gen. Johnson’s
army was in Dalton and the ears wero taken by
the military at their pleasure, and that ship
ment of private freight was generally under
stood to beat the owner’s risk, and that all
shippers knew it was not uncommon for the
military to take the cars and throw snch freights
oat, and that they believed defendant knew of J* - - - , ..
the risk, and that he had to take it. It farther P le . jn ??» an ?
claimed to be security onlv fn> .^ Ee of
this was known to the plainti ff ho «!*
action or consent of the snr^’ %
surety, satisfied that no'w!?’ 6113 sf
the plea at that term of ^ ^
home, dismissed his suit as to Ui
get clear of the plea, and then
against the surety, and the
enjoin the ■■ uretT
alleging further, that at th e S t
dismissed against the principle
barred by the statute of Hiniffi M
debt > was bv
plaintiff deprived of his riobf. . <
from the principal: to
Held, That there was eanif„ ;
the Judge, on the facts 0 £ the £ ^
peared on the bill, answer and 3X*»
to have granted the ininnSin* ^
could be had on the aaseC&S* 1 4
Judgment reversed. ae ‘to bj
J. B. Stewart, L. S.
for plaintiff in error.
Wm. H. Dabney vs. Amelia » „ ,
of the administrator and thn’. l ' 5
Ordinary, elected to take monevh^
and commissioners were appoint?
same who made a return of theb'
widow recalled her election, £
passed an order setting aside the
permitting her to recall her dJZ.
_ of the assignment ■
-Held, That in a traverse of tW
creditor, the former proceeding l,
her choice of money in lieu of dr,
bar to her present application it.L .
she made her election of monWmd-fi
pression that the estate was fnJIv i
in fact its solvency is donbtfup T ^l
Judgment affirmed.
W. R. Dabney, for plaintiff in m-
W. T. Wofford, for defendant ”
C. D. Adair vs. Mary A. HdW, I
Bill, etc., from Murray.
McCay, J.—l. Where there u
to reform a voluntary deed, on the i
mistake, and the dispute -was be‘rl
claiming under the deed, the grant« v
different, the rule in equity that a d«ri,
be reformed at the instance of mete r’-
does not apply.
2. Under the laws of this Eti
Code, sections 3,0G7 and 3.0CS, i
law, as when an instrument has ad
effect from what the parties to it i
be relieved against in equity, or it
be in but one of tbe parties, if thath
great trust and confidence in the c
that confidence be betrayed, <
against the mistake.
3. In a bill to reform a deed on t_
of mistake, when substantial justice"b
done, even though the allegations ii
may not have been precisely metty i
and the Court below has refused an
this Court will not interfere on they
the varianoe; especially if there hi
three concurrent verdicts in faror of “|
the deed.
Judgment affirmed.
W. D. Dabney, W. Akin, D. A U
plaintiff in error.
G. D. McCutchen, R. J. AlcCamv for J
ants. .
F. P. Self vs. Dunn & Brown,
the case from Catoosa.
McCay, J.—One who keeps a fe
own use and for the convenience of c
to his mill, but who charges no ferrisj.l
a common carrier, and is only bound to $
ry diligence.
Judgment affirmed.
A. T. Hackett, W. H. Dabney forp
error.
McCutchen Sc Shumate fordefenh:t|
Lemuel Garner vs. The State.
Murray.
Warner, J.—A defendant was i
the offense of riot, on being
“not guilty,” and was put upon hist
appeared that the car loaded with plaintiff’s
goods at Dalton, consisting of a wagon, two
males and a horse, was found next morning in
Atlanta loaded with Confederate horses, a part
of the wagon lying near the depot at Dalton,
and upon this statement of facts the Jndge
charged the jury that the stipulation in his re
ceipt, that the property was shipped at owner’s
risk, was no protection to the road unless the
property was proven to have been taken by the
Confederate army from the cars, and the jury
found for the plaintiff, and the court below re
fused a new trial.
Held, That the charge of the Court, under the
facts, was too narrow a view of tho law pro
viding for express contracts by railroads; that
while the general proposition of law laid down
is in the language of the code, there were facts
in this oase arising not only from the presence
of any army, bnt the character of the receipt
given; and the evidence of the agent as to
plaintiff’s knowledge and consent thereto, which
ought to have been submitted to the jury under
the evidence, to say whether or not he had
knowledge of the contents and consented there
to, for this would limit the liability—if the jury
believed from the evidence that it was in ex
press contract, and whether it was or was not,
was a fact for the jurors which out to have been
submitted to them nnder all the evidence in thin
ease.
Held, again, If the jury were satisfied from
the evidence, that the car was taken by a supe
rior force, which the defendants could not re
sist, still it was the duty of the court to instruot
the jury touching the requirements of cate of
the goods by the defendants after thev were
thrown ont of the car, or the existence of such
circumstances as prevented its exercise, and
that the jury ought to have the whole matter
folly before them, upon the law applied to the
facto, 1st, as to whether there was an express
contract between the parties; and, 2d, as to the
care taken, if any, or reason why it was not
done by tho defendants or its agents, relative
to the goods, if the jury believed they were
thrown off by military authorities.
Judgment reversed, upon the ground that the
court erred in its charge to the jury in submit
ting the case, and that a new trial ought to have
been granted.
Mynatt & Dell for plaintiff in error.
Wm. Ezztqrd for defendant
John M. King, et al., vs. Caleb King, execu
tor. Equity, from Gordon.
Lochbane, O. J.—-Where a bill was brought
by the children of Jonas King, their deceased
father, to recover from the executor of the
! grandfather, Jonathan King, their father’s Bhare
being one-eighth of the estate of the said Jona
than, nnder the will, and the bill does not allege
at what time Jonas King departed this life—
whether before or after the death of the testa
tor—and the bill was dismissed upon demurrer,
for want of equity, eta :
Held, That the averment of the time of the
death of Jonas King was material, and that it
ought affirmatively to appear thathe died before
the testator, to sustain this proceeding by the
heirs as against the executor for distribution of
the estate, claiming, nnder his will, for if Jonas
died after the death of the testator, the present
parties would have no right to proceed by bQl
l or settlement, etc., against the executor, and
would require administration on Jonas King’s
estate and suit by such administrator to enforce
such settlement.
Judgment affirmed.
Wright £ Featherston, for plaintiff in error.
Underwood <fc Rowell, for defendant.
Edward L. Strohecker vs. The Alabama and
Chattanooga Bailroad Company. Equity, from
Dade.
Lochbane, C. J.—-Where A. filed his bill
against a railroad company, alleging that they
were proceeding to sequester a spring of water
belonging to him a quarter of a mile off the line
of the road, without his consent, and had laid
pipes through his land to obtain and were using
the water, and the bill asked for injunction,
eta, and on the hearing the Judge dismissed the
bill for want of equity:
Held, Under the facts alleged in the bill and
upon the construction of the charter of said
road, the oourt erred in dismissing the bill, it
not appearing that the water is indispensable
and cannot otherwise be obtained, and upon the
view that there is prima facie a case made for
equity jurisdiction entitling the oomplainant to
* hearing.
Judgment reversed upon the ground the
court erred in dismissing the bill nnder the
facts in this case.
William B. Dabney, for plaintiff in error.
A. Walker, E. D. Graham, for defendant.
both sides, the defendant withdrew 1
“not guilty” and plead “guilty," *
plea was entered on the minutes cf&J
After the jury were discharged fro
consideration of the case, the dele:
drew his plea of “guilly”and so a
presiding Judge, in October, 1SS1.
records of the conrt do not show anyi
such withdrawal of the plea of guilty.!
ment was passed on the defendant tU
In October, 1870, the defendant wuj
to show cause why judgment ahof
passed upon him for the offense, oa i
guilty as it appeared on the records of ;i|
The defendant showed for cause lie if
cited facto, which did not appear oath I
of the conrt—the court passed jud-uel
defendant in accordance with the M|
same appeared on the records of I
which the defendant excepted.
Held, That the proceedings of is
known by its records, and if the fic'-H
on by the defendant for arresting liejM
did not appear on the records of
legal presumption is, that they did usl
especially after the lapse of three ya-' 5 -1
Judgment affirmed. , , 1
J. A. W. Johnson, J. A. B. Hants, I
tiff in error. , .1
C. E. Broyles, Solicitor Generri, h|
Walker and R. J. McCamy.for® 1
error.
The Starkvllle Biol.
Editors Telegraph and
never attempted to write to ane^spsp,
and nothing but a vindication of n*. *
against slanders and falsehoods
communication signed “W,
Atlanta Constitution of the 1-w or J
December, could have induced e T
this time. . . a
Here are the facts of the not.‘1
cerns my connection with it: -t "J
concert after the close of the“*>-
nothing of the quarrel or difficult ^
fore the fight commenced. Soai^
me that my brother was in jg
ly a hundred yards to get to the cro ,.
vent a fight. My brother
overtook him, surrounded bv " i
Miller was standing some distant J
pistol In his hand cursing-.
him to prevent him f r °5L fl |®“, 1 . «
in three paces of hiim ^ db ° h 0 ihe:J
could have laid hands on each oEl
neither showed any di post
other. He looked from me w » i
man farther behind , jj, c
Now, sir, whoever r'l
to young Miller I was j
edge and consent by any Da ]pab!e
or white persons, p fn 4 Is
My purpose was to stop th.
“intonated” peopto to aid[»•»,,
Any statement that ^wssdo* 1 .
hurt any person, ontfiMiUerm» ^
brother him been shot, is fau»* ^
to protect and defend my u ’, c j js
in the fight that I am ashamW J
they had killed my i , B » ltf 1
ing at me. I knew nothing
backing me, and I do not still
any purpose to back me.'
“W” says the “demons
body of Miller, and refused » »*
to him in his dying movements- .
A Democratic bailiff
stood over and protected yo^ 1 '
after it felL * He saw the neg» 8
pose, and hastened immedjawv^ja
the only demon who kept unf F ^ *
“ W.” should have the m«8“*J£j#|
ont and state that this state® mjj
“ W.” oonsider me a demon f, j
and pass me aa he woulda a
that I am as honorable—«s {
all mydealinga, and as
He knows this.
false, as far as I am ooncent ,
to him I will say he would, __
those fsets had he not depen ^
information, as he was not,
day when the difficulty
I would have sent youthii
been trying to get th 0 AU
publish my piece, «Jg*
totter of “ W.”; and after to® e ^_
ded to wait for oourt and navy ^
ti gated, ao as the pubbo
bnt oourt has passed by, * ga
So I ask yon to publish thm^
of my many friends and reia« ^
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The wheat crop all over
wears abundant promise.
