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' A Woman’s I.ove. J
itntinel angel Bitting high in glory *'
• »rdtliii shrill wail ring oat from Purgatory:
Sire mercy, mighty aBgel, hear my story!
t loved— and. blind with passionate love, I fell,
■wtionglit me down to death, and death-to Hell.
jjrGod!* jnet, and death for sin is well.
lionet rage against this high decree,
jjsfor myself do ask that grace shall be;
y for my love on earth who mourns for mo.
isit Spirit! Let mo seo my love again
jjcosrort him one hour, and I were fain
jpit a thousand years of fire and pain.
veil!sho wailed, “I pray thee, let me go!
aaot the to peace and leave him eo; .
'Ane soothe him in his bitter woe!”
citizen gates ground suddenly ajar,
Li upward, joyous, like a rising star,
L* rose and vanished In the ether far.
I;:;.v3n adown the dying sunset sailin;
id He a wounded bird nor pinions tra
i-telexed back, with broken-hearted
issikbed, *T found him by the summer sea • '
jtfced, hie head npon a maiden’Aknee—
iicarled his hair and kissed him. Woe is me!”
swept, “’Sow let my punishment begin!
:*» been fond and foolish. Let me in
.opiate my sorrows and my sin.” -
Stage! answered, “Nay, sad soul, go liiglier !•
Is deceived in yonr true heart's deeiro
u bitterer than a thousand years of fire!”
(be Home Journal. J
OUB BRIDAL TOUR.
llSTESCEPTED LETTEE N O. ; m.
San Francesco, California.
HrPnutnsT Amanda—Here we are at San
aacisco— ire, Amanda, we. Is not that little
oaoon a most suggestive one ? Yon see, dear,
;>t I am jnst as mnch in love as ever. I have
sjoyed oar wedding trip so mnch, although I
:ni tears npon my mother’s sympathetic breast
da I bade her good bye. To tell the truth, I
aattd awfully to have a real, good cry, but
eo fearful of spoiling my drfess that I swal-
red my tears, liko a strong-minded sister,
"red said. Then, too, the very elegant and
ulith appearance I presented in my traveling
ii!, consoled me for all minor trials.' O,
~anda, that dress is perfect; a true shade of
elephant’s breath,” so refined and appropriate
the occasion. Maiden’s breath, my hnsband
ay a it ought to bo called, Really, Amanda, my
'rederick s sou1 is a fount of ever-living poetry,
it is the charm of my life.
1 saw a number of Indians on the way, and
must say that my sensitive organization ro
ped a terrible shock. I have heard of un-
:!esn persons, and I have seen .some, even in
j set, that were considered quite untidy, but
Lever supposed it possible that anything hu-
:sn could nccumnlote and carry round such an
■louut of the unadulterated article as these
gusting creatures seem to glory in doing,
red. says that it is because, they see their
a:ive soil is being wrested from them, inch by
irb, and so they mean to hold on to, and carry
nth them, all that thoy can. They cling to
* soil and the poil dings to them, most tena-
Lilr. There WaS one horrible creature who
tptlus eyes fixed npon my back hair in a way
made my flesh creep and my teeth chatter,
"lienly seizingmy husband’s protecting arm,
•fidaimed, “O, Fred., that blue, red and yel-
evope wants to scalp me.”
"Why, my dearest Arethusa,” he said, “that
^!e chieftain is admiring yonr golden curls."
! bad never before imagined that- the gaze of
Station could be distnstefnl to me. It is a
-l the squaws have not more taste in dress;
of them wonld be quite handsome, fash-
~»My attired, bn! those old blankets have no
7'e whatever—so very primative. . You rc-
■Sibcr Dick Hampton, of course?—“dainty
■ ct” Fred always calls him. -Well, be was
filing near one of the squaws, when suddenly
ls stepped up to him, and seizing the eye-
*» through which he w&3 disdainfully survey
's the crowd, stuck it up to her. own eye, and,
jit was attached to a- chain, thfcir faces were,
' course, brought very close together. I
’ught b 0 vrould faint away. All the men
: ghed outrageously, bnt»I felt a great deal of
JKpathy for him. So revolting, yon know, to
'-■gh-bred, refined nature; but I think men
®»always delighted to seo each qther made
r-hculous—the feminine nature is more com-
puionate.
I. h’e stopped at Salt Lake and saw Brigham
‘onag, who admired me very much; but Ms
-Jmiration made me feel almost as nncomfort-
7™ as that of the Indian, and I kept close by
! «d’s side all the time. But I do not think that
: was such a dreadful institution after all. I
? ould rather.be wife No. 500 than an old mMd,
; td I think it would be n most sensible idea for
ill those homely girls there at the East, who
srtately cannot expect to have a whole husbnnd
ipie je, to come here at once. They wdtald thus
obtain (he jrespectablo title of madam, and es-
ape the horrible doom of spinsterhood. Fred
proposed remaining here, and said, “Suppose
s 4 entl Serena MurdstOne, to be wife num
ber two.
husband,” I replied, “I hope that I shall
-ever be guilty of anything ill-bred or unlady-
but in such a case ns that, I should carry
j bottle of vitriol in my pocket, and, if I saw
J® an d that girl indnlge in any demonstrations
• affection, I should certainly feel it’my duty
5 uncork that bottle, and empty the contents
5 « you both."
“Arethusa, dearest,” he replied “we will
LLtinne our journey.”
I I saw a cashmere shawl in a shop window, this
;°ming, that fairly bewitched mo, and I asked
"? husband to buy it for me, but (I write it
‘■h tears of anguish rolling down my cheeks),
‘Mused, on account of the .expense. The
•ipense! To think that I should already have
j^rd that despicable word, even before two
“as of our blissful honeymoon have passed
It pierces my very heart. It is too
; I can write no more, Amanda, my feel-
Jj* overpower; but—I shall have that cash-
-*re shawl, and Frederick Stanton will pay for
You own
p Abethusa.
-b.—-I open my letter to say that I am
S? a °pera tMs evening with my beloved
inn antl around my shoulders his tender
jfjj.^afold that shaibL Tears did it, Amanda,
is a*- 1 remeBQ bered my mother’s words; she
"Ants man °f Sfeat penetration. She said,
when you have a point to gain,
^ P- Daring the first few weeks of marriage
i-v-u fevive the deluge, if yon choose. Even
• encs daring that season of enchantment
P r °re effective; but my daughter, never
them; the second time, they may irri-
i where you Vish to subdue. When the
^ over, use judgment—weep more
C J n 8'y» and after tiro years have passed, if
lid tt 7 ? a ?y fears to shed, go into your closet,
t ^ 16m 811 -By that time liquid
"» not P rocure a diamond or a tea-set.
itP? or weak creatures, Arethusa, and
only weapon of defense.” ‘But
; it Is like musio to my
* u ®. 1 ***. Again, adieu. Abethfsa.
Railroad.
or me - Macon
and Western Railroad Company.
fHie officers of the Macon and Western Bail-
road Company have called a meeting of the
stockholders for the 2Gth inst., at Maeoir, to
pass npon a lease of their Railroad and propor-
ty.to the Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany of Georgia, proposed or 'purporting to
Imve been made by seven of the.Directors of
the Company at a meeting held without notice
to the undersigned.
Wo protest.against suoh lease, and ask you
to sign the enclosed proxy against its ratifica
tion, and forward the same to us for use at such
meeting, for the following reasons: .
1st. Bach proposed lease does not assure to
the stockholders of the Macon and Western
Railroad Company any payment of money, but
merely provides that they shall receive the same
dividends as the stockholders of the Central
Railroad and Banking Compare, upon an in
creased capital qf the latter Company, and leaving
it entirely with the managers of said Com
to diminish the dividends at their pleasure. -*,^
does such lease in any way tend to increase the
business of the Macon and Western; Road, but
may seriously injure it by bringing abohttho
construction of a rival line to Atlanta.
2d. A proposition was made to the directors
of the Macon and Western Railroad Company
by the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Compa
ny, and ample and unquestioned guaranty and
security was offered for its fulfilment, for a lease
at a fixed yearly rent of $300,000, or 12 per
cent, per annum upon the entire capital stock,
wMch offer was refused, bnt wMch -offer, we
are advised, is still open. •- «
Our road is a most valuable property, and
the future offers eveiy assurance of a growing
revenue. While we occupy a neutral position
as regards the roads with which we'conneot, wo
need have no apprehension of the construction
of a competing line; if we leave that position,
we can no longer haye that assurance, but
rather the contrary.
Under any circumstances it is apparent that
calm and deliberate judgment is desirable upon
tho_ subject, and that inconsiderate and hasty
action should be avoided, and if, upon consid
eration, it should be deemed best to lease onr
road, let ns receive proposals in a methodical
and business like manner, and conclude the
arrangement with the party who offers the best
terms with satisfactory security and guarantees.
Chas. H. Dabnet,) Directors
Mokbis K. Jesup, j- Macon and Western
L. N. Whittle. )
New York, 5th June.
We, the undersigned stockholders in the Ma
con and Western Railroad Company, cononr in
the within protest, and join in the request that
the enclosed'proxy should be signed..
M. K. Jesup & Co., 875 shares, New York.
J. B. Dumont, 150 shares, New York.
A. J. F. Vandevextze, . 138 shares, New York.
M. K. Jesup, 62 shares, New York, . ,
W. H. Bubns, 50 shares, London. ' ;
E. M. Dab nee, 274 shares, New York. ->•
O. H. Dabney, 50 shares, New York.
Fostek & Thomson, 551 shares, New York.
J. P. G. Fosteb, 62 shares. New York.
J. Goodwin, 162 shares, New Yorjt.
J. J. Goodwin, 815 shares, Hartford.
J. R. Jesup, 400 shares, New York.
D. W. Jamqs, 1,092 shares, Now York. • •.
J. S. Mobgan, 690 shares, London.
J. Millbank, 463 shares, New. York..
L. P. Mobton & Co., 200 shares, New York.'
G. D. Mono an, 400 shares, Irvington.
J. P. Mobgan, 324 shares, New York. ;
G. H. Mobgan, 97 shares, New York.
C.’G/Goooh, 225 shares, London.
S. R. Nelson, 300 shares, New York.
Note.—I was requested by telegraph io allow
my name to be used to a protest against the
lease, in connection with the New York Direc
tors, and replied in the same way, giving my as
sent to its use, bat never saw the protest as it
was afterwards written, until to-day, and as I
find my position is not stated with exact cor-
rectnosSj I append this note of explanation:
I was not notified of the proposed meeting of
the Board as tho other Directors were; on acci-
dentaUly ascertaining there was tobe a meeting,
and that the other Directors had been notified,
wMlo.I had not been, I enquired of ono of the
Board what was the object of tho meeting/and
whether anything of importance was to be done;
he replied there was business of importance to
be acted on, bnt that he had promised Captain
WMte, the President, not to inform me—bo^that
while I only knew in an irregular way that there
was to bo a meeting on the 25th of May, I did
not know tho object of that meeting, Of what
was proposed to be done at it. -
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company
made an offer to leaso tho road, which was re
ceived and read to the Board, before the Lease
to the Central Company was acted- on, agree
ing to pay the certain fixed sum o.f twelve per
cent, per annum on the capital stock, or three
hnndred thousand dollars a year; neither the
bid of the Central, nor of the Macon and Bruns
wick Company, wasaccompanied'with.any offer
of security or guarantee for carrying out tho
lease in good faith. When tMs objection was
urged against tho bid of tho Macon and Bruns
wick Road, which was admitted to be a better
bid than the Central’s, if it could be made se
cure, I offered a resolution, instructing the
President to ascertain and report what security
could bo given, but it waspromptly voteddown,
I alono, of'the eight Directors present, voting
fori’.
It may bo proper*that I should add, that if
this resolution bad passed, and the information
obtained, there can be no earthly donut, bnt
‘ ‘ ' would have
Maoon
She has more land good for Wheat than Mto-
nesote,. yet imports nearly all tier Flour; she
has millions of acres of excellent Timber,- yet
buildamMnly of pine from Louisiana and Flor
ida ; she sends to the OMo for her Hams and to
New York for her Butter, and would import
Bem«j and Fruits if her people had not learn-
them' ° ‘ 6y Weie nnattal? - able » *o do without
» of we doubt not Is ag n ^ r th0
, a9 Sf eel F can come on any subject, except
what he kSiows about farming.
Judge Lecbrane’s Letter on Foster
Blodgett.
;We have reoeived under frank of Foster
Blodgett, as United States Senator, a pamphlet
containing his defense intbe famous periufy
case, and the evidence wMch he claims would
have acquitted Mm, and upon wMch GMef Jus
tice Lochrane based the legal opinion in his let
ter to Trumbull affirming Blodgett’s innocence.
Wo find in this publication, among others, a
letter from General Heniy B. Jackson, of Sa
vannah, wMch wo copy,'as it sets forth clearly
and’susolneQy Blodgett’s side of the ease.
Savannah, Ga., October 25, i860.
Eon. John SlUledge, V. & District Attorney,
etc.—My Deab Sib : I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d
instant. If I am to understand that you desire
such information as will aid you in deciding for
yourself a question of offiolalduty, asto whether
you shall press further the prosecution against
my client, Mr. Blodgett, I have no objection to
giving you. the light wMch, as his attorney, I
posses. At the same time, as custodian of his
character in this criminal prosecution, it is
proper for me to state, that white I oannot re
sist, I by no means seek other termination to
the case than a verdict of aoqnittal by a jury.
I have.no doubt that he will be triumphantly
acquitted by an honest jury.
Mr. Blodgett plaoed in pay bands, for Ms do
fence, certificates from a number of respeota-
ble witnesses, to the effect that he had been
threatened with the harshest treatment of him
self and Ms family, should he fail to enter the
Confederate servioe; that these threats had re
sulted from his well-known antagonism to the
secession of Georgia from the United States.
He also confided, to my keeping, a number of
letters written by himself to his wife, upon the
eve of joining the Confederate army, in wMch
ho fnlly developed the motives wMch prompted,
or rather the apprehensions which constrained
him, to take the step. It may be proper to add,
that those letters bore unmistakable evidence of
their-genninefiess-; not simply in their dates
but in paper, envelopes, and postage stamps.
They establish the fact that he did not “volun
tarily” enter tjie military servico of tho Confed
erate States.
Before taking the oath, alleged to be perjnry,
Mr. Blodgett made in writing, and placed on
file, in the P. O. Department at Washington, a
succinct statement of Ms connection with the
Confederate army, and causes which induced it.
Upon this statement, he submitted the' question
to the Postmaster General, whether it would be
proper for him" to take the 'oath, and was
answered in the affirmative. Mr. Blodgett was
surprised by the fact that this documenfrary,
evidence in his defense) was not allowed before
the Grand Jniy. It -is a great misfortune
that there should have been' cz-pdrte action in
a matter so seriously involving Ms character*
Very respectfully yours,
Henby R. Jackson.
IE will thus be seen that General Jaekson, a
distinguished citizen anil lawyer of Georgia,
aad ono sans' peur et sans reproche,' coincides
with Justice Lochrane’s legal opinions. If all
the evidence in the case had been before us
fwbich wasont of the question) at the time of
onr criticism npon the Chief Justice, we should
not have condemned him. for tho expression of
his legal views, for General Jackson’s state
ment of facts clearly makes a far stronger case
for Blodgett than the people supposed he had.
There Is evidently two sides to tho case, and
ample ground for honest difference of legal
opinion.
We are glad to thus have It in onr power to
relieve the Chief Jnstice of the imputation of a
partisan effort to lend his legal repntationto
bolster up an unscrupulous office-seeker by
throwing that reputation between the accused
and what appeared to be an indisputable case
of perjnry. To assail bigb judicial offioers is a
painful duty, to bp performed only with the ut
most discretion. It affords ns pleasure, there
fore, to say that Chief Justice Lochrane should
not be condemned tor Ms legal view of Blod
gett’s case, nor the expression of them as Blod
gett’s attorney, for to say the least of it, they
rest upon a very 'str6ng basis. Thus far, we
now have no quarrel with Judge Lochrane, but
still insist npon onr censure of Ms course in
liying the charge against Blodgett to political
persecution.—Atlanta Constitution-.
reste:
nearly, if not quite, one-third of all the Stock
of the Macon'and Western Road, and also,
more than three-fourths of the Macon and
Brunswick Road; their Stock in tho Maoon and
Western Road, alone, would be full security,
besides this guarantee they could have obtained
that of at least one of tho largest railroad Cor
porations of tho State,»in addition.
. - L. N. Whittle.
Macon, Ga., June 10th, 1S71.
Horace an Texas.
Tho Texans must not feel themselves too
mnch uplifted by the good words said to and of
them by Father Greeley white he was with
them. On his way home he stopped at New
Orleans and “ writ-” as follows to tho Tribune:
Texas is a great State geographicaUy, with
immense natural resources and gigantic possi
bilities ; bnt she has not yet justified her early
Dromise. Her wealth in .soil and cattle, with
the ease wherewith an abundance of food may
be secure^ from these with little labor, has
blinded her people to many shortcomings wMch
should not nave endured or been endured so
long. Her habitations,- as a whole, are far
smaller, ruder, and less comfortable, than they
might and should be. She ought to pay for ten
mill inn panes of glass and biro ten thousand
glaziers to set them directly. . Sho is in argent
need qf twenty thousand more school-teachers
and fifty thousand instructed cooks. _ It is a
grief to see beef that might be broiled into ten
der and juicy steaks, fried or stewed into such
repulsive, indigestible messes as I have encoun
tered at all but her two best hotels. It is a cry
ing shame that a region where the peach,'the
pear, the strawberry, etc.*, grow so luxuriantly
and bear so bounteously living almost entirely
on meat, bread and coffee, even if these articles
were what they should be and In Texas are not
In Labrador or Alaska, such a “hog and hom
iny" diet would be faulty; under this fervid sun
it is atrocious. No family which has been five
years or over in Texas has any right to lyre so
badly.
I judge that there are, at the outside, fifty
acres of cultivated Berries of all kinds in the
State, perhaps as many of Gfapes, and possibly
one Peach tree to each family, though I consid
er that a Mgh estimate. At all events, not one
family in every ten has either fruit-tree, grape
vine, or strawberry-bed, down to this hour;
and‘fruit makes no part of the average meal.
The girls working in Lowell factories would
strike the first day thst they were fed like the
family of a Texas planter who owns five thous
and acres of land and a large stock of cattle.
Hasoutp.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger—For the
benefit of the Ancient and Accepted. Scottish
Rjte, please announce through the columns of
yonr paper, that an official order has been
issued by Illustrious Bro. Albert Pike, Sov. Gr.
Commander of.the Supreme Council for the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States,
that, as a token of respect for the memory of
Ill. Bro. Giles Mumtobd Hjxlyeb, Grand
Minister of State, who departed tMs life'on the
first day of the Hebrewmonth Ijer, the 22d day
of April last: “All Free Masons of the said
Rite, of any degree, shall wear the violet ba’dge
of monming for sixty days, and that the jewels
and furniture of onr sanctuaries be draped in
the same manner for the same time.”
By so doing yon will ^peatly^oblige.
* * J. Emmett Blacksheab, 32°.
Macon, Ga.,-Jnne 13,1871.'
Unlucky Days yob Matbmony.—We may
possibly be doing a service to some of onr
readers by informing them (on the authority
of a manuscript of the fifteenth oentuxy, quoted
from the Book of Days) that there aie just thirty-
two days in the year upon wMch it is unadvisa-
ble to go into join-hand—namely: seven in
January; three each in February, March, May
and December; two each in April, June, July,
August, September and November; and one in
Ootober; so that January is tho worst and Oc
tober the best month for committing matrimony,
the actual unlucky davs being these: January
1st, 2d. 4th, 5th, Cth, 10th, 15th; February 6th,
7th, 18th; Marohlst,6tb,8th; April Cth, 11th;
May 5th, Cth, 7th; June 7th, loth; July Cth,
18th; August Stb, 19th; September 6th, 7th;
October Cth; November loth, 16th, andDecem-
ber 15 th,. 16tb, 17th.. As to which is Jhe best
day of the week, why
Monday for wealth,
Tnesdayfor health, ’
Wednesday the best of all;
'.: Thursday for crosses,
i Friday for losses, -
Saturday noteci^at all.
What stuff is sometimes sold as tea may be
learned from a London commercial circular,
which says that recently 3000 half-chests of tea-
'dust,. called scented orange Pekoe siftings, were
sold- by auction without reserve, on aoconnt of
the importers, and a part realized Id. per pound,
adding that “it is a matter of considerable
donbt whether this article is tea at all; it is cer
tainly spurious and unfit to drink; the leaf is in
a great measure .composed of dirt and steel
filings, and if a magnet be thrust into a sample
of thesame, on examination it will be found cov
ered with small particles bf metal. ”
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin is a
very ungrateful, as well as a very distoyalnews-
paper. -Itsays:
“Our people, after teing robbed cf every
thing that could be stolen, are now left, through
the criminal negligence of the horde of adven
turers who rule them, to the mercy of the foods.
There is notMng left for the Commune who
control tMs city to do now, bnt apply the torch,
and finish.”
United States Commissions* Mebiwetheb
has jnst decided, at Louisville, that conductors
of street cans have a right to make negro pas
sengers therein take any seats they (the con
ductors) ohoose, provided they are oomfortable.
'
1 For the Telegraph arid Messenger.
■ Hope—Light. k .,r -
There’s a lovely spot on the green Mllgide,
Where the ivy climbs in its silent way;
And the wild-wood vine in darker pride
Creeps over the rocks where the mosses lay. ;
A streamlet glides at tho foot of the hilij
And the white lilies bend to drink of the etresm,
And nature’s sweet language the air doth fill,
And the spot wear3 the crown of the day’s firet
gleam. . y •- v -
One enmmer’s eve ais the eon sank low
Beyond the hill on the western aide,. Y '
And the sky tijok on its sunset glow,
And the streamlet among dim shadows did glide,
We laid her to sleep, our bright-haired one, -
Deep in earth’s quiet, kindly breast,
And I saw not, I felt not, the light of the sun ;
I only felt that the grave was—rest.
But that opened grave proved a gate to me.
And an angel was sent to beckon me on,
And even then I seemed to see
An unquenchable, holy light within;
And a cross was raised on the hillside dear,
lake to the one on Calvary,
And looking to it, I seemed to hear
These words: “I suffered this for thee.”
And the light that hurst from the little grave
Has never been quenched as earth-lights hath,
But steady and true, over Harrow’s dark wave,
It has shone on my heart and lighted my path.
There are no darkened graves where tho littld
ones feet;
Untouched by the world, Christ gathers them in,
And oarries them safely as lambs in His breast,
Eternally saved from the sharp fangs of sin.
So to me this hill is a beautiful rest,
With its sounds and meanings in sweet accord, '
For my little one sleeps in a Savior’s breast,
And the Savior is mine—my “Bisen Lobd.”
Macon, Mag SI, 1871. Hyba.
THROUGH THE SOUTH.
Interview with Robert Toombs.
HE IS STILL A Brrizr. SECESSIONIST—VALLANDIG-
HAM AND THE NEW DEPABTUB& KEGAEDED
WITH CONTEMPT—WHAT HE THINKS OF IMSIIGEJr-
TION FEOM THE NORTH.
Special correspondence of the New York Tribune.
Washington, Ga , Jnne3.—Robert Toombs,'
ex-Senator of the United States, and ex-Goner-'
al in the Rebel Army, is~looked upon «as tho
leader or that portion of tho Democratio party
In Georgia that has accepted none of tho re
mits of the war; tho leader of those who care
fully keep alive all tho animosities of the strug
gle and sedulously teach bitter and rebellions
sentiments to their children. Gen. Toombs
occasionally delivers a lecture that he has pre
pared npon Magna Charta, whioh is in reality a
violent stnmp-speeeh in favor of the right of
secession, and against the Constitutional Amend
ments and tho Reconstruction laws. TMsjs the
way he concludes his lecture; as described by an
Augusta paper: “With hia body bent slightly
forward, his eyes blaziDg, his hand raised aloft,
grasping a copy of Magna Charts, he exclaimed,
when you oan tear the live thundeT from its'
home in the burning ether, and bind it at the
footstool of tyranny, then, and not till then* will
I accept the situation.” ’. '.
I thought it was worth making a special
Journey to seo tho man who could talk like this
six years after the end o.f the war. I was
curious to know what objeot he had in trying
to revive the fast-dying spirit of rebellion, and
whether he still expeoted, as of old, to one day
call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Banker
Hill Monument. To reach this place one comes
ont on the Georgia Railroad three hours travel
from Augusta, and, after waiting three hours
more at a way station, takes a train on a branch
road that runs 20 miles north from Washing
ton. The' conductor of the train on this branch
road appeared to be also mail agent, baggage-
master and brakeman, and, besido these vari
ous official functions, ho Informed rue that he
made a practice of taking in strangers at a
moderateprice. Having arrived at the depot,
like all Southern railway stations odorous of
guano, and crossed the public square, the con
ductor pointed out a stalwart man with a very,
large head, informing me that it was General
Toombs. After I had diveBted myself of travel
ing gear, in the little one-story oottago of my
host, I went back and introduced myself to the
General. Ho shook hands with me and said,
Well you have come to the headquarters of
the Ku-Klux. Let me . moke you acquainted
with the Grand Cyclops,” presenting me to a
pleasant-faced man in a linen. coat, having a
German physiognomy. I remarked, that noth
ing in tho gentleman’s appearance indicated
that he was the Chief of the Elan. “Oh, he’s
as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled sMp or
ent a throat,” the General replied, “Bnt,
seriously, tMs town is Ku-klux headquarters. I
carried this county for secession in 1861 with
only seven votes against me, And now there is
not a siDgle white Radioal living in the county.
We’ve no use for them hero.” The General said
that if I would walk across tho square to, his
office he would join me soon. I found in the
office Gen. DnBose, member of Congress from
this district, and son-in-law of Gen. Toombs.
He told me how, through the activity of the
wMte. people and the “moral influence,” they
brought to bear, nearly all the negroes in the
county had been induced to vote for Mm at the
lata election. He was quite positive that there
had been no intimidation or threats pf discharge
from employment used to mako the negroes
desert the Republican party. He said the Rad
ical Legislature had. changed the election law
and provided that all the voting in each county
should be done at the county seat, and that the
election should last three days; the idea being
that if the.negroes were all collected together
they would be led by a few “smart niggers”
living in the county towns, and wonld vote solid
for tho Radical ticket, bnt the scheme did not
work. " - ••
In a few minutes Gen. Toombs came In, and
soon commenced to talk politics. I told him
that he was understood to represent the most
ultra wing.of the Democratio party in Georgia,
and that I was desirons of learning his views
upon political questions. “Yes,” he said, “I
am one of the red-hot kind.” “What do you
think of the new departure of the Northern De
mocracy, as 'expounded by Yallandigham and
the Pennsylvania Convention? Shall yon sup-
port it?” “Never. I would sooner vote for
Horace Greeley than for any Democrat npon
snch a platform. Greeley and the Republicans
first got it up; it’s their patent, and I have more
respect for them than for such scoundrels as
number of men in Georgia agreed with him in
desiring a renewal of theirar, and in still hoping
for Southern independence. “Two-thirds oil
all tho wMte men in this State and in all the
South are of tMs way of thinking,” he replied;
“and if yon will go into the country among the
planters, you will find what I say is true. In
the large town the editors and business men
talk differently, but they know notMng of the
sentiments of tho people.” ' . * .
Later in the conversation Gen. Toombs spoke
of the civilization of the Sonth as compared
with that of tho North and of Europe. He had
traveled, he said, overmuch of the world, and
had seen no Mghef civilization than that of Vir
ginia and Georgia. Tho. civilization of the
North was far below it. He thought the agri
cultural population of New. England the poorest
class of people he had ever seen. I replied that
the agricultural people of Georgia and South
Carolina Ware tho poorest people I had ever
seen, and thereupon a discussion arose aa to
what constituted a high degree of, civilization,
the General declaring that it did not consist in
packing people together as "thick asthogs in a
pen, whioh, he said, was the Northern idea.
He thought a thinly settled country, where peo
ple had room enough and did not interfere with
each other, and where the laboring, class was
owned or controlled by the land-holders, was
the Mghest type of modern civilization. I
changed the subject, and asked if he thought
immigration desirable for the Sonth? “No,”
he Replied, “we don’t want Northern men to
come here; lot them stay at home where they
belong. This is our" country, and wo want to
keep it for ourselves and onr children. If peo-.
pie who call themselves onr conquerors insist
on coming here against onr wishes they need
expect no welcome from ns. "We will have noth
ing to do with thenq.”
Gen. Toombs spoke with great bitterness of
tho reoonstruotioa acts and the constitutional
amendments. The party that passed them-were
liars, he said, for they pretended to believe in
self-government, and at the same time wonld
hot give the Sooth any liberty io regulate her
owfi affairs, bnt ruled her first by military offi
ce/a and' then by a horde of Northern tMeves,
sent down here to hold the office's and tyrannize
over the people. “Why can’t yon let us alone?"
he went on excitedly. “If yonr idea of govern
ment is not a lie, stay away and let ns manage
our own affairs. We don’t want to iiave any
thing to do with you. Wb had the satisfaction
of killing more than 200,GOO of you, and if my
advice'had been followed the war wonld not
have ended until we had killed more.” Once
npon tho' subject of tho war, he went on to argue
the right of secession, to denounce the North,
and to Call the Puiuxx nrmy » of i,in..ii.'.r
ries, marauders, and tMeves. It was clear that
the war had taught him no lesson, and that his
feelings werea3 bitter, as they were when the
contest was at its height. Ho finally got upon-
the subject of tho present State Government of
Georgia. Gov. Bullock, he said, had stolen
$10,000,000 from the State for himself and'Ms
friends. The bonds the Radicals had issued
would never be paid. It amused Mm to see the
Wall street bankers buying them at eighty
or ninety cents on the' dollar, when they
•were not worth a copper. Not a man
here - wonld givo a dime for a bushel of
of them. He hoped Bullock would forge a lot
of them, and give the New York Yankees, all
they would take at any price. It was a way of
foraging on the enemy that he liked to .see.
.Not a dollar of the debt contracted since the
war wonld ever be paid. Ho gave an entertain
ing description of tho character and antecedents
of tho prominent. Radicals in the State, and
wonld not admit-that there was a, decent man
among thorn alb Most of tho. membera^of the
Legislature, he said, sever ventured'to go. back'
to the counties they protended to reproaent. for
they knew the people would hang them if they
did. The two members from the neighboring
county of Lincoln had never been there since
thev were elected, in 18CS. >-
they were elected,
As regards negro suffrage, that he thought an
unmixed evil. A great lump of ignorance and
vice had been made part of the governing class.
He said vice because the negroes were all
tMeves. They were like animals, and' wonld
steal anytMng they saw that they wanted as nat
urally as a hog would break into* potato-field
or a dog would seize a piece of meat. He did
not think an intelligent qualification for suf
frage would-remedy the evil. Reading and
Writing did not fit a man for voting. $ The Paris
mob were intelligent, bnt they were the most
dangerous class in tho world to be trusted with
any of the powers of government. A property
qualification was what was necessary for a stable
government. Only those who. owned the coun
try should govern it, and men who had no prop
erty'had no right to make laws for property-
holders. He said there was no harm in the
negroes voting as the wMtes all belonged to
one party; bnt the danger he feared was that
the whiteB would eventually divide into two
parties on State issues, and that a party
would be formed composed of the lower classes
of wMte men—the dangerous, irresponsible el
ement—and that the negroes, by natural affini
ty, would join that party whioh would then be
in the majority, and being able to control the
State, wonld then altaok the interests of the
landed proprietors. The Radicals have been
greatly mistaken in counting upon the negroes
as the basis of their party. “The negroes,
now that they are satisfied there is no danger
of being reenslaved, will vote just as their em
ployers tell them. They can’t afford to do any.
thing else. They aro attaohed to their old
homes, and have no money with which to move
and find new ones, and th6y will not risk being
discharged by voting against the planters who
hire them.” Two-thirds of the negroes in this
connty voted with the Democrats last Fall, he
said.
. ,1 asked if, when the golden age of Southern
independence came, which be so confidently ex
pected, tho blaoks would be reduoed to slavery
again. He thought not, and said that slavery
would have gradually died out if secession had
been successful, because it would soon hafe
ceased to be profitable. Only in cotton culture
did slave labor pay, because cotton is a crop
{hat must be worked 365 days in a year. Com
requires but 40 days’ labor, and wheat bnt 20;
eo there was no profit in feeding a man and his
family a whole year to get Ms labor to raise
com or wheat. There never was any question
of morals connected with slavery, he said; it
was only a matter of profit or loss. .1 was glad
to find that, on this question, Gen. Toombs has
made some progress in his opinions daring the
past ten years, and that he no longer expects to
have that roll-call at the foot of the monument.
Gen. Toombs characterized the Ku-klux as the
natural protest of an oppressed people against
tyranny. Madame De Stael, he said, had de
scribed the Russian Government as a despotism ■
riage when he was a Senator at Washington, and
that the man’s grandfather was his grandfather’s
coaohman. An hotrr passed in the most agree
able manner, and when! took my leave I should
haye concluded that the General had, in our
first conversation, amused himself by astonish
ing me with extreme views he aid not really
entertain, had I not heard from many sources
of Ms violent reactionary opinions. He is a man
of striking personal appearance.- He is six feet
in height, with a powerful frame, a head some
what resembling that of Daniel Webster, in its
nnhSual size ana in the great height and breadth
of - the forehead. He is a rapid and brilliant
talker, and has.a memory'that seems to lose
nothing that he has ever seen, heard, or*read,
His knowledge of Tustory is especially thorough,
ptotlcmarly of all tho Efforts and struggles for
liberty, that the world has ever known—the
most glorious of mil these struggles bring, in
his opinion, the Southern rebellion. Ho ia a
man that it is easy to see would be a leader
wherever fiei might be placed, and his influence
in Georgia is admitted to be great.
~ .' 'tr: .■.«» l——
Cotton States; Life - Insurance com*
l»»uy. ews
From the Baltimore Underwriter ]
This Company, now in its twenty-second
month, is looated at Macon, Georgia. We have
before us the annual report and an exMbit of
the present condition of the Company refut
ing the statement of the Insurance Times.
An examination and analysis will convince any
impartial reader that; the . Cotton States Life
Insurance Company has been managed with
singular' skill, and has passed its experimental
period .with complete sucoegs.
The Get ton States takes a note for one-tMrd
of the annual premium, which bears seven per
cent, interest, payable in advance, and no bond
of any company, whether it be a five-twenty
United States security or a mortgage note on
unencumbered real estate is a safer or more
productive investment, than this note.' H the
policy shall become a claim by the death of the
insured the note is good, and if it shall he ter
minated in any other manner, the note is smaller
than the value of the policy; and the oompany
is a gainer by the cancellation of the policy and
the note. Whether the insured continues, a mem
ber of the company or ceases to be ope by death
or by abandoning his policy, the note is an
available asset of tho most indisputable charac
ter. A fifty per cent, note would not in all.
oases be safe, because it might be loss than the
proper reserve. Even forty per "cent, is not
safe for every age, on ordinary life policies. ‘
But the one--third note is a gilt-edge security
Aad4W toaa aa jaarp rlfilc in tflVing
them than a State incurs Which buys np its own
bonds for a safety fond. We make no apology
for these notes, because they need none. They
may be objectionable to the insured who give
them. They may encourage the abandonment
of policies by permitting the members to retire,
carrying with them a large part of the deposit
wMch belongs to them. They mpy prevent the
company from wronging the'insured by exact
ing too heavy a charge when they are forced by
necessity to discontinue their annual premiums.
They may excite dirsatisfactionby the increase
of the annual cash payments. They may., bo
objectionable to the policy' holders for other
reasons; bnt the largest and the strongest cash
companies have no safer investments than the
tMrty-three per cent: notes of the OottonStatos.
Insurance Oompany. .
The assets of tie Cotton Slates Life Insur
ance Company aggregate $562,606.72.-; Its to
tal income for. 1870 was $334,147.75, insuring
.$5,675,425. Its reserve is computed at $187,-
778.50. Now let any reader compare these fig
ures With any of the'Northem companies' which
in their twentyitMrd month,'and see i
ton-states SAto Insurance .Company dou
not exhihit as fair a record and present to the
public as mnch security as any of tho Northern
companies of its age. With a surplus' of $249,-
Vailandigham, who wants to steal their ideas.”, tempered by assassination. Although he did
Mr. Toombs spoke at some length in tMs style,
declaring finally that the people of the Sonth
could never be brought to accept the Constitu
tional Amendments as finalities, and that if the
Democratio party took that ground he wonld
have nothing to do with that party. “What do
you look forward to in the future ?” I asked;
“how oan you escape the results of the war?”
“We will fight yon again just as soon as we can
get ready, he answered; “and I believe we
oan get ready much sooner than most people
tMnk.” “You cannot, seriously believe that
tfie Sonth .will attempt another war?” “ r
certainly do, and I believe that I sha u dve
to see Southern independence. Many of
onr people are losing the hope tbey will
see ‘Shiloh’ in their day, but mey are training
their children up to take n P the work.” Gen
eral Toombs talked the most bitter way
against the Republican party, which he -de
nounced as composed of tMeves, robbers and
prison convicts. * ‘There is not an honest man
in the Radical party in Georgia,” he said. He
acoosed the Northern Republicans of sending
down the worst kind of rascals to plunder am
oppress the South.
ass of' men were
not say so in explicit terms, he let it be clearly
inferred that he considered the reconstruct*^
governments of the Southern States as (lYpo-
tisms tempered- by Ku-kluxism.
The conversation lasted an *H U ?>
much of the time a discuss 5 -' 11 iriuch I consid
ered more acrimoniou‘’ courteous on the
part of Gen. Tootr^> was the aggressor
and assailed D- Northern people, theirhabits,
customs, o^eestors, and charaoter with extreme
violev'3" Half an hour afterwards we parted,
vradle strolling about the town.Imet-him on Ms
way home, ana he oordially invited me to take
tea with Mm, somewhat to my surprise. We
walked tip a narrow street bordered by hand
some white houses, with pretty door-yards, arid
turned into a lovely garden filled with roses in
bloom and many varieties of blossoming shrubs
and ornamental trees, through whioh a long
path led np the Mgh-pillared piazza of a fine-
house. He presented me to his family in a
pleasant room,' filled with pictures, books,- and
other objects of taste. Once at home the man-
ner of the
acter ofits affairs, the eaution of-its medical'*
examiner, the moderation of its expenditures;
the safety of itainvestmenta, it is not surpassed
in Boston; or Hartford, or NawTork. It chal
lenges comparison and invites investigation,
and we feel oonfident that by none of these crl-
terions or by any other teat of worth or deBert
will it be found wanting.
** * $' 41 f ' ‘ 't ■ r ^-'
The writer of this article* is not insured in ’
any Southern Life Gompany, nor the agent of
any such company; on the other hand, he ia
insured in an agent for a New York Life Com
pany,but. he writes ia the interost of justice '
and right; and with the feelings of a
7 - - Southern Man.
Tiic-Irou Bridge Over the Alabama
River near Selina.
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger :' In that
portion of yoar editorial correspondence rela
ting to the'above structure, occur several- pas
sages whioh render a' father explanation -neces
sary to a proper understanding o) IMS subject.
Yourw'ortfcy Senior cCfifounds piers and abut
ments in alluding to tho -' substructure of the
Bridge, and also mistatos the style of the' sup
erstructure, having doubtless beenTnisinformed
by some of those “expsrienoed railroad men”
who think the structure too light.*-’ Abrief des
cription of thee structure may not prove unin
teresting to those of your readers who have-
been interested in tho correspondence referred
to. • ' ' 1 ! .v Y-,
The abutments are the supports of the sup-
erstraoture at the ends of the bridge—the in
termediate supports are called piers. The
foundations of the piers are of limesteffie rock,
founded on tho solid limestone formation at
the bottom of the * river. They extend three
feet above low water mark; J»eing about thirteen
feet in height. Upon these foundations are
ilaced the wrought Iron Piers fifty-six feet'
ligh. They are anchored to the masonry by thir- -
ty inch and one-half bolts—leaded into the-
work. These bolts aro capable of resisting a
strain of ono million three hundred thousand ^
pounds—supposing only half of them acting'
against a strain in any-given direction. - Hence -
these is not much danger of,; the piers being
overturned—especially as .the open, work pre
sents no resistance of any moment to the cur
rent. **
The superstructure consists of two different
styles of trass, neither of which bears .any.re
semblance in prlnciplo of construction to a
“Howo Truss Bridge." The draw span is 290
feet in length—weighs 250,000 pounds, and
can be turned-' by one man when there is no'"
wind. It is supported npon a circular wrought
iron, pier-containing twelve columns on the out*
side circle, which sustains. the weight of. the
draw, and One in the centre, whioh sustains the
pivot - and centreing of the turn-table. TMs
span i3 a “V. truss”—or, as it is called in Engt
land, a ‘-‘Warren Girder.”, The fixethspana _
of an original design, by tho same engineer who
invented tho piers—the principle, however,
being the well-known ‘ ‘double triangular” truss.-
They ^-e, in all, 510 feet long, making the total
length of the bridge SOO feet, as stated in your;
letter. . '.T* . • . . f
Now, a word in regard to the strength of the
structure, concerning which several “experi
enced railroad inen” have volunteered opinions
adverse to the stability thereof. . , -
Every part of tho bridge has been propor
tioned in regard to- the. strain upon it.-*
This is done In. the "following Manner: 'Tho
; Tmdge is 'assumed to-weigh 1,000 pounds per-
.mnufug- foot-- < Considerably more than tho '
actual wright) .Thisconstitutes.:the. .“penaa- ,
nent load. The “rolling load” is that produced
by tho train. In the calculations, the train is
883.18; with deposits of$l00,000 in Georgia supposed to consist pf engines entirely, making
and $50,000 in South Carolina, the Cotton
States oan throw back the insinuation of the
Now York Insurance Times, and point to the
faot that in the short time of twenty-two
months it has issued 2,400 policies to the people
among whom it is known, which is the best en
dorsement it can have. It has not branched out
into unknown fields, but-gathering strength
among its neighbors in Georgia and Sonth Car
olina, it is fast laying the foundation for a great
and splendid superstructure. Its polioy hold
ers are mostly in; Georgia, North and Sonth
Carolina, Alabama, Kentuoky,. Tennessee, and
Florida; recently it has entered the State of
Maryland, where it has done a very pros
perous business, and with the best prospects
of increased work as the company grows
in. age and size. Whorever its officers are
known, and that is throughout the Sonth,
tlje company has won confidence and bnilt np a
good business. Its deposits with State Depart
ments are not drawn from the premium assets
as has. been the case with companies, but are
made up from assessment on the capital of the
oompany. Theassetsofthe CottonStateshave
far less of uncertain items than are usual in life
companies. Its premiums in hands of agents
and course of transmission exhibit close collec
tion on the part of the officers of the Company,
and attest the carefulness of its management.
Its losses in 1870, amounting to $43,500, were
promptly paid, and all its other expenses
amounted to bnt $63,445 04, wMch included
commissions; salaries and agency expenses. The
faot that the Cotton States Life Insurance Gom-
the ^rst year, and had a surplus of receipt^
without touching one dollar of its capital, is a
lesson in management and eoonomy, which, if
Northern Companies like the Great TTestem,
the Farmers and Mechanics, and the American
Tontine had learned, they would not have in
volved the losses that have befallen their inglo
rious career.
This company has a subscribed capital of half
million of dollars. We know the President
and most of the stockholders, and we are sure
they are able to respond to. the full amount of
this subscription. They have paid in thirty
per cent, in cash and have never withdrawn a
single farthing for dividends. Every dollar of
their paid np capital has been- wisely invested
by their Finance Committee, and deposited
with the Comptrollers of Georgia and South
Carolina in accordance with their charter and
the law; and the semi-annnal interest bn these
investments has been regularly added to the?’-
sets of the company. There is not a si-g 1 * “te
oompany in New York or New Eng]-‘ a “ a “
as large a capital and only one it* two that has
as large a paid up cash c*>r . , .. »
We do not know a e-‘«test of the soundness
and strength of - o mpany than the percentage
wMch its as*-* 4 exceod Its liabilities. If a cor-
.wes all that it possesses, it qannot be
a load of 2,000 pounds iper running foot, that- -
being.the average weight of our heavierloco-
motives. So we have, then, a total load of 3,—
000 pounds per foot to provide for. This, it
will readily be seen, is far more than can ever
come upon the bridge, as a train Of locomotives .
is not usually met with :in .railroad operations. .
' Taking tMs load, then, as a contingency to
provide for, tho calculations of the strain are
mado for every part of the structure, using form
ulae which are in universal use among engineers,
and wMch have been, found to bo accurate, by _.
the whole soientifio world. After these strains - - -
are ascertained,' the Requisite section of material^ .
for each piece is arranged accordingly. And
here is a point which 1 ‘experienced railroad men”
are particularly requested to. aotiee carefully.
The wrought iron in this bridge will resist ft
strain of 68,000 pounds per square inch of sec-
tionbefore being fractured, but the respective
tension parts are only strained 12,1500 pounds
per square inch, with this extraordinaryload of
3,000. pounds to the foot. Again, the columns
which resist the compressive strain, have been
tested to over 30,000 pounds * per square inch, ^
without any “set” whatever. -In the bridge they
are only strained 6,500 potmds per square inch
-one-fifth what they will bear safely. There-,
fore, this bridge can be loaded with five trains
of locomotives, one upon the other, before the
breaking point is approached. • - ■-* -
Now with this situation actually existing, is it -
not rather foolishfor men who do not know
anytMng abont the amount of strain on the
parts of a bridge, nor how much section there
is of iron at any point in this particular struc
ture, to continue , their assertions of its being
“too light,” etc,,in the f»c« < v>f-,!n*tkeinatic»l
oertaanty? So.it strikes youjr humble corres
pondent. " )' . . .
Testqdb'
sins with which he~charged it, would fill a cof- returned from Europe, in 1867, and that his of Its premiums, the businep qnaunoations pi
nmn. I asked if he thought any considerable coachman was the same man who drove his car- its Finance Committee, tne integrity and cor
poration ' wes 1111 Luul - 11 possesses, it cannot oe
gaM w oe rich or strong. If. it counts tip bn the
*4t of January of every year; every security it
holds and eveiy dollar of its aerned interest
and every advance in the market value of its
bonds and-stocks, jpid calculates its liabilities
by a low standard,.and then divides the excess
among its members, bo that its assets are just
equal to its liabilities, who would boast of Us
strength ? If a bank in olden times had no re
serve and no capital, and every dollar of its as
sets was balanced by a bank note in circulation,
we would not have the highest confidence in its
bills. And the ratio wMoh its assets exceeded
its liabilities would be a good measure of its re
liability. Now by this standard, the Cotton
States Life Company surpasses its Eastern
competitors. It has a larger capital. It calcu
lates its liabilities.by the Mgh standard of Mas
sachusetts and not by that of New York. It
counts than by a higher table of mortality and
by a Ipwerrateof interests. And when it has
in both these ways magnified its habumes, the
assets it had in band were nearly doable of its
liabilities on the first of January last. The excess
of the Eastern.companies was only five, ten,
’fifteen or twenty per cimi, while that of the
Cotton States was one hundred. Nearly all of
this excess was at once divided by the New York
companies among its members, while the Geor
gia company did not pay out a single'farthing
of its surplus.
“' iy any other standard, the sufficieney
items, the business- qualifications x>f
ner of the General changed at once, and in-
I „ m stead of the bitter political partisan he be- 1
He maintained that this | came the genial host, and talked In the most
abnse | entertaining manner of his travels abroad.
and impoverish the Southern people. He would ! of Ms residence in Paris, of English politics and
not admit that the Republican party as a na-1 statesmen, and of the future of the continental
tional organization had any honesty or patriot* 1 nations. Speaking of home affairs he said that
j«m. and the hard names he called it, and the 1 all of Ms old slaves came' baok to him when he
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Shan a Tax Collector be Fleeted or
Appointed?
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I notioed
an editorial in your issue of Sfinday, recom
mending the appointment of a Tax Collector by
the Ordinary. While I agree with you in the-
main about the bad effects of ea election at this
time upon the crops, etc., I cannot agree with
you in your 1 recommendation of the appoint
ment of the Collector by the- Ordinary. I disa- :
gree with you i-ocause t believe the appoint
ment would *e illegal and vimt The appointee
would no legal right to collect the tax, and
no ims.fi. fa. that he aright jssue would be legaL
therefore a great many tax payers would or
could ifcfuse legally to pay their taxes. Section
981 of the Code says that vacancies in this office
are “filled as they are in the offiae of Receiver,”
and section 920 applies to CollectoiB, exoept it
extends the time to 1st August for holding the
election. Section 920 also says that vacancies
are filled as vacancies for Clerks of the Superior
Courts. How are vacancies for Clerks filled ?
Seotion 245 says, “If a vacancy occurs (or will
shortly,) any two or more Justices of the Infe
rior Court (now the Ordinary)-of_ the county
where the vaoanoy happens shall give notice in
one or more of the public gazettes of said coun
ty, (if any) and at the Court-house, and at three
or more of the most publio places of said oounty
20 days previous: to tho day of election, wMch
shall be appointed by them.” Seotion 246 says
“That the persdnseleoted on said day shall hold
his office for the unexpired term of his prede
cessor.”
I think, therefore, that any appointment the
Ordinary might make would be iuegal and void.
The code is'peremptory. It says he shall give '
notice of the eleotion. * He has no discretion in
the matter. I hope, therefore, that the Ordi
nary will order an election. Thero is plenty of
time between now and the 1st of August for
Mm.to give the twenty days’ notice. .The latter
lart of July would be a very good time to hold
t It is the dull season of the year; crops are
then laid by, and very little damage will be
sustained by them. It will then be too hot to
get up much excitement about so small an office;
even if it did, - we, Democrats, ought to follow
the law. The law is our safety. I believe, also,
that a large majority of the white voters in the
county are in favor of an eleotion. Votes.
As Alady was looking at a burning building
in Broqkville, Canada, a' few evenings since,
she fancied tbit she saw a man fall through the
roof into the flames, and so greatly was die
jhooked that she fell to the sidewalk, dead.