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The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs.
LkUshed 1826.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING.
MACON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1873.
Volume LXVJI-No. 11
'^rtlcgrnP*J± ululag ’ Macon -
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ur one year. $1®W
6 00
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- 2 00
( ra ;l jy "xO.'-riph and Messenger
800
:: i so
.,iv!m>vr an.l paper stopped
nrw wit. unless renewed.
%te auct. Slave .Labor.
** , is from the New York
i . , f . vl . the average erop of the sir
f ' J -., i i. inclusive, was 3,800,000
1Tt • i i-w.i-’e of the three years
i 1>7'’ in.-luuvely, is 3,750,000
' V Z >i of 1853 and 1854 were
: u. 3,OM.OOO bales. These
"1, jjbniit. amply demonstrate
’ ibor is quite a* effective as
" a the pro luetion of cotton.
j nb l „as is usual when papers
' ‘ _ tilt about matters of which
little, jumped to a wrong con-
^. t w Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel
i ,- t j, demonstrates as follows:
, T , ontf comment to submit, and
;.; s ..rror we would be glad to be
y bT , nv of the intelligent farm-
r j, „.,t think that the Tribune’s
. - v ' i t free Labor has been as
■to labor. We grant that
.. ! i .Northern standpoint, they
bat we who live in the
y .‘ U1 :ter of fact, know that the
* " uot, worked over two-thirds
f , ”, , v j;,i when they were slaves.
|'*:,iu’miy then be asked, if this
1 ‘ y it that of four, great
-ys two have been made
' w; ir, and the average
for three years has been
f.jalto that of two years before
l, vfe huve this to say in explana-
fM.t icccnois must be referred
l. ie.-to learn if there is not a great
Luma the other crops—cereals, to-
P In other wor.ls, while the
>l0 any be approximately as
• has been a very great falling
■'.riiuctioa of brea latnffs, and
itoples. Second, the cot-
: r- have become actually more
i: in 1 enterprising. That, is to
r ire more devoted in their
Ni.il efforts, use far more
>.. ' mtivate the soil on much
■t:.. .inoples. To these facts,
a . iiiy ti lelity on the part of
hWr, is to be attributed, as we
fj - lose comparison of the fig-
■T,r. tv the Tribune.
Idrcn Burned in a Prai
rie Fire.
: T -lay a terrible prairie fire
r ■ 'ijty-tivc miles of country
■ omaha anti Southwestern rail-
Sifne and Jefferson counties, Ne
ll :ny houses and Large qunnti-
p's were destroyed. At Wilbers
A-.-aMr-n were caught in the
T-.rtv jn-rishcd on the spot.tliree
ii li- au-l four are dreadfully
The Result or College Secret Society
Tomfoolery.
The press dispatches in announcing, a
few days since, the death of a young stu
dent of Cornell college named Leggett,
at Ithaca, New York, by a fall over a
cliff, did not tell all the criminal horrors
of the affair. A special in the Tribune of
Friday furnishes them as follows:
The members of the Kappa Alpha fra
ternity, having elected young Leggett a
member, met on the bank of a creek just
outside the village, a few evenings since,
mid, after ordering the candidate to step
into a ring, he was seized by half-dozen
masked students, his hands bound behind
him, and blindfolded. He was then chased
up and down the banks of the stream,
while a large number of students looked
on from a distance, amused at the terror
and struggles of young Leggett Sud
denly two of the students in charge of
young Leggett disappeared with their
victim. Hearing groans and cries, a
number of students took means to reach
the bottom of a deep gorge in the vicini
ty, and the three unfortunates were found
on an abrupt bank, lying across each other
and suffering the most intense agony.
It was there found that Leggett
after falling over the precipice, fifty
feet in height, had struck on his head,
fracturing the skull, breaking the bones
of the nose, and partly dislocating the
neck. He lived about half an hour after
the fall, bnt was unconscious, and con
stantly moaning “Oh! don’t!” “Take it
off! Take it off!” referring, it is sup
posed, to the bandage over his eyes. One
of/his torturers had his collar bone brok
en and was slightly bruised about the
body, while the other had his thigh se
verely bruised, and, it is feared, suffered
internal injuries. The alarm was at once
given, and the officers and students of the
University started for the scene of the
tragedy. Before young Leggett had
been conveyed to his room, however, he
expired, and his parents in Washington
were at once notified of the outrageous
performance which had resulted in the
death of their promising son. The high
handed proceeding has occasioned the
most intense indignation in Ithaca, and
it is thought that summary measures will
be taken for punishing the murderers.
The affair is undergoing the most rigid'
investigation by the proper authorities,
and meanwhile the members of the secret
society are under guard in anticipation of
their being held responsible for the mur
der. i
Memphis and the Fever;
The following is an extract from a pri
vate letter of Dr. S. Landrum, of Mem
phis to a friend in this city, and copied
by permission. It gives a gloomy ac
count of the fever in Memphis, and cre
ates ardent hopes that the cool weather
will mitigate, if not entirely extinguish,
its horrors:
Memphis, October 16.
Nothing that I have known in war’s
dark days surpasses the horrors of this
pestilence. No business bnt that con
nected with sickness and death receives
attention; and the city is more quiet
Mrs. Mini-, than formerly its Sabbaths were. The
the children ran to j hearses go in a rapid trot all day, and
1 fatal in juries. express wagons are also used to carry off
, /. * the dead, and then, all are not buried in
n ar tJeOtoe reser- ^ We have to beg the undertakers
to bury the dead, and then must wait
their hours. ,
There have been many deaths in the
First and Chelsea (Baptist) Churches;
in our church (the Central) three—Mrs.
Dodson. Arthur Howe and wife. The
last left me an infant four weeks old.
We kept it at our house last night, but
ai Lurried uorthea>t a .distance
; nty-flve miles, dest"oying
in t'.io path. Near Wilbar
- south of Civte, the ava-
h’iv approached a sehoolliouse
- liMra-n. a number of whom
xn i endeavored to escape,
[ £ -~ were overtaken and three
!■' three fatally injured,
'i-ri vr-Iy maimed. Most of
srrk The mother of three of
--■•i). in her endeavors to save
•• -i terribly burned that ahocan-
r -r. Immense quantities of grain,
|l'"•« an 1 barns were destroyed,
is Hindi suffering feared in con-
for Fanners.
//■i' farmers constituted about
L ;' working population, and
1 ' i oiL'-half of the wealth o? the
'~ : 7- The aggregate value of
rc3 ' all, l personal, in 1860,
.^3° tie -/nuis returns, was $14,-
■ ^elusive of slaves, of which
’ v ’' 1 *a» lae exclusive value of
.n 1S6W out of 10,668,635
' population, 5,425,503 were
/ more than half. According
I;- e returns of 1870 the aggre-
o.' .all the prooertv in the
;.•/ tt W.S.518.507, of which
t •*-', , N*47 was farm property,
I ’ aor >-* than one-third of the
I: the farmers had held
i860 to 1870, their part of
•' property would have been
." /*'■ instead of $11,124,958,747
I j ’ W l, making a difference of
1' "f.Ouo—more than twice the
j i‘" national debt. In I860
e ' °*nal 58 per cent, of the
/Air in the country, but in
" T i 'lonly 37 per cent, of it.
Congressional cramblinsr
found a family to adopt it to-day. Dr.
Bloutft, formerly of Montgomery, .Ala., i«
ilangerously ill, and may die to-night. I
closed the eyes of John Rogers, son of our
friend S. C. Rogers. Brother Lofton is
sick; as yet his attack is light, but be is
very nervous. Hatchett, Craig, Versir,
the'Dillards and J. R. Graves are aU away.
The First Church has had no services for.
two weeks—people would not go there.
I have discontinued night meetings, but
have omitted nothing else.
To-day I have made thirteen visits,
prayed in many places, distributed some
provisions and coal, and thirty dollars in
money.
Mrs. Landrum determined to remain
with Herbert and myself, and she has
visited many of the worst forms of the
disease. She is the only parson’s wife
who has done so. We are quite well.
Though this letter was strictly pri
vate, our friend hopes he violates no con-
ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS.
Hunting for the “Queer Showers
A Simultaneous Arrest of the Sus
pected—How Counterfeit Honey has
been Circulated.
From the Knoxville. Press and Herald.]
There were intimations made yester
day morning to the effect that a number
of arrests had been made early in the
day of parties in upper East Tennessee,
charged with being -ngaged in the sale
of and passing counterfeit money. These
rumors were verified as the day pro
gressed by passengers .arriving on the
eleven o'clock train from Bristol, and the
community was both surprised and
startled as the news leaked ont that
three Knoxvillians had been arrested by
the United States Marshal’s deputies on
the same charge. Inquiry by our re
porters developed the following informa
tion concerning the arrests:
As far bock as April last, complaints
poured in on the Treasury officials in
Washington, from East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina, regarding the
numerous counterfeits of the National
bank bills, greenbacks and currency notes
in circulation throughout these sections.
Letters also reached the department
frem the government officers stationed in
the same region giving notice of the ex
istence of these counterfeits and the
large amount of them in circulation,
showing that there must be parties en
gaged in their sale and distribution. The
matter was placed in the hands of Col.
H. C. Whitely, Chief of the Secret Serv
ice Bureau, with instructions to have the
business broken up. Colonel Whitely
took immediate steps to accomplish
this most desirable end, and a force
of keen detectives, experienced in all the
devices of “shoving the queer” were sent
to East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina. For five months these detec
tive have been quietly weaving their nets
into which they were at length to enclose
so many victims. Assuming all sorts of
characters and weaving every description
of disguise, they have remorselessly pur
sued their work of discovering the men
to have been any collusion among hist DECISIONS
dupes, who bought, at a discount, the | of the
false money, and the buyers sold it again i Supreme Court of Georgia,
to others, and thus, by fraud on the part j delivered m Atlanta Tuesday, octo-
of the buyers axd through the innocence | ber 21, 1873.
of those who accepted it as good money Fn>m the Atlanta Constitution.] .
in payment of purchases made, the coun-
terf’ita came into general circulation.
Whether the arrested parties are really
guilty or innocent, can only be told
after they shall have an opportunity
to vindicate themselves. That by the
arrest and punishment of those who
have been active in circulating the coun
terfeits in East Tennessee, the Govern
ment will have commended itself to the
praise of all good, honest citizens, is with
out question. In their exertions the de
tectives of the secret service have evT
met with the cordial and prompt aid of
the local authorities and they express
themselves as particularly indebted to
United States District Attorney Andrews
and United States Marshal Evans, of this
district, for efficient assistance in- this
work.
The arrests yesterday were, in pursu
ance of a comprehensive plan which the
Government is working up in Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama,Tennessee, North Car
olina, Ohio and Indiana. Counterfeit
money abounds in all these States, the
Government having driven it from circu
lation east of the Alleghanies. A thor
ough effort will be made to drive the
forged money from the Southwest, in
which section it seems to be plentiful.
A Romantic Young Lady Elopes
With a Piute Brave.
The Virginia (Nevhda) Enterprise, of
October 7, says: *
Afew days since the daughter of a well-
to-do ranchman, residing on the head
waters of the Walker riyer, a handsome
and well educated young lady about kix-
teen or seventeen years of .age, eloped
with a young man of the Piute peisua-
sion, who had been working about her
father’s place.
The girl and her dusky
lover got considerably the start of her
father, and, it would Seen!, did some'tall
engaged in the passage of the counterfeit t tiaveling toward the wilderness and t<ie
money, and entrapping them into the j warr ior s castle of sagebrush on the Lake
meshes of skillfully laid schemes to catch of Walker; but the father did not let the
them, and expose their dealings in tee ! grow under his feet or his horse’s
spurious money. As pedlars, drummers, ! hoofs. He procured the best horse in the
tobacco .traders, stock buyers, farm labor- settlement, and rode a distance of one
ers, as themselves counterfeiters—in all hundred and eighty miles in 18 hours,
these and numerous other characters—the' Tie caught his runaway daughter some-
men spread themselves over the territory ' ^here between Walker Lake and the Sink
of the Carson, and snatched her bald-
headed. What became of the gallant
“lovyer” we have not learned. • The
chances are that the irate parent made it
so warm for him that he will not hereaf
ter hanker after a white father-in-law.
to be watched and by every manoeuvre
known to the skilled detective, sought to
learn the secrets so zealously guarded,
and to inveigle the unsuspecting into
their toils. ... . , t
They found that there were a number m » a
of persons, scattered through this section A Wonderful New Geologist,
of country, entrusted more or less in deal- ■
ing in counterfeits. None of the base London Correspondence Ctedmatt ConmeretoL]
money was printed in this region, but' 5°’3 n p a e0 ‘ 0 ° L \ ,; aa ? appeared of such
was brought from Ohio bj one man, who, wond-rful knowledge m certain difficult
obtaining at different times about $50,000 regions of bis science as to have caused
as represented by the counterfeit notes, astonishment This young man’s
would dispose of it in lame or ginnll quan- 11111116 13 MiaU. and he is a nephew of the
tities, as he traveled slowly through Ken- . nonconformist member .of Parlia-
tueky and East Tennessee :o Western ment. He has for some tune been the
North Carolina. He would sell it fora curator of a sort of scientific museum in
large discount and the buyers would D^^d** anu I believe he haa not hitherto
again dis use of it for a profit, toothers, contributed anything to the association,
or would, themselves, pass it off to honest But it would seem that ae has explored,
tradesmen or farmers, as genuine. The witii singular completeness, all the mam-
detectives say it was surprising to find so festations upon this planet of a certain
many “respectable” people concerned in k “ ow , n to paleontology as tkn
the nefarious business, and many a poor ‘Labyrynthodon. It is this animal winch
merchant and country storekeeper has C 8 ® Cherropodion) is supposed to have
found to his great grief that nearly all left its sign manual and pedal in some of
the money he depended upon to replenish great strata- a supposition which
his stock was counterfeit, he having taken Mr - ^mll has exploded. He has searched
it in forpurehases by his customers, some ? u l’ this extinct monster, and searched
of whom knowingly passed it on him, and into . relatives and
many being themselves the unsuspecting descendants, and by so doing solved so
victims of the counterfeiters. knotty pomts that old geologists
Finally, the traps being all set, and all kke Sir J. Prnhps are m ecstacies MiaU
arrangements made for springing them hful no notes. He spoke off aU the histo-
and enclosing the parties to be arrested, »« dates and figures relating to the
yesterday was chosen as the day on which ‘ Labyrynthodon as if it had been his
the arrests were simultaneously to be prattle from early infancy And when he
made throughout the Eastern Districts of ^ down Phillips, the President, arose
Tennessee and the Western District of and said: “This scientific statement pla-
North Carolina, Deputy Marshals in suf- cea lt3 autho F a \ 086 step m the foremost
ficient number were appointed and from of geological investigators. The
Asheville and Greensboro, N. C., mounted geologists m stoutly resolved to request
deputies were to serve the warrants on Mr. MiaU to allow their society to publish
and effect the arrest of sixty-eight impU- at lt f own and filustrato by
dated persons in the Western District of suitable engravings—a monograph which
North CaroUna. About twenty warrants they allege wfil revolutionize their sci-
were out for the East Tennessee District. ence at an important point.
In the entire work the detectives have
received the cordial snpportof the United
States officials, and to District Attorney
Andrews and Marshal Evans, of East
Tennessee,- and District Attorney Lusk
and Marshal Douglass, of Western North
Carolina, the detectives are indebted for
assistance throughout their labors and up
to the consummation of their work in the
Wm. U. Garrard, ^xecutor, vs. Wm. C
Dawson.
Warner, C. J.—This was an action
brought by the plaintiff against William
U. Garrard, executor of W. Garrard and
John R. Ivey, who were partners and
warehouse-men, to recover the value of
two bales of cotton. The defendant filed
a special demurrer to the plaintiff's dec
laration for misjoinner 'of Garrard an ex-
exutor, with Ivey, surviving partner,-
which was overruled, and defendant ex
cepted. The court cnarged the jury,
among other things, that if they found
for the plaintiff, their-verdict should be
for the value of cotton not delivered, with
interest from the time of demand, and
that the principal and interest together
would be the amount of damages. The de
fendant requested the courtto chargethe
jury that they might allow interest, or,
' withhold it, tnat the allowance of interest
was in the discretion of the jury—which
charge the court refused to give. Where
upon the defendant excepted to the charge
as given, and refusal to charge as re
quested. According to the provisions of
the 3272 and the 3273 sections of the
Code, the demurrer was properly over
ruled. The cause of action was a debt
against copartners on a contract for the
performance of which they were liable.
It is true that the -1497 section of the
Code declares that the surviving part
ner in cases of death, has the right to
control the assets of the firgi to the ex
clusion of the legal representatives of a
deceased partner, and he is primarily
liable to the creditors of the firm for
their debts. The statute, however,
gives the right to sue the representatives
of the deceased partner in the same ac
tion with the survivor, without qualifica
tion or restriction. If there are any le
gal or equitable grounds why the- repre
sentatives of the deceased partner should
not be liable for the debt, he can. plead
and prove the same at the trial, and the
verdict can be so moulded as to do full
justice to the parties in the same manner
as a decree in equity—Code 3504. Tho
right to join the representative- of a
deceased partner, in, , the- same >ac»,
tion with the surviving , partner
is one thing; what Shall Le the liability
of the representative of • the deceased
partner in such on action so brought, will
depend on the facts, and the law of part
nership applicable thereto, and the ver
dict and judgment should be rendered in
accordance therewith. By allowing the
representative of the deceased partner to
be joined in the same action witu. the sur
vivor, tho statute does not alter or change
the liability of partners as defined by
law, but on the contrary it assumes that
the representative of the deceased part
ner wdl protect himself, by pleading any
legal, or equitable .defense, be may have
to such action so brought against him as
the representative of such deceased part
ner. There was no error, in view of the
facts of thi case, in the refusal of the
Court to charge as requested in relation
to the question of. interest, or in the
charge as given. Code, 2,894.
Let tne judgment of the Court below
be affirmed.
R. J. Moses for plaintiff in error.
Peabody & Brannon for defendant.
J. M. Gardner, trustee, vs. Mortimer
Jeter, administrator. Same vs. John
Adams. Complaint, from Talbot.
Warner, C. J.—This case and the
case of the same plaintiff against Adams
were submitted together. The error as
signed is the dismissal of eacji by the
court for the non-payment of taxes as re
quired by the act of 1$70. - The, dismissal
of both cases for non-payment of taxes
was error. , ■'. v ’
Let the judgment Of the court below
in each case be reversed.
Marion Bethune; W. A. Little, by
Peabody ! & Brannon, for plaintiff in
error.
No appearance for defendant.
Wm. M. Peters vs. J. J. Bradford. Dis
tribution of money, from Muscogee.
McCay, J.-A sheriff having in his
hands an .execution against B, founded on
a.debt contracted since 21st of July, 1868
arrests, yesterday.
fidences in making it public, as many | Two mounted parties were to have left
° „ 1 . .. jm i Asheville yesterday, and one mounted
will be glad to hear from the writer and p arb y wag pjoceei from Greensboro, to
the persons mentioned. | effect the arrest ox Uu,t: against whom
—- 7 • • * aternn nnn warrants had been issued. Their success
Antecedents OI a If oUU,UUU »,H notbe known for a day or two.
Defaulter. The officials of the Eastern District of
The Tribune, of Friday, gives the an- East Tennesse arrested ten men, so far
tecedents of Chas. H. Phelps, the de- aa known. Three of these were in Knox-
fanlting cashier in the office of. the New
York State Treasurer, from which it ap
pears that he is, or Ought to bewell known
in Georgia and the South, lt says s
He was born in Oneida county, this State
raised in Monroe comity, and is 42 years
old. In 1852 he was appointed manager
of the Printing Telegraph Company in
■villo and seven from the neighborhood
of Carter's Depot and Johnson’s Station,
East Tennessee. Their names are David
M. Taylor and Geo. W. Hickey, of John
son’s; W. B. Taylor, Sam’l Thompson,
Meredith Y. Morton and Samuel Jenkins,
of Carter’s Depot; Alex. Hughes, two
miles above Jonesboro; Hugh Harper, G.
W. Weaver and Jas. A. Rhea, of Knox
ville. The three latter were before
New York City, winch pos ltl6 5 v n rfoii' United States Commissioner Aiken yes-
two years. He then went toJVhshmgton ( afternoon, and gave bond in $5,000
as manager of the same telegragh omn- , eaoU ^ answer . The hearing of their
caggg was set for Tuesday next. They
■‘M ’niiuation in every branch
ta<nt has thrown the great
F* infcreits of the nation over
p 1 - million dollars in the back-
1- ! s yeirs. Reading current
I •' *-<< light of these United
rot'.irna, can we wonder at
£7 Rising called the “ Far-
ut :*•’ They are the suffer-
/a notoriously corrupt ad-
/■ associated with a salary-
equally criminal in its
'"' The money power that 1 —
» 1868, became by tion through the war and up to 1866, | down to Knoxville on the night
when he went_to New York Oty and con-. nger caching here at 11:05
neeted himself with Milo Hatch, as bank- | f/ They were immediately taken be
er and broker, Hatch having previously f/ re 'c omm ; j3S i 0 :u er Aiken, and David M.
LnLI tlir* nosition for 18 year3 of casnier i m , w i,. 0 aturiff. nnd G.
pany in that city, where he remained five
years. He next took the position of
agent, cashier, and assistant superintend
ent of Adams Express Company in the
Southern States, which, after the war be-
The Fall of Dr. Munsey.
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette describes of . tke defendant for about
... ... , ,, , , $3,000. P having an older judgment,
the misfortune of the gifted and brilliant! 0 btaided in 1866, for about $1,000, gave
Rev. Dr. W. E. Munsey as follows: J the sheriff notice and claimed that much
“This country has never produced a' of the money. The sheriff paid to the
rarer genius than Munsey. With all his ' younger judgment*!2,000 of the money
wonderful gifts, he was as gentle as a • and retained $1,000 in hand to answer the
child. He overworked his feeble body ' jndgment of P, and P ruled the sheriff
in serving the church in Baltimore and j for the amount of hi3 judgment. Pending
succumbi.d to a paralytic stroke that this rule, the defendant, who had pro-
deadened one side, and deranged his cured this money to be set apart as an
mind. We saw him in that city over a exemption by tho ordinary, claimed the
year ago at his home, struggling with ' money s •
the laboring oar. We gave our opinion j Held, That it is error in the court to
to friends at that time lie was suffering hold that the defendant was entitled to
from aberration. ■•His physicians made tho money Os an exemption as againstthe
every effort to get him away from the ex- , fi fa of P. P. is not estopped from insist-
citing labors of the city pastorate. _ It ing on his right to the $1,000, because he
seemed to the noble fellow as deserting has failed to. require the sheriff to bring
his post, and he refused to leave. An- into court the whole amount raised at the
othir severe attack of palsy wrecked sale. . ■<
mind, and body. He left the city for the . Judgment reversed,
scenes of his early life in the back coun- j JJ. T. Downing, for plaintiff in error,
ties of Virginia, bordering on Tennessee. | Henry L. Be'nning, Peabody & Bran-
Hin own people were poor and obscure, non, for defendant.
He was moneyless. It is a shame to the i
church, to society, to humanity, that this , Pleasant H. Whitaker vs. G. W. Epps,
man of marvellous power nnd noble life et al. Claim, from Harris,
should end his days friendless and insane, \ McCay, J.—The act of 1871, code of
and the sport of the vicious.” j 1873, section 3741, authorizing the plain-
' tiff in execution, where a “claimant?’ has
U.r ° a aud indirect robbery
Vs a I 11 ' 1 '’™ in 1870,'and is to-
k/ 5 t “‘ci! times larger than it
»£“• • T, ' 11 ’ s ago- In the same
Al interest increased only
•*'■<•00 to $11,i24,000.000.
2oo per cent, and the
per cent, in the war de-
are all well known in Knoxville, and it is
supposed they will be able to establish
their innocence of the charges against
gan, was known as the/‘Southern Express . other seven arrested men were
Company.” _ He remained ^in that PJWJ* . ^ e p t jj, Greeneville until evening and dnrin]
» /loam -to "Knoxville on the nierht
Of R. M. Richa ds, who was murdered withdrawn his claim, to go to the jury
in Nashville a few days ago, the Union nn ,i recover damages. “In case it is
and American says: “He had taken a ma j e to appear that the claim was inter
great interest :n the present unfortunate posed for delay only,” is not retroactive,
condition of the Memphis people, and last go as to apply to claim cases then pend-
week took up a collection at his .theatre ing, it not appearing that any previous
J the rehearsal one morning for c jgj m 0 f the same property had been'put
James M. Mobley, Blandford £ Craw
ford, for plaintiff in error.
Ingram & Crawford, for defendants.
W—ML I
went to. Florida to take charge-of the “ n examination and gave bond to answer
Southern' Ernress Company azam, with _ . -• - - -
i r *Greenness and Paralysis.
L * letter-writer says:
^ing out of fashion, and
•ir !’ V t! *’ 8 8,,mmer who are
hair to grow in again
d/ * i0se head coverings pre-
r ? t ol; of tints not beautiful
iy - startling combinations
,;/ T0 '-fie. Evidently, when
Vv-nt out, two or three
said to its dlscardcrs.
,, '“’Bory green,” and the
."/ rf.'iitionaUy or not, has
/' 88 tho blonde wash wears
- <>'t "ccided greenish tinge.
* r . m pleasant oonseqcences
, ' I ' risible. You see young
rj®'* tivitch and features
i ‘ T at ?’ lne s, and these are
' L'-uieties for hair and face
j ' the nerves. I know
• >ruo is lame, stammers as
il , Partially lost the use
Tr l^ralyris caused by
uo joke about this.
quarters at Atlanta, Georgia. „ . 1 m on^y in their possession.
Thence he came back , rK | The counterfeits in- circulation are'50
city and was appointed -by Collector t currency notes of the Lincoln and
Grinnell a weigher in the custom-house. stanton heads; $5 greenbacks; $10 Na-
On “he accession of Mr. Murphy to the t - onal hank notes, mainly on the Farmers
Colleetorship Phelps was removed from and hf ec hanjcs’ Bank, of Poughkeepsie,
office for political reasons, as were many , y or k; and $50 legal tenders, series
more of Mr. GnnnelTs appointees, lie ^ 1869. A large number of counterfeit
then took a position for a few months m jj elican silver dollars are also circulating,
the Chief Clerk’s office at police head- The best of these counterfeits is the' $5
quarters jn New York, from which place , ^^hack, while the 50 cent notes would
he came to Albany to take the office of -^g^jjjy egcape detection. But both these
money clerk or cashier in the Treasury may be detected, the green-
Department. _- j hack by the want of the fibre in the pa
re Murder -Ex-President per, and the currency note by the lack_of
The Sumiatt Murder. £x rre« u«i L ’ the absence of a
Johnton.w^oisnowmWnshmgton^and the centre of the
will improve . ‘ | * n ^ blank space on the back of the genuine
the reSt developments in notes. The other notes are generally
nectioh with the He threatens to poor, bnt easily passed among the careless,
the Mrs. Surratt case. H. thraiton^to ^ thfl men wh o have
place the responsibility been flooding our section with counter-
the story where it belongs, ' P and f e .it money for the past six months, is be-
the reason why it has b-..en r , i: eve( i to be in hiding in Cocke county,
why he has been f or | and there have deputy marshals gone in
further the interests ol a can-ula*e lor > pura , ait of bi m . There does not appear
the Supreme Bench.
K tl ipi
their benefit. A very handsome sum was jjj -withdrawn by the claimant,
raised, and to tins he added fifty dollars as Judgment reversed,
his own contribution, and had the amount - -- -- —
forwarded to Memphis at once. It was
his intention to'turn over the entire re
ceipts of the performance at the Academy |
of Music to-night to the Mempliis suffer- Central Line of Boats vs. C. M. Low,
era, and bud made arrangements to give from. Muscogee. * *
a benefit for that purpose. Kicnards was McCat, J.—When a common carrier,
known to be a very free-hearted, generous by steamboat, undertook to carry cotton
man, and expended a great deal of money under a special contract in which it wa3
in charities. Kate Leslie, whose ^ name stipulated that he was not to be liable for
has figured somewhat pro linently in con- unavoidable accidents and one of the bags
nection with tins sad affair, is a woman 0 £ cotton was lost by falling into the river
about twenty-eight or thirty years of age, . j n consequence of the breaking of “the
and of superior education. She 7ms ybon bog chain/*' of rod, against which the cot-'
on the stage for a number of years, and ^xi was piled on the declc of the boat,
at the time of Ada Menkm s marriage on a suit brought for the loss the de-
with John C. Heenan, lived m toe Bame fendant proved that the rod had been
house with that talented and unfortunate lately examined/ and that it appeared
actress, whose life had been so sad ana g^und that it had previously borne heav-
fnil of trouble that when she died she ier weights, and that it broke in conse-
said, wearily, ‘I feel as though I had qnence of a hidden flaw:
lived a hundred and fifty yeara. For. Hold> Thatit was nofc error in the court
several weeks before his death, Kicnards j to charge the jury that if the cotton was
had been talking about making his will,, under these circumstances the de
saying that he intended to leave his prop- 1
erty to Miss Kate, and laid appointed last
Monday afternoon to attend to tliat busi
ness. His housekeeper, Mrs. Hmkitte,
was coming up in town with .him, and
was dressed and waiting for him. at the
time he met his death.”
A Missouri clergyman was lately called
upon to marry fourteen couples in one
day, and his fees amounted to fifty pounds
of dried apples and a due bill for eighteen
bushels of buckwheat.
Fish and Reed Birds.
. Fish culture has taken its place among
the exact- sciences; and is everywhere
successful. Hundreds of springs and
water-courses, which for centuries have
been running to waste, are being stocked
with the best varieties of fish, which
bear transplanting as bravely aa the
trees that form our orchards.' It has
been said by experts that a farmer who
has an acre of living water on his prem
ises can in this way produce more food
than his family can consume, and with
out costing him a dollar, as, if he will
find the water the fish will find them
selves. Now carry out this idea of pro
viding food for the family by artificial
means. If the masses were not so extrav
agantly fond, of reed "birds as they seem to
be, there would not be the wholesale de
struction of them that is now to bo
seen in every marsh around onr city. But
these little lumps of butter sell readily at
$1 per dozen. Families must have them,
and in the restaurants they are indispen
sable, no matter what they cost. But
these delicate birds can be cultivated on
our farms as easily and as cheaply as we
can produce fish. They will find out and
devour their favorite food upon the up
land as well as in the marsh. We have
only to provide it for them and they will
gather it in flocks. There is now grow
ing on the great seed farm of Mr. Lan-
dreth, at Bristol, a field of Hungarian
grass. As the seed ripened, the mirac
ulous instinct, of the reed birds
quickly scented their favorite food.
The field is- now a curiosity.- for the
birds swarm upon it like bees. So
also do the gunners, for the fame of
this rare sporting ground has travelled
far and near. -But, between the gunners
and the birds, the proprietor sees so-little
chance of either- sport or profit for him
self as to be compelled to put out hand
bills, and call on the constable-to restrain
the rush of sportsmen. Yet, herein is a
significant hint to all land owners. Some
men, as we see, are cultivating fish to
profit. Others have taken an arm of the
sea, erect sluices at the narrow inlet, and
are growing lobsters with surprising suc
cess. There are also great frog ponds, in
which frogs are nursed and reared by
thousands for the city markets. - But
who cultivates the reed bird? Here is
food for thought for boih farmer and am-
CLtfmr,—Philadelphia Press.
A Granger In Congress-Growing
- v Strength, of the Order.
The election of Mr. Nesmith of Oregon
to Congress (says the New'York Herald)
puts a genuine granger in the House,
whose wealth is in a farm and who makes
his living as a tiller of the soil, so that it
will not be necessary to scatter hay seed
around him. Being a Democrat and a
ready debater the friends of the grange
movement expect he will make thinirs
lively for the. Republicans this winter.
The order is still growing. Alabama has
110 granges, Arkansas 65, California 84,
Florida 13, Georgia 231, Illinois 662, In
diana 443, Iowa 813, Kansas 5S6, Ken
tucky 17, Louisiana 24, Maryland 3, Mas
sachusetts 6, Michigan 84, Minnesota 361,
Mississippi 375, Missouri 900, Nebraska
328, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 10,
New York 10, North Carolina 105, Ohioh
154, Oregon 3,‘ Pennsylvania 27, South
Carolina 162, Tennessee 166, Texas 24,
Vermont 27, Virginia4, West Virginia 18,
Colorado 2, Dakota 25, Washington 5,
Canada 8—Total 7,104 granges. The
Boston grange has not responded to the
demand of Master Adams in forwarding
their charter toll eadquarters in Washing
ton, nor does the Secretary know any
thing officially of it. The National Grange
does not meet until February next, when
the question will come before that body
should the Boston - grange retain their
charter. This will be the first case of
the kind yet presente l to the Order.
Africanized Virginia.
The New York Sun says in Virginia,
south of the James river, a distinct which
has given birth to such men as Patrick
Henry, John Randolph', Winfi-ld Scott,
and others of almost equal note in the
history of the United States—the country
is relapsing almost into a state of barbar
ism. Lands tilled before and during the
war are now growing up in forests, the
beavers once more ate b uilding their dams
on the streams, and the deer are mnlti'
plying in the coverts. These counties
contain a large majority of negroes, and
under the instruction of the unprincipled
carpet baggers who have gained their
confidence the freedmen have been en
couraged in habits of indolence and in
stigated to place themselves in hostility
to their white neighbors, who on their
part, discouraged at finding themselves
inferior in political power and influence
to the blacks, are growing hopeless and
despondent. There is no necessity what
ever for such a state of affairs. , Both
races arc equally interested in the pros
perity of the region which they inhabit
together;.and were it not for the perni
cious counsels of the politicians who for
partisan purpose? labor incessantly to
create dissensions between the whites
and blacks, this section of Virginia, rich
in natural resources, might b8 overflow
ing with abundance.
An Icy Pass.
There is a pass in the Catskill Moun
tains, between Shandakin Centre and
Westkill, Ulster county, where snow aiid
ice can be found at all seasons of the
year. A road runs some five mile3 np a
deep hollow, bounded, on the two sides by
high mountains, with'a clear, ice cold
stream of water running down its centre.
Stretching across the head of this hollow
is another mountain somewhat higher
than the others, that makes me think
this passage way had suddenly iermi-'
noted in a sort of cul de sac, but upon ar
riving at the base the road turns directly
and enters a narrow path hardly fifty feet
in width. On) each side the mountain
towera upward' a thousand feet from the,
roadway, not perpendicular, but so steep
that when the trees-have shed their foli
age the top can be seen by . a person
standing at the foot. There is snow and
ice during the hottest days of summer a
few feet from the roadway. There are
large mas.es of solid ihe in some' caves
not further than fire feet, from the road.
Strange as it may seem, the growth of
vegetation is very rank, the lichens espe
cially covering the ! rocks profusely,
though animals are very scarce, ill being
too cold for their comfort.
INTERESTING FR0X COLORADO, that Colorado will never produce enough
Fhe Colorado Territorial Fa.r-The
Ntone—Splendid Cattle and Horses- ® t
ln ' Onl/fancy oats seven fLTgh bldSJ
eral Display, and Still More Won- j 11t1f )„ r load of ripe strain Twheo*
C«imi-A ,,0 (B r r^d F I ! m'in?*rnVi I oS !W ^ iohyiel ^ S 8event y- fiv * bushel* tilth*
Crops A Grand Immigration acre.and other things in like proportion.
and you can form an idea of Colorado’s
Scheme,-Etc.
Correspondence Telegraph A Messenger.]
Denver, Colorado, October, 1873.
The Colorado Territorial Fair has just
small grain.” The vegetables here on
exhibition would astonish a Bibb county
gardener. The first thing which
closed, and though most of your readers »tractod my attention was four head* of
gia State Fair, still they may take some , \ winter squash, the seed of which were
interest in the progress and advancement) planted in July and the squash picked
of this Westtrn country, and may have - fr°m the vine in September, weighed ona
—**« “ srSJSftif. 'S$2i
affair a Colorado Fair would be, so I pro- [ w m send them to the- venerable senior,
pose to tell you enough to give them at knowing he has a penchant for farming,
least an idea. In point of preparation, j ’^e largest Irish potatoe I saw weighed
fendant was liable.
Judgmentaffirmed.
Peabody & Brannon for plaintiff in
error.
Moses i Downing for defendant.
“John,” said a stingy old hunk to his
hired man, as he was taking dinner, “do
you know how many pancakes yon have.,
eaten?” “No.” “'Well,, you’ve eaten
fourteen.” “Well,” said John, “you
count and Fll eat.”
A series of experiments, instituted to
test the average loss in weight by drying,
shows that corn loies one-fifth and wheat,
one-fourteenth by the process. From'
this the statement is made that farmers
will make more by selling unshelled com
in the fall at 75 cents than the -following
summer at $1 a bushel, and that wheat
at $1 32 in December is equal to |1 50 for
the same, wheat in-the June following.
This estimate is made on the basis of in
terest at 7 per cent., and takes no account
of loss from the depredation of vermin.
These facts are worthy of consideration.
The New Haven ballot boxes appea rt
have^been stuffed in the recent election
with, a recklessness that would have made
Boss Tweed turn pale. In one case three
hundred ballots with the same name
were found in a bunch, leaving no doubt
that they hid been surreptitiously con
tributed by the. inexperienced staffer.
not rival the State. Fairs of the East and
South; yet we find much here so different
from the East, that its very difference
awakens in us a deep interest. All Fairs
present, in many particulars, the same
general features, and Colorado is not an
exception. There was on exhibition the
same long rows of wagons, buggies,,
reapers, mowers, threshers, wind-mills,
patent chums, and every other patent,
not excepting sewing machines and
pianos. I did not -see the familiar and
famous cotton presses of the South, with
the large cro wds of honest farmers eager
ly watching their practical operation,
but here was the hay press and the same
honest sons of toil around them, with
hardened hands and honest sunburnt
faces. The scene was so natural, so
home-like, that I could almost imagine. I
was with the friends of earlier and
better day; but loads of grass, fresh
mown and sweet-scented, though it be,
could not supply the place oE cotton and
marred the picture of the past, which
memory will ever love to treasure. You
have grass in the South, hut it is only the
enemy of “King Cotton,” and all the
working force of the land is called into
requisition to destroy it. Here we nurture
it, and it is the famous grasses, native,
though they be, which renders these ele
vated table-lands the “herding ground of
the nation.” The fair grounds here are
extensive, though not as elaborate as the
grounds in Macon—none of the beautiful
walks, shady, sweet retreats and grand
forests which are found in the Central
City Fork. In the 160 acre3 here enclosed
there is not a tree, bush or shrub. It is
enclosed by a “great” wall, which at a
distance closely resembles a gray stone,
and upon the'whole appears dull, monot
onous, “too beautifully regular,” and
were it not for the “great plains” on the
one side, like the ocean, ever presenting
new points of attraction, and the grand
old mountains on the otner, the surround
ings would be almost wholly devoid of
interest. t . .
The track, however, is a splendid one,
and during the whole Fair week, was the
selling of pools, trotting single and
double harness, half mile, two and three
mile dashes, &c., &c. Some of the stock
was good, but no very fast time made in
trotting, the best being 2:31; bnt the
running stock I never saw equaled. The
display of blooded cattle was the largest
and finest 1 ever saw at any fair—fine
breeds of every description. The people
here are devtt ng much attention to stock
raising, ana will import blooded stock at
any cost. Cattle and sheep growing is a
great industry of the land, and expe
rience teaches that the finer the breed,
the better the pay. Raising horses is not
carried on as generally as cattle, but
.there are some fine ranches where large
herds of horses are raised annually. Two'
near the sity having over five thousand
head on hand.at this time. The display
of minerals was grand—long piles of sil- ‘
ver and gold bricks, precious stones and
rich ores of every description. One mine,'
the Pelican, had on exhibition the pro
duct of one month’s work of the mine:
sixty thousand dolla -s, (silver); and gold
bars could be seen which were worth
from one to ten thousand dollars. The
nomenclature of famous mines is as pecu
liar and senseless as that of famous
horses. Tne principle mines represented
at the fair were the Gregory, Bobtail,
Carribou, Pelican, Horsetail, Moose,
Fourth of July, Terrible, Little. Giant,
Little Annie, Red Clond, Forest, Las
Amineas, Homestake, and hundreds of
minor importance. The richest speci
mens were from the Red Clouds, some of
its ore assaying $120,000 50per ton. This
mine carries a large vein of tellurium, and
is probably the richest ore on the conti
nent, much of it being sold at the mills
at from £25,000 to £30,000 per ton. The
ore is somewhat refractory, and is worked
in a smelting furnace.' The ore of the
Little Giant and Little Annie mines.
apiece. The yield per acre, of which this
particular lot was a sample, was eight
hundred bushels per acre. The beets,
were'a curiosity^ many weighing from
fifteen to twenty-five pounds apiece.
•Tomatoes, cncuinhers and peppers,! nev
er saw .equaled anywhere; and as to on- •
ions—their size - and- quantity raised per
acre I will not say—to be honest, your
readers would not believe what they saw
in print, for it would be a fabulous story
to those who have not seen what I have
here. The Fair pecuniarily. was a suo-
ccss—from 5,000 to 20,000 persons being
present every day. The a Imission fee
was one dollar, and the' price of a seat in
the “grand stand,” so-called, was twenty-
five cents. So much for the Fair.'
The next thing on thetopics here lathe
convention on irrigation, which meets
here on the 15th of this month. It will
be composed of the .governors and repre
sentatives from nearly all the territories^
and many prominent public men from all
parts -of the country. This convention
will be a grand somethin;. The result
vet remains to be seen. The subject is
one of vast import to this whole west
ern country. Many million acres of
land, fit for nothing but grazing, can. be
made the garden spot of the world if
water can be secured for irrigation. This
convention will probably petition. Con
gress to grant half of the public land un
sold to toe Governors of the respective
Territories, on condition that the land so
granted will be placed “under the ditch.”
the land granted being in alternate sec
tions. The publio lands remaining will
double their value at once, and the terri
torial land, when sold, will pay for toe
construction of canals, etc., to overflow
and water “the great plains.” So thin
problem of civilization would be settled,
and the Government none the poorer. A
brother of the immaculate Colfax, whot
runs a real estate office here, in a card te
the people published to-day, on the sub
ject of irrigation, says: “We must have
foreign capital, even if we have to call oa
toe National Government.” That ia or
thodox. . . i; , •,
■ But a truce for the present, and a good .
night to your many readers.
.. Quid aw.
The French Republic.
The Herald concludes a long editorial
review of toe French political status, the
conclusions of which favor the Republic.
witUithe following: _
We in America heartly wish the estab
lishment of the Republic on a firm basis,
both because we believe, it the best form
of government and because the Republic
has done more for France -within the lash
two years than any monarchical or impe
rialist government in the past. What iti
has accomplished in restoring order, the
finances and general prosperity, in addi
tion to paying a thousand millions of war
indemnity, liaS astonished and excited the
admiration of the world. Can it be tbati -
after all the sacrifices which the French,
people have made for the Republic, from.
1789 to this day, and. after all toe hope* ‘ :
they have entertained and given to the
world of success in this present experi
ment, it is to be only a repetition of the
old story—from toe Empire to the Re
public and from the Republic beck
again to the Bourbons ? A shock
time only and we shall know- whak
will be the result of the present conflict.
Let us hope the great nation may pass
through the ordeal without a repetition
of those bloody scenes which daring the
last eighty-four years, have marked her
history and startled the world.
It 13 carious to see Gen. N. P, Banks
giving utterance to an idea that has long
prevailed at the South, especially as it is
one that is in a measure adverse to New
England. Tet he is credited with the
words given below in a lecture on “The
System of American Manufactures; ifa*
Origin, Authors, an i Results:”
General Banks contrasted toe indus
trial organization of the North with that
of the South. The Soatuem States were
compensated for the lack of domestic
manufactures by the produ '•tion of the
lately opened in the San Juan district, i manuiactures Dy tne proau "-tion
attract much attention, toe ore being great staple, cotton. In 1810 the
free gold, and forked with an ordinary ■ erop was 100,000 bales; in -1860 it was A—
stamp mill. Some of these ores assayed i 500,000. It was because .the labor uja-
$38,000. The Little Annie was disiL- ! t‘-*m of the couth had been] built on- %
ered toig summer, and the owner-sold it * wrong basis that she was.not more prae-
a few days ago for $410,000,. and ma -; perous and robust. Tne result of the
chinery will be sent there to work it. j late war would have long trembled nx
There were quite a variety of good speci- '- 1 -' balance had Southern industry been
mens from tha Caribou mine (silver); tola based upon, toe principles of the Northern
mine is probably worked more exten- system. The principles and processes iff
sively than any mine in the Terri tor v, Lowell and his associates will never be fnllp
except the Bobtail, (gold) and sold last carried out until our raw material is naw-
spring for §3,000,000. A specimen from factured on the ground where it is produced.
toe Moose (silver) attracted much atten- His principles compose the only solid lo
tion, both in Bize and richness. The 813 on which industrial edifices can pee-
piece on exhibition weighed 3,500pounds, ’ maneUtly stand. Lowell labored at hia
and was wortii about $2,000. . . grand scheme but five years, and died aft
Specimens from toe Las A pining were,. the early age of forty-three, leaving such
quite a curiosity. This ore carries from a monument of integrity, high ambition.
500 to JjOO pounds of bismuth, and about impetuous energy, and wonderful ingeau-
700 ounces of silver to the ton. The bis- that the wonder is that financial bub-
mu th-is valued at. about $3 per pound, bles. .gambling schemes speculations oe
Many of the specimens of coal, iron, lead, fictitious values, could find a place in a.
copper and other metals, were on exhibi- country which had prospered so mu h
tion. Ope lump of coal from Canon city from those industries. j c- ;. . . • -
weighed nearly two tons. This Coal is the ;
finest in the territory, and sells in market Dr. U. R. Milner writes to the New
for nearly double the price of other coal, Orleans Times to express his conviction,
being worth here about $7 per ton deliv- founded on many- years’ experience, tbob
ered, while other coal is worth from $4 yellow fever is intrinsically the same a*
to $4 50 per ton. The display of precious intermittent fever, and that a quaran-
stoues wa: brilliant. Agates, rabies, gar- tine against it is useless. There never
net, amethyst, topaz, opals,- etc., by the was a chill, however light, he continues,
quantity.; This display'Seemed to inter-' in which the stomach was not auSknenilgi
est the fair sex, even more than needle congested to stop, for the time, all d£-
work, bedquilts, baby-jumpers, and flow- go.,tion. In tliat grade of malarial in-
ers, and many a native stone found a new flueuce called yellow fever the onslaught,
possesser.' ,' t ‘ . '•no. lot—ns on, pot so violent as in a congestive chil^
I was much interested in the produc- but the greater virulence of the poisett
tions of the farm and garden; and spent gives it more permanency, and unless ik
much of my time in that department, is removed by opening the portal cireu—
Some' specimens were miserably poor, lation and disgorging the stomach chem
ical decomposition will soon begin and
black vomit ensue. In the virulent (ana
where black vomit occurs later and the.
epithelium is freely mingled with the
decomposed blood and juices of the stom
ach, the death of the organ ia denote*
specimens
The stalks of corn were very small, and
the ears were not well matured, it all re
sembled "pop-corn. Colorado .imports
half of the green corn used, and all
corn and meal neecssary for home
consumption, the nights being too _
cool to atempt to raise corn—at least this and tne patient must die. Black vomit
is the popular theory, though many is but the evidence, in its first stage or
others are advanced. I noticed a few acute form, of the congestion of the
sickly peanut vines—“ strangers in a stomach with a hemorrhage relief; and
strange land.” They attracted consul- in its second stage it evidences that toe
eruble attention, but according to my Bfcomach has not only been congested but
liunble jud.na.nt “goobers” are a fail- that it has resulted in toe death ot it*,
ure here, and £ now make the prediction superficial coats and blood'vessels.