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Savannah WieHy *ATtmimv.m'imi'mbkh *a, in;. J_ I . i [From the Portmouth rimes.) WHO WILL CA.lt K FOR ÜBRKHHACHI NOW t lAIK--‘ Wht! Will Cart for Mother .Vow/"! Why are they disowned, dishonored- Wlist’s their admen! anyhow ' Why the maker scorn the creature ' W ho will care (or greenback* now • They held high our country a banner, Oo tln> shore or gun boat s prow ; They provided (oral and clothing For the aobl.er then as now. Tell me. (fold and silver hoarders. It you dare your thought* avow, You, whose bonds demanded greenbacks, Why do you defame them now* In the crnctble ot battle, When the nation's pulse t>eat alow. Was t love of gold, or tonnlry. Made yon hny your gris-nlmcks low ' IMd you srom the legal tender when tin* nation gave you bond*, l*romiea to pay in greenbacks. Currency that now you scorn f “Cabbage leaves," funuoUi, you rail them, ••Wilil eat money, eutrent Bis," hut you've made, and largely stolen, What you now so much despise. Gaining power to rob and plunder. With a shameless hand, and bob), Yon struck out your honest contract, And demanded pay in gold. What care yon for dead iminstry, Starving latvir. chilling cold? You convert your paying con|oii, With a Bbylock greed, to gold. Clouds do gather, hearts mn-t suffer, Want of best will jmle the brow; Cure you for these, wlien your idols Arc lint gold and silver now? Ay. yon rotipoti broker* Vlakf the tuttitlciam* liow; lint tiik psopj.s, in tli* ir nmril)oo<l, Will uphold th* yrnnharkn now. Tli* y arp mon**y of the with hnmmi toil and blond, Crmting tip through war and carnage, > htil) the people hold them good. Th* v necth-d! don't contract them; Thut you honor them, avow ; f!' now. Hi** up Ali.kn, their defender, Witli tliy (spiritiihendow; Sound the trumjHd, imei* your They will care (or greenback* now. —-► ♦ ♦ ♦ The M( srro Hi* 1 Problem of llis Future. ifn.iii ilt <'lftrkenvllli! (Tcuo.) Chronicle] An ocsitsioiml paragraph from tin organs of Yankee civilization—flic em bodiruent of necrophilism, spiritualism, fneloveism and “nidi" questions Un wisdom of emancipation anti hints at the inefficiency of the laws enacted for tho purpose of enforcing civil and social equality between tlio two races, so re el fitly holding flits relations of masters and slaves. In spite of the signal failure of the experimeiitof emancipation, with out previous preparation, in the West indies, our Puritan philanthropists be heve in the magic power of political liberty to improve upon this handiwork of God and to assimilate the highest and the lowest species of the genus “homo.” It is, however, becoming apparent to the more rational fanatics that, in the deln sivc hope of elevating the African to the level of the Anglo Saxon, a curse has been inflicted upon both, and the ques tion now lining raised is whut shall he done with the passive victim of a mis chievous delusion ? Like his brother in .lainaicn, lie is fust lapsing into normal barbarism and, in bis descent, is lower ing the standard of Christian civilization and bringing disgrace upon that spirit of liberty whic.ii, it was asserted, his emun cipation would enlarge until it embraced every rnco of mankind. Of einancipn tion in tlio British West Indies, Allison, in his history of Kuropo, says : “Ifo” fiord Brougham “was the un compromising foe, through life, of West Indin slavery, and the generous advocate of the poor negro’s right; and yet by urging on the fatal step of immediate and unprepared emancipation, lie Ims proved his worst enemy, and thrown back the sable inhabitants of, the Antilles cen turies in the path of real and lasting im provemont.” What is undeniably true of ,lainaicn, most prove equally true of tlio United Staten, because tbe conditions are the same. The slave owners there, ss here, Ufete oi the Anglo Saxon race, awl th“ slaves in both cases were Africaner TTfC intelligence hnparUd. in both countries, by the example and training of the own era, was the only civilizing influence to which their nature is capable of rosjioud ing, and the withdrawal of which is necessarily' followed by a relapse into their normal condition. This degeneracy will he more or less rapid in proper lion to the relative numbers of tlm races more rapid in .lamai ca, because lint whites are few and the negroes overwhelmingly numer ous slower here, because the relations . _ns to numbers is reversed, and tlio in ; ? wees just mentioned will continue to be felt, though in a constantly deereus ing ratio; but the linal result in both countries must be tlio same, unless the i negroes enn bo protected against the per nicious examples ami precepts of the Hndicftl party and left to the guidance of the Southern whites, who, aloue, appre ciate their capacity for improvement and understand the appliances whereby their >“1 iso into barbarism may be postponed, if not averted. Tlio problem of their future is not likely to be solved by Puritan negropiiilisin, which suggests colonization as the only sola Ainu* forgett’ eg that the shortest road to their primitV condition is to throw them upon their own resources. Sepa rated from a higher intelligence, their “truo inwardness'' will assort itself, and their native indolence and improvidence > soon plunge them into the moral and in tellectual darkness of their native jungles. Uiulioal reconstruction has cursed them deeply, and if they aro to remain in our midst, the liost thing that can be done , for them is to shield them from the wild MqionuicntH of a mawkish l’nntan phi- luntliropy aud, as citizens, leave them to protection of the laws, honestly and impartially administered, without regard to color. Waiting for a Cave. —Three or four days ago, within two or three miles of this city, a Washington street merchant, who had business iu the country, came to a small creek, beside which a native was washing his shirt. The man was Mousing the garment up and down nml around, and as ho “soused" he whistled a merry tune. “l)o you have to wash your own shirts?" inquired the merchant, ns lie halted. “Not alius, but old Bet has got one o’ her tits on jest now,” was the ready reply. “Then you don't agree very well ?” tarn" Petty well as a gmeral thing. Bet’s kind o' mulish, and I’m kind o’ mulish, aunt when we git our backs up we claw off to see who’ll cave tirst." “ 1 should think you want some soap.” “ I do.” “ Why don't you get it then ?" “That would be caviug to llet, stran ■er. Nhii'a squatted on the ouly bit of tar soap ’tween here and Vicksburg, and she's just aching to have me slide lip aud lwsr for it." “And you wou't?" '•Stranger," replied the native, as he straightened up, “don’t I look like a fel ler a tie ’ll wear one shirt three months afore I'd cave in and holler for soap ?’’ Tin merchant sided with him, and as i t* drove on the man soused the shirt up and down and whistled Hp , • I'm gwinc up the river— Hour me holler." [ Vudsburg Herald. * When a critic undertakes to correct a blunder, he should la* careful not to make a bigger one. Somebody who mode a speech at Buffalo the other day said; “In tho glowing language of the in spired Psalmist, ‘ Peace hath her victo ries no less renowned than war.'" Upon Kwhich a sarcastic journalist remarks: “This genttenuau may be pious, but he certainly ought to buy a copy of Sliakes jKare“’ Never xuinu doing that. Try Milton's With Sonnet, “To the Isvnl General Cromwell “ Yet much remains - To conquer still; peace hath tier vietoiies No lent* renowued than war.” — N. Y. Tribune. ' “If the Democrats carry Ohio and Pennsylvania -t,ud it is evident that kriiese two States *ye mutually helping r Gleb othor two things may be accepted as nettled: First, that the West will con ti*>l the I’residential election; and, sec ond, that auti-resuuip*w|| and tho aboli tioual of the national bank system will be the leading plank in the National ' tK-uiocraiic platform, " rif. Jamie fiejntb- Mean. HOW TilE HICKS INVESTIGATION W AS CONDUCTED. The lirpnilrr f Ihr Morntna New* Mela Himself Riche In the .Mailer. Eiltior Morning Mew* : Live Oak. September 15, 1875. In your issue of the 11th iust appears a card from the Investigating Committee ! charging the Morkino News' reporter in j the case of the trial of Dr. Hicks with gross misrepresentations of facts. Had I the slightest idea that the committee hail carefully read and subscribed their names to that card for the purpose that its face imports, uiy reply would be any- \ tiling but courteous; but as I baveconver- J soil with two of them since, and each of 1 them denies that he intended to make' any such charges, and that they allowed their signature to go on it only to correct ■ a mistake that hail grown out of the with- j drawal of Dr. Collier and Secretary Car- j which they did not know that I had corrected, and that they would make an explanation exonerating me from any blame whatever, and they were satisfied the entire committee would join them if here. As they are both personal friends of mine, and men of high standing and undoubted veracity, I do not hesitate to accept this explanation, and shall continue to extend to tbe committee that courtesy due to men of their rank; but at the same time I will submit to them and to the consideration of the public the follow ing stern and undeniable fads, out of | winch all this misunderstanding lias i grown: At the beginning of the investigation the defense strongly contended that the trial lie bused on u certain editorial in the Live Oak Times, asserting that it was out of that publication that this investigation sprang, and that the editor should be recognized and brought into this court as the accuser, notwithstanding that the defense had already subpieueil the editor ns their witness, thereby excluding him from the bouse anil knowing at the same lime that he knew nothing of the matter except from common rumor. Tlio Chair ruled that the editorial in the Live Oak Time * had nothing to do with the basis of this investigation ; that it was not upon that, or any other news paper publication, that this investigation was based, but upon charges and specifi cations based iqion alleged facts, com monly rumored, regarding the conduct of tlio Rev. I>r. Hicks at Hive Oak on the night of the 15th of July, 1K75. This rumor, coming to the ears of the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Live Oak, ami being by him reported to Bishop Weightumn, at his suggestion the Bishop ordered this investigation. Therefore the witnesses whoso testi mony is to be taken in the ease are the accusers, and not the editor of the Live Oak Timen. As for himself, In-said ho had never seen the article refened to. The defense took excep tions to the ruling, but whether they were filed or not I am unable to say. Tlm trial progressed slowly, with oc casional objections to questions, which the prosecution did not think applicable to the case al issue. Late in the after noon of tlio third day I)r. Pollier, as sistant prosecutor, objected bo questions put to witnesses by defouse, which ap peared to him and many others present as having no significance, unless the editor of the 'Times hud been on trial. Colonel White, attorney for defense, stated that those were very important questions, as he wished to show to this Court and to the world that this was a deep laid conspiracy to ensnare aud ruin a man of Cod, and that the court had done injustice to the accused by not re cognizing the editor of the Live Oak Timex ns the accuser and basing the in vestigation on tlio editorial in his paper, as it was against these charges that he had prepared to make the defense. Dr. Collier replied that if it had been so, that a trap had been set by the men and woman to ensnare Dr. Ilicks, and he would depart from the path of a Christian minister to enter that snare, it would not lessen his guilt to prove that he was en snared ami imposed upon by these par ties, and that this investigation should boa church trial, to examine into the in nooenoe or guilt of Dr. Hicks, and not a coyrt of law to try the editor of the Live Oak Times , as would appear from the conduct of tlio defense, aud ho would protest against de filing the house of God with a prelimi nary trial for another court. The chair man arose in a cool nml dignified manner and remarked that lio had submitted to the wire-working and delay of time on the part of the attorney for tlio defense longer than was prudent, and if this court is to be used for other purposes than Mint of u church investigation of Dr. Kicks, ho would adjourn it till the defendant could procure an ecclesiastical attorney. Colonel White declared that ho only desired to arrive at nil the facts in the case, and was not trying to use any hickory; that it would he of no advan tage to him, ns ho had no personal in terest wbatevsr in tlio matter. Doctor Collier replied that documents filed in the clerk’s office would show that n civil suit was now pending upon tlm same issue, and that Colonel White’s name appeared there ns attorney for Dr. Hicks, and that he was of course getting a fee, as lawyers are not apt to work without it. He was therefore ineli gible to conduct the defense in this inves tigation; and, furthermore, it was against tlm wishes of the outside members of this church to allow the church to be defiled by this manufacturing of evidence for another court, etc., etc.; and if Colonel White, a practicing attorney, employed in both cases, was to conduct the defense m this style, against the rules and discip line of the church, ho would respect fully offer his resignation. Then it was that tlio Chairman remarked that he would no louger submit to this court being used for manufacturing evidence for other purposes. Ho would not shoulder the responsibilityof presiding over a committee of this character (of a religious aud moral nature), here in the house of God, and nllow tlio attorney for defense to use it for other than a moral purpose. If the court could not be conducted in a Christian-like manner, he would adjourn it till next conference. Col. White made an eloquent and pathetic appeal to the committee, de claring that he was prompted only by a feeling of sympathy and brotherly love for the accused, aud not for the sake of harmony as had been charged, and con cluded by saying that he would extend Christian charity toward Dr. Collier, he loved him as 'n brother, and would for give his hasty remarks, Ac., Ac. l)r. Kicks arose and appealed to the Chair for protection; declared that Dr. Collier was persecuting him instead of prosecuting, and if he could not get a fair and impartial trial here, he would have it moved to Tallahassee, Jackson ville or somewhere else, etc. Dr. Collier appeared to be much hurt at these re marks, offered Hicks his hand, saying he did not iuteud to persecute him, aud that he would conduct the prosecution no farther. Order was soon restored, and the Court adjourned for supper. I was not present after supper, but got Col. llornly to keep up my notes for me, and learned that Dr. Hicks entreated and insisted that Dr. Collier should continue the suit. But next morning when the committee met Dr. Collier was gone. It was my impression and that of the public generally that he withdrew for the rea sons --tilted in my telegram to the News. It was several days afterwards that some of the members of the committee in formed me that he had taken suddenly ill and retired. 1 corrected the telegram as soon as practicable. It was not my intention to connect the withdrawal of | Secretary that of Dr. Col | lii r. In the first instance it was purely a misconstruction. 1 knew the cause of Ids withdrawal and would have stated it more fully if I had thought of its being misconstrued- 4 s to the remark of the chairman reported by me, I am positive he did make that remark, and there are many reliable parties here who heard him. aud will reedily testify to the truth of my •statement. From my knowledge of the character of the chairman. Dr. Peeler, I am certain that he will, after deliberation, reuit udxr Using the words. f Let us hear from you, doctor.) From the telegram yesterday, signed by leading citizens of Live O. k who have known me for years, the public can see that I am not one who would make false representations of facta. Many mere would have signed it had it been uecowiy. I have nothing to retract, but the com mittee have, and I hope they will have the Christian manliness to do so. I should have replied sooner, but circum stances over which I had no control pre vented. Respectfully, Rkpobtc*. MARY E. SURRATT. THE Mt’KOKK OF HRM. s| HRATT ANI>Y JOHMSONVI SHAKE IN IT. The Murder Described b aa Eye Wit neM—The Cwnfevalonal and the Scaffold —Tbe Expected Reprieve—Tbe Prayer and the Heath— Tbe Reaponaibllily. [Brooklyn Sunday Sun.] It was beneath a bright summer buu tliat Mary E. Surratt was murdered. The press of the United States was amply represented. A majority of it applauded the cowardly crime. When the impro vised trap fell, and swung back, and left her heavy body dangling Lifeless on the f ital rope, there were present Generals and • ificers of the nation bearing its uniform, * hose buttons and shoulder straps glit t- red in the bright rays. Save good Father Walter's, no voice uttered “God h'.ess her!" as she fell. The soldiers that p teed the top of the surrounding walls made no sign. Several turned away their heads, sickened by the sight, and awed to see a deed done in the nineteenth c ntury that in the fourteenth would !i ive been delegated to the secrecies of a dungeon or the knife of a solitary bravo. Women have been murdered before — j -alousy, drunkenness, despair, a mad dened cupidity have all in turn murdered women. Never before was a hero called in the bright and open day to see such a deed done. Hancock was. He obeyed the call, and saw that the hangmen were protected, that the assassination was not interrupted. How his spirit rebelled at tiie task that was written on his broad f ice. The writer saw it there as in a book. THE SITE or THE MURDER. It was in the old Arsenal Penitentiary > ard, in Washington, in the inner yard, that they strangled this woman. The Arsenal and Penitentiary face and teruii n.ite Four and-a-half street, which stretches to it from the City Hall. They have erected there since then a statue of Lincoln. Were it the man himself he might see the site of the murder comtnit t. and in his name from the paltry pedestal OH which it i 'l’ho ontev oatiA rxf the Arsenal faces that statue at the other ind of the long, wide street exactly. From the gate to the old Penitentiary, where the mockery of the trial was play ed, runs a broad and graveled path. Tnis path turned around the Penitentiary walls, and led to the gate of the yard where stood the scaffold. The walls of the Penitentiary formed two sides of the yard, and the other two were walls built to inclose the yard, and there stood some tit teen feet high. Upon these walls sen tries were placed. Fronting the wall that ran at right angles with the end of the penitentiary, siood a strange, weird looking structure. The one end of it had a ladder- that reached the ground, beyond that end, some twenty yards, was a small iron door that opened into the penitentiary—in one of whose lower tier of cells, beneath a raised and replaced flag, were rotting the remains of John Wilkes Booth. This wooden structure was THE SCAFFOLD. • It consisted of a platform resting on square wooden posts. The front part of the platform was attached to the back part by hinges, and this front rested on p >sts which its weight alone held in place. Along the back and solid part of the plat form were four chairs. Around this yard lounged the corres pondents, were ranged some soldiers, and right in the middle of the yard, when the writer entered it, stood the tall and ample form of Hancock in full uniform. “General, may I go in once more aud soo the prisoners ?” “No, sir. One moment—Orderly !” “Yes, sir.” “Mount your horse, go to the outer gate of the Arsenal. Don’t dismount, but keep your eye along Four-and a-half street. Should you see a mounted soldier riding this way, then rido here aud tell me. Stay there till you are re lieved by the sight of that soldier, or by order.” “Yos, sir.” The orderly sped away. “No, sir, I cannot permit it. They aro with ministers and priests, have but a few minutos to live. I have refused every other correspondent.” “l)o you expect a reprieve, General?” “I expect nothing. That woman, however, shall not lose a chance of life, if I can help it. That’s why I sent that orderly to the gate.” He did expect a reprieve, and his face showed he did. TIIE PROCESSION. The eyes of most were now fastened on the iron door that led into tho peni tentiary. It looked like a postern in a fortress, heavy, sullen and pitiless. My eyes wandered back to the scaffold. I then noticed, for the first time, that above the platform, resting on two firm posts ran a beam. From this beam hung four ropes. It sickened to see them. The sun in tho meauwhile shone down on tlio whole ghastly scene as fierce in its unclouded splendor as ever it shone on the hot sands of Syria. A sudden movement, a murmur, a low exclamation: “Hore they are!” There they wore, issuing, one by one, from the little door, preceded by soldiers. Hanked by soldiers, followed by soldiers, accompanied by men in civilian dresses, the priest, the minister and the hang men. There was a hangman to every prisoner. Atzerodt came first. Payne came sec ond. Harold came third. She came last. Father Walter was talking to her all the way to the scaffold, all the way up its steps, and on it, when she took her seat. They sat in the order in which they had come. The poor woman could scarcely walk, and they assisted her to her death very tenderly. As she sat down, I could not refrain from looking to the yard gate, thinking of the orderly at the outer gate beyond. There was no sign. I looked at Hancock, his eyes were turned the same way : his usually florid face was the color of ashes. I could see his hands open and close nervously. He looked at his watch, and the chain oscillated at the touch of his nervous fingers, usually as calm as is the hand of a heavy lympathie man, for Hancock was both. Mary E. Surratt was praying to the crucifix held before her by Father Walter. Each of the others was listening to the minister. At length Father Walter prayed aloud, and I reporting the prayer, for the time, forgot the orderly. The prayer over, I looked gatewards again. No sign! Hancock’s eyes were riveted on the gate. The arms of each were being pinioned. They were told to rise, and they all four rose. Each hangman placed the noose around each of their necks. I look again at the gate. No sign! Hancock was looking at his watch. Turning again to the scaffold, I saw the straw hat of Payne blown by a sudden, unexpected breeze off his head, as if to make way for the white cap. Detective Roberts, his hangman, was about pulling it over his face. I turned to see her. She had lost the power to stand. They had to hold her up while they pulled down the cap. Great God! can a thought be more hor rible. Still no oDe at the gate ! They were told to walk forward upon the front and treacherous part of the platform. There they stood. Atzerodt swaying with fear: Payne erect and firm as the gladiator which he resembled, when awaiting the fatal fiat; Harold, still. She lifeless to all appearance. The sentries had ceased pacing. You could hear a pin drop. 4l Good-bye, my friends, we’ll all meet again.” exclaimed Harold. Atzerodt said something I could not hear. From under Atzerodt the platform dnpped with water on the -ground be neath. Still no one at the gate ! Hancock closed his watch. The men who upheld the lifeless wo man stepped back on the solid half of the platform. She was falling, when suddenly the supporting posts in front were knocked down, and all four dangled and swung—the most ghastly spectacle man ever saw! She never perceptibly moved. Her petticoats and dress had been gathered with a string about her ankles. She hung a dead weight of flesh, not less than two hundred pounds. Payne writhed and twisted for several minutes. Beneath Atzerodt there had gathered quite a little pool of water. There was no shout. There was a shudder went through all present— through soldier and civilian—nothing more. Again I looked at Hancock. If ever he wore that frightened look on the field, hi£ soldier fame is a lie. WHO WITHHELD THE REPRIEVE? Who withheld the reprieve ? Holt says Andrew Johnson did. John son said he was never asked for it. Holt admits that an official application by the murderous conclave of troopers, called the Court, was made to Andy for a re prieve. Andy said Stanton withheld it. Each threw the blame upon the other : but w hosoever was to blame, the deed was done, in face of day, under the shadow of the flag of the United States, by the authority of its President, the acquies cence of his Cabinet, the t-igning of the Secretary of War. and under the actual supervision of a Major General of its armies. Of all the more active participants in that murder, Holt alone remains to face the strange fates that have overtaken his associates therein—dubious and sudden death. Stanton died quickly after. He died suddenly, and suspected of the suicide of remorse. King drowned himself. And men do say he drowned himself from inability to face the constant memory of his unso licited share in that woman's murder. Andrew Johnson, whose demise recalls the whole of that awful story to the mind again, died suddenly. But not, we think, because of this crime, of which a passing weakness alone made him a pas sive accomplice. Johnson’s hands were tied. The. Radicals who found in the blood of Lincoln the fertilizing stream of their despotic power did not forget one maxim of Machiaveili's: “If you would know who perpetrated a crime look to see who has profited by it.” The death of Lincoln made Johnson President. And dark hints were thrown out which could scarce fail to reach the ear of Andy. The first whisperings of the coming fight between Andy and the Radical Congress had already’ been issued by J. W. Forney, before Mary E. Sur ratt’s murder was determined upon. Brave in all things else, Andy’s nerves failed him here. He did not dare to save the woman. As time passed Andy felt he should have done so, and in his wMcicd lliC OIJ that none licvd asked him. This threw the whole re sponsibility on Holt and Stanton. They insisted that they had, the one sent, the other handed, the so-called court’s appli cation to him. Less than two years ago Andy 7 and Holt called again for public decision on the matter. The proof on both sides is wholly unsatisfactory, and remains a question of veracity. But taking it as a question of veracity, what man could believe Holt to disbelieve Andy Johnson? Andy has gone to tell his audit where proof is needless. He has gone unsus pected of auy other wrong—honest amid thieves, true to his convictions amid a crowd that had none. llolt from the first thirsted for the woman’s blood, showed his thirst in in sult of her counsel, an honored lawyer and statesman; showed it in his treat ment of the chief witness against her, Weichman ; showed it in his whole con duct of the case. It may be taken for granted, therefore, if Johnson sinned, his sin was the sin of weakness, not of bloodthirstiness, of a weakness to in crease the dastardly suspicion against him, by boldly reprieving from the gal lows, unasked, a woman doomed without true trial, and shorn of counsel by the men who were at once her judges and accusers. A. It. C. GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON AND THE KHEDIVE. A I Ugh Compliment from the Northern Side. In the New York Herald of a recent date we find the following, under the head of “A Nile Notable “It is reported by the Atlanta Herald that General Joseph E. Johnston, the distinguished Confederate commander, has accepted the position of Commander in Chief of the Egyptian army ; that he will receive a bonus of one hundred thousand dollars and an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars, and that he now accepts the post after having re peatedly refused it. If this report be true, the Khedive has secured the ser vices of a most accomplished and capable soldier, and if victory should not favor his colors in the wars he has to apprehend it will not be for the want of military talent in his com mauder. General Johnston is not only the ablest living soldier produced on the Southern side in our great war, but, in the opinion of persons who have closely studied the conflict, he is the ablest sol dier that appeared on the scene, from first to last, in support of the Southern cause, aud tho only Southern General of great conceptions in strategy. No thoughtful Southerner will ever be able to free his mind from painful reflections of what might have been if the conduct of the war had been thoroughly in Johnston’s hands —aud the North must always rejoice that there was a Jeff Davis to thwart him. With the many admirers of Johnston’s talents as a soldier, his character also stands high be cause he fought, as he understood it, for his country and freedom. Different views may be taken now, as he seems to become a mere soldier of fortune in au Oriental service; but against the antique prejudice on this point it tends to be come more and more recognized that war is au inevitable fact in the progress of nations from old to new conditions, and that it is one of the more than human economies to have it conducted on scien tific principles. There will, moreover, be no wars there but such as his fiiends might envy General Johnston the chance to assist in; for the Khedive will do no fighting of consequence till he is com pelled to defend against Turkey his own declaration of independence.” We reproduce the foregoing, not mere ly to show the high estimation iq which the military accomplishments of General Johnston is held at the North, but also for the purpose of repeating the denial which we made a few days ago. General Johnston has not aud will not accept the offer of the Khedive. He is a Southern soldier and patriot, and not a free lance. Tlte Expiring Cry of the Carpet- Bagger. [From the Philadelphia Inquirer [Rep.), lOth.l ; It was less than a year ago when the veriest carpet-bagger of them all could call upon the Federal Administration for troops, and get them, too, without ques tion or explanation. The drum-t ip of the marching regiment was the quick re ply to the carpet-bagger’s demand, and the drum-tap and the tramp of the troops was echoed throughout the South. Those were the golden days of the carpet-bag ger; but they were nigh on to their end then, and one of the last outrages they witnessed was the election to the Guber natorial chair of Mississippi of that chief of carpet-baggers, Adalbert Ames. He was and is Governor of Mississippi. by grace of “a call for troops,” and by the same means of grace he desires to con tinue to hold the reins of power in that State. But this is not a good time to start anew the wheels of the carpet-baggers’ outrage mill, or to call for troops. There has been a remarkable change in public opinion since Adelbert Ames was hoisted in the Gubernatorial chair of Mississipp on the point of Federal bayonets. Mr. Attorney-General Williams, of Oregon, was chief engineer of the outrage factory then, and he kept its wheels going by lubricating them with “more troops" whenever a carpet-bagger suggested the wheels were squeaking! But Mr. Wil liams is not chief engineer any more. He has retired to his native wilds of Ore gon, and in his place sits, wisely con scious of his responsibility to interpret just.y his country’s laws, an honest gen tleman and learned lawyer, one Pierre pont. Attorney General Pierrepont was ap pointed to the office he now holds not ouly because of professional fitness, but that his high character should stand as a rebuke to, and a protest against, the dis honest, disgraceful and ignorant malad ministration of his immediate predeces sor. The outrage mill, the insolent de mands, and the prompt compliance with those demands for troops by the usurp ing carpet baggers of the South, are things of the past, and though they were in full operation less than a year ago, it seems now almost impossible to believe that they ever received the sanction of the government. They were wrongs without excuse; being so, they were con demned by the honesty of the whole ca tion, and there should be no more hope of their revival than there is chance of the political resurrection of Landanlet Williams. telegraphic hews. Summary of Ist Werli'i I>i*pnlche. the case of dr. hicks. [Special Telegram to the Morning News.] Live Oak. Fla., September 14. The undersigned are personally ac quainted with the gentleman who report ed the recent church trial of Dr. Hicks for the Morning News, and from our personal knowledge of his character and standing, can safely assert that he would make no misrepresentations of the facts. They can further say that the facts, if fully sU would add more strength to the geneiai impression made by the dis patches rathei than detract anything from them. (Signed) Jxo. W. Hall. H. A. Blackburn, D. W. Tedder, R. A. Ivey, Sherod Bird, J. T. Carroll. H. A. Wyse, B. F. Green, L. D. Green, M. M. Blackburn, T. G. McEachin. A. C. Stephens, H. F. Dexter, Jas. F. Hunt, T. G. Jenkins, J. O. C. Blount, P. M. Johnson. FROM DARIEN. [Special Telegram to the Morning News.] Darien, via Brunswick, Sept. 14. An attempt was made to assassinate wiuiam J. Donnelly this morning at half past one o'clock, by someone shooting through the window while he was in bed. The discharge from the gun set lire to his bed and around him. The buckshot missed him about an ineh, but the powder burned his face. There is no one suspi cioned. Someone entered the telegraph office last night and stole the instruments. It is thought that the same person or per sons did both the robbing and the shoot THE ALABAMA COUNTERFEITERS. [Special Telegram to the Morning News.] Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 15. The arrests of the counterfeiters are sustained, and the prisoners have been required to give bail in sums of from seven hundred to one thousand dollars. I have to-day seen letters and bogus bills of the accused, whose guilt is beyond question. The gang had planned exten sive operations, and their bills are good imitations, especially the fives on the First National Bank of Paxton, Illinois. But for these arrests the South would have been flooded with counterfeits dur ing the present season. I will send full reports by mail. THE ALABAMA COUNTERFEITERS [Special Telegram to the Morning Nows.l Huntsville, Ala., September 14. The counsel for the defense have spent three days in arguing against the legality of the arrest of the counterfeiters in Tennessee by the Marshal of Alabama. The Commissioner will probably decido for the Marshal, and the examinations will commence in the morning. ALABAMA 00-. ’ jTITUTION A L CONVENTION. Montgomery, September 14. The Committee on Finance aud Taxes made their report to the Constitutional Con vention to-dgy. They say they have examined into the condition of the treas ury, which they find almost "exhausted, and have looked into the financial condi tion of tlie State, which is absolutely appalling. They find the total indebted ness of the State to be about twenty nine million dollars, aud the total value of taxable property about one hundred aud fifty-nine million dollars; that it would require near twenty per cent, of the entire taxable property of the State to liquidate the public debt. This would indeed be appalling were it not for the hope of an adjustment held out to us by the Commissioner appointed to adjust the public debt, by which Alabama may be relieved from this heavy burden which is crushing the energies of her people. The _ direct debt is about fifteen mil lion dollars, and the contingent debt for the endorsement of railroads Ac., about fourteen million. It is only necessary to present this statement of formidable indebtedness to convince the creditors of the State that foil payment is impossible, and that the State can never resume the payment of interest until the debt is adjusted and reduced so as to correspond with our diminished resources. But in the face of this dark feature it affords us pleasure to state that the commissioners are sanguine of their ability to reduce the entire indebtedness of the State, exclusive of educational and trust funds, to a sum not exceeding ten millions, the interest on which will not exceed $420,000 per annum. Iu view of this fact vour committee have boen stimulated to extraordinary exertions trying to shape the financial article in the Constitution so as to meet the ends which we have been induced to believe can be accomplished. We recommend economy in each branch of the government; we recommend that property be taxed in proportion to its value; we recommend a prohibition of the State from engaging in works of in ternal improvement or the loaning of its credit for that purpose; we recommend that no debt shall be incurred by the State, except to suppress insurrection, rebellion or invasion. We recommend a reduction of twenty-five per cent, on all salaries, and a reduction of pay and mileage of members of the Legislature from six to four dollars per day, and from forty to ten cents per mile. We recom mend that the Legislature shall not in any one year levy mors -than three quarters of one per cent, tax upon the property of the people for State pur poses. We believe, with these economical views fully carried out, and the contem plated compromise consummated, with this rate of taxation of one-fourth of one per cent as a maximum, that our State will once more gain her deserved pros perity; that capital, seeing our debt is reduced and our taxing powers limited, will seek investment in our cheap lands, and population always following capital, will fill up our waste places, and that our property will enhance in value, and rapid reduction of the rate of taxation may be had, yet with sufficient revenue to meet an economical administration and pay interest on the public debt. The committee reported an article on taxa tion accordingly. The above report, which was ordered to be printed, comes up for action on Thursday. THE 11AINE ELECTION. Portland, September 14. —One hun dred and forty towns give Conner 28,670, Roberts 26,190. The Republican ma jority will probably reach 5.000, against 10,000 last year. The Congressional con test for a vacancy in the Fourth District will be close. The Democrats gain in the Senate, and the House will probably re main unchanged. Li ter. — One hundred and eighty-four towns give Conner 34,874, Roberts 32,- 193. a Republic&D 'oss of 3,945. If this rate holds out the Republican majority will be 4,500. The towns now unheard from last year gave the Republicans 21,- 190 and the Democrats 12,085. Plaisted, Republican candidate for Congress, is ahead of his ticket and is probably elected. FROM SPAIN. Madrid, September 16. —The circular of the Papal Nuncio is commented on by all the Spanish papers, and surprise is expressed that the circular is sent with out the permission of the King. The Epoca asserts that another circular, equally important, has been issued. A cabinet council has been called exclusively for the consideration of the Nuncio’s circular. The Gorreapondencia does not believe the Spanish Cortes will meet this year. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRI CULTURE. Washington, September 15. —The De partuient of Agriculture reports the con ditiou of cotton as better for September than August in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and worse on the Atlantic coast. In Alabama and Texas the preva lent droughts of July were succeeded by rain s in August, too copious for the best results in the Mississippi valley, and quite injurious in the heavy soils of the eastern belt, causing rust, shedding of leaves and fruit, and to some extent rot ting of the lower bolls. There is a rank recent growth which will yield largely with a favorable and long autumn season, or prove a disappointment in case of an early killing frost. Iu some parts of Texas drought continued for nine weeks, but the seasonable rains since the mid dle of August have placed fields in high condition in all except the most severely parched localities. The losses from the prevalence of insects will scarcely be a factor in calculating the product of the present year. Few counties in Florida and lower Georgia report the caterpillar. The boll worm is more numerous in Lowndes, Mississippi, and has been heard from in a few other coun ties. Lice are mentioned by some cor respondents, and in Covington. Alabama, a correspondent reports anew enemy which he calls a minute gnat, which har bor on leaves like lice, producing wide spread and serious injury. As oompared with September, 1874, the only States now reporting a lower condition are South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and iu the Mississippi valley the improvement is very marked, particularly in Tennessee and Arkansas, in which the averages were very low in 1874. A large proportion of cotton area of the country is represented in the September returns, which include no less than sixty cotton counties in Texas and seventy-six in Georgia. The State averages of condition are as fol lows : North Carolina 00, South Carolina 80, Georgia 70, Florida 75, Alabama 87, Mississippi 96. Louisiana 88, Texas 94, Arkansas 99, Tennessee 96. THE MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION. Washington, Snptimihor 15. Tlio Mis sissippi delegation had an interview to day with ;he Attorney General. The del egation consisted of Senator Bruce, Sher iff Buchanan Marshall, ex-Congressman Howe, Secretary of State Hill, Chairman Republican State Committee Warner, and John B. Warner, editor of the Mississippi Pilot. The interview lasted until after 2 o’clock. Pierrepont questioned each severally, and they all agree that Warren county is quiet, and the emergency which demanded Federal interference is for the present passed. They represent the number of white Republicans in the State of Mississippi as few. There is no military organization in that State except white leagues. They appre hend no further trouble in Mississippi until the Republicans hold meetings. It is then apprehended that such gather ings will be broken up. Judge Pierre pont asked why the Republicans did not organize and defend themselves. They replied that they had no organization, and when they come in contact with organized white leagues, they fled before them. They stated that the sovereignty of Mississippi was unable to protect itself without aid from the government. If troops were not sent before the No vember election many Republicans would be interfered with at the polls. Pierre pont said he had advised Ames to perfect some military organizations to protect the people of the State in their political rights, and advised the delegation to re turn home and consult Ames about or ganizing means for their protection. Should they fail to do this, and further trouble occurred, they were to let him know. Pierrepont is of the opinion that no further action will be taken on Ames’s requisition for troops. A WORD FROM MOULTON. New York, September 14. —District Attorney Britton, of Brooklyn, has ad dressed letters to H. W. Beecher and F. D. Moulton suggesting that the public interest would be best served by entering a nolle prosequi in the case of H. W. Beecher against F. G. Moulton for libel. Beecher, in reply, concurs in the disposi tion of the case suggested by the Dis trict Attorney. Moulton says he can not acquiesce in the action proposed, and con cludes his letter as follows: “I am indicted for libel in charging Rev. H. W. Beecher with criminal inter course with a female member of his congregation. The charge is true. He knows it to be true, and whatever the imperfections of man’s tribunals, the Supreme Ruler will some day reveal the truth, and that, too, under the challenge in defense of my own character and the character of her whose good name is dearer to me than life itself. I have been arraigned as a criminal, compelled, like a felon, to plead with uplifted hand, subjected to the ignominy of bonds against an escape from justice,loaded with obloquy by the public press, frowned upon and avoided by society, and now, after the indictment against me has served its purpose, by discrediting me in advance as a witness of Rev. Mr. Beecher’s guilt, and it is as apparent to you as it is to the world that I am innocent and must be acquitted. At this moment and under these circum stances I am requested to acquiesce in a nolle prosse, and to suffer my accuser to escape the penalty of his perjured prose cution. Never, sir, never ! I demand a trial and shall be ready on any reasonable notice to make good my defense. Very respectfully, (Signed) Francis D. Moulton. PAPAL NUNCIO. London, September 16.—The Madrid correspondent of the Times summarizes the circular of the Papal Nuncio to the Bishops as follows: “The Nuncio claims the fulfillment of the concordat, which forbids the exercise of any non-Oatholic creed, and requires the transfer of the superintendence over education to the clergy, and pledges the co-operation of the secular power in suppressing heretical teaching and literature.” The circular says: “ One of the causes of the civil war is the way in which religious unity has been misunderstood by previ ous governments. For these reasons, and in view of these consequences, the Holy See believes itself strictly obliged to present these observations to the gov ernment.” The Times correspondent adds that there is no doubt that the presentation of this audacious claim, at a time when a Liberal Cabinet has just been installed, implies a threat that if the government rejects it the blessing of the Church will be definitely transferred to Don Carlos and peace retarded in every possible way. THE PLYMOUTH ADULTEREB. Twin Mountain House, August 30— To District Attorney Britton —Dear Sir: Your letter commending to my attention certian considerations which incline you to relinquish the criminal suit against Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton was duly received and considered. I think that the views which you present are sound and wise. It would seem to be axiomatic that no suit should be carried on in which neither individuals nor society can hope for benefit. Should you in your further discretion enter a nolle prosequi, I believe all right-thinking citizens will regard your act with approbation, when made aware of the reasons. Sincerely yours, H. W. Beecher. SOUND DOCTRINE. Syracuse, September 16. —In the Democratic State Convention, Daniel Magie, temporary chairman, said there are living questions now before the people of the several States for examination and decision, which are to be settled in the year 1876, paramount among which is the financial question, deeply affecting every business interest. The evils of the de preciated currency, under which the country now suffers, naturally flowed out of a departure from a sound interpreta tion of the Constitution prohibiting the States, and, by implication, the General Government from making anything but gold and silver legal tender. THE EAST MAIL TRAINS Washington, September 15. — The Post Office Department will dispatch the mails to-morrow morning by the fast trains which have lately been put on. The De partment loses twenty-five cents a pound on newspapers and ten cents a pound on merchandise between New York and San Francisco. A railway mail has been ordered from Little Rock to Actus, one hundred and twenty miles, commencing on October let. It is claimed that the fast mail train gives twelve hours advan tage to Southern mails at Louisville and St. Louis. DEATH OF JOE CREWS. Augusta, Ga., September 15. A special dispatch from Columbia an nounces the death of Joe Crews, who was shot near Laurens, S. C., last week by unknown parties. REPLY OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO OOV. AMES. Washington, September 14.— T0 G<m. Antes, Jackson, Miss.: This hour I have had a dispatch from the President. I can best convey to you his ideas by ex tracts from his dispatch : “The whole public are tired out with these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South, and the great majority are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the government. I heartily wish that peace and good order may be restored without issuiug the proclamation, but if it is not, the proclamation must be issued, and if it iS, I shall instruct the commander of the forces to have no child’s play. If there is a necessity for military interference there is justice in such interference so as to deter evil doers. I would suggest the sending of a dispatch, or letter by private messenger, to Governor Ames, urging him to strengthen his own position by ex hausting his own resources in restoring order before he receives government aid. He might accept the assistance offered by the citizens of Jackson and elsewhere. Governor Ames and his advisers can be made perfectly secure, as many of the troops now iu Mississippi as he deems necessary may be sent to Jackson. If he is betrayed by those who offer assistance, he will be in a position to defeat their ends and punish them.” You see by this the mind of the President, with which I and every member of the Cabinet who has been consulted are in full accord; you see the difficulties; you see the responsi bilities which you assume. We cannot understand why you do not strengthen yourself in the way the President sug gests; nor do we see why you do not call the Legislature together, and obtain from them whatever power and money and arms you need. The Constitution is ex plicit. The Executive of the State can call upon the President for aid in sup pressing domestic violence only when the Legislature cannot be convened, and the law especially says in case of an insur rection in any State, or against the gov ernment thereof, it shall be lawful for the President, on application of the Leg islature of such State, or of the Execu tive when the Legislature cannot be con vened, to call, etc. The plain meaning of the Constitution and the laws when together, is that the Executive of the State may call upon the President for military aid to quell domestic violence, only in case of insurrection in any State or against the Government thereof, when the Legislature cannot be called together. You make no suggestion even that there is any insurrection against the Govern ment of the State, or that the Legislature would not support you in any measures you might propose to preserve the public order. I suggest that you take all lawful means and ail needed measures to preserve the peace by using the forces in your own State, and let the whole coun try see that the citizens of Missis sippi, who are largely favorable to good order, and who are largely Republi can,have the courage and the manhood to fight for their rights and to destroy the bloody ruffians who murder the innoceut and unoffending freedmen. When every thing is in readiness be careful to bring yourself strictly within the Constitution and the laws, and if there is such resist ance to your State authorities as you cannot by all the means at your command suppress, the President will swiftly aid you in crushing these lawless traitors to human rights. Telegraph me on receipt of this and state explicitly what you need. Very respectfully yours, (Signed) Edwards Piebrepont, . Attorney General. The Government After More Negro Voters. A dispatch from Muscogee, Indian Ter ritory, dated 12th instant, says: Gen. J. P. C. Shanks, Special Commis sioner, arrived in the territory to-day. He is on his way to the Chickasaw Nation to attend their National Council, now in session at Fishimingo, with a view to settle the future status of the colored people held as slaves by the Indians be fore their emancipation. By the provis - ions of the treaty of 1866, the United States agreed to pay the Choctaws and Chickasaws the proceeds of the sale of leased lands, owned by them west of the 98 th degree, the sum of $300,000, con tingent upon their admitting their former slaves and descendants to the rights of citizenship, and giving them forty acres of land in the nation; on failing to do this the United States were to remove the colored people, at the end of thirty days from the exjiiration of two years, deducting that amount from their na tional fund, and applying it to the ex pense of their removal from the limits of the nation, which has not been done. It is hoped that the vexed question will be definitely settled now, as much dissatis faction has grown out of the non-fulfill ment of the treaty. The plan is probably to colonize these so-called Indian slaves with the Seminole negroes in Florida, or in some other mongrelized Southern State where their votes will do the most good. Terrible Struggle with a Tramp— Middletown, N. Y, September IB. — Friday morning Mr. J. H. Elston, a farmer, living about two miles from this village, was visited by a traveling tinker, who sought a job. He agree to mend a kettle for fifteen cents, but after the job was completed he complained that he was poor and the farmer rich, and that he ought to have more money. This was refused. Then he seized a kettle of hot water and threw it at Mr. Elston. He then threw his soldering iron at him, but missed him. Mr. Elston seized his gun and threatened to shoot the fellow unless he went away. The tramp wrenched the gun from him and broke it on his head. They then clinched, and in the struggle that ensued Mr. Elston was stabbed five times. Mrs. Elston run to the rescue, and the tramp stabbed her also. They managed to hold him down until some neighbors, who had been called by the children ar rived, and he was bound. Mr. Elston was stabbed under the eye, in the eye brow, temple, cheek and neck. Mrs. Elston was stabbed near the jugular vein, on the inside of the arm, below the elbow joint and near the shoulder. Her wounds are severe, but not dangerous. The wqppon which the tramp used was a nar row, flat file, ground to a point. It is shaped like a dagger, and was evidently made for such use. He is lodged in Goshen jail. Destruction of Railroad Shops.— About three o’clock on Sunday morning the extensive machine and repair shops of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad at Lynchburg, Va., were de stroyed by fire. The fire is supposed to have originated from sparks from a sta tionary engine. The entire establish ment was destroyed, except a portion of the brick walls left standing, including a large amount of fine machinery. The loss is estimated at from fifty to seventy five thousand dollars, which is partially covered by insurance. This is the second time these shops have been destroyed within the past three years. All depends on Ohio. If that State goes Democratic in October it will be next to impossible for the Republicans to carry Pennsylvania in November; and if Democracy and inflation should sweep both these great central States of the Union, the outlook for honest finance is dark indeed. But should the inflation Democracy receive a decided check at the Ohio election, their fate in Pennsyl vania is sealed. The action of the Penn sylvania Democracy, therefore, will in crease the already intense interest which is felt in the Ohio election.— Detroit TrVmne (Rep). Money is no doubt a question of great dignity and moment; but a free govern ment rises to a higher pitch of merit. It therefore behooves all the people who have recoiled in disgust from Grant and Grantism to unite in support of Demo cratic principles, whatever views they may entertain on the financial question. First let us make sure that we have a country worth being concerned about; and then we may concern ourselves as to what kind of currency its people may circulate. —[Petersburg ( Va.) Irulez and Appeal (Derm.) Hobson’s Choice. —The Mississippi whites seem to prefer negroes to white carpet-baggers. Not long ago a young white man was arrested for disorderly conduct at Greenwood, and given his choice to be tried by a black native Jus tice or by a white appointee of Ames. He selected the former. > i i < The newly elected King of Samoa is anxious to marry Premier Steinberger to his widowed sister Safoa, who was once a Queen. B. H. 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Andrews, Thom ttsvilh*, Thomas county, Ga. aep24-M&wly NOTitTL. Gi EORGlA—Camden County,—Notice is here ' by given that the Sheriff ’h advertisements will hereafter be published in The Savannah Weekly News, • HAMILTON SIMPSON, Sep3-d6w4 Sheriff Camden County. BCIUVEN SHERIFF SALE. WILL be sold before the Court House door ot Striven county, between the legal Lours of sale, ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN NO VEMISEK, 1875, a tract of land lying in said county, containing one hundred and seventy (17o) acres, more or less, and adjoining lands of Daniel J. Stewart, James A. . ims. lands form erly owned by J. L. Hilton and others. Levied on by ine as the property of Elijah C. Davis tosatislytwo ti. las., one issued irons the hupc rior Court of said county in lavor of Jiritton R. Mims vs. Thomas Cross, Elijah C. Davis, J. W. Bates, and I. W. Bryon. The other an alias fi. ia. issued,tiie original from the County Court of said county, the alias from said Superior Coun in lavor of John C. 'Thornton, administrator d< bonus non of Daniel S. Thornton vs. 1. W. Bryon E. C. Davis, Thomas Gross, principals, and James D. Wade, endorser; li fa. paid by en dorger and levy for his benefit; Jonn Gross! tei ant in possession of said iractoi land. Levied on this August 30, 1875. 11. W. JOYNER, gep2-dlt&wtd Sheriff S. C. SCREVEN SHERIFF’S SALK G) EORGlA—Screven Cou ntv. —By virtue ot ' a Superior Court fieri facias in lavor ol A vin H. Miller vs. John M. Miller, defendant, I w sell, between the Lgal hours of sale, on the FIuST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER NEXT, be fore the court door in Sylvauitt, In Maid county, all of that certain tract of land situate in said State and county, iiounded by the waters of liner creek and the lands of Mrs. Emily Roberts, i ‘ i " and others, containing three hun dred and fifty-nine (359) acres, more or less, as the property of the said defendant, to satisfy i^ id fa- Property pointed out by George it. Black, Esq., plaintiff’s attorney. Notice of levy duly given in terms of the law. AugusL 23, Jsis. 11. W. JOYNER, sept-dlt-wtd .Sheriff S. C. SCREVEN SHERIFF S NALL r f EORGlA—Screven County.—Will tie sold, vA before the court house door in the vi.lage ol Sylvania, Screven county, within the legal hours of sale, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER NEXT, ail that tract of land in said county con taining two hundred and sixteen (216) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands ot Hardy Hunter, lands of Corey, lindg which are sometimes known as the estate lands of James I'. 'Thomp son, deceased, and lands of others. Said tract of land levied upon as the properly of William Arnett, to satisfy a ft. fa. from the Superior Court of said county in favor of Alfred J. J. Blois against said Arnett. David Burke, tenant in pos session. This August 27, 1*75. 11. W. JOYNER, sepl-dlt-wtd Sheriff Screven County. CAMDEN SHERIFF’S SALE. WILL BE SOLD, before the court bouse door in St Marys, betweu the legal hours of saie, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, the following property, to-wit: A certain tract oi land situated on the south side ot the Great Sa tiila river, in Camden county, and known as the- Joseph Thomas tract, and where George Lang, Sr., deceased, formerly resided, the property of the estate of the said George Lang, Sr., deceased, described and conveyed in a certain indenture of mortgage, bearing date on the sth day of Octo ber, 1860. Is levied upon to Batiefy a mortgage fl. fa. in favor of Jolin 11. Morrison, Exe’r, vs. Henry K. Lang, Exe’r, issued from the Superior Court, April term, 1875. Amount of principal, s2tto: interest, $92 75, and costs. HAMILTON SIMPSON, sep3-<Uwßt Sheriff Camden Cos., Ga,