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VOLUME XXXVI.]
IiOUGHTOS, XISB ET, BARN ES& MOORE
publishers 3rd Proprietors.
MILLED SEVILLE, GEORR
SHAT, NOVEMBER 21,
Hie Volunleei Counsel.
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V I Editors.
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l_,;ray Notices, 30 days,
Koredosiire of Mortgage, per sq.. each time,
LEGAL AIU’EKTISEMENTS.
_ .,,f Land, &.c., by Administrators, Executors or
i, iniiitiis, are required by law to be held on the first ■
l,iv i:i the mouth ; between the hours of .0 l|i the
and three ill the atternoon. atthe Court house j
„ <• unity in which the property is situated.
X ,i . ot these sales must be given m a public gn-
•ieUr W days previous to the duy ot sule.
Nonces for the sale of personal property must-be
..■ii in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
* _\„tices to the debtors and creditors ot an estate
also be punished 40 days. _
\ tice that application will be made t > the Court <>f
,,‘i nary for leave to sell Land, &c., must be pubhs.i-
. • tor two mouths. , . ■
, for letters of Administration Guardianship,
i must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Aiuimistration, monthly *t.c mouths—for dismission
■ ,„n Guardianship, 4U Hays.
I; . tor foreclosure ot .Mortgage must he published
•til. 'y for four months—lor establishing lost papers,
, I nil space Of three m»nllt<—tor compelling titles
- n Executors or administrators, where bond lias
| r ii oven oy the deceased, tlie full space of three
Joltn Taylor was licensed wlien a youth
of twenty-two, to practice at tiie bar.
He was poor, but well educated, and pos
sessed extraordinary genius. lie married
a beauty, who afterwards deserted biin
for another.
On the 9th of April. 1840, the court
house in Clarksville, Texas, was crowded
to overflowing. An exciting case was
about to be tried. George Hopkins, a
wealthy pi liter, had offered a gross insult
to Mary Ellison, the young and beautiful
wife of his overseer. The husband
threatened to chastise him for the outrage,
when Hopkins went to Ellison’s house
and shot him in his own door. The mur
derer was bailed to answer the charge.
This occmrencc produced great excite
ment, and Hopkins, in order to turn the
tide of popular indignation, had circulated
reports against her character, and she had
sued him for slander. Both suits were
pending—for murder and slander.
The interest became deeper when it
was known that 1’ike and Ashly, of Ar
kansas, and S. S. Prentiss, of New Or
leans, by enormous fees, had been retain
ed to defend Hopkins.
Hopkins was acquitted. The Texas
lawyers were overwhelmed by their oppo
nents.* It was a fight of dwarf against
giant.
The slander case was for the 9th. and
! the throng of spectators grew in numbers
as well as excitement; public opinion was
Setting in for Jlopkins; his money had
procured witnesses who served
for the ►murdered DEAD and living—the
beautiful Mary more beautiful every mo
ment as her tears flowed faster—till men
w ej. and sohhed'like children.
He closed with a strange exhortation to
the jury, and through them to tho by
standers; he advised the panel, after they
should bring in a verdict for the plaintiff
not to offer violence to the defendant,
however richly he might deserve it; in
other words “not to lynch ti e villian, hut
leave his punishment with God.” This
was the most artful trick of all, and the
best calculated to insure vengeance.
Tho jurj' returned a verdict of fifty
thousand dollats, and the night afterwards
Hopkins was taken ont of bed and beaten
almost to death. As the court adjourned
the strangei*said :
“John Taylor will preach here tins
evening at early candle light.”
He did preach, and the house was crow
ded. I have listened to Clay. Webster
► and Calhoun—to Dwight, Bascom and
Beecher—hut never heard anything in
the form of sublime words even remotely
approximating to the eloquence of John
Taylor—massive as a mountain, and
wildly rushing as a cataract of fire.
a nee of a lib as the price of peace and’
safety.*
There is an ungenerous sneer, an
GENERAL NEWS.
G^n. ITenry C. Wayne, lias Wn appointed
agent for tbe Stale of Georgia, tor tiio American
»*v i vy i.i uu uu^tiiuum ouvti, uj'cui mi mo outt! ueorgM, It»r till* America!
unkind exultation in the parade of band Company, and agency located at 57 Broail- bonds amounting to $700,600 will be un-
, • , . , ..... rr,- 1 way New iork.
ay
General Dudley lias arrested nogreases who
were leading dissolute lives at Memphis, and
bound them ont to work on plantations for the
balance of this year and all of next.
Among the many curiosities and wonders that
triumph with which the Times says :
“We need not remind the South* fo
how great an extent they are depend
ent lor the speedy repossession of their
old political status upon the kindly.
sentiment and confidence of the peo- ! ^ een discovered in the tar off Western
i r .i i t . ,, ,* j wilns, none is more striking or marvellous than
plC Ol the loyal otates. #*Ore shame, the mountain of rock salt, situated about twenty
to the “loyal States” if they are SO ni il es from Meadow Valley, Nevada, and only
,)• _ | ... i eighteen miles from the head of navigation on the
dl.lo}al to the spirit of their republl- j Colorado river. It rises abruptly from the plain,
about four hundred feet in height, a mountain of
jiure, sparkling ebrystalized salt.
Gen. Grant says three important ques-
ment of their political rights. Is this,! t ‘ ons have been settled in Arkansas:
indeed, the household of a republic i ^* rst ’ *1’? insertion oi the clause of the
where the members that are strong
canism, as to use their power to rcii
dor any of their sister States depend
ent upon their kindness for theenjoy-
can deny to those that are weak, the
shelter and the privileges that are
their inalienable birth-right ? Is there
State Constitution forever prohibiting
slavery. Second the repudiation of tho
Confederate debt. Third, the prompt
ratification by the Legislature of the Con
stitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
“A Word lo the South. 1 ’ #
The intention to intimidate the
South to the acknowledgment and
support of Radical doctrines is plain- j luicul essence of every State likewise
ly demonstrated by Llnck iiepubhenn : unchanged from what it was when
journals and oratois. The lines pro- j th e -Constitution became the supreme
poses, as a condition of the restoration | aw n f tbn l?md - n,.d that
of the Southern States to their natu
ral functions within the Union, “their
"VulMidatiuiis will always be continued steoordiii;
;;e<e. tho legal requirement
his pow-
j erful ad\crates.—When tlm slander case prompt ratification of the constitutiou-
was called Alary Ellison was left without j a] amendment” abolishing slavery.—
an attorney all had withdrawn. j “It would secure,” says our coutempo-
‘‘Have you no counsel?: 1 .nquired, . (| s ,, e edy a.lu.issioo of their
Judge Mills, looking kindly at the plain- J J , .. .,
° J 1 j members to Congress; while its re-
*No, sir, they have all deserted me,' fu8al woulJ undoubtedly postpone
and 1 am too poor to employ any more,” ; Giat event indefinitely.’
replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into 1 This threat,jvhich, if fulfilled,.,will
tears. involve the destruction of the funda-
„ t “In such case, will not some chivalrous mentals of our political system gives
utile** otherwise "or-1 member of tho profession volunteer ?”j evidence that the reckless fanaticism
any condition of our political system ( The State Government has been in opera-
that can justify the prohibition of full tion since March, 1804.
national representation to peaceable , Railroad communication is now perfect
and law-abiding partners of our na- : between Jackson, Meridian and Vicks-
tionality ? If our form of govern ; Burg.
ment has changed under the influence j Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has been
of civil strife, let it so be understood ; : elected President of the National Express
if it has not changed, then is the po- Company.
After the installation of Hon. P. C.
Gaillard, Mayor of Charleston, Hon.
Charles Macbeth, Ex Mayor was presen
ted with a gold watch and chain by the
gentlemen who held office under him, as a
testimdbial of his faithful discharge of du-
: fy during the past eight years.
! Hon. John A. Campbell has arrjved
home in Mobile. a
law of the land; and that political
essence necessitates, and ‘that Consti
tution authorizes representation of the
States iti the Federal legislation ; else
all is anarchy or despotism.
“A word to the cJouth,” says the |
Times, in affectation of friendly coun- , *. c FrtmtmLy Legislature convenes on
0 .i. -Vi... J , tne first monday in December,
sel ; but its advice is dictation and me- J
We,
Major General Ew'l has made Tcn-
nauce of political emasculation. .
too, have our “word to the South.”— nessec his adopted State
we say, let your suffrages be the lion- j ^* ^ r * Jyl‘» Connell was assassina-
est expressions of your will. Let your in his own bed room in the Franklin
State Legislature be a fair representa-1 H " ,cl at m f°y few d X' s,l e"‘
i firm nf flio spnfiniont of nnmiln Rev. 1*. A. Fexiiam was ronsepmtorl
ci; rcJ. or is about to expire, ami must be renew-
,3 it h... wishes the payer coutiuued.
v/ e do not send receipts to new subscri-
»■-. It they receive the paper they may know
tint wc- hiive received the money.
that goaded to South into hostility lo
the central authority,is now employed
in fomenting elements of discord and
disturbance to thwart the general in-
Subscribers wishing their papers ckanped j t ] 0 j] ies locked so shabby that the court
rom »ueT)ost-oftice to another must 8,ate t j hesitated to let the case norceed through
lh « ^st-omce irom which they w.sh it Jj;s *en t . !
Lame of tho post-oflice irom
HtgeJ.
The first sensation was changed into
laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral
figure elbowed his way through the crowd,
and placed himself within the bar. His, .... . . ,
clination to repair the mischief that
has been done.
The Southern people, with an alac-
“lias your name been entered on the i rity that was not effected, have re-
i r °G s of the State ?” demanded the judge. | newed their allegiance to tiie Union,
I “It is immaterial,” answered the stran- an( ] have accepted every obligation
1!Y sei '' lns tL, : > . I V 3oJ !? s3 l,p , 8 . t " rliD S "P " i ' L imposed upon them by tiie Executive
s. *• JOSES and Z. i. RICE, j J ig "“t r 'trib U n™ ‘of”Amc“°a 0 !” Tod bo P. roclan, “ tion ' Congressional Icgisia-
\\ i: -luctfuiiy invite ouroMfrienfi* aiitUiK-trsv j ] iail ^ et ] the judge a broad parchment.: military decree, or by whatever
M uuhiic to irtve on a «*«n. »ng 8M ‘ 'pj )C tl j a j went 01i> other instrumentality of dominion the
lie suffered the witnesses to tell their Federal power is invested with or has
AUGUSTA HOTEL,
3t*p L
der the title of republicanism.
[A; V. Nan.
wj public to give us a call. Nothing pball
„n our part to suti.-ly the inner and outer
•ml* ,d man. _ _ _
JONES A liICE.
A. .-u«ta, On . Sept. 5tli. 1 Stdi, 5 din "
ix. ELa SB^.GrO^
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
[Established in business km'2.]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Vi jive strict attention to all business entrvis- j
i-! tuhim llislong connection with the Com-
n and Produce business of Atlanta, gives ;
assumed. The radicals are not satis
fied with the complete submission ol
the vanouished to every official ex
pression of will on the part of the
victors. They demand beside a blind
obe< ieuce to partizen precepts thatare
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ABBOTT* & BROTHERS,
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pt 12th. ISU5.
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TIIE (OXSTITlTIOiMLlST,
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ATUCSTA, GA., BY STOCKTON A.
Utidy, six months, $5 00.
one"month, J 00.
t Uf, k]y ) . s ; x months, 3 00.
** three “ J - r »0.
'' v ekly, six “ 2 00.
iimtisementi at reasonable rates,
be Constitutionalist is onq of the oldest ?.ml
'* in/fuential journals in Georgia, having a.so
circulation in tho adjoining States, Urns
ng a tirst class advertising medium. S Ot
SAVE TOUR RAGS!
H.iiedgeville, Oct 24, ISG5.
12 3m
*A. S. HARTRIDGE,
Emission and forwarding
merchant,
^ Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
No business done in Cotton except as a
r on Commission.
°v 3, J*>r>.
14 3m"
i ISON A GORDON,
invectives that all trembled like aspens,
and two of them fled from the court house.
The excitement of the crowd was becom
ing tremendous. Their united souls
seemed to hang upon tho burning tongue
of the stranger; lie inspned them with
the power of his malignant passions; he
seemed to bavte stolen nature’s long hidden
secret of attraction. But his greatest
triumph was to come.
llis eyes began to glance at the assas
sin Hopkins, as his lean, taper fingers as
sumed the same direction. He hemmed
the wretch with a wall of strong evidence
aud impregnable argument, cutting off all
| -LAN COTTON RAGS, also damaged cotton, , , f. . . . .
^ bkeu in cxcban<*e for tin ware. ’ ll0 P e of escape. He dug beneath the
T. T. WINDSOR. muide
dcrer’afect ditches oi dilemma, and
held the slanderer up to the* scorn at,d
contempt of the populace. Having thus
girt him about with a circle of lire, he
stripped himself to the work of massacre.
Oh! then it was a vision both glorious
and dreadful to heboid the orator. His
actions became as impetuous as the mo
tions of an oak in a hurricane. His voice
became a trumpet filled with wild whirl
pools, deafening the ear with crashes of
power, and yet intermingled all the while
with a sweet undersong of the softest ca
dence. His forehead glowed liko a hea
ted furnace, his countenance was haggard
Gtllon Factors, Commission j like that of a maniac, and ever aud anon
lip finnrr llis
touwardinr* merchants,
. :iG Hay Street. Savannah, Georgia.
" M II. TISON, WM. W. GORDON
• V*attention will be fciven to the suit
H MBEU, ROSIN, TERPENTINE, Arc.
S °v. 1, 1^5^ 14 3n»"
. attektion l\dies.
,) '3 RECEIVED slot of Dress Goods, Trim-
■‘‘g* siu] Furnishing Goods.
JOSEPH A PASS.
... . 3rd door Milledgsville llolol.-
Oct. 1G, 1S65. H tf
he flung his long and bony arms on high
as if grasping after thunderbolts.
He drew a picture of murder in such
colors that in comparison hell itself might
be considered beautiful; he painted the
slanderer so black that the sun seemed
dark at noonday, wheu shining on such
an accursed monster, and then fixing both
portraits on the shining Hopkins, fastened
them there forever The agitation of
the audience nearly amounted to mad
ness.
All at once the speaker descended from
the perilous height. His voice wailed ont
own story, and lie allowed the defense to
lead off, A’shley spoke first, followed by
Like and Prentiss. The latter brought
the house down in cheers, in which the
jury joined.
It was now the stranger’s turn, he ri
ses—before the bar, not behind it—and so _ B
- *:ion anJ Produce business oi Atlanta, gives, ne *r^he wondering jury that he might not supported by even the pretense of
;„lvjintag.‘s ov< r perhaps any other house in j touch the foreman with his long bony fin- j authority. Under penalty ol remain-
i- ;ita or Upper Georgia. , ^ i ger. He jiroceeded to tear to pieces the j ing a political nonentity, the South
> i<>tL, i'0 >. ,?n> j argument* of Ashley, which melted away I most not only acquiesce in the radical
, oTT s at “ is touch ,ike f,ost a sunbeam; legislation of the past, but must itself
every one looked surprised. Anon Le legislate ill accordance with tbeex-
came to the dazzling wit of the poet law- , ° • ,• X t .i i ....
1>: . .... trerne views of a Northern faction up-
(■ncral Commission & Iforwarding J ha ; J;. g fcin ‘ 0 " tll faee'h^an ’to 1 kbdlZ j 0,1 ,natte,:s wherein by the plainest in-
! and llis ejes to open, Jim and dreary no | terpretation of law, equity and the
h . a „ DE • FRiFS^ ' longer, hut vivid as lightning; red as.fire- j Constitution, every State is entitled
v niTl! kfi' 1 STREET ATLANTA GA globes, and glaring as twin meteors. The to the exercise of its volition.
:r’kesp Constantly on hand a good «took' of j "' llole sonl ""^ ,ie e y e i ‘!* e lul1 Leart The people demand the adoption of
its con, Corn, Wheat, Bagging and Rope, i st learned out of Ins face. 4 hen without ^j,j s amendment, says the Times.—
blowing an allusion to Prentiss, he turn- What people y The pe0 p|e of Massa-
cd short around on the perjured witnesses , .* , 1 , 1 ,
of Hopkins, loro IkeirtostiJonyintosbre.!. ! c ,usctts h » v « li,c r .'8 ht to , votc , as "*«)'
and hurled into their faces such terrible I^ ease 0,1 ^ 1C tfustion, and so have the
people of the South Carolina. .Shall the
suffrages of one State be controlled by
the demands of another? If the peo
ple of South desire that the Constitu
tion be amended in any particular, let
them legislate to tliat effect. AVe do
not think that a Southern citizen can be
conquered to that extent that he must
vote against Ivis conscience aud his
, o
wish, upon compulson. ‘Emancipa
tion,’ says our contemporary, ‘would
lose half its merit, and more than halt
its advantage, if it were to be enforc
ed by the North upon unwilling and
resentful States.’ Then the fault is
with the Northf that has enforced
emancipation by the exercise‘of arbi
trary power. The Times itsiM ex
presses the ample truth in stating that
*it comes as a result cf war—as a
measure imposed upon a defeated and
helpless community.’ If there be
wrong in that, if there be anything in
that, as apparently the conscience ot
the Times suggests, that is incompati
ble with the essence of Republican-,
ism, the wrong will be still greater
and the violation of Republicanism
be more flagrant, should the South be
compelled, after submitting to the fact
to applaud it against^ their will and
judgment. Yet it is such compulsion
that our contemporary threatens; a
compulsion of the meanest aud most
cowardly description ; for it is that of
the powerful who held the helpless
under duress to enforce a renunciation
of faith. It is the infliction of the
torture to extort the confession of
principles that the victim, at his
heart, disowns; to compel the utter-
llow they got there is a mystery
Letter from Gov. Brown to Hon. C. J. Our readers will remember the recent
JellkiflS. ! mu, 'der of a porter and robbery of a store
j in Philadelphia. The detectives think
MlLLEDGEVILLE, Oct. 30, 1SG5. ! they have* captured the criminals. It
Hon. Charles J. Jenkins: i seems that a new chisel, wrapped in a
Dear S,r: The present condition of W “? 2 ‘,*7,
r , . - , P }, C1 , J were written, was accidently left in the
Geoigia and of. the South, and tho • s t ore by the robbers. A tour among the
wise and magnanimous course pur- ■ hardware stores of the city resulted in fin-
sued hy President Johnson in his re-; dinga shopman who sold the chisel, recog-
construction policy, make it the duty | nized tho paper in which he wrapped it,
of the whole people, in my opinion, aQ d described the purchasers so aecurate-
to unite and give to his administration ^ ^ ,at were found and arrested,
a faithful support. [notwithstanding their attempts at dis-
Party dissensions and divisions j
among ourselves would, at present,;, valuab.o lot of furs liver
L,e most detrimental to the public in- fr0m 6 tIie H ed.on liny Company-c.000
terest, and should he discouraged by skins, worth $50,000. The skins
every good citizen and true patriot.— ! filled twelve ordinary sized boxes, and the
Past differences should he buried, St. Paul Press says they arc worth more
and no man or party of men should ! than^heir weight in silver,
he proscribed on account of j»ast po-! 1*he Bqenos Ayres Standard slates that
litical opinions, hut we should cuIti-j the Government has agreed to subsidize
vate among ourselves feelings of Irietul | tj 10 New York and Brazilian Steamship
Company to the extent of $20,000 per
annum for eight years. The same paper
ship, unity and harmony.
Having accepted the amnesty pro- j
posed by tbe President of the United I P ’SS Tt* "n A,ncri - e " Ce: ‘
4 * . • .. , . j can ting was respected by tlie 1 araguay-
fctates upon, the terms mentioned m ; aa8 at the capture ofBelja Vista.
his proclamation, our people should ^ r ,, ,.
, - 1 . . . , , *. 1 I One of tbe subterranean passages reccn-
act in good fil\th, and give to the na- | discovered under the city of Nashville
tional government unquestionable cv- j |, as ijeen explored to the depth of one bun- tration, -and whatever the result it
idenceof our sincerity. ' dred and twenty-five- feet Several rpl- W oulij ’still he an administration Vi-
Under the circumstances by which ics were discovered, including fossils, ^
we are surrounded, the position of! hones, buttons and stones resembling agate i Tnron „ r
Governor of tbe State for tl.e next i »»•! Tbe grand chamber of.be i J ^tbe strong feeling
dent Lincoln plunged us into mouming,
•ut the execution of Davis would make
us blush.” •
The family of a well-to-do farmer,
Burkholder by name, have been engaged
for some time past in plundering the cars
of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, at
Alton; they stole thousands ct dollars
worth. Eight members out of nine—ono
was used as State’s evidence—were sent
to the penitentiary.
Efforts are being made to establish a
National Bank in Charleston, S. C.
From tbe Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Elections and Hie effect on the
President's Policy.
Washington, Nov. 9.
Much interest has been manifested
to know if the result of the recent
elections will effect any modification
of the policy of the Administration in
reference to reconstruction.
It may be positively asserted that
no change in this policy will be in
duced hy suqli causes as have been
heretofore stated in this correspond-
Mr. Johnson has regarded these
elections, except in New Jersey, as
more of a personal than a political
struggle; because, both parties had
strongly indorsed him and his adminis-
term, will be one of great labor ami
responsibility, requiring ability, integ
rity, firmness, and statesmanship of a
high order. Being satisfied that you
possess these necesSary qualifications,
and that you will, if elected*, lend your
cave is fVrty feet high.* thirty fe<*t long.
Further explosions aro to ho made.
Gov. Curtin is in Washington, urging
tho payment of the Pennsylvania war
claims.
The Titusville Pa., Herald puts down
the whole loss by the recent tire at%hfe
aid to no political party seeking to u. S., Grant well, Pitholo Creek, at
keep alive or create divisions among [ $80,700. This covers 7CG0 barrels oil,
our people, hut forgetting the past valued at $42,000. The well was yicld-
tliat you will look to merit and qual
ifications in the selection of officers and
the bestowal of official patronage,
ing from 10,00 to 12 00 barrels per day.
The “Hartford Planting Company,” a
joint stock company of wealthy capital
ists of llartfojd, Ct., have leased three
which is the only mode bj which pai-j thousand acres in Louisiana, ann. are go-
ty spirit can be kept down, it audios ;„g ; u t 0 thccottou and sugar cane culture,
me much pleasure to unite with other Thc fircmcn of Chicopee hkd a muster
gentlemen who are now soliciting you a f ew days since at Chicopee Falls. A
to become a candidate for that impor- prize of $23, offered by the Torrent com-
-j. :j.: • ek: v.n. ..i_
tant position
Trusting that you will yield to the
wishes of your friends and allow the
use of your name,
I am, very respectfully, .
Your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Brown.
Confederate Money Recognized.—Ac
cording to its value inspccio. J udge Cooper
at thc October term of the Circuit Court
for Canuon county, Tennessee in a suit
tried before him predicated upon a promi-
sory note payable in Confederate money,
duo in Nov., 1S63, held, that as the Uni
ted Stales had acknowledged thc Confed
erate flfttes as a belligerent power, that
a contract made payable in Conlederate
money, made in a locality that was in
the military occupation of the Confeder
ates, would be valid and binding upon
the parties, and that the plaintiff would be
entitled To recovor whatever the proofs
showed the Confederate money to be
worth at the time the note fell due.”
pany of Chicopee Falls, was played for
by the Atlautic and Pacific ot Chicopee,
and won by the latter in a tlnow of 1GG
feet 4 inches, the Atlantic making 155
j feet 2 inches. A prize set of silver giv-
j en by the ladies of Chicopee Falls was
; played for by all the companies, for the
championship of the town, and wa» won
by the Torrent of Chicopee Falls, who
threw 1GG feet 9 inches, while the Atlan
tic reached 154, and the Pacific 147 1-2.
’The Quartermaster General has order
ed the sale of the Government buildings
at Point Lookout, Maryland. They cost
thc Government nearly $100,000.
By the treaty, with thc Osage Indians,
there will he thrown upon the, market
over 3,000,000 acres of land, much of it
watered by tho Noosho river, with its fine
belt of timber. This valley is one of rich
est in the West.
Mr. F. W r . Paddock, of Nantucket,
raised forty-seven pounds of potatoes
from one seed potato.
* Tbe long pending controversy relative
to the acceptance of thc first forty miles
i favoring the adoption of tiie anti-sla
very amendment to the Constitution
oversloughed the Democrats. The
adoption of this amendment is desired
by the Administration, and the result
in New Jersey was in accordance, and
there is no reason whatver that any
change should he made against the
Presidential policy.
Mr. Johnson, however, will have
the most strenuous opposition in Con
gress from the radical wing of the Re
publican party. Charles Sumner
broke with the President when the
latter made his speech to the commit
tee of negro preachers, and told them
that freedom for them meant the lib
erty to work for themselves and earn
their living by the sweat of their
brows.
Mr. Sumner has recently written a
letter to Washington, in which he sol
emnly declares that he regards the
present as the darkest days of«the Re
public—even more gloomy .and preg
nant with national misfortune than
the day after the. first battle of Bull
Run, ant! he is coming to the Capital.
t* renew the fight aud fight it out.—
This is the token of a radical war up
on the Administration.
It will he perhaps quite as much
embittered as the debates in Congress
which preceded the secession of the*
Southern States. A systematic effort
will he made to drive Johnson frpm
his platform, and Jo nullify his recon
struction policy, but it is now believed
there will he found conservatism
enough to sustain him and carry hint
bravely through the ordeal.
NUMBER
of the Kansas branch of the Pacific Rail
road has been decided by the President in
faVor of its acceptance, and Government
mediately issued to the road* Tho direc
tors promise to complete thc road to Fort
lliley by the first of Juno.
It is reported that the Secretary of
War ha« ordered the payment of* bounties
to colored troops, which’ had been com
menced under the decision of the
Attorney General to ho discontinued.
The jaw provides that the colored volun
teers shall be placed on the same footing
with white volunteers in regard to pay,
clothing and subsistence, but not as to
bounties.
The Brewer’s Convention, in session at
Baltimore recently, passed a 'resolution
that they “are. opposed to all frauds on
the Government, and will do all they
possibly can to prevent them, and to pro
mote the proper collection of beer and ale
manufacturing taxes; and that the Conven
tion pray the Government to adopt a
system <jf barrel stamping ; that is to affix
a suitable stamp on each cask of beer sold
in connection with the preeent system
of taxing, viz, one dollar on each barrel.”
A curious railroad accident occurred
recently in Massachusetts. An express
train of cars w'as pAssing, when a cow,
annoyed by a small dog,‘dashed on to tho
rails. When the train had passed the
cow lay with-its head cut off, and th’e lit
tle dog, with its tail off, sat between the
rails, looking after the retiringrars, with
a *ace indicative of the most intense dis
gust and astonishment.
Mrs. Darling, or “Granny Darling,” as
she was known all over the town of Med
way, Mass, died at:^‘ early hour ou Sat
urday morning last, at the advanced age
of 102 years and 4 months. She leaves
o^ie daughter, about G5 years of age, who
is younger than most women at 45, and
two sons about 70.
The Burnet House, tho leading hotel
in Cincinnati, was sold October 20, to Si
las F. Miller for $500,000.
Sixty miles of tie Pacific Railroad'west
of Omaha, Nebraska, will ho finished hy
the 1st of December.
lelegation of Italians waited upon
Piesident a few days ago, and pre-
a petition from “the Central Ex-
Committee for the National Mon-
to the first Supporter of the Aboli-
of Capital Pnnishinent,” praying for
i The citizens of South Danvers, Mass , j cle,nfcnc ^ in behalf of Jeff. Davis. J’he
have been considerably startled hy the Pf ,ltlon « dated at Milan, July 81, 186*.
discovery of torpedoes in their coal. 1 J b <! petitioners 833- “the death of l'resi-