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THE FEDERAL UNION.
Cornet of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets.)
Wednesday Morning. January 10. 1872.
A HEW DEPARTFRE IN GEORGIA.
This week the Legislature will re
assemble, count the votes and inaugu
rate Jas. M. Smith, as Governor.
Then will commence a new era in
the State. With an honest man for
Governor, a majority of honest men in
both branches of the Legislature, the
people may expect honest legislation
Now is also a good time to reconstruct
the Supreme Court of the State. A
majority of that Court for some time
past has done no honor to the State or
themselves. They have helped great
ly to demoralize the people. By their
decisions on the relief and homestead
laws, they have taught rogues how to
defraud their honest creditors, and of
fered a premium on rascality. If w T e
are to return to honesty and fair deal
ings, all this must be changed. After
they have got an honest Executive,
an honest Legislature, and an honest
Judiciary, let them crown their work
of expurgation and renovation by'sell
ing the old Opera House for what they
can get—give the James House to the
city of Atlanta for a foundling hospit
al, and return to Milledgeville where a
good and substantial State House and
Executive Mansion awaits them, and
where they can legislate with no ex
ternal pressure to annoy them, and
none to molest or to make them afraid.
If they stay in Atlanta they will be
surrounded with rings of every sort;
with thieves without and speculators
within, houest legislation will be car
ried on under great difficulty. But
.when they get back to Milledgeville
they will be surrounded with a pure
and honest atmosphere.
BE.ASRG.HBLING OF COXGKEEI.
On Monday last, according to ad
journment, the Congress of law-makers
and law-breakers re-assembled in
Washington. Many, probably 7 , will be
absent for two or three, of the first
days of the session—not having got
over their holiday sprees and slept off
the effects of their Christmas debauch ;
but a quorum will probably be pres
ent, and among the first things brought
forward for the action of the Senate,
in all probability, will be a call from
Scott of Pennsylvania, for a more
stringent inforcement of the Ku-Klux
law in North and South Carolina.
After a long discussion some sleepy
Senator will move to adjourn—upon
widen Mr. Sumner will rise and ex
press a hope that the Senate will not
adjourn until they have passed his
supplimental bill, making a negro
equal to a white man.
The House was called to order, and
the clerk proceeded to call the roll,
when Mr. Baiue and Air. Laine, Air.
Banks and Air. Shanks, Air. Bones and
Air. Jones, Air. Johnson and Mr. Thom
son, Air. A. Smith, Air. B. Smith, Air.
C. Smith, Mr. U. Smith, Mr. M. N.
Smith, Air. O. P. Smith and Air. Y. Z.
Smith, with several others answered
to their names. A quorum being pres
ent Mr. Shanks moved that the House
do now adjourn—upon which Mr.
Thomas J. Speer, who represents the
negroes in the 4th District of Georgia,
arose and in a very loud voice said,
‘* Mr. Speaker, I call for the previous
question/” The Speaker having ex
plained that a motion for adjournment
was always in order, and a cad for the
previous question was not necessary,
a motion for adjournment was put
and carried unanimously 7 , and tfie
House adjourned in great disorder.
EXRl'l'TITE JIAXSIO.X.
We visited the Executive Mansion
last week, in company with several la
dies. We found-Mr. Haygood, who
has charge of the Mansion very polite
and attentive, and the ladies pronounc
ed the house neat, and the furniture
in good order and well taken care of.
Blackwood for December.—This
old Magazine has readied its 110th
volume, it is published in Edinburg
and lepublished by Leonard Scott &
Co., 140 Fulton Street New York.
Its contents are :
Fair to See.—Conclusion; A Centu
ry of Great Poets from 1750 Down
wards; Nine Idylls ol Bion ; Notes on
Fortresses, by a Historian ; More liobu
di Roma.—Part III.; French Home
Life; Tfie Maid ol Saer.—Part IY.
For terms of Blackwood and British
Reviews see advertisement in this
paper.
James Fisk, Jr., w >s shot twice in
the breast by Edward Stokes. It is
feared that Fisk cannot live. Stokes was
arrested.
James Fisk. Jr., died at 10:45 this
morning, at the Grand Central Hotel,
in the presence ol lii.s wife, bis father-
in-law, Mr Morse, Jay Gould, and a
large number of intimate Iriends.
^i E 'm^ OKK ’ ^ ail ‘ —Steamers Hansa
and Tallapoosa have the small-pox
aboard. John (J. Broad head, ex-
Treasurer of Rondout, is S 100.000
short. Tvvu men have been commit
ted without bail 1 or outraging a gi r |
12 years old. The Russian fleet is at
the docks in Brooklyn The small
pox is in Newark jail. The Union
KepubJic General Committee has re
jected Gut l.j as cliaiiman
For the Federal Union.
THE FENCE LAW OF GEORGIA.
We again present this vital question.
On all sides it seems agreed that Geor
gia cannot get along any further with
the old colonial law of 1759, even as
cut down a foot by the Code. Height
is not the main point of evil as the
Code makers thought; height and close ;
close against neighbors’ loose, ram
bling hogs ; high and close at once, so
as to take five rails per yard; 500 rails
per 100 yards; 8,800 rails per run
ning mile; there is the evil; there is
the enormous burden on farmers—
a burden heavier than all other taxes.
Alere lawful height can be got. cheap
ly enough, against big stock by a
post and three rail or a post and four
rail fence—taking but one rail per yard;
100 rails per 100 yards, 1760 rails per
mile line, or 7,050 rails per square
mile of 640 acres; while 7,020 rails
will fence under the old law, only 24
acres. The enormous quantity of rails
aud labor, required by the old law, so
as to fence out both big stock and little
stock ; mules, cattle and bogs—that
is the grievance; and this grievance
is intolerable longer. The cure for it
is easy and perfect. Let the law com
pel owners to keep hogs at home in close
fences; and make lawful a post and three
rail fence or post and four rail fence, as
against all big stock. Such a fence is
perfect against mules and cattle, and
the post is very cheap ; simply split
out like rails, seven feet long, three or
four inches thick on the bark edge,
and five or six inches face—the rail
rioles cut through with a long-bladed
post axe.
Keep hogs at home in a close fence;
there is the remedy. I have no more
right to raise hogs at my neighbor’s
expense than to raise my children so.
Let the law declare all hogs found off
the owner’s land to be “ wild game"
or “ dangerous wild beasts at large,”
liable to be killed by any hunter on his
own land-, and also declare a post and
■5-rail fence, well-set and five feet high,
ro be “ iSwful fence” against mules
and cattle, and Georgia will have no
more trouble about fences.
As to loose bogs, the simplest reme
dy is the best. Have no law-suits, no
constables, no courts, no estray law,
no impounding, no action of trespass
about them. Just declare them
game,” or “ dangerous wild beasts”
liable to be killed by any hunter on hit
own land, and the evil stops at once.
Under such a law my bogs will be
sure to stay at horn-*, where they
ought to be. Baldwin.
The above is from the pen of a gen
tleman not only experienced as a farm
er, but one noted for practical sense
and great energy aud industry in ex
amining thoroughly every question
upon which he writes or speaks. As
the Legislature is certainly going to
act in some way on the fence law, we
hope the press of the State generally
will copy the communication of‘Bald
win’ that it may have a fair chance
for it fluence.
AN E.nMENSE BUNINEMS
The Seed business, as conducted by
the celebrated firm of Briggs & Bro.,
at Rochester, N. Y., is one of the
largest in the country, and in its way
nnrloubtodly tbe largestm the world.
Over 12,000 dealers in different parts
of the country and the Dominion, sell
their seeds. Their establishment at
Rochester has over 62,000 feet of floor-
ng, and from 200 to 300 persons, ac
cording to the season, are employed in
packing and putting up the Flower
and Vegetable seeds, which they seod
by mail to all parts of the country. It
takes six presses in constant use to
print labels alone; upwards of $40.-
000 worth of paper is used annually
in the manufacture of bags for seeds,
&c.
Their annual Catalogue is most
elaborately gotten up, and is embel
lished with numberless cuts of Flow
ers am! Vegetables, besides being beau
tifully illustrated with colored plates.
It also contaius instructive hints aud
information upon the subject of flori
culture and agriculture. The new
Catalogue for 1872, which will be is
sued about the 1st of January, prom
ised to be the finest thing of the kind
ever published, and we a*-3 quite con
fident that the ent' r e edition of 150,-
000 will be used up in short order.—
To old customers the Catalogue will
be sent free, while to new ones an in-
closure of twenty-five cents will be
required. And even in such cases,
where an order for one dollar’s wortli
of seeds is sent, twenty-five cents,
worth of seeds in addition are remitted.
Briggs & Bro. prepay all orders by
mail, and by reference to their Cata
logue, when it is issued, it will be seen
that they give all their evstomers the
most liberal inducements to obtain one
or both of their beautiful Cbromo
Lithographs of Flowers, the cost of
which at retail would be from $3 to $5,
but which only cost Briggs & Bro.,
printed as they are by tens of thou
sands, about 75 cts. each. We advise
our readers to send for one of Briggs
& Bro’s Catalogue.
Iii Surprise Valley, Callifornia,
there are a number of small lakes. One
of these has recently run dry, leaving
a sediment or bed of superior salt,
clear as crystal, from four inches to a
loot in iiepth, and covering an area of
fifteeen miles in length by six miles in
^vidth. It was i.ever before supposed
1 hat these lakes contained any salt and
the water was always considered clear,
fresh water, with some alkali in it, as
most of the fresh water in Northern
California possesses.
Alexis, like Daniel Webster doesn’t
care much for money, but he thought
$1,500 steep for sixteen hours’lodg
ing and one meal at the Spencer House,
Niagara Falls. The landlord, probably,
desiring to perpetuate"tne harmonious
relations between the two countries,
consented to take $1,000, which was
paid. The people ol that vicinity are
greatly incensed at the disgraceful oc
currence.
Scranton, Jan. 5.—Two thousand
workmen employed by the Wilkes-
barreConl Iron Company, have struck*
1 he cause ig a reduction of tea per
cent, in their wages. v
From llie Plantation.
THE AGBKTIiTr 't Af< CONVENTION
IN SAVANNAH.
Our readers, doubtless, observed the
circular of the Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society in regard to this
Convention, which was published in
last issue o? “ The Plantation.”
The Societies should act promptly
iu tbe election ot their delegates, and
select their wisest men and best farm
ers. It is, perhaps, the Ibst time the
good people ol Savannah will have had
an opportunity to witness a fair rep
resentation of the solid men of Middle
and Upper Georgia. It the approach
ing Convention equals in number, in
telligence. and dignity the one which
met iu Rome last summer, it will be
the most imposing body of men which
has ever assembled in Savannah. The
Rome convention numbered about
400 men. We presume that the Sav
annah Convention will equal, if not
exceed it iu number.
It will be observed that the dele
gates are passed over the railroads free
in both directions.
The citizens of Rome extended the
hospitalities of the city to the dele
gates. The houses were thrown open
with the most genial hospitality. No
bills were paid by the delegates, ex
cept in a few instances, in which mis
takes occurred. We do not suppose
that Savannah will be behind her
young sister of the mountains in hospi
tality.
Such assemblages are, in a sense, a
burden for a tune to the place in which
they are held; but, it must be remem
bered, that these delegates leave their
"homes and business and take these long
and wearisome journeys solely for the
public good. They have no selfish
end* to subserve. They do not meet
to discuss party political measures—
no candidates to elect—no offi es to
fill—no schemes of speculation to sub
serve. Earnestly 7 , anxiously and faith
fully they are seeking to develop
means by which our prostrate Agri
culture may be revived and prosperity
once more gladden our loved State.
In this Convention, questions of in
terest will bediscused—ably discussed.
The solid, material interest of the
State received a more benefici d im
pulse by the Convention at Rome than
by any other single cause since the
war
The comparatively desert country
between Alaeon and Savannah has op
erated almost as a barrier to frequent
intercourse between a large portion of
the up-country and Savannah. Many
of the delegates will visit Savannah
for the first time. As a native of that
city, and with the attachments of our
boyhood undiminished by advancing
years, we hope that the first impression
ot these gentlemen will be one ot last
ing pleasure.
The people of the up country and
the people of Savannah have misun
derstood each other. We of the up-
country do not all bring eggs and
chickens to market in little two-wheel
ed carts, by 7 bald-faced sorrel horses.—
We do not all spit tobacco juice on the
floor ; nor do allour wives smoke pipes
or dip snuff. Some of us can even use
a four-pronged fork at our meals with
out serious inconvenience.
On the other hand, the people o!
Savannah are not all swell-heads, turn
ing up Uieir noses at the crackers, who
are disgusted by a raw oyster, lean
back in their chairs, cannot use a fin
ger bowl at dinner, or never saw a
ship or an alligator.
Our social system differ somewhat
from each other. But our hearts are
all the same. AVeall loveGeoigia.—
We have proved that we were willing
to die for her. The minor social differ
ence between the seacoast and the
mountains are but as cobwebs com
pared with the solid *;old which, differ
ently set, is yet common alike to all
sections of the State.
It was with the hope of producing
this “ entiente cordiale” between all
the whole people ol the State which
chiefly induced the Executive Com-
mittee to direct that the next Conven
tion should be held in Savannah.
It would stem that such an occasion
might be made the instrument, not
only of bringing the different sections
together, but of inaugurating the
measures of commercial as well as
agricultural importance. We know the
iength of our rope, and therefore have
nothing to advise in the way of trade
and commerce. But there are some
tilings that an educated farmer does
know. He knows that we suffer im
positions from the want of direct
trade with Europe; that vve have a
population abundantly sufficient to
sustain such a trade ; that we produce
a crop which controls the commerce
of the world ; that we have two excel
lent seaports : these things he knows.
But how to remove these burdens he
does not know. This knowledge is to
be expected in the merchant or the
financier.
There are in Savannah sagacious
business men, familiar with trade,
commerce aud finance. That city lias
its Chamber ot Commerce, with a gen
tleman of large business experience at
its head. Cannot, that Cnamber seize
the opportunity of this convention to
impress upon the people oi Georgia
the measures necessary to accomplish
the two great ends—tiff one of the
creation of an intimate and cordial un
ion between the whole State and its
chief seaport; the other to produce a
concentration and co-operation in pur
pose which shall result in our being
placed in direct relations with Europe
an seaport and markets.
We shall look forward to this Con
vention with great interest, and hope
from it preguant results to the State.
Grant Indicted.—That peripatetic
gabbler, George Eraucis Train, is not
without some merit. He has a brain
of unusual brilliancy and a short,
pointed, forcible way of talking rare
ly equaled. The following indictment
of Grant is good and true. It was de
livered in Nashville, Tenn., lately, in
one of his patchwork lectures :
IMPEACHMENT OF THE DICTATOR ULYS
SES, KINO OF SAINT DOMINGO.
Mr. Train—Impeach him, make
him disgorge—Ku-Klux him. [Sen
sation.] But let us with dignity in
dict him before this vast massmeeting
in tbe capital of Tennessee. [Ap
plause.] I indict the usurper Graut
for the following acts of omission and
commission :
1. That he concealed his principles,
(if be had any,) for years waiting to
see which party was the strongest,
and ready to be the candidate for ei
ther. [That’s so.]
2. That he sold his name to the
Radicals as their candidate lor money
[Sensation.]
3. That lie has betrayed promises
given as a soldier to soldiers, and has
oppressed those to whom lie promised
protection. [True as Gospel, from a
boy in blue.]
4. That he has openly and notori
ously accepted presents of money and
property in exchange for appoint
ments to high and responsible offices.
[Hisses for Nepotism.]
5. That lie has appointed his rela
tions and other equally incompetent
persons to office, and that, knowing
their incompetency, he retains them.
[Yes, America is only Grant’s farm for
the Dents—Laughter.J
6. That, holding tne highest civic
position, he surrounds himself with a
military staff.
7. That he has allowed the people
of the Southern States, whom he has
sworn to protect, to be murdered and
destroyed by craving hounds ot militia
unconstitutionally organized by carpet
bag Governors, aud that, when appeal
ed to, he has refused to intercede in
their behalf. [Applause, and down
with carpet-baggers.]
8. That he has interfered with and
by bayonets controlled State Conven-
A IUI «‘l EVENT.
A Body
Such is dyspepai
tad Niud Oisfaw,
The stomach and the brain
On Thursday evening, December
29th a portion of the Citizens ot San- ^ t0 ° intimately allied for the one to sutler
dersville assembled in the.Court-room
to witness the presentation of a hand
some gold headed cane to Hon. Hay
wood Brookins.
E. S, Langmade, Esq., was called
to the chair and J. M. G. Medlock re
quested to act as Secretary. The
meeting being organized Col. B- D.
Evans, in au appropriate address, pre
sented the cane in behalf of the citi
zens who thus desired to give expres
sion to their high appreciation of a
faithful public servant.
Hon. H. D. D. Twiggs responded
on behalf of Maj. Brookins in an elo
quent speech thanking the citizens for
the compliment thus bestowed, and
congratulating them upon the fact
that in these dark days of corruption,
the county possessed an officer who
having been tried for forty years,
come forth as the purest geld from the
refiners fire.
The closing remarks of Judge
Twiggs were touchingly beautiful —
This staff now presented would sup
port his weary footsteps as he descen
ded the hill of time. And as he cross
ed the dark river the bright throng in
waiting would catch the sound echoed
from here to-night, “well done, good
and faithful servant,” and greet him
with their happy rejoicings.
J. N. Gilmore, Esq., could not re
main silent on au occasion like this-—
The eloquent speakers who had pre
ceded him had come among us but re
cently, or in years gone by. From
his earliest boyhood he had been taught
to honor the name of Haywood Brook-
ms At his grand [father’s knee he had
learned to revere the name. In riper
years he was proud to call him friend.
And in the daily walks of life, in the
practice of his profession, he had ever
found him the faithful officer, the ster
ling friend the spotless gentleman-—
He spoke for the whole county who
would thus delight to do honor to a
peerless officer. He referred to the
trying times through which Major
Brookins had passed. Amid the most
severe he had been most true. When
the devouring flame swept away the
1 opes of so many, in 1855, most of the
records of the county were preserved
without the other, so that dyspepsia end despond
ency are inseparable It may he added, too, that
j rotation of the stomach is aiuio.,t invariably ac
compauiid by irr.tat.on of the temper.
The invigorating and ti anquilizing operation of
Hoatetter’a B:tters is most powerfully developed
iu cases of indigestion. The first effeet of tbia
agreeable tonic is comforting and encouraging.
A miid glow pervades the system, the chronic un
easiness iu the region of the stomach is lessened
and the nervous restlessness which characterizes
the disease is abated. This improvement is not
transient It is not succeeded by the return of the
old symptoms with superadded force, as is always
the case when umnedicated stimulants are given
for the complaint. Each dose seems to impart a
permanent accession of healthful invigoration —
But this is not all. The aparient and anti-bilioos
properties ol the preparation are scarcely second-
ary in importance to its tonic virtues If there is
an over flow of ! i!e, the secretion is scon brought
within proper limits, aud if the biliary organ is
inert and torpid it is toned and regulated. The
effect upon the discharging organs is equally sal
utary, and in cases of constipation the cathartic
action i“ just sufficient to produce the desired re
sult gradually and without pain. The Bitters also
promote healthy evaporation from tlu surface,
w hich is particularly desiratde at this s asou when
sudden spoils of raw, unpleasant weather are apt
io eh- c!s the natural perspiration and produce
congestion of tbe liver, coughs a< d cold. The
best safeguard against all diseases is bodily vigor,
and tliis the great Vegetable Restorative especial
ly promotes. " 23 im.
A Living Furnace.
The living body is a regulated furnace. The
human organism is all more or less combusti le,
but not equally so. The blood, that is to say the
food iu its transformed state, may be compared to
the fuel, and the more stable tissms formed from
the blood, to the irou stove which contains the
fuel. Just in proportion to the energy and celeri
ty with which life is carried on, dues this com
bustion proceed ; and just in proportion as the
combustion proceeds, is treah fuel, that is to say
fresh blood, required. But in order to obtain a
supply of fresh bloo 1, food must be present, and
nut only food, but the power of converting the
food into tdnod, that is digestive energy. Where
there is a failure in this digestive energy, or in the
toe Hppefite which accompanies it, stimulants of
various descripti ms are Irequ ntly bad recourse
to ; but their effect is transient, and il leaned up
on too long and t> o exc!u ively, they tend to de
range the digestive lunctions, and to take away
he natural desue for food, which is the only true
life supporter But let Dr Fisch's Bitters be used
per everingly and in tie- prescril el qmntities, -n
.i.iij motion with the daily m> a!-', and their tonic-
qualities wiil rapidly strengthen the digestive er
gons, and create at the snnn time a sufficient and
oealthy appetite. And w hen an abundance of
wholesome food (which wo are thus enabled to
tiike) is duly digested and assimilated, it will give
• fullness ol vital ty which wiil take away any
desire lor the iinpioper use of alcoholic stimulants.
ventions for his own purposes. [Yes. j by lhis faithful old servant. " And la-
Louisiana, Ttxas and Soutu Carolina.] ter u q ien a devastating foe came with
9. That he has “packed’ the 8u- sword and fire brand, at the sacrifice
preme Court for the avowed purpose of hjs own property, he saved the
of obtaining the reversal ot a former county from loss in her records. Well
decision. [That’s so.] 1
JO. That he has attempted to cor-
muy we honor him.
Mr. Newman was called for and re-
rupt the other courts by appointing i aponded briefly aud appropriately
men to judicial positions for dirty po- thereto. For many years be had been
litical services. [Hisses for the packed intimately acquainted with the official
Judges.]
career ot him to whom we seek to do
11. ihat he approved and is en-| honor to night. Not a blot upon the
forcing with the bayonet the glaringly record The interest of the county was
unconstitutional Ku-Klux act. [Loud
signs of disapprobation.]
his constant care, and all had been
done to the best purpose. The occa
12. Ihat he has employed and buys s j on 0 f t( ie presentation of this slight
with the public moneys an army oi testimonial by the people of Sanders-
spies, liars and traducers, to injure v iile, was the seventieth birth day of
and defame a people. [Applause, and | M .,; B r00 kiu8. He now had number-
show him up, George.]
ed his three score years aud ten, and
13. Ihat he and his advisers have|j t VV!1S nieet tliat this honor should be
squandered the public moneys and < tendered.
prostituted the national honor. [Yes, Hun. j. \y. Renfroe was called out.
Hodges, Bailey, Whisky Ring & ^°-] i He indorsed heartily all that had been
14. That he has rewarded the bad,i 8tt j lb
oppressed the good, and is notoriously
' 'A
I
.. Lately >n the Legislature when a
corrupt and unjust. [Applause, andj b j|l was introduced to appoint aboard
down with Grant and up with 1 rain.] o! commissioners in each countyin tfie
The Ku-Klux Law and the En-|
FORCEMENT ACT UnCONSTITUHONAL.—
Speaking for himself and r. Stanber
ry, Hon. lleverdy Johnson said in a
speech at Columbia :
State, and clothe them in part with
j the power now vested in the Ordina
ire, and when the advocates of the bill
insisted on its passage for the reason,
1 that, in their counties under the late
administration,' Ordinaries had been
24 lm.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
“We believe, and I think may be appointed or elected, who did not ad-
pardoned, on account ot our long ex-j minister the county affairs to the sat-
perience, for believing that we under j isfaction of the citizens and had dis-
stand the political institutions - of our|graced the office, he was proud to re-
A young German architect iu
Chicago has draw n a plan whereby the
great fire shall be commemorated. His
design is to erect in one of the public
parks a tower about a hundred teet in
height, which shall be surmounted by
a phoenix—tbe tower to be built with
blocks of stone or bricks taken from
the prominent buildings destroyed by
the fire. On each of these blocks the
names of the building from the ruins of
which it was takeu is to be conspic
uously engraved, that all these names
may be seen by the curious of future
years. The top ot the tower is to be
country ; and we deem the two acts
—the act of 1870, known as the en
forcement act, and the act of 1S71,
under which this indictment is laid—
to he unconstitutional and in violation
of the lights of all the States. We
have come here, then, to raise this
question in the Supreme Court, so
that the true construction of the Con
stitution may be elicited, and these
iniquitous enactments expunged from
the statute books.”
The Victims of Radical Venge
ance.—Columbia, December 2S.—In
the United States Court this morning
John S.’Miller was found gui! y. Judge
Bond announced the decision of the
Court overruling Mr. Stanberry’s mo
tion for a new trial and in arrest of
judgment*
All the defendants so far convicted,
or who have pleaded guilty, have been
sentenced as follows : John W. .Mitch
ell, to five years imprisonment and one
thousand dollars fine ; Therard Child
ers, Wifliam Montgomery, Evans Mur
phy, Hezekiah Porter, R. II. Mitchell,
Sylvanus Shearer, Hugh Shearer, Win,
Shearer and Jas. E. Shearer, each to
eighteen months imprisonment and
one hundred dollars line. Dr. Thoma-
R. Whitesides to one year imprison
ment and one hundred dollars fine ;—
John Miller to three months imprison
ment and twenty dollars fine.
Cartersville & Van Wert R. R.
—The disclosures in thiscase are very
damaging to Clews and Conley, as
well as to the Bullock-Blodgett ring.
They go very far to extinguish the lit
tle glimmer of hope that the friends of
that shining financial light and super
loyal Republican, Henry Clews, may
have entertained as to the fairness of
his dealings in developing Georgia
credit and resources. The course of
Gov. Conley in seizing the road and
placing it in the hands of a Receiver
(or the benefit of the fraudulent bond
holders shows a degree of sympathy,
if not of complicity, with this swin
dling ring, that must cut off from him
the respect of fair dealing men. There
has been much said by Conley in be
half of the State honor and the stain
of repudiation. But these utterances
all show au undiscrimiuating bearing
towards the interests of the plunder
ers, rather than for a-vindication ot
the right, and justice to 7 a plundered
people.—Constitutionalist.
The champion temperance man
lives io Danbury, Conn. He has signed
the pledge eighty-three times.
Of the 10,000 English miners, one
reached by an exterior wiudiug stair- in every thirty is Killed by acciiiiLt
way.
I yearly.
quest that it should net apply to
Washington county. We did not
need it ; vve had an Ordinary true and
tried, who was < ischarging the duties
devolving upon him to the satisfaction
ol every citizen in the county, and vve
wanted hi n divested of no authority
that i<e now possessed.
At this juncture up rose, with heart
lull, Mr. A. W. Haines. He and Maj.
Brookins were old schoolmates. He|
went back to the little log school-house
where as boys they had studied and
played together. And then on through
the various changes in life up to the
i>resent time The speaker stated
that it was the first time he ever at
tempted to make a speech, but on this
occasion he could not hold his peace.
The meeting adjourned amid mutu
al congratulation and most happy feel
ing.
Aud now we lay aside the Secreta
’•vship and speuk a little for ourself.—
In 1S25 Maj. Brookins took charge of
the Sandersville Post Office. For fur
ry years he discharged the duties
thereof faithful. By the disqualifying
act <>f Congress after the war he was
ineligible* And thus the Government
lost one of the best officers it ever had.
In 1839 he became Clerk of the Infe
rior Court and County Treasurer. He,
discharged the duties of the same until j
the passage of tfie act disqualifying|
one man from holding both. In 1S52[
he was elected Ordinary and has held
the office ever since. His desk will
irive place to another only when the!
Great I Am shall so declare.
The cane presented is a beautiful
and valuable one. On the massive
gold head is engraved the following —
“From the citizens of iSandersville to
Ha . wood Brookins, for long continued
faithful services.”
Before closing w 7 e beg leave to add
that under Maj. Brookiu’s management
of county affairs, since the abolishing
ot the old system, the financial condi
tion of the same has been eutirely re|
deemed. The county does not now
owe a dollar that the officers are aware
of, and the taxes for county purposes
have been reduced from $25,000 to
$17,000 per annum. The Bonds of
Washington county last year were
eagerly taken both in Savaunah and
New York, and were sold at less dis
count than any county bonds in the
■State.—Central Georgian.
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