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BY J. W. BURKE & CO.
Georgia Journal & Messenger,
J. W. It I K Si. K A. CO., Proprietors.
A. W. BBESB, -
S. ROSE, ) Ea *
' Wednesday, June 17,1868.
TAKING POSITION-NO MOKE DOUBT NOW.
We are not left in any doubt, now, as
to the i>osition of the only paper in Geor
gia claiming to be Democratic that has
not heretofore emphatically condemned
it, upon the proposition advanced by the
New York World, a few days since, and
upon which we have felt it our duty, as a
Democratic journalist, aud a friend to the
South and the Constitution,to animadvert.
In its issue of the 10th, the declaration is
distinctly made that the situation, so far
as relates to universal negro suffrage,
must be accepted, aud that in the coming
struggle to rescue the Government from
the hands of the Radicals, no war will be
made through its columns upon that dam
nable wrong. Radical “reconstruction,”
with its long train of ills, is not to be at
tacked. Having won a victory by force
and fraud, it is told to rest secure upon the
held—that so far as that paper can influ
ence the action of the friends of the Con
stitution, of the South, and of a true and j
just Union of equal States, they will not !
attack it any more. If they do, they must
expect uo aid nor sympathy from those
who held it “a waste of breath” to protest, ;
even, against the unholy consummation.
We are told that the paper to which ref
erence is made, “distinctly and emphati
cally” declines to tight the question of
negro sullrage. It is to be given the go
by, and the men who suffer from it, whose
dearest hopes aud interests it menaces, j
coolly advised not “to waste their breath.” j
We shall 9ee if such fatal couusei is fol
lowed We shall see if the people of Geor
gia, at least, who have stood Tyranny’s
shock for more than three years, now, are
prepared, at the bidding of any expe
diency monger of the press, to put the
gag in their mouths. We shad see if they
will endorse any man or set of men who
thus palter witli a question which, probu
hly they may not fully understand, hut
which has beeu burned into the hearts and
memories of a brave and principle-loving
people. We have no fear what the re
sponse will he from those who are thus ad
vised. To doubt their answer, would be to
doubt their possession of a .single quality
that marks the difference between time
servers and patriots.
The logic, too, by which this offen
slve conclusion is supported and reached,
is as untenable as its results will he
fatal. The argument of the World upon
this point, and it is the argument of
the paper to which we have reference, is
that these negro governments are out of out
reach, and that we cannot go behind the
act of Congrsss in setting them up. The
World, indeed, declares that “negro suf
frage cannot he uprooted by the Federal
government, even under Democratic con
trol.” Whether our cotemporary follows
its Mentor to this conclusion, we do not
know, hut presume, infereutially, that it
does.
Upon this point we submit as unan
swerable, and as expressing not only our j
own views, hut, we dare affirm, those of
nine-tenths of the true men of Georgia
and of the .South, the following argument
by tffe Clrarleston Mercury. (Quoting the
World's declaration that what has once
been established “eanonly he upturned by
positive action,” the Mercury replies, cer
tainly nothing cau he changed hut by
“positive action.” The positive action by
which the Radicals began their revolution- j
ary reconstruction policy towards the
Southern States, was by rejecting their
Representatives from Congress. Cannot
the Democratic party, by a kindred post- j
tire action, admit them into Congress?
“Negro suffrage cannot be uprooted by
“the Federal Government even under
“Democratic rule.” Why not? Accord
ing to the standing declarations of the j
World for the last two years negro suf
frage was wrongfully and unconstitutional
ly forced into existence over the South by
the Federal Government. —why cannot the '
Federal Government “uproot” it? If the :
constitution is overthrown—is it not the
most solemn duty of allthe administrators
of the Government to restore it? If the
whole fabric of government which the
constitution establishes is perverted, and
a revolutionary element is introduced fatal
to its peace or stability as a free govern
ment,— ought it not to he crushed out ?
Can a free government, he preserved on
any other principle ? Rut the white peo
ple of the Southern States, neither ask nor
expect the “Federal Government” to up
root, negro suffrage in their States. With
draw your troops, and leave us to ourselves.
Is it “too evident for argument,” that the
Democratic party, in control of the govern
ment of the United States, cannot do this?
Ihe World says, “if the Democratic
party makes any declaration on the sub
ject in the approaching National Conven
tion, it can only affirm the principle that
ttie Federal Government has no constitu
tional right to prescribe rules of suffrage in
a State.” Rut the Federal Government
has prescribed rules of suffrage in the
Southern States. Is it not the duty of all
who are faithful to the Constitution to up
set this usurpation? If it affected only
these States,—a wroug that the Federal
Government has done, these States have a
right to require the Federal Government
to undo. Rut negro suffrage does not af
fect the Southern States alone. It affects
all the States, and the Government of the
United States, in the vital matter of its
constituency. It introduces negroes, Chi
nese, ami all other races, into a participa
tion of the elective franchise And is it
not the right and the duty of both
branches of Congress, to inquire, before
they admit a representative to a seat in
Congress, whether lie has been elected, —
not only by a majority, hut by a far
higher qualification —a consiituttonal eon
stitueneyf The former qualification affects
the representative aud the people of his
congressional district; but the latter af
fects the whole government, and all the
people of the United States, in the vital
matter of liberty and free government
itself, shall a representative he rejected
tiom his seat, on account of a few fraudu
lent votes;—and shall he he admitted,
although he comes by a constituency un
constitutionally created and lorced upon
States by a revolutionary tyranny which
assimilates them to the mongrel despot
isms ot Mexico aud South America ? We
beg leave therefore to suggest, that the
Democratic party at the approaching Na
tional Convention-can and ought to do
more, tliau only affirm the principle, that
the Federal Government has no conutitu
ttonal right to prescribe rules of suffrage
in a State.” Such an affirmation, in th e
face of existing circumstances will he
worse than silence. It will simply he, an
endorsement of Mr. Chase, an adhesion
to the Radical reconstruction policy,—and
an abandonment of the Constitution and
the South.
LETTER FROM NORTHERN GEORGIA,
gpecUl Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger.
Athens, Ga., June 15,186f5.
i The electors of this portion of the State,
who, iu order to evade the duty of “ren
dering unto Civsar the tilings that at,e Cte
sar’s,” and to secure the full enjoyment of
all the blessings of Relief, voted for the
bovine candidate for Governor, aud the
Skohegauite aspirants for office, are now
chanting a most doleful De Frofundis, ex
ceeding iu plaintiveuess Joe Brown’s solo
performance at Chicago, where the nation
al melody, “John Brown lies a mouldering
! in his grave, hut his soul is a marching
on,” was so powerfully rendered, aud
| where the ex-Governor’s vocal talents won
' him Bucfi deserved prominence in theTliad.
j Stevens troupe.
j The consciousness of having sacrificed
the interests of country, kindred, friends
and race, together witii public esteem aud
self-respect, in the hope of being thereby
enabled to escape the payment of honest
debts, is excruciatingly painful, even if
the hope were realized ; hut when it is
found that the sacrifice is vain—that all
that an honest man holds dear is lost, aud
that the debts must still be paid—that He- I
lief is a delusion and a snare—the grief
aud dismay of the poor scalawags are so
intense that to say to them, “ didn’t I tell 1
you so,” would he unjustifiable cruelty.
A few w'eoiis ago we heard the most ex
haustive aud exhausting arguments to
prove tiie omnipotence of Congress in all
things relating to the conquered rebel
States, and the necessity of complete sub
mission to the Radical Juggernaut. But
then it was confidently expected that
Blodgett and Parrott, Bullock and Farrow,
and thedulcet strains of the incompara
ble Joe Brown, would so charm Cougress
as to make Relief the main pillar of the
new Radical edifice in Georgia. Now that
the recreant Senators and Congressmen
have heeded not the voice of the charmers,
and have denounced Relief as a swindle,
not only do wo hear no more of the om
nipotence of the National legislature and
the necessity of submission, hut we hear
on every side that Congress has no consti
tutional authority to interfere witli the will
of the people of a sovereign State, aud nul
lify the solemn act of a sovereign conven
tion ; tiiat the expunging act of Congress
is utterly void, and the Governor, Legisla
ture and Judiciary of Georgia are hound
by their paramount allegiance to the laws
of Lite State to treat it as a dead letter.
The more sanguine of the relief men
express confidence tiiat Bullock will fix it,
that Joe Brown and Rlodgett are smart
enough to'show him how to do it, ami
that if the right sort of men are appointed
judges, relief wi 1 win yet. It is due to
truth to say tiiat this confidence is con
fined to a very few. The great majority
of those who made scalawags of them
selves to “get relief,” own that they have
been badly fooled, speak of Congress, Bul
lock, Blodgett aud Joe Brown with re
markable harshness and some profanity,
and promise “to show the— — rascals next
Fall tiiat they can’t he footed a second
time.”
I endeavQred to console them by the as
surance that Joe would tlx it somehow,
aud that if the worst come to the worst,
he would travel round siugiug about the
continuous travels of John Brown’s soul;
but I could produce uo effect. They would
not be comforted, and from all I can learn,
I would advise Joseph not to come to sing j
itr this part oKhe country* - j
For several days past evidence lias beeu
taken in this towu to prove tiiat the dis- \
tibguisbed citizens from Congo, Hons.
Mat. Davis aud Aif. Richardson, were not
duly elected representatives from Clarke
county, in the General Assembly, and tiiat
Mr. Harris is not entitled to the honor of
representing the Twenty-seventh district
in the Senate of Georgia. lam credibly
informed tiiat overwhelming proof has
been adduced that the aforesaid Africans,
and the ambitious gentlemen from New
ton, were not elected by a majority of legal
votes, that several of their enthusiastic ad
mirers of the colored persuasion voted for
them not wisely but too often, tiiat large
numbers voted for them who had only be
come citizens of Clarke county a few min
utes before they voted, and that hun
dreds of legal electors who have the mis
fortune of being white, aud therefore of
questionable loyalty and inadequate in
telligence, were excluded from the polls
because Howell Flournoy was unable, be
tween drinks, to ascertain whether they
would “vote right.”
The distinguished military partner of
the law firm of Brown (Joseph) & Pope,
appeared as counsel for the members elect,
aud covered himself with glory by his
noble assertion of equal rights, and other
modern, social and political theories re
cently imported from Bkowhegan.
The rumor here is that Judge N. L.
Hutchins is not to he retained on the
bench of this circuit. He is suspected of
unsoundness on the relief question. It is
also said that the winsome Charley Davis
is not to be elevated to the bench, arid
that he must he satisfied with less than a
seat on the Superior Court bench as a re
ward for Iris faithful and unremitting ser
vice in tire scalawag Convention. Poor
Davis! He has toiled for years—goodness
knows how many, for Charley is no chick
en—to get a seat on the bench. In his
last efforts to attain the object of his am
bition, lie lias made himself a pariaii and
an outcast in tire community where he
has so long resided. To be disappointed
after all, and be obliged to drag out the
remnaut of a long life iu ignominious ob
scurity, is a cruel verification of the prov
erb that “honesty is the best policy.” It
is said that Judge Hutchins’ successor will
he a distinguished jurist of this towu, an
ex judge, and a former representative in
Congress. If Judge Hutchins is to here
moved, no better appointment could he
made than that to which I refer. The
gentleman to whom 1 allude is a good
lawyer, and a man of unblemished integ
rity.
The Athene Wheat Club, organized last
fall by a few residents of this towu for the
purpose of encouraging improved wheat
culture by offering a handsome silver
pitcher to the member who should pro
duce the greatest amount of wheat on one
acre, have nearly completed their harvest.
For the last fortnight this agricultural
race lias created considerah e interest in
this community. The result thus far has
been astonishing, and has exceeded the
expectations of the most sanguine. The
competing acres were all within the cer
tiorate limits of Athens, aud were, there
fore, as poor laud naturally, as can well
be found in Georgia. By culture and lib
eral manuring, one acre, the property of
Dr. J. 8. Hamilton, has produced (by
weight) forty-five and a half bushels of
fine wheat. Another acre, owned by Mr.
Baucroft, yielded forty three bushels and
forty three pounds. Another, belonging
to Mr. A. P. Deuring, produced forty and
a half bushels, and another, belonging to
Cen. \\ i U- ivi. Browne, produced thirty
nine bushels and thirty eight pounds. Os
those competing crops already cut the
above are the highest production. There
; are others to be harvested thisweek, which
may reach higher figures. It is a great
triumph of agricultural skill to have tuide
the poor old fields round Athens yield ten
bushels per acre rtiore than the highest
average of the best wheat lands in the
United States. If we have elected two
| niggers to the Legislature, we can boast of
I our wheat.
Our other field crops look well; hut we
| have not had one drop of rain for upwards
of three weeks,' until yesterday afternoon,
when the “season” so long delayed, in the
i shape of a copious thunder shower, came
: to refresh the thirsty gardens, which have
i been much injured, and to revive the up
land corn, which was beginning to j
“twist.”
In a few days the University examiua- |
tious will commence, and we shall make j
preparations for Commencement. Two of
the disabled soldiers who are availing
themselves of Georgia’s beneficence at the |
University High School, took a Master’s j
(not a bachelor's) degree iu the college of j
Hymen last week. The young ladies who
; have undertaken to finish the education
| of these gallant students have made a wise
: choice. They will find that the empty
j sleeve of the defenders of Georgia’s honor
will he a more reliable support aud de
fence during the Battle of Life than arms,
| however stalwart,which were never raised
when Georgia needed the help of all her
1 sons. Noue but the brave deserve tiie
fair. Oconee.
RErONtTHIICTION.
The following is the omnibus hill, as
passed by the Senate:
An act to admit the Statesof North Caro
lina, Soutli Carolina, Louisiana, Geor
gia, Alabama and Florida, to representa
tion in Congress.
Whereas the people of North Carolina.
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Ala
bama, and Florida have, in pursuance of
the provisions of an act entitled “An act
for the more efficient government of the
rebel States,” passed March second,
eighteen hundred aud sixty-seven, aud
the acts supplementary thereto, framed
constitutions of State government which
are republican, and have adopted said con
stitutions by large majorities of tlie votes
east at the elections held for the ratifies
tion or rejection of the same: Therefore,
lie it enacted, Ac., That each of the
States of North Carolina, Soutli Caroliua,
Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Flori
da,shall he entitled aud admitted to repre
sentation in Congress as States of the
Uuion when the Legislatures of said States
respectively shall have duly ratified the
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States proposed by the Thirty-!
ninth Congress, and k:.own as article four
teen, upon the following fundamental
conditions: That the constitutions of
neither of said States shall ever be so
amended or changed as to deprive any
citizen or ela-s of citizens of the United
Stales of the right to vote in said State
who are entitled to vote by the constitu
tion thereof herein recognized, except as a
punishment for such crimes us are now fel
onies at common law, whereof they shall
have been duly convicted under laws
equally applicable to all the inhabitants of
said State : Provid'd, That any alteration
of said constitutions, prospective in its
effect, may tie made with regard to the
time and place of residence of voters ; and
the State of Georgia shall only he entitled
and admitted to representation upon this
further fundamental condition: that the
first, and tiiird subdivisions of section sev
enteen of the fifth article of the constitu
tion ot said State, except the proviso to
the first subdivision, shall he null aud
void, and that the General Assembly of
said State, by solemn public act, shall de
clare the assent of the State to ttie fore
going fundamental condition.
SE'C. 2. And be it further enacted, That
if the day fixed for the meeting of the Leg-
Mature „us either of sail) hy
constitution or ordinance thereof shall
have passed or have so nearly arrived be
fore tiie passage of this act, tiiat there
shall not he time for the Legislature to as
semble at the period fixed, such Legis
lature shall con vene at the end of twenty
days from the time this act takes effect,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner
convene the same.
Sec. 3 And he it further enacted, That
the first section of this act shall take effect
as to each State, except Georgia, w lien such
State shall, by its Legislature, duly ratify
article fourteen of the amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, pro
posed by tiie T4iirty-ninlh Congress; and
as to the State of Georgia, when it shall, in
addition, give the assent of said State to
tiie fundamental condition hereinbefore
imposed upon the same; and thereupon
the officers of eacii State, duly elected and
qualified under tiie constitution thereof, '
shall be inaugurated without delay ; hut
no person prohibited from holding office
under the United States, or under any
State by section three of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of tire j
United States, known as article fourteen,
shall be deemed eligible to any office in
either of said States unless relieved from
disability as provided in said amendment;
and it is hereby made the duty of tlje
President, within ten days after receiving
official information of the ratification of
said amendment l>y tlie Legislature of
either of said States, to issue a proclama
tion announcing that fact.
AKTIILK FUI'RTEFN.
Section 1. All persons horn or natural
ized iu the United States, and subject to
tiie jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States, and of the State wherein
tiiey reside. No State shall make or en
force any law which shall abridge tiie
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States. Nor shall any Slate de
prive any person of life, liberty, or prop
erty', without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall he appor
tioned among the several States according
to ttie respective numbers, counting tiie
Whole number of persons iu each State,
excluding Indians not taxed ; hut when
ever the right to vote at any election for
the electors of President and Vice Presi
dent of the United States, Representa
tives in Congress, executive and judicial
officers, or the members of the Legislature
thereof, Is denied to any of the male in
habitants of such States, being twenty-one
years of age, aud citizens of tiie United
States, or in any wav abridged, except for
participation in rebellion, or other crime,
the basis of representation therein shall be
reduced in the proportion which the num
ber of such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number of male citizens t weuty-one
years of uge in that State.
Sec. 3. No person shall he a senator or
: representative in Congress, elector of
l President, or hold any office, civil or mili
tary, under the United States, or any
I State, who, having previously taken an
! oath as a member of Congress, or as an
officer of tiie United Stales, or as a mem
ber of any Slate Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State,
to support tire constitution of the United
States, shall have engaged in insurrection
; or rebellion agaiDst the same, or given aid
or comfort to the enemies thereof; hut
Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of
j the House remove sueli disability.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt
| of the United States, authorized bylaw,
including debts incurred* for tiie payment
of pensions and bounties for service in
suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned, but neither the
ITuited States nor any State shall assume
or pay any debt or obligation incurred in
aid of insurrection or rebellion against the
! United States, or claim for the loss or
emancipation of any slaves, but all such
debts, obligations or claims shall be held
illegal and void. .. ,
Sec. 5. The Congress of the United
States shall have power to enforce, by ap
■propriate legislation, the provisions of this
article.
Another Good Old Man Gone.— John
P. Eve, one of the oldest and best citizens
of this county, died at his residence near
Eve’s Station, on Friday, the 12th inst.
He was a man of great industry aud
energy,scrupulously precise iu all business
transactions, a practical Christian, and iu
every way a good citizen. We suppose
his age to be not far from seventy years.
—Rome Courier, 1 bth.
MACON, GA.. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 18(18.
A Few Facts and Figures About «10,
Wauulacture and .Practical* t w 'ol
Steam Flowing ASarblnes.
From time immemorial the principal
agency by which the earth has been cuiti
| vated has been by horses and oxen.
; Until within lhe past few years no
practical effort had been made to perform
; the work by steam power. There are iu
England three great manufacturing eon-
I cents, who produce nearly all the agricul
tural implements used in their country,
who have spent vast sums of money to
: inventors and others in tiie construction
! and manufacture of steam plowing ma
chinery tiiat could he used practically aud
cheaply in breaking up and plowing the
ground, in placia of the old horse and ox
system. 'Alie result is that, at this day,
there, are nearly or quite one thousand
steam plows at work iu England of many
and various patterns, some with stationary
engines, some fraction engines, working
from three to six plows to each set of
machinery.
In regard to the very many advantages
steam plowing possesses over the old sys
tem, one most important item presents
itself for our consideration, which is, tiiat
the number of horses and oxen required
to do the same farm work is reduced fully
oue-third, and tiie number of laborers one
half.
Viewed in this light, the subject of
j breaking up and plowing the ground by
j steam power, especially in a country tike
the United States, where the demands of
j the tapidly increasing population tread so
close upon the heels of improveiiiwflh.
makes it assume a form aud
j paramount natiuiial importance. 1
In discussing the subject of steam plowf
ingthe first and most inqiortaut considera
tions which suggests themselves are the
standard of perfect cultivation; so tiiat
tiie soil shall he in the best possible coiidt--
| tion to exert its greatest power iu the
! economical growth, development and per
j feet maturity of the various crops it is ex-
I pected tiie laud to produce, and the lies!
: and cheapest means of attaining that most
; desired end.
There can he no doubt tiiat if all the
ways ami means heretofore known or re
sorted to ior tiie purpose of producing tiie
greatest possible yield of crops, tiie deep
spade husbandry, pursued by gardeners,
was tiie very best, and most successful.
File chief advantage of tiie deep spade
culture is and wan tile thorough loosening
and perfect admixture of the .soil, and this
most desired and important object can now
he much better and more cheaply accom
plished by tiie deep steam plow system
than by any other known process.
The success of all crops depend entirely
upon tiie number of ruble feet of earth
tiiat tiie roots are üble to penetrate ; the
smallest portiousof plant food cannot of
themselves leave the spot In which they
are firmly held and fixed by the soil; and*
we cau easily understand what immense
influence must t>e exerted on the fertility
of the land by a earful mechanical .ad
mixture and thorough subdivision.
File common plan breaks and turns up
the soil without mixing it, and only dis
places the s|Mits on which plants have al
ready grown. The spade and the steam
plow breaks, turns, mixes, aud pulverises
the soil thoroughly.
A team of four hours plowing a furrow
ten inches wide, will leave over three
hundred thousand foot-prints on each a re
planted—almost covering every inch of
theground,and firmly packing thesub-oil
beneath the plowed ground, neutralizing
to a great extent the growth of the crops
and the advantages of the good plowing.
The improved cu tivation of farm lauds,
and the greatiy increased yield of all
kinds of crops, planted and raised under
the steam plow system, when it ts taken
into consideration, tiiat you disjietise with
one third of the horses aud oue-balf of t >e
farm laborers, over the old system, v til
necessarily show in a very short period
enormously increased productions of all
kinds of human food aud subsistence.
There are at this time, only two com
plete sets of steam plowing machinery suc
cessfully working in the United States
one in i liiuois and one in Louisiana—both
are working daily and have moved a
peifewt eiwiceaa. T’hn Mwwqnuf
Bedouin Arab) has over two hundred sets
of steam plowing machinery, most of them
form the machinery of Messrs. Fowler A
Cos., of Leeds, iu England and all of the
largest size, with which he plows more
than two hundred thousand acres of land
on the Lower Nile, and plants it in rice,
sugar and cotton, the cottons raised by
him on the steam plowed lands havecom
mauded from two to four cents per pound
above the highest prices of Mobile and
Louisiana cottons in the Liverpool market.
It is said tiiat the most approved steam
plowing machine, manufactured in Eng
land, are those made at ttie machine shops
of tiie great Quaker House of John Fowler
& Cos., of Leeds, who are the Inventors of
the balance plow, of the clippdruin tackle,
and many other inventions and useful Im
provements only found upon the machines
manufactured by their house. The steam
plow in Illinois,and tbeoneat work on the
Magnolia plantation are both manufactur
ed by that house, and the manufactured
number on the locomotive engine is nine
hundred and eighteen,showing nearly oue
thousand sets of steam plow machinery
made in one manufactory. No. 918 con
sists of two fourteen horse power double
cylinder fraction eugines,each having self
moving and reversing gear, water lank,
sterage, with road wheels twenty-two
inches wide, winding drum with paient
self-acting, coiling gear ; spuds, tools, tool
boxes, complete for steam cultivation, also
eigiit hundred yards steel wire rope; one
six furrow, balance plain ; one seven tyre,
balance cultivator; costing about fifteen
hundred pounds sterling, the entire ma
chinery. Rattoon plows for cultivating
and hearing off the staple cane, can readily
be attached to ttie machinery, at a small
additional expense.
The large sugar plantations in Louisiana
are laid off in lots of from three to four
acres long, with a road at each end, upon
which the locomotives stand, and they
haul the balance plows hack aud forth with
a speed faster than a man can walk. Two
negro men ride on the pk»w, one to sleet,
one to aid in case of stumps or obstruc
tions. One negro man on eaeli engine runs
the machine, keeps it in order, ami does
his own firing. A man with a team of
three mules and cart haul the water and
coals, making a force of five men at one
dollar per day $5 no
Cart and three mules, worth per
Each engine burns seven bids, of
coal
Fourteen bids, coal at 05 cents per
hhl 9 10
Makes the total expense, with oil,
per hour 1 40
Total $lB 00
At seven in the morning tiie steam
whistle blows, and when eight acres of
ground is broken up ami plowed fourteen
inches deep, the toughest soil ever seen by
mortal man, tiie day’s task is done. When
the engines are working with the seven
tyre cultivator, that runs in tiie ground at
a depth of from sixteen to eighteen inches,
tiiey work even from ten to twelve acres
per day. The cultivator isaeross between
a large barrow and a subsoiler, and is, in
reality, the great pulverizing machine.
The cost per each acre for breaking up
aud plowing the ground fourteen inches
deep with the steam plow machinery is
$2 25. The cost of running the cultivator
orgreateartb pulverizer, which will work
twelve acres per day, will only cost about
$1 50 per acre. Yemen with worn out
lands and farms, what say ye! Tiie steam
plow, at a cost of hardly as much us it
takes to harrow your land, will make a
new farm for you, with a fresh virgin soil,
iu the same field your worn out one was.
But the cost of the steam plowing ma
chinery is so very heavy, the people so
poor, only two have been introduced un
derthe hill permitting them to he imported
for oue year, ending Ist July, 1868, duty
free. We learn that a petition is now be
fore Congress to extend the period for a
further term of three years.— N. O. Pica
yune.
Death of Col. E. P. Watkins.—We
are pained to announce the death of this
gentletuam in U’oweta, county on Saturday
last, of a pulmonary disease that long
preyed upon his constitution. In all the
relations of life the course of Col. W atkius
was such as to stamp him a true man and
a Christian gentleman ; and to his mem
ory in common with a long list of sorrow
ing'relatives and friends, we drop a tear.
Constitution, 1 bth.
TIIUIISp AY, JUNK IS, 1868^
FROM HONDURAS.
Messrs. A. U. Middlebrooks, T. R. Tin
dell, It. G. Hyman, W. A. Coleman aud
F. G. Sappingtou, of Georgia, with others
from the various Southern States, sign a
card to the “Southern Press,” asking a
correction, at its hands, of “the gross false-
I hoods now circulating throughout the
' Southern States and elsewhere,” in regard
to the colony established at Sail Pedro, iu
the Spanish Honduras.
Tiiey say that those who have come to
grid out there were only the foolish per
sons who invested their all in cotton,
which the array woitns ate up, hut that
new immigrants with capital have come ;
iu to replace these, and that the “goose j
never before hung so high,” nor was there
ever “anything so entirely lovely.” They
go on, then, to desetihe the country, from
.which one would suppose that such au
nt h*-r exists not upou the face of the earth.
In fact, they quite use up the vocabulary
of adjectives iu its description. All of
which may he true, but does not change
our opinion of the'patriotism or policy of j
leaving this South-laud of ours, to go any
where. Here let every loving, loyal sou
vA the soil remain. This is our country. |
< to i u* by those a ho wrote!
wim their swords, and made their sign
manuals With their blood. A foul alliance
of force and fraud has wrested its govern
ment from our hands for the time, hut tiie
usurpers are destined to a speedy and sig
nal overthrow. We will rule this land,
sooner or laLer —justsosure as grassgrows,
and water runs, and the sun shines. It
would he a reversal of the laws of Nature
and of Nature’s God, to have it otherwise.
Stand by your colors, then. Never give
up the fight. Never desert the mother
who bore you. Never flee from tlie land
that Coffins the ashes of your forefathers,
and whose history you s > pioudiy illus
trated for four long years, by deeds that
the world knows by heart. Upon her
rocks, and hills, and mountains you have
written an alphabet of glory, that only
the end of Time can blot out. You are
the Lords of the Boil—rich in a heritage
of worth, aud virtue, and intellect— rich
in the memories of tiie past, witli its stale
ly procession of Statesmen, Patriots and
Warriors—rich in the manhood to slake
“life, fortune and sacred honor” for prin
ciple, aud still richer in the heroic courage
that endures defeat without a tremor —
rich io the wealth of a high social organi
zation, indomitable energy and unweary
ing perseverance—rich, aliove all, in the
blood aud induing that make men to con
quer even fate, aud rob misfortune of its
sting. Why squander all this wealth
u|Kiti i foreign land, and among strangers
and aliens ?
THE COLUMBUS PRISONERS-A SUGGESTION
We learn from the Eftquirer of Tuesday,
that these prisoners will he tried at an early
day, probably between this date and the
first of July, and that it will last several
weeks. Messrs H. L. Bending, Smith
Alexander, Ingram <fc Crawford, Moses &.
Garrard, and the Hon. A. H. Stephens
have beeu engaged as their counsel
The Enquirer very justly and pertinent
ly remarks, that in some of its aspects this
case is local and individual, but in others
it is general, aud concerns every man
and woman iu Georgia. It suggests,
therefore, that as tiie exjiense of w itneeses
■mt’cotfnsrl fees—these latter, however,
only to cover actual expenses— will t>£
heavy, and such as that community can
not afford, unuided and alone, that contri
butions he raised iu tiiat city aud through
out tiie State, for that purpose. Several of
the whites are without any means what
ever, aud lire uegroes, who are all Demo
crats, are utterly destitute. We heartily
approve the suggestion. It is a good (me.
‘Tiie cause of these unfortunate victims is
the cause of every holiest limn iu (ieorgia,
tiie cause of every foe to Radicalism aud
its myriad wrongs and outrages, nut only
iu Georgia, hut tiie South, and as such
should he espoused to the extent of every
one’s ability. We hope to see a generous
aud prompt response to this call.
List ol Georgians Hurled on (lie Field
at Gelt>kburg.
J W Law, 4tli reg't ; Lt Col Winn, 4th
reg't ; HA Ward, 60th reg't; W F Nash,
9tii reg’t; W F Brown, 15th reg’t; Capt
J W Atkins, 53d reg’t; Win Biggers, ; !
M E Iloggs, Kth reg’t; A A McGeary, 9th
reg’t; Belcher, 11th reg't; W W
Matties, Klh reg't ; 1 C Eago. Bth reg’t; T
W Clements, Bth reg’t; T Elinor, 7th
reg't; JasCrampfcon, Btli reg’t; H Sparks, 1
17th reg’t; D D Mann, 17th reg’t; J J
Mantel I, 57th reg't; Hergt J M Bisnaugh, j
Bth reg’t; E W Clyett, Bth reg’t; E R
Tate, loth reg’t; LtCA Potter, 11th reg't; !
S Richardson, lltli reg’t; John Laughiiu,
lath reg’t; J C McCallar, 11th reg’t; SS
Sparks, .57 1 li reg’t; A L Short, 17tli reg’t;
Lt S H Echols. Bth reg’t; J W P, lltli
reg’t; J C Dickson, loth reg’t; Sergt .1 C
Oliver, 11th reg’t; Sergt E P Sharp, lltli
reg’t; Corp W A King Btti reg’t; G W
Harrison, 11 th reg’t; Lt A M Parker, lltli .
reg’t; John Mills, 9th reg’t; T L Lyday, I
9th reg’t; J I) Gordon, Btti reg’t; Sergt i
S B Sheus, 59th reg’t ; W M Weaver, s<ii
reg’t; W M Lewis, lltli reg’t; Lt W II
11, loth reg’t; Col J Wasden, 22d reg't;
T Ware, 15th reg’t; Lt Col J C Monnger,
Bth reg’t; R vV Dyas, Sumpter’s Geor
gia Battery; M Keane, 27th reg’t;
S Goljes, 12th reg’t; J M Wright, 44th
reg’t; John Brown, 12th reg’t; K M Bor
ing, 4th reg’t; Hangman. Ga Cav ;
WM Patterson, Bth reg’t; T L Guery,
Sumpter’s Ga Battery; Maj P Bremen,
Gist reg’t; W Young, Gist reg't; Col Jones
Columbia Georgia; J R Crosby, Ifitli
regiment; J I) Hied, liitli regiment;
W B Elrod, Kith reg’t ; W P Hubbard,
l.stii reg’t ; J W McGinnis, 53d reg’t; W
H Butler, 4th reg’t; Corp Wells, Ga; J
C Jordan, lath reg’t; T H Lauren, 24th
reg’t; Lt C A Bailey, 10th reg’t; J B For
rester, 241 h reg't; E T Johnson, Bth
reg’t; C L Walker, 20th reg’t; W R
Bracewell, 49th reg’t; Richard Jawlt,
51st reg’t; J S Haden, 13th reg't;
Jas Corns, Btli reg’t; J B Willing,
38th reg’t; W L Brewer, 51st reg’t;
J Hodges, 3d reg’t; C Gregory, 3d reg’t ;
I) H Moncreif, 3d reg’t; S W S3d reg’t ;
J A Dance, 3d reg’t; H H Young, 2d
reg’t; T Deaton, 2d Ga Bat; M Lewis. 22d
reg’t ; J R Gibson. 22d reg't; Joseph Pow
ell, 38th reg’t; J Branch, 61st reg’t; Clin
ton Buehaler, 61st reg’t; J N Scarboro,
61st reg’t ; Lt Wood, 38th reg’t; Lt UC
Brooks, Georgia Legion ; Lt 1’ R Barrett;
Georgia Legion; Lt J Howze, Georgia
Legion ; Lt Woods, GOth reg't; J A Reeves
13th regiment, Frank Botts, 61st regiment.
Depot Burned.—The Columbus Sun, |
of yesterday notices the burning of the
depot at Butler, Taylor county, ou Sunday
morning last. Forty bales of cotton, fifty
bales of osnahurgs, Fifteen casks of bacon,
and several car loads of corn were de
stroyed. The entire loss is in the neighbor
hood of S4O U(K), abtut two-thirds of which
is covered by insurance. The railroads
sustain about half the loss. The cotton,
bacon, and osnahurgs belonged to the
Flint River factory.
Homicide and Stahbing.—Jajnes
! Curenton, of Girard, Alabama, was stab
bed and killed by Peter Biehler, ofColum
| bus, In a bar-room in the latter place, on
Saturday night; and a young man named
Brock, was stabbed aud dangerously
: wounded on the same night, by a man
named Pressly, at Wammockville, near
| Columbus—both of which facts are report
i ed by the Enquirer ot yesterday.
MDFTKS O* UWISKDS OF THE 81-
tm* term, is«r.
(Reported by Col. U,mini mid for the Recorder |
Carithers and Wife, vs. Corbin, Executor.
December Term, 1867—Equity from
Cramford.
Walker, J.
By the laws of South Carolina, as they
existed in 1835, a wili practically emanci
pating slaves was invalid so far as such
object was concerned ; hut other bequests
in the same will were not affected thereby.
Our laws will not enforce the provisions
of a will, made in another State, which
are directly contrary to the declared pel ley
of tliis State, (Rev. Cede, sec. 9 and 2,696.)
hut the judgment of a competent tribunal
as to such will, when the wilj was execu
ted will he respected by the courts of this
State.
Debts due by a deceased executor, ad
ministrator, guardian or trustee, entitled
: to priority of payment in the admiuistra
| tion of assets as provided by the Code,
(sec. 2,312 and par. 4 of see. 2,494,) are such
only as may he due by such executor, etc.,
as may be appoiuted by the laws of this
State. Trustees appointed in other States
are not embraced Debts due by foreign
executors, trustees, etc., are to be paid ac
cording to their character, as bonds or ac
, counts, etc., the same as if owned by oth
ers without priority on account of such
character. (Judge Harris dissenting.)
j If a creditor receive, in payment of his
debt, a depreciated currency at it# uomi-
I nal without fraud or mistake, he
1 wdi be ho4tnJ by such payment.
ft hit anuSy.istratos pay d<"bG with less
than is due upon them, he shall not take
the benefit of it hiruself; but other credi
i tors and legatees shall have the advantage
of it. rice 2 Will, on Ex., 1866-’«7.)
The estate Is entitled to alt the benefits
ensuing front such payment, and not the
administrator personally.
P>. Hil & Wallace for Plaintiff.
Cobh da Jackson, Hall tor Defendant.
Richard Roe, cas. eject , and Jno. K. Pat
teraon, tenant, v». Juo. Doe, ex. detn.
Geo. Buchanan. Ejectment from Ran
dolph.
Hakmls, J.
The lot of land iti controversy was
granted “ to Temperance Robinson's ille
gitimates.”
Plaintiff below relied on a copy grant
and deeded from ( harles Robertson, and
proof that he was the only illegitimate '
child of Temperance Robinson.
Defendant claimed through a deed made
by the husband of Temperance Robinson,
and sought by testimony of the Secretary ;
of State and Surveyor General, to show
that from tiie laud hooks in their offices ,
Hie lot of land was drawn Ly “Temper- '
ance Robinson, illegitimate " This Lesti- ]
mony was repelled, the Court below hold- :
ing that if the grant of tiie estate issued
originally to a Iverson who was not the j
fortunate drawer in tiie lottery, it must he
corrected by a proceeding instituted for
that purpose as the Code directs, and that '
it cannot to, <l,,nu <■<»!lateraliy in an eject
ment suit.
We find no error in any of the rulings
stated in the hill of exceptions, and accord
ingly utfirm the judgment.
Hood, Fielder, Douglas# for pl’fFfu error.
Lyon, Worrlll for deft in error.
Roe, ca». ejector and John McGregor,
tenant, vs. Doe, ex. dem. Calahan, el at.
Ej eet men t. —Ter re 11.
Warner, (’. J.
Although we should have been satisfied
with the verdict in this ease in the Court
below, upon ttie ground tiiat the James
Calahan who made the deed iu Eufaula
was not the James Calahan who drew the
lot of laud : hut the Court having granted
anew trial in the case, we wilt not. con
trol his discretion iu doing »o. Judgment
affirmed.
Lyon A Irwin for Plaintiff. E. L. Doug
lass for Defendant.
John S. ClementA. vs. Elizabeth Bostwick,
el ai. Equity.—Calhoun.
Warner, C. J.
When the husband ol a woman died,
seized and possessed of a tract of land,
having the legal title thereto, the widow
is entitled, under the provisions of the
Code, to dower therein, and the vendor's
lien, which was not euforost during tiie
lifetime of the husband, a ill not over-ride
or defeat the widow ’s dower. Judgment
affirmed Harris, J., dissenting.
Stro/ier, Bower for Plaintiff. Lyon &
DeGraffeuriled for Defendant.
William Chaneviy, vs. Rob’t H. Bailey,
W. V. Cleveland. Complaint. From
Mon lac.— Decern tier Term, Is« 7.
Warner, C. J.
When it appeared on the Gee of a prom
issory note that it was given by tiie de
fendants to the plaintiff in consideration
of the services of such plaintiff'as a sub
stitute as a soldier in the Cou federate army
to fight and bear arms against the Gov
ernment of the United States : Held that
the consideration of the note was illegal
and void. Judgment affirmed. Harris,.!,
dissenting.
Caban is# & Peeples for Plaintiff.
A. I). Hammond by ttie Reporter for
Defendant.
Stephen Mitchell vs. Julia Hay. Manda
mus—Sumter.
Warren, C. J.
When a city Marshal levied upon prop
erty of the husband in tiie possession of
the wife, and the wife claimed the same as
exempt from levy aud sale under the laws
of this State, and the Marsha refused to
restore tiie same, although tiomi and secu
rity iiad been given for tiie forthcoming of
the property : Held that as the property
levied on consisted mainly of household
and kitchen furniture necessary for the
immediate use of the family, the marshal
might be compelled by mandamus to re
store the property to the possessiou of ttie
claimant. Judgment affirme b
McCoy, Good, Brown for Plaintiff'.
Hawkins Lyon for Defendant.
L. B. Miller, Ex. of W. Miller, vs. David
L. and Isaac R. Ferguson. Certiorari
From Randolph —December Term, ’67.
Walker, J.
Where cotton seed were sold by ati Ex
ecutor at public outcry as “old seed,” and
on that account they brought less than
hall the price of the new seed, and there
was no fraud on the part of the Executor;
Held that tiie purchaser was bound to pay
for tlieseed so purchased. Judgment ie
versed.
Hood, Platt for Plaintiff’.
Woollen, Hoyle for Defendant.
Wi letter Jones & Oustavus Jones vs. Jo
seph R. Holiday. Equity—From Baker.
Walker, J.
The granting of an injunction and the
appointment of a receiver is generally a
question for tiie discretion of the Chan
cellor, but if lie abuse tiiat discretion his
action wil he controled by this Court.
Judgment reversed.
Wright & Warren and Hines & Hobbs
-for Plaintiff’.
Strozier & Smith for Defendant
Joseph A. Davis vs. Nelson Tift, Adnt’r. —
Equity. December Term, 1867. From
Dougherty.
Walker, J.
While the cause is pending iu the Court
below, no decision made therein can be
brought to tliis Court, unless it be such a de
cision as if it were rendered as claimed by
tiie Plaintiff iu Error, would have been a
final disposition of the cause.
Writ of Error dismissed.
S. D. Irwin for Plaintiff.
Hines and Hobbs for Defendant.
Abner I’. Robertson, vs. John D. Smith,
Sheriff—Rule. From Richmond.
Walker, J.
It is tiie duty of the Sheriff to execute
with due diligence the processes placed in
his hands, and pay promptly to the party
: entitled, money collected by him as sheriff,
i and on liis failing to do so he is liable to
fine and attachment for cou tempt. (Code,
sections 397, 401, 3873 and 3881 ) While
the Court will require strict fidelity on the
part of its officers, it will also euforce his
! rights for his costs and fees as against suit
ers; therefore, when a Sheriff at the in
stance of a plaintiff’, levied ou the property
of a defendant and incurred expenses in
■ securing and taking care of the property
so levied on, aud the levy wassuhsequent
; ly dismissed by the order of the plaintiff,
i the Sheriff - will not be driven to an action
, to recover the costs so due him. but judg
ment may be entered op against the plain
tiff for the same and execution issue there
for, (Code, Sections 400 and 3630). The
amount of compensation due the Sheriff
may be awarded by the Court. In this
case there being no contest as to the
amount due totheSherifi’and he being en
titled to a judgment for the amount against
the plaintiff; there being apparent reason
wliy oue claim should not be pro tanto ex
tinguished by the other, and the Court
having doue iu this equitable proceeding
what is right between the parties, this
Court will not, on a mere technicality, re
verse the judgment; more especially when
it appears that by having a judgment ren
dered for the costs admitted to he due the
Sheriff, he would have a valid claim for a
set off against the plaintiff's demand.—
Judgment affirmed
Jno. Shewmake for Plaintiff'.
F. H. Miller for Defendant.
Marsden A. Cleckly vs. Beall, Spears &
Cos ; Equity from Richmond.
Walker, J.
Where a party is sued it is his duty to
I make his defense promptly, if he has auy.
He cannot permit a judgment to be ren
dered against him at law, and then set it
! aside iu equity, unless he hud a good de-
I sense of which lie was entirely ignorant,
j or was prevented from making it by fraud
j or accident, or the act of the adverse party,
unmixed with fraud or negligence on his
part (Code, 3074.)
| Judgment affirmed.
Hook. tk. Curr, for plaintiff.
F- jl.JM.nwr, for
John G. Tyus and Jeremiah Beall vs. Y.
| G. Rust, survivor, Ac.; Equity from
Doughtery.
Warner, C. J.
Where a warehouseman received cotton
for storage and sale, and afterwads sold it,
as he alleges, pursuant to instructions to a
j purchaser who claims title to the cotton so
purchased from the warehouseman, and
the bailor of the cotton claiming it ufton
the ground that the warehouseman had
no authority to sell it: held, tiiat the facts
of the case did not authorize the ware
houseman to tiie a hill of interpleader, en
joining the parties claiming the eotton, to
oorn|iei them to litigate with each other as
to the title of tiie luitton which he bad
sold to one of them.
Judgment reversed.
Strozier Smith, Wright & Warren, for
plaintiff.
Davis and Lyon, for defendant.
George V\ . Collier vs. John Rutherford
and Stephen Collins—Statutory Actiou,
from Calhoun.
Warner, C. J.
A Justice of the inferior Court has au
thority under the law to admiulater an
oath for the removal of intruders. The
counter affidavit of the party in possession
must state tiiat he does hi gmsi faith claim
u b gal right to the po-session of the laud.
v u '‘" ”!!’ * tie party in pos
session is dismissed for not being m J,,..
pliance with the law, he will not he j>er
rntried to Hie a second affidavit at the
Court, the Code requiring that he shall at
once tender to the Sheriff the proper affi
davit, Judgment affirmed.
Lyon A DtGrattenreid for Plaintiff.
Bower, Rutherford for Defendants.
Francis Wilkes vs. Sherrod Phillips—Mo
tion tmreiustate a dismissed suit. From
Emanuel.
Harris, J.
This suit was begun iu ISSI, and after a
decree for complainant, was continued on
appeal from term to term by consent dur
ing the recent war, and afterwards by rea
son of the fact that the counsel of the
* Plaintiff, who was the sole Solicitor of
j complainant, was Judge from lst»3 until
tiie spring of 1867, during all of which pe
riod Defendant made no effort or sought
to have tiie case tried.
1 'ldie Solicitor of complainant was repre
sented by other counsel at the October
t term, ls*)7, who sought to have the case
continued for various reasons assigned by
them. This was relused, and complain
ant was order and to pr*>ceed to trial or dis
continue
We think his was not a proper exer
l eiseoT the large discretion of the Judge,
and witli which we very reluctantly in
terfere. The Court below, under the pe
culiar and equitable circumstances attefnl
-1 ing the application to continue, should
have placed this very old case under a rule
for trial at the next term, aud thereby the
euds of justice would have been advanced.
We reverse his judgment and direct tiie
cause to be reinstated.
Hook i* Carr for Pl'ff in Error
J. T. Shewmake for Def't in Error.
Taylor, vs. Pitman, Ex. of Hargrove.—
Equity from Worth.
Harris, J.
The judgment below, iu favor of defend
ant in error, is erroneous in the amount
of damages allowed.
The entire Bench concurs in consider
ing them as excessive, and on this ground
reverses the judgment.
As to the right of the Executor to main
tain this suit in trover for tiie stock of cat
tle m Worth, the Judges differ in opinion.
Judge Warner thinks that, as the Defend
ant below disclaimed title from the mo
ment of the purchase of the cattle, and
the facts showed title in plaintiff, the plain
tiff' was entitled to recover. Judge Walker,
having formed no decided opinion on that
question, declined to consider it.
Judge Harris held tiiat, as Hargrove sent
the purchase money to Taylor “to help
him,” as lie had promised—Taylor having
married his niece—with direction to buy
a stock of cal tie for ins family, aud having
uniformly disclaimed title, saying to all
who conversed with him, they were Tay
lor’s, and never having had possession or
exercised any* dominion over the cattle, no
title remained iu the estate of Hargrove
which could he asserted by suit at the in
stance of the Executor, judgment below
reversed.
Wright &, Warren, W. A. Harris, for
Plaintiff in Error.
iStrozier & Smith for I efeudant in Er
ror.
Alexander Reid, Plaintiff in Error, vs.
Florence Reid, by her next friend; Flor
ence Reid, by her next friend vs. Alex
ander Reid—Equity, from Dougherty.
Harris, J.
The Defendant in error in the tirst sla
ted case filed her hill alleging a trust in
certain property iu Alexander lteid, ctea
ted by a receipt given by him to iienj.
Keaton, her grandfather A demurrer
was interposed and overruled.
Judge Walker and myself affirm the
judgment below on demurrer. Judge
Warner dissents, as he thinks ho trust or
interest was created by the receipt in favor
of complainant. Judge Walker sustains
the decision below on the admissions of
demurrer of the aiiegatious of the bill,
and declines the expression of auy opinion
as to tiie title arising on the receipt, aud
tiiat tliis should be referred to a jury for
decision.
Judge Harris entertains tiie opinion
that there is an ambiguity in tiie receipt,
which must be interpreted by the paper
referred to in it, and if tiiat doesf not ex
plain it, that it may he explained under
the Code by parol testimony, and that
having been explained by the testimony
of Keaton, who gave the property and
peuued the receipt, it is the duty of the
Court to give the effect intended Ly it, as
the paroi testimony does not add* to or
vary the substance of the receipt.
In reference to the hill of exceptions,
founded upou the refusal of the Judge be
low to take the possession of the property
from the custody of Alexander Reid anil
place it in the hands of a receiver, there
being conflicting testimony below as to hi#
alleged mismanagement and unfitness for
the trust, we will not interfere with the
exercise of a discretion which does not j
seem to have been abused, and therefore i
affirm his judgment.
Wright & Warreu for Florence Reid.
Morgan & Harris for Alexander Reid.
James Wilson, vs. W. L. Reese, for the
use of W. A. Hawkins, et. al. Posses
sory Warrant from Sumter.
Harris, J.
This was a case of a possessory warrant
at the instance of Reese, issued from the
County Court. Its judgment was in favor
VOL. LX., KO. 43*
of Wiison. On certiorari, that judgment
I was reversed in the Superior Court. .The
I testimony in the record is clear that Reese
never purled with the possession of the
corn, fodder and potatoes at any time, and
that Wits m’spossession was illegal. The
Judge did right in reversing the judgment
of the County Court and ordering restitu
tion of possession to Reese. —Judgment
Affirmed.
Goode for pi’ff in error.
W. A. Hawkins, I.yon, for deft in
error
For the Journal »v Messenger
MR. CHASE AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT
Nt’MBER ONE.
Mu. Ex>jtor — l regret to see that some
of the Southern papers give countenance
to the efforts now being made on the part
of some artful politicians to bring Judge
Chase forth as the Democratic nominee
for the Presidency.
f have noticed closely the statement of
the claims and pretensions set forth in his
behalf, and have as yet seen none that
could not he as forcibly urged in favor of
many others who have been overslaughed
in the Republican party by Gen. Grant!
Is Judge Chase a Democrat? If ito,
when did he become so? His leading idea
*** uni vernal or manhood suffrage and uijii
versal amnesty. What Democrat in tjhe
South ,;sa» agree with him in his views of
It is claimed for him tbs£|he
proposes to leave thU to thg States to rig
ulate. If universal, what regulation can
the State make that can change it, or tfi
miuish the evil? If he favored the refer
ence of the question where the Con-titu
tion now places it, then this would [be
right; but this is not his view of the ques
tion. If universal sulfrage is to be con
ferred by Congress on the people of the
Southern States, with the privilege to all
people of all colors to vole, and by their
votes, and through them for whom thpy
vote, this question Is to be settled, is it njot
manifest that a majority will settle it to
suit themselves? And if a majority dro
in favor of unrestricted suffrage, what
good can result from allowing the State any
right in the matter? The great error with
him is in starting out with free suffrage.
I.et the peofde of the States in whom the
right of suffrage existed by our Constitu
tion, be left to extend or restrict suffrage :
then there would be some equity 7 in the
matter. Judge Chase is understood to be
a champion of the Reconstruction bills,
and this a heresy that no true Democrat
can fellowship. Remember his course
when the great and good Jenkins was en
gaged in trying to save his State and peo
ple from this degradation. Rook again ot
ins «'*'«»»• *** - n«.i made up
its decision on a case adverse to the con
stitutionality of these hills The decision
is delayed to give Congress time to pas.,
through a hill to deprive the Court of ju
risdiction of all such cases. And away
went the case, the Constitution, and the
honor and independence of the judiciary
If be and the Court bad stood firm aud
undaunted at this point, he and thev
would have immortalized themselves and
been sacredly remembered in all time to
come as the true champions of constitu
tional liberty on this continent.
The bowlings of a rabid Congress gave
terror to him, and he and his associates
[excepting the noble Grier,) grew
and fell from their former estate. That
Court is down, aud never can it rise again
in public estimation and regard. Had it
doue its duty, the people of the Southern
States would have been relieved from a
bondage more galling, abject ami degrad
ing than any that was ever imposed upon
a eivi ized race. As it is, we are slaves—
vassals—robbed, plundered, insulted, aud
hopeless and |*>werless. The only chance
for escape left us is by r an appeal to the
kind feelings ami lender mercies of those
who were ouee our slaves. Is it safe to
trust such a man in su<h a ptnoe* Cou
gress may howl again. We hope to get
clear of a portion of the hungry ears that
degrade the House ; hut tbeßenate is badly
infected with hydrophobia, aud it will he
some years before these dirty places can be
cleaned by driving out the unworthy oc
cupants shat now disgrace the nation.
Judge Chase wiii not do for these times.
Let him stay with his Radical friends. He
has worked for them, and toiled faithfully
to favor their schemes. He has soiled tiie
ermine. We want no such man to bear
the standard we have set up for ourselves.
We are poor but we are proud. We have
a just reason to he proud, for we have main
tained our honor and self-respect amidst
the darkest hours and the greatest dan
gers .Let us still maintain ourselves in
this high position, by standing aloof from
everything vile or wanting in spotless pu
rity. If we are circumvented and iu great
distress,and greatly pressed for deliverance,
our course cau he more easily and safely
taken by surrendering ca masse to Gen.
Grant.
We ean get our own terms from him by
promising the vote of the State uud the
South to him. This is the better policy of
the two. But ought we, cau we consist
ently do either? I think not. Ido hope not.
The great argument in favor of Chase is,
that lie would bring to our party great ac
cessions from the conservative Republi
cans. Who knows this would he true?
By giving them all office we might get
enough to till up all the planes. It would
he belter to tight thau to feed such a.lie.-.
1 never yet knew one instance in Ameri
can politics that a prominent man left his
party aud carried with him one half of
his kinsfolk, unless lie first secured, p acts
for them.
There are other serious objections to hi
selection as our standard bearer, which 1
may hereafter urge
“ Timco Ihi fonts, ct dona ferrules."
„ t ifcofO si A.
A Bankrupt Treasury.— “Leo’’
writes from Washington City to the
Charleston Courier, as follows:
Probably when a few hundred more of
such “trooly Joil” scoundrels- as Callicott,
of New York, aud Anderson, at Rich
mond, are sent to the Penitentiary, a bet
ter state of aflairs may prevail. Ho
long as the thieves party is in power,
though, it would l>e folly either to speak of,
or expect, such a consummation.
The Treasury is almost bankrupt. In
the matter of Revenue collections, it is at
a stand. The whisky aud tobacco taxes
cannot be collected, though a swarm of
officials and others reap the beuefft of the
taxes which are imposed for the purposes
of the Government. The Revenue is fall
ing off, while the expenditures of the
Government are increasing. Cougivss
will probably determine to defer the pay
ment of soldiers’bounties They cannot
be paid, according to the terms of the last
bounty swindle, without creating an ad
ditional amount of public debt. Accord
j ing to Senator .Sherman’s statement, the
Treasury has not realty the command of
more than fifty millions.
Xknvnan W hkat Crop —The Newnan
Herald, says a number of the citizens of
that town sowed their small lots last fall.
They have been harvested and threshed.
The HeraUl says the yield will average
twenty-five bushels per acre. Mrs. Dent,
on about three acres, raised severity-live
: aud a quarter bushels of eleau wheat.
> Other crops on smaller lots, ranged from
• twenty to forty bushels.