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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER JOURNAL & MESSENGER. MACON, GA., MONDAY, OCT. 17. the great bank suit-list of the un paid STOCK-PARTICULARS OF THE ACTION. We have several times alluded to a suit brought against the stockholders of the Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank by parties holding its notes for amounts called for on the face of the same. As the matter is necessarily a public one, itcan do no harm to present its principal features, which will be of interest to our readers. In November, 1867, George W Hatch, of New York, Scott, Zerega & Cos., of New York, Frisbie & Roberts, of New York, ami William H. Marsh, of Cincinnati, m a suit in the United States Circuit Court, obtained judgment for the amount of the notes held by them. Execution was issued, and the return made thereon that no property could be found upon which to levy. And now come the plaintiffs and tile a bill in equity, claiming judgment against the stockholders of theßamk, who, by a clause in its charter, became liable personally for its debts to the extent of the amount of stock held by them. They ar e two distinct suits, one of which will be the more interesting of the two, from the nature of the action. The plain tiffs aver that there are certain parties who did not pay in the full value of the stock which they held ; that this unpaid stock became a debt due to theßauk, and should have been included in the assignment of its effects, which it was not; that this money really belonged to the Bank, and that the defendants should be compelled to pay it in. They therefore bring this suit in Chancery to com pell the defendants to pay the sums still due on the stock which they held. This i3 quite an interesting point, and its decision will be anxiously awaited ; but as Chancery suits are often times interminable, it may hang on for some time, and, as the defendants will doubtless light the question hard, it may come iu time to rival the famous suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce. We have obtained a list of the parties who are defendants in this issue, with the amounts claimed from each. Iu the first columns of figures is stated the number of shares held by each person ; in the second the- value of the shares, at one hundred dollars per share, the amount for which they were to be sold, according to the charter of the bank ; in the third column is given the per centage on the dollar which was paid in, and iu the fourth, the amount remaining unpaid. The fist is as follows : the first six persons named being residents of South Carolina: N. S. Crowell 100 SIO,OOO 25 $7,500 Walter Havward 140 14,000 50 10,500 .Blake Hayward 1,160 116,000 10 104,400 Daniel Hayward 450 45,000 20 36,000 Edward Martin 800 80,000 18 65,600 Alfred N. Martin 370 37,000 19 29,970 William H. Burroughs 100 10,000 50 5,000 John Cooper 25 2,500 50 1,250 John Cooper , 20 2,000 10 1,800 JohnCpoper 2 200 35 125 John Cooper 40 4,000 25 3,000 John Cooper 31 3,100 40 2,790 Total ain't unpaid $8,965 John Cooper, in trust for Rb’t Mclntyre 3 300 100 2,790 Joseph V. Conerat... 50 5,000 10 4,500 George B Cumming.. 500 50,000 20 40,000 Robert Habersham & William Neyle Hab ersham, surviving partners of Haber sham & Sons 35 3,500 35 2,275. Robert Habersham & Vv illiam Neyle Hab ersham, surviving partners of Haber sham A Sons 100 10,000 25 7,500 Charles Dußyuon it David J. Bailey, Ex ecutors of S. Grant- T |and, deceased 500 50,000 50 25,000 William H. Dunning 40 4,000 10 3,600 Noah B. Knapp 100 10,000 10 9,000 Edward Lovell 25 2,500 10 2,250 Edward Lovell 5 500 60 250 Edward Lovell 10 1,000 50 500 Total am’t unpaid $3,000 Win. Mclntyre 200 20,000 31.10 13,780 Robert Mclntyre 200 20,000 31.10 13,780 Robert Mclntyre... 125 12,500 10 11,250 Total am’t unpaid $25,000 John W . Nevitt 50 2,500 50 5,000 Qeorge S. Nicholls.. 40 2,000 50 4,000 GeorgeT. Nicholls.. 5 450 10 500 Anthony Porter 100 9,000 10 10,000 Hiram Roberts 4,000 360,000 10 400,000 Ro bert^Stailord 500 30,000 40 50,000 John Screven 166 13,114 21 16,600 Geo. P. Screven 167 13,193 21 10,700 Thos. P. Screven... 167 13,193 21 10,700 Andrew M. Ross, Administrator on Estate of Isaac Morell 100 10,000 10 9,000 George H. Johnston, Administrator on Estate of Edward Molyneaux dee'd. 1,070 107,000 10 86,280 Henry Latlirop..... 50 5,000 10 4,500 Henry D. Weed.... 50 5,000 10 4,500 The above an entirely separate and independ ant action, to compel the parties above named to pay the amounts stated in the list as unpaid. If they are held liable for this, then comes the other suit, on the common law side of the Court, in which claim is brought against them for the whole amount of the stock, both paid and unpaid. In At'/lOU/lt. . . Unpaid... Per Cent. Paid Value .... Number of \ Shares | SUPPLEMENT. MACON, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1868. this last action there are over one hundred ot er defendants, who were stockholders, and who p id in full for their stock. The whole amount invdv ed, principal, interest, damages and costs, reac es a half a million of dollars. Judge W. Dougherty, of Atlanta, and A. Y. Stone, of this city, are attorneys for the plaint'Ts. Jne defendants will probably have some of he most eminent legal talent to be obtained, to cttTy on their cause. —Savannah News, loth. —— ♦ ♦ ♦ [From the Memphis Avalanche, Oet. 13th. j STARTLING REVELATIONS. Gan-s Organized to Prey on White “Rebels.!* The terrible affair known as the “Alex ander Horror,” still fresh in the minds of the people, is again brought prominenlly before the public by the capture and con fessions of another of the miscreants en gaged in it. Sometime since we mention ed the arrest of Doc Woods in a negro cabin on the Pigeon Roost road, aftei a desperate struggle, in which he was bacly wounded. Eearly Sunday morning the lest living member ot the gang at large was captured, making four in all—Woods, Joe Webb, Aaron Calico and Steve Tor rence alias Twine—now in custody. The last capture was that of Torrence. Late Saturday night the detectives learn ed of his return from Arkansas. He was traced to a negro house on Court street extended, and preparations were made for his arrest. About 3a. m. Sunday, detec tives Hastings, McCune and Cornell and policemen Welch, Gallagher Smith and Holland stealthily surrounded the house, and after some parleying succeeded in effecting ail entrance. Ten or fifteen col ored people were inside, all of whom stoutly denied Torrence’s presence on the premises. But the officers made strict search, and at length found the fugitive concealed under a trundle bed. He was covered with bed clothing, but two chil dren—a boy and a girl—were exposed as a blind to the view of the officers, who are not exactly the men to be so easily de ceived. Torrence was taken to the station house, where, during the day, he voluntarily con fessed his guilt, and narrated the part taken iu the affair by his pals. The noto rious Doc Woods was leader of the gang, which comprised, besides himself, Tor* renee, Joe Webb, Aaron Calico and Jim Shapflin, who, it is said, was afterward killed in Noueonnali bottom- It seems that the five started out of their rendezvous in this city that nightfor meat, Finally, after beating about for several hours, one of the party suggested the pro priety of going home. Woods swore no body should go ; he was tired of this d—d foolishness and intended to do something worth talking about. Torrence and Gal lagher started to return, anyhow, but Woods, who had been chosen Captain, and the others were so violent in their opposi tion that the design was abandoned. When nearing Cane Creek Torrence proposed going to Alexander’s and to steal watermelons. Woods replied : “No ; I’m after money. He has plenty of it. Urn going to his house for it.” The party quietly approached his residence. When near it a halt was ordered by Woods, which resulted in the men being posted at different points to his satisfaction. Woods assumed the bolder part of the programme. He stepped on the porch and endeavored to force the door, and called to Mr. Alexander to come out. The latter came forward to a window, and in an swer to inquiries, was told by Woods that colored men had been killed about the place, and he intended to stop it. Upon this Mr. Alexander shoved the muzzle of a gun through the window, aud fired at Woods, but without effect. Woods ran to some shrubbery, pulled up a young tree by the roots, and with it dashed in the window at which Mr. A. had stood. As he did so he yelled : “Come out or I’ll set fire to the house. I don’t want to huit you.” He received no response, and in a moment, after igniting them, shoved two bundles of fodder through the window. The flames caught the window blind, and soon the room was a sheet of fire. Mrs. Alexander appeared at this time, and imploringly asked Woods and Shap flin what they wanted. “We don’t want you,” was the rough reply ; and just then Mr. Alexander approached his wife. Upon seeinghim Woods exclaimed : “I’m going to have you out of there, if I go to b—ll for it.” As Torrence came to the spot Shapflin said: “Doc, why don’t you shoot into the room ?” Torrence tried to dissuade him by saying: “Boys, let’s go and get some chickens.” But Woods re plied that matters had gone too far for anything of the kind, and while he was speaking the other members of the gang joined the party. Presently Mr. Alexan der was seen at the front door. Calico 1 fired at and wounded him. Webb also fired, but the ball failed of its aim. Then the work of plunder commenced. Torrence said he went to Mississippi immediately after the affair, and thence to Arkansas ; but he “didn’t have a rest,” aud came back, thinking he could avoid capture by “laying low.” He admitted the charge that there were several regu larly organized gangs of armed negroes in the community, under leaders. It was their principle to take nothing from white or black Union men, but regarded the “rebels” (all opposed to Grant) as legiti mate prey. The gangs believed this the proper way to break up the “rebels. Torrence is an enthusiastic Grant man, averring that he should vote for him. §3 Unis, remember, is a voluntary confes** sion, aud it reveals a condition of affairs most horrible to contemplate. That South ern white men have no rights a Radical is bound to respect is daily and nightly taught such fiends as Doc Woods and his comrades in guilt, who are put forward to do the bloody deeds from which their white leaders refrain only through abject cowardice. It is the legitimate sequence of the atrocious doctrine promulgated on the hustings, and in the Loyal Leagues, that the white men of the South are the deadly enemies of the negroes. STATE OF RELIGION IN THE FAR WEST. Dr. Tuttle, the Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Utah and Montana —Idaho, also, being included with his diocese—has made several addresses in this city and vicinity, recently, in which he has depict ed the state of the Christian Church iu that quarter of the country. He has pre sented several very remarkable facts. His diocese, he premised, is eight times as large in territory a3 the State of New York ; or in other words embraces about 300,000 square miles. The present Pro testant clergy in that vast country are himself (Bishop) and five priests of the Episcopal Church, and two Methodist ministers. Not a Baptist, or a Presbyte rian or a Congregational Church in the whole extent. There are three Episcopal churches and one parish school. The Roman Catholics have three Bishops, nu merous minor clergy, flourishing schools, and seminary for young ladies. The Chi nese (employed on the Pacific Railroad) have two heathen temples, or Joss houses, with the usual attendance of priests and display of hideous idols. The Mormons (mostly in Utah) number one hundred thousand, and having been in their pres ent isolated position for nineteen years, embrace large numbers among the young er portion of the community, to whom all other religions are dim tradition —Christi- anity but a myth. The Episcopal Church derived some advantage iu Salt Lake city, from its partial resemblauce to the Church of Eugland ; the Mormons having from the first been yearly recruited by immi gration from England. It willexcitecon flicting emotions to recall the fact, that while we have been sending missionaries to China, the religion of Confucius has in vaded our own country, and he has, prob ably, more disciples than our Saviour has in China. BUSINESS MATTERS. Gold has shown a steady downward ten dency, and closed to-day at 137£. There are a variety of causes to which thedecline may be “toae of ihe street,” —i. e., the feeling among speculative operators—is decidedly favorable to a lower premium. This, ol itself, is sufficient to cause a decline of five per cent, any time. Then the fact that imports are falling off, and exports in creasing—gradually turning the “ balance of trade” in our favor—has an important influence. It has checked the export oi gold, and many believe will cause it to be important during the coming winter. The Government will have $24,000,000 interest to pay on the first of November, and it will come upon the market at an inopportune period—just as the markets are struggling ; under accumulating loads of cotton, bread stuffs and provisions, which cannot be forced upon the market without imposing severe losses .upon owners. It is not im probable, therefore, that gold may decline abnormally, say to 125, or even 120, from very much the same influences which broke down cotton so badly last winter. Cotton has recovered the depression which occurred a few days since, but cot ton goods do not work off properly, and I must tell your readers that parties here almost uniformily look for a decline to2oe. for middling in this market; to get good prices the planter should hurry forward his crop, while stocks are every where small, or be prepared to hold till late iu the season, after the pressure is over.— New York Cor. Augusta Constitutionalist , 12 th inst . -V The commonest social vice—Advice. A bad sign—to sign another man’s name to a note. Why is a young laffy just from a board ing school like a building committee; Because she is ready to receive proposals. “ I wouldn’t marry an Eastern man if I bad to live an old maid all my lile,” ex claimed a buxom country lass. “ Why not?” demanded an astonished companion. . , “ Because every paper you take up con tains an account ot the jailure of the Eas tern mails /” Ole Bull when on his last visit here, used to relate the following. He had been Donnybrook Fair, when he was attract ed by the sound of a very loud violin in a tent He entered and said to the player : “My good friend do you play by note? “Dtvii a note, sir.” “Do you play by ear, then . “Never an ear, your Honor.” “How do you play then?” “By main strength, be jabers!’ “Why will you persist in wearing an other wom&n’a ha iron your head?” im pertinently asked a man of his wife. will you persist in wearing another sheep s wool on your back 2” was her prompt re tort. ARION PIANO FORTE MANUFACTORY AND WAREROOMst 187 and 189 Bowery, (above Deianeey,) NEW YORK. MANNER & COMPANY, Having secured letters patent on their valuable improve ments on Pianos and added largely to their previously ex tensive facilities for manufacturing, are now prepared to furnish to the trade, or at retail, their GBAKD SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PATENT IRON PIANO FORTES, Which they offer with all the usual guarantees, in compe tition with the Steinway, Chickeriug, or any other first class Piano, believing as they co that the Arion is superior to any other. Read below the article from the Brooklyn Daily Time*. Mr. Abbot, organist of the Church'of oar Saviour, says of the Arion: Messrs. Manner k Cos.: Gentlemen:—l have critically examined and several tines played upon one of your Arion Piano Fortes, and it affords me much pleasure to add my testimony in favor of your superior inatruments. For elasticity of touch, for the singing quality, so much sought for by artists, and for richuess and purity of tone it is unexcelled by any Piano I have ever med. J. M. ABBOT, Organist of the Church of the Saviour of Brook Jyn,.N. Y. Prof. John W. Hbnbt Canoll, editor of the American Educational Monthlv, says: *o* “ Listen, however,to one of another class, for ex ample, one of the Arion Pianos made by Manner A Cos. Bow your head as the bass sends forth its riches, clear and unblurred; observe the singing, swelling melody that in its middle octaves so wondrously represents vo cal expression, and which predominates above even the silvery brilliancy of the upper treble. Then reflect that this is a scientifically constructed durable Instrument, and if you have at home an o dlnary, fourth-rate i iano, whose beamy of tone had vanished sooner than the lustre of its varnish, chide not your child for lack of expression, nor wonder when your wife is playing that she seems to have no soui. The instrument as well as the performer, must have power of expression; a piano, it may almost be said, as well as a sin, er, must have a soul.” From M |The Brooklyn Dail? Times:” “ We will say that the Arion Piano Forte is a very ele gant instrument of the largest class and very highly fin ished. Musically, it has a full, deep, rich tone, and the most powerful that we have ever and tened to. It has in a higher degree than any piano that we have met with, the singing quality or character, that musicians so much seek for m a piano. The bass notes reminding you of the deep toned notes of a large organ. The Middle Octaves are more elastic and clear than in most other pianos, ewmg to pecultar arrangements that I shall speak of hereafter, while the upper or treble notes possess that pure, distinct, bell-like clearness, that is so necessary to the correct rendering of difficult pieces of music, and that also lends such a charm to melody. The Arion Scale is from Ato C, so as to meet all the requirements of modern music, which a seven octave piano will not do. “To obtain power you must have strength. We have attained this in the peculiarity of the frame before alluded to, and in the use of a bar in the direction and on a line with the heavy steel stringing under the “ overstrung bass. This bar passing beneath the stringing, and running diag ovally from the front right-hand corner, to the back lert hand corner of the case, gives strength where most need ed and where m ist other pianos fail; in fact it might not inaptly be teemed the spine or backbone of the piano. They stand in tune longer than other pianos, to effect which we are again enabled by the peculiar shape of our iron trame, to use short pins so that the piano is strung close to the wrest-plank: thus almost doing away with a leverage strain on the tuning pin, which in some pianos, is at least three quarters of an inch above the pin, caus ing the pin to loosen, and often bringing it in contact with the iran plate. The construction of the wrest-plank has also a greet advantage over those of other pianos, in be ing formed of four sections of hard wood laid horizontally and firmly glued and fastened, the grain of each section crossing the grain of the one next to it in a different line or direction. So that the tuning pins have the pressure of the end wood against them in every direction, making it impossible for the pin to loosen itself as it does here it has a pressure against the sides of the grain, as it ha s In all other pianos. This, too, prevents the spitting of the wrest-plank. “ The construction of the case and the combination so the iron frame therewith, we also claim ae b it g new and improved. The left lower end of the frame r - imbed ded or set in the solid wood, or we believe ( a tech nechical term) butted against the wrest plan* a point and on a line just inside of the line of the i.■ a ; pins, by which means first, great additional stre: ; gained, second, the fr ime being so sunk in th, Hows the stringing (as before described) to a .0 the wrest plank, and third, the great dertderatuu. »Icug sought for by the trade, a full iron trame without a ossibility or the tuning-pins coming in coatact with it, is alned. “ Our agraffe arrangement is another great Improve ment, effected in a simple but superior maaner. A hollow bar, cast with the frame and openin'? on the under side ana extending along the line of tbe tuning-pins, has fitted into it a reversed wooden bridge, in wh cn the bridge-pins are inserted. This reversed bridge, being a trifle lower than the wrest-plank, gives an upward as also a side-bear ing to the strings, and by this admirsble arrangement an agraffe is obtained that gives a firm position to the strings that no blow from the hammer can displace. A similar plan on an iron bedding has been before attempted, but always in connection with the complicated under-damp ers, which invariably becomes displaced and out of order. “In the Arion Piano we use the Brerch damper, uni versally acknowledged as the best, acting from their own weight aione. They are firmly hinged, and can move neither to the right nor to the left, but only in the direc tionrequired. Thus it will be seen that our agrafle ar rangement is complete, not only in itself but in ail Us con nection with, other parts of the actiou. “ With other agraffe- now in use, there are several dif ficulties that c? nnot be remedied. First, the wire strings run through an eye in the top of a screw, or pin, and must fit th eye exactly, or itwiii create an unpleasant buzzing sand. The same difficulty is apt to occur when, from c -istautusing, the strain upon the string lessons in its s* c, or the constant vibration on the inside of the eye we?. s the eye larger. •The screw or pin, too, for the sane reason (constant vibration on it) will at times becoire loose and caus*e an unpleasant jarring to the chords. None of these disad vantages can happen to the Arion agraffe/* We have above given Mr. Manner’s claims for the supe riority of t.ue Arion Piano Fortes, and his objections to other pianos, in nearly his own words, and he was very ready to take us throughout the factory and explain all the different departments of it to us. We had a fair chance of judging of its merits, and think the ciaiirs of the Arion are well based. It is at least one of the very best pianos before the public.—[Brooklyn Daily Times All of oar Pianos will be finished with the new self acting prop stick for holding up the top of the Piano. The patent for which, as also the patent lor the Arion, is owned by us exclusively. g*Bend for Illustrated Price List. MANNER k CO., 187 and 189 Bowery,’ Niw Yoax. J. W. BURKE* Macon, Ga., Agent for the State. Nov 15-fim ALASKA; A Spectacular Extravaganza, IN RHINO-RUSBIAN RHYME AND TWO ACTS : BY Q. Z. Priee 2i cents—SO cents by mail prepaid. Address . „„„ . oc l4 3. W. BURKE * CO.