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Georgia Journal & Messenger.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1868.
GEORGIA RLKCTION RETURNS,
SPARTA.
Democrats 358
Republicans
WAKRF.NTON.
Democrats *3"
Republican 1 18 “
CRAWFORDVILLIB.
Seymour 304
Grant * •• I ° 7
Democratic majority 317
The above majority will probably be in
creased. Democratic gain over 300.
SOCIAL CIRCLE.
There were 191 votes polled at this
noiut, twenty-five freedmen being among
the voters, all for Seymour. The county
is largely Democratic.
WASHINGTON.
Democrats
Republicans ®°
Democratic majority 502
* The county will give about 700 or 800
Democratic majority. Number of freed
men voting at town precinct, 345.
LEXINGTON.
Democrats 301
Republicans **3
Democratic majority 406
j Augusta Constitutionalist , s th.
nuit* « ouniy.
The official vote in this staunch old
county stood as follows :
JJ}
Grant _
Democratic majority 359
Well lloue, Washington.
Sandersville, Nov. 4th, 1868.
Messrs. Editors .—Old Washington did
her duty yesterday. The election passed
off quietly. The result was:
Seymour 1,076
Grant 143
Seymour’s majority 933
John B. Turner.
Twlkkh County.
Jeffersonville, Nov. 4, 1868.
Messrs. Editors:— Our election passed
off very quietly. The following ligure
will show its result:
Total vote polled 1,260
Democrats 301
Radical 339
Radical majority 5258
Respectfully, John P. Jones.
Crawford County.
Knoxville, Nov. 4th, 1868.
Messrs. Editors /—The election on yes
terday passed off quietly. Beymour and
Blair’s official majority in Crawford coun
ty, 168.
Respectfully, Jas. J. Ray.
OtHclal Vote of Georgia.
We have been favored by the Executive
with the following official returns:
Grant. Seymour.
Rartow 963 4 f78
Catoosa 194 447
Clayton 195 463
Dekalb 197 1092
Floyd 591 1525
Gordon 307 594
Morgan 1046 035
Newton 922
Putnam 951
Richmond 3128 -703
Spalding 371 9.8
Taylor 340 71 8
Troup 652 *6Ol
‘ WtttOn States I.iek Insurance Company.—
Tin: stock holders of this company, which was
chartered hy the lasCLegislature of Georgia, iuct
yesterday, at the Council Chamber, ami organized
hy the election of the following named gentlemen,
as a board of Directors :
Win. H. .Johnston, J. B. Ross, George S. Obcar,
.1 M. Roarihuau, J. T.Boifeuillet, John VV. Burke,
( A. Nutting, E. J. Johnston, John E. Jones, W.
Hollingsworth, Dr. J. 8. Buxter, John J. Gresham.
Win. 8. llolt, W. J. Lawton, A. L. Maxwell ami
Virgil Powers of Macon; Edward Pad el ford and
Frederick W. Sims, of Savannah ; V. K. Tommey
and W. It. Phillips, of Atlanta; T. M. Furlow, of
Amerieus ; Y. G. Rust, of Albany; Thomas J.
Smith, of Monticello; George T. Jackson and
Josiah Sibley, of Augusta; S. H. llilt and L. G.
Rowers, of Columbus; John White, of Athens;
Charles H. Smith, of Rome, and W. W. Chapman,
of Griffin.
This company will start with ft capital of one
million ilollmy, and will possess advantages over
any company we know of, North or South. It is
made up of the solid men of Georgia, and their
names will inspire confidence wherever they are
known. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid
out yearly in Georgia, for Life Insurance. Why
should we not keep it in our midst ?
The books of subscription will he opened iu a
few days, and those who desire to take stock in a
paying institution will have an opportunity of
doing so. We most heartily commend the enter
prise to public favor.
< i koku i a Masonic Insurance Company.— The
Augusta litpublican copies the proceedings of the
annual meeting of the Georgia Masonie Mutual
l.ife Insurance Company, held in this city, on Fri
day night, 80th ult., and adds:
“We are pleased to note the apparent prosper
ous condition of the Company; hut cannot under
stand why the fee for admission to membership
lias been increased from six to twelve dollars, or
what it is proposed to do with the additional twen
tv-one thousand and odd dollars to be thus raised.
Wc feel interested, as a member, and, in behalf
of many other members lierealiouts, respeefully re
quest to be enlightened on the subject. Will our
Brother Burke, the Company’s Secretary, furnish
tlie information ?
in reference to this imiuiry, the Secretary of the
Company lias furnished us with the following:
Geo. Masonic Mutual Life Insurance Cos. —
in answer to an inquiry from the National HepubU
i•"!, well as from other sources, in regard to
changes made in fee for membership in the above
Company, I state:
In the original formatlou of the Company there
was no adequate provision made for expenses, as
the #0 00 for membership was placed in a perman
ent fund, the interest only to he used for expen
ses. \t the recent meeting it was found that this
interest did not meet the necessary expenses by
about t ISOO. The question then arose as to the best
inode of meeting expeuses, which were constantly
increasing as the Company grew. We had to choose
between making new members pay a heavier en
trance fee who come in now with all the advanta
ges enjoyed by earlier members who had paid $0 00
entrance fee and $lO 00 assessments, or assessing
the old members additional amounts. The Com
pany wisely chose the latter mode, and now al
new members must pay $1:1 00, and the overplus
of s•'> 00 goes to the contingent fund, while the
other $6 00 goes, as heretofore, to the permanent
fund, if this contingent fund should increase so
as to make it practicable, we shall place all over
ttie amount necessary to meet actual expenses to
the credit of members on assessments.
As to expeuses, we challenge the world to show
where a Company doing as much business, ever did
it on so small a show of expenses.
Respectfully,
J. W. Burke,
Secretary aud Treasurer.
The Episcopal Orphan’s Home.— We are glad
to learn that the Orphau’s Home, shortly to be es
stablished in Macon under the auspices of the
Right Rev. Hr. Beckwith, Bishop of Georgia, may
now be considered almost un Jail arconipli. Be
sides Mr. Wm. H. Appleton’s munificent donation
off I’J.UOO, the Bishop has had other sums subscrib
ed amounting to SOOOO or SBOOO mofe, aud we un
derstand that the plans and specifications for the
buildiug will be ready in a short time, aud the work
immediately conimeuced.
The building will be erected on a scale worthy of
this magnificent and commendable enterprise, and
we hope, before a great while, to see in successful
operation, what will be alike au ornament and credit
to our city, aud a public charity of a high order.
The Columbus Enquirer thinks the cot
ton crop of tiiat section will not equal the
low estimate made last summer, by the
farmers.
A TRULY REPRESENT \TI\E M AN.
The Radicals of the sth Massachusetts
Congressional District, in re-electing the
Beast, have shown their high appreciation
of the qualities so infamously prominent
in his moral make-up, and have declared,
with an emphasis almost sublime in its
hold endorsement of miscellaneous vil
lainy, that he, and he alone, truly repre
sents them. The significance of this re
sult is strengthened, too, by rrn se
majority by which it ,lias been reached.
Six thousand over both his opponents,
Lord, (Dero.,) and Dana, (Radical,) is
what the wires tell us are the ligures. The
New 1 York Times , the Tribune, and various
other Radical papers—very ungratefully
and il ogically, it seems to us—did all they
could to defeat him, but in vain. His
neighbors and friends, those to whom he
is best known, scorned their advice, and
even threatened with personal violence
that amorous blackguard, Munchausen
Kilpatrick, who essayed, for and in consid
eration of S2OO, to stump the district in
Dana's interest. We do not wonder at
that, of ci urse. Flesh and blood can’t
stand everything. Kilpatrick denouncing
Butler, was too unblushing a case of one
bawd taunting another with her evil
courses.
The Beast’s opponents in putting Dana
forward, claimed for him the possession
of every quality that the former notori
ously lacked. He was an honest, pure
man, a cultivated, refined, Christian geu
tleman. His hands were unpolluted hy
theft, aud his record unstained by crimes,
as numerous as they were mean and
cowardly. He was, in one word,
emphatically a gentleman, while tlie
Beast was just as — emphatically the
reverse. He w#s orthodox, too, upon
every canon of the Radical faith. —
He hated the Bouth just as intensely as
the Beast, and at the same time was per
fectly souud upon the greenback question.
And yet he received only a beggarly frac
tion of the votes cast.
What does this mean but that the
Beast's constituents approve his course,
because they personally sympathize witli
it? What does it mean hut that they
thiuk a robbing, murdering, falsifying
Radical is better than an honest, decent,
truthful Radical ? We are not surprised
at it. Given the same opportunities, aud
we do not doubt hut that every mau who
voted for the Beast in preference to Dana,
would have murdered Mumford, stolen
spoons, aud issued Order No. 28.
THE NEGROES ON THE OGEECHEE AND LOU
ISVILLE HOADS.
Tlipy Express Tlit-ir Determination to I'oiiu- into
tin* Uty—The While People 'lnking Itefuge in
the City.
The city continued in a state of great
excitement during yesterday. The organi
zed citizens and police guarded tire head
of the Ogeeehee road during Tuesday
night, while armed patrols marched
through the streets of the city at frequent
intervals,
Yesterilay the people were further great
ly excited by the reportsaml rumors which
were circulated freely. White men pre
pared to spend another night in the field.
The colored people were very quiet, hut
some of their most prominent men declar
ed that the trouble was not all over yet.
Hast evening the rumors which had
been so freely circulated received authen
tic confirmation. A lady, Mrs. Crawford,
residing six miles out on the Ogeeehee
road came in and said that the negroes
were massing on the road, fully and com
pletely armed. Blto feared for her life and
lied to the city. Mr. John Bloau, a butcher
in the market, who resides out in the
country, started home by the way of the
Ogeeehee road. He was met hy a negro
and ordered hack. Two men who came in
from the country, over the same road,
staled that they passed about two hundred
armed negroes a few miles from town who
stopped them, aud asked for sugar cane,
and said that they were coming into Sa
vannah last night.
~.*j, AH umhTions about'the
country, aud massing on Wetler’s plan
tation. They stated that they wore going
to organize and march across and escort
“Mr. Bradley into the city.”
A citizen Irom that direction came into
the city, having deserted his home as un
safe. Other parties who attempted to go
out on the two roads mentioned above,
were stopped and turned back. There
was no doubt tmt that a heavy force of
armed negroes was assembled in that sec
tion, and that Bradley was with them.
Two negro women, last evening, brought
to Mayor Anderson a letter from Bradley,
in which he stated that his life was threat
ened and he claimed tiie protection of tiie
civil authorities. The reports of his hav
ing been in the city were incorrect; hut
his effects were moved from the house at
the corner of Broughton and Lincoln
streets. — Sav. Mews, Nov. s th.
THE RIOT OF TUESDAY.
Death of Policeman Hr\hoii-—Policeman lieetl not
Expected lo Live.
Yesterday morning about ten o’clock,
policeman Samuel Bryson, who was
wounded iu the riot at the Court-house,
on Tuesday, drew his last breath. He
was shot in the shouhler, the ball passing
through to the back and takiug a down
ward course, striking the spinal column.
He sutl'ered very little, being paralyzed.
And thus a brave and gallant officer lost
his life, as a consequence of the mischiev
ous teachings of the Radicals who put the
negroes up to fighting the whites.
Policeman Bryson was a member of the
police force for several years. He was a
very quiet, gentlemanly person, and one
of the best policemen iu tlie service of the
city. During the late war he served in
the Confederate army, and was a brave
and gallant soldier. He was a great favor
ite among his comrades on the force,
among whom his loss is deeply regretted,
An inquest was held on the remains by
Coroner Harden, ami the jury returned a
verdict that the deceased came to his death
from gunshot wounds iuiticted during the
riot at the Court-house on Tuesday, by
some person to the jury unknown.
The funeral of deceased will take place
this morning at half past ten o’clock.
Policeman Read, who was shot in.the
pit of the abdomen, was reported in a
dying condition last evening. Policemen
Diguon and McMahon are doing well.
Mr. John Haupt and Mr. It. A. Wayne
are both seriously injured, but their
wounds are not considered dangerous.
The surgeons have been unable, as yet,
to lind the ball which entered MissSailie
Kolloek’s limb. It is supposed to have
taken a downward course towards the
foot —Sav News, Nov. s th.
I (’low* Calculation.
A curious and amusing question is penfl
iug iu Sadabury, Penn. Mr. C. l’usey
Thorne, son of j. Williams Thorne, came
of age on the day of the October election of
this year. The Democrats, anxious to ex
clude every Republican ballot, challenged
his vote upon the ground that he was not
horn until seven o’clock in the evening,
at which time the law provided tiiaf tlie
polls should close. It was argued on be
half of the applicant that tlie law recog
nized no fraction of days, and that he was
entitled to vote even though lie had not
been born until 11:59 p. m. on said day.
The Democratic election officers, however,
contended that he must be between the
ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years,
and that he would not have reached that
period until the hour of seven o’clock had
passed. In reply to this, Mr. Thorne,."r.,
asked the officers if they recognized tiiree
hundred and sixty-five days aud six horn’s
as a year, and they replied that they did.
He then showed that six leap years had
occurred iu the lifetime of his son ; and
further mathematically demonstrated that
he had lived twenty-one times three hun
dred aud sixty-tive days and six hours,
aud had eighteen hours to spare. This
rather dutnfounded the Democratic offi
cers, but they still declined to accept the
ballot. At three minutes before seven
o’clock, the Republican judge took the
ballot aud deposited it in the box.
Mr. Wm. L. Brunson, of Sumter, South
Caroliua, who died last Thursday, be
queathed to his old and fathful servant
Washington, who, with his family had
never left him, forty acres of laud, a mule,
a wagon, a cow and calf, a tine stock of
hogs and one-half the crop grown upon
the farm the present year.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
THuiiim 11. B4»nt4)ii and a Washington Ho«L*Hlcr.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial tells this story of
Thomas H. Benton:
Bbiiliugton is an Irish Ixiokseller here,
o( credit and renown. Benton was a
neighbor and friend of his, aud made
Shillington cut out of books and newspa
pers every conceivable article upon the
Bacilie Railway and bring it to him. He
also employed Shillingtou to select from
the Congressional Globe, which were
brought to his house iu C street hy the
cart-load, the matter that he wished in
publishing his “Abridgement of the De
bates of Congress.”
“It was a strange and remarkable
study,” said Bbiiliugton, “to see that old
man lying there Hat on his hack, unable
rise, liis spectacles poised on l he tip of his
nose, looking through the long debates,
whose huge folios he held on his breast.
He knew that he had but a week or two
to live, and lie was running a race with
death to get the hook finished ; for he be
lieved that it was the vital tiling to keep
the couutry together. He used to seud
me word four or five times a day to come
up there, and the people said that I was
his slave. If I did not come promptly on
time, the old gentleman seemed to feel
that I was in some way derelict in my
duty to the country. One day, when the
shop was full of people, word came down,
‘Mr. Benton wants you to come at two
o’clock to help him on an important mat
ter.’ As soon as I could possibly leave I
went around to his dwelling and found
him asleep, breathing very hard, with a
large volume of the Globe on his breast. I
lifted the bo >k up and set it on a table a
little out of reach. Then, seeing that he
did not yet awaken, I hastened hack to
my work. In about two hours I returned,
and the old man scolded very severely at
me.
“‘ I sent for you, sir, two hours ago. I
have hut a month at most to live, sir, and
it is important for the country that this
book shall be finished before I die. You
did not come, sir.’
“ 1 Yes, Mr. Benton, I did. And I found
you asleep.’
“ * I have not s'ept for fifty hours, sir !
It was impossible that I could sleep, sir,
with so much on my mind.’
“ Benton never trusted a man that told
him a lie, so I found it necessary to clear
in vself.
“ * Mr. Benton,’ said I, ‘you were asleep
with a volume of the Globe on your breast
when I entered the room, and I found you
breathing hard, so I put the book on the
table yonder.’
“ The old man’s eyes lighted up.
“ ‘ Well, now, sir,’ he said, ‘I knew I
had that book on my breast or on the bed
somewhere, and I wondered how it got off
there so far. Berhaps I did doze a little
unconsciously. But, come, sir, we must
get to work. I have hut a little time to do
a great deal of work in ’
“ T)r. Hall and his colleague, to prolong
the life of Benton, opened the old man’s
abdomen, and, taking outhis bowels while
he was still unconscious, proceeded to
cleanse them. At one place they found
some grape skins; then they found bits of
wood, which he used to chew abstractedly
while writing or reading.
‘“Look on, gentlemen,’ said the old
man, feebly; ‘I dare say you will find
Congressional Globes next.’
“When Benton was about to die, so
vital did bethink his advice was to the
country, he sent for Buchanan, had the
door closed, and solemnly devoted his last
hours to impressing upon the President
his opinion of the mode in whied the
country should he administered. If ever
there was a man,” concluded Shillington,
“.who thought that iu his mind and rea
son lay the true destiny of the Union, it
was Tom. Benton. His family, his fame,
his future were all subordinate to the love
of country.”
THE MOBBING OF JOHN WELLE.
We have many of the particulars of this
disgraceful alia r from an eye-witness lo
a part of it. Wells had gone to Kellett’s
old corner, on Oglethrope street to see
Logan, who had been shot there. The
crowd of Radical negroes, who no doubt
thought this an excellent opportunity to
glut their long-entertained animosty
against him, at once seized him and with
many threatening indications and vio
lent demonstrations, carried him along
Bryan and into Jackson street. In the
last named street, opposite Mr Johnson’s
residence, a halt wus made, and here the
demonstrations against the life of Wells
became very violent. It was here that
crowded around Wells, and that many
bludgeons wereswigning above and around
his head. He received a number of blows,
and the cries for his death were loud and
general. But in the midst of all this
tumult and violence there was one Radi
cal fieedman who was exerting himself
in the most energetic manner to allay the
passions of his race and save the life of
Wells. That man was Bill Wadsworth,
lie not only used persuasions and entrea
ties, hut boldly stood between Wells and
his assailants, and told the mob that they
could only kill Wells by first killing him.
He did not succeed in dissuading them
from their bloody purpose, hut he made
a diversion l>y which Weils (at his sug
gestion) was enabled to break from the
crowd and run down Jackson street to
Rondolph, where he turned and ran to
wards Broad street, the negroes hotly
pursuing him, witli yells and threats.
Wells first ran into Gammell’s stables on
Randolph street, where Mr. Johnson was
enabled to stay the mob for a moment at
the door. He rail through the 9tables and
into Dr. Billings’ yard, concealing him
self fora few minutes under Dr. B’s house.
But the infuriated mob was eloso after
him, and finding that hiding place inse
cure, he jumped over into Mr. FJewelleu’s
lot and hid himself in the cellar for a
short time. From this place lie was ena
bled lo clear himself of his blood-thirsty
pursuers aud find the protection of friends
He received a number of bruises, but is
not seriously hurt.
We repeat this st .tement chiefly with a
view of doing justice to Bill Wadsworth,
who acted nobly in liis efforts to prevent
the murder of Wells. We also learn that
a feedmau named Ford acted well
his part in endeavoring to put a stop to
these violent proceedings.— Columbus En
quirer, blh.
TRIAL TRIP OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTU E.
Major Horatio Allen, the engineer of
the New York and Erie railroad, gives the
following account of the first trip made by
a locomotive on this continent:
“When was it? Who was it? And who
awakened its energies anil directed its
movements? It was in the year 1828, on
tiie banks of the Laekawaxen, at the com
mencement of the railroads connecting
the canal of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company with their coal mines—
and lie who addresses you was the unly
person on that locomotive. The circum
stances whieii led to my being alone on
the road were these: The road had been
built in the summer ; the structure was of
hemlock timber, and rails of large dimen
sions notched on caps placed far apart.
The timber had cracked and warped from
exposure to the sun. After about three
hundred feet of straight line, the road
crossed the Lackawaxeu creekaboutthirty
feet high, with a curve of three hundred
and fifty-five to four hundred feet radius.
The impression was very general that the
iron monster would either break down
the road, or it would leave the track at the
curve anil plunge into the creek.
‘•My reply to such apprehensions was
that it was too late to consider the proba
bility of such occurrences; there was no
other course than to have a trial made of
the strange animal which had been
brought here at great expense ; but that it
was not necessary that more than one
should ho involved iu its fate; that 1
would take the first ride alone, and the
time would come when I should look hack
to the incident with great interest.
“As l placed my hand on the throttle
vale handle, I was undecided whether I
would move slowly or with a fair degree of
speed; but believing that the road would
prove safe, and preferring, if we did go
down, to go handsomely, and without any
evidence of timidity, I started with con
siderable velocity, passed the curve over
the erek safely, and was soon out of hear
ing of tlie vast assemblage. At the end
of two or three miles I reversed the valve
anil returned without accident, having
thus made the first railroad trip by locom
otive on the westeru hemisphere.”
Braplky and his Principles.—We
learn from an eye-witness that at the
election at Ogeeehee, on Tuesday, some
men were refused a vote because they
could not take the necessary oath; where
upon the Waboo gave utterance to the fol
lowing high-minded sentiment: “Come
on, voters, and swear, every man of you
that is challenged, and if they prosecute
you they will have their bauds full; and
I further promise you, iu ease of convic
tion, a pardon from Governor Bullock’”—
Sav. Adv., bth.
THE ST\ A BALL OF ICE.
Where do Lt&ht aud Heat ( one from !
“Sensationalism in Bcieuce” continue
to form a series of interesting papers iu
the Belgravia Magazine. The latest one
is upon daylight, and it advances the fol
lowing curiious theories :
The established doctrine is that heat and
light are propelled from the solar orb out
equally iuto all parts of the surrounding
space, and fall upon the earth aud the
other planets just as (and no more than)
they do u|*on any waste part of the sky.
And these rays of heat and light, we are
told, decrease rapidly alike in numberaud
in power, diminishing with the square of
the distance from their source, the sun.
Bui is it so?
Ascend in a balloon, and what do we
find? Do heat aud light increase iu in
tensity as wo rise iu the air nearest to the
sun? By no means. Bix miles up all
heat is goue. The thermometer is at zero,
and hoar frost gathers on every cord of the
rigging of the air ship. How can this be,
if heat comes down to us in diminishing
force from the sun? If that were true,
heat ought to increase rapidly as we as
cend nearer to the sun, the source of it.
Even light though exceedingly pure—the
air being there free from aqueous element
—is less intense in those airy latitudes.
Look up from the car of the halloou iuto
tiie abyss of the sky above, and what do
we see? A bright dazzle comes from the
spot in the heavens where the sun is; but
he is shorn of his rays. All around the
sky overhead is of a deep azure, like the
color of Prussian blue, a well-know’n sign
of light imperfectly developed; just as we
see in the fiame of a candle or gas jet, at
the part of imperfect combustion; or, to
take a better example, just as the blue flash
of the electric machine is increased- There
is little light in the air at those altitudes;
the moment the prism by the gyratious of
the car is inclined away from the direct
rays of the sun, there is no spectrum at all.
Manifestly, then, neither heat nor light
come to us fiom the sun in the manner
supposed, namely, travelling down to us
through the empty waste of space, and
decreasing w ith the square of the distance.
For if this were the fact, both light aud
heat would increase rapidly with the les
sening distance as we ascend—whereas
light diminishes and heat wholly disap
pears !
Calmly considered, these facts of them
selves not only upset the common theory,
hut suggest the true one. Heat and light
are generated, spring into existence, with
in the sphere of our own planet. No heat
or light in the w’astes of space. Heat,
there can lie none, seeing that the ther
mometer falls tow.ero only six miles above
the earth’s surface. And light, too, evi
dently fades away iuto a thin blue lumi
nosity in lhose upper regions where the
terrestrial gases, the exhalations of tiie
solid earth, become attenuated—where
probably they gradually merge into pure
hydrogen, and into that most subtle subli
mation of matter which we call ether,
which is present even in a vaoum of an
air pump. .
The daylight, I say, is tiie offspring of
our own planet impregnated (so to speak)
by t’ e solar orb. Our heat and light are
generated within tiie domain of earth it
self. A comical force, which we call
gravitation or attraction—and which is
more or less inherent in all matter—comes
from tiie sun ; and that force or influence
becomes light and heat when it enters
and acts upon the atmosphere—tiie gase
ous and etherial envelope which surrounds
the planets.
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Tiie following is from Mr. Towle’s arti
cle on “French Marriages,” in Hours at
Home, for November:
The young wife who has been a close
prisoner all her life, whose every move
ment has been narrowly watched, who
could not put her foot beyond the thresh
old of her home except in company with
one of her elders; who, if she lias been
sent to school, lias found herself surround
ed by high, blank walls, shutting out the
world; whose every natural emotion has
heeu carefully controlled—finds herself at
once, all of a sudden, endowed with un
restricted freedom to do what she pleases,
go where she pleases, and see whom she
pleases. From absolute confinement she
lias leapt witii a hound into absolute lib
erty. Blie is amazed to find herself on the
street alone; she has entered almost anew
state of being. And if she lias spirit, vi
sronGtr u.J.I nr...*..... c. lillTOt,'
to abuse ln r new-found freedom, and to
enjoy its license to excess.
The young husband pursues much the
same course of life as that which ho pur
sued in the days of bachelorhood; perhaps,
it there is any change it is to a greater
luxuriousuess, to a more inveterate devo
tion to selfish and enervating pleasure.
Tiie augmentation of his fortune, (in a
large preponderance of cases his incite
ment to marriage,) enables him to give
himself up witli less restraint to self-grat
ification. Instead of driving to the races
in a hack, and taking a place in the large
booth with tiie commune vulgus, he may
now be transported thither in his own
barouche, attended by liveried coachmen
and footmen, and may sit beneath the
same pavilion which shelters the august
heads of ths sporting artistocracy. He
wus wont, in the old days, to mount to
the third gallery at the theatre; he may
now have his loge for the season at both
theatre and opera, his fresh pair of gloves
every night, and enameled lorgnette, with
which to ogle the painted beauties'on tiie
stage, and the false-haired and eyebrowed
belles in the statics. Instead of French
cigars, he will have genuine Cuban; in
stead of vin ordinaire, he will sip St. Ju
lieu and C’liquot. He has hitherto be
longed to a little puny club in an obscure
faubourg; he will now he elected to an
aristocratic society on the Rue Bt. Honore;
and whereas ho formerly contented him
self with a retreat to the paternal country
seat in August, lie will now he found
amusing himself with rouge-et-noir at
Badeu, promenading tiie seashore and
flirting with oilier men’s wives at Biar
ritz, or emulating tiie fashionables at
water drinking at Vichy.
It is rarely that either the husband or
wife find their amusements or comforts at
home. They meet at meal time, aud af
ter the evening entertainment of each, to
ward midnight. Often the husband has
liis circle, the wife hers; the husband will
be at one theatre, aud the wife, on the
same evening, at another. The wife will
have her gentlemen admirers, the husband
his favorite sweethearts, or worse.
HOLTHEKX IMtOUL’CTIOA.
Notwithstanding the many discourage
ments which the South has had to en
counter since the close of the rebellion,
such as the unsettled state of social, indus
trial and political affairs, lack of ready
means aud low state of credit, it is grati
fying to note the substantial progress
which that section lias made, and is mak
ing. towards a reparation of the losses aud
wastes of war. The Southern States have
not only become nearly, or quite, self-sus
taiulng in the matter of food, but their
great staples of cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar,
<tc., are incieasing in volume at a rate’
which bids fair to enable them speedily to
resume tlieir legitimate position in the
commerce and industry of the country.
The South is peculiarly favored as regards
soil and climate, which are adapted not
only to a very large production of the re
cognized staples of that section, hut to
most of the cereals, fruits and root crops
of the higher latitudes. This has been
abundantly demonstrated in the last year
or two, during which the Northern mar
kets have been liberally supplied with a
great variety of farm and garden produce,
which have yielded even better returns to
the producers than cotton. Manufactures
have also made some progress, but noth
ing like the headway which this branch
of industry is destined to make iu succeed
ing years, when a complete pacification
shall tiring into requisition the necessary
auxiliary forces of capital aud labor. In
addition to a line soil and diversified cli- j
mate, the South possesses untold wealth
in her mines of iron, lead, copper and sul- |
phur, not to speak of the more precious
metals, which will, without doubt, be |
placed under tribute by unfailing energies, !
as soon as the present anomalous coudi- '
tion of social affairs shall give place to !
law, order and general stability. It is alto
gether probable that the healing art of
time will overcome the animosties engen
dered by the war, and thus permit, iu suc
ceeding years, unexampled progress of
material prosperity —Shipping List.
Still Another.— On the 15th of last
mouth, Hulbert discharged Robt. Gray, a
clerk iu the State Road Depot, at Chatta
nooga. Mr. Gray had tilled the position
for a long time on a salary of sixty dollars
per month. The citizens, by whom he
was universally esteemed, petitioned in
his favor. But it was no use. A Radical
now fills his place on a salary of one hun
dred dollars per month This is another
instance of Hulbert’s economy.— Atlanta
Constitution , 4 th.
THE LOVED AND LOi-T.
I Selected for the Crescent from the Church of Eng
land Magazine.]
The loved and lost! Why do we call them lost f
Because we miss them from our onward road »
God's unseen angel o'er our pathway crost.
Looked on us all, and loving them the most,
Straightway relieved them from life’s weary load.
Thcv are not lost; thev are within the door
That shuts out loss, and every hurtful thing—
With angels bright, and loved ones gone before,
In their Redeemer’s presence ever more,
And God himself their Lord, and judge and king.
And this we call a loss ! O ! selfish sorrow
Os selfish hearts! Owe of little faith 1
Let us look round some argument to borrow
Whv we in patience should await the morrow
That surely must succeed this night of death.
\ve! look upon this dreary desert path,
The thorns and thistles wheresoe’er we turn;
What trials and what tears, what wrongs and wrath,
What struggles and what strife the journey hath ;
Thev have escaped from these and lo! we mourn.
A poor wayfarer leading by the hand
A little child, had halted by the well;
To wash from oft his feet the shining sand,
And tell the tired boy of that bright land
When this long journey past, they longed to
dwell;
Whenlo! the Lord who many mansions had, .
Drew near and looked upon the suffering twain,
Then pityiug, spake, “give me the little lad;
In strength renewed, and glorious beauty clad,
I’ll bring him with me when I come again.”
Did she make answer, selfishly and wrong—
“ Nay, hut the woes 1 feel he too must share,”
Or rather, bursting into grateful song,
She went her way rejoicing and made strong.
To struggle on since he was freed from eare.
We will do likewise. Death hath made no breach
In love and sympathy, in hope and trust;
No outward signs or sounds our ear can reach,
But there’s an inward, spiritual speech,
That greets us still though mortal tougnes be
dust.
It bids us do the work that they laid down—
Take up the song where they broke off the strain ;
So journeying till we reach the heavenly town.
Where are laid up our treasures and our crown,
And our lost loved ones will be found agaiu.
“PUTS.”
How Xlock Gambling is Conducted in W all Street.
From the New York Mercantile Journal, Oct. 31.
What are “ Puts”? asked a greenhorn
of a man in Wall Street. Well, replied the
latter, if I give you a certain sum, say ten
dollars, on condition tiiat you allow me, at
any lintel please, within a certain period,
say three mouths from to-day, to give you
a cow-hiding, I have bought and you have
9old what in stock exchange parlance
means “a put.” Wheu you get the hi
ding you would be tiie man put upon, and
I would he the putter.
Seriously, asked our friend the green
horn, what is meant hy selling pills of
gold, or puts of stock ?
Well, said the other, I will try to ex
plain. Gold is selling to-day. August 1,
at 150 ; I think it will go much lower ; you
think quite otherwise; I say I will give
you SSOO if you will allow me to put $20,-
000 of gold on you at any time within tiie
uext six mouths, at 130 If you accept
my otter I pay the SSOO cash down, and
you stand to he “put ou” alias “shot at,”
during the next six months, if gold goes
down to 120 I buy $20,000, which I can
make you take from me at 130 within the
specified time, and if I do so I make $3,-
500 bv the operation; hut 1 may buy at
120 iu three months; so I have plenty of
time to look about me, and if tiie market
goes upagain to 150 before the expiration
of the six months, I sell at tHat figure and
make $5,500 net hy the ojteration. Then,
of course, 1 take no more notice of you.
You have got your SSOO and no gold put
upon you.
In that case, said tiie greenhorn, I have
the best of the bargain. 1 have make tiie
SSOO without any risk, while, if gold had
not goue below 150, you would have lost
the SSOO.
But suppose, said the knowingone, that
when you saw gold going down witii a
run, you had sold $20,000 at 125, to protect
yourself against the right 1 had Input it
on you at 130, where would you have been
when the gold had risen to 150, and you
found yourself bound to deliver $20,000 at
125, which you had “sold short ” iu con
sequence of having sold me that “ put"?
Any way, you see l couM only have lost
SSOO, hut you could not have told what
your loss might have been.
Suppose, again, said our Wall Bt.reet
man. that I buy from you to-day (August
1) a gut of Fries atGS, which I think much
beyond their value, giving you $5,000 for
“bowing mo to nut, A/wa..Vmee months.
s‘wa'H until it goes down to 35, and then I
buy the 1,000 shares which I can make
you lake from me at 65; then if tiie mar
ket docs not rally before tiie expiration of
three months, 1 put it on you as per con
tract, and make $30,000 by the operation,
less the $5,000 paid for the put, making
the net gain to me, and loss to you, $25,000
as the result of such a gambling transac
tion.
If you want to understand the matter
experimentally, go and ask my friend
Freecom, the broker, to sell l, aput ” for
you; (hen you will find out all about it
from actual experience. If, however, you
will he guided hy me, I will give you the
same advice which Punch gave to tiie man
that was going to be married— Don’t.
TSpecial to the Louisville Courier.]
WASHINGTON GOSSIP a\ II SPECULATION.
Washington, Nov. 4. —Tlie election,
and political probabilities resulting there
lrom, is mainly discussed to-day. .Radi
cals, of course, are in a high state of jubili
catiou. Singularly enough, Democrats
are not greatly downcast. The tatter pro
fess the hopefulness that Graut’s adminis
tration will prove conservative iu charac
ter, and, as such, displeasing to the
intense Radicals. It is held by them,and
also by moderate Republicans, that Grant
will not acquiesce in the abominable doc
trine of Sumner & Cos., and out of this
division good results will come.
Referring to the disposition of Demo
crats to console themselves with this
thought, theiS'far, Republican, says :
\V e apprehend there is more solid foun
dation for tin's philosophy on the part of
the minority than most Republicans
would suppose. Not that we think Gen.
Grant will ever place himself upon the
Democratic platform, or formally leave
that framed at Chicago; from the very
nature of things, however, it is impossible
for any President to satisfy the more ultra
of his ante-election supporters, and in ad
dition to this inherent general difficulty,
we do not doubt that President Graut’s
administration will naturally and inten
tionally turn toward moderate and con
servative measures. Ko, after all, the
Democrats may not be disappointed.
When will Grant resign his position in
the army is a question readilv propound
ed, but not easily answered. A member
of his staff, however, expresses the opin
ion that he will not resign before March.”
SPECULATIONS.
Speculative reports assign John Sher
man, A. T. Stewart, cr Zach. Chaudler to
to the Treasury Department, under Grant,
and Stanton to the VVar Department,, but
this is purely speculative.
f Special to the*Louisville Journal. J
The Republicans are very jubilant over
the result of the election. The Demo
crats are generally silent and thoughtful’
In the departments Radicalism has be
come suddenly rampant. Grant’s friends
declare that he will be conservative. The
fc*fit?ct of the election tloe3 not seem to ex
cite or elate those of the Republican lead
ers who are in the city, and a quiet session
of Congress is predicted.
The Election in Talrotton. —The
election in lalbotton passed off quietly.
Tlie managers firmly and impartially dis
charged their duly under the CoiiHtitution
and Jaws of Georgia. No attention wan
paid to the proclamation concerning poll
tax, and all, white and black, wiio had not
paid their taxes, were denied a vote. The
result of tliis was, that out of about one
thousand negroes who had come to town
I to vote, only about fifty could deposit a
ballot. This left about nine hundred and
tifty Africans with their equanimity
slightly disturbed. In fact, as a Teutonic
gentleman once observed, they were mad
enough to 1 pitedemselves miter schnake,’
but they didn’t.
The negroes in this section have thus
been taught two important and salutary
lessons First, that they cannot enjoy all
the privileges and pay none of the expen
ses of government. And, secondly, that
their Radical leaders are not potent enough
to ride rough-shod over the law, and the
rights of thewdiite people. We trust they
may profit by wdiat transpired on Tuesday,
and in future deport themselves as be
comes their jiositions— Talbotton Gazette,
Nov. sth.
At Erie, New York, recently, it took
a justice of tlie peace, two lawyers, six
jurors, and about twenty witnesses a
whole day to try a case in which a little
girl, aged nine years, had slapped a play
mate’s face.
MONDAY, NOV. 9, 1868.
THE ELECTION.
l>t*m<H*ralic Majorities—Official.
Columbia ,
Clarke..... 1*
Oglethorpe
oweta
lroup
Meriwether
Heard...
M ai ton
Burke 51b
Haneock
Warren ***2
Jefferson 157
Pierce I : *s
Ware
Screven, *’6
Decatur "’ll*
Effingham -30
Liberty #1
Polk I**
Chattooga SSS
Sleaart County.
Lumpkin Ga., Nov. 4th 1808.
Messrs. Editors:— Official returns of elec
tion held yesterday, for President and Vice
President, gives Seymour and Blair, four
hundred and nineteen 1 411>) majority.
C. B. Seymour.
Uuilnian County.
Hatcher Station, Nov. sth, 1808.
Messrs. Editors: —The official vote of
Quitman county stands thus :
Seymour 365
Grant 53
Majority 312
Not a single white Radical vote in the
county. Respectfully, etc.
J. E. Smith.
What Could Have Been Done. —If
the counsels of this, and other Democratic
journals had been heeded in reference to
bringing on the Congressional election at
the same time with that for President,
Georgia would have sent an unbroken
delegation of Democrats to the 41st Con
gress. Only two districts were at all
doubtful —thelst and sth—and the returns
show that we have carried both of these
by strong majorities. In this district, the
4th, we have converted a Radical majority
of say 2,000 in round numbers, info a Dem
ocratic majority of bteween three and four
thousand. The sth district has done oven
better, and the Ist is not far behind. We
hope the advocates of postponement will
be able to show as good a record, when the
election does come off.
Some say our members would not have
been admitted. Perhaps that is true, but
it is no argument for postponement, nor
against this policy. Have wo any assu
rance that electing them next year will
better their chances for admission? We
fail to see it.
WHY NOT TO UEOKUH (
Thirty good citizens left Greensboro, N. (’., last
week, for Missouri, to get out of Holden’s negro
government.
We (ind the above item in a late num
ber of the New Orleans Crescent. It fur
nishes a very reasonable and suggestive
basis for some observations upon the in
ducements Georgia holds out to immi
grants, “good citizens,” from North Caro
lina and elsewhere.
In the first place as to the negro govern
ment branch of the question. It is true
we have a Radical Hlate government, but
Gov. Bullock is not so bad a man as Hol
den, and in his appointments to subordi
nate office, thus far has shown some re
gard to decency and character, and the
wishes and wants of the people. He has
not done well, hut neither has he done
so badly as he was expected to do. Take
it all in all, the Constitution, officials, and
general tone of the government that Radi
cal reconstruction has given Georgia, is
much preferable to the concern it has sad
dled upqq Nwt,!^Qpwli/tfc, a \V ( f ylferylew
men of respectability to bolster up and
give a semblance of character to what, in
North Carolina, is supported by many per
sons of former note and influence,
In the next place, by the sounding ma
jority given Seymour and Blair at the re
cent election, we have proclaimed and
fixed, for all time to come, the status of
Georgiaasa Democratic Common wealth,
henceforth, and forever, to be governed
and moulded by true political principles.
We have told Radicalism and its adhe
rents that her soil is no place for the dog
mas they preach, and that it must and
shall forever remain sterile to the poison
ous seed they have been so busily and
wickedly engaged in sowing. Thirty
thousand majority agaiust Radicalism has
been posted all over her territory, as a
warning to all trespassers of the carpet
bag and scalawag persuasion.
In the third place, our natural advan
tages of soil, both with reference to its
variety in quality, and its productive ca
pacity, our climate, water power, and
mineral wealth give us a position to which
no other Southern State can lay claim.
No State in the Union oilers so many in-
dueements to men with a small capital,
with stout hearts and willing, busy hands.
Going from North Carolina to Missouri,
strikes us as very much like jumping
from the frying pan into tlie fire. Mis
souri Radicals are every wiiit as bad as
Nortii Carolina Radicals—the only dif
ference being one of color. No man votes,
teaches, preaches, or sits on a jury in that
State who cannot take tlie test oath, and
tlie feeling towards rebels is as bitter as
iu Tennessee. The State, itself, offers no
special inducements to immigrants who
seek a diversity of climate and produc
tion, particularly to those who have been
reared in any portion of tlie South. It
will be a great State one of these days, hut
a great Yankee State, witli Now England
morals, manners, politics, and religion.
It will never suit Conservative men from
any quarter. Why then go so far and
still not find what Georgia, a neighbor,
offers ready to your hands ?
We expect a large immigration from all
parts of the South Georgia. We. have
assurances, that no partisan legislation can
negative, of white supremacy; we have
a brave, generous, hospitable population;
we have a climate that mocks, in its geni
*ality. that of any portion of this or anyotfi
ercountry; we have a soil that only needs
to he rightly tickled to laugli witli tlie most
generous harvests of every description;
we have fish, flesh and fowl, of every kind,
and to be had almost for tlie asking; we
have mineral treasures whose richness,
when developed, will make the Btate and
all her people rich beyond present con
ception ; and a Water power wiiose extent
cannot he paralleled upon tlie continent.
These are our jewels. We proudly point
to them, and invite all who wisli an in
terest in their richness to come and claim
it We will give you tlie strong grasp of
frienship and welcome. We will make !
you free of tlie guild, without any admis
sion fee save a promise that you will help
us to build up, and beautify, and strength
en, and adorn our noble old homestead.
We will ask no questions save that. Re
you Radical or Democrat, ‘‘loyal or rebel,”
you shall be welcome when we know that
your heart, and your means, and your
labor recognize and will pay their primary i
allegiance to making Georgia the “Empire |
State” of tlie Union, indeed, in wealth,
progress and peace-tlie home of all the
all the graces, all the virtues, and all the j
power of a Christian civilization.
A “loyal” Chicago jury having awarded
Crandall $12,000 damages against the vir
tuous Blodgett, the Augusta Constitution
alist suggests that the “loyal” Council of
that city raise his salary so that he can
pay it.
THK DEAD M MHKR.
Ah liow she came and went ’ so stealthily.
That one ean make the short lived periods seem,
Eveu with their wealth of blooms, and songs of
birds,
No other than a dream.
And yet the Summer has withheld uo gift.
Such as God annually sends. Ihe grateful shower.
The glorious sunshine, and the health.ul breeze
~ Have blessed each passing hour.
The seed time and its cheerful promises
Os rich reward for labor have been given,
With luscious fruits and (lowers, like censers tilled
With the sweet breath of heaven.
Even now, while wrapped in royal drapery,
Lifeless upon her bier the Summer lies.
The hills, as if unconscious of her fate.
Still wear their rich green dyes.
So quietlv she left us, and so fair
The blushing blossoms looked that last she Kissed,
We did not deem that any where oil earth
So soon she would be missed.
But now the sunlight falls with beams.
And sadder look upon the tender grass ;
And winds, ah me, the plaintive, wandering winds.
Chant dirges as they pass.
While the lone cricket bv my cottage door.
All tendency to lighter moods restraining.
Breaks the deep stillness of this Autumnal e\e
With rhythmical complaining
Somewhere a Summer waits that iu due time
Will come and smilejupon this dead oue s sleeping,
And open into bloom the folded buds
Which Spring has in her keeping.
And those who wait and watch will greet with
cheers
Each joyous signal of her queenly coming,
And nature will break out in songs again,
Sweet as the brooklet’s humming.
Thus one bv one the hurrying seasons pass,
Each cycle narrow to our human seeming.
Till, glancing backward, lo! the brief years lie
' Like some delusive dreaming.
Only the good and true, of all our acts.
Like timid stars from out the darkness stealing,
Strike their pure lights along the slope of 1 hue,
Life's real worth revealing.
LIFE INSURANCE—LIABILITY OF COMPANIES
A case has lately been tried in the Mil
waukee, Wis., Circuit Court, involving
the question of liability of insurance com
panies. This action has attracted the at'
tendon not only of insurance companies
themselves, but the public generally.
The action alluded to was of Ella K. A.
Hatch against the Chicago Provident Life
Insurance Company. * The plaintiff is a
resident of Kenosha, and a daughter of our
townsman. N. Eble. The facts are these :
In the Spring of 1866, Henry A. Hatch,
her late husband, got his life insured for
one year in the above company for the
benefit of his wife. In the following Jan
uary he died, and the company declined
paying the policy, on the ground that the
assured died with disease of the heart.
The action was commenced in Kenosha
county, at the instigation of the defend
ant, on the ground that a fair trial could
not be had in this county on account of
prejudice. The Judge removed it to Mil
waukee comity, where the trial was con
cluded last week. •
The following is a summary oceountof
the trial: The plaintiff showed in evidence
that her husband was insured in said com
pany for the sum of $5000; that at the
time the examination took place of the as
sured, it was well known to the agent that
the assured had the heart disease; that no
person who ever saw Mr. H., hut knew he
was diseased, for lie not only panted for
breath in ordinary conversation, but there
was a large prominence over the region of
the heart showing its enlargement. It
was further shown that a few days before
his death, Mr. H. met witli a serious acci
dent at Mr. Brown’s store, in this city, by
an accidental fall in the cellar. It was
then shown by medical men, sustained by
medical authority, that this fall, although
not tlie prime cause of the deatli of Mr.
H.,yet it hastened it and directly con
tributed to that result.
It was further shown in evidence that
the health of the assured had been better
for the last few months of his life than it
hail been for several years previous; and,
iuferentially, he might have lived several
years had he not met with this accident.
One physician swore that he had known
of cases where persons who were afflicted
witli heart disease lived until they were
past seventy years of age.
The verdict was for the nlni"inr•©rul
ing to the charge or tlie Court, and it is
regarded by business men and those who
ought to know, as just and correct. In
surance companies may, however, take a
.liflW.nl V. 1- IUR.I If-'—
LETTER FROM JOHN OLIVIA ADAMS.
Quincy, October 26, 1868.
Messer.*. J W. Avery, L. N. Trammell , A. Jf.
Johnson, ami others, Dalton , (la.
Gentlemen : I regret very much that
I was unexpectedly called away from
South Carolina before your kind fetter of
invitation reached me, aud it followed me
all tlie way to Massachusetts. I thank
you heartily for tlie spirit which prompted
it, the same cordial readiness to greet w itli
warmth any indication however slight of
returning kindness which met meat every
turn in tlie South. I found the traducers of
your people deceivers of deceivers. They
say you are plotting war. I fouud you
praying for peace. They say you would
again enslave the black. I thought your
utmost aspiration was to escape political
subjection to the freedtnen. We were told
that your war leaders meant to rule us. It
seemed to me that they would he happy
to avoid a too rough riding by “carpet
baggers.” They tell us you are intolerant
aud proscriptive; hut I saw Democrats
and Republicans, black and white, peace
bly debating from tlie same platform.
I am persuaded that the Democratic
party, as a mass at the South, accept hon
estly and in good faith tlie results of tlie
war. From my observation, lam satisfied
that they ask now only to he allowed to
do tiieir duly as good citizens in the
Union, and that they long for a renewal
of fraternal relations under tlie Constitu
tion. I urged my views of tlie policy
most Jikely to hasten sucli a consumma
tion without reserve at Columbia. I
should have reiterated those sent intents at
Dalton if Iliad been privileged to speak
there.
I make no secret of my hope that my
Southern friends will not hastily commit
themselves to a needless hostiliiv to Gen
eral Grant’s administration if liei.-oi,-eied.
It can do you no good—it may p.> tpone
your emancipation for years.
I urged in South Carolina, and I should
have pressed in Georgia, a liberal policy
as to suffrage, a very cautious piuctlce in
speech, kindness to strangers, the most
strenuous suppression of disorder and vio
lence, a sparing use of politics, and fair
aud friendly dealings with the freedmen.
Above all things, set yourselves stubborn
ly to obliterate tlie ravages of the war, and
energetically to revive your blighted pros
perity, to rebuild your stiattered fortunes
and repair your ruined trade.
I need not remind you liow essential to
you concession and compromise have be
come. I need not warn you thateverything
that can be yielded witli safety and honor
should not be insisted on at tlie price of
subjection and permanent helplessness.
You must take long views, cultivate cool
ness, caution and forecast, calculate possi
ble contingencies aud study moderation
and self restraint as the efficient means of
restoration. Struggling and writhing, vo
ciferating and denouncing hut strain your
bonds the closer. Bide your time like
men, use your opportunities like states
men, hold fast to the Constitution like
patriots, and keep up a cheerful courage
like Christians, and
Y ou shall see the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purple which out redden
All voluptuous garden roses,”
Gentlemen, if you are wise and patient
I believe your night already far spent. If
you can be calm and seif.conlrolied I am
well assured that though tlie dark clouds
hang about you now, “there will beli"ht
at eventide.”
Very sincerely, your friend,
John Q. Adams.
i State Fair. —The citizens of Macon
are preparing for an immense State Fair
to he held at that city next year. The
Macon papers say it is to be shaped so as
: to exhibit fully the productive capacity of
the great State of Georgia, in the field and
iin the workshop. In short, preparation
is to be made for full exhibition and tho
j rough test and comparison of the products
; of every possible industrial pursuit carried
on in the State. If properly gotten up
the vast and varied resources of tlie old
| Empire State will exhibit a spectacle sel
i dom witnessed by tlie Southern people.
Tlie citizens of Macon, too, exhibit their
sagacity in taking this groat work upon
! themselves, and thus making their city
the centre and scene of a splendid exhi
bition, which will open every road as an
avenue to tiieir central market. Ret them
push forward the good work, an.l let our
intelligent citizens of old Thomas remem
ber that we, too, are Georgians, and have
a direct interest in the great State Fair to
come off next Fall at Macon. Let not
Thomas county Jag behind in the exhibi
tion.— I'hornasville Enterprise, 4th.
[From the Columbus Sun, sq, j IIKt
THE OYVEN THOMAS W i|.|. « w
liiiporlniil Trial.
This interesting case has been progress
ing before Ordinary Duer for two ,|«v
and perhaps will he concluded tn ,biv'
Mr. Thomas died several wet ks ago o, \.
one will lias been found, and n u?ts ~'V
in 1842. In It he desired that ulmmu '''
ty-rive of his negroes be carried i, v hi
ecutor, after his deatli, to Liberia. a „ j| M ,'
might elect, and there set fret n„. v
their posterity forover. He then n ',’.
the residue of his property including
sixty other negroes, who also
slaves, to he reduced to money.
quired that his debts, which are sin (p
his executors, and the expenses <>l
portation of the negroes to be ij,-,d'b
first paid,and then desired tlie remainder
of tlie funds to be divided among the lu ,
groes thus set free—and divided m -|,
tied proportions, on their arrival at t|„i r
new homes.
There now remains nineteen negroe*
who claim the property of deceased muler
this will, which his relations me endeav
oring to break. The estate is worth
least $50,000, and may exceed this sum i. v
many thousands. Mr. .las. K. Redd, who
is tlie only surviving executor of the will
lias presented it for probate. Gen. R. ]
Banning ami Jas. M Russell, Esqs., eoim
sel for caveators, proposed to introduce
him to prove that Owen Thomas had ( ,|
ten said to him that lie no longer consid
ered that document his will, and that ho
was no longer tlie executor to carry out it*
provisions, and that lie (Thomas) cousid
ered it of no effect on account of the treat
ment lie had received from the beneficia
ries under the will, since it was executed
and that lie had made another will n> smt '
his views to the changed condition and
circumstances
To this the counsel for tlie propoundet-
Messrs. Ingrain & Crawford, Thornton a
Williams and Ramsey & Ramsey object
ed. Aide arguments were made by Messrs.
Thornton and J. N. Ramsey, and
Henning and J. M. Russell, Esqs. [j,,.
result was the testimony of Mr. Redd was
admitted. It will l»»* given to-day, ami
probably the argument-continued on other
points.
This case will perhaps become an histor
ical one, as many points of great moment
are involved. The will conflicts with tlie
law of Georgia passed in 1859, making it
impossible for negroes to be freed by will,
and has conditions, now impossible to |*
fulfilled. Whether recent proclamations
freeing slaves render this law nugatory or
what effect they may have on tliecoudi
lions are among the many matters to be
considered.
After able arguments by counsel, (he
following decision was rendered by the
Ordinary. •
Ordinary Duer gave liis decision as fol
lows :
The act of 1859, which was incorporated
in the code of 1562, expressly declares thai
any and every clause in any deed, wiil, or
other instrument, made for the purposeof
conferring freedom on slaves, directly or
indirectly, within or without (lie State, to
take effect alter the death of the owner,
shall be absolutely null and void ; that act
therefore revoked the will so far as those
clauses are concerned.
Now, where a will, or any part thereof,
is revoked by act of the testator or |>y
operation of iaw, it cannot he revived by
operation of law, if the subsequent law
seeking to revive deprives the leslatoi of
his property against his wishes, or inter
leros with his rightsof ownership and con
trol over tlie same or any part thereof. It
ean only be revived ami made the willed
the testator by his own act republishing
the same, otherwise it would not be Ins
will. The act of emancipation of Istis,
which deprived Thomas of his properly
against his will, cannot therefore revive
the clauses of emancipation in (lie will
revoked by the net of 1859, for to say so
would tie to say that the Government ean
make a will for an individual against Ids
will. The will of Thomas takes it fur
granted that the negroes proposed to lie
maiinmitted would he the property of
the testator up to tlie time of his doitli,
and under the control of the executor
afterwards, lo carry out the provisions of
the same. The emancipation law of IStid
deprived the testator, coni rurj- l;.. >•
„f Ln. ~...|ieriy in the slaves and the right
to control the same. If the testator a<
quiesced in the Govei'mental mode of
emancipation against his will, In- should
have signified the same by a repiiblientiou
of those clauses in the Will relating to
emancipation, in a way and manner to
suit the changed relation of the parties
With this view of the ease, I am there
fore compelled to give judgment against
those clauses in the will in, reference to
emancipation of slaves, and refuse its pro
bate so far as the legacies to the negroes
are concerned.
The ease will he appealed.
Our AUlc Halt. Cellar.
Tempestuous waters—tlie pools of the
election.
A public humiliation—having ail tlie
town at one’s feet.
i lie man who was looking for a station
in life, found a police-station.
Watering places that remain open all
winter—mouths of milk cans.
The prose of inactivity is sometimes bel
ter than tlie poetry of motion.
If domestic infelicity drive men to sea,
they should seek tlie Pacific Ocean.
The coming vehicle belies its name it
should be called the un-hansom cab
When Spain lost its ruler when Isa
bella the Prim-rose path of dalliance trod.
The difference between Eugenie and the
deposed Queen of Spain is that one is a
belle on a throne and the other Isabelle
off.
“What is your line of business,” asked
a magistrate of a dramatic looking indi
vidual. “Clothes-line was the response.
Josh Billings says that the man who
wrote “I would not livealway, I ask not
to stay,” probably had never been urged
sufficiently.
Confucius s.aid (list his only rule in re
gard to drinking was to drink until lie
was happy. There were probably no sta
tion houses when Confucius lived.
Timothy Titcomb writes from abroad of
“what he could not help seeing at street
crossings in wet weather.” And Titcomb
is a married man and a father.
Ben Wade has so fur made the hugest
joke of tiie campaign. “I tell you,’’ said
he, “Grant will have peace if “lie has to
fight for it.” That is like the father who
declared lie never swore himself, and he'd
he and and if he would allow his boys to
swear.— N. Y. Leader.
A Lizard Found in a Woman’s Sto.v
A('H. —On Monday last, we were shown a
phial containing a live lizard, which, it is
supposed, had been in a woman’s stomach
for nearly two years. Dr. Middleton, of
Flora, had been attending a married wo
man for about eighteen months. She was
troubled with a gnawing sensation in the
stomach, and sometimes a jumping <>r
palpitation there ; tier appetite was irre
golar, at times totally gnne. Tonics anil
other medicines were given, hut they af
forded no relief. On Sunday last, a live
lizard passed away. 11 is needless to -ay
the woman got immediate relief, and is
now rapidly improving in health. The
lizard is about four inches long, and exact
ly I'he those seen in Canadian swamp*,
beautifully spotted with black on an or
au 8 e B r “und, and was active and lively.
Ao/7/t Wc.linxjhm ( Canada) 'Cnrs.
Radical Rkokcuiition and Attempi
to Bride.— M. A. Cochran, J. W. ('<«•!•-
rau, H. M. Landers, J. F. Bryant, ami W •
W. Lawless were yesterday discharged
from the State Road for voting against
Grant. These men were engiged on sec
tion It. Samuel Hill, Foreman, (old them
on Monday that if they voted for Seymour
and B air they should be discharged. Not
having the fear of Super visor Harris be
fore their eyes they deliberately went to
tlie polls and did that which they were
forbidden to do. The consequence wa
tliat they were sent a-kiting as a oresaid*
[Atlanta Constitution, sth
Wall Street on a “Bendkk."-A
Press dispatch to tlie Nashville llanrur
dated New York, Nov. 6th, savs :
The excitement in Wall Street, to-day.
borders on tlie panic of 1857, and threat
ens to equal it in scope and disaster. It
is creating apprehensions among the
hankers and brokers, and lias caused
enormous depreciations in stocks.
Railway shares were sold l>y the thou
sands, and Government bonds by the mil
lions. Trade is standing still in all direc
tions.
Rkal Estate at Auction.— The Schley
plantation, four miles east of Columbus
containing 804 acres land,2oocleared, with
good dwelling and otiier houses, was h and
off yesterday at C. S. Harrison <k Co’s
auction sale for $2,240 Two fine mares
brought at tlie same sale $421.
[Columbus Sun, Sth.
A Russian burgomaster having unjustly
imprisoned the clerk of a Prussian mer
cantile house for twenty-four hours, was
put in the same prison and kept there the
same length of time as a punishment.