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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
MACON, TUESDAY JUNE 22, 1869.
LB ARK A TRADE.
Os 13,496 prisoners in tbe penitentiaries
of thirty States in 1867, according to the
report of the Prison Association just issued.
87 per cent., more than three-quarters, had
not learned a trade.
The above paragraph furnishes a text
from which a most wholesome sermon
can be preached.
It is not to be concluded, of course, that
the per cent, alluded to was drawn from
the ranks of the “learned professions,” as
they are called.
The real point in the statement is that
work keeps a man’s brain and hands from
mischief, aud that if he hajs learned a
trade he is not only safe, so far as tempta
tion is concerned, hut always has at his
command a refuge against want aud idle
i, ss—those fruitful sources of crime. With
a good trade, in this growing country
where skilled labor of all kinds commands
such fair wages, bread aud clothing for
himself and family are secure for mechan
ics of every description. If his taste and
enterprise lead him into some other calling
where success is not won, he has the su
preme satirfi'action of knowing that in such
an event, he still has a capital to draw
upon ol which nothing but Providence
can deprive him.
It has always been a mystery to us why
there are not more young men learning
trades in our country, especially since the
war. Broken down, pecuniarily, as our
people found themselves at the close of the
terrible struggle, it would seem an aban
donment of the silly policy of making
doctors aud lawyers of their sons, was
specially indicated, not only by past ex
perience, but necessity. Never was an
occasion more auspicious for the change.
But what was seen ? Parents rushiugtheir
children off to college, without the least
reference to their fitness to appreciate and
benefit by its training. Aud this was, and
still is often done at great pecuniary in
convenience. Paterfamilias stints and
starves at home, and the rest of the fam
ily are put on short rations, in order that
young Hopeful may idle away his time
at college, and come home an A. B. We
have known and know many boys at col
lege who have no more business there
than so many idiots. They can’t or won't
learn, and after being literally dragged
through tiro course, are turned out with
diplomas, to be manufactured into so
called lawyers and doctors. They have
health and strength, though, and the test
might have developed some aptitude for
certain mechanical pursuits. They would
not have made master builders, smiths or
machinists, but might have earned a
living, and made themselves useful mem
bers of society as subordinates in these
pursuits.
We don’t propose, of course, to shut up
schools aud colleges, but we do think it
would be best for all concerned to inquire
first before trying to give a boy a learned
education, to find out whether he is fit to,
or can receive it. There will be lawyers,
and doctors, aud ministers while the
world endures, we suppose, but there is no
reason why they should be recruited in
discriminately from the graduating classes
of our colleges, without the slightest ref
erence to their fitness. If a boy goes to
college and won’t or can’tgeton with his
studies, clearly college is not the place for
him. He ought to be somewhere else.
If he lias any mechanical aptitude at all,
find a trade for him aud bid him stick to
it. In tiie various branches of mechani
cal industry there is always room for re
cruits. The recruit may not be above re-
spec table mediocrity, but still he has his
place, aud his use to himself aud the coun
try, under the control of others. It is not
necessary for every mechauic to be a
“boss,” by any means, in order that he
should be useful and earn a respectable
living. Mediocre lawyers and doctors,
though, are worse than useless.
We have witnessed many changes since
the war, but this, one of the most needed,
seems long in coming. 1 hat it is partic
ularly demanded now, none will dispute
There is wisdom in it, there is wealth in
it. There is the germ of industrial inde
pendence in it, aud last, but by uo means
least, there is, in its success, the destruc
tion of the false aud pernicious ideas that
labor degrades instead of ennobling.
Away with it, then. Let Southern col
leges and the learned professions flourish,
but let Southern workshops be filled with
Southern youths, and Southern progress
illustrated by the sturdy toil of the best
blood of the land.
Mokk wagons were iu the city yesterday
(hail we have noticed in some time. All
carried away large quantities of corn.
[ Columbus Sun, 20 th.
These same wagons will come back in
the fall with cotton bales raised by, but
not belonging to, the producer. The corn
and meat seller and the bank people will
take charge of them and put the proceeds
iu their pockets, and the corn buyer will
go back home conscious of having paid his
honest debts, but not so clear on the ques
tion of his net profits in the shape of a bank
balance. And this will be the case all
over the South.
How long, gentlemen, are you going to
slave tor others in this way? How long
will you continue to ignore the fact, the
axiom, that that couutry is, and will
always remain poor, that does not feed
itself? You have borrowed money to buy
fertilizers wherewith to make cotton ; you
have borrowed money to buy meat and to
buy corn, and now, when you ought to be
calculating what your clear profits are
likely to be, you are harrassed with the
thought of what you owe, and what your
condition will be if the caterpillar or any
other enemy of the “King” should over
take and slay him. To be in debt is bad
t'UtJU Khj b.ilUQbe that and hungry, besides,
Now, some people say there has been
pleuty of corn planted this year to supply
all wants. We hope so. The same thing,
though, was said last year, but facts like
the above and others don’t bear it out. We
venture the prediction, right now, that
even with a good yield from what is now
iu the ground, there will not be enough
corn made in half the counties iu Middle
and Southwest Georgia to do the people,
and that paragraphs like the above will
appear in the papers next year. In the
meantime, however, the money lenders
and provision dealers will make much
greenback hay, and so the proverb, “its
an ill wind that blows no oue any good,”
will have another illustration. .When the
farmers extract as much profit out of this
system, we shall be most happy to chroni
cle the fact.
Married Sixty-Bix Years. —We were
informed yesterday of the death of Mrs.
Nancy Stroud, of Lee county, Ala., who
was born Feb. 10, 1785. She died on May
13, 1869, aged eighty-four years, two
mouths and three days. She married
sixty-six years ago, iu her eighteenth year
to the husband who survives her.
Her husbnud, James Stroud, was born
May 18, 1779. He is now in his ninetieth
year lives in Lee county, and evinces
more life and energy than some men at
fortv His hearing and eyesight remain
good and often “ drives the plow afield,”
and daily performs his portion of farm
work The pair have raised a large family
that now count three or four generations.
If the old gentleman be a philosopher
these children are the links which hold
past years together. How many of this
earth can say, “I have been married
sixty-six years?” Both husband and wife
are of Primitive Baptist (vulgarly
known as Hard shell) persuasion.
[Columbus Sun, 20 th
Chief Justice Chase’s Opinion
The National Intelligencer says: A
letter from Chief Justice Chase, received
in Washington, gives a flattering account
of the improved condition of South Car
olina. He says the people are fast recu
perating from the effects of war, and, if
permitted, would soon be thriving and
prosperous. He and his daughter have
been treated everywhere with the great- -
est respect and kindness.”
CIIINKSK LABOR—C AW IT BE SCCCKStsFCLLV
EMPLOYED IK ALL THE STATES i
A California paper says “the Chinese
are coming to stay. They are also coming
to work. For that matter, indeed, we are
told between forty aud fifty thousand are
already hard at work on and along tbe
line of the great Pacific Railroad- The
mining districts of California swarm with
them, and the universal testimony as re
gards their industry, enterprise, and
peaceable disposition, is altogether in
their favor.
We have spoken of the multiplication of
the Chinese on the Pacific. From Sau
Diego to Sitka, and back to Montana,
Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, and throughout
all which San Francisco is the commer-
cial centre, we are told they are every
where to bes rund. Every town and ham
let has its “China-town.” Their industry
is most remarkable. Mining, clothes
washing, aud kindred occupations were
the first branches of industry in which
they engaged, but of late years there has
been a great increase in the variety of
their employments. In the construction of
the San Jose Railroad, in 1860, it was dis
covered that they were cheap and effect
ive road builders. The Mission and Pi
oneer Woolen Mills found that they made
first-class factory operatives, and now
they are rapidly obtaining employment
wherever patient manual labor, without
any great amount of brain work, is requi
site. Large numbers are engaged as ser
vants in families, hotels, etc., taking the
places of girls in chamber-work and cook
ing, in which they became expert. A
large proportion of the immigration con
sists of boys, from ten to sixteen years of
age, who are immediately put out to serve
in families, where they soon pick up a
knowledge of the language aud of house-
hold duties.
In fact, the Chinese are rapidly monop
olizing employment in alt the lighter
branches of industry usually allotted to
women, such as running sewing machines,
making paper bags and boxes, binding
shoes, labelling and packing medicines,
etc. They are willing and anxious to
learn anything and everything that may
prove of pecuniary value to them, and in
spite of the difficulties which their total
or partial ignorance of the language im
poses, their patience and imitative faculty
enable them to learn to work with sur
prising facility; and close observers of
their habits do not hesitate to say that
there is not any manual trade in which
they could not become efficient workers
in a reasonable time.
These straugers are said to become
Americanized—so to speak—very rapidly.
They learn to buy and sell, to labor, ac
cording to American modes, just a3 they
discard the umbrella-shaped hat, wide
drawers and thick paper shoes, tor the
felt bat, pantaloons and boots; but they
retain all their essential habits and mode
of thought just as they retain their cues.
The Chinaman running a sewing ma
chine, driving a sand cart, or firing an en
gine in California, is just as essentially a
Chinaman as his brother who, on the
other side of the Pacific, is working in the
same way and with the same implements
as his father worked a thousand years
ago.”
If John will do all these things in Cali
fornia, why won’t he do them here in
Georgia, and all the other Southern
States? We want to see the experiment
tried, anyway. We believe it will prove a
success, and teach the idle, worthless ne
groes who play at cooking and washing
aud waitiug in our houses, that they are
dependent on white folks, and not the
white folks on them. They are becoming
more aud more trifling every day, aud
house-keepers are getting more and more
ready and willing to substitute other la
bor in their stead. A Chinaman can’t
possibly be as bad as the negroes, stuffed
up as they are with allsorts of fool notions
as to their importance. You cau’t name
a single bad quality the Chinaman has,
that cannot be triplicated, and with some
to spare, in the negro.
All reports concur in representing the
Chinaman as patient, faithful and indus
trious, in the highest degree. These the
negro is not. Besides, John doesn’t care
a button about voting, aud being a mem
ber of the Legislature, or a Postmaster.
We vote for him all the time as an experi
ment, at least, aud as opposed to the pres
ent worthless lot of would-be ladies and
£entlerat?u who oamloauami, ftftar a fash—
ion, to cook and wash and wait on js.
HOW TO MAKE POTATOES A SLUE CROP.
Captain J. M. Elliott has laid upon our
table an Early Goodrich potato that
weighs twelve ounces. For fifteen years
he has planted Irish potatoes in the fol
lowing manner, and at different times in
Northern and Southern Alabama, and in
various places in this county—including
wet seasons and dry seasons, and nearly
all sorts of soil— with invariable success,
and never was excelled by his neighbors,
who planted in a different way. The plan
is particularly advantageous for late or fall
potatoes, as it prevents the effects of
drought upon the crop :
First, have the ground well plowed and
thoroughly pulverized, then run off fur
rows about two and a half feet apart, for
the rows. Fill the furrow half full or
more with wheat or pine straw, partially
decayed, then place the seed, cut in
pieces containing a single eye each, on
this straw, single pieces, at a distance of
eight or ten inches. Put no dirt about
the seed at all, but cover the entire patch
to the depth of six or eight inches with
straw. A little dirt is sometimes used to
weigh down the straw, and prevent its
being blown off'. A large crop of nice,
clean potatoes, will be the result, and you
have only to take away the straw, and
pick up the potatoes.— Home Courier , 18th.
Another Payment into the State
Treasury. —lt will be seen from the fol
lowing that Superintendent Hulbert has
made another payment into the State
Treasury of $25,000 for the month of May
last:
Western and Atlantic Railroad, ]
Office Superintendent, >
Atlanta, Ga., June 18, 1869. J
To his Excellency , Rufus B, Bullock,
Governor, Atlanta, Ga. :
Sir:—l have this day paid to N. L.
Angier, Esq., Treasurer of the State of
Georgia, twenty-five thousand ($25,000)
dollars, for the month of May, 1869, from
the earnings of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
I am, Governor, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, E. Hulbert,
[lntelligencer, 20 th. Sup’t.
Accident to Major Pendleton. —We
regret to learn from the Valdosta Times,
of Wednesday, that Major P. C. Pendle
ton, editor of that paper, met with a severe
accident on the previous eveuing. While
the Major was returning home in his bug
gy, his horse took fright, ran away, and
threw him out against a stump by the
roadside, giving his head a blow, which
produced uucousciousuess. His little sou,
somf* fifty yft**i*3 fiirtiiur on, but received
no serious injury. Medical and other aid,
was very soon procured. The Major was
well cared for, and strong hopes are enter
tained of a speedy recovery.
Mr. Lo Having a Good Time.— The
St. Paul (Minnesota) Dispatch says : “We
learn from a geutlemau who came down
from the Chippewa agency that a delega
tion of some twenty or thirty of those In
dians are on their way down to St. Paul
to have a grand dog feast. They have
learned that some twenty or thirty flue
fat dogs are killed every day by the po
lice, and the bodies buried. They think
this a shocking aud awful waste of food.
Dog meat is a great delicacy with them.
They propose to encamp in the park near
the City Hall, and live on dog meat until
the harvest of canines ceases, aud then re
turn home fat aud happy.”
On Dit. —That Governor Bullock is
sending private notices, by mail and mes
senger, to the “elect,” to assemble hereon
the Fourth of July next. At that meet"
iug he will endeavor to induce the body
to reject the negro aud the Fifteenth
Amendment, so as to make a case for
Congress.— Constitution, \Sth.
The Main Question.— The receipts at
the Coliseum, in Boston, where that
stunning humbug called the “ Peace Jubi
lee” is now on exhibition, were, for the
third day, a bushel and a half of green
backs, dry measure. So the main chance
is being pretty well looked after.
Fare from St. Louis to Ban Fran
cisco.—The North Missouri Railroad has
commenced selling tickets to San Fran
cisco for $158.35 under the arrangement
just entered into between the Union and
Central Pacific Railroads
Knocked into Eternity. —ln a prize
fight at Cayugu, New York, last Saturday,
one of the contestants, named McGuire,
was killed in the ninth rouud by his ad
versary, a man named Donnelly, who
escaped to Canada.
The Buena Vista Farm and Way Place,
both near Charlottesville. Va., were sold
last week—the former, 404 acres, for
$19,000 cash, aud the other, 417 acres, for
SII,OOO cash,
interesting to distillers.
Macon, Ga., June 19, 1869.
Editor Journal and Messenger: In an
swer to the interrogatives from your cor
respondent-first question —whether a dis
tiller, after having complied with the law
relating to the distilling of fruit, can dis
pose of the spirits distilled in large or
small quantities without violating the
law? The law relating to distillers does
not impose a special tax upon any distiller
who sells from his distillery spirits in the
original casks or packages, gauged and
branded, and the tax-paid stamps affixed
by a United States gauger. The law does
not allow any distiller to sell at retail on
his premises, or in any other way than in
original casks or packages.
In answer to the second question, viz:
"Whether a person who has taken out li
cense a3 distiller of fruit, can distill corn
whisky under the same license?” The
law relating to distillation of whisky is
almost totally different than that of a dis
tiller of fruit. A distiller of whisky must
pay a special tax of S4OO, keep a bonded
warehouse at his own expense, also
have a United States store-keeper in
charge, etc. It will be seen that a fruit
distiller’s license does not authorize a per
son to distill whisky under the same. All
licenses run from the Ist of May to the
30th of April of each year. A person
taking a license to distill fruit from the Ist
of July will have to pay 10 12 of SSO 00,
aud his license expires the 30th day of
April.
All spirits drawn from a distillery must
be placed in casks or packages, containing
less than twenty gallons.
W. C. Morrill, Collector.
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE.
Treasurer’s Office, \
Atlanta, Ga., June 11, 1869. /
P. C. Calhoun, Esq., President Fourth Na
tional Bank, New York :
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find my
reply to Gov. Bullock’s extraordinary and
unauthorized injunction, purporting as an
attempt to restrain you from further of
ficial intercourse, etc.
I presume this paper of the Governor is
based on my letter to you of the 24th ult ,
which, after rendering the $55,000 as a
credit to you, I stated, in conclusion, for
my own protection : “So far as the $55,000
drawn by Gov. B. is concerned, not re
turned nor reported to the Treasurer by
him, but applied by him to purposes un
authorized by law, (especially the $20,000
last drawn,) it will require special legisla
tion before we are authorized to acknowl
edge it as a debt of this State.”
By this statement it was not intended
to discredit this part of your account, so
far as I am concerned; but the amount
having never reached my hands, and, so
far as the Treasury here is concerned, be
ing short the $55,000, as charged in your
account.! was certainly warranted, as a
matter orpreeaution for my own protec
tion, to state the condition of the credit
rendered in my statement, aud charged
in your account, knowing it would require
an appropriation by the Legislature to
cover the amount, aud an Executive war
rant for the same, before the terms of the
law would be complied with, and the
Treasurer's books in conformity thereto.
I have no reason to doubt hut such ac
tion will be taken as to meet the amount,
provided you make no further advances
of like character.
My office is independent of the Govern
or. Having been elected by the Legisla
ture and given bond in conformity with
law, the Governor lias no power to enjoin
or restrain you from official intercourse
or business transactions with me as Treas
urer.
What action have you taken relative to
the new bonds?
Respectfully yours,
N. L. Angier, Treasurer.
New York, June 14, 1869.
Hon. N. L. Angier, Treasurer :
Dear Sir—i have yours of 11th inst.,
with printed copy of Gov. Bullock’s no
tice to this Bank aud your reply to the
same.
I forwarded to Gov. Bullock copy of
your letter of 24th ult., for the purpose of
bringing to his notice tbe following lan
guage contained therein, which seemed to
look towards repudiating the drafts m4 Je
by him against funds uorroweu oy mm
for ttio mate of Oeurgta, and which he
assured the writer he ha 1 full power add
authority to appropriate to the uses of the
State.
“So far as the $55,000 drawn by Governor
Bullock is concerned—not returned or re
ported to the Treasurer by him, but ap
plied by him to purposes unauthorized by
law, (especially the $20,000 last drawn)—it
will require special legislation before we
are authorized to acknowledge it as a debt
of this State.”
This language not having the explaua
tion contained in your letter of the 11th
instant, made it desirable on our part that
the matter should be understood at once,
aud in consequence, the copy of your let
ter of May 24th was sent to Gov. Bullock
requesting an answer.
As yet we have not been able to dispose of
any of your bonds at your price. Our
money market lias been very close since
receipt of the certificates of your Secretary
of State as required by the Board of Bro
kers, aud have not thought best to offer
them for a day or two.
Your coupon interest, due July 1, I sup
pose must be paid as presented, and shall
continue to protect the credit of the State
until otherwise directed.
Respectfully yours,
P. C. Calhoun, President.
[j Era, 18</i.
Bishop Beckwith’s Address. —The
Bishop of Georgia, in a late address to his
diocese, advises the formation of brother
hood and sisterhood among the laity for
special use iu works of charity, educa
tion, and propagation of the faith. He
says:
I would call your attention to a few
points mentioned in the pastoral letter
issued by the House of Bishops, and with
this I must content myself. The necessi
ties of the times call for enlarged effort iu
works of mercy and education, and the
bishops urge upon the church the forma
tion of associations of Christian men and
women “lo minister to the sick and needy,
to care for the aged, and to train the
young.” Ido heartily recommend to you
the forming of three brotherhoods aud
sisterhoods, provided they be, as the letter
declares they should, “free from ensnaring
vows, of enforced confession, and iu all
things subject to canonical and diocesan
authority.”
I had hoped to report you an orphan’s
home in full operation, under the care of
a church sisterhood. Circumstances en
tirely beyond my control have, thus far,
delayed the work, but by the next Cou
ventiou, God willing, I trust the home
will be built, aud the sisters at work. A
• i . -> ---i.. O'anitjinf New Ynrlr.
Mr. Wm. H. Appleton, has furnished me
the means to erect the building, and I be
lieve that I have made such arrangements
for taking care of the orphans as will,
under God, insure its success.
To Southern Agricultural Socie
ties. —Mr. Thomas McElroy, European
Seed Grower, of New York, having dona
ted over $3,000 worth of all kinds of seeds
to Southern agricultural societies, gratui
tously, the officers of the Fruit-growers’
Club, of New York, desire the representa
tives of all Southern agricultural societies
to forward their address to either of the
officers of the Fruit-growers’ Club, No.
37 Park Place, New York City, when a
package of seeds will be forwarded to the
address of such societies as may desire a
supply.
Not So. —The Chronicle & Sentinel, of
Thursday, says on the authority of a di
rector of the Georgia Railroad, that so
much of the statement recently made to
the effect that the Georgia Road had pur
chased that portion of the Montgomery
and West Point Road from Opelika to
West Point, is entirely without founda
tion.
Fine glover Hay.— The Rome Cou
rier has seen a sample of clover hay, rais
ed this year on the Poullain plantation,
on the Coosa river, by C. P. Morton, that
equals the best Northern bay. There is
160 acres of clover on this place, about
one-half of which was well saved previ
ous to the recent rains. The yield will
average about two tons to the acre.
A Few days ago a dog belonging to
Rev. C. A. Downs, of Lebanon, N. H.,
had a slight “onpleasantness” with a
woodchucs, and the latter seized him by
the cheek and refused to relinquish his
hold. With remarkable presence of mind
his dogsbip repaired to a brook near by
and sousing the woodchuck under, held
him there until he was drowned.
Place Aux Dames. —The Americus
Republican says Miss Sallie Banks, of that
city, has received the appointment of
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
that Collection District, comprising the
counties of Macon, Schley, Sumter and
Webster.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
STATE NEWS.
A White Man Stabbed to Death by
a Negro- —Editors Chronicle cfc Sentinel:
Adkiu D. Lewis, a good aud useful citizen,
residing about seven miles from this
place, was murdered in his field about 8 ■
o’clock A. m. to day. The murderer is a
negro named “Ben,” about 40 years old,
a round, plump fellow, weighing about
one hundred and fifty pounds. He used a
knife to accomplish his hellish purpose,
with which he inflicted four or five stabs
on the body and breast of the white man.
He fled aud no arrest so far. As far as
can be judged it is a ease of premeditated
murder—Ben having disclosed his plans
and purposes to a friend last night. A
child of Ben’s was hired to Mr. Lewis as a
house servant, and, it is supposed that a
correction of the child some days ago by
deceased, caused Ben tocommit the horrid
deed. A little son of Mr. Lewis, about 10
years old, was present at the killing.
Now and Then.
Waynesboro. Ga., June 16, 1869.
Is He Eligible.—“ls ex-Provisional
Governorship eligible?” is a question we
heard suggested yesterday by lawyers.
The Code provides a Judge shall be a resi
dent of the Circuit over which he is to
preside at least one year preceding his ap
pointment or election. The newly appoint
ed Judge has been living in Savannah the
last two years.— Columbus Sun, 17 th.
Rain.—This section was favored with
copious rains on Sunday and Monday last.
Crops, generally, we believe, are in excel
lent condition.— Talbollon Gazette, llth.
Suicide.—We learn that a most shock
ing suicide occurred at Bonesville, in Co
lumbia county, yesterday morning. It
appears that a gentleman by the name of
Walker had a little quarrel with his wife
at breakfast time on yesterday, during
the course of which the husband got up
and left the house, saying to his wife that
he would go down to the mill and remain
until she recovered her temper. He
walked down to the mill, which was but
a short distance off, but had not been
there long when one of his children came
running from the house and told him that
her mother had killed herself. Return
ing to his home, Mr. Walker found his
wife lying on the floor in a pool of blood,
dead. She had cut her throat from ear to
ear with a razor.
[Chronicleand Sentinel, llth
The Tables Turned. —This morning,
a porter at the National Hotel, (we blush
for manhood to say that he bore the sem
blance aud form of a man,) whose name
we will not disgrace our columns to utter,
attacked a little orphan newsboy, named
Willie Jones, who earns an honest liveli
hood by selling The Constitution and oth
er papers, and applied a heavy whip to
the lad with all the force of a demon.
The lad, we are informed, is good dispo
sitioned and industrious. The attention
of a Mr. Tom Castello was attracted, who
immediately stepped forward, and wrench
ing the whip from the wretches’ hands,
chastised him soundly for his brutality to
the youth. Castello may be rough on the
outside, but inside dwells the heart of a
mau. We learn that the beiug who so
ruthlessly assaulted the little boy, did so
because he would not get off the sidewalk.
No matter what the provocation, the con
duct was unjustifiable.
[Atlanta Constitution, llth.
Six Men Escape from Decatur Jail
—lnteresting Particulars—Humor
ous Letter. —In March last six individ
uals were convicted of violating the In
ternal Revenue laws of the United States
by illegal distilling, aud sentenced to im
prisonment in the county jail. There
being uo jail worthy of the title in this
county, they were incarcerated in DeKalb
county jail, at Decatur. The names of the
party imprisoued are: W. L. Wooten,
DeKalb county ; Berry Bates, Whitfield ;
J R. Morris, Gwinnett; W. McDaniel,
Murray; Richard Tripp, James Tripp,
Cherokee.
They were guarded by Capt. James Hun
ter with usual care, but it appears that the
prisoners had been clandestinely furnished
by outside parties with a cold chisel and
crow-bar. By meansof these instruments
they succeeded in removing the iron
grates from the windows of the cells, and
tearing their bed-clothing aud converting
them ihu> a iujic, maue rtiCTrcsoaae about’
half-past eleven o’clock yesterday.
llbid.
Clover. —Judge Joseph E. Brown has
a small lot, about an acre and a quarter,
near the Belwood Depot, on the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, two miles from
town, in clover. In 1867, it was an old,
impoverished sedge field. Judge Brown
had it broken up deep with a No. 19)
Peckskill plow, and thoroughly pulver
ized the soil. In March he sowed it in
oats aud red clover. The oatsyielded well,
and was cut in regular time. The clover
grew ofiT finely, and in 1868, Judge Brown
cut it twice, obtaining, over two tons of
clover hay. The clover has not beeu pas
tured upon, although a tenant this year
has supported a horse, and cow and calf
by cutting it as necessity required. Th#
first cutting this year, now beiug housed,
will reach fully ten two-horse wagon loads.
This, with what has been used by the
tenant, will show a laigeyield for so small
a spot. Parties who are complaining of
the high price of Northern hay, and of
the frauds practiced iu bailing it, will see
by this, that economy dictates to them to
imitate Judge Brown in raising their own
hay.— lbid.
Another Homicide in Meriweath
er. —We regret to hear of another killing
scrape a few days since near Rocky Mount.
Mr. Wm. Britton shot and instantly killed
oue of his neighbors named Lapsey. It
appears that Britton, on a rainy day last
week, invited Lapsey to go up to Rocky
Mount with him. The invitation was ac
cepted, aud while there a good deal of
whisky was consumed. Lapsey became
quarrelsome, and had several little fusses,
being evidently very much beside himself
with liquor. Britton finally got him iu
the buggy and started home, when sud
denly Lapsey fell upon Britton with a
large knife, cutting him several times,
whereupon Brittou jumped out of the
buggy, drew his pistol and shot Lapsey
dead. There was no previous diffiellty
between the men. This is the tale a» re
ported to us.— Griffin Star, 18 th.
Greene County Clover.— Dr. ’llios.
P. Janes, of this county, has just fin&hed
mowing a field of five acres of Red Clover,
the most of which measured four feet and
and five inches high, and yielded two aid
a half tons to the acre. It was planted
one year ago last March, on old laid
which has been in cultivation for the lat
30 years, and without manure. He hs
other fields planted ten months latei
which bid fair to equal the five acre lot
He is also growing the various kinds and
grass successfully.
[Greensboro Herald, 17 th. ,
A General Rain.— So far as we ca»
learn this whole region of country and i
large portion of the entire State, was vii-
on Monday last with copious and re
peated showers.
It was what is known in farming par
lance as a first rate season. Corn, which
though healthy, had been greatly dwarfed
by the cold spring aud subsequent drought,
will now come forward rapidly, and attain
sufiicient size for au average yield. In
deed, our experience is, that in a good
earing season a small stalk seems to pro
duce most, as all the strength of the fertil
izer and natural soil is concentrated upon
the development of the grain and ear. '
Cotton, too, will now outgrow lice And
all back-sets. It is however fully tlree
weeks later thau usual.
The crops were generally in fair coidi
tion and ready for this timely of
moisture.
To our farming friends we would ay,
be of good cheer, and gird up your Ijiuß
for the struggle of the next four woks.
Feed your mules well, encouragqthe faed
men, rise early and stir until dark, dm’t
heed a little rain or sunshine; keepthe
plows in motiou, and seek and try tide
serve the benignant smiles of the food
Lord of the harvest.
Remember that the crop campaign <joses
in one brief month. The battle o’ the
year will then be either lost or won.
Cuthbert Appeal kith.
Death in a Well.—A desperatficon
flict recently took place at Cairo, is this
county, between two negro men wide at
work in a well they had been emplojtdto
dig. One of them stabbed the otlir so
severely that he died, and the murlerer
was lodged in jail for trial at the prbeDt
term of the Court. A white man wit
nessed the deadly conflict from thejipof
the well, but had no means of interfriug.
[ Thomasville Enterprise, n'h.
The Wheat Trial in Athens. j£di~
tor Constitution: I send report if the
Committee:
Dr. J. 8. Hamilton, forty-six
eth bushels.
Juo. W. Nicholson, thirty-ninl forty
sixtieth bushels.
Col. D. C. Barrow, thirty-nine tljrtyh
five-sixtieth bushels.
Mr. E. Bancroft, thirty-five four-pxti
eth bushels.
All of the crops more or less wofsted,
the latter cut short one-third. *
Athens, Ga., June 16,1869.
Atlanta Cotton Factory Company.
*\t a meeting of the stockholders of the
Atlanta Cotton Factory Company at the
Georgia National Bank, b nday, the fol
lowing Board of Directors were chosen :
John R ; ce, Richard Peters, Edward E.
Raw son, John C. Peck, Atlanta; Dr. J. F.
Bozeman, Columbus; Wm. P. Herring,
Augusta. At a subsequent meeting ti e
Board made choice of John Rice, Presi
dent' Dr. J, F. Bozeman, Secretary aud
Treasurer; J. Rhodes Brown, Columbus, j
Superintendent. From the commence
ment of the agitation of this question of
cotton manufacturing in our city, we have
taken a great interest, and have never
doubted its success, if under the manage
ment of the right men. We with pleasure
announce the Board of Directors and its
principal officers - — Era, '-oth.
THk Burke County Murderer.—The
Sheriff' of Burke county arrived in this
city yesterday and, after consultation with
Judge Gibson, decided to make arrange
ments by which Ben. Godby, the murderer
of Mr. Lewis, who was arrested in this
city oil Thursday last, will remain in the
jail of this county until the time for his
trial arrives. We are informed that the
negroes of Burke county have sworn to
rescue Godby from the authorities as soon
as he arrives in Waynesboro, which may
accouut for his detention in this jail.
A coroner’s iuquest has been held over
the body of Mr. Lewis aud a verdict re
turned that he was murdered by Godby.
We are informed that the murdered man
was literally cut all to pieces—no less than
twenty-threewouuds having been inflicted
by the assassin, of which all but three
were mortal. — Chronicle & Sentinel, 20th.
—Horrible Accident.—A horrible acci
dent occurred about six o’clock yesterday
evening, at t’ue machiue shop of the
Albany and Gulf Road, in this city, by
which Mr. Thomas Gee.ron, a young mau
eighteen years of age. and by trade a
painter, was most horribly and parhaps
fatally injured. It seems that Mr. Gearou
was endeavoring to adjust a belt on the
main shaft running from the machine
shop to the paint shop, wheu by some
means he slipped, and was caught by the
belt aud whirled around with great vio
lence, making, it was thought, an hun
dred or more revolutions before the ma
chinery was stopped. Drs. Bullock and
Martin attended him, by whom it was
found necessary to amputate his right
arm, which was broken in two places In
addition, one thigh was broken aud many
other bruises received. His condit’on
was reported as very critical wheu our
reporter left. The scene at his widowed
mother’s house was heartrending, the in
jured young man beiug an only sou and
her only dependence.
[<Sfcit>. Advertiser, 20 th.
Survey of the Bainbridge, Cuth
bert and Columbus Railroad.—The
Corps of Engineers has been organized
under C. B. Harkie, Esq., Chief Engineer,
aud the preliminary line is now being run
out. Col. Crews accompanies the party to
represent the company in negotiating for
right of way, so as to facilitate their move
ments.
The corp3 left this city on Monday
last .—Bainhridge Argus, \Bth.
The Augusta Postoffice. —“ Reliable
Authority ” says that neither Bryant nor
Blodget will get the Postmastership at this
city. It is said that both the Mongrel and
and Carpet badger have so faithfully
shown up the character of each other to
the President that be has decided to throw
them both overboard and try anew deal.
“Let us have peace.”— Chronicle and Sen
tinel, 20th.
Georgia Watermelons.—Watermel
ons grown in the vicinity of the city made
their appearance iu our market yesterday.
They were a superior article, and sold
from fifty ceqjs to one dollar each.
[<S'ctu. Republican, 20th.
Death in a Railroad Car.— The Gulf
Railroad train that arrived here on Satur
day morning brought the body of a man
who had died in a car a short time before
reaching Savannah. The circumstances,
as we have been able to learn them, are as
follows : Mr. Milieu, a citizen of Valdosta,
who had for some time been a sufferer
from dropsy on the heart, and latterly
confined to his bed, started on Friday
evening, iu company with his wife, for
iu Gonuectieut. Being
and placed iu one of the baggage ears on
-a* bed. The journey was undertaken In
opposition to the wishes of his physicians,
who warned him that he was unable to
accomplish it.
The excitement of travel and the joyous
anticipation of being once more at his old
home and among his old friends, gave
him unwonted strength and vigor, so that
soon after passing Station No. 6, lie want
ed to sit up iu his bed. His wife assisted
him to raise himself to a sitting position,
and supported him in her arms, filled
vith joy and gratitude for the apparent
lenefit he had already received by the
change and travel. But her ill founded
j>y was of short duration, and ended in
unutterable woe and grief. Before the
train reached No. 5, she held in her arms
the'corpse of the only relative, almost the
>nly friend she had in the world —her
husband was dead
Upon arriving at Savannah, the body
was taken in charge by Messrs. Ferguson
& Dixon, who had it interred temporarily
in Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Savannah to Vicksburg. —On Satur
day evening a train of fourteen platfoim
( cars, loaded with railroad iron, left the
Central Railroad depot for Montgomery,
Ala. These rails are intended for the rail
road between Montgomery and Selma,
which, when completed, will give an un
broken line of track between the Atlantic
Ocean and the Mississippi River, with
terminal points at this city and Vicksburg.
This company are pushing their road with
all possible speed, and it will not be many
weeks before we shall have the pleasure of
cbronicaliug the driving of “the last
nail.”— Savannah News, 21 st.
PARTICULARS OF MB. RAYMONDS DEATH.
Mr. Raymond, accompanied by his
daughter, went to Greenwood Cemetery
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of
selecting a family lot. He intended to
have the body of one of his children, who
died a few weeks ago, removed from the
vault and reinterred. He returned to the
Times office about five o’clock, and re
marked to the associate editors that he
never felt better in his life, except a sad
feeling of fatigue, consequent upon his
long walk through the cemetery. He left
the office about six o’clock and proceeded
to his residence in West Ninth street,
where he remained until about niue to re
cover from the fatigue of the walk of the
evening. Mr. Raymond left his house
about niue, remarking to the members of
his family that he had an appointment to
attend a political meeting. He was seen
shortly after walking up Broadway, and
one or two friends who stood in Wallack’s
Theatre noticed his elastic step and gen
eral appearance of robust health. After
attending the meeting he returned to his
reeidpne« about 11 o’olook, aud as soon as
he had closed the door after him he fell
heavily upon the floor. None of the iu
mates of the house heard the fall, how
ever, having retired for the night.
About three o’clock this morning one
of 1/is children became restless, aud, on
becoming fully aroused remarked tbatsbe
h'ard some person breathing heavily,
flie persons in the house were awakened,
and on descending to tbe hall-way Mr.
Raymond was found extended on the floor
entirely unconscious, breathing heavily
and apparently with great difficulty. He
was carried to bis room and placed on a
bed. The physicians sent for arrived soon
after. They examined him and pro
nounced him beyond all medical aid.
They also declared tbe case to be appo
plexy. Mr. Raymond lingered in an un
conscious state till five o’clock this morn
ing, when he died surrounded by his fam
ily. He passed awav apparently with but
little pain.— N. Y. Post, 18th.
||Railroad Companies Must Provide
Seats for Passengers. —Railroad com
panies must fiud seats for every passenger
or pay damages. So, at least, tbe Supreme
Court of New \ork on Tuesday morning
decided, (on appeal from a lower Court,)
in the case of Walker vs. the Long Island
Railroad Company. Plaintiff’ sued to re
cover damages for negligence, that caused
the deatli of his father, whiletravelingon
the road about a year ago. Deceased was
standing on the platform, and was knock
ed off; therefore defendants contended
that, as it was in violation of the printed
rules hung up in the cars, plaintiff had no
claim. But, it being proved that deceased
had gone through all the cars, aud looked
iu vain for a seat, the Court gave judg
ment for plaintiff, affirming the decision
of the Court below.
Judge Orr, of South Carolina, has deci
ded that tbe homestead clause of the State
Constitution aud the act carrying it out
are not in conflict with the Federal Con
stitution, and that tbe SI,OOO exemption
is inclusive of the dwelling house and out
buildings.
Meares’ Bluff plantation, near Wil
mington, N. C., was sold a few days ago,
625 acres, with improvements, for $7,000,
cash.
HORRIBLE KU-KLUX OUTRAGE.
Allentiou, Greeley !
The Superior Court room iu this city
was, yesterday morning, the scene of
another of those horrible outrages upon
toil blocks which have recently so griev
ously vexed the pure and gentle soul of the
philosopher of the Tribune. The perpe
trators of the outrage we are about to relate
were all white men—men who have hith
erto been regarded as gentlemen of refine
ment and intelligence—fair types of that
Southern sentiment and feeling which has
so long and decidedly marked theeharac
terofwhat is sometimes rather contemptu
ously designated as Southern chivalry.
These men were twelve white citizeus of
Richmond county, selected fer their worth
and intelligence from the great body of the
citizens of the couuty, to serve as special
jurors for the June term of Richmond Su
perior Court.
The facts of the case, as we gathered
them from a leliable eye-witness, (the
writer of this notice,) are as follows:
The -representative of a large estate in
this couuty, a pure white, had caused to be
levied a distress warraut for rent upon the
property of a black mau named Phillip
Oliver for nine mouths’ rent due for the
useofa house and lot iu the city. The
evidence of the plaintiff showed that the
premises had been rented to the defend
ant at-the rate of fifteeu dollars per mouth
by the former owner of the property.
That the plaintiff purchased the house in
1866, and continued to lease or rent it to
the negro, but agreed, on account of the
hardness of the times, to reduce the rent
to twelve dollars aud a half per month.
This price was paid for a few months,
when the price was again, at the request
of defendant (the negro,) reduced to ten
dollars per month on account of the con
tinued “hardness of the times.”
Hometime iu the winter or early spring
of 1868 the former owner of defendant and
his wife, being reduced to great poverty
and also being a very old and infirm lady,
moved into the house occupied by the
negro, and while there set up some pre
tended claim of right to the premises. The
defendant and his wife took care of, sup
plied and clothed his old mistress while
she thus remained with him —purchased
delicacies for her —provided her comforta
ble bedding aud other clothing—nursed
aud waited upon her iu her sickness, and
performed all the ottices of kindness and
gratitude due, under the laws of society,
from children to their parents. For this
service he askeu to be allowed a deduction
on the rent claimed to be due. on the
ground that his old mistress claimed the
house to be her property, aud not the
property of the plaintiff.
Os cour.-e under the law and the charge
of the Court the jury could not allow the
claim set up by the negro. They were
bound to find a verdict for the plaintiff
for the whole amount of rent due, to-wit:
ninety dollars If they had stopped here,
all would have been well. If they had
gone no further, the Tribune would have
had no right to complain of further of
fences by the Southern whites upon the
rights of “loil” blacks. But the jury,
moved and seduced by feelings wnich
very rarely trouble Puritan hearts—insti
gated by the generous impulses of a noble
nature wholly uuappreciable by Puritan
morality—and actuated by a generous de
sire to encourage acts of kindness aud be
nevolence even iu the “ loil ” population
of the State, actually took advantage of
their position, as jurors, to raise, by a vol
untary subscription in their own body,
the sum of thirty-one dollars, being over
one-third of the amount due, as a contri
bution to the negro to aid him in paying
the verdict which, by their oaths, they
were bound under the law to find against
him.
But this was not all. The plaintiff im
mediately remitted one-third of the ver
dict—the counsel for the negro gave up his
fee for his services in his defence —all be
cause the case showed that a black mau
and woman had taken care of and support
ed their old mistress, when the hand of
misfortune and sickness had fallen hard
upon her.
When it is remembered that the jurors
were all white, the Judge white, the plain
tiff white and the defendant’s counsel
white, what a howl will Greeley raise over
thia, in puritan lands, unnearu of uuiiage.
The pi re and pious Forney will doubtless
clamoy more loudly now than ever for
military government here, and the honest
and spotless Beast Butler and Booby Bul
lock cry again to Gen. Terry for more
troops for the protection of loil men.
The following is a copy of the note of
the Jury, sent to the Court accompanying
the verdict:
We, the Jury, (Pannel No. 1) beg leave
to contribute the sum of thirty-one dollars
to the defendant in consequence of his
gratitude and kindness to his late mistress.
W. J. Owens, Foreman.
[Chronicle and Sentinel, 20th.
TROUBLE IN SPARTA.
One Man Killed, Another Mortally Wounded—The
Negro Representative 'lmplicated—The Sheriff
Pursuing the Parties—Titi/.cuH Aid ill the Pur
suit.
Anxious to present to the many readers
of the Chronicle & Sentinel a correct state
ment of all the facts connected with this
allair, we had an interview with a well
known gentlemau of this city, who came
down on the Georgia Railroad yesterday
evening, and from him obtained full par
ticulars of the occurrence. The geutle
man referred to was in the town of Sparta
when the affray took place, aud may be
considered the very best authority on the
subject. From our informant’s statement
it will be seen that politics had nothing
whatever to do with the matter, and if the
Bullock News Agency in Atlanta will
telegraph tbe facts as they occurred we
think that it will baffle even the Wash
ington Chronicle or the Tribune to torture
them into a political bearing.
It appears that on last Tuesday after
noon, Ames’ Circus was performing near
the depot of the Macon and Augusta Rail
road, iu the town of Sparta, and, of course,
a large crowd of negroes had come in from
the country to witness the exhibition.
Among others who were attracted to the
place was a negro man named Washing
ton Pierson, a notorious scoundrel and
desperado, who has for some time past
beeu known as the ringleader in nearly
every act of rascality committed in Han
cock couuty, and another negro named
Eli Barnes, the colored Representative in
the Legislature from that county, who was
expelled last year, who is also reported to
be a bold, turbulent inceni’iary, and a
constant stirer-up of strife between tbe
white aud colored races. Tbe circus ex
hibition opened at two o’clock in tbe af
teruoou, and the cauvat was soon filled
with a large crowd of both white people
and negroes. Two hours later, at four
o’clock in the afternoon, a crowd of ne
groes, iu which were both Barnes and
Pierson, assembled outside of the canvas,
when the latter got into an altercation
with two white men standing near. Some
words passed between the parties, wheu
Pierson pronounced one of the white men
to be a G—d d—d liar. At this the man
drew his pistol and fired, tbe ball pene
trating the heart of Pierson, killing him
instantly.
Upon seeing the fall of their leader the
negroes fired a volley into the two whites
but did no execution. A ball, however,
from one of their pistols struck a negro
named Marshall, who happened to be in
the way, in tbe abdomen, inflicting a mor
tal wound. The ball which struck Mar
shall was supposed to have come from a
pistol held in the hands of Eli Barnes, the
expelled negro Representative. Tbe white
men, as soon a Pierson fell, fled from
Sparta into the country, pursued by tbe
negroes. The pursuit had not been con
ducted a very great distance when, it is
said, the white men rallied and fired a
volley into the pursuers, which, though
no one was injured, caused the negroes, iu
turn, to take to their heels.
Soon after the negroes were killed, Mr.
Rogers, the Sheriff of the county, sum
moned a .posse comitatus of the citizens
and went out to arrest the supposed guilty
parties. This posse was still out when our
informant left Sparta, yesterday morning.
Our informant also states that “Rev.”
Wm. Henry Harrison, another expelled
negro member of the Legislature from
Hancock county, left Sparta yesterday for
Atlanta. Os course he was the bearer of
dispatches to Bullock, and we may look
out for another dispatch to the Radical
journals North and West. — Chronicle and
Sentinel, 19 th.
Tobacco. —The cultivation of tobacco
is increasing in Indiana. The weed is
raised on almost every farm in Dubois,
Orange, Green, Davies, Pike, Gibson and
Martin counties. In Huntington, Dubois
county, there are four large tobacco stem
meries, which shipped last year 700 hbds.
of tobacco, worth $350,000.
Will Have Plenty of Biscuits.— The
Covington Enterprise says the Newton
county wheat is now mostly harvested,
ar.d the yield has been generally above
an average. Indeed, some farmers think
it the best crop which has been gathered
in ten years.
TRIBUTE TO JUDGE K H. WOHRILL B\ THE
COLUMBUS BAR.
Preliminary Meeting*-Address if Judge M. J.
Crawford —The Resolution*—Reply of Judge
Morrill.
From Columbus Sun, 18th.
Court Housk, Columbus, Ga., June
16,1869 —lmmediately after the adjourn
ment of the Court at uoou to-day, the
members of the Bar were requested to re
main for the purpose of holding a meeting.
On motion of John Peabody, Esq., the
meeting was organized by electing Hon.
Martin J. Crawford Chairman, and John
Peabody Secretary.
The Chairman stated that the mt'iubers
of the Bar had beeu called together to take
such action as might be deemed appro
priate in view of the removal of His Hon
or Edmuud H. Worrill, as Judge of the
Supreme Court of the Chattahoochee Cir
cuit.
On motion of R. J. Moses, Esq., the
Chairinau appointed the following com
mittee, to report to a meeting t> be held
at the same hour and place the next day,
such actiou as might be appropriate to
the occasion, to-wit: R. J. Moses, Chair
man, H. L. Benning, Porter Ingram. J
M. Smith, B. A Tborntou and John Pea
body. The meeting then adjourned.
June 17, 1869.
The members of the Bar met pursuant
to adjournment, Hon. M. J. Crawford in
the Chair.
Mr. Moses, as Chairman of the Commit
tee appointed at the last former meeting,
reported a series of resolutions, which
were, on motion of J. N. Ramsey, Esq.,
unanimously adopted.
On motion of R. J. Moses, Esq., it was
resolved that the resolutions be reported
to the Court upon its meeting in the
afternoon.
On motion of B. A. Thornton, the Sec
retary was required to furnish to the city
papers copies of the proceedings and reso
lutions. Tae meeting then adjourned.
M. J. Crawford, Chairman.
John Peabody, Secretary.
Shortly after the Court assembled last
afteruoou, the Grand Jury came from
their rooms, and seating themselves on
the right of the Judge, announced they
were ready with the General Present
ments. The petty juries were seated on
the left. All the seats within the bar
were filled by the lawyers of Columbus.
All the members of the Bar rose, when
Judge M. J. Crawford from his place de
livered the following:
address to judge worrill :
May it Please Your Honor : On yester
day, information reached us, that with
the expiration of the present month, your
duties as Judge of the Superior Courts of
the Chattahoochee Circuit, would cease.
Although this was not wholly unexpect
ed, yet it brought wish ita pang of sorrow
which we were not altogether prepaied to
meet. On the eveniug of the 14th of No
vember, 1854, the Sheriff of an adjoining
couuty adjourned the Court by my order,
aud on the morning of tbelSth, be opened
it by yours. Since that time, now nearly
fifteeu years, the scales ol justice have
been held in your hands, how well and
evenly balanced they have beeu, let the
resolutions of the Columbus Bar attest.
One of the most melancholy reflections
connected with that event, js that so many
of the bright names which then adorned
our profession, are no more entered upon
our Records. Some of them full of hon
ors and of years have passed to their re
ward. But many of them in the very
spring-time of their usefulness aud man
hood, have given up their lives iu defence
of their homes and constitutional liberty.
When the ermine fell upon you, sir, the
laws which you administer were those of
a free, sovereign and independent State,
enacted by the people thereof. To-day
you administer such as are permitted by
the conqueror. You are the last of the
Judges of the old regime. The others
have loog siuce passed under the axe of
the executioner ; and it would be strange
if you were permitted to linger on the
stage after your part is played. But the
wisdom of the situation is to act on the
principle that
“A show of liberty,
Wheu we have lost the substance, is best kept
By seeming not to understand those faults
Which we want the power to mend.”
It has been made n\y pleasing duly, sir,
by my Lut thren of the Bar, to tender you
their kindest wishes, and to express their
earnest desire that your future may he as
prosperous and happy as your past has
beeu honorable and satisfactory. But as
the resolutions are more touching and ex
piessive than anything which 1 could say,
I proceed to read them as directed.
He then read the following:
RESOLUTIONS OF THE COLUMBUS BAR.
At a meetNig of the members of the
Columbus Bar, the undersigned having
been appointed a committee to report to
an adjourned meeting what action they
could most appropriately take to manifest
their high appreciation of the judicial and
private character of the Honorable Ed
mund H. Worrill, who is about to close
an honorable, able and useful administra
tion of more than fourteen years as Judge
of the Chattahoochee Circuit, have the
honor to report for your consideratiou the
following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That as members of the
Columbus Bar, while we are pained at the
announcement made by the Executive,
that the judicial duties of the Honorable
Edmuud H. Worrill, will cease after the
Ist day of July next, w e will aid his suc
cessor by all the means iu our power to
emulate the honorable example of his pre
decessor, trusting that at the close of his
career we may be able to say to him, as
we now do to the present encumbent,
“well done, thou good and faithful public
servant.”
2d. Resolved. That to divest the Honor
able Edmund H. Worrill of the insignia
of office is not to deprive him of his well
earned honors during an arduous and
trying administration, in which lie lias
satisfied the Bar and the people that the
oppressor’s wrong is powerless when the
Judge is upright. Under his administra
tion all have been equal before the law ;
there lias been no distinction as to race,
color or condition ; justice Las been meted
out alike to the rich and the poor, the
humble and the strong, without fear,
favor or affection.
3d. Resolved, That the Honorable Ed
mund H. Worrill entered upou iiis judi
cial functions almost a stranger to tbe
people of Muscogee county. He retires
from the Bench which he has adorned
familiar to all, anil carries with him the
regrets and good wishes of the entire com
munity.
4th. Resolved, That the Hon. Martin J.
Crawford, Chairman of the meetiug, be re
quested to present these resolutions to tbe
Honorable Edmund H. Worrill, and ex
press to him our earnest wishes that suc
cess may attend his efforts in whatever
sphere he may move, aud to assure him
that as our most pleasurable recollections
iu the past will be found in a recurrence
to our professional intercourse during his
official term, so in the future our siucerest
hopes, will be gratified in learning of his
health, success and general prosperity ;
and that he further state that it is the unan
imous desire of the Bar that a copy of
these resolutions shall be spread upou the
minutes of the Court.
Respectfully submitted by
R. J. Moses,
Henry L. Benning,
Porter Ingram,
J. Milton Smith,
Beverly A. Thornton,
John Peabody,
Committee.
REMARKS OF JUDGE WORRILL.
Judge Worrill, with much feeling, ad
dressed the members of tbe Bar as follows:
~Gentlemen— You can very well under
stand, gentlemen, that my emotions upon
this occasion are so deep and heartfelt that
the simple language at my command
would be totally inadequate to the expres
sion of my feelings. The evidences of
public confidence which I have so often
received at the hands of the people, have
ever given me the siucerest satisfaction ;
not for the office which they have so often
bestowed upon me, but because I have re
garded each re-election as a renewed ap
probation of my judicial course—and this
feeling is, if possible, intensified by this
manifestation of your confidence, at a
time when I have no longer the power to
serve you. It gives me the assurance that
the feelings of kindness, l may say affec
tion, which I feel to the Bar of the Chat
tahooche Circuit, is reciprocated by them,
and that I may carry into my retirement
the recollections of their courtesy and
friendship exhibited to me throughout my
judicial career, and culminating in those
partial and flattering resolutions.
My years on earth are nearly run, but as
the shadows of death approach my path,
the bright recollections of this cherished
hour will be the last that will linger on
my fading memory.
I do not know that I hive ever had an
unkind feeling to a single member of the
Bar ; but if perchance I have at any time
been misunderstood, allow me to say upon
this occasion, that I feel that from you I
have no wrongs to forgive, and towards
you I have no feeling but such as springs
from affection, friendship, and a grateful
recollection of your uniform kindness and
courtesy.
MASONIC.
MASONIC INSURANCE.
We egret to learn that our Company
in its ;fforts to spread abroad its benefits
is misrepresented by the agents of several
Stock aud Mutual Life Insurance Com
paniei. We never say a word against
them being always glad to hear of their
succws. We can only say our rates of in.
suraice are about one-half of theirs
takiig their tables as a guide. Safe, sol'
vent and reliable insurance companies’
ratesare all about the same. At 30 years
of age, on SIOOO, $23 00.; 40 years, $32 00;
oOyutrs, $46 00—annual paymeuts. These
terms are liberal aud fair.
W» admit our members (without a med.
ical txamiuation) between the age of2l
and <0 years, who are in the enjoy meut of
a sufficient degree of bodily health—
necewuiry to make a support for themselves
and ;heir families—in Class A, 5000 mem
bers—entrance fee S2O. Ciass B, 4000
members; C, 3000; D, 2000; E, lOoo—en
trance fee to each $6, or in all the classes
$44 On the death of a member in any
class $1 10 100 is assessed on the members
in theclass in which a brother dies, for the
benefit of his widow and dependent chil
dren ; if none of these, his mother aud
sisters. From the 17th of April, 1567, to
June Ist, 1869, 61 of our brethren have
died. For their families and their heirs
the institution has a-sessed its member
ship $219,429 00. The members of the
company from its organizatiou have paid
$75 admission and mortuary fess; those
who joined during the last twelve months
have paid from S4O to S6O. It may be rea
sonably calculated that the mortuary fees,
annually, iu Class A, will be abouts 80.
Iu this ciass there are many members be
tween the ages of 50 aud 60. The average
age of the deaths of the 63 who have died,
may be set down at about 44. We made
a mistake* iu the last weekly report in our
figures, which we now correct. It will lie
seen by tbe reader of this article that our
rates of insurance are about as we say
above one half of those of the comjKtnie*
we mention, ami we hope their agents will
bear this iu mind, and, at least, say noth
ing about it. It
SECRET SOCIETIES
Asa matter of curiosity, we publish the
following from the proceedings oftlieGeu
eral Assembly of ihe Uuited Presbyterian
Church of America held at Pittsburg, l’a.
Os course we would not expect auytliing
better from a body composed so largely of
fanatics. This is not the Presbyterian
Church proper, such as we have in this
country, aud many flf whose ministers are
worthy members of both the orders as
sailed iu the fanatical assembly first
named, if the principles of Free Masonry
were well understood by* the blind zealots
of the North, aud the obligations which
enjoin the duty of man to his brother mau
were recognized by them, we should now
he having the peace which we so much de
sire, and which those pretended evangUists
of the gospel of “ peace, good will toward
men,” relentlessly deny us.
Rev J. C. Bigham, from the Committee
of last Assembly on (Secret Societies, made
a report. The following resolutions are
appended:
1. That ibis Assembly regard adhe
rence to the society of Free Masons, or to
that of Odd Fellows, as inconsistent with
membership :n good standing in the IT. I*.
Cbu rch.
2. That all our sessions be, aud hereby
are enjoined to carry out,hy the faitlifulex
ercise <>t discipline, the principle set forth
in the fifteenth article,as interpreted iu the
foregoing resolution.
3. That this Assembly do most earn
estly ami affectionately exhort all tbe
members of this church to abstain from
connecting themselves with any secret
association, beiieViug that they are unnec
essary,aud are calculated to act injuriously
on the interests of society, and they do es
pecially urge file ministers of this church
to use their influence to keep our members
from an incorporation with them,
Un the first resolution, Rev. N.C. MclJill
spoke againt tiie distinction here drawn
between Free Masons and Odd Fellows
and other secret associations. He believed
that Good Templars are as had as Masons.
If the fifteenth article condemns any se
cret association, it condemns all. lie did
not believe in applying the rule to some
associations, ami not to others.
The speaker objected further to the res
olution, because he was opposed to ex
cluding a man from tlie churcli because of
his connection with any secret association.
He believed,further, that this resolution
is not calculated to accomplish good, but
evil, in the church. It will either stir up
strife, or be disregarded. He referred to
the actu 1 state of affairs in this respect iu
our congregations in the cities, and other
prominent places, claiming that therearu
many members of secret orders in them.
Rev. J. C. Bigham argued that the for
mer speaker had placed himself indirect
opposition to the Testimony of the Church
which tiiis resolution was meant to main
tain. He claimed that in Lev. v. 4, we
have the XVth Article of the Testimony
in almost as many words.
The speaker referred to the principles
of these secret associations. Masonry
claims to he a religion—is a religion-a
false religion. It claims to have received
a fuller revelation than the Bible; and
also claims the privilege of modifying and
expurgating the Hcriptures. Tbe speaker
referred at length to their ritual, to show
that the Society is anti-Christiau. The
Odd Fellows are the same. The speaker
held that no such persons had a right in
the Church
Rev. J as. Crowe thought the article on
secret societies should be left just as tbe
article on communion was by the last As
sembly—a matter on which sessionsshould
have made some discretion—a motion was
made to refer these resolutions to a select
committee, to report to-morrow morning.
Rev. J. T. McClure related the history
of his conversion on this subject. I here
was no Christ, no redemption in Ma
sonry.
Mr. Dawson spoke against the reference.
The question we have to discuss is not
h<>w men do, hut what is the will of Cod
what is right ?
Rev. J. W. McNary had examined Ma
sonry, and the more he knew of it the
more he despised it. He objected t°
literature and ritual, aud referred to the
ohjeetioua! fealure- of the sarue.
Adjourned to meet at 7. p. >L, the sub
ject now pending to be taken up aU ;
reading the minutes
EVENING SFBBION.
The Ist resolution of the
Committee on Secret Societies was take *
*Rev. J. W. McNary continued his re
marks in favor of the resolution.
Rev. D.B. Littell thought nothingeou.u
be gained by this discussion. ’lns As
sembly cannot modify any law of
Church. The law on this subject is
tiuct. If we vote these resolutions down.
shall we not change thelaw of tbeCburc -
The speaker said farther that, aliuos
the Assembly should change the |av J ,
the Testimony, there remains the in
commandment which cannot be 0
looked nor voted down. . ..
Kev. Henry Wallace spoke against ir
resolution. He was opposed to . efecre .
sociations. They are evil iu their ten
cies. They are un-Christian in w*
character. But tbe speaker did not rcg»
the resolution the best weapon with
to fight. ... . rfi .
Mr. H. Harrison was in favor of
olution. He had early learned to re
the name of Jehovah, and the oaths
cret orders appalled him. . , e
The only thiug like secret societies a
had found in the Bible was a baud J
who had bound themselves with an
to slay Paul. They hid iigreased ««
that day. There were fifty thousau
Morgan was killed.
A motion to lay the resoluti >
table was lost. ..-^iaiions
Dr. Patterson held that these ass
are invading all the raniihcauo t |, e
ety, not only, but they are i* d DOl g 0 nly
very sanctuary of God. . ine J “ . The
anti-Christiau, but anti-republi •
diabolical character of Masonry , D0
placed beyond all doubt, and n
further oroof. ma de
He deplored the developments
here to-day concerning the *ta
churches, thronged by Masons ..fljet,
Fellows. Let this nerve us lor tli oU
not discourage us ; let us n f orc ing
this line. He was in favor of earn , £
discipline. Nothing could be 1‘ •, t j,e
liev. G. D. Matthews *»* iJW
XVth Article, and he had acted