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A few Facts mid Statistics Con
nected with the Connty Court of
Brooks County.
whi-iien fob the quitu vn bepobteb.
]Mh. Editor: —As the County Court
of Brooks county has very recently
completed its first, term (4 years), a
carefully prepared, and authentic
statement of the results of its opera
tion, (luring that time, may bo of in
terest to the public. They are here
with presented:
Before the organization of the
County Court, all classes of criminal
cases were tried by the Superior
Court. The County Court lias juris
diction under certain restrictions; to
try misdemeanors when true bills are
found by Grand Juries for this class
|of cases, the Judge of the Superior
I Court, if he thinks proper so to do,
; turns them down by order upon the
; minutes of his Court, to the county
Judge foi trial. What does it, cost to
try a misdemeanor in the Superior
! Court? It would be fair to estimate
that the Superior Court could not try
more than four of these eases in a day.
In the first lilace the jury hour in the
Superior Court is usually 9 or half
past nine o’clock in the morning.
Jurors with their small pay, cannot
afford to lose their time in the public
service, and pay tavern bills too, there
fore, time must be allowed them to
go home iu the evening and to return
in the morning.
A defendant in a case of misde
meanor has so many challenges al
lowed by the Statute, out of the orig
inal pannel of twenty-four. Some
times, and indeed often, questions
arise as to the competency of jurors,
even in cases of misdemeanor, such
as relationship, etc., then the usual
routine is, for the Solicitor General,
after he swears the jury, to read to
them the bill of indictment, the issues
having been previously made, up be
tween the State and the defendant,
he then explains to the jury the na
ture of the case, and states to them
what he expects to prove; then he
swears the States’ witnesses, examins
them in chief, then turns them over
to defendant's counsel for cross-exam
ination ; questions often arising in the
progress of a case as to tlie competen
cy of a witness or the relianey of tes
timony (to., all consuming time.
When lie closes on the part of the
State, defendant’s counsel opens his
side of the case and states to the jury
what ho expects to prove, h<? then
swears his witnesses, examins them in
chief and turns them over to the State
for cross-examination. Alter the ev
idence is closed on both sides, then
the argument of the counsel and the
charge of the Judge, then the jury re
tires to make up their verdict, and
often consumes an hour and some
times longer. No other case can lie
tried until they return, as the defend
ant has a right to a full pannel from
which to strike. It will be seen, mak
ing an allowance for some cases, that
are disposed of by pleas of guilty, that
it is a fair calculation to say that the
Superior Court could not try more
than four of these cases in a day.
How much does it cost to run a Supe
rior Court one day ? With the pres
ent per (linn of jurors, and it is none
too much, it costs $12.1.00 a day, or
$14.00 an hour, estimating running
time at nine hours per day. It costs
then $125.00 of the peoples money to
try four of these cases. The County
Court, during tlra four years of its
first term, has tried one hundred and
sixty-two misdemeanors, deduct thir
ty cases from this number for pleas of
i juiltij , and we have one hundred and
thirty-two cases left. Ho eacli case of
misdemeanor tried in the Superior
Court costs $81.25, One hundred and
thirty-two cases would cost the county
$1125.00, which amount liasbeen sav
ed in actual dollars aiul cents by the
County Court iu four years.
AS TO JAIL FEES.
Beforo the County Court was or
ganized, after the adjournment of a
Superior Court, bench warrants were
issued upon every bill of indictment,
found at that term of tho Court, and
placed in the hands of the Sheriff, to
arrest the defendants, and it has hap
pened several times since the County
Court has been in existence, that as
many as thirty true bills has been
turned down for trial before the
county Judge. With these bench
warrats it was tho duty of tho Sheriff
to arrest the defendants as rapidly as
possible, fearing thoy might hear of
them and escape. This class of offen
ders are seldom able to give bond,
consequently, when arrested they are
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1876.
lodged in jail, there to remain 5,4, or
3 months, ns the case might be, until
tho next sitting of tho Superior Court
at an expense of $15.00 a month to
the county for diet, and GO cents jail
foe for each prisoner that goes to tho
jail and the same fee when ho comes
out.
Before tho Superior Court meets
the jail is usually full. Then the
county has tho Doctor’s bills to pay
if they need medical attention, which
is more or less tho case where so many
prisoners are closely confined for such
a length of time. So wo may safely
say that the County Court, by trying
all these cases of misdemeanor at once
or either acquitting the defendants:
or if he is convicted, sending him off
at once, and thus keeping the jail
clean, has saved the county at least—
compared to former years—ssoo a
yenr, or S2OOO in the four years of its
existence. Add this amount then to
the saving iu trials of misdemeanor,
and wo have $0125. Then the County
Court has paid into the county treas
ury in actual cash during the four
$1742, cost and lines, as per county
Treasurer’s receipts now on file in the J
proper office, add this amount to tho .
actual saving in the trial of criminal
cases and in jail fees, and we have the
grand total of $7807 that the County
Court has made and saved for Brooks
county in four years.
FORMER AND PRESENT CREDIT AXD INDEBT
EDNESS OF BIiOOKS COUNTY.
When the County Court was organ
ized Brooks county owed $9500 with
no assets. Her credit was alarming
ly depreciated, to-day her paper is
I nearly at par, and this fall with a low
connty tax she will have money
enough, without something unfore
seen turns up, to pay tho current ex
penses of the present year and to pay
the little remnant of her old debt and
have a surplus left iu her treasury.
She has 19 bridges to keep, and they
are nearly all new and in complete
repair, her roads are good and her
public buildings will not' need an ex
penditure of any amount in years to
come. Her county taxes have never
been as high as one hundred per cent
on the State tax but one year since
the County Court was organized.
The following table shows her taxes
for county purposes during the last
i four years: Iu 1872, 100 per cent;
in 1878, 50 per cent; in 1874, 85 per
cent; in 1575, 75 percent; iu 1870,
05 per cent.
There is one more fact worthy of
notice. By reference to the Comp
troller General’s annual report, it will
be found iu the table of county taxes,
that out of 130 counties in the Sr,ate,
there are only 30 counties in which
the county tax is as low as it is iu
Brooks county.
Present financial condition of
Brooks county:
Pauper manuscript and county order out on
the 25th Oct., 187(5 $ 211 0U
Jury certificates and continent ex
penses May Nup. Court 71 500 00
Printed county orders out
October 25th, INTO 1025 00
Old debt with int'rstdue thereon. 110000
53791 00
Contba.
Amo. charged against Tax collector
tor for tax of 1071 (nett) SSBOO 00
Assets in hands county treas
urer October 25th, 1871 51173
SO3ll 75
BItOOKS.
In the Anns of liis Black Allies.
The Charleston Journa' of Commerce.
says:
At the close of General Hampton’s
speech yesterday afternoon, at,
Graiiiteville, five or Hix colored Demo
crats robed in red flannel shirts, took
him bodily in their arms and placed
him in his carriage. General Harnton
is meeting witli great success among
them.
In truth, the negroes know the
Genera], to be a chivalrous, reliable
gentleman, and in former days and
an excellent and humane master.
They believe what be tells them now,
and have wit enough to note the con
trast between such a man and thp
miserable creatures who rob, and still
would seek to lead them.
Edward Nowell, a colored speaker
testiflod at another meeting, that “he
had resided in Georgia for the past
two years, and could testify that the
colored people of Georgia wore not
only as free as their race in South
Carolina, but had one hundred times
more privileges of amassing a com
petency for themselvss.”
This sort of talk sots the average
darkey to thinking, and no wonder
that so many of the more intelligent
of them are deserting the Radicals,
and confiding once more in their best
and truest friends, the old slavehold
ers ii'id owners of the so l.
Grant's Proelamaton.
Judge Black Pronounces it the Most
Lawless Outrage uu Record.
[Washington special to tho Now York Smi.[
Some of tho newspapers of this
morning contained a statement that
an informal meeting of Democrats
was held last night at the Ebbitt
House, Judge Black, of Pennsylvania,
being the principal speaker; that tho
President’s South Carolina proclama
tion was discussed and the conclusion
reached that General Hampton ought
to retire from thl r mtcst for Govern
or, let Grant cany the State for
J Hayes and get tho Presidential vote
! thrown out by tho Housoof Represen
tatives, and that it was determined to
i telegraph ('• n—i- J tampton to that
[ effect. This par igraph produced
i much talk and some excitement. I
j called on Judge Black to-night to as
certain what truth, if any, there was
in it. He answered with an emphat- j
ie denial of the whole story. There
was no mooting of any kind, formal,
or informal, lie had expressed no
opinion of that kind o lie did not be
lievo that Gen. ought t.>
withdraw, and tier what he
(Judge Black) he would
not thrust his advice on Gen. Hump
tor, nor join with others iu offering
him any counsel whatever about the
canvas. “That gentleman,” said lie,
“is as thoror ;hly q edified as any'
man in America to decide whatshoul I
be done in the emergency which hois
called to meet. His blood and judge
mo t, are so well commingled that his ■
■ eterminations are sure to be right
and his acts sufficient. I think he '•
will beat Grant Patterson, Chamber
lain, and all ! :a carpet-bag thieves
that back them.” ,
Reporter—What do you think of
Gen. Grant’s conduct in this busi-
ness ?
Judge B.—lt is the. most lawless
outrage on record. It is forbidden
by the express words of the Constitu
tion, and by its whole spirit. Even if
it wore the exeic’ of legal power, it
is a cruelty so lr e that no civilized
despot wo Id be guilty of it.
Repor'er—But is there no defence I
or excuse or it ?
5 Ige B. —Norn; whatever. Igno- i
ra < i would be no exc o. But the
pp ties engaged in pushing this affair j
on a e not ignorant of the law. Some
persons who jnstifinji the crimes oi'j
the Administratin'* in Louisiana
might possibly believe this also to I
bo right. Sheridan- 4-.- in. Janee, may 1
be stupid enough to think that any
thing iu lawful which promises a j
chance of shedding the b!o xlofDem- j
ocrats. Mr. Stoughton, of New York,!
will probably attempt to vindicate it.
He is a good pa -nt lawyer and very
honest man, but ho knows nothing of.
the Constitution except that it puts
foreign missions iu t so gift of the
President. John Patterson knows it
is all wrong; so does Cki neroll; so i
dc 3s Grant. They laugh in their'
sleeves at the flatterers who tell them j
they can legally use the military
force of the Union, or the militia oi
other States, for tho purpose of con
trol 1 tug elections in- South Carolina, j
They know also, as a matter of fact,
that there is no disturbance there,
and will be none except what they |
make themselves.
Which Shall it be, tlie Bayonet or
the Ballot
This is the question thi.it is to be set
tled on the 7th of Novemder. It
glares and gleams iu the face of all
Americans, and its solution must de
side the fate of the Republic and free
institutions. Hayes and the bayonet!
Tildeu and the ballot! That this is
the issue presented by Grant’s inva
sion of South Carolina, no sensible
man will doubt—no honest man will
hesitate to be’ieve.
Eleven years after the rebelion
Grant declares war against citizens
fo a peaceful State, and orders the
whole of the army at the eastward to
South Carolina. It is a time of pro
found peace, and the South are by
word and act showing their adhesion
to the Union. Yet, says the Hun, be
cause citizens of a, plundered State
ill ite to redeem themselves, IhoFeder
at military power is used in the effort
to defeat their right to govern their
local affairs iu the way that seems to
them best under the law and the con
stitution. While General Ilamtou is
solemly promising every citizen of
South Carolina, white and black, iu
case of his election as their Governor,
fill! and equal protection in all their
i ighta ai:d privilages, and is laboring
to heal the race animosities that have
beed fomented, Chamberlain, falsely
representing the State to be in a con
dition of insurrection, asks for United
States troops to aid him in again
attaining tho Governorship. Grant
sends the bayonets, striping the whole
Atlantic seaboard of soldiers to accom
plish this object. Will not the people
of the North at, the ballot box next
month resent this military interferron
ce in South Carolina ? Are they pre
pared to see martial law resorted to
in every 7 Presidential election? If they
do not now rebuke this prostitution of
Federal power, they may find it hard
ever again to check its exercise or pre
vent the use of troops at elections
from becoming the rulein all national
contests.— Commonwealth.
Our private advices satisfy ns that
Tildeu stands uneven chance for car
rying Pennsylvania and Illinois, and
that his prospects are fair iu Michi
gan and New Hampshire.
Whom (lie ((oils Would Destroy
They First Make Had.
Alluding to tho large concentration
I of United States troops in South Caro-
I lina for the purpose of controlling the
Presidential election in this State, the
J Norfolk Virginian expresses its sur
prise that the blind fanatics that send
II hem cannot see that every soldier
I sent to intimidate the whites of that
down-trodden State, makes ten Dem
ocratic voters among the freeman of
tho North. If anything has been
' wanting to insure tho triumph of
Democracy in the State of Now York,
i New Jersey, Connecticut and Califor
j nia, Grant and his minions have sup
plied it by this crowning act of inso
! lence. The ten thousand Democrats
, in procession in Philadelphia Tuesday
night, was a fitting answer to the
President’s proclamation, and in that
i procession were hundreds who but a
week before were wearing the uniform
of Hayes and Wheeler. In t heir mad
ness it would seem that tho powers at
Washington have lost all discretion,
and have been driven to tho despera
tion of dispair.
The action of the administration in
authorizing tho military occupation
of a State of tho Union on tho eve of
an inportant election, in utter viola
tion of law and wtihont the shadow
of a respectable pretext, has thorough
ly aroused not only the indigation
but the apprehensions of tho friends
of constitutional goverment, and is
doing more to reconcile party dissen
sions and unite the people in one j
common cause than all the arguments
of the political leaders and the appeals
of the press since Ihe commencement
of the canvass. The New York Hun, !
an independent journal of immense
influence, thus appeals to the people j
of the Umpire State of tho Union to I
rebuke this high-handed outrage up- j
on the freedom of the‘ballot box:
“Freemen of the North ! The army
of the United States is called out, by
order of the President, to prevent the
free choice of your Southern brethren
in the election of President and Vice
President, about to take place. Thanks
be to God you are yet free, and can
vote as you choose. Will you not vote j
in a way to perpetuate your own j
freedom, and to liberate your brethren j
in the South ?
“Whoever kecks up divisions in the |
party of freedom now is lacking in |
patriotism. ’Whoever does aught to
foist upon the party of freedom, even j
in the smallest locality, a candidate
nidi:, weak or unuopniar, is lacking iu |
patriotism: T>> vinv of the tremendous ;
responsibility which lias been forced j
upon us by tho action of tho Federal >
authorities, we appeal to the highest i
sentiment of man-hood in the heart of j
every freeman, to his love of country, !
to let the sound of jarring and discord
be hushed, and to unite, as one man, j
in promoting the strength of the j
Deinoiratic party, and in restoring
permanent peace and prosperity to the I
land.
“A bitter reckoning with the people I
must await those who foster dissen- I
sions under circumstances such as
exist to-day.
“For the sake of tho country let us j
have union now, and one combined
effort till victory awards us on the
evening of election day.”
A CM ICE OF DEATHS.
During the old days of warlike
clanship in the highlands of Soot-laud
an humble retainer, being captured
by a hostile sept, was sentenced by
the chief to be hanged. On being
permitted as a very great favor, to se
lect the style of tree from which he
should prefer to swing, he very na
tively chose a grozer’s (goose-berry)
bush. The humor of the choice so ap
pealed to tho chiefta.n’s loveof a joke
that lie permitted the dhumi-wassal
to depart wltu his neck iu a healthy
condition. It is not the custom of the
world now-days to permit a condemn
ed criminal to choose either the style
of instrument by which ho shall be
put out of pain, or any particular va
riety thereof. In the British Isles he
is hanged iu public; iu the United j
States m private. In France bis head j
is artistically severed from his body
by means of the guillotine; in the ma- j
jority of the German States lie is bo- j
headed.
In the case of John D. Lee, convict
ed and sentenced to death for com- j
plicity in the Mountain Meadow Mas
sacreo, the law of Utah has permitted j
him to choose either of three methods j
of execution -hanging, beheading, or !
the bullet. He has chosen the last.-
Inter Ocean.
Negro Masons.
Columbus, O-, October 18. —In the
Masonic Grand Lodge to-day a very i
earnest discussion was had or. the j
point of order relative to the recogni
tion of the Colored Masonic, Grand
Lodge of Ohio. The question of their j
recognition was presented last year
and over until this session. To-day j
the Committee ail Jurisprudence re-!
ported the matter back with a roso- j
iution recommending the recognition
of th® Colored Grand Lodge. The j
point of order was then made that
under the constitution of tho Grand i
Lodge those resolutions were not, in
order, except as an amendment to
the constitution itself. The Grand
Master overruled the point of order.
An appeal was taken from this decis
ion and was sustained by the Grand
Lodge, there being about 75 majority
in favor of the oppoal. Tho present
Grand Officers were all re-elected.
Columbus was chosen as the p'ace for
the next meeting.
Had no Fun in Him.
One of tho members of tho Metho
dist Conference, recently held here,
was out for a walk at an early hour
•me morning, and while on Howard
street he encountered a strapping big
fellow who was drawing a wagon to
tho blacksmith shop. “Catch hold
; here and help me down to tho shop
I with this wagon and I'll buy the whis
! kv !” called the big fellow.
“I never drink,” solcndy replied the
| good man.
| “Well, you can take a cigar.”
“I never suioke.”
The man dropped tho wagon
tongue, looked hard at the mealier,
'and asked:
“Don’tyou chew?”
‘‘No sir,” was the decided reply.
"You must get mighty lonesome,”
mused the teamster.
“I guess I'm all right—l feel first
; rate.”
“I’ll bet you even that I can lay you
jon your hack,” remarked the team
ster. “Come now, let’s warm ui> a
little.”
“I never bet.”
“Well’ let’s take each other down
for fun, then. Yon aro as big as I
am. and I’ll give you the under hold.”
“I never have fuu,” solemnly an
swered the member.
“Well, I’m going to tackle you any
way. Here we go.”
The teamster slid up and endeavor- j
cd to get a neck hold, but he had only
just commenced to fool about when j
lio was lifted clean off the grass and I
slammed against a tree-box with
such force that ho gasped half a doz- j
on times before lie could get bis;
breath.
“Now, yon keep away from me!"
exclaimed the minister, picked up his
cane.
“Bust me if I don’t!” replied, the !
teamster, ns ho edged off’. “What’s j
the use iu lying and saying that you ;
didn’t have any fuu in you when
you’re chuck full of it! Blame it! you
wanted to break my back,didn’t you? ” j
—Detroit Free Frees.
Shadows of Comiiis Emits.
The telegraph informes ns that
Governor Chamberlain has made a
demand upon the “Greinan Fusileers”
of Charleston for the surrender of
their arms, and an inquiry as to
whether they had disbanded their
organization, as commanded in his
proclamation. Last May the Fusil
eers borrowed some rifles from the
Suite, and the order directs them to
return the arm > to the Chief of Police
of ( ..ar'eston. One year ago, when
tho Fusile . celebrated there one
hundredth anniversaty, Governor
Chamberlain was invited to be pres
ent and respond to tire regular toast,
“The !St,ate of South Carotins.” lie
wrote a letter expressing deep regret
at his inability to attend, for lie
“coveted the honor of helping to open
tho series of centennial celebrations
which South Carolina will institute
in memory of her revolutionary heroes
and history,” and now tho an ant
coward and hypocrite seeks to debase
and degrade before his negro advisers
and tools that very history and those
heroes. This company ordered to
disband was organized in 1775. Its
history is connected with the history
of the republic, and its roster contains
the names of those very heroes that
the canting hypocrit coveted the
honor of eulogizing one year ago.
The German eitizans throughout
this whole country will stick a pin
here, and remember, when they vote
in November, that Chamberlain is
but the reflex of lying Radicalism
everywhere.- -Macon Telegraph.
How the Money and the Land Go.
—Such statistics as these are sbight
ly suggestive:
During Grant’s administration the
defalcations by postmasters amount
to $373,371; by United States Mar
shals, $249,2(50; by sundry public offi
cers not Specified, $2(55,713; by naval
officers, $1523,508; by army officers,
S7B .553; bv collectors of internal
revenue, $2,312,544. Total number of
defaulters, (549. Total amount of de
falcations, $5,500,5C !.
The total number of acres of pub
lic land given away by Republican
Congresses is 296,000,000 —or 294,758
square miles. The united area of
Mail ?, New Hampshire, Vermon,
Mas chusetts, Rhode Island, New
York, Now Jersey, Connecticut, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio
and Indiana is only 25(5,200 square
miles.
If the people like this liberal dis
tribution of their cash and real es
tate, they will vote tho Republican
ticket next month. If they want to
stop the wholesale plunder, they will
vote for Tilden and reform.
Sympathy fop. South Carolina. —A
Washington special says: “It is sug
gested by leading Democrats here
that the Chairman of tho National
Democratic Committee institute with
out delay preparations for mass meet
ings in all the principal cities of the
United States to tako action on the
South Carolina outrage. It is thought
that tho moral effect of the people, in
their sovereign capacity, protesting
against the horrible proceedings now
going on in South Carolina will be
much heightened if tho meetings
should all be held on the same night.
It is to be hoped the matter will re
ceive. the attention of the committees
I
without del ly.
A Wonn About Maiiuiaok.— A phy
sician writes the following sensible
advice: My profession has thrown
lue among women of all classes, and
my experience teaches man that God
never gave man a greater proof of
his love than to place women here
with him. My advice: Go propose
to the most sensible girl you know.
If she says yes, tell her how much
I your iucotre is, from what source de
rived, and tell her you will divide the
last ■hilling with her, and love her
with all your heart in tho bargain.
And then keep your promise. My
: word for it, she will live within your
income, and to your last hour you
will re;: ret that you didn’t marry
sooner. Gentlemen, don't worry
! about female extravagance and femi
| nine untruth. Just you bo true to
her, love her sincerely and throw it
|up to her frequently, aiul a more
1 fond, faithful slave you will never
: meet anywhere. You won't deserve
her, I know, but stie will never know
it. Now throw aside pridi and sel
fishness, and see what will come of
it.
Since the imiiana and Ohio elec
' tious, things arc becoming very shaky
in Washington. Radical enthusiasm
has withered like a tobacco stalk aft
er a black frost. The Capitol, Don
Piatt’s pap. r, says: “Wo have our
j doubts if, when Mr. Chandler goes the
round next week, with the hat iu one
hand and Ids little hatchet in theoth-
I or, to assess tiie clerks another four
i per cent., tho response will be as
. hearty as before the October elections
and the sale of Mr. Murphy’s house
hold effects. The average official will
look up the law, and read the Repub
lican civil service reform resolutions,
and figures out on his wrist band the
question whether, all things consid
ered, it wouldn’t be as well to declare
that lie had always been a Democrat,
and run the risk of martyrdom.”
The hack of the Grail-Hayes cam
paign is broken. Yesterday’s work
in the great \\ ostei n stronghold of
Republicanism determites tho atti
tude of the nation in November.
| What this work is, and what rt in :ans,
can only be understood when it is re
membered that Indiana and Ohio
were claimed, less than two months
a.r o , by the National Republican Com
mittee; that they have been Republi
can States from the beginning; and
that the average Republican majority
in Presidential years since 18U0 has
been, in Indiana, i,SGG, and in Ohio
24,285. It Is no gust of transient
passrion that has wrought this great
change in ttic minds of the people; it
is the strong and steady Hood that
will sweep the laud before it subsides.
Now for Massachusetts!
Bayonets and Constitu iiunal Law.
—The Boston Fuel publishes a mas
terly communication troui Conway
Robinson, Esq-, a \ .rgiuia lawyer,
whose great genius Ik r Ins profession
and wonderful legal knowledge base
elicited, emphatic commendation iu
England as we. 1 as iu this country,
demonstrating conclusively that tho
Southern bajouet order of the Presi
dent, by bis cabinet, is a
gross violation of the principles of
constitutional law as expounded by
the ablest commentators. That “the
military should bo under strict sub
ordination to and governed by the
civil power, and “that elections
should bo absolutely free,” are
amongst those fundamental principles
without a fequent recurrence to which
our tree government copilot be pre
served.
The Latest News about President
Tilden’s Cabinet. —Mr. Tildeu s elec
tion being assured, the question is be
ing asked who will constitute his
Cabinet. Conjectures and l rsolu
tions, are of course all vain, and no
man can tell what it may be, but
knowing ones say it will stand some
thing like this:
(Secretary of State —Chas. I renew
Adams of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Treasury Allen
G. Turman of Ohio.
Secretary of War —Johu M. Piumer,
of Illinois. _
Secretary of the Navy— Andrew G.
Cumii, of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Interior —C lias A.
Dana, of New York.
Postmaster-General —Henry W at
terson, of Kentucky.
Attorney-General—James R- Doo
little, of Wisconsin.
Wo should like to see lowa compli
mented in this matter, if possible.—
Jlurliugton Gazette.
When the Radical party came into
power it promised the “negros forty
acres and a mule apiece.” T'ne party
failed to redeem this promise, and ac
tually robbed Culfie of nil the m. icy
he had deposited in the Freedtr .'a
Saving Bank.— Selah.
No. 36.