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The Greorgia /weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1869.
Don’t Yon
off Yon arc Coming. Why
Come Along.
It is highly desirable that Mr. Greeley’s phal
anxes of Northern immigrants to the South
should be on the inarch, if they intend to take
the benett of the rise in the value of landed
proporty in this section. The chances are fast
slipping by. Land in Georgia, in our opinion,
has risen three or four hundred p9r cent, in value
since I860, and we think it would be hard to
find good cotton lands in Middle or Southwestern
Georgia, even now, short of ten dollars per acre;
while, if you push your quest into the rich val
ley loufo of Uorthem Georgia, which are any
way convenient to market, forty or fifty dollars
is the song they would sing to yon. “Dollar”
lands have been withdrawn from market every,
where; and that movements in lands are extra'
ordinarily active this winter, for Georgia, we
know from the unusual demand for blank deeds.
Probably every printing offioe in the State, if it
would look into the matter, woidd find it had
sold about five times as many blank deeds as
ostial this winter.
The fact is, the Georgians are beginning to
gee, that land which will bring half a bale of
cotton to the acre, without manure, is a “handy
thing to havo around the house,” and it’s a fine
bank of'deposit, too, when you can get the
other half of the bale by fertilizing to the
amount of twenty dollars.
The consequence is, old mother Earth in
Georgia has renewed her respectability and im
portance. The landholder begins to think his
assets will not be transmuted altogether into
tax-receipts, and looks forward to the day when
land in Georgia, as in most other civilized re
gions, will be as good property as any other.
We say, therefore, to our Northern, friends,
who think they can do so much for this country
and themselves, hurry up your cakes and come
along. Don't wait until we all get rich, but
come along and beat us all to pieces in the race
for fame and fortune. Throw down your Sharp’s
rifles and bring ploughs, axes, hoes, spades and
sbovols. The country is just as quiet, polite
and good-natured as the reconstrhctionists, black
and white, will allow ns to be.
Tbo Congressional Committees upon
Georgia.
According to tho Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun, the House Committee
npon Reconstruction have, after a very mature
and careful consideration of the whole subject,
decided to report against any interference on
the part of Congress with the present State or
ganization of Georgia. And the Richmond
Dispatch says the Senate Committee decided
precisely the other way. Probably the same in
fluence which was thought to be apparent in the
action of the House upon the tenure-of-office
act, has been at work upon the re-reconstruc
tion proposition before the House Committee.
Gen. Grant is opposed to disorganization. The
Senate, however, which is known to have con
travened the wishes of the President elect npon
the tenure-of-office bill, still holds out in favor
of disorganizing Georgia.
While, no doubt, the chances of an escape
depend a great deal on the prudence and mod-
eration of our Legislature in Atlanta, and
single false step on their part may precipitate
catastrophe, we think every day’s delay by
Congress increases the probability of the failure
of the scheme to disorganize the State. We
think there is manifestly an increasing indis
position to adopt this hazardous and reckless ex
pedient ; and the more so, as accounts from all
parts of Georgia show a condition of unusual
and increasing quiet, order and security; and
the Legislature itself, while still maintaining the
legality of its action, according to the Constitu
tion and laws of Geoigia,preserves a conciliatory
attitude towards Congress.
It is probable from the attitude of afiairs in
Washington, that a good deal of delay will at
tend the final action of Congress upon the mat
ter-even if any final action is ever had. Mean
while, time is passing—less than six weeks of
the session remain—the Legislative dockets
were never more crowded with important prop
ositions—the people and the members are
wearied with this subject of Southern recon-
etrnction, and the great matter of the recon
struction of the Federal administration under
Gen Grant, is a grand absorbing theme which
swallows up all minor things. As the 4th of
March approaches, Congress will be less and
less disposed to be violent with the Southern
States, and the views of Gen. Grant will be
more and more infinentiaL Let ns wait quietly
in patience and in hope.
Tlte Ztrnnswlclc Railroad,
It will be seen, came ont of the Legislative in
vestigation triumphant The House, by a unan
imous vote, declared the company had acted in
good faith to the State and in accordance with
the terms of the State Aid Act end instructed the
Governor to continue to indorse the bonds. The
report accompanying the joint resolution was in
the highest degree complimentary to the road.
Such a decision, unanimously made by the
House, must possess the highest moral effect
upon the legal proceedings to stop the progress
of the Macon and Brunswick road, on the
ground of a violation of the State Aid Act.
Bibb Court-House Commission.
This body met in the Ordinary’s office, yester
day, at 4 o’clock, r. if. A communication was
Wwived from E. J. Johnston, Esq., tendering
four lota or parcels of land, making 104 feet on
Steond street, and 104 feet on Mnlborry street,
constituting tho north-eastern comer of said
8tr *ets, in f ee simple to the county, as the site
of the Court-house.
After some discussion, the Board appointed a-
co’eoiittee, consisting of L. N. Whittle, J. M.
^oarimaa and J. YV. Burke, to examine the ti-'
*• *o said property, and also to inquire gener
al npon an eligible site for a Court-house,
^ the terms upon which the same can be had—
‘owportat the next meeting on Tuesday eve-
* o’clock, 1st February next, at which time
11 is understood the Board will make a definite
selection.
A resolution was also passe d authorizing mem.
■^rs who cannot be present at that meeting to
tote by proxy.
A Financial Discrepancy.
There appears to be a disagreement of thirty-
Ve thousand dollars between the account of the
GTernor and the State Treasurer of Georgia,
xvhieh requires explanation. See the report of
. Treasurer upon the outside of the present
'' 5e - We must presume, of course, that the
overnor has vouchers for the missing thirty-five
ousand. but the point remarkable about the
?~ £ir is that the Governor and the Treasurer,
.. political and, as we suppose, personal
®«s, should be at apparent loggerheads over
e business. We have not the slightest dispo-
^°n to impeach the pecuniary honesty of the
” administration, except npon reasons of am
• crwhelming nature; and will not therefore per-
0Ur aelves to doubt the ability of the Gover-
<3itur° ^ T6 a 8atisfactor y coconut of this expen-
t ee Watermelon Season seems to be open-
early in South Florida. The Ocala Banner
cs ~ e lGthinst. says:
*3 »^fi 6S8r8; ® ran * A Graft, of Tampa, presented
lueWL npe , watenDelon °n yesterday. This
Hive? Y 8 I* lncked from a vine on Mr. W. H.
or miles west of Tampa, a day
Qjjp?* 80 ®* Who has an earlier melon than
State Treasurer’s Report.
Serious Discrepancy In the Public Accounts.
The following is the report of the State Treas
urer made in response to a call from the House
of Representatives for information regarding
the amount of State bonds which had been is
sued since his induction into office—for what
they had been sold, and at what rates; what
amounts had been hypothecated, etc., etc. The
report has been referred to the Finance Com
mittee of the House :
EXPORT.
Treasurer's Office, >
Atlanta, Ga., January 21, 1869.>”
To the Honorable House ofReprcsenta tires of the
State of Georgia :
In response to yonr resolution of yesterday,
as follows: ' “Resolved, That N. L. Angier,
Treasurer of this State, be, and he is hereby
requested to communicate to this House, as early
practicable, 1 what amount of State bonds have
been issued since he came into office, and wheth
er or not thesamehavebeensold or hypothecated
for money borrowed; what amount of bonds
have been sold and at what price; what amount
has been hypothecated, and where; how much
money has been borrowed by the State on hy
pothecated bonds; how much money has been
drawn upon the faith of the hypothecated bonds
of this State, and by whom; what portion of
the amount so drawn has been received into the
Treasury of this State; what is the state of the
accounts at this time with the State of Georgia,
and the party or parties with whom the State
bonds have been hypothecated; giving a full
and dear statement of all matters in this reso
lution referred to,” I havo the honor to report
that on the 21st day of September, 1868, his
Excellency, Governor Bullock and myself, de
livered to the agent of the Fourth National Bank
of New York a contract to place in their pos
session one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($150,000) of the seven per cent bonds of the
State, on or before the 15th day of November,
18C8, npon which contracts as collateral security
said bank advanced us one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) cash. On the Gth of October,
1868, similar contracts to the amount of sixty
thousand dollars ($G0,000) were executed and
delivered to the agent of the same bank, npon
which seenrity said bank advanced ns forty
thousand dollars ($40,000) cash.
On the 17th day of November, 18G8, there
was prepared and forwarded from this office,
six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000,) new
seven per cent, bonds of the State of Georgia,
dated November 1st, 18G8, signed Rufus B. Bul
lock, Governor, David G. Cotting, Secretary of
State, conpons signed by the Treasurer, to the
Fourth National Bank, to carry out the terms
of the contracts made to them September 21st
and October Gth, 18G8, and to be hypothecated
for further sums of money, to meet the interest
•n the public debt fallen and falling due, and
for other purposes.
November 9 th, 18G8, we received by express
$25,000 as an advance on said bonds, November
12th, $24,000 by express, November 20th, $2f,
000 on draft of Governor Bullock, November
21st, $25,000 on draft of Governor Bullock, De
cember 7th, $25,000 by express, Decentoer 12th,
$25,000 by express, and December 2Gthp$25,000
by express, all of which amounts were received
into the Treasury.
On the 23d of December, 18G8, supposing
considerable amount of the new seven per cent
bonds had been sold and desiring to make a re
port of them in my annual report to the Govern
or, I wrote to the Fourth National Bank, asking
them to advise me what amount of the new seven
percent, bondshad been sold, and at what price,
and at the same time to send me a complete
statement or account current of the State with the
bank. On the 9th instant I received a full state
ment of the account, and a letter, in which was
stated:
“None of the new seven per cent, bonds have
been sold, it being considered unadvisable to
do so, in sonsultation between our President and
Governor Bullock, it being considered by many
that tho Legislature authorizising them was an
illegal body.” •
Besides creating themselves in the account
current with the various amounts named above,
they also took credit for a large amount, which
I did not know anything abont, and which had
never reached the Treasury. Not knowing how
to account for these credits, I immediately start
ed, on the eve of the 10 th inst, for New York,
to get a full explanation of them. Having ar
rived in New York, proceeded to the Fourth Na
tional Bank, and found that Gov. Bullock had
drawn drafts to the amount of thirty-five thou
sand dollars, (copy of the drafts I give below)
which amount never has been paid in nor re
ported to the Treasurer by Governor Bollock.
OOP? OF FIRST DRAFT.
No. New York, Oct. 29,1868.
Fourth National Bank of the city of New York,
pay to the order of , seventeen thousand
dollars.
(Signed)
$17,000
Rufus B. Bullock,
Governor of Georgia.
COPT OF SECOND DRAFT.
No New York, Dec. 3,1868.
Fourth National Bank of the city of New York,
pay to tho order of R. B. Bullock, eight thousand
dollars. Chargo account State.
(Signed) Rufus B. Bullock,
$8000 Governor of Georgia.
COPT OF THIRD DRAFT.
(Endorsed on back H. L Kimball & Co.)
December 12,1868.
Pay to the order of H. I. Kimball & Co., ten thou
sand dollars, and charge same to the account of tho
State of Georgia. Rufus B. Bullock,
(Signed) Governor.
To the Fourth National Bank, New York.
By the Governor:
(Signed) Eugene Davis,
Secretary Executive Department.
December 14, 18G8, there was sold of the 7
per cent mortgage bonds $40,000 at 92fc.; De
cember lGtb, $10,000 at same price; December
17th, $10,000 at 92$.; December 19th, $4000;
January Gth, $31,000 were sold at 92jc.0 Janu
ary 11 to, $20,000 were sold at 90£; January
15tb, $50,000 were sold at 89jc.; January lGth,
$74,000 at 89c.; making total amount of money
realized from sale of seven per cent, mortgage
bonds two hundred anc sixteen thousand eight
hundred and eighty dolhrs and sixty-nine cents,
($21G,880 69) ont of which the Fourth National
Bank has paid coupons to the amount of abont
one hundred and thirty tho.isand dollars ($130,
000.)
The letter accompanying the account current,
reports two notes in addition to contracts men
tioned before, given by Gov. Bullock, both
amonuting to five hundred and seventy thou
sand ($570,000) dollars, supposed to be given as
security for money advanced, and to bo ad
vanced, to meet the interest on the public debt.
Respectfully submitted,
N. L. Angier, Treasurer.
Montpelier Institute.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says : “This In
stitute was established in 1841, by the lamented
and deeply beloved Bishop Elliott, who conduct
ed it himself for a number of years and was af
terwards its visitor until the time of his death.
The present organization of this Institute and
its corps of teachers is equal, in every respect,
to the best schools of the sort in this country,
while its healthfulness and great salubrity of
climate, both winter and summer, gives it ad
vantages possessed by few. During the twenty-
eight years this school has been in operation,
though the exercises in some years were contin
ued throughout the hot summer, not as much as
one case of chill and fever was ever contracted
at Montpelier. The Institute bnildings have
recently been renovated and painted, and re
furnished throughout, with regard to taste, con
venience and comfort. The school has a com
plete corps of accomplished instructors, and it
s the determination of Mr. and Mrs. Pryse to
make this Institute, in every respect, a first-class'
school for the education of the daughters of the
South, and we hope that they will bo encouraged
and sustained in their work. We feel that .we
ore doing the public a worthy service in calling
attention to and cordially recommending to their
patronage and support the Montpelier Institute
for Young Ladies.
A xouno man named Henry McCloud, of
Granger, Ohio, committed suicide on Tuesday
mormng. He was married during the past
summer. Getting up at the usual hour, he
went ont to do the chores at the bam. Coming
in shortly after, he put his arms around the
neck of his wife and kissed her, saying that if
he did not return by the time breakfast was
ready, she need not wait for him, smd went ont
again. When the breakfast was ready, after
waiting a short time, Mrs. McCloud went to the
door and called, but getting no response, she
became alarmed, and went ont to look for him.
She found him in the hay loft, suspended by a
leather hitching strap. Having no means of
cutting the strap, she raised him up and untied
it. After laying the body down ana discovering
Two young women, named Mary Ann Kelly
and Mary Esther, were burned to death at New
Orleans, last Sunday, by their clothes taking fire
from an explosion that ooeurred while one of
them was filling a lighted lamp with petroleum.
According to a census just taken, the popu
lation of Baltimore is 352,136. Of these 303,-
761 are white and 48,375 colored, of both sexes
no tdmi'rt l&rahenii to the house of the and all ages. There are in ttiat city 44 988
nearestneighbor and gave the alarm, and im- houses, exclusive of public buddings, of which
mediatelv fainted away. The cause of the act former class *,407 are not numbered.
cannot be conjectured, asit is that his j Watermel ons at this Mason of the year make
habits were good, his pecuniary matters easy, I ’ «
and his domestic relations happy. 118 shiver.
Letter From Washington.
Special Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph.]
Washington, D. O. January 18, 1869.
the ALABAMA CLAIMS TREATY—PROVISIONS OF THE
FBOTOCOL.
Mr. Seward received information by telegraph
on Friday morning last, from Minister Johnson,
that he and Earl Clarendon had signed a treaty
for the settlement of the claims of citizens of
the United States against Great Britain and of
citizens of Great Britain against the United
States. This treaty, substantially, was at the
State Department, and Mr. Seward, being anx
ious that he should have all the credit of the
settlement of this much abused controversy, at
once submitted it to the President at the Cabinet
meeting held at noon of that day, where, after
some unimportant discussion it was approved.
It was then sent to the Senate, but os that body
adjourned until Monday without going into Ex
ecutive Session, it remained on the table of the
presiding officer, in company with two other
treaties negotiated by Minister Johnson with
Great Britain. One of these defines the ques
tion of citizenship and of expatriation and the
other settles the north-west boundary question
as to tho Island of San Juan.
The main features of the protocol agreed npon
between Reverdy Johnson and Earl Clarendon,
provide for a joint commission which, phn.ll hold
its settings here at Washington, and a majority
vote is to decide all cases. When the joint com-
missionshallbe equally divided, the commission
ers are to report their disagreement to their re
spective Governments, and if an Umpire be not
agreed upon within six months, then the joint
commission is to select two names, one to be
selected on either side, and one of these names,
drawn by lot, is to be the Umpire; provided, the
Senate of the United States ratify the choice, in
whichever way it may be made. There is to
be no distinction made in the submission of all
American claims on great Britain since 1853—
including the so-called Alabama claims—and the
original proposition that these Alabama claims
should only be allowed by a unanimous vote of
the joint commission has been stricken ont.
Provision is also made that only those British
subjects who were neutrals shall be permitted
to present their claims against the United States.
Cases which have been decided in Admiralty
Courts are not to be brought before the com
mission unless by special direction of the arbi
trator. Mr. Seward claims that he has succeed
ed in persuading the British Government to ac
cede to all of his original propositions with re
gard to these protocols—and believes the settle
ments made according to this programme will
prove, in every way, satisfactory to the best
interests of all concerned. It looks very much,
however, as if the red-tape formalities which
surround the whole affair, would cause the com
mission to sit until they grow gray without com
ing to any definite settlement of either of the
vexed questions at issue. Possibly our foreign
land agent may have in reserve some patent
charm, with which he hopes to win the affec
tions and confidence of the commission after its
arrival in this country, that, together with the
treacherous influence of this Washington climate,
may, perhaps throw the whole game entirely in
to the hands of Mr. Seward, and if so we will
win; otherwise the thing is abont as clear as
mud!
THE INDIAN WAR—THE MASSACRE OF BLACK KET
TLE’S HAND.
Additional information received from the In
dian country, lead several Senators who have
thoroughly canvassed the subject, to the firm
belief that the battles of tho Washita—where
Black Kettle’s band was destroyed—was in all
its main features a repetition of the Sand Creek
massacre. It is stated that General Custer left
his dead on the battle-field for fifteen days, till
he could ride with his command to carry the
news of his great victory, (so-called after a fash
ion long prevalent among the white warriors of
the plains,) and on returning, the bodies of Ma
jor Elliot and sixteen others were found, torn by
the wolves and birds, and the mutilation charged
to the Indians.
CAPTAIN JOHN C. BRAINE.
A petition signed by numerous Radical and
Democratic members of Congress, praying for
the pardon of Captain John C. Braine, late of
the Confederate States Navy charged with pira
cy in the capture of the steamer Chesapeake,
will be presented to the President to-morrow.
Capt. Braine is the last of the Confederate pris
oners held in custody by the United States au
thorities. The charges are very favorable to
his release.
THE PRESIDENT’S DEFENSE OF HIS AMNESTY PROCLA
MATION.
The Presideat has had prepared for some
time a very able reply to the Senate resolution
calling on him for his authority to grant amnes
ty. Upon submitting his reply to his Cabinet it
was almost unanimously agreed that it ought
not to be transmitted to the Senate, not on ac
count of any flaw in tho document, but simply,
andto use tho language of my authority, because
the resolution itself was purely impertinent, and
further, that the President is not responsible to
the Senate for any of his actions, except in cases
of impeachment, or when he goes beyond the
letter of the Constitution. If the honorable
Senators fail to study the Constitution before
coining here to take issue with the President as
to his license under that instrument, he is not
in duty bound to play tho pedagogue and teach
them a lesson on every new occasion. If he
undertook this job, he would undoubtedly have
his hands fall, for it is a melancholy fact,
that, with a few exceptions, the Constitution is
very little understood (andless cared for) by our
national legislators. Notwithstanding the ad
vice of his Cabinet, the President to-day trans
mitted the above-mentioned doenment, accom
panied, as requested, by a showing of his au
thority, together with copies of proclamations
issued on the same subject by Gen. Washington
and Mr. Lincoln. As a shield for his individual
sins, Mr. Johnson invokes that antediluvian
parchment — the Constitution of the United
States. Kentuck.
Annexation and the Revolution in
Cuba.
A Washington special to the Richmond Dis
patch says:
Intelligence has reached this city from an
authentic source that the Spanish Government
is favorably inclined to transfer the Island of
Cuba to the United States, and that the terms
suggested are such as would probably meet
with favor by our Government, and such of our
readers as approve of the purchase and annexa
tion of Cuba. The conditions npon which Spain
would part with the Mand have not transpired.
,The insurgents, it is learned, however, are
confident of shortly gaining entire possession of
Caba, and claim to have now secure possession
of more than one-half of the island. They as
sert that their strength and status is such as to
warrant their recognition by this Government as
belligerents.
A Firm in the city of New York, who have lost
recently some $7,000 through the dishonesty of
their book-keeper, have sued a party who re
commended to them the book-keeper as a man
of good character for the recovery of the money.
WA8&HGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 20, 5869.
m BANES AND OBANl's CABINET.
The friends of General Banks have entered
him in the race for favors, under the coming
administration. Several' very romantic stories
are told of this new candidate for Cabinet hon
ors, but the foundation of none of them are laid
in the Talley of Virginia; owing, perhaps, to
“ Stonewall Jackson’s way.”
Tho latest, with regard to Gen. Banks' mili
tary career, is as follows:
It will be remembered thatinMay,'1863, Gen.
Grant made an unsuccessful assault on the Con
federate fortifications at Vicksburg; this so ex
asperated the authorities in Washington that
they determined to relieve Grant at-once; and
orders were sent by telegraph to Gen. Banks
(then in command at Port Hudson,) to super
cede him Gen. Banks, who knew all the cir
cumstances, declined to do so. He was ordered
a second time to supercede Grant; he again de
clined, and telegraphed his reasons, in full, to
Mr. Lincoln. This telegram had hardly been
considered here, when news arrived, to the ef
fect that Pemberton had glorified the Fourth of
July by the surrender of the Gibralter of the Con
federacy. This established the military genius of
Grant, and he was lauded to the skies by the
very men who, a few hours previous, were ready
and anxious to strike him down. Viewing the
action of Gen. Pemberton in its most charitable
light, it is difficult to tell what might have been
the future history of Grant, or toe.federal army
on the Mississippi, had Banks been guided by
ambition. ./
Gen. Grant has only recently learned this re
markable incident, and it is expected that his
gratitude towards Gen. Banks may take the
shape of a Cabinet appointment, or some im
portant mission, perhaps that of Commits try
General for tho Islands of the West Indies over
which we are to throw the mantle of our pro
tection.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The Atlantic and California railroad’ bill,
providing for an extreme Southern road, begin-
ing at Little Rock, in Arkansas, thence running
in a southwesterly direction to Fulton on the
Red River, thence across the State of Texas, as
near as may be to the 32d parallel, to El Faso,
and thence to San Diego, in California, and
thence, by the most practicable and shortest
route, to San Francisco, introduced in the Sen
ate yesterday, by Senator McDonald, of Arkan
sas, contains an entirely new feature, inasmuch
as it does not ask for a subsidy of bonds, but
only requires that the Government shall guar
antee the payment of six per cent, interest upon
the first mortgage bonds which the respective
roads are authorized to issue to the amountjof
$40,000 per mile; which guarantee is only to be
affixed to the bonds as each road shall respect
ively complete, furnish and equip twenty miles
of road. The bonds so issued are to be a first
mortgage upon the entire line, etc., etc., of the
road issuing the same,and are to be made to the
Secretary of the Treasury.
This bill is a powerful combination of the
different railroad interests across the continent,
giving to the three great lines all the aid re
quired from the government. It is a compro
mise also, of the question of subsidies by the
government to Pacific railroads—as, by the plan
proposed, it will not increase the debt propel,
single dollar. It is thought that the bill vill
necessarily concentrate the votes of members
from the southern, middle and northern sections
of the Union.
OVERDRAWING DEPOSITS.
The House Committee on Banking and Car-
rency, at their meeting yesterday, directed their
chairman to prepare and report, at the earliest
opportunity, a bill to prohibit national banks
from certifying checks for any customer in ex
cess of the amount of money he has on deposit.
This act is in accordance with recent xecommen-
dations of the Comptroller of the Currency, and
it is thought will break up such practices as pre
vailed in New York during the late Erie war.
THE CASE OF JUDGE DUSTEED.
The case of Judge Bus teed, of Mobile, was
continued before the House Judiciary Commit
tee yesterday, and Gen. Wager Swayne, former
ly Military Commandant in Alabama, testified
as to his knowledge of Bnsteed’s judicial con
duct. It is reported that he made some damag
ing revelations, implicating the accused.
THE FBESIDENT’S DECEPTION*.
The Presidents first reception of the season
held last night was a grand affair and was large
ly attended by Congressmen who voted for im
peachment, and the best of feeling seemed to
prevail through the mansion. The Diplomatic
corps were out in full force, and in full costume.
THE SAINT THOMAS PURCHASE.
The Senate Committee on foreign relations
held a long session yesterday, bnt did not finish
up the Saint Thomas treaty business, General
Roasloff the representative of the Danish Gov-
vemment, submitted a letter and {other docu
ments, showingjwhat view the Government takes
of the affair, which is not at all creditable to the
managment of Mr. Seward.
THE PURCHASE OF CUBA.
The President has received from our Minister
at Madrid, a letter stating that overtures had
been made to him, as the representative of the
United States, by the Spanish authorities, for
the sale of the Island of Cuba to the United
States, and he has deemed it his duty to com
municate the important fact at once to this Gov
ernment. The matter was laid before the Cab
inet yesterday, and it was decided to await fur
ther advices. It is estimated that the sum
asked for the Island is $25,000,000 in gold.
EVAETS TO BE IN THE CABINET.
A newspaper man, meeting yon on the street,
asks “What news ?” You reply, General Grant
dined to-day with the Hon. Mr. . The
newspaperman goes to his office, writes and
sends off the following dispatch:
“I am informed, on good authority, that Gen.
Grant dined to-day with the Hon. Mr. —
Conspicious among the distinguished guests
present was Attorney Gen. Evarts.”
And he hits, the nail on the head, too. Gen.
Grant and Mr. Evarts have dined together very
frequently during the past three or four weeks,
both in New York and Washington. They are
almost inseparable; yon meet them frequently
on the street. They are seen together on the
floor of Congress—“the observed of all observ
ers”—clogging the wheels of legislation by the
marked attention bestowed upon them by Sena
tors and members, who are puzzled to know
what all this familiarity means; people in the
galleries stretch their necks to get a better view
of their persons as they stand quietly convers
ing with a squad of legislators. Even the pages
pause, in their errands across the hall, to catch
a glimpse of the soldier, President and the great
lawyer. - . - '
You hear of their having frequent private
confabs at army headquarters, or at the Gov
ernment law offioe, and last, and most important
of all, everybody tell yon with a most provo-
kingly knowing look, that Gen. Grant has decid
ed to retain Mr. Evarts ashis law adviser. If
the President elect should conclude to retain
Mr. Evarts in his present position as Attorney
General he would make a long stride towards
convincing oertain incredulous people that he
has some judgment with regard to men. as well
as horses. Kkntuck.
Some workmen, excavating a cellar in Peoria
last week, unearthed a rock containing over
$1 ,000 in large gold coins. It is supposed to
have been deposited there by a deceased miser
who owned the property.
Supreme Court or Georgia.
Tuesday, January 19, 1869.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
Upon application of Messrs. C. C. Duncan,
W. L. Calhoun and J. W. Farmer, they were ad
mitted as members of the Bar of to™ Court.
The following decisions were then delivered.
Dunn vs. McNaught and others—Equity from
Bartow. Judgment affirmed. •
Miller vs. Mitchell, Reed ft Go.,—case from
Fulton. Judgment reversed on the ground that
the Court erred in granting a new trial upon the
record before it.
The State vs. Dickson. Judgment reversed on
the ground that the Western and Atlantic Rail
road is the property of the State, and its incomes
are part of the State’s revenue, and are to be
paid before any other “debt, lienor cleim what
ever,” except funeral expenses, etc., as specified
bythe Code. • !t: •
Blalock ft Hewell vs.- Phillips—Case from
Fayette. Judgment reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in refusing to grant a new
trial on account of the misconduct of the jurors,
while charged with the consideration of toe
case. —
_ Odell vs. Wooten—Motion to discharge secu
rity on appeal, from Eatonton. Judgment
affirmed.
Murphy vs.' Crews ft Sibley—Motion from
Richmond. Judgement reversed on the ground
that E. M. Bruce ft Co., by diminishing their
attachment, lost their priority* and while they
might, with the consent of Crews, reinstate
their case on the docket, it must be done without
prejudice to the rights acquired by Murphy in
the meantime.
Long vs. Ihe State—Murder, from Bartow.
Judgment affirmed. 1 •• ”• • • •;;
Kilgo vs. Castleberry—Equity from Lumpkin.
Judgment affirmed.
Watkins vs. Pope—Attachment from Fulton.
Judgment reversed on the ground that the Court
erred in holding that under the : facts of this
case, as disclosed by the' record, the plaintiff
below was entitled to a verdict against the gar
nishee.
Clayton vs. Atkin—Equity from Bartow.
Judgment reversed on the ground that the Court
erred in its direction to the jury, as to the leg
acy of the executor, that legacy being, in the
opinion of this Court, a general one, and, also,
as to the extent of the legacy of the widow in
lieu of dower; this Court holding that all the
bequests to her were in lieu of dower.
Dutcher vs. Inferior Conrt of Fulton county.
Judgment reversed on the ground that the Court
erred in its refusal to allow the plaintiff mileage
from and to his home in Missouri.
Barnett vs. Jackson and Nickleson—Cer
tiorari, from Gordon. Judgment reversed on
the ground that the conrt below erred in decid
ing that the Inferior Court of Gordon county
had jurisdiction to hear and determine the ques
tion of the abatement of a nuisance under the
4026th section of the Code at the time the trial
was had; it being the judgment of this Court,
that the jurisdiction of the Inferior Conrt had
been taken away and vested in the County
Court of that county at tho time of the trial.
Hill vs. Laud—Equity, from Clayton. Judg
ment reversed on the ground that the Court be
low erred in directing a perpetual injunction
against the judgment creditor of Manghom. It
being the judgment of this Court npon the state
of facts presented by the record, that the Court
below should have ordered and directed a sale of
the property, and out of the proceeds of such
sale Mrs. Laud be first paid the amount of the
original purchase money, to which Waldrup
would have been entitled under his contract,
with interest thereon up to the time of sale ; and
that the balance of the proceeds of the sale of
the land be paid to the judgment creditors of
Mangham, according to their legal priority in
existence prior to Mrs. Laud’s purchase of the
lands.
Holt vs. the State—Riot, from Gilmer.—
Judgment reversed on the ground that the Court
below erred in sustaining the demurrer to the
defendant’s plea of anterfois acquit.
Davenport vs. the State—Riot from Union.
Judgment affirmed.
Thomas vs. Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company—case from DeKalb. Judgment re
versed on the ground that the Conrt below erred
in dismissing the plaintiff’s action for want of
jurisdiction of the Court to try the same.
The case of W. J. Russell, plaintiff in error,
vs. Eusebeus Slaton, Equity, from Fayette, was
argued by Col. Tidwell, and by Col. N. J. Ham
mond, for plaintiff, and by CoL Calhoun, for
defendant.
Pending argument in the case of Campbell
Wallace vs. Mary E. Cannon—case from Ful
ton,
The Court adjourned till 9 o’clock to-morrow.
Wednesday, January 20th.
The whole day was consumed in the argument
of Campbell Wallace, Superintendent Western
and Atlantic Railroad vs. Mary E. Cannon.
P. L. Mynatt and L. E. Bleckley, for the
Road; S. B. Hoyt and Robert Baugh, for Can
non.
This is the cause in which Judge Collier hold
that if Cannon was voluntarily engaged in carry
ing Confederate troops at the time he was killed
and that fact was the sole cause of the killing,
his widow could not recover from the Road for
the killing. It has brought out some of the
finest arguments, and elicited as mnch or more
interest than any cause argued during the term.
Pending the concluding argument by CoL
Bleckley, the Court adjourned till nine o’clock to
morrow.
In the report of yesterday, by mistake, it was
said that two of the cases on the Flint Circuit
might be contined, and that Col. L. Slone wonld
probably represent Gen. Toombs in the other
two. The circuit intended was Northern, and
the person was the Hon. Linton Stephens.
The remaining case of Woodward vs. Gates,
(Equity fromMerriwether,) will close the Cowe
ta Circuit.
Dougherty for plaintiff in error. B. H. Hill,
for defendant in error.
The next Circuit in order is the Flint. It has
four cases.
John W. Odell, plaintiff in error, vs. Joseph
W. Wooten, defendant in error: Motion to
discharge Surety on Appeal—from Fulton.
Jesse L. Blalock *nd John T. Howell, plain
tiffs in error, vs. John Phillips, defendant in
error, Case from Fayette.'
..Drown, O. J.—Plaintiff in the Conrt below,
sold to defendants fonr-bales of cotton while
Confederate money was the currency and had a
market value, and was to receive that currency
in payment. Defendants delayed payments till
after the Confederate armies had surrendered,
when one of them, with a knowledge of the sur
render, visited the plaintiff at his residence in
the country, and paid the debt in Confederate
currency, at a time when plaintiff swears he had
no knowledge of the surrender: Held, La such
case, that it is a question proper for the jury to
determine whether defendant practiced a fraud
npon plaintiff by taking advantage of his igno
rance, and misleading him and inducing him to
receive the notes in payment when the defend
ants knew they were in fact of no value by rea
son of the failure of the Confederacy.
2. If plaintiff was induced by frand to take
the notes, and they had ceased to have any mar
ket value when he learned the fact of the sur
render, he was not bonnd to tender them back
to defendant to enable him to maintain an ac
tion for the amount due him for the cotton.
3. The plaintiff in this case, waves the fort
committed by the defendant in forcibly taking
the cotton from his gin house, bythe form of
action bronght; and can only proceed for the
price of the cotton.
4. The conduct of certain jurors, who, while
they were charged with the case, conversed with
a person not on the jury, in presence of a num
ber of others about the case, and used expres
sions favorable to tho right of the plaintiff to re
cover—assigning as a reason that defendant,
sworn as witness, had contradicted himself, when
in fact he had not, is highly reprehensible, and
a new trial should.have been granted bythe
Court below on that account. Jurors should
speak to them about the case, while charged with
its consideration.
Judgment reversed.
Peoples ft Stewart, for plaintiff in error.
Tidwell ft Fears, for defendant in error.
Brown, C. J.—1. Security on an appeal bond,
under our Code, only binds himself for the pay
ment of the debtor damages for which j udgment
may be entered in the canse, and if no judgment
is ever entered against the principal in the cause,
no liability attaches to the security.
2. As Congress has the power, under the Con
stitution, to establish uniform laws on the sub
ject of bankruptcies throughout the United
States; and as toe act of Congress forbids the
prosecution of an action against a person ad
judged a bankrupt, until the question of his dis
charge has been determined, and relieves him,
when discharged, from all debts, liabilities, etc.,
which might have been proved against his es
tate ; a security on an appeal in this State is no
longer liable, when the principal is discharged
in bankruptcy, which discharge of the principal
terminates the case pending in the State Court
against him, and prevents any judgment. The
seenrity on the appeal does not contract to pay
the debt, bnt the judgment that may be entered
hi the suit then pending.
Judgment affirmed.
BY
teleg ? apil :
Decision* of tl>« Supreme Court of
!*, ,Jt V :«9 Georgia.
DELIVERED AX ATLANTA, JANUARY 19, 1869.
Fran the Atlanta Constitution.]
The State, plaintiff in error, vs. John Dickson
defendant in error—Motion to distribute Funds
—from Whitfield.
Brown, O. J..—The Western and Atlantic
Railroad is toe property of the State, and its in
comes are part of toe Revenue of the State. A
debt due toe road is a debt due the public, and
is to be paid before “any other debit, lien, or
daim, whatsoever," except funeral expenses,
etc., as specified by the Code.
Judgment reversed.
Spraberry and J. A. W. Johnson, by tho re
porter, for plaintiff in error.
O. D. McCutchin, by A. B. Culberson,' for de
fendant in error. '::.r
John E. A. Murphy, plaintiff in error, vs. E. M.
Bruce ft Co., defendants in error. Contest
between liens from Richmond.
Brown, 0. J.—Both plaintiff and defendant
in error.had issued attachment against Joseph
A. Crew, and each had served J. Sibly ft Sons
with sum mans of garnishment! The garnish
ment in favor of Brace ft Co:, was just served.
Brace ft Co., after Murphy had obtained judg
ment on his attachment, dismissed their attach
ment in vacation. At the next term of the
Court they were permitted, with! the consent of
the defendant in attachment, to' re-instate their
case; Held, that they lost their priority over
Mnxphy by digmigging toe attachment, and that
they could not regain it by re-i' stating their
case. 7 - - . ’
Judgment reversed.
H. W. Hilliard for plaintiff in error.
•W. T. Gould, Johnson ft Montgomery, for
defendants in error.
John J. Miller, plaintiff in error, vs. Mitchell,
Reed ft Co., defendants in error—Motion for
a new trial—from Fulton. -
Brown, 0. J.—When a party did not enter an
appeal within the time prescribed bylaw, and
has otherwise been guilty of negligence, a new
trial will not be granted on account of newlv l . . . , _ . _
discovered evidence, more especially when toe heretofore, and was unanimously adopted
evidence is cumulative and one of the witness- ordered to be transmitted to the Senate forto-
es, of whom the discovery is alleged to have been I liahrfnVf 'Jt’jrortY
made, gave evidence on the trial, and the other The report complimente the Directors and other
was the clerk of the party moving for the new officers of the road and declares they have kept faith
tiial at the time of the transaction and the mo- with the State in reference to the act granting State
for “T tlmu twelTO months aid to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
Mr. Crartori talrodnarii bin to cr»!« lb, offlo
Collier ft Hoyt, A. W. Hammond ft Son, for of ® tate ^!f' ,lo f i8 ^, . _ .
plaintiff in error. ' . The railroads hive displayed great liberality to
Geo. Hillyer, for defendants in error. members, granting them all passes for 1§69. " t
James Dunn, plaintiff in error, vs. William The colored' ex-members are gradually retiring
McNaught ct al, defendants in error: Equity, from the Opera House.
FROM ATLANTA.
Free Passes te Agricultural Delegatee.
Maeon and Brunswick: Triuntphaat,
and Declared to have Kepi
Railroad Liberality. ' ! M etW
Colored Ex-Wembers Fading.
Special to the Maeon Daily Telegraph.] .. v -jiff
Atlanta, January 23—Evening.
David W. Lewis, Esq., Secretary of the State Ag
ricultural Society, gives notice to the Georgia daily
papers that toe Superintendents of Railroads will
PASS FREE, the delegates from toe various coun
ties to the Atlanta State Agricultural Convention,
to be held in this city on the 1st Tuesday in Febra-
«y-
These delegates must represent organized county
agricultural societies and .hold their appointments t
from them. Tea delegatee will be passed from each
county, and tickets for them will be furnished the
Ordinary of the county, who will deliver them only
to the President of toe County Agricultural Society,
and when countersigned by him they will pass the
delegates to Atlanta. Return tickets signed by toe
Secretary of the State Society will pass delegates
home. :d..'l
Visitors to the Convention will come and go on
ne fare.
Delegates from agricultural and m.innf»^nrj rg
societies will be entitled to the same privileges as
delegates from the county agricultural societies.
In the House, to-day, a joint resolution was re
ported by the special committee appointed to inves
tigate the proceedings of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company. The resolution authorizes toe
Governor to continue to sign the bonds of the com-
from Bartow.
The Messrs. Pond, proprietors of the National
faS°Xed' J f -In thiS Ca? f® 0Wn £? w a Hotel > <^line to open the refreshment saloon, etc.,
farm placed a farmer upon it under contract, to ^ ’
set off the use of the farm against his skill and under Capitol building,
labor for five years, and the owners and *»„„„» The members are generally manifesting a desire
were to stock it on joint account, and divide tho to cari Y out th® views of their constituents,
profits once a year, the owners have the right to j '•*
terminate the partnership on six months notice, I Georgia Legislature.
if the farm failed to pay ten per cent, profit on Atlanta, January 23 Since the introduction of
the capital invested: Held, That the_ bill and I the resolution by Bethune (Radical) info the Geor- '
rt.™ 1 k® 8 “®bpaM ten per Legislature, submitting negro eligibility to office
cent, to the owners on the capital advanced by r ?. . „ . . , . ;
them, and that the owners had a right under | to the courta > the lowing telegram has been re-
the contract, to terminate the partnership by j c ®ived:
giving the six months notice, and that the court Savannah, January 22.—Ifon. D. E. Lester, Sen-
did not err in granting an injunction and ap- ator: The rule under quo warranto has been la- .
pointing a receiver to wind up toe affairs of sued against White, the colored clerk of Chatham
i ho partnership. I Superior Court.
Judgment affirmed. rsiimedl
W. T. Wofford, Jno. Cox, for plaintiff in LbJ
error; W. Akin, for defendents in error.
Julian Hartbidge.
This is toe case suggested in the resolution.
ARKANSAS.
Six White Ladies Violated by the Negro Militia
in Crittenden County Last Week—The Wife
From Washington.
Washington, January 23.—General Grant has re-
A dispatch from Texas announces that a dclega-
and Sister-in-Law of a Loyal Man lavished I «on of seven, elected by the Convention, are com-
while He was Guarded by a Boy— Violence, ing here to urge a division of that State.
Lust and Hell Turned Loose by Clayton's j Surratt is at Rio Janeiro.
Loyal Bloodhounds. | Transports, with reinforcements for Dulce, are .
nearly ready to sail. The next will land at Santiago
de Cuba. .
From the Memphis Avalanche, 19/A.l
We recoil in very terror and sickness of heart
from what we have to write. Gladly would we
believe that the sad, blood-curdling tala were
but the fancy of an alarmist—the creation of a
Congressional.
WASHtNQTON, January 23 Senate.—The Senate
diseased imagination- But the truth, in justice <^avoringto get up manhood suffrage found
to outraged virtue and for the information of at* 10 quorum. It seems loth to take it up. An effort
civilized world, must be told. We have read Is now pending to make it the special order for
and written so many sickening tales from Ar- Thursday.
kansas of late, that the very name has become House.—The House is discussing BoutweU's man-
a synonym for an earthly hell, and we arc as- hood gnff amendments,
suredbv truthful citizens that the reports con- „ tft , ; , „ . — ... — .
ceming outrages and oppression in Arkansas as I Se, ate Afternoon Session. The hew York
published in fids journal have not been exagge- Chamber of Commerce protests against a change of
rated in the aggregate, bnt have fallen far short the bankrupt law.
of the whole story. Gladly would we hear that I The resolution donating cannon for the Lincoln
it was all a mistake that‘the people in our sister Monument at Springfield was passed.
State were engaged in peaceful pursuits, pro-1 The Judiciary Committee reported a bill declaring
tected, under the -aws, in life and property, and I nu q qj 0 confiscation of property by the rebel States,
secure from lawlessness, rapine and lust, but no T he Senate agreed to the amendment to the joint
such pleasing picture can be tratofufiy drawn. reaolatioIi for the remoV al of officers in Yiiginiaand
= k-^
Tate Calloway, He is loyal in a truly partisan amendment reported by Wilson, extending the pro
sense, and at the last election voted too Radical visions to Mississippi It goes back to the House :
ticket. Last Friday, toe lath instant, two ne- for concurrence.
gro militiamen and a fifteen year old negro boy I Sherman’s Railroad bill came up, but was poet-
went to too house of this Calloway and at once poned.
arrested him. After placing toe boy over him The death of Mr. Hinds was announced from the '
as a guard, they seized his wifeand her sister Houae and thoSenate rijoumei
and violated their persons in the house before I _ ,
his eyes. There was in the house at too time HousE.-The entire day was devoted to tho dia-
a small boy named Jim McGhee, but he was in- cnssion of Bout wells bill-for manhood suffrage
timidated into silence by toe pistols and threats and the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment*
of toe negroes. Having satiated their beastly I House adjourned.
lusts, they stripped and dressed themselves in I
Mr. Calloway’s clothes. They then asked Mrs. I From Alabama.
would give them nothing. They replied with thlB lt ™? 1 stated upon toe authon-
bratal jeers and oaths that they intended to sing ty of the Columbiana Guide, that Circuit Judge Bel-
a hymn over her dead body, and were about to ham had decided that the Alabama Legislature was
perpetrate further violence when some white 1 not a legal body, and that Wm. F. Smith was not a
militia came along and released Mr. Calloway, legal Governor. The dispatch correctly represented
at toe same time giving him a gun and telling the statement of too paper referred to, but the facta
him to avenge himself upon the destroyers of I ^ ^ ca80 m the80 .
ly by and made no effort to slay the brutes, who waa reported to the Governor, who was re
sumed at him, wearing his own clothes. quired pj too Constitution to issue a commission to
The white militia then arrested toe negroes I fill toe vacancy; afterwards a question arose as to
and took them off toward Marion. _ Calloway is Whether there was really a vacancy. In determining
condemned and denounced by all his neighbors I this question,- Judge Pelham. decided that if a va-
for not seizing toe weapons of toe negro boy canpy had not occurred, in the manner prescribed
guarding him in the first ptoce, and preventing py i &w the Governor’s commission designating an-
toe awful crimes committed on his household. _ , ... _ .. i ™7'. a a ZT
He is a Radical of the extremest type, it is said, other man fox that office was null and jroid. The
but we-cannot find in that fact palliation for the decision related in no way to the validity of either
deeds of toe ravishers, or entertain any less j toe Legislature or the Governor’s office,
sympathy and grief over their ruined peace and I ~~ m
happiness. 11 1 ' From Cuba
Four other rapes have been committed upon Havana, January 23 Travelers are annoyed by
white women near Marion, within a few days, j th 0 aovon passport regulations at Banco del Came-
The fall particulars have not reached ns, but we ^ have been resumed.
and that toe fiendish perpetrators go at largi by keeping a small force m his froht and mor-
unpunished, and are still depredating nnre- “8 westward. Laige forces have reached Villa
strained upon the terror-stricken people. One Clara. Steamers are engaged to bring Vaimazeda
hundred and fifty of the cavalry under command I back,
of General Upham have gone to Mississippi
county on a plundering expedition, but the in
fantry highwaymen remain to farther harass
and distress the people of Crittenden county.
Exciting &om Cuba.
Havana, January 23.—Seditious cries occurred dar
ing tho performance at the Villa Nueva Theatre.
Cries of Viva Cespedes, and many of toe audi
ence commenced singing a revolutionary hymn. A
Exit Wade. _
No man will retire from a public life on too I formidable riot ensued. Volunteers and the police
4th of March wito a worse grace than sturdy ol I exc hanged shots with the people. Many on both
mostt^uchfS*M^-fimt S fo?th| ! Senato r I aide were wounded. There is intense excitement
ship; then for toe Presidency in the Court' of | More note are expected to-day.
Impeachment, and then for the Vice-Presidency — . '* rr —
at Chicago. To toesemaynowbeadded a fourth, j Foreign News
in his failure to get into Grant's Cabinet. He London, January 23.—The Greek adhesion to the
is ill-tempered over his disappointments, and j protocol ia considered certain
suggests in his manner and disposition toward I •
all who approach him the_ familiar idea of a inveterate tobacco ehewer was in toe habit
bear with a sore frontispiece. _ it he 88 1 0 f declaring about once a month that he would
familiar with Hume as he is with Mother I ‘t B0 y or chew another piece,” but broke his
Goose, he would quote the dying words of p] 0( jo 0 often ashe made it. On one occasion,
Woolsey, altered to swt ,“? purpose, Mid la- Portly after he “broke off for good," he was
ment that if he had served his God, as faithfully I taking another chew. “Ymy, said his
as he has served his party, he would uot ae- J f^end, “you told me you had given up that hab-
sert him in his declining days. But political hut I seen you are at it again.” “Yes,” he
parties are even^inore ungratefulthanRepubliM, replied, “I have gone to chewing and left off
and do not hesitate to kick sturdy old Ben aside j
for 6r thf mSt e parT a 5 boldi^T'Office™ Akck A * 7°™? man visited toe New
Sands has been lere for sometime trying to ^yfttMe Prison, the otoer day, and among
Zriactoe a place of some kind for stirdy old P 0 *. 1 questions asked a girl the canse of her be-
Bem bnt he finds none this side of the solitude «g m suto a pUce. Her answer was,« Istote
Seclusion of Ashtabula. All of which is bad I ^r the pond and
for Wade, but worse for Sands. Poor old Ben! was arrested.
He must pack up his trunk pretty soon, and bid The com crop of 1868, according to the last
adieu to official life and its cares and vexations, report of toe Agricultural Bureau, will yield
Let us hope that in the midst of his retirement 905,178,(W0 bushels, against 767,820,000 in 1867*
he will bo consoled with a few lines from his an aggregate increase of 137,358,000 bushels,
favorite classic, which assure him that The yield in Pensylvama is estimated at 81,-
“While he lived he lived in clover, ^000 bushels, agiiifflt ^457,000 bushels in
And when he died he died all over.” 1867. an increase of 1,219,000 bnshela.
Exit sturdy old Ben I Minr According to Professor Poey, the temperature
. m " j of the sea always diminishes as we approach
a lieutenant, he was one day at Washington, During * senea of experimente d the
sunning himself in a bran new outfit at the door centage ox crude oil per ton in Bna&n cow
of his hotel. where a crowd of boys gathered, distillation, it was found that they averaged
and one of them inquired: “Mister, where’s j gallons; Derbyshire coal yielding siighty-two
your engine going to squirt ?” 1 Ions, and Newcastle forty-eight.
