Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, January 29, 1869, Image 3
■v 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 “Dollar” lands have been withdrawn from market every, where; and that movements in lands are extra' ordinarily active this winter, for Georgia, we know from the unusual demand for blank deeds.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.