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The Greorgia "W eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 18C0.
County Matters.
We learned on Saturday that county eviden
ces of debt to the amount of about thirty-three
thousand dollars were on file in the Ordinary's
office, and deponent is unable to say how many
more will come in. Application, we presume,
will be made to the Legislature for a funding
sot, under which the debt, in part, can be con
solidated into the shape of negotiable bonds.
This debt is, for the most part, the accumu
lated liabilities of by-gone years, and of one
. year, in especial, wherein, owing to civil disor
ders no State or county revenue was collected.
That was the year 1805, according to our recol
lection.
To add to tho vexations of the situation, as
every body knows, tho county is without a Court
house or jail, and both these needs must be sup
plied notwithstanding the debt. Towards the
•’Court-house there is a fund in hand amounting
to twenty thousand dollars, realised from the
sale of the old site and building; but as it will
be sound economy to pnt np a proper, commo
dious and sightly structure, while we are about
it, the twenty thousand may not cover half the
■actual expense.
For the jail, an act of the Legislature exists
•empowering a special tax levy of fifteen thou
sand dollars, and this, perhaps, may be sufficient,
if, as is proposed, tho city and county authori
ties co-operate in erecting a single structure to
serve the double purpose of a guard-house and
county jail.
- We have heard the city authorities contem
plate a site on the river bank at the foot of
-Socond street, and this would also be a conveni
ent point for a county jail. The present guard
house interferes with the opening trade pros
pects of Fourth street, and it is, therefore, to bo
sold.
As misery likes company, we may console
ourselves, that if Bibb county finances are in an
•unpromising condition, and taxes must be highr
■er, die is not alone in her misfortunes. The
Columbus Sun says the county taxes of Musco
gee will doubtless be high this season. Some
$35,000 will have to be raised. The total re
turned value of county property will be about
: seven million dollars. Bridges are in a bad fix,
- and tho treasury is not in a very hopeful condi-
•tion. Debts are heavy—about $25,000.
State Agricultural Society—Journal of
Proceedings.—We are indebted to Mr. Samuel
. Echols, Acting Secretary, for a pamphlet report
-of the proceedings of the State Agricultural So
ciety, with the action of the Farmers’ Conven
tion, and the Agricultural and Manufacturing
Association of Georgia, in session in Macon,
'Georgia, December 0th, 10th and 11th, J8GS, to
which is appended the report of Bev. C. W.
Howard on the resources and condition of Geor
gia, and an essay by CoL Frank P. Schaller on
Immigration. ,
Lands in Decatur.—The ThomasVillo En-
.rteiprise is informed that one of the largest and
best_plantations in Decatur county, of over 3000
i acres/wedd a few days ago at less than $3,00 per
• acre p anH/feat anothor gentleman is now offer
ing a largo body of river bottom lands at $2,40
per acre. • On the contrary, lands in the middle
' • part of the State are seBiog from $8 to $10 per
acre. Southern Georgia now offers moro ad
vantages to settlers than any other portion of
the State.
OKewCounties in Alabama.—The Sun says that
at the late session of the Alabama Legislature,
Jour new counties were formed in that State—
Escambia, Geneva, Baker and Grant. Escam
bia is neared out of Baldwin and Conecuh: Ge-
nota, out of .Dale and Coffee; Baker, out of
Shelby; Bibb arid Autauga, and Grant, out of
Montgomery and Pike. These added to the
- otfceroKvw counties formed in that State since
xMfrd war, gives Alabama sixty-six. The county
of Brine bas been changed to Etowah, and
Jones to Sandford.
Appeal to the Ku-Klux.—In the Nashville
Bepnblican Banner of the 15tb, Ex-Governor
Neil S. Brown addresses an appeal to the Ten
nessee Ku-Klux to abandon their organization
. and cease their operations as fatal to law, peace,
, good order and the prosperity of the State.
'Steamships Between New York and Apalach
icola.—The Columbus Sun says: A line of
steamers and sailing vessels is soon to be estab
lished between New York and Apalachicola to
connect with tho Chattahoochee river boats.
All heavy freight once came this way, and if it
be made as low as formerly, and the railroads
retain their present tariff, it will be again. This
route has for some time been abandoned. Re
establishment will draw to it on extensive trade.
•Commodore Tatnall.—The Bepnblican says
ftiia gallant old veteran bus returned to Savan
nah. The Commodore has, with his family,
been residing in Nova Scotia since the close of
•the war, bnt has tired of his banishment, and
come back with the hope of spending the re
mainder of his days in his native State among
I bicoid friends who love him so well.
srxix.RAii.soad.—We have copies of the of-
{ fleial annual reports of the officers of the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad to the Governor for
t.the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1868, neatly
. printed at the office of the Atlanta Era. In
; another column of this issue of the Telegraph,
, we have copied from the Era a synopsis of con-
v tents, and when we have more leisure will ex-
* amine-, the pamphlet for ourselves.
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"Me. Gove.—We h&vo received from Hon S.
F. Gove a communication to tho Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society, from the Com
missioner of Agriculture, which shall be for
warded. Also numerous bills and public docu
ments for which we are much obliged.
Greenbacks Exempt from State Taxation.
—In the Supreme Court on Monday Chief Justice
Chase read the opinion of tho Court in the New
iSork bank case, deciding that certificates of in-
• Sebteiness for three per cent, certificates and
lUoited States notes, or greenbacks, are exempt
ifromtState taxation.
Indiana Senator.—A caucus of the Republi
can members of the Legislature was held Friday
morning. Cumback’s name was withdrawn, and
the Hon. D. S. Pratt, of Logans port, was nom-
nated for Senator. The latter was elected in
joint convention, at noon. The vote stood:
(Pratt, 83; Hendricks, CO; absent and paired
* off,.7. m
The Chance for Virginia,—A special to the
'NewYork Tribune from Washington,21st, says:
* The Massachusetts delegation are reported, with
- one <poe*ible exception, to be favorable to the
' Virginia plan of settlement, and its friends to-
* day are very sanguine of its success. They rely
< much on the known sympathy of Gen. Grant,
-and would be glad they say to have him dispose
■of the matter.
Twxtchzlx, Mcubes Case.—The prosecution
abandoned the case against Mrs. Twitchell, of
Philadelphia, charged with the murder of her
• mother, and the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty, in aooordance with the instructions of
the oourt. Her husband has been convicted of
. murder in the first degree.
The: Southern Express office at Rome, Ga.,
was robbed of a messenger safe on Saturday
morning last. The safe had that night come in
from Selma, and contained seven hundred dot-
4Mi in man# sad drafts.
Sorghum Sugar.
We have in onr office a sample, amounting in
quantity to two or three pounds, of bright dean,
lively straw-colored sugar, manufactured from
Sorghum by the “Louisville Sorgo Company,”
and which is just as handsome and well-tasted as
any New Orleans crude sugar. Indeed, every one
would pronounce it New Orleans raw sugar, if
not told its history. We learn that this is made
without chemical process, by simply defecating
the juice of the Sorghum before it is boiled. It
is then reduced by boiling to the point of chrys-
talization and the sugar is found to granulate as
readily as in syrup from cane.
We have also a specimen of the syrup, which
is light, dear and well tasted as any of the fancy
syrups of the grocers, and quite as free from
the addulous flavor of the common Sorghum
syrup. We are informed that the product of
this sugar to the acre from Kentucky Sorghum
has proven to vary from 800 to 1200 pounds,
and, it is supposed, would be still greater in
Georgia, where, as everybody knows, Sorghum
will grow beyond reason.
These samples were brought ns by Mr. W. J.
Underwood, of the house of O. W. Thomas &
Co., Louisville, now in Macon; bnt Mr. Under
wood has no other interest in the matter than
what every intelligent reader will feel in so im
portant a discovery.
All experiments in the manufacture of sugar
from Sorghum having hitherto been attended
with very unsatisfactory results, the perfect suc
cess which has been achieved by the Louisville
Company is destined to produce a great revolu
tion in the sugar trade. It will lead to laige pro
duction. The entire scope of country from
Southern Illinois to tho Gulf may become a
profitable sugar producing region. Sorghum
will be more prolific in sugar than the sugarcane
itself, and the production and consumption of
this staple article of food will receive a prodigi-
ons stimulus.
Stewart Comity .Mails.
Stewart county, Georgia, seems to be literally
*n “a bad fix” for mails. A friend writes ua
from Lumpkin, Jan. 23d, 18C9: “ There is, in
point of fact, no mail to this place. It is twenty-
three miles from Cuthbert, and it is nominally
under contract for a mail three times a week, but
does not get that number of mails a month. No
MATT. HAS REACHED HERE DC TWENTY DAYS FROM
this date. The citizens beg you to look into
this matter and implore the attention of the
special agent to the way in which they are
treated.”
We hope Mr. Woodward will look into affairs
in Stewart county. We have no doubt he will
do so if this paragraph meets his eye, and mean
while let our Stewart county friends memorialize
him, themselves.
We received yesterday a remittance from
Knoxville, Crawford county, mailed 5th instant
—twenty day’s coming as many miles. Some
accident must have delayed it
Oct. Banking Capital.—We copy elsewhere,
says the Savannah Republican of Sunday, from
the Washington correspondence of the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel, an abstract of the con
dition of the National Banks of Georgia on the
1st of January, inst It will be seen that our
present banking capital is about an eighth of
that employed before the war, and that larger
than a twentieth of the amount necessary to
move the last year’s cotton crop. The heavy
profits, too, of this million six hundred thousand
of banking capital, is worthy of note. After
paying large semi-annual dividends and all ex
penses of management, they have accumulated,
within the last three years, a surplus fund and
undivided profits to the amount of $465,176 80,
or more than a fourth of the entire capital em
ployed. 'Who would not like to be a banker on
snch terms? As “Simon Suggs” remarked,
‘somebody must suffer!”
West India Cotton Seed.—We are indebted,
says the Columbus Enquirer, to Mr. G. W.
Davis, of Upson county, for a few seed of the
fine variety of Cotton raised by him near Thom-
aston, of which we made mention a week or two
ago. The staple of this Cotton is very fine and
silky, and the seed are black, many of them
ginning out entirely clear of lint and os smooth
and glossy as a black pea. We understand that
Mr. Davis still has some of the seed on hand.
A Serious Fault.—It was pompously said by
the late Henry W. Davis that Jas. L. Pettigrew,
John Minor Botts and Joshua Hill were the only
Southern Union men of prominence during the
“nation’s agony.” Qnoting this expression, the
Chicago Tribune alludes to Mr. Hill thus:
“If he had been a carpet-bagger, without a
bona fide residence in Georgia, there would
probably have been less opposition to him on
the part of the screeching wing of the Senate.”
Not being a carpet-bagger, he is supposed to
be thoroughly incorruptible—a bad recommend
ation for the Senate of the United States.—Con
stitutionalist.
The Injunction Against the Columbia and
Augusta Railroad.—The Augusta Constitution
alist learns that the injunction recently granted
by Justice Willard against the Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, to prevent the nso of the right
of way claimed, was dissolved on yesterday by
Judge Boozer. Whatever may be tho opinion
of some, toe news will undoubtedly be received
with pleasure by a large number of our citizens.
Items from the Monroe Advertiser.
Field Hands.—Wc learn that the farmers of
this connty have Dot been able, as yet, to get as
many hands as are necessary to cultivate their
farms the present year. Some, we understand,
have no laborers, and unless they can get them,
will cultivate but few acres of their land. The
negroes seem to decrease every year, and onr
people will have to procure white labor to keep
their farms in operation. Like the Indian, the
negro race will soon pass away, and be remem
bered only as the causo of the subversion of the
American Republic.
Col. John Pinckard, the oldest citizen of this
town, and father of Col. James S. Pinckard,
died at the residence of the latter, here, last
Friday morning. CoL Pinckard was, for many
years before the war, one of the most promi
nent and opulent citizens of this connty.
Judge Speer.—Our esteemed fellow-citizen,
Jndge Alex. M. Speer, removed to Griffin yes
terday. We are sorry to lose snch a good man
and citizen from the community. Our loss,
however, has been the gain of tho good people
of Griffin. May good fortune attend the Judge
in his new home, and may his fellow-citizens
of Spalding county appreciate the worth of a
courteous gentleman and erudite jurist.
Judge Monroe Clower, new member elect
to the Legislature from this connty, was sworn
in and took his sent last Wednesday. Judge
Zellner was in attendance at the opening of the
Legislature.
We have a good representation from Monroe
connty in these gentlemen. The former occu
pies the seat of W. A. Ballard, deceased, and tho
latter that of the expelled colored member from
this connty, George H. Clower, formerly the
property of Judge Clower. And although the
Clowers seem to be popular in this connty, wo
are glad that the top rail has been placed on top
again.
Murder and Robbery in Baker Connty
The Bainbridge Southern Georgian of the
21st instant says:
Russell, a hard working and honest old negro,
from near Milford, in Baker county, who had
been down here trading and then on his way
back, was bmtually murdered, and robbed near
Oliver Arnett's plantation about six miles from
here, on the night of the 6th instant, by a negro
named General Amos.
The body of the unfortunate man was found
on the 18th about one hundred yards from the
road. The black scoundrel shot him down in
the public road, and then dragged his body to
the spot where it was found by a Mr. Hays,
who lives on the farm. From the best informa
tion he was killed for thirty dollars. The offi
cers of the law are after the perpetrator.
Caught.—Our efficient Sheriff JB. B, Waugh,
caught and lodged in jail on last Tuesday, the
negro General Amos, charged with G** murder
of Vie wry Bussell, colored.
Virginia Affhlrs and Gen. Grant.
The reader is doubtless aware of the very
critical state of affairs in Virginia, and the steps
taken by her leading citizens, with the sanction
of a large majority of the people, to achieve, if
possible, a State government which will not be
fatal to the progress and prosperity of that
illustrious commonwealth. The State Constitu
tion proposed by the Radicals disfranchises a
very large proportion of the whites altogether,
and proposes terms of eligibility to office
which, it is said, will exclude ninety-five in the
hundred of her white population. This Con
stitution is, in short, a scheme to turn Virginia
over entirely to the negroes and carpet-baggers.
To prevent such a catastrophe, a convention
of leading men has sent a committee of nine to
Washington, headed by A. H. H. Stewart, who
have submitted certain compromise propositions
to Congress. They have proposed to accept
universal suffrage, coupled with universal am
nesty and eligibility, and they have submitted
certain amendments to the Constitution to make
it harmonize with this proposition. If they can
succeed, they will have saved the State. There
are at least twenty thousand white majority in
Virginia, on the universal suffrage basis, and
with a full show of hands there will bo no great
difficulty in the way of Virginia.
Singular as it may appear, however, a course
in Virginia dictated by the direst necessity of
self-preservation has been made tho occasion of
severe invective on the part of some Southern
prints, as well as of brutal jibes on the part of
certain Northern Radical papers. The Virginia
Committee of Nine will, however, as we believe,
carry its point. The Whig publishes a private
dispatch from Washington to Governor Wells,
of Wisconsin, now Executive, in tho Hnnnicutt
interest, of Virginia, which announces dole
fully:
“ All is lost! Grant has joined the Committee
of Nine.”
The Dispatch reports an interview between
the Committee and General Grant, on which
General Grant is reported as declaring himself
as follows:
“He expressed himself as being warmly in
favor of striking out the disfranchising clauses
of that instrument, tho homestead clause, and
the provisions relating to connty organization,
which last he seems to regard as moro objection
able even than the rest. He said that if per
mitted to stand as a part of the Constitution
they would necessitate the election of negro
Judges, Sheriffs, Magistrates, Clerks, Common
wealth's Attorneys, Constables, Ac., Ac., and
that the condition of affairs would be so intol
erable that in those localities where there is a
preponderance of blacks the whites would be
compelled to remove and seek homes in other
portions of the State. He expressed the wish
that the proposed arrangement may be speedily
carried out, and indicated his confidence in such
a result”
And even the rampant radicalism of Boutwell
has been modified. The Washington corre
spondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
Mr. Boutwell, as has been well said, is care
ful enough to observe that Virginia is the only
State that has sent a delegation of its native
conservative population to aid Congress in the
work of reconstruction, and give practical and
permanent effect to the laws of Congress. He
thinks that this auspicious movement of the Vir
ginians deserves every encouragement, and
that a compliance with at least some portion of
their reasonable demands will do more to pro
mote unity and peace, and secure respect for
the motives of the Republican party than all
the proscriptive laws that could be enacted.
Under these circumstances, we believe the
practical wisdom of Virginia will be vindicated,
and she will have made the best possible out of
a bad bargain, which was all that could be done.
The State Rond—CoI.IIuIbcrt’.s Report
From tl- Atlanta Nerr Era.]
The annual report of tho Superintendent of
this road, for tho fiscal year ending September
30th, 18G8, is a document of great length, but of
unusual clearness and ability. It embraces the
reports of the subordinate officers, showing the
condition and management of the road in all its
particulars of detaiL A careful and critical pe
rusal of the report, cannot fail to satisfy every
impartial and candid mind, that tho road has
never been under abler management, under any
administration, from tho day of its completion
to the present time.
The report shows the total receipts for the
year to be $943,007,24; total expenditures$G77,-
287,12. lie extraordinary expenditures, snch
as for equipment, depot buildings, new build
ings, real estate, bridging and re-laying track,
amount to over twenty-two thousand dollars—
thus showing the ratio of working expenses to
receipts to be seventy per cent. This is cer
tainly a fine showing and one that commends
tho administration of CoL Hulbert to the thougt-
ful men of all parties.
The report of the superintendent abounds
with many valuable suggestions touching the
right-of-way, (still in litigation;) recommends
tho thorough ballasting of the road bed, the re
laying of about 48 miles of old track, which
in its present Condition, is neither safe nor econ
omical ; the replacing of truss work (now de-
decayed and unsafe) by substantial masonry,
the repairing of the Union passenger and freight
depots at Chnttannooga, the building of a suit
able passenger depot at Atlanta, and th8 repair
ing of most of the depots on the line of the
road. The estimated cost of repairing these
last ho puts down at six thousand dollars. The
wooden buildings in present use for machine
and car shops should, he thinks, be replaced by
fire-proof structures, and upon a scale commen
surate with the future wonts of the road. The
importance of these improvements can hardly
be over-estimated; and it will be remembered
by many that Col. Hulbert’s predecessor, Maj.
Wallace, made the samo recommendation during
his administration. These buildings would cost
from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars, de
pending upon their dimensions, and the materi
al used in their construction.
Upon the old custom of permitting cattlo to
run at large, and then suing railroads in dam
ages for loss of such cattle when run over or
killed by locomotives, the Superintendent is no
less severe in manner than he is correct in po
sition. Upon this subject he says:
The railways of Georgia transport many thou
sands of passengers doily, whose lives are hourly
endangered by the permission of this extremely
dangerous and destructive custom.
Stock should not be permitted to run at large
upon tho lino of ijulways.
If the lives of human beings are to be placed
in the balance against those of cattle, this cus
tom should be continued; but if human lifo is
regarded of greater value than cattle, mules and
hogs, it should be changed by legislative enact
ment.
This road has paid, within tho last twelve
months, nearly six thousand dollars for stock
killed—a sum far in excess of the legal intererst.
on fifty-five thousand dollars, the amount neces-
sary to fence the entire road! “Further legis
lation," says Col. Hnlbert, “is necessary upon
tho liability of failroadsfor stockkilledby them,”
and most reasonable men will agree with him
that there is neither justice nor propriety in hold
ing Railroad Companies responsible, when in
the pursuit of their legitimate business, upon
their own grounds, and under their chartered
rights, they may bo so unfortunate as to loll the
stock of a party who either carelessly or wilfully
turns the same loose upon the road, thereby en
dangering its property and the lives of passens
gers.
The list of claims against the road for dam
ages, &c., amount in the aggregate to nearly
thirty-three thousand dollars, all of which is in
suit except about thirteen thousand dollars.
A large portion of these are for personal in
juries received by employees when on duty.—
“Existing laws,” the Superintendant thinks,
‘relative to the liabilities of railroads in this
particular are both onorous and unjust.”
The reduction of freight on coal has resulted
in its increased consumption and proved a source
of increased revenue to the road. In 18G7,
there were only 9,800 bushels of coal shipped
over the road; whilst in 1868, under the new
tariff, there were 23,400bushels shipped—show
ing an increase of nearly fourteen thousand
bushels, with an increased revenue to the rood,
from this source alone, of $924,07. Similar re
sults have followed the reduction of rates on iron
ore, pig and manufactured iron; whilst in or
der to enable the farmers on the line of the
road to ship the perishable products of their
farms, to advantage to themselves and the road,
a reduction of former rates bas been made, and
a corresponding reduction obtained from con
necting roads terminating at this place.
Florida is now beauteous with peach bloe-
WASIIIXGTOX CORRESPONDENCE.
MIDDIES FROM AT.ABAMA—CONVENTIONS, NEGROES,
women’s RIGHTS, PEACE AND SO ON—CONGRESS
AND THE BANKS—REPEAL OF THE TKNUBE-OF-OF*
OICE BILL AND SO ON.
Washington, D. O., Jan. 22, 1869.
Editors Tdegroph: Mr. Norris of Alabama,
yesterday, reported from the Reconstruction
Committee, and engineered through the House of
Representatives, a bill directing the Secretary
of the Navy to appoint befora the fourth of
Marchnext, cadets tothe Naval Academy, on the
nomination of members of Congress from that
State. As the law now stands the Secretary of
the Navy can appoint only between the fourth
of March and the first of July, and as the Repre
sentatives from Alabama in the Forty-first Con
gress will not bo elected until August next, the
passage of such an act was necessary to secure
the appointment of midshipmen from that State.
Tins month, so far, has been an eventful one
for Washington. We have had the Colored
National Convention, doing business for all the
children of Ham. The Woman’s Rights Con
vention,doing business for everybody in general,
and benefitting nobody in particular—all within
the past two weeks,and now we have ^“Univer
sal Peace Society,” whichis composed largely of
the same individuals who participated in the
other conventions. The Societyhas already had
one meeting, at which was presented, in sub
stance, tho following resolutions: First, sug
gesting an amendment to the Constitution of the
the United States, by taking out of it everything
inconsistent with the divine attributes of God.
Second, declaring in favor of the abolition of
the death penalty. Third, in favor of equal
rights, as removing a source of disturbance en
dangering to the home, the community and the
Union. Fourth, demanding a radical change in
the treatment of Indians; and in this connec
tion, denouncing General Sheridan, and de
manding faithful fulfillment of Indian treaties.
Speeches were made by the Hon. LucreciaMott
and the Hon. Mrs. Archibald, of Kansas, and
others.
The members of the Society have not, as yet,
commenced the usual round of visits but, it is
expected they will call in a body on Gen. Grant
and tho other distinguished personages whoso
motto is “Let ns have Peace,” and they may
also petition Congress in aid of their designs,
but this is doubtful, as it is too well understood
that peaceful measures in Congress stand less
show than a cat in “Hades” without claws.
Beau Hickman has been favorably mentioned
as permanent President of this Society, but the
old hero pronounces tho subject entirely too dry
for him, and it is thought that he will emphati
cally decline the honor.
It was reported hero yesterday that a move
ment was about to be inaugurated in New York,
among the banks of that city, to lock np green
backs, and thereby tighten the money market;
so as to produce a decline in stocks and securi
ties. To obviate this, the House Banking and
Currency Committee have prepared and will in
troduce in the House to-day or to-morrow, a
bill providing that it shall bo unlawful for any
bank, association, corporation, person or per
sons, to loan money upon United States legal
tender notes, commonly knowu as greenbacks,
as collateralsecurity, or where the custody or
promise of custody of said legal tender notes
form any part of the security or consideration
for such loan; and for any offense under this
act, the bank, association, corporation, etc.,
etc., so offending, shall, upon conviction there
of in any United States Court, pay a sum equal
to one-third of tho money so loaned; and tho
President and Cashier of any bank, association
or corporation, making said unlawful loan or
loans, shall payafurther sum equal to one quar
ter of the money so loaned. The same may be
sued for by any person within the State where
said offense is committed, and the forfeit there
of shall belong to the person or persons bring-
ng said suit.
This bill will hardly command a hearing in
the House. There are too many members in
terested in Wall street speculations. Honest
Mr. Washburn, of Galena, Illinois, may, per
haps, give it his unqualified support, and there
by lead some of the noodles of the House to
believe that it is the wish of General Grant that
the bill should pass; but even this will scarcely
attract a corporal’s guard to its support
The repeal of the Tenure-of-office act contin
ues to be a leading topic of conversation among
the friends and opponents of that measure, in
and out of Congress. There appears to be a'
great diversity of opinion at present, among
Senators on the subject. Some believe, how
ever, that as the President elect asks for the re
peal, the Senate will, before the end of the
session, concur in the action of the House.
Tho “Carnot of the War Office” is just now
greatly exercised over a report published over
the country, to the effect that he issued the
order directing Gen. Banks to relieve Gen. Grant
immediately after the latter’s unsuccessful as
sault on the Confederate works, at Vicksburg,
in 1863; and both himself and friends are ac
tive in their denunciations of the report, in so
far as it attempts to fix the responsibility of the
order on Mr. Stanton. There is no question
but what tho order was issued, and that it came
directly from the office of the Secretary of War.
The fact will most likely be determined in a few
days os to whether Mr. Stanton, Mr. Lincoln or
Gen. Halleck is guilty of this effort to crush
the military aspirations of the President elect.
In this connection it may be stated that Stanton
disclaims any desire for an appointment of any
discription under the incoming administration.
^ Kentuck.
National Banks in Georgia.
Our readers will find, in onr Washington cor
respondence, an abstract of the condition of the
National Banks in Georgia on the first Monday
of January, I860. This statement presents some
striking features, among which are the insuffi
ciency of onr banking facilities and tho great
profitableness of currency banking in Georgia.
The capital employed is only about one-eighth
of the amount of banking capital in use before
the war, while tho movements of trade require
at least as groat a sum now as then. The cotton
crop of our State alone, of this year, will em
ploy thirty millions at least to move it, while the
■banking capital is shown to be only one million
six hundred thousand dollars for this purpose.
We say nothing of the wants of other branches
of business, and we have only about one-twen
tieth of the sum of bank capital requisite to
move tho cotton crop. This shows onr fanners
how completely they are dependent on foreign
capital, which, by its control, can regulate the
cotton markets and gold markets; and demon
strates the necessity for farmers to keep out of
debt, by holding a good surplus in gold to meet
their current yearly expenses. If the farmer is
in debt, or has not provided for his wages, sup
plies and fertilizers, he is obliged to force his
cotton on the market to meet advances, or to
make purchases, and if such credit system pre
vails generally, he is obliged to take that .price
which can and will be fixed by money rings,
outside of the natural price regulated by supply
and demand.
It will be perceived that the surplus fund and
undivided profits amounts to $465,176.80, or
more than one-fourth of the whole capital em
ployed. This accumulation of undivided profits
is ihe result of three yeajs’ business and is over
and above the heavy disbursements for expenses
in beginning and carrying on the business and
handsome semi-annual dividends that have been
paid to stockholders, of five and ten per cent per
annum. While wo are glad to notice this evi
dence of prosperity of the Southern Banks, we
cannot omit again to call the attention of farm
ers to the rate of interest which they must ex
pect to pay if they run their farms upon a oredit
schedule. Farmers who pursue such c policy
must add at least one-third to this calculation of
farm expemeu and expect to see his crops forced
upon the market according to the interest and
necessities of moneylenders.—Chronicle <b Sen.
tML' ■ f ,’Z. . . , .
Decisions of the Supreme Court of
Georgia. - r'.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, JANUARY 19, 1869.
From the Atlanta Oonttitution.]
Isaac V. W. Ducher, Plaintiff in error vs. Jus
tices of the Inferior Court, Fulton county,
Defendant in error.—Motion from Fulton
county.
McCay, J.—A witness for the State, in a crim
inal case, who, in obedience to a subpoena served
upon him while temporarily in this State, act
ually comes from his home in a distant State
where he resided when the subpoena was Arved
upon him, and testifies in the case, is entitled
to mileage for the whole distance traveled, in
coming from and returning to his home.
Judgment reversed.
Hoge & Spraybeiy by the reporter for Plain
tiff in error.
W. H. Dabney for Defendant in error.
John A. Long, plaintiff in error, vs. the State,
defendant in error—Murder—from Bartow.
McCay, J.—1st. It is too late, after arraign
ment, to object to an indictment on the ground
that it fails to allege the defendant to be a resi
dent of the county in which the bill is found.
2d. When it appeared that the venue in a
murder case was changed, on the motion of the
prisoner, at the April term, 1868, from Gordon
county to Bartow connty, and the case was call
ed for trial in Bartow county, at November term,
1868, the defendant is charged with notice that
the case will then be called, and he cannot ex
cuse himselt for want of diligence in preparing
for trial, by his affidavit that he did not know
the case had been moved to Bartow, and would
be called for trial at the next regular November
term.
3d. The simple fact that the defendant has
been in jail, in a distant county, does not excuse
him for want of diligence in preparing for triaL
The absence of counsel “on whom the defen-
dent mostly relies,” unless shown to be neither
by negleetnor by collusion, is not a good ground
for continuance.
4th. When a motion is made to continue at
the calling of a cause, the movant must take all
his ground; he cannot, afterhis motion has been
made and overruled, file aplea based on facts,
known at the time, setting np a special defence,
and then move to continue the new issue thus
tendered.
5th. This court will not interfere with the dis
cretion of tho Jndge in refusing a continuance,
unless there is an abuse of the discretion the law
has merely reposed in him.
6th. The plea of insanity, provided for by sec.
4234 of Irwin’s Code, is a plain abatement, and
must show that the defendant is insane at the
time of the triaL Its object is to ascertain if
the prisoner can then be tried; not to determine
his guilt or innocence of the crime charged.
J. Glenn, A. B. Culberson, for plaintiff in er
ror.
W. H. Dabney, for Solicitor General, for
State.
William Watkins, plaintiff in error, vs, John D.
Pope, defendant in error—Attachment—Ful
ton county.
McCay, J.—When A sold to B a stock of mer
chandise, in consideration that B would pay a
certain debt of $500 due by A, to which B was
security; and in further consideration that B
would pay the debts due by A for the stock of
goods, which amounted to $1,500. Held that
the mode of payment was a part of the consid
eration ; and that even as to the $1,500, A has
no right of action against B until he foils, or
unreasonably delays to pay the debts due by A
for the stock of goods.
Nor can a general creditor of A, in tho ab
sence of any fraud or collusion between the
parties with intent to hinder or defraud the cred
itors of A, subject, by the process of garnish
ment, this obligation of B to the payment of the
debt the creditor holds against A.
Hammond, Mynatt <fc Welbom for plaintiff in
error.
Lochrane & Clark for defendant in error.
P. H. Kilgo, Plaintiff in error vs. R. J. Castle-
besy, Defendant in error. Bill, etc., from
Union county.
McCay, J.—When an attachment is levied on
real estate, and before judgment on the attach
ment, an execution, on a common law judgment
in favor of other parties against the defendant,
is levied on tho same real estate, the Sheriff
may proceed to sell under the last levy, and the
purchaser gets a good title.
When an execution against two joint-obligors
is levied on the property of one of them, the
other defendant has a right to buy the property
at the sale, and he gets the full title of his co
defendant to the property.
Moro general charges of fraud, with no speci
fication of fraudulent acts, arc not sufficient to
give a Court of Equity jurisdiction, to set aside
a Sheriff’s sale.
When a fi. fa. against two joint obligors, they
being mutually interested in the consideration,
is satisfied by the sale of the property of one of
them, the other is indebted to him for contribu
tions, according to the equitable rights of the
two in tho original contracts, and the creditors
of the obligor whose property has been sold,
may reach this obligation to contribute by pro
cess of garnishment, and have therefore a rem
edy at law.
Judgment affirmed.
Weir, Boyd & Wimpy, for plaintiff in error.
W. P. -Price, for defendant in error.
Notes of Jews in New York.
A writer in the Evening Post says of the Jews
in this city: They have oertainlyby private
contributions among themselves gone far beyond
any other people in this country, perhaps beyond
any in the world. No people have ever given
more practical evidence of their faith in their
own religious belief than the Jews. No people
ever gave a better example of industry, temper
ance, morality, education and liberality, or made
fewer claims upon the charity of others than
these of the Hebrew denomination in this city.
Their hospitals and their other benevolent insti
tutions are not only princely, but they do not
suffer by comparison with those of any other
people.
There is something almost sublime in passing
through Broadway and other streets, on Satur
day. to see not only the rich bnt the poor with
their shops closed—thus without any reduction
of expenses giving one-sixth of their time in
confirmation of their faith in the religion they
profess. It is true they love their gold, and it
is also true they love their religion better. Chris
tians may be equally good, but they make no
pecuniary sacrifice like this. The industry, pa
tience and economy of the Jews are rapidly and
jnstly securing for them in atmost every city in
the Union a commanding influence and a laige
share of the trade. In almost all places of im
portance there are men whose names are anhonor
to any community.
The late Harman Hendricks of this city, dur
ing a long life, was ever known and beloved as
kind, noble and generous in all the relations of
life,- no act of has could ever be construed into
oppression; the widow and the fatherless always
found themselves safe in his hands; no busi
ness was allowed to intrude upon his Sunday
(which was Saturday,) till after the sun was down,
when he generally left his house for his office;
there drew perhaps two or three checks for ob
jects of benevolence, took his letters and papers
and returned quietly home. One of his daily
devotions was probably reading Heb xiiL lGth:
“To do good and to distribute forget not, for
with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” And
again: “Turn not thy face from any poor man.”
This he carried out.' Before he left his home
in the morning for his office, his daily custom
was to provide himself with silver of various
denominations, and follow the above divine in
junctions. If he met an old man, poor and de
jected, he would hand him a dollar—a person
with less claim, half that sum—but to all some
thing, as he could judge of the necessities of
their case. In large transactions the benevo
lence of his character was equally well illustra
ted. At the time of the great fire, in 1835, when
confidence in insurance stocks was prostrated,
and the capital of the Manhattan Fire Insurance
Company was lost—in which Mr. Hendricks had
long held a commanding influence—he at once
proposed to his co-directors to reorganize and
subscribe for the now stock, and agreed to fur
nish the whole capital, at simple interest, giv
ing the profits to those who would unite and re
instate the company. His name is an honor to
his family and to the community.
The Jews now are fast becoming among our
largest real estate holders. In addition to the
many princely estates by inheritance, they
probably own many milnons of dollars in this
city, all the proceeds of their own industry,
frugality and uncompromising contempt of all
difficulties. Their iron determination knows no
defeat; it commands success, and as often as
another class by their folly and extravagance are
obliged to sell the earnings of their fathers,
these people, by industry, will be able and ready
to buy.
Antly Jshjuoa,
A TRIBUTE TO THE RETIRING FERansERT—TLE v*.
kksbbe gubernatorial race. T **'
“ Mack” writes as follows in his last letter
the Cincinanti Enquirer : * - ,
Few of our Presidents have ever retired •-
the White House with less of rail
will accompany Mr. Johnson’s farewell on than?
of March. And with equal truth it may be mS
that few, in retiring, have ever better desereJ
the thanks and good wishes of the AmericaiW
pie for sincerity of purpose and an honest
to administer the office for tho best interests ?,
the country. In saying which I do not nJ:
to be understood as expressing the belief
the United States never had abetter PresiiW
—but that, judged by the purity of his a?
tires and his unselfish intentions to do hk
whole duty, he far surpasses any of
recent Executives. That he has commit
ted great errors, he himself will, I
Chas. C. Clayton, Plaintiff in error vs. Warren
Akin, Executors. Bill for direction from Bar
tow.
McCay, J.—1. A money legacy left to the
Executor of a will, though expressed to be “in
addition to the usual commission allowed by law,
and as a full compensation for any extra trouble
ho may have in executing the will,” is a general
legacy and cannot, as a legacy, be exempted
from abatement, with other general legacies,
in case of a deficiency of assets.
2d. When a testator, in a singlo item of his
will, gave to his wife $1,500 in money, various
articles of personal property and a life estate in
a certain house and lot and its appurtenances,
with tho privilege, if she so desired, to take
$1000 instead of the life-estate in the house and
lot and in a subsequent item he distinctly de
clared that tho “ legacy left his wife is in lieu
of dower": Held, that the word “legacy” in
the last item, covers all the several bequests of
tho first, and should she prefer the $1000 in lieu
of the life-estate, and elect to take her “legacy”
in lien of dower, she takes all tho several be
quests in her character as dowerless.
3d. When a legacy left a wife is - expressed to
be in lien of dower, and she elects to take the
"legacy,” she takes it as a quasi purchaser,
and, in a contest betweenher and other legatees;
whether general or specific, she cannot be called
upon to abate with them, to make np a deficien
cy of assets.
4 th. A legacy in Georgia may be adeemed by
the delivery of the property to'the legatee, dur
ing tho life time of the testator, and if it be so
adeemed, it does not pass under the will, and is
not subject to abate on a deficiency of assets.
5th. Whethera legacy basin fact been adeem
ed, is a question of fact, to be left to a jury un
der the evidence in the particular case. The
delivery of the legatee must be of such a char
acter as to show that it was the intent of the
testator to part, at the time, irrevocably with his
dominion over the property.
W. T. Wofford, L. E. Bleckley, for plainitff
to error.
D. A. Walker and W. Akin, for defendant in
error. __
National Banks of Georgia.
Wabhingnon, January 19.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: The follow
ing is an abstract of the condition of the eight
National banks in the State of Georgia, showing
their condition on the morning of the first Mon
day of the present month before the commence
ment of business:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts $2,281,478 42
Overdrafts 6,022 49
U. 8. bonds to secure circulation 1,S83,500 00
U. 8. bonds to secure deposits 200,000 00
Othorstocks, bonds and mortgages..., 25,736 67
Due from approved redeeming agents, 379,356 09
Due from National banks 176,194 76
Due from other banks and bahkers.... 109,760 28
Beal estate, furniture and fixtures.... 89,463 10
Current expenses 39,951 21
Premiums 2,516 21
Checks and other cash items.... 21,006 93
Bills of National banks 326,506 00
Fractional currency 20,883 96
Specie 56,621 38
Legal-tender notes 1,044.849 00
Three per cent, certificates 25,000 00
•6,188,376 60
T.Tum.rraan.
Capital stock..... $1,600,000 00
Surplus fund. 141,681 40
Undivided profits... 303,495 40
National bank notes outstanding 1,232,000 00
Individual deposits. 2,482,583 85
U. B. deposits 82,164 20
Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers... 122,784 29
Duo to national banka 100,786 58
Due to other banks and bankers 192,890 48 j to the Bapre
” ■' oourae,
Important to Farmers and Manufac
turers.
State Agricultural Society,)
Atlanta, January 21st, 1869. )
The liberal Superintendents of railroads here
have authorized me to give notice that each
county in the State organizing an. Agricultural
Society, and appointing ten delegates, may send
them without fare either way, to the Conven
tion to be held in this city on the first Tuesday
in February next. Printed tickets will be sent
to the Ordinaries of the several counties, who
will deliver them only to the Presidents of
County Agricultural Societies. When signed
by the Presidents, they will pass the delegates
to the Convention.
Tickets signed by the Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society alone will return them.
CoL Grant and CoL Hnlbert have kindly of
fered to procure the co-operation of the other
railroads. No donht of tho sucgasi of tboiv ap.
plication.
Persons attending as individual members
come and go for one fare, their return free to
be secured by card of Secretary of State Agri
cultural Society. Delegates of manufacturing
and other industrial organizations are entitled
to like privileges with county society delegates.
State press please publish.
D. W. Lewis.
Secretary State Agricultural Society.
To the Southern Pres*.
In pursuance of a resolution adopted at the
last meeting of tho “Southern Press Associa
tion” it now becomes my duty to announce that
the next meeting of the Association will be held
in the city of Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday,
the 10th day of February next For reasons so
obvious as not to require recapitulation in this
card, the affairs of the Association have not re
ceived during the past year, from the presses
interested, tho attention that their importance
deserved and demanded. I am pleased to an
nounce that a new and increased impetus has
been given to this important movement,and that
at the coining session it is confidently expected
the Association will be firmly and permanently
organized.
Negotiations are in progress, with promising
indications of a successful result, to embrace
within the Association the entire press of the
Southern States. I am in receipt of informa
tion which warrants the assertion that delegates
from tho press of Virginia, Mississippi. Louis
iana, the Carolinas and Tennessee, will be pres
ent, prepared to unite in any movement likely to
secure those advantages to the Southern press
which have followed the combined efforts of the
press of the North and West.
X am assured that the most ample and liberal
arrangments, are being perfected by the patrio
tic and generous people of Mobile to make the
meeting agreeable to all who may attend, and
eminently successful in its objects. I earnestly
invite the active co-operation of all Presses now
enrolled in membership with the Association,
and hereby extend a cordial invitation to every
newspaper in the entire South, to send a repre
sentative, or representatives, to the coming Con
vention. In addition, it affords me a pleasure,
which will be shared and endorsed by every
member of the Association, to invite the attend
ance of snch members of the Press from any
section of the country, irrespective of political
sect or creed, as may feel a desire to meet again
on common ground their brethern of the South
ern Press. It may be proper to add, thnt I am
authorized to say, that at Mobile we may ex
pect the aid of the experience, counsels, and
suggestions of members of similar Associations
of toe North and West.
In view of tho fact that the objects of the as
sociation go far beyond the immediate benefits
that may accrue to the business strictly apper
taining to newspapers, and embrace within
pose, not be disposed to dsny. It could uaroi
have been otherwise with a man surrounded bi
the adverse circumstances that have beset W.
since the beginning of his administration. p ot
some of these he is responsible, as, for ori.i
may be called the father of them all, which wJ
the failure to surround himself with a C&bW
of strong, vigorous men, in hearty accord wit],
him, instead of retaining the evil counsellors of
his predecessor. But it is easier to criticiJ
now than it would have been to act then.
Judging his administration as a whole, the con
servative people of the country must endow* it
and thank him for it.
In a former letter I intimated that it was the
intention of the Conservative party in Tennessee
to nominate Mr. Johnson next fall for Governor
This I understand now to be fully determined
upon. Little doubt is entertained of his election.
At any rate, he has always been extremely po-
ular in Tennessee. He knows the people there"
and they know him, and believe him to be sin.
cerely and honestly devoted to their interest
I do not know who will be his competitor in the
race, but probably some carpet-bag scroll fm;,
Massachusetts, or some Radical convert of the
Stoves pattern, who wantedhim hung in 18G1
being a Union man. If elected Governor, h*
will undoubtedly be chosen to the Senate in the
place of Fowler, whose term expires in 1871 ;
and then we may look for lively times in
Chamber of pit-edged imbecility and loyal gate,
mon. It will be worth while to go to some
trouble to elect A. J. to the Senate, jus
to give him a chance to vindicate himsf-1]
and his administration, which I understand
to be liis sole object in remaining in pah.
lie life after the 4th of March. Bus natnn!
combativeness, not always in place whenei.
hibited frfim the Presidential Mansion, will hau
full vent in the Senate debates, and I kn x
enough of what is in his power to expose fc
promise rich developments in his “bouts" with
some of the leading Radicals. He will erhibi;
some of the recent inner workings of the Sti
ical party, to the intense delight of all but tht
Radicals. So let every conservative man t
Tennessee and elsewhere pnt his shoulder ti
the wheel and give A. J. all the help he cant
get him into the Senate. If he do not pull &
mask of patriotism from some of the hypocrita
in that body,- “then am I a soused gurnet."
General Grant and the Negro D«Iq»
tion.
Our "Washington correspondent describes i
recent visit of a Committee from the Negro Cot
rention now in session at Washington to Gen
Grant as direct, manly and comprehensive. Tie
negroes have the honor of calling forth free
the President elect what nobody else has suc
ceeded in evoking, viz: a declaration of his poli
cy, and that, too, oil the most absorbing ques
tion of the day. Gen. Grant’s words are let,
but they contain more than any speech or deck-
ration heretofore uttered by him. They as
also clear and explicit—the negroes understood
them, no doubt, and no sensible man can longer
question his position. Gen. Grant tells the del
egation and their constituents that “theyshoul;
prove by their acts, their advancement, prosper
ity and obedience to the laws, worthy of allpriv
ileges the government has bestowed upon them.1
and by their future conduct prove themselTei
worthy of all they now claim.’ 1
The clear import of this language, with
which immediately precedes it, is ton* teaenl|
Grant is not crazy on the subject of the r.egro-
that he is willing to protect him in all rights not
secured to him by toe laws, and that that, fori
the present, the negro s expectations must cciw,
In the future, when they shall have proved
themselves worthy, their present claims faraij
ditional rights and privileges will be considered
This is General Grant's position, and wehsu
no hesitation in saying it is the correct one. H
•will be approved by all considerate and lira
thinking men at the South, for we wish toe.
all for toe negro that he deserves and is capf'
of using aright, and nothing more. Like
Grant, we think they have claimed some
that they do not deserve, and that would
abused in their hands; therefore, with thePresj
dent elect, before bestowing them, we prefer '
wait until such claims shall be established
the foundation of merit. No people on
ever made snch rapid strides in the mate
privileges as the negroes of the South, and*'
what they already have, they can very wed
ford to “tarry awhile at Jerico.” Wohave 1 "
people by claiming too much to lose eve:
and just here is the point of danger with on:
ored friends.—Savannah Republican.
Atlanta Items.
The Era of Sunday says:
We saw on yesterday, upon Hunter street!
considerable squad of able-bodied men vigow
ly working out their penalty upon the £»
Mr. Stewart was using them to good advtffiU?
All of them seemed determined to give the e
the full worth of its money. The posse v* I
medley of black and white. *
The commit!tee appointed to wait upon J
Excellency, Gov. Bullock, and ascertain hisv”"
in regard to a Gubernatorial Mansion, np
to Council on Friday night that an interr
had been had with the Governor, and it
certaineil that !:• did not wish any pro^J
made for a residence at present; was wiihy
commute fbr the amount in money that i ’
dence would probably cost the city.
Yesterday afternoon we saw four to- 1
negroes enjoying themselves at a heaHtbj
of see-saw. Eitherof them was capable
ing a full hand in a cotton field, and we ti ^
it a pity that they were not there.
The Constitution says, Hon. O. A.
has been appointed, by Gov. Bullock.
to look after the State’s interest in the . -
and Brunswick Railroad.
The Tower Clock, a magnificent spef^-J
mechanism from Messrs. Pond A
ton, has arrived, and will be shortly
position.
Tee railroads leading into this city ha*’ ’
liberally agreed to trampoit ten deleadf’•
each connty to the State Agricultural
tion assembling here on the first T b ^jJ
February, and return free of charge. I 1 *"
tels have likewise agreed to make liberal a
tion in the price of hoard.
Jndge L. N. Whittle, Hon. Barney
their scope the advancement of all the industrial • gil Powers, Esq., CoLW.& Holt, and
and commercial interests of the country, and j Haz*ehurst, of Macon, and Dr.
‘ of Borne, were in the city yesterday.
State Agricultural Society*
We remind the people of the State d* J
Agricultural Society will meet in Ad* 11 " J
2d of February. This will be its fli”
meeting since the war, and the
ifestedm its deliberations during the pre* 1
Session at Macon, in December, jusuni”
predicting a very large and influential 1
of practical mem We learn that then
will give half-fair to those who wish _
and the hotels at Atlanta rations at
This, to many, will be a substantial e»
ment. ,
Mr. Dickson having declined to sen^l
reasons satisfactory to himself,” the Sow - ■
be called to order by Mr. B. C.-
E resent First Vice President. The w* 3
ave to choose its President, ana, > n .-I
rence with many friends and meraM J
Society, we suggest the name of
Barrow, of Oglethospe, for that d®®'
- • ■ ■ Mr. Barrow»
the further fact that the journals of the South
have as yet felt the renewed prosperity of their
section to a very limited extent, I feel at liber
ty to ask of the various railroad companies of
the South, that the usual courtesies and facili
ties may be extended to snch delegates as may
attend the Convention. I have already received
from the Superintendents of several roads as
surances that this apeal will be liberally respond
ed to, and would be pleased to hear from others
on the subject.
In conclusion, I would remind those who have
helped to inaugurate and to sustain this move
ment, that it is of the highest importance that
they should make aetive exertion to induce a
full attendance at Mobile.
The coming Convention must and will decide
to abandon the movement or to make it power
ful and permanent. A. R. Lamar,
President Southern Press Association.
Atlanta, Jan. 23, 1869.
[jlftonto Intelligencer.
Georgia Beconstxu ction.—The Washington important office. Mr.
correspondent of the Savannah Republican, of throughout the State as a successful J
the 17th, says: The Reconstruction Committee * . — «nH nis
have closed up their investigation of toe Geor
gia case, and yesterday sent a large amount of
testimony to toe Government Printer. As soon
as tins is put in type the committee will prepare a
report. It seems to be the general understanding
that toe committee will report adverse to any
further disturbance of the present State Gov
ernment of Georgia. They propose to leave
with the Legislature of your State the question
as to whether negroes are entitled, under the
Constitution, to seats therein, with the privilege
of an appeal to the State Courts, and from thence
•6,188,378 eO-^Hon’oenied.
Supreme Court of toe United States. This ijito face looks as if on that
, it is thought, will prove satisfactory to had been gently passed over the
Several towns in Mississippi are preparing 1 Which side of a hone invariably has the most
fte start ootton factories. hair on? The outside.
torougnout toe orate aa a a
is a thorough presiding officer, ana itejj
will be discharged with the utaiost J
decision. The friends of Mr. Yancey ^
fled to have him in the position he now
so acceptably, especially since he w ^
to desire the office of President.
alitt.
and !
A recent]
ive difference between an —i
Irish face is, that the former loora . ,
hand of nature had been passed f ■
wards when poming into the wortft ^.
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