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The Greorgia, "W"eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, I860.
«Official Dishonesty no Bar to Pro*
motion In Office.
Under this head the New York Times (Re
publican) illustrates the otter disregard of prin
ciple and integrity displayed in the appointment
of James M. Ashley to be Governor of Montana.
The Times declares thatthe records of the House
of Representatives contain ample evidence un
der Ashley’s confession, of his corruption and
venality, and that eight years ago he had sought
for one Case a Surveyor’s appointment for the
Territories upon a joint speculation in lands and
town lots—and yet in spito of such facts as these,
Ashley is nominated and confirmed. Where are
Grant’s pledges to make honest appointments,
ami where is the integrity of the Senate ?
Col. Tift’s Address.
We got Cot Tift’s address in the Albany News,
of last night too late to read it, before placing it
in the hands of the printer. Wo have no doubt,
however, that the Colonels’ advice is judicious
and safe.
Lands nr South Carolina.—A Columbia cor
respondent of the New York Tribune says:
Lands vary in price, and the prices range from
fifty cents to $15; that is, common and good
■■lands. A gentleman in Horry county offers
15,000 acres at prices making seventy-five cents
rthe average. 'Thin is poor, land however. About
Aiken, famed for its health, there are hundreds
of acres, in lots of various sizes, offered now for
sale at $2 per acre; far more at $3; and from
these figures the prices range hardly even as
high as $10 for good lands. In Oconee (Pickens)
•county, the price of mountain lands is from $3
to $10, and I have seen four hundred bushels of
potatoes, and a crop of beans besides, grown on
one acre. The prices of land, however, are
thirty per cent, higher than they were a year
ngo, and are still looking up.”
Tub Salt Lake Reporter says: “We never
could understand why Brigham Young should
■take the eagle for an emblem. That royal bird is
a strict monogamist; he has one mate and is
noted for his faithfulness to her, defending her
with his life. Now, if Brigham had chosen the
rooster we could see the point at once. Wo
venture Mksuggest the change even now.
Spain and the United States.—The Herald’s
-special says that the Spanish Minister called on
•Secretary Fish on Thursday last and demanded
;that a proclamation against filibustering be is
sued. The Secretary promptly declined, saying
that as the insurgents had a provisional govern
ment, he saw no reason from hindering persons
f rom taking up arms in their service. Tho
• punish Minister some days since promised full
reparation for the insults to our flag by the
Spaniards in Cuba. On Thursday last he in
formed Secretary Fish that he had not heard
from his Government on the subject, when the
Secretary informed him that war would ensue
if an answer was not forthcoming soon.
May-Day Frolic.—The city of Atlanta is go-
jingicm. a May-Day frolic to Cartersville on invi-
r tation of tho latter. The invitation was signed
by a. very large number of the citizens of Carters-
> ville ami addressed by name to nearly a hundred
. of the citizens of Atlanta. Colonel J.Watt Har
iri s will deliver the address of welcome on the
part of the citizens of Cariersvilla and Bartow
county, and will be responded to by Hon. H. V.
. M. Miller on the part of the Atlanta people.
.Veloczpediso.—The NewEra.savs Atlanta is
■going mad on the matter of velocipeding. Much
arduous toil takes place hourly in tho ring.
Great drops of sweat trickling down the faces
of ambifsous young men show how fearful is
their agony. And yet they persevere, and some
of them are able to attract some attention from
those who have nothing to do but go there and
look on. . '
White and Colored.—The last two days’ ope
rations the Fulton Superior Court convicted five
negroes and one white of stealing in some of the
various shapes.
A Beookdyn paper says that Senator Fenton
intends to sue the Commercial Advertiser and
Evening Post for libel, laying the damages at
half a million. The suit grows out of the charge
of accepting bribes to approve bills.
The propossd bridge over East river at
New York is estimated to cost $1,000,000, and
to require six years for its construction. It will
be a mile in length.
The valuation of real estate in Rome, Go.,
thin year amounts to $1,152,800, an increase of
$250,625 over last year. Contracts for the erec-
tionof new buildings have been let out for
about $100,000. This is a gratifying evidence
of the prosperity of the Romans.
Sr. Louis has 260,00 inhabitants. The in
crease last year was S.OQO houses and30,000 per
sons. It is estimated that 500 persons per day
come to the State of Missouri to find homes.
Kansas City, in tho western part of the State,
which was, a few years ago, bat a village, has
now 30,000 inhabitants.
Mubdeb of a White Boy by a Negbo Boy.—A
Quitman correspondent of the Savannah News,
says: On last Sabbath (18tb) a little boy, aged
about ten years, and son of Mr. Alexander
Humphreys, erf this (Brooks) comity, went fish-
■ing with a negro boy about fifteen years of age.
Daring the day the negro killed the white boy.
and ran off. He was apprehended and con-*
fessed the deed.
The Indians—a New Movement.
A Washington dispatch of the 21st says:
Four Quakers left hero to-day for the plains,
to look into the condition of the Indians and
take measures to effect a peace this summer.
The movement is looked upon here with a good
deal of amusement.
The administration contemplates the experi
ment of entrusting the execution of the Indian
treaties and the general management of Indian
affairs in the hands of the peaceful followers of
William Penn—“not to put too fine a point
upon it"—the Quakers.
The fact is, neither the politicians nor the
soldiers can be trusted. The politicians swindle
the Indians at every turn—furnish bad rations—
mean blankets and discount their annuities at the
rate of fifty per cent, or more. Furthermore,
if they see a chance to make any thing by it,
there is little donbt they often foment broils and
troubles between the tribes in their own interest.
The soldiers are too violent and sometimes pro
voke hostilities.
The Quakers, on the other hand, push their
peace doctrines to the extreme of non-resistance
and are traditionally honest. There is no case
in American history of trouble between the
Quakers and Indians.
But the Quakers of the olden time dealt with
aboriginees, pure and unsophisticated. They
had learned by sad experience none of the crimes
and deceits of the palefaces. They had neither
been cheated, deceived, betrayed nor debauched
by the whites, and were disposed to implicit re
liance on the latter, as men of a superior race.
The Quakers of to-day, however, will stand
at manifest disadvantage as compared with those
of the olden time. They will have to do with
the savages who have been taught to get drank
and who have learned by experience that whites
are frequently unscrupulous, treacherous, self
ish and craeL All this rubbish of hostility, and
prejudice must be cleared away before our mod
em Quaker can begin a foundation for the su
perstructure of moral influence, founded on nn-
doubting faith. Tho movement is in a right di
rection but it must be slow in progress.
We beg leave to suggest too, that if Grant
will select his representatives in the unrecon
structed South from the same class of men,
matters may be improved here. There is no
telling what might be the result, if the rebels,
so-called, should see the authority of the gov
ernment represented by men of integrity and
virtue. The moral effect of so strange a spec
tacle it would be difficult to overrate.
Horrible! Horrible!
Our blood “frizes" over the sanguinary atti
tude of the North Caxolina-carpet-bag-Senator-
from-Massachusetts-Abbott, in respect to the
physically diminntive Senator from the physi
cally diminntive State of Rhode Island. What
do all these horrible threats mean ? We tremble
at the thought! they can mean nothing less than
may hereafter be set forth in the burning el
oquence of the indictment that be, the said Ab
bott, then and there with malice, aforethought,
and not having the fear of God before his eyes,
did, with a certain stick in his right hand hold
ing of the just value of two cents, upon tho body
of him the said Sprague, beat and strike, and
divers blows did inflict to the injury of him the
said Sprague, etc., and so on.
Clearly, all these terrible threats can mean
nothing less than some such sanguinary catas
trophe, and in the bloody record of blows Ab
bott intends to prove that he is no puppy as
charged by Sprague, but a real human, who can
beat and strike ; or at least as big a dog as Nye
—for the offence seems to corftist not in being
classed as a dog, (Nye was content to have been
called a big mastiff,) but in being colled a pup
py—a little, juvenile dog! And therein the ap
plication of canine similitudes seems to differ
from others. If you call a man a big dog he
does not appear to take offense. The size of
the animal operates -as a sedative to choler.
But the case differs if you speak of bears, swine,
jackasses, geese, calves and the like. There the
application of an adjective of magnitude seems
to increase the provocation. Bnt this is a di
gression, and we leave the curious to follow out
the thought at leisure.
We call upon the carpet-baggers and Radicals
in the Senate to abate their fury. This is not
the pattern of civility and good behaviour they
were to set us.
A Pleasure Tbip.— The Pacific steamship
America will sail between the 20th of May and
1st of Jane, on a trip round the world, and will
return to New York by the middle of November.
The charge for the entire passage will bo $1280,
including tho privilege to live on board while in
port __
Convention of the Pbotestant Episcopal
Chubch.—The Forty-seventh Annual Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in tho Diocese
of Georgia will meet in St Paul’s Church, in
Augusta, on Wednesday, May 6th, I860. •
It is stated that Gen. Breckinridge will go into
the Kentucky Legislature—that he is worth not
less than sixty thousand dollars, and that his
health was never so good as it is at present
Complete returns from Michigan show the
election of eight Democratic Judges out of six-
•teen circuits.
The Minister to Haiti.—Only five Senators
-voted against the confirmation of E. D. Bassett,
.colored, as Minister to Hayti.
Reposted Reduction of Steamship Facilities
Between Charleston a$!D New Yoex.—We find
the following paragraph in the New York Star,
• of last Saturday:
Only two steamers per week leave this pprt
for Charleston the coming summer instead of
three, as in previous years.
Onwabd.—Mayno Reid’s Magazine for youth,
May number, was received yesterday.
ViEUXTZMFe, the violinist, it is rumored, will
visit this country this spring.
Weathzb warm and fine for the crops.
Litekaby circles in Brussels believe that
Victor Hugo has a dozen complete novels in his
desk, but publishes one at long intervals, in
order not to glut the market
Peace In Georgia.
Liberty of the press and speech is not liberty
to abuse, insult, slander and libel, and inflame
the passions of the ignorant to acts of violence,
incendiarism, and murder. Bat certainly the
publication of a paper plainly devoted to these
objects for neariy a year in Macon—not only
without popnlar molestation, but without any 1
danger of it, is itself the highest evidence of
forbearance and self-control upon tho part of
our people and of a determination to avoid dis
turbance at all hazards.
Grant says there must be liberty of speech in'
the Sonth—bnt here i3 liberty to perpetrato the
fonlest crimes against the pablic peace and
safety, and the existence and happiness of the
colored race, by a paper claiming to be Grant’s
organ, and yet weekly vomiting falsehood, ter
rorism and foal counsels to the blacks, to bum,
assassinate and mnrder in deadly revenge for
falsely alleged crimes.
This organ'rind advocate of pablic mischief,
actually, in the face of the evidence of a black
murderer arrested with the plunder of tho vic
tim in his possession, has the impudence still to
charge that Ayer was a victim to white political
assassination, and invoke the blacks to acts of
retaliatory vengeance. Is it possiblo thatthe
blacks themselves can longer tolerate such
remorseless villainy?
Nominations by the Fbesident.—Tho follow
ing is a classified list of the nominations sent to
the Senate by President Grant since the begin
ning of his administration. It is said that not
more than one-half of the officers in the gift of
the President have yet been filled:
U. 3 marsbals25
Regs, of land officers. ..33
Rees, of Public moneys. 2G
Pension agents 26
Indian agents 6
Surveyors general. 9
Naval officers 4
Cost, house appraisers. .4
Supt. Indian affairs...
Officers of D. of O. 6
Bureau officers 13
Assistant treasuer. ..
Total.
.1,013
Cabinet officers, foreign
ministers 27
Seo’ries of legation.. .2
Consuls general 4
Consuls..... 93
Governors Territories. 7
Sec’ries Territories....8
Collectors Internal rev.8
Assessors .....112
Postmasters 392
Collectors of customs.40
Survevors of custom..13
U. 8. and Ter. Dis. At
torneys 23
The above list does not include military anil naval
appointments.
Referring to the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad, the Livingston Journal says:
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad will
soon be completed to Livingston, and it will not
be long before the entire road will be finished
from Meridian to Chattanooga. Capital and
energy will soon “put it through.” From a brief
«>nvernation with Mr. Anderson, the company’s
engineer, on Wednesday, we learn that satisfac
tory progress is being made on our railroad.
There is now a considerable quantity of iron at
York, and there are 160 hands employed on
work between Livingston and that place. The
bridges between York and Yellow Creek are all
framed, and'the crossing ready to receive them.
Workingmen will begin framing the bridge for
this place during the coming week.
The Chicago Times says: “The confirmation
of Howard, an ex-Congressman from Michigan,
as minister to China, vice Mr. J. Ross Browne,
furnishes another case of sacrificing the nation’s
best interests for the accommodation of Mr.
Grant's favorites. Mr. Browne is a gentleman
of intellect, culture, and extensive knowledge of
the world, against whom, as a diplomat, there
is found no ground of oomplaint. Mr. Howard,
on the other hand, is a rSere pot-house politician,
with nearly as much knowledge of diplomacy as
a Digger Indian has of the Talmud.”
last of the Joe Brown Pikes.
The Chronicle and Sentinel gives an acoount
of a sale of condemned property at the United
State Arsenal, Augusta, last Wednesday:
These sales comprised axles, cannon spikes,
sword bayonets, sabres, carbines, artillery har
ness, cartridge bags, horse-shoes, saddle-trees,
gunboat plates, 360,000 lbs. Confederate gun
powder, many tons of iron scraps, fire and cast,
Ac., Ac.
Bnt the most remarkable of all the articles
sold was
1,000 JOE BROWN PIKES,
gotten up expressly to defend the last ditch of
State Rights under his Excellency’s own eye and
under models designed under his immediate su
pervision. These Georgia Pikes are of three
models. The original model is after the fashion
of the Roman dagger, placed upon a stout hick
ory staff, some seven feet long, properly polish
ed and ferraled. The second model was a com
bination of the Roman dagger and the fanner’s
brier hook—the design being in case the thrust
of the dagger is parried, a hackwork pull of the
pikeman would decapitate the infantry soldier
or bisect a resisting cavalryman. The third
model—mark the progress of invention—was a
double-barrel spring-acting dagger, which shot
out from between two oval sections of hickory,
upon coming in contact with an unfortunate
enemy. These terrible articles of warfare were
bought by Mr. Morrison, of Sonth Carolina.
Rumor has it they are intended to supply the
wants of the loyal Governor, for supplying with
the most approved arms his Sonth Carolina mili
tia which is now being organized. We cannot
say that this ramor is true or false by reason of
the extreme reticence of the purchaser.
Canada Annexation.
The Radical organs are striving hard to kindle
an excitement upon the acquisition of Canada,
and are resorting to all known practices and arts
to accomplish this object. One of these is to
send Bohemians into Canada to transmit tele
grams on the subject. One of them, in the em
ployment of the Tribune, telegraphs as follows
from Montreal:
The desire of tho people of the new dominion
to cut loose from their dependence upon the
mother country has received a powerful impetus
from one or two great events. Whatever course
may finally be adopted, there can be little doubt
that a great political change of some sort is not
far distant.
Several private meetings of influential persons
have recently been held here for the purpose of
considering the great question of a change in tho
form of government, and the general dissatisfac
tion with the present state of things is more
openly expressed.
The newspapers are at last beginning to meet
the question face to face, and are giving utter
ance to the sentiment which has long been
widely dispersed among the people, although
but few have had the courage to express it pub
licly. There is a party in favor of independence,
but a larger party, I believe are in favor of an
nexation to the United States, and will soon
make itself prominent. The acquisition of the
Hudson Bay Territory has given additional force
to the arguments of the annexationists. It is
felt that such a magnificent domain as the new
domain now promises to be, ought no longer to
be dwarfed and kept down by dependence on a
trans-Atlantic Government.
The belief that Great Britain shall surrender
her North American possessions as a set off
against the Alabama claims, has created a deep
sensation in certain circles. Not a few regard
it with decided favor.
Senator Sumner’s speech has been copied in
full by the English and French journals, and it
is of course the tapis of mnch discussion.
MabriaoeExtbaobdinabt.—In consequence of
the unreconstructed state of things in this part
of Virginia, last week license to marry conld not
be obtained, and a very respectable couple, who
wished to have the knot tied, had to resort to
reconstructed Tenngfsee for that purpose. Ac
cordingly, on Thursday of last week, Mr. James
Graham and Miss Sallie Hickok, accompanied
by a large party of young friends, paraded on
horseback, and moved down to Tennessee in
military style. They were met near the line by-
tho Rev. J. R. King and his staff, and immedi
ately formed a solid column, the bride and groom
and their attendants in front, when the happy
couple wer& made one. When tho ceremony
wan Over they countermarched to the rear and
returned to Virginia without alighting.—Lynch
burg Paper. _
Too Much.
The Western Press telegrams of tho 22d,
says:
To-day a party of gentlemen who intend to
leave here to-morrow for the purpose of visiting
the Sooth, had an interview .with the President.
The party consists of General Thomas L. Kane,
ex-GoTemor Ward, of New Jersey, and Mr.
Conger, his Secretaiy, Generals Ledna and Von
Wick, of NewNork, Cobmel J. W. Forney, Wm.
Prescott Smith and others. Colonel Forney
started that they had deemed it proper to call on
him previous to their departure for the South;
their visit was purely a disinterested one, and
entirely devoid of polftitcs; to do what they conld
to promote good feoling between the two sec
tions, and assist the development of the South.
The President replied that he was very happy
to hear that they intended to make the trip, and
hoped it would be productive of the best results.
Nothing would do more to properly reconstruct
the South than white loyal emigration, and he
had no doubt northern capital and northern men
would readily avail themselves of the superior
inducements offered, so soon as they could be
assured of protection and cordial welcome.
We hope Mr. Forney will permit us to sug
gest that he is making too much fuss about a
trip South. Jt can be accomplished very com
fortably in a week—at small excuse, and with
so little danger as to call for no extra premium
on liia life policy. It was quitri uimeccessary,
therefore, to notify the President—or have
prayers offered in the churches—or nail a horse
shoe to the stable door, or hang np any votive
offering at the altar. Let him come along and
a murrain on him for a fussy old humbug.
Hancock County.
A travelling correspondent of the Chronicle
A Sentinel writes:
Hancock comity, I have no doubt, is composed
of scone of the most successful and thrifty farm
ers in the State of Georgia. There are many
Dicksons whose names have never gone before
the public, who are not far behind if not equal
to him, in their achievements, though I believe
they all yield the palm to our friend David,
which he deserves. There is more of scientific,
systematic, and thorough development of the
farming interest every way than is common in
this country. Men of intelligence and moral
worth instead of devoting themselves to manu
facture,commerce and the various pursuits of the
business of the world, have adopted that more
honorable than all others, the cultivation of the
soil. Judge Harris, Colonel Turner and many
others, are among this number.
By the way, the man that wanted to go where
manual labor was honorable might move to Han
cock. My friend, Dr. P., informs me that there
was not a single loafer in the town of Sparta,
and throughout the county the people were
faithfully at work. This accounts for the peace
and good order that prevails. Even the ladies
have thrown off their jewels, diamond trinkets
and costly attire and cone to work. The cook-
kitchen and the table, the bed-room and the
parlor, all exhibit their superior taste and re
finement. What a noble example! What a trib
ute to the memory of their chivalrous dead, and
how worthy the objects for which the great sac
rifice was made. With such a consecration of
virtue, intelligence and energy, what may we
promise the future ? While the curse of God
is upon the slothful and sluggish, his blessing
will rest upon the honest laborers who make
their land bloom and blossom as the rose.
Newnan Spring.—The Newnan's People’s
Defender says:
‘‘Frequent notices of this valuable spring may
cause some who are not aware of its real merits,
its wonderful remedial powers, to think that we
are playing a game of ‘brag.’ This is not really
our object. We wish the people who are afflict
ed with disease to experience its benefits and
therefore write often. Dr. Ed. Smith, of this
place, has permitted ns to see an order for sev
eral dozen bottles of this water. Wher6 do you
suppose the order came from ? Not from Atlan
ta nor from LaGrange, for both of these places
seem satisfied with their own waters. That or
der came from the City of New Yqrk.”
A Bridgeport child looking oat of the win
dow Tuesday morning and seeing a well-dressed
man passing along, exclaimed: “H^mma, see
how nicely mat man looks. I guess God has just
made him.”
Book-keeping taught in one lesson—don’t
lend them.
Fredericksburg, Va—Now and Then.
A writer in the Springfield Republican com
municates the following:
I have been in battle-stricken towns before,
bnt Fredericksburg is the most remarkable one
I have yet seen. The people have an Italian
rapacity for monopolizing strangers, but they
do not carry out the parallel by asking them for
small contributions. Enter any public place,
and broach the subject of the great battles, and
you have touched the vital topic. The majority
of the town people still move and think amid
the frightful scenes of seven years ago. Their
normal faculties are deadened to the present—
The boys employ their time digging np bullets,
and continue to find an unfailing store, although
the ground has been pretty thoroughly dug
over. There is a «knll, or a thigh bone, in
almost every shop window. The church steep
les show curious patchwork, which testifies that
they were not spared by the shot.
Every merchant who was there in 1862 has
some dismal tale to tell. Those same Irishmen
who could fight so gallantly, those" Americans
who couldface death without blenching, behaved
rather rudely to the towns people. One old man
told me, with evident deliglit, howtwomenrob-
bed his shop of its stock of tobacco, and threat
ened to shoot him when he remonstrated. “In
'less’n an hour they was both back here on this
very floor, shot through and through. One of
’em begged my pardon, before be died, for what
he stole—he did." An old lady, who tells so com
plete and graphic a story of the battle that I
suspect she has posted up on it since the terrible
day, to accommodate travelers, said that the
morning after Burnside had attacked the rebel
lines, one could go over the battle field, and
pick np anything he might wish for. “Why,”
said she, “one man fell dead inside my door
here, with a four-quart jng of molasses in his
hand” What did the soldier mean to do with
so much sweetening ?
Money had been dropped hilter-skilter in the
streets, by tho inhabitants in tbeir flight; the
kitchen utensils and parlor furniture strewed
tho fields for miles. One old man, who has
been in the town twenty years, and now keeps
a little restarant on the verystreet comer round
winch our troops, as they came up to the charge
were compelled to appear, gave me a very
graphic stcry of his troubles. Just as fast as
he could bir up his saloon door, it would be
knocked dfwn by new-come soldiers, who in
sisted on “something to drink” before they went
to the battle. He watched them start out, and
said that id many cases they were not gone ten
minutes before they were brought back, maimed
and crushed, to be laid on ghastly doom, in the
extemporised hospitals.
The sight at the principal church, after the
battle had been in progress an hour, was horri
ble beyond description, and the whole village
echoed to the wailing of the wounded. The old
ferryman Who took us across to the hills oppo
site Fredericksburg, gave a glowing picture of
the laying of tho pontoon bridges, and alluded
especially to the fact that the guns of our own
batteries, too far off, killed many of our soldiers
as they advanced np the slopes. Stonewall
Jackson was his pet hero, and he regaled us
with anecdotes of that queer but valiant Gen
eral. He was in tho Wilderness when Jackson
fell, and confirmed the accepted story that he
was shot by his own men. How he knew I could
not make him tell; he only responded by lean
ing on the boat-rail, and saying, with mysterious
intonation, “I was thar.”
It was very hard to find any one at Fredericks
burg who would acknowledge that he was not in
the battle, either of December or May. The re
pulse of Burnside’s attack was mentioned by al
most every man with whom I had any conver
sation. Old people delighted to go over the
ground, and point out where such and such heaps
of Federal dead had lain. One man told, with
much glee, how he spent all the night after the
battle in looking over a pile of soldiers, and tak
ing out of their pockets the whisky bottles they
had stolen from him on the morning previous.
“I got back all but three pints," said ho, “and
thorn helped swell the general courage.”
Picket firing across the river at Fredricks-
bnrg, say some historians, was indulged into a
barbarous extent. Barksdale’s Mississippi sharp
shooters are accused of having taken the lives
of our soldiers on every occasion possible when
it was directly in opposition to the laws of war.
But the townspeople tell a different story. They
say that no pickets ever fired upon each other
save at the beginning of the December battle.—
One old negro informed me that the above-men
tioned Mississippi marksmen were wont to send
invitations to our officers to cross tho river in
the night, and disguised in Confederate clothes,
attend the extemporized balls which frequently
occurred in the town, and the invitations wero
accepted. When the breeze was right the pick
ets would trade tobacco for newspapers, by
sending across little wooden boats with paper
sails, and the officers used to send billets doux
to the ladies whom they had met at the balls.—
Tho sharpstooters didn’t so grossly their
chances as they might have done, fvt- both
Hooker and Franklin often appeared t-- the
river bank, near the Federal pickets, excalient
targets for even the poorest marksman.
Cotton.
The receipts of all the ports during last week
are reported at 28,011 bales, against 32,000 the
week previous, and 34,000 for the correspond
ing week of last year. The receipts (exclusive
of overland) are now apparently about 137,000
bales short of those of last year to same date,
and the probability, we think, is that they will
henceforward gain on the receipts of April and
Slay of last year, instead of showing a further
falling off. Tho following were the weekly re-'
ceipts of last year for the dates given:
SVeek ending April 22d, 18,000; April 29,18,-
500; May 6, 14,500; May 13, 11,000; May 20,
8500 : May 27, 5500. The prospect is that the
receipts of tho corresponding weeks of this year
will be fully as largo.
Last year the correct overland receipts wero
not given until the close of the season. They
are this year estimated so for at about 122,000
bales, making tho decrease only about 15,000
bales. It is not improbable that the yearly re
port Of overlandreceiptswillbe somewhat larger
than the returns bo far indicate.
At this advanced period ‘of the season, tho
crop of 1868 may be estimated pretty closely.
That it cannot vary much from tho amount of
the crop of 1867, is apparent, and it is quite
probable that there will not be a difference of
100,000 bales in the crops of the two years.—
Columbus Entpiirer.
Secretary Fish on Cuba.
Secretary of State Fish is reported by the
Herald's Washington correspondent to have
given utterance to the following very sensible
language in a recent Cabinet meeting on tho
question of intervention by the United States in
Cuban affairs:
“Let her alone,” said Fish; “give her a
chance single handed to work out her own des
tiny, and she will gravitate towards the Repub
lican Union in spite of every obstacle. Spain
will soon tire af resisting the mandates of fate.
Proud though she be, the old Castilian mon
archy will find that she cannot afford to crash
out the free aspirations of the Republican sen
timent of Cuba. It is an enterprise too
costly and must bo abandoned sooner or later.
But let the United States interfere, and Spain
will not only exhaust her own acquisition of tho
island, but she will draw to her assistance the
combined strength of England and France, and
we will have to combat a coalition representing
tho most powerful military and naval forces in
Europe. Why tempt this contest unnecessarily!
Why drag the republic into a formidable war,
when it has just emerged from the most formid
able civil strife in the annals of history ? What
we need now is peace—peace, unless preserved
at the sacrifice of honor, a sacrifice which is not
even in question in the present condition of af
fairs.”
The. Sugab Sea^sn.—Contrary to the appre
hensions of many, the maple sugar season
is proving an exceedingly productive dne in
this State (Vermont.) The freezing nights
and sunny days, with the thorough soak
ing of the ground from the melting snow, makes
sap flow profusely. In parts of the State, where
snow is deepest, the farmers are obliged to use
snow shoes, to get about in their “sugar bushes;”
but on the whole the snow is not interfering
with sugar-making. In this county, the fanners
are having a famous' time, the sap running as
fast, and in some cases. faster, than they can
collect it. On the whole, the prospect is that
more sugar will be made this spring than in sev
eral years, which, considering the high price of
sugar generally, is a very favorable and fortunate
state of the case.—Burlington ( Vt.) Press.
“The password is Saxe—now don’t forget it,
Fat,” said the Colonel, jnst before the battle of
Fonntenoy, at which Saxe was Marshal. “Sacks!
faith, and I will not/' said Pat, “wasn’t my
father a miller?” “Who goes there?” cried
the sentinel, after the man bad arrived at his
post." Pat was as wise as an owl, and, in a sort;
of whispered howl, replied, “Bags, yer honor."
Hearing Spurgeon.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE OBEAT PREACHER—COURTESY
TO AMERICANS.
From the special correspondence TT..Y.Evenino Mail.]
London, March, 1869.
It is quite a long distance from Langham’s
hotel to Spurgeon’s church, and it required an
early breakfast and a smart drive in a Hensom
cab to bring ns one bright Sabbath morning; in
August last (o the Tabernacle, whose pulpit is
filled by that celebrated man, the fame of whose
eloquence has reached all lands.
Although we were early, a large crowd blocked
up the whole of the front entrances to the
church, but tho guard passed ns immediately
because we were Americans, and told me to be
sure and mention that fact to the usher and we
would be certain of seats.
A glance from the body of the church showed
me that the best seat to hear and closely observe
the speaker would be in the first gallery, so we
ascended the staircase bnt were refused admis
sion at first by the door-keeper because we were
in advance of the honr; bnt, as if on second
thought, he looked more sharply at us, and say
ing, “You are Americans,” to which we nodded
an affirmation,! he opened his gate and let ns
enterf. . • .
I never saw in any country the “open se
same”-of Americanism so pregnant and power
ful as in this church. What our countrymen
have ever done to impress so favorably the Brit
ish Baptists I cannot imagine, bnt I had no soon
er mentioned to the usher who I was than he in
the most polite manner imaginable (although
many were then standing) conducted us into the
front row of the gallery and in the very center
of the house and gave us two of the choicest
seats in all the chnrch.
The church itself merits a word. It is called
in London “the Tabernacle,” and is a very large
structure, parallelogram in form, with three
enormous galleries completely encircling its in
terior. By my count the body seats held 2,000
people without packing, while the whole church
would seat about 4,000 to 4,500. It is not unlike
Mr. Beecher’s, except larger, while the iron sup-
ports to the galleries detract somewhat from its
effect, and it is not so pleasant in its aspect as
Plymouth Church.
This vast edifice was filled to overflowing, and
at the appointed hour Mr. Spurgeon came down
the stairs that descend from the second gallery
into the pulpit
There is a large platform raised at one end of
the church like Mr. Beecher’s pulpit only much
larger and projecting very much farther into
the body of the house. Above this platform,
one story, and on a level with the first balcony,
is the pulpit itself, still further back, so that all
the people on the platform can well see the
preacher above them, while he is still sufficient
ly advanced into the body of the church to be
plainly seen by every listner, whether below or
in any part of the galleries. He stands in what
would be one of the foci if the building was an
ellipse, and at least twelve feet higher than the
speaker in Plymouth pulpit. Spurgeon is short,
but has a very powerful structure. His head is
broad and massive, while his whole frame is
solid and strong. His hair and eyes ore dark,
with large face, deep chest and powerful lungs.
He impresses you as the personification of great
strength and power. His opening prayer was
massive. His words, thoughts, and gestures
were wholly outside the stereotyped style of his
sect, or of any school, and you felt ere he had
uttered ten sentences that you were listening
to no common man.
His reading of the chapter was accompanied
noth comments which occupied twenty minutes
of that time, and in spite of his genius seemed
prosy. He leads the singing of the whole con
gregation after the manner of the early Method
ists, lining each verse before the congregation
sang it, in the singing of which he also joined.
He preached from 1st Corinthians, where Paul
says t “ I die early,” and his sermon was fifty
minutes in length by my watch, but it did not
seem long, and never for one moment did the
interest of his hearers abate. They sat spell
bound under the power of his words. His is a
style copied after no living model of which I
know or have read. He reminded me more of
Beecher than of any of our divines, but they
are not at all alike, either inmethods of thought-
or in delivery. He uses the plainest, homeliest
figures and illustrations, but they are of that ev
ery day practical nature that seize hold on the
hearts and the consciences of all men. His
logic is inexorable and irresistible.
He does not appeal to the fear; tho passions
or the emotions. He seems to scorn all the
tricks of tho pulpit, bnt his sermons are ever of
the simplest truths of the Gospel, brought home
with such enormous force to the minds of his
hearers that there is no escape from his conclu
sions. His congregation appeared to me to be
mainly from the bettor ranks of the poor, and
not from the higher or educated classes, very
like the average Baptist congregation in Amer
ica, bnt hardly such an audience asMr. Beecher
addresses. His piety is bfith deep and fervent
His words take hold upon and cling to you and
cannot be shaken off. He preaches only Christ
and as much as Wilberforce did or John Bunyan
would. Ho made no middle work or compro
mises, bnt insisted on the rugged faith and pi
ous life of the Reformers, and was as strict and
exacting as John Wesley, denouncing with tre-
mendovs sarcasms amusements, and especially
the theatre. He is the foremost man of the dis
senting clergy of Great Britain. His influence
must be enormous. There can be no doubt of
either his heart or his head. Ho is a large-
hearted Catholic and true, free from the bigotry
which cramps many of the divisions of his school,
and his infiuenco on London, England and the
world cannot fail to be both great and good.
Grand Catholic Celebration in \ew
Orleans.
The Now Orleans Times of the l."th inst,
says:
“The one hundred thousand Catholics of this
city appeared to be all assembled Sunday on
and around the old Cathedral of St. Lonis and
the Jackson Square to participate in the grand
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
Pope’s promotion to the sacrcdotal dignity, and
the twenty-third anniversary of Ms Pontifical
sovereignty.
It was certainly one of the grandest popular
manifestations ev«s made in this city. In point
of numbers it exceeded any assemblage we ever
witnessed. In the grandeur and sublimity ov
the scene, in the earnest enthusiasm and devo
tion of the multidude, in the vast array of wo
men and children, in the tasteful and appropri
ate ornaments, and the solemnity of the cere
monies, everything combined to render the oc
casion one wMch impressed all beholders with
an awe, reverence and respect, for the sincerity
and earnestness of those who had thus gathered
in such a vast multitude, to testify their vener
ation for the great father and head of the Cath
olic Church.
For half a century he has been engaged in
fulfilling his priestly duties, and for nearly a
quarter of a century the cares and responsibili-
■ties of the Mgh Pontifical office have weighed
upon him with more than mortal force. Before
the Claristian world he stands as a glorious ex
ample of what sincere piety, devotion to duty
andecclesiasticalearpestnesscffcacMeve. Never
before, since the da of St. Peter Mmself, was
the chair of St. Peter filled more acceptably,
not only to the Catholic, but to the entire Chris
tian world. Catholic in all his instinots, in the
Mgher and grander acceptation of mat term, he
has secured the love, esteem and veneration of
all with whom he has been brought into contact,
either as a sovereign or as a priest. Descended
from a noble family, and intended for the army,
he put aside the sword, as a carnal weapon, to
become an hnmble follower of the Prince of
Peace, and now half a century of usefulness
has crowned Mm with more than earthly honors.
Ex-Senatob Allen.—A correspondent writ
ing from Chillicothe says: “This place, as your
readers are already aware—if not, they should
be, as it has been told in print one thousand
and one times—is the home of the Hon. Wm.
Allen, well known through the land as the ‘tall
Senator from OMo.’ Mr. Allen owns some six
teen hundred acres of land adjoining the city,
and bears the reputation of being one of the
most successful farmers in the State. He is now
in Ms sixty-seventh year; possesses great activity
of mind and body, and stated ‘to our mutual
friend 1 a few days since that he had not been
annoyed with a pain or ache for forty-five years.
‘That, sir/ said Mr. Allen, 'I attribute to out
door life and coarse food.”
Miscegenation—We understand that a good
deal of excitement exists in the lower part k of
the county, over the singular conduct of Pro
bate Judge Ely, of New Hampshire, to-wit of
Montgomery, who issued a license to a negro
boy under age to marry a white {prl about four
teen years of age, whom the negro had induoed
to ran away from home with him. The story
goes that Ely, for fear that he would miss a
chance to help along the science of miscege
nation, violated the law and issued the license.
'Squire Thomasson performed the ceremony,
and thus an innocent girl’s life was blasted by
the damnable dogmas of the Radical party and
English View of a Southern States
man,
A. H. STEPHENS ON STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
From the*London Saturday Eerie'w.]
-Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice-Presi
dent of the ill-fated Southern Confederacy, is
perhaps of all American public men the best
qualified fairly to represent and discuss the con
flicting theories of State rights and Federal au
thority wMch, after a political struggle of more
than a quarter of a century, were at last brought
to a decisive issue on the field of battle. It is
true that there must always be a deficiency of
practical interest in tiie re-opening on paper of
a controversy so decided; for there is a feeling
in both the reader's and the writer’s mind, that
it is useless yet again to dispute with the pen
the verdict once recorded by the sword. Never
theless, in justice to a brave, Mgh minded, and
most unfortunate people, and in due regard to
historical truth and to the interests of political
science, it is even now worth while to hear what
a scolar, a man of deep political learning, of
profound knowledge of constitutional history,
of moderate opinions and temperate spirit, has
to say in defence of principles wMch, however
generally repudiated in 1866, were as generally
entertained ten years, and wMch the Mouth
deemed worth upholding with her whole wealth
and her best blood.
Mr. Stephens, if any one, maybe expected to
speak and think fairly and impartially on the
subject. He was more consistent than any
Northern opponent of secession—nearly all of
whom had, at one time or another, declared in
favor of it; he is less embittered and exasper
ated than.any Southern secessionist. He op
posed secession from the first on Southern
grounds; he upheld, on the same grounds, the
right and duty of every Southern citizen to abide
by the decision of his State : he was true to his
cause to the last, yet the only part he took in the
war was that of a negotiator and peace-maker;
he is neither unpopular with the North nor dis
trusted by M3 own people. The opinions and
arguments of such a man are entitled, a priori,
to respectful attention; when they are so jnst,
so clear, so well-reasoned, so amply supported
by authorities of the highest character and of
every class as wo find them in the volume be
fore us, they cannot but assist us greatly in
forming a true judgment upon the nature and
merits of the controversy.
The plan of Mr. Stephens’ work is is simple
and somewhat trite, but convenient for his pur
pose. It is written in the form of conversations
with Northern visitors at his Georgia residence;
each of the three interlocutors, representing
and stating, with great distinctness, and wo be
lieve with perfect fairness, the idea of one of
the principal Northern parties, and defending
them by authority and reasoning, while the
cMef part, of course, is played by Mr. Stephens
Mmself, as the assertor of the defeated doctrine
of State soverinty, to wMch subject exclusively
the present volume is devoted. The argument
is well arranged, with regard both to Mstorical
order and logical sequence, and the propositions
which the author undertakes to maintain are as
well and as conclusively supported as any pro
positions admitting of convroversy well can be.
Mr. Stephens is superior to the common artifices
of advocacy, or is too confident in Ms causes to
need them.* Ho never stoops to weaken or mis
state the opposite view: he takes the strongest
points of his antagonist's case, as stated by its
most eminent advocates, and meets them with
arguments and facts about whose relevancy
there can seldom be the shadow of a doubt. * *
A sovereign can'have no judge; and the Fed
eral Constitution provided no means by wMch
one State could bring another to justice for
wrong-doing or nonfulfillment of engagements.
In likp manner there existed no legal mode by
wMch the Federal Government could coerce a
State wMch should exercise the right of sover
eignty to redress its wrongs under the compact
by denouncing the compact itself. A sovereign
power is tho judge of its own rights. Its sub
jects must obey k, and defend it, right or wrong.
It follows, therefore, from the sovereignty of
the States that they were entitled legally to se
cede if they chose, and that their citizens were
bound to follow and to fight for the choice of
the State.
This was the view on wMch Mr. Stephens
acted; and in its support he quotes the authority
of such eminent lawyers as Tucker and Rawle,
and the conditional admission of Story himself.
Ho shows that Massachusetts and the other New
England States had more than once asserted the
right of secession, and threatenecjlo exetpise it:
that Mr. Lincoln Mmself assorted, Ai general
terms, the right of any people or portion of a
people, locally distinctj to choose its own gov
ernment; and that Horace Qreeley, np to the
very last, insisted that, if the Sontiyjliose, she
had n right to go in peace. He himself disap
proved the policy of secession, bnt asserted to
tho fullest degr^a the absolute nature of tho
right, and the sufficiency of ther provocation;
and he calls Webster to testify, in very distinct
terms, that the systematic violation of tho Con
stitution in the case of fugitive slaves was alone
a sufficient vindication of the total repudiation,
by the South, of a compact wMfih the North ob
served only as far as she pleased.
It is impossible, within our limits, to give a
fair idea even of the outlines of such an argu
ment ; much more to convey a just impression
of the lucidity, power of thought, vast and ap
propriate reading, and vigorous reasoning by
wMch it is sustained. It wonld be difficult to
name a more perfect masterpiece ot constitu
tional reasoning and political disquisition; a
a work wMch might with greater advantage be
placed in the hands of the young lawyer, who de
sired to see how those high questions which are
the common ground of the lawyer, the historian,
and the statesman, can bo treated by one who
combines the qualifications of all three. The
book is perhaps hardly suited to the general
reader, but it may be confidently recommended
as indispensable to every one who wishes really
to understand either the Federal Constitution or
the Civil War; and it will be ranked among the
most valuable of those materials wMch the wri
ters of tins age are accumulating for the future
historian of America.
The Supreme Court of the United States has 0 r „
decided that Judges were not liable to suits by by the lawless conduct of a Radical carpet-bag
private individuals for their official acts. * \fnit
........... — .—
official.—Motttgomery Mail.
Tbe Future Production of Cotton.
From the Xeio Orleans Bulletin 1
That tho favorable results of last year’s crop
of cotton have induced efforts towards a still
larger production of the staple tho present year,
is not to bo doubted. But it is very question
able whether the actual increase will be consid
erable, or appreciable. There is land for the
purpose in nfflimitod abundance, bnt there is no
proportionate supply of agricultural labor. In
deed, there is reason to suspect that the re
sources of the latter now at hand in the Sonth
have reached the maximum of development,
from wMch there will be more tendency to de
cline than to increase. We refer especially to
the freedmen hands who have constituted the
bulk of plantation laborers in the cotton-grow
ing enterprises of the past three or four years.
Time is proving in this country what it has
proved in Jamaica, in Hayti, in Africa, that the
free negro has no more relish for continuous la
bor in the fields in the long, languid summers
of tropical and qnasi-tropical countries, than
the free Caucasian; and by some judges be is
regarded as havingmuch less, and as being par
ticularly repugnant to plantation labor as long as
there are open to Mm lighter occupations, or
other modes of living more conductive to the
dolce-far-niente existence of a big sunflower
nodding in the breezes, which is poetically sup
posed to fulfill the EtMopian’s dream of terres
trial happiness.
Turning to such elemqpts qtf white labor as
are now m tho South, we shall find them tend
ing to developement in mechanical and manu
facturing directions, rather than agricultural
Henceforth more and more of Southern industry
will be devoted to the manipulation of cotton
after it is grown, and it is not impossible that in
ten years ono-half the value of the Southern ex
port of cotton will be in the shape of doths or
yarns turned out of Southern factcdRfc. The
impending change will promote the substantial
wealth of the South, but, as the situation now
stands, it must necessarily diVeij capital and la
bor from the cultivation of the was to a variety
of home manufactures, and, therefore, most
tend to limit the production of cotton.
The Gbeat Conflagration at the Gu>e of
Good Hope. —Some details have been received of
the fearful conflagration wMch happened at
the Cape of Good Hope last February, when a
tract of country 400 miles long and varying in
breadth from fifteen to 150 miles was swept
over by fire. The weather had been unusually boj
and dry for the previous six weeks. Oh Febru
ary 9th tile temperature throughout the colony
rose to more intense heat than ever previously
known. During the morning scorching-hot
winds blew from the northeast, and ib the after
noon a fire broke out at .jeveral places and
wrapped millions of acres is enormous confla
gration, the cultivated la&ds, farm buildings,
native forests, and bush farm stock, and wild
nniniftlg sharing the same fate. Several persons
were also burned to death,. Those saved had
to take shelter in the
wet ditches, where many
scorakfd- The calamity
-and vi
destroying its produce,
wates-dams, and
than were badly
after the,
I For tie Telegraph
Sly Faded Flewers.
BY E. B. C. M
Yea! close your crimson eyes. . Ye teach,
Ye sadly teach of change. My heart
Will gather dew and freshness—then
With dew and freshness live apart,
As ye are living now.
Ye cannot feel that time is hard
Or cruel, tho’ he steals your bloom
No memory’s ghost from out the past
Is gathering heart-joy to his tomb,
No grave-damp on your brow.
Ye see no night—no gloom that seems
The darkness just before the honr
Of death. You've never felt the need
Of saving kisses, little flower,
Or kissed a tear-stained face.
No, no! You’ve never felt the proud.
Bright, trailing purple of your love
Turned to hope's winding sheet; you've lost
No sweet, glad echoes—tones that move
Our hearts throughout life's space.
Nor know, (while o'er our saddened soul*
Sweep memories wild,) our country's woe.
Ye bloom! Ye wither! but we live!
lave hopeless on—and meanings low.
Still sweep our spirits’ chords.
And little buds, yo do not know,
(Ungrateful flowers), nor love the hand
That placed you in my own. Yes, hang
And droop upon my breast—yet stand
Fit emblem of my words.
Macon, April 21st, 1869.
American Girls in Rome.
flirtations in the eternal citt.
From the correspondence 'of the -V, Y. Times.]
A letter from Rome to a Paris paper contains
these paragraphs : “ The 17th of January there
was a splendid ball at Fisher's. All America was
there. Out of twenty women, at least eighteen
were fascinating. By the side of the hostesses,
who are blonde and pretty girls, everybody ad
mired a brunette with large and rather strange
eyes—the rosy pearl among all these other
pearls. She is known as the ‘red rose/ agra-
cious nickname for beauty,' freshness, briUianev
and distinction. The American colony is very
numerous in Rome. _
There is sometMng singular in this current
wMch draws the cMldren of Young America to
the capital of the old world. It almost seems
as if Providence sent the race of the future to
rejuvenate the race of the past, and to place
youth and hope near old souvenirs. Is the race
of Romulus, already once regenerated by men
of the North, destined to be unexpectedly cross,
edby the youngest and most vivacious race o!
the Universe? What is the attraction which
draws women to Rome ? Some people say they
come to get titles. I should like to know which
is most honorable, to endeavor to become con
nected with noble and old souvenirs, or to sell
one’s title, name, ancestors and descendants for
a given amount of dollars. Notice this: The
men who marry American girls sometimes mar
ry ugly girls; but you cannot' find one single
American woman who has married a man, not
even a Prince or a Duke, who is an ugly fellow.
Look around you in Paris and you may observe
the same thing.
Now, tMs pursuit of titles and handsome men
engaged in by the American amazons is a nobler
and healthier exercise than that in which
rained nobles are engaged who hunt les Miss
Dollar. Rome is the city where flirtation reipri-
as the favorite sultana. It is not easy to flirt
successfully wjth our libertines and worn-out
young fellows‘at Paris, on the macadam of the
boulevards, and in the Champs Elysees. At
Rome the young men allow themselves to be
rolled like a cigarette between two pretty Ameri
can fingers. More than one young Roman no
ble has found out the day after Ms wedding that
he had made a love-match. ■ TMs discovery
raised Mm in Ms own eyes, without, however,
allowing Mm to raise Ms ancestral palace. Here
let me protest against manners and customs.
The education of women in America is the same
as in England and in Germany, and therefore is
very far superior, to French education. May
the'Sisters of the Sacred Heart and my anntia
Heaven forgive me for this luminous truth.
I know the most charming flirtations are to be
had among the American girls. Btitlswearlkaow
excellent and very scandalous flirtations whose
heroines are little French angels, who neverthe
less had the good fortune to try their rosy winp
under the maternal wing of the very reverend
mothers superior of the Sacred -Heart. Every
good Roman goes daily on the Pincio. Here
goes by Miss Conrad. She is an American, who
is as proud as she is intelligent. She is engaged
to be married to Marquis TbeodoH. Then
comes the “Red Rose.” This American wak
ing on tho grass is the Figaro of all native or
foreign bachelors. . He stt^ta the game and cu
ries the billets-doux. One evening he took it
into Ms head I was engaged to a Roman prin
cess. IfotmdMmatthedoorvnthmyovercoii
in bi« hand. -As I did not know this exotic in
dividual, I took Mm for a robber. Not a bit of
it; all he wanted to do was to oblige me.
Important Decision.
From the Central Georgian.]
During the sitting of 'Washington Superior
Court, last week, Ms Honor, Judge Gibson,
rendered the following decision, which beim
one of interest to the pnblicgenerally, andjw-
baps bearing upon other cases, of a simih-’
character, we give entire. The case was
Thos. E. Brown, Transferee, Vf. A. A. Undp-
WOOd. || tj ^ ,,;-y
Fi. fa. levy, and claim by P, Happ.
This is not a question between debtor s
creditor; but between the creditor and ana-
nocent purchaser for value, and the facts agw™
upon are that the judgment was obtained a
1858, and the levy in 1868, the precise timed
the year is not mentioned, yet that too is tgmd
upon. It is also admitted that the defendants
this fi. fa. removed from the county of Vs*-
ington in 1862, and that the claimant Happ P 1 ’'
chased the land or realty claimant in 1862.
Section 3525 of the Code of Georgia div* 1
the lien of this judgment in four years,
the plaintiff was after the sale to the
by the defendant in ft fa for four years of
time, or a period sufficient to constitute sd^
possession in the claimant for four years. ~'-
his purchase and possession, when he the P®7
tiff could not levy said fi fa. In other «:*•
did the claimant have possession of said A--
four years under a bona fide purchase (Pr,
valuable consideration, when the plaintiff/-*:
have levied upon the same? The solnuo-_
this question does not involve the constimu^
ality of the Stay Law or any other law, >**
terms. Would the admitted facts in th»®*
have permitted the plaintiff to have leived-,
had complied with its provisions, one of
visions being that if the defendent removed' 11 '
the county? , . r ..-
Did he remove ? and if so was the pj 1 '/
prevented from levying ? I think not. -h
one of the provisions of the law was that a »•”
dulent sale of the property, etc., wonld a fl *
ize the plaintiff to proceed, and whilst t- 1 ;;
may be no moral frand in selling the P 10 /'/
in question, yet the frand contemplated; ***£
act of sale that wonld mature into a P e “ e f
by lapse of time, thereby divesting \
lien. Here then were two distinct and
exceptions, acts, which permitted the
to pursue his rights. It is true upon com 1 '
yet as they are now admitted to have bee" ^
then, the conditions were riot one» Q3 >,,
therefore the plaintiff must suffer by his
and not any innocent purchaser for value-
For .if he had been moved against in
wMch I think in all conscience sufficient'!
and should rather be shortened, he nugd'^ ,
secured himself against loss. I do not
necessary to inquire into the many poeihe ^
sumed by the learned oounseL Yet I
tore to say in a question like ihe eno P r °-'j.,.
—two parties in Court, one
oiijL^auA.
i/one—«nd'pipe
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p Mil I , ■!,
positive, unquestioned, constitutional/»>.
the other asserting that he was prohibit* 1 ^
law decided by our Supreme Court to
stitntional from asserting Ms rights,
the Court may not have been unanimous,
assume that he who holds under a
law is protected in preference to him ^
serts his inhibition under an unconsta/ "
law. More especially will I do this at
when one of the Judges, then, I believe, ^
Justice, is still on the Bench, who so “ ei °5 d
the present Chief Jnstioe as Governor .
State at the time of the passage of the
similar bill to the second, vetoed it, I P*
upon the ground of its unoonstitutiomjW^
Tho claim on acoount of four years
and undisturbed possession by a b°na
chaser for a valuable consideration ns
sustained, and the plaintiff ordered to P*>
costs of this proceeding.
The late Rev. Danielhwwwas both* J
wag and a great amoker. * j®* 1 JS 1 ,
cried * 3»dy, who surprised Mm %
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