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MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1869.
The New Court* in Georgia*
We confess ft flood of light has been poured
upon us by our contemporaries of the Georgia
press in respect to the State Judiciary. We
hare two more courts than the law mates al
lowance for, and they are not only “ Supreme
Courts," but, if we may credit the Constitution
alist, they are courts so singularly hide-bound
that they cannot even review their own de
cisions.
_ These are the grand legislative courts, to-wit:
The Senate and House of Representatives; and
they are endowed with the functions of Supreme
Courts, with power to settle, without appeal,
questions of fundamental and statutory law, by
that simple provision of the Constitution which
makes them the judge of the qualification of
their own members.
Wo are amazed to see all our contemporaries
quoted this morning fallinginto this view of the
matter-spealdng of our legislative bodies as
“courts’’ in entertaining questions of the eligibil
ity of their own members—callingsuchdecisions
“judicial decisions," and insisting that they are
the supreme law of the State. Surely we
:ave been dreaming—walking in our ignorance
al our days and must begin to study politics
alow, if all this is not a total perversion of the
logo and science of government.
Ve hold that all such notions are not only
false in themselves, but dangerous and destruc
tive to liberty—confounding the structure and
theory of government—tending inevitably to
collisions between its organic departments—di
vesting the citizen of legal protection and arm
ing the Legislature with unconstitutional pow
ers against which there is no redress or remedy.
We cannot persuade ourselves that any theory
of the government which confuses and inter
mixes the function* of its three grand depart
ments, and leaves the rights of citizens to fly
back and forth between them like a shuttlecock,
with no other result than perpetual conflict, is a
sound one. The Constitution, it is true, makes
each house the judge of the qualification of its
own members, but this must always be within
the purview of the law. The Constitution could
not empower any department of the government
it creates to violate its own provisions.
The Constitution creates a judicial depart
ment of the government and devolves upon it
the sole office and duty of interpreting the law
and settling all questions of the rights, privil
eges, powers, duties and obligations of the citi
zens under it. The three grand functions of
making, interpreting and administering the law
are declared to he distinct, independent and of
equal dignity.
It is true the Senate is, in certain cases, cre
ated by the Constitution a Court of Impeach
ment—but this is an extraordinary investment
—specially provided for; and the charac
ter and constitution of that body are changed for
the occasion. Ordinarily it is no court, and in
passing upon the qualification of its members
acts merely in discharge of the plain and necessa-
ty duty of self-protection against intrusion and
disorder.
Its action cannot divest the citizen of the rem
edies -erf the Constitution if he is agrieved. Will
any body pretend to say that either branch of
the Legislature could, under this provision, bid
defiance to the popular will, and absolutely ex
clude whole counties and districts from repre-
resentation, and yet the Constituion give no
remedy ? The people must resort to revolution?
Surely such a theory must be unsound.
From the necessity of the case, every delibe
rative body, legal or voluntary, must possess the
power of settling questions of rightful member
ship and order, but in the case of the Legisla
ture no such settlement can divest the citizen,
or the county or the district, of plain constitu
tional rights any more than the enactment of an
unconstitutional statute could override the fun
damental law. Both decisions must yield to the
Constitution as authoritatively interpreted. The
Constitution can vest no one of its creatures with
power to overthrow itself, which power is unas
sailable within its own provisions. The citizen
whose rights are assailed by the Legislature,
must have hi3 remedies as against it, as against
the other departments of the Government. Any
other doctrine, it seems to ns, must lead to ab
surd and dangerons conclusions.
The Pres* ori the Supreme Court De
cision.
As the people will look with some interest for
the views of the Georgia press upon the recent
decision of, the Supreme Court upon the negro
eligibility question, we append such as come to
hand Friday morning.
The Savannah Morning News copies and en
dorses the paragraph from the Constitutionalist
yesterday from which we dissented, declaring
that the decision cannot take effect upon the
Legislature, because that body is made by the
Constitution the supreme judge of the qualifi
cation of its own members. ‘ ‘ They alone have
constitutional jurisdiction of the subject, so far
as their respective bodies are concerned. They
have decided, so far as this Legislature is con
cerned. Their decision, when rendered, was a
judicial decision,which cannot now be reversed.”
The Savannah Republican declines to offer
an opinion, but has the following review of ar
guments on both sides:
But, it is asked: will the effect of thisdecision
be to reseat the expelled negro members of the
Legislature, removing those who now occupy
their places? We shall offer no opinion on this
point at present, but content ourselves with a
brief and simple statement of the argument pro
and eon, leaving the reader to determine for
himself upon the weight of reason.
It is contended by some that the decision just
announced can have no bearing upon the matter
under consideration. That question has been
settled by the only courts having jurisdiction of
it—that is by each house of the General Assem
bly. They alone have constitutional jurisdic
tion of the subject, so far as their respective
bodies are concerned. They have decided, so
far as this Legislature is concerned. Their de
cision. when rendered, was a judicial decision,
which cannot be reversed by any other branch
of the government. All that could come of
such a decision of the Supreme Court, in the
future, so far as relates to holding the office of
legislator, would be to use it as an argument in
the next Legislature, if the question should
again come np in either house. It could not
bind the Legislature; for, by tho Copstitution
each house is the sole judge of the election and
qualification of its members. No other Court
can control that judicial judgment in thematter,
and, notwithstanding the decision of the Su
preme Court, the Legislature must and will
stand as at present constituted.
In opposition to this view there are two con
siderations that may be offered, one involving
the law, and the other the policy, of the case.
It is admitted that the Constitution makes
each branch of the Legislature the exclusive
judge of the election and qualifications of its
own members; but it may be asked, is this a
power given without any implied limitation,
and with the understanding that the two houses
can use it arbitrarily, according to the will of
the majority, and without any restraint what
ever ? Are they not bound to exercise the dis
cretion thus granted according to the Constitu
tion of the State as authoritatively, expounded?
Is it possible in reason that the Legislature can
be invested with a power to violate the Con
stitution ? Could they expel a member just be
cause they happen not to like his society, and
when no crime or improper conduct is alleged?
The two houses are authorized to determine for
themselves exclusively two things: first, the
election of a member, or whether he received
a majority of the legal votes cast; secondly,
whether he be qualified as a Senator or Repre
sentative, or not—that is, whether he possesses
in himself those qualities which the Constitu
tion and laws make necessary in order to con
stitute him a member of the Legislature. If
these conditions have been determined by the
supreme interpreter of the Constitution and
laws of the State, is the Legislature at liberty
to set aside such decision ?
In the second place, it may be contended that
as the Legislature voted to refer the question of
eligibility of negroes under the Constitution to
the Supreme Court, notwithstanding the failure
of the measure through Executive interposition,
are they not morally, as well as legally, bound
to accept its decision as final ?
And still another point may be raised. In
view of the doubtful relations of the State to the
Federal government, and indeed of the govern
ment of the State to its own people, would it not
be wise and prudent, without contest, to allow
the negro members to occupy their seats for the
only remaining session of the present Legisla
ture—and it may be made a very brief one—
thereby submitting to a temporary evil—and
everything indicates that it will be only tempo
rary—rather than embark in a local and nation
al strife the end of which no man can foretell.
We have thu3 presented, fairly and intelligi
bly, as we think, the argument on both sides of
the question, and, without offering any opinion
in the premises, we leave the matter to be deter
mined by our legislators, when next they meet,
in such manner as will, in their judgment, best
conduce to the peace, welfare, and permanent
good of our beloved State.
The Columbus Enquibeb embodies its ideas
in the following:
The Atlanta Constitution mentions a rumor
that, in view of this decision, Gov. Bullock will
call the Legislature together within thirty days.
TELEGRAPH.
Clover in Greene County.
The Greensboro Herald, of Thursday, says :
Dr. Thos. P. Janes, of this county, has jt»t
finished mowing a field of five acres of red
clover, the most of which measured four feet
and five inches high, and yielded two and a half
tons to the acre. It was planted one year ago
last March, on old land, which has been in cul
tivation for the last thirty years, and without
manure. He has other fields planted ten
months later, which bid fair to equal the five
acre lot. He is also growing the various kinds
of grain successfully.
That is a crop of one hundred dollars to the
acre—grown with little more expense than the
coet of the seed. We should consider five such
acres of clover in Bibb County worth about
twenty pretty fair acres in cotton and perhaps
more—for such a clover crop, by the aid of a
good mowing machine, is harvested with very
little trouble and expense—can be gathered and
stored in less than a week, in June, while cot
ton would be a steady drag to Christmas.—
Green county is about fifty miles north of Bibb,
but we have no doubt red clover will grow about
as well here, and certainly to the extent of sup
plying the demands of this market, which are
quite large, would be far more profitable than
cotton.
On an Exclusive Negbo Basis.—The press
dispatch represents Turner as running on “high
moral grounds,” in respect to his official bond.
Ho could get plenty of uhite bondsmen, but will
not have them. He is determined it shall be
a Simon Pure negro business throughout. This
statement, of course, is a matter for faith, and
vre may draw what conclusions we please. Tur
ner has been appointed a month and has not
yet got his bond ready. It was necessary to as
sign some reason for the delay, and this one will
perhaps do as well as any other.
Mb. Pendleton, of the Valdosta Times, was
thrown from his buggy last Tuesday evening,
frig head striking a stump in the fall, and pro
ducing insensibility. Consciousness seemed to
be retaming next day, and hopes were enter
tained of his recovery. His little son, who was
riding with him, was also thrown out, but sus
tained no serious injury. The horse had taken
fright, and was unoontrolable.
The Valdosta Times says: The weather is
as pleasant as any one could wish for. Sam
Slick said on one occasion, while resting in a
potato* patch, that he heard the small potatoes
“cussin” the big ones, and telling them to give
room for growing.
Fbok Putnam County.—A gentleman writing
from Putnam, under date of the ICtb, says
“Prospects are more promising than they were
last year. Com is very. fine. I have a little
more than seventy acres of cotton over knee
high. Rains have been splendid."
Which mat Account fob the Mtt.it m the
COOOAXUT.—The Philadelphia Age of the 14th
says:
The stocks of cotton in this country have be
came so reduced that, with ell that may be ex
pected to noma to market daring the next four
months, there will not be enough to keep the
spindles of this oountry going during that time.
Poes thisfaot aooouni for the kiting prices?
For what ? It can hardly be pretended that the
decision of the Snpreme Court will give negroes
the right to seats in the Legislature. The right
of each house to judge of the qualifications _ of
members of its own body is a plain stipulation
of the Constitution. To say that either the
Code or the Supreme Court can take away this
constitutional right, would be an absurdity. If
tho Governor does call the Legi8lature together,
with a view to distract or overawe it by insist
ing on the re-seating of the negro members by
virtne of this decision, it will only be a mis
chievous proceeding, and one provocative of
renewed strife. Besides, it can establish noth
ing, because each Legislature will assuredly ex
ercise for itself the constitutional right to judge
of the qualifications of its members.
The Constitutionalist, reviewing the opin
ions, add3 the following. We concur entire
ly in the views expressed in its concluding para
graph, in their fullest application to the case in
hand:'
So, the result of this Snpreme Court decision
comes to this: White, and the few other negroes
elected to office have temporary authority to
hold their positions. The negroes elected to the
General Assembly cannot get back, because the
Snpreme Court has nothing to do in their cases,
judgment in the matter resting solely with the
two Houses. If the General Assembly should
repeal the debatable statutes of the Code pre
sumed to have a bearing upon this matter, the
vexed question would be put beyond dispute,
and Georgia still stand as a State governed by
white men, Brown and McCay to the contrary
notwithstanding.
We are environed with difficulties—difficul
ties and embarrassments of no ordinary charac
ter—and it will require great care, prudence
and patriotism to steer clear of a complete crash
of everything which freemen should hold dear.
But first and foremost, the minds of the public
must be impressed with the idea that there is no
hope for ultimate liberty and the triumph of
Constitutional principles, but in bowing to the
law as expounded by those who have been inves
ted with authority to expound it. Free govern
ments can be maintained only by maintaining
the law as it exists, while it exists, and correct
ing it in the proper way. A wise people will
bear patiently for a time even a great wrong,
rather iTmri fly to ill-advised remedies, which
can bring nothing but general ruin in their
train.
From Washington.
Washington, June 18.—Internal Revenue, to
day, $697,000. i rlpffJD
Boutwell returns on Tuesday.
Andrew Johnson visits Washington on the 1st of
July. *{-)--■£-> y
Nearly a half million of three per cent, certificates
were redeemed yesterday.
The President has appointed Thos. S. King, of
Atlanta, Route Agent between Atlanta and Chatta
nooga.
Dr. Brink, Consul to Mexico, is made to say that
the administration will soon adopt a positive policy
towards Mexico.
It is stated that Pierepont arrested tho Cubans,
at New York, under the direction of Hoar, who re
proached Pierepont for derilection in duty for not
acting sooner.
Washington, Juno 19.—The Bricklayer's Union
have expelled six members for working with colored
bricklayers at the Navy Yard.
Treasurer Spinner, in consequence of his wife's
death, remains absent several weeks.
Tiiman’s distillery at Baltimore, was seized to
day. - •
Tho Herald sayB: “The President, it is under
stood, favors granting belligerent rights to the Cu
bans, but the Cabinet is against him. Secretary
Fish strongly sympathises with the Cubans, as does
also Secretary Borie, but Attorney General Hoar and
Secretary Boutwell are pronouncedly against them.’’
Tho steamer Cricket, plying between Key West
and Havana, has been wrecked.
The Bovenue for to-day is nearly one million.
J. E. Garcia, of Cuba, is at Willard’s.
Senator Wade visited Brigham Young on Wednes
day.
The Treasury messengers, heretofore dignified
personages, will hereafter scrub and sweep.
The Bevenuo officials report the seizure of sixty
illicit stills in tho mountains of Virginia, East Ten
nessee and North Carolina.
It is stated that, on Grant’s return, the Cabinet
will consider and adopt a positive policy regarding
Cuba.
Secretaiy Fish disavows any agency, direct or in
direct, in the recent proceedings against the Caban
partizans.
Delano demands the assistance of tho marines to
suppress illicit distillation in the suburbs of Phila
delphia. The people have driven off tho revenue
officers with stones.
Turner Rampant.
Washington, June 18.—Tomer, the negro Post
master, of Macon, Ga., has not yet filed his bond.
The white patrons of Tamer here say they would
go on tho bond but that Tamer stubbornly persists
in having black bondsmen.
From New York.
New Yobk, June 18.—Hon. H. J. Raymond left
the Times office at midnight perfectly well and died
at five o’clock this morning—appoplexy.
The captured Cubans paid the Ludlow street jail
or twenty dollars for a bed.
The Herald says that Minister Lemus wa8 found
at his residence in Brooklyn at a late hour, but de
clined to recognize the character of the officers who
presented the order, and refused to permit himself
to bo arrested. He gave parole to appear in the
morning at court and answer. Tho officers acknowl
edged that they had been well paid to make the ar
rest at that late hour, the presumption being that it
was intended to enjeet him to the personal indignity
of imprisonment at an hour when no court was in
session to take cognizance of bail. The verbiage of
the bond to keep peace is, to be of good behavior
towards the United States and shall refrain from
any violation of the neutrality laws, or from any
breach of tho peace of the United States, for the
term of one year. The whole proceeding was char
acterized by a degree of ruffianism and brutality,
unworthy of the fame that New Yorkers and Ameri
cans hold so dear. These Cubans may have viola
ted the international law of the oountry; yet, never
theless. they were entitled to the common privileges
accorded, from time immemorial, to tho refugees of
tyranny, from every climate.
Mr. Evarts appeared for Senor Lemus. '
The Quaker City is now known as the Columbia.
She sailed under British colors, but will hoist the
rebel colors on reaching Haytien waters. She has
been altered into a powerful war vessel.
From Virginia.
Staunton, June 18.—The members of the Medi
cal Convention visited Weyer’s Cave yesterday.
In the morning session, to-day, Dr. Bay read a
paper on the abnormal condition of tho mind, that
occurred incases of fever, acute inflammation or
paralysis, where patients apparently are perfectly
sane, and afterwards, on recovery, declare they
have no recollection of what they did. Tho paper
was debated by nearly all tho members for two
hours and ordered to be printed.
Richmond, June 18 The United States Marshal,
Panker, this morning made a descent on the al
leged Cuban recruiting rendezvous, and arrested H.
H. Harrison, the leading man. Harrison had plenty
of funds in the bank, and promptly gave bail in the
snm of ten thousand dollars, to appear. It is
stated that about thirty men were recruited yester
day. The men are promised five hundred dollars
bounty in New York. e
From Alabama.
Montgojieby, June 19.—The Democratic Conven
tion at Dadeville, for tho Third District, nominated
J. C. Parkinson for Congress. He is a Northern
man by birth, who settled in Alabama in 18S5, and
has invested largely in the State. The nomination
was quite unexpected to him, as he has devoted his
time to manufacturing and farming, and was not
known as a politician.
From South Carolina.
Chableston. June 18.—It is officially announced
that the interest on tho State of South Carolina
bonds and stocks for the two years, ending on the
first day of July next, will be paid on and after that
date. Tho interest on the bonds will be paid in
New York and in Columbia, and on the registered
stock, in Columbia only.
From Cuba.
Havana. June 18 Gen. Finner having victualed
Los Tunos after desperate fighting, (Insurgents re
tiring in good order) returned to Neuvitas with 19
cholera cases, seven of which have since proved fa
tal. The truth of tho story that a filiibuster expe
dition which landed near Guantamowaa destroyed
is that a small advance sent forward to communi
cate with the insurgents was cut off. ’
From Colmnbns.
The Enquirer announces that the Rock Island
Paper Mills, destroyed near the close of the war
by General "Wilson, are to be rebuilt. Crops
doing well considering the lateness of the season,
but old planters think in cut short a fourth by
reason of the lateness of the spring.
The Judgeship.—A meeting of the Columbus
bar was held on Wednesday, to make compli
mentary notice of the retirement of Judge Wor*
rill. The Sun expresses donbt of the eligibility
of ex-Govemor James Johnson, because the
Code provides that a Judge shall be a resident
of the Circnit over which he is to preside at least
one year preceding his appointment or election.
The newly appointed Judge has been living in
Savannah the last two years.
The Zeitung, a German paper, published in
Charleston, S. C., has suspended. The respon
sible editor cannot be found anywhere.
Wheat.—The Rome Commercial quotes
wheat weak, at $1 50.
Judge E. A. Nisbet delivered the annual lit
erary address at Emory College this year.
A FABKKB near San Antonio, Texas, has a
farm of 130,000 acres fenced in, and40,000 head
' of cattle pastured on it
General News.
Cincinnati, June 18.—A Joint Committee of the
Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce have
arranged to have cannon fired, bells rung, and mu
sic, on the 26tb, when the vote on the ten million
dollars appropriation shall be taken, for the South
ern Railroad.
San Francisco, June 19.—The Colorado,for Pana
ma took three quarters of a million. 1200 Chinese
arrived yesterday by sailing veesel. The rust has
appeared in wheat and barley.
Boston, June 19.—The Custom-house authori
ties say the clearance of the steamer Delpbine, on
Thursday night, was in strict conformity with law.
Her war-like character is unquestioned, hut her des
tination is known only to parties who control her.
Foreign News.
London, June 19.—The House of Lords, at 3
o’clock this morning, passed the Disestablishment
bill to its second reading. : *
In the House of Commons to-day, a motion was
made to go into Committee of the Whole on tho
new operative commercial treaty with France, the
present treaty expiring before the next session.
Bright opposed the proposition in a strong speech.
On the question the House was divided—one hun
dred and one against one hundred and fifty-five. . t
Tassora, the Spanish envoy to England, has re
signed. <
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge
were present during the entire proceedings last
night in the House of Lords. ■
Madbid, June 19!—Serrano took the Regency oath
to-day, loud vivas following. The Cabinet contains
Prim, War; President Selvela, State; Hessera,-
Grace Justice.
Pabis. June 19.—Eight- hundred of-the rioters re
cently arrested, have been discharged. Two hun
dred are still held,
A crowd'of people followed tlie funeral of the
rioters killed in the recent tumults. No disorder.
Tlie Burke County Tragedy.
ABBEST of the murdebeb—eis confession.
On. yesterday morning the Chronicle & Senti
nel—the only paper in the city which had it—
published an account of the brutal murder of
Mr. Adkins D. Lewis, of Burke county, by a
negro, whom at the time he had in his employ
ment. Our account stated that he was mur
dered in cold blood in one of his fields and that
the murderer had fled from justice. This morn
ing we are gratified at being able to announce
to our readers that the assassin has been arrest
ed and now occupies a cell in the jail of this
city, where he will remain until demanded by
the authorities of Burke county, in which tho
crime was committed. Below we give a full ac
count of the whole transaction: The reasons
the negro gave for killing his employer: the
manner in which the murder was accomplished;
the subsequent flight of the murderer; and his
arrest in this city yesterday morning.
The name of the gentleman was, as we have
before stated, Adkins D. Lewis, an esteemed
and useful citizen of Burke county, who owned
and resided on a plantation seven miles south
of the town of Waynesboro. The murderer is
a negro named, Ben Godby, who has for some
time past been in the employment of Mr. Lewis.
Godby’s family, consisting of his wife and a
little girl, -frere also employed by the same mas
ter; Ms wife, we believe, a cook, and Ms child
a nurse for Mrs. Lewis. On last Monday God
by’s little girl, while nursing Mrs. Lewis’ child,
violated some commands which had been im
posed by her mistress, and was corrected by the
latter for the act of disobedience. This, of
course, was" told by the child to her mother;
and on Tuesday morning the latter called Mrs.
Lewis to account for the punishment, in a most
insolent manner. Mrs. Lewis endeavored to
make her stop her impertinent language, but
without success; the enraged negress grew
more and more violent, until Mr. Lewis, who
happened at this timo to enter the room, made
her desist, by striking her a light blow over the
head with a stick, wMch he held in his hand.
Tho blow cut the skin of the woman's skull, and
brought tho blood.
That night when Godby returned to Ms cabin
from' work, his wife told him of the manner in
wMch she had been treated by Mr. Lewis.
During the recital Godby and another negro
man were present; and the latter, we under
stand, asserts that Godby grew very indignant
when told of the blow, and declared Ms deter
mination of revenging himself by taking the
life of Ms employer. On "Wednesday morning
Godby and the other hands went to their work
in a field situated a short distance from Mr.
Lewis’ house. Beforg leaving his house, how
ever, Godby secreted on Ms person a large dirk
knife—thus showing very plainly his murderous
intentions. His wife refused to go to Mrs. Lewis
to resume her culinary occupation, but remained
at home in bed, saying that she was unable to
work. A little later in the morning of Wednes
day, Mr. Lewis entered the field and asked God-.,
by where Ms wife was? Godby, we are in
formed, replied that she was at home sick from
the effects of the blow Lewis had struck her,
and that he intended to have revenge. Mr.
Lewis made some reply to tMs, when Godby
drew Ms dirk and sprung upon Mm. Before
Ms employer could recover from the surprise
of the attack, he stabbed Mm five or six times
in the stomach and breast, inflicting several
mortal wounds. During this time no one at
tempted to stay the hand of the murdorer, and
when his victim fell to the ground, Godby fled,
nnpursued, from the field, and going to his
house, procured bis wife and fled the county.
On yesterday evening about six o’clock. Ma
jor Hugh McLaws, while going from this city
to Ms home in the country, met a negro man
and two women about six miles from the city,
on the Savannah road, coming to Augusta. He
noticed that one of the women had blood on her
clothes, but said nothing to the party and went
on home. Yesterday morning he returned to
the city, and, when about a mile from here,
overtook the party ho had seen on the previous
evening. His curiosity a little excited, Major
McLaws stopped and asked the woman with the
blood on her dress where she was going. She
replied that she was from Burke county, where
she had had a difficulty with her employer,' Mr.
Lewis, in which she had been severely beaten
by the employer, and that she was coming to
Augusta in order to take out a warrant for Ms
arrest. Major McLaws then asked why she had
not gone to a Burke county Magistrate. The
woman answered that there was no justice in
her District, and that she was obliged to come
to Augusta.
Nothing further passed between them, and
Major McLaws left the party and came on to
town. Upon reaching the city ho road in the
Chronicle and Sentinel an account of tho mur
der of Mr. Lewis, and saw at once that the ne-
g o whom he had passed must be the murderer.
e at once communicated to the police what he
had seen, and put them on the lookout for the
party. At about half-past nine o’clock a police
detective saw the man and two women standing
near the comer of Ellis and Monument streets.
Recognizing his game, from the blood on the
dress of one of the women, he approached and
entered into conversation with the party. God
by was under the impression that there was a
Freedmen’s Bnreau Agent in Augusta, and asked
where he was to be found, saying thnt he had
stabbed Lewis, but had not killed Mm, and
wished to have Mm arrested for beating his
wife. The detective told him to go into tho
office of one of Bullock’s Notaries near by and
he would see the matter all right. The negro
did as directed, and the detective going to the
City Hall, returned with the Captain of Police.
The detective says that the Notary told him not
to go for the police. When the Captain arrived
there the Notary informed him that Godby had
given himself up. The following is the declara
tion to that effect drawn up by Lyons and sworn
to by Godby. We give it verbatim et literatim :
Georgia, Richmond >
County. ) ..."
Personally appeared Ben. Godby of Burke
county who being sworn deposeth and saith on
the IGth day of June 18G9 he was employed by
Adkins D. Lewis, and was working in the field
of said Adkins D. Lewis when the said Lewis
enquired of Deponent where his wife was. An
swered that Ms wife was in the house and bea
ten by Mm so she could not work. Then he re
plied! will out your throat from ear to ear and
drew a pocket knife end made at me and I
drew a knife in self defence and stabbed Mm
with it and .then fled. Deponent , maketh tMs.
statement and gives himself over to the civil au
thority of Richmond connty for fear of mob
violence in said county.
Sworn before me tins 17th day of June 1809.
his
Ellis Lyons. . . „ , - * Ben. -X. Godby.
NP. woff, J. P. mark
After the above had been signed a commit
ment was made out and Godby sent to jail. The
knife with wMch he killed Lewis is at the Nota
ry’s office. It is made from a long file, beaten
out sharp on both edges with an exceedingly
keen point, and is a most murderous looking
weapon. Godby pretended not to know that
Lewis was dead and seemed astonished when
told the fact. It will be observed that in the
latter part of his declaration he swears that he
is afraid of “mob violence” from the people of
Richmond county. We tMnk he intended to
say Burke county, and that the ignorance of the
notary caused the mistake. - a . ..
PICTURE BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES.
— From Stewart Conntjv ** 5
Lumpkin, June 18th, 18G9.
Editors Telegraph—Lumpkin is one of the
prettiestvillagesto.be found in the State of
Georgia. It was settled in .1829 and named for
one of Georgia’s illustrious sons, Joseph Lump
kin. It is the county site of Stewart, and corn-
tains eight or nine hundred inhabitants. It .is
noted for its health, beauty, wide streets,' and
shady trees, and the large number of pretty
girls that claim Lumpkin for their home.
The surrounding country is in a thriving con
dition, with a better prospect for a good crop of
com and cotton than I have ever seen since the'
war. I walked over one field of cotton, belong
ing to Mr. F * * * * * eight miles from town,
containing one hundred acres, that would, aver
age knee high, last week, 1 : ‘
The farms are generally free from grass, and
np to this time have been blessed with plenty
of rain.
The citizens of Stewart are anxiously looking
forward to the day when the Columbus, Cuth-
bert and Bainbridge Railroad will penetrate tho
productive fields of their native hills and val
leys, giving them direct communication with
the markets, and.a more ready sale for their
produce; and if others will take hold of it with
the energy of Dr, Baraum, it will soon be a suc
cess. Yours, “Quiet but Steady.”
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
Translated from the German for the Macon Daily
Telegraph.
TWENTY-FIFTH EVENING.
“I will furnish thee a picture from Frank
fort,” said the Moon. “Especially one build
ing I examined there: it was not Goethe’s
birth-house; not the old town hall, through, the
barred windows of wMch still look the homed
skulls of the oxen that were roasted and aban
doned tc the crowd at the coronation of the
Emperors ; no, it the house of a citizen;
green painted and simple, near the narrow Jew’s
street—it was RothscMld’s house. I looked
through the open door; the' stair-case was
brightly lighted up; servants with bnming
candles on heavy silver candle-sticks stood
there, bowing low before the old woman, who
was on a sedan chair carried down, the stairs.
The owner of the house stood there bare head
ed and kissed, respectfully, the hand of the old
woman. It was Ms mother; she nodded friend
ly to Mm and the servants, and they conveyed
her into the narrow dark street, into a little
house; it was her dwelling. Here she had given
birth to her children; from here had her pros
perity bloomed forth. Were she to leave the
despised street and the little house, prosperity
would leave her too! TMs was her belief.”
The Moon narrated notMng more ; her visit
was really too short to-night; but I thought of
the old woman in the despisedlittle street; only
a word, and her brilliant house would stand - on
the Thames; only a word, and her villa would
lie on the Gnlf of Naples.
Were I to leave the humble house from which
the prosperity of my sons bloomed forth, pros
perity would leave them! It is a superstition;
but of the kind, that if one, knowing the
story, beholds the picture, two words as super
scription will suffice to understand it; a mother.
TWENTY-SIXTH EVENING.
“It was in the morning twilight yesterday,”
these are Moon's own words; no chimney smoked
yet in the large city and it was precisely the
cMmneys which I surveyed. In this moment
there crept forth from one of them a little head,
and then half the body, the arms resting on the
brim of tho chimney. “Hiob! Hiob!” It was
a little cMrnney sweeper, who, for the first time
in Ms life had crept through a chimney and put
forth his head. Hiob! Hiob! Yes, tMs certain
ly was quite another tMng than to crawl about
in the dark and narrow chimneys. The wind
blew so fresh he could look over the whole city,
away to the green forrest; the sun just rose,
round and large, he shone straight into Ms face
beaming with happiness, .though it was by soot
blackened, right prettily. Now, the whole city
can see me, he exclaimed, and the moon can see
me, and the sun too. “Hiob! Hiob!” andthere.
upon he swung his broom. *
AU About Mr. Seward as Teacher- Visit to Monroe and Bibb Coun^T
No. 2. Pic at RqBtcrV-El^ut PeSj!
Eatonton, Ga., June 15, 1869. —Crops, etc. ****
Editors Telegraph: If Mr. Seward used the T .,
language concerning Mr. Woodruff attributed , Talbotton, June 14, 1869.
to Mm by the correspondent of the Rochester . Editors 2 digraph : -I cannot refrain from
Express, he must be a bad, ungrateful man, a expression to the favorable impression
hypocrite and base slanderer of one whom he ma “ e mind during a recent Visit to Mon.
called friend, and who treated Mm with great 106 an d Bibb counties. I found everybody h&n.
kindness and attention on his visit to Georgia contented and employed in the differed
in 1846. But that correspondent makes mis- P nrsai ^ 8 °* life, apparently indifferent to jb
statements, unimportant in themselves, that oa \ e . 8 ' • • _ „
throw very great doubts on his veracity. For Atapic-mcat Dr. Hunter’s,I have rarely if
instance, he makes Mr. Seward Bay: “I re- ®y er > “ et ^th such a refined and elegant pL
turned to my studies, and as the best I could do Fi e ’ “ a is to be judged by its citizens
in fulfillment of my promise to my new found Momroe and Bibb deserve to be sung by the W.
friends in Georgia, sent them my excellent mo “?r.P ards * , 1 have always thought there was
young friend, Mr. W——, of the senior class, an ?, atn ,8 a °“°87 between every country and
excellent soholar and a finished gentleman." lt8 P?°P !o - *n® ?* ve8 character to the oth-
By the extract from the minutes kept by the er “histratang what is natural and ber.ntifni
Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Union ?‘ count ^y» influences ithe taste and manners of
Academy, published in the letter before this, it i? 8 P®?P‘ e - Hospitality and generosity are dis.
appears that Mr. Woodruff arrived before Mr. j Lnguishing traits of Georgians. Nowhere will
S. left, and it was resolved that the latter at- these more strongly developed than ic
tend the former “as much as convenient, dur- “ IS people- .Like their hills, they rise into
ing the succeeding week, for the purpose of 8* andeur » and, departing, we leave them with
making him acquainted with the students, reg- I th e sweetest memory,
illations,” etc. And the truth is just this—that ! *° “e pic-mc. We cannot forget its
the elder Seward, on discovering the Mding : associatl onsL.. It was a bright day ^
place of Ms young hopeful, who had ran my rn?tb many hearts together, rejoicing,
from college to teach school in Georgia, sent j country girls vied with tho taste
Woodruff to take his place, so that the boy f , es :. gents from the rural dis.
might return to his studies. | *” ots angled indisenminately; and oh! what a
Here is the language said to be used by > kf ve .’ T1 * e and harp
Seward abont Ms friend Woodruff, who enter- j wele “ere, ana with sweetest music filled the
tained him very hospitably in Greensborough, i a » r * 1 arc Htectnre
and accompanied Mm to the neighborhood of °* ^ our ., 7 _ ^udded with palaces of
Ms old patrons: | ease and pleasure—and thought there must be
“I saw a large, fat, greasy, dirty man, with- so “ ia bidden beauty where there was so much
out coat or vest, sitting with aimless stupidity I carnal splendor; but then, did I httla drearc
on a bench. I thought it* might be safe to in- • lssum 8_J ro ^ its rosy bowers a little fairr
quire of him, baton a nearer inspection, he ! T ueen * .The others were angels, but this one
■was so repulsive to look upon that, from dis- j ™ a ssiry queen. With her soft eyes meeting
gust, I turned aside to a cleanly and decently y our8 > y° u would feel her willing subject.
I cannot give her name,
For fear ’(would be pain;
And painful still to love- -
“And not be loved again.”
dressed negro, and asked if he could tell me
where I could find Mr. W., of whom I was in
search. Casting Ms eye about he fastened it j
upon the lump of obesity I had just rejected,
and, with a polite bow, pointing to him, says: I
•That is Mr. W!’ There was now no escape for : Among those whom I know and most promi-
me. On inquiring I found that he was what : ne M, I may mention General. Holt and family.
was left of my successor in the Academy. ! whose good humor is an acquisition on any oc’-
On learning who I was, he was (up to the meas- ; casion. The General is very popular over onr
ure of his capacity) right glad to see me; took way, astheJPresident of.one.of. the leading rail.
me np to Ms house—wMch was as tidy as its
lord—and introduced me to his wife, etc. ”
All tMs is entirely new to one who is a native
way companies in Georgia. Socially, he has few
if any superiors in elegant taste and refinement
The crops were excellent in Monroe and Bibb
TWENTY-SEVENTH EVENING.
“Last night I looked down upon a city in
China,” said the Moon. “My beams sbone upon
the long, naked walls, forming the streets.
Here and there you may find a door, but it is
locked, for what do the Chinese care about the
ontside world? Tight Venetian blinds covered
the windows beMnd the walls of the houses;
only through tho windows of the temple there
glittered a faint light. I looked into it, and
saw the variegated magnificence. From tho
floor to the ceiling, in the strongest colors and
rich gildings, are painted pictures, representing
the deeds of the gods on earth; in each niche
stand statues, but almost entirely concealed by
the gay drapery and the drooping flags; before
each god (they are all made of tin) there stood
a little altar, with holy water, flowers and burn
ing wax candles; but Mgb above stood Fo, the
supreme god, in a dress of yellow silk, for this
is the holy color there. At the foot of the al
tar sat a living being, a young priest. He seem
ed to pray, but, in the midst of his prayer, to
sink into a reverie, and that was certainly a sin,
for Ms cheeks were glowing, and Ms head
drooped low. Poor Soni-Hong! Did he dream,
perhaps, to work behind the long wall of the
street in the little flower garden to be found be
fore every house? and did he like, perhaps, that
occupation better than watcMng the wax candles
in the temple ? Or did he long, sitting at the
rich banquet, to wipe, between each dish, Ms
mouth with silver paper ? Or was his sin even
so great that the Celestial Empire would visit it
with death, if he dared to confess it ? Had his
thoughts ventured to flee with the ships of the
Barbarians to their home—to far distant Eng
land ? No! his thoughts did not fly so far,
and yet they were as sinful as the warm, youth
ful blood could make them—sinful here in the
temple—in the presence of Fo, and the other
holy gods.
I know where his thoughts dwelt. At the
most distant end of the town, on the flat, flagged
roof, around wMch seemed running the parapet
of porcelain, where the fine-vases, with the large
white blue-bells stood, there sat the charming
Pe, with the small roguish eyes, the full lips and
the smallest foot.' Her shoe pinched, bnt there
was a more severe pinching at her heart; she
lifted her delicate round arms, the satin rustled.
Before her stood a glass bowl with four little
gold fishes; she stirred the water with a many-
colored japanned little stick, quite slowly, for
she was musing over something; did she think,
perhaps, how rich and golden the fishes were
clad, how quietly they lived in their glass bowl,
where they received their abundant food, and
how happier they would yet bo if they could
swim at large ?
Yes, this the fair Pe understood! v Her
thoughts left her home, her thoughts visited the
temple, but they did not dwell there for the
love of God. Poor Pe! Poor Soui Hong!
Their eartiily thoughts met, but my cold beam
lay like a cherub’s sword between thorn both.”
TWENTY-EIGHT EVENING.
There reigned a calm, “said the Moon,”
the water was transparent as the clearest sky,
through which I hovered; deep below the sur
face of the sea I could behold the strange plants,
lifting like gigantic trees of tho forest, their
arms a fathom long, toward me ; the fishes swam
above their heads.
High in the air, there flew a flight of wild
swans; one of them sank with weary wings
deeper and deeper, its eyes following the airy
caravan, that receded more and more; far
strotched out it held its wings and sank, as the
soap bubble sinks in the still air; it touched the
surface of the water, its head bent backward be
tween its wings; quietly it lay there, like the
wMte lotus flower upon the calm lake. And a
soft wind arose, rnffiing the sMning surface of
the sea, that sparkled, as if it were the air,
moving on in large wide waves; and the swan
lifted its head and the shining water sprinkled
like blue fire on his breast and Ms back.
The morning twilight illuminated the red
clouds, the swan arose invigorated, flying to
ward the Sim, toward tho bluish coast where the
caravan had drawn to, but it flew alone. "With
longing in its breast, lonely it flew across the
blue swelling waves.
TWENTY-NINTH EVENING.
* ‘I will give thee another picture from Sweden,”
said the Moon.
Between dark pine forests, near the melan
choly banks of the Noxe, lies the old cloister-
church Wreta. My beams glided through the
lattice into the spa*cions vault, where kings are
slumbering peacefully in large stone coffins. In
the wall above their tombs there parades the
image of earthly glory—a royal crown—but it
is only of wood, painted and gilded, and is fast
ened by a peg driven into the wall. - The worms
have eaten through the'gilded wood, the spider
has spun its net from the crown down upon the
sand: it is a funeral flag, perishable as the
mourning of the mortals. How peacefully they
slumber! I remember them quite distinctly. I
still see the bold smile around their lips, wMch
denoted so foroibly, so decidedly, joy or sorrow.
"When the steamboat, like an enchanted snake,
drives through the mountains, there often comes
a stranger to the church, seeks the funeral vault,
asks after the names of the kings; and these
sounddeadandforgotten. He contemplates smil
ingly the worm eaten crowns, and if he have a
very pious heart, sadness mingles itself with Ms
smile. Slumber ye dead! The Moon thinks of
you. The moon sinks in the "night her cold
beams down to your silent'realm, above which
hangs tho crown of pine-wood. ' Jarno.
[to be concluded.]
of the immediate neighborhood where Seward i counties, the cotton having been little injured
and Woodruff taught, and who has, time and j 2 n re ^ l& n ds, from cold. From appearances
again, heard Ms parents and other old people i * should conclude fertilizers were extensively
talk of the two men, and who, as a hoy, remem- ! U3 °d-
bers the time when the two wortMes visited the 1 w '
neighborhood last.
But the veracious correspondent puts in Mr.
Seward’s mouth the following: “At last I came
upon the place where the academy had been.
"We have had a slendid rain in Talbot, and our
crops never looked better.
TMs morning was quite cooL—“More Anon.”
Occasional.
Cincinnati claims a population of two hun
dred and sixty-five thousand.
A publishing house and type foundry have
been started in Shanghai by some enterprising
Chinese
Matters in Georgia.
The New York Times publishes the following
Washington special of the 14th:
General Terry is actively supporting the civil
authority in Georgia, and gentlemen who have
just arrived from that State report a much bet
ter state of affairs as a consequence. He does
not interfere with or supplant civil authorities,
gives the Sheriffs such aid and countenance that
they have been able to make arrests of several
desperate parties who have successfully defied
i civil authority thus far. This is especially the
case in Warren county, where the Sheriff, hav-
’ ing been several times wounded in endeavoring
to make aiTests, finally returned with military
support, and whose simple presence enabled Mm
to execute "all Ms processes without further re
sistance.
It woulcLbe difficult to make out in the same
space a more perfect misrepresentation of all
the facts. . "’ • • ’
But the Osage orange that, in the days of my j Decision* of the Supreme Court of
principalsMp had been an adornment, had con- ! Georgia,
tinned to thrive, with no hand to check its wan- ! delivered at Atlanta, Georgia, june 15.
.ton growth, fall it had completely covered and' „ .. . ... . _ ... .. n
Mddenfrom view the entire building, which ; ^ rom the Atlanta Comhtutionf]
was inaccessible tome.” Mr. Letter-writer,this ! S. H. Hawkins, plaintiff in error, vs. E. B.
can not be Seward’s account, for he knew the ! Loyless, defendant in error. Motion to enforce
locality too well to give such an incorrect de- attorney’s lien, from Webster,
scription. Mark, now, how plain a tale shall put j McCay, J.—The lien of an attorney for fees,
you down: Until within the last quarter of a > on papers in his bands, on the judgments he
century there probably was not an Osage orange I has obtained for Ms client, does not - operate so
in Putnam county. There is not, nor ever has ■ as to prevent a bona fide settlement by the de-
been one near old Union Academy. There was : fondant with the plaintiff in full, provided there
a Cherokee rose-hedge some half a mile off. j was no notice to the defendant not to pay with-
The house itself was situated in a beautiful oak ! out reserving the fees; and provided, also, the
grove, with no hedge of any kind near it; and, j settlement was not made with intent to defeat
last of all, the building had been removed long [ the attorney in collecting Ms fees,
before the occasion of Seward’s visit, and the i Judgment affirmed.
only vestige left was aslightmound of redearth j C. T. Goode, S. W. Hawkins, for plaintiff in
and a few brick-bats, perfectly easy of access, : error.
over wMch, doubtless, Messrs. Seward and : M. Blanford, W. A. Hawkins, for defendant
Woodruff walked, and on wMch they probably ; in error.
sat down and moralized.
The mistake about the cars running to the ! Wm. H. Chappell, administrator, plaintiff in
place has already been noticed, but it may be error, vs. Wm. S. Aikin, defendant in error,
as well to reiterate that Union Academy was j Equity, from Webster.
built in the woods; that Eatonton, the nearest j Warner, J.—When a bill was filed against an
village, is ten miles distant, and at present the j executor by a creditor, praying for an injunc-
terminus of a railroad, though in 1846 the near- 1 tion and the appointment of a receiver, alledg-
est railroad station was Greensboro’ in the ad- . Mg that the executor vms.insolvent, unmarried,
joining county, sixteen miles off, where, infact, 1 extravagant, engaged in no settled business.
Mr. Seward did get off the cars. The site of and intending soon to remove to Honduras,
the school-house, as stated in the advertisement i and was badly managing his own business, as
of the day, was obtained from Francis Ward, i well as that of Ms testatrix, that he stud is
Esq., afterwards passed into the possession of would sell the property of his testatrix, realize
Major Wm. Alexander, and now belongs to the tbe money, and leave without paying any of the
family of J. A. Turner, deceased. debts of the estate. Held that the Court belotr
It is excedingly interesting, Messrs. Editors, - erred in dismissing the complainant’s bill upon
to look over the musty old records of the early demurrer thereto for want of equity,
history of Putnam county and Georgia, of wMch j Judgment reversed.
your correspondent possesses a large store, col- i J. L- Wimberly, S. EL Hawkins, for plaintiff
lected and preserved by Ms father. Putnam i in error.
county hnn furnished a great deal of worth and J Blandford & Miller, for defendant in error.
intelligence, much of wMch has been diffused i . . .
over the State, and the immediate neighborhood I Alexander & Howell, plaintiff in error, vs
in wMch Seward taught was, beyond compari- ! Wm. C. Smith, defendant in error,
son, the most refined, intelligent and pleasant • Warner, J.—When, upon the trial of a cause,
in the whole country. Property was pretty ! a mortgage deed, wMch had been recorded, vras
equally distributed. Almost every one had a ! offered in evidence, and was objected to on the
competency—some were wealthy. There was ground that it did not appear to have been
not a single poor person to be found, save old stamped, and the party offering the mortgage
Allen Bartlett. ; deed proved that the deed had been stamped
Take that old advertisement about Union according to law: Held, that the Court shonld
Academy. The first name mentioned is that of ; have submitted the question of fact to the jury,
Francis Ward, Esq. He has been dead many, ’ under the evidence whether the. deed had been
many years, and now, for some time, the widow . stamped or not, as required by law, under the
that he left has been gone also. The old home- i charge of the Court upon that point,
stead, a mile or so from Union, is owned by a i Held, also, that when the deed, showing i
son, Col. R. H. Ward, who, however, before the j settlement between the parties, was offered in
decease of his mother, had built a residence evidence, the Court should have left the ques-
just across the river, in Greene county, where • tion to the jury as to whether the deed was de-
he still remains. i livered or not, under the evidence contained in
Next, in the advertisement, comes Maj. Wm. i the record, and have charged the jury as to the
Alexander. It "is necessary only to name his ■ law applicable to that point in the case. When
sons, Judge Robert Alexander, late of Colum- ! there is evidence as to the delivery of a deed, it
bus, Mr. William Alexander, of Alabama. His ; is a question of fact for the jury and not for the
daughters, whomarriedMacDougald. Flewellyn, I Court to decide upon the fact, whether there
Chambers, and Nisbet. Most of Ms cMldren I bas been a delivery of the deed,
sought greater wealth than they possessed, in ! Held, further, that where an instrument is
and about Columbus. The Major Mmself has : offered in evidence, required by law to be
gone to the other world, and Big old home has stamped, and, by the act of one of the parties,
been sold. i tbe stamps are prevented from being put onthe
bis, removed to the Western part of the State ; Government of its revenue, the Court may, in
when the lands in tMs section began to wear such a case, allow the proper stamps to be
out. Tie died a great while ago, and Ms land placed on the instrument, at the time of the
in tMs county is owned by Jas. C. Denham, • triaL
Esq.—at least the most of it—though some may ; Judgment reversed.
belong to the Gatewood family. * J. 0. Bower, Fielder & Powell, T. F. Jones.
Colonel Wm. E. Adams is the sole survivor of for plaintiffs in error.
those mentioned, and is next to the oldest man A. Hood, Richard Simms, for defendant e
now living in Pntnam county. He has many error.
children and grand-children—most, though not; - ;
all of them, still live in the county—but they , Henry R. S. Long, plaintiff in error, vs. E“-
have all, with one or two exceptions, left the old ' ward McDonald, defendant in error,
neighborhood. The Colonel himself, who has 1 Complaint from Early,
been a very successful planter, concluded some i Warner, J. '
few years ago to sell his homestead, and remove 1. "When a suit was instituted in the county ot
to Eatonton, where he could spend his remain- Early, against L. and P., alleging that they
ing days free from the troubles and perplexities partners, L. residing in the county of CIm^
of business. His old place is now owned by W. ! and a short time before the session of the Conn
C. Montgomery, son-in-law of Mr. Caleb Spivey ! in Early, at wMch the case was tried; P. diw.
—another old settler, whose name, - however, the defendant’s counsel moved to continue tte
does not happen to appear in the advertisement, j case as to L, th# alleged surviving partner, np®
William Turner, the Secretary of the Board A tbe ground that the partnersMp was denied, *na
of Trustees, is tbe last mentioned. Hh was ; that the survivor, L. had rebed upon the
generally the secretary, the writer, in whatever dence of P, the decedent, to disprove thealkg®
enterprise was undertaken by him and his asso- I partnership; but, in consequence of the
dates. He, too, is gone to that bourne whence : and" unexpected death of P, there had not o«®n
no traveler returns. He died, «ud was buried time to procure - the evidence of L, the o® !
at Tumwold, the old homestead, where Ms an- . partner, who lived in the county of Clark, to^s-
cestors sleep, ana which still remains in Msfam- prove the alleged partnersMp. Held, thrt “
ily, being now owned by his youngest cMld, Court erred in overruling the motion for a o®;
Wm. W. Turner, with the exception of about! tinuance upon .the showing made therefor
one-eighth of the land, which belongs to a stated in tbe record. .
daughter, Mrs. Reid. 2. "When one of two contracting partners is
It would be a labor of love to speak of others dead, the plaintiff can not be a witness ag*®? 1
of the old neighbors, but this would be nninter- , the surviving partner to prove a contract be®
esting to tbe general reader. The only excuse with the deceased partner,
offered for introducing the names already men- 3. A plea denying the existence of a
tioned, is the fact that they occurred in the first sMp is a plea in bar, and although sworn to, “
advertisement concerning Wm. H. Seward and not a dilatory plea, wMch is required to be a®*
the Union Academy. H. at the first term of the Court. Judgment w
: - m ' — versed.
Negro Clerks in the Charleston Post oefice. I J* P? Kutherford, J. E. Bower, L. J. Gei®.
The Charleston News, of yesterday, says “thtte* for plain tiffin error,
was a rumor afloat on the streets yesterday that
the Messrs. Gunn, who for some time past have
labored faithfully and efficiently as clerks in the
Post office, are to be removed from office on the
first of July, and their places filled with negroes,
W. D. Kiddoo, for defendant in error.
From Talbot Connty.
The West Georgia Gazette says that secli®
Sunday
Upon inquiry we learned enough to satisfy us was favored with copious rains on
that there was a great deal of truth in the ru-' Monday last Crops are in excellent condio®-
mor - The editor has an article upon Talbotton a® *
The ci*l Governor of Madrid recently found Summer Tesor t in which he says that in a pop 0 '
a young woman in the most remote part of a , ,, , ,, , ,-. . - _ nt been*
nunnery situated in Calla Hortalera, a horrible kbon of on ® thousand there h
den, in which she had been shut up for five case of fever for many years. Ihat is a
years by request of her husband, who suspect- record, and we have no doubt that Talbot* 0
ed her of unfaithfulness This discovery ex- nts e other attraction of social, P°^
cites the indignation of the entire population or r „ . . . ,.. . «/,hool
the Spanish capital.. ^ j ;***«*» * “*? otth .
j church privileges wMch the Gazette sets f
SAYsa.far off exchange: Onrlady readers, in : n ^f of Q^most religious aadliteraiy pi** 6
terested in the prevailing fashions, will be glad one °* the most re “8* ona „ . njioe
to know that at a.frontier ball recently, a noted in the State; bnt the editor donft give P
Indian belle appeared in a hoop skirt ornament- 0 f wheat. . , _ ,
ed with fox tails, and waist of yellow flannel, ^ Gazette makes the folio wing app®* 1 f< f
slashed with stripes of buffalo hide. _ t- T , who is in w*
Paper pettnxSts are now sold in London at K
six pence each. Imitation cretonnes and chintzes habit ofabstr&cting liiarv stable,** 11
same material, as well as shoes. ^ through, w’U feel much obliged
The Newbem, (N. C.,) Journal of Commerce Ve don’tthink itftir that h* «booW
want the bakers to come down a peg on their eT8 ry Sunday. He ought to lst us nave
bread. feast once a month.
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