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^^^FBIDAY,.jpLYO, 1869.
1 crops.
' gree.
Crops in Georgia.
in our statement' of
regard to the general condition of
It is encouraging in a remarkable de-
The weather, during the past week, has
Decisions of the Supreme Conrt f of
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DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2?.
[fjyti the Atlanta Constitution.'
S. T. Crawford vs. E. H. and E. Boss. Mo-
Expelled Negro ,^ en intenselv hot and what is somewhat tmu- Ron to dissolveTnjunction-froni Lee.
?*r ,S,C * Members. ______ ' * tion of nial , fo McCay, J. The revocation of an order a;
nblish
a letter from Hon. A H. Stephens ! sual for this se ^ tioa °f oonntr { the ni 8 hts have
^ ^Chronicle and Sentinel upon the rela-
% the Legislature to the expelled negro
p* 5 u ‘ ~~ w e have the highest respect' for the
but we can never
; , ,„f Mr. Stephens.
• 3e that the Constitution of Georgia, dr
i 05 '* 0 . balanced government, contem-
',.v e r well balanced government,
^ «nr such deadlock between its depart-
kz; the vital and fundamental rights of
as ho depictsinthis letter. The mem-
the Legislature * are sworn to maintain
l * r V > tistitntien,and the judiciary are its author-
interpreters. Their decisions must bind
^j/aod all tho functionaries of a State,
^•^Lmrity, collison and disorder must result.
thinks the decision of the Su-
**S£*o* case just and right He
F vts it affirms the plain rights of the oolored
A® r ler the constitution, and yet he also thinks
^ftneral Assembly may lawfully exclude
if . t ]j a t body to the end of time. Con-
^ftbistobe law,let ns then fall back on equi-
The Democrats of Georgia know how they
^13 think and feel were the cases reversed.
f r ,rtv of obstreperous niggers had got into
j msiature and ousted the whitesunder plea
m the reconstruction acts required the applica-
““ „ f t h e test oath, as Oanby says theydo, and
refused to give them place although the
£rts had affirmed their eligibility. We know,
n<Aiil/i novta hhon mrr Ilf.
^toleration for the pleas now advanced. The
^ policy is to yield to the Constitutional in-
^Ktion of the law—to reseat the negroes,
teT dth«u to make sure that none go there again
there would have been very lit-
Ontrngeons Profits.
fts annual report of the Augusta Cotton
, lorT y copied into our columns two or
,-c days ago, showed the following figures as
^- result of the year’s operation: Total eam-
. ^169,703- 75—total expenses $49,040.37—
^profits on the year’s operations $120,717.58,
working capital of six hundred thousand
Those are salty profits to be made at a
when many of the Northern factories are
•,.v, half work, complaining bitterly of their
- ^fortunes and crying outfor more protection.
Don't the Augusta factory want more protec-
been sultry. Everyday we have had : indica-
tions of copious showers at different points of
the. compass, and within a radius of from five
to .twenty miles around Macon. .In town, not
more than two or three, very light showers have
fallen. Here and there small regions of coun
try have got ho rain at all, and com in those lo
calities is suffering from drought. Some regions
are also suffering from too much rain. The
showers of mid-stunmer seem to love to .follow
the water courses and low lands, and to shun
the hills. On the whole, however, the rain has
been more abundant than common at this sea
son of the year. Last year at this date the com
plaint of drought was very general, and com
was in a critical condition, from which, in fact,
a large part of it was never extricated.
Reports of worms in the cotton crop come
from some regions of Alabama and Florida, but
tLey are not extensive or reliable, in our opin
ion. So far, prospects are all fair. Nothing has
yet happened to prevent by far the best crop in
Georgia.which has been grown since the war.
Our planters enter the month of July in the best
humor. The hot weather has tested the patience
and fidelity of the field hands pretty severely,
but we have got to'hear complaints that any
part of the crop has been abandoned. The
grass, too, has taxed the energies of,the hands,
bat they seem to have been up to the mark.
The health of our whole cottou region still
remains comparatively good. The whole State
is profoundly quiet. Politics are ignored, and
everybody, black and white, is intent on mak
ing the heaviest drafts possible from the fruit
ful bosom of Mother Earth. The people are
so peacable—so industrious—that political slan
ders have been stopped for want of any mate
rial that can possibly be tortured. into “out
rages.” The Atlanta slander mill, like many
an old country mill in mid summer, is without
any propulsive power whatever.
pointing a Receiver, is a matter which may
heard and acted upon by the Judge, on the usual
notice in vacation, o.: 5-t : ?
2. The extraordinary writs and remedies
granted by the Chancellor, before a trial, on the
merits, ought not to be granted without caution,
and unless there is immediate danger to the
rights of the complainant, if they be denied, and
if the Court becomes satisfied that the danger
does not exist, it is his duty, on proper notice,
to discharge them.
3. Lx this case, the Court did not err in dis
solving the injunction, and vacating the order
appointing a Beceiver.
4. It is the duty of the Judge, if he is satisfied
there is a Iona fide intent to except to his judg
ment, so to mould his order as that the except
ing party party may have a reasonable time to
file his bill of exceptions, and obtain a superce-
dcas before the status of the case can be mate
rially changed.
Judgment reversed. _ ■ < : — :
5. H. Hawkins, for plaintiff in error*
TV. A. Hawkins, G. M. Warwick, for defend
ant in error.
H. J. Cook, vs. Frank P. Smith, and D. D.
Smith. Motion to dissolve injunction from
Baker.
McCay, J.—When a bill was filed against
Frank P. Smith, and D. D. Smith, by a creditor
of the former, charging a combination between
the defendants to defraud the creditors of Frank
P. and D. D. Smith alone answered the bill,
and moved to dissolve the injunction as to him
self.
Held: That it was error in the Court to hear
the motion, until the other defendant who was
in fact the principal defendant, had answered.
Strozier and Smith, by R. Lyon, for plaintiff
in error.
Vason and Davis and J. J. Hall, for defen-
dant in error. _
Srns Willing to Sell Out.—Spain is said
(0 U getting tired of the Cuban war, and in
proof of it tli® Impartial, one of the leading
Spanish journals, makes' a strange statement
Ii ars that agents of the government have
beensent about to the newspaper offices to
paper with the press, with a view to obtaining
is jdvocacy for the sale of Cuba to the United
Sites. The Spanish cause in Cuba is by no
nexus hopeless, but the cost of carrying on the
present desultory war at such a distance is too
tadensome to be longer endured. The Span
ish Government think they may as well have a
good round sum for their fine possession, and
they have, according to the indignant Impartial,
invited the press to get up an agitation on the
subject. ...
From Dougherty County.
The Albany News, of Friday, says:
Fine seasons continue in this section, and
crops are doing well. Many planters report
their com beyond a casualty, and as good as
ever grew. Cotton is all that the most greedy
could desire, but its trying ordeals are to come
jet A wet summer, tho worm or the cater
pillar may prove disastrous to the present
splendid prospect. JSHHS
The heat has been so intense here for ten
jays past that thermometers fail to indicate tho
degree—the mercury pushes the top off and
rises above the figures. The health of the city,
uvertheles8, is all right—never better; and
fton the plantations we hear gratifying ac-
eomu-no sickness.
The Dougherty Superior Court will hold an
tijoumed term on the 4th Monday in Novem-
her next.. Seo order of Judge Clarke, in an
other column. .:
Chinese Laborers.
There are reports which come in a rather
strange way and need confirmation, says the St.
Louis Republican, that a number of thousands
of Chinamen,lately employed on the Pacific rail
road,are on their way from Omaha to the South.
Such an immigration, if true, would occasion
not a little surprise in the public mind, having
an important bearing upon the material and po
litical interest of the Southern States. It would
be an evidence, too, of the shrewdness of John
Chinaman, and show that he keeps himself
thoroughly versed on what is going on around
him—more especially where his pocket is con
cerned. The idea has found lodgment in his
brain that the South needs labor, and just that
sort of labor that the Chinese can furnish
cheaper if not better than any other people on
earth. For a Chinaman has infinitely more in
dustry and intelligence than a negro, and can
get rich on what a negro will waste. He is the
man above all others to work the cotton and su
gar plantations of the Gulf States, and to re
construct on a solid and permanent basis, the
labor system of that section. If an instalment
of Chinese should succeed in gaining a foothold
there others will follow, until tens of thousands
of Celestials will contribute to the wealth and
prosperity of the country. It is the first time
in the history of the world that Asia and Africa
are brought face to face in social and economi
cal antagonism; and the l'esnlt will be watched
with the deepest interest by those who appre
ciate the gravity of the. interests involved.
fix con and Augusta Railboad.—Mr. George
H. Hariehuist, one of the parties in whose
hinds the building of this railroad had been
pliced,informs the Augusta Chronicle and Senti
nel that work will be commenced on it within
t week's time. A large force of laborers has
been secured and will be put to work at once
on the whole of the unfinished portion of tho
railroad, which lies between Macon and Mil-
ledgeville. The work will be pushed forward
as rapidly os possible in order to secure a por
tion of the Jones county cotton crop.
Dr.. Bayne, the Norfolk negro, who persists
in running for Congress, bna been mobbed on
sight every time he has attempted to speak, by
men of his own race, who have been paid by
the Wells party to run him out of the district,
because his color is too strong for the midsum
mer canvass. No antidote, seems, however, to
have been found for this Bayne, because he is
likely to be elected, and to be one of the two
black men whom carpet-baggery will send to
Congress from the Old Dominion.
Albert G. MacK.it, Collector of Customs for
lie portof Charleston,-S. 0., has been removed.
The principal chargo -against Mackay is that he
pat Conservatives in office under him, and re
fused to recognize the friends of the Adminis-
fcxtion. Mr. Clarke, MacKay’s successor, is a
Northern man. Gen. Canby should have Mac-
X»y tried by a military commission.
A New Radical Pates nr Auousta.—On dit,
ill John E. Bryant, the newly appointed Post
er, will soon commence the publication of
iRidical paper in Augusta.
Hi Stephens publishes in the Chronicle and
k-tiael a rejoinder to Judge Nicholas’ response
i Mr. Stephens’ letter, which we printed
**b*go. As we did not publish Judge Nicho-
*• wswer to Mr. Stephens’ letter, we omit the
blinder.
The cotton mills at Oldham, England, were
open on Monday, the 14th, with the view
■ giving the hands an opportunity of returning
"'heiremployment at the reduction of five per
Rct - There was a very general return to work
'-'everything was quiet.
Bass.—We are indebted to our friend
' A Hoff Esq., for a bunch- of BlackBass.
•H of his own catch, from the waters of
^Eiie. Wo should like to take a fish with
5 s May, fanned by the cool breezes of the
-i instead of sweltering over work in Macon,
^ *be merenry above ninety.
O. P. Foster, administrator, plaintiff in error,
vs. Henry K. Daniel, defendant in error. Mo
tion to set aside judgment from Sumter.
Warner, J.—When a trial was had in the
County Court of Sumter county, and a verdict
rendered for the plaintiff on the 20th day of
July, 18G8, and a judgment was entered thereon
on the 22d July, 18G9, and a motion havinr
been made in the Court below to set aside sail
verdict and judgment, on the ground, that on
the days the verdict and judgment purports to
have been rendered, the County Court was abol
ished by the Constitution of 1868, which motion
was allowed by the Court, setting aside both
the verdict and judgment. Held, that under
the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, the State
of Georgia had fully complied with the terms
thereof; ratified the fourteenth amendment of
the Constitution of the United States, and as
sented to tho fundamental condition imposed on
her by the Act of Congress, passed on the 25th
June, 1868; and, therefore the Constitution of
the State of Georgia, as amended by Congress,
took effect, and was practically in operation
from the 21st day of July, 1868. Held, also,
that all unfinished business in the County Court,
at the time of the abolishment thereof by the
constitution, was transferred to the Snperier
Court by the 7th section of the 11th article of
tho State Constitution, and that it was the duty
of the Superior Court to have ordered a_ judg
ment to have been entered on the verdict ren
dered in the County Court, on the 20th July,
unless some good and sufficient cause was shown,
other than the abolishment of the Connty Conrt
on the 21st day of July, 18G8. Judgment re-
vggsocL
C. T. Good by S. H. Hawkins, for plaintiff
in error.
W. A. Hawkins, N. A. Smith, for defendant
jpor. *
Caterpillar in Florida.
There is another heavy alarm from East Flori
da on the subject of the Cotton Caterpillar. The
following letter is published in the Journal of
Commerce of last Tuesday;
Flop.ida. Lat. 30, Juno 22, 1869.
Thus far the weather has been very season
able, and the crops present a very cheerful ap
pearance. Should the caterpillar not make us
a visit, the yield of cotton will be good. _ This,
oppressed financially as we are, is truly desirable.
Individually, and as a State, we cannot, for the
want of money, accomplish anything.
I work ten hands and run four ploughs:
have planted com, tobacco and cotton; and yet
on account of the devastation of the caterpillar
last year, I am too poor to buy a pair of shoes,
though no poor fellow ever needed them more
than L ...
The free negro is retrograding. His white
Northern friends have taught him how to aban
don the white man of the South. This done,
the poor negro relapses into feticism, and
burns, at night, snakes and toads in honor of
Obi- . . : ,
I much lament the discontinuance of a scixooi
for colored children, and which for some two
years was in successful operation here. This
was started and maintained by the “Freed-
men’s Commission of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.” it numbered one hundred and twenty
pupils. Their progress, as well as the unusual
discipline of the school, make its withdrawal a
serious loss to onr community.
One Day Latee.—The fate of our cotton is
fixed. The caterpillar has made its appearance.
We must quit cotton, and substitute for it some
other staple. We are too poor to cultivate the
sn'var cine. The machinery to treat it efficient
ly and profitably, prostrated as we are, is too
expensive for ns. True, we may make the be-
ginning, and gradually work ourselves, through
rigid economy, up to better capacities for the
sugar business. Cur climate is fine. There is
none better. Temperance and prudence will,
in a majority of cases, secure residents against
the attack of fever. Some of our_ soil may be
poor, yet there is much of it that is good. AV e
grow com and rye, and all the cereals may be
produced here.
Though cast down, we are not dismayed, but
are severally hopeful of the future.
We see nothing in the Florida papers to bear
ont these representations, and hope the alarm is
as groundless as a similar one proved to be ear
ly in the spring. Nevertheless, it is true. Flor
ida has an ugly trick of having the cotton cater
pillar sometimes for periods of successive years.
Thus, she had them in 1840, 1841 and 1842, un
til, at last, the people began to think, as this
writer says, that they “mnSt quit cotton.” We
believe, however, the alarm in this case is alto
gether premature. There are no reliable indi
cia of worms in the cotton crop any where that
we can hear of.. ■
.^French steamers are rivalling the best of
rebuild for swiftness. The steamer Pereire
Affairs in Cobb County.
Mahietta, July 1st, 1869,
Editors Telegraph—I have been here a day
or two, comfortably lodged at the “Kennesaw
House." The nights are delightfully pleasant,
and you sleep soundly, and awake in the morn
ing invigorated and refreshed. I regret to see so
little sign of improvement in this once beautiful
city. On almost every street, you will still see
evidences of the ruin and devastation of a cer-
tain General’s march. The Hotel at which
am stopping is a new building with some forty
or fifty rooms—accommodations good and board
comparatively cheap.
The Wheat crop of this section is the best
^jost made the trip from Brest to New York \ they have ever grown. Com is pow looking
d a y g _ I we ii and with good seasons the yield will be fine,
^Weida, it is asserted, contains over seven There is some cotton growing, and is said to be
^ -ion iicrcf./>/ land lying along the coast from doing well. From all parts of this up country.
River to Cape Sable, admirably adapted : the reports from the crops are most flattering.
>*6 cultivation .of coffee. q - * •> t • • — V; j - ^
Benj. Green and Phillip West, plaintiffs in
error, vs. Benj. F. Cock and John Thompson,
administrators. Motion for new trial from
Lee. ’ .,
Warner, J.—This Conrt will not control the
discretion of the Court below in refusing to
grant a new trial in a case where no rule of law
has been violated, and where it appears, from
the evidence in the record, that substantial jus
tice has been done between the parties. Judg
ment affirmed.
McCay, J., did not preside in this case.
Fred.'H. West, by the Reporter, for plaintiff
in error. “ -
W. A. Hawkins, R. Lyon, for defendant in
Mo-
Alalcom, et. a!., defendandants in error!
tion for new trial, from Sumter.
Warner, J.—Where, upon the trial of an ac
tion of ejectment for the recovery of a lot of
land, and the mesne profits thereof, the tenant
offered to prove the increased value of the lot
of land, in consequence of the improvements
made thereon by the tenant, as a set off to the
mesne profits claimed by the plaintiff; but the
Court refused to allow the tenant to prove the
increased value of the premises, resulting from
the improvements made thereon by the tenant,
and restricted him to the actual value of the im
provements put on the land by_ him. Held:
That a fair construction of sections 2455 and
3416 of the Code, allows the tenant to prove the
increased value of the premises resulting from
the improvements made thereon by tenant and
to set-off the value thereof in an action for
mesne profits within the limitation imposed by
section 341G. The Justice’s Court fi. fa, had an
entry on it. “To any lawful officer to execute
and return,” signed by a Justice of the Peace,
but the county of which he was Justice does not
appear, but the entry was made on the 28th of
October, 1831, and the levy on the land was
made 29th October, 1831, by a constable of Lee
county. The legal presumption was, that the
fi. fa. had been baoked bya Justice of the Peace
of Lee connty, where the levy was made.
Judgment reversed.
Brown, C. J.—Concurred as follows:
I agree with the Judge delivering the opinion,
in the judgment of reversal for the reason given
by him.
I am also of opinion that the Judge of the
Superior Court should have ruled out the Jus
tice’s Court fi. fa. on the trial, on the ground
that it issued from a Justice’s Court of Morgan
county, and was levied upon land in Lee county,
when it had not been backed by a Justice of
the Peace of said county, so as to authorize a
constable of that county to make the levy.
While I would make every reasonable pre
sumption in favor of a sale under an old Jus
tice’s Court fi. fa., I do not think we are justi
fied in presuming that a Justice of the Peace,
who backed the fi. fa. without specifying for
what county he acted, belonged to, or was a Jus
tice for any particular county.
McCay, J., did not preside in this case.
issue thus presented to be submitted to a jury,
and to order the Sheriff to proceed to dispossess
the tenant. -' •+—^— —
Judgment reversed. ■iwryt/t'i 5
Hawkins & Burke, for plaintiffs in error.
N. A. Smith, for defendant in error.
S. H. Mitchell vs. Moses Spear, treasurer.—
Mandamus, from Sumter.
McCay, J.—Sections 548 and 550 of the Re
vised Code contemplate that, in assessing the
county taxes, there shall be a specific assess
ment for each of the objects mentioned, and
that the fund for each shall be kept separate by
the treasurer.
2. The Act of 7th of October, 1868, directing
orders to be paid by the county treasurer, ac
cording to their date, is imperative, but that
Act does not require that an order shall be paid
out of a fund not set apart for the, payment of
debts of that kind.
3. Where there is no direction in a county
order, as to the fund ont of which it shall be
paid, and the treasurer answers that there are
older orders on his book, of the same kind,
more than suffices to exhaust the money in
hand, not specifically assessed for special pur
poses, such mandamus will not be made abso-
iute. :
Judgment affirmed.
Hawkins & Burke, for plaintiff in error.
S. H. Hawkins, for defendant in error.
Eugenia Clark, et. al., vs. Jeremiah BelL—
Motion to dissolve injunction and demurrer,
from Dougherty.
McCay, J.—Whilst it is the settled rule that
bills in equity must be brought in a county
where one of the defendants, against whom sub
stantial relief is prayed, resides, this rule does
not apply to bills for injunction, etc., ancillary
to suits at law. In such cases the court of equi
ty, of the country, where the suit is pending,
has jurisdiction to enjoin the suit at law, and
also to grant relief, as to all matters involved in
a proper settlement of the litigation pending at
law.
2. When B., C. and D. were sued, at law, by
A., who resided in a different county from that
in which the suit was brought, and the defend
ants at law filed a bill, charging that the suit at
law was for the recovery of the purchase money
of a tract of land lying in the same county, which
land had been sold to defendants at law and
complainants in the bill by A- ; and the bill far
ther charged that at the time of the sale, the
land was not, in truth, the property of A., but
had, before that time, become in equity, the
property of E., the deceased son of A., and the
husband of B., under a parol agreement, which
was partly performed, which equitable title had
been fraudulently concealed from the wife by
A., at and before the sale of the land to her and
the other complainants. And the bill farther
charged that the land had been paid for under
the parol agreement by E., with certain cotton
made on the place, which went into A.’s hands,
and by certain trust funds in his, A.’s, hands be
longing to E.
Held, that the Superior Court of the county,
where the suit was pending, had jurisdiction..
1st. To enjoin the suit at law. 2d. To cancel
the notes and deed made at the second sale,
3d. To decree a specific performance of the pa
rol agreement, and a full settlement between
the parties as to all matters connected with the
land and the cotton made thereon.
Held, further, That while said Court had no
jurisdiction to decree an account between A.
and the heirs of D. as to trusts not connected
with the land, yet it might inquire how far the
trust funds had been used in the performance of
the parol agreement, and if the case made re
quired it so, apply them to the extent shown"
by the proof, leaving a full and final account as
to said trusts to the Court having jurisdiction of
the defendant’s person.
3. 'Where A. sells a tract of land toB., O. and
D., taking their notes find a mortgage on the
premises for the purchase money, and the ven
ders afterwards sell to F., also taking notes and
a mortgage, which notes and mortgage they
in A *o no orilluforol oonmnir fnr
Nicholas Wylie, plaintiff in error, vs. Nanay
Whitely and A. B. Raiford, sheriff, defendants
in error. Rule against the Sheriff, from Smnter.
Brown, O. J.—Where A oommenoed his pro*
ceeding against B, under section 4000 of the
Code as an'intruder, and B filed a . counter affi
davit, which was aooejjted by the Sheriff, and
returned to the Superior Court, and an issue
made up; and A afterward sold the land in dis
pute to C, who filed a bill against B, which B
answered, and set up equities which entitled B,
to a hearing, and O then, moved to dismiss his
bill, which was refused .by the Court, whioh
judgment was not excepted to. Held: that
equity having obtained jurisdiction and control
of the case, will hold it for adjudication.
2. After a Court of Equity has taken the control
of the oase, the Court of Common Law will not
entertain a rule against the Sheriff to compel
him to place A or his vendee, O, in possession
of the premises in dispute, on account of a de
fect in the original, counter affidavit filed by B.
Judgment,affirmed! . -
McCay, J., did not preside in this case. _ •
Geo. W. Warwick, Vason & Davis, for plain
tiff in error.-
W. A. Hawkins, S. H. Hawkins, for defen
dant in error. .
Nathan Emanuel, plaintiff in error, vs. Smith
& Richmond, defendants in error.
Certiorari and motion to set aside judgment,
from Sumter.
Brown, C.‘ J.—When a case of garnishment is
called in its order on the docket, at the second
term of the Court, after the service of the sum
mons of garnishment, and after final judgment
against the defendant, and the garnishee has
failed to answer, and the Court allows judgment
to be entered against the garnishee, this Conrt
will not control the discretion of the. Court be
low, unless in extraordinary cases, in ^refusing
to set aside euch judgment, after it is signed, to
allow the garnishee to aflswer. " *
2. It is the duty of the Court, if final judg
ment has not been.rendered against the defend-
and, at common law, or in attaclmieht, to con
tinue the case against the garnishee till after
the rendition of such jungment.
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins & Burke, N. A. Snith for plaintiff in
error.
Goode & Carter, S. H. Hawkins, for defend-
antin error.
The legal status of the expelled
MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE
From Slew York.
New Youk, June 29.—During the past two
days late borrowers, in order »to make their ac
counts at bank, have been forced to pay as high
as half of one percent, interest for the use of
funds overnight. Yesterday the demand con
tinued until after 4 o’clock, some of the banks
having to remain open to accommodate custom-
ersjwho were tardy in making up-their balances;
the interest Daid for one day was at the rate of
Romulus Wardlaw vs. Elizabeth Wardlaw,
Alimony, from Sumter.
McCay, J.—1. Where there was a motion for
alimony pending a bill for divorce, and the de
fendant in the motion moved to continue, show
ing that a material witness was absent without
hi3 consent, who lived in the county and had
been subpoenaed, etc., it was error in the Court
to refuse the motion, ou the ground that the
granting of alimony was wholly in the discre
tion of the Court, and there was no necessity
for the presence of all tho witnesses. . ;
2. The Judge of the Superior Court' should
nse great caution in granting alimony, so as not
to encourage applications for divorce on light
grounds. ... -■ ^ ; ■ i
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins & Burke, 5. H. Hawkins, for plain
tiff in error. .I.mnv i* •
J. A. Ansley, 0. T. Goode, by N. A. Smith,
for defendant in error.
their own debt for the land to him, with power
to A. to collect, and settle with F., and A. takes
the land from F., who is insolvent, and gives up
the notes and mortgage made by F at a price
less than the amount of the notes, and this with
out the consent of the original vendees from
him: Held: That A. can take no benefit to
himself from this arrangement with F., and he
is bound to credit his jvendee3 with the true val
ue of the land, or return it to them.
4. When the Court below sustains an objec
tion to a bill, for want of proper parties, which
does not appear to have been adjudicated by
the Court below, will not be decided by this
Court, the presumption being, that the Conrt
below, if proper parties were made, would have
permitted an amendment.
2. When, as in this case, the injunction to
stay proceeding at law, is the principal object
of the bill, and a temporaiyinjunction has been
granted, the Court ought not to dissolve the in
junction, and permit the case at law to proceed,
unless it clearly appear, from the evidence be
fore it, that there is no case, proper, to be sub
mitted to a jury for decree.
Vason & Davis, Hawkins & Burke, Wright &
Warren, for plaintiffs in error.
Tho]
11*
iJUst iele and Albany Railed ad.—The
^wwville Enterprise of Wednesday says:
‘■r r iv!i first J; Tain ' oa .d of iron for the above road
*x. - ThoEiasville from Savannah on Sator-
evemno i. a_.
Storms—Stobms.—The papers are full of
storm chronicles. They have had fearful storms
in North Carolina. Terrific storms throughout
the West. A hurricane well nigh tore Johnson-
and Dw work of track-laying ville, Tennessee, to pieces on the 1st instant
torn- eDCedne ar the Thomasvlle depot .re violent Let ns have peace.
bridg' Ve e . x P ect to vi8it Ockloc
Roe, casual ejector, andB. D. Parker, plain
tiff in error, vs. Doe, ex. detn. Jack Brown, et.
al., defendants in error. Ejectment from Sum-
Warner, J.—Where the lessors of the plaint
iff; in an action of ejectment, instituted a suit
for the recovery of a lot of laud, Np. 127, in the
27th district of Sumter county, and, upon the
trial thereof, the jury found a verdict for the
defendant; and the Court, upon motion, grant
ed-a new trial, which is assigned as error.
Held, that inasmuch as the evidence in the
record introduced by the plaintiff in the Court
below, in support of his title to the lot of land
sued for, (to trif,) the copy grant from the
State being for a different lot, (to wit,) 107,
and there being no evidence of title shown in
the lessors of the plaintiff which would entitle
them to a verdict for the premises sued for,
(to wit.,) lot number 127, the verdict was right
under the evidence offered by the plaintiff, and
the Court below erred in granting a new trial.
Judgment reversed.
McCay, J., did not preside in this cause.
Hawkins <fe Burke for plaintiff in error.
N. A. Smith, B. Hill, for defendant in error.
Lucinda Taylor, plaintiff in error, vs. Mayor
and Council of Americus, defendant in-error.
Certiorari from Sumter.
Warner, J.—Where a defendant had been sen
tenced by the Mayor end Council of the City of
Americus to pay ;a fine of twenty dollars and
costs, and in default thereof, to be confined in
the guard-house of said oity for twenty days, for
disorderly conduct,;and a petition for certiorari
was presented to jthe Judge of the Superior
Court, alleging error in the proceedings of said error-
defendant, to-wit: that.,'there was no evidence
that the alleged disorderly conduct was commit
ted within the corporate limits'of said city, _so_as
to give to the said Mayor and City Council ju
risdiction to try and punish the defendant there
of the Judge refused the application for certior
ari upon the statement of facts contained in the
petition. Hdd, that the petition for certiorari
made a prima facie case, which entitled her to
have the alleged error reviewed and corrected,
and that it was error in refusing the certiorari
prayed for.
Judgment reversed.
N. A. Smith for plaintiff in error.
Jack Brown by S. H. Hawkins for defendant
the interest paid for one day
180 per cent, per annum.
In regard to the Ocean Bank robbery several
new items, whioh were apparently of little im
portance, were made known; an old practical
mechanic has examined the Mt of instruments
left by the burglars, and says only one or two of
them have been recently used.
The stem of the auger found was only twenty-
two inches in length, while theholes bored in the
floor are twenty-four inches deep; the real mys
tery in the whole affair is in the maimer in
which the combination was opened, and it is
suggested that the door may not have been
locked at alL
Several of the Cuban expeditionists have re
turned to this city, reporting that they have been
on a steam tug in Long Island Sound, expecting
to be put oh the steamer Catherine Whiting,
which was seized, have run short of provisions.
Two of the tugs put into New London for food
and water when some deserted and came back
to this city; they state that two steam tug loads
of expeditionists were put on a steamer on Sun
day night and expected that they got off safely
to sea. *
It is stated that the Cuban expedition whioh
sailed from Gardner’s Island, near New Lon
don, late Monday night; was captured yesterday
by gunboats. They are said to be en route for
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where they will arrive
to-day. I
The $60,000 worth of bonds stolen from the
Ocean Bank were found this morning in a small,
trunk on the sidewalk in Elizabeth street by a
policeman.
Edward B. Ketchum, the forger, was brought
before Judge Bernard, of the 8upreme Court,
on a writ of habeas corpus for the.release of the
w w _ _ prisoner, and claims on the ground that he was
place in A.’s hands as collateral security for sentenced for an offense not charged in the in
dictment. From the remarks made by the Judge
it is generally thought he will discharge Ketch
um on bail. The case creates great interest.
Daniel H. Baldwin, plaintiff in error, vs.
Archibald Mc’Rea, defendant in error. Motion
for a new trial from Sumter.
Brown, C. J.—1. When a bill was filed for a
new trial in an 1 action of ejectment, on the
ground that the witness, by whom tho defend
ant proved adverse possession for the legal pe
riod, has since refreshed his recollection, and
will now testify that he was mistaken as to the
time when the possession commenced, and the
bill was dismissed for want of equity, and that
judgment was affirmed in this Court. A motion
for a new trial made at a subsequent term of
the Conrt, in the same case, on the same ground,
will not be entertained by the Court. The
question is res adjudicata. Judgment affirmed.
S. H. Hawkins, for plaintiff in error.
Jas. J. Scarborough by W. A. Kawkins, for
defendant in error.
Wm. A. Huff, plaintiff in error, vs. 0. A.
Wright, defendant in error. Motion to set aside
judgment, from Sumter.
Brown C. J.—The second section of the 7th .
article of the Constitution of this State, as well |
FiGHnxa Candidates.—A Knoxville special
to the Nashville Banner says:—
At Clinton, to-day, Stokes challenged Senter
to fight a duel. In his speech he said that he
had a wife and children, but would insist on Sen-
ter’s meeting bim after the election.
Senter told him that he wished to settle the
affair withoutdelay. ButStokes responded that
there would be time enough after the election.
That’s odd. If Stokes appeals to the “Code”
he ought to be governed by it, and that gives
the choice of time, place and weapons to the chal
lenged party.
Bio Fight in China.—The papers report that
the great and decisive battle has been fought
between the imperialists and the Mohammedan
rebels; the latter defeated with a loss of 20,000
The Chinese have offered further insults to
foreigners.
The news from Japan is unfavorable; civil
war continued and heavy fighting was antic
ipated. . ^ .
as the act of 1866, has changed the relation
which married women bear to their husbands, so
far as theirestates are concerned, and vests in
them all property of which they may be pos
sessed at the time of marriage, contracted since
the adoption of the Constitution, and all prop
erty given to, inherited, or acquired by them,
since that date.
2. Under the Code, "fi married woman may,
as to her separate estate, contract and be con
tracted with—except as to contracts of surety
ship, etc., and may, if she have no trustee, be
sued separately as a feme sole.
3. The relation being ohanged as above stat
ed, the presumption is, when a married woman
gives her separate note in the purchase of
property, that she has a separate estate, and
that she contracts with reference to it. And,
if suit is brought against her upon such note,
without joining her husband, and she fails to
defend by showing she has no separate estate,
or other good cause, the judgment binds her
separate property, and will not be set aside on
motion, because of the non-joinder of her hus
band. ,
Judgment reversed.
C. T. Goode, S. H. Hawkins, for plaintiff in
Distinguished Visitobs.— We are pleased to
notice that onr city is honored this week by the
Hon. Linton Stephens and wife, 1 of Sparta,
the Hon. Wm. Reese, of Wilkes, and Father
O’Hara, of Augusta.
Judge Stephens visits old Greene for the_ pur
pose of spending some time with his family at
the Chalybeate Spring, on the farm of onr fel
low-citizen, Mr. John E. Jackson, about nine
miles from Greensboro. We learn that the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens is also expected in a few
days at the same place.
This valuable spring should be brought to the
notice of the public, and accommodations mode
for visitors. With proper management it may
be made a source of wealth tome owner, and
add much to the public interest of the county,
by becoming a place of fashionable reBort. It
will soon be that there will be no necessity for
a Georgian going outside his native State to sup
ply any of his wants. God speed the day.
Since writing the above, Judge Stephens has
S." C. Elam, for defendant in error.
The auguries are violent
ee rail- : 1 in error.
*“j UBe on 018 R** 11 in te n days from this Chicago is sending out cards for a great mu- -u—•' _
10 vi 8 it ,,, proi ? lse oar M'teheH county friends oinn1 fes « Tfl i to be held next year, which is to ; Roe, casual ejector, and Janies Thomas, ten-
WS. ^ Camilla ’ “ <he eady 'Sto len with eLiois rage. I nut, plaintiffs in error, vs. Dee,;ex. dem., John
F. P. Moody and E. A. Moody, plaintiffs in
error, vs. A. G. Bonaldson, defendant in error.
Proceeding to dispossess tenant, from Sumter.
Brown, O. J.—1. Under section 4005 of the
revised Code, the administrator of the deceased
landlord may moke the affidavit and institnte
the proceedings to dispossess a.tenant who holds
over.
2. When the affidavit is made by the adminis
trator, a counter affidavit filed by the tenant,
that he does not hold the premises either by
lease, rent, at will, by sufferance, or otherwise,
from said Bonaldson (the administrator) or from
any one under ic/uim he claims the premises, or
from any one claiming the premises tinder him;
is a sufficient compliance with the statute; and
returned honfp, having been disappointed in se
curing accommodations atthe : Spring for him
self and family and his brother. We regret
4hat this is the case.—Greensboro Herald.
Supreme
Conrt ot Georgia—June
Term, 1S69.
Thubstay, July 1, 1869.
The entire day was consumed in the argument
of case No. 7, from the Middle Circuit—Green
vs. Anderson—Messrs. J; J. Jones and Alpheus
M. Rogers for plaintiff in error and Judge J.
S. Hook for defendant.
Affairs in Decatur, Coweta and
Campbell.
The Newnan Herald of Tuesday morning
says;
turn Boston quite green with envious rage.
it was error in the Court to refuse to allow the other wheat. ■
Never was there better prospects for a good
cotton crop, than at present. Com is looking as
well, or better than we have seen it at this season.
Cotton is looking fine—we visited CoL T. A.
Swearingen's place the other day, and he showed
ns cotton that would measure four feet in height
with plenty of half grown bolls upon it. Sev
eral parties have told us they had cotton waist
high. .•
' The same paper has the following upon a new
variety of wheat. :
Mr. P. B. Garrett, of Campbell county, has
placed on onr table four heads, of the variety
known as the Seven Headed Wheat, so called
because there are seven heads on one stalk, six
of whioh are small. . Mr. Garrett obtained the
first he had of this-‘from the Great Salt Lake
country, and in the fall of 1866 he planted fifty
grains, which yielded about one-half of s‘ gallon,
tbia last quantity he- cultivated the next year,
and it yielded about two bushels..;-:Last season
he sowed one bushel on an acre, and ha is con
fident of a yield therefrom of twenty or twenty-
five bushels. The land on which he sowed this
wheat was not manured or fertilized, and lapa
right by the .side -of it in the same field, did not
produce exceeding six bushels to the acre of
From the Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Libebty Hall, 1
Crawfordville, Ga., June 29, 1869.)
Gen. A. H. Wright, Chronicle and Sentinel
Office, Augusta, Ga. .-
Deab Sib—Your letter of the 21st instant was
duly received, but it found me in worse con
dition, physically, than I have been for several
weeks. This, with other pressing correspon
dence, has prevented me from giving yon my
opinion upon the question propounded sooner.
I must now be brief. Indeed there is no ne
cessity for any extended views. The argument
is already exmrasted by you, your neighbor of
the Constitutionalist, the Constitution at Atlan
ta, the letter of Judge Fleming,, and the com
munication of Tully in your paper, some days
ago, to say nothing of the labors and produc
tions of others. But in what I have to say, it is
proper to premise by stating that I believe the
decision of. the Supreme Court on the question
of negro eligibility to office in this State to be
in accordance with the law and Constitution
winch were their guide. Had I been on the
Bench I should have come to the same con
clusion under the same law and Constitution,
that a majority of the Court did, though not ex
actly. by the same process of reasoning pursued
by these learned Judges.' The result of my
judgment, however, would have been-the same.
I thought the two Houses of our General Assem
bly, committed an error in deciding that those
members who had been elected, and returned
to their respective bodies with an eighth or
more of African blood, were thereby disqualified
to hold seats in the Legislature under the laws
and Constitution of the State as they now stand.
But it was a question which they alone—each
House for itself—had the right and power under
the Constitution to adjudicate and determine.
By the Constitution of th6 State, each House is
made the sole judge to decide upon election re
turns and qualifications of its members. This
question of eligibility and qualification to hold
offloH on the part of this class of persons, who
are elevated to ttn> status.ot citizenship by the
present Constitution of the State, i knew was
one not free from doubt, one on which able and
true men might and did differ. Therefore,
while I thought the decision was erroneous, I
also thought that all charges against these Legis
lative bodies upon the grounds that their judg
ment had been made from captious and factious
motives were altogether unjust.
This now clearly appears from the able dis
sentient opinion of-Judge "Warner, an eminent
jurist of the Republican party, who still main
tains, after, all the discussion since had, that the
decision of the Houses was right. Men on both
sides, therefore, should learn to be more charit
able in their opinions of -the motives of men in
the discharge of pnblic duties.
But your question to me is, what effect this
decision of the Supreme Court, now rendered,
can have upon the cases of those members, who
were decided by the respective Houses of the
Legislature, not to be qualified to hold seats
therein? Will it. be to reseat these excluded
members, or are they legally entitled to be re
seated thereby 1 To this there can be but one
legal and judicial answer. That is, no ! These
cases have been decided by the 1 only tribunal
having constitutional jurisdiction over Qiem,
and having been decided, they can not be again
opened by the Houses who decided them. Their
judgment, after being finally rendered, cannot
ae again taken up, or reversed, by themselves,
any more than the Supreme Conrt itself can go
back to the docket of last session and reverse
any of its own decisions then rendered to the
unsettling of the rights of the parties therein
adjudicated. Much loss can this judgment of
the Supreme Court' legally affect in any way the
action of the two houses in the premises- It
can have no binding or obligatory effect what
ever upon tho past or future action of the
Houses of the General Assemblyupon the ques
tion involved, for by the Constitution, as stated
above, each House is the sole and exclusive
judge of this question, so far as membership of
their respective bodies is concerned, for all time
to come, or so long as the Constitution shall re
main as it is on that point. No change, it is pre
sumed* will ever be made in it in this particular,
for it is in strict conformity with that universal
law in all representative governments, whenever
and wherever established, either civil or ecclesi
astical, by which the sole power to decide absolute
ly upon the qualifications of the members of the
Legislative bodies is and has befen, without ex
ception I believe, vested in those bodies them
selves. From their decision there is no appeal
to any other tribunal; and from the very nature
of the subject there cannot -properly be. This
power, like all other delegated powers, has often
been very grossly abused repeatedly^ perhaps,
by one house or the other of the Legislature in
every State of the Union, as it has unquestiona
bly often been most grossly abused by Congress.
Its gross abuses in the British Parliament are
well known by the students of history. Still
fhjq arrangement in the distribution of the pow
ers of Government is the only one, or the best
one yet discovered for keeping separate, distinct
and perfectly independent of each other the
three great departments, to-witthe Executive,
Judiciary and Legislative. Monstrous as the
doctrine, seems to some, yet it has come down
to us stamped with the wisdom of our ancestors
after the experience of centuries.
This sole power to decide upon the election,
returns and qualifications of the members of
each House which is vested in it by the Consti
tution, is, however, by no means an unlimited
power. Because there is no appeal from its ex
ercise, this by no means justifies a capricious
or illegal decision under it. It is a power of
great trust to be exercised as all other judicial
powers are. Each House is constituted a judge
for the purpose—this'Court so constituted is to
hear and decide both the law and the facts in each
case as it' comes before them. First, to hear,
the facts and then apply the law to them. In
forming their judgment upon the law and the
facts, they are to be governed by the same gen
eral principles which govern all other courts in
arriving at truth, right and justice. Their de
cisions when made in any case stand as the de
cisions of all other courts, from which no appeal
or writ of error lies. This is the law of the
\_For the Sunday Telegraph.
Except These Abide in the Ship, tb Cannot
be Saved—Acts xxti(,.Sl.”
These words were uttered byj the Apostle*
Paul, to toe centurion aad soldiers on tftpjfitM
ship which had been “exceedingly tossed with,
a tempest” for fourteen day* ana Wghts.
Paul was on his way to Borne to preafih the
Gospel there, acoording to the word of God* re
vealed to Hm more than two $ean psetfcna to
this event He was going as a prisoner.. The
season of the year was uupropitious—“sailing
was now dangerous”—and Paul admoWneo
them that the voyage would be with hurt and
milch damage; nevertheless, the oeetarion be
lieved the master and owner, of the ship, mora
than these things which went spoken by Paul.
God’s purpose can’t fail. It was his purpose
that Paul should preach at Rome. But Paul
persecuted the Gospel, and verily believed he.
was doing right in working against it. He must
be converted ; he must believe the Gospel be?
fore he could preach it acceptably to God—
hence he was converted on his' tray to Daxuas-
There is nothing that God has purposed
Bat how far members of the Legislature might
very properly be influenced, (in decidingdoubt-
ful questions of the law involved in the legal
qualifications of those elected and returned to
the respective Houses,) by the judgment of the
highest judicial tribunal in the State, upon the
same questions in all other offices of the State,
is a very different question. My opinion is, that
in all doubtful questions, or where their own
convictions are not both clear and strong, they
should be influenced, but not otherwise. The
two Houses of our: General - Assembly at 4he_ last
session, I have been informed, concurred in a
resolution submitting this question as one on
which they had doubts to the Supreme Conrt,
with a pledge to conform to the decision of that
Court in their action. .How this is, I do not
know, butif my informant is correct, it certainly
relieves them of all imputation of improper or
factious motives in their first action; The effect
of the decision now rendered under that resolu
tion, would be a requirement of them all in fu
ture like cases which may come before them to
decide, in accordance with the principles estab
lished by the judgment of the Supreme Court.
This is all the fulfillment of the pledge that
they can legally and constitutionally render.
This, I think, the same Judges who made this
decision would, if inquired of, pronounce to be
a right view of the subject.-
Yours moBt respectfully,
Alexander Hi Stephens.
to do that it is impossible for him to do, and
there is no opposition of men,, devils or -nature,-
that will frustrate his purposes. Forty men
bound themselves under a great curse that they
would neither eat nor drink until they killed
Paul, and they would have killed him if he had
not escaped their hand»—but he escaped, be
cause it was God’s purpose. But there most be
means used, and these means are subordinate
to tiie end—and the means are always in time
and effectual. To suppose the means will ever
be lacking is to distrust God’s word—is to be ah
unbeliever. At another time Paul escaped in a
basket, let down over the walls. Paul was left
bound two years, when we would suppose that
he ought to have been industriously engaged
in preaching, to and fro. I suppose that these
trials certainly must have, at times, discouraged
Paul. I have wondered if he were, as I fre
quently am, asking himself. Is there any truth
in this religion ? wu not' that light and those
words which X heard on the way to Damascus ,
all the effect of the imagination ? or, if not, why
am I'left now in bonds, and so cruelly treated?
If God loved me, he wonld certainly make men
love me, or use me more kindly. Bat we know
mac ha did not make the world love Christ
when he was here, ana no to “the same yester
day, to-day and forever”—therefore the world
does not love him now. “Ye must be bom
again." But his purposes will ripen fasti
Paul must go to Borne, and as they had no
Mission Boards those days, Paul went as a
prisoner—no pteans to him for the great sacri- -
fiee he was making—nobody left behind - to col
lect and forward on the money to support him
in that far-off land—nobody behind to praise
bim if he died—nobody to honor and crown him
for success. How many now preach that Bort
of a Gospel? None—none now—nor then, un
less they are obliged to do it.
But God did not prevent the Centurion’s sail
ing at this-nnseasonable time, the storm from
arising, nor the ship from going to pieces, but
he did prevent the loss of Paul s life, because
he had said that Paul should preach at Rome,
which he could not have done if he had been
lost then, at sea. Paul was in great distress
too, for God comforted him by Ms angel, and
he would not have been comforted if he nad
not needed it—he oouldn’t have been. “For
there stood by me this night the angel of God,
whose I am and whom I serve, saying; “ ‘Fear
not, Paul; thou must be brought before Ctesar,
and lo, God hath given thee all them that sail
with thee’ ” 24. Paul feared, and the angel
said. “ Fear not.” But theso words would not
have comforted Peter at home by his fireside—
for he had nothing to fear—no distress ,to bo
delivered from. But the sailors and soldiers
didn’t believe Paul's words, but their unbelief
did not make the words false. That is a great
blessing to tts.‘ The unbelief of the sailors
■ prompted them to steal off in the boat- and leave
Paul and the soldiers to perish.. The sailors
would have perished if they had been permitted
to escape in the boat, as well as Paul and the
soldiers. “ Many are the devices of a man's
heart, but the counsel of the Lord,- that shall
stand’’—Prov. Their device was to escape; in
the boat. That was, or would have bepn, their
free agency, hut it was not .the will of God, or
His agency. His will was that they should be
saved; and to be saved their will must • be sub
jected to His will. But what if they had. es
caped in the boat, and Paul had not seen them?
That is the same as to say what if Christ had
not have come, though God had promised Him
as the means of salvation centuries before His
coming ? He must come and suffer, else none
could be saved, and God had promised salva
tion to Israel, and nobody else wants it. There
fore we find Paul watching, apd detecting these
shipmen as they : were about to flee ont of the
ship. And though the Centurion and soldiers
didn't believe his revelation about the angel’a
telling him they' should be saved;. yet they did
believe him when he told them: “Except these
(shipmen) abide in the shipyecannot be saved
and believing—they worked; they cut ;off the
ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
And they were justified by their workstheir
works showed that they believed, it was then a
living, acting, faith.- Their faith was but a nat
ural faith, founded upon reason, which had
taught them that the sailors were essential on
board the ship, but it illustrates the faith and
work of the Christian which is founded upon
the teaching of- the word and spirit. And'so
with Abraham's works which justified hini.be-
canse they were done in faith—without faith it
is impossible to please God—wliat is hot of
faith is sin—and he who works ;.in faith
works according to the word of God, prompt
ed by Ids spirit. Nor will his spirit prompt
us to engage in a work which will betray a dis
trust of his word.- Therefore it was God's-coun
cil revealed to Paul that secured ids salvation
and the salvation of all on board, < the ship; but
in order to be saved they must abide in the ship,
and hence the means.to. that end were in - tune
and were effectual. And no it says, “Except ye
repent ye shall all likewise perish;'” repentance
therefore is essential to salvation_, and bding es
sential the means to produce it will not* cannot,
be lacking, for God cannot be_, and his purposes
cannot fail. But repentance is not the work of
an unchanged heart; not the work of the natu
ral man as a free agent; it is a '• thing-erf- God
which the “natural man does not: receive.’’—
Surely I have heaid Ephriam bemoaning him
self thus : “Thou hast chastised me, ana I was
-chastised as a bullock unaccustomed .to.the yoke
—-turn thou me and I shall be turned—surely
after that I was turned, I repented;. and after
I was instructedlsmote uponmyihigh."—Jere
miah. Some advised to kill the prisoners, but
such was not God's council. And so it came to
pass that all" escaped safe to'land, those who
couldn’t swim as well as those'who could swim.
J. R. Rsspess.
From Lowndes Couatj-.r
The Valdosta South Georgia Times of Wed
nesday say:
We have inquired among the farmers and
others, and find the cotton crop very promising
—hardly ever better. The com, too, is promis
ing. The drought was very severe on it, but
there is still prospect, especially in the lowlands
for an abundant grain harvest Cane, potatoes,
and other crops are excellent. -jy
Lowndes county is actually behind Bibb in
water-melons, for the Times speaks of the first
water-melon, June 29th.
Uh
The National Intelligencer.—The Cainrier-
Joamal Washington dispatches say:
The adjourned meeting, to take measures for
renewing the Intelligencer, and placing it on a
firm basis with adequate. capital, failed to ac
complish its object The plan discussed at the
last meeting of raising $100,000, has not suc
ceeded, although, some portion of the money
has been subscribed. At the meeting last night,
after some discussion, it was determined to
postpone any definite action, in order to afford
opportunity for consultation with ex-President
Johnson, who is in Washington.
A little child four years old, near Kokomo,
Ind., suddenly appeared on the railroad track as
a train was passing at a rapid rate, and was picked
up by the cowcatcher, thrown fifteen feet high in
the air, and landed in the ditch without injury.
Tlie Fall-Elections.
' The Radicals are 1 represented to be appre
hensive about the result of the fall elections,
particularly those in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Herald correspondent at Washington tele
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It appears that Grant is extremelv anxious
about the result of the approaching election in
Pennsylvania, and that he has an idea Geary
will be defeated: He did not want Geary to
take the nomination, and it is said that just be
fore the meeting of the Republican convention
in Philadelphia he sent a confidential agent to
Geary with instructions to say to him that if he
would decline the nomination he would provide
him with a place as good as that of Governor of
Pennsylvania.. Geary, however, refused- the
offer. It appears that Curtin told the President,
Geary could not carry Pennsylvania, as he was
not the choice of either the Cameron or - Curtin
faction,"and that his nomination would imperil
the success of the party. This caused -Grant
considerable uneasiness, and led to the offer
which he made Geary. John Covode, who was
in Washington a few days ago, called upon the
President, when the latter immediately intro
duced the subject of the Pennsylvania election,
asking Covode what he thought about it. Covode
shook his head doubtfully, and said it would be
very close. “Well.” said Coy ode, “there’s a
heap of trouble. You see, in the first place,
General, yonr appointments didn’t suitomr peo
ple. Some of them were good enough men and
good republicans, but they have no etrength or
influence. They can’t carry nothing. In the
second place, Geary will not be supported by
the Cameron and Curtin men with any degree
of earnestness. Its going to be tongh pulling,
General.” The President said he was sorry,
for he would like the Republicans to carry the
State this time by as large a majority as when
he was elected.
Crops in Florida.
The Floridian of the-29th nit, says :
Cotton is in fine condition and locking and
doing remarkably well, especially where it has
been well worked. There is more rein than is
healthy for the weed, and reports continue of
presence of the caterpillar. Core is made, and
a good crop will be gathered. This w the case
throughout West and Middle Florida. • la the
East apd South, pq^n has suffered much from
drouth, and the crop still be very short. f
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