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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1866)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 31, 1866. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST. By reference to our new terms, it will be seen that the price of the Weekly Cosstitu TIONAI.iht lias been reduced to per annum. Our weekly edition is a mammoth paper, and one of the very best family journals published, containing all the latest news of the day, re views of the markets, and a judicious selection of the daily editorials. Our country friends would do well to give it a liberal support. •«■*■■■—— COMMON SENSE POETRY. The sensational poets of the present day arc veracious types of a feverish epoch. It is sel dom in the era ’66 that a poem can claim genu ine pathos and common sense combined. So very seldom docs such a rarity appear that it is bailed as a miracle, and men marvel if there be not a resurrection from the dtad The good old Saxon rhyme lias long been out of date, and the moaning mysticism or pagan ism of Swinbourne come into fashion. The oak leaf has been superseded by the tinsel crown; the ivory staff of the priest for the gilded gitncracks of the juggler. All ideas of love have become morbid in the same propor tion. Even the “ dear Corsair expression, half savage half soft” has been intensified by the introduction of charcoal braziers and the sub mersions of Swinbourne, too shocking for ut terance. Poets pine after childish sweet-hearts In a most suicidal wav, forgetful that though they nearly died bonus'- such were faithless, they might have cracked crowns had they been brought to the altar. Nine times in ten the Dulcinca raved about is a very ordinary ma tron, surrounded by tow-headed children, and far more enthusiastic about a beef-steak or pork-pie than the esthetics of romance. Nine times in ten she has put the lock of hair you gave her into the fire with a smutty pair of tongs. One hundred to nothing that if she keeps your tender epistles, they cause her more merriment than the most side-splitting acro batics of Bill Ann or Brick Pomeroy. When wc hear a middle-aged man rhyme about such sentiments incoherently and wildly, no matter how sublimely, we have grave doubts as to the integrity of his digestion and recommend mar riage or medicine. Webstkr used to say that when a man had reached the last infirmity of evil there were but two courses remaining, "suicide or confession, and suicide was confes sion.” Wc do not pretend that the sensational bard lias become exactly criminal, but we do maintain the iuflrmity. Wherefore, it is sug gested, In place of suicide, marriage or medi cine, and marriage, they say, is medicine. It is a rare case to see a poetical Benedick of “ good standing ” on the rampage about amatory des peration. Witness Alexander Smith ; he was read out In church, and sinned no more henceforth in crazy metre. We advise Swin bourne and ids ilk to try tills experiment and, our word for it, they will abandon wanton misery and find their intellects chastened and sanctified. It is not difficult oi explanation, when one considers that usually all the iroth and fume of poetry are lavished upon an ideal and every body knows how slatternly or com mon place the ideal usually is when presented in flesh and blood. Goeiiie idealised liis drunken housekeeper—-and married her. The latter proceeding was against all true canons of taste, lor we hold it to bo axiomatical that no man mast, wed his Ideal. Hence, he was a sad old heathen. How much bester had lie married outside his delusive phantasy. Once plighted and belonging to some sensi ble, refined and cultivated woman, the ideal is changed into the real—a fictitious para dise is transformed into a substantial hall to hang your hat up. The duties entailed by a virtuous union will make poetry comprehensi ble. No one will laugh so vigorously over the fustian of youth as the husband and father who entcrelh Into a life lie never understood in verse. Women are not argels—not a hit of it. But they are, humanly speaking, a great deal better. What would a man do with a stray cherub or unconditional seraph ? Os course, we do not speak of doll-baliles and blue-stock lugs. They are worse than angels, infinitely worse. But, wlieu advising an erratic bard to mend his ways, our advice only points to such women as are plnnued for earnest association, dutilul alliance and over-lovely Iu occupation, whether It bo kneading dough or shrining a child in arms. Wc are about to give some illustrations ol our prosing. Prof. Aytoi n lias done yeoman service in his “ Firmillan" to drive out the bats of spasm. lie thus happily takes oir such creai tires: •Why do men cal! mo a presumptuous car, A vapouring hlockhcnd. ami a turgid f 01, A common uuionnee, and a charlatan t I’ve d,-wiled into the tea of metaphor, With as strong p iddle* a* the sturdiest ship That churns Medos* into liquid tight, Ami hashed at every obteet tn mv wav. ♦ * • ' • * ' v • • 1 have reviewed myself incessantly.” ‘He had a soul beyond the vulgar reach, Sun-ripened, swarthy. He was not the fool To | lurk the feeble illy from its shade, When the black hyacinth Mood in fragrance by. The lady of bis love wa» dark ns tint. Her lips as plenteous as the Sphinx’s are, And her short hair crisp with Numidiau curl: She was a negress !’ " Flrtullinu” prostrated w hole phalanxes of v retched poachers in the realm of poetry. The above extracts show the satirical side. Miss MCLOCK lets what may be called the dead earnest. Hear this: Passion Past. "tt ere 1 a boy, with a boy’s heart N-at At glunpsss of her passing adown the street, tit a mow where she had entered and gone, Ur a large her hand had written on,- ~ ouid alt he with me as it was before t f , no, not er ’ no, no, never t Never any more. Jffih man’s pulse throb, It! ’T v ’!"" *>m> tike a sob, til”. - ’’bearing her lightest word Kind' untd only her g* menta stirred: XotlCS » N ever any men*. Grey and withered wrinkled and marred wT.iTT UIK T ' h<> ,ir '* »«* vome out nil scarred W llh the image of manhood stamped on me yet“ ’ N» shame to remember, no wish to forget: But could ehe rekindle the pangs X bore f < i, no, never I thank God, never! Never any mote. Old and wrinkled, withered and grey— And yet if her light step passed to-day, I should see her face all faces among. And sav, “H av n love thee, whom I loved I ong ? Thou hast lost the key oi my heart’s dour, Lost it ever, and forever, Aye, forevermore.” Now, there is unquestionably much fervor in this and not a little clever poetry. But bag it the strong flavor of a healthy brain or the aroma of common sense? The man who nur ses ancient passion in that style worships among mummies and is of all grey-beards most pesti lent. Fortunately we can quote something better than this—incomparably better. We de fy any one to peruse the following verses and not confess that a beautiful soul wrought them, a solid brain made them symmetrical—thati all In all, there are few equals, of the kind, in English song and nothing that dares approach them in the territories of sensation. Every thought is as clear and pure as a trout stream in the mountains. The philosophy is faultless. The tone gentle and masculine. They have the peculiar triumph of touching everybody and pleasing all. Old Mr. Ledger will feel a glow when reading, and even you, Laura Matilda, even you, my pet, will throw Owen Meredith into the dust-niu and acknowledge that this iS the true ring of the true metal: Love and Age. BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. I played with you ’mid cowslips blowing, When I was six and you were four; When garlands weaving, flower balls throwing, Were pleasures soon to please no more. 'Through groves and meads, o’er grass and heather, With little playmates, to and ! ro, We wandered hand In hand together; But that was sixty years ago. You grew a lovely, roseate maiden, And still our oarly love was strong; Htill wllli no care our days were laden, They glided joyously along; And I did love yon, very dearly— How dearly, words wan 1 power to show; I thought your heart was touched as nearly; But that was fifty years ago. Then other lovers came around you, Your lieauty grew from year to year, And many a splendid circle found you The centre of its glittering sphere. I saw you then, (list vows forsaking. On rank and wealth your hand bc«tow ; Oh, then I thought my heart was breaking ; But that was forty years ago. And I lived on to wed another ; No cause she gave me to repine ; And when I heard you were a mother, ■ did not wish the children mine. My own young flock in fair progression, Made up a pleasant Christmas row; My joy in them was past expression ; But that was thirty years ago. You grew a matron, plump and comely, Yon dwelt in fashion’s brightest blaze ; My earthly lot was far more homely ; But 1 too had my festal days. No merrier eyes have dverglistenod Around the hearthstone’s wintry glow Than when my youngest child was christened ; But that was twenty years ago. Time passed. My eldest girl was married, And 1 am now a grnndsire gray ; Ono pet of four years old I’ve carried Among the wild flowered meads to play. In our old fluids of childish pleasure, Where now, ns then, the cowslips blow, She fills her basket’s ample measure, And that is not ten years ago. But though first love’s Impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our Inst good-night. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know. When our young days of gathering flowers Will bo an hundred years ago. B. F. BUTLEE AND HENRY WILSON. if Butler hankers after a fame like that of I'.katostratus —who fired the Ephesian dome that he might be remembered —lie certainly may congratulate himself upon success. The torch ami turpentine fellow who burned the temple of Diana determined to be known for something and, failing to send liis line down by illustrious deeds, sought tiie bead-roll of in famy. To thwart bis motive, the Grecian States forbade all mention of his name. That was bad policy, for it only gave him greater significance aud repute. Wherefore, if Butler desire, as he surely docs, the immortality of shame, let us be wiser than the Greeks aud bowl him down the corridors of Time— “ With rings on liis lingers And spoons on his toes, Let him mnkc music Wherever he goes.” Retired prize-fighters and other male drabs frequently take to religion and respectability, after lives of riot. They rarely surrender the wages of sin to the poor box, no matter how sanctimonious they grow. As Senator Wilson has been “converted to the cause of Christ,” we look for a similar demonstration from But ler. This is a modern form of pharasaism and we love to strip it of its lalse hues. While some of the papers are praising Wilson as the “Christian Statesman,” the Anti-Slavery Stan dard says : “ We shall value his declarations at the Cooper Institute and iu the revival meet ing in the proportion that his action henceforth shall establish their genuineness.” As charity, peace, aud good will are sup posed to constitute Christianity, we are disin clined to believe the genuineness of Mr. Wil son’s election to grace after reading his red mouthed, vindicative and merciless harangues against the South. The anti-slavery Standard is supposed to be authority, inasmuch as it is by no means copperhead or rebellious. As for Buti.er, he fares no better even with his chums. He made a speech at Lowell, recently and was completely flabbergasted and shut up by one of his townsmen. During Ben’s speech, in the crisis oi his eloquent denunciation of “ trai tors,” this gentleman, in a clear voice asked the speaker: “ Why did the people of Lowell throw rotten eggs at you in iB6O, on your return from Charleston ?” Our informant says that Ben has a glib tongue and a ready wit, but he couldn’t and wouldn’t, and didn’t answer that ques tion. The most pungent description, however, conics from ono who was his Chaplain at Dutch Gap and Hatteras, the Rev. Mr. Hudson. Mr. H. is positively excruciating in liis portraiture. Going upon the principle that a man’s intellect is the man, he says of the hero that “his brain is as fertile as an old barn-yard, though its up growth is neither wholesome nor sweet.” Grbely for Congress. —The Republican Convention for the fourth Congressional Dis trict in the city of New York, on the 15th in stant. nominated Horace Grcelv for Cougress. The Democrats have not yet made their nomi nation in this district, but it i» thought that Benjamin Wood, formerly ol the A etrs, will be he man. THE MARYLAND TROUBLE. It teems that the Radical minority in Balti more has been snared in its owu toils. Wc have heretofore stated that the power gained by the Radicals through the bayonet sought to perpet uate itself by legislation, when the bayonet lost its usefulness. The Legislature, therefore, adopted a Police Bill, one of the clanses of which thus reads: “ For official misconduct any of the slid Com missioners may be removed by a concurrent vote of the two Houses of the General Assem bly, or by the Governor during the recess thereof .” The drift and purpose of this enactment were to authorize “loyal” Governors iu the removal of Commissioners not sufficiently pliant or Jacobinical. It was never dreamed that Gov. Swann would turn Conservative and use this law against its authors. Such, however, is the fact, and hence the howl raised. It is not the first time in history that an engineer has been hoisted by his own petard, or a first-class devil scorched by his own brimstone. We are glad to have the testimony of so re spectable a journal as the National Intelligencer that Woolly’s “ boys in blue” are pretty much of a stripe with the redoubtable Woolly. Nine tenths of the fighting men—true blues arc opposed to the hobby of the wooly horse, and citizens —such citizens !—have had a tem porary fit of blues to help swell the incendiary ranks. The Intelligencer predicts that the “true boys in blue” will be found on the right side when the time comes. To prove how damaging the testimony will be against the precious Commissioners one sin gle fact may suffice. We learn that “ affidavits have been made by over forty citizens, regu larly registered as legal voters in 1865, who swear that they voted m the fourth precinct of the Twentieth Ward for Daniel Harvey , the Conservative candidate for Mayor, and, that their votes were accepted and deposited with out objection in the ballot-box, yet the officers of that precinct returned only twenty-two votes as having been given for Harvey at that poll.” Despite this showing, the American prates of the purity of the ballot box being tampered with. Despite the disfranchisement of 30,000 citizens in Baltimore alone, it sings hymns to Republi can liberty. Despite threats to precipitate armed mobs upon Maryland from the North and West, it shrieks about the “ best govern ment the world ever saw!” Hearing such things one may well question the morals of the damsel Liberty and wonder, with Madame Ro land, if the crimes perpetrated in the name of a vestal virgin are not rather the orgies of a bawd. [communicated.] Blotting Out. Mr. Editor: When the subject of paying the war debt came up, the action of the State Con vention was creditable to our people. The con vention, by a large majority, were for shoulder ing the burden, not to show our disloyalty to the General Government, for the struggle was ours, and our faith as a people, was pledged for its redemption. There is something morally beautiful in it—a people crushed by the strong arm of military power—resources unstrung— millions of wealth gone forever—still unwil ling to tarnish their fair record, ft was re quired that the debt should be pronounced “ without form and void,” it was therefore done. The State did, however, sustain her credit. Capital has an affinity for honesty. Her credit is, to-day good, and will continue thus, so long as a noble willingness to meet en gagements exists. It can never he truthfully said of onr State that she willingly repudiated her obligations. All persons should be proud of this part of her history. Though defeated in her struggle, to arrest by force of arms, her sovereignty aud independence, her moral triumphs are not less glorious than the conduct ot her sons in the field. Not only as a State did we sustain onr good name, for our mer chants and business men generally, acting upon the innate principle of probity and honor, hur ried North to settle their old debts. Would to God this spirit could have been infused into every member of the Commonwealth. A willingness at least to pay just demands ; not ail, but many of the debtor class of com munity are not willing “to do justice to all men.” Although our considerate Legislature has made for us a Stay Law, many neverthless, as individuals, are utterly repudiating their just liabilities. The demon spirit of dishonesty has seized npon numbers. Fraud abounds in the land. Sham sales of real estate and personal goods and smothei inq in every way the wit and ingenuity of lawyers can devise are of common occurence. Morality is at a low ebb—virtue almost a blank—and black rotteness romps in the heretofore well-trodden paths of confidence and honesty. That an effort will be made hi our next Gen eral Assembly, though at preseut it may seem unreasonable and absurd, to blot out all debts contracted previously to the war, is strongly probable. Alen are influenced or rather gov erned by interest. Iu a representative system like ours every shade and hue of opinion no matter how heretical, is very apt to have de lenders and supporters. And with all due re spect to the members of the Legislature there will be, at least, some who will favor the blot ting out of all old debts which we owe each other. For it is certain that the destruction of so much wealth, the deprecation of land pro perty, one of the natural results of our con dition, short crops, present and prospective, will place it out of the power of some, tnanv perhaps, to settle with their creditors without becomiug poor indeed. Thousands are not willing to make the sacrifice and will stand up for any measure, constitutional or unconstitu tional, just or unjust, which promises relief. It is not worth the while to inquire into the constitutionality of such a legislative act. I know that constitutions are at a discount when they do not coincide with the majority, but if the constitutions, both State and Federal, rev erence and guard anything, it is the validity and sacredness of contracts. We of the South ever maintained that the Constitution itself was a contract aud insisted even to blood on the fullfilment of its provisions. Repudiation was applied to it and we all know how the parties to the contract were effected. We may expect equally as bad fruit when this doctrine is ap plied to individuals. When the waters ol the great spring of confidence, of which all men drink, become bitter and smell and taste of in justice and repudiation, then we may look for stagnation in every department of industry. Men must be protected in their property or else there will be but a feeble effort to accumu late. Government should protect and*not de stroy the right of property. A note of hand which a man holds is as much his own as his house, and the laws should secure to the owner its value. This question of blotting out is one of ethics and political economy, and it is the duty of the press and pulpit to speak out upon it. Suppose an act should be passed in our next Legislature wiping out all debts between indi viduals contracted previously to the war, how much would it add to the aggregate wealth of the State? Not a single dollar. On the con trary it would have a tendency to diminish the aggregate wealth by destroying confidence, annihilating the credit system, already impaired, thus decreasing the number of purchases of property which would in consequence depre ciate in value. True, such a measure would continue for a while the right of possession of a large amount of visible property iu the pre sent holders. A matter of no real moment to the State. Ido not mean to reflect on all when I say that a large class of those involved, became so by living ahead of their incomes in wasteful prodigality. If any is to become poor they are the persons instead of the saving and industrious whose money they borrowed or whose property they purchased on promise. Many an estate sold on time before the Court Houses of our county towns wtiuld, by such a measure, be given to the purchasers, while the heirs, a widow and orphans in most cases, would be left penniless, unable to labor for subsistence. These are the persons who should be protected, not injured for they were effect ed more sensibly by the great change than any other class. If the Stay Law was instantly repealed there would not be as much suffering and evil conse quence as is generally snpposed. I venture the assertion, if any ore will take it upon himself to inquire among his acquaintances, it will be found that a large number of debtors are like wise creditors. This has measurably resulted from our heretofore credit system. With our currency inflated, as ours is at this time, and the high price of our staple crop, though short, it would be in the power of a large number to get even once more. Our Stay Law is, without a doubt, a benefit to some, while it is an injury to others, by keeping them out of what is justly due them. Would not the policy of non-inter vention with contracts be a good one—letting things take their natural course? Is it not wrong to teach men evil by legislative enact ments ? Heresies are never dangerous until they are shapened and solidified by recognition. Better by far Jjiat our laws sltQuld savor of jus tices thau inculcate an erroneous and dangerous principle which leads to agrarianism. Cato. Jefferson Cos., October 23d, 1866. Loss of the Steam Ship Theodore D. Wag ner by Fire.— On Monday evening, Captain Babson and Engineer Nyman, of the steam ship Theodor? D. Wagner, which left Boston for Charleston on Thursday last, arrived in New York, the vessel having been destroyed by fire on Saturday. The steamer sailed from Boston at half-past six o’clock on Thursday, and the weather was pleasant during the voyage. At a quarter past five o’clock on Saturday afternoon, when the steamer had reached a port about 230 miles this side of Hatteras she took fire. In less than five minutes after the fire had been observed, the engine room was one vast sheet of flames. The Captain, however, set all hands to work the pumps, and they labored strenously to put out the fire, but all efforts were in vain. Amid the terrible sceue the lady passengers worked with the energy and courage of the sterner sex, and their common labor resulted in t4ic safety of all on board. While the flames were making rapid strides over the doomed steamer, two vessels, the brig Velocity and the schooner Enoch Pratt, appeared in sight, and the engineer succeeded in getting the steamer alongside of them, but the moment he reached them the engine stopped of itself. Soon after the lady passengers were transferred to the brig, and the men on board resumed their work at the pumps until two o’clock on Sunday morning, when they found the task was hope less. They then reached the schooner, having ascertained that the steamer had two large holes burned in her side, about one foot above the water. An Honest Man.— ln April, 1862, T. M. Daniel, Esq., oi Athens, then a Lieutenant in the 3rd Georgia Regiment, while out with a scouting party in the neighborhood of Eliza beth City, North Carolina, stopped and staid all night with a man named Murden Stokely, liv ing near that place. Upon going away early the next morning he left his gold watch lying on the mantel, and as our forces evacuated that part of the country very soon afterwards, he had no opportunity to reclaim it, and of course gave it up as lost. Friday, however, says the Watchman , he received a neat looking little package by express, and upon opening it beheld the Jong lost watch, safe and sound as when he parted with it. In these days of miscellaneous rascality and meanness, such incidents deserve to be record ed, and for the credit of human nature we take great pleasure in making them public. Charleston and Savannah Railroad.— We learn that a bill has been filed in the United States Court for this District, by the corpora tion of the Rogers’ Locomotive Machine Works, New York, for an injunction against the sale of the above road, advertised to take place in No vember. As this is a case of great public im portance, it is to be presumed that a hearing will be bad an early day. The counsel for the corporation is Gen. Wm. E. Martin. The bond holders are represented by Hon. Henry Buist and Hon. J. B. Campbell, and the Charleston and Savannah road by the Hon. Charles H. Si monton.—Charleston Courier. The remains of Francis S. Key, author of “ The Star-Spangled Banner,” have been re moved from Baltimore to Frederick, Mary land. Carrington’s CoMMissroNAißiTliTir tion with their regula? bus,ness as p nr l“!!L' and forwarders, Messrs. Carrington & fish a sprightly paper called the “ Comm P ° b ' aire." It is the intention of the firm to \nT*' the size of this journal and make ,t on« ofT most welcome visitors in the sanctum' the fireside. Now that Col. Gardner h« * soeiated himself and pen with the establishml' we will look forward to this journal liar relish. In the last number we find bel lowing ,0 -- S FECIAL NOTICE We have great pleasure in announcing , change in the management of the AssociaL of which the Commissionaire is the spec' i organ-a change which, we trust, rapid extension of the usefulness of our und taking in a field in which its convenience ht already been widely acknowledged. James Gardner, Esq., of Augusta, Ga.— ma years editor and proprietor of the Conttitutul alist —has taken the position of Vice Fresiden and Secretary, and thus become one of the two active managers of the Carrington & Co.’s E s press and Purchasing Agency. Our friends throughout the South are already belter acquainted than ourselves with ColotH Gardner’s high character and influential posi tion; to others we may say that with a full ap . preciation of the capabilities of our enterprise and of the immense field open to it, he brings to aid its development, tact, courtesy, energy business ability, and long familiarity with the needs and requirements of the Southern people. The details of the management rest in his hands and in those of the writer of this article • all orders coming under their direct personal supervision. In addition to the long established Havana route, Carrington & Co.’s Express now runs regularly to Vera Cruz (Mexico), to St. Thomas and St. Croix (W. Indies), and to Para, Per nambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Augmented means increase the facilities af forded by the Purchasing Agency to all who have wants to be supplied from the stores of New York, and enable it to supply those wants on the most favorable terms. Such an Agency is a requirement of the times ; the natural offspring and ally of the new gigantic Express system, and in connection with the Expresses it places the stores ol such a depot as this city within ready reach, not of dealers only, but of private individuals, con sumers themselves, to whose service it has been more particularly addressed. Our aim and intention is to make our Pur chasing Agency a “household word” as familiar as is now that of “Express” itself, so that a want experienced shall suggest the one as readily as a parcel to be forwarded suggest the other. In a word, we mean to be the Express Purchasing Bureau. No matter what the need may be—from the nlost trifling article to the most important whether for lady or gentleman, scholar or farm er, artizan or tradesman, planter or lawyer, chemist or physician, miner or manufacturer, by the combined aid of the Express aud onr Agency, it can be supplied promptly at-d as cheaply (often more so) as if the consumer were here to purchase for himself. Years of experience have taught us whereto find the best assortments, the most reliable dealers, and where most readily to procure any named article; and this experience can be used iu saving time, trouble and expense, not ouly to distant purchasers but to stranger visitors to the city, and to city and suburban residents as well. Orders and remittances can be made by Ex press, (if preferred to the mail,) as all express agents will take orders, receipt for and forward funds, and see to return of goods. Address, Carrington & Cos., 30 Broadway, N. Y. The Medical College of Georgia.— We are pleased to learn that our Medical College promises a success, during the present year, commensurate with its merits aud equal to its lame in unwarfike days. We have already had occasion to record the election of Dr. De Saus surc Ford to the chair of Anatomy, and Dr ■ John S. Coleman’s call as Demonstrator. Both are rising young men of their profession aud both native Augustans. The chair of Physiolo gy will be filled by Dr. Edward Geddings, of Charleston. Though Dr. G. is anything but venerable he has acquired an enviable reputa tion in South Carolina and brings to his new position experience and skill acquired in the best schools of Europe. We feel assured that, professionally and socially, our hospitable citi zens will give him a warm greeting. Scholarly and scientifi men are ornaments to any city and we are gratified to know that Augusta has such an acquisition in Dr. Geddings. Important Legal Decision.— A decision has been given in the Probate Court of Sum ter county, Alabama, embracing the foilowmc points: 1. The ordinance of the State Convention, and the different acts of the Legislature, to the protection of administrators, executors *uu guardians, are valid ; and investments made o them in good faith, in late Confederate secur - ties, under color of law, will now be U P® C ®' the loss falling upon the estate, and not up such executors, administrators or guardians. 2. Contracts made during the war, wm recognized the lawfulness of Confederate bono= and Treasury notes, and which were then van • will not be pronounced void. .. 3. Collections of debts due an estate, t>s_ personal representative, in Confederate I res* ry notes, will be upheld if made in good m • even though the debt was tlue before the _ and the notes became worthless in the nano the administrator. , a. 4. Where rights had already vested before surrender, or acts have been performed • . the laws then in force, the public poliff , ot existed at the time such righto accrued, 3iw present public policy, will control the A” jnn ,i of their legality; and loyalty to the Na Government does not require interference 6uch past transactions, if honestly mao , in accordance with the laws of the State time. , - n( r m 5. The administrator in this ca3e, good faith sold a large amount of cot - the advice and order of the Probateit ’ e 1863, for a fair price, and having take “ h3gC r, for the purchase money from the pu the which was delivered to the guardian ~g n heirs, and afterwards collected by th. e h ’ ae . in Confederate money, he is not liaD ‘ count again for said cotton; although j a was made with reference to the market p Confederate money.
