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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1870.
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t JIIlHary Order*.
We direct /special attention to the military
SSyx£&4 Gen, Terry, printed in today’s
legislative Report*.
Tbe reportorial corps of the New Eea will be
i epresented in tbe House by Mr. B. H. Knapp,
and in the Senate by Mr. John ,D. Lloyd.
They will make foil and impartial report* of
tbe proceedings of each day, which, altogeth
er, wit-form a comprehensive history of the
irausnetion» of the session. They are instruct
ed noftf burden the paper and it* readers
with irrelevant matter or reporters’ opinions.
X|m gentlemen are authorized to take
sub fiptiems to the Era in their, respective
branches of the Assembly, and to receipt for
the same We commend them both to the
offioore nml members of the two honses, and
ik for them tbe’eourtesies uauslly eztended
> the pits*.
We should be glad at all times to see the
■embereio out office, irrespective of party.
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US ITT AND MODERATION.
r lupnbllcans I,e Daalted-Tlie Hear of
rent Tent—1-rt violence bo etehowred.
Jjjs onr desire to soe all tbo elements of
Republican party of Georgia harmonized
i Qgt groat and invincible unity, whose
jo:: R is to control the affairs of the
■eminent and preserve the liberties of the
pie, giving equal protection to all condi-
n "and classes, oppressing none, and
sially favoring none. This is an hour of
I with the party. The boor has been s
-, o, t«t the iiy-d-i vjiy.li'uis alt ,n tbe
revuaiiib mr J K*pifo.
to themselves, true to each
1 er nud true to tho principles and virtue of
i.ir party, and the broad day-light will soon
s i,pun them.
This i» no time for caviling and quibbling
k>c t unimportant technicalities. It is a time
r stern and solid action, a time to rally
Iround those great principles which is the
of strength nnlo the party. It is a time
demands ail the strength of the organi-
der to reap the golden harvest
ipe and ready for the sickle.
» we would rally overy Republican
common altar of his party to renew
Fealty and love, and there, mingled
.at. 'ttffraieraity, throw aside all petty differ-
zne-Atad smoke the pipe of peace one with
* Jhi . e are those who rejoice that dissensiona
im£ki pt into tbe party, and whose rejoicing
woiUV’kuow no bonnde were those dissensions
to pTooed to an open rupture. All such we
l>o|s io see disappointed. They desire the
destruction of the party, bnt this will never
he, .unless Republicans, of their own free will,
surrtnder the prestige they have gained and
} the power which they hold.
All that is now necessary tor Republicans
'n.oJaTs maintain unity and moderation, and
nitfing aronnd the President as the great
ii cJgtir of the organization, labor to preserve
the Union and tbe integrity of tbe nation and
the honor of the National law.
— ■ — Pmonol.
The Crtolo— General Terry and tbe Admin
istration—The Sober, Second Tbonght.
The oath prescribed in the late net of Con
gress is one of remarkable search and pe-
cision. Its language is singularly pointed
and exhaustive, and leaves little donbt in the
mind of an intelligent and fair minded Kan
a? to the scope and meaning of the Act. The
object itAbnmistakably plain. Congress in
tended to strike at the very root of the diffi
culty between tbe re-aetionisla in Georgia
and the National Government, and to guaran
tee a republican form of State Government
throngh the rigid enforcement of the letter
and spirit of the reconstruction acta of 1867.
Very few Southern men, whose disabilities
were not previously removed by Congress,
can, under the provisions of that oath, take a
seat in the provisional Legislature. Tha mere
holding of any kind of "office” before the
war, and, after (hat, the mere act of (passive
ly) aiding tho rebellion, otherwise than in
consequence of direct physical force, reader# d
tbe party ineligible.
Tbe pains and penalties imposed for false:
Making IManath, oncler the
provisions of the act itself, it became tha im
perative dnly of Gen. Terry and the Admin 1
istration to enforce this penalty. Their re
cent action looking to tbe exclusion of dis
qualified members, was one of necessity rath
er than choice. To have permitted these
members to take their seats and participate
in the re-organization, would have been to
tacitly nullify the will of Congress, and lay
themselves liable as sworn ministero of the
law.
Hence, when the position of Gen. Terry-is
rightly understood, it will stand approved
of all conscientious and good men, irrespec
tive of mere party.
False swearing is, in any country, one of
the most fearful premonitions of social decay
and anarchy. It strikes at the very founda
tions of civil society. It seeks to undermine
the administration of ali law; to subvert
the Courts of justice, and to establish a loose
and versatile, mobocracy, * based upon the
n.ere*caprice of party-leaders, and a false pub
lic sentiment Every man in Georgia, fe he
Democrat or Republican, who is permanent
ly identified in interest with the State, caabut
regard with alarm this tendency to scirert
conscience and ignore law in order to >ain
party ascendancy. Only party adventnrers
and political bankrupts—men who ha*e real
ly nothing to loose, but everything to gain-
will longer object to a settlement of f/n polit
ical difficulties upon the basis of Law/'
The consciences of those Demowho
declined to qualify under this Bearding oath,
approve the action of Gen. Terry; Milst those
Democrats who did take it, and w*J, by party
lash, were driven into a measure rhich both
tte*. conscience and sober jndnent disap-
THE XVTII AMKSDMEST.
Let it be Ratified Immediately upon the
Organization, of the Uooic-Republi
can*, to the Rescue—A Word of Advice
to the Democrats.
The vital importance of the Fifteenth Con
stitutional Amendment to the people of Geor
gia is the only apology we offer for so persist
ently endeavoring to impress upon the Legis
lature the necessity of its immediate and em
ph&tio ratification.
The first argument in its favor is, it is the
key to the admission of Georgia to her proper
dignity and importance as an equal State in
the Union. It is the "open Sesame” which
flings wide tbe doors of both honses of the
national assembly to admit our Senators and
Representatives. Were there no other argo
ment in its favor, the transcendent importance
of this one would bo sufficient to rally every
member of the Legislature, be be Republican
or Democrat, to a firm and decided support of
the Fifteenth Amendment. The only thing
that retards the progress of Georgia is the un
certainty in regard to her status. At present
she is oat of the Union, And all her political
affairs are in an unsettled condition. The
people do not know what will be their fate.
They do not know if the policy of the mlers
will be to build up or tear down. They can
lay no plans with a certain prospect of fulfill
ment They are at sea, without a pilot or
compass, and are drifting, they know not
whither. The people of Georgia are laboring
as they never labored before to recuperate and
strengthen the producing power of her
soil, to build up their waste places, and
to open new sluices through which her natu-
wealth may be poured into the
general reservoir. Hands that hitherto have
been unused to labor now grapple tho helve
of toil and are turning the soil, building
cities and towns and burrowing ont tbe wealth
which has been lying untouched in our hills.
All that is now needed to encourage and pro
tect them in this duty is to have the political
condition of Georgia fully and permanently
established, and the public mind fully and
fairly aet at ease in regard to the future. If
Georgia is a shuttle cock to be beaten and
buffeted about by the whims of this or that
interest, it will not be long before the State is
abandoned by her best and truest men, and
she will be thrown from tbe high road of
progress to wealth and favor in which she is
marching. To avoid all this, and to en
courage and stimulate tbo people, it is
necessary to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment,
which is tbe ultimatum of Congress, and that
body will be content with nothing leas.
As a party organ, there is unother reason
why we urge the adoption of this measure,
and that is, it is purely a Republican theory,
a principle of the organization, a demand
made by the National Republican party of
-C?** Jne North upon ~tho'National Republican
aitj'i to acquit tbemselve^7a party of the South. Fealty to party, our
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Headq’bs Mujtaey District, or Georgia, R
Atlanta, Go., Jan. 12, 1870. ij
General Order, JVo. 1.
A 6ub-Disttict to consist of the counties of
Warren, Taliaferro, Wilkes, Lincoln, Coluib.
bia and Glascock, in Georgia; is hereby cou\ ] p rayer was offered. The President present-
stituted, and Brevet Major Jacob Khne, Cay. e(1 a j ist of the members of tho Senate who
slants
SENATE.
Wednesday, January 12,1870.
The Senate was called to order at 10 a. m.
tain 18th United States Infantry, is assigm <:
to its command with Headquarters at BarnfiK
Station, Warren county.
Brevet Major Kline will be held responsibl e
for the preservation of order within the limit;
of the sub-District, and will promptly arrcsi
all persons who may commit or have commit
ted acts of violence or lawlessness, or in any
manner disturbed the public peace, boldjpg 1
them subject to instructions from these Head
quarters, and reporting in each case bis ic-
tion by mail or telegraph as occasion may re
quire ; he will report also the name of
civil officer who may neglect or refuse to d»tj
charge his doty in maintaining tho pubjic
peace, and will recommend a suitable penPu
to fill his place. ^
By order of Brevet Major General Terry:
J. H. Taylor,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official :
R. P. Hughes, A. A. A. G.
Head’qrs Military District of Georgia, ) (
Atlanta, Ga., January 12, 1870.
General Orders No. 2.
I. John Raley, now holding and exercis^g
the functions of the office of Sheriff of Wamp
county under appointment from the Court rf
Ordinary of that county, is hereby removed
from said office.
had qualified, certified by the Secretary of
State. The journal was read.
Mr. Campbell moved that the Senate do
now adjourn until 10 a. m., to-morrow.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th District, moved to
elect subordinate officers.
Mr. Campbell insisted on bis motion, which
was carried, and the Senate accordingly ad
journed until 10 a. m., to-morrow.
MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Hcnse mot at 10 a. al, pursuant to adjourn-
Prayer having been offered, the Clerk an
nounced that the calling of the roll would
commence with Paulding county, when 'the
following members qualified :
Paulding—S F Strickland.
Pickens—S A Darnell.
Piks— R A Seale.
Tolk-L II Walthall.
Pulaski—J M Buchan, S F Salter.
Putnam—S C Prudden.
Quitman—L C A Warren.
Randolph—W M Tomlin.
Richmond—E Tweedv, J E Bryant, T P
Baird.
On Mr. J. E. Bryant, of Richmond county,
subscribing to the required oaths, Mr. J. Fitz
patrick, of Bibb county, said ho wished to en-
■■jm. 'er o. vf-rbal protest against Mr. Bryant’s being
II. John C. Norris, of Warren county, v to a seat ia the Hou.se. The Clerk
nrertned Mr. Fitzpatrick that no protest
was elected os Sheriff at the last legal electi^>
for that office, is hereby appointed Sheriff
vice Raley removed, and will immediately
enter upon tbe exercise of his office. (
By order of Brevet Major General Terry : f
J. H. Taylor,
Assistant Adjutant General, h
Official :
R. P. Hughes, A. A. A. G.
would be noticed unless put in writing. The
protect was not received.
Bi.bnn—McK Fincannon.
Schley—Thos F Rainey.
He riven—W D Hamilton.
Stewart—C C Humber, J K Barnum.
. Sumter—G N Harper, J A Cobb.
Talbot—Marion Bethune, J T Costin.
Taliaferro—W F Holden.
Taylor—Frank Wilchar.
TeireU—F M Harper.
Thomas—J C Evans, W C. Car on.
I , Troupe— J H Caldwell, J T McCormick.
•ifi fcVThf CWrk, Mr. A. L. Harris, here adjoorn-
re-jed'the House till 12 o’clock, noon, to morrow.
j SENATE.
Thursday, Jan. 13, 1870.
ThdSenrle met pursuant to adjournment
and wis called to order at 10 a. ar.
Pramr w*s offered. Tho roll was called
and tqa j-iamal of yesterday read and ap
proved:, i
Mr. C^rajibell moved the Senate adjourn
until to-iio*row at 10 a. m., which was car-
VIAll !
Headq’rs Military District of Georgia^ )
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13, 1870. J
Geni ral Orders No. 3.
In pursuance of instructions received froi^.
tbe headquarters of the aimy, a board is here
by appointed to inquire into tho eligibility <5f
W. T. Winn, of Cobb county, John J. Collier,
of Dooly county, A. W. Holcombe, of Milton
comity, W. J. Anderson, of Houston count\
B. P. Hinton, of Marion county, and C. i
Welbom, of Union county, to seats in the
Legislature of Georgia, under the Reconstruct
tion Acts.
Tho board will meet and organize at oned
and will have power to administer oaths ai>ji
send for persons and papers. They will pet.
mit the persons whose eligibility is in questic7(
to appear before them either in person or by
attorney, and will also permit the appearam*;
before them of persons who deny the eligi
bility of said W. T. Winn, J. J. Collier, A.
Holcombe, W. J. Anderson, B. B. Hinton a:;l!
C. J. Welborn. 1 !. c ——
The board will keep a complete and acctf- mg of the ro#^would be recommenced with
rate record of the proceedings and of all test'* I Twiggs ouhty, when the following members
mony which may be given before them, ana appeared in answer to their names, and sub
will transmit the same to these headquarter, ! K/ ' ; ^bed Mio oaths necessary to their quali-
with its report. * fication:
w Towns—Geo W Johnson.
DETAIL FOB THE BOARD I w
Brevet Major General Ruger, U. S. Amu
Brevet Brigadier General
U. S. Army.
Major Henry Goodfellow, Judge M , IIV
U. S. Army. __ if
ried.
HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES.
House m l at 12 o’clock, noon, pursuant to
•idjonrnmendi Prayer having been offered,
Tho Clerk pro tern, announced that tho call
By order of Brevet Major General Tfrry
J. H. TayUr.
Assistant Adjutant Geden.)
Official :
R. P. Hughes, A. A. A. G.
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Supreme Court ot tbe State orGeori
Joseph E. Ebows, Chief Justice.
H. K. McCn, i . . , T .•
> Associate Justices.
Hibam Wabnee,
. it tukes the King of Wurtemberg three hour.
.tt cut hi* dinner.
i : Eugenis Till begin Ler series of six Monde;
i -ocption* et the Tnileries on tbe 21th inst.
1 Charley Hugo, one of Viotor Hugo’s sons,
Jias been tent to prison for four months, for
keying things disrespectful of kings, qneens,
( :TUo Hon. Henry Wilton will have an article
t n ihelete Secretary Stanton in the next num-
er of tbn Atlnntio Monthly.
i letter from Indian: says that Congressman
Julian is seriously ill with softening of the
lirsin, and his friendr despair of his recorery.
Tho sculptor Lannitz, to whose chisel the
/ix- iplo'cf Fronkfort-on-Main ore indebted for
' ta-ir Uulemberg monument, died on the 12th
<>f December, at the age of 74 years.
James Fisk, jr.. has procured a monument
' at a cost of f 1,230, whieh is to be placed over
t!.e grave of Polly Albro, ofPownal, Vh, who
olTcare of him io his cliildhocd.
Democratic editor of the Boston Post
ivs the Democratic editor of the Memphis
v v ilanche ought to be “sealped and supplied
,. ith some respectable brains.”
Adelina Patti has declined an offer of a
liilion of franes to sing for ten months in the
n.'m serious opera whieh Offenbach has com
posed to a libretto by Sardon.
lien. C. Truman, war correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, and at one time Andrew
Johnson’s private Secretary, has married the
belle of Los Angeles, Cal., and a valuable
orange grove.
TGlTFrcnch sportsman. Count de Lagrange,
has won, in stakes alone, the past season, on
-l.flito Continent, the handsome sum of $129,-
000. The Count, from the first, has been
fortunate on the tort
plain doty, and emancipate themfelves from
the shambles of reckless and short-sighted
leaders. They were forced into this hazard
ous position very much ss they were forced
into tbe rebellion in 1861—by tbe almost irre-
sistable pressure of a false pnblio sentiment,
and under the -dictum of desperate political
leaders. !,
The time heg come when it is necessary to
deal plainly, candidly and firmly with men
who have persistently artayod themselves
against tbe Government. Seid a prominent
Democrat of the old school, not many days
since: “When the war cloMd so disastrously
to the Sonthem cause, I felt that, whilst Oar’s
was indeed a lost cause,* we bad at least one
consolation: we had a stnmg and a stable gov
ernment— otui that would enforce obedience,
and therefort command respect and insure
peace and trOnqnility.” “Bat,” said he, “if
Congress is going to permit itself bullied into
contempt and ridicule by some twenty or
thirty desperate parly leaders in Georgia, I
most confess that, whilst I am a Dremocrat in
principle now, as in the pest, I can accord to
tbe Government neither my confidence or re
spect"
Such we believe to be tbe feeling of nine-
tenth. of the substantial men of the State,
even among those who can never approve the
Bepnblican theory of Government A gov.
eminent without authority to enforoo obedi
ence, is simply no Government at all, and its
officers, so far from commanding respect
must become the laughing stock of the mob.
The substantial men of the State desire an
end of this senseless opposition to the Govern
ment; and when we approve the firm stand
taken by General Tony and tbe Administra
tion, to the end that tbis law may be enforced
and the State thereby restored to her proper
relations to tbe Union, wo bnt respond to tbe
sober sense and latent desire of every good
and true man in tbe fi|ptc, and this without
regard to mere party.
.The famous Cora Pearl has reformed. She
oa recently some money at the Baden-Baden
Ambling bell, and with it she bought a little
villa'at Belleville, where she says she will live
i strict retirement. Her diamonds sre said
bo WO rtb nearly three hundred thousand
Iran?.:, and a leading Parisian jewelry firm
Las offered to pay her for them an annnal pen
sion of eighteen thousand franes daring her
lifetime.
Important Military Order.
Hxau’qes Milttabt Dtstbict or Gxoaou, I
Atbakta, January 14th, 1870. [
Special Orders, Ho. L
L—Tbe board convened by General Orders,
No. 3, current serin, from these Headquar
ters, for tbe purpose of inquiring into the eli
gibility of certain persona to seats in the Leg
islature of Georgia, will omit in its investiga
tions the case of the Hon. John J. Collier, of
Dooly county.
By order of Brevet Major General Terry.
J. H. Taxiob,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official:
R. P. Hcobes, A. A. A. G.
The Washington correspondent of the Paris
Figaro is young, beautiful, accomplished,
and her name is Eileve Ophalloe. She will
remain at the capital some weeks as the guest
of tbe Countess de Turenne, wife of one of
the Secretaries of the French Legation. Mad
emoiselle is delighted wish the capital and
the attention sbe receives, says the Chicago
Post, thinks the Americans are almost as po
lite as the French.
Blondip got stock six yards from the land
ing plaoe while recently crossing s theater
with a velocipede on a tight rope. The wo
men screamed and fled fromUhe house, but an
attendant laroued the performer and drew him
in Without hurt.
rra AMj'X.
Walker—W B Gray.
Walton—J B Sorrels.
Warren—John Neal, S Gardner.
Ware—Joseph D Smith.
Washington—W G Brown.
Wayne—G W Humph.
The Clerk here directed to he read the fol
lowing order of his Excellency Governor
Lullock, approved by Brevet Major General
Alfred H. Terry:
Atlanta, Ga., January 13, 1870.
That an investigation may bs made into
the right of certain persons to hold seats in
the House of Bepresentatives under the re
construction acts, it is ordered, that the
Clerk pro tan., as soon as tbe calling of the
roll shall have been completed, shall deolare a
y . vw until Monday next at 12 o’clock.
, T -i to h--t . ni-y.
.’rorisionol joveram;
faith to the platlorm of true Republicanism,
well as our allegiance to the General
Government and a (wish to support its con
stituted authorities, all impress upon ns tho
absolute necessity of a prompt ratification
of this measnre. We do not see how men,
especially Republicans, can avoid it and yet
true to the commonest interests of potriot-
ism. For Republicans to avoid it, toy with
and delay its passage, is downright treason
their party and dangerous to its safety and
power. Their duty it is to call it up imme
diately upon the completion of tho organiza
tion, and bring it to a vote at once. It re
mains for Republicans to do this. It is their
measure, enacted to promote tho great work
for which their party is organized, and if they
vote against it, or decline to Tote for it by
absenting themselves from their seats, they
had juat as well renounce the whole Republi
can platform and leap at once into the arms
those who are enemies to the country and
open hostility to the reconstruction of
Georgia.
As the organ of the great National Repub
lican organization, we call upon Republican
legislators to be true to the party in this emer
gency. Stand np, every man of yon, os
though you were on the last plank between
yon and eternity, and demand the ratification
of this amendment Thnnder the wishes of
Congress and the President with every Re-
pnblican vote that is cast and let tbe people
of the United States know that Georgia Re
publicans act as one man, that there is not
one among them who is treacherous to his
party, notone who lowered his-colors as soon
as the enemy came in sight, not one
who feared to stand in the ranks of the great
Republican army and defy all opposition. We
appeal this matter specially to Republican:,
because our reliance is in them. Congress
depends npon them to perfect its plans. Tho
Bepnblican party of the North looks to them
tor affiliation and strength; and, though seme
may be Blow to admit it, the people of the
State look to them for the restoration of their
rights in the Union and under tbe national
authority.
Every impulse of party pride, every emotion
of patriotism, every principle of party creed,
urge Republicans to ratify this amendment at
once—not next week, or next month, or just
before adjournment, bnt now—immediately
npon a completion of tbe organisation of the
House—without one moment’s delay—without
argument or coquetting. This is * duty whieh"
Republicans cannot avoid, and we hope to
them discharge it with alacrity and with a
hearty good will, as becomes the pride and in
terest they feel in their party. Now is the ac
ceptable time, and the day they ratify the Fife
tuenth Constitutional Amendment will witness
the political salvation of Georgia.
This advice may also be heeded by Demo-
ersts with honor to themselves and with safely
to the State. We ask them, for once, to lay
aside their predjndices and act like sensible
and reasonable men, and they will find them
selves justified in the end.
Order of Circuits with number of cases from
each:
Southern Circuit 5 cases
Southwestern Circuit 23 “
Pataula Circuit *23 *■-
Chattahoochee Circuit 31 “ ■
Macon Circuit 13 “
Flint Circuit 18 "
Tallapoosa Circuit 10 “
Atlanta Circnit 22 "
Rome Circuit 6 “
Cherokee Circuit 22 “
Blue Ridge Circuit 12 “
Western Circuit 6 “
Northern Circuit 8 “
Middle Circuit .*..11 **
Ocmulgee Circuit .’...10 “
Eastern Circuit 4 “ .
Brunswick Circuit 0 “
, DAILY PBOCEEDIXOS.
Tuesday, Jan. 12,1870.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
The tollowing eases were continued,
diminution of the record having bten suggest
ed in each, to-wit: Castelaw vs. Meyer, frem
Talbot; Hahone, Administrator, va Howard
cl aL, from Talbot, and Darden vs. Carbnrt
Si, Bro., from Talbot.
Argument in . case ot Lewi' vs. Christim,
Green et al., from Chattahoochee county, was
resumed and concluded. Messrs. D. H. Batts
aud John Peabody for plaintiff in error, and
by Messrs. Raiford and Crawford for defen
dant in error.
Tho regular order of the docket was re
sumed.
No. 8, Chattahoochee Circuit—Smith ?s.
Belk & Belfc, Executors—Complaint, from
Marion, was argued by M. H. Blandford for
plaintiff in error, and by B. B. Hinton for de
fendant in error.
No. 9, Kerr vs. Carhart & Bro., et a!.,
having been withdrawn, wa:- passed.
No. 10, Chattahoochee Circnit—Davis rs.
Bagiev, Raiford et al., suit on bond of Ad
ministrators, from Chattahoochee county, was
argued by John Peabody, Esq., for plaintiff
in error, and by KG. Raiford, Esq., for de
fendant in error.
No. 11, Chattahoochee Circnit—Davis vs.
MDorefk-Yt and wife, and — cNeil, from Chat
tahoochee county—was argued by K G. Bai-
ford, Esq., for plaintiff in error, and |by
Messrs. D. H. Burts A Jno. Peabody for de
fendants in error. ’
Pending tile reading of the record,
by R. J. Moses, Jr., in No. 12, the Court ad
journed till 10 o'clock a. m., to-morrow.
THUBSDAYJan. 13, 1870.
The Conrt met pursuant to adjournment
S. Percy Green, Esq., of Dalton, Ga., w
r dmitted to the Bar.
Argument in the case of the Howard Man
ufacturing Company vs. the Water Lot Cum'
pany, was resumed and concluded. Messrs.
R. J. Moses, Jr., and Wm. Dougherty'for
plaintiff in error, and Gen. Henry L. Bcniiing
for defendant in error.
Casea No. 13 and 14, from the Chattahoo
chee Circuit having been continued, were
passed.
No. 15, Chattahoochee Circuit—Elam vs.
Hamilton—Injunction, from Marion—was dis
missed for wont of prosecution.
Pending argument in No. 16, the Court ad-
journed till 10, A. al, to-morrow.
Fhiday, January 14th, 1870.
Tbe Court met pursuant to adjournment
Argument in case No. 16, Chattahoochee Cir
cuit—The Eagle Manufacturing Company vs.
Charles Wise, Assumpsit, from Muscogee, was
resumed aud concluded. General Henry L.
Benuing for plaintiff in error, and Messrs.
Jno. Peabody and Wm. Dongherty for de
fendant in error.
No. 17, Chattahoochee Circuit—Reufroe vs.
McDaniel—Equity, from Muscogee, wsi ar
gued by Mr, Smith for plaintiff in error, and
by Messrs. Downing Si. Crawlord for defendant
in error.
No. 18, Chattahoochee Circuit—Allen vs.
Moore, Jenkins & Co.—Attachment from
Muscogee, was argued by M. H. Blanford,
Esq., for plaintiff in error, and by Jno. Pea
body, Esq., for defendant in error.
Pending argument in No. 19, the Conrt ad
journed till 10, a. K, to-morrow.
XADQ’ns, Militaly Dis uict op Geosoia, I
Atlanta, Ga., Jnnary 13, 1870. |
-order that time may be xiven for on en
quiry iniiw the qualifications of u-rtain persons
who are aii>ocd t-e ineligible to -.eats in tbe
House under i.'be Reconstruction Ads, I ap
prove of tho foreg'ciicg order.
lfred II. Time.,'
Brevet Major Geb>eral CorejAinding.
The swearing in was then continued.
Webster—G S Rosser.
White—C H Kytle.
Whitfield—1 E Shumate.
Wilkes—Bichard Bradford, E. Belc’unr.
Wilkinson—C H Hooks.
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, called tbe attention ot
the Clerk to the fact that there were some
members now in the House, who, at the time
of calling the Boll, were unavoidably absent,
and asked if they might be allowed to take
the oaths now. The clerk refused to allow
them tomato the oaths. Mr. Scott asked if
other members had not been allowed to qualify
if their names had been passed over? The
Clerk informed him he had not.
On completing the Roll the Clerk declared
the House in recess until Monday tho 17th of
January, 12 o’clock, noon.
SENATE.
Feiday, January 14,1870.
The Senate met persuant to adjournment
and was called to order at 10:15, A. at.
Prayer was offered, and the journal was
read and approved.
The Secretary read the following con-muni
cation from His Excellency the Governor.
Atlanta, January 14, 1870.
J. O. W. Mills, Esq., Secretary pro iem:
Hon. J. J. Collier, of the county of Dooley,
has made application to withdraw his oath,
taken on the 10th inst, from the Secretary of
State’s office, the oath having been taken un
der a misapprehension. As all good citizens
unite with tbe authorities in the desire that,
in tho language of General Grant: “When
Reconstruction is effected, no loophole is left
open to give trouble and embarrassment here
after,” and as the objection made by Congress
to our former attempt at organizing the Leg
islature is founded on the fact that disqualified
persons were allowed to participate in the
proceedings, I have promptly granted the ap
plication of the Hon. Mr. Collier. The presen
tation of tbe name of Judge Collie, to the
Board of ofi.cers wilt be withdrawn.
Rurus. B. Bullock,
Provisional Governor.
Mr. Merrell moved that in view of the fact
that Mr. Collier’s reqnest had been granted
by the Governor, his name should be dropped
from the roll.
Mr. Nunnally would prefer that the mo
tion had been pat in a different shape. He did
not think it covered the question. He was
not prepared to amend it, bnt would like to
know the object of the motion.
Mr. Merrell said that if tbe Hon. gentle
man could not suggest n better form, he
would let his motion stand, which was car
ried.
Gen. Terry’s General Order No. 3, was then
read, a copy of which appears in the Eba of
to-day, together with the following commu
nication from Judge Advocate Goodfellow.
Headquarters Department or the South,
Office Judge Advocate,
Atlanta, Ga., January 13, 1870.
To the President of the Senate, Atlanta Ga.:
Sib: Tho Board of officers appointed in
General Orders No. 3, Headquarters Depart
ment of the Souih, Atlonta, Ga., January 13,
1870, (a copy of which order is herewith en
closed) directs me to inform you that the
Board will assemble and proceed to business
at the office of BrevctBrig. Gen. T. J. Haines,
at these Headquarters, to morrow morning,
tbe 14th inst., at 11 o’clock.
I have tho honor to be
Very respectfully.
Your ob’t serv’L
Henry Goodfellow,
Major & J. A. U. S. A.
After which, on motion of Mr. Speer, the
Senate adjourned until 12 noon, Monday.
Miscellaneous.
Boston now has dominion over 9,987 acres
of land.
Memphis averages ono murder per week.
The State Industrial School for girls has
been opened.
Tho "giant” farm, in Cardiff, N. Y. t has
been sold for $3,500. •
Springfield, Ohio, did not lose a dollar by
fire last year*
Stores in New York that have rented for
$18,000 a year, are now offered for $8,000.
The sheets of Georgetown, Ky., are to be
lighted with gasoline.
The thirty-seven savings banks in Maine
had, last year, 39,527 depositors, and $10,-
839,965 of deposits!
The Connecticut river is clear of ice, and
steamers rnn regularly from Hartford to the
Sound.
Christianity made more progress in Mada
gascar in 18C9 than in any country in the
world.
The actual work on the East river bridge
at New York has commenced, gronnd having
been broken at the upper slip of Fulton
Ferry.
St. Albans, Vt., has shipped in the way of
freight the past year 2,875,000 pounds of hot
ter, 736,920 pounds of cheese and 4,935 boxes
of mineral water.
Tho Tnrcos, according to an official report
of the Minister of War, aro the most moral
corps in the whole French army.
There is an old negro in Louisville 107 years
of age and blind. His wife is seven years his
junior, and supports him by her own labor.
Lexington has tho only public library in
Kentucky. It was established in 179G, and
has increased in usefulness to tho present
time.
The Columbus Journal says there is one
Democrat in the Ohio Legislature who will
both vote and speak for the fiftennth amend
ment.
While the authorities of two towns in Maine
were disputing which should support a pauper
family, three of the children belonging to it
starved to death.
Hampden Park, the well known race course
at SSpringfield, Mass., is to be sold. The agri
cultural society which owns it is in debt to
the amount of $21,476.
The extensive woolen mill at East Wilton,.
Me., is going to suspend operations "until the
a uestion of a return to specie payments is set-
ed by Congress.
Portland, Me., is one of the chief sugar re
fining cities of the country. It imported lost
year 5,348,971 gallons of molasses and 20,-
598,846 ponnds of sugar. .
The "Albany Lobby” will have a rich
Democratic harvost this session, and the
hotels, boarding-houses, gambling dens, etc.,
are counting npon heavy dividends.
There seems to be a strong probability that
the prosecution of Hiram A. Briggs, who is
charged with attempting to poison his whole
family at Pawtucket, R. I., will be suffered to
die out
Tbe strike of the cigar-makers of New York
against a reduction in wages promises to be
come general. There are upward of 1,000
men on the rolls of the organization, and it
has $4,000 in bank.
It is intended to introduce steel rails on the
Grand Trank (Canada) railway. Some 15,-
000 tons will be put down in 1870—two thirds
of which will be manufactured at the rolling
mills at Toronto, Detroit, and Portland.
A Boston firm recently telegraphed to Shef
field, England, an ofder for steel, and in
twenty-one days from the date of sending, the
steel, which bad to bo manufactured, was
landed at Boston.
Tho new York Herald thus challe ges the
"oldest inhabitant"Give us the year and
the day before 1870 when the Hudson river
was open in January right through without
interruption to Albany, for steamboats, tugs
and tows.”
Jho rnlnrpd Phi1ndf4pl.ni are now
^tablishing a koung Men’s ObmliMT AsSJcI 5-
ation. They will receive all the religions pa-
j >ers and serials of the white Young Men’s
Christian Association when tho papers be
come a week old.
Tbe production of "Hamlet” at Booth’s
theater, New York, has cost over $50,000.—
The play is more superbly put upon the stage
than any before produced in any country.—
Fechter was present on the opening night.
The wind on Sunday blew off fhe hat of a
little girl, os she was walking with her father
in Trenton, N. J. Her father and she turned
and hurried after it, and the next moment the
s{)ire of the Fourth Presbyterian Church fell
with a crash across the sidewalk at the very
place where they had just been.
In the Divorce Court, London, a juryman
desired to be excused on the gronnd that he
was a Catholic, and entertained conscientious
scroples with respect to divorce. His Lord-
ship said the jury merely had to try the ques
tion whether a charge of adultery was true,
aud refused to excuse him.
* A farmer in Putnam county has kept a pair
of black snakes in his barn for several years,
and all kinds of vermin have since entirely
diappeared. His cribs and bins are no more
disturbed by rats and mice. They are better
protection than a dozen cats, and are entirely
harmless toward chickens and domestic ani
mals.
The London Times contains long letters
from its correspondent at Rome filled with
speculations on the difficulties and discussions
which the dogma of infallibility is likely to
produce if pressed on the Council One of
his statements », that "in the event of the
dogma being carried, the Bishop of Orleans
and 120 of the Fathers will retire.”
The Workingmen’s co-operative Association
in Fall river. Mass., is in a very flourishing
condition. On purchases for the last quarter
it makes dividends of 10 per cent, to members,
d percent, to non-members, with 10 percent,
per annnm on shares. Since its organization,
in 1867, its sales have been $123,231. It has
now a capital of $9,439, of which $4,000 is in
vested in real estate. Its aggregate of divi
dends is $8,141—nearly as much as its capi
tal
The Cincinnati Commercial says: "An old
man who died cently near this city, worth
forty to fifty thousand dollars, has willed $1-
000 per year to Mason county, Ky., for the
support of an asylum for illegitimate children.
He was an illegitimate son, and could under
stand the need of snch an institution. He
left the bulk of his property to illegitimate
children of his own begetting.”
Onr National Bank circulation is now nearly
$300,000,000.
The specie payment for Europe last week
was only $84,000.
Mrs. E. A. Bollard opened a hotel in Wash
ington on Saturday last.
A heavy snow storm visited Boston oil Sat
urday evening.
The Peabody funeral fleet will arrive at
Portland early next week.
Navigation is suspended on Cue Mississippi
by tho ice above St Lonis.
Commodore John Rodgers has been ap
pointed a rear-admiral in the navy.
In the West and South the strike of the tel
egraphers appears to be growing general
Secretary Boutwell has ordered the sale of
$2,000,000 in gold at New York this week.
Charles H. Hatfield, confined in jail at Bos
ton for perjury, attempted to commit suicide
the other night.
At Fort Laramie, Nebraska, on the 9th,' the
thermometer stood at twenty degrees below
zero.
Hon. William A Richardson has been elec
ted President of the Boston, Hartford and
Erie Railroad.
On the 9th, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, the
mercury was at zoro, and a heavy snow storm
prevailed.
Bishop Rosecrans on tho 9th consecrated
Father Taffe as Bishop of Covington, Ken
tucky, at Cincinnati.
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, has resumed his editorial
duties on that newspaper.
General James B. Slack was chosen Presi
dent of the Indiana Democratic State Con
vention at Indianapolis on Saturday last.
J. J. Temple has been appointed Justice of
the Supreme Court of California by Governor
Haight, vice Sanderson, resigned.
The County Poor-house at Galena, Illinois,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning.
Tho inmates narrowly escaped with their
lives.
Tho catch of the Provincotown fisheries last
year was: Dry codfish, 80,475 quintals;
suited halibut, 7,653 quintals, and barrels of
oil, 1,283.
On Saturday morning the Alton House, at
Alton, Illinois, was totally destroyed by fire,
the guests escaping in their night clothes.
Loss very heavy.
It is reported that the Sheriff of Cook county,
Illinois, has absconded from Chicago with a
woman and about $25,000 in money, leaving
behind a wife and four children unprovided
for.
While a young man, named Kendig, was
trifling with a revolver, at Carbondale, Penn.,
the other day, it was discharged, the ball pass
ing throngh hiB abdomen, and killing him in
stantly.
The Red River insurgents have seized £850
from the Hudson Bay Company, for the pur
pose of starting a newspaper in the interest of
the Republicans, and advocating indepen
dence and annexation to the United States.
James Fisk, Jr., and J. Gould have given
$8,000 bail, ei.cb, to the authorities of Pater
son, New Jej sey, to appear and answer a
charge of com piracy, preferred against them
by the Rogers Locomotive Works of that city.
On Saturday lost the Indiana Democratic
State Convention, in session at Indianapolis,
nominated Normon Eddy for Secretary of
State, and the following persons for Judges of
the Supreme Court: First District, James
Warden; Second, A. C. Downey; Third,
Samuel Buskirk; and Fourth District, John
Petit.
According to tho message of Governor
Claflin, just delivered to the Legislature of
Massachusetts, the total debt of that State is
$30,823,380, an in increase during last year of
$2,087,589; but the liquidation of over $13,-
000,000 has been provided for during the cur
rent year. Tbe Governor congratulates the
Legislature upon the satisfactory settlement
of the liquor question for the pres-nt, and
advises the encouragement of the Hoosao
stock of the companies interested.
Shot by MIntake—A Persecuted^ Milliner*
A dispatch from Winchester, Indiana, says
that town was thrown into a terrible state of
excitement last Thursday night, by a dread
ful affair, in which W. H. Arney, a saloon
keeper of that city, was shot and killed by
Miss Caroline Smith, a milliner or dress
maker, living in ono of tho upper rooms of a
store. The fasts, as near as can be ascer
tained, are as follows : Miss Smith has fre
quently been annoyed by drunken and disso
lute men, who have sought entrance to her
room for improper purposes. Determined not
to be longer persecuted in this manner, she
bought a revolver to protect her person.
About ten o’clock, Thursday, some man
came to her door and demanded admittance,
threatening to break the door down. After
hammering some time he went down stairs,
when she opened the window, and seeing a
man at the foot of the stairs, fired. This man
was Amey, and it is claimed he was not the
man who went to Miss Smith’s room. The
shot took effect in his left breast, passing
throngh the heart and killing him instantly.
He fell upon Hon. David Kilgore, who was
passing along the side-walk at the time.
Miss Smith was arrested, and is closely
confined. She expresses great contrition be
cause she shot the wrong man. Arney leaves
a wife and four children.
A company in Oxford county, Maine, while
sinking an artesian well, discovered a layer of
tripoli, which is yielding immense profits to
the concern. It is said to be superior for pol
ishing purposes to the flour of emery.
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The French papers report tho death of an
electrical child, aged ten months, at St
Urbain, near Lyons. The interesting but in
convenient infant was, it is stated, so en
dowed with electricity that nobody coaid
enter the room where it was without re
ceiving constant electric shocks. It is stated
to have passed away painlessly so far os it
was concerned itself, bat there is reason to
fear that the survivois who attiuded must
have suffered much, for it is affirmed by the
doctors that at the instant of death luminous
effluvia proceeded from its body and con
tinued for several minutes after its decease.
The Medical Times and Gazette, alluding to
the case, says that it is supposed to be quite
unprecedented in the world of science.
Nelaton, the French surgeon Senator, pro
poses a legislative enactment to make Parisian
doctors get out of bed when they are sent for
at night by casual patients. At present, it ap
pears that physicians of that city commonly
refuse to lose a night’s rest for any excepVheir
regular patients.
Tbe Use ot Carbonic Acid.
The extensive use of this now therapeutic
agent is shown by tho following directions
adopted in England : A dose is one grain in
an ounce of water; as a gargle, one or two
grains to an ounce of water; as an injection,
one grain to four ounces of water; os a lotion,
fifteen grains to an ounce of water; as an oint
ment, thirty grains to an ounce of benzoated
lard; as a liniment, one grain to twenty of
olive oil; as a plaster, one part of carbolic
acid to three of shellac. The crystallized acid
to be used as a caustic, for abscesses, one part
of acid to four of boiled linseed oil; antiseptic
putty, six spoonfuls of the antisceptio oil
mixed with common whiting; aqueous solu
tion, one part of acid to forty of water. To
disinfect sick rooms, place a portion of the
dissolved acid, in a porcelain dish and float it
in a larger vessel of hot water. For disinfect
ing purposes generally, one ponnd of crystals
to six gallons of water; fluid, one part to
eighty of water; powder, one ounce of crystals
with four pounds of slacked lime. For drams,
one pound of acid to five gallons of warm
water. Toothache is often cured with one
drop of carbolate of glycerine, and diarrhacea
arrested in half an honr with two drops.
The Government depository in Cincinnati
having telegraphed to Treasurer Spinner that
there was no gold on hand to pay the Janua
ry coupons, one hnndred and fifty thousand
dollars in coin has been forwarded by the de
partment for that purpose.
Current Notes.
Tk’-e is a Door County in Wisconsin. It
is always open to immigrants.
There are seven sisters residing in Holmes-
burg, Penn., whose average age is 72 years.
The youngest is 64 and the eldest is 81.
A boy 13 years of age is under arrest in St.
Louis on the charge of assault with intent to
kill He stabbed a larger boy with his pen
knife.
A West Virginia paper speaks derisively of
its neighbor’s "favorite grip in his argumen
tative wrestle.”
Five of the persons attacked by trichina
spiralis in Kano county, Illinois, have died,
and four others are given op by the physi-
The "little mistake” of a Providence drug
gist lay in giving corrosive sublimate instead
of calomel.
Two of West Virginia’s Congressmen, it is
reported, will vote to abolish the franking
privilege.
Forty families from Patterson and Rahway*
N. J., are to settle npon a recently purchased
tract of 7,000 acres on Staunton river, in
Virginia.
Dr. George C. S. Choate, for sixteen years
past Superintendent of the Massachnsetts
Lunatic Asylum in Taunton, has resigned.
Grand Rapids, Mich., extended a most en
thusiastic welcome to Lieutenant General
Sheridan last week. The little city had not
been so stirred np for a long time. •
After all, Indiana and Illinois are nowhere,
compared with Oregon, in the matter of di
vorce. In one Oregon county last year there
were 123 marriages and 40 divorces.
New Hampshire’s vote on the Constabulary
law has just been officially declared. There
were 5.975 votes for the law, and 13,50G against
it; majority against, 7,530.
Ohio and Pennsylvania Democratic papers
are urging the selection of Senator Thnrman,
of Ohio, Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee.
Mr. George E. Horsey, tho cashier of the
Harvard National Bank, Boston, has at his
own request been relieved from his duties to
devote his time to the investigation of tho
"deficiency.”
A boy 11 years old, confined in jail at In
dianapolis, amused himself on Thursday night
by setting fire to the whiskers of a drunken
man in the same cell
General Halbert E. Paine has reiterated his
refusal to be a candidate for re-election to
Congress from Wisconsin. His constituents
regret his determination to retire to private
life.
The city of Bridgeport, West Va., has its
little cause of impeachment, the obnoxious
official being its Mayor. The accusers say he
is capable of keeping a good record, but has
not done so because of inebriety.
Texas papers report that Brevet Captain
Frederick w. Smith, of the Ninth Cavalry,
was kiljed at Fort McKavett on the 22d ult.,
by the accidental discharge of a rev "fiver in
his own hands. Ho was a native of Massa
chnsetts.
Milwaukee, Wis., made and drank last
year thirty-six million two hundred and three
thousand six hundred and one mugs of lager
beer. And still it cannot decide whether
lager is intoxicating.
General Reynolds has written to a friend in
Indiana that General Dav$s is elected Gov
ernor of Texas, that three of the four Con
gressmen chosen are Republicans, and that
there is & Republican majority in the Legisla
ture.
A private banking house in New Orleans
on New Year’s Day surprised two gentleman
who have a slight interest in the business by
handing them $3,000 each over and above
their shores. Each of the clerks also re
ceived a present of $600.
A Texas paper, which opposes women’s suf
frage, remarks incidentally aud somewhat ob
scurely, that "the character and society cf
females, in a government like this, should ever
be maintained as tbe vestal virgins to guard,
the saorod altar of liberty.”
in a verdict of*g3.0uu ior the
the Judge had charged very stronglyial
of the defendant, received such a leotare
the indignant honorable gentleman as
never received before. And they all married
men, too. “amea
Mr. W. Cornell Jewett has sent ns & counle
of letters in which he denies that Holland has
opened her shores for all to lay cables, and says
that he has been granted a concession to lay
a cable by that conntry, which is virtually per
petual He also says he has not as yet given
any rights under this concession to any com
panies or parties.—N. T. Times.
The Houston Telegraph speaks a wise and
timely word to the other Democratic papers
of Texas when it reminds them that‘\?v a
kindly tone they can do a vast deal of good
for the State. It says it has done all ip jp*
power to defeat the Radicals, but the battle is
now over and it protests against a continu
ance of bitter utterances.
General Butler says the Emancipation
Proclamation of President Lincoln at once
supplemented and complemented the Decla
ration of Independence; that it "may fitly be
termed the executive act of freedom of all
mankind, of which the Declaration of ’76 was
only the legislative anooncement It requir
ed both to make all men free; the first did so S
in theory, the latter in fact”
At a meeting of the Investigating Commit
tee in Providence, Senator Sprague formally
retracted his charge, made in the Senate, that
Messrs. Brown & Ives profited pecuniarily in
the sale of the Rhode Island Agricultural Col
iege lands, and made a new charge that these
gentlemen so conducted themselves as, in con
nection with others, to occasion a serious loss
to the University.
Five passengers on a steamer from Havana
to New Orleans, who "knew all about oranges
and conld easily distingnish the Florida orange
from the Havana by tho "taste,” were put to
the test Two oranges were solemnly eaten
and their opinions were written down. Three
decided that one was a Florida orange "be-
causo it was sweeter” than the Havana, and
two decided that it was a Florida orange "be
cause it was more acid.” It was an Havana
orange.
Maine is the millennium State politically
after all The Governor is a Republican and*
the Portland Argus is Democratic. And yet
the latter says of the Governor’s Message: "It
is scholarly and vigorous in style, elevated, pa*
triotic, fearless and hopeful in tone, felicitous
in expression, comprehensive, statesmanlike
and liberal in its views, clear and terse in its
statements, cautious and discriminating in its
suggestions and recommendations, and en
tirely nonpartisan.”
The West.
California has 800,000 peach trees—five to
every voter.
At Eureka, Nevada, a deposit of clay has
been discovered impervious to fire, which is
just suited to lining furnaces.
Laramie has a "clear, tracing, buoyant at
mosphere,” and the thermometer is only 30
deg. below zero. Ont there zero is 0 to speak
of.
Quite a large meeting was held at the
Southern Hotel St. Lonis, to consider tho
question of removing the National Capital
Leading citizens of Green connty. Mo.,
have offered $50,000 in cash and six hnndred
and forty acres of land as an inducement to
secure the erection of the agricultural college
at Springfield.
A report has been received of the killing of
three Indians in Dakotah Territory, two
women and one man, by a war party of the
Siotuc, who had also fired the prairie, thus
driving game out of tbe country, and destroy-
I mg the pasturage. Tbo estimated damage by
| this raid will reach $10,000.
Convention ot Assessors.
In view of tbo importance attached to the
assessment of incomos this year, and in or
der to obtain the most thorough and practi
cal canvas of tho districts throughout the
country, Commissioner Delano has decided to
adviso’the assessors to call at the earliest prac
ticable moment a convention of tbe assistant
assessors of their district for tbe purpose of
determining the most efficient method of ac
complishing this result. He farther recom
mends this meeting of the assessors and As
sistant Assessors of the several districts that
by an interchange of opinions the; may profit
by tho general experience of the revenue offi
cers in different part* of their respective dis
tricts.— TFaiftinjton Republican.
Finance end Industry.
Missouri has a State debt of $3,000,000.
The receipts from customs for the week end
ing December 31, were $1,782,152.
The amount c f bullion in the Bank of Eng
land has decreased £100,000 since the last
weekly report
The olerks in fhe office of the Congression
al Printer ask for an increase of twenty per
cent to their salaries, the increase to date
back a year or more.
The Telegraphic Operators’ strike contin
ues. There ia no present prospect of a com-
Railroad Accident-
The down passenger train on the M. d. Vi.
P. Railroad met with an accident about three
miles this aide of Opelika, Tuesday afternoon.
An ox rushed from a thicket and endeavored
to rnn across the track between two cars,
whieh threw tbe rear cars off the track and
smashed them up. Mr. J. C. Stanton, Prcsi-
dent of the Alabama A. Chattanooga Railroad
received some injury to his foot, bnt nothing
serious. No other person was hurt Tbe
passengers end baggage were transferred (o'
other cars, and reached the city about five
o’clock yesterday morning.— Alabama iSt
Journal, 13 On
Sir Samuel Baker seems to be plaoed in a
trying position. Tbe Sultan and the Khedive
have both been conferring powers and author
ities upon him which, it now seems, clash and
produce awkwardness; and he baa farther
been distinctly instructed by tbe Britisb Con
sul General at Cairo that the English Govern
ment will not, in any sort of way, be responsi
ble for violence or injury to him or his follow
ers. This decision no donbt arises from tbe
fact that John Ball had last year to pay a little
bill of a few millions of ponnds in conseqnenco
of some halt dozen adventurous sports having
explored Abyssinia.
Astrachan sacks are universally worn L>y
tbe ladies this winter. With tho addition of
pearl powder and other "facial fixin's ‘
not tbe fair sex be said to be doing :
in sackcloth and ashes ?
There are three Massachusetts wome
four Maine women claiming that at .- mo
time or other daring Gcorgo Peabody’s ii
promise. Both sides are stubborn, and it is | he was in love with them. ” Ah, li
a question of who can hold ont longest. | de mortuis oMfronton t