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THE era ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1870. NUMBER 44 rleaYe to Sell Lafld , lebtQTMod Creditoni l,Ac.,j »alo»oS l g} -.f^ele : nl br to* «0 >»*««*»*•»* J -he month, b■»:« Ui» »«nn ” >® J” ' tt. ,■ ,«». mj L 3toth«^eni*on,ntMMnrthoo» public g,- of.slf. , • r • io$i. and 3 in the aL ■ $ <nf ty in which the tH •ti« *f f these sales muit W # ! sf i previc as to the day c l^piSotho dotitoi • »nd crodtton ot»u itJppnSTtlon will bo mvlito tho C®“rt ,rlc*vs toulllud, Ac., mc*tb« publiahed Aofor lei ten of admlnlrtniioa. gwdUnohlp. ;f t>o pubtlihodSO d»j.; tor dloo****™} ,ro ?*i n, r.ionthlj 6 month#; for dismission from ^o'rockwnn of mortgage mui* bopnbllotod Jf«im intha; torootoblloh P^T* 1 /nil ipoco ot 3 month*: tor c ~“ ja ***i*5*, r** , _„JS^tr!Su>o j^tod nr U«nmia5tor nohomd.otoar 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. f 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. -r-T < 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. H 1 0. ) 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