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VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 187
NUMBER 18
l ilt U'KHli Citixi
The Colonial history of Am
hhows the superiority of col
independent emigrants froi
classes, over those settled by convicts and pau
pers. Pauper and couviet colonies, in many
instances, did well, but they were under the
non of bold, self-reliant men; men who
ome satiated with the shallow pretext-
of crowded European Courts, n
hly disgusted with that Social Syst
that made the hundreds the political ville
Thf Republlr
Mrrfl.
uadautly j
ttled by A war
li-reliiint 18C1, by
super
had l
th>
upon an unwilling' people iu
t of reckless politicians who
had lost an election, left the State of Georgia
in a condition of ruin and financial bankrupt-
cy. The agriculturist, the artisan, the merch
ant, the mechanic, the small farmer, and the
laboring man who had been dragged into the
1 j sanguinary struggle, either perished in it, or
returned from the fratricidal strife to find his
home broken up and desolate. In many cases,
: units,
veil tie
Happabl
It the Ja
IWS of til
L brilliar
nestown Colony of “de- j his little farm or his humble borne—or rather
a failure, that of the whatever their may have been left of either—
York, composed of the was hypothecated for debt due his more fortu-
es*'—represen ting the i nate neighbor, who per chance either managed
: Society of the mother | to avoid the hardships of the struggle, orluck-
L success. And so of ily made money by it. In other cases, the
the NYw England colonies. The Pilgrim Fath
ers of nearly two centuries ago, were the germ
< <f that future Republic proclaimed firstat Meek,
h uLnrg ami then ratified at Philadelphia. A
community of convicts and paupers, never
could have been prevailed upon to unballast
British ships merely in obedience to an ab
stract idea of political economy, or in reseut-
m.-i.tof an iucult .... .Mio.uolv oou< lx d «« was
that of the Teft-Tux by the English Parliament.
The Dutch emigrants of Manhattan, And the
English Quakers of the Schuylkill, were of that
self-reliant, vigorous, independent working
dans, which, combining intelligence with in
dustry, sought emancipation from the feudal
shackles of the old world, and assayed to lay
the foundation for empire upon tho inaliena
ble Rights of Man. Had these colonies been
liKtih: up of mono]>olist.s who counted their
operatives from among the paupfcrs and con-
vicLs, ami who regarded their employees as so
many cattle to be fed and cared for, there would
never have been a revolt against British
oppression of sufficient magnitude to culmin
ate either in substantial Reform or National
Independence. It has been well said that
“ the wealth of a country is its inhabitants; ”
and Sir William Jones never uttered a truer
sentiment than when he maintained that the
State itself consisted of “men, high-mined
men,** who, knowing their rights, dare main
tain them.
What was true of emigration a century and
n half ago, is true to-day. Sodomites and
Chinese jugglers, are not the constituent mate,
rial for a great State. They may serve tho sel
fish purposes of a conscionles* monopoly; but
to the body politic, they are loathsome para
sites—a species of moral and political tricli
nia spiralis—that will in time prodace rot
tenness and decay. Convicts and paupers,
prison inmales.and hopeless vagrants, are not
the species of “emigration" that the South will
profit by. We have enough of the homeless,
. shiftless class already; but we do want emi
grants from the hardy, industrious, abitious
working classes, both in Europe and the
Northern States, who prize home and its
hallowed influences; men who will {(identify
themselves with the State by seeking home
steads among us, and who aspire to tho full
responsibility of a permanent citizenship.—
Oar large and poorly cultivated farms! should
be divided up into small tracts, ami pot opon
the market upon such terms as will be attrac
tive to a class of emigrants that wonld be an
,ift.|u/sition to the moral and political force of
Die State; for it is the thriftv community of
small tarnTcrs, identified with tho soil, and
.therefore personally interested in the future
•commonwealth, that is to make Georgia great
mud powerful.
A Republican lit Court.
Does dress make the man ? Some people
*eean <o think so, and act accordingly. A few
•lays ago Mr. E. J. Morris, tho American Min
ister to Tarkey, appeared at tho Sultan's Court
attired in the simple black costume of hie coun
try. The contrast between the gorgeous Court
dress of tlie foreign embassadors, and the ex
treme simplicity of a conntyman's costume, at
tracted conaidesable comment. If every
American Minister wonld follow the ex
ample of Mr. Morris, the Courts of Europe
would not fail to respect the Repubican spirit
which finds its roost appropriate manifesta
tions in the utter ab/^oce of affectation and
display. The truth is, fashion is one of the
peetauf the period. It ruins its devotees and
injures those who oppose it. Not long sjnc£
Madame OOistor, the wife of the French pre
mier, triad to abolish the low-necked dress at
liar receptions; but fashion completely over
whelmed the poor lady, aud in two months* j
time she conformed to the prevailing style and
appeared in an evening costurao so very scanty
that it seemed to be “ neck or nothing" with i
her. If A mericans, at home and abroad, will
learn a lesson of good taste and independence,
from Minister Morris, they will enjoy the sat
isfaction of having inaugurated a revelation in
fashion that will advance the interests o
health, morals, and teste.
It is volgar and disgusting anywhere. It
sounds badly even in the streets. In the draw-
jug room it becomes offensive. In the repre
sentative assembly it is humiliating. In the
•columns of the public journal, it is contempti-
Jde. It is related of tbe Earl of Chatham that
si slang phrase of an attendant upon his death-
lied so irritated him that he ordered his expul
sion from the room. Washington was once
. cheated of a good dinner by jtbe vulgar,
low-bred stag of a fcjftw gw*L Mr. Gales,
fl>» hiding editor of tho Washington Jutelli-
r, iu the days of jts greatest power, once
to publish a speech .of a political
friend because It .cwtwupd tw .ejeeplioiml
•long phrase.
The press is a representative of the people.
As they think, so it will speak. If they relish
dang, slang will be the vehicle of commaai-
oatiou. And if a political party, or faction, or
jnnta demands epithets and rlang rather than
reason coarlied iu "peerless English," its rep
resentatives will ha mere slsogwhan f*» as des-
litnle of ideas aa is a lobster of moral sense.
tUsie Ko.il.
The State Road has never been entisfiictorily
'.managed, according to those who lost tb
game. The ins never could, and probably
ocver can please the nuts. In the present in
stance. nothing tlfat a Rephblican administra
tion can do, wonld please a discordant Democ
racy. The yroiwmm of the charges lie in the
tact that tho "Democracy” have lost control
*of its patronage and its emoluments. That is
xhe whole issue. As with "Baaonstruetion,
.go with the State Road: the fir.-t was oppose/
•because it struck at the very eristence of the
■Conspiracy known ns the “Demoemy;" the
last because Gov. Bullock is a Republican and
jtoi a “Democrat" This is abont all there is
ill the fuss and fury about the Mute Road and
public corruption.
W c have received A pomphUt written by Dr n
Stephenson,on the hackneyed subject of ethnol
ogy, as applied to the civil ajnality of the ne
gro. It contains nothing new. It is simply a
re-lash of w hat nearly every- sehool boy hoc : been discharged, and the stock of the Road
read, first iu the form’ or a -Bible defense of ] so depmwd in the market that share holders,
Slavcry-'and nett as WfrthBn (Atheistic) efforts ignorant of tho peculiar siptfeojims of modern
to disprove tbe unity of tbe human race. Railway Bings, have been iudneed to gtf yi/j.
citizen was heavily indebted to loreign credit
ors; and, deprived of tbo means and opportu
nity of liquidating dnriog tbe war, be re
turned to bis borne to find himself either the
slave of a .merciless master, or nn homeless
outcast.
But this was not the worat feature of the
case. The exigencies of a war, inaugurated
ovei the wilt or me people by Democratic politi
ciana, called hundreds and thousands of thrifty
citizens to the field of strife, who never
turned. They perished in a straggle which
their better judgment always condemned, and
left helpless families with nothing but an hum-
ble homestead between them and the tender
mercies of a merciless world. And even this
humble home was liable iu law for the old ob
ligations of the hapless victim. The bereaved
and friendless family met around their humble
hearthstone at the suffmnee of an exorable
creditor; and, m addition to the gaunt spectre
of Destitution, they were brought face to face
with the lost analysis of Misfortune, when they
realized that naught but the • “ law’s delay
kept them from becoming the houseless deni
zens of the street, or vagrauts of the highway.
The picture is not overdrawn. Every man
who lived in Georgia during the terrible strug
gle, and who witnessed the sadness and desti
tution that survived it, realizes that it is not
within the power of mere words to depict the
scene then presented. It was a mute but elo
quent appeal to Christian philanthrophy,
which, unheeded, would have been tbe re
proach of Civilization in any country. If the
province of government is the protection of
the weak and unfortunate against the strong
and the opulent, this protection or “relief"
became imperative under the circumstances
here presented ; and the action of the State
Constitutional Convention, of 1867, in passing
a Relief ordinance, responded to the moral
sense of every man iu Georgia, regardless of
his personal interests or his prejudices. And
the action of tho District Commander in rati
fying the spirit of that Ordinance, as well
the action of the Convention itself in incorpo
rating the “Homestead” clause in the State
Constitntihn, did more to inspire hope where
hope was rapidly yielding to despair, and to
give an impetus to legitimate industry, than
all the empty wrangles and class legislation of
the Democratic politicians who had previous
ly railed only to min the masses.
“Relief" isos a Republican measure! It
sought to protect, by legislation, the humble
roof that stood between the fatherless family
and the cold charitie^bf tbe world,
tho grand safe-guard thrown by Republican?
around the Homes of the 1’aople of the State—
thus protecting the little that was left by a
ruthless war, forced upon the people against
their will by a faction of Democratic leaders.
Many honest Democrats, true to their convic
tions of Right, and in fn^ sympathy with that
Philanthropy which ever permeates the
breast of civilized man, for once bid defiance
to party lash, and dared to vote for the new
Constitution and “Relief,” amid the jeers and
jibes of partisan leaders whom defeat had ren
dered desperate. But this Relief measure has
been greatly by dishonest creditors ?
Granted. Lord Eldon ones remarked, in the
course of a judicial decision, that no mere hu
man ’aw, however humane, eqitably or just,
was above reproach for imperfection. The
very circumstances that make human laws a
necessity, combine to make them imperfect
Their objective point is not perfection, since
that is impossible; bnt it is “the greatest good
to the greatest number.” And the imperfec
tion of the Relief measures, may be admitted
without detriment, in the face of that expe
rience which demonstrates ti^at, whilst they
may nfTord a retreat for the exceptional
scoundrel, they furnish iui asylum for the
rirtflOlW thousand.
—s-
Tltr Ten.Railroad W»»*.
Knoxville, Tennessee, supports three daily
newspapers upon a population of say ten
tboUofind- It has a regular Democratic organ
of the Andy Johnson school, and it has a reg
ular Republican jp the Daily
Chronicle.” It has also a “ in lulls party
organ in the present management of the
Whig/’ Eaf h of the ftfPP jonraals appear
to be well sustained; and ore prpjjulile to tbe
profession, both for their ability and their en
terprise.
The same city is likewise the nucleus of a
modern Railroad Ring—an existence whereof
the country has already heard much. The
Kentucky Road is being pushed to completion.
The Rabun Gap Road, began before the war
is not to be wholly abandoned, if we may
judge from the tone of the local press. The
Asliville, North Carolina Road, a charter for
which was obtained some twelve years ago,
lias never been put under extract, and prob
ably never will be—at least during the present
generation.
Hie East Tennessee and Virginia, and the
East Tennessee and Georgia Roads, have been
consolidated, and the stock is owned principally
by a fo? pjen. How they came into possession
of it, has neve? fcfPP very clearly understood,
even by BQffie Ot the pioc^cy stockholders, and
perhaps never \vill be. ljevertb|ejw» fiffi fqct
remains. They have it; and we note, with
softje jute rest, that the Road has been paying
its debt long due tbe State, notwithstanding
its reported bod condition and its depletion in
the New York stock market. Tfca J^bt flue
tbe United States boa not bp£# p*j J- Js pie
United States, under a Republican udminKtr^-
tion, a less accommodating creditor—less
easily compounded with—than a State, repre
sented by a Democratic Legislature ? How
this may be, will one day be unfolded. One
thing, however, will provoke present inquiry,
and that is, how a Road can pay one creditor
snch an enormous sum when it is represented
to another creditor as unable to pay current
running expenses, much less the interest upon
the debt!
This Road is an important link in tbo great
Air Line route. It has been doing, and is still
dojng a heavy business. The United States
tamed it OYfiT the company in respectable
condition, accepting a JegqJ. obligation for re
fitting and stocking it after its desirnptj.CR by
the casualties of war. That obligation has not
their stock at mere nominal prices. The re
sult is, somebody bus been smiled upon by
tbe fickle goddess ; and tbe interesting process
of nest-feathering has been so bc-muddled and
mystified as that all feel secure. This cannot
last long. The facts are coming out
Time* Change, uud Men Chang* with
Them.
When Mr. Joshua Hill resigned his position
os United State Congressman, in 1861, he evi
dently thought the storm would blow over
without any very serious consequences. So
he took “middle ground.” He wonld not re
main and represent his Union constituency,
nor wonld he act with the Secessionists; he
simply “resigned !** Two years afterward, he
had,-it seems, some occasion to “modify” his
views. Then it was that he publicly pro
claimed his adhesion to the cause of the Con
federacy, and uttered his hostility to Recon
struction upon any basis. He was moreover a
candidate for Governor under the Confederate
Constitution; and if there was any real issue
of a political uature between him and Gov.
ernor Brown, it was that thn latter stood op-
posea to conscription and the other orthodox
measures of. the Richmond Government;
whereas Mr. Hill stood committed to nothing,
except eternal hostility the “Lincoln Govern
ment,” and to Reconstruction upon any basis
short of Independence! When the war
closed, some friends interceded and had Mr.
Hill relieved of his political disabilities, bnt
not nntil after he had indicated a willingness
to take the iron-clad Oath!
The question arises, was Mr. Hill sincere in
1863, or was he sincere in his expressions of
surprise that anybody should think him in
capacitated for swallowing tho Iron Clad?
Could he, in the very nature of things, have
been a true blue Confederate in 1863, and yet
an immaculate, simon pare Test Oath recipient
two years later? If he was not sincere in
18G3, and meant not what he said in his letter
addressed to CoL Adair and others, what evi
dence Lave we oi this fact other than his
readiness to swalllow the Test Oath ? Both
declarations we believe were made in view of
an office —the one nnder the Confederate, the
other under the Federal Government!
Mr. Hill is doubtless an honorable gentle
man ; we woujd certainly insinuate nothing to
the contrary; nevertheless Mr! Hill of 1863
does not well accord with Mr. Hill of 1866!
An explanation seems necessary; and
would suggest, most respectfully, that this
might be made with great propriety at this
time when that eccentric gentleman is being
used as a decoy of the Democracy to defeat the
consummation of the Reconstruction policy
of Congress in Georgia.
fraud uud dishonesty, the same may be said of
all mere human legislation. But, if it came up
to the good old Republican standard of “tbe
greatest good to the greatest number,” then it
was indeed a measure of which all Reisibiicans
should justly feel proud. k
The Southern F*»cIIIe Railway—General
Fremont.
I The passage by the Senate of Gen. Fremont’s
Trans-continental Railway measure, known os
the Southern Pacific Railroad hill, was a great
triumph of the “ Pathfinder.” Gen. Fremont
has always been a few years ahead of his party,
if not of his times. He explored tbe Rocky
Mountains, and pointed out the path connect
ing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, at a time
when snch an enterprise was deemed not only
impracticable, but perhaps impossible. Every
intelligent school-boy has read, with breath-
tess-inlerest, the thrilling account* or timt
noted exploration. It placed Gen. Freni
prominently before the world as a man of
science and unswerving fortitude. A few
years afterwards, he appeared as a member of
the United States Senate, representing a con
stituency os intelligent and progressive as any
in America. Ho next appeared as the National
staml&rd-bearer of the Republican party, and
this at a time when it oost something to be a Re
publican. Tbe campaign of 1866, will long be
remembered for its bitterness of invective and-
its acrimony of discussion; but Gen. Fremont
not only combined the entire strength of his
party iu the Northern and Middle States, but
called to bis standard some of the staunchest
men of Western Virginia, Eastern Tennessee,
and the mountain districts of Kentucky and
Arkansas, ginoo than, be has been engaged
principally in Railroad enterprises, except du
ring tbe war, when he appeared aa a military
leader in behalf of the Union aud the cause
which he represented in 1856. ^'Allied with
the Southern people by marriage, representing
the popular political sentiment of the North,
and thoroughly familiar with the Great West,
both as respects its topography and its people,
be seems eminently fitted for the great project
of connecting by railway the Southern and
Middle States of the Union with the fertile re
gions of the Southern Pacific slope. Regarded
as the gre^t (political) enemy of Die South in
1856* he now assumes the attitude of her
greatest beuf.fqcftrj qnd U)e tinje will prol^a-
bly come when the greatest admirers of the late
Thomas H. Benton, will recognize, not a sec
tional politician, but a most efficient benefac
tor and friend in the person of his son-in-law.
Souther** Society.
Appleton’s Journal is publishing a series of
“Southern sketches." These articles are il
lustrated, aud deal entirely with the gro
tesque, and broadly comic peculiarities of the
Southern people. This is all very well in its
place. Fools only are so unhappily constitu
ted as to be nnable to enjoy a laugh at
their own expense. But there are some fea
tures of Southern society which would be
more attractive to cultivated readers, aud
convey a more correct idea of this section.
The peculiar civilization of tho South has
been swept away by tbe crimson tide of a
mighty revolution, but certain landmarks still
remain, and these should be photographed for
tbe benefit of posterity. Among our hills aud
valleys, linger traces of a stately
in*® mid refinement that wonld n
the proudest courts of the Christian
world; female loveliness that would ^grace
the most brilliant circles and excite the
admiration of princes and conrtiers; ^nd
in our State, on her war-worn plains, and
her most obscure villages, may be seen e
donees of aesthetic taste, equal, if not snperi
or, to anything produced by the hot-house civ
ilization of the old world. But these are* the
features of our inner life. They do not court the
glare of publicity; and the great outer world
forms its judgment of our society from the car
icatures going the rounds of the press. Since
the war, there has been more travel along'our
Southern Railroad lines than ever before, and
it is gratifying to note the result The North
ern press show a more appreciative sense of
the better characteristics of oar social and
mental life. Europe is beginning to do us
justice. Our readers will recollect the hand
some compliment paid to Southern gentlemen
by Disraeli, in “Lothoia" These are trifles, but
they indicate the current of public opinion.
Oar people will find that the safest and surest
way to win a just and enduring appreciation^ is
to avoid idle repinings, petulent complaints,
and loud self-assertion, and quietly, but earn
estly Urn the life they have so proudly claused
as their own.
The lluninteail Law.
All civilized countries that have passed
through tbe ordeal of a civil war, whose in
dustrial bare been long held in abey
ance, or temporarily jfcygHgred by invasion,
have found it necessary to enact itelief laws.
Such measure? proceed upon the hypothesis
that the prime necessities of the citizen, aud
his duties to his family and to his country,
rise above the literal enforcement of mere per
sonal obligations. In ease of invasion, the
citizen has no choice between an obligation
dne a creditor, and that due his Government
The behests of the latter are imperative; they
most be obeyed at all hazards; and this ren
ders him finable to promptly fulfill an obliga.
turn of a commercial nature,, at least until af
ter he shall have first discharged the obliga
tion imposed by hia allegiance. And when
tho exigencies pass away, they often leave the
citizen in a condition wholly unable to meet
his personal obligations, previously held in
abeyance. In a state of war, the consumers
a^e i$creaae4 wbi) e the producers are dimin
ished. ft is tho office of war jq ejestroy, father
than to produce; fq demolish, to impoverish,
and to disable; and when it passes over, it
leaves the country desolate, its labor dispers-
p4 pr disabled, and its commerce prostrate.
This w iJBiqeggy case in Georgia, af
ter the close of the war of Stpcssjqn; qn;], jf
there ever was a country on tho face of the
earth whoso inhabitants needed relief! it was
Georgia. The Republican members of the
State Constitutional Convention fully real
ized this fact, and among their first ordinances
was one providing ter the relief of the people.
This was approved by tho District Comman
der, and promptly followed np by a clause in
the proposed Constitution providing for a
Homestead—thus throwing around tho citi
zen a safeguard to the little that was left him
by the war. Tho subsequent measures, in the
form of stay-laws, looked to tho same result—
,the relief of tbe people who were in no way
responsible for the fratricidal strife wrought by
mere professional politicians. It was a meas
ure of the Peoplo. emanating from the People,
and designed for the relief of the masses as
against the enactions of the fortunate few. If
jt brought into existence exceptional cases of
Around the ’World.
A child recently died in Jersey City ot chol
era infantum. Three physicians who refused
to attend it were not held responsible.
Mr. Morris, the American Minister, created
quite a sensation at a Turkish reception by aj
pearing in a plain black suit
New York is to have a new High School, lb
which $33,500 has been appropriated by the
Board of Education.
The female teachers of New York very prop
erly ask to have their salaries increased to the
male standard.
The Journal of Commerce has an indignant
protest against the anti-Chinese immigration
heresy. , i
The gas having gone ont .at an evening
prayer meeting, in an Indiana church, the cop-
;atian were very much scandalized by Y
ine%cieni auditor, who deepened th( sol im
of the occasion by whistling “Shoo Fly.”
While a funeral service was progressing iu
Newark a day or two since, the floor gave way
and precipitated mourners, corpse and all into
the room below. The coffin was broken open,
women shrieked and fainted, and the uproar
was intense.
Reports of college commencements should
be written legibly, last the word “alma mater.
often used in snch reports, should be mistaken
by the compositor for “Alum Water,” as re
cently happened within our knowledge.—Rich
mond Whig.
The average number ot persons living in a
single house in London is 8, iu Berlin 32, in
Paris 35, in St. Petersburg 52, and iu Vienna
55. For every 1,000 inhabitants the average
annual mortality in London is 24, in Berlin 25,
in Pfcris 29» in SL Petersburg 41, and iu Vi
enna 47.
The Chinese Embassy, at last accounts, was
in Florence, Italy. There it attracted very
little attention, save from the carions rabble
The importance with which it was accredited
everywhere while Mr. Burlingame was at it.
head seems to have faded ont of sight It will
go home shortly by the nearest root
Cincinnati is a growing city indeed. She
has 35 insurance companies, 76 jewelry estab
lishments, 700 retail grccers, 37 large restau*
rants, 130 dry.goods shops, 300 shoe stores,
63 coal yards,* 170 candy shops, 72 pork p&ck-
eries, 140 clothiug firm3, pfiqtjijg offices,
117 drag renders, and 950 liquor salooqs I
In his Fourth of July oration at Boston,
William Everett called New York the third
(he should have said second) largest German
city in the world, the largest Irish city in the
world, the largest African-Ethiopian city in the
world, and the largest American city in the
world, all combined in one. As to the African-
Ethiopian pppnjqtioji, }{r. gyprpte Ja also mis
taken* Almost any Southern city hpkt us
in that respect,
Jacob Smith, a negro boy, publishes at
Princess Anne, McL, „a paper printed with a
pen, on ordinary foolscap paper. It is sent to
subscribers for $1 a year in advance. Tbe
“printing” is very well done, the letters being
more of the Italian than the Roman style.
The paper is made np of original and selected
matter, the original matter being entirely
furnished by Smith. He gets out a copy
every day, printing with & pen even the ad
vertisements. We remember of a paper exe
cuted in a similar manner, which T. J.
Sutherland issued from a Canadian jail many
years ago. *;
Chinaman in Paris keep within doors, fear
ing retaliation for the Pekin massacre.
A young mqn named McCrw at I^ouisvijlp,
went to his father’s resi4cnce a day or two
since, and hanging his hat on the rack, delib
erately drew forth a pistol and blew out his
brains.
New Orleans papers deny that there is either
cholera fir yellnir fever in tliftt City. m
Visitors to Saratoga should be careful. A
New York lady has just died from a cold caught
while passing from one hotel to another in a
low necked dress and thin slippers.
The race of the yatchts Dauntless and Can^
bria across the ocean is causing much excite
ment, and large amounts of money are pond
ing on the result It is understood that when
the yachts arrive nearly all the craft of the
New Yo rk Yacht Club and numerous excur
sion steamers will proceed to the lightship oft'
Sandy Hook to extend them a welcome. In
the wag6ni made tho Pauqtlosa js ft? ^vorite
at slight odds.
A gentleman who is making a flying trip iu
Ireland draws a dismal picture of tho condi
tion of that country. Palaces and huts abound,
bnt a comfortable farm-house of the American
pattern is not to be found in a day's journey,
He stepped iuto a school of some forty chil
dren, in the Black Valley, and, iu the midst of
his talk with the children, asked them what
they expected to do wheu they became men
and women, and with one inspiration, iu con
cert, they responded, “Go to America.”
They have undertaken to euro the social
evil in New York by inviting the fallen women
to cat strawberries and cream at tbe “Minnight
Mission,” and listen to addresses by good peo
pie. Tbe experiment, so far, has not been en
couraging. The girls eat up the berries, ad
journ for a drink, and return for another dish.
After tbe berries und addresses were ex
hausted, most of them resort to a notorious
house in the neighborhood and dance until
morning.
The New Orleans Republican says: “It is.
estimated that it costs thirteen cents to pro
duce a pound of cotton, against sixteen cents
just after tho war. There is still a profit of
$31 50 per bale of 450 pounds, or $90,000,000
on a crop of 3,000,000 bales. This is exclu
sive of transportation to the seaboard aud tbe
charges of middlemen.
A correspondent of tbe Philadelphia Post
states that in Pennsylvania there is a criminal
aud pauper population of about 25,000, ninety
per cent, of which has been brought to degra-
tion and want by intemperance. The revenue
of the Commonwealth derived annally from
liquor licenses is about $420,000, while the
annnal cost to the people of the State for sup
porting criminals and paupers, made such by
intemperance, is about $2,520,000.
A ridiculous paragraph is going the rounds
of the papers'that a subterranean outlet has
been found to the Great Salt Lake. The atory
is of a vast malestrom, from which a schooner
with great difficulty escaped. Were there an
outlet, it wonld be impossible for the lake to
remain salt; as the water flowing into it is fresh.
All lakes whose only outlet is by evaporation
are salt, while those which have an outlet al
ways are aud must be fresh.
Captain Mayne Reid is about undergoing a
difficult aud dangerous surgical operation,
necessary to save his life.
Some Cherukees have gone to Gadsden
Alabama, to point oat some lead mines that
they worked beiore they were removed.
There are 1,964 Justices of the Peace in
Boston.
The King of Burmah, who is known as his
Golden-Footed Majesty! is sending & represen
tative to visit England, France, Germany,
Turkey and Rome.
Persona who prater stale bread can have
their taste gratified by sending to Pompeii,
where they have loaves which were baked
over eighteen hundred years ago.
The largest chestnut tree in Pennsylvania
stands on the grounds of the Bethlehem Iron
Company. It measures twenty-four feet in
circumference one foot from the ground.
The body of ex-manager James W. Lingard,
the actor and former manager of the old Bow
ery Theater, New York, has been found in the
North River.
Edwin Booth has suffered another sad af
fliction. A child was born to him last Sunday
’ght, but it was dead before morning. His
>hngwiic~howliesdangetouslv ill, and
there are serious fears for her recovery. Mr.
Booth’s first wife died a few months after her
marriage.—Boston Post Oor.
Mr. Greeley’s health is almost restored.—
He spent the Fourth on his farm, studying
cabbages and looking after the cattle. Mr.
Greeley is now as good a judge of cabbages as
yon could find in the United States, and he is
so modest that he never takes any pride in his
accomplishment. It is quite remarkable.
Boston Post Cor.
A Texas editor has had presented to him, by
his admiring lady readers, an embroidered
shirt, which presents a pictorial history of the
State, including the Mexican war. The edi
tor wears the shirt outside of his coat, and
wherever he goes ho is followed by crowds of
admiring boys studying from the back of it the
fine arts and booking themselves in Texas pol
itics.
The estate of the late Albert D. Richardson,
which is situated at Woodaide, New Jersey,
was recently sold by order of the Court of
Chancery in Essex county. The sale was
made on behalf of Mrs. McFarlnnd-Richard-
son, and of the children of the deceased.
The Hot Springs, Arkansas, Courier an
nounces that “there is a gentleman now at
Rockport having recorded papers connected
with a lately discovered claim to the Hot
Springs property. It is said this claim de
scends from the Spanish Crown, and bears
date of 1805. The records qf the claim cover
QY?r hundred pages,
American stndeqts qre rapidly increasing in
the universities of Europe. At present over
four thousand of our young countrymen are
studying in the most famous colleges of the
Old World. Whether these graduates will
outstrip in the race for honor, fame and riches
the scholars of the home institutions it will
require a generation to fairly decide. But* we
ftajl sooq bqye qrqajjg qs a lqrge qmqber of
young men trained in what are reputed to be
the best schools in existence. How the pre
cepts there taught are to be brought to bear
hn American life, thought,progress, and hab
its, is what onr European graduates must
teach us.
A few days since, says the Springfield Re
publican, an artist of a New York illustrated
paper visited North Adams to make a sketch
of the coolie shoemakers. He went through
the establishment and made a drawing of the
various workrooms, and afterward at the din
ner hour he undertook to sketch the Orientals
while partaking of their noonday meal.—
YVhile absorbed in this, unknown to himself,
lje was handsomely caricatured by one of the
artistic Chinamen, who, by somo means, had
discovered the purpose of fte sdrqqgeris visit.
The sketch was very clever, and disclosed tho
fAct that the new bootmakers are possessed of
accomplishments not before suspected.
Tho correspondent of a Chicago paper do-f
scribes tho Washington College coxninepce?
uicut in a very ridiculous manner. He ridi-
cilcs Virginia’s ladles and gentlemen, their
appearance and pronuciation. Judging from
the style of his letter, we feel warranted in as
serting that tho people he ridicules, could
teach him more about propriety, decency and
politenesss, than he ever inherited or ac
quired, has tho good taste to appreciate, or
the sense to comprehend. _
Negro minstrels have very little respect for
anything. They have appropriated the name
of the most ancient of the Chinese gods. We
allude to Fli-SUu.
.iu qld mail} jn Indiana has revealy-ttye pet
cats. Her felines can be better imagined than
described. _
In France a prize is given every year to the
most virtuous woman. That is tike “painting
the lily, or gilding refined gold."
The Georgia. Bill.
We extract from tbe Globe tbe short debate
on tlie Georgia bill in the Senate. After
being taken up by a vote of 29 yeas to 2;
nays, the bill wus referred to a Committee of
Conference. Tbe managers on tbe part of tbe
Senate, are Senators Howard, Hamlin
Thurman. On the part of the House, Repre
sentatives Butler, Paine aud Farnsworth:
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ques
tion is on the motion of the Senator from
Michigan, that the Senate proceed to the con
sideration of the Georgia bill.
The question being put, there wei
division—ayes 23, noes 25.
Mr. SPENCER called for the yeas and nays
and they were ordered.
Mr. MORTON. I desire to make one state
ment. The Legislature of Georgia met, as I
am advised, on Tuesday, according to a prior
adjournment, and then adjourned over ^ again
until next Monday, awaiting the action of
Congress. It is very important to that State to
have it decided one way or the other, that we
act upon it. We onglitnot tc trifle With the
interest of a great State, or even with a State
Legislature.
Mr. THURMAN—The Senator from Indiana
says that the Legislature of Georgia has ad
jourued over from time to time awaiting tho
action of Congress, as I uuderstc^J him. What,
reason have they to adjourn from time to time
to await our action? What action of ours is
there that the Legislature has any such, in
terest in that it must maintain its session? I
am not aware of anything; I do not know any
thing that it can be adjourning over from day to
day lor, unless it is to pass a law postponing the
election in Georgia and seeking by usurpation
to perpetuate its power. That is the only rea
son I can see why that Legislature has not ad
journed and gone home long ago.
Mr. MORTON. One word in answer to the
Senator. Tho Senator cannot see why fte
Legislature of Georgia is awaiting tho action
of Congress. I am somewhat surprised at that
If wo admit Georgia, theu tho Legislature of
Georgia can proceed to general legislation for
the benefit of that State, of which it stands
greatly in need. H wo fail to admit Georgia,
that Legislature adjourns sine die, or depends
entirely upon the will of the military com
mander of that State. And yet the Senator
cannot aee why the action of that Legislature
depends upon our action! It seems to mo it
is very apparent.
Mr. TRUMBULL. It is very desirable, in
my judgment, to dispose ot the Georgia matter.
I should be very glad indeed if there could
be some understanding by which it could be
disposed of! But it is in a shape now that
there is no understanding, I think, in the
Senate. The bill, in its present shape, has
not been referred to any committee. It tho
object is to take itnp and refer it to some
committee, to see if we cannot come to some
understanding and avoid a general debate and
controversy here again, it might be well
enough to do it; but if the idea is to bring it
np, as things now are, we are right at the
threshold of tho same questions we have had
before.
I said a moment ago that the _ bill which
lias como from the House is unlike the bill
the Honso first passed; it is unlike the bill
the Senate passed; it is a new proposition.-—
The Senator from Vermont who is not in his
seat [Mr. Edmunds] suggested that it was a
very singular parliamentary proceeding, that
the House of Representatives departs from its
first bill entirely and refuses to agree to the
Senate amendment and sends a different prop
osition.
No one is more anxious that I am for the
early admission to representation of all the
States in the Union, and I have regretted ex
ceedingly the controvesy that has arisen in re
gard to Georgia. If there were some way by
which this bill could bo got into a shape that
wonld unite our frinds upon it I should be
very glad indeed to have it resorted to; but
uuilcitrakc to n«:t upon a 1)111 that IS likely to
lead to debate, that is construed in two ways,
in my own judgment it is very clear what the
law is, but others do not agree with me, to
take the bill np in this unsettled condition of
things, I think would lead to no good at this
hoar of tho afternoon. It certainly cannot
pass this afternoon unless we come to some
understanding in reference to it in advance,
and so far as I kn6w there is none. The
present bill has not been referred, and no com
mittee has considered it That is tho reason
I vote against taking it up this afternoon,
though I am very anxious to dispose of the
question.
The question being token by yeas and nays,
resulted—yeas 29, nays 25.
Au Artistic Picture.
Parson Caldwell is sometimes very happy in
his personal delineations. In his article of
yesterday he thus happily portrays the strik
ing characteristics of his friend John E. Bry
ant - We have rarely met with a more accurate
description:
There is, however, a pretty large class of ad
venturers, fortune hunters, interlopers, polit
ical empirics, who richly deserve our censures.
Much of the disquiet which has existed in
certain localities here and there throughout the
South, has been occasioned by them. They
came here, using the most offensive language,
and acting in the most repulsive manner to
ward the peoplo of the South, assuming* to be
tbe conquerors, boasting their superiority, and
using snch expressions as “ rebels,"
loyalty,” “equality,” on purpose
deceive tho ignorant, and ascomplish
their infamous designs. They in
gratiated themselves into the confidence of
the colored people. They ate and slept with
them, and on all occasions sought their com-
>any. They pursuaded them that the people
lere, especially the old slaveholders, were
their mortal enemies. They told them that
the white people of the South could not be
trusted, that even those who identified them
selves with the national cause, and with their
own party organizations, would betray and
deceive them. They made many false prom
ises to them in order to secure their votes. This
class of men have kept np, all through the
Southern States, almost constant strife and con*
tention, and have been qn obstruction, rather
than q real help, ft ft® cause of reconstruction.
They have caused many good and true men in
the South to keep aloof from tho movement, by
their connection with it, and the shape they
endeavored to give it They have, conse
quently, provoked many of the disturbances
which have been represented all over the
country as evidences of a goncrnl spirit of in
subordination among the people of the Sontb.
We neither defend nor excuse any violence for
opinion’s sake. From what we know of these
men, however, we are certain that they have
occasioned some of the serious troubles which
have been pictured to Northern minds os great
horrors, aud which were intended to prove
that they sliadowed forth the spirit of tho
pie generally. After tho inauguration of
Grant, many of these political exotics rushed to
Washington and claimed the best Federal ap
pointments ns the reward of their sufferings
and labors in the cause. There were thirty or
forty of them from Georgia. They swarmed
about the different departments, each boasting
the superiority of his own claims and detract
ing fromjthe merit of others; sometimes ac
cusing one another, and putting in false
and slanderous charges against those who
seemed likely to be preferred to themselves.
Never was there a spot an earih whoro human
nature might be studied under more varied
phases 1 never was there a place where it pre
sented more repulsive aspects. Sometimes a
dozen or more would band together, agree
among themselves who should have this, who
that, and who some other place, and having
thus divided tho spoils among themselves,
they would concentrate their strength In se s
curing the influence of some Congressman,
and then lay aiege to the different depart
ments, Day after day, week after week, they
hung about the ante-rooms, watching every
movement and ready to make some scandalous
attack upon a rival applicant.
The scramble, the importunity, the eager,
restless movements, the downright meanness
displayed by this crew of desperate political
fortune hunters, became disgusting tqyond
the power of language to portray. The offi-
fials at the different departments were sickeu-
pd by them, and the yery mention qf a Q«V-
tpan, when associated with them, became
qdious. Comparatively few of them received
appointments.
A Wisconsin gentleman, who sat down off
a bee-hive, calls that institution the “seat of
war."
THE NATIONAL FINANCES.
Tlio Currency Bill a* Panaed—Additional
Iague of Fifty-four Million Dollurx-ItK
Dirttrilmtion—Additional Bnnkine Fa
cilities, Etc., Etc. *
Washington, July a—Tho Currency Bill as
reported by the conference committee, agreed
to by both houses, and signed by the Presi
dent to-day, reads as follows:
Bo it enacted, etc., That fifty-four millions
of dollars in notes for circulation may be is
sued to National Banking Associations in ad
dition to the three hundred millions of dollars
authorized by the twenty-second section of-
tho “Act to provide a national currency so-
cured by a pledge of United States bonds,
and to provide for the circulation and re
demption thereof,” approved June 3, 1864;
aud the amount of notes so provided shall be
furnished to banking associations organized
or to be organized in those States and Terri
tories having less than their proportion under
the apportionment contemplated by the pro
portion of the “act to amend an act to pro-
ride a national currency secured by a pledge
of United States bonds, and to provide for the
circulation and redemption thereof," aproved
March 3, 1865, and the bonds deposited with
the Treasurer of the United States to secure
the additional circulating notes herein author
ized shall be of an^ylescription of bonds
ol the United,, ^Wates beariug interest
in coin; but n new apportionment of
tbe increased circulation herein pro
vided for, shall be made os soon as practica
ble, based upon the census of 1870; provided,
that if applications for the circulation herein
authorized shall not be made within one year
after tho passage of this act, by banking asso
ciations organized, or to be organized, in
States having less than their proportion, it
shall be lawful for the Comptroller of the Cur
rency to issue such circulation to banking
associations applying for tho same in other
States or Territories haying loss than their
proportion, giving the preference to such as
have the greatest deficiency; and provided
further, that no banking association hereafter
organized shall have a circulation in excess of
five hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Ana be it further enacted, JThat at
the end of each month, after the passage of
this act, it shall be the the duty of the Comp
troller of the currency to report to the Secre
tary of the Treasury the amount of circulating
notes issued, nnder the provisions of the pre
ceding sections, to national banking associa
tions during the previous month; whereupon
the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem
and cancel an amount of the three per centum
temporary loan certificates, issued nnder tho
acts of March 2, 1867, and July 25,
1868, not less than the amount of
circulating notes so reported, and
may, if necessary, in order to pro
cure the presentation of such temporary man
certificates for redemption, give notice to the
holders thereof, by publication or otherwise,
that certain of said certificates (which be
designated by number, date and amount) shall
cease from and after a day to be designated in
such notice, and that the certificates so desig
nated shall no longer bo available as any por
tion of the lawful money reserve in possession
of any national banking association; and after
the day designated in such notico no interest
shall be paid on such certificates, and they
shall not, therefore, be counted as a part of
the reserve of any banking association.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon
the deposit of any United States bonds, bear
ing interest in gold, with the Treasurer of tho
United States, in the manner prescribed in the
nineteenth and twentieth sections of the na
tional currency act, it shall be lawful for the
Comptroller of the Currency to issue to the
association making the same, circulating notes
of different denominations not less Ilian five
dollars, not exceeding in amount eighty per
centum of the par value of the bonds deposited,
which notes shall bear upon their face the
promise of tho association to which they are
issued'to pay them, upon presentation at the
office of the association, in^ gold coin of $he
United States, and shall bo redeemable upon
such presentation in such coin : provided,
that no banking association organized under
this section shall have a circulation in excess
of one million of dollars.
Sec. 4 And bo it farther enacted, That
every national banking association formed
under the provisions of the preceding section
of this act shall at all times keep on hand not
less than twenty-five per centum of its out
standing circulation in gold coin of the United
States, and shall receive at par in the payment
of debts the gold notes of every other such
banking association which at the time of such
payments shall be redeeming its circulating
notes in gold coin of the United States.
Sec. 5. And be it farther enacted. That
every association organized for the purpose of
issuing gold notes as provided in tiffs ac^ shall
be subject to all the requirements and provi
sions of the national currency act, except the
the first clause of section twenty-two, which
limits the circulation of national hanking asso
ciations to three hundred millions of dollars;
the first clause of section thirty-two, which
taken in connection with the preceding section,
wonld require national banking associations
organized in the city of San Francisco to re
deem their circulating notes at par in the city
of New York; and tho last clause of section
thirty-two, which requires every national bank
ing association to receive in payment of debts
the notes of every other national banking asso
ciation at par; provided, that in applying the
provisions and requirements of said act to the
banking associations herein provided for, the
terms “lawful money” ancf“lawful money
of the United States," ahall be held and con
strued ft mean gold W silver coin of the
United States..
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That to
secure a* more equitable distribution of the na.
tional banking currency, tkere may be issued
circulating notes to banking associations or
ganized in States and territories haring loss
than their proportion os herein set forth. And
the amount of circulation in this section au
thorized shall, under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, as it may be required
for this purpose, bo withdrawn, as herein pro
vided, from banking associations organized in
States having a circulation exceeding that pro
vided for by tha act entitled “an aot to amend
an act entitled < an act ft provide for a nation
al banking currency secured by pledgo of
United States bonds and to provide for the
circulation and redemption thereof,”’ approv
ed (March 3,1865, but the amount so with
drawn shall not exceed twenty-five million dol
lars. The Comptroller of the Currency shall,
undr the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury, make a statement showing the
amount of circulation in each State and Ter
ritory, and the amount to be retired by each
banking association in accordance with this
section, and shall, when such redistribution
of circulation is required, make a requisition
for such amount upon snch banks, commenc
ing with the banks having a circulation ex
ceeding one million of dollars in States having
an excess of circulation, am] withdrawing their
circulation in excess of one million of dollars,
and then proceeding pro raft with other banks
haring a circulation exceeding three hundred
thousand dollars in States having the largest
excels of circulation, and reducing the circula
tion of such banks in States having tbe great
est proportion in excess, leaving undisturbed
the hanks in States haring a smaller propor
tion, until those in greater excess have been
reduced to the same grade* and continuing
thus to make tffe reduction provided for by
this act until tho full amount of twenty-five
millions, herein provided for, shall be with
drawn; and the circulation so withdrawn shall
bo distributed among the States and Terri
tories having less than their proportion, so as
to equalize the same. Aud it shall be the
duty of the Comptroller of the Currency,
under tho direction of (ho Secretary of the
Treasury, forthwith ft make a requisition for
the amount thereof upon the banks above in
dicated, as herein prescribed. And upon fail
ure <5 such associations, v* an y of them, to
return the amount so required within one
year, it shall be the duty of tho Comptroller
of the Currency to sell at public auc
tion, having given twenty days notico thereof
in one daily newspaper printed in Washington
and one in New York city, an amount of bonds
deposited by said association, as security for
said circulation, equal to the circulation to be
withdrawn from said association and not re
turned in compliance with such requisition;
aud tho Comptroller of the Currency shall with
tho proceeds redeem so many of the notes of
sfffd' banking association, as they come iuto
the Treasury, as will equal the amount re
quired and not so returned, and shall pay the
balance, if any, to such bankiug association;
provided that no ciiculation shall be with
drawn under the provisions of this section un
til after the fift3*-four millions granted in the
first section shall have been token up.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
after the expiration of six months from the
passage of this act any banking association lo
cated iu any State having more than its pro-
portion of circulation, may be removed to any
State having less than its proportion of circu
lation, under snch rules and regulations as the
Comptroller of the Currency, with the appro
val of the Secretary of the Treasury, may re
quire; provided that the amount of the issue
of said banks shall not be deducted from the
amount of new issue provided for in this act.
The following named States and Territories
w ill.b<) entitled to the fifty-four million dollars
additional circulation under the new currency
act, m^the proportions below named:
Virginia, $4,915,985; West Virginia, $457,-
750; Illinois, $1,079,572; Michigan, 9786,776;
Wisconsin, $2,117,939; Iowa, $681,363; Kan
sas, $174.712;Missouri, $3,000,412; Kentucky,
$4,651,319; Tennessee, $4,331,759.
Louisiana, $5,425,193; Mississippi, $2,980,-
470; Nebraska, $6,576; Georgia, $4,681*728;
North Carolina, $4,098,628; South Carolina,
$4,216,838; Alabama, $4,081,212; Oregon,
$161,273; Texas, $2,032,194; Arkansas,.$1,-
455,519; Utah, $58,332; California, $1,717,-
388; Florida, $546,442; Dakota, $15,441; New
Mexico, $277,939; Washington Territory,
$47,180; total, $54,000,000.
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
June Term, 1*70.
JOSEPH E. BROWN, C. J.
H. K. McKay, 1 . „ . .
Hiham Warner, j ‘^ ss0c ate-s *
Order of Circuits with the number of cases
from each—
Blue Ridge Circuit 4
Western Circuit l
Southern Circuit -2
Southwestern Circuit 17
Pataula Circuit 34
Chattahoochee Circuit 42
Macon Circuit 6
Flint Circuit 4
Tallapoosa Circuit 6
Atlanta Circuit 7
Rome Circuit 10
Cherokee Circuit. 6
Northern Circuit 8
Middle Circuit. 9
Ocniulgee Circuit 9
Eastern Circuit 6
Brunswick Circuit 5
DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
Tuesday, July 12, 1870.
The iollowingjudgments were rendered:
B. G. Pool A O. H. Lufburrows, plaintiffs
in error, vs. P. R. Lewis & B. J. Lewis, de
fendants in error—caso from Bartow. Judg
ment affirmed.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
Company, plaintiff in error, vs. Nathaniel P.
Harbin, defendant in error—motion to Set
aside a judgment from Whitfield. Judgment
reversed on the ground that tho Court below
erred in refusing to set aside the judgment
under the facts set forth iu the record.
William Solomon, plaintiff in error, vs.
the Commissioners of Cartersrillo, defendants
in error—certiorari from Bartow. Judgment
reversed on tho ground that the Court below
erred in bolding and deciding that the Town
Commissioners of Cartersville had the right to
assess and collect tho tax on the property of
Solomon as specified and set forth in the
record under the pretended law of 1869.
W. F. Hill, plaintiff in error, vs. T. B.
Goolsby, defendant iu error—complaint from
Oglethorpe. Judgment affirmed.
George S. Rives, plaintiff in error, vs. Char
ity Lawrence, defendant in error—equity from
Hancock. Judgment affirmed.
James Rushin, plaintiff in error, vs. J.
R. Gance, defendant in error—illegality from
Hancock. Judgment affirmed.
Jeremiah Maxey, plaintiff’ in error, vs. A A.
Bell, defendant in error—appeal from Court
of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county. Judgment
affirmed.
S. H. Lane, plaintiff in error, vs. John R.
Latimer—complaint from Hancock. Judg
ment reversed on the ground that the Court
below erred in charging the jury that th«
plaintiff was not entitled to recover the money
paid the defendant for the land upon the state
ment of facts contained in the record. It be
ing the opinion of this Court that if tlie defen
dant repudiated the contract for the sale of the
land on the ground of fraud, or mistake, that
ho cannot retain the money paid him for the
land under such void contract.
Zachariah H. Clark, Trustee, plaintiff iu
error, ys. Thos. B. Jennings, administrator—
action on a note for slaves, from Oglethorpe.
Judgment affirmed.
•Tames T. Dillard, plaintiff in error, vs. the
State, defendant in error—misdemeanor from
Oglethorpe. Judgment affirmed.
Pending argument in the case of Newton
vs. Price—a continued oase from the Middle
Circuit—the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock
a. m,, to-morrow.
Wednesday, July 13, 1870.
Argument in the case of John H. Newton
vs. Joshua R. Price, was resumed and con
cluded. Messrs. Montgomery and Hook for
plaintiff in error, and Messrs. Wright and
Evans for defendant in error.
No. 1, Middle Cirouit—Hama vs. Perril—
complaint from Columbia—was withdrawn.
No. 2, Middle Cirouit—Barlett vs. Russell -
distress warrant from Augusta—was argued
for plaintiff' in error by Col. W. W. Mont
gomery, representing Frank H. Miller, Esq.,
and for defendant in error by General Henry
W. Hilliard, representing A D. Picquet, Esq.
No. 3, Middle Circuit—Hook and Glenn vm
Adams, Administrator, et aL—dismissal of
bill from Washington—was withdrawn.
Pending argument in No. 4, Middle Cir
cuit—Washington vs. Barnes—the Court ad
journed till 10 a. in, to-morrow.
Thursday, July 14.
Oscar Reese, Esq., of Carrol ton, was admit
ted to the Bar.
Argument in No. 4, Middle Circuit—Wash
ington vs. Barnes—was resumed and conclu
ded, Gen, Henry W. Hilliard for plaintiff in
error, and Mr. Gauahl for defendant in error.
No. 5, Middle Circuit—Pettus vs. the State
—false imprisonment from the City Court of
Augusta—wag continued foi providential
cause.
No. G, Middle Circuit—Spires vs. Walker—
otion to set aside a judgment from the City
Court of Augusta—was argued for plaintiff iu
error by Ccff. W. \Y. Montgomery, represent
ing Frank H. Miller, Esq.
_ No. 7, Middle Circuit—Bugg vs. Towner—
ejectment from Richmond—was argued for
plaintiff iu error by Judge Hook, and for de
fendant in error by General Wrigbt.
Fending, a motion to dismiss No. 8, the lost
cause from the Middle Circuit—Cunningham
et al vs, Schley et al—the court adjourned till
X Ga'clook, a. xl, to-morrow.
A Singular Foasll.
The Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier makes n: ca
tion of a remarkable geological discovery re
cently brought to light in that vicinity. Dr.
T. K. J. Elliott, formerly of Springfield.Mass.,
strolling about Ottumwa tbe other day, iu
search of curiosities, dropped in to examine
the foundation for a new mansion being built
iu the upper l*irt ot the city. Bring son:.'
what ol a geologist, the doctor examined
closely the different strata from above down
ward, aud in the bottom, some twenty-five feet
from the original surface was found a mound of
fossil leaves, bark, blades of grass, branches of
trees, roots and ttogs ooYered with the usual
clay shah s, sand, gravel and soil. The most >, -
markable specimen is a fossil fish net, in the
moat perfect preservation. Under a glass, the
twist, the knots in the meshes, and the fibres
of the texture the net is made of, are very
beautiful. The substance iu which the net is
imbedded looks exactly like pressed tobacco,
anil burns radily, emitting a greasy odor. The
distance from the place where the fossils were
found to tho Des Moines river is about two
hundred yards. This river is remarkable for
its geological curiosities, but this fish net is
the greatest as yet discovered, and shows veiy
conclusively that this country has undergone
grea: chauges. The bed of tbe river is con-
stuntally changing; but these specimens were
taken from very elevated situation. Dr. Elliott
invites the attention of geologists to this mat-
tor, and intends showing these specimens to
Agassiz.
Anthony Trollope says : “I do not compre
hend the reason for the existence of so many
women; although I suppose Providence had
some wise end iu view, iu giviug to every
man at least eight or ten women to choose
from, when ho is about to select a wife."