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TUESDAY, MARCH1,1831.
3I t Jomi T. Raymond and Mias Courtney
IBBws, daughter of Bose Eytinge, are to
ite aimed in April. ,
Xsz Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her
icffcand are coming to this country fora
tour about the 1st of May.
, Wilbcb F. Stobut, of tbo Chicago
, is said to profess a belief in spmtu-
i,and to claim “constant commumca-
tSewwith the spirit world.”
<C«eJiHwsuN-KJ»r Benjamin "Wood, a
irctber of the late Fernando Wood, has
tea ill for some weeks, and tho news of
Aas brother’s death quit©prostrated him.
1* is cheering, says tho Herald, to read
cot one-eighth of the bills on tho House
salexctar can ever become laws; but, oh, to
tMakwf the good paper and ink that will
SKwaxtod on them!
Ykxu are flush times for emigrants. A
Ektar Asys ago tickets to the West were
r&KMjttt than shoes for foot passengers, and
w <he steamship companies are cutting
esahan most industriously.
'Sssdi Hook "Wharves Threatened nr
»£*.—The World of the 22d says; Thetre-
mxndous ice-llow threatened last night to
Arttmy the 700-foot railroad wharf at San-
Sixty feet at the outer end lias
.ttgtpled over. The ice is cutting away tho
Oiling foundation.
"Do yon really believe that an ass ever
•joke to Balaam?” queried a man who prid-
-.oi himself on his intellect. Coleridge, to
‘itrffn the question was put, replied, “My
friend, 1 have no doubt whatever that the
<feny is true. I havo been spoken to in the
■rune way myself.”
Vibtmtiiki Clams.—At Newport, Rhode
island, Sunday morning, at least 1,500
feohels of clams were washed upon tho
%«s.cb, and by noon there wero three liun-
; flred people engaged in “harvesting” the
wwtxpectod visitors. It is thought a storm
n&ua was the cause of the strange phenom-
fte East River bridge, connecting New
Wflrfc and Brooklyn, work on which has
"Atenin progress for ten yoars, and upon
-•wSs'ch many millions of dollars have been
^upended, will bo open for foot travel, nc-
xarding to the statements of the master
Atcbanic, in the spring of 1832, and for
ravel by cars two months afterward.
the many reports from Peruvian
■foarocs that Lima, if captured, would be
•jillajjed by tho brutal Chilian soldiery, the
-arxnarkable discipline, good order, quiet,
fiuirnenee from even a taunting demeanor
‘«a lie part of the Chilians, are worth not
ing. Limn suffered much more from its
’em mobs than from ita conquering ene-
Xx ExonxFOor Skeleton—Numerous fly
rmgreports from Clear Fork (Bland county)
swdirnto the finding in the newly-discovered
i«u there of a human skeleton, thought to
"lie about eight feet in height. Whether tho
’dimensions have been exaggerated or not
vs do not know, but it is evident that there
su e mysteries hidden in this immense cav-
•eo.
A cobbespondent explains tho significa-
rfton of the shattering of glass at the Roths-
cfc2d wedding: “Wine is brought in n brit-
vessel, and being six times blessed the
'wuuiied couple drink thereof, nnd the rest
<off it, in token of joy, is cast on the groud:
•-tow. the bridegroom, in memory of the
.’iwin of their city and temple, with force
- bil bos the vessel to the ground.”
-v vitit old American judge, who had
«9©ni an evening with a young lawyer in
ribf. country whoso office was in the second
stDiy, on taking Ms departure stumbled on
Am stairs andfell to the bottom. The young
eawyer hearing the noise rushed out and.
-SBbiGg the judge lying on his back at the
toouomwftho stairs, hastened down nnd
"vssilli great eudety asked, “Is your honor
-buity” “No,” said tho judge, scrambling
f to hi ' feet, “but my legs are.”
Tar work of restoration and preserra
4»n of .he famous St. Mark's Cathedral at
Venice is proceeding steadily. Scaffolding,
xaelOsodb} screens of bamboo work, ob-
Mwea a.pbriian of the facade, as it has for
jtnyiara thabof tho ducal palace adjoining.
?fhe priscutwoftjnen aro showing much
^agei.uity in replacing and restoring tho
beautiful marbles etd mosaics, and this
’unique edifice promises to be preserved
‘- Mother thousand ycarrfior the admiration
' Jf Christendom.
A Pboiiibot.—Mr. J7-NJ McCullough, one
4 rif Ibe vice-presidents of the -Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and tho man Eger of its
Hiam west of Pittsburg, is quoted ns ox-
igfTtasingeho belief that the rapid and spec-
'xtatiro construction-of now railroads in
■*e.rury action of tho West will work-an -nl-
r fiaste injury to the standard railway, pro-
yartios of the country. -Ho anticipates
' nether era of foreclosure sale?, and ex-
B*cta to see tho mnrket glutted with -cheap
- railway jrrutitrties within the next three or
Tour years.
liOJfT&S'OT a Centenarian.— 1 The Balti
more Sun says: Mrs. Mary Orem, who is
a her ©no hundred and fifth year, is now it
"to* poiht of death at tho residence - of her 1
«on-in-law, Mr. Ephraim Hare, in the vil-'
The Explrlif Administration
Leaves power without any especial scan
dal. There are charges of nepotism, and
littleness in various ways. It may be
justly changed that Mr. Hayes consented
to tho prostitution of official influence to
force tlie election of Gameld, and his alti
tude on the Federal surveillance of elec
tions was practically at war with a free
ballot; but be did not permit open roguery
and fraud in the departments, nor did lie
attempt to bulldose minority States with
Federal bayonets and Gatling guns. Com
pared with Grant, Hayes was a Presiden
tial angel, although he jumped the bars
and gates of tho constitution to get into
office. If Garfield does as well, the coun
try will be glad. The papers represent
Hayes as a weak man, and Garfield as a
strong one; but Hayes has more moral
stamina than his successor.
The fact that Grant and Conkling hate
Hayes so much is to his credit. They
hate him because they could not make a
catspaw of him. They could not use him
to feed their kennels of dirty dogs. Grant
kept such a pack about him as would
have made his name infamous bat for bis
military services. Grant’s personal tastes
always gravitated to the vile and vulgar.
For decency’s sake he kept Hamilton Fish
In his cabinet; but tell over on your fingers
the names of his government cronies!
So, Conkling has no use or appreciation
for a man of rectitude. He may say with
Job, “Behold, I am vile,” and never strain
the truth. Hayes’administration, bad as
it was in the beginning, and faulty af
terwards, is so much purer and morejpatri-
otic than that of Grant, that there might
well be a century of gradual debasement
between them. Garfield, we aro willing
to believe with Jere Black, is theoretically
virtuous, but be falls when tempted and
is easily browbeaten. He will drift with
the influences which surround him, and
now, since it has become rather apparent
that those influences are to be engineered
by Conkling, we know they are to be any
thing but pure and patriotic.
He may not be led into great crimes and
scandals; but the restraint on Conkling
will not be principle or patriotism. Conic-
ling is a supremely selfish and unscrup
ulous man, and bis influence, to tho ex
tent it goes, will be debasing and demor
alizing. It will be all exerted against
hightoned, generous, patriotic and equal
government. The fault of the concern
now is, that it is a government for the
rich against the poor. Capital has grab
bed it by both ears. It has not a single
nerve in its body that vibrates in uni
son with the honest democratic masses,
and it has no use for the negro except as
simple political capital
The late movement in New York looks
as if some people have caught sight of the
frightful drift of events, which, unless
checked, will bring on an internecine war!
but it will be a mighty tussle between the
giant Free Ballot and the iron machinery
of class privilege and monopoly engineered
by Conkling and the government. It is
doubtful, perhaps, which whips.
Withdrawn.—Some of the papers
complain that the birthday of Washing
ton, “the father of his country,” received
slim notice this year. The fact is, Wash
ington has been withdrawn in that capac
ity. Tho “second Washington” is so un
like the original, in every particular, that
there would be no family likeness among
tbe children; and since the second is now
pronounced the greater of the two by the
popular taste of the day, it has been
thought better to withdraw G. W. entire
ly from the field. He was only a Virgin
ian, anyhow, and so far from running for
a third term nomination and then passin;
round the hat for a general collection, it
was with great difficulty that old G. W.
was persuaded to run a second time.
Wash was a slow coach—not up to
tho modem improvements. Ho had never
been to Chicago and Long Branch; and
was not good on horses, dogs and cigars
Tbe Hoc Panic,
A general alarm has been sounded-in
Great Britain, Germany and France over
American pork in all its forms. Paris,
according to a dispatch last Mondaj pub
lisbedinthe New York Evening Tele
gram, has consigned large shipments of
it to the dunghill. Germany undertook
a similar enterprise a few days before, but
failed in it; fora corps of scientists put
on their spectacles and examined many
pieces of a large cargo with the aid of a
microscope, and finding few or none that
were even suspicious, suspended the ex
amination as needless and very tiresome.
The British Parliament had the matter
up two or three days since, on a motion
to condemn and prohibit the entire trade
in American pork, hut it had not been
done up to latest dates. Tho panic
will probably blow over before long, but,
meautime, it is unpropitlous to that ru
mored great comer at Chicago. If the
exportation of American pork is stopped
or suspended for any great length of time,
bacon will be cheap in America, while tbe
British aud German laborer will go with
out meat for his Sunday dinner. There
is not on record a case of trichinosis from
thousoofcooked.pork;bnt the habit of
using uncooked pork in sausage and ham
is less uncommon than it should be. In
\be case of sausages, especially by the
Germans, the meat is not sufficiently
cooked to kill the animalcules that may
possibly exist in it. Lay it down as
rule always to cook pork thoroughly; for
ail agree that tho hog is an animal pecu-
culiarly subject to disease.
Machine Cotton Vick far.
We are interested in a letter printed in
the New Orleans Democrat, from S. K.
Cockrell, vice-president of the Arkansas
and Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters
Association, on the subject of ricking’
cotton by machinery, which, in bis judg
ment, is going to revolutionize the whole
cotton-growing busiuess. We have often
heard of cotton picking machines, but al
ways with incredulity, l’ickiug cotton,
as it grows on the stalk, Is not a mechani
cal process. There is no consecutive order
or direction or distance in the movements,
and the process demands the exercise of
sight, will and discretion, which it is not
easy to find in a machine.
But Cockrell’s mackmo is open to the
objection that the Irishman urged to po
tato digging: “If you want your potatoes
dug, bring ’em on,” said Pat. Cockrell’s
cotton for the machine must first be pulled
up by the stalk when ripe—stacked and
suffered to open to its fullest extent—then
tbe bolls plucked off and fed to tbe ma
chine—aud then the lint cleaned after
wards. He says this can be done at one-
fourth tbe cost of ordinary picking, but
wc should judge it would be t. least four
times the cost; and it would be very badly
done at that. We should say that pluck
ing off tbe bolls would be equal to pick
ing out the lint, and pulling and stacking
the stalks might figure as an extra job, as
well as feeding the machine and cleaning
the lint of the trash from macerated bolls.
Some better machine than this must be
made to pick cotton or else It must still
be done by hand. Uutil then the gather
ing of the cotton in the field must limit
the crop; and this gathering or “picking”
must be facilitated not by machines but
by care in Uie selection of seed and in
tbe culture of the cotton. Where lint is
abundant and bolls large and thick it is
easier to gather 200 pounds tban 100 in a
meager, scanty and stunted growth.
Tbe Three Per Cento.
The Baltimore American of the 23d
instant, says: Now that the new funding
bill is almost morally certain to receive
tbe signature of the President and become
a law, some of the objections most man
fully urged against it by tbe national
bank and capital interests seem to grow
beautifully less. This was the case when
the four per cent, “certificates” were
floated. In advance of tho operation
everybody was assured that nobody
would take them, but when they were Is
sued everybody rushed to get them in such
poll-mell fashion that they rose swiftly
to a premium, and t ie supply was singu
larly inadequate to meet the demand.
The proposed new securities are free
from all taxation, they afford as safe an
Investment as it is possible for human
wisdom to contrive, and they are made
compulsory as a foundation for bank cir
culation. They must, therefore, be
issued, and they are so attractive that
they ought to be taken readily. In the
ordinary interchanges of banking opera
tions tbe great syndicate firms of tbe
country will be enabled, with the
utmost facility, to adjust to a
hair the prices respectively of the
three per cents., the fours and
the four and a-halfs so as to make
them yield tho same interest, and there
will be abundance of time to effect this
readiustment between March 4 and July
1. The New York Journal of Commerce,
in its Monday’s issue, says that “wo be
lieve that, judiciously managed, the en
tire amount can be placed at the low rate
proposed by tbe House and adopted by
tbe Senate. It has been possible for
two years or more to loan floating capi
tal on Wall street on government secu
rities at an average of three per cent, an
nual interest.” This journal also regards
the short terra of tho bends as an addi
tional advantage, enabling investors to
put their money in perfectly safe security
for a few years, in the hope that after that
period more profitable rates may prevail.
In tbe meantime they are sure of mode
rate interest on the best possible invest
ment.
Xner*y and Its Stewards.
F. H. B. In tbe Atlanta Constitution,
in ons of bis admirable letters has this to
say abetit tbe now leading editor of tbe
New York Tribune. "While we despise
the man’s ingenionsuess as the conductor
of a newspaper^ we mnst admire his
p. and energy:
Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune,
was In Washington the other day. He
has much of the stiff stateliness of man
ner which Nast gives him in his cartoons.
The career of Mr. Reid is an apt illustra
tion of how false sometimes are esti
mates of a man’s future by what he does
early in life. Two or three years be
fore the war Mr. Reid was associate edi
tor of the Gazette, a weekly paper pub-
lulled in Xenia, which was then and is
still -a small town, fifty miles from Cin
cinnati. His mother owned a little farm
near that place. Yonng Reid’s partner
was Mr. Coates Kenny. Of tho two,
Kenny was considered the more
^ f brilliant and much the more
"Ja*e of Hampden, -Baltimore county.--■sijef 10 , sl , lck t0
ruasness, while Reid was a society man,
i token two weeks ago with" erysipelas,
-and ur physician says she cannot live
many days. hire. Orem has resided in the
suigbborhood of Woodberry for over
wall century. Her
Yeaty. She was bom
tot tbe month of tho Gunpowder, on .the
Hfl of Aprij, 1776.
Jiai-oBis from Chicago are to the effeetj
ffket amaiipox is increasing there with great
xypiffity, and that in several towns iA -flft
■.i, and Iowa the disease - is pe.de"
'Cincinnati, too, is becomingtolanr' -*nic.
remembering that no losgcr.-o^ -©d, and
tolerrn thousand ono liuAdr' than 1&i2
mm of her peor-\«ipAri*' jd and seventy-
woue disensctvUtoT" . -ued from this loath-
tfi. Vyltfr m.ojr-' _.ipcra unite in urging
oi j rV, ihl« . iment to immediately take
measures to prevent ita gain-
. ..>► .uthold in the city.
aI Louisiana planters who have sub-
’ -otiiatod Italian for negro labor are re-
sqortod aa quite enthusiastic over the result
«•! Ibe change. The first batch of these emi-
-grants reached New Orleans just before
tUhristmao, and wero sent to several plan
tations north of tho city. They team read-
.-;i2 and seen wilting and able to do a full
-vlay’a work for tho pay offered them. There
2s a question as to whether they will bo
..w« to withstand tho climate of Louisiana,
mad until llioy liavo been thero a year that
^question will remain undecided. Hereto-
Von the Italians havo gone chiefly to the
South American republics where the cti-
ia quito tiko that of Southern Italy.
Smubbeil—Tho agent of Mrs. Belva Lock-
wood, the female attorney, recently address
'd U a.-:- to Mr. IX: Give, proprietor of
... i,,.i r:i-house, Atlanta, Ga., stating that
“.Mis. Belva A. Lockwood, who acquired
much prominence by her connection, pro-
faisiomdly, with the Jessie Raymond-Ben.
Vi. ilill cose, desired to know whether or
not -ho would attract a paying audianoe in
s i. into aa aleotnrer upon the followinf
subject: ‘Characteristics of Oongrees-
inrn." The agent added that of course
_\i Lu-kwood “would give her connection
w i h the Ben. Hill scandal,”’and inquired
, 1 .. amount the owner of the opera-house
n .hi guarantee, to which Mr. De Give
. the following laconic response
, ild not rent my oj>era-hoase for such
i j . e ni ;iny amount of money.”
was
a fop and a pleasure seeker. Daring
their partnership Kenny published a vol
ume of original poems, in which appeared
‘'The Rain Upon the '{oof,” an exquisite
maiden name was Mary little gem. Eveiyhr . p rc dicted for him
im at Ridgely’s Forges, He vised his talents in
. ~ ^ eapttvattng a „ woman who
ES.’T'.JE&uE Sif-Mood*
ctow- .egasus grew weary and settled
r a for a lifetime rest on the "velvet
iAhion. Kenny has led the life of a
highly cultured but indolent llterateur,
who is known only by a half dozen pretty
verses.
Reid sold bis interest in tbe Gazette and
went to Columbus on a small salary to
write up tbe Legislature for a Cincinnati
paper. When the war broke out be went
to the field as the correspondent of tbe
Cincinnati Gazelle. HU “Agate” letters
made him fame and money. During tbo
latter part of the struggle be was neatly
ensconced as librarian to Congress. Then
he was called to the Tribune, and when
Greeley tasted the poUon of politics,Roid,
then a young man, “went up head” in the
big class of American editors. He is said
to have made a fortune out of Tribune
stock, and is to-day the best paid man that
drives a pen on this continent. But if
Reid had drifted to the land of the Lotus
as early as did his gifted friend, who can
tell that he might not have yet been
dreaming under tbe delicious spell?
The Color Line in Public Schools.
—A Fair Haven (N. J.) telegram of Mon
day says: At this place there are two
public schools, one for white children aud
another for colored children.- Recently
tbe colored feihale teacher of tbe colored
school resigned, because of some misun
derstanding with tbe school trustees. The
trustees then closed the colored school,
sending the fprty or mors colored pupils
to tbs whit* school. The white pupils
revolted, and the attendance of white
children gradually dropped off. The white
teacher next rebelled, and the trustees
were forced to procure a colored lady
'Uockar, and reopen the public schools
Both schools now have there full complc-
, meat of pupils, but the feeling between
the children efehs schools continuer.
AnU-Pdpnlar Republicanism.
A few days ago the people of Phiiadel
phia rose in their might and overthrew at
the ballot-box the ring system of politics
under which the people of that City have
been plundered for many years of many
millions of dollars. It was a wonderful
manifestation of popular dissatisfaction
with fraud and abuse, aud was hailed
everywhere throughout the country .as
most gratifying evidence of reviving of
public virtue.
But no sooner had the votes been count
ed and the results made known, than the
ring partisans introduced into the Legis
lature at Harrisburg, a bill to emasculate
tbe office of mayor and to put it into tbe
hands of tbe commissioner of police, with
the avowed purpose of electing tbe de
feated ring candidate for mayor as such
commissioner. It amounts to an official
declaration by the Republican majority
in the Legislature that they will not per
mit the people to relieve themselves from
fraud ang misrule, and whenever they
have been successful in overthrowing
government by ballot, it shall be
forced on them again by special statute.
If there be anything tbe so-called Repub
licans do not want, it is honest adminis
tration. •
Fooling Over the Xlwlnlppl River.
| What is needed for tbe Mississippi river
is to remove tho causes which impair the
force of tho current—cut off tho lateral
spread of tlio river in tbe swamps—
straighten the channel as much as Is feas
ible, and rely upon tbe current to deepen
the bed of tbe river. Somo immense
scheme of reservoirs at tbe head of the up
per Mississippi is proposed at an estimated
cost of a million and a half. This, before
the river itself Is touched, will defeat all
improvements. No increase in the volume
of the river without provisions for control
ling the flow will do any good, but much
harm, for ft will only add to the overflow
and spread of the channel. There is water
enough in the Mississippi, if directed by
good engineering, to deepen a navigable
and permanent channel to the gulf,
paragraph we read in the New York Sun
says:
The last system proposed for the im
provement of the Mississippi river is an en
gineering projoct of extraordinary magni
tude. Tho object to be accomplished is, in
brief, to collect the vast volume of water
furnishod by the spring floods of the nu
merous streams nnd lakes constituting the
headwaters of tho river into immense res
ervoirs, for tho purpose of maintaining a
steady dopth of four feet in the upper Mis
sissippi from July to November. To do
this will require the construction of forty-
one dams, seven on the upper Mississippi,
fourteen on tho St.Croix,twelvo on the Chi p
pewa, and eight on tho IV isconsin. The
first set of dmns will be located at the out
lets of Mikes Winnebagosisb, Leech, Mudd,
and Vermillion, and at Fokegnma Falls,
Gull Lake, and Pine River. The total hold
ing capacity of these reservoirs wfil equal
in extent an unbroken sea of four hundred
square miles, with a uniform depth of eight
feet. Tho plan specifies that nil thereser-
voirs shall be constructed of earth and
wood, no suitable stone being found in the
region in sufficient quantity. Congress has
already granted an appropriation for be-
irinning the work at Lake Winnebagoslab,
whore it is proposed to build a dam sixteen
feet high. The total coet of dams, includ
ing telegraph lines for operrting them, is
set down at less than $1,500,030.
How; Diphtheria may be Spread In
Schools.
The Sanitarian says: It is not alone by
the breathing of infected air that diphthe
ria may be communicated from child to
child at school. Indeed those who deny
that the air is often or ever a medium of
communication of tho disease, and who
are at all familiar with the thought
less ways of little children at school, must
yet recognize that tho possible means of
communcation by almost direct contact
are many.
Who has not been a school boy witli
bis mouth full of marbles just taken from
bis mate? Children often borrow and
loud pencils, "Which by instinct they wet
in the mouth or hol^ in tho mouth; they
borrow sponges of one another to wipe
their slates, which they moisten with sa
liva. In so democratic a community as a
primary school room it is a common thing
tor all the children of tho room to drink
from the same cup; their clothes commonly
hang in close contact in closets and ante
rooms. They manifest their likes and
dislikes by biting or refusing to bito ftom
tbo same "apple; and little girls often
pledge eternal friendship by that classic
symbol, “sharing gum.” Though these
things may occur outside the school, they
are the more frequent the more children
are brought together, as they are in
schools.
Prospects of tlie Funding Bill.
A Sun Washington dispatch or the 22d
instant says the funding bill will probably
go to Mr. Hayes to-morrow its present
shape, unless an effort is made to delay it
in tbe House. Tbo ways and means com
mittee informally decided this morning to
report bill to tbe House to-morrow with
the recommendation that the Senate
amendments be coucurred in. It is the
general impression that the bill will be
come a law and will result in a successful
loan, although Comptroller Knox has been
predicting a sad faiiuro of it. Sherman
has informed members that lie will do all
in his power to make it a success. He
said to-day that the national banks which
were making such a fuss were acting very
foolishly. He believes that there is noth
ing to fear from any withdrawal of circu
lation. If it should amount to any large
sum he believes the Treasury department
has the means at once to counteract the
stringency.
The Senate this morning passed by
unanimous consent a bill repeating tbe
law taxing bank deposits, and this was
done to placate tbe banks. If the bill be
comes a law such will undoubtedly be tlie
effect, though the House will probably
refuse to act on tbe Senate bill, bolding
that tbe Senate has no power to originate
sucb a measure. A similar bill has been
reported to tlie House.
The True CaMuct.
Tho Herald of the 22d gives the follow
ing as the true forthcoming cabinet, and
no mistake. It is tbe original Jacob
Townsend. The others were counterfeits
and impostures:
So long as New York’s share in tbe
cabinet was still unsettled in Gen* Gar
field’s own mind, it was utterly impossi
ble to make even reasonable guesses in
regard to any asember of it except Blaine.
Now all sorts of names are mentioned m
this connection by those who fancy that
they have watched the drift of afitiit a
liere witii some degree of accuracy. But
tbe llerald correspondent is not rcduc«d
to guess-work. lie is permitted, through
a source that may be retied on, to give
nearly a complete list of tbe forthcoming
cabinet as it new stands. It is as follows:
Secretary of Stale—James G. Blaine, o#
Maine. ,
Secretary of tbe Treasury—Charles A
Foiger, of Nsw York.
Postmaster-General—Charles Foster, o?
Ohio.
SecTwaiy of the Navy—Nathan GoS^
Jr., of West Virginia. . _ •
The other three members will be Hor
ace Davis, of California; James F. Wil
son, ol Iowa, and ex-Souator Howe, of
Wisconsin.
Fjeoplb were wont in the olden times to
bore the oracles for information as to fa
ture happenings, and the horoscoper had (
constant occupation. It will be soen that (
among the many omissions made by the (
inaugural committee, a neglect to look
into Mr. Garfield’s future is very promi- >
nent, and Garfield himself has shown a re
markable want of interest in the matter.
To any one who is familiar with the in
stincts of a Republican, this will not seem
strange. With him the most important
event is the getting into office. Ho is per
haps wilting to thank his stars for that, bnt
for the future he trusts to luck. Neverthe
less, around Mr. Garfield, tho representa
tive of his party, there are congregated a
very interesting series of stars and events.
The most noticeable thing is the dayitself—
Friday, March 4. The general significance
is bad luck—a significance strengthened by
other signs. The Republicans are evidently
upon the verge of a reverse. Blaine
may havo another sunstroke or be sent
into the nine-hole of a cabinet position.
Conkling will be called upon to blacken his
record, either by truth or perjury
in a divorce case, and possibly the
capitalists may withdraw from the
party’s support. Friday takes its name
from Fria, the Northern Venus, and the
Southern Venus will be over Ohio about 12
o’clock on the 4th; she will shine with great
brilliance in tho evening, bnt will disappear
about the time people start to the inaugural
boll. Tbe influence of these two Venuses
upon the Republican party is difficult to
foretell. We are disposed to regard them
as representing tho white and colored of
tho party, and especially so sinco the
Southern one disappears when tho inaugu
ral ball comes on, to which no colored
Indies need apply. Jupiter’s abrupt disap
pearance abont dark is suggestive of tho
downfall of the party. It takes Jupiter
43,325,848 days to como around where ho was,
and if ho can carry tho Republicans along
with him we shall remain friendly to Japi
ter. Tho Great Dipper increases tho bad
omons by appearing up-sido down. This is
ns Grant loft it, and Hayes found and ioft
it. It implies that tho good old timos havo
all ran ont; and old Major Ursa, lying witli
lfis toes pointing upward, signifies a dead
cock in the pit, and completes the wreck.
Thero seems to bo only one remedy for
these unfortunate signs. Congress must
pass n law declaring that Friday comes on
Thursday next week, and appoint a com
mittee to set tho dipper up. A eubpama
could bo served upon Jupiter compelling
iiim to remain in sight, and a commission
established to look after Vonua, with power
to send for papers and witnesses. Congress
made Mr. Hayes Frosidont in spite of tho
people; surely it can kocp Mr. Garfield
lucky in spite of the stare.
■■■■ ■ ■ <*»—
John A. Logan has tho mumps of a
government mule, nnd not half the modes
ty. His cool proposal that “having attend
ed to tho memory of tho “father of his
country,” Congress should do something for
its “savior,” and his attempt to work in tho
Grant retirement bill, has disgusted even
Congress. When Johnny returns to his
vine and fig tree, to smoke through the
summer months, he should consider the
merits of our proposition, that Grant be
made the “Lone Fisherman” of America
with a salary of half tho suckers he can
catch.* Smoke over it, John.
The grand stand from which an orator
was addressing on Alexandria, Va., audi
ence, and npoil which sat President Hayos,
fell to the ground on the 22d inst. just as
G. Washington’s name was boing pro
nounced. An American eagle sitting upon
the railing immediately flopped Ilia wings
and flew off. It is hard to tell whether
tho structure was unable to stand tho
pressure of circumstance, or whether its
colored architect, who had had no practice
ns a carpenter sinoo “bo fo’ do wnh,” mado
a mistake in his estimates. Nobody blames
the eagle for leaving.
The Senate has agreed to build a $8bf-
000 monument to Mr. Goorgo Washington.
Conkling was among tho few who opposed
tho bill, nnd we rejoico to know it. When
men of Conkting’s stamp begin to build
monuments to virtue and honesty, the
gentlemen of tbo country are off their
kor ba30 as it were. Wo need nover fear
tho devil ns long as lie wears his tail en
train, but whon be folds it into his hip
pocket and takes a seat with the congrega
tion, the occupants of adjoining pews can
not in safety accept tbe loan of his fan,
Wb trust that tho inaugural committee—
and again wo disclaim any intention to dic
tate-will soo that the grand procession
does not march over the DcGolyer pave
ments,. if any of them are left. It will be
remembered that Mr. Garfield onco sprain
ed iiis ankle in crossing these pavemonts,
and wo should dislike to see an American
President limp into the White House. A
serious accident may bo avoided by » tittle
care nt tlce timo.
Th* great Garfield procession on the
/viminff 4th will not suffer for want of tone.
An old fashioned Georgia colonel or so
will dot the tine here nnd there, and a
Georgia colonel lifts from obscurity
everything within a hundred yards of
(him.
At ast hope begins to dawn. TheDe-
Leeseps scheme can bo indefinitely post
ponod by allowing Secretary Evarta to fin
ish a diplomatic sentence on the subject.
This is clearly our wisest move. Franco
relics greatly upon her nnderhold, but our
safety lies clearly in American wind, with
Evarts os the window.
* War on American Pork—Seventh
Thousand Pounds Weight Seized by
the French Authorities.—Under these
heads a Fans dispatch of Monday to the
New York Telegram says: Articles ap
pear In this morning’s Figaro to the efTect
that the excitement caused by tho recent
seizures of diseased American poik has
not yet subsided. Tlie minister of agri
culture has just issued strict instructions
to prevent tho introduction of trichina
pork into Franco. Over seventy thousand
pounds have already been seized and made
into manure. It is proposed to have all
imports microscopically examined in fu
ture and marked in a special mauner.
New Blo«r(*pblri»l Dictionary.
An excellent feature of tho new edition
of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, just
issued, is tbe new biographical dictionary,
in which are given the names of nearly
ten thousand noted persons of ancient
and modem times, with a brief statement
or their birth aud death, their nation
ality, profession, etc. This is designed
lor purposes of ready reference, to answer
tbe questions which often arise as to
when and wheie certain persons lived,
aud the character of their achievements.
It contains many names of persons who
are still living, and the pronunciation of
each name given.
Senator Bayard succeeded in amend
ing the bank tax bill so as to provide that
taxes shall be taken off deposits only.
This is as it should be. Thero is no rea
son why the hanking business, the most
lucrative of all branches of industry,
should not hear an assessment in com
mon with all other forms of business.
Lr Capt. Eads ever perfects his twenty-
rail ship road, there will be a grand future
before our inlaud cities, and nobody will
regret that Atlanta has been made a port
of entry. Full rigged ships spinning along
tho Macon and Western railroad, while
they may frighten the farm mules for a
while, will soon cease to be a novelty, and
will add greatly to the dignity of the up-
oonntry. In the meantime we trust Mr.
Blount will see that Macon is made a full
aizod port of entry, with an adjustably
harbor attachment
The Telegraph and Messenokb has had
so many fine compliments passed upon her
feathers that she is disposed to extend her
wings over all sections. Leave your sub
scription with the managor, and if you live
in reach of a railroad we will leave the pa
per at your door upon the day of its publi
cation, it matters not what part of Georgia
claims yon. Wo but quote from “Cincin-
natns on Farming” when we say that “the
hen which sits in the middle hovers the most
chickonsJ]
"When the Washington inaugural com
mittee selected its gigantic card board, we
firmly expected to receive one scored,
“The Cosmopolitan, Inter-State and Inter
national Jamboree.” Bnt no, the dainty
printing went forth on its silent mission,
and only the codfish aristocracy knew the
date appointed. So let it be. The earth
still swings, the skies are as blue as we are,
and we are no worse' off than tho colored
Americans. _
The people are fast beginning to suspect
that Doc. Wilson is the only man who
knows where Doc Wilson is. What effect
the offering of a $453 reward will linve on
him it is hard to say. Tho amount is just
largo enough to set up a first-class barber
shop, but not sufficient to hire a man to
run it, and Doc would not bo able to at
tend to it himself.
The inaugural ball invitations are CxO
inches in surface dimensions, thickness not
stated; yet, with all this space, the commit
tee have not been able to find room to write
tho namo of any colored citizen. These
documents are too unwieldy for colored
society bucks to handle. Nothing larger
than a ballot fits the darky’s grip,
In the light of recent oventa, wo would
most humbly suggest that when our July
orators take tho stand to announce that “wo
aro ono people,” he should explain that this
does not apply to inaugural balls. Upon that
occasion wo are several pedple.
It looks vory much as though the pension
bill will eventually become the national
debt. Some men are just beginning to find
out that they lost arms and legs daring the
war. The men who failed to lose limbs are
now tho unfortunates.
The banks complain that Cacio Sam is
abont to require them to toko their 6 per
cent, bondsiout of the nationalpawn shops
nnd put in 3 par cents. Tho worst of it is
they have got to call in their bills to-do it,
and hnvo no< idea where their bills are.
They vociferously assert that they cousiob
stand in the air and work a lever. Con
gress should doss a resolution, declaring
that they can.
Kino Kalaxana has written to Verdi, ex
pressing his pleasure at having heard the
now opera “Aida.” Tims, it will be.observ
ed, tho old proverb, “music hath, power to
soothe tho savage,”is renewed andatrength-
ened. Mr. Schuiz should give n concert to
the Indians, and. favor King S. Bull with a
private box.
The Legislature of Arkansas has-now de
clared that tho State’s namo is-Arkansfrw.
This, wo presume, has been doae-. ont of re
spect for the “Arkansaw Traveler,” who
mado the place famous. It is. seldom, in
this ungrateful ago, we find such, kindly re
membrances existing, in the- bosom of a
groat State.
New Yokxebs, irrespective of partite, aro
happy in the successful erection of the
great monolith. "Why not shake hands and
mako friends all around? It would be
proud day for Cleopatra could she know
that her celebrated needle had repaired all
the breaches in New York.
One of our exchanges reached us yester
day looking very much 03 though it was
printed on a postage-stamp. This will
never do. Cheor np, brother, and receive
tho inflating breath of spring.
The rumor that Sitting Bull has been
appointed administrator on tho estate of
Ole Bull is indignantly denied by tho lat
ter’s charming young widow. We hasten
to make tho announcement.
The fast mail still continues to be an in
valid, but nothing Interferes with the regu
larity with which passenger trains go
through the trestles, and kill engineers.
Since old Conk has returned from Men
tor, he has looked as smiting mysterious
as a valentine in the hands of a school
girl.
Monsieub DeLesseps can confer a great
boon upon the future political student by
cutting a canal through ono of Evarts’ di-
plomatio sentences.
The State Fnir will be held in-Macon in
October next. If Atlanta and Augusta be
have themselves they may come overt
Nobody ever interferes with our Arctic
trade. Even in tho neighborhood of the
North pole, American ships are allowed to
remain as long as they wish. The Jeannette
is still there.
Among tho pleasant anticipations thero
aro none that tho immodiato f uturo holds
which wo valuo more than tho approach of
spring and Mary Anderson.
So common has become the boiler explo
sion, that a bursting boiler which fails to
kill seven men, is no longer regarded as an
important item.
Tub Nihilists have strangely neglected
the usual monthly house-cleaning, and
doubtless tbo dust in the Czar's palace is an
inch thick.
The ox-eyed girl, it seems, lias the floor
in Washington. None but an oxhide man
can resist her charms. How varied are
thy foibles, oh fashion!
It is perhaps late to remark it, but Bern
hardt was one of the coming events which
failed to cast a shadow before.
The Ides of March are approaching.
Likewise tho odes.
ALL SORTS.
The Boston Transcript is very much
troubled for fear that the 5,613,831 negroes
in tho South will not be represented in the
next Congress. What in tho world is tho
Massachusetts delegation going to do? Are
they gorng back “on themon and brother?”
But then, what about thousands of negroes
in the North—will they be represented ?
It is not» “sunstroke” this time that af
fects Mr. Koine. It is rheumatics, and it
is represented that ho is in so mneb pain
that he hasn’t tfmo to resign.- It is better
for the country that the disease bos at
tacked the legs instead of tho head, for
tk.‘.e is some hopo that some oC the inflam
mation may bo drawn to his legs'and leavo
hr* head clearer.
Senator David Bkvis says ho tea not tho
slightest idea of raascending tlio. bench.
Reason, because ho Mis grown so portly.
Its practical demonstration it has been
ascertained that thirty cents worth: of vel
vet, i'dree cents wort3 of wire and forty
cento worth of feathors-ean be stirrcd'up-in
6ucb b way as to be soSS to silly women for
$2...
Gen. Saziteld, it is said, will leavo- the
patronsgo of the Statosdargoly to Senators
and ResrereubUires. That is a dangerous
legacy fcv leave to the nverngo Congress
man. Etit this is done t» get rid of ffie-na-
gro during tho summer time.
An ancient sago onco- said: “The- good
ness of gold is tried by fire, tho goodness
of women by gold, and? the goodssss-of
men by women.”
JOheklin,. Ohio, was a community that
was early-affected during the present centu
ry with, amBishop Gil Haven would express
it, “tho divine doctrine of miscegenation.”
A few weeks-ago tho Congregational church
of that saintly place refused to let IL W.
B., tho negro’s friend, lecture in their
building;. This is some progress towards
civilization.
The OiLCity Derrick sagrsthat no weath
er is genuine unless Yennor’s namo is
blown on. tho bottle. There is a good deal
of blowing, of bottles in this -latitndD,,ui all
kinds o£ weather.
TntTaxas. Legislature has got efter the'
baggage-smashers with a- law that fines
them for the res nits of their carriossness.
Wo only, wish Texas jurisdiction, extended
over Georgia in the matter of baggage-
smashing.
Bismarck says Germany wants no colo
nies, as-they wonld bo to her like the silks
and. sables of the noble, families of Poland
who have no shirts to their bocks.
drunn was regarded as a foolish pur
chase by the wiseacres at $7,000,000, bnt.
Senator Miller, of California, says the Fur
Company has already returned to tho gov
ernment about $3,060,000, and before their
grant expires tho full amount will haTe been
paid, while the seals will be just as numer
ous as ever.
It has been definitely settled that Garfield
will not havo any cabinet before the names
of his appointees are confirmed by the Sen
ate.
The reactionary powor of human speeoh
is a wonderful thing. If you don’t believe
it, just get two women to disputing over
their babies.
CunisTopnER says that an old man and a
young lady are alike in one respect. They
will never wear their fine clothes just before
getting married.
The editor of the Washington World says
lie believes that Sirs. Felton, of Georgia, is
a rigorous nnd forcible woman. If he is
anxious to know whether it is true or not
just let him trend upon the corns of her
“liege lord." -
A>«c York Sm».
It strikes us that the gentlemen In Wall
street who are trying to prevent the Sen
ate funding bill from becoming a law
ralber make a mistake. Undoubtedly
they have a right to entertain and express
tbeir opinions about tbe bill; but when
it comes to threatening that unless it Is
modified to suit tbeir views they will
wreck the trade of tbe entire country, they
go a step too far. The average Congress
man has no such fears of banks aud bank
ers as to Hake him alter bis vote to avoid
their displeasure, and 'as to any possi
ble mischief they may do he will soon
find a way to prevent it. If officers of
banks should attempt, as some foolish
men say they will, to withdraw their cir
culation unless certain provisions are
stricken out, it would be very easy to sup
ply tbe deficiency with an additional is
sue of greenbacks, and if they try by un
derhand means to thwart the negotiation
of the new bonds because the rate of in
terest is not high enough to please them,
they can bo deprived of the privilege of
issuing circulation altogether. It is a dan
gerous thing for the tail to attempt to wag
the dog, lor if the dog gets angry he can
switch the tail about in a very unpleasant
way—for the tail.
^Mobile Stouter.
The lower house of the Alabama Legis
lature, if we have read the official report
aright, proposes to make it a misdemean
or for a man to bunt or fish en Sunday.
We are free te say that we think Sunday
can be much belter employed than In
hunting or fishing, but that should be a
matter of conscience, not of legislation.
Our Legislature might as well go back at
once to the Blue Laws of Connecticut,
and make it a crime for a man to kiss his
wife on Sunday. The cause of the proper
observance of Sunday (and there is much
difference of opinion on this subject) can
not be advantaged by legislation like that
we have referred to.
H. T. World.
If a few national banks should retire
their circulation In order to defeat the
will of the people and prevent the sale of
tbe new bonds of the United States, that
circumstances will simply lead to the
starting of new banks. Tbe difference
between the par price of the 3 per cent,
bonds and tbo premium price of tbe 4 per
cents would go far towards bettering the
“profit on circulation.”
Detroit Pott Tribune.
Tlie New Orleans Times, Democratic,
craftily suggests: “If Garfield wants to
make Ids administration popular in the
South, let him adopt a policy that has no
connection with politics, but which lias
for its object tbe development of tho re
sources of tbe South.” More than one
President has tried to run his administra
tion without the aid of his party, but
they .oniy succeeded in running against a
very stubborn snag. Gen. Garfield is too
wise to imitate their example and failure.
Charleston Knot and Courier.
In plain truth, ft is exceedingly diffi
cult to feel much living interest in any
manor deed of the revolution of a hundred
years ago, when wc have on our thresh-
iiolds tho memories of a revolution in
which our brothers and fathers were tlie
actors. The whole range of hard fought
battles from Bethel to Averysboro’ lies
between U3 and the combats of the revo
lutionary war. Are not our sons more
tous than our grandfathers? Is not the
struggle in which we took part more to
us, and ours, than the struggle that we
know nothing of except from the orator’s
lips and tho pages ot uncertain history?
The revolutionary war, in tbeso days, is
as different from the Confederate war as
a majestic picture of a battle is
from tbe bloody reality. We can
regard it with admiration, and
give it a distinguished place by the
fireside, hut it cannot be as near to us as
the gigantic conflict which left its marks
on our homes and its scars on our hearts.
And of this, though it began only twenty
years ago, the recollection, in spite of us,
grows dim. They who were but toddling
children when our swords were sheathed
and tbe Southern banner was furled for
ever, aro now men and women, who
know not what slavery was, aud to whom
Man asses and Gettysburg aro what Cow-
pens and Yorktown were to tho Ameri
cans of sixty or eighty years ago. They
cannot see with our eyes or hear with our
ears. So they form a new element in onr
national life; an element of which,
especially in tbe South, no sufficient ac
count has yet been taken.
Louisville Courier Journal.
Those who declare that the country can
not afford to give pensions of $8 a month
to a handful of Mexican veterans, should
remember that Congress voted $310,000,-
000 iu pensions last year to soldiers of the
late war. Of th8* amount aow annually
paid to the pensioners on the regis
ter, the Commissioner of Pensions says
10 per cent, at least is paid to fraudulent
claimants. Tho duty of Congress is to
see that these fraudulent claimants’ names
are stricken off the roll, and that tbe
names of the genuine Mexican veterans
are SDtetiluted. The Mexican- veterans
have not long to live, and justieedemauds
that tlicto services shall be appropriately
recognized.
Philadelphia Times. .
A nation, like an Individual, must take
advautags- of tbe market, and when we
can call *»• an enofmous issue «f bonds
which are paying 8 and 5 per ceuU inter
est and reissue them at 3 per rent., we
should b*r simply derelict to the first
principles of honesty, to say nothing of
the first law of well conducted busiuess,
to fail to do- it. This is an argument
which appeals to every citizen. The fine
sophistries that wouhl put the bonks iu
the attitude- of injured creditors do not
appeal to the millions who, when we
were in our direst need, saw their way to
loaning the- government the msney it
needed, white the financial corperattens
stood aloof It is not absolutely, neces
sary for tbe* success of tbe present loan
that tbo bankers should take H,.bui no
banker wiw- has studied attentively tbe
history of tlie last twenty years oan fail
to see that ft is essential for the mainten
ance of tbeir standing that tho banks
should not put themselves athwart the
most urgeafa interests of the people* We
haven’t a particle »t doubt that the loan
will bo a suoocss without the intervention
of tbe banks. But if by any hazard the
people should so fur misunderstand titeir
own interests as to leave tho matter a
moment in doubt, another Jay Cooke
would cetne to the front to touch, like
Hamilton,.the reck of public credit, from
whence a. new stream of plenty would
flaw into the public treasury. If in the
throes of" armed national existence, with
eight millions »# armed enemies inside
our own bordoss and eager enemies out
side ready to intervene, Jay Cooke could
turn a resistless stream of wealth into the
national, ooffees* no man worthy the name
of American will permit himself to doubt
ttie spontaneous impulse of the nation to
iustautly uphold and perpetuate the credit
their blood and treasure created.
Columbus Enquirer.
A curious fact iu connection with the
recent census is said to be that there are
fewer persons of Northern birth living in
tbe Southern States than ten years age*
The great increase in the Southern States,
white and black, is nearly ail original
native stock. Although tbe increree of
tho aggregate population lias been heavy,
yet the number of resideuts lu the South
ern States bora elsewhere than in these
States is less now than ten years ago. In
other words, tbe Southern States are fill
ing up with people of native birth and
growth. This fact carries with it no un
certain comment. It shows that tbo
South is improving by tbe exertion of her
own population, and they are dependent
upon themselves to secure their own
prosperity, and are in a fair way to
achieve It. As we advance other* will
come In and share In tbe general gain.
We have labored under the disadvantages
of first showing to the world that we are
i In earnest. Humanity is always willing
to help and encourage Utoee who show
they solicit no aid and require no sym
pathy, bat are willing and able to accom
plish tbeir future.
LouitoilU Courier, Journal.
The recent barbaric hanging of a half
dozen persons In Tenneseee by mobs,
when those persons were in the hands of
the authorities, is indicative of the limited
amount of civilisation which obtains in
portions ot that State. The same mar bo
said of Kentucky “regulators” who per*
form similar works according to their
whims. The persons called “regulatore”
are equally criminal with the criminals
they execute. They are as dangerous to
the communities where they live as the
desperadoes they destroy. The ultimate
end of such a business is a degeneracy into
savagery. Draconian law will rid the
State of such infaraers. Who will exe
cute the laws ? Who are the conscientious
juries who will promptly decide, upon the
overwhelming evidence of the culi’ of
men, that they must die or be placed with
in four walls for life ? Where is the pub
lic opinion to protest against “executive
which sets aside just sentences
and fills the State with blood ? These are
questions for the people of Kentucky and
Tennessee to consider. Be lenient with
bloody-handed crime, and it will smite
every community in the State with doom
Public indifference is the fertilizing aeem
of crime.- °
Atlanta Phonograph.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, made one
of the shortest and completest arguments
on the funding bill in favor of the 3 per
cent, clause that was delivered by any
Senator during the entire debate.
Fete York Sun.
The earnest desire of the Boers forpeace
with freedom was strongly shown in their
overtures for the cessation of hostilities
immediately after twics repulsing Sir
George Colley. The sincerity ot this de
sire has been still more vividly shown by
their withdrawal from Sir Evelyn Wood’s
front, as if wiiliDg to do nothing that
wonld render peace negotiations imprac
ticable. This is what the British call be.
ine baffled aud bewildered by General
Wood’s rapidity. Meanwhile the British
appareutlyjareuottoo proud to playdouble
with this little body of opponents. They
begin negotiations, and under cover of
tliemjpush on re-enforcements as if nothing
of the kind were in progress. Evasive an
swers are also given to very straightfor
ward question. England treats this little
community of farmers as she would not
venture to treat Germany or Russia, un
der like circumstances.
THE SUPREME COURT.
Decisions Rendered Feb. 22, 1881.
Abridged far the Telegraph and Messenger ly
Bill et Harris, Attorneys at Law. Macon,
Georgia.
Mayo, Sheriff vs. Renfroo and Wilson,
injunction from Washington. Opiuioa
by Jackson, C. J.
1. On a bill filed by tlie State treasurer
and the sureties on his bond to enjoin the
sale of their property by the sheriff under
executions issued against them by the
Governor, by direction of a Joint resolu
tion oi the General Assembly, it is not
necessary that tlie Governor be made a
parly; nor could this be done, under the
faw.
2. The prayer for injunction against the
sale by the siieriffin such a case is a pray
er for substantial relief aud gives jurisdic
tion to the county of tbe residence of that
officer.
3. Where taxes are unconstitutional—
against law—judicial interference may be
liad against the collection thereof. 27 Ga
357; dis. op. of Warner, C. J., in 42 Ga.,
428; 4(1 Ga., 332; 47 Ga., (542; 53 Ga., 588;
54 lb. 330; 59 ib. 354, 808; CO Ga., 01, 503.
Wright, comptroller general, et al., vs.
Southwestern Railroad Company—Febru
ary term, 1880.
This applies to tax executions against
tax collectors as well as taxpayers; (3 Ga.
233, 43 Ga. 4S0, 51 Ga. 252,) and the
State treasurer, by tbe act of 1876, may
make tlie same defences as tax collectors.
What, then, are those defences which
tho taxpayer or collector aud sureties
might make in tlie courts?
First, they might resist an unconstitu
tional exaction, because such a thing
called a tax is no tax. Secondly, where
the law does not impose the tax or au
thorize the execution, for the same reason
that tbe exaction is not s tax, and the
execution not being authorized by the
statute or in conformity to it, is not that
process which the law declares shall net
be interfered with by tbo judiciary; and
thirdly, where the defendants were not
in fact tbe tax collector or sureties for
such an officer, or executed no bond, for
tbe reason that tbe bond on which the
execution is based was no bond, or the
principal proceeded against was not a tas
collector, or the surety not a surety.
4. The bond for 1870 was not signed by
tbe treasurer, nor was any bond accepted
by the governor; and no execution can be
based on it.
5. Tlio bond for 187* was signed by tbe
treasurer and bis securities; was accepted
by ibe governor, and filed in tbe executive
department. But it was not executed
witkin forty days from the election of tlie
treasurer, as required by law; it was
recorded within the tiice prescribed by
law m the office of the secretary of State;
nor did the sureties thereon make oatli as
to tbeir solvency, as required by law. Not
being in strict compliance with the statute,
it is not a good statutory bond. Nor Is
the stiawnary execution issued upon it
aided by section 167 of the code. That
section is, “Whenever any officer required
by law to give an official bond acts under
a bond which is not in tbe penalty paya
ble, and> conditioned nor approved mid
filed as prescribed by law r sucli bond is
not void,, but siauds in the placo of the
official’ bond, subject, on ite condition
being broken, to all tbe remedies, includ
ing the several recoveries whioh tbe per
sons aggrieved might have maintained on
tbe official bond.”
The courts having held that ono recov
ery exhausted such a bond, tlio object >f
this statxte was to give all persons the
remedies (not summary) which tlioy
might hare had on tbe official bond, until
tbe penalty was exhausted.
7. It may well be doubted^too, whether
this bond-is good at all in so far as tlie
sureties are concerned, when none of them
qualified as to tli«“ C3tale they possessed ova
and above indebtness and. exemption.
How«ver r aa none of them took the oath
themselves and perhaps each.signed with
the knowledge that tbo others had not
qualified;.it would not lie ii> tbeir mouths
to make-this objection to the bond as-a
common-law bond. It is alto true that
each wao- bound for a certain amount, but
each was-entitled, nevertheless, to contri
bution from every other; and unless es
topped by bis own consent,, was entitled
to have-that ether sworn as to bi3 capacity
to respond.
Tbeso executions show on tbeir iaoes
tbat a.special joint resolution was passad
fixing the amount of liability and requir
ing Ike Governor to issue executions for
those-sums- Is not this- special legisla
tion—case legislation? aud is it not in the
teeth of tbe constitution of 186S and 1877?
Code- 5018, sup. to code 506. “No general
law affecting private rights shall be varied
in any particular case by special legisla
tion, except with the free consent ia writ
ing of all persons to be affected thereby,”
is the language of both constitutions.
Does not this special joint resolution af
fect the private rights of tlie treasurer and
of his sureties, and does it not vary this
general law and specify certain sums
for which executions are to issue?
If the suspension of the exeeution by
the Governor and appeal to the Legisla
ture is the only redress of tbe Treasurer
and his sureties, it would seem that the
appellate powor bad taken the initiative
and prejudged the case is wants to try*
Tlie general law cannot be and ought not
to be allowed to be so varied as to meet
the emeigencies of special cases, either to
confer favors or to inflict retroactive pen
alties upon citizens or officials.
It may be that the Treasurer aud surely
are liable to respond to the State for the
money made by the use of the public
funds. It may be that on proper plead
ings, by answer, or answer iu the natiuo
of cross bills, to these bills of complain
ants, recovery may be bad by tbe Sto*"
for such sums as may hat_Q beeu receivea
by the Treasurer aud his sureties on ac
count of interest which he made by tu°
use of public money. On these questions
we decide nothing. All that we do ce-
eide is that on neither ot these bonds cai
these executions summarily wake th®
money Which is therein specified, anu that
until the whole case cau be beard in open
court tbe chancellor was right to gj ft '
the ad interim injunction. Judgment w
firmed. „
Clifford Anderson, for plaintiff m error.
Jackson & Lumpkiu; James K. iim 1 *)
E. S. Langmaid, for defendants.
Paul Boynton's friends rejoice to
that he has again risen to the surfact.
is well.