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tiik ini)i:jm;mh:nt. • m hdat. jawfamy in **. 18 THE QUESTION DECIDED, AND DO THE PEOPLE WANT A CONVENTION f Wm the popular vole*' hffnril all over tiro State on Tuuislay last ? Or, wasittlu' few who spoke while the many renmiued j tileut ? Did th people generally turn out; end express their sentiment* t Or wmi it only the few fully alive for a change 1 And have they weighed the subject in their own minds, fully understanding and com prehending it in all of its phases, wlmt its Objectionable feature* now are, what pa tent defect* are embodied in the organic law. What change* ean be made that will necessarily produce beneficial results ? If the people generally have investigated this subject and ean clearly sec any Wool- j fteent result* in the proposed change they j are better posted than wo are. The re moval of the Capital back to Milledgeville is ono of the proposed changes. What genera! good will result from that? It will enit the Htate at least two hundred thou sand dollars to do it. The delegates will hsve to !>e paid, and the people will havo to be toted to pay them; or, the property belonging to the Htute will have to be sold j at a sacrifice to raise the funds. It may be thiA a few individuals at Milledgeville triay be profited, but is the citizens of Southern Georgia to lie benefited ? The Capital at Milledgeville will not enhance the value of their projierty one cent on the hundred thousand dollars. The prin ciple affluent in favor of the removal is lint tlmt Atlanta is the wrong place, or that Milledgeville is the right place, but that there wn a groat wrong perpetrated iu tiio removal, or rather, that it, was done by a corrupt party. Ho the act of the removal is not particularly objection able, lint the odium attaches to the party that did it. If wo wished to purchase a house wc would look to the convenience of its construction and the quality of the work, and if satisfied with both, we would never enquire, nor would wo Care whether it was built by Tom Brown or Tom Jones, nor whether Tom Brown was a Democrat or Republican, nor would we sacrifice the property and return to an inconvenient wad inaccessible locality upon the diaeov i ry tlint it was built by the objectionable Tom. This, wo think would be carrying out prejudice too far, for a man that would sacrifice the property of the State simply to blot out what the Buds did when in power, must have hud an extreme Demo cratic unction. We are in favor of blotting a.'it every Radical net, that the Radicals did while in power, but if they did, by any sort •of inadvertanee, do a Democratic and righteous deed, let us do ourselves the ■credit to let it stand, even though it was •done by the devils. When it was reported to Christ by the Disciples that wicked men were easting out devils in his name, he did not forbid its being done -the acts being good, even though done by bad men lie approved t hem, and mildly rebuked liis Disciples for objecting even to bad men doing good. Now, if the net itself was iniquitous, re sulting in evil, then abolish it upon the ground that it, was wrong without regard to who did it. In the change of the ju dicial system was the net wrong, or was the change right,but done by the wrong par ty, and is it to bo undone upon suchfliniaev pretests; were not the people everywhere ready to give up the old Inferior Court, the business of which was scarcely ever at tended to, and were they not satisfied with the changes? And, indeed, to every well informed mind, the improvement is ap parent. And now, the proposition is to turn backward, retrace our steps to the original standpoint because the progress was made by Bidhiek and bis thieving party. We do not believe the people of Georgia is going to be lend away from cor rect principles because some bud man or men once embraced them. But they say the homestead ought to lie reduced. We think it is wbo’ly imma terial wlmt amount of property is exempt from execution, whether one thousand or one hundred thousand,so the law bo pros pective and not retroactive. The vendor iknows the existence of the law and will make his sales exclusively upon his con fidence iu the integrity of the vendee. The homesti ad law he* tnk< n iti course; nil old debts are now bared by the statutes of limitation and there will be no further controversy about them. The premises considered, we think there is no immediate necessity for a change in the organic law, nor do we believe the people want it. It is very true that the people look to the eost of a Convention, and during the pendency of the financial crisis we think it wisdom in them. If it was only the actual expenses of the Con vention, the people might be willing to hear that, but that is only the beginning of expenses—every Constitutional provision has to tie vitalized by legislative onaothionts. Wlmt will it coat the State to pay the pin feathered representatives of the various counties for their long-winded and brainless speeches upon every subject and all the questions that will be agitated ? The cost will be immense. The Macon Telegraph intimates that Representative* are more easily corrupted in Atlanta than Milledgeville. That the principle legislation is done in the bar rooms, and briberies effected and corrupt schemes consummated that could not be doue if the Legislature met in the quiet old town of Milledgeville. What a sin gular idea, that an honest man at Milledgeville will be a thief in Atlanta. It farther intimates that Legislators will be more circumspect nt Milledgeville because there are no fewer detective*, not so many to watch and expose them. Wo would sug gest, if that in principle Vie correct, that the Capital lie removed at once to some lonely spot in the Okoefenokee Swamp, that honest Legislators may not bo tempted above wlmt they can bear. •too Aii, iJ:-Hid j, ~i present* the sumo and only argument iu favor of a Con- i volition and here if, is "The present Con- 1 stitution was concocted by Radicals, Healu- 1 wags, Yankee* and ignorant negroes. ” Not a single argument against the instrument, hut assert* that it was concocted by the wrong party, Why not point out the glar ingdefeets in the instrument that he Wants abrogated ? And not assert only that it is a creature of had men to excite the prejudice j of tlie masses and drive them into exces- ! sivc extravagance to abolish the tiling i to which there is no objection to its make lint obnoxious on account of it* maker*. We would like to see an argument in fa-; vor of a change of tiit) Coustiutioß. It may tie essential, but certainly up to the present, neither tlie necessity nor the im portance has been sustained by reason or 'o in LATEST NEWS. Washington News and Notes. NOTES IN EEIEF FROM ALL AROUND. MOIIK OF Civil, BIGHTS. Washington, January 7. A House resolution was adopted culling for the names of paymasters of the Lite war whose accounts are unseitled. Crutchfield, of Tennessee, asked leave to offer an amendment to tlie supplemen tary civil rights bill, providing a penalty against any woman who refuses an offer of marriage on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. (Laugh ter.) Butler, of Massachusetts, objected. In the course of his speech Butler said, if ho might be allowed to speak for the Republican party, lie would embody the doctrine in a sentence, not that ell men were equal, but that every man bad a right to be the equal of every other man if he could. All constitutions, all laws, all eu nc'mi lit , all prejudices, all caste, all cus tom, ell thought against, that, in contraven tion of that, were unjust, wicked, unchris tian, and certainly must bo brought to naught. Tins'hill only removed ull irnpe dimi nts to every man to lie the, equal of every other mat), if God had given him tie'power to lie the equal. Mr. Monroe, of Ohio, from the Cotn mi tee on education and labor, reported back adversely the resolution offered yes terday by Mr. Hvplier, of Louisiana, di recting nrmy rations to bo issued for the relief of the starving poor in the Southern •States. The committee had talked over the matter fully and freely, and tlie result arrived nt was that the committee did not regard in as the proper sphere of Congress to enter upon a General system of pro viding for pauperism in the States. If t,h' precedent were established it would soon Vie found that Congrees had entered jon the whole business of taking charge of ! pauperism generally throughout the States. The report was adopted and the commit tee was discharged from the further con sideration of the subject. illicit distilling in ououoia. Washington, January 7. District At torney Farrow, of Georgia, with the en dorsement of all the representative men from that Htate cognizant of the facts, han secured the acceptance by the Com missioner of Internal Revenue of the proposition of ex-Bepresentativo Price in the matter of illicit distillers in North Georgia. The proposition involves a lib era! settlement, approximating to general amnesty for past irregularities, and looks to tlio pardon of those in prison. Tlie ! latter class, however, depend* upon Kx ! costive clemency. There are about thirty live in jail, and over three hundred eases unadjusted. Th ere are also about three hundred distillers against, whom no proceedings have been instituted, who de sire to avail themselves of tho settlement proposed. THE EDGAR STEWART. New York, January 8. Zinori W, But cher, the owner of the steamship Edgar Stewart, yesterday said to ft reporter! “I am the sole and exclusive owner of the vessel Edgar Stewart, and she shall rot at her wharf before she shall be used in vio lation of any neutrality laws of the gov ernment. 1 have broken her charter and retaken possession of her, and reques ted Colonel Agnra to desist from taking any action in respect to the vessel, ns her reputation is had enough already, and I desire to redeem it,, as far as possible, in using her in legitimate employment,” STOLEN DRAFTS. Washington January 7.—No Execu tive business was transacted to-day affect ling the South, except the theft of about eleven thousand dollars worth of drafts for refunded taxes, mostly belonging to j the people of that section. Those drafts were in a tin box in the refunding division of the Internal Revenue Department, THE EKEEDMEn’s 111 REAP SWINDLE. Washington, January 7. A supple mental report to Ihe House from the Sec retary of War shows tlmt the Freedmen's Bureau swindle was carried on bv false reports of money deposited in United States depositories and of amounts cov ered in tlie Treasury. QUESADA AT KEY WEST. Key West, January 8. Senor Rafael Quesada arrived hero yesterday from New Orleans, Iu conversation he said Spain, whether Republican or Monarchical, was ; tlie enemy of Culm, and the Cubans in tended to be free at any cost. congressional. Washington. January 8. Tlio Senate, by a vote of 45 to 14, rejected Pratt's j amendment to tlie salary bill, compelling members to refund tho back pay received : since March 3d, 1873. The House is engaged on the Educe [ tionid bill. WASHED AWAY. , Poughkeepsie, N. Y., January 8. Tho bridge on the Hudson Ilivev Railroad be low Gloton has been washed away by a storm, and the trains are delayed. Land slides have occurred on the Poughkeepsie and Eastern aud the Duchess mid Colum bia Railroads. - ♦♦♦•-- It is an 111 Wind that Ivu>ws Nobody Good. -Tho panic brought a hcndsnme hnrvent to tho legal fraternity in New York. Every merchant, banker or broker who whs in trouble was obliged to retain it lawyer, mid in many instances more than one. The Grin noil bankruptcy case brought six well-paid lawyers into court. The fees required by these men on such an occasion would not be less than SIO,OOO, and the cost of the entire Grinnell suit will probably equal five times that sum. The best lawyers value their time from S4O to SSO per hour, and some of them honst a practice worth $50,000 per year. O’Connor, previous to his retirement made mnnally nearly four times that sum. In deed, he was probably paid $200,000 for tis services in the Jmmd ease, lie is now worth more than a million, nil of which he hat: nu*,dv by Lis own gcuiuiu L^Ly. GEORGIA NEWS. There arc four hundred ami seven granges in Georgia. The Quitman Manner has entered upon its ninth volume and expired upon its entrance! The employ com of the Gem gia Head have formed tiiem**dve*h*to an association. The job office of the Augusta Const UuHoualisl was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Dr, F. G. Caution, formerly of Macon, was found In his bod at Griffin l*t Friday dead, TJppincott A Cos,, of Philadelphia, will shortly j publish a novel from the pen of Mr. Marcelhm *5. Thornton, of Atlanta. The explosion of a gas pine demolished tlie ! dining-room of Mi s. K. It. HaHioen’H hoarding- j house iu Atlanta on Monday, Mrs. Arifi’cHfic Ilo.id, of Hanks county, hong j horse l f witu a hank of cotton. A love affair is ; supposed to have been the cause. Henry Denver, an Irishman, wan ahot and killed in ifawkinsville during*Christmas week, by special policeman Thomas Jones. During tho year Den ion county produced 1,335 bales of cotton, (59,030 hunlx 1m of c0rn,,15.150 bead , of hogs, ami other articles in proportion. Hon. It. H. Hill is in Albany. Tho AVir* says he bus lost ono hundred thousand dollars on his ; planting interests in Dougherty county. On the 90th of December Edwin Stubbs wan i shot and fatally wounded, two miles i. orn Han-| delHvllie, by his brother-in-law, Zacliarisih Gray, j Putnam county raised nine thou Hand three hundred and Jive bales of cotton last season, j against one hundred and sixty-live thousand aud j eight bushels of com. Twelve rases of small-pox have occurred in the i male department of colored patients in the Luna- ; tie Asylum, five of whom have died. One case 1 has occurred in tlie female department of white i patients. Haiulersvillft Herald: Jack Newman, a tenant! on the home place of W. C. li’ddlo, Esq., the past year, raised on a one mule farm, 5,034 pounds of cotton, nuking fourteen halos, 128 bushels of corn, 2.00$ pounds of Bidden aud 00 bushels of potatoes. Mr. Joseph Ad ford was killed at a bull in Bar tow countv recently by a man named Thomas Dawson. The difficulty grew out of the fact that Al’ford slapped the face of Dawson's nephew, who persisted m throwing fireworks into the ball room among the ladies. A horrible accident occurred in Murray conntv recently. A Mr. Johnson, in preparing to hill hogs, liad sunk a large hox in the ground, filled it with boiling water and placed a blanket over it. His little son, three or four years old, walked on to tlie blank* t. ami into tho scalding water. He lived twenty-four hours. One Frank If. Hall was sentenced to the peni tentiary from Atlanta, for “shooting at anotner.” He has recently had the chief witness against him, a colored moke, indicted and convicted of perjury, and it is likely he will go free. Hall's sweetheart said on the witness stand that she intended to marry him as soon as he came out of the penitentiary. Augusta announces the probable murder of another of her residents. Mrs. Agio s Lewis, wife of an engineer on the Port Koya l Hoad, who hits been living apart from him for some time, was invited to a neighboring house last Friday, where she was frightfully cut by lie**husband and his female companion. Her injuries are fatal, and both assailants are under arrest. The OiluinbliS Enquirer wivm the shipments of Columbus manufactured cotton and woolen goods over the Alabama Western ftabroad in the past two weeks has been immense. We head yes terday (J several large orders from the West one of which wan from Memphis for one hundred bales of domestics—filled by the Muscogee Manu facturing Company. Everything is now being sold for cash. A correspondent of the Monroe Advertiser, speaking of the lien law, say#: The law is good, itepoal is not the remedy. Ketrt mlinunt is the wool. Enactment!- will never fill yarn* barns and smoke-houses. Lien laws, granges nor Patrons of Husbandry will ever speed your plough. Make small calculations ami “tote your own skillet.” Then we will need no law. and ail will be well. From the Htate Treasurer, Colonel Jones, the ('nmifitidhm learns that the entire issue of the twelve hundred i hemaand eight per cent, bonds of the State, known as the Nutting bonds, have | been sold and exchanged. Home half a million j have gone North. The rest have been sold and exchanged in Georgia. Colonel Jones says be could dispose of more of them if bo had them. The fact is a very gratifying one for Gcoigmn*. The bowls have all sold or been disposed of at par. The achievement of their sale is one of which Colonel Joijch has reason to be proud. A New York correspondent is informed that the holders of the fraudulent State I wind m have determined to make one more effort on the Georgia Legislature, and fa Pi lg to effect a re cognition of tho validity of the bom s by that body, to bring the State into the Urbted S.ates Supreme Court. )t is stated that a pool lias In eu formed of all the bonds and ten pec cone, of their par value subscribed to effect mvumldo legisla tion. As these bonds aggregate soue seven mil lions, the corrupt!ion fuim must amount to seven hundred thousand dollars. Albany A* irs: Fur the last ten days our plant ers have been industriously engaged in the an nual pleasantry of hiring label.* We have wit nessed some interesting instances of affectionate demonstration, ami some cases of disagi enable antagonism; but the great majority of planters have mastered the art ofmaniptfl ting ’Treodmir' aud have no difficulty iu haodloig as much rk they want of it at fair figures, fining has been more easily accomplished than heretofore, and there has been less changing about it. The negro has learned to remain contented with tho man who foods and pays. Eatontou had an extensive conflagration on the morning of the 6th iust., and the loam s are estimated as follows, which we copy from the Messenger * J. A. Martin V Cos., #3,000; M. Mor ris, #2,000; Henm & Cos., $1,500; C. J). Leonard, $1,000; A. Phillips, $3,500; G. W. Boss, $2,500; J. A. Champion, goods saved; Palmer A Denham, $3,000; 11. H. Handera & Cos., not bmnt out but moved their goods and lost heavily, while moving out and hack. Several of these parties saved the greater portion of their goods. We have not learned the loss in building*, but suppose the nine houses destroyed were worth at least #IO,OOO. No insurance on any of the goods or buildings. Tho Columbus Enquirer toffs a lit do joke. There is a station on the Selma and Meridian Railroad named Cuba. A few nights since as the train, with an emigration agent' at a crowd of freedinen going wist, reached s point, the brakesman put bis head inside the car door and sangout “Cuba !” One old darkey rose, and as liis wool straightened out, said: “bur! ‘tb'v God, I knowd it 1 Heab we is in Cuba; an’ Pat ‘ar white man gwino to put ns in the war, or si ll ns ’fore day. Oof! I’se gwino from heah.’ Aud he, with about thirty more, limed off ido the woods', leaving the agent to use big “cuss words'' about Cuba, brakesmen, and the unccrL iaty of the “nigger.” Tho Augusta Chnmicle says that a genuine specimen of the backwoods' country girl was taken in charge at the Union Depot, on Friday, by a policeman, and escorted to the Citv Hall, mien the policeman informed the officer in charge that lie had arrested his prisoner at the depot, where she had been loatimg for several days, cracker bonnet very calmly and with a smile that was “child like'ami bland” hovering about her lips, sai-l: “You lie, young man; you found mo in the hear shed!” The girl said she was originally from Jackson conntv, lately from Athens; name. Myra Duncan; had no home and didn’t know where to find one. When asked if she intended to go into service, she very con temptuously replied: “Ketch mo at that; it's too much like a nigger.” The Hawkitisville Dispatch gives the Georgia Land and Lumber Company some very hot shot, pronouncing it a swindling* and laud* grabbing concern. Tlie Dispatch says: “Their agents and attorneys have been on double duty for the last three weeks, preparing to make a grand entry with several suits in the United States Court against citizens of Telfair county. The amount involved in any one of the eases would barely exceed the Jurisdiction of our justices' com ts. Legal cap lias been in great demand amongst their attorneys. United Stales Marshals have been perambulating the rural districts. Great excitement lias prevailed with the weak-kneed of this section, but report says they have hit upon a crowd this time that will take pleasure in an swering their summons in the District Court at Savannah without ever even offering to com promise.” LaGrnnge Deportee: “It was the good foidune of the editor of this paper to receive n present on the Christmas tree which the Methodist Suudny School had on Christmas eve. The present was a white mbit with a red flannel tail. Wc have not the least idea who made the present for us, but we will say if there was anything in the world which we craved with unutterable lougiug just at that particular time, it was a white rabbit w ith a red flannel tail. And vet we were surprised: wo did not anticipate such* a present. True, wo hoped some good Samaritan would think of us and make ns a handsome donation; hut our most ardent imagination never pictured such a gift as a white rabbit with a red tail. In our dreams we may have thought ot yellow rabbits with green tails, or of red rabbits witli sky-blue tails, or of black rabbits with tails like a barber's pole, or of Hofferinorabbits with “moon on the lake” tails; but the wildest vagaries of our (Vended imagina tion never *'o:rrf”' a 1 a white * m l rabbit with a red flannel *il. ” Wop Wif *he editor in bis freo/v ever saw 1 yards and monkeys with loug tails. i FLORIDA NEWS. John \V. F-tnicy, Jr., la loafing around in Flor ida. Christman trees bloomed and Imre fruit in va rioua portions of Florida last week. The itcpublicans of Pensacola elected their en tire city ticket on Monday by a large majority. Hon. C. ft. Mobley, State Attorney of the Fifth Judicial District, died in Tampa on tho 30th ultimo. A contract has been let for all the wo*k on the Great Southern railroad, between Jacksonville arnl King’s Ferry, except laying the iron. William Keene was on last Monday sen I diced to he hanged for the murder of Wiek’in Valen tine. He received his doom with a smile. Tho last Florida invention is that of if 'g a tallow candle to the city gas burners of Jrc.;s.t>- viile, in order to increase the light. It wo**k charmingly. The customs officer# at Jacksonville seized two hundred dollars worth of shell work, recent ly imported from Nassau, N. P,, on Saturday hist, having been fraudulently invoiced. The Marianna Courier says that Richard Dukes was convicted qt murder in tho first degree at the late term of the Circuit Court at that place, and Willis Dukes was tried and acquitted on the Harm; charge. A cutting alfray iu Tallahassee on New Year's, between Messrs. Sampson H. Butler and Dr. John H. Bond, resulted in the latter's receiving two cuts, on the arm and head. They will not prove fatal. On Saturday, the 27th ultimo, Wiffiam Mad dox and Micajub UiehurdHon, of Taylor county, met on the public road, six miles from Shady Grove, and after some altercation, Maddox shot Richardson, killing him instantly. An old quar rel the cause. The grand “Learned Pig” combination troupe on Saturday morning,last took passage ia a small schooner for (hqphdfupc, W. 1., accompanied by a strapped jour printer just from New York, and a moke that speaks nve different “huulg widges" after a fashion. The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund, by resolution passed the 29th nib, have placed in market again the hi-ids provisionally granted to tlie Jacksonville and Ht. Augustine Railroad Company to aid in the construction of said road, and also the lands contracted to be conveyed to the Southern Inland ami Navigation and Improvement Company, said lands having been restored to the Fund by a decree of the United States Circuit Cos act. Jacksonville JirrmMif 'n: A. F. Kenney, mas ter of the brig Uric Mac, at Fernandina, in a letter to the Obm rrer, complains that Justice Wood and others, of that place; Induced his men to desert, and says: “I have been laying idle for one week, at an expense of forty dollars per day, and have managed to pick tip three men by pay ing very h'gh wages, and am compelled to give the same scoundrels tnat c impe l my men, eight dollars a man for tho privilege t being robbed of my crew ” Tins is not the firt complaint of a u< st of land pirates which infest Fe -u.oidiiia. We hope for the credit of the State that Justice Wood, Constable Wilkumou and their tools may le brought to speedy punishment. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A rooted sorrow—An aching tooth. An imaginary quantity a lady’s age. An old settler—a blow between the eves. ChrhitttiftH carol for New York CLy Hall “Ring oqt the old ring, iu, the new.” “Say, Hal. did yon obey see do Cats kill Moiuiiaina ’t" “No, I neber did; but Ila ve seen dem kill mice.” “Yaw, yaw!” I slept in an editor’s bed last ni ;ht, When no editor cbmieed to be nigh; And 1 thought, as I tumbled that editor’s nest, How cattily editors lie. A Denver minister wan ma-rylng a couple wbt u a dog fight iuierruptod, and the bride called out, “Drive ahead; the yaller pup has got him by the fore paw !” When one Mr, Sparks was appointed to a bish opric, a rival Candidaie consoled himself with th*j reflection, “Man is born to trouble, an the sparks fly upward!” It wa* one of tho numerous Beecher family who used to pray, “O Lord! keep us f"om des pising our rulers, and keep them fj\ m acting so that wo can’t help it.” A smart voting Duly wrote to a idee young man the other uay thus: *'Come. and play gou-ear with me this evening.-’ She meant euchre, but the simp'c-minded youth “got mad - about it. Ma'k Twain in apeak mg of cundbalism, grows serious for once, and solemnl" deck* •<; that, for his own nrrt, “Vie would go hung-y for two days rather than eat an old personal friei'd.” A gentleman who rath or suspected someone was peeping through the key hole of lis office dom investigated with a syringe full of pevper s:\nee. and went home to find his wife had Been cutting wood aud a chip hit her in the eye. A young man out in search of his fatlie'-'s lost pig, near Scran on, p coos ted an I isfivna i along the road with, “Have you seen a s ray pig about here?” “Faith,” said Pit. “and how could I toff a to."ay pig from another?’ “So von don’t ciue about donkey-riding, missy. And why ?” “Oh, I’ve got a pony, and one doesn’t ca* e about donkeys after ,lm, you know.” “Has a pony got more legs than a donkey, then?” Minay-’ “Yes; exactly twice as many us son e don keys that 1 know of.” “Yes, t;ike her ami welcome,” responded an IllimsH filmier, when a young mu i asked for his daughter. “She run away with a school master, eloped with a show man, shot a vrffd cat, and whip ie<l her mother, aud the sooner you take her t c better.” A witty clergyman accosted by an old acquaint ance by the m ine *f Cobb, replied: 4 l don’t know you, sir.” “My name is Cobb,' rejoined the man, who was half seas over. “.Mi, sir.” replied the elergyiimn, ‘ you have so much corn on you that I did not s e t he cob.” A lisping mother, who had presented her infant at tho baptismal font for christening, ni being asked by tno clergymen, “Wh. t u. me?” res ponded in a whisper, “Lucy, sir,” when, to tho horror of ;he whole congregation and the eoe stmiAtion of the mother, ho christened the baby “Lucifer.” T 1 o shortest and most emphatic editorial val edictory on record was made by Frank M. Myeis, u California editor who parted from his readem in these affectionate words: “Having sold out. niv connection w-'th the Forest Grove ludepeu ceases w ith this issue, and I am d—d glau of it.” Boswsll once asked Johnson if there was no possible circumstance) under which wuieiuo would l>e justifiable. “No.” said Johnson. “Well,” said Boswell, “suppose a man had been guilty o fraud, and that be was certain io be found oak" “Why, then.” was tic reply, “in that case let him go to some country where he is not known, and not to the devil, where he is knowm.” The question was pet to a candidate for in stallation bv an excellent brother: “Could not i God have chaug*ai FUiaroahs heart;” The an swer was slirvwd but evasive. “I insist upon nn equivocal answer,” cried the questioner. “Uoum not God have changed Pharoah’s heart ?” After thinking a moment the answer came : “If ihe had neglected everything else, itnd given his | whole attention to it, 1 don’t know but he might.” ! Near Worcester an old man had been in town, | and, imbibing freolv, >vas returning home in hri i and, losing Fis reckoning, perm it led his I horse to take the railroad track. Jogging along I leisurely, it was not long before a train of cars ; overtook him, and the locomotive striking: the wagon sent the old man “fluking” ami killed I the horse, without, however, injuring the man. The train was stopped, and the conductor re | tux ued to ascertain the damage. As he approach |ed the scene of the accident he inqaireti of the ; old man if he was hurt. “Hurt ?” he replied. “No; j but I'd like to know what you a**e running your : blasted old cars on the turnpike for!” “An effeminate man,” says a recent writer, “is j a weak poultice. He is a cross between table [ beer ftim ginger-pop, with the cork let out; a j fresh-water mermaid found iu a cow* pasture, 1 with her hands filled with dandelions. He is a j tea-cnp full of syllabub; a kitten in trowsers; a | siek monkey with a blonde moustache. He is a | vine without any tendrils; a fly drowned in oil; a paper kite in a dead calm. He lives like a ; butterfly—nobody can tell why. He is as harm- I less as a penny- of sugar candv, and as i useless as ft shirt-button without a hole. He is ; as lazy as a slug, and has no more hope than j last vear’s summer-fly. He goes thro, gh life on ! tip-toe, aud dies like’cologue-water spilt over the j ground,” In the southern part of Massachusetts thero j lived a good-natured poor man who was known | to the neighbors by the simple name of “Jimmie.” i He was engaged to saw some wood, and was on | hand at an early hour to make a full day. It so happened that the lady intended visiting a friend that day, and at noon she said to Jimmie: “Will it make any difference to you if yon eat | your dinner and supper now, as 1 am going off to spend the day ?” “Oh, no,” was the answer. So ; Jimmie went in and commenced his attack on j the food. Affor satisfvmg his appetite the lady ! saw him with saw and Iwwse going to the gate. “Where are you going?” asked the lady. “Going | home,” was the answer. “J’uiuiie never works SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS. The of (',ri**ef Hyo ciratnrHd hv ; axnlt and burned tha outlying fo-t oi l,'aiv*rio. The court m.ir<i*l all Jnj{ t VerauiUe* fir tlie trial of ( uranium,ta haa uonJemoed aix more of | them to death, 'l7ie Treahiirer of tho National Bank of Concord N. H., )im oonf< Mod to einbea/J.ug an amomit of aixty thotiHand dollara. A man, yiviux the name of Andrew Downlu, broker, of Auntin, Texaa. anrreudereil himself to the New York no lice on the 2d inat., statinß that lie abaeonded from that eiiv on tlie 15. h of No vember, with 12,0011 Wfirtli of C. 8. honda en treated to him by a firm iu Austin. The debt ta*emeritop to January 2d allow* an inereaae of the public debt during 'December ofj f 145.272, and an increase Mince June 30, 1073, of m,49f1,812. Currency Increase ia the 1 tea* urv. f 1.277.351; coin. 101,470,103} coin ccrtitleate*, C 37,453,300; outataniluig legal tendera, $378,401,- 702. A Havana letter aiyn Intelligence has reach ed there that the Kdj’ar Stewart is fitting out for i the Cuban aervlee. The Tornado has left the port, aud it i* generally reported that ahe hna re-! coived ortfor* to pursue the Stewart, and if she j proves to tie of the name character an the Virgi- i ulna, not to take her but to sink her. Nathaniel French, a prominent Mason of Nas sau, N. H., who lias been missing since his artl val in New York six months ago, investigation shows, was brutally beaten am! robbed within twenty-four hours after liis arrival. He was a ken to Bellevue hospital, where lie died, and .he 1 body being unrecognized was buried. A dispatch from Madrid on January 2d say*:! On Tuesday night a shell tom the besieging bat teri. i set lire to the Insorgenis' irou-elad Tetuan in ihe harbor of Cartagena. After burning for three hours the tire reached the magazine, which exploded with tremendous force, damsg ing the vessel seriously. Two unknown drunken men, strangers to each other, quarrelled in the street in Bi. Louis on New Years night, when one knocked the other down and plunged a knife through his forehead, ! breaking the blade and leaving a nart of it in the man’s brains. WhonthC police arrived the wound ed man was dead. The murderer eseaped. The Southern Claims flummisarin, to whieh it is proposed to refer all war cla ms pending Ik-- foro the Quartermaster Gcneial and he War Department, has now hr fore if claims to the amount of $22,000,800. The average amount tlins far awarded by this Cc oiniissirm is a’.iout 13 per centum of tlie sums els in' ed. Last year only SBBO,OOO were allowed in eases in wltieli f j,- OOOjgK) were claimed. Tin term of the Commis sion was extended by the last Congress for live years. A dispatch from Louisville, Kv., savs: Thru. Cook, aged twenty-eight, stabbed his wife, aged eighteen, live times yesterday. ittSicdug mortal woiutds. His mother-in-law. Mrs. Itutlcd p , a - to interfere wlien Cook stabbed her i„ the back and then ent his own throat. Mrs. Itut ledge died iu a few minutes, and Cook and his w : b am in a sinking condition. The stabbing was done with a pocket knife. Cook 's under ia- i dictmeut for setting lire to hi own house, and it is strongly suspected that he set lire to a house in which several negroes were lie nod to death some time ago He alleges that his W ’fe h.s been un faithful to him. A dispatch from New York ooi'ie 111 inat.. says: The reguirr services of ihe Reformed I’piSCOpa! Church will begin to-mormw, when Bisiion Cummins will preach. Disliop Cununius says the iti formed Episcopal Church is founded on the principles for winch the low churchmen have been contending, and about (tie validity of of ils orders there can tie no qm si ion. Ti would be premature to give tlie names of well-known laymen and clergy nan in this ci.y who may bo e ipeoted to giro m their adhesion to the New Church, bat there is abundant proof that tile spirit of a considerable portion of tlie Protestant Episcopal Church in New York is ripe for this de pasture. Tile accession of he Rev, I'r. Qotldard, Rector of one of the largest and most important chnrehes on Htateti Island, ia good sign. Nn merotts offers from Cter.gy Ulan of other denomi nations, expressing llteir readiness to skepart iu the w'or*., havi i.fell read. Presbyterian, Meth odist a ni Baptist ministers have expressed a de sire to take charge of new organizations in this move,ne.it. From men of note in other Chris tian b. .lies, there have come sn-ggentienalooking toward tim probable or possible understanding between the"New Church and portions of such Christian Isviics. A t >r< uitiuen t Dive'or of Divin ity among tlie New England Baptists, and tin editor of an impiiriant religions journal in Balti more art among those who have written favoring such a step. Ono of the foremost Methodist preachers in Illinois, the President of a college there, lias given utterance to Ins cordial approval and unreserved sympa.hy with the nnivetnent. - Tire Parang ManTaA-— YV> worn n plnftftant party who boarded afc M s. Sinith'n last summer, and there were very f,-\v evening when we did not sit for hours engaged in pleasant conversation. There was but mteexcention to the (J *ti (‘ra! rule of goodfellowshtp. A yoi'iig Kti giish geutlemau PttU’t'd B'-mv i. w.iilo he enjoyed our society fc.tled eutirttly in mak ing his own company plt“isa'it. His insu lar prejudice* wore too s' oog to ho insu lated and liis snpeteibooNtir (wbic'i I be lieve was only iu his tea i rer) was super silly. He had one weakness—he could not hear a pi! n, and though too much of a gentleman to reiro'isi'ute, he always seemed id at ease for several minutes after Hiiitv Forsyth had i ulnigetl in his ins sion for playing epotj words. Ha y and I “ put a job” on him one evening as we sutt on tlie balcony with our pipes. We resolved to subject him to severe punish ment at breakiast the next mar ling. “Preserve me, if you please, Mrs. Smith,” said Harry, as we sat down to table the next mo'-ni.ig. “Why, Mr. Forsyth, wlmt do you mean?” said good Mrs. Smith. “Nothing, ma'am, only I mn in haste, nnd would like to be served first—-pre served, if no one objects. ” “Yon must be in a pickle, Harry.” saidl, “instead of a preserve, or you would re member that 'no one objects’ is bad gram no •. Yon should suy ‘no one object.’” “I was always averse to bad grammar,” said young Joslyn, ‘‘since my gra'nia died, and willed her property to an hospital.” “A verse to your bad g a'ma, be'ore she died,” said Harry, " might have secured some of the properiy to y©u, if sue were particularly inclined. ” “Perhaps he didn’t think it proper to get property that way,” said J, "anyhow I never heard a verse joke iu my life.” Here Mr. Brown who had been growing ghastly by degrees, ende vored to hide his confusion in his coffee cup and choked promptly. When he had partly recovered, Harry said to me. “Well, John, I sympathize with you. I never hen and a worse cho ;e either. I never saw a man cough, bicorp and strangle iuhis coffee cup in that ma - iler. ” "I’m not averse to jokioy,” said my wife, “but you are outrageous, gentle men.” Here Brown started to leave the room gasping us he went, and in his pt .< ixi tion ran against the open door. “Beware of evil-doers, Mr. Brown,” said I. “Be-where they are not,” said Hurry. “O, Lord," was all we heard from the ’all, as Mr. Brown disappeared. • 1 .V. V. Mercury. The Cost of Collecting Internal Rev enue in Georgia. —During the year 1873 the following amounts were collected by the internal revenue officials iu the four districts in Georgia: First district, 51)0,471 20; second district, 801,320 55; third district,Bll4,3o7; fourth district, $222,052 56. The cost of collection was $21,916 21 in the first; $19,435 60 in the second; $21.- 765 27 in the third; and $20,935 12 in the fourth—being 24 per cent, of the amount in the first. 30 1-5 per cent, in the second 19 per cent, iu the third, aud 9J per cent, in the fourth. Which shows, adds the Macon Telegraph and Messenger, that this business of col lecting Federal revenue is a most refresh ingly fat one for somebody. Tlie dinner bell of George Washington's mother was recently sold at auction. It has a sweet-, silver sound, weigl i six pounds, and bears date of 1007. HARRIS ISMS! Tlie racy editor of the Morning News is responsible for the following rare wit ticisms. We have this to say for Harris: if he is kept unde* the exhilarating in fluences usually imbibed during the Christ mas holidays, and which he must have used pretty freely before ho gave birth to the foregoing litter of witticisms, that the Morning .Neats would be the raciest a* well os one of the ablest conducted papers in other respects in ihe State, We would privately suggest to the proprietor that Nature has done a great deal for Harris. It Tins given him a brilliant head (both inside atnl out), and all that is needed to make him excessively brilliant is a litt'c com oil in his intellectual lamp. We think his Ridary ought to be raised for he is a smart fellow, and wc have often won dered how his mother ever raised him ! The Atlanta man who hilariously tempt ed hi* raothor-iTi-law to hold a fire-cracker while he called the children, is now tem porarily boarding with his uncle. The pet bull-dog of the average Miicof) household succeeded in undermtnitig sev eral pairs of distinguished pantaloons on New Year’s day. Tlie constables in Cherokee county in variably arrest colored criminals by snap ping the fatal derringer. They say isic ounce of powder is worth twenty warrants. Attorney General Cocke, after playing the 1 mlly by knocking MeLin down in the stree Wl di lit Wed a Holiday school address a few days afterwards. Another Christian statesman ! , A recent census of Atlanta shows a population of thirty-three dollars, not in cluding the three or four hundred thou sand innocent men who have been invest ing iu the newspaper lotteries, A dog, with a tin-cap attachment, ran between tho legs of a prominent citizen of Calhoun the other day. When restored to consciousness he acknowledged that he had a'l the Christmas he wanted. A negro girl in Sumter county played with a pistol very seriously the other day. The splenetic weapon, remeniliering tin t it was the holidays, suddenly unloaded itself, and pretty soon after that the genial eoroocr waltzed in with the usual crape on his but. lt was remarked ns a singular fact in various parts of the State during Christ mas that whenever a torpedo was exploded in front, of a mule ridden by a negro, the intelligent animal invariably made an ef fort to explode the negro by dropping lu n just, w here the torpedo fell, and some thin s with groat success. Science has not ie< yet given flic mule credit for a very bill) order of intellect, but evidence is acciin*uiiil.iiing to show that injustice has been done the B'limal in this respect. It is hard to convince a woman. A Wilkinson county man carried home some firework* for his son and heir, and liis wife undertook to superintend the display. The husband protesed that he would fix the tricks, but a sarcastic remark from the partner of liis joys, to the effect that some men thought they knew everything, si lenced him. Tho women then proceeded to ionite it. The fuse was damp, and to faeilita e matter* the woman fanned the spark into life by blowing on it. The re sponse of the candle was too sudden to con template. The front hair and eye-brows nf the adventurous female disappeared os if by magic, and the candle fell into the collection of fireworks, anil proceeded to fire itself off with great exactness, ignit ing the Other projectile*. A casual sky rocket skimmed along the grass, causing the family cat to ascend the nearest tree with great violence, while a fiery serpent took refuge in the husband's bosom. The author of all this trouble, disc iverfng tlmt her clothing was on fire, sailed around the house with as much emu. stars* as the liveliest pyrotechnic, and it was some mo ments la-fore the fright uied husband could arrest her wild career. Later, the son and heir was found under the house with the hack of his jacket burned out. The woman is now nn invalid, and the man writes to a friend that lie never had a quieter or more enjoyable New Year. Butler Euchered. A Washington letter writer says: Fur the past twenty years, there has been a elaiiu before Congress known as the “At oche claim.” Gen. Atoehe, who presented the claim in person,was a handsome Mexi can officer wluisuffered in some way dur ing the Mexican war, and was compelled by Sauta Anna to leave the country. His losses were secured to him w hen Mexico paid our government indemnity. I say it with regret that w hen money once passes into the possession of the government, it is very hard to get it hack again, for the policy appears to be to avoid the payment of every just debt if possible. Thus we see pereons with indisputable claims spend ing a lifetime in the x'aiu effort of (Adain ing justice, and bequeathing tho claim ns a legacy to their children. Gen. Atoehe has been dead for years, but his widow nnd two daughters survive. The eldest is the wife of Captain Ammon, the most intimate friend of the President. Madame Atoehe lives with Mrs. Ammon. Before Congress adjourned last March, the Atoehe claim was allowed, but when Mo .Tannin, her lawyer, went to the Treasury to draw the money, Mr. Cushing nnd Gen. Butler were on hand with nn attachment for tlieir client, a wealthy Mexican named Bandero. Randero’s claim covered the entire amount, near two hundred thousand dol lars. After attaching the money, it was necessary to allow* certain length of time to elapse before either party could draw the money. That especial day occurred about two weeks ago. The first persons who entered the Treasury upon that im portant day were Madame Atoehe and her lawyer, who proceeded to tlie auditor’s • ffice, where all the papers were ready to he signed. This was quickly done, and proceeding to the cashier’s office, the mon ey was duly counted, receipted and deliv ered. The parties left rejoicing. Two ht u s afterwards, Mr. Cushing and Ge-, Butler entered expecting to carry off great piles of greenbacks. Imagine their con sternation when told that the money was paid. I have heard that Gen. Butler made things lively, for when had he ever before been outwtted ? He said they did not come before 11 o clock because he thought that, even if Madame Atoclie got tiiere nt 9, it would take hours to make out the papers. The question is, who was the friend that hinted to the auditor that it would be well o be prepared to receive Madame Atoehe ns soon as the office opened for business ? Mr. .Tannin gets a fee of thirty thousand dollars, and Mr. Cushing and Gen Butler are minus about that sum. A decline iu the matrimonial market of Minnesota is anticipated by a contempo rary. Many of the young ladies there are i joining an Anti-Nicotine Sisterhood, and , solemnly pledge themselves to m irry only those who do not indulge in smoking. Per Contra, the young men have formed themselves into a Natural Hair Association , and have solemnly pledged themselves to marry nobody who wems false hair. Murder of an Old Man. — The good people of New York had already given themselves up to the delusion that New 1 Year’s day had passed without a murder, when yesterddy news reached the coron er's office that an old German named Pe ter Greveningi residing ill No. 421 East Fifteenth street, had died ffittb the con sequences of a severe lieuting teceiVed on New Year's night. It appears that Orcvening,went on New Year’s with his two sons-ih-law, Franz Sehiel, a German, and A. P. lie Hay, a Belgian, to meet some friends In fbo Seventeenth Ward. AI Hint 7 o’clock p. m. they returned home, and passing through Avenue A, between Sixth and Seventh street*, heard some persons who were be hind them pass some offensive remarks. Sehiel turned around to see what was the matter when one of the men attacked him in the most brutal manner, knocking him | down nnd jumping upon hitn, DcHuy, when be saw the predicament liis brother-in-law was in, concluded to take a band in; but he fared no better, haring hi* face beaten almost to a jetty', j and hi* clothe* torfl. Old Groveniag, who I lmd been walking ahead while the tight was going on, then went up to the crowd, laud in broken English asked why his sons i were as*a ilted. The ruffians answered, | "What have you got to do with it ? Go about your business,” dealing him at the same time several Mows in the face anti ion the head, which felled him to tl.e [ground, causing V‘.*v severe injuries. DeHay tried to raise the prostrate form nf the old tnaj; but tlie crowd, which by thia time numbered some twenty men, n l of whom were in sympathy witli the as sailants, would not permit him to do si A littering reported threats to kill him if he 1 would interfere. Finally an officer made - liis appearance, and the crowd dispelhi-.1, lint no effort was made to arrest anybody. The old mua was picked up by his sons, who took him to the Fifth-street station house, where the police-surgeon declared that the wounds were insignificant. Ore vvuing was taken home and died yesterday morning at six o'clock. Tho deceased was a Bavarian by birth, and a tailor by trade. He leaves a wife and six chil j dren, two of whom are married, while the rest are small children, depending upon the deceased. Officer Mark, of the twenty-second ; street Station, last night went to Staten Island, where he found both Sehiel and DeHay. The police expect to arrest the assailants. By order of Coroner Croker, Doctor McWhimiie last night made a postmortem [examination and found that death had been caused by a concussion of tlie brain, the result of violence. The inquest ia to be held in a few days. •* Prince Fred. Mr. Fred Grant is like that other, older, and fatter soldier, Fal staff. Never a dangerous action ean show it* head but he is sent upon it. Hardly lmd lie returned from over running Rus sia. Turkey, and the Caucasus than a grateful War Department heaped laurels, with the rank, allowances and pay of a brevet Lieutenant Colonel, upon him. For months he drew liis pay with vigi lance and con rage at Chicago, till be was detailed to do picnic duty on the Yellow stone. There was one fight in which a Lieutenant Colonel himself, lint it was Lieutenant Colonel Custar, as Lieutenant Colonel Grant, just before it took place, made a flank movement upon ! Chicago which to this day has not been satisfactorily accounted for. There lie : covered himself with fresh rations, till tut admiring fathercalled him to Washington to lead Germans and do recruiting duty’ That no censure of Lieutenant Colonel Grant’s conduct in the West is to be in ferred by his translation to Washington sufficiently appears from the fact that he draws pay as a Lieutenant Colonel and the obnoxious word “brevet” is omitted, through kindly and thoughtful deference •to certain scarred and gri zled old Cap tains and Majors who miglit otherwise ho nettled at the rapid promotion of a yonn [ ger and more influentially connected sol dier. The hereditary genius of the Grants displays itself in the somewhat sappy chip of the old block, who is run ning up the army list with the rapidity of a monkey ascending a ship’s rigging and promises to be at the mast Ipiad ere the | men who do the work have toiled up to the main-yard. —A 7 . V. World. Ex-President Davis delivered a brief address iu Vicksburg last week, in which, according to the Vicksburger, he said that | the masses of the jieople, in all sections of this couutry, were not interested in the ! corruption that prevails—the Credit Mo- biller, the salary-grab steal, ete.—and were always in favor of an honest admin istration of the government, nnd that while the politicians might disregard the sentiment of the people for u while, with the expectation of either defying that sentiment or deeiering tho people by their watch-cries and political programmes the truth is mighty and will inevitably pre vail; that the cry about tlie degeneracy of the times was an old one, but that the muss^if^lii^ieojilejvere^onml^^^^^^ MISCELLANEOUS AI) YKH TIS EM EX TS. Notice. mm? T7NDKRSIONF.D OFFERS FOR SALS 1 liis valuable plantation, in Brooks i.-onnty, seven miles south of (piitman, on the public ros>l leading to Madison, Fla., containing 6FO acres; tan acres in cultivation. Also all the stock, farming implement*, and the present crop of grain and forage of every description. Ail offered on favorable terms. Parties desiring to pureliaso will be shown over the premises at anv time by ang23-tf _ _ _ JAfc. tVILSOA r. m. noaorons. j j. i>. win or BOROUGHS & WING, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFFS, PIPES and SMOKERS ARTICLES, 14 Decatur Street, ATLANTA, GA. J. T. JORDAN, Traveling Agent. jonS-lv QUITMAN HIGH SCHOOL HAVING been called by the Board of Trus tees to take charge of this institution, the subscriber would respectfully give notice tlmt the Spring Term wjli commence on MONDAY, January 12th, 1874, and continue twenty-four wicks. Due notice will be given concerning the Fall Term. Being determined to make this equal to any of the schools of the country, he confidently appeals to the citizens of the town and country*for their support. The discipline will be rigid, *and those who expect to “run a fast schedule” will do well to go ewew|iere. Arrangements will be made for Music nnd French if desirable, and such assistance will be procured ns the wants of the school may demand. Tuition for the term of twenty .four weeks will lie $lB 00 for the first class; $24 00 for the second; and for the third class S3O 00, payable at close l term. For any further information, inquire of dec2.o“tf K, V. FOIiBESTSft, Trim