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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22,1866.
NUMBER 33.
IDcrklt) intelligencer.
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
ATLANTA. GEOSGIA,
Wednesday,‘August 22, 1866.
t'oniil) ffoxdM and (lie Inferior Court.
We have upon several occasions called the at
tention of the Inferior Court, who, it is under
stood, has the necessary authority in the prem
ises, to the unsafe condition of the bridge over
Reach-Tree Creek, op the Roswell road, and to
the had condition of the count}’ roads generally.
The grand juries for the three last Superior
Courts asked attention to this matter, hut so far
we are unadvised of any effort on the part of the
Inferior Court to remedy the evil complained of.
This we regret, and earnestly hope their honors
at the very next term will give this cause ol just
complaint their prompt attention. This is due
our merchants and businessmen, whose interests
we have reason to know will he greatly preju
diced by further neglect of this matter, as well
as our neighbors from the country who desire to
dispose of their produce in this market, and
carry return freight of supplies apd merchandise
to their homes.
We arc credibly informed that one of the large
mining companies in Lumpkin county have re
cently shipped three, hundred tons of freight by
way of Athens fin account of these bail roads.—
Another company has shipped from this place at
great risk and extra expense, over the roads and
bridge, one hundred and thirty tons, but have
determined to ship in future by other routes, un
less these roads and bridges are made safe.—
Five hundred tons of freight will be sent to
Nort h Georgia by the 1st ol January, and all
would go lroiu this place if the condition of the
roads woidd authorize it. Surely, when there is
so great an interest at slake the Inferior Court will
awaken to a proper sense of its importance. By
the way, why not. have the hundreds of vagrants
and criminals who are idling around anil sent oil
for minor ofjeuses, organized to work on the
county roads? It strikes us that this would be
a very proper disposition to make of this class.
At any rate, we earnestly insist on the roads be
ing worked at all hazards.
’■'lieu unit Non.
In July, 1804, Horace Greeley, in a letter ad
dressed to President Lincoln, ventured “ to sug
gest the following plan of adjustment”—entreat-
/iiy AIr. Lincoln not to “ fail to make the South
ern people comprehend that you (Mr. L.) and all
of us (the black republicans) are anxious for
/inter, amiprt )>arett to grant liberal terma
“1. The Union is restored and declared per
petual.
‘‘2. Slavery is utterly and forever abolished
throughout the same.
“ 2. A complete amnesty for all political offen
ses, with a restoration ol all the inhabitants of
each State to all the privileges of citizens of the
United States.
“ 4. The Union to pay four hundred million
dollars ($-100,000,000) in live per cent. United
States stock to the late slave States, loyal and
secession alike, to lie apportioned pro rata, ac
cording to their slave population respectively by
the census ol I860, in compensation for the
losses of their loyal citizens by the abolition ot
slavery.
“5. Tbe said States to be entitled henceforth
to representation in the House on the basis of
their total, instead of their federal population,
the whole being now free.
“ <i. A National Convention, to be assembled
as soon as may be, to ratify the adjustment and
make such changes in the Constitution as may
lie deemed advisable." * * * *
Then, Mr. Greely, and “all of ax” (his po
litical associates) were “ anxious lor peace were
for granting “ complete amnesty for all political
otlenses;" were even willing to pay the South
ern people, “loyal and secession alike" (or
their slaves; were lor allowing the Southern
States representation in Congress; and would
doubtless have granted them still more favorable
terms than those proposed, or than Mr. Lincoln
would then have granted, or President Johnson
now proposes in his plan of Southern recon
struction.
Now, what “a change has come over the
spirit ol their dreams?” Success lias made this
Mr. Greeley and the other leaders of his party
intolerant, arrogant, cruel. For restoration and
peace there is uo longer any desire; amnesty lor
political otlenses is now denounced as a crime in
the President; payment for the freed slave is
hooted at ; representation in the national coun
cils is denied ; the Southern State* would be
mere produce*> but for Andy Johnson,and him
they would impeach and depose did they dare,
tor only attempting to carry out the policy urged
upon his predecessor and approved tin n by the
party to which Mr. Greeley belongs. Then,
that policy was correct; now it is odious and
denounced its treasonable. Who can toll what
a day may bring forth ? ”
’('lie lMilluilolpIiiu Convention.
Up to the hour at which we write, the reports
from the Philadelphia Convention indicate good
feeling and entire harmony. This is cheering,
and we trust that its entire proceedings will dem
onstrate unity of sentiment and of action, on the
part of the delegates from every section ot the
I'nited States. Mr. Vai.landiguam has acted
patriotically and wisely in declining to take his
seat in the Convention. All honor to him for
it. Mr. Feknando Wood, of New York, has
done tin" same. The following letter addressed
ov him to Mr. Doolittle explains his position.
" Philadelphia, August 12,18(i0.
lion. J. It. Doolittle :
Dk.vk Su; : 1 am earnestly desirous for the en
tire success of the movement proposed to be ini
tiated by the Convention of to-morrow. If suc
cessful, the results to the country will lie of the
most salutary character, tint it cannot lie success
ful it iis proceedings shall be disturbed by any
cause whatever.
I am informed that a serious disagreement is
likely to arise in eousequeuee of an attempt to be
made to exclude some delegates, myself included,
because our political record is distasteful to tbe
Radicals and their sympathizers.
Now, although 1 feel confident that such an
outrage would not ho perpetrated in niv case by
the Convention, and though 1 have nothing to re
gret or take back as to my course during the war
—and I do not admit the right of auv oue to raise
that question in the Convention under the call—
yet 1 am too much devoted to the accomplish
ment of the high and patriotic object in view to
permit my presence there to be made the means
of disturbing its deliberations, or an excuse for
assault by its enemies outside. Therefore 1 shall
not attend the Convention as a delegate. Very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
Feknando Wood.
M e notice a statement in some of our ex
changes to tbe effect that though Mr. A. II. Ste
phens will he in Philadelphia, and will do all in
his power to promote the objects of the Conven
tion. but will not take a scat as a delegate. Con
nected with this piece of information, we see that
our fellow-citizen, one of the delegates from this
Congressional district, the llou. R. F. Lyon, has
been appointed Chairman of the Georgia delega
tion.
The Washington Star says there is not a word
of truth iu the statement telegraphed from that
city that a delegation representing the commer
cial men in New York and Philadelphia have
b ’i*n there, urging the President to appoint a
successor to Secretary McCulloch. No such
delegations have called upon him ; and no man
or set ol men ever urged the President to ap
point a successor to Mr. McCulloch.
The K«w Era.
This is indeed a new era, anil a new era in
journalism, if we take note of what the Atlanta
Keu> Era occasionally dishes up for the edifica-
| tion of its readers. Its yesterday’s leader on the
Intelligencer is a rare specimen of what it is
capable ; the wonderful agility with which it can
dodge an issue; the brazen impudence with which
it am make an unfounded assertion; and the
readiness with which, like a hypocrite, it can cry
” A men.'” for a purpose. Not long since, the
Atlanta New Era, as the public will remember,
veDtured out on negro soifraye—the venture did
not pay—it was an unfortunate venture, one that
the people of Georgia did not sympathize with
much, for the reason, simply, that it yielded more
than they were willing to the demands of what
is known in the South as Northern Radicalism.
But this is a new era, and the Atlanta Xnr Era
was only speculating upon it, that’s all, and as
the speculation did not appear likely to prove
profitable, its attention was turned to something
else. The Convention question then camejto its
relief, and, upon'this, its positions and course are
too well understood in this*community lor it to
attempt now to deceive any one in regard to it.
Its course in this respect has mainly been one of
opposition to the movement; constant and ear
nest in its efforts, when it took ground against it,
to keep the South from participating in it; exer
cising what influence it could to impair the confi
dence of our people in the movement. Even in its
yesterday’s issue—after having ventured to pro
nounce the charges we brought against it,
“worthless,” “idle,” and so forth—it still doubts
“most xerioux/y whether even in” the event the
Convention may meet and pass off harmoniously
“it had not hern better that Southern men had stood
aloof.” This then has been the Atlanta New
Era's position since it took ground, as we ob
served before, against the Convention. In a pre
vious article we stated, if we mistook not, that
that journal at first advocated the Convention
movement. We believe so still, but have no file
of its daily issues to which we can refer to sat
isfy us on that point, and indeed if we had we
would hardly take the trouble, so little do we care
for its position pro or eon. in relation to the mat
ter, to hunt up the record it has made.
Passing from the issue presented by our notice
of the course of the Augusta Constitutionalist and
itself, the Atlanta Kern Era, with the utmost ef
frontery, asserts that the compliment paid this
journal by a cotemporary was our “own lan
guage.” This is a fair specimen of its fairness,
of its regard to propriety and the rules that gov
ern gentlemen in political discussions. It plainly
exhibits, too, the envy ot an antagonist who can
not hope for a similar compliment. The assertion
is unfounded and untrue. We were not speak
ing or writing of ourself, when we copied the
article of an esteemed cotemporary. No more
were we guilty of this self-laudation, than the
Atlanta New Era would be ot self-abuse, if we
were to write ot it, that “ it was a sorry sheet,
poorly edited, and of no account,” and the Ed
itors were to transfer the same to their columns.
We would not be guilt}’ of this discourtesy, but
some other journal might, and if the Era were
to copy it, we would not say it “ was speaking
of itself” and cry Amen! Amen! to it, what
ever we might think. We do not know whether
to attribute the assertions ot tlic Atlanta New
Era, that the Intelligencer, when it copied
the complimentary article referred to, used “ its
ownlanguage,” and was “speaking of itself,” to
stupidity or recklessness. Either is equally to
be condemned in a journalist.
The Editor of the Intelligencer, to whom
special reference is made by the Atlanta New
Era, made no insinuations, and his course has
never been a doubtful one. He was an open ad
vocate for secession and did all he could for the
Southern cause, lie has no apologies to make
for his course. Might prevailed, and in accept
ing the amnesty tendered, he did what the best
men of the South have also done. When he
made up his mind to swear allegiance to the
Constitution of the United States, to obey the
laws thereof, and to support the Union, he did
what duty prompted him to do, with no men
tal reservation. He views the doctrine of
Secession as an issue of the past—a dead is
sue, a buried issue. In this, too, lie does not
stand alone. Illustrious examples are before him,
encouraging and cheering to him in the course
he has pursued. He has not, since he took that
oath of amnesty, been engaged in whining, and
growling, and stirring up discontent among.the
people, but 1 lias zealously labored for the pub
lic good, for his own native South, and for its
early restoration to her rights under the Consti
tution. As, during the war, he was not a sus
pected man, so lie shall not be now, nor shall the
Intelligencer under his editorial direction,
nor will it be on the part of its present Proprie
tor. The Atlanta New Era auinot, by its insin
uations, its ridiculous animadversions, or its false
assertions, impair the record of the Intelligen
ces Who was the “ dashing cavalry officer,”
we ask it, that “ did the work for the Intelli
gencer in advance of the surrender of the Con
federate armies?” Where did he come from,
what forces did he command ? The editor of the
Atlanta New Era has either been grossly duped,
(he was not here in Atlanta when it was surren
dered) or he has written a paragraph having no
warrant for his tacts, save in his own imagina
tion. He should be more careful, or the New
Era will suffer through his folly. The Confeder
ate armies had been disbanded sometime before
the surrender of Atlanta. The insinuation that
the Intelligencer succumbed to tlie Federal
forces in a manner unworthy a Southern man,
we, the Editor of the Intelligencer, pro
nounce most scandalous aud false, lie who dis
charged his whole duty to the South in the late
struggle for independence will not now be lonnd
a laggard in his efforts to restore to her women
and children, to her suffering population, some
what ot tlicir former privileges. The Press
especially should be atire to this great, this noble
work. Wherever it is deficient in this, carping
ever, and prophesying evil continually, under a
misii nth rope- view of the “ situation,” it can only
be the medium ot mischief Such is the posi
tion we feel warranted in assigning to the At
lanta New Era, under its editorial conduct. It
has heretofore benetnted by our silence, it shall
uow have in its political course, if it pleases,
open war.
’• Lay on AtcDuff.’
Geueral Beauregard a Prince.
A Paris correspondent thus refers to the above
distinguished Confederate, aud it the statement
be true, a gallant Knight was never more wor
thily honored :
“He is still with us. or rather he is in Paris,
having been called thither again, as I understand
it, to consider his refusal of the offer ot the su
preme military command from the AIoldo-AVal-
lachia Government. It is given out that tbe
French Emperor, who is all-powerful with tbe
Romans, is no longer adverse to the General’s ac
ceptance of the position.
“As to the General's own way of thinking or
intentions concerning the matter—wait and see.
Certain it is, the Romans are most anxious to
have him, aud iu their eagerness have made him
veiy tempting offers—the title of Prince, to rank
next to the Hospodar, the sum of $200,000 down
in hard cash, a princely salary, and the supreme,
absolute command of all the military forces and
retinue ot the ten principalities. If the General
should accept, his late companions in arms could,
aud doubtless will, furnish a body of officers that
would prove invaluable to the "Romans in the
event of war. Mighty events are impending all
along the Danube.
Spirit of the New York Press.
REPORT OK THE FKEF.DMEX's BUREAU.
The Worldcomments oil the late report of Gen
erals Stcedman and FuIliTton, and remembering
that their statements relative to the general con
duct of tlie freedmen are highly encouraging,
says that it appears from this report that many
of the officers, agents, and employees of tlie
Freedmen’s Bureau are a scandalous set of
knaves. Cases are described in the report of
offieeis of the Bureau who collected heavy fines
and accounted for only a small fraction of them,
and trumped up lame excuses for the embezzle
ment after the fraud was discovered ; other cases
of clergymen attached to the Bureau drivin
dishonest and oppressive business in marriage
fees; of slave pens kept by other officers from
which freedmen were sold to planters for five
dollars per month ; of self-convicted lying on
the part of others in accounts of maltreatment
of freedmen hv planters; and a great catalogue
of other iniquities which the reader will find set
forth with every mark of authenticity iu the re
port.
DELEGATES TO PHILADELPHIA.
The World's Washington correspondent of tlie
Otli, writes that at the principal hotels in that
city, were a number of delegates from tbe South
en route to the Philadelphia Convention, and ac
cessions to their number arrive by eveiy train.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, arrived this
evening, and is at Willard’s. All are iu the best
spirits, and anticipate the most beneficent re
sults from the Convention, which they are fully
confident will mark an era in the history of the
nation.
PRINCIPLES AND MEN.
The Timex says that it has from time to time
published many of t he resolutions of tlie various
State Conventions and public bodies which have
made the appointment of delegates to the Na
tional Convention at Philadelphia. They have
all been marked by a high patriotism, a trusty
loyalty, a national spirit and a conciliatory dis
position. But one purpose lias been evident in
them all—to re-establish the Union, fully and
completely, on the basis of the Constitution. If
the principles maintained and promulgated by
tbe National Convention be equally unassailable
and national, there will be nothing lor virulent
Radicalism but misrepresentation, falsehood and
personal calumny.
MEXICO.
The Washington correspondent of the News
writes that there is a certain part of Mexico
which is of no more use to Mexico than if it was
in tlie clouds or under the waters of the gulf.—
It is composed of the three States of Sonora,
Chihuahua, and Lower California. It is a terri
tory extending fully (100 miles from East to West,
and 200 miles from North to South.
The whole of Mexico, including these three
States, occupies an area more than twice as large
as France. Without these three States, Mexico
would still be nearly twice as large as France.—
It would occupy an area of about 700 by -800
miles, while the area of France is only about
400 by 500 miles.
It is the opinion of the wisest and most saga
cious statesmen who compose what may be
called tbe Cabinet of Maximilian, that the inter
ests of Mexico will be advanced materially by
lopping off and getting rid of tlie three Northern
States mentioned above. If diplomatic relations
existed between Mexico and the United States,I
have no doubt but that the Mexican Government
would offer to sell to ns these three States on
very reasonable terms. Under existing circum
stances, their possession by Maximilian is a
source of positive weakness to his government.
One reason why it is of no use to Mexico is on
account of its distance from tlie capital and the
difficulty of keeping up communication with it;
and another reason is on account of the nature
of the country itself.
AMERICAN NAVAL ARCntTECTCRE.
A Paris letter to the World says that there is
great jealousy of our superiority in armaments
of all sorts, which shows itself on all occasions.
Lc Constitutionncl had an article headed “The
Miantonomali,” a few days ago, setting forth in
elaborate fashion its detects and sliort-comings,
asserting it to be infinitely inferior to the French
iron-clads, and especially inferior to the Taurcau,
a formidable ram, launched about six months ago
at Toulon, but which lias never left that port.
The naval action between the Austrians and
Italians serves also as an occasion to depreciate
American naval architecture, the Re d’ltalia
having been sunk by the Austrians. From what
ever cause, tlie wooden fleet has withstood the
attack of the iron-clads, armed according to tlie
new system, and has most assuredly (?) held out
against them. Will the American monitors,
therefore, be retained as the type for vessels of
war?” A letter from Italy ascribes the partial
success of the Austrians io the lact that a num
ber of ex-Confederate officers had entered the
service of Kaiser Francis Joseph, and that the
fleet was maneuvred under their orders.
HON. S. S. COX ON THE LATE CONGRESS.
Hon. S. S. Cox spoke on the 9th, iu New York,
before the Johnson Union Club of the 0th dis
trict. In the course of his speech Mr. C. said
that by the law of the 4lli of March, 1802, it was
declared that alter tlie 3d of March, 1862,. “the
number of members of the House ot Represen
tatives ot the Congress of the United States should
be 241.” Could this law, passed’since the war,
be carried out after peace came ? Why not ?—
It was as much of a law as that which gave to
the clerk of the House, the right to iguore States,
in making his roll. It remained unrepealed.—
The 241 members never all took their seats. Only
a fraction secured them. Hence it is called a
Rump. To make up this number of 241, Vir
ginia was allowed 8 ; Tennessee, 8; Georgia, 7;
North Carolina, 7; South Carolina, 4; Arkansas,
5; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 5; Alabama, 0;
Florida. 1; aud Texas, 4! Here were 58 mem
bers ready to sit in the federal legislature. Two
Senators were ready, or soon would have been,
to represent each of the eleven States. On tlie
call of the roll fifty-eight members, and twenty-
two Senators, from States full of all revolution
ary and fraternal memories and anxious to be
imbound again in the same destiny, were debar
red. If these eleven States were in the Union on
the 4th of March, 1802, when the republicans
passed the law fixing the number of members—
why were they not in on the 4th of December,
1805, when, sitting under the painted escutcheons
ot the States in our capitol halls, twenty-four
usurped the rights of thirty-five ?
GOVERNMENT GOLD.
The Express of Friday says that there is some
anxiety among bankers and importers to know
whether the Secretary ot the Treasury will sell
any more gold. We are not authorized to speak
for any one upon the subject, but presume, from
what we hear, that no more gold will be sold
until after the interest upon the ten-forties, Jail
ing due upon the 1st of September, is paid off,
nor before the middle of September, and it then
sold, tlie result arrived at will depend very much
upon tlie amount of gold on hand. In the face
of past experience resulting in considerable
losses to tlie Treasury, and no benefit to the pub
lic, no more gold will be sold, except tbe surplus
above fifty millions, and the amount of what
this surplus will be, depends upon too many con
tingencies to make any calculations reliable.
ARE THE ACTS OP CONGRESS OVER TilE VETO,
* LAWS?
AVe find in the Express a letter from Hie Hon.
Thomas Ewing, an old line Whig, tlie cotempo
rary of Clay and Webster, and Secretary of the
Treasury underGeneral Harrison. The Express
says that it statfs these facts in order to enforce
by such high authority in the Republican ranks
the law laid down by Mr. Ewing, respecting
three of the great acts of Congress—the Freed
men’s Bureau ESI, the Civil-Rights Bill, and the
Amendment to'the Constitution. Mr. Ewing
reasons, and shows, that a Rump Congress of
twenty-five States only, cannot legally take pos
session of the government and enact laws over
the Executive veto, and that the courts are not
bound to respect.such acts of such a Congress.
Mr. Ewing holds all these three important enact
ments of Congress void, in the.absence of an
Executive approval.
THREE MONTHS OF CRIME IN NEW YORK.
Tlie Times savs the periodical returns of ar
rests for the various offenses committed against
the law in any community must always be im
portant, as indicating the progress of that com
munity in good or evil ways. In this city this
is especially the case, for we possess among us
elements ot disorder which are found in no oth
er upon the American-continent. New York is,
in fact, not so much American as cosmopolitan,
and we have to endure the imported vices of all
the world beside. During the firstthree months
of the year there were 16,593 arrests; in the sec
ond quarter, 21,020. There is, therefore, an ex
cess of 5,037 arrests during the latter over the
former. These figures do not, however, imply
an increase in the graver crimes.
SANTA ANNA.
The AVasbmgtou correspondent of the Times
states that Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister, re
ceived to-day official dispatches from his Gov
ernment, dated at Chihuahua, up to the 0th ult.
Tlie Alsxican Government had taken in conside
ration the tender of-General Santa Anna’s ser
vices, made to President Juarez, and concluded
not to accept them, assigning the following rea
sons : “ Because Santa Anna, being one of the
originators and promoters of the plan to take
foreign intervention to Mexico, liis sincerity can
not be depended upon now ; because the Mexi
can people have lost all confidence in him, and
cannot, therefore, place any reliance on him.—
His presence in Mexico would only excite dis
trust and fears, and would only he an element of
discoid anil weakness.”
Tlie Express, however, of Tuesday, in addition
to the news received this morning from Mexico,
referring to the Santa Anna movement in the
city of Mexico, we have been shown a letter
from a prominent Mexican to the effect that the
insurrection is much more general throughout
that country than lias been represented. The
letter states that General Carlos Oronos, u’ho-is
in command of a considerable army in the State
of San Luis Potosi, aifd General Rosas Landa
have both pronounced in favor of Santa Anna,
and proclaimed him General-in-Chief ot the Re
publican armies of Mexico. Regales and his
army have declared for .General Santa Anna.—
The conspiracy, which was discovered in the
city of Mexico T-.^Sts ramifications all over the
country. This stirring intelligence opens a new
chapter in Mexican affairs, and seems to place
Santa Anna’s star in the ascendant.
THE EMPRESS CARLOTTA AS A DIPLOMATIST.
The AVasliington correspondent of the News
says in regard to the visit of the Empress Car-
lotta, of Mexico, to Europe, that her mission is a
purely diplomatic one; that her absence from
Mexico will be very brief; aud that if she fails
in accomplishing the object of her mission, it
will be the first time in her life that she has fail
ed in anything she has undertaken.
REMOVAL OF GEN. BAIRD.
The correspondent of the World writes that
General Baird lias been removed from his com
mand at New Orleans, and General Stoneman
appointed in his place. The fact excites much
indignation in Radical circles.
Result of the “Air-Ltue Railroad” meet,
lug in New York.
Air. E. M. Johnson, one of the Directors of the
Air-Line Railroad, has just returned from the
meeting of officers of the above road, held in
New York.
From him we have been able to gather the
following facts. The first business before the
body was*to elect officers. This was dispatched
wit hout delay. Then a committee was appointed
to prepare by-laws, which being done, they
were brought before tlie meeting for adoption,
first xinglg, then as a whole. One ot the resolu
tions adopted, was to this effect: “That this road
shall run from Atlanta to Gainesville.” AVlien it
reaches Gainesville, two surveys are to be made
from that poit. One route fo run to Chester via
Anderson C. II. The other to Charlotte or
Salisbury, N. C. via Old Pendleton. The Engi
neer elected, Mr. Sage, was to proceed immedia
tely to the surveying of these lines, and be pre
pared to report at their next meeting, which w’as
to be held iu Atlanta upon the 4th Monday in
September.
Air. Johnson speaks very sanguinely, and
thinks the building of this road is a foregone
certainly. Great inducements were of course
held out to bring the road through here. Our
immense mineral wealth and mining operations
are sufficient guarantees that this road will pay,
besides it was a very slight deviation from an
Air-Line, and was the only practicable route to
bring it.
There are many persons who are entirely
ignorant ot this proposed road. It is believed
liy many that it is only intended to run from At
lanta to Anderson court house. This old line,
about which there was some excitement a few
years ago, is to be a grand link in one of the
greatest^roads in the United States. The “ Air-
Line” Road proper is to run from New Orleans
to New York iu as near a direct line as M ill be
prrciicable. They propose to traverse this dis
tance in titty hours. They know they can do it,
and they feel confident that it must be the most
desirable line for transportation, tor the very
sensible reason that it will be the most economi
cal and expeditious. These facts induce capita
lists to invest—they care not one fig for the road
from Atlanta to Anderson only as a connecting
link in this proposed line.
Congress lias incorporated a company to be
termed the “Air-Line Company” to build this
road, and appropriated one million dollars to
wards the building of it. True this amount is
not to be reckoned as dollars and cents, and is
but a drop in the bucket, but the name means
nothing, and the mere fact that some action was
taken upon it by that body proves that the road
is not considered impracticable, but is destined
to be a national benefit.
We have sketched the proposed line so that
our people may readily see the incalculable ad
vantages to this whole country, which are to be
derived from the running of this line. They
may well rejoice at the prospect of the road
being built, for it will be the road, in every sense,
on this continent.—Air-Line Eagle.
A Little Romance.—The grand-lather of
Gen. Robert E. Lee was a rival of Gen. Wash
ington in a love affair. The object of their
affection was a beautiful Miss Grimes, the first
love of Washington, and whom he celebrated
as “the lowland beauty.” Lee was successful
and bore off the prize. The son of this marriage,
“Light Horse” Harry Lee. was always held in
great friendship by Washington, and Irying, in
his biography, suggest this tendernes tor the
mother was not without its influence in connec
tion with the son.
The friendship continued between them until
the death of “the father of his country.” Alajor
General Harry Lee was a gallant officer, the
autlier of “Alemoirs of the War in the South ;”
Governor of Virginia in 1791 ; an advocate of j
the Federal Constitution in the Virginia Con- i
vention ; a member of Congress when AVash- j
ington died ; appointed by Congress to deliver j
the eulogy, originated the classic words : “First j
in war, "first in peace, and first in the hearts of i
his countrymen.—Montgomery Mail. |
European New*.
From our English files to the 28tli ultimo, re
ceived per the Java, we lcaru that the armistice
in Germany had been prlongeil to the 2d inst.,
and that a four wekes trnce, from that date, had
also been concluded. This really looks like
peace. But the terms of this peace appear to
be too one-sided to be a lasting one. In a word,
Austria has actually accepted the position of a
second, if not actually a third-class power, while
her great rival Prussia, lias sprung at once to
the front rank of the first-clss powers of Europe.
Italy has thus far lost battles, but gained the
coveted territory for which she went to war,
provided she be Milling to accept Yenetia to
gether with its debt of £20,000,000. Austria is
to retire from the Germanic Confederation, and
be allowed only to form a new league M’ith the
States south of the Alain, to pay an indemnity
to her adversary for accomplishing her own
humiliation, and to hold as a fit subject for dis
cussion the status of the Italian Tyrol.
This is certainly humiliation enough for the
luxury of one month’s war, and must be a bitter
pill for the old House ot flapsburg to su’allow.
Prussia seems self-M’illed and arrogant u’itli all
this success. It is announced that “the future
position ot those Princes who have been forced
by recent events to quit their dominions, must
he reserved for special arrangement betM’een
them and the King of Prussia, and for the ap
proval of the German Parliament”—over which
Prussia will of course rule supreme. King
“Wilhelm’s” first acts sliou’ pretty clearly what
may be expected of him in the future. Here is
a specimen of his style:—“Whereas I am desi
rous ot opening the Diet in person, I hereby
postpone the opening fixed for the 30tli inst.,
reserving to myself to determine the precise date
on M’hicli the Chambers shall meet.”
His demand upon Frankfort for contributions
to the extent of 25,000,000 fl., shows no mercy
tor (hose Mho oppose his rule. The ambitious
Napoleon III., who Punch aptly illustrates in
“a card” as a commission Agent, will now find
a rival who will be ready also to tender his ad
vice and assistance gratis “the Kings and Em
perors in need of it,” thoughout Europe, and to
furnish “Kings arid Emperors to order,” on the
shortest notice, and will be certainly well pre
pared, having a good supply of superseded
Kings on hand.
From England M’e have little to record worth
persual, and that little had better never have
been recorded, for iu fact the disgraceful riots in
London forms the chief feature of the week’s
news. We hope both the mob and the Alinistry
M ill learn wisdom, and endeavour hereafter to
settle their questions in a more moderate aud
sensible way than either have yet attempted.
We feav neither of the two extremes of old
England will show themselves fit to rule the
nation, and the result will be that the more
moderate men u’ill soon again resume the reius
of government.
We are sorry to observe that tlie cholera has
broken out in East London very severely, and
that the deaths for the M eek reached 346. Fi
nancially, the Bank of England rate remains
the same, with a slight gain iu gold coin is their
last report.—New York Albion, 11 th vlt.
From the Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences.
Case of Vesical Calculus*.
Operation by Dr. F, A. Stanford, Columbus, Geor
gia—Reported by Dr. M. J. M.
There is little of interest, in an intrinsic point
of view, to be furnished by a report of a series
of cases of stone in the bladder, the history and
symptoms of nearly every case being found
alike, and the operation performed exhibiting
little besides the taste ot the surgeon iu charge
of the particular case.
Thanks to the energy and labors of our teach
ers, this, last has been made so practical and
simple by the aid of iugenious instruments, that
the dangers to be apprehended from an ope
ration-arc materially diminished.
The case here reported is offered more for the
purpose of placing it upon record, than lor the
'chance ot its affording any instruction to the
age of the calculus*, in proportion to the age of
the subject, being the most remarkable feature
in the case.
Joel Watson, aged ten years, a native of Ma
rion county, iu the State of Georgia, and of
robust physical development, M’as brought to
Columbus by his parents for treatment. He was
suffering from severe symptoms of vesical cal
culus, M’hicli had been noticed almost at birth.—
His case M as an aggravated oue, all the usual in
dications of stone being greatly intensified.
Exploration of the bladder by sounds revealed
the existence of an unusually large calculus, al
most entirely filling the viscus, and satisfactorily
accounting lor the aggravated symptoms.
Dr. S. determined upon an operation, and on
the 24i.h of September, 1865, assisted by Dr.
James F. Bozeman of this place, and a few other
gentlemen, by whose concurrence the operation
M’as determined, the stone u’as removed.
The extraordinary dimensions of the stone
prevented its extraction en masse, and Dr. S. was
obliged to destroy its continuity, and take it
away piece-meal. Dnpuytren’s bi-lateral opera
tion was performed, tlie crushed stone was re
moved through tlie perineum, and the debris
washed out by injection.
The collected broken mass weighed seven
ounces and tivo drachms, and the debris uncol
lected from the injection u’as estimated at nearly
a drachm more. Tlie stone belonged to no spe
cial class, being of very complex character, as
evidenced by the chemical analysis accompany
ing this report. It might be called a phosphatic
stone, tlie phosphates in a small degree predomi
nating. The calculus consisted of three or four
separately distinct calculii, encased in their con
centric layers of friable, chalky material, the
whole enclosed in a common envelope of the same
character.
Each stone, or as may be safely said, each nu
cleus of the common mass, retained its individu
ality intact; each having its own nucleus, its
own concentric development, and its own incrus
tations of chalky material; these facts evidenc
ing that their origin and developments M’ere en
tirely distinct, and their aggregation simultane
ous, as the external envelope was continuous and
perfect.
It may be proper to state that the case improv
ed steadily and rapidly from the day of opera
tion, the secretion from the wound being at all
times healthy, and the urine passing through the
natural channel on the fourth of October, ten
days from the day on which tlie stone was re
moved ; and three days after the care ol the
child M as deputed to Ills parents, there being no
further use for the surgeon’s attention.
Analysis of Calculus furnished by Mr. W. J.
Land, Chemist, Columbus, Georgia. Nucleus
consisted of oxalate ot lime, with traces of urate
of ammonia.
First layer of deposit—Urate of Ammonia.
Second layer of deposit—Triple Phosphates.
Third layer of deposit—Urate of Ammonia.
Fourtli layer ot deposit*—Triple Phosphates.
Fifth layer of deposit)—Triple Phosphates.
*The fourth layer was intermixed with urate of ammo
nia, owing to the difficulty of separating it accurately
from No. .'J. its neighbor.
+The fifth layer was the involucrum, and contained
traces or organic matter.
The “Marble Chair” and “Woolsack.”
—The rumor that Sir Hugh Cairus would he the
next occupant of tlie Alarble Chair—a seat, by
the way, that has long ceased to exist save in
the poetic imaginations of legal biographers—
occasioned some public remark on the “compar
ative youth ” of tlie conservative attorney-gene
ral, and some erroneous inferences concerning
the average age of chancellors on first receiving
the seals. Born in 1819, Sir Hugh is still in his
forty-eighth year; but had he verified the report
by becoming Lord Derby’s chancellor, he Mrould
not have been remarkable in history as a singu
larly youthful holder of the Great Seal. Lord
Keeper Guildford, Lord Jeffreys, Lord Somers,
Lord Cowper, Lord Hardwicke, and Lord Tliur-
Iom’, held the seals before they had reached our
present attorney-general’s age. Of tM’enty-eight
holders of the seal who have flourished since Sir
Orlando Bridgeman’s reign, ten were under fifty
years of age on entering office; and only nine
had reached fifty-five years of age on being sum
moned to preside over chancery. In these later
years, while the number of competitors for the
Great Seal has been rapidly increasing, financial
reform has shorn the prize of so many golden
charms that the candidates are seldom M’illing
to accept the desired office until they have gained
from practice at the bar that requisite measure
ot wealth M’hich can no longer be acquired from
the emoluments of the chancellors place.
He Voted “No!”—The New York Tribune's
correspondent ot Friday says: Air. Leftwicb,
one of the Tennessee delegates who M as to-day
sworn into office, had scarcely finished shading
hands M’ith the Speaker, when his name was
called to vote on the bill to indemnify loyal
citizens of Tennessee for property destroyed
during the rebellion, and he voted “No.” It
caused much comment among Union members.
Tiieke is a very tender and sad feeling in this
little poetic M’aif:
Awakening.
Lost Youth! for thee I may not grieve.
Though vainly spent:
Nor would I idly ask reprieve
For years that failed m high intent;
Hope's vervain mingleth dying scent
with passion’s roses, drooping pale ;
Wilt thou, unpityiug Time, relent
so In '
For things so frail ?
gift
Somewhat I mourn the early .
I learned to wrong,
Ttiat made the hours of silence drift
Less sadly by, on tides of song;
I might have gained tlie currents strong
That move to thought's profoundest streams,
But that on lotus-isles too long
I dreamed vain dreams.
Well, let it go; not much the loss
Of sad refrains
When all the world is sweet across
By airs from master-singer's strains ;
A feebler song my soul disdains,
It craves a voice of subtler key
Than that which filled the smooth domains
Of Fantasie.
Daniel Bryan’s Oath.
Daniel Bryan had been a lauwcr ot eminence,
but had fallen, through intoxication, to beggary
and a dying condition. Bryan had married iu
his better days the sister of Aloses Felton.
At length all hopes were given up. Week af
ter week Mould the lallen min lie drunk on the
floor, and not a day of real sobriety marked his
course. I doubt if such another case Mas knoMU.
He M’as too low tor convivality, for those whom
he M’ould have associated M’ith M’ould not drink
with him.
All alone in his office aud chamber, he still
continued to drink, and even his very life seem
ed the offspring of his jug.
In early spring Aloses Felton had a call to go
to Ohio. Before he set out he visited his sister.
He offered to take her with him, but she would
not go.
“But why stay here ? ” urged the brother.—
“You are lading away, and disease is upon you.
AVliy should you live M’ith such a brute ? ”
“Hush, Aloses, speak not so.” answered the
wife, keeping back her tears. “I will not leave
him noM’, but he will soon leave me. lie cannot
live much longer.”
At that moment Daniel entered the apartment.
He looked like a wanderer from the tomb, He
had his hat on and his jug iu his hand. “Ah,
Moses, how are ye ? ” he gasped, for he could not
speak plainly.
The visitor looked at him a few moments in
silence. Then, as his features assumed a cold,
stern expression, he said in a strongly emphasised
tone: “Daniel Bryan, I have been your best
friend but one. Aly sister is an angel though
matched M’ith a demon. I have loved you,
Daniel, as I never loved man before; you u’ere
generous, noble and kind ; but I hate you noM’,
lor you are a perfect devil incarnate. Look at that
woman. She is my sister—she now might live
with me in comfort, only that she will not do it
while you are alive; when you die she will
come, to me, Thus do I pray that God will soon
give her joys to my keeping. Non’, Daniel, I
do sincerely hope that the first intelligence that
reaches me from my native place afterl shall have
reached my new home may be—that—you—
ark dead!”
“Stop, Aloses ; I can reform yet.”
“You cannot. It is beyond your power. You
have had inducements enough to have reformed
half the sinners of creation, and you arc lower
than ever before. Go and die, sir, as soon as
you can, for the moment that sees you thus will
not find me among the mourners.”
Bryan’s eyes flashed, and he drew himself
proudly up. “ Go,” lie said, in the tone ot the
old sarcasm. “ Go to Ohio, and I’ll sen'd you
news. Go, sir, and M’atcli the post. I will yet
make you take hack yonr words.”
“ Never, Daniel Bryan, never.”
“ You shall, I swear it.”
With tliese M'ords Daniel Bryan hurled the
jug into the fire-place, and while yet a thousand
fragments were flying over the floor lie strode
from the house.
Mary shrank fainting on the floor. Moses
bore her to the bed, and, then, having called in
a neighbor, lie hurried away, for the stage was
M’aiting.
For a month Daniel hovered over the brink
of the grave, but he did not die.
“ One gill of brandy will save you,” said the
doctor, who saw that the abrupt removal of stim
ulants from the system, that for long years had
almost subsisted on nothing else, was nearly sure
to prove fatal. “ You can surely take a gill and
not take any more.”
” Aye,” gasped the poor man, “ take a gill and
break my oath. Aloses Felton shall never hear
that brandy and rum killed me. If the want of
it can kill me, then let me die ; but I M'on’t die
I’ll live till Aloses Felton shall eat his M’ords.”
He did live. An iron will conquered the mes
senger death sent—Daniel Bryan lived. For one
month ho could not even walk without help.
Alary helped him.
A year passed away, and Moses Felton return
ed to Vermont. He entered the court house at
Burlington, and Daniel Bryan was on the floor
pleading for a young man who had been indict
ed for forgery. Felton started in surprise.—
Never before Had such torrents of eloquence
poured from his lips. The case was given to the
jury, and the youth was acquitted. The success
ful counsel turned from the court room aud met
Moses Felton.
They shook hands but did not speak. AVhen
they reached a spot where none others could
hear them Bryan stopped.
“ Aloses,” he said, “do you remember the words
you spoke to me a year ago ?”
“ I do, Daniel.”
“ Will you now take them back—unsay them
now and forever?”
“ Yes, M’ith all my heart.”
“ Then I am in part repaid.”
“ And what must be the remainder of pay
ment?” asked Aloses.
“ I must die an honest, unperjured man ! The
oath that lias bound me thus far was made for
life.”
That evening Alary Bryan was among the hap
piest of tlie happy.—Christian Witness.
A Column ol’ Go«*ip tor tlieilentlemcn, on
Subject** in which the Ladle** take no In
terest.
If you M’isli to knoM’ how quick you can run a
mile, tell a red-headed u’oman her baby squints.
. AVomen earn eleven cents per day in New
York, making skirts.
The definition of love is—“ A prodigal desire
on the part of a young man to pay for some
young M’oman’s board.”
Why is a fashionable lady like a sportsman ?
Because she bags the hare.
The combination of black and white still re
mains very fashionable. Black passmenterie,
dotted thickly M’ith small M’hite beads is in great
vogue for trimming black silk dresses and black
paletots.
Some Frenchman of a statistical tura of mind,
who evidently, has but little to do, publishes in a
Havre paper some curious statistics of the aver
age talk of men .and women. He has discover
ed that an ordinary middle aged man spends three
hours per day in conversation, calculating at the
rate ot one hundred words per minute, or twen
ty-nine octavo pages per hour, M’hich would
amount to 600 pages per M'eek, or fiity-two big
volumes per year. Having ascertained these
facts as regards the masculine portion of the hu
man race, the statistician applied his best ener
gies to ascertain the amount ot words uttered by
an ordinary and middle aged female per minute,
and the amount of time spent on the average by
that sex in general conversation. After the most
patient investigation and abstruse calculation,
this able arithmetician M’as compelled to give up
the question, aud confess the magnitude of the
figures, produced even at the outset of the inquiry,
baffled all human calculation.
They rather out-do us in England in regard to
matrimonial advertisements, judging from the
following:
“ Ada Emily Jenny, just nineteen, fair blue
eyes, and luindsome. M ould like to be married as
early as possible.
“ Rosebud, who is seventeen, and pretty, hav
ing rich golden hair, wishes to marry a tall
young man, about tu-enty-four years of age.
“ violet Mauts to be married to a tall man.
She is tall and very good looking.
“ Lala Rookli would dearly like to be married.
She moves in first-class society, and has £500 a
a year. She i3 eighteen, tall, and strikingly
handsome.”
Some of the applicants put the matter rather
upon the ground ot duty and destiny:
“Alary G., who has good looks, but does not
M’ish to speak of them, wants to be married. She
has read her Bible, and knows that marriage is
the destiny and honor of women. She is twen
ty-three.
“ Catherine E. B., who has dark brown hair,
and soft brown eyes, with, pretty features and
nice figure, wishes to fulfill her woman’s mission,
and marry. {She will have money.”
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Real Life—more Impressive than Ro
mance.
On Thursday last, a M'edding party set out
from Baltimore* to this city, on tlicir way to Eu
rope, for an extended M'edding tour. Both bride
aud groom, to all appearance, seemed possessed
of everything conducive to earthly happiness—
health, youth, good looks, innocent hearts, and
plenty of this world’s wealth. Yet the moment
that little party, with a future of apparently
bouudless happiness before them, set foot in this
city, they M’ere thrOM-n into the deepest distress
by the arrest of the youthful groom for a dis
graceful crime. Although he had that moruing
led to the altar an innocent, young girl, M’lio
trusted her whole future to his good faith and
honor, lie was just fresh from the commission of
a series of forgeries that a few years ago in ot her
countries M’ould have taken him to tlie gallon's,
and that will almost certainly consign him to
many long years of imprisonment here. That
same night he spent in Aloyamensing prison,
and every night since; liis poor bride, now infin
itely worse off than if she had been left a widow
having been sent back in mourning, aud perhaps
M’ith a broken heart, to her friends. The case
habits lessons more impressive than those of ro-
mS*e, anil it is more fearful in its reality than
the pictured distresses of a M’hole library of
fictions.
The young man is W. R. Cooper, formerly of
this city, where he M’as engaged as a clerk in a
well-kuoM’n house on Chesnut street, but more
recently ot AVasliington and of the navy, where
he was employed in several capacities in the
Navy Department and on vessels ot u - ar, and is
the same man M’ho recently defrauded the gov
ernment out of $50,000, by procuring a draft on
a forged requisition. Cooper is quite young, and
even more youthful iu appearance than he is in
fact. He is prepossessing in person, and, as we
saw him in court on Saturday, without a particle
of the swindler in his appearance, or of the
forger and confidence-nmn in his manner. In
fact, his aspect in court M’as only such as to ex
cite deep commiseration.
But iu addition to his good looks he has sever
al qualities of great value to an honest business
man. It is clear from liis success in his crimes
that he has extraordinary tact, a gift of speech
by which he was able to persuade experienced
men to overlook the usual precautions of busi
ness, great perseverance in pursuing his object,
considerable skill as a penman, and a strong
courage that enabled him to do things that were
really daring, considering the risks of Jetec'ion
by which he was all the time surrounded. Had
he applied his talents and his natural qualities
and advantages to some honest business M’ith the
same spirit, energy, tact, and zeal with which he
employed them in the commission of crime, he
could not have failed to be successful, and ul
timately to have become much wealthier than he
was during the few hours when he was possessed
of his ill-gotten fifty thousand dollars.
lie chose another course, however—and why ?
Is not his crime and destruction clearly traceable
to the depraved passions so prevalent in these
days for getting rich at a single stroke, no matter
by what means or at what cost of present char
acter and future welfare ? He M as, or had been,
in good employment; he had in AVashiugton a
free entree to what is called “good societyhe
did not lack means to maintain a respectable po
sition ; he had won the love of a good young
girl; and yet he swung loose from every tie that
should have bound him to a life of honesty and
honor—and why ? Not from necessity, but from a
morbid desire to indulge in fashionable dissipa
tion, to luxuriate among the expensive follies
that am only be purchased by money. There
fore, he must be rich, and rich at once,
even by crime; and, throwing for that stake, he
has lost all—character, liberty, friends, home—
everything. A mountain of gold.could not pur
chase back M’hat he has thrown away. His poqr
jwite maywfiiR^Sag to him, bat cijuijL ^worus earn
paint the abyj&T of agony into . wMich he has
plunged that trusting but now heart-stricken M’o-
man, or the long years of shame and anguish
that lie before her, to be ended only by the grave!
Hers is one of the wounds that even time cannot
effectually heal. And this is one of the mourn
ful but inevitable results of all such crimes—that
it is not alone the convicted and sentenced crim
inal that suffers, but the M’ives, mothers, lathers,
and children, of the culprits who suffer in mind
and soul more—intensely more—than can be in
flicted by any human punishment.
AVe have thought it best to make these obser
vations, because many of our readers might
otherwise have passed over the court report of
this young man’s case, as given in our local col
umns this morning, without special notice. But
they should observe it, for it is one of those
where truth is stranger and stronger than fiction.
Young Cooper, on Thursday morning a husband
of but a few hours, and believing himself rich
and beyond detection, and with all the bright
anticipation of a luxurious bridal tour before
him, and yet at that moment destined to be the
occupant of a felon’s cell before evening, with
the earthly happiness ot his innocent and trust
ing young bride in the meantime utterly destroy
ed, certainly presents a lesson from real life far
beyond the power of any romance.
Luxurious Debauchery—La Traviata iu
Court.
AVhen Roman civilization tottered to its over
throw, the most pregnant signs of its decay was
found in the immorality and licentiousness of its
upper classes. AVhen Senators invited Aspasias
to their banquets, virtue fled, carrying with it
honor, self-respect, and liberty. The chains of
wanton licentiousness first bound the limbs that
were shackled in the thongs of despotism. And
the trite adage that “history repeats itself,”
rings its warning as loudly over this fall of Ro
man virtue and Roman manhood now as ever;
and when in our country and times the scions of
would-be-aristocracy, of the one sex voluntarily
descend to that depth of degradation suggested
by the name “ bawdand of the other sex fall
so much lower as to share receipts of a female’s
life of sin and shame, it is high time that that
warning fell upon ears not deaf to its lessons.
These reflections grow out of a scene occuring
in the Filth AVard Justice’s court yesterday, in
which an inmate of the Callahan mansion—one
with her aquiline features; slender form, and
wealth of wavy brown hair graced the commis
sioner’s banquet—brought a suit against the son
of a wealthy banker for the money loaned him
to purchase a suit of clothes. The scene in the
court room was one rarely witnessed, and the
history of the parties is suggestive of a lack of
morality and decency utterly appalling. The
plaintiff in the case is the daughter of a well
known and wealthy Eastern merchant, M’bose
early girlhood in the Alonumental city Mas sur
rounded with all the luxuries that a full purse
and refined taste could contribute. The idol of
her parents, the first masters imparted to her the
secrets of knowledge and the refinement of so
cial culture, and life bloomed before her M ith all
the fragrance of happy blissful youth. How she
fell, it matters not; but fall she did, and the fact
coming to the kuoMiedge of her family, she was
hastily removed from the city of her birth, and
placed in a convent at Louisville. The stern
amenities of a religious life, lioM-ever, had no at
tractions for Alice, and her year spent there M as
a succession of plots to effect her escape, the
last of M’hich proving successful, she fled to this
city, and finding the doors of the Callahan man
sion open, she entered upon a career of dissipa
tion and shame, which she enlivened with more
of wit and intelligence than falls to the lot of the
ordinary victims of man’s lust. Here she be
came acquainted, on the first day of her entree,
with the banker’s son, who, from thenceforth,
was her chosen companion. For him she treas
ured her gains—for him she displayed her rarest
charms and most genial smiles; and to her this
false scion of a respected family repaired for his
pleasure and his profit. Her diamond rings M’ere
paM’ned to secure him a M’edding suit, and her
purse furnished forth the munitions of his ca
rouses with boon friends; and yet this youth is
the husband of a fair young lady, M’hose worth
and beauty Mould outM'eigh the M’hole of his
father’s hoarded wealth. This spring the youth,
tired of a paramour so cheaply won, so continu
ally duped, resolved to seek other fields of pleas
ure, and, as a crowning work ot infamy, bor
rowed from his mistress the money for which this
suit M'as bought.
The scene in the Justice’s Court M’as rich be
yond description. The plaintiff, escorted by two
of her female companions, drew up to the door
in a carriage, and in all the splendor of length
ened trails of silk, glittering jewelry, and poM - -
dered faces, SM’ept into the court room, M’here,
upon one side, stood the defendant, surrounded
by a half dozen Alain and Second street clerks,
summoned to impeach the testimony of the plain
tiff by testifying to the character of the house in
which she lived. The counsel for the defense
attempted to throw the suit out of court as not
being brought in the proper name of the plaintiff,
but this failing, the case M’as submitted to the
jury, who promptly returned a verdict for the
frail plaintiff to the full amount claimed and
costs.—St. Louis Dispatch.
“A