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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
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Wednesday* October 13, 1869.
State Hoad.
We had the pleasure oi visiting the State
Sh<>| >s last eveni ng, in company with Col. K. Hul-
bert, the able and efficient Superintendent, and
was much pleased in inspecting one of the
finest can we ever saw—it was built out and
out at the State Shop. We also saw a very fine
engine, Darned and known “ as Governor Bul
lock ”—which will compare most favorably with
any in the Union.
This evidence of prosperity in our native
State made as feel proud of our old mother
Georgia, and we must admit great credit is due
to Governor Bullock and his efficient officers and
employees on the State Road.
Success to those whom merit is due.
Dr. IV. T. tcrandy.
Dr. Branlly and his daughter returned home
from the North yesterday morning, alter an ab
sence of about six weeks from the city. They
are in good health, and we are gratified at their
return home.
Dr. Brantly will resume lliq pastorial duties
■ >l the Second Baptist Church, and will occupy
the pulpit on Sabbath next.
For the past three weeks the rivers have
been so Tow as to c&u^ an immense amount of
freight to he thrown upon the Louisville &
Nashville and the Nashville & Northwestern
Railroads, concentrating at Chattanooga, bring
ing into use all the motive power ol the Western
Atlantic Railroad. The loDg prevailing
drought having reduced the water in all the
wells on the line of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, as to cause the freight trains great dif
ficulty in procuring a supply, thereby causing
some delay in making regular timer Freights,
however, have not been detained but a day or
••<» at Chattanooga. Delays have occurred at
Louisville, and lor want of ail adequate supply
of rolling stock.
The report of five cars being smashed on Ibe
Western Si Atlantic Railroad, in this paper two
or three days since, was erroneous.
Snili’d lor Cuba.
We have before us this morning, a letter dated
at Cedar Keys, Florida, the 4th instant, ad
dressed by au adventurous young gentleman of
this city to his parents, advising them of his
embarkation, on the evening of that day, with
pome four hundred others, on board the steamer
Lillian which would steam off for Cuba the
same evening. The party ol four hundred on the
steamer all go to aid the Cubans in their efforts
to attain independence, and rid themselves of
the .Spanish yoke. Whatever we may think of
i heir ability to succeed, matters not. They have
our best wishes, and especially may the Ameri
can youth who have enlisted in their'cause
several of whom hail from Atlanta—never have
cause to rcjoint having embarked in an enter-
prist; to be attended with so much danger. The
letter informs us, that since the “boys” con
nected with the expedition left Atlanta,they have
been treated kindly, their every want having
been supplied. In high spirits they all cm-
burked ou the “Lillian” aud are now, we have
hut little doubt, upon Cuban soil.
The Commercial Convention at I.oulavllle
The near approach of this Convention lias
directed much of public attention to it all over
the country. Already delegates from various
sections of the Union representing varied impor
tant interests are cn route to it, and ere this edi
tion of the I NTiti.ua ENCEU shall reach the scat
of the assemblage, Louisville will he thronged,
as it never before 1ms been, with men of every
talent, |>olilicians, manufacturers, railroaders,
financiers, miners, agriculturalists, all keenly
alive to their several interests, who will labor
zealously iu the grand council, each to promote
his own. On yesterday, we laid before our read
ers, the views of the Courier-Journal, explana
tory oi the objects of the Convention. To-day,
wo see in the New York limes, of the 4th
instant, (he following article, indicative
of the view taken of it by the North.—
** The Southern Commercial Convention,” the
limes says, to be held in Louisville next week,
promises to fie one of the largest and most suc
cessful assemblages of the kind ever held in this
counliy. All the great centres of trade will be
lully represented, and delegations have been ap-
I ami ted by the Governors of all the leading
Slates in the Union. The published list of
names shows that the delegates include a large
number of men noted for llieir liberality, tbeir
great experience aud their widely-extended in
lluc-nce in commercial aflairs. The officers ol
ui&u/ot the Southern railroads, appreciating the
iuqM>rtuucc o( the gathering us atlecting their own
interests, announce their iutention to pass free
both ways members of the Couvcutiou ; and sev
oral Northern roads have signified their will
ingness to return iree, on certificate of the Pre
sident ol the Convention, the members who
pass over their lines. Although the Convention
is called “ Southern,” the large number ol dele
gates Ironi the North aud the Northwest ought
to destroy any possibility of its being sectional
m its character. Governor Merrill, of Iowa, in
a letter to the delegates from his State, says that
it is to meet in one of the central cities ot the
Union, m order that it maybe convenient for
I lie delegate’s ironi all the St all s, aud he adds
that while it is especially assembled to con
sider subjects having reference to the resuscita
tion ol the wealth-producing interests of the
Southern part ot the Republic, so greatly pros
trated during the war, it is avowedly convoked
in llie spirit ot conciliation and unity, aud ot
honest devotion to the public good.”
There is perfect accord then between the two
papers named, in regard to the aim and objects
ot the approaching Louisville Convention, and
we trust, when it assembles, that no petty
schemes, nor stulted sectional policy, will inler-
lerc to mar the main object ot its assemblage,
as the Tim's considers it, the consideration “of
subjects having reference to the resuscitation of
the wealth-producing interests ol the Southern
part ol the Republic, so greatly prostrated dur
ing the war,” and that being “avowedly
convoked in the spirit of conciliation and unity
aud ol honest devotion to the public good” it
will make a record that will prove productive
of the same.
CoaalllallOB aad Bplawa of Powder
Rprlac* Axrleallaral Society.
Wc, the subscribers, being convinced that it
is indispensibly nocow ary, for oar welfare and
heppuMM, thatwe improve oar lands and change
oor mode at farming, do hereby ns*] elate as an
Agricultural Society, and conform to the follow
ing Oonstitotion, By-Laws, and Roles of Order:
As*. L .This Association shall be known as
“ Powder Springs Agricultural Society, of Cobb
County, Georgia.”
Art. II. The object of this Society shall be
the mental improvement ol its members in agri
culture, stock-raising, and the advancement ot
the aits and sciences connected therewith ; and
dor any aad all improveswills which will benefit
the Society as well as contribute to the public
good, in methods ot labor, plan of culture, ap
plication of fertilizers, Ac.
Art. 11L The officers of this Society shall be
a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Sec
retary.
Art. IV. The officers of this Society shall be
chosen annually, by ballot, on the first Saturday
evening in October, and shall hold their office
until their successors are elected..
Art. V. This Society shall be composed of
such members as shall have their names sub
scribed to the Constitution and By-Laws, and
shall pay one dollar as initiation fee.
Art. VI. Premiums shall be awarded by the
Society to the member who is the most profi
cient in attaining any of the one objects of the
Society.
Art. VIL Each member and officer shall pay
annually the sum of one dollar as dues, to de
fray expenses, Ac.; such fund to be used only
by order of the Society, signed by the Secretary
and countersigned by the President
VRL This Constitution msy be altered or
amended at any regular meeting, by consent of
two-thirds of the members of the Society; due
notice ot the proposed amendment having been
given at the preceding regular meeting.
BY-LAWS.
1. No person will be admitted to membership
in this Society, unless said person be engaged
in some honorable employment for a subsist
ence.
2. Accepting or rejecting members shall be
decreed by a majority vote of the members
present
3. The President shall have power over the
meetings and keep good order. He shall decide
all questions of order without debate ; yet, any
member has the right to appeal from each de
cision to the society. He shall reprimand any
member or other person who shall be guilty of
indecorous or disorderly conduct daring the pro
oeedings of the society. A repetition of the
ollence may be punished by fine or expulsion,
at the discretion of a majority of the members
present
4 The Vice-President shall preside in the ab
sence of the President
5. The Secretary shall keep a regular minute
of the proceedings of the Society necessary to
be written.
6. The Treasurer shall keep a regular state
ment and account of the receipts aud expend!
tures of all money received by him, and shall
make an exhibit of the same to proper commit
tees when called upon.
7. Any member who wishes to address the
President shall do so standing and in a respect
ful manner. No member shall be allowed to
speak more than ten minutes at one time, nor
twice upon the same subject without the consent
of the Society.
8. The Society shall hold ita regular meetings
on the first Saturday in each month, until oth
erwise ordered by society.
9. Any member failing to comply with the
regulations of the Constitution and By-Laws,
shall be fined, not exceeding one dollar, at the
discretion of. the. Society.
10. These By-Laws shall only be changed by
a majority vote of Society.
Last bat not least.
We do most earnestly covenant and resolve:
that whenever a member shall loose a horse or
mule or any other valuable stock by theft That
it be his privilege to inform immediately every
member of the Society of the fact, and when so
informed it shall be the indisputable duty ot
each and every member, forthwith to go in
search, and to search dilligentiy for the missing
property and the thief; and, when lound, bring
the rogne or rognes to speedy justice, having an
eye to the good of oar community and the laws
ot our country.
The above interest ot worthy widows and or
phans will be guarded so far as practicable.
Oglethorpe College.
Wc invite the attention of our readers to the
very interesting communication addressed to
this paper, by our worthy fellow-citizen, the
Rev. Dr. J. S. Wilson, concerning the pro-
jxisitiou to remove “Oglethorpe College,” from
its present location, at Midway, near Milledge-
ville, u> some other point in the State. The
Doctor predicts a final, overwhelming decision,
in lavor of Atlanta.
ORDER OF BOSIEBSS :
I Calling the Roll. V Receiving Reports.
II Reading the Minutes. VI Unfinished Business.
III Excuses for Absence. VII New Business.
IV Receiving Members. VUI Adjournment.
A Female Lawyer.
The Montgomery Advertiser says: One day
last week a novel case was tried in the Court
House at Greenville. Judge M. C. Lane brought
suit against Miss Josephine Hutton lor a lee.—
The lady appeared in Court, plead her own case,
examined witnesses, and made a long speech to
the jury. Her reason for appearing was that
she did not believe an honest lawyer was to be
lound in the country. She said among other
things that it an earthquake was to come, and
the clouds were to fall, she believed the first
thing thought of by the lawyers would be the
collection of their fees, preparatory to entering
upon that long journey in search of a future
home, deep down in the dominions of his Satan
ic Majesty, whither they were all slowly, bat
surely leading.
TSe TcBBCtMf Fnm AmocUUob.
We see it stated in the Nashville papers that
this Association assembled in Nashville on the
Clh instant, holding its deliberations in the Su
preme Court room of the State Capitol. A large
number ot delegates were in attendance.
officers :
A. C. McIntosh, President,
C. D. Moos, Vice-President.
H. V. H. Kbtkolds, Secretary,
K. H. Lindlt, Treasury.
Accompanying the foregoing, we received the
following letter, which we publish with pleasure,
as the columns of the Intelligencer have ever
been, aud still are open to promote the agricultu
ral interests of the State, interests with which
none other can compare, and upon which de
pends, in the main, Georgia’s future prosperity:
“ By resolution of the ‘Powder Springs Agri
cultural Society,’ you are respectfully requested
to give publicity in the columnsof your valuable
paper, the Weekly Intelligencer, to the en
closed constitution and by-laws adopted by
them.
We do this hoping that our example will in
cite other communities to do likewise, and that
oars may be added to the list of other organiza
tions of like character.
“ In a word, we are trying to promote the ag
ricultural interest of our State, for we believe
that its promotion is the sure way to regain a
substantial prosperity, and to re-establish those
blessed bonds of social and domestic peace.
“ The swords ol ’61 now, in the Providence
of God, rest in their scabbard. The princioles
they defended are on record. Let us let them
rest. Our duty now plainly calls ns to the
peaceful vocations of life; let us with industry
and wisdom pursue them. Let us sustain the
record that we are * equal to the times ’—that
' the footsteps of the lathers’ may be commend
able to posterity. Very respectfully,
C. D. Moore,
J. L. Hunter,
J. B. Lindi.ky,
Galvin Rakbstraw,
Publication Committee P. S. A. S.
A. C. McIntosh, President
Personal.
Judge Ebskink, of the United States District
Court for Georgia, left this city on yesterday
afternoon for Savannah to hold Court for the
Southern District in that city, having just ad
journed Court here for the Northern District,
after a laborious session of three weeks, it bring
an adjourned term. The office of Judge of the
United*States District Ooart for this State is any
thing but a sinecure. It is one ot the most impor
tant aud laboiiona of ‘ Uncle S&mV offices in
the State.
The Burning of tub Presbyterian
Church in Greensboro.—The Herald furn
ishes the following particulars of the homing
of the Presbyterian Church, cn Monday night:
“ We are sorry to say that circumstances
strongly proclaim it the work of an incendiary.
The fire broke oat aboat 10 o’clock at night,
when every building was damp from a recent
rain, and first made ita appearance near the top
of the cupola of the church. There had been
no night service in the building for the past few
nights, and a prayer meeting had been held in it
at 5 o’clock, p. ni., on the day of the fire. The
colored man who attends to the sweeping and
lighting the church is a man of good character,
and positively averts that be had left no matches
in the building and had osed no fire or lights in
the rupolL”
[fl» TBS ATI. 4 XT A ITTrira 1
Oile'hrvpe College.
In accordance with my promise, I send a brief
statement of the proceedings of the Board ot
Trustees ol Oglethorpe College, at tbeir meeting
on Wednesday the 6th instant, in the city”of
Macon. Among oilier matters ot gfeat im
portance to the success and prosperity ol the
Institution, which cams up for consideration,
the question ol its removal lrom its present
location at Midway, near Milledgevilie, to
Atlanta, was not the least. The subject ot its
removal has been agitated for some years.— ,
After an earnest and extended debate, the Board
came to a vote, when it was found to be equally
divided. Twelve trustees bring present, six
voted for removal to Atlanta, and six for Its
present location. The final vote being in the
Synods, controlling the College, an appeal was
at once made to them. Their decision will be
made in a lew weeks. But in the meantime, I
confidently predict a decision overwhelmingly
in favor of Atlanta. There will be very few
dissentients in either of the Synods. The trus
tees from Alabama, confidently declared that
the Alabama Synod will not sustain the College
in its present location, and demands it9 removal.
The Georgia trustees, with the exception of
those in the immediate neighborhood ot Mid
way, and, therefore personally and pecuniarily
interested iu its continuance at the place, all
sustain the proposed change. The Synod of
Georgia, to meet on the 24th of Novermber in
Tallahassee, Fla., will without doubt, aln^pt
unanimously vote its removal to this city.
I shall beg leave, at an early day, to bring to
the consideration «ot the people ot this city, the
deep interest we all have in this movement
Respectlully, J. S. Wilson.
The Administration and the Wall Street
Paule.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald writes to that paper, on the 3d
instant, as follows :
“ As comments have been made in the news
papers affecting the administration in connec
tion with the recent gold panic, and much in
terest is felt on the subject, the Washington
agent ot the Associated Press to night called
upon the President to ascertain whether there
was any ioundat.on for insinuations nr direct
charges against the administration. The Presi
dent conversed with the utmost frankness on
the subject, and said he had not thought proper
to publicly contradict the statements concerning
himself, as he had done nothing whatever to
influence the money market or to afford any
advantages to private parties. While in New
York he bad many voluntary advisers, bat he
repeatedly said to them that the administration
always held itself in a position to act as it
seemed best, and, and tree to make any change
of policy for public interest. In the course of
the conversation he staled that while on the eve
of going to Newport James Fisk, Jr„cameon
board the steamer at New York, and said to the
Presd’t that Gould had sent him down to ask that
he would privately give them a little intimation
as to what the administration was going to do on
the financial question. The President replied
that the giving ot such information would not
be fair, and asked Fisk whether he did not think
so himself. Fisk admitted that it would not be
fair. The President then inlormed him that
whenever the administration was going to
change its action, or policy, the Secretary of the
Treasury would give notice through the news
papers as usual, so tiiat everybody might at the
same time know what it was, thus excluding
any possible charge ot favoritism. On the
morning of tiie panic—Friday week—Secretary
Boutwell communicated to the President the
situation of allairs in New York, when the
President said, “Sell $5 000,000 ol gold.” The
Secretary replied that he had come ter the pur
pose of suggesting a sale of $3,000,000, the idea
of selling gold thus appearing to be in the mind
of each at the same time. A tew minutes there
after the order was telegraphed to New York to
sell tour millious of gold. It may be repeated
that the President had informed "no one whom
soever, of the purposes ot the administration on
financial subjects, and the same remark is equal
ly true ot the Secretary of the Treasury.”
U. S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ol the United States be-
gau its first fall session on Monday under the
law of the last Congress. The Court consists
of nine Judges, but since the death ot Justice
Wayne—the vacancy still existing —the num
ber has been reduced to eight, as follows:
lion. Salmon P. Chase, ot Ohio, appointed on
the 6th oi December, 1861, by President Lin
coln. trom the Fourth Circuit, composed as fol
lows : Maryland, West Virginia. North Carolina,
and South Carolina.
Hon. Samuel Nelson, ot New York, appointed
by President Tyler, ou the 9ih oi January, 1845,
lrom the Second Circuit, composed ot the States’
ot New York, Vermont, and Connecticut.
Hon. Robert C. Grier, of Pennsylvania, ap
pointed August 4th, 1845, by President Polk,
trom the Third Circuit, composed ot the States,
of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Hon. Nathau Clifford, ot Maine, appointed
January 12th, 1858, by President Buchanan,
from the First Circuit, composed ot the States
of Maine, New Hampshire, Massac 1 usetts and
Rhode Island.
Hon. Noah H. Swayne, of Ohio, appointed
January 4tb, 1362, by President Liucoln, from
the Sixth Circuit, composed ot the States of
Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, aud Tennessee
Hon. S. F. Miller, ot Iowa, appointed by Presi
dent Lincoln, July 16lb, 1862, trom the Eighth
Circuit, composed of the Slates of Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, aud Arkansas.
Hon. David Davis, of Illinois, appointed De
cember 8ih, 1862, by President Lincoln, from
the Seventh Circuit, composed ot the States of
Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
Hon. Stephen J. Field, of Caliiornia, appoint
ed March 10th, 1863, by President Lincoln, lrom
the Ninth Circuit, composed of the States of
California, Oregon, aud Nevada.
The vacancy is the Filth Circuit, composed ot
the States ot Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
There will be two annual sessions of the Su
preme Court bereatter, in Washington, one in
the autumn, tiie other in the spring That which
began on Monday is the first held at this season
ot the year, and will attract, during its sittings,
many of the leading lawyers ot the country
Tbe Chief Glory ol A. T. Stewart.
It is not, says the New York Sun, his whole
sale Btore at the corner of Chambers street and
Broadway ; it is not his retail store at the corner
of Broadway and Tenth street; it is not his
seven thousand acres of Hempstead Plains; it
is not his immense real estate in various parts of
the city; it is not bis costly house on Fifth
avenue—palace as it is absurdly called, tor we
do not have palaces in America; nor is it the
vast amount ot his wealth, real and personal,
all told. Life is short; and happy is the mortal
who can paddle his canoe safety over the Sty
gian lake, when he has to leave all his worldly
goods behind him.
What, then, is the proud distinction, the chief
glory ot Mr. A. T. Stewart ? It is best stated
by quoting his own words—words not beauti
fully, but very modestly spoken by him. Speak
ing ot bis object in lile, some time ago, to an
acquaintance, Mr. Stewart said : “ I do business
to establish a principle. It is the principle ol
truth. I am in a state of continual warfare to
prevent what are called while lies being told in
my establish menL”
That is it; that is the chill glory of Mr. Stew
art. He may go on accumulating wealth ; if he
live long enough, be may swell his millions to
billions. He may sleep nis last sleep in a gor
geous tomb which testifies ol wealth amid de
cay. But no storied urn shall record tor him a
more honorable epitaph than that which it
written in the above brief paragraph. He re
cognizes the potentiality, the superiority over all
subterfuges, ot simple straightforwardness, of
that honesty which is called—would that the
term could be more correctly used—common
honesty. No white lies even ; away with all of
them, he wiil not have them!
Let every young man in the world who reads
this article cat it out and put it in his pocket-
book, and resolve that no dollar dishonestly ac
quired shall ever go in there beside it The
lesson is worth learning; the example is worth
following.
Georgia.
We have before ns a specimen of slate
from a quarry on the CoosaWattie Biver,
miles above Besaca on the Wester* A Atlantic
Mail road. The quarry is docated on tbe ten* of,
Chief Justice Brown, which lies di
the riser, a navigable Dream for a
from it to Raesca, having been used as such pre
vious to the war. The slate la of scry superior
quality, and when quarried can be laid on a flat
or other boat and carried directly to
(which is on the bank of the river,) in a run
less than three hours. The bank of theriYer
for nearly a half mile, is, we learn, a bluff of
solid slate rode. In places twenty-five feet high,
and extending downwards to an indefinite
depth. The quarry runs back through Gover
nor Brown’s land oyer half a mile. The whole
substrata, after going down throe or four feet, is
a solid masa of elate. The quantity is so abun
dant as to be inexhaustible for generations, and
its quality, aa we have before observed, is the
veiybest. It is entirely tree from grit, is soft,
and splits finely. It is as fine as the best used
in school rooms, or for roofing purposes, and
enough of it to roof every bouse iu Georgia.
No other slate quarry that has been discovered
in the State, we are informed, can be compared
with it, in advantage of location and conven
ience of transportation. The specimen on oar
table was taU^from near the water, where the
river runs ovCTlt all the winter, and the atmos
phere acting on it during the sntnmer, it is not
as perfect, superior as it is, as it taken from the
quarry where Ms not so exposed.
The discovery of this extraordinary slate quar
ry, we learn, was purely accidental, and it evi
dences the fact that the mining and mineral re
gion of Cherokee, Georgia, is rifh in ita bidden
as well as exposed treasures. Samples of this
slate will be exposed at the Macon Fair. In the
quarry there is a mine of wealth to whomsoever
may develop or work it Most fortunate is Gov
ernor Brown in being the owner of the farm un
der which it has so long been hidden.
We will take pleasure in exhibiting the sam
ple of this slate, in our office, to any one desi
rous of seeing it.
Gold GamMInc.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, proposes
to pnt a stop to this pernicious evil by act of
Congress, and intimates his intention to intro
duce a bill in IheSenate, as soon as it convenes,
to that end. The intimation has been received
by the Northern press, approvingly in some
quarters, while others affirm that such legisla
tion will make the price ot gold higher and
otherwise have a pernicious tendency, such as
throwing all gold transactions into the hands of
a few large and wealthy gold houses. It is sug
gested therefore that the best way is to let the
gold gambling alone to work its own care. One
of our Nashville contemporaries—the Union <&
American—suggests another cure for the evil. It
is, to “make greenbacks what the law declares
they shall be for all debts public and private,
except duties and interest, a legal tender. Thea
change the law requiring the duties and interest
to be paid in coin, and let all be collected in
greenbacks. This would destroy the demand
for gold, and do more to break up gold gamb
ling than all the penal laws which Congress
can pass. And there is no more repudiation in.,
this than there is in compelling bond-holders to
take four percent interest instead of six as now
allowed by law.
It appears to us that there is sense in the fore
going suggestion. So long as the law requires
that duties on imports shall be paid in coin,
and that the interest as it falls due on govern
ment bonds, shall also be paid in the “ precious
metals,” there will necessarily be gambling in
gold, and nothing wonld prevent it, though the
penitentiary was the penalty. It is one ot those
evils that cannot cease to prevail, in some form
or other, where the Government exacts, and has
contracted to pay gold, and to the governed gives
JLSWFUGy wBICVBI WTVvws
We have been requested to publish the follow-
.letter, addressed by CoL H. P. Farrow, to
the Constitution of this city, andjnrito tbs at
tention ot our readers to it:
Atlanta, Oct 9th 18®9.
Mr. Editor: In yesterd^’siasaaotywkrpaper,
a communication appears over the signature of
L. Angier, Treasurer,” making insinuations
which reflect upon me in my official character,
and are calculated to produce the erroneous im
pression that I am responsible for thal which
perhaps, hangs open the Treasurer’s own skirts.
The Treasurer has been appearing in news
paper, articles quite frequently of late, and in
tiaeMBtatioan” has- seen fit, indi
rectly, to aasail me in my official character with-
I
e see no escape from
IJiecie payments wlieu
a shinplaster currency,
the evil, but a return to
greenbacks can either be retired from circula
tion, or be made to assume a certain specific j
value.
A Jewish Temple.
The New York Herald ol Saturday contains
a full description of the new Jewish house ot
worship, built corner Fifth Avenue and Forty-
third street, New York, known as “Temple
Emanuel.” It blends in unconscious harmony
six different orders of architecture—Saracenic,’. _ ,
Byzantine, Moresque, Arabesque, Gothic and ! Opera House, could be broken off by a refusal
out the slightest provocation. I have refrained
from noticing tin from an indisposition to be
engaged in newspaper controversies, and for
other reasons which need not appear in Demo
cratic papers. I am at a loss to understand why
the Treasurer persists in these aide-thrusts
me. Our relations, personally, were amicable,
and politically, in accord, and I did all in my
power to elect him to the Constitutional Con
vention, and also, to the office he now bolds.
The first material point ot difference between
ns, so far as I am aware, was on the question as
to what arrangements should be made
the city of Atlanta for the accommodation
of the General Assembly. We were agreed
upon that point, so for as concerned the tempo
rary arrangements for the first session of the
General Assembly, which met on the 4th of July
1868, and held its sessions in the City Hall build
ing. But when the question came up as to what
buildings should be furnished by the city ot At
lanta to the State, for the accommodation ot the
General Assembly and State officers for ten
years, we differed in opinion. He contended
that extensive additions should be made to the
City Hall, and that the capitol, with all the
State offices, should be upon the City Hall
square. I thought it would involve too great
an outlay to make suitable additions to the City
Hall building, aud that it coaid not be done in
time for the next meeting ot the General As
sembly, and feared that the General Assembly,
in that emergency, might adjourn to Milledge
ville, and Atlanta lose the advantages of becom
ing the capital of the State by not having suita
ble accommodations ready for the meeting ot
the General Assembly. I thought the Opera
House could be fitted up in time and in a suita
ble manner, and that it an equitable arrange
ment could be made tor that building, it would
be best both for the city and the State. Dr. An
gier professed to own valuable property on the
City Hall square and Washington street, and
had the arrangement been made which he de
sired, it wonld not only have been a matter of
convenience to him as his office wonld have
been within one hundred yards of his residence,
but the value of his property would have been
greatly enhanced. I fully appreciate bis feelings,
torlalsQ reside on Washington street; and
while the Opera House, the building now used
as the capitol, is at least half a mile from his
residence,- it is the same distance farther from
my residence, and I have the same extra dis
tance to walk to my office; -then, too, my pro
perty on Washington street would also have
been enhanced by having the capitol on City
Hall square. Yet I could not favor the arrange
meat which he advocated simply because it
would enhance the value of bis properly and
mine, when 1 believed it better for the interests
of the city and the State that other arrange
ments should be made. The Opera House was
decided upon and secured, but upon what terms
I was not advised, I had nothing whatever to
do with the arrangements connected therewith,
nor matters subsiquently arising therefrom—
knowing nothing more about those matters than
what I saw in This contest over
the capitol betw8WM^WB^ IIalI^a'j > are and
the Opera House, however, I believe explamk
Dr. Angier’s side-thrusts at me, and also explains
the rupture between him and Gov. Bullock. This,
too, may explain Dr. Angier’s great zeal in
objecting to Gov. Bullock’s paying the Messrs.
Kimball for the apparatus for heating, lighting
and furnishing the Opera House, thinking,
doubtless, it the contract tor the lease of the
Norman. The interior decorations are finer and
more costly than ot aDY Christian Church in the
land. The Herald closes its article with the fol
lowing :
In tec pews from the public sit every Sab
bath ten millionaires, and trom that point back
an aggregate of millions more is represented.—
Did there ever sit together since the days that
the lair and regal ruier.of Sheba was escorted
by the gorgeous retinue of the court of Solomon
to the temple ot that monarch’s ambition such
a galaxy of beaut y and refinement ? The roof
ot the temple is flat and cut into squares by the
transverse arches. ▲ good deal ot elaborate
polychrome painting fills in the spaces. The
best time to observe the many beauties in this
to pay said items that there would still be an
opportunity ot having the capitol on City Hall
square. Was he actuated by consideration for
the public welfare or by a desire to promote his
own private interests ? Had I co-operated with
him in his well-devised scheme to enhance the
value of his property would he have made war
upon me ?
If the Treasurer’s hostility to me is not found
in the tact that he did not find me ready and
willing to co-operate with him in a scheme to
enhance the value of his magnificent and aristo
cratic residence on City Hall square, by tun in
field of decoration is at night, with the aid fnrn-. . ,. . ... ... . ,
ished from the mII radianre of the many blazing judicious expenditure of the people s money,
candelebra. The figures are brought out in hap
pier relief and show with a lustre denied them
by daylight.
Altogether, the temple of Emanuel is a fea
ture in itselt and has no parallel. Its exterior is
an experiment in architecture, oftentimes before
attempted, bat only in this instance realized as
a success. Its interior decoration, without be
ing quite so great a novel, has so many points
ot originality that it fairly divides the palm ot
interest with the architectural design. It may
be added in conclusion, that the first pew sold
realized the enormous sum of $9,500.
News ot the Day'.
Miss Bateman’s salary is $2,600 a week and
she contrives to comfortably support a husband
with it
The Erie road thinks ot lighting Bergen tun
nel, one mile in length, by Drummond light in
the middle.
perhaps he is making war upon me became my
duty, as a judicial officer, to proceed to bis office
and call for his books and investigate the charge
against him, that he was using the people’s mo
ney in violation of law and the oath of office. Is
he justifiable in making his continual assaults
upon me simply because my official position
compelled me to report to the Executive, as
the result of my search through his office, that
the Treasurer’s own books, coupled with his
acknowledgments previously made, sustained
the charge thal he was depositing several hun
dred thousand dollars oi State funds and ap
propriating the interest on it to his own
use, contrary to law and his oath of office ?
It was the Treasurer’s own misconduct that
compelled me, as a sworn officer of the
State, to inform the Governor that in more than
The appointment of ex-Governor Lowe, of. . . . . .. m , , .
Calitornia, to the Chinese Mission is received I forty instances the Treasurer had illegally thrust
Death of Mr*. General
The Nashviile Union <£ American says that
Mrs. Mary Pillow, wife ol Gen. Gid. J. Pillow,
died at her home in Maury county, at 12 o’clock
Sunday night We learn that Mrs. Pillow was
attacked with apoplexy while at dinner Sunday,
and never spoke after.
Jesse Bledsoe’s Wit.—The use of a proverb
as a means of rebuke was once happily illustra
ted by Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, one of the most dis
tinguished orators and jurists this State ever pro
duced. He was dining at the house of an individ
ual who had suddenly made a tortune and gave
very handsome entertainments. A young fel
low who sat near remarked to him that “fools
give feasts and wise men eat them.” “Yes,”
said he, “and wise men make speeches and tools
repeat them.” The effect on the young man was
to extinguish him for the remainder ot dipner.—
The old gentleman often declared that be only
rebuked the youngster tor eating a man’s bread
and ridiculing it at the same time.—Louisville
Courier-Journal,
with great favor in San Francisco
The political excitement runs high in Chicago.
Every daily paper in the city, With two excep
tions, supports the people’s ticket, the success ol
which is now conceded by many members ot
the ring party.
Madame Pochaud, a wealthy lady oi France,
was recently sent to prison for six months, all
for the simple amusement oi now and then
slealiug a small sum ot money, a species of
pleasantry to which she seeuis very much ad
dicted.
Nearly one hundred nuncr s of quinine have
been solti in Frankfort, Clinton county, Iudiana,
within the past, two weeks. “Personal earth
quakes” have been very numerously enjoyed in
that region this season.
A trotting fair wdl be held at the Association
Course, near Lexington, on the 20tn, 21st, 22d
and 23d days of this month, under the auspices
ot the Kentucky Association. There will be
three trots each day.
An extensive stoneware manufactory, has been
commenced uear Abingdon, Virginia. The ciay
is almost as white as chalk, very tough, and
makes excellent ware. On the same fond is
millstone rock equal to the celebrated French
burr.
General Sherman is anxious to see Judge Dent
elected Governor of Mississippi. Grant,
although Dent is his brother-in-law, wants to see
nothing of the sort. The chances are that, in
this conflict of wishes, Shuman will get the
better ot the President.
Two thousand dollars has been raised In Cin
cinnati, and presented as a testimonial to the
family of Geo. S Bennett, the veteran reporter
ot the Engotrcr, who lately died in that city.
A horrible accident occurred at the Gardner
coal mine, at Gardner,’ ilLuois. Last Friday
evening at 8 o’clock, as four persons were de
scending the coal shaft, the wire-hoisting rope
broke, and the men fell with the cage upon
which they were standing, a dis’ance ol 180
feet, to the bottom of the shaft. Great excite
ment prevailed among the miners and citizens
of the town. As soon as the fact became known,
immediate steps were taken to descend the shalt
to the relief ot the sufferers. After repairs were
made, the other cage waa lowered and the man
gled were brought up. Strange to say, none
were killed outright, though all had bones bro
ken. One, a lad of fifteen years, has since died,
and two others are supposed to be btyond re
covery. Ed- Sutton, au engineer, was one of
the sufferers, and is supposed to be the least in
jured. His mind is unimpaired, and be describes
his feelings, when making the terrible descent,
to be, as he supposed, certain death. No satis
factory theory has yet b^eq advanced for the
cause of the accident.
his band into tbe public Treasury by loaning
the people's money out at interest for his own
profit. It was his inordinate thirst for "filthy
lucre” that caused him, at the very threshold ol
his official career, to overleap at one bound all
the barriers that protect the public funds (tunds
raised by taxing an impoverished people) by
loaning out great sums of it at interest, and
pocketing the proceeds. It is true, it did become
my duty aB Attorney Genera! to sue him tor
twenty one thousand dollars for speculating with
the people's money, bnt he should remember
that as a judicial officer I cannot let him escape
the consequences of his mal practice in office
because he is one of the wealthy aristocracy.—
In this country wealth and aristocracy are no
protection lor misconduct, and because the
Treasurer has come to grief, and now finds that
“■the way of the transgressor is hard,” he should
not become angry with me. It be had sought
the advice of the Attorney General as to his
right to use half a million of the peopWs money
for hiaovn profit, the “hidden merit” of that
officer, although “extremely diffident,” might
have saved him the mortification of being sued
for pocketing interest on State money which he
says he was advised by “eminent counsel” that
he could do wilh impunity.
I have said thus much concerning the proba
ble causes of tbe inexplicable warfare which the
vHUrantt, and demand of film to kffow if X,
as Attorney General, advised their payment
Let tbe Treasurer cease his insinuations aud
give the people the facte. The Treasurer
has been so loudly proclaiming his
honesty and chniging others with;
may bhYefreen
the same. You also ask for my official opinion
to whether the Treasurer and his bondsmen
as to w R penalty when the Treasurer
Treasurer has been waging upon me for months
post, aud I now propose to notice his card of | urer ^ the public the specific cases in which
Mating that it has become the common
rtreet talk that he reminds one ot the thief who
when detected and pursued in the crowdtd
streets oi a city, seeks to escape by pretending
to be one of the pursuers and crying, at the top
adds voice, as he flees in front of his parsons,
u stop thief! stop thief! ! stop thief! ! ! ”
The Treasurer charges me with advising the
payment of warrants which I have uever ad
vised, and claims for himself the credit of de
feating warrants which have never been present
ed to his office. He claimed the credit ot de
feating & small pox warrant in tavor ot Dr. Bos
well, of Muscogee county, last winter when
there was not one word of truth in it; and alter
being called upon by the Comptroller General
for doing him gross and palpable injustice, did
not have the magnanimity nor manliness to put
that officer right before the people. What a
contempt intelligent people must have for one
who steals the laurels from another’s brow ! In
that case the Comptroller Geoeral had doubts as
to countersigning the warrant, and wishing to
observe proper courtesy towards the Executive,
made the fact known, whereupon the warrant
was referred, by the Executive, to my office and
condemned.
And it has not been a week since ihe Treasu
rer promised a claimant iu a small pox case to
pay him it he could get a warrant, and upon ap
plication to the Executive lor a warrant the
claim was referred to my office and tiie paymeul
of it disapproved. The payment ot ibis claim
would have committed the Slate to the payment
of at least fifty thousand dollars ot illegal small
pox claims, but I suppose the Treasurer would
not have cared, as he would have paid it and
cried out “stop thief.” Or perhaps the tact that be
wished to court tbe influence ot the person presen
ting the claim had somethlug to do with the Trea
surer’s willingness to pay it in violation of the law.
There never was more fraud perpetrated upon
the State in the space of four months, than was
perpetrated from tire loth ot December, 1862, to
the 17th of April, 1863, during which period all
claims for services in smaii pox cases by doc
tors, nurses, Ac., iu the Stale were chargable to
the State. Yet one who assumes to be the
“Watch-dog ot the Treasury” promises to pay
a claim which would have established a piece
dent which would have cost the Stale fifty thous
and dollars. Every such claim yet referred to
me has been condemned and llie nou-paymeut
advised. The Treasurer, however, seems desir
ous to accommodate parties holding said claims,
especially when presented by those whose influ
ence might be desired in tbe Senate or else
where.
Nor has ten days passed, it I am correctly in
formed, since the Treasurer proposed to a party
holding a warrant which be, the Treasurer, says
is illegal (but about which I know nothing, as it.
has never been submitted to me,) that if the Gov
ernor would dismiss the suit now pending against
the Treasurer to recover the twenty-one thousand
dollars above alluded to, Tie would pay the warrant
or submit it to some eminent jurist, and pay it if
the eminent jurist advised it. It it would be right
to pay it upon the advice of some “eminent ju
rist,” provided the suit for twenty-one thousand
dollars was dismssed, would it not be right
to pay it upon tbe advice of that “eminent
jurist” any how, whether the suit was dis
missed or not? Would the dismissal ot th«
suit now pending against him, make any differ
ence as to the legality ol the warrant ? Is he
willing to pay illegal warrants, or warrants
which he has rejected as illegal, provided the
Governor wi'l let him oil from payiug twenty-
one thousand dollars for which he is sued ? Does
the Treasurer think this is honest ? Does he
think he can get the Attorney General to advise
such a proceeding ? I do not believe that the
Treasurer can make such irausaction with the
Executive, notwithstanding the Executive doubt
less thinks his clerks should be paid. Wbnt will
the Democratic e(Uto*« tbiuk ol their immacu
late Treasurer, whom they styled the
Watch-Dog ot the Treasury,” alter suchnu
tempt at bribery ! Is that looking alter the wel
fare of the people, or is it another stride atier
“filthy lucre 1”
ft is quite time the Treasurer should stop p ty
ing warrants which he says are illegal, meicfy
that he may be able to write letters against an
Attorney General whom he charges with ren
dering erroneous opinions upon warrants which
have, in troth, never been submitted to him. He
has ignored the existence of the Attorney Gen
eral, except to impute to him advice he has
never rendered. The Treasurer acknowledges
having paid illegal warrants without even giv
ing the Treasury that protection the Constitution
provides lor it. The Constitution has created
the office of Attorney General, and made
him the Treasurer’s “legal adviser,” aud
was tbe Treasurer’s sworn duty to have
submitted to that judicial officer lor his advice
and opinion, any and every warrant upon the
legality of which he had any doubts, before pay
ing it. Had he discharged his duty properly,
by asking for the opinion ol the Attorney General
before paying warrants which he believed
were illegal, perhaps the money wouid still be
in the Treasury. But no, he presumes the At
torney General has already given an erroneous
opinion and proceeds to pay the alleged illegal
warrants, and abuse me for that with which I
have had no connection. The Treasurer has
paid warrants which were never submitted to
me, and which might never have been paid it
my advice had been sought, aud still has the
impudence to charge me with being responsible
for it. Were he to ask the opinion of the At
torney General as to the legality of a warrant
about which he had doubts, and were he avised
not to pay it, there would be two advantages
derived from that course. The money would
remain iu the Treasury until a mandamus would
take it oat, and if a mandamus should take it
out, he would be protected in a suit by the in
jured party, because in the language ot the dis
tinguished jurist Caleb Cushing, he had observed
“the <aw as officially pronounced.” There is
tbe highest authority for saying that an exposi
tion ol the law by the Attorney General pos
sesses “authority the same in kind, it not the
same in degree, with tbe decisions of the
courts of justice,” and should the Treasurer
in pursuance with the advice of that officer re
fuse to pay a warrant until the court compelled
him by mandamus, he would be protected by
that advice. And npon the other hand should
he pay oat a warrant upon the written advice of
that officer, which might be afterwards judi
cially ascertained to have been iliegal be would
stand upon a different footing in his defense in
coart, it he coaid plead that he had only fol
lowed “the law aa officially pronounced,”—he
would certainly stand npon a better footing than
he does in those cases, which he alleges were
illegal, and yet pud without submitting them to
tbe Attorney General.
In conclusion, I again demand that the Treas
perlorn» < hfo^officiafact8 in accordance with the
official opinion of
State.
In reiponaa to tne mq
Treasurer hm sought the
lie Attorney General ot the
to the inquiry as to whether the
opinion ot the Attor-
nefDeiteralConcerningtbe-tegalityot warrants
presented to him, l have to Inform your Excel
lency that be has not _ .
Tn reshnnse to your inquiry upon the question
of the protection afforded too Treasurer and his
Soid^m^r theofflcial opimoa ot the Attor-
nev General in cases where his opinion is sought
ana ohserved, I would state that I have given
it that consideration which the importance ot
the subject demands, and will now proceed to
gl Tlile < natmre^ < t^ fl 3f^^and responsibilities
of the office of Attorney General, and his rela
tions as a judicial officer, to the officers ot the
Executive Department, is a subject to which
much study has been devoted. Those investi-
tpnifina have been the more extended because ot
the tact that it is a new office iu Georgia, aud
the present incumbent has no predecessors troiu
whose official acts he can derive information fojq
his guidance. I have found, however, by refer-
ing to the laws of the United States Govern
ment that in the creation of the office ot Attor
ney General, and all legislation coucerniog his
duties under that government, that the office is
identical, tn so for as concerns the question now
before me, with that office under the Govem-
men» ot Georgia. •
The Constitution of Georgia creates the office
ot Attorney General, and requires the same
qualifications for eligibility to tiiat othce as is re
quired of Judges ol the Superior and Supreme
Court; it declares in paragraph second of Sec
tion Seventh, of Article Fifth, that “it shall be
the duty of the Attorney General to act as ihe legal
adviser of the Executive Department, but. neither
the Convention nor the laws say auythiug as to
the effect of that advice.
The first question is, does the Constitution
make the Attorney General the legal adviser ot
the Treasurer? Clearly it docs, as he is one ot
the officers of the Executive Department. The
Governor, the Secretary of State, the Comptrol
ler General, and the Treasurer, are all officers of
il?e Executive Department, while the Attorney
General is an officer ot the Judicial Department
and by the Constitution their “legal adviser.”
The second question is, what is the effect ol
that advice ? As the Constitution makes the
Attorney General the “legal adviser” ol the
Treasurer, it follows that when in the course of
his official duties the Treasurer has doubts as to
the proper construction of the law, it is his duty
to apply to the Attorney General tor his advice
or opinion upon the law involved, and when
the Attorney General gives tbe advice asked for
that advice or opinion is to the Treasurer “the
law officially pronounced." As the Constitution
makes the Attorney General tbe “legal adviser”
ot the Treasurer, and as it is the duty ot the
Treasurer to ask tor the advice or opinion ot the
Attorney General in all cases where he has
doubts as to the law, and as the advice or opin
ion of the Attorney General officially given to
the Treasurer is the “law officially pronounced,”
it tollows that it is the duty ot the Treasurer to
be guided in his official conduct by that advice
or opinion, and that neither he nor his bonds
men can be held accountable for official acts
performed iu compliance with the “law officially
pronounced” by the proper judicial officer.—
Therefore I give it as my opiuiou that “the
Treasurer and his bondsmen” are protected from
penalty when the Treasurer performs his official
acts in accordauce with tbe official opinion ot
the Attorney General ot the State.
Iu support ot this opinion 1 quote briefly from
two authorities, each ot whom are conceded to
staud foremost am mg the eminent jurists oi
America. I allude to lieverdy Johnson and
Galen Gushing, each of whom have adorned the
position of Attorney General ot the United
States.
Reverdy Johnson rendered au opinion as At
torney General to Hon. William M. Meriditb,
Secretary ot the Treasury, bearing date May the
S, 1849, upon a question identical with that now
under consideration, to-wit: the cflect of the
opinion ot the Attorney General with reference
to tbe official acts ol the Secretary of the Treas
ury. That opinion was rendered iu the follow
ing language:
“ First, ibe duties of the Attorney General arc
prescribed by the Judiciary Act of 1789, aud are
’ to give bis advice and opinion u]>on questions
ot law when required by ihe President ol the
United Slates, or when requested uy tbe beads
of any ot the Departments, touching any mat
ters that may concern their departments.’—
The act does not declare what effect shall be given to
such advice and opinion, but it is believed that ihe
practice of the government has invariably been to
follow it. This has been done from the great ad
vantage aud almost absolute necessity oi having
uniform rules ot decision in alt questions of
law in analogous cases—a result much more
certain under the guidance and decision olD
single department, constituted for ihe very puf’i!
pose of advising upon all questions, and with
supposed special qualifications tor such a duty.
"In my opinion this practice should be considered
as turn”
And Attorney General Caleb Cushing, in an
opinion rendered to President Pierce, heming
date March 8ih, 1854, upon the “ office and du
ties ol Attorney General.” said : “ We have
- that the act establishing the office oi Attor
ney General expressly imposed on him two
classes ot duty : first, to prosecute all 9uita in
the Supreme Court, in which the United biates
are. concerned, and secondly, to give his auvice
aud opinion iu questions of law to the President
and to the heads ot departments.
in the discharge ot the second class of the
above mentioned duties, the action of the Attor
ney General is quasi judicial. His opinions offi
cially define the law, in a multitude of cases,
where his decision is in piactice final and con
clusive—not only as respects the action ot pub
lic offictrs in administrative matters, who are
thus relieved from the responsibility which would
otherwise attach to their acts— but also iu question
ot private right, inasmuch as parties, haviug
concerns with the Government, possess, in gen
eral, no means of bringing a controverted matter
before the courts of law, and can obtain a oure-
ly legal decision of the controversy, as distin
guished from an administrative one, only by
reference to the Attorney General. Accordingly,
the opinions of successive Attorneys General’
possessed of greater or less amount of legal acu
men, acquirement, and experience, have come
to constitute a body ot legal precedents and ex
position, having authority the same in Tcind, if not
the same in degree, with the decisions of the Courts
of Justice.
It nequeatly happens that questions of great
impoitaiioe, submitted to him loi determimition
are elaborately argued by counsel; and whether
it be so or not, he feels, in the performance ot
this part of his duty, that he is not a counsel
giving advice to the Government as his client,
but a public officer acting judicially, under all the
solemn responsibilities of conscience and legal
obligation. °
Although the act requiring this duty of the
Attorney General (foes not expressly declare
what effect shall be given to his opinion, yet the
general practice of the Government has been to fol-
low it; portly for the reason already suggested
that an officer going against it would be subject to
the imputation of disregarding the law as officially
pronounced, and partly lrom the great advantage,
and almost necessity, of acting .according “to
uniform rules ol law in the management ol the
public business —a result only attainable under
the guidance of a single department of assumed
special qualifications and official authority”
I could quote additional authority in supiiort
of this opinion, but deem it unnecessary. 1 am
very respectfully, JI. P. Farrow, ’
To His Excellency, Guuerai '
Governor R, B. Bullock.
yesterday morning. He has been insinuating
that I have rendered advice as Attorney General
in favor ot tbe payment ot illegal warrants. He
has created this impression, and I now propose
to accept the issue made in his article iff yester
day morning that the people may know the
truth. I deny that I have advised the payment
of illegal warrants from the Treasury. Let him
now do one of two things, either come out
and give the public tbe tecta, or acknowledge
that be has been giving (fireolation to base and
malicious slanders. Let him name the warrants,
give the amounts, tbe dates, the persons in
whose lavor drawn, and for what drawn. Let
him state when my advice was given in favor ot
their payment. He scknoweledges having paid
warrants when there were doubts in his own
jnind at the time as tp whether they were legs!
the Attorney General has advised the payment
of illegal warrants or cease his insinuations.
Henry P. Farrow.
P. 8.—Having recently rendered his Excellen
cy, Governor Bullock, an official opinion upon
the effect ot tbe official opinion of the Attorney
General, I herewith publish the same as it hears
somewhat npon the subject matter of this con
troversy. H. P. F.
ITTOUII QlIMAl’l OlTICI, )
State ot Georgia. >
Atlasta, October nth, ih». )
Sir—Your communication of the 1st instant
has) been received. Yon inform me that tbe
Treasurer has refused to pay a number of Exec
utive warrants, and ask whether the Treasurer
has sought the official opinion of the Attorney
General, and if ao, request that your Excellency
be furnished with a copy of any opinion which
Slate Agricultural Society-Meeting of
the Executive Committee in ftBacon.
On tbe 7th instant the Executive Gouuiiitlee
ol the State Agricultural 8<>ciety held a meet
ing, the proceedings of wliich we transfer lrom
the Macon Telegraph to our columns. Ii will
be seen from them that action was taken upon
the subject of “invited guests,” and that Gov.
Bullock’s courteous offer to send cars of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad to Lynchburg,
Virginia, lor invited gutsis, has been accepted!
a resolution also being adopted to the effect that
the “Fair grounds are open to all men of all
nations,” with an “assurance to all who attend
that a cordial welcome awaits them.” This is
right, and just what we expected the Executive
Committee would do.
Advice te Cotton Planer*.
We lay before our readers this morning, a
communication from Mr. T. J. Perkins, of
Eufaula, Alabama, one of the best informed
gentlemen ot that State on the subject, of cot
ton, to which we invite the attention of all
interested in the sale of that article, li will be
seen from it, that Mr. P. advises the farmers to
hold on to their cotton until prices react, as Ue
confidently believes it must.
Very Important Decision.—A Cincinnati
Judge decided, last Friday, that there was noth
ing in the statutes of tbe State or the city ordi
nances which prohibited a woman lrom wearing
tbe trowsera