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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefierson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1. 1871.
NUMBER 9
H'cfklt) Jutrlligcacrr
Pf’W.ISUK:* D \ I I.Y AND WEBKI.Y BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
Proprlotor>
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, March I, 1871
i nESSAOE.
“ After the battle of Forbach, a French officer
of Uiiiriv^-»-uri\ was found dead with a letter
crumpled in his hand.”
“ ft win only a crumpled letter
In a caulere (>ir!l*h hand ;
U wae only a childinh mileage
Pmm the Huu-kitssed honthem land;
It wan only a Uriel memorial
Of the tearc 1 he abisect »hcd ;
It wae a'rtfle tram the living,
Bat a meaaage to the dead !
“ Father dear, you arc pone to battle
ltnt I think Inceerantlr,
Ae I miMs year morning blessing
What jronr ensuring* mast be!
Ho she wrote and so held it.
With a Meeefnir on her head,
When the token ol the living,
Was a message to the dead.
“ I’m so good, dear, oh ! so steady—
You won Id wish to have me so;
II' I’m Quiet, ball your dargere
Dear matntna need never know —
Ho, trood-bve, papa. Hod bless yon,
Unard and keep yon evermore:
Stc I I send yon fifty kisses.
From an ever ready store 1
“ It was only a crumpled letter
In a dead man’s hand that day,
•fust to show how hearts were aching
in his own laud tar away —
It was only a loving message.
From a loving child that sped, *
But the words iho living pencilled
Were a message to the dead,
'•Take it t ot from his cold fingers,
Lay ii with him ’.n the grave—
If it be a consolation,
’Tie the latest he will have—
For, 1 think, the bullet reached him
As the fender words were rend:
Ho that when the angels told it,
”1 was no mersage to the dead ”
[From Every (Saturday.
HIsHiny In Cougreas,
It wtis announced in tbe Washington papers
some days ago, that there had been a mistrial in
tbe case "f Congressman IJowen, who bad been
indict'd f >r the. crime ot bigamy in the Court
for the District of Columbia, one ot tbe jury
men huve held out lor an acquittal, until the
jury was discharged. 'I’his result has prompted
a member from New York, to prepare the bil
lowing resolution which be proposes to intro
duce into Congress :
Resolved, That tiie Committee on Privileges
arid Elections and on Territories be directed to
hold a j nut session for the purpose ol consider
ing and deteimining bow lar the privileges of
members ot Congress extend in regard
to u plurality of wives, and if they shall
succeed in establishing any definite rule upon
this important questu n, the Committee on Ter
ritories be directed lo inquire into the expedi
ency oi reporting an additional section to their
bill lor tbe suppression ot polygamy iu tbe
Territory of Utah, providing either lor the re
moval ol tbe national capital lo St. Lnke City
or else for bringing the District of Columbia
within ibe provisions ol the aloresaid bill.
Forelgu News.
The details given by the late telegrams from
Europe, and which our exchanges bring us,
show that the first accounts ol the election ot
members ot the National Assembly were not
cornet ns to the relative strength ot the difler-
ent parties which compose teal body. The clec-
tion o; M. iHi' r to ilie office ot Provisional
President, would, ol itself, mdicate that tbe
Oilcans party was in the ascendancy. But
lue 'duelion ol a Republican, M. Jules Grery to
the l r c'deucy of the National Assembly, would
indi ’ate the contrrry. Besides Jules Favre, a
Icadi . U publican, is to bo the Minister ot
F >" iga A Tor.- Upon the whole we may con-
clod. troll, -.iicoe tacts, that the Republicans,
it no', iu tbe ascendancy, are largely
represented in the National Assembly, and
that there has been a combination formed be
tween them and tbe Orleauists, to prevent the
govern meut lrom falling into the hands of the
’* Reds.” Thiers is the first statesman in
France, and occupying the position ot its chief
executive, will be responsible tor the terni9 ol
peace that may be adopted. The next great
work to be performed 113’ the Natioual Assem
bly will be the choice aud establishment ol a
form ot government ; aud here the contest ol
parties will leady begin. Under the stress ot
adverse circumstances, it is difficult to perceive
how the terms ot peace that may be insisted on
by Prussia can be rejected by tbe National As
sembly, however hard and humiliating they
may 00. But il tbe Natioual Assembly be per
mitted to choose a government free from the
dietalion ol the conqueror, we may look lor a
great civil commotion. There is iu France a
powerful Republican party which includes in its
ranks men ol tbe first order of latent. It will
not give up its principles without a hard strug
gle, one that may end iu spilling Iraternal blood,
before auy government is permanently estab
lished.
WanliiiiKiou News.
The President has appointed Milton Turner,
a notorious colored Radical ol Missouri, to be
Minister Resident aud Ouuaul General at
l.ibena.
The New York World’s Washington corres
pondent gives the following as a part ol the pro-
ccodings of the Senate on (he 17th instant:
Mr. Sawyer (Radical, S. O.) moved an amend
ment repealing the provisions inserted in the
legislative appropriation bih last year, on mo
tion ot the senator iroin Missouri, Mr. Drake,
which prohibited the admission as evidence in
tlie Court ol Claims oi a Presidential pardon.
Mr. Sawyer’s amendment authorizes the admis
sion as evidence iu that court ot any pardon or
amnesty granted betore the suppression of the
rebellion under the proclamation of the Presi
dent issued iu pursuance of the act ol July 17,
iS02, known as tbe confiscation act, aud before
tiie restoration of tbe rights of property where
tbe conditions in said acts and priiclamations
have been lauidu'ly complied with aud the
oaths ot amnesty’ aud allegiance maintained
iu violate; this not to apply to suits, in said court
other 1 ban those arising under the act ot March
12, ISOS, to provide for me collection ot aban
doned property aud ibe prevention ot frauds
within the insurrectionary district. Mr. Sawyer
advocated bis amendment iu a lengthy speech.
Alter debate Use amendment was rejected—
yeas, ID ; nays, 32.
Mr. Trumbull renewed a portion of the
an end meat, lie moved to repeal the proviso
in lire law proposed to be. repealed by Mr. Saw-
r, which makes a pardou conclusive evidence
,a she Court oi Claims that the persou who pre
seuis it is guilty ot whatever offense is recited
m tire paroon, unless upon its reception he en
tered a wniten protest 10 the contrary. He re
garded this provision ot tbe law merely as eal-
c :'ed to entrap the innocent and to let the
_ u.iy go free. Lie knew that these pardons
ne e issued to persons who never applied lor
tnc.Q.
Ur. Bayard (Dem., Del.) said the proviso re-
leired to was a Mam upou legislation,and com
mented ujhhi its atrocious char.mtfcir in distort
ing a pardon into the very proof ot the guilt ol
the party offering it.
Mr. Blair (Dem., Mo.,) argued that the allegi
ance ol ibe citizen was only due when the pro
motion ot the government was insured to him—
that these were reciprocal terms. Through the
delay ot me government in moving to the as-
sistauce ol tiie Union men ot the South at the
oeemuin,.: ot the war, :iie riisuuionists were
suit,red to establish aef>tcto governments, and to
compel the ooedieuoe ot an Union men
wiUiiu it-.eir borders. Theu, loo, certain
iiiai . • • -us of waat « ;s supposed in the
S-ai n to be Northern public sentiment, exer-
• <’J in infidca-e oioie prejudicial to the Union
sea iment or that- section man were all the
sp:« ches oi the Southern leaders. The South
was induced to think they would not be inter-
i. rui wit:i it they went out. When Alexander
II s:.., hen- uUa.de ins eloquent speech iu be-
u.il! oi the Union in the Georgia Convention,
the only reply made to him was the reading by
tr. ldgjmds 01 a paragraph lrom the New
5 ork Tribune to the cdeer mat, if the Southern
fs.aies wanted to secede they had as much right
lo icavc the Union as had our ancestors to with-
it: a w their allegiance iroin Great Britain. He
tBIair) remembered how tbe Unionists oi Mis
souri were depressed by that article.
Alter further discussion a vote was taken on
Mr Trumbull’s amendment, resulting in a tie—
ay< s, 25; uoes,35— wbeu the amendment was
carried by tiie casting vote ol the Vice-
President.
Tlirff Sknlln-Roinaiice In a Pri»®n.
There are tew older buildings, it any, in the
city than the long, dark row on Orleans street,
which are used for the Parish Prison and the
Treme police station The walls are thick and
strong, and contain many curious niches where
are hidden away the relics ot another age. The
curious observer, in wandering over these old
buildings, stumbles at every step on someth ng
that interests and surprises. It is full of roman
tic legends, and its silent walls and wide corri
dors, if they could speak, could relate many a
deed of horror. There ia something ghost-like
about the building, and one almost expects to
see a phantom start lrom the gloomy recesses to
confront and appall you.
Bat it is not particularly of the prison itself
that tbe present story has to do, but something
that it contains. In the Theme Station, just
over the clerk’s desk in tbe back wall, is a cres-
cent-sbaned niche. It is a dusty receptacle,
bung with cobwebs ami stained with aee. But
it is not this which appalls you. Ranged side
by side in this niche are three grinning skulls.
There are two small ones and a large one. The
least are the heads ot females, and the central
one belonged to a man. They have been the^j
lor years, and a curious -tory is told ol them by
an old seareeant ol police.
“ Many years ago,” he said, “ when I was a
youth, just appointed od the police, I knew
those jreople,” and he pointed significantly to
the heads in the niche. “ Tell me the story,”
the reporter asked ot him.
“ Yes, I will; but it is a sad one, and ghostly,
too.”
“ Never mind that; let me hear it at any rate.”
“ It is over forty years ago,” he begun, “ that
a foreign, raki.-lt looking vessel sailed into the
Old Basin and came to anchor. It was my duty
to look alter these schooners, ana I soon alter
boarded her. It was a Spanish vessel and from
one ot the West India colonies; and purported
to have brought a cargo ot fruit. Something,
however, in the manner of the man, and the
general aspect ot tbe schooner, made me doubt
it. They bad fiuit certainly, but they gave it
away rather than bold it, and tiie evident desire
of the captain to prevent an inspection of bis
vessel aroused my suspicions, i could not very
well demand to go below, but I determined to
watch everything that occurred.
This was early in the a teinoon, and at night
I still hovered in the vicinity of the vessel,
watching it with acuno-ity stimulated by every
passing moment. What it was that so inter
ested me. I could not exactly define, but it was
a mesmeric iufiuence or prescience, if you wili,
that taught me that something out of the ordi
nary way was in process ol occurring. And
my presentment proved correct.
At midnight a tall, dark-looking Spaniard
came on shore leading by tiie band two beauti-
lul girls. They did not look to be children, and
yet were scarcely women. Ard when the glare
ol the street lamp fell upon tbeir faces 1 saw
they weie beautiful. They were pale, it is true,
but more lrom fright, 1 judged, Ulan anything
else They wore on tbeir beads a silken net
woik that permitted the long, beautilul hair to
escape in a prolusion ol tresses. But it is use
less to attempt to describe them to you, I could
never give you an idea oi llieir loveliness. My
heart warmed to them at once; and I thought
then, aud think now that I had never seen crea
tures ol such surpassing beauty. They were
evidently sisters—twius probably, and exactly
alike. I do not believe an intimate friend could
have told one troui the other.
Somehow 1 lelt that there was some harm de
signed them. 1 did not like the looks of the
stranger. He was old enough to have been their
lather, but that he sustained that relation to
them I did net believe. They walked hurriedly,
and evidently wished to escape observation, but
I followed them at a distance, and finally traced'
them to an old brick house on Si. Ann street.
It stands there yet, ruinous and tumbling to de
cay. It was old then, and regarded with a
strange suspicion. When I saw them go in, a
chill of fear struck icily to my heart. It seemed
as it I stood iu the presence of death, and looked
upon some terrible horror. *
So strangely did it affect me that I went im
mediately anil communicated my tears and
suspicions to a irieud, also on the police. There
must have been a supernatural inffucuce at
work, far he, too, participated in my tears,
although neither could give auy logical reasous
tor our suspicions. But we, nevertheless, lelt
the presentment ot evii, and determined, it it
lay in our power, to avert lrom peril the beauti
ful creatures who had enlisted our sympathy.
So night aiter night we watched and waited.
The schooner still lay in the harbor, and a mys
terious correspondence was kept up between the
vessel and the house day and night. But the
girls nor their guardian ever came out. One
night, however, we perceived an unusual stir
in tbe bouse. Lights dashed lrom room to room,
and finally a piercing shriek rent the air, curd
ling our blood with horror—then another, and
a third, bo piercing and lull of anguish that
human nature could not endure it in silence.
We sprung over the feuce, aud passing through
the yard, rushed into the house. In the hall
we met tbe ship captain, and two or three of
his meu. He received us politely and inquired
our business. We told him of tbe cries we bad
beard and demanded to know tbeir meaning.
He said they had come lrom some other place,
as there were no other persons in the house but
himself and men.
We searched high and low, but could find no
one. One of the walls ot the house looked as
il it had been treshiy repaired. The brick and
the mortar were yet green, but there were no
signs ol any living creatures. I lelt horror
stricken.
“Where are the young girls and the man who
lately’ occupied the house V” I inquired.
“ They went on board the schoontr this morn
ing.”
“Are yum sure?"
“Certaiulv—do you find them here?”
"No.”
‘‘It is as I tell you," and he and his crew went
away, and so the mystery rather deepened lhan
was cleared away until nearly’ twenty years
alter, when one ot the walls ol the old house
was torn down, and a vault was discovered
built into it. In this vault were three skeleton*.
Physicians at once perceived luat they were
those ol two young giris aud an old man.
Their heads were all detached as it their necks
had been broken, or their heads severed lrom
their bodies.
“ Those are tbe skulls yonder,” said the old
sergeant, pointing to the skulls in the niche.
‘‘We brought them here and put them up there,
where they have remained ever since.”
“.and this is all you know ot the mystery,”
the reporter asked.
“It is all I know’.”—N. O. Times.
Girls, Don’t Talk Slang.—An exchange
says: Girls, don’t talk slang, il it is necessary
that any one in the latnily should do that, let
your big brother, though I would advise him
not to talk “ Pigeon English” when there is an
elegant aud systematized language that he can
just as well use, hut don’t do it. You have no
idea how it sounds to ears unused or averse to
it, to hear a young lady, when she is asked to
attend some place ot amusement, answer “Not
much;” or, it requested to do something she
does not wish to—“ Can’t see it!” Not” long
ago I heard a miss, who is educated and accom
plished, say, in speaking ot a young man, that
she intended “ to go for him !” aud w hen her
sister asked her assistance at some work, she
answered, “ Not for Joe!” Now. young ladies
ot unexceptionable character and really good
education, tall into this habit, thinking tt shows
smartness to answer back in slang phrases; and
they soou slip flipi>antly lrom the longue with
a saucy pertinence that is not lady-like or be
coming. Young men who talk in that way do
not care to near it lrom lips they love or admire.
It sounds much coarser then. And really, slang
does not save time in use 01 language, as an ab
breviation. No! is shorter and more decided
than “Not much.” And I an sure, Yes! is
quite a- easily said as ** You b::.*’ More than
one promising wedding has been indefinitely
postponed by such means ; lor, however remiss
young men may be themselves, they look lor a
better thing in tbe girls ot their choice, and it
does not help tuem to mend a bad habit to
adopt it too.
The condition ot things in Arkansas would
seem to threaten a collision ot tue two iactions
which are seeking the control ot affairs. Gov
ernor Clayton, who has lately been elected to
the United Estates Senate, refuses to give up the
office ot Governor which is claimed by Johnson,
the Lieutenant Governor. The Johnson party
preferred articles ot impeachment against Clay
ton which were adopted by the House, bnt the
Senate, which seems to be in favor of Clayton,
adjourned in order to defeat the impeachment.
Johnson is expected to issue a proclamation
calling upon the people to sustain him, and
Clayton will probably do the same,
[Ch'cago Times’ Springfield'(III.) Letter.
The Tender Pessteii.
A few days since the qniet and respectable
village of Auburn, in this county, was electri
fied with the result ol a Iree-love affair, which
originated in Ohio. Briefly told, the story is as
follows : One Htller, up to three months ago,
was living quietly near a small town in the in
terior of Ohio. His family consisted of his
second wile, and a son 24 years old by his
former wife. Mr. Hiller was 48 years old, and
his wile 42 They had lived together quietly
ior 20 years, and were very comfortably situa
ted. In November la9t, Sirs Hiller proposed to
visit for some days some triends living in a
small railroad town about fiiteen milee distant,
and after some persuasion her husband agreed
to convey her thither in his carriage. When
however, they arrived within a short distance
ol the town, she persuaded her husband to re
turn home, and allow her to accomplish the
trifling distance remaining on loot. He consent
ed, and on arriving at home found that his son
was absent. This did not, however, surprise
him greatly, as the young man was frequently
away from home on visits, to other fami
lies in the neigaborhooa. He was surprised
however, when, some days afterward,
on going to the house his wife had proposed to’
visit, he discovered she had not been there at
all, and he was more than surprised when he
tound, upon a little inquiry, that upon the very
day his wife and son lelt home they had both
got on a western-bound train at the station and
departed. Here was a situation, indeed; but
inasmuch as Mr. Hiller could see no way ot
helping himself out ot the scrape, he did noth
ing except to go home and take care of his
farm. He knew the runaways had plenty of
money, supplied by himself, but he expected to
hear lrom them wheD their (or rather his) funds
gave out. The event proved that, affhough he
had not been about the world a great deal, he
anew something oi women, tor about February
5 r h he received a letter from his wife, dated at
Auburn, bhe expressed her regret at the step
she had taken, and desired that her husband
would send her $50 wherewith to return to
him. Instead of replying to this letter, the hus
band took up his line ot march tor Auburn, and
upon arriving there found his wife and son had
lived at the hotel as man and wile, and are now
living in the same happy situation at Waverly,
twelve miles distant. Mr. Hiller went at once
to Waverly, and found that the runaway
couple were looked ufon as a model pair.—
They were so true and so devoted to
each other that everybody in the village
protested against the idea that there was
anything wrong about their actions. The wife
swore that she would sooner die than leave her
afiiuity, and the young man swore that he
would rather be cut into inch pieces than be
separated from bis love. At last Air. Hiller got
his wife in a buggy and proposed to return to
Auburn, leaving his son. The young man burst
into a flood ot tears, and at the suggestion of
the wise climbed on the rear of the vehicle, and
thus accompauied his lather and step-mother to
Auburn. When they arrived there, the young
man insisted upon occupying the same room
with bis step-mother, but the hotel keeper took
the side ol the husband, and Mr. Hiller enjoyed
that right aud privilege ior the Dight. The
next morning the young man was seen standing
in front ot the hotel while the woman was
“ throwing kisses ” at him from the window of
her room. This sort of thing proceeded for
some days, the loving couple trying to get to
gether, and the husband managing to keep them
apart. At last this scandal became too much
lor the good people of Auburn, and a constable
warned the young man that he must make
himself scarce or be locked up. The hotel-
keeper told him not to show himsell about
tbe hotel, and Mr. Hiller gave him $3 and as
much blessing as could be expected. The young
man disappeared from public view for a lew
hours, so Mr. Hiller got on board a train going
North, proposing to take his wife back to her
home in Ohio. No sooner had the train started,
however, than the young lover was seen near
the track. The wile screamed vows of eternal
fidelity to him /rom the car window, and tried
ia vain to jump off tbe train. She was restrained,
however, and the train sped on its way. The
young man followed alter the train on foot,
vowing he would pursue his love to the end ot
the world. He was twelyc hours behind the
train when he passed through this city, and it
is to be hoped the Times wili inform the public
when he reaches Chicago. In the meantime,
the short-haired women might find in the inci
dent the basts ol a scathing denunciation of our
withering marriage system.
The Savannah aud Atlanta Railroad.
We clip lrom the Savannah Republican the
following in relation to tie Savannah and
Atlanta Railroad :
To-morrow an important meeting of the
Board of Directors ol the Savannah and Atlanta
Railroad is to be held in this city. The event
is regarded as one of the deepest interest to our
city. The reports ol the surveyors will, no
doubt, be read, and measures devised whereby
the wor kcan be rapidly pushed to completion.
Citizens on the line ol the projected road have
responded to the call lor subscriptions with a
spirit truly encouraging, and it is proper that
our community should devote some ot its time
and attention 10 these gentlemen who, as friends
ot the road, come here to counsel with us in
reference to the great undertaking.
A Chequered. Career.
It is 8aid, and very truly, that “the wickedness
oi man’s heart is past finding outand did this
truth need additional illustration, it is furnished
in the somewhat chequered and eventful career
ot S. Hubert Scott, now iu the custody of the
police on a charge ot felony. He was arrested
at his lodgings, on Royal street, Thursday morn
ing last, by virtue ot a requisition lrom the Gov
ernor ol Missouri.
Tue tacts upou which the immediate charges
are based consist ot forgeries perpetrated upon
banking houses in St, Louis, Cincinnati and
Chicago. While residing temporarily in St.
Louis he negotiated at the Southern Hotel in
that city a dratt on New York, which was sub
sequently returned to the holder with the infor
mation that no funds were in the bank to the
credit ot Mr. Scott, in Chicago he collected
funds for his employers and tailed to accouut
tor the same. This occurred in November. In
the preceding October he negotiated with E.
Kinney & Co., ot Cincinnati, a draft on New
Turk, which was ascertained to be a lorgery.
It is upon these charges that he is now in
custody. Criminal as they ore, they do not dis
close a title ot his villainy. The yet darker
crimes of repeated marriages, desertion and
cruel libertinism are laid at his door.
Commencing his career in Buffalo, N. Y. t as
a young lawyer, he gained considerable distinc
tion lor his ability aud scholarly entertainments.
Patronage seconded iiis efforts, and he rapidly
rose in his protession. Suddenly,however, and
without any apparent reason, he abanooned his
practice and went to New York to engage in
mercantile pursuits; and, what is stranger still,
under an assumed name Known there as Mr.
A. L. James, he connected himselt with a large
manufacturing firm, and his tact and thorough
acquaintance with the details ot the business
soon won their - confidence. They sent him
West and South, and intrusted to his care the
management and control ot their interests. He
repaid their trust by violating every obligation
and swindling them in various amounts. Some
ume betore, however, he had married an Eng
lish lady, and with the desertion ot his wile is
laid to nis charge the ruin ot several young la
dies who put iaith in his pretensions.
Coming to this city he soon ingratiated him
self into the good opinion of one of our most
respectable down town families, and a few
weeks since, without ever having obtained a
divorce, married a young lady ot great beauty
and refinement.
Indeed, it was while he was making his toi
lette in his wife’s chamber, that he was arrested
by the detective.
He is a young man of polished address and
pleasing manners, and dresses with exquisite
taste, in view of these advantages it is not sur
prising that he has succeeded so effectually in
misleading those who have made his acquaint
ance.
His career appears an adventarons one. He
was one ot the lew survivors ot the ill-lated
Evening Star, and his account of that terrible
shipwreck was remarkable tor masterly descrip
tion and absorbing interest. A facile writer
and fluent conversationalist, his career coold
have been honorable and distinguished had his
abilities not been perverted to bad purposes.
The penitentiary gates will probably, close
upon a man who ougnt to have been an orna
ment to society.
Dabby’s Prophylactic Fluid is the best
thing in the world lor a burn.
NEWS BT TELEGRAPH.
Washington, February 21.—A special from
Little Rock, statec that the commandant of the
post received orders to preserve the peace.—
There has been no progress made in the adjust
ment of the troubles. The Senate is still with
out a quorum.
The Pacific Railroad Committee will report a
bill to day cuttiogjiff all branches, and provi
ding for a trunk road from Marshall to San
Diego.
A-pinwall, February 10.—The United States
steamer Nepsic arrived on the 9th. She sails
for Atriato river on the 14th, where the supply
ship Guard is anchored. Heavy rains continue
in that locality. The first Darien surveying
party left here on the 6th, lor Atriato river.—
All well.
The commanderiof the 8elfridge joins the
United States steamer Resaca at Panama, and
proceeds to survey the Pacific side, commenc
ing at Simon Bay.
Havana, February 20.—The insurgents Colo
nels Miguel, Machado, Majors Demitrio, Cas
te Uo, and eleven men surrendered at Puerto
Principe on the 14th inst.
Majors Lorenzo, Castills, and Ricardo were
at Ponce de Leon on the 16th, and Captain
Gonzales was at Neuvitas.
The people come into the cities in such num
bers to surrender that the interior is depopu
lated.
Troops surprised tire Republican Assembly
in session at Mardal. The members, however,
escaped, but tbeir documents were captured.
Prelect Adrino Garcia was killed at Beans
Jagua.
St. Petersburg, February 20.—The French
Charge d’Affaires here has notified the Cabinet
of the establishment of a new government.
Recognition is expected to-morrow.
Berne, February 20 —Emperor William has
notified the Swiss Government ot his assump
tion of tbe Emperorship and gives assurances
ol his continued sympathy with Switzerland.
London, February Sl.—^Phe early return of
John Bright to parliamentary duties is doubtful.
The Standard has information that the Em
peror W illiam’s health excites grave av ticipa-
tions.
The German wounded, capable of bearing
arms, have been sent to the front.
Troops are concentrating at Cologne.
The relations ot Austria aud Russia with
Prussia are unaffected by a change ot govern
ment.
It was stated in tbe Hungarian Parliament
that intervention in the Franco-Prusaian war
could not we’l be effected.
The bill granting annuity to Princess Louise
passed to its third reading.
The University test bill passed.
The French ports are filled with vessels laden
with provisions for Paris, but cannot be for
warded tor the want of land transportation.
Paris, February 19.—There is authority for
saying the final peace conditions include the
cession oi Alsace and a portion of Lorane, with
fortresses—Thionville, Metz and Bellort, and
two hundred and eighty million pounds in
demnity.
Washington, February 21 —The President
has signed the bill territorializing the District,
ol Columbia.
No nominations or confirmations to-day.
The carnival was a wonderful success to-day.
HOUSE.
By a suspension oi the rules, appropriations
will hereafter take the precedence ol all busi
ness at two o’clock each day.
The Committee on the Pacific Railroad
reported a strict Southern bill with certain
amendments, but only two were adopted, viz :
one changing the name of the road to that
of the Southern Pacific—another making the
capital $50,000,000 instead of $100,000,000.
A motion to postpone was defeated—143 to 50.
Another amendment provides for a single
trunk trim Marshall td San Diego—adopted.
Another excluding from consolidation with
other roads which may hereafter be chartered
—passed 74 to 61. The bill finally passed—134
to 70.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
Mr. Corbett, from the Committee on Com
merce reported a bill to promote the construc
tion of the Cincinnati & Southern Railroad
with immaterial amendments.
A bill for a new judicial district in Arkansas
was defeated.
A bill providing for a Solicitor to the Interior
Department was passed.
Appropriations were resumed.
Motions were made to include Pittsburg and
Mobile as places to which goods may be trans
ported, which were adopted, when the legisla
tive, judicial and executive appropriation was
passed.
The State Department has advices of the
wreck of the British steamer Zoe, from Boston
to France with provisions contributed by Ameri
can citizens. The vessel and cargo are tftotal
loss.
New York, February 21.—Special dispatch
to the Telegram, from Paris, to the 20th, says:
The question as to the occupation and reten
tion ot Metz is settled. The Loraine line an
nexed will include Port a Mousson. The French
wish to prolong the armistice till the 2d March.
Yon Moltke insists as a condition of the pro
longation that tbe Germans shall enter Paris.—
It is expected this condition will prevail. The
meeting of the Berlin Parliament is postponed.
The French must pay half the idemnity by the
15th March. Paris is fast assuming the ordina
ry appearance. Prices much reduced.
All the old officers of the Lackawana and
Western Railroad Company were re-elected.
A person arrested for perjury in bankruptcy
gave $10,000 bail.
St. Louis, February 21—The Deputy U. B.
Marshal was killed at New Madrid, An ex
sheriff was arrested on suspicion.
Richmond, February 21—The bill incorpora
ting the Washington and Richmond Railroad,
which would give the Pennsylvania Central
Raiiroad a connection with the Southern roads
and which passed the Honse yesterday, was de
feated in the Senate this evening. Yeas, 13 ;
Nays, 24.
New Orleans, February 21.—The carnival
passed off quietly. Strangers in the city are
estimated at 75.000, 20,000 having arrived in
the past lour days. The hotels are overflowing.
Those arriving by boats within the past two
days retain their staterooms on the steamers for
want of hotel accommodations.
London, February 21—A dispatch from
Havre says that, upon the city of Alencon re
fusing to pay the assessment, the mayor and ten
councilmen were imprisoned.
A dispatch from Bordeaux, to the 20th, says,
Bismarck is willing to resign Metz it Luxem
bourg is given to Germany. Bismarck employs
threats in urging Thiers to terms.
Washington, February 21.—The President
has sent a communication to the Senate in
reply to a resolution, in which he.encloses the
statement of expenses of ihe Government for
communication, transportation, &c. f from 1849
to 1864.
Havana, February 21.—A dispatch from
Santiago de Cuba, says. Several shocks of
earthquakes were lelt there yesterday. No
damage.
Insurgents have destroyed an important
bridge between Santiago de Cuba and Yilla del
Cobria.
Tbe insurgents are awaiting the arrival of Sa
lome Hernandez, with 490 men and 1 cannon
with the purpose of attacking the isolated
Spannish detachments, and protecting the dis-
embarkment of the Qaesada expedition.
Madrid, February 20—Queen Maria Victo
ria is hopelessly ill at Alassio. Her death is re
ported to-night.
Washington, February 23.—Nominations—
R W Healy, Marshal for South Alabama.
Col. V. A. Gaskill is here as agent ior Geor
gia to secure agricultural land scrip for the
State. Gaskill has assurances that the scrip
will be issued as soon as the clerks can pre
pare it.
Full delegations are here from Ohio, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, and a fall delegation from
Atlanta, Ga. t to urge the passage ot Sherman’s
bill regarding tbe Cincinnati & Southern Rail
road.
The river and harbor bill, which passed the
House to-day, gives Wachita river $51,000.
The Texas Pacific Railroad bill, as returned
from the Honse with amendments, was laid
before the Senate by the Vice President,
Mr. Howard moved that the Senate non
concur, and ask lor a-committee of conference.
Mr. Sherman moved that the Senate concur.
Mr. Warner said that the amendments made
by the House made the bill almost an entirely
new one, and io order that the Senate might
know exactly what it was, he moved to lay it
on the table till it be printed, which was agreed
to,
Oglethorpe University.
The semi-annnal examination of the students
of this institution, which has been in progress
for several days, closed this afternoon. We un
demand that the method of examination In
writing has been adopted. The members of a
class are placed in a room and writing material
is famished, where papers containing questions
and exercises upon the different studies pursued,
the contents of which are known only to the
Professor, are submitted, and the young men
are required to put their performances in
writing without the aid of text book or book oi
reference. This method has been long pursued
in the English Universities, but has found its
way into our Southern literary institutions only
within the last few years. It furnishes a severe
test to the student, leaving him no resource to
draw from except that of a well-furnished
mind. We understand that the students of
Oglethorpe acqnitted themselves quite hand
somely in this their maiden effort. The earnest,
working men, who fill the different chairs oi
the University, deserve well at the hands ol
the public. They have been long known to our
people, have been chosen with especial reference
to adaptation to ihe several positions which
they £11, and have already given earnest of their
intention to famish in oar midst facilities for
tbe education of oar sons equal to those afforded
in the best institutions oi the country. Atlanta
has a deep interest in this great educational
enterprise which has been so happily inaugu
rated. Tbe wealthy are interested to the
amount ot the thousands now expended for
bond and incidentals in sending their sons
abroad. The larger class ot those who are
unable to incur the expense of sending their
sons from home are more deeply interested.
We may add that we hope means will be
devised at a period not lar in the future lor
making our University a blessing to many of
those unable to help themselves. Atlanta has
now shown herself in appreciation ot those who
are making efforts to establish and sustain nseiul
public enterprises. We feel assured from the
increasing interest exhibited that the hiBtory ot
Oglethorpe University will not famish the
exception.
We are authorized to say that there will be
exercises in declamation to-night at the City
Hail by chosen members ot the sophomore class.
Mach labor has been bestowed .upon these
young men by the distinguished President, who
fills the chair of Oratory and Belles Lettres and
the public may expect a handsome entertain
ment. Prizes will be presented to the success
ful contestants, the presentation address to be
delivered by oar associate General A. C. Gar-
lington. Let the attendance be large.
We transfer the following interesting ac
count of the dedication of the new Masonic
Hall, from tbe New Era of the 23d instant, to
ihe colamns of the Intelligencer. It is a
matter of deep regret with us that we were not
present on that occasion with our brethren ol
this anejent and honorable order of Free and
Accepted Masons. The address of Judge Sam
uel Lawrence, Grand Master of the State, we
learn, was chaste, sound and well received by
the audience. We should like to see it in
print:
Dedication of the New Masonic Hall.—
Scarcely had the strains of the Post Band ceased
after the parade of Tallulah Fire Company,
when it became the head of another procession
of another character. Yesterday was the day
very appropriately set apart for the dedication
of tiie new Masonic Temple, which has been so
handsomely fitted up on tbe upper floor of
Grant’s fine building, on Broad street, at great
expense. The Grand Lodge was called to meet
at the rooms of the I. O. O. F., in the High
tower building, corner ol Broad and Mitchell at
2 P. M. It was organized as follows: Samuel
Lawrence, M. W. G. M.; P. G. M. John Harris
actingG.8. W.; David Mayer,G. J. W.; F. Schifl
acting G. Sec*y; J. M. Boring acting G. T.; B. H.
Bigham, G. S. D., J. E. Williams, G. J. D.
The three great lights were carried by Dr.
D’Alvigny, Chaplains Dr. Wills, W. F. Park-
house, G. Marshal, and A. McClellan, G. Sword-
Bearer. The Commandary met at 2 P. M., and
formed the escort to the Grand Lodge, under
the command of W. H. Fuller, E. C, Gen. G.
T. Andereon, G. C. G., of tbe State of Georgia,
acting as C. G. and Marshal. The Commandery
marched with the band to the room where the
Grand Lodge had organized, and escorted them
to the Masonic Lodge room, where a lodge had
been opened by Mr. A. C. Ladd, W. M., of
Atlanta Lodge, with a full attendance ot the
brethren. The Grand Lodge were received with
the honors due them, and the very interesting
ceremonies of dedication were proceeded with.
After the completion of these the whole fra
ternity marched to DeGive’s Opera House,
where many ladies, connected with the brethren,
had assembled to hear the address of Grand
Master Lawrence. On the arrival of the pro
cession in the building, Dr. Wills, the Grand
Chaplain, offered prayer, after which the ad
dress of the Grand Master was delivered. The
subject was “ The true object of Masonry.” He
commenced by saying that although a Grand
Master was in some respects an autocrat still,
in other respects he was servant ol the craft and
on occasions like the present the wish of the
craft was the law of tha Grand Master. He was
not accustomed to address a mixed audience,
though he did quite frequently address the
brethren in the Lodge room and consequently
he must ask their indulgence.
It had been the custom of the fraternity in
earlier times, to conceal the object, as well as
the working, of a Masonic Lodge; and when,
in 1717, the books and records were demanded
of tbe English Masons, their records and
archives were burnt, rather than they should be
exposed. Now, however, there were monitors,
and various other books, publications and peri
odicals exclusively devoted to the interests oi
Masonry, lrom which its object might be gath
ered ; bnt with all these advantages, there were
some in the Lodge, and almost all out of it, who
were ignor&nt ot the true objects of Masonry.
These objects he defined to be a tendency td
increase oar knowledge and love of the Creator.
It counteracted many ot the evils now being
propagated. It promoted good will and love
towards onr neighbor in its broadest sense and
it increased man’s self-respect. Mr. Lawn nee
concluded with a warm appeal to the ladies
present to uphold the institution which he
assured them if the wife, mother, sister, daugh
ter, or sweetheart oi a mason would cast round
them a circle of protection they could not ap
preciate.
The address was listened to with much atten
tion and at the close the lecturer was heartily
applauded.
After a short prayer and the benediction by
the Grand Chaplain the procession again re
formed and proceeded to the Lodge room from
whence they started. Several of the ladies then
sited the Lodge and Commandary rooms. They
were much delighted with the elegant manner
in which they are fitted up and asked many cu
rious questions about some of the furniture to
which they did not receive very satisfactory re
plies.
Masonry is flourishing in Atlanta and the
lodges are in a prosperous condition.—New
Era, 23d instant.
Robbery on the Cars.—The Columbus
Enquirer ot the 21st instant says:
On Sunday morning a gentleman named
Joseph Lower, from Tennessee, en route lor
Texas, was robbed on the Western Railroad of
$260, as follows: While the train was standing
at the old Opelika depot two men boarded the
passenger car and approached Mr. Lower, one
representing himself as a commission merchant
with freight at tbe depot, and the other as con
ductor of the train. Th 1 pretended merchant
stated that he had a lot of freight in the depot,
and couldn't make the change to get it out. He
had, he said, a thousand dollar bill, but none of
the railroad men could change it; so he wished
Mr. Lower to change it, or loan him $220 for a
lew minutes. His accomplice, the would-be
conductor, endorsed the transaction, saying, “ I
am the conductor; this gentleman is all right.”
On this assurance the money was advanced.
When the train started the thieves j umped off,
leaving Lower to his fate. After a while, when
the real conductor, Mr. Web3ter, approached,
the sad discovery was made that the man had
been robbed. He returned to tbe city by the
next train to look after the thieves. It is believed
they can be identified. This is the coolest case
we have yet recorded,and proves what we have
suspected, that the city is full ot sharpers.
Dogs —Captain Johnson has informed us that
dogs without collars will be taken up next
week. This is right. The streets are thronged
with dogs of every kind, and are a nuisance to
any city. U the boys Eire to be paid for catch
ing them, we would suggest Jennings’ Town as
a Sue field to make tfieir first raid.
From the Macoa Telegraph and Meaaenger.
The Georgia State Aertcaltanl Cosvtn*
tlon.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAT.
The Georgia State Agricultural Convention
assembled at tbe City Hall at 10 o’clock, and
was called to order by President B. C. Yancey.
Col. D. W. Lewis proceeded to call the roll of
counties, when something like two. hundred
delegates responded to the call of their names.
The courtesies of the Convention were extended
through the President to visiting delegates from
other States and also to the clergy of the city.
Rev. W. W atkin Hicks opened ihe Conven
tion with an impressive rendition of the Lord’s
Prayer, after which Colonel Yancey proceeded
to address the Convention in a brief but telling
speech.
He expressed great gratification at seeing
before him such a large assemblage of his fel
low-citizens on this occasion, and it argued well
for the future of the old Empire State. He was
proud to see pure men, tree from contaminating
influences ot the giddy whirl ot life, convene to
counsel together for the weal of their com
mon interests and the country at large.—
He perhaps should apologize for not having
delivered addresses and written letters on Ihe
subject which he had so much at heart, aud he
was glad to know that the Convention had so
arranged that essays on subjects ol greatest im
port had been assigned to be written by certain
appointed delegates ol the Convention. He
was proud to note the awakened interest mani
fested by the agriculturalists of the South as
witnessed by the numerous agricultural organi
zations and agricultural fairs throughout the en
tire country. He knew that it required time to
eradicate errors, but as tbe constant dripping of
water will wear away the hardest rock, so could
the errors and follies of the past be remedied.
It behooved every man to work with a determi
nation and a faith in his avocation, else success
was impossible. He regretted to see a disposi
tion manifested by many farmers to abandon
their lands and move into the cities, there to try
their lortune. But this desire on the part ol
such men he attributed to the fact that they had
not the requisite faith io, nor were they edu
cated to, their avocation. It is our imperative
duty to impress upon the minds of the rising
generation the very important fact that labor is
honorable. Let our children toil at the
anvil or delve in the soil, but let us not
forget that instructing them to work is the best
legacy we can leave them. We are to-day reap
ing the bitter fruits of rearing our children to
shun labor. The people of Georgia are a high-
toned and an enterprising people, and they can
succeed if they only will so to do. Thirty thou*
sand acres of land have been apportioned in
Georgia by act ol Congress, tor special agricul
tural purposes, and by judicious management
aud such aid as the State will grant us, agricul
tural colleges will be established which will
eventually prove a success and a blessing.—
From such colleges annually will come forth
men of scientific attainments, capable ot tilling
the soil to profit and advantage. One of our
besetting sins has been extravagance, and un
less we discountenance that, and endeavor to
correct this growing evil, nothing but poverty
awaits us. These evils are not confined alone
to our sex -bat woman, God’s beat gilt to man—
she who is a consolation in our hour of sor
row and a joy in the day of our prosperity, and
without whom our lives would be but dreary
wastes—she too must learn lessons of frugality.
We mu9t educate our girls as well aa our boys
to labor, and so rear them that they will pay'
more attention to their domestic duties than to
the latest styles of millinery. I need not apeak
of the noble and independent calling ot the ag
riculturist, nor need I point to the numberless
persons whose great ambition, like that of Cin-
cinnatus or our own Washington, is to retire
after the busy turmoil of life to the quiet of a
little iarm where they can undisturbed pass the
remnant of iheir days in tranquillity.
Aiter a worthy compliment to the incoming
President, and a few parting words to the Ex
ecutive Committee, CoL Yancey then introduced
General Alfred H. Colquitt, the present Presi
dent ot the Association.
Gen. Colquitt, in assuming the duties of the
office, thanked the Convention ior the position
unsolicited and undesired on his part, that they
had generously conferred upon him. He was
aware ot the embarrassments and obstacles that
surrounded him, and in view of such knowledge,
bad he consulted his own feelings, he would not
have accepted the position.
The speaker said he was not present for the
purpose of delivering, as might be expected, a
literary address, but appeared simply to give
expression to a few plain practical remarks. I
only propose giving a common-place planters’
talk about what we have done, what we are
doiugand what we are to do in the future.
There is a gloom and depression in the country
as to the past, ana dark forebodings concerning
the future. Every one I meet brings his tale of
sorrow, and therefore, 1 am in no spirit, were I
so inclined, to indulge in flowing rhetoric. Is
planting a failure ? Is farming a sham ? Is our
soil to return nothing for the labor we bestow
upon it ? If so let us abandon it. But it is not
a failure. It can be made, remunerative. It
can be made a success ii conducted systemati
cally. If we have failed, it is because we have
been thriftless aud because of our want of
proper industry and judicious management.
Not unfrequently the first month of a new year
is entirely absorbed by the farmer in regulating
his labor, and looking alter the odda and ends
with which to commence farming operations In
many instances nothing can be found suitable to
commence with, and forthwith the nearest city is
had resource to in order to purchase necessary
supplies. Even the plow lines which could be
made at home at a cost of perhaps fourteen or
fifteen cent9, are purchased iu tbe etty at torty
cents a pound; and from that plow-line through
the whole catalogue of utensils, even to a paint
ed plow-stock and axe handle the farmer has
to buy. I believe that fertilizers are valuable
adjuncts to the farmer who looks to his own
home fertilizers, and while I do not wish to
disparage auy of the many brands on sale, I do
say that farm yard manure is better than all tbe
guanos ever made, soluble or insolublei But
the farmer pays no attention to saving manure,
allowing it to wash away and enrich fields oi
fennel and hog weed. But what matters this
to rich iarmers, when ammonia can be bought
in Baltimore, and he can buy it on credit ana a
warehouse acceptance, which is as good as gold,
and for the use of which money he pays 30 per
cent per annum. What a sad commentary on
the farming prosperity of this country, when
we look into the large wholesale houses in
Macon and see the immense quantities of corn
and meats in store, and still worse is it to know
that this corn and meat ia brought here
to supply the demands of the farmers.—
To see the immense train loads of provisions
brought to this city daily, one would think that
some benevolent individuals were contributing
to the wants of a starving people. I have
known ot mathematicians figuring as to the
great profit of raising cotton instead of corn,
and at the end oi the year their poor mules
could be seen looking wistfully through the
cracks of the fence. We must stop our calcu
lations and go to work manfully. The founda
tion of prosperity is to be found in the man
who economizes and produces everything that
can be produced and that he may require on
his farm We receive for the four or five mil
lion bales of cotton we make two or three hun
dred millions of dollars, and a person unac
quainted with our true condition would imagine
we were the wealthiest people on earth, but
upon more familiar acquaintance with us, and
from our manuer of living, he would conclude
that we were a set oi mean misers. But when
informed that oi all this large amount ot money
we had not one dollar leu, what would he be
forced to think ? Credit is a good thing to the
importer, but it i3 a consuming moth to the
planter. Farmers most abandon the present
plan of borrowing money at high rates
of interest It yon want a mule in
order to cultivate more land, and have not
the money to purchase the male, cultivate
less land and do without tbe mule. Let the
farmer abandon the idea that he is rich, and set
about in his work ot retrenchment and reform.
Let him know he is poor, aud let him act ac
cordingly. In all tbe pursuits of man, farming
requires more knowledge and science than most
others. Wit, tact and care are absolutely es
sential to success in farming. In days gone by
the successful fanner accumulated wealth
through continued labor, the exercise of the
strictest economy, and by making upon his farm
everything that he would require to use on or
about his farm; and unless we do something as
did onr lathers we cannot succeed. Bat Ido
not yet despair of good results. Five years will
not have elapsed when we shall meet in con
vention and every delegate will wear upon his
face, instead ot the frown of grief, a smile of
toy. No money panic can stay the appointed
order of the seasons. Let us not forget that the
sun, the dew, the showers that go to fructify
the earth come down from Heaven,and poor as
may be our condition we should be thankful to
the Giver of all good ior Hu manifold benefits.
Hoping to receive assistance from the execu
tive body In the discharge of my duties, and
soliciting counsel from each and every member
of the convention, I again tender my thanks for
the honor you have conferred upon me.
fin justice to General Colquitt and Colonel
Yancey, we would state that the crowded con
dition of our colamns prevented us from giving
a full report of their moat timely and eloquent
addresses. We regret that we were forced to
give only meagre outlines.]
An invitation was extended the Convention,
by the Agricultural Society of Bibb and the
citizens ot Macon, to partake of a collation at
the Fair Grounds in the afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Mayor Huff, in a very happy effort, welcomed
the delegates to the hospitalities of the city,
whereupon the invitation was unanimously
accepted.
Gen. Wm. M. Browne tendered a resolution
inviting the members of the Convention to
attend the Memorial Lecture on Gen. Robert E.
Lee, to be delivered at Ralston Hall this even
ing by Rev. W. W. Hicks. Adopted.
It waa moved and seconded that the thanks of
this Convention are due and hereby tendered to
the retiring President who performed the ardu
ous duties ot his position with bo much fidelity
and consistency.
A resolution was offered by Colonel Capers
requesting the appointment of a committee of
five to arrange the order of business for the
Convention. Messrs. Capers, Barnett, Tenu.
Browne and Janes, compose the committee. ’
Mr. Janes offered a resolution organizing a
committee for the purpose of examining into
the feasibility of establishing an Agricultural
College in Georgia and to suggest a suitable
locality for the same. The committee is com-
K wed ot one delegate from each Congressional
istrict
A resolution was offered by a delegate from
Clarke county, authorizing the organization of
& committee of one from each Congressional
District whose duty it should be to organize an
Emigration Land Company.
It was moved and seconded that the report of
the retiring Executive Committee be received.
The Convention then adjourned to convene
again at 9 o’clock this morning.
Georgia News.
Savannah is to have a sugar refinery.
Nickerson, of the Screven House, Savannah,
will not take charge of the National Hotel in
Atlanta. The “ cupidity ot Atlanta ” can’t be
gratified in this matter, so says the Republican.
The grand jury of Clarke county recom
mends that a new county be established with
Athens as its county site.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says that Hon.
B. H. Hill is engaged in preparing an answer to
that portion ot Judge Linton Stephens’ Macon
speech which applies to him.
There will be a grand race over Lafayette
Course, near Augusta, on the last day of May
next, lor one thousand dollars a side. Colonel
Thomas G. Bacon, of Edgefield, S. C., enters
his celebrated racer Tookean, and Mr. Crawford,
of Augusta, enters his bay gelding John Ken-
rick.
Abe Turner was shot and killed by David A.
Reid, on the public square at Eatonton, on
Tuesday of last week. No Ku-Klax outrage.
The origin of the difficulty was about one of the
parties killing an animal belonging to the other,
two years ago.
John Sloan, the murderers of Daniel Sharkey
on board the British bark William H. Jensins,
was arrested on Friday last, below Savannah,
and has since been committed to the jail in that
city.
Savannah is to have a new and beautiful
Catholic Cathedral
On Monday last, a negro was arrested in
Columbus for the murder of a man in Bullock
county, Ala., last December. He was pointed
out to the police by another negro.
General S. B. Buckner was in Columbus last
Sunday, on his way from Florida to tbe West.
The city police of Macon Is to appear-soon in
a new uniform.
A post office has been established near Jones
boro—a Mr. Poller, postmaster.
A Mr. Durham and Mr. Wrigbt took it out
with shot guns, near Hall’s bridge, in Pike
county, a few days ago. Neither seriously hurt
—shot smalL
Mr. M. W. C. Morrill has been appointed
Treasurer of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
Company and has entered upon his duties,
CoL D. W. Lewis was elected as Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society for the present
year.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Atlanta & Savannah Railroad was lately held
iu Savannah, and a committee appointed to
apply to the city authorities to take stock in the
same.
It is rumored in Savannah that J. W. Boles,
late Assistant Assessor of Revenue has been
nominated for the position of Collector of Cus
toms for that port.
The Monroe Advertiser states that several
peach trees are in bloom in that vicinity.
A large number of Sweden emigrants have
taken nip their abode in Jones county, in this
State. They are represented as a thrifty, indus
trious class of people.
The corner stone of the Orphan As/lutn in
Augusta was laid on the 23d with imposing
ceremonies.
Rev. J. L. Pierce has taken charge of the
Cartersville Female Academy, and has his
school in successful operation.
A white lady, whose name is unknown, was
fonnd near Cass Station, on Saturday last, with
her throat cut from ear to ear, accompanied by
a little babe three or four months old. So says
the Express.
John Clardy, of White county in this State,
while under the influence of liquor, fell over a
bluff twenty feet high and was immediately
killed.
Miss Carrie Foster, daughter of Col. A. G.
Foster, died in Madison, on Monday last.
The Bowen Bigamy Case.—A party from
Charleston has been in the city for past two or
three days, looking up testimony against Con
gressman Bowen in the big imy case brought
against him by Mrs. Frances Bowen, of this city,
the preliminary hearing of which is to be held
in Washington on the 28th instant. Yester
day, a number of highly respectable witnesses
were summoned by Deputy United States Mar
shal David Porter, and will leave for Washing
ton on Saturday next. Among those summoned
are Chief of Police Christian, Sergt. E. Hicks,
of the police, Miss Mary Seago, Miss Louisa
Dixon, and Mrs. Frances Biweu, the deserted
wite of Bowen, United States Deputy Marshal
Porter will also attend as a witness.
With these witnesses, and others, familiar
with the tact of Boweu’s marriage with Miss
Frances Hicks, in 1852, there can be little doubt
ot the conviction of Bowen lor bigamy, in thU
the second case brought against him for such a
heinous crime. A copy ot the original mar
riage license granted Bowen for his marriage
with Mias Frances Hicks, bearing date October
31,1852, has been procured from the Ordinary’s
office, bearing the name of Leon P. Dugas, Or
dinary, which attests the original record. Of
his marriage with Miss Hicks there ia no shadow
of doubt, as several of the witnesses summoned
can tally establish. The lady in question is
now a resident of Augusta, of moat reputable
character and respectable connection, who wa3
abandoned years ago by this reckless carpet-bag
adventurer, who has figured so conspicuously in
the Radical schemes ot political reconstruction
and in the destruction of social happiness wher
ever he coold gain admittance to decent society.
It is to be hoped that no bribed jnror will in
this case be allowed to defeat the ends ot jus
tice.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
Tbe Georgia Medical Companion.
The second number of this valuable medical
journal has just been issued from the “ Frank
lin Steam Printing House ” of J. J. Toon. It
would be superfluous for us to speak of its
typographical execution. So far as we are
capable of judging, we have no hesitancy in
saying that no abler conducted medical journal
has ever been issued from the press. Tne
editors, Dra. Powell and Goldsmith, are gentle
men ot honor and acknowledged abilities
throughout the country. Dr. Powell was the
editor.of the “Ladies’ Home,” a literary periodi
cal, which was greatly admired by all ot the
literary characters of its day. We most cheer
fully recommend this new medical journal to
the profession of the entire couatry, as possess
ing qualifications of rare taste and genius.