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ACQUbTA. GA.
TUESDAY MORNING. FEB. 0,186D
THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.
There is a very singular contest go'ng
on over the proposed fifteenth amendment
to the Constitution, which reads as follows:
“ Section 1. The right* of any citizen oi the
United States shall not he denied or abridged
by the United Slates, or any States, by reason
of race, or color, or previous condition ot slave
ry of any citiztu or class of citizens of the Uni
ted States.
“Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to
enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provis
ions of this article.”
With the hot haste characteristic of a
caucus-ridden body, the House of Repre
sentatives passed this amenifment by a
very large vote. The Senate is not so ram- .
pant. Amendments to the House Hill show
how gingerly it is treated. Senator Buck
at.kw wants to protect.minorities, and of
fers an amendment to that effect. Os
course, this stands no chance whatever of
being favorably acted upon. Senator How
ard ostensibly wants negro supremacy.'
Senator Williams proposes that Congress
amend, revise or alter all State laws affect
ing suffrage. Senator Morton desires the
amendment to affirm as well as prohibit—
that is, he desires the amendment to be so
emphatic that not the subtlest lawyer or
most disloyal Legislature shall impair the
perfect equality of all men, without distinc
tion of race, color, t poverty, former servi
tude and ignorance. Members from the
Pacific coast can swallow the negro, but
hesitate to gulp down John China
man with his Pagan relations. They
can stand Sam no in the South with liisvau
doo practices, but they cannot stomach the
yellow man in California and Oregon with
his idolatrous Joss worship. It seems odd,
at this day, to chronicle that the much
abased doctrine of State Rights is a stumb
ling block in the path of certain men who
have long since proclaimed the dogma as
good as dead and buried. Yet, absurd as
as it may appear, some of the Radical Sena
tors absolutely object in part to the amend
ment as it comes from the House because
of its interference with the supposed pre
rogatives of a Commonwealth. Rhode
Island has a property qualification which
politically outlaws one-third of her citizens.
Nineteen States allow negro suffrage, but
of these Congress has forced it on eleven.
Eighteen States prohibit negro suffrage, it
is proposed to corner these eighteen by sub
mitting the new amendment, when passed,
to their Legislatures. These Legislatures
were elected on totally different issues ; but.
what does Radicalism care for that? True,
the people ,of the States have declined to
sanction negro suffrage, but they can possi
bly be tricked by venal and partisan Gene
ral Assemblies.
We learn that the most novel feature of
the suffrage question is that connected with
the bogus Congressmen from the South.
These rare fellows, having taken the black
dose with all its trimmings, are eager and
impatient to commend it in similar fashion
to those who effect to love it: This swans
to be the great peril of the amendment in
the Senate. It was a splendid joke to tor
ment the South, but, even in the hands of
trooly loii brethren from the late dominion
of rebellion, the joke loses its flavor when
pushed too rar East, and w«st . The Demo
crats appear to regard the passage of the
amendment with much equanimity. The
wriggling of their adversaries is excellent
sport while it lasts. If the Radicals con
clude to tempt, faith with their leveling pro
gramme, it is believed that there will lie a
great uprising of the popular elements
against it. • The unterrittod of Connecticut
predict that they will secure thousands of
converts by any such direct issue. To this
it may lie objected that the people have be
come so accustomed to abandon their priv
ileges, that this infraction will cause but a
slight ripple before an entire submission to
the Central Power. It is just as well not 1o
put great stress upon the reactionary virtue
of what we call Ihe Northern People. If
they gradually lose much of their freedom,
it will be because they strove to enslave us.
If their liberties are eventually put in jeop
ardy by the vermin claiming to represent
the South, they will be righteously punish
ed for their dastardly attempt to circum
vent justice by a. sometime successful
fraud.
A LITTLE GAME IN TENNESSEE,
In the telegraph reports of
ing this paragraph occurred :
“ Tennessee Representatives ArncTl, Mullen?
and Nunn publish cards denying any connec
tion with the theft of school funds.”
The following telegram to the Cincinnati
Commercial (Rep.), will explain how there
may have been “ indiscretion ” but “ no loss
of integrity ” among the truly loyal men of
Tennessee:
“Nashville, February 3.—The sensation oi
the season was produced in the Legislature to
day, hy the most startling disclosures in con
nection with the missing school fund. It has
been surmised for a long time that there was a
great deal of rascality at the bottom of the
whole business, but nobody outside of those
implicated imagined the extent of the bribery,
corruption and wholesale swindling made up
in the history of I lie stolen lhnd. It will be re
membered that several weeks since, Rutter,
President of the Tennessee National Bank iu
Memphis, where the school fund was placed,
was arrested, and a committee appointed by
the House to make a thorough investigation.
That committee, composed oi fearless and im
partial men, aided tty the treat legal talent in
Nashville, made its report to-day, bringing to
light the most damning disclosures, and impli
cating official--, most ot whom were members
of the House at the time the funds were spirit
ed away.
“The principal witnesses who testified he
foie the committee were Butler himself and a
head lobby agent, named Parham. In addition
to these some scores of letters and telegrams
were brought to light, nearly all having a hear
ing on tlie* corrupt iufbicnces then brought to
bear on the Legislature standing out. Among
the most prominent of those who were bribed
stands S. M. Arnell, present member of Con
gress, who was then a member of the Legisla
ture, and well known as the author of the Ten
nessee franchise law.- Two other members of
Congress, Mullins and Nunn, who were then
members ot the House, also, according to the
most ample testimony, received bribes ; but
they were not as deep in the villainy as Arnell.
The latter’s name figures largely through the
testimony and correspondence, it being clearly
proven that he pocketed $35,000 at one haul.
Mullins was for sale cheaper, he receiving SSOO
cash. He indulged in the following rhapsody
when imbibing a bowl of whisky punch with
Parham:
“‘Tell Butler,’ said he, ‘that I remember
him. Asa lovely spot in memory’s waste, as
the shadow of a great rock in the desert, as the
rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley, ana
as the cedar is among the trees ot Lebanon, so
is Butler among men.’
“It uas proven by Rutter that Mullins re
r~ m •
ceived very large sums to buy others, and j
;!m money was never receipted for afterwards, ,
ihe virtuous Congressman is to be prosecuted -j
if he does not iuform how the money was ex- ;
expended. Rutter, at the instance of the com- j
mittee, wiote him two weeks ago, but has got
no answer yet. ISaggS
“Judging from the testimony, about one
half of the members of the House must have
been bribed, but the negotiations were carried
on in such a nelicale and guarded way as to
make it nppe.fc that the money was being bor
rowed. A single cent, however, was never
paid back. The Metropolitan Bank of Wash
ington was somehow mixed up iu the matter
to the extent ot one hundred thousand dollars,
which it secured.
“ The testimony proved that outside of the
Legislature thirteen thousand dollars were ex
pended lor influences brought to bear on that
body, and probably members of the Legisla
! lure received as high as forty or fifty thousand
dollars.
“ The testimony covers about five hundred
pages foolscap. It is hard to conjecture what
action the Legislature will take in the premises,
but it is pretty certain that Ibe stolen school
fund wit) not lie recovered.”
THE REASON WHY.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says:
“Generals Porter and Babcock, of General
Grant’s staff, have returned from their tour oi
inspection through the Southern States. I bey
visited every military post in the country
through which they t raveled, and will make an
extended written report to General Grant.—
They represent North Carolina as in the best
condition and next to that State is Alabama.
The worst state of affairs exists in Georgia, and
some legislation by Congress to secure the
rights "of the loyal people in that State will be
recommended. They say the negroes were in
the right during the Ogeechee troubles and
they should be. protected. Notwithstanding
~ho militia troubles in Arkansas, the State is in
a flourishing condition.”
According !<> the Mon. Mr. Bhoomall, a
Radical member of Congress, Ihe news
paper correspondents fit Washington are
all falsifiers and black mailers. It may be
that Hitch a one as is here described pre
pared, from a fertile imagination, the say
ings and doings of Generals Babcock and
Pouter. If, however, this Jribune man
has stumbled on the truth, the officers sent
out by General Grant to investigate the
South are. certainly partisan enough to
please the most flea-bitten loyalist, li
Carolina and Alabama are reported in
excellent condition because they are, for
the present, utterly at the mercy of the
tools of Radicalism. Arkansas ditto.—
Georgia is accounted “ worst off," because
most Democratic. If she had gone for
Grant at the List election, and if the ‘-Gov
ernor” and “ Legislature'” were in perfect
accord, there might have been stealing, mur
dering, militia outrages and all manner of
deviltry, but the eyes of your Porters and
Barcocks would have been too delighted
with evidences of loyalty to witness mani
festations of crime. The people of Augusta
remember those famous white-washing mar
tinets of Gene rat Meade who vouched for
the late Mayor and City Council. Porter
and Babcock, if not belied by the Tribune
correspondent., arc evidently of the same
stripe and under the same inspiration.
iTn.ct, National Temperance Pociety.
The Philosophy of Drinking anil Drunk
enness.
All intoxicating drinks arc dangerous in
the proportion in which they contain
alcohol. Tite effect of alcohol upon the
brain is to disturb its action at the very
time it is necessary to put a restraint upon
the quantity. Some men can and do con
tinue to drink moderately, but others cammi
do this. If the temperament is ora cn-t.-mi
nicni.ni h.-tn .in effect which renders
the craving for stimulants uucofflt’ollable.
And for this reason the appetite for drink
is unlike any other appetite. It, differs in
degree even from the appetite for opium or
tobacco. It is unlike the appetite for food.
A man may have a strong desire for a cer
tain kind of food, and may put himself to
inconvenience to get the dish he prefers;
hut in its absence he is content to take
another article to relieve his hunger. But
this appetite for alcohol is not only the
craving of the stomach or tin* palate, in
some cases it. is neither, lint is the craving
of the nerves fin* stimulants. Tite effect Os
alcoholic drinks upon the nerves and the
brain is the cause of this ail but universal
use. 'The effect wanted is not to fill the
stomach or to give moisture to the body,
but, to carry t.lie feelings beyond what is
natural, to give sensations like pleasant,
dreams, to drown care, to bring forgetful
ness of pain, and to raise the feelings to' a
higher elevation.
'intoxicating drinks arc so called because
they intoxicate. Intoxication is a state of
the nerves which makes tite man feel out oi
himself—above himself—beyond himself.—
At firstir, give*a pleasant, sensation, a sense
of relief from the cares of life ; and so attain
this quieting sense—this ecstatic feeling—it
is the desire of all who drink. It may not
be to them always apparent, hut, neverthe
less it is the exciting motive to drink. It is
produced by an unnatural action of the
nerves, which uses up in a short time the
surplus power lying dormant, a provision
for the healthy action of the system. This
action iias, therefore, always a 'correspond
ing reaction. For example, if it is supposed
that the nerve power was held in a tube of
twenty inches, each inch being marked like
a thermometer, and the normal or healthy
state was at ten, a glass of spirits might,
raise the nervous state to eleven, when the
great enjoyment sought, would be attained
for a short time. The reaction would cause
the fall to go below leu. It, would fall down
to nine—it must do so—as the alcohol does
not impart nerve power, nor does it create
it. It, only calls that which we possess into
action; the reaction must, therefore, always
be in exact ratio to the action excited.
If taken, therefore, for daily health,.the
action must be a daily waste of power—a
daily using of the surplus power provided
tty a bountiful providence for the emergen
cies of life—and a waste to he mourned
when an accident happens or an epidemic
rages in the neighborhood, t hen the acci
dent, will not be so easily managed without,
(he reserve nerve power, and the want of it
may also make the use of strong drink the
more susceptible to the poison of the epi
demic. In both cases much of the recuper
ative power of nature has been used up by
daily nerve excitement. If taken for more
than this—for the enjoyment ot intoxica
tion—how dangerous is the process ! The
man raises himself in the scale (keeping in
mind the tube of 20 inches) to 11—it may
lie he goes higher, to 15—which may repre
sent him as the poet,, the orator or the jo
vial companion ; or to 17, which we may
suppose to represent forgetfulness and reck
less drunkenness. From this state how
low he must fall! During night he has
kept himself up; whenever the flagging of
energy took place, another dram brought
it up again, and his night of enjoyment has
been bought at, the morning’s price. He is
now to s—to 3—it may be 1,0 the bottom of
the tube ; if so, God pity him ! He is now
in that state when the nerve power is ex
hausted, when alcohol ceases to touch the
springs of volition. He will's, hut has no
power to command.' He is now in the
agony of delirium tremens.
Alcohol.bc it then observed, causes in
creased action without adding the power to
sns'ain the system at the stimulated point,
consequently reaction must follow. This
reaction demands more stimulant; if given,
more reaction follows, to be again succeed
ed by a stronger desire for the stimulant,
until n seeming absolute necessity for the
drink is created. In the moderate drinker
his feeling to represented by a feeling of
sinking, of discomfort, which is often diffi
cult to overcome ; but in the drunkard it
exists as a disease before which all restraint
seems powerless, and he will do anything
and suffer anything rather than the anguish
springing from tiie desire for alcohol which
is now beyond his control.
At this stage taste, as far as the palate is
concerned, has little to do with his thirst.
It is the craviug of the naan for more nerve
excitement. He will sacrifice his ail for de
liverance for a few moments from the abso
lute depression which he feels.
The man of even temperament, whom
nothing ruffles, offends or puts about, may
continue to drink and drink moderately all
his life without seeming danger; but even
he, when some sharp caiimity overtakes
him, may seek short-lived forgetfulness in
the bottle, and may in a short time aston
ish all his friends by the swiftness of his
fall., Under circumstances.to which all are
liable, the naturally well balanced mind
may succumb; but the fiery natures, the
impulsive, the open-hearted and the gener
ous, are as the gun cotton which needs
but the pressure or the spark to become un
controllable, and demand more drink with
ail the agony of unstrung nerves. These
are they who become drunkards all at once.
They stand an astonishment to their friends
and to themselves. No picture can present
to them in greater horrors the agony which
they themselves feel. What the man now
wants is a way of escape ; this the temper
ance movement offers him. The drunkard
may be punished or frightened ivith pun
ishment without any effect; bat he will be
influenced by the kind word, if based upon
a knowledge of his position.
This being the action of alcohol, it shows
plainly that total acstinence is the .yply
remedy for drunkenness, and it also shows
how important it is to keep tiie young trtmi
using alcohol at all. The evil is iu the
drink. The evil is so great that iij every
circle it finds victims. It will injure just
in proportion to the fineness rif the nerve
power to be qcted upon. He whose brain
is easily excited will be the best loved in
society'; but if iu that society the wine cup
circulates, his danger js gregt. The man of
a cold temperament may stand unhurt
while he is slain.
It may be urged, however, that only a
few fall, and many have the enjoyment-
This argument might hold if the question
was one'of secondary importance ; but it is
a question of rpore than life and death to
those who fail, and the enjoyment would be
dearly purchased if it involved bivt the loss
of one in ten thousand. But the drinking
customs now involve one iu every circle, it
may l>e nearly every home. The danger Is
also so imperceptible in its approaches that
no one can confidently say that he or she
may escape its consequences. What ffiay,
therefore, be argued about as an effect op
others takes anew form when it comes
home to ourselves, and those dearer tons
than life. Total abstinence has been, in ail
cases where persistently applied, eminently
successful. Its chief merit lies in the de
mand that the man shall help himself. The.
work must be of his own free will. The
pledge slums him iioty he may help himself
—how In; may remove from himself his
great temptation; not by trusting iu him
self, but in the instrumentality which,
while it shows him his own wtotkness, car
ries him to Him who is willing and ready
to save.
It is said that when one of our great ex
plorers had found a huge monument deeply
imbedded in Hie sand of Egypt, ami unsuc
cessfully tried by main strength to drag it
out of its tomb, that strength only carried
it through, not out of the sand. An engineer
of the party suggested a plan whereby the
very sand, whose want of resistance caused
all the disappointment, could be made to
raise the figure to the surface. The mass
of stone was raised on the side a little, the
sand ran into the vacant place. A pull the
contrary way, and the sand again ran in.
The figure having thus been raised its pro
portion to t.lie body of sand which had got
below it, each pull on one side, with its re
verse pat on the other, brought the figure
nearer and nearer the surface, until it stood
before the explorer and his party in its
ancient stateliness and grandeur.
The poor victim of intemperance is pas
sive under the influence qf punishment and
warnings. He disappoints ljie hopes of his
friends and all his own hopes also. But
the temperance man is ready to take him
by the hand to give him a knowledge of
himself—to show him how he can, by his
own agency, bring unto ldmsclf the means
of his deliverance. Here he stands alone,
lie Iqok.s at his enemy—he looks forward—
be sees his qvvii urcajfqess ; but he feels the
struggle must be Ids —where can lip get
help? Instinctively, like the prodigal of
old, he says, “1 will arise and go to my
fa ther.” Every si toggle, now that he has
gained greater strength than his own, gives
new enej-gy and more foundation lor the
rescue, and tittle by HU.lc a drunkard is
saved ft*om rain auil a. aaul from pGuitehiliu;.
The Queen’s Proclamation Against Ritnal
ista--Counterblast from Rev. Mr. Maok
onochie.
The London papers of the Ififh nit. con
tain an order in council affirming the recent
judgment of her Majesty’s Privy Council
againt the St. Albans Ritualists. It says of
the condemned minister in the case:
* * * “ The said Alexander Horiot
Mackanochie ought to be pronounced to
have offended against the statutes, laws,
constitution and canons of the Church of
England hy having within the said church
of the new parish of St. Albans, Holborn,
knelt or prostrated himself before the con
secrated elements during the Prayer of
Consecration, and also by having within
the said church used lighted candles on
the communion tables duripg the celebra
tion of the Holy Communion, at times
.when such lighted candles were not want
ed for the purpose of giving light; and that
the said Alexander Heriot Maconocliie
ought to Ik* admonished to abstain, for the
future, from kneeling or prostrating him
self before the consecrated elements during
the Prayer of Consideration, and also from
using in the said church lighted candles on
the communion table during the celebra
tion oft he Holy Communion at times when
such lighted candles -are not, wauled for the
purpose of giving light; and further, that
he, the said Alexander Heriot Mackonochie
ought to be condemned in the costs incur
red on behalf of the said John Martin, as
well in the court, below as in the said tip-'
peal,”
The Queen, with the advice of the Privy
Council, orders the prompt execution of the
above. Meanwhile, Mr. Mackonochie is
out in a manifesto, over his own signature,
advocating a separation of Church and
State. He says:
“ What right has the Spouse of Christ to
ally herself with the powers of the world?
Surely to do so is to commit that terrible
spiritual aduitry against which her Lord
has so often warned her. If the State lie
unbelieving—and l suppose no one wishes
to impose upon the ruling bodies in the
English St ate (except upon the crown itself)
the name of the Christian—the very idea is
ail offense to the dullest spiritual instinct;
and yet. if we take the opposite hypothesis,
we shall, 1 think, find it worse. A Chris
tian Stale is the child of the Church. It is
of the Church in such a State that each'in
dividual is ‘ begotten again of God in Christ
Jesus;’ it is by her that each is fed.; by her:
prayer and blessing that all State acts seek
for help from God ; by her anointing that
the sovereign is set apart for the high func
tion of government. Can we, then, defend
adultery between a mother and her son ?
Such I believe to lie, and always to have
been, the nature of union between Church
and State. Doubtless the State owes to the
Church all the affectionate care and sup
port that a dutiful son can give to his
mother ; but l itis is not the theory of estab
lishment. The Jewish Chiiveh ltegiu to
fall from God and ultimately, sank into
idolatry from the time it became an estab
lishment in t.lie reign of Saul. The reign
of Constantine was the beginning of the de
cline of Christianity in spiritual things
quite as much as it was the beginning of
its rise in temporal grandeur.
“ Let us, then, as citizens as well as
churchmen, move every power to obtain a
dissolution of this ungodly alliance. Why
should not petitions to Parliament and me
morials to convocation be ready by the
commencement of the session ? Then by
the time Parliament meets again, after
Easter, other memorials might be ready,
and thus the question be thoroughly venti
lated. I feel that it is impossible to urge
this matter too strongly.”
Railroads is Persia.— The shrill whistle of
the railway engine is soou to be heard in Per
sia. The Shah lias granted to a company of
English capitalists the exclusive right to con
struct railways in the country for a period of
twenty years. These capitalists begin opera
tions with a short road, extending from the
capital to thcstiburbau village of Rey, a famous
weekly resort of pious Teheran elm. Ground
has been broken, and the eugineer employed
estimates that the line can be constructed and
stocked for less than $500,000, on which the
passenger traffic of some forty thousand devo
tees a week will, he reckons, yield a remunera
tive dividend, exclusive of an 8 per cent, guar
anty.
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Delivered at Atlanta, January 2Gi!/t, 1SGI).
FURNISHED BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME
COURT REPORTER, EXPRESSLY FOE THE
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
O. A. Lochrane,’Pl’ff in Error, 1 Motion for
vs. \ new triaj—
Wm. Solomon, Deft in Error,) From B‘bb.
Brown, C. J. •
L., who owed S. SI,OOO, for which S. held
li’s note and mortgage on a printing press,
sold the press to C. for tflo,ooo, and O. agreed
to pay the SI,OOO to S. and satisfy the note
and mortgage, but B.refused to releaseL.
and take C. for the debt. There was evi
dence before the jury, however, that IS.
agreed to take C. as collateral, and after
wards agreed to give C. time on the SI,OOO
which lie w -s to.pay for L., if he would pay
him 2* , z per cent, per month for the indul-
which he did ior three or four
mouths.
1. Held, that it was error in the court in
his charge to the jury to restrict them to
the single inquiry whether C. was substitu
ted as the debtor in place of L.
2. If G. agreed to pay the debt oi L. to S.
in a short time, and S. having accepted the
liability of C. as collateral, afterwards fir a
valuable consideration extended the time
of payment for three or four months, as he
had the right to do at his own wish, L.
could not sue 0. during that time, and S.
was liable to L. for any damage sustained
by L on account of said indulgence given
by JS. to C.
Judgment reversed.
McCay, J., concurred in the judgment.
- Warner, J., dissenting.
In judgment there was uo error in the
coarirGefow In overruling the motion for a
nety trial on the ground that the verdict
wa£ contrary to the evidence. The court
was not requested in writing to charge the
jury upon any part of the evidence, and
there watf'mo,, exception taken that the
change of the Judge did not cover all the
jaets proved. The cliaige of the court ex
cepted to was not in error in view of the
evidence contained in the record.' The de
fendant was the principal debtor, and not a
surety, and the loss of which he complains
did not spring out oi or result from any
agreement made hptween P raw ford and
Solomon, which would operate as a ley a!
discharge of the debt, but from a cause en
tirely Independent of that alleged agree
ment. From the facts disclosed by the re
cord, and my understanding of the law ap
plicable thereto, I am of opinion the judg
ment of the court below should be affirmed,
Gobi) and Jackson, by Judges Clarke and
Lyon, for plaintiff in error.
W. Roe for defendant in error.
Samuel T..Bally, Pl’ff in Error, I Mandamus
vs. > —From
E. L. Stroeeker, Deft in Error. j Bibb.
Brown, G. J.
When an attachment, was levied upon
fifty shares of the capital stock of a corpo
rate company, and sold at sheriff's sales, it
was the'duty'of the .sheriff In give certifi
cates of purchase to Ihe highest bidder, and
on presentation of such certificates to the
proper officer of the corporation, if was his
duty 1o make the necessary transfer of the
stock to the purchaser on t.lie books of the
company. In such case the sheriff does not
ini', Hie purchaser in possession, but the
officer of the corporation is, pro hue vice, a
public officer under the Code charged with
that duly, ami if he refuses to do it, man
damns is' Hie proper proceeding to compel
its performance. ,
Judgment reversed.
S. T. Bailey, by the Reporter, for plain
tiff in error.
11. W. Cowles, by B. Hill, for defendaut
ip error.
John T. Williams, et. al, j
Plaintiff in Error, Equity-From
, c i Harris.
James M. Mobley, ox r, Ac. |
Defendant in Error. J
Brown, C. J.
The minor legatees under a will, who are
not, tip: children of the testator, have no
rig (if, in a case pending in (lhaqoery upon
a bill filed bv the exeen't.o,: lot: qiivqtiqn, to
an ifit, vloettlorv order, setting apart money
for their support, U»h‘ss Hu* estate is sol
vent, an I able to pay all just deb’s, and
leave a sufficient fund out ol which to pay
the- um necessary for their support, and it
was error in tiie Chancellor to grant, said
order, when the soivt ney of the estate was
denied, till it had been "mvertaine.l, by the
report of a Master hi Chancery, or in some
other legal way, I hat there would be a fund
after the payment of the debts of the estate.
J udgment reversed.
Ingraham A Crawford, by Peabody, for
plainliif in error.
Bingham and B. H. Hill, for defendant in
error.
Jus. Marling and Paul Key, B lary in
Persons ot color,pi its i n error ( j ie n j j lt
rr ,, , From Mus
rite State.
Defendant in Error. ,1 ’
Brown, 0. J.
The bill of exceptions in this case was a
general one that the jury found contrary to
law and evidence. Held, that there was
not sufficient legal evidence to sustain the
verdict.
Ramsey & Ramsey, per Jus. Rqssel, for
plaintiff in error.
Thornton, Solicitor General, for the State.
State of Georgia, Complainant, vs. U.
S. Grant, et. o?. Court of the
United State?.-- \Vo were yesterday shown
a.communication to the Executive Depart
ment, from the Clerk of the Supreme Court
of the United Stal es, by direct ion of Chief
Justice Chase, -bearing date 18lh nit., stat
ing that. Hie above stated case'instituted
by Gov. Chas. J. Jenkins, to test the consti
tutionality of the reconstruction laws, was,
by order of the Court, previously granted,
finally “dismissed with costs,” on the 15th
nit.
Gen. Grant employed as counsel in this
case the distinguished lawyer, Hon. Mat.
Carpenter, of Wisconsin, who requested
Gov. Bullock, in December last, to have the
Attorney Gynyral of Georgia associated
with him in the c ism In compliance with
Mr. Carpenter’s i'l q.iest,-Mi-. Attorney Gen
eral Farrow met him al Washington, and,
upon consultation, a motion was made and
order obtained that the ease be dismissed
with costs, unless good cause be shown by
the 15th of January, why such order should
not be granted. Cause not neing shown, it
was dismissed. —Alhiula Era.
Humous op Advertising ■ -The Stamford
(Conn.) Advocate is the medium through which
.thyjfc'fflili'i Sarah exposes Iff.* vices of her faith
less swain, iu the following words :
To the Public— Whereas, my husband,
Edward H. Jones, has falsely advertised that I
huVefitft his bed and board, and that he will
pay no debts of my contracting, Ac., this is to
Inform t.he public that, the aforesaid Edward H.
Jones has jiaifcher bed nor board for me to
leate, he having been living at the expense or
my father. Uuder pretense of procuring money
to pay his way to Birmingham, Conn., he bor
rowed a dollar of my I f lut, mid with that paid
for this lying advertisement against me, and
even after that, dastardly not.,, he took all the
money I had, and borrowed every cent in my
mother’s possession anil left tiie town.
For the past linen months lie has been kept
from nakedness and starvation by the exer
tions Os mysell ami relatives; lie squandered
in dissipation alj tin* money his inborn laziness
would allow hint bream.
Tiie scamp need not have advertised that he
would pay no debts ol niv contracting, for the
public well kuqw that lie would not pay hie
own.
He is a lazy, ungrateful, loafing scoundrel—
not content with living at tlw* expense of my
relatives and borrowing their money, he puli
Holies an outrageous lie. His- bed and hoard!
indeed—if left to himself, his bod would be
nothing lint a board, and 1 should not, he
much surprised if the bed lte dies in were, made
of boards with a strong cross-beam Overhead.
Sabah A. Jones.
The Turkish admiral, Hobart Pasha, dis
tinguished himself during our late war ns a
blockade runner. Twelve times lie is said to
have broken the blockade at Charleston, each
time under circumstances of great danger, and
in consequence of this lie published his remi
niscences under the title of “ Never Caught.”
When the Turks, a few weeks ago, sent him to
Crete in order to destroy the Enosis, the Rus
sian Minister, General ignatieff, made energetic
efforts to retain him at Constantinople. Politi
cal arguments being unavailing, an ac.ion for
debt was at last brought against him, in the
hope that he would lie imprisoned, or, at all
events, detailed. But this device, too, was
frustrated, and he got. away safely. Arriving
on board of his ship, bis first act was to for
ward to the Russian Ambassador, together
with a polite message, his little work entitled
“ Never Caught."
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Saturday, February 6.
SENATE.
The Seuate met this morning pursuant to ad
journment. and was opened with prayer by the
Rev. Mr. Hinton.
The roll being called, and being a quo
rum present, the Secretary read the Journal of
yesterday.
Mr. Speer moved to reconsider the follow
ing bill:
A bill to make it a misdemeanor to violate
written contracts between employers and em
ployees, for agricultural purposes, and fir pun
ishment for same with a line not to exceed
SI,OOO, and imprisonment in county jail not
over six mouths.
Discussed by Messrs.'Bpeer, Adkins, Hinton
and Holcombe.
Shall the bill be reconsidered ? Refused to
reconsider.
The rules were suspended to take up the fol
lowing House bill:
Resolved, That the case involving the right of
colored men to hold office In Georgia be re
ferred to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Candler moved that the House resolu
tion be adopted, and called for the main ques
tion.
On a call from the President—shall the main
question be put?—lost.
House bill to authorize a warrant to be drawn
in favor of Kolbe A Byrd, in pavment for arti
ficial limbs furnished disabled soldiers. Passed.
-
HOUSE BILL ON FIRST REAPING.
Mr. Hinton—To nmeon an act relative to
qualifications of voters for city officers in the
city of Colombo?,
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
, To increase the capital stock of the Macon
and Western Railroad Company. Passed.
To consolidate the stock of the Columbia,
Charlotte, and Augusta Railroad Companies.
Passed.
HOUSE BILLS ON FIRST READING,
Making it penal to hunt with fira in certain
counties.
Incorporating the Soda Manufacturing Com
pany in Floyd county.
To change the time of holding Superior
Courts in the Southern Circuit, and providing
juries for the same.
To relieve certain members of fire compauies
in Onthhert from jury duty.
To authorize the ordiuary of Fulton county
-to issue bonds for certain purposes.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD REAPING.
Bill to consolidate and amend eertain acts
incorporating the (own ol Lumpkin. Passed.
Bill to exempt certain members from jury
and militia duties in American. Passed.
Bill to perfect service on Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad. Passed. ■
RESOLUTION.
Mr. Winn—That this body do hold two ses
sions a day. Lost.
BILL ON FIRST READING.
Mr. Wooten—Authorizing oydinqries of this
State to pay orders for foreclosure of mort
gages on personalty, and to enforce the liens
on crops.
BILL ON THIRD READINO.
A bill to incorporate the Atlanta Manufactur
ing Company. Passed.
Senate adjournefl.
HOUSE.
House met pursuant to adjournment and
was opened with prayer by the Re.v. Dr. Brant
ly.
Journal ol yesterday read.
Mr. Darnell —A motion to reconsider so
much of the Journal as relates to the case of
Burlier, which motion was carried.
Mr. Harper—A motion to reconsider so much
of the Journal of yesterday as relates to the
passage of the bill in relation to insolvent costs
in certain comities, exempting the counties of
Muscogee and Richrnoud.
Message from the Governor received approv
ing (he resolution advancing $2,500 to J. W.
Burke, State Printer.
The motion of Mr. Harper prevailed.
On motion, a communication from the State
Agricultural Society vyas roeeiyed aqd read.—
Referred to Agricultural Committee.
RULES SUSPENDED.
A resolution to tender the use of the Hall to
Hon. D. W. Lewis, on Monday evening next, to
address the General Assembly. Adopted.
BILLS ON THIRD HEADING.
An act. to change the lines between DcKalb
and Clayton. Passed.
An act to amend the 6495th section of the
Code—(refers the foreclosure of mqtgages.)—
1.0, t.
i An net to change the titpe of holding the Bn
] perior Oou-ts in the counties of Columbia,
! Johnson and Emanuel, passed.
An act to yelieve 4- Worrell, of Upson.—
! Amended and passed.
a An act to prevent certain stock from trespass-
I ing upon the land of another —establishing the
S old impounding law. Laid on the table.
An net to enable Elisha Carter to peddle
without license. Lost.
An act to empower notary publics’ attorneys
to administer oaths in certain cases. Lost.
4u net to pliange the tjipe of holding the Su
perior Court in Cherokee county. Passed.
An act to compel notaries public and jus
tices of peace to give bond. Lost.
An aet to arneiid the act establishing a crimi
nal court in each coqnty. Substitute adopted
Slid pnssefl, ,
Au apt to provide for the redemption ol real
••state in this State; gives two years’time.—
Lost.
An aet to amend the laws on bastardy in this
State. Lost.
An act to fix the rate of interest in this State.
Animated discussion by Crawford, Sparks and
others. Lost.
An aet to the line between the coun
| ties of Gilmer and Pickens. Lost.
An act. to amend the act passed at the last ses
i sion providing for the setl.ingapart of the home
j stead. Lost.
RULES SUSPENDED.
! Mr. Anderson—A resolution to appoint a
I committee to examine into the calender of the
House and Senate, and report as early a day as
practicable lor the adjournment of the Legisla
ture.
On motion of Mr. Bryant, the educational bill
was laid on the table and two buudred copies
ordered printed.
Mr. Tumlin gave notice that, he would move
to reconsider the motion of Mr. Bryant.
Several members were granted leave of ab
sence.
House adjourned till Monday, 10, a. m.
[From the New York Herald.
Mysterious and Daring Robbery on Broad
way.
Sunday night, about seven o’clock, Mr. Wm.
Morey was seated in the suit of rooms ol a
frierd, on the Southeast corner of Broadway
and Prince street (a faro bank establishment),
awaiting the return of the proprietor, who bad
temporally absented himself, when the door
was unlocked from the outside, as he supposed
by his Irieud. Tnere was no'fight in the room
beyond the dnil rays thrown iu through the
window by the flickering street lamp, but this
exhibited to his affrighted vision the forms of
three men approaebiug toward the window
where he sat, with a large knife brandished
over him. On arriving in frout of him, one of
them raised the glittering blade and ordered
him not to move, resist or give an alarm, or he
would kill him.
Mr. Morey, profiting by the recollections of
Mr. Rogers’ rashness in sacrificing his life by
resistance, remained passive, and permitted
himself to be bucked and gagged. This work
accomplished, the ruffians put away the knife,
and proceeded to strip Morey of his valuables.
Io an inside pocket they found,* wallet con
taining 17,700, which they transferred to their
own custody. Next they requested tJie loan of
his valuable gold watch and chain. One of
them admired a valuable solitaire diamond
ring that sparkled iu the gaslight, and, remov
ing it from Morey’s finger, tried it upon his
own, and as it exactly fitted, he concluded to
let it remain in its new qunrters. While these
changes of property were being made, the third
ruffian politely, and with many apologies, re
lieved poor Morey, who, at this time, was more
dead than alive through fear, of a valuable dia
mond pin. Having secured everything ot value
about his person, except his clothing, the
thieves wished%ira a very good night, and re
tired with their booty, re-locked the door and
carried ofT the keys. The facts of the robbery
were soon after reported to the central office
hy Mr. Morey, who remained bound for some
time after the departure of the robbers before
assistance arrived. As it was quite dark io the
room, he was unable to see more thau the dim
outline of the men, and therefore can give no
description to lead to the discovery of the per
petrators of this last outrage. The thieves
were evidently well posted as to the means of
entering the rooms, as well as Mr. Morey's
habits, as they had duplicate keys of the doors,
and effected au easy entry. The detectives
have been pul upon the trail of the men, but
the property is likely beyond their reach er#
this.
The first Episcopal cathedral ever built iu
New England was opened lor the first time on
Christinas. It lrns been fully organized after
the English system, bv the Right Rev. Dr.
Neely, the Bishop of Maine. The youngest
diocese in the New England States, that of the
State ot Maine, Is the. first one to have its full
cathedral system. Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburg,
and some other cities, have already adopted it.
In a French town, a man was lately tried lor
manslaughter, having smothered bis wife by
hugging ber too rapturously. The event gives
an opposition paper a chance to liken it to the
love certain governments show for liberty.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Special Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.
Georgia Legislature*
Atlanta, February 8.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
resolution of the House, referring the question
of eligibility of negroes to hold office to the Su
preme Court, with ameudment by Mr. Speer,
that the House abide the decisiou.
The question was, “ Shall the main question
be now put?’’ which was the ameudment by
Mr. Speer.
An effort, but unsuccessful, was made to get
the consent of Mr. Candler to withdraw the call
for the previous question, many being desi
rous to debate the question.
Mr. Speer asked permission to withdraw his
amendment.
The Chair ruled consent could not be given,
as the call for the previous question forbids the
privilege.
The question was divided—the first part of
Mr- Speer’s resolution only referring, and to
abide by the decision of the Supreme Court.
Lost—yeas, 13; nays, 19. The other portion,
referring to oaths to be token by officers, mem
bers and cierks; also, if engaged in rebellion,
Ac. Lost—yeas, 12; nays, 20.
Original House resolution adopted—yeas, 19 ;
nays, 12.
Republican and Democratic votes consider
ably divided.
Mr. Merrell gave notice that he would move
ttf reconsider.
Mr. Adkins succeeded in getting read his
resolution, introduced to immediately reseat
negroes who were expelled on accouut of color
alone.
Mr. Winu raised the point of order that the
same question had been acted ou by the Senate,
by reierriug the matter to the Supreme Court.
The Chair held the point as not well taken,
as any Senator might introduce a resolution at
the proper time.
Mr. Adkins intimated that possibly the Seu
ate having erred, should be punished.
This resolution virtually brought up again
the whole negro question as to eligibility.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th, replied in an able
speech iu opposition. In the course of bis
speech he said lie did not believe negroes to
day, as a mass, would declare themselves able
to |take charge of the government. He had
conversed with many during the last four
months, and never met but three in favor of
Lhe proposition. Lincoln himself had no such
Intention. Congress itself did not honestly
eutertain the idea of favoring such a project.—
He favored delay; wait till the colored man is
competent. To reseat the negro serves to in
crease autagonism between the races, and a
war of races will be the consequence. The mass
of the people desire peace ; let us have it. In
spite of the representations made, to Congress
putting ns in a false light, yet a large majority
were law abiding.
His peroration was truly eloquent.
Mr. Lester moved to postpone indefinitely.
Adopted—yeas, 18; nays, 10.
Mr. Adkins gave notice that lie would move
to reconsider.
In the (louse, Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, in
troduced a bill to abolish capital punishment.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Morgan, vest
ing jurisdiction ol county courts iu justices’
courts.
Two bills were introduced respectively by
Messrs. Sparks and Fitzpatrick, to bring on
municipal election in Macon.
Mr. Sparks’ bill provides for election to take
place at regular time, according to charter,
whilst Mr. Fitzpatrick’s brings the election on
in April. Both bills requiting registration.
Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, introduced a bill
taking up collection at any pate ol interest.
Mr. Hall madeqn earnest appeal in favor ol the
bill, declaring what, was needed was capital;
that supply and demand should apply to money
as well as to other commodities.
Messrs. ITNeal and Anderson opposed the
hill.
Pending consideration the House adjourned,
Mr. Henderson, of Harris, on the floor.
Mr. Sparks favored the bill in a few appro
priate remarks.
[ Associated Piva3 Dispatches.
W ashing ton.
Washington, February 7.
Senator McCTury and Olliers, had au inter
view with Ev.irts regarding the release of Lt..
Braino, of the Confederate navy. Evarts doubts
whether Braine’s ease eotnes within the Presi
dent’s amnesty, but listened favorably to ap
peals for mercy.
Recent utterances and votes or Speaker Col
fax indicate a liberal feeling toward the South
ern people, both regarding political and prop
erty rights.
Delegates to the Mobile Press Convention,
on the 17th inst., will be entertained by the Mo
bile Board of Trade. Several railroads have
tendered complimentary passages to editors to
and from Mobile.
Washington, February ft—Noon.
The Supreme Court affirms the decision of
the court of Oregon requiring taxes to be paid
in gold and silver. The court holds that taxes
are not in nature of debt or coutraet, and
therefore the legal tender law- does not affect
taxes.
In the Senate, the Railroad Committee asked
to be discharged irorn further consideration of
various propositions for aid, the omnibus bill
reported Saturday covering nil meritorious
schemes uow presented.
The House' is considering a change in the
election of Congressmen.
The Reconstruction Committee did nothing.
The Election Committee ditto.
Washington, February 3—P. M.
Revenue to day, $500,000.
Mrs. Surrrtt’a remains were delivered quietly
to her family to-day.
Hon. E. Jeffirds, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Mississippi, presented to
day an address to th ■ Reconstruction Commit
tee, in behalf of himself and olhers, claiming to
represent an influential part of the Republican
party, who opposed the adoption of the consti
tution voted upon iu June last. The address is
in the nature ol a protest, and is a discussion of
the condition of affairs in the State.
He proposesaplan of restoration as follows:
Ist, that Congress shall declare all the offices
in the State vacant; 2d, provides for the ap
pointment of a provisional governor, with
power to fill all the offices thus declared vacan t.,
with power, also* to remove from office his
own appointees ; 3d, provide that, the proposed
constitution shall be so modified or amended
as to remove from it those features that are
more proscriptive than is required by the re
construction laws of Congress; 4th, provide
for an election at the time designated by the
proposed constitution for holding the annual
election for the ratification of the constitution
M amended, and for the election of all State,
county and municipal officers.
The President to-day made some additional
consular and nava> nominations.
Congressional.
Washington, February 8.
Senate.—After the proceedings reported at
noou, the constitutional amendment was re
sumed and discussed all day, only suspending
to allow a vote on Mr. Edmunds’ resolution re
garding Georgia’s eleetorial vote —84 to 11.
This resolution provides that, in declaring a
vote, two results shall be announced: Ist,
counting others and omitting Georgia’s vote,
thus leaving the Georgia question opeu.
Recess.
House.—Under the regular call the folloiv
lng bills were introduced: Regulating fur
trade; encouraging building of steamships;
relating to rights of loyalists ol Alabama; au
thorizing the President to appoint a commis
sion to revise tiie tariff; declaring reciprocity
treaties against policy at this time; granting
right of way to Memphis, El Paso and Pacific
Railroad ; granting lands to New Orleans and
Selma Ratlroid and Immigration Association ;
three bills regarding naturalization.
Mr. Eldrldge asked for a select committee to
investigate outrages by the Arkansas militia.
Mr. Roots objected.
The copper tariff till, as amended by the
Senate, passed by a vote of 112 to 56. It goe6
to the President.
A petition asking for protection for the oys
ter trade from Virginia laws, as modified by
General Schofield.
The House went into committee.
Recess.
Gl-eorgia.
Atlanta, February 8.
In the Senate, a resolution pledging mem
bers of both branches of the General Assembly
to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court
iu regard to eligibility of negroes to hold office
was defeated—yeas, 13; nays, 19.
Several resolutions, requiring members of
the General Assembly, officers and clerks to*
answer, under oath, whether they ever held
office prior to the war under the United States,
or during the war under the Confederate Gov
ernment, served in the army or gave donations
to the Confederacy, were defeated—yeas, 12;
nays, 20.
A motion to concur with House resolution,
referring eligibility of negroes to hold office,
was adopted—yeas, 19; nays, 12.
A resolution to rescind action oflast session,
expelling colored members, and reseating them
at once, was postpon6d indefinitely—yeas, 18;
nays, 10.
Foreign.
(BY THE CABLE.]
London, February 8.
News from Greece, contradictory of the latest
dispatches, say Zaimis had formed a ministry
and peace assured.
The reported battle between Turks and Mon
tenegrins is authoritatively denied.
Havana.
Havana, February 7.
Salnave lias destroyed two and captured an
other town in San Domingo. The inhabitants
ol Aux Cayes and vicinity are panic stricken ;
many are escaping to Jamaica.
M.arine News.
New York, February 8.
Arrived—General Barnes.
Glasgow, February 7.
Arrived—lowa, from New York.
Charleston, February 8.
Arrived—Schooner Florence Howell, from
Wood’s Hole ; schooner Azelda and Laura, Ba
raeoa; schoouer Frauklin, from New York;
schooner 8. A. Hammond, from Boston; steam
er Magnolia, from New York.
Sailed—Bark Ganso, for Liverpool; schooner
H. N. Squires, for East Weymouth, Mass.
Savannah, February 8.
Arrived Yesterday—Steamship St. Peters
burg, ft tun Leith, Scotland ; schooner Edward
Slade, lrom Baltimore.
Arrived To-Day—Steamships Herman Liv
ingston, from New York, and Fannie, from
Baltimore; steam yacht Cricket, from New
York.
Wilmington, February S.
The schooner John Griffin, Captain Fister,
loaded with sugar and molasses, hound from
Sagua Legrande to Philadelphia, experienced a
heavy gale, on the 3d ; struck by a water spout,
carrying away the rudder irous, wheel ropes,
Ac.
Arrived—Fairbanks, from New York.
M.arkets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, February B—Noon.
Consols, 93%. Bonds, 76%. Sugar firm
both on spot and afloat.
Liverpool, February B—Noon.
Cotton quiet and steady ; uplands, 12% ; Or
leans, 12%; sales, 13,000 bales. Others un
changed.
Liverpool, February B—P. M.
Cotton quiet ; uplands, 12%@12% ; Orleans,
12%@12%. Lard quiet. Pork, 97.
Liverpool, February B—Evening.
Cotton closed quiet; uplands, 12%@13% ;
spot, 12k ; afloat, Orleans, 12%(t§13% ; sales,
12,000 bales.
New York, February B—Noon.
Stocks dull and unsettled. Money easy at
o<®7. Exchange, 9%. Gold, 135%. ’i;2’s,
13%; North Carolinas, old, 03%; new, 61,k;
Virginias, ex coupon, 56 ; new, 62% ; Tenues
secs, ex coupon, f>7%_ asked ; new, 66%; Louisi
aiias, old, 72%; Levees, 67% ; B’s, 74.
New York, February B—P. M.
Governments steady ; ’62’s, 13.
New York, February B—Noon.
Flour dull antj Unchanged. Wheat quiet,
nominally unchanged. Corn dull and droop
ing. Pork very linn; new mess, $33 25.
Steam Lard steady; Mils., 20%@31. Cotton
shade easier at 30%@30%. Turpentine firm at,
56. Rosin steady at, $3 45@3 50. Freights
quiet.
New York, February B—P. M.
Cotton less active and k lower; sales, 1,200
bales at 30k- Flour irregular and unsettled,
with no decided change. Wheat quiet and
shade firmer. Corn heavy; mixed Western,
87@90; white Southern, 90; yellow, 92@92%.
Mess Pork, $32 25@33. Lard firmer; kettle,
21 @21%. Groceries quiet. Turpentine, 56@
56%. Rosin, $3 48@2 50. Freights active;
cotton, sail, 9-32@5-16; steam, 7 16; grain,
steam, 6%.
Baltimoue, February 8.
Cotton firm at 30. Flour very quiet and
nominal. Wheat dull ; Pennsylvania rod,
$1 75@1 85. Corn firm ; receipts small; prime
white, 88@90 ; yellow, 87@89. Oats firm;
prime, 75. Rye, 50(455. Mess Pork firm at
SB3. Bacon—shoulders, 15%@16. Lard quiet
at 21. Virginias, coupon, old, 57; new 63 ;
North Carolinas, old, 68% ; new, 61%.
Cincinnati, February 6.
Pork firm and higher, $33 50 asking, $33 25
cash offered. Lard good, 20%. Bacon—
market cleared of shoulders at 14%, held higher
at close. Bulk Meats held higher ; shoulders,
13%, buyers offer k less.
Cincinnati, February 8.
Flour dull; family, $7 25@7 50. Corn dull
at G-J@os. Whisky dull and nominal at 91.
Mess Pork in speculative demand, held at $34.
Bulk Meats firmer; shoulders, 13%@13%.
Bacon buoyant; shoulders, 15; clear rib sides,
17%; clear sides, 18%; little out of smoke;
sugar cured hams active at 19@19%.
St. Louis, February 6.
Whisky nominal at 92%. Provisions held
higher.
St. Louis, February 8.
Pork active at $33 50@34. Bulk Meats active;
packed shoulders, on spot, 13%; clear sides,
17%; loose shoulders and hams, to arrive,
13%. Bacon firm; city shoulders, 14% ; sugar
cured hams, 18%. Lard quiet; prime tierce
nominal at 20%.
Louisville, Fehuary 8.
Mess Pork, $33. Shoulders, 14% ; bacon
shoulders, 15% ; clear rib 6ides, 18% ; clear
sidds, 18%.
Wilmington, February 8.
Spirits of Turpentine nctive, with upward
tendency ,at 54. Rosin active at $1 85@3 50.
Crude Turpentine unchanged. Tar firm at
$1 65. Cotton quiet at 28@29.
Mobile, February 8.
Cotton closed dull and easier : low middling,
28 ; sales, 700 bales ; receipts, 2,173 bales ; ex
ports, 1,795 bales.
Neiv Orleans, February 8.
Cotton weaker but not lower; middling, 29 ;
sales, 1,300 bales; receipts since Siturday,
5,540 bales; exports, 1,200 hales. Gold, 136.
Sterling, 47%; Commercial. 46@40% ; New
York Sight' % discount. Flour—low gradse
scarce and higher; superfine quoted at $7;
double, $7 62%; treble, $7 75@8 50. Corn
qniet. and firm at 73@75. Oats firm at 75. Bran,
$1 20. Hay—prime, 123 50 j choice, $25. Pork
in speculative demand at $35 50. Bacon firm ;
shoulders, 15%; clear rib. 18% ; clear, 19. Lard
firm; tierce, 21 ; keg, 22%@23. Sugar firm ;
common. 10%®10%; prime, 12%; yellow clari
fied, 14%@14%. Molasses active; fair, 64@
65 ; prime, 68®70. Whisky firm ; Western rec
tified-, $1(%1 03. Coffee firm ; fair, 14%@15% ;
prime, 16%@17%.
Charleston, February 8.
Cotton in fair demand ; sales, 900 bales ; mid
dling, 28%(f1529; receipts, 781 bales; exports
coastwise, 99 bales.
Savannah, February 8.
Cotton opened with good inquiry ; closed
quiet but firm; middling, 29; sales, 1,500 bales ;
receipts, 2,327 bales.
Augusta Market.
Of?iob Daily Constitutionalist, )
Monhay, Febinary B—P. M. S
FINANCIAL—
GOLD-*-Buying at 135 and seliini; at 137.
SlLVEß—Buying at 130 and selling at 133.
COTTON.—Our market opened with a fair demand
and sales of middling at 28 V, but later In the day there
was less disposition on the part of buyers to operate,
owing to easier markets in Liverpool and New York.
We close dull, with middling nominally, 28c. Sales,
679 bales. Receipts, 542 bales.
BACON —We quote 0. Sides, 21; O. R. Sides,
20g ;B. B. Sides, 20; Shoulders, 17; Hams, 19
@23; Dry Salt Shoulders, 16; Dry Salt C. R.
Sides. 19@19X
CORN-White, $1 15@1 2D; mixed, $1 10 from
depot.
. WHEAT—We quote white, $2 26©2 40; red,sl 80
@2 20.
FLOUR—Oity Mills, $lO 50@13 00 ; at retail, $1 Tfi
barrel higher. Country, $lO 00@12 00, according to
quality.
CORN MEAL—SIIB at wholesale, and $1 25 at re
tail.
OATS—SI 10.
PEAS—Scarce atsl 26.
RYE—sl 60.
Local IST ews.
The Courts.
Superior Court.
Court met yesterday at ten o’clock.
Some plain verdicts were rendered.
Two decrees taken and court adjourned until
the fourth day of March, when the appeal
docket will be continued.'
Recorder’s Court.
Before S. 11. Crump, Recorder.
The iollowing cases were tried yesterday: .
Miles Easterling, (eol.^ —Two cases—one vio
lation of huckstering ordinance, and the sec
ond for resisting an officer—guilty—lined $lO
lor each otfeuse or 40 days on the chain gang.
John Taylor, (eol.)-Violation 18th section
fined $1 and costs or 3 days ou the chain gang.
Peter Cooper, (col.)-Violation of huckster
ing ordinance—lined $5 and costs or 10 days ou
chain gang.
Rosana Davis, (col.)—Violation 18th section
—lined $5 and costs or 10 day on chain gang.
Magistrates’ Court.
Before Judge Olin.
The following cases, were tried yesterday :
William Phillips (white), on a peace warrant
at the instance of Samuel L. King (white).
Bound over to preserve the peace in bond of
S3OO.
Also, on the charge of opprobious words to
the same party. Held lor trial at the City
Court iu bond of S2OO.
Lewis Wilkins (colored), for swindling Al
bert Lynch (colored), out of $3. Nine months
on the chain gang.
Wm. Chisolm (colored), charged with steal
ing a pocket book from Margaret Liles (color
ed). Discharged for want of sufficient evi
dence.
Supreme Court—February 7, 186!).—No.
3.—Ocmulgee Circuit—Wilson, ct.. al., vs. Whit
field, el. al., was concluded by Hon. Josh Jlill,
for plaintiff'iu error.
No. 4.—Brannon, administrator, vs. Johnson
—Equity, from Wilkinson, was withdrawn.
No. s.—Reed vs. Eady, complaint from Wil
kinson, was dismissed for want, of prosecution.
No. 6 Jas. R. Hugh, plaintiff in error, vs.
Jas. McHugh, complaint from Morgan, was
argued by Judge A. Reese for plaintiff In error,
and J. A. Billings for defendant iu error.
This being the last cause on the regular
docket, the court went back to tko cares put
to the heel of the whole docket..
No. I—Middle Circuit—A. C. Schaffer a Cos,,
vs. Baker A Caswell, award lrom Richmond ;
Hook A Carr for plaintiff In error, F. If. Miller
and W. 11. Hull for defendant in*error, was.
presented hy briefs.
No. 8 Henry V. Russell, plaintiff in error,
vs. C. 1). Carr A Cos., et. al., defendant in error,
was argueil by L. K. Bleckley, representing W.
11. Hull for plaintiff' in error, and by the Re
porter, representing Hook A Carr, (or defend
ant in error.
This leaves nothing ou the docket but the
cause of Smith vs. Bell, assumpsit from Web
ster, which involves the constitutionality of
the section of the constitution ol 1808, denying
jurisdiction to site in our courts for the price
of slaves. — Canslitution.
Quarterly Report.-- We are under obliga
tions to Mr. Martin V. Calvin for a copy of his
Quarterly Report to the City Council on the
condition and mannerofeomlueting the Hough
ton Institute. It is well written, embodying
some excellent ideas, ns, for Instance, the fol
lowing extract. We shall probably speak of it.
more iu detail at some other time :
“The time is already at hand when the pros
perity, usefulness and happiness iff our people
largely depend upon (lie degree ol culture
which mind and soil receive. The chances for
a liberal education and the mechanic arts are
well nigh all that is left ns, Imt, possessing
those, or having them, at least, within easy
range, we may take new courage from the.
assurance which they afford, that, all is not, lost.
If we will but turn our minds to the p'roper
study and husbandry of this great, residue, (he
time will not be very long coming when the.
future, which once invited ns to the herculean
effort, will again illuminate the horizon o,f our
hopes, to yield us, if persistent am! virtuous,
bountiful fruition.
“ School systems, and methods o( imparling
instruction, must occupy a very prominent
place in all discussions looking to the public
wen 1 . Impoverished by the war, and discour
aged by their present anomalous condition,the
hope of the masses for the future of our
beloved State lies in a substantial public school
system. Wc have come to regard education us
an ornament in prosperity, an unfailing resource
in adversity. The demand for this juiceless
treasure is great, and should lie supplied.
“ The system (if it he worthy the name)
which we have injudiciously tolerated for so
long a time, must be revolutionized. 1 Poor
Schools,’ as the law terms them, and • Hedge
Schools,’ must give place to regularly organized
public schools, so officered and managed that,
they may bn in equal favor with the rich and
the less wealthy.”
The Chicago Tribune, which suffered, so heav
ily a few day ago for an unflattering police
item, before a prejudiced and very silly jury,
now has the word “alleged " eleetrotyped, and
uses it before every other work in its reports.
Here is one of its new model reports :
“It is alleged that one Frederick Meyer,
alleged to be doing business in this city, was
arraigned belore one lloj'ne, who is alleged to
he a commissioner of the United States, on
yesterday. It is alleged that the alleged party,
charged with an alleged fraud upon an alleged
government, assisted in some wav in smuggling
alleged drugs, which are alleged to be of con
siderable value. It is alleged that the alleged
case was postponed until Monday, alleged to be
the 11th day of January. It is further alleged
that the alleged defendant was held to bail. It
is alleged that the alleged Mr. Meyer, whom it
is alleged kept an alleged drug store, being
before au alleged commissioner, whose name is
alleged to be Iloyue, was required to give a
bond, which, it is alleged, requires the alleged
Mr. Meyer to furnish for the payment of any
sum of money which some enlightened, but
not yet alleged jury, may allege against him. as
damages sustained by the alleged government.”
An Item for Tree Growers.—Chas. Down
ing says that he witnessed a remarkable change
produced on the body of a pear tree by means
of wrapping it in straw. The tree was a
brown Buerre, grafted about seven feet high,
upon a stock which for years had not grown as
rapidly as a graft usually does, and presented a
decided bulge or swelling at the junction of the
graft. This smaller portion was encased in
straw about two inches thick, and at the end of
two seasons it was found, on removing the
straw, that the heretofore smaller stem had be
come the full size of the graft above, present
ing but a slight indication of the past union
between the graft. This is an item of iuterest,
and many tree growers who have trees with
contracted stems, evidence of some natural
want of attiuity with the graft, may find it a
hint for practical use. We have ourselves prac
ticed wrapping the stem of Morcllo cherries
when worked at a height ol two or three feet,
with the free growing or sweet varieties, with
moss, and thus keep them swelling regularly
with the gtowth of the graft for years, says a
grower.—Ear.
Fire at the State Lunatic Asylum.—
The Constitution of Sunday has the following;
“On Thursday last, says the Federal Union ,
the building for the colored Insane was set on
fire by one of the inmates—a colored female.
She found her way to -the attic and kindled a
fire, and the roof was soon in a blaze. It was,
fortunately, discovered as soon as it. made Us
appearance through the roof, and by the calm
and prompt action »fa number of the officers
of the institution, was soou extinguished. The
damage was slight—about twelve feet of thq
roof being burned—and has been repaired,’’
