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ATJO-TJSTA. GhA.
SATURDAY ilORNitfG, JULY 24, 1869
REBUKING THE SOUTH,
Turner, the negro preacher, who made
such a tremendous appeal to heaven when
he was expeliM from the Georgia Legisl^-1
ture, was appointed Postmaster at the in-1
uoctrit city of Mafcbn iii ‘lorifel - to “rebuke;
the Georgia rebels.” Any one wonhl have !
supposed from the robust vTrtue' assumect
in Ids Legislative harangues that Be held
converse with angels and walked the world
a veritable saint, a DaviD in ebony, a
man after Grotts own-heart. J .'-But the im
vestigation ft)f, passing counterfeit jnoneyy
which has just closed with his discharge
and acquittal, jggg„ R9t .Altogether) a vain
affair. It revealed certain ugly spots
upon his character > which he had hitherto
cloaked in t&6 gart> of Self-sufficient 'austeri
ty, and, though he goes unwhipt of Justice
. he is
transfixed in the full view of the (public as
a.hypocritical parson. and sensual monster.
The following article from the Macon Tele
graph fefetrißg to HfteYnan, is so just, so'
Welt vigorous an exposure
of the flithy creatures Who have been made
instruments of “ rebuking” this noble State,
that we give it entire and cordially assent
to its conclusions. It should be published
broadcast over the North as a fitting “ re
buke” to those in authority who boldly
proposed to mortify our people and yet
have only succeeded in shamefully disgrac
ing themselves. The Telegraph says:
“ The examination of Turner, the colored
Postmaster of Macon, has ended in ins dis
charge—there not being, in the judgment
of the United States Commissioner, good
ground for binding him over for trial for
the offense of counterfeiting. When the
examination was llrst closed, on Saturday
night, we are informed that tip} Commis
sioner had prepared papers,binding Turner
over for trial before the United States
Court in the sum of $10,000; but the pro
duction of new testimony, oii Tuesday,
satisfied that gentleman that there was no
sufficient ground upon which to base a
prosecution.
“It is probable that the unusual course
of procedure in re-opening the examina
tion, after it had been once formally closed,
may give rise to accusations affecting the
integrity of the court; but our information
upon the whole subject matter leads us to
believe that all such charges and suspicions
are unfounded, and that, in point,-of fact,
Turner is actually innocent of the crime of
passing counterfeit money—knowing it to
be such—or of any complicity with the
woman (Harris) in these fraudulent trans
actions.
“ We say this the more cheerfully because
it will make no kind of,difference in regard
to the retention of Turner in the Macon
Post Office. That most desirable result of
this explosion has been certainly reached—
that Turner is compelled to be dismissed
from the Post Office—not for counterfeit
ing, but for even parhaps worse moral
crimes for a man in his position. The
General Post Office Department in Wash
ington has, or will liaVe, in a few hours,
such evidence of hideous moral delinquency
ou the part of Turner in its possession, that
it cannot retain him if it would ; it dare
not retain him, unless it dare make itself
the scoff of t he whole country.
“ Our readers may therefore rest assured
that all they eared about in relation to this
fuss is accomplished, aud the Macon Post
Office will be remanded to the custody of
white men. Try, Mr. Creswcll, and give us
a Postmaster of known character and re
spectability. That is all we ask. In respect
to this last evidence against the moral
character and fitness of Turner, it is of a
nature which cannot be produced in these
columns without outraging decency. Under
this state of facts we say without reluct
ance—with entire candor, ami with the
benefit of information from sources which
access to all the evidence and
fchdy studied this case, that in all
innocent of
with counterfeiting. That was
the work of the man Seliunian, a messenger
in the Treasury Department, who stole the
notes and probably executed the forgeries,
and employed the woman Harris to some
extent in uttering them. He gave her one
of these notes in Philadelphia, which she
passed ; but evidence not produced on the
trial shows that Turner was in all proba
bility entirely ignorant of her possession
of these notes as well as of her pecuniary
resources, beyond the fifty dollars which
she gave him to buy her ticket to Atlanta.
Turner, in her company, got to Atlanta
without funds, and borrowed some there
with great difficulty to continue his jour
ney, whereas, if he had known her re
sources, in genuine bills at the time, he
would no doubt have borrowed from her.
We say nothing of the nature of the other
relations which might have subsisted be
tween Turner and the woman Harris; but
the evidence before the court, leaving out
the testimony of Swayze, fails to establish
a complicity, in counterfeiting, and we do
not believe from the facts we learn that it
existed.
“ So much in candid comment upon the
trial., The result of the whole investiga
tion is a grand explosion of the predomi
nant influence's, which, to the shame of the
Government, have been allowed to control
its counsels in Middle Georgia. .Look at
this disgraceful exposure. The.recognized
organ and expouent of the United States
Government, in the hands of a man of such
desperate character that scores of liis party
friends swear they would not believe him
on oath. This is the man who has been
poisoning the ears of his party against
Georgia—running riot in personal and ma
lignant denunciation of everything respect
able and decent-inflaming the passions and
prejudices of the ignorant negroes against
their employers—advising them to burn,
kill and destroy—and using every artifice
to foment discord, trouble and excitement
between the races. This was the chosen
high priest at the altar of loyalty, and for
a year hfs office has been the headquarters
of the so-called Republican party iu this
section.
“ The struggle for this very Post Oflicg ap
pointment lay between Swayzc and Turner
—and what choice! We doubt whether
the respectable people of Macon, as affairs
then stood,"would- not have preferred
Turner, the negro, to Swayze, the infamous
white man. But with the choice of Turner
the administration has a bitter—a mortify
ing lesson before them, disclosing an utter
want of integrity and capacity in the negro
they preferred. Upon what idea is a policy
founded which seeks' the representatives
apd exponents of government iu the very
dregs of moral filth and wickedness. We
hope the administration will abandon the
slums hereafter in the search for its agents
hi Georgia.”
SPOILING BAD EGGS.
The Liverpool Daily Tost, of July Bd, has
heard of ex-Presideut Johnson’s late ha
rangue, in which Grant and several other
little matters were.luindled without gloves
and shampooed with vitriolic eloquence.
The Post is a trooly loil sympathizer and
thus comments upon Mr. Johnson’s fulmi
nation :
“That restlessly ambitious person, Mr.
Andrew Johnson, late President of the
United States, has just been paying a visit
to Washington. It appears that he still
has admirers enough in the capital of the
United States to distinguish him by the
honor of a serenade. The object of a sere
nade, it may not be known here, is to get a
speech out of the serenaded. Mr. Johnson
accordingly responded and desponded. The
political condition of the country was
something quite deplorable, and as to the
Government, he ventured to prophesy that
it would end either in a military dictator
ship or a monarchy. It is quite evident, that
one great object of Mr, Andrew Johnson is to
degrade the highest office in the Union to the
level which is found by the same office in the.
South American republics."
Though we thought it rather undignified
p Andrew Johnson thus wrathfully and
contemptuously to flout the military Presi
dent he had done so much to promote, it
never entered our minds that he was en-j
gagedTii the noble art of 11 degrading the
Presidential office.” Abraham
the late-lainented, wiped out all tliai, was
left of dignity/in- the Executive depart-;
ment, and if Mr. Johnson really meant to
do what the Post accuses hint of doing, he:
is the victim of the impossible; he is an-j
other •melancholy -exampte of thefolly< ofi
trying to jßpoil the aWfal odors df an
addled egg." We' beseech thfr J Po#t"to il be .
just td Mr. Johnson, no matter how severe i
its criticism. .Mr. Johnson really did not !
intend to degrade the highest office in the
Union. Strange as.it may read to English
ears, he positively tried to “ cuss ” it into
elevation.- t. .- -J -u <
.}:>■ and .oii • :.[FrQm. the Charleston News, 23d.
The Custom House.
AD INTERIM VS. AD OUTERIM—THE WAR
COMMENCED—PRIZE : POUR HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS’ WORTH OP PROP
] ERTY.
THE ADVANCE.
On yesterday, the Ninos gave an account
of the interview between the new and old
Collectors at the Custom House, on
Wednesday, and also the letter of the
old Collector, Dr. A. G. Mackey, informing
the new Collector, Mr. George W. Clark,
that he would surrender the office to him
as soon as an inventory of the public prop
erty in his charge, valued at about $400,000,
could be taken and receipted for.
About ten o’clock yesterday morning,
Mr. Clark, accompanied by Mr. Thoma 9
Bazicn, formerly his clerk, and ex-Alder
man 11. Judge Moore, advanced into the
office of the Collector, in which Dr. A. G.
and Alderman T. J. Mackey were sitting.
After the, salutations of the day were ex
changed, Mr. Clark informed Dr. Mackey
that he had duly considered his letter of
the day before, refusing to deliver up the
office of Collector until schedule statements
of all property on hand were drawn and
duly receipted for, and said lie Hereby rook
possession of the office of Collector, and he
would not permit him (Dr. M.) to sigu or
act as Collector.
Dr. Mackey, who was sitting iu his easy
chair, with his feet elevated at an augle of
forty-five degrees, replied : “ Mr. Clark, you
had better wait until your permission is
asked before you presume to refuse it. - You
may sign yourself Collector of the Port or
Tycoon of Japan, if that suits your fancy;
but I shall assert my authority as Collector
of the Port until I have taken inventories
of all property in my possession, and re
ceived duplicate receipts for the same.”
Mr. Clark then sent a message to Mr.
Groves, Deputy Collector, requesting an
interview in the Collector’s office. When
Mr. Groves appeared, Mr. Clark handed
him his commission to read, at the same
time exclaiming, “I am Collector, sir; will
you obey my orders ?”
Mr. Groves mildly but firmly replied, “ I
am the deputy of Dr. Mackey, and shall
obey his orders, as iny authority is derived
solely from him.” Mr. Clark then said,
“ You are no longer Deputy Collector.”
COMPLIMENTARY.
After this side affair the colloquy was re
sumed between the ail interim and ad
outerim Collector, during which Dr. Mackey
explained his position by the following
illustration: “ Suppose, Mr. Clark, that I
should comply witli your demand, and
should surrender the Custom House without
first making out my schedular statements
and taking receipts from you for every
article ; then suppose that to-morrow you
should order five or twenty pipes of brandy
from the Government stores into your own
private store, and should appropriate them
to your own use. Now, 1 being out of
office, would lie powerless to prevent this
transaction, while, at the same time, I and
my bondsmen would be held responsible for
the loss of this property, for I have receipt
ed for it, aud would not have any receipt
from you to protect me against the claim
for indemnity. I give this illustration, not
in a spirit of innendo against you, but as
presenting a sUpposable case.”
Mr. Clark made some response to this
when Dr. Mackey said: “ Mr. Clark, the
office of Collector of the Port of Charleston
has heretofore been held by gentlemen;
you have furnished a striking but natural
contrast between their conduct and that
of an ex-army sutler. I would not and
could not surrender the property in my
custody without receipts, even to a man of
honor, still less could I think of doing so
to you wiio are a very bad specimen of that
not very honorable class of men, the army
sutlers.
ALDERMAN MACKEY WANTS TO USE TIIS BOOT.
Mr. Clark in reply to the above not very
complimentary remarks, said that Dr.
Mackey was scurrilous and impertinent,
whereupon Alderman T. J. Mackey turn
ed to his brother and said: “ Doctor, be
kind enough to give me the order, and I
will kick the insolent fellow outto which
Mr. Clark excitedly answered, “ You cant
do it. •
MR. CLARK IS PUT OUT.
After this second side issue, Mr. Clark
asserted that he sat in the office as
or, whereupon Dr. Mackey said it would'
be his unpleasant duty to eject him, and
he called for his four boatmen, Augustus
Bohliuger, John Davis, Jas. W. Whipple,
white, and William Elliott, colored, who
immediately came in, and upon being ask
*ed by Dr. Mackey whether they recognized
him drMr. Clark as Collector, answered :
“ We only recognize you, Dr. Mackey, and
will obey ,your orders.” Dr. Mackey then
turned to Mr. Clark and requested him to
leave, telling him that he was a tresspass
er, and he desired him to leave immediate
ly, to' which Mr. Clark replied : “ I will not
leave; lam Collector.” Dr. Mackey then
took out his watch and said : “ I give you
three minutes to retire; if you do not
leave at the expiration of that time, I will
eject you by force.”
At this point Alderman T. J. Mackey
walked up to the table and remarked:
“ This matter is getting dramatic; it has
reached the very stage with which it should
have begun; I’ll take notes.” Mr. Clark
replied: “Yes, write it all out; say that
the order of the President and of the Com
missioner of Customs is disobeyed;” to
which Dr. Mackey replied: “That state
ment, sir, is false.” Mr. Clark then called
upon his friends to witness what was about
to take place, and, observing the stalwart
boatmen appearing as if anxious to seize
him, said: “ Don’t let any more violence
be used than is necessary.”
As the three minutes expired, Dr. Mackey
told the boatmen to “ Put that man out of
the room, but deal as tenderly as you can
with him ; treat him as if he were a baby.”
The boatmen tlieu gathered around Mr.
Clark, who arose and asked for his hat.—
Dr. Mackey then tolfl the boatmen not to
touch Mr. Clark if he was ready to go.—
“Yes,” said Mr. Clark, “they must touch
me;” so they put their liauds upon his
shoulder, aud he walked out of the door,
and out of the Custom House; Alderman
Mackey sarcastically bidding him good
morning. Thus the battle ended for the
day. [tj M * 'At
CONCLUSION.
It is worthy of note that the Commis
sioner of Customs, in his letter to Dr.
Mackey, regarding liis suspension from
office, instead of following the usual form
of stating that Geo. W. Clark, Esq., “ has
been appointed Collector,” &c., struck out
the word “appointed” from the printed
form, and stated “G. W. Clark, Esq., has
been designated to perform, the duties cf
Collector.”
Mr. Clark founds liis claim to immediate
possession mainly upon the fact that the
Commissioner of Customs, in his letter of
the Bth of July, above referred to. addresses
Dr.Jjfackey an late Collector. Yet we have
been shown a letter received by Dr. Mackey
from the Commissioner of Customs, under
date of July 20, 1869, addressed to lumas
“ Dr. A. G. Mackey, Collector of the Port of
Charleston.”
There is a very ugly rumor around Yale
College that a member of the Freshman
class, named Robins, from Tennessee, has
absconded with a large sum of money and
other valuables lielonging to some of his
classmates.— Exchange.
That is the legitizate fruit of Brownlow’s
touching and example.
Mr. George Peabody’s health is bad. He
is going to the White Sulphur Springs, in
Greenbrier.
Before the Gate. i
They gave the whole lODg day to idle laughter,
To fitful soug find jest, .'.
To moods ol soberness, as idle, after,.
And silence as idle too as.the lesU - M
iff <• ■•- ...» . . j
But l when 1 at last tipon their way -returning,
'j^citunqlaleand loath,
Through the broad meadow in thgeunsei burn-:
(•; ihg, . -d'.’..'dt- -.-' .r - I
They reached the. gate, onesweet spell bin-,
tiered them both. « -.?<-
Her-heari was trdikbletl with a’subtje anguish,
Such as b.flt women know, a ~V>
Thijjl w;yt,',-aiicf .love sp&ftk •or not
M languish, si. . .
And Vhat they would, would rather they
would not so;
Till he said—man-like, nothing comprehend
ing
Os all the wondrous guile
That women won wiu themselves with, aud
bending v
Eyes ol relentless asking on her the while—
“ Ah, if beyond this gate the path united
Onr steps as far as death,
And I might open it!—” His voice, affrighted
At its own daring, faltered under his breath.
Then she—whom both his faith and fear en
chanted
Far beyond words to t'-li,
Feeling her woman’s finest wits had wanted
The art he had that knew to blunder so well—
Shyly drew near, a little step, and mocking,
“ Shall we not be too late
For tea ?” she said. “ I’m quite worn out
with walking:
Yes, thanks, your arm. And will you—open
the gate?"
\ Atlantic Monthly for August.
Important to Agricultural Societies.
Macon, Ga., Julv 17th, 1869.
The Secretary of the Agricultural So
ciety requests the city papers to re-publish
the following form of a constitution for
agricultural societies, as we often receive
requests for copies. He suggests further
that the formation of county clubs and the
representation by delegation of their socie
ties in the great convention, which will be
held during the Fair, will be a matter of
some importance to these societies and
delegates in the way of extra privileges and
advantages «ta*»-<ied them as sucU.g.;Spnjg g
forty societies, with the names of officers
and members, are already received and en
rolled.
Papers of the State will pleas<copy.
David W. Lswlp, Sec.
FORM OF CONSTITUTION FOR COUNTY AGRI-,
CULTURAL SOCIETY. jjd
The undersigned, citizens of county,
by fixing their names to the subjoined)'con
stitution, and by paving annually-two
dollars for membership, or ten, dollars lor
life membership, do form tliejpselves into
an organization to be known as the
County Agricultural Society,
of which will be encouragement of ja.ll im
provement in agriculture, and of all the
kindred arts and sciences which to
increase the profits and pleasures of agriv
cultural labor, and render home life on the
farm attractive and happy.
The officers shall be a President, elected
by ballot by the members present at the
close- of each annual meeting; one Vice
President from each military district in the
county; a Secretary and a Treasurer—ali
elected in the same manner at the same
time.
The officers shall constitute an Executive
Committee, who shall have the power to.
fix the time and place of holding the annual
meetings and fairs, and to prescribe rules
and regulations to be observed in the
management of the same.
It shall also be the duty of this commit
tee to encourage the monthly meetings of
the Society, especially during the period of
preparation for and the tillage of the crops;
and to bring before such meetings those
topics and questions for colloquial debate,
best calculated to keep up. the work and the
spirit of improvement. It shall further be
the duty of this committee and its indivi
dual members, to procure, from time to
time, written essays and addresses on ap
propriate subjects from persons distinguish
ed for their success in agriculture, or for
their learning in the kindred arts and
sciences.
The Secretary shall keep a full and per
fect record of the proceedings of the
Society.
The Treasurer shall make, whenever
called upon by the Society or Executive
Committee, a full exhibit of the financial
affairs of the Society, aud be the keeper of
the Society’s funds.
The President shall have the power to
call a special meeting of the Committee of
the Society when, in his opinion, the interest
of the Society requires it.
(From.the L’Xington Gazette, Saturday.
Horrible Crime.
A FATHER ATTEMPTS TO HAVE HIS OWN
DAUGHTER OUTRAGED.
The community was startled and hor
rified on yesterday, by a report that Tboinas
H. Irvine, a farmer of the county, and for
many years President of tiie Richmoud
Stage Company, had attempted to force his
daughter, a sprightly little girl some four
teen years of age, to marry a young man by
the name of Broadwell Keith, and she per
sisting in a refusal, he held a pistol to her
head, and allowed Keith to lavish caresses
on the unwilling girl. Even then she would
not consent to marry him, and the father
shut her up in a room with Keith, and told
him “ she would be damned glad to marry
him when he had gotten through with her,”
She made her escape from the room, and
Keith ran after her aud brought her back
to the-hOuse; and Irvine locked her up in
an upper room. Her step-mother had gone
to Mr. Henry Bowman’s, who lived neat' by,
to escape her husband’s cruelty, and the
poor little prisoner managed to sJnd her,
by a negro woman, the following no,t£r
written hastily on a scrap of jiaper.: -, /
“Dear Ma: For God’s sake come lyome,
or send somebody here; for pa is trymg to
make Broad (KeitbUsleep with me. What
on earth will Ido ? Please come or sehd.
He will not let me down stairs. Oh, what 8
will I do! lam in the hands of God until
some one comes to help me. He has burst
the bolt off the door already.”
Mrs. Irvine gave the note to Mr. Bow
man, who immediately went to her rescue,
and seeing her at the window of the room
in which she was confined, placed a,ladder
which happened to be at hand, Jtnd she
came down it, and thus escaped thq clutches
of her unnatural father and an ilnscrupu
lons lover. Mr. Bowman brought her to
town and placed her at Captain Beard’s,
where she fouud protection, and all the
sympathy and lenderhess which kind heart
ed people would naturally show to one in
her forlorn condition.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of
Irvine and Keith, and they were brought
to town by Deputy'Sheriffs Cochrane and
Didlake, and the trial set for yesterday af
ternoon, but the hearing was postponed till
this morning at nine o’clock. Irvine was
released on bail, but Keith was sent to jail
in default of $5,000 bail.
There is a great indignation in the com
munity against Irvine and Keith, and all
feel that Irvine’s offense is incompatible
with a sound mind. He has been drinking
a great deal lately, and this certainly has
crazed him, fo*r he has not heretofore been
an unkind father. We have seldom wit
nessed more inteuse feeling in any commu
nity, whether or indignation against her
persecutors or of sympathy and compassion
for the unfortunate child who has been
placed iu such a cruel attitude.
The Chinese in Georgia.—A large
force of Chinese laborers has been employ
ed by the contractors to finish the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad. For some
time past a large number of convicts from
the Georgia penitentiary have been em
ployed on that railway; but the rcoent
lease of the penitentiary and its inmates fro
Alexander & Cos. has caused them a£
to be turned over to these gentlemen, by
whom they are now employed on the Ma
con and Augusta Road. Deprived of the
labor of this force contractors on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton Road have de
termined to supply its place with Chinese,
and have accordingly made arrangements
out West by which many of the Chinese
who were employed on the Central Pacific
Railroad until its completion, will soon be
"at work on the former railroad.
The Chicago and St..Lpuis papers, hav
ing’ flbthingbetreF tb *<jdstrrel over,"ire dib
cussiug whleh of these two cities shall be
come the national capital.
Decisions of thf Supreme Court of:
Georgia, '
REPORTED Rxtrwssly for the constitu- ,
TION, RYN.- J; haMmond, supreme COURT j
• REPORTER. • • f? I
Reuben Gains B. Gaines. Assump-;
sit. From Bartow. -tX*- : v?v- j
m|cay, j: Y
1 Where A leftSm going West, just be
fore the late war, of money witli bis
brother, to by .in§caged as if it we.re.bis
ptyn,, ~Held That in a suit by A against
th§ administrator of the brother who died,
a memorandum book, containing copy
notes payable to A, and v trions other en
tries, pertaining t# the business, which: A
iiad seen ucumined, and said were in
the hand-writing of his brother of which
be did not dispute the crrectness, was ad
missible in evidence for the administrator.
2. Although this court may not be en
tirely satisfied with the verdict of a jury,
yet, if the court" below refuse anew trial,
and the verdict is not such as to show
evident mistake, prejudice or corruption in
the jury, this court will not overrule the
■judgment of the cou*t below, in refusing a
new trial.
J udgment affirmed.
W. Akin, for plaintiff in error.
Wm. T. Wofford, for defendant in error.
J. A. R. Hanks, Administrator, &c., vs.
John Phillips, et. al. Ejectment. From
Murray.
McCay, J.
1. In an issue, formed to try the genuine
ness of a recorded deed, proposed to be
read in evidence, to repel which, the oppo
site party had made the affidavit required
by seetion 2674 of the Code, the burden of
proof is upon the party asserting the genu
ineness of the deed, and the fact that jt is
recorded does not change the onus,
2. Recitals in a private deed only bind
parties aud privies, and are not evidence
against one not claiming under the deed.
3. If evidence of paper title is permitted
to go to the jury, without objection to the
proof of execution, it is too late, after ver
dict, to make the exception.
4. If one have written evidence of a title
to a tract of land, and, by a tenant, take
actual possession, and afterward sell, bv
jfctßieu agreement, one undivided half ol
the premises to the tenant who keeps pos
sesion for seven years, in his own right,
fo| one undivided half, and as tenant of
his vendor for the other, this is adverse
jpossespion, under written evidence of btle
to the whole lot.
.Tntjgmont.reversed.
D. A. Walker, for plaintiff in error, W-
Luftinan, W. H: Dabney and A. R. J. Jlc-
Camy, for in error.
Reid aud in error, vs.
Alpheus 8. Spencer,! defendant in error.
Assumpsit. From Troup.
Browjt;' C. J.
1. Where a case wjis tried and a verdict
reudered in of th<* plaintiff, and a
moUonyjjutpurQe for anew trial; and the
-'#TOg<rwno heard the case went ont of of
fice, before the motion was disposed of, and
no brief of the evidence was agreed upon
by the parties or approved and certified by
the Judge to be correct. Held: That the
Judge who succeeded to the bench com
mitted no error in refusing to grant anew
trial.
2. A brief of the oral, aud a copy of the
written evidence, adduced in the court be
low, must be embodied iu the bill of ex
ceptions as certified by the Judge, or the
case will be dismissed on the hearing in
this court.
Dismissed and the judgment of the court
beiow affirmed.
B. H. High am, B. H. Hill, for plaintiff* in
error.
Ferrill, Hammond & Bro. for defendant
in error.
Edward Broughton, plaintiff ir error, vs.
W. T. Godwin, defendant in error. Mo
tion lor new trial from Troup.
Brown, C. J.
1. By section 3666 of the Code, the pre
siding Judge may exercise a sound discre
tion in granting or refusing new trials i ! n
cases where the verdict may ne decidedly
and strongly against the weight of evidence,
although there may appear to be some slight
evidence in favor of the finding.
2. In this case the Judge did not abuffe
the discretion which the law vests in him
in refusing to grant anew trial. '
Judgment affirmed.
Speer & Speer, by Hugh Buchanan, for
plaintiff in error.
B. H. Bigham, by B. Oliver, for defend
ant in error.
Wm. McConnell, plaintiff in error vs. Starl
ing 11. Bryant, defendant in error. Mill
wright’s lien, etc. From Fulton.
Brown, C. J.
Where the affidavit and counter affidavit
are filed, in a proceeding to foreclose a mill
wright’s lien on a mill; ar.d the issue which
is formed by the affidavits, is returned to
the court, and is pending on the appeal,
aud at the hearing the defendant is not
present and his counsel abandon his case,
because their fees are not paid, the court
should require the plaintiff to make out liis
case, as in other cases, in default, by prihia
facie proof of the justice of his claim, be
fore he is permitted to take judgment; and
it is error to order/that the defendant’s affi
davit be dismissed, and that the execution,
which issued upon plaintiff’s affidavit, pro
ceed.
Judgment reversed.
Arnold and Broyles, for plaintiff in error.
Hill and Candler, for defendant in error.
M. A. Bull, Ex’r, plaintiff' in error, vs.
Tho.s. B. St. Johns, defendant in error.
■Complaint from Troupe.
When a suit was instituted to recover
the value of professional services rendered
by an attorney at law for his client, and
there being evidence in the record that
there was a special contract, made between
-attorney and client in ihe year 1863 or
1864, that were to be performed
for the sum of throe hundred dollars in
Confederate currency, and that owing to
the feeble health of the attorney the client
was compelled to employ another attor
ney to complete thn-frusiness for which the
first attorney wag employed, and it farther
appearing from the evidence, that in 1867,
the clieut bad paid to each of the attor
neys for->thei irrespective services in the
case, one bale of cotton, making two bales
of cotton'worth sixty dollars each. Held:
That in a suit by the administratrix of the
■gjrst attorney against the client when the
jifey returned a verdict in favor of the de
foliant upon the foregoing state of facts,
that this court will not control the discre-
tion of the court below in refusing to grant
anew trial, on the ground that the verdict
was contrary to the evidence, although the
plaintiff proved that the services of her In
testate were worth at least one hundred
and twenty-five dollars, independent of any
special contract between the parties.
There is evidence from the record from
which the jury might have found there was
a special contract between the parties, and
in that view of it, the verdict was not so
strongly and decidedly against the evi
dence as will authorize this court to set it
aside; the more esaecially as the preceding
Judge before whom the case was tried was
saitsfied with it.
Judgment affirmed.
Toole & Murphy, by Hugh Buchanan,
for plaintiff in error.
W. 0. Tungle for defendant In error.
Doe ex. dem., 11. G. H. Miller, plaintiff in
error, vs. Roe, casual ejector, and John
N. Swift defendant in error. Ejectment
from DeKalb.
When an action of ejectment was insti
tuted by the vendee of a tract of land
against the vendor, the lessee of the defend
ant claiming nnder a bond for titles exe
cuted by tlie party in possession of the land,
and one-half only of the purchase money
having been paid: .Held. That the vendee
of the land, claimingnnder a bond lor titles,
cannot maintain gh action of ejectment
against the vendor thereof, until the full
amount of the money ha% "been
paid, or at leasvan unconditional tender of
the amount due .for the land khall have
been made to the vendjor thereof.
Judgment affirmed. -
Alston & w WTnn, *A. W. Hammond &
Bon for plaintiff in enor.
Hill & Cnndlar,* li. E. Bleckley for de
fendant in error.
Down on Chloride Flat, says a White
Pine paper, there isjf miner’s cabin built
out of chunks pf hi* grade chloride ore,
estimated at $2,000. pThe house is sixteen
feet square, aud the rock iu its walls. If
crushed, would yield about $75,000, That
house is for sale. ,
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Special Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.
New York Closing Stock Quotations.
REPORTED BY HOYT & GARDNER.
New Y«rk, J uly. 35—P. M.
The following are the closing .quotations
this day:
American Gold. : V.. ..... .. .. . ."J.-..;. Ufs%
Adams Expre55...'.'............ 60m
New York Central 313 14
.Erie goffi
Hudson River .
Reading 92%
Michigan Central... .Y: 132%
Cleveland $ PittgJb*MW. 108
Chicago and .• 79%
Chicago and NoflHiwestern, pref. 93%
Milwaukee and St. Paul 77
Milwaukee & StiPaul, pref. 87
Lake Shore. 105%
Chicago & Rbck Island 113%
New Jersey Central.... * 111%
Pittsburg & Fort Wayne 152%
Ohio & Mississippi 31%
Hanibal & St. Joseph 119 ~
Hanibal & St. Joseph, pref.. 117%
Tennessee, old 62%
Tennessee, new 56%
Georgia 6’s .' 83
Georgia 7’s 91%
North Carolina,old 48 ~
North Carolina, new 41
Alabama B’s 93%
Virginia 6’s 57%
Missouri 6’s 87 ”
Pacific Mail 73%
Western Union Telegraph 36%
Stocks steady. Gold weak.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, July 23—Noon.—It is more
than suspected that Delano will shortly re
move some revenue supervisors.
Washington, July 23—P. M.—Revenue
to-day, S7I3,(XX).
Rawlins returns to-morrow.
It is stated that Bout well will sell no
gold at present rates.
Boutwell and Stanton had a long inter
view to-day.
Arrangements are on foot for a WorldV
Exposition of manufactures here next year.
Over five million bonds were issued to
the Pacific Railroad to-day.
Customs authorities are not to interfere
With the French cable.
The Treasury has advices that owners of
sugar recently seized in New Orleans are
unable to furnish bonds required. It is
stated the Department will order us con
fiscation and sale. The bond required is
$200,000. The value of the property is be
tween $200,000 and $300,000.
Boutwell addressed a letter to the Comp
troller of Currency, announcing he lias de
cided to permit the substitution of ten
forties for five-twenties, or exchange any
gold—bearing bonds now held as security
for circulating notes on a basis hitherto
adopted. Ten-forties to be received at 85
per cent, of their par value, and all other.
gold—bearing bonds at ninety per cent.
The six per cent, currency bonds issued
to the Pacific railroads will uot be received
as security for the circulation of national
banks, and exchange of gold-bearing bonds
is subject hereafter to revision, if it shall be
found that such exchange is so frequent as
to become onerous to the department.
It is reported that Ryan and Courrierare
organizing a Cuban expedition, to sail
from Canadian waters.
Cubans here have official news to the
loth. The Spaniards made two attacks,
under Quesada, and were repulsed in both
instances, with the loss of over one hun
dred and fifty. Quesada continues the
siege before Puerto Principe. A portion of
Jordan’s command, posted forty miles from
St. Jago de Cuba, was attacked by twelve
hundred Spaniards, commanded by Valme
sada in person. After three hours’ lighting
the Spaniards withdrew. The Spaniards
were reinforced and renewed the attack
next day. They made three assaults, los
ing heavily. Jordan commanded in the
second day’s fight. The Cubans lost sixty
two killed and wounded, including two of
ficers. The Spanish loss is over three hun
dred. They made good their retreat to St.
Jago de Cuba. The Cubans are iii good
spirits, ami suffer blit little from cholera
aud vomito, so prevalent among the Span
iards.
NEW YORK.
New York, July 23.— Tlie Arizona brings
only #5,000 in treasure. Three Paraguay
ans who attempted to assassinate the allied
commander were shot. The Paraguayans
who attempted to board a Brazilian iron
clad, were all killed. The Allies are at
tempting to drive Lopez into Bolivia.
The Herald's London speceial says the
compromise was the result of fear on the
part of the Lords. The Tory Lords held a
large private meeting and resolved to
abandon Salisbury and follow Cairns, whom
the meeting authorized to make peace with
the Ministry. The prompt and loud ex
pression of popular indignation terrified
the Lords, and thus the threatened agita
tion was postponed.
ALABAMA.
Selma, July 23. —The daily Times , of
this morning, contains the following, which
confirms the report concerning the cater
pillar : “We learn from Messrs. llardie &
llobinson, cotton factors of this city, who
have.taken great pains to investigate the
subject, that the caterpillar has made its
appearance on the cotton in the black lands
arid the canebrake region in the western
part of the county.”
Virginia!
Norfolk, July 23. —Peter Riddick, for
the ralrder of Cornelius Hayes, a young
farmer, on the highway January last,Was
hung to-day, at 1 o’clock, in the jail yard.
He made no confession.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, July 23. —The steamers with
the French Cable were signaled from Cape
Cod at sunrise this morning, and will reach
their destination this afternoon.
MICHIGAN.
Detroit, July 23. —Ex-Governor Crapo
is dead. _
FOREIGN.
London, July 23. —Fu1l attendance of
the Lords, and many of the Commons pres
ent. Lord-Granville opened the debate,
stating that the Ministers regarded the
vote rejecting the preamble a grave affair,
but were unwilling to prevent a considera
tion of other amendments, and were anx
ious to conduct the discussion in a peace
ful and conciliatory spirit.
Lord Cairns said, since the adjournment,
he had a conference with Granville, and
moved to restore the original date of the
disestablishment, and compromise on the
other .amendments.
Salisbury, Kussell, and other leading
Peers, accepted the-eora promise, and praised
the conduct of Lord Cairns in the emer
gency.
The Lords restored the original date and
the other amendments were compromised.
Granville thanked Cairns for the frank
ness with which he entered into confiden
tial relations with the Ministry.
Fifty-eight bodies were taken from the
colliery pit at St. Helens.
Madrid, July 23. —The generals] and
other officers recently arrested for fomen
ting insurrection have been exiled to the
Canary Islands. A plot to assassinate the
Minister of Justice has Dcen discovered.
Sickles has arrived.
MAIVNE news.
Charleston, Arrived: Schr.
Sarah Cullen, froinrTOjpidphia.
Sailed : Steamer A. W.TvVmanau, from
Philadelphia ; brig Adelaide, fnlte Provi
dence ; schr. G. W- El well, from ProvTclWaee.
Wilmington, July 23.—Sailed : Pioneef,.
for Philadelphia.
Weather clear. Light West wind. Ther
mometer, 80.
MARKETS.
London, July 23—Noon. —Consols, 93%.
Bonds, 83.
Liverpool, 'July 23—-Noon.—Cotton;
steady; upltinds, 12%;' Orleans, 13; sales,
10,060 bales; for the Week, 54,000 bales;
exports,: 12,000 ;bales; speculation, 7,000
bales ; gtpek,, 353,000 . balea-nrAweripan,
193,000 bales; Bombay shipments to the
20th, 72,000 bitiesi. Flour, 235. 6d : . j
Liverpool, J uly 23—A fternoo n —Cotton
afloat, 604,000 bales;. American, 31JXX)
hales, Reel Wheats .08,2d......... V! j
Liverpool, July 23—Evening.—Cotton
—uplands, 12% ■; Orlfelins, : l3 ; sales, 12,000
bales. Turpentine, 26» 9d. Yarns and
Fabricaat Manchester steady.
Havre, July 23.—Cotton buoyant, both
spot and afloat.
Paris, July 23.—Bullion increased seven
million francs.
New York, July 23—Noon. —Stocks
firm aud more active. Mouey, 7. Sterling,
9%. Gold, 35%. ’62’s, 23%. North Caro
linas, 58; new, 51; Virginias, ex coupon,
57% ; new, 60; Tennessees, ex coupon, 62%;
new, 56%; LoUisianas, old, 69%; Le
vees, 65.
New York, July 23—P. M.—Money easy
at 6@7; immense business at lowef- rates ;
prime discounts, lower rates. Sterling,
9%. Exports of gold to-morrow, SBOO,OOO.
Gold weaker at 135%. Bonds firm and ad
vaced ; ’62’s, 23%. Southern Securities ac
tive ; new North Carolinas higher, touch
ing 52%, but closing at 51%@52; this ad
vance tended to stiffen others; Alabama
B’s, 92@94; South Carolinas-, new, 65@65%.
New York, July 23—Noon.—Flour 5@
10 better. Wheat I@2 better. Com scarce
ly so firm. Pork quiet at $32 75. Lard
dull. 'Cotton dull at 34. Turpentine steady
at 42%. Rosin unchanged. Freights dull.
New York, July 23—P. M.—Cotton dull
aud lower; sales, 275 bales at 33%@34.
Flour—superfine to fancy State, $5 35®
6 90; Southern more active; common to
choice, $6 60@11 75. Wheat fairly active
and 3@4 better. Corn unchanged. Beef
steady. Pork quiet at $32 75@32 87%. —
Lard heavy; kettle, 19%@19%. Rice quiet
at 8, @8%. Turpentine, 42(4)43. Rosin,
$2 25@8. Freights lower; flour, steam,
2s. od.; wheat, 8.
Baltimore, July 23.—Cotton quiet at
34. Flour fairly active—low and medium
grades advanced 25@50; superfine, $5 75@
6 50. Wheat firmer, $1 60@1 68,; wtu-.
1 70@1 75. Corn llrn*—*-, wnite, $1 10@
1 12 ; yciiojv, $1 08@1 10. Oats dull ;
prime new, 70. Pork, $34. Bacon active
and advancing ; shoulders, 15%@15%. —
Lard, 19%@20. Whisky scarce, $1 10.
Louisville, July 23.—Provisions firm.
Mess Pork, $33. Bacon—shoulders, 15;
clear sides, 19%. Whisky, sl.
St. Louis. July 23.—Flour buoyant for
low grades: superfine, $5 25@5 50. Whisky
firm at $1 05. Provisions firm. Mess
Pork, $33 50@33 75. Bacon—shoulders,
14%@14%; clear sides, 18%@18%.
Cincinnati, July 23.—Provisions quiet.
Mess Pork, $33. Bacon—shoulders, 14%@
14%; clear sides, 18%@18%; sugar cured
hams, 22@23. Lard dull at 19%@19%.
Wilmington, July 23.—Spirits Turpen
tine steady at 38%. Rosin unchanged;
strained, $2 65. Crude Turpentine un
changed. Tar, $2.
Mobile, July 23.—Cotton—receipts for
the week, 131, bales ; exports coastwise,
1,016; stock, 2,348 ; sales for the week, 370 ;
to-day, 70 ; market dull ; low middling, 30;
receipts, 14; exports, 476.
New Orleans, July 23.—Cotton—Re
ceipts to-day, 121 bales ; for the week, gross,
886 bales; nett, 458 bales; exports for the
week—Vera Cruz, 310; New York, 3,248;
stock, 6,300; sales to-day, ICO bales ; for
tlie week 1,458 bales; steady; middlings,
32%. Gold, 35%. Stirling, 49%. New
York Sight, ■% premium. Flour firmer;
superfine, $6 ; double, $6 50; treble, $6 75.
Corn scarce; white, $1 25. Oats, 78.
Bran, $1 05. Hay, S2B. Pork, $34 75.
Bacon—retailing 15%, 18%, 19%. Lard —
tierce, 19%@20%; keg, 21%@22%. Sugar
—common, 10@ll; prime, 13%. Molasses
—prime fermenting, 63. Whisky $1 12@
1 15. Coffee—fair, 15% ; prime; 16%@17.
Charleston, July 28. — Cotton dull and
nominal— llo sales; middling, 33 ; receipts,
58 bales ; exports coastwise, 102.
Savannah, July 23.—N0 market; no
cctton offering;
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
/ Friday, July 23— P. M. $
FINANCIAL
COLD—DuII. Buying at {134 and selling
at 136.
SlLVEß—Nomiual. Baying at 128 aud sell
ing at 130.
COTTON—There has been a fair demand
to-day at yesterday’s prices, say 32% for mid
dlings. S lies, 24 bales. Receipts, 27 bales.
BACON—Firm. We quote C. Sides, 20@
20% ; C. R. Sides, 19%@20 ; B. B. Sides, I9@
19%; Shoulders, 16%@17 ; Hams, 16@23;
Dry Salt Shoulders, 15%@16 ; Dry Salt C. R.
Sides, 19.
CORN—Scarce and in good demand. We
quote choice white, fl 37@1 40 ; mixed, $1 30
@1 35, from di pot.
WHEAT -We quote choice white, $1 60@
1 85; red, 41 50@l 60.
FLOUR-City Mills, old, ss@B ; new, *B@
@$10; at retail, $1 $1 barrel higher. Coun
try, s6@9, according to quality.
CORN MEAL -$1 35 at wholesale, and $1 50
at retail.
PEAS—We quote, il 25@1 30. No demand.
A Militia Leader Shot and Killed —
Negroes on the Rampage. — Memphis,
July 16. —Capfc. Haynes, of CrittendeD coun
ty, Arkansas, opposite this city, was Rhot
and killed yesterday at Marion, by Clar
anee Collier. Haynes was a notorious lead
er in the late militia outrages, and was
very odions to the citizens. The difficulty
which caused his death arose over a game
of cards. Haynes endeavored to draw a
pistol on Collier, who quickly took a shot
gun and fired a double load into Haynes,
and afterwards, with a revolver, shot three
bullets through his forehead. Sheriff Har
den, with a large posse of negroes, pursued,
but failed to capture Collier.
A perfect reign ol terror prevails to-day
in the vicinity of Marion. The negroes
have mobbed and gutted Rice’s store, de
stroying over $2,000 worth of property, set
the store on fire, and are on a general ram
page. They caught an unoffending citizen
near Mound City, this morning, and whip
ped him badly. Also boarded the steamer
Cheek, at Apperson’s landing, a few miles
below here, and made violent threats. They
finally left the vessel without doing any
harm.
Radical' Row at Silver Run, Ala.—
Passengers from Silver Run, Ala., report a
serious row at that place on yesterday.—
Heflin, scalawag candidate for Congress,
liad an appointment there, and was met by
the uegrocs. In the .conwa of his speech he
told his brethren that the “ white men
would work them all day and Ku Klux
them at night.” A gentleman in the crowd
gave the infamous assertion the lie, when
a negro drew a pistol and fired, shooting
off the thumb of Sheri 11'Ware. Considera
ble shooting then took place, in the midst
of which Heflin took to the woods. The
negro who first shot was caught under an
old house, but we did not learn what was
donewith him. All oftliis occurred in the
radically reconstructed State of Alabama.
Later. —We have just learned that seven
persons were shot, including a lady and
Conductor Ilackuey.— Columbus Sun.
The Worm. —We regret to learn that the
veritable caterpillar has made its appear
ance on a plantation eight miles from
town. It will be some three weeks yet be
fore they fully develope, and then our
planting friends will have to look out.—
The crop is at least two weeks later than
last year. If the worm multiply as they
usually do it must be cut very short.
[ Montgomery Advertiser.
A Dwelling Burneq.— Mr. Dillard M.
Young, our recent postmaster, who pur
chased the valuable property known as
Meigs’ Mills, two miles from Marietta, had
his dwelling and furniture destroyed by
fire on last Thursday. We learn there was
an Insurance of $2,000 on the house. It is
supposed to be accidental.
[Marietta Journal.
An exchange makes this remarkable
statement: “ A Mrs. Park celebrated her
105th birthday lately at Cleveland, Ohio.
She has raised seventeen children. The
last Was born when she was sixty-five years
old, and she now enjoys good health, at
tends church regularly, is active, has good
teeth, ana improved-night, and her hair is
turning black. But she has an internal
cancer of fifty years’ standing.”
Local, ISTews. i
...... - . ~ T .
An Election Row in Barnwell.
- : 1 TWO MEN KILLED - ‘ 1 *
"ANOTHER MAN FATALLY SHOT.
FOUR MEN STABBED.
From information derived from a couple
of gentlemen Who were eye witnesses, and
who arrived in Hie city yesterday morning,
after coffins to bury the dead,, we learn that
a fatal and bloody rovy occurred at the
election precinct of Sleepy. Hollow, Barn
well county, S, C., oq Thursday. The oc
casion was the election of township offi
cers—selectmen, surveyor, clerk and con
stable. The Conservatives of the town
ship hail nominated and earnestly pressed
the claims of candidates from their party
in opposition to the white nominees of the
negro and scalawag combination, for these
several positions. The canvass had enlisted
the warmest feelings of the rival parties,
although up to the declaration of the elec
tion, no rupture had occurred.
From the particulars furnished us, the
difficulty seems to have has its origin and
progress as follows: When the votes were
counted, and it was found that the Radical
nomiuees were elected, Elmore Tyler, an
enthusiastic Conservative, who had been
thoroughly enlisted iir the success of his
ticket, exclaimed: “ Boys, we’re beat; I
don’t blame you, colored people ; I blame
you, white scalawags.” A. P. Woodward,
a brother of the clerk elect, Pickens Wood
ward, and who holds the position of clerk
in the store of Mr. W. 8. Royal, in thiscitv.
was present, and demanded » cl ° u o1 ’
Tyler’s so far as it applied to
his brother. At this juncture, Pickens
Woodward drew his pistol, when he was
approached by John 11. Hoi laud, who
wrested the weapon from his possession,
A. P. Woodward then drew his pistol,
which he discharged at Holland, the ball
taking effect in the stomach of the lat
ter. Tfie wounded man staggered off a
few feet and fell to the earth, mortally
wounded, lie was afterwards removed to
the house of 8. N. Green, about one hun
dred and fifty yards from the locality where
he was shot. He lingered, in great suffer
ing, until about twelve o’clock at night,
when he expired, and lus lifeless corpse
was forwarded to his family yesterday
morning.
The fight then became general, when
Wlll. J. Woodward, father of Pickens and
A. P., whipped out a large pocket-knife
and began an indiscriminate assault upon
those who were identified with the Con
servative party. Attacking Wyatt Tyler,
he inflicted a severe stab on the back part
of the neck of that gentleman. James
Tyler, a nephew of Wyatt Tyler, aud his
brother Joseph, also received slight wounds
from the knil’e in the hands of Woodward,
the former in the side and the latter in the
breast. With his thirst for blood not yet
satiated, and determined to inflict all the
damage which he possibly could with the
deadly weapon in his hand, Woodward set
upon Frank M. Green, and inflicted a
severe wound in his side.
At this juncture the father of Green,
John 8. G reen, Si 1 ., who was one of the
Conservative candidates for selectmen, ob
serving the danger to Avliich his son was
exposed, closed in with Woodward, whom
he succeeded in felliug to the ground.
While Green was pinning Woodward to
the earth, A. P. Woodward discharged two
shots from his pistol,, which took effect in
the left side of Green, causing immediate
death. Youug Woodward also fired. •• -»■
Frank M. Green,.wounding him in |IM|
hand. From the effect of this wound
Green fell, when his antagonist fired at
him again, but missed his aim.
Two pistol shots, fired by parties un
known, took effect in the back of A. P.
Woodward, producing wounds which, it is
thought, must prove fatal. All the parties
implicated in this affair were white, the
negroes present taking no part in the tight
on either side, but scampered off like rats
from a sinking ship. Indeed, so averse
’were they to having “a place in the picture
near the flashing of the guns,” that it was
with some difficulty they were persuaded
to lend their assistance in the removal of
the dead and wounded.
We are advised that the Woodwards
have not heretofore been classed with the
radical element, and that the affair turned
upon an issue of a local character, as to
the best means to defeat the negroes, who
had previously nominated candidates of
their own color. Mr. A. P. Woodward, of
Augusta; wholn we mentioned as a clerk
in the employ of Mr. W. S. Royal, is repre
sented, by those who know him best, as a
high-toned young man, having no affinities
with scalawaggery.
One View of Chinese Labor.— Any
quantity of letters are being written and
published concerning the invaluable quali
ties of Chinese labor, and the advantages to
accrue to the South by its iutroductiou.
We ccreeive that a majority of these missives
end iu this fashion:
“ I would like to make arrangements
with a company (raised for the purpose) to
ship them Coolies in lots to suit them. I
can arrange here with the Chinese mer
chants for any number, at any and at all
times. Arrangements can be made to land
them in any town, county or place desired,
and at very moderate rates. Let me hear
from you in regard to it at your earliest
leisure. If you favor the plan, just get the
comp'aiiy started, give me the agency, and
you will have as many Chinamen as you
wnt. in a very short time.”
The writer of this letter may be, for
aught we know, a most excellent person •
but the strong personal flavor of per
centage with which his correspondence
concludes, demonstrates that he lias quite
as much love for the “demnition cash” as
he has for the Pigtails.
A u Little Operation ”. Proposed.—
The following letter, says the Charleston
News, has been recently received by a
prominent merchant of this city. It is well
worthy of perusal, showing as it does the
unblushing rascality and boldness of the
New York swindlers:
.Dear Sin: We desire to inform you that
we have on hand about $350,000 in the liest
fifty cent stamps ever put on the market.
(“ Queer.”) They cannot possibly be detect
ed by the best experts. We would like a
personal interview if you can come on.
Then we could explain matters to better
advantage. S2O per SIOO is the price, and
if you desire to see a sample we will send
it for twenty-five cents. You can make
SIOO a day if you are sharp aud keep it to
yourself. Mum’s the word, and depend
upon it you can make more at this in a
month than you can at any other business
In a year. Be careful not to lose this. You
can get it all off at par, and detection is
impossible. Address plainly,
Dailet & Cos.,
No. 148 Fulton street, New York.
It is by no means Improbable that
“ Dailey & Cos.” have made like proposi
tions, and, perhaps, established an agency
in this city. We intimate this, that mer
chants and policemen may keep their eyes
open.
Hask Baljl Match.—The following
match came of between the Empire and
the Stonewall, the Empire coming of vie
tor 'by a BiW off 26 to 23. The following
is the score:
KOUmiH. I TON KWAI.L HOOKdIT
S, 1 ™' I .™ ,« * utu7T P ~ 17 4
Buckley i> 2 Mv«rs 2 b
Clarkhou... lb 3 O’Neal c 3
McAudrew* *V * Brenner.... p 3
Stuib. .. c, « Walton 3b 4
Tlioa. Parr, rs 3 You nit m »
Hookey.... ■■ 3 Steward.... rs 2
A. Parr....Jlf 2 C0hen...... If 3
Total 26 Total.’. »3
OutH 27 Outa 27
Umpire, W. E. Sweeny.
Scorers, Messrs. Cohen and Hollings
worth.
Recorder’s Court. —Recorder Crump
disposed of the foliowing cases yesterday
morning :
Anna Neese—Violation of the 18th sec
tion. Plead not guilty. Convicted, and
fined $5 and costs. To stand committed
until paid. . -
James Wilson, (col.)—Violation of 143d
section—peddling without license. Fined
$5 aud costs, or ten days on chain gang.
Dennis Willis, (col.)—Violation of the
18th section. Plead not guilty, and dis
missed.
John Harrison, (col.)—Violation of the
18th section. Plead not guilty. Dismiss
ed on payment of costs.
An Old South Carolina Newspaper.—
The Bainbridge Argus has been presented
by a lady correspondent, of Columbiana,
Alabama, with a copy of the Pendleton
Messenger , bearing date CTT >
1812 wK*-*' a circumstantial ac
count of the disgraceful surrender of Fort
Detroit, by General Hull, to the British
and Indians, the latter being commanded
by the noted Tecumseh, afterwards killed
by Col. It. M. Johnson. There is other
matter relating to the war of that day,
which discloses interesting incidents of his
toric note, calculated to transport the read
er, in immagmation, to scenes and days
long since departed.
A Huge Rattlesnake Skin.— Col. C. R.
Hanleiter exhibited to our optics, yesterday,
the skin of a rattlesnake six feet in length,
and which bore the impress of nine rattles
•and a button. We did not get the precise
diameter of his snakeship’s hull, but will
guarantee that it was fully as large as a
dyspeptic’s leg. This reptile was recently
killed oil a lot in the city of Brunswick by
Mr. J. T. Blain, who will lie remembered
as a former citizen of Augusta.
We hope that this is uot to be regarded
as a sample of the staple productions of
Brunswick.
• A Barber and Scavenger Fight.—
Yesterday morning, on Broad street, uear
the Lower Market, a negro barber, Dennis
Willis, addressed some very unpalatable
language to a negro driver of one of the
city scavenger carts, John Harrison. The
scavenger grew belligerent and made an
attack on the barber with his shovel, in
flicting a very light damage on the knight
of the striped pole. The police gobbled
them up and marched them to the Record
er's Court, in the proceedings of which
will be fouud the result.
A Cheap Way to Get Rid of Nut
Grass.— By reference to an advertisement
in another column, it will be seen that a
gentleman proposes to furnish, for the pit
tance ot twenty-jive cents, information by
which farmers and gardeners may get rid
of nut grass. The proceeds of the
.feription to secure this vecclptjtoMdß
aJm ~- -- ' ■"j 1 - 1 '"- 1
poor. A forfeit of SIOO will be^PPJ
cases where, the directions closely fougH
ed, this information does not result in the
total destruction o£ the grass.
Night Train on the Athens Branch.
—S. K. Johnson, Superintendent of the
Georgia Railroad, gives notice that, for the
accommodation of parties desiring to visit
Athens during the Commencement exer
cises, a train will be run on that branch of
the road every night, from the 29th inst. to
the 12th proximo, inclusive. This train
will connect at Union Point with the night
trains on the main line.
Savings’ Bank. —Attention is directed
to the advertisement of the Augusta Sav
ings’ Bank, by which it will be scon that
the -books will be held open for twenty
days from date for further subscription to
the capital stock. New subscribers will
be entitled to the same dividends as other
stockholders, if their payments are made
within this time.
Stealing A Plow.— James Jefferson was
before Justice Ells, yesterday morning,
charged with stealing a plow from Mr.
John Phinzy. The prisoner plead guilty,
and was sentenced to two months’ labor
on the public works.
Opprobrious Words. —TJios J. Vaughn
was before Justice Ells, yesterday after
n6on, charged with the use of opprobrious
and abusive words concerning a colored
woman, Julia Richards. Plead guilty,and
dismissed on payment of costs.
It is rumored that Turner will imme
diately institute a libel suit against J.
Clarke Swayze, making an article which
appeared in the last number of the Ameri
can Union the ground of action.
H. C. Merritt has been appointed Road
Agent of the Post Olfice Department, on
the Savannah and Charleston Railroad,
(Tom Charleston to Grahamvillc.
Wanted.— An experienced man is ad
vertised for by Maj. J. V. H.' Allen, chair
man, &c., to take charge of the work at the
stone quarry on the Augusta Canal.
New, Desirable and Cheap.— Messrs.
D..R. Wright & Cos. advertise a fresh arri
val of desirable goods.
State of Georgia, Richmond coun.
IY. —Whereas, Knvono F. Verdere.v applies to
me for Letters of Adniinistmt on on the estate of
H«nry PeLaigle, Hte ot said county, deceased :
These are, therefore, to die and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to lie and appear at my offlee, on or Indore the first
Monday in September next, to show cause, if any
thev h->ve, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under mv hand and official signs' ure, at office
in Augusta, in sa'd county, this 23d day duly, 1869.
’ BAMUEL LEVY,
Jy24 lawtd Ordinary.
OF GEORGIA, Richmond Coontt:
Four weeks after date Replication will lie made to
the Court of Ordinary of said county, for leave to sod
the Real Estate of John \V. R. Fago, late of Rich
mond eounty, deceased.
EMMA K. TAGS, Administratrix.
AOOB3TA, July Ist, 1869. jy2-law4
FOUR WEEKS after date application will bo
made to the Court of Ordinary of Richmond
county, for leave to soil the real estate belonging to
John j, Clayton, late of suid county, deceased.
ThU May 29th, 1869.
ANDERSON W. WALTON,
my 29-60 Administrator.
TWT'OTIOK.— Four Weoks after data application
will he made'to the Court of Ordinary of
Richmond county. Georgia, for leave to sell the real
estate of James U. Dawson, deceased.
ALFRED C. HOLT,
jy2l-2tn Administrator,