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©ltramcle sentinel.
WEDNESDAY MOKNINU. DKCRMRKK 30.
The Amateur Theatricals.
For the past few years, amateur per
formances, either musical or theatrical, for
charitable purposes, have, in a great meas
ure superseeded the old-fashined fairs,
etc , which were tor a long time so much
in vogue. Started in the large cities of
the North they have gradually grown in
public favor among us until not a single
season now passes without several of these
entertainments being given. In our own
city there have been five or six of these
performances, since the war in aid of dif
ferent charitable enterprises; and each of
them has proved a complete success, draw
ing large houses and netting handsome
profits. During the present season, though
there have been several concerts, we have
had no theatricals, save a few private
drawing room entertainments, which, of
course, came not under the notice of the
general public. A few weeks since, how
ever, in order to afford some relief to the
suffering poor of Augusta, several lady
and gentlemen .amateurs of this place con
ceived the plan of a dramatic entertain
ment, to be given during the Christmas
Holidays. Buckstone’s fine comedy of
Married Life and a pantomime, Sinwn’ »
Mishaps, were the pieces chosen,and night
before last the time appointed for their
representation- As the affair and its
praiseworthy object had been extensively
advertised, more than three hundred tick--
ets had been disposed of before the doors
were opened; the audience commenced ar
riving at an early hour and when the cur
tain rose at 8 o’clock, “Old Drury” was
filled, almost to suffocation, with the beauty
and elite of the city.
THE COMEDY.
In the comedy, owing to the sudden ill
ness of a relative, a lady cast for one of the
leading parts— Mrs. Lionel Lynx—the
jealous wife of the play, was constrained
to be absent, and the success of the enter
tainment would have been greatly marred
in consequence, bad it not been for the
kindness of Mas. T. B. Jenkins, who, at a
day's notice, undertook the difficult role,
and though of course unable to memorize
it in so short a time, yet read it with a
clearness of tone and justness of emphasis
as to reflect great credit upon herself.
The character of Mrs. Samuel Coddle,
the dashing young wife of a frigid and
nervous husband, was taken by Miss C. A.
Latham, one of the most beautiful of our
lady amateurs, and her rendition well do
served the applause with which it was
frequently greeted. Cool and sell-possess
ed; without any of that timidity and em
barrassment which so often spoil the best
efforts of unprofessional, she acted her
part with such truth and fidelity as to ex
cite universal admiration. She is evidently
possessed of dramatic talent of no mean
oruer, and had circumstances have thrown
her upon the stage for a support, would
have soon taken a place in the first rank
of the profession.
Mrs. Fred Younghusband is one of
those sweet, gentle, loving women, who
never say perhaps you are mistaken my
dear, permit me to do so and so for you
my love. Oh, no. She is a regular snarl
er, grumbler, growler, refractory and con
tradictory creature, who is always in a
perpetual stew and bubble. Miss Mary
Bacon did this part most cleverly. She
entered fully into the spirit of the piece,
arid acted it nobly.
The “first old woman”— Mrs. George
Dismal— ah personated by Mrs. 0. E.
Carr, was an admirable delineation of what
must be one d' the most difficult parts to
an amateur. It is certainly no oasy task
for a young and beautiful woman to suc
cessfully transform herself into an old and
sour-visaged dame, whose every action is
marked with that firmness and precision
so essential and soludrierous. Yet it was
done in this instance in the most hap
py manner. The lady has oortainly great
talent for this particular line, and with a
costume well gotten up, suiting the char
acter in every respect, was one of the stars
of the occasion.
Mrs. Henry Dove was the keeper of a
d^ardity^choo. 1 , who retired on her money
and inaVned her footman —an ignorant,
stupid cockney, iuto whom with
might and main to instill the customs of
genteel society, but her labor was in vain.
Henry did the best he knew how,no doubt,
but his skull was too thick. Henry’s early
impressions were ineradicable, and he was
always doing something stupid and boorish
to the horror and mortification of the staid,
dignified but eccentric Mrs. Dove, who
bore her afflictions throughout with the
grave composure eharaetcristic ofawoman
of her peculiar temperament and disposi
tion. Mrs. P. L. Cohen had the difficult
task of personating Mrs. Henry Dove, and
a difficult task it was, too. But every one
in tho large audience will cheerfully uccord
Mth. C. that meed of praise which her ex
cellent personation deserves. Her very
appearance, her manner, her movements
and her representation of the role through
out was such as to provoke the laughter
of tie whole house.
The character of Mr. Samuel Coddle was
personated by Dr. W. Stevenson. This is
a difficult role to perform and requires a
familiarity with the world, and tho men
and women that perform in it, to enable
the actor to have a proper and accurate
conception of his part. Mr. Coddle is, ap
parently, a frigid, nervous creature, oblivi
ous to everything but his own bodily suf
fering, while in reality Coddlo is a gay de
ceiver, sailing under false colors, basking
in the sunshine of the charms of the gay
and dashing Mrs. Coddle, who is uncon
scious of the true character of her deceitful
husband. Coddlo was unfortunate in his
first love. He wedded himself to a woman
he neither loved nor respected. He
married No. 2 while No. 1 was living, and
the fact ol committing bigamy did not seem
to rest easily upon his mind. But it is not
our purpose to give the story here. We
have to deal with the persouator. Any
person not knowing the occupation of Dr.
Stevenson would certainly set him down as
au exceedingly clever performer, one fa
miliar with the -stage and no stranger to
the foot-lights. We have seen him per
form on previous occasions. He under
stands his part; he has a proper concep
tion of the character; he has confidence,
there is no awkwardness about him, and
he always plays well his role. He did Mr.
Samuel Coddle, in our opinion, as cleverly
as it could be done by an old stager.
Mr. Liouel Lynx is the second character
in the piece. His wife, Mrs. Lynx, is like
a great many others of her six, a little too
anxious to learn the “ins and outs,’ - and
the odds and the ends, and, in fact, every
thing about her husbands business, which
he does not choose to tell her, and, as a
natural consequence, she gets jealous, and
then there is a separation and the devil to
play generally. But with all this Mrs.
Lionel Lynx is a good woman —the tine
points in her character being fully appro
ciatrdby her husband, who is, for the
time being, under a dark, cloudy, suspi
cion of conjugal unfaithfulness. But,
after awhile, the light and the sunshine
breaks the clouds and the darkness, re
vealing to Mrs. Lynx's the noble character
of her liege lord, whom she has so grossly
wronged, but which he so cheerfully for
gives, and thus restores peace and love,
where estrangement and enmity before
existed. In personating the eventful and
trying role of Mr. Lynx, Mr. John S. i
Davidsen had a somewhat difficulty task
before him, and it is not certainly giving
him more than dis due to say he did re
markably well.
The part of Mr. Fred Younghusband — ,
“an excellent young man, but addicted to
con‘radiction“ — was taken by Mr. J. J.
DoNOHOB, a gentleman who has already
won considerable reputation on the private
stage, and who, on this occasion, but added
to his former well-earned laurels. Perfect
ly at ease on the boards, completely master
of his part, and with a thorough perception
of the manner in which it should be per
formed, he executed it in such a way as to
leave nothing more to be desired. His per
formance evinced that he had bestowed
that study on the noble art of personation,
without which sucoesa can never be attain- (
ed, and had already acquired the great
faculty of losing his own identity and be
coming in appearance, word and gesture,
the character which he represented. He
was no longer Mr. Donohoe but moved aud
1 spoke Mr. Fred Younghusband ; and in
saying this we are convinced that we pay
him the highest possible compliment that
could be bestowed.
Mr. George Dismal and Mrs. Dismal
are two of the dismal characters thrown in
to make up the piece. Like dismal people
always are— Mr. and Mrs. Dismal are
fearfully morose, disagreeable and dismal.
But Mr. Dismal is the man we have set
out to speak of. Dr. F. J. Moses appear
ed as Dismal. He did dismal, talked dis
mal, looked dismal, dressed dismal, and
appeared fearfully dismal all over,
j Last, but by no means the least, comes
Mr. Matt O'Brien, who appeared as the
star of theevening inthe “funny” line— Mr.
Hen -er-y Dove - -an ex-footman, ignorant
indeed of Webster and Lindley Murray,
but abounding in native wit and drollery;
living in constant fear of “them eyes,”
yet Dover missing an opportunity of put
ting the audience in a roar of laughter.
While Mr. O’Brien is inimitable as a de
lineator of low comedy, he is well aware of
the distinction between wit and coarse
ness and never crosses the line which
separate the comedian from the buffooD.
His costume was en regie and heightened,
in no small degree, the general effect, and
we think it reflected additional credit upon
the other performers that they were able
to command their facial musclos in the
presence of so mirth inspiring an object.
Mr. O’Brien has certainly every requisite
for a fine amateur comedian, if we may
properly call him amateur, whose every
tone and gesture betrayed the professional.
THE SONG—“JUDITH.”
After the comedy, MissDantfobth sang
j “Judith” exquisitely. Miss D. has a
lovely voice, well modulated, cultivated and
under perfect control. She has appeared
: on two or three occasions of late for charita
ble purposes, and her vocal powers are
highly complimented and appreciated.
THE PANTOMIME
Was an entirely new feature in amateur
theatricals here, and constituted a most
agreeable conclusion to the evening's enter
tainment. The one selected was amusing in
tho extreme, and repeatedly brought down
the house. Mr. O’Brien as Simon ; Mrs.
0. E. Carr as Madame Brushwood-, and
Captain C. E. Morgan as Longitude,
were the three principal performers.
Mr. O’Brien kept the house in a con
tinual roar. In this, as in all other per
formances in which he takes a part, he
made a decided hit. His talent is versa
tile and exceedingly popular with the peo
ple of our city.
M as. Carr fully sustained in the pan.
tomirne her reputation as an exceedingly
clever and versatile actress. Captain Mor
gan, in make-up and acting, was a perfect
realization of the consumptive, love sick
1 student whom he represented, and the
audience were indebted to him for some
of the most pleasant moments of the evon
ing. In particular, the death scene be
tween himselfand Mu. O’Brien could not
have been given with better effect,' and we
kuow not which to admire the most, the
rigidity and immobility of Longitude or
the frantic efforts of the unlucky Simon to
resurrect, him. The piece was ably sup
ported by Misses Latham and Fargo, as
Pauline and C'aro.MßS. Butler, as Lucile,
and Messrs. Latham, Butler and
Donahoe, as Victor, Armand and Horace
the young Milliners and the Hussars.
The evening’s performance passed off in
the happiest manner, without a single in
cident occurring to mar the pleasure of
the entertainment. Good order was pre
served throughout and the conduction of
the affair entitles the managers to the
j highest commendations.
The pieces, taking them as a whole, the
manner in which they were put upon the
stage and in which the several characters
were cast and personated by the ladies and
gentlemen who took part in tho perfbrm
; ancc, reflect credit upon all; and wc take
this occasion to congratulate them upon
| the success which has crowned their ef
forts in behalf of a noble charity. Long
may they live to give such Christmas of
ferings to the r>onr and Bucb onfnrfoin
ments to the people of Augusta!
The Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany.
THE PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT.
W e present below the annual report of
| President Wadley, of the Central Railroad
aDd Banking Company, for the informa-
I tion of our readers. Ic is short, concise,
interesting, and touches upon all points of
j inportanoe. For a synopsis of reports of
other offioers, we have not room this morn
ing. Owing to causes set forth in this
report, the net earnings of the road have
not been as great as displayed in the ex
hibit made in 1867; and one of the reasons
for the act of strategy—the proposed pur
chase of the stock owned by this city in the
Atlantic & Gulf Road, by the Southwest
ern Company, can be seen. With regard
to the extension of the influence of the
Central Road, the report is fall of interest;
and we commend the whole of it to the at
tention of our readers. It is as follows:
Office C. R. R and Banking Cos. ofGa., 1
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1868. j
To the Stockholders;
The accompanying Reports from neads
of Departments for operating tae Road,
will exhibit clearly its transactions and
condition for the fiscal year terminating
on the 30th ultimo, and the Report from
the Cashier shows the result of our Bank
ing business.
It appears by these Reports that the earn
i? tfsof the Rod have beou 42,008,721 31
Ando! the Rank 60,459 49
Ft Road and B»nk amount jpg to 42.069.180 80
Kr m’hiadeduc
Ro-d expe, c*e« full kinds
| lUi-k expouseaof all kiudti 20,224 53
Leaving net 704,891 17
I This sum is appropriated as foil ws :
| I ter eat on Bonds * 54 950 00
Dividend in Joue, 7 percent 326,576 00
ttovoi .ment Tax on s me 16.333 80
Dividend this and «y, 5 per ceut 233 340 00
i Govermne t lux on s me n,667 00
Kent « f A. A iS. Railroad 73<0000
Kent ■ t E B- Railroad 14 00000
Paid f> r Bank in liquid* ion 27.191 11
To be pkid for K giueapurchased.. 7.50000
j Lo Ting a balance of * 233 2(3
Compared with the statement for the
year ending 30th November, 1867, it will
be seen that our Hoad earnings have fall
j en off $212,226 57, while the expenses
have been reduced only $73,075 31. This
decrease in our earnings is due almost en
! tirely to the reduction in our rates for
| transportation, which we have been obliged
to make in order to meet competition
from other lines ; while our expenses have
necessarily been nearly equal to what they
were the previous year.
Tho profit from our Banking 'operations
has not quite equalled those tor the pres
ent year, but the difference is no greater
than might reasonably be expected, ami
when taken in connection with tne advan
tage to the Company as a fiscal agent,
we have reason to be fully satisfied with
the result. The increase of our expenses
for this Department of the Company’s
service is due to an increased force which
it has been found necessary to employ in
order to meet promptly the requirements
of our patrons.
It is gratifying, notwithstanding this
reduction in our business, to be able to
make a statement showing our ability from
the year’s operations to pay dividends of 7
aud 6 per cent., in addition to the pay
ment of $27,191 lion account of “Bank
in Liquidation,” which is not a legitmate
eharge against the current business of the
Company.
There, has now been charged to this
account (Buik in Liquidation) since the
reorganization of the Road, the sum of
$512,27674, and as it is believed that here
after we shall be called upon for but little
more on this account, it will be closed by
profit and loss.
While it is unnecessary to enlarge upon
the Reports from heads of Departments
for operating the Road, it is proper to say
that your property has been substantially
improved during the year. The number
of engines shows one less than at the close
of last year, but their intrinsic value has
been enhanced. The number of cars has
been increased a little, while their condi
tion has been greatly improved. The
permanent way, or track, has been de
cidedly improved by the purchase of new
and re-rolling of old rails, paid for during
the year, to the extent of 2,705 tons; of
these there are about 1,707 tons of new
English rails ; 53 tons of steel rails, 896
tons of re-rolled rails, and 40 tons of Bel- ;
gian rails. This is rather over the esti- j
mate made in the report for the year end
ing 30th November, 1866, but taking the
two years that have elapsed since that date,
and the quantity has not averaged up to :
the estimate then made, and which ex
perience has since proved will be re
quired yearly to bring up the permanent I
way to an economical standard far trans- ,
acting the business now offering.
In reference to the general question of I
expenses for maintaining and operating
the road, it is hoped that some further re
' duction can be made ; and to this end the
best of all should be addressed, but ought
never to be carried to a point at which the
i road or its equipment begins to de
teriorate.
In the report of the Ist of December,
\ 1857, the Board adverted to an application
then pending before the State Legislature
for State aid to the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company, giving a synopsis of
1 the establishment of the railroad system of
Georgia, and pointing out the injustice that
such aid would work to roads that had
been built by private capital. Recent leg
islation, disregarding the injury to invest
ments by private capital and with the al
most positive certainty that the projected
lines cannot pay for years to come, if ever,
has given State aid to such an extent as, it
fully carried out, must very materially
damage our State credit and seriously im
pair, if not destroy, investments that are
now made, not oniy by private capital, but
by the State itself. Looking to the culmi
nation of this mistaken policy, the Board
at an early day saw the necessity for seek
ing business from a greater distance, and
with that view has, within the past year,
rendered aid to the Montgomery dc West
Point Road so as measurably to put it un
der the control of this company, and, in
connection with the Southwestern Railroad
i Company, have given assistance to the
Western Road, connecting Montgomery
| and Selma, by the endorsement of its
bonds, which will insure its completion
during the coming year. In consideration
j for this endorsement we have received fif
teen hundred shares, representing one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, of the com
mon stock of that company, which the
Board regards as intrinsically worth twen
j ty-fivc cents on the dollar. The South
western Railroad Company has also re
ceived a like number of shares, which gives
to the two companies control of that road.
With this gap of forty-four miles complet
ed, we shall have an unbroken rail from
■Savannah to the Mississippi river, at
Vicksburg, only six hundred and seventy
miles, which will be much shorter than
! any other from the Southern Atlantic
| coast, and, it is confidently believed, must
! contribute very considerably to the busi-
I ness of your road. In addition to these
; two roads, which it has been deemed wise
| to foster as feeders to our line, we have the
! Mobile and Girard Railroad also contribut
ing a very considerable amount of business.
| Under a resolution of stockholders in con
vention 20th December, 1866, the Board
has agreed to endorse the bonds of that
I company to the extent of two hundred and
j fifty thousand dollars. Os this amount
; there has been one hundred and eighty-five
thousand endorsed, and within the past
year it has been found necessary to render
further aid to this road in order to carry it
to a point about eighty-five miles from
Girard, and to complete the bridge at Co
lumbus, so as to connect it with the Mus
cogee, now the Southwestern Road. This
extension and the connection at Columbus
is absolutely necessary in order to render
productive the ‘investment that has been
made. This additional aid was asked
| during the past year, and the Board agreed
to make a further endorsement of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars upon condi
tion that one-half of the stock that has
been issued should be bona fide transferred
to this Company as security for the pay
mentof the entire debt. The total number
of shares issued by that Company to private
individuals and corporations is twelve thou
sand two hundred; and of these three
1 thousand four hundred and forty five have
I been transferred in accordance with the
; stipulations for the endorsement. By a
| recent letter from the Secretary of that
Company the Board is informed that active
steps will be taken to transfer the balance
necessary to a compliance with the require
ment of this Board for the endorsement
asked. While giving aid to extensions that
must largely increase our business, the
Board has kept constantly in view ultimate
security to our Company.
In addition to the rival lines of lload that
may be built upon the credit of the State,
there are other causes tending seriously to
impair investments that have been made;
i we allude tocompetition from lines claiming
a share of the business that is fairly tribu
i tary to your Road. The policy of such
lines is to offer transportation by a longer |
and more expensive route at reduced rates.
; This in turn obliges a reduction by the !
natural channel, and, in some cases, a ;
counter eouipetive rate, when the opposi
] tion will again reduce, so that in the end
' the line fairly entitled to the business must \
do it at an unremunerative rate, or lose it !
altogether. This policy is now prevalent I
and apparently popular with too many
1 roads of the country ; but why it should
be sanctioned by Stockholders whose in- !
terest is at stake, the Board is at a loss to
understand. The managers of Reads that |
persist in this kind ol' warfare are capable
of doing an immense amount of injury to
otherwise remunerative lines without in 1
any way benefiting those under their con- !
! trol. How far this policy is to be carried,
| or when it is to cease, tbe Board is unable
to predict; but it is easy to foresee the ut
ter ruin that must follow its continuance,
aud wo cannot oloao this Report without
(‘nforinpr nnr pvrstaot a«aie»et u pCmuy BO diS' I
astrous in its results.
The Hoard takes pleasure inagain bear- [
ing testimony to the zeal and fidelity with
which the officers and employees of the
Company have performed their duties.
Respectfully submitted,
Wm. M. WADLEY.President.
Georgia and the National Treasury.
The New York Herald of a few days
since, publishes the amount of taxes col
lected by the United States, from the ten
Southern States, for the fiscal year ending
on the 30th of last June. From this
statement we find that Louisiana contrib
uted the largest am0unt—56,943,948 —
and Florida the smallest—s 646,966 to the
revenue of the government. The next
largest sum was collected from Georgia,
who paid into the Trea-ury for the last
twelve months, despite of Congressional re
construction, despite Bullock’s manipula
tions of the State's credit, despite the
great obstacles arising from the want of a
settled government, tho handsome sum
of $5,545,958. She has contributed, lack
ing a fraction, over one hundred thousand
dollars as much as Virginia and the two
Carolinas combined; though Virginia, ac
cording to the census of 1860, had a half
million, and North and South Carolina
over a half million more inhabitants than
we have.
The question arises for the consideration
of the people ofthe North,.that if Georgia,
with all the disadvantages which she has
since the termination of hos
tilities, has been able, nevertheless, to give
so much to aid in carrying on the General
Government, what would she not be able
to do if allowed to conduct her own affairs
in the manner her best interests requires,
without being trammeled and annoyed by
; Congressional interference?
The Labor question at the North.
Some of the Republican journals at the
North are beginning to be uneasy about
the future adjustment ofiabor at the North.
They are alarmed at meeting tho very
question which their mad pertinacity and
fanaticism, forced by false appeals upon
the country, and the solution of which
now, in the plenitude of their political !
power, is demanded at their hands. 1
Forney, with his accustomed acuteness,
snuffs the impending danger, shirkingly
admitting that he is not “ sanguine ,” I
hopes, by “a pioneer effort,” to bring I
mankind back, at the close of nearly sixty i
centuries, to that standard of true brother- i
hood, devised by the first murderer to I
conceal his crime, by the insolent chal- j
lenge, “Am I my brother’s keeper ?” The !
Philadelphia Press, of the 23d instant,
thus submits the question and ingeniously
attempts to diverge from the true issue :
Suppose the wants of society to he met
icithout giving employment to as many of
our people as must buy subsistence with
their labor as a currency ? A moment’s re
flection will show that such a contingency
is possible. What we deem the grandest
triumphs in the useful arts accelerate its
advent.
A Scotchman, named Wallace, about
the middle of the last century published
some strange speculations, predicated upon
j “a limited earth and a limited fertility,”
where the suggestion is urged that the
natural increase of the human family
must ultimately exceed the capacity of the
' earth to furnish nourishment to support
life in such a multitude. The alarm seem
ed remote, if possible; but three-quarters
, of a century later the same thought, re
iterated by Maithus in his “Essay on
Population,” excited universal attention
among thoughtful men ; and the contem
plation of such an emergency, however
remote, was found to touch a part of hu
man nature from which few are exempt.
It would be a most startling announce
ment, did it seem to be predicated upon
facts, to say that this dread speotre was to
anticipate his coming—was even at our
doors, to wave the dark sceptre of famine,
through forced idleness, over a large por
tion of our people, and check the triumph
ant songs of the redeemed Republic with
: the wail of her starving children.
' What is it that alarms you like the
spectres after a night’s debauch, Mr.
Press f Surely it is not the progress of
the arts which you hold up as a blind ?
Can it be' that steam, with its appliances,
that the development of machinery and iti
powers, multiplying conven
iences and cheapening necessities, is “to
wave tbe dark 0 f a forced idleness !
over a large port's 0 f our people, and check
| the triumphant so 3 0 f the redeemed Re- j
! public with the w. 0 f her starving peo- |
pie ? . There is i “limited earth and
a limited fertility, f or ollr population,
j Millions of fertile lan i; e an( j waste
in the hands of the G- ernmenti stretch
! ‘ng far away from the n ey 0 f t h e Mis
sissippi to the Pacific 3aD| an d f rom
Louisiana to Alaska, ’he fears and
stress which stimulated hlthus to phi
losophic induction in politic economy do
not rest upon us. Two thonmj millions
of acres for a population of £f y millions,
a .population utterly insigteant when
compared with Europe to saj not hing of
teeming China. We have of. re ad and
raiment sufficient, and to spar, for ex
ports to supply the wants of rircign
nations. Chicago is the wheat markdef the
world, while San Francisco foreshadow for
the future no insignificance, and the buth
gives a surplus of more than two nrilons
of bales of cotton. Why, then, this dwel
ling and moaning, and lamentation abut
impending “famine” and the want of
the starving children of “the redeemed R.-
public?” Is it because the “National'
Government nourishes“forced idleness” to
a large army of tax gatherers and a larger
army of shoddy nobility, with its paper
promises and the huge income of eighteen
per cent per annum, and a still larger army
of stock gamblers and money rings, and
whiskey rings, and steamship rings, and
railroad rings, “outside of the Constitu*
tion?” Or is it because the huge tide of
European immigration is to be met with a
deluge from Asia of snail eating and rat
and puppy feastingChinese,with their Josh
gods and prayer-mills, under the encour
agement of Universal Suffrage and its con
sequent govermental control ? Or,finally,
is it because the whole power of
the government and the resources
of the government have, “for sixty
years,” been vonesntrated to devel
ope and maintain a “municipal civil
ization, to the depletion and exhaustion
of the farmers of the country, whose toil
supplied the staff of life and the tissues for
bodily protection, despite the teachings of
all his history, sacred and profane.
It is deeply to be regretted that this
“spectre” had not appeared to the editor
of the Press ten years ago- We are al
most inclined to meet him with sympathy
under his Cain like compunction, because,
confederate like in his contention, he
promises in future to labor to solve this
question “consistently with the rights of
the individual and the just limits of a free
Government,” “without bringing the
functions of the government closer to the
business relations betweenindividuals than
would be required to maintain that self
reliance and energy that we know con
tributes to the growth of individual ne
cessity, and the reward of self-denying in*
dustry.”
i Th e City of Savannah and the South*
western Railroad.
In Thursday morning’s Chronicle &
Sentinel we gave an abstract of the trade
between the above named parties ; to-day
we give the transaction in full as taken
from the Savannah Republican of the 24th
inst:
The City Council of Savannah met last
evening. Present, the Mayor and Aider
men Moyer, Hunter. C. C Miller, Villa
; longa, Burroughs, Wylly, Gue, Sims, A.
; N. Miller and Waring.
The minutes of the last meeting were
; read and confirmed.
; On motion, the order of business was
1 suspended and the Mayor submitted the
| following proposition for the transfer of
j certain stocks to the Southwestern Rail-
I road Company.
PROPOSITION OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
I The City of Savannah will transfer as
j follows :
I 12,383 shares Atlantic aud Gulf
railroad stock at par $1,238,300
307 shares Macon and Western
railroad 30,700
•424 shares Savannah aud Augusta
iailroa-1 42,400
1 share Southwestern railroad... 100
81,311,500
Aud tho parties assume tho following
bonds with interest :
A <fc G. R. R., duo 20 years $044,000
S. W. R. It., due 1 year 117,000
Aug. At Suv., due 2 years 174,500
$1,235,500
SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD’S ACCEPTANCE.
At a called meeiinfj of the Board of
n.roofcora kj i till; ODuiUviGOtu... it its
Company, held at Macon on the 18th of
December, 1868, the following resolutions
were adopted :
Resoled, That the company will under
take to give the gurantee required by the
propositions from the city of Savannah and
accepted on the part of William B.
Hodgson, Esq., for himself and others.
Resolved, That the President of the
Company be and he is hereby fully au
thorized and empowered to execute the
necessary papers to carry out the proposi
tions made to William B. Hodgson, Esq-,
by the City Council of Savannah, for the
transfer of its stocks relerred to in the
foregoing preamble and resolutions, either
as those propositions now stand or as they
may be modified and agreed to by him.
Resolved , That inasmuch as tbe City
Council of Savannah requires the endorse
ment of this Company’s guarantee by some
other corporation acceptable to the City
Council, for the payments of the interest
aud principal of the city bonds in con
sideration for the stocks to be transferred
and iu view of the greater interest of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company
of Georgia in the settlement of conflicting
railroad interests terminating at Savannah,
a committee, consisting of the President of
this Company, General A. R. Lawton and
Virgil Powers, are hereby appointed to
confer with the Board of Directors of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company of
Georgia, and invite that Company to join
with the Southwestern Railroad Company
upon just and equitable terms, in guaran
tee to the city of Savannah for the payment
of the interest and principal at maturity of
the bonds in consideration for the stocks
proposed to be transferred.
CONFIRMATION BY THE CITY COUNCIL,
On motion of Alderman Sims:
Resolved , That the proposition now sub
mitted for the transfer of certain stocks on
conditions named, be accepted and hereby
confirmed, and that the Finance Commit
tee be authorized to have the necessary
legal papers drawn, and the Mayor be here
by instructed to sign the sane, and perfect
the transfer; but it is now distinctly under
stood that the oily is not hound by its ac
tion to refrain from aiding any other lines
of railroad that it may deem worthy of such
support.
Ey-Governor Brown.—-We learn
that on the adjournment of the Supreme
Court last Monday Ex Governor Brown
started for Washington city to oppose
Bullock’s fraud.
OUR k WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
_
j [araciAL ejaßzspjNDXNCs or thb chboniclx a SMSnxmL.
Washington, December 22. —General
i Spinner, Treasurer of the United States,
whois considered oneof the ablest financiers
holding official position under the Govern
ment, has written a letter upon the subject
I ofthe resumption of specie payments, in
which he “lays low” the doctrines of
Greeley on financial topics, the vagaries of
Sumner on the same subject, and the theory
of Butler endorsing the postponement in
definitely of coin payments. He ridicules
Greeley’s idea that “the way to resumption
is to resume,” saying it would not bring a
drowned man to life to repeat ever so
often, “ the way to resuscitation is to
resuscitate;” and in speaking ofthe other
extreme of putting off the time for effort
indefinitely, remarks that “unless the sub
ject is treated in time it may be eternally
too late.” General Spinner is strongly in
clined to favor Senator Morton’s bill, but
prefers to see it amended in certain particu
lars. The letter is very long and compre
hensive of the subject, and in conclusion
remarks, “No one in or out of Congress,
whether of the press or otherwise, should
insist upon having his preconceived opinion j
adopted in all particulars. Friendly, calm
and fair discussion can do no possible harm
and may do much good. The attrition j
of mind against mind will proba- j
bly work out the problem in a satis
factory manner. Few great achievements :
are the product of a single mind. All who '
have the interest of the country at heart
should be willing to give and take, and so
this question will probably be settled not
the very best way that it possibly might, but
so as to be the average best judgment of the !
people. When so settled all interests !
must stand together strengthening and sup
porting each other. ’ ’
Genera! Grant might go farther and do
a great deal worse than making Treasurer
Spinner Secretary of the Treasury for his
term, but the latter is known to be posi
tively and decidedly determined not to
allow his name to be presented among
the hundred who aspire to that very im
portant office. J. C. I
OUR SEW TORE CORRESPONDENCE.
t r SCULL »0 TttX CHR >X CLE * BRXTINEL.
New York, December 21, 1868.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The times are so very bid that they are
iu one sense their best protection. When
one writes of them as they are one has to
write with such bitterness that many are
inclined to think it cannot possibly be so
bad as that, that the devil is not so black
as be is painted and so on. The truth is,
however, t-hst there is such rampant vil
lainy in Congress, such gross and brutal
malignancy in the Radical press and pul
pit, such shaneful degradation in the life
and thoughtaof those who plume them
selves that they are not “rebels” and
traitors even 3! Lord, as other men are,
that there naads a pen of iroa dipped in
concentrated gall to write you altogether
accurate letters from the North. The other
day I sad that it wa3 stated Sheridan's
“glorious victory” over the Indians out
West wa in reality a miserable butchery
of some por wretches who had come into
a governnent reservation od the pledge of
the Unitd States, and from the tone in
which tfl wrong was commented on it
might hav seemed to some that hatred »o
a Yankee General had guided the pen.
But lo! pu, not many days past before
there caie the full official letter whereof
your corripondent had had early notice, 1
and in tls letter it was set forth, with
date and circumstance, that the victory
was no utory but a horrid surprise and
slaughtepn unoffending red men.
The leon is not one to be lost. The
wickedne of those who, for some inscru
table puiDse, are permitted to hold the
reins of Site in this land, is simply ap
palling. -ave.that they do not venture on
bloodshed I do not hesitate, from all I
have heal and seen of this Congress, to
declare th it is mainly made up of as
ferocious id lawless a set of hypocrites
and scounrels as ever sat in the National
Assetnblyf France or the Praise-God
BareboneParliament of Eagland. And
yet they fik, these villains, of turning
back the gathering cry of repudiation
which is cbing up from the Northern
masses, bymtting tho guarantee of their
pledge to tfe debt. "Their guarantee, in
deed. Wr they arc plotting this very
moment th re-reconstruction of Georgia.
They meanto break the solemn pledge
they gaveju—that if their programme
wasoompleld that they should admit you
to represeihtion in Congress That it
wascomnktel thep declared by law on the
25th of June last, and yet now, because the
white race has, adany but a born idiot
might haveinow that it would do, leaped
at one bouad ovff all the restraints piled
on it to its positin of natural and inde
feasiole superiojty, they are to reconstruct
the State anew The writer has but one
word on that subject. On the very day
the first recontruction act was passed over
the veto, he hd the honor to present to the
people of Geggia, in a published letter,
his reasons br thinking the measure
a sham and snare. From that day,
to the time when, it became evident
that the pnple were " disposed to
act under it, md further opposition would
have seemed tetious, he steadily advised
and insisted Id absolute inaction. His
view was thatit never was meant by Con-
gress to permi any election on this sub
ject of reeoniruction to go against it,
that it had socially appointed officials to
cook up mantfactured majorities, and in
this pending scheme of reconstruction
there appeari a full justification of the
soundness of those views. Congress is
not to be trusted. There is no possible
pledge it maymake in this matter that it
will keep. Itpromised Alabama that if
the Constitution were defeated it should
not be forced upon her. Alabama did de
feat it and yetit was forced upon her de
spite both the pledge and the defeat. So
with Mississippi, which defeated the chain
gang Constitution and yet is to have it
forced upon her to the contrary notwith
standing. And so it is with Georgia I
solemnly warn you—and I write with the
very ful.est sources of political in
formation open to me—that if a
new reconstruction bill for Georgia
be passed you will not be allowed to defeat
it. You may vote it down but it will,
nevertheless, and for all that be declared
carried. There is but one thing to do that
can help you and that is to have a State
Convention, and in that to agree upon and
publish to the world a manifesto setting
forth the palpable violations by Congress
of its most solemn pledges to Georgia and
the South generally in this matter of recon
struction, and then, in such a manifesto,
embody a solemn resolution that, as Geor
j gia cannot trust this proven liar, she will
take no action whatsoever under the new
scheme—feeling assured if that action re
j suit in her favor it will inevitably be over
ruled—but does and will constantly protest
against the wroDg done her and neither
can, nor will, recognize in any way the re
reconstructed government as other than a
most wicked and gross usurpation. Such
a course will do good by its moral effect,
while nothing else will.
From contemplation of Congressional
I rascality it is pleasant to turn to industrial
topics and say that the wonderful material
I rncnnenition of tho.Souiii lo « » »-
j dwelt on in New York financial and com
| mercial circles. There is every reason for
saying that since the mabinc of the crop, i
a spirit of inquiry into Southern invest
ment has sprung up here that promises
the best result. As one evidence, the large
papers, which always keep fully alive to
the wants of their patrons, republish with
avidity anything appearing in the Southern
press on the industrial resources or opera
tionsofthat region. The ignorance here
as to what the Southern States really are
is something surprising, and hence this
eagerness for information, that it would be
well for the press ol these States to give
in much more liberal measure than they
do. The anxiety of their home subscribers
is so great to know what is going on at
•Washington and throughout the North is
ample reason for the large space given to
such information, but still some space
should be persistently devoted to home in
formation that might, by being republished
here, lead to investment from the North.
Your own paper, Messrs. Editors, I am
glad to see, pursues this wise course,
ana it would be a step further in the right
direction to editorially inculcate the pro
priety of like action in your contempora
ries throughout the South. Georgia, in
especial, is an object of interest, and there
are those here only too happy to give the
publicity of the mammoth journals of this
city to anything which sets forth her great
natural endowments and many material
advantages.
It has of late been quite cold here,
though not altogether so linclement, it ap
pears, as usual at this time of the year.
As one consequence of these nipping airs,
the fur trade is quite brisk, and a some
what noteworthy branch of business it is.
Years ago, the chief stores were very near
the south end of the Island, and while
here the late John Jacob Astor laid the
foundations of his immense wealth in one
of them. Os late years that portion of
Broadway,opposite the St. NicholasjHotel,
is the great entrepot, and in stopping this
morning into’one ofthe chief establishments
a very pretty spectacle presented itself.
Stuffed polar hears, black bears, leopards,
ocelots, sables, and so on, surround the
hall and between these grinning monsters,
depend, from enormous antlers, furs of
the most exquisite rarity and fineness.—
I Among them were the hides of the blue
fox,and even yet more beautiful pelts from
sly Reynard in the shape of the snow
white furs of the Arctic fox. Oae of these
animals is stuffed so that the full beauty of
the fur can be seen, and it would be diffi
cult to find anything more delicately pure.
Russian sables, fit for an emprosss, lion
skins, tiger skins, wolf hides, huge Arctic
bear skins—one of these fellows is as big
as a bullock—even down to the skin of the
sportive squirrel are here presented in ap
parently inexhaustible variety. One of the
most beautiful specimens is the ermine, a
little creature of the weasel tribe, white as
the driven snow with the exception of the
tip of its tail, which is of a jet and glossy
black. The price of all these wares i3, as
may be imagined, something enormous, :
and yet for muffs, tippets, cloaks, cuffs, j
and a half thousand other articles of fern- |
inine attire there are plenty of gay and !
festive dames to buy.
Greeley comes out in a two column and
a half letter in the editorial columns of the
Tribune this morning, addressed to Sen
j ator Morton, of Indiana, in reply to the
latter’s speech of some few days sines in
a plan for prospective resumption of specie
j payments. H. G. does’nt like this and
■ insists on an immediate resumption. In
the oourse of his letter he uncovers his ob
i jective point by saying that instead of pay
ing the bonds in greenbacks, what is
wanted is to put the greenbacks into bonds,
j his idea seeming to be that it you can’t
j pay the bonds in gold as they now are, you
can pay them when to their present re
-1 dundancy you add several hundreds of
millions more by funding greenbacks. It
i is likewise his idea that there should be
: consols put forth, to bear 4 per cent,
payable, principal and interest in gold,
and redeemable in a hundred years,
i Greeley’s financial ideas are laughed to scorn
1 by the monetary community as crude
and impracticable. The old fellow is do
ing yeoman service for repudiation. He
i insists on the pound of flesh, full coined
: gold, dollar for dollar, for the depreciated
money paid for these bonds, and this ob
stinate Shyloekism is rapidly convincing
many who were in fayor of something like
“scaling the debt,” that the loil bond
holders will consent to no compromise and
that the burden must, therefore, be thrown
off altogether. Success to H. G. in bis
present role .
The frequency of crime throughout the
North is so terrible at present that it has
even shamed the trooiy loil papers out of
their usual morning dish of Southern hor
rors. With half a dozen horrid murders,
rapes, burglaries, and forgeries under their
very noses every day, you see a bogus
Ku-Klux affray in some far off Southern
country presents a contrast that they do
not care to make. Even the Tribune is
a little ashamed of itself, and this morning
I see some fight in Arkansas put away off
in a corner when, if it had not been for the
bloodthirsty doings throughout the North,
it would have been put in a conspicuous
place and had a tearing leader on “Rebel
Barbarity” written upon it. As it is,
this same barbarity is a “leetle” ahead til
! the superior civilization just now and so
we-don’t hear so much about it.
It is pleasant to know that Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens is to lend the lustre of
I his great talents to the worth and learning
already illustrating the University of
Georgia. Let as hope that when untram
meled control of her domestic affairs is
given the State, as it must s<sme day be,
that there will be no more frittering away
of her educational resources on a swarm of
i little one-horse Horeb and Gilgal denomi
national colleges but that each religion
may maintain its own theological seminaries
at its own cost, and the higher educational
fund of the State go undiminished to the
University of the State.
As some eminent worthy has remarked
“things is working ” With her educational
institutions in the right hand and a good
“crop, the South can hold up her head
with the best of’em.
Tyrone Powers.
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
! L 9 P*C£aL OOBBEJPONDEXCB OF TOE CHRONICLE <* SENTINEL.]
Washington, December 21, 1868.
The following is a full and complete copy
of the hill introduced by Senator Edmunds
on the 18th instant, providing for the re
peal of so much of the act of June 25th,
IS6B, as provided for the admission of the
State of Georgia to representation in Con
gress, etc. :
Whereas, The Legislature in the State
of Georgia, elected under its new Constitu
tion preparatory to the restoration of that
State to its proper place in the Union, and
to the admission of Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress therefrom, has, in
violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, re
fused to purge itself of members who, by
said amendment, were prohibited from
being such members and from acting as
such, and has permitted and continues to
permit such members to act as such; and
whereas, a majority of the persons in fact
composing said Legislature has, ia violation
of said Constitution, and in violation of the
fundamental principles upon which Con
gress consented to the restoration aforesaid,
; expelled from said Legislature a large num
i berof its legally qualified members upon
the sole ground that they were persons
of African blood; and whereas, it
appears that the local authorities in
said State are wholly unable or un
willing to protect the lives, liberties
and property of lawful and unoffending
citizens of said State from lawless violence
and refra’n purposely or from want of
power, from bringing such offenders to
justice, whereby it fully appears t at the
people of the IState of Georgia have not
complied with the terms or conformed to
the principles upon which its restoration
was provided for, and that the government
thereof is not in fact republican or regu
lar : Therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled , That so
much of the act passed June twenty-fifth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,as relates
to the State of Georgia,he and the same is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the military government of the State of
Georgia heretofore provided lor by law be
1 and the same is hereby renewed subject
; to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
1 the Government organized under said new
Constitution of Georgia shall continue in
operation during the pleasure of Congress
' as provisional only, and the expulsion of
the members of said legislature here
- tofore had on the ground that
; they were of African descent is here-
L by declared null and void, and they
! shall be restored to their seats, and such
persons as may have bo n admitted thcre
-1 to shall vacate the same ; and no person
1 -.hall be permitted to hold a seat in said
; legislature, or auy office under said Pro
• visional Government who is disqualified by
‘ the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con
! stitution of the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That
the District and Circuit Courts in the
State of Georgia shall have concurrent
jurisdiction with the Courts under said
Provisional Government of all offences and
torts ; but such United States Court shall
not proceed therein unless the party in
jured, or someone in his behalf (when his
evidence cannot reasonably be obtained)
shall make oath before a judge or commis
sioner that justice cannot, to the best of his
belief, be obtained in said case in such pro
visional courts.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the President to
cause to be stationed in said State such
part of the land and naval forces as shall
be sufficient to carry this act into full
execution.
This act, which required unanimous con
sent for its introduction, was read twice,
referred to the Judiciary Committee and
x •* **'•' I’UIIICU. XtJ 111 ny VXJ IJUICVCU
that the Committee will report upon it,
probably, with some modifications when
Congress re-asse tables. One thing is sure.
The unseating of the negroes in the Georgia
Legislature makes the Senate angry, but
there is not the slightest distemper when
the House of Representatives put the cre
dentials of Menard, the negro claiming a
seat from Louisiana, out of the way with
amazing promptness, and practically tells
that colored aspirant for the title of
Honorable to go about his business.
Georgia is likely to afford a fruitful theme
for discussion this winter in both Houses;
only the time will be too short after the re
convening for anything of the sort. The
finances require more time than can really
be had before the 4th of March. J. C.
i communicated.]
To the True-hearted People of Georgia.
Again we come before you to plead the
cause of our unburied dead. As you may
know, the Legislature of 1866 made a
small appropriation, and appointed us
trustees of the fund, to bury the dead of
Chickamauga and along the line of Sher
man’s march to Atlanta, and to gather into
a common resting place the remains of
those who were not under the protecting
care of local memorial associations. For
this purpose the citizens of Marietta gave
us a beautiful site immediately on the rail
road, into which, with our limited means, 1
we have removed over twelve hundred
bodies. Hundreds still remain nncared
for in the neglected corners and roadsides,
and the battle-fields where they fell, to be
trampled by the beast of the field or turn
ed over by the plowshare. Another small
appropriation was made by the last Legis
lature —too small, however, to continue,
with any hope of success, so great an un
dertaking.
i _ The General GoveriHiient has spent mil
lions on the Federal cemeteries of Marietta
and Andersonville. The humblest colored
soldier who died in the FederJ servic has
a well guarded, beautiful and costly resting
| place, marked with slabs of purest mar
ble; towering monuments attest the grat
j itude of their Government, while our noble
I heroes are still left in silence and neglect.
; Shall this digraceful neglect continue, or
I can we get such aid as will enable us, with
| the opening spring, to place them all in
consecrated ground ? May we not beg the
aid of every Georgian ? Can they continue
1 deaf to the cry of their uncoffined dead?
i Will not their friends and neighbors and
I comrades, in the glorious cause for which
i they fell, see to it that their bones no long
! er moulder, uncared for on the hillside.?
j We ask not for graded walks, nor iron
j railings, nor marble slabs, nor Heaven
! pointing monuments. We know that
; Georgians will educate their sons to give
! all this in the future, but we do ask for
j them now an untrodden grave. Surely that
is little enough for the most lowly. Can
; it be refused to those loved martyrs, who
for our honor, our homes, our all that was
dear to us, risked their lives, and fell where
! brave men love to fall—on the field of bat-
I tie ? That our cause was lost was surely
not their fault, nor has defeat lessened our
I obligation to them. Then in the name of
| humanity, and in behaT ot Georgia’s
! honor, we appeal to you as Georgians, as
’ Southern men and women, to finish this
1 work, and to the people of every commu
nity in this State to remember these men
died in defending your right to worship
; God according to the dictates of your own
conscience, and we earnestly ask each PasJ
j tor to act as our agent in his charge to
receive and forward to us for this work.
As another means to the accompiish
; ment of this object, by our earnest solicita
tions, a small party of the ladies of your
I State, whole-souled,country-loving women,
have consented, for the benefit of this
work, to give a series of concerts in the
principal cities of the State, and thereby
aid to wipe out the record of Georgia’s in
gratitude, as it now stands forth in her
dishonored graves, and in the name of the
mourning hearts of the land we thank
them.
Mrs. Chas. J. Williams,
Columbus,
Miss Mart J. Green,
Resaca,
Trustees G M. Association.
A New Kind of Cotton.-—A variety
of cotton, called lace cotton, is being intro
duced in some parts of Texas, and is likely
to be extensively raised.
It is said to be superior to any other
variety for poor soil or uplands, having a I
strong, healthy growth, and yielding heavi
ly. Its strength is equal to a strain of
seven and a half pounds to each thread,
while a similar thread of the best Ameri
can cotton will lift only five pounds.
Those who have examined it say that it re
sembles Egyptian cotton, which is worth in
England a quarter more than American.
Good results are attained from a cultiva
tion'of this variety of cotton. If it is suc
cessful, it may quite generally supersede
the poorer qualities, and largely increase
the income of the Southern planter.—
Charleston yews. 1
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Geor-1
gia,
Delivered in Atlanta, December 22, 1868
FURNISHED BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME
COURT REPORTER, EXPRESSLY FOR THE
CONSTITUTION.
John B. Perry vs. Wm FI Hodnett—As
sumpsit—From Calhoun.
Brown, C. J. —l. A and B made and
delivered to C their joint and several prom
issory note, due twelve months after date.
I afterward, for a valuable consideration,
agreed with A, without the consent of B,
to extend the time of payment twelve
months longer. C endorsed and delivered
the note to D, after it was due, with notice
of the extension of time of payment. D,
after said time expired, sued A and B as i
makers and C as endorser, and obtained
judgment. B, who was then absent in
the military returned,, after the
rendition of judgment, and entered an ap
peal within the time allowed by the or
finance ofthe Convention of £865, and set
"up the defence that he was only a surety
for A and had, no-interest in the considera
tion of the note. A, who had entered an
appeal, died before the trial and was not !
a party to the “issue” on trial. Held, that ,
on the issue between D, as plaintiff and i
B as defendant, B was a competent witness
under our statute to prove that he was
only a surety to the note. In a suit by
A’s representative, after payment out of
A’s estate, against B for contributions, A
and B, who were parties on the same side
of the original contract, would be opposing
parties to the issue on trial, and B would
h? an incompetent witness.
2. The evidence that B was only a surety
and that C knew that A was to pay the
debt, was sufficient to sustain the finding
of the jury and the extension of time of
payment given by C to A, without the con
sent of B, the surety, released him.
3. A motion was made which the Court
agreed to consider in connection with the
record, to dismiss this case, on the ground
that the new Constitution of the State,
adopted since the trial in the court below,
denies to the courts of this State jurisdie
tion to enforce any contract, the considera
tio ) of which was a slave, it appearing from
the record, that the note in suit was given
for slaves, held that the judgment which
this Court pronounces upon the points
made by the bill of exceptions, render it
unnecessary to decide the question raised
. by the motion.
Judgment affirmed.
Lyon and DeGraffenreid for plaintiff in
error.
W A Hawkins for defendant in error.
Yeua Thomas vs. The State of Georgia- -
Murder—From Sumter.
Brown, C. J. —The bill of indictment
..oniained but one count, which was for
murder. _ The jury returned a verdict of
guilty of “involuntary manslaughter,”
whioh was received by the Court, and the
jury discharged. A motion was made in
arrest of judgment on the ground that
there are two grades of involuntary man
slaughter—-one punished as a felony, the
other by lesser punishment. Held, that
the motion should have been sustained by
the Court.
Judgment reversed.
W. A. Hawkins for plaintiff in error.
Solicitor General Parker for defendant
in error.
S. S. Boone ns. Wm. Siriene, administra
tor.—Equity—From Sumter.
Brown, C. J. —Two partners rented a
storehouse for.one year from 25 th Novem
ber, 1867, the rent to be paid quarterly,
and soon after dissolved the partnership,
and one of them continued the business on
his own account for a time and died. His
administrator obtained an order from the
Court of Ordinary authorizing him to
continue the business for the balance of the
year, for the benefit of the estate. The
widow applied for the year’s support allow
ed by law for herself and children, and the
appraisers allowed her $2,700, which was
made the judgment of the Court of Ordi
nary, and which left the estate insolvent.
Ihe other partner was also insolvent. The
'andlord filed a bill praying an injunction
against the administrator, to restrain him
from turning oyer the estate to the widow,
or otherwise disposing of the same tilt his
rent was paid. Held, that the dissolution
of the firm did not affect the right of the
landlord, as a tenant cannot, under the
statute, transfer his lease without the con
sent of the landlord; and the lease so far
as the landlord’s rights were concerned,
remained partnership property and forms
no part of the estate of the deceased part
ner till the rent is paid, and that the land
lord is entitled to his rent out ofthe pro
ceeds of the business done in the house, or
the stock in trade; for the time the ad
ministrator used the premises before the
estate is turned over to the widow of the
deceased.
Judgment reversed.
S. C. Elam, for plaintiff in error.
W. A. Hawkins, for defendant in error.
Pinny & Johnson vs. Robert J. Bowe and
Isaac Levy, Sheriff. Rule, etc. From
Richmond.
O nj-. ft T WIGU ,1 i
as the stay-law was considered in force,
the plaintiff in Ji fa. notified the Sheriff
that the judgment was recovered against
the defendant as bailee, which was one of
the excepted cases in the statute, to which
it did not apply, aud directed him to pro
ceed to make the money by levy. He re
fused to do so, and in response to a rule,
claimed that he was not bound to levy un
der the notice ; because the Ji. fa. did not
show on its face that the case was within
the exception. This was not a legal ex
cuse. He should have made the levy un
der the notice and left the defendant to his
affidavit of illegality or other proper
remedy, if the facts were not as stated in
the notice, and having failed to proceed
with the fi. fa. he is liable. Judgment
reversed.
Frank H. Miller by W. Hope Hull for
plaintiffs in eiror.
Hook and Carr for defendants in error.
Samuel Houston tw. the State—Burglary—
From Chatham.
WaRNB.r, J.—When upon the trial of
the defendant, charged with the offence of
burglary, it was proved that the parties in
possession of the warehouse alleged to
have been broken and entered by the de
fendant, were in possession of the same
under a written contract for rent or lease,
for a definite period of time: Held, that
this parol proof of the possession of the
•warehouse under written contract for lease
or rent at the time the alleged burglary
was committed as charged in the indict
ment, was sufficient to sustain that allega
[ tion without the production of the written
| lease.
Judgment affirmed,
j Hartridge, Jones'and Richards, for
i plaintiff in error.
| Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger (for
i Solicitor General) for the State.
; The Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Com
pany vs. John Riley et al —Equity—
From Chatham.
Warner, J.- This court will not con
| trol the discretion of the court below in
dissolving an injunction, unless there ap
j pears to have been an abuse of that dis
* cretion, in the violation of some principle
| of law, or equity, applicable to the case,
which the record in this case fails to dis
cover. Judgment affirmed.
Hartridge and Chisolm for plaintiff in
error.
Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger for de
fendants in error.
Robuck & Orr el al. vs. John Harkins et !
al. Bill for new trial—From Gordon.
Warner, J.—At the April term, 1867,
of Gordon Superior Court, a claim case
was tried during the first week of the court
(the court holding two weeks) when a ver
dict was rendered by the jury, finding the
land levied on, subject to the execution.
The claimant left the court, for Rome, on
business, intending to move for anew trial
in the case during the second week of the I
court, but he was taken sick, which pre
vented his return until after the adjourn
i ment of the court. The claimant’s counn
sel had drawn up a motion for anew trial,
but it was not offered to the court during
1 the term, and an order was taken in rela
tion thereto before the adjournment there
of. The claimant’s counsel, shortly be
fore the adjournment of the court, during
the second week of the court, left for his
! home, in consequence of sickness of his
; family, so that the motion for new trial
was not made at the term of the court at
which the case was tried.
On the 16th of October, 1867, the land,
so found subject by the verdict of the jury
was sold by the Sheriff, and purchased by
R. M. Young. In February, 1868, this
bi!i was filed for anew trial in the claim
case, alleging, as ground for such new trial,
various errors committed by the Court
upon the trial of the same. The defend
ants demurred to the bill, which demurrer
was overruled by the Court;
Held that the demurrer should have
been sustained by the Court, on the ground
that the complainant’s bill does not make
such a case as will entitle him to relief in a
j court of equity. There is no reason given,
why the complainant did not except to the
rulings of the Court on the trial of the
ciaim case within thirty days after the ad
journment of the Court so as to have bad I
the alleged erorrs corrected by this Coart, i
or why he remained inactive until after !
the land was sold by the Sheriff, before
filing hi« bill for anew trial. Beside, if \
he had exercised proper diligence , he
might have obtained all the relief which he
now seeks, under the provisions of the
3,668 th and 3.670 th sections of the Re
vised Code.
Judgment reversed.
W. H. Dabney for plantiffs in error.
Smith k Branham and J. W. H. Under
wood for defendants in error.
W. W. Whitlock et al. vs. Jane Vaun et
a?—Equity—From Thomas.
Brown, C J —.By the third item of the
will of' A. V. he gave to his wife during j
her widowhood, certain negroes and other 1
personal property, and about five hundred
and twenty acres of land, known as Lis
Home Place.” In case of her marriage
the negroes were to be divided into three
lots—she to 'ake one, and his two youngest
sons, each one share, and his said two sons
to take the balance of the property in said
third item, including the “Home Place,”
whieh"Vas to be held by their guardian
till they were of age. Testator afterward
sold the “Home Place” to K. for SIO,OOO
and took notes and gave bond for titles.
After this sale he added a codic.l to his
will, in which he expresses his purpose to
give direction to a “certain fund that he
shall have, ’ and recites the facts of the
sale of the “Home Place” for SIO,OOO and
directs that “said sum of money” be rein
vested by his executors in a plantation for
the use of his wife during herlifeor widow
hood, and if she should marry again, said
plantation to go to his two youngest sons,
as set forth in the third and fourth items
of his will. He afterward collected $2,500
of the purchase money, which he used, and
soon at'er died. The balance of the pur
chase money has never been paid, the title
to the “Home Place” remains in the estate,
and K. the purchaser, is insolvent.
Held, That there was an ademption of
the specific legacy to the extent of the
$2,500 collected aud used by the testator
before his death, and as there is nothing
for the codicil to act upon till the purchase
money due at his death (which is the
“certain fund” that was the object of it)
is collected, the codicil, made under a mis
take, did not revoke the will, as to the
borne place ; and that, the widow and the
two youngest sons take it under the third
item of the will. But should the purchaser
at a future time pay the balance of the
purchase money and interest, and compel
a conveyance of the land, the codicil will
then attach to the fund, when so paid in,
and it will be the duty of the executors to
invest it in a plantation for the widow and
children, as directed in said codicil.
Judgment reversed.
A. B. Wright, J. L Seward and
William Dougherty for plaintiffs in error.
A. D. Mclntyre for defendant in error.
Miles G. Dobbins vs. A Porter et al. —
Equity—From Chatham.
McCay, J.— Where a bank made an as
signment of its assets tor the benefit of its
creditors, and a large portion of the assets
was in money at a market value, and a
creditor, nearly twelve months after the
assignment, filed a creditor’s bill, charging
that six months after the assignment, and
again shortly before the filing of the bill,
he had demanded his share of the cash
assets from the assignees and they had re
fused to pay him unless he would release
the bank from the whole of his claim, and
the bill prayed an account; Held, that the
bill was not demurrable. If there was
complication or cause for further delay, it
ought to be set up by way of defence, it
oannot be assumed. *
Judgment reversed.
W. Dougherty tor plaintiff in error,
Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger for de
fendant in error.
The Mayor and Alderrn-n of Savannah vs.
Miles D. Cullens and wife—Case from
| Chatham.
McCay, J.—A municipal corporation,
theowner of a Market, the stalls of which
it rents, is bound to keep the pavement in
front of the stalls in a safe condition, and
if a citizen of the corporation is injured,
through a ■ neglect of this duty by the
officers ofthe corporation, the corporation
is liable to the extent of the injury re
ceived.
Judgment affirmed.
E. J. Harden, by the Reporter, for
plaintiffs in error.
Thos. E. Loyd for defendants in error.
I J. J. Pierce vs. Thos. Morgan, Survivor,
of E M. Bruce & Co.—Equity~--From
Richmond.
McCay, J. —Equity will not entertain
jurisdiction for a tort, as such, except to
j prevent it.
When A, a warehouseman, files a bill
against Bard C, partners,also warehouse
men, alleging that they, as factors for D,
had, in conjunction with D, illegally got
possession of certaiu cotton which had been
stored with A by various parties, and haa
removed it out of the State, to be sold on
D’s account, and prayed that B and C be
j enjoined from paying the proceeds to D,and
j that they be decreed to account to A tor
the value of the cotton: Held, that this is
a bill for account and that the true owners
of the cotton, A’s principals, ought to be
made parties to the bill.
2. Equity requires all parties at interest
within the jurisdiction to be parties »o a
bill. When a bill is filed against B and C,
partners, who are both served and answer,
the bill paying an account, and one of the
partners dies : Held, That his personal
representatives must be made parties to
the bill, unless it affitmalively appears that
he died non-resident, aud that there are no
effects in the State in which his estate has
an interest.
When a bill is filed against a partner
; ship, aud after both have answered, one of
j the firm dies, it is not error to permit, be
-1 fort parties are made, an amendment cor
j -I—» «* inlontnncir io I lie CUT! St I ail
| name of the deceased partner.
When a suggestion is made cf the death
| of the party and entered on the Judge’s
; docket, it is not error, even after judgment,
! to allow the entry to be made, nunc pro
tunc, on the minutes- It is only the cor
rection ofthe neglect of the clerk.
It is the duty of the clerk to transcribe
into the minutes all the eutries on the
Judge’s docket, showing action on the
cause, when the action does not otherwise
| appear on the minutes.
Judgment affirmed.
Walton & Shewmake for plaintiff in er
ror.
Johnson & Montgomery for defendant
in error.
Helen Western.
This actress, who died in Washington a
few days ago, will have many tears shed
for her by those whom she has helped in
their troubles, as she went on her queer
career in life. She had natural gifts,
some cultivation and an imposing appear
ance. She made a mark in a certain line
of the sensational drama. Poor woman!
She was literally dying, as it now seems,
when she played here a week or so ago.
A more pitiful sight than was that of her
then struggle with evident decay surely
never has been witnessed by the public
eye. She should have been in her bed,
with physicians’ care (which she had) and
a nurse by her side, when she preferred to
brave danger and criticism and misappre
hension by remaining at work till the end
came! Her life and death are a sad sto
ry. We have no business with the private
lives of actors. It is their art alone which
we have the right to consider. But now
and then comes a fate to point a moral
and to warn the younger members of that
profession against indulging too far the
wild tug of the very best emotions and
sentiments of which our natures are pos
sessed. Lola Montes and the Menken, for
example, were not by any means bad wo
men. Like all the rest of the world, good
and bad were mingled in them. But they
were “out of joint”—unweeded gardens, j
undisciplined, rudderless, tost here and j
there by impulse, neveranebored for a mo
ment after their voyage began on the
stormy sea of wretched human life. Men
and women whose lots are cast in pleasant j
places and whose souls are strangers to the
fierce passions that fairly rage in the breasts
of such unfortunates, can never compre
hend the tempest driven lives of such peo
ple.- Well, indeed, did poor Burns say
that few know what’s resisted. All of-folly
or sin that is committed lives in letters of
brass. Poor Helen Western! If we can
not praise, we will not blame her. She
has her credit side with the awful Judge of
all. Our debts may not be her debts, but
which of us does not dr<-ad the great ac
count, when the Book shall be opened ?
National Intelligencer.
A Heartrending Occurrence.
Yesterday afternoon, at the corner of
King and Liberty streets, a heartrending
! incident occurred, which, for a while,
‘ created the most intense excitement. Mrs.
O Jjorn, the wife of the photographer who
! keeps an art gallery over the store of Miles
1 rake, Esq., was so severely burned by
j kerosene oil that her life is despaired of
She had been laboring under mental aber
ration for several days, which developed
: itself more seriously yesterday afternoon,
when she procured a large C3n of kero
sene oil and emptied it about the gallery,
and then applied a match to theioflamma
ble substance. Mr. Osborn was several j
rooms off. and ignorant of her strange ac
tions, until she came rushing into his j
apartments enveloped in flames. Seeing
her alarming condition, he immediately j
drew a linen counterpane off a small bed
near by, and tried to subdue the fire, but
: all to no avail ; he then rushed into the
1 front room and seized a couple of blank-
ets, and tried again to smother the flames
now fast consuming the clothes of the suf
fering lady. He succeeded in arresting
the flames, and, on removing the blankets,
her clothing dropped off in fragments and
cinders. Drs. Davega and Fitch gave their
early attention, and on examining her she
was found to be fearfully burned, and bad
to be put under the infl pence of anodynes
to allay her terrible agony. She was wrap
ped in a blieet of sweet oil, and other
remedial agencies applied. Notwithstand
ing every effort has been made to save the
sufferer, it is thought she cannot re
cover.— Chariest on News, VJth.
Georgia Air-Line Road —A few days
ago we in-jt Col. A. S. Buford, President
of the Georgia Air-Line Railroad Ctmpa
ny. Col. Buford has secured from \ ir
ginia (his business headquarters being in
Richmond) IIOO.UOU of subscription to the
stock, and hopes before long the amount
of $400,000 more will be secured, and with
this amount he will commenoc the work
and finish and equip twenty miles from
Atlanta ; and then the road secures the
benefit of the aid granted by the State
Government. He is confident that about
ninety miles from Atlanta to Anderson, ir»
imr canit-.l e bc ‘2° difficulty in seeui
baiance of the road fJorf 1 A° ?“ lsh thc
Charlotte, North Carolina Tiu Dd< oi SOD i l °
fotte? °No I rfh n CaroUna A ro“‘ a ‘“.Char-
Northeast Georgia info i hron « h
and North Carolina, through’
the base of the Blue Ki lim or A se “ tl °i , . at
Range of Mounfains, thus
shorter line oorthward fr“ u ”h e So.nf
tic S coast oldl Wh a e de /h OUr toWard the A"an
ofrailwavsmr e " the conteu >Plated lines
netTt will h? “ re 5 0tDf)le ted, com
petition will be great, and our peoDle can
enjoy cheap f are f„ r travel and cheap
freights.— Macon Telegraph. 1
F)B THE OHB3XICLS A SENTINEL,
Correction.
Messrs- Editors .- I n the article which
you were ktnd enough to publish for me
on Wednesday last, there occurred a typo
graphical error, which, as it takes away
ajl the point of what was said, I beg leave
to correct. In speaking of the endowment
ot Mercer University, after mentioning
that we held some State bond, aud various
other assets, I stated that, in addition to
these, we held about eighty thousand dol
lars ol the llailroad capital of the State
rhe printer, by oversight, left off the last
letter of the word eighty, thus reducin' the
amount to the comparatively iusignidcant
sum of eight thousand dollars. "As the
very object of tny statement was to show
that we are not in such impoverished con
dition as has been represented you will see
the importance of correcting an error
which nilght otherwise have been trivial.
Very respectfully, your nb’t sv't,
Henry 11. Tucker.
fiercer University, Dec. 25, 1868.
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
South Georgia Conference-—Appoint*
meats Tor 1860.
Albany, Ga. December 22,1868.—The
South Georgia Conference clo-ed its second
session, held in Albany, Ga.. Monday night.
The Conference was well attended by
ministers and laymen. The ses.-ion was,
perhaps, the most pleasant ever held in
the State, aud the kind people of this
growing city will long be remembered by
the members of this body. •
. Surely, the services of the Sabbath will
never be. forgotten by those whose good
fortune it was to hear the sermons of
Bishop Andrew, at 10; a. in., Dr. L,
Pierce, at 3 p. m., and Bishop Pierce, at
night.
Next Conference to be held at Cuthbert,
Georgia.
I herewith send the appointments for
1869. . j. B S.
Savannah District—Jos W Hinton
P. E.
Savannah. Trinity—Geo G N M tcDonell.
Wesley Church and City Mis ion—D D
Cox.
Springfield—Wm M Watts.
Sylvania—lt H Howren.
Beaver Dam Mission—to be supplied.
Alexander and Bethel—S S Sweet, L A
Darsey,*
f Waynesboro—N B Ousley,
1 Milieu Mission—tube supplied.
J Louisville—R F Evans, J T Johnson.'
1 Gibson—Wm M C Conley.*
Washington —C J Toole.*
Sandersville—T B Lanier.
Davisboro Circuit—S G Childs.
Macon District—u It J ewett, PE.
f Macon, Mulberry St—J S Key.
: J “ City Mission—James Jones, J
j I “ W Burke.
I “ First St —J Blakely Smith.
Jeffersonville—R W Flournoy,
lrwinton—W Lane.
( Gordon—C W Smith.
1 Ocmulgee— to be supplied.
Hawkinsville, Mission- W F Robison.
Pulaski and Wilcox--to be supplied by E
A Birch.
: Fort Valley—E AII MoGehee. ‘
i Perry—W Knox,
j Ilayneville—W W Stewart.
| Montezuma and Vienna—James Harris,
j (Swift Creek Mission—Ja&es Spence.*
| Macon Circuit— W C Bass.
Knoxville Mission—James Dunwoody.
W F College—J M Bonncll, Pres’t, C W
Smith.
VV F College—W C Bass, Professors.
Editor Southern Christum Advocate —E
H Myers.
Coulumrus District—lt B Lester, PE.
f Columbus, St Luke—Jas E Evans,
j “ St Paui—A M Wynn.
| Girard and Wesley Chapel—J RL’ttle
l john.
Mucogee—S D Clements,* one to be sup
plied.
Pleasant Grove—B E L Timmons.
Butler—lt F Williamson.
Cedar Creek—W W Tidwell.
Taibotton —T T Christian.
Talbot—lt J Corley, II P Myers.*
Hamilton—W A Parks.
Lumpkin-- -D It McWilliams,
f Buena Vista-- -Geo T Emory'*
(Juniper Mission----to bo supplied.
Cusseta—D 0 Driscoll, Y F Tignor super
numerary.
Florence—S R Weaver, Henry C Fen
tress. *
Americas District—J B McGehee, PE.
Americas—lt W Dixon.
Bethel—M A McKibben.
Magnolia Springs—J M Marshall.
Starkvil e Mission—to be supplied by T L
I Speight.
I Cuthbert and Georgetown—J O A Cook.
Spring Vale Geo S Johnson,
j Dawson—B F Breedlove.
Terrell —C A Crowell,
Weston—J W Mills.
Oglethorpe and Ellaville—E J Itentz. ♦
f Albany—H D Moore.
1 Flint River Mission—Hastings Pucket.*
Bainbridoe District-Geo C Clarke,
P K
I Bainbridge -A J Dean.
Decatur—W M D Bond,
j Spring Hill—J T Ainsworth.
| Thomasville —J M Austin.
I Camilla—W S Baker,
j Ocklocnee Mission—P C Harris. One to
be supplied
| Morgan—C K Brown *
j Colquit— to be supplied by D C Stanley,
j Spring Creek Mission—to be supplied bv
W M Russell.
Trinity and Blakely—Geo L W Anthony,
f Fort Gaines—B J Baldwin.
1 Grooversviile—J \V Talley.
Brunswick District -J VV Simmons
PE.
I Brunswick and St Mary’s-C A Fulwood.
; Centre Village—J L Williams.
| Waynesville—J M Potter.*
: Waresboro—W T McMichael.
Doctor Town Mission —W M Kennedy.
Ilolmesville—To be SuDplied.
Ocmulgee—A P Wright.*
Coffee—To be supplied by E B Finley.
Stockton—J D Maulden.
Valdosta---J M Ilendrey.
Quitman—o LSmith.
Morven—J J Giles.
Moultrie Mission- M H Fielding. ,
Berrien and Irwin Mission - To be supplied i
by N Talley. J
j Altamaha District—L P PaVne, P uM
j Hincsville- -J K Sentell.
j Darien and Mclntosh—W M Hayes. *
I Bryan Mission—to be supplied.
Statesboro—to be supplied by D Roberts.
Swainsboro—N D Morehouse.
: Dublin—J J Morean.
Oconee—C 0 Hines *
j Jacksonville—J G Worley,
! Reidsvilie—D Crenshaw.
Altamaha —D G Pope.*
Professors in Emory College—J O AClaik,
I T Hopkins.
Agent for Emory College—F F Reynolds.
Sunday School Agent—L Pierce.
Agent American Bible Society—R II
Luekey.
S Anthony—Superintendent of Colored
People.
James A Wiggins transferred to the
Florida Conference.
Geo Bright—transferred to the Missouri
Conference.
C P Jones—transferred to the St. Louis
Conference.
John P Duncan —transferred to North
Georgia Conference, and stationed at
Dalton.
John II Harris—transferred to North
Georgia Conference, and stationed at
McDonough.
*Deacons or Licentiates.
Burning of a Church.
Hartford, December 24, p. in.—The St.
Johms Episcopal Church at Waterbary
I was burned to-day—loss one hundred
thousand dollars.
Funeral of Francis McNeil.—The
funeral of this useful and highly respected
j colored citizen was attended yesterday by
about four hundred of our best white citi
j zens, and by the g.- •na.s >1 the respect*-
, ble colored people ui the cay.
Avery able, appropriate and eloquent
sermon was delivered on the occasion by
Rev. S. Landrum, Pastor of the Baptist
j Church.
The following gentlemen acted as pall
, bearers: Alderman G. W. Wylly, Mr. Mc-
Nulty, Henry 11. Christian, Dr. Smith,
Captain George A. Mercer, and Col. Win.
M. Nichols. The procession was formed,
and besides a long line of carriages, the,
remains were followed to Laural Grovq
j Cemetery by more than one hundred whit*
i citizens on foot.
The deceased was an industrious, hones
and intelligent colored man, and exercise
an extended influence over his colord
brethren. He was President of a colord
Conservative Club, and did more, perhajs
than any other man, white or colorcduu
this section of the State, to disabuse no
minds of the colored pesple and expose he
trickery, fraud and a
set of men who have come amongst (is,
since the war, for the purpose of obtainr.g
office by the votes of the colored men.
The entire expenses of the funeral were
borne by the Democratic Executive Com
mittee, and tho numerous attendance by
our most influential citizens, was a splendid
testimonial of the respect and appreciation
of the character of an honest colored man,
entertained by tho people of the South
Savannah Republican , Dec. )9,