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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN’Y 31.
ANOTHER RADICAL FALSEHOOD
EXPOSED.
A report has been going the rounds
with Northern and Western Radical
newspapers to the effect that marked
discourtesy was shown to Messrs. John
son and Stanberry, counsel for the Ku-
Klux prisoners, while in Columbia at
tending those trials.
Mr. Stanberry was, upon his return to
Ohio, interviewed by a reporter of the
Cincinnati Gazette (Radical), and prompt
ly pronounced the whole story as utterly
unfounded. He said that Mr. John
son and himself received in Columbia a
warm welcome from the citizens of that
place, and that frequent and warm ex
pressions of grateful appreciation of
their personal and professional services
in defense of the persecuted victims of
the Ku-Klux act were tendered to them.
Mr. Stanberry also stated that their
reception in society was all they could
have desired, and that a public testimo
nial in their favor was tendered and
pressed upon them by the citizens, and
declined by himself and Mr. Johnson, j
who found themselves too much ooou- I
pied by their business to admit of the
acceptance of such social pleasures. %
Thus has this widely disseminated j
falsehood been exposed, and the people
of Columbia relieved from the slanders
attempted to be put upon them.
ANOTHER GOOD APPOINTMENT.
The elevation of Judge Warner to the
seat of Chief Justice of the Supreme i
Court is a fit and well-deserved tribute |
to the honesty, faithfulness and legal j
ability of this truly great and venerable i
lawyer and jurist.
Judge Warner was removed from the J
position of Chief Justice, in 1868, by i
the miserable reconstruction government j
of this State, to make way for Joe i
Brown, the Loyalist, and to soothe gen- |
tie Joe in his defeat for the United
States Semite. Even the better class of j
Radicals felt so keenly this unmerited j
treatment of Judge Warner, that Bui- j
lock was compelled to appoint him Asso
ciate Justiee to secure the ratification of
Brown’s appointment as Chief Justice.
Through the earnest solicitation of a
large number of leading citizens, Judge
Warner was induced to accept this mi-1
nor place on the Bench, and the Bar and j
people know the important servioe he
lias rendered in checking and controll
ing the Radical tendencies of the Bench
of which ho was an Associate.
We know that, by the unanimous voice
of the honest people of the whole State,
this nomination will be proclaimed one
eminently “fit to be made,” and that
the return of the Nestor of the Bar to
the high and responsible position of
Chief Justice will be heralded as the
dawn of a better day for parties litigant
in our courts of justice.
Wo congratulate the Judge upon his
well-deserved honor, and trust that he
may long livo to enjoy it, and to serve
the State, as of yore, with “ Wisdom,
Moderation, and Justice.”
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
A rumor has obtained among our rail
road magnates to the effect that a New
Y'ork “syndicate” (we believe that this
is the true use of the Secretary of the
United States Treasury, Mr. Boutwell’s,
word for money ring) has purchased a
controlling nterest in the South Carolina
Railroad (Augusta and Charleston) Com
pany. This rumor, which has been whis
pered or given in “ strict confidence” for
a week past, now comes to us in such an
authentic shape that we can no longer
discredit it. The details are no longer
wanting. The head or chief of the syn
dicate is named—-the well-known banker
and ship-owner, Moses Taylor, of New
York city. The interest purchased is
specified—one million of dollars. The
price paid for the stock is given—the
price current, or thirty dollars per share.
The associates, some of the leading cap
italists of New Y'ork city, all of whom
are directly or indirectly in the coastwise
trade by steamships, aro given. The
amount of details are such as to set aside
every objection as to probability, and
warrant all confidence as to the truthfuF
ness of the transaction.
Now we ask what does this mean ?
Here is a combination of strong and sa
gacious men and merchants. Mr. Moses
Taylor, the chief of the “syndicate,”
is a large ship owner, but at the same
time is reported to hold a very large in
terest in the Georgia Central Railroad
Company —owniug, we are told, mens
than one million of dollars in the bonds
and stock, and largely interested in the
steamships connected with that line. The
Central Road and the South Carolina
Road are rival lines, having rival out
lets at rival seaports—Savannah and
Charleston. The mere suggestion of a
money speculation is insufficient for the
solution of this move of Mr. Moses
Taylor and his syndicates. The pur
chase of the stock in the South Caro
lina Railroad is deubtless just such
a speculation, as would command an
investment by capitalists, but it is
such a speculation, under ordinary cir
cumstances, as would involve, to makt
it profitable, a fierce rivalry with con
tending lines ; and not a speculation
which would call for the fusion of railroad
interests with large outlays of money
In our opinion we must look for a satis
factory solution, in other motives and
in other designs. These we are led to
believe lie in the antagonism which ex
ists between New Y’ork on the one ham
and Baltimore and Philadelphia on tin
other.
The great objective point of the great
commercial centries of the North are
Southern trade, and the command of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
It is well known to our people that
the “ syndicate, known as the Penn
sylvania Central," has been active and
sagacious in their investments in South
era roads, and it is equally well known
thatthis “ syndicate” looks wholly to th<
interests of Baltimore and Philadelphia
This “ syndicate” controls railroad
lines, cheaply purchased and economical
ly worked in Virginia, North Carolina.
Tennessee and Alabama. They art
building an Air-Line from Charlotte.
North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia.—
Very recently this company has pur
chased a controlling interest in the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road,
and now ran their cars through from
Richmond and Norfolk to the city of
Augusta.
Again, we learn that the Pennsylvania
Central syndicate has endorsed the bonds
of Mahoue's consolidated roads, extend
ing from Norfolk to Bristol, Tennessee
that these may extend their connections
to the Mississippi River, and ultimately
to the Pacific Ocean, and that London
and New York capitalists are to advance
the funds required for the purpose. —
Whether Mahone proposes to reach the
West solely through Louisville or St.
Louis, or will scale the Cumberland range,
making Maney’s Central or the Memphis
and Charleston Roads parts of his line, is
not yet known. In any event, Mahone is
to have an abundance of money. Scott, of
the Pennsylvania Central, having paid
51, 000,000 for 10,000 shares—a control
ling interest—in East Tennessee roads,
and having furnished Mahone, it is al
leged, with facilities for money-getting,
it is probable that the latter, in con
junction with Scott, will seek a route to
the Mississippi, either over Scranton’s
Chattauooga, Meridian and Vicksburg
route, or over the Memphis and Charles
ton Road to Memphis.
Here we think we find the key to the
true solution. Baltimore and Philadel
phia combine through Norfolk : New
York, cut off by unfriendly lines, from
the inland routes, combines with Savan
nah and Charleston, and in this combi
i nation will include the direct friendly
i interests of connecting lines, as common
to both lines, from Opelika, Alabama,
to Marshal, Texas.
Os this much wo feel assured. New
York, cut off by the superior energy of
Baltimore and Philadelphia, does not
now intend to set idly by and suffer the
trade of this vast region to be diverted
without a struggle. In all events we
are certain that this struggle for the
trade of the most fertile area of the
Cotton Belt, will not be without attend
ing benefits in developing the South.
HE OUGHT TO BE IMPEACHED.
The Albany Argus raises the question
i whether Grant ought not to be im
peached, in view of the rule laid down
by Secretary Bout well in the trial of
President Johnson, if we are to believe
the evidence given before the committee
now examining into the affairs of the
New York Custom House. The point is
well taken. The Secretary claimed that
President Johnson should be convicted
for these reasons :
When he removed faithful public offi
cers, and appointed others, whose only
claim to consideration was devotion to
his interest and obedience to his will,
they compensated themselves for this
devotion by frauds upon the revenue and
violations of the laws of the land.
Or again :
These men have been bound to him by
the strongest ties. The corruptions of
the public service have enriched his per
sonal adherents and strengthened the
passion of avarice in multitudes more.
These classes of men have exerted their
power to close up every avenue of infor
mation.
This statement was utterly false, so far
as President Johnson was concerned.
Ho had no friends in office. The Radi
cal majority in the Senate had kept them
out. But it is essentially true as to
Grant. A better description of his ac
tion and its influences could not have
been given. Hear what A. T. Stewart
said in regard to the swindlings of Leet
& Cos., who were the personal adherents
of the President, and were being en
riched by the corruptions of the public
servioe :
Q. —Have you ever stated your views
to the Secretary of the Interior or the
President ? A.—Well, I prefer that you
should not ask me that question.
Q. —Mr. Stewart, this is a proper
question ; the President is a public offi
cer, the highest in the land ; the Secre
tary of the Treasury is a public officer, a
very high officer. A.—l never did to
the Treasury.
Q. —I do not wish to press you beyond
what you feel is proper, but if you have
no very serious objection will you men
tion whether you called the attention of
the President to it ? A.—Well, sir, I
have.
Q. —When, first ? A.—October, a
year ago.
Q. —October, 1870? A.—Yes, sir.
Q. —More than once ? A.—Yes, sir.
Q. —F' v often, if you please? A.—
At another time.
Q. —When was that? A.—Last Sum
mer.
Q. —Did you express your views to
him at any other time ? A.—l did not
only twice,
o.—Did you succeed in obtaining any
reformation or improvement of the sys
tem ? A.—No, sir.
Q. —In any particular? A.—No, sir.
Q. —Does it remain precisely as it was
before you made those representations
in that high quarter ? A.—Yes, sir.
EUGENIE IN THE JEWEL TRADE.
The latest account of ex-Empress
Eugenie exhibits her trading her rich
collection of jewels to Messrs. Emanuel,
of Bond street, London. The price ob
tained is the good round sum of £BO,OOO,
or about §400,000, “good hard money.”
We do not understand that the ex-Em
press lias disposed of all of her jewels.
Doubtless, she lias yet left enough for
the ordinary use of any lady of quality.
The figures which indicate the value of
the purchase money by the Messrs.
Emanuel, of Bond streot, represent a fail
sum, just about what would do to com
mence with by anew Empress on this
side of the Atlantic, and we have no
doubt but that one of Mr. Boutwell’s
“syndicates” would do well to secure
the price for the coming women of our
chrysalis Empress. The following
lists exhibits the character of these pre
cious emblems of royalty.
Bracelet—large fine ruby and dia
monds.
Watch and cliatelhine, the back jewel
led in diamonds and colored precious
stones —a marvelous piece of setting.
Pair of large single-stone diamond ear
tops.
Bracelet—The centre a very large
sapphire of splendid quality and color,
set round with large brilliants on an
elastic baud of large diamonds.
Diamond brooch, representing the
flower of an orchid, with long pendant
leaves and drops.
A pair of large diamond anchors.
A sapphire and diamond necklace, of
rare large sapphires, with large brilliants
intervening.
An aigrette of diamonds, emeralds,
and pearls, arranged in Oriental fashion.
Head ornament —Diamond rose leaves
with full-size rose and bude in centre.
Purchased in the London Exhibition of
1862.
Head ornament—diamond wheat-ears,
with corn flowers and grass.
Head ornament diamond olive
wreaths, with black beads interspersed.
Emerald cross with pearl necklace.—
The emeralds are of the rarest tint and
■>f perfect quality, the pearls all match
ing each other in size, form, and white
ness.
Black pearl necklace. Avery rare
collection of large black pearls, with
olaek pearl and diamond snap.
Three pearl and diamond fringe
pendants, composed of large stones.
It is asserted the beautiful ex Em
press, parts with her valuable collection
of jewels—not to relieve pressing
necessities of living, but to add to a
fund, to be used to effect her restoration
to a lost Empire. The London Stand
ard, thus speaks of this collection of the
French Empress :
The collection is remarkable in many
ways. That of -the Prince Esterhazy
was more valuable, but for taste and
workmanship combined, with historical
interest, it is not too much to say that
nothing like it has been offered for sale
in England within living memory, if at
all. A mere catalogue of the articles
shows this. After the war between
France and Austria in 1859, and when
peace was concluded, the Empress had
a head ornament of diamonds worked
nto the form of an olive wreath, with
olack beads introduced in it at regular
.utervals. The olive branch told its own
story of peace, and the sombre beads
with which the glittering brilliants were
relieved were meant to express sorrow
for the soldiers who had fallen. The
workmanship is exquisite and the stones
I are of the firet water. This magnificent
j ornament is valued at several thousands
of pounds. It would be superfluous to
pass euiogium upon the beauty or
quality of the jewels. It is sufficient to
: know that they were many of them de
i signed and worn by the Empress Eu
i genie in the days of her greatness, and that
they nearly all speak of that personal taste
: for which she was famous. The famous
cross, suspended from a pearl necklace,
and represented in Winterhalter’s por
trait, is composed of emeralds of the
finest color and purity, while the pearls
all match each other in size, shape and
tint. Another necklace of black pearls
of large size took years to collect, for
the pears match each other perfectly,
and those versed in the subject know
how great is the difficulty of procuring
a sufficient number of these for a large
ornament to be composed of them ex
clusively. There are pendants of large
diamonds and pearls in fringes of ten,
which were worn by the Empress in com
bination with the crown jewels of France.
Another splendid head ornament is com
posed of wheat ears in diamonds, with a
centre of corn flowers and grass also in
diamonds, which were capable of being
detached, and were oftener worn sepa
rately as dress ornaments than in their
collected form. The watch with chate
laine, carried by the Empress, are also for
sale, and form a remarkable piece of work
manship. The back of the watch, which
is the size of a small or “godless” florin,
is jewelled with diamonds and colored
precious stones, which the chatelaine
matches, and the setting is peculiarly
delicate and tasteful. The ear tops,
composed of immense single brilliants,
were a present from the Emperor, as
was a bracelet with a large sapphire in
the centre and surrounded by diamonds.
The last article is a really splendid
bauble, and contrasts favorably with
another bracelet composed of many
coloured stones, which is said to have
been presented by the Viceroy of Egypt, j
The massive simplicity of the one, and j
the rather barbaric magnificence of the j
other, convey a valuable lesson in the
art of selecting jewels, just as the
aigrette of diamonds, emeralds, and
pearls presented by the Sultan makes the
exquisite head ornament of English
make, bought at the Exhibition of 1862,
seem the perfection of taste. The wonder
fully light brooch of brilliants, made to
represent an orchid with long pendant
leaves and drops, is another ornament to
which pure taste gives additional value.
The same may be said of the necklace of
large sapphires and diamonds with
pearls attached to it, each pearl weigh
ing some hundred grains, and of the
large diamond anchors worn as shoul
der ornaments by the Empress as patron
ess of the French fleet, and procured
specially for the imperial visit to Cher
bourg, and indeed nearly all the orna
ments now offered for sale. There is
not one which does not suggest state
pageantry and imperial profuseness. It
must not be supposed that this represents
the whole of the Empress’ stock of
jewels. Many of these are too costly
and imposing for any position in life
but that which was recently occupied by
their fair owner. The Empress of Rus
sia is understood to have purchased the
celebrated suit of rubies, and it is known
that there are many articles of enormous
value still at Chiselhurt, which will be
disposed of when a purchaser can be
found. Most of the jewels now at Mr.
Emanuel’s might be worn with propriety
by any lady whose purse is long enough
for their purchase, while some, such as
the watch and the emerald, ruby, and
diamond hoop-rings, speak of daily use
by the Empress.
WAS CLEWS BULLOCK’S RING
MASTER ?
The Atlanta Sun seems to think that
Clews was Bullock’s ring-master. The
Sun says :
“ Clews need not try to make the peo
ple of Georgia believe that his claim is
all honest, or that he has not been one
of the chief members of the Ring which
was formed to plunder us. He occupied
the place where every man would go to
find the ring-master.”
Heretofore public opinion assigned
this position to Hi Kimball. Clew’s
statement would rather indicate that he
held the other position, and that public
opinion was correct in locating the rela
tions of the parties.
HENRY CLEWS.
It is a stretch of charity and credulity
( not to believe that Clews was then deep
er in the swindling scheme than any one
else—not even Bullock and Kimball ex
cepted. A portion of the testimony he
quotes was written before much of the
mischief was actually done ; and some
of it long after he and all the world were
put on notice that the bonds were ille
gally issued, and long after the most
prominent bankers and financers of New
York so regarded them.
On the 23d of November, 1870, a
member of the great banking house of
Jay Cook & Cos., was in Atlanta, and
tried to see Bullock—failing in which
he addressed him this letter :
Atlanta, November 23, 1870.
His Excellency, Governor Bullock :
Dear Sir— Having the honor to rep
resent the house of Messrs. Jay Cook k
Cos., and feeling a deep interest in State
securities, especially of the Southern
States, I endeavored to avail myself of
your knowledge and experience, and am
greatly disappointed that I cannot have
the pleasure of seeing you.
I am sorry to learn from Mr. James
and others that there is a controversy as
to the validity of the Georgia State
bonds. The controversy appears to arise
out of the requirements of the lau\ mak
ing it the duty of the State Treasurer to
sign, officially, all the coupons, &c., and
keep a record and description of all
bonds issued.
Now, without considering the merits
or demerits of either side, just so long
as the controversy lasts between your
Excellency and others, just so long your
bonds cannot be negotiated ; or, if ne
gotiated, it must be done at a great sac
rifice to the State until this is settled.
I have examined your Code and the
different acts respecting State bonds,
and see no way to make your bonds
what is called “ a good delivery," short
of the State Treasurer signing them
officially, and placing them on record,
with a full description, as required by
the law. This done, I think your bonds
will not only bring a good price, but
you would find no difficutly in negotiat
ing them.
I trust you will not consider me inter
fering by recommending this course, as
it is done to promote vour interest, and
that of your State, Treasurer, as
Mr. James informs me, and as he states
himself to me, will, if you desire, sign
the coupons of the gold bonds as they
now are, diagonally across the face. —
This, I think, meets the requirements of
the law ; first being recorded in the
Treasurer’s office before placing them on
the market,
I go from here to Galveston, by way
of Columbus, Mobile and New Orleans,
and hope to have the pleasure of seeing !
your Excellency on my return.
Your friend and obedient serv’t,
R. W. Latham.
It is proper for us to remark that, at
the date of this letter, Treasurer Angier
had no knowledge of the amount of
bonds which had been issued by Bullock.
He had not seen them, and none were
reported to him for registry in his office.
He did not then know of any over-issue.
He had taken pains to notify the world
that the bonds were illegally issued, and
Clews must have known it. It is impos
sible that a knowledge of the fact could
have escaped him. Still he advanced
money on these bonds—holding them as
collateral security. He supposed, no
doubt, that the State would not refuse to
pay them in fulL He took the risk. He
••went in"—expecting to win. He is
confronted with the prospect of coming
out loser, and he affects a very large
amount of innocence, and assumes a
virtuous indignation.
“ These bonds, so far as the coupons
are concerned, not being executed ac
cording to law, and not registered in the
Treasurer's office as the law requires, I
have no data by which I can arrive at
the exact amount of new bonds issued.
I have made several attempts to learn
the amount and disposition made of the
bonds, but the financial agent, who has
them in charge in New York, has been
instructed by the Governor to with
j hold all information concerning them.
Enough, however, has been learned to
authorize the statement that nearly five
millions have been issued and sent to
New York. This attempt at conceal
ment leaves grounds for grave supicions;
and it would well behoove an honest Ex
ecutive to expose aueh fraud against the
j State.”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1872.
i And further, the Treasurer states that
' in his previous annual report, his state
, ment of the necessary disbursements for
* the year was 8500,000, and adds :
“ This was ample for all honest and
i practical purposes ; but reckless and
j pillaging hands have run them up to
| nearly twice that amount.”
I And the Treasurer concludes by say-
I ing : “ Over four and a half millions
! of new State bonds have been issued,
which the Governor, in his anxiety to
keep concealed from the Treasury De
partment, FAILED TO HAVE EXECUTED AND
REGISTERED AS THE LAW REQUIRES.”
This was published to the world and a
copy furnished to Clews, early in Janu
ary. He was one of the principal officers
of the B. k A. R. R., and must have had
the law and the Constitution of Georgia
before him. He could not have helped
knowing the bonds were unlawfully is
sued and were intended from the first to
be a swindle ! Sc it seems to us.
Bullock not only issued these bonds in
violation of law, which Clews must have
known, but he kept what he did, con
cealed from the Treasurer as far as pos
sible, and in this it looks like he had as
sistance of Clews himself. If not, why
did he refuse to let Dr. Angier know
what bonds were in his hands ? Why
disregard the law, and the facts which
Angier laid before him, and follow the
advice of Bullock ?
If Clews’ transactions with Bullock
and Kimball in relation to the bonds of
the State, and its endorsed bonds were
all fair, honorable, and well-intentioned,
why did he, on one occasion, in his own
office, when Bullock was sitting there,
and when inquired of by Mr. Johns,
President of the Fulton Bank of Brook
lyn, if that person was Bullock, reply
that it was not ? We are informed that
Mr. Johns made this statement in the
presence of three responsible gentlemen
of this city, and that he learned, before
leaving Clews’ office, that the person he j
inquired about really was Bullock. If i
this be true, why was it ? We learn that
Mr. Johns had advanced some money on :
Bullock's bonds, and was becoming sus- j
picious. —Atlanta Sun.
COUNTY COURT ACT.
An Act to be entitled an Act to create \
a County Court in each county of the |
State of Georgia.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen- j
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia, \
That from and after the passage of this
Act, the Governor of the State of Geor
gia, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, shall appoint for each
county in said State of Georgia a suitable j
person, not less than twenty-five years of
age, and a resident of the county for
which appointed one year immediately
before his appointment, to act as a
County Judge, to have such jurisdiction
as shall be hereinafter set forth ; said
person so appointed and confirmed to
act as such County Judge for four years
from the time of receiving his commis
sion—to be delivered to him by the
Governor aforesaid—and qualifying
thereunder, and to continue in office I
until his successor is appointed, com
missioned and qualified in the same
way. So long as this act remains in
force, the said office of County Judge
shall be filled as above, and the term
of office is for four years. If a
vacancy occurs after the first appoint
ment, from any cause, in said office
of County Judge, the Governor of
the State, for the time being, shall fill
the same as in case of Judges of the
Superior Court, and shall also submit
his appointments, for confirmation, to
the Senate, as in case of Superior Court
Judges ; and all the rules of law and
requirements of the Constitution, now
in force, as to the appointment of Judges
of the Superior Court, shall apply to the
said appointments of County Judge, so
far as the same can be applied under
this act. Said County Judge, when so
appointed and commissioned, shall re
ceive a salary as follows : The Grand
Jury of each county, at its Spring term,
shall, after careful examination, assess
and declare what amount shall be paid
to said County Judge for his services as
Judge in criminal matters, and for his
services in attending to such county
business as may be entrusted to him by
this act. Said sum so assessed to be
levied by the Ordinary of each county,
as provided in this section. And the
Ordinary of each of said counties, when
he levies the tax for county purposes,
shall, at the same time, levy the sum
aforesaid, hereby allowed to the County
Judges, which shall be collected with
the other county taxes ; and after being
paid over to the County Treasurer of
each county, paid over to said County
Judges; and if any of said County
Judges shall die or resign his office, or
be otherwise removed from office, then
such pro rata part of his aforesaid
salary shall be paid him as he is justly
entitled to. The provisions of this act i
shall not extend over any countv of this
State until the Grand Jury thereof, by the
same vote required to make a present
ment, shall, by special presentment, so
recommend at the Spring term of 1872
of the Superior Courts of said counties.
Sec. 2. The said County Judges shall
have jurisdiction in all civil cases, mat
ters of contract and of tort, (except
where by the Constitution an exclusive
jurisdiction is given to the Superior
Courts of the State) where the principal
sum in cases of contract, and where the
damage claimed in cases of tort, does
not exceed one hundred dollars—but in
cases where said principal sum so
claimed, or damage, is more than fifty
dollars, there may be an appeal to the
Superior Court, as hereinafter provided:
any person desiring to bring his claim
within the jurisdiction of the County
Judge, may do so by remitting, or re
leasing, so much of his claim as will
bring it within the jurisdiction aforesaid,
of the County Judge. The said Judge
shall have jurisdiction according to the
rule above laid down, over the county
for which he is appointed, and may hold
his courts at the court house, or in any
other place in said county.
Sec. 3. All suits in the civil matters
above set forth, before the County Judge, s
shall be commenced by a summons, to
be issued and signed by him, stating the
nature of plaintiff’s demand, as in the
summons of Magistrates, and command
ing the party complained of, or defend
ant, to appear at a certain time and j
place in the county for which he is ap- |
pointed, specified in the summons, which !
shall be the trial or judgment term, to ;
answer the plaintiff’s demand, unless ;
the case is continued, which may be al- j
lowed for the same ground and on same
terms as cases are continued in the Su- ;
perior Courts of the State, for a period
not exceeding ten days—said summons 1
may be answered to and defended as
suits in the Justice Court, by defendant,
and either party may amend their plead
ings in accordance with the general law ;
of amendment, and the nature of the ;
proceedings —said summons shall bear
j d a te (15) days before the time of trial or
judgment, and be served 10 days before
the same time, if the principal sum or
damage aforesaid claimed does not ex
ceed fifty dollars ; and said summons
shall bear date (20) days before said
term of judgment, and be served (15)
davs before the same time, if the princi
pal sum or damage claimed exceeds fifty
dollars, and is not more than one hun
dred dollars. _
Sec. 4. Said County Judge may ap
| p o i n t an officer to serve all the processes
j i BSU ed by him aud all his writs, and exe
i cute all orders issued by him, from the
j resident citizens of the county where he
is to act, to be called a Bailiff, at anv
time, taking from him the same kind of
a bond aud security as is required of
Constables, except it shall not exceed
the sum of two hundred dollars, and
administering to him the same oath ad
ministered to Constables. In cases of
emersreuev, when more than one Bailiff
is necessary to attend to the business of
the County Judge, or there is no regular
Bailiff or he is sick or abseut, or for any
| otffer reason cannot be conveniently ob
j tained, said County Judge may appoint
bv order, on his docket a special Bailiff
! without taking from him bond and
securitv, but in all cases requiring the
usual oath administered to Constables
These Bailiffs, when appointed, shall
have the same authority to serve pro
j cesses, summons, orders and other legal
! papers of the County Judge over the
j entire county in which tne County Judge
i has jurisdiction as Constables have in
j their several districts, and shall, for the
! county in which they are appointed, have
I a ll the rights of a Constable and be
liable to perform all the duties of a Con
stable.
Sec 5 When the time, as specified
: in section 3d of this Act, shall have ar
| rived for the hearing, trial and judg
ment of the cases specified, said County
j Judge shall proceed to hear and deter
: mine the cases as above set forth, as
| Justices of the Peace hear and deter
! mine matters submitted to their juris
diction, unless the case is continued, as
I above prescribed in section 3d of this
Act ; and if either party is dissatisfied
| with the judgment of the County Judge,
and the principal sum claimed, or
damage claimed, exceeds fifty dol
lars, said party may enter f.n ap
peal from such judgment within four
days, under the same rules as existed
before the Constitution of 1868 in rela
tion to appealing cases in the Superior
Court. When such is entered said
County Judge shall transmit the same,
and all papers connected with the case
appealed, to the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the county in which the case
was tried, at least five days before the
next term of the Superior Court, there
to be tried and disposed of as appeals
were before the Constitution of 1868,
and if the judgment of the County
Judge has been rendered in a case where
the principal sum, or damage claimed,
does not exceed fifty dollars, either par
ty may sue out a certiorari to his judg
ment, in conformity with the Constitu
tion of 1868 and ‘the Code regulating
certioraries, and in his petition for cer
tiorari may state all the decisions and
judgments complained of as erroneous,
from the beginning to the end of the
case—all the rules provided in the Code
of Georgia for preparing, answering,
hearing and disposing of certioraries
from Justices Courts, not in conflict with
the Constitution of 1868, shall apply to
the said certioraries sued out to the de
fisions or judgments of the County
Judge, which may be disposed of by
the Judge of the Superior Court in va
cation, or at the regular term of the Su
perior Court, in accordance with said
Code.
Sec. 6. Whenever an execution shall
be issued by said County Judge, which
he is hereby compelled to do, upon his
aforesaid judgments, and which may be
done as soon as judgment is entered,
unless an appeal is taken or certiorari
sued out as above provided, the same to
be in the usual form issued by Justices
of the Peace, and shall be levied on
property to which a legal claim is assert
ed, said‘ claim shall (conforming to the
law regulating claims as provided in sec
tion 4100 and 4101 of the Code) be dis
posed of by said County Judge instead
of the jury required in said section 4101,
but the same right of appeal and cer
tiorari shall exist as in the eases above
provided in section sth, and if an affida
vit of illegality is taken to the proceed
ings of said County Judge, to the ex
ecution of his judgment and orders, the
same shall be returned to him for dis
position as cases of illegality are return
ed to the Superior Court, with the same
right of appeal and certiorari as is al
lowed above in claims and other cases,
no claim case or illegality shall be dis
posed of until the County Judge has
given ten days’ notice of the time and
place of hearing the same, to the parties
interested or their agent or attorneys at
law.
Sec. 7. The County Judge herein
created shall have the same power to
procure testimony from witnesses in his
county (to compel production of papers),
and the same power to procure testimony
by interrogatories and commission, as
Judges of the Superior Courts, and
shall have the same general power to
issue any notice, writ, order and pro
cesses necessary to dispose of matters
pertaining to his jurisdiction, as are
granted to Judges of the Superior
Courts in their jurisdiction, and shall be
allowed to exercise the same authority
as to contempts of officers and others,
by fining, not exceeding §IOO, and im
prisoning, not exceeding ten days—and
whatever imprisonment is inflicted by
said County Judge, or shall be necessary
to enforce his orders and sentences,
shall be in the county jail of the county
in which he is Judge, over which, to the
extent of his jurisdiction, he shall have
as much control as a Judge of the Su
perior Court.
Sec. 8. Besides the civil cases and
matters above mentioned, which may be
disposed of by the County Judge, said
County Judge shall have jurisdiction to
hear and determine according to law, all
applications for evictions of intruders,
tenants holding over, or the partition of
personal property, for the trial of pos
sessory warrants, to issue and dispose of
distress warrants—to issue attachments,
garnishments, to foreclose mortgages of
personal property liens, to attest deeds
and other contracts for registry, to
administer oaths of all sorts, to exercise
the same power as was given to the
officer known as the County Judge, by
the act of 1865 and 1866, in relation to
attesting, approving, enforcing, and set
ting aside court contracts, as described
in Irwin’s Revised Code; in relation to
all the matters embraced in this section,
and not falling under former provisions
of this act, the said County Judge shall
allow parties interested to file their de
fense, in writing, under oath, as all de
fenses, in all cases before the County
Judge, of a civil nature, must be filed
and proceed to give judgment only when
such notice and opportunity for defense
is offered—aud the same rights of cer
tiorari shall exist a3 to these subjects of
the County Judge’s jurisdiction as to
other civil cases above enacted in section
five and six, and the same rights of ap
peal, when the remedy by appeal is ap
plicable, shall exist in relation to these
matters as is approved in section five and
six of this act.
Sec. 9. The costs of proceedings in
civil cases before the County Judge shall
be the same as in Justices’ Courts, and
for other matters herein submitted to
him, the fees and costs shall be the same
as are provided in Section 313 of Irwin’s
Code ; and if no provision is made un
der said section, then such fees and costs
as shall be assessed for his services by a
Judge of the Superior Court.
Sec. 10. Said County Judges shall,
each of them, keep a docket of his civil
proceedings, such as is required by law
of Justices of the Peace, and shall also
carefully file away and preserve all the
legal papers connected with such pro
ceedings, so that the same may be used
in other courts, and by parties inter
ested.
Sec. 11. Said County Judges, after
being duly commissioned and qualified,
shall each, for the county over which he
is such County Judge, also have juris
diction and authority a3 Justices of the
Peace in this State, upon affidavit made
before them, to issue criminal warrants
—to be in the form, both as to affidavits
and warrants, prescribed in Section
4618 and 4619 of the Code—against all
persons accused of crimes and misde
meanors. In cases which, upon an ex
amination—which examination they are
hereby authorized to make—appear to be
felonies, said County Judges shall com
mit the party accused to jail for safe
keeping, so that his presence may be
secured for trial before the proper
tribunal, unless the case be bailable by
a Justice of the Peace, when the accused
may, upon complying with the law
respecting bail, be bound over to appear
before the proper court for the trial of
such a case, and answer to the matters
charged against him. If the felony be
bailable as aforesaid, and defendant can
not give the bail, said County Judge
shall commit him to jail for safe keep
ing, so that his presence may be secured
for trial before the proper court to try
such cases ; and said County Judge,
when the felony brought before him is
bailable as above, shall have the right
to admit to bail at any time, until the
court which has jurisdiction of felonies
shall meet. In cases which do not, up
on examination, appear to be felonies,
said County Judges shall have full au
thority and jurisdiction, as hereinafter
jtrovidel, to hear, determine, sen
tence, decide and adjudicate up
on the same ; and to the same
' extent as the District Judge under
the Act of 1870, organizing, for certain
Districts therein named, District Courts,
' unless the party accused shall, in a writ
| ing signed by him, demand an indict
ment by a Grand Jury of the oounty in
which the misdemeanor was committed.
: In that case, said County Judge shall
require of defendants demanding such
indictment good bond and security to
appear and answer to such indictment,
if found at such time and place, and be
fore such tribunal as the said indictment
may be tried. If no such bond and
j security is given, then said County
•Judge shall commit to jail for safe keep
ing the person so accused and demand
ing an indictment, until the proper
Grand Jury can act np the charge, and
until the case can be legally determined.
If an indictment is found by said Grand
: Jury, the Judge of the Superior Court
' may, if he chooses so to do, order said
indictment to be returned, with all
the papers pertaining to said ease, to the
County Judge, to be disposed of by him
after ten days’ notice to the party ac
cused and the prosecutor, as others are
disposed of by him in which no indict
ment. has been demanded. In cases
which do not appear to be felonies, and
in which no indictment is demanded by
the parties charged with misdemeanors*
and in cases of misdemeanors upon
which an indictment has been found
and returned to the County Judge
; for trial, said County Judge shall im
mediately- proceed to hear and deter
mine said cases, unless a continuance
| shall be asked for, or jury is demanded,
as hereinafter provided ; which con
tinuance, if it falls within the rules for
the continuance of criminal cases in the
Superior Courts, shall be granted to
such time as is proper and just under
the circumstances. If parties accused
shall not ask a continuance, or shall be
refused a continuance, and shall de
mand a jury to try their case, instead of
the County Judge, then the ease shall be
postponed until a jury can be summoned
for such trials, and jurors shall be thus
procured : Said County Judge shall,
from the list of persons liable to do jury
duty in the county wherein he presides,
make a list, and putting their names in
a box kept for that purpose, draw by lot
the names of twelve jurors, who shall
be summoned by the same Bailiff al
ready provided for in this Act (he being
hereby fully authorized to execute all
warrants, orders, writs and precepts rel
ative to criminal proceedings) to attend
before him at such time and place as he
may select, anywhere in said county of
which he is J udge, when and where the
party accused and demanding a jury
trial, as accused parties are tried for
misdemeanor in the Superior Courts of
the State. The accused shall have no
right of peremptory challenge to this
jury so summoned, but may show any
of them not to be free from legal excep
tion, if he can, and if such exception
is sustained by the County Judge,
others persons liable to serve as jurors
shall be summoned by said Bailiff', as
tales jurors are summoned in the Supe
rior Court, until the jury of twelve men
is obtained. In order to procure an im
partial jury the County Judge shall ask
the jurors under oath (which he may ad
minister) such question as will ascertain
the mental condition of the jury, and if
any are found incompetent, according
to the rules provided in the Code, he
shall, as above, have tales jurors sum
moned until an impartial jury can be
procured. If the verdict of said jury,
which shall have the same power and
duties as juries in criminal cases in Su
perior Courts as to law and fact, shall
be against defendant, he shall be sen
tenced as in cases where the County Judge
alone tries the cases. The County Judge
shall have the right to try any and all of
the criminal cases which may properly
come before him at any place in the
county where he is Judge, and his judg
ment and decision shall be subject to
review by certiorari, as hereinafter pro
vided.
Sec. 12. In cases where no indictment
of a Grand Jury is demanded, the Coun
ty J udge shall frame a written accusa
tion founded upon the affidavit charging
the defendant, said accusation to be in
the name of the State of Georgia, signed
by the prosecutor and distinctly setting
forth the nature of the offense charged,
the time when committed, where and
by whom, aud that it is based upon said
affidavit, briefly referring to it. To this
accusation defendant may demur for in
sufficiency, or plead to the merits, and if
the accusation is held insufficient, the
County Judge shall frame another, and
another, until one is adjudged legally
sufficient, but in no case shall the per
son accused be discharged for such in
sufficiency until full opportunity is al
lowed to prepare the sufficient accusa
tion. When the case is submitted to the
County Judge upon the pleadings as
above set forth (defendant being allowed
full opportunity also to plead and de
fend as in criminal cases in the Superior
Court), the County Judge shall give both
parties, accuser and accused, time, if
necessary, for a fair and impartial hear
ing, and said County Judge shall, on the
trial before him or a jury, make a thor
ough and careful examination of all the
witnesses and testimony, and in no case
allow either the State or the accused to
be prejudiced from any want of an ex
amination or cross-examination of the
witnesses in the case before him. After
the case is submitted, upon the evidence
and law, the County Judge, or the jury,
if a jury is demanded, shall, in ascer
taining the guilt or innocence of the
party accused, be governed by the same
rule as govern juries in criminal cases in
the Superior Court. If the decision of
the County Judge, or the verdict of the
jury is against the defendant, said
County Judge shall at once sen
tence the accused according to
law, and the rules of law governing
Judges of the Superior Courts in sen
tencing parties found guilty of misde
meanors. If the decision of the County
Judge, or the verdict of the jury is in
favor of the accused, he shall be dis
charged from the accusation so tried,
and when said Judge or jury shall be
lieve the accusation to be malicious,
such Judge or jury may so find, and as
sess all the costs against the accuser.—
So, also, in all cases where the accuser
shall fail to prosecute the case, said
Judge shall order that the accuser shall
pay all the costs of the case from begin
ing to end inclusive, with the jail fees.
Sec. 13. Whenever said County Judge
shall adjudge that costs are to be paid,
either by the accused or the prosecutor,
the costs shall be assessed as follows—
in all cases begun but not tried, §2 shall
be paid (by the party adjudged liable) to
the County Judge, and the same sum to
the Bailiff—in all cases tried by tbe
County Judge, or by him and a jury,
the costs to be paid him by the party
held liable shall be §3, and the sum of
§2 to the Bailiff—said Bailiff shall, how
ever, when he summons a jury, or serves
subpoenas for witnesses, have extra fees,
as follows : for each juror, 20 cents ; id
for each subpoena, 10 cents—all of the
costs assessed for the County Judge
shall be paid over by him to the County
Treasurer as fast as received, and ail
account given of the same at each term
of the court to the Grand Jury ; if said
County Judge shall use any of said costs,
or fail to turn over the same, he shall be
liable, criminally, as County Treasurer,
under the 4368 section of the Code;
whenever the Bailiff shall not be able to
collect his costs on account of property
or insolvency of the defendant, he shall
be allowed the same from the fines and
forfeitures hereinafter mentioned, and
costs paid over to the County Treasurer
from cases in the County Court; and in
all cases where an accusation is made by
any person, the County Judge is hereby
required to use the same proceedings to
secure the costs of the cases presented
to him as the Code requires of Justices
of the Peace, issuing criminal warrants,
not, however, exacting security. When
a party is adjudged liable, in a criminal
proceeding, to pay costs or fines, or both,
the same shall be collected as costs and
fines are collected in the Superior Courts;
whatever fines and forfeitures are col
lected by virtue of sentence or judgment
of the County Court Judge, shall be col
lected and paid over to the County
Treasurer of each county—said County
Judge shall have jurisdiction to deter
mine forfeitures, as other money de
mands, unless the amount involved ex
ceeds his jurisdiction, when the bond
shall be turned over to be forfeited in
the Superior Courts, and all money col
lected thereon, save the expense of col
lection, shall be paid over to the County
Judge for the County Treasurer.
Sec. 14. The right to certiorari from
| decision and judgment of the County
‘ Judge, in all criminal cases, shall exist
as in all civil cases, and the certiorari
j shall be obtained in the same mode,
| and disposed of in the same mode as is
provided in section 13 of the act organiz
ing the District Court in 1870, either in
term or vacation, as follows : certioraries
may be had under the sanction and or
; der of the Judge of the Superior Courts
| of the Circuit in the county in which
I the case is tried, in all criminal cases
upon a petition in writing (by the de
| fendant) to said Judge, complaining of
errors, and showing sufficient grounds
! of error, in ten days after such trial.
This petition shall state the grounds
of complaint, and give a brief of
the material evidence, and be duly
sworn to. If, upon examination, the
Judge of the Superior Court shall
shall consider the petitioner entitled to
a writ of certiorari, it shall be his duty
to issue such writ, directed to the County
Judge aforesaid, as in civil case, requir
ing him to certify and send up to him a
complete and accurate history of the
case so tried, which shall be called his
answer, and shall be subject to correc
tion and traverse, as is provided in Sec
tion 8990 of the Code, and 8994 of the
Code, except that said Judge of the
Superior Court shall try said traverse.
Said Judge of the Superior Court shall
hear and determine said certiorari and
return at any time, after ten days s notice
is given to the accuser, and then may
pass such judgment, or sentence
as, in review of the whole case, is con
sistent with justice. In all cases where
she County Judge alone tries the case,
such Superior Courts, on certiorari,
may pass sentence, or judgment, as is
consistent with law. No application for
certiorari, however, in a criminal case,
shall be entertained, unless the party ap
plying will make the affidavit set down in
j section 6 of the act of 1868, as fol
j lows : That no writ of certiorari shall be
: granted, unless the accused shall first
I have filed his affidavit setting forth he
j has not had a fair trial, and that he hae
been wrongly and illegally convicted,
and unless the party applying shall give
such bond and security, or make such
affidavit as is permitted in the Code of
Georgia, for parties in criminal cases,
carrying up cases to the Supreme Court
of Georgia.
Sec. 15. The said County Judge shall
keep a docket of all criminal cases dis
posed of, as above, by him, and shall
therein state the case, its nature and
disposition, and shall, as in civil cases,
keep carefully all the papers separate,
so as to be able at any time to make a
true history of the cases disposed of—
and said County Judge shall, in the
trial and determination of criminal cases,
have the same authority to preserve or
der and punish contempts as is given
him in civil cases, and shall have the
same authority and control of the jail for
the punishment of offenders as the
Judges of the Superior Court ; said
County Judge shall at no time exercise
jurisdiction in criminal cases iu concur
rence with a J ustiee of the Peace ; all
cases brought before the Justices of the
Peace of the county, if they shall appear
to be misdemeanors, shall at once be
turned over to the proper County Judge
for trial, which shall bo treated by him
as if originally brought before him ;
said County Judge shall have the same
authority to procure testimony and
compel tlje attendance of witnesses in
criminal cases as Judges of the Su
perior Court ; all the law of the State
applicable to criminal proceedings be
fore Justices of the Peace, and the
Judges of the Superior Court, not in
consistent with the provisions of this
act, and which can be applied to crim
inal proceedings before County Judges,
are hereby made part of this act.
Sec. 16. All sales to be made by the
Bailiff of the County Judge, either in
execution of civil or criminal process,
shall be at the Court House of the coun
ty, or at a Militia Court Ground, as the
County Judge may designate, having
due regard to the interests of parties ;
said Bailiff first giving the usual notice
given by Constables, or, when the Coun
ty Judge may so require, give notico by
advertisement in a newspaper having a
general circulation in the county.
Sec. 17. All law of the State of Geor
gia applicable to civil proceedings before
Justices of the Peace, not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, and
which can be applied to the civil pro
ceedings before the County Judge, are
hereby made part of this Act.
Sec. 18. Whenever a trial by jury is
demanded, and the same shall be had
before the County Judge and a jury, on
which the County Judge is hereby au
thorized to act as a Judge of the Supe
rior Court in criminal trials, and the
party accused is found guilty, and error
is complained of by the jury, the Judge
of the Superior Court shall have full
power, and it is hereby made his duty,
to revise the proceedings by certiorari,
obtained as is above provided in crimi
nal cases before the County Judge alone,
and if a material error is discovered by
him in the finding of the jury, he
shall grant anew hearing, before a jury
to be had in tlie same mode as the first
trial. The writ of certiorari in this
class of cases shall be directed to the
County Judge, requiring him to certify
all the poceedings before the jury, so
that the Judge of the Superior Court
can ascertain if any error was committed
by the jury, and rectify the same.
Sec. 19. Said County Judge may, in
criminal cases, when he deems it neces
sary, direct his criminal warrants, orders,
and proceedings of all sorts, to the
Sheriff of the' county, to his own Bailiff,
or any lawful Constable of the county.
Sec. 20. The several County Judges
created by this Act shall keep their of
fices, and ail papers and other things
belonging thereto, at the county site,
and at the Court House, unless imprac
ticable from any cause’, and notice of
where said office is located shall bo given
by publication, for the space of two
weeks, in a public gazette having gen
eral circulation in the respective coun
ties, or by notice of the same at three or
more of the most public places in the
county, in the discretion of the County
Judge. That said offices shall be kept
open every day, except Sundays and pub
lic holidays, and days and times when
the County Judge is absent from the
county site, holding his court at other
places in 'the county, which, in his dis
cretion, he is allowed to do in this Act.
Sec. 21. Said County Judge shall
discharge all the duties formerly de
volved on the Jutices of the Inferior
Court, as to county business, except in
those counties where by local laws other
provision has been made by tlie Legis
ture of this State.
Sec. 22. Said County Judges shall
have full authority and jurisdiction to
hear, determine, sentence, decide and
adjudicate all criminal causes below the
grade of felony, now ponding, or which
may hereafter be commenced by indict
ment or presentment in the Superior
Courts, upon production, by the State’s
Counsel, or the defendant or his Coun
sel, of an order of the presiding Judge
authorizing the transfer of said cases,
the order for which may be granted by
said Judge in term time or vacation,
and the Clerk of the Superior Court, up
on tlie granting of any such order, is re
quired to transfer to the County Court
all papers appertaining to the case, witli
a certified statement of the names of the
witnesses for whom subpoenas may
have been issued.
Sec. 23. All laws aud parts of laws in
conflict with this aro hereby repealed.
Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, in
his message recommends compulsory
vaccination. It will be strange if such
an enlightened move does not result in
his political death. He says :
The small-pox has, during the past
year, made its appearance in the cities
and populous districts, assumed an epi
demic character, and its ravages still
continue. During the last six months,
in Philadelphia alone, over eight thou
sand cases were reported, of which
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine
proved fatal. On this point the Port
Physician and Health Officer of that
city, in their report of December 11th,
say “it is a deplorable shame that ten
hundred aud eighteen lives (the number
reported up to that date) have been sac
rificed this year, which could and should
have been preserved by the known
means of prevention.” From this state
ment it appears that more than one per
cent, of the population of that city was
smitten with the infection, and that the
mortality exceeded twenty-three per
cent, of the cases reported. The epi
demic has spread widely over the State,
and many neighborhoods have greatly
suffered.
A Small-Pox Remedy. —The follow
ing is said to be a certain cure for small
pox :
“It is as unfailing as fate, and con
quers in every instance. It is harmless
when taken by a well person. It will
also cure scarlet fever. Here is the re
cipe as I have used it, and cured my
children of the scarlet fever : here it is
as I have used it to cure small-pox ;
when learned physicians said the patient
must die, it cured : Sulphate of zinc,
one grain ; foxglover (digitalis) one
grain ; half a teaspoon ful of sugar ; mix
with two tablespoonfuls of water. When
thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of
water. Take a spoonful every hour.—
Either disease will disappear in twelve
hours. For a child, smaller dose
according to age. If counties would
compel their physicians to use this there
would be no need of pest houses. If
you value advice and experience, use this
for that terrible disease.”— Exchange.
Distinguished Japanese.— Within a
few days another large party of distin
guished Japanese are expected to land
in San Francisco. They consist of
Iwakura, late Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, and ou daijan, or Prime Minister,
and fourjlesaer ambassadors—l'ido and
Okobu, members of the Privy Council,
and the latter of whom is Slinister of
Finance; Tamapishi, Minister of Re
ligion, and Okatshi, who holds the posi
tion of President of the Board of Pub
lic Works. These will be aceompained
by twenty-one attaches of the various
departments of state.
Artemus Ward was once on a slow
California train, and went to the Con
ductor and suggested that the cow
ketcher was on the wrong end of
the train, for said he : “You will never
overtake a cow, you know ; but if you
put it on the other end it might* be
useful, for there’s nothing on earth to
/tender a cow from walking right in and
biting the folks !”
John Bounds, Deputy Sheriff of New
ton county, Mississippi, is under trial
for embezzlement. The Sheriff, How
ard, absconded. Both are Radicals.
NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 5.
Oar Book Table.
Sanford’s Primary Analytical Arithme
tic, by Professor S. P. Sanford, of
Mercer University. J. B. Lippiueott
& Cos., Philadelphia; Martin V. Gal
vin, General Agent, 21 Mclntosh
stroet, Augusta.
This is an introductory book to that
splendid series of strictly analytical
arithmetics which is daily becoming more
and more popular. The little volume
before us is faultless in typography and
finish. The matter is methodically ar
ranged and presented in the most at
tractive style—a style that will at once
cause little primarians to fall in love
witli the science of numbers. These
first lessons comprise a wealth of mental
and written exercises. The illustrations
are original and beautiful. The tables
occur in their proper place, and are
subsequently grouped together ns an
appendix. The Primary is a gem. It
deserves a place in our schools at once.
Fm its and Flowers : A Collection of
Tunes and Songs for Common and
Sunday Schools, by Wm. Walker, of
Spartanburg, S. C.; J. B. Lippincott
k Cos., Philadelphia ; Martin V. Cal
vin, General Agent, Augusta.
This book is based on what is known
as the Seven-syllable Character Notes
plan—especially suited to the wants of
little children. “ Fruits and Flowers ”
presents a rare collection of beautiful
tunes aud songs. We commend this
publication to our song loving readers.
As the work of a worthy citizen of the
Palmetto State, it deserves recognition
and adoption.
Nbw Y’ork Fashions. —Plain collars
and cuffs of very fine linen—the latter
attached to an undersleevo—remain in
favor for the street. The prettiest collar
is made of but ono thickness of linen,
with a band of the material stitched to
border it; it is a fiat collar, quite nar
row at the back, and broadens iu front
to moderate sized points ; tho square
cuff fastens with linen buttons. Heavy
linen sets aro embroidered by hand and
edged with narrow Valenciennes lace,
but tho work is too fine to show to good
advantage. A collar with a standing
band edged with embroidery, has turn
over embroidered points. The cuff to
match lias embroidery about two inches
deep on the upper side, which narrows
to an edge on the under part of the cuff.
The scarf mode of the thinnest white
muslin, and edged with a deep fell of
lacc, is exceedingly becoming to most
ladies. Handsome silk, of some bright
color, trimmed with white lace, makes a
pretty tie to be worn with a black silk
dress. Very lovely ties are of the soft
twilled India silk, cut bias, and hemmed
on the side ; tdiey aro finished with a
rich tassel fringe. The favorite colors
are the faintest shades of blue, the palest
green and rose, and wliat is, perhaps,
the prettiest of all, an exquisite tint of
frou-frou or salmon color.
Suits of ladies’ cloth are among the
mid-Winter importations of French
modistes. Printomps, a peculiar shade
of gray, is the stylish color. The cos
tume has a polonaise with vest ; the
skirt opens widely below the waist to
show the dress skirt, which is orna
mented up the front breadth witli a
heavy soutache, or with cords as thick
as a lady’s linger. A cravat of faille, the
color of the dress, is fastened below tlie
throat with a slip-knot, and the ends
are tied again at the waist. Olive tints
of brown and green, dark plum and
cypress green are also shown in cloth
suits. Redingotes, with short capes
reaching only to the shoulder, are made
of cloth of these quaint colors, and
worn over velveteen or silk skirts.
Anew feature in arranging tunics is
tying them at tho back with bows
placed down tlie middle. The bows are
large, with short wide ends. Other
tunics are left open behind, in tlie form
of two wide scarf ends, and terminate
with loops of ribbon. When skirts are
ruffled up tlie back breadths almost to
the waist, the tunic is merely a scarf
tied behind and forming a wrinkled
apron in front. A dinner dress of the
pale Nile green faille, just sent over by
YVortli, has two wide flounces straight
across the three front breadths, while
another wide flounce surrounds the
train, passes up the sides to the waist,
in turned over, and crosses the back,
forming a short upper skirt on the sim
ulated court train.
The Convicted Ku-Klux. Tin
Charleston News says that on Tuesday
afternoon a band of forty-nine of the
so-called Ku-Klux prisoners who were
convicted at the late term of tlie United
States Circuit Court, held in Columbia,
arrived in that city by tlie 3:20 train
from Columbia. The prisoners were ac
companied by a military guard of thir
teen privates from tho Eighteenth In
fantry, under the command of First
Lieutenant Potter. They were met at
the train by a detachment from the
Third Artillery, commended by Captain
Davis, who were to act as an escort
through the streets of Charleston. As
soon as they could gather together
their blankets, &c., the prisoners were
formed between files of the soldiery and
took up tlieir march down town. They
were all apparently white, but a
more forlorn, woe-begone, haggard
looking crew could hardly be got to
gether. Many were imperfectly clothed,
some had gaping shoes, and their per
sons and clothing seemed to have de
clared eternal war with such domestic
appliances as soap and water. As they
entered upon the march, a few curious
urchins began to inspect them, and soon
the news, caught up from the soldiers,
spread like wild-fire that the real live
Ku-Klux were marching through the city
under guard. A crowd of blacks soon
gathered along the line of march, and
kept following the dreaded Ku-Klux
with curious eyes and questions. The
bayonets of the soldiers, however, warned
the dusky throng not to be too pressing
in their attentions, and tlie cortege
passed quietly and silently along
without interruption. Twenty - four
of the prisoners were marched
down Meeting and Broad streets, and
pat on board the steamship Charleston,
just about to sail for New York. Thence
they are to go to the State prison at Al
bany, where they will serve out their va
rious terms of imprisonment of one year
and upwards. In this lot was an old
man of venerable aspect, whose grey
hair floated around his shoulders in a
manner to claim the pity and reverence
of all beholders. He is over sixty years
of age, is the head of a large family, aud
has been visited with one of the heaviest
sentences, viz : five years’ imprisonment
and one thousand dollars fine. His name
is John W. Mitchell.
The Newspaper Press of Charles
ton. —There is now in press and soon to
be issued a volume, entitled the “News
paper Press of Charleston,” giving its
history from its beginning to the pres
ent time, chronologically and biograph
ically considered. The work will be of
great interest and value to every member
of the press. Mr. William L. King, a
gentleman well qualified for the task, is
the author. Embracing a period of one
hundred and forty years the volume
cannot well be otherwise than interest
ing to the craft and public. As the
work will be ready for delivery to sub
scribers, and to none others, by the end
of February, parties desiring to sub
scribe ore requested to call at this office
where a list will be found. JPrioe, §2.
Model Localizing. —“ The freedom
of the Press” is an accepted characteris
tic of our republican form of govern
ment, and encroachments upon its sup
posed prerogatives in this particular
have ever been most vigorously resisted.
What would be the feelings of the com
munity should they wake up some morn
ing and find such an exhibition of the
freedom of the press as we find in the
following effort of the local reporter of
the Indianapolis Journal, who thus
chronicles the age, complexion and gen
eral appearance of the horses in that
town :
“ Captain Ed. Howe drives a bay
horse twenty-six hands high, twentv-six
years old, with a iinely developed head
nud slightly bald in the tail. Sir. Wm,
Manser annihilates space by the means
of an old but well preserved white horse,
which the same can hold his oats in his
twenty-ninth year. The widow of a dis
tinguished physician drives an ashes of
rose horse, afflicted with goitre. Ed.
Moody cleaves the air behind a vener
able bay horse, with one eye in perma
nent eclipse. Among other peculiari
ties, he takes spells of going sidewise
like a crab. l)r. Eletclier lias a donkey
afflicted with hypotrophy of the abdo
men. L. A. Kj ifer drives r. while sway
backed horse, now cutting a third set of
teeth, in his twenty-eighth year.
“L. W. Hasselman flashes through
the streets in the rear of a Rohert-narra
tived steed, whose abbreviated caudality
is iu a chronic state of- erection. John
F. Hill drives an abundantly-bowelled
horse named Trinee. Dr. Newcomer
drives a gray horse of great age and ex
perience, and his ginger-colored dog
brings up the roar. The Doctor's ani
mal is called a iiery steed, because ho
can only be started by building a fire
under him. To his credit, be it said,
however, ho always responds, with a
promptitude of a patent brake, to. the
cry of ‘ Whoa !’ E. T. Fletcher has two
pioneer bays, both born on the Dona
tion. He limbers them up with embro
cations of fish-worm oil.”
A New Raxlboah.—A bill has been in
troduced in the South Carolina Senate
to charter in that State tin' Raleigh and
Augusta Air Line Railroad Company, a
corporation created by the laws of the
State of North Carolina, with power to
construct through that State a railroad
with one or more tracks from any point
on the State lino where tlio road may ou
ter the State to such point on flic dividing
line between that Stato and Georgia,
near the city of Augusta, as the com
pany may select. The location of the
railroad to be made on such route as
the Board of Directors of the Company,
after proper surveys, may direct, and
they are also authorized to construct
branch roads from the main track to
any other points or places in the State.
Said branches not to exceed 100 miles.
The act also authorizes any incorporated
city or town or village which may be in
terested in the construction of the
branches to subscribe to the capital
stock of the company.
Attempted Suicide. —On last Tuesday'
a colored man named Tony Robinson
alias Osborne, was tried in the Superior
Court upon an indictment charging him
with having committed burglary iu the
night time. The evidence showed that
he had broken open the residence of a
citizen living on Greene street, and stolen
several articles from it. He was con
victed and sentenced to twenty years’
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Tues
day niglit the jailer heard a noise in his
cell and paid him a visit. After a search
lie discovered some window glass which
had been pounded up and concealed by
tlio prisoner. Robinson admitted that
he had intended swallowing the glass
and killing himself rather than go to
the penitentiary. He will not be allowed
an opportunity to kill liimself while in
the Augusta jail.
Firing Up.—At a late hour on Tues
day night an inebriated white man,
while walking in the vicinity of Twiggs
and Walker streets, became very much
affected by the cold weather and detor
. mined to have a lire on his own account,
if possible. An engine, with tender
plentifully supplied with wood, the pro
property of the South Carolina Railroad,
was in the shed at the intersection of
those two streets, and into the locomo
tive he mounted and commenced kind
ling a lire in the furnace. Before he
could get steam up a policeman inter
fered and carried him to the guard house.
Yesterday he came before the Recorder,
but none of tho city ordinances tilted it,
and he was discharged from custody.
A New Carolina County. —A petition
is now pending in the South Carolina
Legislature for the establishment of a
new county from portions of Edgefield,
Abbeville, Newberry and Laurens, to be
known as the county of Ninety-Six, and
having its Court House at tho village of
that name, and which is now in the
county of Abbeville. It has created
quite a sensation amongst the citizens of
the counties which it is proposed to chop
up, and the measure is not likely to meet
with favor.
A New Counter, eit. —Tho reverse of
the new fifty dollar counterfeit of the
last greenback issue is a close imitation,
but the face of the note is poor in en
graving, printing and paper, it having a
general lithographic appearance. Tho
large red seal of the Treasury in the center
is wanting, and the bracelet on the arm of
the female figure on the left side of the
note is scarcely perceptible.
A lady of Connecticut writes the New
York Tribune that she has a curiosity
which she desires to present to the Rus
sian Grund Duke—“a picture-frame
made of toe-nails, the only one in tho
world.” Os course, the Grand Duke
ought to have it. A G. D. who goes
through life without having possessed a
picture-frame made of toe-nails, or some
thing of that sort, strikes us as having
lived pretty much in vain.
The agricultural land scrip of Georgia
has been sold for 8243,000.
Local and Business Notices.
Extract from the London Timen, Lon•
don, Eng., January, 1858 :
Dr. .T. A. Jones, the young Burgeon
who is creating so great a sensation
among the profession, promises fair to
excel in skill and surpass in success
even his distinguished uncle, Bir Walter
Jones, M. D.
Dr. J. A. Jones is now practicing at
the Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., where
he remains until February 24. Dr. J.
straightens cross eyes, inserts artificial
eyes, operates for cataracts, and cures
all cases of total or partial blindness
or deafness within the reach of science.
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Haight & Go.'s Museum, Menagerie,
Circus and Balloon, requiring tlueo
immense large pavillions, all for one
price of admission, is coming and will
show as follows :
Orangeburg, Friday, February 9th.
Augusta, Saturday, February 10th.
Washington, Monday, February 12th.
Athens, Tuesday, February 13.
Greensboro, Wednesday, February 14.
Madison, Thursday, February 15th.
Covington, Friday, February 10th.
Atlanta, Saturday, February 17th.
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Success is the best test of superiority;
the wonderful demand for Simmons’
Liver Regulator is one of the convincing
proofs that this article is appreciated
above everything else of ti e kind. How
ever much its jealous d< fam rs may
throw their shufts, truth will prevail
and so will this medicine.
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