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OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXIX. <£i)romcle anb jjenttnel. Terms of Subscription. DAILY. On rath $ 1 00 Three months 2 50 One year 10 00 TRI-WEEKLY. One year & 0 00 Hix months 3 50 Three mouths 2 00 WEEKLY. Three months 5 1 00 HO non the 1 50 One year 3 00 WEDNESDAY FEBBUAItY 28. HKt.MIT* ANT. The allusion ma<le by the President of the Democratic State Convention of Connecticut, during the late session of that body, to the name of Judge Trum bull as a possible candidate of the Democracy for President, was received with iapturous applause. This would seem to indicate that the Connecticut Democrats have determined to defeat Grant, even though success can only be obtained bv the support of a moderate Republican. AFRICAN MMIRATION. Every train of cars, says the Memphis Appeal , brings negroes to the West and South, and tlieir destination is the low country of the Mississippi and Arkansas. The emigration »fa large number of ne groes from Toledo and other points in the West to Arkansas and the South west, is noticed by our Western ex changes. The colored population curiously gravitate towards the black lands—the cotton, sugar aiul lice fields. They abandon Virginia, North Carolina, Ten nessee and Kentucky and migrate to- j wards the sun, to localities in which their race may be socially and politi cally dominant. Natural laws will final ly annul those of Congress, the spirit and purpose of all of which are em bodied in Sumner’s civil rights hill. By processes which Congressional leg islation can never control the segre gation of races is effected. There is ; tlie basis of a sound philosophy in the proposition of the Mississippi Con gressional ourpot-bagger, who dreamed vaguely of the creation by law of an other Africa in America. ONE BY ONE THEY I .VLL. The h art of the patriot and Christian is made sad by the oft-recurring an nouncement of the death of one of those grand old gentlemen whose lives and character so briliantly illumined Geor gia’s history during the first half the present century. I’erliaps no period of the world’s history has been so marked in tin' production of great and good men, and no locality so favored as this good old commonwealth of ours. These Georgia gentlemen of the “olden time”! are fast passing away ; within a short period we have chronicled the death of our great Chief Justice Lumpkin, whose big heart and boundless benevolence j made his name a household word j throughout the State ; following close 1 after, fell suddenly in New York, Geor- j gin’s favorite son, Cobb, the patriot, ! the statesman ami the jurist; and then was announced the death of the eloquent and erudite Nesbit— { lie whose silvery-tongued eloquence ! had charmed Senates and held | spell-hound the stern majesty of courts— whose pure life and Christian character , won the love and admiration of all our people; and now we, in pain and sorrow, add to this honored but mournful list the name of Col. John Billups, who died suddenly, at his residence in Athens, on Monday last. Col. Billups was a true type of that class, now fast passing away, whom we fondly style “gentlemen of the olden time ” —gentlemen of courtly manners, fine accomplishments, stern integrity, i pure patriotism, and the very soul of honor. In addition, Col. B. was a man of marked ability and learning, and was often called by his fellow-citizens to offices of high trust and honor. He represented his county, Clark, in the Legislature, and was made at one time President of the State Senate ; and although it was during a period of high political feeling, never an unkind word or thought was spoken or entertained against him by any of the members of the opposite party. All acknowledged his ability and impartiality, and honored him for his firm but affable and polite rule. If there was any one virtue which pre dominated in the character of this most worthy gentleman, it was his love of truth ami justice, tempered with a char ity as wide as the weakness and follies of human nature. He was incapable of entertaining an unjust or an unworthy thought. In all his prolonged and va ried dealings with his fellow men he acted upon the theory that man is not so bad as he appears to be, and that truth is more poten. than falsehood; and lienee lie lays himself down to rest, after a long and useful life, without leaving an unkind thought in the breast of any who survive him. THE ltK FORM MOVEMENT. Senator Fenton has presented to the | Semite of the United States a petition from the business men of New York, numbering over one thousand signa tures, which includes four hundred and ; fifty names of the leading firms in that city—each as Brown Brothers .V Cos., A. H. Low A- Cos., Schultz, Southwiek A Cos., Jay, Cooke A Cos., E. D. Morgan A Cos.. S. I>. Chittenden A Cos., Ball, Black A Cos., Tiffany A Cos.. J. H. Van Nostrand A Cos., and others of like character and standing. This petition asks foi an immediate and thorough reform in the administra tion i>f public affairs hv the Government officials, particularizing three points : "First, appointments to and removals from public offices, both of which the petitioners claim should be made solely with reference to capability, efficiency and honesty in ease of appointments, and the want of thiiu in ease of re movals : second, the salaries of public officers, which the pet itioners aver should be commensurate with the quality of the men required and the duties to be per formed, while perquisites and moities should be abolished, as demoralizing to the service, corrupting to public ser vants, and pernicious to the business community ; and third, the seizure and examination of private books and papers in revenue cases, which the petitioners state are now made in a manner subver sive of private rights and unworthy of a free country. ” Similar petitions have been presented from Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Rich mond, and very many other of the lead ing cities and towns throughout the country. This protest against tyranny and cor ruption in the Administration, and the plundering revenue system, which shields and sustains tyrannical exactions and corrupt practices, is a pointed rebuke to ! Radical political brokers and ballot gamblers. What action will the Republican Sen ate take ? What response will President Grant and his political allies in Congress make to this demand for reform, pre ferred by the business men of the country ? AKERMAN TO THE RESC UE. From our Atlanta exchanges we leam that, as a counter irritant to the prose cutions for robbery of the State Road, Akerman proposes to begin a series of wholesale arrests for violations of the Civil Rights bill. This step is taken to induce the committee investigating the State Road frauds to hold up in their vindication of the law of the State, so that the saiths ul may not be any longer held up to public condemnation and ul timate legal punishment. This is a trick worthy of the source from which it eminates, but we are great ly mistaken as to the character of the gentlemen engaged in the State Road investigation if it produces the least ef fect upon tlieir future conduct. WEEKS RELIEF UNDER THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. The tender of bond in the case' of Mr. Hoyt will, we understand, be withdrawn ; and that his case, and others of a similar character, will be transferedtothe United States Court, under the provisions of the Civil Rights Bill. We clip the above paragraph from the ; Atlanta Era , of Sunday lust. Surely 1 the Civil Rights Bill is an India rubber ! machine if it can be made a dover and an escape for such thieves as Hoyt and his partners in the State Road robberies. We are somewhat curious to learn uu- ; der what provision of that iniquitous ! measure such cases as this of Hoyt ean j he sustained, and will watch with much i interest the further progress of this new j movement. ALBANY AND BRUNSWICK RAIL ROAD. Col. John D. Rumph, Master in Chancery, appointed to investigate and report upon the financial affairs of the above road, makes the following exhibit, which we find in the Seaport Appeal : Number of claims filed, 494; aggregate amount of claims filed, $3,383,225.18 ; amount of claims, adjudged satisfactori ly established, $423,369.28 ; amount of lien and < tlier claims in execution, with costs, as charged, included, $107,278.10; amount of lien and other claims in execution adjudged satisfac torily established, with legal costs es lished, $98,381.34; amount of labor liens, other than liens, judgments, <&c., ad judged legally and justly due, $13,141.39; amount of lien and other claims in ex ecution, with costs, as charged, and other labor claims as presented, $122,- 849.47 ; amount of approved lien and other claims in execution, with estimated legal cost, with other labor claims, ap- : proved, $111,522.73. This road received from the State eight thousand straight gold bonds per mile, besides the State endorsement of fifteen thousand dollars gold for each mile. The gross amount received from the State for the construction of the road is over four millions gold, yet we find the company in debt $3,383,225. Truly, H. 1. Kimball was a great developer of Georgia’s resources. PETITIONS FOR PARDON—MANLY PARI) FROM COL. LOFTON. We were very much surprised, some i days since, at a statement made by Mr. Speer, member of Congress from this State, in his place in tlie House of Rep resentatives, to the effect that all the ! gentlemen whose names appeared in his bill for the removal of political disabil ities had made written application for pardon. We say were surprised, be cause we recognized among tlie number reported to have sought this special par don the names of some gentlemen whom, : wo could not believe, would have made : such a request. It now appears that Mr. Speer was in error in stating that all of them had made such petition, j The following card from Col. Lofton, j which we clip from the Telegraph and Messenger, shows that he has made no i such humiliating request. We trust that there are others on the list who 1 have been in like manner misrepre sented ; Editors Telegraph and Messenger : I have just read, with no little sur prise, a communication from Washing ton City to the Atlanta Constitution, in which my name appears in a list of highly respectable Georgians, who are reported as having “petitioned,’’through Mr. Speer, Representative of the Fourth 1 Congressional District, for the removal i of their political disabilities. Allow me ! |to state that I have never applied tlirough Mr. Speer, or any other person, j to be relieved of my disabilities, nor lias j any one else done so by my authority or with my knowledge. W. A. Lofton. Macon, February 5, 1872. WH AT .MANUFACTURES DO FOR A CITY. Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, are now practically one city, separated only by i the Androscoggin river, which is the source of tlieir combined prosperity. The two cities are now more than ever inti mately connected by a fine aud perma nent bridge, 6(H) feet in length, com pleted December, 1871, at a cost of about $50,000, with two spacious sidewalks and a broad driveway paved with the j Nicolson pavement. The common in- j terests and essential unity of the two j cities, render of import the following 1 combined statistics, which apply to January, 187'-! : Combined population, Lewiston and , Auburn, twenty-two years ago, date of improvement of water power 8,060 ! Do. January*, 1872 23,000 j Increase of population in twenty-two years 14,940 i Combined manufacturing capital. Lewiston and Auburn $9,000,000 j Corporate capital employed in manu facturing $0,050,000 Private capital employed in manufac turing $2,950,000 i Number of manufacturing corpora tions 19 Number of private manufacturing en torpnsos OS j Number o f manufactimng enterprises of all kinds 87 i Number of females employed in manufacturing in both cities 4.394 Number of males do 4.081 ; Combined annual labor pav roll, both ! cities $3,000,000 | Annual manufacturing disbursements of all kinds. Lewiston and Auburn. $3,624,000 j Annual value of manufactures of both cities .$14,071,000 j ! Total improved water power, both cities 8,666 b. jk Water power in two cities now used.. 4.860 Improved water power in two cities. not employed 3.800 h. p. I Total improved and unimproved water power in two cities 15,176 h.p- Water power still unused 10.310 " Bv storing water in lakes, water power of two cities can be carried to 18,000 h.p. 1 Number steam horses power used in L. and A. (not including heating”). 526 : Cost per day of 526 steam h. p sll9 1 Cost (ier day of 526 water horses power (according to cost in L. and A.) about $7 Annual difference 0n526h.p. in favor of water power $34,944 Reutal per day of the 8.666 improved water powers of L. and A., if all were used, about ji2s , Cost of same number steam powers (Corliss' estimate”! per day. about.. $2,000 I .Annual difference in favor of water power on number improved horse powers in L. and A., about $600,000 i Actual yearly rental on cost of 4.866 water h. p. now used in L. and A.. about $22,626 i Actual yearly cost of the same num ber steam power $341,000 Aetna! annual saving in the manufac tures of L. and A., by use of water instead of steam power $318,374 The first election that occurs in 1572 is in New Hampshire. She votes for a Governor and Legislature on the second Tuesday in March. She had beeu Re publican for seventeen long years by small majorities, but in March, 1871, aided by local issues, the Democracy unexpected ly carried her, choosing their Governor and all three of her members of Con gress. Gov. Weston is again the Demo cratic candidate, and his friends have high hopes of his success by a fair ma jority. Mr. A. S. Johnson, of the firm of Johnson, Crews A Cos., has been elected a Director of the Bank of Charleston. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. A paragraph is floating around through the newspapers stating that “ the elec toral vote for the next President will be cast upon the basis of the old appor tionment of two hundred and forty-three members of Congress, instead of the new one of two hundred and eighty three and that “ practically the South and West will be denied the increased vote for President which the census of 1870 shows them to be entitled to.” The Cincinnati Enquirer shows that this impression is erroneous. That paper says : “In 1830 the United States census was taken, and in 1832 the Presidential election was held under the new Appor tionment made in pursuance of it. It w-as not held under the Apportionment of 1820. In 1852, when Pierce and King were chosen President and Vice-Presi dent, the election was conducted under the Apportionment bill that had been passed in pursuance of the new census taken in 1850, and not under that of 1840. Now, in 1872, we are in exactly the same position that we were in 1852 and 1832. Anew census has been taken a n ew Apportionment bill passed eight months before the Presidential election, and the election must be in accordance j with it. In November most of the j States choose new Congressmen, and no I one disputes that they are to be elected j under the new Apportionment. It would ! be singular indeed, if, on that day, in i November, 1872, we should vote for Con- ! gressmen under the apportionment of 1870, and for Presidential Electors under that of 1860, both the new Congress and President to take their seats on the 4th day of March, 1873. This suits the view’s of the East and old Atlantic States that have declined in representa tion, but not the growing West, and the South which have relatively increased on account of the negroes, now for the first time having a full representation, instead of five to three, as heretofore. ” [From the World. ) A FIGHT IN THE PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION—GRANT ALARMED. There is a lively fight going on among the Pennsylvania Radical Senators and members of Congress over the appoint ment of a Collector for the Port of Philadelphia. The President was be sieged all day by the advocates of the different aspirants, but no two of them agreed as to the proper man. It is very j evident that if Grant makes an appoint ment from the politicians he will create ! a division in the party, the reform wing, ! which has gained considerable strength in the State, being against the politi ! cians. If, on the other hand, he selects a person outside the politicians he will ; incur the displeasure of the latter. In t any case he is certain to make trouble for himself. To avoid the dilemma he made a strong effort to have Forney re main, but the latter has refused to with draw his resignation. It is understood that Grant will consult his personal friends in Philadelphia, like Borie, and will take an outside man. The Pres ident is a good deal alarmed at the tone of Forney’s letter of resignation, and still more at his refusal to visit the White House when Grant sent for him. This, he thinks, looks like rebellion, if it is not the actual thing itself. The allusion to the necessity for conciliation between Grant and the dissatisfied Re publicans, like Sumner and Greeley, in the Washington dispatch to the Press, which is believed to have passed under Forney’s supervision and to meet his ap proval, is another cause of alarm. Grant thinks that Forney asks him to do what is simply impossible, especially as re gards Sumner, and he is not at all pleased with Forney’s friendship of twenty years’ standing with the Senator 1 j from Massachusetts. But behind all this the President is aware of the fact that in the State of Pennsylvania there | is a growing element in the Republican party, composed of such men as Colonel McClure, hostile to his renomination, and he is afraid it is about to he rein forced by Forney. The assurances of Forney’s continued support of the ad i ministration do not by any means soothe Grant’s agitation, or quell his fears. He evidently has grave doubts ns to the sincerity of the profession. No event of a minor character that lias hap ! pened for some time past has done so much to shake the faith of Grant’s friends in his renomination as Forney’s resignation. The Way Amnesty is Defeated. —It is announced that the Radicals in the Senate have resolved to defeat every Amnesty bill as they did the last, by tacking to it Mr. Sumner’s bill, making prejudice against the negro a criminal offense. The injustice of this course is only equalled by its hypocricy. Mr. Sumner’s bill is one that the Radical party do not want to pass. They can pass it any moment. They passed it as an amendment the other day, by the easting vote of Colfax ; but when it was thus made part of the Amnesty bill, it fell with that bill, for want of a two tliirds vote. Thus the Radical majority deprive the negro of what they say are his rights, by not passing Sumner’s bill by a majority vote, but merely putting it into an Amnesty bill, which thus j loaded is sure to fall for want of a two third i vote. This trickery affords a cheap display of zeal for the negro, and a w illingness to pass an Amnesty bill. ] Y r et both are spurious, as any one may | see who will consider the facts we have j ! mentioned. There never was a time at j j which the passage of a liberal Amnesty j bill would be more appropriate than now. ; It would fortify this country with a true restoration of the Union, and make us ! twice as formidable to foreign powers. I But the passage of an Amnesty bill re- I commended by President Grant in his ; i message to this very Congress is defeat- i j ed by his own party in it—and by a pal ! try trick. The Age. i : Endorsinothe Movement. —Ex-Secre- j i tarv Cox and Judge Stanley Mathews, of 1 Cincinnati, are among the endorsers of j | the Liberal Republican movement. In i | a card published in the St. Louis Re- j | publican, they say* that they fully en- I ! dorse the movement, and sympathize ! with the views and purposes which die ; tated the call of the mass convention j which is to assemble in Cincinnati. The I indications now are decidedly i a the di ! rection that Grant will have very f ew if : any, supporters outside of his list of of fice-holders and their immediate friends. 1 ! The indications of oppositions in the ; ranks of his own party are of a I character so marked that they would | induce a man of ordinary discretion to withdraw from the canvass ; but they will have no such influence upon the stolid man at the White House. His theory is to ruin, if he cannot rule ; and unless there is much deception i u the ! popular pulse, he will do both. He will I rule the party to its ruin—a work in \ which we wish him all possible success, j The party cannot get rid of him if it i Would. Well Pet. —Lord Redesdale, who is the son of an eminent lawyer, has pro pounded in Parliament this question, which he evidently deems “ a poser “If A and B, partners, sue C for fraud, and defendant, C, proves that B, one of the plaintiffs, acted with him in committing the fraud, whether such proof would not be a complete answer and debar all damages ? Applying this t-o questions at issue with the United States, he argned that the North and South are now partners in the Alabama claims. If the law in the case of per sons was good, it ought to hold in regard to nations. Lord Granville said the discussion of the Treaty of Washington at the present juncture was undesirable, and he declined to answer the question. ” AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28. 1872. AMNESTY. It is now said that action upon the Amnesty bill will be deferred until a bill similar to Mr. Sumner’s civil rights amendment to Senator Robertson’s bib shall pass the House of Representatives. Such a measure is now in process of preparation, and will be introduced in a few days. If this is permitted by the friends of amnesty to pass the House, it is said that Sumner, Morton & Cos. will yield their opposition to amnesty. We trust that such a promise, however desirable general amnesty may be, will not induce the true men of the House to vote for such a monstrosity as that proposed by Mr. Sumner. A CANDID CONFESSION. The salient point in the French arms ! scandal is that the Government armo i ries were employed, by authority of | Gen. Grant’s Administration, to manu | faeture cartridges for the use of the i French in the aggressive war they open jed in 1870 against the Germans. There are other startling features about it, ! which the debate yesterday made j clearer, but this is the one point which j is admitted by all sides.—2V. 1". Tribune. i This is rather a bad showing for the i Government which is pressing so vigor ! ously the Alabama claims upon Great | Britain, and must have a very disas ; trous effect upon those claims. If the charges made by Mr. Sumner be true — and the main fact is admitted—it would seem that at the very time the representatives of this Government and that of Great Britain were engaged in preparing a treaty through which the claims of the former against the hitter, for a breach of international law in per mitting the Alabama aud other Con federate cruisers to be fitted out in her ports, could be adjusted and settled, Gen. Grant was actively engaged in shipping arms aud ammunition to the Government of France for carrying on a war with Prussia, although our Gov ernment was at peace with both the contending parties and professed■ a strict neutrality towards each. The friends of General Grant in the Senate were very much opposed to Mr. Sumner’s resolution .providing for a committee to investigate these trans actions, but will no doubt be compelled to permit tlie inquiry to be made. Some of the Administration papers say this attempt to investigate the ac tion of our Government in this matter “is as bad as treason,” and pour forth vollies of abuse upon those Republican Senators who favor Mr. Sumner’s reso lution. But the matter has now gone so far that to stop would be worse than to go on, and hence a few of the weaker kneed adlierants of Grant will be in duced to vote for the proposition. IF GRANT COULD BE SHELVED, WH AT ? [Correspondence of tlie World.] Washington, February 16.—1n a re cent article we pointed out the facts which it seems to us must convince every intelligent observer that the President lias the power to force his own nomina tion in any Republican Convention. To those who have not reflected upon these facts it may seem strange that a few men by no means conspicuous as early Republicans, though opposed by many of the strongest statesmen of that party, are able thus to hold it under complete control. The secret is in the solid mas tery of the Administration over the par ty in rotten-borough States. It is in the combination of corrupt rings in those States and reaching over the country, enriching themselves by legislation, by monopolies, by tariffs, by railroads, by railroad grants, by banking privileges, by control of the Government in many forms, and sustaining their mastery of a dominant party through conventions in a sufficient number of States. So long as this power remains unbroken all the protests of Reform Republicans amount to nothing. Schurz may plead eloquent ly for reform of civil service ; Trumbull may denounce the iniquities of a protec tive tariff; Ferry may demand a return to the constitutional ideas of local self government. These and many more may demand as earnestly as they can resto ration of liberty to the South by com plete amnesty, but all their efforts are in vain. The people may hear, but no party convention will. The people may decide against them. Assurance that the people will decide against them may bring to their side other strong but more cautious men, such as Morton or Wilson. But, nevertheless, no matter how public opinion may sustain them, they will inevitably be overmastered in any Republican Convention by office holders and the men whom they sent there to do the will of their paymaster general. In view of these facts it becomes ap parent that even if the nomination of j President Grant could be prevented in a j Republican Convention nothing would |be gained. Even if the corrupt ring 1 which now controls the party could be | convinced that his election was impos | sible, and therefore persuaded to throw I him overboard, there would still remain { the same compact power, the same ab | solute mastery in convention, and the ! S ame utter indifference to the popular will or to any demands for reform. Another man might be taken, less con spicuous, less identified with offensive measures or policies, but the same power would control his nomination and would | select the man, not with regard to public ! interests, but with a single eye to his i OWII private advantage. No matter who ! ma y be selected, we may rest assured ! that the candidate dictated to a Repub lican Convention by this combination will be a man over whom the comip- ( tionists know that they have complete power. They are not ignorant of the men with whom they have to deal; they ; know the side-doors and back-stairs to the minds of many public men, and can 1 easily pick one whose reputation before | ! the public has been little assailed, but | over whom they have a mastery as abso -1 lute as they have over Grant himself. It is well to remember that as to all questions of public policy the President j jg a mere dummy, used as they may please bv meii whose interests govern their action. Who has ever suspected j pim of having an independent opinion upon the finances, the tariff', or other , questions of grave national importance. 1 Driven by one influence to-day to pledge himself to a civil sendee reform, he is as easily driven by another in- fluence to-morrow to set aside that re form for an indefinite period. 'The only part of it for which he cares is in any event secured. The reform itself was l judiciously so framed as to keep his relatives in office. What will it matter if instead of Grant the same combina tion which now rules the Republican partv in so many States shall please to Is,q e et some facile tool like Colfax, ! Blaine or Wilson ? What matter if with great show of yielding to popular dis satisfaction the troops of the Adminis • tration are vanquished and the same I managers, considering among themselves ! -what man they can control whose pros pects of election are best, shall select that man, and set him up for Republi can support ? In anv event, then, the same combina tion of plunderers will control the Re publican party and its convention, will dictate its nomination, will shape its platform, and, if it shall still be sus tained bv the people, will control the Government for another Presidential term. It is time that this should be well understood. Democrats realize it. Re publicans who are in earnest for reform i may in part understand it ; but many of I them, if they may be judged by recent outgivings, seem rather disposed to con centrate their fire upon the President as an individual thap upon the ring •of which he is a representative. But re taining this course they will find them selves utterly powerless if at the last moment the candidate should be changed, and will not have learned how strong a public opinion already exists to which they might with safely appeal against that combination, no matter by whom it may be represented. We do not believe that President Grant can in any event be driven from the field. His advisers, full of that over-confidence which blind ness causes, naturally rely most implicit ! ly upon the continued power of war prejudices to excite and control the pop ular mind. That they have the power to dictate the nomination has been shown, J and they will find it difficult, if not j impossible, to change tlieir own plans ! before the convention meets. But if by j any chance tlmse managers, who rep re; j sent the comoinations controlling the Republican party in many States, should ! at the last moment decide to change ; the candidate, a severe test will be ap plied to the Republican reformers ; they j will then be forced to show, perhaps too late for their own convenience, whether they care more for principle than for I personal advantage. If they are true to i principle and sincerely maintain that | the advancement of great reforms is of more importance than a party victory, they will not be swerved from their pur pose by the removal of one prominent candidate, but will go forward only the more vigorously to assail and to crash the unscrupulous and plundering com binations by which that candidate was controlled. But if, caring less for principle than for party success, they yield and fall into the ranks, they will lose whatever of public ■Confidence their apparent independence of conduct has gained: they will support once more the same combination, so dangerous to the public welfare and to the safety of free government; they will place for four years more the power in the hands of men who use it only for private ad vantage. Before another term has closed it may be that the progressive corrup tion and demoralization of the public service will have rendered impossible that overthrow of misrule which may now be so surely reached by wisdom and courage. It is in view of these facts that Dem ocrats throughout the country naturally hesitate before committing themselves to any untried experiment. They feel that they ought to know whether the Republicans, who proclaim their readi ness to take the field, are indeed un flinching in hostility to the corrupt com binations which now control the Gov ernment, to the dangerous measures re cently adopted, and to the unjust and unwise policies which have thus far had sanction from a Republican majority. If this is the character of their opposi tion the Democrats may, indeed, go very far to encourage and strengthen it; but if they are only animated by per sonal antagonism to Grant, and care only for his personal defeat, it is not impossible that at the last moment they may accept another candidate not more truly attached to any reform, not less completely in the hands of corrupt com binations, and only the more dangerous because the more adroit and shrewd. In this respect the’Missouri Liberal plat form has wisely ignored the personal aspect of the case, and has assailed, not the President or the existing adminis tration, but the policies and measures which have characterized the dominant faction. It remains to be seen whether Republicans from other States, joining with them in consultation, will take a stand equally firm and manly, and com mit themselves unreservedly to genuine and thorough reforms. Without such declaration and action, suited to the circumstances and the time, the earnest popular desire for practical results, broader and more important than any change in the personal administration of the Government, will not be satisfied. Dawn. The Men of IVall Street. [Eli Perkins, in New York Commercial.] “ Who are some of the great operators on the street ?” I asked of the com mittee. “ Henry Smith is the Tony Morse and John Tobin of the market now. He fights Daniel Drew. About Chicago fire time he was a great bear on the market. He sold a good deal of stock then and made $1,500,000 on the fall. Now he is bulling the market. (Bulls toss up and bears scratch down.) Mr. Smith has an art gallery, a steam yacht, and nice horses. He says he is anxious to take Eli Perkins out to drive, and show him his nice pictures. “ Daniel Drew is a big and sure op erator. When he handles a certain stock, he carries enough of it to control the market. Lately he has dealt largely in Northwestern. After the Chicago fire he invested largely in Northwestern at 52, and he is now selling ‘ puts’ against himself at 62. He has sold 50,000,000 of ‘ puts’ against himself since the fire, and has made $500,000. “ James M. Banker, Vice-President of the Bank of New York, is known as the leader of the Vanderbilt clique. He held a large amount of stock at the time of the Chicago fire, wnich he kept and finally sold to Henry Smith at a low price. They think on the street that Mr. Smith, now that he has got his 1 shorts’ all ‘ covered,’ should present Mr. Banker with a set of silver. “ Richard Schell is another member of the Vanderbilt clique. He has made the bulk of his fortune since Vanderbilt became king. His ‘ forte,’ in case he is interested in any stock, is to guarantee the holders of that stock against the whole loss for one half the profits. He is also noted for selling ‘ puts’ and ‘calls’ upon a certain day. “ Rufus Hatch is a large operator, but more recently his time and money lias been taken up with Maj. Selover and T. B. Musgrove .in backing Dr. Ewer in ritualism. Mr. Hatch has expended in ritualism $27,000, Maj. Selover $13,000, and Mr. Musgrove $7,000. After fur nishing Dr. Ewer with money to practice his ritualism on, they have suddenly deserted him, and the poor Doctor has no money to buy candles with. Mr. Hatch used to be associated with Henry Keep. “ A. Boody, the builder of the Wabash Railroad, and now the President of it, is a successful operator. Mr. Boody’s * business tact arid splendid executive talents have built up the road, and made i its securities sought after by friend and foe. “ Russel Sage is Vice-President of the Milwaukee <fc St. Paul Railroad. He has made a large fortune, mostly through dealing in St. Paul. Fe knows every 1 point’ about the stock. His motto is ‘ Now, by St. Paul!,’ “ Mr. Stockwell is the son-in-law of the late Elias Howe, of sewing machine fame. He is a bold operator, manipu lates Pacific Mail, and recently succeed ed in ‘ ousting’ the old Board of Diree j tore of that company. He don’t know which is the biggest thing—Howe’s sewing machines or the Pacific Mail Steamship. Some of the brokers say he is about to consolidate the two, so the stock will be quoted. ‘ Sexring Machines consolidated with Pacific Mail.’ ” Chief Justice Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, a prominent Radical of that State, has xvntten a letter on the political situation, m which he says : “As to the personal administration of Grant, I do not like his acceptance, prior to his inauguration, of munificent presents from men distin guished for nothing but their wealth, and then appointing those same men to office. Ido not like his shameless nepo tism ; his apparently intimate and con tinuous associations xvith stock-jobbers ; his project for the purchase of St. Domingo ; his ostracism of such men as Sumner, Hoar and Cox, and the substi tution, as his confidential advisers, of men in whose ability and political purity a discriminating public has far less con fidence. I Jo not like his official pro fessions in favor of eivil service reform, when contrasted with the fact thathe made the places of the only members of his Cabi net, who seemed to be heartily and prac tically in favor of such reform, too hot for them ; nor do I like the revelations recently made through the medium of a reluctant committee, as to the character of the administration of the New York Custom House, nor his fulsome endorse ment of its late A Remedy fob Wsiioo'rsa Cocgh. The “whoop” of chififren is heard at every comer in Knoxville. A medical ; journal states that five or six visits, of about fifteen minutes’ duration each, to the purifying room of the gas works, will certainly cure the most obstinate case of whooping cough. The sugges tion is worth a trial, — Pre%eandHmakl. FROM COLUMBIA. Proceedings of the Legislature—Tlie Republican Nominating Convention— The Radical Platform—List of Dele gates and Alternates to the National Convention. [Special Telegram to the Courier.] Columbia, February 20. • In the House the following bills were introduced : Bill to create anew coun ty from Edgefield, to be called Saluda county; bill to incorporate the Fire man’s Union (colored), of Charleston. In the Senate, a bill was introduced to provide foi the sale by Countv Auditors of all lands purchased by the Land Com missioner at one dollar per acre. The following bills passed a third reading : Bill to incur))orate Journeymen Me chanics’ Union, of Charleston ; bill to incorporate the Raleigh, Columbia and Augusta Railroad ; also, to incorporate the Bull River and Port Royal Railroad. The Republican Nominating Conven tion is still by the ears, and very little progress has been made towards 'effect ing a nomination. Hendricks was seat ed from Charleston in the morning ses sion. Scott was invited to a seat on the floor, and coming in made a short speech, which was received in silence. A great deal of abuse and wrangling oc cupied the Convention until 7 p. m., when the following nominations were made by various Congressional Districts: First District, Delegates, S. A. Swails, H. J. Maxwell and William H. Jones, all colored; Alternates, B. F. Whitte more, F. H. Frost anil J. P. Green; Second District, E. W. M. Mackey, Robert Smalls and Geo. T. Mclntyre ; Alternates, J. N. Hayne, C. D. Hayue and P. P. Hedges ; Third District, no nominations ; Fourth District, J. M. Allen, J. J. Patcerson and T. J. Mackey ; Alternates, June Mobley, Joe Crews and P. J. O’Connell. Speaker Moses was elected permanent President, and received unanimous re commendation from First and Fourth Districts as delegate for the State at Large. The Second District recom mends Ransier for the same position. The platform of the Convention has been prepared by T. J. Mackey, and will be presented to-night. It endorses Grant’s Administration, and returns thanks to the Congress and to Grant for enforcing the Ku-Klux acts, and thereby disbanding an organization of the Democratic party to break up freespeech and free ballot. It protests against the Federal appointments of the past three years, which they say were made upon misrepresentations of Senator Sawyer, whereby the Republican party has been wounded in its own household, anil in structs the delegates to advocate the adoption of a clause in the National platform in favor of a rigid enforcement of universal civil rights for everybody. The election of delegates is progress ing under a most terrible confusion. In the First District the ticket nominated was elected. In the Second District the ticket was elected after a long straggle and attempt to substitute Wliipper for Mclntyre. In the Third District the nominations are as follows : R. B. El liott, J. L. Orr and W. B. Nash ; al ternates, S. J. Lee, L. Cain and C. M. Wilder. This was adopted. In the Fourth District the ticket nominated was elected. For the State at large, F. J. Moses, Jr., and A. J. Ransier. Pardons Not to bf. Had foe tiie Asking.—The application to Governor Smith, to which the following letter is in answer, was made on behalf of a man who swindled a warehouseman of Macon out of ten dollars, and was sentenced to pay a fine therefor. We think-the peo ple of Georgia will agree that the Gov ernor has taken the proper stand, and that a firm adherence to it will be bene ficial in the preventation of -crime : Executive Dep’t, State of Ga., \ Atlanta, February 5, 1872- ) John E. Weems. Esq., Macon, Ga. : Deae Sie—l am directed by his Excel lency, the Governor, to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 3d in stant, with tlie endorsement of Hon. C. B. Cole, asking that one-lialf of the fine imposed by Judge Cole on one Henry Smith be remitted, and to say that the trial and punishment of viola tors of the law are left properly with the courts, and that he does not feel disposed to interfere with their action except in cases of manifest error. Your self and Judge Cole are recognized offi cers of the Court by which said Smith was tried anil sentenced —you as the prosecuting officer, and he as the pre siding Judge. As officers of the law, | you both acted under the solemn sanc j tion of an oath. As petitioners asking I for the remission of part of the sentence sought by the one and pronounced by the other, you are doubtless influenced by feelings of sympathy alike natural and honorable. His Excellency, how ever, feels constrained to abide by your official action, and to allow the law to have its course. Veiy truly yours, P. W. Alexander, Secretary Executive Dep’t. How Immigration Is Promoted.—We j clip the following paragraph from the j last number of Appleton’s Journal: ‘ ‘ The amount of money sent across the water by immigrants to friends left behind, principally to pay their passage to America, is rather surprising. From the official returns of the Emigration I Commissioners of England, it appears [ that in 1870 there was sent from this j country, to Ireland principally, $3,630,- ! 040 in gold, of which $1,063,190 was for pre-paid passages. In the twenty-three : years, from 1848 to 1870, inclusive, this j is upward of $81,670,000 in gold, being j an average of about $3,889,047 yearly. ! But this amount is probably somewhat I below the actual amount sent, as it only ! includes what has been sent through i banks and commercial houses. Os what | ever may have been sent through pri [ vate channels there is no knowledge.” Is Your Name Brown ?—London lias recently sustained a bereavement in the person of a lady of the not unfamiliar name of Brown. Some time back she offered the Metropolitan Board of Works : §250,000 if it would make a contem- ! plated alteration in a street in a manner j she wished, but they were unable to accede to her wishes. She generously offered them $30,000 for the erection of a drinking fountain to be placed at the end of the street in which she lived, and this was about to be erected. The Board also communicated with her about public baths, which she intended : to erect at a cost of $50,000, when sud- 1 I denly pallida mors, who had taken some ; time coming, for Mrs. Brown was ninety, j stepped in and dissipated her benevo- i ! lent intention. She died intestate, leav- j iug an estate of $50,000 a year, and without a human relative. It is there- j fore stated that the property will go to the Crown, but as there are several j Browns about it will be hard if one of j - that enterprising and übiquitous fami- | ly can’t substantiate a claim. Perhaps j ! some of the American branch of the | clan will think it worth while looking ! up their pedigrees. Dr. Leiber has anew story of Wash i ington, coming to him from France ' through Laboulave. Jefferson one day visited Washington, and full as Jeffer son was of French views and ideas of j politics and everything else, he zealously i attacked the system of two Houses of J Congress. General Washington replied ! that Jefferson was much better informed than himself upon such topics, but that he himself would adhere to the experi- j I ence of English and American history : > | “You, Tourself,”said the General, “have provei the excellence of two Houses, , this very moment.” “I,” said Jeffer | son, “how is that ?” “You have,’’re plied the heroic sage, “ poured your hot tea from the cup into the saucer to cool j it. It is the same thing we desire of the two Houses.” Newspaper Collector Wasted. —A I Texas exchange advertises as follows : i “Wanted, at this office, an able-bodied, hard-featured, bad-tempered, not-to-be | put-off, and not-to-be-backed-down-frec kled-face young man to collect, for this paper; must furnish his own horse, saddle bags, pistolß, whisky, bowie-knife and cow-hide. We will furnish the accounts. To such we promise constant and labori j ous employment. ” Here is an excellent i place for an industrious young man who is willing to take a “ soft place.” I A “ joke” is credited to an American ! visitor in England : “Wall, stranger,” he is reported to have said, “I guess ' vou English juries aint smart no how. I If an American jury had tried the Tich j borne case, I’ll tell you what they’d have I done : They’d just bought up all the j Tichbome bonds, and then found aver- I diet for the plaintiff. ” [From the Atlanta Sun. | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUA RY 13, 1872. Tuesday the Court met according to a j former adjournment, at the room of ; Warner, C. J., a full bench being pres | ent. The judgments in the following easels, which had been argued before Warner, C. J., and MeCay, J., were then deliver ed. The synopsis following were announc ed from the bench this morning ; Charles Davis, el. at., vs. James Gurley. Trespass, from Union. Warner, C. J. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, con taining two counts, one for the interfering with his right of common of pasturage on lands granted by the State, in the county of Union, aud to recover dam ages for killing his stock. There was a demnrrer to the declaration, which the Court overruled, and in our judgment properly overruled. On the trial of the case, after hearing the evidence and charge of the Court, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $125. A mo tion was made for anew trial, which was overruled by the Court, and the de fendants excepted. There is no evidence in the record that the defendants killed the plaintiff’s stock, which would, un der the law, authorize the jury to find a verdict against them ; that the unlawful interference with one’s right of common of pasturage is actionable when the i right exists, is undoubtedly true ; but the difficulty with the plaintiff in this j case is that the evidence on the record j does nfit establish such right of common of pasturage against the defendants, or if it does, that the defendants have un- j lawfully interfered with it. Let the judgment of the Court below j be reversed. C. J. Wellborn, J. S. Fain, H. P. j Bell, by G. N. Lester, for plaintiff in ; error ; Wm. Boyd, contra. John Saterfield el. a/., vs. James Randall ' et. al. Ejectment, from Lumpkin. Warner, C. J. This was an action of ejectment to re cover the possession of a tract of land in Lumpkin county. On the trial of the j case the defendant claimed the land for some years undercolor of title and claim of right. Whether the defendant’s pos session, under the law, was a question of fact for the j ury, and if they had found a verdict for the defendant we should not have been disposed to disturb it, but under the charge of the Court, the jury could not well have done otherwise than have found a verdict for the plaintiff. The Court charged the jury that if they believed from the evidence that the lot of land was not adapted to agricultural cultivation, but was chiefly valuable for timber and mining purposes, then they could consider whether the use and oc cupation which defendant had enjoyed was equivalent to such actual posses sion as would be the foundation of a prescriptive title either for seven years without title, but such use and occupa tion must be continuous, that is, from I day to day, month to month, and from year to year. This charge of the Court, in view of the evidence in the record, was error, and anew trial should have been granted. Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed. Weir Boyd, for plaintiff in error. H. P. Bell, contra. I. W. Brown, et. al., vs. E. B. Wells. Ejectment, Lumpkin. Warner, C. J. This was an action of ejectment to re cover the possession of a lot of land in Lumpkin county. The plaintiff showed a regular chain of title to the premises in dispute from the State. The defend ant claimed a title to the land under the statute of limitation, or a statutory right by prescription. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and the Court below granted anew trial, whereupon the plaintiff excepted. It appears from the evidence in the record that Williams went into posses sion of the land as a mere squatter, with out color of title. Williams sold the land to Nicholson, and made him a quit claim title. Nicholson and Wm. W. Williams conveyed the land to Wade, aud Francis Wade conveyed the land to Wells, the defendant, who lived about a mile from the land, and, in the language of one of the witnesses, Wells, of course, knew all about tlie facts of Williams, Nicholson, and Wade’s claim to the land. Wade knew that the land did not belong to him, but claimed it. Wells knew how the land was all tho time. The point in the case is, whether the defendant, under the evidence, was a purchaser of a mere squatter’s title, or whether he was a purchaser of a bona fide claim of right to the land. If he knew at the time of the purchase that he was only purchasing a mere squatter's title, he stands in no better condition than the original squatter as against the title of the true owner of the land, and we think there is sufficient evidenoe in the record to sustain the verdict of the jury on this point in the case, and that the* Court below erred in setting the ver dict aside, and in granting anew trial. A mere squatter on a lot of land, with out color of title or claim of right, can not defeat the title of the true owner by conveying the land to other purchasers, who have lull knowledge of the nature and character of the title when they purchase it, although they may have been in possession of it for seven years under such title. The law will not per mit the true owner to be defrauded of the land in that way. Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed. W. P. Bell, for plaintiff in error ; Weir Boyd, contra. H. G. Cole et ah, vs. Levi Long et al. j Ejectment, from Gilmer. Warner, C. J. This was an action of ejectment to re cover the possession of a lot of land in Gilmer county. Both parties claimed to derive their title to the land from Mary | Myers, the drawer—the one by a deed from Mary Myers, and the other by a deed from the heirs at law of Mary Myers. The deed of Mary Myers, under j which the defendant claimed title, was attacked on the ground that it was a ' forgery, and evidence was introduced before”the jury as to that fact. The de fendant also relied on a proscriptive ! title of seven years’ possession under j claim of right under color of title. The \ jury found a verdict in favor of the de- j fendant, but whether they found on the | proscriptive title of possession, or , whether they found that the defendant’s titles from Mary Myers was not a for gery under the charge of the Court, the record is silent, A motion was made for [ anew trial on general grounds, and especially on the ground that the Court erred in charging the jury in relation to ' the forged deed, which was overruled by ; the Court, and the plaintiff excepted. The Court charged the jury, “But if you are satisfied from the evidence that j the deed from Mrs. Myers to William Jones is a forgery, then the deed is a ! nullity to all parties having notice of such forgery.” The charge of the Court to the jury was error, If the deed was a forgery, than it did not pass the title to the land of Mary Myers, and notice , of the forgery- was not necessary to make it a nullity. In view of the facts contained in the record of this case, and the error in the charge of the Court as to the forged deed, we think anew trial should have been granted. Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed. H. P. Bell, for plaintiff in error ; Wier Boyd, contra. • Eveline J. Lewis vs. A. M. Hudson. Case for Words, from Forsyth. MoCay, J. I. To render words actionable per Be, 1 it is not necessary that they should, in 1 express words, charge another with a crime punishable by law ; it is sufficient if they impute a crime in such terms as that the hearers understand that this is what is meant. 2. When the words themselves are ac tionable, as imputing a crime, an inuen do, indicating in plainer language what crime was meant, is unnecessary, and may be rejected as surplusage. Judgment reversed. H. P. Bell, G. N. Lester, J. R. Brown, J. S. Clements, for plaintiff in error. I. W. Dorsey, Henry Jackson t Bro., contra. D. S. Anderson' vs. James M. Wilson. Claim, from Cobb. MoCay, J. 1. The Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th sections of the act of the 13th October, 1870, re quiring the plaintiff in suits founded on debts contracted before the Ist es June, NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 9. 1865, to prove that all legal taxes due thereon have been paid before he is en titled to a judgment, does not apply to the plaintiff in fl fa. in a claim case. If the affidavit is made, that justifies the levy, and the claimant cannot require proof unless he make uu issue by a counter affidavit denying that the legal taxes have been paid. 2. In a claim ease, the plaintiff in fi fa. is a competent witness under the evidence act of 1866, Revised Code 3798, notwithstanding the defendant in execution may have died or become insane. The defendant has no interest in the result of trial, ex cept with the plaintiff. Judgment reversed. Lester & Thompson, for plaintiff in error. Irwin & Anderson, contra. Wood Hydraulic Hose Mining Company vs. Henry. Assumpsit, from Lump kin. McCay, J. 1. Although a corporation, as such, can do no corporate act out of the limits of the State granting its charter, yet its agents aud officers may bind it by con tracts and engagements maclo in other States, and the minutes of the board of directors may be used as evidence of tho board, even though the meetings of tho board appear to have been held out of the State chartering the corporation. 2. It is a necessary incident of a min ing corporation that it shall have power to contract and to bind itself to those dealing with it in matters within the in tent of the charter, even though the charter contains no express grant or power to contract or make debts. 3. The directors of a corporation, un less expressly restrained either by the charter or the by-laws, may exercise the ordinary powers of the corporation. 4. A corporation which, through its directors, accepts the services of another as treasurer, and ratifies and audits his accounts, in which a balance appears against tlie corporation, is bound by the admission, as a private person would be under the same circumstances. 5. When tho treasurer of a corpora tion, with the knowledge anil consent of tlie directors, raised money for tho use of the corporation, on his own credit, paying interest therefor above the legal rate, and his accounts as treasurer were audited and agreed to by the company, of extra interest appearing on the ac count, and a balance struck and agreed to as due the treasurer, a verdict of a jury for the balance, with legal interest from the date of the account, is not illegal. 6. When the Judge who presided at the trial refuses to grant anew trial, on tho ground that the verdict is contrary to the testimony, it must be a very strong case indeed to justify this Court in over-ruling the judgment. John A. Wimpy, for plaintiff in error; Geo. D. Rice, 11. P. Bell, contra. A. A. Bell vs. The Marietta Paper Mill Cos. Motion to set asido judgment of foreclosure, from Cobh. McCay, J. When, in a proceeding to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant’s plea was de fective, anil he was allowed until the next day to perfect it, and on the calling of the case the next day further time was asked for to perfect the plea, on the ground that one of the counsel, who was also interested as a party, and who alone knew the facts sufficiently to make the amendment, had, that morning, been | granted leave of absence by the Judge for the day, anil the Court refused to give the time, and allowed the rale to be made absolute, and a motion was made to set aside the judgment ; Held, That tho motion to set aside, which was heard and determined by a different Judge, ought not to have been granted without a distinct statement, supported by-affidavit, setting forth a substantial defense, and showing affirm atively that the defendant had been in jured by the absence of his counsel. Held, also, That as there is nothing in the motion to set aside the judgment, or in facts before the Judge, on the hearing of the same, to show affirma tively that, if anew trial was had, the defendant could show any substantial defense, it was error in the Court to grant the motion. Judgment reversed. A. W. Hammond & Son, for plaintiff in error; Lester & Thompson, contra. At the conclusion of reading the opin ions, McCay, J., made the following re port : The serious illness of tlie Chief Jus tice, together with the vacancy upon the bench hut just filled, has -caused the loss of three weeks of the present term. As the docket is a very heavy one, it will require the utmost economy of time to get through with the business before the first of July, when anew term with anew docket will demand our attention. It is very desirable that the present term shall not end with any case unheard. This has never yet occurred in the his tory of the Court, anti we hope it never will. We shall devote from six to seven hours a day in the hearing of cases, and instead of the usual hour devoted to consultation, we will meet for that pur pose at night. May we not ask of the members of the bar that their arguments be condensed into as brief a space as is consistent with clearness, aud that they bo strictly to the points, as made in the record V As it often happens that there is mat ter in the record of little importance to the issues made, we respectfully suggest to counsel that it is due to themselves as well as the client, that such case before it is heard, they make themselves so fa miliar with the record that they can, with facility, find and read that portion of it material to the points made. We have no desire to interfere with the discretion of counsel in their mode of presenting their cases upon the docket, and the short time now left during which they must be heard, ad monish us that special attention is due to every moans which may prevent any expenditure of time not really necessary. But a few minutes in each case, when the cases are so many, will count largely j in shortening or lengthening the term. The Great Sea Tunnel.— The tunnel under the Straits of Dover, from Eng lang to France, is at length to be com menced, a joint stock company for the purpose !laving been organized and registered in London. Two millions sterling will be required for the experi mental driftway, and the tunnel can be finished in five years for five millions sterling, working day and night from both ends. The distance is twenty-two miles, and as no shafts for ventilation are spoken of, it is understood that the plan includes two parallel tunnels witli trains running only in one direction ttiro ugh each so as to keep up a constant current of air. We entertain no doubt of the ultimate success of this plan; and when it shall have been accom plished there can be little doubt that it will ho the progenitor of other great works of the same character under the sea, just as the short sub-marine cables were the beginnings of the great Atlan tic cables. Applying this to the great problem of shortening the time oc cupied by the transit between Europe and America, we find that if a tunnel were driven under the channel to Ireland and steamers run from Galway to the coast of Newfoundland, and a tunnel connecting the latter with the mainland, via Cape Breton, the sea voy age might be reduced to three or four days, and the whole time between Lon don and New York traversed by sea and rail in about a week. Alabama Encouraging Fish Culture. —The Senate of Alabama has passed a bill to encourage fish culture in that State. It loans $5,000 to the Commis sioners (under proper bonds; already ap- I pointed, to use in such manner as they ; deem proper for the purpose of propa j gating fish. ' George S. Cameron has been re-elect ed President of the South Carolina Loan and Trust Company of Charles -1 ton. For the first time in the history of I South Car. ilina, that State has a divorce j law. The cause for granting divorce must be very serious and very clearly proved. The Warrenton (N. C.) Gazette, in publishing reminiscences of Warren county, mentions the fact that Horace Greehy was married in the Episcopal Church in that town. His wife was a teacher in the Warrenton Female Col lege, and is well remembered by many oi her old pupils, residents in that •oust?. I The Accident on the Savannah ami i Charleston Railroad. —The Savannah i News says wo have gained the following ; particulars in regard to the accident on { this road, mentioned in our issue of yes- I terday morning. The train left Charles | ton at 8.15 a. m., and arrived at tho Savannah river bridge at 8:30 p. m., j where the conductor was notified by tho j bridge watchman that the piling of a j portion of the bridge had been disturbed |by the lodgment of a cypress tree against it. The train had been run to within a few yards of the bridge, and Capt. S. K. Slawson, in view of this in- J formation, considered it imprudent to run the train over before examination. In company with the engineer, ho exam ined the bridge, and considered it safe, but with cautiousness that reflects cred it upon him, decided upon a trial first, | before risking the lives of those in his | charge. He had the engine detached, and j mounting, with the engineer, proceeded | to test it. The locomotive had made but a few revolutions when the track and j piling gave way, carrying about fifty feet of tho trestlework and tho engine and tender. The conductor and fire man caught on the trestlework (the tender nearly striking them as it was swung around), and climbed upon tho remaining part of the bridge. The en gineer and wood-passer sprang into the river and were carried some distauce down the stream by the svrift current, and were a quarter of a mile below tho scene of accident when they were over taken by tho bridge watchman and a negro, who went to their rescue in a batteau. In jumping, the wood-passer was severely bruised above tho knees, by striking on the floating timbers. The Captain and fireman were rescued by the passengers. The alarm and con sternation of the passengers, consisting of twenty-three gentlemen, three ladies and ten negroes, can be hotter imagined than described. Even in tho midst of such peril there were ludicrous inci dents, and among them we hoar of two United States officers jumping through the car windows. Tho trestle work at this point extends four miles ; to avoid further mishaps, those on the train backed the ears one by one to a place of safety. The Farmer and Gardener. —The sec ond volume of this excellent Southern agricultural anij horticultural journal commenced with the number of Febru ary 10th. From its first issue to the present it has steadily improved in all the charac teristics essential to the establishment of a first-class journal for the garden, the farm or the household; and we are glad to know that it meets with such fa vor from all parts of the South. Tho editorial department is still presided over by Mr. P. J. Berckmans, who is as sisted by several able Southern writers —Mr. H. \V. Ravenel, of South Caroli na; Prof. Buckley, of Texas, &c. Asa guide and instructor to those engaged in gardening or farming in the South, as well as for its usefulness ns a house hold visitor, we consider its presence in dispensable in every family. It is pub lished semi-monthly for $1 per annum. Address the publisher, E. H. Gray, Au gusta, Ga. Serious Conflagration in Savannah. —From the Republican we learn that a fire occurred in that city on Saturday night, resulting in about $20,009 loss. The fire originated in the establishment of A. Sehlessinger, wholesale grocer and commission merchant, occupying the second floor of the building. His large stock of groceries, bacon, etc., was com pletely destroyed, upon which there rests an insurance of $3,000 in the agen cy of Mr. Henry Woolbridge. The building, which has been very seriously damaged by fire and water, is insured for $5,000 in the above agency, and also for an amount in other agencies, which will probably cover the loss of the build ing. Such were the apprehensions of the spread of the flames that the entire fire department turned out. The dam age done will not exceed $20,000. The Negro Ku-Kltjx. —Tho Circuit Court which convened in Yorkville, S. C., on Monday of last week adjourned on Friday. Tho negro Ku-Ivlux, Major Joe Carter and his gang, who commited such gross outrages last Winter, were tried and convicted. The. notorious “Major” was sentenced to livo years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary ; the “Captain” to three years, and others of the gang to terms of imprisonment vary ing from a few months to one year. Snider, the policeman who shot Tom Johnson in Yorkville last year, was ac quitted. Peter Culp, indicted for tho murder of his wife, was convicted, and sentenced to be hanged on the second Friday in March. Destruction of the Southern Metho dist Book Concern. —A destructive lire broke out in the building of the South ern Methodist Book Concern, in Nash ville, about one o’clock, lust Thursday morning. We extract the following ac count from the Union and American : The fire commenced in the bindery, and as the house was closed since (> o’clock, yesterday evening, its origin is not known. This was the individual property of John Loeken, of Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, and was uninsured, though the building belonged to the company. The loss in machinery, etc., to this department, amounts to over $20,000. There had been an insur ance on this until the present year. Under the bindery were the press rooms and stereotyping department of the company, the contents of which, to gether with some small account books, and the library of Dr. T. O. Summers, containing some of the most valuable volumes in the South, were destroyed. The fire was checked when it reached the rear of the book house, on which there is an insurance of SIO,OOO, equally divided between the Andes and Tennes see companies. This building sustains no damage. What the loss will be can not at present bo arrived at. Printing material, the composing room, etc., with machinery and books, were burned. In cluding the above amount on the build ing uninjured, the company had $50,000 insurance on the stock and buildings de stroyed. This amount will not approxi mate the value of the buildings and stock. Small-Pox in Norfolk.—The Norfolk (Va.; Journal says that there are now several cases of small-pox at the hospital in thatcity, all colored persons, and adds that a strong prejudice against vaccina tion exists among that class of the popu lation. It says: They have a notion that the object of the doctors is to inoculate them with the small-pox, and resist and defy them when they atttempt to vaccinate them.- One of the physicians appointed by * Board of Health to perform this duly had i to employ the services of a policeman, ■ '* I few days ago, and succeeded with the aid of the officer in vaccinating erui colored people, almost by iorce. j ' - dicrous scenes occur when a 1 visits some of The inmates of their 11 u oor doors, and retreating to th PP > ,t u,;s"cuU». “hi. »i,d. &„cn filled «|th J'”" told them by their parents, fly m horror from the doctor* It is reported that Milos Leatherwood the notorious scoundrel who murdered General John Morgan was accidently burned to death in Polk county, l’enu., recently. We have no further parti culars and would not like to make in quiries, lest the story should turn out not to be so.— Mobile Register. Cumming has had a whirlwind, attend* ed with electrical appearances.
