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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28.
TilK INCOME TAX.
The Committee of Ways ami Moans
have decided to retain the present in
come tax. There is no reason, there
fore, to doubt that this tax will be col
lected at the rate of 21 per cent, upon
all inoomes over two thousand dollars.
SUING FOR PEACE.
President Grant, being evidently
alarmed at the probable defection of
Forpev, invited him to dine at the White
House on Monday, and, it is said, so
licited him to name his successor to the
Philadelphia Collectorship. The Pruts
still maintains an ominous silence in re
gard to the Presidential nomination.
IMPORTANT TO INVENTORS.
I— ,
The prize of one hundred thousand
dollars, offered by the State of New York
for a satisfactory improvement in the
method of propelling canal boats, has
not yet lieen awarded, and the field is
still open for competition.
sale of arms to the french.
A Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, says the following
points have been established by the de
bate in the Senate on Mr. Sumner’s reso
lution for a Committee of Investigation :
1. ft is established that in the face of,
repeated warnings and protests from
German residents, and especially (in
private) from Mr. Hchurz, our Govern
ment sold arms to the agents of France
while that country was at war with Ger
many.
2. After Remington’s connection will:
the French Government became matter
of notoriety, a country lawyer, who was
Remington’s attorney and townsman,
was put forward as the nominal pur
chaser, though the business seems still
to have been transacted at Washington
by Remington in person.
3. The Government workshops were
run to their full capacity to furnish cart
ridges for the French army, although
there was no authority of law for the
sale of anything except “ old cannon,
arms, and other ordinance stores now in
possession of the War Department which
are damaged or otherwise, unsuitable for
the United States military service or for
the militia of the United States.’!
4. These privileges appear, from the
correspondence of Mr. Remington, to
have been obtained with some difficulty,
and by the aid of “ the strongest influ
ences.”
5. Between the amounts paid by the
French for these arms and stores, and
the amounts received by our Govern
ment, there is a difference of nearly ijj>4,-
000,000, which is not explained by com
missions to Remington or bis subordi
nate agents.
REPORT OF THE KU-KLUX INVES
TIGATING COMMITTEE.
The Ku-Klux Committee of Congress
have made a report of their investiga
tion. The majority, after a long and
exaggerated statement of outrages,
which they say the evidence produced
before them developed, “ recommend
such an increase of the Judiciary of the
United States, by districts and circuits
in the States shown to be effected by
these disorders, as in the judgment of
Congress will secure speedy and certain
justice.” They also recommend that
the authority granted to the President
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus be
extended until tlie next session of Con
gress.
The majority report also makes this
allusion to the removal of disabilities :
The continuance of disabilities is
the only cause not yet considered. No
man under disabilities has avowed him
self as either committing or encourag
ing outrages for that reason, and no
member of the organization lias justi
fied their acts on that ground. It if; one
of the pretexts made by those who were
willing to urge any plausible excuse for
outrages which admit of none ; but to
remove alleged impediments to the local
government encountered by the exis
tence of disabilities to hold office, and
being satisfied that there should be a
general removal of them, w’ith proper
conditions and exceptions, we recom
mend the passage of a law for that pur
pose, agreeing in the recommendation
made by the President to exclude from
its benefits any great criminals distin
guished above all others for the part
they took in opposition to the Govern
ment. In this connection we wish to
say that as disregard of law has been
the evil so largely complained of and so
widely extended in the late insurrec
tionary States, no encouragement should
lie given to those who have accepted
office in defiance of the existence of
these constitutional disabilities, or have
elected to office men whom they knew
to be excluded by them.
The minority report, signed by the
Democratic members of the committee,
is lengthy and exhaustive of the subject.
It boldly declares that all the troubles
ami distresses in the Southern States
are due to the Reconstruction acts and
the miserable carpet-bag governments
which grew out of their laws. They
take up each State seriatum, and give
a fair, full and truthful history of the
the State governments and the wrongs,
frauds and outrages which they have
committed upon the people. The record
thus made up is a fearful one, and
show the great patience and forbearance
exercised by the people in submitting \
to wrongs which are unparalleled in their !
atrocity in the annals of civilized gov- I
amments.
Georgia is in a more favorable sitga- i
tion than many others of her sister j
Southern States. Os this State the
minority say :
At the outbreak of the war Georgia
was almost free from debt and taxation.
She owned the railroad from Atlanta to
Dalton, the carriages of which almost
paid the expenses of the State govern
ment. Now, the annual general tax,
since Governor Bullock’s administra
tion began, has been about St!00, 1 100
more than it was before the war. Still
he has had engraved SO,ooo,ooonew State
bonds, while the State taxation is over
six times what it was in 1860. “But,’’as
Mr. Angier, the State Treasurer, says :
“The evil and danger do not stop here.
The Governor approved bills granting
further State 'aid, or endorsements to
railroads, to the amount of about thirty
millions ($30,000,000) more; and, if I have
been correctly informed, State endorsed
bonds have been issued by Governor
Bullock before a mile of railroad was com
pleted, or the first cent of subscription
paid. If this recklessness and waste are
not speedily stopped, but are followed
up with new issues of bonds, the result
is inevitable. The State will soon be
absolved, and the toiling farmers, with
what little they can gather up, will be
forced to flee their homes for safety
from the {tax-gatherers."
And his whole sworn statement, he be
ing the Treasurer of the State, a
Northern man and a Republican, is a
fearful exhibit of the corruption of the
Radical ruler of Georgia. Fortunately
for the State (and no man did more to
bring about the result than Mr. Angier i
the robberv of the treasury was exposed.
Governor Bullock fled to avoid impeach
ment for high crimes and misdemeanors.
His partner, Kimball, who had got to be
President of seven of the great railroads
of the State, though a bankrupt in 1860,
was shorn of his power. Blodgett, who
was indicted for criminal offenses, was
so notoriously corrupt that he conld not
be admitted into the Senate of the
United States. A Democratic Governor
and Legislature have obtained power :
the fraudulent bonds are being recalled ;
the State is righting up. and will resume
her former position if the Government
at W ashington does not again invade her
and put another gang of thieves over her
The election laws are merelv a scheme
of the Republicans to attain power
against the people's will.
We are sorry that onr space to-day for
bids more copious extracts from this able j
aud just vindication of the Southern I
people. We shall endeavor in a few days
to give our readers the entire report.
Senator Morton, the champion of
Grant's Administration in the Senate,
charged, in liis speech the other day on
the motion of Mr. Sumner for a com
mittee to investigate the alleged sale
of arms to the French Government, that
the movement was made with the view
of estraving the German vote from the
President. As Senator Schurz is a
strong advocate of the resolution, it
gives some degree of credibility to the
statement. But Mr. Morton knows that
already the Germans have shown mark
ed disapprobation of many of the lead
ing measures of the present Akministra
tion, and are the avowed supporters of
th# Liberal Republican movement.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The election for Governor and other
State officers takes place in this State on
next Tuesday two weeks. A spirited
canvass is being conducted by both par
ties. although so far the Radicals have
done most of the speaking-
The Democrats are very confident of
success, while the Republican journals
manifest much uneasiness at the situa
tion. The Labor Reformers generally fa
vorthe Democratic ticket, and their great
orator, Mr. Trevelliek, is announced to
speak during the next few days at four
teen different parts of the State.
HABEAS CORPUS TO BE SUB
-
The report of the majority of the Ku-
Klux Committee was immediately fol
lowed by the introduction of a bill in
Congress, in accordance with the recom
mendation of that committee, extending
the power to Gen. Grant to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus whenever he shall
deem it necessary, until the close of the
next session of Congress.
We fear that this unconstitutional and
wicked measure will pass both Houses,
and tiiat it will be used as a powerful
adjunct to the Radical party during the
approaching Presidential canvass. In
deed, such a measure, under the con
trol of the party in power, will enable it
to perpetuate its authority at will.
CAMERON DISGRUNTLED.
Cameron is seriously disgruntled
with the President, because of the at
tention recently shown by tlie latter to
Forney and the offer to that gentleman
that he might name his successor to the
Collectorship in Philadelphia. Came
ron wished the place for one of his
friends, and the conduct of the Presi
dent in tendering the position to another,
without in the least way consulting J
him, has turned the fury of the Pennsyl- j
vania Senator strongly against the
Administration. The Keystone State
seems to be just now a serious thorn in
the President’s side, for if he smiles at
Forney, Cameron and liis satellites are
offended and threaten revenge—if he
takes Cameron into his favor, Forney
and his friends immediately commence
coquetting with the Reform Republi
cans. ,
GONE BACK TO HIH VOMIT.
We are in receipt of the first number
of anew paper, called the Daily Chatta
nooga Herald, issued by Samuel Bard,
editor and proprietor.
Tho last performance of Bard was as
editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer, a
professed Democratic journal, and as
editor and proprietor of the True Geor
gian, an anti-Grant sheet. He now' ap
pears as the supporter of Grant, as the
following extract from tlie Herald will
| show :
I General Grant is true to himself, true
to the Constitution as amended, true to
liis country, and true to his God.
If this does not constitute a first rate
candidate for tho Presidency, we should
like to know what does.
It might be .amusing to some of our
! rentiers to produce a few extracts from
; the columns of the late True Georgian,
j in which the pretentions of Grant are
i ridiculed without mercy, but we think
“ the game hardly worth the candle.”
RADICAL ROBBERY OF THE
SOUTH.
If the Committee “ on Alleged Out
rages in the Southern States ” have ren
dered no other service to the country,
they are at least, says the W ashington
Patriot, entitled to grateful recognition
for having collected and presented in an
official form complete proof of the ap
palling robbery which the corrupt rule
of carpet-baggers has inflicted on those
communities. Heretofore, the debts and
liabilities of these States, incurred and
! accumulated since Radical reconstruc
tion began, have, from the absence of
reliable data, been comparatively uncer
tain. The Governors, Treasurers, and
i other officials conspired to conceal and
j confuse the accounts, so as to deceive
the people in regard to the enormity of
their plunder. And in many cases
fraudulent issues of bonds were made,
the extent of which, even now', is un
known. These rogues had an interest
I in hiding their venal transactions, and
j they were seconded by the sharp prac
\ tices of confederates in Wall street and
| elsewhere, who profited immensely by
i their part of the knavery.
Notwithstanding the power conferred
! on the committee, and the extraordinary
j efforts which have been made to obtain
! full and truthful information on this
subject, there are still certain defects
which cannot be cured. The thieves
have either destroyed part of the evi
dence of their guilt, or never permitted
it to exist. Still, by collating such
records as are preserved, and combining
with them testimony from other sources,
an approximation to the financial con
dition of the Southern States has been
obtained which can be accepted with
confidence. At all events, this question
is removed from the sphere of contro
versy', because tlie Republican majority
and the Democratic minority of the
committee have agreed upon a common
basis. Hence, there can be no disagree
ment as to the figures, however men may
differ in their treatment.
Let us take the ten States where the j
sway of Radicalism has been supreme ■
since the close of the war, and contrast
their present indebtedness with the eon- j
dition which existed when the people
controlled their own affairs. If the his
torv of the civilized world presents a
parallel of similar license, iniquity and
oppression, then we have failed to dis
cover it.
ALABAMA.
Debt and liabilities, July 1. 1861. £5.939.654 87
Present indebtedness, actual and
contingent, including railroad
bonds 38,881,967 87
Increase under Hadioalrule £23,442,312 50
ARKANSAS.
Debt and liabilitied in 1861 §4,036.952 ST
Present debt ami liabilities, actual
and contingent, including rail
road and levee bonds 19.761.265 62
Increase under Radical rule §15,724,312 71
FLORIDA.
l>ebt in 1860 £221.000 00
Present debt, including railroad
bonds, issued and authorized 15.763,447 54
lucrease under Radical rule §15.542.417 54
GEORGIA.
Debt and liabilities in I*6o, about £3.000,000 00
Present debt and liabilities, in
cluding railroad bonds, issued
and authorized. deducting
vti,ooo.ooo deemed fraudulent 44,137,500 00
Increase under Radical rule $41,137,500 00
LOUISIANA.
Debt and liabilities. January 1.
1861 $10,099,074 34
Debts and liabilities. June 1, IS7I 41.194.473 91
Increase under Radical rtiie ...§31,095.399 57
The excess of expenditures over re
ceipts in this State, for the year 1871,
amounted to $0,640,733.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Detbs and liabilities. July. ISCI. £9.699,500 00
Present debts aud liabilities . 34.887,467 85
Increase under Radical rule.... $25,187,967 85
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Debt in 1861. approximate $4,000,000 00
Debt in 1871. including bonds to
railroads, and bonds in dispute
as fraudulent 39.155.914 4/
Increase under Radical rule .. $35,158,914 47
jassisarn.
In 1860 Nodebt
Debt incurred under Radical
rule. January 1, 1870. $1,796,971 30
TENNESSEE
Debts and liabilities. October.
1861 $20,105,606 66
Debts and liabilities. Januarv.
1871 45.688.963 46
Increase under Radical rule... $25,582,656 80
TEXAS.
In 1861 So debt
Present debt and liabilities, in
curred under Radical rule, in
cluding railroad bonds, esti
mated $17,900,000 00
recapitulation or robbery.
Alabama *32.442,312 50
Arkansas 15.724.312 75
£ lond * 15,542,447 44
“® OT P ; » 41.137.500 00
Louisiana 31.095.399 57
North Carolina 25.187.967 85
South Carolina 35 158 914 47
Mississippi 1.796.971 30
Tennessse 25,582.656 80
Texas 17,000,000 00
Total ..$24*1.668.482 80
It is barelv possible that a portion of.
this stupendous sum may be saved from \
the wreck by the inability of the plun- j
derers to sell fraudulent bonds and J i
other intended spoils. But in the most ,
favorable light, here is positive proof j
that in ten States, desolated by the hor->
rors of civil war, and where tlie actual I
property has depreciated fifty per cent., 1
as compared with 1860, an amount of [
money has been stolen equal to one-tenth
part of tlie national debt! Superadded
to the immense loss of wealth and of
life, and following in the very track of
fresh destruction, came this organized
villainy which Congress licensed with
impunity for crime, and has protected,
through all its stages, with the most
odious and oppressive legislation. Os
the two hundred and forty millions
which have been thus loaded upon the
back of an impoverished and suffering
people, fully nine-tenths of that enor
mous sum has been absolutely appro
priated bv the ‘ ‘loyal” scamps for their
own uses. That is to say, they have
sold the bonds, ostensibly issued for
railroad and other improvements, for
what they would fetch in market, and
pocketed' the proceeds, without even an
attempt to cover up the barefaced frauds,
by initiating these pretended enter- j
prises. .
Gloomv and forbidding as is this pic
ture, it is far from exhibiting the whole
truth. A diabolical ingenuity was exer
cised by the official agents of Radical
ism to crush out tlie spirit of the South
and to suck its last drop of vital energy
bv the most cruel and infamous system
of extortion. Hence, they resorted to
practices of local taxation and personal
plunder, which were infinitely harder to
bear, more persecuting in their effect,
and more inquisitorial iu operation, than
all the wicked devices that had been
contrived through the debt and its at
tending corruption. These carpet-bag
gers not only robbed the States, as has
been shown, but they inaugurated their
reign by stealing the cotton in private
hands, after the proclamation of peace,
which aggregated far more even than all
the other gigantic frauds.
When these facts and figures are con
sidered, and it is remembered that the
Radical majorities in Congress, in order
1 to degrade the South still more, did what
Rome, in her wildest career of conquest,
! refused to do—by making the slaves the
I rulers of their recent masters —tlie peo
ple will understand how it is that here
and there, in exceptional localities,
American nature lias revolted at this
tyranny, and raised its arm to defend
tlie sanctity of the domestic fireside.
Among the list of the recent gradu
ates of the medical department of the
University of New York, we are pleased
to find but a single name from this
State—that of E. E. Tarver. We are
quite sure that this gentleman could
have found facilities for acquiring use
ful knowledge in his profession in our
Medical College equal in every respect
with those of the New York University,
and in many particulars far superior to
any furnished by Northern Medical Col
leges. Our people should liberally
patronize our home institutions, and
especially so when they are equal to
those found in the North or East. Only
one from Georgia will do very well this
year—next year let there be none.
What Will Kill the Opposition.—
The situation seems to ue both simple
and phi in. If Grant is nominated at
Philadelphia there will be organized at
Cincinnati an opposition party under
tlie lead of liberal and reform Republi
cans that will stoutly dispute his re
election, and certainly divide the Re
publican party. If he is not nominated,
the opposition movement—based now
almost wholly on the idea of resisting
his re-election—will receive a staggering
blow, and be forced to seek, in great
measure, new issues, new materials, and
I new motives. For the purposes of this
j campaign it will lie practically destroy-
I e d. More or less elements of such a
I movements will still exist, but its final
1 character and force must wait to be
I determined by tlie character of the new
I administration. The Republican party
j will be kept substantially intact, and it
i will have an easy victory at tho next
election. The leaders of neither the
passive Democrats nor the liberal Re
publicans can deceive themselves on
this point, however much they may try
to deceive their followers. Grant’s
nomination is their only hope of a
powerful organization and a respectable
contest this year. A change of nomina
tion by the Republicans throws every
thing over, and gives the Republican
' party anew start and a apw career, and
i obliges the opposition to carry over to a
! new Congress the construction of their
j platform and the ingathering of their
elements. —Springfield Republican.
ItDBESQN.
| How a Cabinet Officer Gets BttJi-Some
Startling Developments -O i&t ja 1
Swindling Extraorctmary—Secretary
Kobeson's Financial Exploits*
New York, February 18. — George M.
Robeson’s sudden rise from poverty to
i affluence, since he became nominal
j Secretary of the Navy, is accounted for
jby the Sun. The recent transfer by E.
G. Gattell, of Philadelphia, of $36,000
i worth of Washington City property to
Robeson, was the Sun's first clue.—
Going behind it, the Sim finds that Cat-
I tell is a Philadelphia ship chandler, and
I brother of ex-Senator Cattell, of New
1 Jersey, himself a big contractor, and that
■ E. G. Cattell, of Philadelphia, supplies
the navy yards at Philadelphia, Brook
lyn, and Mare Island, with everything
consumed there, under contracts award
ed him without competition and without
i proposal. Robeson would have given
i him the Washington navy yard on the
same terms, but Sam Brown wan an in
cumbent that he could not dispossess. —
He has been bought off by a swindling
live-oak contract of $500,000 in Louisi
ana, and probably after this month Cat
tell’s sway will include that yard. Some
of the contracts made l>y Cattell on be
half of the Navy Department show how
lie became able to transfer Washington
City property to Robeson.
MANIPULATING THE TENNESSEE.
The Tennessee, of San Domingo mom- j
I orv, laid up as worthless since that, her |
first service, was built in 1804, in the j
Brooklyn yard, and cost .$1,500,000 j
there. Then Porter expended another j
quarter a million on her. Her hull was i
condemned as unseaworthy six months
ago. Robeson and Cattell secretly, and !
without proposals, contracted with John j
Roach & Sons, of this city, to build an
entire new set of engines and machim ry
for the rotten steamer Tennessee, Robe- ,
! son and Cattell agreeting to pay seven |
■ hundred thousand dollars for the job. j
; No board of survey ever condemned her j
present machinery, and not an engine- ,
builder in the country, save Roach A j
Sons, knew that the Navy Department |
contemplated such repairs ; and engine-j
builders we unanimous in the opinion j
that there Is a profit of at least three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars on j
the job.
TORPEDOES WITn MONEY IN 'EM.
Last Winter Congress appropriated
half a million for the building ol two
| iron torpedo boats. The contract for
supplying the iron for these boats has
been given by Cattell to a Grant-sliriek
er of Philadelphia, named Pennock.
The price to be paid is $224 per ton.
Any honest iron-dealer would gladly
furnish the plates at $l5O a ton. It will
take fifteen hundred tons for each boat,
i and Pennock will make three thousand
; times the difference between $224 and
$l5O, less hia divvy with Cattell, Rohe-
I son A Cos., who "are known to be his
! partners.
ANOTHER SOFT THING
Is found in the shipping to California
j from Philadelphia of 80,000 brick for a
I store house in the Mare Island navy
yard. The is SIOO,OOO.
The bricks were sent to New York, by
canal boat, aud thence by ship around
Cape Horn, with a freightage equal to
the original cost. When the vessel ar
rived at its destination she had a cargo
j of brick dust, not more than a thousand
j bricks remaining whole. The bricks
conld have been bought in California at
an advance on the invoice cost in Phila
delphia of not more than ten per cent., j
but if thev had been so bought in Cali- 1
fomia, Cattell A Cos. could not have
raked in their divvy.
THE LAST JOB
Put up by the Cattell-Robeson ring
takes shape in the bill introduced into !
the House, by Mr. Townsend, for the
building of twenty iron-clad sloops-of-;
war on the broadside principle. In this
job Robeson, Cattell A Cos. expect to re-1
alize a fortune for each of the firm of |
Roach A Sons—namelv, John Roach, of
New York ; E. G. Cattell, of Philadel
phia ; A. G. Cattell, ex-Senator ; George i
M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy :
Tom Florence and Sam Archibald, late i
of the old firm. This enterprising firm j
purchased the Chester Iron and Steel
Works just previous to the introduction
of Townsend’s bill for twenty iron-clads |
to cost forty millions. Robeson, who j
was a poor man when practicing law in j
New Jersey, is likely to be a very nek j
man before he quits his lucrative office,
in Washington.
Eighty thousand dollars have been |
subscribed in the city of Greenville for j
the purpose of organizing a National j
Bank.
THE CONVENTION FETE.
The Savannah Republican gives the
following account of the brilliant re
ception given to the members of toe;
Agricultural Convention, in Savannan,
by Chaa. Greene, Esq., at his palatial i
residence <>u Bull street. It will be j
seen that our friend William's head j
was level, as usual, on tho adjournment
question :
By invitation of Charles Green, Esq.,
after the adjournment, last evening, the
entire Convention, together with a large
number of citizens, assembled at the,
palatial residence of the gentle
man named, to partake of his hospi
tality. It was one of those joyous oc
casions that have to be seen to be fully
apprteiateiL The honored host acquit
ted himself to the enthusiastic satisfac
tion of all his guests. In fact, there is
no necessity for giving this assurance to
those who know that estimable citizen.
Speeeb, song and story Qccnpied the
evening, and at a very late hour, when
we left, a distinguished Judge of the
Superior Court, from a position on the
supper table, was striving to get an ad
journment to the same place to-night,
while a prominent merchant had charge
of the front door, with positive instruc
tions to allow no one to pas3 who had
not hid away in his corpus the scriptural
1 number of seven glasses of the cham
pagne punch, which constituted the
principal beverage of the evening. But
very few were turned back, though
availing ourselves of tlie privilege of the
press, we managed to get through with
six.
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL CON
VENTION.
This body met in Savannah on Thurs
day last. A reception address was made j
to the delegates by the Mayor of the J
city, which was responded to by General i
Colquitt, President of the Convention, j
There were about three hundred dele
gates present, and a writer in the Sayan-1
nali Advertiser speaks of the personnel j
of the Convention in the following very j
lauditory terms:
The writer of this article had the good ;
fortune to witness the assembling of sis- \
teen sessions of the United States Con- |
gress prior to the late war, and he can j
conscientiously say that in his opin- i
ion he never witnessed an assemblage of j
more intelligent gentlemen than that
convened in the theatre yesterday. They j
thoroughly understand the agricultural
interests of tlie State and their bearing j
upon the commercial and manufacturing ]
interests of the country. They are well
posted in reference to the inexhaustible j
but undeveloped mineral wealth, and the |
almost unlimited but as yet unappro- j
priated water power of tlie State, and are
fully competent to suggest plans for the
successful development of the one and
profitable application of the other.
From the same paper we clip the fol-
lowing:
The Secretary then read liis report, j
after stating that it had been prepared
for publication, but bad not been print
ed. He said that the expense of print
ing would be about SI,OOO, but he was
confident that a sufficient number of
copies to pay expenses might be sold.
Tlie report states that neither the du- j
ties nor the salary of the Secretary have j
been defined.
He recommends tlie holding of two
annual Fairs, one at Atlanta and the
other at Macon, and thinks by judicious
management they may be made a source
of revenue to the Society.
He also recommends the appointment
of a committee to consider and report
upon a proposition to establish, under
the supervision of the Society, a month
ly or semi-monthly bulletin, which shall
be recognized as its organ, and express
es the opinion that it may be made a
source of revenue to tlie amount of eight
or ten thousand dollars per annum. He
further suggests the propriety of hold
ing annual encampments, where the
members of the several county societies
may meet and interchange opinions, re
late their experience in agricultural pur
suits, and indulge in social enjoyment
for the term of a week or ten days.
He also recommends tlie establish
ment by the Society of an experimental
plantation, The report was referred to
the Executive Committee.
If the Convention adopt either of
these projects of the Secretary, we pre
dict they will meet with decided failure.
One Fair in each year, well conducted,
is quite as much as the Society can
manage with profit and success ; and it
appears to qs that the attempt to estab
lish an agricultural paper as the organ
of the Society is ill-advised and imprac
ticable, especially with so lean a treasury
as the Secretary’s report shows they now
have. The very inadequate revenue of
tlpo Society is a potent objection to the
last proposition —that of establishing an
experimental farm.
But these are matters for the intelli
gent action of the Convention, and if it
should, in its better wisdom, conclude
to pdopt any or all of these propositions,
we trust they will be able to make them
successful, and it wiU afford us much
pleasure to be able to contribute VP Ifficli
.a result.
4 most damaging expose of the doingS
of Endued rulers in the South is con
tained in the minority report of the Ku-
Klux Committee. They dwell at lpngth
on carpet-bag, scalawag and negro rule,
showing that the assessed value of the
taxable property in the eleven States of
the South lias been reduced from $4,-
| 333,767,042 in 1860 to $2,026,440,971 in
i 1870, being a loss of $2,307,306,971, or
j over $300,600,000 more tiuui now re
| mains. The State taxation on what
these people now have w T as, in 1870,
$12,813,615, while it was $8,165,486 in
1860. When their affairs were managed
by their own people, the county taxation
on all the property then owned was only
$3,115,184, while now, under carpet: bag
and negro rule, it is $14,298,630, or
! eleven millions more on the remnant
1 still, in existence than it was on the
; whole property they owned when the
; war began. Jn view of the enormous
| debt which is shown jto have been wan
j tonly, corruptly and framinffintly heaped
upon a people as poor as the cmrsjis re
ports show, with five-eighths of their
property gone, and the taxation on the
remnant neatly four-fold as much as it
was on thn whole when the affairs were
honestly managed, & it to bo expected
that the people of these fttejtgs will have
either love or respect for the men or the
party by whom they have been thus
plundered ? No man can look over the
testimony taken before the committee,
without coming to tlm conclusion that
no people has ever been so mercilessly
robbed and plundered, so wantonly and
causelessly humiliated and degraded, so
recklessly' exposed to the rapacity and
Inst of the ignorant and vicious portion '
of their own community and other States,
as the people of the South for the last
six years.—Age.
The Campaign in New Hampshire is
fairly opened. That ancient apothecary,
the Chairman m $e Republican State
Committee, who has the New
Hampshire Republican party for a score
of vears, has prescribed for the present
campaign a prescription that has been
sueLeasful for every political year, with
the exception of the last, sinee the era
of President Pierce, The Democrats
are marshalled by a veritable foils' of
the Granite Hills of old Isaac Hill s
time, and one of the shrewdest political
managers in New England. The fight
is animated, with the chances decidedly
in favor of the Democrats. Governor
Weston, the present Democratic in
cumbent. will be re-elected by ahum two
thousand majority, unless a tremendous
upheaval from Washington shall inter
fere to prevent it. Senator Henry Wil
son has left his seat in the Senate, and
is now stumping the State for the Re
publicans. Election March 12. .Yew,
York Herald.
A Little Scrap of History.—ls Vice-
President Colfax should be renominated
| and re-elected it will be the first time,
j with a single exception, that a Viee
! President has been his own successor in
the history of our Government. The
exception was that of Daniel D. Torup-
I kins, of New York, who served as Yice-
I President under the two terms of Presi
dent Monroe, one of which terms oc-
I curred in what is historically known as
the “era of good feeling'’—from 1821 to
i 1825. The instances in which a Vice-
President has stepped from that posi
tion to the Presidency are six, to-wit;—
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin
| Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fill
! more and Andrew Johnson—the three
■ latter succeeding to the Presidency on
j account of the demise of the regularly
i elected incumbents while holding office.
| There cannot be greater treachery
; than first to raise a confidence and then
i to deceive it.
LETTER FROM OUR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
On the Wi.no, February 20, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
To have a keen appreciation of the
marked diversity which exists among
men and women in taste, manners, etc.,
one has only to observe those into whose
presence he is thrown on the oars. Yon
are treated to the sublime and ludicrous.
For instance, the gentleman who sat a
short distance from your correspondent
was quite loquacious. He essayed, in
the loudest tones, a graphic description
of the Paper Mills, Langley and the
Graniteville Factory—giving the modus
operandi of each. Those ladies in front
occasionally cut their eyes at the con
versationalist—their knitted brows sug
gesting “do shut up while the party
to whom these revelations are being
made interestedly inquires if any body
in the car would get hurt “in case the
; boiler of the engine should explode.”
i That fat man ahead of us is indulging
! in side-splitting laughter as he gazes
i into an illustrated paper, which snows
; how Alexis was received in Gotham.
I There's another. He has a ministerial
! face, though that cannot be an index to
| the man since he has purchased a copy of
i the “ Varieties," at which he occasional
!lv steals sly glances. At last he hits
I upon a picture at which any one could
j look with impunity—i. e., a shamefiil
! lv poor, very ugly, exceedingly noisy
i “ Thomas Cat," which is making the fur
1 tlv from a weaker brother—all under the
1 gas-light.
That man says nothing ; this lady
i sits here and then there, raises the sasli
! and then lets it down every tenor fifteen
! minutes ; that man doubles himself up
for a nap, but springs out at every sta
: tion to inquire the news. And so we go.
ABOUT FARMING.
To come to sober thoughts, let us |
turn] from this every day scene. If your i
readers desire to learn something about
the labor system and its evils; the crops j
of last years, and suppositi-n as to |
those of the year upon which we have so
recently entered ; the opinion farmers
entertain of the value of fertilizers, and
the probable number of tons to be used
by them this year, let them stop at
almost any of the more important sta
tions on the South Carolina Railroad,
and politely put a few questions to the
tillers of tlie soil, whom he will find
there busily engaged in hauling off |
guanos received from different agencies, j
My information is, that the planters j
on the line of the road above mentioned j
purpose planting largely in cotton. I
They will probably use a greater quan- j
tity of fertilizers than last year. They j
are not in accord on the question of j
labor contracts. The larger number
favor the “share system.” Others pay
wages to their employees, who are re- j
quired to toe the mark or be summarily j
discharged.
SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
One fact is patent. We are slowly, |
but surely approaching the solution of j
that knotty problem. Every day’s ex
perience throws anew light upon it.
As I view it, no people have ever had
such opportunities within their reach
as have the negroes. With facilities
for tlie education of their children
guaranteed them ; w'ith special fitness
for the labor department of the country ;
‘ with freedom from the requirements j
l which necessitate “ keeping up appear-j
ances,” they have only to prosecute j
diligently the work they are employed
to do in order to get along with ease—
year by year adding to the comfort of
their families.
I met to-day with planters who inform
ed me that they have some such hands
as I refer to. They were free to say
that scarcely under any conditions
! would they be willing to have those
bauds leave them. Nor needthe farm
ers entertain any fears. Tho class of
laborers they allude to are not “ rolling
stones.” That’s the secret.
I spent a short time at
WILLISTON.
Among other things, it occurred to
me that the number of subscribers to
such a live paper qg the Chronicle &
Sentinel is acknowledged to be ought
I to be greatly augmented at this and
i other places on the Carolina Road. The
i merchants of Williston are a busy set of
| men, and as polite as they are thrifty,
j I found that provision had been made
| for the education of the youth of the
village. A visit to Prof. George P.
Harley’s select school was enjoyed by
your correspondent. Prof. Harley is a
fine scholar, and most successful teach
er. He is doing a good work. He de
serves, as he will doubtless receive, the
grateful acknowledgments of his patrons.
Leaving Williston, I bethought me of
stopping at
AIKEN.
| Immediately upon arriving in the
! town, I set out to call on my friends,
i Maj. Crosslaml and Prof. LaFitte, As
| sociate Principals of the Aiken High
[ School. These gentlemen have met
i with merited success in the conduct of
| their school. The number of pupils in
attendance is large and increases daily,
j Citizens resident and sojonrneys are
| fortunate in haying it in their power to
patronize two such skillful, pgins-tak
j mg teachers as those just mentioned.
There are several things which con
| tribute to the success of the schools of
| Prof. Harley and that of Messrs. Cross
! land and LaFitte. The strongest is the
| adqptjpfi and use of Sanford’s series of
j analytical arithmetics.
! I had the pleasure of exchanging
| greetings with General Rains, formerly
jof your city. He seems to be doing
| well. I did not have an opportunity of
I visiting liis school, which he informed me
w'sa in a flourishing condition. Those of
your readers jvho are acquainted with
the General know too well, to need any
j reference frojn m.e, his established repu
tation as a teacher,
Aiken is overflowing with strangers,
i Most of them are in search of health,
i The hotels are crowded. Many private
| boarding houses have been opened for
! the accommodation of tlie hundreds who
flock herg from flip colder reigions that,
through Hie healths nlness of j|ig pinnate,
they may recover that greatest boon
j vouchsafed to man.
I found a home at the
AIKEN HOTEL.
I paid my bill, I can refer to the
appoiptpipftts "of the house without be
ing liable t,o 41ie pbarge of puffing. I
have seldom seep a hotel contacted on
better principles. The comfort of the
j guests is the foundation stone of theinan
: agement. Lounsbery A Ryan are capi
talhotelists. They are free from that still',
icy, forbidding, ten-rod-freezing mien
; so eps?pi°n to some men who do not
: know how U) keep a hotel. The dining
I hall is a perfect deughf. The tables, at
| the proper hours, are one degrep higher
in comparison. I did not “let on'’ that
I was even “slightly” a newspaper man,
but I kept my eyes open. There was
less io jjjess at this hotel than any I have
j stopped at. t have a suggestion. The
i proprietors ought to (hi g wise thing :
Talk to the people through the qquigins
of the Chronicle A Sentinel, t* am
i disinterested pecuniarily, but I know it
would them handsomely.
| Loraine.
The latest method of disinfecting is
extremely simple, and is said to be as
effective as simple. The disinfecting
agent is Cvigmon iron, and. it is said, that
' by placing’ a tyw nails or scraps of iron
in water it may be disinfected gp' 1 kept
fresh. This method has been tried and
found successful with water from the
Thames, notorious for being one of the
filthiest streams in Europe. Water in
which dowers are placed may be kept
fresh by this means , and it is said that
some iron fillings were placed water,
in which a leech was also placed, and
that the same water was sweet and the
leech alive six months after.
Violent End to a Lite of Crime.—
The notorious S&m Hildebrand, whose
career of crime in Aniviica and Europe'
was so extraordinary as t.o fiasg it
the air of romance, has at last come to j
his end, and a retributive one. He was
confined in the jail of Hancock, Mis
souri, as head of a band of thieves or
ganized against the Pacific Railroad. A
week ago Friday night he was taken
from the jail' and lynched by a mob,
the citizens being determined to put a
stop to the raids which they had long
been subjected to.
A Wilmington (N. C.) special says the
Lowry gang raided upon the town of
. Lumberfon, and carried off a safe from
the store of A. H. McLton, with twenty
two thousand dollars, deposited by va
rious parties for safe keeping, there be
i ing no bank in town. Yaluable papers
were taken from the sheriff’s safe. A
posse of police attempted the capture
of the thieves, but were tj» Q weak.
~
Judgment, Firmness and Courage.
Few things are more necessary in life
than these qualities. With them a man
can rarely fall; without them he can
rarely succeed.
One tract of land in Marion county
worth S3OO brought but sls at Sheriff s
sale on the 7th instant. ,
A Ffijiscemir man reported that he
conldrtfind a in his dictionary,
becaui “tJfie Wbok hadn’t got an index.
We siib-ld'give as we receive—cheer
fullv, quickly and without hesitation,
for there is no grace in a benefit tfiat
sticks to the fingers.
The first qualities wanted in all who
deal with the education of children—
patience, self-control, and a youthful
haart that remembers its own early days.
SELECTED TELE<t ItAMS.
GREAT BRITAIN'.
THE ALABAMA QUESTION.
London, February 19.— 1n the House
of Commons to-day Disraeli, while
avowing liis unwillingness to touch the
Alabama question just now, wished to
be informed when the English Govern
ment received the American ease. He
had been under the impression that the
ease had come to hand nbout the first
of February, but he had since been
given to understand the Government
had it before them as early as the mid
dle of December.
Gladstone replied that it would be in
convenient for the Government to an
swer the inquiry or communicate any in
formation on the subject at present.
DILKE.
Sir Charles Dilke addressed his con
stituents in Chelsea this evening. The
meeting was crowded, and at the outset
was slightly disorderly. Ample precau
tion had, however, been taken against
I trouble. The platform was raised so
high it couldn’t be scaled. The seats
were nailed to the floor and the police
| were on hand in force. The disorder
! soon subsided and the organization of
| the meeting was completed. Sir Charles
then delivered a long and powerful
| speech. He protested against the effort
|to suppress free discussion of the
i monarehial principle. He had attacked
j monarchy because of the evils it engen-
I dered. Never did the rich less uuder
| stant the wants of the poor, and should
j they continue to ignore them, grave
| results would follow. He warned his
| opponents to be beware, or they might
| push the people too far.
! Alluding to the relations of England
and the United States, be attributed the
j existing state of ill-feeling to the igno
rance which prevailed in aristocratic
| circles.
CANADIAN IN DEPENDENCE.
TIIAT MOOTED TREATY.
Halifax, February 19.— The Chroni
cle, in reply to an editorial in the Toron
to Globe, ridiculing the story of a secret
treaty, reasserts its authenticity, and
says it is credibly informed that it was
signed after the conclusion of the Wash
ington negotiations by Lord DeGrav for
the British Government, and Sir Jno. A.
McDonald as Premier of Canada, on the
part of the Governor-General. The
chief points had been mutually agreed
I on between the two Governments some
, years previously, and so far as Great
j Britian was concerned it had then been
| definitely settled as the basis of her fu
| ture oolonial policy,
i When Lord Bury long since published
i his draft of the treaty it was not deemed
advisable to reduce the understanding to
the shape of a formal compact until the
j apparently satisfactory conclusion of the
| Alabama difficulty by the Washington
j treaty had, as was thought, finally re
j Keyed England from further danger and
! further intanglements on the North
j American Continent. The Chronicle
; says only Lord Lisgar, Sir Jno. A
i McDonald and Sir Geo. F. Cartier are
cognizant of the treaty and mentions
some circumstances which indicate the
fact of its existence.
FRANCE.
THE BONAPABTISTS.
Paris, February 19.— L' Opinione
Rationale asserts that a conspiracy lias
been discovered, in which three generals
under the late Emperor are leaders.
Their plan was to disperse the Assembly
by force and take possession of the Gov
ernment, when they were to be support
ed by a large number of ex-officers and
soldiers of the empire from the north.
The Opinione says in consequence of
this revelation the Belgian frontier is
carefully guarded, and no one permitted
to cross into France without passports.
The Cold Term.
59 degrees below zero.
St, Louis, February 18.—A private
letter from Fort Benton, Montana, states
that during the latter part of December
the thermometer marked 59 degrees be
low zero ; that buffalo, antelope, and
cattle and horses, were frozen to death
in large numbers. On January 12, when
the letter was written, the weather had
moderated to 20 degrees above zero.
THE UNION PACIFIC BLOCKADE.
Salt Lake, February 18.—A thrilling
narration is given by passengers just
through the snow blockade on the Union
Pacific. There is said to have been
! much suffering, mainly from want of
j food; and but for relief from Fort
Steale, the situation would have been
I terrible. Many scathingly condemn
I Superintendent Sickles and his assistant,
! Clark, for mismanagement and neglect.
I Others throw all the blame on Clark,
I and declare that the passengers, when
j lying near Creston, would have lynched
| him had he made his appearance. The
■ unanimous opinion is expressed that the
1 road is not at all equipped for Winter
i travel; that with proper appliances and
i management there would be no occasion
1 for any serious interruption. Report
now says that the blockade is more
rigorous than ever, and altogether there
are not over 200 men to light it. A large
party of pur principal citizens intend to
start East to-day, but are satisfied that
they can not get through. The special
cars for the Japanese from Omaha have
not yet arrived. The Embassy think it
not prudent to start at present. The
weather here is delightful. The snow
is disappearing.
A SAD INCIDENT.
Sioux City, February 19.— One of the
most distressing incidents of the terrible
storms that have swept over this region
during the present Winter is connected
with the discovery of the remains of Dr.
of Osceola, lowa. He was lost in
1 a terrible storm fhi\e,a weeks sipet*, and
’ though every possible exertion was made
Ito discover his body, all efforts were
i vain until some four days ago, when a
i dog belonging to the family brought in
| a portion of one of his legs. The friends
of the deceased afterwards followed the
dog and found the mutilated body of
the unfortunate man only a half mile
! frojn hi's house
SNOW’ JOO FEET DEEI',
Later reports from Dakota confirm
the statements in regard to the depth of j
snow, and terrible severity of the weatli- j
er during December and January. John I
W. Smith’s wagon train left Whetstone
Agency, December 11, for Spotted Tail’s j
new' reservation on sYlijto Earth river, j
. only 200 miles distant,' and was si* weeks j
making the trip. They encountered vast j
snow’ drifts, many of them 100 feet deep, j
extending a great distance, through
which it was necessary to effect a pas
sage by shoveling. The weather was so
intensely cold that every watch stopped
arid eycry man connected with the train
was frozen, some of tpejp severely. The
suffering was intense, but no iivtw lost.
GEORGIA NEWS.
.! Twenty-two cases per clay come before
| the Atlanta I-plipe Coart.
A letter remains in tlie Savannah post
; office for Willie Blois, of Augusta.
Governor Smith lias declined to attend
the Agricultural Convention on account
. of pressing official business.
A fall of plastering in the City Court
of Savannah Tuesday came near injur
ing Capt. Geo. A. Mercer and a Deputy
i Sheriff.
The prisoners canned to Atlanta,
charged with whipping one Aired, have
i been discharged by the U. S. Commis-
J sioner.
Through the aid of outside parties, the
McClellan brothers and 3 colored gill
escaped from the Athens jail Saturday
night.
i Savannah complains of her sidewalks.
She should send a delegate to Augusta
j to find put in what bad condition pave
ments can get,
During the whole of lasi year only,
j sixty persons died in Athens, and of ;
these fourteen were whites and forty
six were colored.
In the case of Lewis Tomlin vs. Bon.
B H Hill, recently tried in Clarke
Superior Court, the jury returned a ver
diet for the defendant.
Kimballville had an earthquake on!
Tuesdav night, caused by the explosion
of a ga ; main. The next thing will be
the fire from Heaven.
Dr Rendleman, of Atlanta, was ar- !
rested bv the State Road Committee for j
swindling the State out of *45, but was j
afterwards discharged for want of test,- }
mony against him.
When thev haul up a fellow in Savan
nah for selling liquor on Sunday, he j
charges the Mayor, Aldermen and police j
with allowing rich barmen to do the!
same thing unpunished.
The Western Union Telegraph Com- j
panv and the Western and Atlantic Road ,
have locked horns in the United States
Court over an account presented by the j
former against the latter.
The Amherst Student complains that j
the eating and drinking come too near
together in the morning. They don 11
have timq to do either well and satis- 1
factorily.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUA
RY 20, 1872.
[REPORTED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE AT
LANTA CONSTITUTION, BY X. J. HAMMOND,
SUP BE IIE COURT REPORTER.]
Beuj. P. Kelly, administratin', etc., >s.
Leslie G. Cartel - . Motion to dismiss,
under Relief Act, 1870, from Walton.
McCay, J.
An affidavit bv an administrator, in a
suit pending in his favor, on a debt con
tracted with his intestate before the
first.pi June, 1805, that “ according tP
the best of his knowledge and belief and
information all legal taxes had been
paid on the same for each year since the
same came into his possession as ad
ministrator. except for the years 1809
and 1870,deponent being advised that the
note was so doubtful of collection that
he was not required to pay taxes on the
same for the years 1869 and 1870, being
then considered doubtful if not nncol
lectable, ” is a substantial compliance
with the Ist section of the act of Octo
ber 13th, 1870.
2d. The fact that a widow and minors
are interested as distributees, with other
liiers and creditors of an estate, does
not bring a suit on a note due au intes
tate and in suit by an administrator
within the 14th section of the act of
October 13th, 1870, so as to excuse the
filing an affidavit and proof at the trial
that all legal taxes duo on the debt have
been paid.
Judgment reversed.
Walker & McDaniel, for plaintiff in
error.
J. W. Arnold, Hillvor & Bro., for de
fendant.
R. M. Smith vs. M. V. Brand. New
trial, from Walton.
McCay, J.
When, on a bill filed for an account and
settlement of the affairs of a partnership,
there was an answer and the parties at
issue, on the bill and answers, and there
was a verdict for the plaintift', and a
motion for anew trial, on the ground
that the Court erred in refusing to con
tinue the cause, and it appeared, on the
hearing of the motion, by the sworn
statements of the absent counfeel, that
one of them was prevented from attend
ing Court by providential cause, and the
other because the Judge had informed
him, in open Court, at the regular term,
at the time he had fixed the (lay for the
adjourned term at which the ease was
tried, that he had given Mr. Walker
leave of absence from the adjourned
term, and that none of his cases would
be tried ; that Mr. Walker was leading
counsel for the plaintiff in this ease, and
was counsel in all the eases in which the
absent counsel was employed ; that he
had so publicly notified the Court, and
that trusting to this he had not attended
the said adjourned term :
Held, That it was no abuse of the
discretion vested in the Judge, in such
cases, to grant anew trial.
Walker & McDaniel, W. W. Clark,
Hillyer & Bro., for plaintiff in error.
■ J. W. Arnold, Glenn & Dunlap, J. J.
i Floyd, for defendant.
Eliza Fairclotli vs. Wm. St. Johns.—
Ejectment, from Mitchell.
McCay, J.
1. Where A bargained land to B, ta
king his notes for the purchase money,
giving his bond for titles, and afterward
endorsed one of the notes to C, who en
dorsed it to D, and B having paid some
of tlie purchase money, abandoned the
land, and A having died, his adminis
trator took possession of the land :
Held, That the endorser and minor
children of A are entitled to a homestead
in the land as against a judgment ob
tained by D on the endorsed note against
B as principal, and A and C as endorsers.
The equity of B, under his bond for
titles, with some of the purchase money
paid, to pay the purchase money and
demand a title does not, in such a case,
make the lien of the judgment para
mount to the homestead.
2. If, at the time of the sale of land
by the sheriff', an application be pending
for a homestead in favor of the family of
the defendant, and notice thereof be
given at the sale, the purchaser buys
subject to the homestead.
Judgment reversed.
J. J. Bradford, W. A. Byrd, Vason &
Davis, Clark & Goss, for plaintiff in er
ror.
W. E. Smith, G. J. Wright, for defen
dant.
James Seymour vs. 11. Morgan. Injunc
tion, from Dougherty.
McCay, J.
1. Equity will not interfere to restrain
a trespass; unless it affirmatively appears
that the damage will be irraparable, or
from the insolvency of the trespasser, or
other cause, the reined y at law is incom
plete.
2. A sheriff has no authority to put a
purchaser of real estate, at a sheriff’s
sale, in possession, if to do so it is ne
cessary to turn out a purchaser from
the defendant in execution, whose title is
anterior to the date of the judgment,
even though it be true that,' for some
reason, the judgment was a lien anterior
to its date, so that the purchaser gets a
good title.
Judgment affirmed,
Vason 4 Davis, Clark & Goss, for
plaintiff in error.
H. Morgan, for defendant.
R. G- Fulgam vs. The Macon and Bruns
wick Bnilroad Company. Assumpsit,
from Pulaski.
McCay, J,
Where there w T as a subscription of
stock to a railroad company, and when
due the payment of the amount sub
scribed was demanded by the company,
| and payment was refused :
Held, That it wqs not necessary for
the company to shpw that it had issued,
or offered to issue, the certificates of
stock as a condition precedent to a right
of recovery on the subscription.
Judgment affirmed.
Hansell & Hansel], Clark 4 Spencer,
for plaintiff'in error.
S. Hall, Charles C. Kibbee, by Re
porter, for defendant.
| John AJulph vs. J, W, Jqsey, qdnainis
j trator, etc. Motion to set* aside ver-
I diet, from Webster.
McCay, J.
When a motion was made to set aside !
| a verdict on the ground that the defend
; ant—the loosing party—was prevented
i from attending the trial by serioqs siek
■ ness i
i Held, That that in such a ease it is
1 not necessary to file a brief of the testi- j
mony given at the trial, and it may be j
error in the Court to refuse the motion j
for that reason.
Judgment reversed.
C. T. Goode, C. B. Wootten, for plain
tiff in error.
11. B. Worrill, by \Y, A- Hawkins, for
defendant.
W. D. Ow-ens vs. Mark L. Saunders.
Case, from Webster.
McCay, J.
i Where, in an action for damages for
| an assault and battery by the defendant
j upon the plaintiff, the defendant was a
| witness and was examined in full upon
i the case, and during the trial a bill of
indictment, with a plea of guilty, for the
| same beating, and a j udgment affixing a
| tine of two hundred dollars was intro*
; duced by the defendant i« mitigation of
| damages—and after the evidence was
I closed and the argument of the counsel
j on both sides to the jury concluded, the
j Court permitted the defendant to bo re
: introduced for the purpose of stating ,
! facts calculated to show that he had
I pleaded guilty under a mistaken impres- |
! sion derived from the Solicitor General, j
| that it would be cheaper to plead guilty
j than to attempt to defend, and that the j
j fine would be very small:
JMd, That if the reason was shown
! why this evidence was not offered before
i the case was closed and _ the argument.
j heard, the admission of it at the time
was not fair to the plaintiff, and anew
! trial ought to be granted.
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins A Guerry, for plaintiff in
, error.
B. 8. Avon-ill, J, I- Wimberly, by W. j
A. Hawkins, for defendant.
J. Wileoxon, et al, vs. John H. j
Cook, Ordinary. Injunction, from
Coweta.
McCat, J.
1 The Ordinary of a county has i
jno ' authority, under any general law j
of this State, even with the recom- ;
I rnendation of the grand jury of i
the county, to borrow money on the j
credit of the county, and if, for tills pur-!
pose he issue county bonds and sell 1
them, the county is not liable on the j
bonds so issued. I
2. On a proper case made by bill m i
the name of citizens in the county —tax .
[payers —it is the duty of the Judge of j
’ the Superior Court, as Chancellor, to
restrain until the hearing, on the merits,
an Ordinary from ordering such bonds |
to be paid bv the Treasurer of the coun- j
tv, provided that the injunction be so I
framed as not to interfere with the right
of the bondholders —who are not parties :
to the biff—to the use of every remedy j
allowed by law, through the courts ot (
law and equity, to test and enforce any j
claims thev may set np against tlie;
county in tie premises.
J udgment reversed, j
S. Freeman, L, H, Featherston, J. B. j
S. Davis, J. S. Bigby, and Hugh Luch-.
anan, for plaintiff in error.
H. Wright Douglass, for defendant.
Wm. Akridge and George W. Allcorn
vs. L. A Pattillo. Award.
Montgomery, J.
1. Whore a controversy is submitted
to arbitration under the Code, and the
arbitrators and parties have several
meetings, the first of which only two
of the aruitrators are present, and no
objection is made by either party at the
time to the absence of third arbitrator ;
it is too lab', on motion, to make the
award the judgment of the Court, to
object to such motion on the ground of
the absence of the third arbitrator from
the first meeting, especially where the
arbitrators were unanimous.
2. Whore numerous objections are
filed to an award, on the ground that the
award was the result of accident or
mistake, or fraud of someone or all of
the arbitrators or parties, or is other
wise illegal, all of which objections are,
in effect, objections because the award
is contrary to evidence, or the weight of
evidence, the testimony submitted to
the arbitrators should be before this
Court, to enable it to pass intelligently
upon the objections made. Nor will
the fact that the objections were de
murred to for insufficiency dispense with
this.
Judgment affirmed.
Clark 4 Pace, by E. P. Howell, for
plaintiff in error.
Walker & McDaniel, J. A. Billups, for
defendant.
D. Good & Son vs. Nicholas Rawlins,
Sheriff. Rule against Sheriff, from
"Pii In ale i
Montgomery, J.
1. Where a sheriff is ruled by a plain
tiff' in fi. fa. , and answers, to which an
swer a traverse is filed, and plaintiff, at
a subsequent term, proposes to with- j
draw his traverse and substitute another, |
it is impossible for this Court to say
that the Court below abused its discre
tion in allowing the sheriff a continu
ance on the ground of such substitu
tion, unless we had the new traverse be
fore us.
2. It is not necessary under Revised
Code, section 3,898, that the consent of
the mortgagor, mortgagee and plaintiff
in ft. J'a. levied, to sell the entire fee in
the land levied on, should be in writing.
3. It follows, that where one, purport
ing to be the agent of the mortgagor,
gives such consent-, it is not necessary
that the agency should be created by
writing.
4. A ratification of tlje act of such
agent by the mortgagor—supposing the
agent had no authority at the time of
sale—is valid under Revised Code, sec
tion 2,165.
5. It is not necessary for the Court to
apply the law, given in charge to the
jury, to the facts of the ease, when ap
plication is plainly apparent.
Judgment affirmed.
H. C. Duncan, W. L. Grice, for plain
tiff in error.
Hansell & Hansell, Pate & Ryan, by
Clark & Spencer, for defendant.
Neil McKay, Thos. J. Fletcher and R.
H. Fletcher, administrators, vs. Rich
ard Roe, casual ejector, and Geo.
Kendrick and Cornelius Coffee, tenants.
Ejectment, from Sumter.
Montgomery, J.
I. Where a defendant in ejectment re
lies on seven years’ adverse possession
under color of title, lie can claim, under
such title, only so much of the land as
the largest description in his deed will
embrace.
2. If, at the time his grantor makes
the deed to him, such grantor, by acci
dent or design, points out more land
than the largest description in the deed
will embrace, and the defendant takes
possession of the tract so pointed out,
he is in, as to the overplus, only by the
pedis possessio, and cannot set up pre
scriptive title as to that part, unless lie
has so held it for twenty years.
3. The lessor of the plaintiff can re
cover of a mere intruder upon prior pos
session alone.
4. Where the lessor of the plaintiff'is
ejected, ho cannot be said to have vol
untarily abandoned, because he does not
resume possession immediately on the
land becoming vacant again, especially
where the defendant’s witnesses testify
that no such vacancy, ever occurred.
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins & Guerry, for plaintiff in
error.
Hawkins & Burke, for defendant.
Giles Jackson vs. the State. Voluntary
manslaughter, from Dougherty.
Montgomery, J.
1. Where, in a trial for murder, it ap
i peared that deceased had threatened
prisoner’s life, whereupon prisoner left
1 the field where the quarrel took place,
] returned in about twenty minutes and
said if deceased was going to whip him
he was now ready for him, and deceased
advanced upon him, pistol in hand,
upon which prisoner shot and killed de
ceased, and the jury return a verdict of
voluntary manslaughter, this Court will
not disturb the verdict.
2. Provocation by threats will in no
case be sufficient to free the person kill
ing from the crime of murder, or from
manslaughter, if the circumstances re
duce the homicide to that grade.
3. Where counsel for prise per consents
that the jury may return their verdict to
the clerk, it implies a consent that they
may disperse after having done so ; and
if tho verdict so returned is one for
“manslaughter,” not specifying the
grade, it is not error in the Court to
order the jury to reassemble and change
their verdict to either voluntary or in
voluntary manslaughter (and the jury do
change it to voluntary manslaughter),
unless the prisoner can show that one or
more of the jury have been tampered
with, or that his case has been otherwise
prejudiced by reason of tho dispersing
of tho jury,
The finding in this ease is not con
trary to the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
G. J. Wright, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for the State.
Geo. P. Thomas & Cos., rt a!., m G. M.
Stokes, administrator. Injunction,
from Sumter,
Montgomery, J.
Where tho Judge of the Superior
Court, in the exercise of his discretion,
grants or refuses an injunction, this
Court will not interfere, unless such dis
cretion has been manifestly abused.
Judgment affirmed.
N. A. Smith, by It. 11. Clark.
P. Cook, W. A. Hawkins, for defend
ant.
Wm. Keen vs. James W. Rouse, Ordi
nary, etc. Mandamus, from Worth,
Montgomery-, J.
A sheriff' is not entitled to costs on
tax Ji. fas., whether for State or county
taxes, unless the same be collected from
tlie defendants. Nor does the fact that
j the Ji. fas, issued illegally under order
! of the Inferior Court alter the rules,
i Judgment affirmed,
i D. H. Pope, by .1. D. Pope, for pluin
| tiff' in error.
Harris & Smith, for defendant.
N. k A. F. Tift, plaintiffs in ji. fa., rs. j
| D. A. Newsom, defendant in ft. fa.,
and Elizabeth Newsom, claimant. t
Montgomery, J.
Where a factor makes advances to a
! planter, and takes a lien upon tlie grow
ing crops under Revised Code, section
1,977, such advances are in the nature of
purchase money, and the lien is, there
fore, superior to the wife’s title, where
the oroj) was set apart to tier as person
alty under the homestead laws, after it
was made.
Judgment reversed.
D. H. Pope, Hines <k Hobbs, Clark &
Goss, for plaintiff's in error.
No appearance for defendant.
Sarah E, Lewis, Administratrix, vs, j
Joel R. G. Home. Relief.
Montgomery, J,
Where a widow, as administratrix of
her husband, sues on a note made prior
to June Ist, 1865, and offers to prove j
that herself and her minor children are
the sole heirs of her intestate, that there .
are no creditors, and that the entire as- j
sets of the estate are less than the
amount exempt under the homestead
laws, the case should not have been dis
missed for want of tlie tax affidavit un-,
der the Relief Act of 1870, Had the
proof been made, it would have brought
the case within the 14th section of that
act.
Where a tax payer returns notes held
by him in bulk,, at what he considers
them worth, and pays the taxes regularly
on the gross amount so returned, it is a
sufficient compliance with the act to
carry the case to the jury,
Judgment reversed.
Hawkins & Guerry, for plaintiff in
error.
W. A. Hawkins, for defendant.
Jacob Hiley, executor, vs. A. S. Hart- j
ridge. Relief, from Macon.
Montgomery, J,
1. Where a defendant permits judg
ment to be obtained against him, after
the passage of the Relief Act of 1868, he
has had his day in Court, and cannot j
afterwards open the judgment to let in 1
the defenses provided for by the act.
2. Where a levy was made prior to the
Relief Aot of 1870, but no sale has taken i
place, the plaintiff' in Ji. fa. is not ob- i
liged to attach his affidavit of the pay- !
ment of taxes to the execution under the
fifth section of the Act, so long as he I
takes no steps to force a sale.
Judgment affirmed,
W. A. Hawkins, for plaintiff in error, j
Eli Warner, for defendant.
■—
A pound of energy with an ounce of j
talent will achieve greater results than a
pound of talent with an ounce of en
ergy. '
Telegraphic Summary.
London, February 22, noon.—The
Alabama excitement is rapidly subsid
ing. The Times, only, alludes to the
subject, and urges a diplomatic solution.
John Bright approves the conduct of
the Government in »!••- controversy.
St. Petersburg, February 22, noon.
Baron Yon Offenburg, tho new Minister
to Washington, departs soon.
Paris, February 22, evening.—A de
cree suspends tlie publication of the
Gaulois.
Rome, February 22, evening.—The
Pope has convened the Cardinals for
to-morrow, to elect a Bishop for Russia.
Berlin, February 22, noon.—There is
now no doubt of the presence of a per
son in this city on Wednesday whose ob
ject was the assassination of Bismarck.
An apothecary from Posen, who is a
Pole, and a fanatical Catholic, has been
arrested on suspicion. He formerly
served in the Papal Zouaves.
Columrms, Ohio, February 22.—Ar
kansas and Mississippi are" the only
Southern States represented in the La
bor Convention.
Omaha, February 22.—The track is
raported clear of snow, but washes are
detaining trains.
Lawrence, Kansas, February 22.—The
State Convention endorses Grant.
Cincinnati, February 22.—The Ohio
River Convention urges the Steamboat
Association to resist the tax on tonnage
in the Courts ; asks four hundred thou
sand dollars to complete dredging and
the construction of wing dams, and re
commends the extension of tho jurisdic
tion of the Light House Board over the
I Western waters. The Convention ad
journed to meet at the call of the Execu
tive Committee.
New York, February 22. -Three Po
lice Commissioners, three Fire Commis
sioners, and the Chief of Police of Jersey
City, have been indicted.
Parkersburg, February 22.—The en
gine and baggage car were thrown down
an embankment sixty miles east of this
place. The engineer, J. Dorsev, was
killed. Tho passengers escaped.
Milwaukee, Wis., February 22.—'Two
soldiers, inmates of the National Asy
lum, were found frozen near the build
ing. They had been covered with snow
for a month.
Memphis, February 22.—The stock
holders of tho Memphis and Charleston
Road have ratified the lease to Thos. 1!.
Scott and the Southern Security Com
pany for ninety-nine years.
St. Louis, February 22.—The tobacco
nlanvflactrers of this city protest against
the proposed change in the tobacco tax.
They want a uniform tax.
Columbus, Eelmirv 22.—Tho National
Prohibition Convention has convened.
There are one hundred and ninety-four
delegates, from nil: States. Samuel
Chase is President, vlio advocated a
party independent of the Republican
and Democrat parties.
In the Labor Convention, James Kil
gore, representative of the International
Society, was admitted.
Indianapolis, February 22.—The Re
publican State Convention nominated
Thomas Brown for Governor, and Good
love S. Orth for Congressman at Large.
Columbia, S. C., February 22.—1 tis
reported that the delegates elect to the
Philadelphia Convention have deter
mined to go to Washington ns soon as
the Legislature adjourns, to see Presi
dent Grant and to make the removal of
the present Federal officers in South
Carolina a condition of their support ol‘
his renominatiou.
Havana, February 22. -Arrived, Moro
Castle. Tlie mail steamer brings City
of Mexico advices to the 15th, There
has been no important military move
ments. The supporters of Juarez arc'
confident. A serious battle was pend
ing near San Louis Potosi.
Washington, February 22.—0n dit,
that Forney succeeds Crea,swell as Post,
j master General.
The President has gone to Philadel
phia.
New York, February 22.—Nothing oc
curred disorderly. The members of the
Orange Society wore rosettes and badges
of purple and orange.
Washington, February 23.— House.—
The House considered the Diplomatic
and Consular appropriation bill. Voor
: bees opposed tho appropriation for a
J Consul to Havana, characterizing Spain
I as a brutal and bloody power, against
which the Cuban people' wore revolting,
! supported l>y the sympathy of the peo
ple of the United States. Voorhcos
! favored the recognition of Cuban inde
| pendence, saying there was not a foot of
soil subject to Spanish bayonets. He
said “ the Spanish authorities had treated
the American name nud authority with
sovereign and unmitigated contempt.
While Peru had acknowledged tho abso
lute independence of Cuba, and her
belligerent rights had been acknowledged
by Chili, the United States of Columbia,
Bolivia, and even by poor disordered
Mexico, tho United States was the only
power recognizing free institutions in nil
the Western world who had no kind
word to say to the struggling people of
that doomed island. This, tlie strong
est, the freest country, with all its
boasted power, hearing - the dogs of war
rending the flesh and crushing tlie bones
of tlieir victims, was silent.”
Garfield opposed discussion.
Banks promised the House that the
matter would soon come up in shape,
upon which a vote could be readied.
! The bill passed, with amendments,
raising Russia to a first, and Japan to a
second class mission, and reducing Cen
tral America to one Minister at Nicarau
ga. Adjourned.
Senate.— Spencer introduced a bill
continuing land grants to the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Road.
Trumbull introduced a bill abolishing
stock gambling.
: A bill forbidding corporations issuing
j notes or bills (aimed against Southern
! railroads, which Sherman said were is
suing two and four dollar notes) passed,
j The sale'of arms to France was re-
I smiled—Trumbull, Morton and Nyo oe
j copying the day. Adjourned to Mon
day.
j Washington, February 23, noon,
j Granville’s note has been received. Fish
j is preparing an answer, which will bo
j submitted to the Cabinet to-day.
In the Senate, Hamlin, from the Post
; Office Committee, reported a bill for u
: line of steamers between New Orleans
j and Mexican ports.
Washington, February 23, evening,
j George Francis Adams, with Secretary
! Fish, visited the President to-day.
; The Cabinet, lasted two and a half
J i lours. No answer to England has yet
i been adopted. The contents of these
j communications are regarded as confi
dential in executive quarters. Hpeeulu
i tions upon their contents are untrust
worthy.
j Indian avows, February 23.—Dele-
I gates to the National Republican Con
vention are instructed to vote for Grunt
1 i.nd Colfax.
ConuMnus, February 23.—The Labor
Convention nominated David If. Davis,
ol Illinois, for President; and Joel bar
ker, ot New Jersey, for Vice-President.
The Prohibition Convention nomi
nated James Black, of Pennsylvania, for
President; and John Russell, of Michi
gan, for Vice-President.
Jefferson City, February 23. The
Convention expresses confidence in
Grant, lint pledges the party to the nom
inee of the Philadelphia Convention.
Chicago, February 23.—The first Sun
Francisco passengers for twenty-eight
days arrived. They denounce the man
agement of the road.
Bai.timokf., February 23. -It is charged
that the Rev. Dr. L. D. Ilnston, form
erly Pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal
1 Church, and recently of Trinity Church,
acted licentiously toward several Sunday
School teachers. Huston has left the
city.
J. Dean Smith, aprominent lawyer, is
dead.
Cincinnati, February 23.—The pas
senger train due at Covington at noon
to-day, went "through the bridge near
Elliston, Ky. Twenty-six passengers were
more or less hurt, and some are report
ed killed. No details.
New York, February 23. —'Die show
windows of Mr. Johnson, Grand Mas
ter of the American Protestant Associa
tion, were smashed by unknown persons.
Emigrant swindler Moori ■ lius been
sentenced to five years at hard labor.
Evidences of quarantine swindles ac
cumulate. It is stated that Now York
loses half a million hogsheads of sugar
on account of quarantine exactions.
New York, February 23. South
American advices report a severe gsle at
Valparaiso.
A broken axle killed twelve railroad
passengers at Tubon—no Americans.
Tlie editors of the Peruvian National
have been released, but tlie paper has
been suppressed.
The cochineal crop in Guatamala is
short.
London, February 23, noon.—Captain
| Elheny, of the ship City of Halifax,
! from Charleston for Liverpool, which
i stranded in Camorvan Bay, is not blame
less. His certificate has been tempo
i rarily withdrawn. _
I Savannah, February 23.—Tim C.cor-
I gia Agriculural Society convened to-day.
There are three hundred delegates m
! attendance. The session will continue
| for three days.
| Washington, February 24.—Garret
; Davis has recovered,
i The changes reported in the New
! York and New Orleans Custom Houses
are unauthenticated and improbable,
i Colonel Robb, Collector of Customs at
i Savannah, leaves homeward to-morrow.
He has assurances from prominent mem-
I bers of the committees before which he
I appeared that his views regarding rice,
salt and the improvement of Georgia
rivers will have early and favorable con
sideration. It is understood that Col.
Robb has an important Consulship at
his disposal.