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(Efttottitie and genttntl. WEDN£SDAT. NQVEMBEB 82, 1878. Tn postmasters seem to hiT6 gotten the Radicals into a pretty muddle. The obituary of the party wiU read: “Died of too much postmaster.** X The majority which Georgia gives for Tms and Hraoucu will reach eighty thousand votes. Unrile Sammy should remember the faithful when he oottes into his kingdom next March. _ .... Wa hope that Augusts will be well represented in the Railroad Convention whioh is to meet here on the 29th inat. We suggest that the Exchange or Board of Trade appoint the delegation from this city. | [ Hon. Geobge D. Tilman has been cheated of his election to Congress from South Carolina by the fraudulent vote of Barnwell and Colleton oounties. We hope Colonel Tilman will oonteet the election when the new Congress as sembles. ____ Bonn years ago a distinguished polit ical economist asked the question: “Does Protection protect ?” In view of the frauds contemplated by the Returning Boerds of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina, we may well ask: "Does Elec tion elect ?" I* the recent eleotion in New York the vote in the Hon. 8.8. Cox’s District was as follows : C0x...,. 1T,022 Opposition ao Cox’s majority.. 10,994 Mr. Cox is a prominent candidate for the Speakership made vacant by the death of Mr. Kerb. Mr. Oox has al ways been a true friend to the South. The war cloud darkens in Europe. Russia seems determined to make Tur key comply with her demands and the Porte stands firm. The mobilization of the Russian armies will precipitate ac tion of some kind. So much is at stake that the other Powers will earnestly strive to preserve the peace of Europe. A few days will show whether there is to be peace or war. Db. Redfield, the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, was in Au gusta on election day, and was very much shocked by the heavy Democratic majority whioh was polled in Richmond county. The Doctor even complains that someone invited him to vote, though he was a resident of another State. We are sorry that the Doctor finds so much fault with Augusta hos pitalty. It is announced that political pool selling (fool selling it might be termed) is over in New York. Mr. Mobbissey is paying without delay all pools upon States where the result has been defi nitely decided; but pools upon the general result between Tilden and Hayes will probably be held until the Electoral College has given itß final de cision, or until the matter has been set tled without question as to the issue in the doubtfu) States. Meanwhile the money will be lodged in the vaults of one of the trust companies. It is estimated that the names of 3,600 voters were stricken from the registry lists in New Orleans by means of the “sewing machide affidavits.” To -cer* tain oitizens on the registry lists a sewing machine oiroular was sent through the post office, slightly misdireoted as to* name or number, so as to miscarry, and when they were returned to the bogus sewing machine agsnoy with, the state-, ment that no such person oould be found at the plaoe given, the fact was made the basis of a charge of illegal registration. A dispatch from Calcutta to the Lon don Times says it is reported that 90,- 000 persons perished in the cyclone of Ootober 31st, and some estimates plaoe the loss of lives as high as 40,000. In the town of Burnißhol, the capital of the fiackergunge District, 6,000 houses were levelled with the earth. Letters from survivors report that a great wave nine feet deep swept over the large island of Dakhin, Shahabazpore. The whole of Eastern Bengal appears to have suffered severely from the oyclone, and Calcutta narrowly escaped. i hri Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, on the evening of the 9th instant, received a dispatch from a number of oitizens of his native oounty in Illinois, to the ef feot that if he made an attempt to de fraud the people of Louisiana in count ing the Presidential vote, there were a thousand of them who were prepared to xepair to New Orleans and aooord film the honor of an interview. From all sections of the country to the North and East oome assnranoes that the most perfect fairness mnst be observed in counting the votes of all doubtful States. Three negroes were arrested in Feliciana, Louisiana, on the Bth, oharg~ ed with the assassination of Capt. West, who was the Democratic candidate for sheriff of the parish, and was shot and killed two days before the eleotion. The negroes are reported to have confessed the assassination, and assert that they were instigated to it by E. L. Weber, of Bayou Sara, Republican candidate for Senator. Weber was reported fortified in hie house, with a garrison of > about eighty negroes. A company of troops will be furnished, if necessary, to effect his arrest. New York Graphic: The men who were engaged by the General Commit tee of the Cooper and Cast party to tend the boxes on eleotion day held a meeting at Soienoe Hall on Thnrsdny evening, having been refused payment for their s> rviees. The ground of the committee’s refusal is said to have been that, as there were over 500 boxes, and only 266 votes oast, the men whom they had employed to tend the boxes oould not have voted for the Greenback cause. This naiv9 way of looking at the ser vices of employes on election day has ■excited equal wonder and amusement. It is not known what steps have been token by the men to secure their pay. Tn Brooklyn Eagle says that of the old "Thirteen States” which, by their anited efforts, established American In dependence, nine cast their Electoral votes on Tuesday last for Uncle Sammy Ttt.dkv, and but four of them for Mr. Sans. The following are the eld Bev olotionary States which voted for Tin oax ; Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The following four of the original thir teen voted for HaT®s : Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Uncle SaN** nturies the original Btates by more Utah t wo to one. Let ns not cheat the "Old Thir teen,” for we won Id have no opportu nity of electing a President at all had it not been for them. The Philadelphians are still poshing their efforts to preserve the Main Cen tennial Building for the purposes of a permanent exhibition. At a large meet ing of business men, held on Saturday, it was resolved to go on with the pro ject of purchasing the Main Building; that sufficient subscriptions have been raoaived to oover the greater part of the capital for a permanent exhibition in that building, and to afford satisfactory Assurance that the whole amount re united will be forthcoming, and that the .exhibit* already secured to remain, and those which there are reasonable ex pectations of procuring, are sufficient in number* and quality to make an at • tractive exhibition. Another noting is to be held to organize the company, to •choose directors, and to receive addi tional subscriptions, either in Centen nial stock or in cash. McDnffie county is fattening off of car dinal red syrup made from ribbon cane. THE COCESi OjpUHK EMl**:. The answer of the Denjmtic and ike Re^K<ulnTommiftik indicate tha ot mous Returning Boards reject 'Deipo cratic votes enough to give the electoral votes of Louisiana and Florida to Hayes these votes will not be oo anted. The- STficnfac tin nut ha rtifimhTMamrttof-vA fraud. We believe the Brooklyn Baffle reflects the Vthfflfath when xf says there can be no doubt that if the pending, Bgpggamme °* t:H*F**l : in Florida, South Carolina and Louisi ana is carried oat, tbatwhendhairman Fjbbbt, of the Senate, .reach**,,ithqgft States in the count, the House will-ob ject to the first one of them whidfa to reached, and that if Mr, Fbb£y refuses to entertain the objection, the f House will manifest its right he so object by retiring from the presence ofittteSenate,' and by itself proceeding ''to ‘ta#e i vote* upon the objection, as the 22d rale pro vides. If the Senate refuses to go by it self under the rule and consider the ob jection, the absence of the House will destroy that condition ef “in the pres ence of both Houses,” whioh is the Con-- stitutional condition laid down, it whioh only the count omn proceed. Np count heving been completed, choice tbeeefore being will, as the Constitution n-1 ‘mediatelr proceed fo Choose by ‘‘President of the United States from “among thp candidates who , had Joppp “voted for by the Elactors.7 In that kind of choice every State has oodwifte/ The vote is cast by the political major ity of the delegation of each SUteiit the House. In the House the delegations Of twenty-two States are Democratic, four teen are Bepnblican, and two are tie^ MUNICIPAL BONDS ISSUED IN AID OF i-HUJO WWftA <i' -i fiW Some time ago it was stated that a I movement was on foot in this city to resist the payment of any fiai levied to pay either principal or interest of the bonds issued by the City Counoil of Augusta for the enlargement af the oa nal. At various times since this rumor has been revived. We have never tbeught that these bonds oould bb jre pndiated. We know they ought not to be. They were issued in perfect good faith. The issue was sanctioned by k vote of the oitizens after the mieeli&n had been fairly and thoroughly diaouas ed. The bonds sold for s fair pries and passed into the hands of innocent hold ers for value without nptioe ol any fraud or. illegality in the transaction. The people of Augnsta are bound m honor and in jnsfioe for their —principal and interest, dollar fof dol lar. It would be jmjpat- dishonorable to take advantage of bhr own wrong and shield repudiation with a technicality, evpn admitting th4i|tijtyj' ment of just debt ooojd be gyoifiefCby a technicality. But any rumor of this kittd'tml matter how vague aßd unsub stantial it'may be. is jure. The credit of a city or g ; stete is like the virtue of a woman. The faint est whisper mky ando 1 irreparable fifii-i chief. We publish, however, this morn ing * derision veceatjy lqr Supreme Court of Georgia which shows: how unfavorably the Courts regard suoh attacks upoii the credit of municipali ties and the rights of lpnooept parties. It is the oase of-ihei Mayor; and Counril of the town bP’ Griad o against ia on,the vote of a majority o< the ritjans, subaoribed te stock in a railwnyvunning into the town afid ißshed bonds in pay ment of snob stock. Payment of the principal •of interest debt was resisted by the oity am several grounds, but mainly Al leged that the subscription was uncon stitutional and *1 legal- i The obwtei and Griffin permits the City Conned, >4o*l the of df'rfiWbhiW citizens expressed at a public meeting or in any electros* tO-reuMPUPP stock of 1 railroads and td burrow money on the credit of the oitfc fiM 1 holds that this grant df pWrir v A YftrtW pealed by the |On the contrary, a provision of that instru ment “eipreSslv'saves local acts passed for the benefit of cities jfod JownS. -.-noi inconsistent with the , supreme hwt her with the Constitution itself.” The paint in Griffin was that the Legislature'had not passed an act submitting the ques tion to the decision of the people as i6 required by the Constitution., Court reconciles the Constitution and the oharter and sustain# the ißsne. With regard to the eleotion the point seems to have been made that the subscription should have beebrteommonded by the vote of a majority Of dll the oitizens and not by a majority of the persons, actually participating in Gie election. The Su premo Court bolds tbdfi-the sod fla majority of the qualified voters’" mean a majority of the oitizens who voted ahd nothing more. 1 ThWOttK ffiso decides that the puvobakera of bonds issued in pursuance of such a vote are bona fide holders for value, without notice and are entitled to all the protection whioh the law affords to this rises. The Clonrt pronounces the city’s liability perfect, and the debt will have to be Rid. The canal bonds, of the city of Augusta pre sent even a stronger oasfci; issued in accordance with the vote of a large majority of the oitizens, and this election and issue of bonds were subse quently ratified by act of the General Assembly. They have passed ffitodthe. hands of innocent purchagiTs for value received, u Wte been regularly and prompter paid,, The plea tfaaf they were issued in aid ot the Augusta Cana! Company, a private and not a public corporation, should and will avail nr* tiring. The AogueteUanal Company is Eerily the Oity Council of Augusta, as the oity own tbe stock, and has entire control of the Courts would never do the great wrong of defending inn -went persons of their money in deference to the shallow est of shadow technicalities. here, aa elsewhere, are d&Og everything ,iu their power to cheek the sfnrit.ct re pudiation which seems to be ffiteoatf in, the land, imii mii il' fir'" >1 1 SOCTU CAROLINA'S RWBtloii MMKri Governor CjXAiONUtXiAlN’ff diepatohi ter the Herald oontains but little, so far as the results of the voting on the 7th instant are ooncernec|,}gJfP strangely eagma. it Is more than can oes that in a State like Booth Carolina the Executive thereof should not be able to furnish ns with something more definite, ft will be feiriff .WWS&bJ? the impartial that the Deoaoonate who have given the count op the vote for Governor in eoahty are aorreot. The n*oat Striking point in hipdifpatcb, hqgfcVer, is HeWMI deiarmination to throng Pflt kufficient votes te the Republican. 4 JMjorify, Opverhor CHAinmauo*. egtOTfirgnjinly as if the votes east were to fce in the determination of thd / Tne means taken by the Demoorakn io |tfO olaim the actaal state of the pUa at their closing have forced the game of Governor Chakskxlaix. and a game it is. He has dearly aonbjinoed the startling fact that* board o—pnasif in the majority of officers seeking re upon thf SB ntfam¥i threw! oak rbstsmtS! at will ;i nay, that enfiwgh will tiw thrown owfc*tleettfe the result Aft*r, " tff ; J the <sd mtiaens,” after *U> tkdmßepnb- Hasg- jwHMttsw that uamumi? epe could cast his vhte ftViiekfc*, after* an h, any kin4.we tinted. ioaghmsieß of fabricatedalMUgewa*^Hliilalrffiwfiiii.: datten.-k 4ori! of and inquest on the "bloody ahirt” If the troops had got bean poared into the State; if the and browbeating* of the priOred hadnot keen notorious; if thy United find noMl ZST the whole I lim jnlmtti~r{ arresting white men right wdjleft, ttri c migUrdQr all its %qricioVm the rateftis who hate, ruled iu*the Booth until it rts imgovOTshed and almost bankrupt, have lent~Bn ear to Governor Ohambeblain’s ghost ato nes. They will not be listenedto how. The troops are already in the Stato-agd there is no danger of any disturbance, UW Uffi mwtntey iwrinm ten Dupubtt ■ tfasfuttrasaasfftiiJ onlyafk a honest a* hopeat •Vote, to send represented*<vum to be present at the canvassbythis suspioious iy sp*dr.irfr V- . l ii i,ux t -.4 < the ■wrnairi nr tmmi " •>S I -imt.l -.Si nliiei.*. —r,, . miU i says , V Xhs export at auaßafaotnres continues brawriy; 1 *lt is thw grea*r-ob feat be sofight Tiow, and this’ oonvlb'- tion is bearing fruit on every side. In only twjo days recently the oity of To ronto Oaasds. teecived twelve thousand dollars worth of furniture—not from London or Paris, but from the United States. Our locomotives, fuming and mill machinery, street cars, and a long lineaf*>th£r satirise aw entering the DomrhiC|t J all points; establishing their and introdnoing other articles.,, Jfep roturn is inlumbm, wool, eoih and. material for fossil fabriaatkm ; and the trade leaves profit to traneporta tion and ejf&tibies. That market is so *••*,*s oqnymwtiihiat he read, ily reached and shonld be oontrolted; and certainly if industry expanded upon material even mote Abundant and Cheap er in the Dominion than it is here can accomplish such a notable resnlt, there is fdr beb'eving that we may gain all the market and enjoy all its ad vantages. These minor gains are the material of that great progress we look forward to. • 'Hie more nnmerons they are the soonsr will their product be pro cured. .oikih >.-J} beiTHo evi ot h iik !i —jnrr>7 ihV. POPTIUTION VS. PATENTS. , The last, annual report of the Com missioner of Patents embraces a tabular statement Showing the number of p%te#ts issued during the ypar tq territory arid the population. We are in debted to Messrs. Louis Bagger & Cos., Patent Attorneys, in Washington, for the following, (Interesting data this t, Thp State of Hew York* (quite naturally, it having the largest population) received more patents for new inventions than any other State— -3,7Wi (OMti cijmps Pennsylvaqia, with aeat ranks Massaohusetts, -with hxt Illinois, with l,o9;nnd next Ohio, with 1,091 Patents. But the proportion of patentetopopulatipp, as in dicating the seat of the inventive gen ins of the oountry, is more significant: In the precedjpg report of the Commis sioper, Coppectiont (the land of weod en-aa*megs) -lßd the Aiat* but this year the District of Golumriia takes the lead, wptji pnp patpnt for anew invention eo ‘,tp everjjSiA ol tle pQptUaV<m;i nectioat having .only one patent to every 701 ofthewhtire population. Massachu setts, also, in this respect, stands third in. the bat, the propqrtion being one to every 787. “Little Rhody ” comes jkmKthh with oße to every 943. The least inven- pa shown by this table, is Arkansas, which, received but one patent ito avsry 4>45042 pf aer population. - r ‘-ti- i ri ri.ites mtdi *n J ■ • tOO 3IANY BURCTIONS. * MiftJoi liirolir- 1,. .: • 'v ■> i An exohange says a theory has lately been promulgated somewhat extensively bered among the evils that are afflicting dWXfijferiokh people. They are 4nid to be kept in a ferment at all times By the neeespitji'rfdt ofiioe of some sort, and the question is Urid, whether the benefits de tha*s,QWle§tß, ppd4Pri r appluiatiou to swrii a wide .circle of officials, afford a fan compensation for the severe tax im posed uj)on the energies of those rihji attempt to. periocm. all theKldfltWe-npper twining to it in evident that the man, who wishes to act - and effectively on all the questions that arise will sooh flnd himself ‘ 'tbS'rinta of the olass designated as professional poli tioians, and it wjll depend upon the snarflrf o Ipißi |trjofciem and the length of his purse how long be can hold such a position ■before hit individual and pecuniary in terests become mere vital than high pub lie considerations. The practical method adopted by 'a large portion of voters for the avoidanoe of such oomplioations is to take no aotivrpart-whatever in many polittenl'scateßto—ai <aot, (temonstrated bv the difference In the vote polled in Philadelphia city on’the 7th of Novem bertes4Cadtibevoteo<,.|>reyiioa,yearß; ifdd’BWrf thlC dWHdrenee telly express the extent of the practice ’iftHer red to, for there were dophtless a eon atderablC number it qualified voters in Philadelphia who did not even oast bal lats for Presidential eleotors. In Rich mond ooofity we have beea in a political ferment since last April. First delegates to the St. Louis Convention had‘to be seine ted; then delegates to the Guberna torial Convention; then eame on the legislative race; then the Gongketeional riokibatlbn , £ then ihe PrtMftdential elec tion; and now we have before ns the < May oils Arid the Opn#ty,riri*qhri ri •f.iO llorivf ,*r i)ii4iiMeq ml i r iod‘, j PROPHECY FROM CUANCMLI.OR KENT. ; A Washington' dispatch says Repub lic dispatches as to the authority of the Senate tq oontrol. the electoral vote were sent in every 1 direction to isSUre'the weak-kneed that it wbb unim portant bow the electoral vote of South Gurqlin* Florida and Louisiana were ooonted. Old jurists t nje ,hr pairing away the duet mostly volumes in the Law and Congressional Library, in the hop*, of being able to fortify law and order on the side of peace. It ap pear* almost like tfai voids of prophecy that in the thirteenth lecture of his •Sttiv f<T Qi swiiui Tiia yd >Wtu>*aqu oommentanee m American law, writ ten after his retirement from the bench, in 1888, and published in 18A8, Chan oellor Sabre used the following lan 'gu*ge:'i'fsji,pif the tranquility of this Bahaa is to be disturbed and liberties endangered by a struggle for power, It will be upon this very subject of the choice of This is tb gpsdnees .aqd--try tb# strength of the if we shall be able.i for half a oentWy hereafter, to continue to elect the Chief Magistrate of the Umonv'witil discretion, moderation and iubferity: I ** hfl Ondonbtedly etanp thhhighaatvfiponlbnr nationalobar acter.apd *#owbm>u£ our Repnblican fnhtiffetiona, Baofetathe Mutation, 7 et certainly to* tbeceWem and admiration of thb more enlightened part of mkihd. Th* Constitution doet notexpresßly de clare by whom the votes are to baoount ad and the wWJfttleetared. In th* case of questionable votes and a closely con- thi* power may be all jail ijtnnf. sad Lpreauma I to SEJtZZ'*ui**&" f*£> and that the two Houuae are • t * = ‘ by the B|ft-tD*a-S , 'and a of niaffiir r~<* !j “ vptM*, trtm Wheta towetestion uaw* ia - aeitad.*ftf BbatWit*, one Oi all. WoUvt lapts thi i*Sßt at Oiarleatou, 8. 0., >?. A. of the ShM and OssiHer ° "thatfaty oU. of the mbit violent and unprm cipled mbrt ► ST* an .auitamiti ou * . ' . The Troy Time* tells 4 “violent and uunpciueiplad” B*. Vbe Ne* catd Cou-i Oapt F. W. Dawson ia not the agent of the AaanwatH Prats in nharimitn THE PKEDBYTEKIAN SYNOD. SfC>4 Day’*' -ieK-no—Hradiun at Nleiuo ' rt^Ete. The &te°d nift yesterday morning, pursnanvto mljCu'Bnipnt. After devo tional exerbisaythe Clerk called the roll. The rCad and approved. The follqpehg additional delegates re ported ana were excused for tardiness: Atlanta Presbytery: Elder Joh i H. White. Augusta Preabytery: Revs. W. S. Bean, S. P. Cleveland, J. B. Morton, James E. Jones, James G. Lane, S. E. *lllllll. WJHHFFJ W Macon Presbytery: Rev. Wm. McKay. Savannah Presbytery. Revß. D. K. McFarland, J. S. K, Axson. : Presbyteries were called for. ■ j j, Atlanta Presbytery: Reported having organized three two,white and one, colored. The,Presbytery oon sists of eighteen ministera and thirty five churches. Augunte Preabytery: Reported that< there are eighteen ministers and ;thirty ,'nine churches in the Presbytery.- Work ,is advancing among the colored people, ~who appreciate the servioeefif the minis ters. There is- mnch to encourage the Preabytery m this work. Cherokee Preebytery reports that it ’oonsista of sixteen ministers and thirty two ehorehes. Regret to state that re ligion, seems to be on the decline. No Accessions to the churches. Sunday school work is about the only thing that the Presbytery can point to with pleas ure. The Florida. Presbytery reports six teen ministers' and twenty-six ebarohes. While the Presbytery can report no great revivals there has been an increase 'in all the ennrobes. Sunday schools and prayer meetings are well attended. There has been a falling off in contribu tions from want of money. Ministers •’ate snfferigg from the same cause. The Presbytery has a large missionary fiela under its charge. The. Savannah Presbytery reports that ‘lbm iFresbytery consists of nineteen Churches and fifteen Al though half of the number of ministers have been ill with the yellow fever, not one has died. The Macon Presbytery reports that it consists of seven ministers and nineteen churches. Good feeling among members and ministers. Accessions have been made to all the churches. Sabbath schools are in good-condition. Rev. Dr. Irvine, from the Committee on Devotional Exercises,made a supple mentary report that Rev. W. S. Bean would preaoh in the Christian Church Sabbath morning, and Rev. R. W. Mil ner Sabbath evening. The report was adopted. The Committee on Correspon dence recommetided that Rev. W. W. Landrum, of the First Baptist Church, be invited to a seat on the floor as a cor responding member. The report was adopted and Dr. Landrnm was ipvited to a seat on the floor as corresponding member. Dri Landrum returned his thanks to the Synod. “ Hgv. J. L. Wilson, of Baltimore, ad dressed the Synod on the subject of sus tentation. He congratulated the Synod upon the prosperity of the ohuroh in the South. This arose £rQii} ( the susten tation cause, whicH bound the church together as one body—The wealthier and the stronger helping those that were Weak. At the close of the war, ten years ago, the number of church organiza tions was something over eight hun dred-; now, they number one thousand eight hundred und/twenty-iono. True, some of thosahave come from Kentucky and Missouri, bnt there* have really been osreretwo hundred church accessions. Thik comes, under the blessing of God, from the snstentetion cause. Nearly onp-half ot the churches have received aid daring the last ten years from this snstentation cause. The need of tnis cause is felt at this present time. Minis ters, in consequence of the financial pressure, have not been supported l/bs they Aught. The sustentation cause has gone far to remedy this. ■hn TexiaS where, ten years ago, there were not qioxe,tbn ten or fifteen effec tive working men, there are now be tween fifty and sixty. This has been ef fected through the agency of the susten tation Similar can be stated in regard to Arkansas. In this SyDod the Cherokee Presbytery could not; ’hive been kept up but for (ilia cause. ‘Dr. Irvine 1 offered a resolution that the Synod hhve heard 1 with pleasure and gratitude, the addrefes of Dr. Wils6n, and enjoin upon Presbyteries within its • bbtlndk increased interest in the stfsten ! tation cause. He commended the prin ciple that* the Wealthier congregations should help the pooer. He believed that if' tliiS cause was worked heartily they Wfittld be able to pay their poorest min fsteris fOUr or five hundred instead of dnti hundred dollars. 'On motion, the matter contained in the latter'part of the resolution as to en joining Up® n the Presbyteries increas ed interest in the eanse of sustentatioD, wAS referred'to the Committee on Sns tentation. The first part, in regard to the address of Dr, Wilson; was unani tnoUsly adopted. - ; Several ! exttustes from ministers for UoUTattendance were read and sustain ui sat evs that the Synod invite Dr. Lyons, ot the American Bible 1 So ciety, ‘tb Address the Synod on the sub ject of the Bible cause. Adopted. l ■ Dr. Lyons thqpHe had been a missionary in the land from ■Which the ’Bible eame. Failing health hSfd compelled him to return to this country. He was now engaged as a ■Bible missionary tn endeavoring to car ry the Bible to every destitute family ■Within the bounds of this Synod. One fourth* of the population of Lowndes county had been found without the Bi ble. In Clinch county three hundred and ninety-seven families, mostly white, had been found without the Bible, A colporteur in Orange county reports that among families whom he visited in Orange county, Florida, several were without the word *of God; In nfiuiy cases’ Bibles had been given free of charge. There were Thousands of fam ilies in this land perishing for want of the bread pf life, The General Assern bly at Shvannah, last* May, had taken noble action in> regard to this matter. He trusted that this Synod would do something similar and facilitate as much as possible the great Bible work. On motion of Dr. Lane, the following ‘resolutions were adopted : *Resolved , First, that the Synod has heard with pleasure the address of Rev. if. S. Lyons, of Jacksonville, Fla., gen eral’agent of the AmerioaU ’Bible Socie ty tb? the States of Georgia and Flori da, and commend him and his work to 'the Cbnfldence and co-operation of onr ministers and people. “Resolved , Second, that the Synod hereby calls the attention of its Presby teries and people to the action of the last General Assembly at Savannah, commending the Bible canse to the hearty support of our people.” * The action of the Assembly referred .to is as follows : Whereas, The Bible is the fouoda tioa.oh which restall our benevolent en terprises; underlying the missionary Work, the Sabbath jSchoolnnd the church itself; and whereas’, the American Bible Society has been and still is, an effiicieint instrumentality in accomplishing' the great wOfk °f the distribution of the Scriptures; therefore Resolved, That this General Assem bly commends the American Bible Society to the confidence and sup port of all onr churches and Congrega tions. (See minutes General Assembly 1876, page 237.) Rev. Jos. 0. Styles reported. On mo tion, the* report was adopted by a ris ing vote. It was moved that the editors of the Southern Presbyterian, the Christian Observer and the Central Presbyterian be requested to pnblikh the memorial, ft was moved as an amendment that the Memorial Committee superintend the publication of the memorial. The amendment was accepted, and the mo tion thm 1 amended was adopted. The committee on the memorial of Bey. T. F. Montgomery, of the Florida Presbytery, reported. On motion, the report was uaanimonsly adopted by a rising vote. On motion of Dr, Irvine, the thanks of the Synod were returned to Dr, Mar tin for his able sermon delivered Thurs f)r hoped that Dr. Martin would be requested to fnruish the manu script of his sermon to the Christian ObservefM* t>ublieatiOfi. w W Pj' MhUip-ba .re quested Jtp larnifih.i,me sermon to the editors of the Christian Observer and tbe Southern Presbyterian. Adopted. Dr. Martin said be would take great pleasure in complying with the request. On motion, the Synod took a recess until j*aC, p. Jft JUttniaM . 1 The Synod mfd at Zkf), p. m. The Committee en SostentatiMi y-e --portad, showing that the amount con tributeir byi allthq in the Synod daring th* year was $5,927 for *t%e (sustenance canse; Wm&uiot *aei Evangebcat nd for the in valid fopd—making a grand total of $9171. The -report was adopted, as were also several resolutions connected with It looking to the fprtheranoe of the sustentation cause. “if! * lije Synod then took a recess until W*-*- . • The Synd-1 convened at 7^o. After the usual devotional - exercises the report of the Committee on Foreign 'Missions was read by Dr. C. W. Lane; it revealed^ statistics : No new missionijries -have been sent out this year; roree missionaries '•have died; Iteee have returned to this country and I two 1 have resigned. Twenty five minis ters now constitute Hie force which, to gether with assistants and native nelp ers, make feventy-five workers in hea then lands. Stations among the liulian tribes, in Mexico; United States Co lumbia, Italy, Greece, China, Turkey and Brazil are now in full operation, there being seventeen in all. In these stations are thirteen training sohools, at tended by about 520 pupils and 22 875.000 be raised this year for the cause of foreign missions, Of whigh l-Wor $6,25Q should come from the Synod of Georgia, comprising 169 churches. Tim* address of Dr. John Leighton Wilson, commenting upon this report, contained some interesting disclosures and valuable information. He dwelt' upon the importance, success and ex pansiveness of the missionary work, and closed with an earnest appeal for imme diate pecuniary aid. Dr. Leighton Wil son, ifi the course of his remarks, paid a tribute to Bey. William LeConte, former missionary from this Synod to Brazil, who recently returned to this country, and' has gone to receive his reward Rev. Mr. Smith finished the debate in a short address. On motion that the report on foreign missions be adopted, Rev. Dr. Lane offered the following, which was adopted: .Resoteed,'That we, the members of the Synod of Georgia, now pres ent, hereby pledge onrselVes to put forth our best efforts to increase th e interest in and contributions to foreign missionary work; and, further, that we urge upon our ministering brethren and elders within the Synod, not now pres ent, to unite with us in inciting indi vidual efforts for this great cause. The. motion that the thanks of the Synod be tendered Dr. John Leighton Wilson for his interesting and stirring addtess was unanimously carried. Ihe report of the committee upon the minutes df the General Assembly was received and docketed. The Synod then adjourned until 9, a. m., this morning, to assemble at the Presbyterian Lecture Room. I.ETTKR FROM PICKENS. Superior Court Adjourned Over—A Model Town—Easley on the Air Cine—Journalis tic Appreciation—Joy at Hampton’s Elec tion. [From Our Traveling Correspondent.] Pickens C H., S. C., November 14. A Superior C urt was to have commenc ed hero Monday; the people came in from all parts of Pickens county to at tend. The following composes the vis iting bar: Colonel W. C. Keith, Colonel Jame3 J. Norton, Colonel Robert A. Thompson, Walhalla, S. C. Local bar, Colonel C. S. Hollingsworth, G. W. Tay lor, Esq., R. A. Child, Esq. Colonel A. Blythe, Solicitor-General, put in his ap pearance about 12 o’cloek, to attend the November term of the Court, but as he approached the crowd, and was asked how he felt since the eleotion, with a heavy sigh he said to the gentlemen preseut, to live was all that he requested. Every one seems to like Blythe, but on account of the dirty thieves he runs with, Radicals, they could not vote for him again, so he has served for the State his last time, beiug succeeded by a good Democrat. A courier came in about 1 o’clock, p. m., stating that Judge Cook had gone to look after the interest of General Hamp ton and Tilden. As all good men were required to look for the inter est of the State, he was strongly solicited to go to the capital to see a fair count of the votes. So there was no Court. Judge Cook has acted nobly and will be remembered with kindness by all the good people of the Palmetto State. Pickens Court Hons/e has four stores, dne church, at which I had the pleasure of hearing Rev. Hugh McLees, a Presbyterian minister, of Liberty, Pickens county. He is well known in Georgia, having been stationed in Georgia at different times. There is published at Pickens the Pickens Sentinel, a very neat little paper, edited by Hon. D. F. Bradley, whd-is an able and pure mail. I fine here your old friend, J. (1. Thompson.at work on the Sentinel. While here your trav eling correspondent was entertained by Mr. Joab Mauldin and his estimable family. Mr. Mauldin is the sheriff elect of the county, having received 2,400 votes for this position. He is loved by all; is a straightont Democrat, and has the finest farm in Pickens oounty. This evening I left Pickens to come to Easley, Pickens county, eight miles from this place. The Court House at Easley is built on the great Air Line, and is about three years old; has a population of about two hundred and fifty; has two churches, Methodist and Baptist; sixteen business houses. All seem to be doing a good business. Out of the six teen business houses I send you the names of twelve of them as subscribers to the Chronicle and Sentinel. I find here, located, from Georgia, Mr. W. J. Roark and Dr. J. W. Quillian. A more clever set of gentlemen 1 have not met in South Carolina. Many of them re mark that all true Democrats' in’ the State should take the Chronicle and Sentinel, as the worthy and able 1 pro prietors had neither spared expense nor labor in helpinj3f'them to fight thieves and plunffeters'; and as'they have shown themselves their greatest champion, so all should support it well, arid evince their appreciation thereby. 1 learn from a trustworthy source that a man is to lose his place here for voting for Tilden. Mr. Frank Z. Moore, a Deputy United States Marshal, of Pickens, who could not vote the Radi cal ticket, and cast his vote for Tilden, is now looking for orders to give up his place. I learn that some of the black and tan dirty thieves have threatened to send him to Albany prison because he voted for Tilden. He is a gentleman, and could not remain in such a body of' thieves. Judge Cooke and others up here are overjoyed at the eleotion of Tilden and Gen. Wade Hampton. I leave to-morrow for Spartanburg and Greenville. G. W. N. HOUR OR* OF MODERN WARFARE. The Battle ot Djnnis—A tiemrlhe Success by, the Turkish Army—Three Thousand Ser vian. Deserted—How the Wounded Pri.on 5/ eim.Were Treated. A correspondent of the London Tele yrapAjiWrites: ,!ii. " Thus they came on, and presently opened so fearful a rifle fire that the bul lets fell around us all like hail. As yet onr infantry were quiet; not a rifle was heard, and the foe was coming nearer to the semi-circular trenches of which I have before spoken. Suddenly there is a movement in the bushes, a sharp note from the bugle, a rattle of bayonets and steel barrels, and then a little cheer. Our men are moving, the .supports are taking the empty trenohes, and the rest of each battalion is in the reserve lines. All at once such a fire pours forth as en velops you in smoke, and makes that still advancing column stagger. Yet only for a minute ; there is a counter cheer and a rapid rush. Whirr! how the bullets fly past them ; with what shrieks do the shells bound in ! See, the Servians are'standing still for a mo ment firing yet, but coming no nearer to the mountain. Their line is gradually being fed, too, and they are extending every moment. It is only the fear of the shells and the -bullets which make them beaikaten 1 Per haps and not* only the fear, but rather the effect, for now they are falling fast, and without! the aid even of a glass we can see that are strewing the ground by hundreds, or. staggering away to die. Harder than ever is our fire, as theirs weakens, and more determined, too, are onr men, for they now quit the outpost trenches and are advancing upon the bewildered enemy. Volley after volley from the foe fails to stop them, they leave many a comrade on the ground, but ou they go, till at length the Servians, seeing their red fezes coming nearer aDd near er; tarn and fly, deserting three thou sand of their number, who will never see home in Bnssia or on the banks of the Danube any more. * • * *, P Not ope was there but might have been the hardy father oj a ppmerous family. I did not see a bpy among them. One I noticed in particular—and he-wps but a type of the rest—a tall, well made, broad shouldered warrior, who, having foogbt to his uttermost and received a wound in the stomach, had lain down upon the road to DerHent in hope of succor. Un ; happily for him, friends were far away, and his oosarades had bung ia fantastic fashion on a tree hard by, a Circassian who, having fallen into them hands, had been first tortured and put to death. I was looking at him as I rode by, won dering if he were yet alive, when, hor rible to relate, there came upon the scene four Chirkeesoes. They, too, had seen their danglißg comrade, and they thirsted for blood. At this moment the wounded Serb raised his head and rolled his glassy °j a j in hope of des crying help. Down sprang 8 Circassian and with a little dagger pierded tee dy ing man through and through, cut off his right hand, ripped him up aa he lav upon the ground. Fortunately, his end was near and be efpiredf but even m death fie was a handsoptogWMb“ ,Tl ?- tim to the barbarous war which Bnssia has caused and waged.” Black silk dngffk edged frith a band of far will be worn with long black silk cloaks and paletots. Beautiful faces are fhoae tbat wear-- It matters but little if dark or f air— Whole-souled honesty painted there. STATE SUPREME COUR^. DECISIONS RENDERED BY IJHE SUPREME COURT OP GEORGIA. IN ATLANTA, NOVEMBER 14,1870. (Atlanta Constitution.] Jackson, J., having been of counsel, did not preside in this case. Shewmake, Administrator, St al Johnson et al., Executors. Injunc tion, from Bibb. Warner, C. J. This was a .bill fileij by the complain-, ants as the hieeutpr/of SL 0. Ryan, late of the county of Macon, deoeased, in the wgatourgrTv JMwwbr garnishee, and others, one of whom was a judgment creditor of said By an, pray ing for directions as to how they should administer the estate of their * testator, under his will, in view of the alleged complicated condition of the assets be longing to the estdte. and the respective alaims thereon, and also praying for an iDjunotion to restrain the creditors of their testator from proceeding to collect their debts, especially the principal judgment creditor thereof. 1 On bearing the application for the injunction pray ed for, the Chancellor overruled the de- fendants’ demnrrer to the jurisdiction of the Coart in the oounty of Bibb, and also overruled the defendants’ demurrer to the bill for want of equity, and grant ed the injunction; whereupon the de fendants excepted. The only defendant residing in the county of Bibb, to give the Court of that county jurisdiction, was H. T. Johnson, the garnishee, who was a mere stakeholder, and had no in terest in the final distribution of the testator’s estate under his will, or other wise, and according to the theory of the complainants’ bill, they were not entitled to the substantial relief prayed for, as against him. The substantial re lief which the complainants’ bill seeks to obtain is against other parties de fendant, who are hot alleged to be resi dents of the oomrtydf Bibb,there fore the Superior Court of that county did not have jurisdiction of them to grant tbe relief prayed for,and the Chan cellor erred in overruling the defend ants’ demurrer to the jurisdiction of the Court as to them. By the Constifctotioh, equity cases shall be tried in the county where a defendant resides against whom substantial relief is prayed. The 4,183d section of the Code declares that “all bills shall be filed in the county of the residence of one of the defendants, against whom a substantial relief is prayed, except in oases of injunctions tostay pending pro ceedings, when the bill may be filed in the county where the proceedings are pending, provided no relief is prayed as to matters not included in such litiga tion.” The principal and substantial relief prayed for iu the complainants’ bill is as to matters not included in the litigation pendiugin tlieoounty of Bibb, but relates to other matters, and the rights of other parties, outside of that litigation, having no neoessary connec tion with it. Inasmuch as the Superior Court of Bibb county had no jurisdic tion to hear and decidethe case as made by the complainants’ bill, we express no opinion as to the merits of the questions involved in it. Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed. Coleman, trustee, vs. Worrill, adminis trator, et al. Equity, from Upson. Wabnkb, C. J. The complainant filed his bill against the defendants in the Superior Court of Upson oounty on the 28th of July, 1873, in which he alleged that he held a mort gage, executed by one Benjamin Walk er, in his lifetime, on certain described lands in said county, to secure tbe pay ment of a promissory note therein men tioned, dated 29th December, 1859, and due 25th December, 1860, said mortgage' bearing date 29th of December, 1869 ; that Walker didd, but the time of his death is not alleged, and that Worriil became his administrator ; that at the November term, 1869, of Upson Supe rior Court, ooiriplainant filed his peti tion for a rule ni si tp -foreclose said mortgage, which was granted,. but by some mistake or inadvertance, Worrill, the administrator of Walker, was not served with a copy of said rule ni si, but at the Novemb r term of the Court, 1870, an orders was granted extending the time for service of said rhle ni si on said Worrill, administrator, and requir ing him to show - cause, etc., at the next following May term of the Court, and which was on the Ist of February, 1871. Complainant also al leges thtofeWOrtil!, adnfiuistrflbor, af ter advertising a portion of the lands in cluded in said mortgage, sold, the same at administrator’s sale as the property of his intestate on the first Tuesday in Feb ruary, 1870, when the defendant, Wil mot, became the purchaser thereof] be being the highest and beat bidder ; that complainant had no nptice of snid sale ; did not see the advertisement, etc.; that if said sale should be held valid, the fur ther attempt to foreclose hrs mortgage will be ineffectual, and if invalid, said administrator’s sale will be a olond upon the title of the mortgaged property, so that a fair price cannot be obtained for it. Whereupon complainant prayed that Worrill, as administrator, might be decreed to bring into Court the purchase money received from the sale of the land, to be applied to the payment of the mortgage debt, if said sale should be held to be valid; but in the event said Baleqbquld be to be invalid, that the same may be set aside and the title papers cancelled, dnd that his said bill may be held hhd' Considered as auxiliary to said rule for foreclosure, and that both may; be tried together. It appears from the- record that the de fendants, at the return term of the bill, filed a demurrer thereto for want of equity, and on tlife; ground that the com plainant’s claim was barred by the sta tute of limitations, whereupon the com plainant amended his bill by alleging that Beall, the attorney of Worrill, Ad ministrator, who was duly employed by him, and authorised to make such ac- did acknowledge ser vice on said rule m si, and wave a copy thereof; but it is not alleged at what time said acknowledgement was made] nor does any. such acknowledgment ap pear on the rule ni si attached to the complainant’s bill as an exhibit. It fur ther appears from idle record before us, that at the May term of the' Court, 1875, the demurrer;was heard and over ruled, when .the defendants tendered their bill of exceptions, which was duly Certified and entered On record, as pro • vided by the 4250th section of the Code, and error was; assigned -thereon here, by th defendants. .When the case Yes called for a final hearing thereof, the de fendants made a motion ore tenua to 'dismiss the complainant’s bill for want of equity, which motion the Oonrt sus tained,: and the oomplainant excepted. What is the character and object of the complainant's bill when stripped of its unnecessary verbiage and tediiced to its simple elements? It is an attempt to .confer an application for the foreclosure of a mortgage from a common law Oourt, in which it was originally commenced, and according to the complainant’s the ory, to a Court of equity for (foreclosure. In our jndgment, the Court erred in, overruling the defend ant’s original demurrer to the complain ant’s bill, which is How assigned for error hote. There is no allegation that the sale of the land made by the administra tor of Walker was not made according to law. If the service was acknowledged by Beall oh the rule nisi as alleged in the amended bill; that fact cohld as well have been proved in the common law Oourt in a Court of equity. But the plaintiff’s cause. of action accrued prior to the Ist of June, 1865, and was, therefore, barred by the statute of limi tations of 1869. It is true the oom plain dnt filed his .tple nisi to foreclose his mortgage in November, 1869, but it was not served until the Ist of February, 1871. Beall was not such a special at torney of the mortgagor as contemplated by the statnte, on whom service coaid have been legally perfected, even if his acknowledgment of service had appeared on the rule nisi, which it does not. There was'no suit therefor in this ease whioh would take it onto! the operation of the act of 1869 according to the previous ru lings of this Court. See George vs. Gardner, 40th Georgia Bep. 441. Fer guson vs. Manchester Manufacturing Company, 6lat.Georgia Bep. 6007* Inas much as do decree could have been made against the defendants allegations contained in the complainant’s bill, and the Court having erfeq in overruling the original demurrer thereto as contained in the record, there was ne error in dis missing it at the hearing. Let the jndg ment of the Court'below be affirmed. Ufiord vs. The State. Arson, from Speed ing. WARNER, C. J. The defendant was indicted for the offense of “setting fire to a house in a city,” and on the trial therefor was fonnd guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to law, contrary*to the evi dence, and the-weigM ef the evidence, which was overruled by the Court, and the defendant excepted. On looking through the evidence contained in the record, it is sufficient, in onr judgment, to sustain the yejfiict of the jury, if they believed the witnesses on the part of the State, and that was a question for them; therefore the verdict Was not contrary to [aw, nor without evidence to support it. The case appears to haye been fairly submitted to the jury under the charge of the Court, and it being satisfied with the verdict, We find ho legal grounds to revewetbe jndgment of the Gout be low in overruling the motion for anew trial. Let the judgment of the Court below be affirmed. Benedict, Hall & Cos. vs. Webb. Claim, from Upson. \ Bleckley, J. ' 1. Property^mortgaged in 1870 with out ,any waiver of homestead, being claimed as a j homestead in 1871, the mortgagee, whe bad filed objections, withdrew ttie same and granted further indulgence, on condition that the home stead be set apart subject to the mort gage, which was done accordingly, and the mortgagor’s wife died in a few days thereafter; he having no minor ohildren, the specific homestead right concerning which the parties made their agreement teraiinjaWd for all time. 2. Afterwards, the mortgagor married again, went into same property to be set apart to him by the assignee in bankruptcy as a home stead; this second homestead', being based on tbe existence of anew family, is lawful; is unaffected by the agree ment touching the first; and so long aer it exists, the property is hot subject to levy and sale under the mortgage Judgment affirmed.™"* ■f-GUi/.JI JL lIU IT/,I fi Wilson vs. Frisbee, Roberts A Cos. Com plaint, from Pike. ' . - Bleoklby, J. , 1. If, in dealing in “cotton futures,” you know your factor or broker has de viated from instructions or from custom by sellihg oht too early, and you, never theless, without objection, settle with him in full, by note, for hit advances, commissions, etc., you tbeteby ratify, the irregularity, and you cannot, when sued upon the note, Urge a3 a defense of the action the loßses which you sus tained by reason of such deviation. 2. Where the account rendered, and used as a basis of settlement, was correot as to the selling price and as to the differ ence between it and tbe buying price, but contained a clerioal error as to the buy ing price itself, guph errors, when dear ly explained by the evident®, becomes immaterial and constitutes no reason for opening the settlement, as the cal culations were made by tbe correct figures and the error bad no influence on the result. 3. If ope has health tp understand all the material facts that appear on the faoe of an account, and doek understand them at the time -Of the settlement, whether from fcn examina tion of the aoooujj or otherwise, the state of his health,.physically, is sufficient for the occasion. 4. A telegram expressed in private cipher may be translated into ordinary language Uv a witness who knows how to read and render it. Judg meut affirmed. Mayor and Council of Griffin, et al., vs. Inman, Swan & Cos. Alsumpsit and bill, from Sphldibg. Bleckley, J. 1. An amendment passed in 1859 to tbe charter of a city, granting to tbe Mayor and Council authority, on the re commendation of a majority ot citizens, either in publio meeting or by pqblio election, to subscribe for the stock of railroads, to borrow money on the faith and credit of the city to pay the same, and to impose a special tax not exceed ing one-half ofqqeper cent, in any one year to meet suoh debt created,, was not repealed by that provision in the Con stitution of 1868 which declared that, “No law shall be passed by which a citi zen shall be compelled against bis opn,- sent, directly or indirectly, to become a stockholder iu, or contribute to any rail road, exoept iu the ease of the inhabi tants of a corporate town or city. In suoh cases, the Qenpral Assembly may permit the corporate authorities to take such stock or make suoh contribution, after a majority of the qualified voters of such town or bity r voting at an elec tion held for. the purpose* shall have voted iu favor of the same, but not oth erwise”* Another provision of the Con stitution expressly saves local acts pass ed for the benefit of cities and towns, 1 not,, inconsistent with the supreme law nor the Constitution itself. 2. Constru ing the amended charter and the Consti tution together, and making them har monize in spirit and meaning, the prop er mode of, taking the sense of the citizens, in 1871,. op the question of subscribing for a given amount of stock in a certain railroad, was to order a public election by. all the qual ified voters of the city, with privilege to each and eyery qualified voter to vptq for or against the proposed subscrip tion. 3. The votes of a majority voting at suoh election, though a majority dr the whole number of qualified voters did not votgi were sufficient to warrant the Mayor and Council in leak ing the subscription. 4. The authori ty to subscribe for stock, borrow money and impose future taxes, embraces an implied power to employ the usual and appropriate securities for engaging pmni cipal credit in such cases, which securi ties are corporate bonds, bearing inter est, and negotiable toy delivery. 5. It was competent to deliver the bonds at par in payment of the subscription, in lieu of raising money upon them by loan and then paying the money in dis charge of the subscription, the one be ing substantially -the equivalent of the other, when consummated by consent of both coiitractitog parties:' 6. That cer tain conditions prescribed by an ordi nance of the city as perlimiuary to the right 6f the railroad company to receive!’ the bonds had been With} was’ determined affirmtiavely by the Mayor) and Council, and such determination is binding in the present controversy, 7. The rule thatthe bona fide holders of negotiable securities is protected, ap-’ plies in the present case, as to the face of the bonds and coupons* Whether the stipulation endorsed thereon, expe diting the time of payment in Case ot default iu meeting an instalment Of’ids terest, be pppera&ve or not* is not nor here for deejsipn. 8. In order for a jury to find that a contract made in another State and to be performed there was void for usury, the evidence must show that the rate of interest agreed to be taken was in excess of the rate allowed by the law of such State, and t/d do'this evidence of the legal rate at the time and place of the contract is indispensable. 9. A con tract between two corporations is .npt rendered void by the .fact that some of the persons assisting 1 to make the con tract and taking part in thCperformance of conditions and in the acceptance of performance, were officers in both cor porations, apd represented both to the extent of their respective powers. 10. The Court is not bound to give effect to the written consent of counsel as to the order ot the time of trying cases. 11, Where a case is called for trial in itp order, and another case, standing upon a different docket, is tried with it‘by consent, tbe plaintiff iu the former case is entitled to open and conclude. 12. A rule of law so general as not to be pwn tioally useful at some point where tne case presses before the jury, need not be given in oharge. Judgment affirmed.' Mary A. Sindall vs. J. S. Jones, Dram singer & Cos. Equity, from Spalding. Jackson, J. j 1. Statements of the husband in the presence of his wife and not denied by her are-admissible, the jury being prop erly cautioned by the Conrt, in the charge, that they “must be satisfied that she was under no constraint what ever by the presence ol her husband, but was perfectly free to assent or dis sent, as she desired,” and also that the statements were “made under sneh cir cumstances us required an answer or denial from his wife” before they coaid be held as admissions against her. 2. Where the Wife, abandoned by her hus band, had made application for a home stead in a house and jot as hia property, the same having been attached by cer tain bt tiie husband’s creditors, to whom and to others he was overwhelm ingly in debt when he left the State, and the attaching creditors settled the case with her by purchasing the property from her at SI,OOO, it being worth $4,- 000, and where she also held title to the propei ty in her own ame,bnt the deed was attacked for frond as being paid for largely with the husband’s money, and where the attaching creditors' assumed all ricks of litigation with others con cerning the property: Held, That on a bill filed by the wife to set aside the sale, or to recover the difference be tween the real value of the land and the price paid, and verdict and decree for defendants, this Court will not control the discretion of the presiding Jndge in overruling amoticn.for anew trial, the evidence being sufficient td sustain the verdict, and the law having beeh fairly administered. Judgment affirmed. Thos. N. Poullain, Sr., mEnglish, Wil son, el at. Injunction, from Greene. Jackson, J, Where the complainant, Poullain,, fifed a bill alleging substantially that one Strain, fheb deceased, and himself were the only solvent sureties on the bond of Seabrook, as administrator, with the will annexed, of George 0- Dawapn, de ceased; that said administrator had com mitted a devastavit, and that complain ant was threatened with a snit by cer tain legatees of Dawson townswer for the devfiutjUwU; and that Brown had ad miniatejed upon the estate pf Strain,, his only solvent co-securily; and that Strain’s heirs at law, mat# of them rion residents of Georgia, had recovered a personal judgment against. Btowd, Strain’s, administrator, for a deyastyvit he (Brown) had' committed'on Strom’s estate; and that the same W aa levied upon all of Browrfs foal estate; and that this jndgmept against JfrownhonetitKt ed all the assets left of fStrai> estate; and that complainant would have to make good Seabrook’s devastavit alone, unless these remandrig asSeiW coaid be saved so as to make Sfiroiato estate con tribute, and that Brown’s lands would be aacrifioed if sold at this time; and where the prayer was for an injunction] to restrain the sheriff and tbe heirs of Strain from selling Biowu’s lands: Held, that this Court will not control the dis cretion of the Chancellor in refusing to grant an injnnction to reatrain lhe sher iff from selling the lands and collecting the amount of the judgment. Judg ment affirmed. Samuel D. Irwin vs. James W. Copbih. 1 Equity, from Spalding. Jaokson, J. This Court will not oontrol the discre tion of the presiding Judge iu granting anew trial on the sole ground that the verdict is oontrary to the law and the nniriwn l JMkaAUMi spnnrri nlaailjr dia doses that tbe law and the evidenoe re quired the verdiht* stiff’that the Judge bad thus abused his discretion. Judg ment affirmed. HI REUNGS AND HYPOCRITES PHARABAICAL CANT FROM PRO MINENT REPUBLICANS. , ~, The Oeod 1 Men 1 Decline te .Week the Death orate in 1 Uouiicil—Because They Hut Not Interfere withtpe Lawful Returning Board of Louisiana—Which, Being a Partisan lie turning Board, Plays Exactly Into the Good ' Men’s Hands—The Partisan Board, There fore, to Sit Unmolested with Closed Doorh— And, tfo® End Thereof Any Man Can Divine -Jss Brown Swears to Florida Being for Tllden—The Carolina Supreme Court ilea . . Itvera Itself This Morning. Washington, November 16,.-— The New York Herald has a dispatch from J. J,. Daniel, Chairman of theDemooratic Ex ecutive Committee, of the Second Dis trict of Florida, saying : “I send you below the vote of the' State by oounties. The returns are all in exoept from Bre rard.” Here follow details by Congres sional Districts. First, Democrats ma jorities in 18 counties, 5,171 ; Repub lican majorities in 4 counties, 4,665 ; Second, Democratic . majorities ,|a 11, connties, 2,791 ; Republican majorities, '2,369, Total Democratic majority fn the Staite, 1,038. The dispatch concludes : '‘This insures tbe election of the State National ticket, JDemocratic Congress men from both Districts and' a Demo cratic majority in both Houses 6f the Legislatuie.” i! 000,-PSo '■ l ■•} Reply of Republican** in New Orleans. New OaLhANs, NbVe'mber 16 Ratify of the Republicans' to the committee from the Democrats, inviting a confer ence—iVew Orleant; 16. Jj/entlemenb Thethajdritiy'df 1 the under signed, to whom, your note of the 14th was addressed, only arrived fn this city yesterday evening. We have' therefore been unable to reply until this - morning, and gan only regret that your commoni ■foation should have been given to the press immediately upon its delivery and without possibility of an answer accom panying At. You remark that youare in formed that we came at the request of the President to see that the Board of Canvassers make a fair count of vbtes actually oast, and-ask that we meet and confer in: order .that such influence we possess may bp exerted, qn behalf of suqn a canvass of the votes actually oast, as by its f lirness and impartiality shall command -the respect and acqnies cence'of the American people,of alt par tigs. We join heartily with you .in coun sels of peace and in the. expression of an earnest desire fof a perfectly honest and just declaration of the results of the re cent election in Louisiana by its lawful ly popstituted authorities, and we may add that we know of t no reason to doubt that suoh a declaration will be made, but we do not see the propriety or utili ty! of a oonfepenoe on the base and sub ject to the limitations you propose, for we have no such duty imposed.on us, and as suggested by the clause pf your note first quoted, we are almost re quested to be witnesses *>f what shall occur iu the canvass of .the votes, with-, out power or legal influence over the re sult or aver the means by which, under the laws of Louisiana, the result is to be determined. We oannot doubt: tha/t in this, your open -reflection will con cur with ns, --W# areuhere as private oitizens, with no offloial power ; we therefore oannot’Supersede or modify any 14we of the Btate.’norbave >wei any right to control or influence any of l® ofljeers astothg qjqqnqr in which tpey shall perforin (nimsterial or judicial du ties imposed ,th‘6tn by ' its laws, and should whj fctriibg'ers and''Without official functions, attempt this;' we should be condemned by the people of every Stltdin the ' Übiori for att-lm proper interference with -local adminis tration/) The following extract from the laws of Louisiana shows that the Can vasstng Board is expressly, required;in’ certain cases to exercise judicial aa well as ministerial function. Section 3, That in,swob, compilation the returning offi cprs shall observe the following order: They shall compile first the statements from all polls pr votihg places at which there shall have been a fair, free and peaceful registration and election; When ever from any poll or voting plied there shall be receiVed’tbb statement of any sb pelWlftor of registration or commissioner of election l in form, aßfrequired by section 26 of this aot* Cit affidavit of three or more citizens of any- riot tu*) mult, acts of violence; intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or corrupt influence which presented;or had, a tern dency to prevent s fiiit.free.epd, peace-i able vote of,fill qualified electors entitled, to vote at such polls qr voting places, speh returning officers shall not yan yass, count or compile, the statements frpm suoh poll* or votifig places until the statements from all other pdlls <# voting places shall have been canvassed' And cbmpiled. *Th'e' returning officers shall then' proceed to investigate the statements of‘riot, tumult, acts of vio lence, intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or corrupt influence ati any! such poll or- votang plaoe, .aijdif. hem the evidence of ..such statement they shall be convinced that, such riot, tu mult, acts of violence, [intimidation, armed disturbance, bribery or corrupt influence did not,, materially interfere With the purity and freedom at such poll ~.pj voting place, or did not prevent j,a sufficient number ol quali fied voters thereat from registering dr voting to materially change the result of the Election, then and not otherwise said Returning officers shall oanvass and compile the vote of suoh poll or voting place with those previously canvassed and compiled; but if the said returning officers shall not be fully satisfied there of, it shall be their duty to examine fur ther testimony in regard thereto, and to this end they shall have power to send for persons and papers. If, after such examination, the said returning officers shall be convinced that; Said riot, tu mult, acts of violation, intimidation, armed bribery or corrupt influence, did * materially interfere .with theipurity and freedom's!the elec tion at suoh poll or voting place, or did prevent a sufficient number of the qual ified electors thereof from registering and voting, to materially change the re sult of the election, then said returning officers shall not canvass or compile tfie statement of the votes of suoh poll or voting place, but shall exclude from their returns, provided that any persons interested in said election, by reason of being a candidate for office, shall be al lowed a hearing before said returning offioers upon making application within the time allowed for the forwarding of the returns of said election. Hence, if there were any facts requir ing the jndgment of the Board upoh the validity of any election or returning as affected by such frauds or violence, it would be a manifest interference with State rights and local self-government for persons like ourselveß, Without offi cial rights, to attempt to inflnenoe or control its. judicial election, Had a corresponding board in the Staf;e of New York in 1868 been authorized to pass upon the fraudulent return of votes, of the city of New York that year, aoth& delegation of citizens of Louisiana, however respectable, Attempted, r to in fluence its judicial action upon'the facts presented to it under laws of that State, such sn attempt wonld have beeh universally condemned. If the Unties of , the Canvassing Board of Lanißiana were merely ministerial or clefidai, at in the case of officer, charged by law With the duty of verify ing and declaring the reanlt of any elec tion pr investigation, with no discretion as, when the President of the Senate! counts and declares the-votes of elec tors of the several States in the elec tion of President and Vice President, under the Constitution of the United States, a different case would be pre sented. It hr, ht onr judgment, vital for the preservation of constitutional liberty that the habit of obedience to the-forms of law fhonld be sedulously inpuloated and cultivated, and that the results, to extra constitutional modes of redress fof, even actual grievances should be avoided end condemned ias revolu tionary, disorganizing and v tending to disorder and anarchy. To reduce the whole question, there fore, to the mere clerical duty of count ing the votes actually cast, as pro posed by yoq./in .distinction fepm votes legally cast and returned, irrespective of the qrifefrtiou whether they are fraudulently or Violently oast; or otherwise vitiated, involves a nullifi cation of the provisions of the laws of Louisiana, which have already been ad- Bidicated as vafjd ‘ toy the Supreme onrtand would be Wholly unjustifiable here as well as in apylother State of the . Union, wiph had fltqvupl laws tect the rights of voters and the purity of the ballot. Wk oaunott therefore, concur in ybnr propce jtieptor aeonfetenoe on that ba sis. Bespeotfnlly, Jno. Sherman, Stanley Matthews, J. A. Garfield, W. D. Kelly, John A. Kassou, E. W. Stoughton, 0. Irving Ditty, J, H. Van Allen, Eugene Hale, M. S. Quay, W. M. Cumback, Edward T. Noyes, J. O E. Stevenson, John Coburn, Lew Wallace, J. M. Tut tle, W. A. MoGrew, J. W. Chapman, W. R. Smith, Abner Taylor, I. R. Haven, J. M. Breadsley, C. B. Farwell, Sidney Clark, j. 0. Hilson. Tjr J. Mv Pal mer, Lewis Y. Bogy, James^roadhead, W. K. Morrison and others present at the re quest of the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. New Orleans, November 17.—Gov eruor Wells, a member of the Return ing Board, states that in al) oases of con tested polls from any oausb tbe Demo erat-w ttorte Committee wotiMbbe noti fied and the Board would hear argu ment from both siddi. 1 ' 1 r New York, NovemßeriL—The Her ald's New .(jijt-ana special says : Gold rates here to-day are 10 per cent, above New York. Banks are oalling in tbeir call loans, particularly on State and city v securities. Poor people) are drawing their money out of the banks and pat- / ting it in gold; still there is no sign of anything serious. The copunittee ap pointed by Democratic visitors to pre pare a reply tp the Republican letter of refusal* have been work up, to a late hour. It consists of Senators Trumbull and Doolittle, Guveruor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Ottendorfer, of New York; and another of Ohio. In substance, it will substantially say, ' among other things, that they admit no official powers or right to inteifere with the‘internal affairs of the ;- tate of Lou isiana, but they are here at the request of an ptganizatiqn® of va great political party, Where they meet the representa tives of the .opposition, seleoted by the President himself, for the same pur pose, and, as he says in his army orders, for the sake of seeing an honest count of the vote aotually cast, in ’BBply 'to statement that the Vice-President has the authority to count the yotpm they take direct issue, and assert that CtmgteW itself, cocsist . iug of the Senate ana the House, has been solelyfnVelitofl’yHtb suoh power. The Herald's Tallahassee dispatoh says the official returns continue to come in, without, however, changing the esti mate I sent you two days ago, givifig the State tb Tilden by 1 * from 400’ta 700 majority. A prominent Fed eral offlqehphhu- Dpre reduces TiUJen’s mujority to 229, but ! oannot vouch for tia figures, i The Tribune's New Orleans ispatph says the latest returns of the election 1 in Louisiana received in that oitybahaW ithat tpe Rephblioan majori ties are iu the aggregate smaller than they have been anpprised to be. '< New Orleans, November 17.—The Democrat®’ Committee have received several hundred affidavits from negroes and some from Republican officials in .Ouacoik and other bull-dozed parishes, showing peaceable add quiet election; also, intimidation ■of negroes who de sired to vote tbe DSBTbdfSttb ticket, but ’did not .do no tor fear ,of violence 4rom Jftepubimus qf, thgir own pOlor. Republican .officials have ooun ter-affidavits, ‘ hr mahy cases show- 1 ing violence ami’'intimidation ’Where' the , Democrats have .Sworn noth ing of the kind existed. It iB stated to night on good authority that tbe Re turning . Board, when At meets to-mor row, wil^, reply to the application of the Democratic Committee allowing five members'from each party to be present during the oktnvassing of returtafe. Busi ness continues extremely dull, with no prospect of improvement until the pres ent political dispute is adjusted and the election of President settled. Collating the Vole—Republican Vraudn lie- •i,,a tecreiL, u ~ [Special lHtpateh to Ui6‘Chronicle.ami Sentinel.] Columbia, November’ !l!7.i—The Su preme Court inaujed' to-day what the {Chief Justicq termed aq auxiliary or in termediate order, requiring the Board to proceed to add np the total vote of the various counties in the Staite and report forthwith to i the Court. The oounting is proceedia& qiufetly in the presence of Democrats and Republicans. Large Rod® al*,,frauds • dmve , already been reached, although but a half dozen ooniitieß have been added up ; five hun dred'in BeaMbH and thirteen hundred iii Barnwell are the figures of the frauds. ’lt,is supposed the end; will be .reached to-morrow night. ; . Haiti Atop ariiSlawn, Haguod sud Conner, U*m . [Special Dispatch to the Chronicle and Sentinel. J Columbia, ,November 18,—The Board of Canvassers eompleted their oount to-night. Hampton... and Simpson, Hggoqd and Conner, democrats, and Kennedy, Cardozo and Talbot, Republi cans, are elected. They make their re port to* the Supreme Court Monday. It is thought an illegal precinct in Beau fort, at which over five hundred Radioal votes were cast, will be thrown out by the Court; if so, Tilden seoures two of the Seven feleotoral 1 Votes of the State; otherwise, Hayeß carries the State. The end js not yet,. ; lj: ’ , .Columbia, November 18.— The State Board of' Canvassers has tabulated the returns for all the State officers except Governor and i Lieutenant-Governor, from the face’Of the petunia pf the oounty canvaßsertu The vote is close, and the results are aq. doubtful that it wi{l take the correction of numerous clerical Cfrors'to 'determine the suooess fnl candidates. The totutas show that Hayne* Republican, is re-elected Seore tary/of,State by 227. Elliott, Republi can, ip elected Attorney-General by seven votes. Hagood, Democrat, is elect ed OompttollerGeneratby266. Thomson, Democrat,- Superintendedt of Education, by 442; Kennedy, Republican,, by 161; and Cardozq, .Republican, by 208, Cor rected returns will change these results on Monday so fis to give the Attorney- Generalship to the Democrats and the Superintendent of Education to the Re publicans. Hampton’s majority is about 1,144 over Chamberlain, The. Work la LoaUlann Begin*. New Orleans, November 18.—At 12 o’clock to-day there wsls quite a gather ing at the room of the Beturning Board. Messrs. Caaanave and Wells, members of the Board, were there; Jdflge Trhmdull, Stallo, Governor Pal mer, and Ex L Govemor McHenry, of the Northern Democracy; and the Demo cratic Committee,,.whjefi has charge of the evidence to be presented on the part of the Democrats, were present. Thera Were a number of Republicans present, also. There was a.delay with [he meeting 9n the part of the Boarc}, on account ol the absence of Anderson pnd Kenner. The Board met at and authorized the Scrgeant-at-Arms to procure a room for the meeting of the Board, A resolu tion was offered by General AnderSon, inciting the presence qf five gentlemen frqm each party of ‘ the Northern Demo crats and BepubliCahs in the city. Adopted. Colonel Zacharie filed a pica as to the jurisdiction of the Board, which; thereafter went into executive session. New Orleans, November 18.—The following communication has been for warded to visiting Bepnblicans in an swer to a similar document sent to .the oe Board of Beturninu Officers, j "■ - State or Louisiana, A -'State House, New Orleans, Nov. 8.) Hon. Jno. T. bhermafit, ftt, Gharles Ho tel, New Orleans: Sib —At a m£.eting_pf the Board of Beturning Officers, held to-day. the fol- and resolatidn, intro duced by General Thos. 0.. Anderson, was unanimously adapted, namely,: Whereas, This Board has lesrned, with satisfaction, that ‘distinguished gen tlemen of national reputation from other States—sotge at the! request .pf. the President of the United States and some at the request of the National Executive Committee of the Democratic party,are present in this city, with a view to witness the proceedings of this Board in oanvasftipg and oomptf iag the returns of the repent election in this State for Presidential eleotors, in order that the public Opinion'"of the country may be satisfied dsuto the truth o 4 . ■ the result and L " fairness of the means by it may have been attained;' and whereas tbit Board rebogniißs 'tbe importance which may attach to the result of the proceedings fiifd thatlhe publio mind should he convinced of; it*, justice by a knowledge of the facts on which it may be baked: therefore fee jt ■ Rebdtted, ’’Thirt this Board does here by cordially 'invite and request five gentlemen from Path of fhA two bodies named to be selected fij, themselves re spectively to attend and ‘ fie present at v the meeting of the Board While engaged in the discharge of its duties Under the law in canvassing And compil ing the returns and ascertaining and declaring the result \°t said election for Presidential electors, in their Capacity as private citizens 6f eminent reputa tion and high character oe spectators of ge proceedings in,,[heir behalf of this >ard, Bespectfully, etg.. J. Madison Wells, President Board of Beturning Offioers. Senator Sherman hah answered f jrthe Bepublicans and accepts the invitation. No reply has, as yet (been received from the Democrats. THE FLOWERY LAND FOR TILDKN. A Dew acrylic Majority Fylr Gaunt the ohly Demand—A Loos Content Ahead. [Spsviid JftpcMh* tv Ota -CArenwle mi Tallahassee, *Fi*rrNovember 18.—I have no doubt birt that the State is Dem ocratic,if we dan secure a fair count. The oontest may last two weeks yet-be fore the final result is I reached. I could not give you all the particulars in a tele gram. Jkr,