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MAsON St ESTttL,
editors and proprietors.
Or. J, N. JON US, f OMeUDBAIOM
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WKDtffCSDAY. JAftUAttY XX. 1868.
BAD ftSOA'i' ACUDr.Nf AKA it MU UN i
Two Pere/ ^ tfroiriiid.
We are indebted tjrlegra McArthur
for the particulars of ip f uetlk irosmiug acci
dent on the Oconee ri?^» ^°»^llounl Ver-
uon, which occurred laa| vet * * D t y week. Ihe
13»h. *' ^
A boating party wei^j^bnjbe rfrer,
near Stalling’s Bluff, consisting of Dr. L. Q.
Tucker, Mr. Finley J Fmlsyson, Miss Ura
nia McRae and Miss Anabella McRie. Mr.
Finlayson was a brothel of the late Mr. Jno.
Fmlafraop, formerly well known in Savan
nah,* wiose Bstale tie came here to settle up
some two years ago, from Invernosi county,
Scotland. He had settled here, and was
planting in Montgomery county. The
Misses McRae were daughters of Mr. Alex
ander McRie, of Tatnall county, also ol
Sootch descent, but wit^ numerous connec
tions in Georgia.
As the boat was shooting through a nar
row, swift curreut, the Doctor sitting in the
stern of the boat, and Mr. Pinlayson in
the bow, the latter leaned over too much and
made an injudiciously heavy stroke with his
paddle, and the boat capsized.
Mr. F. sunk near where the boat was upset,
and lifs body .has not yet been recovered.
Dr. Tucker is a good awiinmer, and very
cool. He quickly righted the boat and as
sisted the youug ladies in clinging to it. It
again wag overturned, and the second time
both ladies, by Dr. Tucker’s assistance, suc
ceed in obtaining a hold on the boat. As it
floated down the stream, the curreut being
very rapid, Miss Uraoia’s strength failed.
As she lost her grasp her sister caught her
by the hand, and retained the hold till the
boat struck a tree, opposite Mr. Washington
Adams’ place, and Miss Urania sank. Mi68
Anabella grasped a limb of the tree, and was
resened that night by Wm McRae and John
D. McLeod.
Miss Urania's body was recovered on the
evening of the loth.
The sad event has filled the whole com
monity with mourning, and in Savannah
many friends of both of the deceased will
be pained to hear the announcement of the
accident.
UWNIAITI AMD TU PKlOl OF
bLlDI.
Xfl ordtr to aKrftQi lmmifr*0l8, it is neces
sary that cmr land! should bepntatauch
rates as will please them, within the reach
of those who desire to purchase. The fol
lowing from a comriUinicalion published in
the Opelousas Journal, is pertinent to this
subject:
“We must sell a portion of our lauds at
about one-half or one-third the present pri
ces, if we would encourage immigration, aud
build up our country. If you huve a thou
sand acn-a of land, which you are now ask
ing $10,000 for, with the impiovements, you
t will do baiter to divide it into twenty parcels
of fifty acres each, sell the odd numbers of
the paicels at the nominal price of, say five
dollars per acre on loug lime, with qnnual
pay menu—say to be paid in five annual pay
ments with interests. By so doing, at the
end of five years yonr remaining paicels will
be worth more than you now ask for all of it.
Or a still better plan would be to present the
odd parcels to well recomended citizens, on
qQQdition that they, within one or two years,
put good substantial improvements on them,
worth a specified sum, say $800 or $1,1)00.
Having the intermediate tracts thus improv
ed, would, in the first place, give you good
society; secondly enable you to build up
good schools at home; thirdly, it would b-iug
capital iuto the country; fourthly, it would
bring labor in; and lastly, it would make the
balang) of your land worth at least double
the amount you now vainly ask for it. Tbi
can all be accomplished within three years.
These are sound views. Ah a general
principle we have too much land, and there
is an immense deficiency ol population and
labor throughout the South. Il we were to
give e%iry landless person iu the Southern
States as much land as he could cultivate,
there would still be a surplus on our hands,
and we would have uo one to cultivate it for
This State of affairs is burdeusooie nou t
Therz are two hundred and forty-three
convicts confined in the Georgia Peniten
tiary-whites, one hundred; blacks, one
hundred and forty-three.
Hon. J. B. Galbraith, Attorney General,
has been elected Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows ol Florida.
The Quincy (Fla.) Commonwealth says
that passengers to 8 tvannah from that place
are patrooizing the Atlantic and Gulf Road,
takin g the train at Bainbridge.
Grant and Sherman both advise Stanton
to resign. Per contra, it is said, all the Re
publican members of Congress have signed
a paper asking him not to resign.
Gsn. Meade.—Smator Wilson, says a dis
patch to the New York Commercial Adver
tiser, has received a letter from Gen. Meade
to the effect that he will take strong Badioal
measures aud enforce the reconstruction
policy of Congress.
It is rumored at Washington that the
next revolutionary measure to be introduced
by the Radicals will be a bill asserting the
power of Congress to regulate the elective
franchise in all the States, and providing for
the execution thereof.
The late George W. Kendall, of the New
Orleans Picayune, in his last letter to one of
his old associates, says : “ Do yon know,
Bullitt, that -hi all my life I never went to
school t&n months ?”—adding, “ the little I
ever learned was from running against peo
ple who had enjoyed more advantages.”
Thb New Orleans Crescent assails Edwin
Booth’s conception of the character of Ham
let as radically false. It says that Mr. Booth’s
Hamlet i9 based on Goethe’s famous criti
cism of the character in “Wilhelm Meis-
ter,” and that this is entirely opposed to a
true reading of the text. Goethe and Booth
have, however, the vast majority of critics
on their side.
Don Platt, a leading and influential Ohio
Radical* says in a recently published letter
that General Grant can’t go into the Presi
dency with his month shat, that the two
hundred and seventeen thousand Ohio Re
publicans “would not support the Angel Ga
briel on such terms.*’ He adds: “Weston
can ..walk,-hod Oobum can fight, and old
Billy Seward, with our government on the
verge of bankruptcy, can purchase the north
pole and fever-stricken islands under the
torrid zone; but all this won’t scall a pot-
meal kettle np the Niagata with a crowbar,
as Weed, Raymond & Co., are trying to da”
The facetious old Radical is correct in his
conclusions. “Marshal Brown’s pops” can'
elect Gram, scull they ever so hard.
What Grant Did Sat.—The truth is. that
he merely expressed to bia man Friday
(Washburne) his preference for Butler’s
amendment conferring all power there upon
the pegro Conventions.—Baltimore Gazette—
Washington letter.
Josiah Cook, of Buffalo, has entered a suit
against “Blind Torn,” the pianist, and his
agent, and doorkeeper at St. James Hall, for
the forcible ejection of one George Dover (a
negro barber) and his wife from one of
Blind Tom’s entertainments after they had
purchased tickets of admission.
Washington specials of the last few days
say that Ulysses, the Silent, shrinks from the
Emperorship of the excluded States. Maybe
he thinks with Wolsey, that “’tie too much
honor—a load would sink a navy.”
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What is Proto mo.—The Chicago Times,
of the I5tb, thus gives the design of Con
gross, in the last amendments to the scheme
of reconstruction :
Ji is proposed to make Grant dictator that
he may, through military despotism, redace
the noblest, 'most intelligent, and gallant
white men ol the South to subjection to the.
brutalized negroes who have jutt emerged
from the degradation of life loug and abject
slavery. It is proposed to make him dicta
tor, that he may fasten with the bayonet this
libel oo bis own race, and on men who prayed
themselves hie superiors on battle-fields
where the slain in the army ot the coming
dictator outnumbered the entire force op
posed to him. It Is proposed to make him
dictator, that he may carry to completion
the infamies we have enumerated, and add
to them the crowning pne, of electing him
self to the Presidency by agencies hideons,
brutal, and beyond expression, criminal.
Such are the purposes of one of the bills
coming bt fore Congress on Monday. The
o her* n lined aro i iteu-ted to lend It addi
tional strength, and are parts of the one
gotten! nnd traitorous eoMpirnNy.
and will necessarily become ftiore so in the
future. Let us therefore get rid of our sur
plus lands by dividing them np and telling
them in small tracts to actual settlers on rea
sonable terms and on long endits. We
know of what we are writing, and assert on
good authority, that there are iu the North
of England and South of Scollaud alone,
fifty thousand of the best laborers, formers
and artizans in the world, who cau be set
tled here in the manner we propose. A
brave, hardy, industrious and thrifty class,
that would make our old fields garden spots,
and whose stern love of liberty aud justice
would make them good and worthy citizens,
not to speak of the rest of Europe. Many
worthy men at Ihe North would also settle
here if offered these inducements. There
are many young men in the South, wbc
fought nobly in the late war, who are land
less. There are some honest, industrious,
and faithful negroes who, if encouraged,
wonld do well tor themselves and help great*
ly to restore the prosperity of the country.
Why not sell to such persons ? Let us make
oar young men landholders. Let us intro-
dace goodly nambers of reliable foreigners.
Let us bring some of the mind and genius
and mnscle ot the North to our aid. Let us
do these things, and we shall save ourselves
a world of trouble, do onr country a lasting
service, aod cause our names to be blessed
by posterity. Let us do them at ouce, while
we have the choice of settlers, and can di
vide our lands to suit ourselyea.
The question which is most vital to the
landholders of Georgia aud the South in the
possible political future is the subject of
taxation. For the first time iu the history
of the world a government is inaugurated
in Georgia aud the other Southern Stales iu
which the m9n who are to pay the taxes and
support the burdens of government are in a
hopeless mioority. Many of these are ex
eluded entirely from participation in the
affairs of the Goveinmeot, while nearly the
whole of them are exoluded from holding
office. Besides all this, the party who have
the power to govern Georgia contemplate a
system of taxation which would at once de
stroy the landholder. It would not only de
prive him of his jnst inheritance, for which
his fathers of revolutionary memory fought,
but would involve him in hopeless indebted
ness and endless troubles. We are credibly
informed that it is seriously conlumpiakd
to do away with all capitation tux, to exempt
•mall property holders, aud to lay the whole
harden of taxation on land. Besides all
this, it is designed to tax a certain quantity
of land at a reasonable per cent., and hll
over that amount at so much per acre,
makiDg the tax so great that the holders will
be driven to sell.
Now, any man with three gruius of «en?>e
will see where and how this would place the
land owners of Georgia. Here, then, is the
difficulty. Where is the remedy ? We an
swer, in the adoption of the above sugges
tions.
By Telegraph.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
For telegraph to marketiaee Ootoffierirtui Intel
ligence.
FROM WASHIJiGTOS.
Congressional
Proceedings, Ac.
The Humbug or Western Emigration.-
The following extract from a letter to tb
Lynchburg Advertiser, is commended to the
attention of yonng men contemplating erni
gration to the West. That country may be
fair in some parts to some people, but to the
mass of emigrants, the South is a preferable
region now. The letter is from Omaha, on
the line of the great Pacific railioad, Ne
braska. Read :
In your paper of the 18th instant, I noticed
a letter from Mr. A. R. Oliver, a Scotch sur
geon, describing this section of country, and
was very forcibly struck with the irnth of
bia^tatemeuts. There have been loo many
false tale* related about the Great West* and
it is time some one were tumid who can
state the truth in referenco to it. Thousands
have been indneed to emigrate here who
upon their arrival have been doomed to bit
ter disappointment. They have found the
supply of lab .r invariably greater than the
demand, and away from their friends and
without employment they have endured ma
ny privations- I would advise all and espe
cially young men who have a desire to seek
their fortuoei iu this country to »tny away,
l'hev can do equally as well at home. After
one leaves the Missouri river aud strikes
Westward be commences his season of trib
ulation. There are about three occupations
to which he can tarn his atrenrioD, viz:
Mining, bullwacking aod working on ifTe
railroad.
Mining, as all know, is a hard ami
uncertain mode ol making a living, aud
where one makes money hundreds “barely
are able to make a support for themselves.
Bullwacking too is a bard life. Not only
is it poor pay, bat one experiences all the
hardships incident to a life nu the plains
Of r»ilroadiog, J need hardly speak, as all
know what a life it is. These, then, are all
the avenues open to the emigrant. 1 have
said nothing in reference to farmers, as
there is so little farming land west of here
as hardly deserve mention.
I have been led to make these remarks in
order to correct a false impresssion which
has gained credence East, that this is tin:
country to make money iu. Of one thing I
am very well satisfied, it is a most elegant
country to get rid of.
Death or Ms. Astor.—Yesterday morn
ing John Jacob Astor, second son of the
founder of the Astor family, died in this city,
in his 65th year. In bis youth he was
kicked in the held by a horse, which disor
dered his intellect rendering a guardian
necessity for him through life. His father
left him $10,000 a year, and the valuable
Mock of ground bounded by Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets and Tenth and Eleventh
avenues. In Ihe large brick home situate
on that property, amid the pleasant sur
roundings of garden shrubbery and shade
trees, he lived for over twenty yea»s, to the
close of his life. By the will of his lather
this property now reverts to Mr. William
B. Astor.—N. Y. Sun.
-—Judge Basteed is becoming prominent
at a probate# candidate for United butts
Washington, January 21.—House.—Af
ter ineffectual t fforts to amend, supported*
by Butler, Stevens and Kelly, the recon
struction bill as reported by thtf‘committee
passed—vote 123 yeas, nays 46. Cary of
Ohio and Stewart of New York only voting
with the Democrats.
The Secretary of War has directed the is
suance for the relief of the destitute in the
Southern States, of allthe diasiccatod veg
etables that have accumulated daring the
The Post Office Committee reported
authorizing the New Orleans, MobT
Chattiuioi ga Railroad Company to build and
maintain bridges over the navigable streams
<*n the route, and declaring the road and
bridges a post route. Passed..
The Conference Committee on the Antf-
Contraction bill reported that the Senate
had receded from its amendment and would
pats the House bill. Adopted. e
The Committee on the Cotton Tax were
unable to agree, and a new committee on the
part of the House was appointed, composed
of Scheuck, Morehead and Beall.
Adjourned.
The Supreme Court, in the case of
McCardle, Chief Justice Chase announced
that the majority of the Justices thought the
motion of the appellant should be allowed,
aud it was ordered that the case be ad
vanced on the docket and assigned forbear
ing ou the first Monday of March.
In the case of the Commonwealth of Vir
ginia vh. West Virginia, the Chief Justice
announced the Court equally divided on the
demurrer, and equally divided, also, upou
Hie order which should be made in conse
quence of that division.
In the Armstiong case, the motion to file
a plea of pardou was allowed, unless the
Attorney-General proposes to contest the
fnfflciency ot the plea by a replicate of mat
ter a. ising since the pardon.
There was a full Cabinet meeting to-day,
with the exception of Stantou.
Pile internal revenue receipts to-day are
$200,000.
Generals Thomas and Carlin- recommend
the continuance of the Freedmon'a Bureau
iu Tennessee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will to-
monow morning consider the House bill
changing the Supreme Court. It is under
stood that the Committee stands three iu
favor of and four opposed to ihe bill.
Chase, Swayne aud Millet opposed ad-
vauciug the McCaixiie cane.
A bill was introduced iu the Senate re
quiring the ndvioe aud consent of the Sen
ate in appointing general or special agents.
AM special or general agents now employed
by the President or Departments shall ex
pi re in 30 days after passage ot the bill.
FROM ATLANTA.
Proceed ins* of the Uneonatitutiosuftl Con
vention.
Atlanta, January 21.—The Convention
has adopted the following resolution:
Whereas, the Reconstruction Act9 recog
nize the existence of a government within
the limits of Georgia, subject to the Military
Commander of the District and the para
mount authority of Cong.-ess, under which
certain officials bold office; and v^heraas.
the time tor which, said officials*'were
elected, as set forth in the laws allowed ~tp
operate within said limits, expired, and saifi
officials lick! only by reason of a failure
to provide their successors; aud w’bereasj.o
great many of said officials aro hostile to
and are insidiously using their influence
agiinst the restoration of Georgia to the
Union,' and by so doing are not only se
riously retarding the work of reconstruction,
but a'so materia ly affecting the prosperity
of the Smte; therefore,
Resolved, Timt this Convention do here-
lyy request the Legislative Department of
the Government of the United Stales to au
thorize ibis body to di dare vacant the chief
executive offices of the State,-ntnd to fill
the same, as well as to provide for the remo
val of ihe chief executive officers of the
State, thus gelling rid of all persons who
are hostile to reconstruction and Che filling
of such vacancies by said executive
Resolved, That the Convention injustice
to the friends ot reconstruction do hereby
request the department aforesaid to relieve
all Ruch of existiug disabilities that they
may he eligible to fill the vacancies thus
created.
Resolved, That tho^Convention do fur
ther request the modification of the test oath
r-o as to admit of all persons who have aided
or abetted the fote war agaiust the United
Statt-s holding office, provided such persons
heartily regret the post and are earnestly at
taclied to and are determined to labor for
the reunion of the States on the basis of the
R. construction Acis. *
Copies were ordered to ba sent to the
President ot the Senate and Speaker of the
House ot Rcprorentative*.
The Convention refused to have an after
noon session.
Adjourned.
FROM ftieUMUNO.
Proceedings
of the tiadici
lion, &c.
«1 Conven-
GM.VEKON, JannAry The Conserva*
tive SiateCouvemien met at Houston m-
l erday ;<jd*o the McMahon Convention
They are reported to be in conference and
will unite on a platform.
In conference resolutions were passed rec
ognizing the issues of the war, and full
pq—lily ■sii jwtlesteiilKietowtteUw, and
they pledge to Gen. Haucock a faithful com-
pliapce with *be obligations taken to the
Military Cvuuuiiiivn la Aagnite.
Augusta, January 21.—'The commission
appointed by General Meade to investigate
the alleged mal-administration on the part
of the CityCoanoil received affidavits from
petitioners,-but notoing conclusive was done.
Loalaluna Radical • unveutlon.
f N«w QqpJxwa, Jpnfiijtry Conven
tion adopted articles from 87 to 92, all un
der head of Judiciary Department.
Front Europe
Liverpool, January kl.—George Francis
Train is still under arrest.
Richmond, January 21.—The Convention
spent ihe day in debating and adopting sec
tions of the Bill of Rights.
A committee w.is appointed to invite Gen
Grant to visit the Convention.
One Conservative declined serving on the
commitlej, because a colored member was
on it. This announcement was received
with hisses from ifie negroes in the gallery.
The member wa* excused, and another
Cousei vutive appointed, who agreed to
Sf-rve.
The Trustees of the Peabody Educational
Fund met t«»-day, aud received the report of
Dr. Sears, General Agent, allowing that he
bad vibited Tennessee, Georgia, aud North
aud South Carolina, aud had been warmly
received by the people, who readily entered
tut his views.
General Giant was present at the meeting.
Mlftsiasippi Radical Conveatloa.
Jackson, January 21.—The foliowihff 1
referred :
An ordinance to instruct the Legislator#
to establish a house of correction for juve
nile offenders, (o provide for the raeutal and
moral training of the inmates, who are to
be tnugbt branches of education taught in
the Stale schools. . . i . *
A resolution wiis offered that after the
ratification of the Constitution no property,
except wearing apparel be exempt from ex
euution for debt.
Ihe pi inters on the journal of the Con
vention are on a strike, caused by uoo-pay-
ment of dues.
The North Carolina Rcconstraction Con
vention.
Raleigh, January 21.—Besides the jntra-
duetion of resolutions which lie oyer* th#
election of J. Ashworth Randolph a^T En
rolling Clerk and the appointment of twelve
committees ou the constitution, nothing was
done yesterday of public interest. To-day
much time was consumed on a special
order, being propositions for the'relief of-the
people, which wt-re finally referred.
A committee was appointed to wsb on
Gov. Worth to icceiye any commaDicauoii'
lie might be ready to make. Tb# rest of
the lime was consumed in discnselog the
per diem rate without coming to aoy con
clusion. The impression is the per diem
compensation will be fixed at eight dollars.
South Carolina Radical Convent!**
Charleston, Jan. 21.—The Convention
to day a lopted a resolution requesting Gen.
Cauby to suspend the sales of property un
der execution, for three months; and also,
inviting one of the Solicitors of the State to
aid the Convention in preparingfrhsineesl '
The proposition to abolish the District
Courts of the State was voted down, on the
grouud that under the reconstruction acts,
the duty of the Convention is simply to
frame a Constitution.
The temper of the body is moderate, es
pecially among the negroes.
The bill of Rights submitted to-day is
very cenaeryative.
[From the Atlanta intelligencer.]
Slavery la Florida.
A startling pit of intelligence was com mu
ulcated to o* yesterday by a gentleman jdst
returned from Florida. We give publicity
to il for the benefit of the friends (so-ealleii)
of humanity, and hqpe . they will take
prompt steps to correct We*lrvil. Slavery
nctually stiil cxi-tts iu Florida! The rem
nant of the Seminole Italians yet lingering
in the classic shades of the Everglades still
own slaves, and persist in keeping themiu a
state of involuntary servitude ; and, do it,
too, iu open'defiance of Ihe great powers ut
Washington, and ihe laws they have en
acted.. When “Billy”—rhiiq f oi the “bow
legs"—and liis followers transferred their
bag aud bagnage to ihe limiting grounds of
the Great West, they were the owners of a
number of slaves.
Those slaves did not wish to accompany the
aforesaid “Wm.” of toe crooked-shanks, and
were regularly sold to lliai remnant of the
teminole tribe which refused to migrutc,
and are still to be found luxuriating iu the
umbrugeoufl shades of the Everglades. One
Old “Big-lDjun-Me” is said lb be the owner
of several strapping negro follows, aud when
admonished that the “instituti »n' ? was a de
funct one, replied : “Ugh ! mine—give. Bill
Bowlegs blanket aud shot gun—ugb! miue! "
Other influential iheu uif the crilie own
H.aves, and openly defy any power to take
them. We tiusl this outrage will not be
permitted by the “great powers”—this last
foul blot upon the bright escutcheon of our
one country—and that a “commission*’ will
at once be sunt down to wipe it out. Geu.
Meade cau do it. Florida is within his bail
iwick, and why not let the commission now
engaged in “doing up” the Augusta muni
cipality continue their peregrinations ?
US II It wry Tribunals before the Supreme
’ Court.
[From the Natlbntl Intelligencer ]
The argument in tho Supreme Court yes
terday, in relation to the McArdle case, was
brief, but impressive. ’ 'Pne motion to ad
Vance this cause on the docket was resisted
by Senator Trumbull and Judge Hughes, ut
the request ot the War. Department. •
Judge Trumbull and his associate resisted
the motion on the ground tfiat it was unne
cessary and involved political considera
tions. They pretended to claim that the
c;i9C was not a criminal one, and did uot,
therefore, come under the rule of the court
or the act ofCougress which authorized the
hearing out of its regular place op the
docket, although they coincide that the
question rested in the discretion of the
Court.
Judge Black completely riddled the posi
tion of his opponents. With au eloquence
that commanded a dcAth-hke Stillness, and a
cogency that carried universal conviction, he
showed that this was a criminal case.
Here was a mun arrested by the military
authorities, and charged with an alleged
criminal offence, who was likely to be pun
ished by a military court, aud had applied
lor a writ of habeas corpus iu order to avert
a punishment by a tribunal unknown to the
law. The uniform usage ol the e urt amt
the enactment ot Congress required that
such a Cuse should be heard in advance of
auy merely civil cause. In this view, ull
the executions might take place under the
military powei, authorizing this arrest, even
felonious murders; and iie wanted to know
if the court would take the responsibility ol
postponing.a.decision for three years iu a
case of such transcendaot importance.
But if that authority was uuderraied by
this court, if it eveu decided tliut for one-
half of this Republic, one imperian domain,
rivalling Europe iu its exhaustless resources,
the provision of the Constitution requiring
a jury-trial to the citizen was a dead leltar,
the country should kuow at the curliest mo
ment that we wcie living no longer in a land
ot liberty, but ot'despotism. It wus unpre
cedented to resist such a motion. Tise Mil
ligan case, which was precisely unalagnus
to this, had been advanced without auy
question being raised about it, and though
Ibe court might be villified, as it bad been
before, bo called upon them to do their duty.
The speech of Ju<ige Blaek was brief but i;
was conclusive, and a model of forensic elo
quence. What ihe result Will be remains to
be seen, as the decision, according to cus
tom, was reserved.
Important Case in the United States
Supreme Court.—A case involving the ques
tion as to whether the Southern States
which arc excluded from representation in
Congress are Stales of the Union, and
Whether they have a standing iu this United
Supreme Court, will be argued before the
Supreme Court. Thecase grows out of in
demnity bonds of' the Ur'fed States to
Texas, amounting to several millions of dol
lars. These bonds remained in possession
of the Stale until some time during the late
war, when the Confederate State govern
ment of Texas sold them to White, Chiles &.
Co., of Kentucky, and to other parties iu
New York and elsewhere. Iu the early part
of 1867 Mr. K. T- Menick, of Washington
City, D. C., as counsel for the State of
Texas, made application for an injunction to
preveut the ucgotiu on of the bohds thus
sold. The injunction was granted, and now
the purchasers coine into court and, Lbroagh
their counsel, Messrs. *J. (J. Carlisle &
Hughes and Denver & Peck, ask a dissolu
tion of the injunction, on the ground th
Texas is not a Slate in the Union, aud has
no squifliog in the Supreme Court. Messrs.
R. S. fireut & Taylor are associated with
Mr. Merrick as attorney for the State of
Texas.
8EV GOODS Af^HE 8. P. D. G, H. M A ft L 6 w
' i I' M- _ < ' ' Fnr Salfi nr Rent
■& WATKINS.
A 1
NEW &PRJNG- CA.L1COJKS I
Brown Shirtings, 10, 12 ]■£ 4Q& J5 cents. . .
New Prints.8 ? j-3, 10 and 12 1-2 cents.
Uloached f^hirtings at new prices* 1
Sx4 All WmI Scotch Tweei at $1.50, eist $2.00 g«li to foni.
New Black (Foods.
NEW CllEPE COLLARS! CllDlPlTRE LACES
JOUVIN and ALEXANDRJB] KID GLOVEH!
January 22—It
ORFF & WATKINS,
III and 113 CONGRESS 8TREE~.
Fl’NEUAL MVITAIlOai.
BROWN.—The Mend* and acquaintances of Robert
Brown and R. J. Courtanay are Invited to attend the
funeral ot Miss Maiy J. Brown, --Ideet daughter cf
Robt-i t Brown, from her late restdenc**, coriier West
Broad and Chuiltou ntreele, at three o’clock P. M.,
THIS DAY. January 22d. *
special Notices.
GEOltUIA. OHAPrjSB, No; 3,
R A. M.—Companions : Yon will aw
,bte at Masonic Hall, THIS (Wednesday)
EVENING, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of holding
angular communication.
Companions of other Chapters are fraternally in
vited to attend.
By order ot .
RICHARD T. TURNER, M. E. H. P.
J. H. E-^till, Secretaiy. janff—H
Now Advertisements.
NOTICE.
A1 LAN 11C AND GULF RAILROAD COMPANY.
>.avansah, January IStli, 1W.8.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the At
lantic and Gulf Railroad Company will he held at the
Company’s Office, la the City ol Savannah, on WED
NESDAY. the 12th day of February next, at 11
o’clock AM.
An election for Directors to manage the affairs of
tbo Company for the ensuing year will be held at this
raeetiug
Stockholders, attending ’the meeting will be passed
free on the irdias of the Company from the 10th to
the 14th of F. brum y, on exhibiting their certificate
of stock to the Uonductois.
D. MACDONALD.
jau 22-til Secretary.
^-NOTICE —THE STEAMER DICTA
TOR will be detained in Charleston this week for m
cessa' y repairs.
jan2l-2t L. J GUILMARTIN k CO.. Acts.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
OFFICE EMPIRE LINE STEAMERS,)
.Savannah, January 15tb, 1868. J
Mr. B. H. HARDEE has this* day ceased to act as
Agent of the Steamers of the Empire Line, aud all out
standing accounts wi lbe nettled at the office, No. 12,
Stoddard's Range, Bay street, by the undersigned,
who is alone antunrized to liquidate the same.
Ti e bushies* of the Line will be continued at the
same office under charge of Mr J;MEPH ROS8E, Jr.
FRANKLIN ALLEN,
jaulC-lw For Owners Empire Line Steamers.
j35W* BATCHELOR’S HAIR DYE.—This
splendid Hair Dye is the best iu the world. The only
trur and perfect Dye—Harmless, Reliable, Instants-
neouu. Nr. disappointment. No ridiculous tints,
Re uedies the ill effects of Bad Dyes Invigorates
and loaves the hair, soft and beautiful, black or broicn.
Sold by all Druggists and Perfumers, and properly
applied at Batchelor’s Wig Factory. 18 Bond street.
New York- janlWy
Notice-Special Tax, 1868.
Tax payers are hereby notified that the tax on all
baniuoss, tra es ai;d profesaiaas, prescribed. by
ordinance of December 30. 1807. is now due. Ism
ready to receive payment, for the same.
JOH.8 WILLIAMSON,
janll City Treasurer.
NOTICE.
Sou rh-Westeun Bailedaz> Company, 1
Office, Macon, Ga , January 10, 1*68. |
The annual ejection for President aud seven. Di
rectors to manage the affairs of this Compaey for the
euHuing year, will be held at their office iu the city of
Macon, on THURSDAY, 13th day of February next.
Stockholders attending the above el ctiou will be
passed free over the line of this road by exhibiting
their certificates of stock to the Conductors.
JNO. T. bOIFr U1LLET,
janll-td S' cretary aod Treasurer.
NOTICE.
Tax payers are hereby notified that the Fourth
Quarter’s Tax ou Real Estate, Income end Commis
sions, Gross Receipts, Excess on Rents; also, the
monthly returns on Sales and Freight and Passage
Money, are now due. Payment for the same is re
quired by City Ordinance to be made between the
flret and tenth instant
JOHN WILLIAM80R,
janl City Treasurer.
ft
A Paris correspondent says: The walking
costumes are itanow and spaunedruprons in
front, with the same behind over a short
flounced silk underskirt. The said aproos
are open on tht» sides nnd rounded.’ I am
told they show off the figure to perfection,
Which iu a thing uo one can deny; bat these,
no more than bathing . costumes dripping
With water, cau be caLt^fi supreme elegance.
George Francis Train announces himself
i a candidate for Ihe Piesidcucv. This
startling news is published by the‘Revolu
tion. “Destiny,” he claims, “not ambition,
leads ihe toward the White House.” For
this destination be bus prepared himself by
fifty years of assiduous toil and trial as a
merchant, banker, railway -maker, hotel
builder, end prophet. Wo, gay fifty years,
for we have his own testimony that he be
gan the process at the age of ten, and it is
notorious that he is now aixty. His object
■ not to elevate himself* but to elevate the
White House. This is** noble ambition.
Eveu to fail in each an effort is glory. We
cannot promise him onr votes, but we bid
him persevere.
Butlkb has offered to guarantee the pay-
mltied lo collect at taU own expense the tax
of two dollars par gallon on distilled spirits.'
Sow* Ut-MtHnd correspondent “doaa ap'
Oeneral Sam Cary, the newly elecied C.m-
greaaman from Cincinnati, as follows: ‘‘Yonr
friend Cary distinguishes himself, not only
by-patting his feat on his desk, in accordance
.with a dirty, vulgar pnstom, (caamon to brud lathe matter ~ ~ r
Western members,) but in-aeimily stretching OrdersKipecttail, mhrtted.
himself ont in a recumbent position, bring
ing that portion of his person where the legs
end and the bo^y begins, in fall view. It ie
said that be baa ceogfat everything since he
baa been is Washington, except the eye of
the Speaker." ' "• " -
« r r...j—v.o u .i Acv oilaX,-: 1
A M, A Com, or a Sore fbroat
Requires immediate attention, and should be
checked. If allowed to continue,
Irrltaltua of the Laage, a HermsneBt
Throat Disease, or toaitaaipiioa,
is often the result .
Brown’s Bronchial Troches
having a direct liiflurnoo to the parts, give imme
diate relief. For Hfonckttla, Asthiuu, Co-,
tarrh, Coaiamptive aad Throat Diseases
TKOOHBS are a-sd with always youd success.
Stagers URd Public Speakers use them to
dear au«t strengthen the volt e.
«T Obtain only “ BROWN’S BRONCHIAL
TROCHJC8,” and do sot take any of the worth lew
imitattpus that m*y be oSared.
Sni.D.RVY.ft YWHKBS OC2S—«o^loi
WANTED,
WHITE MEN AS DITCHERS
ON A RACK PLANTATION.
fonlT-lW DAVANT A WAPLE8.
12
Potatoes 1 Potatoes I
C A BARRELS JACKSON WHITES,
DU *0 terrela Hianttog;
Just received and for sals by
declT-tf
BELL k HULL.
Bishop Elfiott’s
SERMONS.
QUB8CR1BBRS TO THE
SERMONS OF BISHOP ELLIOTT
Can obtain ttidr copies by apply biff at
T. *• JUJIE8, Statloasr.
Corner Boll and Blots strsets.
PRICE $6.00 PER VOLUME, payable on delivery.
Copies oico tor sale.
PATAPSCO GUANO COMPANY'S
AMMONIATEO
SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE!
U NDICit THB ABOVE ADVERTISEMENT Of
THB CELEBUaTED
PATAPSCO GUANO,
Which is of rare < xccllsnce and of extend vs nan in
the Mlddk States pirticnlarly, ai d mi down to
North iiNTolina. we invite Plainer* in this section to
make a trial of It, facliag assured from prevtona ex-
periawiit* tkot it len#*, of the ofost productive and
permanent iertiJ nen that uaa ever bean in Me in
mbj (on* try, improving-ten land at the tame- time
that it prumtttBfioe crops from the tbnaof opnUen *
tion
The name of Dr. LHBIQ. the conpnato of it
is sufficient guarantee ol ita genaineesm add aape-
norttv, hie ch. tr.ical aca mpllshroeiita b toff acknow
ledged ar st-cunri to none on the ntddla ai. and I
feel that inoffeilnfftbe article to tOa Ptanttog to
t-rest ol onr aeciiun l cab innnre favorable rcaalta.'
which will demonstrate ita ■npa'lortty to any otter
Savannah Theatre!
L—IM and Mauag<*H..JNi> 1BMPLRTON A BRO
An Unprecedented HbcccmI
A stonish ii* a sensation t—An Attraction Un
paralleledJt-i rodaotion ol the Wonder of the
Age, Lord Byron’a
MAZEPPA!
The greate-t Equestrian and Dramatic SpectRde
ever presented on any stage. Tl a tVoiidt>rfm and
iteauilui Pe rforming Horae, BLACK BK«S—the
ttuert HxZippa shed i America! A Great Conte,
tndall :he .ppointnienfe! OT MONDAY EVEN
fNO, Janaary star, an . A FEW NIGHTS ONLY, Lo:
Byron'*
MAZEPPA2
AW Patrons in the city and c ,untry ahouM make
immediate i reparatioua lo ate the.Greatest Attiac-
ttou ever presau t* i. junil
FOR RENT—A BRICK DWELL
ING on uorth side ol Brnngbloo, he-
[ tween Barnatd and Jeifeiuon etreets
A. MINIS
Janffi—It
NOTICE TU CONSIGNEES.
r E SCHOONER J. W. ALLEN, from New York
is ttti> uav discharglRK at Claehorn a Coi.
ai gbam s wharf, foot of Drayton street
AU goods left os wharf after sunset will be stored
at rl#k aod expense of owner-.
jank2-lt .sTARK * HOBEiiTH
Wanted,
WET NURSE-WHITE OB COLORED.
Aply to
H. G. RUWE.
Corner St. Julian street and Jobu&un Square.
jau22—tr
A
Hay, Prime Northern,
L &KVTS'* tND FOR SALE BY
jaett-lt
A. MINIS.
Notice.
^EITHER iht- Captain nor tbo Consignees ol the
Ship CLARA WHEELER
will be respon-ibie for any debts contracted by the
crew of said ship.
'mSS-lt WI! DElt k FULLARTON.
NEW BOOK8.
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL, by Oliver W.
Holiors.
Playing for High Slake**, ov Annie Thomas.
THE BBOTHER'S BET, by t imlin Carle i.
MABEL’S PROGRESS, by author Marga
ret’s Trouble.
RUFUS GODWIN, by Miss Biaddon.
THE HUGUrNOTb* by Sarnutl Smiles.
CAKLYON’S YEAR—A Navel.
The liugumot Family, by Sarah. Tythe.
Pickwick Papers, Ac., new edition, |*aper.
Cutiper, Olcott & (To.
J«20
Kentucky State Lottery.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Renlttanm will not
nr next t reat Drawing
the Grand tlol “
dresked, ms mm
sad only reg
laveitcd fw
•a dnplieMte of
oiiday Scin-ui*v~ual(»i ad-
mnl, to the old rstwbliaiied
alar Stale Uimager*,
MURRAY, EDDY & CO.,
COVINGTON, KY.
Wtoale Tickets $12, Halves |S,Q,uarU $3.
j*L2l—?tTn&S
CANCELING and BUSINESS
STAMPS. ;
I FURNISH THE FOLLOWING CANCELING
STAMPS at makers' prices :
Beromb’a ('Snceling htam.-, wt'h die and dates
compete $S; 8ewmb's itauking HonaeStamp, with
out date, lrom $M to $15; extra Dies $2 50 each;
extra BibiMim, fiom $| no to $3; Oates, $2 Sit extra.
Addreaa orders to Wi. EtsTILL Jb,
Bull street, next to the Prsi ttfflee,
lan 21— m rii.annah.
SITUATION WANTED,
IN OR OUT DOOR CLERK, or OS
BOOKKEEPER-
Satisfactory references givt-n.
Addreaa ENEKG7, at
lan21—3t» THIS OFFICE. '
Guardian’s Sale.
a GRFKABLE to sti onler ofthe Court orordi-
A. > ary of Hcfntash couuiy wvrt be sold on the
FiKBT TUESDAY-in Mahknrat «rt thecomt Honoe
In Dor'en. the BEAL ESTATE W *>. B Dean Wing
Benjamin F. Wing. Angot-ftni M. Wing, tin t Anniec.
PoweU, minors, contaitiing ten' acres of land more
or less, on which la a suiall d-euiug house and
ktetetooa the east aide of the Ridge Road, Uo
miles irom thu city of Darien in said county. Sold
for th* benefit of mino s
Terns cate, puicaaeers paying Tor titter.
A. W. 0O°KER,
jansi-lawdw,
Guardian.
Dissolution of Co-Partnership
fpO* FIRM OF E'lTIf.L % BROTHFB 13 THIS
li PAK:di**i ved by mutual con-aML
WM. BaTILL. Jr , will p »v all hilla aud collect fell
dabts or the firm, and Will continue b- sine-a at the
<**•*•*- i,
fl.vumb, JaBn„y IT. 1867.
For Sale or Rent.
Central Bailioar. for sale «*r rent. Trains p< n
a day, and one hour a»n thirty minutts carries *1^
«o the place, wh'ch makea it easy and convenw
for hufetoess pnrpo «a in the city. It is one ^
mint beautiful pl cpa in the low countij; u perfect
In the 'OuthPrn country. *** be, ®hiid
The houoe is a "very fine one, w tb two lartr^r^..
bni and kitsten. and^ther beildings
rj (oTui| conVeiitfeetif l^pl - ce. .
Tftcre fa a fine flower garden, An.i many valnshu
trees and plants over the gr. unda. Four icrwT.7
mmmtk tte bouae^artth ee«te enhatiito fanes,
ob at one hnmired acres adjoinlnx.
lnp2i>-2w WM. H. CUTLER
Fltitirnttg Flacesl
- i - - j J) .» __
Ceatral Trotting Coarse!
/AN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONNEiT, 2Mt»r
KJ at 3 oVoek. between lUy More NEIxLIS. Suir.!
Home HACK, *n.t borr>:l Horae WILD IRI&HMan
fc»r‘« pa - ae of Three Hundred Dnliar-i. ’
N. B —Therd wdl also be a Shooting Hatch
for Tarkcys, with rifles, at one hundred snd
yord-i.
49- Htogee will leave the Pulaski Hou'e Stab
ono the Hotels from iQ to so clock. ja>.2o--at
D $r Sl^IlAOE ran be bod in FIRB-PBOOP
S'DiHK on tt y sir et
Address Boa 15 Pot Office. 24.
Bacon, Bacon!
UUD8. 8HOULUER3 AND SIDES,
gQ BBLS. MESS PORK,
Now landing and tor sale by
Japan—at OCPAYCd COH8N k CO.
WOOD, WOOD!
Prters Kedseed Still Lower.
W E WILL DELI VEK in any part of the city, until
further uoiice, the bi-st q -ni.tfes WooD, at
the following prloe, Kui.l MsaSubb Gc arxnteid :
OAK. sawed any length ...$7 5fi perrord,
LIGHT WOOD, ftawtd any length.... $7 50 per cord,
PINE and ASH, tutwel any i-ugtb..$t> 60 per cord.
WOOD in cord lengths at Ht>- lowest market prices.
We invite consumers to uieuaur..* the utmi-manna ol
the varloua wngon and c rt bi.uka now in us.- iu ie-
la'linirearned woo.i in tin* fily. Orders depo ired in
our boxrs at the Poet Office, at Mo ere. A. A. Solo
mons k C-o.'h and Mr. C. fa. Ili iflman » drat; hIghh,
and at our rffl e on ibe Bay and at. onr yard will be
pioirpfljr ntt nded to. < CASH
jan 0—lw PELOl’, TfHJNRil & WRIGHT.
WM. ESTILL, Jr.,
NEWSDEALER
AND
BOOKSELLER.
Bull St., Next to the Post Office,
(DOWN STAIRS,)
jams SAVA Nik AH, GEOUBIA.
2STJEW GOODS !
JUST RECEIVED-
IOO pieces Calico,
au pieces NK OcLalnn,
IOO places Bltached Skirtiaf, ’
Ladies’ Kid Gloves,
Needle-worked Kdgiaff and laserting,
laekabark Towel*,
Hdekabark Toweling,
Damask Table Linen,
FOR BALE VERY CHEAP BY
De Witt Morgan*
t i,i 8—tr
LAIRD, BROWN & SMITH.
Skipping Master* and Notaries PaUic.
Corner of Bay and Lincoi atroots, (over Wm. H.
, Staik s Co’s Store,)
SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
C REWS SHIPt ED and put on board at the short
est notice. Murine Protests noted awl extended,
sepll—ly
DR. S. F. DQPON
JJ AS RETURNED AND RESUMED THE PRAC
TICE OF MEDI0INK- Office at liis old residence at
the Me of Hops.
foals-9t
JEWELRY.
V. W. SKIFF,
FORMERLY
129
Congress
SAVANNAH.
Street,
rTUKES THIS MSTIIOD of mint to hi, Soothern
X neods tu Savannah, nn.1 the whole State of
Georgia, that he is now connected with and is one
of Ihe firm, well known os toe
BAILEY M11FMM tO.,
181 Broadway*
NEW YORK CITY.
This House being extenetvoij engagtdin tte maim-
focturinir or \
SILVER PL.4TED WARE,
Aire prepared to furnish the entire trade with every
deerrlpiionof this kind of Goods.at oe low ftgsrea
for same quaMiv and upon as accommodating terms
as other dealers in the same line of bn-iorw.
In this connection Mr. bkiff would odd while
hnndn-dsof h‘H friends aye knnvlrg to the
fart, that h!8 long stay amo-g hem and ha close
attention to buttnesa ga e him tile right and title to
on intimate knowledge of all and everything apper
taining to th* Watch, Jewelry and Fancy Goods
huaineM. He wr>al! now say to them that he has
inUmHto commercial r< lotions wiih all ihe leading
win hi‘trade to New York OUy, and is PEK-
ID TO EXECUTE ANY COMMISSION IN
THAT LINE t n it h> friends may entrust him with,
pramMng at all time* to Crithfelly any out their
wishes and instruct kius, and ev er to study the pecu- J
ni iry Internet of either individuals or ff
ionl-tf
H aving disposed of my interest in fa
T.LL'd NEW8 DEPOT t- my taroth»r. WM.
KVJTLU JR • who hii carried It o:. f >r the past two
years, I respactfalti solicit a continuance of the lit
era! patronage heretofore bestowed upon ft.
Janlff—4f J li JHTILIfc.
AIRS. WIN-SEOWb
SOOTUltiG SYRUP,
Vor Ohildren Teething,
#■
GENERAL agent SOUTHERN 1
FLORIDA.
P. 8.—PamptateU conudntnff testUnqaiala, a#
1 assays fey practical Agncattuffitob mm te hi
foMnstlntt el Ihf amS! - • 'aj 1 ~ ; >:. •; foted-i,
— : lo-si L .
. reducing all inflammation—*will allay
Aid* Pan sad ap«am< Kite aettou, and is
tlH If ICIViATi THE tflWIif
It, mothara, it will give rest to yopoelvea
RELIEF AND HEALTH TO YOUR INFANT*.
We have pet np and sold this article for years, and
(UxthtlN Co»rn>*No* ato Tsuth of what we have
a ever tetoi stals lo any of auy other medicine—Navas
■as it Fuuan ▲ Saeovn baraai ,to Eraser a
Odor.when timriy used. Never did wahuow on in-
atance ot dicmHatacilon by any one who used it. On
oUare deMghied with ita operation, ofed
of eommendaticn of Ra n^iffical te
al virtue*. We speak in this matter
DO ENOW, after yexrv of experience, Alto
aRcvcrratio>4 worn mfnntuam or
g rflmsumh wfluw to almost every iartenon
a the infant ta suffering from pten and exhonp-
retteC wiH be foned in fifteen or tweuty minute*
tte eysnp is administered.'
jMfflmateuhwnttfWwtoaaoompanymchbottla.
HEEAWIRILOW’IIOOTHIIGITRIIP;*
tte
Stefffff Dta
. of “OUBTJ8 A PERKINS” on
All others ore base imitation*
* it the world.
Prlee, only 35 rente per Bwttle.
I2Stejy j^srBsaraJs^gffit
un a . . L ^ illB nnmneesm
P >i L.ST t>J
ST li&rs RETREAT,
A DIOCESAN SCHOOL
YOUNG LADIES,-
r... A*
FERNANDINA, FLORIDA,
Under tke Patronage and Ianmedletc 8n-
perrbtea of tke Hlght Reveread Or. \
YOUNG, Bbhep ef I
r H SERVICES of moat able and experienced
TEACHKR8, of Kuropeitn edrcation, having
been secured, this Institat.on will .men on the' 15th
Of F> brnhry.
Tba Srhool year ronoiets o' two terms ef five
men the e*-b. vhe Cbri* mas Teim bevins ou the
first Tuesday in OctoJ er, and the Easter Tt-rm on the
fifteenth of February.
For Crrmrieru eivfncr particulars, or ether tofsnao-
tion, apply to the Chaplain ot the School, t
Bky. O.P.TH
janf—2Uwtf “
IN BANKR
Bankruptcy
A TTSNBirD m ufcmtta xt»eo (?at jer«oM
A. aMrt«snruMir^TMtaf«a>ei.»>MlaM.
I!» THB BiffKKT7PT ACT,
lauuaatttt^dMf oaHij.at
cases caxiicd through the
. I'altr. mam DMrMjinrt
niallou rtei.,.. Anr p«t»oa wiiiiwt to-'
seta ma? he relieved fiom Me debts sl iheexptauflhn
of SIXTY DAY8, ly takiur the ben-fit Of tte ACT
before theaecoadiay of Memh mxi, :
B. R—iMJ Wtnwdi UMTumtO.
NOTICE.
B AT1WO PDIOBAnB III«(
la Mf man ta mt am upa I>-aj
bmai. rrre trader ... win CUM —
ij own aceont. " &. A.
I BIBUY CBKTtrt TUtjniVHkXjA