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AS ' ARHUMBNT.

I At a criminal trial, during a recent

term of oar Criminal Court, the follow-

ing case of circumstantial evidence wassubmitted to the jury $y one of theattorneys of our bat, and wo publishtho ' same at the request of severalparties who heard tie same delivered,hoping that it may v trove interestingand profitable to all who may read it. '

: 11 'Editors. ,

- May it please the Court and. gentle-

men of the jury : The whole ' testi-

mony elicited in this cause, only establishes .a case, of; circumstantial proof.It is claimed by some, that circumstan-tial proof is of the highest import, andhas a tendency to estabjisb guilt, com-

mensurate with proof positive.- - Beforewe conclude this argument, with thepermission of . this Honorable Court,and the indulgence of this intelligentjury, we propose to show, that circumstantial proof, is only prima facie evi-

dence of guilt; and it is a rare caseindeed.'in which a prisoner should beconvicted njon such proof, if indeed aconviction should be bad at all underany circumstances. I know 'that wehave some distinguished authoritieswho allege, that circumstances 50 alongways in establishing either theguilt or the innocence of the accused.This is certainly true to some extent,but should it be accepted under anycircumstances, as proof positive beyond reasonable doubt, of the guiltof the accused. I can rot bring thetuestion. of circumstantial, proof sovividly before this .; Hon. Court andjury, in any other manner,' than by arehearsal of similar-incident- s, andsimilar trials, which have preceded usin the past; and in doing this, I pro-

pose to pass over in tearful silence andsorrowing regret, the tragic trials ofLe-Brui- Crow, Bradford and others,found in the British chronicles of cir-

cumstantial evidence; besides a longarray of American citizens-- punishedinnocently by circumstantial proof,and, the illusory .testimony r.thus ad-

duced, tending to establish' guilt uponthe party accused; and. rehearse onlyone case of mournful interest, whichtranspired in one of our skter Statesin the year 1840 ; happening too in theglare and gleam of intellectual lore.and scientific march, even in the "landof thefree, and the home of the brave,

. .e?en in. tne land of vonr Washington 8,your Lee's, your Henrys- - and yourRandolph's ; and in calling the attention of this court and jury to the aboveconvictions based upon circumstantialproof, wherein hecatombs of humanvictims were brought upon the sacra-fici- al

altar, dare we impugn the integ-

rity of the courts, and the honest con-

clusions of the juries (Tying the same?Most assuredly not, but right here, wemake the broad and emphatic declara-tion, without prejudice', partiality, orinjury to any one, that, sincerity ofpurpose, never yet proved tho correct-ness of principle ; the Husajilman inhis blind adherance, q the .tenets ofthe . Koran, is just ai. sincere as theChristian martyr;, tha tVrian, sealingbis belief in the his bloodis just as consclencious in his conYK:

tioDS of duty, as was Stephen whenbeing stoned for the faith once de-

livered to the saints. So all cannotbe right, some must be in error. Icare not how honest this court and thisjury may be in the investigation of this,or any other criminal case, if the truthis not elicited, and a verdict renderedupon misconceived data, an irreparableinjury is inflicted, not only on the partyaccused, but upon the great bodypolitic, which never can be atoned for.In canvassing the isolated case whichI propose to present to the favorableconsideration of the court and jury, Ipropose to present it iu my own way,and in my own language, never havingseen the same in print, neither do Iknow that the same was ever publish-ed, but the main fact) are true, andvouched for to me in early life, and Ibelieve them to be true in the main,and my sole object in presenting thiscase in detail, is to show most conclu-

sively the great injury inflicted uponsociety by convictions, based upon cir-

cumstantial proof alone. In the year1840, there lived in Goochland county, i

Virginia, a man by the name of Oliver,who was a bachelor, being miserly andniggardly in the extreme, owning a

small farm in the Southern portion ofthe county, and a larger one in theNorthern part, distant about ten miles;

this smaller farm he had determinedto vacate, at least temporarily, andhad, on Friday morning, December22d, sent Lis remaining servants up tothe large farm with the intention offollowing them about noon. Oliverhad 'spent the preceding night in re-

velry and debauchery; and was rich,bigoted, selfish, and relentless, havingprobably a sufficiency ofcommon sense,but swerved and swayed by an undueinfluenco of the almighty dollar.. Thehouse which he was about to vacate,was a low log bodied one, with a wide

covered passage between the two rooms,

with a eaiall window in the side ofeach room. Oliver had removed allthe furniture from this house, save afew chairs iu the west room, and anold fashioned escritoire, or writingdesk, in the east room, in which hewas in the habit of locking up his val

uables, and the night before" duringhis revelry, he had locked up in thisdesk two fifty dollar notes on the Statebank. During the excitement on Fri-

day morning incidental to moving, hehad forgotten to take out this money,

and at noon, he mounted his horse andstarted to his upper farm. He hadrode probably five or six miles beforehe thought of his money, and immedi-

ately he retraced his way with greatspeed. About the time of his turningback he had encountered a severesnow storm, but it lasted but a few

minutes, and had entirely ceased upon

Wis arrival back ; so riding up to thefront gate, he discovered the tracks of

two persons' leading up to the house,and also the same tracks returning outairain. When he arrived at the house,it took him but a moment to ascertain

the appalling fact, that his house hadrecently been broken open, and thathe had been robbed of his covetedtreasure ; he felt convinced that theparties making the tracks, were thee&tlty ones. In looking around both

i rooms, he discovered that his desk hadbeea broken open, and that a fire hadrecently been kindled in the west room,

and that the old axe lay upon thehearthstone, together with some splint-ers from the old writing desk, and thatthe same tracks led from the westroom across the wide passage, into theeast room, and then : returned, thefootprints being unmistakably imbeded in the snow which had drifted clearacross the passage. II is first and onlyimpulse was to posh forward upon thetracks of the guilty parties. ' He overtook them just as they arrived at home,and they proved to bo the sod anddaughter of his neighbor, James Deering, who lived about two miles distant.and with whom he was not on the mostfriendly' terms; he immediately, andin a rude and threatening manner.charged Jennie and Robert Deeriug,with thecrime; they, pale with affright,gave forth what the world calls posi-

tive evidence of guilt. Flow could itbe otherwise? Suddenly charge bur-

glary and theft upon any one, thoughas pure as the tints of the morning'sdewdrops, a tremor and ghastly pallorwould pervade the. features. It wasso with Jennie and Robert Deeriug ;

Oliver threatened them that if theydid not restore to him his money, andmake a full confession, they would bewaited upon the next morning withState warrant; they had no reparationto make, or at least they offered none,save protestations of innocence, coupledwith the prayers and entreaties of theirfather, and the pitiful supplications oftheir mother. The next morning they

e .arretted, and taken before thenearest magistrate for preliminary ex-

amination, when and where the abovefacts were detailed by Oliver, and oneMurphy, in behalf of the State, Mur-phy having been - requested by Oliverto go with him to the scene of outrage,and bear testimony with him in behalfof the prosecution. At the conclusionof the. testimony, the Justice informedJennie and Robert Deenng, that theyhad the privilege of making any state-

ment they chose, in extenuation of thecrime with which thf.y were charged.Jennie being the elder of the two, sub-

mitted insubstauce the following state-

ment: That she was 18 years old, andRobert was 16, that they were returning,from the nearest village on Friday,December 22d,

. where they had beenatteuding school during the week, atabout the hour of 1 o'clock ; it beingintensely cold, they had left the mainroad, and bad determined to travel aby-pa- th which led through the woode,and immediately by the aforesaid farmof Mr. Oliver; when getting oppositethe house, she suggested to Robert thopropriety of going up to the house, andwarming themselves, as they were verycold; they opened the front gate, andwalked boldly and innocently forwardto the door of the west room ; the doorto which was closed, but not locked,and after making repeated knocks soas to arouse the inmates, if any therewere, and being, unsuccessful, sheturned the hand-kno- b and the doorswung open with a harsh grating sound.She and Robert both noticed that someviolence had been done the door, butafter scanning the room, they paid nofifrther attention to this seeminglytrivial circumstance. After they hadgotten into the . room, . tbey noticedthat it had been tenanted veryrecently, for the smouldering ashenwere yet warm and glowing upouthe old fashioned hearthstone, andJennie requested Robert to go outand get some kindling with whichto start a blaze, whsn he return-ed, and reported that he could findneither wood nor axe; upon glancinginto one corner of the room, she sawdry stick of wood, though too large toignite from the fast failing embers,Robert proceeded to look about therooms for axe, hatchet, or somethingwith which to split it up; he proceed-ed at once across the passage into theEast room, and noticed that the doorsleading into this room bore marks ofviolence ; when he entered this rooma casual glauce showed him at oncethat it contained no furniture what-

ever, save the rema'm- - of what appear-ed to be an old writing desk, whichwas nothing but a heavy unwieldybox, set upon legs, with a lid, beingmade of coarse oak timber, 11 11 painted,and unvarnished, with the lid shatter-ed into a thousand fragments, withbits of paper strewn over the floor,and an old axe laying near by. Hocalled to Jennie who immediately cameinto the room, but it did not occur totheir unsophisticated minds that a.

robbery had been committed ; they re-

mained in this room but a moment, re-

turning to the West room, taking withthem the axe and some splinters of theaforesaid desk ; they soon had a cheer-

ful blaze, and after warming themselves, they resumed their journeyhomewards, where they were overtaken,by Mr. Oliver as detailed above.Further the deponent Jennie Dceringsaid not. There was nothing else ofimportance elicited at this examiningcourt; the acting justice holding themunder bond for their appearance at thenext term of the Criminal Court.They were promptly indicted at saidcourt, and placed jointly on trial inApril following. At the trial nothingfurther was developed save a littlemore definite tesmony detailed by Mr.Oliver, in behalf of the prosecution.He stated that he could not have beenabsent but a very short time, and thatno other persons seemingly bad ac-

cess to the bouse, save Jennie andRobert Deering, he further stated thathe knew that he had left the axe at thewood pile, when he left the premises,and that ho tracked Robert Deeriog tothe wood pile, and again to the house.It was further in proof, that there wasno school that day after 12 o'clock,and that Jennie and Robert had leftthe viltage soon after 12 o'clock, andthat it had commenced to snow aftertheir departure, and must have ceased00 or about the time of their arrival atOliver's. This was the substance ofall the testimony had atthis lamenta-ble trial, save the many cross questionsand answers, incident to trials of likecharacter. Now the question loomsup with startling impress, were Jennieand Robert Deering guilty as alleged in

the indictment? It must be confessed

that if a conviction be had under any

circumstances on circumstantial proof,

it would cem that the surroundings

in this case, would certainly justify a

conviction. Ia vain waa their youth,

simplicity, and social standing pleaded

in their behalf. The law knows no

favorites ; the defendants with all theirsocial clements, 8tood before the lawin the same category with others.

Were Jennie and Robert Deeringguilty as alleged in the indictment?That was the question to be settled by

that Honorable Court and jury. Thecharge was then delivered to the courtand the jury retired. After an ab-

sence of one hour they slowly and sol-

emnly filed into the court room, andafter being polled the clerk asked," Have you agreed gentlemen upon averdict ?" The response was, "we, thejury find the defendants Jennie andRobert Deering, guilty of the daplexcrime of burglary and grand larceny.as charged in the indictment, and fixthe penalty of said crime in the Stateprison at ten years each."

A wail of anguish rent the conrtroom, but where the relieir Aiaeacncourt and jury give a righteous verdict?The world at that time so regarded it,save a few sympathising friends, amongthem the distracted father, and theagonizing mother. - It is hardly necessary for me to detail to this jury themany sorrowful scenes and incidentsia connection which this trial. I will

ply appeal to your indulgence andstate again that my only object in pre-

senting this case, is to show the greatand incalculable evils resulting fromconvictions based upon circumstantialevidence.- A few words ia referenceto this iminadiate family wherein Jen-ui- e

and Robert Deering were innocent,and we will close the argument. J en-ni- e.

Deering, frail and sensitive as aspring flower, conscious of innocenceand purity of soul, bent to the pressureof excitement and public condemna-tion, like the sleuder reed to the gath-

ering tempest, refused to be incarcer-ated In a felon's dungeon. Was sherefractory?. No: Man's erring judg-

ment could immolate her delicate formapon the altar of the misguided be-

hests of criminal law, but her spirit,pare as an angel's and spotless as therainbow tints of a summer's cloud,refused further indignity.. She sunkto rest, and her bright, beautiful spiritws Claimed amoog the "just made"perfect" " beyond the sunset's radiantglow :" and were it possible for thespirit to look back wsaa the mishapsand misdoings of ira'd, " fallible hu-

manity,' no doubt hers vo.i reach outfrom the Paradise of God, a4 aid er-

ring mortals to aseen d tho lad-

der that reaches from earth to X&aceo,

guide them in the paths 'of truth adrighteousness, and wave the torch thatdispels the gloom and reveals the beau-

tiful picture of the resurrected. It is

not my province, gentlemen of the jury,to paint a picture, but rather to presentthe many evils resulting from a strictadherence by our Criminal Courts tocircumstantial proof, in all of iti glaringand hideous deformities, warped; andtwisted, and perverted in a great- - majority of eases by malice, hatred andrevenge, or a misguided zeal in endeav-oring to maintain and uphold the crim-

inal jurisprudence of our coantry.Ask his Honor Judge how manyrighteous convictions, based upon cir-

cumstantial proof, would it require tocounteract or atone for one convictionof like proof, where the party or par-

ties charged were innocent?, HisHonor, nor any other mortal being,has the rightto fix the number. Thecase which wc hare under considera-

tion to-d- ay is similar in all of its aspects to that of Jennie and itobert"Deering, the whole of it being main-

tained up to this point on circum-stances alone. "In the mouth of two

or three witnesses shall every thing beestablished." How established ? Bycircumstantial proof showing that theguilty parties may be other then thosebefore the court? You will natural-ly ask when should circumstantialproof convict? We answer never,never, never, when it is possible forother parties to have committed thedeed, other than those arraigsed be-

fore the court. You may, as publicconservators of the peaee and well be-

ing of society, admonish as that before

us lies a world within whose recepta-

cle is a lazar house of wiekedness,and within whose most secret cham-

bers is a vast charnel house of moraldepravity and infamous corruption, tocleanse and purify which requires theearnest and persevering efforts of ourCrimiu il lVorw and jurie. True.itapear-- t tk it ih s fire of hell are ar-

rayed in oiiHMilid phalanx to turn backthe tide t' a Bible civilization, andevery good man should buckle on hi

arraj, and march with unfalteringstept to the front. In this contest formoral and intellectual supremacy, in-

tegrity of heart and honesty of pur-

pose should be the watchword, and inprosecuting the criminal, spare the in-

nocent. If this were a civil action,founded upon contract, a mistake inyour verdict could be rectified, but anerror made in a criminal prosecutionis past redemption. It was so withJennie and Robert Deering; theyplead "not guilty," and the reveal-men- ts

made at the end of eighteenmonths convinced a skeptic and obdu-

rate world that that plea was true tothe letter. Mrs. Deering snd Jenniesank under the weight of accumulatedwrong, and passed to a higher lifewhere there is no crime, nocriminals,and no criminal courts. James Deering,the father, wandered a helpless imbe-

cile, repeating like Jacob, " me haveye bereaved of my children ; Jennieis not, and Robert is not, all thesethings are against me." Robert servednearly eighteen months in the Stateprison before he was released, andwent forth into the world with thememories of his early youth clusteringaround the fragments of his crushedand bleeding heart Do I cite this la-

mentable case, gentlemen of the jury,with a view to excite your sympathies,to persuade you to condone crime,and thas throw your protecting aegis

over the criminals of our couutry?No; far be it from me to palliate, or in

any wise to extenuate the conduct of i

the transgressor, but my voice will al-

ways be heard in the defence of tfie

guiltless and of him who is chargedwith cringe, when another may be thetrue culprit.

We propose now detailing the factsculminating in the entire innocence ofJennie and Robert Deering of thecrime with which they were convicted,and for which .Robert Deering wasnow undergoing punishment ia the

State prisoal Long anterior to thotime at which this lamentable trial oc--

eured, there wandered from the BlueRidge to the Chespeak Bay a strangeand mysterious specimen of humanity,known as old " Dakka." Whether hisname had any relevancy to the evilspirits known a"Diakka," the writerknows not, but it is evident that hishistor? was a stran.ee one. at least ifignorance - touching a maa's birth,parentage and avocation can be calleda history. At the time of which wespeak, old Dakka could not have beenless thaa one hundred years old, andin height about six feet, ten or eleveninches, very spare and bony, notweighing over one hundred and fortypounds, what we usually denominate

skin and bones," would fitly apply toold Dakka. That venerable gentleman, "the oldest inhabitant," coulddistinctly remember old Dakka's sudden and meteor like visits sixty yearsantecedent to, this, and ha carried withhim the same peculiarity of mannersthen ae he did at the time of which we

speak. No man haJ ever seen himeat, no man had ever seen him drink,no one had ever seen him langh, andno one had ever seen him weep. ' 'Tistrue, sometimes he would call at a farmhouse and ask for a morsel to eat, butnot eating until he went forth into thedeep and silent woods. A straw rickwas his couch in winter, and the bareheath a pillow in summer. When hisname was called at the fire side, child-

ren would cluster closer around theirmothers and speak in whispers, whilethe negroes would tell of seeing manya ghostly and weird-lik- e phantom. So

far as human scrutiny goes, old Dakka,up to this time, had never done anyone any.hrtria. If he was evil dis-

posed, he had kept his evil counsels tohimself. Refusiog utterly and at alltimes to hold personal conversationwith any oae, it was impossible to di-

vine his thoughts, whether good orbad. From the date of the trial ofJennie and Robert Deering until Oc-

tober 1842, no one had set foot in theOliver house ; in fact he had nailed itup securely 00 the evening of the rob-

bery, and from indications, no one haddisturbed the quietude of the placeuntil he sent workmen there in Oct.1842, to prepare the honse for his fu-

ture home. In tearing away the oldstiarway, underneath which wasa dark,strange closet there sat the corpse ofold Dakka revealed, sitting bolt up-

right on an empty keg, with his headrery slightly inclined backward andrearing against the stairway, with hisknees touching the closet door, withthe two fty dollar notes firmly grippedin boti jfcands.' Here be had sat un-

disturbed Md undl'turbing for twoyears, while the outer world was wreak-

ing its vengance .upon innocence andpurity! Several questions might beasked touching bjj j ogress into thehouse and his failure Xo make egresstherefrom. To all of said questionswe( have only to say, Ithat old Dakkamust have been watchiag (Oliver's

movements when he left the premises,

and went immediately into the house,taking the axe with him, breakingopen the chest, purloining the money,and upon the approach of Jennie andRobert Deering, he had slippei intothe little closet and pulling the doorto, it fastened with a spring lock, sothat he was unable to force the fasten-

ings, snd thus free himself, being afraidto make his presence known evenwhen Oliver and Murphy had visitedthe premises, and thinking no doubtthat he would be able at an early hourto wrench the door from its fasteningsin due time, and thus free himself fromhis dark and isolaled death cell.Again, it may be that death creptupon him quietly and gradually, likeit very frequently docs upon age andinfirmity ; or it may be that the swift-winge- d

messenger of retribution was

sent upon him suddenly.as a penaltyfor his evil deeds. These surmisesare only matters of conjecture and canonly h solved in the Great Hereafter.

The unveiling of the statue ofStonewall Jackson, in Richmond, pro-

duced this masterly tribute from theNew York Tribune, to ths heroism ofthe dead soldier of the confederacy ;

We have now so far passed out fromunder the influence of the passionsengendered by the war that we mayalmost consider its figures and eventswith the impartiality of history. Onboth sides we are coming to separatethe men of that stormy time from theevents which brought them forth andset them in so strong a light, and weare growing into juster judgments andclearer apprehensions of their realcharacter. We of the North can not.only look calmly on while Virginia andthe South eulogize the heroes whogrew great to our discomfiture, but wecan unite with them in paying thetribute of our admiration to the ruggedvirtues, the obstinate sincerity, themanly faith, the courageous self-deni-

which are perpetuated in the monu-mental bronze unveiled at Richmondyesterday. His deeds and his sacrifi-

ces are in a special sense the heritageof the men with whom and for whomhe fought, but in a larger sense his ex-

ample as a man of sineerity, constancysnd fidelity to his honest convictions,is the worlds,' and will be rememberedwhen the canse he fought for is for-

gotten.

IOOIH A5D SAJfKET.

The Cincinnati Gazette accounts

for the success f these remarkableevangelists in this way:

Moody's style is that which suits thepeople, and hence the masses erowd tohear him. Though an unlearned man,he has broken down prejudice whichmet him at the outset, and compelledthe' admiration of scholars, divinesand critics. He is now the subject ofeditorial comment in the secular papersof New York every day.and as a gene-ral thing he is favorably noticed. Asall the papers are giving him attention,so the eiple talk about him, while,like the Herald, hnndredsacknoledgetheir inability to discover the specialattractions, but "the common peoplehear him gladly.

The Boston Pilot thinks that if menand newippers did not let girls knowwhat bad is they would not do bad-Yes- ;

one morning Adam brought inthe Chicago Times with its story of theboy who stole apples, and Eve imme-diately went out and eat the pippin.

Indian corn in North Germany oftenassumes a place among the householdplants. It is regarded there ss tropical.In' our country it becomes tropicalonly under the name of Bourbon, audthon it warms a man up so that hefeels ss if he were under the tropic ofCapricorn.

GEOEGU XUtiUETS. .

A Gold Field Discover Sear Atlanta.

Pronoaaced the Eh heat la the United. States.

Atlanta Herald, Oct. 3S.

The streets of our city yesterdaywere alive with rumors of the discov-ery ofgold in immense and inexhaust-abl- e

quantities near the neighboringtown of Decatur.

A Herald reporter in eager pursuitof an item which had such a "shine"in it met Squire Tuggle, an intelligentcitizen of lie Kalb, who gave us someinformation in regard to the new Bo- -'

nsoza. He says the land on which themine has been discovered beloegs toMr. P. M. Rickett, and is situated"about

MX MIL13 TROX ATLANTA,on the Flat Shoal in PanthcrsvilleDistrict, near the mill owned by Mr.Pitts and Mrs: .White; It is two milesfrom Mr. Taggleaand near the placesof Mr. F$iaand Messrs. John andSam McWilliams..

Mr. Tugjle stateJthat the minewas undoubtedly a rich one, that oreto the value of over six hundred dol-

lars to the tea had been found "lyingaround loose," and that it had beenleased to a Mr. Bullock for twentyyears.

A later hour found this reporter inconversation with the real lessee. Col.Albert U. Moore, who ia a very intel-ligent manner gave some further andvery interesting details ia regard tothis

raXXXSK GOLD FILLCol. Moors is a practical miner.

He is conversant with the differentmines and mining operations of theUnited States. In New York he waseugagedas a metallurgist, aad cameio contact with the precious metals iaevery form and combination, and withthe different soils and rocks in whichgold is found. He is the owner of thewell-know- n Battle Branch void mine,in Lumpkin county, so named becausethe slender and threadlike branchflowing through the section where theyellow treasure lay hidden, was thescene of many a bloody fight betweenparties of Georgia as, TeoaeMceansaad North Carolinians, who were con-

tending for the possession. Io thelast fight, the Georgians and Tennes-scean- s

were the billigeraots, and theGeorgians earne off victorious. Fromthis mine CoL Moors says he has made

ovsb rmr thocsasp dollar-- ,clear of all expenses, since last March,and he avers that this Dehlalb mine isfar richer than that oae.

While it is true that the BattleBranch mine has yielded at the rate oftea thousand dollars a ton, this is onlyin the pockets across which the minerswould come. In other places the yieldwould be very small, or perhaps eothing, making the. average yield aboctten dollars a toa. This is aa excellentyield. One dollar a too is sufficient tocoverall expenses of mining and mill-ing, and ten dollars leaves a good mar-gin of profit. But ia the DcKalbmine, the yield, he is confident, f romseveral experiments very carefullymade, eannot be less than

8EVISTY-ri- V DOLLARS A TOX,

by the simple process of mashing, andwashing out in a pan the plan of theearlyfgulch miners ia California twoounces of ora from this mine haveyielded a grain of gold; and in thiserude method over half the pure meta lis lost.

The first discoyercr of ti?s Ortntwas the owner of the la nd , M r. Uw ke U.With, that uncertainty or timidity offeeling which is the result of a naturalincredulity in regard to big storiesabout gold discoveries, in these dayswhen the professed discovery fre-quently results in "vanity and vexa-

tion of spirit," Mr. Rickett failed towork the mine himself, but invitedCol. Moore to examine it. The lattergentleman, as a result of this investi-gation, has leased the mine for twentyyears, paying 31 r. Rickett one tnth t'the profits. Even this tenth, if ap-

pearances are verified, will make thefortunate owner of this valuableland a very wealthy man in less thanhalf of the twenty years. 'And as toCol. Moore, granting that his mostcautious expectations are realized, theamount of

SUINI3IO GOLD PIICK4

that will be piled about him in a de-

cade, would be enough to girdle bishoue with a golden wall: enough ointoxicate the brain and dazzbt thevision of even a Jones, a Flood, or anO'Brien.

Without the slightest hesitation.and after the most sobe and rigidexamination of the locality and thoore. Col. Moore pronounces thisGeorgia mine incomparably the rich-

est in the United States, or so far asdiscovered, in North America.

The locality where this precious Ue-no-

is found is a stretch of dark.slaty land, lying partly in timber andoartlv in the open uell. ine veinseems very deep and rich, croppingout very freely on the surface, running from base to biseor a bill, wnicnis not a quarter of a mile from a fullsupply of water, affording ready audample facilities for quick aud profita-ble working.

('ol. Moore hav a little mill, corntq:of Clhoanstreet jjqd Railroad avenue,to which he is hauling ore ; and fromthis he expects at least oue hundreddollars a day. He has ordered

A TWELVE STAMP MILL,

which Mr. Withers, of Atlanta, isretting up. It will be at wore in tendays.

The Silver Eesumptloa Scheme.Notwithstandicg the acknowleed

improbability that silver coin can bekept in circulation in this countrywhile gold is above H)8, preparationsare being made to try the experiment.

The act of Jan. 14, 187"i, to providethe resumption of specie payments,authorizes and requires the Secretaryof the Treasury, as rapidly as npacti-eabl- e,

to be caused to be coined at themints of the United States silver coinsof the denominations of 10, 25 and 5"cents, and to them in redemptionof an equal number and amount off ractional currency of similar denomi-nations. Dr. Linderman, Director ofthe Mint Bureau, is now engaged inperfecting measures for the coinage ofsuch pieces to enable the Secretary tocarry out the law.

The total amount of fractional cur-rency shown by books of the TreasuryDepurtment to be now ia circulation is$W,7s3.i7i, and it is estimated of thisamount over 12,(XM.)0 is in ten-ce-

notes. $l.."iiNI,WXl, in fifteen cent notes,f2.iJH0, in five-re- ut notes, tlM,(alii in twenty-fiv- e cent notes, and 115,UUO.UiMj ia fifty cent notes. Hence itwill require 120,0UU,0U dimes to retirethe fractional currency notes of thatdenomination, and with the presentoperations of the uinU two years willbe required to coin them alone, unlessthe coinage of all other pieces be sus-

pended, aud the whole force assignedto work upon them. Forty milliontwenty-fiv- e cent pieces will be requiredto replace the twenfy-five-ee- notes,and :l.tMK),0J0 half dollars to replacethe fifty cent notes.

A pretty yonng lady lawyer of Chi-

cago always declines divorce cava.Her argument on that score is shortand sweet, viz: Every woman who ac-

cepts a hasbmd should forever there-alte- r

during life, ba compelled to livewith him, whether ugly, shabby, good,bad or indifferent.

Joe Jefferson's gift of $.VW to amonument to Irving is a worthy act ofgratitude to a man whoso legend hasenriched the stage. Joe has only made$D00,0UO out of Irving s idea.