The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-06-18


India. Kooer Singh, Arrah Of notoriety, had
been defeated, aud it was reported that he
was dead.
The rebels have been driven from Azinghur
Lioerpoot Cotton .Kdrket.-rhe sales for the
past three days have been light, but prices
have remained firm an unchanged.
Liverpool BreadstuF Narket.-Four wa:
reported very dull, and quotations barely
maintained.
London Money Morket.-No change report
ed in money.
CINCINNATI. June 1.-THE river is rising
rapidly A big ioed is probable.
The truck Of the Ohio aud Mississippi Rail
road, six miles of here has washed away
Other roads are damaged.
LOUISVILLE, jane 1.-THE river is rising,
with nine feet water on the falls.
LAFAYETTE, Ia, June lit has Iained
since Wednesday at noon till this friday
morning. The Wabash river rose with fear
full rspidity. The inhabitants in the river
bottoms were Obliged to escape from their
houses in boats.
ToLEDo, June 1.-THE Wabash and West.
ern Railroad bridges and several culverts
have been swept away also bridge on the
New Albany and Salem Railroad.
The Wabash and Erie Canal is SO badly
again this summer.
No trains or mails can leave for several
days.
DAYroN, Ohio, June 1.-THE Miami river
has risen within four feet of the great flood
of ls47, aud is still rising at the rate of three
or four inches al hour.
McPhersonto wu. on the opposite side, is
nearly under water.
The whole county North of here is flooded.
A CARD FROM S. SWAN d co.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The press Of this State, where the legality
Of our laws ere better understood than in
New York, have spoken out so boldly and
manfully against the prosecutions gotten up
TO annoy us, that it requires of us to say but
little. BY the confederation of rival LOtte'
ries and political schemers, presentments
were found against us by the Grand Jury Of
this county We were ready and DESTROYS to
test the question, and (having employed coun
&c, one of our firm came on from New York,
to Georgia for that purpose. The adjourn.
iuent of the Court, without our act, laid over
the cases to the next term, when we feel sat.
listed we will be enabled to maintain the
rights which we have bought and paid for
The Sparta Academy Lottery is legal, and all
the powers Of the law our enemies may try
these rights.
Our business goes on uninterrupted, and
we are Informed by counsel that there is not
a line in the Statute Book of Georgia author
izing any interruption with our drawings
The lease has years to run, and we assure the
'public that we have the best counsel, who
advise us that we can maintain our rights
against every rivaly in our business.
SAMUEL SWAN e. Co,
Managers of the Sparta Academy Lottery,
Augusta, Ga.
The attention Of the public is also called to
the following letter from Col. o. A. Lochrane,
one of the Attornies for Swan d Co.
MACON, GA, June 2, 1853
Messrs. SWAN d Co, Augusta Ga:
Gentlemen IL have received your letter
relative to the prosecutions against you IN
Richmond Superior Court, employing me ms
q counsel, and will appear in the cases for you
This 1 will do more heartily, from the pecu
liar circumstances under which these prosecu'
tions were commenced, for | see by the news
paper articles enclosed, a despicable attempt
resorted to, out of this Stale, TO influence
public opinion, by means Of letters perverted
to publication, by newspaper articles, and
the effrontery of New York Mayor pre-
Stunning to interfere with the rights and privi'
leges Of the people Of Georgia. That all this
meets my unqualified disapprobation | need
scarcely remark; and to assal this impudent
dictation, this unmitigated injustice in the
Court house Of Richmond county, and hold
il up to the scorn Of the public, will not only
be a professional duty, but can add, per.
sonal qualification.
An interested zeal, or affected Indignation
against lotteries, is no apology for attempt
ing to overwhelm men in public opinion,
without fair and impartial trial, to which
all are by law constitutionally entitled.
have examined the facts connected with the
case, aud feel satisfied the opinions paraded
as infalble, are untenable, unsustaned by
law, and their publication for the reason re.
ferred TO, unjust. The lottery privilege un'
der which you draw, was granted previous to
the act Of 1888, upon which the presentments
are founded The law Of 1888, by special
proviso, has no application to lotteries pre-
yiously granted The charter OF the Sparta
Academy Lottery was granted in 1926, and
thus will fall the presentments. THAT 1t has
expired by its own limitation" rs stated, l
DENY. and will maintain. There is no linita'
ton of time in the charter. The law express
" and unequivocoliy negatives such an IN
ference or construction. The grant Is gwen
IN the trustees and to their successors ~ Office,
not for any specified or limited time, but for
a purpose to raise by lottery specified sum
Of money. The trustees OF the Academy are
how, through you, affecting and consHh,'
mating the purpose for which 1t was granted
md are receiving their instalments for the
same. But these are questions for the court,
and not the public, to try. We will there
meet and argue them, aud, believe, success
fully and triumphantly; and the result of the
;.sue will evidence that verdicts written out
or manufactured, neither suit the taste. tenn
per, pride, independence or intelligence of
Georgia jury, who, being exclusive Jndges OF
both the law aud the facts, will not hesitate
In the utterance of their ocn opinions, and
the convictions of their own judgment, ir'
respective Of dictation from any quarter.
Yours truly, o. a. LocnRANE'
Counsellor at Law.