

LUMPKIN, JOSEPH II. 



mainly depend, d. a:.d partly to the 

 it.- <>t atl'iirs in that sec- 

 tion, a- '.\ I M- !o thi- untoward nc'-nn. 

 tin- itiUM 1 -it'ion, has canse'l irivat \v:ilit ami sllf- 

 :hc par! (!' tin- I'rri dmcn. 

 rears, tin- industry of tlio State was 

 im.Nt! I in tlu- culture of cot r, in ami 



sides of the time- are for- 

 ition I" the. cultivation of grain ami 

 f. ii- whieh the soil and climate of ! 

 :in-i ftre w.-ll adapted. During tlie season of 

 laiitations were under par- 

 Itivation, and i he product of the whole 

 ha-* lie -ii estimated at abuut 40,000 hogsheads 



.MI- and i'i.~),000 barrels of inola- 

 Early in the year 1808 General Hancock re- 

 ! ,-in ollici.'il representation troin the Audi- 

 tor and Treasurer of the State that u the indebt- 

 edness of the State is such that under the pres- 

 ent revenue laws the debt cannot be paid : * and 

 a communication from the Governor declaring 

 that the State Treasury is totally bankrupt, that 

 the judges and all the other officers of the State 

 cannot be paid, and that unless some remedy is 

 to be applied the machinery of civil government 

 State must -top." Thereupon the Com- 

 manding General issued an order providing for 

 the efficient levy, collection, and custody of the 

 , , and extending the time of the opera- 

 tion of the act of the last Legislature making 

 appropriation for current expenses, which act 

 . 'ifect on the 31st of December, 

 i iiis order, all dues to theStateare 

 payable only in legal-tender Treasury 

 i' the United States. 



LIMBECK, a free Gorman city, belonging to the 

 -' lei-man Confederation. Area, 109 square 

 mi!.--;; population, in 1862, 50,614. Tiie budget 

 of 18i>7 estimates the public revenue at 1,692,- 

 000 and public expenditure at 1,719,700 marks 

 current (one mark current equal to twenty-six 

 cents); public debt, 20,365,750 marks current. 

 To the army of the old German Confederation, 

 Liibeck had to furnish a contingent of 612 men. 

 According to a treaty concluded with Prussia on 

 June 27, 1867, the military force of Liibeck was 

 dissolved on October 1, 1867, and the military 

 obligations of Lubeck were assumed by Prus- 

 sia. A Prussian garrison in Liibeck, consisting 

 of one battalion, serves for the enrollment of 

 the inhabitants liable to military duty in ac- 

 'irda'iee with the constitution of the North- 

 German Confederation. The total value of 

 imports in 1866 was 80,641,185 marks cur- 

 rent. 



At the beginning of the year 1867 Lubeck 

 Med 4'i -ea-iroing vessels (among them 15 

 ITS, together of 4,846 lasts). 

 The movement of shipping in the years 1865 

 and 1866 was as follows- 



LUMI'KIN. JoOPfl lii ! .. i.L I)., an Amer- 

 ican jurist and i-tite-uinn, Chief .lii-ti,-- ,,( the 



if (leorgia at the turn- of hi- <!.-., 

 born in O^h-thorpe Coim:\. 



j:t, IT'.l'.l; died in Athen-, (la., June 4, 1867. 

 Prepared for college by Mr. Kben-/.er Mason, 

 ofthe Mavin Academy at Lexington, (la., at tin 

 early a-_'e, he entered the I'niv orgio, 



and lip-in fie ile.-ith of its pnV:d--nt. I)r. l-'inley, 

 he repaired to Princeton ,-in-l entered t lie junior 

 at Nassau Hall with 

 high honor in 1819. His classical scholarship 



markable. and his relish for ancient lore 

 and acquaintance with the classics seem to hav<_- 

 continued with him through life. Immediately 

 after his graduation he entered upon the study 

 of law in the otlice of Judge Cobb, a man of 

 proic.-vMonal di.-tinctioii and national reputation, 

 and was admitted to the liar in October, 1820. 

 lie commenced practice at Lexington, Ga., and 

 his success was immediate; he sprang almost 

 at once into the very front rank of his pro- 

 fession. The, bar of Georgia at that day con- 

 tained many very able lawyers, men of national 

 reputation, and among them such men as Up- 

 son, Clayton, Cobb, Payne, Sherton, and others; 

 but all soon acknowledged the youthful Lump- 

 kin as their peer. It was said of him that so 

 thorough was his preparation, and so impres- 

 sive his manner, that he never made a fail- 

 ure, and very rarely failed to carry the jury. 

 After a brilliant career of twenty-four years, 

 having amassed a considerable fortune and at 

 the very acrne of his reputation as a lawyer 

 and an advocate, he was compelled to retire 

 from his professional pursuits and to seek 

 health in a foreign laud. In 1844, accom- 

 panied by his family, he sailed for Europe, 

 where he spent a year of great benefit to his 

 health and keen intellectual enjoyment. In 

 1845, during his absence, the Supreme Court of 



ria was organized, and without solicitation 

 on his part, and even without his knowledge, 

 he was elected Judge for the long term of six 

 years without opposition. He was thrice 

 re'electod for six years and each time with- 

 out opposition, a fact almost without prece- 

 dent in this age of an elective judiciary. 

 Judge Lumpkin was elected Professor of 

 Rhetoric and Oratory iu the University of 



ia in 18-1(5, but felt constrained to de- 

 cline. He was subsequently elected Professor 

 of Law in the school attached to the University 

 anil which was named in his honor the Lump- 

 kin Law School. He discharged the duties of 

 this poition most successfully until the break- 

 ing out of the war disbanded the school. In 

 1855 President Pierce tendered him a seat upon 

 the bench of the Court of Claims, although ho 

 had always acted with the "Whig party. Feeling 

 that he ought to remain and serve the State 

 that had so greatly honored him, be declined 

 the appointment. In 1860 he was elected 

 Chancellor of the Univqrsity, and reluctantly 

 declined the position, through attachment to the 

 court over which ho had so long presided. The 



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