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• ' • - ■ COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2, 1877. jgtmdag guqnmr. t oU MBt'S, GEOBOIA » SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1877. sourmtKx c»TTo.x «mxifacteme the AMIh t*. JT«r EaflMd-Whal Mr. *■. B. TeniHwlalvtalerHi. n* CrlUelma—Fact* n. Therln. SALISBURY & CO., Proprietors. The Richmond Enquirer suspend ed publication on the 29th. Forty-two New York husbands have kicked their wives to death in the last, five yea is. An Ohio man recently commited suicide so as to avoid a nomination for office. * * * When his sentence was pronounced, Smalls, the convicted colored Con gressman. from South Carolina, wept bitterly. They all do it. A young negro has been convict ed at Jackson, Miss., of forging his grandfather’s name to a postoffice or- -der for $10. The Chief Of the Cherokees, in his recent message, shows clearly that the Nation is a civilized one. The public debt is $187,316 83, and the treasury contains but $560 66. The New York Sun says President Hayes has purchased ten acres of land from W. W. Phelps, on the Hudson Palisades, for $13,000. The new Democratic paper of Washington City, under the manage ment of Hutchins & Cockerill, will bear the comprehensive cognomen, Washington Globe. In the event of- the rejection of the nominaton of Hilliard, to be Minister to Brazil, it is probable tha Geo. B. Hodge, of Newport, Ky., will be nominated to that mission. Mb. Lawd Pierbepgnt has in formed Olive Logan thathehad spent in London, during his one year’s tenure of office, the sum of $150,000, Irrespective of the little official salary of $17,500. Robert L. Case, President of the Security Life Insurance Company, New York, verging on seventy years, was sentenced Tuesday to five years In the penitentiary. He appended his signature to a false statement of his company, -i'iie will of the late Walter Bowne, of New York, disposes of nearly $5,- 000;000. He was the last Mayor of New York chosen by the Board of Aldermen, and the first chosen by the people. He was also for many years leader of the Democratic party in that city and at Albany. The funeral of Bishop Marvin took place on the 26tli at St. Louis, and was attended by a large concourse of people, including members of all de nominations and citizens generally. There were also a number of promi nent members of the Methodist Church South present from Tennes see and other States. Interesting Novelette. — We have one in type, writtten by a gifted lady in Columbus, Owing to the press of oilier matter it is crowded out of this issue but will appear next Sunday. It is able and pleasant and we.know our readers will look for it with eager expectancy. Mabshalship of Georgia.—Col. Fitzsimmons has been confirmed as Marshal of Georgia. We are more than content—are ovejjoyed. At last a Democrat and thorough gen tleman, who will do his duty without oppressing the people, holds a posi tion which has been terribly and wrongfully abused. After much wrangling in executive session, Col. Fitzsimmons was confirmed by six majoritv. - -The Chicago Inter-Ocean begins to feel discouraged. It says: “We‘ac cept the situation;’ at the same time we reassert, with additional emphasis, the Cardinal doctrine of the Republi can party, that all men shall be equal before the law, and with a sore, but a stout heart, begin to do over again the work of the last twelve years.” Mr. Eustis claims the seat in the United States Senate for the term be ginning March 4, 1873. The Legisla ture of Louisiana which elected him was the only undisputed one from March, 1872, to April. 1877. No ques tion has ever been made as to the constitutionality and authority Of that Legislature, and the most bitter Republican partisan in the Senate can bring no obstruction to Mr. Eus tis’ title which can not be immediate ly overthrown by documentary evi dence. Jimmy Todd, one of Lee’s favorite scouts in the West Virginia campaign, was killed last week in a dispute with a hunter on the mountain near Statm- jtoDj Va. The Vindicator says of him': He was the most remarkable hunter in the Valley of Virginia, having killed over 2,700 (leer up to 1860, with one old muzzle-loading rifle, whieh he had had board so often you could get your thumb in it. He had killed bears without number. He was a dead shot, and could perform the feat of putting a bullet through a baton the opposite side of a tree by placing an ax-blade for the ball to glance. The Senate confirmed .the Hon. John M. Harlan an Associate Jus tice of the United States Supreme Court. No opjiosition whatever was made. Subsequently some other nominations were confirmed, to whieh an absent Senator being known to object, a motion to reconsider all of these nominations was entered by Mr. Oonkling. This had no reference to Gen. Harlan's case, and there is no reason to believe that the action of the Senate in his case will be disturb ed. No motion to reconsider his con firmation can Ik* carried, and it is not likely to be pressed. If there be no reconsideration, his commission will be issued. John Roach, builder of the Huron, swears he never did better work than ho performed on the ill- fated vessel. An officer on the Colo rado says of the Huron : “Thi6 ves sel was one of Robeson’s jiatched-up ships. After three years’ service she was a rotten hulk. Her foremast, when taken out at this yard two months ago, was rotten, and her pro peller had to be replaced. I have no doubt that her engines went down and she sagged on a lee shore under a northeast gale.” Commodore Nicholson says that before he sent the Huron on her trial trip he found, her foremast “unsound from sap-rot,” but believed her hull to be seaworthy. It is very likely that the vessel’s ma chinery. broke down, else she would hot have gone ashore. T have .used Dr. Bull’s (Cough Syrud «nd ■found it the best cough remedy I ever Hied.— W. P. Clarke, 980 Walnut Street,"Philadelphia, November 27,1875. We know of nothing in this world which will tend greater to remove the political thralldom of the South than the advancement of her material in terests. The first dawn of civilization is manifested by the attempt to secure wealth. When that is attained it be comes a source of power and is court ed by every influence. Our section is just entering upon a new era. Ruined she is rising from the ashes. Like a young giant she has thrown off the hate and prejudice of years, and will not be doubted nor maligned. She is po longer poor and scorns to ask favors. She demonstrates what she can do, and dares contradiction. She is no humble suppliant, but in the councils of business and halls of legis lation demands her place as an equal. It is the province of all her journals to expose mistakes and controvert er rors. To do this, we in common with our Georgia and South Carolina journ als, have published interviews with our leading manufacturers with refer ence to Gov. Straw’s (of New- Hamp shire) ideas of manufacturing in the South. Deeming this question of paramount importance, we did not trust the matter to a reporter, but ourselves eought the views of a manufacturer, who twelve years ago saw the mills which he controlled and sixty thousand bales of cotton, in which he and many of his country men were interested, melt into noth ingness under the Federal torch, without the slightest shadow of an excuse save w r antonness and the love of destruction, and now sees under the influence of his indomitable en ergy, foresight and enterprise thous ands of spindles and looms making music and industrious harmony with the falls of the Chattahoochee. .We, of course, allude to Mr. W. H. Young, of the Eagle and Phenix Manufactur ing Company, who has done so much to give employment to our people, add wealth to our saction, and illus trate the South. He who furnishes labor to those willing to work is the greatest benefactor of the age. The results of the interview are thus giv en. We can furnish no better nor more interesting matter, and advise all to read who would be correctly in formed : Question.—Have you seen an article in the newspapers, headed “Cotton Mills North and South,” purporting to give the views of ex-Gov. Straw, of New Hampshire, on the subject of manufacturing in the South? Answer.—Yes, and am much sur prised at the views expressed. Q.—Are his statements true? A.—So far as he speaks of the in crease of spindles at different places in New England I suppose they are, but as to everything else, so far as it relates to the South, untrue. He shows an amount of ignorance of the South, her people and their capaci ties, that all who know them can certify to be untrue. He makes his statements as facts, and being untrue, I attribute the mistakes to his ignor ance of the facts. I am unwilling to charge him with wilful misrepresent ation, but it is evident that his re marks Are well tinged with prejudice and a disposition to talk down the South and to stem the current of manufacturing which he foresees is Southward. He no doubt sees that the Amoskeag, as well as some other Northern mills, are losing ground, and competitors are arising in the South, who can and do make goods cheaper, and it is only a qustion of time when the South will supplant New England and Old England in manufacturing. Q.—In what particular arc bis statements untrue? A.—He says “manufacturing can not prosper in a locality in -which men and women can earn as much by- working the soil as in a mill,” thus assuming this to be the case in Geor gia. Now we all know- w-hat labor commands here on the farm, and that it can be had for $S0 to $100 per year, with meat and bread, while opera tives in our mills average considera bly- more than that; and I believe that laborers on a farm in New Eng land earn as much as the laborer on a Georgia farm. We are constantly be- seiged with applicants for employ ment, w-hich certainly- shows no lack of element out of which to form a manufacturing class. Again he says: “The character of the Southern people unfits them for the service w-hich a factory requires. The only people who ever do what We call a day’s work—10 or 11 hours hi succession—are the negroes, who cannot make good mill hands.” In answer to this I say-, our opera tives are all white, and nineteen out of twenty natives; they work 11 hours per day- the year round, and have no complaints; are healthy, and cheer fully- work extra time when called on to do it; Are happy-, and strikes are never thoughtof. Masons, carpenters (whites), and our small farmers (near ly half of the population of the State— also whites), boys, men and women, work their ten and eleven hours eve ry- day- in the summer in the open air, and do not suffer in health, from it. In fact, all classes of white people who have out-door occupations and can get w-ork, work through each summer day, stopping only for meals. We have no sun-strokes, and our winters are cold enough for health. Governor Straw, in common with New England people, asserts that Southerners (on account of the cli mate) are not able or willing to work as they do, but it is not so. The Southern people are as energetic and industrious as the people of any coun try-, not excepting New England, and are as moral, religious and law-abid ing as auy people in the world. Some few- New England people work in our mills, but show no superiority to the native-born. Governor Straw- says we must have churches, school-houses, society, etc. If he does not know that we have all of these now everywhere, and accessi ble to all classes, white and black, he should learn facts, and not talk at random. Q.—What advantage do y-ou claim over the North in manufacturing ? A.—Cheaper labor (we pay no more for labor than the Amoskeag aud oth er Northern mills, as I have learned after thorough investigation); a mild er climate—no ioe in winter interrupt ing work, and no drought in summer to effect our unfailing water supply; longer days in the winter; less gas required; eheaperfuel; cheaper build ing material; abundant water power, and a climate exactly suited to spin ning and weavtpg, A1J these advan tages contrast strongly against New- England, with her bitterly cold win- ten, her small water courses, drying up in the summer and freezing up in the winter, so that they have to sup-)f against successful manufacturing at plcment steam to give them power to {the South. That the projectors of run their mills. that mill failed to pay for it was a Another and the most important money point, and as it had not even ! advantage our mills have over a New started, its success at manufacturing England mill is in the cheaper mate-■ has not been tested, rial. The advantage in this company Q.—He says the Augusta mills (E. & P.) when our new miil will be j failed to be able to supply a foreign in operation will be fully 91 per cent, on our capital stock. I carefully j made an estimate some months ago j of our advantages in cheaper material! over a New England mill, which I j demand, what about that ? A.—I do not know that they at tempted it, but I have heard that Northern mills have exported a good deal recently-, but that they- made you please: 60MPARATIVE ADVANTAGES IN Til* COST OF COTTON IN FAVOR OF THE EAGLE AND PHENIX STILLS, COLU3TBUS, GA., OVER A NEW ENGLAND SIILL USING TICK SAKE AMOUNT OF COTTON. Coat, to a New England Mill. One bale of cotton (average weight) 490 pounds, at 10c per pound, Is $49 00 Commissions—buying $1 25, delivery, drayage and shipping 50c 1 75 Exchange 15c. .freight to the mills $5 15, Insurance 30c 5 60 Loss in weight by classing, examining for mixed packs and pilferings on the way, 5 pounds 50 Less the sale there of bagging $56 85 and ties 3-5 Cost of the New England mill laid down „...$56 50 The other waste in manufacturing not counted either side. The I0S6 in weight, in bagging and ties and other waste in manufacturing, I assume to be 15 per cent, off the 490 pound bale—say 490 pound bale, 15 per cent, off is 73% pounds, leaving 416% pounds of goods The 416% pounds of goods cost $53 50, or 13.565 cents per pound. Cost to the Eagle and Phenix Mills. One bale cotton, 490 pounds, at 10c per pound $49 00 Brokerage, delivery and drayage to our warehouse .’ 58 Less sale of bagging and ties to plan ters for re-use 1 (X) Cost to Eagle and Phenix In her ware house . $4S 58 The bale of 400 pounds turns out in goods the same as in the case above, 410% pounds, which cost $48 58 or 11.664 cents per pound. Cost to a New England mill 1.3.565 “ “ Eagle and Phenix mill..11.064 Tn favor of Eagle and Phenix mill 1.901 One bale of cotton, 490 pounds, 1.901 cents per pound, makes for one bale a difference of. 3 Forty-three bales, daily consump- will show you and you may copy* if! -nothing by it. If they find it profita ble to export why do they not ship all their production, or at least their surplus, instead of selling drive* in New York. I ljelieve the Augusta mills can make their styles of goods at less cost than the Amoskeag can or any- Notherii mill. Q.—Gov. Straw says that cotton mills in Georgia are not all paying— none except a few supplying a local demand. What is your information on that point? A.—I do not believe all are paying now, nor are they- paying North on similar styles. I can only answer for the Eagle & Phenix, which are mak ing-a me style of goods as the Amos keag. We have cleared 10 per cent, on our capital in each of the four past panic years. Let Gov. Straw who is, drawing comparisons between mills North and South say what the Ainas- keag lias made. Reportsays they earn ed four-fifths of one per cent, on their capital of $3,000,000 and quick capital $2,090,000 which dont pay wear and tear. Q.—Gov. Straw says an item is go ing the rounds of the papers that five hundred gingham looms have been recently- shipped South and are to be used for making -coarse checks for ne gro wear. Do you know .to what i looms he refers ? A.—I cannot know to what he al- j tion, give advantage per day $ ' y-three bales, daily consump- 9 31% 400 54% Forty- tion, for three hundred work days in the year, or 12,900 bales per annum, at$9 31% per bale...$120,099 Or over 9% percent.on our capital of $1,250,000 with aditfonal advantages arising from pur chases direct from the fields at our gin, avoiding to planters the cost of bagging and ties, and to the E. & P. Mills the weight of the same, and the purchase of remnants and samples would swell the advantages to $125,000. With as cheap or cheaper labor, with abundant water power and better cli mate for spinning and weaving, we can make goods cheaper than New England, in- dependentof the advantages as above In raw material. Q.—Have you a market for your goods? A.—Yes. Never for any y-ear dur ing twenty--six years have we been able to supply- the depiand. Q.—Where do you find a market for y-our gpods ? A.—In every State of the South, nearly all the Western States, even in Nebraska, aud sell a few goods in Boston and New York. Q.—Do you consign your goods to agents? A.—No, we make no consignments. Our goods are sold directly- from the mills to the merchants. The goods have become so w-ell known that the bulk of them are ordered direct by- merchants from the mills, but as we are constantly- introducing new styles, we employ traveling agents at cer tain seasons of the y-ear to visit the merchants and display the samples and solicit orders. Q.—Do you not make losses in this way. A.—Yes, We make losses, and the average losses sustained have been one-half of one per cent.'of our sales. I don’t suppose any business house of the country is more careful in its credits than this company (E. & P.) They- make use of all the means known to the merchants of the com munity to be fully- posted as to who are entitled to credit. Q.—Do you make any goods ex cept for negro wear ? A.—Nearly- all our styles are made and consumed by middle classes, and many- styles by the ladies of our cities and towns, such as our ginghams and dress goods, which are equal to those of the Amoskeag Mills. We make very few- sheeting, shirtings and osna- burgs. Seven-eighths of our produc tion are colored cotton and woolen goods, the former ranging in price from 30c. dow-n to 7c. per yard, and the latter 90c. to 24c. per yard. We make about forty different styles of goods. Q.—Has not New England some advantages over the South ? A.—Y’es. The only one is, they have more money, more capital, and of course it is seeking employment, and money- is consequently cheaper. When the capitalists of the North and East awake fully to the advan tages the South possesses over their own locality for manufacturing and the greater profits to be reaped from such enterprises South, invest ments here will become more fre quent. I know-of no other advant age New- England has overtlie South. It is true she has a larger laboring population to draw from that than the South, but as already stated, w-e have to turn away- daily- applicants for em ployment, and I should say we have been obliged to refuse enough of such applications in the past eight months or a year, to run a large mill, while I have no doubt but that an adver tisement for operatives would bring applicants enough in a few- w-eeks to start up a mill in this locality-. The South was very- much impov erished by the war, and the carpet bag government under which she suffered for many years after. Now she has gotten rid of misrule, the peo ple arc gaining ground. The South ern people are practicing rigid econo my, and their energies and industries exhibited chufas at the fair that made seventy-one bushels to the acre. —From every part of the country comes the cheering news that the farmers are planting largely of wheat. —Wednesday evening, in Macon, Mr. Evans A. Hoggie, of Augusta, w-as married to Miss Fannie A. Tharpe, of Macon. —Thursday evening, at the Baptist Church, by Rev. Mr. Landrum, Mr. Lee W. Walton was married to Miss Louise Rutherford, all of Augusta. —Hon. John A. Stephens has been nominated for the Senate by the Con vention, which met at Craw-fordville, on Tuesday- last. —The knitting iactory of Mrs. C. W. Mabry, at LaGrange, is filling or ders for hosiery in nearly every Southern State. * —Married, on the loth day of No vember, George W. Teagle and Miss Carrie L. Ward, in Meriwether coun ty. —Col. John S. Grant, one of Meri wether’s best and most substantial citizens, died at his residence, near Greenville, last Monday night. —The registration of voters for the municipal election at Augusta closed Wednesday at. 2 o’clock, up to which time 2,083 had registered. —The St. Louis Calendar Clock Company have sold over two thous and dollars worth of clocks in Meri wether county- the past six months. —Two well known citizens of Twiggs county- had a shooting affray- in which they and an outsider were seriously hurt. The Telegraph and ludes as there are several mills in theMessenger does not give names, course of erection South, on white j —A child of Mr. W. Bales, at Kit- GEORGTA NEWS. room and betiding given him for _, „ —• , i covering. Another negro was placed Terrell county has sowed 300 per -watch him and hold the end of the cent, more small grain than last year. ; rope with which he was bound. —There are now six hundred and j Wh ile the gua rd were dut of the room eighty-five lunatics in the asylum. ; the prisoner succeeded in unloosing —M. Claxton Miles, an old citizen | the cords while covered with the of Burke county, died suddenly the j blankets, and when the lady of tfie other day. *" ‘I house opened the door he sprang sud- —A son of Mr. Joseph Culpepper, I denly out and escaped. The guard near Fort Valiev, was badlv scalded I , rush ? d !I ) ° th 5 room mmedmtely on by falling into a tub of boiling syrup, (faring the alarm, and found the -Houston Court h in session. ! 1,<,ldl,, K ,he cnd « f ! he Mony oasw, mc-iudiuK one ; I,, 1 ,! occurred, murder, are to be tried. —Mr. C. C. Sheppard, of Sumter, at what chen’s Mill, in Glasscock county, had her dress caught when walking near the upright shaft that was turning very rapidly- and w-as instantly kill ed. - 1 —There is an opening in Calhoun, Gordon county, lor. a good, industri ous brick mason and a painter. Cal- hounjis looking up, and numerous im provements are in contemplation. —The citizens of Brunswick have nominated the present Mayor, Hon. J. F. Nelson, and the present retiring Board of Aldermen, Messrs. Colson, Watkins, Putnam and DuBignon, as the ticket. —The Baptist ladies of Macon, aid ed by- friends of other denominations, are actively- engaged in raising funds with which to plant shrubbery aud trees on the campus of Mercer Uni- _ versity. ‘ —An attempt wa^‘made on Wedues- T, i*. senatorial (jrESTios. day last, about 2 o’clock p. in., to kid- It fatigues the indignation to dweil nap a lad named Willie Davis, the upon Republican wrongs, but We , grandson of Mr. Thomas Flurry, who must accept the inevitable. There is I 6ves miles north of Elluville, in no use in grumbling. We must take ; c 1 < * ou . n ^'■ . . fT ,. , ,Y , . . . ' —Thursday night at Houston, the good the gods give us and seek; county-, the Masonic Lodge, and colored work. . This company has bought 500 four-shuttle looms and 150 fancy- looms, all calculated to make fine ginghams and dress goods from No. 26 and No. 30 yam; and with these will have about 1,200 looms to do that kind of work and about 400 other looms for making tickings, stripes, etc. Q.—Is the water power ample at Manchester, and does the Amoskeag own it? A.—They have an artificial pond, or lake, to aid the power of the fiver, and I understand that they- have re cently- added an 800-horse power en gine to use when droughts occur in summer or freezes in winter. what consolation we can from -that w-e cannot avoid. The Democrats made a gallant fight. The country is convinced Kellogg does not represent the people of Louisiana, that ho was with the unoccupied store under neath, Edward Lewis’ store, Dr. W. S. Morgan’s office and a large wood- shop belonging to Britton & Evans were burned. —Thursday morning Col. Kirkland, not elected legally, and that seating ; in charge of the engineer corps of the him in the Senate was an endorse- j Augusta and Greenwood Railroad, meat of the Returning Board fraud, j commenced a. preliminary^ survey m. i> ....1 1: 1 i •■■ -. .. j, : from up the river. The point of be- Tlic Republicans had u majority ,thcy ; gj nll i n g W as Clark’s city mills, and outvoted the Democrats, and Kellogg 1 ff ie p irs t stakes were driven, marking is Senator until 1883. This fact will | the projected course. strongly' react on the Republicans in the Presidential contest in 1880. A dying party catches at straws, and the Republicans in the Senate have ofily a short lease on power. Gen. M. C. Butler was also admitted as Senator from South Carolina. His term expires in 1883. The Committee on Privileges and Elections, by- a vote of six to three, recommend that Mr. Eustis, of Louisiana, be admited as Senator. This is equivolent to an election and he will doubtless be ad mitted to-day-. This will give a full Senate for the first time in mapy years. Two Democrats and one Re publican is not so bad as w-e feared. With Eustis, the Senate now stands 39 Republicans, 36 Demscrats and 1 Independent, Davis, of Illinois. On March 4th 1879, the Democrats can’t help but having gained one Senator each from Alabama, Arkansas, Cali fornia, Ohio, Florida and South Car olina. These will make the body stand 42 Democrats, 33 Republicans and 1 Independent. The Democrats cannot lose any and have equal chances at New York and Pennsy-lva- nia. Radicalism is dead beyond re covery, and the admission of Kellogg w-ill help kill it quicker. Nashville American: Those who do not look beneath the language of the Constitution have concluded that Mr. Thurman w-as wrong in his point concerning the right of the Vice President to vote in case of a tie. The Constitution does not grant him a vote affirmatively-. It says he shall not vote and then adds an exception. The language is: “The Vice Presi dent shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally- divided.” Unless who may be equally divided ? !The Senate fully and legally- constituted. So long as it is a question of organization there is no equal division of the Sen ate. It affects the very- orgonization of the body. He may vote to admit one who has no shadow of title to be a Senator, and to make the Senate not the Senate, but the Senate plus one who is not a Senator. The body cannot be said to be a Senate com plete in its organization when the very- pending question is as to the admission of one whose presence is necessary to make it a complete Sen- are shaping in the right direction j ate, however practically complete it may be for legislative purposes. The question is certainly one of grave difficulty and importance. and being blessed with a soil and cli mate that yields them all the neces saries and many of the luxu ries of life, they- are taking advantage of these circumstances, and have learned to make all such things first, and apply the balance of their time to making cotton as a sur plus crop, thus having their sur-j plus in cotton, w-hich is equivalent to money, the world over,- As wealth ! will be naturally aud rapidly- devel- j oped from such a course, it will seek investment in what is paying the best interest—and that is manufactu ring. The past three or four years have been more trying than any in twenty-six y-ears of my experience, and our company has earned an aver age of over 10 per cent, annually-, on a capital considerably larger than its productive investment. The advantages for successful manufacturing are so much greater South than North, that they must be appreciated soon, and I confidently expect that the South will eventually be the manufacturing country of the J world. Q..—Gov. Straw says of the new mills built South those at Atlanta will serve as an example—that the builders of the machinery have been unable to get theit' pay, Ac. -What have yen say to that? A.—That I hear the same firing, but cannot see apy point in it that is One of the brightest passages in Mr. Stanley’s last letter to the Herald is his account of a Shakesperean holo caust near the confluence of the Kwango and the Congo. After fight ing his thirty--second and last battle, he journeyed among natives who were peaceably disposed, but who re- i eludes Coweta, garded his note-book with suspicion. He had been seen making medicine on paper—writing. Such a thing had never been heard of by- the oldest in- habitan t. It must therefore be witch craft, and witchcraft must be pun ished with death. The white chief must instantly deliver his note book to be burned,"or there would be war on the instant. “My note book,” says the explorer, “was too valuable ; it had cost too many lives and sacri fices to be consumed at the caprice of savages. What was to be done? I had a small volume of Shakespeare, Chandos edition. It had been read and reread a dozen times, it had crossed Africa, it had been my solace many a tedious hour, but it must be sacrificed.” “Is it this you want?” asked Mr. Stanley. “Yes.” “Is this the medicine you are afraid of?” “Yes; burn it," burn it. It is very bad, very bad, burn ppoe Shakespeare was burned and the country was saved. If the author has many incidents like this in his note- book he can write a book on Central Africa that will interest everybody. —Mr. Charles J. Walker, charged with the murder of John P. Miller, at Green’s Cut, was acquitted in Burke Superior Court. He was re- arrested on the charge of assault with intent to murder, but the case was continued until the next term of the court, and the defendant gave bond. —The populat ion of Georgia is 1,250,- 000. Of these GO per cent, are whites and 40 per cent, colored. The popu lation is mostly native, only' about 12,000 being foreign born. The wo men are in excess of the men by'about 2j per cent. Of this population 6 per cent, are engaged in manufacturing, 4 per cent, in trade aud commerce, 15 per cent, in professional or personal service, and 75 per cent, in agricul ture. —Mr. Jacob Hiley, near Fort Val ley, some tune since discovered an apple tree growing in the woods, on his place, and cleared up the space around it. This season it bore fruit, and he has gathered some of the finest apples we ever saw from it, one of which weighed twelve ounces. The apples have been examined by- fruit men, who pronounce them superior to any- thing they ever saw. —The Senatorial contest in the Eighteenth District is particularly hot, especially- in Richmond county. Hon. Joseph B. Cumming, of Rich mond, the regular nominee, is op posed by Hon. IT. Clay Foster, who runs on the independent schedule. This, together with the municipal campaign, whieh is being carried on in equally vigorous style, makes poli tics particularly lively- in Augusta. —Dawson Journal: A friend in forms us that a Terrell county darkey stole a pair of shoes from a Jew in Al bany, the other day, and ran down the streets at a rapid rate. The Jew, finding it impossible to catch the rouge, threw his hat upon the ground, ahd ordered the negro to “Go, G—d d—nyon! You does get deni no less don cost.” —Governor Colquitt has appointed a number of Georgians to attend the convention to be held in Chattanooga on the 5th of December to endeavor to secure the' completion of the im provements on the Tennessee river. Among them are Hon. W. P. Price of Dahlonega, Col. B. W. Frobell, Dr. Frank Little, Dr. Jones, Major John Fitten of Atlanta, Gen. Pierce Young of Bartow county, Dr. H. H. Carlton of Athens, Colonel Carey Styles of Gainesville, Col. R. A. Crawford of Bartow, and other gentlemen equally able to represent the State. —No member of the North Georgia Conference has died during the year just past. Just before adjournment Bishop Pierce addressed the Confer ence, calling for transfers from among the vounger men to the Florida and I some of the Western Conferences. He stated that Rev. S. H. Babcock, who was transferred to one; of the Arkansas Conferences from the North Georgia several y-cars ago, and who was quite a young man when he went West, is now a presiding elder —is the leading man among his brethren, and heads the list of dele gates to the General Conference from his Conference. Five preachers of the body are named Quillan. —The Western Association in- Meriwether, Troup, —Albany Xcirs: The Dougherty | Republicans met again on Tuesday at noon, and after the usual wrangle, splits, noise and general confusion, nominated Hon. A. C. Westbrook, white Democrat, and Joseph Neal, colored Republican, as candidates for Representatives, thereby- refusing to accept the nominations made by the Democrats on Saturday last. Captain Westbrook is an excellent member of the House, and has a good record. The Convention on Tuesday- also nominated Edward Paten, colored, for the Senate, in opposition to Mr. I. P. Tison. Several independent poli- ticiansare in the field, we understand, and the race promises to be a lively- one. ' The good people of the county- should all rally to the support of Jesse W. Walters, the regular Democratic nominee for the House, and I. P. Ti son, the nominee for the Senate. ALABAMA NEWS. —Mr. Wm. Dough tie has sold his plantation of 1,200 acres, five miles south of Eufaula, to Dr. H. M. Wee- don for $6,000 cash. —Eufaula has received about-23,000 bales of cotton to date. —The Wetumpka railroad is pro gressing rapidly. They have already- crossed the wagon road with the grading beyond Fitzpatrick’s quarter, and are fast approaching Elmore sta tion. Every energy is being em ployed to ensure an early completion. —Calvin Hickey, who was shot in the leneontre with J. R. Steward, on the night of the 13th inst., at Decatur, lingered untii the evening of the 20tli, and died at 7 o’clock. —A letter in the LaFayette Clipper from Arkansas contains the informa tion of the death of Mr. Crosby McIn tosh, a son of Dr. M. E. McIntosh, of Chambers county. —Mr. J. F. Beaty died at his home in Bluffiton, on Wednesday night, of Diabetes. —Mr. W. S. Askew, of Cusseta, Ala., has sold, this fall, one hundred and twenty-five dollars worth of ap ples from his orchards. He thinks he will have sold,- before they- are ex hausted, one hundred and fifty dollars worth. THE U ROXC H I V lit XU. llumforil Not the Man oho Pulled Doan the Flax on the New Orleans Mint. Galveston Netvs.} In a casual talk with' Prof. B. W. Burgess yesterday, he gave to a News reporter the following startling dis closure as one of the adventures of Ills somewhat eventful life: During the time Gen. B. F. Butler was in possession of New Orleans, it will be remembered ‘ what a great feeling of excitement and indignation was caused by the hanging of Mum- ford for pulling a United States flag down from a staff on the New Orleans Mint. Prof. Burgess states that he was the person who pulled the flag from the staft'and passed it to Captain Oliver Canton, of the lower Mississippi river coast packet Isabel, who, the Profes sor says, is ready to corroberate this account of the affair. Mumford was on the roof of the mint at the time with a crowd of men and boy-s, and it is believed ‘received the flag from Canton. Prof. Burgess says a young" man named Adolph Harper has been ac corded the credit for Ill'st taking hold of the flag, and in the history of H. W. Allen," by Mr. Dorsey, where ref erence is made to a lad fifteen y-ears of age as the one who got the flag, Mr. Harper was the person had in view. The Professor was about his ownage at the time of the great inci dent that has gone down to history, and y-oung Harper was indeed one of the "party. Prof. B. was wise in keeping his own counsel on the subject til] now, as the News is the first to receive the above particulars from him. Gen. Butler, please take notice. Oakcy Hall. There are different ways of splurg ing, as there are of doing most other things in this world. Oakey- ITall al ways had a fine knack at "one way. He coukl make people talk about him, and take an interest in him, whether they wanted or not. Ever since he figured in the Cunningham-Burdell bogus baby business, over twenty years ago, he has contrived to keep the public eye fastened on him, in one attitude or another, pretty stead ily. lie is now about to start out as a lecturer, under the clever manage rial manipulation of Jarrett & Pal mer, and no doubt the dodge will be as successful in the splurge sense as any- other in the versatile Oakey’s ca reer. By the way-, in connection with the Jarrett & Palmer scheme, there is a curious story- afloat, w-hicli some per sons credit, and some do not, to the effect that these worthy gentlemen had something to do with Mr. Hall’s mysterious disappearance last spring. The disappearance occurred about the time Jarrett & Palmer made known their intention to retire from the man agement of Booth’s Theatre. Their wide-awake business manager, Joseph IT. Tooker, had been first marshal in the may-or’s offieeduringoneof Hall’s terms, and he and Hall w-ere still quite intimate. Now, the story is, that the disappearance was cunningly-planned at the suggestion of Jarrett & Palmer, through Tooker, with a view to a first-cla.ss lecture sensation this sea son. Hall should go aw-av as myste riously- as possible; everybody would talk about him and wonder what had become of him ; and then, just at the nick of time, he should turn up again, just as mysteriously as he had disap peared, and the lecture project should be started immediately. This is the substance of the story- that has lately- been floating around some of the clubs. It may or may- not be true, but, considering the peculiar enter- priseof all the parties concerned, it is, at least, not incredible.—Hartford Times. ANNOUNCEMENTS. To the Citizens ofColnmbus. |. m ■ i respectfully anuounce myself a candidate fur Mayor ai the next election. F. G. WILKINS. de2 te* For Marshal. We are authorized to announce \V. L. ROBINSON as a candidate for Marshal of the city of Columbus. Elec, tion December 8th. de2 tc For Marshal. r respectfully announce myself as a candidate for re-election at the ensuing municipal election, Saturday, De cember 8th. TIFF T. MOORE. de2 tc For City Sexton. The undersigned respectfully an nounces himself a candidate for City Sexton at the ensuing city election, Saturday, December Sth, and ask the sup port of the citizens of Columbus. de2 te JOHN ST. CLAIR. For Alderman Second Ward. In compliance with the request of many friends, I announce my self a candidate for Alderman of the Second Ward. JNO. FITZ GIBBONS. uq29 te I will address the people on the Senatorial question at the follow ing places: Buena Vista, Marion county, on Saturday, 24th; Jacksonville on Monday, 2f>th; Tazwell on Tuesday, 27th, and Cusseta December 1st. Col. Miller, my opponent, lias consented to meet me. oc24 d.twtd* THOMAS W. GRIMES. To The Voters of Muscogee County. grxgp* I am a candidate for the Legisla- turc, and respectfully ask your sup port. (no24 td) W. F. WILLIAMS. For the Legislature. 5KTp?=» I announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives of the next Legislature, and respectfully request the support of the voters of Muscogee county. Election 5th day of December next. oc28 d<4wtd* LOUIS F. GARRARD. To the Voters of County. Muscogee I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the House of Represen tatives of the next Legislature. I am in favor of a fair race before the people. oc26 d.twtd REESE CRAWFORD. & GREAT REDUCTION! To prepare for getting up a Spring Stock, I will close out READY-MADE SUITS AS FOLLOWS: Eagle ti Phenix Live Oak JEAXS COATS, §3.00; “ “ PASTS, 1.25; - *• “ VEST. 1.00; FULL SUIT for .5.00. STANDARD DOESKIN COATS, §4.00; - “ PASTS, 2.00; “ VESTS. 1.50: FULL SUITS for 7.50. EXTRA DOESKIN COATS, §5.00; “ PATNS, 2150; “ - VEST. 1.75; FULL SUIT, 9.00. These Goods are well made and trimmed, and the tit and finish excellent. Ox Hand, a good line of North Georgia, Virginia and Texas CASSIMERES, which we make up at short notice in good style. Also any Goods brought in from else where made up well, and trimmed in the best manner. a. J. PEACOCK, novlS eodt.f A. COUGH, COLD, Or Soar Throat REQUIRES A continuance for any length of time causes irritation of the Lnngs, or some chronic Throat affection. Neglect oftentimes results in some in curable Lung disease. BROWN'S BRON CHIAL TROCHES have proved their efficacy by a test oi'niainy years, and will almost invari ably give immediate relief. Obtain only BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, and do not take any of the worthless imitations that may be offered. de2 d4m Attention, City Light Guards. (UvS? 0 * Regular Monthly Meeting of the City Light Guards will be held TO-MORROW (Monday) EVENING, Dec. 3d, at 7% o’clock. Business of importance will be transacted, and it is important that every member should attend. ■ By order of Captain, T. J. Appleyard, Sec'y. Virginia University has swutu dents. New York has a case of what Charles Reade called “A Terrible Temptation.” A Mrs. Duryea, desir- ing to reform a drunken husband, borrowed a baby and announced it publicly and privately as her own. The physition called upon to partici pate in the deception wouldn’t partici pate, and told the whole story. The husband in the ease accepted the bor- | rowed baby as his son and heir, and indulged in a grand drunk, extending over several days. Finally the whole story came out in court, and the de ceived husband sobered up. The baby was returned to its rightful parents, and no action was taken against Mrs. Duryea, because her motives were good. Administrator’s Sale. A greeably to an order from the . Honorable the Court of Ordinary of Muscogee County, Ga., will be sold, on the first Tuesday in January next, in front of the Store of Hirsch & Heeht, in the city of Columbus, Ga., (the usual place of holding Sheriff sales for said county of Musco gee), the following; property to-'wit: The Two-Story Dwelling House and about ten acres of land attached thereto, in the village of Wynnton; the same being the res idence of John It. Dawson while in life. Said place is pleasantly and beautifully lo cated in sight of the city of Columbus, and is one, of the most delightful residences in or near the city. Terms made known on day of sale. .@S-The above property was sold the first Tuesday in November last, and knocked off to A. A. Boyd, who refused to comply with the terms. The same will now be sold at his risk. G. L. McGOUGH, Administrator. December 2, 1S77—oaw4w Muscogee Sheriff Sale U NDER and by virtue of a deeree issued out of the Superior Court of Muscogee County, in the case of Doe Ex Dem G. H. Peabody, et al., vs. Roe Casual Ejector Mary E. Murphy, tenant, in possession, I will sell, on the first Tuesday in Janiuuy next, in front of the Auction House of Hirsch & Hecht, Broad street, city of Columbus, Mus cogee county, State of Georgia, between the usual hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: Lots of Land numbers two and three, in the city village north of the city of Colum bus, in Muscogee County, Slate of Georgia. J. G. BURRUS, dec2 oaw4w Sheriff. Ahead THE 3RJE. ait* f4 ft ^ \ K 1 i cv & u h~ i S- 9 « j u. 8- cL til j 35 • IaJ V / This Shirt i s entirely com. plete. Brown 2100 - thread Linen, "Wain. Body, sold at sutta Patent Pitting Yoke; the popular price of ONE DOLLAR! J. Kyle & Co. rdec2 tfj CLOTHING. IB TTY YOUB LOTHING HATS OF Hofflin & Bro, 88 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, BA. FIRST-CLASS GrOOIDS! I_iO‘w Prices. ^ CLOTHING flUADE TO ORDER-SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.^ sep26 eodSm DRY GOODS. NEW GOODS THIRD SHIPMENT INCLUDING OUR CELEBR ATED DOLLAR GOODS. -iOj WILL OPEN MONDAY MORNING, A FULL LINE OF & DO. t SSS’ 3ESL In Operas andL tot Wliite. Grand Concert BENEFIT OF FIRST COL’D JAPTIST CHURCH. Springerts Opera Honse, December 5. T HE members of this Church, assisted by their friends of the other churches, will give a Grand Entertainment for the purpose of raising money to pay the church indebt edness. Respectfully solicit the aid of all in this, their grand rally. Promisean evening of enjoyment. Admission to all parts of the house 25 cents. Seats set aside for all of New Bibs in white, light blue and pink; Silk Corsets, Laces—the most exquisite line Crepe Line Rufflings ever brought to this market. Our stock of Kid Gloves is thorough in every resjteci An elegant line Black Alpacas from 25c. to $1.00 per yard Merino Underwear and Blankets a specialty. 82^~Wi!l continue to offer inducements in BLACK SILKS. Our Black Silk at $1.25 is superior to any thing ever brought here. Blanchard & Hill oedAwtf AUCTIONEERS AND CQfr!MiSS!Oft MERCHANTS. M. M. HIRSCH. Jacob Hirin'- white friends. Prof. Geo. P. Lewis Miss Emma Beach W. E. Terry decl sat,SE<fcwed—3t the Stage Director Pianist ..General Manager Heard, and a part of Campbell and Harris counties, forty churches in all. The total number of members is 3,756, of which LaGrange church has 173. The largest church is Ramah, in Campbell county, which has 216 members, and of which Rev. H. C. Hornady is pastor ; the next largest j how to naive Good Bread, is Newnan which has 212. During! Use Dooleys Yeast Powder, and the year past 231 were baptized ; 163 I you will hqye no difficulty. The sub- were received by letter ; 230 dismiss- j stances entering into its" composition Cd by letter; 32 excluded; 12 re- i are perfectly pure, healthy ana nntri- stored, "and 28 died, The churches i tious, " naid during the year for missions, in-; me «7a^ MnsassWfe S£e kirr;, r .r- " , v i ' m rr ? 1 middle life or youth, since the resistant GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF LEA & PERRINS’ CELEBRATED IT.ONOrNC’KP IIY CONNOISSEURS TO BE THE “ONLY GOOD SAUCE,” And applicable to] every variety of DISH. years supported Rev. Peter Folsom, a missionary to the Choctaw Indians. Next year it proposes to pay him a salary* of S200, and the same to another missionary, yet to be em ployed, —The negro Wm. Paj#fe, who was arrested in Ai^eJi' rt.'C.', charged with tfie muirie#afMitcbel T loanas iri Cb* lumbia eohnty, succeeded in making his escape from the guard who were convening him to Appling county jail, rt appears that he was guarded by six men at a house in Columbia county, and was supposed to be se- urely*bound. He was placed in a ■ power In the system has diminished with ! declining years, and disease and pain have j more Boyer over the enfeebled body. It is | therefore the more essential that that rosist- i ant power should be augmented- Hastet- > ter's Stomach Bitters, a benign tonic cor dial, is admirably adapted for the purpose. It counteracts the infirmities peculiar to age, and succors worn out nature. It vtvi- fiys the IPehle frarne. adds new oil. as it were, to the tUokoring lamp of life, diffuses fresh warmth through the chilled veins, and elves comfort as well as relief, thus lighten ing the burden of age and retarding in a measure the progress of decay. Ladies in deUcate health, as well as aged persons, de rive great benefit from this wholesome stimulative tonic, which is absolutely pure, unobjectionable in flavor, and Is recruit mended by physicians of repute. KXTR.VCT ofa letter from a MEDICAL CES- TLEMEJt at Mad ras to his broth er at Worcester, May, 1851: “Tell Lea & T Peru i xs that their Sauce is -■ "highly esteemed in India, r.nd is, in my opinion, the most palata ble as well as the most wholesome 8a«ea that is made. WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE THUS GIVING THE COXSU3IEB XOT ONLY THE BEST. BUT THE MOST ECONOM ICAL SAUCE. Signature on every bottle, JOHN DUNCANS* SONS, 29 Murr*)- M, and 1 Union Snnare, >'ew York. [no27 oawly] Hirsch & Hecht General Aacfioi & Coniao MercH OPPOSITE RANKIN HOUSE, OOLUMBIIS, - - GEORGIA. C. S. HARRISON, Aiietiuiiecr and Salesman. W ILL give our personal attention to the sale of Consignments of every deseripti; 11 ' REAL ESTATE, STOCKS, BONDS, MERCHANDISE, LIVE STOCK, Ae„ at il Sales in the city and surrounding re invited to give us a call trhea and private sale. Administrator and other Lt try attended to on liberal terms. The friends of Mr. Harrison and the public generallv they wish to buy or sell property of any description. LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS, which are respectfully *«-Referenees, by permission: Chattahoochee National Bank, National Bank bus, Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company. Columbus. Ga., August 26,1877. BANKINC AND INSURANCE. “THE SURVIVAL OFTHE FITTEST. THE OLDEST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES Incorporated. 1335. BOSTON, Assets, January, 1877, Premiums Received iu 187(>. Interest Received in 187B. Death Claims Paid in 1876, T HE POLICIES of this noted OLD COMPANY are issue.! under For W Law, by which W.W la- LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY .xdd in s,, JV 811,515,802.0') 1.996,28'W S0U5.I1.U 806,462.0° of Premium have ceased, no oth the NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL G eorgia — muscogee county' - Whereas, T. S. Stewart, Administrator of Charles D. Stewart, represents to the couci in his petition, duly filed and cqUtmI on record, that he has fully administered said estate. This 'S, tneretbre, to ette all persons con cerned,' k tndrerl and creditors, to show cause (if any they can) why said Administrator should not be discharged from his adminis tration and receive letters of dlsipisslon on the first Monday In Februarv 1878. F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary. November 8th, 1877. nov9 oawl^w reserved fund and an‘“rove" J*adYam and in 1876, $25,000 on M"policies, on which thepreniium payments lmd ceased^ During the last 33 years, this company has issued policies to the nmour.^ I upon 55,000 lives, and has paid in death claims and endowmentsrlO, • ea to its policy-holders more than $7,000,000 in dividends. m ber of the Oompan> • Being a purely Mutual Company, every holder of a pol oy is ameml ^ ^ cntjn , pn ltU -. j and is entitled to a vote at Its annual meetings, and to hi. full 1 of the Company, With a nfembership of 21,000, an umpk ... 83,000,000, it is safe to say that the future operations of the Company tageous as those of the past have been. CerThe Dividends in this Company are papal! death interest Receipts of the past two years have been claims. Applications received ami policies promptly issued through D. F and the decl eodtt" ]>10IIipu> WILLCOX, Agent, ■71 Broetcl str©e>t.