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Newspaper Page TextA STRICT CONSTRUCT 1031 OK TIIK CONSTITUTION —AN IIONUST ANO KCONOMIOAL ADMINISTRATION OK TUB GOVERNMENT. - - - - - - Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1872. Volume XLIV.—No. 4i The Weekly Enquirer. JOHN 11. MARTIN ......Editor. COLUMBUSt THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 1872. —TVriii** of SultNi riptioii— On** W ONLY ON K DAY XOKK ! If our Democratic friends have not fully Aroused to tlio consciousness that the Radical managers have thoroughly organized the negroes for the contest of Wednesday, we trust that they will do so without delay. The rush of the negroes to pay their poll taxes in all the cities (aud prohuhly in all the counties) shows that a concerted and determined eft’ort is to bo made : and the local election iu Savannah on Saturday suffices to show that the negroes will voto their full strength, and in nearly solid nrrny, for the Radical candidates. Their work of preparation has not beeu less effective because it was done in secret, and the fact that they voto hliudly according to the instructions of their leaders will not prevent the triumph of ignorance aud servility over intelligence aud iudepeud- euco iu a contest decided by mere force of numbers. Our Democratic and Conservative friends must woijk to-day aud to-morrow. Contemplate the dismuy and chagrin that would be produced by the defeat of Gov. Smith and of our Legislative ticket! Resolve, in time, to prevent it. A little effort now may save a great deal of dis appointment and self-upbraiding here after. Let Georgia be saved—let Mus cogee be saved— from a calamity frightful to contemplate! The New Orleans /'ieayunt copies from the Galvostou papers a number of special dispatches of the I'dth and 20th Septem ber from various parts of Texas, m.ikiiq reports of the condition of the cotton crop. From these dispatches wo compile the following information : In Walke lloiuton, Trinity, Cherokee, Rusk, I’oti la, Shelby, Sau Augustine, Jasper, Tyb and Folk counties, the crop is estimated at one-half, having been cut short by long-continued drouth and worms. Hempstead, the drouth severe, hut it is estimated the crop will exceed last year's by 6 per cent. Nuvnsota—no rain for four weeks: cotton nil open; fully half crop expected. San Marcos—rain badly ueedod; crop yielding a fractiou better than was expected a low weeks ago. ihuumfels- drouth continues; general disposition to hold cotton for belt prices. Sau Antonio—half crop generally expected. ltrnnhain —yield short, ami planters quite despondent. Geldings— still no r.iiu , crops us last reported. Aus tin—no raiu yet: crops not improved. Tho dispatch in our paper concerning the Cherokecs and their hinds uninteligible. it is explained by a fuller dispatch, which rends : The Chickn saw Indian Legislature has passed a bill memorializing Congress to allot thorn their lands severally, and calling on th* Choctaws to join thorn in their request This is regarded as an advuueed step to ward the opening of tho Indian territory to white settlement this winter. Good for (he whites pel Imps, but bad for tho Indians. The Montgomery Advertiser learns by privato letters from Kuoxvillo, that the trial of I). M. Nelson for tho murder of Gen. J. 11. Clanton, which was set for last Thursday, was postponed by agree ment of counsel until tho Tuesday after the I til Monday in January next. We hopo that tlm Atlanta Constitution is correct in its opinion that (Lore will be “no conflict of jurisdiction" between authorities of Georgia and thoso of the Federal Government iu tho matter of the control of the section of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad running through this State. There could not be, if tho rights of the States wore respected as formerly. But we have lmd too uiuuy Blancos of the usurping disposition of all departments of the Federal Government to permit us to bo free of apprehension, especially as we learn from the Chatta nooga 'linns of the 28th that the I’. S. Marshals were arriving there to arrange for tho service of Federal process along the line of the road. Hero is what tho Constitution of Sun day says: The status of the mattor is that the Governor is determined to hold tho road in Georgia until Georgia's liability is made secure. The authorities sought to run tho train over tho rood in Dade against the orders of General Wofford, Georgia's agent, and in violation of an agreement witli him, and also without se curing Georgia’s endorsement, and honce the stoppage of tho trains. Governor Smith does not intend to per mit the tiho of the part of tho road in Georgia under the now arrangement, un til Georgia is made sccnro against less. This is tho simple status of tho matter. Just as soon us Stanton makes Georgia safe, he can get tho rood and not before. There is no danger of any conflict of ju risdiction, as no court will or can take the road out of Georgia’s control until she is made secured, and when sho is mode sale, she is ready to yield the road. After balloting unsuccessfully for four days, the Democratic Convention for tho Oth District finally nominated lion. II. F. Bell, of Forsyth, for Congress. Mr. Mc Millan withdrew in Lis favor, and then Bell obtained precisely the two-thirds voto neoded to make a nomination. The Savannah Aetrs has reports of an attack by a party of negroes upon tho “Groat Eastern Circus," at Lako City, Fla., on Friday last. A party of them hAd boon promised admittance free in consideration of help in raising tho tents, and bad gone in but demanded ad mittance again, which was refused. Ob taining reinforcements, they returned and fired into the dressing-room tent, wound ing several of the performers. The cir cus men soon put them to lligbt, badly wounding several. IU. Rev. Bishop l'ersico. Catholic Bish op of the Diosceso of Georgia, has re signed, but no advices have yet been re ceived of the acceptance of his resigna tion. The Savannah Aetes says that Bov. Fathor Wyrick, now pastor of the Church of the Holy Evangelist, New York, is spoken of as tho successor of biBbop Shreveport, La. From tho 1st to the 25th September on ly 832 bales of cotton had been received at Shreveport. The South* Western of tho 2‘*th says that no rain has fallen in that region for nearly two months, and that heavy rains now would beat the cotton out of the boils; that cotton is opening very rapidly, and that the crop of tho re gion ut>out Shreveport will bo a vory short one. THE ALARY*% ELECTION. Tho State Central Coinmittco of Alaba ma have published a correspondence with Col. Tlios. J. Judge aud R. M. William son. Esq., emiftent lawyers, regarding some questions that havo been ruined about the manner of voting iu Alabama. These gentlemen decide, after examining all tho laws bearing on the subject, that the Stuto is entitled to ten Electoral votes ; that but one ballot or ticket from each voter will be takeu, which must, of course, contain the names of all the can didates for w hom he votes ; and only one ballot-box will bo opened at one place of voting. The laws of Alabama also require that each voter shall havo registered before votiug; but one registration siuco tho uow constitution went luto effect is suffi cient. Tho tickets must bo priuted or written on white paper. Our friends over in Alabama are work- ing vigorously, and with grout confidence that they will, in the approachiug elec tion, be able to complete the redemption of their Stuto from Radical and carpet bag rule. They havo much at stake, and are addressing themselves to tho work before them with a full consciousness of the importance of tho election. Wo hopo to bo ublo to ruport for them a brilliant triumph in November. A Ku-Klvx Prisoner Wants to Stumf Fok Guam. — It has transpired that Rich aril Shotwoll, one of tho leaders of the Ku-Klux Klau in North Carolina.and n* confined in the Albany Fcniloutiary, pi posed to a prominent member of Co gross, that it Iho Frosidont would pard< him, ho would cheerfully tako tin* stump and labor for tho success of tho ltcpubli enu candidates, and denounce tlio Kit Klux organization. Finding that ho wa* disponed to plead for pardou, it was pro. posed to ask if ho would give evident!* 1 against tho principal lenders, such an Ransom, Vance and Morrimau. This- Shotwoll declined with a defiant air, aud saiil he would die rather tlmu betray body. Application for the pardon therefore refused. When Gerritt Smith visited Shotwoll two months ago he Haiti he found him defiant and unwilling to ac cept a pardon ou any condition.— A. F. Herald. Tho ntrocions intimation in the above statement is that Shotwoll bus been given to understand that ho will be pardoned if he will swear that the Democratic leaders in North Carolina were “Kit-KInx"; and no doubt Grant ami his Radical support ors are gloating over the prospect that finally Shotwuli will bo ho subdued spirit that ho will consent to sweur to anything they may require of him. On what a slender thread ure the liborlhf and property of the opponents of Radi culism in the South dependent! S. (\ Liam, nominated for tho Legislu- ture by the Radicals of Sumter county, has declined the nomination—says h* could not vote for Grant if he were to try—his hand would fail him; and (hut ho is not sure he w ill veto for Greeley ; that ho will voto for Smith for Governor, and Cook for Congress. Wo nupposo that tho Radicals nominated him, as they did Judge Samson Bell for Congress, because they considered him a “straight" Demo, crat. But it appears that Elam is not quite “straight” enough to bend over t Grant and Wulkor. Ed. Thompson, a colored thief, stole n lmrse from Mack Johnson, colored, near Thunderbolt, Chatham county. On Sun day last Johnson had Thompson arrested, accompanying tho officer himself. Who they ucured Savannah the thief broke Horn them uud ran, and Johnson shot him with a {pm. They supposed ho had capod, ns the shot did not arrest his flight; but he was found dead iu tho bushes on Monday. We suppose that, as it was just boforo tho election, tlio Chat ham nogroos held an “indignation" meet ing over tlio uffuir. Judge Samson Boll 1ms declined tin Radical nomination for Congress in tho 3d District. A houso occupied by two Italian families iu Atlanta was burned on Tuesday bight, and a child three years old burnod to death. A vory largo amount of stolon proporty was found, ou Saturday, in tho shop of a junk dealer, named Dennis Cornell, in Savannah. Among the other plunder found wero about six bundrod dollars' worth of property of David Symons, six or seven tons of railroad iron belonging to tho Conlral Railroad, and a largo lot of othor iron. Cornell, was held to buil in tho sum of $3,000. John A. Wimpey Cauoht at Last!—As ir readers remember, a United States warrant for urrest of the notorious John A. Wiuipey, of Dahlonega, charging him with forging pensions, was recently placed in the bauds of a United States Deputy Alar.-hsl, who proceeded imme diately to Mr. Wimpey's home in Lflmp- kin county, but by a sharp stratagem Mr. Wimpey eluded the officer by leaping out out of tho back window and fieeiog to the woods. After several days of pursuit and fruitless search, tho officer returned. Ho however went back again to Luuipkin county, and instituted a close surveiltuncu Mr. Wimpey s home. On Monday morning ho was arrested, just as he re turned from his retreat in the forest. He reached here yesterday aftemo<*n and was logod in jail. He will be arraigned before the United States Court bi ds}', we learn. It is stated ttat he hail the forged receipts of penNionu upon his poison.— Atlanta Sun, 2c/. The Mountains or Ameeica.—The following are among the highest eleva tors in Colorado, aa determined by Prof. Whitney : Mount Harvard, 14,270 feet; Gray’s Peak, 14,12ft ft.; Mount Lincoln, 14,123 ft.; Mount Yale, 14,078 ft; Pike’e Peak, 14,216 ft.; Long’s Peak, 14,056 ft.; Veile’s Peak, 13,456 ft.; Mount Audubon, 13,402 ft.; Barry’s Peak, 13,133 ft.; Mount Flora, 12,878 ft.; Moont Wright, 11,800 ft.; Denver has an elevation of 5,317 ft.; Golden City, 5,882 ft.; Mount Vernon, 6,479 ft.; Golden Gate, 6,226 ft.; Blaek Hawk, 7,548 ft.; Central City, 8,048 ft.; Missouri City, 9,073 ft.; Idaho, 7,149 ft.; and Georgetown, 8,245 feet. THE ELECTION LAW, From tlio Orillia (UuorgU) New*. The act of the Goncrul Assembly of this State, approved August 30th, 1872, provides that'‘All elections hereafter to be belli iu this State under tho Constitu tion and laws thereof, except for mem bers of Congress, Presidential doctors, aud county officers, shall be held ou tho first Wednesday in October of the partic ular year iu which, under the Constitu tion, elections are to be held at the placcH established by law, under tho election laws of this Stuto." The second section declares that “All elections for members ol' Congress shall ho held on Tuesday after tho first Mouday iu November of tho year 1872, aud ou tho sumo day iu every second year theru- altcr." The third section provides that “All elections for county officers shall be held on the first Wednesday iu January" iu each year, beginning iu 1873. It will thcrctoro be seen that the elec tion for Governor uud the General Assem bly will be hold on the first Wednesday of October t,this year the 2d day), uud tho elect ion for Presidential Electors and Congressmen on Tuesday after the first Monday iu November, and the election for county officers ou tho first Wednesday in January. Now the question is, w here shall these elections bo hold V how conducted? and who arc qualified voters ? Suction 1312 of Irwin's Revised Code provides that “Elections shall bo held at the court house, * * * and ut tho several precincts or places established by law, aud under tho eloolion law of this State." Article 2, section 11, and article 3, sec tion 2, of the State Constitution fixes tho time when elections iu this State shall be hold, but reserves to the Legislature tho power to change tho time fixed by the Constitution and designate some other day. The act of August 20th, 1872, already quoted, ebauges the times of holding tUu elections designated by the organic law, as will be seen by said act, and they will now bo held as already stated, as provided for by said act. As the Constitution is silent us to the places ol’ voting, it is competent for tlio Legislature to designate them, and linviug provided by tho act of August 2»)th, 1872, that the elections shall be held at the places provided by law, ami tho law hav ing provided that the elections shall bo held, to wit, at tho court house and sov- • nil precincts, it is legal and proper that tho precincts shull l*o opened uud vote nil*. See th* id -Th. •tioll8 should In* COIl- I by the Code, begiu- > and ending section ducted as presen I ning at section 1. 1322. All persons arc qualified voters who have lived in tho State six months, and thirty days in the couuty where they pro pose to vote, except those who have failed to pay taxes for 1871 anti persons who havo sent or accept oil a challenge to fight a duel, or have fought ono; holders of public funds unaccounted for; all who have been convicted of treason, or ein- bczzlcmcut of public money, malfeasance in office, or of felony or larceny, which subjects Iho offender to imprisonment iu the penitentiary. Any person guilty of any of the forego ing crimes is prohibited trout votiug, us proscribed by the constitution. No Wc.iihi An act to pr oil Kli-4't ion Driy. • the ponce and harmony of this {State, and for Thy noblo brow t« pale Ami wilil Hu* liiMtrc* of thy hollo On thy lliia clieok tin- Iiiich ol ri 0, sad on®, toll lac why ! Ami why from day toil* Dost thou repine in H|.t« t-lilo** si As it thy hope i) thoi H St I llalh fortune's K !ld.-d dream Imrcil thy young heart awhile, then I Like tin* red midnight meteor's ilnr.r.l To hear thy spirit down? Or had'sl thou hopes of famo- Tlmt late hath Hullork's Administrator dr DoiiIh Noll. Bullock admiuistered upon a heavy atuonut of Georgia property. Ho and his gnng took lots of it. A million for his Legislature, two millions from the Stuto To bring inntters nearer home, Mr. Dry, 0, if i Hit.ill he I In* In r holier Ilian il dn All that the heart ei Iln loves, its hopes, shall nlw Unbounded by the ImMing u The Gkoun'd Bpiinino Up —Fort Du -A >f tho people other purpose) Ruction I. Be it ennoted, Ac., That from and immediately after tlio passage of this act, no person in the State of Geor gia be permitted or allowed to carry about his or her person any dilk, howio knife, pistol or revolver, or any kind of deadly weapon, to any court of justice, or auy election ground or product, or any pi, of public worship, or any other public gathering in this Ktutc, except militia muster grounds. X»rlK*K* Li Section 1st. Bo it cnuctod, etc., That from ami after tho passage of tliiH act, no person after having executed a mortgage deed to personal property, shall bo per mitted to sell or otherwise dispose of the same, with intent to defraud tho mort gagee, unless the consent of tho niortga geo bo first obtained, boforo tho payment of tho indebtedness for which the mort gage deed was executed to secure. Hoctiou 2d. Be it further enacted, oto., That if any parson shall violate tho pro visions of the first section of this act,and loss is thereby sustained by the holdor of the mortgage, shall bo doomod and held guilty of a uiisdemeuuor, and upon con viction thereof, shall bo puniahablo by a fine in double the nurn or debt for which said mortgage was given to soeuro, and upon failure to pay said fine immediately, the person ho convicted shall be impris oned in the common jail for a period not less than six months nor more thun twelve. * Icy i tin* Veto—Tlif Tariff. I*a., Sept. 28.—Mr. Greo- Allento ley spoke a Fellow lTny.i-.SH: I understand that a gentlcimiu who is a cundidalo for your siiffiugCH, in addressing this borough not long ago, assorted that if l wore to bo chosen President, nil the furnace fires of Lehigh Valley would be put out. Now, fellow-citizens, it seems to nio incredible that such statements should bo made. That 1 am a protectionist all men kuow, but that 1 would not veto any bill, fairly passed by Iho Congress of tho United Hiatus, modifying or changing tho tariff, is certainly true. I don't helievo in a government controlled by soifish “rings," but I believe just as little in a governiuout controlled altogether by one man. I don't believe iu a government of veto. Tho veto power of the President iH not given biin to enable him to reject any bill for which ho would have refused to voto if a member of Congress, but only to bo em ployed in certain great emergen ies, when corruption or recklessness havo passed measures through Congress which should not stand the test of inquiry. I tell you, friends, 1 believe in legisla tion by Congress and net by the Presi dent, and I should myself approve and sign a hill which had a fair majority in Congress, although in my judgment it was uot in accordance with the wisest public policy. That is my position. Tho St. Louis Republican thinks it is duo to Horace Greeley to say that ho is doing more for himself than all his friends are doing for him. Tliero is noth ing like the remarkable series of speeches which ho is making on record, except the somewhat similar series that Douglas rnado in 1M#0: and oven Douglas' great speeches in that canvass fell far short of those which Mr. Greelely is now making. We stand amazed to see a man speakiug often, and at so many different placos, and yet saying something uew and good on each occasion. Wash iso ion, D. C., Kept. 27.—A paper is bunded louud in tho War Department to-day asking subscription by the clerks for political purposes. Tho person who carried tho paper represented that it was circulated upon permission of tho (Secre tary of War, whoso uamo headed the list for $160. Homo of tho clerks declined to contribute, whereupon it was intimated that dismissal might be their reward. Bars.—Tho New York Sun says Goo. Wilkes bet a Grant man $1,000 on Mon day loot that ho oould not name ten Htates which would go for Grant. Tho Grant man named Maine, Vermont, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota aud Wiscon sin—not a great Utato among tbs numb#r. TKRRANKAN C.'ONFLAURATION. - OlIC of till* stiaugust plii-uoiuuiiu of tin* times is re ported to us from the site of old Fort Pil low, sixty miles above Ibis city. it is no more nor less than that the biuiV bank of the river, whi-h rises fifty or sixty feet above the water level, is on fire, uud for the past several weeks lias been steadily burning like n volcano for u distance of several hundred yards along the east side of the river. At night a lurid flame or blaze of fire rises from the side of the bluff to a height of two or three foot, which then spreads into smoke and passes on over the summit of the hill, distribu ting itself with tho atmosphere aud flout ing away skyward. The steamer Celeste, on her last trip, passed by the place iu bread daylight and at a time when a light wind blew from the shore, carrying the smoke towards tho Arkansas shore, and covering the river with a thick haze almost like fog. What strange combustible formation composes the river bluff of the old Fori, or wlmt first set it on fir*!, to burn after the fash ion described, is one of the most marvel ous events of the times, amt puzzles the people of the vicinity no little. We shall nook to be further informed upon this wonderful phenomena with no little curi osity. —Memphis Acatanehe. Diooino l 1 1* Money Buiukd Dijrin tiie Wau.—The Kliopliordstow ii ( West Vir ginia) I ley is ter tells this story “For Homo weeks past a rumor has boon afloat iu this community that u oral Quartermaster during the war had buried some $66,060 in geld and green backs under the large while oak tree about a mile from town ou the left of the road loading to Diiflleld’s, and that a few nights ago ho came for his treasure nnd took it away. It is said that tho Quarter master whs compelled to bury the iu order to keep the rebels from capturing tho treasure, who wore hotly pursuing him at the time. It is ovidnnt that some body was digging for something, as wc saw tho tronch which was dug ours* If on Huturday last. A part of a wooden box was also lying in tho trench, which it supposod contained the money. A Wosley Myers, who resides near tho spot, states that tho digging was done after night, and that the tracks of a vcldclo could bo seen tho next morning. Tho trench is formed in a semi-circle around the roots of the tree, ami judging from the amount of earth thrown up, aud the depth of tho trnneb, considerable labor was performed." J. M. Smith and ('. C. Mrl.*-i Killed. We learn by a dispatch from Birming ham that an accident occurred ou tho K. AN. Road at 4:30 this morning to tho train going North near Cunningham u point between Birmingham nnd Decatur. Four persons wero wounded and two wero killed The killed were James M. .Smith, luto of Montgomery, now of .St. Louis, and C. C. AlcLcmorc, of Marion, Ala. The wounded wo learn are not seiimisly hurt, one of them was the father of Air. Hiuith. This nows will cairy gloom wherevor Air. Hmith and Mr. AlcLeuioro were known. Air. Smith was a groat fa vorite with all who knew him aud no man had mnro or hotter friends. Ho was just starting in business under most favorable circumstances iu St. Louis and n bright and prosperous future was opening up before him. Air. AIcLetnoro was u highly esteemed citizen of Perry county. Montgomery Advertiser, 1 si. Accident.—On Sunday night last, as Air. LeGraud Brown was return ing from the camp-ground to his home iu, or near Mt Andrew, in this county, the puir of undos he was driving to a light spring wagon became frightened and ran away. Air. Brown was thrown out of Iho wagon and received such injuries as to cause his death ou the following day. Eufaula Time*, 30 M. Death of Rev. J. Blakely Kmitu.— ltev. J Blakeley Smith, Presiding Elder of tho Atnerieus District, South Georgia Conference, died suddenly, of apoplexy, near Aiuoriotis, yesterday morning. The sad new was communicated, by telegraph, to his olllioted family, who reside here, aud to his many friends in this city. Air. Smith was a native of North Caro lina, and joined the Georgia Conference ifH8l7, since which time he has been a most faithful and efficient member. For twenty years of the time ho has been Sec retary of the Conference. An office—a most responsible office- for which lie was pmlilied by his admirable business quali ties. He was Presiding Elder several dif ferent times.—Macon Tittyraph, 1 si. Turn Btate of New York.—The State Board of Assessment of New York has just finished its labors, and lias reported the aggregate equalized valuation of the taxable properly in tho State at $2,088,- [>27,44.".; or, real ostute, $1,611.379,4 Hi, and poraouul estate, $11*,21 Y* lu Nowr York city and couuty tho aggregate equalized valuation of taxable property amounts to $1,041,253,08.3, or very nearly one-huif of that of tho entiro Stuto. In New York the real estato iu valuod at $734,306,410, and the personal estate at $306,947,223. In Kings county, compris ing Brooklyn, tho aggregate valuation amounts to $195,138,347 ; or, reftl estate, $175,138,847, aud personal estate, $19,. 726,761. Westchester county, near New York, ranks next, the aggregate valuation being $59,977,694 ; or, real estate,$52,- 282,206, and personal estate, $7,695,487. Erie county has an aggregate valuation of $51,800,721 ; or, real estate, $43,941,836, ud personal estate, $7,358,885. lots of other millions make up a lively aud fractious aggregate of plunder. Some Was loft bchiud that they couldn't get ut. Tho gang lias selected Judge Walker as Bullock's administrator tie bonis non, that is, to take iu tho rest, nnd finish up what Bullock loft. All his goods uot adminis tered by Bullock arc uow to go through another rillle. The question heforo the people is, whether they nre going to permit an addi tional Radical grab at their “things." Aro they satisfied with losing what Bul lock took, or do they wish to luso more ? It is a simple issue, but still a big olio— big enough to swamp their last dime. If our people, then, nre against further pluudcriug of their assets, w hy let them pay up tlieir poll tax and turn out nnd voto for Jnuus AL Smith and tho regular Democratic nominees for the Legislature. If they want to bo administered upon, body and rouI and truck, bv tho gang that under Bullock ravished their property right and left like a 200,000 horse power steaui stealing machine warranted to do perfect work, why lot them, like a sot of incomparable and numoasurablo noodles, hang on to their paltry two dollar poll tax, stay at borne, aud let the robbers put Dawson A. Walker in tho Governor’s office nml oleet a Radical Legislature. For us, wo aro going to give Governor Smith tho heaviest lift we nre able. Democrats, tho election comes off to morrow. Hustle up your energies, pay your poll tax for 1871, get your neighbors to do tho same, aud voto to-morrow if you havo to walk a hundred miles to do it. \ Atlanta Const., ut. Personal.—Wo lmd tho pleasure of meeting Air. Walter Griswold, United Htatcs Engineer, ou yesterday, who has arrived in our city with his family to make il his headquarters, while comple ting n survey of the Chattahoochee river, from this point to Apalachicola. Mr. G. informs us that ns soon as his barge and assistants arrive from the bay tho work will bo pushed forward rapidly. Wo are wit Hied that a little work judic iously applied will greatly improve the navigation of tho river, mid consequently add to the commercial importance of Eu- fuula.—/Jufttula Times, \st. Prospects of the Domino Packin'* Season.—Ho far as auditors' returns for the several prominent hog growing Slat of tho West Imvo been obtained, they re veal a large increase in the hog crop of 1872 over tho crop of 1871, and puck who hnvo taken most pains to be infor ed feel sure that tho crop of hogs suitable for cutting the coming season will exceed by 25 or 30 per cent, tho number found suitable last season. Some of tho leading packers are confi dent that the coming whiter packing sea son will lie an unusually active one, mid opinions were expressed that Chicago will pack 1,500,000 hogs during the mouths November, December and January, or an average of nearly 100,000 hogs per week One firm alone calculates to puck 350,01 N hogs during tho season.—Chicago InUr Ocean. Kentucky Touauoo Chop.— 1 The Bowl itig Green Pantograph thus describes to bueeo prospects iu the Green River re gion of Kentucky: Six weeks ago the prospects for an tin usually large crop iu that region wer very Haltering, but now wo cannot hop* for even an average yield in quantity while the quantity of the new crop wil doubtless bo much bolow Iho ordinary standard. At any rut brace a very largo proportion of light, thin, groeii and gmuloss tobacco. Tho railroad now constructing f Lima to Oroya, piercing the Andes, unquestionably bo when completed of Iho proudest monuments ol' Inn power and outerprh e. Tho t iiunel, which is .3,600 feet long, is being executed at altitude of 15,000 feet above tho level of the sea, aud with extraordinary rapidity Numberless Jives have already been lost arrived at a pretty state when not only uro Grunt elect humoring documents per mitted to circulate through the mails in vast numbers under forged franks, nut newspapers opposed to this corrupt Ad ministration witldield from their subscri bers, but postmasters iiuhlmdiingly pro claim that they are iu the lmbit of inspec ting correspondence which they suspect is of a political ehuractor. — At in York Sun. Tiii: National Election Law.—Tlio re cent appointment of a chief supervisor of (-leetions bring to mind some of the pocii- liaritios of the uew Elcctiou law, of which city voters will have a tusto next Novem ber. Two supervisors are appointed for each election district by the United States circuit judge. They must bo of different political parties, and able to read ami write English; and for thoso accomplish- incuts, added to their other qualifications, they w ill receive $5 a day. This is a nov elty ; but nothing alongside of tho re markable powers devolving on the United Status Marshal. That personage tuny ap point- specials unlimited iu oucu and eve ry election district. The number rests wholly with his discretion—aud may bo 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000. The deputies, of. whom no accomplishment except po litical fidelity, seems to bo required, lire also paid $5 u day. Tho business of tho deputies is to keep order at the polls, prevent fraudulent registration and vo ting, and make themselves “generally useful" as tho grateful recipients of gov- rnniont patronage might naturally ho peeled to do. Tho law is not ono which is prim a facie to bo admired, taiuly u scheme for scattering government funds among largo numbers of pooid* nnd it is open to abuse by uuHcrupulo! functionaries. Its operation throughout the country at the national election will show whether the real purpose of tho law has beon misjudged or not.—A’. Y. Jour nal Commerce. Foretelling the Weather.—Some in teresting ulcus concerning the cause of earthquakes uud tidal waves, of storms, and in general what wo may call the phi losophy of the weather, are advanced by Mr. F. L. Capon, of the American Mete orological Society. Mr. Cupeu has devo ted many years to incessant watching of tho weather, and in noting its various phenomena. lie thinks he lias found the key to tho whole meteorological system of tho globe. So confident is he of the veri fications. already obtuined, of th** princi ples which be hns finally ndopted, that he lias accepted from Gen. Myres, chief of the signal Bureau, a proposition to sub mit his theory to extraordinary test, llo desires Government nhl in the prosecu tion of his work of investigation: and to tost the reality of what he believes ho has already discovered, he iicocpts s proposi tion to foretell tho weather stern days iu udvauee : nml ho ode is to continue this sovon-day test for a time long ouotigh to satisfy tho Govornuicut of tho truth of his principles. The India Medical Gazette reporta some cases of small pox curod by tho ex ternal application of carbolic acid. The persons concerned wero very reluctant to submit to the treatment, but after one or two cures with the aoid, and ono or two deaths without, tho reluctance van ished, and now the carbolic aoid is report ed to be in great demand. The aoid was applied to tho faoe and band, and next day the eruptions wero found to have sub sided aud driod up. The cures were ef fected iu a few days, Kouil, Rix nr eight millions in bonjn, nml j Eililor, lot tin look »t Iho capabilities of your imuicdiato surroundings. In o re cent survey made in viow of building a railroad from West Point, Ga., some 29 or 30 miles abovo Columbus aud ou tho snuio river, the Chattahoochee, tho difference of levels liotwoon that placo nnd tho steam boat landing at Columbus was fotiud to bo 368 feet, tlio largest 3d of this fall being between tho Columbus Alauufacturiug Company’s cotton mill, about 2.} miles above, and this stonm boat lauding, 128 foot. Tho fall within limits of tho Coluuilms Manufacturing | Company's property, embracing n mile on both banks, exceeds 42J feet, aud lias been calculated by ouo of your city manu facturing engineers to exceed 10,000 horse power. Thu full below tho lower liuo of this company, miles from Columbus, aud that embraced in your city limits be ing about 85 foot, would, in tho ratio of porso power given to 42} feet, givo 20,- 000 horso power additional partially, nnd to be further utilised with demand—in all 30,ooo porse power. Hero wo find, allow ing 50 spindles with preparation to tho II. P., capacity for ouo and a half millions of spiudles, equal to 75,(8/0,000 IDs. of cot ton, nnd iu ratio of population por spin dle affording living and employment for 26,666 souls. Lowell's water power is re ported ns 10,000 lioiso power, to which has been added 4,430 steam horso power; its population in 1870 40,937, with prop orty valuation of $25,912,488; and iu ad dition to its Kovcu national banks, whoso capital aggregate $2,350,000, tliero aro four savings banks with an aggregate de posit of $700,000. What better proof of tho profits of manufacturing cau we havo have than is hero shown? n city built up entirely through manufacturing interests, embracing all the industries auxiliary to cotton and woolen manufacturing aud banks aiding enterprise upon easy terms of interest. These are ud vantages certainly worth striving for, aud much more easily attained hero thau there, with the experience of long and successfully established enterprises to guide, iu tho purchase and management of tlio latest improved machinery, and the greater natural advantages alroady (‘numerated which wo possess. Ouo special advan tage claimed as having so materially aided Fall liivcr in building up its enterprises is “its position immediately upon naviga ble waters, by which convenience the inaiiiifiicturors are enabled to import their raw materials mid export their goods at a much less cost tlmu by land transporta tion." 1 u I his respect ('oluiubus, with water communication with the Gulf and its oil divergent railroads constructed and being const meted, afford nil trans- portion facilities which could In desired, and its location for pur poses of trade is especially central, as rcforonco to any Railroud map will sin being near tho ceutro of the cotton belt, and ut tho intersection of an air line from one of tho best ports of the Gulf (Saint Marks,) to Chicago, on the Lakes, with tho Central Bailroad from Savannah on the Alluutio, extending westward to Alon- roo, La., and in progress to Shreveport, where it unites with tho Southern Pacific. In nilditiou to these aro tho AI. »Y G. R. it., thcM. it S., tho East Ala. and Chatta nooga, and the N. A- S. R. ](., opening up tho extensive coul and iron fields of North Alabuma aud Georgia, giving inexhausti ble supplies of both coal and iron within four hours run, while all in connection with the river, traversing tho best cotton regions, unable the easy procurement of all noodod materials, Hhould tho usual supply of cotton ut Columbus, now ouo of tho best interior cottou markets South, not moot tho doiunuds. Our forests abound in nil the vnrioties of lumber needed by tho manufacturer in wood, whilo tho wool clip of Georgia, Florida uud Alubaum would materially swell the supply of that nrticlo easily obtainable via Apnluohicola by water from Texus, or through New Orlunus by tho AlisKissippi nml its tributuricH from tho more North ern Hourcos, our river steamers ruuniug in connection with thoso of the Gulf. Added to these is the lute Legislative enactluout exempting from taxation du ring ten yours nil additions to cottou fac tories now in operation, or which may be erected, u large item in tho diminution of manufacturing expenses. I have shown tho ndvantngen of manu facturing, with tho oxiuteuco of till tho material eon veil ient iy ut hand to ho worked and tho motive power wherewith to do it. Wo need but the application of the latter to tho former to secure tho first. How cau this be douc ? Necessarily by Southern enterprise and capital, for man ufacturing capital North will not tuovo tbouco where already successfully opera ting, under auy other tlinn practical de monstration of our greater ml vantages. May not somo co-opcrativo system, uh suggested by your recent correspondent upon manufacturing subjects, be carried out ? It is a question cquully affecting all in your community, from tho laborer to the uiouoy lender.— Lot those who nre hoarding their money under apprehension of unoth* r revolution, or through distrust of the times, contri bute from their “buried talent," and it is said that there is no biuull amount so buried, with daily npprehonsiou to tho owner nml disadvantage to the country iu that amount of withdrawn circulation. Let the money lemlor loaning at 2j to 3 per oont. u month, with tho risk of a homestead, usury, or bankrupt ovoNiou before him, invest in outerprisos which will secure to him more ccrtuiu and in the end largor profits.— Tlio planter iu so investing is building up n home inaikuL for his oollon uud other productions, the merchant a more exten sive and profitable trade, and property holders of all descriptions increased valuo of property iu proportion to tho aid con tributed in the establishment of euter. prises which must rapidly increase popu lation and correspondingly demand. I, for one, will co-operato to the extont of my ability iu any measure best adapted to effect those purposes. 1 have given you my thoughts, Mr. Editor, in the foregoing remarks uuder the disadvantage of having no proper hooka of reference and picking up my statistics, approximately, from such circu lars, newspapers and memoranda rnado from time totimo as I could lay my hand upon, which must be my apology for thoir crudeness, my object iu writing being simply a desiro to excite interest in roens- aros so vital to Columbus, entirely de pendent upon manufacturing to givo il iiuportauco, and upon which iu fact rests the only hopo of the entire Kouth for re suscitation. Hhould they lead to examina tion aud favorable consideration of the subject, their purpose will havo beon an swered. Kubticus. A GLORIOUS VICTORY! The Election Yesterday.—Consider ing tho inteuso interest felt nnd tho tre mendous exertions put forth by tho re spective pnrlicH yesterday, wo havo good rcusou to congratulate our citizens that tho election passed off so orderly. Tho Court House squaro was crowded fro suu-riso to suu-set, and whilo each side worked with a hearty good will, nothing in tho shapo of a serious disturbance curred. Wo feci it duo to our colored citizens to say that they hohaved them selves well, its they generally do occasions. All iu all (leaving politics out of tho question) wo think wc have the most orderly aud rospectablo set o darkies iu the State. The issue in tbi election was squarely mado hotwoen whit uud block—the former rallying with on- tiro uuaiuiiuity to the support of thoir oundidutes, while the latter wore almost as unanimous for Walker and the colored ticket. Tho whito Rads, wo learn, could uot stomach their colored brethren nnd voted only for Governor. Certainly none of thorn took au active part at tho polls. Tliero were 2180 votes cast—how they were cast it is impossible for us to say at this writing (9 o'clock i\ M.), but it is thought tho county bus boon carried by u rospectablo Democratic majority. Wo hopo to receive the figures before going to press. P. S.- -1 a. m.—Tlio following is tho n - Hiilt at the city box : FOR GOVERNOR: J. M. Smith 1363 | D. Walker 8J I state senator: B. H. Crawford. 1311 | W. If. Noble*..786 REPRESENTATIVES: John Peabody... 1327 I Bob Williams* 793 T. J. Watt 1339 | F. I). Ford*....790 Those markod thus * aro colored Radi cals. Smith's majority 652 iu the city. Nance's precinct gave a Democratic mn- joritp of 128. Steam Alill gave Smith 20 majority. Edward’s gave 25 majority. Bozeman's and Upatoio to boar from. They will givo tho Democrats 75 or HU) additional majority. So we may safely calculate Mnscogcn lias gone Democratic by 756 majority. KvcurNloa to l.ouhiiUc. Capt. W. J. Underwood,now hero from Louisville, in tho interest of the City Coiiucil aud Board of Trudo of that city, has kindly furnished us with the names of the following prominent citizens who aro “hooked" for Louisville on tho Hlh instant: C. C. Cody, W. R. Brown, Koht. Ennis 11. S. Estes, Isaac. Moses, John McCarty, G. W. Brown, R. L. Mott, C. Brockway, Capt. W. Johnson, Dr. W. A. Alitcholl, J. J. Bradford, A. Clegg- all prominent citizens. For information of invited guests wc will stato that the invitations curry upon their face free transportation from Mout- gomcry and return, for seven days; and auuox a copy of tho dispatch roceivod by It. A. Bacon, Esq., from G. J. Foron- cro, Supt. of Western Rond, who, upon being asked us to arrangements for trans portation to Montgomery and return to Columbus, says: “We aro going to pass them free. 1 am to furnish a car from Columbus to Louisville. That is tho ar rangement Air. Fink mado with mo.” Tho city of Louisville furnishes guests with “carte blanche" to Exposition, Ban quet, places of Amusement, Ac. Uuder this nrrnugpmeut tho only ex penses connected with the trip aro volun tary, excepting hotel charges iu that city. The follow ing is tho prograinmo of ox- erciscs: Oct. 9, 1872. Morning. — Arrivo. 12 o’clock m.— Reception by Gonerul Council and Board of Trade. lock p. m.—Lunch with General Council and Board of Trade. Night.—Visit Expositou aud placos of amuse rnont. Oct. 10, 1872. Alorning.—Excursion to Now Albany and Jeffersonville. Afternoon.—Drive through tho city and visits to public institutions. Night.— Gruud banquet. rut Tr A (treat Sc ho Palestra, of AI#i.ipo‘> readers to an account given in tii Diar: do Cundinnuiarca, ur. i i * tho “Treasure of the Ala;’-,. It seems, according to i'. ical, that a tYoaty has Intel, between the llnurbou fa:..: Holland, and Air. A. Gold! General of Colombia, in A. which the aforesaid family a tho i: If M ri»» acting of riod- nado ud' rich .isuro ut iu-.t 5 tcritory of 1 t.f .*■!.. platiua in Tlio family offer* to ou being guarantied th* 666 in American gold aud the th*r ’ of tho value of tho treasure, dedfi fen pur cent, l'or tho expou of it out, leaving tho b;;k\u , ; . . r bo applied to tlio payment • . lb iu *lobt nnd tho construction >* i from Bogota to tlio Mh The treasure of course, mu- many millions, us out m* it • ‘ tho part to lie paid to th- Bourbi.n ; and tho lest is to pay tho io:vigu which is estimated by li.o crudiM i i millions, besides tho railroad, v ...- !i cost twelve and a half iuilli*»us .1 «i< The Bogota oorrospi od who givt s tbo abov i in platinu is all the treasure limb: !■ necessary to keep in mind that tins i i by i 1 aXWwilh h'.m *.< could nut gut more 1*>? shillings tho ounce, Tv«>y. Homo think that the d\q- is that caused by the Iviiqi when piatnnv wan firat vl\ ed that all that hud boui should be thrown iulo t haps tho Bourbon King o: it t*» tla* King of Frin • probable aourco oi tho su. siderution. Tho latter is beon Louis XVI. Tho Pro : lent 1 : Colo treaty to Congress. r l in - i did not think it worth win! subject tip, notwith.'vtamiii express clause in tin* treat, probation of Congrc* \ condition to the family *1 eecrol. —J bunt out St a r. .Mr. t; rev In at II* dolpll, ( thought to hu ■ Alayor Alcllhcuny, S. B. Warnoek, C. A. Rodd, W. J. Watt, R. It. Oeotchius, W. H. Needham, II. K. Luiub, T. T. Edmunds, C. C. AIcGelicc, J. W. Clements, Goo. Y. Bunks. Judgo DuLnoucy, A. A. Coleman, standing the *!.■ it*- credit ut it i nnd the Nuti. al Republican < ‘stmu i went, ining jmlgmcn logo. J was re tin* people j - Union. I c*u 11 Hi** Mlbjeel. I think, | Laught«- is clouded and u* * *1* d think I limy decline t> incut is not a. eoaliti elements, but a mm*n defined principles. «• .vhiuh they nr* all. 1 have explained i cks. i think that iVnnsyh W0 have a foil • al during A Peach-Stone Spring.—Tho AmUorst (Va.) Enterprise tolls this story : “On tho land of ThomaH Hughes is a bold spring of cold wuter, which contin- nlly throws out peach-Htoues in a perfect state of preservation. Bushels of stones have been cleared away, and still tbuy come. We have no doubt that many years ago, beforo tho memory of our peo ple, tliero was a distillery nt this spring, aud thut it now bursts through the mass of stonos below tho surface and throws thorn out. Wo know a first-rato largo l>each orchard iu this country which grow iu tho followiug singular manner: Mr. Htonnott cleared tho land, put it in tobac co, and tho third yoar in wheat, and an or chard of poaches camo up on Iho land, aud nre now growing.mtd bearing. It was ascertained that some forty years ago the land wm» cultivated, nnd au orchard on tho place, auil it had grown up, aud whon cleared by Air. Stouuott the laud wus in second growth timber." The Naval Force of France.—From statist ins recoutlv published it appears that tho French fleet now consists of 104 war vossels afloat, of which 7 are armor- plated, und 73 on trial or in reserve, in cluding 17 armor-plated, making a total of 181. The navy comprises 27,993 men. Next year the fleet will oonaist of 94 ves sels afloat, 8 iron-clad, and 62 in reserve or on trisl, or allotted for training, 19 of them being iron-olad. The naval service will have an effeotive force of 28,431 men. A sum of twenty-two millions of frsnos will bo set apart during the two years for usw building, aud ought to provids 12 . and ilia) Indiana flauded nor bought, la:l w he Liberal candidal* election. 1 will only that I have been great I.* lengthened by (lie *l<*in ltliusiusm which i have w the past twulvo days. *‘r. Greeley then left, blago dispersed. Further Tuouplls Apprehended "n* the Frontier.—llrotcnsviiU. .S jit. Flores, alias Cliicau, (he most de -pomlu outlaw on tho frontier, and murderer »>L' Charles Alexander, hns gathered a num ber of fellow-desperadoes, and express..-.* tho iutentiou of crossing into Texau all Ballsn, a short disiauco above here, and avenging the death of his two brothers, who wore killed a short time siuco, ouo by tho sheriff's party, tlio other by Mexi can cavalry. This, added to Ik*- r.y. ••.■tail plan of Cortina, hus caused considciablo anxiety. The commissioners to tho ’IV- ir fron tier, having investigated tho quo -lion ol' .Mexican depredations, and given uu at tentivo hearing to the many cl m.;» sub mitted to them, leave to-day for Now < ; r- li ius, and thoneo to Washington to report; progress. Gonoral Butler, in war and pcaco, de lights iu sensationalism?-, and it frequent ly happens tlmt in both lio fails to accom plish his purpose. Roet-miy lie made *4 speech in Cincinnati, and spoko of tho cruelty of turning the l*r«. •lipcnt'.: “poor” old father out of office, which, though in tended for dramatic offoct, pi explosion of laughter almost as loud ^ tho noise made by his famous powder- boat. Tlio “poor" old man referred t*» is ono of tho richest men in his neighbor- IioikI, having, like tho rest of tho family, taken good care of uuuibor one since (ho advent of Ulysses to tho Fr* udouti<il chair.—Uulliniorc < iazcltc. Tlio Cincinnati Enquirer nays: “Ono **f the measures l»y which tlio dc .perato ami corrupt administration hopo io carry thu October election was developed upon our streets yostorday. At different tinu'H squads of negroes in plantation clothes wero lauded iu the lower part of tho city, mid marched up 1-iftli street. Iu ono gang 206, in another 116, and iu another sixty of theso imported 'voters’ worn counted." Tho Indinna Bourbon Convention niniu tiered just thirteen persons, and nom inated a ticket of twenty-six names, sumo of which havo since beon withdrawu. Tho Illinois Bourbon Convention num bered no more than four persons, uud moti in privato. oliet, III., Sopt. 21.— Judgo Breoso has writen a friend in, this city that hu* nomination for Governor by tin* Bourbons was mado without his knowledge or oou- sent, and thut ho will not accept. Judgo S. F. Rico returned from New York last eveuiug perfectly entln . « a tho subjoct of tho Greeley tide which I > says is sweeping everything beforo it :u the North, llo says that Mr. Grolj.* s late speeches have created a sen sat ivu such as was never boforo knowu in a po litical canvass iu this country. Montgomery Advertiser. Corn Chop of 1873.-Urain nion of Chicago estimate tlio oorn crop ot tnw year at twelvo hundred and fiity bushels—tho largest over rr— United States. They have . frost in all the Noilhoa .ui oorn is generally out of tuo harm. id u killing Sf.dci, but each of ulj

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Weekly Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1861-1873, October 08, 1872, Image 1