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r The Weekly Enquirer. JOHN H. MARTIN Kniion. ' COLUMBUS: TUESDAY DECEMBFU 24, 1872. —Term* of KaSacrlirt Ion— One Tear in advance Till; l MTF.D KTATKK SKMATOliSIIII*. Wo oro glad to nolo from the tone of nomo of onr exchanges, and to learn from verbal reports, that tho conviction is becoming more general that tho Logisla- turo of Georgia ought to elect a man of first-class talont os a politician to the Senate of tho United Staten. We do not nay this in the interest of, or with special reference to, any particular xnan ; for wo know’ that Georgia has novoral distin guished citizen* whose talents would make thorn tho poors of tho ablest inon in tho Senate. Hut wo do rejoico in the ossur- euco that Georgia is most probably to bo again represented in tho Senate of the United States by men who will take a front rauk in that body. Wo arc fully persuaded that ono enuso of tho Jong-continued predominance of sectional passion and aRSimiod superiority of the North over the South is to bo found in tho character of our representa tion in Congress. Wo have boon greatly wronged, and tyrannized over, in an un just and unconstitutional manner ; but we had no representatives in Congress | o - sussing the ability, or tho will if they had tho ability, to present tho issues involved in ho clear and sharp a manner as to command tho attention and inlluonco the judgment of the country. We have com plained of tho infidelity or tho lack of OOUrnge of thoso whom wo regarded as our political sympathizers at tho North. Hut we have not, through our representa tives in Congress, made issues upon which our friends at tho North could stand with us iu defence of onr outraged rights. Tho vindication of our rights, or the de nunciation of our wrongs, lias been loft to the unprincipled carpot-bagger nincompoop scalawag ; and tho Radical bullies and demagogues in Congroi wanted no better allies; their prejudice and ignorant constituencies regarded tl course of Mich representatives of the South as a aiilUeient confession of the justice of the measures resorted to for our oppression or humiliation. lift us now send to Congress men who will make its chambers ring with their eloquent denunciations of any imlignif ich that may bo offered to us men who will pierce the v« d of sophistry or tho mist of passion by which the Radical loaders shade tho enormity of their acts, and disclo»e their inea ureH and designs in tten tine light. It may bo slow or ililli- olllt II . Northo Tin; swo«n ash lift, dwell. The reader has no doubt been intoro«ted in the several telegrams from Washington reporting the progress of tho Louisiana delegation in their efforts to find some tribunal—Executive, Legislative or Judi cial—to revise the high-handed action of Judgo Durell of Louisiana in Retting up State Government down the e. It is still left iu doubt whether they have found any authority that will undertake the job. Tho Supreme Court of the Unitod States had refused to take juris diction before tho delegation arrived at Washington. 'I hey toil led upon the Pres ident with a request that ho would com- m’ssiou Judgo llradloy to look into tho c.uic. The President expressed his will ingness that Judge Bradley should do so, If ordered l»y the Supremo Court. The dc!i gallon waited up< n Judge Bradley, and he declared his willingness to act if h a colleagues of the Supreme Bench would take the initiative and signify their wish for him to do ho. And tiuully the Supreme Court is reported as having de termined that ‘Judgo llradloy could exer cise his discretion about going to New Or leans." So wo have an implied confession s*l round ‘hat there may be Home good reason f<*i looking into the action of Judge Durell iu so grave a matter as the putting down of one State Government and the creation of another ; but no paity consulted seems willing to take the re sponsibility of tho revision. Wo are told tlmt "| tho contemplation of law “for ovoiy wroiig there is a remedy": but it seems that political wrongs, when sup ported by the sword, are summurily and remoiseleasly inflicted, and that legal remedies are almost inaccessible whtn avoktd to undo tho work of the bayonet. President Grant justifies bis employ ment of the militaiy in the setting U| a Slate Government in Louisiana, on plea that lie only interfered when it taiico wuh made to the edicts of u Fed Court. But tho truth is, as the jciopl Louisiana seek to establish by the rt ion, the Podcrul Court went entirely <if its jurisdiction in interfering in tbo mutter at alt. It was a Statu question, nr.sing under and governed by Stale law i — being the validity of the appointment and the acts of a board of Slate convusu- ers of the election. The State court of proper jurisdiction, when appealed to, decided tho question involved in favor of the bourd appointed l--’ Gov. Wurinoulb and its returns. ’I ho Federal Judge, sup ported by Federal bayonets, decided m favor of another board and its acts Hero was a conliict of jurisdiction be tween legal tribunals, and iuatead of letting it go up for decision to tl promo Court of tho Uuitcd Slut President ordered the military to e tho edict of Judgo Durell. Tho J jurisdiction prevailed only because supported by Federal bayonets - the fight will ot tin re energy a / Wash/nylon, and i ihtiiiu better results AUltani* Jf. f. t otifrrtae*. This body closed its business and ad journed on Wednesday. Revs. E. Wadsworth, A. J. Briggs and J. W. Hush were selected as the publish ing committee of tho Now Orleans Chris tian Advocate. A sabititutc for the report of tho com mittee on Education was adopted. It prop' scs to give the interest annually on 410,000 to the University at Greensboro’, and the interest on $3,000 to tho Female Coltego at Tu tike geo. A supplemental ro- port from tho sumo committee in relation to the 'i'Uhkegce Female College wuh also adopted; and Revs. K. 8. Smith, W. M. Motley, J. Banoroft, J. w. Rush, R. F. Ligon, W. J. Gautier and J. J. Cobb, were elected Trustees of tho College. 11. Urquhart, S. II. Dent, G. L. Smith, W. A. McCarty und M. 8. Andrews were elected Trustees of the Swuthern Univer sity. We copy from tho Eufanla Time* tho appointments for the sections of tho State nearest to us: ONTOOWEUY DISTRICT—W. A. MCARTY, I*. E. Montgomery Station—E Wadsworth. Jlorron Street—'I' K Armstrong. Tuskegefj—T T Mangnm. Tuskegee Circuit—J W Solomon. '1 alhissee— M C '1 urrentine. Minoru—It F Perdue, Notasiilga L F Dowdell. Auburn- K L Lovelorn. Opelika -W M Motley. Salem- -W H Neal. Craw fold W W Graham. iiurtvillo and Silver Run—J S Williams. Wetiinipku— P H Right foot. CCFAI I.A DIHTUIOT— W. II. ELLISON, l\ K Kufuiila Station—K M Bounds. <ileiinville--T W Dyer. VjIJnla— II S Woodward. Beulah— W K Norton. Elion und Midway—W II Wild. Perote- W S Turner. Clayton and Louisville- F E B Shaver. Henry Circuit J C M Gallun, White Pond Circuit— J S Muthersnn. UNION HI’LINOH JilHIIlirr• H. V. UWIlAUi Union Springs Station J L Cotton. Union Circuit- C \V Calhoun. Pino Level E F Blow. Oluslee Creek < irciiit- J M Johnson. Rocky Mount Cir nit R L Selnum. Fort Deposit Circuit W T Norton. (m onvillu Station- .1 Baikor. Greenville Circuit—It I! Moss. IlntledgM Circuit W P II Connorly. 'I ioy u..<1 Briindige I) C Crook. Troy Circuit A S Dickinson. Elba Mission J M Brown. J Hamilton to TihIiuIoohu, N. Ala. Con, B It Roih to Hiiutsvillo, C I) Nleliilson to Florida Conferonc. J Murnhttll Brown to Louisiana Con, a! i<> priHed i «»- Sup.en Hie de i Court i the E< of the I'll Louisiana case of that body i IStat And rrfoi d the action celebrated McArdlo ci court does not dare to take iss Gen. Grant’s bayonets; and since vent of (ho now Judges uppoii Grant it is probalde tlmt a umj .xurgiiH liiiiuki'il tIn* |i««nir .lown"! I this bench sympathize with the < v, not only duos tho Supremo i ,1< ‘* H Goveinmeiit, and are r f the United States refuse to ! ThereTa gnitI'iy.ng re'u-t.o'!."m :» directly, on tho ground tlmt, no \ „,j m l against the EouiHinua outrage, am [.resented upon which it can take | even Republican journals arc 1 Important Pont Office KcgiiUiiioM, From the December number of the Post Office Gazetto we take a fow extracts from tho rulings and instructions com piled from the official records, which may bo of iuterost to our readers: There is no provision in the law for tbo return of engravings or other mat ter of the third class to the mailing party tho return postage is paid. No circular or notice of any kind containing any writing other than the ad dress c in no sent by mail except at letter rates of postage. Packages of printed matter upon which there is any writing other than the address, whether it be a description of the ntouts, tho name, or simply ihe initials of the semlor, are subject to letter post- »K e - 17. Samples of cotton weighing twelve ounces or less, and so enclosed as to tie u.ed whbout destroying the may he transmitted by mull at tne rate of two cents for each two ounces oi dion thereof. Samples weighing ovei lve ounces are subject to letter post age by mail. Railway post office cars are requir ed to receive lot torn up to (lie last moment before the moving of the traiu. ill matior pushing by mail at loss thau letter rates of postage must be iod by any writing other than the uddiCM, and must ho wlapped so uh idmit of examination, otherwise letter t.-igo must bo charged. To write upon tho fly leaf of a book subjects it to letter [joHtftgc l.y wei|{tit. 28. Book pontage is two cents for each .o ounces or 1 ruction thereof. Such packages are limited to four pounds. Other transient printed matter is ono cent for each two ounces or fraction thoreof, but when enclosed with a book tho entire package muHt bo charged at ihe higher rate, that is, tho book rate of 32. Mailers of samples are permitted to number the different stylos and qualities in Jig urea to correspond with a descrip tive letter to be mailed separately at letter postage. This may relate to Humpies of merchandise where such numbering is necessary to identify the different styles and qualities. 39. The insertion of a date or any other writing iu u printed circular subjects it to letter postage. (July the address may bo written. 10. IMacing matter in a sealed envelope with the ends merely notched, is not i compliance with the laws and regulations Hucti matter is subject to letter postage, fit. A letter taken from an office by the writer after it b«s Voen post marked and (lie stamps cancelled, is subject to a postage when presented for remailing It. Letters may bo forwarded to party addressed without additional p age, but in wspapt rs cannot be forwai except by payment of transient rates TUB M0MU11 JfYM >!&!>,$. Letter from Dr. Harrhoa. What Shall We Believe \ Editors Atbinta Constitution: Having been prevented from delivering my lec tures on the “Mental Phenomena of so- called Spiritualism," by the inclement woutber of a week or tcu days past, I ask a place in your columns for a short article on the general subject. Both classes of phenomena, the phys ical and tho mental, which in modern times have been attributed to the influ ence of disembodied spirits, have been known in varit u( parts of tho world, from the earliest periods of authentic history. They have played a distinguished part in theogonies and mythologies of Home, Greece, India and Egypt. In the early centuries of the Christian Era they were generally believed to be tho work of de mon 1 -’, and injury has been perpetrated by that belief. There are several methods of dealing th these phenomena: First, to deny them ail, and to answer all testimony with tho keen sallies of ridicule. This method will be satisfactory to some minds. The second plan is to admit the testimony, receive the statement of facts and pro nounce the whole business the work of Saturn This plan has its admirers. The the i a p shotil-l hot l.l • up. r.E A request. “t. l feet right rd c|„ The Credit Bofcillrr. [ Special to :!ie Louisville Courier-Journal.] Washington, December 13.—The con ducting of the Credit Mobilier investiga tion m secret gives rise to the most scath ing condemnation. The committee met again tbi- morning, and Mr. McComb tes tified for two hours, and bis testimony has made a marked sensation. Since the adjournment of the committee Ames’ friends have been excited and anxious, while those of Mr. McComb have been radiant. 'Ihe main points of bis testi mony were in Affirmation of the evidence already pubiifhed in the press. The orig inal letters of Oakes Ames were produced by him. He swore positively that one of the members accused received fifty shares of stock, trorn which he realized $200,000. In reply to a question from Judgo Po land, Mr. McComb stated that he had no hand in making public the proceedings of his suit in tho Pennsylvania courts, and would have preferred not to have them published, as be was on friendly terms with the members of the Honse who were inculpated in the (Jakes Ames list. How Would It Look Farther Sorth! Here are (saya the New York Tribune of the 14lhy»-ome salient points in the lute news from New Orleans: 1. '1 here ; s a dispute as to who is elect ed Governor of Luuiaiana. Each Trust C. V> . Wa third method is to accept tho theory of c i u i, UH the victory; and each siue has a direct, ah extra Hpirit-tbfluonce. Thii ctriuo has a multitude of advocates.— io last method is to rec«ivo statements of facts cautiously; to verify them if pos sible ; to take v ell-attested facts and ap ply to them the known laws of nature, and if there be no know n law which iden- ^ titles liw If an a cauiie adoqnitto to the tf- “tYto’tiou agsiust . foct produced, to suspend the judgment. xli lurn • denied, until tho advancement of human scieuco £t not pretended that Senator Kel- will supply the desired law. | i 0 , M , WHH nc tuuliy elected Governor. It is Tho first method admits of no argn- j 0|1 j‘y claimed that he would have been ! Returning Board to certify it. i 2. One of the candidates, Mr. Kellogg, 1 is now a United States Senator. 'ILe : Constitution of I. uisiana makes a U. S. ! officer ineligible to the Governorship. It | is claimed that a case many years ago edent for construing the Con- > iunguuge; and this, Jd by ity of q >ot in „ly Pomeroy a JJtn-ocrut having, with mi vo to small mutters, boon anxiously col- jeting figures to determine whether its undulate for tho Prosidonoy (Mr. M’onor) was Miorossfiil ill tho Into eloo- ioii, has gathered up more of the vote or that nominee than we have soon in iiv other compilation. Wo therefore opy it below, witli the remark tlmt aov- iral other States are to hear from, and siHsibly they will run up the aggregate JConor vote to thirty thousand- enough o lmve curried a small State for him, oiild tin v havt been concentrated there: reguto of Iff, Mi banner State, U So far and will ohuhlv remain 'J lie New \ork 7hntltl (a papor friendly to Grants Administration) thus states the difficulties which the Government of Louisiana, imposed by Federal power upon an unwilling people, will encounter : “The l’iuchback Government is thus temporarily iubttiUed iu office by tho active aid of the Federal troops, but it has not a pleasant prospect before it. Apart from the few whites who are interested politi cally in its success, and the negroes it can control by money or other menus, it is utterly without a following iu the Slate. 'i he militia refused to rocoguizo its autho rity and defied its uruiod polico, yielding only to the Federal troops. Tho pooplo are united against it, and will no doubt contest ilH right to levy taxes or to do any legislative net. While it holds on to its usurped authority it cun only bring con fusion, trouble und discredit upon the State. Without tho Federal Government lit their backs Kellogg, l’iuchbnck und their a; . n*into8 could not remain iu power n single day, and every hour of their rule will bo mi iu jury to the pooplo of Luu- ibinua. “Leo" writes from Wusbiugtun to the Charleston i ■ • ' r that the President’s salary will undoubtedly be increased to i»50,000 a year at tho present session. If tho increase of salary is limited to the Frchidcutinl office, it is perhaps well enough. But there is reason to fear that the advance iu this caso will be sue fully urged us a reason for a general advance of the salaries of Government officials. A comparative table, made up by the Chicago Jut*r-ih'mn of tho 15th inst., shows that the price of livo hogs is now gff.C.Va 4.tMi per hundred, against $4.15(n 4.50 at tho suiuo date of lust year and the price of green shoulders and of clear aidos against 4S and resj'octively last year. There is every prospect of cheaper meats. l»iTuii(iliit( the Cutluu Tax. Washington, Doc. IS.—The Commit tee o.. \V »ys and Means are to have a ses .non to-moi row for the purpose of hear ing argument on the subject of refund- jug the cotton tax. lion. Herschel V. JubuMju, ot Georgia, will represent the claimants. It i* apparent that the frivuds of the measure will use their best endeavor* to have it passed at this session, h is equally apparent that its opponents are allcady’ui lively at work to prevent u Juir c insub iatiou of its merits by charg ing that huuie of the original claiuuui's have fatigued their claims, and also by greatly uv r-sluting the sum which the measure will take from tho Fedeiul treas ury. —L'JuiunlU - Cou rur. National School of Mines in Geoh- ..ix—On the fftli mst. Hon. W. F. Price, M. O., ttoui the Sixth Georgia District, introduced a bill to establish u national school of mines in the North Georgia Ag ricultural College at Dohionega, Georgia, to provide for the selection of a faculty for Ihe same, and appropriate money for the support and maintenance thereof; wfeieh was read a first and second time, arjred to the Committee on Mines and ■hui ordered to ho printed. junsdiution, but it signitUm its utter in diff'erunoo to tho law and equitiosof the case by leaving it to the dhoroliou of one of its Judges to go or not to go to Lou isiana to revise the actum of Judge Du- roll, when urgently solicited by many of the host citizens and the displaced Statu authorities to delegate him for tlmt pwr- I’ruly it has become a serious and perplexing question whether tbore is now icdy in this country for uny act sustained by ita military power. n Washington correspondent of the iinati Commercial says: “Mr. Me- ion, the Clerk of the House, has pre pared, ho far iih possible at this time, tho f the next House of Rcpresenta- '1 lie full uiouihcr.Hh\p will be 2J2. The Democrats or opposition must have thcrcfoio ninety-eight votes to break the thirds mnjoiity of the Republicans. Thus far tin' DuinoerutH have eighty-nine and New Hampshire and Connecti cut have yet to elect their members. 'The relative strength here given does not also Buie the members from Florida, Louis iana. or West Virginia, these being sub- t to future decision. 'There is a prospect that livo, or at most six Democrats may tie added, making in all ninety-live, or loss than a third of tho member ship.” Jay Louis unit the brio. *i he following is telegraphed to us as Jav Gould’s sta.einoct of his relations with the Erie Railroad * omp'il'v, heretofore kept concealed, and of the settlement which he proposes to make with the Com pany. )t is not a matter that much con us of the South, as wo have littlo st in tho triumph of oUlior set of slmrpers; but we suppose that we must keep the l’U.T’ of the thing, us one of the ‘uiulolouH sensations of oer more gldeouH bro.Ino i of tin* North: He stated tlmt since his resignation of io Presidency ho hml boon prepared to make conveyances to the Company of perty belonging to it which he held iu name, but to which l e snvs he never made i uy claim. During his luluiiuistiii- tion lio made various p.uclmses of prop erty for the Company with monies of his own, the benefit of which accrued to the Rord upon the consti«uniou placed by Mr. Watson. Ou his accounts ho was charged w'th all these monies. He believed the properties in question belonged to him, and if they were now transferred he should bo ci edited with their value. Ow- i*'g to the state in which he was compelled io leave his accounts on his withdrawal from tee company, and the loss of hit aceoeut book, some things remaiued tin o:.plained. Tue vaUous pieces of run estate ill dispute, therefore, he pioposei to convoy to the Company, and in nddi- i:'ou the Grand Opera House and adjacent property owned by bimself and Fisk. I do this, he says, for tlie sake of peace. Mr. Watsou thereupon replied that lie considered this a fair offer, und would at once lay tho subject before the speciul committee. Gould yesterday made the following statement to a Reporter: Siuco tho Erie war my object has been to obtain a series of roads, under practically one manage uient, ftom New York to San Francisco, and in this wav obtain a fair share of all traffic on the intervening route, and that which accrues at either terminus. Gould’s object seems now to bo to en hance the price of Erie stock, to the cud that he may bo measurably re-iiuhuraed, Tho Democrats of Bibb county, ou Tuesday, nominated tho following ticket for county offices : Sheriff—George F. Cherry; Tax Collector—B. A. Cain ; Tax Receiver—M. G. Clark; County Treas urer— Milo S. Freeman ; County Sur veyor—Thoa. Butler; Coroner—A. Dew berry. _ Mrs. Dobbs, wife of the juror whose death oaused a mistrial in the Malone case at Atlanta, died duriug tho progress of the second trial of tho same case. ning the administration. They begin m*o t lmt iu putting the army at (tie bock i call of the robbers in Loiiisinnn they i not certain to bo sustained, and they apprehensive tlmt the known jmlg cut ot tlm Imsii of New (Me 1 the representations f tho committee one hundred citizens will make the vornmciit proceedings odious. So i. h do they feel the sires* of their posi- i-day the Attorney General luih the extraordinary stop of furn- ii tlmt t lolled t( ishing Ihe dated I »f the President's out broadcast ovei ile garbles and pen a it h a Io id the Ann defei chon, which is to bo t thi matter, is not to bo regarded by postui: tors, unless they .ire furnished with ad tional postage at transient rates for mi purpose. Neither is a request to forwa such matt, r to bo r. garde.i, unless aceoi I with money or poHtngo stamps f iding at transient rates. many when wo stoutly determine to dis believe tho statements of credible wit- j nesaes. J, for example, have never scon I a table and its contents, weighing over throe hundred pounds, move across tho , liwor without a visible cause. Jtnt one of tho first men of Franco, of Europe, and of the age, affirms that ho soon this wonder ful performance. What am 1 to do? Shall J assert II at tho stoiy is fills--, when M. Arago states it to be true ? Shall I place , my limited experience against tho testi- j inony of a man whoso contributions to science have not been excelled iu number | and importance by uny philosopher of the iffih c-ntiiiy? On tho J Gill of February, 18M5, M. Arago presented a papor to the Paris Academy of Sciences. In that paper, among tho strange phenomena produced by Angchquo Cottin. the following occur: “As had boon observed the lir-vt day, tf she attempted to sit, the scat was thrown Jar from her, with such force that any Uliii-r Iirrmiu ORCUPJIIIK it woh oarriitl o«iiy uilh it. Ono ili.y ft chORt, ti|mn wliiclt iLieo ronn weru hoaidl, mur ii.uvutl in tho same manner. Another day, al though the chair was held l.y two very »ng men, it was hroken b. tween their ids. Him cau touch no object without ..king it, or throwing it upon the und. All tho articles of furnitu-e her garments touch uie displaced opponents deny that any wore hindered. I. 'Iho State Court sustains Kellogg’s opponent; tho United States Circuit Judgo sustains Kellogg. On this tho United States troops are pledged to sus tain Kellogg, hy tho Attorney-General, speaking for ihe National Administration. SuppuhO these things were done in Ken tucky, or Maiyh id, instead of Louisiana ? Tl.o SmI<- at < lm|>i>».|ua. d»y. UK-ill low |> th uuciiou Halo at Cbappaqua y enter- f l ve Stock, agricultural imple- and household furuiluro, brought iocs nnd an aggregate of loss than saud i’o'Iuih. Tho famous old nty- o ir years old was sold for The Hi man Ei-i/oo-i For several days tho pi resembling tbo epIZoot in Atlanta. Physician* ty to forty patients on< treatment. Several f with it. It is an itdlu dinary character. 'I he disease in by a cold stago resembling a . throat, onlargomont of tho gl inllammation ot tho mucous me I Ml with it under il.es arc down u not of the or- Hease is ushered dull ; mds, < nhran the id hi ehta fo laud rts tho facts already 0 puhlic, Speaks of , .lack Wharton (one of the State cau sers) iih a “follow" who says that tho Piiichhuck hoard oauvasHod returns which they novor saw or hoard of. TlioAttor- y General does not dare to utgue tlmt Durell had tho power to control a Stuto hut it is behoved that all of Durell s proceedings woro concerted hero t Grant's hrothor-iu-luw to tho United States Senate. Why Mr. Lm-ley** Will U (onli-Mcl- The Itt-UNoii tar 1‘i.lliiu (aHii\ al tin- ll.-u.l ai' I he Trillion*. Tho Washington correspomlent of tho ('iiiciunali Coimueroial throws some light aiiso of contest over tho will of iley, and tho purpose for which Colfax ih to bo umdo editor of tho Tribune, lio writes: The pending law suit over tho two wills left by Mr. Greeley is pretty well ascer tained to bo a contest to obtain control of tho Tribune. Tho story is, that as soon as Mr. Greeley died Mr. Sinclair set about bringing tho Tuhuuo under his control, nnd wrote to Schuyler Colfax off ering tho position of editor-in-chief to him at toil thousand dollars a your. Mr. Colfax de clined, Iml said that perhaps twenty thousand dollars would bo an inducement. It then became necessary to buy up tho ten shares of stock controlled by tho Misses Greeley, in order to uecuro a pro per majority. Senator Conk’mg agreed to put up tho money, urd sotting out with ono hundred thousand dollars in hand, Mr. Sinclair called on the .’omig ladies, but they re fused, having promised allegiance to Whilelaw Roul, who some time beforo had detected t o dUTt of things. Sinclair thought of il’O fo iuor will of Mr. Greeley, and dotei aimed to oattlank Reid by con testing tlio olhci document ou tbo ground of the insoaity o tho testator at tho timo it was drawn. T.r s proceeding ties up tou shares, nr-1 gives tho Sinclair party ccn.'rol of li t* old, r* least for tho pres ent. Mr. Re d cun Kies in tho editorin' chair as us ial, writ • -, tl tu.u of oveuts. Mr. S’nelair's euiof il'v isJ. C. Ayer, of Low o’I, who has boon a Grant man throughout. s also said that ono of tho ooudii oils of Colfau and h's Senato rial friends, mni'e with Sinclair, is that n clean awcep of the prose at editorial staff shall bo made, aua also of tho Washington bureau.’’ Tlu> Federal A|i|iolatuieiila. Wo have undoubted and reliable inf* tuatioti to tho effect that there will bo a general change in the custom house and post office department of this city, aud the “head lights" who have swung so high n<o now looking auxlously nrouud for u soft berth in some other quarter. Thos< changes w’ll be made 4u several of th« offices beforo the first of March, wo un derstand, possibly in January. Tho Col- lectorsbip of tho Port will bo, if it lias not already been, tendered to Robert Er win, Esq., of this city. Tho names of tho other new appointeos wo are compell ed by pledge to withhold for tho pro at il only mention that the Collectorship of Internal Revenue, w 11 also bo be stowed upo i a Ha) at reel business gouile- luau. Our information comes i’i ongh Washington official circl and may 1 lied upon as authentic. Toe names of the other “fortunate ones" will be g? soon as wo are relieved f’ om the pledge of rileuce.—Saennua/t Ac,r*. The IT.oiuda Leoislati uk.—Tho Tal lahossee Floridian says that owing to th< uou-arrival of the election returns from the conuty of Brevard the vote of that county was not cauvassed by the board of State cauv.issors. Brevard olooted a Conservative Senator aud Representative, am* tho Floridian says that upon the assembling of the Lcg- islatuso the vote will be couuted and tho Souator and Representative allowed to take their . oats. The Floridian adds: “On a fair and full representation, thou, the Senate ia tie, aud iu tho Assemblv the Republicans have a majority of throe. When it is considered that there are Borne members counted as Republicans who may not al ways be governed by party, the situation is not entirely without hojw," headache and generally constipated Imw- cls, with fever for the first day or two supervenes. Jn mimic instances the dis ease terminates in piunmouia, and seiue- times in rheumatism. Though alwajs painful, the dlHoa»u is rarely fatal. It lusts from two to sovou days. 'I he disease yields icadily to purgatives, foot baths, quinine and opiates. Children sutler less than adults, except where the dtseuso ter minates iu croup.—Atlanta Const. The St. Eottii The old-tin and pork spi ert In i he--. • Hu ord- not of i ■put ual ,S i lgr ■ •rant dupe, but of the [ ^ ihe Frouch Academy of Sciences. C.m j wo refuse to accent h:» slat inuut of flictft ? iu the year lH.'H, in the town of Wood- bridge, Now Jersey, strange n »isoH were heard in the house of a Mr. Joseph Bar- , roll. Window glasses were broken, thun dering aounds, as of a heavy mallet strik- . mg aguiliht the walls of tho house, pro- ( , r during noises heard a hundred yards ^ from tho house ; doors ties open violent- [ any of tho phon iollars. Hub-suil plow, too heavy for lour yok oxen, whs knocl.od down for sixty cents. (Min r patent plows piosentod to Mr. Greeley by invoiitors woro sold at prices ranging from forty to sixty cents each. Mr. Greeley's fawn .o old so’rt-1 mure brought twenty-seven dollars. Miss Ida Greeky s black ponies were bid in hv her representative tor ono hundred ai d sixty dollars. An Alderney bull, valued at six hundred dollars, wi.s sold for thirty dui lair*; two yoke of oxen for sixty-two and ninety-two dollars respectively, and five eows at an average of twenty-five d.dials ea h. Mr. Greeley's daughters will rent the laruj ou shures next joar. Lr\£Bi*ooL, November ?0, 1872. Daring the past week there has been a good trade demand, but only a small de mand for export or speculation. Prices have rob'd in favor of sellers. Oar quo* t..tions given aH above, show an advance duting the week of 1-1 (Id. to ^d. ou American—the larger figures ou tho low er grades—^d. on Brazils, \d. on Egyp tian, while Snrats are unchanged. The bales of the Week, including for warded sum up to 80,7W) bales, namely : 8,750 on speculation, 0,770 declared for export, and 07,240 to the trade. In Cotton to arrive a full average busi ness has bten done: and prices for Amer ican have improved ab^ut 1-1 (id. per lb. To-day there is very little offering, and but few transactions reported, but we quote, based on last sales, American basis middling,good ordinary cluuse, shipments from any port, November 1* 7-10J.; No vember December, and later months up to March-April ffjjd. Direct shipments from New Orleans or Galveston aru sitle- ablu at 4<T to 5-10d. advance ou the quo tations from “any port." the position, E’.C. On tbo 25th instant public telegrams from America reported that the Agricul tural Bureau’s estimate of the crop was 3.450.000 bales, of tho average weight of 4<»1 lbs. per bale. 'This has given rise to quite a controversy here, und it is vari ously contended that this means from 3,(100,000 to 3,700,0(K) bales of nr ••aye iceight. A telegram from New York re ports that “'The Now York Cotton Ex change committee mako production 3.022.000 halos, calculated st 442 lbs. per bale, against Bureau’s 3.150,(KM), at 405 lbs." 'ihe average weight of 4G5 lbs. pjr bale, os given by the Bureau, we under stand to mean gross weight, and if we deduct (I per cent, for bagging and bands —tho customary calculation—wo have 437 lbs. net weight per bale, as agsiust 438 lbs. tho estimated net weight of American cotton imported into this port last year, as per the last annual circular of tho Cotton Broke;s’ Association. Wo Lave been somewhat surprised to hoar it contended (hat the figures of the Brokers’ circular refer to gross weight, nnd to sat isfy ourselves on this point we have ques tioned an ©x-Prci-ident of tho Associa tion, who has lor some years post made out tho figures, and he assured us tho net uea 0 nt is given. 'Ihe New \otk Commercial a ad finan cial ChronicJe in its issue of tho '.Uh inst. estimates tho crop at 3,(i<*0.0<>() bales by one calculation, and 3,li40,< 00 by nnothei. Now as this agrees so nearly with popular abft/Ut two hundred and iiity imies. The plain is uniformly level, its width varies from fifty to sixty miles, and it is bordered by mountains of great height, with many perpendicular peaks. About eighty miles from the mouth of the river the travelers lound upon the plain THE UKMAINS OF XIAbTODONB, nnd on clearing away the snow in a place where tusks were visible, they brought to light the enormous body of one of the j animals of an extinct race, in a perfect 1 state of preservation. The skin was cov ered with black and streaked hair, very long and thick on the back. The tusks measured eleven feet eight inches in length, and were curved up to a level with the monster’s eyes. The animal was in a kneeling posture, the front legs being Lent, while the hind parts were deeply imbedded in the snow, indicating that the mastodon bad perished in struggling to get out of a mire hole or snow drift. ’j HE MAS'. ODON IDENTICAL WITH THE ELEPHANT. Prof. Newcomb could not find any special churacteiistics distinguishing the extinct mastodon from the elephant of to-day. lie took from the stomach somo specimens of bark and herbs, the naturo of which he could not analyze on the spot. For tbo space of many miles tbo plain wus covered with the remains of masto dons, indicating that a numerous drove of these gigantic animals had there perished, owing to some sudden change or convul sion of nature. This region abounds in polar bears, which devour the remains of the mastodons. About ono hundred aud twonty miles from the coast, and half a league from the river, rises an ice mountain, about one thousand feet in height, the base of which is surrounded by gravel and rocks deeply imbedded in the soil. The smoothness of theso rocks and their rounded form prove that they were nt one time in the bed of a river, from which they have been cast ; up by some strange phenomenon. Arctia I animals are numerous in the volley, and ! myriads of arctic birds fly about tho river j and its banks. I’llEPARlNO TO DISCOVEH A TOLAR SEA. At the date of these dispatches M. Pavy w as preparing to winter under the seventy- fifth degree of north latitude, in the val ley of tho great river of the polar conti nent. Ho had begun to lay in provision* and fuel. Both ho atul his companions woro in good health und courage, and wire confident of arriving, duriug tho coming season, nt a great polar sea, of moderate temperature, at the extreme north of the continent. The To of < iiij.tc) . 'lh's ia to bo tho nuu 5 of now towa imnu-nas I aftilniMOft on on the North ft„d South ItftUroftd. about f prospective supplies i.ttimales the consuuipt a America this season at 1,250,000 bal r 117,(HK) bales in excess of the averi f the post two years. CouGdering Mkiiiodh in Pouk-Pai Democrat says: u methods of pork-packing ‘illation are nq .illy passing ceased to be profitable for packers to borrow money in the full for purchasing hogs during the slaughtering season and pay interest on the capital in- sted till high prices in the spring or summer following. 'Tho period of high prices does not return with the encourag ing regularity that used to assure tho packer of a profitable market for his stock, and the day is uot far distant when pork-packing will bo generally car ried on like nulling and other branches of business overy day in the year. Tho issful packers in the country me those who huvo adopted the summer packing system, iu which, by moans of oe, their packing and curing rooms uro kept cool during the hottest months of the your. Some establishments now kill and pack an average of ono thousand hogs per day throughout tlie year, aud al- owing the very small profit of oue dollar >er In g tbo aggregate is jniimm.se. The lost ot tho ice used iu the process does lot exceed tho interest paid by winter packers who carry their stocks on bank renewals, niul the freshness of his meats always gives the summer packer au ad vantage iu the market. Senator Norwood on the Great Ca- ki..—Tho accompanying letter addressed by Senator Norwood to a citizen of Rome, appears in the Commercial of that city: Washington, D. C., Dec. 10, 1872. Dear Sin—Yours of tho tffh inst., on ioning proceedings of a mooting of the citizeus of Rome, (la., on tho subject of polling tho Coosa river and constructing the Atlantic and Great Western canal, is ceivcd. 1 can only say at prosout that I will cry effort 1 can to accomplish both i»rks. As to the prospect of securing aid for either enterprise at an early day, 1 au say nothing now. I think, however, an appropriation for the Coosa duriug this >n is uot improbable. The other en terprise is vast, and will bo scutinized closely and long, 1 apprehend, before tho general government will take hold of 1 believe its accomplishment is a fixed fact, though uncoitaiu as to time. It is gai’iiug favor daily. Your frieud, T. M. Norwood. Unprecedented Federal Interven tion.—[From the Springfield, lud.. Re publican. J—Tho situation, then, is this: The Government of Louisiana has been completely subvoilcd uud revolutionized by un exercise of Federal power without uny precedent in our history. The Fed eral Administration is fully committed to the support and justification of tho pro ceeding, ami stands ready to maintain tho new government by physical force if nec essary. The Sunremo Court, if tho opin ion of tho best lawyers may be taken as foreshadowing its action, will say that tho urn: ter is outside of its jurisdiction. The people of the Stato protest, but for the momout they are powerless to do anything more. The country looks ou with sur prise and anxiety, hardly knowiug as yet w hat to think, but feeling the gravity of the crisis and wondering what will be come of it. The New York World calls attention to some facts which show how careless we are as a people about principles, while we are great sticklers about men. For in stance: In New York i*t the last election Dix aud Keruau polled between them 833,787 votes; at the some time a ques tion involving, or supposed to involve, a direct tax of $tJ.(UK>,iHH> was submitted, aud but 110,323 votes in nil were cost tln reou. Iu Virginia, at the same general election, 100,710 votes were cast foe Con gressmen, and but 30.4*32 ou an article amendatory of the State cousdtrtiou in so important a poiut as tho rato of interest on money. In Wisconsin the aggregate President’.ul vote was 101,207, nnd but 43, 027 votes were east for or against a con stitutional amendment changing the corn- position of the State Supreme Court.— Everywhere, if the issue be Republican Roe against Democratic Doe a full vote comes out, but when this principle or that is iu question iuou fail to vote. Why ? ly.« ing Angelique Cottin were observed. '1 ho cause was tint same. A servant girl was tho nervous “medium’ in the case. In the year 1850, at Stratford, Conn., tho house of Rev. Dr. Phelps became the scene of similar occurrences. “'The phe nomena consisted," says Dr. Phelps, “in the moving of articles of furniture in a iiirttinor tlmt could not be accounted for. Knives, forks, spoons, nailH, blocks of wood, etc., woro thrown iu different di rections about the house. 'They wore seen to move from places and directions whn h made it certain that no visible Dower existed by which the motion could lueed. For days and wooks to gether 1 watched these strange move ments \\ it 1> all the care, and caution, and close attention, which i could bentos’. J witnessed them hundreds of times, and I know that in hundreds of instances they took place when there was no visible power by which the motion could have been produced. Scores of persons of the first standing iu the community, whoso education, gemrd intelligence, candor, veracity and Hound judgmuut none will question, were requested to witness the phenomena, nnd, if possible, help us to a solution of the mystery.’ A writer iu the Now Haven Journal was an eye-witness to the following: “While wo were there,’’ he says, “tho contents of the pantry were emptied into the kitchen, and bi gs of sail, tin ware, and heuvier culinary articles weio thrown in a promis cuous beup upon tho tloor with u loud and startling noise. Loaves of doliciuus cake were scattered about the house.— The large knocker of tho outside door would thunder its fearful tones through the loud-resounding hull, uuiuimiful of the vain but rigid scrutiny to which it was subjected by incredulous aud curious mull. Chairs would deliberately move across the room, uuimpcllcd by any visi ble agency. Heavy uiarblu-top tables would poise themselves upou two legs, aud then fall with tlieii contents to the tloor, no human boiug within six feet of them.” Now, horo is matter for thought or mer riment, according to cue's humor. Wo lmve seen uouo of theso things: tho.e- foro wo uiay reject them as fables. But the recent occurrences at Surroucy, in Georgia, aud luter still, iu Charleston, S. 0., admonish thoughtful men. Tho fre quency of these phenomena is a pregnant tact to tho studout of history. Unex plained, uniuvestigated, they supply ali ment to the craving of superstition. Un- checked, they contribute to the produc- tiou of the greatest scourge that cau afflict our race, a nervous epidemic. To attribute these straugo occurrences to the agency of demons is to fan tho tlaiuo of uervous appreheusiou, and to prepare tho way for a revival of frenzy which raged in the memorable days of witchcraft. To receive tho preteutiouH of “spiritualism" is to igunre tho claims of sober reason. Wo are shut up, then, to a single course— investigation aud explanation of tho phe nomena. To ascertain, if we can, the natural laws that produce tho p»heuomena —to classify the fuels, und determine the conditions precedent aud accouipauyiug tho demonstrated occurrences—theso 1 regard to be paruinouut duties. Having been myself, to some extent, a subject of abnormal experience in regard to this nervous force, I feel it to be my duty to contribute whatever I may to the getieral treasury of knowledge upon these subjects. I firmly believe that out of the di*jt eta membra now scattered over tho world will one day be constructed a beautiful organism, that will give its potent influeuce to the enoblement of our race. At a favorable time, then, of which due notice will be given, 1 will, provideuce permitting, deliver tlio lectures hereto fore advertised. Due notice of time and place will be given. Perhaps in a few days I may be permitted tu use an illus tration one of the most wouderful cases of cataleptic claiivoyauce that has ever challenged the faith of mank.nd. W. P. Haluson. Atlanta, December 18, 1872. bales a tho question Tbo Chronicle of cut» i lb. tbo ; Can’t he Done.—Tbo foretold procla mation of Secretary Borio or more prop erly “Bore, commanding cadets to treat with respect the negro c YL at Annapolis is another sign of the times, 'lho dis tinction of race cannot bo ignored—can not be destroyed. '1 ho blacks would not allow to lie destroyed if the whites were r io degraded enough to do so. — • ven Pinchbeck nunounced the oth- i or • : .hut his duty to bis “race" reijuir- 1 ed 1 in o reject Wariiioutb s alleged prof- i fer of a bribe. Ills honor, if he bail any was sufficient ; but he only gave utter- | ance to an irrepressible feeling when he introduced the word race. Mr. Borie may inveigh ; but tho gallant youngj j white rudets will not acknowledge the . equality he proposes to enforce. V i the negroes in tbo majority in this lund J thoy would not ullovv a white cadet to en- | ter the Acaden ’it AnDopolis. If it is i denied, wo roYr to St. Domingo, Hayti, { and Liberia, ’me whites are under tho i bau in them ell. 1 i Liberia, for instance I no mun can own a foot of land who has I not negro blood iu his veins, und no man • can vote who does not own land. I 'The question of race will not down.— Secretary Borie cannot put it down. Both the most distinctive races iu this land will resist any measure for its suppression.— Jiichniond Dispatch. An Arkansas letter ou tho November election in that State says : Prairie township, in which I live, I fool warranted in saying (allowing every legal voter to register and vote under the law of 1838), would poll at least two hundred jtos. Numbers wero orased from tho •gistratiou books who woro registered at the review, and after tho board rose their appeared not to ho completed. They went out to Childers’ Mountain, and hero completed their fiendish work of rasing names, uutil there appoarod oti the day of election only eighty registered voters iu tho township. But this is not nil. After the olectiou was over, and tho poll book had been duly scaled up, Mr. William Bruzell, oue of the judges of the election at Prairie precinct, i *id Mr. Ed Harbor, the Radical candidate for Sheriff, were caught in a corn crib at Carrollton, with tho poll books actually broken open. Disabilities.—Senator Norwood of Georgia, says the Baltimore Sun of Mon day, will, at the first favorable opportu nity, move to take up the bill prepared by Senator Hill and himself at the last ses sion, to remove the disabilities of some of the few prominent Georgians who are yet under the ban of political jproscription. Among the names in the bill are those of Geucrul LaFayette McLaws, ex-Senator Iverson, the Hons. Lucius J. Gartrell, M. J. Crawford and J. W. H. Underwood. The friends of some of these gentlemen named in the bill are anxiona to present their names to the Georgia Legislature for the position of United States Senator, which cannot be done until their disabili ties are removed. llKrovery of a Nrw nnd Kconomlral Fart. Ou Monday nnd Tuesday afternoon a large number of citizeus, by invitation, visited the brass fouudry of Mr. W. T. Garnett, on Fremont street, for the pur pose of wit easing some experiments with a new fuel recently invented ami patented by Dr. Irelaud, of Watsonville, in this State. They were showu into that por tion of the establishment occupied by tho furnaces, and iu one cornor found a brick furnace some eight foot long and six feet high. On the top of this was an iron tank holding about ten gallons, which was filled with crude petroleum. From tins tank a pipe about an inch and a half in diameter led into the 6ide of the furnace. A small jet of oil, not larger than a small goose-quill, was permitted to tlow out of this tube; a light is placed beneath this jet aud it immediately ignites. Another pipe about au inch in diameter leads from a steam boiler stationed some fiftoen feet away. This pipe leads a small jet of steam upon the burning oil, aud the mo ment tho steam strikes the oil the oxygen in .ho water is set *rce and ignites with a tremendous roar, generating in a very few moments a most intense white heat. From this small source the entire cham ber the furnace, which is some two feet by five feet, is tilled with a flame so bril- liaut nnd dazz’ing that one cannot gaze on it for more than a moment at a time. This ffauie possesses all the beat of an or.y- bydiogeu tl une. and beneath its fieri e power tho hardest metals melt in a few momeuts. The inventor of tho apparatus by which the elements of heat, which na ture so generously provides, can be util ized, is a very modest mau, saying that be did uot want to bring his discovory be foro the public until he had fully demon strated that it would do all he claimed for it. He says that the cost of his furnaces will l>e only a nominal sum—that they will be the reach of every one who owns a quartz ledge, whilo the amount of oil consumed in twenty-four hours will not evceed ten gallons, at a cost of $2. Tne Doctor has every confidence in his discovery, and declares his ability to fur nish fuel for a voyage of one of the Pana ma steamers to and from Panama for the insignificant sum of $200, while the entire quantity will not weigh to exceed twenty- fivju tons, lie f.itthcr says that at an ex pense of $5 per day he can run furnaces that will smelt one ton of ore every thirty minutes. If one-half of what is claimed can be accomplished, the discovery will prove of incalculable advantage to the mining interests of the Pacific coast, and will create a revolution in ateam travel throughout the world. Washington, Dec. 19.—The report that Colfax has accepted the editorship of the New York Tribune is erroneous. He has to-day replied to many inquiries that the negotiations on the subject have not re sulted in any agreement, and that yester day by mutual consent they were regard ed terminated. He leaves to-morrow to spend the holiday recess with hie family West. goods by tho retell biLuil stocks of c-jIIou held by spinners on 1st tSeptembei last, and tho rapid increase of m tchinery employed,this estimato docs not appear excessive. This would leave 2,375,OUO bales for shipment to Europe this season as against 1,957,ikl() bales last season, an increase of 418,()()*> bales. But tho shipments to all Europe from 1st Sep tember lust, to 22d inbuilt, are about i i*- 000 bales iu exc-HHM of same period lust year, leaving ouly 300,000 bah” excess to be shipped up to the close of next August as compared with the corresponding peri od lost season. 'Tho next question is, how stands tho supply of Ann rican in und afloat tor Eu rope now, and at this time last year ? This is shown hy the following table, iu which we have added to the estimated stock in Liverpool lust year the correction made at the close of Deccmbc r : 1871. 1872. Stock iu Liverpool this date 113,000 51,000 Afloat for Liverpool this date 142,000 122,(KM) St(‘ •’« in Continental p ts 22d instant 91,000 32,000 All it for Continental ports 22d ’’ist 43,000 137,000 Total 322,000 372,000 Horo wo have a deficit this year of 20,- 0(H) bales, which deducted from the 300,- 000 bales excess yet to bo shipped lroiu America, as shown above, and wo have a surplus of only 280,000 bales. But- aud it is important to bear this point in mind last week pointed out that European spinners must have hold then at least 180.000 bales less thau at bamu time tho before. Now, if we assume that 280.000 of this deficit consisted of Ameri can—and this assumption would, we sup pose, bo voiy nearly correct —the outlie excess for this so:.Huu, as compared with lust, disappears. Iu other words, wo are iu to the following conclusion: If tho American crop of this so isoii amounts 325,000 bales, and American spin ners require 1,250,500 bales of this, the dual quantity of American cotton avail able to supply the wants of Europe from uow until autumu will he about the same i tho past season. But let us go a little further, upon hich we have based these culculatm should be 100,0(H) to 150,000 bales too small; this would, in some measure, bo offset by the fact that wo this y coived our maximum stock of Snrats three mouths earlier than lost year (22d August this, and 23d November lost year and we havo consequently hud thru months more time to cull it over nnd get nt the desired parcels; besides which, the doniand for Snrats, for some months post, has necessarily been large, owing to tho scarcity of American. Our stocks of Snrats being, therefore, inferior in quali ty to lust year, consumption is likely to bo thrown about us largely upou Ameri can ns it was two years ago. Ou the oth er hand, should the estimate of tho hurt prove to be correct the supply from now until next nutumn will bo le*s than last season, and insufficient for our probable wants. A VALLEY OF XASTOlHttS. ThouMmil ttrvl High. Flora * Uni*.] The ship Cadmus has arrived nt San Francisco ou its return voyage from the Arctic ocean, whither it has goue to col lect the remnants of the shipwrecked whaling fleet. On the 29th of September the Cudtnus received from tho cap.aiu of whaler George Robbius certain dis patches addresed to the French Geograph ical society by oar countryman, M. Fuvy, now ou au expedition to tho North l’ole. These despatches are dated on the 23d of August, ou the eastern coasts of Wrangcl Laud. We present an analysis of the lu teresting documents which have been brought by tbe Cadmus : The expedition, composed of M. Oc tave Pavy, Profs. Thomas Newcomb and Henry Edwards of San Francisco, M. Jean Bruit, and four seamen, lauded on the IMh of Juue on tbe eastern coast of Holyuchin Bay. On tbe 23d of June the explorers, reinforced by eleven natives, started in tbe direction of the east, Along the north bank of the Siberia, having provided themselves with sleds and dogs. On the 17th o' July they reached the mouth of the river Petrolitz. Near the mouth of this river they encountered IMMENSE F ELDS OF ICE MOVINO in a northeasterly direction. They trav ersed one single plain of ice sixty miles in extent. Their bearings indicated a de viation of eighteen miles from their in tended course. This was caused by tbe movement of the ice, this fact going to coufirm the theory of M. Pavy concern ing the concentration and augmentation of the great Japanese current, known as the Ku-Ka-8irod, which flows through Behring Straits on the right, thence to ward the east off the coast of Siberia. The explorers reached the shores of Wrangel Land near the mouth of a great liver, running from the northwest, and wh : ch is not set down on any chart. This M. Pavy considered as confirming another of b’i theories that there exists a great polar continent, and of which the tem po.. -are is sufficiently waim to melt the t. tow. The current of this hitherto un known stream flows in on easterly direc tion along tbe coasts, with a rapidity of six knots an hour. M. Pavy and hit party followed the plain gf Uw river toward the north for partly located on tho lauds of Mr. L. L. llardy, ar., of thin coanty, who will at once pro ceed to build a rosidouco at (Jbipley, pre paratory to removing there. We havo beb.ro us a map of the town, which iv regularly laid off into squares, avenues an t streets, all properly named. We aro permit tel to puh'ish the following letter fr* in Mr. M. Dougald iu regard to the lo rn ion of the p.issengcr und freight sta tion at this place ; North and Bonn U. tt. Co.,_ > Columbus, Ga., Nov. I, 1872.) Mr. /.. L. Ha tdy, Sr., Lad range, Cc/rgii - Dear Sir :—*ln reply to your inquiries i will inform you that the com pany w id locate their regular passenger and freight station north of Tine Moun tain, on your place, and north of Collin Harper's. This is dme not only on ac count of your liberal cash subscription and your donation of laud, but, also, bo- cause the Engineers pronounce it the only suitable pi ice. The grade on the udjoiuing place would suit, but there is a rumor abroad in regard to tbe validity of the titles. These rumors may be utterly false, yet they aro sufficiently current to interfere with the improvement which the company desiro to seo, and which the importance of tho position should stimu late, now ibu* the question of location is settled. Yours truly, W. A. McDoegald, Fresd't. Cbipley is said to bo located nt a very accessible point, easy of approach for wagons from every direction, uud in tbe midst of a rich section o* country, inhab ited by a jhrifty population.—Lud range licjurUr. Mexico. Matamoros, Dec. 17.—Tbo delegates from different precincts who retired from headquarters of election without count ing tlio votes for municipal officers on account of tho interference of tho mili tary cm tho 15th, wore induced last even ing hy Col. Cristo, military commander, to ngain meet, and having doue so, and being about to count tho votes, were nt- lacked by about thirty armed roughs, by whom the papers and votes wore taken away and destroyed. This is supposed to bo tho work of Gor. Cortiua, ho having publicly stated that with ono delegate of the twenty-four he would carry tho elec tion. Vote o/ the Electoral Colleges.— Ail the lists of the Electoral Colleges of tho several States, for President nnd Vice- President, excepting three, have been sent to tho President of the Senate by mail, though not more than one-third of the entire lists required by law to be de- livc red to huu by messenger have yet been received. Louisiana sends lists from two diferent Electoral Colleges. Tho two houses of Congress, in joint conven tion, will determine which list shall bo counted on tho second Wednesday in Feb ruary, the time of counting all the electo ral votes.— Washington Correnpondcncc Baltimore Carrie. The Indian Wail—San Francisco, iJecttuber !5.—Tho latest advices from P-escott, Ari., states that Gen. Crook is p-osocuting the campaign vigorously against the hostile Apaches in the north ern part of the Territory. Five expedi tious are opening in the mountains east of the river Verde Gen. Crook was last heard from east of the Moaollon Moun tains. During the campaign over one hundred Apuchcs have been killed and many wounded. Their stores and pro visions at several points were destroyed. Gen. Crook’s policy is to follow the In dians constantly, und hunt them down in oveiy direction. Gin nous*: Burnt.—-The gin honse of Mrs. Moses E. Shorter, mother of Mr. J. 11. Shorter, near llurtville, Ala., contain ing some ten bales of cotton, was totally consumed by firo on Monday after noon last. Fire supposed to have been communicated by tho saws coming in con tact with a nail or match. Tho cotton aud seed were insured for $1,800, and the house for $700, in several companies for which Mr. J. F. I verson of this city is agent. The policies we learn had bat two or threo days to run. Extract from a letter from Mrs. J. 0. Aldrich, Wauseon, Fulton county, O.: “K. P. Hall & Co.: Gentlemen—Please send me one dozen bottles of you- bic’ 1 - ian Hair llenewer. Our ‘bold and gray' do nut want to be out. My mother is • living recommendation of the results from the use of the llenewer. Being almost seventy years old, and having worn a wig over thirty years, it seems * miracle to those who havo known her so long so bald, and what little hair she bad being perfectly white; now her wig thrown arid*, her hair grow u out, and a smooth, glossy brown, as in girlhood. Hoping you may long continue to pour blessings upon the heads of tbe afflicted, I remain yours truly.” Such evidence, with the indorsement of the great chemists of New England, Dr. A. A. Hayes and S. Dana Hayes, should satisfy any one which of the preparation! produce the best results. LaGrange Female College.—Exer cises in the above popular educational institution will be reaumed January 22d y under a corps of first class teschars. Mead (be advertisemsnl elsewhere,