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A STUICT COSSTHCCTIOJ Ot' TI1K OOftSTtl'UTIOM—AX IIOMKST AXO HOOXOHIOAU AOH1XISTIIATIOX OF THIS OOVKRNMBKT.
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Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1872.
Volume XLIV.-No. 53
The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN H. MAIIT1N Editor.
OOLtJMBUsl
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 1872.
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TIlIltlTLS TO 01 K LATE SENIOR.
Our Christmas is palled with sadness
for the absence of one who for so many
years had been the honored chief of our
office—whose life of probity, usefulness
aud love on earth lias so lately closed, and
whose place arnoug us is now vacant
forever ! Wo are constantly reminded of
our groat loss by the uewspupcr notices
of the s-td event, and the condoling
expressions of frieuds who well knew the
Worth aud virtues of the deceased. From
the number of tributes that have reached
ns, ae select two from old friends whose
acquaintanceship with Mr. Ragland dated
back even beyond ours, and whose high
estimate of his character and worth wits
based upon many years of social intimacy.
'i he first is from u letter, dated the 20th
inst., from an old aud esteemed citi/en of
Opelika, Al.ibuuia. lie writes us: “The
Cvl’ifi./iu* Eiu/'iirer of yesterday came to
band clad in hubiiiments of mourniug for
tho^eath of the Senior Proprietor of that
valuable paper. I join in sympathy with
bis numerous friends, iu mourning for the
lo-s of the useful uiid woithy citizen who
has passed away. It will bo a difficult
matter to tiud another to till his plueo.
llis virtues and examples are well worthy
of imitation. Ill* loving works will mid
bavo followed him to the grave, but they
can not he buried w ith him. They ure
public property, that will eudure, thrive
and grow loi another age and generation.
Peace to his spirit! It resin in lltuvou,
lio doubt. Pol. Ragland was the very
highest typo of an honest inau—said to
be the fairest work of Deity's baud."
The second tribute is from tho pen
of Col. CM>y, of the Macon Teleyrayh.
^1 hough published in the issue of that
paper of the 20th irist., it only reached
Columbus yesterday):
Dkatii oi tuk Nestor op the Georgia
Press. Elsewhere will lie found a notice
of the death, last ’I uesduy night, at his
homo near Columbus, of Thomas Kuglund,
Esq., for thirty jears identified with tho
publication of the H:.yninr, of that city,
and the oldest newspaper man, not ouly
iu point of years, but also in length of
connection with the profession, in the
State.
Tho sad event is very appropriately
roferred to in the article in question, and
wo esteem it our high privilege to t ndoi>
iu tho heartiest manner, all that is the
sot down to the credit of the good old
gentleman. He lmd lived a long and
active life amid scenes and seasons of
fierce political excitement, but preserved
through ttieui all the respect and esteem
of ull who knew tho many virtues and
graces ns gentleman and Christian that
brightly illustrated his life and charact
Full of years, and crowned with tho golden
opinions that only stainless purity of pe
sonal aud public character ever wins for
a man from his fellows, he bus pai
away.
lie war, one of tho lust connecting links
between the past and present of Georgia
journalism, and had outlived most, if not
all, his cotomporaries of tho good old
days now gono, alas ! forever. Wo pen
theso few lines as a feeble tribute to his
memory, aud with a sigh of sincere regret
that such moil as he must, in tho ordor
of nature, ho known uo uioro among the
living.
lion. A. II. {Stephens delivered his
expected speeeh in Atlanta on Friday
evening, uiid the papers of that city pub
lish full reports of it. It was mainly do
voted to a defence, or a laudation, of hif
lato political courao. Protesting that lu
was not a Bourbon, and was not engaged
in trying t<» “dig up yesterday," ho rpent
he most of in-* hour in delving into the
past aud vuuuting his own superior polit
ical sagacity.
In this connection we may mention that
wo seo in the papers devoted to Mr. Ste
phens (piite a number of allusions to his
improving lieulth and increasing strength,
and the concluding sentences of his At
lanta speech indicate that he himself
joices in the improvement mentioned
bis frieuds. While wo are glad to leorn
vat Mr. S: pheiis is recovering health and
length, we in lint regard this seemingly
peurted publication of the fact at this
ft °t®Jur time as significant of Mr. Kte-
: tho seat iu the Sen-
States shortly to bo
nsimV a Legislative election,
ceivo ft —
of evui^nct from the report of the offi-
tin) Ccntrul Rail Road, Kuiumittcd
i the stockholders last week, the follow
ing stateuieut of earnings and expendi
tures for the year lately closed. After
tho payment of interest, rents and divi
dends, tho halunco unappropiiuted is
£252,038.05. Statement :
Central Railroad earnings. .£1,656,153 70
Cuutral Railroad iiauk earn-
. >DfiS
Macon & Western Railroad
earning**, including r J hoin-
astou Branch
otal earnings of the three.
Ronds and Bank £
From which wo deduct:
Central Railroad
expenses £966,816 09
Central Railroad
Bank expen
ses 21,380 of)
South western R.
Road expeu*
Bes 698,480 32
Macon A West
ern Railroad
expun*- iu.
eluding Thom-
Baton Brunch. 1 .‘.I
net* l ur time us sig
JMe.pta.tta, for I
min® 1 * 10 I nited ht
->2,137,831 31
Leaving net..
..£1,160,031 05
special dispatch from Atlanta, 19th,
.Griffin Nt irn says that it seems to
Radical party, well un-
dt the State, to run in-
naidates in all counties
a probability of defeat,
disciplined. Its mem-
r themselves, and will
cally support any
eir leaders way re
ALABAMA POLITICS.
It will bo seen by reference to a notice
of tho proceedings, that both brauebes
of the Legislature of Alabama Lave ad
journed until tho 13th of Jnnuaiy, with
out fully consummating tho “compro
mise" proposed by the Attorney General
of the United States. At least, the Lieu-
tonnnt Governor, presiding over tho
Senate, rules that that body is not yet
porwaueutly organized, and refuses to
eutertaiu nu appeal from this decision ;
and tho House, by resolution, sustains
the ruling of tho Licutcuant Governor.
But the majority of tho Seuato still con
tend that it has effected a permanent or
ganization iu conformity to tho spirit and
letter of tho Attorney General's plan.
This is nu anomalous state of affairs,
and tho causes that have brought it nbout
wilt not readily be understood by those
who have not critically Bcanuod tho daily
riports of proceedings. Evidently tLo
main cause is that the {senate will not, by
the carrying out of the “compromise" in
good faith, have n Radical majority.—
There are hi.umlaut indications that tho
Radical Governor and House of Repre
sentatives are striving to avoid the recog
nition of it us the legal and regular Sen
ate of Alabama until they are assured that
it will contain such a majority ns they de
sire. Not only tho curious couditiou of
tilings above stated may tie cited iu proof
of this presumption, but the fact that tho
Radical members have all the time con
tinued their organization nt the court
house, meeting there iu secret session
and arranging there their plans of pro
ceeding tor the following day, niul the
additional tart that the Radical Governor
b is communicated with them in this ir
regular and lawless organization, mean
while withholding his comniunic. » .*•
from tho Si unto at theca) itol, go to show
that the revolutionary orgm ,na is not
yet given up, aud that i, . pndiatiou of
the Democratic Senate is jut contemplated
ns a probable event.
Another and secondary cause for tho
ndj* nriiniont may be the low atato of
funds in tho Treasury, and tho tardiness
of tho tux collectors in paying over the
money iu their hands. This tardiness
may be ascribed to polit.enl complications,
and continue until those complications
am fully adjusted. But of this, perhaps,
And now an interesting question is,
how do the Radicals piopose to strength
en their position during tho recess? What
new outrage or usurpation do they con
template for the “reconstruction" of tho
Senate so as to suit t.ieui? l)o they ex
pect Congress to legislate the Senate of
Alabama into a Radical body ? or do they
look to tho Attorney General to modify or
explain his “compromise" to meet the
caso presented ? or dot hoy hope to have
onlers from the Brnsilont of tho United
States, with Federal troops to execute
them, by which the will of tho pooplo of
Alabama may bo oh arbitrarily overruled
as was that of the people of Louisiana?—
The three weeks’ recess will he a busy
one with the Radical plotters, and we
may as well prepare ourselves to look out
for Home enormity adequate to tho emer
gency of the caso alien tho Legislature
re-aspenibles.
( ALH OUM V.S (Oil ON IMKUKST.
Accounts from California estimate tho
crop of that State, for this year, at 500,-
600 pounds, which Would mako 1100 halos
at 460 pounds each. Wo believe that be
fore this year only ouo farmer planted
cotton in California, and that its culture
this year has been confined to two coun
ties. The increase of production bus
therefore boon rapid, and tho reports of
uniform success for several years seem to
establish beyond reuMinahle doubt tho
adaptability of tho southern portion of
tho State to the growth of this textile.
That it is so regarded in California ap
pears from a dispatch af tho 20th iustunt
from Ban Francisco, reporting u move
ment by capitalists to establish a cotton
factory iu that city, by converting tho
Pacific Wool Mills into such an establish
ment. By taking immediate steps to
mako her manufacture of cotton keep
pace with its production, California will
pursuo a course which, had it long ago
been adopted by tho South, would havo
ad led immensely to the woalth and im
portance of this section. Tho great dis
tance from California to the cotton mills
of other States and countries may neces
sitate) the inauufncli.ro of tho cotton at
homo ; hut it will prove for her a happy
and profitable necessity, as a different
condition of things here has proved most
unfortunate for oar Southern States.
Blit we have nutur.il advantages even sur
pass eg those of California for the mak
ing of the most money out of cotton by
both producing ami manufacturing it at
home, for water power to run tho mills
and we pn sumo fuel for Hleam factories)
uni >t be very scarce in California, especi
ally in the Southern portion, where the
cotton is grown. I*, seem that California
will lieucofoiwurd produce annually a
liderablu amount of cotton. Let us
hope thut her proposed policy of combin
ing the growth and the manufacture i
staple will learn our Southern plaut-
a useful leKKon, since mm planters
(us well as alt other classo-, will only
Jouru from practical demonstration.
1 ho Rudicals ol Stewart county, a few
days mucc, nominated a white man as
their candidate for Sheriff, and a negro
for Coroner. But the negro (known as
“Uncle George Ball") has declined the
nomination, saving that his mission is to
preach. Sensible, but uncommon !
New Postmaster.—From a dispatch
from Washington uo learn that Walter
Johnson, Esq., has heon appointed
Postmaster in this city. Mr. Johnson
eu in thuoffi.u with Cui. Jlogau,
the present popular incumbent, for sev
eral years past, and is both competent
and qualified to make an efficient officer.
Goorgo W. Lamar, Esq., formerly a
prominent citizen of Augusta—where he
was well known as a banker, and as once
a Representative of Richmond county in
tho Legislature—died in Savannah on
Saturday morning. He was seventy years
of ago.
Tho Radicals of Fulton have nominated
a full ticket for couuty officers; R. T.
Simons for Coroner.
A LA BA 31A LEG LSI. ATI UK.
Saturday, 21 nt.—Tho Senate adopted a
resolution to adjourn until tho 13th of
January, to which the llouso added a
proviso (noticed iu llouso proceedings.)
The Senate did not concur iu tho llouso
proviso, but the Lieutenant Governor de
clared tho Senate adjourned until the 13th
January, nevertheless.
Iu the House, while tho Journal was
being road, a motion was made to correct
it so as to show that Caudee, white, in
stead of Whitaker, black, was elected
doorkeeper on Friday. This motion was
resisted, and defeated nt tho time, but a
resolution to appoint a committee to iu
quire into the fuels was adopted ; and this
committee subsequently reported that tho
vote, as first cast, standing for Whitaker
48, for Candee 4 7, Mr. Musterson, before
tho vote was announced, asked to have
his vote changed from Whitaker to Can
dee, which would have reversed tho result
that this change was not made ns it ought
to have been ; and that consequently Can
dee was rightfully elected, lu this report
the House concurred.
Tho House passed the Senate resolu
tion to adjourn until tho 13th January,
with the following proviso :
Provided that a coucurrouco in tho res
olution to take a recess until tho 13th of
Jumuiry is not, and shall uot bo construed
as an mlmitsiou in any seusp or dogreo by
this body, that tho Seuato is au organized
body under tho laws of Alabama, or that
thero is n consummate permanent orgu
iz.ition of tho General Assembly uud
tho plau proposed, and now in process
being curried into effect, under tho plan
of compromise of tho Attorney General
of tho l nit* d States.
’Ill
nt tli
I UAL BA 1 LUO AD.
is generally • needed l<
'st ably mauagi-tl railroad
nth Atlantic slope, and one o
pajii.g imsii'ntmu m tho Htato
nation it bus won by a lonj
l brilliant iinaucioimg. Fum
iii ll of the design
bit-seeing, pi
stood iiij;11 iu
controlled b\
nt Director-,
community a
had confidci
, the exempti<
present
oaid of
oad i
But it is not i
had th«
acting \
n" ns l'ri
r purpose
singula
> tho
management of the road or its able 1
dent, unless the single feature to which
propose to call utteulion involves pin
amt is inseparable from it.
The Anuud Report, just published,
parts of which wo present on our first
page, will show the actual earnings of tho
road and its present condition. This
needs no comment.
The publication of the report has, how
ever, leuiiuded us of u marked feature
that has been lying dormant in our mind
for some time. The Central is (tie only
Southern road which innv bo cxpocted to
become a worthy rival of tho l’euiisylvn
uiu Central in the South Atlantic slope,
It is known to the majority of intelligent
people, not to speak ot railroad mon, that
Torn Scott has been trying to secure pos
session ot a Grand Trunk line Iroiu New
Vork to New Orleans, east of the Alio-
ghaiiius, and that he has almost succeed
ed. Ho controls for instance the old
Camden and Amboy, from New York to
Philadelphia; he controls the link be
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia ; he ii
building a load from Baltimore to Wash
ington ; ho has Imdged the Potomac, am
has run a line of steel rails on the edge oi
that river; he controls directly or indi
rectly the Danville route from Rn hmond
and thence lurgur or smaller sections tt
the Gulf. A recent unannounced blow
at the Blue Mountain route, between New
Orleans uml tho North, doiuonstrutes lh<
reach of his arm and shows his intent to
control a through lim
Tho President of the Central, with his
usual sagacity, has undoubtedly foreseen
the intentions of tho great Railroad King
and taken early steps to chooknmto him.
iu the play in which they are now engaged
we think the Central has shown superb
skill, and a glance at tho board provi
them to be uhoud.
Wo might say that they have won tho
game; for what Tom Scott ia trying to
accomplish they are already doing— t. <•.,
transporting freight from ‘ Now Orleans,
via Columbus, to Now York.
Anyone going down to the Control yard
will seo through freight standing there
any bright day. Having control of tho
Steamship Lino this freight is taken down
to the wharf and transported directly to
tho steamer, avoiding successive rehand-
lings and drayagu at this port. It is a
well ascertained law (hut it costs the same
to transport ouo ton twenty miles by
wagon, or seven hundred odd miles by
water. Tho deduction, therefore, is— and
it is a strong argument in favor of the
Atlantic it Great Western Canal—that a
ton of merchandise brought by the Cen
tral or any other road to this point, is
within about twenty-two miles of New
York, tho great commercial centre of the
country.
Our argument may ho prematuro in
this, thut direct control of linos out of the
State has not yet been obtained, but co
operation and coalition will effuotthe same
general result until more decided steps
can bo taken. At any rate, wo have but
little doubt thut the receUt purchase iff
six steamers was a step in this direction,
and that this grund system is wot sug
gested to tho minds of the Directors now
tor the first time.
Tho Pennsylvania having gobbled up
all the pieces of road built by Southern
enterprise, we look now to this Southern
highway to oheok the urbitrnry measures
of the Northern Railway Coed 'nations.
[ Si va a a ah lit jtualien /t, Hint.
Tin* French Spoliation C'lalniH.
Washington, December 19. “ Von tho
I Fieiicu spoliation bill cuum up to-day an
! b ..testing discussion sprung up on tho
question whether tho hdl . hould bo so
amended as to exclude payments to insu
rance companies, or their assigns, who
had received over risks. Senator Morton
offered an amendment to this effect, uud
supported it iu some very forcible re
marks, urging that tho great body of
these spoliation claims were held by tho
insurance companies, and that theso
companies had done a good business and
been paid for their losses by the war
risks. Judge Thurman and other jurists
espoused tho opposite view. Tho fuel
that tho same issue will be involved in
the distribution of tho Goncva award
gave especial interest to this debate, in
which the Senatorial lawyers chopped lo
gic with their usuul zest for mi hour or
more. Tho ruising of this side issue wus
an unlucky circumstance for the claim
ants for French spoliation, ond appeared
to put the bill in uioro joopurdy than it
has yet been in. Ti.o indications of to
day were that the vote on the pio-sage of
the bill will bo close, but thut it will most
likely pass tbo Seuato. The expression
is that it cannot pass the Ilouae of Repre
sentatives. —LouUville Courier.
Westwabd Still.—We are told that
about fifty persons from different adjoin
ing counties are to congregate in this city
to-day for the purpose of taking tho
Montgomery train with Texas as the ob
jective point. Thero seems to be a gen
eral grouud Rwell ia favor of this State,
and innumerable numbers have gono and
will go in time for spring operations.
Tho necessity for this exodus, whether
apparent or real, is deplorable.
[Eujaula Times, 21 st.
, lNv|.
The smoko of tho conflict slowly lifting, rolled,
Blurring the glory of tho god of day ;
0\*r Georgia’s hills the sound of buttle rolled
lu sullen tones, tin'll eunk with night away.
That day at noon when the
:.*rriflc strife
u the bravo,
tho field of life,
o garnering gravi
A soldier youth who well had borne hi* part,
With bosom bared before the leaden rain,
Felt a cold missile near his fearless heart,
eoled back, fainting o’er the mangled
► lain
•ok that sparkled on Its way,
ed down to cool his fevered lip
a tluocs of mortal pain he lay,
he settling night of death's «•
lips
Still on f
Till holy
Oils or Freedom hied,
Mink upon his shield,
nd lu r mantle spread,
lee wus hushed upon the
soldier’s weakened heart
ind Ills faltering breath,
earthly hope depart
in' awful realm of death,
re memory’s ph-ttiros coal
g ot a last farewell—
•le childhood’s years were
mu aud all lie loved
i perhapt, though
allies h.
I.leueh-
• Idol
hi.i wn
ie slumber of the l.ruve,
Ilia battles done, bis spirit home with Got).
Ml. /»«. I. \ I67L *Fi.t.raiMt.
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Ketelalions or n Pardoned Ku-Klux Prisoner.
A Washington dispatch to tho Now
York Herald slides that Kctibnii 0. Young,
a Ku Klux prisoner, who has boon par
doned by the President, arrived in that
city from the Albany puuitoutiury oil Sat
iny ina dying . onditiou. Ho wus on
home, to I'ouiigHvillo, Alabama,
no was nitei viewed in the cloak-room of
tlic Hon o of Representatives, where ho
was ultempting to sleep. Tho reporter
si'} s:
He appeared to sloop in death,
face hint a leaden, gustly look,
wrinkles deeply uud rigidly set, us if
of Konso and motion. My cninpu
touched him lightly. lie raised lus head
slowly aud east a languid look toward
It boomed to ino tho look of a galvanized
corpse. llu was dressed in a suit of
homespun. llis face was linn and ashy
with I hire weeks board upon it ; his eye:
aud cheeks wore sunken itv, and thin gray
lin.rs straggled down upon lus forehead,
llo was asked whether he was treated
kindly in prison ? lb* answered:
“All Hie officers healed me kindly, 0)
eept one overseer, who was haisli to nu
When 1 wus too feeble to work I had I
remain in my cell, which wus vory colti
1 sometimes asked him to let me go t
the stove in Hie corridor to warm myself,
but ho refused. ‘Don't he hard on
old man,’ I would say, bill still he would
Dot let mo go out. I wus confined in tho
same coll with my son Ringgold, who h
still there, llo has to work in tho shoe
shop from daylight till evening; but In
has been in good health never missed :i
day iu tho shoe shop. If it lmd not been
for lmn I should have been dead long be-
fore this. He took good care of me.
Tho dying man gave tho following his-
tor of his case:
“It was ull tho work of a limn named
Barnes, lie is a lawyer. He lmted
and wanted to have me put out of tho
way. For this purpose he went to John
D. Young, a Ku Klux prisoner, now it
the Albany penitentiary, but no relatioi
of mine, ami asked him to turn Kluto'i
evidence against me, but John refused
Tho next day he was arrested and tried,
and like me, sentenced to ten years.
This man Barrios was a United State*
GommiHHiom-r, and had unlimited pmvoi
in my county. He was on the grand jury
which found au indictment against
They wanted to convict somebody, and
selected mo and my son, Ringgold T.
Young. 'Hide are now six Ku-Klux pris
oners in tho Albany Penitentiary—three
from Tallapoosa and three from Randolph
county. One of them, Charles Howard,
is a perfect idiot; another, named Blanks,
is a boy.”
A Sensible Lntly—Me Herouil her Mutton.
Ed Horn Mon tyonn nj A dnertint. r :—A
few days since, my attention was called
to an article that appeared in your col
umns, in which, you made earnest appeal
to tho patriotism and economy of the la
dies of Montgomery ; to he drmojudrated,
by tho wearing of *‘home-made plaids.”
The ladies of Ooluinbus were set forth as
an example, and “lauded to tho skies"
for their spirit of independence while all
this is highly commendable, ami meets
with Uio I idlest approbation, it occurs to
mo, that we should Lave the Far fork a iu
our city before wo talk about “wearing
the plaids." Lot us see the Factorial in
r.uurxc of erection, and 1 ass urn you that
we will show a spirit of patriotism equal
to thut of our Colointiiin Sint I rn.
Bill if 1 am not mistaken, Messrs. Edi
tors, the same Factories thnt weave the
popular “phuds,” also weave in quantities
to suit tho demand, goods suitable for
yi nflemen'n wv</r,Mioh as jeans, osnaburgs,
Ac., and ns you are tho first to propose a
revolution in tho stjloof dross, suppose
you “practice what you preach," and don
a suit of home modi jinn*, it will never
do to see our Indies wonring (home)ly np.-
purcl, and our husbunds, brothers and
Is dressed in goods of foreign
stuff, with gloves and hoots “from Baris,"
nd hitls of “tho lutcHt stylo. No sirs.
Wo say, let us Jirnt nee our gouts with
hats of palmetto, suits of jeans, walking
canes of the notice bamboo, aud no ytoren
ol oil; then, wo will fuel no timidity iu
appoariug in fall drew with our “plaids
uud homespun."
A Montoomehian.
A Bio Land Giiaii.—Under pretence of
giving 160 acres of land to each of tho
soldiers and sailors of tho lute war, u
grand raid in full force is made ou the
public domain. Thu bill grants in tho
aggreguto some 350,000,000 acres of land,
the whole amount of agricultural land
now loft hoing uot moro than 100,000,000
acros. Theso aoldiers’ grants will goat
into tlio hands of agents, and the
beneficiaries will really roceivo nothing,
ir a trilling sum at the best. Tho homo
load policy is placed in danger, and in a
few years—ton at tho outside—tho immi
grants from Europe or colonists from tho
older States will he entirely at tho mercy
of hind speculators, and of the railroads
which retain po. session of tho grants
already made to thorn. This splendid na
tional domain is rapidly bciug wasted and
spoiled. It ought to have heeu so man
aged us to solicit immigration for theso
many years. But many of tho boat parts
of it are already held at prices beyond tho
roach of the poor, and so a chock is put
upon the population of tho now States.
A French chemist has discovered that n
strong solution of chloride of zino will
dissolve all the silk threads from any tex
tile fabric, leaving intact any cotton fibres
which may bo interwoven therewith. Tho
practical valuo of this invention for re
moving stains from dresses must bo at
once apparent to all our lady readers.
Cotton Culture In California.
From tho many accounts to bo found
in almost ovory California paper, that
State would appear to be tho future Bara-
dise of cottou-growers. Tho Fiesno Ex
positor says :
“It threatens to bocomo a mania in our
county, nnd in fact elsewhere in the
State. Wo havo conversed with a num
ber of parties during tho past fow weeks,
who contomplnto planting their land with
tho staplo next season. This is in a groat
nieuHuro duo to tho successful culmina
tion of tho cotton-growing enterprises
which hnvo been undertaken in this
county ond in other portions of tho vnl
ley. Ktrango to relate, what bus hitherto
(previous to 1872) been considered the
nnd plains, is the land being selected for
cotton plantations by many. Thero
two reasons which conspiro to bring
about this state of fncts. First, tho hind
is susceptible of irrigation from the
King’s River Irrigation Canal. Second,
it is moro convenient to tho railroad.
That thoRo cotton-growing enterprises
will bo successful hardly admits of a
doubt, and that it is a moro lucrative
crop than wheat, no ono pretends to
question. A successful growing of cot
ton on an extended scale will place Fres
no far in ndvnncc, in point of wnultli and
prosperity, of any of tho thrifty grain
growing counties.”
Tho Bakorsfield Californian, of a lato
date, says:
“Mr. B. A. Stinn 1ms just finished pick
ing his cotton, and that it turns off
four hundred pounds to tho acre. This
is a very gratifying result, of an experi
ment, considering tho fact that it was not
planted until a month later than it should
have been. Sonio of it also was planted
with corn, tho two crops growing togeth
er, and ho was not abb' to procure tho
host v irioty of scod. Wo learn that ho
intends to engage extensively next y
in the growth of tho valuable staple."
The San Francisco Herald says : “
havo boon favored with a visit from Buck-
ley Brothers, of Jtopoton, Merced comi
ty, they claiming to hnvo put up tho first
halo of cotton in tho State on tho 21st
inst., ginning by horse power from four
to Hix bales per day, and estimating their
present crop nt 150 halos of 400 pounds
each. Tobacco growing iu Gilroy and
other parts of tho Slate promises a great
success, both tho yield and quality being
unsurpassed in any other State of the
Union.”
Mr. Sypher has introduced a hill in the
House of KoprcHCtitativoH of Louisiana to
provide for tho construction of a ship
eaunl near Fort St. l’hilip, to connect the
navigable wators of the Mississippi with
the Gulf of Mexico. Tho ninth sect ion
of the act provides: “That until other
wise provided by law, said canal shall, at
all times, bo open to tho free use and
navigation of all vessels and craft belong
ing to the United States, nnd to all citi
zens thereof, and to all nations in com
mercial amity with tho United States, freo
from toll or charges.” And tho thirteenth
soction appropriates six millions of dollars,
or so much thereof as limy be nooosKnry,
to carry into effoet tho provisions of the
saiil act.
Tim Flokida Ship Canal. -Mr. Osborn
of Florida, baa introduced in the United
States Semite a bill to provide for making
a survey for a canal of sufficient depth
aud breadth to permit side-wheel steam
ers of average draught and tonnage navi
gating 1ho Mississippi to pass each other
in it, the canal to extend from tho Missis
sippi river at or near New Orleans,
through Mississippi, Alabama, and Flori
da, to the harbor of Feruandina on the
Atlantic Ocean. The route of tho canal
is d< fleeted considerably to tho north of a
direr I lino, to avoid running into the Gulf
of Mexico, which cannot well he naviga
ted by river stonmers. The proposed im
provement, we suppose, is intended as a
partial realization of the Bresident’s fa
vorite scheme for an almost continuous
land-locked navigation from Maine to
Mexico, by which tho dangers of the soil
may he avoided in tho transportation of
merchandise by water. A single glance
at the map will ho sufficiout to give any
intelligent reader an idea as to the wisdom
of tie* costly undertaking which the bill
under consideration is designed to pro
mote.
A great fight is now going on in the
New Joraey courts, at Trenton, between
the Beiinsylvauia Railroad Company,
having the lease of the New Jersey loads,
and tlio parties interested in the proposed
“National railroad" between Bhiladclphia
and Now York ; for which line tho latter
cljiim that they have obtained charter
rights, while tho Beiinsylvauia Central
contends that they havo only a bogus
charter. Tlio National line is claimed to
be an air lino, going mainly north of the
present lines. It is not quite apparent,
however, from the map, that it is more
nearly an air lino than tho Trunlon road.
Should these parties succeed, though, in
establishing their right to build this road,
it may help to establish u wholesome
railroad competition through New Jersey.
But there in an impression abroad that
the National Coinpnuy do not really mean
to build, but to compel the Beunsylvutiia
Central or some other purlieu to buy out
I heir privileges.
Mr. Boutwkll and the Legal-Tender
Issue.—Tho House of Representatives
having recently called upon Secretary
Boutwell to explain liis authority for
making an increased issue of legal-tender
notcH, us was done iu October, to the
amount of £5,000,000, the Secretary, ou
Tuesday, iu response, cites two dicta of
the Supremo Court that £400,000,000 is
tho legally authorized amount oi green
backs, and finds in the act of 1863 au
thority to replacu by new notes all that
have been canceled. The object of the
issue, he says, was the relief of the busi
ness of the country, then suffering from
tlio large demand for currency employed
in moving the crops from the Smith and
West, the condition of affairs then exist
ing in the country, ho urges, having war
ranted the issue upon grounds of public
policy. On March 1st, 1869, Uioro was
outstanding ovor £57,000,000 of threo
per cent, certificates, payablo iu legal-
tender notes on dournnd, and tho surplus
reserve was tho only means nt the com
mand of the Government for melting any
call on account of this liability. Brum
this surplus tho issuo of October last was
made, uud all now notes put in circulation
are drawn from the same source.
Fur tho CoIhuiIhib Enquirer.
CHRISTMAS, 1812.
omlroiiH honuty decks tho world to-night ?
wear* a glory not her own!
h the magic influence of her might ?
Her myntic t
An Angel’d wand nwoopa o’er the sky, and Light
Unfoldn her pearly glimtn'ringd far and wide?
So old—ho new;—tlio Hpoll ho Had—ho bright,
The holy ChriHtmnH-tide!
We hear once more the uldon Pprophet nay,
'i’euto—lVace on Earth, good will to mon"; "a *
To uh in given"—“u Child in born"—The day
Of promido dawiiH anon;
The Eantorn 8tar Hliinrs fair o’er distant hill,
Through hidden dell—whoro drifted waves of bii
Gleam in their fleecy whltencHS, chaste and chill,
Beueath tho starlight'd glow.
Hark ! sweet vibrating halls ring out, ho
'h- ir happy chimoH upon tit* midnight uii
Anil hid us, uh they chain our listening i
Their Joyous greeting dhare !
It id till* blessed gladsome Chi hum
The hnpplost evening oi the flectii
Tho saddest evening of the long, I
i chei
Swe
lultin
! Wh
viowlosH forms arid
Unhidden, and with whlsp’riugs soft aud low
They look once more, with love, into our eyes,
Found of the “Long Ago" I
A tli
ories
regrets and tear*
this strange Christmas-tide lor its—w
le rapid sweeping of the mighty yean
On us hath left tlio seal.
>w vain ! how brief our high resolvei
f perished Hope sublime!
era Star iu Heaven doth shit
re the lowly Christ-Child liei
.mr “costly gifts," nor “lut
i feel
e rough wayside
►stly" offering!
- path her ligl.t doth
when the glad Sunrint
•rid, in all I
by heart’s
ot by Him
•sry Yule-log I
or your little i
•blight e in he i
II ii* *
iu “Sheave
tch glad rm
New Plans of the Weather Prophet *t—Pont mas-
Let
An Old Man Run Over and Killed.
On Tuesday, a week ago, au old guutlu-
mau by tho unuio of Mitchell Thurman,
near the Indian K| rings, sustained inju
ries from which ho died, under the fol
lowing circumstances: Ho was getting
into an empty wagon, when his oxen be
came frightened, moved off and threw
him to tho ground, tho wagon running
over his body, from which ho sustained
such internal injuries that ho died on the
Thursday following.—Griffin yarn.
Tho Gnlveston News wants Uncle Sam
to whip Mexico. Says tho News: “If
the wholesale rubbery of u frontier,
amounting to tho loss of many millions
of dollars, does not constitute a sufficient
provocation for executivo action, then
men have lost their reason. If saucy
swagger, bullying effrontory, abduction
uud rod-handod raiding do uot constitute
offensive acts on the part of our Mexican
neighbors, then the ltio Grande is but a
plantation ditch, and tho Texans dwelliug
thereon are but the bondslaves of the
Hidalgos of the wostern edge.”
Chicago, Deo. 21.—Tho rocoipts of live
hogs at the Union Block yards the past
week wero 157,532, tho largest number
ovory rocoivod in one week. Total num
ber slaughtered here up to to-day 533,132.
| Washington Corr. Nan York Herald J
Oil the 9th instant tho Secretary of War
dosed to the Uostmastcr-Goucral a let
ter from tlio chief signal officor, aud usked
co-operation iu tho mode indicated
for tho distribution of the daily weather
•ports. Tho chief signal officer says the
plan suggested scum to offer a moro im-
diato and extensive method of reaching
the whole interior and agricultural popu
lations of the United Stales with informa
tion iu which each citizen lias au interest
than any hitherto put iu use in any coun
try in the world. The plan of work is to
divide the territory east ot the Mississippi
into districts of about 200 miles iu diame
ter, each district having a distributing
point ut or near its centre, from which
two copies ot the reports will be mailod
daily to uii pout-offices accessible by mil
or mail-coach by 6 p. m. of each day. At
each post-office tho postiuuster is to post
one copy of each report as soon as re
ceived iu a frame, to bo furnisbod by tho
signal office, which frame will bo put up
iu a conspicuous part of the office, where
it can be seen and tho bulletins read by
the public without difficulty.
Tho second copy is intended for tho
personal use of the postmaster, and may
be disposod of in the mauuer lie thinks
Lest calculated to diffuse tho information •
it contained.
Tbo Uofitinnstor-Gcneral, heartily ap
proving the plau, has issued the follow
ing order, and says any further assistance
that may bo desired from his department
will bo most cheerfully given :
“Bobt-Okfice Department, Washing
ton, December 10, 1872.—Arrangements
have boon made between tho Bost-Office
uud War Departments by which one or
more of the daily weather reports issued
by the Signal Office will be furnished doi
ly to all post-offices that cau be reached
from the sevoral points of distribution
daily by mail. As these reports aro de
signed for the bouefit of tbo agricultural
as well us the commercial interests of tho
country, the Bostmaster-Goueral instructs
all pohtmustcrs receiving them to post
them immediately in the frames supplied
for the put pose by the Signal Office.
“John A. ('reswell,
4 ‘Bohtumster-G oneral. ”
Tbo Atlanta Constitution says of tho
Great Eastern Circus: “Tho proprietors
have dissolved copartnership within the
last few days in Selma. The horsos, ani
mals, etc., havo been sold at auction to
tho old partuorn. Tho elephant was
bought by Mr. DoIIaven for £10,000.
Six bay horsos brought £3,400. The den
containing a lioness and cubs, £6,085.
Tho Bengal tiger and leopards, £6,000.
The buffaloes, £400 each. The ring
horses sold from £500 to £1000 each, aud
everything else in proportion. Tho en
tire stock will winter at the Fair Oroands,
which has been routed at one hundred
dollars per month.
Tallahassee, December 16.
Editor Morning Nats:
The Board of State Canvassers were cn
gaged most of the last week in canvassing
the returns of tho electiou held on the 5th
of November. All tho returns, no matter
how illegal, which wero in favor of tbo
Radical, wore without much difficulty
counted. But in the case of Jackson
county, which, as published in all tbo pa
pers, aud as known to everybody, gave a
Republican majority of about 200, tho re
turns on tile, buth in the office of tbo
Secretary of State aud of the Governor,
had beeu changed by erasures and inser
tions, palpable on tho face of the papers,
so as to show a majority of about 500 for
tbo Democratic Giiborualorial candidate,
From the Rio Grande.
We have the Brownsvillo Ranchoro and
Sentinel with dates to the 7th inst., from
which we extract tho following:
Tho Ranchero in au editorial concern
ing Mexican depredations on the Lower
Rio Grande, says that for the pnst throe
years tho firms of Armendaiz, Neilson,
Schumachor & Eversinan, Milmo, J. San
Roman, U. E. Woodhonse, St. Marc, J.
II. Bahnsan aud others, representing not
less than forty millions of capital, have
been virtually idol simply on account of
tlio disturbed condition of tho border.
Asa natural consequence, adds tho Ran-
clicro, nil branches of industry suffered,
.steamboats havo beon idle and tho two
citios, Brownsville and Matamoros, have
suffered accordingly. Their streets have
been thronged with able bodied men liv
ing from hand to mouth, and according
nnd of about eighteen hundred ayainrt J to the assessment roll real estate has do-
Buruinu uud Walls, tho Radical Cougres-. predated at least fifty per cent.
sional candidates, leaving a Radical Stale
Senator and threo Radical Assembly men The Freshet.—A heavy freshet is
elected, and also n majority of about 2"<> ! swelling the rivers, and considerable dani-
for Grant. As soon as this ri turn was | nge may bo expected to result from it.
opened the fraud was repudiated by ; Tho Oostcnaula is higher than it has been
Messrs. Hilton, Brevard and McLellan, j known for sevoral years nnd is still rising,
who wore in attendance as attorneys in Many collars on Broad street are inunda-
behalf of Bloxhuiu aud tho Democratic {ted, nnd fenrs aro entertained that the
party ; tbo first of whom promptly made | water will roach tho iloors.
a motion that tho Board count the
actually cast—with a majority, as above
stated, ot about 200 for each of tho Radi
cal candidates ; which motion was adopt
ed. The changes attempted would not.
have effected tho strength of parties in
this Legislature, nor havo elected a Dem
ocratic Governor, lu other words, the
great objects which the Democrats hid at
stako—the election of Governor, majority
of the Legislature and Prosidenlal electors
would still have been defeated.
That the fraud, or very bungling at
tempt ut fraud, was tho work of the Radi
cals themselves, some of whom aro bit
terly inimical to Burmon and Walls, ad- j
mils of no doubt. The returns f
DoSoto is streaked with sluices as thick
ns Venice, nnd batteaux aro taking tho
placo of drays. The freshet seems to bo
general, and reports of disasters are be
ginning to come in. The Rome Railroad
has lost a hridgo over Dyke’s creok, and
tho trains are stopped. We oxpoct to
hear of similar damages on the Selma,
Romo aud Dalton Railroad.
[Rome Courier.
The Now Orleans Times says : Tho con
spirators against the people of Louisiana
are about realizing the truth of the old
adage, “The best laid schemes of men
and mice gang aft nglee.” Finchback,
having been used as nn instrument to
different counties are required by law to I further their views, now that ho finds
bo sent by mail, iu duplicates,to the Gov- ■ himself in power, turns upon his old
oruor and Seeieiary of State, both of j friends and proposes to go himself to the
whom are uofrioudly to Puruiau—uot . United States Senate. This is a little
without eau.se, particularly in the ease of | more than was bargained for, nnd opens a
tho Governor, whom Purmuu not long , new dissension through which, in obodi-
sinco threatened to cowhide. Whether j encc to another old adage, holiest mon
the charges were made while the papers i will come by their dues.
were in the hands of the post office olli-| *
ciuls ami male agents, or utter they reach- j Tho glass-blowers iu tho vicinity of
jruor aud Secretary and came , Boston are making quito a prolit-
ustody, is not quite certain, j able job out of the great tiro in the shape
ill of whom are Radi- ol curious relics. Their plan of opora-
nud explain" by whom J lion is to blow bottles and other vessels
ed the G<
into their
Will tucse parties,
cals, severally “rise
tho thing wus done
Had tbo alterations shown a majority
for tho Jackson county Democratic candi
dates for the Legislature,aud largo enough
to have elected Bloxham—thus giving
tho Democrats the Governor and llu
Legislature, that party might have beei
bouefitted by them. As it was, tho sue
cess of the fraud would havo been of tho
smallest possible consequence to them.—
Most of them would doubtless actually
prefer the absence of Barman iu Washing
ton, as a member of Congress, to his pes
tiferous presence* as an agitator aud in
cendiary within the State.
It remains to ho seen whether the Radi
cals who have the moans of doing it
through their handy instrument, the
United States Court, will ferrit out the
perpetrators of the attempted fraud, aud
bring thorn to justice. We think not.
The Dimhic Election in ArknnstiN.
In tlie Semite of the United States, on
Friday, Mr. Rico moved as an auiendmor t
his resolution for a special committee to
investigate the Arkansas election*;. Haying
lie did so in order to get the matter b* lore
tho Senate, llo then proceeded to detail
tlic allegations of fraud ngaiust the Re
publican officials in that State, charging
that tho returns were falsified to defraud
Conservative candidates of their election.
Mr. Clayton said ho wus sati.-rted that
the allegations ot fraud by his colleague
were incorrect.
Mr. Stitiinmn would not voto for this
proposition as an amendment to a matter
to which it was entirely foreign, but ho
thought that tho subject was a very prop-
or one for inquiry. Tliero wero two seats
of electors claiming tho light to cast the
voto of that State, and it was popor that
the Senate should ascertain which of
them had the right to cast the vote of the
Slate. He would favor referring tin-
matter to the Committee on Privileges
aud Elections, uud it' the committee saw
proper it could authorize a sub-committee
to undertake an investigation.
Bending furt her discussion, Mr. Windam
called for the regular ordor, the Indian
appropriation bill.
Tin* N<*w Orleans Usurpation.
Whilo President Grant is denying at
Washington any intention or desire to ty
rannize over the people of Louisiana or
to interfere with tho freo government ot
tho State, the federal authorities iu New
Orleans are committing outrage, lu which
uo people with a spark of mar hood in
their breasts can pulicutly submit. Tlio
Stuto government overthrown, State
Courts abolished or tho rigbtlul judges
on by force from the bench, ami now
suppression of the independent press,
aro the outrages that mark the piogrt
stops of this infamous violation of
uountitutioii aud tho laws. Tho New
'hub Times, having been bold and freo
spukeu in its denunciation of Judge Dur-
"s action, bus been seized and suppress-
by u United States Marshal on a
truiuped-up charge of fraud involving lif-
liniidred dollar*;, for which four
times tho amount was offered ns security,
uliiio a hundred limes the amount would
havo boeu forthcoming if necessary. Wo
trust that Bresideut Grant will now see
tho wisdom aud prudence of adopting
some method to undo the evil done by
the suporhtrviceublc zeal of the Attorney
General, and to compel tho United Slates
authorities to respect tho constitution and
tho liberties of the people. Tho Presi
dent, by his eagerness to disclaim any in
terference with tho Louisiana State gov
ernment, has shown a proper appreciation
of the limit of liis powers and duiios. It
is to be liopod thut Justice Bradley will at
once proceed to Now Orleans to supersede
Judge Durrell. This may accomplish
much good, ulthough we believe the most
effective remedy for the prosuut troubles
iu Louisiana would be the suspension of
both State governments uud the tempora
ry substitution of a military provisional
govoruuiout until tlio question ut ismio
between the contending tactions could be
settled by tho Court of last resort.—JV.
Y, Herald, 2 Ut.
Sharp Uailiouil Naiia^cmcut.
There is much excitement among tlio
stockholders of tho Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad, at the nmur.er in which
their interests havo beeeu mismanaged by
tho officers of the road. Tho stock, it
kloius, has all been paid up, yet tbo offi
cers have issued a circular assessing the
stockholders ton per cunt, ou tho par
value of the stock, aud stutiug that if the
money is not paid there is a possibility of
their losing the entire road. This is cor-
tuinly a startling announcement. Much
of this slock is held by widows aud
orphans, who nre not able to moot tho
new demand, aud whoso good money was
invested in tho road ou tho supposition
that its affairs would be honestly man
aged, aud that it would prove profitable.
A half million dollars iH noedod, and
surely, if tho officers of tho roud are men
in whom confidence is placed, they ought
to be able to borrow the money.
[Atlanta Herald.
' -
The Alabama State Journal of tho 22d
instant says that the epizooty is disappear
ing from amongst the horsos of Mont
gomery, and appearing among tho human
species. We havo uot yet heard of any
fatal attacks, however.
all
It of
ingeniously filled with all sorts of liquids,
from cheap whiskey to castor oil. Corks
are inserted, showing ovory degree of
burning, from a slight scorch to half con
sumption, while tlio contents havo tho
appearance of having remained intact.
These relics sell readily from twenty-five
cents upwards.—Hanlon Journal.
Delegate Hooper, of Utah, brings to
light an amazing geographical fact. Ho
h is a land-grab bill “to aid in the recla
mation of desert lands in the territories
of the United States." Tho surprising
circunistanco is that there aro any deserts
iu theso regions. So many gentlemen
anxious to bucomo Senators aud Gover
nors by tho erection of tlio Territories
into States liavo oxtolled their several
residences, that it is a painful surprise to
find these Western paradises but so many
ariil wastes after all. Tho shock is tho
greater when it is remembered how Ne
vada and Nebraska at ono very important
epoch moulded the destinies of tho Uni-
ted States. Tho fourteenth amendment,
sourco of so many troubles, could uot
have passed tho JSouato but for tho four
votes of those paltry States. —New York
World.
Decemheii 25th, 1872.—Yes, hero is
ohl Christmas right down upon ns again
in all tho “pomp and circumstance” of a
glorious jubilee. Bolls aro ringiug,
guns aro shooting, and crackers aro rat
tling out a joyous wolcomo to old Santa,
who is supposed to be coming heavily
laden with trinkets and words of good
cheer for the world of* “juvenility” in
general, and our portion of it in particu
lar. It is a glorious tiino for childhood.
Rich or poor, high or low, thero is a sym
pathetic chord that links all childron into
one common family. They all await
anxiously the coming of this “givy” sea
son ; and whothor times are lean or
Hush, all oxpoct something, and they
should havo it, if it bo but a tritlo. God
bless them. They have not yet learned
tho sordid ways of the world, nor boon
forced to try the bitter ways of self-denial.
Their tiiuo will como. Let them be joy
ous ob tho birds whilo thoy may, and ring
out tho merry carols of childish fresh-
3ss nnd innocence. Lot them be ro-
iudod of the groat gift of God to tho
urld, and whilo ou joying tbo liberality
of parents and friends, let them show
their gratitude to the great giver of every
perfect gift by hunting up tho poverty
stricken children of want and making
their hearts happy on this glad Christmas
morning.
To us, tho 4 ‘childron of n larger
growth,” Christmas brings not in its
train so much of brightness nor of joy.
Many of us have outlived our childish
enthusiasm, and now must find our hap
piness in living ovor tho past, or by en
tering into the zost of the little ones
uround us. Yet, whilo forced to battle
with tho storn realities of tho posing sea
sons, wo find much to inspiro gratitude
and lift us above the sloughs of despon-
duncy and regrot. True, we, as a people,
are poor, but whilo couutry, and life and
health, aud fuuiily are left, let us look up
iu adoring gratitude, and in a sprit of
truo thanksgiving reconsecrate ourselves
to God ami to duty.
To one and all wo send greeting the
wish for a merry Christmas!
About Tolling the Bridges.—We havo
conversed with a number of our hoavieBt
tux payors and most prominent mer
chants, and, to a man, thoy oppose the
tolling of the city bridges, os was pro
posed at tho last session of Council. In
stead of throwing obstructions in the way
of trade, they think nil avenues should be
left open aud freo, so that none, however
humble, may havo oxcuse to seek other
muikots. They would rathor be taxed to
have tho bridges repaired, than to shut
out or turn aside tho trade oi Lee and
Russell counties. Tho revenue to be
raised by tho proposed tolling will amount
to very little above the salaries of bridge-
keepers, and therefore cannot be maoh ot
an object. We throw out these hints thst
the City Fathers may consider well the
step they propose to take, especially whon
it is likely to encounter very strenaoaa
opposition.
Opened Feebly.—The demonstrations
lust evouing wero far beneath tha dignity
of thoso of former years. Not many per
sons wero on tho streots.and an oocaaiooal
explosion or rattling of a fantastlo’s ball
wero about all that could be hooid in a*
w»y of CUmtiuag merriment.