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The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN II. MARTIN Editor.
COLUMBUS^
TUESDAY DECEMBER 31, 1872.
—Tsr«n« or Matacrlption—
One W
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ont Jl.\.NtFA(TlHlM( AI»VASTA(iKs.
Wo alluded, the other tiny, to the effort
junking in California to manufacture the
Cotton raised in thnt State, and to the
conditions that would scorn to require
that cotton inai.ufaeturiiiK thero should
keep pi rt o with its production. We appre
hend that until manufacturing facilities
nro Been red, the culture of cotton in Cali
fornia niuut be restricted, bocauso of the
cost of transportation to the mills of Eu
rope or the eastern part of the United
States. 'To send it overland by the Pacif
ic railroads, or by steamer around (Jape
Horn, or by steamers and railroad via tbe
l'niintuu route, would bo bo great a tax as
to neutralize any advantage in the pro
duction secured by rich lauds and favor
able seasons. Our Southern planters
have, then, in tho present lack of cotton
factories in California, their strongest as-
anranco that a formidable rivalry in tho
production of the staple will not at once
commence on the Pacific slope; for ox.
perioneo seems to have conclusively
proved * tho adaptability of portions of
California to tho generous production of
cotton.
lint vc of the South have manufactur
ing advantages so much greater than those
of Calfornia that we haveouly to avail *»ur-
scl\* . of ih« hi to more than offsot any ad
vantages derived by tho Californians from
soil and climate. Ami wo believe it to bo
u doubtful matter wbother we can oil set
those advantages in any other way. Wo
have alluded to the i 'mndanoe of water
power and fuel in Die South, and to the
scarcity of both in Die portions of (.'ali
en cultiiio. Tho
parties are practically trying the scope
of the acU which ho has so persistently
denonuoed as unconstitutional and illegal?
Mr. .Stephens counsels submission to
the abitrary action of the Federal Court
in Louisiana, until it may be legally set
aside, and says that if it has made an er
roneous decision it is subject to revision
by tho Hupr« me Court of the United
•Status. lint tho Supremo Court of tho
United States has already refused to take
jurisdiction upon the first application,
I at Itultiuioro; in f..vor of lu.nl | and if it ahunld li> rojftar roach and act
upon an appeal made in another form, it
will ho too lato to remedy tho political
wrongs committed. 'The history of tho
Court for the last six or seven years does
not afford tho slightest hope that it will
over substantially correct tho wrongs of
tho Circuit Court in Ixjiiisiana. Relief
HON. A. H. wncrilKSH-OKI. OBAAT—ASH
T1IK LOtIHIAVt TUOI UM:.
The reader will remember that in Dio
Presidential canvass and election, just
over, Hon. A. 11. Htephens refused to co
operate with tho Democratic parly of the
country, for tho avowed reason, mainly,
that it did not distinctly continue tho
fight against tho lato Constitutional
Amendments and the Reconstruction leg
islation of Congress. The yen mil decla
rations of the Cincinnati platt
nfllr
self-government for the States, a strict
observance of the constitution, and the
largest liberty for the people, did not sat
isfy him. Ho scouted Mr. Greeley's ac
ceptance and definition of the platform,
because it held these demands “subject
to solemn constitutional obligations.
Nothing would satisfy Mr. Htephens but in that form and from that quarter is fully
opeless as reliof from any other opera
tion of the Reconstruction acts. Tbe
people of Louisiana are of course power-
less under the rcstiaint of Federal bayo
nets. Rut they seek at least to convince
tho country that the use of those bayonets
uas unconstitutional and illegal—a Fed
eral usurpation accomplished by military
u ! power under tho guise of enforcing a
j high-handed decree of a Federal Court,
to tho l*minmna trunklm I And it in ainHZing Hint Mr. HtophuliH, in
a re-affirmance of “tho true Jeffersonian
faith of constitutional liborty." The ces
sation of active warfare Upon the Amend
ments and the Reconstruction acts would
not do for his uncompromising spirit.
Remembering these things, wo were
rather surprised at the following remarks
of Mr. Stephens in his Atlanta speeeh,
which we copy from tho report
paper
1 now return
Ua'llral Knavery In Arkaanoa.
of his late
ii[i»lugibiiig fo
wor to subdue the
the local govorninen
ulapted
.1 at i
to bn
i an
il lo r consul ruble item in favor of Dio
south. DounPm.s Chilioso labor would
juiekly adapt itself to factory work. Rut
liven Chinese labor is not so choup in Die
I'nrilic States nu factory labor in the Kast-
i hi. I: is a fact, to bo deplored Dial Dio
labor of any portion of our population is
poorly remunerated, hrt wo must deal
is we find them. There aio
.nds of woi
I persons
a. I
and the reported interview between Jiidgi
Campbell and President Grunt yesterday, fotin<l exculpating the
Tins interview has given me light upon I
Die subject which I did not have before. • c
From this, it seems that General Grant j 1
has not assumed any illegal or unconstitu
tional Executive power in tho internal af
fairs of Louisiana. Ho asserts he lets
nut homed the employment of Die milita
ry forces thero only in the enforcem
ol judicial process. This has greatly
iiovud my mind. The trouble in Louisi
ana seems to have grown out of the pow
ers claimed under the Civil Rightt Kill,
or some other one of the reconst ruction
measures, so-called. Those measures, 1
need not assure you, J hold, and ever
shall hold, to bo unconstitutional. [Grout
applause. J
Jitit in accordance with the views 1 have
given yon, ho long as they are held to he
i, they should ho obeyed, as they
louts, should ho
act of the President
exercise of Federal
people and subvert
of a Southern State.
COTTON Olt I’KOt ISIONS I
'J his is the season when tho preaa of
the South commonly abounds with ad
vice to tho plauters to prepare for larger
corn and smaller cotton crops. Wo have,
perhaps, been as free in giving these ad
monitions as any otlior journalist; and
though it may norm to have been pre
sumptuous, tho fact that nouily all intel
ligent planters admit the theoretical cor
rectness of the policy thus urged, and
many of the most successful carry it into
xpoumh d by thoao clothed with judicial 1 practice, affords ii strong justification of
rno of the press.
i made
mly th
to them—they should be |
oiigh Die ponceful iiistrii- |
the (JoiihI it liti<
,Utl* Do
the p.
n< n and children
hi the South to
whom employment in cotton factories
would furnish a mentis of independent
support not iiow onjoyed. In California
Mich classes are much less numerous in
fact most people of all classes in Dial
country can find suitable employment at
good wages. The variety and profit of
industry there will prevent people from
engaging in factory work at rates near so
low uh there paid in tho Eastern States. We
have, therelore, unattainable eoiiliteibal-
ance for any advantages of California us a
eotton-prodiieiiig State. Rut we have to
only a limited extent, us yet, availed our-
selves ol those advantages ; and the ques
tion of a formidable rivalry ou llm l'aetfic
< oast in the production of cotton limy de
pond upon tho adoption by tho South of
the policy of combined production aud
manufacture.
At.\ nut a lion l s it ONUS.
Tho mi>- .n»n of an agent from Mont
gomery to the North, or to Europe, lor
selling two millions of del-
els of the State of Alahumn,
culls f«n notice ami explanation. Tin sc
bonds were ordered by the irregular Rad
ical Legislature sitting in the court-house
at Montgomery; tho act was passed while
this body was bolding Hepurato sessions
in tho court house part of tho day, and
lucmhoi . •pending Die balance of Die day
in session with the regular Legislature at
the Capitol, engaged in tho work of carry-
iug >’>H Oio “rumproiniiio" propmed by
the Attuuiey General of the United
States. The body Dial nulhori/.cd Dm
bonds diii not eontaMi a quorum of mom-
borsin both branches, was not in session
at the Capitol a • required by the constitu
tion, aud its members were ut Dm same
time participating in another legislative
body at Dm Capitol and striving to obtain
and control the organization of the same.
Unde r these circumstancus it is probable
that tho “liimuciul agents" will have a
lively time realizing money on those
bonds.
The municipal election in Americas on
Saturday last resulted in tho choice of II.
Ji. French for Mayor—ho receiving 1121
votes, aud T. M. Eurlow 297. John R.
Huuiil, R. E Cobh, S. J. Smith, R. i\
Tondec, J. N. Hart and James Friokei
wore elected Aldermen. Tho eleetiou
was closely contested, but tho contest was
not of n party character. H. D. Randall
was o’oetod Clerk and Treasurer.
lion. 1>. A. McCall, Judge of the Crim
inal Court of bullock county, Ala., died
ou Suturduy last.
Morris MoElligall, a police oific
Savannah, was shot while engaged in an
apparently placiul scuttle with other po-
lioemen, in the police barracks of that
city, on Tuesday night. \V. M. Stone,
policeman, was arrested as the party who
fired the shot. It is feured that McKlli-
gult is fatally wounded.
Officer MoKlligott, of Savannah, who
w as shot by u brother policeman us hereto
fore reported, has died of his wound. The
Coroner's jury had not rendered its ver
dict up to the date of the last Savannah
papers received.
should h
assailed
nmntalit
earthly power could ever make
Dmt they lire either right, junt or ( portod
tuliminl | Loud applause. | My mode ‘ ^
of assailing them, however, is not by vi- 1
olonee or by forcible resistance, but by
appeals, first to the courts ; just where
Dm appeal, it scorns in this case, has been
made. My mode of assailing is in the
forum of Reason and Justice, and if Gen
eral Grunt shall never do anything worse
thull to see to it, that the mandates and
decrees of the Federal judiciary arc prop
erly executed in liny part of this country,
I shall have noquurrrl with him. If the
Judge hi New Orleans has made an erro
neous decision it is subject of reversal by
the Supreme Court of the United States.
In the meantime, my advice to the people
of Louisiana would he to patinntly hear
the ills incident to that derision, just as
wi in Georgia have horno ills of u much
more grievous nature, until their redemp
tion, as ours has boon, shall bo effei ted
by the peaceful workings of the estab
lished instruiueululilicH of the Constilu-
We have now, in this connection, only
call the attention of cotton planters to
Huy Die fact that Dm plantc
of Ti
he preparing for a very largo
p in that Stale next year. They
liperiibuiidant corn crop this
most of them will have corn to
, so as to allow them to apply
their labor to cotton. Most
ii Georgia i ml Alabama, also,
re corn than usual -thanks to
Table seasons—and will next
year feel freer to do their Lust in the pro
duction of cotton. 'Those facts are wor
thy of consideration in “pilchiug the
crops” of 1873.
i luiido a
I year, and
1 hold ovc
i nearly al
| I’l'Mjl®™
v«ry In*
Washington, Dec. 23.—Tho revolution
ary acts of Judge Durell in Louisiana
have diverted public attention from a sim
ilar attempt to set aside tho popular vote
in Arkansas. The facts of that election
are not so well kuown os those of Louis
iana ; but they constitute a little more
ll.igrml outrage on popular light. Sen
ator Rice slates tho situation as follows :
“Tho Liberals outnumber « Adminis
tration party in ArkunrOM tally 2 to 1 ; but
ncaiiv 30,00*) of their votes after having
been registo*oil by tho present State ofti-
ci ds, were arbitrarily and wi* out notice
stricken off the registration books. Not
withstanding this tact and a large num
ber of fraudulent votes, the Liberals ear
ned a clear majority of Legislature and
their State aud Electoral ticket at the
regular polls. In order to ovorcoruo this
result the Clayton officials have stricken
off entire precincts tegulurly returned
and published by the county election
officers, until they make up a majority for
themselves. The Liberals also claim that
in Arkausas, of tho districts carried by
the l'o well-Clay ton party ut the regular
polls, tho result w is accomplished by
striking nanus fiom the registration
books. These voters cast their bullets at
separate polls held tor the purpose, and
uttiduvits of the votes ret used were made
according to the provisions of the en
forcement act. Counting theso ballots,
the Clayton party would have barely u
fourth part of tho Lcgn-Uturo. As the
Legislature will have ibo canvassing of
the returns for Governor and other offi
cers, tho criticul question is, who shall
control this body ?
The seats iu dispute will turn the ma
jority one way or the other. Tho Clay
ton men base their rights ou the certifi
cate of the ScOietary ol State; tho Liber
als say that this officer has tampered with
tho returns ; that tho two Houses must j fin Young
organize before 1m can furnish them with
a list of uiemheis; and they rest tho right
of their members to the disputed seals
upon tho returns as made by tho county
election officers and published by tlmiu
conspicuously and according to law."
All these facts were duly sot forth by
Mr. Rico iu the Senate the other day,
and were but feebly denied by bis col
league, i'owell Clayton. So confident
was Mr. Rice of his uhilily to prove these
fuels that he oulrouted the Senate to send
down to Arkansas a committee composed
of five Senators, no matter whom, to
make an luvcsug t.on and report the
truth. From present appuurunces llio
it 2d of Juniuiry will present a criticul
il exciting occasion in Little Rock. It
supposed that tho beaten parly now
holding the Statu Government will ut-
pt to take posHHCssioti of the Slate
Capitol by the State luihtiu, and to p
out Urn entrance of enough of the Liber
al members of the Legislature to give
their pui tizuiiH u majority. 1 his proceed-
11 not he submitted to, the Liberals
A Good M«o llu Fillei.”
Editor Columbu* Enquirer: Seeing a
notice of “Revelations of a Pardoned Kn-
Klnx Priaoner who Arrived in Washing
ton City in a Dying Condition,” I am
prompted to write to you. It was my
fortune to know this man,
REUBEN GRIFFIN YOUNG,
of Youngsvillc, Ala., iutiiuutely and close-
*y-
First, a more perfect, unassuming gen- ; j 1H!i i
Reman I never knew—kind, generous and nmnt
courageous. |
Second, as a father and husband, be
wok all you could ask for to make a home
happy and contentod—a pleasant place
Ihe Arkimu Tuslf.
The Liberal* Invoke the Federal Court
- -lsiviniana Tactic* Turned Againut
the Benin.
Littlf. Rock, Dec. 24.—The lion. Woi.
, M. Harrison, candidate on tho Reform
' State ticket for the position of Associate
I Justice of tbe Supreme Court at tbe re-
cent election, to-day filed a complaint bc-
| f ro JI. C. Caldwell, United Stales Dis-
I lnet Judge for the eastern district of Ar-
I katisas, praying for an injunction to pre-
| vent M. L. Stephenson ond E. J. Karl,
tho Republican candidates whoso election
announced by tne State Depart
ment, from exercising the duties of the
office, and a’Jio asking for a restraining
order to prevent Acting Governor Radley
and Secre'.aiy of Slate Johnson from al
tering or changing tho original returns,
a maudaruns to compel
BAlLNtrS ILNAGfcUIK Bl'BNKD AGAIN !
The Montgomery, A hi., papers report
tho unprovoked and malicious stabbing
of a young man of that eity numod It.
Stiufcd, by a parly of drunken men who
met him on tho street. Mr. Htiofel did
not know the parties who assaulted him,
Tho Legislative Committee on Direct
Trade aud Immigration In M a meeting
in Macon in concert with some leading
citizens, ou Friday. They udopted re
port to the Legislature, which urges the
necessity und connection of Direct Trodo
aud Immigration, and recommends the
organization of a bureau to toko charge
of lhuso mailers, and tho rovival of the
old Stale law of i860, giving a subsidy of
$10U,(kMt to any steuiiihhip line which will
establish a line of vessels betweeu this
Slate And Europe.
l’artics in tho Florida Legislature nro
very closely divided, according to the
Radical announcement of the result. The
returns from Hr \ard amuty elect a Con
servative Senator,and this makes tho Sen
ate stand 13 Radicals to 11 Deoiooiats.--
Iu tho House tho Uadiculs have a majori
ty of two. Rut the Maiinnna Couritr
nays that one of the Republican Senator*
is a Liberal Republican, and one of their
Representatives is an “Independent" up
on whose vote no puilv cau count. So
tho Radicals are not sure of a working
majority in cither branch.
The Atlauta Constitution learns from
tbe Keoper of the Penitentiary that six tee u
convicts have lately boon added to tho
working force of Graut, Alexander A Co.,
frhoae united terms of servitude amount
toB4 years, and for whom, at tbe per
> Rtntc wili receive $4,2W.
Now, wo ask, is thero a singlo Hontciico
f tho Libel al amt Democratic plat form
winch counselled submission to the
mendiiintilH und tho Reconstruction
icasmcH, farther than thin? On the
mtrary, did it not demand “rt return to
Dm constitutional Imitations of power";
aud did not Horace Greeley, iu his letter
ilatice, declare that *‘11)0 civil
authority should ho supremo over the
litary", and that “there shall ho no
Federal subversion of the internal polity
f tho several States and uiuiiieipulilies,
hut that each shall lie left free to enforce
the rights and promote the well-being of
its inhabitants by such inuansastho judg
ment of its own people shall prescribe"?
Could Horace Greeley have possTbly
chosen more comprehensive and incisive
language than tins (master rhetorician uh
lie was) to meet the case that afterwards
occurred in Louisiana? Would not his
interpretation of the platform have irre
sistibly led him to n drain Federal inter
vention in tho local all airs of that State
and “Federal subversion of its internal
polity"? Ulearly it would; and wo now
find the Tribune, edited by his late Lib
eral Republican associates, doiiouneiiig
ami opposing Gen. Girnt's interference
in the affairs of Louisiana.
Rut Mr. Stephens says that “General
Grant has net assumed any illegal or
unconstitutional Executive power in the
internal affairs of Louisiana"; that “the
trouble seems to have grown out of pow
ers claimed under the Civil Rights hill, or
aonio other olio of the Reconstruction
measures." Tho “trouble" grew out of
the oxecutiou of the laws of Louisiana.
The contest betweeu Gov. Warmouth and
his opponents was about tho constitution
of the State hoard of canvassers of tho
election- a beard nppoiutod under, and
subject to, State laws only. The Civil
Rights hill could have had nothing to do
with it, itml if any of the Reconstruction
laws did, it must have been the so-called
Enforcement act. The defeated Radical
candidate for Governor upplied to tho
Federal Court for a restraining ordo
against the regular State board of can
vussers from making their returns, und
against tho Secretary of State from re
iving any returns hut thoso made by the
irregular Radical board. The Court not
>uly granted this restraining process, but
directed the United States Marshal to take
possession of the Stuto cupitol and forbid
the entrance to it (ou tho day for the
assembling of the Legislature) of all per
sons not certified by the Radical board to
be elected members, but “to ullow ingress
ami egress to aud from tho public offices
in said building of persons entitled to the
same." Ry this order the Federal Court
virtually ehcttd a Legislature for the
State of Louisiana. Ry this order Fed
eral bayonets were brought iuto requisi
tion to overawe aud defeat the people in
any attempt to reassert or regaiu their
rights. The Uresident is tho oomiuauder-
in-ebief of the army of the Uuited States,
and this use of liia soldiery was substan
tially his act. Yet Mr. Stephens eauuot
see that General Grant has “assumed
any illegal or unconstitutional Executive
power in the iuternal atVsirs of laniisiana"!
If his act was constitutional, what pro
vision is it that allows it ? If it was made
legal by the Civil Rights lull, or some
other Reconstruction act, how comes it
that Mr. Stephens now has so much re
spect for acts which he “hold-t to be
utterly unconstitutional"? If unconstitu
tional, cau they legalize tho President's
action ? Horace Greeley would not have
regarded thorn os authorizing the acts of
the Federal Judge and the President. Ilia
Liberal Republican friends do not con
sider those acts os justifying any such
proceedings, hut to a man denouuoe them.
Even some of Gen. Grant's Republican
supporters denounce them. Is Mr. Sto-
phous determined to differ from them at
all events, however inconsistent or sur
prising bis antithesis may seem ? Is this
tbs way to prove that be is not a “Bour
bon" but a proyremonUt—“toting bis
owu skillet" sgaiu while tbe opposing
r give It
nuvuru i
in any oil
id danger*.
ilk
sound is
J
cr of tho mb
y horses and
iu effects
for tlio homo circle. Ah a father ami »■»■> I™1»« *■> court the origin.* re-
, . . , ... . ... turns, statements, etc., in reference to
friend, ho was indulgent “to a fault. Him ^ _ eleotioi
family was ever a sourco of perfect de
light to him.
Third, os a business man and trades
man, he wiiH ever regarded as courteous,
prompt, fair, honest, and disposed to
servo his friends at all tiinea. Charity to
to the poor, punctuality and kindness,
were his watchwords.
I boarded with him nearly twelve
months, and I know whereof I spook. I
cannot bclievo him guilty of nuy crime
ugaiusl his county. State or country know
ingly. 1 knew his son, Rmgold Taylor
Young, only as a boy, to bu kind at.d
obedient to his parents.
To the family and friends of K. G.
Young, I tender my heartfelt sympathies,
for truly “a good man has fall* n"; and I
cannot but say, with ell his friends who
knew him, that tho blood ot Reuben Giif-
is upon tho heads of those
pposod to good government,
and I fully believe they will !«• punished.
“Vongoauce is mine, auitli ihe Lord.
Yours truly,
JIlllAM .
'I lie Si'hool Kuml.
'The following circular has just been
sent to the various county treasurers by
the Stato School OoinmisHioiiors :
Dkpaktmknt ok EnrcATroN, •
Atlanta, Ga., Deo. 23, In72. i
To 'The County Treasurer Co:
Deah Sia—I tako pleasure in announc
ing to you that thero is now ready for dis
tribution .*100,000 of tho fund raised
from tho tux authorized by “An act to
provido for tbo payment <>f tho d<*bt due
to teaehers and school off! ers who did
' j service under the Public School Law in
The bid charges tho Governor, Socrota-
j ry of State, Registrar, Clorks aud Judges
of election with confederating together
and fraudulently depriving thousands of
citizens of the right to vote, of changing
and altering the returns and preventing
returns from four counties by which com-
i pl.iiuant avers he was deprived of the
i benefit of |f),0tH) votes,
j Counsol moved for a temporary injunc
tion until the motion could be heard aud
argued, on the ground tho defendants
would deface tho records after being ap-
prised of these proceedings, uule»H re
st, lined from doing so.
Judge (.’aidwell refused the temporary
injunction, but directed that tho parties
bo served with a notice and a copy of tho
complaint, ami he would bear the matter
on .Monday next.
School 1 swm of Alabama.
The following were passed by tho Board
of Education and have been signed by
the Governor:
One empowers the Superintendent of
| Education to remove comity superintend-
1 outs of i ducation on proof of their being
! guil’y of grossly immoral conduct or
drunkenness, and provides that ho shall
till vacancies caused by death or removal
I y i.j p.uutmeiit, on the recommendation
oi both members of the board of direc
tors in the county in which said vacancy
may occur. *!f the board fail to recom
mend or agree, he shall appoiut.
A no'her act repeals tho law providing
for tIk- election of a county superintend
ent and two directors every two years.
Another provides that county superin
tend. nN shall, on receipt of uchool funds,
|>;.b!i. h the u; portionim nt of each town
ship in a county paper, or if thero be
none, by a poster at tho county site.
Another abolishes directors after its
iar 1871," approved August I
lislribntive part of your c
—, for which a warrant
i in your favor by tho Goveri
WMH.ji reHulvuil uut Iu b« tbun out 1 k.Mn.nnrrtu'l"rntraMl'llon
pas
The Marianna (Fla.) th
reports Dio death of i
in tiles iu its section froi
the opizooty, ami Hays that the injury to
the farming interests, if tho disease contin
ues, will ho fearful. 11 also learns that Ihe
cattle in Jackson county are afflicted with
a disease thought to he tho black tongue,
that large numbers have died, ami the
inulady still rages.
thk nunid-NioN cm kick.
This staunch and popular old paper-
vigorous and flesh at the ago of tlirco
scoro years and ton is offered for salo; a
severance of partnership rendering such a
hi 'e nocoiisary. This is a lino opportuni
ty for profitable investment in the news
paper business, ns the popularity and
prestigo of tho Couritr could easily bo
maintained by a purchaser of tho proper
qualifications.
Kit
Culture hi Will < smlimi.
ipondeut of the New
uloH from Wilmington
York
Tribune
lows:
North Carolina r»co fields, com
prising the richest lauds in the Stato, aud
iipilblo of producing .iOui 500,(H)() to I,-
000,000 bushels oi g.ain a year, are all
covered with reeds and hushes, their
ditches filled with mud, lue djkes lotted
away, and rice is no longer a staple pro-
duet or an article o. e .port. Thirty years
ago the rice fields of the ('ape Fear river
produced a crop of 200,000 bushels, tho
most of which was shipped to Northern
cities, whore it wiih cleaned and prepared
for market.
Fifteen years later, just before tho
breaking out of the war, the jield of the
same region had increased to 500.000
bushels, and at tho time there wore sev
eral mills iu \\ iliuiugton in which the ncu
was cleaned before it was sent coastwiso
to Now York or Bttlliuioio. or shipped di
rectly to foreign ports. Ju 1S71 lice was
planted ou only one or tw o farms, anutho
entire crop was only 10,000 bushels—less
than tho amount consumed in the Stato—
and this year three plauters ouly have
ventured to put iu u crop of rice, and
although the yield to tho aero will be tho
greatest remembered by tho oldest rice
planters around Wilmington, the crop will
not exceed 40,000 or 50,000 bushels.
An Ol'TUAOK.—Wo learn from the Lou
isville Ledger that Judge Samuel of Rome,
Ga., was arrested aud placed iu tho sta
tion house at Lexington, Ky. 'The Led
ger denounces the act as a wanton and
inexcusable indignity. Tho accouut
states that upon the arrival ot the Ken
tucky Central train at Loxiugtou at uoou
yesterday, a detective, named Ren. Mo-
Murtv, (a smart Aleck in his hue) got on
boarii aud approached Judge 0. G. Sam
uel, of Rome, Go., in a very rough and
uugeutleuiauly manner. The following
conversation ensued:
Detective—“Your name is Taylor?"
Judge—“No, air."
1>. “Did you got ou this train at Paris,
this morning ?"
J. “No, sir. 1 got on nt Enuiuga De
pot, hut chunged at Pans."
1). “Von said thou, that you did not get
aboard at Paris, und your tale will uot
do ?’’
The detective thou advanced upon the
Judge aii if to take hold of him, when
tho latter retreated a few steps aud put
hia hand iu his |>ocket. McMurty called
for help, aud iu a moment afterwards
Judge Samuel was thrown violently from
tho cars aud takeu to a police stution,
where he remaiued until a lute hour be
fore his frieuds were notified of his con
dition. He was then released without
any sort of trial or explanation of the
brutal treatment he had received.
The uieu who urresied him drew navy
revolvers and presented them at the
Judge's head, but exhibited uo budges,
warrants or other emblems of authority.
Judge Samuel had receutly beeu to St.
Louis iu attendance upon the Commer
cial Convention as a delegate from hia
city. He was very naturally and justly
indignant at the outrageous treatment he
received.
A Remarkable Mutiny.—Halifax, X.
.S’., Dec. 21.—William WaUdoy, colored
steward of the brigantine Union Star, of
Parrishoro, having had a disagreement
with Cnptaiu White, at Speucer s Islaud,
in tho Bay of Fundy, a few days ago, At
tempted to burn the vessel and kill the
officers and crow, llo stupefied all bauds
while they wero sleeping with muriatic
acid, and thou set fire to tbe vessel in the
hold. Before he could extricate himself
he suffocated iu the smoke. The captain
awakened in time to arouse the crew and
extinguish the fire, aud Woteley was the
only person who lost his life.
if their election. Whether tfioio will bo
a collision or not between the two parlies,
no one can predict, but it is probublu
there will he two Legislatures and two
Governors. 'ihe Clayton revolu ionsts,
however, ill colh.etiug luxes will find that
the laX'payeiH against them and others
will be aide to raise twenty dollars to
their olio. In view of these contingen
cies the possible intervention of the Pres
ident becomes an interesting question.
Senator Rico haH had during the past
week several interviews with the Attor
ney General upon this subject, aud he is
much gratified at findiug wlmt are the
views of this officer. lie stated to-day
that the uupresHiou he derived from the
remarka of tho Attorney General to him
was that he thought all the members of
the Legislature ought to he seated who
had the majority of tho votes actua'ly
given or tendered, and that he did uot
approve of the urbitrury method by whieh
Votes had been stricken from the regis
tration lists, aud whole precincts thrown
out by tho Uluytou officials. With respect
i use of tho Uuited Status troops,
ply of tiro Attorney Gcuernl was,
they would only bo employed to prevent
a collision, uml to aid the marshal in en
forcing the process of the United States
Rico strougly urged upon
the Attorney General to send ilowu olio
of his own officials to investigate all the
facts of tbiH election which are of record,
and to report the same to him for his in
vest igatiou; hut tho Attorney General
replied that he hud no fumh out of which
to pay such an agent. Senator Rico is
satisfied on tho whole with the present
statements und views of the Attorney
Geucral, and is, moreover, confident that
Gun gross will order an investigation, and
says that the facts uro so dear that tho
Liberals will succeed in installing their
officers and securing their rightful power
iu the Stuto Legislature. lie says tho
people do not meau to give tho matter
up, but will persist until they get their
rights recognized. Mr. Rico will start in
a day or two for Little Rock, and proba
bly remain thero until tho present trou
bles are eiulod.
Four IVmotiH llronucil la Hall Count).
Gainesville, December 24. —One of
the saddest occurrence that we have been
called on, for a long time, to record, hap
pened some eight miles north of Gaines
ville, Hall county, iu this Slate, on Fri
day last. An old gentleman, by tho name
of Litilotou I vie, w ho resides some nine
miles from Gainesville, had gone down
to the neighboring county of Ranks ufter
his daughter, Mrs. Tapp, aud her tw o lit
tle children, to carry thorn to his home
to spend tho christmus holidays.
Tho ruin that fell iu such torrents on
Thursday night hud ruued tho water
courses considerably, and us Mr. Ivio
neared his home lie had to cross Little
River, that was spread out on oithor side,
and presented a very dangerous appear
ance. Being well acquainted with the
ford, ho ventured iu with las little wagon
and yoke of oxeu. Mrs. Tapp und her
two children uml Mr. Jouus were all that
were iu tho wagon. 'Tho water was very
deep, and uo person being uear to roudor
them succor, they were drifted down
stream, and the wagou lodged against a
foot log und some brush. When the
neighborhood was informed of what had
happened, a considerable number of poo-
plo collected to try to rescue the dead
bodion. They were all found
agon.
Mr. Ivie was takeu out, hut it seems
that the other throe bodies fiouted out of
the wagon wheu ho wus lifted up, and
have uot siuce been found. The ueigh-
bora uro still searching for them, and
hopo if not before, they will fiud thorn
when tho water fulls within hauks again
and becomes calm. The catastrophe robs
the fireside of Mr. Tapp, who resides two
miles west of Homer, Ranks county, of
all ou earth uear and dear to him. Mr.
'lupp we are informed, is a very worthy,
poor, hard-working mau. Mr. Ivea was
some seventy-five years old—a very good,
quiet citizen. We tender to tho bereaved
of the two families our heartfelt sympa
thies. —zltlaant Conaiit ution.
legal
of the '
default i i
employ .
1. If there has been no r<
enumeration of tho school population of
your county, thero cau be no distribution
under the law.
2. If the amount of tho school deb* in
the county has not been report, d to this
office, thero can be no distribution till
that report is made by tlm proper officer.
3. If tho debt reported ia loss th in Dm
pro ruta going to tlm county, only the
amount of Dio debt can bo drawn.
In tho first two cases the whole pro
rata, and in the last excess of it over the
debt will remain in tho Treasury of tho
Stato to tho credit of tho county.
In all other cases tho whole amount may
ho druwn.
For tho distribution of Dio fund aft. r * i
it roaches tho county, I givo tho two fol
lowing rules ns, in my opinion, are dodu-
ciblo from tho provisions of tho law :
1. Each County Commissioner w ill ho
entitled to receive, from tho county's pro
rata, an amount which t ears the same ra
tio to tho entire pro rata that his claim
j boars to the cut ire school debt of tho
county.
2. The remainder must he apportion'd
among tho sub-districts in the propottiou
of tho number of children in enrh be
tween the ages of six and twenty ..no
years, aud must then be paid out to law
ful claimants in proportion to tho amounts
of the several claims.
When any County 'Treasurer cannot at
tend in person to receive his warrant and
draw Dio money thorcon, the same may
lie done by executing to houio otic u Pow
er of Attorney to represent him.
Whether the warrant is applied f*»r in
person or by an Attorney in fact, the
County Treasurer must he identified, as
such, by a certificate over the signature
and boaring the seal of the Ordinary of
his county.
(IrsTAvt'K J. Gun,
State School Commissioner.
:r gives tho Superintendent of
•n powi r to bring suit against all
• g school officers, and authority to
er toqnires that after Juno, 1873,
< uiity Mipurinteti lenta shall have an
•ffi e at the county aito, and that they
hull, on Saturday of each week, be pro-
ent at uml keep open their offices for
reusin'!mg btiNiiienu with the officers aud
curlier -d tho free public school.
Another extends the term of offico of
• row nt county superintendents of eduea-
urn until after Dio next besMon of tho
i iard of Education.
Another provides that after tho 1st diy
>f January, Is73, county superintendents
iml township trustees ot tho froe public
jchools Khali closo all tho free public
cho'-l.s in their respective townships and
•ountn-s, and shall employ uo teacher in
any public school until they shall be iu-
y tho Superintendent of Public
Instruction that funds have been provided
|.»r the prompt payment of aaid teachers,
and until the said Superintendent shall
uuthori/e said county superintendents und
township trustees iu cuch county to open
free public schools therein.
pnb ic
lot. '
! of the
I coll d
holt.mi Unit on Top Three I'.ojs Make
I w.
i H»'*R
i.lany An
r»NH the MhniiNfcippi.
21.—Last night and
is morning wore tho coldout of tho sea-
n, tho mercury falling to 8 degrees be-
w zero by the Signal Servico thormoin-
cr, and from 12 to 1*. degrees below by
o ordinary instruments. To-r'ght,
jwuvcr, tho temperature is much tmld-
, being several degrees above zero,
lie river above tbo bridgo piers is frozen
rong enough for tho passage of teams,
id the Trausfcr Co.'s are laying a plank
Midway on tho ico preparatory to tho
ansfer of freight. Tho river below tho
ridge is open for a distauco of several
.ticks, and tho ferrios are doing their
Douohki.tv, Doc. 10, l.-'72.
Editor Albany Arm—Deau Sn::
have hoard a grout deal said about lh>
hard tiinoa, uml tho bottom rail getting j
on top, and I have boon bothered to ^
know whut it all moans. 1 think 1 have i
stiuck it, however. Tho wooibut Loys
and othurs who wont to work utter tho
surrender, are tho parties that are getting
ou top and solving tho vexed problem.
They are tho ones that are getting the
greenbacks uud greenbacks constitute tlm
li ver that turns the wheel of furtuno. 1 i
give one example :
Throe sons of T. J. II., of Worth conn- I
ty, this year, with two mules, raised 20 !
bales of cotton, aud 7*H) bushels of corn, j
besides oats amt potatoes iu abundance. !
They paid out about tj*50 for labor in j
chopping out aud pickiug, and after set- ;
tling all expenses, including bagging, |
tios, bacon, Ac., they netted over & 1,200,
and are ready to begin another your s la
bors.
Ibis is but one of many similar exam
ples iu Worth and Dooly that have fulicu j
under my immediate observation this sea
son, and it puts me in mind of old times, j
when hoys had to work. 1 wish l had a
daughter to givo to one of those young |
ones when ho gets old ouougli to marry.
Tho mdustrious, working faithful boys j
of this couutry are going to get on top, |
and no mistake. Labor and energy will .
plaoo them therein spito «t destiny. . „, ,
They will own the lauds now growing up j l mu ' nc 8 ’ , *”' v »" ‘ '
iu sedge, and cultivate them too, for it is
fact, that where the white people are
orkiug aud attending to their business,
the freedmeu work well also; and such
plauters ore milking money.
Ben and Ruck.
Tin* Florida
.t L* gislalure stands at present,
iiii"d and declared by the Stato
Senate, 13 Reputdicans, 11
ives; Assembly, 28 Kcpubli-
Conservatives--giving tho Re-
n majority of six on joint 1ml-
( 'oiihit vat ives elected a member
> mbly in Brevard county, who
Uot I. declared elected because tho
is of tlm county wore not befuro the
Hoard. Counting this member, the
rvat ives have 25 iu the Assembly.
Mild bo observed, too, that the vote
evard elects u Conservative Senator
tl.o Twenty first District, ho that had
•turns (tom that county been in, as
diotild have been, tho Conservative
id ot ti..' Republican Senator would
been declared elected and the Sen-
ould stand twelve Republicans nnd
e Conservatives. Thero can hardly
ny doubt that whou tho Legislature
, the Conservative Souator from the
itv-first District will ho ablo to show
.; tun so conclusive that ho will ho
<1. whou tho Republicans will haven
rity of only threo ou a joint ballot.
[ Floridian.
['hai. Wealth of tue Uni-
Tho following are the lead-
ions of agriculture iu the Uni
uud Teiritories by census of
New Yohk, Deo. 24.—Baronin's mnse-
u and menagt i ie, on Fourteenth street,
near tbe Academy of Music, was burned
this morning. The fire commenced about
' lock a. m. Iu half an hour the
entiro building, though constructed of
iron, was iu ruins. Tbe fiauies quickly
s; read to the buildings ou either side.
Grace Chapel, on the easterly side, was
burned to tbe ground, and tbe Lawrence
mansi. n, on the westerly side, was seri
ously damaged. The fire ran through tbe
tdock to I3th street, destroying the car
riage factory of Nimer A Stevens aud
thut of F. Grote. The loss will amount
to half a million dollars. Another ac
count says the loss will reach a million of
dollars. The only animals saved from
the menagerie are a camel aud an ele
phant. Tbe cause of the fire is unknown.
Tbe following are additional particulars
of the burning of RArnnm's: Wios, a
police officer, at 4:10 a. m., while on his
patrol, noticed the fire burning through
the roof of tbe circus, immediately over
win re the giraffes were kept, und imme
diately after tbe animals and Lirds begat
scrcetcbing and howling in a terrific mau
nor. Alarms were soon sounded, but tbe
llnines spread with such rapidity that al
most before the firemen could gel tho
water ou, Barn urn's circus was a thing of
tbe past. The firemen report that the
roars of the animals were frightful du
ring the short time that they lasted. Two
elephants aud a camel were the only uui-
mals saved. When these were led out by
their keepers, they wero given a largo
space by tho crowd witnessing the fire,
although the auimuls were very docile,
conh'dering the excitement on ail sides.
Tbe front buildiug was two stones and
composed nearly altogether of corrugated
iron and wood. The structure burned,
however, as though it was a tinder box.
Ihe firemen and others were unable to
stand within a hundred feet of the turn
ing tui.ding, the heat being so intense.
The wiudows of the Academy of Music
wero cracked and broken with the heat,
tho doors wero blistered and the bill
hoards iu front of the Academy were
burned ou that side toward tte circus.
Nothing could be done to save tho ani
mals. Grace cliApol was wholly consum
ed, only tbe front walls being left stand
ing. It was very much feared that tho
Academy of Music which is directly op
posite, would also bo consumed. It ev
idently would, hud not the wind chuuged,
which caused the fire to extend across to
Thirteenth street, destroying ou its way
the large CArnnge manufactory of Stevens
A Co., aud several private dwellings. No
lives are reported lost. Tho tiro next
spread to the residence of 51 rs. Lawrence,
consuming it, then an iron flout building
occupied by F. Grote, an ivory dealer,
whieh, with a rear building occupied by
the same were bolh destroyed. Thence
it sj read to Miucr A Stephens' carnage
fact* ry, on 'Thirteenth street, the
portion of which was burned, with thir
ty thousand dollars worth of carriages
Curlay h carriage factory, adjoining, was
also slightly damaged. Baruum s lossun
are variously estimated at from one t.uu
tired to threo buudred thousand. Barnum
is said to he in New Orleans, 'i he 1<
to tho Lawrence estate is $20,000, ins
*•*1. Grote's lots is $300,(810, insured
$120,000. Reed *k Co., varnish den
lost all their fixtures aud stock. Jackson
A Co., dealers iu fringes, lost ull their
stock. Kowworth, manufacturer of pi-
lino-string**, lost all his stock.
Thousands of people visited tho ruins
duriug the day, snd a large force of po-
hco was on duty to keep the firemen from
being impeded ia their dnty. It is re
ported that Barnaul's insurance on the
animals was ouly $25,000, the two ele
phants rnd camel saved covering one half
of thut.
LAiEB.
It appears that Rai.ium's insurance on
his building and its contents is in the
neighborhood of $00,(88). In his report
for November, fire marshal McSpodou
called attention to the unsafe condition of
Rarnum's .Museum, nnd the danger of the
surrounding propel ty from it.
The men who slept iu the museum
th ew open tbo doors opening ou 14th
street, and two of the performing ele
phants, Jeanette and Betsy, and u camel,
walked ont. Thest were the only auimais
that escaped. Tho remainder, terror-
stricken by the tlames sweepiug toward
their cages, tho heat uud stilling smoko,
dashed madly against the iron bars that
confined thorn or crouched iu the cornois
of their cage, ovoreuiuo with fear.
Tho performing elephant, Pedro, a
magnificent specimen of liis kind who ar
rived hero only hut wcok from Hamburg,
ns securely tastoiod by chaius on his
foro feet. Unavariing efforts wore made
to uudo these aud the keepers were
obliged to leave him to h : s late. llis
shrill trumpeting could be heard for a
considerable time after the advancing
ffaiiios had driven away those who had
vainly tried to rescue him.
Tho following is a list of tho animals
burned : one elaphant; four grades, sev-
six camels aud dromedsnes: two magnifi-
ent Abysininn lions; three sea lions, the
only ones attached to a menagerie, two
white Polar boars; two Bengal tigers; one
African leopard; oie Asiatic Yak; one gnu
horned horse); one chacenia, the largest
of tho baboon trd>«; the celebrated happy
futnily, consisting of a number of uui-
mals, among them a racoon, rat, dog, cat
and other small animals, and a number of
birds living together in tho same cage; a
lurgo collection of apes, gorillas, mon
keys, raccoons and small animals: peli
cans, ostiiches aud other rare birds; five
largo anacondas and boa constrictors iu a
cage.
One hundred ami fifty persons are
thrown out of employment. All the per
formers lost their wxrdrohes and effects.
Grace Church was valued at $75,000, in
sured for $00,000.
Mr. UeutwcU'B Negotiation*.
Washington, December 23, 1872.—
When, on tho 17th inst., Secretary Boat-
well gsve his statement to the committee
on ways aud means concerning the nego
tiation of the bonds authorized by the act
of July 1870, he was asked by Mr. Dawes,
the cbairmaD, to state what v.as to
done in the future. He responded that
the proposition before him was a verbal
one, made by Jay Cooke, or by his broth
er, Governor Cooke ; perhaps both bad
spoken to him about the matter. As he
understood them, they did not propose to
change the arrangement in any way.
Their proposition was to go on precisely
as they went before. The proposition
was to take three hundred millions of five
per cent, bonds ou the same terms as the
others were negotiated. Mr. Cooke in
formed him thut the Rothschilds had
agreed to go into the negotiations, and to
strengthen it by their influence. He un
derstood that they bad an idea that when
they disposed of the five per cents, they
could go ou and dispose of tbe four and
u-balf per cents, in the same way.
/
Impro
Lunatic Asylum.—The newly appoint
ed Board of Trustees met at the Asylum
last week, aud elected tho following offi
cers for the ensuiug year:
Superintendent—Dr. Thos. _ . Green.
1st Asst. Physioiau—Dr. T. O. Powell.
2d Asst. 1‘hvsicion—Dr. T. H. Kenan.
Steward and Treasurer—E. D. Brown.
Apothecary—Wiu. A. CoUiuc.
Assistant steward—John A. Orme.
We learn that tho offioo of Third Assis
tant Physician was abolished, and that
tho salaries of most of the officers were
increased aud hereafter they will not be
allowed to draw rations from the Institu
tion.— Cnion d: Recorder.
They attempted to kill a book Agent in
Omaha last wcok. He was robbed,thrown
iuto the river, kuockcd off tho cars, pitch
ed from a high bridge iu the river again
but in two hours after came rrouud with
a now illustrated edition of the Rible, and
tried to get the subscription of tho leader
of the attacking party.
In a characteristic note to the Pall Mall
Gazette explaining his position on the
subjeot of capital puuishiueut, Mr. Rua-
kin says: “If ever I murder anybody—
and, indeed, there are numbers of people
I should like to murder—I won't say that
I ought to be bung; for I think nobody
but a bishop or a bank director can ever
be rogue enough to deserve hanging; but
I particularly, and with all that is left me
of what I imagine to be sound mind re
quest that X way b« iwmedifttely shot'
Since the abovo was in type, the writer
informs us that two youug girls of Worth,
residing uear Gin Town, brought to mar
ket yesterday the last of their crop—be
ing the seventh bale. Only thiuk of it
young men—two girls produce seveu
bales of cotton, while you aro lying round
town waiting for somebody to offer you a
“situation."
O, what an opening there is in agricul
ture !
A ControlliUK i'aite I'mlrr tho Alabama Claim*.
Tho New York Woild furnishes this
clear statement of a case now pending be
fore the commission raised for the ad j li
ved land in farms, 188,923,01
unimproved lund, 218,825,809
cash value of farms, $9,502,150,015 ; wi
ges paid duriug the year, $310,320,48.
Total value of farm productions, $2,447,-
Orchard products, $47,335,189; forest
it, 287,735,015 bushels; rye, 10,-
.; outs, 282,107,157; barley, 29,-
orn, 700,944,549 bushels ; Irish
143,337,473; sweet potatoes,
Indian
potatoes
21,709,825.
Cotton, 1,203,100,933 pounds;
100,102,587 pounds; tobacco, 202,735,341
pounds; wiue, .'5,081,200 gallons.
Butter, 514,092,083 pounds; cheese,
53,492,050 pounds ; hay, 27,310,048 toLS.
Cauo sugar, 87,059,000 pounds ; maple
sugar, 28,44:5,045 pounds ; cane molasses,
0.593,323 gallons; maple molasses, 921,-
057 gallons ; sorghum molasses, 10,050,-
080 gallons.
Live stock, $1,525,270,457; slaughtered
animals, $398,950,106.
Fractional Currency Not a Legal
Tender.—The United States Treasurer
in reply to a question from a National
Rank says that 1 factional currency is not
dication aud settlement of cases made by J R legal tender for any amount ia payment
foreign residents against tho United States of private debt. A National Rank there-
government. It says:
fore has the legal right to refuse to ac-
The Mixed Commission ou British 1 cept it iu payment of debts owing it, if
and American claims, constituted under . the dep sit intended is a deposit to the
article twelve of the Treaty of \Vashing- < credit of the depositors account for the
ton, has a case before it which, if decided ' purposo of drawing against it. The re
in favor of the claimants, will transfer at | ceipt or refusal of such a deposit is dis-
swoop to divers Englishmen a sum
of money equal to oue-tifth of the
ontiie auiouut of tho Geneva award.—!
The parties in question claim $3,078,784 \ The DEsri-
16 for 4,936 bales of cotton taken ta
away from Savannah in General Slier- 1
man’s occupacy of that city, and absorbed
in sundry loil ways. For tbo United
ret ions ry with the Bank, irrespective of
the kind of money tendered.
Jackson.—The Chat-
•aid, December 18th, says:
i desperado Jackson, whose bloody
ds were announced in the Herald last
^_. k, is still at large, and seta tbe city of
States it 'is argued that the commission , Chattanooga and all Hamilton county at
. . . . °. .... , .. ' i a T. Si. likoMl m.
has already admitted that voluntary resi
dence in the South duriug tbe war is
priina facie evidence of hostility to the
Union, and a claimant must first rebut
this presumption, and may be entitled to
tho net proceeds of his property, i. e., to
so much as reached the treasury aftor
running the gauntlet of the loyal absorb
ers mentioned. For tho claimants it
defiauec. It seems that the liberal re
wards offered by Mayor Wright and Gov.
Brown, amounting to one thousand dol
lars, arc no inducements whatever for
his urrest. The question is, what are we
coming to ?
Wo aro glad to know that his victims
are now all in a fair way to recover.
Messrs. Colwell and Carver ore both
lel^rai'l* toll** Sew York UeralU.
Knalaa«l Waralag Ituniia.
St. Petersburg, Dee. 23.—The Rus
sian World, a newspaper published iu this
city, states in its issue this morning that
His Excellency Lord A. Loft us, British
Ambassador at the Court of Ills Majesty
the Czar Alexander, has had audiern e of
the Russian Prince Chancellor, Gorbcha-
koff, and notified him in the name of
Queen Victoria that, if tbe Russian troops
now operating against the Khan of Khiva
penetrate the countries lying between
Kbiva and Afghanistan, England will be
compelled to intervene iu support of
Afghru iudeper deuce.
Senator Saamer's Ursolatlon
to remove the names of battles with fel
low -citizens from tbo army register and
the regimental flags excites much oom-
meut iu military aud naval circles, while
thero are to be found some officers in
high station who ore willing to express a
complimentary opinion of Mr. Sumner's
motives. The prevailing sentiment seems
to be that the proposed change is unnec-
essaiy and uuwise. The 8 cretary of
War is very strongly opposed to it, and
expresses the belief that there is but one
opinion in tbe army, and that unfavora
ble. At the head of each regimental
roster in tbe army register is given a list
of the engagements of the regiment from
the date of its organization. This list in
some cases contains nearly as many names
of battles previous to tbe war of the re
bellion os those since 1861. To erase the
Utter and leave the former would there
fore be a mutilation of the record, so that
tbe army officers would prefer that the
entire list should be stricken out rather
than that this should be done. As to the
flags, the present army flags are nearly
all new, and only a portion of them bear
the names of the regiment's engagements.
In this case the question of inscribing the
names of battles is left to the regimental
commander, and governmental interfer
ence would not be relished. It will be
seen that a decided feeling of opposition
in the army and navy is already developed
to Mr. Sumnar'a resolution.— World.
A Sad and Melancholy Incident oc
curred iu Christ C'iiurch on Christmas
day.
During the morning service, Bishop
Beckwith udminiutered the right of con
firmation to several candidates. Among
these wns a young lady of Savannah,
Miss Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Mr.
William H. Spencer; und on returning to
her pew after the ceremony, she leaued
her head forward, with her pocket haud-
kerchief to her face, and fell to a kneel
ing posture. Some frieuds went to her
assistance to beur her from the edifice
aud to her home, hut by tbo time that
the party readied the vestibule the pulse
of their lovely burden had ceased its beat
ings, nnd she was dead.
A few months ago Miss Spencer’s moth
er suddenly died under an attack of heart
disease, aud the (laughter has thus fallen
beneath the blight of tho same fell dis
ease. —Sicanitiin Republican.
IIerkchel V. Johnson.—A committee
of gcutiumeu nt Louisville, Georgia, usks
, Herschel V. Johnson for permission
ake public a private letter addressed
to them ubout two months since by him
self ou the subject of the Senatorial elec
tion, and he replies under date of the
7th inst. :
“In that letter I stated to you that I had
no desire to bo a candidate. This is still
my feeliug. There are many others who
I understand are candidates, and earnestly
desiring to bo elected. I do D*»t wish to
antagonize them, or any one of them—
from whom the General Assembly can
mske a selection as ablo and worthy, if
not more so, than 1 aiu. Recognizing,
however, the right of the State to require
my services, und tho correlativo duty on
uiv part to obey her behest, if theGeueral
Assembly should tender mo tho Senator-
ship, I should accept it."
Growing Severity of Winter in Al
abama.—That tho rigor of the winter in
Alulmma has increased, is a fact that is
attested by all the early sutlers uow on
the stage of life. In tho early settlement j
of the State, corn was always plnntodifl
in February, and cotton was planted'
March, without any apprehension of oitu*
nr being nipped bv frost. Not only was\*
the rigor of the winter b ss ttiau it now is,
but lute frosts were unknown. In 1849
thero was a killing front during the month
of May ; iu 1852 them was a severe freeze
killing all tho vegetation on tho lsth of
March ; in 1854 there was a frost so late
as the 19th of April, and in 1857 a heavy
snow fell on April 12. In February, 1852,
the ground was hard frozen for over a
week : in January. 1856, tho ground won
frozen for ten days, and the eold was iu-
teuse; in January, 18(55, the cold whm
also protracted and inteuse. Knows have
become much heavier, ns well ns more
frequent of late yours.—Letter to the Mo
bile Jiey inter.
The Chattanooga Squabble.— UVrs/*-
ington, Dec. 26.—Several prominent gen
tlemen of Tennessee called on tho Presi
dent to-day, with reference to the Chatta
nooga Postumstership. They were Ac
companied by Keudrick, who it was in
tended should not ho superseded in thut
office by Gov. Bard. Last week the nomi
nation of Bard was sent to the Senate
uml confirmed on tho same day. The
friends of Kendrick, who is a Republican,
see no reasou for his removal, aud rallied
iu his behalf,aud on a full presentation of
facts the President directed Bard's com
mission to bo withheld. Thero is pend
ing in the Executive session of the Sen
ate n motion by Senator Browniow to re
consider the Senate confirmation of the
appointment. Tho probability is tho mo
tion will prevail, uud Kendrick return his
place as Postmaster.
There is one private claim now before
Congress that is noteworthy. It has been
before previous Congresses, and is the
claim of Colonol Sutter, of California,
for laud taken by miners iu the beginning
of the gold excitement. The saw-mill, iu
the race of which gold was first found,
belonged to Col. Sutter. It was on tho
South Fork of the American liver, aud
was still standing iu 1852. Here also
stood the lurgo frame flour-mills that un
derwent such a strange metamorphosis.
It was never used for a flour-mill, though
built for that purpose. It was, just bo-
fore the gold excitement, removed to the
fort erected as a protection against the
Indians. At the first rush to the cities of
the gold-seekers—the “Argonauts of ’49’’
—it was rouiovod to Sacramento, and be-'*
camo, iu point of size and accotnmoda-/'
tiou, the “St. Nocholas" of that city.-
Colonel Sutter was ruined by the discov
er}* of gold on his rancho. The eager
minors came down ou him like harpies.
His mill was ruined, his ground pit-holed,
his streams diverted und his buildings ta
ken for shelter.—Baltimore Gazette.
New Civil Rights Bill.—A new civil
rights bill, with a general amnesty hill
attached, hoa been introduced by Repre
sentative Morey, of Louisiana. It pro
vides penalties for tho rejection of anv
citizen by reason of race or color fr***
the full und equal enjoyment of tho /f
vantages aud privileges furnished by/t.»
keepers, common curriers, thealres.4< tii
■ni-iii cdluuila mid ntlipr irmt it lit l : 111 *
insisted that they are Englishmen who ! much easier aud convalescing. Poiiee-
. - •• 1 • .1 J • . I ll'Uitn n-lin n.a •ttMdOn ttlA
were not domiciled in the South daring
the war, end that they are entitled not to
the meagre remnant, of their property
bat the Kill amount, with damages for it.
long detention. And the right seems ou
tWBritisher* side."
White, who wss .hot through the
abdomen, bn. been on the streets two or
three days, and ia entirely ont of danger.
It doe. not now seem probable that
any attempt will be made to arreat Jack.
k
mou schools, aud other iostituti r' 1 ”. 1
learning supported by general ta.'j,',,;,!
Private schools, colleges, and con
established exclusively for white i.-" 1 * 1 *
ored people, and maintained by Vnm’y.
contributions, are not to he —
with. Provision is made for tXu ^
ment of all laws and ordiuauoes w&k.
discriminations against any citixen by th</
use of the word “white." Tho amnesty
section completely removes o'l political
disabilities, and it would relieve Congress
from numerous applications for special
relief bills for the benefit of persona
w hose claims may be disallowed.— H'ui/i.
Chronicle.
The New York correspondent of tbo
Cincinnati Commercial says in the . “Tri
bune Association,” as reorganized, Mr.
Wbitelaw Reid is understood to own fifty
shares, for which he paid Mr. Orton fifty
thousand dollars. The capitalist who
stands behind Mr. Reid in this transac
tion is Hon. Walker Phelps, of Eo. V
wood, a clever and stirring young mau
much money, who has just boon elect*
to Congress from that part of New Jer
sey. Mr. Orton thought originally to
make the Tnbuue an Administration pa
per, with Mr. Colfax as chief editor, but
the Credit Mobilier revelations are Le-
lieved to have spoiled that plan. Mr.
Orton then failing to see his way clear to
success iu publishing the paper, decided
to sell a controlling share to Mr. Reid,
who offered hiui the handsome bonus of
fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Siuclnir is
expected to retire from tho publication
department.
Tbe case of the attempted murder of
Lethy Loftin by Forbee and Boahrod, was
tried by consent of oonnael some time
ago. Justice Nettles fixed the bond of
Forbes and Boahrod at $5,000 each. The
case goes to the city oourt. Judge Cun
ningham baa reduoed their booda to $4,-
000 each. The woman ti trill living,
though in a deplorable eondition.—Mont
gomery Journal., 254A,
The German Hindrance to Emigra
tion.—Beilin, December 22.— Spener
Gazette explains that the partial revocr
tion ot the reduced fares for emigrants t
the State and private railway* in G<
ny ia a question of internal admir
tion, and was required of the gov
by considerations of political o
and of the private oompanies b/^
interest. The Amerie n pre* ii*
ly exaggerated the imports ft'! 1 k t..
ed U,. eiguificenoe
The Gazette calls on thjt two hnndr
do all in U *
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