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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY BUN SUN-STROKES. ' j OHIo. | WASHINGTON. woman question—What’s he I Ji ^i raor ‘llHnry .nanirestectionsat GermaHttM^ I,, 'twlmnt Revenue Decision .Vo Bfort to ,, 0 * tti£TZ‘r*t Stnxation of the Season— Cuba—Government Finance*—-The worth, I \ .1 Ghost Story .titrated Under Oath. Cincinnati, July 28.—They have a first- class sensation near Germantown, Ohio, Tho Cincinnati Times and Chronicle speaks of Governor Bullock as having in the shape of manifestations of spirits “ gravitated in the Democratic ranks.” “* 4 1 ' BSu Hon. Mrs. Tel version is going to Weather Report. Washington, July 30.—Commissioner Pleasanton decides that borrowed capital, - . employed by bankers, is no longer sub- at the house of Benj. Stiver. Thefurni- j ject to taxation. It is estimated that this ture is removed, milk crocks upset, eata-1 decision will reduce the revenue receipts bles disturbed, and the whole household j $10,000,000 and will, doubtless lead to An Address to the Baptists of j Georgia. It will be remembered by all, that dur ing the la3t convention of our denom ination at Cartereville, it was resolved to inaugurate a movement looking to the foundation and endowment of a Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home, at some suitable place, and with sufficient means to pro- BOARD OF TRADE. Enthusiastic Meeting—Speeches, Etc. Our Motto—'“Forward!’’ On Saturday evening, pursuant to pre vious call, a large and enthusiastic meet- Japan and China if nothing happens, and < ^ sarran 8 e< * * n most extraordinary j innumerable suits for reclamation. De- j Tide for the well-being, education and ing of business men was held in the Kink - - rnrncstlv hnnoJ ?. lann ? r - Eight members.of the family, posits heretofore thus employed were j setting forward for the business life, of I Building, for the purpose of organizing v u r a tiionmi not all maiding tnfyp.flipr. nnDpnr! fivAnor I fulfill Tinmlifir fnAitMmfc nmfliAB o.Tiil-1 - the Louisville Ledger ‘nothing will happeD.” The New Brunswick Times asks “shall Mr. Snedelcer be elected?” That is precisely the question that is bearring upon the mind of Mr. S. E*§=> A Connecticut man ardently wants to “represent the mechandick and labor- ingo men in the state assembly irrespec- tivof polytics, relijin, or or eddicashun.” B@- Greeley is satisfied with Republi- can affairs in Mississippi. As the party in that State is hopelessly split, Greeley must be very easily satisfied. JBST’The New York Globe intimates that “we have more gospel than we know what to do with.” That is true when we consider the land that most prevails in some localities. J8@“* There is Dothing like getting into the papers correctly. The New York Herald of the 27th says: “H. J. Kimball, of Savannah, Georgia, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.” B@t» “HI fares the land,” quotes the New York Tribune. One would judge so, particularly if the famous farmer of Cha- paqua gets hold of it, to show what he knows abont farming. Butler has so far encountered only twenty-six other Radicals who want to be Governor of Massachusetts. He thinks, however, that he squints toward the nomination more decidedly than any of them. B@u>Tke Louisville Courier-Journal says it is firing into the “Bourbons”rather than the radicals, because the former “will get in the*way.” The Bourbons “get in tho way” because they know too much to be afraid of blank cartridges. B@=. Some of the Eastern papers have had the report that Ben Butler ■ drowned. The story was a most improb able one, for Butler is so gassy that if all tho spoons he took away from New Or leans were crammed into his pockets he would still float. >' £§S“The Philadelphia Age says: “When the cholera is raging in one part of the world, the yellow fever in another and the small-pox in a third, it is important that our quarantine laws should be rigid ly enforced.” The Age appears to forget that the fourth quarter has its peculiar affliction in the official person of Grant. BfS^. It is announced that General But ler has “promised, if he should be nom inated and elected, and if Boston should cast its vote against him, to make that city as hot for rumsellers as he made New Orleans for Rebels.” He evidently means to leave not a spoon for the “rtun- Bellers” to stir their toddies with. though not all residing together, appear j taxed five per cent, in an article in the Commercial this ’ ’ morning, under oath, reciting the circum stances with singular particularity. The affiants are old citizens, and have the general respect of the people of that county. The following is a specimen of the sworn testimony of one of the witnesses, Benjamin F. Stiver: “The family Bible, which was on the bureau, fell on the floor, no one being within its reach at the time. Mother picked it up and laid it back, and it fell again immediately after she had re moved her hand from it. The balance of the chairs, six or seven, commenced turn ing sommersaults in the room, and the cradle turned over and father replaced it, when it turned upside down again with out further notice. I went into tho bed room and got my rifle and shot gnu, and took them out and fired them off, so as to avoid danger, and when I got back I took out the clock from the bed-room, and while on the porch heard the nicknacks, toys, etc., about fifty in number, swept from the mantel-piece to the floor, a num ber of which were .broken. No one was in tbe room at the time. When I was taking the nick-nacks out, the light, which was on the -dough-tray in the bed room, was thrown off to the floor and put out. I took out the tray, and while gone the bench on which the tray was'standing was turned npside down in its place. “While we were carrying the bureau and cupboard from tho sitting-room to the yard, we heard a noise in the bed room; father went there, followed by mother and the boy, and father saw the guns, which had been placed by me un der a chest after they were discharged, moving away father under the chest.- He saw them move eight or ten inches. The shovel, which probably produced the noise, was moved a distance”of three or four feet, and a crock, which contain ed nails, was upset. As father and mother and the little boy were starting out of the bed-room, the boy remarked “that the feather-bed was moving, angling across the bed. Mother shoved it against the wall again, and as they turned to go out of the room the feather-bed was hoisted away off the bed to the middle of the floor, striking their heels and falling npside down, with the quilt accompanying. They then started up stairs, the little boy behind, and as he passed a large bag of flour standing at the floot of the strirway in the hall, he remarked, touching it: “I guess this will go next,” and before he got up stairs he heard the bag fall off the stool on which it had been standing, no one being near at the time. When we got down stairs again into the sitting-room the stool in the hall where the flour was, tumbled into the sitting-room from the hall, a distance of four or five feet. We then heard some noise in the sleep ing room again, and father and mother found a stand turned over, and then, when in the kitchen, the dining room table turned over in its tracks, before father’s and mother’s eyes, as quick as lightning. On the porch the flower pots were also tumbled over.” such number of indigent orphan chil- It is known that since 1869, no propo-1 dren of the State, as our means should j sition, direct or indirect, has been made justify onr giving home, and the oppor- by the United States for the purchase of tunities of religion, physical and intel- Cuba. I lectual training to. The undersigned HE. COOPER a Board of Trade. The meeting opened by the calling of Col. Lowry to the chair, and Mr. J. M. Burroughs to BMP . .. , act as Secretary. The* Chair called . Up to the latest hour the financial pol- were charged with initiating and giving m Cooper to state the object of the leies of the Government was announced, form to this generous chanty, sought to r The Government will purchase a mil- be pnt in motion by the Baptists 6t I meeting, lion of Bonds each Wednesday and will I Georgia. . ' - ontoe first, third Pursuant to the charge thus imposed,! 0 $ e ^ m a ^ e a And nftli and two millions on tliG second. I liave met and completed for present merely for amusement, but for important business, and fourth Thursday of August—making purposes, an organization with which you An effort has been made before to accomplish tbe -- -’I £ - 1 have been made acmm'nfprl tlirnncrb thA purpose we have to-night, but they have failed. nave ueen rnaae acquainted tnrougn tne Succe88 depends on continued and persevering columns of the Index and Baptist, efforts. • We have added to the number of We have in view looking to organization of n,. T>„„ •, . _ Hoard of Trade or Chamber of Commerce. It may the original Board of Manager, ns I not be best to organise to-night. Wears all agreed W6 have thought it within the scope that a Board of Trade ought to he established. I of onr nowpre to do Ttrothron H.o.v 0411 y our attention to the beneficial effects of such oi our powers to do, xsreinren nev. Boarcls ^ other citieB . Louisville, Cincinnati, or byivanus Laundrum, of Savannah, I even Savannah. Look at St. Louis. We are daily LETTER PROM OG.LE- TI1QRPE. School Boohs—-The Gold Room. The Grand Central Hotel. in all five millions of Bonds and seven | have been made acquainted through the millions of gold. * ' " ” * »-♦-< NEW YORK. X^corfut Steamboat JBxplonion—Vast J\ timber Killed and Wounded* New York, July 30.—The Staten Is-1 J. J. Slade, Esq., of Columbus, and Mor-1 beset with trouble with Railroad Companies, in de- kid ferry boat Westfield, exploded her deoai Edwards,’of Oglethorpe cormty, OOller at twenty minutes past one O clock I and have located the principal office for I man goes, he is frequently treated with indifference, at the foot of White- the discharge of the business of our hoard SSSTSElKSi^ KHwSfS.'KtSf llftU street Tile concussion W&S terrific, I in tile City of A-tliintl. I quality betweon wholesale and retail sales, besides a shattering the forward part of the boat We have little doubt that looking to I variety of other matters. Let us organise, organize, and killing a great number of people, the healthfulness of a desired location, |Suothe'^to'lSSesTthefrviews:’ aftorwhich 1 lne hurricane deck was cleared over- and its easy accessibility, this city is the whereas, it is the belief of those present that the jXn.rlSg* P“£t 5°uld bo selected for into the water and were drowned. The the central operations of the purpose in- monions organization; au who come under the orig- entire number lost IS supposed to be one tended to be served We have adonted i°»l call, he and are hereby declared members of the hundred and fiftv ZrrT Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; aU the merchants, mu t> 1 * * • , • , p tttm j a COnstltUu.on for tuG government Of OUT manufacturers, bankers, and other business men of lne xtegnlation ]USt arrived from Wll- I board and business, with a view to a Atlanta be declared members of the Atlanta Chamber steamer Catherine Whiting, bearing in the Baptists of Georgia. ~ ", I pointed to-night, tow the Huntsville, Which was disabled. The Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home is Mb. norcross Both were from Savannah for New intended to be, in very truth, what its advocated the prompt establishment of York. The same steamers were spoken I name imports, a home where the indi-1 T ... next day at 6 a. m., by the Herman Liv- Lent orphan, without reference to sec- ^Chamber °f Commerce. I agree with mgston. twenty-five 4 miles north of Cape tarian limits, shall receive a welcome, Mr. Cooper. The great matter of 1m- Henry. find a home, be cared for, be given re- portance now is the question of freights, v hater from the Westfield muosier. ligious, physical and intellectual culture Atlanta has grown up in spite of discrim- The Westfield was leaving her slip at ®£ lted to the wants,of practical life,, and inat i OI1 against her, which proves that the foot of Whitehall street when the ex- those more exalted aims which look be- . . . . . ■ plosion occurred. About three hundred y° nd 4116 cares of to-day, to that better Atlanta is in the right place , there is a of the usual Sunday excursionists were I purer world where want and suffer- strong influence against her which it is ne- aboard. The yawning abyss extended are unknown; where there are no cessary to counteract. Atlanta is large from abaft the engine room to the stern, houseless, friendless little ones, and enoug i 1 sP eak with effect to the The deck seemed to have opened. The where the orphan s cry is not heard. rfl ;i roa dR and other nor ties and when dead ana dying were lying everywhere I Our organization consists of C. Peeples, I railroads and otber ana n nen among the timbers, splinters and heavy President; Louis G. Crawford, Secretary; properly expressed it will be heard, when machinery. The whole upper works were I J 0 - 0 - H. James, Treasurer. Prudential jg expressed through a Chamber of shivered to a thousand pieces. Many Committee: C. Peeples, Rev. W. T. o ommeree which will be effective. Let were blown into the water and hauled out I Brantly, Rev. E. W. Warren, J. H. I^ by boatmen with hooks. Parties drag-1J ames ) A. K. Seago—all of Atlanta. I . ging the bottom of the river are constant- . It is our purpose to secure, by dona- must be heard one way or another; we ly bringing up the bodies of men, women tion or purchase, a considerable body of can be heard through the press ; we can and children. Many are brought in on or P ea ^ to one of the _ railroad S p ea £ railroads. A late movement, I scorched, bruised and mutilated. mean the lfiasA of the Macon and West Murche, formerly a partner of Garibaldi, I neai iL we aro inclined to think the best I was badly scalded. It is estimated that location for the Home could be had.— ern Railroad, which I lam sorry to say is forty were killed outright. Some offers of land and improvements almost fatal to Macon, which I sympa- Granthas postponed his western trip I have been already made to us as a dona- wifL. We must be awake and watch until next spring. ' | tion; and we are satisfied that the gene ALABAMA. It is said that Phil Sheridau was made a LL. D. on account of his know ledge of cannon law.” Pogue says he thought it was on account of his know ledge of the nso of friction matches, to gether with the dexterity with which he lrills old Indian men and women and little Indian babies. A correspondent says: “Though Quakers do notdesire for themselves music and singing of hymns in their worship, yet Dr. Painter’s family, because they find music attractive to the Indians, play and sing with them with much spirit.”— Which goes to prove that the poet was correct when he said, ‘ ‘Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” To show what sort of material the American people will shortly be lionizing in the person of the young Duke Alexis, of Russia, it is necessary to state only that he speaks six languages fluently; smokes excessively; is a connoisseur in meercliamns "and champagne; can swear in twelve tongues besides his native Rus sian, and play billiards like a professional. The New York Tribune says: “Mr. William Dngan, once a Democratic mem ber of the Board of Education in Cleve land, Ohio, has been sent to the House of Correction for confirmed drunkenness and incurable vagrancy.” The Tribune neglects to mention that Dugan joined the Radicals some years since, which was his first step down, and his course has been steadily downward over since. The Louisville Courier-Journal says,' “All of the editorial articles of Mr. Stephens in The Atlanta Sun are signed *A. H. S.’ This is unusal, but as the other editors of The Sun are unwilling ~ to be regarded as political lunatics, it is well enough.” It needs no distinction marks of this kind to designate the “po litical lunatics” of Courier-Journal, as they can be traced in every editorial and para graph in the paper. blwU. • d I1U. WO Clio bavlbiioU I'llcliU bliO tiOUO" I • 1 • ^_ «■» _» L - „ _ J . rosity of the kind-hearted will leave ns vanoa3 combinations that may be made, nothing to do in the way of a location us havo an organizatiQU to speak upon a body of land large enough for the authoritatively for us. Let us prove to Jitahama claim. Commissioners. I wants of the home, but the duty of de- the world tbafc Atlanta is, and must be, a Washington, July 29.—The British cidmg between offers. ... xU Government has appointed Mr. Gurney, Feeling confident of success in the l ftr £ e internal commeicial city. We the recorder of London, one of the com-1 good purpose thus inaugurated, from the j ought to have a regular daily meeting, Usew York, July 25, 187^ Editors Sun: Most heartily in terested in all that relates to the ed ucation of our people, I have visited and examined the publishing house of the University Publishing Com pany, with which our distinguished townsman, Gen. Gordon, is so prom inently connected. Its wardrooms are spacious aud convenient—well selected and arranged for business. They are publishing text hooks for schools and Colleges by such men as Commodore Maury—now President elect of the University of an adja cent sister State, and Professor Holmes Venable, Gildersleeve De Vere, Carter, Le Conte Johnston, &c., &c. These books are intended for use in the South—not because they con tain Southern ideas—which they do not; hut because they are free from the sectional views which have, aud do abound in the school books here tofore used in the South. THE GREAT GOLD HART. The business of the Gold Exchange consists of buying and selling gold. These purchases and sales spring di rectly from the foreign trade of the country. Every transaction between this country and any other termi nates in the Gold Room. When goods are imported, the mer chants come here to buy gold, with which to pay duties, or to transmit to their foreign creditors. Every bale of cotton and every bond, shipped abroad, are represented here by a cor responding sale of gold. It is the great mart where gold and currency are continually interchanged; all the imports being represented by the con version of currency into gold, and all the exports by tbe conversion of gold into currency. It is of the utmost importance to the commerce of the country that there should be a place where this can be done instantly and publicly. Of course there is, in addition to these mercantile demands, a large speculation in gold, but this specula tion is not so great as that in cotton or railroad shares, or Hinted State§ bonds, or real estate. Wherever there is trade, there is speculation. It arises from the nature of men. When one in the way of trade buys any proper- NORTH CAROLINA. Bloody JYegro Biol at Goldsboro, Wilmington, July 29.—John F. Pick erel!, a New York broker, brought here on a charge of fraud, by the officers of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther ford Railroad Company to-day, was Com mitted to jail in default of three hundred thousand dollars bail, A bloody riot occurred at GrOldsboro to-day. About five thousand negroes arrived from Newberne and the lower counties, on an excursion train chartered by the Republican Executive State Com mittee, to attend a mass meeting at which Congressman Thomas, ex-Senator Ab bott, Marcus Erwin, and R. C. Badger were to be the speakers. There were very few white people in town, and many of the negroes came into town. The police arrested one turbulent negro, and while on the way to the guard house with this prisoner, the negroes rallied, and rescued him. The colored police fired at the prisoner, who was recaptured, and taken by the police to the Exchange Ho tel. About one thousand of the negro mob, with clubs and pistols, rallied to the hotel, attempting another rescue. Tho riot commenced by the negroes throwing brick bats at the police, and using clubs, when a cross-firing began between the police and the mob. The white citizens forbear, but are now armed for the emergency. There is great ex citement. About thirty or more shots were fired. Three or more whites were hurt, one negro killed, and one colored policeman killed and two wounded. A committee of citizens, appointed by Mayor Robinson, waited upon the Republican leaders, and Mr. Stanley, President of the A. & N. O. Railroad, aud requested that the trains and negroes be carried away. To this, Stanley re plied, “that he would not carry them away until he was ready.” When told that he and Thomas would be held re sponsible for the disturbances he replied, “hold ns responsible and be d—d.” —— »-♦ .< ENGLAND. Meath cf Hon. holm Slidell—The British Com mission Coming—h Mining. London, July 30.—Hon. John Slidell is dead. Russell Guerney, the British Commis sion under the Alabama Treaty, will shortly leave for America. The French Ambassador, the Duke de Broglie, gives a dinner this evening to the Count de Paris. Royal honors will be done the Prince, apparently by orders. missioners authorized by the treaty of prospects we _ have so far encouraged Let it be free fora while, and when once Washington, to whom Haims therain pro- onr labors, which have ventured to select, established then a fee may be required vided for shall be presented, and the as onr general agent and active canvasser ^ _ * United States have appointed as commis- for an endowment, Rev. R. W. .Fuller, I ^re a re other important matters, may sioner on their part Judge Frazer, of In- "who will soon enter upon the active dn- be attended to, arbitrations, etc., thus diana. The remaining commissioner is ties of the agency. Of brother Fuller, avoiding law suits. The Western trade to be appointed jointly by Great Britain who is well Jinown to Georgia Bap- j g BP w, and must continue to be so; we and the United States, and in case he be tists, as well as to the general public, lit- musfc attend tQ Qur interests in tHg mat _ not appointed within three months, he tie need be said. He will enter upon the shall be named by the Spanish Minister work with all the zeal and with all the ^ er - at Washington. The British Govern- ardor of a heart deeply impressed with Mr. Seago moved the adoption of the ment has already appointed as its agent the sacred burden of the charge commit- resolution, which was carried. Henry Howard. The United States has ted to Lis Lands, and with an humble A committe6 o£ 8ev en, as follows :- appointed as its agent Hon. R. S. Hale, ? trust tnat the orphans God will sustain _ r , of New York. The arbitrators are to him and-the Board in this good work, j Messrs, M. E, Cooper, R, M. Rose, A. meet at Geneva, and have not yet been and raise.np friends to this noble charity, K. Seago, S. S. Langston, J. S. Oliver, appointed. The commissioners above throughout the length and breadth of the named will meet in Washington and set- land. tie all questions under the roles estab- j And now, brethren, we send him forth lished by the arbitrators at Geneva. accredited with the purest of purposes Cotton Tax Refunded- J upon a most exalted mission, to plead the The Commissioner of Internal Revenue! cause of God’s poor in the house and is haying refunded the cotton tax, col- , God s people. Who can, who lected on rope and bagging and known as S. feel justified m refusing our call! the tare, which amounts to from fifteen I ^ can deny our plea or reject our mes- to twenty pounds on each bale. The I senger . We have but little funds now amount of cotton tax collected by the hand, and want the means for build- government was about eighty million dol- ”?o and setting in order a home for onr ■ - - - —- — - • charge before the chilling winds of win ter come, to make lone the field and for est, and pinch the luckless child of want. Let all who can do so, forward at once 4®* Speaking of Akerman’s mission to North Carolina, the New York Sun (Radical) says: “He has no more right to interfere with the question of remodel ling the Constitution of North Carolina than he has to dictate who shall be Pre mier of England.” The Sun apparently loses sight of the fact that Grant, Aker- man, el al, have adopted the following couplet as their motto: “No pent up Utica contracts our powers, But the whole boundless continent is ours.” lars, and about three millions of this is the rope and bagging or tare tax. This refunding is under the 44th section of an act approved June 30,1864. In all claims A. Leyden and Col. Pits, was appointed to prepare constitution and by-laws. The Chairman was added by a vote. A vote of thanks, for use of Hall, was tendered Mr. Carr. The meeting adjourned, pursuant to the following resolution: Resolved, That when the meeting ad- jours, it adjourns to meet again, next Monday night week, at the City Hall A Monster of the Deep Caught hy a Fishing Party. of this kind the certificate of the Collec- wt . at can afford to our treasurer, tor of Internal Revenue is necessary. | J°ku H. James, Atlanta. Ga, We have appointed brethren C. Peeples The Snb Ku-Klux Committee have re-1 and J * 5* Ja “ es to adve J I tise v , aad r | aei J® turned from South Carolina. The Gen- P r °P. oslfclons for a suitable body of land eral Committee adjourns on Monday]*•*'■ improV6me ?, ts p f °L tll w e ^ h ° me ‘-. , morning, leaving the Sub Committee lier£ I ^ Peeples, President, to examine other witnesses. An semi official report of the Committee, publish ed in the Star, gives a terrible condition of affairs in South Carolina. The gener al tenor of the evidence shows inefficien cy and rascality on the part of the State Government, and the inability of*the W. T. Bbantlx, E. W. Walken, A. K. Seago, J. H. James, J. H. Calloway, Atlanta, Ga., July 28, 1871. At a meeting of the Board of Managers more staid citizens to control the young the Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home, men who do the Ku-Kluxing of black and held tins day, the following resolution Republicans. | was aCl °pted: Resolved, That the Address to the Baptists of Georgia be published in the Index and Baptist, and that ail other papers in the State, friendly to the In- 1 stitution, be requested to copy tho same. C. Peeples, President. L. G. Crawford, Secretary. IVew Orleans Going Ahead. BgDb. Bowen can subside. An Indiana clergyman has been found who had seven wives and there are iwenty-seven States to hear from. BgA,, As sook as Bntler gets sober enough “he trill publish a manifesto, planting himself squarely on the prohib itory platform.” Augusta counts up her $15,651,470 worth of property and is happy. LOUISIANA. fatal Railroad Accident—five Killed Jinny Injured. New Orleans, Jnly 29.—A dispatch from Navesota, Texas, to-day, says: A construction train bound north this even ing, with nine cars and eighteen laborers, . was precipitated into the Navesota river. We are pleased to note that the The accident was caused by the derrick great Southern emporium, Hew Or- of the wrecking car striking the lateral leans, has bridged the disasters by war braces and rods of the bridge. The su- and the elements, and is a^ain on the perstructure of the first span was earned Ligll road to prosperity. The adver- away, and the second, third and fourth 1 J ., spans went to the bottom with the cars s 43 lrn , 1 ? ;3 ^ < r r daily newspa- and engine—a mass of rains. Five were show that such is her conva- instantly killed, two fatally injured and lescence, if nothing else bore testimo- twelvemore or less'injured. One man ny to the pleasing fact. But we learn was thrown twenty feet into the air and, through the Times of that city that falling, was instantly killed. the improvements—public buildings A Pike county correspondent of the I nrn" Macon Telegraph and Messenger says: Our ° less are estimated to cost $2,38o,000. crops look well considering tbe disad- tliem. are, a masonic temple vantages they have been subjected to in j to cost $250,000; a Hebrew temple, the shape of rain and grass. The farm-1 $125,000; Hibernia Hall, $200,000; ersare generally rid of the grass, and Varieties Theater,$125,000; the Or- coiton seems to be doing as well now as ] eans D rama ti e Relief Association it can. The corn in this section is need- TheaU $ 60 000 St Louig Hote l mg ram, and should it visit us this week ! nnn 7 ,, 5 ’ , , there witl be an abundance of the cereal j « 5 ’ lee ^j made. Clover culture is becoming a sul>-1 churches, 5?22o,000 : twenty- ject of earnest consideration with our | seven stores, $347,000, and fifty-five farmers; many are raising ft successfully, | dwellings, $458,000. and many more will commence it another ». season. The writer cut a fine crop of j The Athens Banner expects a large hay from some sown the 22d of February j crowd of negroes to visit Athens this last on his wheat, and the after-moth bids week. They have heard that the Alumni fair for another good cutting before are coining, and are saving their cash in winter. order “to seedat show.” Tuesday afternoon, a fishing party, consisting of Dr. Postley, Messrs. Wm. Areston, G. Buckingham and Madson Williams, accompanied by several ladies, while amusing themselves near Wilming ton Island, taking such specimens of the finny tribe as accommodated them with a nibble, were suddenly surprised by a very large inhabitant of the briny deep, that seized upon the bait, and was actu ally hooked on the small tackle they were using at the time for catching small fish. Finding they had a whale,.or some thing else of huge proportions and pro digious strength and activity, they dis continued their efforts to take any more, devoting their sMll and attention to the unknown monster. They “played” him for a long time.— Finding it impossible to adopt harsh measures, they humored him for the pur pose of getting him into shallow water, which they at last succeeded in doing, when they found that they had caught a huge saw-fish. The anchor-rope was thrown over his head and caught be tween the saws, or teeth, which, being exceedingly large and stout, enabled his captors to drag him to the shore on the beach of the Wilmington Island. The fish was found to be twelve feet in length. The head and saw measured four feet, wMch were cat off by the party and brought to the city. The saw has 24. teeth on each side, varying from one to two inches in length, and from half to two inches apart. The saw was taken to the office of Dr. Postley, on Congress street, where the Doctor has them on exhibition for his friends aud others who are disposed to think • this a fishy story. The saw fish is not generally so large as this one was; their ordinary size is under ten feet, and a fish of from twelve to fifteen feet is considered a very large one. They resemble the shark in appear ance, the saw is a large cartilaginous con tinuance of the upper jaw. They, like the sword dsb, are said to be very de structive to whales.—Savannah JS r eics. £s2jr*-“ There is much waste in life,” says a writer, but he had no reference to the waists of some of our belles. tv, lie does so with the hope of profit; the larger and quicker the profit the greater the inducement to buy. This is speculation, aud is only a holder aud more rapid method of trading. Speculation is -confounded in the public mind with gambling, but it differs from it. essentially. Specu lation deals in values; gambling does hot. Speculation is based upon legal contract; gambling is not. The Rev. Thos. A. Hoyt, who is the presiding officer of the Gold Board, is a Georgian and has an es tablished reputation for learning, tal ent, patriotism and piety. He is ah exceedingly commanding and popu lar officer and enjoys the fullest con fidence of all classes. He was drifted into this position by the cross-cur rents of the war, and it is his purpose to relinquish his present position and resume his appropriate work so soon, as the proper arrangements can he made.. He is a subscriber to The Atlanta Sun and regards it as the ablest Democratic paper in the Union, under the leadership of that distin guished patriot and statesman, Hon- A. H. Stephens. His favorable rep resentation of the paper is inducing other members of the Board Jo sub scribe for it. Copies of it are every morning found on the President's desk. THE GEAND CENTBAL, for Southerners, is the hotel par ex cellence of Hew York city. Its mag nitude, the perfection of its appoint ments, its central location, the supe riority of its cuisine and many home comforts are appreciated hy traveling Southrons. The property was purchased by a wealthy merchant of the city at abont $850,000, and the present edifice erected in the course of two years, being coirqfleted and opened -last year. It has about 800 rooms and can ac commodate 1,500 guescs. It has a total floor space of 350,000 square feet, far exceeding the area of any other hotel in existence. It is eight stories in height, exclusive of base ment and sub-basement. The car petings alone are said to cover the space of seven acres. The front of the building is of murbU surmounted by a handsome Mansard r ;.>f crowned with three domes. Altogether it is, doubtless, the largest hotel in the world, and its genial' proprietor, Mr. H. L. Powers, is making it a great success. Oglethorpe. ►-©-< “ How, young people,” fessor of natural history i “now, then, as to liens ; a capacity of laying just si eggs, and no more; and the job in just abont fiveyc what is to be done wit] Do y<m want jo!* work ? C: Sun Job Office. tin that ?” ? her for a £ au urchin try. ncsg». a v, 1 Gut off her >rmt fat man in Ne- \ a pro- i > class, has t he tu mired iinishes How, a- after *nd sell claimed n poul- thc Iota jati.