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STATE NEWS.
A $2,500 Bro cnnie off la Rome on Thnni
doy.
The Courier oof*: America* i« ottH grow-
Thoro won ioo in Columbu. Wodueodoy
morning.
Tho Gon.titatioii.lUt report# the ouddon
death of Oen. Frank Taylor, of eongeMiv*
chill.
On next Saturday aflornoou, tho 30th
slant, the regular semiannual parade of
Augoate Pit. ltopartment will take place
The Athens Watchman reports that a
imstofflco hss been established about mi miles
, .. . I. with II, Mathan la Collins
the
}«m that place, with Ur. Nathan U ttollin.
a# FoetmasU-r It is dubbed ‘•rtadicsL
Mr. Henry Slevens has presented the edi
tor of the Mscon Telegraph a stalk of ribbon
cano eight feet long to show that the pine
woods of Baldwin could do something besides
raising salamanders.
The Columbus Enquirer says : We loorn
(I,at on Monday a negro employee on the new
Eagle and Pbenix Factory fell from the third
story to the ground, by which ho was ODly
slightly injured.
Tho annnal conference of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will meet in Rome
.... si... id»K nAcninlifir iifixt. Thd Courier u
IsUlSCUpu VUUlk Ui «W«S*U| " ••• —
on the 8th of December next The Courier
celling loudly lor it* country friende to supply
tUo essential chickens, eggs and bntter.
The SavuuuaU Advertiser of Thursday says:
This well and favorably known steamship,
under the command of Capt Joshua Atkins,
from New York, made her appearauue m oor
river yesterday morning on her first trip since
her disaster.}
The Rome Courier of Thursday says : Capt
W, M. Gauimon, aud R. J. Gwalney, on lost
Tuesday, killed. near this city, 86 partridges--
every one on the wiug, aud all a single bird
to the shot. If any one can beat this, we
would liko to hear from him.
The Columbus Suu is informed that tho
Israelites of that city propose to erect a new
synagogue. If sufficient funds eau be ob
tained,they intend selling their present lot and
buying tho one just east of tho edifico used by
the Female Department of the Public Schools.
It is hoped to raise $8,000.
There is said to bo a good deal of counter
feit money afloat in this section, says the Co
lumbus Suu, the principal bills being $2, $6
and $10. A letter shown ns from a New York
house that deal9 in such articles aays tho one
dollar bills will not bo ready beforo the last of
this month.
The Marietta Journal says: Mr. Joseph
Babb on leaving for bis home on Monday eve
ning lute, was fired into by some negroes.—
Shot passed thick and fast uround, some
striking him, and a boy with him was pros
trated owiug to tho close proximity of those
shooting. The only excuse these darkies could
render was, they was just shooting off their
gun, a fact very obvious aud palpable to Mr,
Babb and his young companion.
On Saturday lust Capt. Heudricks, of
Charleston, received a dispatch from a lady in
Albany, N. Y., requesting him to take posses
sion of her son, George Hunter, a lad travel
H1UU Ol net Bull, \_»v-OrgL ..—, — —— —
ingwith Skill’* Gaylord’s Minstrels, and col
lect his salary. Captain Hendricks immedi
ately took possession of the lad, bnt tho Man
agers avowed that they had paid him all his
salary to date. The boy knows nothing of
the salary; says he left homo with the consent
of his mother' who was to receive his salary,
but that he was not well treated by the troupe.
He seems to be glad to get home. He will be
scut to New York to day by the steamer. He
was taken care of by the Chief of Police.
The Savannah News, of Thursday, says:—
Chief detective Wray yesterday arrested a man
who has been in the city • for some days and
passing under the namb of Capt. Erwin. From
information received from Ocala, Fla., de
scribing the individual, Lieut. Wray proceeded
to work up the case, and as above stated, ar
rested a gentleman bearing the description
who had passed under the name of Capt. Er-
wiu After the arrest had been made the offi
cer, not exactly satisfied ns to tho person,
asked to see his papers, and the prisoner
handed a number of letters, which gave him
the above designation. Ouo envelop, however,
which the Captaiu hesitated to deliver, was
1 UB UIU3D nil uiniV/iitiuii,
dressed to his father, J. J. Stroble, of Ocala,
Fla. The keen eyes of tho officer saw in this
his man, who being evidently taken at a dis
advantage, made a clean breast and acknowl
edged that he was E. W. Stroble, who, on the
29th December last, killed in self-defense a
mau by tho name of M. A. White, at Lees
burg, Fla.
The Mews.
Earl Derby, ono of the greatest of modern
English statesmen, died on Saturday, aged
seventy.
General Butterfield, Assistant Treasurer in
Tho forthcoming report of theg Secretary of
War will show a marked decrease iu expenses
in nearly every branch of his department
It will require $25,810,000 in coin to pav
the semi-annual interest on the 5-20 bonds on
the 1st of November.
It iu said there is now in circulation four
millions more small currency than at any time
since tho currency was issued.
With tho exception of Kecrotanr Fish and
Attorney General Hear, President Grant’s
Cabinet is ^aid to be iu Invor of the immedi
ate recognition ot Cuba.
A colored woman confined in jail iu Savan
nah, Ga., tho other day gave birth to twins—
a son and a daughter. Tho daughter is black
and the son white. %
The stuttmeut prepared at tho Ticasury
Department shows the unionut of coupon
bonds outstanding for Kept ember 30, 1869,
was $1,332,440,000. Registered bonds out
standing at same date $775,469,200.
It is rumored that the house of Lockwood
* Co. will be placed iu n position to resume
business, hm u settlement with the Lake Hhor©
aud Michgnn Rout hern Hoad is about to bo
consummated.
The Western members ol Congress, it is
stated, arc generally favorable to tho removal
of the capital out West. A test vote is ex
pectcd to tako place on a proposition for an
Appropriation to erect new buildings for the
State and Wur Department*.
The attention of the Htato Department has
l>een called to the fuct, by M. DeCahocazy,
Minister of Uu*»iH, that certain parties are bo
ginning to put into circulation at the New
York Exchange, bonds of the Ortd'd Fancier of
Poland, which wore stolen from the Bank of
Warsaw during the late insurrectionary move
ment iu the Polish provinces. He disclaims,
on behalf of the Government of Russia, all re
sponsibility for any losses which may occur
to citizens of the United States from th<
chose of the bond* referred to.
Mr. Caleb Cushing in regard to o--rtain fea
tures of their counte, be sent the following at
his main objections to their policy: First,
their constitutions were manufactured in this
country. Second, when they could legally
have purchased arms hire, and while men
have purchased arms lure, nnu while men
could nave quietly passed on unarmed to Cu
ba, they had persistently attempted to fit out
armed expeditious. Third, this coursa gave
the impraasiou to our Government that they
were seeking opportunities to involve us in
trouble with Bpaiu, slid greatly prejudiced the
Cuban cause.
ptF Oliva Logan is sick. She has been
reading her new book.
thOAoor old Thompson (oet<
the Savannah News), on a point of
with which It seemed a charity he
■bould be mode acquainted, we oertainly did
not mean to rifle hie tamper, or foroe
make threats so foreign to hit pacific nature!
Bat M tame owl flat wa did hath; and the
aaparaajuuated old Bam Jug hoe threatened
us with vengeacoe dirt, In default of more Ion
icucy for the future! In foot, the old thing is
mod—furious —frenzied —end belliooae to a
degree that ie frightful to witneee I He abate*
oe like a fish woman, deooeada to the moat
approved vocabulary tf the Ka Klax night
owl, hags pardon for having noticed us at all,
and then ridea out of the Mephitic mists and
^ of his fertilo fancy upon the staid old
hobby of
We, of course, hasten to beg pardon! We
would not harm a single hair on hi* poor old
head (that i* if he has any hair left!); and
would explaio, further, that bad the "Arkan
sas Doctor" extended his peregrinations a little
northward of his own Jersey, dismissed for a
brief season his "factory gal" associations,
gone to Westchester county, und there sought
the society of gentlemen, his ludicrously stu
pid essay on Sing Ringers had never exposed
him to merciless ridicule in hU deolioiug
oompartmeuts, almost fire proof. The con
tractor is to finish the grand hotel by the 1st
4 ..day of Juno next
T «r* It oru to correct, if possible, this total.. A m ^ ctily of ^ Uhluuu wom8a wbo now
defect in his early education and associations,
as well os to sporo him the mortification of
seeing his "piece” pass nu noticed, and not
for the purpose of stirring up the bile on the
old man's stomach, that wo voluntoered to ao-
quaint him, somewhat, with a subject of which
he evidently knew nothing! Whnt was oar
surprise aud mortifioaliou, therefore, to learn
that oar motives were wholly misinterpreted,
that our kind offices have all been spent in
vain, and that we are the victim of a genius
not even yet wholly obscured by "spirits'
moro ardent than his own?
This Thompson, that is to say, the Thomp
son ; that is to say, this antediluvian genius
well saturated and preserved by liquid ex
tracts ; that is to say, this walking, dribbling,
typical hyperpolo for Rum Jug "respectabili
ty," makes one charge against the Eiu aud its
editor, which we beg him in mercy to modify,
recant, mollify, or in some manner explain.
He says wo abuse the people of Georgia! We
ask when, where, hoW ? We abase nobody
and if we do sometimes undertake to strip
certain assenine editors (of the Ku-KIax "per
suasion") of the lion’s skin, and give the pub
lic faint glimpses of tho aises os they appear,
in tneir owu proprium, it is always uuder the
oonvictiou that such " specimens of humauity"
are not "the people of Georgia!" We have
heard of men, whilst in certain nameless con
dition*. which do somotimes follow excessive
bachannlian hilarities, who imagined them
selves to be tea kottles, night glasses, gli
bottles, Emperors, statesmen, scholars, fairies,
friars, monks and demons ; bat we have never
read of an instance where the unfortuuate
creature imagined himself to embody ihe
"people ” of a whole State !
In conclasion, let us hope th6 Thompson
ian practice, as applied in journalism, of call
ing all men penitentiary convicts who differ
with that craft in political opinion, will, in
time, give place to a higher standard of pro
fessional etiquette ; and that tho fato of this
particular Thompson may not be that of Dick
ens’ ChAnoellor, the memory of whose tragic ad
vent into the spirit world should bo a solemn
warning to all those who are the medium of
spirits more ardent than their own
Attomlshlng.
Bard, of tho Era, in replying to Borne
poiuted remarks of tho Savannah News, claims
ius respectability, from the fact that Governor
Hoffman and other respectable parties lived in
the vicinity of Sihg Sing. Judos Iscariot was
also Associated with Jesus Christ. — Greensboro
( Ga.) Herald.
This is the first intimation we over bad that
tho editor of the Herald knew anything ol
"Jesns Christ." Asa general thing Demo
cratic Ka-Klax editors know little or nothing
of characters bo puro and blameless.
Little Mr. Burns ought to eat molasses candy
and swing upon tho gates, for we know of noth-
iug higher that would suit his capacity. We
like you, Mr. Barns, and will express you all
the candy necessary to keep you swinging—
but look out you don’t mistake a gate for
something else.
The Municipal Election*.
In tho municipal campaign that is just open
ing, tho Era will give its support to no polit
ical nominations os such for Mayor and Alder
men. We will support the candidates who
will do most for the present and futare of At
lanta, regardless of party affiliations. In this
issue, Atlanta is our watchword, and ovory
thing must bend to her interests. We want
the very best men and, if possible, wo mean
to have them. We want general improve
ments, plenty of water, and less whisky, less
gambling, fewer bagnios, and reform general
ly. These are our sentiments, aud wo believe
that nine-tenths of the people of Atlanta will
sustain them.
• Col. E. Halbert.
We state npon high authority that this gen-
tel man has not been offered the Presidency of
the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad, and
that he will continue in his present important
position. We state further, npon what we
doom to be good authority, that the Colonel
does not wish to ubandon his present labori
ou* aud useful position for any other field of
duty. Wo also learn—rumor to the contrary
notwithstanding—that the Colonel is on tho
best of terms with his Excellency, the Gover
nor, and that no rapture ever existed between
them.
It is said that Mrs. Stowe will be snort for
libel.
Robert Lincoln it doing a good law busi
ne*8 iu Chicago.
Carlyle has about £30,0 0, all of which ho
made by his pen.
Boyd * Mosby have discretely adjourned
their duel to the newspaper.
One half of Marshal Nail’s will cni.gists of
moral refleotions.
Father Hyacinth© visited tho Herald office
Tuesday last, if that journal may bo believed.
••Lord Ainsley’s" bride rccoived $10,000 n>
wedding gift from her father.
Prentice call* George Francis Train "A
cipher bunting a figure to pass for toino-
thli
ng-
Mr. Thomas Watts, a librarian in the Brit
ish nttiHoutn, who know fifty languages, and
the titles of half a million books, (s dead.
Wendell Pbillto*, in his “Lost Arts,” nyt
the ancients 3,000 years ago knew how to make
■berry oobklera.
The New York Herald says that William B.
Astor during the last twenty years Inis bo man
aged a fortune or twenty millions as to roll it
up to aixty millions.
Mr. Jordan, in his specoh in tho New York
gold room, said h« was “ too damned mad to
choose his words.”
A few nights since, as the night express ou
the New York Central Road was near Amster
dam, a baby, who was looking out of an open
window, gave a spring, and in an instant fell
from its mother’s arms to the ground. The
affrighted mother, without a thought of the
danger, rushed to the door, and leaped from
the tram. As soon ae possible the oars were
stopped, and backed to the spot where every
one expected to leern of the fatal injury of
both mother and obild. Bat, at range to say,
neither was bolt, except that the baby had a
- wi ~
M a Bevenlaen year
tent of ttffrtf* for her NS.
villa, Wiaoo train, claims to have the
moat artntoointio city la the Natthweet
I» exporting living plants, the Japaneae tie
roots in a mixture of earth and carrots ground
together.
A small blaok spider, or millions of thorn,
have appeared iu Californio, and a bite lays •
man up a week.
A Wisconsin paper alleges that the secret
of tho aaeoass of Chicago newspapers lies in
the fa t that ovary man and woman in the
town takes every paper, for fear a divoroe no
tice in which thoy are interested may be pub
lished and they not find It out
Near Indian Ford, Rook county, Wlspon-
aln, is aald to be a oave which is filled con
stantly with corbonio aoid, so dense and pois
onous as to render life In the near neighbor
hood of it impossible.
Among the features in (oahionable life, the
will Ka K m. Vfuut
coming season, will be brides’ breakfast
parties—entertainments given two days in ad
vance of the wodding, to dieplay the bridal
gifts.
Witbiu 100 miles of Janesville, Wisconsin,
popular rumor locates a lake iu a forest, but
It is a traditiou that no man has ever been
able to retch it.
When tho new Union.Hotel of the Ireland
Brothers in Saratoga is completed, it will be
the large*! hotel in tho world. It will have a
frontage of 1,050, foot, five stories high. It is
to be built of brick, aud divided into nine
arrive at Han Fracisoo are the wives of men
already established in the State, and bring
with thorn their children and household goods,
and settle down with their husbands to lead
an honest life.
It is estimated that the Paraguayan war has
coat Brazil and her allies a total of $66,888,
000, and 189,810 men. Three fourths of the
sum falls upon Brazil. Her net gains are an
efficient navy and on experience in warfare
that may be serviceable to her hereafter, aud
the satisfaction which follows suocesa.
Them is a horse iu Marshall, Missouri,
which bus an unpleasant habit of going crazy
at intervals. Its insanity takes the form of a
desire to visit the abodes of men aud smash
their furniture. Its lost freak was to enter a
bed-room aud repose for a night ou immacu
late sheets.
When the Corporation of Montreal assem
bled to deliberate upon the reception to be
given to the Prince, a majority of the members
plainly intimated that they considered $1,500
too much to expend in decorating the streets,
aud that they agreed to vote for tmoh ac
amount because they considered in all proba
bility it was the last occasion of the kind that
would occur in the Dominion.
A sub-committee of a School Board not a
thousand miles from Lyun were examining a
class in a primary school. One of the com
mittee undertook to sharpen up their wits by
propounding the following question: "If I
had a mince pie, and should give two-twelfths
to John, and two-twelfths to Isaac, two-
twuliths to Harry, uud should keep half of the
pie myself, what should there be left?" There
was a profound study among the scholars
but fiually one held up his huud as a signal
that he was ready to answer. "Well, sir,
what would there be left? Speak up loud,
that all Can hear," said tho committeeman.—
"The plate!" shouted tho little fellow. Tho
committeeman turned red iu tho face, while
the other members roared aloud. That boy
was excused from answering any more ques
tions.
Tlt-Blt*.
A young lady being asked whether she
would wear a wig when her hair turned gray,
replied with great earnestness, "Oh, no ! I’ll
dye first “*
The principal occupation of the "girl of the
tend
period" is said to be to sit at the wiudo
watch for the "coming man.”
A westward-bound passenger was lately sur
prised by the following Announcement of the
conductor: "Chicago—fifteen minutes for di
vorces. "
"My dear," asked a husband, on observing
new striped hose on his only heir, "why have
you mado a barber’s polesfof our Earnest’s
legs ?" "Because he’s a little shaver,"
reply.
An Irishman leaning ugainst a lamp-post, as
a funeral procession was passing by, was asked
who was dead. "I can’t exactly say, sur,"
said be. "but I presume it’s the jintleman in
the coffin."
A kind physician, wishing to smooth the last
hour* of a poor woman, naked her if there wi
anything ho could do for her. Looking n
she replied: "Doctor, I have always thongl
that I would like to have a glass butter-dish
before I diod 1 ’’
Josh Billings defines a "thurror bread biz
ness man” as "wun that knows enuff about
steelin’ so’t there kant ennybody steel from
him, and enuff about law so that he can do
his own steelin’ legally."
‘•Julius, s’pose dero are six chickens iu a
coop, and the mau sells tree, how many aro
dore left ?’’
"What time ob day was it?"
"What time ob day was it? Why what de
debbll hab dat got to do wid do case?"
"A good deal, honey. If it war arter
dark dere would be none left; dat is, if you
happoned to como along dat way."
"Look here, niggah, jest you stop them per
sonalities."
aration for the (Ecumenical Council. The
ordered from his architect certain embellish
ments, the plan of which was brought for his
inspection by that gentleman's little boy.
Charmed by the plan, the Pope opened a
drawer full of gold, aud said to the child: *
"Take a handful as a reward for the beauty
of your father’s work."
"Holy Father,” replied the child, "take it
out for me; your hand is bigger than mine.
Pina IX. could not help smiling, and obeyed
the child.
An English clergyman thus accosted a Lon
don street Arab, whom he found playing mar-
to little boys who play marbles on Sunday?"
'They must either win or lose," said the boy.
'No, my little man, that's not nil; the devil
comes and carries them away." "Oh, but,"
said the boy, "the Scriptures says that he i*
chained op." "Yes bnt his ehains reach all
lover the world," said tho clergyman. Quick
as lightening came the answer, "Why if that’i
the case, the begger might as well b« loose."
A Sunday School teacher was giving a les
son on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the
kindness of Boaz in commanding the reapers
to drop larger haudsful of wheat. "Now,
children," said she, "Boaz did another very
nice thing for Ruth; cau you tell me what it
was?" "Married bor!" said one of the boys.
What’s that?" asked Mr*. Partington,
looking up ut the column of the Place Yen-
|domo, during her late visit to Paris.
^■Tbo pillar of Napoleon," she was an
swered. ■
■ Wi ll, I never did," she exclaimed; "and
{that's his pillow—he was a great man to use
that! But it's more like a bolster. And it'
made of iron, I do bclievo. Ah, Isaac, 6eo
what it is to be great! How hatd his head
must havo rested on his ironical pillow!"
Washington Fact and Go**lp.
Measures nro at once to bo taken by tho
Government for the leleaso of tho six Ameri
can citizens confined in British prisons, for
complicity in the Fenian movement. It is be
lieved that Gladstone only hesitates to set
the Iriah-Americaus at liberty from fear that
such an act would give strength to his politi
cal opponents.
uro of the privateer Cuba at Wilmington, be
ing determined to stand up stHotly to the let
ter and spirit of the laws. The trial of the
case, however, will go on m if such seizure
bad not takon place. The Cubans iu Wash
ington do not regard the action of our gov
ernment as effecting a change in their status
at all.
Frauds aro reported to tho anount of $32,-
000,000 iu tho mime of laudscrip to the half-
breed Chippewa Indians, and interesting de
velopments are expected shortly. The new
Secretary of War is expected in Washington
next week, but a* General Nhemmn is busy at
the Department report, the portfolio will not
chango hands until the first of November.
slight bruise on the side of the heal The
mother stated that, as aha aaw the child go out
of the window, her only thought was that she
"wanted the baby."
Treasurer Hpinner’s annual report will
•how, it i« said, that the Administration of
President Grant, in its first six months, has
iucieuHcd itu oolleotion of Government reven-
urn, and diminished tho Government expen-
lo ihe amount of fifty-six million dollars.
Of course the Democratlo organs will feel
terrible over this statement; but flaots oannot
be blinked in order to pleeee them.
WAsantoTOM, Ootober 19.—Tho agricultural
report regarding ootton. states that fertilizers
have bean liberally used in the Atlantic States.
ICneh money has bean Invested in Improved
implements. These agenoies forcer! the crop
to early maturity. The late 'pfefctaff ♦111 be
comparatively light The drouth In the Caro -
linos aud Georgia, oauaed the early bolls to
drop on the upland*. The ravages of eatter-
pillera and boll worm, though sectionally se
vere, were by no means general. Pioking will
be ovar unusually early, exoept on plantations
short of labor.
The report concludes: Detailed and oom
plete estimates of the aggregate yield have
not yet been calculated. There is no reason
to believe, from an examination of the Ooto
ber reporta, that tha preliminary and eondi-
tional estimate heretofore made of 2,750,000
bales—the only mode this season, newspaper
reports to the contrary notwithstanding—can
be exceeded.
von a detailed
In tha next report will bo gi
summary of the yield after final reports are
rccoived aud carefully examined.
Upon the assembling of Congress a move
ment will be inaugurated modifying the pow
ers of the Supreme Court to the ‘
extent of
subjecting all decisioua affecting reconstruc
tion to the reviBion of a special joint Judiciary
Committee of Congress.
The policy of the government iu the Yorger
case seems to be to postpone the is* ue. h ■
NIGHT DISPATCHER.
UratsfoIfortaeftackwsgoNaeMoftatareat Ots-
nrvowfesiM m its during OtcsataM now sbtiaf
with tae eathsiiaf of frutanl srops Mr tae Hastoad.
i with aasple sewards tor the Merchant sad th*
Artisan; and with health wmlim* anoagsU ear in
habitant*. let sU th* people of this State, etafly or la
mbly, tajtaf aU boelnee* seide, devote TBUBS-
DAT, TBS XlOHnUarTB DAT 09 HOV1MBX»
NEXT, to Theahagivtac end Praia* to Almighty Ood
tor the greet mercies and bleating* which we have en
joyed; sad unite in prayer, that we meg he worthy of
eeoottMaaeeof Bl* goa*s—.
Given under my bend end the teal of the XzeouMv*
Department, at the Capitol, In tho city of A Meat*,
thta twenty-toth day of Ootober, lathe year of ~
Lord One Thouaewd Kiffct Bandied end Sixty-Wine,
ant) of the Independence of the United State* of
Amsrloa, the Ninety-fourth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor.
By the Governor t
K. Pstn. Lam*.
Secretary KxwuUve Department.
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uiiwwiuiiuM. a. a. watkbh,
IF YOU DOUBT IT,
COME AND toEE.
general etoek of
WATCHES AND
THE IMPROVED
HOWE FAMILY SEWING MACHDff
JEWELRY,
AT AUOTION.
Washington, October 29. —Rovenuo to-day
$690,000.
The Committee on Foreign Relations moot
next week. It is hoped their action will push
the Cuban interests.
Boutwell has issued a circular to the revonue
officers directing them to ouforoe the law re
garding safety valves on vessels carrying pas
sengers.
Supremo Court—No. 21, original—the Bt&te
of Texas va. George Peabody etal Judg<
Paschal to-day obtained writs of subpoona n
this cause returnable the 1st Monday in De
cember next, and the flnt Friday in Febru
ary was fixed for the hearing of the motion
for a preliminary injunction.
It is apprehended that Col. Casey, Collector
of customs ot New Orleans, with his family,
were aboard tho Stonewall.
Mrs. Agnes Paschal, aged 94, one of the
last widowed pensioners of the revolution,
died recently in Georgia.
The following item is furnished from a
truthful source: General Clark and other
Texans, and some Misaissippians, have ap
plied to the President to have the elections in
those States indefinitely postponed. They in
sist that the decision in the Yerger case, and
the cortainty that Hamilton and Dent will
carry the elections, render this necessary.—
It is not probable that tuey will suooeed.
Macon, October 29.—lartie* wishing steam
power to run machinery ut the Georgia State
Agricultural Fair at Macon, lGih November,
will please immediately telegraph to tbe Sec
retary the speed they require.
Geueral Sherman, on an application ap
proved by General Terry, bus ordered a large,
number of army tents to be placed at the ser
vice of the State Agricultural Society for coun
ty Agricultural Societies, Colleges aud school*
camping on the ground.
The railroads ou the line from Alexandria,
Va., through Lynchburg, Cleveland, Dalton,
Atlanta, and tho roads oa the Hue from Cim
cinnati, through Louisville, Nashville, Chat
tanooga, Atlanta; the roads from SL Louis; by
boat to Hiokman, through Nashville, Chatta
nooga and Atlanta; the roads from Memphis,
through Chattanooga; the roads from Jackson,
Miss., through Selma, Rome, and Atlanta;
from Montgomery, Ala., through Columbus,
Ga.; the Florida roads connecting with Geor
gia roads; the Petersburg & Weldon road
Wilmiogton & Weldon, Wilmington & Man
Chester; Sooth Carolina roads; the road from
Philadelphia to Baltimore; from SL Paul to
Milwaukee, have consented to bring and re
turn passengers for ono fare—articles for ex
hibition halt rates.
St. Louis, October 29.—The steamer Rub>
con has arrived from the wreck, bringing but
two more survivors.
One thousand dollars were subscribed
’Change for the committee to visit the wreck
and bury the dead. Other subscriptions will
bo made for the destitute families:
Wu.MiNGTON, OcL 29.—Argument in tho
case of the officers of the Cuba closed to-day.
Tho decision of the Court will bo rendered to
morrow at 12 o’clock.
Constantinopi.b, Ootober 29.—The shipping
was deoorated, the city illuminated and much
enthusiarm when the Grand Turk received tho
Kaiser.
Madrid, October 29.—Seven batallions of
volunteers will soon depart for Cuba. Enlist
ments continue. Dissections among the Cab
inet and people, touching a monarch, are
abated.
There are dissentions among the opposition.
The final election of the Duko of Genoa is
probable.
London, October 29.—A bottle was found
containing a memorandum of the foundering
of the emigrant vessel Weser, on tho 1st of
July, with three hundred and forty-
aboard.
The weather is unusually cold, and from all
parts of the Kingdom como advices of frost.
■treeta, th* following public property:
Sixteen (16) Mulesi more or less;
AUK),
Qu«rt«rniMter’a Mores, from McPherson
Barracks.
These mole* ore not sold because of any defoot bat
being in ezoee* of tbe number required at tbl* Poet.—
They may be seen on application to th* Superinten
dent of tbe Stable, at any tlm* prior to tbe rale.
By order Brevet Colonel A. U. Eddy, Chief Quarter-
mooter Department of tbe South.
X. B. GiBBH,
let Lieut. U. A A., A. A. Q. M..
OCt 3J-0t and Disbursing Quartermaster,
Iii Bankruptcy.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S OFFICE, 1
Atlanta, 0a., October 99tb, IMS, /
T HIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE—That on the 11th day
of October. A. D. 1869, a Warrant in Bankruptcy
waa Issued against the estate of
GEOB0E W. AARON,
In tbe county of Madison, and 8tate of
1 hi*
titlon; that tbe Payment of any Debt* and the De
livery of any Property belonging to sneb Bankrupt to
him or for bis u*e, and the Transfer of any Prop
erty by him are f rbldden by Law; that a Meeting
of the Creditor* of the aald Bankrupt to prove their
Debts aud to Choose one or more Assignee! of his
f*t*ta. will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy,
holdeu at the Register's otttoe, In the City of Madison,
ooualy of Morgan, State ot Georgia, before Albert G.
Foster, Register, on tbs 10th day of November, 1869.
GKO. B. CHAMBERLIN,
oct 30-lt U. 8. Dep. Marshal, as Messenger.
CRAPE VINES.
ico and snow.
Telegraphic Jftarket Reports.
New York, Oclober 29.—Cotton heavy and
lower; Bales 1,500 boles at 26o. Flour dull
and declining; superfine $5 30 to 6 50; oom
tnon to fair extra Southern $6 20 to 6 75.—
Wheat heavy, dosing steadier. Corn less ao
tive. Pork a shade lower at $31. Lard un
changed. Whisky heavy at $1 21 to 1 211.—
Rice easier; Carolina 8 to 9c. Naval stores
quiet. Freights heavy and lower.
Money easy and lair at 7; sterling 8£; gold
23|. Government securities lower; 62’s 19|.
Stocks unsettled but all Btrong.
New Orleans, October 29.—Cotton lower
at 24| to 244; sales 2,450 bales; sales of the
week 18,350 bales. Flour $5 25, 5 50 aud
5 60. Corn firm; old mixed $1 10; white
mixed $1 124; white $1 15. Oats firmer at
03 to 64c. Bran $1 05. Hay $27. Pork $32
Bacon retailing at 17i, 20 and 20|o. Lard, Su
gar Molasses uud coffee are unchanged. Whis
ky $1 25.
Cotton receipts to-day 4,900 bales; week,
to Liverpool 9,968 bales; to tho Continent 14,
031; coastwise 3,864 bales; to-day 10,186
bales; stook on hand 65,439 bales.
Baltimore, Ootober 29.—Cotton dull and
nominal for high grades. Flour deolined Jo.
Wheat and oorn dull. Provisions quiet.—
Whisky inactive at $1 21.
exports coastwise 404 kales.
Savannah, October 29.—Cotton closed at
24jc; for middlings; sales 400 bales; receipts
2,476 bales; exports 760 bales.
Charleston, Ootober 29.— Cottou dull and
unsettled; middling 25c; receipts 2,067 bales;
Mobile, October 29.—Cotton rectapi* for
the weok 7,421 bales; exports to Great Britain
4,251 bales; other foreign ports 448 bales;
coastwise 1,772 bales; stock on band 20,083
bales; sales for the week 5,500 kales; sales to
day 300 bales and tho market closed dull and
weak; middling 24 to 24Jc; receipts to-day
1,014 bales; exports to-day 136 bales.
Auousta, Oot. 29.—Cotton market weak
and easier; sales 540 bales; receipts 972 bales;
middling 23| to 24c; sales for the week 4,430
boles; rooeiptsfor the week 5,400 bAlec; stock
on hand 6,717 balos.
Liverpool, October 29.—Cotton steady;
sales 12,000 bales at 12 to 12Jd. Receipts of
the week 56,000 balsa. Amerioau 7,000; Hales
of the week 67,000; sales for export 9,000:
salt** to speculators 8,000. 8tock of cotton of
all classes at Liverpool is 428,000. Stock of
Amerioan ootton at Liverpool 29,000. The
stock of cotton of all classes afloat for Liver
pool 323,000. Tbe stook of American cotton
■float for Liverpool is 49,000.
Crimes.
McKlinglo, tho St. Louis boy murderer, who
■hot his undo two years ago, has been sen
veo*
tenoed to be hung December 16th.
Joseph P. Wood, a ship carpenter ot Rond-
killed
his wife with an axe, and then cut
hie own throat with a razor. Cause, jealousy
rum.
Proceedings have been instituted against
8inallwood, late Postmaster at New Orleans,
end his sureties, for an alleged defalcation of
over $1,000.
H. B. Hayward, lately connected with a Jet-
7 City insurance company, has decamped
ith about $30,000. One ox tbe sufferer* 1* a
widow lady who loaea soma $16,000.
Roche and Bannaaoha, two of th* men ar
rested tor circulating counterfeit tobaooo
■tamps, in Richmond, ware committed in de
fault of bail. Efforts ore being made to g*t
them out on habeas corpus, on tho ground ot
exetasive boil being required.
1 sole at LOW FIQUUK8, b;
KW Samples at my office.
’iiitK W. JOHNSON,
oct 36-c Jy 16-ly
FALL AND WINTER
BOOTS,
SHOES,
AND
TRUNKS,
WHOLESALE.
Gents’,
Ladies’,
Misses’ and
Childrens’
Boots and Congress Gaiters,
For Retail, Just Beoeived.
e. H. a A. v*. FORC^
Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
nov * '681y
and 8llT«r.mtcd Warp, Clock*, Ac,,
ayrna
Broufbt to Atlanta.
And h.Tl>( pnrdUMd DIBIOT fun MnutMturai.
AT
NET CASH PRICES,
w. an AM., Wlllll, #ad O.l.rmlord
wn, city or rills*#,
NorlU, South, Ka.t
Ws Lavs bettor facilities for tbs perdu** and sale of
HE celebrated for woridng equally well on nay and ail kinds of fabrics, using *o>
L TWWT, LINEN and OOTTON THREAD, nuking tbe LOCK STITCH, ** *■*
FIIWT INVENTED BY ELIAS
Which L th. mort popul»r ud donbl.. All ltochln.. or. «ob)eo» to th. prlnciplM 1,^,. ’
latest Improvements _ _ _ ^■*•1
GIVEN
For Heuainr, Felilnie, Braldta*, Tupkln*, (JallUor, Etc., 1
- — -
No lrouble to »how MuchlDM. whether jou parchPM or not. Fenou. ailu, tlu Boa
sire to trade them
AWAY
MNH WATCHES
Than any other House South hu, o
Our only reference to
TWENTY-ONE YEARS
In the Jwalry Buslnst
Old Establishment of Er Lawshe.
WK HAVIBITTEB ABBAXOKHBKTS
THAN ANY HOUSE IN ATLANTA,
Repairing Watohes and Jewelry.
oct ae—d Jm I.AWSIIF. dt HAYNES.
SALE OF THE
Cotifrtli'rAtp Slates l.nltoruUry itiiileliiifr,
Now temporarily c
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
ao foot), end 100 feet long by M and 80 feet
extension at each end one story high, aud eaoh 200
by 28 feet. It I* located about one mile and a half
from the city of Macon, and immediately upon the
track of the Macon A Western Railroad.
This bnilding being situated in the center of the oot-
gionofC
sole offers special induce
ments to capitalists and manufacturers, for whom
Georgia now opens a fine field for remunerative in-
ITT OF MACON,
between the lawful hours of sale, on the
First Tuesday in December Neit.
Savannah. Ga., October 18th, 1889.
WHAT
IV* Don’t fall to see the Howe Machine before purchasing any other.
8B WgXT MIX API. *T., ATIiAN j^
HIT iT i db
Goad Ageuta Wanted lu Every County in
oct 2Mt
the.
ATLANTA SEGAR MANUFACTojj
IHE SUBSCRIBER moat respectfully Informs the citizens of Atlanta, and surroundlm tumbjM*
FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS,
Bell out his entire stook at a rednoed price, by the
WHOLESALE OR RET 1
200,000 Segars, prloc 822 00 to $80 00 per Thousand,
Tobacco Pancake Rolls, Bright Narjr, Stonewall Twist,
W. Brown’s Bright Pound, 150 dozen Pipes, from $1 per
hwdndbta
0*11 soon, or yon will lose a bargain. All cash orders promptly attended Hi
to by
JOHN FH
No. 11 Peachtree Street, opposite lot
s.,.pen..,-o-gj-f-., rNAUGHT, ORMOND & CO.
IMroBTERS OP
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY,
IKON AND STEEL.
GREAT SOUTHfi
rsit * uico home when you get old T
DO
Is it the ability to entertain your friends • wellJfor to
help the charities of the world ?
iiri stem mine hill
AND
Iiumbuh
J. C. PECK & CO.,
T1U1LDRM, MANUFACTURERS and DKALBRS in
J_> Lumber, Doora, Saab. Blinds, Mouldings, ho., he.
Sash of all sisee constantly on hand
largest and
Atlanta.
Jolrt ol .11 l.o,th. .0.1 alM. ud MUonad lnmbor
hl’Jukeo’l'rSk ,f°“ * 11 a* la town until j<m
1869.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
TO THE NORTH AND EA8T,
-VIA-
Louiavtlle, Memphis, St. Louis,
Cincinnati or Indianapolis.
PuMhgu. bp till. Boat. hu. Oholo. of
TWENTY-FIVE DIFFERENT ROUTES
NEW YORK,
Philadelphia, Baltimore
Washington.
iltlaore, eon visit Washington
»AHH SilfI AS VIA KMOIVir-LB OB AOOUUT1.
On aud after Augmt 15, 1800,
TRAINS LBAVB ATLAKTA
Dally at 8.15 a.m. and 7.35 p.ni.
AfWr urtY.1 of .11 Southern ii.lt,. m n#i rtou
connect Iona to abora ■
*V Chsok baggage to LonlavUla, and it will be re-
teckad to destination on trains of LonisvtUa and
Noshvtll# Railroad before arrival at Loais villa.
YOU
If so. save your monsy—and in no way oan joabe-
|jn to do thla better than by buying good ’Boots *
WANT?
*o p.r«on ull. bailor ono, or »t . low.r pnc. th ,
I. T. BANKS,
Rswson Bnilding,
Cor. Whitehall and Hunter sta.
FINE
TABLE CUTLERY!
SILVER-PLATED WARE!
DECOHAT El) DINNER
AND
T K A. SETS!
DEALERS IN
duns, Rifles, Axes, Hoes, Chains, dec.
Also agents for the sola of
Brinlj’s Universal Ploughs, Fairbanks’
Standard Scales, Du Font’s HI do
and Blasttni
asting Powder, Old Do*
minion Nails,
, trade, and the public generally, to their Urge and
varied stock, embracing, in addition to the above,
oomplete assortment of Builders’ Hardware, Mo-
chanioa’ Tool*. Anvils, Vices. Bellows, Horae and Mule
Shoes, Cotton and Wool Cards, Circular and MiU Saws,
Leather and Rubber Belting, Nova Scotia Grind-
” “ “ and Wagon
tory Spokes,
PASSENGER AID 111
ROUT
ATLANTA and AUffl
i, Bolts, Patent and Enameled
Cloths, Oil Oarpet, Ac., Ao., Ac.
All of which tbr •*
All of which they offer at the lowest market rates,
and in quantities to suit purchasers, at their old stand
90 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, G*.
oct 24—dSiu
THE POPULAR PASSENGER
ROUTE
The South and New York
PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON,
sun omn
EAWTEllN CITIEN
tia
Western «b Atlstntio
AMD
VIRGINIA & TENNESSEE
RAILWAYS.
CHARLESTON, COU
Clin rlotto,
WILMINGTON, WELDW, I
Washington, Baltta]
Philadelphia and NewR
' sure at all ooaaons.
THX SATING HOUSES on
oughly overhauled and rsflttsd.
for meals, and at regular hoars
NO
ALL RAIL ROUTE.
10X11, 180U.
K TADIaK. AUGUST
NORTH:
Leave Atlanta
Leave Dalton a so
Leave tooxvill* ll is
Leave Bristol 1 Wtu
ttsasSS:::::::::; 800i “
7 24 m
6 46m
Arrive a
6 00a
Leave Lynchburg...,
CHANCE Of 1
BXTWI0
Went Point, Ga., t*4
({HICK TIME and SCU I
YU
Or oor*i A H*^ r
■ oon purchase
thiocoh t
Passengers c
have thtar
Baggage Checked 1
From K.w Orteua, Mobil.. UM
uid Atlanta, to iuoh»o.4, ,
ington, Philadelphia 1
Iljr Po#r Dlir.ra.t «•««••* ,
Via Kingsville, and Wllmlu
ntrflWlto*
..^llAB
Time Between Atlanta and New York
58 Hours 15 Minutes.
W Th. ORKAT MAIL Irtumit Atlanta
and Xtu York is carried nehtsivebj t>y this Lint.
FARE AS LOW BT_*]
AS ANY OTHER
ROUTE i
MAGNIFICENT SLEEPING CARS
(W AH MMHT TOAUII.
Ampla Tima far Maati at Good Hot.li,
Aiatoa noun via
LOUISVILLE.
GENERAL TICKET OFFICE, ATLAITA.
B. W. WRIK8, GeneralTtafcot Agent.
apurewhxte carbow oil
ZiroTehtX76otol#0.
0,1 "" ** 4 *- **"”
Q-OLID 13 .A. 1ST ID
WHITE CHINA!
TOILET BETS, VISES, 4C.
T8E LARGEST STOCK IK TBE SOUTH,
••.■■IDS A, CO’i.
Sleeplag Coachea on all Night Train#.
Through Tickets
MOOD UNTIL USED,
AMD
Boggago Cheeked Through
TO ALL IMPORTANT rOIMTH.
_ Ttaket Ageat.
WAlfflfi, MMtar Traaaportattou
. HULiXll , Supt. W. k A. B. B.
NCR* THEY ARE.
F Pot., I
100,000 Strawberry Plants.
<M m4 art Mat IBM «wt
DJ5TO.i°».
wtsa. *"**jru
PULLMAN’S PAUOI
on ALL
NltlHT TRAINS LXAYW
BY THIS
ROIITf-
lit Halllnmr.. Philadelphia, BO***
NorffiJ
3Ti3£^»S£<rhto.«
snutos'S,*
THBOnUtLBTOS
duoamoutto T*’
every luxary the Norther*
oaa afford, and for
Safely, Speed, •**
UNIUVAIXED ON
th*
ItrowH
N..t|«B,rr. W«‘ 1
XIW xou vu
j. a*
i.a.»M»w»
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