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SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1874.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
for the coming year.
,nation concerning cotton, corn and
‘1 r „-oducts toll be of mutual benefit.
Mis connection we would state that
10 ne ws of importance transpiring in
f various counties of this State and
Lrida ( When accompanied by a responsi-
U ame) will find a place in our
I columns. .
Affairs in Georgia.
The freshet extended to Stewart county
1 80 d occasioned much damage to farming
I s „d milling interests.
The re 115 of IIoustou count y l 011 are to
I k papered with 1-oiler iron. Even then
-1 will require a good coat of whitewash
to render them perfectly secure.
The latest sensation in Lumpkin was a
I * ent battle between four cows.
I negro boy assaulted Sir. Henry Mer-
I tt ofTaylor comity, last Saturday while
1 utter was lying in bed. The negro is
I jn jaU and Sir. Slerritt lies in a critical
I condition.
t snrpliced choir of hoys is now in
I training for St. Philip’s Episcopal
Church, of Atlanta.
Her. Joshua Knowles, of Greensboro,
holds m trust a house and lot in Atlanta.
In September last he paid the tax thereon.
In January he was informed by a friend
that it had beer, sold under a tax exeeu-
aon. Mr. Knowles has instituted a suit
to recover expenses and damages incurred
in protecting a sacred trust against law-
!tss invasion. It will thus bo seen that
some Other things can he done in Atlanta
besides-lifting a stranger out of $750.
Mr. Jas. H. Sutton, of Monroe county,
| to wheat thirty inches high.
Three penitentiary convicts escaped’in
Atlanta the otherdey. Two were chained
together.
The recent heavy rains have greatly re
tailed farming operations in Middle
Georgia Corn that had already been put
in the ground will have to he replanted.
A drunken man named Hicks got astride
of the roof of the hotel kitchen in For-
ijth recently and tried to howl himself
blind.
Peter Goshay, colored, of Macon, slashed
Ben McNair, of the same complexion, for
walking with his wife. Hen is dead, and
tbe police are after Goshay.
Burelars are loafing around Forsyth.
The Fair Grounds in Atlanta are in pro-
| cess of renovation.
The Hinesville Gazette says that a larger
I quantity of timber has been cut during
I the past winter, and has already been
I timed off, or is en route to market than
I vis ever known before. The cutting still
I continues, aud a considerable proportion
I cf the laborers of the country is employed
I in this way. The idea that some enter-
[ ism that most of the timber within easy
I reach of the water has already been
| carried to market is a mistake. There is
(till enough to employ many laborers for
| rears to come even where timber has been
cat; and in some localities the forests are
I entouched. This is a great interest and
I one which brings in a large revenue to
lour people, but it must be properly
I managed to be made remunerative to the
I cutter.
According to the Atlanta Herald, the
| attempt to hiro the penitentiary convicts
o.nder the law passed at the last hour of
I the General Assembly is a failure. The
present contract with Grant, Alexander &
Co. for the hire of the penitentiary con
victs will expire in April, pud, as every
Business man sees, a law to dispose of
that immense force should have been one
of the very first measures of the session.
If hired at all, contractors for such a
large body of men must have ample time
10 perfect their arrangements, not only
to properly feed and care for them, but to
I ‘tppiy them with permanent labor. This
I fact was evident to everybody except the
I legislature, who delayed the matter until
I the very last week of the session, thus
I laving but a few weeks for these impert-
| aut preliminary arrangements. The nat-
I '-ral consequence of this delay is to be
B'ond in the fact that while the proposals
ace to be opened to-day, (March 24th,)
B P Saturday not one had been received
at the Executive Department. From
present appearances, it is not unlikely
••sit the entire penitentiary force, except
! ' ie °ne hundred convicts to be taken by
too Forsyth and Indian Springs Turnpike
Company, will be thrown upon the State.
Iae re sponsilii]ity thus thrown upon the
Governor is, doubtless, anything but
feasant to that functionary,
hhe same paper says that another in-,
'face of neglect, seriously embarrassing
- Executive, if not prejudicially affect-
the credit of the State, is to be found
'- the failure of the Legislature to pro-
for the past due interest on the
! lscoa and Brunswick (Railroad bonds,
poised by the State and amounting to
— 5 ,0OO. The Genera! Appropriation
1 contains a clause embracing tiiat ohli-
jB arj u, but the tax act makes no provision
^collecting the money and covering it
J *^ 8 Treasury. The entire tax to be
Ie ^ barely sufficient to meet other
^nations, the assessment being
unted in the act to four-tenths of one
„ e *“L' an ^ Chut notwithstanding the
arnor had sent in a message informing
filature that at least four and a
tenths would be necessary to meet
‘“'Public obligations. .
^correspondent of the Mousing News
ei *as follows: Having passed a few
df J* Bwke county, I learn from one
largest and best merchants of
n aT~- *
lars. Upon this showing, how prosper
ous and free from debt and happy would
this county he, if they would only make
their own com and meat,’ and raise their
own stock to snpply their farms.
Eaton ton Messenger: We have in Eaton-
ton a genius. Mr. Hafner .can mend or
make anything, piano, flute, sewing ma
chine, watch, steam engine—you can
mention scarcely anything that Hafner
cannot repair, or, if necessary, construct
He lived here before the war. He was
here most of the time during the war, and
he is here yet, where we hope he will re-
when
spinninp
procured a number of card-making ma
chines, which he set going in the peni
tentiary at Milledgeville. But Hafner
went to work in his own shop, right here
in Eatonton, and built a card-making
machine out and out He drew his own
wire and then nsed it on the machine,
which, by turning a crank, inserted the
wire in the leather, gave it the right
crook and cut it the right length, all
with wonderful precision and rapidity.
Files were ’ scarce in those days. Haf
ner took the old, worn-out ones,
tempered and cut then over so as to make
them as good as new. In short you can
hardly say what he did not do. We hap
pened to drop in on him not long since
and found him at work on a miniature
steam engine. The steam chest will be
about two inches square, piston three and
a half inches stroke. Don’t you see what
a nice little thing it will be ? He thinks
it will have one horse power, and intends
using it to saw up his firewood, or do any
other office that comes in the way.
The Crafts,
We have before mentioned the mission
of a colored man by the name of William
Crafts, who is at present at the North solici
ting funds for the purpose of establishing a
colored school in the neighborhood of thiB
city. The following is the story of Crafts
and his wife, as given in the New York
Evening Post:
The story of William and Ellen Crafts,
once slaves in Georgia, is probably nearly
forgotten by our readers. They were hus
band and wife. The wife was of fair
complexion. She assumed the character
of a young Georgia planter, dressed in
men’s clothes, and William Crafts per
sonated the slave. In this disguise they
arrived at Boston about twenty-six years
since. They were two years in Boston,
but the slave hunters were so active that
they were obliged to leave that city.
They fled to England. Here Lady
Byron and Dr. Lushington inter
ested themselves in their education.
After about six years’ residence in Eng
land, William Crafts was sent by an asso
ciation of philanthropic gentlemen, with
the sanction of the British Government,
to Dahomey, to persuade the king of that
country to induce his people to engage in
legitimate commerce instead qf the slave
trade. He remained about seven years in
Dahomey, and succeeded in establishing
commercial relations between its princi
pal port, Waydali, and the port of Liver
pool. He returned to this country in
1870, and took measures to start a school
for colored pupils about thirty miles from
Savannah, at Hickory Hill. Here a
building was hired, with a plantation, but
the house was burned down the next
year, as was believed, by an incendiary.
Mr. Crafts and his wife are now engaged
in getting up a school about nineteen
miles from Savannah, at a place called
Woodville. A plantation of eighteen
hundred acres has been purchased by
funds obtained from Boston, and the title-
deeds just obtained. A schoolhouseisnow
wanted, with the proper furniture and
agricultural implements, by the use of
which it is hoped the school will be self-
supporting. Mr. Crafts is in this city
with a view of obtaining funds for this
purpose. The object is a worthy one.
Georgia has no pubhc school system.
There is a capitation tax on all voters, a
part of which is understood to be paid
for purposes of education; but nothing is
done in that way, and where the tax goes
to the persons who should be beuefitted
by it dp not know. It is to be hoped
that Mr. Crafts will be able to obtain the
means to perfect the plan which thus far
has prospered. He and his wife, who
have enterprise and practical skill enough
for anything, if we may judge by their
present history, are to manage the school.
The American Missionary Association in
this city have agreed to send a teacher as
soon as the school-house is erected and
the furniture and agricultural implements
are purchased.
[Greencastle (Indiana) Letter in tbe Indianapolis
Sentinel.)
A Wonderful Escape.
Sunday night last, some fool-hanly
dare-devil came very near getting himself
killed and frightening to death a son “des
Deutehen Yaterland” in attempting to
perpetrate a pleasant joke on the college
bell by removing the clapper therefrom.
The harum-scarum joker climbed a five-
story lightning-rod, scrambled over a wet,
slipplery roof through pitchy darkness,
and, doubtless, with thoughts more ele
vated than at any other time during the
day, proceeded to business. Only half
the cold, disagreeable task was done,
when, lo ! the wooly caput of the janitor
appeared on the scene, that vigilant
worthy having noiselessly ascended by a
stairway within. With no great amount
of meditation and little soliloquizing, the
reckless individual proceeded rather un
ceremoniously to demolish Herr Zeiner’s
lantern, and test his scent for powder.
Herr Zeiner knocked his pistol from his
hand, and, in thfi scuffle that ensued,
threw the luckless joker from the bell
room to the roof, some ten feet below.
. Instead of sliding off the treacherous
roof, as any well-regulated individual of
ordinary good fortune would have done,
he seized the lightning rod, near which
he fell, and swung himself over the eaves,
the janitor shooting at him in the mean
time. Zeiner was sure he had hit him,
and rang the bell as if half the town was
on fire, in order to have some one pick up
and take care of the body; he himself
being so badly scared that he mixed np
his English and German in the most un
intelligible manner. A large number of
citizens and students soon assembled, and
a deputation of the most courageous pro
ceeded dolefully around the comer of the
building, to carry in the corpse. They
returned bearing among them bitter dis
appointment, instead of the dead body,
which had very unkindly absented itself.
The janitor insists that he bit him, and
blood on the lightning rod and the wall
ijs his assurance.
■ a hat and pistol are at the Mayor’s of
fice awaiting their claimant After all, it
ib only a trivial matter; but it created
quite a sensation, and is the chief _ topic
of conversation about town. In view of
the facts that the daring fellow climbed
at least seventy feet of cold, rough light
ning-rod, no easy task under the most fa
vorable circumstances; that the two
scuffled with might and main in a little
room ten feet square with only a low,
iptten railing between them and stone
steps seventy feet below; that the scamp
was thrown out upon the slippery, treach
erous roof of shingles, a target to pistol
halls; and that, excited as he must have
been, he swung himself overlong-pro
jecting eaves and descended safely—the
whole thing is a remarkable feat, and the
escape of the principal from serious, if
not fatal, injury is little less than miracu-
be ^- Father Hyacinths, otherwise M. Loy-
thirty-five hundred . ±5' md th / 0 )d Catholic Bishop Rein-
ootton; that he estimated the -kens, of Germany, are at variance. M.
I i , at! h 7 other parties from that Loyson repudiates the later’s jurisdiction,
J® 1 * fifteen hundred hales, makingthe “ d the Bishop’s official orpn replies that
“’Whoa WavnocWr. . .7 the prelate never claimed a connection
, K to P resent time, -with him since his marriage threw light
kales; that he estimates finon-his revolt from Roman Catholicism.
I «onrT , “ >r0 kee P* one-Sfth of Burke
jinr ■: “ d ‘k* 4 the crop Burke, this
adiich M t 'T enty - five thousand bales,
■ at Bixt y dollars per bale, will
BY TELEGRAPH
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THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
DISASTROUS TOW-BOAT EXPLO
SION.
I A Boston merchant, who has a strong
letite for liquor, sent for five temper-
women to pray with him. They
and through their efforts he says,'
reformation.
The Question of Cheap Transportation.
THE APACHES.
Tucson, Abizona. March 25.—Major
Randall had a fight with the Apaches,
killing eleven warriors. Thirty women
and children were captured.
TOW-BOAT EXPLOSION.
Memphis, March 25.—The tow-boat
Crescent City, from New Orleans for St.
Louis, with five sugar and cotton barges,
exploded. The barges were burned,
eleven persons-killed and several hurt.
The Crescent City is valued at seventy
thousand dollars.
The Crescent City, at the time of the
explosion, had 140 pounds of steam, with
water flush five minutes before the ex
plosion. The engineer in charge at the
time was away aft welding a fire hook.
He cannot account for the explosion.
The barges in tow, with five hundred
tons of coal, six hundred' tons of sugar
and two hundred tons of queensware,
were all lost. Four additional persons
are dead. None of the bodies of the
killed have been recovered.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New Yoke, March 25.—Platt A Boyd,
whose books were seized by Jayne, on
10th of last July, have begun suit to re
cover $50,000 damages for trespass.
Other and similar suits against Jayne are
threatened.
Vice-President Aguilera, of the Cuban
Republic, is in the city and reports that
his visits to the cities where Cubans re
side to collect subscriptions and or
ganize expeditions have been quite suc
cessful.
THE BEAUTIES OF JUDGE LYNCH.
Cincinnati, March 25.—Belle Secor, a
young girl aged thirteen, was outraged
and murdered in Mercer county, Ohio,
and two men named McLeod and Kim-
meD, suspected of the crime, were lynched
by the infuriated citizens. A few days
ago Thomas B. Douglass, of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, on his death-bed confessed that
he committed the outrage and afterwards
participated in the hanging of the two
innocent men.
BUBNED.
Boston, March 25.—Oliver Ditson’s
music store is burned. Loss $75,000.
CUBAN AFTAIES.
Madeid, March 25.—Don Jose de la
Concha, who succeeds Jovellar, receives
the title of Governor-General of the An
tilles, with unlimited power. He will
have supreme command over Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Burriel is to be made a Field Marshal.
CHEAP TEANSPOETATION.
Rock Island, March 25.—The Cheap
Transportation Convention, J. M. Allen
President, met to-day, with six hundred
delegates. The speakers develop a wide
diversity of views. Among the resolu
tions of a general character is one spe
cifically favoring a ship canal at the
month of the Mississippi river.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 25. —In the Senate,
Mr. Fenton, from the Finance Committee,
reported favorably on the bill to refund
customs duties to certain parties in New
Orleans. It was placed on the calendar.
FATAL FUSE.
Williams’ Bridge, N. Y., March 25.—,
A tenement house is burned, with a
mother and her three children. The hus-.
band, with two other children, escaped.
MARINE DISASTER.
Norfolk, March 25.—An unknown bark
is ashore on Cutterick Beach. The
wreckers have gone to her assistance.
A ROTTEN RADICAL INSTITUTION.
The Anti-Treating Movement.
We hear of one manifestation of the
temperance reform which exhibits what
is rare in such movements, a practical
and reasoning sense. In several Western
cities associations have been formed, the
members of which restrict themselves to
one pledge, not to pay for any other
man’s drink, and not to drink at any
other man’s expe&se. This may seem to
many a very limited basis of association,
but if this pledge were strictly adhered
to the spread of intemperance would be
immediately checked throughout the
country. The American habit of “treat
ing 1 ’ is the. origin of much of the misery
' im excessive
.of.
through their generosity
please. They know of no othei way of
making themselves agreeable lo their
acquaintances, when they meet, than by
asking them to take a drink, and when
the same invitation is given to them
they do not know how to refuse.
Who has not seen these fine, rosy,
rather loutish boys, at county fairs or
political meetings, marching up to
bars by twos and threes, asking each
other “What will you take?” and gulping
down a dose of poison which brings the
tears to their eyes ? When one has paid
for the drinks, each of the rest feels the
obligation resting upon him to return the
courtesy, and the rcral etiquette obliges
all to recognize the right of each to dis
burse the price of a dram for the com
pany. In most cases not one of them
enjoys it. They all feel the fiery stuff in
their faces and their eyes, clouding their
minds and rasping their throats. But the
one who has first paid is the slave of his
friends, and the conventionalities of the
village or the cross-roads are as strong as
those of the city. “You have drunk with
all the rest, and now you must drink with
me,” is a contradiction in logic, bat it is
unanswerable in rustic practice among
drinking youths. The signing of such a
limited liability pledge as we have men
tioned would free these well-intentioned
and thoughtless boys from the chains of
this miserable, dangerous custom. There
are very few who would deliberately go
up to a counter and ask for a solitary
dram. This is only done when the habit
has become a strong one, and when the
hope of reformation has pretty well dis-
Rcport of the Snb-Couiinitlee on tho
Affairs of the First National Bank of
Washington.
The sub-Committee—composed of
Messrs. Durham of Kentucky, Farwell
of Illinois, and Merriam of New York—
made their report on Friday to the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency upon
the affairs of the First National Bank of
Washington. The facts developed dis
close a perfectly rotten condition of af
fairs. The amount of past debts running
for some time uncollected is over $156,000.
One of the largest debts dne the bank at
the time of the failure was from its
President, Henry D. Cooke, the pious
banker, late Radical Governor of this
District, and ex-officio a member of the
Board of Public Works. This sum, in
cluding interest on the day of failure,
was $49,778 42, and had been due by
Cooke since 1868. Tho amount standing
to profit and loss in the bank ac
count on the day of the failure and for
some time previously, was about $130,000.
The debt due on the day of failure by
Jay Cooke & Co. waa $897,000, but on
the 1st of August, 1873, their debt due
the First National Bank was only $238,682.
So that this large increase was created in
one month and eighteen days. Of this
increase $262,000 was created on the 15th
and 16th days of September, only two
days before the failure of these institu
tions. At the time of the failure the
Bank was in debt to the Government
$287,000, which has since been secured
by the present Secretary of the Treasury',
an outside and independent party having
taken care of this debt.- There is a leak
age of $46,343, which is not accounted
for at all. This portion of the assets is
clean gone, and can not be traced. No
explanation is given in respect to it, either
in the form of bad debts or otherwise.
The bank had at the time of failure about
$$72,000 in mutilated currency, which
had not been sent to the Comptroller for
cancellation. This money came from
other banks, and its retention was a breach
of the confidence reposed in this institu
tion.
The committee recommend two amend
ments to the national banking act calcu
lated to prevent a recurrence of such
abuses in national banks. The first
amendment is to section 39. It provides
that no bank shall lend more than one-
tenth of its unimpaired capital and sur
plus, unless such greater amount be amply
secured by property in possession and
under perfect control of the person bor
rowing, for an amount at least one-tenth
more fhau the sum to be secured. From
this amendment are excepted discounts
upon foreign bills of exchange and drafts
upon deposits made with other banks.
The second amendment is to section 53.
It provides that all officers and directors
of banks who participate in any violation
of the national banking act shall be held
personally responsible to the full-amount
of the damages occasioned by the viola
tion.
The reform would also affect another
class of men who are despised and mal
treated in the bar-room, but who always
form a considerable proportion of its pub
lic. These are the impecunious and ab
sorbent creatures known as “bummers, ”
who, having spent all their money for
whisky, still haunt the scenes of their
former disbursements, in the hope of an
occasional general irrigation. They are
of the kind an army officer describes as
ornamenting the sides of a bar-room he
entered in Arkansas. He approached the
'counter and asked for a glass of brandy,
and the whole shabby dozen rose from
their benches “and lowed they’d take
sugar in theim.” The number of people
who never pay for a drink and yet are
never sober is very large; these “solitary”
drinking associations would certainly tend
to diminish it.
It is true that this is not a thorough
going temperance movement, and we
would all agree that it would be much
better for these young men to sign a total
abstinence pledge and keep it. But it is,
nevertheless, a salutary idea, so far as it
goes, and there is nothing evasive or dis
honest about it In this it differs widely
from that shameful mockery which is re
peated every Sunday night at a low haunt
of vice in this city, where a noted rum-
seller assists a-few light-headed people in
carrying on religious exercises in his den.
The house is filled with a crowd of the
most degraded specimens of both sexes,
who are informed that they can sign the
pledge with a mental reservation that
they intend to keep it for a year
or a week or ten minutes. Of course
there is enthusiasm aud applause
until the meeting ends, and then
the prop: letor begins his work of admin
istering refreshments to those to whom
he has just administered the pledge. It
is to be regretted that any one should be
found so unthinking as to join in this
scandalous caricature of an excellent re
form. The opponents of “treating,” on
the contrary, occupy a position which,
although it is outside of the temperance
movement, strictly speaking, is highly
advantageous and praiseworthy’. If they
can do anything to break the force of
this senseless custom, they will accom
plish as much good as if they attempted
more. If no young man in America drank
except when he wanted to, there would
be far fewer old men to drink from the
love of it.—Hew York Tribune.
De Tocqueville is not read now, nor
Jefferson, nor anything but the money
column. This remark of the Philadel
phia Evening Star shows the drift of the
age to materialism perhaps as well as any
that could have been made. Nothing but
the money column. “Pa, what is
money ?’’ asked little Paul Dombey, and
the old gentleman turned the conversa
tion to something else. The dream of
the age is not the vision of Arthur for
the perfection of chivalric manhood, not
the aspiration of Milton for cultured
freedom,’ not the thrill of Bonaparte at
the contemplation of universal empire
and the glory of blood-wrought deeds.
Women Fighting Wild Cats.—One
day last week the residence of Mr. Powell,
near the head of navigation on Sunflower
river, was attacked by a gang of wild cats,
Mrs. Powell and the colored servant only
being at home. The door being closed,
one of the cats jumped through the win
dow, when Mrs. Powell threw a blanket
over it and threw it out at the back door.
This one was soon followed by another,
which she killed with a small axe. By this
time the colored cook was attacked a short
distance from the house, and she alarmed
a white neighbor, who was at work near
the place, who came to her assistance and
killed the cat with a hatchet, but not until
the cook had been pretty well “chawed”
by the kitten. The gentleman then went
to the relief of Mrs. Powell at the honse,
when two of the cats attacked him and
injured him quite severely before he suc
ceeded in despatching them. Four of
the pack were killed and several wounded
before they could be scared off. The
hides of the four cats that were slain were
brought to this city yesterday.
A day or two after this attack the
carcass of a deer was found buried near
this place, with evidence of its being the
work of this same pack of cats. This ac
count comes to us through a reliable
source, and we can vouch for the veracity
of it. The natives attribute the attack to
hunger.—Vicksburg (.Miss.) Time*.
A Wagon-Load of Naptha on Fire.—
On Thursday afternoon a one-horse truck
laden with twenty-seven cases of naptha
was being driven np the Third avenue.
New York, by an employe of the Gat-
meter’s Saving Company. When near
Thirteenth street the driver struck a
match and threw the end of it among the
cans. In an instant the whole contents
were in a blaze. The driver sprang out
and left the vehicle to its fate. The
horse, a fine young animal, reared and
plunged with fright, but the traces and
harness confined him to the burning pile.
Superintendent Haitfidd, of Mr. Bergh’s
society, riding up on a car, sprang off at
the spot, and, under a scorching fie, un
hitched the animal and saved it from ii
horrible death. In ten minutes the wagon
was a small heap of charred fragments.
The flames reached the top story of the
houses, one of which took fire, but was
soon extinguished.
Russian Mennonites, sixty thousand in
number, offer to bny of the United States
government twentv-five square miles of
land and pay ten. per cent. down. Ten
thousand will emigrate this year. The
Mennonites or Menists, of Somerset
county, Pennsylvania, have been settled
there many years, and converted the
Glades into a garden. They are peace
ful, frugal, temperate and industrious,
very odd in dress and manners, but models
of what a rural population ought to be,
and well deserving the study of philan
thropists, historians and political philoso
phers.
Some years t
was very thine
1 who
as a living
skeleton. He made much money im this
way, and as he grew rich he became fat,
until several years after his retirement
from the show business he was as fat as
he had formerly been lean. Lately, hav
ing spent his fortune, he attempted to
mo .ojl „ again reduce himself to a skeleton, with
So* it*ie a’rihantasy of bonds, a dream 6f the intention of returning to the show
greenbacks a vision of gold, gold, gold, business, but he died, from exhaustion
8*.. > goon after reaching the desired condition,
[From the Philadelphia American.]
Sonthern Farms for Pennsylvanians.
To this date and now mnch of the cap
ital taken from Pennsylvania into the
South has been and is being invested in
mines and in mills. The investment is
natural, because manufacturing and min
ing are more generally and completely
understood in Pennsylvania than in any
other State; and it is part of the prudent
character of Pennsylvanians to undertake
those things with which they are conver
sant. We would not dissuade from the
continuation of this conduct. The re
sources of the South in either direction
are not measured even by their most ve
hement advocates,, and cannot be
in as great variety are to
be run.
Rut the South holds other inducements
that appeal quite as forcibly to another
class who are not qualified for either
mining or manufacturing. The lands are
fertile, of every variety from bottom to
upland, and fit for every cultivation and
for stock-growing. The attention given
to mining and other industries draws
from the insufficient labor and capital
hitherto employed in planting. Conse
quently agricultural industry is invited
by the offer of superior land at low rates,
where the success of the very plans that
throw much into the market insures
speedy appreciation and wealth. Georgia
and Alabama have attracted Pennsylvania
attention. Now we see that both States
ore giving great care to grain, and that
prime cotton plantations are being sold
low to furnish the capital.
In Montgomery county, Alabama, more
grain has been sown than fqr any three
seasons combined, since the war, one
town reporting the sale of 40,000 bushels
of oats for seed. A result of this ten
dency comes from Georgia, where
gry (Soofls.
1 Rare dance to Me
Better than Fire per Cent, a Month.
in, imi & i!o.u
I A I* r 4Y - OTA if UlttUk IUU1 Mjiurcu U lutoo OlLIXO,
plantation of. 2,130 acres near Macon, -solid anil Striped Japanese SILKS and POPLIN’S;
that was sold for $16,000 four years ago '
and for $25,000 before the war, has just
been sold at auction for $3,800—including
five mules, twenty-three cattle, com fod
der, wagons, plows, carts, etc. This is
less than a dollar an acre—less than the
government price of wild land remote
from society and civilization! Similar
facts are of daily occurrence and are con
fined to no locality nor State.
Urging, as we do, every assistance that
can be rendered to the South, we repre
sent such facts as these as deserving the
attention of our capitalists and of emi
grants. The region is speedily accessible
by land or sea. It is healthy. The peo
ple are peaceable and friendly, and indus
trious. They make these sales in order
to raise money for undertakings they can
render more remunerative. The prices
are less—the surroundings and conve
niences are infinitely superior to those
that can be found in “the great American
desert,” where no considerable population
can be anticipated for twenty years to
come. The citizen of Georgia or Ala
bama is barely three days from s Pennsyl
vania, and can ship hither for a market;
order hence; come here easily and receive
visits from home. And it is borne in the
very nature of the facts that enable such
purchases to be made that the States are
gaining so rapidly in other directions
that each purchase must appreciate in
value at a compound ratio.
These instances apply to Georgia and
Alabama, but the fact is not so limited.
Like inducements and opportunities
abound in all tbe South and will not con
tinue long. They need immediate appli
cation and improvement. We know
that it is perfectly safe for our citizens
to go because many have gone, and have
reported the kind treatment they have
received and the kindly sentiment that is
being renewed and strengthened toward
Pennsylvania. We know that at no re
mote day the bonds that unite us with
Georgia.and Alabama—with North Caro
lina and Tennessee, will be as strong as
those that already bind us to Virginia.
These opportunities only hasten the cor
respondence and appeal with equal power
to the citizens of those States and of
this Commonwealth. The advantages
are common to both seller and pur
chaser, and each gains in a double degree
from the transaction. We have no sur
plus population in Pennsylvania to send
anywhere. But we shall certainly send
more capital and some population into
this field.
Homicide in Forrest City—A Judoe
Shot by a Lawyer. —Little Rock, March
21.—A special telegram to the Gazette,
from Forrest City, .states that Hon. John
W. Fox, Judge of the Eleventh Judicial
Circuit, was shot with a double-barreled
sliot-gun this morning, ’about 8 o’clock,
by J. R. P. Aldridge, a lawyer, and. died
from the effects of his wounds at 1 p. in.
The dispatch says Judge Fox was on his
way to the Post Office from the hotel, and
had not gone much more than thirty paces
When Mr. Aldridge stepped out from Mr.
R. G. Dye’s drug store and said: “Now,
Judge Fox,” at the same time firing on
him. The first shot took effect in his
stomach. He sank on the ground, ex
claiming. “Oh! Lord, I am a dead man,”
and after he had fallen. Aldridge, to make
sure of his work, emptied the other barrel
at him, it taking effect in his bowels. He
was taken back to the hotel, when, upon
examination, it was found that his
wounds were fatal. Aldridge then went
and delivered himself to the sheriff. A
jury of inquest returned a verdict in ac
cordance with the above facts. The
origin of the difficulty is not definitely
known, though it is thought it' grew out
of some remarks to Aldridge by Judge
Fox while the latter’ was on the bench.
Aldridge is now in the custody of the
sheriff.
\ YOUR
021]
Wors 1
Undershirts,
Cassimeres,
Flannels, &c., &c., &e
WHICH ARK OFFERED FOR TWO WEEKS, TO CLOSE OCT THEIR RETAIL :
A.T GREAT BARGAINS.
EINSTEIN, ECKMAN & C<
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
IPRING AND SUMMER G00]
DeWITT, MORGAN & CO.
HAVE NOW IN STORE
New Style English aud French DRESS GOODS;
Black and Colored DKESS SILKS;
130 CONGRESS STREET.
Colored English GRENADINES;
French CAMBRICS;
. . Full Lines MOURNING GOODS;
Black Solid and Satin Striped GRENADINES; Full Lines of WHITE GOODS;
Printed LINEN LAWNS, PERCALES and ORGANDIES; New Style LLAMA LACK SACQUES and
SHAWLS; 6-1 WORSTED-COATINGS and SCOTCH CHEVIOTS, for Gentlemen’s Suits:
HOSIERY, NECK TIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, Ac., Ac.
AT
mh23
JOII A Y. MXO Y & CO.,
132 Broughton Street,
Are offering the following
SPECIAL BARGAINS from AUCTION:
W HITE BRILLTANTE at 20 and 25 cents, worth 35 and 40 cents ; *
PLAIN and STRIPED SWISS at 20 and 25 cents, worth 30 and 40 cents;
INDIA TWILLS and NAINSOOKS at 18 and 20 cents, worth 25 and 30 cents;
LINEN DRILLS and COATINGS at 20 and 25 cents, worth 30 and 40 cents;
SCOTCH and DOMESTIC GINGHAMS at 12>< cents, very ch<
Wide BLEACHED and BROWN SHEETINGS at 35 cents, wc
Heavy BROWN SHIRTING, 12 yards for $1, good valne;
SEA ISLAND “ 10 cents, very cheap;
4-4 BLEACHED “ 10 cents and upwards.
We have just received 25 dozen Ladies’ Black and Colored KID GLOVES (two button) at $1 per pair,
worth $1 50. JOHN Y. DIXON & CO.,
mh19 132 Broughton street.
150 cents;
nmmu corni im;
Well Known and Entirely Reliable.
Analysis by Dr. Means, Feb- 21st, 1874:
AMMONIA ...’..T.: 3.20
SOLUBLE PHOSPHORIC ACID 10.00
DISSOLVED BONE PHOSPHATE -21.83
PRIVILEGE GIVEN OF PAYING IN COTTON 15 Cts.
For sale by
JOHX W. WALKER,
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Claghom & Cunningham’s 1
Bay Street, Savannah, l
GREAT EXCITEMENT
THE RED GROCERY STORE,
22 Barnard Street, Corner of Congress Street Lane,
Where will always be found a nice assortment of the best Family Groceries, kept in good and elean
order. Also prepared for the German Table.
Ten Pounds of Nice Sugar for ; ..........One Hollar.
Good Qnality of Parched aud Ground Coffee at..-Forty Cents.
Excellent Table Goshen Butter at .Forty and Fifty Cents.
Etc., etc. Call and see for yourselves.
FELIX
RUSSAK.
An Affecting Farewell.—Mr. Thomas
Price, of the Swan Hotel, Cirencester,
England, has received, through Lord
Derby, a parcel from the Foreign Office
containing a watch, and chain and appen
dages belonging to his only son, shot at
Santiago.througli his connection as a sea
man with the Virginias. The whole was
wrapped in a sheet of note-paper, upon
which was written, in a bold 'hand, -the
following letter: “Santiago de Cuba,
Nov. 7. 1873. My Darling Parents: I am
now near my last hour. I am to be shot
this afternoon at three o’clock. There
are about thirty of us. My God, it is a
fearful thing to shoot innocent men! My
dear parents, I have always been a bad
boy; but I never thought to bring thin
great sorrow on your heads. Give my
love to darling Alice. Tejl, her I loved
her dearly, and I hope God will bless and
prosper her. I shall try to get my watch,
and chain sent home, and if you receive'
it, my dear parents, I would like dear
Alice to have the lockets to-keep-in tbv
membrance of poor Walter. Eifid love
to all my relations and friends, and tell
them I die like an Englishman sbnnlA die.
And how, dearest parents, I conclude t:
sorrows, troubles, or cares. I remain,
your ever-loving son, . Walter F. Price.
May God have mercy “ ’ ”
Where a. Pistol was Useful.—Mr. J.
D, Hartwell, a business man of Rochester,
New York, was accosted, yesterday, by
two of the steerers- for a cheap banco
swindle in Seventeenth street, near Broad
way. He accompanied them into their
lair, a high-stoop, brown-stone honse,'
three doors east of Broadway. They let
him win thirty dollars; then he started
for the door; bnt one of the gang locked
it and confronted Mr. Hartwell, saying
that he could not depart until he had’
given the honse “a chance for its money.”
Thereat Mr. H. coolly IM—{JWJU1,
and. saying that the man at the door had
better get out of the
practioe at a mark ji
into the street with
swindler’s money in his pockets. He is
ready for the next Broadway statue
may choose to accost him on
New York Sun. <
Thousands of young trout about two
inches in length were recently thrown
up to the height of thirty feet from an
artesian well in San Francisco, 145 feet
deep. ;
E«~Goo<Is delivered in large or small quantities in any part of the city, free of charge.
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JuruUwrc.
FURNI r TTJ:K,Ii2! FURNITURE!
G. H. MILLER^
(SUCCESSOR TO S. S. MILLER,)
Dealer tin Furniture of all Kinds,
Ware-Rooms 1 GO and 171 Bronirliton St., Between Jefferson and Barnard Sts.
This OLD-ESTABLISIIED FURNITURE HOUSE wonld call the attention of purchasers to the
LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED STOCK OP FURNITURE, which is replenished bj everj arrival
from Northern ports. feb!4-tf
Hottmfjs.
Havana Lottery!
The Great Extraordinary Drawing
OF
April 23d, 1874,
1,500,000 Hollars in Prizes. Only 20,000
7 Tick*
1 Prize of
.. .$500,000
1 Prize of
... 100,000
1 Prize of
... 50,000
2 Prizes of $25,000 each
.... 50l000
4 Prizes of 10,000 each 40,000
12 Prizes of 5,000 each 60,000
22 Prizes ot. 1,000 each 22,000
2543 Prizes, amounting to 478,000
Prices reduced. Circulars of information fur
nished free. Orders filled. Prizes cashed. Here
tofore the Capital Prizes in the Extraordinary-
Drawings have been sold-in America.
TAYLOR & CO-, Bankers,
11 Wall Street, New York.
mh24-Tu,TIi,Salm .
3:300000
heart-breaking letter, hoping we shall, 40 prizes of..-.. 250 3,000 prizes ot.... HI
meet in a Better land, where there’are'no Tickete, $10; Half Ticfcets, $B;^Quarters, $2 so.
Missouri State Lottery!
Legalized by State Authority and Drawn in
Public in St. Louia.
GRAND SINGLE NUMBER SCHEME!
50,000 Numbers.
Class C, to be Drawn March 31, 1874.
5,880 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO $300,000!
1 prize jpf 530,000 500 prizes of.... $100
, 1 prizc of.....-. 13,450 9 prizes of.... 1,000
1 prize of 10,000 9 prizes of.... 500
1 prize of....... 7.000 9 prizes of.... 300
4prizesof.... .. 5,000 9 prizes of.... 250
Apnzesof 2,500 36 prizes of.... 200
20 prizes of 1,000 36 prizes of.... 150
20 prizes of 5 : 500 ISO prizes of.... 1(>0
£tcnm ©ttgittcis and padutimj.
iivnnu, piu, unu xicacio, «u, ^iuukis, f- uv.
Our Lotteries are chartered by the State, are al
ways drawn at the time named, and ail drawings
arc under the supervision of sworn Commis
sioners.
The official drawing will be published in the SL
Louis papers, and a copy of drawing sent to pur
chasers of tickets.
We will draw a similar scheme the last day in
every month during the year 1874.
Remit at our risk by Post Office Money Orders
Registered Letter, Draft or Express. Send for
Circular. Address
HURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
P. O. Box 2.446. St. Louis, Mo.
mli2-Tn,TbH.&wly
^arprirtrrs and guiWfrs.
e.*S.GAY,
Carpenter and Builder,
33 Tatnall Street,
Corner of Charlton.
SAVANNAH, GA
GILBERT BUTLER,
MASTER BUILDER,
Carpenter and Contractor,
Carne’r of Barnard ud Ferry Street..
IT* STEM AT KS for all kinds of work furnished at
Jji shortest notice. Fitting op Offices and Job
bing promptly attended to. ap6tf
S. W. GLEASON & 00.,
St. Julian Street, Savannah, Go.
I RON FOUNDRY and MACHINE SHOPS;
Portable and Stationary STEAM ENGINES;
SAW MILLS; GRIST MILLS, ot all sizes, con
stantly on hand, or furnished at short notice.
Steam PUMPS; Steam GAUGES: GOVERN
ORS; SHAFTING; PULLEYS; PIPE and FIT
TINGS. Agents for the Utica STEAM ENGINE
COMPANY; “Watertovm STEAM ENGINE
COMPANY;” “Queen ot the South” GRIST
MILLS. Iron ana Brass CASTINGS ot all kinds.
Repairs to Machinery promptly attended to at
reasonable prices. Circufera andr * *
nished upon application.
NS OF A
LANDS
IN' NEBRAS; .
>ow for salt: ye: >’ cheap.
Ten Years Credit—Interest ( iy Six per rent.
—
Descriptive PamgilclA with ectional Maps,
THE PIONEER,
A handsome Illustrated Papi r. cor mining the
Homestead Law, mailed free 1 • all parts of the
world. Address O F. DAVIS,
Land Commissi lerU. P. R.R.,
Ohaha, Neb.
n f.
NEW YORK DAY-BOOK
A Democratic Weekly. Established 1S30. It
supports White Supremacy, political and social.
Terms, $S per year. Todnbs, nine copies for $8.
Specimen copies free. Address DAY-BOOK. New
York City.
$250,000 tor P!
FOURTH
Grand Gift Concert
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Public Library of Kentucky,
On March 31st, iust.
60,000 Tickets, 12,000 Gifts.
LIST OF GIFTS.
One Grind Cash Gift. $830,000
One Grand Cash Gift 100,000
One Grand Cash Gift - 50,000
One Grand Cash Gift 25,000
One Grand Cash Gift lfjiOO
10 Cash Gifts, $10,000 each 100,000
30 Cash Gifts, 5,000 each 150,000
50 Cash Gifts, 1,000 each 50,000
80 Cash Gifts, 600 each 40,«(0
‘CashGifts, 400each 40,000
Cash Gifts, 300 each 45,000
.Cash Gifts, 200 each. 50,000
' Gifts, 100 each 32,600
Gifts. 60 each 550,000
Gifts, all Cash,
amounting to $1,500,000
t and Distribution ot Gifts will
i«vocally take place on the day
r all the tickets are sold or not,
1 paid in proportion to the
{TICKETS.
_ ivew, $26; Tenths, qt
en Whole Tickets for $500.
;is near at band, and
' ise tickets have no
persons .
time to!
Agent I
ger Gift Cone
ville, Ky.
3TTE,
, andMnna-
, Louis-
BOYS AND MIDJJLE-AGI
Trained for a Successful Start in B
taught how to eet a Living, Make Mofai
come Enterprising, Useful Citizens. IBUSimah
Business College. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., On-the-
Hudson, the only Institution devoted to this es
pecially. The oldest and only practical Commer
cial School, and only one providing situations for
Graduates. Refers to Patrons ana Graduates in
nearly every city and town. Applicants enter any
day. Address for particnlais and catalogue of
3,000 gradnates in business,
H. G. EASTMAN, LL. D.,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
DO YOUR OWN PAINTING
WITH THE
Averill Chemical Paint!
WHITE
AND ALL THE FASHIONABLE SHADES,
OT PROPER CONSISTENCY FOR US*.
Are sold by the gallon at less price than a gallon
of the best Lead aud Oil can be mixed, and the
Averill wears longer and is much handsomer.
Beautiful sample cards, with what the owners
of the finest residences say of it, famished free
by dealers generally, or by the
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT CO.,
82 Burling Slip, N. Y.
WOOD’S
HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE,
The Best Dollar Monthly.
(Si’X, 61C a day made by canvassing foi
tpel tU this Magazine—now in its 14th
volume—with Chromo,
The Tosemitc Talley,
14x20 inches, in 17 Oil Colors.
Magazine, 1 year, with Mounted Chromo....$2 0>»
Magazine, 1 year, with Unmounted Chromo. 1 50 •
Magazine, alone, 1 year.... 1 0C
Examine onr Clubbing and Premium lists.
Two PirswJass Periodicals for tho price
of one. We solicit Experienced Canvassers
and others to send at once for terms and speci
men Magazine. Address
S. E. SHUTES, Publisher,
41 Park Row, N. Y. City, or Newburgh, N. Y.
WANTED!
Coal, Iron and Timber Lands
Favorably located, on or near railroad or water
transportation routes. Address
NICHOLSON A CLARK,
ill Broadway^ (Room 16,) New York.
Exterminators
ISSECTPOWDEk
Ante Bed-Bugs, Moths,
BAN* CO.,S. Y..
Sole Agents.
FITS S EPILEPSY
Positively cured. The worst cases, of longest
standing, by using DR. DEBBARD’S CURE. A
bottle sent free to all addressing J. E. Dibble*.
Druggist, 814 Sixth Avenue, N. Y.
Price Lists fur-
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GEORGE PAGE & CO.,
Manufacturers of
PATENT PORTABLE CIRCULAR
SAW MILLS,
ALSO STATIOIUSY i P02TABLE
STEAM ENGINES,
Ho. 5 Schroeder St
BALTIMORE, MB.
Grist Mills, LefTcl’s Tnrbine Water Wheels,
Wood Working Machinery of all kinds, and Mir
chiniets' Sundries. Send for Catalogues.
mhC-dty
J. W. TYNAN,
Engineer and Machinist.
Canal St., near Charleston Wharf.
Repairs of all kinds of
MAC HIJf-ERY.
BLACKSMITH WORK,
In an its Branches, promptly done.
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■ mi. ' —i.i.iii- —
Jtmwis, gnttrs, &c.
ROSES,
I; a
. Aim-oran w<
PLANTSOR FLOWERS.
OfSjl Jpi-Xi
Catalogues free.
J. H. PAKGOK8 4b CO,
No. ill Mate Street. |
BUT J. 4 P. COATS: BUCK
OPIM
HABIT
. Beck’s
MOiti’JiX.VJi
speedily cored ty
only known ana
SURE REMEDY,
NO CHARGE
for treatment nntil cored. Call on or address
DB. J. C. I1KCK, Cincinnati, O.
‘ 4 "PSYCHOMANCY OR SOUL CHARMING.”
1 How either sex nMBjfasrfdtte and g»h>,tHe
fections of any person they choose, in-
, _. Ho
love and s
-tantty. This simple mental acquirement all am
to Ladies. A queer book. 100,000 sold. Addrer
T. WILLIAM i CO., Publishers, Philadelphia.'
marT-d£w4w
gamitigv&c.
Baltimore Pearl Hominy Co.
H AVING 1he Sole Agency for the sale of the
above GOODS in Savannah, I beg to call tbe
attention of Grocers, and the public in general,
to the following articles, manufactured by the
above named Company, from pure Sonthern White
Flint Com, and warranted to keep for years in
any climate.
“BREAKFAST HOMINY,” in barrel sand cases,
of 10 cadffies of 50 pounds each.
or COARSE HOMINY, so popular ■
ans and in tbe Northern States.
rLOUR,” very choice, and white as
snow ; can be used in connection.
“PEARL MEAL,” with wheat Flour, for all
kinds of Pastry and Bread, children's food, bfcmo
“\^HITE CORN ME in sacks, well adapt
ed for the country trade and ordinary use, being
Superior and cheaper than the home-made Meal.
“MILL FEED” or “CHOP,” a superior article
Of food for neat cattle, horses, cows, swine, Ac.,
being cheaper than any other feed, and increasing
tbe flow of milk in cows.
All of which wiU be sold at manufacturer's
prices for CASH, fri ight and expenses added, by
J. A. MERCIER,
feb1C-2m No.366.Bay street, Savannah.,
frurrirris anrt Waidtuiatos.
F. D. JORDAN,
133 Congress Street,
D ealer in imported’ana American
WATCHES, Fine .JEWELRY, Pure SIL
VER and SILVER-PLATED WAr£, CLOCKS,
GOLD PENS, Ac.
Watches and Jew
Sole Agent'for the Celebri
TACLES! mhlG-tf
Cut Tliis Outo
M. W. NEUBURGER,
(Successor to FRED.'GOEIIMAN,)
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AXli
> gaounajfio >u
180 DRYAS'
r»RTWEEN : Bsfniri-
1> Dealer in - Swias am
Silver WATCHES, line J,
“laied WARE, CUTLERY,
Repairing in all tranche* doK at abort notice