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Tlir b-urai"U N<”*
Iiiim the largest city
>i renin* |OM
of any paper pub-
vnunut.
II,bed in •
■— " !on# i Xonitiees or tlio Demo-
ffliigrpsa'" 11 l cratic Party.
. , W lULIAN hartridgb.
Jhatri ' ^ V1LL1A J1 E. SMITn.
. T. COOK. '
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n ' v '!,";^l7-m-:Nnv B. hakkis.
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• - MILTON A. CANDLER.
J?* SJrfrf -JAMES H. BLOUNT:
»■"* Vnvrirt-T. N. TRAMMELL.
|/A In*' 11
ir EX. II. STEPHENS.
yinlh m"*
-garnett McMillan.
tate sEXATon-rmsT district.
■ nurrs E. LESTER.
survivors of Bon-
Airairs in (icortniL
A re-union of tl.
. i-icade at Atlanta during tbc fair
jingscDK****-
,eek i» sp° kc3 of ' ,
pavi.l McLendon, a negro preacher,
w been nominated by the Badical nc-
^ ■ of Spaulding as a candidate for
He Legislature.
llokrt W. Trapp 1ms retired from the
.,j as a candidate to the Legislature
fr.na Baldwin county, and Col. Win. Mc
Kinley, the
Democratic candidate, will
jjjve ft walk over.
The policemen of Columbus
chicken thieves with double
gnus
“go for”
barrel shot
t«p
id
. editor of the Americus
rngt rously ill.
; Lei- ot the Atlanta and
’Sue Guide has made its
h Mae Pittman as editor,
eg Mac can do to per-
. newspaper. -
. of Gainesville, has
uy the lladicals as a cau-
- from the Ninth Dis-
Ige enjoys tho requisite
this jiositipn—he had a
iug the war, made of ten
; lactation; was a member
;nature; afterwards was
id a Superior Court in
ia Ly Bullock, and is
only liadieal pnper in
Georgia. Altogether the Judge may be
sasidereil a fair representative of his
«ty, and will doubtless be elected—to
sj at home.
Griffin considers “the one thing need
s' for her business salvation is a good
Sion factory.
Kimball has returned to Atlanta for a
tv days, and the restaurant keepers are
Idling for the next banquet.
The little son of the editor of tho
ffitesburg Gazette, was recently bitten
t;i poisonous snake while playing in tho
jud of his father’s house. The necessary
B'Jiloles were brought out and the little
Bair was all right at lost accounts.
Atlanta is revelling over fat Mobile oys-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1874.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Atlanta when he gives up the Kimball
House, but will remain in the business,
and will have the finest hotel in the State.
He says that a company of capitalists will
build, under his supervision, a first-class
hotel near the passenger depot, and that
he will take possession of it and ran it.
He will furnish it himself, and says he
will put in the finest appointments that
money can bny. He thinks it best fo ms
not to give tlio names and libation at
present. The work will commence at
once, and hurry to completion.
The Borne Commercial, of the 20th,
has this: It seems that some gentleman
was in Rome, yesterday, seeking infor
mation in reference to parties who h*d
entered, under the pre-emption laws of
the United States, a large body of land
near the Bound Mountain Iron Works,
Alabama. It appears these lands were
entered in the name of negroes living in
the vicinity of Borne. The negroes deny
any knowledge of the matter. Wo un
derstand the gentleman who is seeking
the information transmitted the same to
the Attorney General of the United
States, Washington City, also to the Dis
trict Attorney, Huntsville, Alabama. We
do not understand the complications con
nected with this matter.
Southwest Geor;
sw editing the
Ike sturdy, honest farmers of Ran-
. Iji'u ore (jivingTuiuiin the cold shoulder.
I “ independent ” dose don’t rest well
n i n-ir stomachs.
In , .,;ro jamboree on the plantation
k f. . Miiior, near Lumpkin, an old
- ■ nid Curtis Sherman, was eom-
iet.iy wont out with ft fence rail by Reu-
*n Wyatt, a colored brother. Reuben is
st”' in -’ lle.-iprttlbn of a , election
to the penitei
Coasiderab!
sickness is prevailing in
their
feudal
solen:
'veuil -. white and black, in Co-
set. On Sunday after-
n tiie nriival of the remains of
Hodges at the cemetery, they
private burial lot of tho
id the pall .rers were com-
y through the
is allowed the
round the grave,
iriai service was
■ enounced, these
i d nudging each
les which almost
• speaker,
nst be a popular
anxiously for it
etum home, the
when it is thrown
for it.
i Lumpkin Inde-
is to reject three
ud pr
•tie servants
t-t propri tor of
BtdoUhas the bold
oilas wort
’•imaged sheet music as
for a four dollar advertisement
joS
?Jl Atlanta House.
^ iounir«lisro.
thodi.f , c.f
This is indepen-
tVliitesviile are en-
meyly of
So-.
c, '“' >’• died 1
KM*- He was
Lsgida lure freui
served
isi
mg th,
first h
eon rn ; tbs
! :o
ns of Dougherty
ri^cd seventy
-entative in tho
"uutj in 1812,and
!?.tc army dur-
particlpating in the
irhil
fohnsou, of Alacon,
Tuesday afternoon,
hoise and badly in-
B , and face.
\ n^ij S ^ eC ^ V ° dcult y between Hon.
’ * Bacon Ool. II F. Best, of Ma-
’ ^ r ° Wm 6 °ut of the former denounc-
o an infanio . liar the author of a
4n l i Wa:s in ft ‘ vor of paying the.
^Ued U ^ S ’ ^ las Been
a pt. Bacon disclaimed any in-
t#d nn !° ‘a doi!o within the terms of the
jo -r person than the author of
vr. nad Cel. Best disavowed
Florida Aflairs.
Ocala rejoices over tho organization of
a Conservative Mutual Admiration So
ciety.
Gainesville is expecting the arrival of a
large number of Northern and Western
visitors, who propose spending the winter
in that town.
Dr. Jos. B. Gonzales, of Key West, has
received an appointment from Stearns to
the Colonelcy of tho 13th Regiment
Florida State Militia. Steams shrewdly
intimates in his communication that the
negro Meacham is his favorite for Con
gress, but tho Doctor, who is a friend of
Purman, declines “to see it.”
The Artery is the name of a new paper
established at Bronson hy J. Ira Gore and
H. Buford. Its appearance is creditable.
• Tho work upon the St. John’s Railroad
is progressing finely.
Two new Catholic dioceses have been
created in the South by command of tho
Dupe—the one at San Antonio, Texas,
with Vicar-General Pellicer, of Mobile,
as its first Bishop ; and the other, consist
ing of the Rio Grande district of Texas,
which has been made a Vicarate Apos
tolic, with Brownsville as its headquar
ters, and Rev. D. Manucey, of Mont
gomery, as its Bishop. The new Bishops
are cousins, and both are natives of St
Augustine.
Mr. Lewis E. Pearce, a prominent
citizen of Key West, is dead.
S. C. Watkins,. County Commissioner
of Leon county, has been requested by
the Governor to resign, but tho genial
Watkin9 flatly refuses to do any such
thing.
T. T. Russell has been nominated as
the Democratic Representative in St.
John’s county, and Samuel E. Timmons
has received tho nomination in Putnam.
A little son of Mr. George Olson, nt
Key West, was drowned in a cistern a few
days since.
Col. P. B. Colton, of Tallahassee, met
with a very severo loss by fire on one of
his plantations Inst Friday. A large, new
gin-house, with two new gins, about
forty bales of unginned cotton, a new
steam engine and a fine screw were totally
destroyed. The loss is estimated at four
thousand dollars. The fire was acci
dental.
William Durham, colored, was shot and
killed by John Patterson, colored, at Silver
Spring, near Gainesville, recently. The
Coroner’s jury found a verdict of wilful
murder against Patterson, who is now in
jail.
Major Smith, charged with the murder
of March Joseph at Toeoi about a year
since, was tried before tho Circuit Court
at St. Augustine on Thursday last and
was found guilty of murder in the third
degree. Counsel for defence moved for
a new trial, which was granted, and im
mediately commenced, and on Friday a
verdict of murder in the second degree
was returned, when counsel moved for a
third trial. It is not stated whether this
motion was granted or not; if granted, it
will bo for tho next term.
“Rienzi,” writing to the Mobnejo News
from Monticello,under date of September
21st, says:
“The caterpillar has very generally,
eaten out all of the best cotton in this
county. You hoar a great many say, some
of them farmers, that it is too late for this
pest to injure cotton, I notice the New's,
[From the Angusta Chronicle of Tuesday.]
THREATENED INSURRECTION.
Negroes In Edgefield (S. C.) Threaten
to Burn and Kill.
Prompt Action on the Part ot the Whiten—
A Large Porce Assembles at Reese’s
Store—Tbc Negroes Surrender
and their Lender is Ar
rested.
Last Sunday about one o’clock, Gen.
M. C. Butler discovered a force of about
seventy-five negroes, all armed, crossing
Stevens’ creek in the direction of Reese’s
store. ^ Suspecting that an evil movement
on their part was on foot, Gen. Butler
rode over to Reese’s store and gave the
alarm. In an almost incredibly short
space of time a large force of whites as-
BURyiSG OF THE FALL RIYER
COTTON MTTX-
the Fire Began and Spread—Scenes
In the Rooms and on the Streets—Why
the Loss of Life was so Great—Heroinn
—The Dead Estimated nt Forty—The
Injured at Eighty.-
Boston, Mass., September 19.
The following is a full account of the
fire at Fall River, os given in a special
dispatch to the Boston Journal:
The Granite Mills were incorporated in
18P3, and mill No. 1 had 36,G48 spindles
and 8,400 looms, and employed about 425
male and female operatives. About
seven o’clock Saturday morning, when
* flirt millp ll n ,1 Unnn w. ■»«r — ■*- * . . ■ ■ -
sembled, fully armed and ready for ac- th .° been running just twenty
tion. Included in this force was the the alarm of fire was sonndedm
- - the city, but from causes unexplained the
location was not properly nnderstoood.
in its local editorial on cotton, falls into
the same error. It will cut off the crop of
this county at least one-fourth. Tho cot
ton that had recovered from tho drought
was putting on a fine top crop, hut the
caterpillar has destroyed it alL Say cot
ton has been eaten off by the 10th of Sep
tember,the injury sustained will date back
to the 1st of September, for none of the
fruit put on at a later date will mature.
I affirm it, without fear of contradiction,
cotton has been seriously injured by the
caterpillar in this section.”
This from tho St. Augustine Press: We
• Vi.vr, Tftoairfld in^^Jps. M tfheclBr, Esq.,
who resides a
beach, known as
the pro:
thins, c
the North river,
Sabre Glnb under command of Col. A. P.
Butler, a cavalry company and an in-
fan try company. In addition to these a
large number of citizens not belonging to
any organization were in arms. It was
ascertained that the negroes, some three
hundred strong, were in the woods near
Reese’s store, under command of Ned
Tenant, a notorious negro militia captain
and a delegate to the recent Radical Con
vention which nominated Chamberlain
for Governor of South Carolina. A com
mittee of citizens was sent to confer with
Tenant in order to ascertain the cause of
the assembling of the negroes. Tenant
met the committee in the woods, and in
answer to their inquiries, stated that some
parties had fired into his house the night
previous, and he had therefore called
out the militia for his protection. He
was very insolent and defiant. Hold
ing out one of his hands full of
cartridges, he said he intended to kill
nud burn everything in the neighborhood.
Seeing that nothing could be accomplish
ed with the negroes by persuasive meas
ures, the committee proceeded back to
their comrades and reported the result of
their conference. The aspect of affairs
being so serious, a courier was dispatched
to Augusta. General M. C. Butler also
sent word to the Dark Corner and other
sections of Edgefield county, of .tho
threatening situation and requesting the
people to send assistance. This would
have been forthcoming in a short time if
the negroes had not receded from their
warliko position. The whites also sent
for tho United States troops at Edgefield,
but these refused to take any action in
the matter as they had no orders to in
terfere.
Late in the afternoon Tenant sent
courier to Col. Butler, proposing to dis-
baud the negroes if the whites would first
disperse. Col. Butler replied, “I’ll show
you whether we will disband or not,” and
rode off in the direction of tho white
forces. Seeing the determined attitude
of the whites, Tenant deemed discretion
tho better part of valor. He therefore
called Col. Butler back and surrendered
at discretion. Tenant was immediately
put under arrest for trial on tho charge of
riot. Tho whites, as a matter of pre
caution remained uuder arms and were
still guarding the locality at last accounts.
The white people about Reese’s Mill
totally disbelieve Tenant's story about
the firing upon his house. They say
that if such firing was done it was done
by Tenant himself, in order to get some
pretext for a rising of the colored peo
ple. Tenant is known to be a very des
perate negro and a turbulent character.
It is thought, however, that in the pres
ent instance he was incited to his insur
rectionary course by the notorious J. H.
McDevitt, the white Radical implicated
in the Ridge Springs disturbance. The
whites are fully prepared for any emer
gency, and the negroes will make nothing
by incendiary movements. The people
are organized in sufficient force to resist
any warlike demonstration on the part of
tho blacks, and there is no doubt but that
they will be assisted in case of need by
citizens from the Georgia side of the river.
and some delay followed, necessitating
second alarm, when tho whole fire de
partment were called out, but too late to
prevent the disaster which has caused so
much distress. Investigation shows that
the fire originated m the mnle warp spin
ning department in the fourth story,
where nearly a hundred girls were at work
under a male overseerer, having storied
from an unoiled mule-head in charge of a
lad named Samuel Young. As soon as
the flames were discovered by the lad
Young he shrieked out fire and made his
escape. The spinners in the room tried
to check the flames with boxes and sticks,
which broke all the threads attached to
the machine, and the effort to subdue the
fire was ineffectual. In a few minutes
the flames had gathered such strength that
they were darting from the lower windows.
Tho upper story or floor used as a
spool-room was at the time occupied by
sixty persons, mostly girls, and the first
intimation they received of danger was n
cloud of dense, blinding and suffocating
smoke that swept up the stairway, and
forced them to seek safety in the north
ern section of the building. AVith the
alarm the flames seemed to leap up to
this attic, coming from tho windows be
low, and, to the terror of all, up the
great tower in the center of the building,
in which were all the stairs communicat
ing with each story. The fire spread
thus rapidly, by means of oil on the floor
and about each piece of machinery, di
rectly and with great quickness towards
this centre tower, the only source of es
cape for those in tho fourth and fifth,
stories,.besides the four fire escapes, two
on the sides of each gable end.
As the fire rushed over the flooring it
instantly found substance in the wood
work, and once getting into the tower,
ran up and through the single entrance
to the fifth story; then, springing to the
roof-timbers, aud filling the two .great
rooms, 450 by 30 feet, with dense black
smoke and flame.
Yesterday about twclvo o’clock a young
man named Gettsell,”from Reese’s store,
who had been to Augusta and was re
turning homo, met a courier about four
miles from Augusta, just from the scene
of the disturbances. The courier report
ed that the negroes were, reassembling,
and that an outbreak was feared. He
had been sent, therefore, to summon
Gettsell and other South Carolinians who
were in Augusta to repair to Reese’s store
immediately. He also stated that Tenant
had not been arrested, as was first report
ed, but had disappeared and it was
thought he had gone to either Columbia
or Edgefield for reinforcements. In view
of these circumstances it wns deemed best
to be prepared. Gettsell immediately
rode back to Augusta to inform other
South Carolinians here of the state of
affairs, while the courier returned to
Reese’s store.
Another party from the same point re
ported that the officers commanding the
Federal soldiers at Edgefield had finally
decided to move to tho locality of the dis
turbance, and that the company was
then quartered nt Mr. M. O. Glover’s,
near Reese’s store. The same party
stated that early yesterday morning a
company of negroes, eighty strong,
marched by Mr. Glover’s house. Mr.
Glover counted the men as they passed,
and as the last one reached his gate he
stepped up to him and asked him what
that meant. The negro replied that
they were going home. The impression
seemed to be, however, that the force
was intended as a reinforcement for
Tenant’s militia. It was reported late
yesterday afternoon that a number of ne
groes from Hamburg had left for Reese’s
store, with the object of reinforcing the
rioters.
A gentleman of this city who has a plan
tation on this side of the river,near Fury’s
Ferry, which is only a short distauco
from Reese’s store, came to Augusta
about two o’clock and reported that all
was quiet that morning at the scene of
tho recent "
THE riNIC.
While the flames wero making such ter
rific headway the operatives became fair
ly wild. The overseers sow ot a glance
there was no way possible to check the
fire, and gave their sole attention to those
whom they had at work. They called to
them to save themselves, and pointed out
tho ways of escape. These were princi
pally fire-ladders, for the timid creatures
dare not ran the fire gauntlet of tho tow
er. The overseer of the spooling-*oom,
who himself remained till he had nearly
suffocated iu the smoke, states that the
scene in his room—and it mustharebeen
worse in that next below—cannot be de
picted. Children ran about without any
knowledge of what they wero doing, cry
ing and begging piteously to be saved,
yet wrenching themselves away when
taken forcibly and carried to the tower,
while yet there was some ehaneo, or to
the iron ladders to the two scuttle win
dows of the south end, which opened up
on ’ the roof balcony at the bead of
Twelfth street. It was impossible to get
the great majority to take even this meth
od in order to save their lives. Some
wanted clothing, and some this or that
thing, they knew not what.
FATAL ESCAPES.
As the fire frightened them away from
their deliberation at the foot of the roof-
ladders, they rushed to the windows at
the south gable end, but they were nearly
sixty feet from the ground, aud dared not
jump down. Cotton ropes were put out
for them to slide down by, nud some took
this menus, but in the effort several met
with death or injury, for no sooner would
tho .rope be lowered before there was a
rush from the story below; too many
would take hold of tho rope, which would
part, aud all clinging to it would come
down in a bunch. Then, iu their des
peration some, as if they were mod, rushed
upon the balcony and dropped or threw
themselves from the guards, hardly look
ing at the iron ladders. There was ample
lime for every one to have been saved
had the right course been pursued, audit
was not for want of direction that the
girls lost their lives.
The superintendent, as soon as the
alarm was given, rushed to the upper
floors, and, with the overseers, did all
that was possible to save life, and when
tho means provided for escape in tho con
struction of the mill were rendered una
vailable by the heat, flames, and smoke,
the people on the ground procured beds
and matresses for the poor unfortunates
to jump upon, and many did
TKEOW THEMSELVES FEOM THE WINDOWS
and in almost every case received fatal
injuries, for the distance was nearly fitly
feet.
The intensest consternation was felt by
the people on the street, who had assem
bled in numbers, aud their cries did not
help greatly to compose tho mill hands,
but the disciplined firemen and police
men, as soon as they arrived in sufficient
numbers, worked with a will and to ad
vantage.
Tho firemen, in every way, worked to
stop the spread of the fire, and especially
to keep it out of the south end, whither
Julia Coffey states she first heard the
alarm of fire, «ud J at the same instant,
heavy columns of smoke burst through
the spool-room door. A crowd of little
children surrounded the overseer, and,
with him, rushed for the staircase, but
they were farced back by the flames.
Then all made for the elevator, but it
would not work. At this juncture the
leaping from the windows commenced.
A number of men in this room then be
gan uncoiling the long rope to let the
terror-stricken operatives to the ground.
Several were landed in safety by this
rope, when it was burned off twenty-fivo
feet from the ground. The smoke had
become so dense that those who remained
crowded to the windows for air. Some
leaping headforemost, their brains went
flying many feet. Others suffocated,
fell back, and perished in the flames.
A young girl named Katie Smith states
that her first announcement of impend
ing danger was received by tho girls from
the other end of the room making toward
her, shrieking and crying, many of them
so terror-stridden that their limbs became
almost useless. Some of the girls were
praying and I lamenting their situation,
while others were so possessed with fear
that they stood in mute agony watching
with half-crazed brain, the brave, heroic
conduct of one man, who, utterly regard
less of his own safely, worked with heroic
ardor, and by means of n ropo landed on
the ground a number of the girls in safe
ty. One man being completely cutoff
made his exit to the roof by means of the
scuttle,.and with a rope lowered himself
over the roof and to the ground in safety.
When he reached terra firma he stated
that a companion who was just behind
him had faUen back suffocated.
Many of the girls became unconscious
from fright ere the flames reached them.
Some leaped from the windows, pre
ferring to be crashed aud maimed than
burned, and the sickening, heartrending
sights that met the eye on all sides were
agonizing. The wailings of mothers,
brothers and eisters were terrible to hear.
Tho flames spread so rapidly and the
smoke was so thick that the loss of life
was terrible. Those who jumped from
the windows fell fifty or sixty feet, and
were either killed outright or suffered
such a shock that they died soon after,
ward.
Whisky’s Doings—Tracy City. Grun
dy County, Tennessee, September iy—
Editob Avalanche : Last Friday morn
ing Marshal Levan, aged about eighteen
years, being in n state of intoxication,
was quarreling with his mother, she at
the time remonstrating with him about
his dissipated habits. Young Levon had
a flask of spirituous liquor and mode on
attempt, with another young man named
Allison, liis cousin, to drink tho spirits in
the house when his mother tapped him
on the head with a broom which she held
in her hand. He showed fight toward
his mother, when his older brother, H. J.
Levon, pushed him out of tho house. He
thereupon attacked this brother, making
au attempt to strike, when H. J. knocked
him down. Marshal, the younger brother,
aroso os soon os possible, and young Alii-
son, above named, seized H. J. Levon and
hold him close, when Marshal inflicted a
mortal wound in the lower .part of the
abdomen, from which, after experiencing
the most terrible suffeiing ho died yester
day morning about six o’clock. The
wound was inflicted with a knife, cutting
a tremendous gash aud severing his en.
trails. The parties were tho sons of
Sheriff Levau of our county, and a highly
respectable family.
The death bed scene is said to have
been very touching.
Tho dying brother called his younger
brother, the murderer, to his bedside, re
marking, “ Marshal, you have killed me,
but I can forgive you if God can,” and
ontreating him never to drink any more
intoxicating liquors. Tho young mur
derer attempted an escape, but was over
taken and brought back and is now in the
strong arms of the law, where a fair and
impartial hearing will be given him at an
early day. Tho deceased was a very
promising young man, about 23 years of
age, and was a member of the I. O. O.
F., by which organization his remains
were committed to the grave, under very
imposing ceremonies. So much for in
toxication. Occasional.
A A'oice of Wabning.—Editors Appeal:
Editorials of the New York Herald, pro
posing a “National Convention of Peace
and Reconstruction,” will no doubt ap
pear from tirno to time in the columns of
that tricky journal. They will undoubt
edly be written with nil the vigor and
ability of its “Ciesarism” articles, and
with as little honesty of purpose. While
the pretenso is to aid the South, the real
motive is to prevent repudiation of South
ern State debts, upon which subject the
Northern mind is greatly excited and
alarmed. The argument here is, that
this government is too strong to allow its
States to repudiate, and the object (real)
of the proposed convention is to so
change the Constitution of the United
States as to give the General Gov
ernment the right to’ enforce pay
ments. These Herald articles, which
will be found to be forerunners of a
certain bill which Northern bondholders
will endeavor to secure tho passage of
this winter, the sum and substance of
which is that the National Government is
to indorse the bonds of tho various South
ern States, they compelling their pay
ment and making repudiation in the
future impossible. It is a big job gotten
up in the interest of Northern bondhold
ers and of the North generally, in which,
too, a few speculating Southerners are
perhaps interested. I have given yon tho
ley-note to this sndden cry for a pence
convention that yon may draw out the
Herald and make it discover its real
meaning without committing yourself on
the repudiation question. One of tho
leading papers of each of the Southern
States have been furnished with the
same hint, so that together you may rap
and cross-question the Herald until you
tthofthe peace and recon-
convention.
[From the New York Daily Bulletin of Sept. SL]
The Cotton Trade.
As we are entering upon a new cotton
year and more than ordinary interest is
felt in the position of the cotton trade, it
may be proper to review the course of
European consumption and supply during
late months. The commercial depression
complained of in England has not had a
very conspicuous effect upon this partic
ular branch of trade. Although there
has been an important falling off in the
demand from some of the countries sup
plied by English manufacturers, there has
been an equal increase in the wants of
others, and upon the whole, the quantity
of goods exported has been slightly in
excess of last year. The trade with China
and India shows a largo increase, hut
that with Turkey, Egypt and several con
tinental nations has declined very mate
rially. Tho statement following gives
the total exports of cotton manufactures
from tho United Kingdom during the
first seven months of the year,' compared
with the same period of 1873:
S 7 Months
1S74.
Yarn and twiA.-ib*. 101,347,675
Thread lbs. 5,040,769
hotels ana Restaurants.
GLOBE HOTEL,
Augusta, Oa.,
Corner Broad and Jackson Sts.
Tite Globe Hotel
7 Months,
1873.
129,737,915
4,727,765
127,465,710
2,020,661-,184
706,097
Total in pound*.. 129,333,444
Piece good*.... yard* 2,063,481,774
Hosiery.... dox. pair* 619,337
While, however, there has been a light
increase in tho quantity of goods export
ed, the value is less than last year, the
amount of exports being valued at .£34,
GS9.281 for this year, against £30,334,471
in 1873—a difference to be accounted for
partly by the lower price of cotton this
year and partly from the prevailing de
pression in business.
The consumption of raw cotton in the
United Kingdom during the first thirty-
five weeks of tho year has been at the
rate of GO, 170 boles per week, against
59,780 bales for the same time last year,
showing an increase equal to 20,280
boles per annum. The imports -of all
descriptions at Liverpool for tho first
thirty-five weeks of the year aggregate
2,710,535 bales, against 2,G63,945 iu 1873,
the increase being ahont evenly distrib
uted over the various countries of supply;
so that while there has been an increase
in the consumption of the whole country
for the thirty-five weeks of 13,G50 bales,
there lias been an increase also in the
receipts at the main port of 4G,590 bales,
while at London there has been b decrease
in the imports of 51,330 bales (of India.)
The exports, for the same period, at Liv
erpool, Hull and other outports are 75,-
820 boles above last year ; and at London
there is a decrease in the exports and the
takings for consumption of 3,700 bales.
Balancing these movements at the two
ports there should be 90,510 boles less
stock at Liverpool and London combined
at the beginning of September than there
was last year; and yet tho combined
stocks nt those points are estimated at
22,272 bales more than they were a year
ago, the Liverpool stock being reported
os showing an increase of 115,410 bales,
and that of London a decrease of 93,138
bales. This is a point iu tho Liverpool
cotton statistics that needs explanation.
The supply of cotton in sight, at tlio
closo of lost week, compares thus with a
year ago:
Stock in Great Britain..bates
Stock on Continent **
Afloat for Enrope “
Stock In .United States.. **
1374.
907,000
465,250
411,000
127,000
1873.
921.500
453,000
332,000
80,000
Total viBible supply “ 1,910,250 1,S36,500
The total visible supply of cotton is
thus about 74,000 boles greater than
year ago. Taking tho statistical position
of the trade ns a whole, it varies very lit
tle from that of this date in 1873; the
price, however, is Id. per pound lower; a
difference due mainly to the condition
and prospects of busindsg now as com
pared with what they appeared then.
New Use of the “ Coat of Abm ” of
the Us in.: States.—Tho certificate of
thomnrria;:- of Nellie Grant is now at
the White House, and will soon be sent
to Mrs. Sartoris, at her home in England.
It is an elaborate piece of illuminated
penmanship, enclosed in a neat frame,
about, twenty-four inches square. The
certificate is - urrouuded by an elaborate
border, with the monogram of the par
ties in each comer, and surmounted by
the coat of arms of the United States and
England.—Republkan Papers.
Whnt unlimited snobbery the great
American union of Miss Grant to a Brit
ish commoner continues to provoke! The
arms of England and the United States
typically entwined by those of the bride
of America and the bridegroom of Great
Britain! How contemptuously royalty,
the world over, must smile as they read
of the “coat of arms” displayed on the
marriage certificate. Are snch the dis
tinctions craved by the Republicans for
a daughter of the Repniblic? “’Tis sweet
to die for one’s country,” the proverb
says. How much sweeter to be married
for it! May the marriage not be os bar
ren as its heraldry is. That we can wish
sincerely, and all the people will say
amen to it; hut aping royalty by the use
of national “coats of arms” on the mar
riage certificate of persons of private
station, the good sense of all bnt obse
quious Republican party flunkies in this
country will object to. Any honor bnt
those indicating on assumption of royalty
or imperial family dignity by the family
of tlfe bride we freely grant ’em.—Al
bany (AT. U.) Argus.
tut.
l 8 the author,
so the situation is se-
Prd
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; *, eTt - r , and
'' the otht
! Of t]
Tree!
tKvs 6 ^sfwe ‘ 1 tw^ 5? Saturda y sa J’ P:
^livimrnn . e » tvv 0 Democratic negro
^S^‘ h6 , east side of the Oco-
'“tset uron bv^n 6 | h ° road together,
t6 6t«8, 8 P art J of six Radical
one of tht. ^ott? had a revolver)
fort h«pluck t t rn “y I,cate »- But
St...- >• tvu by these two negroes
rould have Deeit as-
' J0:u drew a pistol,
mUP Bthem to advance,
« a rou,.), ’ Robing one of them,
tUUjb!e hghL Tho
J E sev y used t And the Radi-
f r-Bnished. Warrants
. w the arrest of the Radi-
n -“or-.r.to. v; ? have hot learned
k offe' * Je y havo been captured.
y!* 6 ?’ h ,lle two negroes at-
* ,tte ;u tttsi t, ’ “ B Bemocrats and
meeting
■ihisfrr "fdfty last./ ’ . ’ '
sea island cotton, __
fore the war on the
-tfduth Carolina,- and
seed has doubtless been proeuri .
raised in Florida. The sample is one of
the finest that we have seen, the staple
the longest, finest and most silky and
will doubtless contest the prize with any
cotton raised in any part of the world for
fine quality. Mr. Wheeler took no es-
pecinl pains to cultivate it, and its value,
therefore, is due to the peculiar nature of
the soil in this vicinity.
And this : One night last week, a small
party of sportsmen went down to the
“ Bird Bank,” opposite the Light-house.
They were provided with n simple reflect
ing lamp. The birds beeame so confused
that they actually flew into their faces.
After slaughtering about thirty, among
which were the brown and white-wing
curlew, they ceased from their spot, in
amazement at the effect of th© light.
They report that tho birds came all
around aud about thorn—like chickens
when called to feed. Is not tins
experiment suggestive ? Stuffed birds
always command a remunerative
price. Some cute Yankee might
put up a shanty behind the sand hills, on
the North beach, open an oyster house,
restaurant, and all that sort of thing—to
be patronized by pleasure, parties, during
the visiting season—and among other in
dustries, pursue this business.
An Ex-Chief Detective Abbested.—
CoL Wood, an ex-chief of the secret ser
vice bureau, was a witness last week in
the case of Igilius Noltner, who is now
under examination before Commissioner
Osborn,.in. Now York, on a charge of at
tempting to negotiate a non-negotiable
$1,000 five-twenty .United States bond,
testified that he. gave the bond in ques-
tion to Noltner, and told him that it was
a genuine one; that he “impressed Nolt
ner with the idea that the bond was taken
out of Nathan’s safe,”
* ». i 1 —V r
Xn * V - •
»* ^ i - ’ B ’ . ’T* »?c0K* i -* at* ’
V| r/r- "a;
nUWpMMH
before daybreak ytei
proceeded four miles towards Reese's
store, when they were met by a courier,
who informed them that the negroes had
dispersed. The Georgians thereupon re
turned to their homes, their only object
in crossing the river being to assist the
citizens abont Reese's store in protecting
life and property.
TUT. VEBY LATEST.
Mr. Joseph Thayer arrived in the city
last night, bringing dispatches from Gen.
Butler. .
He reports that when he left the im
mediate scene of disturbance the armed
negroes had broken into squads and were
going through the country—thought to
be to their respective homes.
At four o’clock yesterday afternoon
General Butler had an interview with
Tenant, and asked him if he intended to
surrender the arms of his company. Ten
ant replied that he did not. He then
asked him if he would promise - to sur
render them by Wednesday. Tenant re
plied, “I win not; if you want.them you
wiUhave to take them.” They thensep-
ar Hereports the white companies still
under arms at and near the vicinity of
Reese’s store, with pickets and scouts out
in every direction. ,
When Tenant's reply to the General
was made known, a subordinate offered
to lead a volunteer squad to kill him.
Thereupon thirty signified their willing
ness to join. Bnt General Butler prompt
ly objected, and the proposed expedition
was abandoned.
ANOTHEH SECTION HEARD FROM
A letter, written by a lady, at Varn-
ville, on the line of the Port .Royal Kan-
road, about fifty miles from Augusta, to
a gentleman in this city, states that it
told the people how to save t
but a braver one is related of a fireman
who was lowered from the roof by blott
er firemen into the building, and remain
ed so long trying to drive the lost ones
forth that he had to be let go by those
The Shebifp of Simpson County, Ky.,
Stabbed Six Times by a Despebado.—
Thursday evening, about six o’clock, at
Franklin, Ky., quite a serious difficulty
occurred between J. P. Edmunds, Sheriff
of Simpson county, and Ed. Tapscott.
The difficulty occurred as follows: Tap
scott was indicted sometime since and
fined for selling whisky without license.
The Sheriff procured a capias for Tap-
scott’s arrest, and, upon his failing to pay
the fine, arrested him. Tapscott resisted
and attempted to make bis escape. Ed
munds shot at him and again arrested
him and placed him in jail. He was re-
,eased on boil, and while Edmunds was
Km the street, slipped^
ibbed him v<
Has just been Ref oral riied and Refitted
with all the
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
AND CONVENIENCES,
Together with the addition of a new Veranda,
making it one of the most complete Hotels in the
country, and is now ready for the accommodation
of ihe Traveling Public.
sepl4-lm
P. MAY, Proprietor.
BRESNAN’S
EoropjiHouse
I r.(», 158, 1GG & 1652
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
fFULE Proprietor, having completed the ncccs-
I s&ry additions and improvements, can now
liter to bis guests all the comforts to be obtained
it other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
NO. 11 REYNOLDS’ SQUARE.
(Formerly Hauler.’ Bonk,)
SAT ASS AD, GA.
DEPOSITS received subject to Check atS>gbi,
and Interest allowed by agreement.
Gold, Stock*, Bond*, and Foreign and Domestic
Exchange bought and sold.
Collection* made on all acceniblc point*, and
promptly remitted for in New York Exchange at
enrrent rates.
No eommi^ons charged on Collections n 4'
the city.
Merchants’Cash Boxes, and other Vahafc -. ro-
ceiTod ao special deposit (and deposited in th Urge
Fire Proof Vanlts of the Banking Rome) sobject
to owners’orders, at any and all times daring bank
ing hours.
Exchange on Atlanta and Aognsta in sums to
snit purchasers.
innit’
JAMES HUNTER,
BROKER,
DKALKR IN
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. HO Bryan Street,
(Gcoigia Historical Society Bufldinrr).
OAKS NEGOTIATED. Advances made on
[ securities placed in my hands for sale at
Real Estate bought and sold on
current rates.
commission.
Mil. H. J. THOALASSON will take charge of
the Real Estate branch of my business, and will
give his personal attention to the leasing ot houses
and collection of rents. sepl-tf
(Commission merchants.
A RESTAHMT
ON TnE
EUROPEAN PLAN
nas been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can Imj obtained in the market
BOOMS, AVITH BOARD,
$1 50 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that com;dcte
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
febl9-tf
Will Not Close.
TUB
SCREVEN HOUSE
Will remain open this summer, and solicits the
patronage of those visitiug Savannah. Families
and others wishing to board permanently during
the summer can make advantageons *
It. BRADLEY «
mayl9-tf
& SON,
Proprietors.
S. W. GLEASON.
JAS. SLANNINO.
S. W. GLEASON & CO.
Iron Foundry and Machine Works.
Sugar Mills,
SUGAR PANS.
Prices Reduced for 1874
SAMUEL COHEN & SON,
COTTON FACTORS
Gen’l Commission Merchants,
Bay Street, Savannah, Gn.
L iberal cash advances made on
signments of Cotton.
BAGGING AND TIES always on band, and
supplied at the lowest market rates.
sep23-6m
j COTTON FACTORS
L. J. GTJUJCARTIN.
JOHN TLAKNEUT.
IL. J. Guilmartin & Co.
Commission Merchants,
> Kellj’s Block, Bay Street, Saramnah, Ca.
: Agents for Bradley’s Phosphate,
; Jewell’s Mills Taras * Domestic*, Ac., *f. ;
: Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at town
market rates.
Prompt attention given to all business \
entrusted to us.
Liberal Cash Advances made on consign- ;
meats. augl3-d,tw&\v6m :
GEO. W. ANDERSON*
JOHN W. ANDERSON.
JOHN W. ANDERSON’S SONS
COTTON FACTORS
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
Gullctt’s Improved Saw Gin,
Ilenery’s Improved McCarthy Gin,
Cor. Bryan and Drayton rts..
SAVANNAH,6a.
fyliberal advances made on Cans :gzmxcLh>
octldatwly
B. C. FLANK AG AN,
A. P.
W. W. FLAN NAG
n. S. MORGAN'.
Flannagaii, Abell & Co.J
128 Ray Street, Savaitnali,
COTTON FACTOR?
Commission Merchants.
T IBERAL cash advances made on conslg
Li ments.
ments.
Promptest attention rendered to
committed to them, and proceeds of
adtted by Express wlicn ordered.
Bagging and Ties sold and
■ul
R. J. DAVANT. W. D. NAPLES.
IAN 3TYEES.
Davant, Waples fc Co.,
Cotton and Rice Factors
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, G
y ^IBERAL advances made d conslgimnets
and prompt and careful attc .tion giver f > al
►cptO ui
WM.H.TISON.
WM. W. OO -IN»N.
STEAM ENGINES, GRIST 3HLIB, GIN GEAR,
And Machinery of every description.
^Costings and Repairing of every kind made and
Send for circular and price list.sepQ-tf
TIS0N & GORDON
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
GEORGS PAG? & CO.,
Eacnioctiijrcr?: o~
PATENT PORTABLE (
SAW
112 Boy .Street, Savannah, <• *-
Bagging and Ties advanced on Ctcf*-
Ubcrai CASn ADVANCES maic •«. 5
ments of Cotton..
WHO HAD HOLD OF BIS BOPE.
They held his line as long os they could
stay, and, nearly suffocated, they were
driven down. -His only way of escape
was by the window of the.gable end, but
ho doubtless had worked so long in the
thick smoke for others he could not aid
himself.
Morgues and hospitals were speedily
improvised. The Mission Chapel near
by was taken for one of the latter, and as
fast as one could be picked up from
under the windows of the mill stretchers
were ready to cany her to either the
chapel or the central station. At the
latter place twenty-five bodies were cold
in death, and other unfortunates had been
taken to other stations or to their homes.
In a number of instances the bodies
were not recognized, partly from the fact
that they were so disfigured, begrimed and
dirt-covered, and especially from the fact
that their friends or relatives were look
ing elsewhere.
Iu the Mission Chapel there were those
whose
SUFFERINGS WERE INTENSE, ‘
tbs injuries were various, but largely of
course to the limbs of the individuals.
Every doctor in the city was summoned
at the earliest moment, and exhibited the
greatest solicitude for the sufferers.
Some remained at the church, others ac-
Un Wednesday Momsey
line, and showing a largo roll of bonk
notes, said that he wished to pay his bill.
Then, putting back the money, he asked
the butcher to go with him to a liquor
saloon and settle. After reaching the
place he had first named, the policeman
persuaded Mr. Burline to go further to
another saloon, and as they walked on, in
Ninth avenue, the officer turned suddenly,
and seizing Mr. Burline by the throat
with one hand, assaulted him with the
other, shouting, “Now I’ve got you.
You’ll ask the officer on your beat for
money, will you ?” He then kieked and
beat Burline with his club, and drew his
revolver, saying, '‘Now 111 kill you, any
how.” Two men passing in a buggy in
terfered, and a number of boys began to
throw stones at the officer. He turned
his attention to the boys, and chased
them, revolver in hand. Burline has
since died.
They have not fighting enough with
the Indians in Colorado to afford them
satisfactory amusement. The cattle rais
ers, therefore, have gone to war with the
sheep farmers. It is hard to tell whether
the white men or the Indians are the most
disgrace to the human form. The scales
may turn in favor of the latter, because
the whites have been taught and should
know better. In the first raid made by
the cattle men on the sheep folds, mask
ed men with axes went among the flocks
at night, and for two houis brained and
slaughtered the harmless animals. The
whipping post and pillory are too merci
ful for such wretches. . The cause of the
—The differ
ence betwOte Gen. Grant’s action iu the
Louisiana case and his course towards
Arkansas is very marked. The Attorney
General is reported as saying that the
Baxter and Brooks contest in Arkansas, a
few weeks ago, and this conflict in Louis-
iana, presented to the President cases
precisely alike. But his action was very
different. He refused to interfere, or to
permit the United States troops to inter
fere in Arkansas, further than to protect
the Legislature and Supreme Court in
assembling and deliberating. But in
Louisiana he puts down a government of
tho people, established all over the State
and exercisingits powers by virture of the
votes of a majority of the people. * But
the sword is ever capricious and unrea
soning, and Louisiana has, at present, no
Camillas to come to her rescue against
the brand of Brennus.—Columbus En
quirer.
A Cabinet officer last evening, speaking
of Kellogg, referred with strong disap
probation to the fraud practiced by him
upon the Senate by denying that the
Legislature composed of his followers has
passed a registration law giving the con
trol of the election to the Governor—all
the while Laving the law in his pocket.
He expressed the opinion that Congress
would investigate the matter, and that
they would also modify the government
of that State.— Washington IHsjxztch.
I: Mil
JAS. B. i
FIS EG AN <Xr (O.
Ms, LcfTel’s Turbine Water Wheels
ood Working Machinery of all kinds, and
chiniEta’ Sundries. Send for Catalogues.
mh6-dly
J. W. TYNAN,
Engineer and Machinist,
Canal St., near Charleston Wharf.
Bepabs of all kinds of
ma chinery.
BLACKSMITH WORK,
feb*to*“ “* Br * nche ®' Promptly done.
Notices.
Bottles—Special Notice.
SO only on condition* that they return them wb*
tioned against buy
out inducements to
them to them, as by so i
theft, tUKl are amenable as receivers of i
goods, knowing the same to be stolen.
Parties having stray bottles about their pre
will be remunerated for their trouble if **«*
notify me or return them to the llanuf
Broughtob streeC JOHN 1
Sole Proprietor Excelsior Bottling Wa
Established 1S63.
COTTON FACTORS
| Commission Merchants.
M Bay Street, Savannah, t.’a.
Liberal advances made on Colton cou-
led to us or to our correspond'in
r York and Liverpool.
?1 BAGGING and TIES ALWAYS OH HA XD.
D. 7. BANC).
R. R. DAKCT.
D.Y.DMCY&CO.
COTTON FACTORS
Commission Merchants,
95 Hay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Prompt and careful attention given to all buyisere
‘ —■* ns. Liberal advances made on con-
Cash paid for United States Bounty
Syberg-Petersen &
SHIP AGENTS
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVA5SAH, GA.
I-I. 3J 1 . GKR-A TSTT,
102 BAY ST., SAVANNAH, GA..
General Commission Merchant