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it requires
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inebriate
dray and three or four
jnetnen to carry the average Augusta
P 0 "-to the guard-house.
Dr. J
is very
Emmett Blackshear, of Macon,
T ie Atlanta ConetUuticn
has turned
critic.
Abrams is
••Those who saw
-~,‘e of the old year:
ddieno worse off than they began it
„,e the very fortunate few."
Attota personal: “Ike Guthmans
takilled a cat yesterday. Send it down
boarding house, Ike—we need more
to our
hash.
People have already begun to freeze to
death in the neighborhood of Rome.
What is to become of CoL Willingham
when he ventures forth in the dew after
his matutinal “snifter,” the Lord only
toons- .
4 female negro woman has mysterious
ly' disappeared near Ilerzelia. Herab-
nce has caused a negro man to be ar
rested on suspicion of foul play.
Mr H. W. Baldwin has retired from the
Madison Borne Journal He will cast
ns fortunes in Southwest Georgia.
Porsvth has shipped since the first of
September 7,187 bales of cotton, against
Pi -;3 bales during the same period
last
y r . A. J. Webb, of Campbell county,
weL t to Atlanta a few days ago and since
,at time nothing has been heard of him.
An old colored man named Esau Har
per was found dead in Macon the other
flay. The coroner’s jury decided that he
lipd been foully dealt with. It is proba-
v however, that he fell from the rail-
#1 bridge.
The Macon Sbir glitters in a new dress,
is appearance has been decidedly im-
roved.
The casual burglar is still flirting with
the sleepy policeman in Augusta.
The Baptists of Forsyth have con
tracted for a new church edifice to cost
A Randolph county negro killed his
rife the other day.
Mr. A. St. Clair-Abrams, of the At-
ata Stirs, is a candidate for State
Voter.
ilnStswart county recently, in a row
(tween two white men, a negro got in
e way of a bullet, and is now und§r
treatment.
A colored female forger is the latest
sensation.
From what the Atlanta Constitution has
ien able to learn as to Governor Smith’s
future intentions it feels safe in saying
that he is not a candidate for any office
whatever, State or Federal, all reports to
the contrary notwithstanding. His te»m
if office as Governor of Georgia will not
;pire until January, 1S77, and it is be
lieved that he is too busy with the duties
of his present position to be occupying
himself thus far in advance with the
question of his own successor, or the
uceessorof any one else, and all sug-
stions to the contrary, whether made
•y friends or enemies, are calculated to
upair his powers of usefulness as the
iof magistrate of the State. The agi
tation of these questions can be safely
rft to speak for himself, a thing he is in
e habit of doing when he has anything
to sav.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch strips the
sKin from some of the fallacies set afloat
!'} the ignoranc e and prejudices of those
who favor the re-enactment of the usury
law : Does not every intelligent citizen
jof this State know that three years ago,
before the Legislature repealed the usury
btw, looney was loaned every day through
out the State at 15 to 30 per cent, a year,
n plain violation of the law ? And is it
ot much better to pay even this rate of
"terest for money to buy provi-
at cash prices, than to pay
dollar aud seventy-five cents on time
or corn that can be bought for one dol
lar down t Or bacon at twenty cents per
pound that s selling at thirteen cents
. • \\ by not petition the Legislature
o enact a law compelling merchants to
sell corn and bacon on time at twenty
instead of one hundred per cent, profit ?
i} not as well compel the farmer to
his cotton for ten cents a pound
i cor o for seventy-five cents a
* r . ■ p ’ s require a man to loan his
■urp.us money at seven per cent, interest
H-r annum ? That’s just what’s the mat-
r ^ a country now—the scarcity of
one - because it can be used in
’'k'mg and selling goods on lime with
.eaterprofit. Money is cheaper to-day
England than in any part of the Uni-
otates, and yet Euglend has no
ru . • Six per cent, is a high
of interest in that country. This
attributable to the abundance of
tie}, and that no restraii t is put upon
i If you want to make the
toll f.u gh on moc0 y, lock it up, run it
L.1- jt“'^‘oavket, compel capitalists to
. — seven per cent, or keep it in
[“sir safes, and — -
. — you will soon have the
, “. C , , o£ lowing that there is no
.... i • A® j° aa - Every man with five
’“ured dollars will turn merchant, and
Money in buying goods to sell on
Rime at rtf * v iU 6 hi acii uii
E'o t 10 one hundred per cent.
Chinese
N^hai.
■heme f or c
iavor of tf “"“.there is one count in
Entdisii • Ghineae paper which the
Tint it W fa ^ s 40 obserye, namely :
review d i a- e a Tamous English
>as strup^i’ r . eu George Stephenson
of the | j® with public opinion, one
.prominent of the EngUsh
whJ ^ x- 15 l ^at a traveler might as
go a Congreve rocket as
■ hetn gineer e °l speed P ro P osed
ridicule ' h ■■ Chinese newspaper is
"umberK ’ ff Possession of back
0u hi aunt i e ? u 8 df| h quarterlies, it
ally. 1 w hat it now produces oiigin-
newspaper, published at
opposing vigorously the
ni T C0n structing railways in the
ntt • asserts that trains on rail-
■ave] 7l ln s ! lcb a rate speed that
Kierionv uns afe; and adds, fur-
ian a ♦ u ^ at ’ 454 tbe 7 “g° oxen faster
mo 0 n t) or ° u ghbr6d horse, people walk-
° u ^ cf tl! ilDGS W ,! u bave no get
Shan j . Wa y*” These comments of
^glish^o’’- ll i ews P a per are quoted in an
thev ti- ^ 0urna i a ^d made merry over, as
(j> * * ^ ■ n -
r* e «:ktr :^' ieet '1Iuakted Bzechee.—
fist y- a ’ r D , 8 lrm g his experience of the
,t c .'. ut “Public meeting of his con-
^ 81 “ "^ 0< I * 8 my witness that
the worid^, “ earte <i—there is no one in
h heart ■ owar< I whom I am not sweet
That ■
llj °kl,u is the matter in
By tr.mij iuere would never have been
iterens .e Plymouth Church if the
10 We, i. etor l c ‘ an hadn’t been a little
nun wSe?t*2S? at Um “ s ’ “ml
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uu-itv r , 6re,1 t form cf Christian
here w . U t lavc ‘ been far more comely.
e . utir ely too much sweet-
''dmngton Star.
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
LEE’S SURRENDER.
I His Account of the movements Around
Appomattox Court House.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE LOUISIAN A OUTRAGE.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON AL
LUDES TO IT AS INFAMOUS.
A Protest Against the Slanders of
Piegan Phil.
GRANT ENDORSES SHERIDAN’S INVASION
OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
Fearful of Popular Indignation.
THE “TIMES” ON LOUISIANA.
New Yobk, January G.—The Times in an
editorial on Louisiana affairs says: “For
ourselves w r e must say that the use made of
United States troops seems to have been an
extreme exercise of power and one for
which the President, who is primarily re
sponsible for it, must find it very difficult to
show adequate authority. The Constitution
guarantees to each State a Repub
lican form of government, and, on
a requisition, protections against do
mestic violence. In this case Jhere was
no recent requisition, and there was
no actual violence. The Governor called in
troop* in anticipation of his own helpless
ness, and engaged their commander in acts
which have never before been performed by
a United States army officer. The troops
did not aid the State forces—they replaced
them. We do not believe the country will
regard such a procedure with approval. If
it does, the consequences to our system of
government cannot be easily foreseen.
COMING HOME TO BOOST.
Washington. January G.—Wilson ; s quoted
as saying that the dispatch signed by Sheri
dan washuanufactureil here. Sheridan could
not have written so foolish a dispatch. It
may bo positively stated, however, that
Sheridan’s banditti dispatch is genuine.
On (lit, a prominent official here endeavors
to shield Sheridan from the Btorrn cf indig
nation of the country by representing that
he did not assume command until nine
o’clock Monday eve, and General Emery,
acting under Executive instructions, is re
sponsible for the military invasion of the
Louisiana Legislature; but the President is
quoted as saying: “Gen. Sheridan is on the
spot and knows what to do, aud his actions
will moot Executive approval.”
GRANT .APPROVES THE OUTRAGE.
Washington, January G.—The following
telegram was Bent to Gen. Slieridau to-day:
War Department, )
Washington, January 6. J
Gen. P H. Sheridan, New Orleans, La. :
Your telegrams all received. The Presi
dent and all of us have equal confidence and
thoroughly approve your course.
\Vm. H. Belknap, Sec’v of War.
There is no probability that the President
will issue such a proclamation as General
Sheridan suggests in his telegram to Secre
tary Belknap yesterday.
SHERIDAN SPEAKS.
New York, January 6.—The lit-raid's Naw
Orleans correspondent telegraphs that Sher
idan, in an interview with him yesterday,
said he was going to put a stop to the peo
ple down there. The solution of the troubles
is proposed in his dispatch oi yesterday to
the President. He said that ho has not con
sulted any citizen in coming to his conclu
sions. If the government and President will
endorse him he will settle affairs. He pro
posed to put down secretly armed bodies.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, January G.—In the House,
Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, presented a rt-
monstrauce of the people of Arkansas
against the invasion ot their rights of seli-
goverument. Referred to the Select Com
mittee on Arkansas.
The bill granting the Memphis and Vicks
burg Railroad Company rights of wav
through the National Cemetery at Vicks
burg, passed.
SPAIN’S NEW GOKERNMENT.
Washington, January G.—AH the great
powers have authorized their representa
tives at Madrid to enter into semi-official re
lations with tho new Government. The ex-
Kiug of the two Sicilies has visited Alfonso
and assured him that Counts Caserta aud
Thari will withdraw from the Carlist cause.
The Spanish fleet, consistin' of three iron
clads, will arrive at Marseilles to-morrow to
meet King Alfonso, who leaves Paris at five
in the evening.
the vice-president’s opinion,
Washington, January 6.—Vice-President
Wilson deprecates in harsh terms the action
at New Orleans. He is ecliood as saying it
is in tamous and the death-blow to the Re
publican party.
shebidan’s lie.
New Orleans, January G.—The Cotton
Exchange, Board of Trade, and the meeting
of citizens protest against Sheridan’s letter.
The citizens meeting consisted mainly of
Northern and Western men.
'BEECHER AND HIS NEST-HIDERS.
New York, January G.—The sales of Ply
mouth church pews aggregated $70,000
against $58,000 last year. The highest price
was $550 and the lowest $10.
Grant.
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, referring to the ap
pointment of General Sheridan, with
plenary powers to the Louisiana military
district, says:
“There is direct authority' for stating
that Grant’s feelings for the South are of
the most bitter aud vindictive character,
and are freely expressed in conversation.
Those who are in a position to know' say
that if he could get a plausible pretext
for it, he would shoot down the people of
Louisiana like dogs.”
We do not believe one word of this.
A great deal of direct testimony may be
had to prove just the reverse. We believe
that General Grant is rather hurt than
otherwise by the almost wholesale hostili
ty of the South, or what is supposed to
be such, than “bitter” and “vindictive”
in his feelings. He is much bitterer
against the ultra-Radicals than anybody
else, aud they, on their part, hate him
like poison. We believe that the rupture
might be made complete, if the South
would patiently aud cautiously bide her
time and preserve her temper.
The above rose-colored view of the
matter is taken by the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, whose editor recently paid Graut
a visit. Facts prove the contrary very
conclusively, if we understand what
words and actions mean. Grant’s Attor
ney General is one of the “ultra Radicals”
—known and read as such of all men—
and apparently has more influence with,
and nearer to him than any man in his
Cabinet. It is to him that Grant looks
for inspiration and guidance in his official
action. He is Grant’s rightbower—par
ticularly in matters affecting the South.
If Graut did not hold Williams in such
high esteem, why did he cling to him so
closely when he was proven to be utterly
and shamelessly corrupt, and when a
Senate of his own faith placed the stigma
of unworthiness upon him by refusing to
make him Chief Justice of the United
States? _. - „
Bitterer against the ‘ ultra Radicals
indeed ! We would like our cotemporary
to instance one proof of the assertion.
We are sure it will be news to the coun
try, and tho South especially, that Grant
hates the “ultra Radicals.” When and
where has he ever proven it. with the
solitary exception of his report to An
drew Johnson, which he has gone back
upon a hundred times since ? Produce
the proof and call the witnesses to the
stand, before you ask the people of the
South to take stock in such a belief. They
know that Gratft could set the South
upon her feet, restore peace, and anni
hilate the scoundrels who wear his livery
and cause all ou* woo in five minutes, if
so disposed. Until he does — Credat
Judaeus Appelhs. They will none of it.—
Macon Telegraph.
New Land Discovert.—Nobody sup
posed there was any more land to dis
cover outside of the Polar regions but
tho British ship Basilism, which has been
on a four years’ cruise, has just returned
to England, bringing news of the chs-
covery of a large archipelago in the Pa
cific ocean, near New Guinea, northeast
of Australia. On the islands are two
mountains 11,000 feet high, that, in
honor of the great rival statesmen, have
been named Mount Gladstone and Mount
Disraeli.
[Reminiscences by Rev. J. W. Jones.]
The following letter has been made
public for the first time in Mr. Jones
reminiscences of the late war:
Near Appomattox Court House, Va.,>
April 12, 1865. >
His Excelleney Jefferson Davis:
Mr. President: It is with pain that I
announce to your Excellency the surren
der of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The ope-ations which preceded this result
will be reported in full. I will therefore
only now state that upon arriving at
Amelia Court House upon the morning
of the 4th with the advance of the army,
on the retreat from the lines in front of
Richmond and Petersburg, and not find
ing the supplies ordered to be placed
there, nearly twenty-four hours were lost
in endeavoring to collect in the country
subsistence for men and horses. This
delay was fatal, aud could not be retrieved.
The troops, wearied by continued fight
ing and marching for several days and
nights, obtaining neither rest nor refresh
ment. and on moving on the 5th on the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, I found
at Jetersville the enemy’s cavalry, aud
learned the approach of his infantry and
the general advance of the army toward
Burkeville. This deprived us of the use
of t he railroad, and rendered it impracti
cable to procure from Danville the sup
plies ordered to meet us at points of our
march. Nothing could be obtained from
the adjacent country. Our route to the
Roanoke was therefore changed, and the
march directed upon Farmville, where
supplies were ordered from Lynchburg.
The change of route threw the troops
over the road pursued by the artillery
and wagon trains, west of the railroad,
which impeded our advance and embar
rassed our movements.
On the morning of the Gth Gen. Long-
street’s corps reached Rice’s station, on
the Lynchburg Railroad. It was follow
ed by the commands of Generals R. H.
Anderson, Ewell and Gordon, with orders
to close upon it as fast as the progress of
tho traius would permit, or as they would
be directed, on roads further west. Gen.
Anderson, commanding Pickett’s and B.
R. Johnson’s divisions, became discon
nected with Mahone’s division, forming
the rear of Longstreet. The enemy’s
cavalry peuetrated the line of march
through the intervals thus left, and at
tacked the wagon train moving toward
Farmville. This caused serious delay in
the march of the centre aud rear of the
column, and enabled the enemy to mass
upon their flank. After successive at
tacks, Anderson’s or Ewell’s corps were
captured or driven from their position.
The latter General, with both of his di
vision commanders, Kershaw and Custis
and his Brigadier, were taken pris
oners.
Gordon, who all the morning, aided by
Gen. W. F. Lee’s cavalry, had checked
the advance of the enemy on the road
from Amelia Springs, and protected the
traius, became exposed to his combined
assaults, which he bravely resisted and
twice repulsed ; but the cavalry having
been withdrawn to another part of the
line of march, aud the enemy massing
heavily on his front and both flanks, re
newed the attack about 6 p. m., and
drove him from the field in much confu
sion. The army continued its march
during the night, and every effort was
made to reorganize the divisions, which
had been sliatttred by the day’s opera
tions ; but, the men being depressed by
fatigue and hunger, many threw away
their arms, while others followed the
wagon trains and embarrassed their pro
gress. On the morning of the 7th rations
were issued to the troops as they passed
Farmville, but the safety of the trains
requiring their removal upon the approach
of the enemy, all could not be supplied.
The army reduced to two corps, under
Longstreet and Gordon, moved steadilv
on the road to Appomatox Court House ;
thence its march was ordered by Camp
bell Court House, through Pittsylvania
towards Danville. The roads were
wretched and the progress slow. By
great effort the head of the column
reached Appomatox Court House on the
evening of the 8th, and the troops were
halted to rest. The march was ordered
to be resumed at one a. m. on the JRh.
Fitz Lee with the cavalry, supported by
Gordon, was ordered to drive the enemy
from his front, wheel to the left and cov
er the passage of the trains, while Long
street, who, from Rice’s station, had
formed the rear guard, should come up
and hold the position. Two battalions of
artillery and the ammunition wagons were
directed to follow the army ; the rest of
the artillery and wagons to move towards
Lynchburg. In the early part of the
night the enemy attacked Walker’s artil
lery train near Appomatox station, on the
Lynchburg Railroad, aud were repulsed.
Shortly afterwards the cavalry dashed
toward the Court House, till halted by our
line. During the night there were indica
tions of a large force massing on our left
and front. Fitz Lee was ordered to
ascertain its strength, and to suspend his
advance till daylight if necessary. About
5 a. m., on the ‘Jth, with Gordon on his
left, he moved forward and opened the
way. A heavy force of the enemy was
discovered opposite Gordon’s right, which,
moving in the direction of Appomattox
Court House, drove back the left of the
cavalry and threatened to cut off Gordon
from Longstreet, his cavalry at the same
time threatening to envelop his left flank.
Gordon withdrew across the Appomattox
river, and the cavalry advanced on the
Lynchburg road and became separated
from the army. Learning the condition
of affairs on the lines where I had gone,
under the expectation of meeting Gen.
Grant, to learn definitely the terms he
proposed in a communication received
from him on the 8th, in the event of the
surrender of the army, I required a sus
pension of hostilities until these terms
could be arranged. In the interview
which occurred with Gen. Grant, in com
pliance with my request, terms having
been agreed ou, I surrendered that por
tion of the Army of Northern Virginia
which was on the field, with its arms,
artil e *y, and wagon trains, the officers
and men to be paroled, retaining their
side arms and private effects.
I deemed this course the best under
all the circumstances by which w r e were
surreuaded. On the morning of the Oth,
according to the reports of the ordnance
offictrs, there were 7,802 organized in
fantry with arms, with an average of
75 rounds of ammunition per man. The
artillery, though reduced to 63 pieces,
with 93 rounds of ammunition, was suf
ficient. These comprised all the supplies
of oiduance that could be relied on in
the State of Virginia. I have no accurate
report of the cavalry, but believe it did
not exceed 2,400 effective men. The
enemy was more than five times our
number. If we could have forced our way
one tiiy longer it would have been at a
great sicrifice of life in the end, and I did
not to see how a surrender could have
been avoided. We had no subsistence
for man or horse, and it could not be
gathered in the country. The supplies
ordered to Pamplin’s station from Lynch
burg could not reach me, and the men,
deprived of food and sleep for many
days, were worn out and exhausted.
With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
R. E. Lfe, GeneraL
Elections by Returning Boards.
If a Returning Board in Louisiana may
canvass the votes for Legislature and
State officers, and work their own sweet
will with the returns, throwing out such
as they please and counting such as suit
their purpose, why may they not do it in
other States? If they may declare a Leg
islature elected which is not and is hardly
pretended to be the choice of the people,
why may they not exercise the same
power in counting the votes for Presi
dential electors, and so elect the Presi
dent and Vice President by Returning
Boards instead of by the people? The
action of the Louisiana Returning Board,
if sustained by the Administration and
by Congress, as it now bids fair to be un
der the rule of the caucus, will not be
! simply an outrage upon the people of that
’ State, an overthrow in that State merely
of the Republican form of government.
It must be held as a precedent. It will
govern the conduct of future elections.
It will have just as much force in a Presi
dential as in a State election, and even
should it not be followed in other States,
there may an emergency arise in which
the Returning Board of Louisiana could,
under this precedent, choose s Presi^eDt
of the United States who would not be
the choice of the people.
The violence done by the proceedings
of this Board to all our notions of popu
lar elections, and the absolute disregard
of what we are apt to consider the sanc
tity of the ballot, the very essence of Re
publican institutions, are hardly appre
ciated here at the North. For these men
now hardly make the pretence of consid
ering the votes actually cast and counted
as indicating in any way the result. At
ether times an I elsewhere there have
been complaints—too often well ground
ed—of frauds in elections perpetrated in
a variety of ways and by various cheating
* methods. But we have never known a
case before where the returns of whole
precincts were deliberately thrown aside
by the dozen and by the score, voters
disfranchised and cheated of their rights
by the hundred and the thousand, upon
the most frivolous pretexts, for the obvious
and unmistakable purpose of defeating
the expressed will of the voters. In all
the history—bad as it is and as we must
confess it to be—of election frauds in
this country, we have never had anything
which in shameless effrontery, brazen
audacity, and reckless disregard of even
the forms of law and the appearance of
fairness, can approach the contemplated
outrage upon Louisiana. Under the rul
ings of this Board there might as well
have been no voting done. For no mat
ter how many votes were cast against the
candidates of the Kellogg Ring, the
members of this Board have only to bring
forward some trumped up affidavit—easily
enough obtained from any of their crea
tures—charging intimidation or undue in
fluencing of voters, and the whole of them
were thrown out and minority candidates
declared elected. It was not in any
sense, under the rulings of the Board, a
popular election.
It seems almost incredible that such
villainy should be allowed to go on to
success, aud that the Republican party in
Congress should be bullied by the admin
istration and its leaders into giving coun
tenance and support to so plain and so
wicked a cheat. But that does seem to
be the purpose of the party managers.
What excuse can there be for it? None
whatever, except that the administration
must be sustained. But if this sort of
thing is done in Louisiana in the interest
of the administration why not in other
States? Why not, especially in the States
of the South, where, upon the pretext of
preserving order and supprasing “bloody
outrages,” the army may be used to back
up the iniquities of a disLonest registry
and a corrupt Returning Board ? It
is vei y well to say that this is only an iso
lated case, or to dismiss it because, as
President Grant said at Long Branch last
summer, we “don’t want to be bothered
with itbut there is more danger in
every step of this business then in any
thing the American people have had to
deal with in the past fifteen years, or per
haps ever before. A party that has be
come reckless and giddy with long-con
tinued power is on the brink c f defeat,
and it knows it. For no purpose except
to retain its hold, it consents to a great
wrong and outrage, and undertakes to
annul the action of a popular majority.
It has the look of desperation. It will
bear the interpretation of a purpose to
perpetuate its power at any hazard.
Of course there is ^no danger. There
never is. There W’as none the last time
a great party went out of power. No
danger. Everybody said so. But be
tween 1861 and 1865 the country learned
to its sorrow that though the individual
men who compose great parties, and the
leading statesmen who manage them, are
patriotic and well-meaning persons, who
would not for the world do harm to any
body, yet there is in the conglomerate of
party a spirit of desperation, which can
work wondrous havoc when it is thwarted.
The Democratic part}’ did not go out of
power quietly. Its successor will not go
out at all if it can only fortify itself with
precedents, and have on hand a sufficient
number of Returning Boards.—New York
Tribune.
Neat Mary Wragg, having observed
how cobwebs and dirt accumulated in old
and rarely visited burial vaults, left by
her will a small sum to have her coffin
dusted, and made another appropriation
for a dinner to the men employed to dust
her coffin. A short time ago the cere
mony was duly performed in Penge,
England, and the officiating clergyman
received by bequest half as much as the
cost of the dinner to the dusters:
Sensible.—The Virginia Midland Rail
road Company is offering to give ten
acres of land to families that settle along
the line of their road in Campbell and
Spotsylvania counties.
Cold and the Death Rate.
The New York Herald is engaged in
showing the fallacy of a popular impres
sion that has existed perhaps from the
time whereof the memory of man run
neth not to the contrary. It proves from
sanitary statistics that there has always
been a mistake in the f-upposition that
cold weather to the well-fed and warmly-
clothed is a merciful boon. On the other
hand it shows that death rate statistics
prove that a cold snap is scarcely less
fatal while it lasts than an epidemic.
The sanitary statistics of London for
the week ending December 5 furnish one
of the most startling illustrations on
record of the little understood relation
between mortality and cold. The week
in question was one of very low tempera
ture, and the death rate mounted up to a
correspondingly high figure. The record
for that w r eek shows an amazing excess
for heart and lung diseases, ranging from
fifty to two hundred and twenty-four
above the average, falling most heavily
on the extreme ages, senile and infan
tile. Such a result cannot be explained
by supposing that the shock of the- winter
fell upon homeless and half-clothed vic
tims, but must be regarded as another
striking proof of the deadliness of cold
itself.
The Herald instances tne researches of
Dr. Prestel, of Emden, who for a great
number of years has voted and discussed
meteorological phenomena in reference
to this theory. Giving the cause time to
have due effect, he concludes that ventil
ation or agitation of the atmosphere is as
essential to the health of a district as the
renewal of air in a sick room, and that
calms are as dangerous as any otljer me
teoric conditions. The Philadelphia reg
isters for 1872 are also cited with tri
umphal results to sustain the theory.
These registers, we are told, “show how
the cures indicating the course of
mortality from most winter diseases rap
idly rise with the thermal decline and de
cline with the thermal nse. The small
pox fatality, usually greatest in March,
then occurred in January, whose ther
mometric mean was the lowest of any of
the winter months. And the inference
suggested by these facts has been corrob
orated by an Austrian medico-meteoro
logical of Pesth, who finds that the me
teorological changes reflect themselves in
the amount and aggravation of sickness. ”
This is a subject that demands due at
tention and the true scientific spirit of
investigation. True, we of his balmy
and semi-tropic climate are subject to no
each tr} ing changes as are our friends at
the North. But all coast towns are more
or less exposed to inclement alterations
of temperature, and their population
should be intelligently informed on the
dangers of these vicissitudes, in order to
safely guard against them. Children
especially should be objects of great care
at this season. Let all suitable changes
of raiment be made on the very old too,
as well as on the very young.— Wilminq-
ton Star.
His Time for Fiddling.
A Bible canvasser called into a house
on Macomb street yesterday to see if he
couldn’t sell a book. A small lame girl
opened the door in answer to his knock,
and just j>s he entered a man sitting on
the edge of a forlorn-looking bed raised
a fiddle to his shoulder and commenced
scraping out a tune.
“Have you a Bible in the house?”
asked the canvasser as he crossed the
room.
“Nary Bibe,” answered the man;
“and—
Old Dan Tucker
Drempt a dream!”
“Or a hymn-book ?” continued the can
vasser.
“No—nary, and—
If you love me, Mollie darling,
Let your answer be a kiss.”
“I am agent for the sale of this Bible,
said the canvasser, taking the volume out
of his satcheL
“Couldn't buy one cover, and
Oh darkeys, how my heart
art grows weary,
Sighing for the old folks at home.’’
“I can sell you the book for a small
amount down and the balance in weekly
payments. 1 great many—”
“Bibles are all right, but I’ve got a sore
foot and—
’Twae a calm still night
And the moon’s pale light.”
“If you do not care to read the book
yourself you should not refuse your child
permission,” remarked the canvasser.
“And the old woman’s up stairs, sick,
with fever, and—
They took her off to Georgia
To toil her life away.’’
“But it seems hard to think that you
are permitting yourself and family to live
in ignorance of religion—”
“Bibuls is all right, and I’d encourage
’em if times wasn’t so blasted—
Ha! ha! ha! yon and me—
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!”
“I have a smaller edition like this.
You can have that by paying fifty cents
down and twenty, five cents per week
until paid up.”
“No use, stranger,” replied the man,
“there hain’t nothing to do, money is
tight, and—
“I’ve wandered this wide world
All over.”
“I wish you would cease that fiddling
and singing for a moment and let me talk
to you,” said the agent.
“Bibuls is all right, you is all right,
and—
“Oh, this world is sad and dreary,
Everywhere I roam!”
“Won’t you stop for just one moment?”
“I’d like to oblige, but now’s my reg lar
time for fiddling and singing, and—
“Up in a balloon, boys.
Up in a balloon.”
“Then I can’t sell you a Bible?”
•‘Don’t look as if you could, for-
“I’ve wandered through the village, Tom,
I’ve sat beneath the tree.”
And the canvasser turned away with a
face in which might have been discovered
a mingled expression of disgust and com
passion, while he muttered in an under
tone. “Fiddle away, old boy, but if you
don’t change your tune you’ll be very apt
to bring up in a country where there are
no Bibles, and where you’ll have no time
to fiddle.”
The Southern Railroad.
The Cincinnati Gazette gives informa
tion of a railroad movement which, if
successful, promises great benefit to the
State of Georgia. It states that General
Charles B. Stuart, a prominent railway
engineer of New York city, and the rep
resentative of large capital, has recently
been in Cincinnati, negotiating with the
Cincinnati Southern Railway Company.
The Gazette says that the Cincinnati
Southern is now located to a point some
sixty miles below Chittwoods. Chitwoods
is in Tennessee, near the State line,
between Tennessee and Kentucky.
It is the point at which the Southern
Road diverges from a line to Knoxville
to the line to Chattanooga. The
distance between Chittwoods and
Kuoxville is about sixty-six miles. From
Knoxville a road has been already con
structed running north some thirty-eight
miles. This leaves a gap of about twen
ty-eight miles yet to be constructed to
make a new line from the Cincinnati
Southern to Knoxville. South from
Knoxville the road has been built sixteen
miles to Maryville. The road from Knox
ville north is now under the control of an
English company. The running from
Knoxville to Maryville is owned by the
New York people. General Stuart pro
proses that the two hundred miles
between Maryville and Macon shall
be built by the New York capitalists
that he repiesents, aided by subscrip
tions along the line. Thus a new line or
combination would be formed, giving
Cincinnati a direct line to the South, and,
more important even than this, outlets
to the seaboard. Among the sea ports
touched would be Charleston, Port Royal,
Savannah and Brunswick. The distance
from Cincinnati would range from 650 to
700 miles. The harbor of Brunswick is
as fiue as any on the Atlantic coast. The
value of the other ports is more or less
well known. The line from Cincinnati to
Kuoxville would be -*73 miles long, or six
miles less than by the Kentucky
Central. The distance from Cincin
natti to Macon would be some fif
ty miles less than by the way of
Chattanooga. General Stuait recently
visited Georgia in the interests of New
Yorkers, holders of c< rtain railway
bonds—probably the bondholders of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad—and be
come convinced that what this road
needed was a Western or Northwestern
outlet. It is proposed that the capitalists
whom he represents shall lease the Cin
cinnati Southern, assuming the interest
on the bonds of that company, the pay
ment of a certain annual sum to a sinking
fund and of one half the net receipts, the
latter amount to go towards equipping
the road. The proposition will be passed
upon in a short time, and if it be accepted
and carried out will cause a flutter
in Southern railway circles.—Augusta
Chronicle.
A young gentleman who attends the
Austiu, Nev., public school had been told,
says Reveille, that a sudden shock or fright
would cure the hiccough, and the other
evening, while he was studying his lesson
for the morrow drawing a picture of the
schoolma’am on his slate, his respected
progenitor was seized with a fit of hic
coughs. The old gentleman was tilted
back in his chair, with his feet resting on
the top of the stove, and the young hope
ful concluded to try the cure on him.
Just as the old man was “rastling” with a
heart-breaking hie the boy jumped up
and yelled “Fire!” The old man was just
getting out cuh—cuh, but he never got it
out. He gave a jump which tilted over
the chair, and in endeavoring to regain
his lost equilibrium his feet flew up
against the table, upsetting it and a stu
dent lamp which stood upon it, and his
head landed in the ashes on the stove
hearth. The old lady, hearing the racket,
came running in from the kitchen, and
tripped over the old man’s prostrate form,
knocking down a whatnot with a lot of
glass and China ornaments. When that
boy’s father arose from the wreck and
shook the ashes and splinters of glass out
of his hair and clothes he was cured of
the hiccoughs, but there was a look of
sternness in his eye; the boy says he
knows it was q “stern” look—feelingly
“stern,” as he can testify. He says fright
is a splendid cure for the “hiccups,” but
that the “stem” look it occasions is three
hundred thousand times worse than the
“hiccups." He can’t play tag now, as he
say6 his mother has forbidden him, and
he sits on the edge of the seat at school,
and lies on his front when in bed, and
silently manners that the old wan
hiccup his consumed old head off before
he will ever try to cure hlqi-
CmvALsy. — The Chicago Tribune
sneeringly refers to the Byeriy-Warmoth
fraoas as a type of “Southern chivalry.”
As Byerly was a Pennsylvanian and War-
moth is an Illinoisan, we fail to see the
point made on the “chivalry.”
3rt? ©oods.
No. 147 Broughton Street.
To decrease our Stock, pre
paratory to our Annual Stock
taking, we will offer our Goods
at reduced prices from uow
until the 1st of February next.
GREAT BARGAINS IN
Shawls, Cloaks,
BLANKETS,
AND ALL CLASSES OF
WINTER GOODS.
jin4 GRAY, O’BRIEN & CO.
$0tel$ and Restaurants.
BRESNAN’S
I5G, 158, 1GO & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
r nE Proprietor, having completed the neces
sary additions and improvements* can now
. 4fer to his guests all the comforts to be obtained
.t other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAIMT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
3Tcod and tfnal.
WOOD.
FIRST QUALITY OAK,
LIGHTWOOD,
Pine and Dry Kindlings,
SAWED OR UNSAWED.
No Extra Price for Sawins?.
ZZT"Full measure and prompt delivery guaranteed.
Office, 76 Bay Street. Yard, corner Liberty
and East Broad Streets
nov30-ly D. C. BACON.
COAL !
COAL!! COAL!!!
T HE undersigned offer for sale at their Coal
Yard, next to Upper Rice Mill,
1,500 tons Egg size RED ASn, best qualify;
500 ton* Lump WHITE ASH;
400 tons Stove RED ASH’
1,500 tons Bituminous PARLOR COAL, in good-
sized lumps;
500 tons CUMBERLAND.
All Coal carefully weighed on delivery.
oet96-3m CLAGHORN & CUNNINGHA >1.
Wood.
Wood.
W E have in A. A G. Railroad yard 150 cords
choice OAK WOOD, which we offer in
lots to suit purchasere, at greatlv reduced rates.
BELL, 8TURTEVANT & CO.
N. B.—Concessions made on lots of three to
five cords. declS-F&Tc4w
3*n$uranre.
People’s Fire Insurance Co.,
OF MEMPHIS, TENtf.
STATEMENT, JANUARY 1, 1874.
Cash Capital 1300,000 00
Surplus 108,760 43
Gross Assets $406,760 43
LIABILITIES.
Reinsurance Fund $ 39,569 15
All other Claims against
the Company 6,695 57—$ 46,264 72
8urplns as regards Policy
Holders $362,495 71
folders..
J. D. JOHNSTON, Agent,
dec29-Tu,Th&S5w No. 114 Bay street.
iUuimnatiug (Oils.
PRATT’S ASTRAL OIL,
FOB SALE BT THE GALLON OK CASE,
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men, it has been the most powerful advocate for
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the Real Estate branch of my business, auu will
give his personal attention to the leasing of houses
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New Year Calls.
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NEW YEAR’S DAY
Should provide themselves with a Pair of
Angeles’
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Also, one of the Latest Style of Hats,
THE HOLIDAY.
Sold only by
Brown, the Hatter,
dec31-tf 137 Congress street.
Soda Water.
SODA WATER.
N OTICE.—Learning with regret that a party
employed by me to deliver SODA WATER,
.fee., to my customers, had by bis b d conduct
rendered himself so objectionable that many
withdrew their patronage, to my loss and injury.
” •-» ” - * * Tfc
To all such I would say th^ party is no 1 nger
In the future, as in the past, my best efforts
will be to please all who patronize me, and fur
nish goods in my line unequalled by any that is
or ever has been in competition with them.
Tliis is a fact you must all i cknowledge. If you
want the heat, you must buy
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