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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1875.
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.
DOMESTIC.
By Telegraph to Kxquixxe.]
—Sales of Flymontb Church (Beech
ar’e) pews aggregated $70,000, against
$58,000 last year. The highest prioe was
$550, the lowest $10.
—Mr. Godlove S. Orth, the ohairman
of the Oommittee on Foreign Affairs, says
that in less than ninety daya President
MaoMshon will give way to tbeyonnf
.Napoleon and France will again be rnlct
iby an emperor.
—The New York papers published a
letter from Lady Franklin offering a re
ward of £2,000 for the reoovery of the
records of Sir John Franklin’s Actio ex
pedition. She also offers to pay for the
expense of any expedition which shall
result in such discovery. Should they
be found after her death her executors
are authorized by her will to make the
same payment that she would have made
in her lifetime. Lady Franklsn is an ex
ample of extraordinary devotion to one
object. It has beon thirty years since
the two uhips were swallowed np in the
ice and darkness in Baffin’s Bay, and
from that day to this no member of the
expedition has beon seen alive. Traces
of them have been found, indicating that
they all died miserably in endeavoring to
find their way back to civilization.
Mayor Wickham, of New York City
has appointed Col. Barton N. Harrison
as his private secretary, at a salary of
$5,000. During Confederate days Col.
Harrison was private secretary to Preai
dsnt Jefferson Davis.
—Business part of Orangebnrg, South
Carolina, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning. Loss $800,000 and bat little
insurance. Mercnry House, Orangeburg
Kelts' building and all tbe stores on Bus
sell street destroyed. Sufferers—Merony,
$0,000; Brignon, $18,000; D. Lewis,
$17,000; McNamara, $10,000; Cantwell.
$18,000; Lightfoot, $9,5 .0; H. Kohn,
$14,000.
Qovsrnor Tildan, in hia message, says
the Htatedebtlof New Yerk is $18,301,000,
ehowing a decrease for past ten years of
$3,099,000. He recommends a small ap
propriation to pay the expenses of five
commissioners to the Centennial oelebra-
iion, and makes many suggestions as
fths punishment of parties gailty of f rend
an office. He says the 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments to the Federal constitution
have been conclusively adopted and sc
cepted by all parties and they mast stand
upon them.
FOREIGN.
—It is reported from Berlin that tbe
Emperor wrote to Bismarck on the 15th
ultimo a very gracious letter, thanking
him for the zeal with which he had do-
fended iu Parliament some items in tbe
military budget. That looks as if there
were a coldness that the Emperor had
supposed that Bismarck might reasonably
neglect these points.
—The Council of tbe Bank of Frsnoe
has been somewhat bothered at the emtll
quantity of gold in oiroulstion, bnt upon
investigation is satisfied that the gold
•does not go out of the country, and ia not
melted, but is absorbed by the savings of
the people. . It hopes to remedy all that
l>y the speedy payment of oaah to the
-extent of 800,000,000 franca. .
—Of the two expeditions which went
into Dariour from Egypt in December,
Colonel li. E. Colston and Lieutenant
Colonel H. B. Reed were in oharge of one
and Colonel E. S. Purdy and Lieutenant
Colonel A. M. Mason were in charge of
tbe other. These are all Amerioan officers,
and were especially chosen for the ser*
vioe by General C. P. Stone, chief of staff
to the Khedive.
CONGRESS.
Bill granting Memphis and Vicksbnrg
Railroad Company rights of way through
the National Cemetery at Vicksburg was
passed.
Wilson quoted the dispatch manufactured
here, and said Sheridan could not have
written so foolish a dispstoh.
[It may be positively stated that Sheri
den’s banditti dispatch is genuine.—Pbb-s
Aaaarr.]
After some local business Hale, of
Maine, offered the following resolution:
Whereas, The distressed and revolu
tionary condition of affairs in Louisiana
threatens the destruction of law and order
and oivil rule in that State; and,
Whereas, By section 4 of artiols 5 of
tbe Constitution it is made the impera
tive duty of Congress to guarantee to
every State of the Union* a republican
form of government; and
Whereas, In the judgment of this House
the most practical mode of rendering this
guarantee effective in the oase of Louis*
iana is to remove all sense of wrong and
opposition from the minds of its people
by a new, fair, well guarded election for
their civil offloes; therefore
Resolved, That the Judiciary Commit
tee be instructed to prepare and report
without delay a bill providing a new elec
tion of State officers and representatives
in Congress in Louisiana, under such
guards, restrictions and guarantees as will
insure the fullest liberty to every citizen
to exercise tbe right of suffrage without
fear and without restraints, as will pro
vide for such a count and declaration of
the result as will insure to the majority
their constitutional and legal rights.
Willard, of Vermont, said he should
object to the present consideration of tbe
resolution in that form. He had no ob
jection to its being referred to the Judi
oisry Committee, bnt he (lid object to a
declaration by the Hoase that it could
order an election in Louisians or an£.
other State.
Hall remarked that the resolution was
offered only for the purposAof getting an
expression of tbs seutiment of the House
on this most solemn matter. He did not
eare particularly whether the snbject
went to the Judiciary’Committee or to
the Select Committee on Louisiana Af
fairs, but he wanted au expression of the
sentiment of the House so that the House
would at once begin to grapple with this
important matter. It was not a new ques
tion for him. lie bad no doubt that tbe
solution of the matter was in accordance
with what was embodied in his proposi
tion. He bal believed so for two yeais,
and that conviction bad been strength
ened every day.
Karson of Iowa said he desired to in
terpose an objection so S9 to prevent de
bate in anticipation of the report of tbs
Select Committee.
Cox of New York wanted ta know
whether dobate on the resolution was to
be general.
The Speaker replied that debate could
only proceed by unanimous consent.
Karson—Then I object to precipitating
in a debate at this time.
Randall of Pennayvania— It is better to
preoipitate a debate than to precipitate
oivil war.
Willard—I do not aprove of by any
means the course taken in Louisiana dur-
tbe last two years, but I do object to hav
ing this house brought at once to vote
upon such an important proposition as
to tbe right of Congress to fix and deter
mine tbe election of State officers.
Eldridge of Wisconsin—It seams to me
that this is tbe most opportune occasion.
Objection by Kasson—There can be no
more pressing question on Congress.
Renewed objection by Kasson enforced
by Ibe Speaker, with a vigorous hammer
ing of his gavel, but Eldridge, in spite of
the noise thus made, contiuned his re
marks, which were to tho effect that the
proceedings in LouisiauA were now being
managed by the same individuals wbo
had lorded it over that people when that
State was being reconstructed by tbe same
tyrant.
Hale—As objsotion is made, I now give
notice that I will, on Monday next, move
to suspend tbe rules in order to adopt this
resolution. I do not propose to take tbe
snbjeot from the select committee if the
House ohoose to send it to it, bnt the im-
potenoy of any committee getting infor
mation that will solve the question is
already sbowu by the faot that most high
handed proceedings have taken place
while the committee is sitting there.
Randall*—Who have committed these
high-handed proceedings ?
Cox—Tbe gentleman from Mains has
given notice that he will offer his resolu
tion next Monday. I give notice of auo-
otber resolution on the same subject,
which comprehends tbe ides of tbe with*
drswsl of tho military force from Louisi
ans. I hope the line will be drawn on
that.
Butler, of Massachusetts, made a re
mark that Cox had offered a similar reso
lution before the fall of Fort Bumtsr.
from the Clerk’s desk, and the matter
ended for the present.
The Honse went into a committee of
the whole on the appropriation bill.
The following are among tha appropri
ations—Fortress Monroe, $80,000; Fort
Moultrie, $15,000; Fort Piokens, $25,000;
Fort Jaokson, $25,000; Fort Jefferson,
$15,000; Fort St. Phillips, $25,000; Fort
Morgan, $25,000.
Bitter ooloqny ensued regarding Lonie-
THI PEOPLE TO SPEAK*
CITIZENS OF MEW YORK INDIGNANT.
New Yoke, January 6.—This evening
the Poet has the following paragraph:
“Preparations era making for a publio
meeting of the citizens of New York to
utter the indignant protest of the people,
without distinction of party, Against tha
military usurpation in Louisians.”
Hale—This is no new ides of mine.
Eldridge—I object to further debate.
If I have to rnn a race with the Speaker’s
gavel tbe other side must do the same
thing.
Negley, of Pennsylvania—Before this
question is settled we will have to sand
mors military force to Louisians.
Hals’s resolution was returned to him
Inim was brought before the Bar of tha
House and committed for contempt.
BBNATn.
After looal business, the Senate raanmad
consideration of the resolution submitted
yesterday by Thurman, in regard to the
Louisiana troubles, the pending question
being on motion of Oonkling to insert the
words, “If not incompatible with pnblio
interest.”
West, of Louisiana, said it was some-
what remarkable that those who thrust
the resolution upon tha Senate declared
that they were in possession of all the
facts about Louisiana, yet they wanted
the President to send information to
thsin. He then apoke of the oondition
of affairs in Louisiana, and quoted from
tbe dispatch of Gen. Sheridan to show
that it was necessary for the Government
to interfere to protect life in that State.
It had been charged here by Senators
on tbe other aide of the ohamber that the
President had naed the army in Louisiana
in violation of law. They need not think
that the President had made a mistake.
might make mistakes some
times, bnt he never made a military mis
take. It had been charged hare, further,
that Gen. Sheridan was ordered to New
Orleans over the General of tha Army
and oontrary to all usage. He, (West,)
before commencing his speech, fortunate
ly had found on the floor of tha Senate
the Secretary of War. Upon asking
him if such had been the oase, the Sec
retary replied in tbe negative, and hand
ed the evidence to him to oontrsdict the
statements that the General of the Army
had been ignored. West then sent to the
Clerk’s desk and had read the following
letter, received by him from the Secre
tary of War:
Headquabtebs or Anwr, >
St. Louis, Mo., Deo. 30, 1874.)
Gen. W. IF. Belknap,Secretary of War,
Washington:
General-I have tbe honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your confidential com
munication of December 26tb, with the
enclosures. Very respeofully,
Your ob’t,
W. T. Sheehan, General.
Saulsbury of Delaware—That is simply
an acknowledgement of the receipt of
confidential communications, and does
not state the character of them.
West—When this resolution shall have
been passed and all tbe information oomes
out, the Senator will ace that it was an
acknowledgement of tho reoeipfc of all
orders and communications in raferenoe
to Gen. Slieridau being ordered to New
Orleans. That is the faot and I know it
to be. He then proceeded to review cir-
oumstances attending the organisation of
the Legislature in New Orleans on Mon
dAy last and charged that by the laws of
Louisiana, the acts of the Conservative
members of that Legislators mere illegal,
violent and revolutionary, and, in faot,
were the aots of a mob. The seating of
five members whose seats were contested
before any permanent organisation
was without s paralel. He quoted
from the records of Congress to show
that John Quincy Adams at one time pre
sided in the House os temporary Speaker
for sixteen days, on aooount of certain
contested cases which were not acted upon
until long after the permanent organisa
tion had been effected. The so-called
Speaker of the Louisiana House of Rep
resentatives bad declared those who con
tested seats were entitled to them without
any evidence to show that they were elect
ed. The vote by which Wilts claimed to
have been elected Speaker, lacked five of
a legal majority of the body. He next
read from a telegram stating that Con
gressman Potter was present at the organ-
ization and disoountenaooed the notion of
Wiltz. Gan. DaTrobriandwas first called
upon to maintain order in the lobby by
the so-called Conservative majority in the
Houso of Representatives. The five men
who contested seats had not as much
right upon the floor as these in lobby, and
when those men were ejected by Col. De-
Trobrand, hd did not see how exception
could be taken. It was all proper for the
military to be used in olearing the lobby,
but all wrong wheu used to quell a mob
and eject from the floor five men who
were not entitled to be there. The eharge
that the President had been guilty of mil
feasance was entirely contradieted by the
facts before the Senate.
Ho then apoke of the unkind treatment
towards Northern people in Louisians,
and said over 3,000 lives in that State had
been yielded up for the sake of their po
litical opinions. They talk about pesee
in Louisiana, but there was no peaoe
there.
gobdon’s defense of the south.
Gordon, of Georgia, said he did not
propose to reply to the speeoh of Sena
tor West. He was quite willing that
should go to the country, and make
own auswer; but wheu the people, whom
he (Gordon) loved as his own life, whose
fortunos were his, through weal or woe,
through life or death, were held
up as assassins and murderers,
he could not and would not remain
silent; and if bis voice and gestures were
tremulous now with emotion, it
tbe emotion of anger, but the emotion
indignation at the outrage perpetrated
upon his people. He stood aghast at
speotaole presented in this Meaate yester
day—a spectacle of one portion of the
members seeking to ruin tho fair name
end honor of the people of one seotion of
this country before the civilized world.
He was utterly amazed that there
should be found in the hearts of the
men with whom he daily associated upon
this floor so much bate. He was totally
unprepared for it, and if he believed to
day that the expressions which he heard
from Senators’ lips yesterday rofleotad
sentiments of the Northern people,
would feel that it was lima for the
Southern people to die. If ho believed
that thsse expressions foreshadowed the
policy of this Government towards tbs
South, then he would say let us have dons
ith this farce of loosl self-government,
did not believe that such were enter
tained ’ bytbe Northern people.
did not believe that the brave
men against whom tbo people of the
South had lately contended entertained
any such sentiments. He believed the
great majority of the American people of
both North and South, white and black,
abhorred any such spirit of animosity.
He believed tho movement inaugurated in
1872, by that large-headed and large-
hearted man of New York, to bring about
good feeliog and harmony would bs suc
cessful. In the support which he (Gor
don) gave to the resolution as presented
Senator Thurman, he protested against
any construction which would make it ap
pear that he was wanting in respoct to the
President of the United States.
Much had been said here about tbe
President being Commander-in-chief
the army. He (Gordon) wss
glsd he wss commander-in-chief, that tbe
military was subordinate to the civil
power. He did not propose to discuss
the resolution,but to reply to what he was
foroedjto conclude were gratutous, insult
offered to hia people by some of the Sen
ators on the other side of the chamber.
It wss charged that murder prevailed
throughout the South, and that these
murders were by tbe hands of the Dem
ocratic white man’s party. His reply to
that was brief. The eharge was false.
was true that murders had occurred,
but no one deplored them more than him
self, nor more than the peop’.o he repre
sented.
His people had always said that the class
of people committing these murders were
the worst enemies of the South. If murders
were committed, was that any reason for
branding the Southern people as a set of
assassins and barbarians? Wherever, in
the Southern States, people of honesty
and integrity have ooutrol of publie af
fairs, property, lifo and liberty are as safe
M they are iu any Northern State. [Ap
plause in the gallery.] Did tbo Senator
from Vermont (EJuiuud*0 forget that
there were States in the North in the
hands of the Democrats ? He (Gordon)
apprehended that those States were
governed just as well ns States govorued
by Republicans, lie was sure that such
was the case in tbe South.
Since the war not a solitary arm had
been raised in a Southern State against
the power of the Federal Government,und
yet the Southern people were charged
day after day with being disloyal towards
the Government, because thero were riots
at elections, or riots at oross roads, a
band of misguided negroes wbo marched
at night with arms to murder and
hearts to plunder, could not
be attacked by whites iu self-defense. If
they were attacked, and a conflict ensued
in which n few were killed, the South was
then charged with disloyalty and antago
nism to the Federal Government. Tbe
colored militia men might iusult women,
rob, pillage and drag innocent men from
thslr bads, and when the white men
resisted them the Southern people
wern held up as murderers and assassins.
Man were sent down among them who
had no oommoo interest with them.
These men made tho laws, oollected taxes
and governed the Southern people, and
then maligned the same people.
If tbe South asked how New England
would like that, how the West would like
that, and strived by every lawful means
to overthrow these men, her people were
charged with being murderers and assas
sins. How long are we thus to be misun
derstood in the face of every evidence we
give of our readiness to meet the North
ern people npon equal ground ?
But we are told that we intimidate
voters. It does not mitter what may be
oar minority, though we may be as one to
many, still we intimidate voters.
It would soon bo found that there was
intimidation on the other side.
He (Gordon) then read from tbe Chi-
osgo Inter-Ocean certaiu testimony taken
in Alabama to tho effect that bacon for
the relief of persons in the overflowed
districts was distributed to persous living
oatsids of thsee districts on the ovo of the
election. Other colored men swore that
they had been discharged for voting the
Republican ticket, and others that they
bad been beaten and turned of out church
for so voting.
Senator Morton yesterday had spoken
of lies sent out by Southern as*o
ciated press agents. He (Gordon) thought
that a libel on the part of tho associated
press of tho South, and lie thought that
he knew as much about it a:« tho Senator
from Indiana. He (Gordon) as a Senator
and a man recogoiziog his respectability
to bis eountry and to his God, would say
the things are true. [Renewed Applause
in the audience.]
Continuing his argument, ho said: Liars
are they ? What does tho Senator do
with the reporters sent out by the leading
papers of the eountry from the city of
New York ? Are they &1ho lien*? If ho.
wbf did sot tbo Senator chargo it ? They
tentitled to the very anmn elate* of facte.
Why, why, Mr. I’reeideut, does it tlad a
plsss in the Senator', heart to oharge
* its
* not
falsehood upon the Southern reporters,
when if the falsehood existed, it also ex
isted in the city of New York. No, eir,
tho Senator oowered before the power of
the Herald, Tribune and Tine*, and he
dare not any it. [Renewed applause in
the gallerias.]
Chairmen Sergent gave notiee that if
any farther npplnuee be made, the rule
would be enforoed and the galleriee
olenred.
Gordon, resuming, Mid he wee forced
to the oonolnsion that those on the other
aide who olaim to be the friends of law
end order, Aasire murder in the Southern
States. They knew when pence oame,
when the people of thia country under
stood etoh other, ae they are beginning,
thank God! to understand each other
now, good government would ensue, life,
liberty and property would be aefe, end
there would be no pleoe for these disturb
ing spirits.
Ha wee responsible only for his belief,
bnt he thought it true, and in time history
wonid write it down so, not one man in a
thousand in the South was armed. There
were not half so many armed as before
the war. Thera are not as many military
companies in the South an before the war.
Even tha old-fashioned double-barrel shot
gun has almost disappeared. Was it all
right for tha Government to arm the
bleok militia and disarm the white ?
Before the men who had no interest
with the Southern people except to araign
the blacks against them oame there, good
feeling existed between whites and bleekB.
There were ohurobse and school-houses in
the South for the blacks, and in every
Southern State money had been con
tributed by whites for school-houses and
ehurchea for tha blaoka. The Southern
white people bad contributed more than
auo one else. Only tbe other day a resi
dent of Georgia, in his lsst will and testa
ment donated one hundred thousand dol
lars to educate the oolored people. Did
the Senator from Vermont (Edmunds)
think these sots of semi barbarians, which
he attributed to Southern people in hie
speech yesterday.
Edmunds said the Senator did not
quota him correotly.
Gordon—Does tha Senator ssy that ha
did not say before the war the South was
in a'Stats of semi-barbarian*.
Edmunds—I do. Edmunds then ts-
quested the Senator to read from tbe re
cord what he did say.
Gordon—Never mind whet may be on
tha record. The words ere in my mem
ory end will not ont.
Edmonds—Well, the Senator See the
record, and if be can fish out of it any
thing of that character, than, hia ingenu
ity is equal to his audacity. [Sensation ]
Gordon—I took down the Senator’a
words as be laid them, and am responsi
ble for them.
Edmnnde — Responaibility is a very
good thing.
Gordon—The want of it sometimes is a
good thing too. [Langhter.]
Gordon than read from the records of
yesterday Mr. Edmond's remarks, where
he said, “When I see, Mr. Preaideut, as I
have not yet seen, that the people, os they
call themselves, the White Leaguers, or
white Demoorata, or the white Conserva
tives,or whatever they may be,of any State
in this Union, when they find that
any of their aeaocietee have committed
assassination, or murder, or wroDg upon
their fellow oitiasna for no oanse but
opinions sake, torn up in him, ea in Ohio
they would turn npon him, or in Vermont
without reapect of party, and bring him
under the heavy hand of juatioe, then I
shall begin to have faith that our Southern
brothers, who, it seems, have not yet
forgotten tbe old manners and ways
of aeuii-barbarions time have thought bet
ter of it,” Ao. Reanming hia argument,
Gordon said: “Where ia tha andaoity
now in bringing lha Senator before cham
ber as I hsve done ?”
He thon referred to the history of the
Southern people in the Revolutionary
War, and apoke of Ike many statesmen
and goldiers from that section, and said
if such men and deeds be evidence of
semi-barhariam, he was willing to accept
before his country, and before heaven, all
the oriine attached to it, bnt enough of
this.
He earns hare with a heart full of good
will towards every one, and truated that
nothing ha had said wonid ba attributed
to any feeling of animosity. Hie faith
was firm that right, juatioe and truth
would triumph, and the feeling of good
will already begun betwen tbe Nonh and
South wonid continue to unite end build
up onr eommon country. [Applause in
the galleriee.]
SKPLY or EDMUNDS.
Edmnnde said the honor.bla Senator
Usd mistaken what he (Edmonds) said,
and arraigned him before the Senate for
using certain language.
Gordon said tho Senator (Edmunds)
was mistaken in bis position. He (Gor
don) did not arraign bin*, but simply re
pelled the arraignment be (Edmonds)
made of his (Gordon's) people.
Edmnnde said the Senator had repeated
a phrase which bordered on semi-barbar
ism ; that was,ha was responsible for what
be said was there. It reminded him of
wbat the predecessors of the honorable
Senator used to say, when they had no bet
ter srgumeut, “They would fight it out by
the duel. '' The honorable Senator Gordon,
iu speaking of hia people bad refaried
largely to the glories they attained in tbe
interest of onr eomotou country. So
they did, end they deserved the gratitude
of the country for it; bn', unfortunately,
there had been a more recent period,
when, by the conduct of Davis, Lee,
Toombs, end others whom he might items
blood had beau abed for tbe destruction
that seme flag. There wee
e lets period in the history of the United
States which did not redonnd to tbe cred
it of the Southern people ns much Be the
early history which tbs Senator bad al
luded to. The Deinoorats and Republi
cans in the Northern States lived aide by
side. They had bully contested elections,
but lha bailot-box settled all matters, and
they iniugled together in noeiety good
friends.
It did not become tbe Senator, (Gor
don), with tha fairness which character
ised hie conduct, to impute to him (Ed
munds) any feeling of animosity or dis
like for tbe people of the Southern States.
All he desired was aecnrity for life and
property for all men end parties. He bed
no objection to the white men or the
Demooratio party having control of every
Southern State, ao they administered
equal juatioe to all. Thera should be a
careful effort to get at tha truth, and
whatever it turned out to be, act upon it;
bnt be bad a suspicion that it would not
suit a certain portion of tha people of tbe
South, though not the portion to wbieh
tbe Senator from Georgia referred, to
hsve the truth. Ever since the rebellion
had terminated, Northern men had cried
ont for toleranoe of opinion only, and not
for vengeance. Northern men had re
moved political disabilities, and reoaived
men who had beeo engaged in tha rebel
lion with open arms. All the North de
sired was that poses which the Senator
spoke of.
If bo will allow me to bear
the responsibility of my statement 1
will promise not to molest him in
his irresponsibility. He (Gordon) would
not be led to any controversy about the re
cent war. He had supposed tha unhappy
past was buried in the peat, and if there
wee any glory on either aide he supposed it
wee to a common people. Tbe Senator
(Edmunds) desired to get at the truth
about the North. If the Sonth bed one
desire more then another it was that the
Amerioan people might know the whole
troth ns to tbe state of feeling in that seo
tion.
The resolution was farther diseuseed by
Flenegen, of Texts, and nt half pest four
Hamilton, of Maryland, took tha floor,
but yielded to Sargent for a motion to ad
journ, which wee agreed to, and the Sen
ate then adjourned till 12 o'clock to-mor
row.
wounds* The jury found that ho came to
bis death by a blow from some sharp*
pointed instrument in the hands of sn
unknown party; but the Telegraph thinks
it likely that nia death was caused by a
fall from the trestle, as ha was osrtaiuly
killed in tha day time and no one appesrs
to have witnassed it, and as ba was in tha
habit of dangerously exposing himself on
the railroad.
—Tha Atlanta Cenetitution says it ia
reported that Jndge Schley (wbo has late
ly resigned as Judge of the Eastern Oir-
ouit of Georgia) will take op his residence
' n the oity of New ;York, where be is at
-resent occupying a palatial residcaoe in
'ifth avsnue.
—A correspondent of tha Americas Re
publican writes in terms uf high epp-ecie*
tion of the first eermou of ltev. J. 8. Key
in hin new field of labor—that of P. E. of
the Americas District.
—The new Oity Coanoil of Atlanta, on
Monday evening, skated officers for the
ear, among them tba following: Clerk,
tank Ryan; Marshal, Henry Hula- >utbe;
Treasurer, J. H. Goldsmith ; Recorder, J.
T. Pendleton ; Sextun, L. G. Holland ;
Printer, tbe Herald.
—A negro boy named Newton, about
twelve years of age, was froieu to dsnih
ia Floyd county on Friday night last. It
was shown that ha was badly whipped by
bis grandfather, aod turned ont naked and
led from eroel treatment and exposure.
—We learn from tbe Advertiser that tbe
people of Monroe county are having fins
sport bunting and killing wild cats; also
that they have a domesticated tabby in
Forsyth which regularly goes lo tba creek
and catches fish for her offspring.
—Forsyth had received 8, 185 bales of
cotton np to the 1st of Januroy—* falling
off of about 1,100 bales as compered with
receipts for tbe corresponding portion of
lest season.
—Ed. Parcel, eondaotor on the Geor
gia Road, has been presented with a solid
silver piteher, by President John P. King's
family, in gratafal remembrance of his
gallantry during tha burning of tha sieep-
ng car on that road reoeatly.
—Tha stockholders of tha Central Rail
road, at tbair masting bald in Ssvattuah
on Tuesday, sleeted the following Direc
tors : W. M. Wedley, Andrew Low, E. O.
Anderson, A. 8. Uartridge. John It.
Wilder, John Cunningham and George 8.
Owens of Savannah, Moses Taylor and
W. R. Garrison of New York, A. J. White,
Millen, Ge. ; J. F. Bozeman, Atlanta; W.
B. Johnson, Jno. J. Gresham of Macon.
W. M. Wadlay waa re-elcoted President.
«MMD COLLUI.
viva hundbxd Kobe okpbams to aa emo-
vidxo von.
Philadelphia, January 6.—The trus
tees of the Girard estate resolved, on
eCeount of increased income from trust,
to provide for five hundred more orphans.
There are now five hundred and fifty in
the College, and one hundred and thirty,
four applications.
—Tha Congressional Committee, at
Mobile was divided into two parti, occu
pying mparats rooms, on Monday. One
part of tba committee waa investigating
disturbances, and the other the etoltn
bacon.
The steamer Mery, which arrived at
Mobile from Selma on Sunday, had nearly
one hundred passengers on their wey to
Texas.
■ PAIN.
THB CHEAT POWEBS BEOOOMUE ALVOEEO.
Madbid, Jnnnnry 6.—All tha Great
Powers have authorised their representa
tives at Madrid to enter into aemi-offloial
relations with the new government of
Spain.
Tbe ex-King of tha “Two Sioiliaa” has
visited Alfonso and assured him the
Counts Caserta and Bare will withdrew
from the Carliat cause.
Tbe Spanish fleet, consisting of three
irin-clads, will arrive at Marseilles to.
morrow to meet King Alfonso, who leaves
Peril nt five in the evening.
■Bxieo.
BA1LBOAD nOM ST. LOUIS TO 111 OITT OV
MEXICO.
St. Louis, January 6.—Tbo«. Allen,
President of the St. Louis and Iron Monn.
tsin Railroad, received information from
the Oity of Mexieo that a contract has
been entered into between the Mexican
Government and Edward L. Plniub, rep
resenting the International Railroad Com
psny, of Texas, in whioh that govern
ment grants n subsidy of between nine
teen and twenty thousand dollars par mile
to the International Company. Thia, it
is believed, will furnish a basis which will
enable -he railroad company to bnild this
road, and it will be but n few years before
there will be a direct rail routs from St.
Louis to the city of Mezioo.
THE WEATHER.
Washinoton, Jen. G.—1‘robabilitiee.—
In the South Atlentio and Gnlf States,
falling barometer, north to east winds,
olondy and rainy weather will prevail with
rising temperature.
GEORGIA NEW*.
—The Atlanta ConttUutien, with refer
ence to e speculation of tbe correspondent
of the Augusta Chronicle, whiob we men
tioned tbe olber day, says: “From what
we have been able to learn aa to Govern,
or Smith's fntore intentions, we fail safe
esying that be is not a candidate for
any office whatever, State or Federal, all
reports to the oontrary notwithstanding.
His term of oflloe is Governor of
Georgia will not expire until January,
1877 ; ontl, it is believed, that ha ie too
busy with the dntiee of bis present posi
tiou to be ououpying himself thus far in
advance with tho qnostion of hie own sue
cessor, or the suocessor of any one else.
—The Atlanta Herald says tba New
Year callors in that city declare “they
didn't get wine enough to warm np on,
They had to stop at the bar-rooms onoe
in a while to keep tbe frost off." Such a
cold reception ought to disouurage tbe
continnanoe of a ceremony whioh, while
it is an enjoyment to some, may ba inoon.
venient to others.
—A well known old negro man of Macon,
named Emu Harper—a peddler on the
streets—was fount] deed near tho Central
Railroad bridge in that city, on Sunday
Afternoon. Thera was a oontuaion on bis
head, breaking tha skull, and other
ALABAMA NEWHl
Julius Heeae, for many ysara one of
tha moat upright and successful nter-
obiTa, died on tba 2d inat., at
chants of MobiTa
New Orleans.
—8. J. Saffold, fur four years past edi
tor and proprietor of tba Selma Times hsa
published a eard announcing the sale of
he daily and weakly Selma Timet to Capt.
R. H. English.
—Tha AdterUeer reports tha ice factory
of Montgomery still in operation and sup
plying tha neighboring towns. It nlso
eeya that on Tuesday four gentlemen from
Pennsylvania ware at tha Exchange Hotel,
with a view of engaging in tha mineral
development of Alabama.
—Says the Montgomery Adeertieer of
Wednesday : “The ‘recognizance law’ is
a God send to numerous thieves. Not less
than a dozen were discharged by Magis
trates yesterday, baeausa the J. P's, could
not halp themselves. The bill abolishing
this law has passed the Alabama Sena'e,
and we hope, will beoome a law by the
concurrence of tha Honaa, and approval
of tba Governor.”
Salma (Ala.) Echo: Thera are but
few that know that timber ia shipped
from this Motion aa far as Three litvers,
Michigan, for manufaotnring purposes,
but nererthelaas it is true. Several car
loads of coder have recently been brought
to Selma on tha Gulf road, farriad across
tba Alabama river, and shipped on tbe
Selma, Roma and Dalton road, to be car
ried on to Michigan to ba mads into
bnokals. After tba buokete are made
they will be sent book to our people for
nee Tbe people of the North and West
are a long ways ahead of ns aa manufac
turers.
JAMIES LEFFEL’S
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbin* Water ’ Wheel.
POOLE A HUNT, Baltimore,
Mamofaotoeeb« foe «be Boots and Boots
Nearly 7.000 now ia uie, working under I
varying from 8 to 240 feet! 24 sites,
from 59$ to 94 inches.
The moot powerful Wheel in tho Market
mo«t •eonoimeel in uie of Water.
Larga Illustrated Pamphlet pent poet free.
MANOFAOTOEIBt, AUO, OF
Portable aid Stationary Steam Kogines aod V r
art, Babcock A Wilcox Patent lunulous HUili
Rbaugh'e Crusher for Minerals, haw and <l*f
Mill*, Flouring Mill Machinery, Machinery *.
White i«*ad Works and Oil Mill*, 8ba*ting, l'a
ley a and llang'i
■ Bend for circular*.
mhS wlv
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
w
POSTPONED
ILL be sold on tha first Tuesday In Feb.
ruarjr next, between tha leu*! hours of
•ale, In front of Prior, Ulgss A Co.’s etore,
oornrr of Broad and St. CUIr street*, Culum-
bus, Oa , tha foflowlnirproperty, to-wlt;
All that part of oity lot No 103, beginning at
tbe northwest oorner of said lot and running
south on Broad street 33 feet, thence can 147
faot 10 lnohos, then o north 3i foot, tlienoo west
147 foot 10 looses to the beginning, now occu
pied by J O Andrews A Co as a grocery' store
and F Mey r A Cobs a boot shop. AIm», all
those paresis of land known in the plan <>r the
oily or Columbus as parts of loti Nos 3 >0 and
84T, fronting on .1 aekson street, and parts ol
lots 849 and 849, fronting on Troup street, raid
R arts of lots commencing on Jackson i-tn-et 104
»«t and 4 Inches from the northaest corner ol
lot 360 anil running south on said street 00 feet
and 7 inches, thtnoa east to Troup street. Said
parts ol lots 36 , 347, 349 and 348 are known as
the residence of John D Carter. Sold to sat
isfy four mart gag# fl fas Issued from Musoogeo
Superior Court in favor of Wm N Hawks,
treasurer, vs John D Carter. Proporty pointed
out lo said fl fas.
jaaB WI4 M. O. KYGY, MharlO,
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