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Newspaper Page TextA STniCT CONSTRUCTION OB’ THU CONSTITUTION—AM HONteST AND ■CONO.WIOAb ADMINISTRATION OF TUB MVBBMMT. — iii “ ■ ,' Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 187L Volume XLEL-No. 48. The Weekly Enquirer. JOHN H. MAttTTN... ...'.......Editor. COLUMIUS: THURSDAY OCTOBER 12, 1871. Oue #2.30. Rllll a t'alltmg Off #f Two-Kiftlm. Th« report of laat weeks receipts of cotton at all tko porta show a that the fall-, iug off of about two-fifths, exhibited by tho statement for September, wss nearly maintained for the first week in October. The receipts of last week were 46,044 bales, against 07,617 bales for the first woek of October 1870. This is only 5475 bales in excess of three-fifths of tho re ceipts of the corresponding week of last year. Chicago. The great city of the plain aud of the lake astonished the world by the rapidity of its growth; and the extent of its sud den despoilment must he a wonder of the century. Its rise was magical, and its fall is unparalleled in modern history, if wo except that of Moscow*, burned by the Russians to facilitate the destruction of an invuding army. But Chicago possess- ed, in her great commercial facilities, resonrccs that will no doubt cause the speedy rebuilding of the burnt city in all its late proportions, And give the world an illnstrntion (if not a realization) of tho fAbled bird from whoso ushea sprung a new and more vigorous life. Wo find by reference to Rand, Mc Nally & Co. *h Western Railroad Unide, tbut Chicago had, in 1870, 209,227 inhabitants: that tho value of its taxable property was $275,086,050; that its wholesale tales amounted to $402,500,220: that its mnn- fsctnring interes* was vulned at $211,048,- 501, and employed 20,150 operatives; that it recoived during the year 20,189,- 774* bushels of corn, 17,HIM, 100 bushels of whoqt, 1,055,072 head of hogs, 552,- 961 head of cattle, and had an elevator capacity of 11,580,500 bushels. These figures will give the reader some idea of tho VA&tness of the trade now in great part suspended, and of tho stores of com mercial comiuoditiuH destroyed. So vast a destruction must needs have a sensible offoct on tho cofumoroe of the wli*»le couutry. Of its effect on Western stocks, and on insurance companies, we are alroady receiving some telegraphic inti mations, and will no doubt soon have re port* of groat ciuharruHKiuout and dis aster. Taken altogether, the conflagra tion at Chicago is a national calamity ; and though wo of the Bouth have hud late bitter experience in the destruction of tho greater part of onr property and the pros tration of our prosperity, wo can but commiaserato in their misfortune oven those who rejoiced over onr troubles mid aggrandized themselves by onr doapoil- meat. MEXICO. Tho following special dispatch to the Savannah Adtyi'ti»er, dated Washington, 7th, doos not correspond with other ac counts, which represent that Juarez had triumphed over uii opposition, and that there would ho a general and ready ac quiescence in his inauguration for anoth er term. Should the dispatch of the Ad vertiser prove correct, the revolntiou in Mexico will ho unnsuidly interesting to ns in view of the organization in this coun- *y to assist revolution where and pro mote annexation, lint wo have doubts of who correctness of the Advertiser * ad vices : Btirring news has lieon received from Mexico. Juarez has been inaugurated ]’resident, end ou the following day a general revolution was also inaugurated, which threatens to overturn the Juarez government. Some of the most promi nent Generals and civilians are directing the revolution. Great excitement pre vails in all parts of Mexico. Mobbina la Pe»mqlra»|». MahonyCity, Pa., Oct. 5.—The friends of Henry Souther, an iudependeut candi date for the judiciary, held a large meet ing last night, which was broken up by an attack by a mob, charged to be in the interest of Thus. 1L Walker, a rival candi date far the same office. Part of the ul- ledged plan whs for the assassination of W. P. Hughes, oue of the speakers. While such proceedings as these are go ing on at the North, the Federal judicial mousera, aided by Federal bayonets, are ransacking tho Bouth for individual acts pro judical to free political discussion or free elections. No snob instance of con certed outrage upon popular freedom, as that reported in Pennsylvania, has yet occurred at the Sontb; and if one such had occurred, there would lie no flagging iu the effort to punish the offenders. Let ns see wbat the Grant Administration will do about it in Pennsylvania. Tlif lb, C. 4 C. Itallreed. Wo learu from the Lumpkin Telegraph, of Thursday, that the survey for the Bain- bridge, Cuthbert & Columbus Railroad has been suspended at a point south of tho Btewart county line, to await the re sult of the vote of Lumpkin on the propo sition to subscribe tho amount needed to make up the $132,«a)0 promised iu aid of the work. Tir. H. I. Kimball, in a letter to Dr. Barnum, published in the Tele graph, insists on the full subscription, iu- timater. that the road will not run to Lumpkin without it, and soys that “every inch of work, so far done, is on a direct line fur the extension of our Brunswick A Albany R. R., and any failure on the part of Lumpkin to redeem her pledges instautly releases us from every promise,” Ac. The Lumpkin election was to have been held on Saturday last, and we suppose that this letter was in tended to bring a litbo pressure to bear upon it. Mrs. Wbarton, the alleged poisoner, was arraigned iu tho Baltimore Court, Thursday, hut entered an application for a change of venue, and it ia probable the case will be removed to Annapolis. The prisoner's averment that she cannot have a fair trial in the Baltimore Court is tho canoe of the change of venue. Hattl—flayti, Sept. 28.—The ooffee •;rop is abundant. G lid 109 for 1. Cabral and staff narrowly escaping capture, were driven to the Haytien fron tier. Cabral reorganized his forces Mod drove Baez back. Baez shot his prison- era. Venezuela continues disturbed. A Gallant Clurpe of 4'laates. i TIIK CATHCAXY QUARREL. Tho Kt-lrna Time# reproduces a frig- i Com uponilfiiuo of llit> l!nltin.»rc Unz.tte.] moutof tho following poem, which was ■ Washington, Oct. 6, 1871.—For some written and pnhliehed during onr .ate civi. | war. It wiu handed to that paper by gentleman who bad carried it in his pocket so long that the latter portion was cazys have been ostracised. In a confi dential way this and the various roasons therefor have been communicated to a few i i. • , «• * journalists, but always coupled with the . find it in full |n our paper ■, injunction to be mum. To a degree this a _i “ ‘ injunction has been obeyed, and until of August 27>th, 1802, and give it below. Gen. Clnuton was, at the time of the bril liant achievement which this spirited poem commemorates, Colonel command ing the 1st Alabama Cavalry : From the RL-1miou«l Whip. CL A MON'8 (llARflK AT BOOSYILLt:. Who'll drive tho fi*o from yonder glon, and clour that cvi ritlailof They 'ro tlri\iujr hack my galluut men Ih'IutUIi It* • Mhb.le." • iho hridtllna umbiiHcadc," was •lioiited d the tih.ody everglade"; tho volow rang apoti* hi* comrade*, hi* glance m> proud • the Alabamian* vm the t throughout and scour tho mi rolled upon > |>u*h tlic gai ned, with firm »t among the udurlug tuaas, mlcil pa**, nth i the , live hundred lleir»o Wliilht iron forth tli ed toire* joining *hout, lnir*t through U K liiinag cleave* the »kjr, then ntrike* i q oak, • In illiiig Imltle cry ].recedc the deadly homo aud hearth, her aacrwl Hag e t ie iiiMider to the earth, and crush •n> i no world. Mill hell „ bloody hand, our Huntsville'* • ’* ntaiu upon our laud, hi* heel upon t with ohnnt* upon that glade, a>M*t •»ii fearful uliwli. •Uiy eliaile, gloaiueil a ith kiaue* hot, they lei gathering elan* give ha The Slew lurk “Heparinre,*' Tho following is the resolution con cerning the “results of the war,’* adopted by the Democratic State Convention of New York, in session last woek at Ro chester : lit.wired, That wo recognize the eman cipation of tho freodmen of the Sontb, and their enfranchisement amt perfect equality before tho law, as the inevitable sequonco of tho civil war and of the overthrow of the rebellion against the ITuiou : and we hold it to bo the duty of all to sustain them in the enjoyment of their established rights, to aid them iu promoting their own welfare and tho gen eral prosperity of the country. Wo observe that the Louisville Ledger —a paper that has zealously aided Mr. Stephens in rolling his little bull charged with mischief ami disorganization—nc cepta this as a retreat from tho “new de parture*' upon which it has been inuking war; and we suppose that Mr. Stephens has only to express the same opinion, to make it acceptable also to tho papers in Georgia that havo been co-operating with him. Wo have, therefore^ a hopeful prospect that this ill-timed and distract ing controversy among Koathern Demo crats will now be closed, and that those lately engaged in it will wonder why they kept it up so long, seeing that they differed not nt all ns to the result*, but only as to the uctual mode of bringing them about ? Tho resolution of the New York De mocracy covers everything in the 14th and 15th Amendments about which there hns lately been any discussion, except the disqualifying clause of the 14th, and we presume that no Democrat, North or South, is charged with favoring that— certuiuly none voted to ratify, aud none have ever voted to continue or enforce it. Tho New York resolution sustains tho “established" rights of the negroes, aud elevates them even above a constitutional provision, which ia subject to change aud ohance, by pronouncing them the “t/trrt- tnhle sequence. of the civil war.” must confess (hat this declaration ia not as acceptable to us as the language of the California Democratic platform quoted for Mr. Stephens by bin correspondent, because it pledges the New York Democ racy to maintain everything in the Amendments, except the disqualifying clause, as “established" and “inevita ble*, wl : le the California declaration only recognized them as de facto parts of the Constitution, and the correspondent as sured Mr. Stephens that the California Democracy did not regard them as “right or just" {uh the New York Demoetaoy ev idently do), and none of them would “have taken tho oath of the Medes and Persians never to change them” (aa the New York Democracy evidently have;. But if Mr. Btophena and hia co-agitators in Georgia ore satisfied with the New York resolution, let them ease down on that—it is better than a continuation of pernicious Democrat ie wrangling. The Democrats of Montgomery, Ala., in city convention on Monday, nomina ted J. 1'. Terry for Msynr, and U. B. yesterday, when the general statement of the facts was given to the press by tho Btato Department, the history of Catacazy troubles has not taken serious form. Only a part of the story is told. Much of equal Authenticity remains behind. First ia official form of cotupiuiut was the charge that Catacazy, the Russian Minister, had written a letter attacking the Secretary of State, and saying thiugs, by innuendo, at lenst derogatory to the Secretary's personal honor, aud other naughty allegations. Catacazy being called to account, in tho most emphatic manner disavowed any knowledge of the offensive^ eommuuica- iou. Notwithstanding his positiveassev- r.ition to tho contrary, it was ascertained o the satisfaction of the officials in tho State Department, that Catacazy was tho instigator, if, indeed, he hud Uut written the letter. First, as cause of official complaint, was tho undue and improper meddling of Catacazy in legislation iu Congress with refereuco to tho duty on hetnp. Whilst this subject was under consideration in Congress, Catacazy was an active lobbyist, and continually upon tho floors of tho Senate ami House. Theso ami some other acts, partaking of a public or official character, wore the foundation of complaiut to the Russian Government, but accompanying these charges were very plain intimations that there were well founded moral and social objections to the character of tho Cutucu- zys, male and female. Catacazy is uu enthusiastic admirer of Mrs. Catacazy. In his estimation, his wife is the handsomest, must accom plished, most thoroughly cultivated, uml most elegantly dressed woman in Ameri- a, and especially iu Washington society. For the latter, it is said, the Catacazys havo a bad’y coucoalcd contempt, which has frequently broken out iu audible and rather emphatic words. Mr. Culucuzy has sought to dvertise those supposed superlative attractions and M'diiuplishmeuts, aud by adroit man- ngotuent of the Jenkinses of tho press, has made it uppenr, iu print ut least, that i. Catacazy was really all his fancy painted her, aud, as tho story read, from time to time, the Indy was the acoepted head and leader of fashionable and high- toned society in the ei*y. Thus unwit tingly ilr. Catacazy brought his wife into trouble. Certain iudics, entitled by their exem plary character and accomplishments to highest standard cf social position, took exception to this undue advertising, fur as it placed Mrs. Catacazy not only on an < quality, but possibly iu a more elevated plane of social statu*.— They murmured, and some alleged envi ous females made known the private characters of the Catacazys, which gossip said would not hear tho test of sociul ethics. The thing grow with its growth, nml directly assumed the form of open charges against the pur ted to See Bullock—Interview with tl»e Oreat Almcntee. New York, Oct. 6.—Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, who arrived in this city yester day, was interviewed to-day by a reporter, in reference to tho notice recently issued by the Stuto Treasurer of Georgia, to the effect that in consequence of the absence of the Governor and no one in the Btate Department knowing whore ho was, no warrants on the State Treasury would bo signed, except those on civil establish ment And special appropriations, tho law iu these cases specifying the ninouut. Tho Governor states that the notieo of the Treasurer is a singular combination of falsehoods and absurdity. Tho Governor left Georgia iu the latter part of Juno up on his usual summer vacation with his family, liis iuteutiou to visit California was well known to his personal friends, to hiR secretaries, and to Mr. Conly, Presi dent of tho Senate, who is ex-officio Lieu tenant Governor. The Governor will start for Georgia within n few days. Tho exception made in the Treasurer’s notieo includes nil the warrauts that are drawn, and hence the uhmmlity of the no tice. All executive warrants must he first submitted to the Comptroller General for approval, and when ro approved the Treasurer has no discretion, and is re quired by law to pay them. The Gover nor states thnt the notice of the Treasurer is only part of a vigorously pushed scheme to injure tho credit of the State and de preciate tho market valuo of Georgia bonds, for tho purpose of buying them iu at n largo discount. membera of the Cabinet, directly found their way to tho family of General Grunt, and thence to tho President himself. Those 'offensive official acts of Catacazy and tho Nocial objections, the President deemed sufficient to warrant the request to tho Emperor of Russia to recall Cata- cn/.y. What thereafter transpired was given to tho putdic this morning Bomi-offlci dly. The CatocA/ys deny'the story of their naughty talk about American Kocioty, uml tho Minister denies, as stoutly ever, that he was the author or instigator of the letter attacking the Secretory of State. It is rumored to-night that Mr. Cutnca- zy, in view of the open hostility of Gen. Grant, aud the publication of this morn ing, will decline to appear at tho Execu tive Mansion when Grand Duke Alexis visits tho President. Data. An Election Row in Texas.—The Houston Telegraph, of the fid instant, has the following : From a gentleman just down from Groesbeck, we gutber the following items regarding tho troubles iu that qunrter : On Saturday afternoon Mr. D. C. Ap- plewhito, an auctioneer, became involved with nogro Btate policemen in front of Eikas barber shop. A number of shots were fired, four or five of which took ef fect upon Mr. Applewhite, causing his death. It is said thut while ou the ground ho fired upon his assailants, inflicting a severe wound upon one. The polioemon then fled to Bpriugfleld, where they were pursued by citizens of Groesbeck, fearing an outbreak, armed themselves aud pat rolled the town dnriug oil of Saturday night, and it is Rtated that an armed no gro was killed. The utmost excitoinent prevailed up to onr latest advices, as the negroes were reported as being well armed and threatening the white popula tion. Tho telegraph wires were cut a short distance this side of Goesbeck, near midnight, and as several negroes wore seen in the vicinity with axes,it is thought that there was a preconcerted plan to prevent information of the affair reach ing Houston and Galveston. Tho body of Applewhite was taken to Hrcmond yes terday morning for interment. The New York Commercial Advertiser makes the following excellent point against the Woman's Rights champions, who are constantly declaiming that wo men employees in the same business do not receive as much pay as men. It says; They forget that the principal reason for the non-employment of women iu the most remunerative Avocations, or in those which require great skill and continued application, is that wouion*B work is usu ally uncertain. A trained saleswoman in a Broadway store, a forewoman in a great house like Mr. A. T. Stewart’s, an accom plished and skillful female teacher, can rarely be dopendt d upon for steady work ; her physical conditions forbid incessant application; her strength is soon exhaust ed by protracted tasks ; her marriage gen erally ends her business avocatious. The man, on the other hand, is stimulated to greater exertions by his eotrance into the family relation, and be has no inevitable and narrassing physical ills to inospacl tate him. The Commercial Co&veution which re cently met iu Baltimore dismissed among other projecta that of a railway to Asia, via Alaska and Behring Straits. At first sight this seems one of the wildest of im possible schemes, bat it may nevertheless be accomplished by some future genera tion. The North Pacific Railroad would form a long link in the proposed line, and it is certainly not beyond the resources of TIip Trouble at Suit Luke—Wlint the Mormons Say About It. (From Hi- Salt Luke llomlil.] The Mormons buvo proved too often and under too many trying circumstances tho devotion to their Hath for it to he doubted now. At present, not only their puhli-jul rights but their religion is as sailed by othcial authority. While the nation is worked upon with tho cry of polygamy, that is but a sound to cover the reul object. Nearly every fundamen tal principle of their faith is attacked, not by calm reason and scriptural argument, but by disgraceful abuse, ribaldry and profanity, sanctioned and indorsed by official smiles aud blandishments, while tho forces are being iuu rah a 11 ml to breuk up the community us a religious organiza tion, destroy the b-adeiH ut the people, or scatter them again wanderers on the ourth. All thin in aimed at under cover of law, by outrageous uud illegal judicial rulings and proceedings, by men who use their positions to annoy -mu irritate, aud whose hearts oveillow with u fanaticism that yearns l’or the destruction of u poo- plo who have been more temperate iu their exercise of power tlmu any other religious body of whom tho world has record. But from tho arbitrary course now bciug pursued there is an evideut inten tion on tho part of some ol tho officials, at least, to goad the people into despera tion, so that some overt act nmy be com mitted thut will give a color lor calling upon the General Government for an army to he sent here to chastise tlu fki. We are thankful tho people huvo been ho culm, so temperate uud so self-possessed, that thus far they have not giveu the first occasion for such u demand. But should they be driven to muduess by insult heup- od upon insult, injury piled upou injury, what would be the result? Should blood and these being j be shed it would have another and A very Fish and 'other ! different termination to what many people think. No men meet death so calmly, unflinchingly, as they w ho believe it opens the portals to eternal bliss. Does any sane man think tho Mormons would not feel and believe thut death in such a strife would only bo martyrdom, and tho passport to a martyr’s glory ? Aud whether it would take a long or a short time to extorniiuutu them—for no other word meets tho emergency—tho consequences to the Territory aud all ini crested in its welfare would he frightful. Who desires to seo a free people houml- od to desperation ? Who wishes to see a community showing industry, enterprise, intelligence, sobriety and virtue stripped of every vestige of their political and re ligious rights, bocaiiho they will not change their faith nt tho bidding of a few fanatical men,who are so blindly besotted with their folly as to hoo in the future they desire only tho destruction of tho Mormons and tho confiscation of their property ? Yet that this is tho object, the programme arranged, and the oud to be accomplished—peaceably or by force of arum—no one who has narrowly atobod their course can for a moment doubt. It is nearly time that the conserv ative men of tho territory—independent of religion or parly—should utter their protest against u course of action having such an object in view. With immense wealth being developed on every side, narrow-minded bigots who desiro to pro voke a conflict by any or ovory means, should be told to halt in their iusane ca- Tho world )ms traveled the path of progress too fast and too far to sustain the semi-barbarous idcuu which deinaud that froo men should, with cravon soul, fling their faith at the foot of whilom sa traps, or place their consciences and pur ses iu the keeping of men they cannot trust. For uearly a contnry “the sover eignty of the people” Iiuh been an estab lished doctrine in the United States, and the principle lias gained so rapidly through the world that, it is too late in the day to introduce the “sovereignty of the lew’’ where the other has prevailed. “Let us have peace.” Experiments on tub Conoelation or Water.—Atu recent stance of the Frouch Academy M. Bousuinguult communicated a report of some curious experiments that he made ou the congelation of water daring the rigors of last winter. It is, of oourse, known llmt water in freezing tends to dilute with very considerable force, equal to that which would be ne cessary to apply to ice to reduce its vol ume eight per cent. M. Boussiugault proposed to sock by experiment whether, iu opposing to the dilation of water a suf ficient force, freezing could be prevented at very low temperature. For this pur pose he tookacteMt-steel cylinder,eighteen inches long and oue aud one-eighth inch in diameter, and in this was drilled a hole of one-half inch diameter and uihe aud one-half inches deep. The end of this tube could he hermetically closed by a screw-joint. It was cooled down to a temperature of 59.20 degreen 'ahranheH, and filled with distilled water of the same temperature. It was then herra^tioally closed, after a small fragment ot steel bad been introduced. The apparatus was then exposed to the following tempera tures: 8.60, 10.40, 15.HO and 11.20 de. grees below zero—and.at each trial it was possible to tell by the movement of the steel fragment that the water was nnfro- zen. The water froze instantly when the pressure was removed. Those experi ments were afterwards repeated with pre cisely similar results. New Trosblrft Is Mux h o. City op Mbxico, Bcpt. 12, via Mata- MonAs, Oct. 2.—JiL.rez was installed Pros- idont. lost night amidst great excitement. There are rumor., of a change in the Cabi net. All is quiet here. Tho President's messago is conciliatory but firm. It recommends material inmvovements, the building of railroads, the protection of the coast, aud sanctions making treaties with forelgu nations. The President has a majority of Congress. Another revolu tion, however, has begun in the State of Nenva Leon. Gen. Pedro Martinez has pronounced for Gnlliua agairnd tho Juarez government and Btate nulhoritios. Sev eral other chieftains have joined the movement. Their combined forces arc Raid to be marching on Comargo and Matamorns with a view of occupying the custom houses on the frontier. The find, step taken by tho nutlioritiea of Nenva Loon, was to throw into prison all the employees of tho Federal Govern ment. It is expected that tho revolution will become genoral. Tho Matamoras frontier is yet quiet. Gen. Poluire Cor- tinaH has issued a proclamation urging a fight for Juarez. Great preparations are making nt Matamorns for defense. All tho cavalry has loft for tho front. There is great excitement reported from all parts of Mexico. A no I IT WITH AMERICAN VESSELS. In the quarrel between the captain of the vossel Brothers and the Mexican au thorities, the captain and crow of the Harvest Home cuiuo to the aid .ot* the Brothers. Several Mexicans wore killed. Tho captain and crows of both vessels left in tho Harvest Home, abaudonding tho Brothers, which was taken possession of by the American GouruI. CuitchihmkIciih' llicliiiiond l>i*|mtili. Washington, Oct.. 6.—Opportunities in thiH city tor ubtumiiij. the views uf lomhug liicmherH ut tlie Dctuucriitio or- giiniKittiun upou the general political sit uation are at this season hy no means equivslcut to what, they wuulU be if Con gress was in session ; hut notwithstand ing that, there are many gentlemen here w'lio, fruui past experience and close ob servation of past political matters, nro thoroughly versed iu Slate and National politics. Their views have ever boon regarded sound uud important, and your correspondent bus taken puius to learn, in u geuerul way, through tiio medium of convolution, tho prevalent feeling siuco the political events uf tho past few days have l.eeu recorded. It is vory safe to say that whatever may lie tho immediate nt-vile of tho elections ubout to occur, there is grent faith and thorough coutl- donco in the future. Tho positions that tho Dumocrutie statesmen uf ftew York and Iliiuuis aud elsewhere havo $ust taken inspires the fullest, belief that light is breaking through tho olutids that have obscured the party for so long, aud that tho tidiest measure of conservative sni'- conh is near at hand. Prominent gentle men identified thoroughly witlr tire no mocracy regard the pairiotie enunciations from the Uoehester Convention as nn earnest, in tboir genoral nature, uf what will eburuotori/.o the groat platform of tho patriotic organization whon it assembles next summer in nutiunal convention. The leading itadicals' here who hurl counted upon the peucu of tho Democracy iu New York being disturbed beyond all hope have very little to suy since tho re sults of ltuchostor. Their most energetic endeavor is' to cause a complete healing of tho disseusioue iu their own ranks. Kuodgru,* for City Clerk, 'the engineering sail! and capital to extend Democratic candidates pledged their branch from this road to tho shoreH of hearty yupport to these nominations. Behring Htrsits, The route through Kam- tachatka would certainly not be a pleas ant one in winter, but the comparative amoothnoss of the anrfaee of the country would indicate that the (now would be the chief obetaclo to the construction of a railway. The root* on both aidee of the Pacific has already been anrvayad for a telegraph, and the practicability of build ing ■ telegraph from Oregon to the Amoor ltiver la oonoeded. We may not expoet to aoe the trains running from Chicago to St Petersburg at a vory early date, but the building of a railway along the sur veyed telegraph route is certainly not an ‘ -Jfew rirt WvrlO. The City Coanoil of Sufanla, at ita meeting list week, refused to free the bridges over the Chattahoochee river from toll. There were two petitions on the subject—one fur and ana against a free bridge—and the amounts of taxes repre sented by the two partiee wen abort equal. The Connell adopted a resolution allowing wagons bringing in pradnra, and persona crossing mi the Habbath to at tend chnrcb, to pern free of toll, Smelmno Aitoutsn.—The Ku-Klnx Com- mittee, appointed to tramp over the Bouth and hatch out imaginary outrages, have set down at iluutevrlie on a neat from which they oxpeot to bring out a lively number ot first class 1 Unheal campaign documents. Wo are truly glad that the noble Bock, of Kentucky, is proaeut to see that statements are not altogether of , . _ — aa export* character. The lfunteviUM KeptMaa*. Democrat reports several arrests of citi zens, made just ia that rusk of bare to suit the purpoeee of the ooumiltae.— Among the aau.ua of the witness** exam ined we find that of Jobu A. Misnia li. *. District Attorney. Be was on ih* stand ail day. —Umtuamay Adeertieer. The following toast was given at a re cent banquet: “The rights of woman— if ahe can not be captain of a ship, may she always oouuaad a smack. " The Date of the Ckuctfixion.—llorr Kalb, tho German savuut, in a work rcountly published, shows that there was a total cclipsu of the uioou concomitantly with the earthquake that occurred when J alius Ciosar was asausaiualed, ou tho loth of March, II. C. 4 i. lie has ulso calcula ted tho Juwish calendar to A. D. 41, and the result of his resoarcbes fully confirms tho facts recorded by tho Evangelists of thowoudorful physical events that accom panied tho Crucihxion. Astronomical cal culations provo, without a shadow of doubt, that on tho I Ith day of the Jewish month Nisau (April li) there was a total eelipso of tho sun, which was accompanied in nil probability by tho earthquake, when "the vail of tho Teurpto was rent iu twain from tho top to the bottom ; uud tho earth did quake, and tho rocks rent.’’ [Matt, xxvii., r.1.1 While Ht. Duke de scribes tho oclipso in theso wurds : “Aud it was about tbe sixth hour (12, noon) nml there was a darkness over all the ourth until tho ninth hour (it p. m.) and the sun was darkened.” [Luke xxiii., 44. | This modfl of reckoning corresponds porfoctly with the result of another cal culation our author made by reckoning backward from tho groat total odips© of April, 1H1H, allowing for tho difference betweon Die Old and Now styles; which also givoa April (i, as tho date of the now moon in the year A. D. ill. As the vernal equiuor of that year fall on March 25, and tho Jews ate their Easter lamb, and celebrated their Frih Vaewh. or Feast of the l’assover, on the following new moon, it is clear that April li wan identical with Nisan 14 uf tho Jewish calendar ; which, moreover, was on Friday, the Paratktvet, or day of preparation for tho Bnkbath, aud this agrees with tho Hebrew Talmud. Thus, by the united toatimany of natro- nomy, archeology, traditional and Bibli cal history, there can bo but littlo doubt that tho date of tho Crucifixion was April (i, A. D. ill. Bears are to bo found in immense num bers on tho Alaska mainland. They of onnrmous size, but do not evinco tho ferocity of the California animal. It ia a fact that contact with civilization increas. the ferooity of Bruin aud his whole tribe. BurREME Court of Gy.or.otA.—OeUibcr 1 *71.—Argument of No. 11, liolue Cir cuit, was concluded. No. 12 was taken np. It Is Thomas A. Walker, plaintiff in error, vs. Albert M. ltixey, defendant in error, attachment, from Floyd. Underwood A Kowoll, Frintop A Fouobe, for plaintiff in error. Wright A Foatheraton, Bui ith A Branham, contra. Fending the argnment of that cause, Court adjourned till 10 o’clook Tuesday. The next cause in error will be tbe N. and 8. It. It. Co. vs. Cook. Injunction, from Musoogee.—Conetitvtion. A statement of the growth made by va rious trees, from seed and outlines, at Wilson, on the Kanesa Pacific UaiTroad, this year, indnees the Missouri Democrat toaay: Tbe recalls are fresh proofs that the Great American Desert” is itasif a van ishing mirage, destined much sooner than is generally imagined to )*• transformed into a region of onltnre and population. Hr. Stephana deniaa that the only rem edy for the wrongs of the fraudulent amendments to the oonetitntioii is repeal or ravolntlon, and holds that tboy are judi cial questions and should bo settled by the court*. Ho claims tbe idea that the Bnpreme Court ia precluded from inquir ing into tbe nets of Congress touching amendments to the constitution, “is oue of the worst politioal heresies at tyi* day.” That’s *11 right; and now let him tell ns bow to get tbs Bopsane Conrt.—tit. Lou- TIIK RAIL BOAII FRO* BAlYRRIIKiK TO ROBB. «A. For onrsslvaa, if it really be a judicial question, ns Hr. Stephens m—tains, wo cannot see why it ebookl be mad* a politi- •ai igns, and* snbjest of eontrovsesy between political paitiea. If the remedy against oaorp* tino i* in ths courts, .1st ,ns go to th* quart*; but unfortunately, as stated by tbs Ht. Louis editor, tbe usurp- era uasda the court, and, fns may years at last*, tbay dr* aspects* to obey the will Ot tbsir creators rather than tbe law. [NuronnuA JitpubUc*n. fir it tor. Enquirer: It has been for a long time that I have been a silent observer ot passing events touching rail roads and political matters, and intended to remain so during the short period (I am about seventy years of age) that may be allotted me; but being a constant reader of tho pnblio prints of yonr city, and noticing with deep interest much that is passing in the political and bnsincss world, I havo thought I would offer (to copy in tho Enquirer if yon think proper to do so) seme of my past experience, mostly obtained in yonr State (Georgia), in wbiak I have passed a great portion of my life—with some history of the post, and opinions aa to tho present and future. In the year 1852, I examinod the south western portion uf Georgia, minutely, and excepting a small part bordering on Floridu, and n small part bordering on (ho ntiddlo portion of tbe btate, it was comparatively a perfect wilderness. I should think thore wero ten thousand square miles in a primeval condition— embracing mnuy largo bodica of the richoat lauds I had ever scon, and in like extent tho host soil for cotton over tbe whole region I had ovor witnessed, with a boun tiful i-ivcr(the Flint, with some tributaries) passing through it, bat with good naviga tion only to Uainbridge. I soon after became a citizen, nnd took a central poai- tien iu tlitB largo extent of unimproved country; bought all the lands my money would permit, and uddod to them all my credit would seenro—at tho same time doing ail iu my power to make it what I believed God and uatnro designed it, not only the garden spot uf Georgia, but of tbe entire South. Thut opinion has never changed. My first efforts to thut end wero directed to the improvement of tho navigation uf Flint river. I paid from uty own pocket tho cost* of tho entire survey of about one hundred miles of said river, preparatory to asking from tho Legislature an appropriation. They granted twenty thousand dollars for ita improvement. Grent changes were effect ed ; but, an beforo stated, tho navigation is only good from ita junction with the Ghstluhoochoo to llaiubridge. Tho rail road fever had begun iu Georgia; tbe oliarler to tho Gontral Uuilroad hail been obtained, and Ool. Gordon (I forget his givon name) was made Frosident. I will now digress a littlo to say some thing of Col. Gordon. He coinbinod all tho elements not only for planning a great enterprise, but for having it properly executed—both are seldom found in the same individual. The difficulties he had to encounter in thnt early stage of build ing railroads were stamped upon his noble face anil bearing. He lived, I think, to seo tho road completed, and diod about the time ho would have entered upou the grent work, ns before stated. At an after perioi, Dr. Screven, of Snvnnnah—another grent and good man— entered upon the work of building rail roads from Savannah to Southwestern Georgia, and was made Frosident of the SavaDnnh A Gulf ltailrosd, aud in a public address, delivered at Itainbridge, virtually told tho people ho was only oarrying oat my early plans. I mention this, as later nctorc have not done me the same like justice. Tho road was oomplotod to Thomusville beforo tho late war, and has since beon finished to Itainbridge. I will now continae my uarrutivo. Tho railroad excitomuut soon sprond to ovory pnrt of Georgia, and tuy sympathies were strongly onlistcd, bnt as beforo seid, I was in tho centre of a comparative wildor* ness, nnd for a long tiiuo not a person iu thnt whole region to aid mo in any publio effort. Afterwards, immigrants of large means nnd much oxperieuoo came in from ovory pnrt of tho State. Vie then had froqnenl mootings touching railroads, with almost as many plans as there were momhors. I told them Bniubridge must and v—uld bo tho largo commercial city of Southwestern Georgia and tho hotter por tions of Florida, and tho next in impor- tauco would be one at or near where Al bany now is, and that Bach a place for a time would have the moat rapid rise, aa it was in the oentre of tho rieheat country in Southwestern Goorgia. After which, Albany was started, and my prediction* thus for verified. None more langliod at and ridietiled my opinions than the citi- zona uf Bainbridge, aa many of them who now reside there can testify. We finally became united upon ono point, vis, that wo had a large fertile country, and if ful ly developed of iteelf would build np and sustain an Atlantio city and market for onr produee; and that a delegate be ebosen to. go to Savannah and make kuown all I havo stated, and ask their aa- sistanoe to build a road from than to some point on Flint river, to be after wards agreed upon. I was selected for such duty. I repaired to Savannah, made known my mission. Avoiding the ones moat active in the Central Railroad, I feared they would oppe-e my plans, aa using some means they required upon said road, those I oailed upon appeared to aoarooly know that Georgia had n south western part, and won aa ignorant of ita value aa they wen of any part of Austra lia. I enlightened them ail I could, but was about to leave without any promise of present or futon aid. Before taking my departure, I mat by accident Hr. Gor don (before mentioned) and stated the disappointment I had mot with ia Savan nah. Ha gave me a cordial greeting; and I found that he knew almost aa mneb of the country I represented aa I did myself. He said he waa struggling with wbat he oailed his own road, and repeated what I have before stated. He then wrote me a long and eneonraging latter, and soon after died. 1 made my report, after which Thomas Spaldiug called at my house, then Leocuuo- ty, Georgia. I waa absent at tbe time.— On my return, a survey oompletad from Mobley’s Bluff (tha gnat band of the Oomtilgee) waa made to a point on Flint river above when Albany now is. Hie plan was te have wooden tail* plaeed upan tbe Us* to combine aa much strength to he oQUld secure with a small otaiay. Said road is plainly marked ups* 1 map of Georgia, but baa t-.var been com pleted. Mr. Spalding transferred big in- tire interest to sas, to manage a* I thnp^d I have now passed from 1852 to 1836. By this timo wo had uiBdo aud wars mak ing rapid strides to greatness. Albany waa started daring the interval, and Bain bridge going ahead with new impulses, and likejmost new countries, every por tion waa advancing according to the intrinsic value at the lands, with a gen. oral prosperity to all classes of the oocu- psnts and proprietors. The credit sys tem waa goneral, as each found it easy to meet engagements front large crops, and risu of property, bnt in the latter part of that year (1836) “a little black eiond” was gathering that none had anticipated. It burst upon the country in Marob, 1837, and almost every portion of the then j Union felt the shock, and large number* were mined from ita effects. Now places and countries wore must injured, as their vaults and trunks contained Imt little money, their treasures and wealth being in lauds and exposed property. Almost ovory hank in the then Union snsponded payment; It grew darkor and more dark, until 1812; u reaction then bogon, and the go-aheud spirit peculiar to a Southoru people again ovinoed itself; and although many of the old actors Were so crippled by the five years’ pelting of the storm aa to bo of littlo use in farther conteat and enterprise, yet new ones canto in to fill their plaoos, and in 1815 {Southwestern Georgia waa again in full motion, and cot ton nearly double tho price it bod been during several years previously. My for mer predictions were being verified ss to the value of the country, with a well- grounded hope of its soon being united by railroads with Atlantia markets, bnt not exactly by snoh routes as we first tried for. Wo will now paas on to the late war of 18U1. Daring this last interval various roads wore completed and started in dif ferent parts of the country running to Bainbridge, Albany, Tbomaaville, Ameri cas, Fort Gaines, Cuthbert, Ao.; tmd now oomea another crash—too familiar to ail of us for my weak pen to enlarge upon. .Suffice it to aay, that Honthwsatern Geor gia has had ita fall share of Ms ruinous effects to the Bouth. This brings us to April, 1865, the end of the war. Since that time much has been done in the work of internal improvement. I notice from the pnbtle print* that I read constantly, and from other aonroes, that an enterprise is started to build a road from Bainbridge to Rome, I suppose to extend south to the Golf, and north to tbe Tennessee river, a distance of liver 300 miles. As 1 am familiar with the character of tbe lands and tha country through tb* entire route to Rome, I will give Borne opinions aa to the importance of the undertaking. From the Gulf to Bainbridge it will peas through the best portions of Florida. From Bainbridge to Cuthbert the lands are better than an average of Honthwestern Georgia. From thence to Columbus is a still better soil, aud from Columbus to Roma a far more prodnotive one than the avenge of Geor gia. From thence to the Tennessee river, at Chattanooga, I am unacquainted with tho country. I de not think, in the whole distance, then would be 10 per cent, of what is called waste lands, while upou aorno roads I could point out in Georgia, there is not 10 per eent. of fertile binds from beginning to end. Via will than take 10 mile* upon either side of said road now in progress, and we htve over 6001) square miles, that at no distant day, after the completion of said road, inuit be the abode of five times the present population. Within said 10 miles west is a portion of the Chattahoochee river, with Oolnmbna at the head of Ita naviga tion, and is almost a mldc'lo ground from Bainbridge to Rome, and from the Gulf to the Tenneaaee river, that an exohange of commodities most take plaoe between the north and sooth portions of this Hne of railroad, and how rapid will be the in crease of population and eommeree to the flity and anrroonding country 7- Planters will havo their grain forma on or near tbe north part, and their ootton, su gar, and even tropical fruit plantations^ on tha south. From Colombo* than is water transportation to Bainbridge, da, or to any port in Florida, far heavy freights, if it be preferred to railroad.— Tbon we will have Bainbridge south With railroad arm reaching to Bavaawafe and Brunswiek, another to the Gulf with va rious tributaries now oomplated and in progress, added to which others will be rapidly bnilt. In conclusion, the causes of p depression iu the tom ter wilt be speedily removed by tbe increased later: oourse wMh all sections, sad tha etreM fleemtasy Wes ♦aril Magsetrt. [From thn Mew York Jotunel of UoauMme.] Secretary Bontwsli (as a gentleman recently from Washington Informs ns) ia the most disgusted offlalsl in the Govern ment service. He is net pleased with some of his most sonapienoas subordi nates, bat be can not help himself. Ho can neither reform them, whitewash them, nor remove them. He complains ofwhem in a querulous tone to the President, but tbs chief ia apathetic; h* receive* the appeal coldly, and smokes on complacent ly, and the objeotlonable incumbents of good phtees are left to stick. Then hi* foreign negotiation of bends hsamnddlsd hia figures. He announced that he had placed the ncaludsr of the two hundred million loon, and. the delivery of the bond* annul AHms the first of the month feew. drill he make np hie debt mat t If .Ip added Hie bonds hand- jr to ttu syndicate to his iaansa, them the velum* of the debt was inonas- *d, and tola tbalaw forbad* If U made the proper ailowanee for internet, then the bonds were sold et from 2J to 8 par bent, below par, and this was forbidden. So he says that he has sold tbe bonds, and the syndicate aay that they have bought thorn, sod the delivertee from their hands prove that there has been an issue on some terms, but the official debt statement recognises none of these transactions, either in the hseteaae of the bonded debt or the reeeipt of the cash equivalent. Then, again, it ia said that Us bad man agement here, and the equally bad manip ulation of affaire in Loudon by the two Treasury agents, who really have a branch Treasury Department (hare, have so em- liarraaaad tha syndicate that even with all their pluck, energy end amarines* they have not made the tiling go aa they ex. ■Mated, and may have yet to throw part of the bmde back on hia hands. W* think Hr. Bootwail’a disgust is not unraason- able; w* share it ourselves, and most of onr readers are (offering from the same experience. It Mr-. Boutwell were a farmer, and managed hia hnsinaas on .tha same princi pal he conduota the Government, be would sell his horsee, ploughs, hara ss, and seed- wheat, and apply the ptooeeds in paying off a mortgage on hie farm which bed tea years to ran; and, at the earns timo, keep a large amount oi cash qn deposit in bank on which he received no interest.— At present he is redeeming bonds due in 1881 to save six per cent, interact, with money whiohie worth to too people ten per eent., cod which ie wrong from them at a sacrifice which only tha exigency of n gnat national calamity' would justify, while one-fourth of the Whole reoeipta— over one hundred mblUoas—He* idle in the Treasury, drawing no interest. These bonds are held in Europe—it Is the loan negotiated by Robert J. Walker--and the money neoessarially gem abroad.— Wath- ington Patriot. vat EscitsMcat Ansae tee Jail—Gseerei Attsaspt cf Regr* Priseaers I* Bsees*- About 7 o'clock last ntgbt, Hr. Gilles pie, jeilor, went up stain in the jail to give some medicine to two aegroes named John Long and Nathan Galloway. While Long waa taking hia mediates the ne groes, eighteen in all in tha room, mad* a general rash and overpowered the jailor, and two nearu man wbe wes# with him. They rushed down stain. Hr. Gillespie called for help, but befon it oonld reach ' Cut into tee of Haney him nine of the negroes got yard, and ana by the nan Chisholm, charged with m the wall bn ths north aide and was at large at a lata hour last night Hr, Giliaapte, as soon m bt was raises- ad, which fie auooeeded in effecting after a desperate straggle, rushed into th* yard, and with th* assistance of some negro - m*a> in the yard sad sosas pofioeroen, cap tured eight of tb* prisoners and nut aix of them into the dungeon sella. In ths straggle Toby, th* turnkey, hearing Ht. Gillaspics arise foe help, seised agon and tort, two of tb* escaping prisoners. Doe. Weataott sod Taylor Stone. One wee shot in th* left shouldsa and th* other on the right rid* of his head, both seriously but not dangerously. On* other prisoner we* knocked down with n slob end considerably bruised. Th* etbssa wan captured unhurt. [Montgomery AthmUter, IMA. Thu DacATcn Tnmm-Fsw of onr citizens are aware that our city will soon njoicein .the possession at on*, of tha finest drives or houleeardt in tb* cntiF* Booth, and only Merited by tha famous “Shell read” at Mobile. We refer te tea Decatur Turn pika Road, leading from th* eity flmit* to Decatur, a distance of ate mfles. Under tha able and scicotific manage scant of Maj. Richard Onus the nnmpmy ng this splendid work ' energy, and MB speosss as on* of the noblest evidences of Atlanta enterprise te already beyond peradveot- Tbe turupfk* A forty fart wHa, bans ade of thna fset te tha hfiadsed, and Ua oompleted will by a* smooth and i park. Tlsastty te pa blast drives I building dm rnuwng^ farms itu ■Sguftlsint *X- andonset tha no- MUrihry- Beautiful tce-SSjtT and falsehoods of designing politicians st ' the North sooner discovered hy <h«ir manses, and their best citizens will be In duced to oomo to share the soil, climate, and What w* Nkt* stated, wilt afford. Am regards tha travel upon the “North and 'Bouth” Hoad, the shortening of th* distance to and from tts the Atlantic and Gulf waters, I will tend* ****3L— to be mad* known by thCea Whb 'betHr mJSuT understand it. I have on>V swoban sftter«.». travel that would be aaeuiadhg thi and fartiliiy of tb* agit, ‘ th* roan in program passes. L Buotwsu, Arran* nr Jaran sun Qitna.—By way of Han Fraaaiaoo w» huvr'an Intonating telegraphic news report of later date from Japes aari Ohms. Th* sartMaa *f ate, fain bad art bean materially altered to either empin. The govemmertrtJanon struck a decisive blow against this pAwat. of th* feudal ariatoaraey. Th enter of Daterioa ia to ha abohahad—tertte if Ah* Daimioa consent quietly. Perhaps they may resist, however, and abolish tM Crown. A gnat conIHrt between aria, tooracy and imparisltesa will oom* ate**, sooner or later, te Japan. It* amus qnences may nvotetiaute* Ih* extetteg order at. effaim t~ " ' ——* East. . Russia watched Th* officers of tbs fteghalian island* empire—a meaaai ted, will add finance of the oarter of the ■ stemsea

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1861-1873, October 17, 1871, Image 1