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The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN H. MARTIN Kniion.
' COLUMBUS:
TUESDAY DECEMBFU 24, 1872.
—Term* of KaSacrlirt Ion—
One Tear in advance
Till; l MTF.D KTATKK SKMATOliSIIII*.
Wo oro glad to nolo from the tone of
nomo of onr exchanges, and to learn from
verbal reports, that tho conviction is
becoming more general that tho Logisla-
turo of Georgia ought to elect a man of
first-class talont os a politician to the
Senate of tho United Staten. We do not
nay this in the interest of, or with special
reference to, any particular xnan ; for wo
know’ that Georgia has novoral distin
guished citizen* whose talents would make
thorn tho poors of tho ablest inon in tho
Senate. Hut wo do rejoico in the ossur-
euco that Georgia is most probably to bo
again represented in tho Senate of the
United States by men who will take a
front rauk in that body.
Wo arc fully persuaded that ono enuso
of tho Jong-continued predominance of
sectional passion and aRSimiod superiority
of the North over the South is to bo
found in tho character of our representa
tion in Congress. Wo have boon greatly
wronged, and tyrannized over, in an un
just and unconstitutional manner ; but we
had no representatives in Congress | o -
sussing the ability, or tho will if they had
tho ability, to present tho issues involved
in ho clear and sharp a manner as to
command tho attention and inlluonco the
judgment of the country. We have com
plained of tho infidelity or tho lack of
OOUrnge of thoso whom wo regarded as
our political sympathizers at tho North.
Hut we have not, through our representa
tives in Congress, made issues upon which
our friends at tho North could stand with
us iu defence of onr outraged rights.
Tho vindication of our rights, or the de
nunciation of our wrongs, lias been loft
to the unprincipled carpot-bagger
nincompoop scalawag ; and tho Radical
bullies and demagogues in Congroi
wanted no better allies; their prejudice
and ignorant constituencies regarded tl
course of Mich representatives of the
South as a aiilUeient confession of the
justice of the measures resorted to for
our oppression or humiliation.
lift us now send to Congress men who
will make its chambers ring with their
eloquent denunciations of any imlignif ich
that may bo offered to us men who will
pierce the v« d of sophistry or tho mist
of passion by which the Radical loaders
shade tho enormity of their acts, and
disclo»e their inea ureH and designs in
tten tine light. It may bo slow or ililli-
olllt II
. Northo
Tin; swo«n ash lift, dwell.
The reader has no doubt been intoro«ted
in the several telegrams from Washington
reporting the progress of tho Louisiana
delegation in their efforts to find some
tribunal—Executive, Legislative or Judi
cial—to revise the high-handed action of
Judgo Durell of Louisiana in Retting up
State Government down the e. It is
still left iu doubt whether they have
found any authority that will undertake
the job. Tho Supreme Court of the
Unitod States had refused to take juris
diction before tho delegation arrived at
Washington. 'I hey toil led upon the Pres
ident with a request that ho would com-
m’ssiou Judgo llradloy to look into tho
c.uic. The President expressed his will
ingness that Judge Bradley should do so,
If ordered l»y the Supremo Court. The
dc!i gallon waited up< n Judge Bradley,
and he declared his willingness to act if
h a colleagues of the Supreme Bench
would take the initiative and signify their
wish for him to do ho. And tiuully the
Supreme Court is reported as having de
termined that ‘Judgo llradloy could exer
cise his discretion about going to New Or
leans." So wo have an implied confession
s*l round ‘hat there may be Home good
reason f<*i looking into the action of
Judge Durell iu so grave a matter as the
putting down of one State Government
and the creation of another ; but no paity
consulted seems willing to take the re
sponsibility of tho revision. Wo are told
tlmt "| tho contemplation of law “for
ovoiy wroiig there is a remedy": but it
seems that political wrongs, when sup
ported by the sword, are summurily and
remoiseleasly inflicted, and that legal
remedies are almost inaccessible whtn
avoktd to undo tho work of the bayonet.
President Grant justifies bis employ
ment of the militaiy in the setting U|
a Slate Government in Louisiana, on
plea that lie only interfered when it
taiico wuh made to the edicts of u Fed
Court. But tho truth is, as the jciopl
Louisiana seek to establish by the rt
ion, the Podcrul Court went entirely
<if its jurisdiction in interfering in tbo
mutter at alt. It was a Statu question,
nr.sing under and governed by Stale law i
— being the validity of the appointment
and the acts of a board of Slate convusu-
ers of the election. The State court of
proper jurisdiction, when appealed to,
decided tho question involved in favor of
the bourd appointed l--’ Gov. Wurinoulb
and its returns. ’I ho Federal Judge, sup
ported by Federal bayonets, decided
m favor of another board and its acts
Hero was a conliict of jurisdiction be
tween legal tribunals, and iuatead of
letting it go up for decision to tl
promo Court of tho Uuitcd Slut
President ordered the military to e
tho edict of Judgo Durell. Tho J
jurisdiction prevailed only because
supported by Federal bayonets -
the fight will
ot tin
re energy a
/ Wash/nylon, and i
ihtiiiu better results
AUltani* Jf. f. t otifrrtae*.
This body closed its business and ad
journed on Wednesday.
Revs. E. Wadsworth, A. J. Briggs and
J. W. Hush were selected as the publish
ing committee of tho Now Orleans Chris
tian Advocate.
A sabititutc for the report of tho com
mittee on Education was adopted. It
prop' scs to give the interest annually on
410,000 to the University at Greensboro’,
and the interest on $3,000 to tho Female
Coltego at Tu tike geo. A supplemental ro-
port from tho sumo committee in relation
to the 'i'Uhkegce Female College wuh also
adopted; and Revs. K. 8. Smith, W. M.
Motley, J. Banoroft, J. w. Rush, R. F.
Ligon, W. J. Gautier and J. J. Cobb,
were elected Trustees of tho College.
11. Urquhart, S. II. Dent, G. L. Smith,
W. A. McCarty und M. 8. Andrews were
elected Trustees of the Swuthern Univer
sity.
We copy from tho Eufanla Time* tho
appointments for the sections of tho State
nearest to us:
ONTOOWEUY DISTRICT—W. A. MCARTY, I*. E.
Montgomery Station—E Wadsworth.
Jlorron Street—'I' K Armstrong.
Tuskegefj—T T Mangnm.
Tuskegee Circuit—J W Solomon.
'1 alhissee— M C '1 urrentine.
Minoru—It F Perdue,
Notasiilga L F Dowdell.
Auburn- K L Lovelorn.
Opelika -W M Motley.
Salem- -W H Neal.
Craw fold W W Graham.
iiurtvillo and Silver Run—J S Williams.
Wetiinipku— P H Right foot.
CCFAI I.A DIHTUIOT— W. II. ELLISON, l\ K
Kufuiila Station—K M Bounds.
<ileiinville--T W Dyer.
VjIJnla— II S Woodward.
Beulah— W K Norton.
Elion und Midway—W II Wild.
Perote- W S Turner.
Clayton and Louisville- F E B Shaver.
Henry Circuit J C M Gallun,
White Pond Circuit— J S Muthersnn.
UNION HI’LINOH JilHIIlirr• H. V. UWIlAUi
Union Springs Station J L Cotton.
Union Circuit- C \V Calhoun.
Pino Level E F Blow.
Oluslee Creek < irciiit- J M Johnson.
Rocky Mount Cir nit R L Selnum.
Fort Deposit Circuit W T Norton.
(m onvillu Station- .1 Baikor.
Greenville Circuit—It I! Moss.
IlntledgM Circuit W P II Connorly.
'I ioy u..<1 Briindige I) C Crook.
Troy Circuit A S Dickinson.
Elba Mission J M Brown.
J Hamilton to TihIiuIoohu, N. Ala. Con,
B It Roih to Hiiutsvillo,
C I) Nleliilson to Florida Conferonc.
J Murnhttll Brown to Louisiana Con,
a! i<>
priHed i
«»- Sup.en
Hie de
i Court
i the E<
of the I'll
Louisiana case
of that body i
IStat
And
rrfoi
d the action
celebrated McArdlo ci
court does not dare to take iss
Gen. Grant’s bayonets; and since
vent of (ho now Judges uppoii
Grant it is probalde tlmt a umj
.xurgiiH liiiiuki'il tIn* |i««nir .lown"! I this bench sympathize with the <
v, not only duos tho Supremo i ,1< ‘* H Goveinmeiit, and are r
f the United States refuse to ! ThereTa gnitI'iy.ng re'u-t.o'!."m
:» directly, on tho ground tlmt, no \ „,j m l against the EouiHinua outrage, am
[.resented upon which it can take | even Republican journals arc
1
Important Pont Office KcgiiUiiioM,
From the December number of the
Post Office Gazetto we take a fow extracts
from tho rulings and instructions com
piled from the official records, which may
bo of iuterost to our readers:
There is no provision in the law
for tbo return of engravings or other mat
ter of the third class to the mailing party
tho return postage is paid.
No circular or notice of any kind
containing any writing other than the ad
dress c in no sent by mail except at letter
rates of postage.
Packages of printed matter upon
which there is any writing other than the
address, whether it be a description of the
ntouts, tho name, or simply ihe initials
of the semlor, are subject to letter post-
»K e -
17. Samples of cotton weighing twelve
ounces or less, and so enclosed as to tie
u.ed whbout destroying the
may he transmitted by mull at tne
rate of two cents for each two ounces oi
dion thereof. Samples weighing ovei
lve ounces are subject to letter post
age by mail.
Railway post office cars are requir
ed to receive lot torn up to (lie last moment
before the moving of the traiu.
ill matior pushing by mail at
loss thau letter rates of postage must be
iod by any writing other than
the uddiCM, and must ho wlapped so uh
idmit of examination, otherwise letter
t.-igo must bo charged. To write upon
tho fly leaf of a book subjects it to letter
[joHtftgc l.y wei|{tit.
28. Book pontage is two cents for each
.o ounces or 1 ruction thereof. Such
packages are limited to four pounds.
Other transient printed matter is ono
cent for each two ounces or fraction
thoreof, but when enclosed with a book
tho entire package muHt bo charged at
ihe higher rate, that is, tho book rate of
32. Mailers of samples are permitted to
number the different stylos and qualities
in Jig urea to correspond with a descrip
tive letter to be mailed separately at letter
postage. This may relate to Humpies of
merchandise where such numbering is
necessary to identify the different styles
and qualities.
39. The insertion of a date or any other
writing iu u printed circular subjects it to
letter postage. (July the address may bo
written.
10. IMacing matter in a sealed envelope
with the ends merely notched, is not i
compliance with the laws and regulations
Hucti matter is subject to letter postage,
fit. A letter taken from an office by the
writer after it b«s Voen post marked and
(lie stamps cancelled, is subject to a
postage when presented for remailing
It. Letters may bo forwarded to
party addressed without additional p
age, but in wspapt rs cannot be forwai
except by payment of transient rates
TUB M0MU11 JfYM >!&!>,$.
Letter from Dr. Harrhoa.
What Shall We Believe \
Editors Atbinta Constitution: Having
been prevented from delivering my lec
tures on the “Mental Phenomena of so-
called Spiritualism," by the inclement
woutber of a week or tcu days past, I ask
a place in your columns for a short article
on the general subject.
Both classes of phenomena, the phys
ical and tho mental, which in modern
times have been attributed to the influ
ence of disembodied spirits, have been
known in varit u( parts of tho world, from
the earliest periods of authentic history.
They have played a distinguished part in
theogonies and mythologies of Home,
Greece, India and Egypt. In the early
centuries of the Christian Era they were
generally believed to be tho work of de
mon 1 -’, and injury has been perpetrated by
that belief.
There are several methods of dealing
th these phenomena: First, to deny
them ail, and to answer all testimony with
tho keen sallies of ridicule. This method
will be satisfactory to some minds. The
second plan is to admit the testimony,
receive the statement of facts and pro
nounce the whole business the work of
Saturn This plan has its admirers. The
the
i a p
shotil-l hot l.l
• up.
r.E A request. “t.
l feet right
rd c|„
The Credit Bofcillrr.
[ Special to :!ie Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Washington, December 13.—The con
ducting of the Credit Mobilier investiga
tion m secret gives rise to the most scath
ing condemnation. The committee met
again tbi- morning, and Mr. McComb tes
tified for two hours, and bis testimony
has made a marked sensation. Since the
adjournment of the committee Ames’
friends have been excited and anxious,
while those of Mr. McComb have been
radiant. 'Ihe main points of bis testi
mony were in Affirmation of the evidence
already pubiifhed in the press. The orig
inal letters of Oakes Ames were produced
by him. He swore positively that one of
the members accused received fifty shares
of stock, trorn which he realized $200,000.
In reply to a question from Judgo Po
land, Mr. McComb stated that he had no
hand in making public the proceedings of
his suit in tho Pennsylvania courts, and
would have preferred not to have them
published, as be was on friendly terms
with the members of the Honse who were
inculpated in the (Jakes Ames list.
How Would It Look Farther Sorth!
Here are (saya the New York Tribune
of the 14lhy»-ome salient points in the
lute news from New Orleans:
1. '1 here ; s a dispute as to who is elect
ed Governor of Luuiaiana. Each
Trust C. V> . Wa
third method is to accept tho theory of c i u i, UH the victory; and each siue has a
direct, ah extra Hpirit-tbfluonce. Thii
ctriuo has a multitude of advocates.—
io last method is to rec«ivo statements
of facts cautiously; to verify them if pos
sible ; to take v ell-attested facts and ap
ply to them the known laws of nature,
and if there be no know n law which iden- ^
titles liw If an a cauiie adoqnitto to the tf- “tYto’tiou agsiust .
foct produced, to suspend the judgment. xli lurn • denied,
until tho advancement of human scieuco £t not pretended that Senator Kel-
will supply the desired law. | i 0 , M , WHH nc tuuliy elected Governor. It is
Tho first method admits of no argn- j 0|1 j‘y claimed that he would have been
! Returning Board to certify it.
i 2. One of the candidates, Mr. Kellogg,
1 is now a United States Senator. 'ILe
: Constitution of I. uisiana makes a U. S.
! officer ineligible to the Governorship. It
| is claimed that a case many years ago
edent for construing the Con-
> iunguuge; and this,
Jd by
ity of
q >ot in
„ly
Pomeroy a JJtn-ocrut having, with mi
vo to small mutters, boon anxiously col-
jeting figures to determine whether its
undulate for tho Prosidonoy (Mr.
M’onor) was Miorossfiil ill tho Into eloo-
ioii, has gathered up more of the vote
or that nominee than we have soon in
iiv other compilation. Wo therefore
opy it below, witli the remark tlmt aov-
iral other States are to hear from, and
siHsibly they will run up the aggregate
JConor vote to thirty thousand- enough
o lmve curried a small State for him,
oiild tin v havt been concentrated there:
reguto of Iff, Mi
banner State,
U So far
and will
ohuhlv remain
'J lie New \ork 7hntltl (a papor friendly
to Grants Administration) thus states
the difficulties which the Government of
Louisiana, imposed by Federal power
upon an unwilling people, will encounter :
“The l’iuchback Government is thus
temporarily iubttiUed iu office by tho active
aid of the Federal troops, but it has not a
pleasant prospect before it. Apart from
the few whites who are interested politi
cally in its success, and the negroes it can
control by money or other menus, it is
utterly without a following iu the Slate.
'i he militia refused to rocoguizo its autho
rity and defied its uruiod polico, yielding
only to the Federal troops. Tho pooplo
are united against it, and will no doubt
contest ilH right to levy taxes or to do any
legislative net. While it holds on to its
usurped authority it cun only bring con
fusion, trouble und discredit upon the
State. Without tho Federal Government
lit their backs Kellogg, l’iuchbnck und
their a; . n*into8 could not remain iu power
n single day, and every hour of their rule
will bo mi iu jury to the pooplo of Luu-
ibinua.
“Leo" writes from Wusbiugtun to the
Charleston i ■ • ' r that the President’s
salary will undoubtedly be increased to
i»50,000 a year at tho present session.
If tho increase of salary is limited to
the Frchidcutinl office, it is perhaps well
enough. But there is reason to fear that
the advance iu this caso will be sue
fully urged us a reason for a general
advance of the salaries of Government
officials.
A comparative table, made up by the
Chicago Jut*r-ih'mn of tho 15th inst.,
shows that the price of livo hogs is now
gff.C.Va 4.tMi per hundred, against $4.15(n
4.50 at tho suiuo date of lust year and
the price of green shoulders and
of clear aidos against 4S and
resj'octively last year. There is every
prospect of cheaper meats.
l»iTuii(iliit( the Cutluu Tax.
Washington, Doc. IS.—The Commit
tee o.. \V »ys and Means are to have a ses
.non to-moi row for the purpose of hear
ing argument on the subject of refund-
jug the cotton tax. lion. Herschel V.
JubuMju, ot Georgia, will represent
the claimants. It i* apparent that the
frivuds of the measure will use their best
endeavor* to have it passed at this session,
h is equally apparent that its opponents
are allcady’ui lively at work to prevent u
Juir c insub iatiou of its merits by charg
ing that huuie of the original claiuuui's
have fatigued their claims, and also by
greatly uv r-sluting the sum which the
measure will take from tho Fedeiul treas
ury. —L'JuiunlU - Cou rur.
National School of Mines in Geoh-
..ix—On the fftli mst. Hon. W. F. Price,
M. O., ttoui the Sixth Georgia District,
introduced a bill to establish u national
school of mines in the North Georgia Ag
ricultural College at Dohionega, Georgia,
to provide for the selection of a faculty
for Ihe same, and appropriate money for
the support and maintenance thereof;
wfeieh was read a first and second time,
arjred to the Committee on Mines and
■hui ordered to ho printed.
junsdiution, but it signitUm its utter in
diff'erunoo to tho law and equitiosof the
case by leaving it to the dhoroliou of one
of its Judges to go or not to go to Lou
isiana to revise the actum of Judge Du-
roll, when urgently solicited by many of
the host citizens and the displaced Statu
authorities to delegate him for tlmt pwr-
I’ruly it has become a serious and
perplexing question whether tbore is now
icdy in this country for uny act
sustained by ita military power.
n Washington correspondent of the
iinati Commercial says: “Mr. Me-
ion, the Clerk of the House, has pre
pared, ho far iih possible at this time, tho
f the next House of Rcpresenta-
'1 lie full uiouihcr.Hh\p will be 2J2.
The Democrats or opposition must have
thcrcfoio ninety-eight votes to break the
thirds mnjoiity of the Republicans.
Thus far tin' DuinoerutH have eighty-nine
and New Hampshire and Connecti
cut have yet to elect their members. 'The
relative strength here given does not also
Buie the members from Florida, Louis
iana. or West Virginia, these being sub-
t to future decision. 'There is a prospect
that livo, or at most six Democrats may
tie added, making in all ninety-live, or
loss than a third of tho member
ship.”
Jay Louis unit the brio.
*i he following is telegraphed to us as
Jav Gould’s sta.einoct of his relations with
the Erie Railroad * omp'il'v, heretofore
kept concealed, and of the settlement
which he proposes to make with the Com
pany. )t is not a matter that much con
us of the South, as wo have littlo
st in tho triumph of oUlior set of
slmrpers; but we suppose that we must
keep the l’U.T’ of the thing, us one of the
‘uiulolouH sensations of oer more
gldeouH bro.Ino i of tin* North:
He stated tlmt since his resignation of
io Presidency ho hml boon prepared to
make conveyances to the Company of
perty belonging to it which he held iu
name, but to which l e snvs he never
made i uy claim. During his luluiiuistiii-
tion lio made various p.uclmses of prop
erty for the Company with monies of his
own, the benefit of which accrued to the
Rord upon the consti«uniou placed by Mr.
Watson. Ou his accounts ho was charged
w'th all these monies. He believed the
properties in question belonged to him,
and if they were now transferred he
should bo ci edited with their value. Ow-
i*'g to the state in which he was compelled
io leave his accounts on his withdrawal
from tee company, and the loss of hit
aceoeut book, some things remaiued tin
o:.plained. Tue vaUous pieces of run
estate ill dispute, therefore, he pioposei
to convoy to the Company, and in nddi-
i:'ou the Grand Opera House and adjacent
property owned by bimself and Fisk. I
do this, he says, for tlie sake of peace.
Mr. Watsou thereupon replied that lie
considered this a fair offer, und would at
once lay tho subject before the speciul
committee.
Gould yesterday made the following
statement to a Reporter: Siuco tho Erie
war my object has been to obtain a series
of roads, under practically one manage
uient, ftom New York to San Francisco,
and in this wav obtain a fair share of all
traffic on the intervening route, and that
which accrues at either terminus.
Gould’s object seems now to bo to en
hance the price of Erie stock, to the cud
that he may bo measurably re-iiuhuraed,
Tho Democrats of Bibb county, ou
Tuesday, nominated tho following ticket
for county offices : Sheriff—George F.
Cherry; Tax Collector—B. A. Cain ; Tax
Receiver—M. G. Clark; County Treas
urer— Milo S. Freeman ; County Sur
veyor—Thoa. Butler; Coroner—A. Dew
berry. _
Mrs. Dobbs, wife of the juror whose
death oaused a mistrial in the Malone case
at Atlanta, died duriug tho progress of
the second trial of tho same case.
ning the administration. They begin
m*o t lmt iu putting the army at (tie bock
i call of the robbers in Loiiisinnn they
i not certain to bo sustained, and they
apprehensive tlmt the known jmlg
cut ot tlm Imsii
of New (Me
1 the representations f tho committee
one hundred citizens will make the
vornmciit proceedings odious. So
i. h do they feel the sires* of their posi-
i-day the Attorney General luih
the extraordinary stop of furn-
ii tlmt t
lolled t(
ishing Ihe
dated I
»f the President's
out broadcast ovei
ile garbles and pen
a it h a Io
id the Ann
defei
chon, which is to bo
t thi
matter, is not to bo regarded by postui:
tors, unless they .ire furnished with ad
tional postage at transient rates for mi
purpose. Neither is a request to forwa
such matt, r to bo r. garde.i, unless aceoi
I with money or poHtngo stamps f
iding at transient rates.
many when wo stoutly determine to dis
believe tho statements of credible wit- j
nesaes. J, for example, have never scon I
a table and its contents, weighing over
throe hundred pounds, move across tho ,
liwor without a visible cause. Jtnt one of
tho first men of Franco, of Europe, and of
the age, affirms that ho soon this wonder
ful performance. What am 1 to do? Shall
J assert II at tho stoiy is fills--, when M.
Arago states it to be true ? Shall I place ,
my limited experience against tho testi- j
inony of a man whoso contributions to
science have not been excelled iu number |
and importance by uny philosopher of the
iffih c-ntiiiy?
On tho J Gill of February, 18M5, M.
Arago presented a papor to the Paris
Academy of Sciences. In that paper,
among tho strange phenomena produced
by Angchquo Cottin. the following occur:
“As had boon observed the lir-vt day, tf
she attempted to sit, the scat was thrown
Jar from her, with such force that any
Uliii-r Iirrmiu ORCUPJIIIK it woh oarriitl
o«iiy uilh it. Ono ili.y ft chORt, ti|mn
wliiclt iLieo ronn weru hoaidl, mur ii.uvutl
in tho same manner. Another day, al
though the chair was held l.y two very
»ng men, it was hroken b. tween their
ids. Him cau touch no object without
..king it, or throwing it upon the
und. All tho articles of furnitu-e
her garments touch uie displaced
opponents deny that
any wore hindered.
I. 'Iho State Court sustains Kellogg’s
opponent; tho United States Circuit
Judgo sustains Kellogg. On this tho
United States troops are pledged to sus
tain Kellogg, hy tho Attorney-General,
speaking for ihe National Administration.
SuppuhO these things were done in Ken
tucky, or Maiyh id, instead of Louisiana ?
Tl.o SmI<- at < lm|>i>».|ua.
d»y.
UK-ill
low |>
th
uuciiou Halo at Cbappaqua y enter-
f l ve Stock, agricultural imple-
and household furuiluro, brought
iocs nnd an aggregate of loss than
saud i’o'Iuih. Tho famous old
nty- o ir years old was sold for
The Hi man Ei-i/oo-i
For several days tho pi
resembling tbo epIZoot
in Atlanta. Physician*
ty to forty patients on<
treatment. Several f
with it. It is an itdlu
dinary character. 'I he disease
in by a cold stago resembling a .
throat, onlargomont of tho gl
inllammation ot tho mucous me
I Ml
with it under
il.es arc down
u not of the or-
Hease is ushered
dull ;
mds, <
nhran
the
id hi
ehta fo
laud
rts tho facts already
0 puhlic, Speaks of
, .lack Wharton (one of the State cau
sers) iih a “follow" who says that tho
Piiichhuck hoard oauvasHod returns which
they novor saw or hoard of. TlioAttor-
y General does not dare to utgue tlmt
Durell had tho power to control a Stuto
hut it is behoved that all of
Durell s proceedings woro concerted hero
t Grant's hrothor-iu-luw to
tho United States Senate.
Why Mr. Lm-ley** Will U (onli-Mcl- The
Itt-UNoii tar 1‘i.lliiu (aHii\ al tin- ll.-u.l
ai' I he Trillion*.
Tho Washington correspomlent of tho
('iiiciunali Coimueroial throws some light
aiiso of contest over tho will of
iley, and tho purpose for which
Colfax ih to bo umdo editor of tho Tribune,
lio writes:
The pending law suit over tho two wills
left by Mr. Greeley is pretty well ascer
tained to bo a contest to obtain control of
tho Tribune. Tho story is, that as soon
as Mr. Greeley died Mr. Sinclair set about
bringing tho Tuhuuo under his control,
nnd wrote to Schuyler Colfax off ering tho
position of editor-in-chief to him at toil
thousand dollars a your. Mr. Colfax de
clined, Iml said that perhaps twenty
thousand dollars would bo an inducement.
It then became necessary to buy up tho
ten shares of stock controlled by tho
Misses Greeley, in order to uecuro a pro
per majority.
Senator Conk’mg agreed to put up tho
money, urd sotting out with ono hundred
thousand dollars in hand, Mr. Sinclair
called on the .’omig ladies, but they re
fused, having promised allegiance to
Whilelaw Roul, who some time beforo
had detected t o dUTt of things. Sinclair
thought of il’O fo iuor will of Mr. Greeley,
and dotei aimed to oattlank Reid by con
testing tlio olhci document ou tbo ground
of the insoaity o tho testator at tho timo
it was drawn. T.r s proceeding ties up
tou shares, nr-1 gives tho Sinclair party
ccn.'rol of li t* old, r* least for tho pres
ent. Mr. Re d cun Kies in tho editorin'
chair as us ial, writ • -, tl tu.u of oveuts.
Mr. S’nelair's euiof il'v isJ. C. Ayer, of
Low o’I, who has boon a Grant man
throughout. s also said that ono of
tho ooudii oils of Colfau and h's Senato
rial friends, mni'e with Sinclair, is that n
clean awcep of the prose at editorial staff
shall bo made, aua also of tho Washington
bureau.’’
Tlu> Federal A|i|iolatuieiila.
Wo have undoubted and reliable inf*
tuatioti to tho effect that there will bo a
general change in the custom house and
post office department of this city, aud
the “head lights" who have swung so high
n<o now looking auxlously nrouud for u
soft berth in some other quarter. Thos<
changes w’ll be made 4u several of th«
offices beforo the first of March, wo un
derstand, possibly in January. Tho Col-
lectorsbip of tho Port will bo, if it lias
not already been, tendered to Robert Er
win, Esq., of this city. Tho names of
tho other new appointeos wo are compell
ed by pledge to withhold for tho pro
at il only mention that the Collectorship
of Internal Revenue, w 11 also bo be
stowed upo i a Ha) at reel business gouile-
luau. Our information comes i’i ongh
Washington official circl and may 1
lied upon as authentic. Toe names of the
other “fortunate ones" will be g?
soon as wo are relieved f’ om the pledge
of rileuce.—Saennua/t Ac,r*.
The IT.oiuda Leoislati uk.—Tho Tal
lahossee Floridian says that owing to th<
uou-arrival of the election returns from
the conuty of Brevard the vote of that
county was not cauvassed by the board of
State cauv.issors.
Brevard olooted a Conservative Senator
aud Representative, am* tho Floridian
says that upon the assembling of the Lcg-
islatuso the vote will be couuted and tho
Souator and Representative allowed to
take their . oats.
The Floridian adds: “On a fair and
full representation, thou, the Senate ia
tie, aud iu tho Assemblv the Republicans
have a majority of throe. When it is
considered that there are Borne members
counted as Republicans who may not al
ways be governed by party, the situation
is not entirely without hojw,"
headache and generally constipated Imw-
cls, with fever for the first day or two
supervenes. Jn mimic instances the dis
ease terminates in piunmouia, and seiue-
times in rheumatism. Though alwajs
painful, the dlHoa»u is rarely fatal. It lusts
from two to sovou days. 'I he disease
yields icadily to purgatives, foot baths,
quinine and opiates. Children sutler less
than adults, except where the dtseuso ter
minates iu croup.—Atlanta Const.
The St. Eottii
The old-tin
and pork spi
ert In
i he--.
• Hu
ord-
not of i
■put ual ,S
i lgr
■ •rant
dupe, but of the [ ^
ihe Frouch Academy of Sciences. C.m j
wo refuse to accent h:» slat inuut of
flictft ?
iu the year lH.'H, in the town of Wood-
bridge, Now Jersey, strange n »isoH were
heard in the house of a Mr. Joseph Bar- ,
roll. Window glasses were broken, thun
dering aounds, as of a heavy mallet strik- .
mg aguiliht the walls of tho house, pro- ( , r
during noises heard a hundred yards ^
from tho house ; doors ties open violent- [
any of tho phon
iollars.
Hub-suil plow, too heavy for lour yok
oxen, whs knocl.od down for sixty cents.
(Min r patent plows piosentod to Mr.
Greeley by invoiitors woro sold at prices
ranging from forty to sixty cents each.
Mr. Greeley's fawn .o old so’rt-1 mure
brought twenty-seven dollars. Miss Ida
Greeky s black ponies were bid in hv her
representative tor ono hundred ai d sixty
dollars. An Alderney bull, valued at six
hundred dollars, wi.s sold for thirty dui
lair*; two yoke of oxen for sixty-two and
ninety-two dollars respectively, and five
eows at an average of twenty-five d.dials
ea h. Mr. Greeley's daughters will rent
the laruj ou shures next joar.
Lr\£Bi*ooL, November ?0, 1872.
Daring the past week there has been a
good trade demand, but only a small de
mand for export or speculation. Prices
have rob'd in favor of sellers. Oar quo*
t..tions given aH above, show an advance
duting the week of 1-1 (Id. to ^d. ou
American—the larger figures ou tho low
er grades—^d. on Brazils, \d. on Egyp
tian, while Snrats are unchanged.
The bales of the Week, including for
warded sum up to 80,7W) bales, namely :
8,750 on speculation, 0,770 declared for
export, and 07,240 to the trade.
In Cotton to arrive a full average busi
ness has bten done: and prices for Amer
ican have improved ab^ut 1-1 (id. per lb.
To-day there is very little offering, and
but few transactions reported, but we
quote, based on last sales, American basis
middling,good ordinary cluuse, shipments
from any port, November 1* 7-10J.; No
vember December, and later months up
to March-April ffjjd. Direct shipments
from New Orleans or Galveston aru sitle-
ablu at 4<T to 5-10d. advance ou the quo
tations from “any port."
the position, E’.C.
On tbo 25th instant public telegrams
from America reported that the Agricul
tural Bureau’s estimate of the crop was
3.450.000 bales, of tho average weight of
4<»1 lbs. per bale. 'This has given rise to
quite a controversy here, und it is vari
ously contended that this means from
3,(100,000 to 3,700,0(K) bales of nr ••aye
iceight. A telegram from New York re
ports that “'The Now York Cotton Ex
change committee mako production
3.022.000 halos, calculated st 442 lbs. per
bale, against Bureau’s 3.150,(KM), at 405
lbs." 'ihe average weight of 4G5 lbs. pjr
bale, os given by the Bureau, we under
stand to mean gross weight, and if we
deduct (I per cent, for bagging and bands
—tho customary calculation—wo have
437 lbs. net weight per bale, as agsiust
438 lbs. tho estimated net weight of
American cotton imported into this port
last year, as per the last annual circular
of tho Cotton Broke;s’ Association. Wo
Lave been somewhat surprised to hoar it
contended (hat the figures of the Brokers’
circular refer to gross weight, nnd to sat
isfy ourselves on this point we have ques
tioned an ©x-Prci-ident of tho Associa
tion, who has lor some years post made
out tho figures, and he assured us tho
net uea 0 nt is given.
'Ihe New \otk Commercial a ad finan
cial ChronicJe in its issue of tho '.Uh inst.
estimates tho crop at 3,(i<*0.0<>() bales by
one calculation, and 3,li40,< 00 by nnothei.
Now as this agrees so nearly with popular
abft/Ut two hundred and iiity imies. The
plain is uniformly level, its width varies
from fifty to sixty miles, and it is bordered
by mountains of great height, with many
perpendicular peaks. About eighty miles
from the mouth of the river the travelers
lound upon the plain
THE UKMAINS OF XIAbTODONB,
nnd on clearing away the snow in a place
where tusks were visible, they brought to
light the enormous body of one of the j
animals of an extinct race, in a perfect 1
state of preservation. The skin was cov
ered with black and streaked hair, very
long and thick on the back. The tusks
measured eleven feet eight inches in
length, and were curved up to a level with
the monster’s eyes. The animal was in a
kneeling posture, the front legs being
Lent, while the hind parts were deeply
imbedded in the snow, indicating that the
mastodon bad perished in struggling to
get out of a mire hole or snow drift.
’j HE MAS'. ODON IDENTICAL WITH THE
ELEPHANT.
Prof. Newcomb could not find any
special churacteiistics distinguishing the
extinct mastodon from the elephant of
to-day. lie took from the stomach somo
specimens of bark and herbs, the naturo
of which he could not analyze on the spot.
For tbo space of many miles tbo plain
wus covered with the remains of masto
dons, indicating that a numerous drove of
these gigantic animals had there perished,
owing to some sudden change or convul
sion of nature. This region abounds in
polar bears, which devour the remains of
the mastodons.
About ono hundred aud twonty miles
from the coast, and half a league from the
river, rises an ice mountain, about one
thousand feet in height, the base of which
is surrounded by gravel and rocks deeply
imbedded in the soil. The smoothness of
theso rocks and their rounded form prove
that they were nt one time in the bed of
a river, from which they have been cast
; up by some strange phenomenon. Arctia
I animals are numerous in the volley, and
! myriads of arctic birds fly about tho river
j and its banks.
I’llEPARlNO TO DISCOVEH A TOLAR SEA.
At the date of these dispatches M. Pavy
w as preparing to winter under the seventy-
fifth degree of north latitude, in the val
ley of tho great river of the polar conti
nent. Ho had begun to lay in provision*
and fuel. Both ho atul his companions
woro in good health und courage, and
wire confident of arriving, duriug tho
coming season, nt a great polar sea, of
moderate temperature, at the extreme
north of the continent.
The To
of < iiij.tc) .
'lh's ia to bo tho nuu
5 of
now towa
imnu-nas I aftilniMOft on on the North ft„d South ItftUroftd. about
f prospective supplies
i.ttimales the consuuipt
a America this season at 1,250,000 bal
r 117,(HK) bales in excess of the averi
f the post two years. CouGdering
Mkiiiodh in Pouk-Pai
Democrat says:
u methods of pork-packing
‘illation are nq .illy passing
ceased to be profitable for
packers to borrow money in the full for
purchasing hogs during the slaughtering
season and pay interest on the capital in-
sted till high prices in the spring or
summer following. 'Tho period of high
prices does not return with the encourag
ing regularity that used to assure tho
packer of a profitable market for
his stock, and the day is uot far distant
when pork-packing will bo generally car
ried on like nulling and other branches
of business overy day in the year. Tho
issful packers in the country
me those who huvo adopted the summer
packing system, iu which, by moans of
oe, their packing and curing rooms uro
kept cool during the hottest months of
the your. Some establishments now kill
and pack an average of ono thousand
hogs per day throughout tlie year, aud al-
owing the very small profit of oue dollar
>er In g tbo aggregate is jniimm.se. The
lost ot tho ice used iu the process does
lot exceed tho interest paid by winter
packers who carry their stocks on bank
renewals, niul the freshness of his meats
always gives the summer packer au ad
vantage iu the market.
Senator Norwood on the Great Ca-
ki..—Tho accompanying letter addressed
by Senator Norwood to a citizen of Rome,
appears in the Commercial of that city:
Washington, D. C., Dec. 10, 1872.
Dear Sin—Yours of tho tffh inst., on
ioning proceedings of a mooting of the
citizeus of Rome, (la., on tho subject of
polling tho Coosa river and constructing
the Atlantic and Great Western canal, is
ceivcd.
1 can only say at prosout that I will
cry effort 1 can to accomplish both
i»rks. As to the prospect of securing
aid for either enterprise at an early day, 1
au say nothing now. I think, however,
an appropriation for the Coosa duriug this
>n is uot improbable. The other en
terprise is vast, and will bo scutinized
closely and long, 1 apprehend, before
tho general government will take hold of
1 believe its accomplishment is a
fixed fact, though uncoitaiu as to time.
It is gai’iiug favor daily.
Your frieud,
T. M. Norwood.
Unprecedented Federal Interven
tion.—[From the Springfield, lud.. Re
publican. J—Tho situation, then, is this:
The Government of Louisiana has been
completely subvoilcd uud revolutionized
by un exercise of Federal power without
uny precedent in our history. The Fed
eral Administration is fully committed to
the support and justification of tho pro
ceeding, ami stands ready to maintain tho
new government by physical force if nec
essary. The Sunremo Court, if tho opin
ion of tho best lawyers may be taken as
foreshadowing its action, will say that tho
urn: ter is outside of its jurisdiction. The
people of the Stato protest, but for the
momout they are powerless to do anything
more. The country looks ou with sur
prise and anxiety, hardly knowiug as yet
w hat to think, but feeling the gravity of
the crisis and wondering what will be
come of it.
The New York World calls attention to
some facts which show how careless we
are as a people about principles, while we
are great sticklers about men. For in
stance: In New York i*t the last election
Dix aud Keruau polled between them
833,787 votes; at the some time a ques
tion involving, or supposed to involve, a
direct tax of $tJ.(UK>,iHH> was submitted,
aud but 110,323 votes in nil were cost
tln reou. Iu Virginia, at the same general
election, 100,710 votes were cast foe Con
gressmen, and but 30.4*32 ou an article
amendatory of the State cousdtrtiou in so
important a poiut as tho rato of interest
on money. In Wisconsin the aggregate
President’.ul vote was 101,207, nnd but 43,
027 votes were east for or against a con
stitutional amendment changing the corn-
position of the State Supreme Court.—
Everywhere, if the issue be Republican
Roe against Democratic Doe a full vote
comes out, but when this principle or that
is iu question iuou fail to vote. Why ?
ly.«
ing Angelique Cottin were observed. '1 ho
cause was tint same. A servant girl was
tho nervous “medium’ in the case.
In the year 1850, at Stratford, Conn.,
tho house of Rev. Dr. Phelps became the
scene of similar occurrences. “'The phe
nomena consisted," says Dr. Phelps, “in
the moving of articles of furniture in a
iiirttinor tlmt could not be accounted for.
Knives, forks, spoons, nailH, blocks of
wood, etc., woro thrown iu different di
rections about the house. 'They wore
seen to move from places and directions
whn h made it certain that no visible
Dower existed by which the motion could
lueed. For days and wooks to
gether 1 watched these strange move
ments \\ it 1> all the care, and caution, and
close attention, which i could bentos’. J
witnessed them hundreds of times, and I
know that in hundreds of instances they
took place when there was no visible
power by which the motion could have
been produced. Scores of persons of the
first standing iu the community, whoso
education, gemrd intelligence, candor,
veracity and Hound judgmuut none will
question, were requested to witness the
phenomena, nnd, if possible, help us to a
solution of the mystery.’ A writer iu the
Now Haven Journal was an eye-witness
to the following: “While wo were
there,’’ he says, “tho contents of the
pantry were emptied into the kitchen,
and bi gs of sail, tin ware, and heuvier
culinary articles weio thrown in a promis
cuous beup upon tho tloor with u loud
and startling noise. Loaves of doliciuus
cake were scattered about the house.—
The large knocker of tho outside door
would thunder its fearful tones through
the loud-resounding hull, uuiuimiful of
the vain but rigid scrutiny to which it
was subjected by incredulous aud curious
mull. Chairs would deliberately move
across the room, uuimpcllcd by any visi
ble agency. Heavy uiarblu-top tables
would poise themselves upou two legs,
aud then fall with tlieii contents to the
tloor, no human boiug within six feet of
them.”
Now, horo is matter for thought or mer
riment, according to cue's humor. Wo
lmve seen uouo of theso things: tho.e-
foro wo uiay reject them as fables. But
the recent occurrences at Surroucy, in
Georgia, aud luter still, iu Charleston, S.
0., admonish thoughtful men. Tho fre
quency of these phenomena is a pregnant
tact to tho studout of history. Unex
plained, uniuvestigated, they supply ali
ment to the craving of superstition. Un-
checked, they contribute to the produc-
tiou of the greatest scourge that cau
afflict our race, a nervous epidemic. To
attribute these straugo occurrences to the
agency of demons is to fan tho tlaiuo of
uervous appreheusiou, and to prepare tho
way for a revival of frenzy which raged
in the memorable days of witchcraft. To
receive tho preteutiouH of “spiritualism"
is to igunre tho claims of sober reason.
Wo are shut up, then, to a single course—
investigation aud explanation of tho phe
nomena. To ascertain, if we can, the
natural laws that produce tho p»heuomena
—to classify the fuels, und determine the
conditions precedent aud accouipauyiug
tho demonstrated occurrences—theso 1
regard to be paruinouut duties.
Having been myself, to some extent, a
subject of abnormal experience in regard
to this nervous force, I feel it to be my
duty to contribute whatever I may to the
getieral treasury of knowledge upon these
subjects. I firmly believe that out of the
di*jt eta membra now scattered over tho
world will one day be constructed
a beautiful organism, that will give
its potent influeuce to the enoblement of
our race.
At a favorable time, then, of which due
notice will be given, 1 will, provideuce
permitting, deliver tlio lectures hereto
fore advertised. Due notice of time and
place will be given. Perhaps in a few
days I may be permitted tu use an illus
tration one of the most wouderful cases
of cataleptic claiivoyauce that has ever
challenged the faith of mank.nd.
W. P. Haluson.
Atlanta, December 18, 1872.
bales a
tho question
Tbo Chronicle
of cut»
i lb.
tbo ;
Can’t he Done.—Tbo foretold procla
mation of Secretary Borio or more prop
erly “Bore, commanding cadets to treat
with respect the negro c YL at Annapolis
is another sign of the times, 'lho dis
tinction of race cannot bo ignored—can
not be destroyed. '1 ho blacks would not
allow to lie destroyed if the whites were
r io degraded enough to do so. —
• ven Pinchbeck nunounced the oth-
i or • : .hut his duty to bis “race" reijuir-
1 ed 1 in o reject Wariiioutb s alleged prof-
i fer of a bribe. Ills honor, if he bail any
was sufficient ; but he only gave utter-
| ance to an irrepressible feeling when he
introduced the word race. Mr. Borie
may inveigh ; but tho gallant youngj
j white rudets will not acknowledge the
. equality he proposes to enforce. V
i the negroes in tbo majority in this lund
J thoy would not ullovv a white cadet to en-
| ter the Acaden ’it AnDopolis. If it is
i denied, wo roYr to St. Domingo, Hayti,
{ and Liberia, ’me whites are under tho
i bau in them ell. 1 i Liberia, for instance
I no mun can own a foot of land who has
I not negro blood iu his veins, und no man
• can vote who does not own land.
I 'The question of race will not down.—
Secretary Borie cannot put it down. Both
the most distinctive races iu this land will
resist any measure for its suppression.—
Jiichniond Dispatch.
An Arkansas letter ou tho November
election in that State says :
Prairie township, in which I live, I fool
warranted in saying (allowing every legal
voter to register and vote under the law
of 1838), would poll at least two hundred
jtos. Numbers wero orased from tho
•gistratiou books who woro registered at
the review, and after tho board rose their
appeared not to ho completed.
They went out to Childers’ Mountain, and
hero completed their fiendish work of
rasing names, uutil there appoarod oti
the day of election only eighty registered
voters iu tho township. But this is not
nil. After the olectiou was over, and tho
poll book had been duly scaled up, Mr.
William Bruzell, oue of the judges of the
election at Prairie precinct, i *id Mr. Ed
Harbor, the Radical candidate for Sheriff,
were caught in a corn crib at Carrollton,
with tho poll books actually broken open.
Disabilities.—Senator Norwood of
Georgia, says the Baltimore Sun of Mon
day, will, at the first favorable opportu
nity, move to take up the bill prepared by
Senator Hill and himself at the last ses
sion, to remove the disabilities of some of
the few prominent Georgians who are yet
under the ban of political jproscription.
Among the names in the bill are those of
Geucrul LaFayette McLaws, ex-Senator
Iverson, the Hons. Lucius J. Gartrell, M.
J. Crawford and J. W. H. Underwood.
The friends of some of these gentlemen
named in the bill are anxiona to present
their names to the Georgia Legislature
for the position of United States Senator,
which cannot be done until their disabili
ties are removed.
llKrovery of a Nrw nnd Kconomlral Fart.
Ou Monday nnd Tuesday afternoon a
large number of citizeus, by invitation,
visited the brass fouudry of Mr. W. T.
Garnett, on Fremont street, for the pur
pose of wit easing some experiments with
a new fuel recently invented ami patented
by Dr. Irelaud, of Watsonville, in this
State. They were showu into that por
tion of the establishment occupied by tho
furnaces, and iu one cornor found a brick
furnace some eight foot long and six feet
high. On the top of this was an iron
tank holding about ten gallons, which was
filled with crude petroleum. From tins
tank a pipe about an inch and a half in
diameter led into the 6ide of the furnace.
A small jet of oil, not larger than a small
goose-quill, was permitted to tlow out of
this tube; a light is placed beneath this
jet aud it immediately ignites. Another
pipe about au inch in diameter leads from
a steam boiler stationed some fiftoen feet
away. This pipe leads a small jet of
steam upon the burning oil, aud the mo
ment tho steam strikes the oil the oxygen
in .ho water is set *rce and ignites with a
tremendous roar, generating in a very
few moments a most intense white heat.
From this small source the entire cham
ber the furnace, which is some two feet
by five feet, is tilled with a flame so bril-
liaut nnd dazz’ing that one cannot gaze
on it for more than a moment at a time.
This ffauie possesses all the beat of an or.y-
bydiogeu tl une. and beneath its fieri e
power tho hardest metals melt in a few
momeuts. The inventor of tho apparatus
by which the elements of heat, which na
ture so generously provides, can be util
ized, is a very modest mau, saying that
be did uot want to bring his discovory be
foro the public until he had fully demon
strated that it would do all he claimed for
it. He says that the cost of his furnaces
will l>e only a nominal sum—that they
will be the reach of every one who
owns a quartz ledge, whilo the amount of
oil consumed in twenty-four hours will
not evceed ten gallons, at a cost of $2.
Tne Doctor has every confidence in his
discovery, and declares his ability to fur
nish fuel for a voyage of one of the Pana
ma steamers to and from Panama for the
insignificant sum of $200, while the entire
quantity will not weigh to exceed twenty-
fivju tons, lie f.itthcr says that at an ex
pense of $5 per day he can run furnaces
that will smelt one ton of ore every thirty
minutes. If one-half of what is claimed
can be accomplished, the discovery will
prove of incalculable advantage to the
mining interests of the Pacific coast, and
will create a revolution in ateam travel
throughout the world.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The report that
Colfax has accepted the editorship of the
New York Tribune is erroneous. He has
to-day replied to many inquiries that the
negotiations on the subject have not re
sulted in any agreement, and that yester
day by mutual consent they were regard
ed terminated. He leaves to-morrow to
spend the holiday recess with hie family
West.
goods by tho retell
biLuil stocks of c-jIIou held by spinners on
1st tSeptembei last, and tho rapid increase
of m tchinery employed,this estimato docs
not appear excessive. This would leave
2,375,OUO bales for shipment to Europe
this season as against 1,957,ikl() bales last
season, an increase of 418,()()*> bales. But
tho shipments to all Europe from 1st Sep
tember lust, to 22d inbuilt, are about i i*-
000 bales iu exc-HHM of same period lust
year, leaving ouly 300,000 bah” excess to
be shipped up to the close of next August
as compared with the corresponding peri
od lost season.
'Tho next question is, how stands tho
supply of Ann rican in und afloat tor Eu
rope now, and at this time last year ?
This is shown hy the following table, iu
which we have added to the estimated
stock in Liverpool lust year the correction
made at the close of Deccmbc r :
1871. 1872.
Stock iu Liverpool this
date 113,000 51,000
Afloat for Liverpool this
date 142,000 122,(KM)
St(‘ •’« in Continental p ts
22d instant 91,000 32,000
All it for Continental
ports 22d ’’ist 43,000 137,000
Total 322,000 372,000
Horo wo have a deficit this year of 20,-
0(H) bales, which deducted from the 300,-
000 bales excess yet to bo shipped lroiu
America, as shown above, and wo have a
surplus of only 280,000 bales. But- aud
it is important to bear this point in mind
last week pointed out that European
spinners must have hold then at least
180.000 bales less thau at bamu time tho
before. Now, if we assume that
280.000 of this deficit consisted of Ameri
can—and this assumption would, we sup
pose, bo voiy nearly correct —the outlie
excess for this so:.Huu, as compared with
lust, disappears. Iu other words, wo are
iu to the following conclusion: If
tho American crop of this so isoii amounts
325,000 bales, and American spin
ners require 1,250,500 bales of this, the
dual quantity of American cotton avail
able to supply the wants of Europe from
uow until autumu will he about the same
i tho past season.
But let us go a little further, upon
hich we have based these culculatm
should be 100,0(H) to 150,000 bales too
small; this would, in some measure, bo
offset by the fact that wo this y
coived our maximum stock of Snrats
three mouths earlier than lost year (22d
August this, and 23d November lost year
and we havo consequently hud thru
months more time to cull it over nnd get
nt the desired parcels; besides which,
the doniand for Snrats, for some months
post, has necessarily been large, owing to
tho scarcity of American. Our stocks of
Snrats being, therefore, inferior in quali
ty to lust year, consumption is likely to
bo thrown about us largely upou Ameri
can ns it was two years ago. Ou the oth
er hand, should the estimate of tho hurt
prove to be correct the supply from now
until next nutumn will bo le*s than last
season, and insufficient for our probable
wants.
A VALLEY OF XASTOlHttS.
ThouMmil ttrvl High.
Flora
* Uni*.]
The ship Cadmus has arrived nt San
Francisco ou its return voyage from the
Arctic ocean, whither it has goue to col
lect the remnants of the shipwrecked
whaling fleet. On the 29th of September
the Cudtnus received from tho cap.aiu of
whaler George Robbius certain dis
patches addresed to the French Geograph
ical society by oar countryman, M. Fuvy,
now ou au expedition to tho North l’ole.
These despatches are dated on the 23d of
August, ou the eastern coasts of Wrangcl
Laud. We present an analysis of the lu
teresting documents which have been
brought by tbe Cadmus :
The expedition, composed of M. Oc
tave Pavy, Profs. Thomas Newcomb and
Henry Edwards of San Francisco, M.
Jean Bruit, and four seamen, lauded on
the IMh of Juue on tbe eastern coast of
Holyuchin Bay. On tbe 23d of June the
explorers, reinforced by eleven natives,
started in tbe direction of the east, Along
the north bank of the Siberia, having
provided themselves with sleds and dogs.
On the 17th o' July they reached the
mouth of the river Petrolitz. Near the
mouth of this river they encountered
IMMENSE F ELDS OF ICE MOVINO
in a northeasterly direction. They trav
ersed one single plain of ice sixty miles
in extent. Their bearings indicated a de
viation of eighteen miles from their in
tended course. This was caused by tbe
movement of the ice, this fact going to
coufirm the theory of M. Pavy concern
ing the concentration and augmentation
of the great Japanese current, known as
the Ku-Ka-8irod, which flows through
Behring Straits on the right, thence to
ward the east off the coast of Siberia.
The explorers reached the shores of
Wrangel Land near the mouth of a great
liver, running from the northwest, and
wh : ch is not set down on any chart. This
M. Pavy considered as confirming another
of b’i theories that there exists a great
polar continent, and of which the tem
po.. -are is sufficiently waim to melt the
t. tow. The current of this hitherto un
known stream flows in on easterly direc
tion along tbe coasts, with a rapidity of
six knots an hour.
M. Pavy and hit party followed the
plain gf Uw river toward the north for
partly
located on tho lauds of Mr. L. L. llardy,
ar., of thin coanty, who will at once pro
ceed to build a rosidouco at (Jbipley, pre
paratory to removing there. We havo
beb.ro us a map of the town, which iv
regularly laid off into squares, avenues
an t streets, all properly named. We aro
permit tel to puh'ish the following letter
fr* in Mr. M. Dougald iu regard to the lo
rn ion of the p.issengcr und freight sta
tion at this place ;
North and Bonn U. tt. Co.,_ >
Columbus, Ga., Nov. I, 1872.)
Mr. /.. L. Ha tdy, Sr., Lad range,
Cc/rgii - Dear Sir :—*ln reply to your
inquiries i will inform you that the com
pany w id locate their regular passenger
and freight station north of Tine Moun
tain, on your place, and north of Collin
Harper's. This is dme not only on ac
count of your liberal cash subscription
and your donation of laud, but, also, bo-
cause the Engineers pronounce it the
only suitable pi ice. The grade on the
udjoiuing place would suit, but there is a
rumor abroad in regard to tbe validity of
the titles. These rumors may be utterly
false, yet they aro sufficiently current to
interfere with the improvement which
the company desiro to seo, and which the
importance of tho position should stimu
late, now ibu* the question of location is
settled. Yours truly,
W. A. McDoegald, Fresd't.
Cbipley is said to bo located nt a very
accessible point, easy of approach for
wagons from every direction, uud in tbe
midst of a rich section o* country, inhab
ited by a jhrifty population.—Lud range
licjurUr.
Mexico.
Matamoros, Dec. 17.—Tbo delegates
from different precincts who retired from
headquarters of election without count
ing tlio votes for municipal officers on
account of tho interference of tho mili
tary cm tho 15th, wore induced last even
ing hy Col. Cristo, military commander,
to ngain meet, and having doue so, and
being about to count tho votes, were nt-
lacked by about thirty armed roughs, by
whom the papers and votes wore taken
away and destroyed. This is supposed to
bo tho work of Gor. Cortiua, ho having
publicly stated that with ono delegate of
the twenty-four he would carry tho elec
tion.
Vote o/ the Electoral Colleges.—
Ail the lists of the Electoral Colleges of
tho several States, for President nnd Vice-
President, excepting three, have been
sent to tho President of the Senate by
mail, though not more than one-third of
the entire lists required by law to be de-
livc red to huu by messenger have yet
been received. Louisiana sends lists
from two diferent Electoral Colleges. Tho
two houses of Congress, in joint conven
tion, will determine which list shall bo
counted on tho second Wednesday in Feb
ruary, the time of counting all the electo
ral votes.— Washington Correnpondcncc
Baltimore Carrie.
The Indian Wail—San Francisco,
iJecttuber !5.—Tho latest advices from
P-escott, Ari., states that Gen. Crook is
p-osocuting the campaign vigorously
against the hostile Apaches in the north
ern part of the Territory. Five expedi
tious are opening in the mountains east
of the river Verde Gen. Crook was last
heard from east of the Moaollon Moun
tains. During the campaign over one
hundred Apuchcs have been killed and
many wounded. Their stores and pro
visions at several points were destroyed.
Gen. Crook’s policy is to follow the In
dians constantly, und hunt them down in
oveiy direction.
Gin nous*: Burnt.—-The gin honse of
Mrs. Moses E. Shorter, mother of Mr. J.
11. Shorter, near llurtville, Ala., contain
ing some ten bales of cotton, was totally
consumed by firo on Monday after
noon last. Fire supposed to have been
communicated by tho saws coming in con
tact with a nail or match. Tho cotton
aud seed were insured for $1,800, and the
house for $700, in several companies for
which Mr. J. F. I verson of this city is
agent. The policies we learn had bat
two or threo days to run.
Extract from a letter from Mrs. J. 0.
Aldrich, Wauseon, Fulton county, O.:
“K. P. Hall & Co.: Gentlemen—Please
send me one dozen bottles of you- bic’ 1 -
ian Hair llenewer. Our ‘bold and gray'
do nut want to be out. My mother is •
living recommendation of the results
from the use of the llenewer. Being
almost seventy years old, and having
worn a wig over thirty years, it seems *
miracle to those who havo known her so
long so bald, and what little hair she bad
being perfectly white; now her wig
thrown arid*, her hair grow u out, and a
smooth, glossy brown, as in girlhood.
Hoping you may long continue to pour
blessings upon the heads of tbe afflicted,
I remain yours truly.”
Such evidence, with the indorsement of
the great chemists of New England, Dr.
A. A. Hayes and S. Dana Hayes, should
satisfy any one which of the preparation!
produce the best results.
LaGrange Female College.—Exer
cises in the above popular educational
institution will be reaumed January 22d y
under a corps of first class teschars.
Mead (be advertisemsnl elsewhere,