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ATLANTA, GA., JANUARY S 1^2
CUrlsimaa Bay.
ChiistmnsDay was, upon the whole, a live
ly one in our cily. The weather wa3 warm
and pleasant, the sky bright and dear, while
f(om morning until late at night crowds of
persons were seen on the various streets. The
children were all happy and were rewarded
with pleasant words by Lind parents and
friends, who placed in their warm little hands
the gifts of Santa Clans. Tiny' Mag fonnd
in her Christmas stocking tlie crying doll,
and shy Ruth a charming hook of poops for
a child Laugh’ng Kate received Dottle
Dimple, a book overflowing with the humors
of childhoods freaks; while frank spoken
Jack was enchanted with hit • knife. Wc
trust that no little stocking, hong with
loving faitlroa Christmas eve, was found
empty in the misty grey of the breaking
Christmas morn, and that each face around
the Christina? breakfast giowed bright in tki
love reflected from the gifts beside each
plate.
Daring the day many jokes were ge t off,
and much powder consumed. But one
casualty occurred daring Christmas, a negro
boyTwfiawmy "tbot mmfrutjt the postil,
producing almost I nfant dtaHC This took
place out at. JcntriagavlUc. Between two
aBtnSre aVdork. during the day, th ro wr s
a falso alarm of fire.
Christmas night all w<*s life and amuse
ment. Christina* tret*.* at various places,
suppers, fancy band* of music parading the
streets, and the ball at old Concordia Halt
The latest observation taken by this reporter
was witnessing grave lawyers and thoughtful
railroad men filing off Roman candies.
Tho Atlanta and West Point Railroad
J
A few days since wc published r»u adver
tisement from certain gentlemen, complain
ing against the above road for want of proper
attention to the comfort of posse igers. The
advertisement coul i no: l-e refused, as it was
couched in language personally unobjection
able. The columns of a new;paper cannot
be closed'cgainrl (he people.
Bat wc mail j-ay f«»r Tan Cossrortmov
„ that there to not a lieltcr inanagetl railroad in
the &mik than the Atlanta and West Point,
and we -ay this from personal knowledge of
the Lading offiet ra of the road, and from the
cxp-ricncc « f travel upon iL We therefore
tal c occasion, in pubitoliing the subjoined
letter, to stats our belief in its correctness.
Atlanta, December 23,1871.
Colonel L. P. G/dnt: I noticed a card in
Tire Daily Constitction a few days ago,
signed by several individuals, and also your
reply to.tko same. Having traveled «
your mid repeatedly during the year, day
antf night, summer and winter, I deem it but
an act of eimplc justice to bear testimony to
the polite attention* of all your conductors
upon whose trains I have providentially been
thrown.
They have never, to my knowledge, and 1
am a close observer, neglected any duij'to
the paesengers; and these statements*!*; ly as
well to Mr. Herndon as to on^artftyoir con
ductors. Besides, I can truly say that I con
sider the condition of the road and'its gen
eral management most excellent, as a proof
of frhicb you scarcely ever have any acci-
d r.to, »dthough your express trains make
770.1 time and gl.*- ^ounocUons.
use of this you
Wo very cheerfully £ive Henry Clews *&
Co. the space that'they ask. Their lettei
will bo found in another column, explaining
E WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
VOLUME IV.t
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1872.
INUMBER 1^9
HENKY CI.EWi & VO.
They Explai > About ibcir Con
nection With Georgia Securities.
They V’ Inuleer Some Counsel to
the Slate of Georgia.
New York, December 20.
Editor* Constitution: Various articles which
have appeared from lime to time in your pa
per, relating to bonds of the State of Geor
gia, with which we have been more or less
directly connected, lend ns to ask the privi
lege of your columns, for a liricf word in re
lation to our association with the Common
wealth.
Immediately after the dose of tlie late civil
war, it w;»* oar conviction that the sectional
feeling of enmity arising out of tlie strife,
could behest obliterated by linking the North
ami South in identical interests, for the ma
terial development of the Southern States.
From that time to the present, our efforts and
our means have alike been turned m this di
rection, and we have given what aid has
Been in our power to movements tend
ing to th« end which we believed produce
fiTthe country at large. To the Stfcre
: ia in especial, our attention was directed,
fitted by geographical position and natural
advantages to take the lead in the tide of j ro-
gress, and to be tlie centre of distribution for
all Southern products; and as the chief means
to promote this end we have endeavored to
aid efforts which were making to establish a
railway system throughout the State,suitable
to- control a business which, before many
years, must prove of vast magnitude, com
prising tnms-contincntnl travel over at least
one line of Pacific Railway, and a large
proportion of traffic in the products of
the Western' States which must* natu
ral! v seek the shortest rontc tq^the seaboard!
Wc were solicited by the contractors of the
Brunswick anjl Albany Railroad Company,
among other concerns, to undertake the ucaro-
among other concerns, to undertake the nego
tiation of tfce-.r securities, and deeming the
enterprise one of great intrinsic merit, we
undertook the negotiation, and sold for them
about $3,500,000 of their first mortgage in
dorsed bonds, and atxrat $300,000 of State
gold Ixmd* issued in aid of the enterprise. In
dealing in these securities, wc felt the almost
’niffiencc that we were recommending to our
and friends if bond of unquestionable
worth, knowing the high credit previously
enjoyed by the State, and the wealth jtnd
character of the people. The lx>t legal tal
ent of our city examined the laws and
methods of fcsue of the bonds and proponccd
everything in order and valid. The sc.i of
the State and tlie signatures of its officers
S roved that all forms had been complied with
i regard to registry and other requirements
of the statue. • We bad no interest fin. li.c
securities different from what wc have ih oil
similar t>u inrae submitted to on~ care, viz:
that our recommendation should bo justified
' y the result to investors, and our just com
missions fairly carport^'
Our Bonds.
Fire gold bonds of the State, issued to the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and adver
tised in Tna Constitution to be sold at
public outciy by Col. Adair, brought $650 for
the $5,000.
The instance is suggestive. Bullock has
left the whole batch of our State securities
tainted, and practically worthless by his issue
of illegal sutaritics. It touches not only the
State hut every holder of a sound bond.
The good securities suffer with the bad ones.
The taint extends to all. How necessary
then it is for the protection of all parties that
a full searching exha -.relive inquiry be made
into the whole matter, to sift tho bad from
the good.
Parties have obtained invalid bonds for
little or nothing. The have probably been
peddled out as a corruption fund to the
State’s injury.
How far tills thing has gone can only be
found out by patient inquiry. It is an ex
traordinary state of affairs in which the
nicest judgment and most unsparing vigilance
is needed to settle the troubles. #
We trust, in view of tlie lesson of this gale
that we shall hear no more from the bond
ring abjut repudiation. There is but one in
ference. The man who misconstrues an act
of inquiry into repudiation^!* one of the
plunderer*.
Let us look the situation calmly in the face.
Let the committee find the facts, and then let
the Legislature act with all the lights in the
manner needed for the preservation of the
State’s interest and honor.
the
i our be
v
We can assure Messrs. Clews Sc Co. that
they gain nothing by insinuating against tbe
people of Georgia a purpose to repudiate the
ln»:tost debts oi the State, by the system of
inquiry into- our finances, idopted by the
Legislature. Wo repeat for the hundreth
time, that Ccorgiahas no intention to repu
diate a dollar of her proper indebtedness, and
these reiterated slurs about the State dis
honoring herself, are as needless 03 they arc
offensive, os untrue as they are injudicious.
To advi- c a virtuous woman against the sole
of ter honor, could not give less offense, and
be more insulting, than to counsel a great
commonwealth like Georgia against a disgrace
that she has never contemplated, and which
she has given no grounds for charging
against her.
While wc arc ready to accord to Clews &
Co. all possible credit for their alleged kind
feeling for, and practical kindness to, the
South generally and Georgia in particular,
and while we are eagerly ready at all times
to acknowledge and. reciprocate genuine dem
ons tr^ions of good will from the North, yet
we arc not disposed to deckle great questions
of domestic State interest, in an extraordi-
jiary complication of difficulty, brought
about by misrule, according to sentimental
assertion, or under the lash of gratuitous
accusations of dishonor by those who are as
deeply interested and as closely connected
with the matters of trouble as Clews & Co.
AYcbavc no disposition to lie unfair to
Clews & Co. They evidently little under
stand the temper or purposes of the good
people of Georgia They arc dealing with a
set of citizens who will leap to right as
promptly as they will repel the intimation of
dishonor.
Let Clews & Co. co-operate with ns in the
practical and prompt execution of this la’
for Imputing into our fanners, instesJ of mb-
con=troitig it into repudiation. Let tliem
slow the same wiHieencss ea other New
Yurt bunkers to get tho bad securities climi-
n.-.trri front theiosd, a«d enable us tgjnon-
.)f-j«r-iiaiii;gEX—iS^.bcm
__ connecting Georgia of intent;? di-hoaor
her credit for acts that have to he pcrTcrtcd to
convey such a meaning.
There arc some portions of tide letter upon
which wc shall comment hereafter.
portion of the railroad hot
sired by the late Governor to undertake Jlie
negotiation of a loan in behalf of the State
of Georgia, the authority for which was
shown to our counsel, and which . appeared
to have been sanctioned not only by .legisla
tive enactments, but by popular need. We,
therefore, readily undertook the business.
The proceeds of $l,G50,C00 bonds were
placed to the credit of the State, represented
by its Executive, from whom wo had re
ceived the securities. A certificate cf the
registry of the bonds at the Comptroller’s
office and report to the Treasurer by him for
record was duly furnished us before under
taking the negotiation. The proceeds of the
bonds, we were informed, were devoted to
:xponses attending the removal cl thc
at <c& the State to the new 8ea?“^f gt
ncnt.to redemption of past Ji*j y>nd*, and
ifigiaft 'which litollffclf
icedful Tor the public. Tbe rc»uoerati -t
eceived by us for all our negotiations abort
referred firtrcmmch OiUy_ os is commonly
paid in like transactions, KRtTmch had
daily applications !•> undertake.
J he above is a full history of onr connec
tion with the State. Wc have been actuated
throughout by a feeling of friendliness
toward tbe South at large, and by a desire in
particular to assist in furnishing the means
essential to establish the State of Georgia in
the position of the empire State of the booth.
The securities which wc have sold are dis
tributed in numberless hands throughout
Europe and this country, who, like ourselves,
have based their faith upon the seal and sig
nature of the State. Any dishonor to its
obligations on the part of the State, such as
the-counsels of some of the legislators would
seem to indicate, most fall very widely on
parties who have trusted to the reputation of
the State, unblemished heretofore in the fi
nancial world, and who have known nothing
or cared nothing about political and sectional
strifes, confiding in the belief that the finan
cial interests of the commonwealth must be
cared for by whatever party predominated.
Should Georgia disown obligations thus
incurred, tbe infamy must extend through
every part of the financial world, and will
result not only in shutting off the State from
help in all future applications which may be
made for loans, hut also must close the ave
nues of capital to municipalities, corporations
and individuals in a large measure throughout
the borders of the State. The experience of
other portions of tbe Union is sufficient guide
as to tbe evil policy of a State disregarding
its obligations. Least of all can Georgia af
ford to place itself among those few States
which have in an evil hour repudiated
their honest debts just as capital and
Tbe One Term President Policy.
Mr. Sumner’s resolution to amend tho Fed
eral CMisdtuiion so as to forbid any man
being President a second term is on the cal
endar. It b a long thing. It lias many
whereases. It quotes Andrew Jackson, who
said it was necessity to secure a strict line of
constitutional duty. It quotes Wiliiam Hen
ry Harrison, who declared it was needed to
prevent misrule to the country. It quotes
Henry. Clay, who declared that it was re
quired to prevent the occupation of the first
curing a re-election from which the pub
lic business suffers. It quotes Daniel Web
ster, who announced that it .was one of the
fundamental principle of the Whig party.
It quotes that old political coquette Ben
Wade, who avers that it is rare to elect a
man who has not used his vast potocr to be
re-elected. It quotes that fine French writer,
De Tccqucvinc, who puts the point thus ad
mirably :
44 Intrigue and corruption are vices natural
to elective government*, but when the chief
oi the government can be re-elected, those
v;ce3 extend indefinitely and compromise
even the existence of the country. When a
single candidate seeks success by intrigue, his
manurers e.m operate duly over a circum
scribed space; when, on the contrary, the
chief of the government himself enters the
ranks of candidates, he borrows for his own
purpose the force of the government. In the
liM case it 23 one man with his feeble means;
in the second, it is the government itself, with
its immense resources, which intrigues and
corrupts.” And then, again, the same great
writer, who hod studied our country so close
ly, testifies it is impossible to consider the or
dinary course of affair* in the United States
without perceiving that the desire to rc-elcct-
ed dominates the thoughts of the President;
that all the policy of his administration tends
to this point; that his bc>t movements are
subordinated to this cbi£t^; that in propor-
of crisis approaches
tho defendants having prevented tl;
meats in Alabama, and the effect of
being to moke such payments ip New
by Goodman unlawful. The Judge •:£
» • i that the of the company \tl
#
, T^ MnendK.cnt h nW«in s waa . good]£?8ou3J'
kk-al of f.:Tor, especially as Grants case is cx- r J
The destruction of Warwick castle, in Eng
land, a few days ago, by fire, has attracted
much attention both in Europe and tlil3
country. The building was historical. Com
menced in the time of William the Conqueror,
it has figured in all the dynasties of the Brit
ish empire. A correspondent gives the fol
lowing interesting account of the coriosities
of all contained in the building—what were
lost and what saved:
The art treasures that have been swallowed
up by the fire never, can be replaced. Pic
tures bv Holbein, Vandyke, Sir Joshua Rey
nolds, Romney and Sir Peter Lely, by Mu
rillo, Titian, Raphael and Rubens were
among the glories of the place, and many of
tl^pse have been consumed. In the armoiy
was one of the finest collections of early
weapons in tlie world.
A helmet of one of Xerxes’ soldiers and
the iron skull-cap of Oliver Cromwell; arms
from Bosworth and from FJoddcn; revolvers
of the Fifteenth Century, and mitraiilcnrs of
an earlier date; ancient armor of every suc
cessive epoch; and innumerable standards
and trophies falling to dust with time, but
still glorious in their antiquity and associa
tions, have been blotted out forever. Resides
these, a noble library, rich in mcdireval liter
ature, is lost, together with quantities of
priceless tapestry, of Limoges enamel, of
elaborate French carving of tho time of
Louis XIV.—XVL; while many pieces of
scntptnre, * ancient and modern, have gone
with the rest
Some viiluables'were saved, among which
arc a famous table flowered with lapis lazuli,
and once tlie property of Marie Antoinette;
Vandyke’s painting of Charles L on horse
back, attended by Iris equerry, considered
the most valuable picture in the castle; the
splendid tapestry that linng in Queen Anne’s
bedroom, and a considerable number of fine
works by Guercino. Vandervdde, RubcnS,
Teniers, Caracci, and others. It appears that
substantially, the interior of the private
apartments, the baronial ball and the ban-
3 acting hall, were totally destroyed; but that
tatc departments and oilier portions of the
castle were saved. No doubt tho work of
restoration will be attempted and worthily
carried out.
Mr. Lewis has presented in the Senate a
petition from Richard H. Garrett, of Caroline
county, Virginia, asking compensation to tlie
amount of $3,525 for his bam and goods de
stroyed by Colonel Baker to effect tlie cap
ture of John Wilkes Booth and D. C. Ilar-
rold, in 1865. Booth and Ilorrold, it will
bo remembered, were concealed in Garrett’s
biro, and it was destroyed by fire in order
get them.
Southern I.ilc Poticie*.
An important decision has been rendered
ly Judge Blatchford in a suit growing out of
the rebellion, brought by Peter Hsmilton,
XI ore About Greeley 1
Here'something reliable and fresh from
an eye w ::ness of the incident, says the New
York Pi Shortly after Horace Greeley
had pgfolered his name at the Indian nead
Hbuse, Nashua, (whither the great philoso
pher’s lecturing tour took him this fall,) a
rather aged countryman came into the office
and after examining the register, asked if
Doctor B—was in.
“Thera is no such person here,” said the
gentlemanly clerk.
"No such person here P’ echoed the venera
ble mule, taking off his spectacles and gazing
into tkamce of the clerk with much increo-
ulity end astonishment.
^"Nosucliperson here,” firmly re-echoed
“ Young man,” exclaimed the other with a
as sure ns guns, and pretty drunk, too, I
reckon, for he’s left one of them’air Latin
prescriptions of his on the register P
And .the Doctor’s friend gazed dowm at
Horace's improved Arabic with a look of tri
umphant recognition.
Theatrical unit Show Were* Items.
Clivllotte Cushman is in Boston.
MUafKatie Putnan? b in fxdma.
John Temple’on is in Montgomery.
.To ■Jefferson will visit Nashville soon.
-TIjfflbtM burlesque troupe are In Texas.
. DatfftHck’s circus will visit the above city
\no:i.
Harry Watkins are in Charles
ton. A*
Moulton is giving concerts in Sa-
TnULydia Thompson Troupo arc in St.
LonL
Nilsson appears ill Cincinnati on tho 8th
of J.uusuy.
TiTrChnpraan Sisters are filling an engage
ment in Nashville.
Uiight’s Circus will visit Charleston the 1st
in January.
TTc Susan Gallon Operetta Company arc
n Philadelphia.
Tie Windham Comedy Combination arc
M ifay in —
5 Tpi LI
Louisville this week,
ingard company performed in
^ Ringgold, December 25,1871.
Editor* ConsUtuion: It is true I have not
established a reputation as a newspaper scrib
bler of any distinction, and with ibis view of
the case, might very properly be debarred the*
privilege of saying anything through your
column*!, but as we live in a free country unci
your columns seeai to bo^jHirt t»* all^i pro-
to notice w ii.it i: : - been written ubv.i!
myself .t'M certain lelegr.-tuis rcfcrretUo in
your issue of the 23d instant
Colonel H. P. Farrow sent mo a dispatch
which I answered. In a short time after re
ceiving the dispatch, a certain Democrat, so-
called came to my office and stated to me
that he had learned something about some
telegrams that had pa^ed between Colonel
Farrow and myself, and that lie wanted a
copy of them for publication. I told him
pointedly that I would not formal > c.i.v, a.-
they were prirate. and furthermore, that it
would bo dishonorable in me to sutler such a
thing as their publication. In reply to this,
your so-cillcd Democrat sakl he would go to
the telegraph office and get a copy, but after
Inrfifltfcld, Illinois, last week.
/Shop.
Levities.
fcOXDEKSZD FOr. THS (
jr Detroit lady visited a menagerie and
1 to be shown the Crandurango.
innessec sweet potatoes ore so large that
lh«r u c them for hitching posts.
liding down hill on a codfish is the win?-
itmuseraent of New Bedford belles.
HU Sykes was sweet on Nancy. Wirt
s was likewise on Olive Logan. Bill
hung and Wirt married. Such is the
f;(e of the transgressor.
'•A*Our children will have immense Lax on
yir hands,” said a gentleman. “Oh, liorri-
exclaimed an elderly lady, “what a
executor of Duke \V. Goodman, against thej : &Uirig we have nails
rA thoughtful Danbury lady puts lard on
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
The action is brought to recover $5,000
life insurance policy issued to Mr. Goodman
on the 24th of March, 1853. It was claimed
jo rtoop when she wants her husband to
(if home of an evening. Barring an hour
devoted to rubbing his back, the time is
exist on account of the non-payment of
annual premium on March 2, lSC2,j
and that the previous payments
forfeited to ; the defendants. The plain-^
tiffs concluded that the defendants, by
1 copied.
it. Tbe money
been introduced in its borders, even though,
perhaps, not expended with care ss designed
in the statute, as is now apparently patent,
has yet resulted, by reason of tbe construc
tion of valuable lines of railway, in great in
crease in taxable property, and in resources
for future development Let Georgia hon
estly sustain debts honestly contracted on the
part of the lenders, and in the future it can
command in the moneyed world whatever
means it muy need. Let it disown its obli
gations, and henceforth its progress is checked;
the tide of wealth is turned in other direc
tions, auU every individual throughout its
boundaries is dishonored.
Wc offer these counscUat the dictation, not
of any personal in:crest, but solely from a
desire to urge upon the Legislators of Geor
gia not to rashly ami bliud^, incur conac-
qygjGBLirppi :chich4fag; « n *U lime
Foreign Rears items.
[CCNDZSSKD TOH TUB COXSTITCTIOX.]
^..gland has 32.G23 breweries.
1869, prevented the payment by him of bi**j “ s ‘
annual premiums on the policy, and tlicrcbyr Tho Japanese make a paper which bears
waived such payments, all of which bceuadPI amount of soaking without injury.
10th of August, 1SG1, the act of Primary instruction i? made compulsory
very inhabitant of the Turkish Empire,
ii- (!00,009,090 of steel pen* arc
iufitelured in Sheffield, England, annually.
Manila 25,000 women and girls work at
making at average wrtg«* <*f seven cents
due after the 1
ib£ «
*•10 Jloat Sensational Tiling Yet.
What won’t the press do next? Tho last
big thing reported i3 by the New York
Herald. Its issue of the 22d contains a full
page account of a reporter who organized an
expedition about a year ago to bunt up Dr.
Livingstone, the great African Explorer.
The Herald resolved to find him out, and re
port him or his bones. It got up a young
army of one hundred or more people, spent
eight thousand dollars in making prepara
tions. bought arms and stores, etc. The ex
pedition had penetrated over five hundred
miles into the wilds of Africa. It has been
drowned in marshes, decimated by pesti
lences, starved by famine, fleeced and ducked
and tormented. It has arrived in Unyan-
yembe.
The reporter writes that he « on the track
of Livingstone. He had heard .of the great
traveler being about Ujiji; that he was very
old, very fat, had a long white beard, was a
great eater, was reported dead, was reported
not dead, and the reporter meant to keep
tmtil he met him.
The nerald is very much tickled over
enterprise, as it should be if it has done all it
says it has. If true, it is certainly a remarka
ble instance of private newspaper enterprise.
carefully considered all tbe views urged
ttj<: defendants, and that bo wns entirely sat*
isfied that tho plaintiff was entitled to a decree
with costs.
There is ordered a reference before a mas:
ter to take and state an account of the amomr*
due on tho policy, with interest, such a>,
amount to be computed on tho basis before
stated, and the defendants to be alkr '
credit fov the unpaid annual premiums.—_v^
T. Bulletin. .
Feraonal Paragraphs. sj
Among Bollock’* other ranembcmble feat*,
tho casual, perhaps, was the pnrduao of the
championship of the Washington Chronicle
at forty cant* a lifle for editorial The vir-
tuoaa tirade* of that paper against Georgia,
tho ingenious fabrication of slander* npon
oar peaceful people, sad the fervent cnco-
miantsopon Bollock lost some of their weight
when it was found that they were inspired
by pay.
Senator Tipton mnst have made some sua
sion to those times, as we find this paragraph
in in editorial in the Chronicle:
The remarks of Mr. Tipton in the Senate
yesterday impel us to say:
Fint. Not one of the present proprietors
of-fir* Chronicle had an interest of a single
denar in «•» Chronicle when the Bullock
afiair transpired; Wo object to having its
k Shadow thrown scrors our path. We claim
nothing of the good done by the Chronicle
nr. vi’US to January 1, 1871, *nd that was
inn’i. We also decline to bear the respons:-
bililj for the bad, if socta there was.
Hurt a Ci.k«s <
Editor* Conatitution : At the risk of shock
ing 3'our modesty, I hope you will permit me
to say a word in compliment of your last
Sunday morning’s issue: I think it
best single issue of a dally newspaper I bare
seen published iu Georgia since the war.
Your politic tl articles were rich and racy
>ur article on “Dickens and Christmas’
were not only appropo*, but to my taste, pre
cisely. The world is just beginning to appre
ciate wliat this great and good man has done
for the enus? of humanity. What Shakes
peare has done in the drama, Dickens has done
in fictions. They will puss along down the
stream of time together, ‘ holding the mirror
up to nature,” auu future generations wiilje
astonished nt their marvelous powers.'I
religious news
Wc call the attention of our readers to this
very excellent paper. It is an unanswerable
explanation of the leading acts of the late
General Assembly.
The most important point in tho paper is
the statement of the reasons for bolding tlie
session beyond the constitutional term and
the scathing rebuke of the Acting Governor,
for his most dangerous attempt to over-ride
the constitutional privilege of the Assembly
to prolong its session in the proper constitu
tional marine r-
Thi3 assertion of a constitutional right was
absolutely necessary. To have suffered the
absurd and despotic exercise of authority by
3Ir. Conley to have passed unresisted, would
have been an unpardonable concession.
We commend the address alike for its good
spirit and ability.
The communication on the Citv Judge was
well written—evidently th» product of a le
gal mind. But it the writer is correct, and I
do not think he Is, what a comment it is upon
our present political status, when our old
men, whose locks have • grown gray in the
service of the country, must be thrust aside,
and their places filled by young men. Not
only this, but the voung men, in their eager
By Mutual friends—Kerosene and coro
ners. The slave of the ring—A new made
wife. Cash advance*—Making up to a rich
widow. A sad dog—One who tarrtai long
at his whine. Boarding-house bread— Tia
but a little faded floor. Song of the fawn—
Cali me early, mother deer. The voice of
nature—The mouctain’s peak.
os your story-
judge Blatchfoid concluded that ho h
lady's* journal is un!i«uuiV<i in 'Eown-nr
ts contenis to consist solely of births, deaths
General News Items.
tub eoxsrmmoH.
Fred Douglass will deliver the next led'
of the West Sklc Star course.
Henry Ward Beecher has written a
.on “The Redemption of the Ballot” )
Brigham Young is reported to be hidden ia
gorge of the mountains ih the Southwest < (
Utah.
W.M.Carlcton, the bard of Michigan, hns
prepared a poem on the burning of Chicago,
and is to pelt tho public with it shortly.
John Tyh . the son of a man who wn»
once President of the United States, is edit
ing a Radical paper in Tallahassee, Florida.
He is said to lie unreliable. *•
It is doubtful if Justice Nelson everreturm
to the Supreme Bench of the United States
[condensed rtm tee coxititction]
“ Saffron lined angel of death” is whatMis-
sissipplans call tho yellow fever.
Rushvillc, Indiana, wants a freshet to wash
away the dirt, a big revival of business, and
more quinine.
A small pox flog hoisted at tho gateway of
his orchard saved a Rhode Island farmer’s
fruit from thieves.
A Georgian in New York, seeing a lady'
driving and her groom with folded arms be
hind, thought “that nigger must pay that
nice looking girl a pile to drive his carriage
for him.”
Mr. Jones, of Chicago, fell down a pair of
stairs, a few days ago, and Mr. Bevins said
that it was a better proof of the descent of
man than any Darwin had given.
.TXIscellaneous news Items.
[condensed for tub constitution.]
The congressional library contains 237,000
volumes.
Tlie average depth of the Atlantic ocean is
estimated at 25,000 feet
Ninety-five gambling houses are kept in
to his home in Ne w York State.
Alderman Gardner settled in Cliicags
twenty years ago. nc then had $lO,QT0in
moucy and owned 0,000 acres of laud. Since
he has been in that city lie has built over 140
.houses.
Judge Swaync, of the United States So-
E reme Court, is reported to be rich, nude to
y judicious investments in Western real e*
t-ite. An investment in ^Toledo of $10,000,a
few years ago, realized $300,010.
Jacob Pidniey. died at Somerset, Pa, i
few days ago. Mr. P. served in the memonr
ble victory of Perry’s, on the “Niagara” anl
was one of tho only three iiersons, on *lh»t
vessel who came out of the conflict unhurt.
About Women.
[CONDISC ED FOR TIIE CONSTITUTION.]
A Massachusetts woman made $500 1st
year by tbe cultivation of lilies.
In Switzerland editors who advoc&e
woman’s rights are prosecuted according o
law.
There is a “bustle” in fashionably
in New York. A11 the ladies
their backs up.
The Danbury News says a Monro! woman
lablOcirafes
XbYcbV ^vsfdag-orer tlie loss of a el»il<Lwn assun
by a sympathizing na'gAdor~tuat mere
desire to fill tbe old men’s places, seem to be
hunting for these disabilities, and as soon as
an old man b spoken of for a place, the first
remark of our young men is, “ he is not eligi-
young ambitious
more modesty. Why, sir, had you thought
of the fact, that this county, having the next
largest city in the State, and the capital
thereof, sends four men to the Legislature,
all of them young men?
To conclude about the City Judge, could
not the City Council put off the election of
City Judge until the bill now pending ia
Congress, relieving nearly everybody, b pass
ed? This would give the old men so m "
chance.
But I have wandered from my text,
merely intended to say that I am rejoiced at
your success in publishing a first class daily.
Goss IT.
tSTA Brooklyn politician, in writin,
letter of condolence to the widow of an
sociatc, said: “1 am sorry to hear that Harry
has gone to Heaven. Wc were bosom friends,
but now wc shall never meet again.”
just as good fish in the sea us eker was
caught”
President Angell, of the Michigan4f«iv£r-
sity, denies that he declared to Presideat
White of Cornell, that it was the “snlovtfy
class” of women who wanted to be educated
in male universities. ^
An English writer advises young wonen
to look favorably upon those engaged ii ag
ricultural pursuits, assigning, as one rcisoh,
that the “ mother Eve married a gnrdeker.”
He forgot to add that, in consequence,
match, the gardener lo3t his situation.!
“ Can’t you give my son one of tin f rizes
at the exhibition?” asked a mothe/of the
teacher. 44 No, inadame; your ion w|I stand
chance. He obstinately persists in idle
ness.” “Oh, but then,” exclaimed thetnotber,
“if that’s so. you can give him a ptzo for
perseverance.”
New York in open defiance of the police.
Agassiz believes that Niagara Falls will
wear away in just eleven thousand years.
The total indebtedness of the State of
Louisiana to upward of $14,000,000 Ethio
pian legislation.
Louisiana lawyers are reveling in fees.
The bad crops of tlie present year liave
caused an immense amount of suing,
dome of the iron columns r» the Boston
;w post office building, nrc thirty-three feet
high and weigh over twelve thousand pounds
each.
Little Things to the name of a 10 page
monthly oliied, printed «n,l puhlidred by n fl/ „, aamnt _
family of girls named Lukins, at Briton, <’ ~
The Squirms oi the Bondh Idem.
The World says the struggle in North Car
olina last year had no other aim than the
delivery of that State from a ring of blood
suckers who were sapping its cash and credit.
It failed by the prompt intervention of the
administration, and the fierce threats of Fed
eral Intervention uttered by Akcrman, which
alarmed the people. The same thing is now
on foot in Georgia, and a strong effort has
been made by tha bondholders to stop this
business cf looking into the bonds. The
Legislature passed a bill to overhaul these
papers. The acting Governor Conley, vetoed
the bill. It was'passed over his head. ‘Fail
ing here, tho effort is to invoke Fcd?rnl inter
ference—set aside the election—maintain tlie
acting Goycraor in office—suppress investi
gation *a/d save the bondholders’
THE ATKINS ELECTION HATTER.
Dr. C. E. Evans Conics Back and Tell
About these Telegrams—He
Disclaims Being a Bui-
fockitc.
haring further conversation with him at
night of the same day, lie promised me
faithfully that he would not make any
further effort to secure copies and thvfr
publication, but this informant of yours did
not keep his word. This correspondent of
yours knew full we 1 that not only my pri
vate telegram to Col. Farrow, but dally con-
vervalion, was in deadly opposition to Bul
lock’s administration, and this opposition
dates back to wtlbin two weeks after hto inau
guration as Governor in 1803. You knew or
could have known from a circular addressed
by me to the voters of the Forty-fourth Con
gressional District, setting forth my previous
opposition to Bullock, (which I did j'intr
publishing house the i.onor to patronize to
the tunc of $18,) that I was opposed to him
and all who sympathize with him in any
way. Do you expect to sustain the reputa
tion of your % papcr for truth if you allow
men to report for the same who will inform
you in one communication that a certain
candidate running is a Bullockitc, and in
another that he is opposed to him ? I have
condemned Bullock’sadmintotration in every
letter I have written to Win. Markham, Henry
P. Farrow, Win. Jennings and George P.
Burnett, aud they have been many. I
have spared no pain3 to d«mouncc" Eul-
lo*k in ray letters and common
conversation, as a bad man. 1 must
here say that Colonel H. P. Farrow deserves
credit for hto opposition to Bullock, which
dates from the ippoinlment of Blodgett a*
Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. His letters to me show this.
While I look upon Colonel Farrow as a brave,
generous, talented, honest man, deserving of
jiny office in tlie gift of the people of this
State, I think lie did wrong in not condemn
ing Bullock’K course on the stump and through
4he press.
informed Unit Col James Atkins has
l Bullock’s policy for some time. If
thfc is known about Atlanta to be true, be
tb*ijie'opi'»o'e.l iiulloi-k's Tin\7r~.!-Tli
daysngo. Col. Atkins is, I learn, a good cit
izen and worthy member of titc Church. The
door is still open. Conic up ye Bullockitcs.
in tho Republican ranks; show where v«m
stand. Confession is good for the soul Let
us turn out our thieves, who have crept in
among us, and with renewed faith and hope
prepare to sustain the true principles of the
Republican party in 1872.
Charles S. Evans.
<-corjcla News Items.
{condensed ronra* constitution.]
MiOtjU^ JL Singtoton^widow of the late
T x ° *** n. died in Athens, December
Dr. J. J. Single
30th.—Southern Watoh
The election for municipal officers for tlie
city of Rome has resulted in the election of
the “People’s Ticket,” with Captain II. D.
Cothran as Mayor, and II. T. Hoyt. T. M.
Gates, W. T. Mapp, J. W. Noble, F. J. Stone,
and C. G. Samuel as Aldermen. Cothran’s
majority over GrhTcth was 139. Mr. W. S.
Grady, after a long and serious illness, was
on the streets yesterday.—Bom* Commercial.
In Monday’s News it was stated that Mr
Larkin, tho engineer who was injured by the
late accident on the Central Railroad, had died
from his injuries. The report was incorrect.
Though badly bruised and scalded, he is im
proving, and will recover. By a card in the
tn that W. A. Reid, Esq.,
Daily Re-
rof the Sa
the prop
publican, that owing to unavoidable circum
stances he has been compelled to suspend the
publication of that paper. There were quite
a numVr cf accidents in Savannah on
Christmas.— Sirannah Ecus.
The Holland Company arc playing in Au-
23d j
egro
. d of Mr. J. Kauf-
i,m Augusta. The McDuffie Journal has
l sold to M- ssrs. Roney and Sullivan.
Brown and Frank Miller, colored, of
;usta, had a difficulty on the 21th instant,
titich Miller fired a pistol at Brown, the
took elfcet upon Brown, entering his
l just above the left eye, inflicting, what
>nsidcfvd,a mortal wound. The meeting
vern _iho magnates of the Georgia and
Iroaii, which was held fa Augusta
imd Saturday of la#t week, ad-
day night without haying
. Friday i
accomplished a
nd.
An old negt
y thing.—Chronicle and Scnti-
man, while driving an ox
miles above Columbus, on
Monday, was shot by a party of railroad
negroes. Hto recovery is doubtful. There
were several Sunday school festivities in
Columbus on Christmas night. Two men
were killed in Columbus on Cliristmns night,
and a third was seriously, if not mortally,
wounded. One of the parties killed was
Policeman Charlie Barrow, while in the dis
charge of his official duties received his death
at the hands of George Lsyfield, a young
man, who about a week niucc arrived in
Columbus from St. Lnuiie Barrow had Lay-
flcld under arrest, when L. je rked loose from
Barrow, drew a pistol, and bezan to fire. One
shot took effect in the forehead, and the other
in the lower lip of Barrow. Barrow died in
a few hours. Alexander McDonald came to
hto death from a weapon in tlie hands of
w,, “— ' r '— at Ella Lee’s house of ill
>iing McDonald, Malone wau
fired upon by Anderson, wliic i lie (Malone)
nip iy returned, the ball entering the
abdomen and passing out through theTrack.
Uolumbua nquircr.
George l Inter, a printer, received a gash
from a knife across the face about an inch in
length, in Savannah, on the 2Cih. John
Fabey, of Savannah, was scverly cut in five
places, in the luck and left side, by James
M'Jrtngh, on Christmas night Mrs. Moul
ton’s Concert on tbe 2Gth instant, was at
tended by one of the largest and b;**t repre
sentative audiences that has filled the
Chrb
obsei
lah with
any public and prirate festivities. About
fifteen hundred people visited the park, and
witnessed the sjiorts there. A horse ridden
by Mr. Robert Schley fell* and that genllc-
m was cut about the temple by falling
iiinst one of the horse’s hoofs. Mr. Morris
■Ichum, the President of the Savannah
nk and Trust Company, declines a re-elcc-
n as the head that institution. The
acting of A. A. Bradley and others, called
Savannah, as was said, for the purpose of
titiontng Congress on the subject of some
ngihary illegal acts of the Georgia Legis-
ul also
vith i
A'4 Yu reported Couronntion.
During tho Grand Duke Alexis’ walks
through the Bridgeport cartridge factory the
other day, he pointed to several workingmen,
and inquired of Governor JBwell, “Arc shese
men what you call the common people?”
The Governor replied that they were a fair
specimen of the working classes in tills coun
try. “But do you mean to say that these
get into official position?” further asked the
imperial scion. “ Perhaps not any of these
men ” rejoined Governor Jewell; 44 but men
of their class do; they are educated men,
most of them—that to, they all probably read
and write, and most of them take aml read
the newspapers. 44 Do you know of any
cases where such men have ».dually licen
elected to office?” again queried the curious
Alexis
“Oh, certainly,” tho Governor said; “I my
self worked in the shop as a tanner till I was
twenty years of age;” and the announce
ment seemed to puzzle the Duke a good deal.
Here was the Governor of a State, as well
dressed and as well appearing as himself, who
luui actually worker! in a shop, and tins man
was welcoming him in behalf of a hundred
thousand voters; it was more of an enigma
than the boy had ciphered on previously; but
as he goes through the countiy he will ascer
tain upon inquiring that very many of the
public men here have conic direct fro] *’
workshop. In MosjachusciUr-
now visiting. Governor Clatlia was a snqe-
inaker. Senator Wilson was a cobbler also,
and General Banks was a machinist.—Hart
Pennsylvania.
Mixed Schools.—Within a very few da\ s.
a school teacher in tbe 6tatc of New York
has been dismissed for mixing wb^te and col
ored pupils in one of tlie public schools. The
people of that loyal State, where the colored
element is but an a otn in the great aggre
gate of the school population, see the im rac-
tjcability of a mixing of races in social rela
tionship. Here, in ihc District of Columbia
*u atterppt to again made to thrust this mis
erable Inluby upon onr people.^ In our Leg
islature Monday, a resolution was introduced,
looking to the inauguration of the mixed
school system in our midst.
There have been’ whisperings for weeks
past of tills matter, and tlie resolution intro
duced to the lookcd-for result of the assump-
lion by the Auditor of the District of a power j Bad
miscellaneous Scivs Items*
ii up by a riot: a portion of Bradley’s
ii!/v. as >hot off, and several parties were
ed. Bradley was arrested himself un-
. j warrant issued by King Solomon
As. ;u the instance of P. Middleton,
■fig;' f ”-£L 5 *b'*d- nnff- the parties were
T**ed.—■SimnnaJi ndtertuef.'
tnc morning of the 26th instant, a ne-
,tan was found dead near the Baptist
Church in Macon. He was badly
cut and had evidently received the wounds
in tlie immediate vicinity. In a difficulty in
Macon on the evening of tnc 26th, John
Fleming was shot and instantly killed by L.
C. Ricks. On the night of tbc‘2Gtii instant,
Macon had a fire, caused by a fire ball
Ifrom a Homan candle fired off on the
street, passing into the store of A. Wan-
nack, falling among a large lot of fire
works. Immediately they took fire and
threw the destroying dement in every direc
tion through the budding. Two buildings
adjoining, one occupied by Mrs. Michaelson
as a dry goods store, and the other by Daly
& Bro., as a grocery establishment, were de
stroyed. A portion of the stocks of Mrs.
iMichsetoo and the Messrs. Maly were saved,
but considerably damaged. Daly & Bro.’s
| loss $20,000, Insured for $13,000 Mrs. Mi-
chaetoon s loss $5,000, insured for $3,000. A.
Wannnck—loss $7/-00, insured for $4,000.
John D. Loyd was married to Miss Kate
itiptoce. all of Macon, pn the 25th inst. At
torney General Farrow, who formerly ren
dered the law for Bullock, and was one of
| tlie pillars of onr villainous State Govern
ment, now not only goes back upon hto car
pet-bag patron with a double vengeance, but
threatens with exposure and ruin the corrupt
Democrats who “coalesced” with his fugitive
Excellency, in hto gigantic robbery of our
people. J. IJ. Ross, Esq., of Macon, has re
turned from New York, where he had a suc
cessful operation performed for a cat tract on
one of hto eyes. Mr. C. H. Hyde, of Houston
county, honors us with some verses which he
kays was written by himself. n y ajinawl— 1
|coincidence they nre i uliili 1 II \ I lli to
Ml, i ii i mi I i n Mid by a still more
bgiilar coincidence are idemicaih the same,
to verbiage, with those which,' under the
■me title, have given Midi fame to the la-
rtnented Wilde. Macon went mad this
Christmas on fire-work*, and, indeed, in a
display not iu the bills. From Sun tay night
’till Monday night, it was one incessant pop.
“peacock green” and
•COXUEXMCD rORTUK CUX«TlrUTI
Tlie latest co?«
“elephant giay.’
The New Yoik Herald asserts that Tweed
has stolen ten thousand million dollars.
The ice crop will be a very large one next
year. Everywhere the ire men arc already
Everywhere the ire
gathering good supplies of
Hartford has furnished eleven bishops to
the Episcopal Church from clergymen who
have bern rectors of Hartford church
A young woman iu Indiana blew her
brains out, because her husband attended
.-jieliing m itch at a country seboof house.
Alluding to the fact that General Grant
ha* set for another picture to go with
“ * * second edition of hto life, the Louis-
above the acts of Congress, and in defiance j ville Ledger observes: “He always takes
of the law of the Distnct, to withhold from; wclL”
the trustees of colored schools their, quota of t lls r i,, !lU ,f a chn d to prosecute hispar-
tho school fund. Having accomplished the
object at which he aimed—the effort to mix
the schools—Mr. Richards now backs out of
Ids position, and gives the colored schools
what they arc justly entitled to.—Washington
Patriot.
onto for whipping him, to recover damages in
a court of law to in process of demonstration
in Cincinnati. The complainant, who to an
infant in tlie eyes of the law, Micks damages
pr Dr. Stuckley once waited upon Sir
Isaac Newton a little before dinner tlie; lut
he had given orders not to be called town to
anybody till hto dinner was upon tlb tabe.
At length a boiled chicken was brqigbt h,
and Stnckley waited till it was new coil,
when, being very huncry, he ate it Jp, atd
ordered another to be prepared
who came down before the second wnircnrh,
and seeing the dtob and cover of tb« firt,
which had been left, lifted up the lattir, aid
turning to the doctor, said, “WhaV futay
folks we studious people are!. I realty fir-
got I had dined.—Unicer tity Monthly.
fi“3T Boston to becomi jg liberalized. Her
citizens now actually propose to name a new
school house in honor of an esteemed actress.
TLe Bostonians arc justly proud of Charlotte
Cushman, and, having built a school house
upon the identical spot where, July 23, A. I>.
1316, the tragic lady was boro, they have or
dained that tbe school house to be kept shall
be called and known as the “Cushman
School.” Fifty years ago the people of this
The Writ.—The people of the State of
New York to Matthew T. Brennan, Esq.,
Sheriff of the county of New York, greeting:
We command you that you have the body
of William M. Tweed by you imprisoned
and detained, as it is said, together with the
time and cause of such imprisonment and de
tention, by whatsoever name the said Wil
liam M. Tweed shall be called.
to the amount of $50,00') from lito parents for
the abuse and ill treatment he bus suffered
at their baud* since 1853. The parents have
refused to offer to compromise.
Let us Have Peace —In a recent speech
Baltimore, Senator Whyte, of Maryland,
used the following language: “Peace wa*
Grant’s promise to the South, but cruel anil
relentless war was in his heart He can end
the peaceful followers of Penn with words
of gentleness, soft as a ruotiicr’s smiles to
the red men of tl.c forest, but he knouts no
law of kindness for hto white hrethr n at the
South.”
CST A Louisville girl came blushing into
the parlor the other night and told her father,
when he noticed her bloom, that sho had
been enjoying unseen happiness. The ohl
gentleman thought she had been praying and
was glad, ns lie wa* n pious man; but instead
the wicked lass had been kissed by her lover
in the unlighted hall.
TH UE H <*• tiOltiM.
Let other* shunt o'er o*;de» neat.
And twine with flower* the Mber,
AM dug urevt •train* of trodden plains,
'a
I
To drink ll
The classic moet-r* used to prats.
And call old Crur a hero;
If that is so. the Inference la
His fna must hort
‘ E
He lit and lit. like a terrier pup.
And nerer his flag did furl.
Yet 1 donbt If he'd had the necoc
T marry a modern girl.
Whitb ts why
DoL'tflonri*
And find 1’
mark tl
. coaracn true
lone in battle.
• where sabres flash,
roar and musket's ratUs;
found la common life.
True courage which notlil
Such a* eating hash, with thAair left to.
Or board In x' with ’ **-—
L’Bnfant Pudv.
UL TSSES’ LOQUITUR
A circling through the land be went,
Hand shaking, might and main
Oh we fell eat, old Ben and I,
’ why,
I found Boh Scbenck a-penning net
sJThe regular shiny staff;
OI there, a^ore the Emma mine,
I. Ben and Bobby met,
* “d there above that illrcr mine.
We kissed again—you bet!
for yon 7 mother—
sister cousin—aant—
Or for somebody or other
r Ion* w kiss, bat cam’t.
, - d e
>u!r! wish my tore h
as I’ye you beside m. ,
Bni the pleasure 1* dented me.
Ho ril kis* yon anyhow.
The news comes that Wm. M. Tweed has
tl sappcared. He dared not aland the judicial
inquiry into hto conduct. Like Bullock he is
a fugitive from justice). May justice over
take them both, and all other* like them.
Tweed's fall was sudden aud great He
wielded a huge power. He prostituted that
power to evil And surely hto downfall
came. It is not a part of the economy of
Providence that evil shall forever triumph.
Crime carries its own penalties. They oome
ineviubly. It may be sooner or later, but
they come like destiny, eternally irresistib!oi
Matters of crime rise out of all adventi
tious surroundings. Tweed was a Demo
oral, so-called. Ilto party spew him out.
His Democracy was simply a tool for his U>
lie ought to have been a Radical.
Radicals protect their scamps. Democrats
punish theirs. This is the difference. It to
not healthy for scamps to be Democrats.
The power of journalism has been signally
illustrated in the exposure of Tweed and hto
compeers ia crime. Thej' have been terribly
pilloried. Apart from the fact that to the
press is due the revelations of their frauds,
the ingenius and caustic caricatures tint have
appeared in the illustrated papers, have been
installment of torturing punishment
The biting pictures of Tweed have
been innumerable.
One represents him dressed as an acrobat
hanging with head downwards on a cross bar,
i the fragments of a broken ringin his hand,
t of which his frightened associates are fall-
'• Another represents him on tbe road to the
penitentiary with mountain loads of steal-
lis back. Another, representing tbe
going out and the new coming in,
Ihe old year as a mean looking, hang
dog lliii. f, sneaking away with a toreh marked
Chicago,” a knife label’ed “French
a ring from which ropes hang pen-
:hed to the miserable carcasses of
il and hto confederates,
c Bullock, he dared not meet hto own
s face to face. IIU ill-gotten and vast
benefit him nothing. He steals away
tlie light of day and the association
of good i>eoplc a degraded felon.
may it be with ihe plunderers of the
South.
daut attu;
rattle, bang and phizz. About ten thousand’
dollars, more or less in value, went up as fire
offerings to the Chiuee dag n.—Telegraph and
Mesxngrr.
< Sew* Items.
[condensed roa the constitution.]
Knoxville to to have a cotton factory.
The city of Jackson is to have a first-class
hotel.
The Chapman Sisters are playing to good
Ttoe Central ttallroa*.
dent \V nulAjPs-’aiTtvhar report of the
if tlie Ontm! Railroad 'or 1871 is out
>rts tbe operations of three roads, the
Cetrtrll,'the Sonthcwretem, am! Mncon and
Western, anti the Central Railroad Bank.
Tlie total earnings of tho throe roads are
$-1,839,673 sa Of thU the Central earned
$I,SJ3,4S7 30; the Southwestern $1,079,453
23; and the Macon and Western $074,931 44.
Tho total expenses were $2,234,796 02,
leaving net earnings $1,433,837 18. This is
a good showing. Nearly a million and a
half net earnings out of not quite three and
three-quarter millions of gross receipts.
The Central expenses were $1,127,20! 33
tho Southwestern, $070,182 23; the’ Macon
and Western, $408,C72 33
The following dividends were paid: Cen
tral, $500,000; Southwestern, $336,009 95-
JIacon and Western, $250,000. Interest on
bonds a* follows was paid: Central, $73-
170; Southwestern, $18,070 50; Macon and
Western, $10,500. The sum of $73,000 was
paid for the rent of the Augusta and Savan
nah Road, and $14,000 for rent JEatonton
Branch Road. For nib $130,000 was paid.
Mr. Wadlcy nays the business of the Cen
tral lias fallen off much during the year
canscd by competition and reduction in the
cotton tributary to the road. The lease of
the Macon andjlfcabn-wnsr done to coun-
atm petition. The low rates caused
by competition, lie says, make it probable
that the prosperity of the road may be serf-
ottsly damaged for some lime to come, or
until competing roads will find it necessary
to raise rates to sustain themselves, when
prospects will brighten. Still with strict
economy reasonable dividends can be con
tinued.
Tha extension of the Southwestern Road
to B’akcly is being surveyed, and will be
com plctoil for the next crop. The road from
Fort Valley to Hawk insvillc has been located
and will be put under contract as soon as
right of way is obtained.
houses in Nashville.
A Memphis manufactory
very handsome street c
TilUg Out
le, is dead.
The Christmas dinner at the Maxwell
House, was one magnificent in its style and
regal in its character. About 250 invited
guests were present.
On the night of the 26th instant Airs. Slur-
devant, wife' of the Superintendent of the
State School for the Blind at Nashville, was
burned to death, caused by the upsetting of a
coal oil lamp.
The trouble between the railroa 1 officials
and their employees, at Knoxville, has been
adjusted in a manner entirely satisfactory to
both parties, and they were to resume work
Tuesday, the 23th instant.
iS* G. Alfred Townsend says: “ I rein cm
her the time when George Wilkes rend Mc
Clellan from the head of the army by telling
the truth about hto weakness, factiousness
and failure. IT: to as nearly right now os
then. Wilkes to a medium-sized, wiry man.
pitted with small-pox. He is rich, bold ■aq
courteous; loves the higher class of spot
matters, and, in this respect, to a good
like the President.”
Benefits of Scnsiiise.—Seclusion from
sunshine to one of t r >c misfortunes of oar
civilized life. The same cause which makes
tlie potato vines while and sickly when
crown in the dark cedars operates to produce
ihe pale, sickly girls that nre reaml in
parlors. Excise either to the rays of the
and they begin to show color, health and
strength.
No Connection with Cov. Bollock.
3. Blwin C iittnt * Co. want to know of
the New York World on what authority the.
eay “the two Avery* and Bullock” are
connected with their linn, and »ay:
To the Editor of the World:
Sl 5~i"t e no l ico in y°“ r issue of to-day fa
n.article in reference to thcarreat of ntTfi-
to the arrest of Clurie*
"1 tbe two Avery*
saUI to have been
Is
the Co." in tbe flnu of J. Edmund
& Co., late of Wall .tree! We ^iSSS
cciro what authority your reporter had far
making such an unjust statement. Onrfl™
bad the contract for ItuiMin^Um BronJwl™
and Albany RailrosU, of Georgia, amt ^
builtlOOmiles «f it *aiisfactorit2^"[ l JL e
cerned. On the 19tli of November 1870 ^.
sobt our contract to If. L Kimh.il, of AuSmJ
Gs., who hail some intimate conijeetton wito
Governor Buttock, hut on.- ^
any connection with Governor Bulba*
would not hive, which was the pjfach£l
reason wc sold out 1 nar, P M
The President of tbit nnd, while we wee-,
connected with it, w„ Chart , £. Fr «3
the Treasurer IK-nry Clews, Esq jf. iw
retired from Hw, to-.: 2 sir. test
out, and Mr. Klmtuil took Sis plare tat u?
Clews remained, aud wc taiktJeU^ill Twl
urer of the company. 1,1 lreas “
M you aboutdwut any furl Iter paiticularw
™ V." refer you to those
W,toV, T V i"'*" 1 '-" 1 of the Portage
Lake Say Canal wasoevern member ofbur
firm. Ills brother. Hr. William r *‘II.
was and is a pnrtt.f r. ^ Atc *7$
Respectfully yours.
New York, December 23,18U? ST * ^
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