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* , 5*— (Klicclllj) constitution. 4 Term* of <abacilpii«n: WSZKLY CONSTITUTION per annum {3 00 AD suVcr.ptioaa are pajabla «trfct] in adraaco »od,atthr expffatfoaof thetlmafor whicb payment HHHH. e of the -ul*enb« will be stricken from Clubs of Ten $15 00, and a copy of the i«i«r o the get tar-op. on: ire 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 * ^ i -A