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Fulton Democratic Ticket.
TOE ORDINARY:
DANIEL PITTMAN.
A. M. PERKERSON.
job CLXRX fcntmoB court:
W. R. TENABLE.;
jo* corsrr treasures:
C. M. PAYNE.
tsb tax receiver:
A. O. GRIER.
JOB TAX collector:
8. a HOYLE!
FOE OOCSTT SURVEYOR:
B. P. WALKER.
job coboneb:
WILLIAM KILE.
Izucnc* imm 1]
ATLANTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER &
Death of Horace Greeley*
The sad news hu come ol the death
of Mr. Greeley. In view of hi* recent
warm rapport by the Soothem people for
the Presidency, hi* death has a pecnlitr
significance and awakens a sentiment of
poignant tenderness and regret. Thoogh
he had been an inflexible and successful foe
to tbeir institutions for so many years, 'yet
bis resolute championship of their restore,
tion to national equality and brotherhood,
and his melancholy decease right upon the
fiilure of his generous crusade associates him
tenderly In their most chiralroos sensibilities.
And we make the prediction that the most
raplendant episode of bis philanthropical
life will be bis romantic but disaatrons can-
didaey for tbe highest honor of a Democrat
ic government, aa the exponent of a re-es
tablished nationality and the full restoration
of tie Southern Pleiades to the national con
stellation of stars.;
We bare only space to gire a brief sjnop-
sis of bis long and eventful life.
Re was bora In Amherst,New Hampshire.
February 3,1811. His father waa a farmer of
small means. With nothing bat a common
school education, be entered a printing
office at fifteen yean old at East Poultry,
Vermont. He completed his apprenticeship
In 1831, at twenty yean old, he went to
Ntw York and worked as a journeyman
printer until 1834, when he edited the New
Yorker, a weekly literary lourasl.
In 1840 be edited tbe Log Cabin to aid in
Harrison’s election aa President In 1811 he
established the New York Tribune, that is so
identified with bis great fame, and that now
lives a monument to his genius.
In 1848 Mr. Greeley was elected to Con
gress as a Whig. He has been defeated sev
eral times for political office. His recent
memorable Presidential candidacy to too re
cent to need further explanation.
He baa been an author aa well at editor.
A Hto “ninto Towards Reforms” was published
in 1850. “Glsnces at Europe” and a “History
of tbe Straggle for Slavery Extension,” fol
lowed In 1858. In 1800. he published the
•'American Conflict” and In 1808 “Recollec
tions of a busy life."
Hto death leaves a large gap in American
journalism.
Before the newt of hto death reached us,
the following waa in type:
The telegraph appears to confirm the re
port of Mr. Greeley's mental aberration. If
tbe atalement to true, it to a sad calamity, and
will create a painful interest.
The St. Louto Democrat thus appropriately
and feelingly comments upon the sad fact, if
fact It be:
Tbe American people will think of him
always aa a man of auollcts character and of
gieat Intellect, who for twenty years excr
eted * greater and more uniform Influence
for good than any of hto contemporaries in
the sphere of public instruction. They will
think of hto long battling for the right when
the wrong waa strongest and most pow
erful They will think of hia noble example
of Industry snd temperance in private life,
and of bto valuable contributions to the
sums of human knowledge in many useful
fields: they will think of the many virtues
which made him, a year ago the foremost
•nan of bis country in all that rela
te to what was good and true
and if they must think also of what
baa since transpired. It will be in that spirit
of charitable forgiveness so beautifully ex
pressed by Sterne: “When the securing spirit
bore the oath to Heaven’s chancery she
Unshed as the gave it in, and tbe recording
angel, aa the wrote it down, dropped a tear
upon the page end Uotted it out forever.”
Merely as partisans we cannot be indifferent
to tho sorrowful wreck of Mr. Greeley’s rea
son, nor uninfluenced by the hope that what
we have beard to far worse than the actual
uuth. It greatly enhanced the cost of our
v iclory, snd thickly twines tbe laurel with
the cypress. In the intensity of its sadness
the effect to fsr greater than would have been
produced by death itself. Had ho passed
away in hto good maturity of years, and hto
full maturity of honor, the country would
have been moved to a deep regret which
would soon have given way to tho partial ob
livion from which, in an age and a nation
like this, even the greatest cannot long be ex
empt ; bat the spectacle of such a man as a
living ruin can be contemplated only in pain
ful sympathy and lasting grief.
north Carolina.
Tbe squabble in Nerth Carolina forUnlted
States Senator presents a curious case of per
sonal spite. Though Vance received tbe
Democratic caucus'nomination, a few per
sonal enemies bolted, and hare thrown away
their votes on Merrimon In violation of the
, party faith.
Pool, the Radical, has 72 votes. Vance,
the Democratic nominee, get* 78. Merrimon
geta 20 bolting Democratic votes. Pool’s
election seems hopeless. The bolters won’t
support Vance, but they won’t elect Pool
There to some talk of Pori’s men going to
tbe Democratic bolters to defeat Vance.
Of coarse tho Radicals, any time, will sup
port a Democratic bolter befere they will a
Democratic nominee, as in the one case they
break the Democratic prestige and help
Democratic division.
As there is no valid objection to Vance,
tho bolters are acting from pure reprehensi
ble personal sentiment and deserve the
reprobation of good mem
The South.
We of the South must be made awaken to
oar advantages.
There are three sections of the Union, tbe
East, the West and the South. Of the three
the Sooth to the strongest The former slave
Stales have 15,000,0,0 of people and 138 votes
in the Electoral College. The New England
and Middle States have about 12.000,000 peo
ple and 113 electoral * votes. The Western
and Pacific States have about 12,000,000 of
people and 115 electoral votes. Negro eman
cipation has added to our representation in
Congress.
It all depends up an ourselves as to our
future. Political subordination cannot last
forever. We must diversity our industries,
make ourselves Independent and powerful
and political stre ngth will come to us
Let us preserve our Southern individuality
only yielding it to proper progressive modi
fication. and Southern genius will yet rule
this country.
Parallels.
The sudden death of Mi. Greeley, under
the pressure of an unaccustomed political
agitation, aggravated by severe domestic
affliction, recalls to mind the sadden deaths
of Presidents Harrison and Taylor.
General Harrison was so overcome with
ceremonies and band-sh&ings, to which he
was unused, that, when he reiched Wash
ington to be inaugurated, both hands had to
be trussed up, they being in a perfectly help
less condition. He wasexhausled, and tbe
deli very of bto inaugural on an inclement
day brought hto enfeebled and discomposed
system the odd that resulted in pneumonia
and ended hia days.
General Taylor succumbed also to a regular
disease which hto system, weakened by hto
unaccustomed public duties, could not
r-aist.
Mr. Grefley’s death resulted from the over
strain upon mind and body by protracted
A RIDE OX A TRUCK.
A Perilous Adventure— 1 Twenty nilei
Beneath a Loconatlrevn a night
Express-Hands and Feet
All Frozen.
Man’s daring often assumes a phase of
foolhardiness almost incredulous to believe,
and it appears at times as though tbe present
generation to either becoming more brave or
less intelligent every day. One of the most
singular instances of foolhardiness known to
this section of country transpired upon the
Kansas Pacific Railroad last Sunday night
A young man named Joatah T. Haight, a
native o', and s recent arrival in thto dty,
from Wooster, Ohio, after “fighting the
tiger” in one of the sporting rooms on Sat
urday night, found himself “ broken,” with
out CTen so much as sufficient to pay hto
hotel bill
After wandering around the dty all day,
on Sunday, he conceived the hlca of endeav
oring to reach Topeka, Kansas, by stealing a
ride upon the Kansas Padfic night Express.
With this intention he partook of a hearty
■upper at hto hotel, near the Union Depot,
wrapped himself up aa warmly aa podUe
and started out to walk to Armstrong Station,
two miles west of Kan?o3 City. There,
while the train was stopped, he crawled upon
the pilot of the icy locomotive and crouched
down upon the trucks beneath tbe smoke-box
The train moved on at a rapid rate, tbe cold,
bitter winter's wind swept Keenly snd pierc-
OUB WASHINGTON LETTER
BMtsrelt as a Currency Locker-So-
clctr>H«tcli>?le«r Presideat’a
Hone-All Sorts of
Gossip.
From oor Irregular Ccrre-pocdent ]
Washington, D. C-, November 25,1872.
The action of Secretary Boutwell in lock-
mg up greenbacks is reedving the'eurses, both
loud and deep of the mercantile community
here; that being assigned as the cause of the
prevafliug scarcity of money, which cannot
be had except at rates that gladdens the
hearts of the mo fern sbylocka. The suffering
log merchants d—n the corner grocery shop
keeper—Boutwell to their hearts content
The Jay Cookes, Heary Clews, Drexels and
bankers generally, are reaping a rare harvest,
while a ^system of checks has been adopted
among business men, in order to facilitate
business transactions. Money to worth here
from 2 to 10 per cent a month. Our mer
chants are looking both blue and blank at the
prospect and nightly offer up prayers for
lioutwell’s election to the United Stajes Senate
in hopes of a change of policy.
Statement of nil ton anlene, Charged
with the Crime of aurdering Fxaulc
Phillips.
GOUT nows 10 DAY.
My bastneaa on the Jarj'i done—the quibblin’ all la 1
Jfiy it pteaee Tour Honor and Gentleman of the
Jury i 1 am broeght before yon, chained with the
crime of raartrr. I in not gniltr. I know, from »e-
poru Out hire been pot out. end publlrbed In tbe pa
pa* that 1 hare a bad chancier In rour eyes.'
It ir reported that I have murdered terra men: that
“•blood thirsty mardertrelolll begin andVtate
toy am amenity; I have had two or three I will ac-
haowledgethatihtvebeenw'ld; tbit I have drank
Uqeor, gunbled. Tidied hooree or M-Iame. aid dtsai-
pttrf eruerrhy; but what I did waa not done under
of religion, nor did I belong tolhe church
1” Walt ber r-cm. md bid bouee
at night. Whit I did war openly and above board.
xt rare inoorao Mrwcnrr
waa directly dtathe war, in'he wtnteror 1865;..
war with emeof the members of Caitn’o’a circus;
ttat occurred In Xuntcom-ry; I met with tbe Com
pany to OpeLka; t war la the car with see of them;
laaSb-.—every psllms to the bruise knows the
ctese^that ha g. around a circus; they are gen-
Tmrrrs *jn> Bonuses.
Itorlnr the time I waa going to If ontgomsry I had
aescru hundred dottara In niT pocket- tbe Con
ductor of the train, knowl g 'hat Ihadit, came In
th^ rnr vbeea iho mcn were, and asked me to change
a hendred dollar bill for him; tbe next night I waa
to the abow; afrieud of mine. Mr. Clayto£ handed
— **» in the cbm.; these men sew it: while the
. lurmtnee wan pd** m I started out of the door
logo to the Blalto; some of the men belonging to
the company called my name: “kalone, where are
you going’ 1 add: “lam
Colton—No. 13.
The receipts this week are 131,000 bales—
die lawyers, righ‘ and left, and give my I *>,000 more Utan last year, and 10,000less than
Ira^fiS^Siom,chair,lUnaghtl-onldgrow ““receipts for
to; , „ l next week will be about 130,000 bales, com-
UKdo no. know my** 0*11 set a* th« 10 . 5 ,000 last year, and 152.000 on
^SmSr* * dJ ° arced tor * ood ’* nd IhaTe Ithe year before; and the receipts at the in-
rn )DOM at last, and thank the Lord, Tm coin* home I tenor towns 35,000 bales, compared with 29,-
* JW,Mr 000 last year and 53.000 the year before.
ta . This week the weather has been cloudy one
*wkward game to play the gentlfm.n in I day, clear and pleasant four days, and dear
And this ’ere Sunday salt of mine on Sunday rightly I days. No rain.
Batwhm I wear the stuff a week, it*romehow galls I
• and frets, 1
lug through Haight’s clothing, chilling him
to the marrow. He soon discovered that be
most inevitably freeze to death in his present
uncomfortable condition, bat there was no
escape. The train rushed on through the
Kaw bottoms, never halting, never stopping.
Haight found liitnaelf gradually sinking, be
numbed and without, down into the eras
liars of the trade frame. Gradually be drop
ped down nnlil be found himseff jammed
between the warm amoke-box and the axles
The notoe and clatter of the machinery be
came deafening, the keen prairie wind*
whistled and shrieked around tbe rushing
locomotive. Haight knew be must die if left
in thto perSona position a little longer; but
there was no escape until the train baited.
He thqught of dropping down upon the tics,
which glided beneath him with lightning
rapidity. Thto he knew would be inatant
and certain death. He would have done so,
but be found himself unable to get through
tbe net-work of iron, so he gave himself up
to bto fate.
One by one the stations glided past him
in the bright, fraty moonlight. Edward-
vilie, Lenade were passed, when the train
suddenly “slacked up” and glided slowly to
the water-tank at Stram-ers Creek. Here
Haight aroused himself with a desperate en
ergy and made a determined effort to extri-
cate himself from hto perilous condition.
Cramped, benumbed and half dead, he
crawled out from the trucks and out to the
track. The train moved ou and y
Haight attempted to rise, bnt suffered
sen e agony from cramp that he waa obliged
to call for assistance. He was sent back to
thto city on a freight train on Monday. His
feet and bands »re badly frozen. He has
communicated witb his friends who reside
at Emporia, and will leave to-day for that
place. He will hereafter have a mortal
averaion for faro and free rides in winter.
Kaniax City Timet:
bto dying wife, tbe mental
anxiety of each an ordeal, and the depress
ing effect of his defeat. Either alone would
probably have failed to have carried him off,
bat tbe conjunction of the two waa too
MACON IN_A HUFF.
Or On a Bonder.
The Staid Old City Goes Wild
Over a Gallant Citizen, and
the Bojft Have a Hud
Spree.
The meeting at tbe City Hall last night
was one of the largest and most enthusiastic
ever held in Macon. By seven o’clock the
hall was perfectly jammed with Democrats—
representative men of the party, men who
represent every department of business and
all the profession* The hall was packed
with such men as these; the stairway was
crowded from the door of the hall to the
front entrance; the portico and front steps
were crowded; the yard in front of the City
Hail was foil; and, up to the adjournment
of the meeting, a steady stream of people
flowed thitherward. Had tbe bail been large
enough to have held them, snd had the meet
ing lasted long enough, the meeting wonld
have embraced not less than two thousand
Democrats—probably many more.
The meeting was called to order by Cttpl
T. G. Holt, Chairman of the Central Demo
cratic Club of this city. In a very few
words be stated that tbe object of the meet
ing waa to ratify the nominations for aider
men that had been made in the several wards,
and to transact such other business as might
come up.
The names of those who had been nomi
nated were then read, and Mr. II W. Jemi-
aon moved that the nominations be confirmed
Ire acclamation. This was carried with few,
if any, dissenting voices.
Mr. John P. Fort then introduced the fol
lowing resolution;
Resolved, That whereas a large number of
the merchants and business men of this city
have recommended W. A. Huff for re-election
to tbe office of Mayor, therefore it is the sense
of this meeting that it wonld be unneces
sary and unwise to make a nomination for
said office.
Thai resolution was received wih the wild
est enthusiasm, cheer after cheer expressing
the favor witb which it was entertained by
the audience, and when the motion to adopt
it was formally put, the vast audience ruse
almost as one man, and shouted a long and
loud affirmation. It was a minute or more
before quiet was sufficiently restored to pro
ceed with business.
Col. H. H. Jones then moved that, in order
to arrive more fully and conclusively at the
sense of the mcctiDg, a divlion and count be
made,
Thto was carried, nnd all who favored the
adoption of th- resolution were requested to
rise and hold up their right hands. Seeming
ly every man in the hall arose, and every
right hand shot upward toward the ceiling,
amid deafening hurraha and shouts for Iluff
Those who were opposed to tbe resolution
were then requested to raise their hands, and
less than a score responded. Tbe resolution
was adopted by a vote so overwhelming as
to be almost unanimous, and amid such en
thusiastic demonstrations as are rarely ever
witnessed. Cheer after cheer rang through
the hall and continued long after the meeting
adjourned.
When the crowd left the hall a large por
tion remained in front Mayor Hnff came
up and be waa loudly called for. He went
to the steps, and in bis own peculiar manner
very briefly returned his thanks for the
hearty indorsement he bad received at the
bauds of the multitude. He said he could
never forget the young men who had stood
by him in thto matter, nis kindest words
were for those who had opposed him. He
was sorry he had ever said an unkind word
shout any man in Macon, but thanked taem
all most heartily for their approval.
The crowd then dispersed, but until a late
hour the air of the night was burdened with
hurrahs for Huff. Everybody appeared to be
in a good humor and seemed reioiced that the
danger was averted, and that the Democrats
of the city had not been imprudent enough to
split upon a choice of candidates.
If Mayor Huff has any personal or official
vanity to be appeased, certainly it ought to
have been surfeited last night. Few men
ever bad such unqualified approval at the
bands of so great a mass of men so fully rep
resenting the business enterprise of Macon.
There were merchants, and lawyers, and
doctors, and a swarm of mechanics and work
ing men, each of whom vied with the others
in their demonstrations of approved.—Macon
Telegraph.
THE BCD FROLIC.
For a long time people have wondered
what use cou.d mud be put to other than the
making of brick. But a few mis-tiiievnus boys
found a use for it last night Sometime after
12 o’clock a party of them went around the
business portion of our town and filled the
key hole of each store door with the villain
ous compound. Br time the clerks got dow
town to “open np” the mud was hard. You
never saw so many lock smiths at one time
and on such short notic in your life. Aleck
Menard crawled upon the frost covered roof
of Zeilm’s drug store so as to get inside the
store bv the sky-light, but it was no go. He
bad to break the cel nr door and crawl up.
Some merc|)pnts were one and two hoars
picking the mud out of tbe key holes. Some
tall swearing was indulged in and if one or
m ire of the madders had shown themselves,
something darker than mud would have
flown freely as water.
'Not content with plugging every key hole,
they went to the post office and chocked the
tetter box full, thereby ruining all the letters
that were in it.
Now, this was a first rate joke. Stopping
up the key-holes of about forty of cur best
stores may be fun to the boys, but it’s thunder
to the merchants. If a fire had occurred las;
night in the business portion of our city,
what chance would there have been to sun
the stock!
We are glad that some of them are known,
not by the “curl of tbeir har,” but by other
little peculiarities, and our Grand Jury may
have something for them to do other than
dabbling in mud. Look out beys,—Macon
Enlerprite.
Great preparations are being made by the
fashionables for the coming season which
promises to be a remarkably gay one. The
French minister. Count Noaules, has knocked
two houses into one—corner 10th and K
streets, and will entertain in grand style, aa
becomes the representative of la bette France
CONSISTENT.
The assinine, Jeffrey, of our police court.
Judge Snell gave practical evidence that be
believes in the doctrine he set forth in hto
charge from the bench—that keepers of
places of refreshment have no right to refuse
admission to negroes, as be gave an entertain
ment at his residence on Saturday evening to
a number of the most respectable and wealthy
of negroes of this city. The Judge did not
invite any plain folks, so there was no turning
up of nosea on account of race, whatever
there may have been on account of shade
between the lighter and darker ones. Can
demagoguery further go than thto?
OUR HOTELS.
The marked improvements made in ottr
hotels during the past summer places this
city in the advance, so far aa fine hotels are
concerned. The Arlington, though scarce
three years old, has undergone complete em
bellishment three different times, so great is
the desire of the Messrs. Roessle to keep the
hotel of the country so far as convenience,
comfort, elegance and tbe delights of the
table are concerned. Daring tbe past sum
mer the hotel has been newly painted and the
chambers repapered with the new style of
confiscated gold and silver paper, which adds
greatly to their former beauty. A connoisseur,
who has traveled the world over, pronounced
some of the suites of rooms the most exquis
itely tasteful of any he had ever seen.
Truly, the Arlington to the aboae of luxury
and magnificence, and well worthy of the
capital city.
DIRECT VOTE FOB PRESIDENTI
The question of an amendment to the
Constitution dispensing with the Electoral
College and giving the people an opportuni
ty to vote directly for President, is being
nrged from several quarters, and it to thought
that now to the time to press it to a success
ful conclusion. Along with this to the prop
osition to have the elections for State officers,
occurring in the Presidential year, to take
place on the same day as the Presidential
vo'e to taken. The idea to received with
favor by members without regard to party.
COTTON CLAIMS.
The Court of Claims fa now engaged on
the oalance of the unajudicated cotton
claims, filed within two years after the decla
ration of peace. Since the passage of the
law referring all claims for cotton seized
after that date to the Secretary of the Treas
ury—the money for its sale having been paid
into tbe Treasury—there have been 1,200
claims filed with the Secretary. As he can
not attend to them properly, for want
time, it to thought that Congress will remit
them to the Court of Claims, or appoint
special commission to examine them.
NEW EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Among tbe first bills of the new session
will be one introduced into each house for
the erection, in the northern suburbs of the
city, of a suitable family and social residence
for the President of the United States, leav
ing the present bnilding to be used ns an Ex
ecutive office. The old reason—unhealthy
locality—is no longer assigned for the new
building, but the very correct reason that the
present building is not large enough for both
family and business purposes.
SPEAKER BLAINE
denies in toto the report that be has written
to members of Congress advocating a revival
of the law providing for the assembling *
Congress on March 4th.
FOREIGN STEAMBOAT LAWS.
The Treasury Department .intends
utilize our Ministers and Consuls abroad
the collection of information relative to the
regulations prescribed by foreign govern
ments for the safety of steam vessels and
passengers tbereon, with a view to improve
and remedy our own steamboat inspection,
which sadly needs it, judging from results.
THE BIO GRANDE DIFFICULTIES.
The Commissioners who investigated the
Rio Grande outrages have completed their
report and spent two hours with the Presi
dent yesterday in relation to this question
They state tuat from the mouth of the Rio
Grande to Rio Grande City, a distance of 5
miles, the Americans in that limit have suf
fered to the extent of $30,000,000, to say
nothing of tbe murders committed by the
Mexicans. They think that if they had in
vestigated as far as El Paso the loss, includ
ing Indian raids, would have increased tc
$100,000,100. They urge an increase of cav-
alary as a protection to tbe border people or
a predatory warfare will ensue. The Presi
dent will urge prompt action by Congress in
the premises.
THE NEW TREATY.
Hon. Wm. M. Evans to here arranging
matters of official detail connected with legis
lation to be consummated under the treaty
of Washington, no less than four articles of
the treaty calling for acts from Congress and
State Legislatures to carry out the terms
Secretary Fish will urge Congress to legislate
early on these matters, especially npon the
subject of the fisheries.
LtNTENCT TO KU-KLUX PRISONERS
is to be the President’s policy, and the recent
pardon of one of them, who was sent to the
penitentiary for ten years, to hat the fore
runner of what will follow.
don’t want it.
Judge Richardson, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, denies that he is a candidate
i knocked me ore. Am 1 fell I threw
will be biek direc-Jj A, I .eld that ram one
-rnekme on the face snd kra*k- d me down. I at-
□Pted todraw my pt.tol. All did no I not a tick
In- head, which knocked
mjmlf osmy back, and
SHOT TH* Wart DEAD
the beck. I cot that
lick, which I will *bow to you, on my forehead, where
ay AfcoU waa raw?bed. (Here prisoner exhibited he
Karonbl* head to the jury.) I wu lurernible next
d»J. My mother waa telegraphed for to come After
my rwulM, but I came too. They did not eren put
“•» in ®y own room At the hotel, hut in the fiat room
they came to, thinking
I SHOULD BBC.
The pbyzicisns and rcrerul of my friends were in
® ‘ f lend.- wished to spsak to me; but the
physician* asked them to leave, saying I must remain
they left a ne^rowltn me: I made him help
to my own room; there waa nothing done done to
in that case; I waa looked upon aa being justified
and not ere a brought to a preliminary examination
that was the first serious difficulty.
th* x*xt xumccx.Tr
in January, 18|t7. In Selma, with a Federal soldier,
or three or four of them. I waa knocked down and
beat considerably; and I finally got away, haring
knocked onedown with a pair of ^knucka" I had. ‘
little Derringer pistol waa in my pocket, and
Tntar sit that came i shot ;
ran up stair* where there were several gentlemen
- •dv'eed to leave, and I did leave; the house
_soon after ransacked by the soldiers; they
searched for me, swearing
THCT. WOULD Nfr.T. ME ;
wait out of town, to Co'ambus, and afterwards
loritia, aa I w.a adviaed to keep away from Si'
.jbcie I staid till tbe soldier went aw*y; I was i
about seven months; I then came home, was
CARRIED TO MONTGOMERY - ,
and from there to Selma, where I was tarred over _
the civil authorities, wdciel waa tried, and the evi
dence of tne man acat 1 shot cleared me—hu saying
WAS JUSTIFIABLE
in what I had done, as the soldiers started thediffl-
cuity, and a had no other chance to de: end myself.
THE THIRD DIFFICULTY
was l»stChristmas ni.h; inColombas. One of th-
mat that the difficulty was with was Paine his reai
The thermometer has averaged 50 degrees
noon. Day before yesterday was
I'd Otowwr my hom^puu: rl* of pepper, HlUriU, widest day ever known in this
rnkaveitaalnbilf a jiff when I get homo today. latitude in the month of November.
I hare no doubt my wife looked out, a. well aa any i The thermometer was 22 degrees at ' 7
AawcUaaaar woman amid—to tee that things m: l *• M '* and 21 <Jc S rcc3 6-t noon. It to likely
we shall have the longest continued and cold-
, , Rt weather during the month of December
S3S rrf,u ' when rm gone, to 'tend to all the I that has ever been known in Atl.,.t,
BnDNothlag prospers half ao well when I go off to I The market in New York tins week has
And I wiil'pnt things Into shape when I get home to* I been dull and lower, caused by laiger receipts,
scarcity and high price of money, and the
extreme scarcity of freight room, vessels to
Tbwmornin' that I cotoe away we had a little bout;
I coolly took my hat and left before the show was - „ . M \ 1 , 10 k
out. charter, especially steamers, have not been so
Fw -^£^ WMnM8htWbcremt8heOQfihttOtak0 I 80,1106 for along tima This has kept ex-
And she was always quick at words, and ready to I porters out of the market
But then, sne’s first one to giTe up, when she has had ^ e believe vessels will be more plentiful
ArnUhf Jn meet me with a klee when I go home to- *“ d m ? ney chc *}* r b / U»e time the new year
‘ day. I comes in; and if so, exporters will buy freely,
My Httleboy—ril give ’em leave to match him if they ^ ^ will cause an active market
It'efnntoeee him atnit about and try to be a man t JI “y P^BOUS ask Us“ Why doea not the
The gsmest, cheeriest little chap you’d ever vraut to I pnee go downhereand in Europe, when there
And then they laugh because I think the child resem-1 ^ everything against it—extremely large re
ceipts, by far the largest since the war,
money very scarce, and vessels to ship the
The little rogue, he s
prey;
torn mj
s for me, like robbers for their
He’D to rn, pocketa Inalde ont when I get home to- cotton to Europe very scarce.” Tho reasons
My little glil—I can’t contrive how it ehonld happen “ Uiere l w ? s °° American cotton, outside of
thus— I Liverpool, m August The mills had to be
d^o d n. P ! Ck tt ** ,w “‘ b0,Mt “ d “ supplied or stop running, and many persons
My wlteshe says that haa’aome face will some day have delivered their cotton at the ports, and
And then I laugh/because she thinks the child resem- tlicn gfren orders to hold It for certain prices.
She'll m«tme half way down tbe hill, and kta. me, T i*“ )B “ ta * Bght The course
anyway 1 of the market for the next nine months is
W " h h “ 1 likely to be this: When there is a decline s
If there's a heaven npon this earth, a fellow knowe It ,lu * e P ortion of tbe S°od cotton will bewith-
He’rbemaway from home a week and then gete twek I f r °ln the market entirely, and only
anin. I offered again sparingly upon an active and
If thcre> a heaven above the earth, there eften. I'll be advancing market
Some homesick fellow meets his folks, and hngs ’em Liverpool has risen this week with me-
,-«uaround. | u * v
Buftet my creed be richt or wrong, or be it as it I dium sales. Tho rise is only one-six-
My heaven ta jut ahead of me-I’m goln’ home to. teentb of a P eDn l' for 8 P°to. but future ar-
rivals for December, which were much de
pressed last mouth, has risen in the past few
..... . —w— — — .... the noliinz
Mill and war Rilled, while faint, alias C.Dr-ud. es-
ipcd,
This man was with his friend in Columbus last
Christian; I saw they were drinking; and liable to
quarrel; l was standing with a couple of my friends;
aomeoi our pany nude a remark; one of Paine’s
cun asKtd Colon-1 Itatuecy and mystlf to take a
drink; I refused; they went off /our or five minutes
and then came b&ck and again
to drink ;
they repeat d it the third time; we then walked off
dojwn the street; ihai night, anon half-past twelve,
waa la the bar room of toe tfankin House,
baffling fob cards.
We then came out ana started up the street Mr.
CT** 10 * wl . tll ,“ e * lictaid, “Let us go to the ball
atMoljG— s; that was a house of baa repute.
H5C J wh * t *re doing.” I went to
jheclaor. l he landlady said there was *a difficulty.
**I WAET NONE OF THAT IN MXKE."
f° I Jf*® 1 and said, “Let us go in the other
house. I went to tbe door. They stld a girl was
sick and wanted to see me. I went in and the girl
asked me to
SEND FOR SOME BIRDS.
I talked a few minutes. I heard some parties come
in tbe house, Jn a few minutea I walked into tbe
hall, ana then into the parl-r. On eaca side of the
parlor are little rooms. Then I saw
THESE TWO MEN
that had come In; I was leaning on the right side of
the door; a jonug friend opened the dJor; I made
c to her, and got up to leave the room; I
„ -.j® 1 Woman on the bed; then this mao
Capraud to lowtd me into the room; I sort of laid my
hand ou her; he shoved mu back and said,
THIS IS MT GIRL,”
and jerked a p stol out. Clayton and young llr. Hawks
were standing at toe door; McDonald followed in; I
loufed at him; I was surprised when he drew his pis
tol; I sold, friends, I d.du t come for a difficulty; I
come for amuetmeutI baid I
don't want no difficutt.
;■*' *■ send enough for me; I am prepared.”
i . Dot . I turned and tried to get ont;
Capraud replie». using some exccedh gly abusive lan-
goage; I walked lino the hall; aa I did ,o, McDon-
aid stopped and
TUT ms HAND ON ME,
and said: “You ne«jd not put on any airs.” I re-
pied: Your friend has treated me wrong, and has
“f 1 ™* pistol onme” He said: “He has got no
pistol. I said: “ There he stands with oie tin his
hand.” Capraud waa then in the door with the pis
tol. McDouall said;
“HE CAN WHIT YOU
with, or without a piirtol.” Capraud said; “Yea, I
can.” Haihuu
GRABBED MT FISTOL AND I THEN FIRED
immediately; as I did I threw my .band up; Capraud
fired. There (exhibiting his arm to the jury) is the
bullet hole In the coat; Iha^a black vest on snd th®
ballet did not pierce it; I suppose the pistol waa not
properly loaded, though tbe shot
HURT ME BADLY.
The door was pulled to; the bsll went through the
door^he fired^again; I held the door; the second
PISTOL AGAINST M’DONALD’S BREAST '
and fired; I then went out of the house; I gave my
self up to the Sheriff and told him what I had done-
he said it was ail right, to go to my room and 1
FEE HIM nf THE MORNING (I)
Clayton, Hawks and ftamsey were there; we met the
Tjie Atlanta Herald. We have a few days J of a penny, which is equal to 1 a cent
ThUh ““ ad f ““
Badicals in the support of a ticket run against the I stronger, ana it is likely the lowest
Democratic party. In its last issue it confesses to I prices for February and March contracts,
inferiority in its local department and charges it upon have already passed. The receipts for No-
tte dhcourtcj of Th* Chwithtios. After our lo- vcmbcr Me emaU expected-onlv
cal reporters have ransacked the city for news, and I . K . -m-cvicu uiuy
obtained much that tie Herald fared to obtain, they I 15 P* 31 cent - more ^an last year. If this ratio
send over to get it from us, and if we accommodate be carried out tho crop will be only 8,450,000
them, they brag of publishing more news than any I bales. The total receipts at the seven largest
« ^.ooo ¥**«»$*«
little more than we intended at the outset. 317,000 last year, same tune. If this be
W&admit that our experience of journalism has I taken as a basis of the Crop it will bo only
neverbroug.it us in co.ntact with ju«t such a sheet as 3,400,000. The receipts for the months of
^^(fowing live weeks)for the past
Is In Ar power to prove la return, iticommeeced bCCQ “ follow9: 1806,368,
a -waflfcre npon The Constitution,laboring inccs-1304,417,000; 18G8,420,000; 1869, 544 t
santly to prove that The Constitution was trying to I 000; 1870, 707,000; 1871,605,000. If the in
breafijjrtioicn. Of course we knew, but many would crease this year over last is 10 per cent, i-
not, CSat this was simp-.y to make it respectable bv will , , •
creating tho impression that The Constitution I , ff iplS ^ mo “th, of five
feared ita rivalry. If a prop*ietor uttered a playful weeks » <>Go,000 bales, or 133,000 bales per
remaxjc that could be twisted :into support of the idea, week. Our last letter from Manchester re-
the Herald at once rushed it into print. Now, we do ports that in consequence of hiffher
not claim that our kindly disposed conduct merits I nr t r< *o ♦/% inhnroro i
any fMrticnlar praise, for the idea that the bcrald 1 to laborers, and the high
could injure The Constitution in the very zenith of P nce 01 coal, profits are not SO
its power and popularity, was, as all thinking and in- larg© S3 last year; but the demand for
telligent men were aware, most absurdly preposter- goods and .yarns, for export, is fully up to
ous. It may yet become necessary for ns to give in lllfeir expectations. For the month of Octo-
detail the irrefra dble proofs of our kindly and good . * nnr . ... 1
neighborly conduct. • I t>er the exports this year over the lost
7 per cent in goods and 20 per cent in yams.
For the ten months of this year the increase
over last has been 21 per cent in goods, and
Tfae Alabama noddle.
It to very natural to think our own side
right A Democrat sympathizes with the
Democratic cause without knowing the facts.
The Radical, of course, thinks with his own
people.
In tho South tho Radicals have pretty
nearly unanimously been of a type, and have
done things generally that damned them in
all honeat eyes, prims facie. North it has
been different There a good man can bo a
Radical. South a Radical is about inevitably
bound to be & bad man. Tho exceptions are
rare.
Hence when we find a Southern Radical in
a controversy the chances are ten to one he is
at some rascality.
Tho Alabama difficulty, as far as we can
see, confirms the rule.
Our readers are aware that the Democratic
and Radical members have each organized a
Legislature. The Democrats have a quorum
and the formalities of the law on their side.
They get theirquorum by admitting members
elect from Barbour and Marengo counties,
whom the Radicals claim to be fraudulently
declared elected.
Governor Lindsay, the retiring Democratic
Governor, recognized the Democratic body.
Governor Lewis, the new Radical Governor,
recognizes the Radical body.
An attempt at compromise was made. The
Radical body agreed to unite with the other,
if the Democrats declared elected from Bar-
boor and Marengo counties—eight altogether
refused seats and Radicals be seated in
their places. This, besides overthrowing the
election in those counties without an investi
gation into and proof of fraud, would destroy
the Democratic majority in the Assembly and
substitute therefor a Radical majority on joint
ballot Of course this majority to the Radi-
C&1 aim.
The Democrats properly rejected the prop
osition, and submitted a proposition to tho
effect that the Radicals from Barbour county
be admitted, the Democrats retiring with the
privilege of contesting the matter; that the
Democratic Speaker of the House resign and
the Radicals have a chance to joinin another
organization; and that the Marengo county
election be referred back to tho county for a
new election.
The Radicals decline these seemingly fair
propositions, artfully and treacherously claim'
ing that the Democrats admit in making them
that the elections in Barbour and Marengo
counties are fraudulent. This is a character
istic specimen of Radical trickery to thus
construe a compromise offered simply for
peace.
Under this plain unvarnished and unexag-
gerated statement of the facts, tt will be seen
that an outrage of the first magnitude is on
the Radical docket in Alabama,
Our Alabama Democratic friends must
possess their souls in as much patience os
possible, keep a stiff upper lip, stand stead
fast to the light, and they may perhaps pre
serve the nest-egg of good State government
for future use.
But how much intermediary trouble they
will huve to undergo, Governor Lewis, a
Radical Legislature, a Radical Congress, a
Radical President and the devil only know.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Bat the Herald went farther; tt endeavored In va
rious jar* to prove that the business of The Cohsti-
tutio* was declining, when the verj contrary ■
the fact. It went farther still, and indulged In per-
lie -lortuta.
Hon. Thomas M. Turner, of Savannah,
died on the 21st of November.
Ur. John Graham, of Augusts, died on
Wednesday last
Mr. J. W. Horton, nf Augusta, died on
Saturday, November 31sL
Mr. Robert Jackson, of Borke county,
died on the 23d of last month.
Mr* Dol. Henry Til! died, near Hender
son, a few day* since.
Mr. Robert Jackson, of Jefferson, died
November 21st.,
for the Secretaryship, stating that he docs not
want any office in Washington longer than
Boutwell remains here at the head of the
Treasury Department. There will he
tears shed over this determination, a
meaner or smaller fouled official does not live
here.
SENATOR SAWYER,
of South Carolina, to here, and is hopefnl of
his re-election. I hope he is right, a* he is
aboat the best of a bad lot "
AL.vHAJIA.
A POSSE COlHTATUfl.
Montgomery, November 30.—Thto morn
ing a detachment of the United States Cav
alry marched to a point twenty feet from the
Capitol grounds and bivouacked. Intense
excitement followed, hot learning that the
troops were intended for a mere posse comi
tates, and not to drive the Legislature from
the Capitol, the excitement subsided some
what
The Legislature at the Capitol passed
bill and sent tt to Gov. Lewis, but he ret used
to receive it
A joint resolntion was passed raising a
committee to communicate the facts of the
situation,by telegraph, lo Washington, and ap
pointing a delegate to present a written state
ment of the case to the President The
Legislature express great confidence that the
President will sustain them when the facts
are laid before him.
In answer to a committee of the Capitol
yesterday Gov. Lewis replied that two hodies
claim his recognition, and that tbe members
of the other received a majority of the votes
cast, and that he could not recognize the
Capitol Legislature, because, if the persons
whom he said did not receive a majority
were included, tbe body would be without a
quorum. The court house body did nothing
to day, but has been in secret session a con
siderable portion of the day.
The Advertiser, a Central Liberal Dem
ocratic organ of ti.e. State, in its issue of
to-morrow morning, says: “That in view of
the death of Mr. Greeley, we recommend
all the Greeley electors cast their votes for
Grant and make his election unanimous, and
in return let us ask only for peace and pro
tection from vagabond* and scoundrels, or,
at least, that the government will allow ns
fair play and maintain tbe supremacy of the
law ana order. Our struggle has not been
for men, but for the safety of the law and
civilization.''
Official Tate at Alabama.
The official vote for Grant electors in Ala
bama is 90,272; Greeley, 70,441; O’Conor,
Jne-
In 1S6S Grant got 76,360, and Seymour
72,085, making an aggregate of 148,452,
against 109,713 thto time.
Grant’s increase of vote is 13.C06. Gree
ley’s increase over Seymour is 8,353.
At the last election for Governor the Dem
ocratic vote was 79,447, and the Radical 77,-
076.
It is a remarkable vote that jhas been just
given, and the Radical vote, we believe, will
Le found to be fraudulent.
go with them; 1 gave up mj pistol, and went to the
gnard house; I was nut kept in c nflnement, but
SLEPT WITH THE JAILER J
I waa trlefl before three magistrates, and was not
even bound orcr; remarks of the citizens were that
they were sorry that I did not kl 11 the other one: these
are all thesevea men that I have killed till I cot into
this difficulty with Phillips. E
I hare been told abo that I hare
▲ FISTOL WITH THE NAMES
of the men that I have killed on it. CanUin Glenn,
please show the pistol to the jury that they may see
how many namee there are on it. (The pistol was ex
amined) I acknowledge Mr. Shivers told the truth
when be raid the I hat been drinking for several
d*T»- B* fore tbe difficulty I was consider bly under
the influence of liquor, and since I received this irju-
~ ®Pmy head 1 forget.things. I think it was on tbe
Idayaftrntoon before the difficulty I concluded to
StlraSJmS.'to 11 ' 1 ^ Aa 1 waa E° In £ Q P White-
JULIA THOMPSON’S,
I saw Copper, and asked him to go with me; we went
SZi ib 7TiJ want to ; he sat by the head of the
bed; I had put my pistol under the head of the bed;
gfatupI l foun§ Ut W * lund ttndtrtac ; when 1
THE PISTOL WAS GONE. _
I «id, “Charlie, bring my pistol back ” He brought
it back and put it down; next day we came down
town; I said I tooted on Cooper as a gentleman, but
I thought he tr ed to
STEAL MY FISTOL
after going to a bad house as a friend; that was what
Oot per came to me that night to expLin; I was then
under th- Icflucoce of liquor; I said his explai
was sufficient; McAllister said: “Let’s eo u, ***.
be had Varden ^ S ® t * drlnk ’ aun ® again
A KNIFE XX HIS HAND.
I said r didn’t want a difficulty, the thing had been
explained; I wae cat!*fled; I went out and sat on the
box; he came np and commenced talking again.
Krom there 1 walked across with McAlister to the
corner near Spark’s butcher shop. I remarked to
McAlister, ‘I am
GOING TO GET MY FISTOL
from the Maison de Ville.” I a«ked Shivers for it
be refused it once or twice; I told him if Icouldn.
getit'one way, I could another; that parties had
ineract. it wentrartner sun, and indulged m per- fil . , " ■ ^
aonalitiea totrard theprepretors a-deditor* of Th* J**® “ nt - m ? aTD3 - ™ a requires 200.0CO
Constitution intended to bring them into ridicule; I more COttOH than last year to supply
and made attacks upon the paper in a slang, iudecor-1 this inci eased demand. The increased ex
ons manner before unknown to Atlanta journalism, port last month was principally to Turkey
AgainJrthis kind cf jonrnallsUc warfare we repeat-1 an £ India,
edly entered Indignant bnt dignified pretest. And I .. , . .
tow, dear reader, tho Htrald has the hare facedacaato . Present estimate of the American crop
turn around and charge ns with discourtesy, because I m I^ivcrpool is from three and a half to four
our local reporters refused to furnish it important millions of bales. In New York it is three
toot MW* Which tt wa. unable to obum. and a half to three and three-fourth miiim".
Lever before hare they been, and never while I T n ■jq l , w nrl*.nna 5f jo »!,«« » ,
the world etsede, will the people or AUsu'e I , N W ® rIean3 lC m three aD( l one-fourth
be (agalh regaled ;with auch constant aud I i^ree and one-half millions. Suppose after
telapffiL|eir-landations as they hare witneeeoj January the receipts should fail off so ss to
in thFTferald—“unparalled-succes*” the "great- make the New Orleans estimate tho ceneral
market
dnlged In almost daily. In fACt, nothing was too wlUl . 8 P inners and thus make a very active
mighty for their achievement. Indeed, this Caesar rqarket for several weeks? The Stocks of
has become so great that in ita independence it as- cotton in Liverpool, and afloat for that port
says to defeat even the entire Democrat party of our f or five years are as follows;
city. Despite all this, however, because it fails to be 1 „ # lg(?8 lf ™
aa enterprising as its neighbor, it moat fain cast the Stocks 3*8.000 38^M0 393400 486000 jssroon
blame upon us. Afloat 204,000 893,000 350.000 38*|000 22*,000
We have this to say p’alnly. The Constitution I Tottl.....622 000 CT7000 741000
and the San always acted upon the rule that in the I rn, ' , * , 000 642,000
matter of editorial enterprise and effort any advantage , Tkc to be delivered at that port in
honorably obtained was legitimate, but in tbe matter I month of December is less thfin for five
of business management there should be pcif ctac- I years past, same time.
cord. Thia rule waa observed with the most pleasant j The American cotton in and afloat for
result*. We attempted to inaugurate the same with t f,, r ...
the Herald, bnt it seemed determi'-ett to have nothing ^°° ^ 41813 88 :
of the kind. Well, it may have ita way. We have J g . . 18G9. 1870. 1*71.
shown every disposition consistent with self-respect Afloat*. .7.7.".
to inaugurate pleasant business relations and gcn<
The receipts 'this year, so far, show 250,-
000 bales more than last year, same time
I and 8tai the quantity of American in sight
erouB, legitimate rivalry; and wc doubt not oar press
brethren all over the State can bear witness to it. Bat
we are dune.
The Herald is informed, that ws ask no favors of
it, and wish none asked of us. We need no assist- . _
ancefrom them or their reporters, and they need not I is less than for two years past, same time,
wall out becansoTH* Constitution reporters refuse to We give this year and the past four years
fnrnish news for the Hermld readers. Weed your own I for reference.
row, neighbor; we are doing that foronrselvtts.with I . . , 1668. 1859. 1870. 187L 1872.
themostsatisfactory results, for The Constitution S8d5UttftSdfiSUS
gives manifold avidcnccs that it never was more pop- J Stocks, Liverpool 44
u.ar with the people or more pi os per ous than it is at I Afloatfor Liveipool... to
the present moment.
What the GiOigla Llector* ;
Day.
Export this week 34 55
Total 441 607 818 705 £88,000
jre To- I As we are now at tho end of three months.
Wo will revise onr estimate of receipts. We
went back and found McAllister; he inquired if I
got it; I taid yes; be said let’s go fiu »nd take a
drink; we went to toe Turf Exchange; I took a glass
of beer and went outside; ana Cooper came np;
about tlut time some parties came ont of the Ton
Exchange, and some one in the party raid, “1 don’t
care a damn for nr bodysome one in the other
party remarked, *1 don’t care neither;” McAllister
asked if that was m: ended for tun; I paid no atten
tion to him; I touched McAllister; one witness
rr nr mine.
I don't want
Me A said it wu * drunken
minutes. The next
going to bed
SLEPT WITH BEDILL,
in room 11; I started over there I was sick and ner-
irnnken party^wu stood there a few
t thing I remember 1 said I was
MISS LEILA WILLIAMS
me; I heard -onu one of the party.
bad her hands or
wRorn I thought was in the room, say:
“TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF HXB,
and I wi l kli an
touches her: I saw the party :
in the party caught
from his looite; se me o’her ,
him; Miss Williams caught me at the same time, and
—* - - “stop, don’t have no fass;
he is a boy;
I said I don’t want to be s&ot, or something to that
effect; he (Phillips) mode an effort to get a
the person, and threw hi* hand on hia h p
~*ig the position 0 I shoved Miss Williams away and
id “get away, he is going to shoot me;”
I FIRED;
I saw he wheeled; I Area again and the ball went to
the left; I then walked down; Mr. Haynes has told
what I said; 1 to d them I
HAD SHOT A MAN
that was trying to shoot me; where ta Harris, the
Sheiiff; they remarked, “we are office-a;” I sgjd “I
surrender to you; here Is my pistol, take itI have
been tol l tn*t the report has ha- gone to the mother
of decern ed about tbe
NAN’S ENGRAVED ON THE PISTOL,
andtoCoL rtuliips, tbe father of the deceased; I have
bo hard feelings to th-m for the interest they have
taken in tb s prosecution; I think they are perfect!*
jastified if i was anything like the reports have de
scribed me to be; I think any man guilty aa 1 am re
ported to be ctLifct to be bunted ana prosecuted:
bet 1 have been treated unjustly by these false re
ports; I am a o mtwrative stranger here and these
false reports have bxn published against me; I
never k Hed anybody, except in my own defease
LOOKED UPON AS JUSTIFIABLE
in my acts before, and where 11
best known I am
g me, and hear! g these r ports are bound
to fora a very twdoptnl n of my character. If tt
were necessary. 1 could produce men. besidt s those in
Colomboa. to prove tha’ my s-atements are true. Mr.
P 'u know* what lhave stated are facts.
I heard that
THEY FORMED A MOB
cue night to at’ark me. and that it wa* Col. Phillip*
that prevtntcd them. That shows they were pnjn-
dicca against me. when tbe fat her. and brother of De
ceased <ome oat to prevent the mob from attacking
me. I have been tom that these were facta.
_ . _ , — . , _ I now compare with last year, as that vear.
Before Mr. Greeley’s death the Savannah from this time, was more, forward than
News suggesteerthe idea of the Georgia elec any year since the war. Receipts last year,
tors declining to cast the vote of the State to 111 is cJate « 8-50,000 hales, which was thirty-
for Greeley, as the eleetion of Grant was as
sured, and no good could be accomplished by bales for same time. Taking the receipts
it The suggestion had begun to excite some a basis, it makes this crop 3,932,000.
Taking the percent as a basis, it makes
thi i crop 3,556.000 to be received at the ports,
The suggestion of that course, then, was to which must be added, for overland and
impracticable. The electors had been elected Southern cou umption, 250,000, making
as Greeley electors, and our view ™ that •'
grltQtous.
missr
If I were told that I moatd-e
Summary of state fle*r«.
SAVANNAH.
Judge Woods, of the United States Circuit
Court, has appoiuted Col. Edward C. Wade,
of Quitman, United States Commissioner for
the Southern District of Georgia.—Saamnah
Yetet.
William Collins, of Savannah, was slightly
shot in the shoulder by Dunn, Saturday
night Col. Stone, recently qualified Assis
tant United States District Attorney, for the
State, has taken possession of his office in
the government building. King Alcohol
contnbntes more to furnishing employment
to the efficient police force of Savannah, than
all other causes combined.—Savannah Adver-
tieer.
A two-story brick building, in Savannah,
belonging to Mrs. C. A. S. Lamar, was burn
ed Sunday morning. Seventy-nine entries
have thus far been made for the Savannah
Fair. The Arkwright Cotton Factory will
soon be one of the moving, active Inst tutions
of Savannah. Savannah has another mili
tary company. This one Is composed of col
ored men: S. B. Sbeftall, colored, Captain;
R. D. Lucas, colored, Finst Lieutenant;.T. H.
Spaulding, colored. Second Lieu ten ant; II. II.
lie, colored, Third Lieutenant: W. H. Bell,
colored. Orderly Sergeant.—Savannah Ee-
publican.
AUGUSTA.
A man by the name of Roden was. run
over and killed near Langley’s mills on Fri
day on tho Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad. A youth about fourteen years of
age, named Odom, accidentally shot
himself while hunting near Augusta on
Wednesday lost. He is in a critical condi
tion. The gin'- house of Dr. Arington, of
Jefferson county,"was burned, with several
bales of cotton, last Saturday. The murderer
of Mr. James H. Marlin, of Bell Air, who
was a colored mao, Henry Johnson, alias
Ben Bacon, was executed on Friday last.
Hto confession was read from the scaffold. A
small fire in Augusta on Friday.—Comtitu-
tionaliA
A mule died of the epizootic in Angnsta
on Friday. On Friday Mr. Jim Leary, of
Hancock county, had his gin house and 25
bap of cotton burned.—Chronicle and Scnti-
COLUMBUS.
The residence of Mr. J. H. Underwood, in
Girard, was consumed by fire on Friday
morning. Gentlemen tell ns that squirrels,
coons and “ possums” are dying in theUchee
bottoms from a disease similar to that which
is attacking horses. The horse disease con
tinues to spread in Columbus. The last cot
ton year Columbus consumed 0,830 bales of
cotton.—Columbut fun.
MACON.
Snap, a well known dog in Macon, is dead.
A Macon thief goes for a candle and a match
box. Wide Awake Fire Company, No. I, of
Cuthbcrt, has purchased the hand engine
formerly used by No. 5 Fire Company of
Macon. Macon came near having a fire on
Friday. The street car mules of Macon
have the prevailing malady.—Telegraph and
Mr. Greeley’s Illness as Received
in Wastiiugton,
The Coming Session—Georgia
Members—Graut and the
Sou'lv-other Matters.
From Ocr Regular Corrcapondcnt ]
Washington, November 26, 1872.
Washington was startled yesterday morn
ing by a report of Mr. Greeley’s insanity.
Several of the correspondents here tele
graphed to New York for confirmation or
denial of the report, and the answers received
were so conflicting as to leave the matter in
doubt. At 3 F. M. tho first edition of the
Critic was issued, containing a dispatch
stating, on the authority of “the morning
papers,” (Joe Howard's Star alone had the
news,) that Mr. Greeley had become insane
and waa confined in the Asylum at while
Plains. The dispatch said further: “His
loss of reason is attributed to bis late afflic
tion in the death of his wife, and the disas
trous defeat suffered by him in the Presiden
tial election. It is said bto friends attempted
to obtain his admittance to the Bloomingdale
Asylum, but the officers of that institution
refused on account of the strictures published
by the Tribune in reference to it But few,
it is stated, are aware of the actual state of
the case, nearly all of hia friends believing
him to be ill simply from constant attention
on his wife during her illness.”
Of course this dispatch produced much ex
cilement and vety general sympathy and re
gret throughout the city, ana the feeling was
intensified on reading, m a second edition of
the Critic, the following:
New York, November 25.
The Commercial Advertiser of thto after
noon, referring to the illness of Mr.
Horace Greeley, says: “We regret to learn
that the nervous malady under which Horace
Greeley has suffered for several weeks past
has unfortunately resulted in a serious men
tal disorder, which unfits him for business,
and demsuds perfect rest and seclusion. It
is understood that tbe inciting cause of tbfa
melancholy phsse of hto disorder was the Thou caa'at not c
)retracted watching by the bed-side of his
ate wife, together witb another family afflic
tion connected with the loss of the steamship
Missouri.”
The regular edition of the Star published
later, pronounced the report of Mr. Greeley’s
insanity a canard on the authority of private
telegrams received by tt from New York.
The Associated Press dispatches from New
York in to-day’s papers contain no reference
to the matter. Thus the report seems to have
originated with Joe Howard, tho proclama
tion forger, and but for the statements of tbe
Commercial Advertiser few would give tt
credence. As it is there are good grounds
for believing that this painful intelligence is
only too true. The hard work Greeley went
through during the campaign, his crushing
defeat, the loss of his dearly beloved wife,
to whom he was truly devoted, sod bis too
speedy return to journalism, may have com
bined to break down—let us hope only tem
porarily—the robust system of even so tem-
terate a man as the editor of tbe Tribune,
dr. Greeley cannot well be spared from the
it pacer be baa created. Even now tt to
_ rping from wantof hto vigorous hand and
able pen. Friend aud foe,if hehasafoein'the
hours of his affliction, will unite in hoping
that hto recovery may be speedy, and that he
may soon return to that profession of which
he is so bright an ornament.
TlfE COMING SESSION.
Congress assembles on Monday next, and
for some time past busy preparations have
been making at the Capitol for the comfort
and convenience of onr national solans.
Many of them make their exit on the 3d of
March next, and there are some among them
Whom we cannot afford to lose. The witty
S. S. Cox, the sterling M. C. Kerr snd the
eloquent Dan. Voorhces are prominent Demo
crats who are to depart hence. The new
Congress will not compare favorably with
the one about to expire. The South has re
turned some of its most inefficient and du
bious representatives and left good men and
true out in the cold. It may be said this
does not matter, as tlio Radicals
will have nearly a two-thirds majority
in the next House, but it docs matter a good
deal. In this reference to the Southern del
egations I do not include Georgia. She has
done well. But Mr. Rawls, whose election to
claimed in the First District, will have to do
very well indeed to fill the place of his pre
decessors, Messrs. W. W. Paine and A. T.
McIntyre. Two harder workers or more up
right Representatives have not been sent to
Washington from the South since the war
closed. In the Senate there will be some
thing of a Conservative gain, but not so great
as was hoped for. Morton, v
we looked to see defeated, to
turned, and Conkling will no donbt be
reelected. But we bavd got rid of Nye, the
buffoon, and shall get rid of Spencer, the ex-
sutler; and Georgia will send us a Democrat
in place of Mr. Hill, against whom I have
nothing to say, aside from hto politics.
Ttatthea
Which a'ntrs shouts bnu me na-tatl teir and sore
For any one
AR the tight foncht end mil >he abort]o*ney throni
Wcatahouldl do?
I do not think that I ehonld shrink or falter
But jnetroon.
Doing my work, nor change nur f*rk to alter
Angbt that'a gone;
But rise and move end lore and amlto, and pray
For one day mor*
And, tying down at nlrht for a last rieeping.
Bar la tha: ear
Which hcark ne i t, r, “Lord, within thy keeping
Do thoa thy with”
I might not alecp. for awe: tmt peiecful, tender.
My «o.*l «touid lie
AH night lore; »».d »hm ito« ***omlng
Flashed o’er the Shy
I think that I cool iwnhe. coaid caunlyssy,
‘ItislilAdiy.’’
Bat If a wondrous hind from tho blue yooder
•»-»» —it * *rjv”
tWtlL Ri
unroll
What could I da O, Blessed On Id: and Mattel,
Other than this-
8tUl toco onus now, not flower, fustrr.
Nor fesr to ntse
The rood, although eo venr long it ho
While led byYhce*
Step by step, feeltartfcee clo-e Wide me.
Through thorns, through flower*, whether the tsc
I may not know, my God, do hand rcTcalcth
Along the path nod
No’
To all my questioning thought, the time to 'ell.
And u is Welle
Let me keep on. abiding and unfmrtng
They soil always.
• •ury’e ripen Ing
short day’s.
etuofOuDu and I can wait.
they would have had no option in the matter
bnt to cast the vote of the State for Mr.
Greeley. And this, particularly when the
proposition was made before the election and
ignored, to have a set of electors run by the
Democracy pledged to no candidate, but left
to vote as they 6aw fit for the best interests of
the State.
No power but the people could have ab
solved the elected set of Electors from
voting for Mr Greeley.
But the question now becomes a practical
one, as to what the Electors shall do. Mr.
Greeley, the candidate, is dead. Who shall
be voted for?
Onr view is decided. If there is one
strong, pre-eminent, unalterable Southern
characteristic, it is fidelity to its honor. Let
the vote of Georgia be cast for the dead
Greeley in tribute to hia efforts for national
fraternization and the complete restoration
of Southern equality and peace.
In 18VJ, a portion’of the Whigs, headed by
Mr. Stephens and Mr. Toombs, voted for the
dead Webster. Let us follow the illustrious
and appropriate example.
It will be in keeping with Southern sensi
bility. It will be a generous act of Geor
gia requital for attempted service of a noble
‘Tto probable'that Greeley owes bis sudden
and melancholy decease to his candidacy.
That candidacy was marked by a sublime
endeavor to restore the South to her rights.
Whatever differences of opinion may exist
ss to tbe philosophy of that endeavor, there
can be no denial that Greeley made it, and
nobly, admirably, made it. And for the life
thus sacrificed for our section, it is bnt a
simple return to gire the barren yet honoring
tribute of the State electoral vote as a matter
of sacred sentiment.
But the thing goes deeper still in its de
mand upon our grateful recognition. What
ever his former opposition, Greeley held out
the hand of kindness to an oppressed and
plundered section. Though she can only
signify a sentiment, the Sonth owes it as
much to herself as to him, and also to the
cause of right to do all in her power to re
quite an attitude assumed for tbe great cause
of humanity and in her own behalf.
Tbe champions of humanity should be re
cognized and encouraged.
Greeley, strange as it may seem, took the
position of our friend. We fought, however un
willingly, under hto lead forourewn redemp
tion. He spoke brave word-, for our regen
eration. He heroically threw bimself in the
breach of Northern .sectional prejudice to
elevate the drooping nationality of his land
from the dust, and complete the severed
galaxy of her jewels.
The South alone honored him with her
vote, living, in response to this great attempt
Let the Sonth give him, dead, the vote he
won when living. And to Georgia let the
honor belong of leading off in thto set of
chivalric punctilio.
the very forward crop and fine picking sea
son, we believe the above figures much too
large We suppose there bas been 35 per
cent of the crop received to thia date, mak
ing tbe total crop 3,500,000 bales, which to
our present estimate. Our own spinners are
taking from tbe ports much larger amounts
than ever before—baving taken for the past
three months for five years, as follows: 1868,
166,000; 1869,-159,000; 1870, 197,000; 1871,
190,000; 1872, 255,0u0.
The exports to foreign countries)for the
past three months for four years' arc as
follows:
1869. 1679. 1871. 1873.
To Great Britain 257 290 *08
To Continent 156 55 45 29
Total 413
455
335
M3
The above figures show where the excess
of receipts have gone to.
The Continent was bare of good American
cotton, aud the demand for that kind makes
it comparatively scarce. Liverpool will
have to bid higher and raise her prices if she
expects to get her share of this crop. France,
tipain and Russia, all want good cotton. No
other kind will answer their pnrrposcaa well.
Liverpool takes a large quantity of poor
American cotton to mix with her India cot
ton. The last bureau report makes the crop
3,450,000 bales, which to 50,060 less titan our
present estimate.
The Bank of England held, two weeks ago,
$100,000,0n0 of gold and bas now increased
it ten millions more. The rate of interest
bas been reduced to C per cent, and money is
decidedly easier. The German government
has $100,000,000 of gold, which has been re
coined this year. This will be put in circu
lation after January 1st, and will help to
make money easier. Several of onr friends
have asked cs the past week when will be the
time to buy cotton. We will say to si) who
expect to buy cotton this winter for future
delivery that if we were going to buy at all,
we would ratber buy wilbin the next two
weeks than any other time.
The largest crop ever gathered was in I
4.476,000- mud 35 per cent, was received up
to this time. The crop 0LI86O was-3,461,000
snd 38 per cent, was received np to this date.
Thto year our estimate to 3,500,000 bales, and
that 35 per cent, has been received.
Gathering*-
What docs a man see in the wild, wild
waves ? Sea foam.
DAHLONEGA.
. The Board of Trustees of North Georgia
Agricultural College met a few days since.
The meeting was large and the members en
thusiastic, filled with faith in the success of
the enterprise. Mr. Henry Perry, of Savan
nah, was elected assistant teacher.—Mountain
Signal.
THOMASTON.
The dwelling house of Mr. C. E. Ingram
was burned down on the 29 th ult.—Thcrmuton
Herald.
MADISON.
The beantiful Female College in Greens
boro was burned on Friday, together with
most of the furniture.—Home Journal.
BLAKELY.
A negro was sent to the penitentiary tor
one year at the late term of Randolph Supe
rior Court for two much voting: Hancock,
who killed the young man Riley Martin, in
Bainbridge in 1866, died in the Lunatic Asy
lum a few days since.—Ebrlp Coup ip Neust.
EAUNDERSVLLE.
Steps are being taken toward tbe erection
of a school building. Tbe gin boose of Dr.
J. T. Linden, of Saunders comity, together
with fourteen bales of cotton, was destroyed
by fire a few days ago. Dr. A. G. Thomas,
for the .past year Pastor of the Christian
Chnrch in Saunderaville, left for his new
home in Indiana last neek,—Saundernille
Herald.
An object
the savings bt-u.
Why to a seif
Because, thongt
help.
A furniture ks
member of soci’:
and lounges, abo’
A drunkard, or.
round and tornr :
rarest. Your deposit in
friend like tbe letter P ?
t in pity, he is last in
said to be the laziest
-cause he keeps chairs
lday.
.ng told that the earth to
ts axis all the time, said:
I believe that,' r I’ve never been able to
stand on the darned thing.”
Item* of Interest.
Sunflowers are raised for foci in Minne
sota.
In 1871 there were 425 applications fordi-
voree in London.
The Vienna exposition bnilding to to cover
2,500,000 square feet.
Tbe stove interest in the United States bas
a combined capital of over $30,000,000. It
employs one hundred and fifty thousand men
and the probable product, during the current
year, wiii not fall short of 2,500,000 stoves.
The British Medical Journal says that in
a ball room containing fifty todies wearing
false hair, forty-five millions of navtoellae, or
inflnilesmal parasites, are set free: Filling
tbe atmosphere, they are inhaled with tt. ana
are a fertile source of pulmonary aflections.
Bftsceltmneatu.
The press .that printers like—A press of
business.
A Leavenworth editor sat down in a re
served seat already occupied by a hornet.
He stands up when scissoring his editorials
now.
An exchange announces, on the death of a
lady, that she “lived fifty years with her
husband, and died in confident hope of a
better life.”
“It to forty years, my old friend John,
since we were boys together." Is itr
Well, don’t speak so loud; there’s that
young widow in the next room.”
new Congress to the business which to likely
to engross the attention of the coming ana
last session of the expiring Congress, wc
hear on every hand that the lobby will be
very active this winter. San Domingo will
not be brought.forward just yet, we are told
by administration scribes, but we are to have
the postal telegraph scheme, contracts for.
building twelve iron sloops of war'
in private ship yards, the French
spoliation claims, ocean mail subei
subsidies ad infinitum, tho James River and
Kanawha and Atlantic and Great Western
canal projects, and hosts of lesser schemes
which will give Congress enough to do in the
comparatively short space of time allotted to
it. The land grab business to thought to he
pretty well “played out,” and tt is not prob
able tbe St. Croix cansl stealing enterprise
will be revived Iu promoters are said to
have “gone back on” the lobby last winter,
and will hardly venture here again with so
many unredeemed promises hanging over
them.
THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY TOWARD THE
SOUTH.
It was announced some time since that
Grant wonld hereafter pursue a more lenient
policy toward the Sonth; that be wonld not
only pardon the victims of Radical hate
but would recommend, in bis message, tbe
granting of universal amnesty. I bis seemed
very probable, but now the Washington cor
respondent of tbe New York Times, who
bas tbe run of tbe White House kitchen, and
professes to speak “by authority,” declares
that tbe President bas no such intention, and
will leave the matter to Congress to deal with
as tt sees fit This means that the policy of
proscription and hate is to continue for four
years more at least; for while Morton
sad Butler and their followers are
in Congress the tenth need expect
neither favors nor justice. And yet
we see Southern men, even three who fought
under the Stars and liars, coming to the sup
port of Grant almost daily, thus helping him
to rivet more firmly on the South the tetters
to escape which they once faced Federal
bullet* Longstreet deserted bto comrades for
an office under Grant, deserted Grant for
Greeley, and when he saw the latter bad no
chance for success, went back to Grant again.
Mosbv, too, has fallen at Grant’s feet, and will
donbtless get his reward; and the Republican
of this morning extols General James P. Ma
jor, J. E. Slaughter and a ao-callcd General
A. C. Jones, for having aided io tbe re-election
of Grant Why, then, should Grant change
hisipolicy toward the South when men whom
tbe South oncejhonorcd desert her in the hour
of need and range themselves under the ban
ner of the conqueror of American liberties?
grant’s magnanimity.
Four years ago General Hancock's name
was prominently mentioned in connection
with the Democratic nomination to the Pres
idency. Seeing in this gallant soldier and
able man, a formidable rival, Grant sent him
to the far West, giving him a command be-
longing, by right, (p one of inferior rank.
General Hancock's name again loomed upon
the political horizon this year, and Grant
kept him in the West Now that the prliti-
cal contest is over. Grant has given General
Hancock the command pertaining to his
rank. On this the National Republican of
this dty bnrBts forth as follows:
“He,” the President, “has completely ig
nored personal differences for what he be
lieves tbe best good of the public service,
and hit thus shown a spirit of magnanimity
which bas not its parallel in American his
tory since the days of Washington, when
men were appointed to office for the good of
tbe whole country, and not because of their
subserviency to party.”
How about the magnanimity that exiled
and degraded an effident officer, simply be
cause he might have been a political oppo
nent?
ANEW DAILY.
There is talk of establishing a new daily
here, to be called the Federal Democrat. The
name is enough to kill it in the existing
State of affairs, let alone other cause*. An
independent daily is sorely needed in Wash
ington, but we are not likely to have one for
some time to come: Tommy Hauck.
Bellgloua Information.
LUTHERAN CHURCH ITEMS.
Rev. Dr. Coward, editor of the Lutheran
Observer, during a recent trip of eleven days
in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, traveled
twentv &ve hundred miles, filled seven ap
pointments, and raised nearly five thousand
dollars at chnrch dedications, besides con
ducting bto paper.
BAPTIST CHURCH ITEMS.
Tbe lady members of the First Baptist
Church in Nashville have agreed tint they
will dispenso with all finery on Sunday—
mealing no jewels but consistency, and here
after appear at church in plain calico
dresses.
The Baptists of Virginia have resolved to
raise a memorial fund of $360,000. and the
Rev. Dr. Burrows, of Richmond, baa been
employed as agent to solicit contributions to
the fund.
Erase ofal enuen items.
The Episcopal Church Guild, connected
with St. John's Church, New York, during
the last summer, visited over-ten thousand
poor families in the fifth and eighth wards
and vicinity, finding many of them in dens
of discomfort, disease snd death. Tho Guild
to composed of 125 members.
A successor to the late Bishop East bum
will be clectea-December 4th by a special
meeting of tit0 convention of tbe Episcopal
Cbureh of the Dioccsc of Massachusetts.
Tbe pews of the new Episcopal Chun b on
Madison avenue. New York, rented at pre
miums ranging from $300 to $3,250 Tin
premiums on fifty pews amounted to $15,800.
CONOBEGATIONaL CHURCH ITEMS.
There are 503 congregational churches in
Massachusetts. The oldest pastor of the de
nomination in the State, to Rev. Dr. N.
Adams, of Boston.
Less than one half of the Wisconsin con
gregational churches are self-supporting.
There arc 591 congregational churches in
Massachusetts, and 13,874 chnrch memls-t*.
Their benevolent contributions during tbe last
year amounted to $438,479.
Congregationalism to slowly gainings foot
hold in the South. Tbe churches in Tennes
see, Georgia and Alabama, have three colleges
and seventeen chnrch organization*
Plymouth chnrch, Brooklyn, contributed
last year nearly half a million nf dollars to
religious, charitable and educational objects.
METHODIST CHURCH ITEMS.
The Missionary Society of the Hethodtot
Esptocopa) Chnrch. of Boston, have planned
the building of a number of cfaapeto, and *
considerable amount to subacribed for that
purpose.
They are trying to organize a Methodist
Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, in which
an abridgment of the English Prayer-book
will probably be used in tile form originally
prepared by Wesley.
The trustees of the Wabash Avenue M. E.
Church, Chicago, have resolved to adopt the
free pew system.
The Board of Managers of the Freed men'*
Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, call for contributions for the current
year to the amount of $100,000, to sorry for
ward the schools and church operations
among that people in the Southern States.
FOREIGN RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
The Society for the propagation of th 1
Catholic faith, which has its headquarters in
Rome, received in the year 1871, a little mopt
than one million of dollars; only $55,000 of
this sum was obtained qntshie of Europe.
A missionary in China states that if th >
present ratio of conversion goes on a* tt h:>4
been going for some years bank, by tbe year
1900 tbe native Christians in China will num
ber over two million.
The Bishop of Sabub. Austria, has arrt
hto resignation to tbe Pope, liecausebe would
not subscribe to the dogma of infallibility.
\fr Rrtnrfr<*rm’« aialnr <■ nmael.iu,. I.
Mr. Spurgeon’s sister, to preaching U
England, with 1
MISCELLANEOUS CtlCttCn ITEMS.
The first American thanksgiving was he! t
after tbe getting of an abundant harvest in
theyear 1623.
Kansas has had twenty camp meetings dor-
the past season.
A writer in the Chicago Standard aavs that
the people of Boston will pay more to listen
to a caricaturist of the Gospel than a preacher
of it
Tbe fiftieth annivcmir of tbe Daily Noon
day Prayer Meeting of Pkila'Ielphia, w*>
held November 23d, in tho First bapti-1
Chnrch.
Robert Dale Owen recently suggested th 3
the word translated “year” in our version -f
the Bible means but a month, so that Mi th t-
sclah instead of ninehnndrcd andsixty nin\
was but eight years old.
During the past year the New York City
Mission has been sustaining forty missi- 1-
nries, men and women, who have made 100w
000 visit* among the poor and needy, at4
held four thousand meeting* of vario U
kinds
The Boston Old South Church has beta
leased two years for a post office.
Connub alites.
An old man’* advice to young men to, don’t
make love to two girls at once. Love to a
good thing, bnt it is like batter in warm
weather—it won’t do to have too much on
hand at the same time.
A sympathetic Norwich man stopping in
Boston, in learning to check the fire a great
many buildings must be blown np, at once
offered to contribute hto mother-in-law for
the purpose.
A young lawyer who had long paid his
court to a lady without advancing hto suit,
accused her one day of “ being insensible to
the power of lore." “ It dues not follow,”
she replied, “that I am so, bemuse I am
not to be won by tLe power of attorney."
•* Pnnnw. m*» ** rr>nlip<i thp. unites»• " hut vnn I
A delegate from the Japanese Governmer.k
on the way to tbe United State* for th.
purpose of inquiring into our system of ro»
The fifty year* of the New York Obwrvtt
are completed.
WHAT’S GOING ON Cl CHURCHES AND AMONG
CHURCH TKOFLE.
An Adventist finds evidence of Scripture
that the “ Epizootic?’ to but another omen of
the coming day. and another effort of God
to call attention to it
The late Unitarian Nations] Conference
developed two facta; First, The alow
growth of the Church; and second the
scanty snpply of ministers.
The membership of the Christian Chnrch
in the Stale of Indiana numbers <5,025.
Mr. Beecher’s Chnrch proposes tonne a
fund of fifty thousand dollars to be cal led
the “Plymouth Mission Fund,” for the en
dowment under the rare of the Church.
At the Baptist Union of England iatelv
convened in Manchester. Mr? Spturam
piopisnl the holding of a united con
ference of all- the evangelical denomi
nations, to be styled “A Congress of
the Free Churches,” for the purpose of prayer
and mutual edification. 1
Rev. Henry Kimler, pastor of a church in
Newport, to seventy-three years of age. He
took license to marry last weec.
Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Cincinnati, dissents
from the interpretation of the Judgment*
manifest in the Urning of cities.
The Christian World, a German reformed
paper in Cincinnati, advocates the kneeling
posture in prayer.
Two ministers are having a debate through
the New. Orleans Christian Advocate about
Heaven. One of them takes the teripinre*
literally, and declares tt to a city of pore gold,
having walla of jasper. The other is sure
that it is not located in the sun, and after that
isn’t very clear aa to where tt is.
Rumor,
Ayonng man engaged in making hiraac’f
attractive to a young lady, waa taken with a
violent fit of coughing, and brought up two
marbles he had swallowed when a bov The
young lady dismissed him. Sbe eahl she
didn’t want to marry a atone quarry.
A young lady who has just returned from
Europe advises her friends not logo there,
“unless yon are sure that you know enough
to appreciate the beauties of Europe. It
lends such a charm to Italy to remember that
among these groves of olive the immortal
Beethoven sculptured the Mediccan burns,
and^Stmk^mra composed the sublime poem
On the night of the fire in Boston a dealer
in boots and shoes, finding that the fire had
readied his rear store, said to a few strangers
who had assisted him, “you might as well
help yourself to boots.” One fellow took a
pair tbe mcichant handed him, and after
“ Forgive me,” replied the suitor, “ but you I glancing at them said, "you havn't got a pair
should remember that all the votaries of I of slim sevens, have you?” An explo '
cupid are toUettorC , I next door prevented a response.