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■aATI»A.9TTA. TUESDAY, DEUEMBER16
-— BrtTltlei.
(n Mtl'DC. IlliriOi*, wheat L» one-third cheaper than
f AheiiitM * ■nlwrUbbo* beep formed la Loe-
Odtow ct Keidholr d’Are. * dovceadant of the funny
Ml* Maid of Orlaeoa, ba* been one of the «Usmm
liazalae trial.
ItTMUk Cotton Exparta
* . |
nee in-|
The Sarennalt Advertiser gives eomee
terecting tables of the cotton exports of that
city for the last eight years. 8
The aggregate number of hales shipped in
the last eight j'ftirs was8,611,626? •- The ship
ments ran as follows in round numbers';
1866, 223,000; 1867, 250,000; 1868, 504,000;
1869. 851,000. 1870, 440,000; 1871, 729,000; spirited contest
The receipt* ia IffbJo’a theatre, in New York, from
/fen performance of the Black Crook, is said to tare
■msaatsd to 307.75 since the drama was first
• cprodeced. . /, ■
- Xsfoe Desshamps, the most implacable of the Pax-
- siast OommuiaU, is rsported to be in the United
.-Stale*, aoorine carp*. He NSW the rabble that fie*
* -cfewyed theCoiasanTeedoma.
» 'Za<he trlal of Marshal Bezel oe, General Boyer tee -
• tfiedthstBlaaurck told him he was willing to grant
-.normnlotiesif tha urny of Metz] would declare in fa
ros of Napoleon.
• S-hia is the wsy it strikes him: “Alphonso, haring
--•Mended a war masting, says that buckling on one's
-armor this weather is not half so pleaeant as buckling
-am to one's charmer.
Tax a juvenile party, onalittle fellow, redoiclng In the
|dendor of hlsae* clothes, went op to another with
'Mao triumphant remark: "Yon ain’t dressed as well
aalfana” “Well, 1 ’retorted the otner, "I can flick
ea, anyhow;”
"Hen. A. H. H. Stuart, of the Valley of Virginia, who
-was'Secretary of tha Interior under Fiimore, la
• edd to be writing incidents and conversations of the
-.HietingnlUied man of Us age.
Frcnohmoelcil journal complains that France
• vine no national anthem in which all Frenchmen can
■ cfc a, whereat Fanch remarks that once on a time tne
• HanSel composed one which they might con-
latently adopt, ■viz : “Thjir .land brought forth
1872,441,000; 1878, 600.000,
The hfiaviestyeai 1 1871 : , thb Bfext18784®
and the third 1868.
The shipments in foreign and American
vessels were 1,292,979 bales, against 704,377,
or nearly two bales in foreign-ships to one in
American.
Os. Ansa M.’ Cabell, who died In St Louie a few
■dsra -clnce, was the wife or Hon. E. 0. Cabell, for-
rmoriyUalMdStateeSenator from Florida, and (laugh
totof Mr*. General Ashley (afterwards Mrs. John J.
■OriUenden,) who died in St Louis about a year since,
'toio leaves three children, who wil. Inherit their
wiotbee's. handsome estate.
Mils tor the Kepeal six' 1 th* Salary
Grab.
The important question of the repeal of the
salary increase came prominently before the
Hons* of Representatives onpthe ilh.’ The
Speaker appointed the following oommittee
on the subject: Hale, (Ma), Maynard Kansas,
Hale, (N. Y.), Niblack and Jewett. After a
yttee. given the
epofit iany time.
.—I—1 r inimiMn nfipsji
promptly prfe
. varied .greatly in terms,
simply the re-
the salaries
end dele-
important
• TWBotl MeatTeitozb.—While the meat Is boTirg
waSd-for every three pounds, two spoonsful of brandy.
. tough meat will be made tender In this way
at retaining any taaieor the brandy.
Hay. ILUly Ma'd; the sun yon koew.
The tun that knew and called yon fair,
Ne'er kissed a cheek so soft and white
■ Or lips to sweet *s I see there.
* She lies, the pale pretence of deatb,
% Your mimic self la all bnttha';
» Bad Laaicelot found you half so f-ir
■ • Oota-bad Dot oom- to Aetolat.
' 'No yrir in tbe prevent century has witnessed bo
-away epdlirg marine disasters as that which la now
Asa dig to its close. First the Norttfleet went dowa
oaths Lnglish channel with 45) souls on board ; next
muno Ibe Allanti j with neary the same number of
-rietftna:»then the City of Washington, and last the
does to mid-ocem. of the Ville du Havre with two
-Srandrcd and twenty-alx lives.
disks bed been-indalglng too f.eely In ardent
•spirits At a (street owner his bat dropped lntotbe
-gutter. Says Jinks: 'I ’know -If I pick yoa np I’ll
- CiC-dfl fall yoa won’ t p -hick—me—hick—np—good
■ -afghU” And he walked off with a smile of satLfac-
■Aas, deaedbing Innumerable zlg-ztgs as he went,
-■'lanvlng Lie hat In the gutter.
That there isettU« good healthful demand for the
Sighler morales of the last certury is proved both by
' The b gb rrlca of the old editions and by the steady
app a nnce of a new series. Messrs. Bickers & Son
■ Juul Metre. Sothersn have brought out within the
5ut two or three years library editions of Fielding,
am volumes; Smoilett, eight volumes, and Sheridan,
<vj volumes. To these they have now added Sterne,
■1a.tea.e- volumes, and they promise to extend their
Add evaoto include Swift, Ben Jonson, and others.
- Sir Fletcher Horton, who was somewhat ill-man-
•nared, when flooding before Ltrd Mansfield on some
•Coeefion cf manorial r ghts, chanced nnforinaately to
■~®ey. “My Lord.1 -can ijlnstrate the point by an In-
■ataBce.tn myuwn person; I myself bave two little
v *aa#:>." The judge immediately ln.erpoeed, with
■•as 'X hla blandest smiles. <We all know it, Sir
Cfletc.er.”
< "Cieserhl Bon Jose Lopes Uraga, who was formerly
> - BonerM-Ii-Chief of the Atmlea of Mexico, sails on the
oflaamer Colon, ea route to Guatemala, where be goes
- <Ss*-.tte- benefit of hla health. Tbls distiogulshed
1 ■ffiosc, upon recognizing the Empire of Maximilian,
• ' Veewme Councillor of S’ate and Grand Chamberlain of
■ Ifce Imperial Hou'ebold. By order of the Emperor
** heaioompanied poor Carlotta on her trip to Yucatan.
■. 2a nlso went to ■brief' her back from France, but
— •mud her a raving ltutatic, unable to recognize him
i hla arrival at Miramar.
Georgia Congreismen on Commit
tees*
The Georgia Congressmen bave been ap
pointed as follows on committees:
Whitely, Radical, on Manufactures and
Pablic Expenditures.
Blount, Democrat, on Manufactures.
Cook, Democrat, on Militia.
Freeman, Radical, on Private Land Claims.
Bawls, Democrat, on Revolutionary Pen
sions/
Harris, Democrat, on Enrolled Bills and on
Mines and Mining.
Bell, Democrat, on Coinage Weights and
Measures.
Stephens, Democrat, on the Revision of the
Laws.
Proposed Amendments to tbe Gon>
stltutlon*
Mr. Wilson, of Indiana, has made a list of
all the amendments to the Constitution now
currently discussed, which he offered in the
Honse, to which he has added one
more, which is, to say the least, sufficiently
comprehensive. They are:
First—Congress shall not pay any debts of
a State or Territory, nor loan the credit of
tbe Government, nor make grants of land to
any corporation.
Second—Every act of Congress shall em
brace bat one subject, which mast appear in
Us title.
Third—A Congress shall not increase its
own salary, bnt only that of its successor.
Fourth—The President shall be elected for
six ye>ra.
Fifth—Senators shall be elected by ballot
by the people.
Sixth—Congress shall have power to pass
laws necessary to protect the fiaancirl affairs
of the people.
• Mr.Bt GecrzeT. Mason, eon of the late Hon. JohD
'Y. Mason, of Virginia, alt-r serving gillaetiy In t c
- - Confederate army, went to Fmuce after the war, and
i- received from Louis Napo’eon a commission as Scns-
' -Idea tenant in the famous Foreign Legion. He rose
■ to the rank of Captain, bat tired ot service in Algeria,
-«where the Legion has been stat.oned for many j errs,
'•ho, a short time ago, became naturalized ae a French
* eMteen,4a order to be transferred to a French army
Washington, December 7.—The opposition to Ur
- confirmation of Attorney General Williams on the
<t pact of Republican Senators has not shbaided. Some
• of them ate very bitter In their condemnation of It.
-And it iareported that a number of them called upon
"the Presidest yesterday and requested him to relieve
-uthcoa of their embarrassment by withdrawing the ob
-■ noxious appointment. - It is stated that Senators Ed
■ r muni-. Carpenter, Wright, Freiingbuyeen are among
good since his arrival in Washington, and it
is not unlikely that the change of climate
■will benefit him. It is to be hoped it may.
I should not forget to mention that Mj.
Stephens took the floor on Thursday^ for tha 1
first time. He rose to ia privileged question
relative to the rules of the House, and was
promptly recognized by tKe Speaker,
steadied himself on his crutches all eyes were
turned upon him, and he was listened to with
marked attention.
cflhef>(St sessic
sented.
the majority proposing
peal of : the law making
Senators, Representatives,
gates $5,000 a year without mileage, but al
lowing for actual traveling expenses. Mr.
Kasaon introduced a bill cutting down all
salaries to the old figures, the President’s
salary to be reduced after 1877. Niblack
proposes simply to. cut off the increase to
Congressmen. Whltthcme (Tenn.) wants
the salary $5,000 a year and 20 per cent, re
duction in tbe salaries employes. DeWitt.
E. H. Robots (N. Y.,) and Arthur propose an
amendment to the Constitution prohibiting a
Congress from increasing the salaries of
its members, while Mr. Beck proposes to
accomplish tbe same object by act of
Congress. Judge Poland has the severest
proposition of alL He wishes not only to
cut down the salary of the present Congress,
but to instruct the Treasurer of the United
States to correspond with the members of
the last Congress who took their back pay
and ask them to return it Mr. Cox inserts
in his bill a clause to prevent the restoration
of the franking privilege. The bills were
not read to the House, but were simply re
ferred to the special committee. As almost
every member of the special committee has a
special plan of his own, the committee will
be likely to have some difficulty in agreeing.
and glaring that H demands rebuke from all
men who bave regard for right
And the spectacle of the Southern mem-
: 00NGBK8S WILL DO.
-^VrnfiVHrrffrftfrAill r’MMn.rcimMAifi
How to Treat a Wife.
Ukioh Point, Ga., December 4,1873.
) ditors Constitution : In looking over
some old books I came across the inclosed
extract, “how to treat a wife,” and was so
forcibly struck with it that I have taken tbe
liberty of sending it to you, to have it pub
lished in your estimable paper.
First, Get a wife. Secondly, Be patient.
You mav'bave great trials and perplexities
in jmi ousinesa with tbe world, but do not
carry to your home a clouded or contracted
bfow.
Your wife msy have bad many trials,
which, though of less magnitude, may have
been as hard to bear. A kind, conciliating
word, a tender look, will do wonders in
chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom.
You encounter your difficulties in tbe open
air, fanned by heaven’s cool breezes; bnt
your wife is often shut in frjm these health
ful influnces, and her health fails, and her
spirits lose their elasticity.
Bat ob, bear with her; she has trials and
sorrows to which you are a stranger, but
which your tenderness can deprive of all
their anguish.
Notice kindly her little attentions and ef
forts to promote your comfort
Do not treat her with indifference if yon
would not sear and palsy her heart, which
watered by kindness wonld, to the latest day
of yonr existence, throb with sincere ana
constant affection.
Sometimes yield yonr wishes to hers. She
has prefeiences as strong as yon, and it may
be just as trying to yield her choice as to
you. Do you find it bard to yield some
times?
Think you it la not difficult for her to give
up always? If you never yield to her wishes
•here is danger that she will think yon are
selfish, and care only for yourself, and with
each feelings she cannot love as she might.
Again, show yourself manly, so that your
wife can look up at you and feel that you
will act nobly, and that she can confide in
your judgment
A private letter from a gentleman in Europe rays
*that wM e in Faria lately, be found the principal cos-
• timers of that city buaily engaged on Mardl Gras
-= ceammeafor the mystio societies of New Orleans.
J Mamphis and Mobile, and adds that those for tin
• ~**Camphis'* are most costly and elaborate of all.
‘ i What the representation Is to bn he was unable to
■ - aeeartain, bat from the costume*, which are rich, elc
v fltnt and varied, he concludes that the subject wil
1 fee historical and antique, r-presen ing probably
-Boneppoch and events long before the Christian era
TbeTaoific ocean makes giodths justness of It*
• - same in comparison with the boisterous Atlantic
Muring the past season the openness of tne northers
'-•ob of the Pacific not only secured safety to th'
- -whaling. vessels, but enabled them to follow tht
wfeJes in high latituies. so that they bad a fairly sue
xeififolEseson. Of the forty vessels in the whalinit
• '*»: ef the North Pacific, thirteen have returned t«.
San Franc!tco, with 9,5X) barrels of oil, 100,000
?oand* of hone and 350 ponnds of ivory.
• -OalltBg the troll by States, the Representatives art-
—aowsvomia, yrrsenung-themseltes before the bar.
Ttetere administering the oath, the Speaker announce
tost If there are any who do not wish to taxe “thein.
straight” they will please keep their seats There ar.
• good many who pref.r to take it with sugar, promt
«*«U«moEg whom is Alexander H. Stephens. He it
assisted to tbs bar by Father Herndon, of Texas, by
slheeide of whon (a grizzled six footer, with a fron
■fefeo Nep'une) he seems a pigmy. Tnere is one son oi
CCaau in tbe line, whs, by accident, stands at Mr
.*!»»phene’left. Wfca* apictnrei The South Carr-
toA-txtiquetls a singular collection. The indigences
oofferoc, the African IXUy and the erotic carpet bag
- -ec rare Headed In fiord mellifluence. Ain't It jolly 7
Negro Crime.
An attentive reader of the journals of the
day must be struck with the great prevalence
of crime among the negroes. And a com
parison of our criminal records now and
during slavery days will show the greater
prevalence of crime now than then. The
truth is that the enfranchisement of tbe black
has worked the enfranchisement of his
vices, and the liberation of his proclivities
to crime. And the progress of the negro in
skilled crime has been something limply
marvellous.
In the South there has been a noticeable
increase of house robbing at night, or what
is known under the law as burglary. This
is a crime that requires great nerve, skill and
coolness. The records show that the increase
in this crime is due entirely to negroes.
As an ins.ance illustrating the matter we
notice that the Savannah Advertiser states
tbe breaking up of a band of
burglars *in that city. It says that
for some time past a perfect system of bur
glary and house robbing has been going on
in that city. Quite a number of stores and
private residences have been entered in the
day, as well as the night time. Goods have
been taken from the very door of some of
i be merchants, where they were pnt for ex-
pos.tion, and although diligent search has
been made for the thieves, none, or only one
or two at most, have been captured.
The Advertiser chronicles the discovery
and capture of the gang of skilled and dar
ing thieves. And strange to say the seven of
the gang caught are mostly negro boys from
twelve to seventeen years old. Two ring-
eaders were also caught.
It is no pleasant angary for the future that
the young negroes exhibit so great an apti
tude for and profidenoy in crime, requiring
courage and brain.
The problem of Southern order is vastly
complicated by this matter ot negro crimi
nality. One thing is certain, that no system
of government can grapple with the problem
>hat is based upon Radical theories and prac-
ices, such as have marked the carpet-bag era
of Southern politics.
Oarpet-bag Radicalism bnt encourages ne
gro crime.
Amnesty at Last.
Our morning’s dispatches give us the im
portant intelligence that tbe nouse of Rep
resentatives has passed an amnesty bill re
lieving all existing disabilities of Southern
men by a vote of 141 to 29.
In the brief discussion on the bill the ques
tion was asked whether the effect of the bill
wonld not be to permit Jefferson Davis to be
come a Senator. The bold rejoinder was
made that it would find that if he was elected
he ought to be admitted. The negative vote
of 29 shows that the measure is not one of
unanimous desire and approval, and that
there is a considerable element in thS coun
try yet that is disposed to be proscriptive.
Still a majority appears to be in favor of con-
< illation and justice, and the measure will
have a soothing effect. As a matter of wis
dom and policy the ruling party should have
taken the step long ago, and it has shown its
incapacity in the short-sighted policy of
venemous proscription it has pursued.
With the Yice President of the Southern
Confederacy admitted to a seat in the na
tional councils, and treated with marked
honor by men of all shades of political
opinion, and with the prompt passage of a
sweeping amnesty act, which restores every
Southerner to every political privilege, the
present Congress begins its session auspici
ously for the country, and w,ith JhMhtening
prospects forthe cause of good wr«nment.
Of course the bill has to pass ib<? Senate
and receive the executive approval, but the
President is already committed to the meat-
re. having advised it, and the Senate will,
hardly vote it down.
But let not the men who have ruled the
country for the last ten years, think that this
is all that is nece.-sary to restore the country
to peace and good government. There are
other evils to be rectified. ThefrowniDg
tyranny of carpet-bag corruption, backed by
the mailed despotism of the Federal Admin
istration, coerces to rain the people of Loui
siana and Carolina.
Amnesty is only the beginning.
Our Washington Letter.
Grant’s message—TO.r, Stephens the
Lion of the Capitol—Scandal
About Williams the
new Chief
Justice.
Washington, December 6,1873.
The record of the first week of Congress
may be briefly told. It snowed, rained and
hailed on the opening day, according to pre
cedent The message not being sent in tbe
members of the House got up a lottery with
front seats for prizes. The Georgia delega
tion all drew blanks except Mr. Stephens,
who, as a matter of courtesy, was given the
seat he occupied when the House met, which
is in the front row on the left-hand side of
the main aisle. Mr. Whiteley being absent
will have to take a seat in the onter row, and
should provide himself with a spy-glass, a
speaking trumpet and an ear trumpet, if he
wishes to see, hear, and be heard.
The message was read on Tuesday and fell
perfectly fiat It did not retain the attention
of half the members of the Honse, and the
other half could not hear, owing to the con
fusion which-prevailed.
The President’s recommendations concern
ing the finances are regarded as mixed. He
advocates inflation in one breath, and with
tbe next offers measures looking to that end.
He is therefore compared to the legislator of
the Pine Tree State, who said he was “in
favor of the Maine law, but agin’ its execu
tion”
His references to the Spanish question are
weak and inconsequ-ntia).
Some one calls attention to the fact that
there is is no reference to Divine Providence
in tbe message. That is accounted for by
the fact that Parson Newman, who does tbe
religious business for Grant, is away on a
roving commission.
HON. ALEX. H. STEPHENS
has been the observed of all observers since
his arrival in Washington, and the strangers
in the galleries are eager to get a look at this
distinguished Southern statesman. Mr. Ste
phens’ acknowledged ability commands tbe
respect of all, and I have yet to hear a single
unkind or uncharitable remark concerning
him from any quarter. On the first day of
the session his seat was surrounded by those
seeking an opportunity to pay their respects
to him, and on Wednesday the Marquis of
Roseberry, a member of the English Honse
of Lords. was on the floor, and requested an
introduction to Mr. Stephens, and while they
were in conversation General Butler and
Speaker Blaine joined them, and soon quite
a coterie had gathered around.
On Thursday, Mr. Stephens, accompanied
by Hon. L. Q. O. Lamar, of Mississippi, called
upen the President, who, in consideration for
the infirmities of his distinguished visitor,
came down stairs to receive Mm. The inter
view was a very pleasant one to both.
Yesterday Mr. Stephens was not in his
seat, his first absence since the session com
menced. His general health has been pretty-
session.
will be restored.
The ba
modified.
There will be-some financial legislation
looking to inflation.
WHAT CONGRESS OUGHT TO DO.
Congress should remove all political disa
bilities. .
It Bhould also do away with the iron-clad
oath.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, introduced
a resolution looking to the repeal of the test
oath.
If the Republicans wonld do a generous
and wise act, they wonld remove all political
disabilities, and repeal the test oath without
delay.
maynard’s serenade.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, was sere
naded at the Ebbitt House the other night
The Marine Band was engaged for the occa
sion, and the President undone or two mem
bers of the Cabinet were present. A good
many inquiries were made as to the cause of
this ovation, but all that could be learned
was, that it was intended as an offset to the
serenade to Andy Johnsoj. A Republican
remarked the next day that he had no idea
what the thing was abont, and that, after
listening to Maynard’s speech, he did’nt
Enow any more than before.
SCANDAL.
The nomination of Attorney-General Wil
liams to the Chief Justiceship hangs fire in
the Senate. Bets are offered to-day that he
will not be confirmed. There is a good deal
of feeling among Senators on the subject.
Some say it is time to put a stop to nomina
tions made on personal grounds alone, and
that if Grant is allowed to go on nominating
unfit men to high offices be will ruin the
Republican party. There is, moreover, scan
dal afloat concerning the influences which
induced Grant to make this appointment
The name of a lady of huh social position
is mixed up in it. The New York Sun of
yesterday had acovert allusion to the matter!
and it is said it will print the full particulars
to-day. The topic is hardly a suitable one
to pursue further, although it is now the
era representation y
the andean dollars, is one of mortification to
our section. The bold attitude of resistance
isneaBtieg,,
that was wont to be ever the
A - ! ion jn public matters seems
_ Let us hope that there is no publicsenti-
!ykw! WiKC533U sustain such a degeneracy of
Southern character.
A Dally Subscriber for TMree Years*
We have noted many weekly subscribers
for five and six years, but we have now to
record our first daily subscriber going be
yond two. A prominent lawyer of this dty
yesterday paid us a balance of $20 00, pay
ing for The Daily Constitution for three
years in advance.
tBAZAINE.
Our morning telegrams tell ns that Ba-
z&ine has been convicted of surrendering
Mertz and his French army improperly, and
sentenced tq be degraded from his rank and
executed. The .sentence Jias been accom
panied by~a recommendation to mercy.
We have never, from the day of the Bur-
render by Bazaine, entertained any other
opinion than that his coqdutt ^as an amal-
&m ot treachery and cowardice that deserved
the fullest punishment known to military
. % . a »l _ ^
At the time of. its occurrence The Consti
tution,so expressed itself, and has seen no
reason Since to change the opinion.
Dully Subscriber <o
We were paid thirty dollars in advance
for the dally for three years, and issued three
cards to the subscriber.
ocate of the Convention.
The Augusta Chronicle publishes a letter
in favor of a Convention from a gentleman
sty ed the Honorable A. C. Walker. In this
letter Mr. Walker advocates a Convention to
alter the Constitution on the ground that he
homed unread the only copy of the Consti
tution he ever saw, and had never seen one
since or had any knowledge of it.
With all courtesy to Mr. Walker we doubt
the propriety of taking advice in the matter
from gentlemen who offer such advice on the
ground that they know nothing of the sub
ject.
Good sense dictates that advice should
be sought from men who know whereof they
write. Ignorance in no basis for intelligent
admonition.
Mr. Walker farther illustrates his concep
tion of what is right by deliberately ad
vocating the abolition of the Supreme Court
as one of tbe measures of reform to be ac
complished by a Convention, and the return
and retrogradation of the State to the confu
sion and uncertainties of the old system of
Superior Courts without any tribunal of ap
peal.
Does the Chronicle endorse Mr. Walker’s
views? If it does, the people of Georgia
will have no difficulty in coming to a deci
sion on the Chronicle as an adviser, and on
tbe propriety of holding a Convention.
If the advocates of a Convention propose
to abolish the Supreme Court and advocate a
Convention from ignorance of the organic
law, the thing will /all dead.
Atlanta’s Debt.
A correspondent of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist wrote a terrific statistical article
the latter part of last week, in which tbe
debt of Atlanta was put down at the astound
ing figure of $9,875,000 in 1870. The writer
gave the following tabie of city indebtedness
in Georgia:
Population. Debt.
1S70.
town talk.
“BELLA, BELLA, HORIDABBLLA!”
Tbe situation is decidedly war-like this
morning. Orders have been issued to put
the ports on the Southern sea coast in readi
ness for defensive operations, and there is
increased activity in the Navy Department.
The Virginias was to have been delivered up
day before yesterday, but she still remains at
the moorings in the harbor of Havana. The
impression is that war is inevitable, and it is
said if the Spanish government does not take
some decisive action with regard to carrying
out the agreement, the President will
send the matter to Congress on Monday
to deal with it as it seems fit. As the peace
element is believed to predominate in Con
gress, tbe prediction is made that the Vir
ginias will never be restored to us, and that
we shall be placed in the position of pocket
ing the insult to our flag. ; f'
PERSONAL.
Senator Norwood arrived here last Thurs
day night.
Sam Bard is grieving round the Capitol,
and is said to be after an office of some kind.
Thomas Hauck.
, The Salary Grab.
Oar telegrams tell us that a lively discus
sion occurred in the House of Representa
tives yesterday over the bill to repeal the
salary grab act of last Congress. In the de
bate a Southern member frankly acknowl
edged that the Southern members were
against repeal and wanted the higher figures
of pay.
The course of the Southern members of
Congress in this salary grab matter has been
a most humiliating one. Whatever may have
been our misfortunes, the pride of our South
ern people ha3 been that we retained our
honesty and punctilious honor.
Our people have constantly alluded Tohl $W8M30 $4i626<930 $J ,043,960
with gratification to the reputation of our The writer did not get AtlanU>8 debt for
old Southern Congressmen for unpurchasable J 1873> or he would ha7e amazed at the
Sivanriah 38,235
Atlanta.. 31,787
Augusta. 15,3b9
Macon 10,810
Columbus 7,401
Athens 4,251
Grlffla... 3,425
America* 3,359
Janesville 3,047
Rome 2,748
Brunswick.... 3,348
Alban; 3,101
Bainbridge 3,026
8tatenvUle 742
per
$2,052,380
9.875,001
1.355,250
414.000
400.000
5,650
47,600
2,135
1,200
3,i 00
123.000
SAM
100,050
400
.107,567 $’4.381,3.5
Dbt
pox cap.
1870
E 73
453 21
88.07
33.39
51.05
133
13.18
.96
.39
1.09
52.81
1.14
19.35
.54
Summary ot stute News*
uami.
About 2 o’clock lint Tuesday tbe coal honse of Mr.
J. F. Auld. of Eibarton, come very near being burned.
The fire started In a lot o! fuel he had stewed away.
--Th** town pnmp of Elberton, is out cf order, aud
the people, for the fl-at time, are enjoying pure milk.
not suppers are the order of the day among the
colored copulation of Eibeiton. One was made too
hot for cemfori the other night by tha unexpected rri-
val of a oonstable with a search warrant The number of
dollectors who were out upon the »treats of Klberton
last Tuesday trying to obtain money has been vari
ously estimated at from eleven to twelve thousand.
——There was a little scuffle b-tweeu some white
gentlemen and some negroes at the Horton place, ten
miles above Klberton, lost week. Home of the crowd
got black eyes, and some were already so black that
it was impossible to ascertain the color of their eyes.
The has been no funerals as yet.—Gazette.
atoms.
Tho e'ectlon for tbe various city offices of Griffltt
come off Tuesday night. There u ere only about a
dozen applicants for each office.—At the adjourn,
ed session of Henry Superior Court last week Mr
Massey was touud guilty of stabbing Charley Dupree
and sentenced to pay a fire of $500 and costB or go
to ihe chain gang for twelve months. —The inaugu
ration of the new Mayor and Council of Gnfflu took
place Saturday night. Speeches were mode by Mayor
Decks and the Mavor elect. Col. Ninitially. The 'alter
advoc.ted reform in everything pertaining to the
City Government. A decrease in ihe number of city
officers, and the amount of the sola.ies a id nn ilhctcnt
police force. — A negro who drove a wagon loaded
w.lb cotton to Griffin the otherday, and had It caught
up wiili a foreclosure of crop lleoo, said “that It had
been already levied on.by half dozen writs oi roosters,
and that two true bills had been found agin his
mules.” The Gicat Eastern Circus txhlbued in
Griffin on Tilt-sdny.—■Setes.
MaCON.
The river h’S fallen some six or eight feet since
Saturday, and unless some rsin falls mo waters will
soon have retired to th'ir proper quarters A olf-
ftcuity occurred on Sunday in tfouith street, near the
Drown House, between Henry schr’mshire and Fred
Enigbt, in which the latter received a cat in the
ttomich with a knife. Fortunately, the wound ia
not serious Mold- Waldrop, a widow woman of
Macon, aged abont t» - nty-five years or age, attempted
to poison herself with strychnine list
Sunday. She tell in the street, and was
picked np apparently dying, she rcmiined insensi
ble throughout Sunday and Sunday night, but wa*
some better Monday morning, and i was believed
she would recover. Destitution and poverty ate sup
posed to have been the cause.—'The new engine,
lately brought out for the Ucmnlgee Fire compatiy
No. 3, named the “Simrl Hose,” was taken out and
tried Monday. Under thirty pounds pressure of
steam through 1U< feet of hose and ly, nozzesho
threw 255 feet and nine inches. Two streams through
53 feet of hose were thrrwn 192 feet and 9 Inches.
The engine gave entire satlsfa'tion.—Telegraph and
Messenger.
COLUMBUS,
A meeting was held at Hamilton on Monday for the
purpose or devising ways aud means for the exten
sion of the Noith and South Ratiruad to that place
Tne meeting was attended by a respectable audinilu
ential portion of tbe citizens or Harris county and a
number of persons from Colnmbns. Mr. M. O. Far
ley presided. Speeches Were maae by Colonel Mob
ley. William Hcdson, Captain ChlpLy and others,
and $410 was at once subscribed, wulcb, together
with ihe $1,300 recently eub-cribed makes $1,700. A
committee w*s tpooiuied to canvass the county, and
the meeting adjourned Enquirer
The out-going freight iratufrom Columbus ran off
the track this side of Fott Vall< yon Monday. Four
of thb rear freight ctrs were badly knocked to pieces,
bat no o*e hurt.—J?tm.
$133.61
Total
Average deii
capita
The writer then gave an additional tablt
showing the rate of increase in five of the
cities from 1870 to 1813:
Municipal Bonded Debt. Increase,
1870
Sivannih $2,052,880
Columbus 49U,000
Athens 6,650
Rome 3,ofi0
Brunswick 123,0(0
$3 300,140
620.8UO
1x7,750
4 7,600
2GU.8J0
Actual.
$1,248, 60
320,800
122,100
414,500
87.800
r.ate.
fi
.55
21 61
188 16
31
integrity and absolute freedom from all pe
cuniary taint. Almost to a man, the mem
bers of Congress from the South in the last
session voted for and took the back pay.
And this was done not only by the carpet
bag Radical members, but by the Demo
cratic Representatives. We had the right to
have expected that those sent by
De mocratic votes, and claiming to represent
our Southern virtue and intelligence, should
have protected Southern honor in the matter
and represented Southern sentiment They
disappointed the expectation. They joined
in the crusade on the Treasury. They voted
themselves more money for work al
ready performed, and whose price had
been stipulated. They lowered the standard
of punctilious honor in private and public
matters. They left the Southern name open
to reproach for rivalling in greed for unlawful
and questionable gain those who recked lit
tle for their reputation in such matters, and
who have enjoyed a sectional monopoly in
fame for mercenary unscrnpnlonsness.
Not only this, and this is a larger ground
of complaint at the hands of the Southern
people than the casual thinker might con-
siderit, the Democratic party has been low
ered in the participation of its champions in
this unseemly act of spoliation.
It has been the boast of the Democracy
that it was a parly of purity and integrity,
and its heaviest fight against the Radical
party has been for the corruption of that or
ganization. The time had come to make the
difference practical. Yet, almost to a man,
our Southern Democrats in Congress, repre
sentatives and grave Senators not only failed
to rebnke the back-pay spoliation, but abso
lutely joined in it.
We say that the party has stern complaint
against the recusants. We say that it be
hooves the party to hold them to responsi
bility. Let us send men to Congress who
can remember the exactions of Southern
honor and fulfill the requirements of Demo
cratic duty.
The propriety of increasing pay for future
legislative service is an open question upon
which honest men may differ. Bat the gross
impropriety of the back pay feature of the
salary increase, tbe voting of additional com
pensation by members forjservices already
performed at a stipulated price, is so evident
recuperative power of Atlanta. In July
1873, her debt was only $1,418,000 to a pop
lation of 30,000 at least, making her per cap
ita only 47-2, instead of 453.21,
Now our statistical man of the Constitu
tionalist has either made a huge mistake, oi
else Atlanta has paid debt like a giant.
The truth is that the first statement is a
huge blander. Atlanta owes no bucIi debt as
$9,875,000, and never owed it,
And while her present indebtedness is
$1,418,000, she has a half million of real
estate, and valuable stock to reduce the debt
briow a million. We know of no leading
city of tbe country in a better financial con
dition than Atlanta.
In Town,
Mr. N. P. T. Finch, of Atlanta, Georgia
arrived at the residence of his friends in
city in time for spending Thanksgiving, u.
Finch has been at Atlanta a year, and
tbusiastic in his appreciation of that enter
prising city and of tbe South generally.
Mr. Finch is connected with The Con
stitution, the ablest and most influ
ential paper in tbe South. He h^
found his right field of activity.
He is a natural newspaper man. Mr. Finch
is looking remarkably welL He goes to Sus
quehanna. Pa., to-day. The wedding cere
rnony will take place at the church of the
Messiah in that place on Thursday. The
Rev. Mr. Campbell will officiate. Mr. Finch
and his bride—Miss Belle Badger—will pro
ceed to Atlanta, via New York city.—Canis-
teo Valley (2K T.) Times.
Kicked to Death by a Colt.—Mr.
Thornton, a citizen of Raudolph county, was
kicked to death by a colt on Wednesday,
under the following circumstances: He had
gone to Dawson to attend the Terrell sales
on Tuesday, remaining there Tuesday night
He drove a mare which had a youDg colt,
leaving the colt at home. When he returned
to his home Wednesday, the colt rushed at
once to the mare, and interrupted Mr.
Thornton in unharnessing her. He went to
the colt and gave it a smart slap with his
hand to drive it off, whereupon it turned and
gave him a kick in the stomach causing his
death in a very short while. Air. Tnoraton
was one of the best citizens of the county.
While in Dawson ne purchased a very flue
estate which was sold at administrator’s
sale.
E5F“ Send in your .subscriptions. A few
more days and some will^regret their delay.
Early County.—List Sunday’s Consti
tution contains numerous extracts from
letters forwarding funds to secure that valu
able paper and a chance in their drawing
but we see not a single one from Early. wJ
know that in a fair olstribution, such as that
will be, our community would be entitled to
a goodly number of pr.zes, and as we are not
selfish enough to wish to monoDolize them
all, we wonld suggest that some of our friends
take meapirea to divide the spoils with us.
A fourth interest in tbe building is all we are
after.—Early County News.
Our friend should see the books. Early
has a big representation.
Lindsey Campfield. a darkey yonth of Augusta, vMs
send to jail t<y tne Recorder for sixty d,ye, tor ais-
tnrbiDg tbe *-orxh1p in one of the negro churches on
Sunday.—Chronicle <2 Sentinel.
MABBXAGB3.
Married, at the Bai tut Church in Conyer?, on the
evening of tbe 4th instant by Rev. J. M. Brittain.
Mr. W. D. Winbrlm and Mies Clara a. 1 hrasher.
Also, at the eame time and place, by Rev. J. M.
B i’tain, Mr. Wm g. B.own and Miss Mary K.
Thrasher, ail of Conyers.
Married, in Gordon ronnty, Thursday evening De
cember 4th, by Rev. Barton Bradiey. Mr. w HlUm H.
Belcher, of Rome, to Mies Sir ah J. Fattereon, of
that county.
At Brown’s Station, on the 3d instant Mr. Lawrence
A H user, of Perry, was married to Miss Viola
Bryan.
At the First. Baptist Church of Savannah, on the 3d
inet.. Mr. Robert BuUer was married to Mias Min
nie Mannlrg, both of fat cuy.
Married, on Wednesday evening. Decomber 3d, a-
Builtr, ua., by Bev. T. T. Christian, Mr. Daniel Mar-
chant, ef Brownevllle, Ala, to Mies. Julia w., caugh
ter of Rev. William M. Bond, of Bntier.
DEATHS.
Father Patriot, of Savannah, received last Thurs
day a dispatch from Hoboken, N. J, informing him
oi the death of Mr, M G. Riley, father of Rev. M. J.
Riley, a Catholic pri st of Augusta. Mr. Riley was a
reeident of *avaunah lor a number of years, and was
a member of the Irish Jasper Greens and Irish Union
Society.
Judge Peyton Reynolds died abont 9 o’clock Fri
day night of the small pox. He had never been vac
cinated, having no faith In the operation as a pre
ventive of tne contagion, and caught the disease
visitiug a sick friend, wm
Miss Betsey Dorsey, an aged, and for macyyrars
mnrh afflicted ady. diedat the r-aidenceof Mr James
U. Fioya, rear Sander?ville, on Sunday night last,
Mrs. David l-oczbart died on Monday last at her
residence, twelve miles from Tslbotton. She hod
rt ached on advanced age.
Mrs. S. A. Sanford, an 6Jd and highly respected
lady, of Rome, died in that city on the Gth instant.
Mr Arch Farker, a citizen of Hon ton conntr
died last week of pneumonia after a protracted ill—
ness*
Mr. S B. Brookin, a prominent and well-known
citize • of HUledgeviUe, died on Wednesday night
last. He was about 65 years of age
Miss Johanna Caro, eldest dangnter of Mr. and Mrs
I J. Caro, r l. d at the residence of her parents, in
Sparta, on Satuiday, tbe 29th of November, of heart
4(-ease. She was aged 18 years, 9 months and 21
days.
On General Gordon.—The Herald’s
Washington correspondence has this e nod
j ike of General Gordon:
As the Republican Senators were assem
bling in the ladies’ reception room at the
Capitol for the purpose of holding a cau
cus, Senators Gordon, of Georgia, and
Hansom, of North Carolina, both Demo
crats, who were not aware of the use the
rooms had been for the time set apart for
attempted to enter. The doorkeeper po
litely informed them they could not go in
At this Senator Ransom got indignant and
asked the employee if he knew who he was
reminding him atthe same time that he was
a Senator and had the right of access to the
public rooms of the Senate. The parly
blocked the way of those entitled t > admis
sion, and Senator Robertson, of South Caro
lina, learning the cause, said: “Let in the
penitent sinners.” The Democratic Senators
withdrew their demand for admission and
found more congenial atmosphere nearer the
Senate Chamber. ’