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This distinguished gentleman, upon re
quest, addressed tlie people of Mont
gomery, Alabama, last week.
We regret our want of Bpace to give
our readers the speech in full, made by
him on that occasion. We can only give
two extracts, which we take from the
report of it as it appeared in the Mont
gomery Advertiser. General Blair’s an
tecedents are well known. He was a
zealous and able War Democrat in the
great contest of arms against the right of
a State to secede from the Union. Bnt
as soon as the Southern States laid down
their arms in the maintenance of that
cause, and resumed their obligations un
der the Constitution, he, with equal
zeal and ability, maintained that the
object of the war, on the part of
the Federal authorities, was accom
plished; and that the Union being re
stored, all the States were clearly and
justly entitled to representation in both
Houses ol the Congress of States. With
that, u lhe war -issues,” about which we
hear so much, ended. The results of the
war were all accepted, in good faith, by
all the Southern States. Ever since the
new war after that, inaugurated by the
Radicals against the Constitution, in what
is known as the Reconstruction meas
ures, Gen. Blair has been, and still is, as
will be seen, a zealous co-operator with
all those who contend for the rights of
the people, and of the States, under the
Constitution. And so are all consistent
Northern War Democrats. It is impossi
ble that it shouldbe otherwise. But nei
ther time nor space will allow ns now to
say more, either of the speech or its au
thor. The extracts referred to appear
below: A. H. S.
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Of The Atlanta Snn,
I maintained to prevent the utter disor- to escape for their lives irom the South-
| ganization of society, must feel, as you 1 em States.” If such persons should be
do feel, that you have had no sympathy I compe U e d to escape » at all, it will be
no help, no encouragement; and that L ^ ...
which was approved on the part of the because they, like \V. W. Holden, form-
people of Chicago in the defense of so- erly of North Carolina, now of the Wash-
ciety in the midst of her trouble, is made ington Chronicle, will have to makethem-
an accusation and held up against you selves sca rce,orgo to the penitentiary
by the vindictive passions and the am- . . . .
mosity of your political opponents. * or cnmes Tvmch are pumshab.e under
“I rejoice that all the suffering you I the laws of the Southern States. If
have undergone, all the perils through Holden had not been “ compelled to es-
which you have passed, have not de-1 cape ,” in a ll probability he would nowbe
pnvedyouof the disposition tosym-i , . , . ,, ..
pathise with the sufferings of others.— matin 2 shoes 1U thc ^h Carolina pen-
[Loud applause.] The small offering [ itentiary. But the . law is sometimes
which the impoverished South has been j cheated of its just due.
able to send to Chicago will weigh
like the widow’s mite ; it will have tlie I The Washington Chronicle says:
blessing of God. [Applause.^ It will “We leam that the Republican.fires are
teach yonr oppressors that, whilst suffer- . . ,„ m, „
ing and smarting under wrong such as no ^ U1 1U ° ° 1 J 111 °ld Virginia. The
people have borne before, this has not Virginia papers have not lately reported
extinguished in your hearts the common the burning of many bams or gin-houses,
bond of humanity. [Prolonged applause.] What can it be that the Chronicle alludes
“My fellow-citizens, we knew before that «>
that feeling still lived and burned in the * +
hearts of the people of the South; men as It has all along been apparent
never forget the claims of humanity, hnthto an epic. The Louisville Com-
[Loud and prolonged applause.] Ruin mercial produces it, as follows:
and fcinsult have not been able to extin- j Home, -when the times were critical and loose,
guish your sympathy nor your humanity, Owed her salvation to a cackling goose!
and the time is comiug, and nearly come, ?H ca K 0 J. c i 1 fi^*^ 1 ^n e i ne ? { rninno . w '
, ,. , i J ’ Lays her destruction to a lacking cow!
when the whole people of this country I .
will recognize that truth which all the That is all right enough, and while the
soldiers who fought against the South al- cow is deserving of some honor, hers is
ready acknowledge. * [Cheers.]” o nly a sbare of the immorla i ity . The
From the Chronicle and Sentinel, October 20. epic should have closed somehow as fol-
Tlie Agricultural Congress. lows:
* But over the waste the cow’s not solely queen,
On yesterday morning we published an Here’s to thee, non-explosive kerosene.
able, tamely, and eminently practicable r. _ _
address from Hon. Herschel Y. Johnson, ] Ex-Governor Holden says, in the
CONTENTS
OF THE
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SCfi,’^
FOB THE WEEK ENDING
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25th, 1871.
Page 1—General Francis P. Blair. Thc Agricul
tural Congrea*. Sun-Strokes. Georgia Matters,
Let ua Love one another, etc. ;
Page 2—The Ineligibility Question. Called Meet-
I ingof tboBemocrattc Executive Committee. The
I Remit of the Election in Pennsylvania. A Demo
cratic Outlook. Fair Dots. The Great State Fair
at Macon. Important Letter. Cool Down and
Talk Calmly. Treasurer Angler Sued. Sun
stroke*, etc.
[Vage 3—Sun-Strokes. The State Road Lease
Georgia Matters. City Matter*. Telegrams. Ogle
thorpe Park—The Fair a Grand Success, etc.
age 4—“Cold Comfort” The Northern Demo
cracy. The Issues Before the Country. Yonr
Threats Will Fail. The Montgomery Advertiser
and Mr. Stephens. Awards made at Oglethorpe
Park. Telegram*.
•age 5—Sun-Strokes. Georgia News. Cotton
Growing in California. Letter from New York.
Thc Agricultural Congress. Putting on Airs. How
ii This? Philadelphia Correspondence. Fair
Dots, etc.
; Page 0—The Washington Chronicle. Grant and
thc Ku-Klux. Supreme Court Decisions, etc.
pafc 7—Oglethorpe Park—Anoaher Fine Success.
I Mayor’s Conrt Editorial. The Ladies’Fair. Fair
k Dots. Mayor’s Court Fire at Cartersville. The
West Point Fire Company. State Matters. Telo-
,'rains. Messrs. Marshall k Burge, of Charleston.
Highly Valuable Lands on the Air-Line Railroad.
Advertisements, etc.
Page S—Sun-Strokes. The Lock of Silver Hair.
Cook Notices. State Matters. Mayor’s Court
Break Dirt This Morning. Telegrams. Commer
cial. Advertisements, etc.
Tlie Races.
The following is the result of the races
l^terday evening:
First Race—Mile dashes—best 2 in 3.
Sob Shelton, Graham McNairy and Tom
Prevott were entered. Went off well to
gether on first half mile; but on the sec
ond half mile, just after passing the pole,
E'revott fell, throwing McNairy and both
E lers, hurting Prevott’s rider badly.—
Jasequently, Shelton had the track all
himself—distancing Prevott and Mc
nairy—taking the purse,
Second Race—Single mile. Entries
a 5rere Donovan, Belle Buckle and Harvey.
8 Donovan beat Belle Buckle a half neck.
Harvey third.
Death of Lion. Robert Jemison
This distinguished Alabamian died at
his residence, in Tuscaloosa, on the 16th
1Q st He commenced liis career as a
stage driver, then became contractor,
ind thus amassed a large fortune. For
'fzpy years he was an honored Represen
tative of his county in both branches of
de Legislature, and was a Senator in
^Confederate States Congress during
■ 2f ‘ war. He was prominent, not only in
political history, but was an active
•‘hieipant in every movement calculated
® build up the material prosperity of the
itate.—Qolumbits Sun.
‘I do not know how well it is known,
but to those who care for my opinions,
it is known that I am no friend of the
New Departure, (prolonged and enthusi
astic applause and cheers.) But I be
lieve in the patriotism and purity of the
motives of those who have chosen that
path: but while I shall still hold to the
opinions which I have heretofore ex
pressed, and shall not yield one inch of
my own convictions as to the unconsti
tutionality of the usurpations of the Rad
ical party, I am willing to fight the Radi
cals in any shape the Democratic party
may determine upon. (Long and hearty
applause.) I believe that the New De
larture, so far from being a good policy,
ins proven disastrous; but what the party
adopts as its policy, I shall maintain
without surrendering my own convic
tions. (Applause.) I believe that policy
lias failed to give us success in the elec
tions of this summer ana autumn; ana
for the reason that it was a confession in
open court of our inability to carry the
elections upon our own principles; it was
a confession that we must moke a conces
sion in order to draw’ to us others who
had heretofore acted against us; but in
making that concession it failed to place
candidates before the people in harmony
with that platform. Thus while some
Democrats were disgusted at this conees
sion, no Republicans were conciliated.'
“Now, my fellow-citizens, to my view,
the future does not look gloomy, even
under the losses we have suffered this
summer and autumn. I have not a sin
gle feeling of despondency. (Applause.
It is well understood that the Republi
can party contains in itself seeds of dis
content, of bitterness, of rivalry, and of
disaffection, and it is natural in these
preliminary elections that those who an
tagonize the renomination of General
Grant, should attempt to hold their posi
tion within their party, in order that
their influence may be used to defeat his
nomination. I know very well that liis
nomination will not be defeated—at least
that is my solemn conviction; that he is
now the dictator in the Republican party
that he aspires to be in the country at
large. (Applause.) I believe that he
will dictate his own nomination; but
then, my fellow-citizens, I know that
some of the most conspicuous, able and
courageous men, who stand highest in
the Radical party, will leave the Repub
lican party when Grant is nominated
and burn their ships. (Applause and
laughter.) When they fail to defeat him
for the nomination they will take good
pains to defeat liis re-election. (Re
newed applause.)
• * * * *
There is one point, my fellow citi
zens, in which the parallel fails to hold
out. The suffering of Chicago is almost
redeemed by the exhibition of the
boundless charity of the people of this
whole country and of distant Europe.
They have been allowed to want for
nothing that the world’s wealth could
give them. It could not restore their
dead, but it has generously fed the liv-
viug. And when these vile malefactors
from all parts of the world, forgetful of
humanity, crowded thither to plunder
the wretched sufferers iu Chicago, the
whole world has said that, when they
were stricken down by the hand of vio
lence, without trial, it was well done.
There was no exhibition of this sympa
thy for the suffering South. (Sensation.)
This picture of suffering, of endurance,
of disaster in a brave people struggling
to hold together the bonds of society,
and almost perishing in the effort; as
sailed on every side by the heartless and
the guilty, is not redeemed by that
grand trait of humanity, of generosity,
und of magnanimity which lias chaiac-
terizedthe deplorable distress and re
deems the picture of our suffering
brethren in Chicago. (Prolonged ap-
Pl “Aliwho are familiar with the condition
of the South; all who know what she lias
undergone, when, after the surrender,
all government was denied to her, aucl
she was then given into the^hanus of the
ignorant and the most vicious of yopr
population; [applause] all who know tins,
who have lived iu your midst aud real
ized the tremendous struggle you have
President of the Agricultural Congress, "Washington Chronicle : “ We do hot be-
to “all agricultural societies, and to all lieve in puffing a public man because he
srSt —jssas’thsss 5-- *>— *■>-”-
tlie country.” We heartily commend the I -I-keii we should like to know why W. W.
words of this distinguished gentleman to Holden, who, in 1859, was editor of the
the people of this and evmy other State. Raleigh Standard, and who is now editor
Devoted to the important interests which . m . m . , .
come within the legitimate sphere of the of tbe Wflsllington Wromde, wrote the
body over which he was called, with such following Hues. True, Calhoun and
flattering unanimity to preside, and will- Holden did not live in the sgme “town,
ing to contribute largely of his time and hut were close together, both as regards
r a »j
tlie thinking masses for assistance andco-1 remembers tliafc Holden so honored
operation, which should be productive of the memory of Lincoln or Thad. Ste-
mucli good. vens, hence it must be that the poet had
1 * ntbis more sympathy with Calhoun than he
city last October, in obedience to the in- L , J ± , ,, .
vitiation of our Fair Association, our Mu- either of the others, and that
nicipal Government and our Board of sympathy must have grown out of the
Trade, the great States represented and fact that they came from the same sec-
^faM^f dcharaCtero£ f t « eil '* repre ' tionof country. How else could the
sentatives gave assurance of the unpor- L. , , J
tance of its labors. The result of those lines have been suggested ?
labors has proven that tbe Congress was 1 John c. caiiioun. ■
not a mere holiday gathering of pleasure dy w. w. holden, editob of the standabd.
seekers, but an assemblage of earnest, The voyager on tho Southern main
practical and crperiencedwrkera.. Tlrel
next meeting—to be held in the City OI Nor deem? tne labor aU in vain
Selma on the first Tuesday of December to V‘ r **»«caonght shrine,
laborers. Day after day had our worthy
Mayor walked among them with words
of cheer; and though the task hod seemed
an herculean one, they at length saw it
completed. When their tools were laid
aside, they seized upon Mayor Huff, and,
hoisting him upon their shoulders, car
ried him all about tde grounds, perfectly
intoxicated with excitement, and giving
vent to their feelings of joy with one un
broken shout of mirth. They are surely
entitled to credit for the zeal they have
displayed in performing their duties.
Col. H. H. Jones, formerly of Cutli-
bert, now of the Macon Telegraph, has
removed his family to Macon. Cuthbert
laments.
Columbus is to have a 4,000 pound fire
alarm belL
Columbus thieves steal bedsteads.
The following are the times for the
opening of the other principal Fairs in
the State:
Macon (State) October 23d
Augusta. October 31st
Columbus October 31st
Savannah November 21st
Thomasville ...October 31st
Dawson November 7th
.The “Old Powder Mills” property, near
Augusta, Ga., was sold on Thursday last,
by United States authorities, and pur
chased by the city of Augusta. The tract
embraced 131 acres, and included two or
three brick buildings, bnt not the Pow
der Mills proper. The price paid was
$10,300. On the land is a large and sub
stantial magazine for the storing of pow
der, and it is probable that the city will
use it for that purpose.
Wm. W. Holland, with a “star compa
ny,” is “doing” Augusta.
The Grand Jury of Frankliu county,
has determined upon the removal of the
capitol back to Milledgeville.
Trains from Charleston now run into
Savannah. This, the Republican thinks,
indicates that the quarantine has been
raised. n , - .
Captain John C. Braine, of Confeder
ate notoriety, will lecture in Columbus,
to-morrow night.
Best reflex of the absent sun;
In all tbeir devious -wanderings
From dewey ove through midnight’s reign,
It guides them till the morning’s wings
Shed sunlight o’er the earth again.
What if that cross its front should veil
And, darkling, sink in night’s embrace,
No other stars nor sun could fill
Or share its wond’rous dwelling place.
Star of the South! ’twas thus with thee!
To thee all eyes and hearts were turned,
As round thy path from plain to sea
The glory of thy greatness burned.
Millions were drawn to thee, and hound
By mind’s high mastery; millions hailed
In thee a guidin q star, nor found
A ray in thee that waned or failed.
Fix’d as the snn which hangs in heaven,
Firm as the earth it shines upon;
Pure as the snow by light winds driven,
Wert thou, Columbia’s honored son 1
No night’s embrace for thee nor pall
Bnt such as mortal change has wrought;
Thou litest still in mind—in all
That breathes, or speaks, or lives in thought.
Star of the South! thy beams are here—
Hebe in this heabt that weeps thy loss,
Though hidden, thou art still a sphere
Serene, refined from earthly dross,
Eternd, and intensely clear.
Raleigh, April 6, 1859.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
1 buildings. This being so^ liow is it pos
sible for tho people still here (mostly
women and children) to find any shelter?
And how can they livo through tho win
ter in the woods—no shelter or subsist-
ance—in thc midst of strangers who
know them not, and without power to
assist, them, if they are willing to do so?
* * * # » #
“This is but a feeble picture of the
consequences of this measure. You
know the woe, the horror and the suffer
ing cannot be described by words. Im
agination can only conceive of it, and we
ask you to take these things into con
sideration.
“We know your mind and time are
constantly occupied with the duties of
your command, which almost deters us
from asking your attention to this mat
ter; hut we thought it might be that yon
had not considered the subject in all its
awful consequences, and that on more-
reflection you, we hope, would not make
this people an exception to all mankind;
for we know of no such instance ever
having occurred—surely none such in the
United States. And what bos this help
less people done, that they should be
driven from their homes, to wander as
strangers, outcasts and exiles, and to sub
sist on charity?
“ We do not know, ns yet, the number
of people still here. Of those who are
here, wc are satisfied a respectable num
ber, if allowed to remain at home, could
subsist for several months without assis-
tence, and a respectable number for a
much longer time, whe might not need
assistance at all.
* 5 In conclusion, we most earnestly and.
solemnly petition you to reconsider this
order, or modify it, and suffer this un
fortunate people' to remain at home and
enjoy what little means they have.
“Respectfully submitted,
“James M. Calhoun, Mayor,
“E. E. Rawson, Councilman,
“L.C. Wells,Councilman.’”
From tho Baltimore Evening Journal.
i6 Let Us Love One Another.”
promises to be oven more interestius?;
A large number of adaiaunm ouu.es will
be represented, and the Congress assume
even yet more of a national character.—
At the first session, committees were ap
pointed to consider and report upon
nearly every branch of industry. These
reports will be submitted at Selma, and
will constitute a mass of information of
great and permanent value. A consoli
dation with the Nashville Congress will
probable be effected, which will greatly
enlarge the territory to be operated up
on by the association, and correspond
ingly increase its influence and use
fulness. Topics will be introduced, and
discussions upon them will ensue, which
will be of interest, not to any particular
State or section, but to the people of the
entire country. Its national character
and scope will be productive of harmony
and kindly feeling, aud will bring into
friendly intercourse representatives from
the North, South, East and West.
It is important that the suggestions of
Governor Johnson should be carefully
considered and carried out. The State
and local agricultural and mechanical as
sociations throughout the country should,
at the earliest day possible, for there is
little time for delay, see to it that ar
rangements are made for having dele
gates of the right kind—earnest and I Next j s the day fixed for the
practical men—present. Every county esecut i on Q f C. C. Reese, of Crawford-
agricultural society should exercise the •«
same promptness and care in the selec- V1 T ~ , ...
tion of delegates. Every association Mr. Henry M. Law, oi Savannah, n ill
should send funds proportionate to its lecture in Augusta, to-morrow nignt.
means, and railroad companies should be Augusta will be circussed next Monday
consulted with regard to rates of trans- b ol q j obn Robinson
portation, etc. We feel convinced that t J , — , 0 •
a little work in every town and county is Griffin is to have a Freedman ®
all that is necessary to make the next Bank. We always knew some grea c s
Congress a great success. (tiny was in store for Grinin.
Templeton’s troupe will give two exhi
bitions, daily, under canvass, at Macon,
SUN-STROKES.
That rugged and glorious old j during the Fair,
patriot,” is the way Brownlow is Chron-
ided at Washington. Holden did it.
General Ba'loch stole only $250,-
000 of the negroes’ money. But he is
loyal;” therefore, in his case, theft is
no crime.
Mr. O’Conor shot Mr. Mullins, in Ma
con, hist Saturday. Casus belli not sta
ted.
During tlie past two months the Bap
tist Church in Griffin, of which Rev. Dr.
J H. DeVotie, formerly of this c'ty, is
pastor, has received about 120 persons
by letter and experience. Of these 47
have been immersed. He has not been
in Griffin two years; yet o\er 200 persons
to
U©- Rochefort has announced liis in
tention of wilting a history of Napoleon I have been added to liis church.
DDL What a pity his sentence of death rp be Yaldosta Times announces the
was commuted! death, in that place, on thelltli instant-,
* of Colonel W. R. Manning, late Presi-
Brigham Young asserts that he denfc of tll0 Lowndes County Agricultu-
would never have submitted to arrest, ra i Society, aud during the late civfl war
but Bowen got off so easily, that he has commander of the 50 th Georgia regiment
. . . . , , . •. L„ to the battle of Boonsboro, when lie
no fears. He may be convicted, bathe np^me wounded anJ compelled
believes Grant will pardon him. ] leave tbe service.
Henry Hyde, who killed John Green,
in Columbus last Sunday, has had a pre
liminary examination, and was bound
over in the sum of $500.
Macon don’t often get enthusiastic
but when she does, she does. Witness
the following, from the Macon Telegraph
of Sunday: Yesterday afternoon a rich
s witnessed at the Fair Grounds
Papers have not yet begun to call
Chicago “the Phoenix of the West.’
That phrase is reserved until “fire-fiend, 1
fire-king,” and a few other like terms
are no longer appropriate.
W. W. Holden, writing for the Wash
ington Chronicle, says: “If the Bepubli-1 scene was witnessed «^
i n when tbe hamb had finished tbeir day s
can candidate for the Presidency should For wee ks tlH?y had been toiling
be defeated in 1872, and .the Democrats , dm0 sfc incessantly through storm and
should obtain control in CoDgress, thou- sunshine, manifesting au interest in the
sands of loyal whites would be compelled work they were doing rarely seen among
I The general sympathy so generously
manifested for those who have been driv
en from happy homes by the demon of
destruction at Chicago, makes us think
better of human nature. Now, while
the public heart is attuned to thoughts
and deeds of Christian charity and love,
we hasten to claim some portion of its
benevolenee for those poor women and
children who were driven from their
homes at Rome, Marietta and Atlanta,
Ga., and Columbia, S. C., and other
cities of the South, by this Bame demon
of destruction—incendiary fire. At this
late day we do not ask for them any pe
cuniary aid; but we do entreat all good
people to unite in one general effort to
exorcise the demon of sectional hate; to
15 relations, and cease
quered rebels.
Major Nicholls, aid-de-camp to Gem
Sherman, in his ‘• Great March to the Sea,”
says:
“In the peaceful homes of the North
there can be no conception how these
people have suffered. * * * Be-
hind ns we leave a track of smoke and
flame.”
In one of the translator’s notes to De
Cassagnac’s History of the Working and
Burgher Classes, recently published by
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, we find
the following touching appeal addressed
to General Sherman on the 11th of Sep
tember, 1864. Though unheard daring
the clash of arms, we trust that now it
will surely touch the hearts of the people
of the North, and lead them to kinder
feelings for those who have suffered so
much in the South.
Major Nicholls adds that those on
whose behalf this appeal was made to
General Sherman were “women and
children. These people seemed to be
almost entirely of the lower class. The
wealthier citizens removed from Atlanta
before the firing began; those only re
maining who were willing to take tliensk
of shot and shell, and the possibility of
Federal occupation.”
THE APPEAL TO GEN. SHERMAN,
Sir—The undersigned, Mayor, and
two members of Council for the city of
Atlanta, for the time being the only legal
organ of the people of the said city to
express their wants and wishes, ask leave,
most earnestly, but respectfully, to peti
tion you to reconsider the order requir
ing them to leave Atlanta.
“At first view, it struck us that the
measure would involve extraordinary
hardship and loss; butsince we have seen
the practical execution of it, so far as it
has progressed, and the individual con
dition of many of the people, and heard
their statements as to the inconveniences,
loss aud suffering attending it, wo are
satisfied that it will involve, in the aggre
gate, consequences appalling and heart
rending. .
“Many poor women are in an advanced
state of pregnancy; others, now having
youn" children, and whose husbands are
either in the army, prisoners or dead.
Some say: I have such a one sick at
home; who will wait on them when I am
gone? Others say: What are we to do?
We have no houses to go to, and no
means to buy, build or to rent any—no
parents, friends or relatives to go to.
Another says: X will try to take this or
that article of property, but such and
such things X must leave behind, though
I need them much. We reply to them:
General Sherman will carry yoilr proper
ty to Bough and Ready, and General
Hood will take it from there on. And
they will reply to that: But I want to
leave the railway at such a point, and
cannot get conveyance from there on.
“ ‘We only refer to a few facts, to il
lustrate, in part, how this measure will
operate in practice. As you advanced, the
people north of us fell back, and before
your arrival here, a large portion of the
people had retired south; so that the coun-
7 . . ...Al- „A* 1UL ^ o/l nml
Reported Failure of Mr. Ivtmbu.ll.
The city is rife with rumors, which
have prevailed ever sip.ee Saturday, that
H. I. Kimball has failed. It is said that
his liabilities are abont a million of dol
lars ; that several days ago he made an
assignment of the Brunswick aud Albany
Railroad, to the “Georgia Contracting
~ompany,” or to Lyon & McLendon,
contractors—transferring the whole road
aud equipments to secure what he was
owing them; that this assignment is made
with an understanding that he be allowed
to pay up and take back the road in thirty
days ; that the Chicago fire is the imme
diate cause of this failure—he having
made arrangements in Europe to havo
$75,000 per month placed to his credit ■
in New York, for the sale in London of *
the bonds he owns, but the burning of
that city produced a panic in the money
market, and a failure to comply with the
contract; that his paper has gone to pro
test several times of late—having failed
to meet accepted drafts; that he is
now in New York for the purpose of
making a final effort to sell the State
and city bonds which he holds or con
trols, in order to realize and meet his
pressing demands—failing in which ho
will make an assignment of all his effects;
that the Kimball House has long since
passed out of his hands, etc., etc.
We know not what foundation there is
in everybody^ mouth in the city, anenr-
general credence given to the fact that .
Mr. K. has failed.
Passing Axvay.
The old Wesley Chapel Church build—
ing is being torn down and removed.**
Many fond memories will cling around
the venerable edifice, soon to bo seen no
more, and many of those who have so
many years worshiped in that building
will drop tears ^as the lumber, piece by
piece, is being carried away.
ilT
Q,ucry. ■ ■:/< udt
Has the failure of Mr. Kimball any
thing to do with Gov. Bullock’s refusal
to issue any more warrants ou the Treas
ury ? Why don’t he pay people their
just dues when the money is on hand to-
pay with ?
► • 4 '■ ; -d )'.
Contest between Fire Companies.
On Saturday morning, the R. E. Lee-
Fire Company, of this city, contested
with the West Point Fire Company, for
a purse of $100, which attracted an im
mense crowd, who evinced the liveliest
interest, and a large number of bets were.
indulged.
The trial took place on Alabama street,,
in front of the Georgia Pvailroad depot,.
The “Lee” played 206 feet 9 inches, and
the West Point 203 feet 3 inches. The
prize was awarded to the “Lee.”
Tlie Biunsivick and Albany Railroad.
Reports from below are rife that the.
employees on the above named road liad
seized the whole concern as far as they
could lay their hands on it; the engines,
rolling stock, office furniture and all,
and that a passenger train, bound for
Albany, had been seized and detained,
but was, with much persuasion on the
part of travelers, and considerable diffi
culty, finally allowed to proceed with -
the engine and one car.
Wb suppose there is some exaggera
tion about this, but tliere is certainly a
rumpus among them, and exciting scenes.
are going on. ^ ^
Tbat’s Wliat’s the Matter.
It is suggested that Gov. Bullock has
taken the studs which causes him to refuss
to issue any more warrants on tbe trea
sury. _
Thc once beautiful Carlotta, widow of
the Archduke Maximilian, of Austria, is
no longer beautiful. Her personal appear
ance has become rcpubi'e. tie •
come obese, aud her face is covered with
try south of this is already crowded, p nH i nnhealft.v sh-.l, that
«rifTimit.firinsftR tn fuiflommodate the peo-1 inv\c othc * . ^ ^ months.- A r . Y*
without houses to accommodate the peo
ple; aud we are informed that many
mnot nve
I nuvt a* wi v — v ^ III-. / /
now starving in churches and other out-1 th t u .
