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'Pist 2 DAILY ^ SUN. «■£ Sn “ ****** Company. i-—- J. iiniiy smith, ) Political Editor. • Sews Editor. Alexander li. Stephen* i R. Watson, * “ * j llenly Smith, General Editor andBusi “ness Manage*^ 1JMltori g it.LIAM h. MOORE. — Traveling Agent* » J M W. HILL. J- W. HEARD. (Our City Agent. _ „ t u’isk J* our Agent for Atlanta. Ho C*pfc Jpwj “• We gubficriptlone, make coHoc- {■ adverting. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1871. General Francis P. Blair. r Yrorins or Subscription. * X DAILY: »^^%»»"±"V"V-V.V’"oo “ * for a l(»-« period than Six Months ** iper month) * CLUBS FOR THE DAILY. 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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. 1 ■•Special NoUce*," 20 cents per Uno for tlio first insertion; 10 cent* for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements inserted threo times a week. 16 per cent, off the table rates above; twice a week, 25 i>er cent off the table .ate*. Advertisements for Fire Companies and Churches, [ualf the usual rates. F In order to establish uniform rates of advertising I (or the Daily Press of Atlan ta, wo have adopted the lioiegoing schedule of prices, and will be governed I by them iu the future. 1 W. A. HEMPHILL k CO., Proprietors of the Constitution. 3. W.. GRUBB, Business Manager, of the Now Era. J. HENLY SMITH, Manager. 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 .