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“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,”
JOB THE week ehdiho
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10th, 187S.
vn.ee l—Slightly Different View*.—Romor* of
War with Spain.—Biamarclt 8u*picion*.—Not
Dead.—The Texas Election.—Snn Strokes—A
$30,000,000 Swindle.—Bullock and Clayton—Tele
grams, etc.
Pace a—The Wages of Sin—The Auditing Board
investigation—Dr. Bard’* Chattanooga Paper—
Sun-Strokes—'The Cuban Insurrection—Local
^otee, Telegrams— Tho Rochester Ku-Klux
War, etc,, etc,
Pncc 3--Martial Law In the South—The End of
the World.—Old Elhcrt Aronatng.—CartersviUe
and Van Wert Railroad—the Double Issue of
Bonds—The Bonds of Georgia.—Local Notes, etc.,
etc.
Pace A—The way things aro done In New York.—
Tho Civil War In Mexico—Hon. W. M. Reeae—
Southern Literary Women—Watchman, What of
g.he Night.—New Mayor and CouncU.
page 5—Sun Strokes.—Georgia Matters—Local
Notes, etc., etc.
Pace 0—A Matter of Pressing and Vital Import
ance—The Mo do of FiUing Vacancies on the
’ Bench of tho Supremo Court—His Spanish Bride—
The School Fund—An Important Capture—The
Sun—Telograph News, etc., etc.
Pace 7—Sun Strokes.—'Tips Atlanta Sun 'in Doug
las County—Tho Georgia Western Railroad—
BUte Matters—Death of tho New York Leader-
Local Notes—Advertisements, etc.
Pace 8—Politics in New Hampshire—A Novel Re
quest—The African Explorers—A Night of Hor
ror.—Commercial, etc.
THE DAILY SUN I
Tuesday, January 9 th, 1872. J
Slightly Different Views.
Ini iis eloquent oration in reply to
Gen. Hayne, of South Carolina, Daniel
| Webster said: “I shall enter upon no
encomiums upon tho State of Massachu
setts. There she stands. Look at her!
There is Boston, there is Concord, and
there is Banker Hill, and there they will
stand forever.” In one of his late
speeches, Wendell Phillips, of Boston,
who claims to be a humanitarian Philos
opher and moralist of the true Massachu
setts school, said: “Boston is a city in
which every tenth person is a criminal
and every seventh a pauper. Three-
quarters of onr farms aro mortgaged for
drink; two-thirds of tne pulpits are filled
with drunkards, and the bench of jus
tice is nearly vacant because one-half of
the justices have died drunkards.”
LOCAL NOTES.
Arrival of Gov. Smith—Enthusias
tic Reception of our New Governor by
the City Council and Citizens of At
lanta.—Last evening, a special train
furnished by tho Atlanta and West Point
Railroad, left the city at 2* o’clock, hav
ing on board the Mayor and Council, the
members of the Legislature who are in
the city, and a number of citizens in
vited by Mayor James, who went down
as far as Fairburn, to meet and welcome
onr new Governor, and escort him to the
city.
When tho np train arrived, Col. Smith
was welcomed by the enthusiastic crowd.
An eloquent speech of welcome was de
livered by Col. N. J. Hammond, who
bade him welcome, as our Chief Execu
tive, by a people who had long groaned
under the rale of plunderers and thieves;
who had been robbed of their substance
and their liberty by carpet-bag cormo
rants; welcome as an honest man, who
would faithfully and impartially dis
charge the duties of Governor, and clean
out the Augean stable of official corrup
tion; welcome to Atlanta by her people,
who had voted right all the time; for,
while all the other cities of the State had
voted for Bullock and for the Constitu
tiou, which removed the Capitol to onr
city, Atlanta alone had voted against
Bullock, and lmd all the while stood out
against the villainy of the plunderers.—
Atlanta is proud of her record in the
very midst of so much corruption, and
proud of him who had been selected for
our Chief Magistrate; and the whole
State was proud of him as a man whose
integrity was above suspicion.
Sucli was the tenor of Col. Ham
mond’s eloquent address.
Col. Smith replied briefly, returning
thanks for the honor of so flattering a
reoeptiup, .-aying that he intended to
mala-mi. le-iio;. effort to discharge his
duty nuo j i.t an end to tho plunderings
Humors of War with Spain.
For the last few days croakers and ma
niac loyalists in Washington have been
engaged 'in circulating sensational ru
mors of a pending war with Spain. The
reported recall of Senor Roberts, Span'
ish Minister at Washington, and the re
cent outrages on the Florida, by a Span'
ish man-of-war, on the high seas, about
all of which there has been no official
information, have been construed, by the
most patriotic Cabinet (?), as hostile to
the Government. In anticipation of a
most chimerical emergency—a war with
Spain—the Navy Department is energeti
cally engaged in making preparations to
meet and resent any offense or indignity
disparaging to the dignity of this coun
try and its immaculate rulers. In the
meantime we shall bo as tranquil as an
Egyptian mummy.
Bismarck Suspicious.
HUt
gr.u
of those -v*.•«:•<! robbed us; that some
had air* .* y il. -te their escape from pnn-
isunivii! • «onld, perhaps be joined
soon ■•t.nera. He spoke kind
ly .. the friendships formed
nmojL * people of Atlnuta during the
*u of the Legislature, and con-
ii the people of the State that
the Gay had come when they could select
m-ii o their own choosing to execute
their laws, and carry on the Government;
and not have imposed upon them, against
their will, men whose only aim is to de
fraud the people.
He alluded to the expectations of the
public at his bauds, and pledged his hon
est efforts that daring his short adminis
tration the public should not be disap
pointed. Both speakers were warmly
applauded.
The audience then re-embarked, and
returned to the city. Gov. Smith was
escorted to appropriate rooms in the
Kimball House, which had* previously
been prepared for him by friends. All
passed off pleasantly and hopefully.
The recent policy of M. Thiers, in his
administration of the French Govern
ment, has created some distrust in the
mind of his foreign master, Bismarck.
Outrages committed by citizens on Ger
man garrisons, in several interior towns
of France, have called out a declaration
of martial law from the semi-protectorate
and foreign guardian of the infant Re
public.
Moreover, Bismarck has forwarded to
all his foreign ministers copies of his cir
cular on the French outrages and the war
indemnity. Evidently, M. Thiers’ ad
ministration is assuming an aspect dis
tasteful to the illustrious diplomat. The
latest advices intimate some moderation
on the part of the Germans in their poli
cy in suppressing assaults on German
soldiers, and the questions arising from
the assassination of Bavarian soldiers
will be disposed of without resorting to
extreme or violent measures.
Not Dead.
The passivists, says the Nashville Union
and American, have not succeeded in con
vincing the leading Radicals that the
Democratic party is dead. Tho Spring-
field (Mass.) Republican, a Radical organ,
says:
“ A great deal has been said about the
dead Democ racy. Those who think it dead
surely never read the story of the res
urrection. There will be signs in the
heavens and on the earth in 1872, when
the Democratic party gets its soldiers in
the field. ”
The New York Evening Post (Radical)
says:
“ He is a fool, or a traitor, who expects
to win an easy victory over the Dem
ocratic party in 1872. Grant can never
do it with the bayonet.”
Horace Greeley said on a recent occa
sion:
“ The Democratic party to-day
stronger than it ever was in its history,
It means now to win, and I do not say
that it cannot win.”_
From tlie LaGrango (Ga.) Reporter, 6th Jan., 1872.
Tlie Texas Election.
SUN-STROKES.
The President’s father has recov
ered.
£££?“ Are monthly periodicals called
magazines because they are liable to get
“busted ?”
Tom Scott wants the Georgia
Road; but there he meets a King who is
his match.
BQL.Lonisvilie looks out for the yellow
flag, for where that is, there the small-pox
is also.
The Union League of Arkansas
has lately been in session at Little Rock.
That fully explains that Chicot outrage.
The Louisville Ledger has been
enlarged. It is raising the “Ledger lines
above.”
Alexis is going to Memphis. The
Avalanche is getting ready to illustrate to
him how “beautiful in death” is the
New Departure.” »- e •
Krzyzanowski’s case don’t look
well. Ten thousand dollars bail, exacted
at Washington, is rather significant.
They are gathering them in.
A disastrous innovation was made
upon the “habits of good society,” in
Philadelphia, the other day. A man was
held to bail in the sum of §600 for steal
ing two umbrellas.
Bgk. An Omaha dispatch, as published
by a Western exchange, says “the river
is stationery.” It may be inferred from
that that it is a sheet, either of ice or
water.
Alexis gave the Chicago poor
§5,000. If that boy don’t get “strapped'
before he gets away from this country he
will be “strapped” by the old man when
he gets home.
£@*The Boston Post says: “Dr. Jenner,
if he were alive, would be astonished to
hear one thousand cases of small-pox re
ported in Philadelphia in a single month
Perhaps he would refund the §150,000
the English Government paid him for
discovering the benefit of vaccination,
But Dr. Jenner never admitted that
virus manufactured by enterprising Yau
kees would be as good as genuine; besides
the people of this country have, of late,
years, gotten so in the habit ot taking
things that they could not resist even
the small-pox.
Bgk. Of the recent attempt to Ka-
Klux that Rochester negro, the New
Yonk Tribune has this to say and nothing
ly rendered a decision by which the Bur-[ By the New York Associated Press,
lington and Missouri Railway comes into
possession of public lands amounting in
valao to $30,000,000. The following
statement of the matter was made public
some time since, and has not been jde-
nied:
“In the act of Jnly 2, 1S64, Congress
granted to the Burlington and Missouri
River Railway Company for an extension
‘ its road a distance of 230 miles, ten
alternate sections per mile on each side
of the line of the road, under certain re
strictions; some of which were—pur-
the United States troops, taking neces
sary precautions to preserve the peace,
and allay any spirit of turbulence or riot
that may arise. All militia, organizing
in city, have been ordered out.
The United States troops have been
reinforced by a strong detachment from
Baton Rouge. Gen. Emery’s troops will
only be used to preserve order.
:—
PENNSYLVANIA 1
A $100,000 Conflagrntlon-
Titusvill, January 8.—There has been
a fire in the heart of the city. Loss
§100,000.
WASHINGTON.
Akcrman Gives some Advice—Slicnuan
Renominated By Caucus—Congres
sional.
Washington, January 8.—The War
I Department, advised by Attorney Gen-
“Gonc where the Woodbine Twlneth.” eral, rejects the claim of the Mobile Ma-
1 vine Docking Company.
A 830,000,000 Swindle. | TELEGRAPH NEWS
The Secretary of the Interior has late-
FISK.
The End of tlie Tragedy
The Col. of the 9th Dead.
A dispatch from Columbus, says the
Republican caucus which nominated
j Sherman, was full.
XLII CONGRESS,
SENATE.
Schurz made a denunciatory personal
explanation of the recent attack upon,
I him in the New York Times, which he
[ characterized as culminativo lying.
No committees reported.
The speech of Schurz and Fenton oc-
| cupied the day. 9* VjjBMFYvIk’.lfc* **!
STfe “ ‘ST 7 ™'ch “gZto I Last Will and Testament.
would properly apply to this. In the
following year, after the company hadi New York, January 7.—Stokes’weapon
filed the map of their route, they was a four-barreled Colt’s revolver beav-
claimedthat under this law they were not a r jjj e b£db
limited to any particular distance from midnight, Fisk said he thought he 1
the line Oi the road m selecting the ten get over it, and walked up-stairs
odd numbered sections per mile on each al -{. er was woun ded
side thereof, but that they might select ‘ Stokea and bis at i 0 rney had talked,. _ . _
them at any distance from the road that aI1( j attorney assured Stokes they had Interred,
it was necessary to go in order not to broken down, and the case would be dis-1 kerr mtre
conflict with the claims of settlers, missed. Stokes said, in an excited tone,
and to observe the other exemptions no way to beat this man?”
of the law. Ihis claim of 1the company gtokes then went to Miss Mansfield’s,
was allowed by Secretary .Harlan in 1S6G, thence to the scene of the tragedy,
and he gave them permission to select At midnight Fisk slept tranquily. The 1
their lands accordingly. Under this con- doctovs considered his symptoms favora- “g the Judiciary Committee to inquire
struclion and authority of Harlan’s the I Tim ball has been found, but not the conduct of Judiciary officers in
company went right on and listed about extracted Fisk gave a lucid account of the Louisiana muddle. Butler objected
three million acres of land in Eastern tke even tt 0 the jury. and the resolution went over.
Kansas and Nebraska, taking the finest MannfipU win viuited Strike*? in A resolution instructing tho Commit-
they could find without regard to the told'the reporter that Ned Stokes tee on Ways and Means, to report a bill
liffiit prescribed by their grant. Under must kave been crazy . repe ding tho Income Tax failed by a vote
T~ l ’ r " : — **■-•Tlie Approach of Death. of 71 to 81.
There was a change in his symptoms at Moore submitted a resolution of In-
6 a. m., and at 7 it was evident that k^iiry regarding public lands, stating that
death was approaching, and he com-1 the cause of Akerman s removal was an
Cox introduced a resolution giving bel-
I ligerent rights to the Cuban patriots.—
~ 2d.
• introduced a bill granting to every
! person restrained of liberty, the right to
appeal to the United States Supreme
I Court, from the final judgment of any
j Circuit Court, by writ of habeas corpus.
Coglilan offered a resolution instruct-
Andrew Johnson, Mr. Browning suc
ceeded Harlan as Secretary of the Inte
rior, and reversed the decision of his
predecessor, ruling that the grant ex- ^
tended the right only to twenty miles I menced rapidly^cT decline. ~*HiT'agony I adverse opinion which the Secretary of
from each side of the line of tho road, I was mitigated by injections of morphine, tlj e Interior suppressed, andissuedwar-
and that in the absence of the indemni- and be retained partial consciousness j rants for land notwithstanding.,
fying clause of the grant, the company un tji io o’clock, when he recognized his
was entitled only to such odd numbered friends and thanked several visitors,
sections not otherwise disposed of and
I morning,
This latter and just construction gave atfche f Centeal Hotel JJ ttejwej-
the company only about half the quan- S)
tity of land that they would have ob-l^rse, Jay Gould, and a large number
tained under the former, or something oi mtima t e friends,
over a million and a half of acres, but yet „ Sorrow of Jay Gould,
more than sufficient to accomplish the Gould was in constant attendance. ■* . «
purpose of the act. The statement is While Fisk lived Ins face wore its usual court, was dropped in the United btates
now made, and not denied, that Secretary I calm expression, hut when Fisk expired , Court Saturday. Au order issued
Delano has reversed Browning’s decision, his fortitude gave way, and his grief that the untried Kn-Klux piisouers be
and affirmed Harlan’s original swindle! I found vent in tears. | bailed in the sum of *3,000 each, to ap-
Tke effect of this reversal is that this
Western Railroad Company will obtain
some 3,000,000 acres of land, among I from the vast crowd. Many tongues re-
the best in the United States, ranging in | counted the acts of kindness of the de
value from §2 50 to §20 per acre, and ceased.
averaging §10 or $11 per acre, amount- The employees of the Erie Railroad,
ing in the agregate to some §33,000,000, of all grades, have crowded the corridors
to build a local and comparatively unim- since morning.
Wood stated that parties high in the
Government, would be connected with
The Messenger comes. The resolution was adopted.
Pending the inquiry, tho issue of pat
ents for questioned laud, is suspended.
south Carolina.
The Ivu-Ivlux Trials.
Columbia, January 7.—The case of
McMaster, charged with contempt of
Effect Upon otiiers. • I pear when wanted. Exceptions were
No unkind word was heard of the dead made, however, of t hose charged with
murder, but it. is und>-ri«tood that they
also will bo released, but on heavier bail.
MARYLAND.
Camak—New Arrangement. —*Tke
Hotel at this place, we understand, has
Recently been taken charge of by Mr.
William Foster, formerly of Green coun
ty, but lately of Crawfordville, Taliaferro
county. Mr. Foster and his good lady
have the tact of making friends wherever
they go, and the travelling public may
expect a good eating House and comfort
able lodging under their management.
Camak is now becoming an important
point in Railroad connections.
The official returns of the October
election have, at last, been announced,
as follows: Democratic, 62,525; Republi
can, 43,771; Democratic majority, 18,-
751—a gain of 22,385 over the last Con
gressional vote, which stood: Democratic,
3r,SS8; Republican, 34,519; Republican
majority, 3,631. Then the delegation
stood one Democrat and three Republi
cans; now three Democrats and one Re
publican, and that oue only in on a. con
tested certificate.
The New York World, in commenting
on this result, says: “To estimate the
worth of this triumph it mustbeboruein
mind that the Republican Governor,
Davis, had the State swarming with Iris
cut-throat troops, jail-birds, Mexicans,
negroes, white desperadoes, and other
3cum, armed, mounted, and paid at pub
lic cost; had in addition a select brigade
of detectives on duty; still in addition
twenty special policemen in each county;
and, lastly, actually forbade any voter
to remain in town after casting his bal
lot, and declared the usual election hur
rahing cause for invalidating the returns
from that vicinage. But violence failed
with this Texas man, as it failed with
Drake in Missouri and Brownlow in Ten
nessee, and will fail yet with their White
House imitator,”
And this Texas fight was made on a
square issne of Democratic principles,
and shows how the Democratic party
may succeed eventually by a strict ad'
herence to the landmarks, of Constitu
tional government It is upon such
principles alone that the Democracy of
the country can ultimately succeed and
save the country.
“A riot against negroes is, of all oth
ers, the most easily incited. A colored
wretch, accused of having committed a
horrible crime in Rochester, has become
the occasion for a serious popular tumult,
in which two men have been already
killed, and turther violence is anticipated.
There is no justification for such a riot
ous demonstration in a country where
the law is strong enough to punish the
guilty; but the firing upon the mob seems
not to he fully justified, and in any case
greatly to be deplored.”
Had the occurrence taken place in the
South, when the law, administered by
Radical officials, wouldnothavepunished
the criminals, the Iribwne would have
been one of the first to hail it as a great
“Ku-Klux outrage,” and would have in
voked a punishment upon the offenders.
As it is, it only metes out a very “mild
reproach.”
Bgk, The Washington correspondence
of the Cincinnati Gazette (Radical) under
date of January 3d, has the following
paragraph:
“Niles G. Parker, State Treasurer of
South Carolina, who has been here for
several days, left for Charleston to-night.
He says that the State officials have only
complied with the law in issuing the
bonds, as they will be prepared to prove
at the proper time. He says that the
statement of Bowen that it cost Govern
or Scott §100,000 to buy off impeach
ment is false. The only inducement of
fered to the negro members to vote
against impeachment was to promise
them a chance to make something. He
says Bowen will not get so many votes for
impeachment next term as last.”
That is possibly the poorest cxculpato
ry statement ever made, even in vindica
tion of one Radical by another. It has
not “cost Governor Scott $1Q£),C00 to
buy off impeachment;” but the negro
members have been promised that if they
will “vote against impeachment” they will
have “a chance to make something.”—
This is “richness.”
portant road, 220 miles in length. This
road, leading along the valley of the
Platte, cannot exceed in the cost of its
construction and equipment the average
ot $33,000 per mile, which would amount
to some $7,300,000. Under the construc
tion of Secretary Browning, the compa
ny would receive about 1,500,000 acres,
which, at the average of $11 per acre,
would amount to $16,500,000, or about
§9,000,000 more than the requirements
of the company for the construction and
equipment of their road. The exposures
of land stealing heretofore made, and the
manner in which the press had de
nounced this kind of jobbery, had led to
the supposition that the worst had been
told. These new revelations will excite a
feeling of surprise that such brazen rob
bery should be continued. This opens
np an interesting field for the Investiga
ting ^Committee, if they will only work
it up. Perhaps that is too much to ex
pect.’
Last Will and Testament.
Horrible Murder of a Pbysician.
Baltimore, January 7.—Dr. Merriman
_ j Coles, a retired physician, seventy-three
ter, Mrs. Hooker, $100,000
and mother §3,000 a year; his sisters-in-
law §2,000 a year each; and the Ninth
Regiment §11,000. His wife gets the
balance.
the warmest and most disinterested
friendship, he left his personal effects,
and entrusted to him “The Labor of
Love”—so it is called in the will—of car
rying out all his (Fisk’s) projects, in re- Putor installed—An Anti-Rent War.
Chicago, January 8.—The Rev. Mr.
Stocking has been installed Rector of the
Epiphany Church.
An anti-rent war is threatened on the
part of those who have been allowed to
ployeesof the various industries where-1 erec t temporary habitations. The Mayor
+«r.«v,?r,<T I proclaim tkot they must pay the rent or
move.
FRANCE.
gard to public improvements.
Mrs. Fisk inherits all her husband’s
shares in the Erie Railroad.
Tlie Habiliments of Woe.
The sorrow for Fisk among the em
From the Boston Post, 1st of January.
Bullock and Clayton.
Rome, according to the Commercial,
has had a party: The ladies dressed in
calico, and each one made a calico cravat,
the exact color of her dress. These
cravats were then put in a hat, and each
gentleman drew one. He then found the
girl that belonged to the dress that
matched his cravat, and was privileged to
gallant her during the evening, and escort
her home at the winding up of the show.
A serious qccident, says the Standard,
occurred seven miles east of Talbotton,
in the neighborhood in Mt. Zion church,
a few days ago, to James Mixon, by the
careless shooting of young Mallory, while
ont squirrel hunting. It appears that
while the squirrel was coming down the
the tree, the parties were on different
sides, when young Mallory blazed away
at the animal with a curly tail, and
brought down young Mixon.
At an election in Floyd county, on
Saturday, for Commissioners of Roads
and Revenue, the following gentlemen
were elected : Colonel ’William G. Gam
mon, Major John H. Dent, Captain Hen
ry W. Dean. Colonel Wm. P. Whitmore,
John A. Johnson, Esq.
Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, the man
who at one time controlled the State of
Georgia, the Senate of the United States,
the President himself, and even Col. J.
W. Forney, is literally a fugitive from
justice. He has fled from impeachment
from the penalties of violated law, and ;
perhaps, from the dangers of the peni
tentiary, and is as likely to turn up next
in Canada as elsewhere. How are the
mighty fallen ! Like Gov. Clayton, of
Arkansas, Bullock resigned in the face of
impeachment, but was checkmated in the
same move which proved successful to
his brother of the carpet-bag. Clayton,
with Gen. Grant and a Radical Legisla
ture at his back, secured the successor-
ship to a devoted and subservient friend,
through whom he retains liis influence
and^holds the State in his breeches pock
et. *In Bullock’s case Executive influ
ence and patronage were powerless;
public sentiment prevailed, and a Demo
cratic majority ruled, which defeated all
his well laid plans. His chosen successor
is already deposed, and, like a criminal
condemned, he escapes, by ignominious
flight, the just penalty of his political
and moral turpitude.
Badicalism has basely deserted him in
his utmost need, and none is now so
poor as to do him reverence, or even to
palliate the offenses or even justify the
acts he has committed as the legitimate
and faithful representative of Radicalism
and reconstruction-. The place which
Bullock so disgraced has been well filled
by the election of James M. Smith, who
is soon to be inaugurated as Governor.—
The Badicals manifested their chagrin at
the defeat of their plan of retaining the
Governorship in their hands, by with
holding their votes at the late election
and setting np the pretence that the elec
tion was unconstitutional, and even mak
ing an attempt to enlist the interference
of the administration at "Washington in
their behalf. The President, however,
as it is said, could not be induced to en
ter upon so hazardous an experiment.
with he was identified is touching,
The Opera House is draped.
Other Incidents.
The Tombs and Miss Mansfield’s House
are heavily guarded by police.
Stokes’ friends say he was a monoma
niac on the subject of the troubles with
Fisk, and was under constant apprehen
sion of murder by Fisk’s retainers.
Many physicians condemn the probing
New York, Jan. 8.-Fisk gives his sis-. — age> wa3 { - ouud murdered in his
, ms latner | office> There were thirteen wounds
about the head and face. His pockets
were turned inside out, and a small sum
of moltey was scattered around the office,
lutuue. . | The scene of tho murder was in tho
I center of the city. No arrest has been
made.
ILLINOIS
Hugo Defeat—Thiers Feasts Don. Pedro
' and Mrs. Pedro.
Pa-rts, January 8.—Victor Hugo has
been defeated for the Assembly.
^ Thiers banquetted the Emperor and
of Fisk’s 1 bowels Tor" the bullet,"and as“-1 Empress of Brazil.
sert that it hastened and probably caused —
his death.
effect Upon Erie Stock, &c.
Fisk’s death is the chief topic on
Change. Erie stock decline a half cent.
Thousands of shares changed hands,
OHIO.
Inauguration, of Governor Noyes.
_ Columbus, Jan. 8.—The inauguration
flooding the market and depressed them I of Gov. Noyes occurred this afternoon,
to 36}. The Erie Board passed lauda- in the presence of the members of the
tory resolutions regarding Fisk. General Assembly, State officers, and a
The removal of Fisk’s body was at- large number of citizens. The inaugural
tended by vast crowds. Members of the address contains no allusion to matters
9th Regiment say they will hang Stokes. | outside the State.
Coroner’s Inquest.
NEW YORK COTTON STATE
MENT.
New York, January 7.—Cotton re-
A coroner’s inquest was held this after
noon. Graham, Stokes’ counsel, was
present, and protested that the proceed
ings were irregular, and said he wanted _
to know if Fisk was entirely unprotected I ceipts at all ports for the week 110,628
at the time he was shot, in order to see bales, against 126,929 last week and 130,-
if he was a pacific man, as represented. 003 for the previous week, and 120,918
The coroner overruled Graham and pro- for three weeks since; total receipts
ceeded. ‘ since September, 1,486,412bales, against
The Funeral. 1,765,026 for the corresponding period.
Fisk’s funeral took place this after- of the previous year, showing a de-
noon. A long procession, with military crease of 2(8,614; exports from _ all
display, proceeded from the Grand Opera ports for the week 45,592. against
House to the New Haven Depot. The 188,486 for the same time last year
remains will be interred at Brattleboro,
Vermont.
LOUISIANA.
total exports for the unexpired portion of
the cotton year 737,942, against 988,455
same time last year; stock at all ports
500,180, against 555,6S6 same date last
year; stock at interior towns 92,933,
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Affairs in New Orleans—warmoth’s Mes- against 209,235 bales last year. The stock
m Liverpool is 599,000, against 520,000
iicinforccd. last year. American cotton afloat tor
New Orleans, January 8.—There was Great Britain 182,000, against 2SO.OOO
no quorum in tlie Senate to-day. last year. Indian cotton afloat for Liv-
The Governor’s Message was sent to erpool 261,000, against 103,000 last year,
the House in response to the resolutions Considerable rain has fallen. Fields are
calling for it. It contains recommends- generally in an unfavorable condition for
tions for reform on various subjects. | picking. *
The leading recommendations, if carried > * *
out, would save the State and city annu- p 0E “The Sun.”—Mr. Editor.—I shall
dly over a million of dollars The L ‘ Ued to have your Daily again.
House, by a resolution, approved the rec- UB
ommendations, and also that if absent Since my discontinuance, not a y
members are not present at one o’clock light has been seen around the family
on the 10th inst, they be expelled. gitar The first inquiry by the old wo.
Governor Warmoth has appointed Gen. andthe childreQ} in the morning is
teB s™r
mediate command and supervision of the I think your paper is one oi tne aDiesa
entire State militia, together with the conducted dailies in the South, and
police, and all civil forces within the city sbordd bo patronized because it con-
of New Orleans, instructing him to con-1 Mmhinalima , dioues. Rings and
The Columbus Enquirer of Saturday
says: We regret to learn that Miss Mary
■Williams, eldest daughter of W. F. Wil
liams, was accidentally shot in the leg
above the ankle, late last afternoon, in
the parlor of Planters’Hotel, by the fall
ing of a pistol to the floor from the i ui new wrieans, mscrucung nun ia> cuu- i dinues
pocket of a young man named James fer with and act in concert and harmony demns . ’ (4vorqian.
Long, who had called upon her. | with Major-General Emery, commanding j Radical unemng. T '