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HU] ATLANTA. WEEKLY SUN. FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEMR 25, 1872.
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IVi • mm nml Generul.
— Caleb Cashing owns a Virginia farm.
- Banks says be belongs to the opp««
tftlon.
- • Tne Empress of Russia has engag* d
winter quarters at Sorrento.
- • M” Ben«-y Dickens, a son of ti e
Ute Lovelist, 18 readii e tor ihe Bur.
“ Tii" >* ii M. St. Aniunt, otic a
M let rated clicB--pla>tr, is announced.
H-dmanV English O »e a Troupe is
linking a successful tour through Okr.ada.
-The Tycoon Japs are performing t<
splendid honors In Galveston.
g- MitcZ >e Ih prancing on the Rich-
mon i s-.i." a« Hie "Fr* nch Spy."
- -The construction' of the Canadian
Pacldc R-iilroail is to begin nest year.
jC . -There w*- mime geese thnt are sii’y
oars old, on a farm In the Interior of Pennsylvania.
- -Jules F-*vre lias given to the Con-
. sUtutlonal Committee of Thirty his views of the re
form ticket in France.
-- Alive boDilrad dollar outer from
Switzerland was received by the Louis’ille Librar.
m»i*a ters. just an or the drawing closed.
t'ripe .voriscbitkoff, Chance.ior to tli.
Cear jf all the Rues ans, has returned to St. Peters-
bar t rom bis summer rumblings. ‘
- Pnnce N apoleon aud his wife, tin
Princess Clotilde, are still in Milan, like Micawber,
expecting ••something to turn up."
— An liffor of honor is said to be ni
the tapis between the police SnpeHntendont of Chi
cs go and one of the pollen Commissioner!.
- - A sen ot Ferdinand B.«rrot is sair
«- to have been appointed chief adviser^ of tho Egyp
tisri Viceroy.
. -The editress of a Western jmrm*
recently announced that the arrival of an “extra
m S o’* prevented the prompt issue of the paper.
MB--Mrs. Fretnou. is described as having
gtown stout and gray, bat never, in tho days of her
girlish beauty, so fascinating as at the present time.
- - General Gauo, of Confederate fame,
b it now a minister ct the Christian Church, has
la, Mv be»n holding a protracted meeting at McKin-
no y, Texas.
— The Texas Legislature will meet a:
U tin, January 14. The Senate stands, 17 i.erao-
erats to 13 Radicals, and the House at least 70 Lem-
«cr its to not over 20 Radicals.
— The expectant Eorl of Roscommon,
-•an Inheritor of vaBt Irish estates, is a poor, but hon-
H young man named Di-lon, who nurses IiIb hopes
t» l his genealogy at Memphis, Tenn.
—A piece of g>*ld, weighing two and a
ha’f pounds, and supposed to bo tho remains of an
a : lent Bccptre, was recently dug up in Chatman
gland.
—The new Kansas State University
was opened at Lawrence, Kansas, on tho 2d instant.
The building will cost 173,000. It has 270 studente
in attendance.
—Mr. Thomas Bilby, author of the
fitymn, ■• Ob, that will be Joyftil,” died recently at
Za ington, England, where no was Parish Clerk, at
the ago of seventy-eight.
—Dr. Ludwig Buecher, tho great Ger-
-Jtt\n philosopher, will lecture in Boston December
17 «id 19,on the “Origin of Man in connnection with
ih j Development Theory," and "Brain and Soul.”
—There is a man m Philadelphia who
belongs to 313 different secret lodges, circles, etc.,
and knows 1,377 signs, grips and passwords. He
- must understand the rnle of permutation ihor-
■oaghly.
—A Philadelphia prodigy is reported
• •in tho person of a young lady who, having lost
both arms by a railway accident, has singularly 8e-
r lected fine sowing as a means of livelihood, using
her month to manage a machine, <
—In the French army, where reyac-
tinstion is not practised, 13,403 deaths from small
pox occurred during the late campaign; in the Gor-
mro army, wh'-ro revaccination is compulsory, but
933 deaths happened from the disease during the
same period.
—A veritable “Daughter of the Regi-
•ment” exists in Russia. Her father was Chaplain
ol the 159th Regiment of Russian Infantry, aud on
his deatn in 18V7, tho child, then only ten 3 ears
■ old, was adopted by the officers of the corps, and
has since been supported and educated at their ex
pense.
—Governor Burbank, of Dakota, is in
t avor of a division of that territory, allowing South-
. a rn Dakota to retain tho present established scat of
government, and erecting tho territory of Pembina
north of the forty-sixth parallel. Dakota si pre sent
contains an area of 150 932 square miles.
—Tho Rev. N W. Taylor Root, rector
0 t St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Portland, Me., died
01 small-pox at the City Hospital yesterday after
noon. Ho was a nati vo of New Haven and a grad
uate of Yale College, chaplain of a Rhode Island
regiment dnriDg th<
a rtlst and writer.
he war, and an accomplished
—A polite person in Portland hospita-
- lily resolved not to lot an unexpected attack of
small-pox interfere with an evening party for which
he had issued invitations. Real good o reeding is
■no little appieclated in Portland, howover, that the
guostswhom he received treated him with tho
rudest ingratitude, and htvo not evon left their
cards at the houso since.
— To explain the origin of the touch
ing words, which wo insert below, it is proper to
state that the congregaUon of Trinity (P. E.) Churcn,
at Portsmouth, Va., placed an appropriate window
in their church edifice in memory of Virginia’s
slain during tho war, which they were forced to ro-
tnove in consequence of offense taken by tho United
.. States authorities:
Sake down the memorial window,
Tenderly take it away;
Lay it aside as a relic.
In its place put another of gray;
In lieu of the gorgeous colors
Whlca glowed in tho sunlight of day,
Let a cold light faU within the church
; Through a windo ,v of modest gray.
Let it have no wrd of inscription,
Heter a hint cl the fray;
». Let it cast in the chnreh a twilight,
Tender, soft and gray;
- Then will tho trne and the valiant
Panse when they kneel to pi ay,
.. And ask God’s rest for tho heroe3
Whose story Is told in gray.
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.Atlanta nml Her Citizens.
•As evidence of the estimation in which
Atlanta and her ciiizens are held by
strangers, wo clip the following from a
Columbus, Ohio, paper:
PxssoK&n.—Our friend ana fellow-citizen, Colonel
-John Geary, who has been somewhat indisposed all
the Summer and Fall, writes home from Atlanta,
Ga.. whither he went a short time ago to recuperate
iliis health and visit his daughters, giving a glowing
description of the South, and Atlanta and her citi
zens in particular. Ho speaks of Atlanta as being a
nourishing and rapidly improving city, and her
people as enterpnziug, hospitable, social and
tciendly.
We hope to see the Colonel ero long invigorated
• body by tho genial airs of the Sunny South
Colonel Geary, named in the foregoin
•paragraph, is a veteran member of the
“ fourth estate,” and father-in-law of Mr.
James Miller, the popular-agent of the
Howe Sewing Machine Company in this
nity.
«t
f* BSf It may interest our people to
know that the notorious U. S. Deputy
Marshal Hendricks, who attempted to
kidnap young Hancock here last sum
mer, and was defended therein by Henry
P. Farrow, has been put on the retired
list. Even the Radicals couldn’t stomach
longer so mean a fellow.
.—The temperence men in 60me por
tions of Florida, in view of the near ap
proach of Cnristmas, have concluded
$hat egg-nog is not a beverage. And
they are right, Egg-nog is egg-nog.
.— A. husoand whose wife has applied
for a divorce writes a protest to the
3«dge, m which he says: “ This plagued
•air g called a divorce has, in my opinion,
-*arted many a man and his wile.”
lav A untie —ml (irrst Western Vanai.
It is reported by teleg.-ph from Washington that
the cheap transportation between the Western wa-
era and the At antic ocean is already engaging the
.vtention of Congress The mailer was to be re
ferred to a special committee of five, but obj ction
jting made, the resolution went over. It is not
limb -ble that Morton. Cameron, and the other bitter
Itndical leaders, will allow the great project of con*
■- cling the Ohio and the Atlantic by canal to be
arriert out if they can prevent it.
It transpired, during hi • recent visit to Atlanta,
that Mr. Stephens himself is opposed to the pro
posed gr- at Western a d Atlantic Canal. He holds,
if yon. correspondent is correctly informed, t! at
tne General G ivernmeut baa no constitutional au
thority to construct such wonts of internal improve
ment, and that it would be in derogation of tne
righto of <he States to do to.
WHAT THIS FB1ENDB OF THE PBOJECT SAT.
Thu friends and advocates of the canal contend,
on the other hand, that the Federal Government is
voting away ,iunu»lly .^il.iors of acres of the pnblic
lands and millions of the pnblic money for the im-
piovenn-ntof the Northe. a and Western S<ates and
die development of their resenrees—thatwheth-r
this is in accordance with the Constitution of the
United States or the musty resolutions of 98-99, a
vast majority of the people believe it is, and approve
of it—that while we are standing upon our dignity,
r rather, as they say, npen onr folly, .he world is
moving rsi-idly forward, and the public domain and
tre»«ure of thu country are being used exclusively
for the advancement of other elates, less scrupn-
Ioqb, or less foolish, as the case may he—and
that if wa wonld ever extricate ourselves
from the deep pit into which we have been
rh-rst by the Radical politicians of the
Korth and Constitutional destrnctionists of
uie booth, we must cease to delve among the dry
• >ne- of ho past, accept the world as we find it,
piaco ourselves abreast with the times, and insist,
if need be, upon the few good, along with the many
evil, things hat may fall to onr unhappy lot. At ad
vents, the pdvr.cate3 of the canal hold that if the
Federal Government sees proper to construct the
work aud pay for it, it would be tho acme of folly in
the South o oppose it, especially as tho means tliuB
proposed to be appropriated, if rejected by us, would
<-e sure to be applied to less men tenons objects in
other portions of the country.
^ e reproduce the above extract from
* * et ter of “Ogeechee,” the Atlanta cor-
r spondent of the Savannah News, dated
tne 10th inst. This we do for the pur
pose of submitting such comments upon
it B8 we deem proper under the ctrcnm-
8 ances.
In tliejjfirsfc place, we do not think
“Ogeechee” dealt at all fairly by “Mr-
Stephens” in representing him as having
expressed himself, on the occasion allu-
dod to, as “opposed to tne proposed
Grtat Western Canal.”
“Mr. Stephens” is oppose*! to no
proper and practical movement calcu
lated to develop the resources of any part
of tue country, and mnoh less any such
which will even aid in the development
aud advancement of the interests and
welfare of the people of Georgia—either
physically, morally or intellectually. His
past liie is certainly a sufficient guaranty
of his future faverable co-operation upon
ail such enterprises,
How, the truth is, “Mr.-Stephens ” has
looked with the deepest interest upon
this proposed “Great Western Canal”
ever since he has seen the matter sug
gested. One of the main- reasons which
induced his visit to Atlanta at the time
stated, was to see, confer, and inter
change ideas with the Governors of the
several States, who were by announce
ment to have met here in Convention
on that subject at that time. He was
disappointed on finding that the expect
ed Convention of Governors, bad failed
to assemble.
On inquiring into the reasons of the
failure of the Convention, and in con
versations upon the general subject, the
feasibility and practicability of the pro
posed work, he stated that he was seek
ing information. He wished to ascer-
lin the estimated cost and other essen
tial matters, before forming any fixed
opinion, as to the propriety or expedien
cy of the lingo undertaking. He very
distinctly stated that, from all the lights
and information then before him, he was
far from being satisfied that the work was
either feasible or practicaole. But he was
seeking information. The whole drift
of his conversation were upon the ques
tion of the feasibility and practicability
of the measure as a means of accom
plishing the objects contemplated. If
tho subject of the constitutionality of an
act of Congress appropriating money to
build it was mentioned, it has escaped
his memory. That certainly was
not, the point to which his views
were chiefly directed. These, most as-
uredly, were mainly, at all events, di
rected to the other matters. Ana what
he said on these were not so much in the
spirit or nature of decided opposition as
with the view of eliciting information
and obtaining the data on which the ad
vocates of the measure founded their con
elusions. So much, for the present
upon that point, and the constitutional
question involved.
We cannot, however, dismiss the sub
jeet without expressing our deep regret
at the tone, manner and spirit, exhibited
by “Ogeechee” in speaking of the powers
of the General Government under the
Constitution.
We were quite surprised at the almost
sneer cast by him upon the Kentucky
and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-99.
The people of this country, we trust,
will remember, and bear in mind,
whether “Ogeechee” does or not, tha.t
these “ musty ’ records are the ever-living
exposition of the tide deeds to their lib
erties; and when these are ignored or
oontemned, derided and set aside, with
them will go every vestige of their Con
stitutional Government.
It is with like deep regret we read
that part of “OgeecheeV’ article, which
characterized strict Cons nuctionists of
the limitations of delegated power,
“Constitution aistructionists” and placed
them ride by side as it seems, in his esti
mation, with “Radical politicians of tne
North,” This is our understanding of
his illustration, and it was with pain we
read it. It is but one among many
other ominously significant sigus of the
times when one who professes to be a
Democrat gives forth such utterances.
A H. 6.
GEOKG1A PRESS OS THE SENATOR
SHIP.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Clipped from Exchanges.
From the Rome Commercial, 17th Dec. '72.
The United States Senate.
Has the South lost all of her prestige?
It is lamentably true that for several
years past she. has not been ably repre
sented in the Senate of the United
States. Her greatest statesmen seem for
some cause to have remained at home,
while weaker and more presuming aspir
ants have pressed their way into the pla
ces once occupied by the grandest intel
lects 01 mis or any other age or people.
1 the past few unhappy years it was
t deemed of much importance whether
indeed the South should be represented
all in the National Congress, but now
there seems to be a new life in the old
land, a new hope springing up, and
every a here a cheerful feeling of national
brotherhood, and national co-operation
finding expression through the press
and among the people.
Northern friends and co-workers are
urging us to arouse from onr lethargy,
and to let our voices be heard boldly in
the councils of the nation. Is it not
true that the representatives of the
South have be*-n feeble and inefficient in
that august body which has been wontin
times past to rise above passion and
prejudice, and lend a patient ear to the,
demands of the Southern people ? In
the defeat of Mr. Greeley the South lose
her fondest hopes, but she has gained
much in the sympathy of Northern
statesmen. The time has come tor us to
stand up and speak for right and for
justice. We can no longer afford to be
silent. The interests of our section de
mand life and vigor and a masterly ac
tivity. Not a session passes but large
appropriations are made ior the mighty
North and the East and the West, while
to our impoverished land the door of the
treasury is closed. Whose fault is triis ?
Shall we longer indulge in the perilous
past-time of conferring these offices upon
men simply for their honor or their emol
uments ?
The g’-eat question is now, “who will
serve vs. and who can serve us best ?
What d. . s the South need ? What does
the Stai.- need ? -What do the people
need ? What axe onr rights and our
necessities, and who will stand up and
plead for them ? We want men, great
men, noble men who will rekindle the
fires of Southern eloquence, and speak
loud enough for the nation to hear. We
want Democrats, national Democrats,
who give utterance to no uncertain
sounds, but who will stand by, support
and defend tho party in all its honest ef
forts to do good.
The vacant chair of the Senate which
Georgia is soon to fill, ought not to be a
place of pleasure, a couch of ease to the
incumbent. It should be filled by a
working, thinking man, a man who has
the interests of our people earnestly at
heart. We want a man who looks like a
Senator, and who wonld be singled ont
among strangers as a man higher, nobler,
grander than his fellows—grander in
voice, in eloquence, in argument, in
knowledge and genius. We want a man
who can nurl back the invective and the
sarcasm of Morton and Ghandler and
Conkling and Pomeroy—who can echo
the great sentiments of Oarl Schurz
wbeu he says: “These principles I will
maintain so long as I live, for they are
true, aud they are just, and I have struck
my tent, and will camp without the con
fines of the Republican party, until it
shall learn to respect the rights, the honor
and the dignity of the Southern people.”
We want a man of experience, who
will waste no precious moments grovel
ing among the theories, the abstractions
and dead issues of the past, but meets
the day and hour as it comes. Georgia
wants her share of justice and protec
tion and bounty, while she is bearing
her portion of the public burden. Her
rivers can as easily be made navigable
and her ports eligible as those in higher
latitudes. Hitherto she has had nothing
from the general government, and now
while the great Southern canal is attract
ing the favorable notice of the North
west, and has obtained the partial sanc
tion - of the President, we need a Senator
who is capable of grasping the great
idea and pressing it to a success. For
Georgia, and especially for Northern
Georgia, this is the grandest project ever
conceived, and its completion will im*-
mortalize those who by their labors and
their diligence ensure it.
Neither youth, nor inexperience, nor
incapacity, nor a devotion to dead issues
and vain abstractions, will ever accom
plish these great benefits to cur people.
If Georgia has a statesman who is alive
to the issues and wants of the hour, who
is eloquent in speech, trained in debate,
affable in manners, sober in conduct,
earnest and diligent in business, and who
is familiar with tho arts and specialties
of legislation—let such an one be sent.
Let Fabius be buried, and let all his fol
lowers inter their “ masterly inactivity”
in his tomb.
—Dr. H. H. Brown, an old and well-
known citizen of Gadsden county, is
dead.
An Ugly Case.
From the Harrodsburg (Ky.) People.
Last Tuesday Judge Kellar issued a
warrant for the arrest 01 David Young
and Henry Wilson and Jorie McClellan,
based upon an affidavit to the following
effect, Young being charged as principal,
and Wilson and Jorie McClellan alt ac
cessories.
The affidavit charges that about the
first of October, 1872, Young went to
Perryville and brought Miss Sutherland
to Harrodsburg on a visit Whilst there
it was arranged that Young, with Miss
Sutherland, and Wilson with Josie Mc
Clellan, should go down to William Jack
son’s, in this county, to attend a party.
While on his way, Miss Sutherland per
ceived that they were not going toward
Jackson’s. She expressed her conviction
to Young, and he then admitted that
they were going to his mother’s house.
She objected, but he insisted.
Reaching Mrs, Young’s, they entered
the parlor; David Young excusing the
non-appearance of his mother by sayiDg
that she was rick. Young brought in
something to drink and Josie McClel
lan participated, affiant refusing. At
bed time affiant at first refused to retire,
but- was finally persuaded to do so. In
about half an hoar Young came in and
Josie McClellan went into Wilson’s room,
Young staying with affiant and commit
ting rape upon her.
He kept her all that night, and the
following day, when Young and Wilson
brought affiant to Harrodsburg. Here
sue was persuaded nottc complain of
the treatment she had received on ac
count of exposure. Wilson was released
upon bail, and Young was committed to
jail in default of §5,000 bail. Josie
McClellan is not ia this State.
— North Port has this year received
1,135 bales of cotton.
— Quite a number of citizens are
leaving Dale county for Texas.
— Work on the Mobile and North
western railroad has been suspended.
— George Fluker’s residence, in
Clarke county, was burned on the 29tb.
— Oil has been struck in boring a,.well
in Jonesboro, Jefferson county.
— For the week ending the 7th, there
were twenty-six interments in Mobile.
— In Eutaw, 29th ult., Lucy Alexan
der (negress) was burned to death.
The gin house of Jonas Williams, in
Pickens county, was burned the other
day.
- At Grovo Hill, there was ice for
seven consecutive mornings ending the
21st ult.
Mails are very irregular along the
line of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad.
— A military company, called the
Rhodes Guards, has been organized in
Tnskaioosa.
—A little daughter of Gilley, of Dale
county, was accidently burned to death
a few days ago.
■In Jackson county, the 26th alt.,
Robert Nichols was struck with a rock
and killed by his step-son, Hop Cox.
—The Methodist and Presbyterian
ladies of Haynoville have commenced
preparation for a Christmas sapper.
—In Mobile, a few days ago, four po
licemen were discharged for drunken
ness. M
— The residence and store house of
Jerry D. Gafford, Greenville, was burned
last Friday week.
— The body of an unknown man was
found a few days ago, between Courtland
and Decatur.
—Frederick Small (negro) escaped
from the jail at Opelika a short time ago,
after being shot and wounded by the
jailor.
— The stable and cribs of Dr. Oscar
Duncan, near Mt. Hebron, in Greene
county, were burned recently. In the
stable, two fine mares perished.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
—The Beaufort Republican announces
the death of Rev. J. H. H. Millet, on
Thursday, the 6th instant.
—The vestry room of the Catholic
Church, in Columbia, was destroyed by
fire on Wednesday night.
— Thirty thousand square miles in
South Carolina—three quarters of the
State—lie iu fallow. What a commenta
ry npon carpet-bag rule.
One hundred and fifty men of the
18th Cavalry, under the charge of Lieu
tenants Hodgson and Weston, are en
route for Spartanl ufg and Yorkville.
—A fire took place last week in the
cotton packing room of Mr. W. H. Wil-
den,near Jacksonboro’. There were four
Dales of cotton destroyed.
—A colored man named Raymond
Burnett, a citizen of Abbeville county,
it is stated, has been committed to jail
in Augusta on a charge of knocking down
and robbing a female store-keeper.
— On Sunday towards noon consider
able excitement was created upon the
arrival of the Charlotte train, in Colum
bia, by the arrest of a man whose name
was given as Robinson, by the city po
lice, as is stated, at the instance of a
United States Deputy Marshal. Infor
mation received is to the effect thac the
arrested party was the station master at
Rosk Hill, on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta road, and that certain
charges for the violation of the enforce
ment act have been lodged against him,
There was a very largo crowd present at
the depot when the arrest was made.
TENNESSEE.
— Knoxville has a Welsh church.
— Recently a <lead babe was found in
a pond at Chattanooga.
— In Knoxville oxen are worth from
$50 to $85 per yoke.
— Union City is to have a colored
brass band.
— Mr. William P. Crippeh, aged nine
ty-one, died recently in Knox county.
— A stock company is organizing at
Chattanooga to manufacture a patent
moiticing machine.
—Recently Mrs. Catherine Brown, of
Loudon county, was so badly burned by
her clothing catching fire, that she died
after getting out of her house that was
burning,
— A few days ago a three-year old
colored child, in Fayette county, fell into
a well ninety feet deep, where it re
mained twenty-four hours, when it was
rescued uninjured.
FLORIDA.
—Judge W. B. Woods is in Jackson
ville.
— Horses are being imported from
Texas into Florida.
—Several flocks of wild geese sailed
over Jacksonville on Wednesday last.
—The sidewalks of Jacksonville are
being paved in some juaces, greatly to
the delight of pedestrians,
— The wire to be used in putting up a
telegraph line from Pensacola to Milton
has arrived at Pensacola.
—The services of Father Beauchamp,
of Canada, have been secured for the
Catholic Mission in Florida.
—The ladies of Gainesville, on the
20th, will give a collation, the proceeds
to go to the Presbyterian Church fund,
— Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Mellick are in
Jacksonville, Fla., on their wedding torn.
Mr. Mellick is a well known real estate
agent of New York.
—In view of the election of Hart, large
numbers of the people of Florida are
making arrangements to emigrate. The
Lake City Herald reads them this lesson:
“Let us wait and see what the Geveruor
does before selling out and. moving away.
This idea of moving shows a want ol
stamina in our people, which has led to
the present difficulty. We are all dis
posed to give up the ship too early. Let
us hold on awhile and look things straight
in ths face. Whut comd yon get for
your property now if you were to put it
up for sale ? You could not give it away,
and most of us are not able to dispose 01
our earthly chattels after such a fashion.”
— Onr friend Papy, of the New Era,
(one of our newsiest exchanges by the
wav), tells us that possums Ere ripe and
so are gophers and wild cats. The vision
of Gainesville, he tells ns, is straining
for sighs of a courting pair. We should
think that candy jerkiugs and Gaines
ville bellea in winter suits wou d tire tit
young bloods” and arouse them to ac
tion.
TEXAS.
Hamilton and Comanche counties
are both filling up with new settlers.
A Mr. J. C. Damron was murdered
in his store near Georgetown, in Wil
liamson county recently. The perpetra
tors of the horrible deed are still at large.
— The Indians are still annoying the
Rio Grande frontier. The Two Eagles
give ft| * account ol a man and two wo
men being captured Dy them recently.
Col. Ti.omas Wm. Ward, an old Texas
hero, died at Austin on ihe 24th No
vember. Col. W. participated in the
war of Mexico against the Republic of
Texas.
— The Austin Gazelle shjb two or three
hundred immigrants from Alabama,
Georgia and Mississippi came up the
line of the Central recently, seeking
homes in Texas.
— Died, at her residence in the Cow
house valley, Bell county, Texas, Novem
ber 25, 1872, Mary F. Brown, wife of
Isaac M. Brown. She leaves a husband
and six children to mourn her loss. But
we weep not as those tuat have no hope,
for she had lived a devoted Christian.
GEORGIA NEWS BREVITIES.
— Christmas trees in Macon.
.— Horse-stealing near Augusta.
— West Point wants a tailor.
— Gen. Hood is in Columbus.
— Fred. Kuiglit of Macon has broke
his leg.
— The steamer Clyde has sunk in the
Savannah.
— Robt. S. Arlow, the missing man of
Savannah, has turned up.
— A Clay county man threw a boot at
his mother-in-law.
— Capt. J. J. Seay leaves Newnan for
Rome.
— Anderson A. Price and Miss Mattie
D. Price, of Harris county, married.
— Triplets, colored, reported from
Newnan.
—Judge Porter, of Virginia, has in
vented a new style of crutches.
—J. E. Blount, of Columbus, has re
signed as revenue collector.
— The Meriwether County Vindicator
is a new and spicy paper.
—Mrs. Fannie D. Turner, of Jones
1 county, is dead.
—James C. Whitaker and Rosa R.
Scott, of Milledgeville, are married.
— Ia Augusta, Pig Taylor stabbed ana
seriously wounded Gilbert King.
—Two cases of cotton-stealing have
oeenrred in Augusta.
Perry, Houston county, proposes to
masquerade January 3i
A little girl in Savannah was “ bru
tally kicked” by a police officer. But
the girls kick the boys sometimes.
When persons are removed from of
fice by the United States Government it
is now announced that they have re
signed.—Columbus Sun.
— The horrid spectacle of a decently
dressed white woman, very, very drunk,
presented itself upon the street, and
when near the corner of First fell sprawl
ing upon the street. She got up, how
ever, and went staggering down the
street to the disgust of everybody who
saw her. No more pitiful sight could
be witnessed than a woman overcome by
liquor.—Macon Enterprise.
—The Macon Enterprise says: A diffi
culty occurred on Saturday evening, in
Jones county, about a mile from Clinton,
between John Spear, white, and Jack
Blount, colored, in which the latter was
killed. The report here is that Blount
had offended Spear by dogging hi3 cows;
and a quarrel sprang up between the two
men, in wnich Blount was shot and killed
almost inslantly. Spear surrendered
himself to the authorities.
—Says the Columbus Sun: An organ-
grinder was exhibiting the feats of his
monkeys last evening in front of Pease’s
book store. Among other things the
animal fired off a pistol. This started an
express horse that didn’t have the “zoo,”
standing unfastened and without driver
a short distance off. The horse carried
himself and wagon pell-mell against an
other express, breaking both vehicles.—
Then, kicking at the front wheels, ho
ran over a hog and killed it; and, cir
cling, he tilted the remainder of the
wagon against a buggy, and tho third
vehicle was broken and a third horse
bruised. After a few more circus feats
he was caught. Grinder disappeared iu
the generalconfurion. Drivers should
remain with the horses.
A writer in “ Notes and ‘Queries’* v
some verses by one or the old-tim unear thed
Drayton, which are strikingly , 8 . poet9 ' Michael
•■Charge of the Light Brigade.- T h Tenn »»0a’a
“Battle of Argincourt,’’ some of 8Ubiect ia
ning as follows: 6 sUnzv> run-
I.
“Faire stoo£ tho Wind tn* v
When we onr Series sdvsn’co
Nor now to prove our chance *
Longer will tairy
But putting to the ne
At Kaux, the mouth of
Witl.au the M«twi tS’
Landed King Harry. 5 U °
vm.
“They now to fight are con-
Armour on armour shene
Drumme now to Drumme’did cron.
To liesiro was wonder- 8ron6 .
That with tao Cryes they We
The very esrth did shake ‘
'Trumpet to Trumpet spake
Thunder to Tnuuder.
xv.
“Upon Saint Crispin’s day
Fought was this Notre Fray
Which Fame did not delay
To England to carry;
O when snail English Men
With such acts fill a I en,
Or England breed againo
Such a King Harry ?••
The movement and idea here given are -
ijo those of Mr. Tennyson’s poem as to
probable that they served as its mod^l. if
have a curious < ass of duplicated Invention 0t ’
funeral Notices.
Died, in this city, at fivo minutes to 7 o’clock t>
cemberl4, Jebe. F. Glen. ’ " c *
The friends and acquaintances of K r . y
John Glen and family are invited to attend thi
funeral, from tho First Presbyterian Church to
morrow (Mondey) at 1) o’citck a. it. 1 .
tender i;
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VJYITJiJU STATUS ClliClU t COVllT."
In 'he United StateB Circuit Court yesterday arm
ment was heard iu the caso of Hurd vs. The Counts
of Floyd. Major George Hillyer and L. E. BleckW
for plaintiff: T. W. Alexander and C. N. Fe»Uu»’
stone, for defendant.
Jndgo Erskine appointed the following CnitM
States Com.uissioners for 'he Northern Districted
Georgia:
Abda Johnson, Cariorsvilio, Bartow county.
William W Merrill, Carrollton Carroll county
Wesley Shropshire, Dirt Town, Chattooga counfr
T B Irish, Canton, Cherokee county. "
John M. Edge, Saltviile, Douglass county.
C D Forsyth, Rome, Floyd county.
J B Dickey, Morganton, Fannin county.
Coke A Ellington. Ellijay, Fannin county.
Jacob E Parrott.Calhouii, Gordon county.
Jobn O'Neal, Gainesville, Hall county.
J M Church, Clarkesvlile, Habersham couuty.
Aaron W Woody, Dahlcnega, Lumpkin county,
B Loughridge, Spring Place, Murray county.
W C Barber, Van Wert, Poik county.
Solomon Strickland, Dallas, Paulding county.
Thomas W Thurman, Griffin, Spaulding county.
W Frank Holden, CrawfordvUlo,Talialerro county.
M H Bryson, Hiwa&see, Towns county.
The duty of theso Commissioners is to admini*.
ter oaths, take bail, and do and perform all other
acts authorized by the laws of Congress to be dons
by the Commissioners ol the several Circuit Courts
Th-i following is the oath administered to ana sub.
scribed by them: “I do solemnly swear that I wilt
support end defend the Constitution of tho United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic-
that I will bear trne laith and allegiance to the s.me;
that I tako this obligation freely, without any men
tal reservation or purpose of evasion, aud that I
will faithfully diechargo the duties of the offloe
upon which I am about to enter. So help me Clod."
TI1I2 CHARTER OAK STOVE.
An advertiaoment setting forth tho merits of this
popular stove will be found elsewhere in our col
umns. Mr. Lawson B. Langford, the popnlir
Whitehall stove aud house furnishing goods
dealer, ho Atlanta agent for tho Charter Oak. It
is claimed that this is tl e best stove in the market.
It certainly is a good one and a popular one, or
Langford would not handle it. Call at Langford’s
and let him or his excellent assistant, Andrew Stew
art, toll yon of tho excellencies of the “Charter
Oak.”
Sunday Schools.
Viscountess licuconslield.
Viscountess Beaconsfield, wife of the
Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, died iu
London at noon yesterday. She was the
daughter of Oapt. Viney Evans of the
British Navy, and in" 1815 married
Wyndham Lewis of Glamorgan, a gen
tleman of wealth and a member of the
British Parliament.
He died in 1838, and the year follow*-
ing she married Mr. Disraeli, who had
entered Parliament for the first time two
years before, as the colleague of her for
mer husband, representing the borough
of Maidstone. Mr. Disraeli had at this
time written some of his best novels and
acquired some political celebrity, but his
subsequent splendid fortune was largely
due to the social position and opDortu-
nitie-s afforded him by his wife’s dowry.
He gratefully remembered this, and
dedicating to her one of his novels
termed her “a perfect wife.” In 186S
sbe received from the Queen the title of
Countess, her husband having declined
the title offered him. It is said that he
wrote Lothair ior her amusement.
Five XUen liuneil, u.,,tt Four ot Them
Killed.
St. Louis, Mo., December 15.—A
diten, thirty feet deep, which was being
dug on the premises of the Insane Asv-
lutn, for the purpose of having water-
pipes laid to that institution, caved in
yesterday adernooii, burying five work
men, two of whom, named Patrick Han
non and Austin Vamum, were taken out
dead. The bodies ol James O’Donnell
and Nicholas ivraus still remain in the
trench, and will be taken out to-morrow.
James bra all was rescued alive and uu-
nurt, having been protected by some
shovels and boulders at the bottom of
the ditch. The accident was caused by
tne aosence or Draces.
— A V lrgmia man had ins breath per
manently irightened away by an alarm
of fire in a Richmond theater, the other
ut»y
Upon the precise nature of the answers
oy the little children in the Sunday
schools to questions put by their teach
ers it is not always safe to count. At
Bethany on Sunday last au assistant su
perintendent was engaged in addressing
■ he children. The subject of the teacher
was the Promised Land. “ You see
children,’ he continued, after explain
ing the exodus of Moses, and the sandy
character of the desert, “you see, my
dear children, how Moses at last brought
them into a land flowing with millr and
honey. How nice that was! all of
>ou like honey’, particularly on
your buckwheat cakes. Just think
o’ it—not a land where the milk and
honey come like they do here, but a land
flowing with them. Just think, in tho
promised land what a gcod time the lit-
vle boys and girls must have had! Now
1 let m e see how well you have remem-
' bered what I have told you.
■Who led out the Israelites ? ’
"Moses,’ was the prompt reply.
•From whence did he lead them ?’
"From bondage’ answered several of
them.
‘Where did he take them ? ’
‘To the promised land.’
That’s right, my Utils dears, now what
did the land flow with ? ’
‘With honey, - said tnree or fonr.
‘What eise?'
Here was a stick—no reply.
‘Gome, cuildreu, some of you surely
remember. WLen jou were babies what
did your mothers give yon? Wbat else
did the promised land flow with?’
Again a blank pause.
‘I know, tiur,’ said a five year old,
rising to his leet and elevating his little
nand. ‘1 know what it wath thir, I
know, thirl’
•VVi.-at was it, my dear?’
WVhy, it was with titty, thirl’
Tne questioner collapsed into a hymn.
T!»c Beautiful snuiv Runs clT and
Leaves her Adolphus.
TheUkief of Pohoe has received the
following letter at St. Louis:
Chrleston, III., Dec. 7, 1872.
Mr. Chief of Police:
My wife left’ me and went weast with
a feller that aint her husban—cuss her
aud him two. My wife is twenty years
old and is rail good lookin’, is the way
she slipped up on me and took me inn—
cuss her and him two 1
At fust we got oru fust rait, till a fel
ler came along teachin’ singing schule
with a big fiddle, and when she seed
him it was all day with me, and I refused
to let her go too thesingin’ schule any
more.
We wa3 livin’ in Kaintuc, and I leff
an oura in Hlinois to git rid of himm,
an afeur long he follered us and sbe fol-
lered himm—cuss her and him two ! 1
don’t want hur any moore an onle rite
you to give notis tfcat I will not pa any
of hur dets.
I never rit but one letter befour to a
straiDger, and now i got Lowyer Van-
dike to look over tnis for me and correc
mistaike, and.he sa d tha aint any,
No more at present.
Adolphus J. Snow.
P. S.—Vandike tais it is your duoty to
eaten mi wife and send hur bac to me.
God forbid!—cuss hur and himm two 1 i
want notheu moore to do with hur.
A. J. S.