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■ T V *■ IH STEPHENS PROPRIETOR A POL.TTICAI. EDITOR S. A. ECHOLS, ilWKlkURdltM »nd Business TKRMH OF DAILY and DUJr-»H> ( Copy • E*SXZZzI SI Sr-o1S“r.:::! f. o^^WfsSSs y i SrS:-.v:;v: 5 S SESfc-vJ? S One Hurdred Coplea ...126 0# THE WEEKLY SUN. ■tfM VOL.3, NO. 5J3| ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1871.3 WHOLI1 »>rr N n X B X H lo# THE ATIjANTASUN From The Dally Sun of January 7, 1872, mr. At .V FOB 1873. Kprrltl Announcement Vnp.ftyx uaa entered upon the New Year with several important changes, which will, we trust, commend it yet more to the pntronageof the reading public. The subscription to the Daily is reduced from ten to Eight Dollars peu Annum; luo Dollars per Quarter; 75cis. per Month. The purjjose .of this reduction is to place the Daily within reach of those of 1 every class who desire to read—the work- ingmuu and the farmer, as well as of the merchant and capitalist. While Tiie Sun is not quite so large as our cotemporaries of this city, and wo shall not attempt to compete with them iu the amount of general read ing, we promise that as A NEWSPAPER it shall be second to uouo in tho city or State iu quantity of news, either foreigu, national, State or local. Our MARKET REPORTS shall bo very fu:l and strictly reliable, and this, we are sure, will be au attrac tion for our readeis, especially those out of the city. Our —. EDITORIAL STAFF , receives two valuable accessions, in the 'persons of Mr. C. II. C. Willingham, (late editor of the LaG range Reporter) in the Political Department, and Mr. W. H. Moore, well known in this city by a former connection with Tiie Sun as its City Editor. The Editorial corps of The 8un will bo as follow!.: f*J Alex. H. Stei wi ns, Politic il Editor. Sam’l A. Echols, Associate Editor. C. H. G. Willingham, Assistant Politi cal Editor. Pascal J. Moran, News Editor. W. H Moore, 1 City Editors. A. J. Hulsey, j With this corps of writers, we enter The Sun upon the New Year, soliciting of the public a liberal patronage, which we shall endeavor continually to meiit Letters and remittances for The Sun should he ailiLcesed Samuel A. Echols, Business Manager. jftjv-floi- Whitson G. Johnson, of Lex ington, appears to have many advocates in the 8th Distriot for his nomination for Congressional honors. Jolm E. Hatcher, who has been doing the Prentieeana of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is soou to start a new paper at Columbia, Teim. We wish •*G. Washington Bricks” grand success on the right line. Douglas County Election.—Tho re turns l urn the election held iu Dougius county on tho 1st of January, shows that John M. James, Independent candidate was elected Ordinary by a vole of 570.— His oi liuii-nt, .MiLs Edwards, received 071 votes, leaving a majority of 105 votes for Jumes. fob matFMMBjrcM. Chronology ef Loading Ereati of 1873. JANUARY. 1. Gold 109J. City Council of New York voted to impAch Mayor HalL Na tional debt reduced during December, $4,412,956. 2. Biot at Rochester, N. Y., resulting from an attempt to lynch a negro lor criminal assauU on a little girl; three men killed and several wounded. Brig ham Young arreeted on a charge of be ing connected with the murder of Bich ard Yates in Echo Canon. 3. The first case under the civil service reform at Washington referred to the Civil Service Commission. Court-room floor at Kittychogher, Ireland, with 300 persons on it, gives away, killing twenty persons. 4. The Spanish Government requested to apologize for the Florida allair. 5. The Alabama Claim Arbitration Commission organized by the election of Count Sclopsis as President at Geneva. G. James FiBk, Jr., fatally shot by Ed ward S. Stokes at the Grand Central Hotel, New York city. 7. Death of James Fisk, Jr. Dr. Mer- riman Cole, of Baltimore, murdered. 8. Congress reassembles. National Trade Congress opens at Nottingham England. 9. Death ol Major General H. W. Hal- leck, at one t ime commanding the army of the United States. 10. Commander Alexander H. Semmes court martialcd and suspended. 11. The Republican National Commit tee meet at Washington and appoint time and place for the National Conven tion. 13. Fight of the Warmoth and Carter factions in Louisiana. 14. Publication of the Fisk-Monsfield correspondence. 15. Death of Hon. James M. Hanna, a leading Democratic politician of In diana. 15. The Chicago relief bill passes the House of Representatives. 17. Vincent Coiyar resigns his Secre taryship of the Indian Commission. 19. Wm. M. Tweed summoned before a committee of the New York Legisla ture. 20. President Thiers, of France, ten ders and withdraws his resignation. 22. Garrett Davis arraigns the Presi dent in a Senate speech. 23. The Manitoba gold excitement commences. Heavy batcn of indictments presented against the Tammany thieves, 24. The Chicago Relief Bill passes the United States Senate. 2G. George Botts, tho murderer of ‘l'et Halstead,” hung at Newark, N. J.jjg I 28. The State of Chihuahua declares itselt independent of the Mexican Gov ernment. 31. The new Apportionment Bill finally passed in Congress. FEBRUARY. 1. Gold 109J. Reduction of the na tional debt during January, §5,663,511. National Convention held in Cincinnati to favor an amendment to the Constitu tion recognizing God and Jesus Christ. 4. The British Government threatens to withdraw its agreement relativo to l he Geneva Conference. County Officers Elected in Talia ferro County. — Charles A. Btazley, Ordinary ; Jos.D. Hammock, Clerk of Su preme Court; Jos. 1). Hammock, County Treasurer; Macons D. L. Googer, Sheriff; Will in 1 Woodruff, Tax Collector; Jos. NY. Farmer, Tax Receiver; Wm. J. Fielding, Coroner; Wm. T. Burke, Snr- All Democrats. ; anti-disability bill passes Yevor. Wonderful Change. —Wo had the pleasure of meeting iu our office on Mon day last, Mr. Frank Palmer, waorn we have known as a deaf and duL. 1 gentle man. At the battle of Gettysburg, Mr. Paitner received a shot in tho head, which together with a savoro concussion, rend ered him totally deaf and dumb for uiue years. List summer ho went to Phila delphia with the hope of having bis speech and hearing restored, which prov ed most successful. He now speaks and hears as well as he ever did, except that in damp weather, his hearing becomes a little impaired. He is a good business man and we trust he may secure such employment as will bo commensurate with his capacity. Professor Looney’s School. The special attention of cur readers is called to the advertisement of Professor Looney—one of the finest and most faithful educators iu the whole State of Georgia. He has just left Hogansville, wheie he bad a flue school, and now casts his fortunes in Palmetto, upon which acquisition to their town,the people cay justly feel proud. We regard Prof. Looney as one of the most: competent and faithful teachers we ever knew. We bespeak for him a heart j reception and support in his new field of labor. He is a teacher in every.sense of the term. 5. Asweepin the House. 7. Death of tho Most Reverend John Spalding, Primate of the Catholic Church in the United States and Archbishop of Baltimore, in Baltimore, aged 62 years. 12. Great snow blockade on the Pacific railroad. 13. The Right Honorable John Evelyn Denuhon, late Speaker of the House of Commons, created Viscount Ossington. First news < f tho famine in Perisia— thousands dying daily with hunger. 14. ThuEaglisb expedition departs in search of Dr. Livingstone. 15. Hon. Henry Wilson writes a letter consenting to become a candidate for the Vico Presidency, subject to the Philadel phia Convention. 16. The Nebraska Legislature meets, but Gov. Butler refuses to recognize it, 19. Tho bill for the removal of the tariff on tea and coffee passes the House 22. National Labor Reform Conven tion at Columbus, Ohio,nominates Judge Davis, of Illinois, for the Vice Presiden cy. Tho National Prohibition Conven tion at tue same time and place nomi nates James Black, of Pennsylvania, for President, and John Russel, ol Michigau, for Vice President. 26. Mr. Sumner’s resolution concern ing the sale of arips to tue French passes the Senate without debate. 27. Death of the Rev. Henry Benediot Coakey, Vicar General and Administra tor ol tho Archdiocese of Baltimore, in the 64ih year of liis age. 29. The Japanese Embassy reach Washington. Queen Victoria’s life is threatened by an insane Irishman. The pistol he carries found to be unloaded. Thiers offers the Pope the hospitality of France. Austria offers him £>aizburg Castle for a residence. MARCH. 1. Gold, 110i. Reduction of the na tioual debt for February, $15,391,451. 2. National bank circulation outstand ing at this date was $331,180,792. Se verest snow storm known in Washington for fifteen years. Emperor Francis Jo seph issues a decree declining to recog nize the old Catholic Bishops as a por tion of the ecclesiastical heirarchy of Austria. 3. Celebration of the seventeenth anni versary of Alexander’s accession to the Russian throne. 4. Japanese embassy presents letters of credenoe to President Grant from the Emperor of Japan. Appropriation bill passed for public buildings in Cincin nati The Centennial Commissioners assemble at Philadelphia. Trial of May or Hall commenced. 5. Government reception to Japanese embassy. The Austrian Reicbsrath passes the compulsory education bilk 6. Formal reception of the Japanese in the House of Representatives. The Tichbome claimant arrested for perjury and lodged in Newgate prison. Slight earthquake in Prussia. Seven steamers burned in Cincinnati. 8. By payment of two milliards of the war indemnity France gains entire con trol of six departments. 9. Telegraphic communication estab lished between France and the island of Goadalonpe. 10. Coalition organized in Madrid against the Spanish Government. 11. Joseph Mazzini, the Italian patri ot, died in Pisa, Italy, aged 63. Hon. John A. DiX elected President of the Erie railway by a coup d’etat on the part of the owners of tho Erie stock. Gen eral Longstrect resigns as Surveyor of New Orleans. Civil service appropria tion bill passed. 12. Government bonds (1862) re deemed by Secretary of the Treasury to date, $104,281,800. 13. News received of the loss of the Denmark, the largest clipper ship in the world. Great bridge across the Missouri river at Leavenworth completed. 14. The Prussian Government requests the Roman Catholic Bishop of Erme- land to revoke sentences of excommuni cation. Anti-Temperance Convention met at Springfield, 111. Funeral of Maz zini. 15. Wisconsin land grant bill defeated in the Hoose. Earl Granville announces in tne House of Lords notice of abroga tion of the French commercial treaty. The Diet of Bohemia dissolved by impe rial decree. 16. For rejection of the dogma of in fallibility, three professors of the University of Bonn excommunicated. 17. St Patrick’s anniversary obseived throughout Ireland; at Drogheda a great open air celebration occurs, at which the Government policy toward Fenian pris oners is loudly denounced. Great de monstration at Rome iu memory of Jo seph Mazmni. Rev. Dr. Eddy succeeds Dr. Newman iu the pastorate of the Me tropolitan church at Washington. 18. The Chicago Relief bill brought to a hearing in the Senate. Death of Judgo Whiting of New York. 19. The Chicago Relief bill reported from the Committee of the Whole. The President signs the act of Congress au thorizing the survey and establishment of boundaries between the territory of the United States and of Great Britain from Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. The New York voucher thieves arraigned. Dasseldorf Academy of Art burned. 20. The Chicago Relief bill passes the Senate. Unprecedented ice blockade in the lake straits. The Pacific Mail Sub side bill defeated iu the House. 21. The Sutro Tunnel has progressed 2,800 feet. Foreign dates describe hor rible outrages practiced ou the Jews in Roumania. 22. Severe gales on the Atlantic. Ex^ cited discussion in the Euglish House of Lords over the course to be pursued with egard to the Treaty of Washington Emperor William’s seventy-fifth anniver sary. Government duty removed from tea and coffee. 23. Annual boat race between Oxford aqd Cambridge. James Cuddy, a prom inent iron manufacturer of St. Louis, dies. 24. Famine in the vicinity of Tient- fin, China. 26. Earthquake at San Francisco, Cal. Assassins attempt to kill Mikado of Ja pan. 28. Death of General Humphrey Marshall at Louisville, Ky. 29. Several towns in California partial ly destroyed bv the earthquake on the 26th. 2. Advices from Zanzibar of a hurri cane in April which destroyed $10,000,- 000 worth of property and many lives. 3. Horace Greeley nominated for President and B. Gratz Brown for Vice- President by the Cincinnati Convention. 5. Don Carlos being defeated, flees to French territory. 9. Fire at Somerset, Pa.: loss, $1,000,- 000. 10. Senate French Arms Committee report they find no cause to secure the Secretary of War. 11. Death of T. Buchanan Read, the poet, at New York city. United States troops called upon to suppress riot ainoug Michigan mines. 13. The House Committee on Appro priations recommends the passage of the postal telegraph bill. 14. Marshal Bazaine arrested for bad conduct about the surrender of Metz. 16. News of a teirible conflagration at Yeddo, Japan, April 23; space burned over, three miles long by two miles wide. 18. Internal revenue receipts for fiscal year to date, $113,S63.156. The Senate Foreigu Relations Committee report fa vorably upon the supplemental article relativo to the “indirect” Alabama claims. 20. Mr. Greeley accepts, by a formal letter, the Cincinnati nomination. 22. The Senate passes the kn-klux, civil rights and amnesty bills. The Seeor Claims Investigating Committee report and exonerate Secretary Robeson 23. Unvailing of the Shakspeare statue in New York city and appropriate cere monies. 24. The National Workingmen’s Con vention at New York nominate Grant nd Wilson for President and Vice- President. 27. Deaths in England of William Russell, Duke of Bedford and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, brother of Lord Lyt ton. 28. Death of the Archduchess Sophia, of Austria, mother of the Emperor Francis Joseph. 31. Charles Sumner’s speech iu the Unitea Slates Senate against President Grant, aud reply of General Logan. JUNE. 1. Death of James Gordon Bennett 3. Grand Liberal mass meeting at Cooper Institute, New York. 4. Meeting of the International Typo grapieal Union at Richmond, Va. 5. Meeting of National Republican Convention at Philadelphia. 6. General Grant nominated for Pre sident and Henry Wilson for Vice Presi dent by the National Republican Con ve tion at Philadelpnia. 10. Adjournment of second session of Forty-3teonc! Congress. 12. Seventeenth International Conven tion ol You.j, 'Urn’s Christian Associa tions ut Lowell. 13. Strikes among trades union mn in New York. Opening of World’s Fair at Copenhagen. 15. Reassembling of the tribunal of arbitration of Alabama claims at Geneva. APRIL. 2. Death of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the magnetic telegraph, at New York; age 81. 5. Death of Hon. Samuel Galloway, at Columbus, Ohio. 8. Indictmentof the Tichborne claim ant in England fete forgery and perjury. 11. O’Conor, who attacked Queen Victoria, sentenced to prison for one year. 12. Liberal mass meeting iu Now York addressed by Senator Trumbull, at which he denounced the Republican party as robbers and hirelings. 13. Files and great loss of property at Philadelphia, Pa.; at Toledo, Ohio; at Tiffin, Ohio; at Ayer, Mass.; and at New York city. 15. National Colored Convention at New Orleans pledges support to the Re publican party. 17. Grand Republican mass meeting at Cooper Institute, New York, addressed by Hou. Henry Wilson, Senator Morton and General SicKies. 21. President Grant transmits to the Senate a copy of the counter case in the matter of the Alabama claims. 23. A Japanese Imperial decree abol ishes all edicts against Christianity. 24. The Cass county bond excitement in Missouri culminates in the murder of Judge J. C. Stevenson, S. E. Datro and J. R. Cline. 26. Eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Italy; loss of life and property in towns adja cent to tne volcano. Extensive fires in the woods of New York State. 27. Burning of large silk warehouses on Broadway, New York; loss, $500,000. 29. Warlike proclamation of Don Car los, of Spain, and commencement of tbe insurrection. HAT. 1. Meeting of the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio. News received at Bombay of the discovery of Dr. Livingstone by Stanley, the Her,da explorer. 16. Strikes and riots among working men in New York and Berlin. 17. Opening of World’s Peace Jubilee at Boston. Celebration of anniversary of battle of Bunker Hill at Boston. 22. Grant and Wilson ratification mc-eiings iu many of the States. 24. St. John’s day; Masons through out the country celebrated the event. JULY. 2. One hundred sun-strokes in New York city. Longfellow beats Harry Bas sett for the Monmouth cup at Long Branch. 6. Ratification of the treaty for the evacuation of France by the Prussians. 7. Passage of Anti-Jesuit bill by the Prussian Parliament abolishing convents of the order in Germany. 9. Assembling of the National Demo cratic Convention at Baltimore. 10. Greeley and Brown nominated for President aud Vice President by Balti more Convention. 16. Reassembling of the Geneva Tri bunal after a vacation. 18. Death of Juarez, President cf Mexico. Attempt to assassinate King and Queen of Spain at Madrid. 23. Trade Mark Convention between United States and Austria taxes eJect. 27. Marriage of Mile. Christine Nils son and M. Iiouzand, iu Westminster Abbey. 30. Riot in Savannah, Ga., occasioned by preventing colored men from riding on street cars. Great fire at Hunter’s Point, Long Island. 3. Diamond discoveries reported in Arizona. Governor of Arkansas issues a proclamation against Pope county disor- de&s. august. I. Republicans carry the election in North Carolina. Anniversary of the West India emancipation; celebrations in ail large cities in the United States. 6. Meeting of National Educational Association at Boston. 8. Magnificent display of auroral lights throughout the country. II. Queen Victoria prorogues the British Parliament. Six hundred Com munists prisoners shipped to New Cale donia to serve their sentence of impris onment. 14. Horace Greeley’s first political Pres idential speech, at Portland, Me. 17. Judge Barnard, of New York city, found gnilty and removed from office. 21. Twenty-first annual session of the American Association for the Advance ment cf Science assembles at Dubuqne, Iowa. ■22. Democrats carry West Virginia. Opening of the International Statistical Congress at St. Petersburg, Russia. 26. Bishop Bayley, of Newark, N. J., appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, to succeed the late Archbishop Spalding. 30. Steamer Metis sank at Watch Hill, R. 1., thirty lives lost SEPTEMBER. 3. Assembling of National Straight Democratic Convention at Lonisvill, Ky. Election in Vermont carried by Kepuo- licans. 4. First anniversary of the formation and proclamation of the French Repub lic. Charles O’Conor and John Quincy Adams nominated for President and Vice President respectively by the Louis ville Convention. Formal opening of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. 5. Meeting of the Emperor of Austria, the Czar of Russia and the King of Prus sia at Berlin. 12. Death of Rev. Manton Eastburn, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Mas sachusetts. 15. King Amadeus opens the session of tbe new Spanish Cortes at Madrid.— Official announcement of tbe award oi $15,000,000 by tne Alabama Claims Arbi tration tribuual as damages sustained by the United States. 18. Horace Greeley’s speech at Pitts burgh. Death of King Charles XV. of Sweden and Norway. 20 Anniversary of occupation of Rome by Italian troops, and celebration of the event there. 22. Oscar, brother to the deceased King Ciltirles, succeeds to the throne of Sweden and Norway. Death of Hon. Garrett Davis, United States Senator fiom Kentucky, at Paris, Ky. 25. Death of Rev. Peter Cartwright, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 30. Expiration and abrogation of stamp duties npon all documents except bank checks, drafts or orders. OCTOBER. 2. Death of Dr. Francis Lieber, the historian and scholar, at New York. Democrats carry the election in Georgia. 8. State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska and Indiana, carried by the Republicans. Appearance of the horse disease at Toronto, Canada. 10. Openirg of the great St. Louis Fair. Death of Hon. Wm. H. Seward, at Auburn, N. Y. Death of Fanny Fern, 13. Funeral of Fanny Fern at New York. Prince Napoleon quits French territory pursuant to orders of the Thiers government. 15. Death of Prince Frederick Henry Albert, the third and youngest brother of the Emperor William of P; ussia. 16. Republicans carry election South Carolina. 18. Appearance of the horse disease in New York. Appointment of Sir Roun- dell Palmer as Lord Chancellor of Eug land. 21. Radification of a new postal treaty oetween the United States and Switzer land. Death of Rev. Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne, the historian of the Reforma tion at Geneva, Switzerland. 22. Burning of the steamer Missouri off the Florida coast; eighty passengers lost. 23. The San Juan boundary contro versy between the United States and Great Britain decid°d in favor of th United States by Emperor William oi Prussia, the arbitrator, making the Canal de Haro the boundary. 24. Death of Theophilo Gautier, the French poet, novelist and critic, at Paris. 25. 1 he epizootic prevails in New York and other Eastern cities. Death of Hon. Chas. E. Perry, United States Consul at Aspinwall. * 30. Death of Mrs. Horace Greeley at New York. President Grant sigus a proclamation to •ollectors to enforce dis criminating duties against imports in French ships. NOVEMBEB. 1. Death of Francis Maguire^ M. P. for Cork, and editor of the Cork Exam iner. 2. Arrest of the females Woodhull and Clafiin on charges of libel and blackmail, and their incarceration in Ludlow street jail, New York. News of the marriage of the Emperor of China, October 16. 5. General election day in all the States, Gea. U. S. Grant being the R3- puolican candidate for Presiuent and Henry Wilson for Vice President; Horace Greeley the Liberal candidate for Presi dent and B. Gratz Brown for Vice Presi dent. Grant and Wilson carry tne elec toral vote of thirty-one States, and Gree ley and Brown of six States. 6. Death of Major General George G. Meade, U. S. A., the “hero of Gettys burg,” at Philadelphia. 9. Commencement of the terrible con flagration in Boston^ which continued until the following day. Fifty acres burned over. Total loss $50,000,000. 10. Failure of Bowles Bros. & Co., the great Paris bankers. 13. Message of President Thiers to the French Assembly, in which he declared that the Government most De a conserva live Republic or it could not exist. 14. Death of James Hadley, Greek Professor in Yale College. 23. Total productions of cotton in the United States iq 1872 announced is 3,- 450,000 bales. 26. Complete exposure of tbe Arizona diamond swindle. 28. National Thanksgiving day. 29. Death of Horace Greeley, editor and founder of the New York Trfttmeaad Liberal Democratic candidate for Presi dent of the United States. Profound re gret throughout the country. DECEMBER. 1. The German Emperor creates twen ty-live new peers iu order to secore the passage of the Counties Reform Bill. The members of the French Cabinet tender their resignations to President Thiers. 2. Meeting of third session of Forty- second Congress at Washington. Mes sage of the President and reports of de partments. Public debt, less cash in treasury, $2,160,568,030. Members of French Cabinet and President Thiers withdraw tbeir resignations. Charles Sumner introduces bis oblivion resolution in the United States Senate. 4. Funeral of Horace Greeley at New York; impressive ceremonies, aud pres ence of President Grant, officers oi the Government aud distinguished men. Meeting of Electoral Colleges iu the several States. Meeting of Ceutennial Commission at Puiladelpbia. 6. Election of United Suites Senate standing committees. 7. Judge Darrell, of United States Distriot Court at N«-w Orients, issues an injunction restraining Gov. Warmoth and his Returning Hoard from interfering with election returns. 8. Louisiana Legislature presents ar ticles of impeachment ag 1 nst Governor Warmoth. A r >t«mi mi-u. 1,1 a new Min istry in France. t. iuj.- uDuu of the crisis in Governmental flairs. Final passage of the O uin*ies [’"form biil by the Prussian Diet 11. Meeting of National Commercial Convention ut St. Louis. Fire in Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York; homing to death of thirteen inmates. 12. Commencement of the hearing before the Committee on the Credit Mobilier Investigation. Death of Ed ward Forrest, the great tragedian, at Philadelphia. 15. Defeat of the petitions for a disso lution of the National Assembly in France, the members of the Assembly voting yeas, 201; nays, 409. 16. United States Supreme Coart do mes the motion of Governor Warmoth for a writ of prohibition against Kellogg and Pinohback. 17. Prince Bismarcx resigns the Presi dency of the Prussian Council of Minis ters. Excitement at Washington over the Credit Mobilier Investigation. 20. Crisis in the Spanish Cabinet, and new Cabinet formed, with Echegaria as Minister of France. Judge Orr, of South Carolina, accepts tho mission to Russia. Death of G. P. Puiuum, the publisher, at New York. 21. Death of Gen. A. 11. Wright, editor of the August* (Ga.) Chronicue <fc Sentinel, and memlK-r i-f Congress elect. 24. Conclusion ot postal treaty be tween United States and France. The coldest day in the United States for many years. 25. Tbe S'jacis’.t Government prepar ing to free tue slaves iu tbe island of Porto Rio. 27.. Severe weather tlirongnmu the country iuterfereuco with railway travel. 30. A rising of Alphouists enpeeted in Spam. 31. Break of ice gorge at Cincinnati damage, $500,000. 15. Discovery by the United States Signal office of the existence and extent of the great annual November atmos pheric wave. The Royal Geographical Society of England thank Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald, and Mr. Stan ley, for discovery of Dr. Livingstone. 17. Blessings asked in all the French cathedrals and prayers offered for the French National Assembly. 18. Official canvass of recent elections shows Grant’s majority in Illinois to be 56,118, and Oglesby’s 41,424, and Re publicans elect fourteen oat of nineteen Congressmen. 20. Enforcement of tho Civil Service rales by President Grant, in the appoint ment of G. W. Fairman as Postmaster at Philadelphia. Ministerial crisis im minent in France. Loss at sea of the barks Larrabee, of Savannah, Ga., and the Lanercost, of Baltimore, with all on board. GEORGIA—Douglas County: We, the underaignad Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly for the purpose of Dfa- tricUng said county, UHk leave to report as follow*, viz: That we have performed said commission by arranging No. 1, commencing cn tbe Paulding line, at tho north-cast corner of land lot No. C18 in. the first district and third section of originally Cherokee, thence due south, crossing the purchaea line at the north-east corner of the fractional Ink No. 230 in tho second district and fifth section in originally Carroll; thence south to the south-weak corner of lot No. 101 in said second district; thence east to the south-east corner of iot No. 102 of tba first district and fifth section of originally Carroll; .hence north to the north-east corner of lot No. 3W, in tho 10th district of 2d section of originally Chero kee; thence along Cobb and Donglas line to tba starting point at tho north-east corner of lot 618, in. tho 1st and 3d of Cherokee. No. 2—Commencing at the north-east corner ot lot CIS, in the 1st and 3d as aforesaid; running thence along the Douglas and Paulding line to *i<« north-west corner of fracUonal lot No. 218, in tbn 2d and 5th of originally C&rroU; thence south to tba south-west corner of lot No. 79 in said 2d distriot; thence east to the south-east corner of lot No. 70, bn said 2d district; thence north to tho starting point— No. C18 as aforesaid. No. 3—Commencing at the south-east corner Of No. 70, iu the 2d district of originally Carroll; run ning thence west to the southwest corner of lot Kan 9, in district of originally Carroll; thenoa south along the Douglas and CarroU line to tba southwest corner of lot No. 200, in the 3d district of originally Carroll; thence east to the northeast cor ner of fracUonal lot No. 32, on Chattahoochee rives thence along the river to the southeast corner of)o No. 61; thence north to the starting point, at tba southeast corner of lot No. 70, in ?d of Carroll. No. 4—Commencing at the northwest corner of lot No 92,In the 2d district of originally Carroll; thenoa sonth to the southeast corner of lot No. 34, In tba 3d of Carroll; thence along the Chattahoochee river to the northeast corner of lot No. 160, in the lei a**. trict of originally Carroll; thence west to the north west corner of lot No. 92, in the 2d of originally Carroll—the starting point. No. 5—Commencing at the southwest corner t lot No. 112, in the 1st district of originally Carroll; thence east to the southeast corner of lot No. 191, said 1st district; thence along the Chattahoochee ta the Cobb line; thence along the Douglass and Cobh line’to the northeast corner of lot No. 356, In tba 18tb, and 2d of Cherokee; thence south to the ba» ginning point—at the southwest corner of lot Now 112, in the said 1st district of CarroU. We, the said Commissioners, would fuither reper that >0.1 in this arrangement Is designated as 730th District Q. M.; that No. 2 in this arrangement baa no militia number; that No. S has no militia nuaa- ber; that No. 4 is designated as 736th District a. IE.} that No. 6 is designated as 784th District G. M. Respectfully submitted, this, tho 7th day of De comber, 1672. W. N. MAGOUIRK; INO. & BOWDEN JAS. H. WINN, Douglas Coukt or Ordwaby, 1 At CHAWtgee, December 7th, 1872. j Ordered, that the within report be approved aaA recorded on the minutes of this Court. pnrtuaaM^ law. W. W. HINDMAN. Urdinaiy. Copied from the minutes; W. W. Hinrmas, Ordinary and ex-cfilelo I