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VoL 11L-NO. 34.
THE3 ^TLAISTTA WEEKLY SXJISr—J~-A.3STTJAHT 14=, 18^3.
paid into the Treasury. By authority of
a joint resolution, passed at the last ses
sion of the General Assembly, George G.
Hull, Charles 13. Wallace anti James W.
Robertson, competent railroad m m, were
selected to make a new inventory and
appraisement of the projierty of the road
in t he hands of the Lessees. Those Com
missioners have perfo r mtd their duty,
and their report lias been submitted and
placed on file in the office of the Secretary
of {State, as directed by the resolution
prescribing their duties. An examina
tion of their report will show that, the
Commissioners did not find frequent oc
casion to differ muttnally with the for
mer appraisers, in the valuation placed
upon the property. The instances in
which they have found it necessary to
difl«*r from the former appraisement, are
carefully noted in their report.
Attention is called in tue report of the
Commission! rs to the importance o< hav
ing accurate surveys and maps made of
the lauds belonging to the State, con
nected with the road. In some instances
the laud-marks, distinguishing portions
of these lands, have been removed or de
stroyed. It is also believed tuat instances
exist, in which valuable portions of tho
lands have been taken possession
of by intruders, aud it is feared tnat the
necessity has alrcudy anstu for a resort
to the courts for their recovery. The pro
priety of the recommendation of tue
Commissioners just re‘erred to will not
be questioned, when it is remembered
that a long period of time may elapse
before the State will again take posses
sion of these lands. During the term of
the lease, the muniments of title, and
all other existing means of dcsipuuiing
their respectivelocationsund oouudatics,
may be lost or destroyed. For the pro
tection of the interest of the State, I re
spectfully suggest, that the recommenda
tion of the Commissioners be adopted,
and that a sufficient appropriation be
made to enable the work to be done.
I respectfully recommend, also, that a
special appropriation be made, sufficient
in amount to puy the Commissioners
aud their Clerk, lor the services rendered
tho St-to in making aud returning the
said inventory aud appraisement.
OEOUUIA NATIONAL DANK.
Investigations made soon after I came
into the Executive office, led me to con
elude that the Georgia Natiouul Bank,
at Atlanta, was largely indebt
ed to the State, on account of
deposits made during the ad-
ruiuiM ration of Governor Bullocii.
The bank having refused to make pay
ment. I directed jndiciul proceedings to
bo instituted to collect the sum of $122,-
953 .7.1, the amount claimed for theiState.
An altHchment was issued at the instance
of the State, uud the same was levied on
a portion of tho assets of the bunk. The
nominal umouul of tho assets seized was
large-, but their real vulue, as I have been
informed, will not amount to more than
onc-imif oi tho ebt claimed.
At tho time the legal pro eediugs re
ferred to were began, the books ct the
bank showed credits in favor of divers
private depositors, whoso claims, in tae
aggregate, amounted to over one-haif tho
supposed value of the assets seized.
A number of tlio depositors ap-
applied to me for the release of
a sufficient auiouut of the assets to sat
isfy then claims. I deemed it my duiy
to refuse the application. 13y virtue of
tho seizure, a legal lieu had a>rcsdy ves:-
oi in the State, which I hud no auliieruy
to discharge.
A joint resolution was adopted at the
session of the General Assembly iu July
last, authorizing tho Governor to “re
lease uud tarn over over to private de
positors, their deposits upon tho suomis
sion of satisfactory proo:;-.’ I gave my
approval to this resolution v>uu reluc
tance. The vagueness and nucer'unity
of its provisions render it difficult, if rot
impossible, to comply with its re
quirements, without doing injustice
cither to the btuto or the despostt-
ors. A p >rtiou of the depositors, I have
beeu informed, have orought suits lor
the recovery of their respective claims,
and have caused assets und effects iu the
bauds of third persons to be attached, to
insure collection. My information is
that some of the creditors have already
colic ted portions of their claims, and
there is reason to believe that others will
meet with similar success. Under the
circumstances, I have deemed it my duty
to defer action uuder tho reso.ution >e-
ferr- d to, until tho meeting of the Gen
eral Assembly. I respectlu.ly recom
mend the passage of uu act for the re
lief of the depositors, particularly defin
ing the manner in which that relief shall
be granted.
ALABAMA AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD
Tne Constitution ot 1868 forbids the
passage of a law granting or loaning
the credit of the State to aid any
Company, without a provision that
the wnole property of the Com
pany shall be bound for the security
of the State, prior to any other debt or
lien, except to laborers. In the act under
consideration, there is an attempt »o loan
the credit of the State, by an indorse
ment of tbe second mortgage bonds of
the company. The lien of this State is
expressly postponed to the lieu of the
Stute of Alabama upon far the larger
portion of the property, viz: upon all
that part of the road of tue company ly
ing wit in that State. In addition to
this, the State of Alabama, as I am in
formed, had, at the time of tbe passage
of the act, a first hen cn all that portion
of the road lying witnin this State.
Other objections to the act might be
mentioned, but tne foregoing are deemed
sufficient to show that its provisions are
unconstitutional and vo:d.
The company having tailed to pay the
accrueu interest on its indorsed bonds,
Governor Bullock seized that portion
of the road tying in tnis State,
anti placed the same in the hinds
of a receiver. Having become satisfied
that the road could not bo operated with
out loss to tne State, and being unwilling
to take the responsibility of selling it
nuder the provisions of tho act referred
to, I ordered it to be turned over toor-
tain receivers, appointed by tho United
estates Circuit Court for tue State of Ala
bama. Tho provisions of tae agreement
under which the road was placed in the r
possession were, iu effect, that they would
hold tho bame, as tenants-at will, ac
knowledging the right of tho State to re
sume possession at any time. This, un
der the circumstances, was deemed tne
best arrangement that could bo made for
the btaie.
Tue foregoing statement will suffice to
call the attention of tho General Assem
bly, to the importance oi takingearly ac
tion iu relation to the liability of the
Stute, on the indorsements placed by
Governor Bollock upon the bonds of the
company. Ii, in the opinion of the Leg
islature, the State is bound by the in
dorsements, then, it will be pioper that
possession of the road be resumed at
once, and that the same be disposed of
for tne interest of all concerned.
MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.
BONDS.
I respectfully invite the attention of
♦he G -Tieml Assembly to the question of
the liability of the Kiute upon the in-
donu-d bonds of the Alabama aud Chut-
;o Railroad Company. Theactex-
icMiitih the R!(J of the State to that com-
1 any itt oi»red that it should bo the duty
of ti e Governor, whenever tho company
hid “Hilly completed and equipped that
portion of the road lying in the State o*
Georgia, to indorse the security of the
Stall on tho second mortgage bonds of
Lhe company to the extent ot $8,061) per
mile, for that part on of the road, so
finished and equipped, lyiugiu tc. State
of Georgia.” The act further required,
that the Governor should be “satisfied
that the said road had been fully com
pleted, equipped aud put in
complete running order, and that
the same was free from all
mortgages, or legal incumbrances, ex
cept the incumbrance of tho bonds in
dorsed by t e State of Alabama, to the
extent of $16,000 per mile, upon that,
portion of the said railroad lying within
that Slate.” Aud, it was further de
clared in said act. as the ‘‘express under
standing, that any indorsement of said
bonds so made, shall not only subject all
property purchased with said bonds, or
their proceeds, to the obligation of said
first mortgage lien, until all the princi
pal and interest due theivon snail be
paid, but that the same shall be a prior
lien on all the prop* rty of the Company.
It will tie observed tnat these provis
ions are uncertain, aud even contradic-1
-w. The Governor is authorized aud !
Ved, when the com. nny shall have
complied with certain conditions, to in
dorse the second mortgrgo bonds of the |
company, to the extent of $8,000 per
mile, for the portion of the road lying
in this State. Another »nxrt ot the act
declares that auy tudors meat of the
second mortgage bonds, by the Gov. r-
nor, shall operate as a prior lieu u j on ull
the property of the Company. Anoti.er
provision of the act distinctly recognizes
the prior lien of tbe State of Alabama,
on Hi at portion ol tho road lying within
that State.
Under tho authority of a joint resolu
tion of the last General Aaeemoly, ap
proved August zG, 1872, I api-ointed Mr.
G. li. Hauleiter, a skilled printer, to
taEo in hind certain printing claims
against the State, and audit and report
upon the tame, in aocordauce with
the requirements of the said resolu
tion. He has performed the ser
vice required, and his report has
been submitted, approved aud placed on
file in the Executive office. Tne aggre
gate hmount of tne claims passed upon
oy him was forty-seven thousand, seven
huuared aud forty-five dollars and seven
oents, and the amount recommended for
payment is twenty-seven thousand, six
Hundred and eighty-nine dollars and
fiiteen cents. The resolution referred
to made it the duty of the Governor,
upon his approval of the auditor’s re
port, “to draw his warrant upon the
Treasury for the amount due, whenever
in his opinion the condition of tho finan
ces iu the Treasury would justify the
payment of tho claims.” By tuis pro-
vi ion, the Governor was required to
araw money from the Treasury which
had not been appropriated by law. The
Cons itution of 1868 declares that “No
money shall be drawn from the Treasury,
except by appropriation nude by law.’ -
VYr bout pausing to consider the wide
distinction which exists between a reso
lution aud a luw, I deem it only neces
sary to 4Ly that, in my judgment, the
resolution uuder consideration did not
legally authorize mo to draw money from
the Treasury. It antlK rtzed the audit
ing of tue cLims for the purpose of as
certainiug and settling the amounts due,
and for tnat reason it received my ap
proval.
F«*r the reason just stated, I have also
declned to draw warrants under the au
thority of a joint resolution, approved
August 29, 1872, providing for the pay
ment to certain persons therein named,
of the amounts therein stated, in the
settlement of their claims against the
mate for rewards. For simitar reasons,
I have also deemed it my duty to decline
to draw money from tho Treas
ury under the authority of
joiut resolution, approved August
29, 1872, to pay claims held by
certain persons therein named, for sup
plies furnished to the Georgia Peniteu
tiary. The respective amounts of the
cluims mention! d in these resolutions,
having beeu ascertained and fixed,
recommend that money be appropriated
by law for tbeii payment
Bv a joint resolution, approved An
gust 2G, 1872, tbe Governor was “an
tLorized and instructed to draw his war
rant upon the Treasury for the sum of
t velve hundred dollars, in favor of John
Mater, in payment for a portrait of the
Honorable Howell Cpbb.” I was induced
by the needy ciicumstancc6of Mr. Maier,
t • draw a warrant in his iavor upon the
contingent fund, for one-third of the
amount named in tho resolution, and I
rtcommend that the General Assembly
appropriate, at an early day, an amount
sufficient to pay the balance due.
In conclusion, I may be permitted to
express the hop*, that a spirit of liar
mony may prevail in your deliberation
• luring the session, and that your legisla
tion may be 60 wisely directed as to ad
vince and secure the prosperity and hap
piness of the people of the State.
James M. Smith.
IOFTHKKN NEW J.
Clipped from owr Exchangee.
AMBAMA.
— Mr. Wm. H. Johnson, a native of
Kentucky, but for a number of years a
citizen of Perry county, died near Ma
rion on tbe 28th nit.
— Bob McDaniel, a negro boy who
stole $100 from Professor Kresic in Cam
den daring Christmas week, has been
arrested and jagged.
— On Monday last, a tract of four hun
dred acres, belonging to Mr. Ellmgton,
of Botler county, was Bold for thiee
thousand and ten dollars.
—Thomas Judge Dunklin, son of Jas.
H. and Mary J. Dunklin, of Greenville,
aged twenty montns, died there on last
Tuesday morning.
—The Wiloox Vindicator, 3d instant,
reports a sin* >ting scrape between Messrs.
Barvell Haddox and B. M. Avant, two of
the best citizens of Wilcox.
—The State Journal says the Mont
gomery G*s Company seem determined
to regulate their charges according to
the unnatural erder of thiags. Coal is
short and the price must go up.
—The Marion Commonwealth of the
2d last., says: “A negro on Mis. John
Lee’s plantation, six miles West of Ma
rion, not having a due regard for the
10th commandment, was mortally shot
while entering the sleeping apartments
of another negro and his wife.”
— The ki’chen of Danl. H. Hatton
was burned in Chnckatuck. Loss, $500.
— The gold crop of Virginia last year
exceeded a million dollars.
— Deaths in Lynchburg during De
cember, 33—white, 8; black, 25.
- Daring the quarter ending Decem
ber 31 there wero inspected in Lynch
burg 2,778.669 pounds of tobacco—an
increase of 510,494 pounds for the 6ame
period of 1871.
— The measels are prevailing arouna
Chuckatnck; also the matrimonial fever.
- A colored woman near Earlysville,
Albermarle, produced three boys at one
birth last week.
— The depot of the Richmond and
Danviiie R&tlroai at Meherrin, was
burned on the 31st > It.
— The Lutheran Fair at Staunton
S 'elded $350. Tbe fair of the colored
iptista yielded $500.
-Mr. T. H. Wilmoro died in Lexing
ton on the 30ih ult., of dropsey of the
heart, aged 72. *>
- -On Christmas day, near Mt. Sidney,
there was found, frozen to death, Abram
Dake, a colored man nearly 70 years old.
Ferdinand Vena, a oolored weil-digger,
was frozen to death on Monday night,
near Spring Hill.—Vindicator.
Nittouri Stnatorship.
We notice that the Democrats of Mis
souri, who have heretofore coalesced
with a portion of the Republicans de
nominated the Liberal Wing of that
party, are inclined not to keep up the
coalition any further, but to fall back
upon their own principles, men and
measures, as iu former days.
CHAT WITH STATE PAPERS.
Mbs. Mary Franklin, of Glynn, is
dead.
Mb. Sisson Park, of Athens, accident
ally shot himself.
The Early county negroes have let a
child burn to deatn.
E. W. Carr, a young Athenian, was
drowned several days since.
General DuBose is announced for Con
gress in the 8th District.
Judge Wm. B. Gauldino; a prominent
lawyer und respected citizen of Liberty
o*unity, is dead.
John Register, a citizen of Colquitt
'Niunty, is in jail iu Savannah on “ H. P.
F's” old charge—Kukluxism.
John M. Brown, of the Camilla Ent r-
prise, has taken to himself a wife. Sen
sible old buck.
The Nortn-Georgia Herald is the name
of a new paper to be started at CUrkville,
about tne first of February, by David F.
Mills Si Co.
The Gin House of Mr. George W. F.
Ivey, of Jefferson connty, was accidently
burned last week, together with his en
tire crop of cotton.
The “Immortal J. N.” has booked
Savannah in bis route. He is looking
for a red beet, and expects to find it in
the News office.
A Savannah gentleman lost his watch.
The irrepressible negro was accused of
having it. The “man and brother” de
nied it. A search found the watch in the
darkey’s pocket. Chatham jail now has
another lodger.
The Macon Enterprise goes over the
“old story” of a “country lass,” “in the
hey-day of youth,” “captivated by an
exquisite moustache,” “result in nine
months—an olive branch,” “no father,”
mother and child as well as could be
expected.” Our friend Clarke ought to
be ashamed.
The North-East Georgian says: “ Mr.
Hart and Miss Mary Garrison, being un
able to obtain tbe consent of the “old
folks,” quietly eloped on Monday even
ing, taking tbe train. Mr. Hart was em
ployed in tho candy manufactory of
Messrs. Gailey <fc Barry.” We have a
young man of tne same name in our
office, but he is unable to find a Mary
Garrison.
From th* Augusta Chronicle.
IN MKMORIAM.
GENERAL A. B. WRIGHT.
OBUT 1672.
Boom for the great heart (tilled too soon
O earth I upon tby sacred breast I —
Yet. a bat hath bk te do with rent.
Whose coarse bat touched its radiant noon?
With Aaf/his glorious journey done.
Death’s signal trumi et pierced hU ear:
He bowed hia bead, “O Death ! I tear;”
And passed beyond our mortal sun.
m.
Bnt mark how bright with vital dame
The ways on earth his spirit trod;
What though that spirit rests in God;
To us he leaves hia stainless lame:
rr.
Fame pinched from lieu of carnage dread,
nr, nurtured, when the strif- did cease,
In ciTic halls, and fields of peace,
Whose verdsnt hum Is crowned his head.
▼.
With doable lustre; wtde end far
Proclaiming, lo ! a chief of men:
Who nobly xcrought vilh sword and pen,
llis guide, Truth s cloudless 1'olar Slar!
n.
The rioord disused, had sought its sheath;
Now drop* the pen from nerveless hands.
And all around tbe sorrowing lands
Arc cries of woe and types of death I
vn.
O, warrior! once thy-rlf a host—
Thou still dost live, tho* laid in dust:
O. thinker S thou hast left us trust
In Right and Heaven, the’ all seem lost!
vm.
Then, while tby passionate requiem swells,
A hopeful minor swells ths strain.
Whose sweetness makes less wi d the pain
And yearning of our last farewel's l
Pact. H. Hatsk.
NORTH CAROLINA.
—North Carolina’s gold yield last year
was $9,855,254.
—The Treasurer of yesterday paid to
Wm. Wilson, of Robeison countv, the
man who killed Andrew Strong, $5,000,
the reward offered by th* State. . ^
—The Tarboro’ Southerner says: On
Saturday last the Howard He tel, in this
place, was put up at public auc ion aud,
after some competition, was knocked off
to Dr. J. H. Baker, for the turn of ten
thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
—Only cine buildings are low stand
ing in Charlotte which were erected pre
vious to 1825, and only eight families are
now living in the eame house in which
they dwelt in 1840. Oat of the popula
tion which inhabited that town in thut
year, but 36 are now residing there
KENTUCKY.
—A woman in Mercer connty is the
happy mother of triplets
—A Danville negro had to pay $60 for
the fan of keeping a tippling house with
out license,
— Boyle con r ty is sending a large
nnmber of mules to North Carolina to
vote the Radical ticket.
— Logaa creek, in Lincoln county, has
aLeady furnished the people with 1,000
loads of No. 1 ice.
— A Harrodsburg negro drank too
much eggnog last Wednesday and hand
ed iu his checks to death’s deputy, the
cold weather.
—Ssllie Collier, little daughter of Mr.
Robert Collier, Jr., of Garrard county,
accidentally caught fire, on Sunday, 22d
ult., and was burned to death before a’d
oooid bo had.
—Mr. James B. Leavel, of Garrard,
who is very well acquainted with the Geor
gia and Alabama market, thinks that the
mule and horse trade will be dall till 1st
of Febinary, after which time there will
be some trade if not broken down by
crowding the market too much.
— The first Constitution of the State
of Kentucky was adopted in convention
in D&nviUe on the 19th day of ApriJ,
1792, Samuel McDowell, President. The
second constitution was adopted in con
vention at Frankfort August 12, 1799,
Alexander S. Bullitt, President. The
third constitution was adopted in con
vention at Frankfort on the 11th day of
June, 1S50, James Guthrie, President.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
— Col. James Overton Lewis, ofPerry-
viile, died suddenly of apoplexy on the
31st ultimo.
— The board of directors of the Na
tional Bank of Chester, South Carolina,
have declared a dividend of six per cent.
Ufi.VEUAL NEWS.
—Calcutta now nas street railroads.
—Oil wells producing 200 barrels daily,
are reported from Peru.
—Death is still the penalty for arson
in Virginia aud Mart laud.
Chicago, Jan. 9.—A heavy storm of
snow, ace» rupauied by a gale of wind, has
prevailed here since 3 o’clock this after
noon. Tho mercury is two degrees above
zero, but the cold is terrible, owing to
piercing, wiud. Tho storm is accompa
nied by extraordinary electrical phenom
ena, which interferes somewhat with the
woridu^ of telegraph wires.
Cp.’cml Notice.
“Cheer t'ji, anil Stand By!”
This advice. given by bluff Captain Cuttle to th*
fonoru Mr. Toots, is co-dially tendered to all wtM
re lab.irin; un ter. that cloud of depression and mat-
ncholy which usually accompanies chronic Indi
gestion, biliousness, habitual constipation and nes*
vous debility. “Cheer up!" woe begone invalids.
The cause* of your gloomy leeliegs, though they
may be chronic aud of long standing, are not Its*
curable. A course of Hostetter a Stomach Bitter^
the purest and most genial of all vegetable stimu
lants and correctives, and especially adapted to easel
»ke yours, will relieve you of your bodily ailment*
ind consequent mental misery, speedily, certainly
nd with »ut pain. The chills and damps of tho
resent season, in fact all its atmospheric condi
tions, are uniavcrable to dyspeptic, bilious and ner-
ous sufferers. They ueod a stimulant, its well aa a
tonic and alterat ve. This wholesome vege’afcl*
1 reparation continues the three. While it increases
•he digestive capacity of the stomach, and changes
and regulates the conditions of tne liver and the
owels, it gives an sere**!):" imiml** to the mental
acuities and steadies the nerves, i i,inchested
-t mutants aro never advisable; they are too exciting,
nd often re-act disastrously. On tbe other hau.C
be sham tonics which contain no diffusive stiinn-
ant, and are surcharged with drastic evacuants that"
Imost turn a man inside out, are dangerous. The
system needs more vitality, aud they prostrate it
entirely. Host9tter's Stomach Bitters has no afilni.
ty either with the dangerous exutant or the still
more dangerous depleumt. It simply strengthens
and regulates the body and clears the mind. This
is the whole secret of i - mre«.
^ _ 3
STRONG TESTIMONY.^
Steubenville, O., Sept. 4, 1S71.
Dr. Wm. H. Ti-U:
Dear Sir: I feel it a duty to yon and
to suffenug humanity to make public the
great merits of your Exrraet. S*r*s»'*rii!a
aud Queen’s Delight. For ywtns I have
been a great sufferer, my general health
broae down, and I was affected with ner
vousness of the most terrible character,
which was soon followed by an eruptiou
ail over the Dody, forming ulcers in some
places, and attended with rheumatic
pains. Tongue cannot describe my suf-
tsaaag. I wus reduced almost to a skele
ton, aud had a perfect loathing of food.
I was attended by several physicians,
who rendered me no relief. I despaired
of ever being well again, bnt thanks to
a kind Providence, I accidently heard of
your medicine. I sent for half a dozen
bottles, and before I had taken three I
began to feel better, my appetite im
proved, and the rheumatic pains became
less severe, and I could enjoy sleep. I
have continued its use, and have taken
eleven b ittlts, and beiieve I am a sound
man again. The ulcers have all healed,
my skin is smooth and healthy, and I
have gained 22 pounds in weight. I be
lieve my sickness resulted from a taint of
scrofula. I would earnestly recommend
your oompound to my fellow sufferers.
With deep gratitude to you,
I am ever your friand,
Jas. Franklin.
Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills are a mild and
gentle purgative, possessing the peculiar
merit of acting as a powerful agent in
relieving congestive or torpid liver.—
They liave no equal.
Dr. Tutt’s Hair Dye promotes the
growth of the hair.
You cannot afford to pnrehase a sew
ing machine without first giving tbe
“Domestic” a careful examination. Of
fice No. 4 DeGive’s Opera House.
The patient soon feels as it he had taken
a new lease of life, and is overjoyed to
find the dej ressed feeling dissipated, the
costive habits corrected, and new streams
To Itic .Mtinbtri of tne Legislature.
The members of the Legislature are
respectfully and cordi Uy invited to call
at The Sun t fiice, where they will find
our exchanges at their service. We
shall be glad to greet and welcome them
ut our business eflico, or in our editorial
sanctum, whenever they are pleased to
give ns a call.
—Capt. Sutter, who discovered geld
in California, is now in W ashington.
The connty Treasurer of Beaufort is of health coursing through his veins, by
anthorized to receive jury and witness _ using Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
tickets for taxes.
— DnriDg the absence of the trial jus
tice from Bluflton crime is said to have
become rampant.
— The board of jury commissioners
will meet at the Conrtnotise at Beaufort
•n the 13th to prepare the jnry list for
1873.
— On the morning of December 2ist
the body of Alfred Hampton was found
on Farnum’8 place, near Orangeburg
county. The verdict of the Cot oner’s
inquest was “Death from heart disease,
aggravated by bad whisky and exposure
to tcclement weather.”
— On Monday last, Mr. A. Race and
Mr. W. R. Roeooe, accomplished the
hazardous feat of crossing the Pedee on
foo:, the river being frozen. Tney left
the Chesterfield bank, at Cheruw, ana,
after much difficulty, succeeded in reach
ing tbe Marlboro' bank. The feat has
been accomplished bnt once before—
sixteen years ago.
k IONUMEMT
As b:g as tho ,~rand Pyramid might be
onilt of the v ftth that have been rained
by neglect, jhall this thing go in face
of the great fact that Sozodoxt is a cer
tain preservative of dental decay?
Without the blessing of nealth life is
often a burden. Yet many ladies sacri
fice their health bv maclnuts that are
hard to rnn. The “Domestic” runs so
easy that an invalid can enjoy wording
it. Office No. 4 DeGive’s Opera House.
The Western Lanai.
The following article is from the Bos
ton Globe, of January 4th, mat,:
Transportation from the West to
Seaboard—The Railroad Monopolies.
The problem of less expensive transpor
tation has become more significant thai
ever, and it is now evident, judging from
punlic opinion at the West, that the
great region beyond the Alleghanies,
wi h its 18,000.000 of population, must
have new and increased outlets to the
seaboard. The problem of cheap trans
portation, in a commercial point of view,
is paramount to all other national snb
jects, and seems the most difficult of so
lution. It has engaged tae attention of
thinking men for years. It concerns all
departments of commerce, the producer
asd the consumer, and, in fact, all tne
elements which constitute or contribute
to the material wealth of the country. It
is the key which unlocks the portals of
untold wealth. All avenues of traffio,
natural or artificial, direotly affecting the
commerce of groups of States affording
cheap and reliable transit free to all, for
the products of the country, may be con
sidered national in their character; heice
the force of the recommendations in tbe
President’s message suggesting the atten
tion of Congress to certain schemes for
bringing the Eastern market nearer to
| he Great West by increased facilities for
transportation.
The fact is now clearly demonstrated
that the railroads oannot and do not fnr-
nish adequate or sufficient cheap trans
portation for the vast products of the
inland farms and forests, while, on the
other hand, it has been shown that the
lines of water communication offer a par
tial eolation of the question by furnish-
iug a cheap, yet at present insuflicieu',
means of transportation for cereals from
the producer to the consumer. A Chi
cago paper says that farmers, merchants
and manufacturers have reached the
verge of human endurance in that “the
West is stiffed for the waut ot means to
transport its products.” The great food-
producing States, which, for years since,
were almost unknown, but which are
now tne field of vast activities and enter
prise, are but the gateways to an almost
boundless extent of fertile countay.
From the Territories of Montana, Colo
rado aud Washington we also have had
remsrkabl” evid#*ncfs of the .xtraordi-
nary iertility of those yec undeveloped
regions, to say nothing of its incalculable
mineral wealth hidden in tho everlasting
hills which pour their waters into tht
Atlantic and Pacific, in view of these
important acts it is potent that some
thing mast be done, sooner or later, to
increase and cheapen internal transpor
tation.
A statement of the cereal production
of the United States for the year 1871
shows that the total cereal crop of that
year was 1,528,776,000 burhels. In 1850
the cereal product of the country was
844,024,316 bushels; in I860 it was 1,-
239,029,945 bushels, and we may safely
estimate the product for 1880 at 2,000,-
000,000 bushels. The United Kingdom
imported in 1871 from all countries 150,-
000,000 bushels of cereals, of which the
United States furnished 47,185,686 bush
els; Russia, 43,500,000, and other conn-
tries the balance. The total exports of
Russia in 1870 were 132,917,000 bushels,
while the total exports form tne United
States were about 40,000,000. It will be
seen thus that in Russia the United
States has a formidable competitor; bnt
Russia is active is projecting works oi
internal improvement for the purpose of
cheapening the transportation of its
cereals to the seaboard, and is determined
to hold, if possible, her supremacy in
the markets of the world for the sale of
her agricultural products. The United
States can learn a lessen from Russia,
which country is not dissimilar to oar
own in its topography and agricultural
resources.
It is obvious that the means for mov
ing the crops fiom the great producing
regions of the country to the seaboard
have not kept pace with the demand, nor
has cheap transportation been seriously
considered, because for the want of har
monious scion on the subject, not with
standing the increase of nval hues ol
railroads. If we cannot transport oar
produce at greatly reduced cost, it is evi
dent that we shall be supplanted by
other nations whose markets control the
prices and values of our products. The
monopolizing tendency of the railroads
is the great bane of this important fea
ture of our commercial prosperity, and,
to our mind, the only true way to keep
in check that rapidly overshadow, ng aud
despotic power is to inaugurate a lively
conipetiou in the form ot increased chan
nels of water communication, natural and
artificial, even at the expense of the
whole people, through Congressional ac
tion.—DoS' rn ‘ G nh‘-.
THE i x ^OBPHORAT
ed Elixir of C&lisaya oart made by Caswel,
Hazard & Co., New York, is a delicious
cordial, made of the Pyrophosphate of
Iron and Caiistya Bark; it is the most
valuable tome now in use for dyspepsia,
uervous affections, w.keiuluess, debility^
depression of spirits, Ac., Ac. The pale,
tne nervous, and tne debilitated should
not fail to take it; particularly female*
suffering from those complaints incident
to the sex. Physiciaus now give it the
preference to all similar preparations. If
taken during exposure to malaria it
strengthens the system to resist this poi
son, and prevents chill and fever, biliou*
lever, and other intermittent attacks.
For sale by all druggists.
ml8 sunAthurs dAwly
Hit?** Chapped Hands, Face , Rough
akiu,Pimple8, Ringworm, SaltRheum and
other Cutaneous affections cured, and the
skin made soft and smooth, by using tha
Juniper Tar tioap, made by Caswell.
Hazard A Co., New York. For sale by
all Druggists.satAw^d dAwly
Chun^e Ol schedule.
Atlanta & New Orleans
SHORT LI1TE—ALL'RAIL 1
Only One Chang© of Cars
Between Atlanta and New Orleans.
O N AND AFTER NOVTt :14th, 1872, DOUBLE
Daily Passenger Trains will run on this line M
ARRIVE
Montgomery.. 515pm
'• ~ 6 oo s m
Mobile ....... 7 30 a m
“ 6 55pm
New Orleans.. 126pm
" ..U5opm
follows:
LEAVE
ATLAN lA 6 50 a m |
8 00 p m
Montgomery.... 8 00 p in |
" 8 00 s m |
Mobile 8 HO & i
11 ...... .... 6 45 p m |
Passe utter* Leaving Atlanta at 8 OO i>,n*
Will make close Connections lorVicksbarg, Mon
roe and all intermediate points. y
Pullman's i alaoe Sleeping O-irn rnn tbrougb to Mo
bile aud New Orleans Moutgsineray, Seiiaa,
York, lleridm t, Jackson and Vicksburg
without change.
Passengers will remember that this route, VIA
WEST POINT, is the
Shortest, Quickest, Most Reliable)
and only Double Daily Line from Atlanta to the fol
lowing points:
OOIjUMBUS, Oa.)
MONTGOM HH.Y.
Motollo, Selma, Blx
minsliam, Tusoa*
loocsa dto sufaula.
AIjARAMA,
M3DHIDIA
«Taolxson, Violxstourg,
ansEsissipr*!.
Siirovoport <As Monroe
XjOUISIA.3NT^..
JmFFBILS ON,
Gulvewton «St ull Point* in
TSJE.A.S.
Caution!
Every penuiw- box of Dr. McLane’s
Liver Pills l a »rs the* signature of Flem
ing Brother httsburg. Pa., anu their
private U. S . unp. fc^Take no other.
The market .oil of imitutioLS.
It xt tne p ^poiar verdict that people
who nave oeec accus-tomed o the use of
bitters or cordials, are obi ged, eventu
ally, to resort u McLean’s Liver Pills
for permaneu. relic
London, January 9.—Louts Napoleon
died this morning.
Napoleon slept soundly la-.t night, and
was better than the preceeding nights.
This morning his pbysicisus had a con
sultation, aud decided to perform an
other operation at noon to-day. At the
time of the consnltation his pulse was
strong and regular, 84 beats to the inm
ate. At 25 minaies past 10 signs of
singing appeared. The action of the
heart suddenly failed, and he died at 45
minutes past i0 o’clock.
ALSOi
JNortKorn and Central
A.lak>ama and.
A. n K A. NT S AS.
By Uu* une you *ov« time and lilatauiu, oe.ng 48
miles shorter to Selma an points west
of Selma, and ONE HUNDRED AND ONE
MILES ?Moj*TER TO MONTGOMERY, MO
BILE. NKV ORLEANS, and all point* In Ttxaa.
Nortneru and Central Mississipp' ' -J Arkansas than
via Blue laountaiu, or fcjelr-i 0 uxis and Dalton
routes.
200 MILES SHORTEN to New Orleans ana
ualveston than by Chattanooga, Corinth and Oran*
Junction, or Memphis and Charleston Rstlrms
routes.
305 MILES SHORTER to Shreveport, Jeff***
son, and all points on Red River, than by f hitt*
noogasml Memphis.
Avoiding 614 MILES STEAM BO ATIN G on th*
Mississippi River, and an indefinite delay on wharf
boat at the mouth of Red River.
EIVUG-RAUTS
Are particularly requested to notice ths many ad
vantages of this line over all others. No discrimin
ation made in cars or time on account of being emi
grants.
When emigrating in large parties, special cars wiE
be furnished for baggage, and carried through with
out cnange to New Orleans.
The recent completion of the magnificent bridge*
over T- nsae anil Mobile Rivera form an unbroken
all rail -ounection between Atlanta and New Orleans
and Yickabnig.
No kx-ating or omnibus fare charged on the Bn*, f
Pai-sen^ers are cautioned against representation*
to the contrary.
Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Thu r ute in not ths shortest- but most eomfort-
sole and oest waiter route to Memphis. Ti-nn., Lit
tle K Ck. Ark., arena la. Okalona aud Corinth. Mis*.
Thr- ugn IK sets on sale at the General Ticket Of-
nce i u mon i'ssseuger Depot to ail points abOT*
name-..
Fare always as low as by any other route.
k: e becked through to all terminal point*.
Be »ure anil ask lor tickets via W est Point and
MontfaC^-cry.
L. P. GRANT. Superintendent
Atlanta A West.Point Railroad,
O. J. FOREACKE,
Snp’t Western it. it. of Ala.,
O. JORDAN,
Gen. StipE Mobile A Montgomery R. g,
W. J. HOUSTON,
Gen. Pas*, anu r rt. Agt.,
Georgia Railroad Depot, np stair*.
oelo-
Milled^eviil© .Hotel,
CALLAWAY It TRICK,
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