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From The Daily Bnn of January 23,1873
CENERAl. AND PERSONAL.
—Cii'cicijfcti uets her wood iawed bj
•onvlct lafenr.
— Harsh MfiDi’niM, aged 125 years,
di»d In bcott ooanty. Term., tart week-
— An internationnl silver coinage for
Enroy* »u* A merle* 1» propo***.
— Louisiana is importing new sugar
Mae cnttaipa from tlis East Indie*.
Tnere is Mid to be notae anxiety in
Sew Tork abont Governor D:x*» be»lth.
During the p««tyear 411,553 freight
ctr, over the Hada-.u liner Railroad bridge.
A T. Htewnrt’s n< w residence cost 8
million »r)«l • htlf.
—Dr-bs than two-thirds of a mile re
main* to be cut of (.he Ilooeac tunnel.
—Prince Arthur, of England, vriil go
to ltotue for the carn.val teaeou.
—Texas witutn to fill up, ond lias bent
an age-t to England for emigrant*.
—In a stretch of 815 miles on the
Taxaa lvclflc railroad there will oe but alx bridge'
— Th© Kredive of Egypt has the re-
puiaUou of being the mo-t boapitabla rultr in the
Hast.
—Donaldson, the a:ron«nt, propose* to
make a balloon vojago acrovt the Atlantic in the
auinmer.
—8t. Louis liOHsts a filial you'll who
atoln the tilblea from three uhurthea and bought a
naw botnet for nla moth-r.
— Prince Bismarck has been pre
•anted with five French miiLoo, raptured during
the war, arid which are to I e placed a* ornament*
Id front of his country residence.
—A precocious Chicago hoy of fourteen,
named lieJaney. baa confexeed himself the murderer
of Mr. l*ireu who was found dead in the streets ol
that virtuoua city on Monday of last week.
— On the 1st of January, 1873, the ng-
grevate lengtu of the Kiiseiau radusjR amounted to
U,3iK) miles, the length of ibe liin-s whh h a.-o In pro
cess ol construction lising i.fCouiih a over and above
thla total.
— A rural gentleman landing over n
rsglatur iu one of our a orts attracted general atten
tion to nlmaalf hy observing to his wife. ‘-Marlar, I
guess I’m going to have a fever, I feel anch hot
streaks ninutu'*ip joy lt-ga.”—Day,burg Newt.
— A Keuluckv mmi who liud un arm
shot off during ibe late w ar hoa since then had hia
leg broken by » fall from a lior-fl, bis rHinainlng
hand gchawed up” by a threshing machine, one of
his eyes pul out ny running ags ust a fence ruii, and
half ina ribs taved in bv the kick of a mule.
T1IK EL ECTION OF l M TED ST A TES SE.\A TOR.
Iu another column will he found the
result of the election yesterday for
United States Senator. It will l>o f>eeu
that General John B. Gordon was elect
ed on the fifth ballot by a majority of
nineteen. It will also be seen that Geu
erul Gordon and Mr. Stephens were the
leading candidates throughout the con
teat. Intense interest created consider a
ble t-xcitcineni during the progress of
the two last ballots; and even in the list
ballot, while members were changing
their votes, it seemed diffienlt to tail
wuo would be the successful candidate
General Gordon or Mr. Stephens
bat, just at the heel of the con
test, when the scales seemed utmost
equally balanced, a number of the
Republicans, and a few others came to
the rescue of Gene.-al Gordon and se
eared his election by changing thei
votep in his favor.
In the election of Gen. Gordon, the
people of Georgia will be represented in
the United States Senate by a chivalrous
gentleman, against whoso reputation
privately or puulicly, naught can be said
It was a cor teat between military dk
tinction and civil qualification; there was
no principle involvod as Gen. Gordon, in
the late contest, stood with Mr. Stephens
upon the Georgia platform, and refused
to sanction the Cincinnati platform
though he supported Mr. Greeley.
If Gen. Gordon shall illustrate Georgia
as brilliantly in the Senate Chamber as
he did npon the field, none will tase more
pride in his career than The Sun; and
none will more readily sustain him, we
doubt not, than Mr. Stephens who was
his chief competitor in the contest ol
yestorday.
TUE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Southern Watchman thus refers to
the appearance of Mr. Stephens in the
Press Convention: “Among the new
members—of whom there waa a large
number—we are pleased to see the Hon.
A. H. Stephens, who delivered a short
and stirring address, on being invited to
participate in our counsels. It will be
secu that any gentleman of good moral
character—“regardless of former condi
tion”—even though he may have been a
memoer of Congress, United States
Senator or even Vice President—is,
without difficulty, tdwitted to tne ranks.”
nil A T " CREDIT MOBILIER" MEANS.
(Freni the Chicago Times.]
A correspondent asks the meaning of
the words “Credit Mobiler.” (Several
Gangre**taeu have asked th© same ques
tion.) Wo presume he wirius to be in
formed concerning the original derivation
and nse of the term. We will endeavor
to explain it. The “Credit Foncier” has
long been the general title in France for
associations that advance money on land
ed or ini movable securities. The “Credit
Mobilier” wha the name given to a power-
fn' corporation, organized in France in
1852, for advancing money on mova
ble property. The name was adopted
evidently with the purpose of affording
ready definition of the subject of the
association. The “Societe Gene rale de
Credit Mobilier” became a great and
profitable enterprise. It had special
privileges under its charter. It assisted
materially in the construction of rail
ways and the promotion of mining
schemes, Among other enterprises in
which it was notably interested were the
Government loan on account of the Rns-
siiui war, the Grand Central Railway
Company, and the General Omnibns
Company of Paris. At one time, it ad
vanced 250,008,000 ftaacs, and at another
time 375,000,000 francs, to the French
Government. Its business was so great
in 1855 that it declared a dividend of 40
per cent, on its capital. While it was
manifestly the means of doing mnch good
in France, it eventually failed.
The introduction of the terms “Credit
Foncier” and “Credit Mobilier" into
America are due to Mr. George Francis
Train. He established a “Credit Fon
der” with Omaha lands, which he hawl ed
about the country some years ago. He
gave the mime of “ Credit Mobilier of
America” to a corporation with universal
privileges, which was organized in Penn
sylvania. It was appropriated by Messrs.
Oakes, Ames, Durant A Co., to serve as
the party of the thiid part in the fa
mous “triplicate agreement," by which
the managi rs of the Union Pacifiic
Railroad let ont the contract of building
the road tc themselvee, in payment for
which tin y modestly took the road itself,
li the United Slates bonds, all the
United States lands, etc., at a profit of
over 1,000 per cent., on an entirely ficti
tious capital. This is what “Credit Mo
bilier” means in the modern American
and Congressional use of the word. The
title is not inai propriate. The transac
tion was literally a Credit on Movables—
the United Slates Government furnish
ing the credit and the money, and
Messrs. Oakes, Ames k Co. taking the
mov&kii*s—that iB, the securities and the
profits.
CHAT WITH ITAVI PAPER!.
Athens wants a steam fin engine.
Katie Putnam will appear in Colum
bus on next Monday night
The Commercial seriously advocatee
Aw Aakrleaa Lady two Ttsri a Capttvo
la Egypt—How She was Carried of,
aad How Rrlsssed—The Imterventlom
•r Sakra Pacha.
Far the past few weeks the city of Mar
tha establishment of a cotton factory in * ranc *’ ^ een intensely exci-
_ * tea, in consequence of a very singular
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
A case of consideraole importance has
just been decided in the United Btatee
Circuit Court in Equity—that of William
C. Be&D. assignee in bankruptcy, against
Louis E. Amsinck and others The
action was a bill in equity brought by
William C. Bean, assignee in bankrupt
cy of Charles S. Kintziug, of St. Louis,
Mo., to recover the sum of $16,275 83
from the defendants. It is alleged that
Kintziug & Co. became insolvent on the
fourteenth day of February, 1869, and
that a compromise was made, dated the
fifteenth day of February, 1869, by which
the creditors were to accept 70 per cent,
iu three equal payments at 6ix, twelve^
and eighteen months, with interest, for
which the notes of the insolvent firm
were to be given. The insolvent
firm owed the defendants at the
of
THE CREDIT MUHILIER SCANDAL.
Gen. Farnsworth put the spurs into
Gen. Butler in the House, on the 10th
inst., by offering und having passed a
resolution instructing the Credit Mobilier
Committee to iuquire whether any mem
ber of Congress has received any money
from the Credit Mobilier corporation ns
retained counsel, and if so, who. Mr.
Farnsworth did not hood the object he
had in view by offering tlio resolution,
which is to direct attention to the fact
that General Butler received six thou
sand dollars as counsel for the Credit
Mobi'ier, uud to have it go upon the
records of tho House as a part of tlio
history of the member from Essex.
Tho virtuous Forney, in writing npen
this subject, says ihat gentlemen in Con
gress who have been investing in the
Credit Mobilier canuot “brave it oui”cn
the assumption that they had a right to
bny into it. “We desire
tho full benefit of honest motives,
Forney, “but it is proper to say that any
attempt to lay down the law that a Sena
tor or Representative can become inter
ested in schemes before Congresss or as
an attorney can go before the depart
ments and courts and tako fees to sup
port or oppose measures on which be has
voted, or may vote, will be indignantly
repudiated by the people.”
NR. STEPHENS * UR CO.\CRESS.
At a conference held last evening at
No. 49 Kimball House, in wlrch there
were Representatives from every county
in the Eighth Congressional District,
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was unani
mously nominated for Representative to
Congress from thi t District.
hince the press has been made
the subject of special prayer, it is hoped
the ilergy will remember, in an especial
manner, those editors who bteal the most
of their editorials.
fcX* At a certain stage of tbeba’loling
yesterday for United States Senator, Mr.
Stephens whs within one vote of :::i elec
tion. So close was the contest at one
time.
date of tho compromise the sum
$32,561 65, and the defendants signed.
to compromise agreement in common [ ar ® tuking it the second time.
Rome.
J. R. Hates, of the Bainbridge Sun,
a Republican paper, «m a fall-blown
Democrat the last time we saw him.
From every direction, the information
oomee that Saturday was the coldest day
we have bad this winter.
Mr. J. J. Higdon, of Decatur county,
had his gin boose, containing six bales
of cotton, burned en last Saturday night.
Messrs. Brigham, Hoist & Co v on
Monday, cleared the Spanish bng Car-
lota, Captain de Sareia, for Liverpool
with 654 bales upland ootton, weighing
298,157 ponndo, valued at $56,000.
At a sale In Chattahoochee county
last Saturday, corn told at $1 per bushel,
folder $1.30 per handled, dry cattle
$10 to $12 per head, eatton seed 21 cents
per bnshel; also, agricultural imple
ments, etc., brought good prices.
Notwithstanding the oold and threat
ening aspect of the weather Monday,
delegations from the several independ
ent and department fire companies of
Augnsta united in a drees panda in hon
or of the birthday af Robert E. Lee,
Mr. R. A. Norris, reoently elected Chief
of the Macon Fire Department, was for
merly Foreman of Young America No. 3,
of Colnmbns. He is well known and
liked by our firemen, who are much
pleased to hear of his promotion.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Oolnmbns Manufacturing
Company, onthe 20th inst., the follow
ing gentlemen were elected officers for
the ensuing year: President—Gen. R.
H. Chilton. Directors.—J. R. Clapp, J.
Rhodes Browne, T. M. N. Phillips and
Jas. Todd, of Lonisvihe, Ky.
Mr. Charles Baker, an old merchant
and bnsiness mai, died in Angnsta on
Sunday last. The Chronicle and Sentinel
says that in all the elements which go to
make np the character of the good citizen,
the deceased ranked high in the appre
ciation of his fellow-citizens, and his loss
will be sincerely monrned by a large
number of friends.
Monday was a memorable day in Sa
vannah, says the News, and will ever be
referred to with pride and pleasure,
Early in the morning there was an unu
sual activity observable upon tho streeta
and handsomely uniformed members of
the different oompaniea were
seen hurrying in the direction of their
respective armories. The anticipation
of a grand demonstration in honor of
the natal day of the South’s beloved
chieftain—the immortal, peerless Lee—
had drawn from their homes at an early
hour thousands of people, and by nine
o’clock South Bread street from Drayton
to 'Whitaker street presented a moving
mass of heads. The balconies, stoops
and windows were thronged with gaily
dressed ladies, whose bright faces were
wreathed with smiles of welcome for the
momentarily expected gallant soldiers.
Shortly after nine o’clock the sound of
music floated npon the morning breeze,
and there was an immediate stir amoDg
the assembled throng. The News givee
a most glowing description of the events
of the day. Gen. Wade Hampton was
tLe orator.
The Good Templars are prospering in
Rome.
The epizooty is breaking out in a new
form in Lawrenceville, and the horses
consequence ol a very
affair, the heroine of which is a la<Ty of
American birth and excellent connec
tions In this country. About six yean
ago, Henry F. Bigelow, a commission
merchant of number 2LU Canal street,
New Orleans, failed in that eiiy, in ooo-
•eqnence of losses sustained, during the
civil war, and went to Marseilles, where
he aeon succeeded in obtaining a good
position in a prominent mercantile house.
Mr. Bigelow was a widower, and waa
Meompaiiied by his only daughter, Ber
tha, then about eighteen years old, and
•adowed with remarkable personal
storms. Her father moved in the best
society of his new home, and the beauty
and grace of his daughter were not loog
rEE«Ri«samg»JEflwriay. | tion diplomist, and conversant with the
French language. She oonfldad herself
to nim, and be immediately promised
to reatore her to her husband. A few
days afterward ahe was on board the
Alexandrian steamship Calathce, bound
for Marseille*.
The Marseille* papers, in commenting
on this extraordinery case, demand that
President Thiers should insist upon tne
extradition of Kervel on the pert of t\u
Egyptian authorities. Kervel is satd to
be qnite a favorite of the kbedive’a, nn t
a man of the moat desperate character
with tne most of the other creditors of
Kintzing k Co., but with the secret un
derstanding that Kintzing & Co. were to
discount their compromise notes fer an
umonnt equal to 50 per cent, in cosh of
the indebtedness of Kintzing k Co. to
defendants, npon defendants signing the
compromise agreement, and which was
done. Judge Biachford decided that in
all compromises of this nature between
creditors there must be open and fair
dealing, and that no such secret under
standing as was had in this case will be
upheld either iu law or equity; that the
assignee iu bauKrnptcy, as representing
all the creaitots, can maintain a suit to
recover money so paid, under section 14
of the Bankruptcy act, and that the com-
plainant must have judgment for the full
•.mount for which the action is Drought,
with the inten-bt anu costs.—A'. I”. World.
TUP CONTESTED SEATS IN CONGRESS.
The Washington Republican of the
18th in-tant, says:
The Rome Bulletin says, but very little
wheat has been sown in Floyd county,
the farmers having determined to plant
cotton.
• The Citizen says what Dalton wants is
a market house, and calls npon the new
city fathers to put some plan on foot to
secure it.
A fond near Dalton Las been frozen
over six or eight inches deep for several
days, and the little boys about that town
have had a gay time skating.
The editor of the Dalton Citizen laments
that the “epizooty” hasn’t killed the old
Jack that occasionally plays on his wind
instrument under his office window.
Mr. Bates, of Gordon county, Lad the
misfortune to lose his gin-house together
with eight bales of cotton, a few days ago.
The gin was running at tbs time and the
tire was caused by friction. Loss about
tied to he sent. Walls is the colored
member who has held fhe seat, and Nib-
lack, the contestant, to whom the 6eat
was awarded yesterday, is a Democrat,
The case of C. C. Bowen against De-
Lirge irom the Second South Carolina
(Charleston) District, was further post
poned until a special meeting next week,
at which this greatly delayed case will
be finally disposed of. The members of
the committee are exceedingly reticent
regarding the result of their delibera
tions, but n general impression prevails
that the seat will be given to Mr. Bowen,
after which, if he qualifies as a Repre
sentative. the office of Sheriff of Charles
ton county, to which be was elected last
October, will be vacated.
A Pennsylvania man who walked
bare-footed two miles through the snow,
on a wager of seven dollars, won the
money. He has since paid forty dailars
for the amputation of one of his feet,
which was frozen beyond recovery.’
Even a Grand Duke has to suffer
the pangs cf despised l-'ve. It is reported
that tii D i-eoi Mecklenburg-Schwtrin
i as absolutely refused to allow his
d : /Lt r to ili.rry the Russian Grand
I)uuo \ iauimir. - . m
Rome Courier says that a negro
ol the S. R. k D. R. R., had
his month split open by the telegraph
wire, as the train passed under it a few
days ago. The wound was an ugly, but
not a dangerous one. It is a caution to
darkies not to try to talk against the
the telegraph.
The Lawrenceville Herald says: “Rev.
Mr. Florence, who was appointed by the
late Conference of the Methodist Church
(South), as senior preacher on the Law
renceville Circuit, has made arrange
ments with the Rev. Mr. Cramer to take
his place on this circuit. He and bis
family have moved to oar town. He is
highly commended as an exoellent
preacher.
The Dalton Citizen says that the cot
ton gin, saw mill and shingle machine,
belonging to Mr. J. M. P. Hawkins,
nine miles southeast of Spring Place,
Murray county, was destroyed by fire a
short time since. Ten bales of cotton in
the gin house at the time, belonging to
other parties, were also destroyed. The
Dalton Citizen, learns from Mr. H. that
the fire was purely accidental, and that
it burned so rapidly it was impossible to
save the cotton or anything else. Loss
over $2,000.
attracting admirers. Sb* treated
them politely, but, after all, coldly, until
one day she woe brought in contact with
a dashing French scuman, the first lieu
tenant on one of the Marseilles and Ori
ental rtcamships. His name was Matt-
rice Kervel. lie wm but little over 30
r«ars «ld, tall and handsome, an excel-
eat conversationalist, and the very man
to win the good graces of a susceptible
yoong lady.
He became very intimate with Miss
Bertha Bige:oa, uud one day he aston
ished liar father not a little by asking
him for the hand of his charming daugh
ter. Mr Bigelow was at first inclined
to look favorably npon the suit of the
enamored sailor, the more so as his
daughter appeared to reciprocate his af
fection; hut a close inquiry into the af
fairs and character of M. Maurice Kervel
convinced Mr. Bigelow that he was not
a suitable match for his daughter. He
found that Kervel was a man of extrava
gant habits and choleric temper; that
when under the influence of liqnor he
waa extremely qnairelsome. and had
fought several duels; that he had run
through with the fortune his parents had
left him, and that he had nothing to de
pend on hut his very modeet pay. The
result of all this waa that he wse request
ed to uiacontinue his visit*. Kervel
left Mr. Bigelow, mattering threat* of
revenge.
Must Bertha seems to care very little
about the breaking off oi this flirtation
with her lover, and in 1868 she was
married to a merchant named Jouvinet,
a man of means with whom she lived
happily for a year. In June, 1869, her
husband returned one evening to his de-
lightfal country residence, but, to his
astonishment, did not find his wife in
her apartments. He questioned the
aervants about the whereabouts of their
mi«tr»s», and they said the* they had
seen Mine. Jouveuet walking in the gar
den a little before dusk. M. Jouvenet
searched every nook of the garden and
neighborhood, but not a trace of bis
beautiful wife was to be found. He sent
out messengers iu all directions, bat they
returned without bringing any informa
tion.
An examination of the lady’s bondoir fur
nished no cle<* whatever as to where she
might have gone. The hnsband passed
a wretched night, hoping every moment
for bis wife’s return; but morning dawned
and she lmd not vet come. He then sent
for the police, and several detectives be
gan to look for the missing lady. They
were unable to find any trace of her after
a protracted and patient search. Adver
tisements, offers of large rewards for in
formation concerning her, remained with
out result. Both the husband and father
abondoned all hopes of seeing her again,
and an impenetrable vail seemed to snr-
ronud her fate.
Jouvinet, after mourning for her loss
for eighteen months, applied to the court
for an anuullation of bis marriago with
Miss Bigelow, and he was waitiugfora
rendition of the decree when, on the 3d
of November last, and event of the most
startling character occurred. He was
seated in his counting-room in the Rue
Grande, pourirg over his ledger, when
the aoor was suddenly opened, and a
vailed lady stepped in. She drew back
her vail, and displayed a bronzed face,
the features of which he knew only too
well. In the next moment he rushed
into her arms, exclaiming, “ Bertha 1
Bertha ?” It is his long lost wife.
The explanations she gave him while
they sat in each other’s arms, abont her
sndden and long absence, were so strange
that even the chroniqner of the Mar
seilles Nouveliste, to whose pen we are
indebted for all these particulars, con
fessed he had rarely met with anything
more romantic in his long journalistic
career.
Mine Jouvinet stated that on the
evening when she had been parted from
her husband she nad gone into the gar
den to brea.h a little fresh air. All of a
sndden she had been seized by several
men, who rushed from behind a shrub.
Iu an instant they had Dind-folded and
gagzed her. and carried her to a carriage,
which rapidly drove off with her. Then
she had become unconscious, and when
she awoke again she found herself in tne
cabin of the ship, which was rocking in
the wicves. To her dismay, Maurice
Kervel was the first who entered her
cabin. He told her coolly that ho had
long ago left the naval service of France,
and was now master of a bark in the
Levant trade.
She then implored him to restore her
to liberty, which he refused, informing
her at the same time that she would
henceforth have to live with him at his
villa in the environs of Alexandria; and
he threatened to kill her in case she
should attempt to escape. Her prayers,
her tears, her despair, were unavailing,
and truating to meet by-and-by with an
opportunity to communicate with her
folks, she followed Kervel to Alexandria.
The house to which ho took hsr there
was situated abont three miles from the
Ay; it was well famished, and she was
well treated, except that she was not al
lowed to leave the place. A very strict
surveillance was kept over her by the
servants, who language she was unable
to understand. Sue began already to
despair, when Kervel one day tola her
she mast go with him npthe Nile.
Two days afterwards he brought her
to the country p ace of a wealthy Egyp
tian, Baiun Bey, and to her horror she
found that Kervel had ceded her to him,
and that she waa henceforth to be the
inmate of an Oriental harem filled with
Egyptian and Abyssinian women, who
looked with'decided aversion npon the
fair new comer. For four months she
endured all the horrors of this life, when
she was one day introduced by Bulan
Bey to an elderly man, who was no
| other than Nnbar PacUa, a noted Egyp-
Csniaaptlns *f «** CtliMbii Nans,
factory During 187*.
We here been furnished with the fol
lowing statement:
The company applied to payment of
dividends tor tne year np to August 1st,
1872, $40,696 67, earned remainder of
r refit—item, $23,468 23 to divideud, No
5, three per oeut. (payable Febmtoy 20,
1873) and the bolanoe to reserve fund.
GOODS WunjyACTVUD IX 1871.
Tarns— 7S9 bunches.. 3,605 lbs.
4—4 sheeting—3b, 135 pieces—1.083,134
yards 373,805 lbs.
% sbssting — 8,678 pleoea — 890,KW
yards 106.8S8 lbs.
Sawing »nd knitting thread 4 W1 lbs
Cotton batting 9,9Co lbs.
Going Resth.
What is tL* muc'tr with
0*rci'UH negroes? Almost
per from
with gi>»
tho North
every pa
rtial State that we meet
account* of negrom !•■»▼•
Totol number lbs. goods 497,800 lbs.
Cotton consumed 579,825 lbs., or 1,449}
bale* of 400 lbs. each.
The machinery was worked 297i days;
average number of 4-4 looms 87 4-10, av
eraging daily 41 6->0 yOrds; average num
ber { looms 26 4-10, averaging daily 49
4-10 yards; average number oflooms idle
2 2-10; making average number of looms
116.
The manufactory is in a very flourish
ing condition, and is owned by a com
paratively small number of stockholder*.
Gen. R. H. Chilton, formerly Adjntan -
General to Gen. Lee, is President.—C -
lumbus Sun, 22d inst.
in* by sc r<* for the m«>re Honthcra
Htate* Ibth od. In some connties it ie
I t K s. fma era wi’-i tic wrionsly em-
hnrr>*«* d to get I-l- r fur their forUML
bands lv tog exceedingly scarce, and
charging eteensiv*- wages This emigre-
riot, to (ityroes South, ive suppose, is in
ciair" s-vordanc* aitli natural laws, an4
eventually the grou I»ndy of them will
grudcially find tueir w-iv to the Galt
States. Tii«=re they will abide until th*
white wnvu rills dawn upon them, when
t- r-v «uH reccTe further Booth, *•> the
West Indies suit Mexico, and finally to
•n* valley of tu«* Amazon, which if may
« uudtr Providence their destiny to
reclaim.—Petersburg Appeal
* •
‘h« Of«d Emp- vi l'iid«r v ’reaeti Sail,
Af the fnr.“.rol of N joluo one of
pWMins w.,o •ame fr a France
roogiii wiii. ouu .-o-u soil dn^rfr na the
a'den n* ;_.r, • T ;1 'A- s whicV fie strewed
r *he i/i r it wr<< deposited in
in earns* y «! Te eh-pel 0 lisoffmrst*
lauv F..lurh spi w.*ro present at
ujeoluum vhil-i b* f;.at»r*l aervioet
vvrt* tak’. rl *ee T > fito»r».l service*
oi the ex F.n.o-- >- n-er' abo c ’aborted
in R >uie. dwramnl ri ir.spvte, who wa*
ana.'to to go t > Olda-" n*it, w s p7«sentl
At M. an they --re .too <•'. i*r«t. I and
werepxrticipsf d .n by mmenu* crowds
of people. T..C .ifa,' r uni Pu.feot and
me troops star* .u-d oi t <t* cily .ook part
in the cerei '• •>>
Selma, Home a ad Dalton Railroad.
Despite the unkind allusion by the
prc« to the affairs of this road, and the
persistent efforts of exploiters to injure
its status, we are happy to know that it
is in a highly prosperouH condition
Moving enormous quantities of freights
and fearing uo danger of the failure, in
to which a New York riuR of i>oud-hold
ers are doing all they can to force it. At
an evidence of its heavy business, we
state that since last Friday, over seven
hundred bales of cotton passed over it by
the Great Soathern Freight Line, via
Charleston alone, besides a large amount
to Louisville, Norfolk and otliei routes.
In addition to this one item the work be
ing dons by the road in the iron interest
of the country is enormous and shows
how mnch the country is indebted to it
fer the development of our material re
eoEieee.—Rome Courier, 21*/ inst.
HON. A. H. STEPHENS FOB CONGRESS.
Washington, January 22.—At a meet
ing of Senators and Representatives
from the 8th Congressional District of
Georgia held to-night, General Toombs
in the chair, it was unanimously request
ed of Alexander H. Stephens to stand for
Congress, all the candidates declining in
his favor. Mr. Stephens accepts the
nomination, and will be elected to the
next Congress without a doubt. The
'Governor will issue his proclamation for
an election without delay. Mr. Stephens'
health is improving. The nomination
gives universal satisfaction.
__ In respect to the aggregate valne
of clmroh edifices in the United States,
the Methodists stand first, the Catholic,
eeoond, the Presbyterians third, the Bap
lists fourth, the Episoopalians fifth, and
the Congregational'sts sixth.
JThe vintage oi the Uaited States
is tieginning to reoeive some attention at
tue Lauds of Congress. A bill is now in
preparation for the pretection of wine
growers, and to prevent the manufacture
of imitation wines. The internal revenue
The $4. l. > - irn.m cat is •»-
hority for the stat that Senator
Sumner never behov'd in tho legitimacy
4 the late Frenoh Emperor’ 1 * descent,
Speaking on French topics in the Sonata
»ne day abont four years ago, he referred
0 the first Napoleon as the “ reputed
ancle of the Emperor.” He was then
chairman of the committee on Foreign
Relations, and fearing, on refleotioa^
that the expression would appear im
proper, coming from saoh a source, ha
sent an autograph note to the reporter ol
the Associated Press, after the debate hod
concluded, requesting him to snppree*
the word “ reputed.” The reporter com
plied, bat kept the note as a poaaibte
cariosity of the fatnre.
Michigan is said to have the larg
est sawmill in the world. It is loeated u*
the Saginaw Valley, four miles from Sagi
naw Bny, and opposite the flourishing
town of Bay City. The main building
is eighty by one hundred and forty fee*
in size, with slate roof. There are also
several wings in wnich machinery for the
mannfactn r e of laths nud staves is placed.
All parts of the immense establishment
are lighted with gas. The mill began
operations in 1865, and since that tima
has manufactured 180,153,927 feet of
lumber, giving employment to 300 men.
In one day it cut 370,797 foot of lumber
a feat which has never been equalled.
A newspaper of Iowa City givea
rather a discouraging ancount of what
the farmers in those “diggings” are
doing, or rather not doiug. Hero is the
price current: A pair of winter boots
costs two loads of potatoes; a night's
lodging, a load of oats; the wife wears
five seres of wheat; the children each ten
acres of corn; the price of an overcoat is
a good fonr-year-old steer; of a Sunday
suit, twenty fat hogs. The farm, too,
wears a mortgage tint is worse than hard-
pan to the soil, and the annual tax rots
the roof faster than rain.
. . . »-#-«■ ■ -
1 NMt is rated tuat in the case o
a dissolved partnership, where contention
arises as to who is the proper person to
receive mail matter addressed to tha
former business firm or company, or its
officials, a postmaster being forbidden bv
one party to deliver to the other, suon
I postmaster should require them to ap-
J9*Thirty-five thousand tons of wheat
re stored at Stockton, Cal., for ship
ment to Liverpool.
bureau is taking the initiative steps in (point a receiver, and retain all matter
the matter. until said receiver is appointed.
» e-»
19* The Empress Engenie, supposing
that the prinoe imperial evinoed a marked
taste tor mnsio, invited a teacher to tha
Tuileries. When Napoleon learned from
her who the visitor was, he s&id : “Send
him away; one tronbador king is enough
for Europe”—alladmg to the king of
Bavaria, whose passionate love for mnaw
is well known.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that
the total amount realized in Milwaukee
for the past year from manufactures was
$20,000,000, as follows: Iron, $4,§00,000;
tanners, $2,500,000; clothing, $2,000,COO;
tobacco and cigars, $2,500,000; lager
beer, $3,000,000.
The coinage of the San Francisco
Branch Mint for tne year 1872 amounted
to $16,000,000 in gold, and $380,000 in
silver. A lot of $9,000 in silver dollars
was coined for the first time in many
years, as an experiment for an introduc-
lon into China.
JI9* The Denver Tribune Bays that
np to December 17, some eleven distinct
camps and rancherias of the Apaches
had been taken and destroyod by the
troops, with numerous prisoners and a
great amount of spoils.
—An eccentric man at Effingham, III.,
whose wife and children had deserted
him, lately dug up two of his dead
children, and dressing the skeletons set
them dosvn as his table companions.
J9*Mr. Fronde’s mission to this coun
try, the London Standard thinks, has had
the good effect of causing dissension
among the Irishmen here. It derives an
illustration of this idea from the differ
ence between Father Bnrke and O’Dono
van Rossa on historical questions. Will
that console Fronde ?
£9“The Misses Greeley are residing
with their aunt, Mrs. Cleveland, at Cot
tage Place, New York.
in
BGF. THE FERRO-PHOSI'HORAT
ed Elixir of Calisaya bark made by Caswel,
Hazard & Co., New York, is a delicious
cordial, made of the Pyrophosphate of
Iron and Calisaya Bark; it is the most
valuable tonic now in use for dyspepsia,
nervous affections, wakefulness,_debility,
depression of spirits, &c., Ac.
JB9* It is said that Germans rarely com
mit suicide in their native land, yet in
New York city last year forty per cent, of
the cases of self-destruction were among;
the Germans. The same ratio, it is said,
will hold good in other places having »
larger German population.
J69* Gov. Walker of Virginia, recom
mends, in a special message, the sale of
the assets of railroad bonds aad stock,
and other noa-productiva property, for
the purpose of reducing the principal of
the State debt, which can thus be les
sened, he says, to the extent of abont
$26,090,000.
Swindled.
Baltimore, Jan. 15.—Cooper, Reeao
k Co., bankers, this city, were swindled
to the amount of $4,900 oa Saturday last
by the payment of a bogus draft for that
amount, purporting to be drawn by GiD-
uct , ira .vu v,. The pale' sod, Casanonia & Co., bankers, of New
the nervous, and the debilitated should York, and payable to tne order ol KB.
not fail to take it; particularly females
suffering from those complaints incident
to the sex. Physicians now give it the
preference to all similar preparations. If
taken daring exposure to maiuria it
strengthens the system to resist this poi
son, and prevents chill and fever, bilious
lever, and other intermittent attacks.
For sale by ail druggists.
ml8 son&thurs d&wly
19* Chapped Hands, Face , Rough
Skin, Pimples, Ringworm, SaltRheom and
other Cutaneous affections cured, and the
skin made soft and smooth, by using the
Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York. For sale by
all Druggists. sat&wed d&wly
19* $5 to $15 *pkb Day made by
Agents selling the American Quilting
Machine, and other Novelties. Secure
territory at once. Address
H. D. Bbieb & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Knox.
JR9* One of Alexis’s sisters has had a
marriage arranged for her by Count
Schouvaloff. The Count has numerous
relatives who appear in this country im
mediately after every great snow storm-
19* Selim, the Abyssianian servant of
the Prince of Wales, was recently bap
tized by tte English Church with tha
new name of Albert Alexander, thePrinoa
and Princess being sponsors.
19* The devotion of Mary’s littl®
lamb, which “followed her to school ona
day,” is equaled by that of a duck at
Athol, which is so much attached to s
young lady who feeds ii that it attends
her to c’aurcn, or win re *er she goes. At
a recent entertainment at Marie Hall, the
duck waited below until the young lady
came down stairs, and then escorted her
home with many a complaisant