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THE BAINBRIBGE WEEKLY SUN V rER ANNUM. VOL- VII. the weeiuysun. PUBLISHED jjverv Sat \tra.a.y It. M Johnston, Proprietor. Terms of Subcriptios. (i»r ('°py» one Year - ® 2OO (w Copy. Three Months 75 Invariably in Advance Among tlie.Georfcla Press. Business is brightening Al bany. X), O colored people of Albany gave iconcert last week. \\, H. Gilbert and Thomas R. I,von have been nominated for the Legislature from Dougherty. Oen. John 13. Gordon will speak in Washington this week. A city wag remarked of » certain vonng man in Griffin a day or so ago, thut “he was once a printer’s devil” sn<l now he wrw a “devii”.of a nice voung fellow ? Filch has seen a pumpkin weigh ing seventy pounds. John Templeton with his English (>|H'ra Troupe, will ho iu Atlanta on the night of the 23d, and open at p,.Giro's for the season. Mr. John H. Brooks killed a Mr. Hightower in burly county last week. Mr. J. Divine has retired from the Savannah Evening Mirror. Just as we predicted while we thought there were too much red-headed Radical ism about it The health of Lumpkin is improv ing. Thomas county has had a big nullity picnic. JntncH McDonald and J. O. H. Mmson havo been nominated for the Legislature from Thomas county. Cuthbert is going to fix up her Court-house. Thus. Callahan, an Augusta police man, was shot on Wednesday night in that city by Thomas Costello. It i" thought Callahan’s wounds are fatal. Costello and an accomplice named George Rutledge, they have been arrested. Capt. J. R. Johnson, the former representative in the Legislature front Clav county, he was nominated i'D list Saturday for another term. There is a very deceptive cotlnter f«tss United currency afioat. It is 'm much like the original, and can rtljhc detected by comparing the * nis “United States.” In the good Me they urn delicately shaded and nearly defined, and in the bad one heavily shaded and rather crowded. Sniggles want to know if you can Like a blind man liable for a bill, if ■t payable at sight. A Radical paper, to be called the V’oal, is to commence publication a Atlanta, on the 26th. The Savannah News says that never * x 'f°re in the history of Georgia has tin tv been so much dissatisfaction K !u 'ug the friends of candidates for 1 tfWe, and says this is no time for Mitical broils. TlioSav. News justly complains be r.vuso the tax-books for Chatham bounty have been submitted to the i " 'tom House officials for inspection, Mi, l left in their sole charge for sev tral hours. The Cherokee, Georgia and Ala- f ma Agricultural and Mechanical IMr tor 1872. will l>e held at Rome, c ';' m mencing October Bth and con tuiuing four days. av ’ News says one of the men M tucked to the Great Eastern Circus * v -1 '.ting i n that city, has along as . * one of the greatest eurosities "'e have seen in many a day. %r I* Was a six months old black i ttr rier pup, with only two « v> . un ‘“g 8 - The breast is per- MiJof U1 °' n \ I ’- tilere^being 110 n PP ear * The rescm bling forefeet i'onnt^ ow ,>nn Like tremendous H « slriies the gn he touches curious u', \. ,^ n^e a crowd of the 0 f ' . ’ t( t to the carsto see this feature. A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes from Dalton that if the rest of the State will do as well for Gov. Smith as North Georgia he will be re-elected by 60,000 majority. The Telegraph adds that Dauso Wal ker is the deadliest cock in the pit that ever tried to crow in that section. The people of Griffin are attending strictly to cotton picking and leaving politics and politicians to take care of themselves. Every negro ablejto get to a cotton field has gone to work to raise a little money to carry them through the winter. Sensible. The fire company of Americus have about being tired of the idea of work ing for the benefit of citizens and paying all their own expenses, and if the City Council don’t make an ap propriation, most of the members will be forced to resign. A shooting affair occurred on Wednesday last at Cochrane, on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, be tween Jacob Watson, Mayor of Hawkinsville, and a Mr. Head. Head got one ball in his head and one in his brest but the Mayor was only wound ed in his hat. An express rgent receiv ed an accidental but painful wound in the back by one of the wild shots. Mr. Daniel A. Johnson, of Griffin, is dead. The Savannah News of Tuesday says : The Hon. Tittlebat Timouse Aker man made himself heard in this city yesterday, and his speech was a good Democratic campaign document. His bitter denunciations of the Southern people and his fulsome laudation of Grant’s corrupt administration should have been heard by every Democrat who has proposed to him. self to remain idle in this campaign. The efforts of Tittlebat will do more to unite the white people of Georgia on one common platform, than any other conceivable tiling. His deter mination to canvass the entire State is a providential occurrence. No Democrat who listens to one of Tin kerman’s Harangues can fail to per ceive the duty he owes to his people. Truth Htrantfdr than Fiction. Two of the leading dressmakers of a neighboring city, says an exchange, took it into their heads about a month ago to go over to Europe, and make arrange ments for getting the fashions at the ear liest possible moment. Each had an eye on the other ; each intended to get clear ahead of the other. Neither of them knew that the other was intending to go aboard. As rivals sometimes do, even if they are women, these two hated each other. They had not spoken to each other for years, though they now and then spoke of each other. They engaged passage by a first-class steamer that sailed about two weeks ago. Each knew that she was to have a companion in her state room, but did not know who she would be, end was probably somewhat anxious on this point. Truth is stranger than fiction. The steam* er sailed proudly down the bay. One of our dressmakers was on the deck enjoying the scene, which was novel to her. She was delighted that she had outwitted her rival up in Troy. Presently she went down to her state room to see what sort of room-mate she had. On entering the room she found her rival. Both ladies threw up their hands, exclaiming; “You here!” and both fainted. A passenger saw two number three gaiteos projecting through the doorway. This excited sus picion and the matter was investigated. Both ladies were found insensible. The captain was heard to remark to the second officer an hour afterward, that he’d be blest if he ever saw anybody get sea-sick so quick as those two women did. Our reporter, from whom we learn these facts by a special cable dispatch, says it was the most comical sight he ever saw to see how these two studied to avoid each other dur ing the trip. They tried to trade state rooms with somebody, but could not Fi nally after living together for nearly ten days, each began to appreciate the fact that her rival was a most estimable lady, and very sharp at business. Gradually they began to talk to each other, coldly at first, but at last they fell into each other’s arms, wept and asked forgn ness. The result was, that they formed a co-partnership, and when they return will set up the most extensive dressmaking es tablishment ever known in this part of the State. If you believe this is a yam. just make a few inquiries and satisfy your 1 self. SPEECH OF COL E. HULBERT, Before the Georgia Press Asso elation, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5, 1872, oa the Ralhvtt? System of Georgia. Mr. President and Gentlemen of (he Press: The extension of otlf railway sys tem is one of deep and vital impor tance to Georgia, important as the means of development, important as the means of staying the exodus of our citizens from the State, and as the means of enabling us to hold our position as the Empire State of the South, and especially to enable us to keep pace with our sister States in the advancement of our material in terests, The war left ns prostrate, and al though ouf general condition has greatly improved, it has not reached that point which we had hoped, and which we have striven to attain. Va rious causes may be assigned for this failure, but the most prominent of all is the want of the extension of our railway system to that extent demanded by the absolute wants and imperative demands of the people. A large portion of our territory is still without railway facilities. Our planters and farmers who are dis tant from one to three days’ travel from railway and telegraph facilities, cannot be expected to remain con- tent with their lot. Their isolated situation is attended with many se rious drawbacks to their prosperity, and it is unreasonable tp expect them to remain content with the depriva tion of advantages which their more fortunate fellow-citizens possess. The want of these facilities has compelled thousands of our people to emigrate to sections where they could command them, and it Will force thousands of others to follow their example unless we extend our railway system so as to cover the entire State. When we compare the progress of our State with those who are making use of the railway and telegraph as the means of peo pling their waste places, and increas ing their commercial and political power, we are struck with amaze ment that the great State of Geor gia, to whom nature has been so bountiful, should not strive with all her greatjpowers to at least retain her own sons upon her own soil. "What are the facts ? In place of an immigration of planters and farm ers, occupying and bringing under cultivation our wild lands and man ufacturers to improve our water pow ers, converting the raw material into gold, and of mechanics supplying our wants, and of laborers with their strong arms to uphold and strength en the general interests ; we find thousands of our planters and farm ers leaving the State to get within the wealth-creating influences of rail ways in more progressive States, leaving their Georgia homes to grow up in briars and pine thickets, our water powers remain unimproved, the few mechanics we have, either comparatively idle, or seeking other localities where a diversity of inter ests and pursuits are acknowledged as true political economy, our labor ers drawn off to supply the demand in sections whose lands have not been impoverished by our murder ous system of cultivation, or rather, scarification ; all rapidly and surely driving us into a self-elected bank ruptcy. It is estimated that within the last year that from ten to twelve thou sand emigrants have gone out of the State, and that during that period not over six hundred imigrants have come into the State. "What a com ment upon our boasted enterprise! A careful examination of the sub ject develops the fact that in nine cases in ten the emigrants are from sections in Georgia without railway facilities, and that in the section of their new homes they have located on or contiguous to some line of rail way already completed or in course of rapid construction. The political economy that per mits such a deplorable condition of affairs to exist is radically wrong, destructive to aU progress, entirely FOR THE RIGHT—JVSTICE TO ALE BAINBUIDGE GA., SEPTEMBER 28th, devoid of the first principles of states manship, and utterly wanting in com mon business sense. With this existing State of affaiis it is high time we had ceased prating about out enterprise, our superior and even remarkable natural advan tages, and take such steps as will at least retain our present population. We have on our statute books 32 railway charters that have the State’s indorsement for an average of about $12,000 per mile, making a total oi about $30,000,000 conditional, pro spective liability on the part of the State. In each of the localities cov ered by these charters railway facil ities are imperatively demanded, but they cannot be built bocause the peo ple are too poor to subscribe and pay the amount subscribed by law, and hence the emigration referred to. It is undeniably true that if these proposed railways were constructed the standard guage of five feet, cost ing from $20,000 to $30,000 per mile, that they would have a capacity greatly in excess of the wants of the sections in which they are located. In this case then, we will invest an unnecessary amount, thereby en tailing high rates of transportation upon all interests with which they come in contact. We will have invested an amount entirely disproportioned to the ob ject sought to be attained, and would be Utterly wanting inutile common sense which we use in our daily bus" iness transactions. With two or three exceptions, the thirty-two proposed roads, if con structed broad guage, could not command sufficient business to pay operating expenses and interest ac count, or if so, it would be at such extreme high rates as would retard, rather than stimulate development. We cannot construct them then, with any reasonable hope or expec tation of their being self-sustaining. But fortunately for us, experiments within the last six or eight years have practically demonstrated the entire practicability of a cheaper class of railways, exactly adapted to our wants, and especially our means. The three feet guage railway, cost ing only about one-half that of the broad or five feet guage, has a ca pacity greater even than would be required for the sections under dis cussion. They are also operated from twenty to twenty-five per cent cheaper, while their interest account will only be one-half that of the more costly and unnecessarily ponderous broad guage, which is comparatively idle one-half the time for want of business. It is a self-evident fact that it is very much easier to raise SIO,OOO per mile than it is $30,000. The excessive cost of the broad guage, entirely disproportioned to the business, would necessarily com pel them to charge very high rates in order to pay operating expenses and interest account I am unable to see the good sense of thus unnec essarily taxing the industries of our people, especially when the required facilities may be obtained by the adoption of the narrow guage at one half the cost, thereby placing it with in the means of the localities refer red to, not only to provide them selves with railways, but with low rates. Admitting that SIO,OOO to $15,000 per mile will accomplish the desired object, I am unable to see the econ my of investing $20,000 to $30,000 per mile, and thereby incur the en tailment of high rates for all time. Rome has set us an example wor thy of imitation. For years she has had on hand her proposed Memphis Branch Railway, but unable to com mand the means to construct it broad gauge, she wisely determined to make it narrow guage in order to place it within her own means, and especially, when done, that she might be able to control it in her own in terest. Since the war Rome has en gaged quite extensively m the man ufacture of iron, but she finds that in consequence of the very hig ra of freight on coal and coke.trans construct her narrow gauge road to the Alabama coal fields, 35 miles distant, and there rest the enterprise until she is able to push it fnrther with her own means. With this cheap railway, with its low fates, Rome will be able to deliver coal, coke and iron ore at such rates as will enable her to establish smelting furnaces along side of her rolling mills, foundries and machine shops, thus concentrating these wealth-cre ating powers within her corporate limits. By this common-sense enter prise she brings to her aid the most powerful of all modern creators of values—cheap coal, cheap coke, and cheap iron. With their development aud manufacture of concentrated in her midst, she will receive an impet us that will make her the first inte rior city of the South, because she has invoked and brought to her aid the greatest wealth-producing pow- es known to man. She will be able to offer such in ducements to the manufacturers of neighboring cities as to compel them to remove to her midst, and the only remedy they can apply to prevent it, will be the narrow guage road with its small coast and cheap rates. Adopt the narrow gauge, and every county town in the State can have its railway, and if economically con structed, and closely managed, they will pay. With the narrow gauge, we need have no dead capital locked up in railways. With our State cov ered with a system of cheap railways, who can estimate the good that would flow therefrom? Our cities would rapidly increase in population, commerce and wealth, our county towns would build up, our water powers would be improved, our min eral interests would be developed, manufactures would be established, our planters and farmers provided with railway facilities would be vast ly benefitted, emigration would cease, and immigration would commence, alxd the Press would have a vast new field for the display of its intel ligence and power. Let our people once fully under stand the great importance of this new creator and developer of wealth, that is entirely practicable and with in their means, and they will adopt it without hesitation. It rests with you, gentlemen of the Press, to give them the necessary information upon this Very import ant subject; and in doing so you will perform a service for your State that will redound to your credit for all time. Somnambulism. Recently in Alton, Illinois, a man, while under thejinfluence of a dream, nearly killed his wife. Edwafd Halkins, a brakes man on the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, who was newly married, had been doing extra duty, taking a sick friend’s train in addition to hi* own, and so had no sleep for forty-eight hours. Naturally he was very tired when he went home, and after going to bed soon fell asleep. The dreams he had, and their almost tragic termination, are graphically described by a local newspaper: “Again his foot was on his native plat form. and he heard the warning toot of the whistle for brakes. The shadowy train bore him swiftly on ; the telegraph poles fleeted past quicker and quicker; the whole country fled by like a panorama mounted on sheet-lightning rollers. “In his dream he heard far off another roaF and swinging out by the railings he saw another train coming at lightning speed around the curve. Both trains were crowded with passengers; in another moment they would rush together, and from the piles of ruin a cry of agony would shiver to the tingling stars from the lips of the maimed and dying. The engi neer had seen their danger, for at that mo ment, in bis dream, he heard tbs whistle calling for brakes, sound kmd and unearth ly. With the strength of desperation he gripped the brake and turned it down. There was a yell of pain, and ‘Ed.’ woke to find himself sitting up in bed. and hold ing his wife by the ears, having almcet twisted off her head. “That's how ‘Ed's wife came to wear a piece of red flannel round her throat and complain of a wry neck. Asmentab like physical diaeaa®, are in fectious, we may confidently expect a sad increase of mortality among brakesmen’s wives, occasioned by husbands decapita ting them under the impression that they are brakes. It is likely that life insurance companies will increase their rates to such pereons. and eventually brakesmen may find it difficult to get married until after they have attained conductorships. B«d«ction of Two Sisters. In the autumn of 1870 a young French artist, named Victor Pail lard became ac quainted in Versailles with two yowng ladies named Pauline and Marie Chattier, the daughters of Count Chartier, The Count had held a leading position fit tbs government of Louis Phillippe, but having held aloof from the government of Louis Xapolean, he had lost a great portion of his fortune. At the time that Pillard became acquainted with the Count's daughter’s, Pauline was twenty-two yean of age and Marie was three yean younger. Pillard was a rising young artist, extreme ly handsome, and of most winning manners. After a short time he became extremely infatuated with Pauline, and she was equally infatuated with hitn. During the seige of Paris, he was a resident of Ver sailles and had constant OPPORTUNITIES OF VISITING HER. Owing to the unsettled state of affairs in franco, subsequent to the treaty of peace with Germany, which rendered it impossible for him to practice hi* profes sion with any lucrative advantages, he de voted his time to the society of the Count’s daughters, hut more particularly to that of Paulino. Marriage seemed impossible, and in an unhappy hour she surrendered her person to his seductive charms. A few months rolled on, and the gratification of his passions cooled his ardent attachment. She was stung to the quick by bis coldness, and with the consent of her father, went on a visit to her aunt in Rouen. She kept the secret of her seduction hidden in her own breast. Pail lard continued to reside at Versailles, and no sooner had Pauline quitted it for Rouen than he began to pay marked attentions to her sister. Marie Chartief was posessed of charms, and in December last fell a prey to the passions of Paillafd, in fact had turned a cool-blooded libertine, and no sooner had he accomplished his base de signs, then he went to reside at Boulogne.— The two sisters visited a perternal uncle in Paris, the father remained in Versailles. He was in good practice as an advocate* living in the Rue Vichy. After a few months residence in Paris Pauline suspected that her sister was enceiate. She confessed the fact, and stated that Pillard was her seducer. Pauline could scarcely controol her fealings. so unbound was her passions for the man that had seduced her, that she told her sister she would destroy herself.— The elder sister was not enciente, but she considered the honor of the family tarnish ed. Poor Marie, who was expecting in a short time to become a mother, had been for some time. CONTEMPLATING BUICID*. The sisters decided to die together. The evening before they committed suicide they wrote to their father the story of their wrongs, and urged on him to have reveDge on Paillard, who had ruined them, and who was living in Boulogne. In the bed room in their uncle's house, in which they slept together, they resolved to try the effects of charcoal. In the bed room was a stove that was used in the winter months. The chimney they boarded up ; they nailed a narrow lath to their bed room door ; the key hole they plugged np with tow, and nailed over it a piece of sailcloth; the windows they examined, and introduced narrow strip* of leather to prevent the ingress of air< Lighting a large charcoal fire, they retired to rest,and in each others arms they slumbered. They woke no more in this world. The char coal did its deadly work. The father, who had repaired to Paris, on receipt of his daughter's letter, found that he was child less. Immediately after the funeral, he went to Boulogne, where he soon discov ered the residence of Paillard. On the 20th of last month, on the Rue Perir, at 12 o'clock at night, Count Chartier met Paillard, and with a sword, which he car ried in a cane, Chartier stabbed Paillard to the heart. He [died in a few minutes. Chartier escaped, but his friends have de clared that he will surrender to his trial for the vengeance that be exercised on the villain that seduced and deserted his two daughters, and through whose con duct his family name has been dishonored, and he is left a childless old man. President for Life# Wendell Phillips has made anoth er speech, in which he advocates Grant as President lor life- The following is the closing paragraph : “ The reason why I support the Repub lican party is that, to my utter surprise, to my unutterable surprise, to my indescrib able delight, to my relief, I have at last found a party that is willing to execute the laws that are given them. It is for that reason that I say ‘ Long live Ulysses Grant! May he continue to be President of the United States until every white man over 40 years of age who lives south of Mason and Dixon’s line has been forever put into the ground.' ” A planter of Baker county suggests as an antidote for the caterpillar the planting of early prolific cotton so ae to secure a crop before these destruc tive pests make their appearanc. IN ADVANCE* A Contract Not Accepted, A wag named Low, employed m engi uoer in Buchanan & I.rall's tobacco muv •foctury. South Brooklyn, while in ttktdh ae't lager-beer saloon, met an enterpf king painter, with Whom ho was acquainted. The painter stated that huahms was t etf dull, and that he would soon hate to dip charge moat of hie employes. “I think I can get you a big Job at the tobacco factory.’’ said Low, who Seamed vary anxious to assist his friend. “If you can I’ll be very grateful,” re turned the painter, his eyee sparkling at the prosjHx-t of getting a contract from IHichanan A Lyall, “Yes,’’ continued tjuw, reflectively, “I am sure I tun threw some work in your way. You know the firm has been short of workmen lately, and hnd to Import one hundred darkey* from Virginia.” ”Oh. yes, 1 hoard of that,” interrupted the painter impatiently ; “but drop the darkey subject, ami tell me of the job you exi>ect to get for me. I need work Iwd ly.” “Well,” resumed the engineer, “the firm feel disgraced at the ragged condition of their new Workmen. In fact, it is report ed that they impart n strange odor to the tobacco they handle, in consequence id their being infested with bed-bugs and other Binall game.” “Out I can’t see what connection there is between the darkeys ami the work that you promised to obtuiu for me,” broke in the painter, irritably. “As 1 have intimated,” continued Low, deliberately, “the darkeys have spoiled some of the tobacco. The firm want to prevent this ; and as green paint is poi sonous to bed-bugs, they want to engage & painter to paint green breeches and shirks on the darkeys.” The painter has not yet accepted that contract, The Newspaper* Some one has said of the newspaper, that it is the “rich man’s luxury and the poor man’s library.” The observation is happy but it does not state the whole case. The newspaper is more than a luxury to every class of men, and its utility i* but partiail/ represented in the comparison with a libra ry. To every man who would keep abreast of his time, who would be familliar with the world of to day, who would know the victories of science, the achievements of art, the ways of commerce, and the drift of popular thought and feeling, the news paper is a positive necessity, no more to bo dispensed with than the most pressing ro puiremetii* of our being. The politician, the merchant, the lawyer, the physiciau who should fail to consult his newspaper with daily regularity, must inevitably fall to the rear, and no library, however ample and Well selected, could supply the material to fill the hiatus consequent upon the ab scence of the newspaper. A man might possess a collection of books which the As tor librars would be small, and he might make the most of his opportunity in using them, but wanting bis daily newspaper, that “map of busy life,” wit Ich brings Ms face to face with the words and deeds, ut* tered only yesterday, of Emperors and Presidents, which acquaints us with the plans and counter-plans, of nations and of politicians, and which in short holds up in abstract the world, with all the multi farious events and circumstances Incident to the daily round of existence—*w anting we say, this great desideratum, a man will find himself continually behind in iiis in telligence, however abundant may be bis means otherwise for acquiriug knowledge* The Natural Brldge-A New Feature* We have the following feet* from a gen tleman who recently visited the Natural Bridge. On passing iuto the gorge below the bridge by the usual route* he was sur prised to find the bed of the stream (Ce dar creek) dry and unsightly. The keep er of the hotel stated that about two week* before the creek suddenly disappeared from under the bridge, and our informant, on following up the gorge, found the stream pouring down into the earth and seeking some unknown channel beneath. On a careful examination three leaks were found—the largest being through e fissure, or “fault” in tbe limestone bed of the stream. There the visitor partially stopped up in a few minutes, sent a scanty stream on ito way to the bridge. Similar facta were re vealed by a further examination, and the conclusion is inevitable, that the rocky substratum of these limestone hills is thoroughly honeycombed by the action of water. This conclusion is further sus tained by tbe fresh discovery of cave*, some of them of considerable extent, in the immediate vicinity of the bridge. Some fine stalactites from one of these caret are exhibited at tbe hotel. Gen. Phil Cook, of Amefiette h&s been nominated a candidate for Con gress from the 3<l District A good nomination. so 15