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TUESDAY HORNING, NOV. 22
Corn —We notice in the Nashville
papers that a car load of corn was
shipped last week from Nashville to
Columbus, Ga., which, sacked and de
livered at the depot,cost 70 c. This will
make the cost, delivered at our stores,
about $1 10 per bushel. On plantations
some twelve miles from town, corn has
been sold at $1 10.
Still They Come. — A youthful run
away couple from Troy, Ala., were
joined in wedlock in this city yester
day. They arrived on the morning
train. The completion of the road from
Troy is of immense benefit to those who
contemplate matrimony, without pa
rental sanction. We happened to be in
.lustice Charles Coleman’s office yester
day morning when he performed the
ceremony over two Russell county Ala
batmans, whose names we can’t recall.
It was done with the usual grace and
impressment of the Justice. There are
a heap o’ good times in the world and
some people are in ’em.
Bcathino Rebuke— Ours is nomi
nally a free Republic, but we have only
to turn back in English history to the
time of Edward 1., in the 13th century,
to find the following among the stat
utes, which shows there was more
freedom then than now :
“Kurasmuch as election ought to be
free, no man, by force of arms, nor by
malice, nor menacing, should disturb
any to make free election.”
This is a statute of six hundred years
ago, under a British monarch ! Let
President Grant read it and he ashamed
ol his military interference in our elec
tions. _
Tberu is a letter now in our post of
flee addressed to “Hon. John T. Cos
tin, Talbotton, Ga. — to he forwarded if
uotathome.” The “Hon. JohnT.” is
“a gentleman of color” and for two
years has misrepresented onr county in
the Legislature. He has never, during
his life, spent as many as ten days in
the county. His home is in Washing
ton City, and there our postmaster
tliiuks of forwarding the letter. Conley
claims Augusta as his home but is un
able to give the No. of his residence. Cos
tin claims Talbotton aB his home but is
a stranger to us and lias a family living
iu Washington.
Two good samples of white and black
rascals that are living aud growing fat
upon public pap.
We clip the above from the “Talbot
ton American.” Hon. like Captain,
was a good, soldier-like word until it
became so awfully ill-associated in this
corrupt age.
Radical. Botch Work. —The New
York World asks: Can nobody furnish
our friends with a recipe far holding
States after they are made or made over
on the strictest party plan? Here is
Weßt Virginia, cut out of the side of the
old Dominion for the express purpose
of being Radical in seciila teculorum
gone Democratic by wholesale; and
hard upon its heels Nevada, lugged Into
the Union for the same purpose, goes
the sarno way. Then Missouri, made
over after the most approved pattern ot
disfranchisement Drake could possibly
excogitate, “flops” following Tenues
see, also made over, also “flopped;”
and Anally hore are once thoroughly
reconstructed North Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, and Arkansas, now as bad as
ever, with Texas and Georgia, champ
ing on the bit to do likewise. Our
friends can make and remake, but can
not hold.
An attempt was made to burn the
lino residence of Gen. John T. Morgan,
in Selma, Ala., last Friday night. Gen.
Morgan was sleeping in the story, and
was awakened by smoko in his room
at a late hour of the night. He imme
diately arose and ran down stairs and
found the floor of the front piaza on
lire, it having been set underneath. The
tire it ad not spread enough to be uu
managaMe and was extinguished by
himself aud family. Supposed to have
been tired bv negro incendiaries, friends
of the ln gro tioters now in jail in that
city, win) Gen. Morgan has been em
ployed to prosecute.
Mohr Government Interference
in Elections. —The Savannah News
says it is stated that one of the meas
ure - to be proposed at tho coming scs
sion ot Congress is a general registry
Huv tor all large cities in the election of
m i o-ers of the House of Representa
tiu .-. This, with certain
to iho election laws, is alleged to be
absolutely imperative in all large cities.
"Imperative”—why, aud for what pur
pose ? The people will impudently de
mand to know.
The Secretary of State. —It is
stated on the authority of Secretary
Pish, communicated to a friend in New
York the other day, that he will posi
lively leave the Cabinet shortly after
the assembling of Congress. New
Yorkers name Judge Edward Pierre
pout for Mr. Fish’s position, and -this
perhaps explains Mr. Pierepont’s recent
speech nominating General Grant for
the Presidency.
Hu». Columbus Delano. —We see
that the namesake of the great Colum
bus has other fish to fry than the estab
lishing of banks. If he wishes to orate \
on the subject of Radicalism, wo think
he would do well to lift anchor and set
sail for some other than a Southern
port.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men;
there be land rats and water rats, land
thieves and water thieves, and we fear,
Columbus, you are of them.
Camilla and.Cuthbert Railroad.
—The stockholders of this road met at
Newton, Baker county, on the 15th,
and made choice of the following Board
of Directors for the ensuing year:
A. 11. Colquitt, President; James
Baggs, W. H. Hazzard, Edward B.
Smith, Joseph Scollay, Edward L.
Wright, W T . D. Williams.
A. L. Hawes was chosen Secretary
and Treasurer.
The road is graded from Camilla to
Newton, and the cars will run between
these places by the first of January.
A murder in court was committed in
Louisiana on the 27th ultimo. Judge
R. C. Downs, while holding court in
Madison parish, was stabbed and killed,
without any known provocation, by W.
H. Neely. The Judge and Neely shook
hands, when the knife was plunged in
the Judge’s body. He exclaimed, “I
am dead,” and failing, expired instant
ly’ ,
Hogs.—Three or four carloads from
the West arrived in the city last week.
The price gross is 9c. It may go lower
than that.
VOL. XII.
A WHITE CROW.
Every age has its wonders. In each
country, something every now and
then turns up to perplex the minds of
philosophers, divines and statesmen.
Greece had her wonders in seven wise
men. The world boasts of its seven
wonders. Solomon, who knew ail
things from the cedars of Lebanon, to
the hyssop that springeth from the wall,
was at times greatly troubled. He
frankly confesses that there were three
things, yea four, which was too deep
for even his wisdom to sound—the way
of an eagle through the air, the way of
a ship through the sea, th? way of a
serpent over a rock, and the way of a
love-stricken young man, with his
sweetheart. Exceeding wise men since,
have been bothered with these same
wonders. We see in the finest drama
ever written by the pen of inspiration,
that the good man of Uz was sorely
puzzled to reconcile his afflictions with
the wisdom anu mercy and justice of
God. He was almost ready to say as
we have at times been tempted to ex
claim on hearing some modern speeches
and sermons, His wisdom is past finding
out , and His mercy endures forever.
The great author of “The Task,”
writes man studious of change, and
pleased with novelty, must be indulged.
If it is so with man, who can tell us
about woman? Who is equal to the
task of administering to a boundless
passion for novelty. The earth, the
air, and sea with one uniiorm voice
proclaims it is not in me. We have
our prodigies, phenomena, and mon
atrocities for a nine days wonder, but
after that time, you have a free ticket
to go on as unsatisfied as the immortal
Hebrew wanderer. Alps on Alps of
cariosities may rear their icy heads to
the clouds, but even the banner with
the strange device must at length be furl
ed in despair Barnum, with his half
monkey and half fish mermaids tried it
and failed.
We, however, never attempt the
impossible, neither do wo wish to pan
der to an idle curiosity. We simply
desire to record one of the most singu
lar curiosities of thg age. The sea ser
pent, Baruum’s spliced monkeys, the
Siamese Twins, the double headed ne
gro, the bearded and whiskered women
of modern times, and the black swans
and gorgons, hydra, cerastes horridus, of
classic and heathen antiquity will not
one, and all, compare to the strange
monster to be now seen in Atlanta. It
is gravely announced, although it may
appear miraculous, that a Northern
man there, has refused to accept a Rad
ical nomination for Mayor, with the
answer that he did not come to Georgia
to meddle in politics.
Here is a chance for Barnum to re
deem his fortunes. We know thousands
who would look aghast at the wonder,
and other thousands who would expect
by the sight, to be cured of every ill flesh
is heir to. By all means, let this white
crow fly around, and wo venture to
insure that Ilia touch will convey more
virtue, aud hia v/liiapoira in the ear,
more inspiration than the pigeons ever
vouchsafed to communicate to the cele
brated Arabian impostor. If he will
come to Columbus wo will wear him in
our heart of hearts.
The gin house of Mr. J. A. Tison, in
Barbour county, Alabama, together
with about twenty five bales of cotton,
was burned on Thursday last. The fire
took place while the gin was in motion,
and is supposed to have occurred from
friction. This conclusion we do not
credit. In the days of slavery gin
houses seldom took fire whilst the gin
was being operated. Then friction
matches were seldom carried to the
cotton fields by smoking negroes. Since
freedom came, however, almost every
negro has become an inveterate smoker
and seldom goes to the field without a
box of matches in the pocket. lie or
she, as the case may be, is a thought
less creature, and in taking out matches
to light the pipe (which is almost cer
tain to be done at the basket), is liable
to drop in it. From this cause, doubt
less, nearly all the fires which have
occurred from supposed friction of the
gin, have took place from friction
matches in the cotton fed into tho gin.
All know that a match could not come
in collision with a gin saw without
sending flames to the lint room. No
thing but a prohibition of the practice
of carrying matches to the field will
stop the disaster, and the earlier plant
ers turn their attention to the matter
and stop the practice, the better for
their safety.
A Csrit.
Buena Vista, Ga., Nov. 16.
Eds. fiun: 1 noticed in your last
weekly that you stated that Mrs. Jack
Brown had eighteen different varieties
of wine at the Columbus Fair. Allow
me to correct yon in the name. It was
Mrs. A. E. Brown, of Marion county,
Ga., tho wife of Col. Wm. M. Brown,
deceased, who sent the wine, i will
refer you to Mr. John Peabody.
Hoping you will correct the mistake
in your next issue,
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
James F. Brown.
A Noble Friend.—A prominent
business firm in this city has paid out, j
since tht first of the month, three hun- I
dred thousand dollars to take up its ac
ceptances. The senior of the firm, on
yesterday morning, came down in
town under a mighty load of anxiety,
and almost despairing of his abitity io
raise his last payment of $36,000. It '
was a large amount, and under the
great drain of the two preceding weeks,
bis exchequer 'was very low, and he
was sorely troubled as to how he would
preserve the credit of his house with
bankers. He approached a friend
whom he knew could relieve him, and
stated his case. The friend nobly and
kindly replied : I am glad, sir, that I
can assist you. Draw on me for t /.:. -g
thousand dollars - J lacon 2d , \sih.
Will wonders never cecse ? Here
certainly is another white crow ! borne
modern Shakspeare should send this
Macon man’s example down to posteri
ty side by side with the Merchant of
Venice. Such favors are rare in these
days.
Bank Agency.—We heard it reported
yesterday that a brunch of the Central
Railroad and Banking Company would
soon be established in Columbus with
an experienced monied man as agent.
We hope the report is true.
The Daily Patriot.— The initial
number of this new candidate for pop
ular favor is before us. It is published
at Washington, D. C., and is an un
compromising advocate of true Demo
cratic principles. Its columns are pre
sided over by gentlemen of eminence.
The Patriot should receive the hearty
support of Southern Democrats.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Foreign Summary.
New York, November 21—Special
to the World from London.—Lord
Lyons, at Tours, has given the Govern
ment to understand that Lord Russell
is instructed not only to demand an ex
planation of the new attitude of Russia,
but also to firmly demand a bona fide
armistice, which wiil permit France to
hold elections.
Not a word of news from Paris since
the 9th.
Garibaldi’s nephew, Col. Garibaldi,
has formed anew brigade at Lyons,
and completed Garibaldi’s staff.
Incessant activity prevails at the War
Office in Pall Mall, and at tne Admiral
ty in Whitehall.
The Duke of Cambridge is quartered
at the War Office.
Ail the Admiralty Lords remain con
stantly at Whitehall.
Todrs, Nov. 21.—Official—The Prus
sians at Chattallon were surprised by
the Garibaldians under Receiotti, and
ail killed or captured.
England has 23,800 experienced sea
men who could be brought into service
within a fortnight.
Large orders from Russia for war ma
terial will not be filled.
The Russian army on a war footing
is 077,282 men—cavalry 68,509, artillery
98,278, engineers 25,100, guns 1000.
London, Nov. 21.—1 tis rumored to
day that Von Der Tann has been re
lieved.
Brussels, Nov. 21. The Belgian
troops have been recalled to the posi
tions they occupied before the war. The
frontier, however, is still well guarded.
London, Nov. 21. The Indepen
dence Beige, in a despondent article on
the Eastern question, expresses a fear
that war is inevitable, and that all the
Great Powers will have their armies in
the field before January.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 21. The
Borne Zeitung says that Turkey has
assented to the annullment of certain
stipulations in the Paris treaty.
The war feeling is ardent throughout
the Russian empire.
Ignaif returns to Constantinople with
full and particular instructions from the
Imperial Government. ■
Vienna, Nov. 21.—The excitement
concerning the Eastern question con
tinties unabated. An official circular
believes that at least the moral support
of the United States will be thrown to
wards Russia.
London, Nov. 31.—The Post denies
that Italy has refused to join England
and Austria in opposition to Russian
pretensions.
Pkague, Nov. 31.—The Poiilik, the
Sclavonian organ, says the Selaves are !
utterly opposed to a war with Russia |
Other journals say that the entire
Hciave race sympathize with Russia’s
designs.
London, Nov. 31.—The Times’ city
article this morning intimates that the |
restoration of Napoleon is on the cards.
Tours, Nov. 21.—Bourbaki has gone
to Novera to take command of the 18ih
Army Corps.
It is reported here that Napoleon has
written to members of the Provisional
Goverment urging continued resistance |
to any proposition cediDg territory.
London, Nov. 21. —F. B. Plumtree, j
master of the University of Oxford, is
dead.
Odo Russell arrived from Verseilles
Sunday night; hence the story of the
“Manchester Examiner,” touching Bis
march’s denial of the understanding
with Russia, about the Black Sea, is un
founded. Russell’s first official inter
view with Bismarck was fixed for to
day.
Naw York, November 31. The
World’s London special says a corres
pondent writing from German head
quarters on the 17th instant, gives
important information concerning the
movements against the Army of the
Loire. Bavarians are moving from
Fontainbleau, and towards which point
Frederick Charles is hastening by fore
; ed marches. At this moment the French
! army is falling back on its reserves, re
-1 sisting the army of Prince Frederick
Charles.
A sortie from Paris, combined with
an attack in rear of Versailles, is daily
expected.
Parisians yesterday were attempting
to erect bridges over the Seine, near
Sevies, to he used in case of a sortie,
but have not yet succeeded.
Gen. Von Moltke seems to think the
consequences of sorties would be ex
tremely serious.
Last night the personal baggage of
tho King was all packed up in readi
ness for instant flight and the same
precautions will be taken to-night.
The Duke of Mecklenburg has asked
for further instructions, saying he can
not hoid his positions in the face of a
greater strength of the Army of the
Loiere. He says no troops can possibly
be spared from the army around Paris
and the Duke muat fall back until he
meets the army of Frederick Charles.
The junction is expected to-night be
tween his advance and the Duke’s rear,
at Ramboullet.
News was received iu London to day
that the Prussian dispatch announcing
action on the 18th at Chateau Dun and
Chateau Cleuf, waa erroneous. The
only action was fought that day at
Chateau Dun, where a severe engage
ment occurred, resulting at first in the
repulse of the French. The Prussian
cavalry was subsequently checked by
the arrival ot the 22d division. This
makes it clear that Daurells is still
m iving with his right, his left resting
on Orleans. Great care is taken to con
ceai Daurells’ plans, but I state on high
authority, he is amusing the Duke of
Mecklenburg with a portion of his army
while he is moving the bulk of his
force, not less than 130,000 men, north
ward, to form a junction with Keratry,
coming from the west, and with Bour
baki, coming fro 10 the north-east. They
will then move quickly on Paris with
the combined armies, which will be un
der command ol Gambetta and Dau
rells.
Bourbaki is leaving behind him a
large number of reserves, and is moving
forward with 63,000 men. Keratry has
50,000.
When these armies effect a junction
the number of troops will not be less
than 265,000, besides their reserves and
10,000 of the army of the Loire, en
trenched at Orleans and holding a line
extending north of Chateau Dun and
Chartres.
Part of Frederick Charles’ army has
established communication with the
Duke of Mecklenburg, between Etampes
and Fontainebleau. The whole force
of the former will probabfy effect a
junction on the 28d. The united
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1870.
strength of his force will then be 120,-
000.
London, November 21.—A writer in
the Pall Mall Gazette urges sending
John Bright to Washington as the
envoy of Great Britain to insure pacific
relations with America in the present
crisis.
It is reported that Russia has fifty
iron-clad monitors at Nickolaif, draw
ing less than 18 feet of water. Russian
fortifications at Azof have been greatly
strengthened, and are repre9Ented to be
impregnable.
London, Nov. 22.—Leaves of absence
have been cancelled, and the Gnarde
have been ordered to prepare for active
service.
Berlin, Nov. 22.—1 tis reported that
Paris is disposed to yield.
A dispatch to the Tribune from Ber
lin reports the English and Prussian
ministers as saying that the daDger of
a rupture is abating.
London, Nov. 22.—The yacht Cam
bria has arrived. Had a rough passage.
Weather disagreeable throughout
England. Telegraphs slow.
Madrid, Nov. 22.— The Impartial
says the formal acceptance by Aosta
has been received. The escorts will
leave Carthage for Geneva next Friday.
Florence, Nov. 22.— Partial returns
warrant the statement that the Govern
ment is sustained by an immense ma
jority.
London, Nov. 22.—The feeling to
day on the Eastern question is healthi
er, and confidence in good part restored
in money circles.
Balloon dates from Paris, midnight,
state that the city is entirely quiet.
Meat limited to the citizens. Horse
flesh still abundant.
Luxemburg, Nov. 22. —The Eicha
says that the Francs-Tireurs were suc
cessful against the German Uhlans near
the border. Over 1000 Uhlaus were
driven into Luxemburg and disarmed.
The siege of Montesty continues. The
garrison sortieii on the 17th; 500 Ger
mans were killed, captured or wounded.
London, Nov. 22. —The Shipping
Gazette mentions that French products,
fabrics, wines, &c., can be bought in
France at fabulously low prices, owing
to the war paralyzationof commerce.
Earl Russell diaed with the Crown
Prince of Prussia Sunday.
Parties have arrived at Versailles late
ly, on a hopeless mission to effect an
armistice. Earl Russell urges this as
an emergency requiring Ministers to
call out and organize the militia.
Paris, Nov. 22. —The Constitutionnel
Bays Russia errs in thinking the neu
trality of the Black Sea a Napoleonic
idea; it is the traditional policy of
France.
A special telegram to the Times from
Berlin says : Russsa is seeking to prove
that the story of her buying an Ameri
can flret to serve as a Black Sea squad
ron, is untrue. Her language is pa
cific. Prussia, itself, wiil sustain a
peaceful solution of the question be
tween Russia and the other powers, re
lative to the Paris treaty of 1853.
The Morning Post officially denies
that Bismarck repudiates the existence
of an understanding with Russia about
the Euxine question.
Luxemburg, Nov. 23.—The bom
bardment of Tsein by the Prussians
was very active to-day Cannonade
distinctly heard here.
London, Nov. 23— A special dispatch
to the N. Y. World, dated Berlin, 23d,
says that according to the latest ac
| counts received from Versailles, inces
sant exertions are directed to the form
! ation of a second outer line of invest
j ment to cover the operations of the in-
I ner line. The strategy of Dauerells is
' understood at Versailles aud been met
■by a counter-movement. With his
centre at Orleans, Dauerells has ex
! tended his lines both North and South,
intending to inclose the Germans on
both flanks. The iattor have executed
similar movements, falling back at the
same time towards Paris. Dauerells’
line is now said to extend from Lemans
through Vendome, Orleans and Bourges
to Neuers. Hi 9 main body rests along
this line, while it is feared that a large
section of his force has passed North
towards Evereux.
London, Nov. 23.— Reports from the
North of France are favorable to the
French. The siege of Montdivo and
Mezieres has suddenly been raised.
The besiegers moved towards the in
terior of France.
Lille is well armed, provisioned and
garrisoned. "Warlike manufactures are
progressing actively. Eagineers think
Lille nearly as strong as Metz.
Four French ironclads are in the port
of Torbay, and another at Brixhaven,
coaling.
Brussels, Nov. 24. —The Indepen
dence Beige has Paris balloon letters to
the 19th. The Civic Guard, composed
mostly of foreigners, has been com
pleted. Many citizens, unfit for active
service, are enrolled in the Civic Guard,
which executes the orders of the Gov
ernment, distributes rations to the citi
zens and soldiers, and performs other
services.
The Germans were massing on the
other side of the city, Eear St. Denis.
Advices from Tours, to noon yester
day, state that the Prussians threaten
Noyont, Laßotron and LaMans with a I
force of 3,000, and that another force is j
moving on Yentan.
It is denied that the Army of the ;
Loire is to move towards Paris.
Several commands in the North of
France, including Bourbaki’s,have been
suppressed, and the entire command as
signed to Gen. Fane.
Bourbaki is expected at Tours to
command the 18th anny corps in the
Army of the Loire.
London, Nov. 23, p. m.—News more
warlike. Considerable excitement on
Stock Exchange. Rumors are current
of hostile dispatcher from Russia.
Vienna, Nov. 28.—Soldiers whose
terms have expired are only dismissed
upon furlough in view of a probable
war.
London, Nov. 23.—Moscow papers
are less insolent and confident than
those at St. Petersburg.
The Duke of Cleveland writes to the
Times, arguing against a war with Rus
sia. He says England is without an
, army for foreign service, and without
allies, except Austria and Turkey, both
of whom are bankrupt.
Russia’s reply is expected Thursday.
It is generally thought it will be un
friendly.
London, November 23.—1 t is report
ed here to-day that Turkey, for the
sake of peace, is anxious to have the
Black Sea opened.
Semi-official statements received from
Viena to-day, deny that Austria has
proposed a Conference relative to the
Eastern question.
It is also denied that Italy declines to
co operate with England and Austria
for the enforcement of the Paris treaty.
Berlin, November 23. —Elections in
Schleswig generally resulted in favor of
candidates who support the propositions
for annexation to Denmark
Pesth, November 23.—1n the Diet
yesterday Count Audressy, on being
questioned, declined to give any infor
mation as to negotiations with Russia
touching the Black Sea question.
London, November 23.— The Times
has a special from Constantinople that
the Saltan invokes interposition of the
proposition of guaranteeing the treaty.
This Morning’s Post has information
confirming the report that Italy will
act in concert with England and Austria.
London, Nov. 23.— Late Calcutta
advices represent that threatened Rus
sian complications have completely
prostrated business. The market is
overstocked with Manchester goods.
Heavy losses expected.
Versailles dispatches yesterday report
several skirmishes south of LaLoupe,
in wich the French were sucessful.
New York November 23. Dis
patches from Berlin, to-day, state that
all the German forces around Paris
will form a defensive semi circle from
Etamps via Chartres and Drenx, to join
with Frederick Charles on the South,the
Duke of Mecklenburg on the West and
Gen. Mauteuffel on the North.
Tours, November 22—Night.—Bour-
baki has arrived. A general battle is
imminent. The design appears to be
to press the centre at Etamps by a
column of 250,000 moving from Auger
ville, while simultaneous attacks will
be made all along the enemy’s front.
A special from Havre says a column
of 2500 Prussians advance from Mautes
along the Seine. They were met by a
detachment of the Army of the North
and routed. 50 were killed and a num
ber made prisoners.
From Washington.
Washington, Nov. 21.—1 tis inti
mated, semi officially, that Russia and
Prussia will invite the United States to
a Congress of the Powers. The natu
ralization and navigation questions
make her co operation and consont im
portant, if not necessary.
Arguments in cases involving cotton
tax and confiscations have been post
poned to first Tuesday in February.
The U. S. Circuit Court at Spring
field, 111., sustains the ruling of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
that bonds issued by towns or cities to
aid in the construction of railroads are
liable to stamp tax, the same as promis
sory notes.
Washington, Nov. 28. Advices
from Mexico say the conditions tacked
on the Tehuantepec Railroad bill were
such as to render concession nominally
worthless.
All places of public business will be
closed on Thursday.
The Supreme Court adjourns to-mor
row until Monday.
A dispatch to the Navy Department
announces the killing of Chief Engineer
Kellogg, of the “Terror,” by Surgeon
King, of tlx© Dictator, in a. Irncas on
shore.
The President has completed his
message.
Tbc census reports from Wilmington,
N. C., show a population of 13,405,
against 9,553 in 1860.
Commodore Vanderbilt and others,
representing the New York Central
Railroad, had a consultation with tho
Revenue Commissioner upon the sub
ject of the taxation of the dividends of
that road. The collection of tax has
been postponed till January, to await
the presentation of the figures from the
company.
Washington, November 23.—Sher
man gone and Cleveland returns Satur
day.
All claims to be adjudicated by
tho Mexican Commission, which were
not filled prior to February 1, 1869, will
be rejected by the Commission.
A number of troops have been order
ed to Georgia, to aid in enforcing the
execution of the Congressional Election
Law in that State at the approaching
election. Atlanta will be the point of
distribution.
Buffalo, Nov. 28. A Treasury
agent is in charge of Collector Rodney
M. Daniels' office. Daniels is accused
of using customs funds for private pur
poses.
From Mexico.
City of Mexico, Nov. 22.—The
Congress, by a largo majority, contin
ued Liberal. Romeo was strongly op
posed to a continuance, but thirteen
States threatened revolution unless
seone, Liberal, was continued.
Juarez has entirely recovered.
The telegraph between the City of
Mexico and Texas will soon be re
stored.
During the discussion extending free
seone, much ill feeling against the
United States was manifested. Many
members stated, in casting tho final
vote, that the United States having de
manded the removal of free seone, they
voted for its continuance.
From Indiana.
Evansville, Nov. 22.—The steamers
Norman and Bluff City, of Evansville,
with Humphreys, Lewis & Co.’s wharf
boat and a lady, were burned.
From nissoarl.
St. Louib, Nov. 22.—Two drunk
ards, Armstrong and Joelly, killed a
Lapine family—a man, two women
and two children—near Polcia, Wash
ington county, cut their heads off and
burned the house.
From North Carolina.
Raleigh, Nov. 22.—The Legislature
met to day. All offices filled by Demo
crats.
Dr. Cloud Recalcitbat. Col.
Hodgson, the Democratic candidate for
Superintendent of Public Institution,
in Alabama, was elected by 4,013 votes
over his radical opponent, Dr. Cloud,
who held the office. Col. H., on re
ceiving the certificate of election from
the Secretary of State, filed bis bond
and Tuesday sent a communication to
the Board of Education, which was
then in session, and over which Cloud
was presiding, with all the credentials
and oaths prescribed, and the certificate
of election. Cloud refused to vacate
his offleo because Col. Hodgson was in
elligible under the dueling law’ of Ala
bama, because he challenged Judge(?)
James Q Smith nearly two years since.
The communication of Cloud, the Board
ordered sent to Col. H., Mr. Smith a
member protesting. The Advertiser
thinks Cloud will yield; the Mail says
the Board can draw no pay while Cloud
continues his usurpation; the Journal
states the question will be left to the
Courts, and Elmore and Chilton have
been retained as counsel for Cloud,
j Thus the matter rested Tuesday.
WEDNESDAY MORHIHO, HOY. 23.
What Sort of a Place is Hell ?
The Atlanta papers are much exercised
now in this question. From its near
locality, we no doubt will soon receive
the latest news about its geography and
inhabitants. We shall wait in patience
for an early report.
It is the proper thing now with news
paper bores to wear large cloaks under
which they can unobserved pack enough
fresh exchanges to stuff a family mat
tress. It is further proper to call every
day—any omission might be taken ad
vantage of by the miserable wretch
whose business it is to do the agreeable,
and who is always unarmed.
We clip the above fram the Courier-
Journal, and observe it has been re
published in the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger. We will merely remark
that he who takes a man’s tools with
which he works, takes his bead, and
that a printing office is not a proper
place for bores of any kind to congre
gate. All work and no play is better
than all play and no work.
The Chicago Times says: “On all
questions affecting the reserved rights
of the States, and on financial questions,
we may expect Carl Schurz to vote
with the Democratic Senators. He is,
in fact, pledged to such action by the
Conservative platform of Missouri, and
the assaults made on him by the admin
istration and the Radical press have re
leased him from all party obligations.
He is now what might be called an ‘in
dependent.’ ”
A Bull in a China Shop. —Just
think of Ben. Butler going into the
Cabinet—to be Secretary of State, too.
But then here is what a Washington
dispatch to tho Cincinnati Commercial
says : “It is believed among the better
informed that soon after the meeting
of Congress Secretary Fish will retire
from the State Department, and the in
dications are that Hon. Ben. Butler will
be his successor. It is determined to
force the Alabama claims with diplo
matic insolence, so as to hnmble the
British Government, if submitted to,
or if not, to fetch on a war. With a
view to this end, Ben Butler is to be
Secretary of State, and Gen. Schenck
Minister to England. Mr. Fish has
intimated that the pressure from New
York in favor of peace would be too
much for him, and it becomes necessary
to have a bolder and more independent
man in his place.”
The Macon Telegraph of the 22d,
says : We are authorized to announce
that the work on the Macon and Au
gusta road will be finished this-week,
aud that it will be opened for the trans
portation of freight and passengers on
the first of December—next Friday
weeK. For the present, only day pas
senger and freight trains will be run,
the schedule for a night train being
deferred until the new through sched
ule between New York and New Or
leans—made necessary by the comple
llou of tlx© MoUllo aud Novr Orloana
Railroad—iias been settled. It is con
templated that the Macon aud Augusta
road should form a link in this route,
and by it twenty-four hours will be
gained between New Orleans and Au
gusta alone. Tho day passenger train
on the Macon and Augusta Railroad
will leave Macon about 7 a. m., con
necting with the up day passenger train
on tho Georgia Railroad for Atlanta,
and all other points on the main line,
and Athens and Washington on the
branches. Passengers by this train will
reach Augusta at 12 m., will reach
Macon at 7 p. m., connecting at Camak
with the down day passenger train
from Atlanta, Athens and Washington.
Committed for Murder.—Yester
day morning, at tho Court House, oc
curred the preliminary trial of Ben.
Wiggins and Phineas Wiggins—the first
charged with murdering his brother-in
law, Wm. Byrd, and the latter with
being an accessory. The affair was
the one mentioned yesterday as having
occurrod Saturday night, about nine
o’clock, in one of the houses of the
Columbus Factory, located three miles
from the city. The Justices were
Messrs. McCahey and Chas. Coleman.
The evidence differed little from the ac
count given yesterday, although it was
proven that throughout the affair Phin.
Wiggins was a peacemaker. The war
rant against him was dismissed. No
one was nearer than fifteen feet from
j Ben. Wiggins and Wm. Byrd when the
latter was stabbed. Both wore drunk,
so the witnesses said. A few moments
before they had come, with Jackson
Byrd, from the city, very friendly, and
Wm. Byrd had been put to bed in
Wiggins’ house. Ben. Wiggins and
Jackson Byrd, after spending a little
while in an adjoining room, where a
party was going on, engaged in a diffl
culty on tho road in front of the house
about their relative manhood. They
were being held apart. A little brother
of Byrd’s came to them saying Bill
Byrd had drawn a chair on Wiggins’
mother. Wiggins started for the house
as Bill Byrd staggered out. They met
near the road, when Jackson Byrd tes
tifies he, being held all the while, saw
Ben. strike Bill two blows with a knife
on the neck and his brother fell. Dr.
Bacon testified the wound on the neck
was the fatal one.
Thff testimony of others showed that
Jackson was very tight, if not drunk.
The Court sustained the charge of
murder against Ben. Wiggins, and he
was committee to jail for safe keeping.
Counsel for the defense were Hon.
M. J. Crawford, Col. 31 II Blanford,
Reese Crawford auu O. II WilliamH.
Grigsby E. Thomas, Esq., for the
State and prosecution.
Hor.s at Cincinnati.—From Octo
ber2oih to November lS'.h, the receipts
were 85,524 head, and for the week
ending the 18th, 44,630. The stock on
hand that day was 79,744. The quality
is very fine. Prices on the 18th were
s6@6 40 per hundred pounds for fair
to good, with butchers selling at $0 50.
Tendency downward, owing to increas
ed product. We learn the above from
the provision circular of Kennedy,
Eckkert & Cos.
Meat^.—We noticed on the streets
yesterday several wagon loads of fresh
ly killed hogs brought from the country.
Happy are the farmers who have grata
and meat to last them to the next sea
son. Their cotton is so much clear
ready money when they please to sell,
and they cannot be forced to do so.
The disposition to make game of Gen
Grant has become so universal through
out the country that he is rapidly sup
planting base ball as Our National
Game.— 'CouritT-Journal,
A HERO IS WAITED!
The Radicals, seeing that Cuffee is a
dead bird in the pit, are anxiously en
gaged in looking for a live cock that
can crow. Their favorite black rooster ■
in the last contest having been fatally
gaffed, they are casting around their ,
eyes to see if some other spread eagle
could not be captured and slipped dis
guised into the Presidential match.
Certain it is that King Richard 111, at
Bosworth Field, never bawled, a horse! !
a horse! my kingdom for a horse! more
lustily than they now do for a hero un
der whose banner they can hope to
conquer.
From the late exposition we publish
ed a short time ago, it was seen that
Benj. Butler, who carries as well brains
in his h|ad as spoons in his pocket, '
wishes to engage in a fight with Old
England. The President seems awful- '
ly puzzled to find a champion who is |
equal to the scratch, or can stir up the
eagle to the sticking point. John Bull j
is a good natured fellow, and withal 1
exceeding wise over his wine and beef- j
steaks. It is said the great Achilles J
was vulnerable oqly in the heel; but j
John haß found even a softer place than !
the heels or heads of Grant’s Min
isters—their stomachs. He first sends
Johnson, of Maryland, with his pockets
filled by Sumner with salt pelre and a
message—pistols and coffee (not Cuffee
by mistake, now) for two. John quiet
ly sets his table and asks Johnson if he
will take his straight, or have it a little
dashed with Cuban lemon and Louisi
ana sugar. Reverdy falls and gives up
the ghost, and wo never hear of the
Alabama claims more. Next comes
the historian of the Dutch Republic.
We never knew why he was recalled,
unless John took Motley for a Dutch
man and embraced him as one of his
own kith and kin. Lager beer even,
was too strong for the Dutch American.
In the meantime the Alabama claimants
indicate impatience and disgust at the
inaction of the Administration, which
devotes its time and energies in inter
fering in State elections instead of set
tling foreign vexed questions. General
Schenck, the lately defeated for Con
gress from Ohio, is next expected to be
the victim to good Old John’s, jolly
Old John’s, brave Old John’s thin pota
tions and British Back.
The voice of Sumner is for war; But
ler cries war—the New York Herald
catches the sound and echoes as fol
lows:
Let Russia seize her opportunity aud
let General Grant seize his. If he would
settle the Alabama claims, do justice to
the country he represents, save his par*
ty, make his re election sure, he cannot
do a wiser thing than advise Russia to
movo southward and send her the need
ed encouragement by ordering some of
the United States war ships into the
Black Sea. Russia and America long
to shako hands; they may us well shake
hand at the Golden Horn as across the
Pacific. As we now rule the New
World, so is Russia bound to rule the
Old. As we must be friends, let us be
friends at once. It is good to be on
hand and in time. Wei have had a
great deal too much of diplomatic pala
vor. WUul wo want now io acUon.
Let us have it at once.
Notwithstanding all this sound and
fury, it signifies nothing, and nervous
old ladies need not bo alarmed; they
may sleep quiet of nights, even within
reach of Niagara’s thundering roar.
They may well echo the words of the
witty Sidney Smith when importuned
by Lady Gray to attack something.—
After speaking of the bad condition of
Greeks, Jews, Spaniards and Sandwich
Islanders, &c., he says:
Am I to fight for all these people?
The world is bursting with sin and sor
row. Am Ito be the champion of the
Decalogue and to be eternally raising
fleets and armies to make all men hap
py ? We have just done saving Europe,
and I am afraid that the consequences
will be that we shall cut each others’
throats. No war, dear Lady Gray; no
eloquence but apathy, selfishness, com
mon sense and arithmetic.
With all tho kicks and long-pole stir
rings inflicted by.the Radical leaders, it
must be very hard on them to see the
stoicism the British lion exhibits. He
moves along majestically, with scarce
a growl or a shake of the mane. He
occasionally thrusts out his long red
tongue, sits on his haunches, and so
far as Grant, Butler, &c., are concern
ed, licks philosophically the tuft of hair
on the end of his tail. He is moved
i only to this, and nothing more.
The supernatural is very nicely taken
out of the Mobile Register’s graveyard
shower story by the following commu
nication which appears in that paper:
“Having occasion to visit a sick person
uear the Catholic graveyard, curiosity
prompted me to make some inquiry
about the phenomenon of rain falling
in a certain yard. It is all due to a
young leafless wild cherry tree stand
ing in an adjoining yard. This is not
uncommon at this season of the year
with the wild cherry, crape myrtle and
swamp popular trees. It is caused by
the sap ascending after the leaves have
fallen off', in great quantities, from some
atmospheric causes. The little scar left
on the branches when the leaf falls off
coats over with gum; the sap rises and
collects under the coat, and by a “®»* a
tergo" action bursts the coating, and
many of them at a time produces a very
fine shower. There are other phenome
na of this kind in and about the city.
Soldiers Leaving.— As the elections
are over in Alabama and are soon to
come off in Georgia, the Federal troops
in this place, except the cavalry, have
been ordered to Atlanta, Georgia, and
left Eutaw on yesterday for that place.
During their stay here they deported
themselves with soldierly propriety, and
our people have no complaints to make
against them. The cavalry corps re
mains among us, but for what purpose
we do not know, unless it be to enable
the local Radicals to have some more of
our people that have offended them ar
rested and bound over to appear at
court, as a penalty for being white men
and despisers of such white niggers as
i themselves. — Eutaw T Vhig and Observ
i er.
A Jlcrdeker Elected.—A few clays
previous to the election in Florida, a
negro candidate of the Radical party for
the Legislature in Madison county,
Oliver Coleman by name, committed a
cold blooded murder upon one of the
most respected and worthy youny men
of the county, and without the shadow
of cause or justification. He was arrest
ed and placed in jail, but his negro
friends continued to run him for the
office, and having the numerical
strength, elected him by a large majori
ty. Comment in a case like this is
wholly unnecessary. We would only
ask the more sensible Radicals them
selves, how long they suppose the Gov
ernment can be successfully wielded by
such an element as that which elevated
this brutal murderer to the high posi
tion of a Legislator?— Amerieut Courier
Cruelty to Animals. —Some wretch
at the North has now nominated Hor
ace Greeley for President. The atten
tion of 3lr. Henry Bergh, President of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals, Is called to these flagrant
outrages.
NO. 41.
THURSDAY MOKNINU, HOY. 21.
THROWIHQ UP THE SPOHUE.
Pursuant to the order of the Gover
nor, the Senate of Georgia met at 10
a. m. yesterday, and was called to or
der by President Conloy.
In the absence of the Governor but
little business was transacted. Some
wrangling over by-gones is understood
to have taken place, and a suggestion
made that if such a course were pur
sued Senators might as well take up
winter-quarters in Atlanta.
Without taking any action worthy of
note the Senate adjourned until 10 a. m.
to-day.
We clip the above from the Atlanta
New Era, of the 22d inst. This is a
most astonishing announcement, but it
is by way of curiosity, as a drop o*
water to the ocean, when compared to
the Message of his Excellency, which
follows. Will wonders never cease ?
Is this world and its affairs always to
turn round without a moment’s rest,
like a big top or a kitten in search of
its tail ? Is nothing moral, intellectual,
or political to assume a settled shape ?
Is all law, precedent and authority to
yield to every touch of progressive Rad
icalism ? Certainly there was a time
that when the brains were out, the man
would die, but now it seems that this
natural result, but adds a cat like tenac
ity to life.
The message which follows the above
announcement is dated at New York,
the birth place we believe, of his Excel
lency. So it seems that even the capi
tal of the State is not a fixed fact. We
find one department of the Government
(the Executive) in New York, another
in Atlanta (the Senate) the other
branch (the House of Representatives)
smelling around after darkies for votos )
and the last (the Judiciary) is gone
where the woodbine twineth in the vain
endeavor to reconcile their crude and
contradictory opinions with such au
thorities as Coke, Mansfield, Ilale and
Blackstone. Here is a nice spectacle
for Mrs. Grundy ! The Empire State of
the South to be thus, with a mutilated
hand stretched forth and begging credit
from the Empire State of the North.
The whine of the Governor too, is most
piteous. Hear him for he is both short
and sweet:
New York, November 20, 1870.
Hon. Benjamin Conley , President
Senate. — The most intamous reports
have been set afloat by the Treasurer,
through his son, in relation to the
State’s bonds and credit, and these re
ports are supplemented by articles in
the Atlanta Constitution. It seems to
be a concerted movement and effort by
those parties to destroy the credit of the
State for political purposes. I therefore
deem it to be my duty to remain here a
few days longer than I had anticipated
in order to foil and defeat the efforts of
these miserable conspirators against the
honor and credit of our State. Not
withstanding the diligent circulation of
false reports against our credit, our
bonds stand higher than thoso of any
other Southern State, and will bo read
ily purchased if we decide to offer any
for sale.
Nominations for the Senate have
been made and will be transmitted from
the Executive Department to the Sen
ate without delay, and I shall hope to
be -with you as soon as my duty to the
State here will permit.
Rufus 13. Bullock.
Now is not this tale enough to make
the eyes of a miser overflow with tears,
and touch with pity tho melting hand
of charity ? The Governor of a great
State standing like a beggar from the
coast of Barbary, holding in one hand
his hat for dimes to foreigners, and his
record of cruel treatment from land
pirates at home in the other !
After the Governor has extended the
credit of the State for political and par
ty purposes, until it has cracked, he
now turns around and talks of State
credit. He piled debt after debt, like
Pelion and Ossa on Olympus, till moun
tain peeps over mountain, and now he
lisps like a sick girl about “infamous
reports.” After having the Treasurer’s
name engraved on the coupons of the
State bonds without authority, he now
has the audacity at the expense of the
overburdened tax-payers, to prate about
miserable conspirators against the honor
and interest of the State. What does
such a Governor care about the honor
or credit of Georgia, provided ho can
put money in his own and the purses of
his miserable partisan tools? Is Bul
lock so ignorant as not to know that
the money lords of New York look to
other sources than newspapers to con
trol the bond market ? There is some-
thing rotten in Atlanta, or his Express
ity would not flinch so powerfully when
touched by the spurs.
In justice to the editor of the Consti
tution, we append an extract from his
reply to the charges of Bullock. We
have not room for the whole article.
He Bays:
But, if the Constitution’s ventilations
ot gubernatorial mismanagement have
had the effect to interrupt Governor
Bullock in the disposal of the State
bonds, it is a legitimate result, and we
hope that he will be entirely stopped,
until an honest Legislature can be elect
ed and put matters right.
This paper has given official figures,
not one of which has been denied. Gov
ernor Bullock need not think to saddle
upon us, the inexorable fruits of his
own follies and crimes. It is right that
the people should have the truth—that
capitalists should not be deceived. Let
the large ißStie of State bonds stop. Let
the administration quit its enormous
extravagance. Let the Governor and
his faction go without money for a
while.
But no more whining about tho ven
tilation of his acts hurting the State
credit. The acts did it, not the venti
lation. He is responsible for the acts.
The ventilation is our duty, imperative
and inexorable.
The New King ok Spain.—The gen
eral impression in diplomatic circles in
Washington is that the strong opposi
tion urged to the election of the Duke
of Aosta to the throne of Spain will be
certain to develop into serious compli
cations. It is understood that the chief
opposition to his elevation comes from
the' Carlistß and Orleanists. At the
election by the Cortes the Carlists voted
blank.
Aosta is a young man twenty-five
years of age, and the second son of Vic
tor Emmanuel, King of Italy. The
full name and titles of the new King are
Prince Amedeus-Ferdinand-Marie,
Duke of Aosta. He was born on the
30th of May, 1845, and is a lieutenant
general and chief of a cavalry brigade
in the Italian army, and also —ajid as
such he is best known—Vice Admiral
of the Italian fleet. In 1867 he married
the Princess Marie, daughter of Prince
Charles Emmanuel della Cisterna, who
thus may become, by a dispensation of
the Cortes, Queen of Spain. The young
King is connected by marriage with the
family of the Bonapartes, his eldest sis
ter, Clothilde, being the wife of Prince
Napolean. His second sister is Queen
of Portugal.
Killing at Warrior Stand.—We
understand that a one-armed man,
named Morrison, formerly of this coun
ty, killed an old gentleman named
Bonne, at Warrior Stand, Macon conn
ty, Ala., last Saturday. Morrison was
oommitted without bail. We have not
heard the particulars of the killing-
Trading sltti Negrors.
Ed Sun: Space enoughinyour columns
is craved to present a few plain thoughts,
important enough in themselves, though
crudely digested, to impress public
opinion. AH true men are agreed that
the prosperity of this country depends,
to a very great extent, upon the aset u
dency of sound conservative political
principles, as opposed to Radicalism—
carpet baggers and scalawags being its
exponents among us, the negro being
but the puppet, the cat with whose
claws they pull out the roasted chest
nuts. It is of no less importance that
there should be unanimity of feeling,
purpose and policy among those to tho
“manor born," as to all that concerns
the material and social as well as the
political interests of Southern society,
and never as much so as now.
There is a growing evil, as I thick,
certainly an innovation upon decent
Southern society, which needs partial
consideration only to meet as it deserves,
tho condemnation of all honorable*
people. I mean the clandestine traffic
with negroes in agricultural products,
carried on not by carpet-baggers or po
litical scalawags alone, but also by those
who profess political orthodoxy with
us.
Southern society at present is at best
anomalous, from tho force of circum
stances, politically oppressed, degraded
and disorganized; the labor system of
the country unadjusted, and if done at
all to be done, in its details, with great
difficulty; the negro in the ascendent,
in the wealthiest sections, at the polls—
he ignorant and deluded as to his true
social and economical position, and yet
crafty, cunning and unscrupulous as io
his material gains; and having the ad
vantage, too, as yet, of being taken us
partner in agricultural contracts, in
most places. It is too evident to re
quire demonstration by argument that
it is wrong, not to say dishonest or dia
honorable for the doggery traffic to be
carried on with the negro, In the com
mou plantation products of the country;
for every one knows that nearly if not
entirely all they offer in traffic is stolen,
and that the effect of the traffic is to en
courage the negro to steal; and what is
still worse, that too often it is not only
calculated,bat intended to encouraye that
species of theft.
Under this stato of the case, every one
knows, who has sagacity enough to see
the nose on his neighbor’s face, that ho
that encourages or carries on this illicit
traffic not only aids aud abets the theft,
but consents with and conceals for the
thief. , ..
This ißan alarming stato of things—ns
mortifying and humiliating as it is dan
gerous. What then should be tbo effect
such a spectacle ought to have upon pub
lic sentiment? If wo justly denounce
the carpet bagger aud scalawag who
make a tool of the negro to rob us of our
rights at the ballot-box, what should ho
the estimate and treatment of the traffic-
er who aids aud encourages the same
negro to rob our cribß and gin houses ot
the hard earnings, which in too many
cases furnish but meagre support for the
women and children of our smitten
lnndf to say nothing of tho lack of edu
cation thereby entailed upon tho laiter.
Does not any one with a half an eye
sec that any sharper, shrewd enough to
run a one horse grocery, and mean
enough to afflliato with a rogueish no
gro, can, with a barrel of whiskey, buy
ten bales of cotton, and with another
barrel a thousand bushels of corn?—
knowing all the time that it is all stolen.
Is this thing to go on and he set down
to Southern enterprise and thrift ? Or
rather, is it not time it was looked into
with scrutiny and an emphatic answer
given to the grave question ~ Will
Southern public opinion sanction and
tolerate such hitherto unallowed high
way plundering ? Who is the man that
would have dared public opinion by
such traffic with the negro when a slave?
What Southron says tho negro that en
gages in It is better to-day than ho was
then V
There Is soma intimations, though
few as yet, in the right direction—one
in the meeting at Glennvillo, Ala.; an
other in Lowndes county, Miss,—very
indicative of purpose that tho public
mind is rousing, and will not long tol
erate such outrages.
The strong arm of legislation, too,
now that the political Blues are bright
ening in Alabama, may back public
opinion and intervene to prevent disas
ter from this fruitful source of danger
and discord.
These words, though Btrong, do not
overstate the case, v?hen it is remem
bered that the negro is vindictive, and
knowing how to track up one another in
rascality where the traffic alluded to is
carried on, the danger is they will re
taliate by actsol incendiarism—then, in
their turn, the aggrieved party, though
the first offender, may retaliate also by
similar acts of lawlessness, until there
would bo no security for anything.
The mind of the laboring class would
thus become so familiarized with the
enactment of such scenes of lawlessness
that would thereby ensue, that ultimate
ly everything would be at the mercy of
tho incendiary and the brigand. The
consequence would necessarily be that
no insurance could be t Heeled, in these
localities, on any terms—and the price
of real estate greatly depreciate, it not
become entirely worthless. But be
sides the paltry consideration ot dollars
and cents, there is ground lor an appeal
to southern manhood, potent enough to
stir even the stolid mind of the negro,
now he is free, or the knavish heart of
his white confree, when it is remember
ed that Southern society, as yet, stands
upon a foundation from which every
thing has been swept by the besom of
war, except the ashes of its own deso
lation, and the few great principles that
stood outside of the pale of conflict
through which we have passed—the
chivalry, pride and honor of sectional
independence, of which tho South has
ever boasted.
History teaches the sad lesson that a
conquered people are, too often, con
quered all over—soul and body—inde
pendence of mind as well a* distlnc'ive
form of thought. And such a condition
is as often followed by a gross greed
for selfish gain that grows upon tho
bloody crust of war. It is to be feared,
in the present condition of the South
ern States, a loss may be sustained
greater than confiscation or the inflic
tions of the sword —the Joss of distinc
tive habits of honor, self-respect, and
intellectual self assertion; and in their
place substituted a coarse sentiment
which may prompt to repair individual
wealth, no matter by wbat means, and
at the sacrifice of, no matter what prin
ciple, to fill the belly with the husks of
ill-gotten gains, and then turn up the
face and die.
But, unless there are higher objects
and motives left us than the Yankee
magna bona to elevate and distinguish
Southern society, then let us take down
our sign —quit our taunts at carpel bag
gers and scalawags, and substitute the
motto—for everyone to “out Herod
Herod,” “and the devil take the hind
most.” Russell,
Alocha Coffee Pot.—We commend
to the attention of housekeepers, the
air tight coffee pot, to be found at the
store of Brewer & Milford. In addi
tion to the advantage it possesses of
preventing the oscape of tho aroma, In
the escaping steam, while boiling, as
in the ordinary coffee pot, it has a
vacuum encasing the bottom, in which
to pour hot water that keeps tho coffee
I hot The coffee boilod in this pot is
1 far superior to tho best dripped coffee.
It has been in use in the writer’s family
1 for some time, and is found to be supe
rior for making good coffee, to any
boiler yet presented to the public.
Lovers of good, coffee will do well to
call and examine this new invention
Merriwethek County.— The fol
lowing nominations for tho Legislature
have been made: Democratic, John
Roper and Dr Taylor; Radical, W. A.
Hall, present member, and Wood More
land.
The Democrats of Chatham county
have nominated for Representative to
the Georgia Legislature, JohnJ. Kel
ley, Emanuel Heidt and Isaac RuiseL.