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Col. HodtMn’s Address to tbe Board
of Education of Alabama.
Gentlemen of the Board of Education:
In assuming the office of Superinten
dent of Public Instruction, to which I
have been elected by the people of Ala
bama, it becomes my duty to preside
over the deliberations of this Board.
The weight of responsibility which
rests upon me in executing the duties of
my office is fully appreciated, and the
necessity for a reliance upon your intel
ligence, your generosity and your pa
triotism is fully understood. The in
terests of public education in our beloved j
State are in your hands far more than
in mine. You are the law-making pow- j
er. lam your ministerial officer.— ;
Whilst my duty to the people of Alaba- I
ms, who have-so kindly called me to ;
this chair, as well as my.own ardent
inclination, impels me to a rigid and 1
faithful execution of the educational
laws of the State, it must be borne in I
mind that all the labors of the Superin- j
tendent will be futile unless the laws j
enacted by you are based upon equity, !
economy, liberality and a patriotism 1
which looks beyond sect, creed or party.
The interests committed to your
hands by the Constitution of Alabama ■,
are of transcendent importance. They
absorb two-thirds of the revenues of the j
State. They effect the temporal and
eternal welfare of one million of souls.
They are not to be approached with the :
heart of a partisan or with the brain of
a bigot. They are not to be evaded or
discarded in a spirit of factious conten
tion or of inflexible prejudice. Outside
of thiß Chamber, the storms of party
may beat; but, inside of it, let discord
cease and let reason assert her highest
prerogatives! We have a holy work to
perform immeasurably grand in its pur
poses, and, it Bhould be, immeasurably
beneficent in its results. Let us enter
upon that work as patriots and philan
thropists, lovers of our State and coun
try, who recognize in education the
doorway to happiness and prosperity— ;
and lovers of our kind, who watch the j
developments of the human mind and |
of the human heart, with pride for the
capacities of our nature and gratitude
for the Author of our Being !
The world is advancing with rapid
strides. Thought has become more
and more intensified as the years have
rolled around. The arts and sciences
have increased and spread with such
prolific growth that what our fathers
regarded as novel, we have learned to
look upon as trite or as effect. In every
department of knowledge, the discove
ries of to-day have reversed the discove
ries of yesterday, or havo elevated them
into immutable theories. Mankind is
moving onward and upward, day by
day, to nower discoveries, to more
startling developments, and to more
comprehensive ideas. We must move
with others. The errors of yesterday
must be discarded for the truths which
stare us in the face to-day. The whole
people must be educated. Our system
of instructions should be commensurate
with oilr systems of humanity and of
religion, covering all races and condi
tions of the people. It is commanded
by the laws of civilization, and the laws
of our nature, no less than by the laws
of the Slate. In administering those
laws it becomes our duty to lop away
whatever has proven detrimental in the
past, and to add whatever our advanc
ing experience may prove beneficial in
the present. I confidently expect the
members of this Board to revise our
whole system of Public Instruction apd
better adapt it to the wants and neces
sities of our present condition. Let our
energies be so concentrated, and let our
resources be husbanded and expended
as far as possible upon the teachers of
schools ! Let us force our officers and
assistants to understand that this de
partment is not an eleemosynary insti
tution for their benefit, but that it de
mands the highest exortions of intelli
gence anil industry. We want no sine
cures. We want earnest laborious men,
and laws which will induce such men
to enter uponthefloldof education, and
devote overy energy of their souls to
the noblest duties of life. We want our
public schools so improved and elevated
that they may attract the children of
the rich as well as of llio poor. Wo
want our corps of superintend outs and
trustees to labor for the cause of educa
tion, not only within, but outside of
their official duties. We want a popu
lar interest aroused for the establish
ment and endowment o's schools. Wo
want private endowments for our nor
mal schools, colleges and university, as
an addition to the State fund. We
want the University'restorod to its for
mer, and even a better condition, and
to see our gallant sons returning from
the colleges of other States to commence
and compete with each other upon our
own soil.
To secure these results will require
the friendly co-operation of all tho
members of this Board. When you
onco show the people of, Alabama that
you riso abovo tho prejudices aud de
mands of party, and are ready to meet
the grave questions devolving upon
you for solution upon the elevated
plain of a catholic charity, you will
find that what was diflcult yesterday
will prove easy to morrow. You will
iind the pooplo coming forward to meet
you half way in the work of popular
education. You will find in every city
and village, in every hamlet and nook
and dell of our State, men who, if they
have not the means, possess at least
the heart of a Peabody.
It is our duty to educate the colored
children of our State equally with the
white. In order the more thoroughly
to do so, 1 submit to you whether an
appeal should not be made by you and
the general assembly to the Congress of
the United States for an appropriation
of public lands to the school system of
our State. The fund arising from the
appropriation made to us many years
ago by Congress, when the advantages
of tho schools were confined to but one
race, is entirely inadequate since they
have been extended to all races.
You know our wants, and you know
tho duty devolved upou us by tho Con
stitution of the State. Let us see to it
that we discharge that duty honestly
and intelligently. The eyes of all the
people are upon us. If wo do well, we
receive their thanks. If we fail in our
duty, wo will justly receive their dis
approbation and censure. With a deep
conviction of the responsibilities which
rest upon U 9, I ask in our behalf the
sympathies |and support of the whole
people of Alabama, and I invoke upon
our deliberations tho blessing of Al
mighty God.
Cloud, M. D., Superintendent,
etc— An Old Anecdote Applied.—
The dispatch of yesterday from Mont
gomery informs us that the Board of
Education, indulging in no sympathy
With Cloud in his allliction, voted un
animously, Radicals and all, that Col.
Hodgson was the dflly elected State
Superintendent and their legal presid
ing officer, and invited him, as such, to
preside over their deliberations. Thus
endeth in a fiasco Cloud’s attempt to
perpetuate ill-gotten power, and this
reninds us of an old anecdote.
Many years ago when that extraordi
nary preacher, Whitfield, was in this
country, such was the effect of his elo
quent teaehirigs, that of the multitudes
Who heard him many believed that an
afflatus of the holy spirit had been
breathed upon him. On an occasion
when he was advertised to preach, but
failed- to come to time, an immense,
crowd assembled to hear him, when a
substitute stepped into the pulpit. An
old negro who was ignorant of the fact
that W hitfiejd had disappointed the
audience, was so excited by the elo
quence of the preacher that he began to
shout, throwing himself upon the lloor
and exclaiming Glory, Glory ; O ! mas
sa Whitfield, massa Whitfield ! A by
stander thereupon asked him what he
meant, that it was not Whitfield who
was preaching, but a stranger, it wa s
a wet blanket to the darkey, who in
stantly rose to his feet, cooled down,
and-shaking, his garments, remarked :
“Den Pompey dirty he close lor nus
sen.”
Perhaps the Cloud-Putnam tactiou of
Mobile and Montgomery can make the
application. — Mobile Tribune.
We shall never forgot that woman, as
she stood by the fence around her neat
little cottage home and gave out rations
of bread to the half starved soldiers re
turning home from Appamattox. “Sir,”
said she, pointing to a little hillock near
her cottage door, “yonder lays my all;
they are buried side by side—four boys
I gave them all. ” The tears streamed
down her cheeks. And we left her
there—a Rachel as glorious as the one
written of in the Scripture.— Hillsboro
(W. C.) Recorder.
i the Uovernor'i Biggest Sluice of
Extravagance.
In 1860 the Legislature incorporated
; in the appropriation act, what is known
as section 23d of the present act. It
authorizes the Governor, in all cases of
service or labor, whose compensation
is not provided for, to draw his warrant
for such a sum as may seem just.
Governor Brown never drew a dollar
under it. The Legislature usually gives
the Governor a contingent fund of
$20,000 from which to pay all such
claims, and this has generally been
found more than ample. Where there
were extraordinary expenses beyond
this fund, Governors have waited and
referred the matter to tbe Legislature.
The result has been great economy in
the use of the contingent fund, and’ a
very rigid adhesion to law in all mat
ters pertaining to .the public money.
This elastic India-rubber section has
been shamelessly abused by Governor
Bullock. Governor Jenkins spent but
$7,412 10 under it, and this in carrying
out an act of the previous Legislature.
The amount spent by Governor Bul
lock under this section, almost equals
in enormity of criminal extravagance
the clferk Lire pf the Legislature. He
has literally squandered and thrown
away the people’s money. Up to May
the 18th, the amount was $232,780 18.
In the month of May, 1870, the amount
paid waß $71,810 30. Since then, $34,-
810 34 has been spent under this sec
tion. Taking the amount spent in May
after the 18th, we have w-arly three
hundred thousand dollars spent by this
economical Governor for what previous
Governors have never disbursed a
dollar.
The details of this expenditure are
sickening. One item alone will do for
a sample. Some $1,500 was spent in
paying A. L. Harris, and other railroad
hands and their compeers, for services
in illegally organizing the Legislature,
when these men, most of them, were
drawing pay from the State for what
they were neglecting.
We tell the people to vote for no man
who is the friend of this most diabolical
Bullock faction; and, further, to vote
for no candidate for member of the
Legislature who will not pledge himself
to help wipe out the twenty-third sec
tion of the Appropriation act, that is
made the cloak for such reckless waste
of the people’s money. —Atlanta Con.
Tnic Navy. —We read the following
very interesting intelligence of one of
Secretary Robeson’s ships:
A letter from Capt. George 11. Coop
er, of the U. S. steamer Colorado,
the flagship of the Asiatic station, says
with regard to that vessel:
“She handles beautifully from a'ligbt
royal breeze to a good stiff single-reef
topsail wind, and her sailing qualities
are excellent. We had some noble
green seas to try her in doubling the
Cape, and with but one exception we
made every sail ahead, and this was an
English clipper bound to Sydney. We
were under moderate sail in the vicini
ty of the Cape, owing to thick weather,
and the clipper was carrying signals.
Coming up under our lee quarter she
cheered. This was a barter. I got the
band up and gave them ‘God Save the
Queen,’ and then ‘Shoo-fly.’ We then
made sail to staysail, and gradually
stole away from our friends, much to
her surprise.”
There is something very professional
and dignified in a frigate “getting up
its band” and playing “God Save tire
Queen” and “Shoo fly” to a merchant
vessel. The Colorado is the ship which,
while the missionaries were crying for
help in China, took five months to go
to Rio, and nearly three more to get to
Singapore \—Sav. News.
.Literary Questions Solved. —The
question has frequently been propound
ed in the press where these often quoted
sentences originated, and no response
hasdieen given to it: “Consistency’s a
jewel’ 1 ‘Lost to sight to memory dear. ”
A literary friend, in whose judgment
we repose entire confidence, says that
the first appeared originally in Mur
■tagh’s Collection of Ancient English
aud Scotch Ballads, 1854. In the bal
lad of “Jolly Robyn Roughhead” are
tins following lines, in which itn.ppeu.ro;
Tash ! tush.', my iasslo, flush thoughts residue,
Comparisons are cruel],
Fine pictures just In frames as line,
Consistencies a jewel,
For thee and me coarse clothes are best,
Kudo folks In komelye raiment drest,
Wife Joan and goodman Robyn.
The secoud first appeared in verses
written in an old memorandum book,
the author not recollected:
Sweetheart, good bye 1 the fluttering- sail
Is spread to waft me far from thee,
And soon before the fav’ring gale
Rly ship shall btfhnd upon the sea,
Perchance, all desolate and lorlorn,
These eyes shall miss theo many a year,
Put unforgotton in every charm,
Though lost to sight to memory dear.
The Amendments to the Consti
tution ok Missouisi.— I The proposed
amendments to the constitution of Mis
souri are reported to have been adopted
at the late election by a large majority.
The first amendment abolishes the dis
trict court system ; the second abolishes
the jurors’ test Oath ; the third abolish
es the double liability clause for private
corporations; the fourth abolishes the
voters’ test oath ; the fifth abolishes the
disqualification for holding office on ac
count of color, disloyalty, &c.; the
sixth provides that neither the General
Assembly nor any county or city, or
other municipal corporations shall ap
propriate or Bel apart any public mon
ey, land or other property for the bene
fit of any sectarian school or college.
The PnosrECTs of Demockacy.—
The New Y’ork Herald, of 23d inst., in
the course of a long article on the polit
ical situation, casts the horoscope as
follows : The outlook to-day is with the
Democracy. New York has advocated,
strengthened, disciplined, regenerated
the party. As New York goes so will
go the Union ; and unless the influences
which has led to this consummation,
through so many dangers and trials and
disappointments, are checked by simi
lar action on the part of General Grant
and his friends, it is not difficult to see
a Democratic victory in 1872 as decided
as that which made Mr. Buchanan
President in 1856.
From Shanghai, via the Suez Ca
nal.—The arrival at New York, on
Monday, of the steamer Magdala, the
first vessel which has made the trip from
China to New York via tho Suez canal,
took place according to expectation.
She sailed August 2Gth, and has conse
quently been ninety-seven days in mak
ing tho passage, which, however, was
not made under the most favorable con
ditions as to weather. The Magdala is
| ladened with tea. A second steamer,
! with tea, by the same route, is due in a
fortnight or three weeks. Both are
British vessels.
Grant’s Message—Universal-Am -
1 nestt. —A dispatch to the York World,
under date of the 22d inst., announces
that one of the most interesting features
i of Grant’s forthcoming message i9 said
to boa recommendation to Congress for
| universal amnesty, for the removal of
all disabilities imposed by the Four
teenth Amendment. The President
thus intends to profit by the lesson in
j Missouri.
Emigration Westward. Large
numbers of emigrants from North Car
olina have recently been passing
- through Augusta, en roxite to Texas,
Arkansas and Louisiana. #n Wednes
day night, about 75 passed over the
Georgia Railroad, and on Thursday
night, about 100. They carry out a
1 bountiful crop of children to their hew
homes.— Aug. Const.
Some Montgomery poet grinds out
the following:
Possum up the gum stump,
Smlthie in the hollow.
With bayonets in lront of him ;
Bayonets all around him.
Bingham in the wallow!
The little chirping fellow—
And a big dust behind him.
dust here the engine broke !
Two Federal soldiers who robbed
Isaiah Davis, at Atlanta, a few weeks
since, were convicted in Fulton Supe
rior Court Friday.
Judge Casey has resigned the Chief
Justiceship of the United States Court
of Claims. We have seen dozens of
the President’s brothers-in-law go into
office, but this is the only one who has
ever been known to go out.— Courier-
Journal. _
The result of the elections in Missouri
is said to have thrown Grant into a
Brown study from which he Is not like
; ly soon to recover .—Courier-Journal.
From the Montgomery Advertiser, Nov. 2!)tb.
Meeting: at the Capitol.
A large meeting of Democrats and
Republicans, in fact of ail parties who
oppose the extraordinary military pro
ceedings now going on at the Capitol
in reference to the offices of Governor
and Treasurer, was held in the Hall ot
the House last night.
Mr. E. H. Metcalf, Rep., was called
to the Chair, and 51r. Ellis Phelan
elected Secretary.
Loud calls were made for Mr. U. Ray
Myers, a prominent Mobile Republican,
who appeared amid deafening applause.
He declared himself a thorough Repub
lican, but said he could not lend himself
to the conspiracy which is now on foot.
He said the Republicans were fairly de
seated, and that all honest Republicans
were willing to concede the defeat. He
was particularly severe on Gov. Par
sons, and said he wanted no more of
Parsons’' reconstruction, and that he
bad but little confidence In that gentle
man. He said that tbe conspiracy
would fall through, and that tbe conspi
rators would fail in tbe scheme to re
construct the State. He declared that
there was no law for the proceedings,
and that the conduct of the three theor
ists, White, Parsons and Rice, would
only bring forth a very small mouse,
and make Lindsay’s installation the
more sure. He asked that the incom
ing administration be jnst ahd forbear
ing, and all would be well.
He was followed by Mr. Graham,
Republican member of the. House from
Perry,' who expressed tbe same senti
ments in a well timed and well received
speech of about ten minutes. He ac
knowledged defeat, aud said the present
carryings on only injured the Republi
can party.
Gen. Geo. E. Spencer, U. S. Senator,
was loudly called for, but having anolb
er engagement Mr. Myers announced
that he was authorized to say that Gen.
8. was in full and hearty sympathy with
the objects of the meeting.
Our honored townsman, Hon. A. J.
Walker, next addressed the meeting in
an argumentative and able manner. In
the course of his remarks he showed
conclusively tlfat the injunction writ
issued by. Judge SaffoTd, was totally il
legal, and that Mr. Barr, as President
of the Senate, had no legal authority for
obeying it.
Judgo Morse was next called for, and
heartily endorsed the call for the meet
ing. He paid a high compliment to
Gov. Smith, and said that he was satis
fied the Governor did not conceive the
idea of placing the bayonet over the
ballot. He adhered to his party, but
said he had not only willingly yielded
his office as Attorney General, but that
he would give as earnest a support to
the new administration as if it were
Republican. His speech was cautious,
but well delivered and received. lie
said the bayonet proceedings were un
heard of, illegal, and unjust, and that
two thirds of the Republican party dep
recated; it. He gave Messrs. Parsons
and others some heavy digs.
Col. Doster, member of the House
from Autauga, made an able and excel
lent speech, deprecating the measures
resorted to, and expressing his utter
dislike for the uncalled for and revolu
tionary measures. He believed the
Democratic party had honestly succeed
ed, and that the Republican party by
these actions, were repudiating the
principles which they have heretofore
advocated.
Mr. J. 11. Booth, Republican mem
ber of the Board of Education, also ad
dressed the meeting in a forcible and
appropriate manner.
Judge Clarke, Republican of North
Alabama, made a very able speech, aud
was rapturously applauded.
The resolutions that were adopted set
forth that the people of Alabama have
done nothing that justifies the placing
of soldiers in the Capitol, and that the
conduct in the premises is cruel and
unwarranted.
ALABAMA LEGISLATE BE.
Monday, Nov. 28th, 1870.
Senate met at 11 o’clock, Lieutenant
Governor Moren iii the chair.* lie was
introduced to the .body by Senator R.
N. Barr, late acting President.,
Gov. Moren nuulo few reiuiuke
upon assuming the chair.
lie said that though attached to the
Democratic party, he should leave all
partisan feelings outside of the Senate
Chamber, and hoped to cultivate the
kindest relations with every member
o*f the Senate. •
A communication was read from C.
A. Miller, retiring Secretary of State,
informing the Senate that Mr. .T. J.
Parker had entered in regular form
upon the discharge of. his duties as
Secretary of State.
Mr. Barr moved that in view of the
fact that the wheels of the State Gov
ernment seemed to be temporarily
blocked, the Senate do now adjourn
until’ll o’clock to-morrow morning to
see if the matter would not be settled.
The motion prevailed unanimously.
HOUSE.
On motion of Mr. Lewis, the reading
of the journal w T as dispensed with, in
order to allow him to introduce a reso
lution.
Messrs. Stroback, Harmount and
Henderson (Republicans) insisted that
the journal should be read.
Mr. Lewis offered the following reso
lution :
[The resolution was the one reported
by telegraph Monday night.—Sun. ]
Greene, of Hale, opposed the resolu
tion.
Mr. Oates supported the resolution,
and appealed to the members without
distinction of party to vote for it.
Mr. Haralson, of Dallas, opposed the
postponement.
Mr. Boyd, of Marshall, in a spirited
and dignified speech favored immediate
action.
Mr. Oates moved a recess for thirty
minutes, and stated the majority was
willing to allow the minority time to
consult. The resolution was adopted
and the Honse took a recess for thirty
minutes.
On re-assembling, the resolution wks
adopted with only two dissenting votes.
The chair appointed as the committee
on the part of the House, Messrs. Lew
is, Dustan and Semmes.
On motion of Mr. Crook, the House
adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
Tna King of Brazil Coming.— The
Brazilian legation at Washington is ex
pecting a visit from the King of Brazil.
Don Pedro, it is said, intends to come
to the United States soon, when he will
spend some time in all the leading
cities of the United States, taking in
the national capita! as a matter of
course, and paying his respects to the
Prosident. Don Pfcdro is a liberal pat
ron of the arts and sciences, and has
been the friend of many distinguished
persons in America, including Prof.
Agassiz.
A curious and exciting trial was had
a few days ago at Plymouth, N. H.
Rev. Charles Greenwood, a clergyman
of the town was on trial for arson, it
baviDg been alleged that be had fired
his own house to obtain the insurance
of $15,000. When the verdict of ac
quital was ended, Greenwood was eSP>
corted from the court in triumph by the
excited populace.
A man has been found in the Empire
State who has voted the Democratic
ticket at 65 elections, and is still poor,
at which we do not marvel.— Wilming
ton Com.
Nor we. If he had been a Radical he
would have his pay or quit the party
long ago. —Richmond Dis.
Washington, D. C., Nqv. 28.—1 t
was stated in Republican circles last
night, that R. 11. Whitely and H. P.
Farrow will be admitted to their seats
as Senators from Georgia early next
week. Their credentials are now in
the hands of the Senate. If these gen
tlemen are admitted every seat in Unit
ed States Senate will be filled for the
first time since 1860. —Special to the Ma
con Journal.
The End of a Carpet-Bag “Drvel
oper”t-“Flat Broke.” —The Talla
hassee Floridian publishes the follow
ing obituary : The personal effects of
Gen. M. S. Littlefield were sold in
Tallahassee one day last week, for over
due house rent. One year ago the
General was indulging in every extrav
agance that money could afford—bought
whole State governments, Legislature,
Governor and all—now he is so fallen
that none are so poor as to do him
reverence.
PROCEEDINGS OE COUNCIL.
REGULAR MEETING.
Council Chamber, Nov. 28,1570.
Present: his Honor, Mayor Mcllben
ny, and a full Board, excepting-Aid.
Barden.
The minutes ot the last meeting were
read and confirmed.
The following report waif received
and adopted :
The Committee on Cemetery would
report that they find lots numbers 107
and 168 in the possession ot Mr. T.
Sapp, and they would, recommend that
i the avenues asked for be assigned Mr.
John H. Butt upon presentation of
proper titles to said lots, and tiiat tbe
Clerk*of Council be instructed accor
dinzly.
The Committee would also report
that Mr. Jas. J. Maddock holds a deed
to lot No 544, and that said lot has been
used for the burial of paupers. They
would recommend that another lot be
assigned Mr. Maddock.
i
Cherry, Com.
Grant, *
The following report was received .
The Committee on Contracts report
the completion Os the “St. Clair Street
Sewer,” and submit for your investiga
tion the accompanying statement of
the cost of same.
The Committee found it necessary to
construct at the different crossings and
other points, in all 800 hundred feet,
of side sewers—in order to secure the
proper drainage of the different streets
leading into the main sewer, which, as
you will see, added one thousand dol
lars to the . cost of the work, which
amount was not included in the bids of
the different contracts.
The Committee have used the best
materials, and employed a skilled
workman; and the sewer, as now con
structed, extends from the river to the
African Methodist church, on Mercer
street, a distance of about 3,500 feet,
and fully realizes the expectations and
j wishes of all.
Respectfully,
John Mcllhenny, j
• J. C. Porter, { r
W. L. Salisuury, ! u m
J. A. Cody, J
Ft. ulair Street Sewer,
In aco’t with City of Uolumbus.
DR.
For amount paid for brick $ 6,209 49
(Jement :.. 1,833 20
Lime.....' 1,104 60
Lumber 238 C 8
Dray age ~... 954 65
Repairing tools 16 25
Labor . 6,647 32
Water and wooden centres..: 57 12
Col. Iron Works—old Iron 9 21
Gratings 61 80
Gratings..!.. 16 80
Engineer’s level,bought in N. Y 150 96
Hall, Moses & Cos. l'or tools 136 64
$17,002 61
OR.
Ry 45,000 brick on hand, at $7 $ 315 00
By lumber on hand 100 00
By tools, he., on hand 75 00
By Engineer's level 156 95
By 800 feet side sewers, not included
In ostimate 1,000 00
- $ 1,646 95
Cost of St. Clair street-sewer.: $15,355 G 6
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 28,1870.
Mr. Fleming, keeper of the lower
bridge, reported for fortnight ending
the 28th inst., tolls $73 10, tickets $lO.
Mr. Robinson, keeper of the upper
bridge, reported for same time, tolls
S6O 80, tickets S3O.
A petition from W. L. Clark, gener
al agent, &c., Southwestern Railroad
Cos., for the use *of the city carts for
three days, for the purpose of filling
up the approaches to new bridge, at the
Cemetery, was received aud granted.
A petition from J. J. Bradford for the
remission of city license tax upon John
Stowe’s circus, on an exhibition to be
given on Thursday night, December
1, one fourth of the proceeds of which
to be given to the Lee Monument fund,
was received, and on motion of Aid.
Cody the whole amount of license was
remitted.
The following accounts were referred
to Committee on Accounts, Dudley &
Gray $239 89 and 212 36, R. M. & W.
C. Gray, Jr., $29 9G, Hall Moses & Cos.
$44 88, Compton & Hackney $27 17,
Catherine Anderson sl2 75, C. M. Ivin
sel $9 00, J. & F.. X. Donnally $3 80,
and Sam’l Cherry $1 65.
A.. in of R. 1.. 1!,.™ for
.$350 00, was referred to Committee on
Contracts.
The following communication from
Sam’l G. Jones, President, was read :
Office Sav. & Memphis R. R. Cos, )
Opelika, Ala., Oct. 17, 1870. )
To the lion. Mayor and Oily Council of
Columbus , Geo.:
This company having fulfilled, by the
purchase and delivery of rails and fast
enings, to an extent largely in excess
of the requirements of Council, the con
ditions made precedent to the payment
of the balance of city subscription, res
pectfully beg leave to renew their appli
cation lor the payment of that balance.
The rails and fastenings for the first
20 miles have been secured, and about
half the requisite amount already deliv
ered. The gradation for Jthe first 20
miles is nearly finished, the track is be
ing laid, and if Columbus will now ex
tend a helping hand by the prompt pay
ment of the balance of her subscription,
this first division of 20 miles, reaching
well into Tallapoosa county, will soda
be completed, the contract with the
State of Alabama for the endorsement
of our bonds to the extent of $16,000
per mile secured, and with it, trio, cer
tainty of the extension of this road into
the rich iron, coal, marble and slate re
gions of the State, from which the city
is destined, at no distant day, to reap
such a magnificent harvest.
Should the City Council desire to sat
isfy themselves further as to the progress
of the work, I shall take pleasure in ex
tending every facility in - my power for
that purpose.
Soliciting the favorable and prompt
action of your Honorable body,
I am your ob’t serv’t,
Sam’l G. Jones, Brest.
By Alderman Grant—
Whereas, The conditions prescribed
by a former Council, precedent to the
payment pf the balance of the city sub
scription to the Savannah and Mem
phis Railroad Company, having been
fully complied with, and there being no
longer any good reasons for withhold
ing the same; therefore be it
. Resolved , That bonds of the city of
Columbus, in the sum of sixty-four
thousand dollars, be issued and paid
over to the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad Company as soon as practica
ble.
Aid. Salisbury moved that the subject
be referred to the next Board of Coun
cil.
Aid. Cody moved that a committee
be appointed to visit Opelika, investi
gate the affairs of the road, and report
to the next meeting of Council.
Aid. Blanchard moved to lay the
subject on the table until next meeting
of Council. Lost.
Aid. Cody’s resolution was then
adopted.
Aid Bivin-s moved that the committee
consist of the whole Board. Lost.
His Honor, the’Mayor, then appoint
ed Aldermen Cody, Salisbury and
Grant as that committee.
Aid. Chjpley moved that in the ap
proaching municipal election there be
two boxes for receiving notes—one in
the north the other in the west window
of the sru-ird roam Adopted. Ayes :
Aids. Chipley, Blanchard, Redd, Cher
ry, Salisbury, Porter and Grant—7.
Noes : Aids. Colzey, Cody, Bivins and
Durkin—4.
Aid. Salisbury moved that Council
proceed to elect four managers, and that
they be authorized to appoint six clerks.
Adopted And upon balloting Messrs.
B. H. Crawford, Charles Coleman,
Michael McCahey and J. J. McKendree
were elected.
Council then adjourned.
M. M. Moore, Clerk.
Klssing’s No Sin.
Some say kissing’s a sin,
But I thinks it’s nane ava—
For kissing haswoun'd in this warld
Since ever there was twa.
Oh, if it wasna lawfu’,
Lawyers wouldna allow it;
If it wasna holy.
Ministers wadna do it.
If it wasna modest,
Maidens wadna tak’ it,
Ifix wasna plenty,
Air folk wadna get It.
A Republican journal has so little ap
preciation of President Grant’s literary
tastes as to believe that, if he is present
ed with the proposed $75,000 library,
the books would, in a short time there
after, be found in a second-hand store.
That is hard; but, outside of the camp,
General Grant is at home in a stable,
rather than in a library.
Bevenne Reform—Speech
Brown, Governor Elect of -"«■
sonrl.
Hon. R. Gratz Brown, Governor-elect,
was serenaded last night at his resi
dence, in Glasgow place, corner of
Sheridan and Webster avenues. The
serenade was given under the auspices
of a number of prominent' Democrats,
ahd the occasion was rendered quite an
interesting one. The Governor-elect
spoke as follows:
tellow-Citizens, Democrats of the
State of Missouri— for I presume lean .
include representatives of all your num
ber in my address—l wish to say to
you that I thank you from the bottom
of my heart for the support which you
have given me in this canvas that has
ended in such a maghifieent triumph.
(Cheers.) 1 assure you, moreover,
that 1 do not take that triumph to my
self personally, hut only to the princi
ples that have been so emphatically in
dorsed—those of equal freedom for
every man in this nation by right of
his birth right. We have gone through
this contest, we have made no appeal
to party, we have made a distinctive
appeal to the common sentiment of the
common country, in behalf of the right
of every man to exercise the franchise
of a freeman, and we have won upon
that principle. (Cheers.)
Now I have to say to you, without
any hesitation, that I have to'thank the
Democratic party of the State of Mis
■Souri—(cheers)—for the cordial sup
, port that they have given me in that
position, and' 1 say furthermore, that
no party has ever shown more perfect
command of self, more perfect disregard
of past traditions, more perfect devotion
to the patriotic welfare of the common
country than has the Democratic parly
in the last election in this State of Mis
souri. (Cheers.) I can say to you
frankly, my fellow-citizens, that I am
the last man in this nation to disregard
the obligations under which I stand,
aud that in this election I recognize that
my obligations are in the largest meas
ure due to the Democratic party of the
Statu of Missouri. (Cheers.) Now,
my friends, let me tell you another
thing.. I recognize the fact that the
Democratic party of the State ot Mis
souri has done this thing—it has eleva
ted itself upon a higher platform than ft
ever occupied before ; it has gone for
the rights of all men, and in so doing it
has made an initiative of the future
that will go through all the States of
this Union. It has cut itself loose from
the formulas and the obstructions of the
past, aud it has made a platform upon
which the young men of this nation can
stand—(cheers)—a platform where they
can -stand disembarrassed of all the an
tecedents that have gone before them—
disembarrassed of all that routine of
party machinery that has kept them
down heretofore, and where they ’can
move forward in the spirit and in the
light of a pure Democracy, advancing
to the conquest of the future. (Cheers.)
Fellow-citizens, so far as this ques
tion concerns our own State, I desire to
say to you that T recognize this as the
triumph of new ideas; that I recognize
this as the triumph of a reconstruction
of our State from its bottom upwards.
[Cheers.] That I recognize it as the
initiative of anew convention to reor
ganize our fundamental law. [Prolong
ed cheering. ] And accepting it in that
light, I wish you all good cheer in the
future, hoping and trusting only, (p
addition that, that the lesson which has
been taught by this election to the nation
at large will he received aDd accepted,
and tiiat the national representatives
who have been sent from the Western
country, when they understood the
force and significance of all of your
votes, will understand that it is proper
for them to coalesce and combine and
consort with anybody that will reduce
to the near approximation of justice
and truth, that immense tax which is
now levied upon us under the false and
fraudulent guise of a revenue tariff.
[Cries of “That's Democracy;” and
“That is what we want,,” and cheers. ]
Now, my fellow-citizens, I have only
to say to you, in conclusion, that I have
the honor to be your Governor-elect for
the State of Missouri. I will promise
you an honest and faithful administra
tioxi of tbat office. I will prouileo you,
furthermore, that I. will permit no rings
around the State House or out of it, so
far as I can help it, to sap the life and
wealth out of the community.
A. Uexuiulscenee of tUe Old North
State.
The following was communicated -to
the Savannah News:
I was thinking last night of old North
Carolina (I am a “Tar Heel” you must
know'' and the accompanying anecdote
of the late Hon. H. C. Jones, (the events
transpiring while I was a student at the
University,) was called up, and I
laughed hhartily over it. If it has not
been printed, I offer it to the News.
Col. J. -was. a genius and wit of the
highest order, and is as kindly remem
bered in the Old North State a3 any
public man who ever served her in
those good old times, when she required
that her officers should be honest, faith
ful and capable.
Very respectfully, .
THE LATE “COUSIN BAT.tY DILLARD.”
Many years ago, before the North
Carolina Railroad was built, the only
public conveyance between Greensboro
and Raleigh was a line of four horse
post coaches via Hillsboro and Chapel
Hill.
One dreary, wet, cold winter, while
the writer was a student in the Univer
sity, and.when the hilly, broken bot
tomless roads of that section were al
most impassable, he remembers to have
heard the following of the late Hamil
ton C. Jones, for many years Supreme
Court Reposter-—author of “Cousin
Sally Dillard, ’’ and a “fellow of infinite
jest and most excellent fancy.”
Col. Jones, with half a dozen others,
were stage passengers from Chapel Hill
to Raleigh. The roads were at their
worst; a drizzly cold rain falling, and
the big sized “dry goods box”—com
mon in those days—had replaced tho
cumbersome, gaudily painted body with
"inside seats for nine.”
They had gone but a few miles when
they stuck ! Hoosier, the good-natured
driver, whom hundreds of old students
will remember, called out, in one of his
most winning ways: “Gentlemen, please
’light and help me out of this.” The
heavy oak rails on a fence skirting the
road furnished all bauds with “prises.”
They went at it with a will and soon
everything was afloat but Jones and his
fellow passengers, who were knee deep
in mud, with rails on their shoulders.
“Jehu” was thankful, but was com
pelled to.ask the gentlemen to hold on
to their “prises” and walk about one
hundred yards further up the lane,
where was the “wust place on the Roily
road.” They did so, and prised him
through that by a little extra effort.
The thing was repeated until ’ they
had helped the “goods box” over two
more “mighty boggy” places,, one at
the “branch,” as Hoosier had informed
them, and the other “jest before rising
the next hill.” After that they were
assured the road was good. Col. Jones
began to be hopeful, but when he was
asked to “please walk up the hill” with
his prise, it was more than he could
bear; and, standing over his boot .tops
in mud, dripping with wet, tired and
hungry, he*a ddrcssetl the driver thus:
“I say, Hoosier, stop your ‘box.’ lam
willing to pay full fare to Raleigh—car
ry no baggage—walk all the way, and
help you out of mud holes when you get
stuck, but if I tote this rail any further
I’ll be damned !”
A Paris letter of Nov. 6th, in the Lou
don Telegraph, complains “how hungry
we are.” No butter, cheese, or bacon
afe to be had lor money. Potatoes,
scarce. Meat rations of three days al
ways consumed in one, and more want
ed, and it takes two and a half hours of
serouging through the press to get that
poor three days’ allowance of horse
meat. The women crowd up “like
devils,” and some are ‘nearly killed in
the press. Donkey meat can be had, in
small quantities, at six francs a pound.
Little gas—no coal. Writer thinks she
has almost ceased to be a woman, and
has got to be a horse. The Paris Patrie,
of the Bth, received at Rouen by balloon,
gives the rations of beef and mutton at
one ounce and two-thirds per head.
Bread and wine, he says, are abundant;
horse meat is worth thirty cents a
pound; ass and mule meat, sixty cents;
geeße, twenty-five to thirty francs each;
chickens, fourteen to fifteen francs;
eggs, four francs and a half per dozen;
fresh butter, twenty and a half francs
per pound; beef, twenty-two and a half
francs per pound.
Bore* and tbeir Victims.
One can generally tell when be be*
gins to be a bore. Plain-spoken, ab
rupt, matter-of-fact kind of people turn
away in a plain, ready and rather ab
rupt manner. They feel the prolonged
sensation to be unpleasant—they feel
that they do not deserve the infliction —
theyendit. Nervous, sensitive people, j
most susceptible of annoyance because j
most unwilling to offend, men and wo
men who bear much pain rather than
inflict a little, tolerate bores. They do
not create them, yet it may be assumed
that, except for this class of victims,
the whole race and fraternity of bores
would cease.
There are bores from choice—men
who as deliberately inflict their presence
and conversation as a pirate boards an
opulent Indiaman. They must con
verse. They must be seen upon the
streets in reputable company. They
must force out invitations to dinner.
They must dwell upon favorite ideas.
They must ride their hobbies. They
must convey a full and detailed idea of
their position on all popular topics.
They must make known their geneolo
gy, their antecedents, their adventures,
their escapes, their encounters, their
sprees, their scrapes, their fights, their
speculations, their anticipations, their
maladies, their fears, their antipathies
and their loves. They are men whom
boring has made idle, and whom idle
ness has made greater bores. They are
men who fasten their increasing eager
ness on victims- in proportion as they
become scarce. They are a. perennial
race, indestructible, unconquerable,
constantly recurring, insatiable, untir
ing, incurable. They are hated, but
they cannot feel it. They are shunned,
but thev do not know it. Pachydermat
ous, strong nerved, stolid, imperturba
ble, gimlet eyed, iron voiced, brazen
faced, they go forth upon the highways
and byways, conquering and to con
quer.
And there are bores not from choice.
They become such by accident, ['hey
fall in one’s way and stay, there. They
have fixed ideas which make them for
getful of time and circumstance. They
have abiding notions that clamor for a
recognition. They have thoughts that
burn them until appreciated. They are
not criminal, hut only unfortunate.
They would please but for some absorb
ing idea which blinds them to nil other
purposes. They would make them
selves entertaining but for tiie predom
inance of some fixed and settled notion.
Their manners and address are good.
They often lure their victims with
sprightly wit and honeyed sentences.
They will toy by the hour with their
prey, and weave around them silken
webs of conversational eloquence.
They will even reciprocate so far as 10
recognize seif-love and flatter vanity,
paying a small tribute of compliment as
the seed from which they expect a thick
crop of applause. They cast their bread
of flattery upon the waters in tbe hope
that it may return to them in a harvest
of adulation after many days. They
are morbid seekers after sympathy.
They may be deserving, but cannot
wait for spontaneous approval. They
may suffer, but cannot forbear until
their pain is made visible. They may
know what others know not, and what
might be useful if widely known, but
they cannot wait, and must force what
they know and think upon those not
always willing to be taught. Uncon
scious bores —most unlucky of their
class, because innocent of design and
reaping no profit from the annoyance
which they cause! Their name is le
gion, their homo übiquitous, their field
world-wide, their victims without num
ber.
Many are bores who would not be.
Such may profit by a few hints. If they
converse with a friend on the street
who looks at the tops of the houses,
the passing carriages, the lamp posts,
the sky, tho signs, or anything else than
the lips and eyes of the speaker; if he
looks at his watch or inquires the hour;
if he turns first one shoulder and then
the other to his interlocutor; if he puts
out his foot or kned to prevent too
near approach; If he folds his arms and
shrinks from thrusts and punches; if he
forgets familiar names and shows that
wlmt is said malcoa i an prowifin ; if ho
assents to propositions without debate
or murmer; if he shows anything but
the animated, interested, pleased and
appreciative countenance of a willing
listener, a man of the world may at
once conclude that it is a case of bor
ing and put an unceremonious end to
the interview. Time has some value
to all, and" in the' busy hours it has great
value to the most of men. Many seem
to be idle who are really very busy with
their own thoughts. Many refuse to
engage in talk, not because they have
nothing to say but because they cannot
afford the effort or the time. Many
feel far worse than lonely when in forced
contact with uncongenial company.
Many are too courteous to appear to be
annoyed who would yet be glad to be
away. Those who can best appreciate
conversational talent, best know the
nature of that monomania for talking
with which many are unconsciously
affleted. The predominant and incu
rable disease of the bore is cacoethes
loquendi.—New Orleans Picayune.
The December number of Lippincott’s
Magazine contains an article on “The
Real Condition of the South,” from the
pen of that political and literary Ish
maelite, Edward A. Pollard, whose
name has been notoriously, but not
always favorably before the public,
since the war. The meaning and intent
of the article is an apology for the fif
teenth amendment and the consequent
endorsement of the Congressional acts
of usurpation, and this is no doubt Pol
lard’s condition ; • but when he goes
further and intimates that this is the
sentiment of the most respectable and
thoughtful people at the South, his inti
mation is not only utterly gratuitous,
but grossly false. We submit that the
person who could take the iron-clad |
oath in order to get a position in the
New York Custom House, is not pre
cisely tho party to interpret Southern
sentiment.— Savannah News.
A special dispatch to the Louisville
Courier- Journal says the statement was
made in these dispatches a few days
since, that troops were to be used in
Georgia during the election. Governor
Bullock has arrived and had an inter
view with tho Secretary of War relative
to their distribution. Additional troops
will probably be sent into the State
from Gen. Halleck’s command.
The same authority says Senator
Cameron arrived in Washington Friday
from his Georgia trip, and says the Re
publicans will carry the State in the
December election, but believes that
more troops are needed there.
Whittier thus forcibly embodies in
a few lines the response which the De
mocracy have just made to President
Grant’s menace of military power ;
“We have a weapon surer yet,
And better than the bayonet—
A weapon that comes down as still
As snow flakes fall upon the sod,
And executes a freeman’s will
As lightning does the will of God —
And from its force, nor doors, nor looks
Gan shield you—’tls the ballot box.”
But the military ex-Governor of Ala
bama —Bellicose Billy—thinks the bay
onet is better than the ballot-.
The desire for office among Demo
crats in some portions of this State is
positively alarming, and unless the
patriotic impulses of some of the can
didates induce them, to withdraw thsir
names, we fear that the result will be a
series of Radical triumphs. It is a piti
ful sight to look over our State ex
changes and see the legion ol office
seekers who have suddenly rushed to
the front clamorous for the public to
recognize their claims. It would be
mortifying indeed to see the party suffer
defeat at the hands of its friends, and
we hope the matter will be remedied at
once.— Savannah News.
Texas Pecan Crop.— The San An
tonio (Texas) Express says: The pe
can crop this season is a total failure.
The shipments will amount to nothing.
We have not learned the reason of this,
but presume the frost had a hand in the
spoiling of the fine prospects. Parties
who have travelled through the pecan
regions of the different streams, report
an unusual meagrenesaof yield. Wbat
few there are will be consumed at
home.
Death of an Aged Ladt.— One of
the oldest residents of Augusta, Mrs.
Ann Winter, died on Saturday evening,,
aged eighty-three years. She had been
a member of the Methodist Church for
more than sixty years, and did not
have, so far as known, a blood relation
The Cost of War.
“Who pays the cost of war ?” asks a
cotemporary; and answers: “The peo
ple.” This is true so far as it goes. It j
does not go far enough. The French j
people pay the cost of the war now
raging in one sense. This is only the
money cost for arming, subsisting, pay
ing and maintaining the armies. Heavy
as it may be, it is less than half the real
expense of such a war. The loss of
men cannot be thus estimated. The
Philadelphia Day, referring to this
subject, remarks: j
“The pauperization of many hundred
thousands, probably, may be counted
as a cash loss, but it is difficult to esti
mate it. The increase of poor rates will
not show the actual loss, because so
much increase of poverty is likewise a
double, sometimes a treble withdrawal
of hands from industrial pursuits. Still
another aspect of the cost of war exists
in the conversion of a nation of produ
cers into consumers; and this damage is
incalculable. Industry is now para
lyzed throughout France. Its great
manufactories are closed, and their ope
ratives are either idle or under arms.
The wages paid these operatives in good
times must sum up a large total. This
total went into the channels of trade,
and greatly assisted national progress.
All that, is over, and France and Ger
many are at a standstill.
“But there is a loss which extends
beyond the countries now at war, and
is not generally reckoned into the bill
of war costs. We allude to the loss of
custom to the producing: interests of
other nations. Much has been said
about the profit likely to accrue to the
United States and England from the
Franco-Prussian war. If the war is to
profit us as a nation, the fact is yet to
become apparent. Our exports have
not increased, neither have those of
Great Britain. The fact is that France
and Prussia have no money to expend
for anything but the appliances of war.
Their .energies are put to their utmost
tension to carry on war upon a large
scale, while they are literally earning
nothing. They will buy nothing not
absolutely necessary to sustain the
struggle. Hence they buy arms aud
war munitions of us and do not buy the
I staples of commerce. England is sell
ing nothing to France and Germany
save arms, powder and coal. Os course
those belligerents will need bread by
and by, and then our exports will in
crease. But at present, and up to this
time, the Franco-Prussian war has been
a damage to us as a producing people.
The same is probably true -as regards
England. Thus it will be seen war
costs heavily to others as well as to bel
ligerents, as may be made clear to all
who will be at the trouble to 1 effect as
to the consequence to trade were every
other nation save this at war.”
Senator Cameron arrived this morn
ing from his trip to Georgia, and left
this evening for his home in Pennsyl
vania. He says that affairs politically,
that is Radical affairs, are looking pret
ty well, arid ho believes trie Republicans
will carry the State at the December
election, though he seems to doubt it
just enough to advise that more troops
be sent into the’State to keep the Dem
ocrats away from the polls.
A correspondent of the: Macon Tele
graph thus comments:
The above is from the well informed
Washington correspondent of the
World, and is a surprising commentary
on the statements made “by authority”
in your paper some days ifince, denying
the statement that the visit of Cameron
and Delano was connected with poli
tics. Cameron’s character is well
known, and even Republicans denounce
his morality. A St. Louis Republican
paper says he is an unsavory Senator.
The Cincinnati Commercial says Simon
Cameron’s name is synonymous with
corruption, and if we are to have his
capital and his principles linked togeth
er, I think we had better do without
both.
He and his clan of dirty carpet-bag
gers should receive no countenance ot
patronage from the people of Georgia.
If more reasons are wanting I will give
them. Bibb.
Poughkeepsie, Nov. 30.—There is
much excitement in the eastern part of
Duchess, county over the sudden and
alarming illness of the cattle. Fifty
head on three different farms have died.
New York, Nov. 30.—' The. cotton
warehouse of Hopkins, Dwight, Trow
bridge &• Cos. is burned. Loss $85,000.
New York, 3:15 P. M„ —The steam
er Robt Lows sailed from Heart’s Con
tent Saturday last to repair the Atlantic
cable of 1866, which was injured about
sixty-five miles from that point. We
have just received information that
the cable of 1805 has also ceased to
work, and that the fault is* about the
same distance from Hearts Content. It
is therefore probable that the steamer
has grappled the wrong cable. As the
steamer is on the spot, it is hoped that
bothcables will soon be repaired. Al
though the French cable is able to trans
mit Westward with about, its usual
facility, it is, from some unknown cause,
unable to transmit Eastward, except
with great difficulty and very slowly.
Notice is hereby given that for the pres
ent no messages can be received from
any part of Europe. The public will
be informed at the earliest moment
when messages can be received for
Europe.
(Signed) Cyrus W. Field.
From Washington.
Washington, Nov. 00.—The Presi
dent’s message will not be delivered to
the press until its delivery to Congress.
There is great commotions in the de
partments on account of the premature
publication of Bureau reports. They
are bought from loose people connected
with the departments, directly or indi
retly, at prices varying from $lO to
S2OO. Three thousand dollars was of
fered for an advance report of the Sec*
retary of the Treasury.
From Alabama.
Montgomery, Nov. 30.—Last night
Captain Drum, commanding the post
here, had the troops at the Capitol re
moved, by order of Gen. Terry, com
manding this Department. Smith and
Bingham have a Sheriff’s posse of ne
groes guarding the Executive and
Treasury rooms.
Nothing done in the Legislature.
From Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 30.— The Macon
and Augusta Railroad is complete.
Trains are running through on schedule
from Augusta to Macon.
The War in South Carolina.—
The Charleston News, of the 26th inst.,
says: ,
The Sumter papers come to us con
taining accounts of new outrages com
mitted by the Radical negroes. They
draw no rancy pictures, but tell, as so
berly as they can, the plain aud unvar
nished truth. This is ike record ol one
week’s work: 1. A white man is drag
ged from his home by negroes, and
brutally maimed. 2. A barn is burned
down, and on the same night an attempt
is made to fire the home place of the
owner, which is some distance off. 3.
A house occupied by a white family i9
fired iDto by negroes, and this is the
signal for burning down the barns and
stables containing the whole crop of the
year.
These acts of lawlessness show what
is the temper of the Radical negroes;
while the disposition of the whites is
shown by the fact that they have al
ready held two public meetings for the
purpose of .denouncing the disturbers of
the public peace, and for declaring their
determination of using their individual
and collective efforts against mob law
and in favor of good order. The ne
groes burn and ravage every night; the
whites, insulted and abused as they
have been, still plead for peace.
Queee.— During their voluntary im
prisonment at the capitol, what are
Smith, Bingham and Dalton living on?
Eeho answers—the contingent fund.
"Old contingent” has suffered mightily
of late years in the matter of buying
carpets, furniture, &c., for the State,
which were not used at the capitol. It
would be well enough to investigate
this little matter. —Mont. Mail.
It is proposed, we learn, by the Fac
ulty of the Washington Lee College, to
issue at an early day, a memorial vol
ume, in memory of Gen. R. E. Lee,
which will be published with the con
currence and co operation of Gen. Lee’s
family. It will contain an authentic !
sketch of his life to the end of the late
war; an account of his administration
as President of Washington College,
incidents, reminiscences,
tive of his character; an account of his
death and funeral obsequies; selected
eulogies, public resolutions and edito
rials, on the occasion of his death, with
plans of memorials designed to be erect
ed in honor of his memory.
-Virginia “Folks.”—The Petersburg
Index says:
“Now, people are one thing, ‘folks’
are another, and Virginia produces
‘folks.’ You can find men aud women
everywhere, but hardly, except in Vir
ginia, shall you see ‘folks,’ Genial,
social, generous, careless,old-fashioned,
good-humored, quick-tempered, withal,
a thought-lazy, abstracted, fond of
theory, though less given, of late, to
polities, prejudiced,obstinate, talkative,
full of anecdote, logical in argument,
often cranky in action, good haters,
hearty lovers, impractical, seldom
growing rich, but helping one another
and with bark ever worse than their
bite; such are the ‘folks’ in Virginia.”
The Troops Withdrawn.—At a j
late hour last night the soldiers that j
were‘stationed at the capitol, were 1
withdrawn, and Gov. Lindsay was no
tified of the fact by the commanding
officer-of this Post. We confidently
look for a denouement- of the Guberna
torial contest in a short while. — Mont .
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| eid eod StWly I*l riklllkb It,
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills,
For all tbe purposes of a Laxative .Lle.ti
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jjffb medicine Is so unlver.
• /Sr sally reqlured by eve.
Af rybody as a cathartic,
nor was ever any be
\ j®/ adopted Into u?e, lu
| ’l\ aillf every country aw
bnV'Wlr'!TS!w/ among all classes, aj
this mild buteifioient
purgative Pill, pp,,
reasnii is,
’that It Is a more roll.
-i'U'lJi, —-W*-’ able and lar noire
effectual remedy than any other. Those
who have tried it, know that It cured
them; those who have uot, know hat li
cures their neighbors aud triend*, «iu
all know that what it does once it does always
—that it never falls through any fault ernes
-1 leet of its composition. We have thousand*
I upon thousands of certificates of their remark
ablo- cures of the following complaints, but
j such euros are known in every neighborhood,
I and wo need uot publish them. Adapted to
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taining neithor calomel or any deleterious
I urug, they may ho taken with safety by any.
j body. Their sugar coating preserver them
! over fresh and makes them pleasant to take,
| while being purely vegetable no harm can
arise from their use In any quantity.
TUfcy operate by their powerful Influence on
the internal viscera to purify the blood an I
stimulate it into healthy action—remove tbe
obstructions of the stomach, bowels, livor, and
other organs of the body, restoring their irreg
ular action to health, and by correcting, wher
ever they exist, suoh derangements as ure the
first origin of disease.
Minute directions are given lu the wrapper
on the box, for the following complaints, which
these Pills rapidly cure
For Dyspepsia or lndlgCNtlmi, Mat
lewHueHN, Languor and Lome of Appe
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stimulate the stomach and restore its health;
tone and action.
For Liver Complaint and its varluu
symptoms, Bilioust lleatlatflie, Sick
Headache, Jaundice or Green Nick
neHS,Bilious Colic and Bilious l evers,
they should be judiciously taken for eachcaie,
to oorroct the dlscasod action or remove the
obstructions which canso it.
For Dysentery or Diarrhea, but one
mild dose is generally required.
For lEUtumallsm. Goal, Gravel,Pal
pitation of the Heart, Pain la the
i Hide. Back and Loins, thoy should bo con
tinuously taken, as required, to change the
diseased aotion of tbe system. With such
change those complaints disappear.
For Dropsy and Dropsical Swellings
they should bo taken in large and Irßqueiit
doses to produce the effeot. of a drastic purge
For (Suppression a largo dose should be
taken as it produces the desired eitoot by sync
pathy.
Asa Dinner Pill, take one or two PHI*
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An occasional dose stimulates the stomach
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it is often advantageous whore no serious de
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woll, often finds that a dose of these Filin
makes him feel decidedly better, from their
cleansing and renovating effect on tho digef
Live apparatus.
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OHOIOE GROCERIES AND -STAPId
GOODS, such as,
BACON and Bulk MEATS, Choice Leal Lar
SUGARS and COFFEES, all grades,
BAGGING, ROPE and SALT;
FLOUR of oil grades:
MEAL from flaw Best Country Sllil--
100 bbls. Northern PLANTING FOTAIUl >
ONIONS,
New Buckwheat Flour, Oysters, Sardine),
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WINES and LIQUORS,
Crockery, Shoes, Wood Ware, Staple ltr)
Goods, Tin Ware, Kerosene Oil and Lamp),
besides a variety of other goods not. enuiii*'
rated. Allot which I propose to sett SEE,
LOW FOR CASH.
UarPloaso give me a Call before purchaslr
,P. H. HAMILTON
Corner FRANKLIN and WARREN Street*.
COLUMBUS, GA.
Brown’s Cotton Planters
and Guano Distributors
For sale by
mlib Wit J. 11. HAMILTON.
Notice to Stockholders.
f)PPIOE OFTHB (
BAINBSIDGE, OUTUBKRT & COLU’B K K 00.,.
• Balnbridgo, Ga., August 10,1170.
AUALG for the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, 6th,
7th, Bth, 9th anti 10th annual Install
meats, of ten per cent, eaoh, upon the genera,
subscription to the capital stock of the litiin
bridge, Outhbert and Columbus Railroad (oom
pany, Is hereby made upon each and every
subscriber to the same. To be paid respective
ly on the Ist, sth, 10th, 15th,20th, 25th and
days* of October, and the 6th, loth an i i '■
November, 1870. Payments may be nii'i®' 1 '
Oapt. W. M. Titmlln, Secretary and Trea.*. r,
Col. C. O. Crews, General Agent; or to tl.e
undersigned. BEN.I. F. BRUTON,
au2B-w3m 1 J
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
WILL be sold before the Conr7 House
door, In Lumpkin, Stewart OOuaty/L
on the first Tuesday in December next, u»
Plantation ot A. AYEHETT, deceased, ne*
Green Bill, containing 773 acres, more or lc.-s
with an excellent dwelling house, nmi
other out buildings. Also, Tan Yard, <“>
House and Screw. About 400 acres ol g"
tanning land, in high state of cultivation, ■ :
the most of the remainder timbered lar
This is a desirable plantation, in a go,,d nek l
borhood convenient to Nobools, Churol.es, ..’
Terms of 6ale, hall ’cash, and balance 7,1-
Dec., 1871. Fold lordlstrihutlon. The Lxc' l ;
tor lives on tho place, and will lake yloaeurc
iu showing It to per.ijns who may desire
purchase E. M. AVER DTI,
October 26, 1870 W6t* ■ Execut'd
Georgia, Muscogee County.
MARY P. GREENE, having made applica
tion for the administration of the estate
of ROBERT HENRY GREENE, decease
late of said county; ,
All persons concerned are hereby notlCeo
show cause, (If any they have,) why letters
administration on said evtate, should »
be granted to said applicant, at the next l _
cember term of the Court, of Ordinary, to to
held in and forsald county.
Given under my hand arid official stgn.tn
this 29th dtiy of October, 1870.
uol W3od JOHN W. DUER, Ordinary
For sale,
My PLANTATION In Talbot MgfigSv
county, three miles' west
Geneva and one mile.north of
South-Western Railroad, oontaln- l
lng six hundred Acres of cleared
and three hundred and fifty acres ol n°!“'V
Umbered land, situated in a good ne!gh“”,
hood, very healthy. On the place Is an exes
lent Dwelling House, containing eight room
thirteen negro cabins, together with all ne
sary outbuildings.
For terms, address W. G. DAVl*o
au26-lawtf Geneva, o
JOB . PRINTING
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