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OOLUMBUS:
rUIItAT MOBHUiJ, JL'LY 7.
STOCKHOLDER'S MEETING. —That of
tha S. & M. R. R. will be held in Ope
lika on August sth.
Not Convicted. —The white man
whom policemen Cash and Foran ar
rested. with so much trouble in Brooks
county, has been acquitted. lienee no
reward will be paid. We believe the
charge was murder.
Arrived. -‘-The material for the iron
lront of the Chattahoochee National
Bank building, and a man to superin
tend the erection, have arrived from the
Baltimore works. The stone foundation
was laid yesterday. Ihe vault has al
ready been constructed.
N. & 8. R. R.— Harris County Sub
scßirTioN. The reports from the
meeting at Hamilton, on Thursday, are
that $50,000 were subscribed, independ
ent of pledges of land. The right of
way has been freely tendered through
the county. Harris ought to give
SIOO,OOO, and we are confident Bhewill.
A meeting was held at Whitesville yes
terday. About $30,000 have already
been subscribed in that section.
Dissolution. —A letter informs us
that the commission houses of Ross,
Roberts & Cos., of New Yprk, and
Blackmar, Roberts, Chandler A Cos., of
Bt. Louis, has been dissolved, and that
Blackmar A Chandler, at Bt. Louis,
will continue the same stylo of business
as heretofore. Both those gentlemen
wero among the leading merchants in
Columbus a few years ago.
Personal. We were pleased to
meet yeßtcrday Prof. J. W. Ryan, pro
prietor of the Rankin House, who has
returned from a trip of several weeks to
tho North and Weßt, whither he
gone to procure tho furnituro to entirely
refit the hotel. Tho Professor is a pop
ular and genial host, who thoroughly
understands his business, and when he
is around there can bo no complaint of
lack of attention, for the acoommoda
tions of his guests in the best style is
the object for which ho labors. In Mr.
Frank Golden, the book keeper, ho has
tho prince of clever gentlemen, for
Frank is one of the most popular and
courteous employees an establishment
ever had; and hiß assistant, Mr. Frank
Clark, appears fashioned in the same
mould.
“Cnder tue Shade oftheTrees.”
—On Wednesday night, of consump
tion, died Mr. Thomas O. Scroggins, a
citi/.eq of Columbus for the last three
years, and appreciated by all who knew
him as a very deserving man. The
diseaso of which ho (Tied was the resuit
of wounds, exposure and hardships
during the late war. He was, during
tho revolution, attached to Btonewall
Jackson’s command, and at the battle
of Frederick City, Maryland, lost a leg.
His ago was twenty-nine years. He
leaves a widow, a worthy lady, whom
ho married in Columbus. His body was
interred yesterday afternoon, alter ser
vices at the Baptist church.
Crobs.— Work as planters will they
eannot got grass out of cotton. Good
showers have fallen every day of thiß
woek. On the river plantations labor
ers are being hired at tho rate of 75c.
and $1 per day, and still the grass holds
tho ascendency. Tho prospect of a
quarter of a dollar per pound does not
kill it very fast. On the uplands crops
aro passahly clean but tho presont
weather helps tho grass more than cot
ton. Tho crop is several weeks-back
ward. Here it is in July and we hear
of farmers showing cotton blooms as
curiosities. This report is_ general
throughout this soction. Corn has
suffered much, but thore will boa large
yield. It can bo hurt but little now.
A Small Pony. —The sensation at
noon yesterday was the leading by
Capt. S. 11. Hill, Superintendent of the
Southern Express office in Columbus,
of a black marc pony down one side of
Broad street and up the other. The
steed was a beautiful black, perfectly
proportioned, threo feet in height, im
ported from Arabia and received by the
Southern Express Company at Balti
more. The animal was so gentle that
she followed tho Captain without hesi
tancy into any of the stores. She is
the property of Mr. Micou, of the Tal
lasoe Manufacturing Company, in Ala
bama, to whom sho is being conveyed
by the Southern Express Company. She
weighs 382 pounds. This office received
a call from her ladyship and the Cap
tain.
Murder Trials in Sumter County,
Ga.—ln the Superior Court at Amori
cus, last woek, four white nion, to wit:
Samuel Pouncey, Jack McMath, Wm,
Wilder and Robert Bolton, small far
mere and married men, were indicted
for tho killing, on or about tho 7th ult.,
of -one Isham Jenkins, a negro man
about forty years old, living Bt the time
on the farm of Mr. Thomas Davenport,
four miles southwest of Amcricus. The
State concluded to sever, and Pouncey
was tried and acquitted, his wife and
othor members of the family having
clearly proved an alibi. Upon this re
maining trials were continued by the
State. Tho chief evidence against the
accused was the declarations of the
negro boforo death, which the counsel
maintained were not made in extremis,
nor wero they roliable, on account of
the notoriously bad character of the
deceased.
The Atlanta Sun publishes the fol
lowing dispatch from the President of
the Marietta and Western Railroad,
who is now in New York: The Engin
eers of the Marietta and Western Rail
road Company are now in the field, lo
cating our line of road by Dallas, Van
Wert and Cedartown to Gadsden—ex
tension from Dallas to Marietta direct,
with branch to Marietta as ordered.
Atlanta may thus secure the most di
rect route possible—shorter by many
miles than any line projected. This
company ha3 the ability to build, and
will endeavor to build the road with
quicker dispatch than roads are usually
built in Georgia.
The room of Mr. Alexander Lyon, at
Pinch’s Ferry, in Greene county,
was entered one night last week and his
trunk, containing S2BO in gold, s2l in
silver, and $1,450 in greenbacks, taken
therefrom and robbed. The Eutaw
Whig says one James A. Harrell was
suspected of being the perpetrator, and
whilst a warrant was being taken out
for his arrest, he vamoosed the ranch
for parts unknown. He took a sensible
view of the situation.
The Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon of
Saturday last, says the crop reports in
that part of Alabama “continue to be
decidedly bad, though, we judge, from
the weather we have had here for some
ten days past, that they will soon be of
a lesß unfavorable character. The ces
sation of the rains, and the very hot
sun we have had for some days past,
have enabled planters to make consid
erable headway against the grass, and
improvod the appearance of the cotton. ’’
FEMALE SEFFBAGE.
J. Q. Adams, in a late letter to a citi
zen of Arkansas, uses this true and
forcible language : The unit am o celled
exercise of local self-government by the
people of the Slates, is the salt which pre
serves our whole system. Take that away
and our frame of polity will rapidly rot
into despotism.” These are golden
words, full of wisdom.
The departure from this lundameutal
principle of local self government in the
reconstruction measures, is the poison
root of all our political evils. It is dif
ficult to estimate the extent of the
wrong. Its dirty work and fatal wounds
are visible and felt in every bone, nerve
and muscle of the body politic. It is to
our beautiful system of government,
what the destruction of the law of gravi
tation would be to the material universe.
For grandeur, order and harmony, we
would soon witness a wreck of matter
and a crush of worlds.
We propose to make some comments
to day on the communication of M., as
to the effects of a fundamental departure
on suffrage. Until our government has
‘‘rotted into despotism,” the ballot
must give it form and pressure. As the
voters are, so will bo the government.
If they are good and wise enough to
will, BeC, and do right, the government
will be pure and the people prosperous.
If, on the other hand, voters are igno
rant and corrupt, power will be exer
; cised by demagogues—the people will
| be purchased by flattery and bribes, and
at last become slaves to lordly official
masters.
Suffrage, by our wisest statesmen and
jurists, bas been always regarded as a
political privilege to bo conferred, and
not an inherent right to be demanded.
The distinction is important, and its
violation by Congress has worked un
told evils. If it is inherent, women,
like men are citizens, and why then
should they be denied their rights? It
inherent, why should a whole class of
our most intelligent men be ostracised ?
It may be answered that this class have
forfeited their rights by treason. The
answer to this is simple and conclusive.
Forfeiture is a penalty annexed and de
pendent on the commission of a crime.
In a government of laws, crime is only
known through a verdict of a jury and
the judgment of a legal court. Where
is the record that is plead as a justifica
tion for a tyranny unexampled save in
the infernal regions, where, we are told,
Chief Justice lihodamanthus first pun
ishes and then hears ?
To prove that suffrage, until the ad
vent of Radicalism, was looked upon as
a privilege to be regulated by age, sex
and condition, it is only necessary to re
fer to the constitutions of the different
States. Minors and women have been
excluded from voting in all the States,
and yet some minors are as wise, and
some w'omen wiser than many of the
“Lords of Creation.” Some have adopt
ed educational qualifications together
with a fixed residence for a period of
time; and until 1835, North Carolina
required each voter to own fifty acres of
land in fee , before he was granted the
privilege of a ballot for a State Senator.
M. may rest his soul in peace when
ever Radicals give a suffrage-showing
to the three R’b—Reading, Riting and
ltithmetic. Like Jack Cade, of Eng
land, they have a holy horror for A B
C’s, and such unchristian things as
white grammar schools. To secure the
re-election of Ulysses 1., they would
hang every white girl with her ink-horn
around her neck. If, too, suffrage is ex
tended to white ladieß, then of course
the colored sister must spread herself at
the polls. This would be expensive, as
perfumes, ice cream, feathers, ribbons,
buttons and patent skirts cost too much
for a poor candidate. An office seeker
would be in bankruptcy sooner than by
dead-shot whisky. Then some of the
colored sisters would soon wish to bo
called Mrs. President or Honorable Gen
eral, or Senator. She must be dressed
in gold; purple and fine linen every
day, suitable to her title and position,
and where is the mule and forty acres
to come from to pay expenses?
When the shebang suffrage comes at
last to this complexion, as it will come,
we hope the white men will sell out,
lock, stock and barrel, doff hats, pants
and boots, and then as the latest expir
ing now departure—
“ Suckle fouls ,
And chronicle small becr. ,,
The Rome City Subscription.—An
election to ratify or reject the Bubscrip
tion of SIOO,OOO mado by the City
Council of Rome to the North and
South Railroad, takes place on Satur
day next, §th inst. We look for a
pretty unanimous vote in favor of the
subscription. This road will be a big
thing for Romo.
The subscription is hedged in by the
following conditions:
Fij;Bt, That no part of said Bonds
thall be used except upon the construc
sion of the Road.
Second, That no part of them shall
be used except upon the work at this
end of the lino.
Third, That no part of them shall
bo used until the work is ready for the
superstructure. Not exceeding Nine
Thousand Dollars of Bonds shall bo
issued and delivered.
Fourth, That no Bonds shall be issued
unless the work shall be begun by the
Ist day oi January next, and that the
ballots shall designate for subscription
or against subscription.
Congressman Wallace, of South
Carolina, testified before the Outrage
Committee, at Washington, three weeks
ago, that he was afraid to go to his
home in that State, for fear of the Ku
Kiux; but as soon as he got his fees as
a witness ho did go home, and has re
mained there since without molestation.
Licenses Granted.— Between April
let and June 00th, T. L. Appleby,
Judge of Probate in Russell county,
Ala , has granted $l2B 81 worth of li»
censes. Os this amount SSO are from
five physicians. We notice that whole
sale liquor dealers are charged only $lO
per quarter.
Advocates of a liberal education for
women will be glad to learn that a
young lady student in the State Uni
versity of Missouri has gained the first
prize for Greek scholarship. Miss J.
F. Ripley has the honor of being the
first woman who has ever surpassed the
young men in such a contest.
A Columbus Man Marshal. —We
notice that E. G. Chaffin, formerly of
Columbus, is now Marshal oi Troy,
Ada. The Council reduced the salary of
Marshal J. M. Scarbrough, and he re
signed. Mr. c. fills fiis place. The
Advertiser says the place is noted for
its good order since his appointment.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Georgia Western Railroad, held in
A’lanta, on Tuesday, Major Campbell
Wallace, of great railroad celebrity,
was elected President of the Company.
The Atlanta press are greatly rejoiced
at the selection.
The Legislature to be elected in Ohio
next fall will be called upon to elect a
successor to John Sherman, whose term
as United States Senator from that State
expires in 1873. This makes the elec
tion of that body by the people of Ohio
of more than ordinary importance.
The Griffin Georgian makes quite a
lengihy argument to show why thj pro
posed Air-Line Railroad from this city
to Aliai-ta shuUid point to and Itruii
nate at Gulfia, iusita; ol Atlanta, trorn
which we make the inflowing exuaci:
ine object ..I tne roa . from Allan la
to Columbus is to give Columbus a
closer connection with the Siate Roau,
and to give Atlanta a ciosci connection
with lire Mobile and Girard Rihioau,
and thence to the ports on the Guif. We
unhesitatingly assul that the same enJ
can be attained by constructing ibe
road trom Griffin to Columbus, and at a
greatly less cost. The difference in
distance between an Air-Line road
from Columbus to Atlanta, and trout
Columbus lo Atlanta via Griffin Is 8
milts; w hilst the difference in the price
of constructing each o! these roads is
$896,000 in favor of the Griffin road.
This saving is made by taking advan
tage of the ALacon and Western Rail
road from Griffin to Altunin, a dislauce
ol 43 miles.
it would seem to us tha. when wo
compare the distance between the two
routes that ii is bad policy, to say the
least, to build a road 3d miles longer
than there is any occasion tor. i/e
want the road built .iom Griffin to Col
umbus, and ibe time bas come when
the people are lorctd to acknowledge
that this road must be ouiU, and that
the road from Atlanta i>. Columbus will
ruin the prospects of the town. We
are reliably informed that, although the
project is anew one, SIOO,OOO has been
subscribed; and the friends ot the road,
and those acquainted with the people
of Meriwether, say that they will sub
scribe libeially. Partits have already
proposed to take the contract upon
most favorable terms.
It crosses but one stream of any con
sequence for 40 miles and can therefore
be built at a small cost. If Columbus
will subscribe $200,000, Harris, Pike
and Talbot SIOO,OOO, Meriwether
$150,000, Griffin and Spalding SIOO,OOO,
we will have over a half million dollars,
and can build the road without State
aid.
If tho Griffin and Madison Road is
built, Columbus will have a closer con
nection with Augusta. If the Madison
Railroad is not built, the building of the
road from Griffin to Columbus will ren
der its completion a necessity to tho
Georgia Road, and that road will either
build~ it, or aid materially those who
may undertake to build it. If the Grif
fin and Madison Railroad, and the Col
umbus and Griffin Railroad secures the
Georgia Railroad almost an air-line
connection with the Mobile and Girard,
we at once see why the Georgia Road
will be benefitted.
What we of Columbus want is a
direct communication with Atlanta by
one road without complications with
any other. This road gives us a con
nection with Charleston via the Geor
gia and the Charleston Railroads; with
with the State Road, and through that
channel, with Tennessee, with a con
siderable saving of distance as com
pared with the present route; and it
will place our city on what must become
the great line of travel, when the At
lanta and Richmond Air Line is com
pleted, between New Orleans, Mobile
and Now York, compelling the comple
tion by the combined railroad interests
on the line, of the Mobile and Girard
Railroad to Pollard. These compose
part of the considerations that prompt
the movers in the building of the Air
Lino between Columbus and Atlanta,
and the change will not be made. What
the Georgian says about the small loss
in distance and the great saving of
cost of construction by placing that
city on the line, and using 43 miles of
the Macon and Western Road, may be
true, and possibly is. This will not
influence a change, however. In this
outlet our people are determined not to
be blocked.
When the road from Griffin to Madi
son shall have been built, it will be an
easy matter to have its charter extend
ed to Greenville, and build to and con
nect with the Columbus and Atlanta
Air Line at that point, should its stock
holders choose to do so.
WOMKN’S SBI'i’HAOE.
Editora Sun : As there has been so
much said and written of late years
about “Women’s Suffrage,” permit me
to have my say through your independ
ent journal. A few years ago it would
have been considered a now as well as
a wide “departure” to have advocated
“Women’s Suffrage.” But behold the
change that has come over the spirit of
our political dreams ! Look at the nu
merous new schedules that have been
adopted to run the machine during the
last seven years. Who, ten years back,
would have supposed it possible for our
country to have gone through so many
"departures,” and so many Liliputians
occupying places once filled by such
men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and
hundreds of others equally as great and
patriotic? But one “departure” brings
| another, and since ten times ten thous
and ignorant blacks have been permit
ted to walk up to the ballot-box and
cast their votes, when it is made a
i penitentiary offence even to challenge
one of them. Why, I will ask in all
sincerity, should intelligent white wo
men be debarred from the same privi
lege? Where is the will ad
vocate that his mother, wife, or sister
is inferior in intellect to the horde of
semi-barbarians that flock to the polls
at every election, and to-day rule and
ruin our country until it stinks in the
nostrils of every civilized nation of the
earth? It may be a weakness—l will
plead guilty to the soft impeachment
hut I have an abiding faith in the intel
ligence of the American women. Nor
do I believe they would be guilty of
committing such “fantastic tricks be
fore high heaven,” as the politicians of
our day, the advocates of “new depart
ures,” who would “circumvent heaven”
ior an office. I believe if every white
woman above the age of eighteen in our
land, that could read and write, were
permitted to cast their votes, as an off
set to the negro vote, we would soon
be living under the glorious old consti
tution of our fathers—abolish the new
amendments—renew our love and ven
eration for the once glorious anniversa
ry of the 4th of July of ’7o—fire our
cannons, burn our bonfires, and hurrah
for Independence Day as of old, when
we had a constitution and a country to
be proud of. M. j
Xii« North ami Month Koml -Mecttur
at Hamilton.
Hamilton, Ga., July 4, 1871. j
Pursuant to call a large number of'
the citizens of Harris county assembled ;
at the Court House to attend a meeting
in the interest of the North and South :
Railroad. On motion H. C. Kimbrough
was made Chairman and J. F. C. Wil- ]
liams Secretary.
By request, W. D. Chipley, Secretary
of the Company, stated that his visit to
Harris was for the purpose of ascertain
ing what amount of aid the different j
routes were willing to give the compa- j
ny—that the matter of subscriptions
would enter largely into the question of
location through Harris county.
The following committees were ap
pointed to co-operate with W. D. Chip
ley, Secretary of Company, and J. F.
C. Williams, corporator of Harris, in
obtaining subscriptions:
Above the Mountain—Jas. G. Smith,
J. G. Tucker, Sam’l C. Goodman.
Below the Mountain—H. C. Kim- :
brough, J. M. Mobley, L. L. Stanford,
J. T. Johnson.
The meeting adjourned with determ
ination to show the interest of the Ham
ilton line by immediate action.
H. C. Kimbrough, Ch’n. \
J F. C. Williams, Sec’y,
MATCBDAT MOUSIN'*. JULY 8.
North and South Railroad — Some
of the Subscriptions in Harris.
Caps W. D Cbip'.ey, Secretary of the
N.irth ami South Railroad, returned
iuai evening from a canvass of Harris
eounty in the interest of the Company.
Ills report is very cheering. He gave
us a peep at his list, not list either, but
actual stibscrption notes signed and
sealed. We were struck with their
substantial character, and without a
list before us will try and give a few of
the most familiar names : James Love
laee, $500; Wm C. Johnston, $2,000;
Joel T. Johnson, $1,000; A. Hunley,
$1,000; Li. C. Kimbrough, $2,000; HU.
hard VY. Pius, $1,200; Jas. M. Mobely,
$1,200; Rtiburu O. Hood, $3,000; Prof.
A S Franklin, $500; Jas. G. Smith &
S oi, $1,300; Irby Hudson, $1,000; W.
1 Hu'isou, SI,OOO. We have made no
special selection, but give such names
as arc most familiar lo us, and our ciii
zens generally will bear us oui that
they are among the most reliable men
ill Harris county. We prophecy Harris
will subscribe SIOO,OOO.
The Young Men’s Union Prater
Alketing. The annual election ol
officers of the Young AleDs’ Uuion
Player Meeting was held at the Pres
byterian church on Monday evening.
The following officers were chosen :
Chairman—G. J. Peacock.
Assistants A. R. Wilkerson, E. P.
Chambers, J. A. Ramsey, J. R. Davis.
Secretary—D. Q. Abbott.
At the meeting next Monday evening,
at the Presbyterian church at 8$ o’clock,
it is hoped all men who feel an interest
in these meeting, will attends.
Large Excursion Party. —A large
one is to start from St. Loui9 in a few
days for San Francisco. California. The
round fare from St. Louis and back is
sl69—the tickets being good for sixty
days. A good many merchants arc go
ing from Chicago, Louisville, Cincin
nati and other cities. We understand
Mr. A. Illges, of the firm of Allen,
Preer & Illges, ot Columbus, and Mr.
Daniel Pratt, the celebrated gin manu
facturer in Alabama, are going to make
the trip, and that Mr. I. leaves this
morning.
Killed by Lightning. —Thursday,
at 6 p. m., a severe thunder Btorrn pass
ed over Seale Station, Ala. The light
ning struck Mr. A. Zarkowski’s stable
and did some damage to the building.
A son of Mr. Benjamin Henry, of the
place, about ten years of age, was in
stantly killed. A white man and two
negroes were severely shocked.
Crops in Tallapoosa. —The Dade
ville (Ala.) News, of the 6th, says
“The rain continues, and its unfavora
ble effect upon the farming interests in
this section are still more and more
visible. The corn in the bottomlands
is nothing and will be nothing. That
on the uplands look better.
“Cotton, on the uplands, looks tolera
bly well, but that on the bottom lands
have nearly gone by the board.”
Tho same paper says for the past two
weeks rain has fallen in abundance.
Friday, heavy rain and winds accom
panied with hail. Saturday more rain.
Sunday the heaviest rain of the season.
The Tallapoosa News states that
seven additional miles of the track of
the Savannah and Memphis road has
been graded. This takes the grading
to within about two miles of Dadovilie.
It is anticipated that the cars will be
running to that town by the first of
October, or in time for the opening of
tho fall trade. Would it not be well for
members of the mercantile firms of our
city to circulate freely among the peo
ple of Tallapoosa during the summer
months? It is a pleasant country, and
1b filled with a solvent and hospitable
population whose trade is worth an ef
fort.
The Macon Medical Convention.
—ln consequence of dissatisfaction
among some of the medical fraternity
at the action of the last Medical Con
vention of the State, towards the At
lanta Medical College, a convention of
the physicians of the State was called
to meet at Macon on the sth inst., to
consider and, if possible, reconcile mat
ters of difference. The convention met
but was not largely attended, and, as is
reported, adjourned without any defi
nite action, the majority contending
that the convention had no right to
interfere with the action of the body
complained of.
Tho Convention elected Dr. S. D.
Hawkins, of Americus, President, and
Dr. C. U. Hall, of Macon, and Dr.
Walker, ofMonticello, Vice-Presidents.
Dr. William Duncan, of Savannah,
was chosen Secretary.
J. L. Pennington, President, has
written a long letter to the Opelika
papers, in which he virtually says that
the East Alabama and Cincinnati Rail
road is an Opelika enterprise, and will
aid that place more than any other. He
desires action on the part of the Ope
likians, and thinks he can have the
road completed to Guntersville in two
years. The impression is created that
he desires his southern terminus to be
at Eufaula.
Central Railroad stock (ex-dividend)
sold at Savannah, Tuesday, at sll7 to
sll7 50 per share, Southwestern at
s9l 00; Atlantic and Gulf (guaranteed)
at $49 50; Atlantic and Gulf (com
mon) at S2S 50; Savannah and Augusta
at SB4, aud Savannah bonds at SB4.
A little son of Mr. Joseph Nisbet, of
: Milledgeville, fell from the platform of
the depot to the track, injuring himself
severely.
Gainesville is the head-centre of
enough mineral springs to stock the
State. It is rumored that Hi Kimball
has purchased one for his hotel.
Census returns of Pitt county, North
Carolina, shows that there are some
fifteen or twenty persons in that county
who are from 100 to 110 years old.
Claims Allowed.— The Commis
sioners of Russell county, Alabama,
allowed, at the April regular term, and
at the April adjourned term, held on
June 19th, $2,508 30 in claims. Rath
er a neat tittle sum for a quarter.
The Middle Georgian says the Sa
vannah, Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad—now running as far North
west as Newnan—is apparently doing
a fine business. It says the cars gen
erally have more passengers than the
Macon and Western Road.
The St. Louis Times exhibits a keen
appreciation of “carpet-baggers,” when
it so truthfully and pertinently de
scribes them as “Radical vagrants who
have squatted like vultures upon the
leavings of the war, croaking of loyalty
between every swallow.” '
The editor of the Milledgeville Re
corder went to his own wedding last
week, The Sparta Times is responsi
ble for the statement that he sent his
wife off on a bridal tour by herself.
A juvenile tournament is an original
institution for which Sparta respectful
ly claims the copyright.
Uou. A. 11. Stephens—>'ew Issues, Ac
If hypocrisy is the homage vice pays
to virtue, slander is the penalty often
rendered to greatness by meanness and
mediocrity. Since his accession to the
chair editorial, Mr. Stephens seems in
a fair way to receive his proportion of
abuse and misrepresentation—of envy,
hatred and malice.
He has been denounced as an egotist
and a “fanatic to truth," as if to be
modest and write truth, was sin. He
has been called a dotard, as if there
were things in his present political wis
dom sod situation suggestive of the fol
io wing, beautifullines:
“Id life’s last scenes, wtiat prodigies arise,
Fears ol the hrave, and follies of the wise,
Down Marlborough’s cheeks the tears ol do
tage Bow,
And Swllt expires, a driveler and a show.”
We would be glad if his learned crit
ics could, in what they pronounce his
"hair splitting nonsense," exhibit half
the method in their madness as the sage
of Liberty Hall. Some tven of the dirty
birds would foul their own nests by ex
pressions that Mr. Stephens, in his con
nexion with the Fourth Estate, has dis
houored the position of an ex Vice
President and member of Congress.
Such little, mean souls never see great
ness outside of a title or an office. They
never realize that a tomtit is still a
tomtit, though perched on the Alps, and
that St. Peter’s is not shorn of any of
its beauty and grandeur of proportion,
because it is not seen and comprehended
by the blind. It is the God-like intel
lect and virtue that adds dignity and
reverence to position, and no position
except among the base, can lliug a lus
ter around moral corruption allied to
political crime.
“What can ennoble fools, or slaves, or cow
ards!
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.”
Washington amid the shades of Mt.
Vernon among his flocks and herds,
was as great as while sitting iu the
Presidential chair, and the conqueror of
the Cimbri, an exile surrounded by the
ruins of Carthage, was greater in his
adversity than when his ears were
saluted with Roman triumphs. Posi
tion was unco some evidence of mental
and moral excellence, but if we And
greatness now, we must extend our
search beyond the confines of office.
We are not the oulogist ot Mr. Steph
ens or any other mortal except so far
as they may teach, and illustrate by
example, the principles we believe true
and just. Mr. S., with all of his alleged
dotage, and notwithstanding he lives in
a little gully-waßlred village somewhat
removed from the splendors of New
York or the Kimball House, is fully
able to "tote 7iis own skillet." He may
not deem it necessary to impale on his
pen every little stinging insect which
may annoy him, but his good name and
fame should be dear to every Georgian
and bo defended as well against the as
saults of Southern editors as Northern
correspondents. It has been industri
ously attempted by those who profess
to ignore old issues and the first in
practice to revive them, that Mr. S. is
ready to assert what he thinks is the
right of secession on the first opportuni
ty. This, slander may be pardoned,
coming from a Radical quarter, but
when it is circulated to injure and prej
udice by those who, whan the doctrine
was popular, agreed with Mr. S., it
then becomes low and contemptible.
Joe Brown, Ben. Hill and.others voted
for the ordinance of secession with Mr.
Stephens. Why should not the “accept
the situation” of Messrs. Brown and
Hill be equally an argument for the
“Lost Cause,” as the reject the situa
tion of Mr. Stephens?
Because Southern Democracy was so
closely associated with secession, an
appeal has been mado to the Old Whigs
to unite with the Radicals on a sort of
"new departure" platform. We, with
thousands of Old Whigs, opposed seces
sion until it ripened into armed revolu
tion. We then did not remain at home
to prey on the misfortunes of our
country. We did not seek the soft
places and offices, and resist the laws of
the Confederacy. Asa soldier, we en
deavored to be loyal to God and our
native land and subject to those then in
authority. Our objections to secession
were derived from intellectual examina
tions and convictions in relation to the
true construction of tho Constitution.
It is very different with Radicalism.
Right, or wrong, secession may have
struck at the life of the nation; Radical
ism not only strikes at the root of Re
publican government, but is an enemy
to the human race. It seeks by force
and fraud to clothe with power and
honor ignorance and corruption, and
ostracise honesty and intelligence. It
stimulates a war of races at the expense
of the white natives of the South. Its
policy is war and not peace; its profes
sions hypocritical, and its practice de
structive and tyrannical. We do not
intend it shall manufacture issues for
us, but will esteem its friends our ene
mies and its enemies our friends, in all
sections of our common country, and
shall rejoice overitsoverthrow whether
in anew or an old departure from Con
stitutional government and rational
liberty.
A Narrow Escape.— On last Salur
day afternoon, at about 4 o’clock, a sud
den, unexpected dap of thunder, and,
notfourtickßof a watch thereafter, a
sharp, terrible fiery streak of lightning
started the family of Rev. Mr. Davis of
this city. The lightning struck a pe
can tree standing about twenty feet
from the side of the house, and right op
posite a window where Mrs. Davis was
sitting sewing, at which the oldest child
was standing. A young dog wsb chain
ed near the tree. He was thrown from
his feet by the shock, and he rolled over
and over in strange disorder. The
younger child was under the house, get
ting the dog house to put the dog in.
He was shocked speechless, for a min
ute or two, and when he recovered, he
said, “something struck me, and burnt
my foot.” Red streaks, as if done by
fire, were seen on the inner side of his
right foot, just under the ankle joint.
The older child at the window was so
shocked that he could not move. Mrs.
Davis says she saw the sparks of Are on
the needle in her hand, and felt an im
mense pressure upon the brain. At the
time of the stroke, there was sunshine
all around the house—a cloud seeming
to rest sullenly some distance to the
South-east. —Eufaula News.
General Toombs, we learn, made a
Fourth of July speech to the largest
crowd ever assembled in Wilkes coun
ty. The people came from far and
near to hear him, and Washington was
literally packed. The speech Is reported
to have been a thunder storm of elo
quent invective against the “New De
parture,” and so powerful was it that
the new political bantling was stripped
of its swaddling clothes and then torn
into frazzles and turned loose upon the
whirlwind of his oratory. And it is
now said that in all Wilkes county there
is not a man who would willingly pick
up a frazzle, or even admit that he was
ever inclined to “depart.”— At. Sun.
The Georgia papers are disputing as
to where the prettiest girl in Georgia
lives. She is over here on a visit from
Columbus. —Opelika Locomotive.
Respectfully received and approved,
with the remark that Columbus boasts
a host of the prettiest girls.
The Shreveport papers state that the
proposition to make a donation of $500,-
000 forty-year six per cent bonds to the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicks
burg Railroad, to be used in building
the main branch to Shreveport from the
trunk road, was ratified by a vote of the
citizens on the 20th ult.
SISDAT MOKNING, JULY 9.
N. & 8. R. R.— Handsome Subscrip
tions—Our New Road a Certainty.
—We believe there is no difference in
the minds of our citizens as regards the
importance of this road. The enter
prise has been pushed forward with
such vigor that we may expect in a
very few days to see dirt broken upon
it. As the Company continues to grow
in dimensions and its success appears
more and more certain, our people show
their willingness to give substantial ev
idence of their interest and faith in the
road. W. D. Chipley made tho first
canvass ever attempted in our city in
the interest of the North and South
Road yesterday and, although he hardly
got through the first block, he reports
the following handsome result;
Dr. E. C. Hood SI,OOO
H. H. Epping 1,000
W. A. McDougald 1,000
I. G. Strupper 1,000
Thos. Ragland 200
Martin J. Crawford 500
F. G. Wilkins 500
E F. Colzey 200
Thos. E. Blanchard 300
Bass & McDougald 3,000
Seaborn J. Benning, Ad’mr 1,000
Swift & Murphy 1,000
D. R. Bize 200
S. U. Hill 500
John King 500
Satn’l B. Cleghorn 200
Ilobt. Thompson 200
We presume the entire city will be
canvassed and we hope every merchant
and property holder will take some
stock. The office of the Company pre
sented a busy scene yesterday, a large
number of contractors being present
examining maps, profiles, etc.
The Race Yesterday— Furse S4OO
—About SI,OOO Bet The Gray Horse
Wins—Mile Heats,Best Three in Five
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock, com
menced a trotting mulch on the Fair
Grounds track, between Kiiuk’s bay
horse and the gray horse, “Jeff. Davis”
—s2oo a side—mile heats—best three in
five. The gray trotted to a sulky; the
bay to a skeleton wagon. About 500
present—among them were many of
the leading and most charming ladles
in the city. The betting on the course
seemed to be mostly on time. Upon
the “toss up” Klffik won the inside
track. Mr. John Mclntosh drove the
gray. Mr John Odom handled the
ribbons on the bay the first heat. Mr.
Henry Kliuk the three subsequent ones.
The First Heat —The horses had a
good start. Jeff' Du vis at the end of the
first quarter was about a length ahead.
He gradually iuerea-ed the distance
and came under the string forty yards
In advance of the bay. Time, 3:14|.
ijecond Heat. —The gray, through the
entire mile, kept about a length in ad
vance, until uearing the home stretch,
when the bay made a heavy eff rt. The
gray, however, passed the stand half a
length ahead. The bay ran a good
distance. Time, 3:05.
Third Heat. —A fine start, and a close
match throughout. Tho bay kept a
little in advance and came under the
string at a sweeping lick, leading the
gray half a length. Time, 3:09.
Fourth Heat.— This was tho tug of
war. The horses began well. The
gray kept the bay at such a rapid lick,
that the latter frequently broke and ran
farther than he was entitled to. The
first quarter the bay was ahead; the sec
ond, the two were abreaßt; the third the
gray, who had broken but slightly,
forged ahead; under the run the bay
passed him and came under the string
a length ahead. Tho gray was given
the heat and the race. Time of heat,
3:075. The fourth heat was given the
gray, though the othor came out ahead,
because the latter ran so much. The
gray was brought down from a run
very quickly.
summary:
Jeff. Davis 1 12 1
Bay Horse 2 2 12
Time, 3:142, 3:05, 3:09, 3:075.
The gray is nine years old; the bay
six. The former is originally from
Montgomery, but was sold here at
Sheriff’s sale for $l5O, and purchased
by Mr. Gammel. The bay is a Frank
Allen colt.
Intervals of 20 and 25 minutes were
given between the heats. Neither of
the horses made the time expected,
but it was pretty good for scrubs, con
sidering the' heavy condition of the
track.
Large Number Out.— At the Market
House yesterday, one hundred and
twenty-five vegetable wagons appeared,
loaded with almost every conceivable
production indigenous to the soil. A
finer display could not be found any
where. Blackberries appear to be get
ting scarce as only about a bushel were
brought in. Watermelons were plen
tiful, and wero selling from 10c. to 40c.
Some were very large. There were
hundreds of them. In a few months a
handsome vegetable shed will be com
pleted, which will be a great conven
ience to the sellers and the large num
ber of purchasers that frequent the mar
ket every morning.
Ku-Klux After Gen. Benning.—
Hon. Henry L. Benning has been sum
j moued as a witness before the Ku-Klux
| Committee sitting at Washington City.
|He leaves on Monday. P. W. Alexan
| der, Esq., who had, also, been sum
moned, has been excused on account of
j ill-health.
| The Jail.— Mr. John Cleghorn re
: ports that he has fourteen boarders.
! One who was discharged three weeks
. ago was sent back Thursday. He had
i been stealing again. The jail is a heavy
| expense to the county. Bullock’s Leg
i islature abolished the chain gang and
| the inmates must be supported in idle
j ness.
The One Shocked.— Cspt. R. N.
Howard was the white man so soverely
shocked by the lightning which struck
Zorkowski’s stable at Beale Station,
Thursday, and killed a boy. He slowly
revived, after being drenched with wa
ter, and now uppearß all right. It is
said a man shocked by lightning can
tell who struck Billy Patterson.
Already Removed.— ln the list of
Georgians who are buried at Gettysburg,
appears the name of Lt. C. A. Baily of
the 10th Georgia. His remains were
removed from the battle field to Colum
bus in 1867. Wc neglected to mention
the fact when we saw the list in the
Savannah Republican. Might this net
be the case with some of the other
Georgians mentioned ?
H. I. Kimball. —A reliable gentle- j
man and contractor from Eufaula, now
present in our city preparing to bid on j
the work of the North and South road, |
reports that H, I. Kimball has sold out,
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, of
which he was elected President a short :
time back with such sounding of trum- :
pets. The Central Railroad interest i
was the purchaser. Comment is un
necessary. *. !
R. D. Locke, of Union Springs, Ala.,
had awarded him at the recent com- ;
mencement of Columbian College, D. !
C., the Davis Prize in elocution. The !
subject of his speech was “Apprentice j
Thyself at the Mill of Knowledge.” |
The reporters mention it favorably.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Foreign
Vienna, July 6.—John Jay gave a
dinner on the 4th. The ambassadors
were all present. Count Beust toasted
the United States. Jay responded. He
thought the treaty of Washington would
prevent wars by establishing arbitra
tions.
Paris, July G.—Details of the army
vote are coming in. The garrison at
Lille gave .700 Republicans and only
10 Legitimists votes. The city of Calair
gave 3,000 Republican and 800 Monarch
ical votes. The Republicans are in the
ascendent nearly everywhere.
London, July 6.—A submarine mes
senger and devotee of the telegraph
says: The public and the press are allies
against high cable rates. We must
have opposition.
It is said that Napoleon -goes to Ge
neva, and Eugene to Spain.
Frederick William and wifo are ex
pected here to-night.
Paris, July 6.— The supplemental
elections occur next Sunday.
Prince de Joinville, having declared
for the Republic, will undoubtedly suc
ceed in the department of la Manche.
Gen. Manteuffel dined with Thiers
to-day.
Moltko has ordered tho German com
manders to forbear inflicting punish
ment for offenses which French law can
reach.
Count Walderse complains of the bit
ter language of the journals toward
Germany. The Official Journal,publish
ing this statement, advises the other
journals to exereise the utmost forbear
ance.
London, July 6.—The steamer Gam
bia was totally wrecked iu Algoa Bay.
No details.
Paris, July 7.— The court martial of
prisoners will proceed as follows : Ist
Members of the Central Committee.
2nd. Persons who usurped public func
tions. 3d. Those generally implicated
before the special Tribune.
It is proposed to lend Thiers the Pal
ace Elysee as a residence.
The Bank of France sent a hundred
and four million francs to Prussia.
The trial of Rochefort, Assy and Kos
sel has been postponed for a fortnight.
Tho organization of tho French army
has been completed. Its effective
strength is 320,000.
The Pope writes Thiers that he will
remain in Rome.
Madrid, July 7. —A motion censur
ing the Government was rejected by a
large majority. I'he vote stood 119 to
61.
The Cortez has issued a general am
nesty in Spain and the colonics.
London, July 7.—A storm occurred
to-day, during which a number of
churches were struck by lightning,
ands. number of lives lost.
London, July 7.—The Waveriy cele
bration in aid of the erection of a
monument to Sir Walter Scott was
immense. It was a success. Fve
hundred pounds was realized towards
the object. Tho Prinee and Princess
of Wales, Prince and Princess Chris
tian, Prince Teck, Marquis of Lome,
Princess Louiso and Prince Arthur
were present and danced in character
costumes.
Paris, July 7. —Only 45 per cent, of
tho new loan is allotted to subscribers
of Paris. Forts will be abandoned
when ten thousand million of indemni
ty is paid.
In the Assembly, upon a motion to
tax pasports, Joubert attacked the En
glish excursionists. Favrc expressed
regret and spoke glowingly of the
charity of the English government and
people towards France during tho re
cent calamities. Favre also stated the
government wished to prevent conflicts
with tho German army of occupation.
The motion taxing pasports was with
drawn. An additional hundred and
seventy-five millions will be sent to
Prussia before the 10th, when the Ger
mans will evacuate the Departments
of the Seine, Somme and Infercure.
Treasure will be delivered to the
Germans at Strausburg.
A woman was shot in the Depart
ment of Jura, for complaining of the
requisitions made by the departing
Prussians.
Paris, June B.— Count Dechamberd
refuses to see the Orleans Princes until
he consults France.
From WaMhlnKton.
Washington, July 6.— Akerman is
the only member of the Cabinet here.
Treasury disbursements for June was
over $15,750,000, exclusive of interest.
H. B. Peterson has the contract for a
tri-weekly mail between New Orleans
and Vicksburg.
Judge Pettus and Col. Pugh, of Ala
bama, before the Ku-Klux Committee,
corroborated Lindsay’s and Clanton’s
testimony that no such organization
exists in Alabama.
J. M. Justice, of Rutherford county,
N. G., testified that some four weeks
ago disguised men came to his house
and took him out of bed, whipped him
terribly with clubs and pistols, and
took him to the woods and threatened
him with death. He promised not to
go to Washington to testify regarding
outrages previously committed in his
! neighborhood. He was confined to his
j bed three weeks from the hurts. Jus
tice believed these were not mere neigh
borhood quarrels, and firmly believed
the existence of Ku-Klux in North Car
olina.
Washington, July 7.—Captain John
Nye, brother of Senator Nye, is dead.
Jos. H. Spoed testified beforo the Ku-
Klux Committee : In Alabama things
were quiet until last winter, when dis
guised bands commenced various out
rages, and continued till recently.—
These outrages terrorized the negroes,
and made them afraid to vote. Oppo
j sition to negro education comes from
the lower classes, the former owners
being strongly in favor of general and
impartial education. Speed claims to
be an ex-Confedearte officer; now re
gent of the State University, and Su
perintendent of Education in Perry
county, Alabama.
Albert Richardson,colored, of Clarke
county, Ga., formerly a member of the
Legislature, testified that in January
last a band of disguised men, whom
Richardson believed Ku-Klux, came to
his house and fired at and wounded
him. He returned the fire, wounding
one assailant mortally, whereupon they
retired, carrying off the dead. He
knows no cause for the attack.
Whipping and similar outrages con
tinue in that section, creating such ter
ror that the negroes living in isolated
places have abandoned their places for
towns, where they have nothing to do,
and suffer distress.
The State Department has advices
that ladies require passports to enter
France.
Wives must be mentioned in hus
band’s pasports to enter Paris to avoid
annoying investigations.
Washington, July B —The Secreta
ry of the Treasury instructs collectors
to take no active steps to interfere with
quarantine regulations where the port
of entry and up river porta conflict.
The question arises from a conflict of
regulations in Florida and Georgia, re
garding navigation of State riyerß. J.
Gen. Sherman has been elected Pres !
ident of tho Society of the Army and
Navy of the Gulf.
The negotiations for postal money
orders between the United States and
Great Britain are nearly completed.
U. S. Grant, President of the United
States—To all whom it may concern
these presents shall,come. Greeting;
Whereas, On the 13th day ot June,
1871, in the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, holding a criminal
term, one C. C. Bowen was convicted
of bigamy and sentenced to be impris
oned for two years and to pay two hun
dred and fifty dollars fine; and whereas
it is represented that be was innocent
of any violation of the law, that he
acted iu good faith believing his former
wife to be dead, and it appears that he
rendered good service to the cause of j
the Union during the rebellion and since
its termination, and has endeavored to j
lead an honest and upright life, and for
these reasons eleven of tho jurors who ;
found the verdict against him and
many other citizens of tho highest con
sideration and weight, urge his pardon,
and United States Attorney Fisher
would be gratified by the exercise of
Executive clemency, now therefore be
it known that I, U. S. Grant, President
of the United States ot America, iu
consideration of the premises and di
vers other good and sufficient reasons
there unto moving, do hereby grant to
the said C. C. Bowen a full and uncon
ditional pardon.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
signed my name and caused the seal
of tho United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
first day of July, A. D. 1871, and ot
the independence of tho Unitod States
the ninety fifth,
U. S. Grant.
Bowen has been reloasod.
From Mexico.
Mexico, June 27.— Tho primary elec
tion is quiet. Pachuca, Jalizieo and
Orizaba favor Juarez. Tho result will
be divided, and belong to Diaz and
Jaquez.
The government orders the fortifica
tions at Tampico levelled.
There was a serious fire at Zaeaticas.
Many lives lost.
Domestic Nummary.
New Orleans, July 7.—About 10:30
a. m., Sam Rainoy, general book-keep
er of tho New Orleans National Bank,
while at his desk, was shot and almost
instantly killed by Wm. Bird. The
homicide was the result of former busi
ness complications. Bird was arrested.
Senator I’inchback, colored, institut
ed a suit against tho Jackson Railroad
for refusing to furnish him passage in
the sleeping car on account of color.
By an ordinanco of tho City Council
an administrator of finance refuses to
receive any more metropolitan police
warrants in payment of city taxes.
Warrants suddenly dropped from 98 to
75c., and a further decline is expected.
A fatal case of sunstroke occurrod
yesterday.
New York, July 6. —The Spanish
brig Integredade has arrived and quar
antined with the yellow fever.
New York, July o. John M. Dow,
formerly a citizen of Augusta, Ga,,
where he accumulated nearly a million
dollars, suicidod from despondency.
He lost niOßt of his fortune speculating.
Aged 55 years.
The Grand Jury of Herkimer county
have indicted A. H. Laflin, a naval offi
cer of this city, for perjury. Laflin’s
friends claim that the suit is malicious.
Long Branch, July 6.—The yachts
reached goaf in tho following order:
Sappho, Dauntless, Columbia, Mada
line, &c. The judges award tho Sap
pho the winner of the schooners, and
the Grade winner of the sloops.
Idaho won tho first race by half a
neck; time 2.165. Salina won the sec
ond by half a length; time 2.435.
Helmbold won tho third by two lengths;
time 3.415.
Philadelphia, July 6.— Horace P.
Robinson, son of a Third street broker,
was shot, probably fatally, by Wm.
Barstal, son of a wealthy sugar refiner.
The youths had been talking of bur
glars before going to sleep together,
and it is supposed that the act was
committed while Barstal was asleep.
Cincinnati, July 6.—A saloon keep
er, of Frankfort, Ross county, Ohio,
fractured the skull of a son of Dr.
Latla.
Geo. W. Gray, of New Richmond,
Ohio, drunk, insultod some ladies, for
which the bystanders killed him.
Judge Pratt granted a stay of the
proceedings in the earhook murdorcr,
Foster’s case, which is equivalent to a
respite till Octobor.
Bt. Louis, July 6.—Chief of police
McDonough has gone to Washington
in connection with the national police
convention here next fall. After con
sulting Secretary Fish with a view of
opening a correspondence with foreign
police, McDonough will visit the cities
and principal towns of thiß country,
gathering information regarding the
police, detective and refirmatory sys
tems.
Chicago, July 6. —The citizens of
Watsaka, Illinois, took Martin Mera,
who is charged with murdering his son,
aged ton years, from jail and hung him.
A thousand men, women and children
participated in the act.
Hartford, July G. —The House
passed the general railroad law, by a
vote of 12U to 57.
Oxford, July 7.— The Juno Term of
the District Court has adjourned. The
Grand Jury returned forty-five bills
under the Enforcement Act, implicat
ing three hundred persons.
Hudson, July 7. The Convention
of the manufacturers of straw paper,
nearly every mill represented, resolved
to run on halftime for the coming year,
commencing August Ist. The cause is
high straw and low paper.
New York, July 7.— Colored Sen
ator Andrew Jackson Jones, of North
Carolina, has sued a gambling house
for $5,000 lost at cards.
San Francisco, July 7.—The semi
annual report of the Board of Trade
shows a partial increase and & large
accumulation of bullion and coin.
Troops are in possession of the mines
in Amada county.
A sharp earthquake felt at Vistia.
No damage done.
Cincinnati, July 7. A Catholic
school house, Presbyterian church and
county jail at Portsmouth, was un
roofed by the storm.
New York, July B.—A convention
of the Irish Societies, in Becret session,
it is said, rosolved to appeal to the May
or to break up tho Orange procession.
The Herald’s special says Count
Chamberd intends to issue a proclama
tion calling upon the people to rally
found the Bourbon throne, and if the
authorities interefere there will be an
imitation of Napoleon’s Strasbourg pro
gramme.
Trains from Newark and New York
collided. Seven bodies were taken from
the ruins. It is supposed many more
are in them. The lists show no South
erners.
New York, July B.— John Kealy
was fatally stabbed by a young ruffian,
who has been arrested.
Pleasanton's resignation is undenia.
bly asserted.
Bank Statement—Loans have in
creased two millions and three quarters
spocie increase, nearly three millions
deposits increase, nearly three
legal tender decrease, over a million
and a quarter.
Dewitt & Duncan’s cotton store was
burned to day.
Chicago, July B.— The Coroner’s j n
quest over tho lynched man elicited ike
following:
Mary Mora, mother of tho child, tea
tilled as follows: My husband, Martin
Mera, whippod my son Martin, aged
ten years, two weeks ago Tuesday
night. My babe was born Hint day and
I did not see tho whipping. It Was
done in another room. I heard the
blows and heard the child beg for mer
cy. The child went to bed about ten
o’clock. The next morning the child
came to my bed room, followed by his
father, who was whipping him v tr y
hard with a black snako horse whip.
The child dodged around the room to
avoid the blows, and begged for mercy.
He tookolfhis shirt and whipped him.
His face was swollen from the whipping
he had received the night, before. Ilia
lather whipped Imn very hard for ten
or fifteen minutes. At last be Hopped
and told tho child to put ou his shirt.
He made an effort to do so and failed.
His father repeated the order, when the
'boy said: “1 can’t see; 1 can’t see."
“You can’t sec it?” responded Ins fath
er. “No, father, I can’t Bee you; 1 can’t
see you; I feel dying.” The father then
rubbed tho boy with spirits and forced
some down his throat. The child raised
his hands, moved his lips, and expired.
Mera then took the body and put it uu
der the bed where the sick mother was
lying, and it remained there until even
ing, when he burned it.
The testimony oi tho boy’s sister is
still more horrible.
Mobile, July B.— Braxton Bragg, jr.,
a nephew ot Gen. Bragg, was attacked
by Madison Wilson, son of L. M. Wil
son, Vice President of the Mobile and
Montgomery Railroad, this morning iu
front of the Custom House. Each tired
one shot. Wilson was instantly killed.
Particulars after the trial.
Richmond, July B.— Mary Bishop, a
married woman, committed suicide this
niorning, by cutting her throat with a
pocket knife and bleeding to death.
Cause, domestic troubles. She leaves
six children—all girls. Herbußband is
in Baltimore.
Long Branch, July B.— Third raco
was run yestorday; Conductor was tho
winner. Time 2:43.
Julius won the first; Helmbold won
the second, time 5:43; Willie Ransom
won the third, timo 2:405.
From Cuba.
Havana, July B.—Valmaseda is at
Sanctu Esperatus. Cefallcno has tho
vomito.
Apprehensions are folt for the saloty
of the Port-au-Prince. She is over due
from New York.
Lumber and shingles are wanted in
Jamaica.
Nnhacrlittioii to tho North amt Nouth
It. B. Carried.
Rome, Ga., July B.—Tho city elec
tion to day decided whether Romo
would subscribe one hundred thousand
dollars to tho North and South Road
from Rome to Columbus, Ga. Vote
unanimously in favor of subscription.
An Agricultural Depot. Hoi.
stead & Cos. have an establishment ou
Broad street which it is well to visit.
They can secure you any kind ot seed
or shrubbery you cau desire. They aro
also agents for every conceivable vari
ety of agricultural implement. They
claim to have the best and cheapest
churn of the age. Fruit baskets aro to
be had in abundance. They are agents
for the broom factory in Atlanta. They
also are prepared to furnish any species
of stock, native or imported. One
feature of the establisment is tho keep
ing on hand copies of all the agricultu
ral, horticultural, &c., journals and
papers of the United Stales, and also
any quantity of colored plates illustra
tive of different articles in tlicir lino.
Soon they will havo a sample of every
agricultural machine and Chineao paper
water buckets and othor articles of the
same material.
In Demand.- Major Campbell Wal
lace and U. I. Kimball appear to bo iu
great demand in railroad circles. The
former, the efficient Superintendent ot
tho Bouth and North Road in Alabama,
and under whose energetic supervision
that road is being pushed with energy
towards completion, was tho other day
elected President of the Goorgia Wes
tern Road, being projected from Atlan
ta in a westerly direction to Elyton,
Alabama; and thence to tho Mississippi
at Gaines Landing. Whilo this is being
done, yet another road in prospect—
North Eastern Railroad from Athens to
Raburn Gap—is patiently awaiting his
acceptance of the proffered Presidency
of that Road. We do not see why ho,
like Kimball, cannot accept and fill
all the places. It would certainly,
pecuniarily,be a capital move. Kimball,
we believe, fills tho Presidency of five
roads, one bank, besides having the
general supervision of tho Hi Kimball
House.
The Dalton Citizen has heard it stated
that a terrible murder had been commit
ted at some point ou the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad. It seems that a
man was attacked by a party of negroes
and robbed of about $7,000. On tho
discovery of tho deed, suspicion rested
on twelve negroes, nine of whom wero
caught, accused and hung, having con
fessed to a knowledge and participation
in the crime.
The “Plantation Publishing Compa
ny” has just been organized at Atlanta,
with Gen. J. B Gordon, Rev. C. W.
Howard, and Messrs. W. C. Morris,
C. li. Hanleiter, and B. C. Yancey as
stockoldere. The latter is President,
and Mr. Hanleiter, manager of the mo
chanical department. The Intelligen
cer office will be united with the “Plan
tation,” but the Intelligencer nowspa
paper is still for sale.
One of the most novel and handsome
improvements to be mado at the Cen
tral City Park, Macon, for the conven
ience of visitors during the Fair, will
! be the terracing of the bank of the river
for one or two hundred yards along the
grove, so as to seat safoly and conve
niently a crowd of five or six thousand
persons within ten or fifteen steps ot
the water’s edge, while the boat racing
is going on.
The Directors Os the Georgia Western
Railway mot at Atlanta on Thursday,
President Wallace in the Chair. John
H. James was choson Vice-President
and W. P. Ormo Secretary andTreasu
rer. Resolutions were passed appoint
ing a committee of three to solicit sub
scriptions, requesting the people along
the line of the road to hold meetings
and raise money, fixing tho gauge of
the road at five feet.
Cotton at Montgomery.— Receipts
past week 155; total net receipts 97,083;
stock, July 6th, 2,171. Total not re
ceipte to same time lasi year, 79,930