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XtKSPITMORtfING, SEi-T 5.
The Louisville Ledger (endorsed by
the Mobile Register) says “the new de
parture, as a Democratic measure, is
already dead.”
If so soon I am to be done for,
Wonder what I was begun lor ?
Judge R. H Stanton, of Maysville,
Ky., is announced to take charge of the
political department of the Louisville
Lodger in November next. He repre
sented bis district in Congress from 1848
to 1855, and is now the Circuit Judge of
the Maysville district. He is the author
of several law books.
The gin house of Dr. Owen, in the
neighborhood of McGehee’s Switch,
near Montgomery, Ala., was burned
on Friday night by some malicious per
son. Ilr. Owen lost his whole cotton
crop of last year and a good portion of
his present year’s crop.
We refer readers to the advertisement
of Post A Hobby, cotton factors and
commission merchants at New Orleans.
Their references are among the best in
Columbus. The house is a well estab
lished one, and the partners are mer
chants of reliability and long experi
ence.
Comjc Out of the Jaws of Death.
—Throw olf that despondent spirit,
crush that feeling of despair, bo cheer
ful, happy and well. Take Simmons’
Liver Regulator—it is no humbug, its
virtues can be proved by hundreds
right hero at home. Examine the cer
tificates. It has cured tho worst cases of
dropsy, dyspepsia, and prevents chills,
etc. sep3 d&Wlt
The Commissioners, under the stat
ute apppointed to manage the Aricullu
ral College Scrip of Alabama, met in
Montgomery Saturday, and by resolu
tion authorized the Auditor to invest
$50,000, a part of the fund realized from
the sale of said scrip, in Alabama eight
per cent bonds. The whole fund will
amount to $216,000 which will yield an
annual Revenue for the Agricultural
College of $17,280-a sum amply suffi
cient to established an institution of
vast utility to the people of Alabama.
Select Female Sciiool. —The school
presided over by Rev. J. R. Mclntosh
and his accomplished lady begins its
next session on .October 4th. The
course of instruction is very thorough.
In addition to the regular English
branches instruction will be given in
music, drawing and painting. Mr. C.
I‘. Willcox, a finished scholar, will give
lessons in French, German, or any of
the modern languages. In a word this
sciiool is officered by superior instruc
tors and the advantage is afforded all
to securo a complete and polite educa
tion at home. The advertisement gives
details.
Immersions in Girard. - .Sunday
Rev. Mr. Whipple, pastor of the Isap- j
list church in Girard, baptized seven !
more persons. This makes about j
ninety ho has immersed within the last
two months. Curing that time over
one hundred accessions have been made
to his church. Sunday the audience
was as large as at any time during the
revival. Mr. Whipple has been suffer
ing all the while from chills; yet he
remains as firmly to his post as ever.
He has performed arduous labor for
his Master, and his church has been
rapidly growing. The prospect for
future good work goes on.
The North and South Road.—
President McDougald has returned from
Rome. He reports the survey as hav
ing commenced from that quarter and
that contract for twenty miles will be
awarded by the first of Octobor. Col.
Pennington, of Rome, has charge of
the surveying party.
At this end of the line the work is
still being pushed forward with vigor.
The grading on the second ten miles
(the first ten being well nigh complc-t
ed) will bo commenced in a lew days.
The entire organization displays en
terprise and energy which will insure
speedy success.
Heath of a Lovely Lady.—We, in
common with mauy friends, regret to
learn the death, in Beallwood, of the
wife of Mr. James Young, son of Mr.
Wm. 11. Young, of this city. She was
the daughter of Dr. Robison, deceased,
and had not reached her twenty-first
year. Only a year ago she was a bride,
in the full bloom of youth and charm.
She died, yesterday morning, of con
gestion. Shewaaone of the loveliest
young ladies of our city, and from early
years has been a consistent member of
Ihe Baptist church in Columbus. Her
life was but a brief span; her existence
now, oneof glorious immortality. The
only pang she ever caused relatives and
friends was, at death’s behest, in leav
ing them; and no higher tribute
of such true womanly Christianity
and loveliness could bo produced. The
funeral takes place this afternoon at 4
o’clock, in the Baptist church.
Clash ok Authority. —On Friday
night, says the Macon Telegraph, offi
cers Craig and Don Levy, of the city
police, arrested Sheriff P. W. Doyle on
a charge of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct, and held him in the guard
house over night. The Sheriff', on be
ing relased Saturday, sued out warrants
against the officers for assault and bat
tery, and arrested them and put them in
the quarters he had occupied during the
night Tliay, then, were brought be
fore Judge Cowles on a writ of habeas
c«rpus, and were required to give s
bond of S2OO each to appear at the next
term of the Distiict Court to answer
the Sheriff’s charge, and were released.
Officer Craig, after he had given the
bond in the toienooD, was again arrest
ed by the Sheriff and lodged in jail, but
Judge Cowles summoned the Sheriff
and Craig to again appear before him,
when ho immediately discharged Craig,
lhe case created quite a sensation in
official circles for a few hours.
Tun Yellow One with tue Blonde
VViq.— We notice that several of the
“yaller complocted misses" are wear
ing blonde wigs over their kiuky lochs.
It harmonizes very well with faces, but
makos them look like euu dried squash
es.
The Covington Enterprise, of Satur
day, says:
Attempted Assassination.— On the
night of August 18lb, as William Par
ker and Henry Banks were sitting with
some other company in a still house, in
Jasper county, where they were en
gaged In distilling peaches, they were
shot by someone hidden in the dark
ness, the principal portion of the charge
taking effect on the leg and side of
Parker, and a few shot striking Backs
on the head and face.
YOL. XIII.
MANUFACTURES.
While in Atlanta we were often
asked, “How do you account for the
towns and cities springing up almostin
a day ?” There is but one true answer—
the Northwest works for the Northwest.
When a town is laid out facilities are
started for supplying its wants within
itself. Just so long as Atlanta and other
Southern cities send away their orders
for things they might as well manufac
ture at home, to just that extent do
they contribute towards building up
other points at their own expense.
The above is an extract from a letter
written by a special correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution, from Mil
waukee, Wis. It reveals in a few words
the secret of the wonderful growth of the
Northwest, and it is the only policy that
can create and perpetuate the wealth
and prosperity of a community. Sel
fishness, when controlled, is not a vice,
but a virtue, and that so-called charity
that leaves its poor and Bick and decrepit
to perish by the way, while it devotes
its energies to the support of Bootoboola-
Gha, may become the blackest of
crimes.
Agriculture, commerce and manu
factures are the three sinews of a na
tion’s material health and strength.
There can be no antagonism between the
three, and each, if kept in a healthy
equipoise, promotes good, like the
hands and feet and stomach of the
natural body. If one member is sick or
dies, the others sympathise or feel the
lose. If our waters dry up, our forests
decay and our common mother, earth,
refuses sustenance, then there can be
nothing to manufacture or exchange,
and all together must perish; but if our
fields refuse not to nourish the stomach
the arms and feet never paralyze, and
blood of the whole system is full of
vitality and vigor.
Columbus has peculiar manufacturing
advantages. Our city is healthy, Intel*
ligent and morn.!. Our water power
is Rxbaustk.es. Our cotton manu
factured goods, and especially the
cotton blanket, is having a world-wido
reputation. Why send elsewhere for
everything we need, from a tooth-pick
to a steam engine ? This Milwaukee
correspondent further says:
Having occasion to visit the mam
moth Furniture Manufactory and sales
Room of J. F. Burchard, Esq., of this
city, who is doing much towards mak
ing for the city “name and fame”
throughout the country, I was shown
the Order Book, in which were written
the names of important places in more
than a dozen States to which this es
tablishment sends its manufactures.
Among them my eye caught that of
Atlanta. When 1 saw the orders of
several of her citizens for furniture, it
occured to me that this was all wrong
for Atlanta.
If all wrong for Atlanta, how much
must that wrong be aggravated for Co
lumbus V The writer further adds :
Library and office furniture from this
establishment has a wide reputation
and can be found in almost every city
from New York to New Orleans. The
stock in store is usually about SOO,OOO
and the annual sales about twice that
amount. The capital invested is about
>50,000 yielding not less than 20 per
cent, per annum. The number of men
employed is about one hundred, who,
with their families, add at least five
hundred to the population of the city,
occupying forty to fifty houses and pat
ronizing other branches of business in
proportion.
A iurniture establishment like the
one described would do more towards
building up Atlanta than five times the
amount of capital invested in merchan
dise. Start manufactories, and all the
various branches of trade will follow—
the one making the other more profita
ble. To make manufacturing profitable
and creditable, the wares produced
must be first-class, using only the best
materials, employing the best workmen.
This, Mr. Burchard tells me, is the se
cret of the success and prominence of
the furniture trade of this city, which
is known in the markets of fifteen States
and always in demand,
Mr. Stephens mid his Critics.
James Boswell, the biographer of
Dr. Samuel Johnson, sought immortal
ity by associating his name with and
as the eulogist of the great English
writer and linguist. This was rather
an amiable, though humble ambition in
one who possessed himself the finest
literary abilities.
Some of Mr. Stephens critics are
somewhat more aspiring. They seem
to be aware that their names will scarce
go down to posterity unless linked in
some way with a nobler fame. They
pitch into Mr. S. on every occasion.
They treat him a3 the personification of
anew revelation of Democracy, and
seem to be oblivious that they them
selves were advocating the same De
mocracy when Mr. S. was quietly writ
ing his book, “The War between the
States.”
The fight as it stands, is too unequal
to excite interest. It reminds one of
an old Bruin surrounded by a dozen or
more of barking curs. One like the N.
Y. World will screw his courage to the
sticking point and occasionally lay hold.
He goes off yelping with a mashed head
while the little fellows turn tail, scram
ble away into winter quarteis, whining
as they limp, “Let us have peace!”
St. Paul’s Church.— This edifice
was re opened for divine service Sun
day. The audience room is now per
fectly beautiful. New paint, plastering
and carpeting has effected a wonderful
change in appearances. In all details
it is a gem. It has only one galiery—
the organ loft. The Sunday School
room has also been signally improved.
The exterior lias been changed from a
dark, somber brown, that looked like a
perpetual third rate funeral dirge, to a
light grayish hue, which renders it one
of the most pleasing and grateful to the
eye. The structure now is light, airy
and graceful, an ornament to any city,
a fit temple for the worship of the Most
High. These changes have been
wrought by the strong, ceaseless exer
tions of the ladies of the congregation,
and the warm co-operation of the pas-
I tor, Rev. A. 51. Wynn. We do not
know of a handsomer church anywhere,
and it always seemed to us that the ea
| cred edifices always reflected the taste,
reflnement and liberality of a city.
Business in New Orleans. —The
Picayune of Ist September contains its
usual annual statement ol the business
of the year. New Orleans received last
year 1,546,971 bales cotton, valued at
$101,000,000, an increase of 338,53S
bales over the previous season. Re
ceipts ol sugar exhibit a handsome in
crease, and the tobacco trade, though
not as large as at one time hoped, shows
some improvement; while the trade in
Western produce has not fallen off.
The total value of the products of the
interior received during the year is
$109,000,000, against $200,820,000 last
year. The average value of cotton in
New Orleans last year was 14) cents
per pound.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6.
Dr. F. M. Cheney, of Covington, was
I thrown from a buggy last Monday and
i had his left arm broken near the wrist.
Mr. William S. Floyd, son of Judge
J. J. Floyd, of Covington, accidently
! shot himself through the hand one day
'ast week, inflicting a severe wound.
Auction Prices.—C. S. Harrison
! yesterday sold corn,at $1; oats at 75c;
clear rib sides at 10c; slightly damaged
sides 8c; and shoulders at sj’c.
Cotton at Macon.— For the year
just closed Macon warehoused 99,446
bales, against 80,129 the preceding
year. New bales 12 against 73.
Ragging. —We learn one hundred
and sixty rolls were sold yesterday at
22c. It was of excellent quality. It
was the best price that could be obtain
ed.
Returned. —More citizens returned
from the Chalybeate Springs yesterday.
The Italian band has, we notice, re-
I turned to Macon.
Hay. Farmers are saving large
quantities this year, and we will have
but little use for that of the North. A
gentleman told us that already he had
cut and secured 25,000 pounds of the
best variety.
For New York. —We understand
several leading citizens leave for New
York to-day. Among them are Cos).
Salisbury and Mr. W. N. Hawks, who
go to make arrangements regarding the
new bank, and Capt. W. D. Cbipley,
Secretary and Treasurer of the North
and South Railroad, who is called to
the North by railroad business.
Personal. —We learn from the Falls
County Mercury, published in Marlin,
j Texas, that Capt. John C. Brain, of the
Confederate Navy and the last Confed
erate prisoner roleased by the Federals,
is lecturing in Texas on the “capture
j of the steamers Chesapeake and Roan
oke and the last Confederate naval ex
pedition.” We believe hia family is
boarding at the Rankin House in this
city.
TROY AND UNION SPRING-*.
We spent a day this week in each of
the above young and rising cities. In
Troy, the ring of the trowel and the
noise of the hammer, are heard in every
direction, the only drawback to build
ing seeming to be the difficulty of ob
taining iho requisite supply of brick and
lumber—the former having to be taken
from Columbus. A large brick ware
house, and a large brick hotel with store
rooms below, are being finished off. j
Another large brick store, two stories,
on the public square, is up aud roofed.
And still another largo two tenement
brick building, to be two stories, is just
getting to tho top of the ground. The
store rooms in all are large. These
buildings, together with two other large
wooden two story store houses, which
have gone up the past summer, gives
Troy quite a city air, and is evidence
that her citizens are not only enterpris
ing, but have confidence in her com- i
mercial promise. Her merchants are
preparing to do a heavy business the
approaching season. Besides these evi
dences of the growth of her commerce,
handsome dwellings are going up in
every portion of tho city.
Another good feature is her schools.
In this respect she is providing for all
classes. Her female college, which
has an able board of instructors, consis
ting of Prof. D. P. Hurley, Prof. S. A.
Goodwin, Mrs. Mary Talbot, Mrs.
Josephene A. Wiley, Miss Alice Walk
er, and Miss Ida Hurley, commences
its first term early in next month.
Union Springs, a3 our readers recol- I
lcct, has recently been despoiled by two j
very destructive fires, which consumed i
six large stores—the whole loss amount-1
ing to some seventy-five thousand dol-1
lars. As evidence that her real estate
men are not discouraged, we will state i
that the burnt buildings, which were
all of wood, are being replaced with
handsome brick ones, two of them fast
advancing to completion. Her mer
chants are preparing for a heavy busi-
I ness the coming season, and appear
cheerful and hopeful. The day we
were there, (Tuesday) was a gaily day
with the colored firemon—being the oc
casion of a visit from their colored
brethren of No. 3, of Montgomery.
Through the aid of the whites, a splen
did and bounteous barbecue and other
luxuries was gotten up in tho best style
of the art, of which their visiting friends
and the colored people of Union Springs
and vicinity, partook. Being amply
provided with music, the afternoon was
spent in dancing and other huge enjoy
ments, in which the colored race cannot
be excelled. No stronger drink than
lemonade being allowed on the grounds,
no one was intoxicated, aud nothing oc
curred to mar the harmony of the occa
sion. Late in the evening, the visitors
took their aepartuie for Montgomery,
and the crowd dispersed to their respec
tive homes, apparently as happy as
they well could be.
H. I. Kimball.—We recently pub
lished a dispatch sent to the Savannah
Advertiser, claiming that it was report
ed at Washington that the above gen
tleman had failed, etc. ; and a second
dispatch stated that the information was
derived from Georgia citizens on their
way to find Kimball.
Yesterday, a well-known and wealthy
citizen of Atlanta reported to us that he
had just returned from New York,
where he met H. I. Kimball, by ap
pointment, to make a settlement with
him, which wu3 done most satisfactori
ly, aud that the business of this gentle
man in New r York, seemed to be in per
fect order.
The name of the gentleman who fur
nishes this information, we are author
ized to state to any one who desires to
know it. He will be recognized as one
of our well known and wealthy citizens,
as stated above. — At. Const , 3d.
We clip the following from the
Chronicle and Sentinel of Friday:
Arrested in Macon. —We learn
that several days ago there was a young
man from New York in this city, nam
ed Dubai. He had formerly been con
nected with a well known mercantile j
firm in New York, and represented
that he still retained the connection.
By means of these representations he
succeeded in getting one of our mer
chants, Mr. J. A. Ape!, to cash a draft
on the firm for seventy-five dollars.
The draft was immediately sent to New
York and payment refused, the firm
stating that the drawer was no longer
in their employment, and was not au
thorized to draw upon them. On yes
terday, learning that Dubai was in Ma
con, Mr. Apel telegraphed to Macon
and’had him arrested by the police of
that city. He is expected here this
evening.
Charleston, September 5. The
Board of Health reports no yellow fever
j deaths within the last 24 hours.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1871.
ROBBING A RAILROAD.
The New York Herald, under the
above head, contains the clearest ac
count we have seen of the robberies
now being investigated at Atlanta. The
letter ia dated August 25th at Atlanta,
but being too long for our space, we
propose to day to reduce the material
substance of it to a synopsis.
It appears that in January, 1870,
Governor Bullock appointed Foster
Blodgett, self styled United State Sena
tor, to the superintendency. During
the same month Blodgett paid $25,000
into the State Treasury as the profits of
the road. At the end of the next month
he paid in $20,000, and thereafter no
payments whatever was made. As
soon as the Treasurer made public the
fact that he was not receiving any
money from the road rumors arose that
some tall swindling was going on.
Blodgett bore all the charges with
Spartan fortitude, and when he sub
mitted his report declared that the
profits had been expended in relaying
the track, constructing new bridges and
purchasing new passenger and freight
cars. Reports, however, were and still
are current that the road had been
plunged into debt to the amount of
half a million of dollars, and, as Blod
gett had only explained what he had
done with the profits, and was silent
respecting the debt, the public mind
settled down firmly into the beliefthat
the State Road as it is called, contain
ed a gang of plunderers.
The letter then speaks of the style in
which the employees lived, not war
ranted by salaries from $1,200 to $2,000
a year, with taxable property increased
from S2OO in 1870, to $17,000 in 1871.
The road was leased for $300,000 and
a Board was appointed by the Governor
to close up the books and the old offi
cers were retained. Major McCalla,
the bookkeeper of the road, who was
retained under the old regime , and who
bears the reputation of being the only
honest official in its employ, was the
gentleman who discovered tho frauds.
While engaged in “posting his books
be noticed that the expenses for tho last
two months prior to the turning over
of the road to the lessees were fright,
fully out of proportion to the expenses
of previous months. Articles which
had coal only hundreds before now cost
thousands. Without making known
his suspicions to any person he quietly
proceeded with his investigations and
soon foundlhatthe road had been cheai
ed out of an immense sum of money.
Taking into his confidence Major Geo.
P. Burnett, a personal friend of his, he
imparted to that gentleman the facts he
had ascertained. Major Hargrove, an
able lawyer of Atlanta, was next called
in, and the three set to work with a
view to fixing the guilt upon the proper
parties.
Guilt is first fixed on Joseph Fry,
who held the position of chief clerk to
Edward P. Blodgett, a son of Foster
Blodgett, who held the position of gen
eral purchasing agent to the road. Fry,
it appears, had been authorized to sign
Blodgett’s name to bills presented for
certification, and on all the .fraudulent
bills discovered his hand writing, sign
ing Blodgett’s name, appeared. At this
juncture it was decided that further
concealment was impolitic. Fry was
regarded as an intimate friend of Fos
ter Blodgett, in whose house he resided,
and with whom he was supposed to
hold confidential relations.
JlcCalla informs Foster Blodgett and
Governor Bullock, who do nothing for
three months. McCalla pressed bis
investigations every day, discovering
fresh evidence and rascality, and as
neither Bullock nor Blodgett seemed
willing to proceed, he determined to
take upon himself all the responsibility
of arresting and punishing the rascals.
Fry is arrested and released on bail
of $250, is again arrested and the bail
bond is increased to $2,000 and imme
diately absconds. Mr. N. P. Hotchkiss,
auditor of the road, and Sir. Alexander,
a merchant, are next arrested. Hotch
kiss denies, Alexander confesses his
guilt, and states that ha was instructed
by,Fry to make out a bill against the road
for $5,995 40, in the name of hia firm,
which had previously had bona fide
transactions with the road. Fry next
made him draw up a bill for the exact
amount in the name of McGiven, Grant
& Cos., an imaginary house doing busi
ness in New York. Both these bills were
paid and Alexander got his share of the
plunder. During the examination be
confessed having paid back $3,900 as
“conscience money” received from this
and other transactions.
Fry now offers himself as a witness,
and implicates in the swindling James
Mullins, the master machinist; Isaac
P. Harris, the treasurer; N. P. Hotch
kiss, the auditor; aud himself, and that
they had robbed the State of an enor
mous sum of money. Certification of
bills, each certifying for another, to
Harris, the treasurer, who paid the
money; is adopted, confesses having
the bill heads of “McEwen, Grant &
Cos., commission and metal dealers,
New York agency,” printed in Phila
delphia, and how much money has been
paid to this fictitious house haß not yet
been ascertained.
Harris and Wren, ticket agent, are
then arrested on a charge of stealing
$14,000 of money received. The defal
cation was known to Blodgett months
ago but he never moved a finger in the
matter. It is not yet stated whether
Wren was a party to another ring,
but the supposition is that others shared
with him the proceeds of his robberies.
51cCalla believes the frauds will amount
to $250,000.
After Fry had “peached,” Blodgett,
by authority of the Governor, issued an
order removing the Treasurer and Au
ditor. This was all right and proper,
but be also removed the bookkeeper,
Major JlcCaila, who had been solely
instrumental in unearthing the frauds.
To-day Blodgett ordered McCalla to
deliver up the books to Mr. Farrow, the
Attorney General of the State. By
advice of his counsel he positively re
fused to obey his order, alleging that if
they once left his possession they would
be mutilated and defaced. The conse
quence is that at the time I write both
parties are guarding the books.
I do cot propose to impugn any
man’s honesty, bat I simply report a
fact when I say that the public feeling
is very strong against Foster BiOdgett.
It is absurd to claim, as he does, that
this is due to political causes; for poli
tics have nothing whatever to do with
the swindles. Through the railroad
the State of Georgia has been robbed of
a sum not less than two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, and probably as
much as five hundred thousand dollars,
1 and it is not unnatural for people to
ask, why di<t not Foster Blodgett, the
Superintendent of the road, at once
prosecute the thieves three months ago,
' when officially informed that frauds
had been discovered ? How was it
that he remained ignorant of the frauds
until told of them by slajor McCalla ?
These and other equally pertinent ques
tions are put, and no satisfactory reply
! is given. Blodgett has certainly placed
himself in a most equivocal position. I
am assured by officials high in authority
I that the present carpet-bag and scala
wag government has robbed the State
of Georgia out of more than five mil-
I lions of dollars. Noutverrons.
We hope the coming Legislature will
probe this corruption to the core. If
such stupendous robberies go unwhip
ped of justice, we may bid farewell, a
long farewell to public integrity, and
with that goes our civil liberty surer
than if wrenched from us by a despot’s
mailed hand, A tyrant may be slain
or dethroned, but there is no resurrec
tion for a country dead in such tree
passes and sins.
County Nominations In Pike.
Troy, Ala., Sept. 4, 1871.
The Democratic County Nominating
Convention of Pike county, Ala., as
sembled in the Court House in Troy to
day at 11 o’clock. There were a large
number of candidates for nomination
for the respective offices. This brought
troops of friends to town, making the
largest turnout of the white sovereigns
seen in Troy for many years. Thirteen
districts were represented by ten dele
gates each, and much feeling was man
iaesled by the respective friends, and
much time was consumed in organiza
tion and preliminaries preparatory to
balloting. The nominations were by
ballot, which necessarily consumed
much time, and the nominations occu
pied the entire day, from eleven in the
forenoon till nearly sunset. The suc
cessful aspirants were: for Sheriff, H.
R. Segars; Tax Assessor, Wm. Satch
er; Tax Collector, Thomas Ballard ;
County Treasurer, Capt. J. P. Nall,
(present incumbent); County Commis
sioners, James P. Belser, W. A. Griffin,
Brinckley Burke, and Handsford Cow
art. The nominations appear to give
pretty general satisfaction, except, per
haps, to defeated aspirants, who mani
fest a disposition to acquiesce in the re
sult. The nominees are all good and
true men. It is hardly probable there
will be auy ticket run by the opposition,
as, with such perfect and earnest organ
ization as now exists in the Democracy
of the county, it is perfectly apparent
a race would be a useless expenditure
of tirno and labor.
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Report. —The New Orleans Exchange
issued its report for September on the
Ist inst. They say of Mississippi that
the reports average a falling off of one
half to three-quarters of last year’s
crop with a favorable season and a late
fall. Cotton picking is two to three
weeks later. 801 l worm has caused se
rious injury in msny of the counties
and the catorpillar is reported in elev
en, with no damage as yet.
Louisiana.—Excessive rains in the
Southern, Southeastern and Eastern
parishes and drouth in the Northwest
ern. Conditions of the crop fair. Pick
ing two to three weeks later. Decrease
in acreage 18 to 20 per cent. Estimate
of yield per acre one half to three-quar
ters as compared with last year, with a
favorable picking season and no allow
ance for damage from worms. Cater
pillar in fifteen parishes.
Arkansas. —Condition of crops gener
ally good. Weather as good as last
year, except in White, Chicot, Wood
ruff, Drew, Ashley, Desha and Arkan
sas counties, which have suffered from
too much rain. Picking generally ten
to fifteen days later than last year.
Falling off in cotton acreage 20 to 25
per cent. Estimated yield per acre
from three quarters to seveu-eighths of
last year’s crop.
Alabama. Condition of crop not
good. Picking two to four weeks later
—except where maturity has boen pre
cipitated by drought. Decrease in
acreage 21 per cent. The yield per
acre, with a favorable fall, will be 70
per cent as compared with last year.
Georgia.—Picking from one to two
weeks later. Decrease in acreage 18
per cent., and yield, as compared with
last year, 75 per cent.
Texas.—Long and continued drougth
over nearly the whole State. Crops
greatly injured. Picking, owing to
drougth, earlier than last year. De
crease in acreage 30 per cent. Yield,
with favorable season, one-half to five
eighths of last year.
Tennessee. Reports meagre, but
favorable in every respect.
The receipts of new crop cotton to
August 31st, compared with previous
years, are as follows : 1871, 22 bales ;
1870, 109 bales ; 1869, 432 bales ; 1868,
476 bales.
Sale of City Real Estate.— The
Ridenhour property advertised was sold
yesterday, in front of the Court House,
C. 8. Harrison being auctioneer. The
entire city assessment was $8,600. The
; sale realized §9,960.
i The corner, south of the Rankin
House, was divided into six lots. No.
I 1, extending 91 feet on Oglethorpe
street, with a front of 44 feet on Craw
i ford. The next five, going west from
| Oglethorpe,! fronted each 20 feet 10
I inches on Crawford, and extended 91
| feet back. The Western lot, No. 6, has
| an alley between it and the houses that
‘ front Broad. No. 1 was knocked off to
P. Gittenger for $4,200; No. 2 to same
for $650; No. 3 to John Connor & Cos.
for $562 50; No. 4 to same for $577 50;
No. 5 to F. X. Profumo for SB2O and
No. 6 to the same for sl,o7o—total
amount $7,880. The city assessment
is $6,000. No houses on several of the
lots. Common wooden ones on one
or two.
Part of lot No. 177, embracing a two
story wooden house, second door south
of Temperance Hall, fronting 24 feet on
Oglethorpe street and running back 147
feet 10 inches, was bid off by John Ligon,
trustee, for $1,300. City assessment
SI,BOO.
Part of lot No. 185, opposite Perry
House, fronting 24 feet on Oglethorpe
street and running back 147 feet, 10
inches, became the property John
Ridenhour for S7BO. City assessment
SBOO. This property embraces one half
of a one story wooden building.
A number of people attended the sale
but there were few bidders.
1 Baldwin Superior Court. —The
case of the State vs. John T. Snead,
charged with Bigamy, was called up
on Friday morning and the defendant
was acquitted, it is said, to the aßton
isment of the Court, country and coun
, sel for prosecution.
Foreign Nummary.
Dublin, September 3. —-Monsterdem*
onstrations to-day. A vast procession
of a hundred thousand people attended
the meeting in Phoenix Park. Smyth,
Butt, and Nolan spoke. Resolutions,
demanding the release of Fenians, was
adopted. Several collisions took place
as the people were retiring. The police
drew their staves and the people used
sticks and stones. Eventually the mob
was dispersed. Many were arrested,
Versailles, September 4. The
Court Martial sentences: Terre and
Lullier, death; Urban and Tiinquet, a
life of hard labor; Assy, Grousset, Ver
dure, Ferret, deportation and confine
ment in Fortress Jourde; Naßtrone,
simple deportation.
London, September 4.—Smyth, a
member of Parliament, presided at the
Phoenix Park meeting. In the fight
which followed—participants of the
meeting attacking the police—fifty po
lice were injured. The police were re
inforced and many arrests made.
The Times has a Versailles dispatch
saying there will be no adjournment of
the Assembly until the Germans evac
uate the four departments surrounding
Paris.
Fatal cases of cholera are reported at
Dantzic, Elbing, Coblentz, Altona,
Leipzig and Vienna.
Dublin, Sept. 4.—lt appears that
only six police were hurt. Forty-nine
rioters have been arrested. Disorderly
persons were in the streets all night,
singing seditious songs.
London, Sept. 4. —Victoria is con
fined to her house.
A general strike of the coal miners,
notwithstanding higher wages, is imi
nent.
Dublin, September s. —There was
fierce fighting all night. The police,
being driven to their barracks, received
reinforcements and charged the crowd
desperately, but were again driven into
their barracks. The sally was repeated
several times but with the same result.
A bar of iron thrown from a public
house at the police led to the storming
of the house and the capture of the in
mates. An attempt was made by the
mob to rescue them, and in the battle
which followed, the house was com
pletely wrecked by the mob in their
frantic rage. Half the policemen en
gaged in the affair were injured. The
prisoners sang national songs all night.
There is great excitement and it is in
creasing.
Paris, Septembers.—There are sixty
thousand troops in the city and a
constant patrol is kept up.
The Government was infermed of an
intended demonstration by the Inter
nationals on the 4th, and orders for its
repression are absolute and severe.
Lyons, September s.—Versailles and
Bordeaux are filled with troops.
Berlin, September s.—The Prussian
Cross Gazette says it was decided at
Gatlien to leave tho Roman question
entirely to Italy.
Versailles, September 5. There
was a tumultuous discussion in the As
sembly to-day, over a motion for the
removal of the Assembly and seat of
government to Paris.
London, September s.—Dr. Karl
Marx, a leading spirit of the Interna
tional Society, is dead.
The Confederate cotton bondholders
are about publishing a report and cor
respondence.
There is a strike among the workmen
of Sheffield and Bradford.
A special from Dublin says a renewal
of the riots is apprehended, the police
have been ordered to use revolvers un
mercifully. The soldiers are still under
arms for emergencies,
Victoria is still ill and unable to at
tend divine service
One case of cholera has appeared in
Liverpool.
Mount Vesuvius has commenced to
eject lava.
Paris, Sept. 6. The condemned
convicts appeal from tho Court Martial
to the Civil Courts.
The trial of the female incendiaries
ha 9 been concluded. Four were sent
enced to death, one for life in the for
tress and one for ten years solitary
confinement.
London, Bept. G. —An explosion oc
curred this morning in a coal mine
near Wegan, in Lancashire. Some
fifty persons in the seam of the mine
at the time of the catastrophe, were cut
off, and it is feared sufficated by foul
air. A party sent down to ascertain
the condition of the men buried alive
are still in the mine and have, it is
thought, perished. The neighborhood
of the disaster is thronged with rela
tives and acquaintances of supposed
victims and scenes of most heart-ren
dering descriptions. Details of the
harrowing|event are waited with anxi
ety.
From Sew York.
New York, September 4.—A fire
occurred in Rahway, N. J., the loss by
which is estimated at $140,000. A boy
was found in the ruins.
It is reported that the President has
determined to remove postmaster Jones.
Two stabbing affrays occurred yes
terday.
A Ribbon man attempted to poison
an Orangeman with Paris green.
A man, with two bullet holes behind
the left ear, was found in the North
river.
Rev. Geo. C. Trail,rector of Emanuel
Church, has adopted the new prayer
book, and withdrawn from Bishop Pot
ter’s diocese.
Officer Paul Wilde, of Newark, was
fatally injured by a gang of rowdios.
J. D. Rymert, a lawyer and Presi
dent of Hercules Life Insurance Compa
ny, and O- J. Dankle, Mrs. Georgene
Dankle and J. S - Talmodge were ar
rested Saturday by the United States
Deputy Marshal, charged with making
false representation respecting the prop
erty of certain bondsmen. To-day
' Commissioner Davenport held Rymert
in $15,000, Talmadge in SIO,OOO bail,
and Mr. and Mrs. Dankle in SIO,OOO
bail each.
The Mayor of Savannah telegraphs
that there has been no yellow fever
there this.season.
New York, September s.— At last
evening’s meeting at Cooper Institute,
speeches were made by Havemyer, Os
weld, Ottendorf, Judge Pirrepont, and
Judge Ewatt. Resolutions were intro
duced and read by Joseph H. Choate,
and an executive committee of seventy,
composed of prominent citizens irre
spective of party, was appointed to de
mand an exhibition of the city’s ac
counts. to recover whatever sum3 have
been fraudulently abstracted, and urge
legislation at Albany.
New Yore, Sept. 6.—A lively meet
ing of the Union Republican Associa
tion recommends Greeley to the Na
| tional Convention for President.
The Wilkesbarro coal mines collapsed
and six acres of ground sunk 200 feet.
It is understood to-day that an appli
cation will be made before Judge Bar
nard for an injunction against the heads
of the city government to restrain them
from the collection of taxes, issuing
any more bonds and transferring any
more real estate. These are the princi
pal points to be inserted in the legal
document. This movement Is inaugu*
rated by an association called the exec
utive committee of citizens aud tax
payers for the financial reform of the
city of New York.
The anniversary of LaFayett’s birth
was celebrated by French Societies.
The mate of the ship Euterpe, charg
ed with scuttling the Bhip, was bailed
in the sum of $3,000.
Dr. Mary Francis Seely,of Delaware,
Dr. Sarah C. Steward and Miss Guth
rie, of Philadelphia, sailed for Calcutta
as missionaries, under the auspices of
the Womans’ Union Mission Society
for Leathern lands.
From Washington.
Washington, September 4. — The
Treasury Department buys a million of
bonds Wednesdays and sells two mil
lions of gold on Thursdays during Sep
tember.
The Grand Duke of Alexis sailed
hitherward on Saturday.
Ten of the Warmouth delegation,
from Louisiana, departed to-night and
will meet the balance of the delegation
at New York,and at 10 o’clock will pro
ceed to Long Branch to meet tho Presi
dent, by appointment.
Letters from Vincent Collier indicate
his mission to tho Apaches of Arizona,
as failed. The Cochise would not come
to the Council.
Judge John M. McKinney, of the
Southern District of Florida, who has
been North during hot weather, re
turns to adjudicate in the recent wrecks.
Washington, September 5. The
North Carolina Cherokee Indians will
be removed in a few days to the Indian
Territory.
The National Democratic Executive
Resident Committee to-day had a meet
ing here, at which the following state
ment was authorized:
This Coinmitteee have had their at
tention called to an anonymous pam
phlet entitled, “Concession, or How
the Lost Cause may be Regained and
the Independence of theSouthSecured,”
now being circulated over the States as
emanating from a Democratic source.
The Committee feel authorized to de
nounce the same as a fraud, and the
sentiments therein expressed as antag
onistic to the principles and purposes
of the Democratic Party. Further, the
Committee are of the unanimous opin
ion that the same originated from a Rad
ical source, with the Intention to drive
the people anu prejudice them against
the only party which can reform the
administration of the Government and
bring about a return to houeßty and
constitutional law.
( Signed ) Bam’ IJ. Ran dall,
Chairman of the Com.
Messrs. Randall, Slocum, Swain, El
dridge and Jeffreys were all personally
present, and Messrs Niblack, Young,
Merrick and Smith were represented.
JFrom filobllo.
Mobile, Sept. 5. The following
dispatch has just beenjreceived from
Pensacola:
A copy of a memorandum made in
pencil by a part of the crew of the
British ship Lillian, lost on the 15th of
January, 1871, off the coast of Brazil,
was picked up in the Gulf Mexico. It
may be a hoax, but if not, it is of so
much importance, I thought best to send
it for publication, C. L. Leßaron.
Washington, Sept. 6.— lnformation
was received at Washington to day, by
telegraph, stating that the American
bark Harvest Home had been attacked
by a force of Mexicans, off the bar of
Santa Anna, on the night of the 27th of
August, and her master was obliged to
put ito sea without completing her car
go.
Another dispatch from Galveston,
also dated to-day, mentions that the
American bark Brothers, owned by a
firm in Norfolk, Va., and of which Jas.
B. Thurston was master, was captured
from him by an armed force of Mexi
cans, also off Santa Anna, and that her
captain was forced to abandon her, and
that twenty-hours afterwards he was
picked up by the Harvest Home, and
arrived at Galveston yesterday.
Capt. Thurston will visit Washing
ton and make a full statement of all
the facts in the case to the Government
authorities.
From Montgomery.
Montgomery, September 5. The
Great Industrial Exuositition of the
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical
Association will open October Ist and
close November 4th, instead of the time
heretofore announced. Twenty thous
and dollars are offered in prizes for im
provements in all departments of agri
culture, machinery, arts, manufactures,
&c. The competition is for Alabama
and the world. A cordial invitation is
extended to all classes to participate.
Preparations are being made on a grand
scale and ample accommodations will
be provided.
From Minnesota.
St. Paul, September 5.—A terrific
storm here yesterday. A number of
buildings prostrated. A man was fatal
ly hurt by being blown from the cars.
From New Jersey.
Lonq Branch, Sept. s.—Warmouth
and the Louisiana representation had
half an hour’s consultation with Grant.
They left for New York.
From (Jtalt.
Salt Lake City, September 5.—A
Mormon Elder was arrested for conceal
ing and refusing to deliver up a convict
sentenced to fifteen years imprison
ment.
Mining transactions of yesterday
amounted to three-quarters of a million.
Reports of rich discoveries are received
from all points.
An Episcopal Church was consecrat
ed to-day.
From Kentucky.
Lexington, September s.— The Fall
meeting commences Monday. Several
noted horses are already here. The
; sport promises to be unusually interest
| ing.
The highest official majority is for
i Hendersoß, Superintendent of Public
I Instruction —41,270 votes.
From CbtcaKO.
Chicago, September s.—Rev. Chas.
M. Fox, rector of Epiphemy, is dead.
A serious drouth now exists in south
: ern Illinois.
From Tennessee,
Memphis, September s.—‘Cotton re
ports since Friday are very gloomy.
Shedding, from the drought, has com
menced in the low lands, especially in
Arkaneas.
NO. 31.
Interesting to Planters. —We
have called attention heretofore to the
magnificent cotton premiums offered by
the St. Louis Fair Association. To
each of the cotton growing States, nam
ing them, premiums of SSOO, $250, and
SIOO aro offered respectively for the
best, second and third best bales of
either long or short staple cotton, iaised
in that State. In addition, S3OO are
offered for the best bale of cotton raised
from Peeler, Dickson, silk lace or any
improved seed, and SI,OOO for the best
bale ot long or short staple cotton raised
in any State. Bales must weigh at least
400 pounds and have been raised in ’7l.
The name of the grower, shipper, State,
county aud postofflee address must be
furnished on entrance. No entries after
October Ist. Tho leading freight lines
will carry the cotton free or at reduced
rates. Mark bales “For St. Louis Fair.”
Blackmar & Chandler, formerly of
this city, but now commission mer
chants in St. Louis, will take charge of
all bales, shipped from this soction,
with pleasure. As tho Fair begins on
October 2d, bales must bo sent on
quickly, as it will take some twelve or
fifteen days to get the cotton through
by freight line. Some of our planters
may get the premiums foi Georgia, $.500,
$250 and SIOO per bale, as they are first,
second and third best, and thus be paid
bandsomoly for their trouble. They
might as well try for them as others,
and reap the rewards. Exhibitors to
the Fair will be passed at half tho usual
rates. The exhibition will be a grand
one, and we would like to hear that
bales from this section bad taken the
premiums offered to Georgia. Then
suppose one should get that SI,OOO of
fered as a prize for the best bale through
out tho South. Some soul would be
made happy. All, as we have stated,
who intend to enter cotton should send
it on very speedily. By oxpressit would
reach St. Louis in a iew days—much
quicker than by the freight route.
Chop Reports. —Tho worm is not
spreading as rapidly as reported. Ap
pearances now indicate rain. If there
be much of it, the caterpillars will have
full swing. One sure indication of the
shortness of the crop is the comparison
of the receipts with those of last year.
For instance, during the first five days
of 1870 Columbus received 259 bales.
Thus far she has not received 30. Some
firms in New York have been writing
to the different postmasters throughout
the country asking in regard to the cot
ton crops in their vicinity. Among
Others, Col. Hogan, tho official in Co
lumbus, was addressed. He has a farm
of his own, and has lived in the cotton
belt all his life. He replied that it was
his firm conviction that the crop was
short one-fourth to one-third. New
York and Europe will believe nothing
but actual returns. If the receipts con
tinue short in the same proportion as
they now maintain, both New York
and Liverpool will mount upward.
Figures will convince whon nothing
else will.
The Right Kind.—On the streets
yesterday we wero shown a very hand
somely dressed lady, every detail in
her outfit being neat and tasteful, who,
we were told, had walked that morning
from her home in tho country, eight
miles, in order to procure some needed
articles. She was the picture of robust
health gained in active pursuits. We
were further told that she and two
sisters had raised a beautiful crop of
corn, peas, &e, and notwithstanding
the bad si a ions, their cotton crop would
amount to three bales. Tho war re
duced them. They were too proud to
be idle or depend upon others, they had
not sufficient education to teach; so
they resolved by their own hands to
earn their own support and help their
parents. How many young men in
Columbus would be willing to act simi
larly ? How many are there of the
white blooded degeneracy of city life
can walk eight miles ? All praise to
such energetic spirits. They sot an ex
ample which many now iu tho country
and applying for town situations (every
one is filled) can imitate with profit,
and thus be of some use to their coun
try. There are plenty of situations of
honorable toil in the fields.
The Chattahoochee National
Bank. —The interior of the new build
ing is now being frescoed. Mr. Smith
commenced the work yesterday. The
room promises to be one of the hand
somest and most convenient in the
country. The building has entirely
been remodeled. Iron front. Two sto
ries thrown into one. The very strong
est of vaults having been erected. It is
thirty feet from the floor to the ceiling
and thirty-five to the sky light in the
dome.
The building when fully reconstruct
ed and the exterior grey-stoneized, we
suppose will have cost $17,000, and
will prove an ornament to the city. It
will be ready for occupation by the
middle of October or Ist of November.
We delay further notice until it is fin
ished. President U. 11. Epping has
shown most excellent taste as regards
the entire work.
W. J. King, formerly of Atlanta, Ga.,
who was last heard of in Richmond,
Va., has been missing since the late
war. Any information as to his where
abouts will be gladly received by his
daughter, Mrs. 8. A. Yates, Jefferson
ville, Indiana. Southern exchanges
please copy.
In another column will be found the
business card of Messrs. Baunders,
Goodwin A Miller, Cotton Factors and
Commission Merchants, 146 Bay street,
Bavannah, Ga. The members compri
sing this firm are young, enterprising
and energetic, and their house stands
among the first in their line of business
forpromptness and reliability.
The Uchee Plantations. —A gen
tleman reports he passed over six large
plantations in this good section in Ala
bama. He saw some passably good
cotton that would yield 600 pounds to
the acre, and some miserably poor. The
latter predominated. Farmers as a rule
are the bluest looking of down hearted
people.
Iron Arrived. —We were told yes
terday that ten car loads of iron had
passed through Columbus for the Sa
vannah and Memphis. Railroad. This
enterprise is going ahead it seems.
R. B. Gunby advertises for sale a de
sirable plantation of 175 acres, located
3j miles from Columbus. Four-roomed
dwelling house on the premises. Ad
vertisement gives particulars.
Fred Clarke, of Savannah, was killed
on Saturday last by the falling of his
horse on him while riding out near that
city
THURSDAY HORNING, NKDT. 7.
Through Rates of Freights.— Wo
learn through Mr. It, A. Daniel, tho
sealesmaa of the Lowell Warehouse,
who has just returned from Opelika,
that Superintendent Sharpe, of the
Savannah and Memphis Railroad, and
Superintendent Foreacrohavo arranged
the following through rates -.
On cotton, per balo, from Dadevillo,
Tallapoosa county, to Montgomery,
$3 20; to Columbus, $2 50; to Opelika,
$1 50.
On third class freight, such as dry
goods, bagging, &c., por 100 pounds,
from Dadoville to Montgomery, $1 50;
to Columbus, $1 25; to Opelika 75c.
t Lar Rc planters from Tallapoosa say
Columbus will receive a considerable
quantity of cotton from Tallapoosa.
1 ho meeting of the Directors of tho
Savannah aud Memphis .Railroad, in
Opelika Monday, was in reference to
the bonds of Tallapoosa county.
Tho two intermediate depots on the
S. & 51. R. R. are to bo put up at once*
Railroad Hands and Cotton
Fields. —We aro told some two hun *
tired bands, in lots of one hundrod each,
were offered to the Contractors of the
North and South Railroad. They de
clined them as they already have some
six hundred on tho line, this number
being amply sufficient to complete their
engagements lor the first twenty mileß.
They are under heavy bond to have tho
track ready in time to run a train to
Fine Mountain by January Ist. Wo
also understood that a prominent gen
tlcman has proffered to take these
hands and employ them in tho next
three weeks on the Columbus and A1
bany, or the Bainbridgo, Cutbbert and
Columbus road, whichever the Council
aud the pooplo of our city shall resolve
to support.
This number of bands seeking em
ployment shows the shortness of tho
cotton crop, l’lantirs will have to hire
no bands this year to pick it out. For
this purpose their present force will
more than suffice. Farmers must have
a good price for their cotton this year
in order to pay them out, owing to tho
disastrous yield. Tho indications aro
they will got it. Everything points
that way. Tho estimates of tho U. S.
crop aro daily being reduced, and
2,800,000 halos aro now high figures.
The receipts will yet havo a convinc
iug effect, and we would not be surpris
ed if middlings brought 20 cents boloro
October.
A Matter of General Interest.—
Tho city of Macon has out some SIBO,-
000 of change bills, many of which find
their way in this direction. AVRod in
large amounts of twenty-live dollars or
more they are discounted heavily by
our banks, and thus become sources of
annoyance and loss. A wealthy and
enterprising city like Macon ought to
have redeemed them long since. Tho
Central Bank of Savannah, to relievo
business of this trouble and loss has
proposed to tho Council of Macon to
take half of these bills, if the merchants
and other banka of Macon will take tho
other half; provided Macon will havo
an act passed in tho Legislature au
thorizing her to issue $300,000 in bonds
to moot this indebtedness, agree to issue
no more bills and impose a tax of oao
half por cent, to creato a sinking fund
for tho redemption of tho bonds. When
this is done the Central Railroad and
Banking Company will take the bonds
at 85c. for the purpose of redeeming bills
hold by it or others. The proposition
was referred to tho Finance Cominitioo.
Mobile and Northwestern Rail
road. —Tho Mobile Register states that
most favorable advices have been re*
ceivod from tho President of the above
named road, now iu New York, iu
reference to negotiations for putting Iho
entire lino under contract, and for
assuring tho financial means for its
speody completion from ond to end.
This road, starting at Mobile, will pass
across the State of Mississippi to a
point on the Mississippi river in the
vicinity of Helena, Arkansas. It will
pass through tho fine cotton belt of the
Yazoo Valloy, and at its torminus, tap
the great cotton belt of Arkansas. Its
accomplishment will be a ten Btrik for
Jlobile. Mobile has already voted a
subscription to it of twelve hundred
thosand dollars in sterling bonds. In
this, as in her advances to build tlio
great Mobile and Ohio Road, which she
originated und accomplished, sho has
shown that she docs not do things by
halves.
Death of Col. Von Zinken.-—A
gentleman to whom wo gave a Now
Orleans paper, reports that it contained
a notice of tho death of Col. Von Zin
kin, who commanded tliiß post during
the last year of tho Confederacy. Tho
notico ciicaped us. Ho died in Now
Orleans, where ho was conducting an
auction and commission business. Du
ring the war ho was Colonel of a Lou
isiana regiment, and was so Bovorely
wounded as to be incapacitated for Hold
service, Ono of his aids told us, wo
remember, that ho had received notifi
cation that ho had been appointed a
Brigadier General, just after tho Sa
vannah campaign. Tho Confederacy
collapsed before ho received the com
mission. 110 was a bravo man and had
many warm friends and bitter enemies.
Steam Cotton Mill Building Bold.
—Wo learn from the Telegraph, that
United States Marshal W. H. Bmythe,
at public outcry, in front of the City
Hal!, in Macon, on Tuesday, sold tho
two story brick building, in Columbus,
belonging to tho Steam Cotton Mill
Company, to Mr. John King, of this
city, for $6,150. Tho machinery,, ex
clusive of the engine, was sold in Col
umbus to Dr. N. J. Bussey for $12,100.
The property cost a few yearsago about
SBO,OOO and now has been disposed of
for §18,250. Didn’t (tart with enough
capital was the cause.
Return of an Old Man.—Yester
day Mr. Steve Richardson,better known
as Muntz, returned to Columbus. Hu
came here in 1886 and left for Califor
nia in 1849. His experiences thero
were varied, lie comes back suffering
from consumption, destitute of means
and finds nearly all of his old compan
ions dead. Admittance to tho hospital
was being sought for him last night,
and we presume it was granted.
Democratic Nominations in Lee
County.—The Democratic county con
vention, which met at Opelika on Mon
day, nominated the following gentle
men. The election occurs in November
Sheriff, Washington Webb; Treamu
rer, Hendon; Tax Assessor,
Knight; Tax Collector, A. A. Scott;
Commissioners, A. A. Lowthor, Joseph
l’hipps, Simeon Perry, and Kil
lingsworth.
It iB stated that the Radicals of the
Bibb and Monroo Senatorial district,
have nominated Mr. Janies Tinlcy, of
Bibb county, to run against Col. Sim
mons, for State Senator. *1 inley is said
to have heretofore acted with tho Dem
ocratic party. We presume he is of tho
“New Departure,” wing in belief, and
can’t see the difference between his
party and tho Radicals. If so, we arc
rather of hia way of thinking.