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(ftSDAY arailiu, SEPT. lit.
Railroad Matters. —Now, that the
Pennsylvania CeDtral R.U., Laß leased
lht . Atlanta aud Weßt Point road, we
ljo p e tbe Atlanta and Columbus Air
l.me will be pu ßlltid through at once,
imr interests imperatively demand it
should be done. Arrived at Atlanta,
we have the choice of several independ
nt routes for cotton, and will compel
•he Central to gran! us a liberal rate.
IJ.-si'les, we will secure a splendid cot
,~, business. Meriwether has raised
,uch money to build the Hue through
county, and to a point beyond Hatu
)U.,n, mere will be by January Ist, a
irack ready both lor the North and
South and the Air Line.
The papers state that most of the line
,1 the liaiubridge, Cuthbert and Oolum
Ims it It , between Culbbertand Lump
ed has b*en located, and a heavy force
;l t work grading. The Brunswick
iml Albany road, five feet gauge, is to
extended this side of Cuthbert, as
!,r Spring Vale. There the three feet
u,i; l s the Bain bridge, Cuthbert and
(i.lurnbus 11 R, commences. Lump.
\m is to vote on the question of a cor»
nation subscription to the road, on
he 7t t: ot October. Our city Council
vill act on iho subject the first Monday
m October and vote $200,000 in bonds
tn the Company. If the road from
Cuthbert gets into Lumpkin by Janua
ry Ist we must have one there by the
same time, if we would retain tho trade
of Stewart and Chattahoochee.
AiiusKMiiNTB —The following com
panies have made engagements at the
ipera House this season. The dates
are inclusive: Walter C. Kelley, agent,
Out. sth to 7th (It is thought tho troupe
is known as “Gilbert Sisters”); Worrel
.Sisters, Oct. 30th to Nov. 4tli; John
Templeton’s troupe, Nov. 9th to 11th;
lingard Troupe, Nov. 231 to 25th;
Palmer Troupe, Jan. 15th to 22d; Ab
bott's Pantomime Troupe, Fob. 22d to
21th;Wyndham Comedy Comp’ny,Feb.
29th to March 3d; Lydia Thompson,
March 11th to 13tb.
A late trip into the country, revealed
to us the fact that the cotton weed has
no top crop, and very little of the mid
dle. Also that very little of the bottom
crop is open where the weed is tall.
From tho effects of tlie continuous wet
weather, many of the bolls near the
ground, are rotting and will never open.
The open cotton is principally on the
rusted spots whero the leaves have
fallen off. Such cotton has but few
bolls, and they arc of a dwarfish charac
ter. The weed that has not rusted, has
taken a second growth, which has filled
tiiu top with abundance of forms, and
some blooms. These will all be nipped
by frost and come to naught. This
second growth is a great injury to the
bolls now on the weed, tending to
dwaif their growth and check their
opening.
State Road Revelations. —We
give in another column, the first of a
series of revelations, detailing petty
peculations of State Road officials, by
a writer who signs himself “Facts.”
The writer promises to follow this up
with further developments, from time
to time, which wo shall keep a sharp
lookout for, aud place before our read
ers. It is true, the items produced are
small, and were possibly thought by the
parties to be insignificant, but when it
is taken into account that it was these
and larger ones, that absorbed fully
half a million of the earnings of the
State Road, aud in addition, created
half a million of debt to be met out of
the State Treasury, they assume a
magnificent importance, and accounts,
in part, for the sudden wealth of Bui
lock and Blsdgett, and all who had an
opportunity to run their tarred hands
into the money box of the State Road.
Cotton in Monkoe. —A leading plan- 1
ti r writes Ihe Macon Telegraph that the
annals of cotton planting may be
searched in vain for a year ot such un
favorable conditions as this one has
presented from first to las!:
“There is nothing left upon the weed
except the early fruit. The continuous
rains have begotten a second growth,
causing the middle crop of forms—what
little there was—to shed off, presenting
the singular aspect—for September
fields—of mingled brown and green.
This additional growth of weed is so
shading the early crop as to cause a
considerable per coiitage of rot.”
In the Texas Senate, on the 14th, the
•htdieiary Committee, to whom was re
ferred the Election bill, reported back
majority and minority reports. The
former recommends the Governor to is
sue a proclamation to hold an election
for members of the Legislature, Novem
ber the 29th and 30th, and December
Ist and 2d. The minority recommend
that the Governor be instructed to or
der an election as early as practicable.
Steel Rails fob the Central
Hoad.— Mr. William Rogers, Superin
tendent of ihe Central Railroad, has
been in Great Britain for sometime—
including Scotland aud Isle of Man—
purchasing steel rails lor this road, the
first installment of which arrived re
cently at Savannah, on the steamer
Onward. Mr. R. will return next week.
Acquitted.— James Flanagan, charg
ed with murdering Thomas Key, in
Montgomery, Ala., was discharged
Saturday. Speeches for the prosecu
tion wir' made by Colonels Troy and
Graham, and for the defence by Gen.
Clanton and Col. Elmore.
COMPLIMENTARY TO A YOUNG MAN.
—Governor Lindsay has appotnted Mr.
Walter S. Gordon a delegate from the
Third Congressional District of Ala
bama to the National Commercial Con
vention. Mr. Gordon will worthily
till the position as he is a young man of
considerable talent.
According to the monthly report of
the Administrator of Finances, the dis
bursements from the city Treasury of
New Orleans, for the month of August,
amounted to $531,951, or at the rate of
about sis and one-third millions per
annum.
The residence, at Pulaski, Tennessee,
of Governor John C. Brown, of that
State, was burned on Sunday afternoon.
Bis wife, who was in the house at the
time, asleep, was barely waked in time
to escape from the burning building.
Major Andrew Jackson Wagner, son
of the eminent journalist, Peter K.
Wagner, of New Orleans, died in that
city on Friday last, in his forty-ninth
year.
VOL. XIII.
Still Blundering: and Misrepresent
ing
“The veteran and accomplished edi
tor of the Columbus Enquirer,” with
whom the Montgomery Advertiser
“shakes hands on an air line,” is still
blundering and misrepresenting, not
withstanding Mr. Stephens had express
ly ignored the interpretation given to
his language in relation to the Califor
nia platform as related by his corres
pondent. The Enquirer reminds us of
a slippery witness, who, under a cross
examination, looks wild and pale, spits
cotton, crosses his legs, shuflles and af
fects great precision of language in or
der to escape from an unpleasant situa
tion. To use his own language, asap.
plicable especially to its editor,
“An intelligent community will sea
tho ridiculous position in which a jour
nalist puts himself by trying to evade
the real point in a controversy and sub
stituting irrelevant ones that he consid
ers easier to meet.”
This is what the editor has done ex
actly, as we shall proceed to exhibit.
The Savannah News quotes from
what it supposed was a part of the Cali
fornia platform as follows: “Weregard
the three several amendments to tho
Constitution recenlly adopt :d as a set
tlement in fact of all the issues of the
war, aud that the same are no longer
Issues before the country.” To which
the Enquirer adds: “Now, the lion. A.
H. Stephens, noticing this identical
declaration of the California Democrat
ic platform, a few days since, said ‘this
is our position exactly.’ ”
It matters nothing whether the En
quirer as it confesses, had ever seen
the platform, it still insists that Mr.
Stephens (and we use its own language
of Sunday):
“All that we have ever said was that
lie adopted—that ho accepted “exactly”
—the quotation from the platform made
by his California correspondent.”
Now it is not a forced conclusion that
Mr. S. knew as well what he meant as
the “veteran and accomplished editor
of the Columbus Enquirer,” who
“shakes hands on an air line” with the
abuser, and at the same time under
writes for Mr. Stephens—“ This is our
•position exactly." The conviction is ir
resistible that the position of the En
quirer iB so dubious as to cause the Ad
vertiser to blunder and it to return
thanksfor a blundering “hit,”or that it
has ignorantly,maliciously or carelessly
misrepresented Mr. Stephens.
Mr. Stephens says:
It is not true, in point of fact, that wc
“virtually indorsed” the California
platform— in the parts quoted from us.
Can language be plainer or more to
the point ? If Mr. 8. “adopted, that he
accepted exactly,” the quotation made,
why, if the Enquirer did not wish to
misrepresent, withhold that part where
Mr. S. expresses a wish that the “peo
ple of California would pronounce the
amendments null aud void at some fu
ture day ?” and adds, this is "my posi
tion exactly." How can any just and
intelligent man still declare in the teeth
of a denial by Mr. 8., that Mr. S. in
tended to mean a “settlement in fact,”
was a grounding of all arms of opposi
tion. He meant aud intended only to
say what he has said a thousand timeSj
that tho “settlement in fact” was in
morals aud law, like the "fact" of a
highwayman’s demand—“ Your money
or your life,’’and not that the force" was
no longer an issue before the country.”
This is the marrow in tho bone which
Mr. 8. rejectß as poison, and the com
plimentary Advertiser accepts as nutri
ment, and of which the Enquirer, when
it made the "hit and brought down hiß
quarry,” says reproachfully :
“Mr. Stephens had then just taken
charge of the politics of the Atlanta Sun,
and commenced the agitation which he
has so incessantly stirred ever since.”
Mr. S. in one breath, is an agitator,
and in the next he accepts what he in
cessantly stirs, aud that too, “issues no
longer before the country.” This is
logie. Why not practice a little candor
like the Louisville Courier-Journal
when it says:
Mr. Stephens writes three columns
about the Courier-Journal when as
many sentences should have sufficed.
Words apart, there is but this difference
between us: He rejects the constitution
al amendments, and we accept them.
“He who sticks to the letter sticks to
the bark,” is an old legal maxim, full of
truth. He who garbles the letter, to
misrepresent the spirit, is like the man
who asserted the Bible said “There is
no God,” aud omitted the prefix words,
“The fool hath said in his heart.” In
this way black can be proved white,
right wrong, and truth falsehood. It
needs only a little of the cunning, and
none of the wisdom of the serpent to
effect this purpose with minds already
predisposed to, if not prepossessed with
error aud that love of darkness rather
than light. If Mr. 8. either accepted
or endorsed any part as represented by
the Savannah News of flic California
platform, why that brilliant hit and ter
rible stoop described by the Montgom
ery Advertiser V
The Montgomery Advertiser copies
and comments as follows on an article
from Forney’s Press, the most bitter
aud mendacious paper in the United
States. The approval of Forney is in
saying with an ironical sneer that Mr.
Stephens keeps the Southern Democra
cy in a continual excitement through
the columns of his newspaper, and on
the whole, in an erratic sort of way,
seems to be doing a good deal for the
cause of “the best government the
world ever saw.”
The Advertiser comments as follows:
When Forney, who is quite a long
headed fellow, begins to approve of Mr.
Stephens’ service to the Radical party,
and to pat him on the back, the Georgia
Democracy ought to know that the
Sage had better retire from active life,
make a subscription for the Atlanta
Sun, and give A. H. S. leave to retire
from the active pursuit of politics, and
to amuse his declining years with a
book on the New Departure.
The abuse of such men as Forney and
his endorsers, is the highest praise they
can bestow on the “Sage.” The Geor
gians would soon ask what bad thing
has Mr. Stephens done? if praise was
uttered by the lips of Forney & Cos.
Chops in Alabama. —The caterpillar
is completing the destruction which the
rust had begun in the cotton fields of
Pike county. In Sumter dry weather
and rust will reduce the yield of cotton
one-half. In the neighborhood of Tub
cumbia the crops are very nearly burn
ed up. Devastation is the rule in Hen
ry county. In the neighborhood of Eu
faula fields are now bare which a few
weeks ago promised a luxuriant yield.
In North Alabama the corn crop will
be short, and cotton is drooping. The
Wilcox Vindicator reckons upon but
one-third <jf a crop of all kinds. This
report is similar to the one coming up
from all the cotton growing sections of
the Bonth.— Hunt. Adv.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEDSENDAY KOBA’Uti, SEPT. 20.
Delegates to the Commercial
Convention.— Mayor Cleghorn has ap
pointed Colonel Albert R. Lamar
add Charles H. Williams, E3q., as del
egates from Columbus to the National
Commercial Convention, which meets
on the 25th inst., in Baltimore. We
understand both gentlemen will attend.
Mr. Wiiliams leaves for the North this
morning. Both are excellent appoint
ments.
The Matrimonial World.— The
latest was the marriage early yesterday
morning of Mr. Edmund M. Berming
ham, of New Orleans, to Miss Sallie M.
Dennard, of Lumpkin, Ga. The cere
mony took place at the Catholic Churchi
Father Cullinan officiating. The happy
pair were at the Rankin House yester
day and expect to leave for New Or
leans to-day. The loveliness of the
bride and the richness and becoming
ness of her dresß. were themes of admi
ration.
Democratic Candidates in Russell
County, Ala. — The Convention which
met at Seale Station on Monday, nomi
nated the loilowing candidates for
county officers: John S. Burch, Sheriff;
Jas. H. Bickerstaff, Tax Collector; Ar
thur Davis, Tax Assessor; U. L. Alar
tin, Treasurer; H. F. Chambers, Coro
ner.
Commissioners: Lyman W. Martin,
S. 8. Brinson, J. S. Bollard (of Hurt
ville) and J. C, Evans.
The county was well represented,
there being some 65 or 70 delegates
present. The success of the ticket is
regarded as certain.
North and South Railroad—As
sessment of Damages.— The jury sum
moned to assess the damages of Flem
ing B. Nance, according to adjourn
ment, met in the Superior Court room
yesterday. Mr. Nance claimed sixteen
hundred dollars damage, by reason of
the railroad running through his plan
tation. After argument by Chas. H.
Wiiliams, Esq., for the railroad, and
Col. M. J. Crawford for Nance, tho ju
ry retired, and soon returned with a
verdict against the railroad for one hun
dred and fifty dollars. There is quite a
difference between sixteen hundred dol
lars, the amount claimed and what he
received at the hands of an intelligent
jury.
A Cotton and Produce Bank.—
There has been established in Auguata,
The Planter’s Loan and Savings Bank,
with a subscribed capital of one million
dollars. Gov. Chas. J. Jenkins is Pres
ident; John P. King, President of
Georgia Railroad, is Vice President;
and T. P. Branch, Cashier. The bank
has a large warehouse and advertises to
make liberal advances upon cotton in
. warehouse or upon railroad receipts,
and also to make large loans on produce
or provisions, and parties storing cotton
with the bank will receive receipts for
same that will be available anywhere
for borrowing money. This bank seems
to us to have some novel but commend
able features. We would liko to see
something of the kind established in
Columbus.
The New York Post Office De
faulter.— Norton, the New York As
sistant Postmaster, whose defalcation to
the amount of $150,000, has just been
discovered, is a model Radical and horse
man after Grant’s own heart. Ho is
represented to have squandered the
money stolen from the Government in
the indulgence of his lust for stock gam
bling and horse-racing. He is also de
scribed as being the owner of valuable
property in Jersey, where he rosides.
Among other things he has sported a
SIO,OOO race horse. He was arrested at
his home, and his property, including
the horse, was seized, but the Sun adds
that he compounded with the Govern
ment, and resigned his position.
Encouraging.— The Radical journals
South may hold up their heads. It is
said when the delegation of the South
ern Radical journalists visited Grant, a
fewdaysago, he assured theta “that
the journals representing their party in
the South are in future to have more of
the fostering care of the administra
tion.” This promise from Grant to
“shell out” liberally is expected to cre
ate the greatest amount possible of fer
vor and enthusiasm for this “matchless
administration.” This is encouraging
news for the two or three scalawag
presses of this State, whoso chances for
subsistence had well nigh played out.
They will doubtless rub up and double
their dilligence in their misrepresenta
tions of the white people of Georgia.
The Directors and Stockholders of the
Selma and Memphis Railroad, bad a
meeting at Columbus, Mississippi, on
the Gth instant, and determined to
change the gauge of their road to three
feet. The road has been completed
nearly to the Warrior river, in Hale
county, on the five foot guago, and is
running to that point. We think the
company will be brought up standing
on the State aid question, when they
apply for another endorsement as a
three foot road. The aid law specially
provides that roads receiving the en
dorsement shall be of the fine foot guage,
and that the rails shall weigh fifty-five
pounds to the yard. It is possible, too,
that Engineer Wells did not have this
in his mind’s eye, when he made his
argument in favor of changing the Sa
vannah and Memphis Railroad, to a
narrow gauge.
A number of our exchanges mention
great success in ous branch of agricul
ture. The peanut crop in the South
ern States is a success. This will be
good news to small traders ail over the
Union. Three counties in Tennessee,
it is reported, will alone furnish one
million bushtds of this nut. Wo are
truly glad to hear that this crop has
proved a success, since all others have
proved such a signal failure in the
cotton States.
A Good Idea. —At the State Fair, to
be held at Macon, arrangements have
been made that owners may display
droves of horses and mules, and sell
them too, if they wish. Asa conse
quence, Tennessee and Kentucky will
have large numbers of animals present.
We suggest the idea to the Directors of
the Columbus Industrial Association.
Winter Approaching.— We have
telegraphic accounts of a killing frcßt in
Maine iast Friday morning, while at the
summit of Mount Washington, Wed
nesday night, the mercury stood two
degrees below the freezing point.
The Palatks (Fla.) Herald, reports,
the sinking of a large portion of Orange
county, in that State
COLTJMBIJS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1871.
FEISSTLVASIA democracy.
We especially invite the attention of
our readers to the Address signed by
Richard Vaux and other distinguished
gentlemen, to the people of Pennsyl
vania. Our Southern new departures
are very anxious to create the impres
sion that the Northern Democracy are
a unit in favor of the late amendments
to the Federal Constitution and cite
Pennsylvania as proof of the fact and
in support of their assertions. Instead
of adding strength to the hearts and
vigor to the arms of our Northern
friends who are fighting for us the bat
tle for local self-government and con
stitutional liberty so gallantly, these
Southern policy men are either silent
or indulge in the misrepresentation of
some of our wisest and purest states
men and patriots, and basely accept a
situation which exiles such benefactors
from the councilor the nation.
Surely if ever a country was in peril
and struggling for life in its last agonies,
that country is ours. The whole
political and social atmosphere is full
of portentous and fearful elements.
Look where we will, and the clouds
grow blacker and blacker, the light
nings flash, wider and wider and the
thunder rolls and peals nearer and
deeper. The tempest of desolation is
upon us and our people seem indifferent
to its pitiless peltings. Neither the late
French, nor the old American revolu
tion, or our late sectional conflict, were
heralded by half such signs ominous of
evil and destructive of all that makes
life and country to be respected and
loved. In their idolatry and simplicity,
the old Athenians considered it criminal
in a citizen to be neutral when the State
was in danger, while some with us
who boast of a superior wisdom and
patriotism and a purer religion, regard
such a position as the essence of virtue.
We hope the address will open the
eyes of some of our accept the situa
tion friends to the question of suffrage
and the power of Congress as to its
regulation. On Wednesday last we
wrote that Beast Butler, now a Radical
candidate for Governor of Masaacbu
settß, is in iavor of female suffrage and
will probably make this an issus and a
stepping-stone to the Presidency at a
future day. That the legal right, under
the reconstruction laws and amend
meuts, now exists, no sensible lawyer
can doubt; and yet strange to say, somn
Southern men object even to a discus
sion of this momentous subject aud
accept it as an accomplished fact.
On Tuesday (tho day before our
article was writteu) we find the follow
iug editorial in that keen scented jour
nal, the New York Heraid :
“General Butler sees along ways
ahead. Ht sees that these quostiousof
labor reform and woman’s rights,
though now secondary political ques
tions, aud likely to be so in the Presi
dential contest of 1872, will, neverthe
less, be apt to become the great over
shadowing and coutroliDg political
questions in this country in 1876. He
is therefore taking time by the forelock
upon these questions, with an eye to
the Presideney itself in 1876. It is in
this light that we regard this present
extraordinary experimental canvass of
General Butler in Massachusetts as a
grand Napoleonic idea, a conception in
its comprehensive designs hardly sur
passed by the grand Mexican idea of
Napoleon the Third.”
Railroad Movement.
President Smith, of the North Caro
lina Railroad Company, has issued a
circular to the stockholders of the road
over which he presides, in explanation
and defence, of the conduct of the
Board of Directors in leasing the road
to the Pennsylvania Central Company.
He says the carpet-bag and scalawag
Legislature of North Carolina, at the
session of 1869-70, granted a charter to
companies, empowering them to build
railroads parallel with the road of his
company from Greensboro to Charlotte.
That one of the charters passed into the
hands of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company, who were prepar
ing to use the franchise, if driven to
that necessity by the refusal of his com
pany to make terms for the common
use of that part of the line. This State
of facts being presented by competing
interests, the Directors endeavored to
make the best arrangement possible to
secure the interests of the stockholders.
This opposing interest, too, he says,
was backed by the powerful and wealthy
corporation of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad. The lease was made for
thirty years, and annual dividends of
Gi per cent, per annum, guaranteed.
This secured the Pennsylvania Cen
tral road a sweep ovor the country to
Atlanta, Ga., by the Richmond and
Atlanta Air Line, from Charlotte to At
lanta, which latter road she is pushing
ahead to completion with great vigor.
The Pennsylvania Central has also
bought up a majority o! the stock of the
Augusta, C. and C. railroad, and by
this means secured and controls an out
let from Augusta, eastward, over their
roads. It is also reported that this same
great easteru monopoly has purchased
or leased the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad. If this be true, wo shall ex
pect shortly to hear that she has gulpbed
down the Georgia Railroad also. At
West Point, the controlling powers of
two great monopolies—the Pennsyl
vania Central and the Georgia Central
—come to a collision. How they will
settle the difficult problem of further
progress westward, of the Pennsylvania
Central, will be looked for with inter
est. Here a grave question is presented
to the consideration of President Wad
ley. Anew competing route for the
freights from and to Montgomery, with
New York, has already been sprung on
him since the close of the last business
season. This Pennsylvania Central
move threatens another. It is also re
lated that the Pennsylvania Central is
to furnish halt the money to build the
Air Line road from Atlanta to Colum
bus, by which the latter city is to
be relieved from the iron grip the
Georgia Central now holds on her, by
which Columbus is made to pay the
losses on freight over the Western Road,
fromjand to, Selma and Montgomery,
eastward.
The Pennsylvania Central is evi
dently working to connect with Mont
gomery and the Alabama River country,
and with President Wadley’s Southern
Pacific Railroad out through Mississip
pi and the Northwestern portion of
Louisiana; and also with Mobile and
New Orleans via Columbus, the Mobile
and Girard Railroad, &c.
Mr. E. D. Nash, for the killing of Mr.
Miller, at Cowle’s Station on the Wes
: tern Railroad, the past Summer, had
; his trial in the Circuit Court of Macon
i county, Alabama, last week, and was
I acquitted.
THE ENQUIRER'S WIT.
Our “veteran and accomplished” \
brother of the Enquirer, he who actual-1
ly “shakes hands on an air line” with
the Montgomery Advertiser, is not only
a logician and linguist, but a most
excellent wit. Because we could
not at once solve the problem
that in these shifting days a man
must have the 6ame politics, “early
in July last,” and the 18th of Septem- |
her, that we need a diamond pointed j
drill to penetrate the seat of our under
standing. We have neither wit or
“understanding” whereupon to boast,
but we do say it advisedly and with
some knowledge of the arduous attempt,
that if the inside of the head of the edi
tor of the Enquirer, is as slippery as tho
outside and the outside is as slippery as
the inside, no “diamond-pointed drill” ]
of Mount Cenis could ever strike He
unless accompanied with a leaden cork
screw appendage.
Our venerable brother of the quil]
can defy time and tide in ever bringing
his grey hairs in sorrow to the grave.
John ! buy a wig or use bear’s oil.
The Memphis Avalanche, claiming
to be Democratic, but whose editor has
for 'lie last four months or more, been
searching the vocabulary for words to
express his disgust of every Democrat
who refuses to accept the XlVth and
XVth amendments as permanent fix
tures in the Federal Constitution, never
to be again discussed or disturbed, be
gins to smell a mouso. He thinks he
sees in Ohio, the State in which his
bastard bantling first saw the light,
that the attempt to incorporate this
Radical moustrocity into the Democrat
ic creed, has cooled the ardor of the
Democratic masses, aud that this loss
of ardor, is going to lose the State to
the Democracy by an increased Radical
majority. Gen. Ewing, Pendleton and
Thurman, comes in for a good amount
of this valiant editor’s displeasure.
Speaking especially of Thurman, the
Avalanche says “Senator Thurman, on
the vital question in the canvass—the
constitutional amendments—was neith
er positive nor up with the platform of
his party. It is supposed that he had
been frightened by a score of old croak
ing Bourbons in Columbus, who ad
dressed him a protest against the new
departure. The reckless, incoherent
opposition of Toombs to the constitu
tional amendments, made to some ox
tent effuctivo by the efforts of Stephens,
and the want of backbone in the old
Democratic leaders in the North, es.
ptcially in Ohio, though st opposite
points, have been drawing or driving
away the only class to which the Dem
ocratic party in Ohio can look for help
to defeat the Republicans.”
The Avalanche will possibly learn,
ere long, if its editor ia really a Demo
crat in principle, as will many others of
the nuugry aud wrestleaa spirits after
office, in the Democratic party, who
have been advocating this short cut, as
they deem it, that victory is not to be
gained over the adversary by stealing
his thunder. It is possibly too late
now, for a purpose, for the leaders in
Ohio, to abandon the fatal step intro
duced by Vailandigham, to avail them
in the contest going on there. Defeat
is inevitable there, as in California and
Maine, for the reason that many of the
Democratic masses will not go to the
polls, aud that Radicals will not leave
their party to join one just partially
surrendered to their principles.
The defeat, however, we shall look
upon as a victory to princple, for the
reason that in all the States where the
Democracy have beeu carried into the
contest, with the “New Departure” as
their hobby, and defeated, the heresy
will be abandoned, and the contest of
1872, the great battlo for constitutional
liberty against centralism, will be
fought on the long established princi
ples of Jeffersonian Democracy, as es
tablished in the memorable contest of
1800, when the death knell of the iniq
uitous Allen and Sedition laws, was
sounded.
The defeats the Democracy have sus
tained in California and Maine, did not
take us by surprise. Defeat was inev
itable. The Democracy will not be
swindled into agreeing to any such
heresy and outrage as that attempted
on them by the “New Departures.”
In proof of our position, wo need
only refer to the recent result in Ken
tucky, where the Nominating State
Convention ignored the new departure
heresy, and her standard bearers de»
nounced it on every rostrum. The re
sult was, overwhelming victory and a
largely increased majority, with the
odds against them, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, a largely circulated
Democratic paper, which done its level
best to defeat the ticket.
The Savannah Morning News, igno
ing the real distracting issues of the
canvass, ascribes the defeat of the Dem
ocrats of California to their sanction of
the “New Departure;” and to show the
extent to which they sanctioned it, the
News quotes from the platform as fol
lows: “We regard the three several
amendments to the Constitution re
cently adopted as a settlement in fact
of all the issue of the war, and that the
same are no longer issues before the
country.”
Now, the Hon. A. H. Stephens, no
ticing this identical declaration of the
California Democratic platform, a few
days isince, said “this is our position
exactly.” —Columbus (Qa.) Enguirer ,
IWi September , 1871.
Now, the Hon. A. H, Stephens, no
ticing “the California Democratic Plat
form a few days since,” said no such
thing! A. H. S.
Big Scare. —a gentleman of this
city who has just returned from a trip
over the Muscogee railroad, says the
people about Geneva, in Talbot county
are cherishing a lively scare in regard
to the presence in the woods of that
neighborhood, of a large, first-class pan
ther. Its ominous howliDg andgrowl
inga keep the young folks at home and
very still o’ nights. Why don’t Gor
man, of the Standard, relieve his people
of the monster?— Macon Telegraph.
The Bainbridge Sun of Saturday,
says:
From all sections of our county come
gloomy reports about the condition of
the crops since the late storm and rain.
All the low lands have been submerged,
and the crops thereon almost totally de
stroyed. It iB very unfortunate for the
prosperity of our section that Buch is
the case, but there is no getting around
it—the damages to a great extent are ir
reparable. '
The store of Mr. Giles Bowers, at
Euchee Anna, Walton county, Florida,
together with a heavy stock of goods,
and his books and accounts, was burned
on the night of the 7th instant.
Cotton at Macon. —On Tuesday
leceipts were 27 bales; receipts since
August 31st SCO; Liverpool middlings
13c; fancy lots 18j; stock 1,500.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
Versailles, Sept. 16— Midnight.—
The Assembly has just accepted, by a
vote of 533 against 31, the Customs
Treaty concluded by Count Deremusat
and M. Panyer Querties representing
France, and Herr Von Arnim and
Count Herzog on the part of Germany.
Alsace and Lorraine are included in the
treaty, the consequences of which are
the immediate evacuation of the depart
ments of Aisne, Aube, Cate, D’Or and
Jura, and the reduction of the German
army of ocupation in other departments
to 50,000 men.
London, Sept- 19.
The Morning Advertiser contains an
editorial imputing the blame for the
Corean war to the Americans. It says
the result of the recent battle will be the
driving of foreigners from the country.
The Advertiser also says England will
not join the United States, because she
was not consulted before Rogers’ expe
dition was sent into Corean waters.
The cholera is increasing at Konigs
burg. The ratio of deaths have advanc
ed from fifty to seventy and even eighty
per cent.
The portal money-order system be
tween the United States and England
commences on the second.
Berlin, Sept. 19.— The German army
will be placed upon a peace footing im
mediately, and reduced to the effective
strength of 450,000 men.
Von Moltke is created Marshal of the
Empire.
Paris, September 19.—The Paris
forts will be formally surrendered by
the German occupants to the French to
morrow. The evacuation of the four
departments contiguous to Paris will
follow immediately.
London, Sept. 20.—Emancipation,
in tho Brazilian Parliament, is so obsti
nate that the passage of the bill this
session is improbable.
Versailles, Sept. 20.—The customs
and evacuation negotiations assume
somewhat of a grave aspect. The mod
ifications proposed by France are so
serious that the whole matter has boen
referred to Berlin.
Thiers makes a demand upon Mexico
for better guarantees for faithfulness to
the treaty of obligations before renew
ing diplomatic relations.
Rome, Sept. 20.— The anniversary of
the occupation wa t celebrated enthusi
astically and orderly.
London, Sept. 20.—The Wesser,
hence for New York, carries twenty
one thousand pounds in specie.
London, Sept. 20.—The Times, dis
cussing the municipal affairs ot New
York, advises the citizens to put aside
party interests, as otherwise the evil,
checked for a time only, will reappear
in an aggravated form.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Sept. 18. — Delano has
returned.
The Ku-Klux Committee is digesting
evidence for the report to the full Com
mittee, which meets on tho 20th.
A dispatch from Cochise states that
it is rumored that the Apaches have
driven the miners from Turkey Creek.
Gen. Crook is confident he can conquer
the Apaches if the Peace Commission
ers will let him alone.
Washington, Sept. 19.—The Mixed
Claims Committee, under the Treaty of
Washington, will meet in this city on
next Monday. It consists of Russell
Gurney Commissioner, He. ry Howard,
Agent, and James M. Car :■ 1 . Counsel
lor, on the part of Great II 'ain, and
Judge James G. Frazer, Commissioner,
and Hon. Robt. S. Hale, Agent and
Counsellor for the United States.
The Secretary of War to-day desig
nated a court martial to try Hodge, the
defaulting pay master. Meade is Presi
dent of the court.
The General Ku-Klux Congressional
Committee meet to-morrow. The Sub
Committee has prepared the report on
only the act of the financial condition
of the Southern States. The finances
of North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Louisiana, are reported in a bad
condition, while in other States there
appears to be an improvement. The
Sub Committee will also report on elec
tion laws in the Southern States, giv
ing their most essential features. The
General Committee will to morrow
consider the future course of action in
volving the questions as to whether tho
Subcommittees shall be sent South to
take testimony or whether it shall be
taken here.
Washington, Sept. 20.—The follow
ing Southern roads will carry delegates
to the Commercial Convention, which
convenes at Baltimore on Monday, the
25th inst., at half rates: Baltimore and
Ohio, Memphis and Charleston, Louis
ville, Cincinnati and Lexington, Mobile
and Montgomery, Selma, Rome and
Dalton, South and North Alabama,
Ohio and»Missißßippi, Richmond, Pied
mont and Danville, Wilmington and
Weldon, Richmond and Petersburg,
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas,
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile,
Raleigh and Gaston. Charlotte, Colum
bia and Augusta, Richmond, Freder
icksburg and Potomac, New Orleans,
Mobile and Texas, Macon and Western,
Vicksburg and Meridian, Mobile and
Ohio, Western Alabama.
The full Ku-Klux Committee met
and adjourned to to-morrow, when the
sub committee will report.
Count Conti, Italian Minister here, is
Third Commissioner under the Wash
ington treaty.
Delano has gone.
Sentence: Lieut. Fenno,of 17th infan
try, cashiered five, years in the peniten
tiary and to refund $1,500, approved
Feno was convicted of embezzlement of
the public funds and betting while he
had funds in charge.
SOUTH CAROLINA-
Chakleston, September 18. One
fever death in the last 24 hours.
A. J. Rangier, the colored Lt. Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and chairman
of the Republican State Executive
Committee, publishes a letter in the
News Btrongly opposing the proposed
declaration of martial law. He thinks
the civil power amply sufficient to re
press existing disorders, and that mar
tial law, as a remedy, would be worse
than the disease.
Chakleston, Sept. 19.—One fever
death in the last 24 hours.
The Board of Health, after a thorough
| examination of the eight wards of the
j city, publishes the following statement:
The reports from the various wards
show the city to be in a remarkably
i healthy condilion, even compared with
years when no yellow fever existed.
The number of cases of yellow fever in
course of treatment does not exceed an
average of two in a ward, and the num
ber of persons sick from other causes is
. astonishingly few.
NEW YORK.
New York, Sept. 18.— Comptroller
Connally having appointed a deputy to
exercise his functions, Mayor Hall, con
struing 'this action a virtual resigna
tion, appoints Gen. McClellan, Comp
troller. Gen. McClellan has not yet
accepted the post, but waits Connal
ly’s action under the Mayor’s oismis
sal.
Comptroller Connally writes to May.
or Hall, in response to the letter of dis
missal, that he has not either in fact
or equivalent, resigned the Comptrol
ler’s office.
Excitement intense. Vast crowds
around the city and county office.
The Commercial says McClellan haß
accepted the Comptrollerahip, and will
proceed to the Comptroller’s office, de
mand possession, which, if refused,
McClellan will apply to Courts for or
der, giving him possession, which will
undoubtedly bo granted, when McClel
lan, supported by a posse, will take
possession.
Mayor Hall notifies Connally that he
recognizes neither him nor his Deputy
Green as Comptroller. In meantime,
Connally and Green have assurances of
potent support.
Green, new Deputy Comptroller, ap
pointed by Connally, has delivered all
the documents to the Committee neces
sary to investigation.
New York, Sept. 20. —It is said that
two cases of Asiatic cholera has appear
ed at Perth Amboy. Tho victims were
recently landed from a Gei man emigrant
ship.
Recorder Gomery arrived.
Requiem ,mass to-day for the souls
of Pontifical Zouaves, who fell a year
ago defending Rome.
The Post learns, on good authority,
that early in the summer city vouchers
for $3,000,000 were stolen from the
Comptroller’s office. Tho Mayor and
other officers outside the Comptroller’s
office, only recently learned of ‘ho ab
straction. The city Auditor, through
whose hands these vouchers passed,
was a son of Connally, now in Europe.
Cotton Movements for tlie Week.
New York, September 17.—Cotton
movements for the week show an in*
crease in receipts over last week, while
tho exports are largely in excess of last
year. Receipts at all the ports for the
week, 12,561 against 9,137 last week,
7,579 the previous week, and 7,844 three
weeks since. Total receipts since Sep
tember 1, 21,860 against 33,882 for cor
responding period of the previous year,
showing a decrease of 12,032. Exports
from all the ports for the week 15,815
against 3,840 the same week last year.
Total exports for the expired period of
tho cotton year 30,430 against 10,903 for
same time last year. Stocks at all the
ports 85,228 against 55,253 for the same
date last year. Stocks at all the interior
towns 10,291 against 12,975 for the
same time laßt year. Stock in Liver
pool 498,000 against 490,000 for same
time last year. American cotton afloat
for Great Britain 51,000 against 170,000
for tho same time last year. Indian
cotton afloat for Europe 714,180 against
443,245 for same time last year.
The weather at the South was rainy
in many sections during the week, which
interfered to some extent with the pick
mg operations, to say nothing of dam
ages to the crop.
VIRGINIA.
Nobfolk, Sept. 17.—A serious affray
occurred last night between the United
and Hope fire companies of this city,
growing out of a jealousy that for some
time has existed between the two com
panies. About 8 o’clock in the evening
a number of men from tbe United com
pany proceeded to the engine house of
the Hope company, on Cave street, and
dragged the engine and hose carriages
into the Btreet and then went away.
Half an. hour later a crowd of men be
longing to the Hope company collected
and proceeded to Main street, meeting
the United men near the Atlantic saloon,
when fighting between the two compa
nies immediately commenced. During
the fight about twenty shots were fired
from revolvers, by which two men were
seriously and four slightly wounded.
The police gathered in force and suc
ceeded in arresting the leaders of the
riot and restoring order. The Lowell
firemen, who are visiting the city, were
at their hotel during the riot, and are in
no way implicated in the affair. It is
stated that steps will be immediately
taken to abolish the volunteer system
and substitute a paid fire department.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, September 18.—
There was an outbreak in the Nevada
State prison. Five guards and Lt. Gov.
Denver were wounded, and Matt Rid
delly, proprietor of Warm Springs, was
killed. Twenty-nine prisoners escaped
death.
The loss at Pierche, Nevada, exceeds
$250,000. Three hundred kegs of pow
der exploded. Four persons killed and
a number wounded.
MINENOTA.
Minneapolis, Sept. 17.—Goldsmith
Maid’s time is 2:18j, 2:17J, 2:21. In
the second heat, Lucy came in only a
neck behind the Maid, thus making
better time than ever before. The
track is new and sandy, and gave way
beneath the hoofs of the horses. They
were in splendid condition, and trottod
the second heat with apparent easo.
Doble thinks he will easily go below
his Milwaukee time on the first favora
ble opportunity.
fever death in 24 hours ending Saturday
at noon, and one for the 24 hours end
ing at noon to-day. The general testi
mony of the physicians is that the dis
ease is dying out, and the number of
persons sick at this time is very small
and they are generally doing well.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Sept. 16.—John Wil
liams, Alfred Decarroux and Noel, alias
Madison Hampton, all colored, were
hung to-day in St. James parish, for the
murder of Franck Menteath, May 10th.
They were executed on the spot where
the murder was committed. The sheiff,
the executioner, and the jailor and
guards were all colored.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, Sept. 20.—After dis
charging the avowed polygamists,
whereat the Mormon journals are very
bitter, United States Judge McKain
charged the Grand Jury that tbe crimes
of murder, arson, larceny, bigamy,
adultery and riot in Utah, are the same
crimes throughout the Christian domin
ion. He concludes: Gentlemen, it is
your duty and mine to enforce the laws.
Let us do it without fear, favor, affec
tion, prejudice or the hope of reward.”
NEVADA.
Ban Francisco, Bept. 18.—A powder
explosion at Pierche, Nevada, caused
a conflagration, destroying the business
portion of the town. Loss $200,000 to
$300,000.
NO. 33.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, Sept. 20.—Commander
ies have arrived from all quarters. No
disasters or sickness during the journey.
Elections occur to-day. Grand proces
sion to morrow. Largest convocation
ever held. The General Grand Chapter
is also in session, and elects officers to
day.
Tho Grand Conclave of Templars
have convened. Grand Master Sowell
delivered the triennial address. The
entire session was consumed in hearing
reports. The delegation of Canada
Knights, in full regalia, visited the Con
vocation. The Grand Royal Arch
Chapter also convened. The Supreme
Council of the Southern Jurisdiction
will give a grand banquet to the Su
preme Council of the Northern Juris
diction at Barnum’s to night.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Sept. 18. —Receivers of
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafay
ette Railroad, sue Henry C. Lord for
$250,000, for bonds and money which
they charge Lord converted to his per
sonal use while president of the Road.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, Sept. 18.—Two children,
locked in a kitchen while thoir mother
was at church, wore smothered dead by
smoke.
MANN AC IICSF.TTS.
Lowell, Sept. 18.—Twenty one new
cases of small pox yesterday. Schools
closed to children from tho vicinity of
the pest.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, Sept. 17.—Four sailors
from the bark D. Pomeroy, were
drowned going ashore in a yawl.
KENTUCKY.
Lexington, Sept. 17. The races
Saturday were postponed on account of
the wind.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Sept. 20.—A shooting af
fray, between Dr. McGovarrick and
Mr. Thadford, well known planters at
Shawneetown, Ark. Both mortally
wounded. Disputed about hogs.
INDIANA.
Indianapolis, Bept. 20.—Ten to fif
teen laborers buried in a caving sower,
on Kentucky avenue. Two taken out
alive, one dead; others can be heard
and will soon be reached.
MAINE.
Bangor, Sept. 20.—The laßt rail on
the European aud North American rail
road, connecting the United States with
maritine provinces of Canada, was
laid to-day.
MEXICO.
City of Mexico, Sept. 20. —lt is con
ceded that a majority of the new Con
gress favors Juarez. No signs of a rev
olution.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, Sept. 20.—Three lever
deaths in the laßt twenty-four hours.
The cool change has had unfavorable
effect upon the Bick.
NEBRASKA.
Omaha, Sepl. 20.— The new Consti
tution was heavily defeated. The wo
men suffrage clause, which was submit
ted separately, wub disastrously de
feated.
Col. John Foryth, editor of the Mo
bile Register, who is ventilating him
self out West, writes to his paper from
Chicago, on the 11th. After detailing
the fine condition of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, over which he passed its
entire length, and the fine boat that
makes its connection between that road
and the Illinois Central, he thus speaks
of that great road. He says :
On this side of P e river you strike the
Illinois Central, which, besides being
one ot ihu greatest and richest railroad
corporations in the country, is admira
bly equipped and managed. It is Us
boast, that in nearly twenty years It has
never scratched, much less killed a
passenger. The company is now fin
ishing the track with stone ballast, one
hundred miles of it being already com
pleted, and engineers hold that a train
may bo run at the rate of a mile a min
ute over that ballasted section with per
fect safety.
SpeakiDg of Chicago, he sayß:
There is no check to the growth and
progress of this great city. Solid Btone
blocks are extending in every diiection,
while the wooden buildings aro falling
before the advance, like grain before
the reaper. liealostate steadily advances
in price everywhere, and some locali
ties very rapidly. I saw yesterday a
lot in the woods, five miles from the
southern border of the city, that was
bought two years ago for SIB,OOO, and
was sold for $75,000 within tho
past month. It measured 443 feet
front. The great advance was owing to
its locality—near the end of a grand
boulevard, to unite the city with the
South Bark, work upon which has just
commenced. It is all that money and
art can make it, in ornamental beauty.
The Boulevard, by which it is to bo
reached, is five miles in length and 400
feet wido. It is on the plan of the Span
ish Almeda or Prado, with a wide car
riage way, fine walks for pedestrians,
and two Macadamized roads, to which
wagons and heavy loads aro to be con
fined. Chicago is building three parks
—north, south, and in front of the city,
on the Lake.
The Wav it Wouks.— ln 1869, tho
Democrats upon a sound Democratic
platform, carried California by 8,061
majority. They had two out of tbe
three members of Congress, and in the
State Legislature had a majority of 72
on joint ballot. This year, the burnt
cork Democrats controlled the State
Convention; passed new departure res
olutions, and the Republicans have car
ried the State by about 5,400 majority,
elected two out of the three Congress
men, and will have on joint ballot in
the Legislature 34 majority, thereby
securing the election of a republican to
succeed Cole in the U. 8. Senate.
In 1870, the Republicans carried
Maine by 9,500 majority, the Democrats
fighting the campaign upon a Demo
cratic platform; this year they carry
the State by about 11,000 majority, the
the Democrats standing upon anew
departure platform.
The above figures speak for them
selves; comment is unnecessary.— West
Chester (Pa.) Jeffersonian.
Miss Charlotte Tatnall, daughter of
the late Commodore Josiah Tatnall,
died in Portland, Maine, on the Bth
instant. She was on her way to Hali
fax to visit somo friends in New Ham
shire, but was taken quite sick in Port
land, being previously an invalid, and
died at Mr. W. T. Sargent’s 22 Park
street. The family are residents of Sa
vannah, Ga., and the Rev. J. M. Mitch
ell, the Episcopal clergyman of that
city, being in attendcnce at the Maine
Episcopal convention, took charge of
thei remains.
What Radical Officials Have
Stolen. —lt is asserted that there are
suspended claims in the Second Audit
or’s office amounting to over $150,000,-
000, on which the government will re
alize but very little money. Hodge’s
defalcation foots up $1,250,000.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21.
Travel Increasing.— On our rail,
roads it has sensibly increased. The
hotels are beginning to bo more fre
quented. Many of our merchants and
business men have returned from the
North. They are too many to be
named, so all must allow us to congrat
ulate them on their improved looks and
handsome get-ups.
Settled.— As we thought probable,
yesterday, tho matters between Mr.
Cook and the North and South Rail
road, by agreement between him and
President McDougald, have been set
tled by arbitration, and the work on Mr.
C.’s land continues as usual. The right
of way was secured at a much loss sum
than was claimed for damages.
I ersonal. —Mr. Thomas K. Sharpe,
tho Superintendent of tho Savannah
and Memphis railroad, was in the city
yesterday, vißiting, and conferring with
our business men. He returns to Ope
lika to day. He manages, affairs as a
Superintendent should—looking to the
business interests of his road, and die
regarding localities. Superintendent
Foreacro, ot the Western railroad seems
to be of the same stamp.
One of the main object’s of Suporln
tendent Sharp’s visit is to consult in re
gard to changing the schedule of his
road so that passengers can arrive in
Columbus at 11:30 a. m. aud leave at
12.30 p. in. next day. The Dadeville
and Tallapoosa people desire tho
chango, aud our merchants are reported
as agreeing. It will give more timo in
Columbus and enable the Tallapoosiana
to spend one night in cur city instead
of two in Dadeville. Pennington’s road
has already given notice of a similar
change. The road wishes to run so as
to accommodate all.
Death’s Doings. — We indeed rogret
to learn of the death of tho youngest
child, a little girl, of Mr. Joseph Ilan
serd, of this city. She died of croup,
Tuesday, at the Chalybeate Springs.
The remains were brought homo yester
day. The father is in New York.
It will also lie seen by notice that Mr.
A. P. Watt, the well known proprietor
of tho Exchange Hotel in Montgomery,
Ala., is dead. Ho was a brother of
Rev. Mr. Watt, who died several years
ago, and of Mr. Watt, of tho firm of
Watt & Walker, of this city. We hear
he was raised in this section, where ho
farmed some years, then went to Cali
fornia and finally settled in Montgoin
ery, where ho died yesterday, aged
about sixty years. The funeral takes
place to-day on the arrival of tho Mont
gomery train.
Uiveb Nkws—TnE FnEsnET —Dam-
age to Chops—Sukvey Commenced.
—The lower river is very full. The
Bainbridge Sun says that on Tuesday
of last week. Flint rivor was higher
than sinco 1868, and is still going up
ward. The Atlantic and Gulf li.R.
wharf is alloat and a portion of it wash
ed away. Tho railroad embankment
is imperiled. The water is within a
few feet of the top of the Arnett bridge,
and we would not bo at all surprised if,
before we go to press, that structure
should be on a trip to the Bay. Mc-
Laughlin’s mill now stands alone in its
glory on a little island, and we under
stand that Mr. Me. says that if tho wa
ter rises a foot higher the river will be
booming right through his furnace.
The crops in the rich lands along tho
river are all doubtlesß destroyed.
Tho survey of tho Chattahoochee,
which wo mentioned ten days ago, haß
virtually commenced. Capt. C. F.
Trill, acting under orders of Major
Demorelle, of the coast survey, loft on
the boat Tuesday to go on a tour of ob
servation as far as Apalachicola. He is
expected to return Sunday on tho Buu
dy Moore, with five assistants from tho
bay, and at once begin active opera
tion.
Congress has appropriated $4,800 to
tho survey. Already $1,200 have been
expendod on the outfit of tho party.
With the $3,G00 remaining, Capt. Trill
hopes to complete bis survey and map
tho stream, giving its depth, shoals,
sandbars, obstructions, &c., for a dis
tance of 200 miles. Then, perhaps,
Congress, if properly urged, will make
an appropriation for adopting the sug
gestions of the Engineers. Tho most
serious obstacles on tho entire river are
found at Ucheo Shoals and Woolfolk’s
Bar, and theso will receive careful at
tention.
lt is thought SB,OOO will be required
to completo the survey of the river.
The party have now only $3,G00, ex
clusive of outfit, with which to work.
The survey will be commenced just
below the Mobile aud Girard R.li.,
bridge, and continued down the stream
as far as tho appropriation will allow.
If much more rain comes, the expedi
tion will have a hard time, and opera
tions may be suspended altogether on
account of high water.
As wo have previously stated, to Mr.
11. 8. Estes is due tho chief credit of
having this survey commenced, aud
advanced thus far.
Columbus and Rome Railroad.—-
An anonymous Columbus correspon
dent writes us that the work has been
suspended on this road, in consequence
of an injunction granted by Judge Jas.
Johnson ol that circuit, and refers us to
the Columbus Enquirer, of last Friday,
for proof of his statement. We can' t
find that paper, so must take the state
ment cum grano. We only depart from
our custom with regard to nameleSßcor
respondents, in this instance, in order
that we may discover the truth. What
are the tacts, gentlemen of the Sun and
Enquirer V— Macon Telegraph , 20(/t.
If the Telegraph had read the Colum
bus papers, instead of paying attention
to anonymous scribblers, who have it
in their power to injure any person or
corporation, it would have known the
above report was without foundation.
A writer who is afraid or ashamed t:>
sign his communications is unworthy
of credit. The facts are simply as fol
lows :
The injunction granted by Judge
Johnson was simply in reference to the
right ot way across the lands of Mr. J.
C. Cook, a distance of a mile, on wfiich
some sixty hands were at work. The
difference was in regard to damages.
On the other portions of the road, 500
bands were laboring. The injunction
did not effect them. The work on Mr.
Cook’s land was not suspended a day,
and the matter in dispute has been com
promised, and the hands continue at
work as heretofore. The grading of tbe
first ten miles of the road will be com
pleted by November. Already forces
are operating on the second ten miles.
This does not look like a suspension of
work or an injunction against the road,
but evidences its rapid progress and
prospects of speedy completion.
Ahuestkd. —Yesterday officer D. I*.
Kendrick arrested Henry R. Cody, for
merly of Warrenton, Ga., but now a
resident of this city, upon a warrant
issued by a magistrate in Warren coun
ty, at the instance of Messrs. Branch,
Scott & Cos., charging Mr. Cody with
larceny after trust delegated, ft is said
to be a matter of dispute about the pro
ceeds of a wagon sold by Cody on
commission, being the property of !>.,
8 & Cos , for which they allege he had
never paid them.— Atlanta Sun, of
Tuesday.