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TUESDAY HOUSING, OCT. 31.
Kev. Dr. O. L. Smith, lately called
to the Presidency of the Wesleyan
Female College, delivered his valedic
tory sermon at St. Luke’s church, in j
this city, on Sunday night. His text
was from the Ist chapter Hebrews, Ist
and 2d verses : “God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners, spake in
time past unto the lathers by the proph
ets,
“2d. Hath in these last days spoken j
unto us by his Son,” &c.
The congregation was very large,
composed of the religious and sinners
from every part of the city, assembled ,
to testify their respect for the distin
guished scholar and divine. The ser
mon was eloquent, emotional and in
structive.
The opening prayer was made by
Dr. J. H. Kail, of the Presbyterian
Church; the closing prayer and address
by Dr. T. E Skinner, of. the Baptist
church, and the benediction by Bev.
A. M. Wynn, of St. Paul’s (Methodist.)
Law Business.— We met a noted
member of the legal profession yester
day, one of over twenty yoars’ practice,
and respectfully said, “Well, how is
law business.’’ He eyed us a moment
and then replied, “You may have no
ticed a patch on my left shoe, but you
certainly are not aware that that shoe
and its fellow are ’pegs.’ Doubtles it
may have escaped you, also, that my
collar is a paper one. Whan a lawyer
wears paper collars and pegged shoes,
he is not making $5,000 a year. But
seriously,” he said, “there is but little
in the future for the profession with us.
Were Ia young man, I would either go
to some of the new States or seek some
other occupation. Most of the business
in old times, came from litigation con
nected with lands and negroes, and the
credit system. Now there are no negro
notes to sue, and nearly every one has
more land than he wants to cultivate.
Business, too, has been almost entirely
reduced to a cash system. If there is
any crediting now, it is in small
amounts and that payable on honor in
thirty or sixty days. Even in criminal
business there is little money. The
better classes of the population are re
markably on good behavior, and the
lower classes, of both races, who com
mit offences, rarely havo money or
friends to fee counsel.”
We left our legal friend thinking that
probably our lawyers may have as good
reason as other people to complain of
"hard times.”
Wells, Cuhtib & Co.—We call the
attention of the public to the advertise
ments of this old-established firm, to he
found in our columns this morning.
Their stock of boots, shoes, leather,
shoemakers materials, hides, and in
fact everything usually found in a first
class establishment, is large and com
plete in every particular. They have
the politest and most attentive of
clerks, who take pleasure in attending
to tho wants of customers. A call at
the store will convince any one that a
moat magnificent stock of the lateßt
styles of boots and shoes may be found,
from the heavy hrogan of the field
hand to the delicate satin slipper of the
city belle. Everyone’s wants may be
supplied by calling at the store. They
pay the highest prices for hides.
TIIE LEGISLATURE— 0d« REPRESEN
TATIVES.—Hon. Jos. F. Pou left Sun
day for the capital via LaGrange. lion.
J. Milton Smith only reached Columbuß
late Sunday evening from a protracted
court in Alabama, but promptly left for
Atlanta yesterday morning.
Muscogee’s interest and the State’s
are safe in the hands of these high
minded and talented gentlemen.
Dr. Means, of Savannah, when en
tering the passenger car on Friday
night last, was robbed of his fine gold
watch and pocket book containing
eleven hundred dollars. The watch
was presented him by the Students of
Emory College. The watch has on it
the inscription “Presented to A. i
Means, D. D., by the students of Emory
College, on his retiring from the Presi
dency.”
The death of Rev. Nathaniel Macon
Crawford, D. D., occurred at his farm
in Whitfield county, Ga,, on Thursday
last, from paralysis. Mr. Crawford
was the son of Hon. William H. Craw
ford, in his day, one of Georgia’s most
distinguished sons. He was of the
Baptist denomination, and aged about
sixty years.
In the canoe races at Macon, on Sat
urday, open to the world, the Minnie
Lee, by the Vernon Club, of Savannah,
and the King Cotton, by the King Cot
ton Club, of the same place, were enter
ed. The Minnie, pulled by Harris and
them same Schley boys, won in 3:52.
Col. Herbert Fielder.—Ouf rea
ders will peruse with interest the brief
sketch contained in to-day’s paper, of
the life aud career of this estimable gen
gentleman, whose name is prominently
associated with the next gubernatorial
canvass.
Yellow Fever in Savannah.—The
Charleston Courier states that a letter
was received in that city last Sunday
evening from a reliable resident of Sa
vannah, stating that four deaths had
occurred from yellow fever on Satur
day in that city.
The Chicago Journal states that it is
believed in that city that a large num- 1
ber of the persons burned at the late
great fire in Chicago, were thieves,
"ho i. 'lv ir rsi' f r plunder, 'c
maiued iu uie bui.iiiugs nil iheirescapt
was cut oil'.
Personal.— Hon. W. C. Jarboe, May- i
or at LaQrango, ami a member of the
Troup county Construction Company,
is in our city on business connected
with the work of his company on the
N. & S. H. R
Wash. Madison, colored, the driver
of J. A J. Kaufman’s Express, who
was badly injured a short time ago by
a kicking horse, died Sunday night.
In the running horse race at Macon
on Saturday, mile heats, open to the
world, Bacon & Holland's Nannie
Douglsj won in 1:47* —l:4j,
T. E Blanchard invites the attention
ot the public to his large and select
stock of drygoods, which he will sell at
prices to suit the times.
J. L. Shed, of Macon, received the
premium at the Georgia State Fair last
week for the best made suit of clothes.
VOL. XIII.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND HER
TROUBLES.
The political and social condition of
South Carolina, our sister State, is most
; deplorable. The evils she has suffered
from worse than Sherman’s fire and
sword, by carpet baggers, scalawags
and the soldiery of a military dictator,
miscalled President, is enough to bring
! down iron tears from Pluto’s eyes and
■ cause the very stones to rise in mutiny.
Instead of the republican government
guaranteed to each State by the Consti
tution, the writ of habeas corpus on a
mere pretext being suspended ; inno
cent citizens by hundreds are hunted
down like robbers, and without protec
tion of either Federal or State law,
thrust into loathsome prisons. Honor
able, peaceable old men are arrested,
charged with crimes of which they nev
er even dreamed and their lives and
personal security and liberty put in jeop
ardy by perjured scoundrels with whom
it would be praise to compare them
with the lowest cut-throats of the gut
ters and cellars of Paris or Mexico.
Such in time of professed peace is the
present situation of South Carolina—
her people leaving their crops ungath- j
ered in the field and fleeing to the i
woods and swamps of their native land
to seek rest from a tyranny that exists ;
only to persecute and plunder.
To-day, we ask the serious attention
of our readers to the extract from the 1
Yorkville Enquirer and the Chester
county Grand Jury presentments.— j
They, together with late proceedings in !
North Carolina and Texas, reveal the !
progress of despotism in our country
enough to cause our forefathers to rise
from their honored graves panoplied
in steel. Even priest-ridden Mexico
with her half century of military
dictators and fields soaked with hu
man gore, under euch experiences,
would not hesitate to drive the Aztec
Juarez from the Presidency and per
haps with the loss of his head. All of
our legislation under the reconstruction
laws like the foot prints to the sick
lion’s den point only in one direction
—to despotism. Constitutional govern
ment with us is a myth, an airy nothing,
a bubble that vanished at the first touch
of the bayonet. Grant is only experi
menting with ’prentice hand on South
Carolina, soon every State will feel his
iron heel. In statesmanship, he is the
equal of Dr. I. Letsum whose science
in the healing art was well described by
his London shingle :
“When folks they do set sick,
I physics, bleeds and sweats urn,
Then, if they choose to die,
Why verily 1. Letsum.”
Book Notices.
We have received from J. W. Pease,
Columbus, “Stolen Waters,” a splendid
new love story, written in verse, and
a companion to Owen Meredith’s “Lu
cile.” One of the most facinating books
of the season. Price $1 50.
Also, the “Fall of Man,” a popular
scientific lecture upon the Darwinian
theory of development by Bexual selec
tion, by a learned gorilla.
Those books are sold everywhere—
and will bo sent by mail, postage free,
on receipt of price, by Carleton & Cos.,
publishers, New York,Madison Square,
Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
We present our kindest thanks to
Therese Y r elverton, Viscountess Avon
more, for a copy of her first volume
published in America—“Zanita, a tale
of the Yo Semite.” The book is ac
companied by a beautiful note from the
authoress. It is descriptive of scenes
in California, and is splendidly written.
Published by Hurd & Houghton, New
York, Riverside Press.
New Religions.— The New Y'ork
Tribune, in telling us about anew sect,
called the “Soul Sleepers,” just started
and flourishing in Southern Indiana,
mentions the society of Theophilan
thropists existing in Columbus, and al
ludes to it as anew sect. No one need
trouble themselves to go to a cyclopae
dia to find out what Theophilanthropism
means. They can refer to Webster,
where it is thus rendered: “Love to
both God and man.” He thus speaks
of the Theophilanthropists, “One of a
class of persons in France, during the
the revolution, whose object was to
establish reason in the place of Chris
tianity.”
The “Soul Sleepers” are thus de
scribed by the Tribune : “Their idea is
that the immortality of the soul is lim
ited to certain lucky ones, through the
meditation of the Saviour,while all the
other souls which are unfit for Heaven
are annihilated. They are not capable
of bliss, and God is too good to torture
them. As they are too bad for salva
tion and too good for damnation, it log
ically follows that they must cease to
exist altogether.”
For the past three months, Govern
ment detectives have been on the trail
; of some Southern bound swindlers. A
whole nest of them have been found in
Tennessee, under the leadership of ex
-1 Congressman Stokes, Acting Commis
sioner, and a responsible clerk in the
Second Auditor’s office, named Powell.
The latter was arrested last night and
held in ten thousand dollars bail.—
Stokes arrested this afternoon and re
leased on fifteen thousand dollars bail.
There are other prominent politicians
connected with this scheme, whose
names are withheld to enable the Gov
■ eminent detectives to catch them.
For the Sun.
Epitaph.
My name, my country, what are they to thee;
Whether high or low my pedigree;
Perhaps, I far surpassed all other men;
Perhaps, I fell below—what then 1
Suffioe it, stranger, thou see’st a tomb;
It’s use thou know'st; It hides, no matter
whom. 0. A. S.
Meriwether Cos., Oot. 25th, 1871.
The S. & M and E. A. & C. trains,
me being c.-uuu:.. o wnh Utc accommo
dation traiu to and iroui Opelika to this
place, during “Fair” week. We hope
to see a large number of visitors from
Chambers, Lee and Tallapoosa, as they
can leave home in the morning and re
turn same evening.
Tall Stalk. —Mr. Woi. Harrison,
of Hannahatchee, Stewart county, Ga.,
left our office yesterday morning a
stalk of sugar cane containing twenty,
one joints of good size. We should
judge from the length of the stalk that
this specimen is about as tall as sugar
cane generally grows.
Strawberry Plants. —J. Lillie, of
Salem, Ala., advertises strawberry
plants of the best description. See
notice.
The Advertiser states that a difficulty
occurred at Orme’s store in Montgome
ry county, Alabama, on Saturday last,
which culminated in an inpromptu du
el between Jeter McElvain and Mr.
Goddard, in which both the combat
ants were killed.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEDNESDAY HORNING, ROV. 1.
Second Annual Fair of Columbus In
dustrial Association.
Fibst Day.
Despite of the threatening weather
! some 3,000 people gathered on the Fair
! Grounds yesterday.
The display of goods far exceeds that
j of last year, and in point of exhibitions
| of fabrics it was never exceeded by
anything in Georgia, not even excep
ting the State Fair at Macon.
Os horses and [mules there are many
splendid specimens. In hogs, W. W.
Sumner, of Bedford, Tenn., oxhibits 34
Berkshire pigs 2$ to 3 months old, with
their progenetor Dick Johnson, weigh
ing 700 pounds, an imported 3 year old
from England.
Wm. Brown shows common meat
hogs of huge proportions; a sow 5£
months old is enormous. Master’s Jim
mie and Johnnie Bivins have Chester
white pigs, 1 one year old, “Old.Kock”
and “Bob Lee” that weigh respectively
327 and 302 pounds. Boykin Jones has
a Bershire boar, from Kentucky 1
monih old, and sow Kentuckie made 3
year old, both of which are immense.
Splendid pigs and hogs are exhibited
by Messrs. Frank Watkins, McDou
gald, Salisbury and others. In this de
partment is seen the finest show over
exhibited in Georgia.
Cashmere goats and others are exhib
ited. Chickens of every variety, inclu
ding a pair of orange colored,and every
species of poultry.
Here are also shown some fine sheep.
Os cows, Alderneys and other fine an
imals are exhibited.
The machinery is run by an eight
horse power portable engine of Hoad
ley & Cos., Mass. Within the hall are
cotton seed hullers and Daniel Pratt’s,
the Emory, Taylor,Massey’s Excelsior,
Hollis’ Self Feeder, Findlay and other
gins. In this department is also the
splendid display of Agricultural imple
ments by Holstead & Cos., embracing
mowers, reapers, buggy sulkies, and all
improved varieties of machines of that
class.
Many bales of cotton, shucks, hay,
fodder, &c., are exhibited.
In the exhibition halls proper, com
mencing at one end, is a SI,OOO set of
bed room furniture which is superb.
The Singer, Wheeler & Wilson,
Grover & Baker, and Florence sewing
machines are well represented.
Myers & Bush and G. W. Horne &
Cos., exhibit chairs and furniture of
their own manufacture. The latter
have a double portable desk for school
or church purposes, which we advise
all to examine, as it combines utility
with conveniencs and economy of
space.
W. F. Patterson has a case of hand
some horse shoes, steel, iron, &c.; also
a bracket that can be closed at will.
The charm about it [is that it
was mado with a pen knife.
Van Riper and Williams have each
an elegant display of photographs and
other articles in their line.
Joseph & Bro., dry goods, havecases
of articles which reflect much upon
th«ir taste and judgment.
Wittich & Kinsel snow choice dia
mons and jewelry worth thousands of
dollars.
T. T. Edmundß exhibits furniture of
the most Btylish and best make.
J. J. Whittle, dry goods, has a very
pretty exhibition, unsurpassed by any
thing in the hall.
The Virginia store have also an un
rivalled exhibition of fine goods and
articles.
Mrs. Dessau has the latest hats and
bonnets; so has Mrs. Lee, and others
perhaps who, in passing, we failed to
notice. If so, we will do so to-morrow.
DeVore & Ennis exhibit a selection
of China, glass and silver plated ware.
The Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing
Company has a magnificent display of
their varied goods, and the celebrated
cotton blanket. The Columbus and
Muscogee factories are well represented
by lines of cotton goods. Our manu
factories, alone, have a show which il
lustrates wonderfully; Southern energy
and enterprise.
In the cases of the drug stores, we no
ticed a handsome assortment of fanev
and Parisian articles by J. I. Griffin
and Hood & Bro. If there were others
we could not find the names, but will
do so to-morrow.
Schober has guns, pistols, &c., of
his own manufacture.
W. J. Malone, of La Grange, has a
case of elegant boots and shoes.
E. A. Faber exhibited richly designed
ornamental plaster work, &c.
The Phenix Stove Works display
most creditable specimens of stoves,
&c., from their foundry in this city.
Kent & Cos. have a first class show of
trunks, harness, saddles, &c., all of
their own make. One,feature of their
harness is a contrivance by which the
length of the harness is controlled by a
buckle on the “turn back” and not on
the sides. This is an improvement of
their own.
G. W. Brown & Cos. have excellent
Havana cigars, plugs of tobacco, &c.,
which were made here.
A large display of jellies, preserves,
sweet meats and.delicacies, mere made.
A large collection,exhibited by Mrs. C.
C. Cody, one of the first ladies and
best housekeepers in Columbus,deserves
special mention.
Chas. Creighton, F. X. Profumo and
I. G. Strupper have each a choice com
bination of cakes, bread, confectionery,
Ac., some exquisite, of all kinds.
S. Van Brale has 20,000 apple, peach,
pear and plum trees on exhibition.
Holstead & Cos. have the best and
largest collection of seeds ever seen in
Georgia. In this same department we
noticed California okra, eiant turnips,
pumpkins, stock peas by I. N. Harvey,
of Auburn, Ala., that are said to sur
pass anything under the sun, tomatoes
and every object in the vegetable line.
In this debartment Dr. Chipley, of
Louisville, Ky., exhibited stock, roast
ing ear and bread corn. Some has 26
rows and the grains are very full.
In the Ladies’ Department over 500
articles are exhibited. Among them
are home made silk, pictures in tapes
try, dresses made by the young and old
—all new and made for the Fair. Some
raised work is exhibited by a lady 61
years of age, and a quilt by another,
aged 70. A quilt with all the Masonic
insignia thereon, worked by Mrs.
Schockley, of Gainesville, Ga.,is shown
and many quaint and curious designs.
A child’s quilt, by Miss Darkus Cobb,
4* years old, is very handsome.
Porter & Fell have a creditable dis
play of their iron manufactures, iron
railings, Ac.; and so has the Columbus
Iron works.
S. Cherry has a choice assortment of
wines, Ac.; and so has Heyman A Cos.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1871.
Middlebrook has a brilliant show of
saddles, harness, &c.
Wm. Beach shows hardware and dif
ferent plows.
J. Ennis has spokes, hubs, and other
wood work, manufactured at his mills;
: also hardware, &c.
Holstead & Cos. displayed some hand
some Terra Cotta work from Atlanta.
Specimens of handsome penmanship
from the Atlanta Commercial College,
are exhibited.
The Art and Floral Halls are beauti
ful. A miniature fountain plays with
in. The walls are crowded with pic
tures. In the centre is, a temple com
posed of evergreens and flowers from
the selections of such ladies as Mrs.
Perry, Bivins,and Gris Redd. A hand
some picture is Pandora’s Box, by Miss
Lizzie Ott r of Barbour county, Ala. A
crayon, the face of a beautiful woman,
by Miss Loula 8. Howell, aged 14, is
greatly admired, and so are sketches in
leaves, mess and bark of trees, by Miss
Sallie Allen; and flowers and butterfly
wings pressed by Miss Jennie Ellis.
The first attempt at ship building, by
Homer G. Comstock, aged 14, is credit
able. Portraits in crayon, by Mrs. J.
C. Cook, are correct to the life. A col
lection of flowers, representing the four
seasons, is exquisite. The most origin
al and saddening, and at the same time
most admired picture, is by Mrs. A. B.
Bostick, entitled“ The Confederate Note
Memorial.” The moon is just rising
and silveiing the waters of a stream.
On a hillock is a grave in which is plant
ed a staff which supports a furled Con
federate flag. On the head-stone is
simply the word “Unknown.” Appro
priate poetry is printed in spaces. The
whole encircled by Confederate bills of
different denominations.
In this department is also specimens
of exquisite dental work, by Drs. Tig
nor & Fogle, embracing teeth on gold
plate, and rubber, &c. Within the case
is a card upon which is written, “You
know how it is yourself.”
We have not mentioned all the ex«
hibitors, but all we could get as we
traversed the rooms.
EXHIBITION OF LIVE STOCK—PREMIUMS.
In the morning some fifty mules were
exhibited. Premiums were awarded
as follows:
Mule colt under one year—Livings
ton Kenan.
Pair broke mules—lst to J. W. Threl
gild; 2d to J. H. Miller, Stanford, Ky.
Mare mule, broke—lst, Rob’tThomp
son; 2d, J. W. Threlgild.
Mule Colt—H. C. Bussey.
Best mule, regardless of sex, Georgia
or Alabama raised—H. C. Bussey.
SPEED RING.
First match—mile heats—best two in
three: $75 to first, SSO to second, $25 to
third.
H. Moseley enters b. g. Spider.
W. A. McDougald, b. m.
Wm. Swift, bl’k m. Norma.
Spider won the two heats in 2:49 and
2:521, followed closely by the bay mare,
Norma barely saving distance.
A second match was mado for $25,
mile heats—best two in three —Gamell’s
Jeff. Davis and Klink’s horse were en
tered: wan by KlivY in 2.sßand 2:551.
THE PONY RAOS
was postponed until 12 m. to day, when
it will he run regardless of weather.
All the hoys who have horses should
bring them up. It is a free thing.
CROWDS ARRIVING.
Large numbers came in last night and
crowds are due this morning. Many
fast horses arrived yesterday.
Capt. W. D. Chipley, as he was last
year, is marshal of the Fair. He makes
a capable and efficient officer.
SECOND DAY.
Fully five thousand people were on
the Fair Grounds. Some estimated the
crowd at six, others at seven thousand.
Ladies were out en-masse.
The morning was showery at inter
vals; the afternoon cloudy but pleas
ant.
Large crowds are expected to-day,
numerous arrivals being due by the
different trains.
CATTLE, HOGS AND POULTRY.
We.can state without the fear of con
tradiction that the display in these
departments was never equalled in
Georgia. In addition to what was
mentioned yesterday, are Devon and
ether thoroughbred bulls and heifers
fxjm Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia,
atil also stock imported direct. Os
Gewgia stock there is an abundance.
Mr. Bob Bize exhibits a cow that, hav
ing a first calf, gives three gallons of
milk per day, and an improved Georgia
boar that weighs GOO pounds. Mr.
John King shows Berkshire hogs.
Ewes, of the Colswold variety, from
Tennessee, are exhibited. Gen. Guerry
shows common cattle. In the various
stalls are some 400 cows, sheep, hogs,
horses, &c., o£ common and the best
blood in the coantry.
They are ever surrounded by num
bers of farmers, and those who desire
to examine fine atock.
There is every conceivable variety
of poultry—some ffiree or four hundred
specimens being exhibited. The orange
colored chickens are the special objects
of admiration.
Several Cashmere, end a number of
common goats, are exhibited.
MACHINERY.
The Messrs. Findlay, cf Macon, have
a horse power on exhibition which can
be applied to any machinery—cost $l5O
in Macon. They also show Ae Eclipse
Cotton Press, with wrought iron screw,
value $175.
The Hoadley Portable Engine, R. R.
Goetchius agent, runs the machinery.
This is of ten horse power, and costs
$950. It is claimed it possesses more
power, and consumes less wood than
auy engine extant.
Two cotton seed hullers exhibited.
One—the Empire Grist Mill and Cotton
Seed Huller—price $125, J. M. Smith,
agent. This can be changed in a
tew moments from a huller to a grist
mill. The other is the Cotton Huller,
made by Isreal Brown of Cincinnati,
Clemons A James, agents. These ma
chines can hull 1,000 bushels of cotton
seed per day.
Holstead A Cos. have the Burrell Corn
Sheller,Continental feed cutter, Hughes
eagle cutter for fodder and shucks,
champion cider and wine press, Lee’s
champion post hole digger, Taylor’s
horse rake, Buckeye reaper and mower,
Nistwitz clod crusher and harrow,
Buckeye sulky cultivator, Smith’s bug
gy plow, Minor’s gold medal combina
tion subsoil and turn plow, Faulkner
improved Dixon sweep, Watt’s plow,
and eighteen other ;stock plows.
We mentioned many other articles
i yesterday.
GIN TEST TO-DAY. -
It occurs this morning. The entries
are Massey’s Excelsior Gin, of Macon,
50 saw.
Daniel Pratt, G. W. Dillingham
agent, 45 saws.
Hall’s Self Feeding Cotton gin, rep
resented by Holstead & Cos., 45 saws.
Emory gin, Albany, New York, D.
Harris agent, 50 saws.
BALES
of cotton, fodder, clover, domestic and
orchard grass hay and pea vines are
numerous. A most creditable display
is made in this department.
GENERAL BOOMB.
They have received large additions,
and now present an appearance which
would do honor to any city. Besides
what wc have mentioned, we noticed
some delicious looking butter, wrought
into fanciful shapes, by Mrs. Rogers of
this county. T. E. Blanchard has a
case of handsome furs, and rich laces
and other fancy articles; Crown & Cos.,
a splendid collection of stoves,tin ware,
&c.; E. C. Hood & Bro., druggists, a
case of articles manufactured by them.
Beautiful foot stools, raised work, by
Miss Clara Beach, aged 9 years, are
greatly admired.
The entire rcoms [nobly illustrate the
manufactories of Columbus.
ART GALLERY.
This department continually shows
new beauties. The ladies have render
ed it very lovely and attractive. A
very handsome collection of pressed
flowers and grasses is exhibited by Miss
Viola Beach, aged 14 The material
was gathered from California, Jersey
City, the Confederate breastworks
around Richmond, Stratford, Conn.,
Canada, and Columbus. The cross is of
magnolia flowers. Mrs. Beach has a
large collection of wax works, flowers,
crosses, &c. She used oil paints,which
makes them very beautiful. Mrs. Mar
tin, also,haß exquisite paintings wrought
of leaves, mosses, &c. She has a lyre
made of common straw. A Masonic
field with all the insignia thereon,made
with flowers and leaves by Miss Sal
mon, is very rich, and so is “Cotta
Schonberg,” with the castle, built of
leaves, mosses and bark. Many charm
ing oil paintings and sketches are beau- j
tiful. Several penciljdrawings by little
boyß are creditable. Mrs. Chandler
sent yesterday, a box of beautifnl flow
ers. A piece of silk worked by a lady
7G years of age is displayed.
ENTRIES
in all departments continue to be made
—thus adding to the attractions of the
Fair.
PREMIUMS AWARDED.
Best stallion 4 years old and over—
R. Thompson.
Best stalion under 4 years and over
one—V. B. Hallman, Nashville Tenn.
Mare 4 years old and over—J. Tur
ney, Kentucky.
Mare under 4 years old and over
one—H. McCauley.
Finest and best model mare or gel
ding—O. Towles, Nashville, Tenn.
Best filly under 3 years old—Mrs. An
derson.
Brood mare—W. A. McDougald.
Colt under 1 year—W. H. Glaze.
Stallion, Georgia or Ala. raised—
Postponed to Saturday.
Mare, Georgia or Ala. raised—H.
McCauley.
Gelding, Georgia, or Ala. raised—
W. A. Abercombie.
Cotton Seed Huller—J. M. Smith, of
Columbus.
The display of seeds by Holstead &
Cos., is the finest ever seen South.
THE RESTAURANT ARRANGEMENTS
are excellent. The large dining ball is
well filled daily. Several booths on the
ground. Mr. John Schnell presides at
No. 2, and furnishes fruits, cigars, &c.,
at reasonable rates. Barney Hawkins
has charge of the restaurant.
BIDE SHOWS.
There are several, and they seem to
be well patronized.
THE COOKING MATCH
hss commenced—nine young ladies en.
tered. Some of the Directors, their
families and several invited guests dined
on an excellent meal two had cooked.
Two cook daily.
FAST HORSES.
Tennessee and Rattler, the first from
Tennessee, the second from Kentucky,
have arrived and will take part in the
grand race Saturday. Rattler has won
a number of races at Nashville and else
where. He made 2:33 on a slow track
in Macon. Tennessee won the princi
pal prize in Atlanta. Both have made
under 2:30. Bob Shelden, a celebrated
racer, is also here.
THE TOURNAMENT.
Ten Knights hsve entered. It takes
place Friday. The coronation ball that
night.
SPEED BING.
The pony ruce was one of a quarter
mile dash for $lO. Two entries by
Shepherd and Tichnor—won easily by
first—no time taken.
A three quarter mile dash was then
made—catch weights—purse SSO. Four
entries: W. P. O’Brien’s gray; W. J.
Brock’s black; V. B. Hallman’s sorrel;
C. A. Style’s bay.
Won by Hallman in 1:365, Brock
in his rear two lengths, and Styles not
in distance. When he first started
O’Brien bolted.
The third race was for trotters who
had never beat 2.so—purae s3oo—bsst
three in five. Three entries, H. Mose
ley’s b. g., Spider, O. Towles, of Ten
nessee, b. g. Combination, W- A. Mc-
Dougald’s b. m.
First got $155, second SBS, third SOO.
First heat won by Spider by half a
neck over McDougald, and two lengths
over Combination.
Second heat by Spider by half length
over McDougald, three lengths over
Combination.
Third heat easily won by Spider by
two lengths over Combination, Mc-
Dougald distanced, she broke badiy.
Time, 2:50*, 2:46*, 2:47*. Spider
won the first and third money money,
Combination the second.
THE CLOSE OF THE DAY
saw the one rail cars in full operation,
oa which many took a ride. The post
hole digger, exhibited by Holstead A
Cos., was in business—digs holes four
feel deep in thirty seconds.
PBOMPT PAYMENT.
AH premiums won are paid promptly
on the grounds in greenbacks.
A Model Farmek.—Quite a number
of Floridians in the city. Among them
is Mr. Amos Hays, a wealthy planter
of Jackson county. He is one of
of the model farmers who has his corn
crib and stnoke house at home. He
raises his own supplies, mules and
horses,'.and has enough to sell, and
besides has a large cotton crop. He
can holdjhis cotton at will.and is wholly
independent. Would that the South
I was full of such farmers.
Horse Killed.— ln the afternoon of
yesterday, a man whose name is given
as Doc Harris, dashed with a horse and
I buggy through the Fair Ground gates,
and then commenced lashing his horse
and sending him pell mell through the
crowd in every direction. Policemen
ordered him to stop and tried to catch
his bridle, but all was in vain. He
dashed against a carriage. A lady in
side fainted. Several children narrow
ly escaped. Ab a last resort to save life,
the gate keeper, Mr. R. A. Wood, seek
ing an opportunity when his shot could
injure no human creature, aimed at the
horse who was in a gallop. The ball
struck the animal in the shoulder and
killed him. The man was carried to
the guard house, but was released on
heavy bail. We understand he is from
Harris county. Intoxication the cause.
Visitors from Alabama— We judge
by the crowd of persons we saw yester
pay from Opelika and above on the line
of the two new roads, that the majority
of the fair-going people from that sec
tion are attending our Fair in preference
io any other. We hope to see a recip
rocation next week by our people turn
ing out and visiting the Opelika Fair.
Certainly our merchants will not lose
so good an opportunity to call on our
Alabama neighbors.
Premiums.— Among those awarded
at the State Fair, was one of $25 to E.
W. Peadbody, of this city, for the best
essay on root crops; also one to the
Columbus Manufacturing Company for
the best pound of cotton sewing thread.
Drug Store.— Dr. C. J. Moffett gives
notice that he has removed his stock of
drugs, chemicals, toilet articles, &c.,
from Randolph street to No. 74 Broad
street, next Pease’s bookstore, where
will be pleased to see his old friends
and customers, and cultivate the ac
quaintance of new ones.
Delegate to Columbus. —We learn
from the Sun that Col. J. M. C. Reid
left Atlanta Tuesday, as a delegate to
the Industrial Association of this city.
The Sun says he is the most prominent
dairy farmer in that vicinity, and took
a premium at the Atlanta Fair for the
best essay on dairy farming.
Winter Joins Winter. —An old
negro man, Jack Fairchild, who is said
to be 98 years of age, married the other
day a youthful colored woman, known
by the popular cognomen of “Old
Aunt Toney Clark.” She is at least
75. There’s life in the old land yet.
Large Yield. —Mr. Joe Deamond,
beyond Wynnton, made 365£ bushels
of sweet potatoes on one acre of land.
Largest Yet. — The largest day’s ;
receipts of cotton came in yesterday—
-642 bales. Corresponding day last j
year they were 851.
The Legislature.—Wo learn that
this body, which convened yesterday,
elected L. N. Trammell, of Calhoun
county, President of the Senate, and
Col. J. M. Smith, of Columbus, Speaker
of the House.
We know but little about Mr. Tram
mell, but we speak of that we do know,
when we say the Legislature has acted
wisely in conferring the honor of
Speaker on Col. Smith. He is cool in
judgment, conservative in feeling, pos.
sessed of a strong and well balanced
mind, and with a reputation for integri
ty above suspicion. A se' -nade man,
he will illustrate Repubi institu
tions as administered in tlm itter and
purer days of our countiy.
Official Corruption in Texas.—
Mr. Cobb, Supervisor of Internal Reve
nue for the District of Texas, returned
to Washington last week and makes re
port of his official doings. He states
that he has caused the arreßt or indict
ment of eleven Collectors and Assessors
for alleged malfeasance and rascality in
office. He says fraud and stealing are
common and almost respectable among
officials in Texas, and prevails as well
among State as among Federal officers;
that among the people there the crimi
nal act of an officer is not regarded as
so disgraceful as the lack of ingenuity
and sharpness to prevent its discovery.
The Atlanta Sun stateß that Major
McCalla, of the United States Engineer
Corps, arrived in that city a few days
ago for the purpose of organizing an
Engineer Corps, and entering upon the
survey of the Atlantic and Great West
ern Canal, which is to run from Muscle
Shoals, on the Tennessee river, across
to Coosa; thence up the Coosa and Eto-!
wah; thence to follow the ridge across
the Chattahoochee, at some point north
of Atlanta, and thence to the Ocmulgee,
and to the Atlantic.
Savannah Custom House Matters.
—The Washington Star of the 28th
ult. states that the Treasury Depart
ment has directed special treasury agent
Hale, at Savannah, to take charge of
the Cußtom House at that port, and set
tle up the accounts of the late Collector,
Col. Robb. It says anew Collector
will be appointed on the return of At
torney General Akerman to Washing
ton.
A Chicago Sympathizer. —The Grif
fin Star says that old man Smith, of
Butts ccunty, who lives on the line of
Sherman’s “Grand March to the Sea,”
was called on to subscribe for the relief
of the Chicago people. He subscribed
a hundred bundles of fodder to the cow
that kicked over the kerosene lamp that
burnt np the modern Sodom. We call i
this poetic justice; if not, tell us why, |
shades of Hawthorne, or any other
poick.
A Letter from Houston, Texas, says
a vegetable gardener near that city,
olaimato have made leu thousand dol
lars in one year on fifteen acres of
ground, employing only from five to
seven bands. This beats cotton culture,
even on garden spotß, a long ways.
The Augusta Chronicle says that the
counties of Washington, Burke, Jeffer
son, Hancock, Glasscock, Warren, Co
lumbia, Lincoln, Elbert, Wilkes, Floyd,
Chattooga, and Whitfield, it is Radical
ly alleged, will be put under martial
law.
John. G. Stokes, of Alabama, former
ly editor of the Alabama State Journal,
will be appointed Minister to Brazil.
The appointment has not yet been made,
but was agreep upon last Friday at a
Cabinet meeting.
The residence of Mrs. J. 8. Show
maker,, in Campbellton, Florida, with
its entire contents of furniture and
clothing, was burned on the night of
the 18*4» ult. No insurance
jruist as We Anticipated.
The great plunderer of Georgia,
Rufus B. Bullock, has taken his de
parture from the State. He knew his
stealages would not bear tho scrutiny
of the honest body of Legislators who
assemble in Atlanta to-day, and taking
time by the forelock, resigned and fled
from the State. We trust, however,
this movement will not stay an inves
tigation into his conduct, and all the
other subordinate thieves also, to the
end that they, with the great head
thereof, shall be brought to grief. The
peopie look to their representatives for
a thorough sifting of the financial
transactions of Bullock & Cos. We
shall look for rich revelations, in which
others, mow but slightly suspected, will
be found up to their elbows in Bullock’s
rascalities. It is due to the people ot
Georgia that the Legislature shell the
woods well, and thereby, clear the State
of a goodly number of the remaining
thieves who have been sucking its lito’s
blood for the last three years, and have
grown like Bullock, rich off the spoils
of the victim.
The Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday,
in an editorial on his resignation, says:
Yesterday ended an episode in Geor
gia’s history to which no Georgian will
ever recur with any but feelings of liu
miliated State pride. Rufus B. Bullock
cut short his gubernatorial term by his
own resignation. Whether it is voiun
tary depends upon the criminality of his
acts that made resignation an escape
from impeachment. The people cuu
only put this construction upon his re
tirement. They believe that guilt diove
him from the office, which he obtained
by fraud, which he has disgraced by
crime, and which he left ere his term oi
ignoble incumbency expired through
fear of punishment. His resignation
was made before he left for New York,
and confirms the idea of his conscious
guilt. The discovery of his illegal issue
of railroad bonds must have precipita
ted his abdication. That sudden flight
to New York was significant. The crash
was upon him. He had no time to cover
his illegalities. Will he return ? The
result is good. Georgia is once more
free from his rule. The Radical dynas
ty totters. Through its own rottenness
it is falling. * * * * *
The resignation of Gov. Bullock does
not exempt him from criminal liability
for his illegal use of the public money
or his tampering with her finances.
But that is a question for another time.
Benjamin Conley has been sworn in
as Governor under the following pro
vision of the Constitution:
“In case of the death, resignation or
disability of the Governor, the Presi
dent of the Senate shall exercise the
Executive powers of the Government
until such disability be removed or a
successor is elected and qualified. And
in case of the death, resignation or disa
bility of the President of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall exercise the Executive powers of
the Government until the removal of
the disability or the election and quali
fication of a Governor. The General
Assembly shall have power to provide
by law for filling unexpired terms by a
special election.”
Mr. Conley was President of the last
Senate, and only holds the office until a
successor is elected and qualified. * *
We are informed that Conley wants
and means to hold over for the term.
We do » ot know that it is so. Tho law
is against him, and explicit. The legis
lature can authorize an election. Bul
lock’s resignation will, however, but
stimulate the investigation into this
bond business. Its secrets must be
fearful ones.
From New Orleanes Picayune of Saturday.
l'robable future ofj the Holton .Mar
ket.
The range of prices for cotton con
tinue to rule unusually low, conoidir
ing the position of the Btaple and the
prospects of supplies in the future. The
quotations are not now so high as me
month since, by Jc. or more, though
there has been no material improve
ment in the crops, and the supply of
American pressing on the market has
not been large.
Liverpool, the great authority in the
cotton market, is just now loaded with
East India cotton of last year’s crop,
and prices there are depressed iu
consequence. The low quotations
transmitted from Liverpool to every
quarter of the globe, exercisea a con
trolling influence upon prices in o'bei
markets, and the staple therefore con
tinues to sell at rates which may be
considered as disproportionately low in
view of the present prospects of supply
and demand.
As we have said before, the supply of
East India cotton offered in the Liver
pool and Continental marketß at this
Beason of the year, naturally exorcises
a bad effect upon the American staple
This is more strictly true this season,
for spinners had provided liberal stocks
of American cotton to run in the poor
er grades, and are, therefore, more in
dependent than for years past.
This depressing cause, however, is
but temporary, and will be removed at
an early date, when cotton from this
side of the Atlantic will take their true
position, and the circumstances certain
ly warrant much higher figures than
those which now prevail. The crop
does not promise to exceed 3,000,000
bales, though a late frost might enable
thei planters to save more.
On the other hand, advices from
India are not of an encouraging char
acter by any means. The low range of
prices last season naturally deterred
the ryots from extending the acreage
under cotton, and the planting season
proved very unpropitious. The British
Commission reports that the weather
after the spring months proved too wet
for planting in the central provinces and
Berari, and since the seed has been put
in the ground there has been entirely
too much dry weather, and in many
sections vegetation is being burned up
When these facts are taken into con
sideration and allowance is made for
the increased consumptive power of
Europe this year, the position of the
market appears very strong, and the
conclusion is forced upon us that those
engaged in the cotton trade will have
the advantage this season of operating
upon a rising market instead of a fall
ing one. _
Insurance Matters. Cincinnati,
Oct. 28.—The State Auditor has filed
bills in the Circuit Court, looking to
the dissolution of the Knickerbocker,
Equitable, Garden City, and Commer
cial Insurance Companies—these com
panies being bankrupt. The aggregate
assets of the Knickerbocker, including
capital stock not paid in, is $870,000,
and the lossesaro $750,000. Equitable
assets, not including capital, but in
cluding the capital stock not paid in, is
$330,000, and losses are $3,000,000.
The Garden City assets, not including
the capital stock, are lesßthan $300,000,
and losses $2,000,000. The Commer
cial has ripks to the amount of $15,-
000,000, with assets, exclusive of capi
tal stock, paid and unpaid, to the
amount of $500,000.
Although the Radicals have carried
most of the States this fall, in which
elections have taken place, still they
aeern not in a happy, satisfied condition,
says the Philadelpia Age. In lowa, the
result is seen in the loss of several Rad*
icaf seats in the Legislature, and the
probable election of an opponent of
Harlan and his friends to tba United
States Senate. In Ohio, where the
whole Cabinet was dispatched to stump
in the Administration interest, there is
also au unpleasantness over the Senna
torial succession—Delano wanting the
place, Sherman expecting it, and Gar
field and Schenck worrying them. The
' vultures are fighting over the carcass
NO. 39.
Loyal Thieves.
Washington, October 28.
A special to the Tribune says: “The
investigation, by the United States
Court of Claims into the various claims
against the Uuiled Slates for cotton 1
seized by Government officers during i
the rebellion, brings out some remark
able developments, which tend to throw
additional light on the mystery which
has surounded the sale oi cotton by the
Government agents shortly after it was
seized from tho rebels. During the
war the Government realized from the
sales about $30,009,000, but the exam
ination of the Government agents’
books, and other evideuce which has
been obtained, through the prosecution
of these claims, reveals the fact that
the cotton was worth over twice that
amount. It appears that of the
agents at New York disposed of
the cotton at twenty-nine cents a
pound, when its market value at the
time of the sales was 75 cents per pound.
Some of the agents appear to have
been in collusion with the purchasers,
anil the poorest Kinds of cotton were
shown as samples of the entire lot held
by the Government—tho bidders got
tiDg it by this arrangement at the low
figure ot 29 cents per pound, and sub
sequently selling it at tho market price,
thereby securing a handsome profit,
l’he claimants, however, refuse to base
their claims at a figure less than tho
market value at the lime ot the sale,
and it is feared that the Government
will, in refunding the money for these
cotton seizures, be a considerable losar,
especially now that the British claim
ants stand it chance before the mixed
commission of being allowed some
compensation tor those losses. It is
now known at the Treasury that so veral
of these cotton agents defrauded the
Government out of large amounts of
money. The accounts show this, but
what steps the United States will take
to recover its just dues havo not been
decided upon."
“TUe Grave of Liberty.”
lu view of the dangerous tendency ot
Grant to convert the government into
a military despotism, and upon the
most trivial pretences exercise absolute
power over Stales whoso political syw
palhics are not in accord with his par
ty, it will be instructive to read the fol
lowing prophetic woids penned when
Congress passed the inlamous force bill
clothing me President with dictatorial
powers. Dio Wahrlieit (The Truth) ot
St. Louis, a journal conducted by Dr
Sounescheiu, a Jewish rabbi in that
city, thus alluded to the dangerous
measure at the time ot us passage, and
the linos obtain additional force now
that the acts of the administration show
to what base ends the power then dele
gated is being prostituted:
“It is done. The iifbt half bushlul
aud half audacious attempt has been
made to shake tho edifice ot popular
government to its very foundations.
Tho ditch is commenced which will
certainly become THE GRAVE OF
THE LIBERTY OF THLS COUNTRY
and -ot the best constitution that ever
was, it this attempt should not be
checked by the insight or the superior
power of the people. Had we not read
it every day from week to week in black
aud while, one might take it to be a
bad dream. Senators aud Represenla
lives, appointed as guardians of our
liberties, have deliberated many days
and many nights how they might in
vest the President, the chief guardian
of the rights of the people with imperial
power. Now they have reached their
aim. Indeed, there are only a lew stops
from the law by which the fourteenth
amendment is to be enforcod, to the in
auguration of an undisguised dictator
ship, and from that to unmitigated
Cmsarism there are even less.
“And yet the people of the United
Stctee observe the threatening ruin of
their rights with an indifference, as if
they had lost the understanding of their
liberties, and the consciousness of their
sovereignty, and if we bad returned
to the times when Fne'irians made
and unmade their rulers.”
Rafus Draw*.
[525,000.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 5, 1871.
At sight, pay to the order of the
Georgia National Bank twenty five
thousand dollars. Value received and
charge the same to account of the State
of Georgia.
Rufus B. Bullock, Governor.
To Fourth National Dank, New York
City: October 27, 1871, presented this
to E. L Jones and inquired what it
meant. He said he did not know any
further than it was sent over by the
Governor (Bullock) and paid to one of .
his clerks or secretary.
N. L Ang IKK, Treasurer.
The letter from Mr Lane, the Cashier
of tlie Fourth National Bank of New
Yoik accompanying the above draft,
stated that it was drawn by Bullock to
pay coupons presented at Atlanta.
Treasurer Angier has no knowledge
of the application of these funds to the
public use. —Atlanta Con.
The Otkh Side. —At the annual
meeting of the Columbia Board of
Trade, held last week, speeches were
made by F. Bush, the president of the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com
pany, aud Major Fearce, the agent of
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island.—
Both of the speakers are Northern Re
publicans, and, comparatively, new
comers in South Carolina, but they de
clared themselves delighted with the
warmth of their reception. Mr. Bush
said, “he felt quite a secure, aDd “found
liie in all respects as agreeable, as it
“could be in Massachusetts.” How
dots this square with the statementof
the anonymous correspondent of the
New York Times, who swears that in
numerable perils and privations must
be faced by any person who comes to
South Carolina, and “attempts to live
there in open, yet unobtrusive, loyalty
to the constitution and government of
the United States Charleston News.
Land Owners and Land Renters.
—The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner
tells us how the laud owners in East
Mississippi propose to protect them
s.'lves. It says:
Many land owners throughout the
prairies of East Mississippi, in order to
protect themselves against the rapacity
of Radical legislators, have determined
to adopt the policy in renting out their
lauds next year, ot so wording the con
tracts as to make the tenants pay all
new State taxes that may be levied.
Their idea is, that if the negro renters
insist upon sending men to the Legisla
ture that will oppress the land holders,
they ought to bear the burden. This
plan is likely to work well, for if the
Radicals in the Legislature see that the
negro renters will have to pay the new
taxes, they will be slow to levy them.
Within the past few months, vague
stories, about a prospective alliance be
tween the English trades-unions and
the Tory peers, have come to us from
across the water. Such an alliance
will appear to most people on this side
of the Atlantic as something not very
likely to be seen. But in reality there
is nothing very improbable about such
a coalition between the top and the
bottc.a of Baitiah society. And it
would net be the first time in the
world’s history that such a coalition has
worked successfully. The laborer and
the aristocrat have before joined hands
for the purpose of crushing the class be
tween them in the social ladder.
The editor of the Savannah Republi
can is assured by the medical staff of
the city, that there is no foundation for
the report of the existence of yellow
fever in Savannah.
Contracts for the hiring of Freed
men for sale at the Sun office
OUR SHODDY (GOVERNOR.
The flight and abdication of Bullock
ag Governor of Georgia, is the first ex.
ample of the kind known in American
history. The annals of England fur
nish us with a few cases of self renun
ciation of kingly power; and the Ostra
cism of Greece which was not, as is
commonly supposed, a punishment for
crimes against the State, but was a
lessening of some excessive influence or
greatness of some individual, and never
for centuries, fell upon the mean and
profligate. Abdication denoted guilt—
Ostracism, as in tho example of Aris
tides, was frequently inflicted on a per
son and character too puro for the ago
aud country. Bullock abdicates. He
dreaded the impending justice of tho
self-conscious criminal, and not the
banishment of the noble hero or patriot.
He illustrates that Baying of Solomon :
"The wicked tU>e when no man pur
sueth,” and exhibits less of the courage
of innocence, and more of the power of
guilt, than did Holden, the late infarn
ous Governor ot North Carolina. Hol
den had one virtue linked to a thousand
crimes. He never deserted the devil,
until the devil deserted him, and prob
ably never offered up one sincere prayer
in his life, until driven in disgrace from
a State which was never dishonored ex
cept in the birth aud life of such a son.
Bullock turns traitor to his Satanic
Majesty. lie lifts up against him the
arms of rebellion, and as the last tri
bute, he inure than rivals his late master
in the blackuess aud malignity of his
trump card-lying.
In a document headed Executive De
partment, aud addressed to his politi
cal friends aud the people of Georgia,
published by us on yesterday, Bullock
puts his abdication ou the grounds of
an alleged conspiracy ot the Legislature
and Judiciary against his Excellency.
He says :
“As for mysell being divestod of ofll
cial position, ihe charges of every char
acter which these people are sure to
make and proclaim against me can he
brought buloru the Court, and I shall
never shrink from any ju icial enquiry
that is di vested oi political bias and pre
judice.”
If he is so ready to meet judicial
charges, why shrink from articles of im
peachment V Why should not innocence
be a protection as well before the one as
the other tribuual ? Ho talks, too, of
“political bias and prejudice,” ho being
tho Judge. Well may the couplet,
“No ruguo e'er foil ttie halter draw
With good opinion of the taw,”
bo applicable to our shoddy Governor.
Who before ever hoard of a supposed
criminal evadiug an issue of right and
justice by assorting the ciimos of hiß
legal accusers ? If such an affirmation
was good, then every robber, thief aud
murderer would go un whipped of jus
tice.
Bullock says:
“I am now fully persuaded aud satis
fied thut these men propose to control
the government and reverse the polili
val results of tho past two years, by
peaceful means it they can, or by foul
means of they dare. Failing in this an
other attempt at separation will be
made.”
He charges a foul conspiracy on mom
bers of tho Legislature aud Judges of
the Supreme Court to bring on a revo
lution, and then adds, “with no one in
the Executive office to call upon tho
general Government lor protection, its
friends and supporters would bo hand
ed over, without mercy, to the assaults
of their enemies.”
He first vacates the Executive office,
and then complains that the friends and
supporters of Grant will he handed over
to the tender mercies of their eucmies.
Call you this backing your friends '< It
ia mere Uko a display of valor made by
a certain lame Captain, who told his
men to fight on ! fight ever t but us I
am somewhat infirm, boys, I will run
first—eurte my cowardly legs, but
praise my brave heart! Bullock thinks
like Palsfaff—“The better part of valor
is discretion.” He sticks bis sword
into the dead Hotspurs or “Red Ilots,”
and Hies the battle field. God preserve
tho State from such another bullock, for
this one is of worse breod than the one
a former Governor drove to market in
days of boyhood innocence, before
greatness was thrust upon him, aud
like Justice Shallow, he becamo the
owner of land and beeveH.
Now, what will the Legislature do
about it ?
The Aunual Stockholders’ meeting
of the Montgomery and Eufaula Rail
road was held in Montgomery, Ala.,
on Tuesday last. After the meeting
was organized, Col. Lewis Owen, Pres
ident, in a handsome and feeling
speech, declined a re-election. lie said
he had completed the road after having
been identified with it from its incep
tion, and now desired to retire. Double
daily trains, he stated, were now run
ning and the road was in good condi
tion tor the transportation of passen
gers aud freight aud was doing a pros
perous business. Thu meuting then
proceeded to the election of the new
board, which resulted as follows:
A. J. Lane, of Georgia; G. A. Rob
erts, Mayor of Eufaula; Thos. Pulluui;
Union Springs; R. J. Baldwn, Bullock
county; U. E. Faber, Mayor of Mont
gomery; A. F- Given, M. F. LeGrand,
Wui. Fowler, John W. Durr, O. L.
Mathews, of Montgomery, aud W. J.
Bray, of Eufaula.
At a meeting of the Directors subse
i qucntly held, Goi. A. J. Lane was
elected President, and B. Dunham Su
perintendent.
Resolutions complimentary to Col.
Owen, its former indefatigable Prest
dent, aud Oapl. J. F. Whitfield, late
eflicieui Superintendent, were unaui
rnousiy adopted.
Frost. — i he first frost of the season
fell here on yesterday morning. The
weather turned cooler on Saturday
night, and remained pleasant anil, clear
all day Sunday. On Sunday night the
mercury in the thermometer fed still
lower, and yesterday morning the air
was decidedly cold and nipping. Early
risers saw a little Irost, and tomato
vines, etc., showed very plainly the
touch of old Jack. —Augusta Chronicle,
Foit Columbus.— A strong delcga
tion from this city left ibis morning to
attend the Columbus Fair, which open
ed to-day. The crowd wiil have a pleas
ant and interesting time, as there are
no more hospitable people in the world
than those of Columbus. Much of the
fine and fast stock that has been on ex
hibition here will go over this evening,
together with not a few of the sports. —
Macon Citizen , 31sf.
Astonishing Cures.— Some of our
cures have been so astonishing that such
journals as the New York “Herald,’’
“Tribune,” “Times,” "World,” and
“Bun;” the Boston “Post,” Philadel
phia “Chronicle,” Cincinnati “Enqui
rer,” Chicago “Tribune,” St. Louis
“Republican,” and journals Horn all of
the leading citios, have not unfrequent
ly made it a matter of public comment
and notoriety, and thus voluntarily ad
vising their readers when afflicted with
loss of appetite, constipation, liver
complaint, cholera morbus, etc., to take
nothing but Plantation Bitters,
and such good wholesome food as the
palate indicated would be relished.
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TO FKIWTKIMi.
In order to make room for new type,
we offer for sale the present type (about
1,000 pounds) on which the Bun is
printed. If taken In bulk will sell at
25 cents per lb.