Newspaper Page Text
UOLUMBUS:
THURSDAY SOBHIH6, DEO. 21.
Official Vote of Muscogee Coun
ty—Total Vote 1178.— The following
are the full returns in the Gubernato
rial election of Tuesday, to fill the un
expired term of It. B. Bullock:
There were polled at Columbus, 1081;
at Upatoie, 52 ; at Nance’s, 15; at Steam
Mills, 18; at Bozeman’s, 12. Total in
the County 1178.
Hon. J. F. Smith received all the
votes cast.
Bennett Crawford, Esqr. J. P., Judge
John Quin, and Capt. Charley Klink,
were general managers, by whom the j
returns have been consolidated and sent
to Atlanta.
Considering there was no contest, the
vote of this county has been unusually
large.
In the county 98 negroes voted.
Death of Dr. D. A. Reese. —Dr.
David A. Reese died at the residence of
his son, Frank M. Reese, Esq , last
Saturday, in the 78th year of his sge.
He was born in Mecklenburg county, i
N. C. His father was a soldier of the
revolutionary war, and his uncle one of
the signers of the Mecklenburg Declar
ation of Independence, which preceded
that at Philadelphia by five years.
Then he removed to Monticello, aud
married there. He represented Jasper
county in the State Senate for several
successive terms, was a Trustee of the
State University at Athens for nearly a
quarter of a century, and in 1853 suc
ceeded Hon. A. H. Stephens as the
Representative of the7ih Congressional
District in the United States House of
Representatives at Washington—Mr.
Stephens, by a chaDge in the county
composition of the district, taking the
Bth, so long represented by General
Toombs. In politics be was a Whig.
He removed to Russell county, Ala.,
during the war, and since has resided
in that and Lee county. Hewasbuiied
in the family cemetery, on the Alabama
side, near West Point.
The Firemen Exemption Law.—
The law as passed and approved by the
acting Executive exempts sixty mem
bers ot engiue, forty of indepeudeut
hose, and fifty of hook and ladder com
panies. In January of each year, the
Secretary of each company must report
in writing to the clerks of the vatious
courts in his county the full names and
companies of the members each compa
ny desires to have exempt from jury
duty as active members of the organi
zation. The law also exempts the offi
cers of each fire department, to wit:
one chief, two assistants, one secretary
and one treasurer. In case of death oi
resignation of any member whose
name is on the exempt list—before the
2d Wednesday in January in each year,
his place on the list may be supplied by
any othersolected by the company, and
his name reported to the clerk of the
court by the secretary. These provis
ions apply toad the companies now or
ganized, but the total number exempted
shall not exceed 200 in towns and cities
of less than 10,000 inhabitants; 300 in
cities of not more than 15,000 nor less
than 10,000 inhabitants; 400 in cities of
not more tbau 20,000 nor less than 15,-
000 inhabitants; and 000 in cities ot
more than 20,000 inhabitants. All com
panies now organized are entitled to
recruit up to the full number allowed by
the provisions of this act.
Cotton in Interior Towns —The
following shows the net receipts of the
following interior towns from August
3lstto December 15th, respectively, for
the years 1870 and 1871 :
1870. 1871.
Augusta 98,498 77,905
Macon 61,170 32,249
Columbus 41,930 23,407
Eufaula 19,204 12,601
Montgomery 51,627 36,166
Selma 44,886 35,784
Memphis 187,041 164,419
504,356 382,591
This statement shows a decrease of
121,965 bales from last year’s receipts
from the seven principal interior cities,
in fourteeu weeks. The port receipts
for same time aie over 250,000 bales lees
than last year.
Western R. R. of Ala. —Change
of Schedule. —By to-day’s advertise
ment we notice that there will be two
daily trains to Atlanta and Montgomery.
Leave here at 7.50 a. m. Arrive at At
lanta 5 00p.m. Leave at 9.00 p. rn.
Arrive at Atlanta at 5.55 next morning.
Leave for Montgomery at 11.30 a. in.
Arrive there 545 p m. Leave at 9.00
p. m. Arrive at Montgomery 635
next morning. This is the New York
route, via. Va. & Term. Air Line Ex
press trains.
Sudden Change in Weather. —To
Wednesday morning, two o’clock, the
atmosphere was comparatively warm —
so much so that rain was confidently
predicted. About that time a heavy
gale of wiud arose, and the temperature
in an hour or two became as cold as it
an iceberg had floated by. Yesterday
was clear and blight, and the wind nip
ping to ears and noses. Good fighting
and exeiciso weather.
Fresh Water I’kout.— Tho New
Jackson, from Apalachicola, brought up
another lot of fresh water trout. They
are preserved in tanks and arrive as
lively, fresh and fat as a fish ought to
he. Arrangements havo been made to
supply our raaiket with them. Several
hundred are txpecteu by the next boat.
Weekly Sun Clubs. —Wo have
lately received many Clubs from differ
ent sections, varyiug trorn five to
thirty copies. Those desiring to secure
the Weekly Sun for 1872, at a less
cost than four cents a copy, or ev< n
three cents, should firm Clubs imme
diately. See terms.
In the fire review at Montgomery the
other day, the new steam engine recent
ly purchased by the city at a cost ot not
less than six thousand dollars, started
a seam in her boiler by which in a tew
seconds time she was rendered a mere
wreck so far as present usefulness is
concerned.
The well informed correspondent,
Onslow, of the Augusta Chronicle, as
serts that B. H. Hill is the adviser of !
Conley, and not Judge McCay, as is
generally supposed. Hill leads an iso
lated life in Atlanta, and goes about as
a man with the face of his brethren and
society upon him.
Hon. Gideon J. Tucker, formerly edi
tor of the New York Daily News
and for six years Surrogate of the city
of New York, has resumed the practice !
of the law in that city.
Col. James McAdory, one of the most
prominent citizens of Middle Alabama,
died at his residence near Jonesboro, in
Jefferson county, on the 2d iust., in the
69th year of his age.
The Montgomery (Ala ) City Coun
cil has elected ten white and six colored
policemen.
The Weekly Son for 1872 only
Two Dollars. Renew your subscrip
tions without delay. .
Gx-Uov. Brovin anS Ihsoc sooley
The letter of ex-Gov. J. E. Brown in
reply to Seeley’s proposition to chal
lenge the votes of negroes on account
of non-payment of taxes, is another
scathing exposure of Radical trickery.
It will be found on our first page, and
we would direct the especial attenliou
of our readers to the conclusion of the
letter.
Rats instinctively leave a rotten house
or ship. Joseph is one of your old,
slick-tailcd, quick-eyed, grey nosed ro
dents that can tell the difference between
roasted cheese and ratsbane a mile off
What he fails to see or hear, he is apt
and sure to smell out. He is hard to
trap and is certain to beat a retreat just
before the house falls, or the ship sinks
He is sly, sir!
The ex-Governor now sees, not
“through a glass darkly,” that the
house built by the Radical Jacks is a
"■goner." It is unable to stand the
strain any longer. It is sinking to its
fall from inward rottenness. We would
not be surprised if tbe ex-Governor
would soon come back to bis first love
full of bows, and smirks and wreathed
smiles. There is no telling what such
a popular suitor may do in the end. 11
may be told at first, in words familiar to
old bachelors —“I like you as a fneDd;
almost like a dear brother—but ! but!
don’t insist any further !’’ Now we do
not waut the ex Governor to go off mad,
let him not be discouraged but pick
his flint and try again, and probably tbe
Democrats may ba at last as weak as the
frail fair one described by Byron, who
“swore she wouid ne’er consent, and
yet consented.” Probably brother Hil]
could be persuade 1 to follow in the foot
steps of his illustrious predecessor, and
then lor Uhristuras, we would hail a
political millennium when the old Dem
ocratic lion would lie down with the
stray iambs, and a little infant—say
Gov. Smith—shall lead them by still
Waters aud pleasant pastures.
From tLe Washington Patriot.
IKMPEK Or THIS N«UIH.
Letter from lion. Henry IK. llilltard, of
Georgia.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 10, 1871.
To the Editors of the Patriot:
Gentlemen: My attention was calleu
some days since to a paragraph iu ti e
Morning Chronicle whicn classes me
with those gentlemen in the South v. ,■■■
are still disposed to resist the Govern
meet, or, iu the language, ol the article
referred to, “who relußO to submit in
good faith to the reconstruction acts ”
Without giving an elaborate state
ment ol my views, I shall only say that
the Chronicle does me injustice, it
does so unintentionally, I do not doubt
I certainly do no. approve the polii y
which has been adopted by Congress in
regard to the South. A more generous
course would have pioduced better re
sults. Rut Ido recognize the acts re
ferred to as laws de facto , without enter
ing into tbe question of their constitu
tional validity, nor have I ever approv
ed the rash couuselß which would disre
gard them, so long as they continue t >
be recognized by the several dpartmt nts
of the government, including the Judi
ciary. In my judgment, a tree g vein
rnent must be administered by treating
the proceedings of iia legislat.vedepart
ments with respect. If these proceed
ings are conducted in an unwise, sec
tional, and illiberal temper; if the acts
which receive the formal sanction of
the Legislative and Executive Depart
ments are even in flagrant, violation
of the Constitution, still they must be
respected as actual laws until they i re
repealed, or set aside by the pro, or
tribunals. To claim for the citizen ilie
right to apply the test of his judgm in
in evtry act ot Congress, is to inveite
an authority which would set all law at
defiace. This is not only my peiso, al
opinion, but it is the sentiment ol a
very large pioportion of the people >f
the South. Those who represent the
Southern people as restless insurgeu s
watching for i»o opportunity to resist
the Government, either do not compie
hend us or they seek still to hinder the
progress of that broad, generous, pa
triotic spirit which would effect a ti.ee
reconciliation between the people of
the two great sections of the country
so lately ranged against each other
under rival banners upborne by brave
and true men on both sides. So 1< ng
as the people of the other sections
of the Union are made to dis
trust the people of the Sou'll,
they will give their support to
those measures that are a reproach to
free government, and that threaten i's
existence every day. Therefore, n >
effort is spared to excite this distru ';
and it is tbe vocation of some journals
to represent the Southern people m
opposed to law and order.
The truth is, the tranquility of ■ u
people, under the most provon
wrongs, is the most striking prooi ■>(
their confidence in the ultimale triumph
ol the great principles of constitute', ,1
liberty Look to England in the ti e
of the First Charles. But we can aw ait
the sitady and sure triumph of i <*
spirit ol liberty. A young noblert n
urged Louis XIV to confer some ap
pointment upon him when that monarch
was advanced in years. “ No,” re
plied the King impatiently, “you shall
never have it while 1 live.” “ Weil,
sire,” said the young gentleman, “ 1
can afford to wait.” A great people
may well hope to see their liber i g
survive the away of misguided men
who have risen to authority by seizing
the extraordinary powers of the Gov
ernment plunged into a war between
the States, which for years threatenel
its existence. Let us be denounced be
cause we assert our confidence in i tie
final triumph of free principles.
Those who know me are well ac
quainted with my atrong attachment to
the institutions of the country. Before
the war, and since its termination I
have beeu known as an unswerving
friend of the Union of the States; hut
I certainly desiro that they shall he
pure STATE 9
Henry W. Hillard.
Important Railrod Bill — Through
to Chattanooga—Lookout Mountain ii.
11. Company. —Hou.-C. C. Cleghorniias
succeeded in gelling possession of west
is known as the Mark Hardin Char:, r,
which calls for Stale aid for $15,090
per mile from Kingston to Chattanooga.
This charter has been so amended that
tue road can eouboiidate with the Rome
road, North and South, and Memphis
Branch or any other road running into
Rome. By this arrangement it is prob
able that we shall be connected by , sil
before long with our friends at Suai
merville.— Rome Daily Commercial
We are iuformed that this enterprise
will be put under contract at once. The
President of the Trion factory (who it
is thought will be President of the com
pany) has subscribed $50,000 cash, and
other, liberal subscriptions, already
secured will start the work without
delay.
The most casual observer can see by
examining any good map of Georgia
that this road, although through a
mountainous country, will take the
valley. Actual surveys have demon
strated that it can be constructed very
cheaply.
usorgls l’ress Convention.
Atlanta, Dec. 15, 1871. —In accor
dance with a resolution adopted at the
last session, a meeting of the Georgia
Press Convention is called to assemble
in Atlanta on the second Wednesday in
January, 1572, for the transaction of
important business. The attendance of
every member of the press is earnestly
desired and requested.
John H. Christv, President.
W. G. Whidby, Recording Sec’y.
The cotton manufacturing lords of
Lawrence, Lowell and Fall River have
determined, it is said, to discharge their
present operatives in their mills and
supply their places with the “heathen
Chinee,” who will work for ten cents a
day and bean soup. This is the way
they protect American labor.
1 GEORGIA NEWS
Blodgett, during the year 1870, paid
$21,062 50 to attoroiea for fees in State
Road cases. Twenty-one thousand dol
ars paid out in a single year to keep
*he legal machinery of the road run
ning !
Benator Norwood was to have left
Washington yesterday to spend the
holidays at his home in Savannah. Go
hie admittance into the Senate and after
the usual oath had been administered,
Vice President Colfax took the new
Senator by the hand and bade him
welcome. From the Democratic sice
of the House, Mr. Norwood received
the warmest congratulations. He is
the first Southern Democrat admitted
into the Senate since the war.
Atlanta is to have a City Judge after
January. Term of office four years,
salary $2,500 per annum, and elected
by the Mayor and Council. In couse
i quence an Alderman can’t walk half
a square without being invited to lake
something by three-fourths the lawyeis
of the town. Some of them waylay
the Aldermen as they come out of their
doors in the morning so as to get ahead
of their competitors.
The following counties are reported
as giving the votes named for Smith:
Bibb 1,030; Warren 345; Baldwin 650;
McDuffee 350; Burke 307; Sumter 070.
Macon. —l,ll9 votes polled for Smith
—l7 of which were by negroes
Macon wants a gymnasium and literary
society.
Macon.— B. F. 4 Bell, at present Ordi
nary of Sumter county, has been ap
pointed United States Revenue Collec
tor for this (the 2d) district, with head
quarters at Macon.
Savannah.— U. S. Courts have ad
journed until the first Monday in Feb
ruary The Formes - Habelmann
Grand Opera Troupe played Faust
Wednesday night.
Savannah. Smith received 2,015
votes.... Mr. Charles .Van Horn haß
purchased Mr. W. E.,Rutherford’s fine
Bainbridge mare, Lucy The guano
dealers have formed aproteciive union.
Those in arreas are to be reported by
January 15tb, and no dealer is to sell
to them except on cash or city accep
tance. They ask State Inspector to be
very vigilant, so as to remove spurious
articles from the trade. The union is
known as the “Fertilizer Dealer’s Pro
tective Association of Georgia.” Col.
F. W. Sims was unanimously elected
permanent Chairman, and Chas. Pratt
permanent Secretary ot the Association.
....In the District Court Friday, iu
the caße of the United States vs. Wil
liam Kryzanowski, the recognizance on
two indictments were forfeited, amount
ing to SIO,OOO. Geo. Marshall, Win.
Hone, Julius Peter, and .Robert Wag
genstcin, of Macon, sureties.... The
dredging in the river has increased the
depth of water from 11 to 17 feet at
some, and 7 to 15 feet in other places
at low tide. The work is going on.
Savannah.— The following have
been elected officers of the Savannah
Fair Association:
President—George and. Owens. First
Vice President—Judge William Schley.
Second Vice President—Octavus Co
hen. Treasurer—E. Mclntyre. Direc
tors—Wm. M. Wadley, Jno. Scroveu,
J. B. Read, Dr. W. 8. law ton, Henry
Taylor, Geo. W. Wylley, A. M. Sloan,
E. Lovell, T. Arkwright, S. W. Glea
son, Sol. Cohen, C. R. Goodwin, Jos.
Lippman, Jno. W. Anderson, A. 8.
McArthur, C. W. Brunner, R. N.Gour
din, Dr. E. Parsons, Dr. L. G. Thomas,
J. W. Lathrop.
Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany—Meeting of Stockholders. —The
annual meeting of the directors of tho
Central Railroad and Banking Compa
ny was held in this city yesterday.
The condition of the road, which is
certainly one of the best managed in
the country, as reported, proved most
satisfactory to its stockholders. The
Central is one of the greatest con
tributors to the commerce of Savannah,
and its officers are ever on the alert to
make such changes as occasion may
require, not only to farther their own
interests, but to advance the prosperity
of our seaport. While Savannah holds
her own in receipts relative to the
amount of the entire crop this year, it is
conceived that, by the strong and wild
competition of air line roads in carrying
cotton at reduced rates, double the
amount goes to Norfolk as heretofore.
This state of affairs must considerably
reduce the profits of the stockholders, if
not remedied, and consequently we
learn that the President of the Central
Railroad favors a reduction in the rates
to meet the competition of these cheap
air line roads.— Sat >. Ad.
The sixty-third meeting of the Work
ingman’s Mutual Loan Association was
held on the 19th, when six thousand
dollars were sold at 28a29 percent, pre
mium.
Atlanta.— The Atlanta Era says
that the United States authorities there
have official information that the de
tachment of United States troops near
Jefferson were fired upon by Ku-Klux
on the 2dinst., that about forty rounds
were fired by the attacking party, and
that the soldiers returned the fire. The
bullets riddled tho tents of the troops,
but owing to the darkness no one was
injured Mrs. Busbee made a despe
rate effort to commit suicide last Sun
day evening by hanging herself. Her
husband had abandoned her and was
living with another woman Last
year City Council expended $91,000 on
streets Smith received 1,103 votes,
Adkins 1 and Rough Rice 1 J. D.
Waddell, Clerk of the House, was pre
sented by subordinate clerks with a
dinner and tea set Mrs. Moulton
concertized to crowded houses
Haight’s circus in the city Bright
Evans of Rabun county, J. W. Neely
of Hall county, and Ramsey of
Habersham county, charged with illicit
distilling, had a hearing before United
States Commissioner Smith, and were
bound over for their appearance for
trial at the next term of the United
States District Court The most bril
liant social event of the season was the
marriage, in the Central Presbyterian
Church, of Mr. T. J. Phillips to Miss
Evie, daughter of Judge J. A. Hayden.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
J. S. Wilson, D. D., pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Geo. Schaf
ter, formerly of Columbus, one of the
attendants.
Atlanta —Mr. George Sparks, who
I has served his time of nine months in
! jail for illegal distilling, was discharged
Wednesday. Mr. Parks is from Murray
county... .Parties in London are to ad
: vaace money, so report says, to build
the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad.
Road to pass through Miliedgeville,
crossing the Central in Johnson county
and pass through Emanuel J. Skiles,
Deputy United States Marshal, was ar
rested Wednesday under a warrant from -
Dade county, for the false arrest of Mr.
McKenzie Nicholas... .Fulton county
gave 1,828 votes for Smith; Taliaferro
county 247 The Formes-Habelraann
Opera Troupe will begin an engagement
at DeGive’s Opera House, on Wednes
day, December 27th instant.
The Constitution prints the following
copies of telegrams which explain them
selves :
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7, 1871.
■Dr. Charles Evans: National adminis
tration desires candidate run for Gov
ernor. Atkins agreed upon. Telegraph
to-day names willing to sign letter to
him.
(Signed) H. P. Farrow.
To Co>. 11. P. Farrow, Atlanta: Sir
Atkins has no influence, less intellect.
Bullock stripe, bad egg—won’tdo at all.
Run Markham first, Duning second.
Both are capable and honest. Will:
write to-night.
(Signed) C. S. Evans.
Atlanta. —Rev. Andrew J, Beck
was married on Wednesday, to Miss
Octavia WarreD, daughter of Rev. E.
W. Warren, the officiating minister.
....Ben Hill denies he is Conley’s ad
viser, has met him only twice, endor
ses Smith highly, and is non-committal
on the elect! a act Conley has paid
SI,OOO to a Mr. Taylor, of Baltimore,
as agent tor inspecting the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, and making a re
-1 port preliminary to the State’s endorse
ment ot the bonds, and informed that
Mr. Taylor has further charges for the
same amounting to $2,500 The Con
stitution wants to know why the com
peieut Superintendent of Public Works
was not employed.
The Sun has the following:
$38,000— Perhaps.— Some days ago
we stated that we were informed that
Dr. Sam Bard had filed a petition
in bankruptcy. We learn since that
the petition was fiied by Mr. Jno.
S. Nall, formerly Business Mana
ger of the “True Georgian”—so
called, who is endeavoring to force
Dr. Psalm into bankruptcy. We be
lieve Mr. Nall has considerable claims
against him, which ought to be paid;
for Jos Nall has served the Doctor
faithfully.
Augusta. —The police statistics cf
Augusta show a total of 1598 arrests in
1871 against 1332 in 1870 and 1391 in
1860. The homicides are 11. Burg
laries 6.... H. E. Wolfe stabbed Peter
Pardue in the side with a pocket knife.
Wound dangerous. Causs, Pardue had
reported Wolfe to the Mayor for disor
derly conduct... .Colored graveyard
haunted by aa animal bearing the sem
blance of a dog, but whose head was
one mass of lurid flame. Groans “in
fernally.” White man and negro saw
it at 9p. m. Disappeared in a second,
Augusta.— Smith received 954 votes
Messrs. J. A. Hook, Madison and
Kelley, aud an Alabama gentleman,
report they had their pockets picked of
S2OO on the train, between Huntsville
and Atlanta—suspect four men and a
woman.
We find the following communication
in the last Dahlonega Signal:
Blairsville, Ga., Nov. 30, ’7l.
Our community was aroused on last
Thursday night by the sudden and un
expected appearance of a squad of men,
who represented themselves as belong
ing to the United States army, in the
upper portion ofChesier District. They
proceeded, on their arrival, to arrest
and handcuff a number of our best citi
zens, without producing any warrant
or authority whatever—confined them
in a miserable place, which they have
established sinco they came here—
which they are pleased to term a pris
on, but use it for no other purpose than
to extort hundreds of dollars from our
peaceable and law-abiding citizens by
threats and intimidation. They refused
to allow them even the semblance of a
trial, but forced them to pay the enor
mous sum of $l5O each, in cash, or
spend twelve months in prison But
how many men are there in this county
that can be found who have the required
amount? They have two hundred and
fifty names on their list (so they say).
Some of the men could not pay the $l5O,
but could manage, by selling the last
cow they had, to pay $10; this they
readily accepted, knowing as they did,
that they were going right contrary to
the laws, and making plunder their sole
object. They did not object to a small
amount. They got something like
$2,500 out of that district.
Rome. —The Commercial of Tuesday
says:
Trouble Affair near Rome—A Negro
Fiend and his Antics. —Dock Williams,
a negro living at Col. H. W. Dean’s,
has developed terrible traits iu the last
day or two. He ravished his step-daugh
ter, beat his wife very cruelly, threat
ened to kill her, did strike her over the
head and leave her for dead, and then
ran to Alabama. On Sunday he came
back to Dean’s, and Dean arrested him,
and locking him up in the smokehouse,
put a fellow negro to guard him, in
tending to send him to Judge Perry as
soon as possible. The negro called for
water, and while Dean was getting it
for him the negro threw a brick at him
striking him in the eye, probably knock
ing the eye-ball clear out, and certainly
inflicting a terrible wound; the negro
then jumped on Dean and attempted to
get his gun, when another negro rushed
up and seized him. In the scuffle Dean
got possession of the gun, and shot the
negro through the back. The fellow
was then overpowered, and brought to
jail, where Dr. Holmes dressed his
wound. Mr. Dean is in a terrible con
dition, and will suffer a long time.
Bainbridge.— Two Radicals, Wil
liam Hatcher and Williams have been
arrested at Bainbridge, charged with
killing a negro, on the plantation of
Sam O’Neal. They were dieguised.
The negroe’s little son was accidental
ly burned to death, after the father had
been mortally wounded.
Sparta.—On Tuesday, while he and
his wife were absent, the residence of
Mr. Wm. Dickson was robbed of $5,000
in specie. A negro, Rustin Warren,
from Charleston, was arrested, who had
slßl 25’ in specie. All the rogues
arrested.
LaGrange.— Rev. O. A. Stanley,
Episcopal minister, has left his charge
to take the pastoriate of the church in
Pulaski, Tenn Dr. R. A. T. Ridley
died Wednesday morning. He was
born in Granville, North Carolina, in
1806, graduated in Chapel Hill, came to
l Georgia in 1828. He was a prominent
1 physicianpand citizen. He has repre
-1 sented his county several times in the
Legislature.
| Athens. —The prize medal for the
i best declaimer in the Sophomore class
j of the State University was awarded
I by the Faculty to Mr. Sam P. Sparks,
lof Athens. He declaimed the extract
known as Hayne’s “South Carolina
during the Revolution.”
A Good Man. —Col. Sam’l G. Jones,
formerly of this place, but now of Ope
lika, Ala., is well known as a man of
: sterling qualities, and recognized
j throughout the South as a distinguished
civil Engineer and a thorough going
railroadman. For more than a quarter
of a century he was prominently identi
fied with the railroad interests of this
State and Georgia. For several years
past he has been President of the Sa
vannah and Memphis Railroad, and to
his untiring energy and skill, the public
are indebted, for the brushing away the
debris o? the war, which for a long time
threatened to throttle the enterprise.
Lately it was intimated to him by
capitalists who had become ioteresieu
in the work, that much ol their ability
to readily obtain the supplies of money
in the abundance necessary to a speedy
finishing the work, depended on having
at the head of affairs of the Company a 1
President who could be mostly at the
North, who was personally known to
the parties furnishiug money. He
promptly replied that he was connected
with the enterprise to build it, and not
merely tor the honor or emoluments of
the Presidency, and that any thing
which would push the enterprise should
be done without regard to himself. At
the next meeting of the Board of Di
rectors, he stated the case to them and
resigned the Presidency, although his
term had not half expired and he and
his friend’s could control the election.
Instances of this sort are so rare,
no w-a day b, that at the risk of offending
the modesty of Col. Jones, and without
asking his consent, we have thought
proper to relate the fact as it has been
related to us.
Col McAnerny, as we stated yester
day was elected his successor—and a fit
man for the place he is. Col. .Tones re
tains his position as Chief Engineer,
which he has been filling for some time
in addition to his duties as President.
With such officers the 8. &. M. R. R. is
bound to succeed. — Mont. Adr. 20th.
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 22.
Jail Breaking in Russell County,
Aalabama— Eight Prisoners “Va
moosed”—Two Captured. —On Weda
nesday, at 8 p. m., eight negro prison
ers escaped from the Russell county
jail, at Seale Station, Alabama. The
house is a small wooden affair, lined .
inside with iron; has two cells, the
doors of which must be opened to give
inmates food.
Wednesday afternoon, aa the jailor,
Mr. Jas. Waddell, was carrying the
prisoners their dinner, and just as he
had opened the door, the negroes went
for him. They floored him, disabled
his arm, and otherwise inflicted severe
injuries. He “revolvered” three times
but his shots missed. The rush was
made by two desperadoes, who had shot
Mr. Halliday, and been arrested the day
beiore by Sheriff Ware. The sheriff
was at Glennville, twenty miles away,
at tbe time of the occurrence.
After the first surprise was over, pur-j
suit was made, but only two of the fugi- i
tives were captured. One was shot at
three limes before he would surrender.
The six negroes who escaped, it is
thought reached Columbus that night.
Our officers had better look out for
them, as it is expected a large reward—
probably SI,OOO to SISOO —will be of
fered for their apprehension by the
Governor of Alabama.
Among tbe fugitives is Jake Borum,
who killed Mr. J. Zurkowsky. Another
i3 under sentence often years imprison
ment in the penitentiary.
In the affair we have heard no blame
attached to the sheriff or jailor. The
former officer has several limes called
the attention of the County Commis
sioners to the condition of the prison.
A Cowardly and Brutal Robbe
ry.—Oa the 15th of this month, (last
Friday) Mr. Americas Haliiiay, who
livtsal Hatchechubbe, Ala , left home
to coliect some money. He came back
by tho old Battle plantation, and stop
ped to warm. Some persons concealed
in the darkness fired at him. The shot
entered his head. When he became
sensible he found himself lying under
a house. His pockets had been rifled.
He daggered to negro quarters, but the
inmates refused him admittance. He
found strength to totter to the residence
of a white man who gave assistance.—
Since the occurrence, he has had few
lucid moments, and has not been able
to state of what money he had been
robbed. The shot mostly lodged in the
side of his head. The doctors think his
recovery doubtful, or if he lives, that
the sight of one eye will be gone.
Sheriff J. T. Ware arrested two ne
groes, John Thomas and Powell, who
are charged with being implicated in
the affair. They were among those
who escaped from Russell county jail
on Wednesday.
Elected Professor of the Uni
versity of Georgia.— The Trustees,
on the 19th, unanimously elected Mr.
C. P. Willcox, of this city, Professor of
Modern Languages in the University of
Georgia, located at Athens, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of
Prof. M. J. Swead. He is one of the
most cultivated men in this country.
Having received a complete collegiate
education, shortly after his marriage he
went to Europe and, at Berlin, estab
lished a school for American youths
desiring to learn languages. There and
at the other Capitals of Enrope, he
spent fourteen years, we believe. He is
a brother of Mr. D. F. Willcox, Secreta
ry and Treasurer of the Georgia Home
Insurance Company. He speaks and
writes fluently a number of languages.
The trustees have made a good choice.
Central Railroad Money.— Some
of this money (about $4,000,) has been
paid to the employees at this point.
To avoid the U. S. law, we suppose,
they are made payable in passage on
the trains. As they are received on de
posit at the banks, just like greenbacks,
and the large merchants are taking
them readily, of course there should be
no difficulty about the circulation. The
Central Railroad Company, with mill
ions of capital, is certainly responsible
for a few thousand dollars. The bills
are well executed and resemble those
issued by the Central Railroad and
Banking Company before the war. If
any wants very badly to exchange them
for greenbacks they can be accommo
dated by calling on Dave W. Appier,
cashier of S. W. R. R. at this point.
Cold as Ice.— Yesterday was ;one of
the nice freezing days. We didn’t wake
up to examine, but some gentleman,
who was “taking it straight,” told us
the thermometer was so low down he
couldn’t measure it. It was too far be
neath him to notice. We had just such
another cold snap last year. A feller
i nearly froze then, but now he’s past
| that. Wood has gone up as high as a
j tree.
■ <•» -
Dr. Jesse Boring.—ln a note in the
Atlanta Constitution, he says : “I was
on the train from Columbus to Opelika,
which was standing within ten or fif
teen feet of the passenger depot, and
stepped carefully off' from the steps, in
doing which I .was precipitated eight
l or nine feet, to a rock bottom of a
j chasm, which could not be seen (there
was no light at the place) and thus my
leg was broken.” He is now at his
home in Atlanta.
Married. — The only event in the
social world yesterday was the mar
riage of Mr. T. B. Slade, jr., to Miss A.
Cowdery. The happy pair left on the
Macon train. We congratulate our
friend on his success, and wish to him
and his fair bride every happiness.
Election Returns. —They come in
very slowly. At Hamilton, Harris
county, 153 rotes were cast; at Talbot
ton there was nearly 200. Impossible
to get people out unless thero is an op
posing candidate.
Plantation Renting.— The Wool
folk Bend place, one of the finest on the
river, was rented for the ensuing year,
at Ellis & Spencer’s auction Wednesday
for $1,460 to E. Sims Banks.
The Secretary of the Treasury
and his “Syndicate.” —The Ways
and Means Committee proposes to in
vestigate the operations of Mr. Bout !
well’s syndicate.
In this connection, the New York
Herald of Wednesday has a long arti
cle exposing the operations of the syn
dicate, and suggesting the impeach
ment of Secretary Boutwell.
The Charleston Courier’s New York
correspondent says that it is the general
belief of leading financial men in New
York that a crash is coming after the
holidays, when balances will fall due
and the full effect of the Chicago dis
aster aud Tammany frauds comes to be
felt.
Political Disabilities. —U nle s s
crowded off by other business an effort
was to be made in the House on last
Tuesday to suspend the roles and pass,
without debate, a bill to remove all the
political disabilities imposed by the i
fourteenth amendment. It is claimed .
that more than the required two thirds
vote can be obtained in the House.
PREACHERS, EDITORS, LAWYERS.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 16th,
publishes a phonographic report of an
interesting discussion in the Senate, on
the collection of taxes on newspapers.
Since then the acting Governor has giv
en authority to the Comptroller Gener
al and the collection of tax on printing
presses &c., has been suspended until
the meeting of the General Assembly
on the 17th of January, 1872.
The Press was ably defended by
Messrs. Hillyer, Simmon9 and other
Senators and the suspension of the tax
on newspapers, was opposed by Judge
: Reese and others. In reply to the
statement that newspapers are educa
tors of the people, Judge Reese is re-
I ported to have said: “Why, sir, I
' maintain before this Senate that the
i lawyers of the State do far more to in
| culcate industry, peace, order and good
morals among our people. I will not
say more, but as much as the freach
; ERS.”
This is a high eulogy on a profession
which once in theory, commanded the
noblest faculties of the mind and exer
cised in practice, the cardinal virtues of j
the heart. Every occupation that con
duces to the “peace, order and good
morals” of a people is honorable, but to i
determine the respective merits of this
or that occupation, we must know the
individual character of each and how, as
a whole, it stands related to others.
We are free to admit that every pro- !
session has its white and black sheep,
and that if all lawyers were equal to
Mr. Reese in integrity and ability, then
the law would be venerated by all. He
acted nobly in relusing to administer
civil law under military duress, and
rather than fail, to do his duty as a Judge
should do, he surrendered his commis
sion. How many of his brethren fol
lowed his .sample?
Mr. Reese, speaking ol Bullock’s ef
forts to subsidize the Press, says: “He
was after their f ivor. He wanted them
to publish testimonials to his worlhi
ness to be Governor. He wanted their
influence. Thai was what he was alter,
and nothing else ”
High as may be Mr. Reese’s praises of
lawyers, he manifests, perhaps uncon
sciously a higher respect for tho pow
er of the press. Supposing the two pro
fessions equal in wisdom and virtue, he
•represents a corrupt political authority
actively bonding to aud courting the
press and its influence, while the legal
profession needed no such appliances
to make it swerve from independence
and self respect. Many of the members
courted a power they knew to be cor
rupt, in order to obtain or hold offices
which could be only had and retained
by the sacrifice of all tbe wiser convic
tions of the mind and all the generous
emotions of the heart. In acting so,
they gave countenance to a tyranny
that suspended the writ of habeas cor
pus and destroyed or weakened the tri
al by jury which the eminent
French author of “Democracy -in
America,” declared was the great
educator of our people and the greater
English jurist, pronounced the only bul
wark of English liberty. Time and
posterity will decido which of the two
professions is entitled to most praise
in stemming the current of a corrupt age,
the one that rejected and resisted temp
tation to evil in obedience to duty; or
the other that clung to wicked power
until pushed from its official stool.
Lawyers have generally trod firmly the
rough and thorny road that leads to the
home of Liberty, but editors have been
the pioneers that blazed the path, and
if true to themselves and professions,
will always prove the power behind the
throne greater than the throne itself—
the Warwicks of every enlightened na
tion, the pullers down, and setters up,
of Kings.
Charles O’Conor on the Political
Trials in South Carolina.—S. P.
Hamilton, attorney at law, Chester, 6.
C., writes to the Columbia (S. C.)Phoc
nix to say :
“When the military arrests commenc
ed in the county of York, I wrote to
Mr. Charles O’Conor, of New York, to
ascertain whether or not it was possible
to secure his valuable services to defend
those unfortunate men confined in jail.
It was stated in my letter, among other
things, that it was well known that
many, if not a majority of those incar
cerated were entirely innocent of offence
against the law, and that his great abili
ties would be mainly invoked to shield
such from improper conviction. I also
said that aDy compensation in reason
would be at once subscribed to obtain
his attendance at the trials. I have ta
ken the liberty, without his sanction,to
publish his short reply.”
Mr. O’Conor’s letter, dated from the
Attorney General’s office, New York,
October 31st, is as follows :
“My Dear Sir—One man cannot do
everything and be everywhere. God
knows I mourn over the calamities and
oppressions your people are suffering,
and look with inexpressible grief at the
woes which threaten them in the proxi
mate future. But I cannot aid you;
nor do I know any one in this region
who is both able and willing to do so.
“I could wish that when any man
thinks of soliciting my action in a mat
ter of this sort he would not offer pecu
niary compensation. But Ido not re
j proach you. Men as good and earnest
| as I can pretend to be are, of course,
compelled to accept such rewards.
“I am, dear sir, yours truly,
“Ch. O’Conor.”
“ The President’s recommendation of
amnesty,” says the Boston Traveller,
“ was a surprise to Congress, and was
received with general satisfaction.”—
What was Congress so surprised at ?
Was it that a man, while overriding the
South with his janizaries, should be
putting on the cloak of magnanimity ?
or was it because he is only now pre
tending to take the first step in the
measure which, six years ago, from his
own personal observation, he recotn
mended as so feasible and necessary
that Charles Sumner had to call him a
whitewasher for it ? World.
The Labor Reformers of New Hamp
shire are in the field with a ticket and a
platform, which stand a good chance of
indorsement. New Hampshire has
seventy thousand votes, and they are
very evenly divided between the Re
publican and Democratic parties. The
Labor platform is a strange jumble. It
demands civil service reform, squints at
unlimited expansion of currency, pro
poses the abolition of National banks,
and opposes the “Heathen Chinee.”
Indiana has one editor who is thor
oughly content with tuis world and ns
belongings. Indeed, he is inclined to
“brag” stiffly of his comfortable situa
tion. He says: “The editor iB now in
the possession of the prettiest and the
smartest daughter in the State, the
handsomest and most intelligent wife in
the State, the fastest and best horse in
the State, the beat pig in the State, he
prints as good as anybody else does in
the State, and in this state of affairs he
s happy.
Peter Cartwright, the pioneer Metho
dist, used to be annoyed by a noisy but
not over pious sister, who would go ofl'
on a high key every opportunity she
got. At an animated class meeting one
day the surcharged sister broke out with,
“If l had one more feather in the wing
of my faith I could fly away and be
with the Saviour.” “Btick in the
feather, O Lord, and let her go,” fer
vently responded Brother Cartwright.
Purifiction by fire seems to have done
the Chicago Radicals very little good.
The newspapers charge that several of
the sub-officials just elected by the Al- '
dermen of that city were obliged to pay
money to secure the coveted places. Os
course they did it since they now tell
of it themselves.
telegraphic.
foreign.
Sandringham, Dec. 20.—The Prince j
of Wales had a quiet night, and of
course remains in a favorable condition
satisfactory to his physicians.
London, Dec. 20. —Heenan threat- i
ens’the News Company with a libel
suit for connecting his name with the
voucher robery.
London, Dec. 21.—The Prince of
Wales gradually gains strength.
Dr. Gull will be made a Baronet, and
Dr. Lowe will be Knighted.
Paris, December2l. —Anew Cabinet
has been formed. Sagosta is President,
and D’Blas Minister,of Foreign Af
fairs. The Government will now move
for a dissolution of the Cortes.
Sandringham, Dec. 22.— Tho Prince
of Wales was less quiet last night, but
his general condition is unchanged.
London, Dec. 22. Parliament is
prolonged to February 6th.
Van Beust presented his credentials
from Austria to Victoria, at Windsor.
The Empress Eugenie has arrived
from Spain.
Madrid, Dec. 22.—The Ministry un
der the lead of Sajos took the oath of
office.
London, Dec. 22.—The Pall Mall
Gazette has a special from Windsor
stating that accounts from Sandring
ham are not so favorable. The pulse
of the Prince of Wales is higher, and
considerable anxiety is felt at the Castle.
Earl Ellenborough, formerly Gov
ernor General of India, is dead—aged
80 years.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Dec. 20.—The delega
tions of the Daughters of Cuba called
upon the President. The report was
very satisfactory. Sumner and Banks
attended the interview. They received
many promises of consideration after
the holidays in Congress.
The Surveyors of Distilleries, three
hundied and sixty in number, have
been discharged. The functions were
heertofore performed by Assistant As
sessors.
Nomination. —Geo. B. Brown Asses
sor of 4th Virginia District.
Senate.—A resolution allowing the
Entrenchment Committee to hold its
session in New York, was adopted.
Davis offered a resolution directing
the committee to make enquiries cover
ing tbe whole ground of the alleged cor
ruption.
Edmunds objected.
Morton wanted the resolution adopt
ed.
The resolution went over.
Robertson called up the House Am
nesty Bill.
Buckingham, Chairman of the new
Entrenchment Committee, spoke ad
versely, and thought Mr. Davis and
others should be hanged.
Adjourned.
House.—Nothing important.
Washington, Dec. 21.—A report to
the Senate regarding Cuban matters,
show instructions to naval officers to
protect American citizens, and to throw
no obstacles in the way of escaping Cu
bans, who, upon reaching American
bottoms, are to be protected.
Senate—Anthony elected President
pro tem.
Sumner introduced his one term
amendment. It don’t effect the next
term.
Information asked regarding Bamana
Bay, from the Committee on Retrench
ment, with power to send for persons
and papers.
A resolution admitting Goldthwaite,
from Alabama, went over with the
morning hour. Sherman objecting, said
that Goldthwaite had been elected by
members of the Legislature, some of
whom were seated by fraud and vio
lence and others were disqualified.
Amnesty resumed.
Morton’s amendment invalidating the
election of Senators or Representatives
now claiming scats, was adopted.
Upon Sumner’s motion to include his
Supplemental Civil Rights Bill, objec
tion was made that Sumner’s bill not
only required a majority, bat also the
signature of the President, whereas, the
amnesty required a two thirds vote, but
not the signature of the President.—
Sumner’s amendment was rejected with
out action on the bill.
Senate adjourned.
A large number of amendments were
proposed and lost, Morton’s being the
only one adopted.
House.—General debate. Adjourned
to the Bth of January.
Washington, Dec. 22. —The Presi
dent’s father is better.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Fu1l Cabi
det, except Robeson.
Reporters arrived hore from Annapo
lis to spend the vacation of Court, ex
press their opinion freely that the pros
ecution has failed to make a case against
Mrs. Wharton. Conviction is highly
improbable.
NEW TORE.
New York, Dec. 20.— N0 arrests last
night.
The Grand Jury was called this morn
ing, on important information, by tho
foreman.
A Herald special says it is suspected
that the statement of the case by the
United States before the Commission,
lost in November, fell into the hands of
the British, who used it to the disad
vantage of the United States.
The Times says it is evident that
Mayor Hall has friends among the
Grand Jury who, step by step, fight the
indictment of Hall.
A meeting of the committee of 70 re
solved that they had not changed their
views; that Mayor Hall and William M.
Tweed should resign. The committee
had entertained no compromise.
Mr. Collender, National Bank Exam
iner, has been arrested, Charged with
receiving $75,000 from the Ocean Bank.
The funeral of Henry Tucker to-day
attended by many literary mourners.
The remains were taken to Boston for
interment in the family vault.
Eighteen persons have been added to
medical staff to fight the smallpox.—
Williamsburg closed to travel as it is
infected.
New York, Dec. 21.—August Bel
mont, in a card, denounces the Times
as false and calummoua iu several al
lied s associating him witn the corrupt
ness.
Jacob Nevar, negro, was committed
at Trenton, for attempting to burn the
City Hall.
The ear bearing *Aiexis was thrown
from the track on the Grand Trunk
Road. None seriously hurt.
Dave Drew succeeds Tweed as Direc
tor of the Erie Road.
A Herald's special from Matamoras,
dated Dec. 20th, says American inter
vention is confidently expected. Texas
representatives are requested to favor
intervention.
Canalvo is threatening Mier. Corte
na’s allegiance to Juarez is doubtful.
Martinez is moving on San Luis, and
Navarjo on Bacalros. Valdez, who
recently pronounced at St. Carlos, is
marching toward Montery.
The arrival of a steamer with funds,
from Tampico, is expected. Unless
the funds arrive, a pronunciamento here
is probable.
South American letters report forty
shocks of earthquake in nine hours.
At the town of Oran the streets opened, j
and every house was tumbled into
ruins.
A volcano has burst forth in the pro- j
vince of Jujury.
Further subterranean commotions
along tho line of Andes are apprehend
ed.
New York, Dec.— The sugar case,
United States vs. Wild Company, com
promised.
Fisk’s judicial troubles are too com
plicated for the telegraph.
Turbull & Son, cheese and butter
dealers, failed; expected to pay thirty
cents.
Sickles and wife have arrived.
The Grand Jury examined Mayor,
Hall to day.
Seven cases of small pox yesterday
at noon.
Judge Bedford was exhonerated of
the charge of defrauding the city Treas
ury.
Jndge Blatchford, in the U. S. Cir
cuit Court, to-day delivered the decis
ion in favor of executors G. W. Good
man, of Alabama, against the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Company.
The company refused the policy of
$5,000, on the ground that several pay
ments on premiums were due. Claim
ants contended the company by with
drawing agencies from Alabama during
the war prevented Goodman’s paying
premiums. Blatchford decreed for the
claimants with costs, the company to
be credited for unpaid annual payments.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, Dec. 20.—A resolution
impeaching Gov. Scott is pending.
Bowen spoke two hours, declaring him
self terribly in earnest, and meant to
impeach the guilty State officers.
Seratim stated that Scott confessed to
$22,000,000 fraudulent bonds, and with
in three days State Treasurer Parker
defied the Legislature to proceed against
him, because of legislative corruption.
Bowen, in order to obtain certain
two-thirds, moved to postpone the im
peachment resolution until after Christ
mas recess. If a full House rejected the
measure, Bowen would resort to the
courts, and pledged himself to assist,
with evidence aud other means, in or
der to secure the conviction of the Gov
ernor and other guilty officials.
It is rumored that Scott, admitting
his conviction by the Legislature, will
resign.
Charleston, Dec. 21.—1n the Ku-
Klux Court to-day, the defense intro
duced testimony to show that threats
of whipping and cowing the whites pre
ceded the outrages upon the colored
population.
A number of indictments were pre
sented by the Grand Jury, who were
discharged till next week.
In the Legislature to day the Gover
nor’s friends tried to force a vote on the
impeachment, but were defeated. This
is regarded as a great victory for the
impeachers.
Columbia, Dec. 22. Gov. Scott,
with a view of preventing the postpone
ment of the vote on impeachment, sent
a message to the Legislature this morn
ing covering a proclamation convening
that body in extraordinary session at
noon to-morrow. The Governor’s sup
porters then prevented a vote on a mo
tion to strike out the resolving clause of
the impeachment resolution. The mo
tion was finally carried at one o’clock;
yeas 63, nays 32. This defeats the im
peachment. Then came another proc
lamation from the Governor revoking
the proclamation issued a few hours
previous, and the Legislature, at three
o’clock, in pursuance of tho concurrent
resolution passed last week, adjournod
until January sth.
In the Ku-Klux trial to-day, Mr.
Chamberlain closed the argument for
the prosecution in the case of White
sides and Mitchell. The Jury is now
out making up a verdict.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Dec. 20.—A man lurking
around where the Express robberies
took place in Union, Tenn., killed a
policeman and wounded another, but
subsequently the lurker was caught.
Disguised men broke open the jail and
killed the Express robber, Levi Farm
ington, and the lurker, who is named
Scoller, from Kentucky.
Memphis, Dec. 21.—A person who
is the last escaped from the lake village,
heard the screams of women and child
ren whom he saw rushing down the
levee.
The sheriff of the county has applied
for Federal troops, fearing the colored
militia would fraternize with the insur
gents. Every white, able to abtain con
veyance, has left the county.
The Governor of Arkansas sent his
Adjutant to the scene, but in the mean
time the republican and conservative
cit'zens have united in a petition for
regular troops.
VIKGIXU.
Richmond, Dec. 21. The Senate
passed a House resolution staying tho
funding of the Stato debt. Goes to the
Governor.
The police raided seven faro banks.
It is tho first interference since the war.
They made a clean sweep.
Martin Alley, who killed Robt. Pitte
way two months since, was convicted
to-day of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to 18 years in the peni
tentiary.
Richmond, December 22.— Tho Sen
ate voted unanimously for the resolu
tion petitioning Congress to pass the
amnesty bill. Both Houses are discuss
ing the payment of the January interest
on the Stato debt. It will probably be
paid.
MEXICO.
Matamoras, Dec. 20.—The insurgent
sympathizers here, stimulated by the
occupation of Burgos by the revolu
tionists, may commence hostilities at
any moment. The occupation of Bur
gos is by a small force. There is a rev
olution in tho State of Tamaulipas.
MARYLAND.
Annapolis, Dec. 20.—Dr. Williams
testified that at the request of the State
authorities he had, on last Saturday,
disinterred Ketchum and brought away
his liver, one kidney, spleen and six
inches of intestines.
Annai'Ol.is, December 22.—-The Court
adjourned to Tuesday. No new devel
opments. Mrs. Whortou’s servants
have been summoned by both the prose
cution aud defence.
siissoimi.
St. Locis, Dec. 22—The Govern
ment Commissioners appointed to ex*
amine the completed sections ot the
Missouri, Arkansas anil Texas Railroad,
in the Indian territory, report it first
class in every respect. The bridge
across the Kansas river is nearly com
pleted, and iron will soon be laid to the
Canadian river.
C&UIOBNM.
San Francisco, Dec. 22. —Heavy
rains and high winds throughout the
State. Merchants lose heavily by the
delay in the delivery of their Christmas
goods from the East, and threaten to
aue the Union Pacific Railroad.
ILLINOIft.
Chicago, Dec. 22.—Two drunkards
froze to death last night.
ALABAMA,
Mobile. John Anthony Winston,
ex Governor of Alabama, is dead. ]
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Dec. 20 H on
Morrissy sues John Kulgroe » . '
nent capitalist of this city, f or
advanced at special request of Vi 1
on debt of honor. V 1 Wt
The steamer America, heavily i
ed, is bound near here with ice
Cincinnati, Dec. 21.— IXh, 1 Xh,
dent’s father, the Covington v"'
Postmaster, is paralyzed. Ha fell ■'
postoffice, and was insenaiblefor) 0
but has revived.
Cincinnati, Dec. 22 The
Supreme Court decides that it
stitutional for Cincinnati to 6 p ( u " 1
million dollars for Southern rai rl "
Weather at zero to 14 degrees b e °2
The river is frozen over at sev
points for the first time within s M '
years.
PENNSYLVANii.
Mount Carmil, Dec. 20.—Tt t . ■
works here have been destioyed '
Philadelphia, December 21 p
pie cross the Delaware on ice, opn oi '!
the city,
Pittsburg, Dec. 22.—8a1e &c 0
engine and machine shops burned
The hotels aud a great part o f.
business portion of Pleaßantville, i olll '
oil region, burned. Forty
homeless.
MANNAUHUNKTTS.
Boston, Dec. 22.—Tbe lato F e d et|l
Attorney General has been employ
j to assist in the prosecution of Bright
i Young aud others.
Heavy snow on the plains. The (t .
verest weateer in many years.
ARUANNAN.
Little Rock, Dec. 22,-a. I
meeting has been called to consider j|. [
fairs in Chicat county, by persons of all I
colors, and to consult the Governorici
other authorities, as to what is best t |
be done.
INDIANA.
Terre Haute, Dec. 22.— The null I
express and baggage cars, Irom India t [
spoils hither, this morning, burned u [
Seelyville.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, Dec. 20.— Heavy eao» [
prevails in tbe mining canons. Con. |
munication difficult.
Salt Lake, Dec. 23.— The widow® I
Dr. Robinson is coming from San Fin 1
cisco to testily in the case of tho alleged I
murder of her husband.
CUBA.
Havana, Dec. 21.— Dr.
has been awaiting trial at Cienfuegei,
for aiding the rebels, has been eentcnc
ad to eight years in the penitentiary,
CANADA.
Toronto, Dec. 22.— 1 t is very cold
throughout the Dominion, vuryingfton
1G to 60 degrees below zero
ALABAMA NiLB'S.
At the annual meeting of the stock,
holders of the Vickßburg and Bruns,
wick Railroad, held in Eufaula on the
13tb, four fifths ot the stock being rep.
resented, the following named genlle
men were elected Directors for the en
j suing year: E. S. Shorter, W. 11. Buy,
I L. F. Johnston, H. D. Clayton, W.
Clark, B. Morris, H. C. Russell, B. li.
I McKenzie, Jno. Gill Shorter, Thomis
Cargile and W. H. Crenshaw; and au
meeting of the Directors held eubae
quently, Hon. Eli S. Shorter was re
elected President, and J. M. Macon.
Esq., Secretary and Treasurer.
A Presbyterian Church wan organ
ized in Troy on Saturday last, the result
of the recent labors of Rev. Mr. Foster,
l the Evangelist. Prof. I). P. Hurley
i and Mr. E. C. McCaskill were elected
elders.
The grateful little unfortunates of till
the Talladega Asylum for tho Deaf,
Dumb and Blind, as a testimonial ol
their appreciation of the services ren
dered them by Dr. A. N. Worthy, of
the State Senate, made with their ovn
hands, and presented him, a cane work
basket and table, a gift for which that
gentleman gracefully tenders his thanks,
in a communication addressed to the
presiding officer of the Institution oi
which they are inmates.
The Episcopal congregation in Union
Springs have secured tho use of tho
Masonic Hall as a place of worship, at
which place divino services will be held
twice a month, by tho Rev. D. B. Wad
dell, beginning next Sunday.
The jury in the case of W. It. Bugg,
who has been on trial Jn Montgomery,
Ala., for the last three days,on the
charge of murdering his brother in-law
at Robinson Springs,in Augusta county
last Spring, returned a verdict, at midi
night Wednesday, of murder in the
second degree, and sentenced the pris
oner to imprisonment iu the Peniten
tiary for twenty-five years. Tho jury
was composed of nine whites and three
negroes.
Finances in Montgomery, Ala.-
The following is a summary for the
fiscal year, ending December Ist. Re
ceipts $151,794 57; expenditures $141,•
298 20 ; balance $10,496 37; bills dm
and not paid $2,909 20. There will he
dueon January lst„February Ist and
March Ist, $33,020. laconic to October
Ist, 1872, $106,285. Bonded debt of
city, $538,000, of w hich $500,000 is for
railroads, duo in 1888; aesots $658,600,
as follows :
Stock in S. &N. R. It., $467,000;
stock in M. & E. R. R., $100,000; stock
in gas company, $1,600; real estate
$70,000; wharf and magazine property,
1,400 feet river front, $20,000; total,
$658,600.
LaFayktte, Ala., Items.— There
has boon stolen from a safe, in La
Fayette, $3,000, a goodly portion of
which belonged to the school fund o!
Chambers county. A small portion
was the property of private individuals.
The money was stolen under the very
noses of tho people. There aro suspi
cions, says tho Reporter, but no certain
ty as to the guilty parlies Mr. Thos.
W. Greer, the School Superintendent,
who placed the money in the sale, the
Reporter says, is responsible for all
school monies received, and will no
doubt replace tho amount stolen, oven
if he has to do it from his own pocket.
Rents hate advanced 50 to 100 per
cent. The demand for dwelling houses
exceeds the supply.
Mr. J. W. Bachelder, one of the
earliest settlors of La Fayette, died on
the 14th.
The New Attorney General—
The new Attorney Genera] is a native
ol New Vutk, and wan horn in l' s -"'
He was admitted to the bar in 1844, an!
settled in lowa, where, three years l»Wi
he was chosen Judge, aud tu 18>2 w ß ’
a Democratic Presidential Elector, an
made Chief Justice of Oregon by Presi
dent Pierce, and continued by -^ r
Buchanan. He resigned in 1858. H e
took a leading part In the Constitutions
Convention of the Slate, joined the He
publican party in its earliest days, *u |j
i was rewarded for bis efforts by an ulet; '
tion to the United States Senate for the
term commencing March 4, 1805, with
the Thirty-ninth Congress. Her® he
introduced the bill passed for the nii >
tary reconstruction of the Southern
States, and that to regulate the tenure
of-ofllce, which was dually passed ovei
Johnsou’s veto. He belonged to lh*
important Committees of the Judiciary
und Finauce, aud list February was
appointed one of the five American
Commissioners to consider matters in
dispute between this country and LnR
land, by whom the Treaty of Washing
ton was framed.