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A Remarkable Loom.— We have
heard much of the celebrated Abel Weft-
Thread Loom. Yesterday, Mr. Rob
son, of the general agency, had one on
exhibition at the Eagle and Phenix
Manufactory. It is certainly a marvel of
ingenuity, and evinces the rapid prog
ress the 19th century is making in the
science of mechanism. A number of
practical manufacturers examined its
workings, and all have declared their
admiration. It will readily turn out
300 yards of cloth in ten hours, and it
is said the capacity can be increased to
500 yards. It will manufacture ten
yards while the common loom is ma
king oae. The Latest the latter ever
makes in practice is fifty two yards per
day. The running is easily under
deratood, and the management readily
acquired. By altering the needles car
pets can be made upon it, shirts knit,
bags woven, and every species of cloth
produced. The loom is not much lar
ger than an ordinary sewing machine
and creates as little noise. The con
struction is entirely of' iron. Its mo
tion is that of weaving and knitting
combined. There is no dressing, beam
ing, spooling or warping; no use for
harness, reel or shuttle. Borne eight
ordinary processes are avoided. We
do not know enough of machinery to
describe it. We only know iliere is a
system of needles arranged around a cir
cle of iron, and that every revolution of
this, makes an inch and a quarter of
double width cloth. The yarn is taken
from bobbins arranged around a frame
which forms a part ofthe machine.
Yesterday, it was producing woolen
cloth. Itwoiks as well with cotton.
The fabrics seem to be of the best tex
ture. We advise all who would wit
nessed something, which is destined,
perhaps, to revolutionize the business
of manufacturing, to go and see its
operations.
TnK late Mayor Morton —A W ish
Fulfilled. — A former well known
resident of Muscogee writes as follows
to a friend in this city: “I saw in
some newspaper that an ex-Mayor of
Columbus by the name of Morton had
died suddenly in Savannah. Is it pos
sible my old friend J. L. Morton is dead.
When last in Columbus he and myßelf
had achat about death, and ho express
ed himself that ho did not want to
break down by degrees; he did not
want a wheel to break down in one
mud hole, and another in the next one,
but when it came to his time he wanted
to drop down all at once.” Ex-Mayor
Morton, it may be remembered, died
suddenly at Savannah, two hours after
his arrival by steamer from New York,
in, it was thought, improved health.
What H. P. Farrow Says—How
the Radicals Went Back on Adkins.
—Card writing appears to be the fash
ion. Farrow writes a juicy one. We
give its substance.
There was a caucus Radical meeting
hold at the capitol to nominate a candi
date for Governor. ‘‘That meeting,”
says Farrow, “was composed of such
men as ex-Governor James Johnson,
lion. John 8. Bigby, Judge J. R. Par
rott, lion. Madison 8011, Col. R. L.
Mott, and a large number of other gen
tlemen from ..different portions of the
State, who have been inji.no way con
nected with the Bullock ring, and whose
interests are identical with the interests
of tho people of Georgia. A series of
such meetings were held, which re
sulted in a partial reorganization of the
party, the resignation of Foster Blod
gett as Chairman of the State Central
Committee, and the actual nomination
at one time of Hon. James Adkins for
Governor.” Adkins declined making
the contest, Farrow says, because the
Rads wouldn’t take the field for him,
and a belief in the unconstitutionality
of the Election Bill, and tho shortness
of time; but as anybody of common
sense knows, he refused because he
knew defeat was certain. Farrow de
nies they intended to run him secretly.
That's mere pure stuff. The copies of
telegrams published by this paper two
days ago shows what Farrow thought
of Adkins.
Farrow adds his party is preparing
for the contest in 1872. We are glad of
it. We will beat him snd all his ilk
overwhelmingly.
He claims many Democrats, not
naming them, have had more to do with
Bullock’s stealings than the Rads; that
honest (?) Republicans opposed Bul
lock. That rogue paid round sums to
Farrow for fat fees as State Road Attor
ney, though he was Attorney General,
and Farrow never said a word.
Farrow says the true Republicans
didn’t approve Bullock. Who ever
beard of it befere?
Farrow can have no more pickings—
hence his card, and going back on Bul
lock, the man who gavehim powerand
money, and now he puts up such a
cry of honesty. Pouf, its too late to
run that card.
Sensible View. —Matrimony is be
ing extensively contemplated. It is a
good thing in its way. An old song
gives the following advice :
Whenever yon marry, Croesus saiil,
Marry a ridh widow or maid;
The wife, you know, may turn out ill,
But,gad, tho money never will.
Tuts Charter Skouhrd —The char
ter for the “Merchants and Mechanics
Sauk of Columbus” has been secured.
The act of incorporation lias passed
both houses. Conley has signed it, and
a certified copy obtained.
Weekly Sun Clubs. We him*
lately received many Clubs from differ
ent sections, varying from five to
thirty copies. Those desiring to secure
the Weekly Sun for 1872, at a less
cost than four cents a copy, or even
three cents, should form Clubs imme
diately. See terms.
Special Telesram to the Morning News.
(<«uerel Neburz to Otter atu Amsnil.
■uent to the Amuesly hill.
Washington, Dec. 24, 1871.
Senator Schurz will offer a substitute
to the Amnesty bill, now pending in
the Senate, after the holiday recess,
providing for general amnesty without
any exceptions.
Gen. Bristow is another of those who
are deserting the sinking Radical ship,
lie endeavored to resign as long ago as
last lall, but Grant would not let him.
Gen. Bristow has now resigned per
emptorily.
VOL. XIII.
THE COURSE OF TIME.
This is that season of the year, that
point on the dial of time, at which we
are apt to pause and compare our pres
ent with our past, and draw lessons for
the future. Life is like a river. The
wild deer can scarce slake its thirst at
the fountain. It here and there receives
a tributary and makes its way, Binging
as it goes, amid glittering sands and
pebbles, and catching the odors of vio
lets and roses. It at length thunders
through mountain gates, or spreads
itself until vast navies ride securely on
its bosom, freighted with the treasures
of the world. Its course is still onward
—it takes no step backward—its flow is
like the Euxine, straight forward with
out ebb, toward the Bosphorus. It min
glcß and is at last lost in that mass of
ever rolling waters whose depth and
extent can never be sounded or meas
ured.
If we could once again pass over the
traveled road of life, how would we be
improved in wisdom, and profited by
our past failures, disappointments and
errors ! How much of sin and folly and
affliction of mind and body we could
avoid ! Each season but prepares us
for the next. Spring brings its flowers,
Bummer its toils, Autumn its fruits and
Winter closes the scene, it may be with
the bright fires of Hope burning in our
bosoms,or the snows and storms of Des
pair beating pitiless on our naked
heads. Much of our destiny is in our
own keeping. It power, fame, pleas-
and honor, (all to be desir
ed)", are our only aim and objects, then
our fruition will end with time, they
are of earth, earthly; but with minds
attuned to diviner harmonies than
flesh can comprehend, as we approach
the great ocean of eternity, every run
ning brook will be a sermon, every
river will bring to us tributes of wisdom,
richer than sands of gold and pearls,
until the fearful roar of the mysterious
deep will murmur a symphony sweeter
than the music of the spheres and known
only to the pure immortals.
Ntupplux tlio Ball.
The Columbus Sun, in commenting
upon our recent allusion to the alleged
fact that the Democratic Senators
at Washington had written a letter to
Gov. Vance advising him to return his
credentials as Senator to the North
Carolina Legislature, and allow them
to select some other man who could get
the scat, commends the pluck of that
Legislature in “stopping the ball of
tyranny at the first flop”—that is, by
electing Gov. Vance. That was stop
ping the ball with a vengeance. Tyr
anny, with ample power to enforce its
edicts, decreed that only a specific class
of men should hold office in its do
mains. This was the ball they set roll
ing. Straightway a body of legislators
selected as their representative in a
high station one of those very pro
scribed class. This was stopping the
ball, according to the Bun. That kind
of stoppage works worse than a boom
erang, if we are any judge of such
things.
The above is clipped from the Macon
Telegraph. The Telegraph first de
nounces the amendment which makes
Gov. Vance ineligible as “odious and
illegal,” and then says the Legislature
of North Carolina acted with “double
distilled stupidity” in refusing to recog
nize what it considered “odious and
illegal” tyranny. This is the logic of
the Telegraph.
The Legislature that elected Gov.
Vance impeached Holden; and this,
too, in the judgment of some prudent,
“practical” Democrats was another
piece of Red Hot “double distilled stu
pidity.” Contrary, however, to the
opinions of these “forcible Feebles,”
the spirit exhibited has become so pop
ular that may be even Grant will feel
its power.
There is only this little difference be«
tween the North Carolina Legislature
and the Telegraph. The first, believed
that the ball of tyranny acquired
strength and velocity at every revolu
tion when unchecked; the second,
thinks it politic to step prudently aside
and let it slide. The one considers
that duty demanded opposition to acts
“odious and illegal;” and the preser
vation of liberty was worth more than
a mere passive sacrifice, sometimes
called policy or “masterly Inactivity.”
The other, perhaps with more philos
ophy and less danger, imagines it best
to lie flat when, the bails of tyranny are
flying around. The one, to us, embod
ies the spirit of those who brought
Hastings to kneel at the bar and trem
ble under the denunciations of a Burke;
the other thinks if you fool with a
mule’s hoof you may get a kick. Even
Grant, mule as he is, has come over to
the North Carolina way of thinking, as
is seen from the following extract from
his late Message:—
I do not see the advantage or propri
ety of excluding men from office merely
because they were, before the rebellion,
of standing and character sufficient to
be elected to positions requiring them
to take the oath to support the Consti
tution, and admitting the eligibility of
those entertaining precisely the same
views, but of less standing in their
communities. It may bo said that the
former violated an oath, while the other
did not. The latter did not have it in
their power to do so. If they had taken
S that oath, it cannot be doubted they would
have broken it, as did the former class.
Blank rwrtridgeu.
The Atlanta Era devotes over a col
umn in eulogies on the Whig party. If
this is not a “dead issue,” we wish
someone would tell us what a “dead
issue” is. We were a member of the
Whig party; attended it in sickness; set
up with the corpse; and was a mourn
er at the fuueral. It was a good, honest
and intelligent party while it lived, and
went regretted by millions to the tomb.
Radical proscription, military suprem
acy over the civil laws, and the attempt
to destroy local government, alienated
it forever from the G ant dynasty. It
is satisfied with its labor and fame. It
seeks no applauses or rewards. It is
simply dead as a party, aud to breathe
into it the breath of lito would be as im
possible as to storm Gibraltar with blank
cartridges, or make an Egyptian mum
my dance a quadrille with Horace Gree
ley. Let no one tread roughly on its
ashes!
No Doubt ok Its Authenticity.—
The following “regret” to the Yale
Thanksgiving dinner, published in the
college Courant, carries marks of au
thenticity upon its face:
Executive Mansion, f
Washington, D. C., Nov. 25, 1871. j
Gentlemen: I am, much to my dis
appointment, obliged to decline your
invitation to the jubilee. One of my
horses is ill, and I should hardly feel
warranted in being absent at so critical
an hour. There is also a fair prospect
of anew gift of a house, which I would
not like to miss. Admiral Poter or
some of the Dents may come. Y’onrs
truly, U. S. Gbant.
Pease & llis Wife, European House,
Atlanta, Ga.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEDNESDAY MORSIBO, DEC. 27.
A Night of Blood—Two Men Killed,
One a Policeman, and a Third Per
haps Fatally Wounded.
Monday night Policeman Charles
Barrow, a captain of the force during
the administration of ex-Mayor Cleg
horn, was killed by Mr. George Lay
field. Barrow was 47 years of age;
Layfield is about 22. The latter is
lately from St. Louis, where he has
been employed, and is a brother of Mr.
J. M. Layfield, the well-known baker.
The coroner’s inqueßt elicited the fol
lowing : Layfield was in I. G. Strup
per’s establishment very noisy and
showed a pistol. By request of Mr.
Btrupper, Policeman Barrow arrested
him. By him and W. 8. McMichael,
one of the extra force, Layfield was be
ing carried to the guard-house. Police
man B. told him he did it unwillingly
and would use his exertions to turn
him loose. Arrived at his brother’s
bakery, Mr. Layfield attempted to
enter. Barrow caught him. Layfield
drew his pistol and fired four times.
Barrow had caught the weapon in his
hands, endeavoring to take it away.
One ball struck him in the forehead,
glanced and entered the top of the
skull; another his mouth and passed
through the base of the brain. Bar
row was carried to his home and died
several hours after. He was buried
last afternoon, the regular police force
acting as pall-bearers. He was a good
and reliable officer. For awhile he
was a member of the Confederate
army. #
Layfield escaped to Alabama, Police
men McEachren and Foran arrested
him there. When taken he did not
know Barrow was dead.
The Coroner’s Jury returned a ver
dict that deceased came to his death
from the effects of shots of a pistol in
the hands of George Layfield.
The shooting occurred at lOj o’clock
Monday night.
Another Homicide.— Between 12
and 1 o’clock the same night, at the
bagnio of Ella Lee, on Oglethrope
street, Aleck McDonald was shot dead
and James Anderson Grace or Robert
Payne was badly, perhaps fatally,
wounded by Milton Malone. The af
fair occurred in the parlor in the rear
end of the house. McDonald and
Grace have other names. The former
was here last year concerned in a
Dollar store and sporting establishment.
They had on their persons over SI,OOO
in money, a SI,OOO gold U. 8. bond, a
gold watch, diamond pin and ring.
Both were ‘sports.’ McDonald hailed
from St. Louis, Grace from Cleveland,
Ohio.
The inquest showed jthe two men
were in the room first. Mr. Malone
came in afterwards, with two friends,
whose names we do not mention, be
cause they had nothing to do with the
shooting or the entire affair, except as
pacificators, and are now at liberty.
It would seem from all the evidence
that the Western men were the
women’s favorites, because they had
most money. From not courteous
words, they proceeded to harsher ones.
Grace first drew a pistol on Mr. M.
The latter came out of a bed room,
when McDonald, with insulting words
that he or his friend could whip any
rebel, &c., colared Mr. M. and ordered
him to leave, and at the same time sud
denly put his hand behind, as if to
draw his pistol. Mr. M., who before
had stated he came not for a difficulty
but for fun, on the instant drew his
weapon. Grace fired at him. Mr. M.
fired at McDonald, the ball ciushing
through his head and killing him in
stantly, and then shot at Grace. The
ball entered his stomach and glanced
around. His chances for recovery are
good, it is reported. Grace then at
tempted to fire. A cap snapped. The
second ball, or the first one, went
through Malone’s coat and lodged
there.
Mr. Malone went to Sheriff Brad
ford. He and his two friends were ar
rested by policemen. The two friends
were released yesterday morning. He
remains in custody at the Court House.
The investigation will take place to day.
The dead man and the wounded were
at the bagnio yesterday to 1 p. m.
The Coroner’s Jury simply gave a
verdict that deceased came to his death
from shots fired by Mr. Malone.
A Negro Killed by Three
Others.—An old negro was killed
Monday by three others in a drunken
frolic. The affair occurred eight miles
above Columbus on the Hamilton road.
Wants Pay.—Thursday last, imme
diately after the admission of Mr. Nor
wood to his seat in the Senate, Senator
Morton offered a resolution to pay Fos
ter Blodgett, the contestant, pay and
mileage, from March 4, 1871, to this
date; and asked for its present consid
eration. Mr. Blair objected, and the
resolution went over.
A New York dispatch says A. T.
Stewart, the Lorillard estate, Wm. B.
Astor, Moses Taylor, Hugh Smith and
others have been indicted for under
estimating their estates and defrauding
the city of large taxes.
Pease & His Wife and their cooking
thrown in.
Memphis, to last Tuesday, had re
ceived 178,768 bales, agaiust 206,002
last year, and has a stock of 21,782,
against 36,883, showing a deficit in re
ceipts of 29,234, and 15,101 in stock.
Two thousand United States soldiers
infantry, cavalry and artillery—sur
round the Court House in Columbia
where the Ku-klux trials are progress
ing; an edifying spectacle.
The Legislature of South Carolina
proposes to declare that a divorce ob
tained in any other State for causes not
valid in that, shall be void within its
jurisdiction.
Weekly Sun — Now is the time to
subscribe. Remit $2 and secure a
welcome visitor fifty-two times during
the year 1872, at a cost of less than four
cents a visit.
YVell Put. —The putting of two
Democrat Senators at the -heel of the
Committee of Investigation, says the
Washington Patriot, reminds one of
the folly of pulling a heavy load for
several "horses, with those in front of
all balky and falling back on the wheel
horses. _
| Cotton at Augusta. —Receipts to
last Friday 107,129 bales, against 87,-
772 last year; showing a deficit of
19,357. m
Pease & llis Wife keep up Christmas
| the year round.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1872.
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
President Wadley's Annual Report.
Office of C. R. & Bkg. Cos. Ga., \
Savannah, Ga., Dec. Ist, 1871- j
To the Stockholders:
Since the last annual report, the Ma
con and Western Railroad has been
leased by your company, thus forming
a continuous line to Atlanta. This
lease having been made in the midst of
the year, it was deemed best not to in
corporate its operations with those of
the Central and Southwestern roads
until the fiscal year, commencing on
the Ist inst.; therefore the earnings and
expenses of that road are taken from
the report of its officers. The result
from operating the three roads, viz:
Central, Southwestern and Macon and
Western, with Central Railroad Bank,
is as follows:
Central Railroad earnings for the
year ending 30th ultimo... $1,855,487 30
Central Railroad Bank earnings
for the year ending 30th ultimo. 79,789 78
Southwestern Railroad earnings
for the year ending 30th ultimo. 1,079,465 28
Maoon and Western earnings for
the year ending 30th ultimo.... 674,921 44
Total earnings of the three roads
and bank 3,689,653 80
From this deduct:
Central Railroad ex
penses $1,127,202 35
Central Railroad bank
expenses 23,339 69
Southwestern Rail
road expenses 676,182 25
Maoon and Western
Railroad expenses.. 408,072 33
Leaving net 1,453,857 18
This sum has been
disposed of as follows:
Interest on Ceutral
Railroad bonds.... $55,170 00
Interest on Southwest
ern Railroad bonds. 48,370 50
Inserest on Maoon and
Western Railroad
bonds 10,500 00
DlvldendOentral Rail
road in June 250,000 00
Government tax on
same 6,250 00
Dividend Southwest
ern Railroad in June 168,205 95
Government tax on
same 4,205 15
Dividend Maoon and
W estern Railroad In
July 125,000 00
Government tax on
same 3,125 00
Dividend Central Rail
road this day 250 000 00
Government tax on
same 6 250 00
Dividend Southwest
ern Railroad this day 168,464 00
Government tax on
same 4,211 00
Dividend Macon and
Western Railroad
this day 125,000 00
Government tax on
same 3,125 00
Rent Augusta and Sa
vannah Railroad.... 73,00000
Rent Eatontou Branch
Railroad 14,000 00
Appro] riated forr&lls 130,000 00-1,444,807 *0
Leaving a balance of $ 9.989 98
The business of your own road, as
well as those issued by your company,
has fallen off very much during the past
year, This has been caused by a very
material reduction in the cotton crop
tributary to our road, and also by tierce
competition from other lines of traus
portation which have been opened.
These lines have not only taken some
of the business that has heretofore
passed over your road, but they have
reduced the rates of transportation in
some cases below remunerating prices.
Such competition would only produce
a healthful result if there was business
in the country to support more than
one line; but, with the limited amount
of traffic, it must result disastrously to
some, if not to all that are contending
for the business.
Seeing that your road would be oblig
ed to encounter this competition, the
board endeavored as far as possible to
protect your interests, and to this end
the Macon and Western Railroad has
been leased. By the term of this lease
the stockholders in that company are
to receive the same dividends that are
paid to the stockholders in your com
pany.
Liberal as these terms are, there were
parties who sought to defeat the lease,
and for that purpose applied for and
obtained an injunction. This injunc
tion, after having been sustained by
the court below, was carried to the
Suprems Court of the State, and by it
dissolved.
In view of the competition referred
to, and the fact that the country does
not afford sufficient business at low
rates, to support ail the lines that are
contending for what there is, the board
is obliged to acknowledge thatthe pros
perity of your road may be seriously
damaged for some time to come. These
competing lines must, however, sooner
or later, find it absolutely necessary to
charge remunerating rates in order to
render them self-sustaining; and, when
that is done, it is confidently believed
that the prospects of your lines will
brighten. In the mean time, with
strict economy, the board is of opinion
that reasonable dividends may be con
tinued.
The operations and condition of the
Central and Southwestern Roads are
fully set forth in the reports of the
General Superintendents and heads of
departments; the board, therefore, re
spectfully refer you to these reports for
detailed statements and information
respecting the condition of your
property.
As the operations of the Macon and
Western Railroad have been carried,
under its organization prior to the
lease, up to the close of the fiscal year,
it is deemed best to publish the reports
of its officers, as an accompanying doc
ument,, in order that you may be fully
informed as to its business and condi
tion.
By the report and balance-sheet of
the cashier of the bank you will be in- j
formed as to its operations. The profit !
from this source has not been as large j
as it was the previous year; but, in |
view of the small amount of capital ,
that we have for banking purposes, the j
result is regarded as favorable. The j
agencies at Macon and Albany have
been of value to the road and show a
small profit on their business. It was j
found that the agency at Columbus, j
mentioned in the last report, could not j
be of much use to the road, and it was |
therefore thought best not to put it into
operation.
Prior to the lease of the Southwest- !
ern Railroad, that company offered to
extend its road beyond Albany in the I
direction of Blakely, on condition that j
the citizens interested would subscribe j
one-haif the amount necessary to ac- |
complish the work. Nothing, how-!
ever, was done towards the extension
until the month of March last, when j
Major A. J. Maxwell made a proposi
tion which, in effect, was equal to a
subscription for one half of the amount
necessary to carry the road to Blakely.
The board, therefore, agreed to extend
the road in accordance with the origi
nal offer of the Southwestern Company,
and Virgil Powers, Esq., as Chief En
gineer, wa9 directed to place a corps of
engineers in the field, and as soon
as the line could be located, to put
Major Maxwell to work on the grading.
It is expected that this extension will
be completed so as to transport the next
crop, and it is believed it will prove a
valuable feeder to the line.
A number of citizens of Houston
county, having obtained a charter for a
road from Fort Yalley to Hawkins
ville, via Perry, made application to
the board to incorporate said charter
into the Southwestern Railroad Com
pany, and to build the road to Perry if
no further. This proposition was ac
companied by a bonus, to be given in
stead of a subscription to the capital
stock of the Southwestern Railroad
Company. As the proposed branch
would penetrato the most fertile part ot
Houston county, the board agreed to
accept the bonus and build the road to
Perry. The line has been located, and
as soon as the right of way can be ob
tained it is proposed to put the work
under contract. For further informa
tion in reference to this branch road,
and the extension from Albany to
Blakely, you are respectfully referred
to the report of the Chief Engineer.
It is not supposed that either the
. branch to Perry or the extension to
Blakely will pay a profit in them
selves, but they will afford facilities to
the citizens of each section and may
throw an increase of traffic upon the
main line, which will, to some extent,
compensate for the capital invested.
The foregoing, with tho reports of
the Superintendents and Chief En
gineer, accompanied by the report of
the President of the Macon and West
ern Railroad, will place you in posses
sion of all the information necessary to
a full understanding of your affairs.
Respectfully submitted,
Wm. M. Wadley, President.
Correspondence of ttie San.
Hurtville, Ala., Dec. 22, 1871.
Editor Sun: A correspondent of a
late issue of the Enquirer, whose initi
als—W. H. C. — indicate one of the
most accomplished agriculturists and
gentlemen of which this county or
State can justly boast, gives some sta
tistics showing the product of cotton of
twenty plantations of Eastern Russell,
all of which are doubtless correct, for
figures do not lie, and W. H. C. is high
authority unquestionably. But he ani
madverts the Agricultural Department,
which he says sticks to to the estimate
of three million bales as the crop of
the present year. The statistical cor
respondent of the department for this
county, reported fifty per cent., in his
monthly report, returned November
Ist, in answer to the query: “The indi
dicatedproduct compared with last year, 1 '
which, from the most authenticsources,
he estimates the average of the entire
county.
The department relies for its report
upon one principal correspondent and
three assistants in every county in the
South, or in each State; and their agri
cultural reports—made monthly—are
averaged and published accordingly.
Upon these correspondents the depart
ment must rely for its informa
tion; and if the periodical reports are
incorrect, to the sources from which
they emenate, and not the department,
must the blame attach. That these re
ports in some, if not in many instances,
are incorrect., it is reasonable to sup
pose, and the difficulty of making an
accurate estimate by the department is
still further increased by the extent and
variety of the interests, the annual Hue.
tuations in quantity, the impossibility
of obtaining lull reports from a vast
area of country, &c., &c.
Thu department is managed by an
able, zealous and scientific comuiis
sioner, wfio is striving to increase 11s
measure oi efficiency, and with the
means placed at his disposal, is rapidly
bringing it to tne standard practical
value and usefulness demanded by the
most important interest of the whole
country.
OI the remarkable changes that have
maiked the meteorology ol the present
year, none was more sudden than the
haid and almost continuous rain of the
past two days, accompanied, especially
during last night, by vivid liguiumg
and heavy peals ol thunder. The ther
mometor, siuce yesterday, has been at
a figure litttle below a day iu midsum
mer ; rather thick clothing, fires and
blankets were decidedly uncomfort
able.
Christmas is here ; but, alas! the old
fashioned Christmas oi ante-bellum
days is among “ the things that were ”
to the once happy darkey; and now
penniless—thanks to his improvi
dence—and rich only in the burden of
“equal rights,” which he is incompe
tent to appreciate, he dependency
lives over in memory the halcyon
times of Christmas when a “contra
band” and a good master took care of
the future for him.
The merchants complain heavily of
hard times, the cash receipts being
scarcely moro than a fourth of same
period last year, notwithstanding the
crowd of negroes in town, and the
pockets of the whites are quite as
innocent of the “one thing needful,”
with few exceptions.
Hurtvillo is making steady advances
in the march of improvement and can
boast a population and society that
would do no discredit to towns of far
more pretensions to intelligence and
refinement. I might name several citi
zens noted for intelligence and enter
prise.
The passenger on the M. & G. R. R.
cannot fail to notice, in the suburbs,
immense piles of beautiful and well
selected heavy timber, ready for trans
portation to the North and South
Railroad, from your city Northward.
All of this is being obtained and deliv
ered by Mr. Wm. J. Turner, of this
place, who is executing an extensive
contract with that Company. He has
already carried out most satisfactorily
several extensive contracts of the kind
with other corporations, and as he
knows no such word as “fail,” and has
acquired by his fair dealing with them,
unlimited Influence with the laboring
population, his facilities for such en
gagements are unequaled in this coun
try. Mr. T. is one of our most active
and enterprising citizens, and by
promptness and unconquerable energy,
is rapidly winning fortune and an en
viable business reputation and position.
Cuthbert, Ga., is about to gain, I re
gret to say, one of our oldest and most
valuable citizens, Jas. L. Pollard, Esq.,
who will be an accession to the com
munity in which he has determined
again to cast his lot. Mr. P. has long
occupied several positions of trust in
this county, and is a gentleman of
much public spirit. In some instances
it is not too much to say that the public
enterprise to which Mr. P did not
lend his concurrence and co operation,
is somewhat akin to “the play of Ham
letwith the part of Hamlet omitted.”
Y.
The Texan Cotton Crop.
We are permitted to take the follow
ing extract from a business letter of
J. 8. Sellers & Cos., shipping and com
mission merchants at Galveston :
Mess. EppingEanserd, Columbus,Ga.: j
Gentlemen The present year will
close with about the saniß receipts at j
this port, as those of last lyear up to I
December 31st, which would indicate
that the crop of Texas for this season
will amount to as much as that of last
year; but such will not be the case.
Ist. Last season we had yellow fever
reports, and were strictly quarantined
for several weeks, and communication
with the interior was interrupted until
about the first of December.
•
2d. There has been a fair yield of
cotton in the iowercouutiea adjacent to
the railroads, which have been extend
ed during the past twelve months fur
ther into the interior, giving better
facilities for getting the crop to market;
and prices have stimulated its being
brought rapidly forward.
3d. The great falling off in produc
tion is in the middle and upper counties,
a large portion of the crop of which
never arrives here until after the first of
January.
We have ao reason to change our
views with regard to the receipte at this
port, still believing that they will not
exceed 200,000 bales, against 300,000
last season.
Yours, respectfully,
J. S. Sellekh & Cos.
Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, is re
ported as saying that he will oppose
Grant, even if he should be nominated
for re-election.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
London, Dec. 23.— The Prince of
Wales continues to progress towards
recovery. No increased fever.
London, Dec. 23—2 o’clock.— The
Prince of Wales was quiet last night.
The progress towards convalescence is
slow.
Paris, December 23. Cbauzy suc
ceeds Cissy as Minister of War, who
goes to Washington as French Minis
ter.
Paris, Dec. 23.—M. Boyteu is now
mentioned as French Minister.
Rome, Dec. 23.— The Pope precanon
ized twenty eight newly appointed
Bishops.
London, Dec. 2G.—The ports locked
by Russia and Austria are sharply
pressing the Government of the Danu
bian principalities for a settlement of
the railroad location.
Paris, Dec. 27.—Thiers spoke earn
estly in the Assembly against levying
an income tax.
A prominent citizen of the Depart
ment of Ardennes was arrested in con
sequence of quarrels with the Bavarians
quartered there, and French citizens.
The Germans are making a census of
the private fortunes of the wealthier
citizens of occupied departments.
The Minister of the Interior, with
the alleged approval of Thiers, is mak
ing more stringent regulations for
checking the license of public journals.
Sandringham, Dec. 27—Noon.—The
Prince of Wales passed a tranquil night,
but convalescence is retarded by a pain
ful affection above the left hip, accom
panied by feverishness. There is no
nquietude regarding the result, but
tardy convalescence dofeats the pro
posed holiday rejoicings.
Rome, Dec. 27.—The Bishop of Pal
estine and Vice Chancellor of the Ro
man Church, is dead; age 78 years.
He was elevated to the cardinalate of
1837.
Victor Emanuel congratulates Queen
Victoria upon the Prince of Wales’
safety.
Prince Karl of Auerspargh has been
appointed President of the Upper
House of the Reic.israth.
Shanghai, Dec. 27.— The Chinese
are imitating the Japanese in sending
youths to England and America for
education.
London, Dec. 27. —The Queen has
returned to Sandringham.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Dec. 23.— The Assem
bly has adjourned to 15th January.
Washington, Dec. 2G.— The steamer
Pierre reached Brest from New York
in eight days and fourteen hours.
The steamer City of Baltimore, from
Liverpool for New York, reached Hal
ifax short of coal.
Esalpart, the confidential clerk of
Baroky, Bruce & Cos., of Buffalo, has
been sentenced to six months imprison
ment in jail on the charge of embezzle
ment.
Troops for Cuba continue to depart.
The right centre of the French As
sembly has overturned to the Legiti
mists for coalition. The Legitimists
wifi generally coalesce with the right
centre. The Legitimists disapprove of
the Orleans Princes as leaders.
The weather east of the Mississippi
is May like; west, storms continue.
Mrs. Sturtevant, wife of the Super
intendent of the Institute for the blind,
at Nashville, died from tho effects of
a kerosene explosion.
Jesse Grant’s condition is sli critical.
The Soldier’s Home at Kingston, In
diana, has been burned.
St. Louis is comparatively free from
small pox. No new cases have been
reported since last week.
The negroes still hold Lake Village,
Arkansas.
Later—The negroes have disbanded.
There iB no fear of retaliation by the
whites.
There was another heavy rain storm
in California on Saturday night. Fif
teen and a half inches fell within a
week; more than fell at any one period
last year. Several towns are flooded.
The levees at Sacramento withstood
the flood and the city is Baved.
The Bteamer U. 8. Grant, bark Live
Yankee, and schooner Amanda were
wrecked and all hands lost.
On Monday last Solicitor General
Bristow sent in his resignation. It was
not accepted. To-day Col. Bristow
received a communication from the
President, which induced him to with
draw it.
No Cabinet to-day.
Bowen, from South Carolina, is here
looking after his interest in the contest
for Delary’s seat.
Washington, Dec. 27.— An old can
non exploded near Seymour, Ind., kill
ing two and mutilating one.
The Missouri Democrat has a special
narrating a raid on the negroes in Sa
line county, Missouri. A person hence
saw two hanging and three dead in the
road.
The President has the usual recep
tion New Year’s Day.
The Secretary of the Navy has re
turned. Little doing at the Depart
ments.
The Commission investigating Spin
ners office find, so for, no further de
falcations.
VIKUINIA.
Richmond, Dec. 23. The House
passed a joint resolution suspending
the payment of interest on the public
debt, due January Ist. Pending con
sideration of the same a resolution in
the Senate passed that both Houses
adjourn to January 2d.
The House, previous to adjournment,
passed unanimously a resolution declar
ing its purpose to disregard no just
obligation.
ltev. Jas. B. Taylor, Corresponding
Secretary of the Southern Baeitist
Foreign Mission, ia dead —aged sixty
nine years.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Dec. 23.—Resolutions
were introduced in the Board of Aider
men adverse to ten millions subscrip
tion to Southern Railroads. The reso
lution was referred to the Committee
ou claims.
A Memphis special says that three
huuiired negroes, thoroughly armed,
left there ostensibly for Helena, but
evidently for Chicot county.
Small pox is increasing.
Youngstown, December 23. A
broken rail wrecked a freight train.
One person was killed aud several
hurt.
Cincinnati, Dec. 27.—Wm. L. Herb,
baggage master on the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne Railroad, was arrested in
charge of the corpse of Mrs. McCay,
taken from a Chicago assignation
, house. Poison or abortion is suspected.
NEW YORK.
New York, Dec. 23.—Comptroller
Green’s debt statement for the city and
county debt is $95,500,000; cash in the
treasury nearly $7,000,000; unadjusted
claims $0,000,000.
Connally’s bondsmen have qualified
for $1,000,000, but additional retainers
will probably hold Connally in Ludlow
jail over Christmas. Proceedings are
regarded as persecution instead of prose •
cution.
Weather very foggy. Sleet and rain
falling since midnight.
A man was arrested for abducting,
chloreforming and outraging a school
girl. Madame Florence was ( arrested
as accessory. Both held in $5,000 bail
each.
Sidney E. Morse, brother of the Pro
fessor, is dead—aged 78.
The health officers of Brooklyn do
clare the small now under con
trol.
Buffalo, Dec. 26.—Alexis gave
Carl Rosa a necklace.
A woman with a child in her arms
was knocked down by a train. The
woman was killed and the child fatally
injured:
Binghampton, Dec. 20. David
Flucker stabbed hiß wife in the breast
and then himself. Domestic trouble is
assigned as the reason.
New York, December 28.—The fu
neral of the wife of Rev. Dr. Houghton,
pastor of Little Church around tho cor
ner, took place this afternoon, and was
attended by many members. The pro
cession was very large.
New York, Dec. 27.—The Tribune
has information that Tweed has tied
from the country or is skulking to avoid
commitment.
Florence Farley has withdrawn from
Tweed’s bail.
The examination of the property
qualification of Tweed’s bail is pro
gressing.
The Herald’s Matamoras special says
Monterey advices of the 20th states that
it is positive that certain Government
officials have leagued with the revolu
tionists and will turn the entire border
over to the revolutionists.
Yesterday, as a coal train approached
Lackawaxan, a rock weighing nine tons
fell on the track, wrecking the engine
and killing one person. The train was
thrown high jnto the air. Fifteen cars
fell forty feet into the river.
James W. Hackett, the veteran actor,
is dangerously ill.
A Quebec dispatch says a box was
left at the Grand Trunk depot by an
unknown person. It contained a dead
woman, mutilated.
The disappearance of Tweed has
been confirmed. Torence Farley, who
withdrew from the bail, has been in
formed that he must produce Tweed.
The first other bail offered in lhu of
Farley’s, was refused. Officers are
watching points of departure to prevent
Tweed’s escape, who, it ia supposed, is
concealed in the city. Tweed’s law
yers are moving to vacate order. The
Court restraining Tweed from Belling
property at unsuccessful auetion
sale.
Gold to-day indicated as declined
from last month’s prices.
CUBA.
Havana, Dee. 27. —Valmaceda has
issued a proclamation in which he
says: Pardon offered to insurgents can
not laßt forever. He now proclaims
that every insurgent captured after
the 15th of January will be shot; those
surrendering after that dale will be
sentenced to perpetual imprisonment.
Negroes are to be treated the same as
the whites. All negro women captured
will be delivered to their owners and
be compelled to wear a chain for four
years. All white or black women cap
tured in the woods after the 15tb of
January will be banished fr< m '.lie
country. Chiefs of insurgent bauds
will be allowed to surrender undl the
15th of January, under the conditions
hitherto granted.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Oil City, Dec. 2G. —The Cosmopoli
tan well at Bcrabe Grass, exploded from
gas while drilling; six persons were se
riously burned.
Pittsuurg, Doc. 27.—The re sidence
of C. A. Woods of Pittsburg, at Wheat
land, burned Christmas. Two servant
girls perished.
VERMONT.
Rutland, Dec. 27.— Farewell and
Lawrence, two saloon keepors of East
Earlington, shot five persons—two dead
and two fatally. Farewell and Law
rence were arrested.
UTAH.
Balt Lake, Dec. 27. —Further re
ports of snow slideß, with loss of life,
in the mining districts. The weather
is very bad. Snowing to day.
MISSOURI.
Sr. Louis, Dec. 27.—Alexis arrives
Jan. sth. Reception arrangements are
complete. The ball banquet Monday
evening at the Southern Hotel.
Information from Chicote county
represents all quiet.
UEOKUIA.
Rome, Dec. 26.—The entire People’s
Municipal ticket is elected, causing
great rejoicing.
NOVA HCOTIA.
Halakix, Dec. 26.—Captain Jno.
Marshall, of the Welch brig Nina, load
ing for Liverpool, killed his boatswain
and a soldier. He struck them with a
pitcher in a negro house ot ill-fame.
The inmates were arrested.
MARYLAND.
Annapolis, Dec. 26.—The auylitical
chemist to-day testified thar Be found
six-tenths of a grain of mitalu: in IJor- j
ton Ketchum’s viscera.
MINSOI'KI.
St. Louis, Dec. 23. —The Democrat
has a special that the authoii.ies have
taken all necessary measures for the
restoration of law and order in Chicot
county, Ark.
INDIANA.
Indianapoli', December 23. The
mail train west ■>! Cincinnati on the
Indianapolis Road is off the track. It
collided with a bridge and three em
ployees were killed aud twenty passen
gers injured.
C&LIFOKSIA.
San Fuancisco, Dee. 23. —Bargeant
has been elected Senator.
Rain continues and floods many
localities.
The New York Times does not take
kindly to the suggestion that the only
salvation of Mexico is in a United
States protectorate. This sort of folly,
it says, “has been bandied about so
frequently as to be now ridiculous.”
According to the Cincinnati Gazette
(Radical) “there are five hundred dis
tinct swindles in the present tariff
which benefit only the parties who
manipulated it, and are an injury to the
country and to the Treasury.”
Pease & His Wife never think tvhat
1 others may think.
NO. 47.
■I’HITK NBA Y KOKNINU, DEO. 28.
Office of \
Columbus Industrial Association, £
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 23,1871. }
Messrs. Crown Cos :
Gents: The Directors of the Colum
bus Industrial Association beg to tender
you their thanks for the use of two of
your OoDtinontal Cooking Stoves dur
ing our late Fair.
Your kindness in filling up the stoves,
and in showing the young ladies in the
cooking match how to use them, is du
ly appreciated aud will be gratefully
remembered.
The Directors take pleasure in report
ing to you that tho stoves gave great
satisfaction to the youDg ladies In
deed, not a single complaint was made.
If eight young ladies, most,if not ail, un
accustomed to use them, can cook a
dinner without a mistake or an acci
dent, upon anew stove, surely the Con
tinental must be as near perfect as a
Cooking Stove can be made.
Very respectfully,
Jno. F. Iverson,
dec24 6t Sec’y.
EUREKA! EUREKA!
The best remedy for diseases of the
Stomach snd Bowels, at
de27d&wtf Hood's Drug Store.
Pease & His Wife have fifty furnish
ed rooms.
Worse Than First Reported.—
That middle aged negro man who was
killed Christmas day by another negro,
lost his fife because be could not give
the road to a party of drunken colored
people behind him. His name was Ben
Low. He was coming quietly on his
wagon to the city. Tho drunkards,
some half-dozen, overlook him in a
narrow way and demanded the road
for their vehicle. Quarreled. Negro
drew a gun, when Low ran, and as be
was fleeing the drunkard shot him
dead. The murderer, a railroad hand,
escaped. The Justice of the Beat has
examined the case and had several ar
rested as accessories. Happened on
the Hamilton road, eight miles from
tho city.
Cotton at Interior Towns. —The
following is tho statements of the prin
cipal onus iu the South of receipts from
August 31st to December 22d :
1870. 1871.
Augusta 107,129 87,772
Macon 65,250 39,110
Columbus 45,492 26,616
Eufaula 22,204 14,101
Montgomery 55,923 40,011
Selma 44,886 35,553
Memphis 218,506 187,004
559,390 432,168
This shows a deficit of 127,222 in sis
teen weeks. The decrease after Decem
ber wifi be much greater.
Pease & His Wife are self-willed but
never quarrel.
The Question of the Crops —A
large commission merchant of Galves
ton, in a letter which we publish this
morniug, sayß he does not think Texas
wifi ship more than 200,000 bales this
season. Laßt year 300,000 were re
ceived at her ports. Reasons are given
in the letter.
Bowdon College. —We directatten
tiou to this institution which offers un
surpassed educational facilities. It is
located in a healthy region. A pupil
can pursue his studies there uninter
rupted by the enticements and allure
ments of cities The faculty is an able
one, and he Kquiremei. s lor obtain
ing a complete course are ample. For
terms, see advertisement.
Verified. While Dr. Bard was
running bis Truo Georgian—so-called—
we several times alleged that it was, in
our opinion, sustained by the authors
dI the New Departure—the great Head
Centres of the Bond Rings in America—
men who professed to be Democrats,
but who invented the New Departure
expressly io kill the Democratic party
forever.
That w«s the object. They were the
tirest American plunderers, of which
the Kimball-Bullock-Blodgett Ring was
only an imitation upon a comparatively
small scale. These great peculators
knew that as soon as the Democratic
party came into power, their pecula
tions would cease and they would be
made to shell out some of their plunder,
just as the success of the party has
terminated the operations of the Georgia
gang.
Dr. Bard has been forced into bank
ruptcy. This hasrevealed hiscreditors
The first man on the list is Wm. M.
Tweed, $3,000; and the next Peter B.
Sweeney, $3,000. Our predictions are
verified.
The list is an interesting study. The
amount of the whole is over $47,000.
Among them we find the names of Mrs.
Foster Blodgett, $1,000; Gen. Austell,
$2,500: Hoyt & Jones, $1,700; Joseph
E Brown, $0,848; Joshua Hi 11,51,333 38;
N. L. Angier, $1,000; James Connor’s
Sons, $3,075; C. & G. Place, $0,000; R.
E. Glover, $4,500.
President Grant in his message says:
The citizens of the District of Colum
bia having voluntarily taxed themselves
to a large amount for the purpose of
contributing to the adornment of the
seat of Government, I recommend lib
tral appropriations on the part of Con
gress, in order that the Government
may bear its just share of the expense
of carrying out a judicious system of
improvement.
It will be remembered that President
Grant is a large stockholder in the Sen
te* stone quarry He would doubtless
like to see every old building in Wash
ingion torn down and a magnificent
St nera stone structure erected in lien.
It would put money in his purse.
Pbesidknt Grant’s Cabinet
Changes —Postmaster General Oresß
well is the only sue remaining of the
original Cabinet, whose names were
sent in to the Senate by Gen. Grant,
who has not been in office three years,
yet he has had two Secretaries of State,
two Secretaries of the Treasury, two
Secretaries of the Navy, two Secreta
ries of the Interior, three Attorney
Generals and three Secretaries of War,
General Rawlins dying in oilice. He
has also had three Commissioners of
Internal Revenue, three Ministers to
England and three Collectors of the
port of New York.
John Quincy Adams never opens his
mouth but he says something, a failing
common to the illustrious family ot
which he is the noblest scion. “The
present administration,” he says, “is
doing more to permanently disunite the
States than Jefferson Davis ever did;
its chief, we are told, can conceive ot
nomeanßof free government but mili
tary force, and no motive of public
action but private profit.” That is just
about the size of it, we believe.
A lady of Connecticut writes the
New York Tribune that she has a cun
oslty which she desires to present to the
Russian Grand Duke —“a picture-frame
made of toe nails, the only on « l “ t £ e
world ” Os course the Grand Duke
ought to have it. A G. D. who goes
through life without having possesed a
picture frame made of toe-nails, or
something of that sort, strikes us as
having lived pretty much in vain.—
Courier-Journal.
Shakespeare and Yellow Backed
Novels.
The political editor of the Sun re
turns his sincere thanks to the Carrier
Boys of the Office for an elegant copy
of the Works of Shakespeare, presented
by Eddy Johnson, as a Christmas tes
timonial of affection and respect. We
appreciate this gift, coming from hum
ble and affectionate hearts unsoiled by
tbs sins ot selfish manhood, and unuiu
(filtered by the calamities of the world
more than barbaric gold or gems wrung
from the sweat and tears of hopeless
poverty and orphanage.
We do not deem this an unfit occa
sion to imitate the example of the
“melancholy Jaques” and moralise a
little on how the world wags. Shakes
peare was a poor theatre boy with
probably an imperfect English uduca
tion and a smattering of Latin, common
at that day to all classes of society.
Ho needed not the spectacles of books
to sae nature aud nature’s God iu all
thoir manifold wisdom, beauty and
power. His majestic mind grasped
with equal ease, and described with
equal truth, the tints of the rainbow
and the glitter of dew on grass, as tho
deep rattling of thunder, the fierce flash
of lightuiug and the canopy of Heaven
studded with golden fire. He probed
the human heart to the core and reveal
ed its mysterious pulsations and pas
sions iu every variety, from the gentle
Desdemona, the affeciiouute Cordelia,
and loving and faithful Juliet to the
wise, fair Portoa, who Princes from
every land came lo worship, and the
Stormy Lady Macbeth, with the smell
of blood upon tier little hands. It may
be well said of his Works what the
Arabian caliph said of the Alexan
drian library —“lf these books agree
with the Koran, they are useless, if
not, they should be destroyed." What
is not in Shakespeare will scarce bo
found elsewhere.
What is the gold of the Lydiau King,
tho power of a Caesar, a Napoleon or
Alexauder, compared lo Ihe fame and
legney bequeathed to universal humani
ty by the great English Dramatist?
Leaving his humble homu a penniless
wanderer, and rich only in a graud
intellect aud a heart attuned to tho
tenilerest sensibilities, his name now
fills a world, and will continue to in
crease in splendor until lime shall be
lost in eternity. It will be written on
millions of souls in characters more
durable than brass or marble, so long as
generation shall succeed generation like
the leaves of the lorest.
It takes only tho s&rao time to read a
work of genius as the thousand volumes
of dullness that crowd our parlors and
libraries. With a small amount of
preparatory study, a taste for Sbake
spoaro could be acquired, and if read
again and again, aud you do not like
him, be sure you do not understand
him. There is a mental as well as a
physical dyspepsy which rejects all
healthful food and craves only poisons
that increase an appetite it never can
satisfy. Such is tho character of the
yellow-backed literature of our day.
Like the Indiau bat it fans tho sleeper
with its pinions and sucks at the same
time his fife blood from his veins.
It fills the imagination wilh visions
of power and position never to bo
realized-it flatters only to betray anil
at last leaves the victim a prey to the
spoiler—unfit for rational enjoyment*
improvement or business. We havs
plenty of readers in this day, but tho
quality and custom of the reading,
would be more honored in the breach
than observance. Like opium eaters they
dream of palaces and marble halls and
awake to find they are only mental and
moral beggars. The sails are too much
for the ballast, and tho vessel goes
over on her beam ends in the first
storm.
Wliat tllewa A - (Jo. Have to |N»y
About ike Honda ol G««vkla.
Henry Clews & Cos. have published
a card in the Atlanta Constitution ex
plaining their connection with Georgia
bonds. It iB in purport as follows :
Tho firm was friendly to the South
after the war, and to cement the ties
between the two sections was willing
to aid in tho material development of
tho railway system ol tho Southern
States. Attention was diawn to
Georgia as being, by geographical po
sition and wealth, the most important.
Tne firm was solicited by the con
tractors to negotiate the bonds of tho
Brunswick and Albauy Railroad.
They deemed the enterprise one of
great intrinsic merit, and sold $2,500,-
000 of their first mortgage indorsed
bonds and about $500,000 of State gold
bonds, issued in favor of the road. Tie
firm bad faith in Georgia’s integrity,
capable counsel pronounced the issue
all right. The firm bad no more inter
est in tho bonds than other business
submitted to its care.
After the firm had placed success
fully the greater part of the railroad
bonds, tho late Governor desired it to
undertake the negotiation of a loan for
the State. Competent counsel advised
all was legal, and the proceeds of sl,-
650,000 were placed to the credit of the
State, represented by the Executive
from whom the securities had been
received. The proceeds of the bonds,
the firm was informed, were dovoted
to expenses attending the removal of
tho capital of the State to the now seat
of Government, to redemption of past
due bonds, and paying floating obliga
ion of the State. The remuneration
received by the firm lor all the nugo
tuitions referred to was such only as is
commonly paid in like transactions.
They say they have acted with friend
liuess throughout to the South and
Georgia, and the securities are in num
berless hands in this country and
Europe who, like the firm, base their
faith upon the seal and signature of tho
State.
They have a good deal to say what
will happen, if Georgia dishonors her
obligations. Hho will be shut off in ap
plications lor lurtber loans, either to
the State, municipalities, corporations
and even individuals. They close as
fellow#:
The money which has already been
introduced in borders ot tbe State even
though, perhaps, not expended with
care, as designed in the statute, as is
now apparently patent, has not yet re
suited, by reason of the construction
of valuable Hues of railway, in great
increase in taxable property, and in re
sources for future development. Let
Georgia honestly sustain debts honestly
contracted on the part of the leaders,
and in the future it can coimpand in the
moneyed world whatever means it may
need. Let it disown its obligations,
aud henceforth its progress is checked;
the tide of wealth is turned in other di
rections, and every individual through
out its boundaries is dishonored.
We offer these counsels at the dicta
tion, not of any personal interest, but
solely f/om a desire to urge upon the
Legislators of Georgia not to rashly
and blindly incur consequences from
which they cannot in all time escape.
This all means, in the opinion of
Clews & Cos., that no matter how
Georgia has been robbed, she must not
even investigate the matter, but pay
without question concerning what has
been stolen. Fortunately Clews & Go.
do not constitute our Legislature.
Pease & Hi« Wife have no interest
| in the State Road.