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WKDXKSDAV MORNING, JAN. 3.
Narrow Gauge Railroads.
.Mi. Hurt, of o neighboring county in
Bahama, for sonic time past employed as
, lU assist »nt engineer on the Southern
Pacific Kaiiroad, is on a to liis home.
He ropoits a trip over the Denver and
i;jo Unmde Kaiiroad. and speaks in high
terms of its satisfactory working. This
mad is to lie '.SMI miles long. Iti gauge is
t 1,,. ,amo as that adopted by the North
and South, from this point to Koine One
hundred miles have been completed, and
in running order for several months. A
Kctitleman who read it, tells us of a letter
fmin the Vice President, in which tiie
new system is enthusiastically endorsed.
;ts working being entirely satisfactory
upon every point, especially as to speed,
capacity and cheapness, both as to con
it ruction and maintenance.
Oar community, who are so deeply in
terested in the success of the narrow
..lingo theory, will also be gratified to
know the opinion of the eminent car
builders, Messrs. Jackson & Sharp,
Wilmington, Delaware, which we have
1,, n permitted to take from a private
letter to a gentleman of this place:
Wilmington, Del., Dec. 28, 1871.
Dear Sir: * * * *
There certainly appears to be more real
"viiu” in the management of the North
and South Kaiiroad than in any other
narrow gauge enterprise thus far started.
The principle is a true oue, and wo are
confident of its ultimate success.
Very truly yours,
Jackson & Shaw Company.
This Company are the most extensive
car builders in the United States, and
their opinion is certainly worthy of great
consideration.
New Enterprise—A Broom Manufac
tory.—ln (lie second story room of tliu
"Bank’s Building,” going up Broad street,
has been established anew manufacturing
interest of which, as yet, only a few of
our citizens know. We refer to the Patent
Broom Manufactory of Messrs Chilton &
Cos. The broom is novel in shape, and
said to lie highly economical, by reason
of its durability and the cheapness of its
first cost. Mr. W. L. Williams, who made
nil cloth in the lower part of the city
during the war, is superintendent and
general business manager. Already a
number' of hands are employed, which
will be inccrasod gradually to twenty-live
or thirty. Our own and the merchants
generally of Georgia and Alabama will no
doubt hear of this eoiuuieitdal.de enter
prise before a great while through our
cnlmuns, as wo understand the company
will ho prepared to furnish regular sup
plies to the trade at an early day.
City Honks am i City Commons. It is a
irile saying Hint ‘"capital is cautious,” and
as true as it is trite. There is another
characteristic of capital which has been
well illustrated in our city during the past
-k. Wo refer to the promptness
which it grasps, and avails of develop
ments which the poor man may under
stand but is not able to employ. We are
informed that our city bonds, which last
Spring brought 82 cento, and should never
h. U low er, have by reason of the remarka
ble stringency of the money market, been
offered for much less without finding bny
e: fo:' two months {cist. As soon, how
ever. us the, disposal of (he common was
mooted and generally approved, and capi
talists thought of the $3<H).fNH> which will
flow into the treasury from a single source,
and reflected upon the new business, pop
ulation. and the wonderful impetus the
proposed extension will give our city, they
s-Mlght Columbus bonds at 75c., which
tin-v declined a few days before at 76. Wo
understand that holders now ask 860.
Sternly, sure, reliable'oM Columbus, grow
ing commercially, and already the manu
facturing city of Georgia, should rank
above the best ill the credit of her securi
ties.
IB:. 1 in-; of Cotton in Interior Towns.
The following; is the Statement to De
cember 86th for the present and {last sea
son:
1870. 1871.
Augusta 113.957 98,851
Macon 68.877 41,661
Eufaula 22,808 14,976
Columbus 47,901 27.948
.Montgomery 59,470 42,145
Selina .’ 51,094 43,115
Memphis 232,(557 197,309
Total 595,765 460,505
This shows a falling off. in sixteen weeks,
of 185.260 bales from the receipts of hist
\. , The stocks arc some 27.000 bales
Railroad Work Resumed.- Work, sus
pended for the holidays, has boon pretty
well resumed upon the North and South
Kaiiroad. AYc are told the Koine force
will be increased this month. As fast us
the engineers can make preparations for
them, the LaGrange Company will add to
their hands until two hundred men are
employed. It is hoped that the Harris
County Company v\ ill start at least sev
en! \-live laborers this month. All these,
together with the force at this place under
Grant, Lane .V Cos., will aggregate by Feb
ruary over 77>6 hands. Iron, we arc told,
is expected daily.
Ni;\v Yl'All's. It mss ono of till' bright
est nn>l most cheerful of days. It is to be
hoped it is an onion of prosperity, though
llio old -iil.i ;o sa vs it ;;oi -ilia piniiiiv; ma I\os
-1 bad ending.
Hm Now Year's calls were more mine i
>o than \xore eY e t before known ill t'x>- j
• embus. All the carriages and buggies in 1
lilt oily wore out. tilled with gentlemen. |
1 tarty in the forenoon not a vehicle could |
Is hifed. Tin! ladies generally had re- i
' options. It was a regular gala day for ;
‘■or little eitv. Nolle of the cation wore!
loiiud by the wayside.
1 Mo.ißi vsr Bxui'.oxo Movement - the
10-me I.'ommercial of the troth nit., con
i das a eall for a meeting of the corpora- ,
ior-. of the boolean Mountain Railroad,
tor the purpose % >f organizing. This is an
onpoitant load tx> i'olumhns. being de
in 1 to connect Rome and t 'hattanooga. j
Ihi road will undoubtedly be built, as it
has ulrt a.ly a fine start, independent of
>;...n0il per mile State aid. Though it
wilt run through a mountainous country.
II -tu.nl Surveys have xtemonstvated that it
.rn be cheaply constructed, by reason of
;ao tortunate duvetmn of the valley This
oiith-l to Chattanooga, together with the
Memphis branch from Home to Decatur,
r iders the completion of the North and
South to Koine, necessary. for with that
do:n\ t\ihmilms w ill outstrip any of her
rivals. Her natural advantages are so
great that she only needs proper railroad
■ leiiities ti) go ahead of all eoinpetition.
ArniMerun Uouhkuy. Mi- Bell.
I'iioiiipson, aged atmml Is lias a snuiil
store Knee miles from Ooluuibns. on the
llaiuiltou road. Three negroes came to
his place .Monday night ami attached lum.
Ola*, knocked linn down with a stick. His
' ilea brought his brother and the robbers
fled.
VOL. XIII.
‘To Be, or Not to Be, —That is the Question.”
Before the close of this present new
year, the election for President will he
over. No doubt Grant will be the Re
publican candidate, and the great ques
tion with the people will be. shall "‘this
man reign over us" and corruption con
tinue to boil and bubble in every depart
ment of the State and Federal govern
ments, or shall another be selected who
w ill use his power to restore our lights
lost bv usurpation and tyranny.
The citizens of New York city have set
a noble example, which wo hope will be
followed by the people of the • United
States. The circle produced in that pool
of Corruption w ill, we hope, become wider
and wider until it embraces every govern
ment, City, State and Federal, within the
broad limits of our once loved Union.
The resolutions lately introduced by Mr.
Trumbull in Congress, will result in good.
If the Committee of Investigation remains
packed, this in itself will be proof of cor
ruption that hides from light; if the com
mittee is fairly constituted, their report
will sound the death-knell of tyrants and
stir up a spirit of opposition which no
power founded on ignorance, fraud and
oppression will ever withstand. Let the
rottenness of the foundation be clearly
exposed, and then self-preservation will
compel the occupants of the house to es
cape for life.
The masses hope for nothing from gov
ernment but protection of life, liberty
and property. This, and a voluntary rep
resentation of their interests, they have
the right to demand in consideration of
taxes collected in peace, and personal
services exacted in war. We do not be
lieve that an administration which appeals
for support to fear instead of affection,
and whose chief characteristic is to stimu
late vice and ignorance and repress virtue
and intelligence, can receive the approval
of the American people. Instead of our
boasted progress under Grant, we are con
vinced that the cause of civil liberty and
honest government has been pushed back
ward five centuries. The people alone
can apply a remedy to all political ills that
now, and will hereafter, afflict the body
politic.
LETTER FROM SALEM.
Salem, Ala.. Dec. 28, 1871.
Eds. Sun: As newspaper men are ad
vocates of the twin sisters of the world,
Religion and Education, and as you, liko
all others of the press, would not bo averse
to anything pertaining to the advance
ment of the one, or the promotion of the
other, I pen you a brief communication
relative to the distribution of gifts from
the Christmas Tree on the. evening of the
251 h, at the M. E. Church. The day to
the little folks w aned and waxed but slow
ly aw ay. Fancy had been busy with their
imaginations, depicting Santa Clause as
master of ceremonies dispensing with
lavish hands, gifts, that are by children
only, so highly prized. Old Sol, who for
the first day in many, shed his effulgent
rays upon the busy world, as though smil
ing upon the anticipations of the little
ones, at last, rode down the western slope
in gorgeous beauty. Sweet Vesper pooped
forth from the western hermitage, clad in
her richest robos. The unclouded green
of night, with her million stars, made her
ascent from old Atlantic’s bosom, and
looked down upon Salem's beauty and
chivalry, w ending tlieir way to the church,
with merry hearts and bright faces that
told full well that an evening of unalloyed
pleasure was expected. At an early hour
the doors of the church were thrown open,
and in a few minutes the, house, a large
one, was tilled with men, women and
children, who gazed with unfeigned de
light upon two beautiful liollys -beautiful
by nature, and made indescribably so by
art- that art to w hich fair woman alone is
the acknowledged votary. The trees were
fairly bending tlieir boughs to the weight
of the innumerable gifts, placed there by
the promptings of friendship, esteem, love
and all other emotions which cause one to
remember another. The house, altar and
gallery were elaborately and tastefully
decorated. The whole scene was one of
surpassing grandeur that pronounced
many encomiums upon the taste and ex
quisite style everywhere displayed by tlie
ladies of the Coiumitti e of Arrangement.
The exercises were opened by song from
choir, with Mrs. Culpas organist, and
seldom, it ever, have we listened to sweet
er. or better mu.4e. Prayer was then of
fered by Rev. Z. D. ltoby in a touching
and impressive maimer so peculiarly his
own. After which the deep-toned organ
pealed forth such sweet strains that our
thoughts were wafted from things earthly
to ethereal realms, where angels pay court
to Him who shall sound millennium’s
dawn. 11. E. Burt next addressed the
school; after which Santa Clause made liis
debut, and began despoiling the trees of
their gifts, which threw the wee boys and
girls into oeslaeies. Several mole songs
were used, and a presentation address
made by llev. J. 11. Lockhart to il. M.
Crowder. Esq., in which the latter receiv
ed a handsome bible from the Sunday
School as a slight token of their apprecia
tion of his services as a superintendent.
After which, all laden with presents from
old Santa, wended their way homeward,
with light hearts and beaming countenan
ces. long to remember the occasion as a
bright spot upon memory's tablet.
* W. M. Burt.
The demand for Southern yellow pine
lumber lurs increased ten fold since the
war. It is taking the place of the eastern
spruce and white pin*'. Mod ot this
pine is shipped from lVnsacoln. Apalachi
cola. Fla., and Darien, (la. Wherever
.- real strength is required as ill ships,
factory girders. railroad cars, ami bridges,
this pine is invaluable-.
the New York lumber merchants have
large orders at thirty-live dollars per Idl'd
feet.
A I'm 1 Y I-OYAt OtMl'!' lf<’ll-Vl.. A
correspondent of the New York Sun,
sketching the Legislative Banditti at Co
lumbia. South Carolina, says of I>. T. Cor
bin, the carpet-bagger President of the
Lpper House of Thieves, that at one time
he held thirteen oili. es iu South Carolina,
the aggregate income of which, not iuelud
i mg perquisites, was gdoo.Obil per annum.
White at Boston the Croud Duke Alex
is was of eoni-se taken to see Bunker Hill
monument. He looked at it. says a vera
cious chronicler, almnt a quarter of a min
ute. and then laughed at it. Shad, of
Yankee Diki.Ue, are we to brook this in
i suit :‘
Officers Kt.KCTKb At ft meeting: of
the Independent Order oi Odd Fellows.
Monday night, the following were elected
otiiccis: Walter -lohuson. N. G : Dan.
Coil ins. Y. C: W Ik Tones. Treasurer:
hi.'. O. Beity. Secretary: Geo. Hunger
ford, L. O. Sx'hut ssh i and A. 1 Calhoun.
Trustees.
lioos .vT CiNciNv.i ti. —Thus tar. the re
ce'.pts to lie*-, truth. .'Cs.'.lUtl against
d.Vi.T-S last year, showing an increase of
i si',l'7l head. Kennedy, Kekert A Cos.,
say tli*‘ stock of meat on hand is the larg
est ever known before.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Conley Turns Desperate.
It is stated that Benjamin Conley avows
his determination to hold on to the Gube
rnatorial office—the election and inaugura
tion of Gov. Smith to the contrary not
withstanding.
Let him claim the office to his heart’s
content. In doing so he will only make
himself the laughing stock of the country,
lie seems to have yielded to the solicita
tions of the Bond Ring, and undertaken
to do their bidding.
The Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad
bonds were endorsed by the State to the
amount of $275,000, when a very few
miles t>f it were built—perhaps not more
than five. Afterwards the Company, for
some purpose—in all probability with
some fraudulent proceeding in view—most
likely with the full intention of doing
just what has been done—had their charter
amended, name changed, and determined
to issue an entirely new set of bonds to
conform to their new name—that of the
Cherokee Railroad.
Bullock indorsed the new set of bonds
to the amount of $300,000 without first
requiring the old bonds to be canceled
and deposited in the office of the Treas
urer.
When this second issue of the bonds
was indorsed by Bullock, and registered
in the office of the Secretary of State, he
promised to see that the old bonds were
canceled and returned to the State—so
we are told and believe.
In a letter written by Bullock, on the
Ist December—since his flight—and ad
dressed to Acting Governor Conley, he
says the company “ notified ” him that
“they had returned and canceled” the
Cartersville and Van Wert bonds. He
sets up the plea that lie relied upon that
notification; and says he pursued the
same course as with the Air Line Rail
road, which company canceled their in
dorsed bonds, but did not return them to
him.
In this case, however, there were no
new bonds in place of the canceled ones,
to be issued by the company, and indorsed
by the State, as was the' ease with the
Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad.
It is impossible for us, with the lights
before us, to come to any other conclusion
than that the amendment of the charter,
the change of name, the issue of an entire
new set of bonds, Ac., all—all—was done
with a fraudulent design by the officers of
that road, and that Bullock entered into
the scheme of having out at the same
time, for the wicked purpose of trading,
using and speculating on the same, and
sharing in the spoils. —Atlanta Sun.
Probable Future of Cotton Culture.
We have received (says the Ilural Car
olinian for November,) from Mr. J. N.
Cardoza, a historical sketch of cotton
culture and the cotton trade, showing a
very careful collation of facts and figures
running back to 1793, and deducting some
very interesting conclusions. The article
is too long to be reprinted here in full,
and wo must content ourselves with a
brief summary of the author’s deductions
from the facts cited, leaving our readers
to form their own opinion in regard to
tlieir correctness:
1. That there is a natural limit to the
rates of cotton production, irrespective of
price, in the conversion of compulsory
into voluntary labor, labor being the prin
cipal element of production.
2. That there is no such limit to the
rale of consumption, irrespective of the
price of yarn and goods, as under the in
fluence of increasing wealth and the gen
eral spirit of improvement, consumption
is progressive.
8. That as the crop of 1871-72 will have
fallen short as compared with the crop of
1870-71, by about one million of bales in
the United States, with the moderate in
crease in other countries, the total supply
will not exceed (5,000,000 bales, of 410
pounds each, while the total consumption,
allowing an increase of twelve and a half
per cent, in the Continental consumption,
will not fall short of 5,000,000 Imlen, and
with the American consumption (North
and South) of 1,000,000, the stock on
hand in Europe on the first of January.
1872, cannot probably exceed 000,000
bales.
4. That is bringing the supply and con-'
sumption very near to an equality.
!>. That keeping in view the natural
limit to increased production in the
changed relations of labor, and the pro
gressive increase of consumption in the
East, under moderate prices of cotton
fabrics, (the consumption in British India
and China having augmented eighty-five
per cent, in an average of five years,) the
export of cotton goods from Great Britain,
in the year 1870, having exceeded that of
1861, by sixty-eight per cent, to China,
and forty-four per cent, to India.
(i. That the filial conclusion from these
facts is, that the supply and consumption
are now nearly at an equilibrium, and
that the tendency, under a moderate
state of prices for the raw material and
manufactured products is, that consump
tion will not exceed the supply.
More Robberies in Georgia. The
investigations that have been made into
the affairs of the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad of Georgia, reveal a deliberate
conspiracy to swindle the tax payers of the
State out of millions of dollars.
The first of the acts granting State aid
to the road, passed in 1869, provided that
as fast as every ten miles should be com
pleted the Company might present its
bonds to the State Treasurer, who should
place the State’s endorsement 011 them
llnfortunately for tho schemes of Bullock,
however, the Treasurer, Dr. Angier, was
a man who could not be induced to lend
himself to the purposes of the conspira
tors, and so, in 1870, Bullock’s subservi
ent Legislature passed a second act pro
viding that the bonds of the company
should be presented to the Governor in
stead of the Treasurer, for endorsement.
Under cover of the act of 1870 Bullock
has endorsed and issued bonds lavishly,
not only in violation of the Constitution
of the State, but also in violation of tlie
provisions of the very acts passed by the
efforts of the conspirators. Under the
circumstances it becomes a question
whether the State is legally responsible for
any of the bonds issued upon the Gov
ernor's endorsement.
While on the subject of Georgia railroad
frauds the suggestion occurs that the
now Senate Committee on Retrenchment
may find a promising field for their work
in inquiring whether a member of their
hotly and a Secretary of one of the De
partments have had anv share in a scheme
for swindling the people of Georgia out
of a valuable railroad. — A'eio York Sun.
The Kaleigh Carolinian furnishes the
following as a model, report ot the execu
tion of a convict: Hung Pomp Lyme.,
thirty live years old, black us tar. and he
killed Dennis Tilley, another, down on
Flat River, with a pocket-knife, was hung '
at Hillsboro last Friday at two o'clock in
the evening. Pomp said he wasn’t pre
pared—would lik.' to have a little more
time —was mum as an oyster under the
gallows —but commissioned C. N. Ik
! A ails, of the Hillsboro Recorder, to send
a word to his wife “to live with All'.
Luusfold, down on Flat River as long as
she lives, and to take good cars ot the
children. ’ His remains were buried bv
Aleck Hall ami Lewis Tonkins. Ouedrove
the cart anil both used the shovel at the
grave.
The New Catholic Mission.—The Cath
olic missionaries to labor among our South
ern negroes, whose departure from Lug
land was announced by cable a few weeks
since, have reached Baltimore. The de
sign is not merely to make converts, but
also t.i educate negro candidates for the
priesthood, to labor among their brethren
here, and ultimately to send negro mis
sionaries to Africa itself. Archbishop
Manning says the slave trade of centuries
has made the name of European or of
Christian so hateful to the natives of
Ethiopia, that none but negro missiona
ries can ever gain a hearing, or rescue the
teeming multitudes of Africa from idola
try-.
Gilmore's Ear Rdusteu. —lubileo Gil
more has planned Ills second Coliseum
near Hosting Coiuming. It is to cover an
area of eight acres and accommodate an
audience of sd.tMH)—a chorusof Jo.ooo and
an orchestra of 2.00 b. The conception of
celebrating the reign of peace with such a
noise is Bostonian. But the HuF. is evi
dently an appropriate place for a Hub-bub.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1872.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Col. James A. Rhea, a prominent and
promising young lawyer of Montgomery.
Alabama, died in that city on Sunday
morning last. He was a native of Ten
nessee. a warm Confederate who rose to
1 the position of I.t. Colonel in the late war,
and after its close settled in Montgomery.
He was buried with Masonic honors on
j Monday.
The Montgomery Livery and Sale Sta
j bles, a large and fine establishment on
Lawrence street, in Montgomery, Ala-
S baina, were sold by the Sheriff on Mon
day last and purchased by Josiali Morris,
the banker, at $13,500. This does not
speak well for the prosperity of the livery
business in the capital city.
The mutilated body of a white man was
j found oil the opposite side of the river
from the city of Montgomery, oil Monday
last. From a paper found on his person,
it is thought to be that of a Mr. MoGehee,
who does, or did, reside near Uniontown.
Perry county, Ala.
The Advertiser says great disappoint
ment was experienced in Montgomery on
Tuesday by a large number of persons
from the adjacent country and villages,
who came to see the famous Formes-
Habelman German Opera Troupe, adver
tised for that night. The Advertiser says
over seven hundred tickets were sold in
tlie city up to and including Saturday
evening last.
The subscriptions to the Clanton fund
amount to £3,000. Subscribers are called
on to pay up.
i Eugene Beebe has been elected Chief of
the Fire Department of Montgomery;
Capt. Francis AVidmer, Ist Assistant:
Henry Moore, 2d Assistant; Jesse J. Lo
max, 3d Assistant.
The carpet-bagger. J. C. Timberlake,
late tax collector under negro rule in Dal
las county, Ala., has been arrested upon
the charge of emliezzelment of county
fluids to the extent of sixty thousand dol
lars. The arrest was founded on a true
bill found against him by the Grand Jury
of the Criminal Court of Selma. His bail
was fixed at twenty thousand dollars, in
default of which he is left in jail to reflect
on the result of the misdeeds of a villain
ous carpet-bagger.
Two sports named Williams and Morn
ing Star, who were recently arrested in
Talladega, Ala., charged w ith robbing the
grocery house of Mr. Skaggs of that place
and released on bond, got into a difficulty
in Mobile on the Tuesday after Christinas,
in which Williams shot Morning Star
dead.
At a meeting of the South and North
Alabama Railroad Company, held on
Thursday' last, the resignation of Cos). J.
R. Pow ell was accepted and Mr. Thomas
Joseph elected in his place. Mr. T. IS.
Maddox was re-elected secretary and
treasurer, and J. T. Milner as superjnten
dent and chief engineer.
The total educational expenses of the
State of Alabama for the year ending 20th
September, 1871, w r ere $488,746 28. The
interest on the bonded debt was $334.-
820 01. Feeding State prisoners cost
$87,17 7 2(5. Tlie Alabama Insane Hospi
tal $69,!)()() 80. Pay of Representatives
$62,251. Total of items named above,
$1,052,198 29. Total expenditures of
the State, not including College Scrip in
vested, $1,371,766 52. Cost of conduct
ing the Government outside of tlie ex
penses named above sH22.st>B t?;i.
Tlie large sum of $940,034 44 is needed
to liquidate the entire school debt that
will either he paid in the course of the
year, or due at the close of the present
fiscal y ear. Os this amount about $336,-
000 represent the unpaid accounts of
several years back.
Montgomery-received past week 2.121
bales against 3,550 last year; total re
ceipts 12.145. against 59,47.5: stock 11,-
993, against 12.593.
We extract from the Montgomery Ad
vertiser the following statistics regarding
the penitentiary: The number of con
victs remaining in prison on the Ist of
October. 1870. was 185. Since that time
86 others have been received, making
a total of 27 L. Os this total
26 have died (including! four
killed; 19 have been pardoned. 24 dis
charged by expiration of sentence, 10 dis
charged (cause not stated) and 10 have
escaped. Total 89, or three more than
were received dnringthe same period. The
ages of the convicts are as follows: Under
twenty, 47; from twenty to thirty, 187;
from thirty to forty, 53; from forty to
fifty, 21; from fifty to sixty, 9; from sixty
to seventy. 3: and between seventy and
eighty, 1. One hundred and thirty-six
are natives of Alabama (just one-half)
thirty-one are Georgians, twenty Virgin
ians, thirteen North Carolinians, twenty
three South Carolinians, eight Tennes
seeans, twelve Mississippians, six Ken
tuckians, two Floridians, one Missourian,
five Louisianians, one Texan, three Alary
landers, one Columbian, one Iliinoisian,
two Pennsylvanians, one Pole, one Sici
lian. one Prussian, one Italian, one Swede,
and one Spaniard.
Grand larceny and burglary seem to
have been the rocks oil which most of'the
convicts split.
The various counties of the State have
contributed to the present population of
tlie penitentiary, including the dead, dis
charged, etc., during tho year, as follows:
Mobile 58, Dallas 22, Marengo 14, Aloiit
gomerv and Butler 13 each. Madison 12.
Wilcox 10, Bullock and Perry 9 each,
Pike, Lowndes and Limestone 8 each,
Barbour 6, Baldwin and Tuskaloosa J
each, Henry, Autauga, Sumter, Calhoun,
Alarion and Jackson 4 each. Talladega.
Lauderdale, Greene, Coosa, Chambers and
Dale."! each. Lawrence, Sanford. Alonroe,
Elmore, Crenshaw, Fayette, Coffee and
Colbert 2 each, and Conecuh, Hale, Clark,
Walker. Lee. Franklin, Jefferson, Ran
dolph. Bibb and Escambia. 1 each. There
are nineteen counties in the Slate, totally
unrepresented in this flourishing institu
tion.
The convicts are of the following sexes j
and colors; AVhite males 59; white females
1; colored males 192; colored females 19:
total white 60: total colored 211. Per
centage of whites to total white popula
tion .00011, or but a traction more than
one out of every ten thousand in this ter
rible. bloody, Ku-kbix-ridvten, ghost
haunted laud, of Alabama. Tiler per
centage of blocks to the colored popula
tion is .00049, equal to nearly live out of
every ten thousand of population, and
rather more than four blacks to every
white.
Battle in the Woods. —The News re
ports a lie.u v battle nine miles from
Eufaula, on the 80tli. between a party of
gentlemen, consisting of Col. E. S. Ott,
Dallas Pippin, John and Osburae Weils
and Turner Smith, and a family of No
lens, consisting of the father, Daniel
Nolan, and six sons. The first named
party had gone out to have a fox-hunt.
The Nolans put some of their dogs in the
chase, as it was being run by their house.
The curs, however, would run rabbits
and everything else, and Messrs. Ott.
Pippin and John Wells insisted to three
Notans that their dogs should be with
drawn. Words ensued. A Nolan called
Air. Pippin a “damn, liar" and Air. P.
knocked him down. The Nolans went off
and secured a reinforcement of four. The
battle was waged with clubs, rocks and
knives. The result was Air. Pippin, having
(icon dragged from his horse, stubbed, it
is thought fatally, a Nolan. Col. Ott,
while trying to quell the disturbance,
was failed by a club. Air. John Wells
- had two ribs broken and a club blow on
his he;ui. Air. Oshume Wells, then e< uu
itig up with Air. Smith, li.nl hi- sxuil
fractured and one of his cheek lames
battered. It is thought he cannot live.
Mr. Smith received head injuries from
1 club blows. The party of hunters were
J met separated, as they would naturally
be, and assaulted by detail. The hunters
carried with them no guns nor pistols and
were in consequence not equal to the
enemy. Each of the Nolans surrendered
to the officers of the law Sunday morning,
and were to have their examination before
Justice Bush.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Griffin. —The Griffin, Madison and
Monticello Railroad have paid up estimates
of work to last week. Subscribers are
settling promptly A fifteenth amend
ment stabbed another in meeting, be
cause he carried his wife to church
Asher Sclieiicrman, a prominent merchant
and citizen, died Monday A party of
negroes engaged in a row Monday night,
at a negro cabin seven miles from town.
Two were killed and five seriously
wounded, tw oof whom it is thought will
die. Country darkies objected to railroad
negroes joining tlieir frolic; hence, the
row.
Atlanta. —Joe Brown paid $25,000
December rent for State road.
The committees to investigate Bullock's
action and the State Road lease met yes
terday The Sheriff’s sales Tuesday
amounted to nothing, although half-a
million dollars worth of property had
been advertised Atlanta is going
crazy over the Putnam troupe. The Sun
says .Edwin Browne “as Dick Swiveler is
peerless.” Col. G. W. Adair sold.
Tuesday', at auction,.the Johnson property,
90x200 feet, corner of Pryor and Hunter
streets, for SB,OOO V large edifice on
Houston street lias been secured for the
Georgia Orphans’ Home. The building is
being fitted up* and furnished, and will
soon be opened for the reception of
orphans Bard lias given up the idea
of publishing a Grant paper in Chatta
nooga The Constitution lias the fol
lowing :— Meningitis Cured nr a New
and Successful Agent. —Dr. E. N. Cal
houn, physician to Fulton county jail,
visited a negro follow confined in the dun
geon, who was suddenly stricken down
with this painful malady, and remaining
twenty-six hours severely convulsed, at
which time the Doctor administered to
bacco enema, and continued it as neces
sity seemed to indicate for three days, at
which time he was entirely relieved. His
opinion is that it is the only reliable
remedy for this disease.
Atlanta. —Tuesday, at the Rolling
Mill, two boys, Doc Barrett and Cluuies
Column, while playing ball fell out. Bar
rett drawing liis pistol shot Column, strik
ing him in the side just below the ribs.
It w ill prove fatal, Barret is in the hand
of the bailiff A number of railroad offi
cers convened to arrange freights and em
igrant rates, north and west of Atlanta.
Superintendent Fpreaere is among them.
A meeting of the Executive Commit
tee ol' the Green Line was held Wednes
day As the AVest Point passenger train
was coming in Wednesday evening near
Peters street crossing, some miscreant
threw a good-sized rock at it, breaking a I
glass and falling inside of the coach, to !
the terror of the passengers One hun- .
died and live shares of stock in the At
lanta Ice Manufacturing Company sold at |
auction for $5 2f* per share of $25 —$14
paid in Attachments were issued Wed
nesday r,l the inf.t*oo‘o of tile Northern
creditors of H. I. Kimball against the It.
t. Kimball Ifouse and furniture. The
claims are for mantels, gas lixturcs, etc.,
and foot up over twenty thousand dollars.
Clarence llarlan, alias Haynes, alias
W hitman, was i nested for passing a
forged draft on Col. It. M. Young, at
Calhoun A IT. M. Deputy Marshal lias
arrested one flreoue H. Holcolmhe, who
lias been having white people imprisoned j
in North Georgia on false charges The !
‘ Keith House,” on Houston street, con
taining ten rooms, has been secured for
the branch of the Baptist Orphans’Home, j
located in Atlanta. A Baptist lady of At
lanta pays the rent for the first year. The
building is now being fitted up, and the
Home will be inaugurated about the first
of February. It is probable that the main
home will be located on the W estern and
Atlantic Railroad about two miles above j
Marietta, where three hundred acres of
land has been donated to them. The Di
rectors are on the look-out for two mat
rons.
Savannah. —Charles Leash, an ex-Fede
ral soldier, drowned C. C. Collins has
been presented by the mechanics of the
Atlantic and Gulf ilaiiroad machine shops
with $l5O worth of jewelry llesidenceof
Captain George A. Nicholl robbed Friday
night of a quantity of silver ware The
Advertiser received strawberries on New
Year’s Harry Burns, mate of the :
steamer Ajax, slightly cut his right ankle
with an adze. Mortification ensued. ;
Leg has been amputated below right ;
knee. Central Ilaiiroad stockholders j
re-elected as directors. XV. M. Wadley,
Andrew Low’, John 11. Wilder, William B.
Johnston. Gen. J. F. Gilmer, Geo. W.
W'ylly, John Cunningham, Geo. W.
Anderson, and A. M. Hartridge. They
were to re-elect Col. W adley President
yesterday The Augusta and Savannah
Ilaiiroad elected the following directors :
A. I\. Lawton. William Duncan, 11. A. I
Allen. John Davison, Wallace Camming,
Geo. S. Owens and John L. Hardee. At !
a subsequent meeting of the Board Wal
lace Camming, Esq., was elected Presi
dent Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany elected as directors: Charles
Green, Morris Ketchum, James G
Mills, Philo 0. Calhoun, John
(’. llowland. James If. Johns
ton. Alfred !.. Hartridge, William W.
Gordon, Milo Hatch, Daniel G. Purse
and Edmund Ketchum. At a subsequent
meeting of the Board Charles Green, Esq.,
was elected President.
Savannah. Henry Burns, mate of
steamer Christiana, died of the injuries
mentioned yesterday Central ilaiiroad
stock sold on Tuesday from SIOB to
*H‘B 50; S. W. K. B. stock ut SIOB 75
per share; Gulf straight $l!l The Na
tional Freedmen’s Bank, during the year
1871. had 12.001 separate deposits amount
ingto $200,011 17. Present number of
depositors *10,780 hi).
Macon.—Hartwell P. Smith. Master of
Transportation on the South Western
Itailroads, died, Sunday, of consumption,
aged 53 years. lit' was the father-in
law of Conductor Jas. N. Bass
No Macon papers, received yesterday.
Macon.—Mrs. A. Dure, one of the
oldest residents, i„ dead. She was a
native of France, and hail witnessed all
tht; horrors of the first French revolution.
She was near four score and ten years of
age.
Mc.Ni.OE County, Mr. Win. L. Cham
bliss caught three red and one gray fox in
three consecutive mornings, last woek,
with the same pack of dogs The For
syth Council has issued SJU.oooof "prom
ises to pay The Griffin and Madison
Ilaiiroad has been graded ten miles next
to Griffin, and several hundred hands are
at work Forsyth has received 5,302
bales of cotton The negroes are re
newing contracts with great unanimity.
Mili.kdoe.vu.li:. John A. Breedlove,
fur many years Sheriff of Baldwin county.
* is dead.
•nil KSDAV HMMIHO, jan. 4.
Our Factories. —They are now being
run to their full extent, but the demand
| for tlieir goods cannot be supplied. Es
pecially is this so at the Engle and Plienix
Mills. There, everyone is up to his eyes
in business. The orders for their goods
come from far and wide. The company
ships in all directions. Stewart, of Now
Y'ork. has taken a fancy for the cotton
blanket, and orders largely. The blanket
is made only at these mills, and is an im
provement on those manufactured in
Europe. No other establishment on this
continent has succeeded in producing
them. These industries are the sources
whence Columbus gains what distinction
slic possesses, and it is gratifying to know
they are on the high road to success. The
Eagle and Plienix Mills, without doubt,
produce a greater variety of cotton and
woolen goods than any establishment out
side New England, and even there they
cannot make the cotton blanket.
The Question of Meats. —Tlie estimates
this season differ. Except in Tennessee
and Kentucky, the hog crop is represented
to be much larger than last year. The
packing at Louisville in round numbers,
it is said, will be 310,000 against 242,000
last season. Indiana and Illinois have
furnished 33 per cent, of the hogs slaught
ered at that point. Kerchoval & Son, of
St. Louis, insist that the crop of 1871-72
cannot exceed 4,484,489, subject to the re
duction of an unusual summer slaughter.
N. S. Jones, of Cincinnati, claims 4,500,-
000 as the relative crop. Other estimates
make it over 5,000,000. Certainly tlie
packing at present date is greatly in ex
cess of last year. A prominent Western
broker informs his correspondents that
reliable data from fifty-five packing points
induces him to estimate the crop at 3,894,-
000. As long as receipts continue heavy-,
it is useless to talk of short crops. At all
points heavy stocks are being accumulated.
Au exhibit makes 1,000,000 pounds in
round numbers daily- taken for export
since Ist November from one single port,
New Y'ork, —over 400 per cent, more than
last season for the same time —while com
parative shipments are also made from
New Orleans, Baltimore and Boston, and
unless suddenly checked will soon take
1,000,000 of hogs,
The Election at Opelika Tuesday.
The municipal election took place last
Tuesday. There was a heated contestt.
In all 449 votes were polled. This would
make the population of Opelika about
2,200.
Tho following is the count reported by
the managers;
Independent Ticket—For Mayor, F. M.
Dunbar 241, For Aldermen, R. A. Dykes
228; J. A. C. Parker 221; V. D. Smith
2 1. t 11. Levy 232; J. H. Purnell 2: > 5: M.
W. Carden 215.
Democratic Nominees—For Mayor, M.
F. Echols, 208. For Aldermen; C O.
Melton 221; N. Tucker 224; G. Gassen
heiiner 176; A. G. Emory 215; J. H. W il
liamson 214; S. Hodge 190.
According to this count the following
Independents are elected : F. M. Dunbar.
Mayor, by 31 votes; and Dykes, Smith,
Levy and Purnell, as Aldermen. Tucker,
of the regular ticket is tho tilth Alderman,
wiillo Melton, of tho liofC" 1 "-". null Par
ker, of the Independents, received the
same vote. It is believed the result may
be changed when tho present Council
sifts the votes and throws out such as
wi re illegally- east.
Auction Sai.es Yesterday. —There was j
quite a crowd in attendance on Ellis A
Spencer s sales at Gamniol’s stables yes- ;
tevday, but the bids indicated a great
scarcity of money. None of the omni
busses or carriages were offered. Some
broken-down vehicles brought respective
ly $3, sl2 and S3O. One hack brought
$100; another $140; a sundown $200;
three buggies, $75, S4O and $100: two
mules. slOll and $135. About eighteen
horses were sold. Six ranged in price
from $153 to $l7O, and four from SIOO to
$135; the other eight from s3l to SOS.
MethodistMinisters.— llevs. A. Wright
and Jos. Key have established themselves
in their respective parsonages. Rev. T.
T. Christian, the Presiding Eider of the
District, has removed from Talbottou to
this city, and has occupied the house
where Rev. J. 11. DoVotio, and last year.
Rev. A. J. Dean resided. Rev. W. M. D.
Bond, the pastor of Wesley Chapel, was
expected yesterday. A house has been
rented for him in Marshal, just over the
river, beyond the upper city bridge. All
the late pastors have gone to their new
charges.
Stephen F. Miller, Esq. —We have re
ceived two very pleasant calls from this
accomplished and excellent gentleman.
After a short absence to Atlanta, v. here he
is engaged in the publication of a book,
he will become a citizen of Columbus.
He is the author of the “Bench and Bar
of Georgia,” and an able editor and con
tributor to the press. We extend to him
a cordial welcome in our midst and hope,
with returning health, that liis energies
may return and ho again bless the State
with his virtues and talents.
Healthy. —Wednesday closed raining
and cool. Yesterday opened bright and
bracing. The weather hardly knows what
to do, “Old Probabilities” having both
ered it so much. Notwithstanding these
sudden and frequent fluctuations, the
tables of mortality show, with one except
ion, Utica, New York, fewer deaths than
any place on the continent. The compar
ison, population considered, has been
made several times with the same result.
Chance in Newspaper Proprietor
ship.—Juo. E. Roberts and James M.
Richards have purchased of Frank B.
Tieknor the Opelika Locomotive, which,
as editors and proprietors, they will pub
lish weekly.
ill. Tieknor has purchased an interest
in the Pensacola Mail, and will move to
Pensacola.
We wish all parties the best of success.
Municipal Officers at Salem, Ala.—
The following officers were elected last
Monday:
Intendant —W. P. Kennon.
Couneilmen —S. G. Claytor, W. M.
Adams, Dr. J. C. Flielps, 11. if. Vann,
W. A. Dunn.
Hon. Alfred Ivlrson. —We learn by a
letter from Macon, that this distinguished
gentleman, who was for a long time a
citizen of Columbus, is now in improved
health, having been an invalid for some
months.
Oil' i or the Conference. —The colored
Methodist preachers left yesterday for
Savannah to attend their conference. The
depot was black with portions of their
congregations assembled to sec them off.
Auction Price of Heal Estate. —
Yeslerdav, C. S. Harrison sold half lot .>7O
on Mercer street, between Baldwin and
Thomas, for $1,725. The place, we un
derstand, ha-> excellent small houses.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
What is called advanced ideas and false
ly progress, is turning the world topsy
turvy. Old things religious, political, do
mestic and philosophical, seem bursting
loose from their anchors and drifting
about at the mercy of each momentary
wind atid wave. France, after swinging
around the whole circle of government,
is now oscillating between anarchy,
imperialism and republicanism. Spain is
unsettled with an Italian King oil the
throne of the Ferdinands. Victor Eman
uel and Tins IY, find a small difficulty to
mix the temporal and spiritual powers like
brandy and honey. Mexico, as usual, is
engaged in her amiable occupation of rob
bery and throat-cutting. Cuba is in revo
lution. Sau Domingo is black in the face
and on its last legs. The United States,
composed of all nationalities, reflects all
shapes of opinion and power, from tho
Russian despot to the French communist
and Mexican bandit, whose thirst for hu
man blood is never satisfied. While Vnl
mazeda is hunting down tho Cuban insur
gents with fire and sword, Grant is plying
the same vocation in North and South
Carolina, and threatens other States with
these striking evidences of affection. This
is a hustling world, and it seems the la
dies are determined to do their part of the
hustling, if things generally do go up in a
bust.
Albeit we are no prophet, nor the son of
one, though bearing a prophetic name;
hit or miss, we will gather about us our
mantle, look wise as Minerva’s bird, scan
tlie coffee grounds, ponder over the Siby
line leaves, and like some of our contem
poraries, we too, will open our lips as a
soothsayer. Like all modern prophets,
our prediction shall contain none of the
contortions and all the inspirations of a
true prophet. We will be direct and posi
tive, leaving no peg on which to hang a
doubt or construction. YVe predict that
the present Congress will extend suffrage
to females. This may- appear a wild pro
phecy to some, but time will prove its veri
fication.
It was published some time ago, that
tho Legislature of Wyoming had repealed
tlie law conferring on women tlie right to
vote. This- is a mistake, as is evident
from an extract from a letter written by
Gov. Campbell, and dated Doc. 19. 1871.
The Governor says:
“I am just in receipt of your letter of
the 13th inst., inquiring what disposal has
boon made of tho Dill repealing woman
•suffrage in W yoming. The hill originated
in the House of Representatives, and {Hiss
ed that body by a vole of nine to three; oue
absent. It passed the Council by a vote
of five to four—a strict party- vote in both
Houses —the Democrats facoring and tho
Republicans opposing the repeal, t re
turned the bill to the House with my ob
jections, w hich you have probably seen.
It lias passed after the veto in the House
by a vote of ten to three, but failed to
pass in the Council—the vote being (as
before) five in favor of passing it over tho
veto, and four against the passage. So it
failed to receive the necessary two-thirds
vote, and is stilt the law. I trust it will
continue to he the law so long as it is pro
ductive of good, as ii has been in tlie
{last."
So much for Wyoming! The National
Suffrage Committee w ill holda convention
in Washington city on the 10th, 11th and
12th, of this month. “The Woodhull
Memorial” at the last session of Congress,
was respect rally received, hud a minority
report of the Judiciary Committee made
in its favor, which bus been sanctioned by
the opinions of some of the ablest consti
tutional judges and lawyers of the coun
try. About forty of the strong-minded,
headed by Lueretia Mott, say in Woodhull
A Clallin's last Weekly: “It only remains
that tlu> coming Congress pass a Declara
tory act. and women citizens in every
State of the Union will be able to vote for
the next President without hindrance;
their eligibility to this high office is al
ready settled by the original constitution
-Art. 2. Sec. 4.”
Such is a part of our boasted progress!
Tt exhibits a State diseased in its most vi
tal organs. To this complexion recon
struction must come at last, and is this
impotent conclusion to be numbered
among fiio "ueeept-the-situation” of our
Southern new depnrturists?
GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE.
Mr. ]!. Latham, of Yorkville. South
Carolina, writes to the Now York Tribune,
a quasi defense of South Carolina Kn-
Klux. From the tone of his letter, it is
evident that if he has anything of political
bias at all. it is to the. side of Republi
canism, but the taint cannot he very
strong, for he is frank and honest in his
mode of dealing with the question. Lest
ho should be mistaken for a partisan, in
any sense of the word, he disclaims hav
ing any connection with the Ku-Klux, and
says that “in common with a vast multi
tude of South Carolinians” he regards
Kn-Kluxism as a grand mistake morally,
politically and socially. “The question,”
he continues, “is not Republicanism or
Democracy but—-
“Shall honesty or dishonesty prevail'!
You have fought manfully against the
Tammany Ring. I, from my very soul,
commend you for it. There is a Ring in
South Carolina more infamous than the
Tammany Ring. Since the surrender of
Robert E. Lee, at Appomattox Court
House, 1 have never heard of one finger
being raised against the United States
Government. I never heard but one man
say that he desired the negroes back in
bondage, and that man was, at the time
he made the declaration, and is to-day, a
supporter of the infernal ring which is
ruining—no, has ruined— the State of
South Carolina. The people of South
Carolina are taxed, literally, to death. Do
you ask for what? Why, sir, to make
this infamous Ring rich. The point
which I desire to make iH simply this:
The Ku-Klux organization is not, and
never was, a conspiracy against the United
States Government; it was a blow aimed
at the State Government. * * * Fuller
the peculiar circumstances w hat could the
people of South Carolina do lint resort to
Ku-Kluxing? Do you say rely upon the
civil authorities? This was uti impossi
' bility. A judge and jury might send a
: man to the penitentiary, and the Hon.
Robert K. Scott, Governor of the State,
would pardon him and turn him loose
upon the community to steal or plunder
|as before. No, not to do these; but Gov.
Scott would reward him with the best
office he hud at his command, as if to
remunerate the villain for his crime and
cause him to forget his guilt. No one
has any desire to prevent the negro from
* voting in the abstract; but every man
who has a grain of sense and principle
desires the negro and white man, too, to
vote for honest men and not for rogues.
You know or at least I think you know,
that all those men who came into our
country after the surrender are the vilest
adventurers. Would you —I ask you the
plain question—let Robert K. Scott or
Niles G. Parker have charge of die uione
| tary affairs of the Tribune? I know you
j would not. They would reduce yon to beg
i gary in less than a year, and your noble
paper would go the way that South l aro
linahas gone. Just think of the invest
ments that Robert K. Scott, the leading
spirit of South Carolina carpet-baggers,
has made. I tell you, and 1 tell you with
no other motives than simply to make
the truth known, that we are robbed and
swindled as no people over were. The
great majority of those who hold office in
South Carolina do not care one fathiug
for her. any further than that they may
get rich by plundering her treasury.
* * * “Why does not the United
States institute a search for the house
burners? The civil authorities of South
NO. 48
Carolinaarc insufficient for the tusk The
Union Loaguo is the mother of all the
house-burning that took place in York
county. Why not ferret out the incendi
aries? Why not pass a law that will meet
the case? I aiu no politician; I never
expect to be; I tell yon that the people of
South Carolina are run to desperation,not
by Republicans, not by Democrats, not
by the poor negroes; but by- 11 set of
thieving adventurers and unprincipled
natives, who prowl, as the poet Burns
says, like "hell hounds’ around the treas
ury-of the State.”
Shakspeare and His Orthodoxy.
The biographers of the immortal bard
have been numerous, hut very few of
them have said anything of liis religious
character: and many, perhaps, may feel
surprised that one of our brethren in
Maine lias proposed to deliver a lecture on
the passages of Scripture illustrated bv
Shakspeare. The poet is usually thought
of ns being entirely careless of religion, or
as simply resting for eternal happiness on
his morality in the latter years of liis life,
But there are two or three facts which
may tend to raise our estimation of the
bard on this matter.
We lay but little stress on his beautiful
reference to Palestine in liis Henry IV.,
“These holy tlolits,
Over whose acres walked thoso blessed feet,
W liteli fourteen hundred years ago wore nailed
For our advantage on the littlo cross.”
But there are two facts which go far to
encourage our hope as to his real Christi
anity.
It will be remembered that he entirely
abandoned the stage, and left London
1610, and retired to Stratford on Avon,
his native place, where he died 1616. —
During this period it would seem that he
and his family attended his parish church,
where the Rev. Richard Byrield, an emi
nent Puritan minister, and father of the
distinguished commentator on tlie Epistle
to the Oollossiuns, commenced his length
ened ministry in 1596. Richard Byfield
was an energetic and faithful minister of
Christ, and wo may hope, both from his
character, and the fact of Shakspere being
his constant hearer, that some Christian
sympathy- existed between them.
But there is another still more hopeful
circumstance. Shakspeare's will was writ
ten some two months before his decease,
in April, 1616. and is remarkable for its
Protestant and evangelical character. lie
says, "First 1 commend my soul into the
hands of God, my Creator, hoping, and
assuredly Believing through the merits of
Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be make, par
taker of life everlasting; and my body to
the earth whereof it is made.”
1 am disposed, now that my pen is in
my hand, to refer to u tradition in refer
ence to the funeral sermon delivered for
Shakspeare by the minister of the elinreh
he attended: and I do this the more readi
ly. as I am not sure it has yet been print
ed. Avery old lady, who was a native of
that neighborhood, told me fifty years ago
that she learnt from her grandmother,
who heard the sermon, that the congrega
tion in attendance on that occasion was
very large and very serious in their feel
ings; that the preacher was very animated
and eloquent, and that after describing
the intellectual character of Shakespeare
at great length, and having avowed his
opinion that no limn since the days of the
apostle Paul had possessed so profound an
acquaintance with all the diversified forms
of human nature, he burst into tears, and
exclaimed, “Would to God he had been a
divine!” A wish in which he will yet
have the sympathy of many.
“A GENUINE BUCKLR,”
Mark Twain delivered 011 c of iiis pa
thetic lectures in Chicago last week, and
that lecture e .utained the molmieholly
passage which follows, uncut Mark’s ex
perience 111 Carson City:
Everybody rode horseback in that tow n.
I never saw such j 1. .*,;1 liti....nt horseman
ship as that displayed in Carson streets
every day. and 1 did envy them, though .1
was not much of a horseman. But 1 lmd
soon learned to tell a horse from a cow
| laughter, j unit was Ininiing with impa
tience to learn more. 1 was determined
to have a horse and ride myself. Whilst
this thought was ranking in mv mind, the
auctioneer eanie scouring through the \
plaza on u black beast that was humped,
and. like a dromedary, and fearfully 1
homely. He was going at "twenty, twen
ty-two dollars, for a horse, saddle and !
bridle.”
A man standing near lue —whom I didn't
know -but who turned out to he the auc
tioneer's brother, noticed the wistful look
in my eye, and observed that that was a
remarkable horse to he going at such a
price, let alone the saddle and bridle. I
said I had half a notion to bid. “Now,”
he says, “1 know that horse. I know him
well. You are a stranger. 1 take it. You
might think he is an American horse, but
he is not anything of the kind. He is a
Mexican plug—that's what lie is a genu
ine Mexican plug,” but there was some
thing else about the mail’s way of saying
it. that made me just determine that I
would own a genuine Mexican ’plug if it
took every cent I had. And 1 said “Has
he any other advantages?” Ho hooked
his forefinger in the pocket of my army
shirt, and led me to one side mid uttered,
"Mil! don’t say a word! He can outlmek
any horse in America: he can outlmek any
horse in the world” [laughter.] Just then
the auctioneer came along, “Twenty-four,
twenty-four dollars for the horse, saddle
and bridle.” I said “Twenty-seven?”
"Mold!” [laughter.]
I took the genuine Mexican plug, paid
for him, put him in a livery stable, let him
get something to oat and get rested, and
then in the afternoon brought him out in
the plaza and some of the citizens held
him by the head and others held him down
to the earth by the tail, and 1 got on him.
And as soon as these people let go [ laugh
ter] he put all his foot in a bunch togeth
er, let his hack sag down and then ho
arched it up [laughter] suddenly [laugh
ter] ami allot me one hundred and eighty
yards [great laughter] and I came down
again, straight down, and lighted ill the
saddle, and went up again. And when I
came down the next time 1 lit on his neck
and seized him and slid hack into the
saddle and held oil. Then he raised him
self straight up ill the air on his hind feet
and just stepped around like a member of
Congress ( convulsive laughter. | and then
he came down and went up the other way
and just walked around on Ins hands just,
as a schoolboy would. Then he came
down on all fours again with the same old
process of shooting me up in the air, and
the third time I went up I heard a man
say, “O, don’t he buck!’ [Loud laugh
ter.] Mo that was “bucking.” I was very
glad to know it, Not that 1 was enjoying
it, lmt then I had been taking a general
sort of interest in it | laughter,] and had
naturally desired to know what the name
of it was. And while 1 was lip somebody
hit the horse a whack with a strap, and
when I got down again the genuinebueker
was gone. [Hoars of laughter. |
At this point of the interesting scene h
kind-hearted stranger cauie to the rider,
told hint that lie had been taken ill, ex
plained the mysterious term, and gave
him the comforting information that any
body in town could have told him all
about the horse if he had inquired.
Grant’s Pecuniary Meanness. Ihe
New York Sun well remarks that one of
the repulsive features of President Grant s
more recent career is his pecuniary mean
ness. He not only takes presents and in
creases his large fortune in that manner,
but he is very mean. Here, for instance,
is his sou. who tint just been educated at
YVest Point at the public cost, and who
holds a commission as an officer of the
army. First, the young mail has a leave
of absence to go into the service of a rail
road company, drawing his pay as an offi
cer and his salary as an engineer at the
same time. Now he is going to Europe;
but his father does not pay the bills, as
other men do when their sons travel
abroad. The traveling expenses of this
young man are to be paid by the people of
the United Mtates. He is ordered for
sham duty in Europe, and this suffices to
secure full pay for him, just as though lie
wits really iu service here at home. Ibis
is not only an offensive proceeding be
cause it is bestowing a special favor upon
I the President and his son. at the expense
I of the people, tint it is also exceedingly
mean. In fact, it amounts to obtaining
money under false pretences, and to tak
ing what belongs to other people.
I Athens. -To December 30th 1t,550 bales
of cotton has been received.
Correspondence of tlie Atlanta Constitution.
About Columbus--lt? Mills--A Marriage,
and Other Matters.
Columbus, Ua., Dec. 27, 1871.
A ride through and around the Chatta
hoochee city has induced me to give you
this short article. If we except the low,
marshy appearance of some of her streets,
I think Columbus one of the most lovely
cities in tho State. As to beauty and or
nament her Wyunton and her Beallwood
will compare favorably with any place it
has been my lot to witness recently. AI-»
though the dwellings are not of tlnit mod
ern style and architect unit beauty pos
sessed by some of our dwellings in Atlanta,
the extension and requisitely beautiful
front gardens can more than compensate
for all this.
Mr. Cook, on the street loading to Beall
wood, has a hedge of Mockomnge, repre
senting a chain of mountains, that actu
ally challenges the highest admiration. It
is called the “mountain hedge," and is
certainly a curiosity. But 1 cannot im
{lose on your space, and toll of all that is
beautiful and ornamental in Wyunton and
Beallwood. Suffice it to say that alt who
Pay these places a visit in their rides arc
agreeably surprised, mid return in love
with what they have seen.
I thought Columbus- the very home of
repose with her wide, level, and sandy
streets, until 1 visited Broad street.t'
found this street thronged, and business
lively, but her moAt crowded day cannot
begin to compare w ith tho noise and vivac
ity of Atlanta. Perhaps this may he due
to the width of her streets and tho want of
that disposition so peculiar to the citizens
of Atlanta to vie with each other in run
ning foot races. Nevertheless, Columbus
is a great city, and is, perhaps, destined
to become a mighty lever power in work
ing out the prosperity of Georgia. Situ
ated at the head of navigation on tlie
Chattahoochee river, her water power is
immense. White strolling through the
city yesterday it was mv pleasure to visit
the Engle and Plienix Mills, situated 011
the east bank of the river, just at tlie head
of navigation with untold water power to
run them. To one unaccustomed to such
sights tlioy will soon be deeply interested.
The building are two in number, each
live stories high, 22(1 feet long, 57 feet
wide. They contain 588 looms. 2i),000
spindles, 18,000 running in cotton. 2,000
in woolen works, and a sufficient number
of carding and warping machines. When
weTiehold all these in useful operation
we are constrained to class the powers of
machinery among tho most wonderful
achievements of thought. Also the vari
ety of goods made in these mills is partic
ularly noticeable. In the salesroom 1
found sheetings, shirtings, drills, stripes,
chocks, cottonades, ginghams, etc., etc.,
together with a very great variety
of woolen goods, cordage and twines,
and perhaps the pur excellence of manu
facture—-the celebrated cotton blanket,
which is certainly the cheapest and one
of the most, beautiful blankets I oversaw.
I am told that this company have a mo
nopoly in the manufacture of these blank
cts in the United States. All tlieirgoods
seem to be excellent and peculiar in
beauty of finish and brightness of color.
Curiosity prompted me to ask the order
clerk bis orders for the day, and he count
ed up 162 eases entered and unfilled. In
one of the Eagle and Plienix buildings l
found Mr. S. it. Robson temporarily run
ning tho celebrated Abel loom. 4'lns ere
at cm much comment — all in favor of its
work and capacity. Mr. Robson has, for
the time, met every objection urged
against iliis wonder ot the age.
Please pardon me for my extensive
comment upon these mills. I feel that all
should take an interest in Southern nuinu
faclorioM, as tile life of the South lies
almost as much in establishing these as
in adding to her agricultural productions;
and I feel that a walk through the dye
houses, machine shops, pickeries, finish
ing rooms and capacious offices of these
mills will do more to convince one of the
immense power of the South than all
we can write, and all that is requisite is
energy and discretion in directing our
means, lleuco liiy object is to induce
some capitalists to visit these or similar
mills,
I had the pleasure to day of wit
nessing the marriage of Mr. David Goudy,
of Atlanta, to Miss Katie Sikes, of this
place. Mr. G. is a sensible man, and lias
one of the sweetest of brides.
They married at It 11. in., and left tor
Atlanta, per Macon, at 12:40 a. 111. The
last wo heal'd of Dave, he was saying:
"•Anti the utrl 1 lavc'il In seventy-one.
I‘will worship tu seventy-two.
Politically, 1 find the people generally
hopeful ami highly pleased with the recent
selection for Governor. Nowhere is Gol.
Smith mere popular than at home. It is
the boast, of liis own county, that out of
a voting population of more than 1,50(1,
she gave him a full vote, lacking losh than
300.
It has been my pleasure to meet Dr. V.
11. Taliaferro, one of Atlanta’s esteemed
physicians in ante helium days, lie is
very much appreciated by the citizens of
Columbus, where he has resided for sev
eral years. The Doctor is receiving
encomiums from the medical fraternity,
far and near, as the inventor of wliat is
known as the “cloth tent.” This “tent” is
considered by one of our first physicians
of Atlanta as "an advance in uterine
therapeutics,” and is also valued so highly
by that very distinguished physician,
formerly of Paris, now of Now York city,
Dr. J. Marion Sims, that ho has written
Dr. TANARUS., requesting his views in full, and
to be allowed to present them before the
Obstetrical Society of New York. Doubt
less Dr. T. has rendered the female sex
an incalculable blessing.
Alamo.
NEWSPAPER REPORTERS.
MARK TWAIN NARRATES HIS EXPERIENCE.
In 11 recent lecture delivered in Chicago,
Murk Twain gets off the follow ing :
I reported on that morning newspaper
three years, and it was pretty, hard work.
But I enjoyed its attractions. Reporting
is the best school in the world to get a
knowledge of human beings, human na
ture, and human ways. A nice, gentle
manly reporter- I make no reference is
well treated by everybody. Just think ot
the wide range of his acquaintanceship.
Ids experience of life and society! No
other ocupation brings man into such fa
miliar sociable relations with all grades
and classes of people. The last thing at
night midnight he goes browsing
around after items among police and jail
birds, in the lock-up, questioning the pris
oners, and making lasting friendship w ith
some of the worst people in the world.
[Laughter. ] And the very next evening
he gets himself up regardless of expense,
gets on all tho good clothes liis friends
have got | laughter j. goes and takes dinuci
with the Governor, or the coiniiuilidc.r-in
chief of the district, tho United States
Senator, and some more ot the uppercrusts
of society, lie is on good terms with all
of them, and is present at every public
gathering, and has easy access to every
variety of people. Why, I breakfasted at
most every morning with tlie Governor,
dined with the principle clergymen, and
slept in the station house. ] Laughter. |
A reporter has to lie a little, of coin: -
or they would discharge him. That is tlm
only draw back to the profession. I hat is
why i left it. [Laughter. | I Hiiidillorcnt
from Washington: I have a higher and
grander standard of principle. Washing,
ton could not lie. 1 can lie, Init I won I
[ Prolonged laughter. J Deponing is la
ciuating, but then it iH distressim; to have
to lie so. Lying is bail lying is very
bad. Every individual in this house knows
that by experience. I think that for a
man to' tell a lie when lie can’t make any
thing by it, is wrong. | Laughter. |
Progress ok the Revolution. A new
light dawned upon the world with the in
troduction of Plantation Bitters twelve
years ago. Drastic purgation went out
restoration and renovation came in. The
eyes of the people were opened to the {pent
fact that the way to cure disease was to
strengthen and supjiort its victims, not to
place them at its mercy by depriving them
of tlie little strength they have. It soon
became evident that as a means ot infn-.
ing vitality into the feeble system, regu
lilting the secretions, curing indigestion,
and reforming a bilious habit ol body, no
medicinal preparation then know n was at
all comparable to the new- restorative.
Since then hundreds of attempts hnv.
been made to rival tho Bitters. They
have all failed, and the Grand Revolution
IN- medical TREATMENT, which was com
menced in iB6O, is still in progress. Noth
ing can stop it. for it is founded 011 the
principle, now universally acknowledged,
that physical vigor is the most formidable
antagonist of all human ailments, and ex
perience has shown that Plantation Bit
ters is a peerless invigoratin', as well as
the best possible safeguard against epi
demic diseases.
The Savannah Republican. This
journal, which has been suspended sin. c
the 21th of December, resumed publica
tion Wednesday 011 what basis is not
given. Col. Reed’s name remains as pro
prietor. We wish him success.