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THE WEEKLY SUN. 111• Mai*u \V«‘|.K. THOMAS OILBKKT. THOS. GILBERT & CO., PUOPUIETOttS. terms of subscription. , me year (strictly in advance) oo Six months, 44 4 * 1 *£> The?c rates will l>c strictly a<lliere<i to. CL I H KATES FOR ONE YEAR: riiib? "I K> copies to same postuffi©c,sl.7s each. 15 4k 44 44 44 1.50 “ ADVERTISING RATES: A iverlisenients inserted at $1 per.-^juare (ten inn - or less, in small type.) first insertion, and ui'v <*ent> each subsequent insertion. 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.