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BOARD CONTROL LAST NIGIIT—ELECTION
of Officers.— The Board of Control of
the Colurnhus Fire Department met in
the Engine House of No. 1. After the
transaction of some business, the old
Board adjourned sine die. The new
Board, composed of three officers from
each of the six companies, took their
seats, and Foreman W. H. Brannon was
called to the chair.
The Board went into the election of
officers, one vote allowed to a company.
On Ist ballot Williams received 5 votes,
and J. C. Porter 1, when on motion of
latter Williams, was declared elected unan
imously.
On the Ist ballot Andrews received 1
votes, J. C. Porter 1, and 1.
Rosette received six votes.
The following officers were then de
clared elected:
Chief Engineer—W. 11. Williams.
Assistant Chief Engineer—Geo. E. An
drews.
Secretary and Treasurer —G. W. Ro
sette.
These are excellent selections. Hr.
Williams is übout thirty years of age, for
many years was Foreman of No. 5, for the
last two years has been Assistant Chief of
the Department, and since Dec. 11th has
boon acting Chief. He is eminently fitted
for the position.
Mr. Andrews is also a young man, and
last year was Assistant Foremau of Hook
and Ladder Company. He is an excellent
officer.
Mr. Rosette has ably filled the position
to which he has been re-elected for years.
Our Representation and the Legisla
ture.—Hon. Jas. F. Pyu told us yesterday
lie would leave next Tuesday. The Legis
lature meets next Wednesday, when Iloi*.
•I. M. Smith will be inaugurated as Gov
ernor.
We notice in the Atlanta Sun of Wed
nesday, a statement that Mr. B. Conley
has been seriously calculating the matter
of jnaking an effort to hold on to the office
lie is now exercising the functions of, till
finally he has referred the matter to a com
mittee of three prominent members of
his party and personal friends, to con
sider, weigh well, and decide upon the
proper course to be pursued by him, and
by whose advice he will be governed.
The Sun has not learned whether they
have made any report or not, but trust
they will not be so silly as to advise him
to the holding on course.
Col. Smith is at present absent from
Columbus.
What They Write About. —We heard
a gentleman yesterday state that since
Col. J. M. Smith had been elected Gov
ernor of Georgia, letters have come pour
ing in on every conceivable subject, and
every manner of request. The majority
want office. One man writes about squar
ing the circle, and gives his views thCfeon;
another discourses on old thoughts under
anew dress, and quotes poetry, prose,
Latin, Greek and similar lingo by the
page. Some want his influence in secur
ing positions, in obtaining patents, and
one chap tells what his love said, and de
sires to bo acquainted with what the Gov
ernor would do if she said that to him.
So they go. It is a fortunate thing the
Governor elect has left the place. He
would be bored to death with gimlets. A
Governor, like an editor, is supposed by
many to know everything.
Death of Pbof. Wm. Thkeadgill.—
This gentleman died at his residence at
Union Springs, last Tuesday. He taught
school for eighteen years at Clmnnenug
geo. His life was a long and useful one.
Ho was a member of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, and for many years was su
perintendent of a Sunday School. We
also understand he was one of the propri
etors of the Union Springs Flouring Mills.
His years were full of honor. He has
been Mayor and Alderman of Union
Springs. He was a true man in every
sense of the word.
Skating Kink Reception. —-The second
grand monthly reception was well at
tended, and enjoyment ruled. Messrs,
liarwise and Crocker exhibited splendid
specimens of fancy skating, while the
amateurs did tlieir utmost. At !U o’clock,
“clear the floor” rang out, and Terpsichore
ruled until 11. Many lovely ladies and
clever gents graoed the floor with their
presence, and added to the liveliness of
the evening. We hope for many more
brilliant entertainments of the same.
Accidently Shot* —A young gentleman
last afternoon took a buggy ride with a
lovely lady. After returning, they went
into the parlor. A pistol dropped from
the gent’s pocket. It was discharged and
the ball entered the lady’s leg above the
ankle, inflicting a painful but not at all
serious wound.
The New Attokney General. —Grant’s
new Attorney General, Williams, has
written a letter to Senator l'ool, of North
Carolina, in which he states that there
will be no abatement on the part of the
Administration in the prosecution for
Ku-Klux offences.
He first announces that the organiza
tion has a general existence in the South
ern States, and then goes on to say that
those who commit the atrocious crimes
credited to it need expect no favor from
him.
Williams savs that about the only tiling
Akerman did which pleased Grant was
to wage a vigorous war on the so-called
Ku-Klux.
The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger says: “Certain Georgia
Radicals have been persistent in their ef
forts to induce Grant to interfere in
Georgia affairs to the end that Gov.
Smith might be prevented from taking
the gubernatorial chair. They succeeded
in enlisting Cameron and Delano in the
scheme, but Grant and the Cabinet con
cluded it would be unwise and dangerous
to Grant’s chances of re-election to humor
their Georgia friends in their little cap
rices, and declined to interfere in the
matter, at which said friends are very
much disgusted."
Why Akekmax Was Shelved. —The
friends of Gen. Grant and the Radical
Ring have accounted for the resignation
of Mr. Akerman on the ground that he
was incompetent to till tho high position
of the first law officer of the Government.
The AV askington correspondent of the
Missouri Democrat (Rad.) gives an addi
tional. and, we think, a stronger motive
for his removal: as follows:
The old question of granting additional
subsidy in bonds and lands to the Atchi
son or’Ceutral Branch Union Pacific will
soon be presented to the new Attorney
General for an opinion. Last summer it
was submitted from the interior depart
ment to Mr. Akerman, who returned a
written opinion against the legality of
further subsidy. He was next requested
io reverse his decision, but declined to do
so. The matter was afterwards left to
Delano amlßoutwellf or joint consideration
It is now understood that as they decline
to take the responsibility of favoring the
subsidy without legal advice, the case will
be sent to Attorney-General Williams'soon
after he enters upon his duties. The
amount of bonds and lauds involved is
from six to ejgkt million dollars.
Trestle bridge, builders are wanted on
the Savannah and Memphis Railroad. See
notice of Superintendent Sharp.
Robert L. Hardaway advertises he has
the Watt plow for sale at J. K. Redd A
Co.’s.
THE LEGISLATURE AND CONLEY.
The Legislature of Georgia will meet
Wednesday the 10th ins’., and will pro
ceed at once to count the votes and in
augurate the newly elected Governor.
We have u curiosity to know what Conley
will do about it? He may act the scholar
and gentleman, bow Governor Smith into
the Executive chair, wish him happiness,
and that further honors may fall upon
him hereafter, and quietly take his hat
and go “where the woodbine twineth.”
We hope the acting Governor will play
Chesterfield on the occasion. But on the
other hand, suppose his d< facto Excel
lency takes the sulks: plays mule; backs
his ears, and wont move an inch, what
will the Legislature do about that? He
may say to the Legislature I have a very
warm seat, a decidedly comfortable seat,
and am much mortified, yes, indignant!
that you should wish to turn me out in
the cold! I am of the tribe of Benjamin,
and strike with the left hand. You say
Smith is Governor! Yes, Smith, Smith!
well, I believe I have heard that name be
fore! I know Mr. Speaker Smith, but I
have not the honor of an acquaintance
with Oocernor Smith!
The Atlanta Sun says; “It is stated that
Benjamin Conley avows his determination
to hold on to the Gubernatorial office —
the election and inauguration of Governor
Smith to the contrary notwithstanding.”
If Benjamin sticks to this determina
tion, it may be well for the members to
look in the face at once the facts and the
law. The Legislature, the Treasurer and
all the officers of the State may fail to
recognize and communicate with him,
but ho will have in actual possession the
records, books and papers of his office.
The code provides that if the person fill
ing any office shall neglect or refuse to
turn over to his successor the records,
books and papers of his office after the
same are demanded, complaint can be
made to the Judge of the Superior Court,
who must grant an order, setting a time
for a hearing, and requiring such delin
quent to show cause why he should not
be compelled to deliver up the same; that
the Judge shall proceed to inquire into
the circumstances, and if it appear that such
books are illegally withheld he must order
the same to be delivered instanter to his
successors, and the punishment of failure
is fine and imprisonment till the books
are delivered up.
The Judge of the Superior Court gives
judgment and an appeal is had to the Su
preme Court. The latter Court is divided
in opinion. What then? Here are twin
Governors, and who shall be able to iden
tify the true and the false Dromio? We
are not ail Falstaffs to know by instinct
the true Prince. One good Governor at a
time, is enough for Georgia, but two is
coming it strong. This trouble could
have been avoided, if the Legislature had
refused at once and promptly to have
recognized Conley as Governor. It wished
to play a very conservative role, and as
the fool said after old King Lear had giv
en away his kingdom to his two ungrate
ful daughters—“ When thou givest them
the rod, and putt’st down thine own
breeches,
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung',
That such a King Should piny bo-peep,
And go the fools among.”
It is the realization of the story of the
kind sparrow that fed the cuckoo so long
until his head was hit off in consideration
of his extreme hospitality. We believe in
conservatism, but not enough to seek the
friendship, or fear the enmity of radical
ism. We may not dread the poison of a
serpent, but we have too much of its na
ture to put our finger on its tooth and
trust him not to bite. We rather choose
to follow the command of our God and
bruise its head—for we well know, if it
luis a chance, it will bruise our heel.
Central Railroad Company’s Reports.
Interesting Statements.
The thirty-sixth report of the President
and Directors of the Central Railroad
and Banking Company of Georgia to the
stockholders, comprised in a neat pamph
let, printed by George N. Nichols, has
been received. We have already pub
lished the report of President Wadley.
The report of Colonel William Rodgers,
the Superintendent, shows a decrease in
the transportation of guano during the
past year, as compared with the previous
year, amounting to “>2,21)2,269 pounds;
the decrease in salt to 2,645,713 pounds;
and the decrease in lime to 73,202 pounds.
Col. Rodgers adheres to the opinion ex
pressed in previous reports that steel rail
would ultimately be cheaper than iron,
and recommends that in renewing the
track of the main line steel rails be used.
Speaking of the improvements at
Macon, Col. Rodgers says: “The new
warehouse in Court Square has not been
commenced, as it has not been our policy
to push improvements beyond our ability
to continue dividends to the stockholders,
but I am satisfied that with that improve
ment, we could readily save the interest
on the investment, in economy of trans
acting the business of the three roads. In
the meantime, it has been determined to
concentrate the work at the Southwestern
and Macon and Western depots. This
will be done as soon as the new line can
be opened.
The total down freight iu 1870-’7l was
841,81610. against 1,01.7,402 92 in 1800-70.
The Perry line has been surveyed and
right oi way being adjusted. The distance
from Fort Valley to Perry, is twelvo and
one-quarter miles, and Superintendent
Powers estimates the cost of road at
$1.*>4,01)0.
If not detained for want of iron, the
track on the first twenty miles on the
Blakely extension will be laid by the first
of April. The total cost of this line is es
timated by Mr. Powers at $708,000.
The report of Mr. 0. C. Millar, the
Master Car-Builder, shows the total num
ber of cars now in use by the Ceutral and
Southwestern roads is one thousand three
hundred and twenty-six.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Stabtling Exhibit. —The joint com
mittee of the two Houses on the investiga
tion of the alleged outrages in the South
ern States have virtually completed their
work, ami will submit a report to Con
gress at an early day. The testimony,
with a single exception, is the most vol
uminous ever taken by a Congressional
committee, and will make several volumes
of closely written matter. The verbatim
reporting will cost the Government at
least SIO,OOO. There will be a majority
and a minority report The report made
by that portion of the committee detailed
for the purpose ou the debts incurred by
the Southern States and the rates of taxa
tion there is a most interesting exhibit,
for it shows that those debts have been
increased in the last five years iu an ag
gregate of two hundred million of dollars,
while taxation has incrersed in proportion
Ike majority report will maintain that
the Ku-Klux organization is a secret armed
power, existing in most of the Southern
States, but that it is being gradually bro
ken up by the enforcement of the Ku-
Klux act. It declares that Congress oivffit
to pass a general amnesty measure.
A CARD.
The undersigned takes great pleasure
iu publicly thanking the Georgia Home
and Virginia Home Eire Insurance Com
panies, for their promptness in settling,
through their agent, D, F, AVil(cox, Esq,,
Columbus, tho loss sustained by him
in consequence of the recent fire.
It* M. Connos, Troy, Ala.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Atlanta Sun learns that Bullock
has furnished Foster Blodgett with a writ
ten statement, exonerating the latter
from all lilame in the Tennessee Car Com
pany job—avowing that all was done by his
orders.
A nigger barber and preacher, has been
appointed route mail agent, on the South
Western Railroad, from Cuthbert to Fort
Gaines. If the darkey should accidentally
fall off, the Tost Master General is respeett
fully informed that no crape will lie worn.
Ameeiccs. —Col. C. T. Goode has been
nominated by the Democrats as their
candidate for the Legislature, made vacant
by the death of Hon. Wright Brady.
Amebicus. —G. F. Page, the ten-year
penitentiary-scntenced Radical ex-Kepre
sentative from Lee county, has been par
doned by Conley, and has returned home.
His crime was found to be voluntary man
slaughter.
Senoia. —Joseph Ballard was shot and
killed near Senoia, on Christmas day, by
Joseph Huggins. Whisky.
Augusta. —The Catholic fair, for the
benefit of the new parsonage, realized
$5,490 44 E. H. Pughe’s establish
ment printed 3,150 New Year's call cards.
Among other property sold at auction
were two pews in the Presbyterian church,
which brought sllO and slls Some
five weeks ago, a bright mulatto girl,
named Elmira Sandford, at that time in
the service of a gentleman of Augusta,
was induced to marry a white man, known
as I. C. Guyton, a professed telegrapher,
and at the time a sewing machine can
vasser. He proved of no account, and she
left him in Charleston and returned to
Augusta.
Speaking of the recent railroad confer
ences in Augusta, the Chronicle says:
Railroad Alliances. —Upon inquiry
we learn that the article which appeared
in our local columns on the 27 th ult., did
not correctly state the propositions which
were discussed by the officers of the Geor
gia Railroad and the Central at theif meet
ing in this place on the 22d and 23d of
last month.
The facts in relation to the conference
of the two roads as we now gather them
are as follows:
The Georgia Road made no objection to
an amalgamation of the Western Railway
of Alabama with the Central Company, as
no such proposition was made by the lat
ter. All propositions for a change of
status as to the Western Railway were
made, we learn, by the Georgia Railroad
—that Company desiring to let in the
Pennsylvania Company to equal privileges
on certain terms. This was resisted by
the Central Company. It was then pro
posed by the Georgia Company that the
Central should take all the interest of
both in the Western Railroad, and
lease the Atlanta and LaGrange Road on
certain terms. This was also declined by
the Central Company on the ground,
among others, that both the companies
should unite in the contest with the Penn
sylvania Company, which latter company
was seeking to destroy, or, at least, serious
ly impair the value of our State Railroad
interests. The Georgia Company de
clined to enter into this contest against the
Pennsylvania Company with the Central
Road. *
The Central Company then proposed in
substance, that for the mutual protection
of the Georgia and Central Railroad Com
panies, and the interests of their stock
holders, the two companies should be
more closely united in interest and man
agement, and to secure this suggested that
the present seperate organization should
be kept up, and all local intersts properly
cared for, and that the profits arising
from so working these seperate interests
should be equally' divided between the
stockholders of each company', share and
share alike. This latter proposition, we
learn, the Georiga Company, through its
Board of Directors, considered for some
time without coming to a definite conclu
sion, and then refer the whole matter to a
committee of three of its own body for
further investigation and consideration,
and thus the whole matter is still open for
adjustment and settlement.
Augusta.— Richmond county jailed 470
persons against 260 in 1870 It was re
ported Thursday that a challenge had
passed between a merchant of Augusta
and a gentleman from an adjoining coun
ty, on account of a ’previous “unpleas
antness,” which occurred in the city a
few day's ago The Augusta Factory'
paid 20 per cent, on last year.
Augusta. —City has no floating debt,
and interest on bonds punctually paid.
Considerable building and demand for
tenements Representatives of Mis
sissippi farms are going to South Carolina
to secure laborers Marcus Smith had
his son arrested for stealing a horse.
Proved the old man had given him the,
animal, when the offspring had ran off
with it to escape a beating the father
promised Katie Putnam troupe appear
Monday' A diamond breastpin, stolen
from Miss Lizzie Anderson, of Burke
county, and valued at S4OO, has been
turned up. It was stolen six years ago.
A negro was fined by the Mayor. His wife
paid it. She said she had pawned a pin
given by her father, an ex-slave of the
lady named. The negress did not know
its value. The Chief of Police now has it.
Savannah.—A prominent firm reported
as failed Thursday, no names given
Butcher iost $l5O, had luck and found it
in several days G. R. H. Anderson re
elected Chief of Police; J. H. Estell City
Printer. The following are among the
principal officers elected, all by Council:
Clerk ot Council, James Stewart; City
Treasurer, John R. Johnson; Assistant
City Treasurer, John D. Delannoy; City
Marshal, George W. Stiles; City Surveyor,
John B. Hogg; Deputy City Surveyor,
Miller B. Grant; Clerk of the Market,
Henry L. Davis; Corporation Attorney,
Edward J. Harden; City Sheriff, R. R.
Ilabberskam; Judge of the City Court,
Hon. Walter S. Chisholm; Clerk of the
City Court, Phillip M. Russell; Recorder
of the City, Hon. Wm. B. Fleming; Jailor,
Warning Russell; Keeper of Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Alfred F. Torlay Col. Wm.
Wadley re-elected unanimously President
of Central Railroad Company Savan
nah, in her Tax Ordinance for 1872, pro
vides for a tax not exceedingtwo percent,
on real estate-one per cent, on all com
missions and profits—one per cent, on all
incomes in excess of SBO0 —one dollar per
month on every horse and mule, etc
The Georgia Medical Society celebrated its
68th anniversary. The following officers
elected : John D. Fish, President; J. C.
LaHardy, Vice President: Robert P.
Myers, Recording Secretary; Thomas
Smith. Corresponding Secretary; John D.
Martin, Treasurer; J. Nunn, Librarian.
Savannah. —Jobn Mcllhenny, Mayor of
Columbus, Ga., and Alderman Salisbury,
of that city, were iu the city Thursday on
business connected with the municipality
of Columbus It was not a prominent
merchant, says the News, who failed, nor
is his store ou Bay street Negro pris
oners in Savannah knock down the parties
who bring them meals, and require the
whole jail force to handcuff one of them.
That’s the way of the metropolis One !
Milton Spinner did the Savannah News
out of some printing, and left his board
bill unpaid, and besides, obtained money
on false cards.
Albany. —Haigbt’s circus was at Albany
Ga.. on New Year’s day, says the Atlanta
Constitution. Four new cages were re
ceived there, and it became necessary to
change some of the animals. To transfer
the hyena a collar was placed on his neck,
but he managed to slip it over his head.
The keeper entered the cage to adjust it
and as soon as he entered the cage, the j
hyena, who was enraged, sprang upon
him. The scene was thrilling iu the ex
treme. The man screamed and yelled—
an oath and a prayer alternating. The :
fight was for life. The keeper fought
desperately to keep from being killed out
right, His clothes were literally torn in
shreds, but by almost supernatural efforts
he prevented bis flesh being lacerated, j
He was rescued by some of the men at
tacking the hyena with crow-bars. Those
who saw the scene say they never wish to
see another like it.
Albany. —Eight young men have formed
The Central City Minstrels to try and de
light Florida and Southwest Georgia
Planters meet with no difficulty in hiring
hands this season: and prices charged are
suited to the times.
Macon. —Total cotton receipts 42,955
against 70,068 last year, showing a decline
of 28,0X3.
Macon. —The Telegraph claims 18,000
people, anil supports one cotton factory.
Columbus claims 12,000 and is running
three, with 30,000 spindles, and a fourth
is about being established Macon has
levied a tax of 3 per cent, on all gross
sales; $3 on each inhabitant between 21
and 45 years in lieu of road duty; $1 on
each SIOO of valuation of real estate;
each retailer of spirituous liquors $10)1,
and drummers S2OO per annum, and other
trades in proportion.
LaGrange. —Col. J. P. Culberson’s gin
house burned on the 22d ult. Loss $2,-
800. No insurance. Incendiary Capt,
W. D. Chipley and W. C. Cherry in town.
Atlanta. —The Committee to investi
gate the management of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad under Blodgett, have
issued a big string of summonses for a
number of prominent officials on the road
at that time That Committee, chosen
by acting Governor Conley to consider his
case, and advise him what course to pur
sue, the Sun has heard stated, consists of
Hon. J. S. Bigby, Hon. J. R. Parrott, and
ex-Gov. J. E. Brown The General
Freight Agents, and other officials of At
lanta and connecting roads, were in exec
utive session Thursday at the State Road
Depot, Another meeting was to be held
Friday General J. L. Lewis, State
School Commissioner, tendered his resig
nation to acting Governor Conley on the
3d instant. Conley declined to accept
General Lewis’ resignation at present
Last year three crops of Irish potatoes
were raised on the same piece of land in
DeKalb county There are seventy-five
licensed bar-rooms in Atlanta. The city
received from licenses granted last year,
the sum of $17,606 95 On Wednesday
229 acres of land, 34 miles from Atlanta,
were sold for $5,058 28.
Atlanta.— Mr. John G. Bel!, a com
mercial traveler for the house of Meador
Brothers, committed suicide in Meridian,
Miss., recently A Hall county man one
hundred and one years of age, was in At
lanta the other day for the purpose of
selling some cotton raised by his own la
bor. He was as lively as a cricket, and
pranced around the warehouse to keep
himself warm New Council inaugura
ted. Annual receipts $.357,542 62; ex
hibitions $389,606 86. Council then went
into secret session for the election of
officers. The following officers were
elected: Clerk of Council, S. B. Love;
Recorder, A. W. Mitchell; City Judge,
R. J. Cowart; Chief Marshal, Gen. G. T.
Anderson, 4 Old Tig;” Ist Deputy, John H.
Johnson; 2d Deputy, Joe. S. Smith; Ist
Lieutenant of Police, Sid Holland; 2d,
Henry Holmes: Treasurer, J. W. Gold
smith: Tax Collector and Receiver, Jas.
H. Franklin: City Attorney, Newman,
and seven city physicians, one for each
ward, among whom are Drs. John B.
Beard and J. Stainback Wilson, formerly
of Columbus Templeton plays Huinpty
Dumpty Monday night Edward Par’
sons shipped Friday, via San Francisco, to
Auckland, New Zelaud, a box containing
140 pounds, of hickory nuts, white, post,
and Spanish acorns, with some hooks con
taining a true history of our late war,
consigned to E. B. Parsons, Auckland,
New Zeland. The distance is ten thous
and miles. We trust the box will safely
JPOG-vli iks* t yr, \fnv?»v
inaugural in favor of water works. West
ern Road, and Great Western Canal, and no
wasting of money. City has out one mil
lion dollars of bonds, and has only half
million of property to show for it.
Greensboro. —Cotton receipts to Jan.
Ist 2,519 against 3,324 last year Last
Tuesday lands sold at $4 76, $7 75 and
$26 per acre.
Talbotton. Christmas dull The
masquerade at Mr. A. W. Chapman’s, on
last Monday evening, was a complete suc
cess Surprise parties are “all the go,”
now A pink chicken created quite a
sensation among the ruralists, Tuesday
There is a “dorg” in town with a
pink tai1......A call for a Teachers’ Con
vention on the 13th inst The meeting
called for Tuesday last, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the Savannah Con
vention in February, was represented by
four citizens of Talbot county A May
or, marshal and four aldermen of Talbot
ton are to be elected on the 13th Maj.
R. A. Matthews and Miss Laura Leonard
married and left for the North While
shooting at a squirrel near Mt. Zion
church, y'oung Mallory accidentally shot,
not seriously, James Mixon The Stand
ard observes a disposition on the part of
a number of farmers to rent out their
lands to negroes and reversing the old
order of things requiring the negro to
pay instead of being paid. Negroes gen
erally remaining on plantations.
Sandeksville. The Georgian of the
3d says Capt. John G. Collins committed
suicide by caking striolmiue on the previ
ous Friday. Some time before he was
robbed of a considerable amount of mo
ney. Financial troubles the cause of the
act. Leaves a wife and two children.
Monroe County. —Five of the Swedes
who recently arrived, took leg bail last
Sunday, and made for the Griffin and
North Alabama Railroad, probably under
the enticement of another Swede at work
for that company, and who is said to have
been an agent for procuring labor for the
road. They were arrested on Thursday
and are now lodged in the Monroe county
jail where they will be taught that labor
engagements must be complied with.
Sumter County.— An election for Ordi
nary of Sumter county was held Wednes
day last, in which A. J. Williams received
310 votes, Jessee Stallings 267 and L. P.
Dorman 147.
Cahteksyille and Van Wert Rail.;
road. —Conley seized this road on behalf
of Clews & Cos., the Northern creditors,
and appointed Col. Printup, of Rome,
receiver. Printup came down to take
possession. We copy the rest from the
Cartersville Express.
“By a bill of injunction heard before
Judge Parrott, on Tuesday, all the par
ties in the interest of Clews and Con
ley, as well as judgment creditors
levying upon the road, have been restrain
ed. Colonel Printup demanded the pos
session of the road of the Sheriff. The
Sheriff refused under the decree of
the Court. The Colonel thought the sov
ereignty of the State badly treated, and
insisted on liis right of possession. The
Sheriff said he was bound by the order of
the Court, and having before his eyes the
fear of punishment, refused peremptorily
to let the Colonel in, and so the Colonel
has thus far failed to carryout the scheme
of Clews and Conley.”
The Col. has gone back to Rome. The
Atlanta Constitution is informed the con
tract for building this road allowed the
contractors the prodigious sum of over
$”7,000 a mile for its construction, or
nearly a h:df more than it would cost.
R. W. Milford advertises he is agent
for the “Great American Transplanter,”
the only thing that will successfully trans
plant cotton, corn, Ac Go to his store
and see it.
UNITED STATES AND SPAIN.
The protracted conflict between the
Cubans and the Spanish Government, the
late military execution of the school boys,
and the proclamation of the Captain-
General of th« Island, is attracting the
attention and arousing the sympathies cf
the world. Valmaseda announces to the
Cubans, and to the world, that on the 15th
of next month offers of grace and pardon
will cease; that all insurgents captured
after that date will be shot: that all sur
rendering after that date will he condemn
ed to perpetual imprisonment; that white
women captured “in the woods”—that is
to say, outside of the Spanish lines —will
he sent out of the country: negro women
will be given up to their owners, and will
be forced to wear a chain for four years.
The Northern philanthropists affect to bo
greatly shocked at this announcement,
and efforts are being made to screw the
courage of the President and Congress to
kick up a muss with Spain. After the
collapse of the San Domingo scheme, the
annexation of the “Gem of the Antilles”
might prove a trump card at the Presi
dential election. The shooting of boys,
and the whipping and sending of white
women out of the country may be tolera
ted by Grant and his Northern sympathiz
ers, but to give negro women up to their
owners, melts their souls and turns the
sweet milk of concord in the bosoms of
these weeping Uncle Toby's into a dis
cordant Inferno. It was this very refusal
to comply with a Constitutional duty that
formed the strongest element in onr civil
war, and is the chief characteristic and
mainspring in the whole Radical political
machinery. They are ready to shed tears
as fast “as Arabian trees tbeir medicinal
gum” over poor Cuba, but their eyes are
as dry as a powder horn over the whip
pings, imprisonment and exiling of native
North and South Carolinians. Like
Sterne and his kindred sentimental fools,
they are ever ready to cry over a dead ass,
and kill a live mother.
Although the Spain of 1872 is not the
Spain of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen
turies, still as a martial power she is not
to be despised. Three hundred years ago,
what England now is, Spain was. Then
the sun never set on her dominions. Her
formidable armadas and infantry were a
terror to Europe and Northern Africa.
She stood for centuries the shield and
sword of European Christianity, and al
most alone, with a strong hand and a
stout heart, after a conflict for several
hundred years, she waved triumphantly
the Cross over the Crescent amid the
blood and last sighs of the Moor. The
land of Columbus and the Cid is still pow
erful on the tented field and rolling wave.
The successors of the “Maid of Saragossa”
still live. For twenty years she has not
been visited with the revolutions which
have filled other portions of Europe with
blood and ashes. Her navy is equal to
that of the United States in number, and
better ordered. The son of Victor Eman
uel sits on the throne lately vacated by
the weak and dissolute Isabella, the Cath
olic. Every effort to buy or force the Is
land from Spain has proved a failure, and
from a knowledge of Spanish courage,
pride and obstinacy, we believe Grant will
be disappointed if his election depends
on the acquisition of Cuba. She will hug
it to her bosom as the last and brightest
gem in her once magnificent coronet, and
if lost, would clutch after it as the marin
er would do when his last plank is washed
from under his enfeebled and porishing
body.
Narrow Gauge Railroads.
The whole country is now interested
in railroads built upon the narrow gauge
system. The system does not now de
pend upon theory, but its practicability
mid advantages have been given a thor
ough test over a line of considerable
length. The following we clip from an
editorial in the New York Journal of
Commerce, one of the most reliable papers
on this continent. The road spoken of is
exactly the same gauge as our North and
South :
Narrow Gauge. —The first narrow
gauge railway for passenger travel and
freight, constructed on this continent,
has been opened and declared successful.
The road is known as the “Denver and
Rio Grande,” and is now built between
Denver and Colorado City, a distance of
seventy-six miles. It has a three-foot
track, the rails weighing only thirty
pounds to the yard, and the maximum
curvature is six degrees to the hundred
feet, the maximum grade being seventy
five feet to the mile. The passenger en
gines weigh twelve tons and cost only
$7,500, and the freight engines fifteen
tons, costing $8,500. Expense per mile
of building, as equipped, is $13,500,
which, on account of high transportation
charges of material from the East, is
greater than the cost of a similar road
would be in this part of the country.
The estimated cash cost of such a line
here is from SB,OOO to SIO,OOO.
An excursion was made over the road
immediately on its completion, between
the points mentioned, and the riding was
easy and comfortable, at fifteen to thirty
miles an h«Jhr. The cars are necessarily
smaller than those used on ordinary tracks,
being thirty-five feet long and seven feet
in outside width; having double seats on
one side and single seats on the other,
and accommodating thirty-four passengers.
Sleeping cars and all conveniencies of travel
can be provided on such roads as well as
on the wider gauges. The reported de
monstration of the practicability of a
three foot gauge over a broken country
like that in Colorado is a matter of im
portance to all the people of the United
States. It proves that all railways suita
ble for passenger and freight business
may be built far cheaper than the average
of existing roads. Towns and villages
which require rail connection, but have
hitherto been destitute of that advantage,
recoiling from the high price of construc
tion, may now pick up courage and build
a road. In mountainous regions, the su
perior merits of the narrow gauge are
very apparent, since the expense of cut
ting, filling, tunneling and grading is so
much reduced from the estimates for
broad gauges. The sharper curves prac
ticable with a three-foot track are also a
great argument in its favor. With di
minished cost of construction will come
more reasonable tariffs for passengers and
freight, less expenditure for repairs,
greater probability of dividends, and other
incidental benefits. We are gratified to
learn that the “Denver and Rio Grande”
is believed to be a triumphant experiment.
It is said that its extension to the city of
Mexico, 1,800 miles from Denver, is in
contemplation.
Grant and Fish on a Bender,—A cor
respondent of the New York Sun, writing
from Washington under date of December
20th, says:
About 5 o’clock last evening the loungers
at the main hall of the Arlington House
were astonished to see the door of the
elevator open and President Grant and
Don Hamilton Fish step our of it arm in
arm. The President’s face was as red as a
boiled lobster, and the Secretary of State
wore an expression like that of an owl
which is suddeuly brought into the full
glare of the daylight. It immediately en
tered the minds of those who were in the
hall at the time, that the President and the
Secretary had been enjoying themselves
pretty freely in one of the rooms up
stairs.
The two paid no attention to anybody,
but marched solemnly, and with a stately
tread, through the hall to the street door,
where they stopped, and Grant went
through some motions with his hands, which
were undistinguishable in the darkness.
At the same moment Mr. Fish tripped hur
riedly back to the clerk’s desk, and fum
bled in the match-safe until he had se
cured half a dozen matches. With these
in his hands, and his face beaming all
over with maudling smiles, he skipped to
the door again, scratching a match against
the jamb, and held it obsequiously until
Grant had lighted a cigar, which he had
in his mouth. The two then locked arms
once more, and meandered into darkness.
This little incident was observed by more
than a dozen witnesses, and has created a
great deal of talk this morning in certain
circles.
There were eight small pox deaths in
Chicago last week.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
Henry county voted last Tuesday large
ly in favor of subscribing $150,000 to the
Eufaula, Abbeville and Gulf Railroad.
Abbeville and Laurenceville alone, polled
a majority of 1,165 votes, “For Subscrip
tion.”
On Thursday, Moses W. Moore, colored,
was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of Alabama. He is a graduate of
the law department of Howard Univer
sity of Washington City, and a practi
tioner in the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia. A few weeks ago he
was admitted to practice in the Circuit
Court of Mobile county, after a thorough
and exhaustive examination by the lead
ing members of the bar of Mobile. This
is the first instance in the history of Ala
bama of a negro man being presented to
the Supreme Court of the State as a can
didate for admission to practice in the
Court. Moses W. Moore is a true type of
the colored man, being full blooded: so
says the Alabama Journal.
Charles W. Pressley, express agent of
Birmingham, left his home on Saturday,
the 2d of December, for Chattanooga, ex
pecting to return on the following Tues
day, but is still absent. His family en
tertain serious fears as to his safety ; they
earnestly request all good citizens to as
sisl in ascertaining his whereabouts.
Clayton has voted $5,000 to the erection
of a brick railroad depot by a majority of
92 Clayton had a grand party during
Christmas week Two hundred and
forty acres’ of valuable land, lying near
the Selma and Gulf railroad, some eight
or ten miles from Selina, was sold at auc
tion Thursday, at from $8 50 to $lO per
acre, to Mr. W. Martin Christopher B.
Douegan, a gallant and noble hearted fel
low, well known to every member of the
4th Alabama Regiment, died at his fath
er's residence, in Huntsville, ‘on the Ist
inst., after several days illness of pleuro
pneumonia The residence of Capt.
Aunspaugh in the city of Mobile was en
tered by burglars last Tuesday night.
Mrs. Aunspaugh lost wearing apparel to
the value of S6OO or S7OO The Monroe
Journal says that Crawford Johnson, Sher
iff of Escambia county, was shot dead by
one Gussett, a few days ago. The Sheriff
was attempting to arrest Gussett Elev
en prisoners broke out of the Marengo
jail, at Linden, on Christmas night
The Dallas Criminal Court punishes adul
tery by five days imprisonment in the
county jail in Selma Rev. Wm. H.
Jordan, aged 49, a citizen of Lauderdale
county, arose from his bed Christmas
morning in his usual health but died be
fore night, within an hour after being at
tacked of cramp colic. He was at one
time a member of the Tennesse Confer
ence of the M. E. Church Montgom
ery has received 43,423 hales of cotton
against 62,581 last season, and has a stock
of 11,251, against 12,690.
FLORIDA NEWS.
The Florida Legislature convened at the
i the Capitol on Tuesday.
The Lake City Herald says that farmers
are bringing sugar and syrup to market,
j and obtaining from seven to nine cents
| for the former and thirty-five to forty
cents for the latter. From the amount
brought to town, there must be a heavier
crop made this season than in any pre
ceding year.
On the 29th inst., Hon. P. White, on
the application of Gov. Walker, granted
| an injunction restraining A. B. Hunger,
| tax collector of Leon county, from col
| lecting the State and county taxes, as
sessed on the plaintiff for the years 1871.
The application was based on the allega
tion, that said taxes were unconsti
tutional and void.
The special election in Jackson county
; resulted in a Conservative defeat by a
majority of five hundred and fifty-six, the
vote being viz:
ForW. H. Milton, Conservative...... 504
For H. G. Bryan, Conservative 508
For B. H. Ness, Republican 1064
j For W. K. Robinson, Republican.. .1057
I The barn and stables of Mr. Frank
! Philips in Marianna, with their contents,
were entirely destroyed on the 28th ult.
Mr. P’s fine horse and beautiful buggy,
with about one hundred bushels of corn
were lost in the flames. The loss is esti
mated at nine hundred dollars. There is
no doubt of the fire being the work of an
incendiary.
Georgia Lunatic Asylum. —We have
received from Dr. Thos. F. Green, Super
intendent and Resident Physician, the re
port of this institution, located at Mil
ledgeville, from Jan. 1, ’7O, to Oct. 1, ’7l.
During this period 439 patients have been
treated—233 males, 206 females—of whom
28 have died, 2 eloped and 29 discharged.
There now remain in the institution 380
—197 males, 183 female patients. There
are 189 applications for admission, of
whom 40 are negroes. The reports show
that 90 per cent, of recent cases may be
cured. The indebtedness of $9,076 36
has been reduced to $3,272 28. The re
ceipts have been $91,268 30, and the ex
penses the same. Additional buildings are
now being erected at a cost of $75,500 to
accommodate 150 more white patients and
50 colored. Dr. Green returns thanks to
proprietors of papers for sending the in
stitution copies of their publication.
Many of the patients enjoy tlioir perusal.
Several recommendations are made to the
Legislature. The officers of the institu
tution are as follows:
Trustees, Gen. Smith P. Myrick, Gen.
William Phillips, Col. Ephraim Tweedy.
Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Jarrell. Resident
Officers Superintendent and Resident
Physician, Dr. Thos. F. Green; First As
sistant Physicien, Dr. Theophilus O. Pow
ell; Second Assistant Physician, Dr. Clias.
H. Bass; Third Assistant Physician, Dr.
Thomas H. Kenan; Apothecary, Mr. Wil
liam A. Cotting; Treasurer and Steward,
Mathew R. Bell, Esq.; Assistant Steward,
Col. James A. Green-; Matron. Mrs. Mar
tha H. Green.
Georgia, undoubtedly the most enter
prising of all Southern States, is now
moving in behalf of a stupendous project,
which, if carried out, will materially affect
the commerce of the Mississippi river.
The proposition is to construct a canal
from St. Louis to Savannah, mainly for
the transportation of grain; a route that
would be three hundred miles less to the
sea than that of the Mississippi river. It
is estimated that the cost of this enter
prise will not exceed ten million dollars—
a mere trifle in comparison with the new
trade that it would divert to Georgia.
Steps have already been taken to bring
the matter before Congress and the Legis
latures of the different States through
which the proposed canal will pass.—
JY. 0. Timea.
Carrying at Loss.—The New York Sun
says the total passenger traffic of the Erie
Railway Company for the year ending
September 30, 1871, was, according to its
recent official report, $3,218,037. Assum
ing the cost of running the passenger
trains to have been the same that it has
been for years past—about $3,000,000 —
the loss to the Company on this branch of
its business has been over $2,000,000 dur
ing the year.
How is This ?—The daughter of Sena
tor Chandler, of Michigan, was married a
week or two ago to Congressman Hale, of
Maine. Chandler is said to be the richest
man in Congress. He gave his daughter,
as a wedding present, a house worth
SIO,OOO. We find the following in the 1
New York World of December 28th :
Ten thousand dollars worth of wedding
garments have passed free through the
New York Custom House for the daughter
of a rich Radical Congressman, as so j
many trunks full of ' ’harness. Who are
the smugglers and reformers? A question
for the Buckingham Retrenchment Com
mittee.
The Weekly Sen for 1872 only j
Two Dollars. Rene-a your subscrip- \
tion without delay.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
London, January 4. —Irishmen at Liv
erpool demonstrated in favor of Home
Government for Ireland.
Paris, Jan. s.—The Academy of France
refused to accept the Bishop of Orleans’
resignation of membership.
London, Jau. s.—The trials, of past
ages, for murderers commence next week.
The Prince of Wales is steadily im
proving.
Gillott, steel pen manufacturer, is
dead.
Madrid, January 6. The following
appointments are at last officially announc
ed: Jose Concha, Captain-General of
Cuba; Admiral Palo, Minister to the
United States.
WASHINSTON.
Washington, Jan. 4. —Dr. Arnold Nan
den, U. S. Senator from 1830 to 1836 died
died to day aged 82.
Halleck is dangerously ill.
The Secretary of the Treasury and the
President has gone to Philadelphia and
will return Monday.
The Kaytien Minister, Bassett, has been
cabled that it is the determination of the
United States to protect the Hornet.
Washington, Jan. 5.—J. F. Linsey,
before the Senate Committee, is reluctant
to give testimony, as he was challenged at
the hotel last night. He did not know
whether the challenger was a Custom
House officer.
The property of the Printing Company
sold under the hammer, brought $50,000.
General Krzylanowski, formerly Super
visor of Georgia, was arrested to-day for
fraud, having been committed in Macon,
Georgia. Krzylanowski had assurances
the case would be postponed, and ex
presses confidence in his ability to vindi
cate himself. He will have a hearing to
morrow on a habeas corpus for bail.
Washington, Janeary 6. —The Florida
has arrived at Key West. She had a shot
across her bow lint was not detained.
The affairs of Spain in Cuba is assum
ing a more pacific phase.
Officials at the Navy Department declare
activity at the navy yards.
A competent clerk failed of promotion
because he did not know the distance
from the earth to the moon.
When the report reached Washington
yesterday that Gen. Emery had taken
part in the arrests, the Secretary of War
telegraphed him in relation to the subject,
when Emery responded that the United
States troops had taken no part whatever
in the recent arrest of State officers. The
War Department have issued no orders
for the military commandant at New
Orleans, nor is the Secretary as yet
officially advised of the condition of
affairs at New Orleans.
The Secretary of the Treasury tele
graphs the Collector of Customs at New
Orleans that it is reported that Wilderness
was used to prevent a quorum of the
Louisiana Legislature.
The Collector telegraphs the Secretary:
“Do not form hasty opinions regarding
the proceedings in this city. Suspend
judgment till you hear both sides of the
question. False reports will doubtless
be sent to Washington as to the situation.”
The Secretary telegraphs the Collector
that his telegraph' contains no specific in
formation concerning the alleged illegal
use of Wilderness, and calls the Collec
tor’s attention to the revenue marine regu
lations and orders their immediate and
strict enforcement.
Another dispatch from the Secretary to
the Collector follows the order of Wilder
ness to New Orleans at once.
The Secretary telegraphs the President
of the Louisiana Senate that the Collector
has been directed to order Wilderness at
once.
The Collector telegraphs the Secretary :
“Wilderness is here now and has not been
out of the city.”
The President is absent in Philadelphia,
but is in constant telegraphic communica
tion with the Secretary of War and other
Cabinet Ministers, on the subject of Lou
isiana affairs. It is authoritatively stated
that the Administration will not interfere
in the local difficulties there any further
than is necessary to preserve the peace,
and to that end every power of the Gov
ernment will be employed. Gen. Emery
has been ordered to use his judgment to
preserve the peace.
John Jowney, of Loudon county, and
President of the late Virginia Secession
Convention, is dead; aged 74 years.
Col. Krzyanowski, who was indicted in
Macon, Ga., has been released on a $lO,-
000 bail.
Further secret Treasury records show
that the Osprey was wrecked between
Havre and New York in 1851. This
breaks an important link in the Tichborn
claimant jease, who asserts that the Os
prey picked him up off the coast of Brazil
in 1854.
MISCELLANY.
The Romanian Chambers have adopted a
convention providing for a settlement
of the Danubian Railway obligations.
Queen Victoria has returned to Wind
sor.
Four Greek vessels were sunk in the
Black Sea. All were lost.
Official advices show that the Persian
famine continues. Entire districts are
depopulated, and the suffering in the
cities is terrible.
The Union Pacific trains are still block
aded by snow.
The people of Rochester last night
were not allowed to stop on the streets.
Only thirty delegates attended tho Labor
Reform Convention at Bridgeport, Conn.
Half-dozen arrests for a triple mur
der at Windsor Locks, Connecticut. All
parties lewd character.
The Senatorial Committee are holding
open sessions in New York.
The Herald's special says Bismarck’s
note to German agents indicates a disrup
tion of the Thiers Government.
Arms taken from France by the Prus
sians, are secretly purchased by the In
ternationals.
The arckieves of the old New York
Board of Aldermen have been seized and
locked up by Commissioner Van Nort.
Clifton Springs Hotel was burned.
Loss $120,000.
MEXICO.
Matamoras, January 4. Troops are
placed in the fortifications around the city
to repair and strengthen the works. It is
reported that a strong insurgent force is
coming.
Insurgents at Mierava threaten Can
carge.
Matamoras, Jan. 3.—The revolutionary
chief Val Dez lias heen captured and
hung.
The Juarezists captured the city of
Redrias Negras, losing twenty-five killed
and many wounded.
Both sides of the revolutionists hold
Mier. Otherwise no progress has
been made in the State of Tamaulipas.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 4. a negro in
Prince Edward county took by force from
another house a respectable white girl,
aged 13, outraged her and escaped. The
people are in pursuit.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, Jan. s.—The Federal Court
is penniless. The prosecution must be
postponed for want of money to pay wit
nesses.
MARYLAND.
Laltimoiie, Jan. 3.—8. Cator, of the
firm of Armstrong, Cator & Cos., is dead.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Jan. s.—The Fejee Is
landers recently murdered four Europeans. 1
NEW YORK.
Rochester. January 4. —All quiet. The
people are not allowed to "gather in the
vicinity of the jail or the streets leading
thereto.
The man who knocked the soldier down
yesterday has been sent to the penitentia
ry to-day for six months.
The negro’s victim is reported im
proving.
New York, Jan. 4. —The run on the
Third Avenue Bank continued to-day.
A meeting of the bar will he held to
night to secure the removal of Judges
McCunn, Cardosa, Bernard, and one
other.
Greely is before the Senate Committee.
The only abuse he knew was political
abuse by Custom House officials. He
believed Grant, Porter and Babcock shared
profits of the general order of business.
He believed many will be deterred from
giving testimony because sessions are
held in the Custom House.
Rochester, Jan. 5. —Howard was taken
secretly to the Court House. He plead
guilty, and was sentenced to 20 years hard
labor in the State Penitentiary. He is
now in Auburn.
New York, Jan. s.—John C. Broad
head, ex-treasurer of Rondon, is SIOO,OOO
short.
Two men were committed without bail
for outraging n girl twelve years old.
The Russian fleet is at its dock in
Brooklyn.
Small-pox has made its appearance in
the Newark jail.
The Union Republican General Com
mittee has relieved Greeley as Chairman.
New York, Jan. 5. —The opponents of
the preseut management of the Erie
road hold $40,000,000 stock, but require
3 or 4 millions more to enable thorn to
change the control.
New York, January 6. —Gen. Andrew
Porter, formerly of the United States
Army, died in Paris.
Cuban Gen. Jordan's trial has been
postponed to next Saturday, when, if the
Grand Jury is not ready Jordan will be
| discharged.
Mexican advices report trifling suc
! cess. Both parties are frighteuod over
; the represented concentration of Ameri
cans on the Rio Grande,
Senator Pratt, of Ohio, had his pocket
picked on 23d street omnibus.
A train run off the track at the termi
nus of thi' Erie Road and demolished the
engine and partially wrecked the cars.
Several passengers were slightly hurt.
Stewart testified before the Senate In
vestigation Committee. He said the
general order monopoly is an outrage on
merchants. He was always treated with
civility in the Custom House. The
employees are inadequately paid
men, and of sufficient business capacity
to earn double the money they receive;
only SI,BOO a year in the Custom House.
The Government never will he served
well until it gets proper men, as those in
now are Generals, Colonels and so on.
(Laughter).
James Fiske, jr., was shot twice in the
breast by Edward Stokes. It is feared
Fiske cannot survive. Stokes has been
arrested.
Fiske died at 10.45 a. m., Sunday.
MARYLAND.
Annapolis January 4.—The conclusion
of Dr. Warrens direct evidence: on Wed
nesday, the day of his death, symptoms
of cerebro spinal meningetis were present,
and not those of tarter emetic in a per
son, and thinks different diagnosis of
these diseases proves this. The increased
sensitiveness of the skin on that day was
a characteristic of meningetis, and not
tartar emetic in the person. Indeed, in
sensitiveness is a characteristic of the
latter. There was secretion of urine,
which were invariable characteristics of
poison by tarter emetic, lint there was a
suppression, which was characteristic of
cerebro spinal meningetis. This proves
to witness that K. died of this disease.
This conclusion was from symptoms
alone. The post mortem went to show
that death did not result from poison by
antimony, which, if it had been present
it would have been developed by irritation
of the mucuous membrane.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 3—Senate- No
quorum.
House—On motion to declare the chair
vacant, tho cry “aye,” rang through the
house. Thirty or forty members rushed
towards the chair, but were checked by
a number of persons who mounted the
platform from the Speaker’s private room.
Speaker Carter declared the proceedings
revolutionary. Warmoutliites claim six
majority against Carter on the test ques.
tion.
New Orleans, Jan. 4. —The excite
ment in political circles continues. After
the House adjourned yesterday the War
mouthites asserted that Speaker Carter
was surrounded by an armed mob. The
men, about fifteen, who suddenly appear
ed yesterday on the platform in rear of
the Speaker’s desk, certainly checked the
contemplated movement of putting Carter
out by force. To guard against the influ
ence of such parties 200 Metropolitans
were ordered on duty at the Mechanics
Institute early this morning, and a de
tachment of city guards and militia are
said to be stationed within supporting
distance.
It is stated that the Carte rites called
last night upon Gen. Emory for troops to
use if emergency required. At six o’clock
this morning about 200 colored troops
with two Gatlin guns marched up from
he barracks and were stationed in the
Custom House. The factions, therefore,
are about equally matched as regards
force.
The Times reports the following: Af
fairs at the State House are in a feverish
condition, but no indication of violence.
Early in the morning a largo crowd gath
ered around the building, and among the
rest were members of the Metropolitan
police in and without uniform. The door
leading from the hall in front of the Sen
ate chamber was closed and guarded by a
j half dozen. The police were stationed at
the doors of both the House and Senate
i and a squad was kept in readiness in the
j main entrance.
[The report telegraphed is very volumi
nous, bnt we do not deem it of sufficient
interest to lay before our readers.—Eds.
Sun.
New Orleans, Jan. 3.—ln response to
the Governor’s proclamation, the House
met and secured a quorum.
The Assistant Sergeant-at-Anns declared
the Chair vacant
The House elected Mr. Bivrelc Speaker.
A resolution was passed ordering the
Sergeant-at-Anns to take charge of the
State House and allow no one to enter un
til 12 o clock to-morrow, to which hour
the House adjourned.
New Orleans, Jau 3.—The approaches
to Mechanic’s Institute are strongly
guarded by the police.
The Legislators, State officers and re
porters are only admitted.
At ten o’clock, a company of militia |
stacked arms in front of the State House.
When the Legislature assembled, the I
following telegram was read :
Washington, Jan. 3.
Hon. J. E. West: Governor Warinouth’s
dispatch of this date to you received. His
report of the proceedings of the U. S.
Marshal is of such an extraordinary
character that I will have the matter in
vestigated at once. Show this dispatch to i
the Attorney General.
[Signed] U. S. Grant.
Undoubtedly justice will be speedily
meted out to the wrong-doers. The cata
logue of wrong has culminated and retri
bution will be speedy.
[Signed] ‘ J. R. West.
Prolonged cheers followed.
The Committee appointed to investi.
the conduct of the U. S. Marshal j n
resting the Governor and Legislat,
when in extra session, adjourned sin i'
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia. Jan. s.—The Ku-klux tri ]
are finished for the present. F ortv
confessing Ku-klux from
were sentenced from one month to tw
years imprisonment.
The petit jurors have filially been
charged by Judge Bond.
The Judge is expected to leave for ]; u]
timore to-morrow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Scranton, Jnu. 5. Two hundred work
men have struck. Cause, reduction f
ten per cent, on their wages.
Philadelphia, Jan. s.—The ironclads
Cauonicas, Manhattan, Wyandotte, Snnyus
and Ajax are now fitting out at the h’avv
Yard, supposed for Cuba.
Philadelphia, Jan. (!. Boutwol! spoi ie
on the importance and necessity of main
tabling such a system of taxation as win
materially and constantly work out a iv
duction of debt.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston', {January 6. —Cushman school
dedicated to-day. Charlotte addressed
the childreh.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, January 6. — The Chamber
of Commerce is about calling a conven
tion, the object of which is to make the
Ohio river navigable throughout the
year.
CALIFORNIA,
Sanfkancisco, January 6. — The Great
| Republic carries over one million of ties-.
| ure to China.
MARKETS.
London, January 6. Consols tro
j Bonds !>2.
Frankfort, January 6. —Bonds 96!.
Paris, January 6.-—Rentes s([f. sc.
Later.—Rentes closed 56f. 20c.
Liverpool, January 6. Cotton tin,.
Uplands 10)(5>10); Orleans lOjjfeKUd,
Sales yesterday reached 25,000 bales.
Later — Cotton firmer; Uplands 101,1;
Orleans 10,}d; sales 20,000 bales; spec,
illation 8.000. Nearly due from S„.
vannah or Charleston lo|d.
New York, January 6.—Cotton strong.
Uplands 21)c, Orleans 21 )c; sales l,ono.
Bank Statement. —Loans $2,125,000;
specie decrease $3,725,000; legal ternlei*
decrease $2,250,000; deposits increased
$5,500,000.
Cotton strong; sales 3,018; upland 2ns.
Orleans 20)e.
Sales of cotton futures amounted to
13,450 bales, at the following prices:
I January, 20), 20j, 20 13-16; February,
20), 20 7-16 20J; March 21 J, 21 lii-lil,
21;-, April 21), 21j; May 22. 22 1-16,
Gold 109)<Sl09f
; Governments closed better: 625, to.
States very steady'.
■ New Orleans, Jan. 6. —Cotton steady;
middlings 20)@20)c; net. rcoipts 1,031,
gross 1,951 ; exports coastwise l .437 ,
stock 191,075.
Mobile, Jan. 6. Cotton firm; mid
dlings 19J; net receipts 2,0:12; sales
1.000; stock 63,743.
Savannah, Jan. 6. —Cotton strong;
demand very active; full prices; holders
firm: middlings 20jj@20 : }c; net receipts
2,-192; sales 3,700; stock 80,499.
Specials to the Savannah News.
Lochbane’s Washington Blakney—' l’m:
Latest Swindling Bill. Washington,
Jan. 3. —Lochrane, the. late Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Georgia, came
on here some time ago for the purpose of
trying his hand at inducing tho President
to interfere in Georgia affairs; but meet
ing no better success than the late Radical
delegation from your State, is trying to
smooth the matter over by getting pub
lished over the country a statement that
ho had a long interview with the Presi
dent, and that the latter does not intend
to interfere in settling the affairs in Geor
gia, thus making it appear that ho (Loch
rane), by his influence, has induced the
President to so decide. The truth is. the
President made known this determination
on tho 2(>th of December.
It is stated that Akerman lion doeUwet
the vacant Judgeship in Florida, fearing
a rejection by the Senate. It is now
probuble that ho will, on his retirement
from the office of Attorney-General, he
invited to take tho active management of
Ku-Klux cases in the Southern Courts.
Just before Congress adjourned General
Banks reported a lull providing for the
disfranchisement of American citizens
holding slaves in foreign countries. This
bill was prepared at the State Depart
ment, under the auspices of the Spanish
Minister and Caleb .Cushing, Attorney
for Spain, before tho Spanish-American
Commission now in session here.
The object of tho bill iH not only to
prevent American citizens in Cuba from
sueing for damages arising from loss of
slave property, but also to disfranchise
them in order to prevent them from hav
ving any right to sue for damages to their
estates.
General Banks, who offered the hill,
has given it some attention, and he pro
nounces it a fraud throughout.
It will not be reported from the Com
mittee to which it was referred, unless
specially called for, and then will un
doubtedly receive such an exposure as to
insure its overwhelming defeat at the
hands of Congress.
A New Invention. —The Savannah Ad
vertiser gives an account of a cotton press
invented by Mr. John Schley, a former
resident of Augustn.
I Tho motive power, which is connected
| with a ten-horse power steam engine, con
j sists of a right and left hand screw, six
I feet long and about sixteen inches in
diameter. Iu these screws a set of revolv
ing cogs work with very little, if any
j friction, upon the exact principle of a
j wheel being rolled up an inclined plane:
i both these revolving wheels are geared
together with the main screw shaft,
which is about six inches in diameter and
thirty feet in length, the screw being
made of forged iron. Attached to this
main screw shafting, and traversing back
and forth, are three large nuts, those upon
' the ends working to the extreme end of
i the shaft, while the middle nut, which is
i a double one, vibrates to and from the
centre, as may bo required. Connected
with these nuts, right ami left, are several
heavy timbers, that form wnat is known
among mechanics as the knuckle-joKit
lever, one of the most efficacious tl it
could be devised to accomplish the p : 1
poses for which it is designated that
powerful and exact compression.
The whole arrangement will bear tie
j name of Schley’s Cotton Press, and its
advantages are apparent at a glance, but
two men are required at each bale, "here
i in all others throe or more arc required
I It takes but half a minute toconiprc - ■
i bale of cotton to the required size, ‘"G
j another half minute to tie it squarely at.
throw it out upon the platform. ( lll!
signors can give the exact size of tie
bale they require, so that not a singb
inch of ship’s hold may bo lost, and n<>
time is thrown away in hunting up a
neither too small or too large to id
I certain amount of space. No cotton pies*
j now in existence can compete with it
rapidity of execution, and every b*l‘
turned out will bo found exactly the sun ■
size as all of the others. This is ol > |s,il
a distinctive feature that cotton skipp'' l
will be sure to notice and appreciate.
Largo amounts of laud in Alabama, ly
ing convenient to railroads, is offered t>u
sale by the Mobile and Girard K. I’ l - 1
The whole aggregates 400,000 acres— so** 11
the best in rite State. Descriptive circu
lars can be obtained by addressing B "
Coleman at Troy, Ala. See notice mi
particulars.
We refer readers to the advertisem' !
of the Great Western Mutual Fire Im' l '-
auce Company-, of Now Orleans, La. G-
Company is one of the best in the land.
Mr. E. W. Howell, a gentleman of intel
ligence, energy and sound business qua.;-
fiention, is general agent. Good local
agents are wanted.
«.
See notice of J. M. Ltnnard, Tax Cos *
lector.