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( HE Kew River Route.—According to
t ;. e Savannah papers a large amount of
(is have been shipped from that place
. ,r citv by steam toFemandina, thence
rail to Chattahoochee and by boat to
i'nlumbuH. The News pronounces the
route safe c^ea P
\Vhilc upon this subject we may as
~ ta t e- that last week, to our knowl-
I, e the Central Railroad and Savannah
j 200 bales of cotton by the policy of
t i e fumier, which is to make the rates
from Selma and Montgomery below cost,
, I f orC es Columbus and Eufaula to make
, n p. There must have been lost during
a , it wee k several thousands of bales to
•hf railroad and Savannah. After paying
' a [ rates on the Mobile and Girard Rail
road cotton can lie carried to New York
from Columbus, via Norfolk, for 30c. per
nunJred pounds cheaper than Savannah.
Uv the first routethere are !)7!)milesof rail
v iIV , by the second 293. The fist is gaining
friends; the latter losing them.
Receipts or Cotton in Interior Towns
The following table shows the re
pts at the named interior towns from
September Ist to Friday, March lHt,
respectively, for the seasons 1870-71 and
1871-72:
1870-1. 1871-2.
wusta 102,001 128,953
Macon 92,020 51,181
Eufaula 35,02., 20,234
Columbus 00,929 30,405
Montgomery 84,830 49,800
Selma 77,019 ~4,911
Memphis 395,853 308,706
Nashville 75,052 49,850
Total 991,144 700,080
This shows a deficit of this year from
the last of 291,064 bales. The stocks on
March Ist, were 87,952 against 122,-
! i;, same date in 1871, showing a deficit
us 31,198, which added to the deficit in
the port' receipts 080,293, makes the
United States crop in sight last Friday
HI, ISO hales less than the one of last year
to same date.
Tax Payer. -The communication signed
Tax-Payer,” was written l,y one of the
most intelligent gentlemen in the State,
and Gov. Smith would do well to heed
such suggestions, coming as they do from
a distinguished source, and from ono who
wishes him a prosperous administration.
We will add that mere personal favoritism
in the selection of applicants for office
should go whore bullocks graze; and men
who never struck a lick for a cause should
not receive the same reward as those who
have borne the heat and burden of the
day. We say tho time has eoHu when
every drone, big and small, should be stung
from the Democratic hive. When tire Re
public is in danger, (bore is but little dif
ference between the patriotism of tho man
who studiously conceals his true opinions
from fear or policy, and the ono who ig
norantly, but faithfully defends tho wrong.
Stewart County Items. —Mrs. Paul,
the mother of the wife of Dr. Gregory,
died iii Lumpkin, last Saturday week,
aged eighty years.. Mr. \V. R. Glenn died
very suddenly. He was in usual health
ami ou the way to his brother’s when he
was taken ill nnd died in a few moments.
Two negroes, aged 40 and 14 years, were
, ommitted to jail yesterday week for an
attempt to commit a rape on a white
mother and daughter near Lumpkin. In
aa attempt to enter the house the ladies
became alarmed and a relative in the
house was called. The negroes plead
lilty to the charge. It takes a Lumpkin
paper six days after publication to reach
Columbus.
Tun Rain-bridge, Cuthhet.t and Co
i.umiuis Railroad. —Judge Swazer has
appointed John C. Rutherford and Rich
arJ Sims, of Decatur county, receivers of
this road; L. P. D. Warren, of Albany,
’[aster of Chancery in this Court, before
"lmm all persons holding claims against
the road must tile the same with proof on
or before the Itli Monday in April. Mr.
Warren will hold meetings with the credi
tors inCuthbort, on March 12th and April
'th. and in Bninbrldge on March 10th and
April 2d.
Freedman Shot. A freedinan was
brought into the city yesterday in order to
receive medical attention. Officers tell us
ho had boon shot by a white man named
! >bn Dukes—the weapon being a double
urol shot gun. One load entered the shoul.
dor, the other the thigh. Occurred ou the
land of Major 11. J. Moses, some four miles
from the city, where both were employed,
ihe negro was leaving the place when a
'i'saiTol arose between him and Dukes,
"ith the result mentioned. Dukes has
•! been arrested that wo have hoard of.
The ala Mode in Drinks. —How will
f following do for the systematic? 7 a.
m . an “eye-opener;” 8 a. m., “appetizer;”
:i. in., ••digester;" 10 a. in., “beautifior;”
U a. m., “big reposer;" 12 m., “stimulat
>t:" 1 p. ni., “ante-diner;” 2 p. m., “set
tler:" 3p. in., “warmer;” 4 p. in., “sym
pathizer;" 5 p. in., “social glass;” 0 p. in.,
"invigorator;" 7p. m., ‘‘straight out;” 8
p. m.. “chit-chat:" 9 p. m.,“fancy drink;”
n* p. m.,“entree act;” 11 p. in.,“sparkler;”
12 in., “rouser;" 1 p. m., “night-cap”—
o.uigress water, anil oh. n;v poor head
in the morning.”
IU-ckw.uid Farming.— Crops aro very
n'kward in (leorgia. This is the com
plaint all over the State. Few fruit trees
- no hi,>onied ami the blossoms that have
! I'oarod were qnieldy killed. There was
-now ui Atlanta Saturday, growing heavier
one went northward, and falling to
'">iu> extent on all tlm lines of road leav
‘hut city. None at Savannah. Macon
w tllis point.
Weekly Sun Clubs. —We have
a '‘°ly received many clubs from differ
>'r.t sections, • varying from live to
’•oity copies. Those desiring to secure
:ilt ‘ Weekly Sun for 1872. at a less
' 'S than four cents a copy, or even
•t't'o cents, should form Clubs inune
uiatfiy See terms.
: UD - Mr. C. A. Ferrell died Saturday,
1 sixty years. Ho, for a long time we
'"'ld. was a gunsmith in Girard, but
-lywo years ago removed to Coltim
•• "here he has been proprietor of a
store. He was a man much liked
. respected, and an ingenious mechanic.
"c hope the article on the Wallace'
■ard mission to Europe, from the '
1 anuer of the South,” to be found on
urtli page, will be road with pleasure
“nil profit.
1 fotu a notice elsewhere it w ill be seen
' UHt heabody & Roberts have been award
a prize the second time for securing
largest number of policies in the Uui-
Life Insurance Company of New
York.
* Reditable to the Lawyers. —We are
‘Rfurmed the Supreme Court gives the
“">ersof this section the credit of pre-
Sf£j u ß their cases better and raising more
' ‘tncnlt points to decide, than those of
& “y circuit in the State.
YOL. XIV.
THE GREEDY DOG.
■dSsop, the celebrated fabulist, tells of a
greedy dog swimming across a river with
a piece of meat in his mouth. The dog
seeing his shadow in the water, and hav
ing a very voracious appetite, was fool
enough to think the shadow another dog
well to do for rations, made a desperate
pitch at the ghost and consequently
dropped and lost his substantial flesh and
bone. This folly and example of extreme
selfishness has been emulated in human
dogs, in all conditions of life, in the camp,
cottage and grove. In its absence, Cresar
never would have crossed the Rubicon
with his “Jacta eat aleoT —The die is cast!
—to be slain by the daggers of conspira
tors. Alexander, instead of a grasp at
the world, a sigh and a blubber and the
death of a sot, might have joined a Tem
perance Society, lived a good old Mace
donian gentleman, and dying, transmitted
no iron crown or barren scepter to his
posterity. If Napoleon had been satisfied
to rule over France only, his last words—
Head of tne Army!”—would not have
mingled in despair with the lightning and
tempest, as they swept that lone Atlantic
rock which separated him from his sense
less, heartless wife and infant son and
heir. God have mercy on greedy dogs
and men, who are ever ready to keep all
they get, and take all they can.
If Grant had been willing to practice
the rule “one bird in hand, is worth two
in the bush, or acted out the Jackson
principle—“ Ask nothing but what is right,
and submit to no wrong,” the Alabama
claims would not now be so muddled.
Old John Bull would, at once, have touch
ed his most sensitive nerve, run his
arms down deep into his breeches pocket
and pulled out a few millions, but Grant
being accustomed to his big gifts of hous
es, horses whiskey and cigars from Amer
ican friends, imagined old John would be
equally accommodating. He acted on the
principle of a lawyer in a slander writ for
a bad client—demand in damages one
hundred thousand dollars and recover six
pence without costs.
We do not know that can we can give a
clearer history of the British and Ameri
can situation at present, than the follow
ing—
PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL
BULL.
[From Fun.]
Which I wish to observe—
And my language is clear—
That for coolness and nerve
And demands that run dear,
Uncle Sara is a little eccentric, which the term's
not a bit too severe!
All! Sam is his name.
And quite ready I am
To admit that his aim
Is to make me “stand Sam”—
But his bill is a trifle expensive, and I don’t
care to pay for that same.
Which I’d fain see a way
Fur to smooth down liis pride,
And I’m ready to pay
For ids friendship beside,
Provided he’ll trade in them notions—but liis
mouth musn’t open too wide!
Which of course there's a touch
Os kindred I feel,
And I’m game to do much
His feelings to heal—
But liis vanity’s so everlasting, it wants too
much plaster a deal!
So the treaty’s a frost.
Which 1 greatly deplore,
Time and trouble are lost,
As might make a chap swore ;
And Sam—well, you see, he’ll get nothing, all
along of his asking for more.
Why is why, I affirm—
And my language is fair—
That, although ho may "squirm,”
And although he may “rair”—.
Don’t lie very much wish he may get it 7
Which I don’t think as likely he air!
The Powers of Ordinaries to Borrow Money
on the County Credit.
A decision of the Supreme Court, an
nounced the other day by Justice McCay,
is very positive in defining the power of
Ordinaries to borrow money ou the credit
of the county, and denying the liability of
the county therefor. The case came up
from Coweta, on an injunction against the
Ordinary. Tho court below w T as overruled,
and the Supreme Court held—
1. Tho Ordinary of a county has no
authority, under any general law of this
State, even with the recommendation of
the grand jury of the county, to borrow
money on the credit of the county, and if
for this purpose, he issues county bonds
and sells them, the county is not liable on
the bonds so issued.
2. On a proper case made by bill in the
name of citizens in the county—tax pay
ers—it is the duty of the Judge of the
Superior Court, as Chancellor, to restrain
until the hearing, on the merits, an Ordi
nary from ordering such bonds to be paid
by the Treasurer of the county, provided
that the injunction be so framed as not
to interfere with tho right of the bond
holder's who are not parties to the bill—
to the use of every remedy allowed by
law, through the courts of law and equity
to test and enforce any claims they may
set up against the county in the premises.
The Removal of Political Disabili
ties.—The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times writes as follows,
under date of the 20th ult.:
Tho House to-day manifested a deter
mination to do away with any necessity for
a General Amnesty bill by removing po
litical disabilities by means of special bills.
Mr. Whitney, of Georgia, offered a bill
relieving several hundred in his Congres
sional district, and having signified his
willingness to accept, similar bills as
amendments, they were hurried in by the
Representatives of every Southern State
to the amount of nearly fifty.
We do hope every Southerner will at
once withdraw his application for a re
moval of political disabilities. The sys
tem of special bills of amnesty is full of
fraud, favoritism, bribery and corruption.
If no special applications had ever been
made, we believe the Grant administration
would long since have given way to the
sense of national injustice inflicted on the
masses of the Southern people. Our guilt,
if any, was the same in degree, and if ‘’lllo
best government the world ever saw” can
not do right without we approach the foot
stool of power like beggars, with hats in
ono hand and cruel treatment on the coast
of Dry Tortugas in the other, then we say
let us suffer together. Let no merchan
dise be made of that specially as a favor,
which should be demanded as a right, so
long as the government claims our alle
giance. and taxes ns as citizens of the
United States.
A "Corner” in Whisky. —A Louisville
dispatch dated February 28th. and pub
lished in the Nashville Union and Ameri
can of Friday, says: “One of the greatest
whisky transactions in the history of the
trade was developed here to-day. It ap
pears that the firm of S. T. Suit A Cos.
have effectually cornered the market in
old whiskies. It is said they have been
planning this movement for months, and
have at length succeeded in accomplish
ing their object. Newcomb, Buchanan A
Cos.. acting as commission merchants for
Suit A- Cos., have bought up all the availa
ble stock of old whiskies iu the I uited
States, their purchases in New York city
alone amounting to 1,000,000 gallons, and
the aggregate amount will reach 3.000,000.
These purchases embrace nearly all the
valuable old whiskies in the market, and
will probably affect the price of all other
grades.”
The West Virginia Constitutional Con
vention has agreed that no attorneys and
salaried officers of railroads are to be ad
mitted hereafter as legislators.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Eighteen prisoners—three whites and
fifteen blacks—were sentenced by Judge
Schley, of the Chatham Superior Court,
to penitentiary for terms varying from
four to twenty years. One was sentenced
to be hung on April sth. The sentenced
one said he preferred penitentiary for life
to hanging.
Savannah is trying to get np the Awk
right cotton factory with a capital of
$05,000.
Messrs. Knaap, Hanneman & Cos., of
Savannah, shipped on three vessels Satur
day, 8,070 bales of cotton weighing 3,850,-
918 pounds, and valued at $818,280. This
is the heaviest shipment on record.
Mayor Screven, of Savannah, has with
drawn his resignation. Ex-Alderman
John O. Ferrill is a candidate for Ordi
nary of Chatham county. Savannah
theatre is engaged without a break until
some time in April. A negro assaulted a
white lady in the city. She beat him off
with a horse whip. New loans of Savan
nah are selling at 84 to 87.
Twenty-one students received diplomas
from tho Medical college at Augusta Fri
day. Dr. E. A. Eve delivered address.
Ninety-five students during session. The
Savannah Medical college graduated four
students on Friday.
Last Friday, while Mrs. John T. Hagan
was nursing her infant, she was seized
with vertigo, and fell with the infant in
her arms against the fire in the hearth.
Little boy gave alarm and pair were res
cued, and escaped mortal injury.
Seven persons from Towns county have
been arrested and brought before U. S.
Commissioner Smith charged with illicit
distilling.
It is said that Clews & Cos. wrote to Gov.
Smith some weeks ago, and made a polite
tender of their services to the State as ex
perienced financiers. This was handsome,
but the Governor’s reply was quite as
handsome. He thanked them for their
offer; said that he appreciated the same
fully, and would certainly call upon them
whenever he found himself in need of
their services.
It is understood that A. J. White, one
of the State Road lessees, has sold his in
terest to B. 11. Hill for $15,000. It is fur
ther stated that the net earnings of the
road for January were about $90,000.
B. F. Abbott, Assistant Clerk of the
Supreme Court, having resigned, Lewis
G. Crawford, Esq., son of the late Rev.
Dr. N. M. Crawford, lias been appointed
in his place.
The Defender urges Hon. John H.
James, of Atlanta, for Governor of Geor
gia, to succeed the present incumbent.
That’s pure bosh.
The Atlanta Sun learns that the books
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
show $1,098,752 92 due the State by rail
road, steamboat and ship lines. Doubt
less there are very large offsets by the
roads and lines.
Some seventeen citizens of White coun
ty have been brought to Atlanta under
arrest, charged with being Ku-Klux—
whipping a man and wife. If this thing
doesn’t stop, suppose we get up a clan
and do earnest work ?
The Dalton Citizen says that Messrs.
Story and Tilton, the recent purchasers of
the Murray county talc quarry, have be
gun tho erection of their building for the
purpose of putting up machinery to cut
the stone into merchantable shape.
Mercer High School, at Penfield, has
between 75 and 80 pupils.
A feller swam the Oconee river the oth
er night to see a girl.
Madison, to March Ist, has received
5,900 bales of cotton, against 7,818 last
year.
Judge Sessions, of the Brunswick cir
cuit, has dissolved the injunction in the
case of the Dawson Car Company cars, and
ordered Col. John Screven to turn them
over to that company. There are thirty
box cars in the question, branded f ‘B &
A.”
A Pulaski county planter who, week be
fore last, rode twenty-three miles to pay a
debt of S9OO, had another planter a few
days after to ride twenty miles to pay him
a debt of S3OO.
The family of Wm. Clark, deceased, of
Griffin, has received $19,124] insurance
money.
The deaths of Col. Thos. Whaley, of
Hancock; J. T. Mullins, of Pike; George
Caney, of Greene; and Moses Jacob of
Washington: W. Broom, Henry Daniel
and J. C. Blount, of Decatur, are announc
ed.
Mr. Hiram McDonald, an old resident
of Heard county, recently died in Cle
borne county, Ala.
Georgia increased more last year in the
value of its property than in any previous
year in its history. The increase is esti
mated at $20,000,000.
A Post Office has been established at
Graham, Station No. 8, on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad.
Mrs. Alexander J. Semmes, a daughter
of the late Hon. John. M. Berrien, died at
Savannah last Saturday.
Savannah lia3 sold SIOO,OOO of her new
loan for harbor and city improvements.
Macon hag received spring cabbages
from near Jacksonville. Fla., which were
planted in January last. One had a hard
white head of a foot in diameter and
weighed nine pounds.
Razors are the favorite weapons to kill
colored wives in Savannah. A freedman
| missed his wife’s jugular by being inter
rupted by some officious persons.
Mrs. Sarah Redding, aged 03 years,
died near Drayton. Houston county, Tues
; day week.
The boys of Hickory Grove, Houston ,
county, have made up a rabbit hunt for
the championship of Georgia, on the third j
Saturday in March. Challenge open to
the world.
Perry. Ga., was settled in 1823, six
years before Columbus.
An Atlanta firm is sueiug the planters
of Haynesville, Houston county, for nurs
ery trees which said firm sold to farmers.
The trees wouldn’t grow and the takers
refuse to settle.
The value of stolen cotton and rice sold
annually in Savannah is about <£>20(1,000.
The City Council of Griffin has invested
§3,000 in'stock in the Gas Company, and
donated §SOO to pay for a town clock to
be placed iu the Methodist church steeple.
A Bio Item. —The State Road Investi
gating Committee Monday, says the At
lanta Sun, discovered a discrepancy of
over §50,000 in the account of a certain
corporation, with the State of Georgia
during Bullock’s administration: and it is
estimated that the entire amount will be
recovered. ,
The Era denies that W. C. Morrill has
leased that paper.
A commercial statistician estimates that
Atlanta requires 1,000 barrels of flour and
30,000 bushels of com per week, or 52,-
000 barrels of flour, or 1,500,000 bushels
of corn per annum, to meet the demands
of trade. This is equivalent to a drain of
§35,000 per week, or §1,820,000 per an
num.
Mi'. John Grant, of Guelph, Canada, a
general express agent, died at the Cannon
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY", MARCH 12,1872.
House, in Atlanta, of consumption. He
was en route to Florida for his health. He
was a brother-in-law of Mr. Middleton, of
Mobile.
A Yankee Lieutenant tried to force a
negro into the supper room at Christian’s
hotel, at Gainesville, Friday night, but
was prevented by the landord’s son.
The snow at Dalton, and even at Kings
ton, fell to a depth of nine inches Satur
day, while in East Tennessee it attained a
uniform depth of eighteen inches. In
the vicinity of Tilton about one hundred
telegraph poles were blown down.
Capt. F. JI. Allen, of the firm of Allen
& Pierce, Conyers, died in Atlanta, Mon
day.
In the Senatorial election in the 10th
District yesterday, Styles (dem.) was elec
ted by a large majority over Armstrong,
Independent candidate.
Alluding to the late letter of President
YVadley, the Chronicle and Sentinel says:
“In this letter there is a careful avoidance
of any allusion to the efforts of Moses
Taylor and W. B. Johnson, both large
share holders and, we believe, Directors of
the Central Road, to buy up large quanti
ties of the stock of the South Carolina
Railroad. So far as we have seen, the
charge has been, not that the Central Road
in its corporate capacity, was buying up
the South Carolina stock, but that two of
its leading and influential corporators were
engaged in this project. The denial of
Mr. Wadley, therefore, amounts to noth
ing at all, so far as the real facts about the
matter are concerned. ”
Th Fort Valley Business Mirror lias the
j following:
j Planters’ Bank Robbed — Loss $15,000
1 —Last Monday night the Plnnters’ Bank
|at this place was robbed of $15,000. The
entrance was made through the rear door
by the use of a lever made of cast steel
for the purpose. After opening the door,
they proceeded to open the vault door.
They attempted to drill out the bolts in
the lock, but finding that plan too slow,
prized open the vault door with their crow
bars. It appears that the worst job of all,
was the easiest performed, that was, ob
taining entrance to the money safe.
This was done with gun powder placed
in the safe lock some how, and exploded.
Several gentlemen heard the noise but did
not suspect anything. The bold act was
perpetrated about 1 o'clock in the night.
They left some of their tools in the Bank
and others under a bridge near Mr. Ave
ra’s store. The tools consisted of crow
bars, brace and drill, one dark lantern,
some kind of screws, a pair of hand-cuffs
Ac., making a complete set of burglars in
struments.
Savannah occupies the fifth rank among
the Atlantic seaports in commercial im
portance. Exports valued at about sixty
millions annually leave that port. While
vessels of war can easily pass the bar at
Savannah at any state of the tide, there
being nineteen feet oh it at low water,
the channel of the river has but sixteen
feet of water at high tide.
Savannah has a debt of $3,000,000, less
a very small fraction, and she is not able
longer to continue this enormous outlay.
The Annual meeting of the State
Teachers’ Association will be held at
Augusta during the first week in May. A
circular, containing the names of the
lecturers and the subjects assigned for
papers, and for discussion, will be issued
about the first of April, and sent to all
the teachers in the State.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
The French citizens in Mobile are sub
scribing largely to a fund to assist in
paying the German war indemnity.
Governor Lindsay has appointed G. 1,.
Comer, Esq., Justice of the Peace, for the
Eufaula Beat, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of the carpet-bagger
Bassett.
The ascertained bonded debt of Selma
is $294,200. There are $50,000 of other
bonds of the city out, but about these
there is some dispute which the courts
have been invoked to settle.
A lot of raftsmen, white and black, got
drunk in Pollard last Saturday, and in a
grand melee which ensued, a man named
Conkling, (or Scroggins?) from Covington
county, was killed.
Twelve hundred barrels of Shelby Lime
were shipped from Selma in February.
The State University has 95 cadets, and
more are coming.
Henry Mack, who was acquitted Satur
day in Montgomery by jury, charged with
the murder of Amos Harris, was re-arrest
ed and placed in jail upon an affidavit of
Maggie Reevas, of assault on her with in
tent to kill, on the night of the murder.
Rev. Robert Frazier died in Memphis
on the 20th. He was well known in
North Alabama, and was a man of decided
ability. At one time he was connected
with the Montgomery Mail.
In the last few months, three hundred
and sixty-eight mules and a large number
of horses have been sold in Eufaula.
Montgomery has organized another mil
itary company which has been named the
“Metropolitan Blues,” being a combination
of the name of Metropolitan Guards and
Montgomery True Blues—two companies
organized there before the war. J. V.
Gilmer was elected captain; H. C. David
son, Ist Lieut.; B. R. Kenney 2d Lieut.;
S. Saffold, O. Sgt; B. H. Tyson, 2d Sgt;
J. D. Dillard, 3d Sgt; \V. B. Renson, 4th
Sgt; Taylor Roberts, sth Sgt; Willie El
more, Ist Corp.; Willie J. Smith, 2d Corp.;
W. B. Hughes, 2d Mar.; Dr. J. B. Gaston,
Surg.; B. E. Williams, Sec. and Tr.
The bridge over thq Mobile river is com
pleted and hereafter trains will run thro’
from Montgomery to New Orleans, with
out any transfer of freight.
Miss Ellen Goodwin, the young lady who
was so badly burned at a cantata in Selma
several weeks ago is dead.
Between two thousand and twenty-five
hundred dollars’ worth of diamonds, jew
elry and other valuables were stolen from
the residence of Gen. W. J. Hardee last
Thursday, while the family was at church.
Birmingham is soon to have a National
Bank, a Cotton Factory, a Fire Company,
an Alarm Bell, anew paper, gas works
and Keno.
Some person, under the nom de plume
of “Leonatus” is preparing a history of
the Bth Alabama Regiment,
The Calhoun Republican says that all
parties there believe that the E. A. & C.
Railroad will be in operation from Oxford
to Gadsden within less than one year. If
so it will open up the largest and richest
valleys in the State.
The Yankee soldiers in North Alabama
are said to be behaving wretchedly to
wards women and cripples.
Since the first of last September Mobile
has imported 39,827 bags of Rio coffee,
and sold 35,026. Os other varieties the
receipts have amounted to 14.178 bags.
Os all the land owners in Jackson conn-'
tv, only one pays tax on land valued at
§20,000.
At the recent exercises of the Georgia
Medical College at Augusta. Georgia. W.
M. Acton and R. S. Edwards of Jefferson
county, J lid son Davie of Barbour county,
and j! T. Mullins of Pike county, received
diplomas.
The Grand Jury on Tuesday found a
true bill against James Thompson, now
in jail in Montgomery on the charge of
having passed a forged check upon the
■ banking house of Farley, Smith & Cos.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
London, March 4. —A Times Berlin spe
cial says Count Yon Amiin, Minister to
France, has been ordered to Berlin to
give his opinion regarding the stability of
the present government of France.
The same special says it is thought Wil
liams' opinion will be adverse to England
| on San Juan arbitration between the Uni
ted States and England.
The jury in the Tichbome case have in
formed the court that they have heard
: sufficient evidence upon which to base a
verdict. The court has adjourned to Wed
nesday to allow plaintiff's counsel to con
sider his future course.
Paris, March 4. —Dissatisfaction in the
. Cabinet over the conduct of Ponyer Quer
tier, Minister of Finance in testifying at
Rouen in favor of LaMatt, ex-Prefect of
the Department of Eure, who is charged
with embezzling the funds contributed
for the relief of the French sufferers, con-
I tinues. Ponyer Quertier is to have an in
j terview to-day on the subject with his Ex
i cellency, President Thiers.
Should the resignation of the Minister
j of Finance become necessary, it is believ
; ed Casimier Pierer, late Minister of the
Interior, will be appointed to the position
| made vacant in the Cabinet,
j Paris, March 5. — A prolonged session
of the Ministry last night resulted in the
| resignation of Ponyer Quertier. His note
I to Thiers explains his testimony as favor
able to Lamatte before the Court at Rouen.
London, March 5. —Much anxiety about
the Inman steamer, City of Washington,
i which left New York on February 17th.
Rome, March 5. —It is stated that Prince
j Frederick Charles of Prussia, recently
here, said Germany would defend the
States should Prance attack her.
London, March o. —The counsel for
the Tichbome claim has withdrawn his
claim from the Court of Claims.
John Bright writes the anti-Tax Associ
ation that the abolition of the odious tax
must follow a decrease of expenditures,
and advises the withholding of confidence
in the Government, which takes seventy
millions from industry.
London, March 0. —Victoria gave her
groom, Jno. Brown, a gold medal, and
another T 25 for promptness in arresting
O’Conner.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 4.- The Japanese
were formally presented at the White
House.
House.—Regular call.
Senate. The Committee on Public
Buildings reported adversely to public
buildings at Shreveport, La., and Parkers
burg, Ya.
It is stated that Gov. It. Holden goes as
Minister to Peru.
The Spanish Minister, Roberts, has
commenced negotiations for anew treaty
of commerce with the United States.
Reception of the Japs the event of to
day. The President’s speech commenced.
“Gentleman, I am gratified that this conn
and that my administration will lie dis
tinguished—”
General Horace Porter was before the
Custom House Committee five hours to
day. His evidence exculpates himself
and the President from any direct interest
in the general order of business.
House.—Bills have been introduced to
import, duty free, uniforms of certain
regiments and repealing all acts author
'zing the Revenue officers to seize books
and papers. Deficiency Apropriation i-e
--sumed. Adjourned.
Senate.—Responding to the petitions to
settle the tea and coffee tariff, Sherman
from the Financial Committee reiterated
that no change will occur until July. Ex
ecutive session. Adjourned.
The signal office reports the barometer
in this city has risen very rapidly since 5
o’clock. The thermometer has fallen 21
degrees in the last three hours. The wind
from the northwest is blowing at this hour
38 miles an hour.
The Committee on Public Buildings re
ported in favor of appropriating one hun
dred thousand dollars for public buildings
at Raleigh.
The chairman of the committee an
nounced that the policy of the committee
was to give money only to capitals of
States and port cities for public buildings.
Washington, March 5. —Senator Scott
has agreed to accept Kellogg’s amend
ment to the Pacific Railroad bill changing
its Eastern terminus from Marshall to
Shreveport, but a big fight is anticipated
over it in the Senate.
Full Cabinet to-day.
Yorhees declines the candidature for
Governorship of Ohio.
Custom receipts three millions more last
than the preceding February.
Nothing new elicited by the Investiga
tion Committee to-day.
Confirmations: Farrow, Attorney for
Georgia; Wallace, Marshal for South
Carolina.
House. —Committee on Territories con
cluded debate on Indian Territorial Gov
ernment question. Col. Wm. P. Ross
opposed Col. E. C. Bourdinat, who advo
cated the bill. The Committee will re
port to the House on the 2Gth inst.
Senate. —Bill extending regulations for
the transmission of goods in bond to
Pittsburg, passed. Appropriations re
sumed. House Judiciary Committee repor
ted a Supplementary Apportionment bill.
It proposes to allow an additional Repre
sentative to each of the States of New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Maryland, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Alabama and Florida; such additional
Representatives to be elected from the
State at large, unless otherwise provided
by the Legislature.
Bill removing disabilities from 27 Geor
gians passed.
Other disability bills were massed and
passed.
Bill granting half of the Verba Buena
Island to the Pacific Railroad for western
terminus, was considered. An amend
ment charging the Company §50,000 per
year was proposed.
Banks signified his objection to the bill ■
as surrendering the most important de- !
f ensive position in the harbor. No action, j
Appropriation resumed. ,
The House meets at II o'clock to-moir i
row to receive the Japanese.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the Collector of Customs at
Brownsville, Texas, not to clear any more
goods for Camargo and other points on
the Rio Grande above.
Matamoras is in the hands of the Revo
lutionists.
Washington, March s. —The reception
of the Japanese on the floor of the House
at 11 o'clock interrupted morning business.
Either house unimportant.
Gov. Holden declines the mission.
Boutwell testified before the Arms Ci >m
mittee.
Senate irregular.
House. —The New York Tobacco Board
of Trade petitioned for a permanent bond
tobacco warehouse.
Deficiency Appropriation bill resumed.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, March s.—The wife of nx-
Govemor Bramlatte is dead.
NEW YORK.
New York. March. 4.— The Tribune
alleges that some merchants who crimi
nated Government officials by their
testimony before the Custom Houte In
vestigation Committee are now being sub
jected to vexatious suits and seizures. The
firm of Clark & Schultz, who are of this
class, had their books overhauled in a
manner which, the Tribune says, was sus
picious if not positively outrageous.
A mass meeting of German working
men was held yesterday to form an Eng
lish branch of the Eight Hour League. A
future meeting for the fusion of all work
ing interests was arranged.
Mayor Hall's trial has commenced.
New YYjbk, March 5. —The Grand Jury
of Jersey City found fifty additional in
dictments against officials for frauds.
Judge Sedgewick has enjoined the Ge
neva Watch Company from carrying on
an alleged fraudulent traffic. He charged
that they import worthless Swiss watches,
stamped as if made in the United States.
The aldermen of Brooklyn passed an
ordinance forbidding the collection of fare
unless passengers are provided with seats.
New York, March 6.—The charter elec
tion throughout the State indicates little
change in the strength of the parties.
Lowry, an outlaw, was killed by his
brother, Stephen Lowry, a member of the
gang.
The weather continues intensely cold.
Ice increasing. Some of the ferries have
stopped. A man was found frozen on the
street with the reins of a horse in his
hands. Two others frozen dead. Nearly
all sails arrived.
Cuban Gen. Ryan has been discharged
from the charge of violating the neutral
ity laws.
LOUISAN A.
New Obleas, March 4.— United States
Marshal Purrell denies he sought to serve
a capias on Gov. Davis, of Texas, and that
the latter said he would appeal-to the gov
ernment and it would protect him. He
had an interview with Davis and that was
all, but no such remarks as have been tel
egraphed were made.
Volunteers of the Fire Department are
celebrating the 35th anniversary with a
procession. Steeets are filled with specta
tors. Weather clear and pleasant.
Van Norten, President of the Savings
Bank, was sentenced to-day by Judge
Croley to the parish prison for ten days,
for refusing to produce in Court a certain
Bank box, deposited with him January
19th, by M. A. Southworth and Senator
Lewis, containing $30,000, and an agree
ment that Lewis should sustain Pinch
back and Warmouth’s administration and
attend regular session of Legislature each
day; said box to be delivered to Lewis,
March 4tli, by complying with certain con
ditions.
Van Norten was immediately pardoned
by Gov. Warmouth and liberated. During
the investigation it transpired that South
worth compounded with Y r an Norten about
a month ago, and removed the money
from the box. When finally brought in
court this morning it contained nothing
but the agreement above and referred. A
full statement of this case will probably
be sent to the Congressional Investigation
Committee.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, March 4. —Andrew J.
Jones, late]President of Western Railroad
Company, charged with fraudulent use of
bonds of company, tried before the Supe
rior Court of Moore county last week, was
convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of
ten thousand dollars and one year impris
onment in the penitentiary. He takes an
appeal to the Supreme Court.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, March 4. —The Centen
nial Commissioners had their first meeting
to-day, and it is proposed to make this
American Centennial the feature of the
age.
Philadelphia, March 5. —It is estimat
ed $1,000,000 worth of goods were dam
aged by a fire in Jayne’s building. The
Are did not reach the lower stories. The
burning of the cupalo, one hundred and
twenty feet above the pavement, was a
magnificent spectacle. The Cheetnut
street front escaped inundation.
The fire at Jaynes’ building was con
trolled. The lower floors are so drenched
with water and sheeted with ice that fur
ther damage is impossible. The granite
front on Chestnut street is not at all
damaged. On Carter street two upper
stories of the front fell.
Allentown, March 6. —The National
Patriotic Convention of the Sons of Ameri
ca, has convened. President, Henry
Stayer, of Pennsylvania; Secretary, W. ;
Wilkerson.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, March C. —Thos. M. Brown,
a prominent lawyer, fell dead to the pave
ment while returning from his office.
Col. Lander, a prominent lawyer of
Tennesse, was shot dead at Hany Station.
Great fire in Frankfort. The Swayer
block was entirely burned. A child suf
foeated in the fire.
OHIO.
Cleveland, March 5. —Kev. Mr. Gil
mer, of Dayton, has been appointed
Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland.
Cleveland, March s.—The National
Convention of Base Ball Players convened.
They elected Ferguson, of the Atlantics,
President, and N. E. Young, of Baltimore,
Secretary. The rules are nearly the same
as last year.
Cincinnati, March G. —Eleven business
houses and dwellings were burned at
Mason’s Station, on the Mnrfreesborough
and Louisville Railroad. Loss 810,000.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, March G. —Judge Cooley
has re-arrested Van Nord, who was par
doned from prison by the Governor.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, March G. —Officers of the Un
ion Pacific Railroad.—President, Horace
F. Clark, Vice President, John Duff.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, March G. —The Pacific Rail
road is again blockaded by snow and the
flood.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, March 4.—A special to the
Democrat, from Springfield, 111., says
Governor Palmer is declining overtures
for nomination at Cincinnati.
The Convention declares for Grant.
Forney’s two-term pathetic story about
Grant—saying that Grant consented to be
a candidate for the Presidency only upon
the assurance that he would have a second
term, and that he (Forney) was one of
the two-term guarantors*—is proved says
the Boston Post, to be as pure an inven
tion as ever an unscrupulous and intrigu
ing partisan fabricated. The New York
Tribune exposes the falsehood of the tale
by quotation from Fomey’s own paper,
published in 1868, zealously advocating
and insisting upon the one-term principle,
and asserting that Gen. Grant himself
-was in favor of it. This evidence of
Fomey’s duplicity will astonish no one
familiar with his political creer, but the
implication of the President in so bold an
imposition is mortifying to Americans
who feel that the representative of the
[ Republic should not be involved in unbe
! coming manoeuvring tc* retain power and
; emolument.
WEDNESDAY IIORMW. ff AK. 6.
Purchase or a Building Lot. —A vacant
lot on Broad street, just above the Planters’
warehouse, has been purchased for SI,OOO
of Swift, Murphy & Co.,as a site for build*
ing an edifice for Wesley Chapel. The de
sign is to erect a handsomo framed structure
for this energetic and growing congrega
tion. The advance of the church has been
very rapid in the last few years. Originally
established as a mission, it now leads in
contributions to charitable objects some
of the churches which boast triple its num
ber of members. As is well known, the
congregation is composed of laboring men
and women, who work hard to earn daily
bread and provision for the days of old
age and sickness. Solicitations will soon
be made for contributions to aid in the
erection of the structure desired. All re
cognize the influence for good of neat
houses of worship. They attract many
who otherwise would absent themselves
from religious sendees. We are confident
aid will be freely granted when application
is made.
The lot purchased has a front of 57
feet on Broad street, and runs back 90
feet.
What Our Factories are Worth An
nually.—The indications are that the
Columbus manufactories will consume
this season 0,000 bales of cotton, worth,
at 20c. per pound, or SIOO per bale,
SOOO,OOO in the raw and more than $1,200,-
000 in tho manufactured state. So our
factories are worth, clear, $600,000 to our
city—or, at least, the value of the cotton
is increased that much by the production
of the commonest goods. The majority
of the fabrics quadruple tho value, which
would increase the values to millions.
Sale op Real Estate in Linwood.—
The largo two-story wooden mansion, be
longing to the estate of Mr. N. Nuckols,
deceased, located in Linwood, about three
quarters of a mile from tho city bounda
ries, was sold at public cry yesterday, by
Ellis & Spencer, for $8,200. Mr. Henry
Ware, of Villula, Ala., a son-in-law of the
deceased owner, was the purchaser. We
understand this house cost $14,000 before
the war. It is one of the best built in this
section.
Some property was sold at Sheriff's sale
by the same auctioneers for enough to
cover the tax.
An Old Instrument Used in the De
velopments of Science.— Old Probabili
ties predicts the weather with such cer
tainty that seventy-five times out of a hun
dred he is right. With a little more en
terprise on the part of the Government,
the predictions might be more unerring.
The late French boot with the high heels,
we have authority for saying,’ has de
veloped a keen sensibility to the least evi
dences of atmospheric pressure. It is
styled the toerometer. The principle is
founded upon the delicate susceptibilities
of articles known in common parlance as
corns and bunions. Now Probabilities
gets the isothermal line, or the one of
equal temperatures, by the thermometer,
and the line of isobar, or tho one of equal
weights of atmosphere, by the barometer.
Let him get a convention in each place of
all wearers of high-heeled boots and have
telegraphed him the results of the toe
rome ter, and he will thus secure the iso
bunial line, or the one of equal feeling in
corns and bunions, and he will never
miss. It will be impossible ever to fail.
Judge Tucker, in bis lecture, told the In
dies that by procuring a thermometer and
a barometer, and observing how the mer
cury stood, they could easily tell what the
weather would be for twenty-four hours,
and whether they could count on walks,
or drives, or visits the next day, Now
these high heel narrow shoes develop as
equally unerring indicators, especially if
they be stumbled over the Columbus brick
bats, miss-named pavements, l'ou'll get
a first class bunion, and then you can tell
more than any other instrument ever
dreamed of. Science is advancing. The
corn-bunial or toerometer, will yet be
the salvation of the cotton crop and the
impatience of females.
The Steam Cotton Mills. —We hear it
stated thatMr. John King, the banker, who
now owns these mills, is receiving numer
ous enquiries regarding this property.
Wo have been told that Mr. King has
declared if he had perfect control over
his leg, he would take charge of the mill
himself. It is a splendid property. The
building was stocked with new and first
class cotton manufacturing machinery
since the war—the total outfit costing
; about SBO,OOO. It was run a few months
and failed because of a want of funds.
Mr. King, we are informed, has obtained
full titles for some $25,000. The proba
bility is these spindles and looms will
not long remain idle.
Col. W. A. Babden. —This gentleman,
commander of the old 17th Georgia Reg
iment, an alderman of our city, and for
several years one of our prominent mer
chants will, we understand, connect him
self with a leading Nashville house at a
large salary. He is one of the most pop
ular of young men, possessed of superior
capacity, well known in Georgia and Ala
bama, and all over the South by the com
rades of the Army of Northern Virginia,
in which he occupied a fighting officer’s
place for four years. Reverses by fire
has caused him to seek business elsewhere.
He left Columbus Monday.
Appointment by the Governor. —We
are informed that Governor Smith has
appointed Mr. Win. Donnell to the posi
tion of principal keeper of the Georgia
penitentiary. This gentleman is related
to Col. Van Leonard, deceased, of this
city. Many years ago he resided in Co
lumbus. The appointment is said to be a
very good one. His residence is, and has
been for some time, at Milledgoville.
Register in Bankruptcy for the Third
District. —L. T. Downing, Esq., one of
our leading lawyers, has been appointed
Register in Bankruptcy for the third
(this) district. Lawson Black, Esq., of
Atlanta, has been filling the position since
the death of Mr. McKinley, some two
years ago.
Mbs. Frances Strickland Dropped
Dead. —This lady, aged about 85 years,
fell dead on Friday last, while walking in
her garden, in Marshall, Ala. She was a
consistent member of the Girard Baptist
Church.
New Fashions. —The belles of the Sand
wich Islands have announced their Spring
styles. It is a red string about the left
leg just above the knee. The present
fashion i3 a red string below the knee.
Dr. Douglas. — This wejl known physi
cian who was post surgeon at Columbus
during Confederate days, we understand,
designs locating in Columbus to engage
in the practice of medicine.
The Weekly Sun for 1872 only
Two Dollars. Renew your subscip
tion without delay.
Good Many Miles. Columbus has
1‘ twenty-eight miles of the widest streets of
any city on the continent.
NO. 5.
! THE POLITICAL “HAPPY FAMILY.”
Some years ago, Bamum made a collec-
I tion of animals and birds of incongruous
instincts and habits and called it the
| ‘‘Happy Family.” The fierce hawk and
| gentle dove would nestle on the same
j perch ; the cat and rat would play with
each other and the lamb and wolf would
literally lie down together. The thing
worked very harmoniously so long as the
eye of the keeper was present and his
whip cracked over the heads of the pets,
but let him withdraw his presence and dis
cipline and the hawk was ready to devour
the dove; the eat the rat and the festive
monkey would reach out his long arms
furtively, and steal from out the wolf's
platter or bite and tickle the tail of the in
nocent lamb. There be many resem
blances between Bamum's ‘‘Happy Fami
ly” and the Republican party. Here we
have the lordly turkey-gobbler, a strut
and a swell, in Charles Sumner; the eagle
with keen eye and sharp talons in Carl
Schurz; the buzzard in Morton; the
wolf in Butler; the monkey in Nye,
and the dove in the gentle philosopher
and farmer of the Tribune. All these
birds for some time, seemed of the same
feather, and all the animals of the same
kindred. The eye of the keeper could not
be always on his political menagerie.—
Pleasure and business frequently called
him off to and his time too,
was often and much occupied with whisky
and cigars and in administering to the ne
cessities of his cousins, brothers-in-law
and sore-tailed colts and mangy dogs. The
“Happy Family” ceases to bo happy—dis
cord reigns; and growls and barks are
heard from every quarter. The doves
flutter in fear of the hawks; the wolves
bristle, and hungry-stricken, their eyes
glare horribly, while the monkies run here
and there picking up and hiding every
thing within their reach. Nature is too
many for education, and the instinct to
rob overleaps the discipline of the eye and
the lash.
This once‘‘Happy Family” is now pleas
antly engaged in tearing each others eyes.
Their affections are alienated and the
members are now too far separated ever
to be reunited in this world. So passes
away the glory of Radicalism.
Editor vs. Attorney General. —The
Constitution of Atlanta, in allusion to the
doubt expressed by this paper that P. W.
A. was offered s+,ooo in gold to edit a
Canadian paper, says the offer was posi
tively made. The leading members of
the Democratic party in this section would
not in the least object to his taking it. He
would infinitely be preferred as an editor
in Canada to Attorney General of Geor
gia. This last position requires the high
est legal talent in the State. It is not a
mere honorary position, nor the officer
simply an adviser to the Governor who is
himself a first class lawyer. The Attor
ney' General will have some of the ablest
practitioners in the State to encounter in
the coming trials and some knotty ques
tions to discuss. Tho officer must have
something beyond the ornamental. He
must work for his salary. The State ex
pects and will require it. The people do
not want men either who have been
charged with seeking office under Bullock,
and promising support therefor, or men
who in the times when all should have
been openly pronounced maintained a
quasi position ready for any party that
sprung above the surface into popularity.
We know this section well, and can say to
Governor Smith that the appointment of
his private secretary to the post of Attor
ney General will be received with the ut
most, disfavor by our people, who with
those of Augusta and Savannah—ours be
ing first—representing what were once
termed extremists—have led the Demo
cratic party to its present position of pow
er, honor and independence. The opin
ions of our leaders ought to have some
weight. They wish an Attorney General
from that class of men who have fought
for Georgia in the field, or nobly aided her
in other capacities, who since tho revolu
tion have boldly denounced radicalism and
distinguished themselves as members of
the bar. Such men are plentiful and only
such men wall be acceptable to the people
of Georgia. No ex-editor, unless a first
class lawyer, is wanted for Attorney
General is the opinion of the United
Democratic Party of this section. No ob
jection is made to the Canada business ;
but the Attorney General is another mat
ter. We would have said nothing on the
subject, but for the persistent efforts of
several papers to produce the impression
that Mr. Alexander is the ehoice of the
State for Attorney General, and urging the
appointment.
The most alarming feature of the gen
eral news is the threat of Mrs. Vic. Wood
hull, to inflict the presidential campaign
and the country at large with five hun
dred loud talking female orators. The
long suffering people of the United States
have endured much, but really this seems
to be a little more than patriotism can tol
erate. And yet, perchance, there may be
a mercy in it all. Black silk and printed
lawn on the rostrum would diversify its
monotony. Chignons and jeweled fingers
would certainly be a more pleasing sight
than the uncombed hair and dirty hands
so frequently seen there. If we must
have female orators in the canvass we
hope the Democratic party will bid high
for all the pretty ones.
Statistics in reference to the resent
elections in Germany show that there are
282 districts, comprising 7,400,000 elec
tors. Os these, 3,879,187, or fifty-two per
cent, voted, and 2,515,904 votes were cast
for the persons elected and 1,363,323 for
the minority candidates. The strength
of the respective parties is as follows:
The “National Liberals,” support Prince
Bismarck, cast 803,046 votes; the “Cen
tre,” 437,790; the “Old Conservatives,”
291,861; the “Progressionists,” 249,329;
the “Ultramontanes,” 248,245; “Southern
Liberals,” 199,627, and the “Polish” party,
120,238.
One of the Northern papers tells of a
pious printer who refused to print ball
tickets because he held dancing as sinful.
That fellow believed in consequential
damages.
The Now York Express says: “Boston
(Tenn.) proposes to use 150,000 brick this
season.” Now will you tell us where
“Boston, Tenn.,” is to be found?
Tho House of Representatives of Maine
has passed a bill permitting women over
twenty-five years of age to vote at Presi
dential elections.
Mrs. Swisshelm believes it much better
for women to vote than to marry. We
know some husbands who are of a similar
opinion.
Sale of Rattler —We notice in a
Kentucky paper that the trotting horse,
Rattler, that won the premium over the
mare, Tennessee, at our Fair last Fall has
been sold to Mr. Peter Lindell, of St.
Louis, for $4,500.
Express Charges. —Those of the South
ern Express Company have lately been re
duced one-half.
THURSDAY MORNINO, HI All. 7.
Killing or Mn. Cuables Lioon by Dr.
E. F. Colzey. Last afternoon in the
store of O’Connor & Rafferty, on Broad
street, Mr. Charles Ligon, a young man
about 21 years of age, was shot and killed
by Dr. E. F. Colzey, one of the leading
physicians of this city. Ligon was an
agent of Mr J. E. Appier’s dray line and
had gone into the store to collect a dray
bill.
Mr. Ligoa, tho deceased, is a son of the
late Sheriff, Mr. John Ligon. who resides
on an adjoining lot to Dr. Colzey. There
is but little information as to the extent
of the provocation or justification for
tho unfortunate affair. It seems, how
ever, that Doctor Colzey approached
the deceased and said, “you know what
I told you once,” when he was interrupted
by the deceased saying, “I didn’t do it,
Doctor,” and with his hand raised toward
his face, started forward, when the Doc
tor fired four times, one ball striking the
raised hand, one the head and another
the neck. Ligon fell and did not speak
a word afterward. He was carried to his
home, where he died in about two hours.
Dr. Colzey immediately delivered himself
to the Sheriff.
We greatly regret this sad occurrence
on account of both the parties. Many
rumors are afloat of an injurious and in
sulting character against the conduct of
deceased towards a young female member
of Dr. Colzey’s family. Os their truth or
falsity we know comparatively nothing.
The testimony at the preliminary examin
ation, which takes place at the Court
House to-day, at 10 a. m., will disclose all.
There are insults which no father can
stand, and for which no law offers a reme
dy to an honorable man, and which, for
the preservation of the morals of a com
munity, justify signal punishmont.
On the Riveu —The Trial of the New
Steamer J. A. Farley. —Last afternoon,
the Farley made her trial trip. With a
large party of railroad and steamboat offi
cials and citizens on board, she made four
miles down the river in twenty-two min
utes and returned in forty-five. The as
semblage was a merry one. Refreshments
plentiful, and everyone was in the best of
humor. The steamer glided quickly and
smoothly on her way, obeying every mo
tion of the helm like a thing of life, and
the engines working perfectly. 'Twas a
bright, joyous evening, a delightful breeze
rippling the stream, and glad hearts made
tho scene happier.
Mr. J. M. Denson, Secretary of the Co
lumbus Iron Works, presided most popu
larly in the cabin; Capt Jack Williams com
manded; Allen Wellborn, colored, was pi
lot; Frank Torbet engineer, assisted by
Leonard Brooks and Chas. Couch.
The Farley is destined for the Chipola
river trade. She will carry 150 to 200
bales cotton and has good passenger ac
commodations. She belongs to the Chi
pola Navigation Company, of wdrich J. A.
Farley is President. She is !)2 feet long,
20 foot beam, and draws two feet, light.
She is a sternwheoler. She has two en
gines, each of 35 horse pow f er, designed
and built by the Columbus Iron Works.
They were finished off by Chas. Couch
and Frank Torbett, both first-class work
men.
The hull was built at Marianna. Cor
bally & Chalmers, of this city, did the
upper frame work.
The Farley is a snug, staunch craft, well
built, at a cost we presume of some $lO,
000, and will probably go down the river
this week. Her trial trip was a most pleas
ant one. Long and successfully may she
ride the wave.
North and South Railroad —Bridges
and Other Matters. —We notice the force
of the Messrs. Wilkins Brothers, under
oharge of Capt, Hamilton Wilkins, at
work building their shanties on the North
Commons, preparatory to framing the
trestleing and bridging for the North and
South road. To the lumber already on
the North Commons, the Wilkinses added
another train load yesterday, and they in
form us that four more will be received
this week. The contractors at LaGrange
wrote yesterday for the Division Engineer
to come up at once and give them work
on the Bth, 9th and 10th miles, as they
were ready to move to those sections.
AT HAMILTON
Messrs. Fleming & Cos. are hard at work
with a force of about forty men, which
will be doubled in a few days. The work
at Rome is advancing rapidly. The num
ber of hands have been increased consid
erably, and still farther additions will be
made as the weather becomes settled and
more favorable for working. This winter
has been a hard one on contractors.
Necessity of Some Action. —There is
scarcely a day that someone does not suf
fer from loss of clothing, provisions or
poultry, and it has become so frequent
that some means should be devised for
mutual protection. There is not a house
keeper, we venture to assert, that does not
have her kitchen filled at times with idle
negroes, male and female, who live en
tirely from her tables. This is wrong.
The Mayor and Councilmen should enact
some law that will drive these worthless
negroes out of the city. We think it
would be an excellent rule for housekeep
ers to stipulate in their contracts with ser
vants that they are to receive no visitors
unless by special permit. By a common
understanding of this kind great annoy
ance might be avoided.
The Bank Robbery at Fort Valley.—
The telegraph has already given notice of
the robbery, on Monday night, of the
Planters’ Bank in Fort Valley of $15,000
in greenbacks and $2,000 in specie. The
bank is located in a brick building, the
vault of iron not very strong. The pri
vate telegrams received here caution the
police to look out for four burglars. By
some it is conjectured that the robbers
numbered five or six. They left behind
them a full set of burglars’ best tools, a
pair of handcuffs and a bottle of chloro
form. Is it not rather singular that such
articles should be left by professionals?
It was the impression of yesterday’s pas
sengers that the robbers had gone to At
lanta. The Fort Valley paper’s account
of the affair, copied under Georgia News,
has particulars.
Cotton Crop and Receipts.— Cotton
in New York yesterday closed dull and £c.
lower than on previous day. Private tel
egrams reported there were more sellers
fhnn buyers. The receipts, for the five
days, ending last night, at all United
States ports were 32,231 bales against 51,-
774 same days last week, and the indica
tions are that the weok’s receipts will show
over 9,300 bales less than the correspond
ing one last year. Farm work is over
two weeks backward over the South. A
very wet winter generally foretells a very
dry summer. Drought is by no means fa
vorable to cotton. Tho end of the pres
ent crop is near at hand and the next one,
according to indications, is not promising.
The position is very strong for the bulls
and holders.
Another Dead— Dr. George W. Crymes,
died very suddenly last Thursday night at
his residence in Enon, Bullock county
Ala. He retirod to his bed seeming well
and soon was a corpse. He was an old
and respected physician, and an honored,
useful citizen.
The Columbus Iron Works. —This es
tablishment is doing a very largo variety
of work. They have a contract for mak
ing the celebrated Abell loom. Gapt.
Brain has also given it the manufacture
of Muhl’s Patent Ice Machine.