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THE WEEKLY SUN. THOM AS D* WOLF. THOMAS GILBERT. THOS. GILBERT & CO., l-ROPRIETORB. terms of subscription. ollC ycnr '.. Vi | Six months—‘-!5 CLUBS. v .,- to sirno postoffice * ® * .. « « u lr 50 fifteen - “ “ “ 33 3,5 ADVERTISING RATES: ailrertdementsthserted at $l per square (ten ne ,or lex-. In small type,) first insertion, and a '., v ‘ ri n ts each siilwcquent insertion. TVESOAT nfIKKIMi, MAY 9t. StNi'EsoE:-. Pronounced in Russell Cib , it Court. —The following named crimi- j s W ere .sentenced by Judge Strange, at tl e i it te term of Circuit Court for Russell mtv: Benj. Franklin, colored, burg v. twenty years’ hard labor for the conn tv an.la sufficient length of time to pay lj,,,st of the Court at 40 cents per day. Peter Crews, colored, burglary, three - ir-,' hard laborfor the county, and asnf ricient length of time to pay the cost of j the Court at 40 cents per day. George Thomas, colored, larceny—jury | f uU nd a verdict of guilty, and fine of SSOO one year hard labor for the county, and i „ne hundred and sixty days labor for the j line, and in addition thereto such length „f time as, at 40 cents per day, will pay the costs of this Court. The following most important cases on the docket were continued: Fannie Whit low, mutder; Willis Eberhart, murder; Marshal Morgan, arson; Burton Long, perjury; William Johnson, robbery; and John Ivery, grand larceny. In the case of the State vs. O. A. Fields, for the murder of J. J. Dumas—convicted of murder in second degree at Fall Term, 1 s7J, and judgment reversed by Supreme Court —no certificate of reversal having It. -a received from Supreme Court, uo action was had in his case and it lies over until next term. The Funeral of Major J. H. Sikes. — It was largely attended Sunday afternoon. The Masonic column alone numbered fifty-two members. The Masonic service was read by Mr. Marion Brooks, one of lha finest readers to whom we have ever listened. Rev. J. 11. Nall conducted the religious exercises. Major Sikes was born near Norfolk, Vn., in 1825. For twenty-ono years he was a residont of Georgia. For twelve years he had beon a member of the Presbyterian church and for eighteen a Mason. Pre vious to the war he was engaged in man ufacturing. When the revolution com menced he, in 18G1, went to Virginia as a lieutenant, and afterwords commanded a cavalry battalion. Ho was a first class soldier, was once wounded, twice cap tured and confined in Fort Delaware. For a number of months he published a Ileal Estate Journal in this city, which had a considerable circulation. He leaves six children. The oldest daughter is married. Since the revolution he has been a real (stato agent, and by his well-known in dustry, perseverance and integrity, built up a good business. 110 had long been in feeble health. The large numbers who followed the remains to the grave testified to the high appreciation which was enter tained by the citizens of Columbus for a true man and brave Southron. A Case of Interest to Farmers. —A very interesting case came before Ordina ry I )uer yestorday. A negro minor, Joe Grimes, desired employment as farm la borer, nud applied to Mr. P. E. Wimber ly. That gentlomau went with boy to his father, Hampton Grimes, told him of the application of his son, stated that he would not hire him without Hampton’s consent, and gave the terms, Ac., lie would viffcr. Hampton assented very readily for Joe to bo in Mr. W.’s employ, and the contract was made on the spot. Three months after Hampton took his son away, saying lie was a minor and could not con tract, and to the father belonged his labor. Mr. W. immediately sued out a writ of habeas corpus to recover the boy, and tho case came before Ordinary Drier. On the hearing Hampton swore he had never given consont that the son should he hired by Mr. W., and denied all knowl edge of the contract. Mr. W. proved, by a colored blacksmith, Ephraim Clark, in whole shop the conversation took place, the facts just ns Mr. W. detailed them. Os course Joe was delivered to Mr. W. This ease teaches farmers that a verbal contract is as good as any other, when they have witnesses; and that wlron they don't desire written contracts, which are the safest, never make a contract with a father regarding a minor unless you have a witness. Georgia. Grays—Erection of Offcers. The company numbers 53 men. An '•lection for permanent officers was held in Hook and Ladder rooms last night, before M. McOahey, J. P., with the following re sult: Captain—W. L. Salisbury. Ist Lieutenant—L. M. Burrus. -d Lieutenant— J. J. Bradford. ■">d Lieutenant—John Reese. Ith Lieutenant—ll. F. Everett. Ist Sergeant—\V. I. Strapper. 2d Sergeant—Jos. Patrick. ;'.<J Sergeant —W. 11. Roberts, ttli Sergeant—P. 11. Madden. sth Sergeant—R. A. Wood. Ist Corporal—Thos. Robinson. 2d Corporal—Chas. Wise. 3d Corporal—W. H. Wood. 4th Corporal—J. M. McDuffie. Secretary and Treasurer— T. W. Chaffin. Ensign—A. J. Boland. A Proper Decision.— They tell on our - "'d friends at Hamilton that when the dirt digging on the North and South rail iisid commenced, there were some doubts whether the trains would ever reach Ham 'liou. So they sent down a committee to M,e - Ihe chairman took a lump of dirt ■'em an excavation and carried it back to the Meeting, which, after examination •'Ud discussion, they pronounced railroad dht, and concluded the trains were eotning. Time has justified the conclu a!l(l before long the whistle of the engine "Ml be heard in Hamilton. t-orrox Production of Mvscooee Coun -'■•—Returns from three warehouses show mat since Sept. Ist, to date, 1,401 bales “> 1 been received from this county. Sup : 'mg the other two received the same “ l rec °ipts from Muscogee, would be If we get 800 more bales, which is ! ‘btful, the total cotton production of c unty last year will be proved to be ..is;, bales. Wo believe the estimate is “-■ hr, rather than above, the actual re sult. ■ m t imps Around Columbus.— A friend o Us he walked and rode around a good -Sunday looking at crops. He found ■ •> - small worm had penetrated the corn "*' s ' llst a, 'ove the roots and was eating ■■"stauce. lie found many of them , L ‘ ! ' c rent fields. It is not the cut worm, y-s thing gnaws a hole through the stalk. • "ud too that a small bug was feed ° ■ -pidly on cotton leaves. V f AIH 1N Talbotton.— Mr. John F. u prominent citizen of that place, wl in 1 ulbotton Sunday afternoon. His --- was about forty-two years. He had , Ua hading merchant hut retired from 1k a s' ear or two ago. The disease of the heart. ■ ",f" " as the first white man born in j \ cou uty. He was also a brother-in ut -Mr. G. W, Radcliff, of Columbus. ! - to advertisement it will be s " t ' lat H' c accommodation train on the 11- leaves only on Tuesdays, 'todays and Saturdays. 1 h'y leave bank doors open iu Savannah, * ua no robbers find it out. VOL. XIV. BEGGING THE QUESTION. The principal, if not the only argument, advanced by the newly struck Southern Greeleyites is that H. G. is the proper man to defeat Grant. This is the merest assumption—a begging of the question. How do they arrive at such a conclusion? Upon w hat meat has either Grant or Gree ley fed that they have grown so great? Grant lias made no new converts since he was confronted by three millions of Dem ocrats at the last election. Since then, the utter failure of his administration both in its foreign and domestic policy—its usurpations and corruptions have alienated old friends and created new enemies by thousands. Outside of the disaffected Radicals, Greeley has little or no strength at the North. With the aid and comfort of the South and without a regular Demo cratic candidate, he might possibly defeat Grant. With Gen. W. S. Hancock or some other man who has ever advocated the right of trial by jury, the habeas cor pus, the liberty of speech and press, and the subordination of the military to the civil authorities, a united Democracy could gain a glorious victory without a compromise or sacrifice of principles. We think some of our Democratic brethren are slightly in a hurry in hoist ing the names of Greeley & Brown and endorsing the proceedings of a Republi can Convention. This is in advance of the music. We shall wait for the w agon. If Greeley should be elected, we are afraid, too, a good editor, farmer and philosopher would be spoiled to make a bad President. We fear for his morals. His smile, so simple and eliild-iike, may be converted into a horrible scowl, and even his Uncle Toby’s benevolence be no ways averse to cussing “like our army in Flanders.” Greeley has many noble qualities, but he has taught all the tyran ny and corruption practiced and executed by Grant, and we have yet to see that he has expressed the the first regret or re tracted in a single particular. He now' declares he favors the election of Grant to a Democrat. How r then can any Demo cratic Southerner prefer Greeley to Han cock or Voorliees? FISH CULTURE. W’e publish Col. Penn Young's letter with great pleasure, and with the hope it will be read by all with profit. The artificial propagation of fish is a fixed scientific fact, and its usefulness is indis putable. “God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly great whales, &c., and God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas and let man have dominion over the fisb, &c.” Fish are certainly the most prolific, delicious and nutritious of all food; and with care and industry, directed by intel lect, would and should be the cheapest. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one only grew before is a benefactor, surely he who produces from “two small fishes,” enough to feed a mul titude, is a still greater benefactor. Fish and bread go together since the days of miracles, and although we are somewhat faithless as to their degree of strengthen ing and purifying properties on the morals and mind attributed by some philosophers and divines, still, we think, as diet, their inff uence is better, physically and mentally, than poor beef and pork. The English man and American, although fine animals, would be finer still if they eschewed roast beef and hog sausages, and partook more of eggs, fish and vegetables. Fast days should be more numerous, and then while w'e wielded the crowbar and heaved the marble from its native bed, we could, like the Italian, touch and fashion it with a chisel into the image of a hero or a God. As long as we are a nation of hog and beef eaters, we never can succeed as musicians, sculptors or painters, and only “few and far between,” as poets. As to the “criticism” or “cut” of the writer referred to by Col. Yonge, wo do not think it was so intended. We know well the writer, and his especial fondness for picnics and fish. We learn he will soon apply for a patent machine for his own sole use, which, with a crank (when brickyard mud cats, suckers, &c , are thrown in) will separate the fins, bones and needles from the flesh. We expect an invitation to the trial feast of—chair dcr, and shall certainly be there or “thereabouts.” THE ATLANTA GREELEY MEETING. As we reported yesterday, the Greeley and Brown meeting at Atlanta (excluding Democrats and refusing to hear Judge Linton Stephens) was a complete flash in the pan. The idea of so-called Democrats assembling in secret conclave to endorse a Republican nomination in advance of a Democratic Convention is as ridiculous as it is illiberal and impolitic. In viewof such meetings, well may the fanner of Chappaqua exclaim, “Save me from my friends! ” Tacitus tolls us it was an ancient German custom to first deliberate when drunk, then when sober, and then again when drunk, before a conclusion on great matters of State, was ready for action. The Atlanta Greeleyites must have stop ped at the first stage, aud no doubt feci now like appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober. The papers report that Ben Hill was the author of this still-born bantling. We know “Our Ben's" vanity and ambition has often proved too much for his good horse sense, but in this particular, we believe some eabbage-hoaded, earrot haired, turnip-nosed fellow, green and soft as a young squash, put this ball in motion. Such pumpkins may prove (soft as they are) too much for the head of the farmer and philosopher. Receipts of Cotton in Interior Towns The following table shows the re ceipts at the named interior towns from September Ist to Friday, May 17th, respectively, for the seasons 1870-71 and 1871-72 : 1870-1. 1871-2 Augusta 182,507. 140,839 Macon 97,33(4 53,954 Eufaula 37,750. 21,77(4 Columbus 72,97.0 39,012 Montgomery 95,820 7.2,203 Selma 83,928 58,440 Memphis 481,580 3(47,831 Nashville 93,897 54,978 Total 1,145,888 789,053 This shows a deficit of this year from the last of 37.0,785 bales. The stocks on May the 17. were 89,070 against 38,- 922 same date iu 1871, showing an increase of 77.4 which subtracted from the deficit in the port receipts 1,104,885 makes the United States crop in sight last Friday 1,104,131 bales less than the one of last year to same date. Something fob Mothers. — One of the most novel and instructive volumes for the use of children that has been publish ed for a long time is “Wisdom Teeth for Little People,” by Mrs F. G. de Fontaine, a unique but expressive title of a careful compilation of a large number of facts with which every child should become ac quainted as soon as he can talk. Every mother and primary school teacher will find their labors lessened, and pride in the progress of their pupils gratified by this little educational bijou. The price is sixty cents, and it may be ordered through the bookstores from the publishers, E. J. Hale & Cos., 17 Murray st., New York. THE WEEKLY SUN. GEORGIA NEWS. The reports to the Thomas County Ag ricultural Society, from .‘ll farms, show 3,4.10 acres in com and 3,000 in cotton, against 3,100 in corn and 2,875 in cotton, showing an increase of 11 per cent, in com and 4 per cent, in cotton. Os oats 10 per cent, more planted than in 1871. Mrs. Stanford s residence near Lump kin was burned Saturday night week. No insurance. Caught from stove pipe. The store of AV. S. Gillis was robbed Monday week. Lumpkin has been talking twelve months about fencing in the graveyard and continues the talk. The Stewart Ag ricultural Society has appointed a com mittee composed of C. C. Humber, J. B. Latimer; Jno. F. Irvin, Col. J. H. Lawe, Dr. J. K. Bamum, B. M. Overby, O. S. Morton, David T. Pinkston and John Hightower, to gather for the June meet ing all the statistical information possible, showing amount of land planted in each crop, condition of crops, &c. The negroes in Stewart, headed by Henry Brown and Rev. Harris, endorsed Grant Monday night week. Hardeman & Sparks sold over 400 bales of cotton in Macon Saturday. The Com bination Boat Club of Macon is build ing a fine two-story boat house. Macon is anticipating a grand Catholic picnic, which takes place at Colaparchee (on the Macon and Western Railroad) on the 22d. Accommodations for two thousand have been made. The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Direc tors met at Bainbridge Tuesday that they might examine and consider the line of the extension of the road westward from that city. Os a drove of 100 sheep brought to Brunswick, half died one night. Guano is cheap. The Brunswick and Albany Railroad has been set for a hearing in Glynn Superior Court on the 4th Tues day in May, the 28th inst. There is a youngster in Covington, says a Conyer’s paper, who has lately bought him anew suit and shining beaver, and actually goes to church with respectable ladies. This is something strange to us, as a respectable gentleman would not be caught with said young man, even though he was related to him. We know “a word to the fair is sufficient.” Augusta has organized a Board of Ex change of 30 members with the follow ing officers : AV. F. Herring, President; W. S. Roberts, Vice President; H. H. Hickman, Treasurer; and Messrs. 11. F. Russell, J. M. Clark, C. 11. Phiuizy, W. T. Wheless, G. R. Sibley, J. J. Cohan and W. E. Jackson, Directors. Krause & Chandel, arrested in Quitnam for arson, have been discharged. Two nymphs of Savannah have been extorting SSOO, SIOO and other large bills from the good boys of Savannah. Thurs day a young woman, with a still-born babe in her arms, entered the store of a well-known citizen to purchase a lace cap, at the same time remarking that when she got the cap for the baby she intended to have its picture taken. Mr. Wadley’s coast depot is a funny place. A colored boy killed a colored baby in Savannah with a piece of plastering. Ac cidental. A young lawyer and another young cit izen of Savannah have adjusted their dif ficulties, as usual, amicably, without the threatened pistols and coffee. The Savannah News and the Republi can differ widely about the relations of Sumpter Anderson’s widow. It is sug gested that the 100 prisoners in the Sa vannah jail might boos service in work ing the streets. The regatta association is to have a grand ball at the Screven House on the 22d inst. Rev. J. M. Mitchell, D. D., has been deposed from the rectorship of Christ Church in Savannah, and the ministry. The charges against him were making in decent exposures of his person and ges tures to ladies. He w r as once declared guiltless of them, but within the last few days the proof has been conclusive and he admitted them to the Bishop. He and his family left on Saturday’s steamer for whence he came four years ago.' He was in Columbus during the session of the Episcopal Convention. Dr. Whitaker, of Palmetto, has had a case of triplets in his practice. The house of Mr. F. H. Steed, near Palmetto, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night—loss about $2,500. Capt. A. R. Ransome, of Early county, aged 76 years, is dead. Col. E. Platt, agent of the Equitable Life, only took in policies amounting to $30,000 on the 15th, in Rome. The second section of twenty-five miles of the Savannah, Griffin and North Ala bama Railroad, to Carrolton, in Carrol county, (which place is nearly on an air line from Savannah to Memphis) are un der contract to be completed in time for the next cotton crop. The company have created a mortage on their line in Georgia to the extent of one half million dollars, to pay off all liabilities and complete the work to Carrollton. The stock subscribed ex ceeds the bonded debt thus created. The Greeley and l>own meeting in At lanta Saturday was a fizzle. The w'hole affair was engineered by Ben. Hill. Less than sixty persons endorsed the resolu tion advising that the Baltimore conven tion make no nomination. Col. Peebles presided. Gen. Garlington didn’t want the meeting to do anything. Mr. Sam Hoyles offered the resolutions. Speeches in their support were made by Cols. T. O. Howard and John Thomas. It is stated that five of the delegates to Philadelphia, appointed by the Macon Radical Convention, are for Greeley and will decline the appointment to Philadel phia. At this rate there will be only the thirteen office-holders left. The Grand Jury of Fulton Superior Court found three true bills against H. O. Hoyt for felony, and one against Penn Bedell for murder. The ex-cadets of the Georgia Military Institute propose forming a military com pany. At a meeting held Saturday in At lanta J. B. Bridges presided, and Mr. Goodwyn was Secretary. C. AY. Hender son, J. A. Fitten, J. W. Pearce and M. 11. McWhorter, were appointed a commit tee to solicit names to the list. The Atlanta Sun is authorized to state that the rumor published in one or two papers “that Gov. Smith is in favor of Greeley, and of making no nomination at Baltimore, and further, that he was in fa vor of the late unconstitutional decision of a majority of the Supreme Court, on the validity of the acts of the Bullock Leg islature after the forty days are untrue.” W. Scott Thomas, indicted for mail purloining, has been brought from Mis souri to Atlanta, by a Yankee Marshal. Mrs. J. C. Kimball was robbed of a box containing S7OO worth of jewelry. A negro man in her employ was arrested, owned up and a portion of the articles recovered. Dr. W. W. Gibson and Mrs. L. 11. Ken dall—the last aged 02 —died in Upson county. A farmer in Morgan county, last week ploughed up a forty acre cotton field and found all the seed rotten. A fifty-three year old man, calling him self N. C. Burton—chunky built, short, greyish beard, dark complexion, represent ing himself to be from Columbus, and j agent for the New York Life Insurance COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MAY 28,1872. Company, did Mr. Jack Lane, of Frank lin, out of a week’s board, stole his bat teau, crossed the river and has not since been heard of. It is stated that the number of white military companies already organized in Georgia will be sufficient to take up dou , ble the number of arms to be furnished I by the Government. The rule adopted by the Governor, it is said, is that of the miller, “first come, first served.” The Comptroller-General publishes the following: I will thank you for space to say to those interested that the Legisla ture in January last repealed the specific tax of 20 cents per gallon on liquors, and now that article is taxable only as other personal property at its fair market value, and it must be so returned to the Tax Re ceiver, who in receiving the return will enter it on the Tax Digest under the head of “all other property.” The tax to be paid in the fall to the Collector, when col lecting the regular State tax. Athens is raisings funds for the State University from private parties, and will apply to the Legislature for permission to subscribe $25,000. Ogeechee has rebelled. The Indepen dent Order of Ogeechee Cadets are going for Greeley. Atkins, Bradley et al. to the contrary notwithstanding. Joseph Capece, 12 years old, an Italian i flute player, is missing from Savannah. | His neck is stiff and hangs to one side. ! Seventy-five dollars reward is offered for j his recovery. In the interior, Savannah is now being called President Wadley’s coast station. In the Georgia histories of Olive Logan it is said she was chiefly known for her extraordinary beauty and her purity and sweetness of character. She might have been known for extraordinary beauty, and we trust for her sake, the people are alive who knew it. In Savannah the colored troops adver tise that at a coming entertainment, “Re becca Spauldin, late of Boston, will dance a jig with a glass of water on her head and one in either hand.” Hon. Julian Hartridge, Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, has been industriously engaged in prepar ing his address to the Democratic party of the State, and it is expected in the Sa vannah papers to arrive to-day. Young Grovenstine, son of Capt. John Grovonstine, well known in Savannah, was killed recently at St. Mary’s in a dif ficulty with a companion. Mr. Andrew McLaughleu was thrown from a buggy in Savannah, Saturday af ternoon, and sustained painful injuries. The Savannah Regatta commenced Monday. Large crowd. The first race was won by the “Alice,” beating the “Four Sweethearts” several lengths.— Time—Alice 5:28; Four Sweethearts 5:41; second race won by Maggie in 0:214, beat ing the Naunene and Ida. Good deal of betting. Splendid supper at Screven House. Alice crew presented with a beau tiful flag. The Georgia State Agricultural Society will be represented in the approaching Agricultural Congress, at St. Louis, by Col. Mitchell, of Thomasville, and Dr. James, of Greensboro. Z. B. Hargrove returned from Warren ton to Atlanta on Monday, where he had made arrangements to bail Chap Norris in the sum or two thousand dollars, but Judge Linton Stephens, prosecuting attor ney, now in Atlanta, refused to sanction the arrangement. Dave Wallace, colored drayman in Ma con, loved Mrs. Margaret O’Connel so much that he took SIOO of her money. Dave was put in the hands of a ferocious policeman and dropped the funds. The Macon telegraph tells of a negro boy who carried a mule to an employer’s plantation, 18 miles from the city, was robbed on his way of the few dollars he had by white men, delivered the animal at the farm and walked back to Macon, carrying his master’s saddle and bridle to him. This is indeed rare honesty. Two stock companies of $12,000 each are to be organized to fiavigate the Oosta naula and Etowah rivers above Rome. The Rome amateurs cleared SBO for the Memorial Association by playing Lady of Lyons. The house of Mr. A. S. Morton, of Dirt Town Valley, was burned to the ground on Monday evening last. Almost all of the furniture was lost. Dr. Harrison Westmoreland, in Fulton county jail, broke a man’s fiddle and pur sued him with an iron spoon. Hon. W. A. Redding, of Harris county, for many years a member of the Georgia Legislature, formerly President of the Mint at Dahlonega; also at one time Prin cipal Keeper of the Penitentiary, is now in Atlanta; now over seventy-three years old, but hale and hearty. He is on a visit. The Grand Jury of Fulton county found another indictment against the kidnapper Hendricks, and a bench warrant was im mediately issued, charging him with an attempt to kidnap. A billiard room keeper was bound over to the Atlanta City Court to answer to the charge of allowing minors to play at bil liards. The Washington correspondent of the Savannah News has this: The representations of the “outs” which are being made almost daily inofficial cir cles create considerable discussion. Let ters are exhibited from many so-called prominent Republicans in Georgia, who represent that the party is going to the devil, and nothing can save and unite it except a clean sweep of all the Federal offices. The Administration is very much embarrassed by all this quarreling and fighting, especially at this particular time, and it would not be surprising if anew departure were not inaugurated in Admin istration circles in Georgia before long. In the second day (Tuesday) of the Sa vannah regatta, the Four Sweethearts won by 7 second the $75 prize over the Nan nine. The second race—prize SBO and champion flag—was won by the Alice over the Four Sweethearts in 5:10), fastest time ever made at Savannah. The Four Sweet hearts’ time was 5:24. The flag is of blue silk, with heavy gold fringe, embroidered in gold letters, “J. 871. R, A. A. G.,” and is handsomely mounted. It was made by Mrs. Dr. J. T. McFarland. President Wadley’s coast station is a lively place. Tuesday’s papers have an account of the murder Os a negro by another, a fight between a lawyer and an ex-client in a J. P.’s court, how a negro pic nic ended in a row and one negro was shot, and how a ten year old daughter of Mr. A. Fernandez was thrown down in a public thoroughfare by a negro boy who took from her finger a gold ring and escaped. Savannah District Conference was held at Waynesboro. Bishop Pierce presided. The Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar commenced at Americas yes terday. Savannah has sent a large dele gation. Tbe Macon Reading and Social Club has issued 370 invitations and made ac commodation for 5,000 people at their pic nic in Central City Park next Wednesday. The Israelites in Macon are commenc ing anew synagogue. The auditorium ■null be 36 by 564 feet, the walls 22 feet high at the sides, open roof. The seats will accommodate about 200. An organ loft of ample dimensions will be erected over the entrance. Thursday afternoon H. C. Sailors, Esq., of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Miss Lula Adams, of Macon, were married in the Mulberry Street M. E. Church. WEDNESDAY MORSIXG, MAT Si. Destructive Toenado Satueday Great Damage to Crops— Two Negeoes Killed—Five Moetally Wounded and Some Twenty Injured.— A tornado, the course of which was from west to cast and in width, about six miles, passed over the Southern portion of Muscogee and Northern part of Chattahoochee county Saturday afternoon. At Mr. Fleming Bussey’s, in the vicinity of Bussey’s bridge over the Upatoie, on the steam mill road from Colnmbusto Buena Vista, the hail and wind were very destructive. The stables, smoke house and two laborers' cabins of Mr. Bussey were overturned'. His dwell ing was fearfully shaken but withstood the blast. Nearly all the fencing around his plantation was blown down, corn beat into shreds, and cotton fields filled with fragments of trees, limbs and bark. The place of Mr. Henry Morris, ad joining on the east, was greatly injured by large and heavy hail stones, which cut his cotton, which he had chopped almost to a stand, to pieces. Our informant sta ted that he understood he was, on Monday, plowing up what was left, and planting com in its stead. His land being ra ther old, and devoid of near forests, did not sustatn the damage from falling tim ber, as that of Mr. Busssey. “Hid Out,” the home of Mr. Robert Simpson was slightly injured. At this point the tornado crossed the Upatoie, passing south of Cook & Eelbeck’s mill. On Monday, the road was cleared of ob structions as far as Bussey’s bridge, fur ther than which we have no intelligence. The storm was very rapid and de structive. Its force was felt here a few moments, and numbers of branches were tom from trees. We learn in addition that the storm was very severe in Houston and Macon counties. Marshalville,in the former, was struck about 3p. m. A large gin house was destroyed and two of Dr. Rice’s la borers fatally injured. Another negro was killed by falling trees. Fences, trees, corn and cotton were scattered around loose. Thence, the course was to Perry. The colored Methodist church, in which a picnic was being held, was blown down. One negro was killed, and a woman mortally wounded by a splinter through the abdomen. In and around Perry, some twenty persons were injured. The storm here, was a mile in width, and spent most of its fury. At Perry, the ga ble end of Day & Gardoin’s store was blown in. The end and middle supports of a structure were blown from under it, and it was left on a level resting on its floor behind, and the proper supports in front, like a dog setting on his rear legs. Along the path of the tornado crops are well nigh destroyed. Opelika—lts Geowth. —lt is indeed strange to note the rapid growth of this place which, a few years ago, was merely a railroad station. It happened to be in a convenient locality. An impetus was given to railroad enterprises. They brought in a host of employees and up sprung Opelika. Whether her trade will be maintained is another question. The smaller railroad towns will not have the freight competition that Opelika has, and will not have when the Southern Security Company comes in for their share of the Western railroad, still they must take some of her business. A gentleman, who knows, tells us that three hundred new houses have been built in Opelika in the last six months. The papers claim the town has 4,000 inhabitants—rather too much. Os the roads building from Ope lika, not one proposes to establish machine shops in the place, but rather in North Alabama, where coal and iron can be found everywhere; nor has she any largo industrial enterprise. Nevertheless, she will have railroads branching out in five directions, and these will keep her up. Places in new countries that are inhabited by active, intelligent men, never go back ward, and brilliant things are expected of Opelika. Concert at Salem. —A concert was given by the ladies of Salem last Friday evening for the benefit of the Baptist church in that place. The attendance was very large. The music was delightful. The principal performers were the Misses Floyd, and the Misses McDuffee and Annie Vann. The harmonies produced were of a brilliant description. The opening chorus by the Misses Floyd, and Misses Shotwell, Corcoran, Phelps, Vann and McDuffee, assisted by the young men of Salem, and Messrs. Berry and Uunder wood, of Columbus, was rendered in mag nificent style. The solos and duets were very sweet. The entertainment was a splendid harmonic and financial success. Salem is noted for beautiful ladies and this festival proved that their artistic abilities and benevolence are unsurpassed even by their glorious loveliness. The programme was well diversified with comic and sentimental selections, vocal and instrumental, as well as gems of song. A charade was well acted. Several recitations were very fine. All varieties of sweet instruments were employed to add to the charm and melody of tho even ing. Tic Nic Neae Ellebslie. —On the Bth inst. a very enjoyable picnic was given at the mills of Mr. E. P. Willis, in Harris county, two and a half miles south of El lerslie. The party numbered someone hundred and fifty. The locality chosen was very picturesque and lovely. Tho table groaned under the load of good things. Fresh meats, rich cakes, pastry, confectioneries, &c., in abundance, were arranged most tastefully by gentle hands that knew well how to do so. In regard to taste, sociability and hospitality, that and adjacent communities compare favorably with any other section. It has its full complement of charming maidens. The New State College—Columbus Appointees. —Thus far 130 applications of students for admission into the agricul tural and industrial college at Athens have been granted. Thus far in Columbus Masters Matthew Hallenbeck, Carlisle Terry and Geo. Illges have received ap pointments. More from Columbus can be admitted if they desire it. The best mode will be to get a recommendation from the Mayor. If the mess system' be adopted, the expense of boarding ought not to ex ceed sl2 50 per month. Rates feom Louisville. —The following are the rates now established between Louisville and Columbus. . The informa tion is official: Per 100 lbs.—lst class $1 65; 2d, $1 40; 3d, $1 13; 4th, SOc; sth, 50c. Flour in sacks 64c. Per barrel—flour, apples, on ions, $1 15: beef and pork $1 80; plaster and cement $1 50. Per car load—agricultural implements, wagon materials. Ac., $144; machinery and furniture $173. Pbaikie Dogs.—-We saw two yesterday which had been sent per express from Missouri to Mr. Castleman. They are quite small, brownish in hue, nose hke rats and sit up like squirrels. With the exception of the legs they bear small re semblance of our ideas of dogs. The Social Would —Yesterday, by Rev. Dr. Jos. S. Key, at St. Luke’s church, Miss Indiana Lloyd was married to Mr. Thomas J. Watt, of this county. TELEGRAPHIC. FOREIGN Madbid, May 21. Later dispatches from Biscay report that the Carlist organ ization in that province has been com pletely annihilated. Five thousand insur gents surrendered to the loyal forces on Sunday last. Orderis now restored through out the entire province. Pabis, May 13. —Charles Francis Adams departed for Geneva. London, May 22.—The following is an extract of the whole drift of feeling and opinion in England: Justifies the saying that the worst thing to do with the treaty is to save it. Saving the treaty means offence and humiliation to America, or to England, or to both nations. It means renewal, and not abatement, of all feeling it was intended to allay. How to save the treaty means who shall eat the leeks, or whether some means can’t be invented whereby both parties shall agree to eat in each other’s presence. American papers appear to exclaim against the adoption of the supplementary article. Here, there is only one opinion, and that is that its ac ceptance would be discreditable and dan gerous. Both peoples would be pacified and content at once if the treaty and ne gotiations connected therewith were dropped as an irremediable blunder for which the two governments are alone to blame. That is the proper fate of the treaty, and the only safe and peaceful way of disposing of it. This article states exactly the situation in England, and is a just expression of the best opinion here. It is certain that persons—bankers, finan cial agents and others—who are determ ined to save the treaty at whatever cost, without regard to national dignity or honor, are bringing about a dangerous complication. The same with those un wise politicians who are willing to make party capital out of international dif ficulty. The further negotiation of the treaty will only continue an irritation that may eventually put two proud nations in an attitude from which war can be the only possible issue. The treaty should be dropped immediately for the sake of na tional amity, good will and peace. Paris, May 22. —The Commission on Capitulations, in their report relative to the surrender of Strassbourg blame Gen. Ulrich on all points for the capitulation of the city. He is especially censured for securing for himself and officers exemp tions from conditions imposed upon his enlisted men by the German commander to whom he surrendered. WASHINGTON. Washington, May 20—Senate—Hamlin moved the expulsion of the reporter of the Associated Press from the gallery who, in a card, charged Conkling with false hood. Sprague objected, and the resolution went over. The reporter, and Conkling, the Sena tor, have covered themselves with notori ety in this controversy. Divine has the advantage in respect to glory. House—Private bills. The House agreed to the Senate resolu tion for final adjournment on May 2!>th. Passed. [Applause.] A resolution *by Cox, authorizing the President to protest against cruelties to Jews in Romania, was adopted. The Civil Service bill was considered. It appropriates $17,500,000. Senate.—The extension of the suspen sion of the writ of habeas corpus occupied the entire day and is pending to-night. Washington, May 21. —House. —Pacific mail subsidy. Senate.—Continuation of the discussion on prolongation of suspension of habeas corpus. Alcorn made a scathing onslaught on Ames for impugning his veracity, citizen ship and other qualities which a repre sentative of Mississippi should have. OnKu-Klux, Mr. Alcorn said : Northern men, since the war, have become citizens, bona fide, of Mississippi, taking stock in the sympathies and interests of our people. These are among the elite of the Repub lican party. Others have come into the State sojourners as long as they hold office. Their tenure of office will end as it began. With Republicans of a race like thieves, who set fire to houses, they have come to inflame in order to steal. My colleague, representing nothing in Mis sissippi, save these agents of hate, stands here a stumbling block to repose and con cord. He knows no restraint of the rep resentative. He is not a citizen of the State. He has never contributed a dollar to her taxes. He is not identified with her by even technical residence. He black ens her character by misrepresentation. Six murders at Meridian he tries to make into ten. Murders of negroes in the State he distorts into hundreds. Eighteen mur ders on the record Tor three months he ex aggerates into sixty-three. The forty-five assassinations which he thus commits, in the presence of the Senate, concur with the misrepresentations by ■which the carpet bag incendiaries sought to shape the Kuklux bill to their designs of irritation and hate. A Union soldier, identified with us by res idence, citizenship, interest, Gov. Powers declared, six months ago, let his previous testimony be what it may, that the condi tion of Mississippi was peace, and he still confronts the assertions of my colleague, when, stating in this letter, that so late as the 15th of May peace reigned throughout all her borders. One hundred and fifty recruits have been ordered to Galveston for the cav alry. A phonographic copy of the stolen Buell papers is in existence. They will be re produced. Nomination—Consul at Rio Grande, E. O. Sammis, Florida. The House is in session to-night on foreign affairs. Senate.—Ku-Klux all day. Carpenter, from the Committee on Ju diciary reported with an amendment the bill to amend the bankruptcy act by sub stituting 1871 for 1864 in the first proviso of the 14th section; also with amendments to Trumbull’s bill amendatory of section 33 of the bankruptcy act. Washington, May 22.— The following is the verbiage of the amnesty bill: Be it enacted by the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of each House concurring therein, that all politi cal disabilities imposed by the Third Sec tion of the Fourteenth Article of Amend ments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Repre sentatives of the 36th and 37th Congress, and officers in the Judicial, Military, and Naval service of the United States. Heads of Departments, and Foreign Ministers of the United States. The Civil Rights’ bill, as passed, applies only to inns, and licensed places of public amusement or entertainment, and stage coaches, railroads and other public modes of conveyance for freight or passengers. Equal rights regarding cemeteries, schools and benevolent institutions were stricken out. The Amnesty bill has been signed. The exceptions will cover about two hundred cases. The Baltimore and Potomac depot bill has been signed. The Civil Rights bill passed the Senate this a. m., and is now on the Speaker's table in the House. There are some fifty or sixty bills in order already ahead of it, and os it takes a two-thirds vote of the House to take a bill from the Speaker’s table, out of the regular order, there is no possible show for its passage this session, as it cannot be reached by the time of ad journment, and the necessary two-thirds vote to take it out of its regular order cannot be obtained. The bill as it passed the Senate reads : Be it enacted, that whoever being a cor poration, or natural person, and owner, or in charge of any public inn, or of any place of public amusement or entertain ment, for which a license from any legal authority is required, or of any line of stage coaches, railroad, or other means of public carriage of passengers and freight shall make any distinction as to admis sion or accommodation therein of any citizen of the United States because of race, color or previous condition, of servitude, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than SSOO, nor more than $5,000, for offence, and the person so of fending shall be liable to the citizens thereby injured in damages to be recov ered in an action of-debt. Sec. 2d. That the offences under this act and actions to recover damages may be prosecuted before any Territorial Dis trict or Circuit Court of the United States having jurisdiction of crimes, at the place where the offence was charged to have been committed, with a right of appeal, or to have a writ of error in any case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The bill which passed the Senate this morning extends the power to extend ha beas corpus to 4th of March, 1873. Only Sumner and Nye voted nay on tho amnesty bill. House—Unimportant. The colloquy over amnesty indicates that Rogers, elected from North Car olina, be seated to-morrow. Senate—Supplemental. Apportionment bill passed and goes to the President. The President has appointed Hon. Thos. P. Robb, late Collector of Customs at Sa vannah, Ga., Fabius J. Mead, of Missis sippi, and Richard 11. Savage, of Califor nia, Commissioners under a joint resolu tion of Congress, to examine and inquire into depredations alleged to have been committed upon the frontiers of Texas for several year past, by bands of Indians and Mexicans, their extent and character, by whom commited, their residence or country, the persons murdered or carried into captivity, the character and value of the property destroyed or carried away, from what portions of Texas and to whom the same belonged. The Commissioners to make and trans mit to the President a full report in wri ting of their investigation. NEW YORK. New York, May 20. —Capt. Benjamin Wright, of the Navy, is dead. A varnish factory at Hunter’s Point was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Three persons hurt. A letter from Havana shows a growing discontent among Spaniards with Vulma seda. A split of the International Society culminated Saturday with a stormy meet ing. Horace Greeley’s uncle is dead. Aged eighty-eight. In the Methodist General Conference, in alluding to the Book Concern, Lanahan suid J. F. Porter, who used to purchase paper for the concern, was a penitentiary convict, and that the whole concern, edi tors, secretaries and agents were con cerned in oil speculations to the damage of the church. New York, May 21. Ten thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden yes terday. The Herald’s special commission to look after Dr. Livingstone, is within twenty day’s march of him. He was well at last advices. Many carpenters who made a successful strike for eight hours, are now in favor of anew strike. Half a million gold goes to-morrow. Maxwell’s Knitting mill, at Amsterdam, burned. The election of the Bishops in the Gen eral Methodist Assembly is progressing by ballot. It is a tedious affair. Dr. Slacer said, thirty years ago, at an election of Bishops there had been ballot stuffing and hoped if such a thing was discovered here that the vote be taken over again. An Indiana delegate demanded that the laity and clergy vote separately for Bishops. Motion for separate vote was lost. Tremendous cheering. A delegate called attention to the demonstration of the audienc and asked that the galleries be cleared. Hisses from the galleries. Bishop Ames asked the police, if any present, to clear the galleries. New York, May 22. —The Methodist Conference Bishops elected were E. G. Andrews, Gilbert Haven and Jesse O. Peck. This concludes the election. Edward S. Stokes arraigned to-day. His counsel asked for adjournment till Monday to decide what course to persue. Judge Ingraham granted delay until to morrow morning. PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia, May 20. — Losses by the Jaynes building fire: Wm. W. Harding, albums, $70,000; 11. Leisenburg, printer, $120,000; Publishers Episcopal Register, $70,000; National Railway Publishing Company, $15,000; smaller publication offices lost. The wall of Jaynes’ building fell, kill ing three. Others were hurt in the con fusion. Loss over $500,000. Philadelphia, May 21.—Tho Board of Trade passed a resolution approving the supplemental treaty. VIRGINIA. Richmond, May 15. —In the Presbyte rian Convention to-day a resolution was introduced by Col. Preston, of Virginia, inquiring into the expediency of prepar ing liturgical service for congregational worship was rejected by 105 to 5. NORTH CAROLINA. Charlotte, May 21.—Part of the con struction platform of the Catawaba river bridge of the Air Line Railroad fell to day, killing Thomas Mays, of Thomas, N. C., and badly crippling five others. ILLINOIS. Chicago, May 20. —A waterspout, at tended by a terrific rain storm in lowa and Dakotah, covering the earth from eight to thirty inches in water. It avoid ed habitations. No lives lost; much stock lost. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, May 20.—J. AV. Simonton vs. The Boston Times—verdict, $5,000 and costs. The libel consisted in reflection on Simonton's integrity in the management of the New York Associated Press. TENNESSEE. Louisville, May 20.—The National Farmers Convention chose Emanuel Walk er President and J. R. Fnlrnan, of Balti more, Secretary. Caution! —Every genuine box of Db. McLane’s Lives Pills bears the signature of Fleming Brothers, Pittsburg, Pa., and their private U. S. Stamp. Ca/' Take no other; the market is full of imitations. It is the popular verdict that people who have been accustomed to the use of Bitters or Cordials, are obliged, eventually, o resort to Mclane’s Liver Pills for per manent relief. ap23 W6m NO. 16. POLITICAL FATALISTS. There be fatalists in politics, as well as in religion—men who believe that all things happen by inevitable necessity su perior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Mohammedan will sip his sherbet or sit cross-legged, smoke opium and with imperturbable serenity see himself and family blown to pieces or swallowed by an earthquake. He is no believer in means to ends, but with the exclamation “There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet!” he quiet ly “accepts the situation,” turns his face to the wall and gives up the ghost without a struggle. Now it must be confessed that fatalism is a very convenient and comfortable creed if one could only have faith to re move mountains. It saves a deal of ener gy and hard thinking, which is grateful to the human mind; but to one who feels that belief is not voluntary, it smacks of Topsy’s philosophy in “Uncle Tom’s Cab in,” who, when asked when and where she was born and educated ? sagely an swered, “I was never bom and educated any whare —I just growed so.” The world is filled with Topsy philoso phers and political fatalists careless whether the current which bears them on, leads to life or death. The wise pilot seoth the rock and whirlpool afar off and trims his sails, grasps and turns his rud der with bold hand and with equal steer age escapes shipwreck. England, in the reign of Charles L, was much in the transition state we are now, and narrowly avoided destruction. The King attempted to rule the realm without the Parliament and extort laws by usur pations and contrary to ancient loans and customs. Then, as now, there was “accept the situation”, fatalists, men of policy who exclaimed “Ita lex scripta est ” —The law so is written and must needs be obeyed. Not so thought Hambden, Sidney, and other wise and brave patriots. They held that laws written in fraud and usur pation were nulleties, which to dignify with the name of law was a base perver sion of truth, language and history—that the sword of the people, after the argu ment was exhausted, could expunge the record of a tyrant. History tells the re sult in the headless trunks of King Charles and his favorite, the Earl of Strafford. Subsequently, when Cromwell attempt ed, like Grant, to rule by soldiers, not even his sharp sword at Naseby and Mars tou Moor could cut from English hearts a knowledge of a Briton’s constitutional rights. The liestoration settled the pre rogative of the crown and tho privileges of the people on a solid foundation. The twenty shillings of ship money which Hambden refused to pay was noth ing to him, nor the tax on tea of any money value to the colonies. The princi ple, however, of an illegal demand in the one case, and to be taxed without repre sentation in the other, never could be “ac cepted” but by slaves. Are wo such de generate descendents of our English and revolutionary ancestors as to refuse to follow' their glorious footsteps even if they lead but to the grave ? Are w'e such sub missionists and fatalists as to quietly lio down under admitted wrongs and lick the hands that smite? Can any time in the lives of nations consecrate crime and con vert it into law and precedent and authori ty, and can there be a statute of limita tions which will bar public opinion in ut terances of scorn and defiance against tyrants and plunderers, their aiders and abettors ? Many years ago, the Polish spear was shattered and fell from her nerveless hand, and the world still utters a curse upon her oppressors. If we are true to our race, the same curse will be visited upon our oppressors, as w r ell on the trumpeters who blew, as on they who, sword in hand, led the onset. [COMMUNICATED.] Spring Villa, May 21, 1872. Maj. Miller, Columbus, Ga.: Dear Sir: I saw a notice in Saturday’s issue of the “Enquirer,” under the head of “Pish Culture,” that I think must be intended either as a criticism on this use ful branch of industry, or as a cut at your paper for the interest in its behalf mani fested. This is a theme worthy of much consid eration. The artificial propagation of fish, someone has said, is a subject “equally interesting to the farmer, the economist and the statesman, and will prove a source of immeasurably great wealth if properly pursued. ” It is a sub ject which has engaged the attention of the learned in France, Germany and En gland, it has received protection and en couragement from their governments, and practical results have followed. More recently in the United States, public at tention has been brought to this subject, and every day brings new converts to its cause. That science has discovered anew means of subsistence, is a fixed fact; that the necessities of these times require us to put in practice this new method, is also a fact; and it seems to me that, instead of ignoring all that has been done by those scientists of the old and new world, we should emulate their example, not throw cold water upon tho feeble but laudable efforts of those engaged in Fish Culture. The Fish Culturist proposes to stock with the best varieties of fish all private ponds, and give such instruction in the care of them as will insure success; also, to restock with fish all public streams that have become exhausted from various causes, and introduce other and valuable species not hitherto found in such streams. Now, instead of this manner of proceeding, suppose we take the worth less varieties of fish found in brickyard puddles and transfer them to such waters, the returns would be so poor that this great work would languish, the interest felt now would cease, and this new science would not be brought to that standard of perfection so desired in this utilitarian age. In fine Fish Culture would be a “fiasco” (failure.) Very respectfully, Your obed’t serv’t, Wm. Penn Yongk. Mrs. M. A. Bussey & Bass, at No. 78 Broad street, up stairs, besides doing all varieties of sewing, are agents for the sale of E. Butterick & Co.’s patterns of gar ments. These patterns are for every con ceivable variety of female or male gar ments. Full instructions accompany each kind. They are of the latest modes. We imagine these are the very things a lady needs —saving to her much study, trouble and consultation. They teach her how to cut any desired garment easily and with out assistance. The ladies have large numbers of these patterns, which they aro selling at low figures. Call and see. It is stated that there are received and kept regularly on file at the American Newspaper Advertising Agency of Geo. P. Howell & Cos., New York, no less than 082 different American Daily Newspapers, 50 tri-weeklies, 49 semi-weeklies, 4,GG2 weeklies, 8 semi-monthlies and 820 monthlies, making a weekly average of over 8,500 periodicals of all kinds which are regularly filed and kept open for in spection by advertisers and others who may be interested. The visitors to New York from Oregon, Texas, Florida or Maine can find at this establishment the local paper published at his home. THI’RSDAY Shooting Affair. —Yesterday morning about 10 o’cleck Mr. Peter Curran pis toled a Mr. Butler, of Union Springs, Ala., in front of Mr. I. G. Strupper’s establish ment on Randolph street. Two shots were fired. One ball entered tho waist of the coat and passed through the sleeve near the elbow. Butler ran. The pistol snapped once or twice. He had no weapon. One of the balls whistled past a lady who was standing in a store. Had she not changed the position she occupied before she would have been killed. Curran was arrested and carried to the guardhouse. He was then carried before Justice Shiv ers, who bound him over in 4he sum of ¥.'oo. Curran waived examination and | gave it. In the afternoon Butler was again run i down Broad street by Curran, but eluded ; hls v »gilance at Booker A Skinner’s, j Butler then got out a peace warrant which was served. Litti.f. Sebenadf.rs.— That delightful little warbler, the mosquito, has com menced his evening serenades. He has such a winning noto and is so familiar that he goes immediately to the inner be ing. He is very affectionate—one of the lovely little wretches that woo you whether you will or not. They are so lively, too —the best collectors extant. They delight in visiting humanity, hovering over them and piping shrilly the joy of meeting. Don t he love the fair plump maidens? He never wearies of bestowing endear ments upon them, and draw very near unto them like unto Douglass, tender and and tnte. The mosquito is a gay deceiver, false and beguiling-—a festive cuss to w hom everybody would like to administer cold poison and break up the race. They are so endearing that their contact is painful—profanely so. Cotton Figures. —The Financial Chron icle makes tho IT. S. port receipts to last Friday night 1,099,859 bales less than last year, and shows that there are now 220.- 034 bales less in sight than at the same date in 1871. The Chronicle says if tho cotton receipts at the ports should average 15,000 bales per week for the remaining fifteen weeks of the cotton season, and it is more likely to average less than that, the re ceipts at all the ports for the cotton year of 1871-72 would be 2,840,595 bales. Es timating the overland shipments and con sumed at the South at 300,000 bales —a large estimate —would make the cotton crop for 1871 3,140,595 bales. By reference to advertisement, it will be seen that tho well-known firm of Bo dell & Pope has been dissolved by the withdrawal of Mr. 11. C. Pope. One of our oldest and most honored citizens sup plies his place, in the person of Dr. R. A. Ware, and to the new firm of Bedell & Ware we bespeak of our citizens a patron age commensurate with (heir dues. A full supply of everything in tho boot and shoe line will bo kept on hand, to bo shown, sold and delivered by those clever young gents, Messrs. Goodo Fleming and Bob Ware. Give the house a call. Gov. Smith and the Military. —The correspondence between Gov. Smith and Major Swaino will bo read with Interest and profit. Gov. Smith has nobly' vindi cated the civil authorities against military' impudence and wrong, and deserves the thanks of every’ lover of constitutional and local government. We know, too, that the feelings of brave Feddral officers must revolt when their services arc required for such baso use, as the correspondence in dicate. The Church in McAllistebville. —At a meeting of tho McAllisterville church members, on Monday night, $lO5 were subscribed towards lifting a builder’s lien of $270 from their house. We hope our citizens will aid them in raising the re mainder. Unless this is done the house must be sold. It was stated that when this debt was settled tho church would be connected with one of the Methodist con gregations in this city. To a Correspondent. —When a writer delays thirteen days to give us a name as authority for a description of a festival in this section, we can hardly afford to publish his communication, which we would gladly have done at the time of re ception, had we the authority to suppose such an event had taken place. We nev er publish anonymous communications. By reference to advertisement it will be seen that Col. J. A. Shingleur, of this city', is agent for the wholesale grocery house of Briggs, Payne & Cos. Orders are solic ited. Tho Colonel is well known in Co lumbus as one of tho first gentlemen in this section. The house he represents is a leading one. New Orleans now presents in many respects a better market than any' of the western cities. A Significant Fact. —The Cabinet of President Lincoln was composed of Messrs. Seward, Chase, Blair, Smith, Wells, Stan ton and Bates. Three of these distin guished men are now dead; of the re maining four not a single one is a sup porter of Geu. Grant. No comment is needed. Funeral of Mrs. L. E. Burden.— It took place y'esterday morning from her residence. She was the widow of Mr. A. Burden, and sister-in-law of Mr. C. G. Bize. She died Monday in the 71st year of her age. She has resided in this coun ty since 1833, and was among the oldest members of St. Luke’s Methodist Church. Cotton Tax. —ln a long list of Georgi ans to whom the tax illegally collected on cotton has been paid, we find that of Epping, Hanserd & Cos., Columbus, SO7 33 —paid to Frances S. llew. The total amount paid over is $20,144 17. Savannah and Augusta received most and Macon comes next. The Republican Sentiment. —With the exception of a few office-holders in the Postoffice and Internal Revenue depart ments—a mere handful—there is not a Republican or Radical in this city who fa vors Grant. All go for Greeley, including the freedmen. Change of Climate. —“Frank," who drives one of the wagons of the “City Mills,” savs he cannot stand tne heat of our weather without an umbrella. He is one of the negroes brought over by the yacht “Wanderer,” some years ago, and fell to Col. R. L. Mott. | Sturgeon. —One of our Chattahoochee : river fishermen was successful enough on j Tuesday night to capturo three sturgeon (“Albany beef ”) and they were hawked about the streets yesterday. The largest weighed over one hundred pounds when cleaned. On the night of tho 10th, the resident of Mr. T. J. Hines, Sr., in Stewart comi ty, was robbed of a trunk containing all of his valuables, which, after being car ried about one hundred yards froiu the house was broken open and $490 in gold was taken out. Left for Europe.— Mr. F. Reich left vesterday for New York, where he takes a steamer for Europe. He will be absent several months. InStock. —A full line of Drugs, Medi cines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Combs, Soaps, &c. Also, a good assortment of W ines and Liquors for medicinal use: a superior ar ticle of Wine for Communion purposes All very low for cash. M. D. Hood, At Eagle Drug Store. Dutch er’slLightning Fly-Killer sweeps them off and clears tho house speedily— Try it—Sold by dealers everywhere. a p2C eod&w’.'m
