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I, IIHIIAV lIOUAISibI, nr, &,
Shootiko ok Deputy Sheriff A. 11.
HnicH ur Db. J. C. Cook. We are indeed
r|;„l to learn that Capt. A. H. Burch, the
■tr|iuty H her iff and brother of the Sheriff
• Russell county, Ala., is not dead as
reported late Saturday night, and has a
( air chance of recovery. He was shot
f,nir tunes, two pistol balls ente.ing the
l„l from behind, one in the arm and one
m ,ho thigh—all serious flesh wounds. It
sas thought yesterday morning he would
ri .cover slowly from his wounds. The
following, we hear from listeners, is his
statement:
A warrant was placed in his hands for
the armst of Dr. J. Carter Cook, son of
Mr. James Cook, one of the most prospe
,,,ll* ami respectable citi/.ens iu Colum
bus. The Doctor is a young man and
m running a farm in Russell county,
Alabama. The affidavit charged him
mill an assault with attempt to
lull, and the loaning of a negro’s house
,„i Looks) premises. Capt. Burch
, ijumt, cool,determined man, hut likes
vervl hing in a gentlemanly manner.
il i,i,lf lo Cook’s place in his buggy,
i.-liiiig Mmie Saturday at 1 p. in. lie
r, jini.ol il iho Doctor's wife «as at home,
,i uisluoo to disturb her, and received
negative answer. He then met the
li.irtor, showed him the warrant and told
la in il was liiH duty to arrest him, but al
lowed him perfect liberty. The Doctor
invited him to dinner. Burch accepted,
ami unbuckling his pistol, laid it on the
table. The Doctor possessed himself of
the weapon and told Burch if he did not
leave, lie would kill him in tive minutes,
(lurch left, Muying he was only fullilling
his duty. Cook then had the advantage,
but he would return with a posse.
Burch hud proceeded some three miles
from Cook’s house on his way to Seale,
win n he was overtaken by Cook, who shot
lorn in the manner described,with Burch's
mm pistol.
We understood Cook was in the city
sally Sunday. His friends say he lias
be. ii udvire and to tell nothing of Iho circum
sliiuceu. Wo give what we deem the best
information.
Capt. Burch is a brother of Mrs. Mim
grove and Mrs. Malone, of this city.
I'he allair iu greatly regretted by all.
(oaitiimoNH or Premium Lists.—ln
t'hias K, John King, Superintendent, some
errors were made in the haste and hurry
el'Saturday night. We correct those to
which our attention has berm called :
Hon( display of hair work, silver medal,
Mum Maggie Philips.
Rest picture from leaves and flowers,
silver medal, Mrs. June Martin.
Rest, portrait painting, silver medal,
Mrs. Jane Martin.
Rest collection of paintings (111 in all)
S2O, Mrs. Jane Martin.
Rest pencil drawing, by boy, silver
luudul, J iiuinio Strapper,
We indeed regret the injustice to Mrs.
Martin in the Saturday’s list; for she is u
lady of high and elegant accomplishments,
and labored with all her strength and ar
tistic skill to render the Art Hall the
brilliant and beautiful scene it presented.
It all our ladies would feel the same pride
i's city and section, as she and some others
luve done, we would have the grandest
fairs on the continent. As it is, no ex
position in Georgia has in anyway ap
proached ours as a large ami successful
inhibition, though the others may have
been Shite Fairs or those of cities double
mir population.
hi Ihe cooking match, too, a bad ver
bal .-it,u was made. Miss Lula J. Lloyd s
i eleven years) dinner was most highly
Token of, md ••most, lightly, ’ as the
t. pcs had it. Shu was praised warmly.
flic Superintendent requests us to state
tlml (lie ihug, Ac.., display of Mr. John
II brooks was awarded special mention,
bul the Committee accidently omitted it
hi their report.
Mistakes will occur after a week’s tire
some and exhaustive work by the reporters
mid printers.
fur. Results of our Fair.— Some SIIOOO j
acre made during the ttve days of the
fair. We had two rainy days. On Friday
there were more people on the grounds
’ban there is population in Columbus.
Our Fair was inaugurated a little over
Hireo years ago. At that time $15,000
in stock were taken. Os this amount
‘ boon only were obtained. A Fair was
riven, it proved a paying success and !
‘ ligations were paid and improvements
made. Another Fair was given. This j
..•ared expenses but left the Association
■ '.isio iii debt for improvements, which
the Directors assumed themselves. They }
-mild not let a dollar be owed to outside j
parlies. Tim last Fair paid all their j
debts, every premium, including $3,000 i
ii horses, and left a surplus to go on j
i cst year. At the same time the proper- j
tv of the Association amounts to some j
thv'oo all iu good order. All debts of j
thi Association have been paid promptly j
presentation to Treasurer. Os course |
'neve are always grumblers, but it is al- i
: ”d they are found among those who j
Dob’d to pay the original subscription, j
Iho facts speak for the excellent manage- |
-cut Encouragement has also been I
i"wi to every species of industry.
I'kath or Mb. J. M. Olay.—He died in
Siuulny. He leaves a wife and
“■ld No .no was butter known in Oo
"• us, where he hail resided so Jong.
I: ’all wh a t is termed » sporting charac-
Wa kind and thoughtful to his
■ UiU and ios faults seemed to he the
nt of a frank, generous uaturo. He
Ms " i nuly liked by a host of friends, anil
' di.itlj Kiuieit.lv regretted by many at
‘ Uoil friends His age was about 43
“ rs I'he remains were buried last af
ternoon,
lut North anp South K. It. —The time
lvn 'K h r the jissaeugertruiu has been
1h st ito 3:.'ll) p. in. Wo learn from the
"‘“e papers that twenty miles of iron
“on purchased for that eud of the
a, "t thut track laying will commence
* H few weeks.
1 ur Savannah axu Memphis Railroad j
" ‘i. Alexander, the President, was iu
'*•' Saturday. Daily traius are now
' **■* road. Work is advancing ou •
11 1 the other side of the Tallapoosa
.in.! the track is being graded iu the j
of Youugville,
' '-U ts op Cotton.—To Oct. 28, West j
• L kad received 4,4St> bales cotton; to j
ud’cr “it ()|>elika had receivoil 4,712. i
airs The < >|>olikrt Fair commences i
uo 1 ' Ul ; the State Fair at Moutgom- ;
„ " *■ Cozier, trustee, advertises the i
• and machinery of the Cooper Plow i
‘■•“‘hiring Company for sale.
Hamilton advertises valuable mill ]
: ° tv 111 Harris county for sale.
VOL. XIV.
| Atlanta Correspondence of the Savannah News-
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 29, is 72.
Ihe approaching municipal election in
this city is exciting more interest just
| now than the Presidential and Congrcss-
I lotial elections. There is much complaint
I made about the administration of the
present Board, and there is a large party
disposed to select new men and begin the
I work of reform iu earnest. The Domo
! cratM have nominated Mr. C. C. Hammock
for the Mayoralty, and a full Board of
Aldermen. Judge Dennis F. Hammond,
a i ex-Mayor, has announced himself an
independent candidate for Mayor, and a
number of citizens are named as suitable
i persons for Couucilmen. The name of
i Logan 1,. Bleckley, a leading lawyer here,
and whose position iu Atlanta is not unlike
that of Charles O’Conor in New York, has
also been suggested, as has that of George
W. Adair, the foremost real-estate man in
: the city.
The great want of the town is an abund
ant supply of good water. There is hardly
water sufficient in the city now for drink
ing purposes, much less to meet the de
mands of a large tire. Ac. ual from the
Chattahoochee river would be worth more
to Atlanta at this juncture than a dozen
new railway lines. Such a canal would
not only add greatly to the health, cleanli
ness and safety of the people, butitmight
be made to furnish the motive power for
innumerable manufacturing establish
ments.
Hion TAXES.
Taxes in Atlanta must range high for
many years to come, and it is not proba
ble that real estate will advance much in
price until they can be reduced and the
expenses of the municipal government
curtailed.
Asa specimen of the managem j t of
the affairs of the city, itmay be mentioned
that the exclusive right to lay down street
railways in Atlanta has been granted to a
single company, free of taxation for fifty
years I The company was not required to
pay anything for franchise, while their
roads, cars, horses, Arc., go untaxed for
half a century. The streets railways are
now paying the stockholders handsome
ly, arid the franchise, which cost them
nothing, could be sold for a large sum. A
new street railroad company lias just been
organized under an act of the last Legis
lature, and expensive litigation if nothing
else, will probably, be the result of its con
test with the present company.
STATE TAXES AND CURRENT EXPENSES.
The money from the annnnl State taxes
comes in very slowly, and but for the
punctual payment of the monthly rental
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, it
would be difficult to meet the culls upon
the treasury. The expenses of the Luna
tic Asylum and other State institutions
ami charities have grown quite heavy
since the war, while the expenses of the
Legislature, resulting from its frequent
and protracted sessions, have become
quite appalling.
THE BILES FOII BULLOCK’S PROCLAMATIONS.
Mr. C. It. Hanleiter, of this place, an
experienced printer anil most upright
man, was appointed some weeks ago by
Gov. Smith t<> examine and report upon
the accounts presented by the various
newspapers in the Slate for printing Bul
lock’s proclamations, Ac. Mr. Hanleiter
is now at work upon these accounts, some
of which are said to be enormously dis
proportioned to the work done. When lie
shall have linished his labor, and the Leg
islature shall have provided means for
their settlement, the amounts reported by
him will be paid. The accounts present
ed amount in the aggregate to about $50,-
000. There is no funds in the Treasury
out of which they can be paid at this
time, and parties will have to wait until
some provision is made by the Legislature
at its next session.
LKGISLATIV E APPROPRIATION.
The Governor, I understand, holds that
money under our Constitution cannot be
appropriated by resolution. It must be
done, if at all, by a solemn act of the
General Assembly.’ But if the Legislature
has passed at act, that of itself would not
answer, unless it had also provided the
means of payment, which it failed to do
in this and many other cases.
Ogeechek.
Local Cotton Figures.— The Macon
cotton receipts for September and Octo
ber, 1872, were ‘.10,732 bales. For Sep
tember and October, 1870, they were 27,-
701 bales. For September and October,
1871, they were 1C,050. It will thus be
Heen that our receipts this fall are 1,00.'5
bales in excess of 1871, and 7,0411 bales
behind those of 1870. The cotton re
ceipts of Macon for the year ending Au
gust:!!, 1871. were Hi),440 bales, and for
the year ending August 31, 1872, Kiev
were .'>4,400, showing a failing off of I
010 bales, Mpeuulatious are altogether
premature upon what the relative option
receipts of Macon this year are likely to
be. Among the factors the general idea
seems to be, that the receipts will be
brought up with a round turn at a very
early period of the season. Our own idea
is, that the receipts may overrun those ot
last year from 10 to 15 per cent., but not
more. Macon Telegraph.
Montgomery lias already received half
as much cot ton as she received during the.
whole of last year. Her receipts to the
night of Oct. 31st, foot 20,(ill bales—
-8,428 bales in excess of the receipts to the
corresponding date last year. But her
weekly receipts have already touched their
maximum, whereas last year they did not
reach their maximum until the 15th of
December, The ratio of receipts up to
that time was to the total receipts of the
season us 30 is to 52. The ratio of re
ceipts to the first of November whs to the
total receipts as IS is to 52. This year
those two ratios coincide on the flrst of
November. Basing our estimate, there
fore, on a mean between the products of
the said ratios wo have 57,057 as the proba
ble receipts at this place for tlio entire
season. The total receipts for the month
of October were 15,01)0 tulles, against 11,-
.">(’>'.• for the corresponding month last
year. — -Mont. Advertiser, -<(,
One Barreled Humanity.—Grant says
in his letter to George H. Stewart:
‘Tf any change takes place in the
Indian policy of the Government while 1
hold my present office it will be on tlm
humanitarian side of the question.”
Grant’s humanities me all one-sided
and always in favor of the red and black
man, and against liis own race, if he. in
white.
The New York World in reply to Grant's
Quaker, Indian policy, asks "If Santauta
ami Pig Tree can be pardoned, why not
the Ku-Klux prisoners now confined at
Albany ? Is all the mercy for Indian as
sassins and none for the white State pris
oners w hose greatest offence is having
been captured by Federal dragoons when
a primping Judge ami a negro jury stood
ready to convict on sight ? How about
the humanitarian side toward these?
We made notice last week that several
gentlemen had arrested, on the previous
Sunday, one of the Robeson county, N. 0.,
negro murderers, Applewhite, alias "Pans
Lowery " From the Atlanta Herald we
learn that Mr. A1 Uriah made affidavit be
fore Judge Hugh Buchanan, of Tallapoo
sa Circuit, raid ad inlt rtni Judge ol the
Supreme Court, whereupon Oov. Smith
has granted a warrant to hold him for
twenty days, to allow the sheriff of Robe
son county, who will soon arrive, to iden
tify him and to receive the requisition from
the Governor of North Carolina.
\V. W. Com ok ax's Charities. —Mr. \V.
W. Corcoran, of Washington, has signi
fied hjs intention to Dr Welling, president j
of the Columbian College, in that city, to j
permanently set aside a highly cultivated
tract of land, worth f2.‘io,(io(), locatednear
Washington, for the benefit of that iusli- I
tution. T 1 ' unostentatious charities of j
of Mr. Corcoran have been as general as
they were judicious. Art has received ;
his encouragement in a conservatory to
its cultivation, completed at a groat out
lay and good judgment, the orphan has
found a shelter in his munificence, and
impoverished women have found a quiet
and happy home in his liberality. And :
as stated, he now proposes to make per
manent an institution of learning for the I
rising youth of the land.
See administratrix notice of M. £. i
Mershon.
THE WEEKLY SUN
A FORTUNATE DRUG CLERK.
A RICH WIDOW PALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM —
HE MARRIES HER, AND SHE MAKES HIM
WORTH $2. OCX>,OOO— SHE IS HANDSOME,
TOO.
Another of those interesting little ro
: mances in real life has just come to light
|in Washington. I’he bon ton is iu ecsta
: eies over it. A dapper-looking apotheca
ry s clerk has succeeded iu marrying a
fortune of $2,000,000, and now he has
gone West to spend it. The facts in the
case as related to me this morning, are as
follows;
Some months ago a charming young
laily. dressed elegantly and iu the height
of fashion, and representing herself to be
| ffie relict of a late prominent New York
| oil speculator, appeared in Washington
and took np her residence at the Arlington
Hotel. While at the Arlington she one
day had occasion to procure an assortment
of perfumery, and in quest of that desira
ble acquisition of the toilet called at the
extreme upper-crust drug store of the
city, known as Thompson's, which is sit
uated opposite the Treasury Department.
Behind the showy counter of Thomp
son s red-bottle establishment waited an
attractive clerk, a young gentleman of
twenty-nine, who was no sooner seen than
he had conquered. The next day the
relict of the New York oil speculator in
vited the elegant. drug clerk to a tete-a
tete at the Arlington.
Thereafter occurs a blank, until the
time of the Baltimore Convention, when
Mr. Drug Clerk received a mysterious note
from New York. He went to Baltimore,
there met the lady, was married, remained
throughout the Convention, aud quietly
returned to Washington to resign his
clerkship and exist without visible means
of support. The lady soon followed him
here, and again went to the Arlington,
where she resided some time, occasionally
receiving the fortunate husband, and
loading him with presents of diamonds,
rings, gold watches, etc., winding up by
transferring to him a whole business lot
iu San Francisco, with the buildings
thereon—a very valuable piece of proper
ty, of which she herself holds a compan
ion iu New York.
Next they started for Philadelphia,
where the lady took a sudden notion to go
West. The only notification the ex-drug
clerk’s friends received of his intention
being a telegram coached in these words:
“Shan’t return. Can’t avoid it. Am
going to San Francisco.”
On Friday a letter was roceived from
the Pacific slope, containing the informa
tion that the young man had started a
magnificent wholesale drag store at the
Golden Gate. The immense wealth which
has fallen to liis lot, together with the
extraordinary manner of the match mak
ing and the beauty and liighstanding of
the wife, are the nine-days’ wonder of the
court circles of Washington, and coming
on the skirts of the romantic Aulick wed
ding, has set everybody asking: “What
nex t
From the Atlanta Constitution.
TEXAS LIFE.
EXPERIENCE OF AN ATLANTA BOY—SUNDAY
DRINKS AND CIRCUS—A GAY PLACE —
POLITICS.
San Antonio, Oct. 20, 1872.
Editors Constitution: Thinking that
some of your readers might desire to
know something of Texas aud Texas life
away out here on the frontier, I take this
opportunity of giving them the experi
ence of an Atlanta boy who has beenont
here three or four months. You who live
in a refined and civilized, and to a great
extent religions community, can form no
idea of the way they “do things” out in
San Antonio. Frequently you hear per
sons say at home, “Atlanta is an exceed
ingly fast place,” why Atlanta is not a
circ imstance to San Antonio, although
this place has not much more than half
the population of Atlanta. This is Sun
day, aud I’ll try and tell yon what I’ve
seen to-day. In the morning, I passed an
untold number of bar-rooms and ill all of
them, people, and the best citizens too,
playing billiards or cards, of course for
drinks, and “for the crowd;” really, if you
won't drink and play' billiards on Sunday
you are not respectable. There are more
bar-rooms in San Antonio than any place
out of Texas, to its size iu the United
States. As I sit in uiy room now at ten
o’clock at night, I hear the liaud playing
at the circus, and not very far off is a
panorama on exhibition. To-day I was
walking along the street, when I was
suddenly startled by heuriug a lot of boys
shouting and the band playing, I looked
up, ami just then it all came iu sight.
It was this : The circus with all its riders,
performers, etc., dressed in regular cir
cus style, were coming down the street
with the band playing, the boys shouting,
and ever so many Mexicans and stragglers
following them, Remember this was on
Sunday.
Imagine all the bar-rooms open on
Sunday, at home, billiard playing, drink
ing, and last, but not by any means least,
a troupe of performers dressed in their
“tights ’ riding down the street with a
band playing, wouldn’t it make a commo
tion in Atlanta? Clarence.
* •
Horrible Disclosure--Hell Let Loose.
There has fallen on our table a thunder
bolt. It shatters us; it stuns our senses,
and we are scarcely in our right mind.
God help us ! Our hope is that all is false
—damnably false; that the charges made
will be proved to be the raviugs of a mad
woman, or one possessed of the devil. If
no, then, is there any virtue ? Is there
any honor, or purity, or manliness, or re
ligion, or anything but treachery, lechery
and villainy under the sun?
Mrs. Woodhull, in a re-issue of her pa
per, and dated November 2d, 1872, goes
into horrible details of criminal inter
course— kept np for ten years—between
Henry Ward Beecher and the wife of
Theodore Tilton, editor of the Golden
Age. She declares that Mrs. Pauline
Wright Davis received the fearful confes
sion from Mrs. Tilton’s own sad lips; that
Mrs. E. Cady Stanton received it from
Theodore Tilton, who was a little less tliau
a raving maniac ; that finally she, Mrs.
Woodhull, received the awful secret from
Mr. Tilton.
Here are her words :
Reporter —“ls it possible that Mr. Til
ton coutided it to yon? It seems too
monstrous to be believed.”
Mrs. Woodhull —“Certainly he did.
And what is more, I am persuaded that in
his inmost mind he will not be otherwise
than glad when the skeleton in his closet
is revealed to the world, if thereby the
abuses which lurk like vipers under the
cloak of social conservatism may be ex
posed and the cause removed.” Aud so
forth.
No greater shock can come to the social
religions world—except the shock of doom
than the substantiation of this horrible
charge. All persons will join us iu the
hope, that it will be proved false in every
particular, and that the name and fame of
the Brooklyn Preacher will suffer no such
hellish eclipse. —Macon Enterprise.
Good Joke on Gen. Cook.—Telfair
county has never enjoyed a circus. The
nearest that she ever came to that bliss is
told by the local of the Hawkinsville Dis
patch, as follows: The Great Eastern
passed up the railroad, and left at Mcßae,
the new county seut- of Telfair, a large
Liumlier of handbills, ete. These found
their way into the possession of a couple
of citizens at Jacksonville, who, desiring
to get up a big joke, posted them all over
the county, announcii g in large letters
that the circus would lie at Jacksonville
on Saturday evening. This was glorious
news for fie people, and the little girls
and boys nearly went wild with joy. A
secret engagement was then made with
Gen. Cook, who was to speak at Douglas,
Coffee county, on Friday, and it was so
arranged that he should reach Jackson
ville on Saturday evening. Everything
worked well, and the people assembled in
large numbers, and vainly awaited the ar
rival of-the elephant. But no elephaut
came. After while, however, the fiat was
seen crossing the river, bearing General
Cook. A little boy at the landing shmited
to the General that he had his quarter
ready, and away he scooted to town, tell
ing everyl«sly lie met that the show would
soon be there, for the clown was at the
river.
A Vermont genins has supplanted ‘"Old
Probabilities" by the iuveutionof a waist
coat-pocket barouieier, which renders its
possessor the signal service of predicting
the weather for the next twenty-four
&purs.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1572.
WEBNEMIAY 1I«BM\G, \OV. «.
The Election Yesterday — Vote in
! Columbus— Greeley 21 Majority over
! Grant — Harris GO Over Bethune.—ln
the election there appeared to be either
an indifference, or apathy, or over-confi
dence, or a want of enthusiasm in the
Democratic ticket to inspire the whites to
their wonted enthusiasm. 'l’he negroes
had possession almost wholly of the ballot
box from ti to 10 a. m. Not until the
latter hour did many whites appear.
The Radicals labored faithfully. They
voted 3(H) Alabama negroes at least who
had previously ballotted in their own State.
Not until II o’clock was this repeating
stopped.
These causes account for the small ma
jority of the Democrats, which is usually
from 500 to 800. Not a store was closed,
and many whites failed to attend the
polls. After 11 a. in. the whites did good
work.
The vote was not counted out until
11:30 p. iu.
The total vote polled at Columbus was
2,455. The whites have themselves to
blame that they did not get their usual
heavy majority. A few young men worked
faithfully early aud late.
Bethune, radical, is from Talbot coun
ty and takes the place of Bigby, (radical)
resigned.
Vote of Muscogee County by Pre
cincts.—lt resulted as follows:
■ Total
j Upatoie. ..
| Edwards’..
Steam Mill
Bozeman’s
Nance’s ...
Columbus. J
Grant llyd 111 | u | o . a u i ijo;
ureeley 1217 88 3 22 133 0 1318
O’Conor 32 | IJIO | U | 0 0 | 43
Greeley’s majority lod
for congress.
H. R. Harris... I 1257 142114123 134 I 0 1 1370
M. Bethune | 1197 |ll|o|o| o| 0 [ 1208
Hart is’ (Bern ) majority 162
No polls open at Upatoie.
Auction Sale of Real Estate and
Other Property.—Ellis A Harrison had a
large sale yesterday. It was attended by
a considerable number of people.
The only sale iu the line of the Sheriff'
was that of the jewelry of J. H. Bramhall.
Bargains were secured. The best Ger
man gold watches brought $l4O ; others
sold from S4O to SOO. The whole sale
realized, wo would suppose at a rough
guess, about S7O0 —about oue-fourth of
its cost.
Seven horses and a mule were sold from
$75 to sl36eaeh; anew eatTiuge at $11)0;
a handsome brett at $220. The bull of
Mr. Borurn, of Stewart, brought $25.
The Owen Thomas plantation was sold
to Messrs. R. L. and J. 11. Bass for $17,-
000—$17 per acre. The place is four
miles from the city and part is on the
river. Before the war Mr. Thomas, now
deceased, was offered $32,000 for it.
A portion of lot 508, fronting 50 feet on
Mclntosh street and running back 147
feet 10 inches, brought $450.
The Butt place, in Vv'yuuton, was bid
off at $2,300 by a legal firm, Peabody A
Brannon.
The North portion of lot No. 244, on
the West side of Jackson street—with
seven-room house —the Andrews property
—was knocked down to VV. li. Kent for
$3,825.
The South portion of same lot—An
drews property, with six room house—
was sold to George Andrews for $3,325.
Mt. Airy Male and Female College.—
This institution, located at Waverly Hall,
Harris comity, is one of the best in the
land. The principal, Mr. J. G. Calhoun,
is a ripe and finished scholar, a thorough
teacher, aud a splendid disciplinarian. As
ail instructor he has no superior. He
adopts the “Whyaud Wherefore system,”
and his pupils learu rapidly and well. He
advertises that patrons who feel at the
close of either term that they have not
full value received will be tendered tui
tion free.
Remarkable. —ln the last election,
when the race was between the white and
negro candidates, the Federal office-hold
ers and white Radicals could not be found
around the polls. Many doubt whether
they voted at all. Yesterday several were
on the ground all day, working earnestly
for Grant. They were working for bread
and meat and fat salaries. Yet foolish
negroes will consent to bo used by them.
They will not vote for a colored man, but
will consent to become his candidate for
a salary.
A Successful Deer Hunt.—We are told
that several weeks ago Mr. Win. Duncan
found in his Held two deer with four
fawns. Soon pursuit was made. He was
successful in killing the two deer, and
capturing alive three of the fawns. The
fourth one was killed by the dogs. He
has now his captures at his home near
Crawford, Russell eounty, Ala., some
eighteen miles from Columbus. Success
ful. Hunters had better cease going to
Florida, but hunt in their own fields.
Radical Tickets. —On the top of sev
eral of those sent ns from Alabama is a
rough wood cut of a small house, a negro
working in a field, and in the distance a
village church. Below are the words:
‘‘Save your homesteads.” Then follows
the Grant ticket. Now is not all this ille
gal according to the Radical’s own law ?
Is there not a law prohibiting pictures on
electural tickets ? It is our impression
there is. Hundreds of these tickets were
polled in Girard.
Extending the Road.—The Franklin
News states Mayor Jar hoe, of LaGrange,
has been to Franklin in the interest of the
North and South Railroad. He has com
menced work with a considerable force
near Grab all, eight miles below Franklin.
An effort is being made to form a con
struction company in the Franklin part of
Heard eounty to grade from Graball to
Franklin.
Col. Ben May.—The Atlanta papers
slate that Col. Ben. May is iu that city in
a critical condition. He has been again
stricken with paralysis aud is threatened
with softness of the brain. Everyone
here knows and likes the Colonel. In the
good old limes lie was Treasurer of the
State.
The Election Yesterday.—lt passed
tolerably quietly, though a crowd of both
races were arouud the polls, and both
wore voting at the same box. They en
tered from opposite sides, two at a time.
No soldiers here. The front doors to all
the bar rooms w ere closed. I’he breath of
many, however, was not favorable to the
Temperance cause.
Affray in Salem.—During the pro
gress of the election in Salem, Lee coun
ty, Ala., yesterday, two white Democrats
got iuto a dispute, during which they shot
each other, aud accidently wounded
another white Democrat All riesh wounds.
Politics had nothing to do with it.
Election in Brownville.—lu this pre
cinct of Lee county. Ala., -235 votes were
cast—22s majority for the Democratic
ticket.
The Author of “Home.”—lt is pro
pi >sed by a society of journalists and pro
fessional men in Brooklyn, New York, to
erect a mouuineut iu Prospect Park, of
that city, to the memory of John Howard
Payne, the author of “Home, Sweet
Home," and if possible bring his remains
from Tunis to Greenwood Cemetery.
Lobbying: and the Hon, L, N. Trammell —
Again.
A few days ago, we published Mr. Tram
mell’s card in reply to the charge made
by Mr. Frost, President of the B. A A. R.
R. Cos., that he, Trammell, had received
$40,000 to help pass the bill giving the
second indorsement of the State to that
j Road when a member of the Legisla
ture. It will be remembered that the
testimony of Mr. Frost was given before
the Bond Committee, appointed by the
Legislature to investigate frauds. The
evidence of Mr. Frost was suppressed, aud
we have no hesitation in saying that as a
legal proposition this suppression was a
badge of guilt and wrong to the people
of Georgia.
Mr. Trammell admits that he engaged
with the Company iu a scheme to pro
cure favorable legislation from the Leg
islature, but denies he received $40,000
therefor, and that at the time he was a
member of the Senate. 11a justifies on
the ground that his arrangement and
action was a fair business transaction,
within the pale of professional propriety
aud integrity, and sanctioned by the ex
ample of “wiser and better" men, legully
aud morally. He gives the public two
copies of contracts, the consideration of
the first, dated November, 1860, is five
thousand dollars, and the second, dated
July, 1870, is only “twenty-five hundred
dollars, in cash, to be paul upon the last
day of the present session of this Legis
lature." Mr. Trammell says:
In the meantime it was charged that
the officers of the company had sent cer
tain dispatches North which were charged
to be untrue, and were intended for politi
cal effect. These had prejudiced the
company in the minds of the people of
the State. The failure to comply with
the first contract and this action of its
officers caused me to hesitate to have any
thing more to do with the matter.
Os course, the second coutract for
twenty-five hundred dollars rescinded the
first contract for five thousand, aud yet
Mr T. adds:
“These are the contracts which I hold
against the company when I called on Mr.
Frost for a settlement, when he became,
apparently much excited and without
knowing the amount of my claim or the
consideration of the same (unless he had
been informed by someone else) at once
declared that the company had no money,
and that he could not settle then.”
Surely Mr. T. did not expect the Presi
dent of the Company to pay him seven
thousand and five hundred dollars, and if
so, we think Mr. Frost might well become
“ much excited” and “hesitate to have
anything more to do with the matter.”
Mr. Trammell adds:
“But I do not propose entering into a
discussion of the legality of such con
tracts, this lieiug a private matter between
myself and this corporation, one that had
not nor can have anything to do with any
official act ol mine; no member bribed or
attempted to be bribed, no fraud perpe
trated, intended or attempted. The whole
matter was merely a private business ar
rangement. I was to receive the compen
sation named for the services named.”
We have given to Mr. Trammell the
benefit of his card, and endeavor to do
him justice. We, however, cannot agree
with him that this was alone a private
matter between him and the corporation,
and if he had not received a cent for his
Services, and his hands were as clean of
money as a babe’s, his action, we think,
was improper, immoral and illegal, until
he cites the authorities to which he refers.
We see no analogy between a profes
sional attorney at law and a professed
lobbyist. One is a legal aLd essential
part of the Court without whose learning
and eloquence life, liberty and property
would be unprotected and valueless. He
defends the innocent against the guilty,
and the weak and ignorant against the
strong and crafty. The other is odious
and officious aud is feed or volunteers to
do wliat the *people have delegated and
paid their own representatives only to do.
and what they are sworn and sacredly re
sponsible to God and country.
Lawyers were not. even originally feed,
but their motto was Ho nos alit lex—Hon
or nourishes the law, and in turn the law
nourished honor. Then, in that Golden
Age, no pettifoggers and champertors,
vexed courts; or lobbyists, the interests of
the public through legislators.
Lobbying has led to so much corruption
iu modern legislation, that Mr. Trammell
and others who follow that vocation have
no right to complain if watched closely
and judged sharply by the press and
public.
We regard lobbying as not only officious
ly corrupt, but a reflection on individual
members and a libel on free representa
tive government. We especially regret
that an honored stranger to us, or a known
friend, would engage in such business,
trade or profession.
Home-Rule in Ireland.—New York,
October 30.—The World’s London corres
pondent says Earl Russell, formerly
Prime Minister of England, who is now
upwards of 80 years of age, has addressed
him a letter in connection with a scheme
which he proposes introducing at the com
ing session of Parliament for home-rule
in Ireland, and in which he says that ha
wishes to promote Irish improvement aud
bring about Irish prosperity; but he fears
that if an Irish Parliament is set up iu
Ireland her energies will lie wasted in
contention. He therefore wishes to di
vert forces tending to iu flammability.
He fears, however, that wisdom will bo
wanting both iu England aud Ireland.
Conference of Baptist Clergymen.—
New York, Nov. 4. At a conference of
the Baptist Clergy of Boston and vicinity
to-day, the Committee on close commun
ion reported—first, That Christian Bap
tism is immersion of the believer iu the
water in the name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost, and is profession of his faith
in Christ. Second, That Christian church
es ought to be composed of such regener
ate persons only us have been baptised on
a profession of their faith iu Jesus.
Third, That the Lord’s Supper ought to
be observed by Christian churches only.
Fourth, That invitations of courtesy to par
take of emblems should be given to none
but orderly members of churches proper
ly constituted.
Mrs. Gen. Gaines ami her famous law
suits are again commanding the attention
of the people of New Orleans, this time
w ith a prospect, of a speedy termination
other long-protracted battles in the courts.
The indefatigable woman has proposed to
the City Council to compromise her large
claims on the city, based on judgments
against the innocent holders who have
purchased from the corporation property
which the United States Courts have de
cided belonged to Daniel Clark’s heirs.
The New Orleans Times says it looks very'
much as if Mrs. Gaines had the city in
a corner on this, and expressed a hope
that a reasonable compromise may be ef
fected.
The “Almighty Dollar."—The New
Y’ork Herald is frank. It confesses
that money controls the election, and that,
therefore, Grant will be elected. It says:
“Now and henceforth, the king iu regu
lating the Presidential succession is the
'Almighty Dollar.’ in this campaign, this
potential king is ou the side of the Ad
ministration, but iu the next contest for
the government of the National Treasury
he may be with the opposition.”
George Washington, who has figured in
this column as the gentleman who ran for
a doctor when America gave her first
squeal, was arrested in New Orleans ou
Saturday as a leading striker among the
longshoremen.— Si. Louis i-Hohe.
“Photoglyptic” is the name of a discov
ery by a Mr. Woodbury, a chemist of Lon
don, which, it is supposed, will take the
place of photography. The process is the
same, except that gelatine is used upon
the plate which takes the picture.
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ELECTION RETURNS.
The N. Y. Tribune and N. Y. Herald
Concede Grant's Election by a Popular
Vote of 300,(MM) to 350,000.
Frankfort, Kr.—Returns indicate a
| full Republican, and a falling off of one
third of the Democratic vote. Greeley’s
majority is probably 10,000. Democratic
Congressmen are elected from every Dis
trict.
New York, Nov. 6.—The Herald elec
tion estimates give to Grant 28 States, to
Greely nine; or 208 electoral votes for
Grant to 90 for Greeley. The popular
majority for Grant is placed at 350,000.
The Herald editorially says that
whether the result will bo accounted for
by the popular strength of Gen. Grantou
the one hand, or the weakness of Greeley
and the feebleness of the Liberal Re
publicans, combined with the Democratic
bolt on the other hand, it is in many re
spects the most remarkable in the history
of the country.
The Tribune gives Grant 232 electoral
votes at the lowest, and 78 for Greeley,
with the rest doubtful. There is scarcely
a parallel, it says, in the completeness of
the rout and triumph. It argues that
Liberalism could not withstand the enor
mous outlays of money expended by the
Republicans in the canvass. Gen. Grant
now hus four years more of power, with
heavy Congressional majorities, aud iu
whatever reform he may seek to effect he
will have the support of the Tribune.
The World places Grant’s popular
majority at 300,000. It says that the de
feat is due to the Democracy surren
dering to Greeley; that the demor
alization consequent upon the New
York Ring peculation of a year or
two ago, disheartened the party, aud
caused the nomination at Baltimore;
that the party had not recovered in time
from the Tammany tuint to do anything
until too late. Gives Grant 3(H) electoral
votes; Greeloy only 43, with the balance
doubtful.
All but three districts heard from on the
Mayorality. This city gives Havemeyer,
Repub., 10,590 ; Lawreuce, Tammany,
48,505; O’Brien, Apollo Hall, 34,000;
Havemeyer, plurality, being 3,404. State
Assembly iu the State will probably stand ’
44 Democrats to 84 Republicans.
The Senate is Republican—holding over
two-thirds.
The Tribune commenting on the result
says the Liberal Republican strength in
North Carolina, Vermont and Maine, was
nearly equalized by the Democrats who
wouldn’t eat crow.
New York, Nov. (!. Conggressional
delegation—23 Republicans, 10 Demo
crats. The last delegation was 15 Re
publicans and 10 Democrats.
Washington, Nov. 6. —Philips (Rep.) is
elected from the stli New Jersey District.
His majority is 2,580.
Many Republican members of the New
Y ork Legislature are opposed to Conk
ling’s re-election to the Senate.
Republicans are elected from the Ist
New York District.
The Liberals carry but one county in
Massachusetts. Louis county gives Gree
ley over 3,000 majority.
Grant’s majority iu Chicago is 8,000.
Republicans elected to Congress. Illi
nois elects twelve Republicans to Con
gress.
Republicans carry California. Outside
of Sttn Francisoo give Grant (»,720 nmjoti
ty-
Both parties claim Virginia.
Returns from Alabama meagre.
Both parties still claim Louisiana. It
is thought the Liberals regard their
success almost certain by 40,000.
Florida is also claimed by both parties
by a small majority.
Indications of 10,000 majority in North
Carolina for Grant.
Dispatches from Nashville indicate the
election of Liber. oagressiuen at large.
The immense !;• publican gains in
every section of V,;...in. heard from just
ify the conclusion that Grant has carried
the State. The Republicans claim it,
and lint few Democrats hold out in claim
ing it for Greeley.
FOREIGN.
London, Nov. 5. —Sharply contested
election. The Tiperton result returns
Liberal Mr. Marrey, by 30 majority.
Melbourne, Nov s.— Rejoicing over
completion of Telegraph, which will be
formally celebrated on the 15th.
Berlin, Nov. 5. —Government has crea
ted a nuuibor of new peers iu order to
carry out the local government.
Paris, Nov. s.—iieun Rochefort has
been permitted lo go to Versailles to
marry the dying mother of his children in
order to legitimatize his offspring when
the ceremony is concluded.
London, Nov. 6.—The result of tlie
Presidential election in America is pub
lished in London this morning.
The Loudon Telegraph believes Grant
deserved re-election; and the fact that he
has been again chosen disproves the asser
tion that the Republicans are ungrateful.
The Standard makes a violent attack
upon the Republican party, which it says
has done nationally what Tammany and
Fisk did locally. Grant and Greeley are
thought untit for the position of President
of the United States, but it says of the two
evils it believes the people have made the
best choice.
Pabis, Nov. 0. —The German troops
have evacuated the city of Rheims and
the town of Vinetia. These were the last
posts retained by them.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. s. —The statement
that the Treasury Department had deci
ded that discrimination against French
bottoms applied to vessels alloat, is pre
mature. The matter is still under ad
visement, hut such a decision is probable.
Washington, Nov. (i. —Grant, in receiv
ing the congratulations of friends for
kind wishes and a part from political is
sues involved, was gratiiied that the peo
ple had vindicated his private character,
which had been assailed during the can
vass; that there will be at least one change
in the Cabinet at the commencement of
the next Presidential term. There is no
probability of a change of Attorney Gen
eral.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 4. Woodhnll &
Chitlin were taken from Ludlow street
jail to-day at 12 o'clock and ordered to
give $3,000 bail, each.
New York, Nov. 4.— Stephen Pearl An
drew's has been arrested for being com
plicated in the Woodhull-Claflin affair.
Three men suffocated by gas iu a min
eral well.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis. Nov. 5.—D- P. Robison, late
assistant Superintendent of the Memphis
and Little Rock Railroad, was shot last
night iu a street car by R. B. Miller du
ring a political quarrel. Wound danger
ous. It said the shot was tired iu self
defense.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
New' York, Nov. 5. —No street cars
running to-day.
4,000 sick horses in Cleveland. No
street cars running.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, Nov. r>.— The horse malady
appeared at the stables here this morning.
Two stores on Hillsboro street were
burnt this morning. Work of an incen
diary. Loss, over insurance, $50,000.
The Value of the Horse.
When disease invades equine ranks and
prostrates so generally as to seriously im
pede the daily traffic of a great city like
1 New York, then men open their eyes to
i the real value of horseflesh. There are a
; good many dreamers in the world who, iu
j smacking their lips over a glass of beer in
! 8 cellar, or when puffing away at a cheap
l cigar, pretend to look down with contempt
upon the whole kingdom of horseflesh.
In the shallow estimation of these art aud
literary bummers, the man who talks horse
and whe drinks good champagne is a vul
gar sort of fellow. The bummers set
great store on a daub of a picture, on a
milk and water sketch that scarcely anv
bodv takes the trouble to read, anil they
even condescend to discuss the claims of
local politicians. But horses—great hea
vens! no. Horses are unworthy of a
place in their daily thoughts. Horses are
vulgar, aud who ever knew a bohemian to
be guilty of anything approaching the
vulgar? Fortunately these beer guzzlers
and smokers of cheap cigars do not make
up the world, though they may be a world
unto themselves. There are thousands of
cultivated people who do appreciate the
horse, and who see nothing vulgar in the
literature which throws light upou the
grand problem of breeding. The mass of
these are a practical sort of people, who
have learned that vagrant day dreaming
does not bring the means necessary to
purchase and maintain comfortable and
luxurious homes. But, as we started to
say in the beginning, when disease makes
such havoc among equine ranks as to
cause the withdrawal from work of nearly
all the horses employed in a great city,
then the bummer raises his eyes from his
glass of beer and the truth dawnsupon his
cloudy understanding that the horse plays a
very important part iu the drama of life,
lie drags the cars which carry us up town,
down town and cross town. He pulls the
stages which run from point to point, and
which we scarcely appreciate until the
line is disarranged or temporarily suspend
ed. He rolls the wheels of our carriages
and light conveyances of all descriptions.
He is the motive power of drays, express
wagons, heavy tracks, Ac., and when he
is disabled these lines of transportation
come to a standstill. The merchant is
unable to do business, since he can neith
er receive nor deliver his goods; ships
float idly at the docks, as the moving of a
cargo requires the assistance of horse
flesh, and railroads are seriously embar
rassed, as they depend upon equine mus
cle to bring freight to and take it from
their depots. In short the entire commer
cial interests of the city- hinge upon horse
flesh, as also do many of our social rela
tions. Verily, in a busy community like
New York the horse rises to the dignity
of a sovereign power.— Turf, Field and
Farm.
The Presidential Election.
“Fresh from reading Plutarch’s Lives,”
is the playful manner in which the pleasant
satirist, Sidney Smith, characterizes the
young man going from his school books
into the wortd, and looking, iu the actuali
ties of life aud politics, for the virtues
which probably existed more in the fancy
of the eulogist than in the life of the sub
ject. Most early historians wrote works
'•founded on fact,” like historical novels,
the line was not well drawn between the
real and the poeticul. The cannons of
sceptical criticism are more and more dis
enchanting mankind. It is a pity, but il
seems a necessity that the pleasant faith
in which the boy reads should fade as lie
grows older.
A century is n short time in the life of a
nation, and as a nation we are scarcely
out of the era of faith in Plutarch’s Lives.
Ah the country has grown in power auJ
wealth its constituents find rude experi
ence dissipating many pleasant dreams of
public virtue, and reducing to a very
common-place matter the poetic dream of
patriotism. Yet, the young nation gets
along very well, notwithstanding, and its
Olympic game of President-making is
probably quite as manly and noble as tlm
old contests which classic history celo
brates. We are now at the opening of
the Twenty-second Olympiad, aud with
some interruptions and drawbacks the re
view shows eighty-four years of progress
which will delight students of modern
Pintarchs as yet unborn. Being iu the
bustle of the times, and engaged iu
“ making history,” we cannot duly esti
mate the significance of the events of oili
own times.
Yet, with all the chicanery of politics
and other unpleasant circumstances which
mar the close contemporary view, the
spectacle of a nation of forty millions
electing its chief magistrate and leg.si.,-
ture lias elements of grandeur iu it which
may well gratify a laudable national pride.
We may very properly honor the heroic
age of the Republic, in which its libera
tors, fresh from the martial straggle, ap
plied themselves to the work of the recon
struction of a government and the found
ing ot a republic. Ilow well their work
was done is shown, not only in the na
tional growth and prosperity, but in the
fact that few changes have been made in
the original structure.
il is the imperative duty of American
freedmeu jealously to guard their inhere
tauco, and patriotically to build on the
foundation so well prepared for them.
American institutions have endured a
strttin greater than any other government
could have sustained ; and our country
has come victoriously out of a struggle of
unprecedented difficulty. It is no dispar
agement of the people to say that this suc
cess is due even more to their political ad
vantages than to their personal character.
To value these political privileges is in
cumbent upon every citizen ; and to im
prove and defend them is the duty of
every man who lives under the protection
of the Republic.
While personal ambition and selilslmess
no doubt add earnestness, and perhaps
cause unworthy zeal in many active par
tisans, it cannot be doubted that the great
mass, who have no personal end to gain
are actuated by their love of country and
of principle. It. is possible that men
should think alike on questions of public
policy. If they could, the people would
soon stagnate into not thinking at all.
The ambitious and designing would have
the nation at their feet,and the old history
of usurpation, by force or fraud, would be
reproduced.
The recurrence of the exercise of the
right of suffrage, producing through it
may frequent changes, is really a great
conservative incident. The periodical
elections keep the principles of govern
ment under continual discussion. The
eagle eyes of opposition are wide open to
detect any divergence from principle in
the party in power—and the prudence of
the incumbents is exercised to maintain
their place in the confidence of the nation.
With all its excitement, and its admitted
interruption of ordinary business, the
Presidential election is the great means of
preserving our nationality. No man
should regard it with indifference, or fail
to do his duty as a citizen, by taking a
citizen’s share in the national contest.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
That fortunate cat is unfortunately
dead. We .mean the cat named “Oita,”
to which Miss Sarah C. Lewis, of Brain
tree, Mass., bequeathed the income of her
house and furniture and $2 per week.
That is, the money was bequeathed to a
female friend in trust for the said cat, di
rect bequest to animals being null ami
void by law. On the 21st “Oita” died of
old age, and the house and land now go
to the Universalist church in West Scitu
ate, in accordauce with the provisions of
the will. If the money could only have
gone to Otta’s heirs what a catterwauling
there would have been over the legacy.
An army officer of some note writes,
concerning what he terms Vanderbilt’s
“struggle with God Almighty:”
“I do not want to say anything disre
spectful to the Northern Pacific Railroad.
I want to see it built, but having seen
much of that fertile land that the compa
ny offer for their bonds, I can certify that
their land is worth at least one mill per
thousand square miles, provided it is
ne- sr taxed. It is a very g'«id country
for prairie dogs and gophers. "
A correspondent of the Journal de St.
Petersburg dercrib. a the magnificence of !
an illuminated copy of the sacred writings
of Buddha, in the language of Thibet,
which is being executed for a Mougol
prince. It will consist of 108 folio
volumes, of which 80 are completed, ail in
letters of gold, and bound in embroidered
silk, with silver clasps. The copyist is to
receive *25.000 for the work.
NO. 40
TUI'RSBAV MORMMi ( XOV. 7.
Alabama Radicals Try to Get Geor
gia Negro Voters.— The following cir
cular was generally, but privately dis
tributed among the Columbus negroes.
The object is plain. It was to induce
Georgia negroes to vote in Alabama. A
train was chartered by the Rads to carry
colored voters to Opelika. On that train
over tifty left who live in this county.
They were, we are informed, repeated at
different stations. J. 1.. Pennington was
not only a Radical candidate for the State
Senate,but also a Grant elector, "blow high
is this a Grant Alabama elector issuing
circulars toGeorgia negroes inviting them
•to Alabama and chartering cars to carry
illegal votes to Opelika? Here is the
circular.
To Our Republican Friends :
We have chartered two passenger cars
which will be attached to the freight train
that leaves Columbus on Tuesday morn
ing, November sth, at half past six o’clock,
for the express purpose of bringing our
Republican friends to Opelika to the elec
tion. And all our Republican friends are
urged to come to Opelika to VOTE.
They will be carried to Opelika and re
turned the same night by that train FREE
OF ALL CHARGE. Be on the Road
early, and be sure to get on the CARS.
Isaac Hetman,
J. L. Pennington,
D. B. Smith,
J. O. D. Smith,
Death of John K. Bedell.— He died
in Eatonton on October 31st, in the 38th
year of his age. Prior to the war he was
engaged in mercantile business During
the revolution as a lieutenant he fought
bravely for his section. Possessed of a
frank, generous nature, he made many
warm friends. Faults are buried in the
grave. He was a brother of Mr. Wm. A.
Bedell (of Bedell & Ware.)
Superior Court—Judge James John
son Presiding—Second Day. —Court met
yesterday pursuant to adjournment.
We have previously published a list of
the juries, both grand and traverse.
All the local members of the bar were
present. Among visiting lawyers we no
ticed Judge E. H. Worrell and Capt. W A.
Little of Talbot ton, Col. Wm. S. Wallace
of Butler, Wm. Grier, Esq., of Macon,
and Roland Russell, Esq., of Hamilton.
The “Virginia Store” advertises this
morning alpacas, pure mohairs, two-but
ton kid gloves at $1 50, elegant silks,
furs, poplins, cloths aud cassimeres, car
pets, itc. This house always has a large
and extensive variety of beautiful goods,
for ladies and gentlemen, and the latest
dots of the fashionables. The celebrated
Richardson’s college shirts can l>e ordered
there and warranted to tit. A visit will
repay anyone.
Quite a Difference. —'t he Macon Tele
graph is mistaken by 22,. r >o<). The Co
lumbus Sun said 25,000 people were pre
sent at the Columbus Fa.r during the
week, not 2500 as the Telegraph report
ed this paper said.
Maryland Coal.—A feature new to the
coal trade is the report that therelmsbeen
quite a number of orders received for
Cumberland coal to be shipped to points
where English coal has been used, and it
is generally conceded that the trade is in
a healthier condition than at any previ
ous time this year. Several vessels have
already left Georgetown with cargoes of
soft coal for foreign countries, aud others
are expected to arrive and clear before the
close of navigation.
Garnishment of Wages.—lt seems tha
the Legislature passed a law on the 23d
of August which makes it lawful for pro
vision dealers, boarding lion e keepers
and landlors of hotels to garnishee wages
iu default of hills being unsettled.
We have Hot seen a copy of the law bill
learn these facts from a ease which re
cently came up before Magistrate Lamotte
the other day in Savannah. Ulmer gar
nished Whetstone’s wages for the lion
payiue-it of $23 15 hoard bill. The de
f made was technical, and the de
cision of the Magistrate straight out
against Whetstone, sustaining the plain
tiff’s action unequivocally.
We know of no other Stutein the Union
where a man’s wages can he stopped for
debt of this or any other character. But
here it is a eorrallary of the Homestead
and Relief Laws, we presume. Macon
Enterprise.
A Repobteu’h Credentials. —The St
Louis reporters have queer credentials to
public entertainments. A few days since
one made application for entrance to the
fair grounds. The following conversa
tion thereupon ensued between him and
the guardian of the gate :
“Got a ticket, sir?”
“No, sir.”
“Well, you can’t go in, then stand
aside. ”
“But I’m a reporter for the Globe.”
“Show me your credentials.”
“Well, here are three passes on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, one on the Bel
leville branch of the Cairo Shoi't Line,
one on the St. Louis and Southeastern,
one on the Fifth street road. Here’s a
copy of the Globe, a ticket on a Chinese
laundry, a restaurant bill ol fare, two
tooth-picks, a clean handkerchief, a bunch
of keys and a pipe.”
“Pass in, sir.”
The United Kingdom savings’ banks re
port, just published, is almost startling.
In England alone the deposits amounted
at the end of the year to the enormous
sum of $155,000,000, which shows an av
erage of more than $7 per head for the
entire population. In the whole United
Kingdom the amount of such deposits ex
ceeds $285,000,000, not counting the sums
dejsjsited with the numerous friendly so
cieties and similar associations.
An Oregon sheriff attached a show in
that far-away country the other day, and
while tacking up a “sale” notice on the
elephant’s hindquarters, which the official
took for a small barn, the animal swung
his tail around—and now when that coun
ty wants a sheriff they will have to elect
one.— Titusville Prets.
The experiment of the Reading Rail
road Company in carrying coal to Eastern
ports iu steamers instead of sailing ves
sels, and returning in ballast instead of
freight, is said to be a great success.
The company are now about to add a
number of vessels to their present fleet.
The engines are to be built in their shops
at Reading, and the boilers and hulls in
the ship-yards on tide water.
Our English brethren seem to be doing
far more than we to enable the workiug
classes to better their condition. They
are throwing open magnificent museums
for them; are writing popular scientific
works for them; are trying to educate, 1
not only their children, i.nt the men and
the women themselves; and, best of all, :
are promoting co-operation by every j
means in their power.
The gin house of Mr. A. J. Sitton, iu
the town of Pendleton, S. C., was entire
ly destroyed by fire on Tuesday night i
last. Tli- re were twenty or twenty-five 1
bales of cotton in the seed consumed, be
sides one bale already ginned. The en
gine was saved without any damage.
The Emperor William of Germany has
prolonged the time during which public
gambling is permitted at the watering
places of his empire for two years.
Mr. Dennis Miller is announced as a
candidate for Tax Collector of Harris
county, subject to county Democratic
nomination.
The postal railway service has been in- j
creased during the last year 10,000 miles.
San Francisco has 5,000 places where j
liquor is sold.
Political Thimbia-rltgfffi Prophets,
Some things we kno w and some things
it never was intended we should know, or
as poor Ophelia better expressed it—
" Lord, we know what we are, but know
not what we may be.” Prophets once
lived, but as Burke said abont the days of
chivalry, they are gone! Some of our
wise men now can’t tell just when to carry
an umbrella unless prompted by corns ;
or being slightly corned when returning
homo, smelling of cakes and ale—of cloves
and allspice. They then need no “Old
Probabilities” to predict material and do
mestic storms —high winds, cloudy weath
er and a little, very little rumble of home
spun thunder, warranted not to fail. The
return of comets and eclipses and falling
stars and rain when it is dropping, have
been foretold and verified, but where is
the philosopher that could say with cer
tainty what verdict a jury or an election
would bring forth?
The presidential and congressional elec
tions just over, havo been fruitful of false
predictions, and now for a month to come
editors, ollico-seekors, and politicians
generally, will be exercised in telling how
and why they were so dreadfully deceived.
The Greeleyites will say, we did not ap
prehend how few of the Northern Repub
licans and Radicals would join our rauks,
aud then the cursed Straights would not
vote for the old farmer! They now in
sist that they realized the old Greek story
of a donkey that devoured a rope of straw
at one end, while a foolish man untwisted
it industriously at the other. The swal
lowing process was a success at the South,
but the Northern Democrats and Straights
would so scatter the material, that the
solemn animal perished by famine. Thev
logically conclude that if everybody had
voted for Greeley he would have been
President always, provided there was no
opposition. The O’Conor men have adopt
ed the same line of argument, and still are
not happy.
If we have elected the Congressmen we
will be thankful for small favors. Here,
the power under our government will ever
be predominant. The members of Con
gress enact, the President only executes,
objects, or approves and rarities. Geor
gia will send a body of iute'ligent and
patriotic members. For ttiis, too, we are
thankful, and will console ourselves like
the Dutchman who fell from the main
mast and broke his arm, and thanked God
it was not his neck.
Our readers will see additional returns
by reference to our telegraphic column.
The Exodus from Alsaca and Lorraine-
With last mouth closed the term given
to the people of Alsace and Lorraine for
choosing whether they will remain and
become German citizens, or emigrate;
the answer appears to have been so extra
ordinary that it may yet become the
theme for the great poem of a greal poet.
Nearly all who could go have abandoned
their native land, the hatred to (lie new
nationality overcoming all the ties of love
aud interest which bound them to the
spot. France and Switzerland are filled
with the fugitives, 88,000 having passed
through Nancy alone; but the ultimate
destination of most will in all probability
■ i)& the United Stales, where they will lie
welcomed, a kind and sympathizing re
ception being there assured to them.
What appears on the surface so extraordi
nary, the flight of a population from its
native country to avoid the nationality of
the nation whose language it speaks,
whose blood it shares, and whose customs
it adopts, is not so strange when we con
sider this fact; that they but follow the
example the Germans themselves set. If
the Prussians go in such numbers as to
leave behind them a desolation, why
should the Alsatians remain? Here we
have a practical fact worthy the deep con
siderations of the Rerlin Cabinet. Not
only do the conquering Prussians emi
grate from the country they have raised
to a pinnacle of military greatness, but
when the inhabitants of the two conquer
ed provinces are asked to choose who they
will serve, they reject the German nation
ality with aversion, aud abandoning all,
quit their native provinces on which it is
imposed. Are these Alsatians steeped iu
prejudice, in ignorance, in folly? Do
they, or do they' not, know what the yoke
is from which they fly? It would be strange
if they did not, bordering, as they did,
upon the Prussian provinces, speaking
German, and freely mixing for a life-time
with their neighbors on the other side the
frontier. There is something far from
attractive in the German System, and we
have not to seek deep to ascertain what it
is. Os all nations, the most detestable are
military nations .An army is all very well—-
a perfect machine, beautiful to look at,
and admirable in its organization. But
when a nation becomes an army it is sim
ply hateful. A people who rank proficien
cy in the “goose-step” as among the high
est accomplishments; who measure a man
by the military grade he holds; who im
port into civil life the habits acquired iu
the barrack yard, and consider everything
as subordinate to the power of the Em
pire to destroy its neighbors, is not an
agreeable nationality into which to be
thrust compulsorily. Nay, it is regarded
by its own people as a good country “to
emigrate from.” No wonder, then, the
Alsatians packed up und took their depar
ture; that the trains for weeks were crowd
ed with passengers; that all the papers
came out in mourning; and that the day
of dense gloom had dawned on the rich
and beautiful valleys of the ci-devant
French province. Yet, when we look at
it from another point of view, it does seem
very strange that the population should
have acted with so strong and stern a
resolution. What can he the attraction
of France for that section of the German
People? Humiliated by defeat, crushed
beneath the weight of taxes, the cradle of
revolution, the country of the Commune,
France besides makes a butt of the Al
satian. To the wits of Paris, his lan
guage, his dress, his habits, and his ap
pearance furnished a subject for ridicule;
and we all know that French foibles, par
ticularly Parisian foibles, offered a fair
enough mark for Alsatian retort. Iu
striking contrast was the grave, solid,
! German people, now standing (highest in
j military renown and second to none in
science, in literature and iu art. Hurely
such a nation must possess counter
balancing attractions; but here comes iu
the original vice, the sin of the transac
; tion. No man likes to have anything
j thrnst down his throat, pleasant though it
! may be, when ho acts as a voluntary
j agent. Against wrenching apart all ties
;of allegiance the mind revolts. It is an
j act hard to justify, and it is seldom atten
i ded with uny benefit, even to those who
I commit the barbarism under the iinpres
. sion that they gain. The story of this
i exodus will he told as one of the thrilling
| tales of this century, for no wrong seems
to live longer or finds more graphic pens
to describe; yet, if the emigrants choose
their new country wisely, in the end they
will have no reason for regret, and we be
lieve some trouble has been taken to make
them acquainted with the advantages the
United States offer, and the warm welcome
they will there receive.— The Anglo-
American Times, London, Ragland.
The latest thing in suicides comes to
us from Cleveland, Ohio, where an indi
vidual rashly importunate, went to his
deatli after the following unique prepara
tions: lie first procured a revolver and
connected it with a species of clock work,
so that it should be fired off at a certain
time. He then got into bed and took a
dose of chloroform, after having placed
the pistol behind bis ear. He then, under
the influence of the narcotic, went to
sleep. At the given time the clockwork
pressed the triger of the pistol, firing it
off and launching the idiot into eternity.
A Judge not a thousand miles from this
city, opened a recent term of his court
with the following prayer : “0 Lordhelp
us to pray for the lawyers for Thou know
est that they have abundant need for
prayer. They too often try to make a
good case out of a bad one, anil a had case
out of a good one. 0, Lord ! help them
to be honest, and help, too, the witnesses.
Thou knowest, O, Lord ! that sometimes
they stretch the truth, and keep back
what ought to lie made known. Help
them, 0 Lord! to tell the truth,the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.”
The newly discovered Colorado silver
ledge is reported to be sixty three feet iu
width aud five miles long, and produces
$5,000 to the ton, more or less.
Dan Rice’s trick horse, Excelsior, is
dying of old age and disgust in Cincinnati.
Blank Garnishments and Bonds for sale
at the Sun Office.