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TI lISDAV tlOltMtU,, NOV. Id.
TERRIBLE FIRE AT BOSTON.
|>y reference to our telegraph dispatches
it will he seen that the city of Boh ton,
Mass., has heoii visited by a lire equaled
only liy that of Chicago. It is Hupjxised
that over twenty millions worthof proper
ty lias been consumed. The loss to the
iiuiiie.liate sufferers is terrible, and while
sympathy and substantial relief should and
will he extended to them, the whole coun
try, from one end to the other, will par
take of the disastrous occurrence.
Whatever maybe said of the social and
political isms of Boston and Massuchu
setts, the people there have neverbeen ex-
I ' lled in real sympathy and charity for
a- 1 humanity. They may not let
(lie right hand know wliat the left dooth
a ; much as some other com inanities and
.'■ ites, hut the p"or, especially of the
elii, will never forget a l’eabody who
i Med so much h. our educational resources
and development. It will, too, he ever re
membered with the warmest gratitude,
hat when tho then large and flourishing
town of Fayetteville, North Carolina, wus
utterly destroyed by tire many years ago,
mid made a ruin never surpassed in degree,
Huston stretehed forth a hand, open as
day, and extended to the Southern suf
ferers the most generous charities of any
city iu the United States. We hope in
this, tliu day of her sorrow, that other
cities and communities will follow her
glorious und God-like example in blessing
us well those who give, as those who re
ceive.
Mu.-Gnr.Kr/KV.—We heartily rejoice that
Mr. Greeley has once more seized tho old
grey goose quill, (which in a moment of
ill-judged ambition ho threw away) and
again ascends the editorial tripod. We
shall need as much as wo have missed for
some months in the Tribune, his strong
Saxon, and we hope, chastened as lie has
been liy domestic and political misfor
t aims, that in tho future his pen will prove
a terror to tyrants and official corruption
ists. lie may well congratulate himself
Unit, although the most ignorant “colored
brother” ami meanest official piclc-pocket,
may sit in the Presidential chair, still it
exceeds even tho Radical powers of force
and fraud, to confer strength and wisdom
to an editorial pen. In this vocation and
profession, Mr. Greeley has no peer, lie
receives greatness from God and not man.
A Si i i'Son Kii.i.s ms Step Daddy. -An
alli'i'catton took place, Monday, between 1
two negroes on the plantation of Col. G. j
\V Redding, in Harris county, iu which
one. Dick Rutledge, by name, was in
stantly killed. I|, seems that Dick was
cliaslising a step-son, when a brother of
Hie whipt boy interfered, tolling Dick if
lie iin 1 in>l desist lie would shoot him. j
Dick did not stop and the negro tired,
'■■lieu Dick took his farewell of earth. ]
I'li" slayer was immediately arrested by
Col. Redding, who afterwards resigned ]
him to the custody of a county officer. j
Tim negro killed was a favorite family
sen .nit who had long been with Col. Bed
ding.
Bad Runaway. —Oapt. .). T. Nall, the
Tre;,surer of Pike comity, Alabama, was
liuilly hurt last Thursday afternoon. He
is also a baptist, minister, and left one
iinn mi a battle held while lighting for the
Confederacy. As he was going home, j
having left Troy, his horse became fright- (
I'lind und managed to detach himself from I
the buggy. Mr. Null, however, clung to ,
the reins, and though dragged some dis-
lance, succeeded in stopping him. lie j
afterwards proceeded to Troy, where he j
secured medical assistance. It is feared,
though hoped not, that he is injured in- [
torually.
Tm Horse Disease. In (his Stale it i
dues liol appear to have attacked any of !
the animals in daily use. Some very fine |
trotters lmve taken it in Savannah, but j
their cases are lighter Ilian those of the
North. At Albany a horse and mule just I
received from Indiana, have manifested |
all the symptoms. If this epidemic should j
become general on plantations, il would
create immense losses. The thing is not
afraid of a mule. T hat has Iwt ii proven,
contrary to expectation, however, because
it was thought a undo wouldn’t have any
thing lie didn't want.
The growth and structure of the human
hair, is very plainly set forth in a pam
phlet, published by U. P. Hall & Cos.,
Nashua, N. It., proprietors of Hall’s Voge-
Sicilaii Hair Renew.a-, for graluitlott* dis
tribution. Tho deservedly high reputa
tion lias wholly been gained by its merits,
being fret' from oil and alcohol, it has a
healthy action on the scalp, removes and
prevents dandruff, and will thicket) up the
thin locks. Such are Ihe bon fits winch
are conferred upon the consumer. No
one should fail to give it.a trial. — Journal
it Statesman, Wiltainglon, A'.
Mayor Hall, of New York, lias iustitnl
tv 1 liind suits against (lie Times, Wild
Oats. t.lio Nation and Harper's Weekly.
The Mayor holds that there are n<> justiti- |
ration for the publication of defamatory i
caricatures, and that is merely a tpiestiou
of amount of damages. Whatever ho may j
recover he will give to charity.
Joe Hardin, a desperado less than twen- |
ty-one years of age. but who has the blood
iest history of any man of his age in Tex
as, I;., been arrested by the Sheriff of
1 lierokee oqunty. Ho is reported to have
killed twenty-four men in Texas and four
tu Kansas, igal.ing twenty-eight, since he
"as fifteen years old. liis fatlior is said
to be u Methodist preacher.
I'm Ki.eotou.vi. Ooi.EEor. —The Presi
dential Electoral College consists of 360
members; necessary for a choice, 184. ;
The State colleges vote respectively at the i
bfate capitals, and a special messenger is j
sent with the result to Washington, where
Congress counts the votes and proclaims
the result.
Leaves To-Day.- Dr. V. 11. Taliaferro ]
leaves to-day for Atlanta to commence j
his duties ns Professor in the Medical
College of that city. The Columbus
Medical Society met last night and passes 1
resolutions highly eulogistic of him as a
■nun and a physician.
Passed Through. —The Federal troops
which have been stationed at Seale, Ala.,
passed through here yesterday, en route
'"r Atlanta. The company nniutiered
some thirty men, ami was in charge of a
Lieutenant.
" ashikoton, Nov. 12. —Geu. Kryzan
"vski, who, as Supervisor of Internal Rev
sntte of Georgia,fell into trouble, hits been
appointed special Treasury Agent, with
Headquarters at New Orleans.
Noiith and South Railroad —Moke
‘Ko\.—Four more car loads of iron reach
ed here yesterday for the North and South
railroad.
Ax AsToNnfHiNO One.— We unde nd
'cat Mr. -Jacob Kern has a pullet, six
■contlm old, that lays six eggs per week.
A tine plantation in Marion county is
ottered for sale.
VOL. XIV.
CONCLUSIONS.
In the Tribune of the Bth, an editorial
evidently written by Sir. Greeley, num
bers what tho general result of the late
Presidential election indicates, and among
the number is the following :
111. The great mass of our people feel
no sympathy for those they still regard as
Rebels. On the Contrary, they hold that
these have been treated more leniently
than they deserve.
We notice some of our per »e Greeley
exchanges have assumed the same cou elu
sion and based upon it assertions and ar
guments, which would again build up a
purely sectional party. We were opposed
to quilting the Union when many of our
friends were “lied Hots” in that direc
tion, but being considered out by ltadi
cals (with Mr. Greeley at the head) we
never hankered to crawl back by eating
crow. Ouce out, we would have re
mained forever in the cold, rather than as
a volunteer, sacrificed for a despised boon
the rights of the States and the humilia
tion of our native land.
We have no doubt that the element of
hate and sectional bitterness, originating
in our civil war, had some inliuence on the
result of the election and thedefeatof Mr.
Greeley. The old leaders of the South
were closely watched, andas they gathered
under the banner of reform and reconcilia
tion, it created a centripetal force South,
which wus immediately counteracted by
the centrifugal, pure radicalism of the
North. From this cause, numbers of Mr.
Greeley’s most honest, zealous and sin
cere friends did him a serious, but an un
intentional injury. The great mass of the
Northern people were taughtby theirpress
and orators, that we were all “liebels,”
only awailing power to again produce ruin
and bloodshed, and our most innocent,
mildest, meekest, “accept the situation”
patriots, who never cut a throat or scuttled
ship, were cited as examples for the truth
of these false charges and assertions. Un
der such circumstances, the ltadicals re
fused to “clasp hands with us across the
bloody chasm.”
The sudden attempted transfer of three
millions of Democratic voters into the
ranks of the Liberal ltepublicans, pro
duced a result, the cause of which was
principle and patriotism, arid notsectional
hate and revenge. The long identifica
tion of Mr. Greeley with the Radical or
Republican party, made it impossible for
the people to have full confidence in his
luter change and modification of opinion,
notwithstanding his admitted talents and
virtues.
This eternal charge and suspicion of
j hate, will in the end produce the evil the
| Liberal Republicans profess most to de
precate, and tend to keep open forever
the bloody chasm.
For good or evil, the States are forever
members of tho Union. Sectional bitter
ness will destroy the blessings and aggra
vate tho evils of that Union. Tho war is
ended, and with it should end its passions
and prejudices, and as a citizen of the
government in pence, we should bear it
the same true allegiance which we held as
a soldier when law was silenced by arms.
We shall never surrender our individual
civil rights nr the rights of the State, but
while obedient in all just demands of gov
ernment, let us endeavor, even when
wronged, to cultivate “charity toward nil,
anil malice toward none.”
There is no spectacle so grand as the
heroic struggle of a brave and wronged
people against adversity. It will in the
end command the sympathies of tho
world, and invoke the protection and jus
tice of God. To bear is to conquer our
fate. _
From the Enquirer.
The I nsti Iu t inns of Columbus.
That the City of Coe umluis is destined
to grow in importation as a manufactur
ing centre, is fully conceded by tho more
wealthy and intelligent of her citizens.
To accomplish this end they bend their
energies and watch her progress wilh uo
little interest. She seeks to add to her
population a community of intelligent
working people to fill her factories, foun
dries and machine shops, till the air shall
be tilled with the hum of her steam en
gines and the buzz of her myriad spin
dles. Her well organized Fublic Schools,
unsurpassed in any section of our coun
try, offer good education at. a trilling ex
pense, where t hose of families can safely
trust, their children (too young to labor),
where they will be fitted to engage in Ihe
active duties of life, and as the I’alher la
bors daily for the support of his wife and
offspring, his dearest, hope is to accumu
late something against old age, or to give
h:s children a fuller education than has
perhaps been his good fortune to acquire,
and the ways and means to accomplish
this off times puzzle him sorely. 'lire
object, of this is to aid him in the attain
ment of his praise worthy object.
The officers of the Georgia Home In
surance Company have taken the initia
tive step in the establishment of Savings
Hanks in our city. These institutions
have prospered all over the length and
breadth of our laud where they have been
officered by men of ability and integrity,
and have proved of incalculable benefit
to their depositors. If every laboring
man would (and every one can to a great
er or less extent,) set nside a certain
amount, from his weekly earnings, and
place it. iu the Savings Bank at interest,
Ire would soon feel independent and see
the early accomplishment of bis wishes.
He must be systematic and persistent in
his determination, so much so ns to per
form this duty as rigidly as every honest
man pavs his just debts. He must, learn
to consider it o debt due to his good res
olution, and giving the follies and ex
travagancies iif life the go by as utterly
unworthy bis consideration, he will, with
economy* in a few years find that the in
terest on what he has laid by yields him
an income equal to his own labor, and
that at no cost to him beyond the sacri
fice of some trifling gratification, without
which he is nil the better.
Let tlic voting man bear in mind while
possessed of his full strength and vigor
that he can accomplish more now in this
art of saving than when failing strength
comes upon him ami finds ban surround
ed by added euros, (more calls upon his
purse with lessened ability to respond,
cutting like a two edged sword) and learn
to save somewhat now against the evil
day of sickness and want.
“ A liltlt* tttimev u- * and that),
Lirows a> fhiUhv.i givw to men:
Till tilt* frosty M«>> s
The h ind of early . t ”
A man in Boston sav6tl of
gloves from his house, and though he
offered sfiOO to draymen to move thorn,
he could get nothing done, and in a little
while he h.vl to flee from the flames.
Several firms had just stored away their
summer and fall goods aud filled houses
with winter stocks —all now gouo.
The Presidential Election. The
World's tables sum up as follows:
States. Majorities. Elect’! Votes.
Grant So 681,620 292
Greeley 7 35,000 74
2d 586,620 218
Gov. John C. Brown, of Tenuessee, has
officially signified his intention to attend
the meeting of Governors called by Gov
ernor Smith in the interest of the Great
Western Canal.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Spencer S. Downey, engineer on the
Central Railroad, has been indicted for
manslaughter in having caused the fatal
accident or collision at Pittsford a short
time ago.
A white man stabbed a negro in Arneri
cus Saturday. 'The negro was endeavor
ing to chair him.
Henry Johnson, colored, sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years, aseaped
from the Americus jaiL The jailor told
him to throw out some dirty water. He
did so, and threw himself over the fence
and escaped.
Ilamp Harvey and T. R. Persons killed
thirty-two squirrels, in three hours, in
Talbot county. This makes ninety-seven
that have been killed within the last ten
days in one tract of land of twenty-five or
thirty acres.
Mrs. Churehil Patrick, of Stewart coun
ty, had a leg broken between the knee
and ankle by being thrown from a buggy.
IV. S. Brown has been arrested in
Griffin on the charge of killing John 11.
Grant. Brown bitterly denies the act.
A negro boy, on Tuesday, in Griffin,
stumped his toe and fell. He complained
ot stomach ache. He died Friday morn
ing.
Griffin negroes piloted a boozy coun
tryman out of SIOO Avhilo showing him
the way to his wagon.
A gentleman of Macon telegraphed to
Charleston to ascertain “what effect will
the Boston fire have on the price of cot
ton ?”•
The reply was—“the advance of inter
est to eight centß in England is more
than the Boston fire.”
The house and furniture of Mr. John
Beard, near Conyers, were burned last
Thursday. A Mr. Veal’s house in the
same neighborhood was also burned the
same day.
The Conyers Examiner prints this :
Mr. Dimtuock who resides a short dis
tance from Conyers, has succeeded, for
the past seven years, in preventing rust, in
wheat. He sows his wheat in tho usual
way, and adds (broadcast) 100 pounds of
salt per acre, which is plowed in with the
wheat. The experiment, he says, (and
his neighbors corroborate his testimony,)
has proven an entire success for seven
years. It is worth a trial.
Conductor Marible had his leg broken
on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Monday.
It is reported in Macon that Mr. Dan
G. Hughes, a very prominent citizen of
Twiggs county, has been arrested for
violation of the Enforcement Act.
Judge Cole, Mayor Huff, Judge C. T.
Ward, the Ordinary, Hon. Washington
Poe, C. A. Nuttiug and J. C. Swayze have
been subpomaedto appear before the Fe
deral Grand Jury, in Savannah, on tho 14th
inst. In consequence of this summons
Judge Cole has adjourned the Bibb Su
perior Court.
Macon, to thol Ith, had received 27,023
bales of 'cotton and had a Stock of 8,053.
U. S. detectives are playing the same
game in Macon that they tried here in
the Ashburn ease. One (Col. ?) Speed
and Barfield, according to the testimony
of tho negro, had a colored man enticed
to Macon, and by money and threats
tried to induce l.im to go to Savannah and
testify against the SVilkerson county
prisoners. The negro persisted ho knew
nothing, and refused to swear to a lie for
$2 50 per day.
Two neighbors, D. F. Walker and Capt.
A. Tntiiiadge, in Monroe count, on Satur
day hist, quarreled about depredations
committed by Mr. Talmadge’s cows upou
Mr. Walker’s promises. They fought.
Talmadge was badly cut. He was re
ported in a critical condition Monday.
Mr. James MoOommon, who loft For
syth with his family last Thursday night,
was stopped by a telegram from his credi
tors, by the police of Chattanooga, on
Friday, and held to await action from
Georgia.
Mrs. B N. Barrow died at Thomson
Sunday.
A “Blue Stocking” mariu raised an
issue witli conductor Harkie on the Macon
and Atlanta road about fare. Conductor
told her bo was simply obeying orders.
She replied in a sharp, shrill voice, which
was heard by everybody in the car, that
‘this Company shall never have another
cent of my money as long as I ’live.” The
Captain politely inquired how she could
prevent it, as she was often compelled to
ride over the road, when she replied—-“I
will pay my money to yon, or your sort,
and I know the company won’t get acent
of it.” The passengers laughed and the
conductor examined his funds.
West Point has received to date 6,287
bales cotton.
There are nearly 4,000 voters in Atlanta,
1,831 of whom are negroes. The Atlanta
Recorder had 2,067 cases before him for
the year ending Tuesday.
Messrs. Chits. G. Wallace and Geo. G.
Hull, appraisers of the State ltoad, have
selected as Umpire, James AV. Robertson,
Chief Engineer of the Georgia Western
Railroad, and Mr. Knight as Clerk.
Mr. E. R. Sasseeu, the oldest hotel
keeper in Atlanta, has vacated the Sas
seeu House and taken the American Ho
tel.
Freeman’s official majority over Col.
Glenn is 279. Entire vote in Congressional
District, 19,436.
The large building used for the exhibi
tion of machinery on the Atlanta Pair
Grounds, together with one hundred yards
of the adjoining fence, was nearly or quite
burned up Tuesday night. The building
was unoccupied except having a stationary
engine, a cotton gin, and a few other ag
ricultural implements. The entire build
ing aud contents were totally destroyed.
Thought to be incendiary.
The Herald has also interviewed the
Atlanta jail, the prisoners in which com
plain mightily.
The gin house of Col. Hawkins F. Price,
containing all of his wheat, cotton, oats
and farming implements, to the amount
of ten thousand dollars value, were
burned last week. A negro has been ar
rested aud charged with the act.
A number of retail grocery merchants
in Atlanta have been indicted by the Grand
Jury for selling illuminating oil under one
hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit. The
penalty is a fine of not loss than one hun
dred, nor more than five hundred dol
lars.
Airs. Irving, daughter of Dr. King, of
Itome, died in Kentucky.
Capt. Griffith, of Rome, has purchased
Iliratn Phillips' plantation, near Cedar
Town, for S- ; 20,0C0.
There are live large stores being eroded
at this time in Bninbridge.
Considerable money changed hands in
Ilainbridge over the result of the election
between Wright and Whitely.
We learn that Professor 0. W. Lane, of
Milledgeville, has been called to take
charge of the Presbyterian Church in
Athens.
There have been sfevoral Presidential
candidates worse defeated in the number
of Electoral votes than Mr. Greeley. In
1832 Henry Clay only had 49 votes. In
1840 Martin Van Buren, running for re
election as President, had but GO votes.
Iu 1852 General Winfield Scott had 42
votes. In 1864 General McClellan had
but 21. and iu 1868 Horatio Sevmonr had
80. Mr. Greeley’s vote will probably be
in the neighborhood of 74.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1872.
| The Horse Epidemic —Mode of Treatment.
The Savannah News says :
“The disease now prevailing is attract
ing much anxious attention and is the
i topic of every tongue. The disease origi
! nated in Toronto, and spread throughout
most of the towns and cities in Canada
| an d thence to the United States. As all
that pertains to this subject now is read
with interest, we give the opinion of Mr.
| McEachran," a veterinary surgeon of Mon
\ treal. who troated 3,(XX) cases durmg three
j weeks.
“His views of the disease are that it de
pends on fungi or pores in the air, whieh,
i being inhaled, affect the mucus membrane
lining the nostrils, tranches* bronch a:
tubes and air cells, producing congestion,
with thickening and increased secretion.
“The debility, which is an early and
predominant symptom, he attributes to
the condition of the membrane lining the
bronchial tubes and air cells, preventing
the oxygenation of the blood, the impure
blood poisoning the system.
“ The treatment which he lias found so
successful in his practice is thorough
cleanliness, proper ventilation, and the use
of carbolic acid as a disinfectant. Feed
them on linseed tea, oatmeal gruel, car
rots, apples, boiled oats; in fact, anything
they may fancy, except dry oats. The
hay should be dampened and well shaken.
If they continue to feed, he recommends
them to be exercised in clothing, slowly,
but on no condition to be trotted, at least
till after all febrile symptoms have left
them.
“He says in most cases it presented a
peculiar intermittent character, the animal
being subject to chills, shivering fits, with
blowing. In these cases he recommends
them to be warmly clothed, legs rubbed
and bandaged, and give two ounces of
liquor ammonia acetate, with half an
ounce of spirits of nitrous ether, every
two hours till perspiration sets in or the
fits passes off; the throat and sides to be
well rubbed with ammonia liniment. Cold
water to be givon frequently, not allowing
the animal to drink what* he will, but
merely a mouthful or two at a time.
“As soon as they are strong enough,
give them exercise in Ihe open air, if the
weather is favorable, during the heat of
the day.
“ He does not consider it a fatal disease;
in fact, if the horses are kept from work
and properly treated, there need not be
auy deaths, unless it be among very old
and broken down horses.
“We also give the following recipe
which we find in the Turf, Field and Farm,
furnished by a correspondent iu Buffalo,
which has been tried with success and pro
nounced a quick and speedy mode of treat
ing the epidemic:
“1. Feed warm bran mashes twice a day
and take the liquor of boiled flax seed to
mix Avith the mash.
“2. Two ounces of spirits of nitre,
mixed with luke-warm water, one applica
tion daily.
“3. A little pure Avhisky daily to stimu
late, say half a pint.
“4. Liniment for external application
on throat—one-third hartshorn, one pin!
sweet ou.
“5. Sponge the nostrils with a solution |
of salt and hot vinegar; also, wash the |
month with a solution of the same. Blanket i
thoroughly and a little exercise daily. Wet j
the hay with vinegar.”
In adddition to remedies already pub
lished by us, Ave give to-day two recipes
which have been used with great success
in New York, and which are recommended
by most reliable authority:
It. Lotion for Horses.
4 oz. spirits of hartshorn,-
2. oz. tincture of arnica.
11 pints oil of hemlock.
I j pints alcohol.
Bath neck and under jaws.
Also, ten (10) drops of aconite on
tongue three times a day.
The other is the course pursued in some
of the stables containing valuable trotting
stock.
Bandage the limbs and soak bandages
with spirits. Rub tho throat with tur
pentine. Mix a small portion of ipecac
and tartar euietio with molasses ; put a
few drops on the tongue every half hour.
CRUMBS OF~COMFORT.
There has been no time, until now,
within the last twelve years, when the
Tribune was not supposed to keep, for
the benefit of the idle and incapable, a
sort of Federal employment agency, es
tablishod to get places under government
for those who were indisposed to work
for their living. Any man who had ever
voted the Republican ticket believed that
it was the duty and the privilege of the
editor of this paper to get him a place in
the Custom-house. Every red-nosed poli
tician who had cheated at the caucus and
fought at the polls looked to the editor of
tho Tribune to secure his appointment as
ganger, or as army chaplain, or as minis
ter to France. Every campaign orator
came to us after the battle was over for a
recommendation as Secretary of the Treas
ury or the loan of a half dollar. If one
of our party had au interest pending at
Washington, the editor of the Tribune
was telegraphed in frantic haste to come
to tire capitol, save this bill, crush that
one, promote one project or stop auother.
He was to be Everybody’s Friend, with
nothing to do but to take care of other
folks’ business, sign papers, write letters,
and ask favors for them, and to get no
thanks for it either. Four-fifths of these
people wore sent away without what they
wanted, only to become straightway abu
sive enemies; —it was the worry of life to
try to gratify one demand in a dozen for
the other fifth.
The man with two wooden legs congrat- j
ulated himself that he could never be
troubled with cold feet. It is a source of
profound satisfaction to us that office- '
seekers will keep aloof from a defeated
candidate who lias not influence enough at
Washington or at Albany to get a sweeper
appointed under the Sergeant-at-Arms, or
a deputy-sub-assistant temporary clerk
into the paste-pot section of the loldiug
room. At last we shall be let alone to
mind our own affairs and manage our own
newspaper, without being called aside
every hour to help lazy people whom we
don’t know and to spend our strength in
efforts that only benefit people who don’t
deserve assistance. At last we shall keep
our office clear of blatherskites and politi
cal beggars, and go about our daily work
with the satisfaction of knowing that not
the most credulous of plaee-huuters will
suspect, us of having any credit with the
appointing powers. That is one of the
results of Tuesday’s election for which we
own ourselves profoundly grateful.— A'.
Y. Tribune , 7th,
Newspaper Enterprise. —The Savan
nah Advertiser had issued an extra Sun
day at 2 p. m. giving full telegrams to
that hour of the lire in Boston. This pa
per is second to none in the South in
point of enterprise and ability. Os the
fire, Col. A. R. Lamar, the editor, has
this to say, which, coming from snch a
earnest champion of the South, will have
influence:
It is impossible to estimate the magni
tude of the distress that will follow this
terrible visitation. The loss to the finan
cial and mercantile interests of the com
mercial metropolis of New England must
react with disastrous effect upon the mon
etary affairs of the whole country. In
this hour of woe to a stricken people a
sincere sympathy should take the place of
the passions engendered by the contest.
Savannah has reason to remember the
people of Boston with gratitude, for they
were among the first to send words of
cheer and substantial charity to the wo
men and children of Savannah when the
fortunes of war had left them penniless
and on the verge of starvation. Now is
the time to repay a debt of gratitude
which has been at interest for years, and
we leave to our people the grateful duty
of sending speedy aid to the suffering
people of Boston.
Incendiary Fires in Sourn Carolina.—
The Charleston News, of Sunday, says:
‘Tn addition to the four incendiary fires
iu this State, which have been reported
during the past four days, and which have
involved the destruction of three gin
honsc-s, a large quantity of tobacco and
one kitchen, State papers received yes
terday come to hand tilled with accounts
of other acts of incendiarism resulting in
the destruction of one kitchen, one mill,
five gin-houses, and not less than seventy
, bales of cotton.
TELEORAPH IC.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 11.—The general bounda
. ries of the conflagration extends the whole
length and both sides of Summer street,
across Federal and nearly down to Drake's
wharf, and thence on nearly in a direct
■ line to Fort Hill along Hamilton and Bat
tery March to Killy, as far as Liudcll and
\ Contral streets, and from Milk to Summer
on Washington street. Within these
boundaries, an area of about seventy
acres, every building is consumed.
Later—At 2 o’clock this morning a gas
explosion started a fire which crossed
Washington street towards the Temple
Place. Block comer Washington and
Summer burned. At (! a. in. the fire is
under control, being kept in the block be
tween Summer and Noon streets. A fire
man has jnst fallen from the top of a
building on Summer street. Gas was only
shut from a portion of the city. Perfect
order was maintained in the streets.
There were three explosions of gas at
half past three o’clock.
People are begging to be relieved from
the terrible excitement of the uncertainty
regarding the spreading of the fire.
Later. —The new fire lias been subdu
ed. Jordan & Marsh’s store saved ; Camp
& Lowe’s store burned.
Boston, Nov. 11. —The Pension Agen
cy, with safes and personal property,
burned; papers saved. The Purchasing,
Navy and Paymasters Quarters burned;
papers saved.
Mails are received and forwarded as
usual.
The military guards for the burnt dis
tricts have been reinforced by a battalion
of cavalry.
Three of the seven banks burned, failed
to sottle at the clearing house, namely :
Shawmut, Fireman and North America.
Three hundred families are homeless.
Local Insurance Companies will be able
to pay about fifty per cent, on risks, but
capitalists are coming forward liberally.
All may be able to continue business.
Average loss about half a million. Two
reaching nine hundred thousand.
Savings Banks all secure.
The Evening Transcript appeared to
day ; printed at the Globe office.
9:30 p. m.—Business bouses and fire
men’s houses burned, also sixty dwelling
and lodging houses. The fire is now con
fined to tho ruins. No apprehensions.
Large number of engines on watch.
Saturday Evening Gazette burned.
Park house damaged slightly.
Boston, Nov. 12—3 a. m. —The streets
are now perfectly quiet. Two hundred
and fifty mounted soldiers now patrol the
streets, and no one is allowed to pass the
lines. One man, while attempting to
open a store on Winter street, after being
repeatedly requested to stop, was shot.
Immense pile of coal at Russia wharf.
About five hundred tons are still on fire.
The city authorities have granted to the
dry goods merchants the privilege of us
ing tho common as a repository for such
of their property as -is saved, and to erect
shanties and other structures for tempo
rary use. Three men were discovered in
an attempt to break into a room in tho
Parker House, but made their escape. It
is rumored that a drunken wretch late in
the evening attempted to set fire to the
gas house near Charleston bridge. He
was seized by au infuriated crowd and
unceremoniously hung up to a lamp post.
Three men were Imrieil under fall
ing walls on Washington .street, leaving
their heads only visible. Efforts were
made to rescue them from their horrible
position, but unavailing, and in a few
minutes the remainder of the walls fell
in, burying them from sight.
It is estimated that 10,000 girls are
thrown but of employment by the fire.
It is known I hat three persons have been
lost.
A detachment of the first and Second
Regiments are quartered in the Old South
Church. This building lias not been thus
used since British officers were quartered
there during the Revolution, 150 years
ago.
Six men were arrested this morning iu
the Northern part of the city. They were
caught iu the act of firing buildings by
kindling bonfires in the rear part.
The streets are patrolled by the mili
tary. •
Worchester and Peoples’ Insurance
Company lose half a million. Policies
come here for collection.
Bay State Insurance Company, losing
a quarter million, has suspended. Oilier
Companies in the city continue.
Midnight—Steam engines are busy to
night playing on the debris. All streets
leading thereto are strictly guarded.
Although the city is dark and gloomy
there being no gas lights, crowds hover in
the vicinity of the ruins.
Boston, Nov. 13.—A preliminary meet
ing of insurance adjusters of leading
American and English companies was
held at the Revere House; Egborset, of
iEtna, Chairman; 11. Bowers, of North
Britain, Secretary. Thirty-six companies
represented. No definite action taken.
Adjourned subject to call of Chairman.
At a meeting of the Governor and Ex
ecutive Counsel this afternoon the Legis
lature was ordered to moet next Tuesday.
The following was issued this morning
from the Relief Committee rooms: It
having been suggested that the Secretary |
of the Treasury might issue au additional
amount of currency, in view of our ca- i
lamity,
Resolved, That this company reinon- i
stride against any such issue as unwise J
and unnecessary and prejudicial to the !
who.le country.
Boston, Nov. 13.—Twenty-one thou
sand dollars worth of property recovered
from thieves.
Gas turned on to-day, after two nights of
darkness.
F. A. Hawley, banker and broker, sus
pended.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 11. —Stocks panicky,
in consequence of Boston fire. Prices de- !
■ dined 5@ 10 per cent.
Suspensions reported: S. V. White,
Peliot, Perry &, Cos., H. A. Wilcox, and
R. J. Kimball & Cos.; all on the long side
of the market, and for whose account
stocks were sold out under the rule.
Stocks are now steadier, and it would ap
pear the worst is over. Gold opened at
11 4(® 1 li;j. No information regarding the
action of the Treasury Department.
Nearly all the insurance companies have
their windows placarded with a statement
of their condition. The heaviest losers
are the large companies who are best aide
to stand it.
There is no truth iu the sensational dis
patches that the Sre in Boston has gone
beyond the limits reported iu the 6 o’cl’k
dispatch this morning. The burnt dis
trict is watched and the fire well under
control.
Great depression in stocks. Cotton,
groceries and breadstuff's are without
marked change, but wool, leather, boots
and shoes are held for material advance.
The Board of Underwriters held a meet
ing this morning, and in order to prevent
policy holders from transfering policies
to other companies, advanced the rates on
merchandise 50 per cent, and on spe
j cial risks 25 per cent., to take effect im
mediately.
| The -Etna Insurance Company of Hart
j ford has a bulletin at its office that its los-
ses by the Boston fire will not exceed one
million, and that its financial status will
not be affected thereby, its capital being
five millions.
The Secretary of Treasury this morning
received a telegram from the President
j of the Merchant’s Bank, Boston, saying:
‘‘There is no reason for a panic of the
banks. Stand firm. The loss is large,
but it falls upon persons who are able to
sustain it.”
Another telegram to the Secretary, dated
New York this morning, says :
“The disposition to create a panic is
abated, and the writer gratuitously sug
gest that there is no need for the Secretary
to do anything financially.”
Information has been received that so
far as the Treasury is concerned, no losses
have been sustained by the fire. The
funds and books being uninjured.
New York, Nov. 11—The panicky feel
ing is dying out, though little business
transacted • to-day in wool, hardware,
leather or dry goods.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer Rich
ardson, in consulting with capitalists,
stated Secretary Boutwell has stopped
the withdrawal from banks of greenbacks
deposited some time since to relieve the
market. Gold more quiet at 113f.
The suspension of Bowles Bros., of
London, has no effect on this market.
Sei’oral failures are rumored, but not be
ing definitely known; probably only a
rumor.
It is rumored three insurance companies
have suspended, viz: International, The
Corn Exchange, Humbolt.
President Oakly of the Board of Under- !
writers estimates the insurance loss at j
Boston not over a hundred millions.
The Avife of Admiral Boggs is dead. j
Shipment of gold to Europe Wednesday,
will amount to $7,000,000.
The Board of Aldermen, at a meeting
to-day, forbade mansard roofs, unless
fire proof.
New York, Nov. 12. —Detectives have
gone to Boston to aid the authorities there
in arresting Now York thieves.
The Bulletin says of the wool market:
that dealers here recently sold heavily to
Boston merchants, but the wool is still
mostly held here or is in transit, thus es
caping destruction. Only a small amount
of Boston paper, oil account of wool
transactions, is held here, and no fears
are entertained that other than an
extension or time Avill be necessary in
maturing bills. A partial suspension of
the wool trade for a week is expected un
til insurance balances is wken
the market will be more active than be
fore the fire.
In the boot and shoe trade no crisis is
anticipated, the sentiment being that all
Boston dealers are still in good standing,
and only an extension of time will be
necessary.
Boston buyers who appeared here yes
terday were cheerfully given all the credit
they asked for.
New York, Nov. 12.—Smith & Wesson,
pistol agency, was robbed of S3,(MX).
Papers here take a more cheerful view
as to the results financially and otherwise
of the Boston fire.
Iu the shoe and leather trade there is
a prevailing impression that no harm to
the trado can follow, as prices were at a
very low point before Hie fire.
Several Boston men are already here i
who have bought new stock and will re
build immediately in the wool trade. .
It i» stated now New York housefi ar©
disastrously affected. The actual suffer- :
ers will be the public at large, as nil styles !
of woolen goods will be advanced in
price, it is expected, from 30 to 40 par
cent.
Several New York firms are congratula
ting themselves upon, the necessary de
flection of the wool trade from Boston to
New York.
New York, Nov. Vi. —The oil leusion
of R. P. Horreck and A. E. Long vas an
nounced to-day on Wall street.
One of Adams’ Express cars was. urned
at Newark this morning. Contents}-—silks
and furs—wore destroyed.
Wall street is more quiet tp-day, and
marked by an entire absence of excite
ment.
The Supreme Court to-day appointed .1.
Kado as Receiver of the International In
surance Company.
The Cashier of the Gold Exchange Bank
is a defaulter to the amount of $ 15,000.
New York, Nov. 1 r>. —The Government
sues the German Savings Bank for $40,-
for unpaid taxes, and $5,000 penalty for
failure to report.
Receivers have been appointed for the
International Insurance Company.
A correspondent telegraphing from
Hermosa, Cuba, of the 9th inst., says he
has just returned from Camp Cuba, and
that the leader Moron Agriena had been
captured.
Gen. Sholer, of the New York Fire
Department, inspected the burned Boston
district, and states tliat the cause was in
consequence of the delay of the fire
men to reach the scene, and the narrow
ness of the streets which prevented
effective work on account of great heat.
He agrees with the Boston Chief that the
explosion of buildings by gunpowder
tends to spread the conflagration.
He assures the people of this city it
is not likely a similar calamity will befall
them.
At a meeting of underwriters rates of
1870 were adopted, wlueli advance pres
ent rates 105 per cent. The subject of
Mansard roofs was referred to a special
committee.
A spocial from Little Rock claims
Arkansas by 5,000 for Grant, aud twenty
seven Republican majority on joint ballot;
securing a ltebnblican Senator.
The sale of Belmont’s foreign paintings
last evening realized over SBO,OOO.
New York, Nov. 1.1. —Shipments of
specie $900,000.
The suspension of Stanfield, Wentworth
& Cos., dry goods and commission mer
chants of Boston and this city, is an
nounced. It is expected they will resume
soon.
The Sun reports the new District At- j
torney as having decided to fake all the
indictments for murder from the pigeon
holes and try them at once. There are
about one hundred pigeon-holed indict
ments for homicide and various grades of
manslaughter. The bondsmen are main
ly politicians. In addition there are
about twenty persons awaiting trial for
homicide and manslaughter.
Albany, Nov. 13.—Waterford Bank
robbed of $400,000; no trace.
New York, Nov. 13.—1 tis estimated
that a quarter of a million of sides of
leather were burned in Boston. Price ad
vanced. Unfinished leather 10; sole
leather 3®6 per cent.; further advance
anticipated. Sheep skins held higher.
It is estimated three million pounds of
wool burned. Prices here advanced 10
per cent.
The Spectator has the following list of
suspended insurance companies, and the
amount each will probably pay: Bay State.
50 per cent.; Boston, 00; Boyiston, 56;
City, 40; Eiliot, 75; Exchange, 40; Funnel
Hall, 50; Firemans’, 35; Franklin, 25;
Howard, 25; Manufacturers’, 95; Mer
chants’, 75; Mutual Benefit, 35; National,
; 75; North American. 50; Peoples’, 75?
Prescott, 50; Shoe and Leal her, 75; Suf
folk, 50; Tremont, 25; Washington, 95.
New York companies: Hemboldt, 40; In
ternational, 75; Market, 50. Providence
[ companies: Equitable, 00; Merchants 7 , 05.
FOREIGN.
Paris, Nov. 11.—11 a. m. —Liabilities
of Bowles Bros., Bankers iu this city,
who have suspended payment, are $500,-
000. The losses by the suspension of the
firm will fall chiefly upon American tour
ists iu Europe.
London, Nov. 11.—The Mauritius has
been lost in the north channel of Port Pat
rick. Twenty three persons were drowned.
This may be either ti e ship Mauritius
which cleared from Glasgow the latter
part of October, for Deuiamra, or a steam
ship of that name belonging to Dublin,
j Gladstone is sick.
London, Nov. 12.—A1l the papers in
the city deplore the destructive fire in
Boston.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. 10. —No confirmation
es the dispatch to Boutwell alluding to
now post office in Devonshire st.
Washington, Nov. 11.— It is thought
atthe Treasury Department that the fire
will produce no serious effects in finances.
The probabilities are that Boutwell won’t
interfere.
Washington, Nov. 11.—A leading ban
ker telegraphs Boutwell that the loss gen
erally falls upon those able to bear it.
Washington, Nov. 12. —The Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue estimates the
receipts of the Bureau for the present fis
cal year at one hundred and five millions
or thirty millions less than last year, with
a national increase to the amount of 3 per
cent. The results of the first quarter
were larger than those subsequently col
lected, being accumulations on account
of past indebtedness and other causes.
So far as the Bureau is aware both the
tobacco and the spirit interests are satis
fied with the late luw of Congress, and
therefore there is uo reason to believe that
any modification of it will be recommend
ed unless in a manner of administration
and reorganization of the districts in or
der to render the system more compact
and to reduce expenses, nor is.it probable
the tariff act will undergo auy material
changes.
Sheridan is here.
The President has pardoned Appleton
who was taken to Fort Warren in 1801, it
being alleged that as ship agent in New
York, he had aided in Siting out vessels
engaged in the slave trade. From the
Fort he was transferred to Boston jail and
while legal proceedings were pending
eloped and has been a fugitive ever since.
Mail service ordered between Columbus
and Hamilton, Georgia.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, Nov. 11.—Rob’t 11. Co
wan, formerly President of the Wilming
ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad,
and one of tho most prominent citizens,
died at 3 o’clock this morning.
Raleigh, Nov. 12.—The coroner’s jury
rendered a verdict to-day in the case of
Dr. J. Briuton Smith, who was supposed
to have been poisoned by his family on
the Ist of October, that the deceased came
to his death on the morning of the first
day of October, 1872, from the effects of
strychnine.
Raleigh, Nov. 13. —Rumors having ap
peared through the columns of the Nor
folk Journal, Raleigh Sentinel and Wil
mington Journal that Governor Caldwell
would issue a proclamation forbidding the
assemblage of the State Legislature on
Monday next, the. agent of the Associated
Press this morning had an interview wilh
the Governor relative thereto. The Gov
ernor replied in substance that, like many
.other statements by the State press in re
gard to his official career, this was totally
unfounded; that he is now busily prepar
ing Lis annual message for the General
Assembly.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Nov. 13. —A dispatch from
Parsons, Kansas, says the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas Railroad is now completed
to within 11 miles ,of Red River. The
bridge across that air /few is rapidly build
ing. The Texas Centra) Railroad will be
completed to Dawson by liit. first of Jan
uary next. The gap between /.be two
loads is now only 25 miles. Shlpjiyents
of cotton and cattle this season will .reach
1,000 head of cattle and 7,000 bales o,f
cotton.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
New York, Nov. 13. —A second phase 1
of the malady has appeared in the large
stables ; a relapse tending to dropsy, with
several fatal. The disease seems to affect
horses compelled to work. During the
first stages epesootie symptoms of dropsy;
relapse, swelling of legs and belly. The
remedy used is rubbing the parts srijLh ft
liniment composed of camphor and sweet
Oil.
Baltimore, Nov. 13. —Dropsy appear
ed in stables; fatal in many cases.
CUBA.
Havana, Nov. 13.—The impression that
telegrams passing through t his Island to
other places are liable to censorship is not
correct. Only dispatches originating or
delivered in CubtlHire subject to that pro
cess.
Captain General has ordered all parties
accused of incendiary to be tried by a
Court- Martial.
MEXICO.
Matamoras, Nov. 13. —Gen. Ceballog,
military Governor of J inaloa, announces
the pacification of that State without
bloodshed, Gen. Diaz having surren
dered and given parole to present himself
at the city of Mexico. President Leords
congratulates the country on the complete
restoration of peace. Great rejoicing at
the Capital.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 13. —The city au
thorities are considering the propriety of
quarantining horses to prevent epesootie.
K. H. Beuners was arrested to-day by
the Deputy U. S. Marslial aud taken be
fore Commissioner Shannon, upon affida
vit of J. 11. Ingraham, charging him with
conspiracy, deception and fraud, in print
ing counterfeit election tickets in simili
tude to the Republican tickets printed
and voted by the Republicans of this
State. Beuners gave bail for SBJ,OOO.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Nov. 11.—Among the
arrivals to attend the funeral of Mattie,
are Gens. Grant, Porter. Sherman, Sheri
dan, Ingalls, Commodore R. N. Stun bell,
Gilmore, Forrester, aud ex-Gov. Curtin.
Philadelphia, Nov. 11.— I The Insurance
Companies here lose about two millions.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Nov 12.—The Boston fire has
had a marked effect on business. All cot
ton ordeifi were countermanded.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, Nov. 12.-—sloo,ooo. unexpen
ded from the charity of the world, has
been directed to be sent to Boston.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, Nov. 12.—A dispatch from
Fort Gibson says that Lewis Dorwing,
principal chief of the Sioux nation, died
at Talliquah Saturday last.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Nov. 11.—The Fireman’s
Fund Company has SIOO,OOO at risk in
Boston. Will pay promptly.
The Knoxville Press and IleTald says:
| “What will Mr. Greeley do now?” Well,
Mr. Greeley will act wisely, like a Hutch
landlord in Buffalo, who was defea led for
• the office of Canal Coumiissione-r. On
being told of his misfortune he excl Aimed:
“Wot, wot! Veil, I shnst go p ack to
Buffalo and keep the Manshion flouae
i like h—l. — Courier-Journal.'
NO. 41.
SAVINGS BANKS.
We extract the following table about
savings banks and their depositors from
the Banker's Magazine:
Ay. Amount So. of Pop.
Slate. Pepotilors. drpoiits. bks. of state
Massachusetts 601,901 *103,704,000 100 1,457,351
Connecticut... 178,087 62,717,000 73 637,454
Rhode Island. 70,078 86,385,000 34 217,363
Maine 60,411 22,787,000 50 626,916
N. Hampshire. 86,790 24,700,000 54 318,300
Vorinont(lß69) 14,296 2,037,000 10 330,551
New England. 089,460 *312,330,000 381 3.487,924
New York 776,700 267,905,000 147 4,382,750
In the six New England States one in
every 3§ of the inhabitants is a depositor
in the savings banks. If the deposits
were divided equally among the popula
tion each person would receive about SB9
as bis or her share. In New York the
proportion varies slightly. One in every
55 of the inhabitants is a depositor in the
savings banks. The deposits, if divided
equally, would give about $Ol to every
person residing in the State.
The figures above given do not afford a
clue to the business management of these
500 savings institutions. Judging from
their respective totals in New England
and New York we should say that the
banks of tlio latter were more economi
cally managed than those of the former.
New York, with a population of 4,382,759
and 770,700 depositors, has only 147
banks, receiving deposits in the aggregate
of $207,905,000; while Massachusetts,
with only 1,457,351 inhabitants and 501,-
201 depositors, has 100 banks, receiving
deposits amounting in the aggregate to
$103,704,000.
The average prosperity of the laboring
classes of this country is very well shown
in this table. All live, and about one in
four of our people—that is nearly every
head of a family—is able to save some
thing. It would be rather below the av
erage then above it to say that, excluding
the business portion of the community,
if the deposits in the savings banks of the
country were distributed equally every
person’s share would be about SSO. The
average amount credited to each deposi
tor is about S3OO.
The average amount of each depositor
is as follows: Massachusetts, $291 70;
Connecticut, $352 17; Rhode Island,
$455 10; Maine, $328 30; New Hamp
shire, $284 59; Vermont (1809), $142 60.
Average for New England, $315 00; for
New York, $344 93.
London Press on the Boston Fire.
London, Nov. 12. All the London
morning papers express the deepest sym
pathy for the sufferers by the conflagra
tion in Boston. They attribute the great
disaster to the management of the fire de
partment, the police and the municipal
authorities of that city.
The Standard says: The Boston fire is
a scandalous outrage on civilization and
evidence of the most ineffectual city gov
ernment. By way of showing superiority
in a case like that of the Boston fire, of
a small, well organized fire department,
over a large, but badly managed one, it
oompares the small London fire brigade
and narrow crooked streets and alloys of
this eity, where tires seldom get beyond
the buildings wherein they oceur, to the
thousands of undisciplined firemen, huge
granite structures and open places in Bos
ton. There, it says, the best portion of the
city was destroyed for want of good man
agement, to prevent the progress of the
flames, which were finally stopped by gun
powder, and this wretched business was
entrusted to volunteer citizens, instead of
skilled operators.
It is believed here that the amount of
insurance in London companies upon
property in the burnt district of Boston,
is two million five hundred thousand dol
lfxrn. A cotnminHion it* to V»o aont to Boa
ton by London companies, to make inves
tigation of the facts in relation to the ori
gin and progress of the conflagration, as
matter of general importance to insurance
interests.
A Chop of 3,010,000 Bales. —The
New York FinancialandMercantile Chron
icle of the 9th comes out with specific fig
ures for the incoming cotton crop, and
estimates it at 3.01 ■ ,coo bales. We have
no doubt says the Macon Telegraph,
about the general candor and intelligence
of the Chronicle and its correspondents—
no doubt that they are, even in this esti
mate, as they claim to be, considerable
below the surrounding circle of brains ;
but they are deluded with the crop of
They have made that their stand
ard of a normal crop, when in fact the
crop was literally phenomenal— the re
sult of a combination of fortunate
contingencies., they nor we are
likely to see again. In our opinion the
Chronicle’s estimate four to five hun
dred thousand bales too high—but we
shall see what we shall behold.
The German Holders op Georgia
Bosps.—The American News of Frank
fort #ays, under date of October 18th:
At jtha last meeting of the Georgia
Cowmßlee the resolution was adopted to
send Mr. W. W. Murphy to Georgia for
the purpose iof securing the rights of the
German bondholders and to make them
parties to the syjf which is now pending
in court there. Committee is in cor
respondence with kWh* o the leading
bankers in New York, and they all advise
the German bondholders to be represent
ed at the next term ut the CoYl’t in Atlan
ta, which will be held about the middle of
November next. Distinguished .counsel
have been retained, and we earnestly hope
that, even if the State of Georgia should
insist on the repudiation, yet the road
itself will feteh enough to pay the bond
holders.
Tne small pox lately took off a very old
and ecoentric man of St. Louis, known as
Dr. Hotchkiss. He claimed to be 140,
having been a Mason over 100 years, and
expressed a determination to live until
the second coming of Christ. It is said
that for twenty years he had not washed
himself nor permitted a broom on the
place. He claimed also a supernatural
agency in healing the sick.
A Case Affecting Congressional Lob
byists.—The ease of Oelrich and others
against Hill and others, now before the
United States Supreme Court on appeal
from the courts of the District of Colum
bia, presents among other less important
points, the question whether there can be
any legal claim for services under an
agreement to use personal influences in
procuring the enactment of laws for a
consideration.
The Cincinnati Enquirer calls attention
to the fact that at the late election New
.Orleans polled 3,IKK) more votes than Cin
ehacati, although by the lata census it had
thiHy or forty thousand less people. The
Enquirer forgets that brother-in-law
Casey, of Gatlin gun notoriety, was at
New Orleans to manipulate the vote there.
Gen. McClellan is Engineer-in-Chief
of the Department of Docks in Now York
city, and at his oyni request his salary has
been reduced from .$20,000 to SIO,OOO a
year. How many ny? l * a*' B there in the
United States who would do such an act
as that ?
It is said that the peeau is wearing
away the eastern shore of Cumberland
Island, and in a few years the grave of
Light Horse Harry Lee and the old Dun
geness mansion will disappear.
Memphis, since Sept. Ist to Nov. 9th,
had received, this year, 85,821 bales of
cotton, against 90,458 in 1871, aud ;3,i>00
in 1870. Stock 28,543, against 20,537 in
1871 and 16,388 in 1370.
Governor Reed has issued a proclama
tion designating the 28lh instant the day
fixed by the President, as a day of .thanks
giving, and ealling npon the people of the
State for its observance in an appropriate
manner. If Bloxham is elected the peo
ple will give thanks.
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THBBSBAIf WOBMNC, NOV. 14.
State College of Agriculture and
the Mechanic Arts.—We have received
a circular from this institution, which has
been established at Athens in connection
with the State University. The college
has a faculty of ten professors and one
hundred and twenty-six students. Six
oourses of study are offered —in agricul
ture, in civil engineering, in mechanical
engineering, mining engineering, build
ing and architecture, and applied chem
istry. There are educational oourses,
practical in their character, and different
from any prior to this offered at any insti
tution in our State. A working chemical
laboratory under Prof. White, has been
established, where the students engage in
practical laboratory works two hours each
day.
Dr. Pendleton, well known to the people
of Georgia and the South, is the Profes
sor of Agriculture and Horticulture.
Scholarships giving free tuition are
granted for each member of the House of
Representatives.
It is designed, the circular states, when
the resources will permit, to provide com
modious laboratories and thoroughly equip
them with modern apparatus; to provide
an experimental farm and furnish it with
improved agricultural implements; to es
tablish a plant-house for illustrations in
botany; to place in the industrial museum
models of implements and machines, pro
ducts of agriculture, of manufacture and
the mechauio arts generally; and to pro
vide for the students a reading-room with
reviews, magazines and the prominent
agricultural journals.
The North and South Road. —Trains
are now running eighteen and a half
miles. By the 20th, twenty miles ought
to be finished. The bridge over the Mul
berry will be shortly completed. Before
the next month it is expected the first
twenty milas will be inspected by tbe
State authorities and endorsement given.
Messrs. 11. S. Estes and W. S. Needham,
of the Board of City Trustees, took a trip
over the line Tuesday. We presume the
Board has from their report ordered the
issue of the remaining city bonds. The
track is kept in admirable order.
The road is already doing a very fair
business. The daily train arrives and de
parts with a goodly number of passengers.
Since Sept. Ist 274 bales of cotton have
been received at Columbus by this route.
It has already brought cotton from the
upper counties which would but for the
road have gone to other points. This at
traction will prove greater as the cars ad
vance. There remains only a few miles
to grade between this point and La-
Grange.
A Corporation Wins. —It is not often
that a corporation wins a case against an
individual before a jury; yet a heat was
won yesterday. Last year, we believe,
three mules belonging to Mr. Wm. Webb
were killed by the Mobile and Girard
train, some fifteen miles from Columbus,
and a fourth one was injured. He brought
suit against the company in this city, as
headquarters are located here. The road
proved that their employees did their
best to avoid the collision, that the ani
mals were around a curve,and that as soon
as seen whistles were blown, tbe engine
reversed, Ac. In Alabama tbe law is well
defined on this subject, and where due
caution is observed railroad companies
are not compolled to pay for stock killed
on the line. Notwithstanding the appoalH
of eloquent counsel the jury decided in
favor of -tlie road. It is probable tbe
case will be appealed this morning, and
then wo may give the charge to the jury
and the points which may arise. The loss
of four mules in one morning is not
very pleasant to a farmer or any one else.
The next heats and the race are yet to be
won.
1 >kath of a Great Sufferer. Mr.
Wm. Abney died Tuesday night in this
city, where be has resided for a long per
iod, in tlie 40tta year of bis age. For
many years he has been a great sufferer
from disease—chronic rheumatism, we
believe. Some two years since it caused
tbe loss of bis eyes. Tbe pain was most
intense and excruciating, and wasted his
form to a skeleton. Just aftor the war,
Mr. Juo. Harney, and other of his friends,
commenced bolding prayer meetings in
Mr. A.’s room, which resulted in his be
coming a member of St. Luke’s Metho
dist church. He died a consistent happy
Christian. His death was an eternal re
lief from pain. He leaves a wife aud
child and several relatives.
Cotton Picked.—We havo often ex
pressed the opinion that nearly all the
cotton would be picked by the middle of
November. The returns to the New Or
leans Exchange show that 70 per cent, of
the cotton has been picked, showing an
increase of 20 to 30 per cent, greater in
the several States than at this time last
year. In Louisiana, 77 per cent, has been
gathered; in Texas, 82; in Mississippi,
67; Alabama, 76; Georgia, 70; Arkansas,
59; other States in proportion. This
hardly proves the 3,600,000 bales that the
Financial Chronicle estimates will be the
receipts of the season.
Op Some Interest, —Yesterday Allen
Andrews, a respectable old colored man,
sued the Western Railroad of Alabama
for $5,000 damages. In August (we be
lieve), 1870, he was a passenger on the
train, and on getting off at Mott’s, his
place of destination, he fell, injured him
self and broke a leg. He claimed that
this was done by no fault of his, but that
of those having charge of the train. The
Jury gave him a verdict for $591. We
did not hear the evidence or the charge
to the jury.
The <CfsH Case. —A bill was presented
Grand Jury, charging ex-policeman Wm.
Cash with the murder of the negro he shot
and killed not long since. The Grand
Jury, after a careful and searching exam
ination, returned the bill yesterday “ig
nored.” The magistrates’ investigation
had previously resulted in the binding
over of Mr. Cash for trial at this term of
the Court, on the charge of involuntary
manslaughter: The Grand Jury has re
fused to indict for a higher offense, and
so the case stands just as it did after the
preliminary examination.
Harris County Lands. —We are in
formed that lands in Harris county have
considerably advanced in value since the
commencement of the North and South
road. The further the track progresses
the more are the lands enhanced. We
are told of 1,000 acres of land, beyond the
mountain, for which $4,000 were offered
last year. A short time since SII,OOO
was refused for the same tract. The
owner expects to receive $13,000.
Vote ov Russell County.—We have
heard it as follows. We have been unable
to get an official report: Grant 2,531.
Greeley 1,676; Lewis 2,513; Herndon 1,-
717; Pelham 2,888; Handley 1,346; Norris
2,379; Oliver 1,717. Radical Congress
man has a majority of 1,542 votes. It is
said that the canvassers are purging the
boxes of false votes.
Death op Mbs. Winter.—The wife of
John G. Winter, Esq., died in Montgom
ery Tuesday morning. She was well
known in this city, where many of her
husband’s relatives reside.
Cotton Sales. Five hundred and
seventy-eight bales were sold yesterday.
One warehouse alone reports 300 bales
sold. Someone must have turned loose.
Harris County.-—A Convention of the
Democratic party will be held in Hamil
ton on the first Tuesday in December to
nominate county officers.
A train carrying steam fire engines from
Worcester to Boston made the run of
forty-four and a half miles in forty-five
minutes.