Newspaper Page Text
C O L IT MBITS :
FftioAV 'HIB VIMI. Ntn .k
Cheapest Paper in the South !
Weekly Sun $1,50 per annum
LOW CLUB RATES.
Twenty Copies one year at
ONE DOLLAR EACH!
Head our rates below. We doubt if a
cheaper paper has ever been offered to the
public. A desire to put the Sun in the
hands of every family in this section of the ,
country, prompts as to offer the following ;
low rates. Make up clubs, and remit at
once:
One copy, one year $ 1.50
Three copies, one year, to same post
office atsl.4o each 4.20 j
Five copies, one year, same post
office at $1.85 each 0.75
Ten copies, one year, to same post
office at $1.25 each 12.50
Fifteen copies, one year, to same
post-office at $1.15 each 17.25
Twenty copies, one year, to same
post-office at SI.OO each 20.00 j
All remittances must be by registered i
letter or post-office money order, other
wise at the risk of the sender.
Address, Thob. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
Money Hard to Get— Why Is It.—
Why it is so cannot be explained, unless
the cause be found in the fact that all of
it has gone to pay for Western meat and
corn used in making the cotton.
In round numbers about 19,000 bales
of cotton have been sold at Columbus.
The average price has been about 17c.,
and the weights 450 pounds per bale. At
these figures, a bale would bring S7O.
Hence, the 19,000 bales have realized
about $1,444,000 —and thftin two months
and a half. The great bulk—considerably
over half —has been paid to those living
within a radius of fifteen miles from Co
lumbus, as up to last night nearly 13,000
bales bad been received by wagons. This
looks bad. A country complaining of
hard times, when its main product gives
nearly $1,500,000 in ton weeks. Has
it all gone West and North? Angbtthere
not to be an abundance in the country ?
Will planters never become farmers?
Fortunately, this 3-ear we had a good
corn crop, which will prevent the buying
of bread this winter and spring; but the
result has been due more to good seasons
than breadth of land cultivated in grain.
What policy will planters pursue the
coming season ? Is it to be the ruinous
all cotton and little corn principle w hich
lias almost buried the Southern agricul
tural department in debt. Planters buy
worthless hay from the North when they
are working three hundred and thirteen
days out of the whole year to keep grass
out of the fields; and fodder is much
superior. They can raise oats, wheat
and other small grain if they would.
Then they could keep their cotton money
and avoid ruinous interest, circulate their
money and make every industry flourish.
We would not then always be greeted iu
the summer and fall with hard times and
grumbling about low priced cotton. We
know one planter in this section who
gathered 50,000 pounds of Confederate
clover from his fields. He sells hay in
stead of transporting it from the West.
Why cannot others do likewise.
We hope our planters will pursue the
true farming principle which experience
lius dearly taught—make plantations self
sustaining. A large and successful plan
ter says no man puts more than four
days to the acre in a 3-ear on his corn
crop, but he is engaged three hundred
days on cotton. With the small amount
of work required to make corn at home,
can any man, in liis senses, believe that
it is cheaper for him to pay the high
rates of interest, commissions and freight
that he is compelled to pay for "Western
grain ?
I!ii3'ing corn with the proceeds of cot
ton will send all to the poor house even
tually. It is time to think about such
things.
More About Manufactories.—We be
lieve that nothing can so advance Colum
bus as attention to this important indus
try. Wa have immense advantages, and |
can show more astonishing progress than
any other Southern city. We hope capi
talists will continue to invest in them, and
the city will offer every reasonable induce
ment to draw other mills here.
Os the 956 cotton manufactories in the
United States 191 are in Massachusetts,
13!) in Rhode Island, 138 iu Pennsylvania,
ill in Connecticut, and 81 in New York;
aggregating 667, or more than two-thirds
of the whole. New Jersey has 27, New
Hampshire 36, Maine 23, Maryland 22.
North Carolina 33, Georgia 84, and Ten
nessee 28. There were none in the Ter
ritories, except Utah, and the following
States: California, Oregon, Nevada, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan,
Wisconsin and West Virginia.
It will ho seen that Georgia has more
cottou factories than am- other Southern
State. Of-the thirty-four Georgia mills
five Rre at Columbus.
Candidates for Mayor and Aldermen.
-By reference to advertisements it will
bo soon a number of tickets are in the
field. One is headed by our present
M .yor. He has held the position for two
terms, and been alderman a number < f
times. lie is identified with nil bur indus
tries and public institutions.
Another is headed by Col. F. G. Wil
kins, for Mayor. Prior to military rule
ho held the office for a number of terms.
Dr. John L. Cheney is announced as a
candidate for the Mayoralty. Tie is one
of our prominent citizens.
In addition, a number of gentlemen arc
proposed for aldermen of respective
wards.
Death of a Pno.ui.scvr Minister.—A <
telegram received by Mr. J. J, Toon, of
Atlanta, announces the death, ou Tues
day, in Jefferson, Texas, of Rev. S. R.
Freeman, 1). D., late of Marion, Ala. lie
was a Baptist minister of marked ability
and of great pulpit power, and was held
in high esteem by the Baptists of the
South, especially by those who knew him
intimately iu the States of Alabama, Geor
gia and Tennessee, lie was once the
President of Upward College, located at
Marion, Ala.
Mcsoooee Superior Court—Judge Jas.
Johnson Presiding Sixteenth Day,
Thursday.—Court met at 9 o’eldcki
James M. Leonard vs. J. A. Frazer, pe
tition for quo warranto—to enquire ly
what authority the said Frazer holds the
office of Tax Collector of Muscogee comi
ty. Hearing fixed for Wednesday next.
Fifteen cases were continued, four dis
missed, twelve judgments taken by . de
fault.
HlO i orator.—V.t> wore shown ycslcr-,
day a whopping Irish potatoe of the Early
Rose variety, grown iu Col. Mott's gar
den. It is of the second crop, and was
planted the latter part of July. It is
larger than two large fists doubled.
The Steamer Fablet. —We are authori
tatively informed the Farley has not been
purchased by the Central Railroad, but
has passed under the control of that cor
poration, which now controls all the boats
on the river.
Mr. L. A. Jordan offers for sale, rent or
lease four of the best cotton and grain
plantations in the South. They are loca
ted in Southwestern Georgia, and me
splendidly equipped. This is a rare
chance for farming. See notice.
Ex-Mayor Kalpfleish, of Brooklyn, has
filed his answer to the complaint of Sirs.
Wade, in which she seeks one hundred
thousand dollars damage for a breach of
promise of marriage. The reply attacks
the plaintiff’* character and promises
proofs of the allegations upon trial.
GEORGIA NEWS. -
A Washington telegram to the Savan
nah News says great interest is
ed here to know who will be Senator HiU*s
successor. The general sentiment
j Gen. John B. Gordon. p f
The Savannah Railroad and Loan Asso
ciation sold, Monday night, $5,000 at- 35
1 to 35f.
It is, estimated that two-thirds of the
horses ia B&yaaaak a-e -affected bv “old
epidem. ” No deaths.
It has been arranged ia Savannah, in
view of bo many horses being disabled,
that the Central Railroad construct a
track from its own and the A. A G. R. li.
depots to the warehouses ; that the Cen
tral and Gulf railroads should both collect
five cents per bale on cotton, to be paid to
the Central Railroad Company until they
are reimbursed for their outlay. The
Central Company is to furnish locomo
tives and cars, and the draymen will as
sume charge of them, paying the engine
drivers, firemen and hands; also paying
the City Railroad Company one dollar for
every car load of cottou passing over the
track, handling and delivering the same
and charging the cost to the cotton deal
ers. This will move all cotton that ar
rives. The track has been completed by
this time.
Presbyterian Synod of Georgia.—This
body met in Albany, in annual session, on
the 13th.
Rev. Jas. Stacy, of Newnan, was elect
ed Moderator. Important matters were
under the consideration of the Synod with
reference to education. The reports from
the Oglethorpe University at Atlanta were
very unsatisfactory, and steps were taken
for a suspension of its exercises. An im
portant proposition was introduced by
Itev. C. W. Lane, of Milledgeville, to ap
point a committeo to report at the next
meeting of the S3'nod on the practicabil
ity of establishing an institution of the
! character of the celebrated Rugby School
j in England, under Presbyterian influence,
though after its first appointment by Sy
nod, its control to be free from interfer
ence by any ecclesiastical body. After
considerable discussion the committee
i was appointed. The reports from the
several presbyteries were, on the whole,
satisfaetoi’3% though the resources of the
church are being considerably diminished
by the depressed condition of the coun
try.
The proceedings were marked by great
earnestness and good feeling. Sermons
were preached by Dr. J. R. Wilson, Dr.
Irvine, ltev. J. T. Leftwich, Dr. Wills
and others, and largo congregations were
in attendance.
The hospitality of the good people of
Albany, which is proverbial, was lavished
on their guests, for which, and their uni
form kindness, they will be held in long
remembrance.
Newnan, Ga., was selected as the place
of next meeting.
The Americas Republican has this :
Personal.—Rev. J. H. Nall, formerly
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this
place, hut now stationed in Columbus,
was in our city on Saturday and Sunday,
and preached two most interesting and
effective sermons, in the morning and
evening, to good and attentive audiences.
Tho Atlanta express companies are
looking for oxen to draw wagons. A sow
ing machine wagon already uses an ox.
The free concert saloon in Atlanta has
been squelched b3 r Mayor James. A num
ber of boxes with arms and ammunition
for the State has arrived in Atlanta.
J. A. Wright, formerly of the firm of
Glenn, Carr & Wright, of Atlanta, died in
Little Rock, Arkansas, Monday night.
W. G. Newman, of Atlanta, has contracted
to build the round house and machine
shops of tho Texas Pacific Railroad. Rev.
Dr. H. 11. Tucker has returned from Eu
rope.
The marriage, on the 13th inst., of Miss
Annie E. F. Winter, of Augusta, to Lord
George M. Gordon, of Scotland, is an
nounced in tlio C"l\rouiolo and Sentinel of
Sunday.
Last Thursday night Willie S. Omie, of
Milledgavillo, aikl Miss Susie Heath, of
Warrenton, wore made one.
Ou Monday, while some workmen were
engaged in tearing down the chapel at
Emory College in Oxford, the walls fell
inside, and a youth of 17 years and a ne
gro man were crushed to death.
Rome has shipped over one railroad in
the past winter—cotton 958 bales; flour
177,000 pounds; nails 1,607 kegs; wheat
52,719 pounds; railroad spikes 341 kegs;
wheels and axles 118,750 pounds; stoves
102; bar iron, etc., 89,992; castings 25,891
pounds.
Mrs. Martin, whose husband was killed
by a negro iu Augusta, has lost her mind
and been sent to the asylum. The mur
derer has been sentenced to be hung.
An Augusta commission merchant in
shits upon the planters marking their bale:,
of cotton properly and not with a single
letter, or diamond S. He says hundreds
mark the satrifi way, and it is impossible
to distribute it correctly from the railroad
yard.
When the Augusta canal is finished
there will be 3.900 horses power of water
—Over 30,000,000 cubic feet of water.
The Augusta Factory is only entitled to
one-sixth of the power, and there will be
3,400 horses power of surplus water.
The Mixed Commission for the settle
incut of British and American claims has
made its report. Mr. Thomas McDowell,
of Atlanta, Ga., is awarded $7,412 in gold
for injuries to his dwelling house, fencing,
land, garden, etc., etc., by Sherman’s
army.
The Atlanta Herald denounces as an
infamous lie a telegram sent to the New,
York Times from Atlanta, that Governor
Smith had cause the indictment- of a num
| her of United States Deputy Marshals, in
, that city, iu the Superior Court, for cav
[ vying concealed weapons ou the day of
I the Presidential election.
Rev. Mr. Oliver, of Madison, has a 224
year old Bible.
Mr. W. L. Gilbreath, of Chattooga
county * has raised ninety-eight well ma
tured gouTds on 0110 vine this year.
Rev, C. V*. Lane, of Milledgeville, has
accepted the call of the Presbyterian
Church at Athens.
Tube Wells, Up in Spalding count3 r , is
the last unfortunate who has fed his arm
to a cotton gin.
One kennel of dogs—three brace and
odd, in Spaulding county, captured in one
■ season, thirty-nine red foxe3; in another
■ twenty-six; and in another twenty.
Sunday in Macon the little son of Mr.
1 J. P. Bbissiiigame was kicked, probably
i fatally, on the head by a mule. The Ma
j con people are having charades. The ne
: groe* iu that city, headed by Jeff Long,
endorse Mayor Huff for re-election and
, are ia favor of aldermen who will reduce
I taxes. To Tuesday night Macon had re
! reived 29,697 bales cotton and had a stock
; of 8,697.
1 A uegress named Matt was found in
i Macon ’by trie,police at a late hour Mon
day night, out in tile frost-v air and pro
tected from the bitter cold by a jaunty
bit of neck-ribbon, in which, alone, she
was clad.
j The Democrats iu Macon have made
the following nominations for aldermen:
First Yv ani—Thomas U. Connor. Baron
1 Carter. D. M. Durrett; Second Ward—
John G. Deitz, E. Crockett, Benj. Bur
dick; Third Ward—B. L. Willingham.
: John IV. Burke, E. J. Johnson; Fourth
I Ward—!. J. Cornel!, R. J. Lightloot,
George Burdick.
Mrs. J. Farmer, of Macon, in turning
over iri bed Tuesday uiotniug, fell ont
i and broke her wrist.
Gentleman in Monroe county are pre
paring to organize a hank at Forsyth.
Mr. George Duiisiuore, of Monroe coun
ty, was found dead in his bed last Friday
morning. His health had' been wretched
for several months.
The barking of a dog prevented the
burning of two residences in Forsyth—
awaked initiates.
I_Thfc assets of the Bank of Georgia have .
been distributed among the stockholders,
pM the Receiver, Geo. A. Mercer, dis
charged. I -^9^
The steamer San Jean to arrived atfSa
vanjpan Tuesday. M
The Central Railroad steamer. jsta dm
ployed in hauling cotton from the Savan-
I nah wharf# Tuesday. Preparations are
completed to run locomotives on the street
railroad to transport cotton and mer
-1 ebaadise. .--..m ■—»■■■■■■■ 1
Sergeant Robert ,E. Carr, of the first
regiment-of artillify, who shot a soldier i
last July in Fort Pulaski, was acquitted '
Wednesday in the United States Court.
The Fair of the Agricultural and Me
-1 cb&nical Association of Georgia, which !
! was to have been held in Savannah cm the
| 2d of December, has been postponed to
December 30th, owing to the horse dis
i ease.
Col. Rawls official majority for Con
i grass is 1400.
j Mr. Win. Henry Woods, of tho cotton,
i commission house of Woods <t Cos., in Sa
-1 vannab, was elected Tuesday a Director of
j the Central Railroad Banking Company
in the place of the late Geo. W. Anderson.
It is stated that Rev. Dr. J. E. Evans,
now Methodist pastor in Savannah, will
transfer himself to the North Georgia
Conference.
In Griffin, on Thursday afternoon, Mr.
Henry Manley and Miss Nannie Ballard
were married, and on Thursday night, J.
H. Malier, Esq., and Miss Moilie Manley.
W. S. Brown, in Griffin, charged with
killing Capt. Grant, has waived a pre
liminary examination and given $3,000
bond.
j A mulatto school teacher, residing in
I Griffin, has put forth a pamphlet in which
i he shows that American slavery had amis-
I sion, and that mission has been aecom
-1 plisked.
j One night last week, the barn of Mr
I Fred Gargile, of Butts county, was burned
together with his entire crop of fodder
and corn, and a bale of cotton that was
lying under it. Incendiary. On Friday
night the residence of Mr. Felix Walthal,
near Worthville, in the same county. He
lost all of his furniture, the wearing ap
parel of himself and family, beds and
bed-clothing, and several hundred dollars
in money arising from the sale of the pre
sent year’s crop of cotton.
Ex-Mayor Obear and Mayor Huff are
having a spicy correspondence in the pa
pers about Macon finances. Negro Jeff
Loug has gone to Savannah to testify to
what he knows about the violation of the
Enforcement Act. Gen. John B. Hood is
iu Macon. A Macon sportsman found a
bird in the woods with only one leg.
Hatched so.
A courtesan at one of the popular ranch
es on Fifth street, in Macon, attempted
to suicide Tuesday night by taking mor
phine. Macon to Thursday had received
30,168 bales cotton, and had a stock of
8,927. Middlings 18c.
Dr. Charles H. Bass, second assistant
physician of the State Lunatic Asylum,
died last week.
The Fort Valley Mirror says Mr. Water
man lias sold the Perry Journal to Mr.
Ed. Martin, and will remove to LaGrange,
whore he has bought a half interest in the
Reporter.
The State National Bank of Atlanta,
was to-day authorized by the Comptroller
of Currency to commence business with a
capital of SIOO,OOO.
A convention of Temperance men is
called to meet in Atlanta on the 30tli
inst., for the purpose of organizing anew
Temperance Order for the white people
of Georgia.
In Fulton Superior Court, A. 1). Rock
afellow has been found guilt3' of larceny' j
after trust, and sentenced to the poniteii
tiary for one year.
On last Tuesday evening Mr. T. L.. 1
Dougherty and Miss Eugenia Meador, of j
! Atlanta, were married, and left on the ac- j
j coinmodation train for Stone Mountain to !
j witness the nuptials, at that place, of !
James E. Cloud and Miss Mary E. Veal.
Some man writes to the Atlanta Consti- j
tutiou that he saw in a big hole in Stone ;
Mountain a big Indian fight between races
that lived there 1200 years ago. They ■
were hurling rock boulders about amid ;
flames of fire. Clear case of the Jim !
; Jams.
Wednesday Mr. Thomas J. Roach, a j
i train hand ou the Western and Atlantic !
Railroad, fell from the top of the cars at j
Stegal’s Station aud was killed.
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, political editor
i and proprietor of the Atlanta Sun, reached
Atlanta Wednesday" night, and is stopping
at the Kimball House. He is yet quite
lama. It is tho first time he has loft Lib'-"
eriy Hall in four yeas s.
An Atlanta Good Templar, i’uesd.iv
night, walked from ,Stone ModMuin to
Decatur, ten miles,-in 110 minutes, or :tl
tho rate of a mile > 1 o'-ive:! minutes.
A. man named iTaiiebyk; vyho Billed T":
ley Martin in Decatur county iu MaY,
1866, aud who was sentenced to tho Pen
itentiary in 1869. and afterword . removed
to tire Lunatic Asylum- as" a confirmed
maniac,died in that institution on the 1 Till
ins taut, of dropsy.
Since 1865, reports the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, many planters in Georg :,
have had hid away a large amount of gold
whjch they received in payment for cot
ton, or which they obtained i\>v green
backs at the rate 0f42 to 51 per cent, pre
mium. We have heard the amount es
timated as high as fifteen to twenty mili
um dollars.
Residence of Mr. Wlll. Whittemoro,
near Rome, was burned Monday night-,
with all his furniture and his hat and
watch. Loss $5,000.
The citizens of the Alabama and Geor
i gia Manufacturing Company have pre
j sentecl Dr. James Eeasly, who has moved
to Atlanta, with a gold headed cane.
Six companies of regular artillery Imve
I passed South for garrison duty in South
I Carolina and Georgia. Some of the troops
: now there are to lie transferred elsewhere,
! ou the ground that some of the officers
j have became too-much mixed up in the
I local police complications of the former
| States. These troops were brought at
1 great expense from San Francisco.
: The Macon City Council has instructed
1 the Mayor to request the different rail rptyl
! authorities not to deliver from their ears
' any horses or mules in that city for the
j next thirty days, ou account, of the preva
| lenoe of the horse disease.
A Jones county woman is supporting
her aged parents by daily labor in the
field.
Mr. Tom Coppage’s gin-house, six miles
I from Griffin, was burned last Monday, to
gether with 12,000 pounds seed cotton,
several hundred bushels of cottou seed,
gin, etc.
Mr. Wm. Compton, near Americas, was
i thrown from a mule and had a thigh brq
i ken.
The Waynesboro Expositor says more
i deaths have occurred iii that county with
in the past week than it has ever known
!in the same period. Mr. J. R. Bpyd, an
old resident, was buried last Sunday,—
j Two sons of Mr. Robert Herrington have
; died: and it learns a third is not expected
1 to live. Walter, oldest sou of Dr. R. E. J.
Thompson, was buried at that place on
I Monday last. The Doctor has lost two
j sons (young men) within a month.
Savannah is shipping large quantities
: of white oak staves to France.
John Kelley, just arrived from New
| York, took some whiskey to see the sights
in Savannah. The women took him in,
cleaned his pockets and kicked him out,
when he returned to get satisfaction a bul
ly shot him in the arm. Next morning he
| attempted to drown himself and three
j times was drawn from the river. Police
men took him to the barracks.
Dr. Wills and Paul H. Hayne are en
gaged on the Atlanta Sun. A brace of
literary giants.
The Augusta Chronicle learns that Ro
laud Rhett, Esq., former Confederate
Quartermaster at Columbia, has received j
the appointment of General Agent of the
South Carolina Railroad Company, vice |
John E. Msriey. deceased.
The Atlanta Herald has been increased j
in size and advaneedDit3 subscription, j
The proprietors say they were compelled j
to advance rates and pay the Constitution
SSOO to get press dispatches. One horse
has been killed by ••©ld ,Epidem’' in At
lanta.* Mm.- J. ¥Y Nnttifigr of Atlanta, -is
dead? ■ - *—-*
The North Georgia Conference meets in
Atlanta Dec. 10th, and is to he presided
overby Bishops Marvin, of St. Lonis, and
Pierce, of Georgia. The conference num
bers 582 churches, 419 preachers and 45,-
807 members.
On Thursday afternoon at the Kimball
House, the employees of the Sun office
called upon Mr. Stephens and paid their
respects. This was their first meeting.
When at last the apprentice boy, techni
cally known as the “Devil,” came up, Mr
Stephens took him by the hand, saying
“And last of all came Satan."
An eminent physician of Augusta eon
templates building an asylum for the eare
of inebriates at an early day at some
point on the Georgsa Road.
Captain White, the President, says that
the trains on the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama Railroad will cross the
Chattahoochee river next week.
Judge Littleberry Jackson, of Greene
county, died at his residence on Sunday
last.
A. F. Sturgis, of McDuffie county, from
thirty acres gathered 506 bushels of corn,
and from ten acres eleven bales of cotton
of 500 pounds each.
Troup county Democrats have nomi
nated county officers.
Wm. Shivers, Jr., an old citizen of Mar
con, is dead. A Macon cow was killed by
eating evergreens.
The gin houses of Mr. Gus Moran, in
Munroe county, (loss $7,000); of Thomas
Coppege, of Spaulding; of Judge J. Gra
ham, of Melton county, and Messrs. For
rester and Dunlop, were burned last week.
These make 29 gin houses thus far re
ported burned in Georgia.
About sixty thousand dollars worth of
property will be sold, at auction, in Tal
botton, on the first Tuesday in December,
including the property of Persons’ estate,
and livery stables of the late Col. W. B.
Spain.
An old gentleman called on a merchant
of Hawkinsville on Wednesday, and set
tled a debt of $3 that had been due thirty
years—with interest from date. Is judg
ment day really coming.
Eatonton has shipped, since September
Ist, 2,900 bales of cotton.
The corner stone of the new Masonic
Hall in Savannah is to be laid on the sth
of December.
The U. S. Grand Jury, at Savannah,
being below the minimum number, six
teen, has been discharged and all the Ku-
Klux w itnesses allowed to return home.
No Ku-Klux indictments found. It is
thought another Grand Jury will not be
impanelled before next term.
The bark Samuel Larabee, lost at sea
with all on board, left Savannah last
January for Bremen, with 3,470 bales of
cotton.
There is no delay in the moving of cot
ton and other freight at Savannah. Every
thing will progress with the regularity
and dispatch which characterises our
Savannah.
The British bark Oswingo, to Savannah
from Cardiff, Wales, brought as cargo
4,517 bars railroad iron for tho Central
Road.
Judge Schley has decided the evidence
of criminality produced against William
Anderson, is sufficient in law to sustain
the charges of forgery and the uttering
of forged paper, and would justify' his
apprehension and commitment on said
charges, or either of them, had the crime
or crimes been committed within the
State of Georgia. The case has been
given to the U. 8. authorities. Anderson
has escaped.
The Grand Bay Paper Manufacturing
Company has opened subscription books
in Atlanta. The company proposes to
make paper from palmetto.
The young ladies of the Girls’ High
School in Atlanta, numbering about 150,
called ou Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens on
Friday at the Kimball House. The young
ladies were accompanied by Mr. Mallon,
Superintendent of public schools of At
lanta. One of the pupils, Miss Gartrell,
daughter of Gen. Gartrell, read the fol
lowing address:
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens:
Honored Sir —We, the pupils of the
Girls’ High School of the cits' of- Atlanta,
desire- to pay our respects to you, the.
greatest statesman of our native State.
We admire your splendid talents, and we
love you for having placed before the
world the true history of the great strug
gle through which «ur country has passed.
This noble service which you have done
in the cause of truth and justice, will nev
er be forgotten by a grateful people; and
we believe the time will soon come, when,
passion aud prejudice having passed
away, the civilized world will-understand
and appreciate the motives and objects
of .the Southern people iu the late sad,
m.d to them, disastrous contest, aud will
;uiiy justify them.
We have eoitm to look at you —to hear
words of wisdom from your hpi, and to
.-.s press to you our grateful appreciation
oi me valuable services you have render
ed to our State and country'.
’ We‘trust that a kind Providence may
spare your useful life for many years.
To this beautiful address, Mr. Stephens,
learning on the arm of Col. Mark Johnson,
responded In some remarks of about fif
teen or twenty minutes’ duration. The
whole affair passed off agreeably and
pleasantly, and will no doubt be long re
membered with pleasure in after life, by
his youthful hearers. After his address
Mr. Stephens was seated, and all the
scholars were presented by Professor Mel
lon by classes, and Mr. Stephens took
each by the hand, recognizing in their
names at the time, many of the children,
and soma of the grand-children of his
Warm friends in years gone by. After
receiving the salutations and congratula
tions of several of his old friends and new
acquaintances, he retired from the parlor
as ha had come, leaning on ihe arm of
Col. Johnson.
A number of the most prominent citi
zens of Atlanta solicited Hon. A. H. Ste
phens to deliver a public address. Mr.
8. in acknowledging the invitation, stated
it was impossible io do so Friday night,
as he would leave for his home the next
morning, but would respond to their call
on Wednesday night, 3d December.
Cm Troubles. —Our quiet city was on
yesterday morning, thrown into consider
able commotion by the report that Mr. F.
M. Dunbar, had taken forcible possession
of the guard-house aud Council Chamber,
and was assuming the office of Mayor.
We immediately repaired to the scene of
action, where we found Mr. Dunbar hav
ing anew lock put on the guard-house
door. Everything at this juncture was
quiet, so we returned to our office and
awaited further developments. A little
later, we learn, Mr. M. F. Echols, the
acting Mayor, applied to Col. Vv’eir, who
is in command oi the troop of soldiers at
this point, who turned over his troops to
him. Witk them he repaired to the guard
house, where Mr. Dunbar was found, ar
rested aud put him in the guard-house,
and the soldiers placed in temporary
guard around the place. A little later, a
writ of habeas oar pas was sued out, and
an immediate trial made before His Hon
or Judge Williams, by Mr. Dunbar, which
resulted ia his discharge. The guard
> house is still in Mayor Echols’ charge,
guarded by several soldiers.— Opelika
Age , Saturday.
New York Items.
The jury awarded Mrs. Avery D. Put
nam five thousand dollars for the loss of
her husband, who was killed b3 T Foster
with a car hook, on a Seventh Avenue car,
on the 22d.
The Board of National Underwriters
discussed the proposition that the present
tariff be increased thirty per cent, on
property in citi6S of fifty thousand in
habitants, and fifty per cent, on all Man
sard roofs, except those made of fire
proof articles.
HINTS FOR APOSTATES.
The New York Times, the organ of the
President, in the iasua of the ISth, has an
editorial under the above caption. We
hffve no doubt the Times speak* authori
t&tiveljjjjgmd if soothe leaders of Greeley
ism have taken their political ducks to a
bad market. They who were so anxious
to,desert the Republicans and those who
were equally willing to take “a choice- of
evils” and leave, the old Democracy, have
been badly sold. Apostates are generally
persons who form opinions and express
conclusions on subjects without a candid
enquiry as to their truth or fallacy. If
honest as the world goes, they never com
mand confidence. If simply politic, they
are selfish and despised. They argue to
uphold their system of politics and morals
that it matters little what is believed, so
that the belief is sincere without regard
to obligations and duty to improve oppor
tunity, that convictions may be true ac
cording to our best enlightenment. If
political and moral teachers would spend
half their time to study the right in ad
vance, much less of it would be afterwards
occupied in apologies for blunders and
idle regrets. We have little sympathy for
that stubbornness that adheres to error
when known to be error after better ex
perience and information, 'and still less
for that infirmity of will and purpose
which, like an old clock, is never at time
for an hour, and needs constant repairs.
We make the following extracts from
the article of the Times :
Ever since the election, indications have
been multiplying in certain quarters, that
Geu. Grant will soon have no supporters
so fulsome and unquestioning as he will
find among those who sought most stren-
UOU3I3' to secure his defeat. It will not
greatly embarrass these men that they
spent nearly a 3*ear in endeavoring to
convince the people that the President is
a man of mean capacity, reprehensible
habits, and disgraceful manners. They
want office, and can get it from no one
else during the next four years. They
will not be troubled by their frequent de
clarations that the Republic! 11 Party is
one of hatred, corruption, and imbecility,
for that party now seems to have a long
lease of power unexpired, and to win its
favor they are ready to admit they knew
not what they said when they uttered
these charges.
After doing their utmost to destroy the
part3 r , after traducing its good name, ma
ligning its purposes, denying its achieve
ments, and doubting its integrity, such
men can hardly expect to be allowed to
dictate its measures or control its policy.
If they do expect anything of the sort,
they will be bitterly disappointed. The
temper of the Republican masses is too
evident to be mistaken, and it is plain they
determine that the guidance of the par
ty shall be intrusted only to those who
have been faithful to its cause. The na
tion has suffered too much from apostaey
to permit it to carry magnanimity beyond
the point of safety, and in the sense that
it is the controlling power, the Republican
Party is the nation. Duty to itself, duty
to its trust, requires that it 3hall not again
admit to a share in its discretion any of
those who allied themselves with the De
moerac3' to secure its destruction.
Methodist Domestic Missions.—The
general committee of the Methodist Epis
copal Church Missionary Society in ses
sion at New York have appropriated $200,-
000 to missions in the United States, in
cluding the following:
Arkansas, $7,000; Alabama, $11,000:
Baltimore, $8,000;
Central Illinois, $1,000; Central New
York, $1,200; Central Ohio, $2,000;
Central Pennsylvania, $1,700; Cincinnati,
$2,000; Colorado, $7 ‘700; Delaware,s2,ooo;
Dos Moines, $1,500; Detroit, $3,000;
East Maine; $3,000; Erie, $2,000; Florida,
$6,500 ; Georgia, $11,000; Holston, $9,-
000 ; Illinois, $1,000; Indiana, $1,000;
lowa, SI,OOO ; Kansas, $7,000; Kentucky,
$8,000; Lexington, $2,000; Louisiana,
$9,000; Maine, $2,500 ; Michigan, $3,-
000 ; Minesota, $9,000 ; Mississippi, $lO,-
000; Missouri, $5,000; Nebraska. $7,-
000; Nevada, $5,000; Newark, $2,200;
New England, $4,000; New Hampshire,
$2,500 ; N. Jersey, $2,200 ; New York,
$5,000; New York East, $5,000 ; North
Carolina, SIO,OOO ; North New York, sl,-
200: North Indiana, $1,000; Northern
Ohio, $1,500 ; Northwest Indiana, $1,500;
Northwest lowa, $2,500, aud $2,500 more
for Dekota missions.
Message of the Goveknor of North
Carolina.-—Raleigh, Nov. 20.—The Gov
ernor’s Message was read in the House of
Representatives to-day. It is very volu
minous and is devoted principally to our
Federal relations, and believes the State
Government should "be in full accord with
the Federal Administration. It advises
careful consideration of the question of
State debt and oppose into repudiation
and favors issuing anew class of bonds ;
declares the present legislative appoint
ment of the State unfair; urgently ad
vocates measures inviting immigration in
to the State; congratulates the people up
on the greatly improved condition of the
State since his last message.
The returns of the Augusta elections
have been opened in the House, but the
result was not declared.
The Legislature will go actively to work,
and the session will be short.
The election for United Slates Senator
occurs next Tuesday to fill the place to be
made vacant by John Pool next March.
A Washington telegram of Friday says:
•‘There seems to be a determined specu
lative interest which is bent on forcing
the Secretary of the Treasury to increase
the volume of currency. Yesterday ap
peals were “made to him as wt-ll as to the
President, to buy two and a half million
instead of one million of bonds, bnt when
absolute refusal Was made and it became
evident that nothing would be done now
to help Wall street except in case of'actual
panic, the cut e stock market declined.
The secretary has been again appealed to
to-day tv* come forward with some meas
ure of relief by purchasing more bonds ofr
putting out additional currency in some
other way, bnt has continued a deaf ear
to these entreaties, believing that they are
made in a specul tive interest only, and
not from any real apprehension of a pan
ic.”
The “epizootic” has not spared even
the animals in the Now York Central
Park. Lions and tigers were taken with
the: same symptoms as the horses, and
the keepers were puzzled to know in what
maimer to treat them. Bengal tigers and
royal African liens with bad coughs and
inflamed nostrils were in no amiable
mood, and would have soon vented their
displeasure on the keepers. At last it
was suggested to subject them tea vapor
hath. A gentle perspiration broke out
upon them, and they were soothed and
quieted,- and at last account much im
proved, taking their “raw” with appetite.
In addition to its late o dainity, Bus
ten is threatened with another —a fish ball
famine. The potatoe has been slricken
with blight throughout New England, and
the cod fisheries have failed this year.
How about the pumpkin crop ?
Col. Tom. .Scott, first Vico President
I of the Pennsylvania Central and Presi
dent of a round dozen of Western Hail
roads, denies the story that he is a candi
date for the V. .S. -Seuatorship in the
place of Cameron, and says that he will
accept no poitical position, high or low.
A numerously-signed petition has been
prepared, to which Gov. Scott ami Gov
ernor-elect Moses will append their signa
tures, requesting President Grant to par
don the Kn-Klux prisoners now confined
in the Albany Penitentiary.
A watering-place correspondent writes
that “very few bathors bathe at the West
End,” whereupon Mrs. Partington says
she “Had an idea they bathed all over.”
The driver of Lucy at the San Francis
co races has expressed his willingness to
undertake to beat any trotting time on
record, provided the backer of time will
agree to stake SO,OOO against $2,500.
Mr. Passmore, who claims that he lost
! the sale of a track of land in West Virginia
through the failure of the Western Union
Telegraph Company to transmit a mes
sage promptly, had recovered a verdict of
$40,000 damages against the company in
the United States District Court for the
1 Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
i The dropsy, the new horse disease, has
made its appearance in all the New York
City car stables. Fifty per cent, of the
horses attacked are said to die, and the
horses affected are mainly those worked
white suffering with the epizootic.
Herald Stanley arrived in New Y'ork on
i the 20th.
SATI ItDAV noltMMi, SOV. 23. I
Report of Tbhssukeb of Muscoges Asy-
Lt-Jt: FOB THE POOR.
\ J3 ' —i
John Tr., in account wii.ii Musco
gee Asylum for the Poor, from 22d’day
of May to 22d day of Nov., 1872. >\
*'1872. trr.-
May 22. To balance on band 41,482 82
To collected since, from taxes
of 1871 4SO 00
Te collected since, from taxes
qT18T2....... ......900 00
"*■— o —■■ 40,992 82
Or.
By payment of Trustees’ orders,
including steVard r 6 and physi
cian’s salaries, and all expen
ses of supporting the poor,
hired labor, Implements,
tools, fcc 41,4' 6 10
Treasurer’s commissions 82 40-41.478 50
Balance, 1,084 82
42,582 82
Thfl average number of inmates has
been 29; there is at present 33, of whom 23
are white and 10 colored. Thirteen fam
ilies have received aid without going to
the institution. The outside aid costs
from s2ii to S3O per month and is all in
cluded in the foregoing statement.
All debts of the institution that have
been presented have been paid. There
is probably about s,">oo or SOOO outstand
that will be called for in a few days.
Jno. Johnson, Treas’r M. A. P.
Columbus, Nov. 22d, 1872.
Muscogee Supebior Court— Judge Jas.
Johnson Presiding. —Seventeenth day—
Friday.
The Grand Jury made their general pre
sentments, and were discharged for the
term. [The presentments are published
elsewhere.]
The Common Law Docket having been
finished, the Judge ordered the Court ad
journed to Monday, 9 a. m., that lawyers
might prepare to enter upon the Equity
Docket.
Five jurers were discharged their
places to be supplied by five tales jurors.
Court adjourned to Monday, 9 a. m.
Lynch Law. —A man who had made
considerable money in North Alabama,
two years ago, murdered his wife and
child and burnt his house to conceal the
crime. 11a was not seen afterwards until I
the other day, when he was fully identi
fied and arrested. He was lodged in jail
and guarded. Notwithstanding the pro
testations of the Sheriff, the people ove*-
run the guard and took the murderer and
huug him to a tree near Edwardsvillo, in
Cleburne county. He was with the excep
tion of a quarter, Indian. His name was
Joseph Patey.
A Different Company. —The mills at
Apalachicola, newly put up and largely
operated, do not belong to che Pennsylva
nia Central Railroad, as has been sup
posed, but to the Penusylvauia Tie Com
pany. Ties are furnished in any quantity
to anyone ordering them. This is also
the company which runs the monthly line
of steamers from New York to Apalachi- j
cola. The workmen are now busy getting j
out cypress logs and sawing them into j
ties. The trees are girdled, and after be- i
ing killed are cut down and towed or
floated off to the mills.
Captain of a Steamer.—Mr. Walter
Fry, sou of that river veteran, Capt. Dan
Fry, and son-in-law of Capt. S. J. White
side, has been appointed to the command
of the steamer Farley. It is a very re
sponsible position for a young man, but
he has almost been reared on the Chatta
hoochee, and has every qualification for
the office. We congratulate him on liis
promotion.
Capt. George Whiteside, one of the
most popular and capable . officers that
ever trod a steamer's deck, has charge of
the New Jackson.
Who is Governor. —One of the colored
scholars of the city came into one of our
drug stores the other day. Proprietor
asked him what he was studying.—
“Hist’ry and geografy.” “Can you tell
me who is Governor of Georgia?” “Yes,
sir, Mr. Mellbenny." “No, you missea,
try again.” “Well, if it ain’t him it’s Mr.
Salisbury.” Nig, Gu being told be was
wrong again, asked who was Governor.
Gentleman replied “Smith.” “Is he any
kin to pleeceman Smith?” asked the intel
ligent and seeking-fov-information pupil.
Actual fact.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad. —
The business of this road shows a consid
erable increase over last season. We are
glad to learn that its lands are being
sought after, and some are being sold.
Mr. B. W. Coleman, the general agent,
who lives at Troy, is receiving almost
daily applications for circulars descrip
tive of these lands —which circulars he
furnishes willingly to all who express a
wish for them.
Burnt Morey.— ln reply to a letter of
inquiry from a Boston banker, Treasurer
Spinner states that “circulating notes and
government bonds injured by lire should
not he manipulated at all by any one, but
should bo kept intact just as they came
from the fire, until they reach the hands
of the proper persons, whose business it
is to ascertain their value and the source
from whence they issued. It would
therefore be well that you should advise
all persons who have charred notes or
bonds of the government to do them up
just as they find them, first in tissue pa
per and then in batting, and then pack
them securely in a strong box so that
they cannot be crushed or shaken, and
then forwarded by the Adams Express
Company to the treasurer of the United
States.” A printed article recommending
that burnt money should be packed in
cotton the treasurer asserts gives bad ad
vice, as the. cotton adheres so closely to
the money in unpacking as to seriously
disarrange it.
Shingle Manufactory.— In connection
with their lime works at Yongesboro, Loo
county, Ala., Messrs. Clemons & James
have an improved machine which is capa
ble of turning out 15,000 shingles per
day. This firm is also soon to have a road
steamer to connect tliefr works with the
Western Railroad, which is a few miles
i distant.
Losses by the Opelika Fire.—By the
burning, on Tuesday, of the planing,
grist and flour mills and cotton gin of W.
C. Ross & Cos;, -J. R. OteVn ioat SSOO, W.
F. Harsh SISOO and W. O. Ross $3,000 to
SIO,OOO. No insurance. Firo originated
in lint room. A little son of Mr. Geo. W.
Cherry had his skull fractured at the lire
by a falling rock.
Lost an Infant.—Col. G. J. Foreacre,
he able ami indefatigable Superintendent
of the Western railroad, who has effected
wonders in the improvement of his road,
had the sad misfortune to lose bj' death,
at Atlanta, his infant danghtar. He has
the sympathy'df this community.
Good fob Boston. —Os the 2,651 bales
of cotton bought in Columbus for the
week ending last night, 2,400 were to fill
orders received from Boston for the East
ern Mills. We hope she will keep up the
business.
A Railroad Bankrupt. —The East Ala
bama and Cincinnati Railroad has gone
into bankruptcy, and the President, J. L.
Pennington, appointed receiver.
j Municipal Election-— lt oeours on the
| second Saturday in December, not the first
!as we stated yesterday. The date is De
! cember 14th.
Good Sales.— One buyer in Columbus
| in the past ten weeks has bought between
: five and six thousand bales for Eastern
I spinners.
i• ——
The Western press dispatches say that
j President Grant, in his message, wiii rec
i ommend universal amnesty.
Health Department of New York can
find no disease in poultry.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
Paris, Nov. 21. —Thiers will appear to
morrow before the Assembly’s Committee
to prepare an answer to his message.
London, Nov. 21. —U a. m.— A dis
patch has been received here from New
York announcing the report current there
of the resignation of Thiers and other ;
changes of the Government of France, j
The report is false and without a shadow
of foundation. Up to this hour not even ;
a rumor of the resignation of the Frenoh i
President has been ourrent.
Associated press dispatches have given
the full history of the oourse of events in
Franca.
Thiers has called for another and strong
er vote of confidence from the Assembly, ;
and has threatened to resign unless it is
accorded. Various rumors as to his sue- j
cessor in the event of his resignation have j
been given, as such, from time to time.
One of these, published on Tuesday, was j
that the Party of the Right would pro- ]
pose a triumvirate should the President
and ministers resign. Out of the state
ments and rumors, showing a somewhat j
threatening situation in France, the false
report of yesterday was probably nianu- i
factured.
Paris, Nov. 21. —The different parties |
in the Assembly are holding a private
meeting.
Thiers has another conference with the
delegation from the Left.
Marshal MacMahon refuses the Presi
dency should Thiers resign.
London, Nov. 21. —The police trouble
continues on 75 Bow street. Thirty-seven
Kensington officers dismissed.
London, Nov. 22.— The Common Coun
cil voted resolutions laudatory of Stanley.
Paris, Nov. 22.—The third milliard has
jbeen paid. France will have half a mill- j
jaid more ready by the 7th Deoember.
Paris, Nov. 22.—The reply to Thiers’
speech involves the appointment of a re
sponsible Ministry; that his Excellency
should not participate in debate in the As
sembly, and that ho should communicate
with that body by message only.
London, Nov. 23.—Sir Jno. Bowring,
political editor and formerly editor of the
Westminister Review and Member of
Parliament, is dead.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 21. —The dispatch of
Thiers’ resignation was probably manufac
tured entirely by the agent of the Ameri
can Press Association, the author of the
Romania hoax and other fraudulent sensa
tions.
Five thousand hogsheads of tobacco ]
burned in Jersey City. Loss $1,200,000.
Later estimates place the loss at 3,000
hogsheads—about $600,000. An immense
six-story warehouse adjoining, containing
fully 5,000 hogsheads, was saved.
The Times states that General MoClel
lan, President of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad seized the book mana
ger at Meadville, Pa., showing persistant
stealing. The manager disgorged $75,-
000 and resigned.
McKeen, Gerry and Dailly have aban
doned Stokes as counsel to defend him in
the next trial for the Fisk murder.
The Board of Underwriters advanced
the rates of insurance 20 to 40 per cent.
Two firemen killed, another wounded,
by falling walls in Brooklyn yesterday.
New York, Nov. 22.—Nearly all the
newspapers in the city to-day, morn
ing and evening, have editorials calling
for a more stringent execution of the
laws against murderers, burglars and
rogues.
New York, Nov. 23. —All the morning
papers agree that Gould’s arrest wa3
planned to effect, temporarily, Erie stock.
Watson, President of the Erie, asserts,
however, that stoyk jobbing operations
have nothing to do with it. Largo crowds
have gathered around the Fifth Avenue
Hotels. The general opinion was that
(r.o.nt'l'a had not checkmated his
scheme.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 21.—At a meeting of
wax and kip leather manufacturers it was
agreed to advance the price per cent.,
on finished leather, and that as a rule
sales of upper leather must be made on
a basis of four months’ credit.
Boston, Nov. 21. —Among the periodi
cals destroyed was the December number
of the Old and New. One number of Lit
tell’s Living Age was entirely destroyed,
and between sixty and seventy thousand
copies of Well Spring Semi-Monthly.
The publishers of these periodicals had
a large quantity of paper stock in the es
tablishment, which was lost, as did J. R.
Osgood & Cos., Lee & Shepherd, Sampson
&, Davenport, publishers of the New En
gland Register, the Bell Publishing Com
pany, of Norwich, Conn., Iverson & Phen
ney, Blackman & Cos., of New York, and
tlia University Publishing Company, of
New York, whose loss is in school text
books.
Raud & Avery ’s establishment was com
pletely destroyed by lire. There was a
large number of power presses of differ
ent kinds in the buildings, and a large
amount of books and pamphlets partly
finished. Raud & Avery estimate their
loss at $250,000.
Worcester, Nov. 23.—Two men were
held in $30,000 bail for having a negro
assassinated. A Statu constable, a negro,
was also arrested. Tiiß constable is re
covering.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, Nov. 21.— The Synod of
Virginia, embracing the churches in Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Maryland, in
connection with the Presbyterian Church
South, is ill session to-day at Franklin
street Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr.
Kirkpatrick, Moderator, announced the
standing committee, and the report of the
Trenahrer was read and referred. The
•epiivi of 'he President of the Board of
Visitors of the Union Theological Semi
nary in Virginia, reports from the several
Presbyteries composing the Synod on the
state of religion, statistics of evangelistic
’ labor, <ko., were also read, after which the
Synod engaged in services appropriate to
the day as appointed by the General As
sembly for thanksgiving and prayer.
Charleston, West Virginia, was selected
as the place for the next meeting of the
Synod.
At the session to-night the subject of
missions was considered.
Baltimore. Nov. 23. —In the session of
the Synod of Virginia, a report was
submitted on Sunday-schools. Rev. B.
Smith, of the Union Theological Semina
ry, Chairman of the Committee of Secu
lar Education appointed at the last meet
ing of the Synod, submitted an elaborate
report on tho subject, accompanied with
resolutions to the effect that it is Ihe duty
of the church to found arid control edu
cational institutions of all grades wher
ever such action is required for the free
discharge of its spiritual functions.
Pending consideration of the report and
resolutions, a recess was taken until the
afternoon.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. 21. —Diplomats here
consider that prices of rentes indicate no
serious crisis in France.
The Robbery and Savage Commission
to investigate Mexican border outrages,
have made a report, which the President
will incorporate in his message.
Washington, Nov. 22.—The report on
Southern Claims will be ready for the
opening of Congress.
Col. J. M. Cutts states that under the
act of May 15, 1872, the time for filing
claims for private cotton taken after June,
1865, has just expired. The petitions
filed involve such large amounts, and
raise such intricate and various questions
of title, that it is believed the Secretary
of the Treasury will ask Congress to re
lease him from the duty of deciding them,
and refer all claims filed before him to the
Court of Claims. The members of the
bar generally would prefer to have their
clients’ interests determined judicially.
Washington Territory defeated the oon
v ant ton for a State movement.
Washington, Nov. 23. —Jay Gould ha*
bean arrested, charged with malfeasanee.
Bail was given.
Heavy snow.
Washington, Nov 23. —The November
report of the Statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, gives to cotton pvos
peote substantially the same interpreta
tion as the October statement. The
weather has been fine for picking. Frosts
have been earlier than usual in the more
northern States, but an earlier maturity
of the plant indioated. The past month
has been quite favorable for the develop
ment of maturing bolls, while the returns
of the oondition since August, have been
much below the average. They have, been
higher than those of the corresponding
months of the previous and very unfavor
able season; averaging in August 76 and
September 91, against 80. The Novem
ber returns give the indioated total pro
duct in comparison with the small crop
of 1871; and the average made is about
16 per cent, increase, with ail area in cul- j
tivation larger by 12 to 13 per cent. The j
greatest losses from the provalence of the
army and boll worm are found in Alabama
and Florida. In Lousiana, Mississippi
and Georgia, local damage has also been
heavy.
The comparison by States with last
year’s crop is as follows : North Carolina
121, South Carolina 124, Georgia 119,
Florida 102, Alabama 111, Mississippi 112,
Louisiana 121, Texas 126, Arkansas 105,
Tennessee 110, Missouri, Virginia, Illi
nois aud other States which, together,
produced 55,000 bales in 1870, in which
cotton culture was stimulated in general,
subsequent years now scarcely yeiel 10
per cent, of that amount.
The total production as indicated by l
the returns of the first week in November j
is made nearly 3,450,000 commercial
bales at that date. Apparently 25 to 30
per cent, of the orop or nearly one million
bales remained to be picked, and subject
to the vicissitude of the weather which
might decrease the final aggregate by
beating storms or slightly enlarge it by a
favorable season for opening and gather
ing the fibre of the top crop.
The indicated product of fibre per acre
as returned from each oounty, makes the
following averages for each State: North
Carolina 173 pounds; South Carolina 182,
Georgia 180, Florida 125, Alabama 170,
Mississippi 200, Louisiana 215, Texas 220,
Arkansas 170, Tennessee 190.
The area in cotton as oaloulated from
the returns of 1872 is as follows: In
North Carolina 450,629, South Carolina
570,652, Georgia 1,311,331, Florida 158,-
099, Alabama 1,387,972, Mississippi 1,537,-
618, Louisiana 940,218, Texas 914,269.
Arkansas 693,512, Tennessee 518,605.
In calculaitng tha indicated product the
average bale is estimated 465 pounds.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, Nov. 22. —The Legisla
ture met in joint session.
The State Republican ticket was elect
ed by 8,000 majority.
Some question regarding Auditor. Rump
was in session, but did no business.
Montgomery, Nov. 23.—Errors having
been corrected, a full Republican State
tioket is declared elected.
The bill regarding the Mobile Bay and
Harbor passed both Houses. Goes to the
Governor for his signature. Other House
doing nothing.
Governor Lewis will probably be quali
fied next week.
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor
elect replied to a committee that they
understood there were two legislative
bodies holding sessions, and they would
withhold their action till Monday.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, Nov. 23.—The Board of ! n
derwriters of this city mot io protest
against the proposed reduction of com
mission. and asking the no-oporal ion of
other local boards.
R. G. Young, of Alabama, sentenced to
ten years in the Albany penitentiary, has
been pardoned on petition of citizens.
The polioy semis to be to pardon when
neighbors spply.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, Nov. 21.—A St. Paid special
apprehends that eight hundred tracklay
ers on the extension of the Winona and
St. Paul Railroad, may sufi'er. They are
beyond communication, and the severe
storm of Thursday has detained supplies.
No preparations were made to avert the
calamity. A train of ears with two loco
motives left for their assistance, but have
not reached their destination. When last
heard from the relief train was stuck fast
in the snow forty miles west of Sleepy Eye
and eighty miles west of the suffering
trackmen. The storm has increased, and
it is feared the men at the end of the
track have starved.
Twenty stores, shops and saloons at
Galena, Henry county, burned. Loss
$3,500,00(1 (?) —insurance $175,000.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Nov. 22.—At the house
where Laura Fair was to deliver a i.-ctn«e
on “Wolves in the Fold,” two thousand
people assembled; as many before Platt’s
Hotel Hildas many before Pair's residence.
All the crowds were boisterous. The
Chief of Police advised Fair it was dan
gerous to appear on the street or in the
hall, aud refused to escort her. The
crowd attempted to force their way up
stairs where Fair lived, but were driven
back. Fair remained in her room, and in
two hours all was quiet.
San Fbancisoo, Nov. 22.—Apcty of
men is expected to leave for the < :• dorado
stone fields to-dav. The <: US niton ;s
coining from New Mexico with $250,b0e
worth.
Col. Scott announces that he has made
arrangements with the Memphis and
El Paso Railroad Company, by which tint;
company releases all their claims agninai
the Sail Diego and Gila River Railroad
company for $14,500. The purchase goes
to his company.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 21. —Warnioth has
commissioned (lie judicial officers elected
November 4th. The retired Judges ap
peal to the Supreme Court, but in the
meantime vacate their seats.
Gov. Warm nth, by proclamation, con
venes the Legislature elected on the 4th ot
November, 1872, in extra session on the
9th of December.
New Orleans, Nov. 22. —The Supreme
Court has recognized the validity of
Warmoth’s commissions to the newiy
elected parish officers.
THE HORSE DISEASE
Washington, Nov. 21. —Horses conval
escent; cars running.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 21.—The malady
here is mild.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 23.—The horse
malady is spreading, Muies are unaf
fected.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Nov. 21.—The National
Baptist Sunday School Convention orga
nized, with Rev. Dr. J. L. MeCurry, of
Virginia, President.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—Jay Cook A j
Cos., and Drexel & Cos , act as general j
agents of the Board of Finance for the ;
Centennial Commission. Subscription
books will be opened throughout the Uni- '
ted States to-day.
VIRGINIA.
Lexington, Nov. 22.—A fire originated
in Drow Bro. ’a planing mills, and burned
nineteen buildings. Men drew the steam
engines. Loss $40,(100.
Richmond, Nov. 22.—Grant's majority
in Virginia is nearly 2,000.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Nov. 23. —Maj. M. J. Wicks
has resigned the Presidency of the Mem
phis and Charleston R. R. and John J. •
Roe, of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected
to fill the vacancy.
IHiS WLLK’S .STATIMENT.
DotrMr.tß.HjA., Novenih rffi p,-,
Financial.—Exch.n.geon '-«« \ ~r " ”,J U '
* lscouni. se! lin . par. Oarrea.-.i lorn.'i, 1
1% par cant, per month. i
The Cotton Situation Prt, e3 ;-, ar
vanned on In- week. Lie re • . ’.
kepi pace with the expectations, fi.etu
many varying opinion about be ’*•’*
yea , though tlte aver ge . f , pj,.j "•«
tbreo and a quarter oiilltvn*. id ere ’ B 7 "
a he vy deinuml. Anew pha >. 1u *railr.' Ui
routes bit been pivaeniel tha
weeks. We •( : .O ■! U lie niiantni,.„
ton. sugar and m >! ikses have been i”*
through cars f , in New Orleans ‘ ”
Savannah, thence he cones,eo pr-.
to Baltimore mil New York. ’Wear.-h. 1
this i< the first rai>>..u this has beet,
reference to the appropriate lal.le ii w lit *t>-
that the through •■.iu-neuta are far i n e , ’ r
those of last year No great eon’iiene* !•** 1
pressed about an a.lvaner tn quotation. ’“
In tills market there has inou g x-V,:,..
for better grades of cotton The E, :1 "'
have been mainly outdo o Bis-ou on'i.-'l * '
Eas era spinner-. This has proved \: iC \’ r
the entire season, over half the sale- : ’
that section. The ai.es thus fir at tl ! 1 , [
have realized about one million dev ,. n ~
thousand dollars, yet the si-nr.-i v 1
complained o . Much has gum, ti e\y ’
corn aim meat.
This year fine grain crops were nu, ..
planters will have a much ea-itr tone 1
1873. Some o! the largest plantations iii'c
gta, and many of them s- productive. -.r®
offered for sale, lease or rent 1 *
Our receipts still point to some amount in
neighborh oil ot 80,0 o hales. Our st-«k
somewhat increased outlie week. A thonsr",
bales, probably now in tlio warehouses - s ,
in process ol preparation lor sh pnient. ’ '
The cotton ma- ufsetories here, five i n
lier, are buying more largely from the streets
than previous seasons. Their aggregate v
sumption is about twenty halos per day. ~ j
is a probability that anoth-r large mil! W iil t,
erected before another year li -s passed.
Kv reference to table it will be mai.-cil t •
the receipts have increased aland in el ,
proportion on all therou.es, and that ou-i-.u
line, the North and South Railroad t V ,
running only nineteen miles, b doing «,]; ,j„
youngccorporation. Thi* sh-.\v- that i.’iimn.!.
is gaining on the business of previous v.-,.,,
a! I respects.
In regard to the future or prices the speoils
tions are many and various. The experience
of the years since tho war has demonstrated
conclusively that as a rule most money is real
ized bv those planters who market eotiin,
they bale it.
The for the week
averaged 50°. Quite co.d all week. pi,. v
snow a few moments Monday. Heavy hi,)
frosts until this morning, when rain fell bellnv
light.
Same week last year the thermometer aver
aged 52°. Five rainy days. Turned cold bi
ter part of week.
The Markets.— The following shows the
price of middlings in New York and Eivcrco. i
gold at New York and Low Middlings in ,
iumbus each day of the week:
Up. Or. Up. Or. G’hl. c„|
Saturday 10% la; 4 19% li;: 171
Monday ; S»> B 10% 19% 19;., 113‘., l;>:
Tuesday J 9%.10% 19%da%'113% IT',
Wednesday 9%'10% 19*, 19%|113 i;%
Thursday 9>„ 10%,
Friday I %po%ii9%|2'i |Us%ii7%
On the week Liverpool lias advanced %and.;
New York advanced %c.; Columbus
Prices Past Y ear. Liverpool Upland
9%@9%d; Orleans 9%'1; New Yore, i p
lauds 19c ; Orleans 19%c. Gold 111. Coluut
bus 17%c
To-day, our market lies been quiet >m,l
prices, owing to uulavorable advices, chisel
nominal Sales 243 vales, at following tigure-
Ordinary 16%@—
Good Ordinary 17 @17%
Low Middlings 17%@ —
Middlings IS @lB%
Week's sales 2,531 bales—2,4oU Nor: hern spin,
ners, 61 home consumption, U (or New Y iit.
90 to Savannah, 0 to Mobile.
Week’s receipts 2,600 Pales, against 2,459 the
previous oue, and 2 144,1 he corresponding ween
last season—6s by S W 11 R, 625 by MAG ~
R, 50 by OpelLa U K. 315 by river.l,49s by wag
ons, 50 by NaSK R. Shipments 1,648 boles
-1,537 oy S W K U, 61 for home consumption.
weekly statement.
1872 18J1
Stock Aug. 31st 153 1,650
Received past week 2,600 2.144
Total received 24 440 1d,2»7
Total received, inkling 5t0ck.24,598 17,837
Shipped past week 1,648 1.972
Total shipped 17,917 11,912
Total home consumption 7c9 769
Stock Nov. 22 6,631 6,924
Sales 2,551 1 99j
Year’s receipts 49,660
modes op receipts.
1872 1871
Southwestern Railroad 730 394
Mobile and Girard Railroad 7,722 4.362
Western Railroad 469 762
River 1,919 1,676
Wagons 13,267 S.ltd
North and South Railroad... 333
24,440 16,287
statement preceding years.
1867-8 1868-9 1869-70, 1870-1
Stock, Aug. 31, : 368 280 125, 1672
Reekl to Nov. 22. i 31930 18335 30695 29698
Stock Nov. 22... 106361 8659 ) 6727 ! 6583
Year’s receipts.. | 85686 j 48500* 67274 75097
U. S. 0r0p...... j 243089312260657 i 32980001 4352317
Freights.—Per 100 its cotton: To Savannah,
70c.; to New York, Baltimore aud Philadel
phia, $1 15: Boston $1 25.
Through Cotton. —By Mobile and Girard
Railroad l,3lsagainst 498; by Western Railroad
10,418, against 6,044 last year
Future Deliveries.— I They are quoted in
New York, basis Low Middlings as follows
November 19 3-16; December 18%; January
18 15-16; February March 19 5 16; April
19%; May 19 il-16.
The United States Ports.—Receipts for
the week 119,085 bales, against 110,610 l ist week
and 104.743 .-ante week last year. The total
movement is as lollows:
1872 1871
Stock Aug. 31 45,929 118 966
Week’s receipts 119,085 104 743
Total 1,006.678 770,274
Receipts at interior towns.. 36,872 37 465
Stock “ “ 66,678 67,741
Week’s exports to G B— 38,049 37.861
“ “ Con 30,676 14.767
Total exported to G. 8... .273,044 287,969
“ “ Con 173.994 47,149
“ “ 447,038 335,115
Stock 384,492 350,813
Y’ear’s Receipts 2,726,439
Keceipts at Principal Ports.—The lol
lowing 3hows the totals to date:
1872. 1871.
New Orleans 275,286 196,637
Mobile 96,640 89,070
Savannah 237,339 166,391
Charleston 134,679 97,498
1 Galveston 96.640 69.016
New Yor- 18,202 26.510
Other Porks 148,887 146.152
Total 1,006,673 770,274
The world’s via ble supply last Saturday
showed an excess over Ist veardf64,l4s bales;
the ; otfil last year was 1,839,021; last Saturday
1,903,166. , .
1 rom Liverpool the following is telegraphed
for the week:
1872 1 871.
Stock 426,000 626,000
“ American 49,000 74,000
“ Afloat 239,000 369,000
“ “ American 116,000 124,000
Week’s Rwce’i ts 53,000 75,000
“ “ American 26,000 24,000
Sales 97.900
Exporters. 8.000 12,060
Speculation.. 9,000 20, e
General Remarks—Trade has been steady
all the week. The tendency of prices has been
downward. Meats show a marked decline.
Bulk meats have been introduced. Reports
from the West are to tho effect that an immense
corn crop has ’been made, and the packing ■'*
meat shows that already many more hogs hate
been killed than were slaughtered to this date
last year. This argues in iavor of cheap moi •
Business has boen good in all branches. Let
lections are not easy and there is s me com
plaint of tightness in money.
Country Produce—Wholesale Prices.—
Goshen butler4oe.; Western butter3s<’.; I'oun
try butter 35; Eggs 30.; Sweet potatoes 75e.
Poultry—Chickens, dressed 20c. lb.; j - *' l
25@35 each; Turkeys, dressed, 25c. lb; Li>a
til oo@l 50 each.
OFFICE DAILY SUN AND TIMES, .
Columbus, Ga., Novetnber23, 18*- *■
Cotton. —Market quiet and nominal; 1"*
uti.ldlings 18c.
Sales 145 bales.
* ♦—
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Bacon—Clear Sides 13c: Clear Kit
Sides 12%c; Shoulders S%c; Sugar-Loreu
Hams 20c'; plain Hams 17@18c.
Bagging—lndia % yard 18c; Scotch Flax I s
Kentucky ioc: Piece 16c.
Bulk Meats —Clear KH> Sides ih ,
Shoulders 7%c.; llama —O.; Ice-Cured bides
11c.
Butter—Goshen 78 11. 50o; Country 350.
Brooms—cioz 25@3 60.
Candy—Stick (jft it< 20c. ,
Canned Goods—Sardines '$ case of 100 on
f2-l, Oysters, 1 ih cans |1 doz, 41 76.
Cheese—Kuglish Hairy (9 6*, !6r: Wes' er
17c; N. Y. SLate lgc.
(landlks—Star * 22c; Sperm 45c.
Copvek —Rio s> ft* z2@280; Java htKfjiw.
Corn—Yellow Mixed : jd i-ua 9uc., « 111 e
95c, car load ra es in depot'. .
Cigars—Domestic M 415#50: Havana***
® lßo '
Hardware—Wide Iron p LA:: Refine w
Sad Irons 8c; Bar Lead 14c; Casting* »
Plow Steel 12%; Cast Stool 30c; Buggy N'-'-L'
20c; Horse and Mule Shoes f S «c: « '
Shoe Nails 33%@38c; Nails ?t keg *6 50: ax
'* doz *16@17. ‘
lIAV-j! cwt 42 60. „ ... i t .
Flour—Fine p bill 48: Superflne w* ’•
tra SIC; Double Kxtra 410; Fancy *l2 00.
Iron Ties— fl It 9@9%c.
Laud—Prime Leal V 6* 12c.
Leather—White Uak Sole ~. .-*
lock Sole 33c: French call Skin* *2<a« • „ r .
can do 4233 50; Upper Leather *2@3 au
ness do 50c; Dry Hides 11c: Green do 6c.
Mackerel—No 1 » bbl *25; No 2*ff; * '
No 1|! % bbl$10; No2*9; No3 46; ft”* ;
$3.
Meal—3f( bus *1 00. 59
Molasses —N. O. 'f gall 80.1a—
@60e; Cuba 45@50c; Golden Syrup
Oil—Kerosene $4 gull 38c: Linseed. t“
do boiled 41 25: Lard 91 50; Train si - '
(.‘ATS—ft •■ushei 75@90c-. a rU
Pickles—Case pints 58 doz *2 tw, t
$3 50.
Potash—^case 49 10.
Potatoes—lrish, p b! 46 25@8. l 7 ~j 9
Powder —keg 47 25; % keg $4 00, A
42 60, inMagaz ne. M«cbW
Roue—Manilla ft ft 28c: Cotton 40v, *l*
Made 11c.
Rice—f) ft 10@llc.
Salt—f* sack 42 60.
Shot—jt saek 43.
Soda—Keg 7c ft ft; box 9e. v „r
Sugar—Cuba ft ft 13@13;<:A1-Uj,*..
extra C 14: C 13: N O yollow ularin.d 143
do white 16@15%c.
Starch—w ftyc. . ,
Tea—Green and Black |( ft U lb”J- jjrig'H
Tobacco—Common 6' See: Medio , 4t , t
70c; l ine 76c; Extra 41: Navy duigiooc, •
Snufl 85c.
Vinegar—ft gall 50e. , ir i l(iC
W hisky—Rectified ft gall 41@2; Bom
@4.
White Lead ft 12@13%c. s(
Factory Prices W ooli.salk—% I’j.Vu”
11%: 4-4 she ting at 13%e. hleacLe- • ; _
bleached drilling 16c.; stripes and lashß»
15c.; hickory shirting luc.; tlck,n ? „ od*
chec- sand ginghams 16@23c.; P»» lt '% g3 . cut
(co'.tou) 17533".; woolen goous T'ff® m
ton blankets $2 2o@*6 60; yai rstl • wrJ{: .
thread 55e.: knitting thread 55t . uap;
ping twine 50c.; ropi:3u@32o.; osnaburg
p O.TY Mi Ls’ Prices.-
Flour, A 45 00; B 44 60; C .y cup* r
Rich Shorts 42. Com Meal and Grit- ,
bushel.