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IlllSStW hOIIMM., NOV. 40.
Congressional Majority. —That of the
Democratic candidate, Mr. 11. R. Harris,
in this, the 4th District, is 1,853, his vote
being 10,310, and Marion Bethune’s
Itadical) 8,471!.
Xnvy Stables. — 7,1 r. Ahe Gaininel ad
vertise? this morning that he has opened
aH a stable the large warehouse lately em
ployed l>y W. H. Y< n ig. It has been
newly and completely fitted up. He is
prepared to receive here all stock that is
not diseased. Hick horses will he treated
at the old stables on Randolph street.
BaINBUIDOE, CuTHIiKKT AND COLUMBUS
Bailkoad. It is stated that this road will
soon he sob I, and it is intimated the North
and South road will he the purchaser and
complete it. This it can do with the
State aid and the liberal charter granted
At tie- late session of the Superior Court
of Decatur county, a decree was taken by
consent, settling the rights of parties in
the case of creditors against the road.
Opelika—Three Negro Prisoners Try
to Escape— Two Killed and OneWound
f.u. —Gentlemen who left Opelika Satur
day afternoon report that three negro
prisoners attempted to escape from the
jail a short time before they left. The
jailor discovered the fact jost in time. As
they refused to halt, he fired upon them
with a gun. Two of the fugitives were
killed and one wounded. The affair cre
a’cd some sensation; but Opelika is be
coming accustomed to them.
Kcmlriix-onoes of Public Men la Alabama for
Thirty Years, by Win. Garrett.
Stephen F. Miller, Esq., the author of
the “Bench and Bar of Georgia,” and who
assisted Mr. Garrett in preparing this
work, lias sent us a copy through J. W.
Dense, of our city, where it is for sale.
Price, SI. It is a volume of 809 pages,
and is gotten up in excellent style by the
Atlanta Plantation Publishing Company.
We hope this interesting andinstructive
work will have many readers in all the
States, and especially in Georgia and
Alabama.
Depots To be Constructed.— Mr. Clapp
informs us that the Columbus Factory
utation will he constructed by the factory
at once. At Blanchard, Catania ami
Kingsboro, the neighborhoods have en
gaged Mr, John Allen to erect commo
dious depot buildings, and he left on yes
terday’s train to hurry forward their com
pletion. The factory station is a dona
tion, hut the company is to reimburse in
freight the parties making the outlays for
other depots;
The Savannah Fair.— By reference to
advertisement it will he seen that the
Savannah Fair has been postponed to
Dec. 30th, and will continue during the
week. Savannah is a delightful place to
visit, either for business or pleasure, and
in December it is more pleasant than any
other time. In addition to the tegular
exhibition there will he a sabre contest
between the Savannah and Augusta clubs,
and plenty of fine racing. The cotton and
other premiums are very liberal. Savan
nah is. a city of which all Georgia is justly
proud. She will illustrate herself grandly
m the coming Fair. All who can should
make preparations to attend it. The
Central Railroad will transport visitors
for ono fare.
The Horse Disease. — It is spreading
rapidly. Many animals in the various
stnl'lnn are effected. It does not appear
to have interfered with dray age, though
some mules are affected. The disease
appears to yield to treatment. Old John
Kubmson, the circus man, publishes this
recipe :
Keep (he animal warm and well blank
eted, free from any draft. Fumigate him
once a day with fumes of burning tar.
Place ulso a teaspoonful of tar on the
tongue once a day. When the nose com
mences to run, wash it out two or three
times a day with w arm vinegar. If signs
of fever are exhibited, give six drops acon
ite. Food with warm bran mash. Keep
them close during convalescence.
A Perfect Scoundrel Turned up in
Texas. —That Yankee scoundrel and im
poster, S. Adams Lee, notwithstanding
his exposure in numbers of the Southern
newspapers, has made his appearance in
Texas, and was recently elected to a pro
fessorship in a female college in Paris,
Lamar county, lie is still claiming to be
a nephew of (leu. it. E. Loo, and repeats
his stolen lecture on “God in the Ocean,"
and stating that he lost his leg in the
Morrimae, iu the Hampton Roads tight.
Will not the Mobile, New Orleans and
Texas papers publish him as he deserves ?
Three months ago he was turned out ol'
Calhoun county jail, where he had been
imprisoned for stealing. He is a convict
who served out his time in the Pennsyl
vania penitentiary for stealing a watch,
and lost his leg by amputation, having
injured himself in the attempt to scale the
penitentiary wall. He is no relation of
Gen. Lee, was never in the Confederate
army, and hits been posted as a scoundrel
by the papers of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. Pass him around
through Texas.
How the President Prepares his Mes
sages. —The President iu preparing his
annual messages, says the Washington
Star, to Congress usually commences about
t h.ys before the opening of the ses
s'en, and devotes about two hours each
day, in the forenoon, to the work. He
writes rapidly, and with no reference to
notes, further than to refresh his memory
as to the subjects which he proposes to
"rite about. Devoting two hours each
•lay to it, he usually completes it in about
four days, or eight hours’ work. He ex
amines thoroughly the various depart
mental reports, statisties included, before
he begins work, and carefully stores his
mind with the contents. After he pre
pares the documents he reads it to the
fabiuet aud requests the members to
make such suggestions as they desire con
cerning their respective departments. If
s »eh suggestions meet his approval they
are incorporated in the message, and the
document is then handed to Messrs.
Lnokie and Sniffin, who prepare two per
-c-t copies for the Senate and House,
u “ er which they manifold six or eight
copies for the press.
H will be seen by the advertisement in
our columns that the great music store of
( diver Ditson £ Cos., Boston, although ex
a.ily on the edge of the ournt district, en
lrfdy escaped injury. This is good news,
fkeir books are used everywhere, and
musical and reading public would
quickly miss them if the issue were de-
A'ed. I» is also a periodical pleasure to
f®*d G. D. £ Co.’s rapidly shifting adver
mements, whieh keep us well posted as
' "“at is the standard music of the day.
' olati offers his splendidly improved
j>Mdea ami cotton farm for sale. It is
vested in Lee county. Finest of or
'•laarda and graperies. See notioe.
VOL. XIV.
SUNDAY RECREATIONS.
| Apart from the divine command “Six days
may work be done, but in the seventh is
the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord,” the
observance of the command is the great
promoter and perpetuator of civilization.
Let the day be blotted out and no longer
remembered, and it would be as fatal to
moral and religious life as the loss of the
sun to physical creation. The law as
given to Moses is in these words : “Who
soever doeth any work in the Sabbath day
he shall snrely be put to death,” but both
j Christian and Jewish States now tolerate
j such Sunday recreations as do not offend
1 public decency and morals.
What particular work and recreations
are to be regarded as pious and lawful,
will be disputed questions to be left for
determination to the enlightened opinion
and common sense of mankind. The
i Puritans, on one extreme, consider it very
| wicked for even bees, birds and beer to
| wor k gii Sundays, while those of an op
! posite extreme, think it an excellent day
to dress, eat, sleep, fish, hunt, stroll
around promiscuously, and get gentleman
ly and gloriously obfuscated, or in plain
Saxon, drunk as Bacchus and limber as a
supple-jack. Some hear sermons, read the
Bible and sing Psalms; others again find
rest in devouring trashy novels, dull
poetry, and thinking of nothing. Sancho
blessed the man who invented sleep, but
greater blessings should rest on him who
first blended pleasure with utility, and
made the way to heaven a way of flowers,
even though at times they mingled with
thorns.
He was a benefactor of his race, who
made two blades of grass grow where only
one grew before, but the man knew more
of fanning than Toombs or Greeley, who,
to clear his field adjoining a highway of
rocks, put up a target in the highway and
gave the boys an invitation to a general
stone-throwing. Some people will get
offended if you tell them direct, something
they do not know, but season it with wit
or humor and they will swallow it as a
child swallows inedicino with sugar.
The morality of keeping open the pub
lic libraries, North and West, on Sundays
is now being gravely discussed. As far
as the experiment has been tried in Cin
cinnati, St. Louis and Philadelphia it has
resulted beneficially. Mr. M. I). Conway,
in one of his letters to the Cincinnati
Commercial, gives an interesting account
of an experiment in this lino.
The Rev. Frederick Silver, of the Church
of Ragland, was Home twenty years ago
preaching in a parish in Shropshire, which
was noted for drunkenness and vice.
Having some wealth at command, he de
termined on making a hold stroke for re
form. Ho found Sunday the worst day
in the week, and decided that he must
(mug what forces he could to bear on that
day. Some of his flock suggested prayer
meetings, and other religious exercises,
for the undermining of Satan and his
power. But Mr. Silver took another tack.
For many weeks, peculiar-looking boxes
and cases were daily landed at his door,
exciting the curiosity of the neighbors.
Finally, one bright morning, the poople
of that vicinity found the walls and trees
all about, placarded with the announce
ment that Silver would open a museum to
the public tho next Sunday afternoon.
This set many good persons and deacons
to groaning. The roughs brightened np,
aud crowded to hear Mr. Silver preach the
next Sunday morning, when ho related
how he thought ho had found the need of
the town. In the afternoon they all
crowded to the museum. A hundred fine
paintings were displayed; a model of the
Aluambra in Spain; specimens of cocoons
at work, and tho 13(1 colors which silk can
r.ivke; a tine modal of an elephant from a
palace in Delhi; cases of English coins
from William the Conqueror to Victoria;
antique watches and jewelry; autographs
of great men; ornithological collection,
including Australian specimens; different
costumes, boots and shoes, nets, imple
ments, weapons, etc., from New' Zealand,
Madagascar, North America, Africa, Chi
na and India
Mr. Silver’s catalogue showed his devo
tion to his project, lie must have exhaus
ted his ovu means, and levied contribu
tions on otlTer sources. The tiling has
been going on now for over fifteen years;
and the result is, that “lawless parish” is
now one of the happiest communities in
England. Every seat iu Mr. Silver’s
church is occupied; the cottages in the
place are so large and handsome, that trav
elers ask, “Where do the laborers live in
this village?” A school lias risen; a now
medical dispensary and a library. The
rector has had a larger church built to
hold his increasing flock. Sabbath-break
ing, like this of Mr. Silver’s, greatly aids
the prayer-meetings. A centuary of the.
latter would not have produced such ben
eficial results. IDs is a kind of praying
that tolls on the morals of the usually
“thoughtless” idlers.
The Senate of the United States—Who
will be the Georgia Senator.
From the foundation of the government
to the advent of Radicalism, the United
States Senate was considered even by
strangers and intelligent foreigners as
the most august legislative body in the
world. It personated the virtue, wisdom,
patriotism and sovereignty of States, and
was intended alike as a guard and check
on the passions and prejudices of the
people, as represented by the members ot
| the House, and on the encroachment of
| the President upon the organic law—the
j Constitution, and through its form, outlie
rights and freedom of the States and
citizens of the United States. There sat
Silas Wright, the Cato of the Senate,
inexorably just and the soul of council.
Benton, with his combined egotism and
experience of “thirty years,” was one of
the illustrious. Calhoun, with his yellow
eagle eye, which flashed like a diamond,
was proudly pre-eminent. Webster, with
his majestic Saxon, rolled from beneath
brows clothed with intellectual thunder
“thoughts that breathed in words that
burned.” Clay would at times fuimine
against the aggressions of tyranny upon
the prerogatives of Senators, and again
like the infant Plato, with honey on his
lips, would swell his clarion voice iu tones
of sweetest eloquence in behulf of op
pressed, bleeding, dying, individual aud
national humanity. The Senate was then
a grand assemblage, aud a seat therein
was enough to fill the most exalted ambi
tion aud employ the noblest faculties of
statesmen. It has fallen now so low as
none so poor as to do it reverence. Cannot
Georgia do something to restore its origi
nal brightness? Is porsonal purity, un
selfish patriotism and rneutal vigor dead
among us, or do these sublime elements
merely sleep until touched by the hand
of legislative power they spring to their
feet ?
We have not the vanity to suppose that
any suggestions or recommendations of
ours would be heeded by the approaching
legislature. We have hope and confi
dence that with minds purified from party
passion aud prejudices, its selection will
redound to the prosperity and honor of
Georgia, aud recall the past glories and
fame of the once free United States.
Among the Generals, whose names have
been mentioned as prominent, Gen. Ben
ning aud Gen. Gordon seem to have the
inside of the track. Ex-Gov. Johnson,
Ben Hill or Mr. Stephens, among the
civilians, will probably be the choice.
We hope the honor will not be conferred
on any <?ue who has so little reputation as
to seek it by personal solicitation, “side
wipen ’round,” looking with hungry eyes
“arter the orthography of the office.”
We only desire that the Legislature will
judge justly of the merits of each, and
not value that merit too great which con
sists (after another has done the labor) in
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a few stump-speeches or letters, to come
in at the eleventh hour and seize, by
brass and cunning, the reward.
Mr. Stephens has been badly misrepre
sented and abused, we therefore take
pleasure in giving to our readers the fol
lowing extracts from an able editorial of
the Washington Gazette:
In thinking of the claims and abilities
of the numerous aspirants for the position
of United States Senator, we have been
inclined to favor Gen. John B. Gordon as
the one most suited for the office, until,
daring the past week, we have heard that
a far more suitable candidate has entered
the field. We allude to the great states
man, pure patriot and unflinching, un
swerving Democrat, Alexander H. Ste
vens. It will he a great and glorious day
for Georgia when his voice is heard once
more in the Council Halls of the people.
It will be a day of which the whole coun
try may well be proud.
All other aspirants for the office should
withdraw from the field and throw no ob
stacle in the way of our State’s enjoying
the great honor and privilege of having
such a son in the Senate of the United
States. They will gain more fame and
credit by such a course than by defeating
him.
No man in all this country knows better
the wants of our whole people, and no
man has more courage or ability to main
tain the right. His influence will be felt
at the seat of government and he will be
listened to with respect and attention by
the bitterest foes of our section and party.
His past services, his world-wide fame
and his matchless intellect and faultless
character will be felt as no other man’s in
the whole country. It is a time when the
services of our very greatest and best
men are most needed, it is a time when
true statesmanship is demanded and it is
a time especially when political and pri
vate integrity, honesty and courage are
urgently demanded for the salvation of
our suffering country.
TAME ANtpNOTORIETY.
Ferdinand, King of Navarre, in “Love’s
Labor’s Lost,” gives this beautiful descrip
tion of fame:
Let fame, that all hunt after In their lives.
Live register’d upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death ;
When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
The endeavor of this present broath may buy
That honor, which shall bate his scythe’s deep
edge
And make us heirs of eternity.
Virgil says : “ Fama it magne* per ur
bes Libyae ” —Fame goes through the
great cities of Africa. He calls it the
“greatest of evils,” and evidently makes
it synonymous with Report good or evil,
or loud Rumour:
“Upon whoso tongues contiuual slanders ride,
The which in every language 1 pronounce
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports
X speak of peace, while covert enmitv,
Under tho smile of safety, wounds the world. ”
A person may lie of good or evil report.
If the former, he is generally regarded us
famous—if the latter, he is simply noto
rious. General Washington was famous,
Benedict Arnold was notorious. To be
famous, we must have Rome noble object
or definite pursuit to gain, or follow and
endeavor to succeed only by our own in
trinsic genius and labor. Wealth, titles,
power, friends, accidently or fraudulantly
acquired, have but an ephemeral existence.
Time with ceaseless pinions, soon covors
them with dust and sweeps them into ob
livion. The desire to he favorably re
membered after death is not only natural,
hut universal aud commendable. We in
stinctively shrink from the thought—“ To
lie in cold obstruction arid to rot." Our
good or evil i une and fame hereafter ap
peals to our warmest affections and most
sincere hatreds—our hopes and fears and
most exalted ambition. According to old
English laws it. prevented suicide, from
the penalty of exposure of the body on
the high why, traXlsOxea wltli a sharp
stake. It exhibits itself by some frail
memorial over the humblest grave to the
storied urns and marble busts which crowd
Westminster Abbey.
It is curious the ways we all hunt after
fame or notoriety both in life and after
death! Sam Patch, some years ago,
sought the latter and found it at the
falls of the Passaic, when he made his
last jump. Barnum has found it among
the largest collection of birds, animals
and curiosities in the world. Simmons,
like Lord Byron, went to bed and
next morning was famous through
his liver regulator. General Grant
fought a few successful battles, and
forthwith his name is enrolled on the
list of Presidents. The bridle-bit of a
hussar is broken in a charge at Waterloo,
and he unwittingly rushes through a
square of his enemies, and is famous or
notorious. Daniel Boon, the Nimrod of
Kentuaky, was celebrated in his day for
knocking over deers, buffaloes, and an
occasional Indian when too familiar with
the hair of tho first settlers. Some are
famous or notorious for dress; some for
fine houses or horses, aud some again for
peeping through their eyes and laughing
like parrots at a bag-piper. Some are
famous only on particular days, when
they swell like turkey-cocks and roar you
as gently and musical as sucking pea
fowls. The truth is:
“Brave men were living betoro Agamemnon,
Ami since, exceeding valorous and sage”—
and beautiful women lived before aud
since Helen and Cleopatra, and were
equally the cause of famous wars.
Os all fools, however, who wish to be
famous, we think Sergeant Bates, who
walked with the banner of the United
States unfurled from Vicksburg to Wash
ington, some years ago, is the biggest.
He has made a wager to perform the same
feat through England. We hope some
Johnny Bull fool-lciller will lift him out
of his boots.
This prurient ambition of grasping after
fame or notoriety is the ruin of thousands.
They covet an applause unworthy of a
noble mind and heart, and soek positions
they always disgrace. Better a thousand
times they would be content with their
humble lot and practice the philosophy
of the old woman who in answer to her
Parson’s enquiries as to her health and
condition, said: “Oh, sir, the Lord is
very good to me—l've lost my husband,
and my eldest son, and nty youngest
daughter, and I’m half blind, and I can’t
sleep or move about for the rheumatics,
but I’ve got two teeth left in my head,
aud praise and bless His holy name, they're
opposite each other."
A Locomotive Without Fire. —An
engine designed for propelling street cars
especially has recently been brought out
and tested by a New Orleans inventor. It
is claimed to save thirty-three per cent
over running by mule power. The driving
engine is of ordinary character, has a
300-gallon reservoir with steam room
above; boiler, steel,' well covered with
non-conducting material to prevent the
radiation. The motive poker is obtained
by compression of steam in water, the
steam being conducted from a stationary
boiler at the end of the track, dispensing
with firing up while under way. The
steam is sufficient (according to capacity
of boiler) to run ten to fifteen miles. At
the time of changing the temperature in
the Injiler it is 380 degrees Fahrenheit,
the pressure being 178 pounds per square
inch. There is not the least danger of
explosion, as the reservoir can never rise
above that point at time of changing,
and constantly diminishing as the power
is expanded. Bo simple is its construc
tion there is less skill required than in
handling a horse or mule.
“Gentlemen, where do you think this
beefsteak comes from ?” said the landlord,
planting his thumbs in his waistcoat arm
holds. “From near the horns,” was the
reply of one of the boarders.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3,1872
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
Pabis, Nov. 25. —1 t was annouHced to
day that the members of the Right in the
National Assembly have selected General
Changanier as a candidate for President,
in the event of the resignation of Thiers.
London, Nov. 25.—Special dispatches
from Paris to the London evening papers,
report that the situation is gloomy. The
majority in the National Assembly, it is
stated, has determined to adhere to the
position it has taken, and a compromise
of differences between the Executive and
Legislative departments of the Govern
ment is regarded as improbable.
; London, November 26.—The Khedive’s
1 expedition consists of 5,000 men, and is
commanded by Purdry Bey. An Ameri
i can person in the transport writes that it
is with the ostensible intention of joining
Dr. Livingstone and of co-operating with
him, if agreeable; otherwise, to aid inde
pendently in solving the problem of the
sources of the Nile under Egyptian colors,
j Madrid, Nov. 27.—The King is im
; proving.
The Insurgents’ demonstrations at Mer
cia and Saragossa were quickly suppressed.
Paris, Nov. 27.—The vote on the reply
to Thiers postponed to Thursday. The
vote was 356 to 332. The friends of
Thiers think this vote closes the ersis.
Paris, Nov. 27.—A meeting of the Cab
inet will be held to day for deliberation
upon the report of the majority of the
committee on the address and resolutions
of the minority. Thiers will attend the
session of the Assembly to-morrow, when
the report of the majority will come up
for consideration.
The vote yesterday postponing the con
sideration of the report has served to
greatly allay the excitement of the past
few day#, and many believe the crisis has
passed. Paris is quiet this morning, and
dispatches from the provinces report a
corresponding degree of tranquility.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov 25. —Gen. Irving Mc-
Dowell succeeds Gen. Meade as Major
General. Gen. McDowell will be assigned
to the command of the Department of the
South. Hancock will command the At
lantic Division vacated by Meade’s death.
Terry suoceeds Hancock in command of
the Department of Dakota. McDowell’s
headquarters will be at Louisville.
All the Cabinet officers are here.
Phillips has been qualified as Solicitor
General of the Supreme Court in the case
of Delano against the Merchants Mutual
Insurance Company, from the Supreme
Court of Louisiana. The question was
upon the authority of the Constitution of
Louisiana to render a contract void, hut
it was based upon Confederate money as
its consideration. The Court below
found that Delano had the prior claim to
a certain fund, but as the consideration
which established his claim was Confeder
ate money it failed, and the Insurance
Company whose claim was subsequent,
but based on a valid consideration, was
entitled to the fund.
This Court say in substance that if the
judgment below had decided that the con
tract underlying Delano’s claim was void,
from public policy existing at the time,
there would have been no question for a
revision here; but as the judgment is
based upon a provision of the Constitu
tion of the State framed after the contract
was made, which declares all contracts
shall be adjudged void which are founded
upon considerations or Confederate mo
ney, it will have to be reversed, as having
sustained a law repugnant to that clause
of the Federal Constitution prohibiting
the States from making a law which shall
impair the obligations of contracts.
The removal of rails by District Board of
Public Works does not interfere with the
all-raif connection here of the Baltimore
aud Potomac Road running in connection
with the Pennsylvania Central or Tom
Scott’s Combination.
Washington, Nov. 26. —French spoili
ation claimants met at Baltimore yester
day and adopted a memorial to Congress
asking a settlement of their olaims.
The President’s message was laid be
fore the Cabinet to-day. It will probably
be one-fifth longer than others, and that
it will not show a ohange of policy of the
past. He was not certain that he would
recommend to Congress an extension of
amnesty to the 200 or 300 persons exclu
ded by the recent legislation, but if he
should it would be with a proposed condi
tion that the benefitter merely take an oath
to support the Constitution of the United
States. Congress, however, had ample
authority in the premises and could act
with regard to the matter without a repeti
tion of his views upon the subject.
Washington, Nov. 27.—The Washing
ton Star says Senator Spencer, of Ala
bama, telegraphs to that city that the
troubles in that State will be reconciled,
and that he will be eleoted to, the Senate
in a few days.
The Supreme Court adjourned to the
first Monday in December.
Gen. J. B. Hood is here.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 26. —A nitro-glyoerine
explosion in Yonkers blew two persons to
atoms, and fatally hurt several young
men, who, in playfulness, threw stones
at a can, causing its explosion.
The World says the reports of an alarm
ing nature regarding Mr. Greeley are
utterly without foundation. His friends
have the utmost faith iu rest and a short
exuberation from the cares of business.
New York oity estimates show it will
require over $10,500,000 for municipal
expenses of 1878.
New York, Nov. 27.—The Tribune says
Greeley still suffers from nervous prostra
tion from the almost total loss of sleep
for a month or more, which has much af
fected his nerves and stomach. Within
a week he has slept and eaten more.
The profits of the Northwestern Bull
Clique is computed at $625,000. Henry
Smith has not settled as far as known, and
intends to fight it in the courts.
New York, Nov. 27. —Stay proceedings
were granted in the suit of the Erie against
Gould.
The Atlantic and Great Western and
Erie had a meeting regarding the over
issue of a million claimed by the Atlantic
and Great Western. The case was with
drawn from the Ohio Court, where pro
ceedings have been pending.
Jay Gould, referring to Vanderbilt’s
card, says: “In 1868 Vanderbilt held ten
millions Erie stock. I offered to take fifty
thousand shares, if he would hold the
balance sixty days and give me call for it.
He agreed, but broke his promise. He
sold all and delivered it in one day, hoping
to create a panic, under the impression it
oould not carry the stock. He failed and
feels sore.”
A Wisconsin fire and marine insurance
company recovered $38,000 advanced on
26,000 bushels of wheat. The plea was
that the advance was in the nature of a
lien, and followed the wheat. The de
fence plead that repayment was made to
the seeond party, and oould not be en
forced bv a third party from holders who
purchased in good faith.
Lackawana Valley Hotel, in Scranton,
Pa., burned this morning. Loss $7.5,000.
Rolling mill hands in Scranton, Fa.,
are on a strike.
G. H. Lewis is not the Lewis as previ
ously published, who is reported as miss
ing. and is said to be an embezzler and
forger.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, Nov. 25. —Judge Miller, of
the U. S. Court for the Eastern District
: of Missouri, has decided that a bankrupt
cannot sell his homestead and claim his
j store as a residence by moving into it,
j and orders a store and lot to be delivered
to the bankrupt’s creditors.
! Reports from northern aud western
i points state that a large number of deer
' are dying, apparently from some disease.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 26.—Piper’s hotel
and telegraph office, burned.
Two men have been arrested charged
with obtaining SIO,OOO life insurance
upon a person whom they subsequently
drowned.
CUBA.
Havana, Nov. 27. —The first parcel of
the new crop of sugar has arrived. Fewer
contracts this year than formerly. There
is a prospect of an immense crop, though
rains interfere with the first grinding.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
Memphis, Nov. 25.—1 t has been raining
since last night. Scarcely a horse or mule
on the streets. Ox teams get $1 25 per
bale for hauling cotton. Some horses
have died.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia. Nov. 26. —The Legislature
has organized. Lee, colored, was elected
speaker of the House. The present is
better than the last Legislature, and shows
a disposition to reduce expenses.
INDIANA.
Indianapolis, Nov. 26.—D. W. McLam
has bought the Indianapolis Railroad for
$1,000,000.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 27. —Nine bodies were
found in the ruins of the fire and have
been identified. Nineteen are still miss
ing.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Nov. 27.—Paymaster
Geo. L. Mead is dead.
Grant’s official majority is 13,600.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, Nov. 27. —Second ballot:
Vance 78, Merrimon 20, Poole 72. Result
doubtful.
alabamT items.
Messrs. B. F. Hart, James M. Bu
ford, Henry McOormic and H. C. Russell,
Judge of Probate Court of Barbour coun
ty, were arrested in Eufaula by United
States Deputy Marshal, Randolph,
from Montgomery, last Thursday, on
charge of the violation of election law'.
These gentlemen promptly gave bond in
the sum of SI,OOO, and were released.
There are one hundred cases of the
horse disease in Eufaula.
Mr. T. L. Hardman, Clerk of the Eu
faula City Council for the last four years,
has resigned on account of feeble health,
and is succeeded by Mr. George H. Spor
man.
Somebody stole more than forty true
bills, which the Grand Jury of Mobile
City Court had found.
Dr. Costly, of LaFayette, and marshal
of the town, were shot last Thursday by
Dr. Carter, of Tallapoosa county. Dr.
Costly was seriously w'onnded in the breast
with a charge from a double barrel shot
gun. The marshal was wounded in the
leg. Dr. Carter is a son-in-law of Dr.
Costly.
Gov. Bloxham, and Col. Jones, the new
ly elected Governor and Congressmen at
large from Florida, were in Montgomery
yesterday.
Tile nominations to Brigadier *J one lain
of militia by Gov. Lindsay of Wm. W. Al
len, of Montgomery, W. A. Johnson, of
Colbert, and Richard H. Powell, of Bul
lock, were confirmed by tho Senate.
A negro man was killed by the Selma
and Gulf Railroad train. He was run
ning across the track and fell. The resi
dence of J. W. Yates, near Selma, was
burned Thursday.
The large and extenstive steam and grist
mill cotton aud press, of W. H. Andrews,
in Wilcox county, was burned on Monday,
last week, with eight bales of cotton. Mr.
Andrew's loses $3,500.
William, a son of Mr. Wm. King, of
Eufaula, was accidently killed while hunt
ing.
Eufaula received Monday 130 bales cot
ton; total receipts 12,602; stock 2,628;
low middlings 17j-.
Frank McCullough, colored, charged
with the murder of Hill Streater, colored,
in that city, in May last, was tried in the
Barbour Circuit Court at Clayton, on Fri
day, was found guilty and sentenced by
Judge Wiles to forty years in the peni
tentiary.
The radical member from Randolph
county passed through West Point Mon
day week with two large cloth wallets
filled with bisouit, hog liver and roasted
potatoes enough, he said, to last him till
“the Legislatin’ busted.” Ex-Governor
William Smith was accompanying him,
evidently for the purpose of showing him
the way to the Capitol of Alabama. The
last seen of them, they were going to the
depot, ex-Gov. Smith in the lead, and the
verdant Legislator swinging to the flaps
of his coat-tail, begging not to let the
“kars bite him.” They say just after he
got aboard the train the whistle blew, and
it required four men to keep him in the
car.
Eufaula has the horse disease badly. It
is all over Alabama and Georgia.
Ex-Gov. Lindsay was serenaded at
Montgomery Monday night, and made a
brief and happy speech.
A line run along the northern bounda
ries of Sumter, Greene, Hale, Perry,
Baker, Elmore, Macon and Lee counties
will about divide Alabama into two equal
geographical divisions—North and South
Alabama. In the late election the coun
ties north of this line polled 83,043 Demo
cratic and 23,652 Radical votes. Those
South of the line polled 48,328 Demo
cratic and 65,917 Radical votes. Total
vote of South Alabama, 114,245. Total
vote of State, 170,940.
Rev. J. H. Kenebrew, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Montgomery, has
sent in his resignation, but as yet the
Church has taken no action in regard to
the matter.
The Mobile Register favors Alex. Mc-
Kinstry for United States Senator on the
ground that he may divert a stream from
the government treasury into Alabama.
Hon. Luke Pryor, of Athens, last
week gave a dinner party to the residents
of that place of seventy years of age and
upwards. There were some fifty or sixty
present; all of whom had been living in
Athens for fifty years or more.
Polks are passing through Selma on
their way to Texas and Louisiana.
Selma thinks she is going to have a ear
wheel foundry.
A father and son murdered another
negro in Lowdensboro because, they
alleged, he cursed the wife of the son.
The Washington and Lee University, at
Lexington, Ya., has twelve schools in
operation, and is -ncreasing the number
as rapidly as its funds will admit. It has
received within the last year near SIOO,OOO
in bequests and donations—s7o,ooo cash
from the late R. H. Bryley, of New Or
leans, and $20,000 Alexandria city bonds
from W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washing
ton city, making its cash capital more
than $300,000, and its aggregate capital,
including real estate, buildings, libraries
and apparatus, more than half a million
dollars. Ths institution is frea from d«bt.
WEDNESDAY MORNINO, NOV. 47.
Cheap Railway Fare Encouraging
Passenger Business.— ln our issue of yes
terday, we stated that the Central was the
only road in Georgia that carried passen
gers at four cents per mile. We should
have included the North and South road
as four cents for regular fare and three
for commutation tickets is this company’s
rate. Their right to be counted in the
ring is shown by the following table. The
company opened for business Sept. 11th,
since when the road has carried of paying
passengers:
Going North 2,414
Going South 2,298
Making a total of 4,712
in seventy-five days, and this aggregate
does not embrace the many hundred
hands transported on account of con
tractors. This result is particularly grati
fying to the friends of the enterprise
when it is remembered that the company
commenced business over only twelve
miles of road, extending gradually to
seventeen, where the business terminus
still rests ; the remaining three miles not
haviDg been turned over as yet by the
contractors. We understand the company
will receive this portion of the road next
Saturday.
Something about the Disease—Trot
ting Horses Attacked. Emma, the
well-known racing trotter of Col. Me-
Dougald, has been attacked by the horse
disease. Mr. Henry Klink’s trotter has
also a bad case. Jeff Davis, the fast gray
trotter, has been quite siGk at Gammel’s
stable. Hickory Jack and Atlanta, be
longing to Mr. Jack Chambers, had es
caped to yesterday, but the probability is
the disease will hardly miss them. We
hear the epidemic has not extended far
beyond the city limits. There are many
cases in Wynnton aud the adjoining villa
ges. We hear that few mules have been
attacked. The experience of other oities
demonstrates that the disease lasts about
two w'eeks, and the worst features are
over in ten days. A thorough cure should
be effected before an attempt is made to
work animals. If it is tried a relapse into
what is called the horse dropsy is the
consequence. This is more fatal than
the original disease, and when an animal
does recover it is foundered. Horses will
be apt to be tender the ooming winter
and more apt to take cold, and henoe,
extra care must he taken, and imprudent
exposure avoided.
The disease is by no means anew thing.
Sickness identical in symptoms and char
acter visited England and Ireland in 1817,
and attacked almost all the horses in those
countries simultaneously. The scourge
lasted six weeks, and many animals died.
A similar malady raged in Belgium and
Selisia in 1843 and 1849.
At the stables in the city there is a can
nonade of coughing.
There are so many remedies being used
that we do not know which to publish.
Blankets should not be used on horses
afflicted with the epizoote during work or
exercise. Experienced horsemen claim it
aggravates the disease. Covering is only
necessary when the animal is at rest.
Muscogee Superior Court—Judge Jas.
Johnson Presiding—Eighteenth Day,
Tuesday.—Court met at 9 o’clock.
In the case of E. W. Seabrook, adminis
trator for Geo. O. Dawson vs. the Under
writers Insurance Company, the jury re
turned a verdict of $13,015 13, being the
aggregate of principal and interost.
C. C. Cody vs. John It. Mott, executor
of J. A. Chapman—bill tiled for account
in settlement and injunction—verdict for
defendant for SIOO.
W. E. Coleman, trustee for his wife,
Frances Coleman, vs. J. J. Grant and oth
ers—verdict by consent for plaintiff for
$0,700 and costs.
J. L. Mustain vs. R. L. E. >• —bill for
account and settlement—ref- i.- lto Mas
ter in Chancery, A. H. Chap x / to audit
accounts and report to next term of Court.
Gen. Banning for plaintiff; ingrain &
Crawford and Blandford & Crawford for
defendant.
Court adjourned to Wednesday, 9 a. m.
The Eueaula Prisoners. —These gen
tlemen were arraigned before U. S. Com
mission Dresser, at Montgomery, on yes
terday. Judge Itice for the defence, and
U. S. Marshal Mimms for the prosecu
tion. Hart and McCormick were dis
charged, and Judge 11. C. Russell, Major
J. M. Buford, Sheriff J. C. Flournoy, and
A. T. Spence, Esq., Clerk of the District
Court, were held to bail in the sum of
SI,OOO, each, which was promptly given.
The case excites great indignation against
Judge Kiels and other parties who have
been instrumental in prosecuting it.
Change in Engineers. Col. W. J.
Winn, until recently Chief Engineer of
the North and South road, has resigned,
and, we learn, returns to his home in
Liberty county. Col. W. is one of those
courteous gentlemen whom any city hates
to lose and is proud to gain. Mr. F. W.
Harris succeeds him as Engineer in charge.
Mr. Harris, with necessary assistants, left
yesterday to complete the revision of the
location North of LaGrange; so that the
Heard county construction company may
go to work.
Remedy fob Whooping Cough. —The
following recipe has been handed us by a
lady friend with the request to publish.
It has been used by many and found an
infallible remedy. As this is the season
when whooping cough prevails, every
mother should preserve this recipe and
try it:
Take 60 grains ipecac, 1 teaspoonful of
tincture of assafoetida, 20 drops of lauda
num and half pint of water. Shake well
and give a teaspoonful every ten minutes
until vomiting is produced. Repeat the
dose three mornings in succession.
Professors Erected. —At an adjourned
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Agricultural College, located at Auburn,
Col. R. A. Hardaway and Mr. O. D. Smith
were elected to professorships in that in
stitution. Better selections could not
have been made. Col. Hardaway is a
distinguished soldier and civil engineer,
and of first-class scholastic attainments.
Prof. Smith is one of the most able and
successful instructors of youth in this
country. As an educator and a man of
splendid education, he is seoond to none.
Both gentlemen are well known in this
city and section.
Alabama Legislature. —Little done on
Monday, which has not been reported.
The Senate and House both appointed
oommittees to prooeed to the Secretary of
State’s office and report all the facts to be
gained there concerning the election of
the Senators and Representatives from
Marengo and Barbour counties.
Large Turnips. — Dr. J. H. Carriger.
of Lee county, Ala., has sent us a “red
top” turnip which weighs 4 pounds and 10j
ounces. We notice they are having them
in Savannah which weigh ttj to pounds.
Colored Georgia Annual Conference.
—The Annual Conference of the Colored
j Methodist Episcopal Church for Georgia,
j will convene in this oitv on the 18th of
• Deoember. Bishop W. H. Miles will pre
-1 aide.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Mr. John Moore’s residence in Thomas
ton was burned last Saturday night. That
of his father-in-law, Judge Reeves, was
burned not long since. Mrs. Mary Gra
ham, died near Flint River Faotory, Sun
day, aged 70 years, and Mrs. Mattie Bar
row on Nov. 3d. Marriages in Thomaston
frequent.
Rev. James Harris, who had charge of
the Upson Circuit several years ago, haa
reoeived a legacy of $9,000 from his wife’s
family in Connecticut.
A colored boy named Tom, saved an ex
cursion train from Bainbridge to Thomas
ville, on the Atlantic aud Gulf Railroad,
on Monday last, from a terrible accident,
at the risk of his life. It is stated the
passengers made np a purse on the spot
and presented it to him.
Mr. L. Van Houghton, of Newnan, was
found dead in his bed yesterday week.
Jesse Osborne of Newton, Bhot a man
last week, but missed him, aud then turn
ed in and gave his brother Barney an aw
ful mauling.
A man named Moore killed his brother
in-law in Harrison county on the I6th and
is now in jail.
Mr. A. Newton, jr., of Jasper county,
had nothing at the dose of the war except
a horse and saddle. He now owns 2000
acres improved lands, 20 head of horses,
mules and other stock, and makes 100
bales cotton per year.
Mr. Edwin Martin, has purchased the
Perry Home Journal, and assumes control
in a very modest but dignified salutatory.
The railroad is finished to a half way
point between Fort Valley and Perry.
The official returns of the late election
have been reoeived at Atlanta from all the
counties except Haralson and Dade. The
whole vote polled for President was 142,-
320, of whioh Greeley received 85,896,
Grant 62,485 and O’Conor 3,999. The
law requires the attendance of the electors
at the Capitol on the first Monday in De
cember, “to cast the vote of the State on
the Wednesday following, at twelve o’cl’k
m.”
Hon. A. H. Stephens cannot walk with
out the aid of his crutches and a servant,
and can leave the house only on pleasant
days.
Mr. Sloan is in Atlanta and claims he
was elected to Congress from the First
Congressional District by an overwhelm
ing majority. He says he appears, not as
contestant, but as a claimant. He olaims
there was no legal election in Savannah.
The colony of Canaanites near Augusta
has dwindled down from 100 to four or
five. The chief, Curry, is said to be in
sane.
The fancy horses of Savannah are re
covering and being trained for the Fair.
U. S. Judge Woods has appointed Isaac
Becket Commissioner of Shipping for Sa
vannah. Savannah had a S2IOO fire Sat
urday night—negro houses.
Macon, thus far, has received 32,151
bales of cotton and has a stock of 9,702.
Horse disease in Macon; White Cloud
has it. The Bibb County Agricultural
Society has appointed a committee to in
vestigate the character of the disease, as
certain the appropriate remedies, the
means of prevention, (if any) and every
thing else connected with the diagnosis
and treatment of this strange visitation.
It is said Gen. Le Hardy, of Rome,
has sold his interest in a type setting
machine for $200,000.
Lewis Holsenback waskilled in Calhoun
county by the discharge, accidentally, of
his gun.
A Cuthbert negro has been sent to the
penitentiary one year for voting illegally.
Several droves of hogs have passed
Dalton bound south. Drovers report hogs
plentiful in the West. Pork is worth o£o.
at Dalton.
In Haralson county, Moore killed his
brother-in-law, Robinsham, and is now
in jail.
The U. S. Government has spent $5,000
bringing Ku-Klux witnesses to Savannah;
yet not a true bill has been returned.
Savannah negroes rocked the Cleburne
Hose Company as they were returning
from a funeral Sunday. Os 495 dray
horses in Savannah not one has died of
the epidemic, and two-thirds have worked
all the while.
Alp. Bradley has turned into a horse
doctor. He recommends the use of cut
sugar cane.
Tennessee oxen have mane their appear
ance at Savannah, where they will take
the places of mules in the freight hauling
business.
Three epizootic horses—one belonging
to the Express office—have died in At
lanta.
A discharged convict, Edgar Apßey,
was shot in the abdomen while loafing at
night around the camp of Grant, Alexan
der & Cos.
The tobacco warehouse of Simonton,
Jones and Hatcher, in Atlanta, was burn
ed Monday at 3 a. m. with 94 hogsheads
of leaf tobacco, valued at SO,OOO, stored
in the factory, and 500 boxes of manu
factured tobacco. Loss in machinery and
stock $25,000 to $28,000. Insurance
about $12,000. The negro watchman had
fallen asleep, leaving a stove carelessly
filled with tire, and when he awoke the
whole house was in a blaze.
Washington county farmers report an
unusually large supply of pork hogs and
plenty of corn to fatten them.
Morgan county already has about sixty
Northern families, who are certainly en
gaged in farming.
Mr. William D. Varner, of McDonough,
Ga., and Miss Mattie Underwood, were
married in Meriwether county on the
19th.
A Quitman negro has cleared SI,OOO by
his labor on a plantation this year.
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad
suit is progressing at Brunswick, and has
attracted thither an army of talented law
yers. The Appeal of Saturday says that
up to date only arguments had been heard,
but that an early settlement of the case
was probable. It also speaks for the
people of that section, and calls for no
postponement of the sale of the road.
Jeff. Long, Fitzpatrick and Lowe had
a row of words at a negro meeting in Ma
con the other night.
The Savannah News correspondent in
timates that Hon. A. H. Stephens, in his
forthcoming address, will endeavor to
induce the electors not to vote for Gree
ley. The News advises that the vote be
withheld.
Mr. Stephens is reported by the Herald
to have said in Atlanta that he probably
owes his life to Henry Wilson, now Vice
President of the United States, who in
terfered in his behalf when he was lying
in a Northern prison. Also, that he will
not be a candidate for United States Sen
ator unless he is fully satisfied that a
majority of the people interested in the
matter desire him to do so. Mr. Stephens
is now sixty-four years old.
A mill is to be located in Lowndes
county to manufacture paper from pal
metto.
A son of a widow lady, a Mrs. Craig, of
Banks county, accidentally shot and killed
himself on Friday last. Aged fourteen.
A little child fell upon its playmate in
Cherokee county on Friday, and instantly
killed her.
During the present year, eighteen
whites and sixty-two blacks have died in
Athens.
I The crib of Mr. Martin Nelson, with
NO. 43
150 bushels of corn, in Houston oounty,
has been incendiaried.
A watch was brought to Greensboro by
a negro woman the other day, whioh was
identified as the property of Miss Sarah
Richards, who was murdered in 1871, and
her house burned. It has been traced
baok to the possession of a negro man,
who has been placed under bond of only
SIOO.
Mr. Wm. G. Hodge dislocated his knee
joint in his Maoon brickyard Sunday,
Mr. Walter F. Adams and Miss Mary
R. ( Crosland, of Macon, are married.
At a tremendous meeting of Democrats
of Macon Monday night, Mayor Huff was
re-nominated for Mayor by aclamation.
The store of J. A. Barclay, at Colev
Station, on the M. <fc B. R. R., was robbed
of $l5O Tuesday.
Married, in Stewart county, on the 19th,
Mr. W. D. Flinn to Miss Fannie Johnson.
The steamers Herman Livingston from
New York, and America from Baltimore,
arrived at Savannah Monday.
The Chapman Sisters appear in Savan
nah next week.
An inebriate stranger precipitated him
self down the Savannah Exohange steps
yesterday morning, and on reaching the
bottom reproachfully apostrophized him
self with: “If you'd bin a wantin to oome
down stairs, why in thunder didn't you
say so, you wooden-headed old fool, an’
I’d a oome with you an’ showed you the
way. ’’
The seventh annual report of the Public
Schools of Savannah ending July, shows
48 teachers, 2,513 soholars, average
attendance 1,906; aotual cost per pupil
sl7 90; number of deaths among scholars
8. The schools cost for the year $46,-
634 87. Colored schools have been es
tablished sinoe the report.
The horse disease in Savannah is abat
ing. The Advertiser, which first an
nounced its presence and has givon many
valuable hints regarding its treatmeutand
exact status, advises that the animals be
yet treated with oare and worked lightly.
G. W. Harper, of Carroll oounty, raised
90 bushels of corn on one acre.
The earnings of the Savannah, Griffin St-
North Alabama Railroad are ftH follows:
Freight, $24,001 70; passengers $15,-
803 40; mails, $1,340 60. Total, $41,-
145 70. From this is deducted $21,-
799 21, leaving a balanoe on hand of $19,.
349 49.
The lawyers of Atlanta have organized
a Bar Association, with Col. Bleckley as
President.
The Republicans of Atlanta have nomi
nated T. Stobo Farrow, brother of Potash,
for Mayor.
Hon. A. H. Stephens will not speak in
Atlanta until Wednesday after the elec
tors meet. He desires unity in the State
and national Democracy, and this can
only be secured by an adherance to those
principles of their faith, on whioh the
Government was founded, and on the
maintainanco of whioh all sure hopes for
the preservation of the liberties of the
oountry depend.
The Herald says the Atlanta police have
cost $12,000 more than last year.
John Robinson sold 13,840 tiokets in
Atlanta Tuesday.
Dr. Felix Charlton, formerly of At
lanta, is dead.
In Clayton county a negro ravished a
a white orphan girl aged twelve years.
He has been arrested.
The sixth annual conference of the
North Georgia M. E. Church met in At
lanta yesterday, Bishop Marvin presiding.
The reports of last year showed 582
churches, valued at $532,410, with room
for seating 158,805 persons; 45 parsonages,
valued at $73,200; 44,274 white members.
447 colored; 419 white local preachers; 4
colored; 1,114 white infants baptised; and
3,028 white adults baptised, and 15 col
ored; 470 white Sunday-schools; 3,362
white officers and teachers and 24,692 pu
pils; 1,789 pupils converted during the
veer; 33,533 volumes in library and 11,059
church periodicals circulated.
Gov. Smith announces by proclamation
that Morgan Rawls in the Ist, R. H.
Whitely in the 2d, Philip Cook in the 3d,
H. R. Harris in the 4th, Jas. C. Freeman
in the sth, J. H. Blount in the 6th, P. M.
B. Young in the 7th, A. R. Wright in the
Bth and H. P. Bell in the 9th District
have been eleoted from Georgia members
of tbe 43d Congress—all Democrats save
Whiteley and Freeman.
The Catoosa Courier wants C. W. How
ard for U. 8. Senator.
The eleotion for Justices of tbe Peace
takes place on the Ist Saturday in Janua
ry-
Hugh Carter, accused of the murder of
J. E. Pool, has been acquitted by Jackson
Superior Court.
Athens has a pig with two mouths, two
tongues and two sets of teeth.
Insurance Policies. —The reoeDt great
fires are bringing up again all the old
questions. A correspondent of the New
York Journal of Commeroe inquires “if a
firm has insurance on its stook for $50,-
000 and the stock is worth SIOO,OOO, and
their stock is damaged by fire to the ex
tent of $50,000, how much insurance can
they oollect ? Do the companies pay the
whole damage, or do they pay in propor
tion of the whole stook to the amonnt of
insurance ?—that is, will the firm receive
$50,000 or only $25,000 ?” In reply the
Journal states that no matter how much
the stock is worth, if the insurance is for
$50,000 under a plain ordinary policy,
the underwriter must pay any loss which
occurs up to that amount. Bat if the
policy contains what is known as “the
average clause” (which reads, “It is un
derstood and agreed that claims under
this policy shall only be for such propor
tion of the whole loss as the amonnt of
this allowance bears to the whole valae of
the property insured,”) then the loss falls
pro rata on the underwriter and the own
er. If the stock is insured half its value,
with this clause inserted, the underwriter
pays half the loss. If insured one-fourth
the value, then he pays one-fourth the
loss. But if this clause is omitted then
the owner oan oollect his entire loss if
enough has been insured in solvent com
panies.
The German Ecclesiastical Rights Bill,
prohibiting the issne of decrees of excom
munication, has been submitted to the
Diet. It declares that any olergyman who
shall by name threaten with punishment,
or decree, or proclaim, as punishable, a
subject of Prussia, shall be liable to a fine
of five thousand thalers, or two years im
prisonment, and be ineligible to office for
the term of five years.
A bill has been prepared and will be in
troduced at the ooming session, for erect
ing anew executive mansion and convert
ing the present one into an executive of
floe for the President. It is proposed to
build the new one outside the northern
boundary of the present corporate limits,
and make it in every way creditable to
the country.
A Rhinoceros Dies of Epizootic. —ln
New York, on Saturday, the performing
rhinoceros, attatohed to Bailey’s circus
died of what is alleged to be epizootic.
The immense carcus was taken to the
morgue at Bellvue Hospital, and the med
ical staff held a port mortem. All the vi
tal portions were found to be in a healthy
condition except the intestines, some of
which were swollen to the size of a stove
pipe.
ALABAMA AND IMMIGRATION.
We regret exceedingly the deplorable
political condition of affairs in our sister
State, Alabama. The testimony of one,
though rose from the dead, could furnish
no stronger proof of the utter foolishness
and criminality of the reconstruction
measures and the attempt to govern a free
people, in time of peace, by military law.
The South has been subjected to every
kind of indignity. Her citizens have been
robbed and imprisoned without due course
of law and on the evidence of perjured
witnesses and before corrupt judges. Her
treasuries have been bankrupted by scoun
drels in the shape of so-called Governors
and Legislatures. Her morals have been
sapped; her reverence for order has been
subverted: crime is unwhipped of jus
tice, and anarchy is supreme in several
States. Two pretended Legislatures are
in session at Montgomery—one at the
Capitol and the other at the Court-house.
Force is threatened, and its assertion is
discussed as follows by the Advertiser and
Mail of the 26th :
Some of these same leaders assert that
the Governor being on their side, deprives
the General Assembly of Alabama of all
effectual power of rosistence. Aever t cat
there greater error. When they resort to
force whom have they to rely on? Noth
ing but a black mob I The white people,
the white militia, all to a man, will sus
tain the General Assembly. If the Gov
ernor should attempt to light the General
Assembly, there is u Constitutional meth
od by wiiicli a true and lawful Governor
can be placed in bis stead. Then indeed
it becomes a question of force. The law
abiding white and black people of Ala
bama can meet the issue.
The Advertiser adds:
Already these revolutionary Jacobins
have indirectly lost the State ot Alabama,
at least fifty millions of dollars in the seri
ous injury inflicted on our credit and re
putation !
The loss of a -State in a condition of
anarchy, cannot be valued by dollars and
cents. Capital and educated labor, and
with these every element of prosperity
will flee away as from a pestilence. The
tracks like those that led to the sick lion's
den, will point only in one direction —out
of the State. No man of sense will bring
his riohes to an insecure spot, and will
hasten, if possible, from a country which
affords no other security and protection to
person and property than that of a bayo
net or an ignorant, brutal mob.
Tens of thousands Germans, French and
Italians are, in spite of their governments,
now landing on our shores. Many of
these emigrants are intellectual, and all
are industrious, economical and orderly.
The influence must be imperative, such as
lawlessness and anarchy, which could
drive whole colonies to the wilds of the
West rather than seek a home on the fer
tile soil, and under the bright, mild skies
of the South.
Address oe Superintendent Speed.—
Superintendent Joseph H. Speed, the
newly elected Republican officer, ad
dressed the Board of Public lustruction of
Alabama on the 23d, after taking his seat
as President. He advocated reform, re
trenchment and economy in the Depart
ment. Every dollar of school money
should be devoted to school purposes.
His predecessor had represented many
County Superintendents are in default.
They should be brought to account. If
the law cannot make them, the law should
bo ohanged. He recommended the pas
sage of a law requiring County Superin
tendents to reside at the couuty sites and
keep their offices open at certain hours,
and provide for their removal in cases of
drunkenness and immoral conduct. The
school laws should be so revised as to pro
hibit the employment of teachers until
the money is on hand to pay them. Ha
recommends a reduction of the expenses
of the University. It cost the State for
nine months $38,500, not including $5,000
to $7,000 derived from board, tuition and
other fees. Tuition is now free. The
Professor of Mental Philosophy taught
last session four pupils and received there
for $2500 and S3OO rent for house. The
Professor of Geology did the same. lie
reooinmends that these two Professor
ships be abolished and the President,
as had been done for forty years,
teach the first, and the Professor of
Chemistry the latter; and that the Profes
sor of Greek teach Latin, and the chairs
of mixed and pure mathematics be made
one, and that salaries be reduced from
$2500 to $2,000, with houses added. This
would give a faculty of a President and
six Professors in all respects as efficient
as the present and save the State $12,000
annually, which largo sum could bo ap
plied in completing the university build
ings and purchasing scientific apparatus
so much needed, the enlargement of the
library, and in liquidating the debts of
the institution. A present, the State tax
ation for the University amounts to $24,-
000, and the expenditures exceed the in
come by $14,000. He recommends, too,
that tuition be restored, and a certain
number of indigent young men be ad
mitted free, and that the Baptist denomi
nation be represented in the faculty, and
that a foreign-born citizen be employed
to teach foreign languages. He also rec
ommends a Department of Law to be
wholly dependent on fees of students. He
advises that the Public School system be
revised, and that it should be seen that
teachers are selected on account of merit
alone without regard to oreed or parties.
He alludes with pride to tbe fact that he
received many votes outside his own par
ty. The advice of experienced eduoators
and intelligent citizens should be sought.
It is now stated that ex-Senator Morgan,
of New York, is ineligible to the office
of Secrerary of the Treasury, being
debarred by law as was A. T. Stewart, of
New York. This apparently settles ths
fact that Mr. Morgan will not be Secre
tary of the Treasury, and reports are re
ceived from Now York to the effect that
Morgan is squarely contesting for the
United States Senatorship, and purposes
making a strong and determined fight for
the position, and will not be deterred
from asserting his claims simply because
of the fact that Senator Conklin desires
and is seeking re-election. Taking all
matters and reasons into consideration,
Mr. Delano, present Secretary of the In
terior, seems to be the coming man for
Secretary of the Treasury. If this should
be the case, the claims of Mr. Senator
Harlan for preferment may possibly result
in his appointment to fill the office of
Secretary of the Interior, which he occu
pied under President Lincoln.
A Challenge to the World.— Editor*
Turf, Field and Farm: I authorize you
to state that I will match my stable, three
races, against any horse or horses in the
world, to name at the post, two, throe,
and four mile heats, for ?! 10,000 or $20,-
000 each race. The races to be run over
the Saratoga course, New York, any time
between the last of July and the Ist of
September, 187’S.
D. McDaniel,
Princeton, N. J.
New Telegraph Company. —lt is re
ported that anew telegraphio company
in opposition to the Western Union
will claim the attention and favors of
Congress ; that it is to have a capital of
$20,000,000, and to be pressed on Con
gress in connection with the postal tele
graph system, and that prominent
among its supporters in Congress is Gen,
Butler. _
The National Commercial Convention
meets m St. Louis on Deoember 11th.
Each State is entitled to a delegate, to be
appointed by the Governor; each incor
porate city to one for every 50,000 inhabi
tant; each Chamber of Commerce to one;
and each commercial or manufactoring
company to one for every $75,000 of capi
tal. R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, is Pres
ident, and he should be notified if dele
gates are to be sent.
The Mayor of Memphis is under arrest
for licensing gaming booses.