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Address, Taos. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
Death of Alr. Greeley. —The telegraph
brings the painful intelligence that Mr.
Greeley is dead. As an editor and think
er, he had wielded a tremendous influence
in the world, and the sons of genius and
philosophy from every section of the
globe will gather in sympathy around his
({rave and strew it with flowers. His
vacant oditoral chair will probably never
lie filled with his vigor and
atiility. “It is said lie does not know his
own daughter.” How forcibly are we re
minded of tho following beautiful lines
by Dr. Johnson :
In life's Inst scenes, what prodigies ariso,
Tears of the brave, and follies ot the wise,
Down Marlborough’s cheeks the tears of dotage
flow,
And Swift eiplres, a driveller and a show.
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Registration in Columbus by Wards.
—We give below the registration of
whites and blacks for each Ward in tho
city for 1872, and also for 1871, last year:
1872 1871
Ward W C W C
1 88 44 106 42
2 108 65 197 95
3 102 19 114 20
4 246 95 270 102
5 134 88 147 92
0 93 113 98 140
Total 840 424 932 603
In 1872 there are yet 289 whites and
230 colored people who have registered,
but have not paid the two dollars for
street tax. This can be paid on the day
of election.
Muscooee Superior Coubt—Judge Jas.
Johnson Presiding. Nineteenth day—
Wednesday.
Four cases were continued.
Jas. M. Lcnnard vs. John A. Frazer,
Tax Collector, quo warranto, dismissed
because the Judge believed that the Gov
ernor had the right to remove a State and
county officer without conviction have
been obtained. Messrs. Moses, Bland
ford, Crawford and C. J. Thornton for
plaintiff; Peabody & Brannon for de
fendant.
Court adjourned to Friday 9 a. in. in
order that all might observe Thanksgiv
ing Day.
Locomotive Engineers. They have
what is called the Grand International
Division of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. We hear many in this
section are members. The Brotherhood
numbers over 8,000 members. The
widows’ and orphans’ fund amounts to
$15,888. For the yoar ending November
the total receipts were $19,488; expenses
$13,013, and including balances of pre
vious years there were $31,440 in the
treasury. We hear that there is a sub
division of engineers centering at Macon
and Columbus.
New Building and Loan Association.
—A fourth series has been organized in
Columbus with 960 shares. The follow
ing gentlemen have been elected Directors:
T. J. Chaflin, President; J. P. Mauley, G
\V. Itosette, L. M. Burras, Jaß. W. By an.
W. N. Hawks was elected Secretary and
Treasurer, and Peabody <fc Brannon, At
tornies.
Installments will be due and payable on
the third Mondays in each month, com
mencing in December.
John Robinbon’s Great Circus.—The
must successful manager of the day is to
exhibit his mammoth circus and menage
rie in Columbus on Dec. 31st. He is
represented as having the best areuic
troupe on record. Excelsior is the word,
to describe every feature. In the circus
ring is the grand triumph. The best of
clowns and most suple of athletes, the
most dextrous of riders, and everything
that is first-class are to bo found under
his pavilion.
The collection of animals is rare and in
teresting. Polar Bears and Dogs, Zebras
and Donkeys, the three-horned Ox of Tex
as, and the Elephant, the humpty-dumpty
Camel, and the graceful Giraffe, and the
numborless features are beheld with in
terest by tho student, and with arnazo
ment by the peasant. Even Old Ocean
has yielded up her treasures, and her olea
ginous looking Lions are objects of remark
and credulity. Onithology has also step
ped to the aid of the “Old Boss” with a
monster ostrich that strikes terror into the
smaller fry.
The brilliant, plumed denizens of the
tropics, the warblers of most every sky
over which Phoebus rolls his chariot of
fire, lends either interest to the occasion
or admiration to the ulready over-pleased
senses.
The Epizootic.—About one hundred and
seventy-five cases in Columbus. We hear of
it in the country in several places. l'he
type is generally mild. Mules are not as
seriously affected as horses. Some dray
men are speaking of using oxen. No
delay in moving cotton. N. Y Chronical
gives the disease as one of the causes for
the small cotton receipts at the ports for
the past two weeks.
Not Applewhite. Sheriff McMillan
has returned to Lumberton from Georgia,
where he went to receive the custody of a
man arrested in Hamilton, some weeks
since, supposed to be the notorious Geo.
Applewhite. It was the wrong bird, the
party, who gave his name as Ransom
Lowrey, not answering the description of
Applewhite. So says the Wilmington
(N. C.) Journal.
Madison House.—This old establish
ed house, formerly the European Hotel,
corner Perry and Maiket streets, is still
open to the public, under the proprietor
ship of Capt. C. W. Kennedy, with Mr.
J. B. Lewis as manager, and Capt. J. W.
Kelly as steward. It is a good house.
Take Care.—Those who h ive the care
of horses afflicted with the epizootic
should be careful while feeding and hand
ling them. Soveral deaths have been
reported in tho North of persons who
have come in contact with the virus.
Geo. Y. Pond, the present popular iu
cumbeut, is announced as a candidate for
re-election to the office of Superior Court
Clerk.
The late census returns gave Nashville,
a population of 25, *OS. The people of
that city claims that the outlying districts
and Edgefield are properly but parts of
Nashville, in estimating the population,
which will swell the census to 37,973.
The Louisville Courier-Journal calls
Henry Ward Beecher the Mark Twaih of
the American pulpit.
POLITICS, &c.
Since the Presidential election politic*
; have become unfashionable, and generally
voted a bore. It is now generally admit
ted that Gen. Grant is elected President,
and we regret to learn that Mr. Greeley
| is suffering from nervous prostration, or
I on his death-bed, at Tarrytown, caused,
no doubt, by hie past mental labor* and
! the watching and anxieties over his sick
j and dying wife. The New York Tribune,
| under tho chief editorship of Whitelaw
Reid, Esq., however, has not forgot its
l °ld sarcasm, and launches occasionally a
I bolt at the domestic manners and habits
| of the South.
A single swallow makes not a summer,
nor is a simple brick the best evidence of
the quality of a house. Mrs. Gen. Fair
or Mrs. Col. Woodhull, are not fit repre
sentatives of amiable and virtuous woman
hood, neither are the hundred daily homi
cides in New York city proof that the
whole population are murderers. At the
South a schoolmaster may shoot his pupil
or a pupil shoot his schoolmaster, but tho
conclusion would be false that these ex
ceptions were rules and received popular
commendation. We believe but for the
legal and domestic demoralization, caused
by the war and the subsequent rascalities
of Radical officials, that the rights of
person at the South are as well appreciated
and protected as in any other section. We
are not the barbarians which the fol
lowing article, from tho Tribune of the
25th, would seem to expross :
Times and manners have changed
greatly at the South, and now the school
master shoots his pupil, instead of being
shot by them, as was the usage of old.
Formerly, to pop away at the pedagogue,
from the safe ambush of a distant counter,
was considered excellent morning sport—
spirited, appetizing, safe —and atten
ded with great improvement to the marks
manship of the pupil. But for some rea
son or other, possibly from lack of pluck
or the high price of ammunition, the cus
tom has lapsed. Tho teacher is still, at
intervals, bombarded with furtive and
mysterious pellets; pins are skillfully ad
justed in hiH chair, and he is liable to be
oontradicted point blank by the “big
girls." But be is rarely tarred and feath
ered, and almost never shot, a fact which
we cite with pleasure, as evincing a
gratifying revision and* amelioration of
the educational customs prevalent in
that region. We wish wo could
say that the conduct of the schoolmasters
has not improved in an equal degree. But
we cannot. Here comes a report of a
Georgia instructor who come into serious
collision with a female pupil on the sub
ject of the orthography of the word “mar
riage.” The tutor maintained the correct
ness of the formula “maridge;” the pu-
I pil, with great pertinacity, insisted upon
; the authenticity of “marridge,” and the
dispute waxed so hot that a brother of the
young lady entered upon the scene, and,
after testifying to his impartiality and
freedom from bias by saying that he did
not “care how it was spelled,” proceeded
to spin in gyrations of hostility toward the
teacher, who incontinently fled, leaving
the etymological question unsettled, but
the enemy in full possession of the field.
Brooding upon this discomfiture and still
fired with a noble desire to vindicate and
maintain the purity of the English lan
guage, the teacher borrowed a neighbor
ing Derringer and wended his way
to an industrial evening “blow-out,”
known in those regions as a “eorn-shuok
ing.” There he found his refractory
pupil still possessed with irrational views
of orthography; and there also loomed
the brother, still dispassionate and un
prejudiced as far as the literary aspects of
the quarrel were concerned, but still
evincing an energetio desire to “put a
head” upon tho obstinate and unreasona
ble pedagogue. This not unnatural incli
nation was frustrated by the explosion of
the Derringer, which deposited something
like au ounce of lead in the young man’s
elbow, who, thus plainly and expeditiously
proved to have been in the wrong, went
home, and is believed to have adopted the
teacher's mode of spelling.
The substitution of the birch and the
ferule by the Derringer is an innovation
which not even the wildest zeal in the in
terests of accurate scholarship, or the ra
tional and appropriate aversion to big
brothers, can possibly justify. We trust
that the Georgia teacher may be brought
to the knowledge that artillery is not a
safe uor permanently valuable educational
appliance. The shattering of a man’s el
bow may in many cases render bis sister
more reasonable—more easily accessible
to conviction on delicate points of or
thography—but is not always to be relied
on. Even if it were, there would be as
much difficulty in shattering the elbows of
a nation as Burke foreboded, when he said
that he could not draw an indictment
ag inst a people. That schoolmaster is
ali abroad, and ho had better return his
Derringer to its owner at once, and go
back to the less exciting but more saluta
ry instrumentality of tho ferule and the
spelling-book.
The Horse Disease.—lt still continues
to spread. The first attacked are getting
well. It is found in the rural districts.
A lb S. cavalry officer says he ordered all
horses, on tho first appearance of tho dis
ease, to be thoroughly rubbed between
the lower jaws and along the larnyx down
tho nock with spirits of turpentine, caus
ing a very sevore external irritation and
blister, and not a case was lost under his
treatment.
Microscopic examination, made in South
Carolina, detected in eight out of eleven,
in the nasal discharge, cigar shaped ani
malculm, of the color of a strong Havana
cigar, wero discovered. They were found
when the discharge is thin, and cannot
he seen when tho disease is advanced and
the discharge becomes thick. One physi
cian suggests that the animalcule! pen
etrated the mucus membrane of the horse*
and thus it is, after soveral days, none
are to be discovered. Perhaps to their
subsequent pranks may be attributed the
dropsy, which is appearing at the North as
tho secondary stage of the disease.
John Robinson, the circus man, recom
mends the following treatiwent. He has
had many sick horses, but none have died:
Keep the animal warm and quiet, icit/i
--out work, if possible; feed him on boiled
oats or bran mash, milk icarm, mixed with
water from oil cake meal, with a little hay
or some good straw. Keep liis nose clean
by wiping and sponging it out constantly,
using castile soap or a weak solution of
carbolic acid and soap for that purpose.
The disease is not in the stomach and is
not likely to go down the throat and wind
pipe unless the animal swallows the mat
ter which is discharged from the head, and
whioh is very poisonous after the first few
days, or after it turns yellow.
It the disease attacks the lungs the
treatment should be as lung fever, giving
about ten drops of aconite once each hour
until the horse is relieved, or if that should
not follow the treatment, apply a liquid
blister to the jole, throat, breast and lungs
both sides, but not strong enough to take
the hair off. Keep the stalls free of wet,
using saw dust to soak it up, and take it
immediately away. Feed light and give
plenty of fresh air, a little water often
(.not cold) from oil cake meal. Use a lit
tle chloride of lime about the stalls.
Oxen are now employed by several of
our merchants in draying.
We take from a Lexington (Ky.) paper
the following remedy for the prevailing
horse epidemic. As that section is noted
for its fine stock the remedy is probably
as good as cun be had :
Take oho drachm muriate ammonia,
mixed with common salt, and then mix in
warm mash with some oats. Administer
or feed this preparation four times per
day, adding to each feed a handful of liax
seed meal. If the animal swells under
the jaws, rub with turpentine. Place in
the bottom of the trougn some assafiedita,
and tack over the same coarse canvass or
leather. Keep tho animal warm and dry,
and do not work it.
Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, is the
only pastor who has issued instructions
for prayer for the abatement of the dis
ease among horses that has lately spread
over the country. He prescribes the
recitation of the prayer from the Missal
Pro Peste Animalium for thirty days in
all the masses in which it is permitted by
the Rubric, trusting that God, in His
infinite meroy, will mitigate or cause to
oease the present widely prevailing pesti
leuee. He also requests all religious
committees iu his. diocese to recite daily
for the special intention, the Litany of.
the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Sm'RDAT JIOUMSfi, >0V.30.
The Alabama Methodist Conference.
—A large number of clerical delegates left
on yesterday evening’s train for Eufaula,
at which plane the Annual General Con
ference meet* in a few days. Hart’s Hall
has been secured for the daily session.
Going to the Woods. —Gentlemen teil
us that squirrels, coons and “possums”
are dying in the Uchee bottoms from a
disease similar to that which is attacking
horses. They state that numbers of dead
bodies can be found in the swamps.
Hobse Disease Spkculaion.— The sick
est horse in the city is one that, when
well, is valued at $250. The owner, dis
part ng of his getting well, sold him for
SSO. Tho buyer let a third party have
him for S6O. Symptoms were better
yesterday.
Thanksgiving Day.— lt passed like any
Thursday, excepting that banks, govern
ment and telegraph offices were closed,
and no newspaper work was performed.
All the printers went hunting. Courts
were not in session. Service was held
only in the Episcopal Church—at least
that was the only bell heard.
Fires.— The residence of Mr. J. H.
Underwood, in Girard, was consumed by
fire about 8 o’clock yesterday morning.
Most of the furniture was saved. The
house, a comfortablo one-story wooden
structure, was owned by W. W. Berry.
No insurance that we could hear of.
A Rather Flattering Compliment.—
Mr. George Alfred Townsend, one of the
most celebrated newspaper correspond
ents of this country, is now traveling
through the South, and writing up her
resources for tho New York Herald. In a
conversation at Montgomery, during the
past week, he stated that he considered
Georgia the most desirable and promising
of all the Southern Statos, and that her
climate, soil and mineral resources give
full promise of a glorious future for her
agricultural interests.
River News—R. R. Troubles — The
New Jackson arrived yesterday with 184
bales of cotton. The Farley has gone to
Apalachicola, and the St. Clair to Bain
bridge.
We learn that the cars on the J. P. & M.
R. It., have ceased to run further west
than Quincy, on account of the unsafe
condition of the track between that point
and Chattahoochee. This road is now in
the hands of throe receivers, J. M. Baker,
F. B. Papy and J. C. Greeley. The daily
mail from Quincy to Chattahoochee has
been suspended.
Colored Glorification. —The freed
men had a glorification Thursday in the
Court-house square. They tell us Dr.
Blount, Mr. Walter Johnson and Bob Wil
liams, colored, spoke. The Republican
party was endorsed, the gift of Grant
thought to be a matter of thankfulness,
and freedom was secured for a few more
years, &c. In regard to the Mayoralty,
the freedmen were instructed to vote for
the men who would do the best by them.
Not many out.
The “colored troop” paraded about
twenty men and an immense U. S. flag.
The company has no guns.
At night a big ball was given at Tem
perance Hall. All quiet and orderly.
A good many country negroes in the
city. They appeared illy supplied with
money and basked on sunny corners.
Cotton Receipts at Interior Towns.—
The following Rhows the receipts of the
named interior towns from August 31st
to Nov. 23d. Their united stocks on the
22d were 08,075, against 69,941 same date
last year :
1871 1872
Augusta 59,132 77,653
Macon 24,101 31,215
Eufaula 9,047 12,097
Columbus 16,287 24,440
Montgomery 26,557 36,103
Salma 2fi, 532 22, 272
Nashville 16,469 18,221
Memphis 118,440 113,698
Total 296,625 335,099
Capt. J. A. Cody is announced as a
candidate for Mayor, lie has been a
faithful alderman for two terms, is a large
real estate owner, conducts an extensive
business, and is a gentleman of integrity
and honor. Asa Confederate soldier,
his record both in Virginia and
Georgia, is a splendid one. He lost
a leg at Missionary Ridge. He confident
ly appeals to his record as Councilman
for two years.
Bap.ncm’s Great Show.—The Colos
sus Coming to Columbus.—On Wednes
day, Dec. 11th, P. T. Barnum’s Great
Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Mammoth
Circus, and Zoological Garden is to be ex
hibited in Columbus. Mr. Barnum has
always been celebrated for the magnitude
of his enterprises but this last effort of
his caps the climax of ali his undertak
ings, and is understood to be the crowning
triumph of his life.
The press everywhere pronounce it the
biggest and best exhibition that ever hov
eled. The Great Show was at Meihphi
lust week and the papers there have been
filled with complimentary notices of Bar
uum and his entertainments as will be
seen by the following extract. The Ap
peal says :
P. T. Barnum’sShow.—Tho “big show”
is in Memphis, and the original and only
Barnum is in command. The street pa
rade yesterday was the most elaborate and
brilliant spectacle of the kind that has
ever been seen iu Memphis. The ticket
wagons—there are three of them—were
open for the sale of admission tickets at
half-past twelve, and for two hours there
after a vast crowd of people were surging
forward to procure tickets, and then rush
ing pell-mell into the monster tents. We
supposed that we had often witnessed
what showman called a “rush,” but con
fess that nothing that even approximates
itself to what we saw yesterday has ever
before been seen by us. It was absolute
ly dangerous to be in the crowd, and hun
dreds involuntarily wished themselves
safely at home, who were unable to get
away. There could not have been less
than twenty thousand visitors to the show
last evening and night. Every nook and
corner in the monster tent were crowded
to their utmost capacity, and hundreds, if
not thousands, returned to their homes
without venturing within. They will all
be there today. The railroads were taxed
to their utmost carrying capacity with \ is
itors from the surrounding country, and
one train of cars on the Mississippi and
Tennessee road had a hundred passengers i
that had to come a distance of eighty miles ;
expressly to attend this exhibition. Peo
ple acted as if life or death depended on j
their presence. The “boss,” P. T. Bar
num, was as “smiling as a basket of
chips.” and when everybody within the
tents had found a place to stand or sit, the
veteran showman was called for, and re
sponded by appearing in the “charmed
ring,” and making a speech to the vast ■
concourse.
Baenum’s Big Show.—Barnum’s big \
show has arrived and the numberless tents
which would certainly have accommoda
ted the whole of the children of Israel iu
their journeyings through the wilderness, !
occupy the entire bluff. Never before in
the history of Memphis was such a show j
. seen here. It is complete in every par- ,
| ticular, and embraces a superb museum,
j and extensive zoological collection of rare j
animals, and a circus company comprised
of the finest performers in the coun
try. To add to all the things curious
the great original Barnum himself is
here, and appeared iu the ring and made
a short speech to thousands present
iu response to loud calls. He simply
thanked those present for their attend
ance, and trusted he would ever be able
to cater to the amusement of the Ameri
cans, as he had been doing for she past
thirty or forty years. The “Showman of
the World” was received with rapturous
and hearty cheering. The performance
then went on, and the thousands left the
mammoth tents highly delighted with the
entertainment. There will be three per
pormances to-day, at eleven o'clock in the
lorenoon, one o'clock in the afternoon,
and seven in the evening. As there
will be special trains on all the rail
roads. crowded marquees will be the or
der of the day and night.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Col. Walter H. Weems was appointed
by the Governor as delegate at large from
the State to the National Convention,
which meets in St. Louis on the second
Yv ednesday in December next.
The North Georgia Conference, now in
session in Atlanta, numbers 123 clergy
and 19 lay members. Among the latter
are Congressmen Harris and Bell. Bishop
Marvin, assisted by Bishop Pierce, is pre
siding. Dr. McFerrin, Missionary Secre
tary, reported the receipts of the year at
; $96,500, being larger than any since
1865. There are 600,000 Methodists. A.
H. Bedford reports the assets of the Pub
| lishing House at Nashville to be $278,-
1 938 09. Balance over liabilities $229,-
! 736 78. Notwithstanding the loss of
! $20,000 by the fire the net gain has been
j $33,159 23. The South Christian Advo
! cate is reported having cleared nearly
j $2,000. A resolution urging upon our
Congressmen the importance of a legal
1 claim due the Nashville Publishing House
by the United States Government for
| damage done by the use of the office du
; ring the war—some $125,000 —was adopt
! od. Rev. J. W. Heidt was re-elected
| Secretary, with George W. Yarbrough, T.
A. Seals, F. G. Hughes and W. F. Quil
| lian as Assistants. The two last have
charge of statistics. Rev. W. M. Crum
| ley was elected President of the Sunday
School Board, vice, G. J. Pearce, resigned.
| C. P. Crawford and J. B. Hunnicutt were
elected managers, vice W. Phillips and
T. F. Newell. The usual committees
j were appointed, and characters in the
Augusta and Athens Districts passed upon.
In a difficulty near Griffin on Wednes
| day, Col. Walker shot, mortally, Thomas
j Wells, and was shooting at the latter’s
j brother when weapon snapped. The
brothers threatened to whip Walker and
were advancing on him. Old difficulty.
Several Atlanta lawyers meditate Texas.
Mr. Stephens and Major C. 11. Smith,
better known as “Bill Arp,” are engaged
in a heated controversy through the col
umns of their respective journals, the
Atlanta Sun and the Romo Commercial.
The conduct of the controversy is sharp
and incisive on both sides, and the dispu
tants have each had their tempers touched.
Bacon, the negro who was doubtless
hung in Augusta Friday, was baptized in
jail Wednesday, by Father O’Hara, of the
Catholic Church.
Augusta has sold a quantity of powder
machinery, to a Nashville firm, for four
teen thousand dollars.
The total registration of votes in Augus
; ta is 2,082, of which number 415 are col
ored.
The water which is pumped on the line
of the Maoon and Brunswick Railroad is
so impregnated with oil that it cannot be
used in the locomotive boilers.
An old lady of Richmond county, with
the assistance of the Augusta police, found
her daughter, a young girl of seventeen,
in one of the brothels of that city.
Rev. W. P. Kramer has been called to
the Rectorship of the Church of the Atone
ment, in Augusta.
In the Griffin Methodist Church Mr.
Heidt preached his farewell sermon Sun
day. The church, in a few moments,
raised SBOO of salary due him.
The gin house of Col. J. J. Jones, of
Burke county, was burned on Monday,
night, together with several bales of cot
ton belonging to the negroes on his place.
Loss $2,000. Incendiary.
Capt. W. N. Freeman, of Americus, has
resigned the Marshalship of Americus to
go to Texas.
Four prisoners escaped from the Starlc
ville jail. One, a white man, had been
sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years.
Mr. Darley, of Americus, bad his collar
bone broken by a runaway mule.
A negro, near Talbotton, fence-railed
another because be would not lend him
money. Almost a ease for tho coroner.
Mania potu induced .lYilm Shea of Sa
vannah to Suicide by pistoling himself.
Savannah boys are fond of street-fight
ing-
The Chief Engineer of the Army, in
his report, asks for $75,000 to repair
Fort Pulaski, and $9,000 for Fort Jack
son. Anew fort has been planned for
Tybee Island.
A. W. Storm has been appointed U. S.
Assistant District Attorney for Georgia.
The Savannah News has this:
The Columbus Ikon Works. The
Columbus Iron Works have entered for
exhibition at our approaching Fair one of
their steam engines and saw mills. The
two engines which are to drive the ma
chinery during the exposition were made
at their works, and will oe put up under
the direction of Mr. G. J. Gulden, the
Superintendent, who is now in this city
making arrangements for that purpose.
An epizootic Savannah mule dropped
dead in the streets. A colored clerk in
the cotton office of Mundav Habersham,
colored, fell dead while eating a biscuit.
A bale of cotton was stolen from the
bark Bourneuf, at Savannah. Our Geor
gia seaport boasts of an organization
known as the “Forty Thieves.”
Steamship Huntsville, from New York,
and Wyoming, fromPbiladelphia. reached
Savannah Thursday.
T. L, Kinsly, of Savannah, gave each
one of liis forty employees a turkey for
his thanksgiving dinner.
Os the SIOO,OOO lost in the Miileuge
vilie fire, $75,000 were in buildings. In
the five stores under the hotel were $30,-
000 of goods, which were lost without in
surance. Mr. James Covey, a merchant
21 years of age, was the only person lost, j
His heart and a few bones have been re
covered. The Union calls upon the peo
ple to at once rebuild the hotel, and New
ell, Ilall & Henry are going to do it. Most
of the burned-out merchants have pro
cured stores and are going on with busi- j
ness. The old McCoinb Hotel is to be re- j
paired and opened for boarders.
It has been noted that the Presbyterian
Synod of Georgia has concluded to aban
don Oglethorpe University, pay off Pro
fessors and rent out buildings, and to es
tablish a school at Midway, on the plan of
Rugby or Eaton, with a good endowment
—an ample board of instruction and low
rates of board and tuition. Prof. W. H.
Waddell, and Messrs. Henry Baker, B. T.
Hunter and J. M. Harris, were appointed
to digest the plan of the school, and Jo
siah Sibley, John Craig and James Bones
to receive, hold and invest funds for its
establishment. The school will not be
open for a year at least.
Dr. Snead, of Milledgeville, has invent
ed a plow, called the Universal. With
two mules it turned np a furrow ten inches
deep and eight inches wide in ground
troddeu almost as hard as a brick. The
stock is so made that any kind of a share
can be attached without moving a tap.
A pair of mules ran away with a wagon
near Milledgeville last week, killing Mr.
Jaß. W. Ivey, who was driving them.
The Macon Telegraph has this: The
completest]tliing in the world for a one
horse plow is a stock invented by some
body in Columbus [Mr. Cooper is doubt
less meant.]—so strong that it cannot he
broken—of admirable shape for handling,
and furnished with a wrought iron slide
in the form of tho segment of a circle to
which any kind of a domestic plow can be
attached, and held firmly at any desired
angle or depth. With these and good
steel turn-shovels, scooters, bull-tongues,
sweeps and furrow shovels, a farmer
needs nothing more than a strong break
ing-plow to turn up heavy soils.
A countryman sat on a whisky keg in
Macon that had just been branded by a
■U. S. official. The result was, he carried
off the stamp on his unmentionables. He
said he felt intensely loyal all the time he
wore it, and was at a loss to know why he
felt so.
Some baddi’sh boys in Macon stuffed the
' key holes of forty' stores with red clay on
Tuesday night. It required hoars tb open
some of them, and Zeilin had to enter
through his cellar. Tho postoifice letter
box was choked full of mud, and all the
letters ruined. The Grand jury will at
tend to the scamps.
Bet. Mr. Hicks, of the Macon Enter
prise, and the Atlanta Herald, are having
a few complimentary words bet ween them.
Mr. R. C. Greer, of the commission
firm of J. G. Greer & Cos., of Macon, who
has just returned from a business tour in
Kansas, says that he actually sat beside
the stove and *aw corn crammed in to
bum—that it burns well, and is a cheaper
fuel at the price asked for it than coal is
at thirty cents a bushel.
The gin house of tho estate of Judge T.
J. Thornton, was incendiared on the 23d.
A lady of Heard county gave birth to a
child having two heads, four legs, four
arms and a double stroke of gender. It
was too much to live, and died.
Hon. A. H. Stephens advises the Atlan
tese to hasten slowly. They should not
attempt too much at a time.
The Macon Telegraph is informed that
Hon. G. F. Pierce, of Hancock, will sup
port Hon. A. O. Bacon, of Bibb, for
Speaker of the House. Hou. W. D. An
derson, of Cobb, is now the next strongest
candidate for the position.
Judge Herbert Fielder is a candidate for
U. S. Senator from Georgia.
Col. E. W. Beck, Congressman elect
from the old 4th District, was married, on
Tuesday, to Miss Sallie E. White, of Grif
fin.
The gin house of Mr. Joseph Ingrain,
near Bainbridge, was burnt last week.
Hunters killed a hundred pound buck,
near Bainbridge, the other day.
Bainbridge grumbles because she has to
pay $10,250, as the annual expenses of
the city government.
The store house of a Mr. Moore, on the
line of Butts and Henry counties, was
burned last week, together with his entire
stock of goods.
Mr. Daniel McDuffie, aged 72 years, and
one oi' Ike oldest residents of Wilcox coun
ty, was found frozen to death, near Abbe
ville, last week. Whiskey.
Sam. T. Powell, a life insurance agent,
is in Irwin county jail, on the oharge of
appropriating to his own U3e S9O, given
him by Mr. R. W. Clements, of Irwin
ville, to buy merchandise in Macon.
Corn is selling at $1 25 per bushel, and
fodder at $1 25 per hundred, at Lumpkin,
Stewart county.
The Hawkinsville Bank and Trust Com
pany was organized last Wednesday, with
C. T. Lathrop as President, John Henry
Vice President, and J. D. Stetson, as
cashier.
Twenty-four families left Sumtereoun
ty for Texas last Wednesday, and five
from Butts county were to leave Griffin
on Thursday, bound in the same direction.
Mr. Isaac Levy, city sheriff of Augusta,
died last Wednesday. He has been con
nected with that office for more than six
teen years.
R. Jennison Winn and Miss Mary Bow
man, married Thursday.
An attempt was made in Macon, by
Pack Horton, to pass a forged draft for
sll7 on Saulsbury, Respass & Cos.
Two bales of cotton on the Southwestern
train were burned near Macon Friday.
All the papers in the State suspended
Thanksgiving Day.
In Atlanta, a negro woman sued a white
woman for keeping a breast-pin valued at
25 cents. The cost of the suit was over
$7.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
Bustoed is absent and tho U. S. District
Court is adjourned to second Monday in
January.
Gen. R. Ransom, of North Carolina, is
in Montgomery.
There are but 98 Indians in Alabama, of
whom 43 are domiciled in Escambia
county.
The case of the United States vs. Messrs.
M. F. Echols, Phil Avery, W. E. Mizell,
Thos. Smith, F. M. Watkins, John Rieh
!,r/lij, ,1. W. Atkinson, J-iu. llunvull uud
J. K. Edwards, citizens of Lee county,
charged with a violation of the Enforce
ment Law, came up before U. S. Commis
sioner Dresser Tuesday morning in Mont
gomery. After examination of witnesses
Mr. Dresser declined to hear argument,
but said if written arguments were sub
mitted he would consider them and ren
der his decision to-morrow morning.
Miss N. 0. Stewart, late she candidate
for Congress in the sth district, is endeav
oring to contest the election,on the ground
that votes for Woodhull and herself were
not counted.
Union Springs expects to receive double
the cotton she warehoused last season.
A masquerade ball will be given in the
Court House Hall in Union Springs, on
December 6th, for tho benefit of Clanton
Hook and Ladder Company and the Union
Springs Institute.
The Union Springs Herald is very com
plimentary to Miss Lucy, daughter of Mr.
0. S. Harrison, of Columbus, and Mr. E.
M. Butterfield, of Union Springs, who
w ere married in this city last week.
The gin house of Major W. R. Spann,
near Hardaway, in Bullock county, was
burned down Friday night a week ago.
Incendiary.
One of the hands on a working train of
the M. & E. R. R., was instantly killed,
near Montgomery, by a locomotive run
ning over him Wednesday. He fell on the
track while running to change a switch.
Last Sunday afternoon Air. Doc. Read’s
residence, in the western part of Opelika,
was burned.
Mayor Echols and the other gentlemen
who went to Montgomery with him,
charged with “Ku Kluxing,” were fully
vindicated and the case dismissed Wed
nesday morning. The Locomotive says
W. D. Condou had the arrests made.
An election for a Mayor and four Coun
cilman of Troy, will l>e hold on next Tues
day.
1 ire wry King stabbed and killed Dr. J.
P. Kelley, near Buck Horn, in Pike coun.
ty, last week. Both parties were drink
ing. Dr. Kelley was an independent can
didate for Senator in the late election,
but was defeated.
Shropshire says the acting of Harry
and Rose Watkins, in Eufaula, drew
tears as large as glass marbles, from Mr.
Bill Smiths’* eyes.
Gen. Seth. Mabry, brother of Senator
Mabry, was stricken* 1 with paralysis on
Monday last, in Clayton.
Coi. W. B. S. Gilmer, who died in
Chambers county in 1805, willed that all
his cotton in Alabama and Arkansas he
sold, and that SIO,OOO of the amount be
appropriate i to raising monuments to
Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Cols. T. 11.
R. Cobb and F. S. Bartow, and the re
mainder to the erection of a shaft to the
memory of the Alabama dead. What be
come of the cotton is not stated.
The Montgomery Advertiser has this:
A Queer Poll—What Does it Mean?—
The Russell county returns exhibit a sin
gular state of facts. Mr. Henderson re
ceived, according to the official returns,
1,717 votes, and Mr. Lewisreceived 2,513,
making his majority 796. On the Legisla
tive ticket the vote was for Mr. Nix,
Democrat and Liberal, 1,708. Mr.
Henry. Democrat and Liberal, 1,-
721. For Milieu, Radical, 2,182.
more votes than Handley, and that conse
quently nealy four hundred Democrats
and Liberals in the County voted for Hern
don who refused to cast their ballot for
Handley! The inference also, is, that
these four hundred Democrats and Liber
als nearly all voted for Pelham ! We do
not believe that four hundred Conserva
tives refused to vote for Handley, and we
are confident that there are not twenty
Democrats in Russell County who would
vote for Pelham short of the dread of
death itself, if then! Will some citizen,
or citizens, of Russell explain to us the
riddle if they can? We are perplexed by
it. It is understood that the supposed
four hundred Democrats in Russell who
voted for Herndon and not for Handley
(as would seem by the returns) would, if
given to Handley, elect Mm !
■R. D. Locke, Esq., produced a certifi
cate of election as Barbour county Soliei
tor, signed by the present Radical State
officers. A. V. Lee, Esq., present Solici
tor, had a certificate from Secretary Par
ker. Judge of Barbour Circuit Court,
decided that Lee's certificate being the
oldest, he could hold the office nntil his
opponent could show that he was not
entitled to the office on other grounds.
The Savannah and Memphis Railroad
intend erecting a handsome depot in
Dadeville.
Rev. Mr. Carswell has accepted the
pastorale of the Baptist Church in Tus
kegee.
Mr. T. D. West, an old resident of
Macon county, is dead.
Three negro prisoners attempted to
escape from the Opelika jail. One
escaped; a second was shot in the leg and
recaptured; another choked the jailor,
but the officer pelted him with the but
end of a pistol, the weapon havingmissed
fire.
The Messrs. Edwards are building a
SIO,OOO grist mill and blind sash and door
factory.
Mrs. M. M. Cooke, wife of the accom
plished Associate Editor of the Mont
gomery Advertiser, exhibited at the
Selma Fair a quilt composed of 18,000
pieces, which was a marvel of ingenuity,
as well as au evidence of cultivated taste.
She won a special premium of SSO.
In Jackson county, Mat. Shaver and
James Estell were fighting, when the wife
of the former stabbed Estelle fatally
with a barlow knife. She has been re
quired to give SB,OOO bond or go to jail.
A white man who stole a horse at
Quincy, Florida, and brought the animal
to Alabama, has been found guilty and
sentenced in Barbour county Court to
four years in the penitentiary.
From the Atlanta Herald,
TRIAL OF MALONE-A MISTRIAL.
The superior court met on Thursday,
Judge Hopkins presiding.
The State, after introducing Robert
Howard (col'd) and Lee Smith, announced
closed. His evidence was merely to the
effect that he saw Malone before and after
the difficulty—an interval of some fifteen
minutes. Col. Candler then made a few
remarks to the jury on submitting the tes
timony for the defense. The first witness
examined by the defense was McAllister,
who testified, in substance, as follows:
I live in Atlanta; have lived here 18 or
19 years; I know Malone; I did not know
Phillips; first hoard of the killing next
morning; saw defendant on night of
shooting in front of the Turf saloon, and
at Mason de Yille; met M. first at Turf
about dark that evening; left him about
or 9p. m.; I was drunk; was arrested,
carried to guard house, and remained
there till morning; I know where Minnie
Nelson’s house is; I was not there that
night; Malone and myself went around to
the Mason de Ville, and came back to
Tye’s beef market, and wore standing
there when Charlie Cooper came up and
began to talk to Malone in an angry man
ner; we then went to the Dolly Varden
saloon, and Cooper came in and resumed
the difficulty with Malone; Doily Varden
saloon is diagonally across the street from
the beef market! Cooper had a knife in
his hand; Malone said I am satisfed and
don’t want to have no more of this; Ire
quested Cooper to desist; Malone sat down
outside in the street on a box, and Cooper
came up to him again; I took him away;
Malone then said to me, I'll go get my
pistol, and if ho follows me up I’ll defend
myself. We went in front of tho Turf;
I said “I care for nobody;” someone re
plied to this, and I asked who it was. Tye
said it was Phillips, that he was drunk
and not to notice him. Malone said, if
there’s going to be a difficulty, I want
none of it in mine, and walked off. Ma
lone had his pistol at this time.
CROSS-EXAMINED.
First met Malone in 18(18; I met him
after 6 p. in.; I was drunk when arrested;
I got drunk about 9 o’clock; I told Cap
tain Johnson to go get a hat and I would
pay for it; asked him if he had me arres
ted; told him I was glad of it, for I might
have got into some difficulty; I was put in
a cell at t-lre guard lionse; don’t remember
seeing Malone there that night; I am
stopping in the Fulton county jail; Malone
and myself occupy tire same cell; Cooper
was talking to Malone something about a
pistol; Cooper seemed to apologize to
Mulouo about it.
Emma Gilmer, sworn, says : I was stop
ping at Minnie Nelson’s house when Phil
lips was killed. I walked from my room
to the parlor; I found Malone sitting in
the room ; I went out and came in again ;
meantime Malone had changed liis seat.
Miss Lillie Williams was t alking to Malone
when Phillips came in, approached Ma
lone with his hands down on his hips, and
said to Malone, “You —of a—, if you
touch my woman I’ll shoot you.” He
walked two steps towards Malone, and
Malone walked back. Lilia Williams took
hold of Malone around the waist, and said:
“Have no difficulty.” Malone said to
her, “get away, he is going to shoot me.”
I had seen Phillips at the house twice be
fore. I came to the house the last of July.
Bettie Hicks, Minnie Nelson, Mattie
Roberts, Liliie Williams, Lizzie Berry and
myself were at the house at the time;
Phillips was there on the Sunday before
that and on the Thursday night before
the killing; Puillips was drinking—was
under the intluence of liquor. Phillips
had been at the house three-quarters of
an hour before the difficulty, and Malone
about 20 minutes; Tye, Cassin, Malone,
Mitchell, and Lizzie Williams were in the
room at the time of the shooting. When
I had a conversation with Solicitor Gen
eral Glenn, I did not tell him all I knew
about the transaction; I made the same
statements to Gen. Gartrell in his office
that I have made here under oath to-day.
it. C. Haynes, sworn, says : I remem
ber the night Phillips was killed; lam
policeman; I was on duty that night on
Decatur street, about seventy-five yards
from the carriage factory; when I heard
the firing I went to the house at once; I
met Malone at the top of the stairs; I ar
rested him; he had a pistol; Policeman
Laughiey was in front of me; I heard
Malone talking and recognized his voice;
he said “I am going to give myself up
to Sheriff Harris;” we told him we were
officers; be then said, “I surrender to
you, here’s my pistol, take it;” Malone,
when down stairs, said “I don’t know
who I shot, by God ! but I was compelled
to doit, for he tried to shoot me from
under a woman’s arm;” McAllister was
in the room at the guard house when
Malone was brought in; he said, “ilelio,
Milt.! have they got you hero, too ?”
The defendant then took the stand and
made in substance the following state
ment to the Court and Jury :
You, gentleman, have heard divers
rumors concerning me; these rumors are
untrue; I admit that I have been rather
wild; I have gambled some; have drank
whisky, and visited houses of ill-fame;
1 have also had several difficulties; I have
always done what I did openly and above
board; have not concealed my con
duct under the cloak of religion; will give
you a history of my difficulties; the lirst
I had was in 18(15, in Montgomery, Ala
bama, with a man named McDonald, one
of Gastello’s showmen; you all know what
kind of men fall in these shows; they are
generally thieves and robbers; I tiavelcd
on the train to Montgomery with these
circus men; while going down the con
ductor called on me to change a bill for
him; I did so, and these men saw my
money; that night 1 went into the circus;
I turned to walk oil', and was struck on
the head; I stepped a littlle further, and
was again struck on the head and knocked
down; after I fell I shot the mau who
struck me, and who intended to rob me,
and killed him; for this I was not trou
bled; all the good citizens said I did right;
my next difficulty was in Selma, Alabama,
with some Federal soldiers; they treated
me in a most ridiculous manner, and at
tempted to assassinate me; I shot one of
them, but did not kill him: after I did
this I left Selma, for fear of being killed
by United States soldiers, and Wbnt to
Florida; I remained in Florida seven
months, and returned to Columbus, Geor
gia, where I was arrested, carried to Sel
ma, tried for shooting this fellow and ac- J
quitted. My next difficulty was in Co- |
lumbus, Georgia, last Christmas, in a |
house of ill fame. I went in and had j
been there some time, when two men |
came in. I walked up to a woman lying i
on a bed to talk to her, when one of them
pushed me away and drew his pistol on
me. I started to go out the door, and
met the other, who insisted on my re
maining. I told him I could not, and he
said I should not go out. I then saw they
meant to hurt me if they could. The one
at the door said we were all right; I told
him his friend had draw n a pistol on me,
and he said I told a lie; I then pointed to
the other fellow and said, “There it is in
his hand now.” He said, “He can whip
you, and so can I.” The other one walked
towards me and shot at me, the hall pass
ing through my coat sleeve near the
shoulder; I then tired, and shot them
both; I did not kill McDonald: I killed
Capond; I went and surrendered to the
Sheriff, and was not even required to give
bond ; I was discharged; lam not looked
upon as a blood thirsty man by those who
know me; on the contrary, all considered
that I did right in protecting myself
against these desperadoes; here now
are the difficulties which I have been en
gaged in; I have killed but three men.
On Friday before the killing of Phillips
on Saturday, I got on the street ears and
went with Charlie Cooper out to Julia i
Thompson’s; I was not feeling well and
wanted to take some sleep; after I got j
there, Cooper came and took my pistol i
from under my head wher9 I had put it. !
I called on him for it and he gave it up— j
I told someone that I believed Cooper
tried to steal my pistol. He came to me
several times to talk about it, and once or
twice came to the Dolly Varden saloon. !
I requested him to say nothing more I
about it, that I was satisfied; he seemed :
to keep after me, and I went and got my
pistol, fearing he might undertake to hurt
me. At Minnie Nelson’s, I was talking j
with Lillie Williams, when Phillips came ;
up and said that is my woman—you can’t !
have her; if you touch her I’ll shoot you, yon
—ofa — ; he placed his hands behind j
him and advanced toward me; I shot him j
to protect myself; I thought he meant to
shoot me; I shot once, and not knowing
whether it took effect or not, was in the i
act of shooting at him again when I saw j
him begin to reel, then I turned my pistol i
and fired in a different direction.
The test imony was closed late onThurs
day evening, and B. H. Thrasher made
the opening speech for the Stato, after
which the court adjourned.
When the court metyesterday morning, j
it was ascertained that one of of the ju- j
rors, T. J. Dobbs, was sick and unable to
try the case, in consequence of which the
jury was discharged, and the case will
have to undergo another investigation.
Dobbs has died from the effects of con
vulsions.
If I Tickle You,”will You Tickle Me?
One of the most difficult problems of
life to solve, is whatjto acoept or reject as
truth. It may sound paradoxical, but it
is confirmed bv daily experience and ob
servation that iheimost credulous are the
most skeptical, and the most skeptical the '
most credulous. Some believe just what j
their supposed interests and prejudices I
prompt them to believe. Such persons I
are destitute of integrity. Some have no
inclination, while others have no capacity
to form a personal independent conviction.
The latter depend on the authority of their
mental superiors and echo their senti- ‘
ments careless whether they are true or
false. Few there be who, in the first
place Lava Alle honesty.to desire,’,.the in
telligence to enlighten and direct, and the
energy to seek ;_the truth, whether it
breathes on heathen or Christian ground, |
or is warmed by an Asiatic or European I
sun.
The story of the English traveler and
the King of Siam is a good illustration
of where wisdom and belief should begin
and ignorance and credulity should end.
The partition which separates the two is
like that which often divides great learn
ing and madness —very thin ,
The traveler, like Othello when he
sought and gained the fair Desdemona,
bent a very long bow and scattered the
most marvelous arrows. He spake of
“the Cannibals that each other eat, the
Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do
grow beneath their shoulders.” These
things to hear, the King would seriously
incline and with a greedy ear devour the
discourse. He swore it was strange, ’twas
passing strange, that in Europe men
could swallow whales and tho rats were as
big as Siamese elephants. Still the King
did faithfully assent and religiously be
lieve. At length, the traveler ventured to
say that the men and women sometimes
walked on and over water • This was a
stretch too far, and proved too much for
the credulity of the “Red Hot” King. He
believed every lie, and rejected the only
truth he heard.
There are thousands with mental per
ceptions and reflections ou a par with the
King of Siam. Their faith will cause
them to believe hundreds of lies and their
skepticism will intluence them to reject
as many well established truths. Some
assertion, reports and narrations bear
with them intrinsic evidence of truth or
falsehood, but when the gold or brass is
skillfully mingled, it then demands akeen
mind to analyze the ingredients and a
brave heart to expose the imposture. The
truth, too, is hateful to some, and to avoid
it they will turn a deaf ear to its appeals.
They would rather listen to a corrupt
flatterer, if he is handsome ami graceful
and possessed of a gracious voice and
manner, and be ruined, than be saved bv
an ugly but wise and sincere friend.
The world has had its Stone, Golden
and Iron Age, and has now reached its
puff and brass. We need some bold,
honest Censor with power
To stem the torrent of this spin ious age,
And lash its many follies off'the stage.
The philosophy of the “I tickle you and
you tickle me” school pervades not only
the politic political, but the religious, do
mestic, industrial and literary world.
Puff and brass are the words from a segar
to a steam engine.
Puff, puff, puff.
From morn to the setting snn;
Puff, puff, puff,
AU that you hear is cfone.
Puff parsons, schools, shows, theatres,
and especially political orators, and affirm
that Home and Athens never reached such
excellence, and that Tully and Demos
thenes never uttered the divine eloquence
of our'school boys. This is the way to
teach humility and progress, and by a
wise and judicious discrimination enlight
en and purify the public taste so that
merit will be appreciated and rewarded,
vice be shunned and punished, and indus
try and genius be crowned with encour
agement and success here; and a wreath
of immortelles in the grand hereafter.
Great is the “ I tickle you, and you tickle
me ” schools among oditors and at elec
tions, in Legislatures and Congress, and
this is the reason of our proverbial modes
y as a nation and why the American
eagle flies higher and screams louder than
any other bird. Great is Captain Puff,
and greater is General Brass.' !
A Tribute to Southern Democrats.
The Savannah Advertiser says: If the
Southern Democrats who conceived it lo
be their duty to adopt the platform and
nominees of Cincinnati, failed to impress
some of their rigid brethren at home with
the honesty and unselfishness of their
purpose, they did succeed in winning the
admiration of some of the bitterest of
their life-long foes.
Theodore Tilton pays them a compli
ment as handsome as it is just aud elo
quent :
“Many of the extremest Democrats,”
says he—“whom I had traditionally dis
liked since 1856 —emerged upon me like
shining stars through the darkness with
which I had ignorantly clouded their j
names. Sir Philip Sidney, were lie al.ve, j
would acknowledge them for types of J
ideal gentlemen. They enter into my
mind to oeoupy its highest places, and to
sit therein with that conclave of true souls
whom every man, in his own way, selects
for himself, and with whom, in memory,
he holds perpetual parliament.”
YVo have no doubt Tilton meant by the
“extremest Democrats,” the same “rigid j
brethren” who were denounced bv Gree- |
leyites as “Bourbons” and “Red-hots. ”
A Bad Showing. —The Norfolk Virgin
ian of the 22d, chronicles the arrival at
that port of some twenty-five or thirty
negroes from Liberia on their return to
North Carolina. They are the remains of
a company of near two hundred who went '
to Liberia from Carolina about a year !
ago. The balance died out there, and j
this small remnant are now seeking their
way back to the old North State. The j
company went out to Africa under the j
auspices of the African Colonization So- !
ciety. They say they were treated very
well by the natives out there, but not j
being used to the climate and mode of j
living, they died off like sheep. Yellow j
fever carried most of them off.
We can’t complain of woman’s extrava- i
gance now. She wears her dresses long !
enough, goodness knows.
TELEGRAPH IC.
HORACE GREELEY DEAD.
New York, Nov. 29.—Mr. Greeley’•
death is momentarily expected, both by
his relatives and the physicians attending
him. Yesterday false reports were cur
rent in many quarters that his disease had
terminated fatally, and numbers beseiged
the Tribune office to ascertain the true
state of affairs. Mr. Greeley is at Tarry
town, but his whereabouts there are kept
from the public and his many friends.
Yesterday evening, at a medical consulta
tion, it was said that it was doubtful if
he could live more than a few days. Dr.
W. A. Hammond, one of the physicians,
said: “I doubt if he will live 48 hours
longer, and I would not be surprised to
hear of his death to-night.”
While I was at his bed-side, added the
Doctor, Mr. Weed, an old friend of Mr.
Greeley’s, came up, and wishing to test
Mr. Greeley, I said: “Mr. Greeley, do
you know Mr. Weed?” Mr. Greeley
stared and vacantly answered that he had
never met him in his life before, and
said further, “I never heard the name of
Weed before." The Doctor described Mr.
Greeley as talking incoherently all the
time, and as being quite ill. He says he
does not know his own daughter.
Between 8 and 10 o’clock last night
his condition was less favorable than
during the day. Physicians did not an
ticipate any important change within
twelve hours.
In the African Methodist Church yes
terday, the announcement of Mr. Greeley’s
condition, by the Presiding Eider, greatly
affected the congregation present. His
condition has everywhere awakened a feel
ing of sympathy, and though it is report
ed that he cannot recover, many are un
willing to surrender the hope that he may
yet be spared.
New York, Nov. 29—3 p. m. —Greeley
has been entirely unconscious since 8
o’clock. His pulse at the wrist is imper
ceptible. He appears to suffer very little.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 29.—A dis
patch has just been received here announc
ing the death of Mr. Greeley at (1:50 this
evening. lie was conscious at the time
and passed peacefully away.
New York, Nov. 30. —The Tribune says
the melancholy death of the editor and
founder of the Tribune, though for a few
days it has been expeoted by his family
and intimate friends, falls upon us with
all the shook of sudden calamity, lie had
reached, indeed, a ripe old age, but time
had not laid its withering clinch upon
him ; his splendid constitution easily bore
the strain of enormous labor: his mind
was as fresh and strong and suggestive as
when in the prime of life ; his generous
impulses were unchilled by the disheart
ening experience through the trying cam
paign which has just closed ; his physical
vigor, his tact, his intellectual activity,
surprised even those who knew him beat,
and seemed to promise many years of use
fulness. It is certain that no history of
the most critical period in our national
life can be written, in which Horace Gree
ley shall not be a conspicuous figure. But
the noblest career in his eyes was that
that which is given up to others’ wants.
The successful life was that which is worn
out in conflict with wrong and woe.
The only ambition worth following wns
the ambition to alleviate human misery
and leave the world a little better than he
found it. That he had done. It was the
consolation which brightened his last days
and assured him he had not lived in vain.
It is not for us in the first hour of our
loss to paint his character or catalogue
his virtues. Although for several months
we have missed the inspiration of his
presence and guidance of his wise counsel,
his spirit has never ceased to animate
those chosen to continue his works, and
the close bond of sympathy between
the chief and his assistants has never
been broken. We leave his praises to the
poor, whom he succored; to the iowly,
whom he lifted lip; to Hie slave, whose
back he saved from the lash; to the op
pressed, whose wrongs he made his own.
The Herald, in its editorial to-morrow
on Greeley, says: “He has, in a mistaken
aspiration for a higher field of usefulness,
and power, and glory than journalism,
fallen a sacrifice to his political ambition.
He had failed to appreciate the com
manding position which ho had secured
as a leading American journalist, and
leaving it to pursue the ignva fatus of the
Presidency, he dropped the substance for
the shadow of a great distinction. Other
wise, the history and the enduring re
wards of Mr. Greeley’s industrious and
useful career are full of encouragement
to young men who, without capital, per
sonal influence or powerful friends, have
the battle now before them.”
New Yoke, Nov. 30. —The accounts pub
lished of Mr. Greeley’s lust moments rep
resent him to huve been conscious during
the day, as is usual iu cases of inflamatiou
of the brain. His physical suffering was
extremely slight, but an increased aud mor
bid action of mind was evident from ex
terior manifestations. He was aske.l:
‘ - Do you know that you are dying ?” With
out a tremor or emotion, he answered—
“ Yes!” Again, when asked if he recog
nized Mr. Reid, he looked up with imme
diate recognition, lifted his hand and
grasped Mr. Reid’s feebly, and said dis
tinctly, “Yes. ” His last words were : “It
is done.” The face hardly changed, only
settling into a look of perfect peace.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. 20. —Navigation of
the St. Lawrence river is closed.
Ail the members of the Cabinet were
present to-day. The principal business
was the reading of the President's mes
sage.
Various letters have been received at
the office of the internal revenue from
tobacco dealers and manufacturers in all
sections, expressing themselves satisfied
with the law as it now stands concerning
their interests. Distillers, however, have
been urging a modification of the law in
order to remove some of the impediments
to the exportation of spirits. Tiio Com
missioner will ask a slight modification of
the law to meet the requirements of the
distillers.
Washington, Nov. 30. —Public printing
during the past year has cost $1,800,000.
Orders to enlisting officers direct, cau
tion against enlisting minors, but direct
them all to enlist for four colored regi
ments.
FOREIGN.
Versailles, Nov. 29—Evening.—After
a long and excited debate this afternoon,
the Assembly, by a vote of 370 io 331, ap
proved the resolution proposed by Minis
ter Dupouer. Before the close of the de
bate President Thiers eloquently addressed
the House for an hour and a half. He ac
knowledged the Assembly’s sovereign
constituent power, condemned socialists,
declared and impressively affirmed his be
lief in God. He declared lie remained
faithful to the pacts of Bordeaux, and
claimed that he belonged to no party. He
admitted that he was personal!} in favor
of constitutional monarchy, but added that
the monarchy is impossible. We have a
republic; let us make it conservative. He
denied any share in the political opinions
of the Left, and closed with the declara
tion that the duty of the government was
firmness, moderation, and impartiality' to
wards all parties.
Berlin, Nov. 30.—The Government de
nies the orders to Manteuffel to concen
trate in case of certain contingencies in
French affairs.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 30.—The Louisiana
Jockey Club attendance small. Conse
quence, lack of conveyances. Village
Blacksmith won hurdle, time 4:03. Sallie
Watson won second, time 1:47}. Hally
Wood won third, time 3:38f, and 3:40}.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, Nov. 29.—Fourth ballot:—
Vance 74, Poole 71, Merrimon 22. No
prospect of a settlement.
THE ALABAMA MUDDLE
U. S. Cavalry to the Front—Oov /
Refute* to Receive a Bill—Cc,,.. .J'
cation to he Opened o;ii)i W'uUont 0 .
The Rump »till in Heeret .s
Montgomery, Nov. 29 -t;, r
u • ■ i>*j,
s- nt a commimicat on t, «... ~i; ers,
dav. promts:iag ab-operafu:- - j:l : )hen . „
legislation. Gov. Lind-av "
ing, sent ua message to the ,
coast Anted f-'eos'e .arul K. ~ , ' ' . '
ttt tilt l ; flpltoi, i! tuQS tr.n ‘ .y,y, T
bodies have i rceived o ft. n ti«. 4
nisatice. The bolt tor- were
quorum in either Hmi.se, In,; t ,
Baker, : h Senator from '.'.organ
Chisolm, as Senator Lorn f ,
Deren, as Senator from Man-i,. . !
Milieu, as Senator from Bull'- 7
Conecuh counties, m no of •
in .'ll] Jtj'.id
certifi. ates or other credentials „
up the necessary quorum. Ti ee ~f,.
had never file ! a notice of «»m*st t „. s
ators holding certificates, nor did .....
have official knowledge of then
to seats as Senators until thev
and were sworn in among the boltoi-s
the IT. 8. Court-room. The same rr ;
prevailed in getting up a quorum in tL„
House of Representatives, men
having been there admitted, without ,7"
dentials, to de so.
This action of Gov. Lewis is seven:
criticised by the people, who s.iy tin; t
has assumed to create a Legislature » herj
for the want of a quorum, none existed
before. Much excitement exists, L u * tl,
Legislature at the Capitol having in
branches, been called to order by o gj WiJ
and means provided by the Constitution
of the State, find being composed or.!, ,•
men holding regular certificates of
tiou, and having been officially reen-nizoi
by Gov. Lindsay, who was Governor of
Alabama when tho Legislature aswmbltd
and who sent Lis message to and approved
bilis passed by them, are determined t,
hold their organization, rehitm on ths
regularity and legality of their course and
the sense of justice of the Federal Govern
ment.
Montgomery, Nov. 30.—This Moraine
a detachment of the Seventh United
States cavalry marched to a point twenty
yards from the Capitol and bivouacked
Intense excitement followed; but learn
ing that the troops intended were a posss
comataius and not to drive the Legisla.
turo from the Capitol,the excitement sub.
sided somew hat.
The Legislature at the Capitol passed
a bill and sent it to Governor Lewis, but
he refused to receive it.
A joint resolution was passed nosing u
committee to communicate facta of (i u *
situation by telegraph to tha Government
at Washington, and appointing a delegate
to present a written statement of the ease
to the President.
The Legislature express great confi
dence that the President willsustain them
when the facts are laid before him.
In answer to the committee of the Cap
tol, Gov. Lewis, yesterday, replied that
the tw’o bodies claim his recognition, and
that the members of the other received »
majority of tlie votes cast, and that he
could not recognize the Capitol Legisla
ture, because if the persona whom he said
did not receive a majority were included,
the body would be without a quorum.
The Court House body did nothing to
day, bat it has been in secret session a
considerable portion of the day.
Tho Advertiser, the Central Liberal
Democratic organ of the State, in its issue
of to-morrow morning, will say that in
view of the death of Mr. Greeley, we rec
ommend that all the Greeley electors cast
their votes for Grant, and make his elec
tion unanimous. In return, lot us a;:k on
ly for peace, and for protection against
vagabonds and scoundrels, or, at least,
that the Government will allow us fair
play and maintain the supremacy of law
and order. Our struggle has not been for
men, but for safety, law and civilization.
The horse disease is very general here,
but of a mild type. Nearly all the horns
have disappeared from the streets. A
great many mules are also suffering.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 29. William M.
Evarts will preside at the reception to
Minister Washburne by the Union League
>Club on Monday next.
The twenty years’ litigation for the pos
session of Jaekson Hollow favors the
squatter locality, Brooklyn. It is ended by
a decision of the Court of Appeals in
favor of the purchasers, under execution
Kales, and against the survivors of tbs
Jackson family. The property is valued
at $300,000, and was purchased for $3,000.
Application to the U. S. authorities to
reduce the bail of Woodhnil A Clafiin
from $ s.OOO to $5,00’). each, was refused
to-day.
Lust eve. ring an out bus,.mo* meeting,
J attended by Cubans and ' b -i npatliH
ers, was held at Cooper Is airute, iu com
memoration of the anniversary of tlie el
ocution of eight Havard students.
It is understood that Judge Brady will
hold the December term of the Criminal
Court, and will sit through until all tha
great criminal cases here are disposed os
The Herald prints two communications
signed “Chemist,” in which the writer,
who says he is one of the Paris commun
ists, states that the Boston lire was tie
work of Labor Reformers; that the explo
sions heard during the fire, which ware
attributed to other things, were but explo
sions of a powerful chemical combination
1 lately invented and known only to him
aud his confrere. They are no larger than
an ordinary apple and cost only ninety
j two cents each. He says their work ai
| Boston was but the commencement, ami
| intimates that capitalists shall still further
| suffer, if the lights of labor are not re
| speeded.
I Rochester, Nov. 29. —Susan B. A)-
j thony and another woman were arraigned
! before the U. S. Commissioner. They
| admitted the facts, but pleaded they were
1 entitled to vote under the XlVth Arnend
' ment.
GEORGIA.
Augusta,. Nov. 29. — Ben. Bacon alias
Henry Johnson, freedman, was hung to-
I day for the murder of Jas. 11. Martin, in
the presence of several thousand peopA
‘ mainly colored. Bacon confessed that b*
j killed Martin uiiu a blow of a wager
standard; tliat uis obiecl was not murder,
| but robbery; ih.rt his story of the Kn-Kiux
! was false, lie repeated of the crime,
begged forgiveness for Iris sins and ad
vised all present to avoid sin and occa
sions of evil. Martin was formerly “
citizen of Richmond county, and was i
his 70th year. Bacon was in his employ
aud traveling iu his wagon on the p u,l “ c
road when tne murder was committed.
MARKETS.
New Yoke, Nov. 30.— Cotton qn> et l
sales 1,700 bales; Uplands 15% orle
19ge.
Gold 112§@112f. _ . *
Bales of futures to-day 1,700 b»| es ’ ,
follows: Nov. 18}; Deo. l s j, l’* *!
Jan. 18 11-10, 18|; Feb. 18}. Jl “ r
19}; May 19 11-10. . j
The bank statement net gaie v '
551,750 in legrd reserve. .
Bank Statement.—Loans increase
trifle; specie increased $875, (•00;
tenders increased $ 1,250,000; deposits
crease $2,250,000.
Baltimore, Nov 30. Cotton
receipts 320; sales 300; stock B,090;
ports coastwise 00.
Wilmington, Nov. 30. —Net receipt
202; stock 3,075.
New Orleans, Nov. 30. —C-otton
good ordinary 17}c; low middling 3
middlings 18}c; net receipts .
200; last evening 5, 000; stock 140.1’”’
Mobile, Nov. 30. —Cotton easy ; ®
ordinary 17}c; low middlings 18c,
dlings l8}c; net receipts 2023; sale’
stock 31,050. . •-*
Savannah, Nov. SO. Cotton 4
and steady; good ordinary i'gi I° W UJ ‘ e .
dlings 18c.; middling 18}@18}c; ue
ceipts 9,721; exports to Great no
-631; sales 1,012; stock 78,977.
Charleston, Nov. 30. —Cotton T
middlings 18}@18}c.; low middlings S
ordinary 17}c.; net receipts 1.4,0;
600; stock 32,596.