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Address, Tuos. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
Now is the time for our vendors to re
new their subscriptions, as w« always
stop sending the Weekly Sun to our sub
scribers at the expiration of tho yoar, or
the time for which it is paid. In this
way, no back debts ever accumulate
against our roadors. Wo do not stop tho
paper at tho ond of tho yoar because we
are afraid to trust our subscribers, but
because that is tho rule wo have adopted,
and it lias proved moro satisfactory than
any other wo could devise.
Hon. A. H. Stephens’ Atlanta Speech.
Our intelligent readers may regard it
as supororogant in us to call their ospoeial
attention and study to the able and pa
triotic speech lately delivered by Mr.
Stephens at Atlanta. Whatever unworthy
prejudices may exist against Mr. Stephens
by those who are incapable or unwilling
to comprehend his private worth, mental
abilities and public services, still anything
uttered or written by tho sage and orator
of “ Liberty Hall ” will command the re
spoct not only of Georgia and the South,
but of tho whole United States.
Wo cannot understand why Mr. Steph
ens should bo the object of so much per
sonal misrepresentation and vituperation
on tho part of a portion of the so-called
Democratic Press. We can easily see why
differences should provail as to tho ac
ceptance or non-acceptance of amend
ments us legal finalities uover to be dis
turbed; but when Time, the great ex
pounder of truth and error, of wisdom
and folly, has spoken in no oracular lan
guage in favor of Mr. S., and confirmed as
ho is by two late Democratic Georgia
Conventions, wo think some of his ene
mies should begin to learn a littlo mod
esty and tolerance. Tho attempt to put
out his rosplondout intellect by a sow
paper bullets of tho brain, will prove as
ridiculous a blunder as tho effort to blot
the “garish sun” by holding up a
dozen smoky tallow tapers. Tho people
will discover and learn who planted and
nourished the bitter insane root, the
cause of all our woes and tho source of so
much moral and political disease and
death, and who agreed not to dig it up,
and who proposed to burn it with unex
tinguisbablo fire. The Bourbons who
never learn of superior wisdom and pa
triotism, and who nevor remember their
past false predictions, should at least for
get their envy and uncharitableness.
A New Feature. —Those enterprising
merchants, Geo. AV. Brown <fc Cos., have
added a novelty to their business in the
way of machines for roasting and grind
ing coifee. Housekeepers will thus be
saved the trouble and labor of preparing
their coffee. Mossrs. 15. A Cos. charge
nothing additional for their ground coffee.
We trust they will roeeivo ample pat
ronage to compensate them for their en
terprise in endeavoring to lessen the labors
of housekeepers.
Cottage Mills, Chattahoochee
December 24, 1872. )
Mils. Mun : Would be glad to havo you
publish the following elector’s oath for
the information of all concerned:
John Ij. Conuely’s Analysis of the Con
stitution of Georgia, Article 2, Section 2,
Page 12.
Oath - 1 do swear that 1 have not given
or received, nor do 1 expect to give or
receive any money, treat, or other thing
<if yalue, by which my vote, or any vote
is affected, or expected to be affected at
this election; nor have I given, or prom
ised any award, or made any threat, by
which to prevent any person from voting
at this election.
A Voter op Chattahoochee.
An Onus Without a Difference. —The
last number of the New York Observer
contains an article from lit. Rev. Arthur
Cleveland Coxo, Bishop of Western New
York; and also an article from Rev. Sam’l
Hanson Cox, D. IX, an eminent Presbyte
rian divine. These gentlemen are father
and son; yet the former writes his name
Coxc, and the latter simply Cox, which
seems to us “an odds without a differ
ence.’’ But who shall decide when doc
tors such as those disagree about so trifling
a mutter as the uso or disuse of an e at
the end of their name ?
The will of Edwin Forrest, after making
a few small bequests, provides for the es
tablishment of the ‘‘Edwin Forrest House"
in Philadelphia, an institution which shall
be for the support and maintenance of ac
tors and actresses decayed by ago or dis
abled by infirmities. The purposes of tho
home are intended to bo partly education
ill nd self-sustaining, as well as eleemosy
nary, and never to encourage idleness or
shiftlessnoss in <»uy who are capable of
useful exertions. It provides that his li
brary shall be located at the homo, which
shall also contain a picture gallery for the
preservation of his collection, and a neat
theatre for private exhibitions and his
trionic culture, to which pupils shall Vie
admitted. Lectures on seienee, literature
and arts are also provided for, as well as
celebrations on the Fourth of July, and
ISbakespeare’s birthday.
On Thursday Cyrus AV. Field bought
out the interest of a considerable number
of holders of stock in the New York, New
foundland and London Telegraph Compa
ny, amounting in all to about $3,000,000
The price paid is ninety cents ou the par
value of tho stock.
Candidates. —There are only seven for
the position of Tax Collector, and four for
Receiver. More coming. The county
election takes place Wednesday, January
Ist.
Negroes. —A large number was in the
city yesterday. Reports from the country
are to the effect that the freedmen are
readily making contracts, and the gouoral
plan is to farm on shares.
Improvement. AVe notice the large
China trees in the Baptist church yard
have been cut down. This is a decided
improvement, and gives room for the
growth of the sturdy oaks.
The New York World catalogues the ed
itorial staff of tho Tribune under Mr.
Greeley. It comprised fifty-six persons,
besides the philosopher.
A. T. Stewart fell on the steps of his
residence on Fifth avenue on Saturday,
dislocating his ankle and breaking his
arm.
Colonel Herbert Fielders' Second Address
to the Legislature.
The seoond address of Colonel Fielder
to the Georgia Legislature fills two col
umns of tho Macon Telegraph. If we j
had the vacant space of that paper, we
be glad to place the address in full
before our readers; not only from respect
and kindness to the author, but because
it is well written and contains some im
portant, if not original, suggestions. It
is philosophical, historical and eminently
theoretical; but we differ altogether from
the Colonel in the policy he commends,
and the effect of passive acquiescence to
wrong legislation, and the abuse and
usurpation* of power. Colonel Fielder
says :
But it is worthy of serious considera
tion—indeed, challenges the attention of
every man in the South, at this period,
who in any way attempts to lead or advise
the people, or to direct the affairs of the
State or National Government—that no
instance can be found, in any age or
country, since the dawn of civilization (so
far as my knowledge of the human race
extends) in which any subjugated country
or State, occupied and governed by the
conqueror, undertook as an integral and
distinct poople, to maintain antagonism
against the prevailing power, and to stand
aloof and refuse to unite with the people
and government having subjugated and
governing them, which did not invite and
provoke suspicion and jealousy from the
ruling power—and sooner or later unjust
discrimination and oppression, and when
persisted in, ultimate decline —except in
those instances where that course has re
sulted in organized revolt, and were at
tended with sufficient force to secure,
either independence of treaty stipulations
to protect tho rights of the people.
He further says “that scarcely an in
stance can be found, in which the oppo
site course was pursued, that war ceased
when the sword was sheathed, and the
leaders actuated by wisdom and not pas
sion alone, led the pooplo to motives and
methods of peace, and to unite with, sus
tain and defend tho prevailing govern
ment, and to co-operate in its great ob
jects and aims, tho promotion of national
prosperity and power, that did not invito
and receive the patronage, support and
sympathy, and sharo largely in the pros
jHirity and progress of that government.
That antagonism tends to evil, and as
similation and concord, to good, is a law
that pervades the physical as well as mor
al world, and affects alike society and gov
ernment.”
We cannot subscribe to the law, history
or philosophy, “that antagonism tends to
evil, and assimilation and concord to
good.” We read that, at the dawn of cre
ation, good and evil were placed before
man, and “antagonism” began, but not to
ond until tho thunder of Heaven shall last
shake the W'orld. Truth is “antagonism”
to falsehood, and the combat must go on
—right, fights wrong; intelligence, igno
rance ; purity, wickedness; and resistance
to tyrants is but obedience to God. It is
on account of this passive submission and
a lack of bold, indignant “antagonism”
to injustice and oppression, that truth is
so often crushed to oarth, ignorance and
brutality triumph over wisdom and inno
cence, and once free men wear the mana
cles of slavery iu meek submission. Wo
think it impossible for Colonel Fielder to
point out a single case in Jewish, Egyp
tian, Loin an or Grecian history—or in
tho governments of tho modern nations
of England, Germany, Russia, Turkey,
France, Spain, Austria or Italy—that will
compare with tho tyranny of tho present
President and late Congresses of tho
United States, and where so littlo “antag
onism” has been displayed against the pre
vailing power.
We rather wonder at aur poacof ul humil
iation, and sometimes ask in “baitod
breath and whispering humbleness,” if we
are not the degenerate sons of noble sires
who plucked the brightest jewel from
England’s crown and planted a free repre
sentative Republic on this western world.
How can we now speak of Magna Gharta,
Habeas Corpus , or local self-government
without a blush and a feeling of that griof
and dospair which caused David to ex
claim—“ They that carried us away cap
tive required of us a song; and they that
wasted us required of us mirth—how shall
we sing in a strange land ?” How can wo
of tho South love and reverence a govern
ment or administration which stimulates
the robbery of our treasuries, imprisons
our old and innocent citizens on perjured
testimony and makes the bayonet an
nounce who shall be our Governors,
Judges and Legislators in defiance of our
will and our moral, mental, and material
interests ? To assume such perfection—
such a Quaker, sucking dove roar, might
bo tho homage which hypocrisy pays to
virtue, and suited for a nation of slaves or
the falso and sanctimonious pretensions
of Puritan saints. Lt will not do for men
who know their lights, and knowing dare
maintain. It might do if some such com
monwealth as Gonzalo’s was in existence,
whore
“.Letters should not bo known ; no use of ser
vice,
Os riches, or of poverty ; no contracts,
Successions; boumi of land, tilth, vineyards,
none;
No uso of metal, eorn or wino or oil;
No occupation ; all men idle, all;
And women too ; but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty ; but nature should bring
lortli,
(.Hits own kind, all foison, all abundunco,
To feed my innocent people.”
Estimates of the Hog Crop.—A Bearish
Report.
Cincinnati, Dec. 21. —The number of
hogs slaughtered in Ohio from the first of
November was 33(1,000.
Tho Superintendent of the Chamber of
Commerce, Sidney D, Maxwell, who has
been gathering pork packing statistics for
the Chamber, submitted a preliminary re
port to-day, from which it appears that
one hundred and three towns and cities in
tho AVest, exclusive of Cincinnati, Chica
go, St. Louis, and Louisville, had packed
up to various dates, ranging from Dec. (1
to tho present time, five hundred and
eighty-nine thousand hogs. Tho estimates
for tho remainder of the season, made by
the packers in those places, aggregate 1,-
290,000, making the whole number for
those places, which embraces nearly all
the principal packing points of the AVest,
exclusive of the four cities named, one
million, eight hundred and eighty-live
thousand hogs. This would make an in
crease over last year for the whole sea
son in these places of two-hundred and
ninoty-five thousand, or eighteen and fif
ty-six hundredths per cent. The remaind
er of the AVest, not including the toni
cities named, packed last year six hun
dred and thirty-one thousand. If the in
crease in those places unheard from should
lie in the same ratio, and a like increase
lake place in Cincinnati, Chicago, and
St. Louis, and Louisville, it would make
the whole increase in the four cities four
hundred and seventy-five thousand, and
in the remainder of the West four hun
dred and twelve thousand. This would
make an aggregate increase in the whole
AVest of eight hundred and eighty-seven
thousand, and would make the aggregate
packing of the West for tho season live
million six hundred and seventy thousand.
The report states, however, that the
number to be packed in the four large
cities named will be controlled by contin
gencies that might change this estimate
as to those cities. St. Louis is already
claiming that she will pack 575,000, which
would bo an increase over last year of 37
percent.
Os eighty-four cities and towns that re
port on the matter of weight, tifty-threo
report the hogs heavier than last year,
twenty report them about the same and
eleven report them lighter.
AVith reference to lard, of seventy-nine
places, forty report the yield from leaf
and trimmings heavier; twenty-six report
about the same, and thirteen report the
yield lighter.
Curious and Useful Crow. —J. Snyder,
of Virginia, owns a crow which serves as
a substitute for dogs, eats and all other
domestic sentinels. He destroys every
frog about the well; allows a mouse no
chance for his life; drives away hawks
from the poultry, and bids fair to act as
the best squirrel dog in the country. He
readily spies the squirrel, either upon the
fence or on the trees, and, with a natural
antipathy to the squirrel tribe, his shrill,
keen nolo is readily detected by his owner,
accompanied by rapid darts up and down,
and the owner is thus led to the game.
The most remarkable feature about the
crow is that he invariably keeps five or
six days rations ahead of time, well con
cealed.
Why the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
Should be Extended to Columbus.
We direct particular attention to the
following communication of Capt. W. D.
Chipley, who, as Secretary and Treasurer
of the Northland South Railroad, has de- :
veloped the highest praise for successful i
railroad management from those who
were once strongest in opposition. His
views, we_think,‘every ..reasonable man
must concede are correct. He does not
overstate the claims of Columbus: nor the
great advantages of extending the road to
this point. We hope every man in Co
lumbus will unite in an endeavor to se
cure the end suggested. As has been
well said, Columbus has received less and
done more.for.the State than any city in
Georgia. It is, indeed, time that we
should ask .for and press our j just claims
on the Legislature:
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 21, 1872.
Mr. Editor: I noticed in your colomns
a few days ago an extract from one of
your Georgia exchanges in regard to the
proposed action of t the' holders of the
bonds of the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road, endorsed byJ.the State of Georgia
under the Bullock regime. It is asserted
that the holders of these bonds, pronounc
ed by the last Legislature to be illegal,
because the road upon which,'they were
issued had,not been completed as requir
ed by law, will propose to the Legislature
which convenes in [January, to’.complete
the road in a first-class manner, provided
the State will legalize the bonds. When
it is remembered .that a largo majority of
these bondholders are Germans, and in
nocent purchasers, having bought without
a knowledge of the frauds allegod to have
been practiced, thoir,'proposition will ap
peal to every unprejudiced mind as hav
ing much of common justice in it, and no
one can doubt but that it will command
the s#riousj*onsideratiom of the incoming
Legislature.
Should the proposition be accepted, the
question of the western terminus of the
road will arise, and to direct your atten
tion to the point, all important to our
city, is the object of this communication.
It soems by general consent to be con
ceded that Eufaula, Ala., is the objective
point of the enterprise, but this is not
fixed in the charter "of the company, and
is by no means settled. The charter
leaves the destination of the road open,
merely requiring that it shall go to some
point on the Chattahoochee river. Is
there a city in Georgia to whom tho State
owes more than to Columbus ? and if
Georgia credit is to be used for the con
struction of this road should it be loaned
to build up an Alabama town which is al
ready the vigorous competitor of Macon,
Columbus and other Georgia cities for
Georgia business?
Alabama will not loan its credit to, or
aid any railroad having its offieo or work
shops outside the State.
Should Georgia be more liberal, and
build up an Alabama town to tho absolute
injury of her own cities? The necessity
for extending this road is to tap the great
Trans-Continental Linejwhich extends via
Columbus and Montgomery far into Tex
as, and which is being rapidly pushed to
wards San Diego on the Pacific. If car
ried to Eufaula, the road must intersect
this line at Montgomery, in Alabama, and
over an Alabama railroad. If built to Co
lumbus, it would, as certain as fate, bring
to our city the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad, and over that line, or the North
and South, would offer the shortest route
from St, Louis to the Southern Atlantic.
If carried to Eufaula, it must necessarily
run parallel to the Southwestern Railroad
for a considerable distance. If construct
ed to Columbus, it will furnish to Chatta
hoochee, Stewart, and other
GEORGIA COUNtI’IBS
railroad facilities which they greatly need.
I believe, Mr. Editor, that a proper agita
tion of this matter will make any action
on the part of the State—if favorable—
redound to tho benefit of our city.
Yours, respectfully,
W. D. CuirLKY.
MACON CORRESPONDENCE.
Buown’r Hotel, (
Macon, Dec. 25, 1872.)
Editors Sun . —We reached this city, a
few days since, from Atlanta, after ono of
tho coldest and most uncomfortable rides
we ever experienced on a railroad train.
Asa gentleman remarked, “The manage
ment of tho Macon and Western line would
do credit to a first-class hog;” if not this,
it would be highly complimentary to an
adult pig of long standing. But we re
ferred to such roads in our first letter from
Atlanta, and wo need only say that Mr.
Jerrell, the polite and attentive Conduc
tor. so far as his instructions would*allow,
endeavored to make the passengers com
fortable. The present irregularity of
trams on this route is not only uncomfort
able to ourselves, but causes great com
plaint on the part of the citizens of Ma
cs m.
The weather has been quite cold and
rainy during our stay here, and we have
hardly loft our room for an hour at a time,
except on yesterday evening, when we
took a stroll about the city. Unlike At
lanta, this place can boast of as fine side
walks, even to its suburban limits, as any
city in the South. In fact, there are plen
ty of indications that her municipal affairs
are well managed, and that the rights and
best interests of the people are well guard
ed and proporly eared for.
Tho new brick Court-house is a very
imposing structure, and will, no doubt,
lead to the erection of Qtjier public and
private buildings of a similar stylo of ar
chitecture. Fine residences, hotels and
public institutions, are numorous, and
make the tour of the city quite attractive
to a stranger. Many now storos and resi
dences are going up, and everything de
notes prosperity, although hero, as else
where, everybody complains that money
is scarce—nqvor \vp,s harder to got hold of.
AVe have visited the newspaper offices,
and beg to return our most sincere thanks
to Messrs. Smith and Lines, two of the
proprietors of the Daily Enterprise (a
sprightly evening papor), and to J. S.
Clark, Esq., its present editor-in-chief,
for the cordial reception which they gave
us, as well as for the many kind favors
which they have bestowed upon us during
our stay here. Our thanks are also due
Mr. Thomas 11. Harris, proprietor of the
Spotawood Hotel, for substantial favors.
This well-known establishment ie located
nearly opposite the passenger depot, and
is convenient for travelers stopping hero
or simply passing through. The house is
large and comfortable, and the price of
board only $3 per day. Mr. J. H. Harris,
a pleasant and accommodating gentleman,
is in charge of the office, and gives
prompt attention to the wants of his
guests.
Our headquarters, however, have been
at Brown’s Hotel, sometimes called the
Brown llouso, but which, under either
name, is a first-class institution. —
The venerable senior proprietor, Mr. E.
E. Brown, assisted by his obliging and ef
ficient son, Mr. AV. F. Brown, is still in
charge of the house, and is always glad to
meet his old friends. Being located di
rectly opposite the passenger depot, this
hotel is constantly thronged with guests,
but its ample capacity enables the pro
prietors to furnish comfortable rooms and
good meals to all visitors. To them and
to their polite and attentive clerks our
thanks are duo for excellent attention to
onr wants during a three days’ illness. In
the well-supplied reading-room of this
house, which is the best arranged of any
that we have yet seen, tho Columbus
Daily Sun, with other daily and weekly
papers too numerous to mention, can al
ways bo found on file.
Sidney Herbert.
Tinea blocks at Portland, Oregon, have
been burned. Loss about three-eighths
of a million.
SATI HDA V UOIOIAG,
•Run Off on?the Southwestern Rail
road. —The run off .'mentioned on our ;
first page occurred six miles above Ge- i
neva, where the new iron this way com
mences. It by a spreading of
the track. The engine and three cars re- I
mained on the embankment. The pas
senger coach was overturned on its side.
Mrs. Purnell, wife of a gentleman now
employed at Dozier’s Mill, and her little
three-year old girl were bruised about the
head; not When the
relief train came up the little one begged
“mama” to walk; she had ridden enough.
A baby doll lost its head. A passenger
found himself seated on the stove. He
has not complained of coldness since.
Several were very slightly bruised. Mr.
I. I. Moses, of Columbus, was a passen
ger. Colonel Wadley immediately tele
graphed for a train, which was sent out
and brought on the passengers. The af
ternoon train left as usual.
Something about Old County Bonds.
Phillips & Son, of Cincinnati, claimed be
fore the Superior Court that they held the
oldest order for the county, and asked
that a mandamus; be issued against the
Treasurer commanding him to pay it.
The Treasurer replied that the commis
sioners who fix the taxes had made them
such that only $15,000 had been raised to
pay old debts.
Judge Johnson decided that the com
missioners had the power to do as they
had done, and directed that this order of
Phillips & Son, being the oldest, should
be paid out of this fund.
The Treasurer will do this; but as he
has made other payments, he cannot set
tle old orders until additional taxes are
levied to liquidate them.
The claim of Philips & Son was over
$4,000. Their debt is on account of the
jail built before the war. The
Salvo & Jacobs, were paid in cash and
county orders, and all of these orders
were paid except the $4,000 which have
passed into the ownership of Philips &
Son, and which now have been ordered
settled.
Consumption of Columbus Factories—
The Columbus manufactories to last night,
since August 31st, have taken from the
warehouses 1,614 bales of cotton. Last
year in same time they took 1,102 bales.
This shows an increase of 512 bales in
four months. This is exclusive of tho
large amounts purchased in the seed and
on the stroets, which will not be countod
until the season has nearly closed. If
these 1,614 bales had been sold as high
as 18c. per pound and averaged 500
pounds to tho bale they would have real
ized only $145,260. Columbus has built
factories which treble and in some
cases quadruple this value. Then their
goods when sent from the city will repre
s43s,7Bo. If we had no factories we
got only $145,260. Tho difference in
favor of Columbus thus far is $200,520 —
quite au item.
►Sunday Sports.—Our traveling corre
spondent reports that the young men at
Crawford’s, on the Macon and Western
railroad, amuse themselves after dark ou
Sunday ovenings, whon not otherwise on
gaged, in fastening fire-crackers to dogs’
tails and setting them off. Tho dogs gene
rally go off too, and the effect is quite
startling, especially when tho hair on the
dog’s back takes fire. It is a lively and
Christianizing amusement for young men
of a serious temperament, and shows that
Crawford’s Station has reached a high de
gree of culture and refinement. It would
be a good place for the headquarters of
tho American Socioty for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, now located in the
city of New York.
A Correction.—ln his first letter from
Atlanta, the printer made our traveling
correspondent do great injustice to the
people of that city, in the paragraph al
luding to the young ladies of Columbus,
whore he is made to ask, “But will they
be wanted hero?’.’ It should have read
thus: “But they will be wanted here.”
This is quite different, and we hope the
correction will satisfy all injured parties.
We are assured that visitors from our city
to tho Inaugural Ball at Atlanta, on the
10th of January, will bo treated with
marked courtesy by the gentlemen com
posing tho different ooiumitteos, and also
by Col. Nioholls and his assistants, of the
Kimball House, whore the affair is to take
place.
Offer for the Bridges. —Two gentle
men, Messrs. Ulysses Lewis and Stuart
Freeman, who are said to lie perfectly re
sponsible, have, we are told, made an offer
in writing to pay the Council $2,000 per
annum—ssoo quarterly, in advance—for
the rent of the two city bridges, in case
they are tolled. They agree to give ample
bond to return the structures in the same
condition as when rocoived; to do all re
pairing, and adopt the tolls which were in
vogue when the bridges were made free.
Os course, they select and employ their
own keepers. Mr. Lewis is well-known ;
Mr. Freeman is Foreman of the Columbus
Iron Works, and owns property in Colum
bus and Girard. The proposition will be
submitted to the Council next Monday
night.
Through Cotton. Tho shipmments
which have passed through Columbus for
Savannah far exceed those of last year to
the same date. Thus the AVestom Rail
road had brought to Friday night 19,450
bales and the Mobile and Girard 1954
total 21,404. Last yoar to same date the
AVestern Railroad transported 13,513 bales
and the Mobile and Girard 370—total 14,-
389. Thus, the excess this year over the
last is 7,015 bales, quite a respectable dif
ference. Much of this cotton has been
obtained from Montgomery, Selma, and
as far west as Vicksburg.
Robinson’s Great Circus and Menage
rie.—This unrivaled show will be here
on Tuesday. The press of the State pro
nounce it the greatest exhibition ever
witnessed in Georgia. It is groat in
magnitude and variety, and presents an
array of curiosities soldom seen South,
and a circus troupe that is unrivaled. Os
course every one who wishes to see and
enjoy will go.
Very Cold. —At 9 a. m. yesterday the
thermometer indicated twenty-four de
grees. It must have been low down
earlier. The ground was frozen hard as
a rock. The North is lending us some of
her coldness. After 10 a. m. the sun
shown clear.
Refunding the Cotton Tax. —The latest
bill to refund the cotton tax is that of
Representative Mclntyre, of Georgia,
which provides for the issue of five per
cent, gold interest bonds to the amount of
the tax collected. The bonds to be de
livered to the authorities of the several
States whose citizens paid the tax, and to
be by them distributed among the claim
ants. The records of the internal revenue
office show the amount of tax collected
from tho several States during the three
years that the law was in force, was as
follows: Alabama, $10,380,072 10; Ar
kansas, $2,555,038 43; California, $430 04;
Connecticut, $193 04; Florida, $918,944
98; Georgia, $11,897,094 98; Illinois,
$379,144 42; Indiana, $92,727 22: lowa,
27 cents; Kansas, S4BO 15; Kentucky,
$553,327 45; Louisiana, $10,099,501; Ma
ryland, $51,349 52; Massachusetts, $56,-
679 30; Mississippi, $8,742,995 93; Mis
souri, $592,098 30; New Jersey, $3,050
42; New York, $807,942 08; North Caro
lina, $1,959,704 87; Ohio, $447,127 12;
Pennsylvania, $78,535 06; Rhode Island,
$2,424 33; South Carolina, $4,172,420 16;
Tennessee, $7,873,460 71; Texas, $5,502,
401 24; Utah, $1,375 34; Virginia, $825,-
856 87.
Five country doctors are to locate in
Talbotton. Afflicted town.
THE SAVANNAH FAIR.
Pulaski House,. )
Savannah, Dec. 27, 18 72.)
Editors Sun :—Your correspond ent hasf
only time to announce, before the tColnm
bus mail closes, his safe arrival he re over
the Central road, under the excellent care
of Conductor Young.
We found this well-known hotel thor
oughly reconstructed, renovated and en
larged, and every room and hall elegantly
carpeted and furnished. There are larger
hotels than this, but a more attractive and
comfortable one—with such an air of ele
gance about all its arrangements —cannot-
be found at the South. The proprietors,.
Messrs. J. W. Cameron & Cos., assisted by
half a dozen efficient clerks, find them
selves kept busy with the care of their
numerous guests. They aim to have every
traveler leave their door feeling that he
has not been neglected in anj particular
dnring his stay here.
But we have only time to-uight to speak
of the Fair. The weather has been very
bad during the week; yet the work of im
provement has gone steadily on at the
Fair Grounds, and no efforts have been
spared to put everything in the best p >ssi
ble order. New side tracks and platforms
have been constructed and the entrances
improved, while the grand stand has been
moved into a more desirable position.
Other changes and improvements have
been made, and to-day, cold and bluster
ing as it was, a party of ladies and gen
tlemen went out to decorate the exhibition
halls and put things in order. It is hoped
that Monday will be ushered in by a
marked change in the weather, and that
the week will be a pleasant one. A larger
number of entries have already been made
than were made up to this time last year,
and, as no fee is now charged for articles
exhibited, it is expected that there will be
a fine display.
Tho Southwestern and Central roads
will bring passengers from Columbus at
half fare, and there is no reason why your
city should not be well represented here.
If the Fair is not a success, be assured
that it will not bo the fault of the officials
having the matter in "hand, as they, and all
concerned, are working with a will to com
plete every arrangement necessary to
make it an Exposition worthy of this an
cient city by the sea. You may tell your
readers, therefore, that a good time awaits
all who may come. Tho Sabre Tourna
ment will result iu a Grand Ball; and Ka
tie Putnam will appear nightly at the the
atre, so that there will be no lack of
amusements. But we must close this
hasty epistle, and leave for our next a re
port of our visit to the Fire Department
to-day, through tho kindness of the Chief
Engineer, Capt. J. A. Roberts, formerly
of your city, and also other matters.
Sidney Herbert.
alabamTnews.
Clayton has organized a Reading Club
with Col. H. M. Tompkins, as President;
Dr. J. J. Winn, Vice President; Mrs. B.
W. Johnson, Secretary; and Miss Jennie
Shaver, Treasurer.
Near Perote, Mr. C. M. Oliver, of Clay
ton, and Miss Eugene Rogers were mar
ried.
In Bullock county, Mr. John M. Light
ner and Miss Laura Paulk, and Mr. Davis
M. Ivey, of Montgomery, and Miss Ida
Foster, were married.
Judge D. A. McCall, Judge of Bullock
County Criminal Court, died in Union
Springs on tho 19th. He was a native of
N. C., but early came to Alabama. He
was once Senator in Pike county, and af
terwards Representative from Bullock.
The Troy Council has resolved to sus
pend, indefinitely, the tax on real estate
for the purpose of paying “Troy Bonds,”
and have appointed Messrs. L. B. Wilker
son, W. C. Wood, J. K. Murphreo, John
P. Hubbard, J. R. Goldthwaite, A. TANARUS,
Loekard, W. H. Strickland, R. 11. Park,
J. P. Hill, and W. R. Rice, to act in con
cert with the Mayor and Councilmen in
negotiating or devising some means of
paying or compromising said bonds.
Gov. Lewis has appointed and commis
sioned Col. C. J. L. Cunningham,atUnion
Springs, Judge of the Criminal Court of
Bullock county.
Mr. Stiefol, clerk in tho store house of
Messrs. H. & A. Strassburger, of Mont
gomery, was standing in the store of
Messrs. Strassburger, on Commercial
street, whon a crowd of boistrous persons
passed rapidly by him. In an instant ono
of them plunged a large knife in Mr.
Stiefcl’s hack, making a dangerous wound.
Judge John L. C. Danner died in Mont
gomery, Tuesday morning, at o’clock,
after a long-sustained and painful attack
of pneumonia. He was a German by
birth ; an official of President Buchanan ;
shared the fortunes of the Confederacy,
and at one time was reporter of the Ala
bama Supreme Court.
The St. Louis Republican publishes one
Salthiel, who pretended to be a special
correspondent, at Montgomery, of that,
paper, and was being dead-headed on that
score at the hotels, as one acting without;
authority. The paper does not know him.
He should bo passed around.
It is estimated that not less than 40,000
Chinese crackers, including about 1,000 of
a detonating power equal to that of a
Springfield musket, were destroyed in
Montgomery on Christmas day.
Parties going North are informed that
for the present tho Selma, Rome and Dal
ton railroad, above Patona, is disabled.
Thursday afternoon, in Montgomery, a
pistol accidentally exploded in tho hands
of Mr. AVilliam Metcalf, in the Lawrence
street stables, and inflicted serious, though
not dangerous, wounds ou bis face and
hands,
Charles Perkins, Burns and Hennimute,
all under eighteen years, have been ar
rested for stabbing Mr. B. Stiefel, in
Montgomery, Ala.
GEORGIA NEWS.
General Joe Johnston received a mag
nificent buck as a Christmas present on
Monday,
A brick stable, in rear of A, A. Solo
mon’s, valued at SSOO, was burned, Mon
day night, in Savannah.
At the Savannah barracks, Tuesday
night, Officer AV. M. Strong mortally
wounded Officer McElligott. The affair
commenced in a playful scuffle.
The funeral of General A. R. AVright.
in Augusta, ou Monday, was very impos
ing. The corpse was dressed in the Con
federate Major-General’s uniform, which
the deceased wore in the army. Some
2,000 persons were in the organized line
which followed the remains to the ceme
tery. Among the Confederate soldiers
was General Toombs, and among the law
yers ex-Governor Herschel A r . Johnson.
The marriage of Colonel E. AV. Cole,
General Superintendent of the Nashville
and Chattanooga, and Western and At
lantic, and Georgia railroads, and Miss
Anna Russell, of Augusta, took place at
St. John’s Methodist church, in that city,
on Tuesday afternoon. Bishop McTyeire,
of Nashville, officiated. Among those
present were Generals E. Kirby Smith and
Bushrod R. Johnson.
Mrs. Starr, who has been proprietress of
some of the first-class hotels, died in Au
gusta on Tuesday.
Mrs. Dr. Banks, of Griffin, is dead.
Mr. AVilliam McClellan, the Marshal of
Carrollton, died on the 17th.
The Underwriters have concluded For
syth lost $31,000 by her fire, of which
$21,000 were insured.
Tho Board of Trustees of the Lunatic
Asylum at Milledgevillo, elected as officers,
for the ensuing year: Superintendent, Dr.
Tho3. F. Green; Ist Asst. Physician, Dr.
T. O. Powell; 3d Asst, Physician, Dr. T.
H. Kenan; Steward and Treasurer, E. D.
Brown; Apothecary, Wm. A. Cotting;
Asst. Steward, John A. Orme. The of
fice of Third Assistant Physician was abol
ished. The pay of officers was increased,
' and tile privilege of drawing rations was
taken away.
R. J. Wiles, agent of the Domestic
Sewing Machine Company in Atlanta, on
| Tuesday, was presented by the employees
! and friends with a gold watch and chain,
i and Mrs. Wiles a handsome set of silver.
The suit "of the Western Union Tele
; graph Company, against the Western
and Atlantic Railroad has been dis-
I missed in the U. S. Circuit Court in
Atlanta.
Mr. Ivey,.Mrs.“Tapt and two children
of the former, all of Hall County, were
drowned near Gainsville Monday. They
were crossing a swollen creek in an ox
wagon, when the team lost their footing
and were carried down the stream.
Bodies have been recovered.
The gin-houses of Mr. Seaborn Hall and
Mr. Goodwin, in Butts county, were
burned on the 14th. Nos. Cl and 62.
A meeting of the citizens of Burke
county was held last week, and seven
white and three negro freeholders were
appointed to canvass the county in favor
of the abolition of fences.
Americus has elected H. L. French
Mayor.
Mr. A. A. Koff, has purchased the Jones
place, in Vineville, containing forty acres
of land, and made a present of it to Ma
con, on condition that the city establish
there a home for the poor. The land is
situated about a mile and a half from the
centre of Macon, on the Macon and West
ern Railroad.
Rev. A. W. Clisby has boon called to
the Presbyterian church of Macon.
Messrs. J. M. and R. P. Hotzelaw, 11.
D. Watson, and several other citizens of
Stewart county, left Lumpkin, last week,
for Louisiana, where they intend locating.
The wife of Major G B. Lamar, jr.,
died, in Savannah, Thursday.
The marriage of Miss Alice Hardee,
daughter of Major Charles S. Hardee, of
the Savannah Republican, and Mr. Henry
L. Backus, on Tuesday, is the latest event
in the fashionable circles of that city.
Athens. —Five blocks of buildings will
be erected on the business streets during
the coming Spring. The number of pri
vate dwellings now going up is unprece
dented. Prices of real estate arc rapidly
advancing in Athens. The new Opera
House has been greatly improved.
The gin house of C. Seidel, of Hart
county, was burned, togethor with several
bales of cotton, a few days since. No. 63.
A correspondent of the Augusta Chron
icle says there will be $250,000 for the
Public Schools of the State for teu months.
He recommends that tiie $268,000 in
bonds, which were placed in the Treasury
in August, 1870, as a pledge for the school
fund absorbed by what is known as the
“Bullock Legislature,” be distributed
among the counties, and by them sold at
not loss than ninety cents on the dollar.
Elevon cases of illicit distilling fraud, in
Forsyth county, came up before the At
lanta U. S. Commissioner. Two of the
parties were discharged upon a hearing;
seven gave bond for their appearance at
court, and M. M. Samples was committed
to jail in default of bond. The parties
were all from Forsyth county.
The wife of Capt. Rudolph, of Gaines
ville, died on the 23d ; and, on the 24th,
in his house, Miss Ella Suttou was fatally
burned.
The brick store of John Gray, in Adairs
ville, was burned Thursday. Loss, $lO,-
000; insurance, $2,500.
In Atlanta, a young man accidentally
shot himself.
It is estimated that the recent tloods
have damaged Polk county over $200,000.
Bridges, mills, fencos aud dams have all
been washed away.
Suporinteudont G. J. Orr is to visit all
tho Public Schools in January. Ho has
issued a circular stating there is now
ready for distribution SIOO,OOO to pay the
public school teachers who did service
under the law of 1871. It will be dis
tributed in those counties which liuvo
made returns.
An honest man in Macon returned a
pocket-book to Capt. T. J. Holt, jr., which
contained $252.
J. W. Burke has been elected mayor pro
torn, of Macon. Ho is also chairman of
the Finance Committee.
N. C. Abridge killed his brother-in-law
Janies E. Greer, in Macon Christmas-eye
night. Abridge was drunk and had been
put out of Greer’s house, when ho crept
to a window, tired at and killed Greer.
The Board of Education, South Georgia
Conference, M. E. Church South, Rev. A.
Wright, Chairman, has made the follow
ing assessments for the ensuing year, viz:
Savannah District $ 185
Macon District ]BS
Columbus District 180
Americus District 150
Bainbridge District... 100
Thomasville District 80
Altamaha District 80
Total S9OO
Rev. George T. Goetcliius, now pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Albany, has
been invited to become the pastor of the
Presbyterian church in Milledgeville. His
parents reside in Columbus.
A correspondent of the New York Tri
bune reports Treasurer N. L. Angier as
saying that the direct bonded indebted
ness of Georgia is $8,456,500. The eon
tingeut indebtedness is $3,158,000. Total
$11,644,500. If Bullock’s obligations had
been valid, the total would be $30,633,-
000. Tho correspondent says it is the
opinion of sonio of tho most conservative
men in Georgia that the Stale will ac
knowledge about $7,033,400 of Bullock’s
bonds, bringing the whole debt up to
about $15,500,000. Treasurer Augier then
stated:
The property of the State, at tho low
valuation of our town assessors, is $234,-
500,000, omitting banking and insurance
capital and railways. The general State
tax of 4-10 of 1 per cent, would produce
$037,069 87. The taxes on corporations
will add $30,000, and the rental of the
State Road $150,000; making in all
$1,117,060. [The special school tax ol'
1-10 of 1 per cent, and some forms of
license make $544,493.] The entire dis
bursements to carry on the State in 1872
were SBOO,OOO, and this left for the inter
est on the different loans $317,060 87.
The assets of the Georgia government are
computed at $8,188,000, scant.
The correspondent asked the Treasurer
if he believed that Bullock’s excessive
obligations should be foresworn, to which
he replied : “ I do. If they call it repu
diation, it will protect us against future
thieves, as Mississippi is protected. No
State credit makes honest politicians and
light taxes.”
The Tribune correspondent adds this :
The above shows that, by the late ac
tion of the State authorities, $10,000,000
have been disowned in Georgia, for which
the State bonds are outstanding. What
ever the justice of the defence, it is im
probable that mankind will call this act
by more than one word, and that will be
repudiation.
Dr. P. M. Kollock, of Savannah, died
on tho 25th.
It cost a Savannah negro thirty-nine
lashes to steal eighteen pounds of turkey
and offer to sell it for twenty-five cents.
Mr. Francis Grimm, the proprietor of a
lager beer saloon in Savannah, was drown
ed in the river while returning from a
Christmas frolic on board a German ship.
Miss Lizzie Spencer, aged sixteen years,
daughter of Capt. W. H. Spencer, died in
Christ Church, Savannah, Christmas morn
ing. She had just been confirmed by
Bishop Beckwith; returned to her seat,
and fell into a fainting fit, and died be
fore she could be taken from the building.
Policeman McEllegott, who was shot
while in a scuffle with officer Strong, is
dead. The evidence on the inquest is
conflicting. Verdict not yet rendered.
A drunken negro was crushed under ear
wheels, at Augusta, Christmas.
Wednesday, a child in Graniteville, op
posite Augusta, was burned to death.
Mr. Bob Puckett, a charitable butcher,
treated the poor of Augusta to beef, on
Christmas day.
TELEGRAPHIC.
SUMMARY.
Washington, Dec. 26. —The King of
the Sandwich Islands is dead.
All the trains approaching Philadelphia
are delayed by snow. It is snowing per
sistently here and North.
only 4 fifty passengers were on the train
wrecked near Prospect, Pa., of whom
twenty-five are dead. Sixteen wounded
passengers crowded into one car. The
trucks crushed the car stoves, and the
heavily-painted wood work of the car
caused a fierce combustion—the ends of
the cars, tho only means of escape, catch
ing fire first.
A passenger train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad become
snow-bound, and was telescoped by an
other train. Two personsj were killed
and four wounded.
Details'ofjim’accident at Goose'creok,
near Pleasant Station, are horrible. The
cars are burning. No water and only two
axes. E. H. Bill, a telegraph operator,
was killed. ! ;Tw«nty-ono persons were
killed, sixteen of whom wore charred be
yond recognition. The bodies of three
additional are still under the wreck. The
shrieks of the sufferers could be heftrd
nearly an hour. Several rescued will die.
The Vigilance Committee at Visatia,
California, hung Chas. Allon, the murder
er.
Thejrear’car of yesterday’s train, on the
Indianapolis, Pennsylvania and Chicago
Railroad, jumped from tho track, caused
by a broken rail. Twenty injured. No
Southerners.;
Leggatt & Dausman’s tobacco factory,
at St. Louis, has been burned.
Light wagons cross the river on the ice
at Little Rock, Ark.
A five-story iron building, No. 11!)
Franklin street, Now York, was burned
last night. The adjoining buildings were
damaged. Loss $200,000.
A snow slide six hundred feet wide aud
twelve feet deep, at Little Cottonwood,
swept the stage road, and carried ten
teams fifteen hundred feet into Cotton
wood creek. Four teamsters wore lost.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 20.—The White
House is closed until after New Year’s.
The Presidentjreoeives.no official visitors.
After Governor Bard was confirmed
as postmaster of Chattanooga, Senator
Brownlow moved a reconsideration, pend
ing which Bard’s commission is withheld.
Meantime, the incumbent holds
over.
Washington, Dec. 27. —Northern trains,
due last night, are fourteen hours behind
time, but they are all safe.
The Potomac is frozen overisolidly.
Washington, Dec. 28.—The appeal of
tho New Orleans Committee to the people
of the United States has been printed
into pamphlet'with an appendix quoting
the laws 'bearing upon the case. They
will memorsalize Congress for a Commit
tee of Investigation, upon whose report
they hope will devise some
means of relief for Louisiana.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, December 26.—The reading of
the bill, in the Cortes, the
Porto Rico slaves within four months,
with compensation to owners, was greeted
with cheers.
London, December 26.—The Czar of
Russia has the typhoid fever.
King ;_Lameah is dead. He was the
last of the Royal line and named no suc
cessor.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 28. —The Czar is
now convalescent.
London, Deo, 28. A dispatch from
Hong Kong states that the ship Beerares,
hence to San Francisco, was wrecked off
the Loochoo Islands. All but five wore
lost.
Very Rev. Ramsey, of St. John’s Cathe
dral, Edinburg, is dead.
Brussels, Dec. 28. —Pleuro pneumonia
has become an epidemic in the villages on
the Prussian and Belgian line.
ALABAMA.
Mobile, December 26. —The entire
through mail train from New York for
this place of the 16th and 17th instants
has failed. Tho delay causos great incon
venience.
Montgomery, Dec. 27.—E. R. Mitchell,
acting financial agent, left the city a few
days ago to negotiate the bogus bonds is
sued by the Court-room Legislature. It
is thought he will not stop in New York,
but will go to Europe.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, December 26. —The river is
nearly frozen over.
The Memphis Bank, J. -I. Murphy presi
dent, has suspended.
Memphis, Dec. 27. —The ice gorge at
Hen-and-Chickens broke at 2 o’clock this
morning. It came with a terrific force
and swept clear the decks, cut down ten
coal barges aud a steamer from the wharf.
People crowd the bluff to watch the de
struction of boats by the ice,
Only three days’ supply of coal in Mem
phis. The gas company is without a day’s
supply. Cqal, at two dollars per barrel,
will cause the poorer class to suffer.
The river has risen three aud a half feet
since last Monday.
Memphis, Dee. 28.—The Celeste sunk
at Island No. 05. Her cargo of cotton
and com was valued at $50,000. Passen
gers escaped and walked 60 miles across
the country.
The river commenced falling last night,
indicating another gorge. Total loss so
far is $200,000. A coal famino its Appre
hended.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Dee. 26.-- The snow
crushed four hundred feet of Whitney’s
ear wheel factory and a number of work
men were buried.
Williamsport, Dec. 26.— The floor and
ceiling of the Baptist Church fell while
five hundred people were worshipping.
Fourteen were killed and thirty wounded.
Philadelphia, Doc. 28.—The Coroner’s
Jury rendered a verdict thal. John Twee
die died from violence from Police Ser
geant, Rogers, inflicted while in jail for
drunkenness.
Weather line; gale is subsiding. Trains
arriving regularly.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, Dec. 27.—The South bound
train ran off the track, caused by a broken
rail, near Glasgow, this a. m. The bag
gage car burned. Large number of pas
sengers. None killed; several seriously
hurt.
Louilville, Dec. 28. —Peter Eox, of
Louisville, is probably fatally injured.
None other of 30 passengers were serious
ly hurt, but most of them bruised.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, December 28.—Governor
Warmoth’s private secretary says that the
statement published in the Washington
papers, to the effect that Governor War
um! h had abandoned the contest and ad
vises the Legislature not to meet on the
6th of January, is untrue.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WiLMlNiyrciN, Dec. 28.—Andrew Strong
has been killed. He was the only mem
ber of the original hand of the Robinson
county outlaws alive. The person who
killed Strong received SI,OOO.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Dec. 28. —The city is en
tirely out of coal.
There has been no arrival of trains from
Memphis during the past three days.
UTAH.
Salt Lake Citv, Dee. 28.—' Twelve per
sons are missing from tho Cottonwood
snow avalanche- It continues to snow on
the mountains, and trains are nine hours
behind time.
INDIANA.
Indianapolis, Dec. 28.—One wife was
killed by a blow from her husband’s fist;
another from a blow with a chair in her
husband’s hands, who was drunk.
MICHIGAN.
Adrian, Dec. 28. —Car shops burned;
loss $75,000
NEW YORK.
New York, Dec. 26. —The signal offices
here display cautionary signals to-day.
Dispatches from the West report that
tho weather yesterdayjnnd last night was
the severest known for years.
New. York, December 26. — The Bowery
Theatre and Canterbury Hall have been
damaged by fire.
Twelve inches of snow has fallen here.
Teams and street care have nearly ceased
running.
Later. —Thejsnow is a foot deep, with
heavy drifts.
All approaching mails are snow bound.
Later. —The storm continues. Every
thing is stopped.
Buffalo, Dec. 26. —Easterly storm.
Forty inches of water driven out. Manu
factories stopped.
New York, December 27. —The snow
has on tire,ly'stopped jtravol over the East
ern division of the Erie railroad.
New York, December 27. —It is snow
ing again this morning. The snow is the
heaviest that has fallen for years. Thou
sands slept in offices last night, unable to
get home. No mails loft the city yester
day. No mails have reached the post
office since noon yesterday. A number of
vessels are detained by the storm. There
were no arrivals from sea yesterday.
Ljitcr. —lt has ceased snowing.
The poor are suffering from the absence
of the usual supplies of bread and milk.
New York, Dec. 28. —Weather mode
rating slightly. Considerably milder on
the Bay. Leading’railroads are cleaning
tracks. Regular trains will be resumed
this afternoon.
The sub committee of the Louisiana
delegation visited many prominent mer
chants yesterday, with a view of procu
ring some action i« behalf of the Louisi
ana complication.
MASSACHUSETTS.
North Adams, Dec. 28. Arnold's
print work* burned: lo*e $150,000. Two
hundred hands ousted.
MARKETS.
Liverpool, Dec. 28. —Evening.—Cotton
closed unchanged.
New York, Deo. 28—Evening.—Money
closed at 1-16 commission. Gold
Governments strong and steady; little
business. States quiet; Tennessee and
Virginia considered rather heavy.
Cotton firm, with a slight advance.
Later. —(Jot ton firm; sales 1,624 bales;
uplands 20jc ; Orleans 20jjC; net receipts
456.
Sales of futures to-day 20,400 bales,
as follows: Dec.,
11-16; Feb., 1!) 15-16, 20 1-16; March, 20
5-16,20 7-16; April, 20*; May, 21,21 1-16;
June, 21 j.
Bank Statement Legal tenders de
creased $3,500,000; loans decreased sl,-
250,000.
Louisville, Dec. 28—Flour in good de
mand; extra family $6 75. Com steady.
Provisions strong and in fair demand.
Pork sl2 50; shoulders 5; sides 8 j-(a>B jc.
packed. Whisky quiet at 88c.
New Orleans, Dec. 28. —Cotton firm:
good ordinary 18!; low middlings Iff;
net receipts 3,484; exports to Great Britain
4,682; Continent 2,562; sales to-day 700 ,
last evening 3,800; stock 162,236.
Mobile, Dec. 28.—Cotton firm; net re
ceipts 1,637; sales 1,500; stock 39,930.
Baltimore, Dee. 28. —Cotton firm;
sales 50; stock 1,052.
Wilmington, December 28. —Cotton
firm; net receipts 221; sales 75; stock
4,045.
Boston, Dec. 28.—Cotton quiet; net re
ceipts 69; sales 300; stock 5,500.
Norfolk, Dec. 28. —Cotton steady; net
receipts 410; sales 200; stock 13,710.
Memphis, Doc. 28.—Cotton quiet and
weak; receipts 747 ; sales 980; stock
36,285.
Galveston, Dee. 28. —Cotton firm; net
receipts 1,230; exports to Great Britain
862; sales 1,300; stock 66,808.
Savannah, December 28.—Cotton firm;
ordinary 18£c.; low middlings 19j}e.; mid
dlings 19|c.; exports to Great Britain
6,022; sales 3,152; stock 87,858.
Charleston, Dec. 28.—Cotton firm;
net receipts 1,553; sales 1,000; stock
42,331.
Augusta, Dec. 28.—Cotton in moderate
demand; receipts 1,092; sales 778.
Direct Trade and Immigration-Meeting of
Committee in Macon.
The Legislative Committee, of which
Col. J. C. Nichols is chairman, met Thurs
day morning at Brown’s Hotel, in Maoon.
Mr. Bryan, the Secretary, read letters
from Senator T. M. Norwood, Mayor Scre
ven, of Savannah, Gen. A. H. Colquitt,
Judge D. A. Vason, Edwin DeLeon, and
Senator Jones of Baker county, express
ing regret at not being able to attend the
meeting, and great interest in the object
for which it was called.
A draft of a report of the committee
was read, of which the following is the
substance: After careful enquiry at home
and in New York, from experienced mer
chants and ship owners, the committee ex
press the conviction that neither the
trade nor immigration could succeed with
out direct steam communication with Eu
rope; and conversely, that no regular
steam line can be hoped for unless both
trade and emigrants unite in filling up the
steamers. They look upon direct com
mercial intercourse as a most powerful
moral agent in producing that character
of immigration to our Slate which should
add to her wealth, social advantages, and
political weight.
Our foreign commerce must continue
limited so long as our production and fab
rication of raw material is confined to our
native population. This population is
not only small in number, but is unable
to combine for great enterprises, for lack
of cash capital. By the introduction of
skilled workmen, hardy farmers, and
miners, and the consequent increase of
our productions and wants, our present
foreign trade could be swelled to an ex
tent not easily computed.
Direct trade and immigration should
receive tlm fostering care of the States.
Direct trade is anecesaity. It is the most
Important measure to attract trade and
capital. It will grow gradually. The
railroad connections offer a healthy basis
not only for European connection, but
with the West Indies and South America.
This was endorsed by the Governor and
General Assembly in 1860, resulting in
the law guaranteeing a yearly return to
the Belgian-Ameriean Steamship Compa
ny of SIOO,OOO. Events since then have
increased the necessity for emigration.
Comparative poverty is a strong stimulant
to promote all practical moans for build
ing up our wealth and social strength.
Some internal improvements in Georgia
do not earn expenses.
Immigration is an absolute necessity to
the preservation of ourrelative importance
in the United States. We must progress
or retrogade.
The committee protest against a willing
ness to stimulate the introduction of set
tlors who would not in time appreciate
our laws and our social ideas. In this, as
in all other bargains, there should be a
mutal benefit between those who give and
those >vho accept the invitation to acquire,
by cheap purchase and low taxes, an in
terest in our lauds, climate and society. Ob
jection is made to an indiscriminate rush.
They are satisfied that a worthy and effi
cient class of emigrants, principally for
eign, can be attracted to Georgia, to be
followed in time by capitalists, who, as
settlers, or visitors, or correspondents,
would unlock oar imprisoned resources.
We befiave that immgration of this char
acter is warmly desired by the mass of
our people, however uninformed they
may be of the means necessary to secure
it.
Direct trade and immigration depend
on each other. To advance the one, the
other must be also advanced.
As the most essential step, the commit
tee first reports g bill to encourage and
aid direct steam transportation between
Georgia and Europe, as they have shown
that proper transportation is the basis for
both trade and emigrant travel. In this
they have sought to intelligently apply
the act of 1860 (already umui , .
our present circumstances, q ai . ... .
after having secured to us i! i, i
tion. can safely leave ii . ■ ■
the self-interest «:id •. ah- ; •.
1 merchants aud railroad corpora :-.ous
They present a bill io or;::• r. • x •• •
reau of Immigration and .
with the special ohjei .: : securiim ~ ,
and valuable class'of citizens, win-, ,
I be absorbed in a healthy and pr<
j way into our existing society:
; turning away from us (as tar as in.,
j agency permits) the vagrant. . .
! from justice, and the desperate
turer Every advantage t!i North
West give we must give.
They present also a lull to provide f,,,
proper description of our State, \,ith „ ,
| suitable for immigrants: its -mitubi, , •
i lation, and its diffusion in foreign. ,
tries
An attempt was made under the adi, j.,
ist ration of Governor Bullock to ~
immigration ; it proved a failure,
resulted as much from tho then i 1E f,....
nato reputation of our State ;.hi ,
from the insufficiency of the hil! ; s .
which will lie apparent on a c.n.j, S( ,
of it with those we now present.
Tho committee concludes as follow- ■
We have recommended thir })., ■
belonging to the “Immigration ~, ,
Foreign Trade Bureau" do not la gin
contracts for a line of steamers arc t u
cuted.
In conclusion, we desire to
against any supposition that this commit!
tee recommend the introduction of f <(l .
eigners as substitutes for negro tat, „
largo plantations. We have no such j,{„”
and would condemn it if urged brother-'
The European has habits, diet, amus,'
ments, ote., essentially’ antagonistic to tin
old plantation labor system, but perfectly
compatible with tho life of a landholder
a tenant or a skilled laborer, support;,,.!
his own home and fireside.
To such a life in our favor 1 St.,: - .
can honestly invito him.
A discussion followed. Col W. !
Johnston suggested that Liverp. ~! would
be tho best European port. Col. Schuller
thought Hamburg or Havre preferable,
because of German and From h cini.
grants. Mr. McKay thought it not likely
that English and Scotch would; ->to li,i\) r
in search of passage to Ameri-a. (\,i.
Hardoman wanted tho two ideas together.
The idea of remuneration should be held
out. Judge Schley coincided with Cel.
11. in tho idea of holding out a reward.
Ho did not think any sensible Le"is!ature
would refuse a subsidy of SIOO,OOO.
Schuller said one hundred thousand and l
lars a year subsidy would secure a monthly
liue of steamers between Savannah and
any European port.
A motion of Mayor Bryan that the Com
mittee petition the Legislature to üb,
dize a line of steamers, and appropriate
$100,006 per annum to any steamship
company which will enter into a satisfac
tory contract with the State was adopted.
Col. Hardeman said if we want to at
tract immigration hither we must offer
adequate inducements. 110 was in favor
of the small farm over the plantation
system. Small farms and cheap farms
will attract emigrants. Small farms pay
best. He thought there would bo no
difficulty iu securing lands. Col. Seliallei
mentioned some largo landholders who
were willing to sell half they had cheap
on long time. Capt. C. W. Hammond
made a long speech. If men were sala
ried he wanted those who would work, not
sit in their office. The proposition of a
handbook audits translation would re
quire six mouths for three or four men.
He wanted skilled labor, not producers
of cotton under the present system. We
need skilled labor; mechanical, domestic
labor. Ho thought the iron crop of North
Georgia could be made to equal tho cotton
crop of the State. He said the large
emigration from North Georgia was from
the hireling or tenant class. Tho land
owner could not pay more than $lO to
sl2 per month with board and sl7 to S2O
without it. The men are anxious to be
come land owners, and hence move where
they can secure cheap Government lands.
Land owners do not leave tlieir homes.
The land owners could better afford to
pay foreigners S6O a month than the pi ices
now paid native labor; because their
work is more remunerative—-their system
is better and more profitable. A foreigner
would rather make an old acre rich than
clear anew one, because they understand
it better.
After other speeches meeting ad
journed.
All members took dinner at the Brown
House. Toasts and champagne.
Tho report in tho Macon Telegraph,
from which we get our information, occu
pies over three columns of ih. piper.
i lie School Fund.
Tho following circul r has h i itsf: beer,
sent to tho various county m,
tho State School Cummins :..m ■
Department of Education, >
Atlanta, Ga., December 23, 1872. ,
To the 'Treasurer of Count//:
Dear Sin —l take pleasure in announc
ing to you that therein now ready for and
tribi#ion $100,(100 of tlicfuud raise.l in
the tax authorized by “An Act to provide
for the payment of tho debt duo to leach
ors and school officers who did service un
der the Public School Law in las sear
1871,” approved August 10, 1872. The
distributive part of your county is '
for which a warrant will bo drawn in your
favor by the Governor, unless there ov
ists one of tho three following 1c si bars
to immediate distribution:
1. If there has been no return of lire
enumeration of the school population of
your county, there can be no distribution
under the law.
2. If the amount of the school debt iu
the county has not been reported t > this
office, there can be no distribution tiif
that report is load- by (he proper officer.
3. If the debt reported is leas .
pro rata going to tii county, only the
amount of the debt can be drawn.
In the first two cas s the whole pro rata,
and iu the last, excess of it over the debt
wall remain in the treasury of the State to
the credit of the county.
In all other cases thewh.de amount may
bo drawn.
For the distribution of tlie fund after it
reaches the county, l give the two folio .
ing rules us, in my opinion, deducibie
from tlie provision , ot the law:
1. Each county Commissioner will I"
entitled t. receive, from the county's pr*»
rata, an amount which shall bear th< same
ratio to the entire pro rata, tint, b.s ckti.-c.
bears to the entile school debt of the
county.
2. The remainder must be apportioi !
among the sub. districts in .lie proporti n
of the number of children iueaoh Is t«. ■ ’
the ages of six an.i twenty-one years,
must then be paid out to lawful claim::: (•>
in proportion to the amount of the seve-al
claims.
When any County Tress.:, e; can; • •
tend in p -r.-ou to r.-ee eid ; warrar :
draw the money thereon, lb • mm: i-.:
done by executing I- some o. .: a power .
attorney to represent him.
Whether the wan.mb is applied foi ■
person or by an attorney in fact, ’ :
County Treasurer must be idcuti.i and.
such, by a cerlificate oi th
and 1 .earing the seal of the Ordinal','
his county.
Gustavus J. Oru.
finite School Commissi '
Never in tho wildest dreams conic tin
architects of the Coliseum at lion,
imagined that the vast structure <■
they erected for the celebration oi i!»p"ri
al holidays would eventually, with t! ■
lapse of centuries, be devoted to the p
pose of holding a meeting v lib in •
pacious walls in behalf of universal ul
frage in Rome, According to :» !
from Rome, the Republicans of tha- >
were to have assembled there on the 2ith
of last month to make this-.leu mid '
equal political rights upon the Gov< r ;•
rnent. The old Coliseum has u itme" ■
many strange scenes—some grand, others
repellant, but all interesting—in its time,
but none more impressive could bo imag
igned within its historical enclosure than
that of the people of the ancient city com
ing together to ask for the right to vote
and for the privilege of being regarded as
men.