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Found Di \n on the Cars, Mr. -I ««« i T.
Scott was found dead in the passenger
coach of the Western train which arrived
Sunday before daylight, lie liad been
helped aboard at (Ipelika by some negroes.
Conductor Oscar Dibble had him laid
down on two seats. Arriving at Colum
bus, he was not disturbed, but allowed to
sleep on until he awoke. That awakening
never came on this earth, doing in later
to clean out the car, a servant foun 1 him
dead. Coroner J£. A. Wood held an in
quest. The verdict of the jury was, that
the death was the effects of intemperance.
Dr. Bacon made the examination. The re
mains were buried in the cemetery that
day.
The deceased was a brother of Col.
I laid Scott, who was killed while leading
Ids Confederate regiment into action, and
a half brother to (’apt. James Whitesides.
He was about forty years of age. Previ
ous to the war, lie was at one time city
editor of the Columbus Sun. His pen
manship was elegant, and ho was a ready
and fluent writer. Afterwards, he was as
sociated in merchandising, and subse
quently kept a boarding house in Mont
gomery. During the war ho became a
private in onr army and fought well. His
life at one time promised brilliantly.
Drink was the only enemy he possessed, and
and finally conquered. A wife, and a number
if near relatives survive him. Ilis nature
was a generous one, and ho never forgot
a benelit. Peaceful lie his future, for, in
the past, he must have suffered much.
Tuk Niw Telegkafhio Tune. The
Southern und Atlantic Telegraphic Com
pany has established an office in this city,
und yesterday work to all points North
and West was fairly commenced. A dis
patch was sent to Boston and answered in
thirty-five minutes. Cotton reports wore
also furnished at early hours. The busi
ness done yesterday was large for an
opening day. Mr. F. E. Meyer, an ex
ccllcnt operator and popular gentlemen,
liah charge of the main office, which is
located nearly opposite our establishment.
The office at the Kankin House will be
opened in a few days. Mr. J. H. Duncan
will be the operator there. The tariff has
already been reduced, and we may ex
pect to see considerable rivalry between
this company and the Western Union.
Both companies have most coinToons em
ployees in this city.
Cotton Ukckifts at J>:ti.riok I’ovns.—
l'iii* following shows the rei-iq it sos the
named interior towns from August 81st
to I >ec 27th. Their united stocks on the
l'7th were 90,80.'!, against ‘.18,107 same date
hist year :
1871 1872
Augusta 112,778
Macon 41,util 15.7a;:
Enfaula 14,070 I 8,508
Coluintms 27,048 £!B,t>9'i
Montgomery 42,115 40. ISO
Selma 4:5,115 £11,00.7
Nashville £12,040 £51,812
Memphis 197,000 180,007
Total 402,551 51 4,720
Tuj: lon Company.—The stockholders
held a meeting last afternoon. The re
port of Treasurer C. A. Uedil was read.
Over !§0,:i00 hail been paid in. It was
necessary to have some SIO,OOO to pay for
the erection of the machine, houses, and
to carry on operations. Messrs. 0 •).
Moffett, A. M. Uranium and S. Law
lion were appointed a committee to see
stockholders and urge upon them to in
erease their stock 75 per cent.
Crowded. -"-Mayor Mollheuny yesterday
directed officers Uoper, Roberts, St. Clair
and (special) Fields to ascertain the num
ber of school children in the city under
the school law of the State. They nearly
finished the first ward. They found nine
teen persons living in one little tenement..
The Arlington Hotel of Washington. I'.
0., for the third time since its opening,
has undergone a complete embellishment.
It was originally fitted up in grand style,
with every eonvenieuee, elegance and lux
ury that experience, taste and judgment
could desire, and money accomplish. Dur
ing the summer succeeding, it was beauti
fully frescoed and renovated throughout.
Within the past two months all the cham
bers have been covered with new style of
comiseated gold and silver paper. !’he
House has been re-painted, re-carpeted,
and a number of the rooms re furnished.
From the constant efforts of the Messrs.
Itocssle, to beautify and improve it, “ the
Arlington” is now far more luxurious and
magnificent than when first opened, and
is beyond question what they designed it
should be — The Hotel of the Capital.
delO 8t
A Contradiction.- —The Monroe Adver
tiser. Forsyth, (4a., one of the best wet-li
lies in lire South, demands cash in ad
i'idu•<’ for its subscriptions, yet has for its
motto, "hi Hod We T.rnsl." This has
beeu the mol to of r, ligious newspapers for
years past, and t great many id th. in have
died under it, dm truxt-iug the policy
which led to its adoption.
A I iiNin uovs Agent.—The Savannah
Ad , , lias a collecting agent named
•’■d- uni i !.,• ouly way delinquent sub
' ■ m i inn! paper can escape “biles
aud su;li like,” is to pay up promptly be
fore the said Major J. W. lfilcs comes
along and “biles over” on them.
Ike annual production of cotton seed
in the valley of the Mississippi is not less
than 750,000 tons, worth, at the present
market price, $10,500,000. The entire
cotton seed product of the South is worth,
in its crude state, nearly $24,000,(MX).
Ike six cotton seed oil factories in New
(Means are producing nearly 11,000 gal
°us of oil per day.
Miss Amelia, daughter of W. B. Pegram.
Owensboro, Ky., accidentally killed
herself with her father’s pistol.
lheodore Hamilton has leased Pike’s
Opera House at Cincinnati for next year’s
Exposition month for $6,000.
VOL. XIV.
Education—University and Colleges.
Me publish cheerfully, at the request of
nil intelligent frieml who is sincerely in
terested on the subject of education, an
aide communication and scheme for the
affiliation of our colleges with the State
University under one comprehensive and
harmonious system. It seeks to raise
higher the standard of learning in our
schools, and also stimulate a generous
rivalry and diffuse moral and mental
blessings to all conditions of society.
No sentiment was ever uttered more
wise and true than Burke’s aphorism——
Education is the best and cheapest pro
tection of nations.’’ Burke, of course,
meant that “education,” which while it
develops and adds vigor to the intellect,
at the same time increases the goodness
of the heart and gives an habitual form
and pressure of grace and beauty to our
every-day habits and manners. A proper
education is not that light and thought
less thing which is occupied with trifles—
“pleased with a rattle, tickled with a
straw to be worn only in company and
on certain occasions; but that strength
ening and refinement of the mind and
Sensibilities which smiles at human folly
and sympathizes in its afflictions; and
while it is among, has no fellowship with,
the base and secret hypocrite, or the
open, brutal enemy of the rights and feel
ing.. of our friends and neighbors.
V people properly educated need no
bolts or bars, and the Judges, Sheriffs,
Executioners, and Tax Collectors would,
in such a State, soon exclaim, “My occu
pation is gone!” Our country', unlike
Home, will never be sacked and destroyed
by foreign Cloths and Vandals, but, as Ma
cauley said about England, our barbarians
will issue from our own firesides and fast
nesses.
John Eaton, jr., United States Commis
sioner of Education, in a late Address,
says:
For all purposes of generalization we
may say that all male citizens are now
voters, givo testimony in the courts and
sit on juries. According to the census,
there are in the several States 1,554,931
totally illiterate male adults. If we follow
Mr. Mann’s rule of adding one-half for
those who report themselves able to read,
I «iit not sufficiently to enable them to un
derstand common English, we have 2,073,-
“II practically illiterate.
The relation of the adult illiteracy in
the country to civil affairs of the several
States and of the United States. The
whole number of male aihills in all the
States cannot yet be precisely given, but
enough is known of the proportion borne
liy the illiterates to the whole number of
voters to be profoundly suggestive to
those who believe that tho intelligence
ami virtue of ihe people constitute, the
only security for the permanence of our
institutions and the prosperity of the
nation. It, will be recollected that SOO,OOO
is a large majority in any election for
President. The determination of the
election thus far is practically in the con
trol of less than three hundred thousand
votes. Hut, this is less than one-sixth of
the voters of the country who are illiter
ate. How often we are. •told that brain
power or intelligence directs the multi
tude. A mass of ignorance is always a
temptation to the designing and evil.
They appeal to the passions and preju
dice of the ignorant. The more intelli
gent and virtuous a people, the more they
judge for themselves and the less are they
subject to leadership.
He then gives the per cent, of illiterate
voting males to the whole number of
voters as appears from the census already
computed.
In Alabama this ii 53 per cent. There
fore they have the power by voting to
gether to elect more than half the Legis
lature of the State, and over half the
uu-mbei sos Congress, and constitute over
one-half of any jury in the State, if in
each ease of jury or member of Legisla
ture, or member of Congress, the per
centage for the entire State lie held good.
And the same is true in Mississippi,
where 51 per cent, of tho voters are illit
erate, and in Georgia and in Florida. In
Kentucky, 28 per cent, are illiterate; in
Maryland, 22, and Delaware, 24. In these
States the illiterates have one-fifth and
more of the voting power, jury power
and witness power. Should these igno
rant voters in these coses determine to
elect persons as ignorant as themselves
as Li gislators, judges. Governors of State,
or members of Congress, what evils could
not be conjectured as possible? Verily
we have reason as Americans to be pro
foundly thankful that we have passed so
far these possible evils, while so few of
them have become actual; but we should
improve the years of their delay or ab_
senco to make ourselves as a people, in
every section of the country, absolutely
secure against them by making intelli
gence and virtue universal.
He then gives an opinion as to the rela
tion of industry and education from au
extensive enquiry for years among work
men, employers and general observers.
He says:
We found them all agreeing that on the
average the ability to read and write adds
one-quarter to tlie productiveness of the
rudest manual labor—that is, more who
cannot read and write would earn $1 per
day at the rudest manual labor adding the
ability to read and write would on the
average enable him to do or earn one
fourth more, or $t 25. If thus the
1.551.fid 1 adult males, regarded by the
census as illiterate, should add to their
intelligence only sufficient to read and
write, they would, according to these
opinions, add annually to the production
of the country $1 Hi,012,425, or nearly
twice as much as is paid out annually for
all the public school instruction in the
United States; or in Alabama, $8,183,450,
or nearly sixteen times what is now paid
for education in that State ; or in Arkan
sas, $2,7915,925, or more than four times
what is paid out for education ; or in
Florida, $ 1,54:5,(£50, or more than forty
times what is now paid for education, and
nearly a thirtieth part of the present total
Wealth of the State ; or in Connecticut,
."8 721.2 75, nr little more than one-half of
tie- present expenditure for education: or
in Delaware, $542,325, or nearly live times
what is now expended for education ; or
in Massachusetts, $2,380,350, or about
two thirds of the present expenditure for
edneat ion; oriti New Hampshire, $252,925,
or more than thi-ee-fourth# of what is now
expended for education.
Consider that the same opinions with
regard to the relation of education to in
dnstry agreed that an advance beyond
reading and writing, which gave a man
intelligence to do business by himself
with facility, or to do tho business of
others, added front (55 to 75 per cent.—
say. for eonvenieuee, 75 per ceut.- —and
for the country it would add to the pro
duct of the illiterate adult males $311,-
28(5,209, or nearly live times the total
amount expended for education in the
entire country.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, from
which we copy the article signed “Geor
gia,” says:
• The communication emanates from one
of the most intelligent and practical minds
in the State—one that has carefully con
sidered the subject', and one that has had
the best opportunities for studying and
understanding it.
Our correspondent “Georgia has ex
changed ideas with other eminent minds,
and finds himself sustained by the hearty
good will and support of those whose opin
ions are entitled to high respect. It will
ire for the Legislature to mould into shape
a plan that shall conform to'its own views
after full discussion.
Josialt Mason, of Birmingham. England,
has oiven $10,000,000 to his town, and
beeu knighted therefor.
Mr. Thomas D. Eason, an old citizen of
Charleston, died last Thursday night.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
NEW YEAR’S EVE.
Presbyterian Sunday School Festival.
THE ENTIRE CHURCH IiEBT PAID —SUNDAY
SCHOOL PAYS 40 PER CENT. OF IT—AD
DRESSES—DISTRIBUTION OF GIFTS.
Lfist evening came the PresbyteFian
Sunday School Festival. The occasion
proved interesting. Mr. J. M. Frazer is
Superintendent, John Peabody Assistant,
and R. A. Ware, Jr., Librarian. The
school numbers some 200 pupils—many
of them poor children.
The pulpit stand was decorated with
three arches. Paper baskets, filled with
fruits and candies, and good things, so
arranged as to present the appearanceof
pyramids of gorgeous flowers. The ar
tistic effect was very fine. On the first
smaller arch was the sentence : “Trust
in God; ’ on the main one, “We come with
Thanksgiving, and on the third, “Year
of Release.”
The evening was oponed with prayer
by the pastor. Rev. J. H. Nall, followed
by the school singing, “Our Welcome
Song.”
A brief salutatory was sweetly and charm
ingly delivered by little Mis3 Lou
Crichton. She much pleased the large
audience assembled. The subject was
“The Rain Drop.” We were too far off
at the time to hear all of it. Then came
the songs “Through Another Year” and
“Who ts He ?
Here the pastor announced that the
last bond due by the church had been
paid by the Sunday school, and it would
be presented in behalf of the school by
Master Bennie Marcus.
PRESENT ANION SPEECH BY BENNIE MARCUS.
It is my pleasant duty to announce to
you that the movement inaugurated by
our Sunday-school a little over a year ago,
ends to-night in a glorious consummation.
It was Edward Everett who said that
“Large streams from little fountains flow,
Large oakti from little acorns grow.”
The sentiment of this couplet has its
complete verification in the results of our
humble efforts to assist in discharging the
debt which had become a grevious bur
den to the prosperity of our beloved
church. The weekly mites brought by
those happy children seated before you,
and deposited, Sunday after Sunday, in
Ihe treasury for our Sabbath-school, arous
ed the members of the church to a pro
per appreciation of what might be accom
plished by one grand, united effort on
their part, in relieving the church of the
incubus which was pressing her to the
earth. The effort was made, and this
splendid temple, in which for years you
have worshiped your Heavenly Father
only by the suffrance of those who held in
their possession the mortgage bonds, now
stands disenthralled and free from debt.
To your Sunday-school scholars belongs,
in part, the merit of having accomplished
this great and noble purpose. Tlieir’s
was the honor of having purchased Ihe
first bond, and now to-night, on the eve
of anew year, as their representative, I
present: to you, in their behalf ,this bond,
the last remaining evidence of a burden
some debt. We hope it will gladden your
hearts. And now let us come with thanks
givihg, to the God in whom we trust, for
this year of our release.
Master Marcus is a graceful speaker
and for a boy is a most excellent elocu
tionist, speaking very distinctly and in an
easy, unconstrained manner.
Assistant Superintendent Peabody in
receiving the bond, in substance said:
The preacher has said cast bread upon
the ", aters and you will find it again. This
church has formed a Sunday-school, pro
cured teachers, books and papers for it,
and over extended a generous hand. Now
the church gathers most of her members
from the Sunday-school and depends upon
it for its surest increase. The Sunday
school determined less than two j'ears ago
to pay a bond of the church that year and
it was done. This bond, with interest,
amounted to some S4OO. The school then
determined to pay a bond every year until
the entire debt was cancelled. Tho
church, fired by the example, moved to
increased exertions, and as the school
pays the second bond, we find the entire
debt has been paid. In this the Sunday
school has largely aided, and its members
have paid forty per cent, of the whole
debt. The church has received her own*
with usury. To the Sunday-school is due
the praise of the debt’s being paid; for
the children began the movement. W ith
such a Sunday-school, the church is safe.
This house he pledged for the church
would be repaired and handed down to the
children. Now no debt rested upon it.
It will remain oulv the house of God.
He then presented to the pastor, in the
name of the church, thirty-one cancelled
bonds once due by her, amounting to
$9,£5(57 47. Including tho Sunday School
bond, $9,072 47 have been paid. Every
debt of the church has now been fully
settled, and an incubus which has greatly
paralyzed her efforts for years has been
removed. This must be as gratifying to
the pastor as the church.
On receiving them, Lev. J. 11. Nall
made a short address, offering congratu
lations for their ransom and redemption.
The action of the Sunday School must be
a comfort and joy to tlie teachers.
Judge B. F. Coleman, one of the trus
tees, said they would frame the two bonds
paid by the Sunday School and hang them
in its room, and burn the other bonds.
Tho song “ Beautiful Gates” followed.
Master Jimmie* Gilbert then very hand
somely delivered the little speech which
we give below:
VALEDICTORY BY MASTER JIMMIE J. GILBERT.
Respected Pastor and Friends: —We
feel that we have been honored in being
brought before you this evening, and hav
ing you for an audience. And first, we
would return thanks to God, that we be
long to a country where childhood and
youth are so tenderly cared for, and so
faithfully trained.
We desire to show our appreciation of
your endeavors and prayers in our behalf,
by growing up to be good and useful citi
zens, a credit to our elders and superiors,
an honor to our country, and a glory to
our God.
The beautiful song “Harvest Home’’
succeeded.
distribution of gifts
followed, each child receiving a rich sup
ply of good things. How little it takes
to make a child happy ?
Miss Hungerford mostly presided at the
melodeon.
The services ended with singing the
doxology, and the delivery of the bene
diction.
THE COST OF THE CHURCH.
The contract, we are told, was for
$30,000. The edifice was erected before
the war. The congregation then l eing
as wealthy, perhaps, as any in Georgia,
gave bonds for what was unpaid —which
the builders willingly accepted. Tho war
and its ruin eatne on, and this bonded
debt proved a heavy burden. It has beeu
lifted at last. The church has now one
of the most elegant structures in the
State, on which there is not a dollar of
indebtedness. The building has cost, all
told, $35,000.
The Louisiana Jockey Club $20,00(4
Purse. —lt is authoritatively announced
that the $20,000 purse, advertised to be
offered by the citizens of New Orleans at
the coming Spring meeting of the Louis
iana Jockey Club, will not be given. The
principal reason for the abandonment of
the project, exists in the fact that owiug
to the prevailing unfortunate condition of
affairs the original projectors of the en
terprise have been unable to receive prop
er encouragement, and they are thus forc
ed to the course, which however much it
may be regreted by the sporting world at
large, and our own community in particu
lar. has beeu unavoidable. —. Y. Pica
yune.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY”, JANUARY” 7,1873
SAVANNAH CORRESPONDENCE.
Pulaski House, Dec. 30, 1872.
Editors Sun : It would be difficult to
conceive of a more delightful day than
this has proved to be. The air has been
as mild as that of Spring, and the glad
sunshine has made the whole face of na
ture put on her sweetest smiles. Over
coats have been laid aside, and everybody
seems to feel a s t nse of relief, as they can
now find pleasure and comfort out of
doors. The happiest man that we have
yet seen, as well as the hardest working
one, is J. H. Estell, Esq., editor of the
Morning News, the popular and efficient
secretary of the Fair Association. And
he has good cause to rejoice. During all
the inclement weather of last week he
was at his post, and never relaxed his ef
forts to have everything ready for the
opening to-day. The splendid weather
which has ushered in the week seems to
be a just and deserving tribute to him
and his faithful associates—to one of
whom, Colonel Lester, State Senator, we
are indebted for the usual courtesies of
such an occasion.
For ourself, we have never passed a
pleasanter day upon any Fair Grounds,
which is saying a great deal for the open
ing day of this exhibition. In company
with Mr. M. Conway, a most excellent and
popular gentleman, for ten years promi
nently connected with the Savannah Geor
gian, but more recently of the H. L Kim
ball House, Atlanta, we have made the
tour of the entire enclosure, and visited
every building and place of interest worthy
of notice. Savannah has reason to be
proud of her admirably-located and artis
tically-arranged Fair Grounds. W 7 e have
seen nothing better in all our travels.
Columbus has many advantages over all
others, but we think Savannah excels her
in several respects. Tho grounds are
more capacious and better laid out, while
the buildings are much larger and more
attractive. The distance from the city is
only two miles, and the Central road car
ries passengers for twenty-five cents for
the round trip. Those who prefer can
come by the omnibus line and private car
riages. and not a few walk, which can be
easily done by those who delight in pedes
trian exercise.
The exposition of articles to-day is rath
er small, although greater than that made
on the opening day of the fairs in your
section of the State. The exhibition of
carriages is very fine, while Messrs. Lath
rop & Cos. make a most magnificent dis
play of carpets, rugs, window curtains,
tapestries, cornices and mirrors. M r e
have never seen a more elegant and artis
tic display than they have here arranged.
But Columbus, that quiet little village on
the Chattahoochee creek, of which Shrop
shire often speaks, puts in an appearance
here, and does very well for a decayed and
played out town, which she is so often
represented to be. Two line engines,
boilers and a patent saw mill are here to
show what finished and substantial, not
to say beautiful, work is turned out by
the well known and reliable Columbus
Iron W T orks. These splendid engines
were designed by Col. W. M. Wadley, and
are intended for stationary use on the
Central road. It was a matter of pride to
us to hear this work highly commended
by the many visitors who examined it to
day, and who were treated with marked
courtesy by Mr. F. T. Torbet, of your
city, who has it in charge. Then we have
the Eagle and Phefiix and the Columbus
Manufacturing Companies, who make a
grand display of the excellent fabrics
which they are putting on the market.
W T e fail to see any goods here, from other
factories, that appear to be superior to
these, and we are led to think that Colum
bus is not only the largest manufacturing
city in the South, but that she sends out
just as fine fabrics as any factory in the
land. We miss, however, the sight of
those beautiful cotton blankets of the Ea
gle and Phenix Factory, which never fail
to please the eye of visitors to tho Colum
bus Fair.
There is every indication that all the
departments will be well filled, and that
the entire programme, including races,
sabre tournament and other sports, will
be carried out. The weather promises to
be mild and lovely, and exhibitors are
constantly arriving.
The pleasant face of Mr. O. B. Lessey
beamed upon us to-day from beneath a
canvass which he is putting up for tho
“Fat Woman” andother curiosities, which
he exhibited at Columbus, and where he
left a good reputation behind him. W r e
trust to see madly familiar faces here from
your section by Wednesday or Thursday,
as we feel sure that all who come will be
amply repaid for their time, trouble and
expense. There will be no lack of amuse
ments here, as the Forest City Social Club
have a ball on Wednesday night, the
Patti-Mario Troupe sing here on Friday
and Saturday nights, and charming Katie
Putnam, supported by Mr. Edwin Browne
and a fine comedy company, appears at
the Theatre every night this week. They
go to Augusta Jan. tith, Macon on the
10th, Columbus on the 20th and Selma on
the 31st. You may expect to see little
Katie just as fascinating as ever.
We have paid our respects to the vari
ous newspaper offices here, and have been
cordially and kindly treated at all of them.
Onr thanks, however, are especially due
Col. A. R. Lamar, of the Advertiser, and
the well-known and gifted Harris, of the
Morning News, whose many favors we
shall never forget. Savannah is noted for
her hospitality, and for the cordial and
pleasant manner in which she entertains
strangers. W T e have also been indebted
to Gen Joseph E. Johnson, Capt. Jos. A.
Roberts and Geo. S. Herbert, Esq., for
courtesies such as a stranger can readily
appreciate, and for which your correspon
dent is truly grateful. The Pulaski House
seems to be the headquarters for promi
nent travelers of all classes. Col. W. M.
Nicholls, of the H. I. Kimball House, At
lanta, is here completing arrangements
for the Inauguration Ball, and we have
also met his brother, Col. J. C. Nicholls,
of Blaekshear, State Senator, and chair
man of the recent committee meeting in
Macon. He speaks in high terms of their
treatment in that city, anil predicts a good
result from their consultation. Amos J.
Cummings, Esq., i.s here with his wife,
on his way to Florida. Gen. D. B. Sack
ed and Judge Dupont are also among the
latest arrivals.
Col. S. M. Strong, father of the police
man who shot another member of the
force a few days since, has arrived in this
city. He forinerl yresided at LaFayette,
Chambers county, Alabama, where his un
fortunate son was born, but soon after
removed to, and long resided in Bussell
county, where the boy grew up. Col.
Strong is a lawyer by profession, and now
resides at Thomasville, in this State. He
is the father of eight sons, one of whom
is in business here. The son who is now
in jail awaiting a preliminary examina
tion, is only twenty-three years old, and a
very pleasant, handsome looking young
man. He feels deeply pained on account
of his aged parents, but claims that the
deadly weapon was discharged by the de
ceased himself in the attempt by him to
take it from his (Strong’s) hand. It is
very difficult to prove a deliberate shoot
ing on the part of the prisoner, as both
persons had hold of the pistol at the same
moment. AVe allude to this fact, as it will
be a relief to the old friends of the Strong
family in Bussell and Chambers counties.
Sidney Herbert.
TELEGRAPHIC.
FOREIGN.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 30.—The morn
ing bulletin announces the Czarowiteh
slept six hours last night. The fever has
diminished.
Berlin, Dec. 30.—The journals of Ken
nisliurg and Posen have been threatened
with immediate confiscation, if they pub
lish the insulting reference to Germany
in the recent Papal allocution.
The Charge d’Affairs of the German
Legation will probably be instructed not
to attend the reception of the diplomatic
body by the Pope, on the Ist of January,
on account of allocution.
The German steamer Theernegia, dur
ing her recent voyage, had her first boat
swain killed, during a fearful gale.
Madrid, December 31. —A rising of
Alphorists is expected. The Government
i.s prepared to suppress it. The citizens
of Madrid are opposed to Amadeus, who
i.s greatly excited.
Zanzibar, Dec. 18. —The United States
steamer Yantac arrived on the 10th. Capt.
Wilson, with the U. S. Consol and officers
of the ship, visited the Siiltan on the 11th.
They were received by the troops, and
met the Sultan in front of his palace.
London, Dec. 31. —The weather, to-day,
was tempestuous. Severe damage to the
shipping is reported.
Sir Barton Freere is expected to reach
here by the middle of January.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 20.—The Gov
ernment will sell $1,000,000 of coin and
buy $1,000,000 of bonds each Yv'ednesday
in January.
Washington, Dec. 30.—Judge Loeh
rane is on his way to Georgia. He reports
a favorable progress in the negotiation for
the completion of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad. The plan, as loosly stated,
is that Georgia has regulated the bonds,
not their holders, and will finish and equip
the road and pay its floating debt. The
Georgia bondholders have indicated their
willingness to accept the proposition, the
holders to be with certain American
holders of mixed Georgia securities, who
wish to float all into changeable value
upon the backs of the Brunswick bonds.
Washington, Dec 30.—The Mexican
Frontier Committee will return thither on
the 7th of January.
Attorney-General Williams has received
a telegram from New Orleans saying the
Supreme Court of Louisiana would render
a direct decision on the 13th prox., on the
legality of Warmoth, byrefusing to recog
nize Mr. Adjer as the Attorney-General of
the State —he having been declared elect
ed by the Warmoth Board.
Dion Boucicault and Agnes Robertson
opened to-night, at the National theatre,
to the most brilliant house of the season.
A special messenger, bearing a note
from the Electoral College of Louisiana,
has arrived. This messenger is Elector
at Large on the Grant ticket.
Boutwell has not resigned.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, December 30. —Steady rain
during the night has softened the ice,
causing large quantities to sink, greatly
lessening the danger to boats. The river
is rising, and the floating ice is diminish
ing rapidly.
The officers of the Belle Lee, which ar
rived from below this morning, report
that they met large numbers of coal boats
comparatively uninjured, and that they
also rescued a man named Harvey, with
his wife and child, from a dredge boat, at
the month of St. Francis river.
The ferry boat Excelsior, has sprung a
leak and is sinking. She is valued at $7,-
500, and will probably be a total loss.—
Uninsured.
Parties who left Randolph yesterday
morning, state that the ice gorge there is
30 feet high, and that a flat boat, contain
ing seven persons, was drawn under it
and all perished. This news caused great
excitement here among steamboat men.
Memphis, Dec. 31. —All shore ice, below
Wolf river, disappeared last night. Large
quantities of loose ice are running in the
river. It is believed the gorge at Ran
dolph has broken, and no further damage
is apprehended.
Memphis, December 31.—The weather
is clear and soft. The river has risen
three feet and is still rising.
NEW YORK.
New York, Dee. 30.—The Louisiana
Committee, in a long letter published this
morning, denies the statement made by
Senator Kellogg' in his bill of complaint,
filed in tho U. S. Circuit Court, and says
Kellogg’s object, in being in Washington,
is to get possession of the late election re
turns. He was pressed in regard to what
he charged upon the returning officers
and the Governor; that is, to falsify and
suppress or deploy them, in order to make
it appear he had been elected Governor.
New York, Dec. 31.—The New York
Methodist preachers, at their meeting
yesterday, had a warm discussion on the
doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked.
Many deprecated the introduction of
topics for discussion not in accordance
with the doctrines of Ihe Methodist
Church. A committee has been appoint
ed to settle subjects for this discussion.
A pigeon match between Paine and
Parker resulted in 87 for each. It was
agreed to shoot off at 5 pair each, when
Paine won by three birds.
Two inches of snow last night The
heavy fog interferes with the ferries.
The ice at Hell Gate is very heavy.
Steamers have difficulty in working
through. The ice in the North River
above the city has entirely stopped navi
gation. Rain since 10 o’clock, which
freezes as it falls. Pedestrianised shock
ing.
Rochester, Dee. 31. —Fourteen female
voters gave bail. Susan B. Anthony re
fused to give bail, and was remanded to
the custody of the Federal Marshal.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, December 29.—The vote
authorizing the city to issue $9,000,000
in bonds to the Cincinnati and Chesapeake
railroad was carried by 7,000 majority.
Cincinnati, Dec. 31. —This morning
the ice broke the steamers Mountain Boy,
Messenger and Grey Eagle loose from the
foot of Water street and carried them
down. The Mountain Boy sunk. She is
now being wrecked. ' She is valued at
s9,(Win. The Messenger is crowded be
tween the Mountain Boy and Grey Eagle,
and has both sides and her after guards
broken in, and is doutless lost. The Grey
Eagle has ter guards mashed and is
crow ded on the wharf boat.
Cincinnati, Dec. 31.—St. Janies’ Epis
copal Church is burned.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, December 31.—The
Leo Family, circus performers, consisting
of eight persons, were murdered by the
Apache ludians while traveling through
Arizona.
VIRGINIA.
Alexandria, Dec. 31.—A block of five !
brick warehouses, on Union street,burned, i
Loss SIOO,OOO.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, December 31. —A drizzling
rain is falling, and the snow is disappear- -
mg. The ice gorge above the bridge has
broken, and the bridge cannot be used.
CsTFor Cough, Bronchitis and Con
sumption, in its early stages, nothing !
equals Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery.
THE LOUISIANA USURPATION.
How it is Viewed by Those who Have to
Endure it.
From the New Orleans Times.
It is impossible that the American peo
ple can be kept long ignorant of the facts
or indifferent to the wretched condition to
which this State and people are reduced
by the recent outrages perpetrated on them
by a corrupt ring of political adventurers,
aided by a judicial confederate and the
j arms of the United States.
We repel, as an undeserved reproach,
the suspicion and imputuation of utter
coldhearted insensibility on the partof the
great mass of our fellow-citizens at the
North. What has appeared to us in that
light is aseribable to a supreme ignorance
of the facts. Justice to them, as well as
to our cause, requires that these facts
should be kept before them, distinct and
I separate from the false and foreign matter
and issues by which they have been load
ed and confounded.
Let, therefore, the admitted, undisputed
and indisputable facts of this controversy
be put and kept before the people in such
form and manner as will leave them no
longer an excuse for misconception, in
difference or lukewarmness toward a cause
which involves the most serious results to
republican liberty that has ever arisen in
the history of the republic.
These are the facts:
1. That an election was held for State
officers in this State on the 4th of Novem
ber last, under the laws of the State, and
with the universal admission by all par -
ties of its fairness and peacefulness; that
at such election there were 21,860 more
votes received than were ever polled be
fore.
2. That not a word was uttered in ref
erence to the fairness of this election un
til the result was proclaimed as in favor
of the Conservative party of the State;
that then a plot was hatched in the cus
tom-house of this city to have this election
set aside and the returns so suppressed as
to foist into the offices of the State all the
Radical candidates, and especially an over
whelming uegro majority in the Legisla
ture.
8. To effect this object the United States
District Attorney concocts in a caucus of
Federal office-holders a bill in Chance
ry in the name of Kellogg, alleging that
he has been deprived of ten thousand
votes, which, if they had been cast, would
have been in his favor, and would have
given him the majority. In support of
his allegations he hies some 8,500 affida
vits, printed, and with the cross marks at
tached, of negroes in remote country par
ishes.
4. Before any sifting or inquiry into
these mere allegations or affidavits could
be made—before any trial could be had,
the United States Judge issues an inter
locutory order directing the United States
Marshal to seize the State House, to ex
pel the regular officers of the State, and
to proceed to recognize and install as the
real Government the Radical negro can
didates, who are proclaimed by ti bogus
or fraudulent board.
5. The returns of this board, created by
Durell’s interlocutory order, were fla
grantly false and lictitious, based on no
other facts or figures than the mere cal
culations of a partisan committee, and
the exclusion of all returns of votes
actually received by the Conservative
candidates.
There is no man of their own party
with a spark of decency, who does not
laugh to scorn this miserable botch and
fiction. Even Kellog, by his own intima
tions, Ims admitted the gross outrage and
falsehood of these returns, and declared
that Conservative candidates were elected
who are returned by this board as defeat
ed by thousands of votes!
6. That thus, and by means of this
same interlocutory order of Durell, one
of the most corrupt and audacious negroes
that ever hung upon the outskirts of our
community, whose term, of office had ex
pired, and with it all power to act as
Lieutenant Governor, was foisted by
United States bayonets into the Chief
Executive chair of the State, and is rec
ognized as such by the Federal Govern
ment.
7. That the immediate effects of these
several acts and consequences of this in
terlocutory order of a petty United Stales
judge are the installation over the State
of Louisiana of a government consisting
of the following officials:
For Governor :
A United States Senator.
For Lieutei, cit-Governor :
The Negro United Ins Collector of the
Port of oil ereport.
For President o the Senate:
The Mulatto Surveyor of the Port of New
Orleaic.
For Speaker of the Mon e of Representa
tives :
The United States Postmaster at New Or
leans.
For Auditor of the State .
The Assistant Treasurer of the United
States.
For Senators and Members of the House
of Representatives:
Sixty-eight Ignorant and Corrupt Negroes,
a Majority of whom Hold Subordi
nate Offices m the Collector’s and
Assessor’s Departments of
the U. S. Government.
This is the government which has been
forced upon the people of the State of
Louisiana, through an order in chancery
of a petty judge, enforced by the arms of
the Federal Governmeut: and these are
the facts under which (Ins outrage has
been consummated, upon which the Ame
rican people must now and dare their con
victions and judgment.
If such transactions can obtain their
approval and support; if the precipitate
and evidently ignorant sanction given by
the authorities at Washington be sustained
by them, then is the empire inaugurated
in the place of the once proud republic,
and Louisiana converted from a rich and
prosperous State into a negro province,
ruled by the satraps of the central au
thorities.
Agricultural Statistics of Georgia.
From the Official Repot t of the Ninth Census of
the United States for 1870.
Acres of hind improved 6,831,856
“ “ unimproved 16,810,085
“ “ wild. 4tc., about 10,000,00 u
Cash, value of farms $94,559,468
“ “ farm implements, ma
chinery, &c 4,614,701
Amount of wages paid during the
year, including value of board 19,787,086
Total (estimated) value of all larm
productions including betterments
and additions to stock 30,390,228
Cash value of orchard pioducts 352,926
'‘ “ market gardens 193 266
“ “ forest products 1,281,623
“ “ home manufacture 1,113,080
“ “ animalsslaughteredor
sold for slaughter 6,854,382
Cash value of all live stock 80,156,317
No. of horses 81,777
“ mules and asses 87,426
“ milch cows 231,310
“ working oxen 54,332
“ other cattle 412.261
“ sheep 419,465
“ swine 988,666
No. of bushels spring wheat 30s,sou
“ winter wheat 1,118,127
“ rye 82,549
“ Indian corn 17,840,459
“ oats 1,904.601
“ barley 5,640
“ buckwheat 402
“ pounds rice 22,277.380
“ “ tobacco 288,596
“ bales cotton 473,934
“ pounds wool 846,947
“ bushels peas and beans 410,020
“ “ Irish potatoes 197,101
“ “ sweet potatoes 2,621,562
“ gallons wine 21 927
“ pounds butler 4,499,672
“ “ cheese 4,292
“ gallons milk gold 109.139
“ tons hay 10,518
“ bushels clover seed 143
“ “ grass seed 510
“ pounds flax 983
“ bushels flax seed 48
“ silk cocoons, pounds 14
“ tahds cane sugar 644
“ gallons cane molasses 553,192
“ “ sorghum molasses 374.027
“ pounds beeswax 31,233
“ “ honey 610.877
FARMS IX GEORGIA.
No. of farms under 3 acres
“ “ of 3 acres and under 10... 3,257
“ “ “ 10 “ “ 20. . . 6.942
“ “ “ 20 “ 50. ..21,971
“ “ “ 50 “ “ 100...18,371
“ “ “ 100 “ “ 500... 17,490
“ “ “ 500 “ “ 1000... 1,506
“ “ “ 1000 “ and over 419
Total 69,956
A heavy snow storm prevailed through
out South Carolina on Wednesday. At
Columbia the heaviest storm of snow and
sleet that has been known there for years
commenced at noon and lasted thirteen
hours. The city is blocked, trains delay
ed, business in a measure is suspended.
Several persons were frozen to death,
among them a soldier of the garrison.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
Selma is out of coal, and it is impossi
ble to say when any will arrive.
A special to the Selma Times reports
that, on the night of the 20th, the Old
Bell Tavern, the First National Bank
building, three store houses adjoining,
and the stores of Peterson &. Bridges, and
J. Ilausman <fc Son were burned. Total
loss $25,000. Little .insurance. Tusca
loosa i.s the place.
The officers of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad report that, on the opening
of the Nashville and Decatur, and South
and North Divisions, six hundred freight
cars and forty new locomotives were
thought to be sufficient for their success
ful operation. It has been found, how
ever, that this addition of rolling stock is
wholly inadequate to the general demand
of the immense business of the road, and
that a further increase of rolling stock is
absolutely necessary.
‘ All the coal at the mines on the South
i and North Railroad has been brought to
i Montgomery. The amount is small.
I Nine jurors of Montgomery county puli
j lisli in substance the following statement.
They, in company with three others, were
empanuelled as regular jurors of tho Cir
cuit Court, Radical Judge J. Q. Smith
presiding. There were eighf whites and
four negroes. The case of John Single
terry was regularly tried. Under instruc
tions they retired and made up their ver
dict. A negro made slight objection, but
in a short time acquiesced. Court having
adjourned, the verdict in accordance with
instructions was left with the Sheriff.
Next morning the jury assembled. Judge
Smith asked for the reading of the ver
dict. It was read. He then asked if any
of the jurors dissented. Not a dissent
was heard. He then appealed to the col
ored jurors to know “if this was (heir
verdict?” “If there were any who did not
agree to it they would leave their seats or
stand up.” Two came forward. One
stated that he did not fully agree with the
others as he thought the defendant ought
to be “charged something.” The Judge
seeming not to comprehend him, sugges
ted to juror that he intended to he under
stood that the defendant should be fined,
to which he gave his assent. The other
juror stated that he did not acquiesce in
the verdict.
The Sheriff was then ordered to read
aloud the names of the ten jurors finding
for the defendant. This being done his
Honor dismissed them from the Court,
and instructed the Sheriff never again to
summon them as jurors in his Court.
Among the signers of the card is a col
ored juror. There would have been ten
signers, but one, white, lived some dis
tance from the city and his signature could
not be obtained in time.
Ex-Alderman S. H. Pairo, convicted of
bulglary in Mobile, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for ten years.
The superintendent telegraphed to
Montgomery that he expected through
trains on the Selina, Rome and Dalton
Railroad on the 31st, yesterday.
Carlotta Patti and her troupe played in
Montgomery Monday night.
The Progressive Age has been sold to
the Observer, of Opelika.
Postponement of the Inauguration of Goy.
Smith—A Mare’s Nest!
Editors Columbus Sun : I see you al
lude to a story, started by someone down
in Savannah, that somebody had an idea
of postponing the Governor’s inaugura
tion until a bill could be introduced and
passed to raise his salary to SIO,OOO.
Let me say to you, in all candor, that
no man of seme could think of such a
thing, simply because the Constitution is
clear against such a thing. By the Con
stitution, a Governor’s salary can neither
be increased or diminished during the
term for which he is elected. By act of
2Gth of August, 1872, Governor Smith’s
term commences on the Ist day of Janu
ary, 1873, or as soon as he can lie inaugu
rated. The Code prescribes that the
Governor shall be inaugurated on the first
Saturday after the organization of the
Legislature. The Legislature will organize
on Wednesday, the Bth of January. There
would only be three days to the day of
the inauguration ; whereas it would take
six days to pass a bill. But no such bill
could pass.
As for Governor Smith having such a
thing on his “ brain,” no tine who has any
“brain” himself will believe any such
thing. Common Sense.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Damage for
the Loss of a Mother. — The case of Jas.
H. Jacobs, deceased, against the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, has been trans
ferred from Alameda to the Third Dis
trict Court of this city for trial, for the
convenience of witnesses. The action is
brought on complaint to recover damages
for the death of Margaret A. Jacobs, wife
of plaintiff, administrator, alleged to have
been occasioned by the negligence of the
railroad company. Plaintiff avers that on
the tilth day of April, 1871, Mrs Jacobs,
crossed on the Oakland ferry-boat and
took passage by the steam cars for Broad
way station, Oakland. That while she
was leaving the cars at that station, un
der the direction of the agents and em
ployees of the company, by reason of in
sufficient time being allowed her to step
upon the platform before the car again
started, she was thrown under the wheels
of the car and instantly killed. Plaintiff
also ayers that she was the mother of five
children, between the age of fourteen and
five years, who have suffered a great pe
cuniary loss and injury, and that damages
has resulted to them, as the next of kin,
in the sum of $50,000, which amount they
seek to recover by this action.— San
Francisco Bullettin, Dec. 9 th.
The Hamilton Visitor.— We have re
ceived the first number of this paper,
published by D. W. D. Boully, in Hamil
ton, Harris county. It is full of reading
matter, and contains a condensed account
of the evidence produced in the examina
tion of Mr. R. M. Swinsford, who killed
Colonel W. P. Ramsey. We have already
given particulars. Harris county should
sustain this paper.
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NO. 48,
WEDNESDAY UIOKNINJJ, JAN. I.
NEW YEAR, 1873.
Much has been written, preached and
sung on the flight of Time, how at o
sweep of his tireless pinions old men and
nations have 6unk into nothingness and
the young have arisen from their ashes
only in turn to strut a few hours on the
earthly stage and then vanish forever
from human sight. Egypt. Rome, Assy
ria, Greece, had their day and live now
only in their brass and marble monuments
and in their letters and laws. The site
of the once grand city of Priam and Hec
tor is now disputed and the time will
come when the prediction of Macauloy
may be verified and a New Zealander will
stand on Loudon Bridge and sketch the
ruins of St. Paul.
We do not intend, at this time, to mor
alize. The world is now, we suppose,
very much as it was in the beginning. It
has a stage and the men and weiuen are
merely players with their exits and en
trances. Some play for ambition, money
and pleasure, others for learning, and
many act the “motley fool.” A “miserable
fool” in “As You Like It” has given us
the most deep contemplative description
of the flight of Time in the English lan
guage :
“Good - morrow, fool,” quoth I. “No, sir,”
quoth he,
“Call me not tool ’tiil heaven hath sent mo
fortune.”
And then ho drew a dial from his poke,
And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says, very wisely, “It is ten o’clock : •
Thus may we see," quoth he, “how then the
world wags:”
Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after an hour more ’twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale”—
Athens’ wisest son never taught a better
lesson than this “motley fool.” The
question which most concerns us all is
how to improve this “ hour to hour" so
that not only from “hour to hour,” but
from year to year, we may grow wiser,
better, happier, and always be ready to
welcome the bright New Year of immor
tality when we have thrown off the soiled
and ragged garments of old Time.
BARBEROUS! BARBEROUS!!
Our devil is mad, and says if there is
any virtue in soft soap, boiling water,
shaky hands and dull, rusty old razors, he
hopes Mayor Mcllhenny and the aldermen
will be visited by such comforters every
Sunday morning. He says they have
done it —yes, passed an ordinance against
Sunday barber-shaving, just as if beard
shaving on Sunday was not as moral and
lawful as pocket-shaving on Monday. He
reasons that the women may not be imme
diately sufferers, but they should remem
ber that men are never so cross and quar
relsome as when unshaven and unshorn,
and so agreeable as in clean shirts and
bare (not bear) faces. He predicts a do
mestic revolution—for he well knows that
men are always extreme, either too much
engaged in making dimes during the
week, or too lazy to wash and shave 1 hem
selves on Sunday. A fuss in every family
will he the result—for women do so hate
dirty men!
Then again, what will the patriarchs do
about it? Must they send for the barbers
or go to church wagging their beards as
merry as billy goats? It will never do!
Then again, a more numerous class to
which the devil says he is happy to be
long, say it is clearly unconstitutional and
sumptuary, and that the City Fathers have
as much right to prohibit one from eating
or declare what quality and quantity of
clothes he shall wear, as when, and how,
he shall be shaved. He further protests
that his heard, like hundreds in the city,
takes just one week to a second to arrive
at that maturity fit tube cut with the bade
of an old rattler. He lias no time except
on Sundays, to see the girls, and it is a
“cruel and unusual punishment” and pro
hibited i>y the old Constitution of the
United States (whatever the Mayor may
learnedly think about ‘“State law")? lo
compel a youth to visit his sweetheart
with a long beard and his hair not parted
in the middle, secundum artem. We hope
the last argument will prevail and that the
ordinance will be shaven clean of its
sting, and ther boys will ever pray, &c.,
and be permitted to be shaved when and
where they please. If one barber will
not do the heavy scraping, try another.
The Old Year Out —The New In.
“Tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.”
1872 looked his last upon the world
last night. His record was made up and
he is numbered among the past. Ho has
seen much toil and trouble, witnessed
tremendous fires, earthquakes, immense
storms, stood by the bedside of illustri
ous men, participated much in joy and
great political struggle, and with a radi
ent smile and starry crown resigned the
sceptre of the seasons, and stepped back
to be counted among the centuries.
Young ’73, sitting jocund on the dis
tant mountain tops, hastened to succeed
him, and as the clock tolled 12 mounted
the just vacated throne, thence to rule
the coming months. No offerings of
love by fair females docs he allow. Old
’72, easy and good, permitted that privi
lege, and many a male succumbed to
witching fascinations and appeals. The
new monarch rules and demands that the
male population should not be so over
powered by lawless license, and their
lawless perogatives, lapsed for twelve
months, have been fully restored. ’73 will
act fairly towards all his subjects.
We have always thought it a beautiful
custom to watch out the old and welcome
the new year with religious exercises, such
as were observed at St. Luke’s Church
last year. There is something of poesy in
the idea; though sleepiness may be sug
gested.
We have to deal with anew era this
morning—lß73. There’s nothing slow
about him. He has all the freshness and
vim to keep pace with this rapid nine
teenth century, where, if a man lives thir
ty years, he is regarded as a condensed
Methuselah. All hail to the New Year.
The Sisters’ Fair—Tenth and Clos
ing Night. —The assemblage was very
large last evening, and the raffling and
voting were very spirited. More money
was invested in ballots than any previous
evening.
The ladies have had to contend against j
very bad weather and many amusements; |
yet they estimate the net proceeds a little
over .$2,000. All things considered, this
may be regarded as a splendid success.
Most of the tables were cleared last
night, and had it not been for the crowd,
would have appeared as a banquet hall
deserted. The Fair is now over.
New' Orleans Times to resume Pub
lication.—New Orleans, Dec. 30. —A
compromsie has been effected in the case
of McKee vs. Weed, by w hich Weed and
others relinquished the entire establish
ment of the New Orleans Times, to the '
heir of W. C. King, jts former proprietor.
Its publication will be resumed January
Ist, with F. M. Bigny as editor, and Hen
ry Green, business manager, as hereto
fore.
The English papers state that the whole
private fortune of Mr. Nathan Appleton,
of Boston, is liable for the debts of the
Bowles Brothers, as his relation as special
partner of the firm had been changed to
that of general partner.
Correspondonco of the Columbus Bail}’ Sun.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Christmas Day, 1872.
A “Merry Christmas,” and may you
celebrate a centennial of this day, if that
be not too much of a good thing. Holi
days are well observed here—the pious go
to church and the jolly go rollicking.
Uncle Sam s clerks are ever ready and
willing to celebrate. New England holds
Thanksgiving Day in great regard. In
New York, New Year’s Day is the great
holiday. The good folks of the Quaker
City go it strong on Christmas Day; while
those of New Orleans hold high carnival
on Mardi Gras ; but here, with a holiday
spirit truly cosmopolitan, we make no
difference between the Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving Day, Washington's Birth
day, Christmas or New Year's days. All
are duly celebrated ; the only regret being
that Abraham Lincoln’s, John Brown's,
Moll Pitcher's and George Francis Train's
birth days are not in the calendar of our
national holidays, so great is the desire of
the Government employees to celebrate.
To-day is bitter cold, and the few who are
in the streets arc muffled to the eyes and
peripatate in a dog trot.
NO CHRISTMAS FOR OUR POOR.
On the day of adjournment, Senator
Edmunds, of Vermont, found that ho
could not prevent the appropriation of
$1,250,000 for improving around the gov
ernment property—the work being com
pleted ; so he added an unimportant
amendment, which sends it back to the
House, and the thousands of poor labor
ers—black and white—who have not been
paid for four months, and expected this
money to pay off the grocer, butcher and
baker, and to bring a little of Christmas
into their humble homes, will not receive
a penny until after January tith.
Alex. Shepherd, the Boss Tweed of our
Board of Public Works—a rough, hard
sort of a man—desiring to alleviate some
of the misery that exists, applied to Henry
D. Cooke, banker, and Governor of the
District, for a loan of SBOO,OOO for twelve
days, so as to pay off, and he was asked
such a price for the money as would have
caused Shy lock to blush. Shepherd, who
has some bowels of compassion under a
rough hide, was disgusted at oily-gammon
Cooke, and left the pious governor-ban ko r
in a huff. So the poor of this place have
cold, hunger and misery as a Christmas
present from the malicious Edmunds, who
will, while enjoying his dinner to-day,
give no thought to (he sad, wan and
pinched faces of the little ones of this
District who have no Christmas, owing to
his malicious work.
CREDIT MOBILISE.
A clamor has been raised for the com
mittee investigating the credit mobilier
to sit with open doors, instead of bolding
a star chamber investigation as at present.
A prominent Democrat in Congress will,
on the reassembling of that body, offer a
resolution to that effect. A desperate
effort will be made lo prevent daylight
from being let into the examination.
From what has leaked out things are fear
fully rotten, and lucky, indeed, will be
those whose names have been mentioned
in connection with this affair if they come
out without being smirched with credit
mobilier filth. This corporation built the
Union Pacific Railroad and charged double
what the work was worth, and if, as re
ported, the Road purposes entering suit
to recover $18,000,000 that they claim
to have been swindled out of by the credit
mobilier, such a showing up will take
place as will astonish some people with*
regard to matters and tliiugs in the capi
tal. Both the friends of Ames and Mc-
Couib, the opposing Generals in this fight,
have been looking up the War Depart
ment records in order to determine wheth
er, as reported, McComb was a defaulter
as an army contractor. Sharp's Ihe word
and lively are things.
THE ALABAMA TROUBLES.
Attorney General Williams has declared
that the Government will not recognize
the Court-house (Radical) Legislature in
Alabama, which persists in keeping up
its separate organization after agreeing to
the compromise suggested by him. The
Democrats have a majority in the upper
House, which will prevent tlio Radicals
from “gerrymandering” the new Congres
sional apportionment bill, hence the at
tempt to rush matters as their friends did
in Louisiana, but if seems that they count
ed without their host; they should have
an administration bro-in-law as a candi
date. for United States Senator, and the
thing would soon be fixed. Well may
they exclaim, O! for a Casey, a Dent or a
Cramer! It is conceded that Senator
Spencer will be re-elected. He bargained
with the Democratic candidates for the
Legislature that in return for his assisting
them he should receive their votes for the
United States Senatorship, and he will.
It was hoped (hat by this arrangement
the State would be freed from carpet-bag
plundering rule, but it did not entirely
succeed, as the Radicals have a majority
in the Lower House. The Chronicle hero
does not wish to believe tlio bargain and
sale story. The vote for Senator will
soon determine that question.
WILL GRANT HALT '{
The address of the Louisiana commit
tee issued from here, has caused consider
able uneasiness among Radical officials,
and a counter address is being prepared
in defence of Grant and his partizans
New Orleans. The news received her
that the people in different sections are
aroused to the necessity of holding public
meetings to protest against the course of
the President in the Louisiana busineas
makes the Radicals near the throne squirm
a little. When the people speak will
Grant halt, or will ho stick to his dear
brother-in-law, Casey, and let the dear
people slide ? There is a pock of Presi
dential trouble in this Louisiana affair.
CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
The appointment of an outsider—Gen.
John McArthur—as postmaster at Chica
go, is creating quite a talk here. The Re
publican, in defence of its master, says
that the appointment was not made under
the rules, “but according to usage, by
which a Senator not opposed to the ad
ministration selects the postmaster at his
own place of residence.” That's just the
trouble, the civil service rules were laid
aside and the old custom adhered to. This
case is as clear as mud, anybody can see
through if.
it won't down.
The Grant bugle —the Chronicle—says
it is “time to squelch the story
that tho suppression of the New Or
leans Times was a piece of despotism of
Judge Dirndl's Court.” The bother is the
story won’t stay squelched, as it is true
and the public, generally recognize that
fact, and Dureil’s backer—Gen. Grant—
will share the odium which attaches to his
tool—the modern Jeffery.
Disgraceful disorders are reported as
having occurred on Christmas Eve in
Charleston. Rowdyism for a time was
rampant, and King street in the hands of
a riotous mob. Windows were smashed
and storekeepers were obliged to shut up.
Ladies and gentlemen engaged in malting
purchases retreated in alarm to their
homes. The police were passive during
its continuance, and the whole communi
ty is justly indignant. Another fracas is
reported in Aiken, showing a tenden
cy to disorder in more places than one in
tkeState.
Stokes, giving in his testimony last
Friday about the killing of Fisk, admitted
that he shot Fisk, but said he did not in
tend to kill him, and tho shooting, more
over, was in self-defence, Fisk having
drawn a pistol to shoot him, (Stokes.)
He had been, he said, in constant fear of
personal violence from tho emissaries of
Fisk. Stokes contradicted tho evidence
of Barker, given yesterdry, and stated
that he never called Fisk a blackmailer
nor threatened to shoot him.
Ice Bridge. —The St. Lawrence River,
between Cape Vincent and Ontario,
where it is twelve miles wide, was frozen
over last Thursday, and loaded teams
were crossing on the ice.