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Address Tiros. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
The Jail.—This institution has now
thirteen inmates, one of whom is a ne
gress and two white men. Four of the
boarders work in the chain-gang.
Better.—Wo, in common with his
many friends in this city, are glad to
learn that Mr. A. Shivers, who
was stricken with paralysis, in Macon,
Tuesday, is getting better.
Economical.—The ordinary expenses
of the city government last year were a
little over $17,000. The extraordinary
expenses made this amount some SIO,OOO
more. Good and close management this.
Impobtant to Fabmers. —Planters would
do well to bear in mind at the present
time that the courts have decided that a
verbal contract for laborers in the pres
ence of witnesses is as binding as a writ
ten one.
Columbus School Fund.—John Pea
body, Esq., our immediate Representative
in the Legislature, has been authorized to
receive from the State the pro rata share
of Columbus in tho Public School Fund.
Ho is the Chairman of the Committee on
Education of tho House.
Brief Mention.— A shutter from an
upper window in tho rear upper story of
Edmunds’ furniture store, fell Wednes
day afternoon on tho head of Mr. Robert
Weir, who was engaged in some work in
the back yard of Mr. Kyle’s store. A
gash was cut to tho skull bone. We are
glad to hoar the injury is not dangerous.
The Number Not Attending.—Accord
ing to Superintendent Dews of the Public
Schools, there are only two hundred and
seventeen white children in Columbus
who do not attend school. Six hundred
and eighty-three names were enrolled in
the Public Schools last session, and it is
very probable that number will be ex
ceeded the presont torm.
Savannah and Memphis Railroad.—
Instead of this corporation having forfeit
ed the State aid of Alabama, as one of
the papers of that State has stated, the
prospects of its early completion to the
Tennessee river were never brighter. We
learn, authoritatively, that arrangements
to socnre'this object have been about con
summated. Gen. Alexander, the Presi
dent, is now in Savannah.
Funeral of Mrs. F. M. Owen.—This
excellent lady and accomplished teacher
diod in Linwood, Wednesday, and was
buried yesterday. Sh«Mvas an authors*
of some repute, baviug written a book,
and for several years been a regular con
tributor to (iodey’s Lady's Book and other
literary journals. She was a sister of Mr.
J. J. Jones, now deceased, formerly re
porter of tho Columbus Enquirer. She
was a Christian lady.
New Post Roads.—ln the official list of
newly-established mail routes in Alabama
we see one announced from Mitekoll
(probably Fort Mitchell) to Oswieliee, mid
another from Dadevillo, via Howell’s
store,, to Wetumpka. These are the only
ones in Georgia or Alabama that are lo
cated in this section, and in which our
numerous readers feel any particular in
terest. Tim full list is published in the
State Journal, at Montgomery.
North and South Railroad.—This
road, running hut twenty miles, is already
beginning to pay Columbus very well for
her investment. To Tuesday night, the
trains had brought to Columbus 1,071
bales of cotton. The passenger list is
quite largo. Every passenger the trains
bring spend a little money here, and thus
the entire city is benefitted. As the road
is advanced, its benefits will become
greater. It is now a valuable feeder to
Columbus.
Will Comply with the Request.—
The printers of this office have unani
mously agreed to comply with the request
of the compositors of the New York Tri
bune ; that the compositors of tho coun
try give 1,000 oiuk, to be set up on Febru
ary fid, to assist in erecting u monument
to Horace Greeley, in Greenwood ceme
tery. The proprietors also will cheerfully
give the type metal asked for. No matter
what his polities were, Horace Greeley was
always a good friend to printers, and he
will continue to live in their memory.
Chattahoochee National Bank—Divi
dend Declaimed. —The stockholders of the
Chattahoochee National Bank held their
annual meeting in the banking house
Tuesday, and elected the following Direc
tors: Governor J. M. Smith, B. L. Mott,
<l. P. Swift, Joseph Kyle, S. 11. Hill, t'.
C. MeGehee, 11. 11. Epping.
The following officers were ro-elected:
11. 11. Epping, President; H. W. Edwards,
Cashier; K. M. Mulford, Assistant Cashier.
A semi-annual dividend of five per cent,
was declared.
Election in Hamilton. —The Visitor
states that Hamilton, last Saturday, elect
ed C. L. Dendy Inteudent, and J. W.
Kimbrough, N. H. Barden, W. Glass, W.
W. Goodman, Commissioners.
The same paper reports these sales, at
the Court-house, on Tuesday of last week:
J. W. Crawford, administrator of Wm.
Parr, deceased, sold 151 acres of land to
Q. T. Purcell, for $305.
The lands levied on under a mortgage
fi fa in favor of A. E. Scott A Cos., against
James Lenard, were sold to Wm. L. Alex
ander, for $1,155.
Mrs. Williams, administratrix on the
estate of lliram D. Williams, deceased,
sold 1(K) acres of land to Jno. D. Johnson,
for $1,200.
Important to Stock Owners. The
Supreme Court of Alabama, in Mont
gomery, on Wednesday last, rendered a
decision in regard to live stock, killed by
railroad trains in that State, that is very
important to planters living on the line
of the Mobile and Girard Bail road and
other Alabama roads. The decision was
rendered by Justice Saffold, who held
that, ‘‘in an action for trespass against
a railroad company for in juries to animals,
the defendant is not liable unless the in
jury was inflicted by direction or with the
assent of the corporation;” and that “the
conductor, or engineer, or other subordi
nate agent, is not such a representative of
the corporate body as should be consider
ed the company itself.” Farmers will do
well to regard this and similar decisions,
and take care to keep their stock away
from the track—-when trains are due in
Hus neighborhood.
Georgia Press Convention.
It met at the Kimball House, Tuesday.
About forty papers are represented. J.
H. Estill, of the Savannah News, is Presi
dent, and J. R. Christian, of the Lumpkin
Telegraph, Secretary.
The Committee on the Press Tax was
announced by the Chair, as follows : For
tho State at large, Alex. H. Stephens and
J. 11. Christy; First District, A. R. La
mar ; Second District, S. R. Weston;
Third District, C. W. Hancock; Fourth
District, G. A. Miller; Fifth District, R.
A. Alston ; Sixth District, J. B. Reese;
Seventh District, W. R. Rankin ; Eighth
District, Henry Mocre; Ninth District, T.
M. Peeples.
Also, the Committee on Legal Advertis
ing in place of the one discharged was
announced, as follows: J. J. Toon, S. A.
Echols, F. S. Fitch, J. T. Waterman and
W. A. Hemphill.
Colonel G. A. Miller, of the Columbus
Sun; Edwin DeLeon, of the Savannah
Republican, and Colonel I. W. Avery, of
Atlanta Constitution, were appointed a
committee to draft suitable resolutions in
regard to the death of Mr. Thomas Rag
land, late of the Columbus Enquirer, and
of General A. li. Wright, late of the
Chronicle and Sentinel.
The following resolution was offered by
J. T. Waterman, of the LaGrange Re
porter :
Resolved, That at the May meeting of
the Association, Mr. C, H. C. Willingham
be requested to read an essay on “ Coun
try Newspapers;” Mr. A. R. Watson to
read a poem, and Mr. E. Y. Clarke to de
liver an address.
REPORT ON THE DEATH OF GEN. WRIGHT AND
MR. RAGLAND —IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
Since tho last meeting of tho Press As
sociation, death has stricken from the
body two of its most useful representa
tives, and as to one of them, most bril
liant members. In Thomas Ragland, Esq.,
proprietor for thirty years of the Colum
bus Enquirer, and Gen. Ambrose Rail
some Wright, editor-in-chief of the Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel, the press
has lost two of its worthiest exponents;
society two noble exemplars and orna
ments, and the State two of the best citi
zens that ever lived or died in her borders.
In view of this two-fold loss, the Press
Association of Georgia resolves—
1. That it hereby officially announces
its profound sense of regret and bereave
ment at tho death of these two conspicu
ous and distinguished members.
2. That in Thomas Ragland we recog
nize those sterling qualities of character
that constitute at once the strength and
the good repute of the business manage
ment of Georgia journalism.
3. That in General A. R. Wright we
mourn one of the ablest, most eloquent
and intrepid editors that Georgia, or any
other State, ever had to grace and illus
trate the press, or ever honored with af
fection and respect.
4. That these resolutions be published,
and copies be sent by the Secretary of the
Association to the immediate families of
the deceased.
In conclusion, we apply to our departed
and cherished brothers those rare and
touching words of a gifted genius under
solemn sorrow:
“Peace be to the dead. Regret cannot
awake them. With a sigh to the departed,
let us resume the dull business of life, in
the certainty that we also shall have our
repose. ”
G. A. Miller.
Edwin De Leon,
I. W. Avery,
Committee.
Colonel Styles movod to appoint a com
mittee of three on the subject of country
advertisements, which was carried, and
the following were appointed as said com
mittee: Colonel C. W. Styles, C. W. Han
cock and J. B. Gorman, who, after retir
ing, made a report, which, with a slight
amendment, was received and adopted, as
follows:
Resolved, That tho practice of soliciting
county advertising from county officers
who are at the time under annual contract
or agreement with a particular paper is
exceeding tho rules of legitimate compe
tition, and that the offering to do such ad
vertising at reduced rates, or to pay a per
centage or bonus to such officer or officers
as inducement to change his or their offi
cial journals, is disreputable, and should
subject the offender to expulsion under
Article VIII of the Constitution.
Resolved, That the acceptance, know
ingly, of county advertising without ad
vance payment from a county officer who is
in arrears with his former publisher, is un
just, unprofessional and dishonorable, and
that any member so offending shall be ex
p(Sie(l,,rp»«*i<»*#L't'' andrsirieken from the
exchange list of this Association.
Resolved, That any member who shall
aocept such advertising in ignorance of
such officer’s arrears, and who shall refuse
or fail to discontinue the same, on proof
of the fact, by the publication of such
officer as a defaulter, shall bo subject to
like punishment.
Resolved. That the rates for legal ad
vertising agreed upon by this Association,
on the Otli or May, .1872, in section 3 of
“A bill to be entitled an act to regulate
the mode, manner and prices of publish
ing tho legal advertisements of the seve
ral comities of the State,” are fair and
just, and that bidding below said rates to
obtain patronage engaged by another
paper, is to all intents and purposes “un
derbidding,” and should be classed with
the crime of “ratting.”
By J. J. Toon—A resolution on the
cash system for subscriptions was offered,
which, after a lively and interesting dis
cussion, was adopted, as follows :
Resolved, That we urge with deep earn
estness every publisher of this Associa
tion, and the entire Press of the State, to
adhere strictly to the system of advance
payments on all subscriptions to their pa
pers, and to advise their patrons from
week to week.
Usual thanks to railroad officers and
Kimball House proprietor for courtesies,
and to the presiding officers, were passed.
By J. G. M. Medlock—unanimous
ly adopted:
Resolved, That any member of the
Georgia Press Association who shall here
afterinsert advertisements, or enter into
contract with any advertising agency, or
any other parties to insert advertisements
for less than the minimum rates printed
in onr schedule of prices, shall be expell
ed from the Association and dropped from
the list of exchanges.
Resolved, That any newspaper in Geor
gia, whether a member of this Associa
tion or not,violating tho foregoing resolu
tion, shall be struck from the mail books
of every member of the Association, and
that each member be requested to publish
the above resolution as often as practica
ble.
After a liberal discussion of matters of
general interest to the Association, the
Convention rdjonrned sine die.
The next session is to be held in Amer
icus.
From tlio Atlanta Constitution.
Taxation and Voting.
The Coiuplrollor General’s report pre
sents some curious figures in regard to
taxation and voting. The discrepancy
between the taxes paid to the common
support, and the number of voters exer
cising the franchise, is, iu some cases, re
markable.
The counties of Chattahoochee, Marion
and Muscogee, forming the 24th Senato
rial district, paid over $36,000 taxes into
the public treasury, yet they only voted
3,901 votes at the last election, the whole
number of polls returned being 4,097.
The counties of Bibb, Monroe and Pike,
forming the 22d district, paid over $39,-
000 taxes, or only 3,000 more than the 2 Ith
district. Yet they voted 9,190 votes, or
nearly (1,000 more. As the official return
of polls iu the 22d district is 8,14(1, the
vote given included 1,044 illegal and
fraudulent votes.
Crawford, Houston and Taylor coun
ties, forming the "23d district, paid $lO,-
000 taxes, and voted 5,280 polls.
Campbell, Coweta and Meriwether conn
tits, forming the 3(ltli district, paid $22,-
000 taxes, and voted (1,115 polls, while
Carroll, Heard and Troup counties, form
ing the 37th district, paid the sanies taxes
and voted only 4,325 polls. As the legal
poll of the 30th district is (1,019, she voted
90 illegal votes, while the 37th district
lacked 922 votes of polling her full legal
strength.
Macon, Schley and Sumter, forming the
13th district, paid $23,000, taxes, and
voted 4,589 polls, while Bartow, Chattooga
and Floyd, forming the 42d district, paid
$40,000, taxes, and only voted 4,010 polls.
The 13th polls 4,083 legal votes, and,
therefore, nearly turned out her strength.
The 42d polls 5,213 votes, and 003 of
polling her strength.
Glascock, Jefferson and Bichmond,
forming the 18th district, paid SOO,OOO
taxes and voted 7,143 polls, or 2,000 less
than the Bibb district, that paid only
$39,000 taxes. As the legal vote of the
17th is 5,143 she voted exactly 2,000 ille
gal polls.
These figures present some curious
anomalies of taxation and voting.
The largest legislative expense for any
district was the Bichmond, which cost
the State $2,719 60. The smallest was
the 39th, Cherokee, Forsyth and Milton,
costing $1,189 25.
SATUBDAV JI(»K>IX(i,JA.\. 18.
New Railroad to be Built. —Col. A. J.
Lane told us, last Saturday, that he now
has a corps of engineers on the projected
railroad extension from Hawkinsville, and
that he had but little doubt about the
completion of the line. The Colonel is
President of the Montgomery & Eufaula
Railroad. The success of the latter cor
poration depends upon the through con
nection which will be given when the gap
between Hawkinsville and Eufaula is fill
ed. The Colonel thinks that Columbus
will consult her best interests by estab
lishing a junction with his new line, which
will prove the best outlet for us to the
coast. He is of the opinion that a branch
to this point can be built with little ex
pense to the city—probably none.
We notice in the Eufaula papers that
Major Gordon Gairdner has just finished
a horseback survey of the proposed route.
The North & South Railroad—Branch
to Talbotton.—lt is now very probable
that a branch will be built to Talbotton
from some point on this road. We hear
the Directors held a meeting the other
day and concluded that when reliable sub
scriptions to the amount of SIOO,OOO had
been secured, the company would com
mence work. Talbotton is now getting
authority from the Legislature to sub
scrii e $25,000, and it is thought our mer
chants will give $50,000, and parties along
the line in Harris and Talbot will give $25,-
000 more. Five per cent, of the SIOO,OOO
will be called in to make a survey, and tho
remaining 95 per cent, in installments.
Parties subscribing the SIOO,OOO will be
entitled to choose a Director. Tho com
pletion of tho branch will be of immense
advantage to Columbus, more to Talbot
ton. The latter place has already with
drawn her subscription to the branch
which was to connect with the South
western railroad.
Couldn’t Stand the Wiooletails.—A
Columbus man, not long since, emigrated
to Texas, intending to locate there. Dur
ing Christmas he visited his sister who re
sided in Houston. He asked for water.
His sister took a long-handled gourd, dip
ped some from a cistern, strained out the
wiggletails and handed him the water.
That cured him of Texas. He desired to
live in no country where on Christmas
day, the dead of winter, wiggletails had to
be strained from water. If it must be
done in winter, what could a man expect
in summer? He returned to Columbus
and now is at work in a country where he
can get clear water. The Texas fever has
been thoroughly wiggled out of him. He
advises people to stay at home.
Mean Business.—Many of our sub
scribers on the line of the Mobilo and
Girard Railroad complain that they do
not get a chance to read tho Sun more
than half the time, as their neighbors
have come to regard it as a daily duty to
road it before they get a chance to look at
it. And when they do get time to look
over its contents, it generally happens that
they can’t find the paper. Now, strange as
it may seem, these newspaper spongers,
in most cases, are perfectly able to pay
for a copy for themselves. Shame on
such meanness, which compels many sub
scribers to stop their papers and the pub
lishers to lose thoir subscriptions.
Do not defer till to-morrow what should
be done to-day —that is, subscribe for the
Weekly Sun for 1873.
YVesley Chapel—Building to be Com
menced. —Rev. Mr. Christian, the Presid
ing Elder of the District, told us yester
day that somo $3,500 of good subscrip
tions hail been obtained to erect a hand
some brick church for Wesley Chapel.
Tho present building, it is expected, will
increase the amount some S2OO more.
The way out of the woods is clearly seen.
About $4,000 will erect such a structure
as is desired, and it is expected the work
will be commenced as soon as settled
wofttner begins. The location will be on
Broad street, just above the Planters’
Warehouse. The building will be quite
an improvement to that quarter of the
city, as the design is very pretty.
School Population of Muscogee
Neighboring Counties.—ln the report of
the State School Commissioner, the ap
proximate estimate of Muscogee is given
at 5,113, and tho county’s pro rata share
of the apportionment of tho SIOO,OOO
school fund is $1,395 52.
Chattahoochee is entitled to SBO4 65;
Marion, SO7O 05; Harris, $1,355 39 ;
Stewart,, sl,llß 70; Talbot, $1,030; Meri
wether, $948 72; Taylor, SO9O 53; Hoard,
$7)1; Upson, SBO7 39; Troup, $l,OOl 30.
The Savannah and Memphis Rail
road. —The Directors held a meeting at
Opelika on Thursday. Arrangements
are now about being consummated which
will insure tlio completion of the Road
to Corinth, ou the Mobilo and Ohio Rail
road, in less than two years. We are not
allowed to give details, but we know of
what we speak. The enterprise is a grand
one, and tile present contracts, which are
nearly completed, will send it through
with a rush.
♦ ♦
The Montgomery and Eufaula Rail
road. —We learn officially that this Road
is doing a good business and will be able
to pay the next interest due—some $35,-
000. According to the arrangement with
tlie western and eastern roads, the Mont
gomery and Eufaula receives one dollar
per bale for all cotton it delivers them.
Sale of a Cotton Warehouse. —We
hear from those who know, that Eppiug
k Ilanserd have purchased the Alston
Warehouse, now occupied by Gray & Tal
iaferro, of Col. Taliaferro, for $20,000, aim
will shortly run it. The warehouse is one
of the best and most convenient in the
city.
Empty Stores. —In passing through the
town of Loachapoka, a few days since, our
traveling correspondent counted nine
empty stores. Tnis certainly indicates
that much of the former trade of this once
flourishing place has been diverted in an
other direction.
Seiuous Illness of Father By an.—A
cable telegram received at Mobile, states
that the poet-priest is very sick iu Milan.
Italy, and that three doctors are in atten
dance and no one is allowed to see him.
We refer to the notice of liobert Leslie,
who advertises four head of cattle strayed
or stolen, from his place in Troup county,
Ga.
Do not defer till to-morrow what should
be done to-day —that is. subscribe for the
Weekly Sun for 1873.
Canary Birds. —We hear that some four
dozen are sold annually in Columbus.
New Mail Booth.—A new mail route is
needed from Hamilton to West Point via
Goodman’s X Boads, Wisdom’s Store and
Whitesviile, in place of the present route
from Hamilton to LaGrange, which has
been abandoned by the contractor. Sev
eral parties desire the route to go by way
of Smith’s X Boads, instead of Wisdom’s
Store, hut the postmaster at Hamilton in
forms us that this is not feasible, as
Smith's is not a postoflice, while Wilson's
Store is. The mail will he carried three
times a week, and as it is almost a neces
sity to the people of that section, we hope
the)’ will'be unanimous in signing a peti
tion to that effect. —Hamilton (Harris
county) Visitor.
Alabama Legislature.— Both Houses
met Thursday. Committee on Senatorial
contests reported they would be ready to
report on the Marengo case Monday, and
the Conecuh case shortly after. President
ruled that Marengo must be first disposed
of, and then Conecuh, before any busi
ness could be transacted.
The House did nothing but administer
oaths to Doorkeeper Candee and several
Badieal members.
More Business in Proportion than Atlanta —
How Columbus has Advanced in Six
Years.
According to our recent census, Colum
bus has within her coiporate limits, in
round numbers, 8,500 inhabitants. At
lanta claims 30,000. According to the
Comptroller’s report the merchandise of
Atlanta is valued at $1,770,013, while
that of Columbus is $755,900. Thus
Atlanta, with nearly four times as many
inhabitants as Columbus, does only a little
more than twice the business. So Colum
bus, in proportion, is a larger commercial
city than Atlanta. In manufactures we
excel Atlanta about $1,300,000.
There is a great deal in the enthusiasm
of a place. The Atlantese know no
other place than Atlanta. They sound her
praises everywhere. They recite her
wonderful progress. They are proud of
their city, and they have a right to be;
for she has exhibited the most surprising
advance of Southern cities.
We, of Columbus, have more right to
be proud of our city. In 1865 we were
beggared by the Federal forces, 50,000
bales of cotton burned, four large cotton
factories, one railroad and two city
bridges destroyed, the second largest iron
works in the South consumed by flames,
our railroad shops turned to ashes, and
the tracks torn up, and our stores sacked.
In May, 1865, the people hardly knew
where to look for subsistence. Some ten
millions of property were destroyed by
the Eederals, and in addition, our slaves
were freed. Since, we have re-built all
that was burned, and now stand the first
of any Southern city in point of manu
factures. From nothing, in 1865, Colum
bus is now running 32,000 spindles, sev
eral thousand looms, and her iron works
are returned at $90,000. Our progress
has been steady and sure, and the tenden
cy fs still upward and onward. Every
investment has been made with Southern
capital. We have received no assistance
from tho North. Columbus has never
had the benefit of a dollar of State aid
for any of her enterprises. She has worked
her way to a proud position by her own
efforts, and is bringing more money into
Georgia than any place in the State.
Atlanta, on the other hand, has received
the aid of the entire State. The State
road has built her up, and the railroads
centering there to connect with that road
will always make a city of which Geor
gians can be proud. These roads will
never allow her to retrograde, for they
employ too many well-paid operatives in
the shops located in the city. Atlanta has
been built up by the State. Aid has been
lavished on her. She is tho State capital,
as she ought to be, and has much of the
Legislative patronage extended to her.
We make this comparison to show
that Columbus has materially prospered
more, is aiding Georgia more, and ad
vancing the South to a prouder position,
than any city in the confines of the late
Confederacy. Since 1866 Columbus has
built six cotton factories—one each year.
If this average is maintained, or anything
like it, Columbus will surpass any Lowell
that New England can boast of. YVe have
every reason to be proud of what our city
has done, and to sound her praises. When
the Savannah and Memphis road shall
have been completed to Corinth or the
Tennessee river, the North and South ex
tended to Chattanooga, and Columbus
made the western terminus of the Bruns
wick and Albany road—all of which en
terprises promise speedy success—an im
petus will be given to our cotton and iron
manufacturing interests such as no South
ern city has over before witnessed. Situ
ated in tho heart of a rich and sure cotton
producing region, with a pure anil healthy
climate, river communication to the Gulf,
railroad connections to all points, possess
ing a water privilege unsurpassed for
power and convenience of control, with
abundance of rock for building purposes,
a few hours’ ride to the richest coal and
iron Region in the world—tho position of
Columbus is unrivalled, and her future
presents a brilliant prospect. Speak well
of your city everywhere; for none have
done more to be praised.
“Embossed Telegraphy.” A great,
deal is being said through the public
press about a so-called new invention to
which the above name has been given.
Two young men, sons of Rev. Dr. J. YV.
Rogers, of Memphis, Tenn., claim the
honor of this new discovery. We have
no desire to rob these young men of any
merit which they may Heem to possess in
this connection, but our traveling corre
spondent is prepared to make oath that a
similar invention, which proved a com
plete failure, was introduced into this
country years ago by Prof. Wm. Bain, of
England, author of the Electric Telegraph
once in use in the Northern States. The
only difference between this new inven
tion and the system introduced hv Bain—
so far as we can understand the process—
consists in using copper instead of paper
strips, and these in connection with a
magnetic rather than an electric machine.
The principle of the invention is not new,
although the modus operandi may he in
some of its parts unlike the working of
the Bain instruments. We shall watch
the development of this new enterprise
with considerable interest, as its success
will be almost a miracle. Our traveling
correspondent was intimately associated
with Prof. Bain in his experiments, and
is therefore familiar with the defects of
such a system, even with the modern im
provements of the Messrs. Rogers.
A Good Example. —ln the report of the
recent Masquerade at Macon, we notice
Miss Lelia Boss, “one of the most charm
ing ladies in the Hall,” appeared attired
in a very stylish dress made of gooflsfro.n
the Macon Factory. This was made gen
erally known to all present by the usual
stamp which is placed upon each bolt put
into the market. The dress is said to
have been very becoming, and was greatly
admired. Will not other charming ladies
lend their aid to the more general adop
tion of home-made goods into fashionable
circles, as such a step would greaily ad
vance our numerous manufacturing inter
ests here at the South. The Eagle and
Phenix, and Clegg & Co’s factories now
put into the market many very elegant
patterns of ladies’ dress goods, the prompt
sale of which would develop their re
sources to a considerable extent. Let the
ladies of this section give the subject due
consideration and act accordingly.
God Bless them for it. —Brick Pome
roy, in his paper of the 4th instant, has
this to say in regard to the women of Co
lumbus, Ga., who have discarded silks
and satins, and are now wearing the
plaids and checks manufactured in their
own city : “ God bless the women of Co
lumbus ! Let them now prevail upon
others of this sex in the South to do like
wise. Let the women of the South refuse
to wear other fabrics than those made in
their section of the country, and the day
will soon come when the South will vie
with New England in the wealth and
worth of her manufactories, and then
achieve her lasting independence. With
the beautiful women of that outraged
land to encourage industries, men are not
patriotic who do not give this subject at
tention and support. There is no sense
in paying a Northern railroad capitalist to
transport raw cotton half-way across the
Continent to his mill; pay a Northern
capitalist to make the cotton into cloth in
New England; then pay to have the goods
brought back to the South to be worn,
when they might as well be made near
home and their profits saved to the coun
try and people where the raw staple is
raised.
“A line of cotton mills in operation
from Baltimore to St. Louis would injure
the fanatics and monopolists of New
England more than all the soldiers the
South could ever raise; all the lines of
forts and fortifications it could ever
build. Again say we, God bless the wo
men of Columbus! Their’s is a glorious
example.”
GEORGIA ITEMS.
A man named Dugger has been arrested
near Savannah, charged with dangerously
stabbing George Chilton, jr.
The Savannah market house has thus
far cost $140,000.
Savannah has left to a committee of
seven freeholders whether to issue $400,-
000 of bonds, which council asks for to
pay the floating debt. Money has been
loaned the city] by at 12 to 13
per cent, per annum.
Mr. Edward YVeaver, one of the pio
neers of Butts county, xlied last week;
aged 89 years.
Hon. John B. Ogletree, aged 74 years,
died quite suddenly in Munroe county,
where he had lived half a century, last
Thursday.
On Saturday last Rev. J. W. Simmons,
a Primitive Baptist preacher, came to
Forsyth apparently in his usual robust
health, and while at the desk of Mr. J. YV.
Moran, conversing about selling lbs cot
ton, was suddenly paralyzed, fell speech
less and died before sunset.
The Lumpkin ludepent learns that Geu.
Phil. Cook has been notified by Col. Jack
Brown that he will contest his seat in
Congress from that District. Brown was
defeated by 2,000 votes. Among other
reasons given why he should be seated in
place of Cook, occurs this: “That by rea
son of the conduct of one Jas. A. Lewis,
negro leader at Florence, in cutting his
(Brown’s) name off the Radical ticket
sent there, some three hundred votes were
lost to him.”
Charles F. Newton, of Griffin, has been
elected Secretary and Treasurer of the
Savannah, Griffin & North Alabama Rail
road. The Directors have resolved to
push the road to Carrolton.
A young man in Macon, the night of
the masquerade ball, went to bed in the
old circus ring, thinking it was the Brown
House, and when he attempted to draw
the saw-dust over him, swore that it was
the rottonest coverlet he ever saw. The
Telegraph wants to know who he was.
The gin-house of Mr. John Faulk, of
Houston county, together with thirty bales
of cotton and the seed from some fifty or
sixty bales, was destroyed by fire last Fri
day afternoon. No. 68.
In Vineville, near Macon, on the even
ing of the 14th, Mr. Joseph Carr Gibson,
of Montgomery, Ala., was married to Mrs.
Gertrude Lanier Shannon, daughter of
Mr. R. S. Lanier.
No. 5, of Macon, has received a steam
fire engine, which weighs 4,200 —just the
weight of the former hand engine. It was
built in Patterson, N. J.
Mr. Frank Warren again has charge of
the Kimball House office.
Some fifty negroes held an emigration
meeting in Atlanta Wednesday night.
They unanimously passed a resolution
that all negroes and poor whites leave
Georgia just as soon as practicable.
The short line via Montgomery adver
tises round Mardi Gras tickets—to go
from Atlanta to New Orleans and return
at $24 25.
Tho Green Lino is now shipping slate
from the Polk county quarries to the
Northern States.
Atlanta manufacturers and mechanics
are holding meetings and appointing com
mittees with a view to cause an immedi
ate and permanent advance of the city.
Mr. William Crafts, of Georgia, a col
ored man of intelligence and worth, is
named in connection with the mission to
Liberia in place of Milton Turner; so says
the YVashington Chronicle.
The jail at Danielsville was burned on
Sunday night last, supposed to have boon
done by the prisoners. Burton Rucker,
of Banks county, planted one acre in cot
ton, fertilized it with the Dickson com
pound, and made 2,400 pounds of seed
cotton —equal to 800 pounds lint.— Athens
Watchman.
The Rome Commercial is informed that
tho receipts of the Selma, Rome and Dal
ton road from tho Western and Atlantic
road, are a thousand dollars a day be
tween Rome and Dalton from freights
alone.
B. F. Ree was re-elected Mayor of West
Point last Monday.
Colonel Lamar thus writes to the Sa
vannah Advertiser regarding tho Senato
rial contest:
It is not likely that any of the present
contestants will give way. It is probable
that neither of them can secure an elec
tion. In that event, it is known that Gov.
Johnson will take the place of Mr. Steph
ens. And then, too, Governor Smith will
he brought forward. This is the situation
as it stands. The brigade of “ liansey
Sniffles,” now on the ground, may or may
not change it in a moment. Until this
matter is settled, the Legislature will not
come down to its knitting.
He says Governor Smith has the “zoo,”
and his Adjutant-General carbuncles.
Colonel J. R. Sneed sent a letter to the
Press Convention thanking the members
for the kindness shown him in his edito
rial career of thirly years, and the aid ex
tended him while running for Secretary
of State.
Mrs. Stowe has arrived in Savannah on
the steamer San Jacinto en route from
New Y r ork to her orange grove in Florida.
A teacher for Chatham Academy, in Sa
vannah, is wanted. Salary $1,500.
The wife of the late Commodore Josi ill
Tatnall died in Savannah, Wednesday, at
the age of sixty years.
The News says that on January 16th,
1820, Savannah lost by fire 436 buildings,
the total loss being $4,000,000. In No
vember, 1769, 229 houses were burned;
estimated loss $1,000,000.
Mr. J. Feller, from Madison, Ga., re
ports to the Augusta police that, ou Tues
day night, on tho Georgia Railroad, be
tween Thompson and Augusta, his satchel
was cut open and $11,300 in greenbacks
stolon therefrom, lie offers SI,OOO for
its recovery.
Henderson, accused of the murder of
Nimrod Jarrett, Esq., of Macon county,
N. 0., was tried recently in the Jackson
Superior Court, found guilty, and sen
tenced to be liung ou the 25th of this
month. Appeal to the Supreme Court lias
been granted.
The wife of J. W. Slappey died at her
residence in Sumter county, on Friday,
the 10th inst.
Richard Cleghorn, who was knifed in
an affray with Charles Croghan, on Thurs
day night, died of his wounds, in Amer
cus.
Perry Raiford, of Americus, had his
hand caught in a gin. The arm has been
amputated above the elbow.
The officers of Macon are paid the fol
lowing salaries: Mayor, $2,400; Clerk,
$1,600; Treasurer, $2,400; Chief of Po
lice, $1,800; Lieutenants, each, $1,300;
Privates, each, $65 per month; Assessor
and Collector, $1,500; City Attorneys,
each, $500; Magazine Keeper, SIOO.
Samuel Jacoby, of Dawson, has been
bound over in the sum of $2,000, for
swindling the merchants of Macon.
Talbotton, on Saturday, olected Judge
J. M. Mathews Mayor, and J. Waterman,
O. D. Gorman, Lawrence Dozier, YV. A.
Daniel, \\. E. Ragland and E. L. Bard
well Aldermen.
The Fair and supper, for the purpose of
raising funds to place the New Masonic
Hall of Talbotton, in a suitable condition
for future use, came off on the night of
the Bth inst. Not receipts $75 to SIOO.
Y T enisou sells at 12jc. in Macon.
The Southern Life Insurance Company
has paid a SIO,OOO policy on the life of
the late Rev. Father O’lieiley, for which
only SSOO in premiums had been paid. A
great portion of the policy goes to the
Catholic Church; the remainder to his
relations.
The Atlanta Herald says the State Uni
versity made a most favorable opening on
the 16th. The demands for rooms to ac
commodate students are greater than ever
before. Scores of new students are there.
Dr. Pendleton is present, and is preparing
to open the practical department of the
Agricultural College Laboratory. Classes j
will begin on next Tuesday.
Last Wednesday morning, Mr. Hamil
ton Green, of Troup county, was riding
out, apparently in good health, and he
suddenly died.
A few years ago, when the meningitis
was raging with fearful fatality in the
town of Sandersville, the physicians adopt
ed the plan of applying an iron to the
back of the neck as hot as it oould well be
borne, and holding it there until it could
be borne no longer. The result was
speedier relief and fewer deaths than un
der any other mode of treatment.
The for the judgeship of tho
Macon Circuit are Mr. Barney Hill, of
Macon; Judge Sam Hall, and Judge Cole,
the present incumbent.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Eufaula Times says that $25,000
have been raised to build a forty loom
and fifteen hundred spindle factory on the
fine water power of Frank Johns, Esq.,
at the confluence of Clear creek and Pea
river, about nine miles southwest of Lou
isville and along the line that the Vicks
burg and Brunswick Railroad will run, if
it ever runs beyond Clayton. It is con
templated to commence work on the darns,
houses, etc., by the Ist of February.
The same paper says emigrants are re
turning disgusted with Texas,
The Merchants and Planters National
Bank of Montgomery have declared a
dividend of five per cent, on the capital
stock of the Company from the earnings
of three months.
We learn from the Opelika Locomotive
that about sunset last Saturday, as Mr.
Woodson Allen, an estimable gentleman
living near Dudleyville, was walking down
to his stables, ho was fired on by a person
concealed behind a fence, and received
the entire contents of the gun in his
stomach. Immediately upon the firing of
the gun he looked in that direction and
saw a man running away, but it was then
so dark he could not identify him. Mr.
Allen was then carried in the house and
lived until Monday evening. Suspicion
rests on a negro.
Montgomery cotton receipts are 53,-
555 bales—more than the whole of last
season.
Dr. J. B. Read has resigned the posi
tion of Surgeon of the Auburn College,
and settled in Tuscaloosa.
Ex-Gov. Lindsay has recovered from
his recent illness, and is now up and
walking about.
Small-pox has broken out in Huntsville.
It is asserted in Montgomery that there
is not a public school in tho State run
ning under the law.
The Mobile Register warmly approves a
contribution by printers and proprietors
of newspapers to erect a monument to
Greeley. The Register says : We shall
send type that formed tho words of obitu
ary upon the dead chief; and we cam an
swer that the printers of the South, with
perfect unanimity, will make the mone
tary contribution asked by the Union
which Horace Greeley founded.”
The Tax Collector of Pike county re
ports the number of defaulters as unu
sually large this year.
The farmers of Pike county, says the
Messenger, are beginning thus early to
make their cribs and smoke-houses in
Troy.
On Monday Union Springs elocted Hen
ry C. Tompkins, Mayor; N. O. Glover, J.
B. Baumont, J. L. Roberts, M. M. Tye,
11. Sterne and W. H. Black, Councilmen;
A. M. Griswold, Marshal; Tlios. 11. Do
zier, Clerk.
The Criminal Court of Bullock county
is now in session, Judge C. J. L. Cun
ningham presiding.
A. S. Cowan and Roger Waugh have
loft Union Springs for Texas.
The gin house of Dr. N. P. Banks, on
his plantation near Euon, was burned on
the night of the 7th inst.
Something like fifty persons from
Thomas county, Georgia, passed through
Eufaula last Tuesday evening on route
to Texas. Another company of not lass
than thirty, from the same State passed
through Thursday.
Mr. D. Morris, of Henry county, has
gone to Texas.
Major Gordon Gairdner arrived in Eu
faula Tuesday evening, having reconnoi
tred on horseback, the route for the pro
posed railroad from Hawkinsville, Ga., to
Eufaula.
Col. John Bostock, one of the oldest
citizens of Tallapoosa county, an ex-Clerk
of the County Court and Register in
Chancery, while playing dominoes in his
office, fell dead from his chair.
The Opelika •Locomotive tells of an At
lanta young man who was sentenced to
the Georgia penitentiary, lost his eyes
while blasting and was discharged. Late
ly on the road between Macon and Colum
bus he stole the watch and check of a
passenger, was searched ineffectually at
Columbus, went to Opelika and while en
gaging in pawning the watch at an Opelika
bakery was arrested and the owner recov
ered the time piece.
The State Journal says Alabama State
money is selling at 07c. in the dollar in
Montgomery. Who is paying it?
Thursday in Montgomery policeman
John Prescott was dangerously shot by
one Charles Ford, whom he was attempt
ing to arrest. The policeman then slight
ly shot Ford, who was subsequently ar
rested.
Wednesday night, near Demopolis, Mr.
Russell’s tine new stable, with nineteen
mules and three horses, aud all his corn
cribs with thoir contents, embracing sev
eral thousand bushels of corn, with fodder,
hay, etc., were entirely consumed by lire.
The loss cannot ho less than $7,000. In
cendiary.
Alabama Legislature, Friday.—ln the
Senate, the President refused to put a
motion to adjourn, ami then refused to
put an appeal from his decision.
Pennington and Gilmore (Radicals) of
the committee said they were ready to re
port on the Marengo and Conecuh cases.
Messrs. Parks and Edwards said they were
not, because the evidence was not com
plete, and because of the absence of a
registration book, which the Ordinary’s
clerk had when in Montgomery, aud for
which a subpoena had been issued. This
would shed light upon the registration
books and lists in the office of the Secre
tary of State, and show whether these
lists have been altered or changed in any
way. Dereeu, the Radical Senator seated,
received over 1,000 votes, and yet only
395 have been found on the registry lists.
They think the certified lists, as corrected
by the probate judge and then certified to
by the court of county commissioners,are
not the only legal evidence of the fact of
registration, and that the books aud
copies of list found in the office of the
Secretary of State should have been ex
oluded’as evidence. So far, there is yet a
question on their minds as to whether a
case of misconduct is not made by tiie
testimony of two or three witnesses, re
sulting in the destruction of 700 Demo
cratic votes, which would otherwise have
been cast for the contestant. Senate ad
journed to Monday.
The House debated all day, without re
sult, whether the Senate should he in
formed the House was ready for business.
Adjourned to Monday.
Extract from a letter from Mrs. J. C.
Aldrich, Wauseon, Fulton Cos., O. ‘"R.
P. Hall & Cos., Gentlemen, —Please send
me one dozen bottles of your Sicilian
Hair Renewer. Our ‘bald and gray’ do
not want to be out. My mother is a liv
ing recommendation of results from the
use of the Renewer. Being almost seven
ty years old, and having worn a wig over
thirty years, it seems a miracle to those
who have known her so long so bald, and
what little hair she had being perfectly
white; now her wig thrown aside, her
hair grown out, and a smooth, glossy
brown, as in girlhood. Hoping you may
long continue to pour blessings on the
heads of the afflicted, I remain, yours
truly.”
Such evidence, with the endorsement of
the great chemists of New England, Dr.
A. A. Hayes aud S. Dana Hayes, should
satisfy any one, which of the preparations
produce the best results.
TE LEG RAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
Washington’, Jan. IC.—Mr. Wheeloek,
a member of the U. S. Senate Committee,
received a dispatch from New Orleans to
day, stating that in the event the election
is postponed to-day it is believed War
moth would be defeated.
House.—Discussed the bill admitting
Colorado as a State without action.
Senate.—The boat bill for the Western
rivers passed the Senate and goes to the
President.
A bill fixing the second Monday in Oc
tober for opening the Supreme Court,
passed.
In the Senate, Norton offered a resolu
tion instructing the Committee to enquire
w'hether there is or not a State govern
ment in Louisiana. Referred.
Washington, Jan. 17. —It is rumored in
Versailles lobbies that the Legitimists and
Orleanists have coalitioned.
The Arkansas Legislature has made an
other ineffectual Senatorial ballot.
The steamer Tybee brings full confirma
tion of the lease of the Samana Bay to an
American company, and of its ratification
by the Dominican Government.
Washington, Jan. 17.—A dispatch to
the Herald states that Congressman Sider’s
Samana Bay scheme is impracticable, and
the Haytien Miuister thinks the American
purchasers will find they have made a bad
speculation, being fit for nothing but a
naval station.
Washington, Jan. 17, —It is understood
the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections intend to probe the Louisiana
election matters to the bottom.
At a meeting of the Board of Supervis
ing Inspectors to-day, annual reports were
presented by the supervising inspectors in
the second, seventh and eighth districts.
Supervising Inspector General Nemnio
announced the following standing com
mittees for the year 1873 :
Pilot Rules of Western Rivers —Inverse,
Stephenson, Burnett and Houston.
Life Saving—Houston, Menshaw and
Burns.
Boilers and Machinery—Law, Rogers
and Deveny.
Pilot Rules for Lakes and Seaboard—
Ralph, Law and Stephenson.
Fire Apparatus—Menshaw, Ralph and
Rogers.
Amendments to the Law—Guthrie,
Stephenson and Burnett.
Printing and Blank Forms —Deveny,
Bums and Guthrie.
Safety Valves, Gauges, &c.—Rogers,
Deveny and Menshaw.
Rules and Regulations—Bums, Houston
and Stephenson.
Licensed Officers—Burnett, Guthrie and
Ralph.
Annual Reports—Burns, Deveny and
Law. •
The death of J. B. Hill was announced,
and the Board adjourned in respect to his
memory.
Senate.—The Senate considered the Vi
enna Exposition appropriation.
Carpenter withdrew his amendment ap
propriating three hundred thousand dol
lars to the Washington monument, ex
pressing doubts as to the possibility of
completing it by aid from Congress. The
bill then passed.
Morton made an elaborate speech upon
his resolution directing the Comuiitttee
on Elections and Privileges to enquire in
to any defects in the present electoral sys
tem, and to report the best means to rem
edy them.
Trumbull replied, agreeing with Mor
ton in some respects, but dissenting from
some of his views as to the proper reme
dy. The founders of our Government,
he said, intended to found a Republic, not
a pure Democracy; it was not intended a
majority should have all power to put the
Government on that basis, as that would
prepare the way to a depotism.
The resolution wont over.
House.—Private bills to-day.
A full Cabinent—unimportant.
R. C. Cox, a brakesman, w'as killed at
Alexandria, by a railroad accident. He
was well-known throughout the South.
Funeral largely attended.
By the President of the United States,
Executive order:
Whereas, It has been brought to the
notice of the President of the United
States that many persons holding civil
office, by appointment #<>m him or oth
erwise, under the Constitution and Laws
of the United States, while holding such
federal positions accept offices under the
authority of the States and Territories in
which they reside, or of municipal corpo
rations under the charters and ordinances
of such corporations, thereby assuming
the duties of the State, Territorial or mu
nicipal office at the same time that they
are charged with the duties of the civil
office held under Federal authority, and
Whereas, It is believed that with few
exceptions the holding of tw'o such offices
by the same person is incompatible with
a duo and faithful discharge of the duties
of eitheroffice; that it frequently gives rise
to great inconvenience and often results
in detriment to the public service, and
moreover, is not in harmony with the
genius of the Government.
In view of the premises, therefore, the
President has deemed it proper thus and
hereby to give public notice that from
and after the 4th day of March, A. D.,
1373, except as herein specified, persons
holding any Federal civil office by ap
pointment under the Constitution and
Laws of the United States will be
expected while holding such office
not to accept or hold any office
under any State or Territorial govern
ment, or under the charter or ordinances
of any municipal corporation; and fur
ther, that the acceptance or continued
holding of any State, Territorial or muni
cipal office—whether elective or by ap
pointment—by any person holding civil
office as aforesaid under the Government
of the United Stales other than judicial
offices under the Constitution of the
United States, will bo deemed a vacation
of the Federal office held by such person
and will be taken to be, and will be treat
ed as, a resignation by such Federal < >fficer
of bis commission or appointment in the
service of the United States. The offices
of justices of the peace, of notaries pub
lic, and of commissioners to take the ac
knowledgment of deeds, of bail, and to
administer oaths, shall not be deemed
within the purview of this ordor, and are
excepted from its operation, and may be
held by Federal officers. The appoint
ment of deputy marshal of the United
States may be conferred upon sheriffs or
deputy sheriffs; aud deputy postmasters,
the estimate of whoso office does not ex
ceed S3OO per annum, are also excepted
from the operation of this order, and may
accept and hold appointments under State,
Territorial or municipal authority, pro
vided the same be found not to interfere
with the discharge of their duties as post
masters. Heads of departments and other
officers of the Government who have the
appointment of subordinate officers are
requested to take notice of this order and
to see to the enforcement of its provi
sions aud terms within the sphere of their
respective departments or offices, and as
relates to the several persons holding ap
pointments under them respectively.
By order of the President.
Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State.
Washington, Jan. 17, 1873.
Washington, Jan. 18.—The Election
Committee reports that Niblack, (Dem.,)
and Walls, colored, from Florida, are not
entitled to seats in the House. Walls has
held his seat since the commencement of
the 43d Congress.
The contest between Bowen and Del
arge, from South Carolina, has been post
poned one week.
Washington, January 18. —The House
Committee on Claims to-day decided the
Cowan & Dickinson case, involving cotton
used for fortification purposes. It places
cotton so used on fortifications on a level
! with lumber.
There was no session of the Senate to
day.
In the House the testimony in regard to
the Credit-Mobilier corruption was or
dered.
A letter from Mr. Lamar, of Savannah,
in regard to cotton claims, was ordered to
be printed.
Also, a bill for the relief of the sufferers
by the destruction of the salt w'orks in
Kentucky during the war.
Mr. Blair explained the destitute condi
tion of the parties.
Also, a bill to pay for all property de
stroyed to prevent its capture.
He said the precedent here sought to
be established would be looked upon with
great interest by the British and other
foreign nations, who claimed for their
citizens the same rights.
Mr. Smith, of New’ York, contended
that payment for property thusVtestroyed
was a duty of the Government, and he
cited a number of cases in support of his
position, and it was passed.
Mr. Blair —A bill for the relief of the
East Tennessee Academy.
NEW YORK.
New York, January 13. —Ex-Mayor D.
0. Kingland is dead—aged 75 years.
At an interview yesterday, Tlios. C.
Durant said he would not be surpised if
the names of Wm. E. Dodge and Hooper
appeared in the list of the Credit Mobilier
stockholders. Ho also admitted that
Dodge took care of President Grant’s in
terest in town lots in the connection.
Durant does not think the papers of the
Credit Mobilier will disclose anything if
they are found, but if they are not found
he has a copy of them.
The widow of President Tyler is about
selling her property on Staten Island, for
the purpose of re-purchasing the Tyler
estate in Virginia.
Dispatches west of Chicago report
thaw, with drizzling rain. Many persons
were frozen dead. A fuel famine is ap
prehended.
New York, Jan. 14.—Directors of the
Erie Railroad passed a resolution author
izing the issue of $10,000,000 of conver
table bonds at par for the purpose of im
proving the road and laying double tracks.
New York, January 15.—Three hun
dred men commenced wmik yesterday at
70th street upon one section of the under
ground railway. It is expected one thou
sand men will be at work within a mouth.
The road will be finished and in working
order by the first of January, 1875. The
contractor, who employed a large number
of Italian emigrants, has sent them back
to the Emigration Commission, pronounc
ing them worthless.
It is stated that there is no truth in
the reportod combination and consolida
tion of the telegraph lines.
NewnYokk, Jan. 15. —A dense fog inter
rupts all kinds of navigation.
The Times’ New Orleans special of the
15tli, says: In tho Republican Legislature
to-day, John Ray was elected for the va
cancy in the U. S. Senate in place of Kel
logg, resigned, and late acting Governor
Pinchback for the long term. In the
Fusion body ex-Gen. W. L. McMillain
w'as elected for the short term, and H. C.
Warmoth for the long term. Pinchback
and Warmoth are w’orthy and appropriate
contestants; there is no choice between
the two. The only good man in the
whole lot is John Bay.
Congressman Sypher was a candidate
before the Republican body, but his color
did not suit, as w'as also the case with
Norton and one or two other aspirants for
Senatorial honors.
New York, Jan. 17.—Rev. Josiah Lea
vett, D. 1) , associate editor for the Inde
pendent, died in Brooklyn last evening
from apoplexy.
New York, Jan. 17. —Another dense fog
this morning, rendering ferry navigation
tedious and dangerous.
A panic in St. Denis Hotel last night
caused by a fire in one of the rooms
which, however, occasioned but slight
damage, and was soon extinguished.
Rev. W. C. Clark has been expelled
from the New York Conference of the
Methodist Church, for carrying on a lot
tery ostensibly for the benefit of a mission
house and free reading room. Clark con
tinues to serve a church of his own in
Brooklyn, apparently successfully.
The report of finding a bottle of strych
nine in tho cell lately vacated by Stokes is
erroneous. The drug was nux vomica,
and had been medically prescribed.
The Secretary of the Samana Bay Com
pany says it is stipulated with the Do
minican Government that the company' is
to protect itself from interference, but
the company counts upon the sympathy
and aid of foreign governments. No op
position company will first declare Samana
Bay’ a free port to the whole world.
Albany, January 17. —The Democrats
and Liberals, in caucus, have nominated
Charles Wheaton for U. S. Senator.
FOREIGN.
London, Jan. 1(1. —A careful estimate of
the number of persons at Chiselhurst yes
terday places it at (10,000. Many stores
in London and thongliout tbe country
were partially closed while the funeral
procession was moving. While the Prince
Imperial was returning from the chapel
to the family mansion ho was saluted by
cries of “Vive la Emperor!” ‘‘Vive la
France!”
Prince Napoleon returns to Switzerland
but takes no part in politics. He only
desires a main law suit against the Gov
ernment of France for his expulsion; has
no pretensions to the throne; does not
fancy regency; submits to the Govern
ment which France approves.
Berlin, Jan. 17.-—The number of emi
grants who left Bremen for the United
States last year was 80,000. Emigration
from Hamburg during the khbiu tien
reached 59,000.
London, Jan. 17. —The council of hold
ers of foreign bonds have issued a report
which charges Ecuador and Venezuela
with continued dishonesty; complains of
the default of Nicaragua and Honduras,
and stigmatizes as discreditable the posi
tions of Florida, Virginia, Alabama and
Georgia.
MISCELLANY.
Washington, January 10. —L. V. Bogy
succeeds Frank Blair as Senator from
Missouri.
The only theatre of Odessa has been
burned. None lost.
The Expressmen’s Mutual Benefit Con
vention has convened at Philadelphia.
Fifty delegates are present. Receipts,
$(13,758; expenditures, $02,331.
The ballot for Senator, in the Arkansas
Legislature, resulted as follows: Dorsey,
41: Garland, 35; Bowen, 19.
Kellogg’s Legislature has elected John
Ray for Kellogg’s vacancy. This corrects
the misapprehension that Pinchback was
elected for the vacancy. Pinchback was
elected for the long term.
The following is the result of the ballot
for Senator for the long term by (he Peo
ple’s Legislature of Louisiana: Wurmoth,
27; McDonald, It; Bussey, 12; blank, 11.
Tbe brigantine Mary E. Jones has been
lost at sea. Her crew was saved. Two
lady passengers were lost. The steamship
Stuart landed the passengers in Cuba.
Eleven Cuban passengers remained on the
steamer.
The Eric, burned off Pernambuco, had
20,000 bags of coffee for New York.
Flood at Clearfield, Pa.; greatest ever
known: great loss to timber.
The Christian river is very high; Dela
ware trains are not crossing the bridge;
much damage apprehended.
The bridge over Stock Port, Hudson
river railroad, has gone.
Eleven Sisters of Charity arrived yester
day from Havre on Ville de Paris.
The Arkansas Legislature continues un
successful in Senatorial balloting.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, Jan. 17.—J. H. Estill, of the
Savannah News, was elected State Printer
to-day.
MARYLAND.
Annapolis, Jan. 15. —A jury has been
i obtained in the Wharton case and Him
trial has commenced. A curious fatality
j attends the trial of this personage. i> n j
I ing her taial for the murder of General
Ketchum several deaths occurred in ii l(J
i families of the jurors, and last evening
Jno. It. Arnold, Deputy Sheriff, on going
homo after leaving court, was drowned i„
Severn river by the breaking through of
the ice. Arnold has a brother on the
present jury. Attorney General Syester
W'as called away from the trial on Mon
day on account of the illness of his moth
er-iu-law, Mrs. Susan Harvey, of Hagers
town, and that lady had died before he
reached home.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Jan. 15.—A fire occurred
this morning at the late residence of pj
win Forrest. A portion of his library »
destroyed, including nearly a Il y ,"
able Shakespearean comedies- ti,, >■
, , , ’ luet amons
ongnal copy of Shakespeare, which Mr
Forrest always kept in a glass case w
also consumed. lie frequently remarked
concerning this work, that in case of fi ra
in the house, he would rather
el so should he consumed than that volume
It was published in 1(123, and was valued
at $5,000. Tho fire did not extend beyond
the library; and the gallery, containing
paintings, is not injured. The tire origt
inated from a defective flue. The great
est portion of the hooks in the library es
caped damage, except from heat and
smoke. Loss, $15,000 to 20,000.
Philadelphia, Jim. 17.—The flood is
subsiding. All danger of serious damage
is over. Through trains and travel some
what delayed.
Tho Schuylkill river at Fairmonut is
five feet above usual height, and the mov
ing ice causes much damage along the
banks. Fears are felt for the safety of
the dam at Fail-mount. Considerable
damage has been done to the mills near
Manayunk, and all have been compelled to
suspend operations.
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville. Jan. 15. —Thomas G. lloyd
of Sweetwater, Teun., against whom sev
enteen cases for defrauding the Govern
ment in pensions are pending, and who
was reported as being murdered in Mon
roe county. Term., last September, under
tragical circumstances, was discovered
and arrested in Lorrento, Canada, yester
day. He will tie brought to Knoxville.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Jan. 14.—Pinchback
was elected United Senator to-day by the
Kellogg Legislature.
New- Orleans, Jan. 15.—The People's
Legislature has elected Col. W. L. Mc-
Millan, Senator, to till Kellogg’s vacancy.
Pinehback’s election is for the some va
cancy.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January l!l. —Nearly all
the members of Congress present hero
from the Cotton States, at a Conference
last evening, agreed on anew hill to re
fund the cotton tax, which they will press
in Congress this session instead of the
hill hitherto introduced by McKee, of
Mississippi. The provisions of the latter
are materially changed, so as to carefully
look after the interest of the planters and
freedmen in securing to them absolutely
tho return of the tax.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Jan. 1!). — S. W. Dorsey
has been elected Senator to succeed Rice.
The Democrats voted for Dorsey.
» CONNECTICUT.
New Haven, Jan. 13.—Tho confession
of Mrs. Sherman will be published to
morrow. It admit s the poisoning of eight
persons.
MARKETS.
New York, January 18 —Evening.—
Cotton dull; sales 1,441; Uplands 20j;
Orleans 2l£; net receipts to-day 781.
Sales of futures to-day (>,OOO bales,
as follows: Jan., 10 7-11!; Feb 10 D-1(!(S>
lS»g; March, 10?; April 20 3-l(i(S)20j; May.
2<)' s @2o|; June, 20 5-16@21.
Gold 113?.
Bank Statement. —Loans increased
$2,(>25,000 ; specie decreased $1,375.0110;
legal tenders increased $3,500,000; de
posits increased $5,125,(X l<).
New Orleans, Jan. 18. —Cotton in fair
demand; good ordinary 17?; low' mid
dlings IS I; middlings 101; net receipts
2,107; exports to Continent 1,120; to
Great Britain 1.300: sales 1,500; last eve
ning 2,500; stock 1(>0,812.
Savannah. January 18.—Cotton quiet;
receipts 2,030; sales 500; stock 52,021.
FROM ATLANTA.
Special to the Telegraph anil Messenger.
Atlanta, January 15, 1873.
The Committee »n Elections will report
to-morrow unanimously in favor of seat
ing (lie Democratic delegations from Wil
kinson and Houston counties. There was
no evidence taken in cilber case.
Akerman is here as attorney for T. G.
Campbell, contestant foi • Mattox s seat in
the Senate.
Atlanta, January i(>, 1873.
Mr. Hill spoke two hours to-night. Ho
endorsed the Cincinnati platform, and
said the Government, in enacting amend
ments, had not usurped, hut modified
State sovereignty, f>o as to prevent States
from making diseriminui ions against color
in civil affairs. He attributed Greeley’s
defeat to the eight hundred thousand
Democrats who remained at home. He
styled the movement anew party, which
seldom succeeded at first, and said in the
next fight the Straight-outs must come
back to him.
Atlanta, January 17, 1873.
Gen. John B. Gordon delivered a host
patriotic address to-night. He said argu
ment would be of no avail with the party
in power. The only salvation for the
South was for her to establish direct
trade and develop her natural resources
until the North felt the need of our co
operation. He was warmly applauded.
Alabama Radical Financiering.—Tbe
report that the Alabama authorities have
succeeded in negotiating the spurious $-,-
000,000 loan is contradicted. It is said
that all they have effected is to borrow
about SIOO,OOO from Henry Clews, who
has been appointed financial agent of (lie
State instead of Duncan, Sherman A Cos.,
the old agents of the Slate. It is further
stated that all the Democrats in Alabama
who voted for Grant are coming in for
their pay. Bushels of letters from these
patriots, making application for offices,
are said to have been received in this
city. Henry Bingham, son of the State
Treasurer, is an applicant for the post of
the Sixlh Auditor of the Treasury, new
held by .Judge Martin ; but his claims are
not favored by toe d-1.-gUion in Congress.
Judge Hillard, of x.n.wier county, not
hitherto 4ie<i, !.*s written a pe
tition of t*;v< pages to Ho- President, ap
plying for a Cabinet position He says
that ho cwii more Ilian gn- satisfaction to
the President, and can < *' vy over at least
half of the white population to the Radi
cal party. Ex-Governor Levi Parsons,
who commuted a plot in 1 SnH to deprive
the negroes of the exercise of suffrage U
force and intimidation, is nowappph l '
to lie Coliecioi of Custom* at ATobil*.
with only tv euU or birfy competitors
is predicted that the new c inverts arc w
get the lion’s share of the spoils, spen
cer, who pretends that he was elected nj
the Court-house Legislature, has scut do*n
his strikers to Montgomery to work up
his case before the present body, com
posed of all the members. It i- s n "
doubted that there will be another elec
tion for Senator, and that somebody 1 io
will be sent here in Spencer’s place. I*. is
certain that most of the Ri p l! Jicaus ln-re,
and it is believed the Administration sl-"»
would be glad to have a Republican sent
to the Senate who would bring less dis
credit than the present incumbent on the
party.— Washington Dispatch.
Do not defer till to-morrow what should
he done to-day— that is, subscribe for the
Weekly Sun for 1873.
A personal difficulty occurred Saturday
in Montgomery between Mr. Jos. Solo
mon and Mr. T. F. Thomassott, in which
the former was stabbed and seveiely
wounded by the latter. We have no in
formation respooting the origiti of tin
difficulty, other than that Thomason was
drunk. Mr. Solomon is the. successor to
the late firm of Meyer, Solomon & Cos.
A farm of 1,209 acres, with dwelling
house, in and near Carrolton, sold hist
week for $14,000.