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Contents of Weekly Sun :
First Page—Past, Present amlTuture; Geor
gia Military Institute; The Last of the
Creeks or Muscogjees; Gen. Gordon's S;>eech
—editorial; Telegraphic News; Local Intel
ligence; Alabama Legislature, Ac., Ac.
Second Paoe—“Tho Worlil Is Governed too
Much;” Legislative—Senator; Ku-klux In
Marlon County; A Good Thing on. Gen. Gor
don; A Colored Man Advising against Emi
gration; Speech ofGen..Gordon; Telegraphic
News; Commercial; News and Local Items.
Third Page.—Georgia Legislature, Wednes
day and Thursday; The Senatorship; Scenes
on Senatorial Election; Georgia, Alabama
and Florida News Items; Advertisements,
Ac., Ac.
Fourth Paok.— Georgia Legislature on Mon
day and Tuesday; Georgia and Alabama
News; Washington Letter; The Honda;
Deaths; Advertisements, Ac., Ac.
LARGE SUPPLEMENT.
Speech of Hon. B. H. Hill ; Alabama News;
Georgia Legislature; Middle Temple; A
Strange Being; Liability of Railroads for
Stock Killed, Ac.
SMALL SUPPLEMENT.
Speech of Hon. Henry L. Bennlng; The Credit
Mobiller; Humor of Legislation ; Florida and
Georgia Items, Ac.
TWO SUPPLEMENTS.
Wo did not intend to give but one sup
plement to the Weekly'Sun; this week,
but as tho time for our edition to go to
press approached, and 'after,' our small
supplement had been worked off, we found
it impossible to publish all we desired to
give our readers in this issue of the
Weekly, and therefore determined to issue
another supplement. Three speeches, by
three of Georgia’s eminent statesmen, are
thus given in full to our readers, besides
a large amount of other intelligence.
We feel encouraged to renewod exer
tions for the benefit of our readers, by the
handsome manner in which subscriptions
are constantly being received. The more
subscriptions received, paper
we can issue. Therefore friends, continue
your exertions. You will not have cause
to regret tho interest you have exercised
in our behalf —to publish a low priced
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neighbor, and urge him to subscribe at
once. A cheaper paper is not published
anywhere.
To New Subscribers. —As we have fre
quent applications to commence subscrip
tions from Ist January, we would state
it is impossible for us to do so, as all num
bers of previous editions have been ex
hausted owing to the unanticipated increase
of our subscription list, beyond our an
ticipations. We do not complain at the
increase but regret our inability to supply
back numbers.
Bonds of Principal County Officers.
That of the Ordinary is SI,OOO ; Sheriff,
$. r »0,000; Tax Collector, $82,000; Tax lie
ceiver, $20,500.
Retail Liquor Establishments. —This
year, thus far, only twenty-one retail
liquor licences hava been secured, and of
these all are second class except one.
Healthy. —Both tho city and county
physicians pronounce this section very
healthy; distressingly so for Doctors.
There have been some cases of measles
of a mild type.
Heavy lUinh. —They fell all Wednes
day night. Thick summer showers de
scended until 10 a. m. yesterday, when
the clouds cleared away and the atmos
phere was delightful.
Harry Watson Dead. —This half-way
sort of colored Baptist preacher died
Wednesday. He was never very much
of a divine, and has not followed the call
ing for several years. He was an indus
trious mail, and acted in most contests
with the rabid lladicals.
Testimonial. —The Quarterly Confer
ence of the M. E. Church at Troy, at its
last session, adopted u series of resolu
tions complimentary to Kev. J. W.
Shores, late Presiding Elder of that Dis
trict, but who has been assigned to duty
iu another portion of the State.
Another Manufactory. —The project of
building a cotton factory on the site of
the Palace Mills, which we mentioned as
seriously contemplated the early part of
last season, is again being revived, with
prospects of success. Mr. J. Rhodes
Browne, an experienced manufacturer, is
spoken of as President of the Company.
Tax Collector. —Mr. J. A. Frazier yes
terday gave the required bond of $82,000.
Among his boudsuieu are Messrs. John
King, G. DeLamiay, Mayor Mellhenny,
.1. E. Ennis, and several others equally us
good. A better bond was never given.
Mixed Packed Cotto^' —We specially
call tho attention of farmers to an article
w ith the above heading, which we copy
from the Boston Post, and publish on our
second page.
The bales which the Post praises so
highly were purchased here by Eppiug A
llauserd. who bought all the prize cotton
at our Fair. The two bales alluded to
were sold Icy them in Boston, and the pro
ceeds very generously contributed to the
sufferers by the great tire iu that city.
How the Muscogee Representatives
Voted. —Senator B. H. Crawford voted
for Gen. Gordon in the first ballot Tues
day, and the five on Wednesday.
.Representative John Peabody voted for
Fielder in Tuesday's ballot and for Steph
ens in four ballots Wednesday. In the
dosing ballot he voted for Stephens; but
before the result was announced changed
to Gordon.
Representative Watt voted for Hill the
first three ballots and Stephens the next
three. Before the final ballot was an
nounced he changed from Stephens to
Gordon, and then back to Stephens.
Death on the Cars.— Our traveling
correspondent writes us that Henry Creed,
a sou-in law of Mrs. Spurliu, who lives
near the depot at I.in wood, Pike county,
Ala., died on Wednesday morning while
being put on the Mobile and Girard train.
He had been suffering from a congestive
chill and erysipelas, but was considered
much better, and was on his way, with
his wife, to Union Springs. His friends
had hardly seated him in the passenger
car before it was discovered that he was
dead. His body was at once removed to
the house of his mother-in-law, followed
by the almost heartbroken wife. The
deceased was formerly section-master on
the Mobile and Girard Hoad at {finwood,
but has recently occupied that position on
the Montgomery and Eufaula Hoad
A notice of interest to depositors in the
Savings Bank of the Georgia Home Insur
ance Company, will he found in another
column. This institution is growing in
popular favor, and many who have never
heretofore studied the art of saving con
gratulate themselves that they have em
braced this opportunity of laying by some
thing —against a day of want, The offi
cers of the institution may well feel proud
of a step in the right direction in having
taken the initiative in the establishment
of an institution calculated to work so
great an amount of good.
W. H. Ilobarts & Cos. advertise “Charter
Oak Cooking Stoves, ” said to be superior
to any other. They are also manurac
tures of all kinds of tin, sheet iron and
copper ware, and dealers in general hard
ware and house furnishing goods.
H. A. Key advertises forty fine nmles
to arrive at Gummel’s stables Monday.
Mr. Key is well known in this section as
one who always has fine stock. His repu
tation in this respect is well established.
Two Button Kid Gloves, at The Vir
ginia Store, only $1 50, worth $2.
A second supply of elegant Black ltepp
Silks at Th£ Virginia Store.
“The World is Governed too Much.”
Some Legislators are verdant enough to
believe that to acquire popularity, they
must do something and speak much. This
foolish idea taxes their constituents heavi
ly and adds little to their substantial pros
perity, and greatly to their troubles and
perplexities. Before they can know and
adapt themselves to a law it is changed
probably for the worst, and all is uncer
tainty—hence some jurists have written
that even bad laws that are permanent
and executed, are better for a people than
good laws subject to frequent alterations
and seldom enforced. The laws of the
Medes and Persians never changed. This
was one extreme. The laws of Sparta,
established by Lycurgus, remained the
same for five hundred years, and then
Sparta continued superior to the rest of
Greece at home and abroad. This, too,
might not answer in this progressive age
and boasted intelligence. The name of
Caligula is associated with infamy and
tyranny, and why ? We are not told that
his laws were written in blood like Draco’s,
but simply that they were hung on high
pillars and written in small letters, so
the people could not read and understand
what, and who, they were commanded to
do and obey. We see but little difference
between that law, good or bad, which we
have trouble to read and underhand on
pillars, and the law to be written in a
book but may be repealed or modified be
for the book is even printed.
The most useful members of Legisla
tures are those who speak seldom and to
the point, and who work, suggest and in
vent, not for themselves and a re-election,
but for the peace and security of the com
monwealth. The man who always strikes
a nail on the head will sooner drive it to
its place than he who pitches here and
there, beating the air with his fist. A
few well considered laws, such as the abol
ishment of usury, direct trade, immigra
tion and education; the better punish
ment of crime, and the prompt security
of person, character and property, will do
more for the State than the discussion of
a thousand railroads to the moon, and ca
nals across its Rocky Mountains.
Make few good laws and then adjourn,
and the people will say, “Well done, good
and faithful servants,” and send you back
to Atlanta or Milledgeville.
Legislative—Senator,
We learn from a gentleman direct from
Atlanta that at one time during the change
of votes on the fifth ballot, Stephens had
run up to 92, and Gordon’s vote was re
duced to 97. The scale was turned by
accessions from Fielder and Hill, and
clinched by tho vote of Swearingen, An
derson and Deveaux (Rad.) These gave
Gordon 111 votes. The whole vote cast
was 210, and not 205, as reported in the
Atlanta papers. At this point, when it
was known that Gordon was elected, Mr.
Peabody, with a view of leading off in
acceptance of the election, which was then
an established fact, changed his vote for
Gordon. After the vote was declared a
motion was made to make the election
unanimous by acclamation. But this
could not be done, as the vote by law had
to bo by balloting viva voce. This much
is duo Mr. Peabody in explanation of his
change of voto, as he was to the last a firm
supporter of Stephens.
We learn further that a meeting was
held Wednesday night at the Kimball
House, iu which all of the counties of the
Bth District were represented, and Mr.
Stephens was unanimously selected as the
candidate for Congress to fill the vacancy
now existing, and accepts.
At a certain stage of the balloting for
United States Senator, Mr. Stephens was
within one vote of an election. So close
was tho contest at one time.
A Good Thing on Gen. John B. Gordon, As
Well as a High Compliment to His Integ
rity.
We heard, yesterday, a railroad friend
of ours, who knows both parties alluded
to well, relating the following;
Everybody who has visited Atlanta
knows, or has heard of Capt. Whit Ander
son. During the election for Governor,
iu 1808, in which Gen. John B. Gordon,
our new U. S. Senator, was the Demo
cratic candidate against Bullock, it hap
pened that when Gen. Gordon came
to the polls, Capt. Anderson, who was
challenging at another window, attracted
by the cheering which was aroused by the
sight of Georgia’s great General, came in
to the crowd to see the show. The voters
kept calling “Gordon!” “Gordon!” where
upon, the General turned from the poll
box with his open ticket in his hand, from
which the name of Bullock had been scis
sored, and, in a few words, stated that it
had been customary for gubernatorial can
didates, he relieved, to voto for their op
ponents, lint from tho reports ho hail
heard of Col. Bullock he could not, and
would, therefore, vote that portion of his
ticket blank. This was too much for Whit,
who, iu his accustomed drawling tone,
slowly sung out, “Giueral, I say, you vote
for Gording, for you’ve got a chance now
to vote for an honest man, and you can’t
tell when you’ll git another.” It is need
less to state that nothing but a universal
shout of “vote for Gordon" was heard,
during which the General deposited his
ballot with “blank” fer Governor ; and
thus lost his chance of voting for an hon
est man, according to Whit s views. This
but shows the high esteem for Gen. Gor
don’s honesty and integrity held by every
one who knows him.
Captain Whit Andorsou is now Deputy
Sheriff of Fulton count}’, was a gallant
Confed., and is, and always has been, a
sterling Democrat.
From Washington.—The Montgomery
Advertiser was thus dispatched on the 22d:
The exchange of Judgeships by Hum
phries and Busteed has been utterly
“busted.” Humphries is now' presiding
over the general term of his court, and
Busteed has started for Alabama, to re
sume his seat on the bench at Montgom
ery.
The House Committee of Ways and
Means, to-day, decided to indefinitely
postpone the consideration of the bill
providing for the refunding of the cotton
tax.
The testimony of Oakes Ames, deliver
ed to-day in the Credit Mobilier investiga
tion, virtually convicted Vice President
Colfax of perjury, and seriously conflicted
with the statements heretofore made by
Congressman Kelly, of Pennsylvania, and
Garfield, of Ohio.
Charles Hays, Congressman from the
Fourth Alabama District, has been sug
gested here by some parties as a compro
mise candidate for United States Senator,
to defeat Senator Spencer.
Alabama Legislature, Wednesday—
There was literally nothing done. Sena
tor Pennington stated the committee on
contested elections was getting along as
fast as possible.
In the House resolutions of respect
were passed to a dead Senator. Then the
members debated whether the House was
permanently organized until the Senate
was.
Alabama Legislature, Thursday.—
Mr. Pennington stated that the Commit
tee on Contests were examining witnesses,
and were not ready to report; when the
Senate adjourned.
House commenced to debate whether it
was organized when a motion to adjourn
was carried. Nothing else done.
Alabama Legislature, Friday.—Com
mittee .on contests stated they would
probably report next day. Adjourned.
House debated whether it was organized
and adjourned.
Freuch rolled Poplins at The Virginia
Store; a great bargain offered.
Pure Mohairs, just received at The
Virginia Store, only 75 cents; a great
bargain.
SATURDAY MOHMHftI, JAN. 185.
Some fob High. —The tallest young man
in Columbus measures six feet four in
ches. Overtops every one in the city.
Death of an Old Resident. —Mr. Felix
McArdle, an old resident of Columbns,
died yesterday. He was an Irishman by
birth, and a brother-in-law of Thos. Bras
sill, deceased.
The First Colored Juror from Colum
bus. —Murdoch McLeod has been drawn
as one of the Grand Jurors for the next
term of the U. S. Court at Savannah. He
is the first colored juror who has ever
been drawn in this county.
A Labge Buck. —Mr. F. Reich received
yesterday, as a present from Mr. Henry
Henes, of Montgomery, a splendid buck,
weighing over one hundred pounds. Mr.
Henes had killed it in a late hunt. He is
one of the best shots in the country, and
as clever a gentleman as ever carried a
weapon.
The Savannah and Memphis Railroad.
—The good work presses forward steadi
ly. Contracts have been awarded to a
point very near Childersburg, on the Sel
ma, Rome and Dalton Railroad. We have
already mentioned that the bridge over
the Tallapoosa river is under contract.
Gen. Alexander, President, and Major
Green, Superintendent and Engineer, are
go-ahead men and permit no enterprise to
remain at a stand-still.
Fire in Montgomery. —Passengers in
form us that last night, about half past
seven o’clock, as the Western Alabama
tram was leaving Montgomery, the car
shed of the Montgomery and Eufaula
Railroad was burning. Several cars had
caught fire. No engine was ready for use,
and attempts were being made by the
men to move the other oars, but met with
little success. The loss, it was thought,
would be heavy.
Death of Mr. Seaborn J. Howard. —
This gentleman died in Atlanta, which
place he was visiting, at 7 o’clock Friday,
the 24th inst., of neuralgia of the stom
ach. The deceased was nearly fifty years
of age, and was a brother of Messrs.
Thacker, Homer and Toombs Howard.
His wife is a daughter of Dr. Schley, of
Columbus. Only one child survives the
father. He was taken seriously ill very
suddenly. Mr. Howard was a gentleman
highly esteemed in this community, in
which his standing was among the first.
First Ku-Klux Case Tried in Colum
bus. —Marion County Heard from. —Pri-
soners Discharged. —Yesterday, was tried
before United States Commissioner L. T.
Downing, the first case ever brought un
der the Enforcement act, commonly
known as the Ku-klux law—both the pros
ecutor and the prisoner were white Dem
ocrats, and voting had nothing to do with
the matter.
Mr. Thomas Barron, of Marion county,
swore out a warrant for the arrest of Mr.
Jas. T. Walton, C. J. Cottle, Thos. Josey
and Wm. Robinsen, for conspiring togeth
er, and by force of arms ousting him from
a piece of property bought by Barron at a
United States Marshal's sale. The evi
dence showed that Walton, with some of
his neighbors, forcibly ejected Barron;
but claimed that Walton was in posses
sion, owned the land, and that Barron
was an intruder; that the Marshal had no
right to sell the land. Barron claimed ti
tle to the property by reason of his deed
from the Marshal, hence was entitled to
the possession. Mr. Barron did not al
lege that they were either in disguise or
Ku-klux, but claimed that they had con
spired together to deprive him of his
rights as guaranteed by the Constitution,
and that their action was an abridgment
of his rights.
The warrant was issued at Savannah,
and served by a Deputy U. S. Marshal
from Amerious, and returnrd to Mr.
Downing as the nearest Commissioner.
After argument by Col. B. A. Thornton,
Chas. 11. Williams, Esq., Col. Blandford
and Hon. B. B. Hinton, of Marion coun
ty, Judge Downing held that the case
was not in the perview of the law, and
discharged the prisoners. Thornton &
Grimes and Chas. H. Williams for prose
cution; Hon. B. B. Hinton, Col. Wm.
Butts, of Marion county, and Blandford &
Crawford for defense.
The Georgia Fence Law. —The last
Legislature of Georgia passed an act un
der which the farmers of any county
who desire it, may get rid of roving stock
and of fencing planted lands. The act
may be found ou pages 34, 35 and 36 of
the laws of 1872, and is entitled “An Act
relating to fences and stock and for the
protection of crops.” This act declares
the boundary lines of every lot or parcel
of laud a lawful fence, and provides for
the impounding of all roving stock which
may trespass thereon, and the collection
of damages from its owners in each and
every county, after the following pro
ceedings have been had, which shall make
the law operative in that county: Fifty
freeholders shall petition the Ordinary for
the benefit of the act. Upon the receipt
of the petition the Ordinary is required
to make the fact known by posting or
advertising for twenty days. If, at the
end of that time, a counter-petition —
signed by fifty freeholders, shall be filed
in his office, the Ordinary shall proceed
no farther. But if no such counter-peti
tion is filed, or if filed, is met by another
petition signed by twenty-five free-bol
ders, the Ordinary shall proceed to order
an election in such county, on the first
Monday in July following, in which the
question of “Fence” or “No Fenoe” shall
be submitted to the lawful voters of the
county, aud if the majority shall declare
for “No Fence,” the act shall take effect
in such county within six months there
after.
A Colored Man Advising Against Emigra
tion.
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 25, 1873.
Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in
your valuable columns for a word in op
position to the emigration of my colored
friends to the West. First, we are at
home , and are acquainted with Georgia,
but are not acquainted with Arkansas or
any other State. The Constitution gives
ns the same rights here as it does in any
other State. Land is as plentiful here as
there, and by industry as good a living
can he made here as elsewhere. Then
why leave our old homes? Why sacrifice
our present comforts and advantages for
those that we know not of? Let us remain
in Georgia and till the soil, and by pa
tience, industry and frugality work our
salvation here, where it has pleased a kind
Providence to call us.
Respectfully,
D. W. Echols.
An invaluable remedy for emigrants
and persons traveling or temporarily visit
ing malarious districts is to be found in
Simmons’ Liver Regulator. If taken oc
casionaly, it will prevent Chills, Fevers,
and injurious effects from chauge of wa
ter.
Chapped Hands, face, rough skin, pim
ples,ringworm, salt-rlieum, and other cuta
neous affections cured, and the skin made
soft and smooth, by using the Juniper
Tab Soap, made by Caswell Hazard & Cos.,
New York. Be certain to get the .Juniper
Tar Soap, as there are many worthless
imitations made with common tar.
n023 12w
A beautiful line of Alpacas, received
to-day at The Virginia Stork.
The Purest and Sw’EETesT Cod-Liver
Oil is Hazard & Caswell’s, made on the
sea shore, from fresh, selected livers, by
Caswell, Hazard & Cos., New York. It
is absolutely pure and Hweet. Patients
who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it supe
rior to any of the other oils in market.
ro2£ 12w
Carpets, very cheap, at
The Virginia Store.
SPEECH OF GEN. JOHN B. GORDON,
BEFORE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEOR
GIA, IN THE REPRESENTATIVE HALL, IN
THE EVENING, JANUARY 17TH, 1873.
I shall not detain you, fellow citizens,
with any introductory remarks. Brevity
is said to be the soul of wit. I promise
you the brevity, which in most speakers,
myself in the number, perhaps, is more
acceptable to the audience than their wit.
I promise to be brief, and in order that I
may be, I shall proceed at once to the dis
cussion of the three most important
questions that could be submitted to the
American people.
First: What are the fundamental prin
ciples of Government which we cannot
under any stress of circumstances aban
don ?
Second: What are the dangers that
threaten the permanency of these princi
ples?
Third and last, and most important
perhaps: What policy should we pursue,
in the future, to establish permanently
these principles, and lead us out of the
dangers which surround us?
You will agree with me fellow-citizens
that in the practical solution of these
problems is embraced not only the acme
of statesmanship, but the whole philoso
phy of politics, as concerns the American
people to-day, and I charge each one of
you here to-night as you are responsible
to God and your country, weigh well these
mighty questions while we proceed to dis
cuss them.
The general election is over, and we are
defeated; our summer is ended and we
are not saved ; it may be difficult to de
termine precisely where we are, where we
stand ; but one thing is certain, and it is
a glorious thought my fellow-countrymen,
that the needle of the Georgia Democracy
still points true to the pole of principle.
(Applause.) That the Georgia Democra
cy, at least, still stands firmly planted on
the adamant of these principles of free
government which she has never, and
means never to abandon ? (Great ap
plause.)
We all know that when the original
thirteen colonies severed their allegiance to
the British Crown, they became at once,
and of necessity, free, independent and
sovereign States. Mark that proposition.
It only then was necessary to unite them
in new relations. This was done by a
written Constitution. That Constitution
not only fixed the new relations between
these States, and the relations between
the coordinate branches of the general
government, made by the States, but also
the relations between that general gov
ernment, made by their joint action and
tho States themselves.
It therefore became the fundamental
law’ of the land; indeed, it became the
government itself. These old time-hon
ored principles—cherished principles of
the rights of the States’ local government,
of the constitutional restraint of the Fed
eral power, of the habeas corpus, of trial
by jury, &c., have been familiar to us all
from childhood up—since our first study
of the Constitution of our fathers, aud the
reading of the old commentators thereon,
and an apology would be due this intelli
gent audience for referring to them at all,
were it not for the apprehension that by
reason of this very familiarity, we may
forget them. Why, my countrymen, these
old cherished principles are the very Chris
tianity of our politics. They constitute
our political sermon on the mount, and
since the birth of tho republic, they have
been the very decalogue—the very creed
of faith of every party of every name,
that has ever held sway in this country
from its birth down to these latter days of
degeneracy and shame; and these old
principles have a foundation which I want
you to remember —they are founded on a
rock—on the rock of facts —facts connect
ed with the very history of the foundation
of the government, and there they will
rest forever. Men may forget them; po
litical apostates from the faith of the fath
ers may ignore or deny them; a Federal
Judge, as in the case of Louisiana, may
issue his centralizing edicts despite them.
[Applause.]
The flood-tide of corruption and revo
lutionary political passion may, for a
time, roll over them and conceal them
from view, but the receding wave will re
veal them again—graven indelibly on the
solid adamant of historic truth. [Great
applause ] Oh! my countrymen, remem-
ber that these are facts, and that facts
cannot be destroyed by any party; they
may destroy the records in which the facts
are kept—revolution may sweep away the
books that contain them—but the facts
will be facts still.
Destroy a fact! Why we cannot coil
ceive that even Omnipotence itself can de
stroy a fact. His thunderbolt may cleave
the pine aud the poplar ; His tempests—
the breath of His nostrils—may sw’eep the
earth; His earthquakes may sink the
mountains and lift the plain. But, with
our finite conceptions, we cannot con
ceive that even the Almighty arm, whicli
could hang the spheres in their places, can
ever destroy what is an accomplished
fact! That is true; and it is upon these
facts, intractable, that your principles
rest as their foundation. Remember that.
Don’t forget it.
Remember another thing—that these
States ante-date the Government—existed
with all their powers prior to the Govern
ment —made the Government and gave it
all the rightful powers it possesses, or can
possess. They gave certain powers nec
essary for the general Goverment, reserv
ing unto themselves all other powers not
so delegated. The whole machinery of
domestic rule, through State Legislatures,
was specially reserved as the prime essen
tial to free Government, and the rigths of
the citizens. It is therefore simply im
possible that there should exist anywhere
in the General Government any legal
power to interfere or meddle with local
affairs of the State. [Great applause.]
These principles, I say, are as old as the
Government itself. They are coexistent
with the Government. They underlie the
very structure of the Government. They
cannot be abandoned! When they are
changed, the Government is changed—
when they are lost, Republican Govern
ment is lost. Libert)/ is lost. Why, my
countrymen, they are the very pillars to
the temple our fathers built. Lotus bury
so deep in the soil of our affections, these
massive pillars, that the modern Samp
sons of corruption, and the storms of
political passion never can shake them
from their deep foundations. [Great ap
plause.] So much for fundamental prin
ciples.
Now, what are the dangers, which
threaten the permanency of these princi
ples ? That is the second question. We
cannot shut our eyes, fellow-citizens, to
the truth that we are now in the midst of an
amazing crisis! We have just passed thro’
a stupendous and bloody revolution, and
though the shock of this political volca
no has ceased, its smoke and cinders still
darken the skies. Though the ravages of
actual war have long since ceased, the
“Republic still rocks beneath the ground
swell of this mighty agitation, every beam
and timber groans beneath the pressure of
the subsiding storm.” Look off here to
the gulf dangers ! Why,a Federal Judge,
as hinted a while ago, with the consent
of the Chief Executive of the Republic, for
trampling on the fundamental laws of this
land, passes the death sentence on a sov
erign State, and Federal soldiers stand ar
raigned as ready executioners.
Sustained by the Executive in the exer
cise of extraordinary and more than im
perial powers, centering in himself the
prerogatives of both judge and jury, he
summons to his dread presence the sover
eignty of this State ; and, binding her
hand and foot, delivers her, under the
ilead forms of pretended law, to a re
morseles mob who defile her, despoil her of
her fair name, plunder her corporations,
bankrupt her treasury, and hang debt like
a mill-stone around the neck of her citi
zens ! Danger ? Not only in Louisiana,
but all over this land, corruption, cor
ruption, bare-faced, bold corruption, eats
like a canker at the vitals of the Repub
lic ! The spirit of a lawless aggressive
ism, like the angel of death, hangs on its
black wing above us, casting its dismal
shadows over every prospect of the fu
ture !
Regardless of the teachings and warn
ings of history, forgetful of the traditions
of the fathers, we are drifting, silently,
perhaps, but surely and swiftly, into the
fathomless sea of Empire. The history of
the old Roman Republic, first free and
glorious, then the slave of armies, and at
last passing in willing subjugation be
neath the yoke of its own sceptre, is fast
repeating itself in this Republic of ours ;
and the men who control its destinies, in
their remorseless regard for power, still
agitate and inflame, and inflame and agi
tate a senseless sectional hate, that by the
collisions they, themselves, provoke, they
may gather more power; and they then
seek to conceal their misdeeds from the
eyes of an honest people under the rent
mantle of a murdered Constitution!
No memory is too sacred; no principle
is too well established: no right is too es
sential to the liberty of the citizen to be
sacrificed to this remorseless Moloch of
party? Why, my countrymen, the very
acts of tyranny denounced by the old Dec
laration of Independence against the mo
ther country, (have you read that Decla
ration?) the very act of tyranny denounc
ed against the mother country in the Dec
laration of Independence are being per
petrated now in this cherished land and
home of liberty. Go read it! What are
those facts ? The quartering of troops in
our midst in a time of profound peace;
the suspension of the writ of habeas cor
pus ; the making of military law superior
to the civil. The arrest of citizens with
out warrant and trial—without jury. The
sending of Governors to some of our sis
ter States, (and not long ago to our own,)
to rule over us, who have no interest in
common with the people, and the offen
sive and unnecessary intermeddling by
the general Government in the domestic
affairs of the States, and, then, in the fur
ther language of this old Declaration, the
turning of a deaf ear to all of our appeals
for redress.
Fellow-citizens, what an amazing spec
tacle is this in this country! Here is a
great country, bearing on its lofty crest
the words, Asylum for the oppressed of
all countries: and while with one hand
it points to toes.- words and beckons to
the oppieased ot Ireland, of Hungary and
Pol ;,.a, with the other it wraps ils heavy
chains around the limbs of sister States
—South Carolina. Arkansas and Louis ana!
Here is a Republic. lam talking about
your dangers abroad. Here is a Republic
born amidst the political throes of a re
cent virgin continent, struggling in li;e
agonies of travail to bring forth the Amer
ican ideal of liberty! A Republic con
ceived in the truest of hearts, aud formed
in consummate wisdom—a Confederated
Republic, purchased aud redeemed by the
sacrificial blood of the thirteen original
colonies, whose sons and daughters, at its
birth, sang together like the heavenly
hosts, and the shepherds over the Babe of
Bethlehem, “Peace on earth and good
will to men.” Yet this same Republic in
less than the lapse of a single century,
holding in bondage the children of these
very colonies who joined the chorus at its
birth.administered at its baptismal fount.
(Applause.)
Palliate these circumstances who can—
defend these acts who may, by all the ar
guments and sophistries, the reasonings
and plausibilities of men —they constitute
the blackest record in all polities. And
if republican institutions survive them;
if civil liberty survives them, the life of
liberty under these circumstances, will
be the strangest paradox in history.
These are the dangers ; and blessed are
ye if, through all these trials—through all
these discouragements—ye shall hold out
faithful unto the end ! Oh ! for that pa
triotism—that lofty, self-sacrificing patri
otism —which, in the crucible of political
fires, shall refine itself into martyrdom.
Oh ! for that stalwart honesty —honesty of
heart and honesty of head—which shall
walk amidst the corruptions around us
unscathed ; making no compromise with
public thieves for money, nor with politi
cal harlots for the pleasures of political
sin. [Great applause.] Oh! for the pa
triotism, and the honesty and courage
combined, which shall prepare us, in these
trying times, like the stoned Stephen of
Bible memory, ready to die for the faith !
Yet for the wisdom and prudence of Paul,
that we recognize tho change of circum
stances around us, and fit ourselves to
meet them; that through the fidelity of
Stephen and the prudence of Paul we may
save for ourselves and our country civil
liberty! [A pplause. ]
Now, my fellow-countrymen, we come
the third and last, and most important,
question. What shall we do ? What are
we to do? That is the great question of
the day. What line of policy shall we
pursue in the future to establish these
principles and relieve ourselves and the
country from these dangers ?
I have not exaggerated them; no hyper
bole can exaggerate them. I repeat, that
to solve this question practically—to give
a practical and practicable answer to that
question, is the climax of statesmanship
to-day. Who can do it? Who shall solve
it? Wise men differ. But there are two
things, my countrymen, we learn from
the history of nations which are important
for us to remember just here.
One is, that no government can aban
don its fundamental thought and purpose
without the sacrifice of the life of the na
tion.
The other is equally important and in
opposition to it, that a line of policy
which will save a country, in one age, and
under one set of circumstances, may be
absolutely fatal in another age, and under
other circumstances. And just as in war,
the acme of generalship is the commander
holding steadily in his eye the purposes
he has to accomplish; has the ability to
change his plans according to the changed
lines of his enemy and the constantly
changing topography of the country in
which he wars; so in politics the climax
of statesmanship is to hold fast to your
fundamental faith, yet change your lines
of policy, by which you shall establish
that faith according to the changed cir
cumstances of your country. (Great ap
plause.) Now, who shall be able to do
this? I have thought much on this sub
ject, and while I do not pretend to predict
with absolute certainty what any line of
policy will accomplish in this anomalous
condition of the country, yet I have a line
of policy which, to my mind, is entirely
satisfactory; what it may be to you all I
do not know, but I am going to submit it.
There are breakers all around us, and
I do not believe myself that the man lives
to-day who, from the clouds of mists in
our faces, dashed from the rocks about us,
can clearly see the port of entrance.
But you will pardon the seeming ego
tism, when I announce to you that 1 think
I see remotely, perhaps dimly, perhaps in
the distance, the beacon which is yet to
guide us to the port of safety and repose.
Where is it ? Where is that beacon ? Let
me first tell you where I do not think it
is. I do not think it is in Washington City;
at least I am satisfied it is not there alone.
Why, my countrymen, let us be sensible
men. In view of the past, let us be prac
ticable. Let us not run uway with any
ideas. Let us keep ourselves under brakes.
Are you going to save the country in
Washington ? Let us see if it can be done
there alone. Mark what I say. Before
the war we could safely trust to the power
of truth, then our batteries of truth and
argument, poured upon the lines of the
consoiidationists, in the National Assem
bly, were effectual. But what is the case
now ? Why these solid shot and shell from
our batteries of truth simply rebound
from the solid wall of sectional prejudice
built up by the war. [Applause.] Isn't
that so ? Doesn’t everybody know it is
so?
Why, my countrymen, those people in
Washington don’t mean to be convinced;
they have now the law' and the prophets.
If they would not hear these, neither
would they hear though one arose from
the dead. [Great applause.] They have
now the constitution of our fathers, which
is the law, and the writings of the old ex
pounders, which are the prophets. If they
will not believe these, neither will they
believe though the immortal Jefferson
should come forth from his tomb, and iu
the thunders of his great inaugurate,
should shake the very dome of the Capitol.
(Long continued applause and cheers.)
Oh, no! these people do not mean to be
convinced; they are after power, and no
argument of ours: no mere theoretical ar
gument of ours, however overwhelming
and unanswerable; no logic, however con
vincing; no pathos, however fervid, can
move these leaders from their determina
tion to consolidate this government and
perpetuate their hold on pow’er! (Re
newed applause.) No, sirs; they do not
mean to let go; they mean to have the
power, and they mean to have it without
any sort of regard to consistency ; what
do they care about consistency ! Why,
look at their legislation to-day in Wash
ington, and for the last few years, iu
reference to these two sections —the North
and the South—directly upon the point J
am speaking of now.
What are they doing? What do they
do at the North? Why, at the North,
my countrymen, where capital is the con
trolling power, by bond laws and bank
laws, and credit mobiliers and corporation
rings, they legislate for the benefit of
capital alone, thus arraying capital against
labor. But what do they do at the South,
where labor is the great voting power ?
Here, by cla>s legislation—by appeals to
prejudice—they array labor against capi
tal, that thus, iu the collision they pro
voke, they may seize more power, and
from this additional power they provoke
other collisions, that these, in turn, may
furnish the excuse for grasping still other
power.
That is the philosophy of their whole
legislation to-day—to array labor against
capital. They do not hesitate at that. In
Europe you know what apprehensions are
felt there from such collisions. But
these men boldly stir in this country a
storm, the slightest memory of which, be
yond the waters, fills with apprehension
the wisest heads and the bravest hearts of
Europe. They walk with fire-brands in
their hands in the midst of this magazine,
more dreadful than the Commune of
France ; knowing full well that its explo
sion would not only shake the government
itself to its very foundation, but would
carry along with it all the regulations of
society and well-regulated liberty and law
into inevitable extinction.
Oh, no, these men do not need to be en- !
lightened.. Our batteries of argument, '
which, as I say, were effectual before the
war, cannot reach their lines now; we
must forward, not under anew flag, but
we must forward under the good old ban
ner of our fathers, bearing its principles
on its folds. But we must forward a line
that will carry us over the wall, or else we
must flank the w all.
At any rate we must get behind this wall
of prejudice and hate erected by the re
sults of the war. Now, how are you go
ing to do that f How are you to get be- j
hind this wall of prejudice ? I think I
can tell you how to do it.
To drop all figures, you must make it to j
their interest to listen to you. My expe- j
rience among that poeple, and my observe- :
tions since the war, have convinced me 1
that they are too much engrossed in car
ing for their bloated fortunes, and acquir
ing others, to give any time or place to
the higher and holier duties of patriotism.
It is a sad thought, and I say it, God
knows my heart; I say it with deep sor
row, but I believe it is true that constitu
tions are nothing, free government is
nothing, civil liberty is nothing, when
weighed in the balance with pecuniary in
terest ; and though that be true, my coun
trymen, let us not judge that people too
rashly. Let us all remember we are all
mortals, and fallen mortals at that, let us
remember that every man’s judgment is
warped more or less by his interest, let us
recognize this fact, and I tell you that the
wise statesman never fails to recognize
and seize upon a fact, however disagree
wherever it exists, if he can use it to the
benefit of his country. How are you go
ing to make it to their interest to listen
to you ? It is a very easy matter with the
great and populous West, and I think it
can be done with the East, let us see in
the case of the East. Have direct trade
with Europe; bring to your own Savannah
and Brunswick all the commodities of Eu
rope ; let your traders and merchants get
all they need and sell to your retail mer
chants ; let them sell these commodities
at the same price the Eastern States can
sell; get immigration; get capital; build
factories; spin your own cotton. When
you have done that, and thereby enhanced
the price of your crude supplies in the
East, you touch their interest; and then,
and not till then, when they feel the want
of your trade and the want of your cotton,
will they listen to your appeals for justice,
or care for the loss of your liberties.
So much for the East. I say it is a very
easy matter to affect the West. They are
naturally our allies; these two great sec
tions are both producing sections.
Both are interested in the highest price
for the raw material, aud in getting at the
lowest price for the manufactured article.
We are the market for the West; we buy
their mules, we buy their corn, we buy
their hay; when they destroy us, they de
stroy their market and die by an act of
self-destruction. Let us bring these facts
home to them; let us unite with them and
make common cause for the interest of
the great producing population of this
country; let us join with them to demand
of the government, to build a great water
line from their Mississippi to our Atlantic.
(Applause.) lam not going into a dis
cussion of the Atlantic and Great Western
Canal. But 1 may say in passing, as one
of the original corporators, that the more
I think of it, the better am I satisfied that
this scheme is not the only practicable but,
in a material and political aspect, is the
most important enterprise ever submitted
to the American people. Let us get that
water line, let us make depots at Savan
nah and Brunswick for the oorn which
they now consume in fuel; let us find a
market from Savannah to the marts of
the world; let us benefit them, while we
benefit ourselves; let us invite them to
our conventions; let us visit their conven
tions; let us hammer home these thoughts;
let us convince them, as we can convince
them, no doubt, about i.t.
I have talked with them. I have never
failed to bring it home to every man’s ap
prehension, be he Radical or be he Demo
crat with whom I have talked—that our
material interests are not less bound to
gether than are these two sections bound
together by the great Father of Waters,
whose head is crowned with the
circle of their ice-bound mount
ains, and bathes his feet in the
tepid waters of our orange-bound
Gulf. (Applause). Let us bring them
down here—their corn, and thejr hay,
and their wheat —and through our own
Georgia let us carry this great produce,
which nowascends to the clouds in smoke.
When you have (.lone that—when, by pass
ing up and down this canal, and meeting
you in agricultural and commercial con
ventions they learn you, and when you,
by mingling with them, learn them;
when they shall ascertain, as they will, as
certain as God has made these two sec
tions —the great producing sections of
this continent—so certain will they dis
cover, sooner or later, the mutuality of
their interest. Do this and bind them to
gether by this tie and their sympathy will
as naturally follow and mingle with yours,
as will the waters of our own Lookout
mountain flow together and mingle in one
with the waters of their great inland sea.
Now, if you can only affect that, that
is the way to go about bettering the politi
cal condition of this country. If you can
effect that and get their interest there,
you will get their votes too. Now, what
would that accomplish. Did you ever
contemplate it, my countrymen ? What
would be the result to the material and
political status of this country if these
two great sections, the West and South,
were to-day united. Do you know how
many people live in these sections ? more
than 25,000,000 —nearly two-thirds of the
population of this whole country. What
is it that they could not accomplish if
united ? Why, just combine them anti
see? Why even the cobblers and the shoe
makers combine and advance their interest
with the Government. The fishers of
salty codfish on the bleak and barren
shores of New England combine and get
a bounty from the Government. The iron
mongers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
combine and get a high protective tariff.
Railroads combine, and through Govern
ment grants and bounties have scaled the
R cky Mountains and linked with bands
of steel our Eastern and Western
oceans. [Applause.] What is it that these
twenty-five millions of people combined,
united in interest and purposes, couldnot
accomplish for the material interest of
this country and for the interest of civil
liberty!
But does any one ask me w het her we are
to trust only to this practical programme,
and cease talking, aud arguing, and de
bating? I say no, not at all, not by any
means! We must do both! Talk!
Oh, yes, we must continue to talk. We
nmst proclaim our principles in conven
tions, on the hustings, through the news
papers, on the house tops, until the very
breezes catch the notes and till the whole
land with the sound. Yes. and we must
talk in the halls of Congress, too ! We
must summon the immortal shades of the
old signers of the declaration, and the ex
pounders of the constitution, and in then
dread presence in the halls of the nation,
we must solemnly declare that the princi
ples of our fathers are our principles to
day. [Loud applause ] Talk! Oh, yes,
we must proclaim, until the very pictures
on the walls and (he busts in the sacred
niches, shall speak with a voice that will
ring and continue to ring around the ar
cades of that venerable home of our dear
old freedom! TApplause.]
AVe must talk and proclaim our princi
ples, until the vault at Mt. Vernon shall
utter its voice, and the thunders from this
Sinia of our liberty shall recall fromtheir
wanderings in the wilderness—these chil
dren of Washington—and bowing around
its trembling base, we must swear then
that henceforth these principles of the
Constitution shall be their principles for
ever. [Great applause.] Oh, yes! my
countrymen, we must do as Paul com
manded Timothy—we must exhort and
appeal, and admonish, and rebuke; hut
we must act like Paul too, not in an offen
sive sense, but like him, getting hold of
all men, (hat perchance we may save
some. But while we talk we must not
forget the workings of the human heart.
We must go to work to touch their inter
est, too. Our enthorned goddess must
chain to her car of liberty, as her chosen
steeds, both material interests and disin
terested patriotism, if she would ever
bring back beneath the sway of her scep
tre her revolted subjects ! [Renewed ap
plause.]
Oh! what wo want is the patriotism and
the statesmanship that shall strike the
golden mean. The statesmanship that,
while it holds fast to things that are true,
will lay aside the old forms of ceremonial
law—those shackles that doth so easily
beset us —and rnn the race set before ns
with hope, and courage, and confidence.
Do this, my countrymen, and your mate
rial prosperity, your liberty is safe.
So much for the future policy of this
country, as relates to our Federal rela
tions. I have delivered" you the burden
of convictions with which I felt myself
charged; and whatever else may be said
of them, they have at least the merit of
sincerity, and, I believe, of truth. [Ap
plause. ] One word to you as Georgians,
and I shall close.
When the history of these last few years
shall be written, it will contain no brighter
pagesthan those which record your struggles
from 1865 to 1872. Y'ou are now passing,
my countrymen, through yonr material
and political wiTOnemess, but soon I be
lieve you shall stand on Pisgah's top, and
look down into the land of promise.
[Great applause and cheers.] Get wealth
—get weath, not only as means of com
fort, but of political power. Bring in a
population, for population is both capital
and power. Bring in you immigrants.
Educate your children to be artisans and
architects and master mechanics. Build
your factories, spin your cotton. The moun
tain has been going to Mahomet in the
East long enough. Let us bring the Ma
homet of manufactures to our Southern
cotton mountain. Let us recall him from
his Elba exile, this old king cotton! When
you have erected your own manufactures,
when you have enhanced the price of the
raw material by spinning, you will still
find that your great staple is still king.
Great Britain rules the waves. But Brit
ain bows her sceptre in willing homage
and tribute to your hoary headed old king.
Advise capital from abroad of the claims
of your country, of your climate, and your
water power. And I say when you have
built your factories, your wealth will be
gin. Then your sweet streams, as they
proudly leap the cascades, will cease to
leave behind them their melancholy mur
murs at your long delay.
Murmur not, ye prattling children of
nature, for soon the whiz of the spinning
jenny shall join you in concert! And
then musical spindles and murmuring
waterfalls shall raise a hymn of gratitude
to God until the very atmosphere around
shall revel, and thrill, and tremble with
your triumphs ! We must wake up-those
twin sons of Hercules—coal and iron—
that they, too, may join the loud concert,
responsive from forge and anvil, to the
march of your railroads, and the loud
whispering whistle, echoing from the
craggy corridois of their mountain home!
Do this, my countrymen, aud believe me,
you shall, in the new epoch, mount On
wings of a higher prosperity than ever
before. But don’t forget your principles!
Hold them fast! And if the Republic
shall go down in the vortex of a useless
sectional hate, let us still be on deck, and
though her canvass be rent, and her mast
be riven, let us seize from the mast-head
the flag of our fathers, bearing on it their
principles—the principles of the Constitu
tion —and transmit its spirit to our chil
dren, that they may, perchance, crown at
its resurrection, civil liberty for a brighter
destiny! (Great applause, and “three
cheers for General Gordon,’’ by the audi
ence.)
TEI JXiRAPH IC.
FOREIGN.
London, Jan. 23. —1 tis reported that
the emigrant ship Northfleet, hence from
Australia, with 412 passengers exclusive
of crew, collided with an unknown
steamer. Only thirty-five are known to
be saved. Others are believed to be lost.
London, Jan. 23.— The passengers on
the Northfleet were panicked from sleep
by a collision. The Captain was compell
ed to fire on the terror stricken passen
gers. It is believed that had the passen
gers obeyed the Captain, more would have
been saved.
London, Jan. 23.— The Northfleet was
at anchor when the collision occurred.
Three hundred and twenty persons, in
cluding tie captain of the Northfleet,
were drowned. One hundred pounds re
ward has been offered for the vessel which
ran the Northfleet down.
London, Jan. 25.— 1 t is reported this
morning that a steamship has been dis
covered sunk at the scene of the collision,
off Dungeness light house, on Wednesday
night. The opinion is becoming general
that the vessel which ran into the North
fleet also went down with all on board be
fore the emigrant ship sunk. The owner
of the Spanish steamship Murillo, who
landed at Dover two hours before the
collision occurred, believes it was his
vessel which collided with the Northfleet,
and that both were destroyed.
City of Mexico, Junuary 25. —The City
of Mexico and Vera Cruz railroad has
been completed. The event was celebrated
by a week’s festivities.
Berlin, January 26.—Bismarck in the
Chamber of Deputies said his retirement
from the Ministerial Presidency was on
account of his health and desires relief
from some official duties; no disagreement
with the Government.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Jan. 23. —The Ways aud
Means Committee will take up the cotton
tax bill until Beck’s bill is printed.
Mr. Strobach, the Sheriff of Montgom
ery, Ala., after his interview with the
President, had a long interview with the
Attorney-general. He assured the Attor
ney-general that the Republicans of Ala
abama had no idea of invoking further
Government interference. This was after
the Attorney-general had assured him that
the Government would not interfere, al
though it was the strong desire of the Ad
ministration for a speedy restoration of
harmony, which he thought could be ac
complished by a strict and sincere adher
ence on both sides to the basis of compro
mise submitted by him.
Washington, Jan. 23. —The remaining
three hundred millions of the five per
cent, loan has been placed in the hands
of Jay Cooke & Cos., Dabney, Morgan &
Cos., L. P. Morton & Cos., Morton, Rose &
Cos., and Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Cos.,
they having combined to take it.
House.—A bill was passed relieving al
cohol used for scientific purposes from
tax.
Committee of the House agreed to ap
propriate $125,000 for public buildings at
Columbia, S. C.
Committee on Elections and Privileges
commenced the Louisiana investigation.
After two hours of private consultation,
the doors were opened, when the chairman
stated the scope of the investigation was:
First, regarding Presidential Electors;
Second, regarding the legality of the elec
tion; Third, whether a legal government
exists in Louisiana; one person on each
side being allowed to make suggestions
and cross-question witnesses; but the
committee will not hear arguments.
Washington, Jan. 21. —Senate.—An-
thony was selected President of the Sen
ate pro tern.
Spencer introduced a bill constructing
public buildings at Montgomery, Ala.
The Louisiana Committee, finding no
witnesses present to testify concerning
the election of Presidential Electors or
United States Senators, closed doors to
consider wliether the decision of the Lou
isiana Supreme Court, yesterday, does not
preclude them from going into any inquiry
regarding the legal status of the present
Louisiana State Government.
Washington, Jan. 24.—C01. Frobil, Col.
Weems and Senator Hill had an inter
view with Gen. Sherman to-day, who
seemed to enter heartily in their views of
water commnnication.
Senate. —Norwood presented the me
morial of the national commercial law in
behalf of the Atlantic and Great Western
Canal. Ordered printed and referred to
special Committee on Internal Navigation.
House.—The report of the Election
Committee, that neither DeLarge nor
Bowen are entitled to a seat, was adopted
without a dissenting voice.
Credit Mobilier investigations number
one and two are becoming exciting. Hon
orable gentlemen are using lie, scoundrel,
&c.
The Committee on Postoffices has re
ported to the House of Representatives of
Congress in favor of reducing the postage
on letters to two cents.
Washington, January 26. Messrs.
Tinsley and Lougstreet, representing the
Kellogg Board, and Messrs. Forman, Mid
dle and Southward, the McEnery Repre
sentative Board, arrived here to-day from
New Orlears. The former claims to have
the law on their side, but the latter have
brought with them three large trunks full
of documents, supposed to be the returns
of the recent election called for by the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
Messrs. McMillan and Ray, contestants
for the Kellogg vacancy seat in the United
States Senate, will act in their own behalf
and for their respective parties—the former
belonging to the McEnry and the latter to
the Kellogg party. They will be assisted
by outside counsel, but during the session
of the Senate Committee ©n Privileges
and Elections these two only will be al
lowed to make suggestions and examine
witnesses.
GEORGIA.
Savannah, Jan. 26. —A disastrous fire
occurred at Darien last night. The court
house, with all the public records, and
other property were burnt.
The steamer Nick King, bound to Flo
rida, struck a snag and sunk near Darien,
Friday night. The passengers and crew
were saved.
NEW YORK.
New York, January 23. —It is generally
believed that the Atlantic Steamship Com
pany is about to suspend.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals
in the case of Foster concludes as follows:
“ The law of murder is designed for the
protection of life from lawless violations,
and its sanction ought not to be weakened
by reversing convictions upon objections
which are unsustained, by reason of au
thority.”
New York, Jan. 24.—The car hook
murderer, Foster, has been sentenced to
be hung on the 7th of March.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, January 26.—Every stage
line is stopped, epizoot. The ore train’s
horse mules are down.
MARKETS.
New York, January 25 —Evening.—
Cotton easier; sales 1.060; Uplands 20jc;
Orleans 21§; net receipts to-day 227.
Sales of futures to-day 10,200 bales;
as follows: Jan., 19j@20; Feb., l!)y@
19 15-16; March, 20j(S>2() 11-16; April 20i;
May, 20 11-IG@2l; June, 21 §®2l V; July,
2l£@2lf.
New Orleans, Jan. 25. —Cotton firm;
net receipts 4,905; exports to Continent 5, -
463; sales 1,500; last evening 4,000; stock
200,335.
Mobile, Jan. 25.—Cotton, quiet and
firm; net receipts 2,029; sales 700; stock
52,557.
Savannah, January 25. —Cotton firm;
receipts 2,162; exports to Great Britain
3,954; Continent 1,895; sales 400; stock
78,788.
FROM ATLANTA.
Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph.
Atlanta, January 21, 1872.
THE comptroller’s FEES.
Yesterday afternoon, the bill defining
the Comptroller’s fees, introduced by
Senator Hillyer, came up for passage in
the Senate. The bill provided that the
Comptroller should receive five per cent,
commission on the first SIO,OOO of taxes
which he collects from taxes due for last
year, two and a half per cent, on the next
SIO,OOO, etc.
Mr. Simmons, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, submitted a substitute, which
was adopted in lieu of this bill of Mr.
Hillyer. This substitute provides that
the Comptroller General shall receive five
per cent, commission on all taxes which
he may collect, which were due twelve
months ago, and whioh are yet uncol
lected.
This bill, without guaranteeing the
Comptroller an enormous salary, is an in
centive to collect taxes which are overdue,
and which would probably be neglected
were it not for such incentive. At this
time the commission on these overdue
taxes will not be so very great, for the re
cent Comptroller, Mr. Bell, it is said, has
been a vigilant, close collector. This sub
stitute of Mr. Simmons will probably be
passed by the House.
SPEEDY JUSTICE.
Mr. Hillyer, in the Senate, introduced
a bill yesterday afternoon, providing for
the more speedy trial of certain criminal
cases. The bill provides that in a county
where a homicide be committed, the Gov
ernor shall send a judge forthwith, who
will proceed to try the case without delay.
The bill will not come upon its passage
probably until next week.
COMPLIMENTARY TO RETIRING OFFICERS.
Yesterday afternoon, in the Senate, the
Finance Committee, through its efficient
chairman, Colonel T. J. Simmons, of your
city, submitted the following report, af
fecting the recent Treasurer and Comp
troller-General, L. N. Angier and Major
Madison Bell:
Mr. President: The Joint Standing
Committee on Finance have examined the
accounts and vouchers of the Comptroller
and Treasurer, as required by section 175
of the Code, and respectfully submit that
the books of these officers have been
neatly and accurately kept, and their an
nual reports are sustained by the true
condition of their offices.
Supplemental reports w r ere also submit
ted by the Comptroller and Treasurer
from the close of the fiscal year to the
date of the surrender of the same to their
successors, which reports were also exam
ined by your Committee and found cor-
I rect. -
The supplemental report of the Treas
urer shows a cash balance in the Treasury
of $618,319 15, which amount your Com
mittee find the retiring Treasurer paid
over to his successor.
The efficiency and integrity of the re
tiring Treasurer, N. L. Angier, and the
great services he has rendered the State of
Georgia in the faithful, skillful and
watchful management of her finances,
entitles him to the gratitude of the people
of the State and your committee take
pleasure in thus endorsing his official con
duct, and commending the neatness and
clearness with which the books of the
Treasury have been kept by his clerk, Al
ton Angier.
Mixed-Packed Cotton.
On a well-regulated plantation there is
constant supervision aud care at the gin
house to see that the cotton in each bale
shall be of uniform quality. Before the
war this was well-established as a feature
of the plantation system. Public gins
aud presses, set up and run for the con ve
nience of small farmers who could not
afford to ow n a separate gin, w’ere under
similar regulations about packing cotton
by grades or qualities. Both the statutes
of the cotton-growing States aud the cus
tom of trade visited with penalty any
manifest disregard of this requirement;
aud when the wrongful packing was so
done as to work a fraud, as in plating
either edge of a bale of poor cotton with
cotton of better quality, or the inner por
tion had been wet or injured before going
into the bale —both termed “false pack
ing”—the penalty was very severe. False
packing was regarded as a crime against
the community, as well as against the
suffering buyer, by its reproach ujain cot
ton growers. Mixed packing, though
without the criminal intent, was held to
be a great wrong by carelessness, for the
same general reason. Since the war the
careless packing of cotton—both at the
public gin-houses and on plantations— has
become a serious evil. It is especially
frequent on plantations conducted by, or
for, Northern owners, who were not train
ed in plantation management, and who,
perhaps, know nothing of the importance
und duty of preserving uniformity of
quality in each package.
We have not space to describe the many
troubles arising from this want of care
and almost criminal indifference to all
who subsequently handled the cotton: the
factor, the dealer and the spinner, in
damages, in defeat of contracts, in repeat
ed samplings and rejections and in the
disappointment at the cotton mills. It is
an evil fully recognized in the Southern
cotton markets. Its practical injury to i
the whole body of cotton growers should ;
be brought home to their minds, that they
may cause the vigorous application of ti e
right remedy, whenever their several Leg
islatures can be induced to consider such
practical matters. When, as is now too
rarely the ease, the cotton crop of any large
plantation shows, when it comes to mar
ket, that it has been handled in the old fash
ion, the early and better pickings consti
tuting the head of the crop packed by it
self, and so on of each successive grade to
the lowest, it contrasts favorably with the
unsatisfactory appearance of many others
where care was lacking. In this connec- 1
tion it is pleasant to note the appreciation
in market of fine cotton well handled. It
has come to our notice that some bales of
upland cotton have sold this season, in
this market, at twenty-five cents per pound
on their merit, at a time when 'middling
cotton was selling at twenty and one-half
cents. We particularly note for their ex
cellence in staple and almost perfert clean- j
liness, two bales, the one raised by F. S. ;
Siddall, near Salem, Lee county, Alabama, 1
and the other by H. L. McGehee, near !
Glenalta, Marion county. Georgia, which !
bales took the first and second premiums i
at the Fair in Columbus, Georgia, and i
well deserved them. Every particle of
leaf and mote must have been picked from i
the seed cotton before ginning, to secure j
such perfectly purity of fibre. It may not
pay to devote so much hand-labor and
care generally, but the four and one-half 1
cents per pound difference above middling ;
cotton, shows its appreciation by the spin
ner, aud thousands of bales like them
could be sold at the same price if they
could be supplied.— Boston Post.
THIS WEEK’S STATEMENT.
Columbus, Ga., January 24, 1073
Financial. —Exchange on New York, buyiov
%<s% discount,selliu,* par. Currency loaus i (( 7
1% 1101l 101 eeui. per luoutu. w
Cotton Situation. —The receipts at the
United dates porta are u w 313,512 bales iu ex
cess ot tliose 01 last year to Ibis date ami he
stock. 34,ui>2 bales. Columbus shows 12,882 mure
oales tliau iu lsT2 aud a stock ot 907 more
Ou the week the Columbus stock has ihc. eased
342 hales
India shipments Lhis year to January lbih
were 19,000, ugatust 47,i.ki0 last year.
The world's visible supply last Saturday
showed au iucrease over last year of 5,442 baleii
the total last year was 2,Li»,040; last Saturuiv
2,144,492. ’ 1
THE Prospect.— Receipts at the United
Status ports have beeu quite heavy the last lew
weeks, and high estimate, have either been
sustained or Increased. The course ot receipts
during the next month will prooably detefu,
lne definitely the extent ol the crop. The best
authorities no not anticipate any marked de
crease in price.
The staple still comes in freely and indicates
a total ot a little over :6,000 bales. The ratio
ol gain tuus far points to these figures. The
comparison shows that planters have sold much
more lieely thau last year. The receipt tlra
some 13,000 hales greate , and the stuck is o „i v
lightly iu excess. 1 ’
The sales of the week have been very hVhf
the marset having been dull all the Heel *4.
has oeen the case all the season the purchase*
lor Northern spinners are in excess.
It is yet too cold for planters la commenca
farming operations.
The prospect is that we will have cheat
meats this year. Six of the largest pack.’.,:)
points report 2,490,U00 pounds to 17ih, agaiii-i
2,494,500 to same dale in 1872, and 3.u34> 0 j:
1371. The papers slate that corn has been used
iu the West for luel. For grain m this section
there is y- t a very small demand.
Since the combination was formed for all
the Western freights to pass over the Louis
ville ami Nashville aud South aud North Ala
bama railroads, • ur provision uealeis hate been
subjected to great annoyances mid serious em
barrassments In their operations by not receiv
ing their stocks. Goods have now been on u ie
■mute one and too months. Merchants have
paid heavy dralts and yet not apouudol the
paid-for goods has appeared. This causes
heavy loss to our business men. St. Louis, Um
cinuati, Louisville and Nashville should com
bine with their Southern customers to remedy
this evil. The railroad officials pay no heed to
just complaints. From Montgomery 10 this
point no goods aro net aided. Tim company
has plenty oi cars and forwards promptU ail
freight sent them. The fault is between Mont
gomery and Nashville, so tar as St. Louis g uds
are concerned. If freights could be shared by
llie route via Chattanooga aud Atlauta, or via
Chattanooga and Selma a terrible pressure
would he at once removed from the Southern
trade.
Seventy-one Georgia and forty-five Alabama
gin houses thus far ourued. Little emigration
from this section aud small complaint of want
of hands.
The Weather.—Thermometer for tho week
averaged 45°. Sunday thermometer stood at
16°. Heavy rain all Wednesday night. To
day, comparatively clear aud co.d.
Same week last year the thermometer aver
aged 40°. One heavy suow, and heavy rain
The Markets.— The following shows the
price of middlings in New York and Liverpool,
gold at Now York aud Low Middlings in t'o
lumbus each day of the week:
Up. Or. Up. Or. G’ld. Col
Saturday... 19% 10% 20% 21% JI3J4 18Jj§—
Monday j 9; 8 10% 20% 2114.11% 18Js 4 (gi—
Tuesday | 9%; 10% 20% 21% ; 113% 18' 4 jg-
Wednesday. % 10 |20% 21% 113% ls>
Tliursday... 9; J 10% 20% 21% 113%j18‘ 4 <j.-
Friilay | 9% 110%|20J-^21%|113%|15%(i-
On the week Liverpool declined %and; New
York advanced %c ; Columbus %e.
Prices Fast Y'kar. Liverpool Uplands
10%d; Orleans 10%d; New Y'ork, Ip
lauds 21%c; Orleans 22%0. Gold 109%. Colum
bus Middlings 20%c.
Sales to-day 212 hales: Market dull.
Ordinary 16 ®16%
Good Ordinary 17%@1S
Low Middlings 18%@18%
Middlings 18)4^19
Week’s sales 898 bales—6oo Northern spin
ners, 128 home consumption, 170 for New York,
0 to Savannah, 0 lor speculation, 0 ior
New Orleans.
Total sales since September Ist per report of
shippers 35,684—26,125 ior Northern spinners,
795 lor speculation, 1,846 for New Y ork, 2,560 for
Savannah, 1,450 for Mobile, 600 lor New Or
leans, 2,408 lor Home Consumption.
Week’s receipts 2,091 bales, against 2,125 the
{irevious one, and 1,257 tho corresponding week
ast season—6o by SWR R, 381 by M& G R
R, 68 by Opelika RR, 759 by river, 749 by wag
ons, 84 by N kSEK. Shipments 1,239 bales—
-1,099 by S W R K, 128 tor home consumption,
12 by W R R to New Orleans.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
1873 1872
Stock Aug. 31st 158 1,550
Jkeeeiveii past week 2,091 1,257
Total received 46,211 33,329
Total received, in’ding 5t0ck.46,369 34,879
Shipped past week 1,239 820
Total shipped 34,450 23,867
Total home consumption 2,408 1,570
Stock January 24 11,919 11,012
Sales 898 611
Year’s receipts 40.650
MODES OF RECEIPTS.
1873 1872
Southwestern Railroad 1,766 927
Mobile and Girard Rai1r0ad.14,927 10,242
Western Railroad 1,653 1 188
River 4,601 3,796
Wagons 22,043 17,176
North and South Railroad... 1,221 0
46,211 33,329
STATEMENT PRECEDING YEARS.
1867-8 1868-9 1869-70 1870-1
Stock, Aug. 31, 868 280 125 1572
Kec’d to J an. 24 . 64470 39129 ; 540761 58884
Stock Jan. 24... 16843 165691 15032 14396
Year’s receipts.. 85685 48500 67274 76007
U. S. Crop 2430893 226055713298001|4352317
Freights.—Per 100 fts cotton: To Savannah,
70c.; to New York, Baltimore and Philadel
phia, til 16:, Boston $1 25.
Through Cotton. —By Mobile and Girard
Railroad 2298 against 1602; by Western Railroad
24,842, against 20,447 last year.
Future Deliveries.—They are quoted in
New Y'ork, basis Low Middlings as follows:
January 19 13 18; February 20 1-16; March
•20%; April 20%; May 21%; June 21916;
July 22.
The United ,States Ports.—Receipts for
the week 133,778 bales, against 136,226 last;week
—133,235 the week before and 120,813 ,faiue
week last year. Tlie total movement! is as
follows:
1873 1872
Stock Aug. 31 45,929 118 966
Week’s receipts 133,778 120,813
Total 2,137,303 1,823,791
Week's exports to G 8.... 55,391 49,583
C0n..... 12,1 (7 31,538
Total exported to G. 8—772,602 728,538
“ “ Con 394.358 228,080
“ “ 1,166,960 956,616
Stock 569,658 635,606
Year’s Receipts 2,725,439
Receipts at Principal Ports.—The bil
lowing shows the loin Is to date :
1873. 1872.
New Orleans 606,055 589 967
Mobile 221.880 219,10*
Savannah 453.730 340,667
Charleston 256,167 199,360
Galveston 207,1*9 136,219
New Y’ork 48,522 55,160
Other Ports 313,790 283,325
Total 2,137,303 1,823,791
Gross Receipts at Interior Towns.—The
following shows the total receipts of the named
interior towns from August 31st to Jan. 17:
1873 1872
Augusta ....130 013 107,140
Macon 61,725 46,325
Euinula 21,385 16.847
Columbus 44,120 32,072
Montgomery 54,095 46,163
Selma 36,165 48,372
Nashville 35,968 37,580
Memphis 221,171 233,738
TotaL 594, e 42 567,227
Their stocks on the I7th were 87,520 bales
against 06,700 last year. This week they have
received 2a,46+bales against 28,578 correspond
ing week in 1872, arid their stocks are 00,100
against 04,483.
From Liverpool the following is telegraphed
for the week:
1873 1872.
Stock 446,000 401,000
“ American 00,000 166,000
“ Afloat 328,000 383,000
“ “ American 366,000 107,000
Week’s Keceb ts 60,000 67,000
“ “ American 33,000 25,000
Sales 64,000 112,000
FxnorterV 4,000 16,000
Speculation! 3,000 31,000
General Remarks—Business remains very
fair. On the week bulk meats have advanced
i/ c ,' The monetary condition and business ot
the'section are reported better titan last year.
•St. Louis goods are very long en route.
OKFICK DAILY SUN AND TIMES, f
Columbus, Ga., January 25, 1873. v
Cotton. —Market dull.
Ordinary 16 @t6*4c
Good ordinary n l /itany^
Low middlings 18!/ 4 @]&!4o
Middlings lS^ih/lso
U. S. Ports Receipts to-day, 15,300; ex
ports to (ireat Britain 7,230; to Continent
7,304; stock 566,707.
Sales 246 bales
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Bacon—Clear Sides ft 9. Clear hit
Sides lie; Shoulders Sugar-Cured
Hams 18c; Plain Hams 16c.
Backing— lndia f ’ yard 17c: Scotch Flax c;
Kentucky Jbc; Piece Idc.
Bulk Meats—Clear Rib Sides 8!ic;
Shoulder? Hams—c.
Butter —Goshen ft lb SUo; Country 35c.
Brooms—ft doz $2 25@3 60.
Candy—suck ft it, 2oc.
Canned Goods—Sardines p case of 100 bu
$24. Oysters, 1 it, cans ft do?., $1 75.
Cheese—English Dairy v ‘ 9,. 18c; Western
17c; N\ Y. State If}.-.
Candles—Star ft it, 22c; Sperm 450.
Coffee —Rio ft 6, 22i#2so; Java 30®.!%.
Corn—Yellow Mixed ft bus 90c.,
95c, car load ra es in depot.
Cigars—Domestic ft M $18@50;
@IBO. „ . ...
Hardware —Wide Iron ftii.Bc; Refined O'
Sad Irons 8c; Bar Lead I+c; Castings «.V
Plow Steel 12J*; Cast Steel 30c; Buggy Sprii.*]
20c; Horse and Mule Shoes ft it, 9c: Hor-
Sltoe Nails Nails ft keg $6 50; AX' -
ft doz )jsls@l7.
Hay—ft cwt $2 00.
Flour—Fine ft bbl $8; Superfine *9 00; r
tra flu; Double Extra flu; Fancy sl2 00.
Iron Ties—p It 9@3%e.
Lard —Prime Leal %l ft. ll%c.
Leather —White Oak Sole %lft»4se; He
lock Sole 33c; French Calfskins *2@4 : Awr
can (lo KUqj'i 50; Upper Leather *20(3 6u: Har
ness do 50c; Dry Hides 11c; Green do 6c.
Mackerel— No 1 W bbl *25; No 2*15; No 3 *9,
No 1 fl % bbl *10; No 2 *9; No 3 *6; Nol*«"
*3.
Meal— fl bus *1 00. d0
Molasses—N. O. y gall 80c@-- 60
®7oc; Cuba 45@50C; Golden Syrup *I«P i0 - ..
Oil —Keroseue $4 gall 36c; Linseed, raw *
do Dolled *1 25; Lard *1 50; Train *1 *5.
Oats—V bushel 65@90e. „ r u
Pickles—Case pints *4 dos *2 50, quar
*3 50.
Potash — case *9 10.
Potatoes— lrish. fl bl *5 25@6.
PowsEii—f) keg *7 25; % keg *4 00; , 4
*2 50, in Magazine.
Rope— Manilla %» ft. 28c; Cotton 40c: Machine
Made 11c.
Rice—V ft. 10@llc.
Salt—ft sack *2 25.
Shot—%4 sack *3.
Soda —Keg 7c fl ft.; box 9c. H or
Sugar—Cuba f* it 13@13%; A 14%, R
extra Cl 4: C 13: N O yellow clarlhed 14@14%
do white 150d5%e.
Starch —%4 ft. 9c.
Tea—Green and Black fl tt> *1 10@2-