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Good Business. —The North and Sontti
Railroad, now running only twenty miles,
has brought to Columbus since October,
12211 I Htles iif cotton.
Severely Cut. —Mr. Dean (we believe)
was severely cut in the leg at the South
western Railroad shops, Monday, while
working on a car frame. Serious, but
not dangerous.
Assessing City Property. —City asses
sors B. F. Coleman, J. J. Bradford and
John McCarty commenced valuing city
property yesterday. They will tinish
probably in ten days.
Columbus Manufacturing Company.—
'1 lie capital stock is put down at $263,000,
til which lands, buildings, machinery,
Ac,, constitute $259,887 80. On the
capital stock a dividend of 8 per cent, was
declared for 1872.
Blind Peter Dead- This wGlkimwn
negro died last niglit of pneumonia. He
had lived long in Columbus, simple and
harmless and liked by all. By selling
tjarched ground-peas, he earned bis live
lihood. He was never known to shU for
charity.
Six Head Thus Far. —Nelson Holland,
the colored fireman of the Julia St. Clair,
died yesterday of pneumonia. After the
explosion on the steamer, he jumped into
the river, swam ashore and came to Co
lumbus. He was seized with a severe
cold, which resulted in his death.
Quite Sick. —Col. P. VV. Alexander,
private secretary to Governor Smith, is
lying seriously ill at the “Shorter home
place,” in Alabama, some three miles
from Columbus. He has suffered terribly
from carbuncles and is in a critical con
dition. Dr. Bozeman, of Atlanta, bus
been called in for eousultation.
Received His Commission.-- Major J.
J. Bradford yesterday received his com
mission us Clerk of the Superior Court,
huil has assumed the duties of liis office.
All contest has been abandoned. We are
glad to announce the fact. Thus, all of
uni lately elected comity officers have
been installed into their offices.
Meningitis. —We enquired of several
physicians yesterday, and they reported
that to their knowledge there was not a
case of cerebro-spinal-meningitis in this
city. They say there is some influenza
ami catarrhal fever, and they are some
times accompanied with pain in the buck.
Such cases are not dangerous.
A Female at the Bar. — We learn that
u widow lady in Bullock county, who iH
possessed of considerable energy and good
sense, on Friday last argued her own
cunSq before the Court in session at Union
Springs, and secured a*verdict in her own
favoy,-a. result which highly gratified her
and pleated list’ many friends. With the
“facts in the. etise, and common sepse’”
atm proposes hereafter. .fc>. .b&*.4iS*» ow n
client, as it is cheaper, and more to her
interest in the final results.
Cotton Receipts at Interior Towns.—
The following shows the receipts of thA
named interior towns from August. 31st
to Jan. 24th. Their united stocks on the
24th wore !M>,10!1, against 34,483 same date
last year:
1873 1872
Augusta 130,333 111,739
Macon 53,346 46,912
Enfaula 22,169 lti,2S7
Columbus 40,211 33,329
Montgomery 54,933 47,043
Selma...'. 37,191 v 43,847
Nashville 37,080 40,473
Memphis 235,371 250,000
Total 017,900 595,090
River Survey. —Congress appropriated
$3,750 for the survey of Flint river from
Albany to its junction with the Chatta
hoochee. The government officers have
completed their work to Bainliridge,
which, by the river, they found to be
eighty miles from Albany with a fall of
one foot to llm mile. They will report
favorably to the improving the channel to
Newton, but not above; and recommend
an appropriation of $50,000 towards re
moving obstructions. The obstacles at
“Maple’s Shute” and “Hell Gate, the
worst points, can be removed with little
difficulty. Columbus is much interested
in this enterprise. The survey of the
Chattahoochee has been completed.
Cheap Railroad Riding.— Thousand
miles tickets can be purchased at the
Southwestern Railroad office for thirty
dollars. This is only three cents per mile.
Surely travelers could not ask a cheaper
rate. It shows the generous disposition
of the Central Road to encourage travel.
These tickets are good over the South
western, the Central and Macon and
Western Roads. With them parties can
visit Savannah, Enfaula, Albany, Atlanta
and Augusta and intermediate points.
Three cents per mile for railroad travel
is as low as a man of any reason could de
mand See notice of W. H. Williams,
ticket agent.
After that Machine. — Hook and Lad
der have decided, as we stated they would,
to endeavor to purchase by subscription
one of the Miller improved trucks, which
is furnished with four of Babcock s tire
extinguishers, and have appointed Messrs.
D. W. Appier, H. D. Green, C. A. Ethe
ridge, B. Jackson, W. N. Hawks and E.
W. Ptabody as a committee to see what
our citizens will give to the object. Ye
have no doubt the money can be easily
raised, as all must be convinced of the
utility of the machine.
Appointed Solicitor. —Gov. Smith has
appointed John W. Eobison, Esq., Solici
tor General of the Middle Circuit. Mr.
it. is about twenty-five years of age, a
thorough gentleman, and possessed of
abilities of high order. He was born and
reared in Columbus, and only left some
two years ago to locate his future resi
'leiu-e m Washington, He has every
'i'uiii ii.oi to the position —legal ac-
Ino ( i . ti m |„„l education, and pol
isne.l mi 1.,.- During the war he was
among the truest of Confederate soldiers,
she appointment gives great pleasure to
his many friends in Columbus.
Capt. W. A. Little, of Talbotton, has
been appointed Solicitor of this circuit.
He is one of the most brilliant young law
yers in the State, and has already won a
fine reputation as a forensic orator. He,
h*o, is a gentleman of high attainments
and culture, and has a splendid future
before him.
the legislators were terribly afraid the
eapitol building would fall down. Com
mittee has reported it safe. Another will
have to be built. The present one has
cost the State near a half million of dol
lars, and is still unpaid for. A mortgage
amounting to something like SBO,OOO is
hanging over it. Put in market, it would
hot bring the face of the mortgage debt.
VOL. XIV.
THE PRESS MEMORIAL.
We publish this morning the memorial
authorized and presented to the General
Assembly by the unanimous voice of the
Georgia Press Association, recently assem
bled in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Hun says it was written by
Colonel A. It. Lamar of the Savannah Ad
vertiser, and late associate editor of the
Columbus Sun.
It is a clear, forcible and truthfuf docu
ment, and we hdjie it will receive the
earnest attention and be responded to fa
vorably by the members of the General
Assembly.
W e regret that other previous engage
ments prevented us from attending the
meeting of the committee at Mr. Stephens’
room. We are glad to find the members
oi the Press appreciating their power,
and while they continue to respect them
selves they will be respected and heeded
by Legislators and people.
CRITICS AND* CRITICISM.
l)r. Willet, lecturing in Boston the
other night, told a droll story of himself,
lie said that at one time, when he was a
connoisseur in bird-stuffing, he used to
criticise other people's bird-stuffing se
verely. Walking with a gentleman one
duy, he stopped at a window where a gi
gantic owl was exhibited. “You see,”
said the Doctor to his friend, “that there
is a magnificent bird utterly ruined by
unskillful stuffing. Notice the mounting!
Execrable, is n’t it? No living owl ever
roosted in that position. And the eyes
are fully a third larger than any owl ever
possessed.” At this moment the stuffed
bird raised one foot and solemnly blinked
at his critic, who said very little more
about stuffed birds that afternoon.
The above has been extensively copied
by the Press without any comments on
the lesson it teaches or the moral it
points. It’s hit at would-be critics, is
very like the story of the squealing pig in
Gil Bins referred to by us in a late article.
Dr. Willet, when the owl raised its foot
and solemnly blinked, must have felt as
foolish as the critical audience that ap
plauded the imitation and hissed the real
live animal.
These false critics are very numerous
and sometimes disagreeable, while true
critics are rare and exceedingly useful.
I'ha one sees through the jaundiced eyes
of passion, prejudice and self, and is of
tener wrong than right in judgment. The
other clears the mental sight and is solic
itous to dispel the fog which more or less
hangs around all objects. The one looks
through a “glass darkly” and consequent
ly clouds and shadows settle upon the vis
ion. The other beholds “face to face”
and the reflection caught in form, color
and proportions, is as clear and bright as
from a perfect mirror.
Many of the false opinions and judg
ments current in the world may be traced
to moral and mental indifference and in
dolence. Few there be who are willing
to labor for themselves. Truth was sup
posed by the ancient sages to be secreted
in the bottom of a deep well—difficult to
approach and dangerous to descend.
Certain it is, it was seldom found, and
the question of Pilate, “What is Truth?”
still stands as of very uncertain solution.
The ancients had truths 'which we never
possessed, and are now classed with the
Lost Arts—we have made discoveries and
invented many tilings*whioh, if they ever
existed, are now “dead issues.” We have
picked up a’'few shells here and there on
the* shore, but in time, the great ocean
will ever reimrin to us unfatboined and
Error is frequently the result of imita
tion. In questions the most important,
our only evidence is often hearsay, and
our best and firmest convictions are but
the echoes of other’s voice. We believe
so, and so simply because we have been
told so, and so and not as our highest
duties and interest commands that we
should while respectful to the criticisms
of others, investigate, think and judge
for ourselves, as we are alone personally
and individually responsible for our con
victions and actions.
IMMIGRATION—AGAIN.
Capital and labor come hand in hand
and run on all fours. How to attract
these two Siamese twins to Georgia, we
have no doubt, will command the early
and constant attention and abilities of the
Legislature iu session. They will not be
like the boy’s whistle in school, when lie
told the fierce master, “It just whistled
heselt’;” but will more resemble the call
of spirits from the vasty deep by the
boastful Glendower when the spirits
would not answer his call worth a cent.
The farmer well breaks up bis ground
before bo scatters the seed. The good
sailor well examines his vessel before he
commits himself and her to rolling waves
and furious storms. Without this pre
vious care and labor, the one could not
reasonably expect a harvest, nor the oth
er come into port with sails full spread
and dancing against wind and tide over
the foaming billows.
It seems to us two steps are essential to
be taken by our Legislature before we can
hope to bring much foreign capital and
labor into the Southern States. We are
all aware of the mean efforts made by
scalawags and carpet-baggers to injure
our credit and reputation at home and
abroad. We have been painted as a law
less people, regardless of life and the
rights and security of person and proper
ty. The miserable Governors, Judges
Solicitors and other officials we have been
cursed with for years, have given force
and point to these false accusations.
Strangers to our customs, society and po
litical and social institutions seldom stop
to investigate and act with truth and un
derstanding. These impressions will have
to be removed, and the people must
give influence and strength to the prompt
and certain punishment of crime by just
laws and the encouragement of virtue
before our hopes of increase of wealth
and population can he realized. Whatever
may tie the natural resources of a coun
try —its soil may be as rich as the delta of
tire Nile, its skies as bright as Italy, still,
it will ever remain tenantless without
protection and security to person and
property. Wise men will not seek a home
where enterprise and talent are unappre
ciated. labor is unrewarded and is paral
ized, and industry sickens and dies. They
will not sow where the harvest is small
and uncertain of being reaped.
Vitality must be given to education
generally, and especially to a good system
of public schools. Even better wages
will not induce a poor, yet skillful and
intelligent mechanic and field laborer
from Europe to settle where his children
cannot be educated. A system of public
schools will act as feeders to our Acade
mies and Universities just as numberless
rivulets create mighty rivers bearing the
wealth of continents on their bosom, and
scattering moral, mental and material
riches and fertility wherever they wash
and spread.
The Virginia store invites attention to
the stock of new goods they have just re
ceived. To make room for the Spring
trade they are offering many goods at less
than cost. Country merchants are spe
cially direrted to their advertisement.
We direct attention to the advertisement
of Simmons’ Liver Regulator, pronounced
one of the best medicines of the age.
THE WEEKLY SmN.
Correspondence of the Columbus Daily Sun.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Jan. 22, 1873.
credit mobilieb.
This investigation while of great service
in showing up the doings of a monster
corporation in its efforts to corrupt Con
gress through its Mephistophilies—Ames,
has also its disadvantages. The cry of
corruption and bribery which so far as
; Ames and Alley are concerned is generally
conceded, though pretty well covered up,
| has gone forth and the stigma of “job”
! will be attached to every measure present
!®d to Congress, and there are many of
j them most meritorious and of National
importance. I have no donbt that a num
ber of them will fail simply because cer
tain Congressmen in the face of the hue
and cry of “job” will not have the back
bone to vote as their judgment dictates.
The books of the Union Pacific Railroad
were brought to the capital yesterday and
were examined by Mr. Wilson’s Commit
tee in secret for the purpose of guiding
the examination of witnesses. To-day
the great American Shovel—as Donn Pi
att dubs Ames —will be asked to explain
as to Congressmen who received Credit
Mobilier stock. It is said that Ames has
kept back certain evidence, as a rod over
the heads of Congressmen in the hope
that they would protect him, but as he
thinks that he has been made a scape
goat of, he will out with a little story that
will be both sensational and instructive —
the moral of it will be obvious. Hon.
Jas. Brooks again explained his position
before the Committee yesterday and re
ceived several quite sharp thrusts from
Mr. Niblack, but consoled himself with
the reflection that he had done his share
in abusing people in newspapers and now
his turn had come to be abused. Senator
Patterson • also appeared to the
Committee to explain a discrepancy
between his testimony and that of Ames.
The latter stated that Patterson received
from him thirty shares of stock and $2,-
223 in cash in February, and SIBOO in
cash in June. Patterson said he might
have received the money, did not remem
ber, but did not believe he ever received
the stock. Os course Senators are so busy
with National affairs that such trifles slip
their memories. When Ames was asked
why he wrote letters during the campaign
denying that Patterson held Credit Mo
biler stock—which he now admitted that
he had—he looked the very picture of
Uriah Heep, and whined out: “Because
I am kind-hearted and wanted to help
everybody.” Ames wrote these letters at
the request of Patterson. Not very high
toned in the New Hampshire Senator.
LOUISIANA MATTERS.
The mulatto —Piuchback—has arrived
here and will remain uutN after March
4th. He will submit arguments to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections in
favor of Kellogg’s recognition as Gover
nor of Louisiana. His credentials as
Senator-elect for the long term were pre
sented to the Senate and regularly filed.
His case will not be acted on until next
session. Gen. W. L. McMillan, Senator
elect of the Fusion Legislature for the
Kellogg vacancy, has also arrived here.
HiS credentials and those of Ray, who
was elected by the Kellogg Legislature,
will be presented to-day. This will bring
up the question as. to which is the right
ful government in Louisiana, and despite
the assurances of a number, of Radical
Senators and Congressmen that justice
will Ire Awre the people of Louisiana, I
have more than doubt on that point.
COTTON TAX REFUNDING BILL.
The memorial favoring the refunding of
the cotton tax collected in 1865, ’66 and
’67, recently presented to each Congress
man, signed by every Southern member
except two, but who will vote for the bill,
has produced a remarkable impression in
favor of it, from the clear and convincing
arguments and statements that are ad
duced in its support. The only point of
disagreement between the friends of the
measure was that some thought the bill
did not make proper provision for the re
turn of the tax to those from whom it was
collected by the Government. This ob
jection has been entirely removed to the
satisfaction of all parties by the bill being
so amended that the interests of the plan
ters and freedmen are carefully looked
after in having the tax returned to those
who paid. The good feeling in Congress
on this question assures the passage of
the bill, which will be bailed as an act of
justice and practical reconciliation.
INCREASE OF SALARIES.
The bill reported from the Finance
Committee yesterday by Senator Sherman
increasing the salaries of the assistant
secretaries of departments, heads of bu
reaus, «sec., to $4,000 a year, is a simple
matter of justice. It is a fact well known
that good men competent to fill these po
sitions are underpaid, and that low sala
ries is the worst kind of economy. I trust
that the increase will be made in the
clerical force as well. In nearly every
department there is a contingent fund,
out of which officials ranging from Regis
ter of the Treasury down to chief of divi
sions are allowed an increase of salary—
the Register getting SI,OOO, and others
Hrwerin position less. Treasurer Spinner
claims that he cannot keep good clerks at
the salaries allowed, as they are gobbled
up by the banks at much higher
salaries, and he is forced to pay them
more than the sum fixed by law
in order to retain them. Ido not think
that even with the extra compensation the
officials get enough, but it would be much
better to do away with such practices and
let Congress make the salaries sufficiently
high and not underhand increase the
amount out of contingent funds. There
is enough merit and fairness in it to meet
daylight. The proposition is mooted to
increase the pay of members of Congress
to SIO,OOO a year. If we were sure that
they would attend to the business of the
country alone, and honestly, it would not
be too much, but as it is, a majority of
them are dear at nothing a year and find
i themselves.
THE KANSAS AND ARKANSAS BRIBERY CASES.
The committee on Senator Caldwell’s
bribery have developed a terrible state of
buying and selling votes, and the general
impression is that the Senate cannot do
otherwise than oust him; but I am an unbe
liever in Senatorial honesty. The Clay
ton committee will report the* evidence
without recommendation, which is bad
for Clayton, but I very much doubt his
expulsion or that of Caldwell.
A Columbus Lady on the Stand. —In
the trial of Mrs. Wharton, at Annapolis,
Maryland, charge! with an attempt to
poison Mr. Van Ness, we notice that the
wife of Gen. Chilton was on the stand.
She testified, according to the Baltimore
Sun’s repo rt, that she had known Mrs.
Wharton since 1844, and that she had al
ways been regarded as kind, gentle and
humane. She also stated that Mrs. Whar
ton had been in the habit of using tartar
emetic plasters on her breast for a long
time, but it came out in the cross-exam
ination that the witness had derived her
knowledge on this subject from the un
sworn statement of a servant, and the
court directed the jury to exclude from
their minds all of her testimony except
that with reference to the good character
of the accused.
Mr. E. L. Smith, an old citizen of Mo
bile, died Sunday.
COLUMBUS GEORGIA, TUESDAY*, FEBRUARY 4, 1873
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Atlanta Medical College numbers
over one hundred students, double the
number present at any time since the war.
A Mr. Tittlebaum and Bukafzer pro
pose to build the water works of Atlanta,
without expense to the city, asking in re
turn the privilege of supplying the citi
zens for twenty-five years at a moderate
cost.
The ex-Georgia Congressmen are about
to be made happy by a passage of a reso
lution paying them a year's salary ($5,000
each) not drawn, while they were waiting
for their “downy seats” before. This will
include the Congressmen here under the
Bullock regime.
President Grant invited Congressman
H. R. Whitely to his gorgeous dinner Fri
day, the first invited guest from Georgia
since the war season closed.
Gen. Marion Betkuue. ex-member of
Congress, and “prospective contestant”
is still in Washington, living, as he says,'
on the “Ethiopian” plan.
Simon W. Hitch, Esq., was, on Friday,
appointed by the Governor, and confirmed
by the Senate, Solicitor General of the
Brunswick Circuit.
The Macon Telegraph says Barnard
Hill, Esq.,' has been appointed Judge of
that circuit vice Judge Cole.
Ten persons who went "to Texas from
Georgia, have returned to Atlanta. They
report hundreds of others would return if
they had the money.
Mr. Lewis Paine, of Marietta, on Fri
day, was killed by being thrown from his
horse.
The Richmond County Board of Edu
cation have authorized a tax of $21,000
for the support of the Public Schools for
1873.
Willie, a son of Rev. Dr. Mclntosh,
pastor of the First Baptist Church iu
Macon, died of meningetis Saturday. He
was a student of Mercer University and
eighteen years of age.
The Telegraph states there is only one
case of meningetis in Macon outside of
Mercer University, and every precaution
has been adopted to prevent its propaga
tion. The students have all left for their
homes, save Mr. Daniel and those too ill
to be removed. No new cases of this
woeful malady are reported.
A gunsmith in Griffin, Porte) - , by name,
says the Macon Telegraph, has invented
and patented a hoe and handle out of
which he is likely to make a fortune. A
screw and cast iron attachment on the end
of the handle fixes any variety of blade
that may be desired and holds it securely,
vi hile it can be detached in half a minute.
The haudle we saw had five implements—
including a rake and four varieties of
garden hoe—all the latter cut from solid
stee! plate, and forming the best collec
tion of garden tools we ever saw. The
same handle, made a little heavier, will
also be supplied with hoes for plantation
use, and we have no donhf will be gener
ally adopted. B. A. Wise, of Macon, is
general agent.
Mrs. Corput, of Macon, is 78 years of
age and does not use glasses. She has
, just exeented a handsome crayon picture.
Rev. Russel W. Johnson, a prominent
minister and citizen of Bartow, Ga., died
on Saturday last.
A. H. Dennis, of Talbotton, has a clerk
ship in the Georgia Legislature.
A wooden house in Lumpkin, occupied
by negroes, was burned the other day.
Property of*Mr. Henry Williams of Amer- 1
ions. Loss S4OO.
The Lumpkin Telegraph does not know
Win. Harris, of Stewart county, a bill to
relieve the securities of whom was lost in
Georgia Legislature. The paper does
“know William Jlaices who had securities
as Postmaster, a United States office, un
der Grunt, and the security was our Sen
ator himself. ” The paper adds:
There is a bit of history connected with
that very little bill—facts that might be
interesting to Gov. Smith even. Let
him find the origin of that bill, examine
the recommendation from Stewart for the
appointment for Notary Public in the
790th District, then find out who was
Grant’s Postmaster’s security here—let
him also find out who was Bullock’s No
tary Public for this District, and let him
look over his records and see if he can’t
find a petition from a certain District for
the removal of a certain Notary Public.
Let him look into these facts, and if he
don’t admit that he is sold out so far as
confining his appointments to Democrats
pure, we’ll give it up.
Col. Albert Lamar thus w rites to the
Advertiser from Atlanta:
Last night the backers of his Excellen
cy took off his shoes and ran him a trial
under the watch around the rotunda of
the Kimball. Finding that he was not
fast enough to win he was withdrawn be
fore the start by the honorable member
from Muscogee.
One Hundred Millions for the South.
—We have just been put in possession of
information from Washington of the
highest financial importance to the South.
It is proposed to pass a bill >in Congress
donating one huudred millions of dollars
to be divided pro rata among the South
ern States. The scheme is backed by
many of the wealthiest and most influen
tial bankers and financiers of the North,
and its passage is considered certain, if it
shall meet with no opposition from the
South. It is ostensibly proposed to make
reparation in this way for the terrible
blow struck at Southern finances and
credit through the reconstruction meas
ures. It is said that this amount, divided
out will enable the several Southern
States to pay off their debts, meet the in
terest on their bonds, and put these se
curities in such shape as to make them
negotiable at fair rates. We give you the
mere outlines of the proposition. The
amount coming to Georgia would amount
to about nine million dollars. We are
assured that nothing is lacking to ensure
the success of this proposition but the
consent of the South. It would be un
wise to hazard an opinion as to the merits
of this measure with the limited informa
tion at hand.
We very much doubt whether any such
appropriation will ever be made.
The Atlanta special dispatches say that
Mercer's bill, embracing exemption clause
from the general law exempting cotton
factories for ten years from taxation in
the charter of the Arkwright Manufac
turing Company, will pass. The members
opposing it already concede and recognize
the great benefit that will accrue to the
State from a generous protection policy to
the manufacturers. The Senate is fully
alive to its importance.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman has returned
from Washington. He reports there is
little hope that the disability question will
be revived again during the present ses
sion. The Macon Telegraph says he went
before the committee and triumphantly
refuted the base slanders invented against
him by Colonel Farrow. We do not sup
pose there is a man, woman or child in
the State who believes them.
Walter H. Gugel, another of the stu
dents of Mercer University, died Monday
of meningitis, at the residence of his pa
rents in Macon.
The deaths of Mrs. Seaborn J. Walker,
Mrs. Virginia Allen and Mrs. Nancy Allen,
all of Morgan county, are announced.
An express car, which has brought many
dead persons from Live Oaks. Florida, to
Savannah, is reported as haunted. The
messenger tells the Savannah News that
his safe keys are taken from his pocket
and then dropped at his feet; that rap
pings and whistling are heard above the
noise of the train, goods are hustled about
by unseen hands, and similar didoes
kicked up. The messenger is prepared to
swear to his statement.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says Bev.
B. F. Davis, an Episcopal minisler and
son of the late Bishop Davis, was thrown
from his horse near Unionville, S. C., last
Friday night week, and died the following
Tuesday.
The Marietta girls gave an exclusively
feminine party last Friday night, and one
bold youth, who was dying to know how
they could be happy without some of his
sort, and who stuck his head inside the
door, was hroomsticked off with a very
sore head.
On Jit up at Atlanta, that Gen. Toombs
I and ex-Governor Jenkins have been sum
| moned there for consultation with Colonel
| Snead, the representative of the Ameri-
I can holders of Georgia bonds. The
movement is made at the request of the
Finance Committee—says the same au
thority.
The Macon Telegraph figures it out that
the 'lessees of the State road will have
only $3,000 as their margin for profits
ttiis year. The managers have a keen eye
to the future.
Mr. M. L. Roberts, an old citizen of
Atlanta, died Sunday.
Only one whiskey still in Georgia was
registered in 1872.
Atlanta has not a ton of coal in her
yards.
Trains passed over the temporary bridge
at Resacca Monday.
An Atlanta man proposes to take $40,-
000 stock in an Atlanta cotton manufac
tory. •
The Constitution says there is no men
ingitis in the Atlanta colored college. Two
or three have died. The exercises have
not been suspended.
General McDowell, commander of this
department, is in Atlanta.
In Forsyth county, Saturday, a fight oc
curred between Deputy Marshal Blucker
and four men, one of whom was charged
with illicit distilling. The latter were
hailed. They hid in the bushes, and fired
upon the Marshal and his party, who were
advancing. The two parties exchanged
seventy-five shots. Marshal Blucker re
ceived a ball iu the side above the hip.
He was carried to Cumming. Ira Hans
ford, against whom there was a writ, was
killed. No arrests.
The death of Mrs. R. L. Roddy, of For
syth, w ife of Dr. R. D. Roddy, one of the
leading physicians of the State, is an
nounced.
Meningitis killed three men in Conyers
on Monday.
Rev. B. J. Baldwin leaves Cuthbert at
an early day to locate in Louisiana.
Heard county boasts a 125 year old wo
man.
The Bibb County Agricultural Society
now numbers one hundred and forty ac
tive nembers.
The Central Railroad Company will
pass visitors to and from the Spring meet
ing of the Savannah Jockey Club, com
mencing on the 4th proximo, for one fare.
Tickets hold good from the 2d to 9th in
clusive.
Mr. Kittles, living near Ringgold,
caught sixteen wild turkeys in a pen last
week.
Sol Robison, Eminent Commander of
the Georgia Knights Templar, was buried
iu Augusta on Monday. *
In the Superior Court, Joseph C. Alex
ander is sueing Alexander & Bromhead
for $25,000 damages. The plaintiff, when
a convict, was employed by the defen
dants in blasting rock, and was unpacking
a charge which had failed to, explode,
when it did explode, and broke his' arm
and put out both his eyes.
Miss Addie Ballow has challenged Rev.
T. M. Harris and Rev. Dr. W. P. Harri
son to debate spiritualism with her.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
Judge Busteed opened hisU. S. District
Court last Saturday. Messrs. Smith and
Pylant, of Elmore county, were released
on giving bond for $15,000.
Judge Grandin, of counsel for Aimee &
Cos. ct al. vs. Selma, Home and Dalton
railroad, made a motion in reference to
bill of complainants against said road and
application for appointment of receiver,
the further consideration of which was
postponed until Monday.
January 87th, 1832, witnessed the first
hanging of a white man, Coleman Wil
liams, in Montgomery county.
A car-load of negroes left Eufaula on
Friday for Texas.
The Montgomery and Eufaula railroad
lost $5,000 by the late fire in Montgom
ery.
The Henry County Kegister announces
the following marriages in its last issue:
Mr. James Hudspeth to Miss Mary A.
Newton ; Mr. William A. Haymon to
Miss Nellie Watson ; Mr. John S. Moore,
of Barbour, to Miss Sallie Manley, of
Henry county.
There was more corn raised during the
past season in Butler county than in any
year before or since the war ; still, there
was not enough to supply the demand.
Meningitis in Clayton.
The negroes of Dallas and Marengo are
leaving in large numbers, going to the
fertile valley of the Mississippi. The
Marion Commonwealth says the planters
of that region come out on the line of
the Alabama Central Hoad and offer twice
as much as the farmers in that section are
able to give, which has produced the
stampede now threatening to draw off
all the labor of the eanebrake region.
Many large farmers are destitute of hands
already.
The Decatur News has seen a specimen
of excellent India rubber raised by a gen
tleman in North Alabama, and asks why
this may not be made a profitable branch
of industry in Alabama.
The Birmingham Independent counted
fifteen frame residences in course of con
struction, oue day this week, and is as
sured by parties who should know, that
one hundred residences could be rented
at fair prices presently in that city.
Dr. Spear, of Dudleyville, Chambers
county, was severely but not seriously
wounded by pistol shots last week, at the
hands of Mr. Frank Wright, who is rep
resented to have been intoxicated. The
wounds were in the arm, head and shoul
der.
Major B. W. Norris, from Skowhegan,
Maine, and ex-Kadieal Alabama Con
gressman, died in Montgomery Monday,
aged 53 years. Remains will be buried
in Maine.
It is understood that Charles Pelham,
Secretary of State, will tender his resig
nation, to take effect in February, and
that W. H. Smith, at one time Con
gressional Governor of Alabama, will be
appointed in his stead.
The Tuskegee High School, owned by
Prof. James F. Park, was burned Friday
night. Prof. P. has rented another buil
ding and will continue his school.
Mr. Caleb Holloway, an old citizen of
Chambers county, and his nephew, Mr-
Gibson Dean, were arrested Tuesday, the
14th, by the U. S. authorities, under a
warrant taken out by a negro commonly
known as ‘‘Black,” on the charge of Ku-
Kluxing. They had caught a negro steal
ing com. He preferred a whipping to
prosecution,and they gave him his choice.
The negro who murdered Mr. Woodson,
of Chambers county, has been captured.
He shot at one one of his captors, Mr.
Stewart, and was in turn shot.
Mrs. Eliza Davis, for many years a resi
dent of Chambers county, died at a
“green old age,” at her home nearLaFay
ette, last week.
THE RUDDER OR THE ROCK.
All localities have their peculiar lan
guage and figures of speech. Orientals
speak through flowers and stars, and con
vey thoughts by sensible objects purified
and beautified by poetical imagination
and inspiration. The Hebrews were
richly gifted in this particular. Man with
them was a “worm:” the neck of the war
horse was “clothed with thunder;” the
Heavens the work of the “fingers of God,”
who was “mighty and strong in battle.”
Mountaineers are apt to use as figures
clear streams and snows bolted by North
ern blasts, the rustle of leaves in the soli
tudes of woods and rocks, and the scream
of the eagle as he beats his wings against
the tempest. Sailors speak of the “bowl
ings” of a storm, the “groans” of a ship as
she lifts herself from out the “trough” of
the sea and the “laughing and murrnur
ings” of waves.
The adage at the head of this article is
common among the fishermen who live
along the rock-bound coast of Cornwall,
England. They apply it to ships, but it
is equally as applicable to men.
Men, as well as ships, must be ruled by
the rudder or rock. Government of some
kind is a necessity, and presupposes the
evil thoughts and actions of man. If man
will not rule himself and be controlled in
his course and voyage of life by the rud
der of reason and religion so that he learns
and does to others as he would they should
do to him, then his only choice is between
a mob or a despot. It is better for his
morals, mind and energies that he obey
King Stork than to rot in silence under
the sceptre of King Log. Bad govern
ment is to be preferred to no government
—a tyrant to anarchy and uncertainty.
Crime seems epidemic, and the problem
to be solved is, what is the best plan to
arrest its progress ? Some of the North
ern journals—in view of the great num
ber of criminals, and their escape through
the bribery of jurors, the pardons of Gov
ernors, and the quiddities of law and law
yers—are in favor of Ku-Klnx organiza
tions and the abolition of trial by jury.
This remedy would be worse than the
disease. Many doubt the necessity of
capital punishment, and hence a struggle
exists between the law as it is written and
the higher law - in their own besoms. All
such speculations, when practiced, end in
min and anarchy. The law - , even if bad,
should be obeyed until repealed, and it
will be found best to amend than
destroy, and that no tribunal will be ever
so just, impartial and free from abuse
and wrong as the trial by jury with all of
its imperfections.
Prevention of crime (the Rudder) is
better than punishmeut (the Rock.) If
the rudders of families, schools, the pul
pit and press cannot save, the rock of
the penitentiary and gallows must finish
the wreck.
There is much of force in the observa
tion of Montaigne that we do not correct
the man whom we hang so much as we cor
rect others by him. Hereisa duty which so
ciety owes to itself, which can only be
discharged by public protection against
crime; and anything which tends to im
pair the solemnity of capital punishment,
or to render its execution precarious,
though it be undue commiseration for
the fate of the criminal, is mistaken leni
ency', which will react with ten-fold
cruelty upon the innocent. There is a
false mercy which is “still the nurse of
second woe;” and who shall say how
many of the murders with which the col
lumns of daily journals make us famil
iar are*prompted by the facility with which
notorions criminals escape the penalty
of their crimes ?
EUFAULA CORRESPONDENCE.
Chewalla House, Jan. 25, 1873.
Editors Sun : Owing to a defect in the
water tank at Fitzpatri Vs Station, on
the Montgomery and I.ni i.ila Road, the
Montgomery train lasi j.. ht failed to
connect at Union Spring , \\ ..h the Colum
bus train for Troy. It u -is after mid
night before the Enfaula tr.,.n left Union
Springs, and after three o’clock before it
reached this city, where it was due last
night at ten o’clock. Capt. Sayre, the
conductor, was quite active in his efforts
to get his train off at the earliest moment,
and Capt. C. L. Croft, of the Railroad
House at the Springs, did everything in
his power to promote the comfort of the
delayed and disappointed passengers,
who, while they could not blame any hu
man agency, were not at all pleased with
the disjointed state of things. A good,
warm supper made your correspondent
feel better, and enabled hi in to do without
his anticipated night’s sleep. His thanks
are due Capt. Croft, who, having reduced
the price of his meals to seventy-five
cents, ought to be liberally patronized by
travelers.
We see many signs of improvement
here, although empty stores are numer
ous. The Methodists have sold their
church edifice to the Israelites for religious
purposes, and propose to build a fine
house of worship opposite Clark & Hart’s
warehouse. The Homan Catholics are
also improving their church building, and
Eufaula will soon be a city of beautiful
churches. W. N. Reeves has also erected
and is now finishing off a fine two-story,
double storehouse; but the handsomest
new building is that occupied by the Daily
Times office, and built by Mr. R. J. Wood.
The iron work is from Mr. J. C. Porter’s
Columbus foundry, and is very creditable
to that establishment. The third story is
being finished off for a Masonic lodge
room, and when completed and furnished,
will surpass anything of the kind in the
South. It will cost five hundred dollars
to carpet it, which single item will give
some idea of its size. The Times occupy
nearly all of the second story, and we
envy them their elegant and commodious
quarters. Messrs. Malone, Butt and j
Shropshire, of the editorial corps, already
begin to put on city airs, although their
rooms are still in an unfinished state. The
little village of Columbus, up mud creek,
furnishes them matter for frequent edi
torial comments, in consequence of which
they treated us very politely.
Sidney Hekbekt.
The Cotton Tax Refunding Bill Defeated by
Sectional Vote.
The following we find in several papers
as a Washington dispatch of the 27th:
“ The House Committee of Ways aud '
Means discussed the bill for refunding
the cotton tax this morning, aud were
unanimous in opposition to all the bills j
now before them bearing upon that sub
ject. They will consider Beck’s bill here
after, however. This bill provides for re
funding two-thirds of the tax collected.
“In the House. Pierce moved to sus
pend the rules for the passage of a reso
lution insrtacting the Committee of Wavs
and Means to report the original bill for
the refunding of the cotton tax with as
little delay as possible, aud assigning to
morrow for its consideration; but the mo
tion was lost by a vote of 100 nays against j
76 yeas—a sectional vote —the Southern
representatives voting aye and the North
ern representatives voting nay. But
many Southern members who voted to j
suspend the rules would not have voted
for the bill, which seemed to have been
framed in the interest of certain lobbyists. I
They were willing, however, that the rule
should be suspended in order that the bill
might be brought before the House for
discussion and amendment. The action
of the Ways and Means Committee, taken
in connection with the action of the House
in refusing to suspend the rules, is re
garded as decisive of the fate of all bills
for refunding the cotton tax, for this ses
sion at least.
TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Jan. 27.—The Senate con
firmed the following nominations to-day:
Alfred V. Dockery, of North Carolina,
Consul at Oporto; James Snowball, Sur
veyor of Customs at Houston, Texas; J.
F. Fowler, Postmaster at Milledgeville,
Ga.: T. T. Terrill, Postmaster at Calvert,
Texas; H. R. Smith, Postmaster at Can
ton, Miss.; L. A. Johnson, Postmaster at
Griffin, Ga.; John F. Deisendorf, Ap
praiser of Merchandise at Norfolk, Ya.
The Senate rejected the nomination of
Joseph Nimino to be Supervising Inspec
tor General of Steamboats.
The bill reported from the House Com
mittee on Commerce by Representative
Lynch, and passed to-day, for establishing
life-saving stations, embraces the whole
coast line from the eastern extremity of
Maine to the capes of Virginia and North
Carolina, and authorizes a survey of the*
. whole sea and lake coast of the United
States, with a view to the extension of the
system to all the dangerous coasts of the
country.
House— Bills introduced by Beck to
refund certain cotton taxes by the Chap
man delegation, from the District of Co
lumbia; declaring Inauguration Day a le
gal holiday.
Butler, of Massachusetts, offered a reso
lution calling on the Secretaries of the
Treasury, of the Interior, of War and the
Navy and Postmaster General to furnish
copies of the questions propounded the
examiners to the candidates for appoint
ment and promotion to clerkships in
their respective departments. (Laughter
and approving remarks.) Adopted.'
Bill passed declaring that the meaning,
of the amendment to the bankrupt law
was to allow exemption provided for by
the State laws.
A resolution instructing the Committee
on Ways and Means to report a bill re
funding the cotton tax was lost; 7G to 105.
Bill granting the right of way over the
public lands to railroads in the territories,
except the military and Indian reserva
tions.
Bill abolishing the franking privileges,
as passed by the Senate, passed and goes
to the President, by a vote of 143 to 48.
The bill is a pure and simple repeal of
franking privilege.
Senate.—Bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to refund the differential
duties upon goods afloat on French bot
toms at the time of the proclamation,
passed.
Bill requiring national banks to restore
their capital when impaired, and to amend
the national currency act, passed.
Bill passed withholding the pay for
freights over roads the interest on whose
bonds has been paid by the Government,
until the Government is reimbursed.
Said companies may bring suit in the
Court of Claims for such freights, and
either party may appeal to the Supremo
Court. Both (join ts shall give precedence
to the causes.
Washington, Jan. 28.—The National
Theatre is burned, with some adjoining
buildings. The damage to the Imperial
Hotel amounts to $30,000. Millet &
Jones, billiard saloon, lose $3,000. The
usual adjuncts to a popular theatre were
either burned or flooded; the lossds heavy.
There is pinch sympathy manifested for
the manager aiuHessee, Mr. Saville, who,
also, loses heavily.
Washington, January 28. —B. Flanders
has been nominated for Treasurer of the
Mint and Assistant United States Treasu
rer at New Orleans.
In the Senate this afternoon, Colfax
asked for a committee to investigate the
charges which had been made against
him ; but after remarks by Senator Pratt
favoring such appointment, and Thurman
opposing it, the Senate refused to appoint
such a committee.
The House adopted a resolution direct
ing the Judiciary Committee to inquire
into the truth of the report that G. W.
Locke, United States Judge of Florida,
was holding the office of State Senator.
The Indian appropriation bill was con
sidered in the House.
The Attorney-General has directed the
United States District Attorney at Mobile
to discontinue suits against parties who
paid custom duties to the Confederate
authorities during the war.
Washington, Jan. 29.— The New Syn
dicate had meetings in New York and
London, and resolved to place the entire
three millions on the market. The hooks
remain open only a few days,
The Bank and Currency Committee of
the House ordered the sub-committee to
report a hill for the resumption of specie
payment May Ist, 1876, and free banking
July 1, 1874.
The Attorney-General recommends a
penitentiary for this District.
House. —The bill admitting Colorado
was tabled by a vote of 117 to 02.
The Election Committee’s report of the
Florida case, unseating Walls and seating
Niblock, was adopted.
Jas. B. Stewart refuses to testify re
garding the Union Pacific Railroad. His
arrest is ordered.
Senate.—The French spoliation bill,
which was the special order, gave way to
an appropriation, with an understanding
to be considered immediately after the
appropriation.
Sprague moved to reconsider the vote
by which the amendment was passed, for
bidding the payment of any judgment of
the Court of Claims, unless it appears
that the claimant never rendered aid or
comfort to Rebellion.
Morrill, of Vermont, moved to lay the
motion to reconsider on table. Lost—
-26 yeas to 28 nays.
FOREIGN.
London, Jan. 27. —The latest reports
with reference to the Anglo-linssian
troubles in Central Asia is to the effect
that Russia has made a proposal estab
lishing a neutral zone, and guaranteeing
the independence and neutrality of Af
ghanistan Russia.
Grand Duke Nicholas is about to pro
ceed to Juricheded in order to participate
in a whaling expedition.
London, Jan. 28.—Adam Sedgwick, ge
ologist, is dead—aged So.
Paris, Jan. 28.—Thiers signed the
treaty of commerce between England and
France.
Madrid, Jan. 28.—The report of the
Committee on reforms and the abolition
of slavery in Porto Rico, was read in the
lower House of the Cortes.
London, Jan. 2!t. —It is reported this
morning that the differences between
Great Britain and Russia and Khiva, have
been adjusted.
Prince Napoleon disavows the recent
newspaper statement regarding his views
and the future policy of the Bonapartist
family.
The English Government declines to
entertain the proposal for the repeal of
the malt tax.
The rumor of the marriage of the
British Prince to the Russian Grand
Duchess, is unfounded.
NEW YORK.
New York, Jan. 28. Judge Bernard
telegraphs that he can’t be here Friday,
but will Saturday, to hear a motion for a
writ on the Stokes ease.
It stated that several important docu
ments relative to criminal matters, in
cluding some bearing upon the Tweed
NO: 52.
case, are missing from the District Attor
ney’s office. A clerk emjfloyed by Tate,
the District Attorney, has suddenly left
the city, and it is believed he has either
taken the documents with him or de
stroyed them.
Frotn February Ist, 1873, all rates be
tween the offices of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for ten words that
are now more than $2 50, will be reduced
to that amount
Nf.w York, Jan. 29. Gen. Thomas
Eckert, Superintendent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and G. B.
Prescott, Electrician, are to visit Europe
during the coming month, in behalf of
the Company, to investigate the workings
of foreign telegraphic systems, especially
the appliance of pneumatic tubes, with a
view to their introduction in this coun
try.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, Jau. 28. —Half of the busi--
ness portion of Kingston, in Williamsburg
District, was burntto-day. Loss $50,000.
Charleston, Jan. 29.—Gen. Q. A.
Gilmore, . who conducted the last
bombardment of Charleston during
the war, is now Superintendent of ope
rations for the improvement of the harbor
entrances of Charleston. He expresses
great confidence that the speedy result of
the work now in progress upon the
beach channel, will give a depth of fifteen
feet on the bar at low water, which will
add greatly to the advantages of Charles
ton as a seaport.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, January 29.— ‘Captain
Jack attacked Barn’s camp and was re
pulsed. One Indian killed, two wounded
and an Indian’s horse captured. The wo
men and children in the vicinity of Capt.
Jack’s camp have been placed on boats
for safety. Men are building block
houses.
ILLINOIS.
• Chicago, January 28.—The stockhold
ers of the Great Western Telegraph Com
pany met here to-day, and receiving no
report from the secretary or treasurer,
adopted a resolution that the latter make
a detailed statement of the financial con
dition of the company. President Gage
said the treasury was empty.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, Jan. 28.—Judge Busteed
to-day appointed W. L. Lanier Receiver
of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad,
on a bill filed by Amee and others to have
the assets administered according to the
priority of claims.
MICHIGAN.
Detroit, Jan. 27.—A fire at Lapier de
stroyed the telegraph office, express office
and contents, and an adjoining Iqiilding.
Loss $200,000.
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence, Jan. 27.—R. D. Crauston,
formerly a member of Congress, is dead,
aged eighty-two.
For the Columbus Sun.
President Grant’s Recent Executive Order,
and “The Genius of the Government”
Referring to the recent Executive order
by the President, the Montgomery Adver
tiser, of the 25th, asks if it “would have
been more in uuison with the genius of
the Government for the President to have
brought this subject in a message to the
attention of Congress, with such recom
mendations as he might have been pleased
to offer?”
The pnly part of the Constitution bear
ing upon this question, Bays that the Pres
ident “shall, from time to time, give to
the Congress information of the state of
the Union, and recommend to their con
sideration such measures as he shall judge
necessary and expedient, and he shall take
care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The Advertiser says, “So far as wo can
now remember, this is the first order of
the kind ever published by the Chief Ex
ecutive of the United States.” It is, so
far as the writer, too, can now remember.
But, so lom, ago as the year 1812, the “na
ture amt efficacy of the King’s proclama
tions” were fully discussed in the Parlia
ment of England, and decided upon by
Chief Justice Coke and other learned
Judges of the realm, and, for the benefit
of those who are interested in constitu
tional questions, I give you the following
extract from the biography of Sir Edward
Coke, in Roscoe’s “British Lawyers.”
“In the year 1612, another most impor
tant constitutional question, respecting
the nature and efficacy of the King’s
proclamations, was submitted to the con
sideration of Sir Edward Coke. From the
first commencement of his reign, James
had been in the habit of issuing numbers
of these edicts, in which |he frequently
usurped the province of Parliament, and
denounced penalties upon the commission
of acts to which no punishment was
affixed by the law. For some time the
issuing of these edicts does not appear to
have excited much jealousy. At length,
the frequency of these extraordinary
attempts to supersede the usual functions
of the legislature roused the attention of
the Commons, and a petition of grievan
ces was presented to the King, in which
the number and nature of the proclama
tions which his Majesty had promulgated
occupied a conspicuous place.”
Here follows an extract from the peti
tion which, says Mr. Roscoe, was pre
sented by Sir Francis Bacon to the King,
who, thinking “it necessary to take some
steps to establish the legality of his edicts,
determined that the Judges should be
consulted, doubtless under the expecta
tion that an opinion favorable to the
royal wishes might be procured from that
venerable body.”
******
The resolution of the judges (at the
head of whom was Chief Justice Coke)
was delivered in the following words :
It was resolved that the king, by his
proclamation, cannot create any off ence
which was not an offence before, for then
he may alter the law of the land by his
proclamation in ahigh point; for if he may
create an offence where none is, upon that
ensues fines aud imprisonment. Also the
law of l England is divided into three
parts: common law, statute law, and cus
tom ; but the king’s proclamation is none
of them. Also, malum aut eat malum in
se, aut prohibitum, that which is against
common law is malum in *e ; malum pro
hibitum in such an offence as is prohibit
ed by act of Parliament. Also, it was re
solved that the king hath no prerogative
but that which the law of the land allows
him. But the king, for prevention of
offences, may admonish his subjects by
proclamation that they keep the laws, and
do not offend them, upon punishment to
be iufiictedby the law, &c. Lastly, if the
offence be not punishable in the Star
chamber, the prohibition of it by procla
mation cannot make it punishable there.
“Nothing,” says Roseve, “more decisive
than these resolutions could have been de
vised by the warmest advocates of consti
tutional liberty.” o.
Allen H. Watson, Jr., has been nomi
nated for Sheriff of Meriwether county,
to till the vacancy caused by the death of
Sheriff McKee. R. M. McCaslin and B.<
M. Leverett are the nominees for County
Commissioners.
In the Post Ofece.—Mr. George Hun
gerford has been appointed clerk in the
postoffice, vice Mr. A. T. Calhoun, who
has left the city.
Sheriff H. G. Ivey gives notice that his
official advertisements will hereafter be
published in this paper.
See notice of B. F. Matthews regarding
strayed or stolen mules.
Tm RSDAY MOHMVo, JAN. 30.
An Idea Worthy of Adoption.— Plqpty
of shade trees would wonderfully increase
the beanty of our streets. They can be
secured with such little trouble that it is
a matter of surprise that they are not
found in abundance in all the thorough
fares of Southern cities. We have lately
read of a German custom which would be*
very pleasant, and is worthy of adoption
by Our people.
In som of that empire, on a
stated day*ln the spring of each year, all
the yoting folks, male and female, go to
the forests, and each one selects a tree,
according to his or her taste, which is
dug up and transplanted along the streets
of the town or village, as the case may be;
or when tlyare is no room inside the in
corporation they are planted along the
roads that lead into town. They go in
couples, and each couple is expected to
transplant the trees and take care of them
during the summer. This labor occupies
only two or three hours of the day,''and,
when it is done, they all go to some place
that has been previously selected and pre
pared and have a grand dance, or amuse
themselves otherwise, as they see proper.
The day is a holiday with them—as much
so as Easter or Christmas—and while the
young people all enjoy it greatly, at the
same time it accomplishes a most import
ant end—that of having all their towns
and villages most beautifully shaded
without any expense to any one.
Cotton at Columbus. —To ’Monday
night Columbus had received hales
—13,117 more than the corresponding
period last year, and - " 5,922 more than the
whole of last season. This ratio contin
ued will give us a little over 56,000 bales
for the cotton year of 1873-The re
ceipts of interior towns to Friday made
up and published by us in yesterday’s pa
per shows that Columbus has relatively
increased her receipts more than any oth
er city except Augusta. Memphis is about
15,000 bales behind last year, and Nash
ville is several thousand bales jn arrears.
So the Tennessee crop will not be so heavy
as reported.
The highest price for middlings last
January in the Columbus market was2lo.
and that was paid during the lost weqjc.
In February -He. were paid. That Re
curred during the first part of the month,
after which there was a slight decline.
The highest price reportod for mid
dlings the present month was 19 Jc. About
the future of quotations there are many
and conflicting opinions. They will de
pend upon the extent of the American
crop. ..
Fairs—Premiums for Agricultural
Products. —At the State Pair to be held
in Macon this Fall, SI,OOO will be paid to
tlio county making the finest display of
agricultural productions.' Cannot Musco
gee contend for tt ? By proper exertions
on the part of our farmers, Muscogee oan
become the banner county of the State.
Why cannot we show as choice wheat,
corn, oats and similar productions as any
county in the State? Our farmers have
also fine horses, mules and cattle. By oo- *
operation, the premium and a splendid
reputation may be secured by Muscogee.
The Columbus Industrial Association
should have a* meeting and endeavor to se
cure the influence of every farmer.
The idea has already been suggested
that at our own Fair a large premium
should be offered to that planter who
makes the best display of agricultural
products, instead of dividing the total
amount into 4b many small prizes for
single specimens. In this way competi
tion can be secured, and a more abundant
display. Men must have some pecuniary
object for which to labor. It is fuU time
such matters were receiving attention.
Justices of the Peace in Muscogee—
We give below those appointed by- GOv.
Smith (who are marked by star),as well as
those elected by the people: .
6GBth—Lower Town District—M. Mo-
Cahey and J. M. McNeil.*
773d—Upper Town District.—T. J.
Chappell and T. J. Shivers. *
772d District.—C. Ogletree and T. C.
Rees.*
774th District—None; no election.
921st District.—J. W. Massey; another
to elect.
1,128 th District.—L. K. Willis and G.
H. Bryan.
C7sth District.-—-J. A. L. Lee; another
to elect.
Through the neglect of the people, no
justices were elected in the 774th Dis
trict and only one in the 921st and G7sth.
Elections will be hold to fill the vacancies.
All elected have received commissions,
or they are at the Ordinary’s office for
them.
Negro Emigrant Agents. —One of these
agents made his appearance in Fort Valley
on Monday last, but the people tried to
frighten him away. He told them he
came there for negroes, and not to fight,
but if any of them wanted to try him
single-handed he was ready for them.
They concluded to let him alone. This
agent, like all others, is quite successful
in his efforts to secure negro emigrants
for Arkansas. He reports having ob
tained sixty-one from a single plantation,
all there were on it, as owner had
failed to make contracts for the present
year.
Severe Sickness.— We learn that there
has been an unusual amount of very se
vere sickness in and about Clayton, Ala.,
and that several of the physicians of the
place have been prostrated for a time by
exposure and overwork. Dr. M. Warren
was in a critical condition for several days,
but is now much better. No cases have
yet proved fatal, although several persons
are still quite low. Clayton is regarded as
one of the healthiest places in that sec
tion of the country.
Labge Distillery Busned.—Colonel
W. A. Barden, of Columbus, who has
been the agent of the house for eight
months, received a dispatch Tuesday that
the large distillery of McCrea, Maury <fc
Cos., in Nashville, had been burned that
morning.
On the Wbong Tback.—“The North
and South railroad was loudly praised by
the Columbus papers at the outset, but
they now complain that it is impossible
for merchants to get goods from St.
Louis and other points within a month
from the date of shipment. ”
The above is quoted from the Savan
nah Advertiser and must create a smile.
The North and South Georgia road which
we have praised so much is - only twenty
miles long. The South and North road of
which we complained extends from Mont
gomery to Decatur, Ala., and is controlled
by the Louisville and Nashville road.
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Mabkif.d.—Mr. G. J. Peacock, of the
firm of Peacock &, Swift, one of our lead
ing firms, was married Tuesday afternoon
to Miss Josephine Banks. The ceremony
occurred at the residence of the bride’s
mother in Wynnton, and was very pri
vate. Rev. Dr. Key, of St. Luke’s church,
officiated. We wish every happiness to
the wedded pair.
Commencing Farming Opebations.
Planters have started a limited nnrnber
of plows, which they are enabled to run a
few days in the week. The cold and rain
have prevented much work which would
otherwise have been effected.
Assistant Clerk. —We are informed
that Mr. John Schnell has been appointed
Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court by
Major J. J. Bradford, the Clerk. He is a
competent man.
Supreme Court Judge. Gentlemen
from Atlanta are confident that Hon. Rob
ert Trippe will be appointed Supreme
Court Judge in the place lately filled by
Judge Montgomery.
Columbus Bonds. —We are glad to learn
ihey have materially increased in value.