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iii PMisnw MOBinuß, n it.
Death of Mrs. Dibble.—This estima
ble lady and many years resident of Co
lumbus, died yesterday morningm Atlanta,
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lou
fiarnard. Her ago must have been be-
V oud sixty years. Mr. Oscar Dibble, a
popular gentleman of Columbus and con
jui to: on the Western Railroad, is a son
us her’s. Besides these named several
children and grand children survive the
aged Christian.
The deceased was widely known in this
city, and admired and loved for the many
excellent qualities of a true woman. The
remains "ill tie carried to the family buri
al ground in Savannah for interment.
The Negro Exodus. — We were in Macon
Ike other night. In the depot were about
a hundred negroes who were waiting for
car, to take them on their way to Arkan
sai. About one hundred more had been
forwarded that day. Tho crowd was pretty
well proportioned into men, women and
children, Several gentlemen told us that
ten thousand negroes had or would be
moved from Southwestern Georgia to
Arkansas. The agents, it. is said, promise
$lO per month, clothing, rations of flour,
meat and syrup—all of which it is im
possible to fulfill. Nevertheless, the bait
takes.
Columbus Industrial Association.
He desire to call special attention to the
suggestions of our traveling correspondent
in regard to t Dir organization, which may
be found in his letter from Macon, pub
lished on the fourth page of this issue of
the Sun. No one has had better oppor
tunities during the past year, than he, to
judge of the wants of this Association
for the coming season. He lias visited
numerous fairs, and has given very care
ful attention to the character of the men
controlling them, and the good and bad
features of their management. We do
not think he places too high an estimate
upon the character and fidelity of the
present officials of the Columbus Indus
trial Association, and we therefore trust
that his protest against a change in the
directory will met' a hearty response from
this entire community.
Real Estate and Factory Stock at
Auction. —At Ellis & Harrison’s auction
sale yesterday, the following prices were
realized :
The Fontaine mansion, sold for divi
sion, was knocked down to T. S. Fontaine
for SIO,OOO.
Part of lot -103, sold by Airs. Mershon,
administratrix, brought SS)O0 —A. V. Boat
rite being bidder.
Fifty shares of Eagle and Phenix Man
ufacturing Stock—sloo shares —were
knocked down to Wm. A. Ransom at slOl
per share.
The property advertised to be sold at
Sheriff’s sale was withdrawn.
Small-Pox. —This loathsome disease
now exists in Macon, Barnesville, Atlanta,
and otiier points on Hie Macon and West
ern railroad. There need be no alarm
here. We have been freed for a long time
from any contagious disease. Since vac
cination has come into general use the
small-pox death-rate has been reduced
from sixty-six in the hundred to six. In
the Prussian service vaccination is per
formed once in twelve or fifteen years.
If a child is vaccinated before arriving at
the age of fourteen or fifteen, it is doubt
less best to have them revaccinated.
The New' York Tribune of the 13th
says: “The House was manly and gener
ous, yesterday, in restoring to their place
on the pension rolls the Southern smvi
vors of the war of ISI2. That they should
have been stricken off that brief roll in a
moment of patriotic passion, was natural
enough, even though it may not have
been certain that they voluntarily sympa
tized w ith the Rebellion ; but is too late
now to discuss what peculiar views these
aged veterans of another war held in 1862.
Nobody will taunt Messrs. Butler, Bing
ham, and Willard with having courage
to say now for Southern men good words
"kich they have not dared to say during
tho late campaign. We are heartily glad
that these gentlemen can honestly declare
there is no longer any use iu polishing up
the memories of the Rebellion in order to
keep them bright.”
Death of Maury.— Commodore Mathew
Fontaine Maury, the American Hydro
grapher and naval officer, died at Lexing
l°n, Va., at one o’clock Saturday. He was
author of letters on the Amazon and At
lantic slopes of South America; the rela
tion between magnetism and the circula
tion of the atmosphere; Astronomical ob
servations; Physical Geography of the
t'ea, etc. During the late war he was an
officer in the Confederate navy, and at
the time ol his death was Professor of
l’hysieal Geography at the Virginia Mili
tary Institute. His age was (17.
Ihe indomitable and irrepressible Bar
ham is busy collecting anew supply of
"iid animals for bis next museum. A re
cent steamer brought a double-horned
black rhinoceros from Abyssinia. He has
also received four large African lions, six
nengal tigers, a pair of leopards, besides
white, bears, sea lions, yaks, elands, gnus.
Zebras, ostriches and monkeys. Among
the rare animals is a large-eared dwarf el
ephant, which weighs only one hundred
and forty pounds. The collection w ill not
be complete until next summer.
An English company, with a capital of
Al| oo,ooo, have started anew hue of
steamers between Glasgow, New York,
Liverpool and New' Orleans. They will
uin three iron steamers —the Pennsylva
u*a, Georgia and Virginia, 2,400 tons
each—between Glasgow' and New York;
and three others—-the Louisiana and Min
nesuia. I.iKK) tons each, and the Alabama,
-.too tons- between Liverpool aud New
Gdeaus.
Debi- of Florida.— The bonded and
tloating debt of Florida, according to the
•' V th* Comptroller-General is $5,-
■ A- mere are but twenty-five
lu, '“ ~i Florida, each voter, ac
''in'b... ihis snowing, is “in for” $234
on a general average. The county and
municipal debts will probably run the av
erage up to S4OO.
James Parton, a noted Radical, in a
letter to the New York Tribune condenses
the following indictment against the Rad
ical party:
‘‘lgnorant suffrage at the South is bru
tal tyranny. Go to the root of the matter
the South is our Ireland, and we are tak
‘•)g a hellish vengeance upon it."
Colonel R. A. Alston, of Atlanta, rented
out some waste land with the understand
ing that the net proceeds should be con
tributed to the Orphans' Home. It yielded
$42 20.
A. M. Brannon, druggist, has sold his
stock of garden seeds to Holstead & Cos.
VOL.' XV.
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUES.
We are always glad when an opportuni
ty offers to give even the devil his dues
If we are unable to whip him in a fair
straight-out fight, then let us go under
We never believed in policy as distin
guished from truth and principle ; for if
it comes to that sort of juggling, cunning
1S trum P cal 'd with the devil, and he
w h win every time at that game. It is
Us stocked cards and loaded dice. See
how the old juggling fiend played with
Eve, and learn how he kept the word of
promise to her ear, but broke it to her
hope.
It is seldom the Radicals give a chance
to be praised by the country. The politi
cians are so notoriously bad that even
when they do a good deed, and it is no
ticed, we fear nobody will credit the
news. We will risk the danger, and, like
'ml Hickory,” take the responsibility,
and say at last one good act has been
linked with their thousand crimes.
A bill abolishing the franking privilege
has just been passed by Congress and re
ceived the signature of the President.
The people, postmasters and clerks should
rejoice with exceeding joy. As the act is
brief and important, we will give its main
features. It provides that from and after
the Ist of July next “all official corres
pondence, of whatsoever nature, and all
'•the,- mailable matter (public documents,
<Vc . sent off by members of Congress’
• re.,), shall be chargeable with the same
rates of postage as may be lawfully im
posed upon like matter sent by or ad
dressed to other persons.” In other
words, the correspondence of members of
the Cabinet and of Congress, and other
1 ederal officials, and the public documents
of all descriptions, and garden seeds and
books, photographs, handkerchiefs, gloves,
old clo, Ac., Ac., now sent free under
Congressional or department or bureau
franks from Washington to all parts of the
country shall, from and after the Ist of
•luly next, pay tho usual rates of postage
for such letters, “pub. does.,” or other
mail matter, without distinction of official
position, race, place, or previous condi
tion of servitude.
The New York Herald says: To Post
master General Creswell, we believe, more
than to any other man, belongs the honor
of this important measure of reform.
From the beginning of Gen. Grant’s ad
ministration—of course with the hearty
support of the President—he has fought
for the measure with a persistency and
earnestness which would admit of “no
such word as fail,” though from year to
year baffled, disappointed. But his per
severance and his arguments have at last
carried the day, and very unexpectedly.
Anxious, however, to divert the attention
of the country from the Credit Mobilier
scandal, the Senate not only took it up in
earnest, but added desirable amendments
and sent it back to the House. Thus the
representatives of the people were forced
to act on the measure. But let us, still
remembering in such cases the good ex
ample of Sancho Panza, “bid God bless
the giver, nor look the gift horse in the
mouth. ”
The Postmaster General from time to
time, has shown that the actual loss to
his Department from franked letters and
documents has ranged from two to three
millions of dollars a year. For the Presi
dential canvass of 1872, if all the franked
letters and campaign documents sent out
from \Vashington and otheijpoints on both
sides had paid the usual postage charges
it is probable that there would have been
a saving of at least four millions of dol
lars to the Department. From May and
'June to the Greeley and Brown explosion
j of October the mails from Washington
for the East, the West, the North aud
South were encumbered with tons of elec
tioneering rubbish. Special Congres
sional committees were kept industri
ously employed for months in pre
paring pamphlets and speeches ex
hibiting the virtues of the Ad
ministration and the vices of the oppo
sition elements, and, on the other hand,
the corruption of the party in power and
the millennium which would beinaugurated
with the cleansing of the Augean stables
under Greeley and Brow'n. And scores of
folders were employed in the packing up
of all this political chaff, and dozens of
clerks in addressing and franking it under
this or that or the other Congressman’s
permission or instructions; and all this
mass of perilous and scurrilous stuff from
i day to day, beginning with the party con
ventions of May and June and culminat
ing in the opposition collapse of October,
was packed off “free" through the mails.
And this was the real secret of the smoth
ering of the abolition bill in the House at
the last session. All parties concerned
desired at-least once more the full advan
tages of the franking privilege in the
rough, hot work of a Presidential contest.
We presume that all parties are now' satis
fied that the game was hardly worth the
candle.
On the final test, upon the passage of
this sweeping bill of reform, only forty
eight members were found in the nega
tive. These forty-eight Solons, no doubt,
conscientiously believe that in their privi
lege of franking letters, newspapers,
pamphlets, books, garden seeds, and other
notions to their constituents, the advan
tages accruing to the people and their rep
resentatives ought not to be measured by
the paltry deficiency of four or five mil
lions as between the receipts aud the ex
penses of the Post Office Department.
But these unfortunate men will learn wis
dom from experience.
The live, ten or twenty thousand extra
copies so frequently ordered to be printed
of the President’s .Message and accompa
nying documents of the Patent Office Re
port, reports of survey for railroads, and
all soi ls of reports, will now be suspend
ed, and those extras can no longer be
sent free through the mails. Our public
documents for general circulation, at all
events, will be cut down to the really use
ful matter w hich they contain, aud the
masses of rubbish with which they have
for many years been tilled, appearing for
no other purpose than the enriching of
contractors for ink, paper, aud other ma
terial, will be excluded. How many hun
dreds of tons of “pub. doc.” sent free
through the mails could now be gathered
from the farm houses of the Union, with
their leaves uncut, and how many hun
dreds of tons have g-me to the grocers we
can hardly conjecture ; but we are sure
that our sturdy yeomanry w ill lose nothing
of any consequence from a great retrench
ment in such intellectual supplies.
This abolition of the franking privilege,
then, is a great practical measure of re
form actually achieved, and when least ex
pected by the country. But still, with
all these magnificent projects pending, in
the shape of Trans-Alleghany horse-boat
canals and seaboard and Niagara ship ca
nals, and steamship subsidies and grand
monopolizing public land and immigra
tion companies, and railway jobs and In
i dian land territorial schemes, we fear that
we shall henceforth only secure from Con
gress that sort of retrenchment and re
form which saves at the spigot while wast
ing from the bunghole. However, as Aiis
abolition of the f ranking privilege is a posi
tive gain to the Treasury in some millions
j of money so far wasted in the transporta
i tion of franks, there is still ground for the
1 hope that the government will not be sac
rificed even to the tempting dividends, in
; any shape or form, of the Credit Mobilier.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
GEORGIA NEWS.
J. \V. Wade, of Hawkinsville. died of
apoplexy last week.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch learns that
John W. Wilcox, of Jacksonville, Telfair
county, during mental aberration, killed a
freedman named Eph Wilcox, a few nights
ago, by striking him with a hand-spike,
while camped on the river between that
city and Darien. They were engaged in
rafting timber, and had tied np for the
night. It was an unfortunate occurrence,
and is much regretted. The negro had
given no provocation whatever, and no
reason could be assigned for the action of
M ilcox. only that he was laboring under
some mental derangement.
The Cartersville Standard says the resi
dence of Mr. W. J. Williford, in that
place, was burned last week—Mr. W. and
his family barely escaping with their
lives. One of Mr. W.’s daughters was
sleeping in the second story, and was res
cued by her father, who carried her down
the stairway, which was burning at the
time The family did not even save their
clothing.
Houston county indulged to the extent
of six marriages last week.
The Arkansas emigrant hunters are
having lively times in Perry. One got
whipped and another bailed in S2OO for
enticing away servants.
There were 107 interments in the city
cemetery, at Augusta, during the month
of January against 52 in December. The
Constitutionalist says 30 pauper coffins
were furnished by the city during Janua
ry.
Uncle Sammy Smith, well known in
that section of Georgia as a Methodist re
vivalist, died in Cherokee county, a few
days ago.
Col. W. E. Adams, an old citizen of
Putnam county, died last week, aged 88
years.
The Americus Republican has been in
formed that a few days ago a discussion
on the subject of religion took be
tween two wife-murderers, Spann, a white
man, and Levy Smith, colored, who are
confined in jail in Preston. The discus
sion waxed warm for awhile, when Spann
not liking the views uttered by Smith,
became enraged, and seizing hold of him
gave him a severe beating, inflicting a
number of dangerous wounds on his per
son. It is thought that Smith will die
from the of the beating.
Meningitis is making sad havoc in
Washington county, several students from
Mercer University having died since their
arrival from Macon.
A drunken negro in Washington county
tumbled into bed. setting the mattress on
tire. Both man and matress were con
sumed.
A New York State man is about to
start a cheese factory in Whitfield coun
ty-
On Friday, Lucius Paine, a resident of
Marietta, was thrown from a runaway
horse and killed.
Dr. W. B. Prather aud Miss Mattie S.
McGinty is the latest marriage in Stewart
county.
Mr. John B. Rowland, of Savannah,
aged 76 years, is dead.
The new City Council of Savannah,
though only a week in office, have taken
measures to reduce the city expenses five
thousand dollars a month. It has also
decided to sell all the mules and carts be
longing to the corporation, and let out
all work on the streets and lanes by con
tract.
The State University at Athens has
opened with about 250 students.
The Houston Journal says rumor has it
that J eff Long of Macon, George Ormund
of that place, and other leading negroes,
have been persuading the negroes to go to
Arkansas, receiving therefor $5 per head
for all they induce to emigrate. These
rumors are beginning to assume definite
shape, and ere long the guilty parties will
have a storm of indignation burst upon
their heads that they will find it hard to
withstand.
Mr. Robert Perryman, of Thomaston, is
dead. Consumption.
A case of smali-pox has been brought to
Upsou by the cook of Judge John I. Hall,
who had visited Macon.
The Richmond County Board of Educa
tion have fixed the salary of the County
School Commissioner at SI,BOO per an
num.
Messrs. Samuel Smith, Dank Walden,
and James Shed, died in Lumpkin coun
ty last week—all over eighty years of age.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, writing under date of Fri
day last, says the Southarn Claims Com
mission had before them the day before
the witness in behalf of Dr. Webster SI.
Raines, of Washington, D. C., formerly of
Macon, Ga., for $30,000 worth of supplies
furnished to Union prisoners escaping
from Andersonville or confined at Macon,
including one charge of SIO,OOO for sup
plies to three brigadier generals, thirty
five colonels, and nine majors. That
claim needs a good deal of investigation.
About 175 more negroes left on the
Macon and Western train Monday, bound
for the happy land of Arkansas.
Wesleyan Female College has been sus
pended for two weeks, owing, as the Tel
egraph says, to the unfounded sensational
reports, growing out of the prevalence of
meningitis, and the few cases of small
pox that have occurred in the city. None
of the young ladies are sick.
The Macon Telegraph says there are
now no cases of meningitis in the city,
and there is little fear of any excessive
ravages by small pox.
Wm. H. Bennett, who will be remem
bered as having been implicated in the
passage of the forged check upon the
Central Georgia Bank in Macon, has been
sentenced to live years in the penitentiary.
Col. A. R. Lamar thus writes to the Sa
vannah Advertiser:
The State Road plunderers have been
compelled to disgorge. Varney Gaskill
emptied his pocket-book of $9,000 and
took a cpiit claim title from the penitentia
ry a few days since. Hoyt is out on bond.
Fatty Harris still lords the muddy streets
of Atlanta, and Whittaker has become au
object of charity and commiseration. The
weather continues as bad as possible.
Trains come in on every road sheeted
with ice. The Atlante.se indignantly deny
any imputation upon the health of their
village, but we have the most undoubted
authority for the statement that menin
gitis does prevail here. There was a case
here last night, and there were several
deaths from this disease at the University
d' Afrique last week.
Both Houses of Congress have passed
a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO to public
buildings in Atlanta.
A petition is being circulated in Atlanta
asking the Governor to pardon Dr. Harri
son Westmoreland, sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary. Plea, insanity.
The Singer Manufacturing Company
have given A. T. Finney, of Atlanta, an
order for $6,000 worth of wagons, for the
company.
Five hundred and eighteen bills have
been introduced into the House of Rep
sentatives.
Colonel Sneed's bond proposition is cre
ating a lively discussion. The Macon
Telegraph, Savannah Republican, and
Savannah Advertiser advocate the propo
sition. The Augusta Chronicle and Sa
vannah News have taken ground against
it.
Dr. Lou Oruie, of Atlanta, died Mon
day.
Fulton county Superior Court adjourned
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY” 11, 1873.
to April term. Judge Hopkins and So
licitor Glenn left Monday night for Cuba.
Colonel Lamar, of the Advertiser, has
this to say of an individual once notori
ous in Georgia:
Some time since there was a man here
who was the cynosure of all eyes. When
ever he entered the dining saloon of the
Kimball the head waiter made a low- sa
lam, and all the subordinates rushed at
him with chicken livers and other little
| tit-bits and delicacies. He owned a na
tional bank, and kept within his vaults
the millions that Hannibal Ishmael Kim
ball slashed about with such reckless
abandon. He bought newspapers and
politicians and even lobbied the Senate of
the United States in behalf of those beau
tiful bummers—Foster Blodgett and Pot
ash Farrow. That was John H. Rice. In
an evil hour the heavy hand of the State
fell upon his shaving-shop. He now steps
into the dining-room after the fashion of
Uriah Heap, takes a seat in a modest
corner, and eats whatever a liveried voter
may please to take to him ; while the but
ler looks at hifh with the same suspicious
glance that he gives to the keeper of a
chuck-a-luck bank which had suffered a
heavy run of bad luck on the night pre
vious.
The Atlanta Herald has this:
Georgia on the Annexation Schedule.
—A project is now on foot to annex a
part of South Carolina to Georgia. The
people directly interested in the scheme
are willing to it, and it is understood that
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, also favors
it. The two counties in question are
Democratic, and he will doubtless bo wal
ling to get rid of their influence. A com
mission w-ill be appointed by Gov. Moses,
who will ask for a similar commission
from Gov. Smith. These two commis
sions will sketch out some basis of annex
ation. The territory proposed to be an
nexed embraces Oconee and Pickens
counties, commencing at Andersonville
and running to the Seneca river thence to
the North Carolina line, South Carolina
reserving the right to fish, etc., in said
Tugalo and Seneca rivers. This territory
was originally what was known as old
Pickens District. Two very thriving
towns, Walhalla and Pendleton, will be
thrown in Georgia under the cession of
this territory. One of these counties—
Pickens, we believe—paid $28,000 State
tax last year, and will consequently be
quite a rich plum to put in the Georgia
pudding. We are in for annexing any
thing—except Chattanooga.
Monday morning Mrs. Montgomery,
wife of Judge W. W. Montgomery, of the
Supreme Court, boarding at the Kimball
House, in Atlanta, met with a serious ac
cident. Mrs. Montgomery went to the
entrance of the elevator, on the first floor,
intending to go up to her room, and find
ing the door open presumed that the ele
vator was there. Unfortunately, such w r as
not the case, and stepping through she
fell some ten or fifteen feet into the base
ment on some iron railing, breaking her
collar-bone, one rib, one of her W'rists and
one finger.
It is suggested that the City Council of
Atlanta exchange the City Hall square
with the State for the Capitol building,
with a view to the erection of a perrua
ment State House on the square.
The Atlanta Paper Mills will hereafter
be managed by James Ormond, and the
Sugar Creek Paper Mills by William Mc-
Naught & Cos.
Mr. John Anderson died in Fort Valley
Sunday.
The Griffin News is set up by female
compositors.
The burnt block in Forsyth is to be re
built. A large hotel is to be erected.
In Montgomery county, Mr. W. H.
Head made forty-three bale3 of cotton,
and a fair average of the other crops, on
an old place last year, employing only four
mules. Guanoed liberally.
The attack of the young ladies in
Wesleyan Female College proves a mild
case of “distinct,” and not “influent”
small pox.
A negro woman, engaged as a nurse at
the Macon small-pox hospital, created a
sensation, by declaring on the streets that
she was going out there and put her
small-pox elothes on and come back and
give the disease to everybody. So says
the Enterprise.
Mrs. B. B. Lews, of Macon, daughter of
Mrs. Dr. Robert Collins, died Sunday.
Rev. J. R. Danforth died in Macon
Tuesday, of consumption. He was a
pious, intelligent gentleman.
Washington Poe, Esq., says that though
he has bought a plantation near Colum
bus, he intends remaining in Macon.
The proprietors of the the theatres and
lesses in Wilmington, Raleigh, Charles
ton, Augusta, Atlanta, Macon, and Savan
nah, composing the Southern Circuit, met
in Charleston Tuesday to adopt some con
centrated plan of action in regard to the
next season—establishing an uniformity
of prices for a single night or week en
gagement.
The stock-holders of the Marine Bank
have decided that the assets be realized
and the affairs of the Bank be wound up
by the President and Directors, or such
committee of themselves as they may ap
' point, as speedily as a sound discretion
aud judgement will warrant, and divi
dends from time to time be paid by the
stockholders out of such assets realized,
by said Directors or Committee, until th
whole is wound up.
Savannah had a fire Monday night,
which injured a boarding house of Mr. G.
W. J. Renna $2500. Insured.
Judge Robert A. Allen, a well-known
and highly esteemed citizen of Richmond
county, died last Sunday afternoon, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age. He was a
Judge of the Inferior Court, and for many
years represented his county in the Leg
islature.
The State owes the Public School teach
ers of Stewart county, for 1871, over $3,-
000. The late installment, sl,llß, will
pay 35 per cent, of the accounts. Os the
$50,000 soon to be distributed, Stewart
will receive SSOO or SOOO.
Capt. B. F. Borge, sr.,of Lumpkin, died
on the 29th; aged 03 years.
Wine and cigars inaugurated the trans
fer to Mr. J. B. Latmer, of the office of
Ordinary of Stewart county, by Mr. R. F.
Watt, who had held the office four years.
Having published a portion of one side
as a news paragraph, we copy a part of
another regarding a bill introduced from
Stewart county and the Senator. The
Independent says: We only deem it nec
essary to say that the “Bill for the relief
of William Harris (or Harrison, as it
should be,) and his securities” has noth
ing to do with William Hawes, either as
an ex-postmaster or as Notary Public of
the 796th Dist.: but that the same was “a
bill for the relief of William Harrison,
and his securities, as the administrator on
the estate of his brother, Mr. Jackson
Harrison, late of this county, and was
lost because of constitutional objections.
In another column of the same issue
the Telegraph draws an unjust distinction
between our Representatives and Dr.
Carter, our Senator, by insinuating that
the latter gentleman is not “a safe guar
dian of our interest.” All of this is
prompted by personal animosity towards
Dr. Carter, and is well understood here
where it effects nothing: but where Dr.
Carter and the editor of the Telegraph are
unknown some harm might result if this
scuriilous attack were passed unnoticed.
TELEGRAPHIC
FOREIGN.
London, February 4.—A true bill has
been found in the Central Criminal Court
i of this city against Mr. Robert Bowles,
j charging him with misdemeanor in con
nection with certain securities deposited
in a Parisian banking house. Bowles,
Bros. <fc Co.’s trial is expected to take
I place at an early day.
The proprietors of several collieries, in
i South Wales, who have announced their
I intention to import Chinamen from Cali
| fornia to take the place of men on a strike,
have received an anonymous letter threat
ening them with assassination should
they carry out their designs.
The weather for the past three days has
been intensely cold, and hundreds of
persons were frozen to death in England
during that time.
Cadiz, Feb. s.— The dispatch from Lis
bon announcing that the steamship Mu
rillo had been signalled off that port was
incorrect, as she is yet at Cadiz, w'here
she has remained since her first arrival.
The British Consul here has demanded
the issue of a writ of attachment against
her. The captain of the Murillo, aud the
officer who was on watch at the time the
disaster to the Northfieet happened, are
held as prisoners on board a Spanish man
of war. Pending the investigation her
crew are under guard, and are not allowed
to go ashore. The Spanish authorities,
who have made an examination of the
Murillo, declare that she has no signs of
having been in collision, and it is their
belief that she is guiltless of running
dowm and sinking the Northfieet.
London, February 5. Cholera has
broken out in a violent form in several
places in Russia and Hungary.
Madrid, Feb. s.—The Government has
information of a second battle between
the Carlists and the royal troops. The
Carlists were defeated with great loss in
men and stores. The fight occurred at
Aya, a small place in North Minister. It
is announced that 200 insurgents were
killed, 110 rifles captured, proportionate
ammunition, and 200 prisoners captured.
Berlin, Feb. 5. —The new army lull
claims twelve years’ service—three active,
four in reserve and five in Landwehr.
London, Feb. 5. —Robt. Bowles, of
Bowles Bros. & Cos., of Paris, has been
acquitted of the charge of misdemeanor.
He had no foreknowledge of the doubtful
practice of the firm. Other members of
the firm are responsible.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 4.—The following
letter has been made public :
“Cottage Place , Jan. 29, 1873.—My
Dear .Judge Harst: lam so much dis
tressed by the report of yesterday’s pro
ceedings at White Plains that I must
withdraw from a contest which our oppo
nents are determined shall be waged over
my father’s grave ; for not even to carry
out his w'ill—which is infinitety dear to
me—will I allow his name to be so dese
crated.
“ With many thanks to yourself, Mr.
Nelson and Mr. Choat for the. very kind
efforts which you have all made on behalf
of myself and sister, I remain, with much
respect, very truly yours,
“Ida P. Greeley.”
“ I join in sentiment of this letter.
“Gabrielle Greeley.”
Washington, Feb. 4.—No testimony in
Louisiana affairs to-day.
The Committee on Ways and Means
will report in favor of permitting vessels
to unload at night.
Mr. Hardgrove, formerly of Nelson
county, Va., attempted to kill himself,
wife, and the youngest of four children.
He .is insane from pecuniary troubles,
being ruined by the war.
House.—The bill granting Mrs. Wood,
daughter of the late ex-President Taylor,
SSO per month, passed. It commences at
the date of her husband’s death.
The evidence before the Credit Mobilier
Committee has been ordered printed.
The evidence affecting members of the
Senate is referred to that bodv.
Pensions eccupied the day.
Senate. —Discussed resumption of specie
payment.
Norwood’s bill for appropriation for
public building at Atlanta, passed.
The Republicans of Georgia are urging
Col. Wm. Markham for Governor of Da
cotah.
Washington, Feb. 5.—A bill for con
solidating the national railroads was pre
sented to the Senate Committee on Fi
nance to-day. It was prepared by the
Comptroller of the Treasury.
Senate.—Petitions pro and con about
the repeal of the bankrupt law, passed.
Rice, of Arkansas, introduced a resolu
tion directing the Committee on Elections
and Privileges to enquire whether there
was a legal government in Arkansas.
Went over under the rules.
The committee to consider the Credit
Mobilier evidence taken by the House
committee, so far as it affects Senators,
consists of Morrill of Maine, Scott, Stock
ton, Wright and Stevenson.
The bill resuming specie payment this
year and free banking next year was ta
bled—-yeas, 29; nays, 27.
The conference report on the sloops-of
war bill was adopted. It provides for the
construction of eight sloops-of-war at- pri
vate yards.
The diplomatic bill was resumed. The
i\ppropiation for the United States and
Mexico Commission was stricken out, the
report of the commissioners being indefi
nite.
House —Peck, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported a bill to amend
the Internal Revenue law, the effect- of
which he explained as follows: The first
section restored the provision of the law
of 1862, which allow'ed the producers of
tobacco to sell at the place of production
to consumers to an amount not exceeding
SIOO. The second section proposes to
increase the fractional part of barrels re
quired to be stamped, by adding thirds of
barrels. The third section proposes to
provide that the man who made the wine
from grapes raised by himself, might sell
at the place of production without paying
the $25 special tax now required. On
that explanation the bill passed.
Packer, of Pennsylvania, from the Com
mittee on Roads and Canals, reported a
bill authorizing the construction of a rail
road bridge across the Mississippi river
at Memphis, Tenn. In reply to a question
by Fihkenlburg, he stated the main span
of the bridge was to be at least 400 feet
in the clear, and that the bridge might be
bnilt with a draw.
Finkelnburg, of Missouri, opposed the
resolution, remarking that all were agreed
that no bridge with a draw should be bnilt
over the Mississippi below St. Louis.
Such a bridge had already done damage
enough above that city. No such detri
ment to commerce should be permitted
below that point, and it was questionable
whether any bridge should be permitted
between St. Louis and New Orleans. The
Merchants’ Exchange of St. Louis had
met yesterday in order to consider that
subject, and he hoped to hear from that
meeting to-morrow. He hoped that the
bill would either be committed or referred
to the Committee of Commerce.
Cox, of New York, gave notice that he
would move to lay the bill on the table.
Potter asked Packer whether the bill
had been recommended by the engineer
officers of the Government.
Packer replied that it had not, but the
interest of the Government was entirely
guarded by making the matter subject to
i the judgment and control of the Seeretarv
of War.
Potter cautioned the House against au
thorizing a bridge across the Ohio river
at Cincinnati, which had subsequently to
I be changed at great expense, for which
- the Government was held responsible.
He was satisfied that no bridge should be
permitted by Congress across any of the
great rivers of the country without the
most careful deliberation, and without
the examination and report of some officer
of the Government not connected with
private interests.
The morning hour passed and the bill
went over without action till to-morrow.
The Attorney General to-day instructed
the District Attorney at Savannah not to
prosecute suits entered against importers
for the recovery of money paid to the
Confederate Government as custom du
ties during the war. The action of the
Department of Justice being based upon
the same grounds as taken in regard to
the suits recently stopped at Mobile.
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
San Francisco, Feb. s.— The Cabinet
of the new King of the Sandwich Islands,
are most Americans.
In a speech, the King said: “Our rela
tions with foroign Governments are of the
most friendly character, and, I am satis
fied, will continue so, if we faithfully dis
charge our duty in conformity with the
principles of justice and comity recognized
among all nations. At home, there is
peace and reasonable prosperity, which it
will be my earnest endeavor to promote.
The Islands are capable of far higher im
provement than they have ever enjoyed,
they have capacity enough to make a king
dom which shall command the respect of
other nations, as well as the greatest com
fort and happiness to a far larger number
of people. We are fortunately placed by
nature on a great ocean highway of na
tions. The commerce of all flags should
be attracted hither by the safety of our
harbor, our abundant products and liberal
laws, and regulations of our ports. All
legislation in the future, having in view
the proper protection and promotion of
our commercial relations, shall meet my
hearty concurrence.
NEW YORK.
New York, Feb. s. —The Coroner’s
Jury, in the case of the murder of Duryea
by Simmons, yesterday, returned a verdict
that deceased died from the effect of stab
wounds at the hands of Simmons ; hut to
this they added their belief that the mur
derous assault was not premeditated; that
the prisoner, from previous threats made
by deceased toward him, may have con
sidered his life threatened. This is re
garded as remarkable. Twelve millions
are said to be represented in Simmons’
family, and the jurors are men whose
standing is unquestionable.
New YoßK,f,Feb. 5. —The Grand Jury
indicted Simons, who killed Duryea, for
murder in the first degree. He was bailed
n SIO,OOO.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Pittsburg, Feb. 3.—Four boilers in the
American Iron Works exploded to-day,
shattering the building. Three thousand
laborers were at work in the mill at the
time. Up to the present time thirty
wounded persons and six dead have been
recovered from the ruins.
Philadelphia, Feb. 4. —A boiler in
Wood Bro’s rolling mill exploded. A frag
ment entered the Albion print works—3oo
feet, off—killing two boys. The explosion
killed nine persons.
NEW JERSEY”.
Trenton, Feb. s.—The Vice Chancellor
delivered an opinion on the bill praying
for an injunction against the National
Railroad and other roads bought by the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad. He de
cides that the roads Id no right, under
their charters, to con < 1 through roads,
and to use them for :. f, purpose was a
fraud. He ruled for uplainants on
every point, and granted ihe injunction
against the National Railroad.
INDIANA.
Evansville. February 5. —An accident
on the Memphis ami Louisville Railroad,
near Guthrie, killed two and hurt several.
No names South of Tennessee reported.
Indianapolis, February 5. —The Senate
rejected the joint resolution endorsing
the Presidents Indian policy by a vote of
21 to 20.
MARYLAND.
Annapolis, Feb. 3. —The Wharton jury,
which has been out. since noon Friday',
has been discharged. Mrs. Wharton was
released on bail.
GEORGIA.
Savannah, Peb. 4. —Joe Johnson won
the iirst race; time 2:15); Parlee won sec
ond in 2:39; Frank Hampton won third,
both heats 1:51.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Feb. 5.—A fearful snow
storm checks the movement against Cap
tain Jack.
The President to Make a Southern Tour—
Poole for the Cabinet-Cotton Tax Bill
at an End-
Several papers have the following spe
cial :
Washineton, February 3, 1873.
CALL ON THE PRESIDENT.
The Ijon. Henry P. Farrow, the Hon.
James Atkins and William Markham call
ed on the President to-day. During the
interview they presented petitions from a
number of Republicans of Georgia,urging
that Senator John Poole be given a place
in the Cabinet.
THE PRESIDENT GRATIFIED.
The President expressed himself pleas
ed to understand that the Republicans of
Georgia were once more thoroughly united
and to see that- they were putting the best
men in the field for office.
A SOUTHERN TOUR.
The President also intimated that, he ex
pected to leave here with all his Cabinet
on the 20th of the coming March. He
said further that he proposed to make a
tour of the South via Richmond, Raleigh,
Columbia, Charleston, Savannah. Mont
gomery and New Orleans.
CONGRESSIONAL.
General P. M. B. Young introduced a
bill to-day. in tiie House, to remove the
political disabilities of all the citizens of
the United States.
An extra session of Congress is much
talked of.
“eequiscat in pace.”
The House Committee on Ways aud
Means reported adversely on all the bills
now before them for the refunding of the
cotton tax. Their report gave occasion
for a lively debate. All efforts, however,
to secure a day for the discussion of the
subject failed.
Rumors of bribery in connection with
the recent election for United States Sen
ator in Florida fill the air, and a resolu
tion calling for investigation in the mat
ter passed the Assembly. The members
from Leon, Conover’s countv, voted
against it. If the investigation is pressed
and passes the Senate, there will be posi
tively lively times on this question.
Rev. J. L. Cotten, D. D., died at Du
rant, Miss., on the 4th instant, where he
had gone some two weeks ago on a visit.
Last year he was Presiding Elder of the
Eufaula District, and by the last Confer
ence was stationed at Union Springs. The
remains will be interred in Cahaba by the
i side of those of his wife.,
Till KSDAY MWKMXG, FEB. «.
Health of the City—Official Report-
Office Board of Health, 4
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 3, 1873.)
At a meeting of the Board of Health,
held this day, it was the unanimous re
port of the members that, after inquiring
of the profession generally-, they could
not hear of a single case of either small
pox or eerebro spinal meningitis either in
the city or its vicinity, nor had there been
one for several years.
Some of the members have heard of
several of their own patients being report
ed as sick or dead with meningitis, while
the persons so reported had simply the
epidemic, (catarrhal fever,) and in some
cases were at that time convalescent and
at their business.
lufluenza, or catarrhal fever is prevail
ing here as in all other parts of the State,
and as in many cases this disease at its
onset is accompanied with severe pain in
the back of the head, neck aud shoulders,
some have been led to think it to have
been meningitis; but these cases, with ap
propriate treatment, invariably recover in
a few days. With this and a few cases of
pneumonia (especially among the blacks)
excepted, the city is in a very healthy
condition.
Jno. E. Bacon, M. D., Pres’t,
Carlisle Terry, M. D.,
James W. Pitts, M. D.,
T. P. Chafin, M. D.,
T. J. Word, M. I).
Death of Mr. Richard Patten. —This
gentleman died at his residence in Colum
bus Tuesday night and was buried last
afternoon. His age was over fifty years,
some thirty of which he has lived in
Columbus. Before the war. for some
years, he was agent in Columbus of the
Marine Bank, and associated with Mr.
John G. Winter in extensive business
transactions. We have understood, al
ways, that he was the projector of the
St. Paul’s church building, and among
the first to unite with the church after its
severance from St. Jjuke’s. At one time
he was regarded as one of our wealthiest
citizens. Misfortunes overtook him and
he was never able to recuperate his shat
tered fortune. We have for years heard
him spoken of as one of the best account
ants in the country. He was quite popu
lar iu tho community. He leaves a large
family to mourn his loss. We believe he
was a Baltimorean by birth. By marriage
he was related to the Messrs. Dexter and
Col. Hodges and family. He had been
sick for some months. Thus, one by one
those who have long been associated with
Columbus are dropping off.
Assessment of Columbus Real Estate.
The Assessors have finished their work,
but have not added up their books. We
glanced hurriedly through them yesterday
and made the total valuation in round
numbers, $3,952,200. This is an increase
of over half a million of dollars over the
valuation of last year. While property
has advanced considerably, some has been
included which was not estimated last
year.
We find the Court-house and grounds
assessed at $60,000 ; 5,000 acres of com
mons at $2 per acre.
St. Paul’s church is valued at $15,000;
St. Luke’s, the Baptist and Presbyterian,
$35,000 each; the Episcopal, $20,000, and
the Catholic at $12,000. Church property
pays no taxes.
The Eagle and Pheuix property is val
ued at $266j<)00. aud the Muscogee at
$45,000.
Messrs. B. P. Coleman, J. A. Bradford
and John McCarty are Assessors.
That New Factory.— The establishing
of another large one on the site of the
burned Palace Mills, is now generally
talked of. Col. Mott, the owner of that
property, which he is willing to put in as
stock, gave us to understand, yesterday,
that steps towards raising a Company had
been commenced, with a favorable prom
ise of success. The proposed site has,
perhaps, the best water power in the city
limits, and is unrivalled in the country.
It could not be more convenient for busi
ness. The State has exempted manufac
tories from taxation for ten years, and our
Council will, we have no doubt, grant
other privileges.
Somewhat of a Liar. —Henry Boykin
(colored) testified in the case, yesterday,
in the Court-house. His evidence was
impeached. Several negroes swore his
general character was bad, and that they
would not believe him on oath. Among
this number was Kincben Thweatt (col
ored). He swore he had heard one negro
say he was “the grandest of liars;” an
other, that he wouldn’t trust him the
width of his door;” another, that he was
“the liar of Georgia;” another, that “his
reputation for falsehood was national;
another, that “he was a ’fore day coon li
ar.” It was a settled fact that Henry’s
reputation was bad.
The Eufaula Times says: A gentleman
of this city, just returned from a trip to
West Florida, says the people down there
are complaining bitterly of the great scar
city of money and the hard times gene
rally they are having. Some of them
made two bales of cotton last year, and
consumed their value in western meat
and bread before the cotton picking sea
son opened, and they are now from four
to six bales behind, and are just breaking
ground to plant the next cotton crop.
The Civil Rights bill introduced into
the Alabama Legislature by Williams,
colored, of Barbour, and which has been
read twice in the House, proposes to give
to all races and colors equal civil rights in
the schools, theatres, hotels, railroads,
churches, cemeteries, etc., and to punish
violations by fine of from SSOO to §5,000,
and imprisonment not exceeding five
years, and forfeiture of charter or other
privileges on the part of person or corpo
ration holding the same.
A boarder at the Battle House, in Mo
bile, arriving from New Orleans, Thurs
day night, awoke in the morning to find
that he had been robbed of §2OO and a
gold watch and chain. His door was lock
ed uAd bolted, and the thief must have
effected tin entrance through a transom
over the door.
Quite a number of the persons from
Louisiana and Mississippi, who have been
in Selma and vicinity for weeks, in search
of laborers, left for their homes Tuesday,
disgusted because the negroes preferred
to remain in “old Alabama.” We wish
that all of Alabama’s white sons would
stick as true to the glorious old State.
Low Fare. -The Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad Company has reduced
its fare from Cincinnati to New York and
return to §l4. The distance is between
fire and six hundred miles.
PoKhg vs. Bribery.— The Mexican Con
gressmen have a better way of managing
things than the Credit Mobiliers in the
United States. A story is told that in
Mexico some representatives of a railroad
scheme lost §300,000 while playing
“poker” with a party of Congressmen,
and that the scheme immediately after
went through Congress. The inference is
that the game was a screen to the bribe
transferred from the pockets of the rail
road men to those of the Congressmen.
NO. 1.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Monday, February 3, 1873.
SENATE.
The Senate met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
The following bills were referred to
committees:
Mr. Martin, of Tuskaloosa— A bill to
exempt all of the widows who do not own
more than ten thousand dollars worth of
property from taxation.
Also, joint resolution to authorize the
payment of public printing for the sepa
rate organization previous to the reorgan
ization, according to the Attorney Gen
eral’s plan. Adopted.
Mr. Royal—A bill to make Sarah E.
Smith, wife of IV. E. Smith, of Bullock,
a free dealer. Passed.
Mr. Black—A bill for the relief of Win.
H. Lott, of Barbour.
Also, a bill to prevent the depopulation
of Alabama.
[lmposes a tax of SIOO on emigration
agents or all persons inducing persons to
emigrate from the State.]
A bill to amend sections 22 and' 35 of
an act to regulate elections in the State,
approved October 8, 1808.
A bill to repeal section 2901 of the Re
vised Code. [This bill repeals the land
lord's lien.]
A bill to prevent tax collectors and as
sessors from assessing and collecting the
74 cents penalty, unless they have made
the demands or given the written notice
required by sections 34 and 49 of the
revenue law of 1868.
To prevent the carrying of slung shots,
brass knucks or weapons of like descrip
tion about the person. Referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Duskiu—A bill for the encourage
ment and promotion of manufacturing
and the industrial and mechanical arts
within this State, and to confer upon
those engaged in such pursuits certain
privileges specified in said act.
Mr. Dereen—A bill in reference to me
chanic’s liens in the State of Alabama.
Mr. Hamilton—A bill to amend section
12 of an act to incorporate the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company, approved Feb.
3, 1848. Passed.
Also, to regulate the rate of interest in
the State. [Establishes a conventional
rate of interest.]
Mr. Ervin, a bill to regulate the trial of
attachment cases.
Also, a bill to regulate the competency
of witnesses.
Also, a bill to regulate the holding of
special terms of the Circuit Court in this
State.
Also, to amend sections 4, 9 and 14 of
an act to regulate the Chancery Courts of
Alabama.
HOUSE.
Mr. Purcell asked to have a bill trans
ferred from the Committee on Judiciary
to the Committee on Local Legislation.
Some debate but no action taken oa it.
The bill was to confer on certain married
women immed therein all the rights and
| powers of femme coles.
Call of counties resumed.
Mr. Cowau offered a resolution requir
ing that all bills for the removal of disa
bilities of non-age, and to make married
women free dealers, be referred to the
Committee on Local Legislation, with in
structions to report one bill containing all
such. Adopted.
Mr. Brown, a bill to amend section 3,-
326 of the Revised Code, under suspen
sion of the rule read a second time and
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. White, a resolution authorizing the
appointment of a special committee of
five, to whom shall be referred so much
of the Governor’s message and accompa
nying documents as relate to the Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad.
Mr. Anderson moved to amend Mr.
White’s resolution by adding that 5()0
copies be printed for the use of the
House.
Amendment accepted and resolution
adopted.
Mr. Anderson, a motion that 3,000
copies of the Governor’s message and ac
companying documents be printed for the
use of the House. Agreed to.
Senate bill “to relieve Wm. H. Drake
of the disabilities of non-age” was read,
and under the suspension of the rules was
read a second time, and under a further
suspension of the rules the bill was read a
third time, and passed.
Mr. Dustan, a motion to inform the
Senate immediately of the passage of the
bill by the House. Agreed to.
Tuesday, February’ 4, 1873.
SENATE.
Tin following bills were referred :
Mr. Harris—A bill to change the line
between counties of Barbour and Russell.
A bill to repeal an act to establish a
Criminal Court for the county of Russell.
Approved Feb. 26th, 1870.
A bill to better secure meohanics in
their labor and for material furnished.
A bill to repeal an act to relieve of their
disabilities persons against whom the
bonds for matrimony have dissolved.
A message from the Governor was read,
urging the desirability of annexing West
Florida to Alabama, and asking for the
adoption of such measures as will author
ize the overture, on the part of Alabama,
for the consummation of the agreement
between the States of Florida and Ala
bama, and the consent of the United
States.
The message lies over.
HOUSE.
To keep in each county of the State a
proportionate share of the public school
funds. Authorizes each county to reserve
the poll taxes paid in by such county as
its share of the poll tax, and also nine
tenths of the school fund estimated to
arise from other sources within said coun
ty, until the whole amount due such
county therefrom is ascertained, after
which the remainder shall be paid to said
county.
To construe and define the exemption
laws of the State of Alabama as to person
alty. Amends section 2884 of the Revised
Code.
Mr. Jones of Lee—To confer jurisdic
tion on the Chancery Courts of the State
to relieve minors over eighteen years of
age of the disabilities of non-age.
By same—To repeal an act establishing
the charter of the city o of Opelika, ap
proved March 3, 1870, and the act amend
ing the same, approved December 19,
1871.
By same—To establish a city court for
the county of Lee.
By same, a resolution for a joint com
mittee, consisting of three Senators and
five Representatives, to examine into the
condition of the various railroads of the
State which have received State aid, and
report such bill or other measure as may
be necessary to protect the interests of the
State and preserve it from loss on account
of its endorsement for such companies.
[Requires the committee to report how
many miles of such roads have been con
structed and at what cost; the income of
snch roads, if completed, and their expen
ditures and all other matters in whiofi the
interests of the State are involved.]—
Adopted.
By same, to amend the act amendatory
of sections 1 and 11 of the act incorporat
ing the Opelika and Talladega Railroad
Company, approved December 9, 1859,
amendatory of act of November 9,1861,
and further amended by act of February
20, 1860.
By same, to amend an act authorizing
the Savannah and Albany Railroad Com
pany to extend their road from the line
of Georgia on the Chattahoochee river to
Mobile, and extend a branch road from
Eufaula to Montgomery, approved Decem
ber 20, 1853.
Ordered to lie on the table and that 250
copies be printed.
By Mr. Thomas—A bill appropriating
all licenses and taxes collected by Judges
of Probate to the public school' fund of
the counties in which the same are col
lected.
To amend sections 4200 and 4212 of the
Revised Code of Alabama. Gives the
court a discretionary power in granting
changes of venue, and authorizes fines
and forfeitures collected under changes
of venue to be paid into the treasury of
the county in which the trial may be had,
said county being required to "bear the
costs, expenses, Ac.
By Mr. Cloud—To provide for aud se
cure a fair exhibition of specimens of
the mineral and other resources of the
State of Alabama at the Vienna exhibi
tion. Authorizes the Governor to issue
a proclamation inviting the people of the
State to send mineral and other speci
mens to the Commissioner of Industrial
Resources at Montgomery, who shall open
the various packages so 9enl, examine
and classify the various specimens con
tained therein, attaching to each a label
containing the name of the mineral, ore
or other substance, the location in which
it abounds, etc., and do such other things
as are necessary to set forth the mineral
advantages of the State. He is also re
quired to write or have written an essay’
in three different languages, (English
French and German) setting forth the
advantages offered the emigrant and capi
talist by the soil, climate and mines of
Alabama. The bill also provides the
necessary appropriations.
Mr. Hunter offered a resolution that
the House Committee at the eapitol and
the Senate Committee on public buildings,
procure a flagstaff aud national flag and
erect them above the State House, which
was adopted.
A bill to relieve a number of persons
from the disabilities of non-age. Among
the number are Richard Fannin of I’ike,
Frank M. Dillard of Lee, E. B. Rainey of
Tallapoosa.
Opelika Observer and General Gordon.
We think our friends of the Opelika
Observer, in their strictures on our article
entitled“ The Senatorship, "are a little more
zealous than wise, and slightly hypercriti
cal and unjust. In their eulogy on Gen.
Gordon (and he certainly needs nothing
of the kind in reply to anything we said)
they repeat the stale slanders of Mr. Ste
phe.i’s “infidelity to the Democratic par
ty,” which none but those who had felt
his exposures for the same “infidelity,”
ever uttered or believed. It was natural
that certain would-be Democratic leaders,
whoso predictions were falsified in every
particular against the superior wisdom
and expressions of Mr. Stephens, should
feel sore when Time had set his seal to the
truth as spoken and written by tbe great
Georgian. We cannot see with the Ob
server that the late Senatorial election
in this State gave signs of “suspicions of
infidelity to the Democratic party ”in re
gard to Mr. Stephens, but on the contrary
ho exhibited a strength which gratified
his friends, disappointed his enemies, and
proved that there was still Democratic
life instinct with fire and vigor, in at least
one Southern State. We regret that the
same pleasant situation is not found in
our sister, Alabama. The objection here
to Mr. Stephens was not that his Democ
racy was too little, and therefore suspect
ed, but that he was a Democrat “after
the most straitest sect,” and filled too full
of Democratic faith, knowledge and unc
tion. This of course did not please some
who had a hankering after Radical wedges
of gold and Bullock’s worn-out official
garments.
The Observer says:
We do not think that even in con
sideration of the fact of his being “young
and innocent,” the Sun has any just or
reasonable gotinds to “fear tbe evil com
munications of Washington and the Unit
ed States Senate” will be sufficient to
tempt from the path of duty, and corrupt
either the personal or political morals of
so pure and noble a specimen of Southern
chivalry as General John B. Gordon.
What we said about the snares of the
male Philistines and the lobbying Delilahs,
was more by way of friendly admonition
than any suspicions of a soldier’s virtue.
But the Observer says :
It is morally impossible for us to assent
to the assertion that “wiser,braver aud bet
ter men than Gordon have fallen before
at Washington under such pursuasives and
manipulations.”
Now, we know of no talisman at Wash
ington against vice not possessed in com
mon with other places. Neither do w’e
think that the United States Senate is at
this time particularly holy. We cannct
either believe (without tho editors of the
Observer will give tho proof) that Gen.
Gordon is wiser than Solomon, stronger
than Samson, purer than Adam, braver
than Achilles, more martial than Mark
Antony, or a better singer and poet than
David. These men were wise and great
and good in their day and generation, but
they had tlieir weak spots, and between
the lust of the eye and the pride of life
they stumbled and fell, through the arts
and flatteries of female lobbyists and
“Credit Mobiliers.” When we see Kings,
Warriors and Vice-Presidents all made of
the same corrupt stuff, we may well trem
ble for United States Senators. We hope
Gordon will play Joseph, and escape the
pollution of the worse than Egyptian
temptations, idols and wickedness of
Washington city, and return to the bosom
of the people he has faithfully served in
camp and Senate undefiled and separate
from sin.
The Stone of Sisyphus and Robe of Penelope.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, the
father of Ulysses (not our President), was,
for fraud and deceit here, punished in tho
lower world by being set to the task of
rolling a marble block up hill, which, as
soon as it reached tbe top, always rolled
back again. According to like authority,
we are told that Penelope, the wife of the
aforesaid Ulysses, while lie was absent at
tho siege of Troy, was surrounded by im
portunate suitors whom she, too, deceived
by saying she must finish a robe which
she was weaving before she could make
up her mind. She unravelled each night
all that she done during the day. The
suitors discovered her stratagem too late,
for Ulysses came after twenty years and
slew them all.
There is a marked similarity between
the rolling stone of Sysiphus, the robe of
Penelope aud the character of our legisla
tion. Our modern legislators, instead of
being occupied in making just and per
manent laws, and repealing such only as
on a fair trial have proved to be evil, are
now all the time engaged in rolling to the
top the stones which have fallen to the
j bottom since the last session, and unrav
elling each night the work done during
the day. If our readers wish an illustra
tion they need only to look at the courso
of the present Legislature in regard to the
“Bullock Bonds” and other rascalities,
and compare it to the last. Then a com
mittee of able members was appointed to
examine and report upon the legality of
these bonds. A labored report, after
months of investigation and thousands of
dollars expended, is submitted to and
adopted by the Legislature refusing to
recognize the bonds known to be issued
corruptly, and pay those only not con
ceived in fraud, brought forth in iniquity
and sent out into the cold as Bullock’s
bastards —a prey to every paid, greedy,
mousing lobbyist, and every land-shark
“Credit Mobilier” and plundering railroad
speculator.
We think this is the only legal, just and
equitable principle for a settlement. It
is fair both to the State and the honest
bondholders. Neither the people or bond
holders should suffer through the rascali
ties of Bullock & Cos., but if either goes
to the wall, let the rale of law— caveat
emptor —“Let the buyer beware,” apply,
and hug his empty money-bags.
We wish not the faith of the State vio
lated, or a cent of honest indebtedness
repudiated, and if tbis rule is observed
without idle fears the credit of the State
will remain what it is—good as the best
in the markets of the world.
Our faith in Georgia honesty as now ex
hibited, is as great as that of the boy who
in a dispute told his sister: “It’strue, for
ma Baid so, and if in a says it’s so, it's so
if it ain't so.” If our Legislature and
Governor remain firm and honest, they
need not fear the return of any Ulysses.
Thai>. Stevens and the Lobby. —ls Dr.
Durant, the leading spirit of the Union
Pacific and Credit Mobilier rings, is to be
credited, no less a personage than Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Rad
ical party up to the time of his death, also
yielded to the blandishments of the lobby,
and sold his voto and influence as readily
as Colfax, Kelly, Wilson, Fatterson, and
the living heroes of the Credit Mobilier.
The “great commoner,” however, though
no more honest than the rest, valued his
services at a higher figure, and is said to
have received the round sum of eighty
thousand dollars for legislating in the in
terests of the lobby. •