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Coi.i'MBTJS Industrial Association—
Ejection of Officers and Directors—
E, 4 ;b this Fall. —The stockholders of the
Columbus Industrial Association met yes
irdav, at noon. A majority of the stock
was represented.
The following Directors were elected :
W L. Salisbury, John Mcllheuny, W. D.
Cbipley, K- A. Ware, T. E. Blanchard, W.
McDougald, G. L. McGocgh, G. A.
Klink, John King, E. T. Shepherd, G. A.
Redd, John Peabody and R. T. t'ouug.
This is the old Board with the excep
tion of W. H. Young, who is succeeded by
his sou.
Col. W. L. Salisbury was re-elected
President; Mayor Mollhenny, Vice Presi
dent; and John King, Treasurer.
Jir. E. W. Peabody, formerly Assist,
beoretai y, was elected Secretary, at a sal
ary of $llOO per annum.
Thus the Association is still to be man
aged by those who have matte our Fairs
anch solendid successes in the past three
years.
The following committees were ap
pionted:
Field Crops—G. A. Redd, E. T. Shep
herd, R. A. Ware.
On Programme—W. D. Chiploy, G L.
McGough, W. A. McDougald.
To ask the City Counoil for an Appro
priation—John King, G. L. McGough, R.
A. Ware.
To prepare Premium List—Superinten
dent of Departments—C. A. Rank. R. A.
Ware, C. A. Redd, T. E. Blanchard, John
King, E. T. Shepherd, G. L. McGough
and the President.
It was resolvod to hold the Fair during
the week next succeeding that of the State
Fair—commencing on Tuesday and oon
tinuing live days.
The premium for fieid crops will soon
be published.
Vv'e believe it is the almost united voice
of the city that the Council should make
tt liberal appropriation to the Association
this year, so as to enable generous p emi
uuis to be offered. At least $5,000 should
be given. That the Exposition benefits
the entire city, no one can doubt. Other
cities in Georgia have given their Fairs
from $15,000 to $125,000. Columbus has
never appropriated one cent to hers.
They have been the admiration of the en
t.io country, and our united population
should unite to continue ours as the first
in the country. Those of Macon, who
have moat interest in the Sta'e Fair, have
promised hearty co-operations with our
Directors, and the city should extend them
a liberal aid and show her appreciation of
benefits derived from their exertions and
management. These Fairs have given
Columbus a much wider spread reputation
than she had hithorto enjoyed.
West fun Railroad of Alabama.—A
large number of railroad dignitaries were
in Augusta on Thursday to devise some
means to relieve the Western railroad of
Alabama from its present financial em
barrassments. Tho meeting adjourned
without, deciding anything definite. The
Georgia, the Central and the Bout-hern
Security Railroad Companies now own the
controlling stock in the road.
The following were present at the meet
ing, as we learn from the Augusta papers:
R. JB. Roosevelt, of New York, President
of the Southern Security Company; B. F.
Newcomer, Baltimore, Vice-President of
Southern Security Company ; W. T. Wal
ters, Baltimore, connected with the South
ern Security Company and the Richmond
and Atlanta Air-Line Railroad; C. T. Pol
lard, President of the Alabama Western
Railroad ; General Haupt, General Mana
ger of the Richmond and Atlanta Air-Lint
Railroad ; John P. King, President of the
Georgia Railroad; W. M. Wadley, Presi
dent of the Central Railroad; R. R.
Bridgers, President of the Wilmington
aud Weldon and the Wilmington, Colum
bia and Augusta Railroads; Andrew Low,
General A. R. Lawton and J. F. Gilmer,
of the Central Railroad; H. B. Plant, of
the Southern Security Company, and B.
LX Townsend, President of tho Oheraw
aud Darlington Railroad.
A Fashionable Welding. —We learn
that a most delightful wedding party as
sembled at the residence of Dr. O. F.
Kuox, of the well-known firm of Knox A
Malone, Bruudidge, Ala., on Friday eve
ning last, to witness the marriage of Air.
John B. Kuox, recently connected with
the house of Sbulman, Goetter Weil,
Montgomery, and Miss Lula Dinkins, of
Brundidge. The scene and entertain
ment were of rare attractions. Abundant
provision was made for the wants of the
inner man. The handsome groom and
beautiful bride, with a bevy of charming
attendants, were the centre of attraction,
and all present were compelled to confess
that they never witnessed a more elegant
affair. It is hoped that the joyouaness
and promise of this happy bridal may be
fully- realized by our young friends
throughout the entire journey of life.
Soluble Pacific Guano.—W. H. Young
“'lvpruses for sale this superior fertilizer,
"inch has been tested so satisfactorily in
this section for the past seven years,
i hero ia no manure which euu compare
"ith it. As to its increasing production
lisitur than, any other fertilizer, scores ol
testimonials from the best planters in all
parts of this oountry can be obtained,
the price asked ia very reasonable. It
can be purchased with cotton. The par
ties selling have no old stock on hand.
All is fresh and pure. At this late date,
it is tireless to dilate upon the beneficial
effects of fertilizers. The only question
is, which is the best ? Those who have
Uied the Soluble Pacific have been so
p.eased that they will buy no other.
Busked. —The homo of Mr.
John Bideuhour, in Wyuntou, formerly
owned by Mr. Bize, was burned last after
noon. me furniture was saved. No in
•nrauce. About Christmas Mr. Ridenhour
Paid Mr. Bize s‘,ooo oush for the proper-
G- and ire told the house cannot be
■ hat amount. The loss falls
, with a wife and four
■ v ' a miren. A spark from the
ounune . lading on the roof was the cause
°f the burning.
Conductor Bass.—We regret to learn
that this popular Conductor on the South
western Itailroad has been stricken down,
in Macon, with small-pox. and that he has
11 in its severest form. As this gentle
man has a wide oircle of warm friends, to
whom his many kindnesses as a public
servant have endeared him. he may be as
sured that their teuderest sympathies go
°ut to him in this hour of affliction and
Pain.
Kingsboro. —This place is the present
terminus of the North and South Ro .and.
it was ho named in honor of the popular
hanker and director, Mr. John King, of
Columbus. Several houses have been
built there, and the place is rapidly as
suming the appearance of a town.
VOL. XV.
THE STAGE—HAMLET.
The late advent on our oity stage of two
such celebrated actors as Janauschek and
Barrett, and the appreciative audiences
that welcomed them, prompts us to-day to
forswear politics and speak of the Drama.
Me do not propose to open the eft
mooted question—Are dramatic entertain
ments per te sinful? Much might be
said on both sides of this question—the
associations and dissipations which usually
accompany their abuse; while, on the
other side, it may be said abuse is no ar
gument against legitimate use, and that
the Stage will always reach a large class
of persons too wicked to be edified by the
Pulpit, and too pious to fight the tiger or
bet on cards or a horse race. Some think
it cruel to see “bears and lions growl and
fight,” and monkeys grin and curl their
pretty tails when the band plays and the
elephants go round and round. Others
have no taste for the spangles and stale
jokes of the clown, and the madame who
jumps from one hoop only to pitch into
another. The many persons of many
minds might be pleased with leg-ballet,
dance and sing the good old plantation
jamborees, or, better still, laugh with
Prince Hal and Falstalf, sit with Jessica
on the moonlit bank beneath the floor of
Heaven, thick inlaid with patines of
bright gold, and listen to the angel songs
quiring to the young-eyed cherubim. If
inclined to moralize, the scull of “ poor
ioiick, or that of the lawyer, courtier or
singer in the hands of the grave-diggers,
might afford food for serious meditation,
as they afforded food for worms and the
jests of clowns. Hamlet, with his grand
intellect in ruins, and nuraifig a wound
too deep for tears, might instruct and un
fold tho deeper mysteries of human ex
istence ; while the fair Ophelia, chanting
snatches of old tunes and laid at last
where from her unpolluted flesh the mod
est violet scents the breeze, could awaken
sensibilities better suited for Heaven than
earth.
“All the world’s a stage aud all the men
and women merely players,” says the
melancholy Jaques, and Hamlet tells us
“the purpose of playing whose end, both
at the first and now, was and is to hold,
as ’twere, the mirror up to nature; to
shew virtue her own feature, scorn her
own image, and the very age and body of
the time his form and pressure.”
The time is coming when the public
mind will understand and appreciate true
genius and the mighty creations of
Shakespeare will again on the stage assert
their more than kingly prerogatives in the
support of virtue, the uprooting of vice
and the giving to the age and body of all
time and every nation, form and pressure.
That time will be when our people learn
to distinguish truth from error, pretention
from reality, and glittering brass from
pure gold. That time will be when a
false religion and a false literature will be
consigned to the bats and owls, and the
Bible and Shakespeare will rule supreme
in every heart, the one the inspiration of
Deity and the other the grandest inter
preter of His works and best expounder
of human passions. Then such actors as
Jauausobock and Barrett will make fiction
speak like truth, and preachers will imi
tate and improve on the example and
speak truth as though it was no fable.
The poet that sings “Anns and the Man”
may be great. Ha who describes simply
the manners aud customs of his own and
past generations, aud through imagina
tion reveals the harmonies of heaven and
the discords of hell may be greater, but
he who gives form, oolor and expression
to all men and nations as they talk and
walk with you, not as shadows, but as
living beings, must ever possess the high
est niche in the temple of fame. The
poet and actor must go arm and arm
together through the world the one
ths inventer aud creator, and the other
the personifler of men and nations in all
conditions—in palaces and oottagos, from
the oradle to the grave. If faithful to
truth aud nature they should receive the
rewards aud honors and be esteemed as
benefactors of our race and civilization.
THE BOND QUESTION.
The letter on the bond question, origi
nally published in the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, and republished in the Sa
vannah News, should arrest the attention
of the people and legislators. It proves
conclusively that the nature of our State
bonds was us well-known among the sharp
ers and speculators of New York a3 in
Georgia. If these bonds were issued in
violation of law, and void for fraud (as
reported by a committee of investigation)
it was the duty of purchasers to know
these facts, and they are now estopped
from pleading ignorance. Both law and
equity sanction and enforce this rule, and
if it is treated with contempt it will ruin
any individual, community or nation
through the acts of rascally agents and
officials. They could forge and counter
feit, and if like Bullock, go unwhipped in
person of justice, it would stimulate
crimes and consecrate the criminals when
ratified and approved by the people and
their representatives.
How can any man, Press or legislator
hereafter consistently denounce Bullock
& Cos. when we have said through our
Legislature, that Bullock & Cos. acted in
the matter within the limits of lawful au
thority? We see no reason why caveat
emptor —“ Beware purchaser 1 ” —should
uot avail to protect a State against frauds
aud swindles, as it does when individuals
are alone to be injured. Fraud vitiates
everything it touches ; so that not even
an innocent, bona fide purchaser can be
relieved either at law or in a court of
equity.
We would favor a scheme by which the
works beg u u could be completed so that
the State would preserve her credit, and
speculators not be permitted to reap what
they never sowed out of the pockets of
our people.
Tiie Colu.ubus Manufactory. The
Directors have decided to increase the
oapital stock $360,000, in order to build
and run a mill of two hundred looms.
This company has the finest and easiest
controlled water power in the country.
The establishment is managed by some
of the most experienced manufacturers
on the continent—safe, prudent and far
seeing men. Under the charter stock
holders are Liable only to the extent of
the stock individually held. The promise
of these mills to declare paying dividends
is certain. We know of no investment
which gives such a surety of remunerative
returns on the money invested. The
management of the past few years de
monstrate the ability and wisdom of
those who have the interest in charge.
Books of subscription are now open, and
Gen. Chilton, the President, will furnish
circulars and all information desired upon
application. Read the advertisement for
particulars.
Regarding Cotton Claims. — Weuhinff
ton, Feb. 10.—There are about 100 cap
tured and abandoned ootton claims on the
docket of the Court of Claims. These are
to be taken up at once, and as the present
session of the court will last far into the
summer, it is expected a large number
will be disposed of. Claims defeated by
the government on the ground of disloy
alty will be opened in accordance with the
decision of the Supreme Coart in the case
of Klein, when a decision was rendered
that the amnesty proclamation of Presi
dent Johnson was an absolution.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
WEBXESDAY MOBSISG, FEB. 12.
A Columbus Young Man in the Capi-
TAIi - r - Mirabeau L. Towns, a young
gentleman raised in Columbus, and who
has spent several years at the German
Lniversities, delivered an address in the
Representatives Hall in Atlanta, Saturday
night, upon Immigration, Capital and
Labor. He is a nephew of Mr. Columbus
Rose of this city.
The Atlanta Constitution thus synoDsis
his speech.
Mr. Towns congratulated himself that
his audience was.as select as it was small.
He began by stating the importance of the
question that he came to discuss. Old
platforms and old politics have been swept
away ; but we must rescue Georgia from
fina-mial despair— can only be
throagh immigration.
He then ridiculed those who prefer
to have niggers as neighbors rather than
intelligent farmers. The objection that
foreigners in our midst would destroy the
high tone of Southern society, is equally
baseless. The indebtedness of the Re
public to the foreign born was clearly and
strongly set forth. Georgia must not fol
low the teachings of selfish, unprogressive
leaders.
Mr. Towns contrasted Virginia and New
Tork. Three-fourths of the latter’s busy
and wealthy population are traceable to
the old countries. Our natural advantages
will attract immigration, but we need it
now to save us from utter bankruptcy.
To gain our rights we must first have a
population on which to base representa
tion. An intelligent laboring class, a
thrifty middle class,is essential for manu
factures, and for the development of our
great resources.
Agriculture is the truest basis of civili
zation. The South is favored in soil and
climate, but to make these available we
must abandon our masterly state of inac
tivity. Old prejudices must be forgotten.
There are four classes of immigrants :
first, men of means, who want homes in a
land of liberty; mechanics and artizans,
who prefer manufacturing communities ;
house, plantation and farm laborers, and
lastly, those whose passage-monies are
paid, mostly Germans.
How can we induce the people to come
among us. By organizing associations
in every county; by appealing to the
Governor for his powerful aid; by meeting
and overcoming the erroneous opinions
of the South now entertained in Europe.
Now that slavery is swept away there is no
real impediment in the way. Let us
make Labor and Capital and Immigration
our watchword. Then will towns spring
up like mushrooms in the night; then we
shall be able to get political justice;
then will Georgia regain her ancient pres
tige and force.
Three Interior Towns Lose and Five
Gain—Total Gain. —The high figure esti
mate men do not find much encourage
ment in the receipts in Tennessee. Thus
Memphis, which draws large quantities
from North Mississippi, Arkansas and
other States basides Tennessee, showed
to last Saturday receipts to the number of
253,425 bales of cotton. Last year, to
same date, the receipts had amounted to
272,992. So there is a decrease this year
of 19,597.
Nashville, to same date, had received
43,284 bales against 48,258, showing a de
crease from last year of 4,974 bales; ma
king the deorease at the two prominent
Tennessee points 24,541.
Selma, Ala., shows a decrease of 12,405.
All the other interior towns show in
creases as follows to same date : Augusta,
25,299; Macon, 6,374; Eufaula, 4,866;
Columbus, 14,708; Montgomery, 8,245.
Thus, three interior towns show a de
ficit as compared with last year of 36,946
bales, and five an excess of 59,672 bales ;
making the gain of the eight towns to
February Bth 22,726 bales.
The largest gains have been at Augusta
and Columbus. The crops in many por
tions of this section were unusually good.
A Gratifying Fact. —We learn that
several Maryland capitalists were in the
city yesterday, and being themselves en
gaged in manufacturing on the Patapsco,
paid a visit to the Eagle and Thenix Fac
tory, where they were cordially received
by the polite and effioieut President, Dr.
N. J. Bussey, who very kindly took them
through the entire establishment, and
explained the admirable system under
whioh it is carried on so successfully.
These gentlemen, who are quite familiar
with such factories, expressed themselves
more than delighfed with what they saw,
and paid a high compliment to our city as
a great manufacturing centre. The empty
shelves in the salesroom attracted their
attention, as these were the best evidenoe
they could have that Columbus fabrics
are in constantly-increasing demand. The
report which these gentlemen will make
on their return to Maryland will no doubt
have a tendency to turn the attention of
some of the capitalists of that section in
the direction of Columbus. Let us hope,
at least, that such may he tho result of
their visit. They stated in conversation
that they would invest here if they could
dispose of their interests elsewhere.
A Compliment to Our State.—During
his recent visit to Savannah our traveling
correspondent had an interview with the
Rev. Daniel March, D. D., of Philadel
phia, author of ‘‘Night Scenes in the Bi
ble, ” and other popular works, as well as
a most excellent writer for the press. This
distinguished divine is making a tour of
the South, partly for the benefit of his in
valid wife and partly to take notes of the
condition of things here at the present
time. He expressed himself highly pleased
with what he has already seen of the South,
and thought the people here had exercised
remarkable patience and fortitude under
the despotic and rascally rule of unprinci
pled carpet-baggers and scalawags. Os
the State of Georgia he spoke in high
terms of praise, and gave it as his opinion
that a glorious future was opening up be
fore her, and that her success would
light up and cheer the darker pathway of
her less favored sister States. Nature, he
thinks, has made her what her gifted sons
are determined she shall proudly remain,
the ‘‘Empire State of the South.”
Cotton Receipts at Interior Towns.—
The following shows the receipts of the
named interior towns from August 31st
to Feb. Bth. Their united stocks on the
Bth were 84,502, against 88,224 same date
last year:
1873 1872
Augusta 144,259 118,960
Macon 56.305 49,931
Eufaula 23.426 13,560
Columbus 49,457 31, 749
Montgomery 56,613 48,188
Selma 39,365 51,7<0
Nashvilit* 43,284 48,258
Memphis 253,425 272,992
Total 666,134 643,408
The Assessments of Oub Warehouses
and Raileoads. —The city assessors valued
them as follows: Planter’s warehouse,
$18,000; Alston, $15,000; Lowell, $18.000;
Alabama, $35,000; Fontaine, $24,000.
The Western Railroad property is assess
ed at $55,000; the Southwestern $50,000;
Mobile and Girard $33,000; North and
South $5,000.
“That people are the best governed who
are the least governed” is a principal in
dorsed by eommon sense, ss well as ex
perience.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1873.
CUBAN SOLDIERS.
Our Southern soldiers would make ad
mirable volunteers to land on the island
of Cuba in the event of a Spanish war.
They would enjoy a visit to the island un
der such circumstances, and would make
short work of the volunteers. —New York
Herald, Ith.
Not quite so fast, Mr. Herald! Not
withstanding your boast that the Herald
is mightier than the Government, and
threaten all sort of revenge in oase your
Cuban correspondent is shot as a Bpy by
the Spaniard General Morales, you oannot
kick General Grant into a war with Spain,
and least of all “Southern Soldiers."
Our brave white volunteers have no
stomach for that fight; but you might
conscript a few of the loyal “friends and
brothers ” who fought “so nobly.” We
are still unreconstructed rebels; not fit
to fill a ditch, like the breve and intelli
gent Africans, but on their testimony to
be sent to pine away and die in Northern
dungeon^.
Besides, the Government has enough to
do with the robbers on the Rio Grande,
the Mormons in Utah, and Gen. Modoc
Jack in his Western cave, without a war
with Spain. The President “wines and
dines” Red Cloud, Little Raven, Buffalo
Bill, aud Modoo Jaok in Washington, only
to have his regulars whipped when the In
dians choose to take the war-path. No!
no! we are out the ring and have no more
paint and feathers even for holydaye. We
have beaten our swords into plows, and
wish hereafter to live peaceably with all
mankind—women inclusive. Four years
of civil war to get away from the Union,
and then when back, to have the bay
onet at our throats eight more years, is
enough war dose for any good people. We,
if we have any say on the subject, would
rather see the noble “friend and brother”
shoulder arms, and when the fife plays
and the drum3 beat, and old ik E pluribus
union" is flung to the breeze, march away
to Cuba. Let him have all the glory—we
envy not his honors.
If any of our brave colored friends who
have the small-pox or military fever broke
out strong, we promise to use our influ
ence with the President to have them
made Cuban Generals and be oovered all
over with brass and buttons. Why not
shine or shin (as it may be) as well in the
Field as the Senate.
From the Augusta Cos stitution&liat 7th.
Address of lion. Alexander 11. Stephens.
Below we publish an address from Hon.
A. H. Stephens to the people of the
Eighth Congressional District, formally
announcing himself as a candidate for
Congress lrom this District, at the elec
tion to be held on the 26th inat., to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Gen.
A. R. Wright. Mr. Stephens states that
be makes the announcement in compli
ance with the action of the recent confer
ence at Atlanta- Ho will, probably, have
no opponent in the field, all of the gen
tlemen on the Democratic side previously
mentioned in connection with the candi
dacy having withdrawn in his favor, and
we have as yet heard no rumor of the in
tention of the Republican party in the
District to put forward a candiate.
Liberty Hall, )
Crawfordvillk, Ga. >
sth February, 1873. )
To the Electors of the Eighth Congression
al District of Georgia :
The object of thus addressing you is to
make a formal announcement that 1 am a
oatididate for your suffrages at the ap
proaching election, to be held on Wednes
day, the 2 iith inst. , to fill the vacancy
now' existing lor this District in the next
House of Representatives of the Congress
of the United States, whioh has been oc
casioned by the recent and much lament
ed death ot Gen. Ambrose li. Wright-
On making this announcement it is but
proper to state that in doing it, I am yield
ing to a call with which, trorn its unusual
and extraordinary character, I do not feel
at liberty, under a proper sense of public
duty, to refuse a compliance.
That call, though informal under the
circumstances (for reasons known to
you,) was made by a large number of the
most distinguished, as well as the most
truly representative men in the D.striet.
It was made by a meeting held in Atlanta,
on the 23d of January, over whion Gen.
Robert Toombs, of Wilkes, presided as
Chairman, and at which Mr. Henry
Moore, of the Chronicle and Sentinel, ot
Augusta, acted as Secretary.
Os the proceedings of this meeting you
have been very fully informed through
tho public journals—nothing further in
relation to these need be here stated, ex
cept that the meeting embraced in its
numbeis, either in person ■ r by proxy,
every one whose name 1 ..i been men
tioned as a Democratic candidate so far
as lam aware. Their names need not be
here set forth. Most, if not all of them
have since spoken through the press giv
ing the action of that body their coidiul
sanction. This meeting also in like man
ner embraced every Senator in the Gen
eral Assembly from this District, and ev
ery member or the House, I believe, ex
cept one—the member irorn Hart. His
place was filled, however, by another.
Besides this array the meeting was com
posed of quite a number of other most
distinguished citizeus of the District,
among whom stood prominent, Hon. Her
schel V. Johnson, of Jefferson county;
Maj. Joseph B. Camming, of Richmond
county; Charles E McGreggor, of War
ren county; 001. B. F. Evans and Hon.
D. Y J. Twiggs, of Washington county;
Dr. Win. Waiton, Milton P. Reese aud 8.
H. Hardeman, of Wilkes county, and H.
C. Roney, of McDuffie county.
It was by this distinguished assemblage
of the most truly representative men of
the District, a unanimous call was made
upon me “to stand for Cougrosß” at the
approaching election as stated.
The present address to you, the elec
tors, is, therefore, but my public re- ponse
to that call. Iu thus making the an
nouncement of uiy candidacy, in compli
ance with the request so made, it. is not
deemed by me necessary to give any fur
ther exposition of the principles or poli
tics by which I shall be governed, in case
of election. These have been so often
and so recently proclaimed, as to need no
repetition at this lime or on this occasion.
Suffice it to say, that I am a Democrat,
of the “straightest sect,” of the Jeffer
sonian school of politics. In it I was
reared, and in it I expect to die. In this
school I imbibed a fixed faith in “the ca
pacity of man for self-government and
a firm belief that upon the unswerving
maintenance of the principles of this
great apostle of liberty, rest, not only all
future hopes for the preservation ot our
matchless systems of free institutions on
this continent, but all sure hopes for the
political redemption of the down-trodden
and oppressed people in all climes and
countries.
Alexander H. Stephens.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
The mangrove is extensively used for
tanning alligator and other hides in South
Florida. It is said its tanning properties
are twenty-five per oent. more than Oak
bark.
It is stated that the New York and Fer
nandina steamers were withdrawn because
the freight money could not be collected,
and not because there was a lack of freight.
A gentleman just returned from a trip
to West Florida, says the people down
there are complaining bitterly of the
great scarcity of money and the hard times
generally 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 just breaking
ground to plant the next cotton crop.
Several Floridians have passed through
Savannah, en route to North Carolina.
They report that during the past two
months hundreds of families have been
compelled to leave the State on account
of the high taxes and the worthlessness of
the negroes.
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TELEGRAPH IC.
FOREIGN.
London, February 10. —The following
dispatch was received here by the Renter
Telegraph Company. It is marked “ur
gent,” and waa not delayed by the Censor
at Madrid. It is, therefore, believed to
have some foundation :
“Madrid, Feb. 10.—His Majesty, King
Amadeus, manifests a disposition to abdi
cate the Crown, in whioh case he will re
sign his power into the hands of the Cortes.
1 Madrid is quiet.”
Geneva, Feb. 10 —The Grand Council
j of War haa decided against a complete
i change of Church and State.
Marid, February 10.—The Correspon
! dencia, in its issue of to-day, annonunces
that the probability is that the session of
j the Cortes will be suspended for a few
days, and upon re-assembling a proposi
tion from King Amadeus to abdicate
the throne will be read in Congress, where
an effort will probably be made to dissuade
the King from carrying out his purpose.
Should he persist, a special law will be
passed to elect a Regent and Cabinet.
Other Madrid journals state that if the
King should resign the Crown, the present
authorities will remain in office to watch
the course of events; and it is believed all
questions arising out of the abdication
would be settled aooording to the Consti
tution, and without any disturbance.
A Cabinet Council was held last night,
after whioh, Senor Martos, Minister of
Foreign Affairs; Senor Biccrera, Minister
of the Interior; and Senor Echequary,
Minister of Finance, had a conference with
Senor Rivero, President of Congress.
A conference also took plaoe between
Senor Coroboda, Minister of War, and the
principal military officers in Madrid.
A large meeting of Conservatives was
also held last night.
Bands of Carlists have ma*le their ap
pearance in the province of Toledo.
The Senate, by a vote of 69 against 6,
passed a motion of confidence in the Min
istry on the question of its course towards
the artillery with regard to the recent
demonstrations in that branch of the
army.
The Government has created an Ord
nance Department.
The bill for the abolition of slavery in
the island of Porto Rico will be taken up
in Cortes to-morrow for discussion.
The snow storm which prevailed here
yesterday also extended throughout the
northern provinces, where the fall was
very heavy.
Madrid, Feb. 11—1. a. m.— King Amad
eus persists in his determination to abdi
cate the throne. It is expected that a
commission of the government will be
formed, which will proclaim a republic.
When it became known last night that
the JK.ing would certainly resign the
crown, groups of people gathered in many
of the streets and there were some at
tempts to create a disturbance. Demon
strations were promptly suppressed and
the crowds dispersed without any conflict.
The Congress last night adopted the
proposal of the President of that branch
of the Cortez, that fifty deputies shall con
stitute a permanent committee.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 8. —The river and
harbor appropriation bill reported to the
House to-day appropriates fifty thousand
dollars for the Mobile harbor and bay.
The amount for the ship canal to conneot
the Mississippi river with the Gulf of
Mexico is not yet fixed.
A sou of MoKinstry is said to be an ap
plicant for the Postmastership of Mobile,
and to be backed by Spencer.
Spencer interviewed the President to
day.
The President is said to be preparing
for a military movement on the Mormons.
The troops are to be recalled from the
South and sent to Utah, where Sherman
will have command.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Some important
movments of troops will soon he made by
tho War Department, the effect of which
will be to take from the States of Ken
tucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Alabama and Tennessee tho greater por
tion of tho United States military foroes
stationed therein, and to locate them at
other points where the interests of the
Government may require them. It is
learned that there are no troops now un
der orders for service in Utah, and it
does not appear that the department im
mediately contemplates sending any in ad
dition to the forces of the Government
already serving iu proximity to the Mor
mon country. A regiment will soon be
stationed at the Rio Grande on account of
the recent trouble in that section. Iu
other parts of the South they will be grad
ually withdrawn.
It is believed that nearly ail the Ku-Klux
prisoners who are now in prison will be
pardoned within a very short time, and
particularly those of the more ignorant
class, convicted of crimes of that charac
ter. The Government will, ho wever, pros
eoute vigorously all new instances of Ku-
Klux persecutions, and it is very certain
that, should additional cases arise, the
Executive Department of Justice would
regard with great disfavor all appeals for
meroy and clemency.
The rule in counting the votes of the
electoral contest, in Joint Committee of
Congress, is, that upon objection to any
vote, the Senate shall repair to its cham
ber and each House shall consider the
question, and unless the House shall con
our the vote shall not be counted. Under
this rule the vote of Louisiana will proba
bly be thrown out.
February 10.—The Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections have made its re
port, as foreshadowed, regarding the Elec
toral vote of Louisiana. It contains con
densed statements of the facts elicted.
Morton and Trumbull each present an
addenda, but they are merely different
views of the courts.
Washington, Feb. 10.—The President
approves the bill for the eight sloops of
war.
There was a Senatorial caucus to-day.
Senators showed no disposition to hold
an extra session. A committee was ap
pointed to arrange the order of business.
R. T. Milner has been nominated for
postmaster at Newnan, Ga.
Senate.—The bill making appropriation
for public buildings at Parkersburg, West
Virginia, passed.
■ Maoher was seated as the successor of
Garrett Davis.
The bill extending the Southern Claims
Commission to 1876 was taken up. Other
amendments to the bill were offered, when
the matter went over.
Distribution of the Alabama claims
award was resumed. Passed.
House.—A large number of bills w ere
introduced and referred.
The bill increasing the salary of the
President and other officer# was lost—
yeas, 81; nays, 119.
Washington, Feb. u.—There is now
no doubt of the President’s intention to
start in about six weeks upon an extensive
Southern tour.
In high fusion circles, the opinion is
si ong that there is no possible chance for
the recognition of the Kellogg Govern
ment. They state that some of the mem
bers of the Committee of Privileges and
Elections are outspoken ia denouncing
the Kellogg Government as a usurpation.
They even use a more energetic phrase.
The ffaaioßtsfai seen confident that Me-
Enery will be recognized, and McMillan
seated.
There is no prospect of action in the
Senate to-day, upon the report of the
Committee, which was submitted yester
day. To-morrow, when both Houses meet
in Joint Convention, objection will be
made when the vote of Louisiana is called
np, when the Senate will retain it It
will require the consent of both Houses to
oount her vote. This is improbable, and
as its rejection will not affect the Presi
dential result, or have any bearing upon
weightier questions to come, the matter
will almost certainly be allowed to go by
default.
Bets on Louisiana will be offered.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Senate.—The
bill extending the Southern Claims Com
mission to 516 passed, but excludes claims
unless presented before March 3, 1873.
Goes to the House for concurrence.
West introduced a bill to authorize the
North Louisiana and Texas Railroad Com
pany to construct a bridgeover the Ouchi
ta river near Monrovia, and over Red
River, near Shreveport, La.; also, a
memorial of the Chamber of Commerce
of New Orleans, in favor of reciprocal
trade with Spanish America, and ooean
postal service with Spanish America.
Adjourned.
House.—Sundry civil appropriations re
ported; aggregate twenty-seven millions.
River and harbor bill was reported ; ag
gregates five and a half millions.
Postoffice and army appropriations were
passed.
Full Cabinet except Cresswell, who is
threatened with pneumonia.
Washington, February IX. —Secretary
Fish, this evening, received a dispatch
from Gen. Sickles stating that at 9 o’clock
to-night the Cortes adopted a republican
form of government by a vote of 250 to
32.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means agreed, on Thursday, to report a
bill for refunding to persons iu the South,
whose property was sold for taxes, the
amount received for such sales, exclusive
of the amount due for taxes.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Congress was
not crowded at the counting of the vote.
The Senate separated from the House on
three Georgia votes cast for Greeley. The
Senate voted to count them and the House
voted nay; so they were cast out. The
whole vote of Mississippi was counted.
They separated on the Texas vote, objec
tion being that less than a majority of the
Electoral College filled vacancies, aud that
the proper officers did not certify to the
credentials. Tho Senate is now (5 o’clock)
out on the Texas question. Louisiana
will probably not be reached until morn
ing. The impression prevails that her
vote will be thrown out, as no debate is
allowed either in convention or when each
House acts separately. Nothing startling
is expected. Congress is becoming a
“yawner.” Mr. Trumbull is making a
vigorous, but hopeless, fight.
Most of the Southern Republicans voted
to couut Georgia’s three votes for Gree
ley.
Conkling encountered a notable defeat
to-day in pressing declarations regarding
the electoral vote. West, of Louisiana,
voted steadily with Conkling.
The House decided to count Texas.
Senate still out.
Later. —The vote of Texas has been
counted —both houses concurring.
A motion to adjourn tho convention was
ruled out of order.
Colfax deoided that motions for recesses
muse be considered separately, and must
concur.
Senator Rice objected to counting Ar
kansas.
Two returns were made from Louisiana.
The first return was made within tune,
the latter one day after time, by messen
ger; but both were received within the
legal time by mail Tbs first, received
was read first. I; certified to by
Secretary of Stale, ] «. The Electors
named in Bov<Vs n .ideate voted for
Grant and Wilson. Tv Electors were
absent. Electors fillet: the vacancies.
The package received by messengers 2d
January. This college filled the vacancy
and voted blank for President aud cast a
full vote for Grata Brown. This college
was recognized by the Si.tie Register of
Votes, and certified lo by Gov. Warinoth.
When these credentials were read, a
number of objections were made to The
vote of either board. Job Stevenson ob
jected to the count of the vote as the elec
tion was not in accordance with law.
Carpenter, of Wisconsin, objected to
counting the vote for Grant and Wilson,
because there was no legal government in
New Orleans of Republican character.—
Trumbull objects to counting the vote
for Grant and Wilson, because Bovee was
not Secretary of State at the time, and
that the figures upon which Bovee's cer
tificates were made, are not true accord
ing to Bovee’s own evidence.
Here the Houses separated to vote on
Arkansas and Louisiana questions.
The following was presented in joint
convention:
Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, also
obje.cted to counting any votes of Louisi
ana, because there was no proper return
of the votes cast by the electors of that
State, and because there is no State Gov
ernment in that State, Republican in
form, and because no canvass of the
votes cast ir. the State had been made.
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, objected
to the first certificate, certifying to the
election of Grant and Wilson, because
the Mr. Bovee who signed the Electors’
certificates was not at the time Secretary
of State, nor in possession of the office or
seal of the position, and because that cer
tificate was not true, in fact, as shown by
the address of Bovee before a committee
of the Senate.
The House voted to count Arkansas,
and is now voting for Louisiana, but the
Senate in secret session has excluded
both, and the count fails for want of con
currence.
The vote in the Senate to count the Mc-
Enery Electors was 19 to 35; the vote not
to count Louisiana was 32 to 16. There
was no vote on counting the Kellogg
Electors.
MEXICO.
City of Mexico, Feb. I.—The Lazsde
revolution in Tesyc is assuming formid
able proportions. Lazado defeated the
Government troops in a pitched battle.
The Cubans here threaten to blow up
the two vessels fitting up here for the
Bpanish service.
KANSAS.
Topesa, Feb. 9.—Senator York, before
the Legislative Committee reiterated
the statement that Senator Pomeroy
paid him s7,<3iO for his vote. It was a
scheme to car h Pomeroy ; and Giles,
Pomeroy’s suocessor in the Senate, knew
nothing of the trap set for Pomeroy.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10.—The tow boat Pe
trel is reported as having struck a log,
and sunk. The Captain swam ashore, but
chilled to death. Seven other persons
were lost.
ILLINOIS.
Havana, Feb. 10.—A boiler in Yates A
Bro. 8 agricultural works exploded, killing
both of the proprietors.
Mr. Robert J. Hill, living near Ameri
cas, while using a log-splitting powder
machine, was dreadfully burned. He may
lose his eye-fight.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
It is stated that the Governor will rec
ommend an extension of the session to
prevent hasty legislation on important
measures.
Senator Josh Hill, of Georgia, signal
ized bis retirement from the Senate by a
parting sop to President Grant. He has
introduced a bill raising the salary of
President of the United States to $60,000,
and that of the Vice President to SIO,OOO.
He introduced the bill on the 4th and
asked its immediate consideratin. Mr.
Sherman disloyally objected and the bill
was referred to the Committee on Privili
ges and Eieotion9.
Pike county is said to have more iron
ore than the whole of Pennsylvania. The
North and South Road will pass through
the richest mines.
Mr. N. T. Johnson, of the late firm of
Jaques & Johnson, iu Macon, received in
telligence Wednesday evening of the ex
treme illness of his brother at Quitman.
He left on Thursday morning’s train to go
see him, but learned before reaching Quit
man that his brother w r as dead.
The Macon Fire Insurance and Trust
Company has been organized with Geo.
B. Turpin, President, and J. Monroe Og
den, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Lawrenceville Herald reports that
that celebrated counterfeit detective, Col.
John A. Wimpey, was shot a few miles
above Gainesville last week.
Capt. West, a wealthy capitalist of New
York, together with Capt. A. Griffith, of
Rome, has purchased twenty thousand
aores of land nineteen miles from Rome
on the line of the North and South Rail
road. The road is graded to within two
miles of his location. Within six months,
Capt. West will have laborers representing
one thousand people, at work, and will
ship forty tons of pig iron per day. He
will require one hundred cords of wood
daily.
Savannah owns $1,411,000 of railroad
stocks and bonds; $8,015,000 of lots un
der lease ; $791,500 of public buildings
and other property, and $16,711,265 of
real estate.
Augusta, np to Saturday, had raised
S6OO to entertain the Agricultural Con
ventionists, and wanted S3OO more.
Augusta has authorized the issue of
$250,000 of bonds to oomplete the canal.
The Augusta Chronicle, in defence of
the statement that the credit of the State
is ruined, states that a capitalist in New
Orleans desires to invest in State bonds.
The mill belonging to Mr. J. B. Max
well, in Elbert county, was set fire and
entirely destroyed on Tuesday night of
last week. Valued at $5,000.
The boiler of the steam mills of Messrs.
Matthews A Kelley, two miles from San
dersville, exploded on Tuesday last. The
building wa9 blown down and four ne
groes wounded. The fireman was badly
scalded. All will probably recover.
The railroad from Fort Valley has reach
ed Perry, and the latter place now boasts
a day.
Harris county jail at Hamilton has six
inmates.
The unusual severity of the weather has
destroyed a large part of the wheat sown
in Middle and Northern Georgia.
Troup county is also complaining of a
scarcity of laborers.
Colonel J. B. Griffin, formerly of Sum
ter county, recently died in Texas, whore
he was engaged in railroad business.
The Early County News says there are
four families within a small radius in
Miller and Decatur counties that have
each lost six members during the last
twelve months.
Colonel William Barkuloo, one of the
most prominent citizens of Brunswick,
and a gallant soldier in the Mexican and
late civil wars, died last Tuesday.
A meeting of the mill owners of the
South is called for to be held at Savannah
on the 18th proximo for consultation and
to decide npon some concert of action in
the lumber business.
Mercer University at Macon will resume
its exorcises on March 3d.
From the Telegraph we learn that when
the war ended, among other property
seized by the United States Government,
was the Confederate armory property in
Macon. Gen. J i. Groxton, of Ken
tucky, in the Federal army, claims that it
wa3 through his intercession that the Gov
ernment was induced to relinquish the
property, and he now wants a fee of tea
thousand dollars *f the oity for the ser
vice. The%iatter has been submitted to
the arbitrament of Col. J. T. Nesbett for
Croxton; Hon. Clifford Anderson for the
city and Hon. Washington Poe as umpire.
Col. W. A. Lofton is counsel for Croxton,
R. W. Jeunson and John B. Weems for
city. Arbitration commenced Saturday.
Mr. Gilbert Clark, a citizen of Monroe
county, hung hinjself last Friday night.
He had been laboring under deep mental
depression for a month or two, in which
he was tormented with apprehensions of
starvation in his old age.
The dwelling of Hon. B. H. Hill, in
Atlanta, on Peachtree street, was slightly
damaged by fire Monday.
President Grant has signed the bill ap
propriating SIIO,OOO to public buildings
in Atlanta.
Hon. B. H. Hill, in a published letter,
thinks that none of the Bullo' k bonds are
valid claims against the State; that the
Bullock Government was the creature of
Federal authority, not authorized to bind
the State, and that the United States Gov
ernment should pay all the Bullock claims
and expenses.
But he adds further, that if the Bullock
dynasty is once recognized as the State’s
own agenoy, then the claims of innooent
holders of Bullock’s illegal bonds must be
investigated and recognized when shown.
The recognition of any of the Bullock
bonds opens the door to every equitable
claim connected with all of them, legal or
illegal.
Mr. Hill thinks that the State should
have referred the holders of the Bullock
securities to the Federal Government for
payment and at the same time have as
sisted them in pushing the claim.
11l health prevents any brain work from
ex-Governor Jenkins and he expresses no
opinion.
J as. Friday, convicted of murder, but
recommended to mercy, was sentenced by
Judge Gibson, at Burke Superior Court,
on Monday, 3d inst., to the penitentiary
for life.
An election will be held at the Court
house in Athena, February 20th inst., to
determine whether or not the city shall
appropriate $25,000 in bonds to the Uni
versity, to be used in the construction of
a building for the College of Agriculture
and Mechanical Arts.
Mrs. SV. Roy ot t otSte wart county, is dead,
aged twenty-five years. The deceased was
a daughter of Mr. J. F. Giles, and lived
near Union.
It has been decided that Wooten is to
be the county site of Lee county.
The little son of Mrs. G. M. Wheeler,
near Amerious, was thrown from a car
riage last Sunday, and had his thigh-bone
broken
Three negroes have leaked out of the
Bainbridge jail, which is now being great
ly strengtbed by a thick coat of whitewash
and some A 1 tenpenny nails.
Nearly every train that passes Fort Val
ley carries from one to two oarloads of
moles for the farmers in South-west Geor
ge
NO. 2.
Two shad each weighing six and a half
: pounds have been brought to Savannah,
i from the St. John’s river.
The Savannah fire alarm telegraph has
cost $2,230 less money to run in two years
than the old system of ringing a bell. The
speed and oertainty are not considered.
Prof. N. LeCoute Stevens, late of Ogle
thorpe University, Atlanta, has been elect
ed Principal of the girl* grammar school
in Savannah.
| There is a erazy woman ia Atlanta by
i the name of Parks, enpposed to be from
Pike county, Ala. She believes herself a
i leotnrer—has a lecture ready for all who
| desire to hear it. The late war, emanci
pation and the origin of the negro seem
! to interest her most.
A colored Senator thus goeth for the
Arkansas Emigrant Agents:
Senate Ohambeb, Atlanta, 0a.,)
February 10, 1873. j
To all whom U may concern :
Information having reached me tha
colored immigration agents are in tin
habit of visiting the counties of Houston.
Crawford and Taylor, and persuading col
ored immigrants to leave the above-men
tioned counties, using my name and in
fluence to practioe their nefarious busi
ness of pretending to oarry immigrants to
the State of Arkansas, when their rea
destination, in many and most instances
is the States of Tennessee or Mississippi
this is to warn all who use my name i:
said connection that I will prosecute an}
and all parties to the fullest extent of tin
law, who are now practicing said business
in my name on the unsuspecting of my
people. I. H. Andeison,
Senator 33d District..
Mrs. Blankenship, of Atlanta, died
Monday.
Two hundred Federal soldiers reached
Atlanta Tuesday.
The Supreme Court has refused anew
trial to E. F. Spann, the Webster count}
wife-murderer.
The Architect of the United Stater
Treasury thinks the publio buildings in
Atlanta should be built of Georgia stone,
instead of briok, as called for in the bill
recently passed.
Hon. Wm. Hope null, of Augusta,
takes positive grdund against the bond
compromise.
The stone depot, with woodon roof, at
Ringgold, was burned Tuesday night,
with the books and $5,000 of goods and
grain. Caught from locomotive sparks.
Young John Callahan, employee of the
State road, fell under an engine and lost
his right foot, at Atlanta, Tuesday.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Governor Lewis has appointed ox-Gov
eritor W. H. Smith Jndge of the Talla
dega Circuit, vice Pelham, resigned and
elected to Congress.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, “old Energy," is
visiting several Northern cities for the
purpose of soliciting aid in the construc
tion of an air line railroad tp extend from
Brunswick, Ga., thiough the States of
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas
and Missouri, to Kansas City, the shortest
line between the Atlantio and Pacific
coasts. Heps also using his bast endeav
ors to secure such additional means as
may be necessary to complete the Selma,
Marion and Memphis Railroad, of which
he is President. Maj. J. P. Freseniua is
with him.
Alabama and Chattanooga Raileoad.—
The New York Journal of Commerce con
tains the following intelligence: “A
meeting of Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad bondholders was held at Frank
fort, Germany, January 10, when a com
mittee was appointed to send a joint
letter to the Governor of Alabama and to
the Receiver of the Road, asking for ful.
information about its affairs, and about
the probabilities of the payment of tin
two coupons now overdue. The commit
tee was further authorized to take ah
steps which :hey considered necessary foi
the 1 ; mat of the bondholders, and in
oase the present Legislature of the State
of Alabama should be adjourned without
making provisions for the payment of tin
coupons, to retain competent lawyers for
the purpose of foreclosing the road on
behalf of the bondholders.
Mr. E. H. Thomas, an old and practica
planter of Henry oounty, died on the 3d.
Capt. W. C. Wallace, of Eufauia, lost
his little son Frederiok, on Saturday night
last, of meningitie.
Jefferson is the only oounty that is free
of debt, in the State of Alabama. Her
people will contribute $50,000 to the re
moval of the Capital to Birmingham.
It is announced by the Selma press,
that the poetio wit, John G. Saxe, and
the prose wit, Bill Arp, will leoture in that
city soon.
Some of our North Alabama exchanges
speak of large flocks of wild geese flying
southward. The weather wise, say it fore
bodes more cold snaps.
The jail at Florence, Ala., valued at
$5,000, has been burned.
The Southern University, at Greens
boro, has 125 students.
Dr. Williamson and Messrs. Bird Meri
wether and William Hooper, highly re
spected and intelligent citizens of Mont
gomery, reached that city Friday morn
ing, returning from Texas, where they
went some weeks ago with a view of ma
king it their permanent home. They
come back thoroughly satisfied that Ala
bama is a far better oountry to live in
and that those who have gone to Texas,
in a majority of cases, would bo glad to
return to the old homesteads.
Busteed is holding U. S. Circuit Court
in Montgomery.
The Cirouit Court now in Montgomery,
has granted a special Grand Jury to in
vestigate certain alleged criminal prac
tices in hiding out or improperly tamper
ing with and attempting to bribe certain
members of the Legislature.
The cotton pickery of Messrs. Keplinger
& Westcott in Montgomery, together with
a hnndred bales of cotton, was burned
Monday night.
In the United States Circuit Court, now
in session at Mobile, the case of Seth
Adams et. al. vs. the Alabama and Chatta
nooga Railroad Company came up to be
heard. The Receivers were empowered
by the Court to purchas thirty-five aores
of land on which the depot and other
buildings are situated in Chattanooga,
Tenn., the purchase subject to confirma
tion of the Court.
It was also ordered that if the State of
Alabama shall, at any time, have sold, or
shall sell, the railroad or any other prop
erty of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad Company, to a purchaser hereto
fore authorized or sauctioned by the Leg
islature of said State, the arrearages of
interest due on the first mortgage shall be
discharged aud satisfied to the holders of
the same ; then the Receiver shall, at the
request of the said State, through her
Governor, deliver the said railroad to such
purchaser.
Mr. A G. Jordan and Miss A C. Fea
gin were married in Midway on the 6th
instant.
It is said that Senator GJ«« °f Macon
county, was paid only flfteen hundred
dollars for violating his honor a3 a gen
tleman and a Mason.
On the sth instant, Messrs. J. A. James
and Robert Culpepper, of Bussell county,
were tried before United States Commis
sioner Isaac Hey man, of Opelika, on an
affidavit of information by B. F. Gardner,
for violation of the enforcement aet.
They ware discharged.
The Georgia Acad my of the Blind.
We have receives xrom Mr. W. D. Wil
flams, Principal of the Georgia Academy
for the Blind, the report of the Board of
Trustees for the year 1872.
Thereport shows that the total resources
of the Institution for the year 1872 were
$11,865 37, and the total disbursements
for the same period $10,750, leaving a bal
ance on hand of $1,115 37. The number
of pupils enrolled since the date of the
last annual report is stated to be' 39, thir
ty-seven of whom are now present at the
Institution, two having returned to their
homes. Four others, whose applications
had been received and granted, were ex
pected to arrive in a few days from the
date of the report. It is not claimed that
this number embraces ail the blind in th«
State entitled, under the rules, to admis
sion. There are a few whose attendance
the managers have made ineffectual ef
forts to secure, and there are, perhaps,
others whose existence is unknown to
them. The managers have made evary
effort to spread abroad a better knowledge
of the Institution among the people of tne
State, and to extend its advantages to all
the individuals for whose benefit it is de
signed.
The pupils in every department are re
ported to be making fair progress, while
the advancement ot a few has been rapid.
The Academy receives into its School
Department such youths, niaie and female,
ns are liopoiessiy bund, or incurably blind
to that degree which prevents education
1 in the ordinary method, between the ages
of eight and twenty years, of sound mind
and tree from bodily disease, and of good
moral character and habits.
The indigent of this State are taken
without charge for ooard and tuition, be
ing supported upon State appropriation,
i'o those able to contribute wholly or in
part towards their education, the charge
will be graduated from tne maximum of
3>250 to such sum us their means will
authorize them to pay. All are expected
to come provided with a supply of good
oomfortable clothing, to be replenished
by their friends, or means provided there
for, from time to time, as it becomes
necessary.
Biind men, not too old to learn a trade,
will be received as apprentices in the De
partments of Handicrafts on the same
terms as pupils are received into the
school.
If a pupil or apprentice snail, after a
fair trial, prove incompetent for useful
instruction, or disobedient to the whole
some regulations of the Acadeiuy, or in
any wise an unfit or improper subject for
retention in the Institution, he or she
will bed sebarged.
The annual school term begins Septem
ber Ist and end June 13th. Pupils admit
ted at any time.
From the Savannah wa of the Bth.
Were the Innocent Holders of Bullock’s
Bonds Unwarned.
An argument mucii leiied on by those
who favor Colonel Kneads compromise
scheme for the redemption of Builoek
and Kimball’s bogus bonds is based upon
the assumption that these fraudulent is
sues are in the bunds oi innocent hold
ers,” who purchased them in ignorance of
.heir true character. Web,vt maintained,
and still maintain, that due warning was
given to Northern capitalists of the spu
rious character of the securities wiih
which Bullock, Kiuibati and Chews were
hooding the money market, and that it
was impossible for intelligent bankers to
nave been ignorant of tne fact that the
corrupt and unscrupulous knaves who at
that time constituted our btate govern
ment were aliens to our pe. pie and hostile
to their interests. As sustaining our po
sition and throwing some light on both
the bond question and the butte credit,
even in that dark day, we give the tollow
ing letter from a highly respectable Isew
Fork merchant, which we find in the
Morning News of December 2, 1870:
New Yore, November 26, 1870.
Editors Chruiiicle and Sentinel:
I thank you for the desired information,
ind also for the kind allusions to our
House, and for the extracts fioin the At
■ anta Constitution. There would be no
difficulty in placing State bonds or bonds
if welt located railroad enterprises, en
dorsed by the State, in moderate amounts,
xt a reasonable figure, upon cue condition,
and that is, that the people of the State
.hall be proportionately identified iu in
terest.
Public confidence in Georgia thrift and
energy is very firm; »nd 1 may add, from
personal knowledge acquiicd iu early life,
Jor I commenced life m Georgia, in your
city, and later at Mtooa,) is v. il grounded.
Iguin, the wonderful recuperation of Geor
gia since the close of the war has opened
he eyes of the public to hex wonderiui re
sources—as yet scarcely touched, and to
the degree of prosperity which she will at
tain in the future. These views receive
careful consideration by those who desire
to invest, and of course are noted by
bankers and bond brokers. Your people
may rest assured that Wail street is aa
well posted as to the liabilities and re
sources of your State as any of your citi
zens. and scan closely both the character
of the State Legislature and the require
ments of law. As an instance of publio
confidence in your State credits, I could
give the names of three or four New Eng
land savings bank? who hold as invest
ments no inconsiderable amounts of Geor
gia “old sixes.” At the same time, I
should be uncandid did I not state that
your late Legislature has awakened great
distrust.
Your Governor is now here, or at least
was here day before yesterday, and finds
some difficulty in effecting a negjtiation
of his new seven per cents. Banners and
capitalists will not touch these bonds be
cause the demands of the law have not
been complied with. He alleges that all
that is said about these bonds has been
said by the State Treasurer, who is s’riv
ing, through personal animosity as well as
for political purposes, to crippie him by
damaging the credit of the State ; bat it
appears to me that the extract from your
Code which you seat me is so very plain
that lie cannot dis egard it, aud at all
events it must be complied with before he
can do more than effect a moderate loan
upon them as collaterals, if ne can do this
much, as I doubt.
Some of our first bankers who desire to
go into these bonds will send a responsi
ble party out to Atlanta to investigate
more closely the status of affairs before
they venture. The suspicion is that this
is another North Carolina affair, promis
ing similar results. The Governor says
that it will be necessary to call the Legis
lature together in -January to perfect some
unfinished matters, as the new Legisla
ture cannot meet before next Fall. Is
this so ? He says also that at that time he
will have some suggested alterations in
the authority granted by the act pa-sed,
ind shall insist that your Legislature free
him from the Treasurer’s in ilieious influ
ence. which is so damaging to the State.
Be this as it may, there are too many
Sonthern bonds on the market. Tennes
see’s aud Alabama’s are as plentiful as au
tumn leaves ; and it looks as if Georgia’s
promise like abundance. I would that
you were without “these bonds.” O.
New Wabehouse Fiem.—The Alston
Warehouse has passed into the possession
of Flournoy, McGehee & Cos., who have
taken charge of the establishment. The
new firm is composed of Messrs. John R.
Flournoy, C. C. McGehee, 11. 11. Epping
and Joseph Hansard. Having a first-class
brick fire-proof warehouse, and being
men of enlarged cotton experience and
possessed of ample capital, the firm is
prepared to do a general storage and com
mission business on the most liber-1 and
advantageous terms. Three of the mem
bers belong to tl e well-known and firmly
established commission house of Epping,
Hanserd <& Cos. Colonel C. B. Taliaferro
remains with the warehouse, and will be
glad to sea there his old friends. The ad
vertisement of the new firm Can be found
in this paper. Each member is widely
and favorably known throughout this seo
tion.
Difficulty at Seale. —Mr. Ansell Mil
ler, on Saturday night last, was severely
cut in the face by William Malloy. Miller
shot at Malloy after being cut without
effect, and same five minutes afterwards
attempted to shoot Malloy, hi3 pistol fail
ing to fire three times. Malloy, we are
informed, was intoxicated, and when in
this condition is a turbulent, troub!®me
man. Miller is a sober, quiet man. Ne
arrest*.