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Col. A U. Lamar Appointed Solicitor.
—Our special dispatch given the pleasing
intelligence that, our townsman, Col. A. R.
Lamar, has been confirmed Solicitor-Gen
eral of the Eastern Circuit, in which Sa
vannah is embraced. As is well known
he was formerly editor of the Son for a
number of years, and is now editor of the
Savannah Advertiser. He is a man of
brilliant talent, and is recognized as one
of the most eloquent and causrio of news
paper writers. Few have done as much
for Georgia as he. Under the circum
stances detailed the Senate paid him a
high compliment.
ilr. Wm. U. Garrard, mentioned in ihe
and, .patch, is a lawyer of some 26 years of
age. from Columbus, but now of the firm
of Tompkins & Garrard, in Savannah.
Farm Work. — From all quarters of
Georgia comes the report that faun work
is vigorously progressing. Large quanti
ties of guano are being purchased and
preparations made to plant a large area in
cotton.
Guanos. las. K. Redd & Cos. are the
agents of the Phoenix and Wilcox, Gibbs
k Co.’s guanos. These fertilizers have
been tested in this section with the most
satisfactory results. They are prepared
at Savannah and Charleston. Hundreds
in this county can testify to their merits.
See advertisement.
Short Step from the Altar to Pris
on.—Yesterday an old man, whose name
we did not ascertain, was remanded to
jail by Justice Shivers, in default of
bond, to answer, before the next Supe
rior Court, the charge of bigamy.
The warrant was based upon affidavit
mads by the first wife of the prisoner, an
aged lady. The second wife is repre
sented as quite a young person. All the
parties are residents here.
An Important Rumor.— There appears
to bo circulated among the freedmen a
wide spread report that the negroes who
are reported as having been engaged to
goto Arkansas, are really to be sent to Cuba
aud made to light the Spaniards. The
colored people talk of it as a certainty,
and who would not be surprised iu these
rapid days at anything. The darkies
should be ware of these emigration
agents aud their proffers. They are up
tu any game.
An Example to be Followed. —The
largest planter in Georgia, aud one of the
largest in the South, who makes from 1,-
500 to 2,000 bales of cotton per annum,
intends this year planting enough corn to
more than supply all four of his extensive
plantations. He knows it pays. If it is
remunerative to a large planter, this
course ought certainly to put money into
the pockets of small farmers. If he is not
i itated, the rich man shows far more
isdom than the poor one.
The Chattahoochee on a Swell. —The
heavy rains of Saturday, and the torrents
which descended in North Georgia and
Tennessee, swelled our river to immense
proportions. It was said to be higher on
Sunday than at any period since 1862,
when the upper bridge was washed away.
The water lacked some six feet of being
as high as on that memorable occasion.—
This time the rise was to a point about a
foot below the brick piers. It is thought
there was as much water in the Chatta
hoochee as in the famous Harrison freshet,
when the lower bridge was swept off. The
river is now one hundred yards wider than
at that time.
Passengers tell us that Chattanooga is
well-nigh overflowed, aud on Sunday
there were four feet of water in the rail
road depot. Great damage.
Cotton Receipts at Interior Towns.—
The following shows the receipts of the
named interior towns from August 81st
to Feb. 15th. Their united stooks on the
15th were 88,744, against 88,051 same date
last year :
1873 1872
Augusta 148,671 121,826
Macon 67,134 50,604
Eufaula 24,086 13,765
Columbus 60,670 35,873
Montgomery 57,158 48,762
Selma 40,240 52,610
Nashville 45,705 49,71)8
Memphis 267,384 284,370
Total 691,048 661,998
Land Slide on the North and South
Railroad. —The passenger train on the
North aud South Railroad missed its regu
lar trip on Sunday, being the first occur
rence of the kind iu its history. Some
apprehension was felt iu the city, as the
fall of rain during Saturday and at night
was immense. The interruption of the
train was occasioned by slides in several
of the heavy cuts on the road. Although
cleaned out several times during the Win
ter, their great depth could not withstand
the heavy rain of Saturday night. A force
as largo as could be made available was
placed ou the railroad Sunday, and trains
will resume the regular schedule.
The Osanhatchie, Standing Boy and
other creeks, though swollen into perfect
torrents, did not disturb the substantial
bridges.
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The Atlantic and Gulf R ailroad Ex
tension—Views of Our Own Represent
ative.—Speaking on the debate of the A.
A G. R. R. extension in the Georgia
House of Representatives, the Atlanta
Constitution says:
Hon. John Peabody, with massive head,
vigorous aud active brain, always speaks
to the point and with power. He is one
of the most solid men in the General As
sembly.
He remarked that the Western and At
lantic Railroad was cited as a precedent.
The constitutional inhibition was made in
1868. Hence '.he Western and Atlantic
Railroad formed no precedent.
Asa financial scheme the road would ,
not do. There is not much reliance to be j
placed on the estimates of railroad offi-j
cials. They never turn out as beautiful j
as they are painted. Other roads con
necting at Pollard will compete with this j
road, and her boasted receipts, (on paper)
will dwi die down to almost insignifi
cance.
To • , ,v. th it tins road is now ap
plying for aid is pi oof that capitalists
wont touch the scheme. They can t see
the “golden results” that are talked of.
The State is now asked to assume all the
risks of the scheme, though Savannah has
$1,200,000 in it. Why doesn’t Savannah
show her faith in the enterprise and in
crease her subscription.
The Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
was built partly in Georgia and mostly in
Alabama. Alabama held a first mortnge
lien and Georgia only a second mortage
lien. Notwithstanding, Georgia seized
that part of the road in Georgia and holds
it to-day. Georgia is sovereign and so is
Alabama. If Georgia can hold a road un
der a second mortage lien can’t Alabama
do the same thing ? What then becomes
of a prior lien V What security can we
have that our rights will be observed and
protected ?”
Judge Hall has ordered W. S. Brown,
of Griffin, charged with murder, to be
confined in Fulton county jail.
VOL. XV.
GEN. TOOMBS AND BANKER JAMES.
The letters of General Toombs and
Mr. James, late Mayor of Atlanta, on the
bond question, on the ontaide of our pa
per to-day, are the clearest and most logi
cal productions we have seen on the great
live issue of the day. General Toombs
reasons with his usual superior vigor, like
a lawyer and a statesman—Mayor James
like an honest banker, whose perfect
familiarity with sueh subjects enabled
him to rise from a poor, friendless boy to
a position of honor and affluence without
a stain on his reputation. If such “quill
drivers” are guilty of “glaring ignorance”
and a want of sense on what they write,
the tax-payeis will scarcely find more wis
dom and experience among the apologists
of the Bullock bondholders.
Colonel Snead may be a very honorable
man and respectable bondholder agent.
He may be very kind to Georgia, and even
perform his promise to prop up her shaky
credit if she will pay that little $ 1,500,-
1)00 and interest which these slaughtered
innocents of Bullock A Cos. plead they
purchased without notice. What, then,
will the foreign bondholders and others do
who, by the compromise, will stand out in
the cold ? As the “ late lamented ” was
accustomed to say, a little story will best
illustrate their condition : A pious mother
was explaining to her child a picture of
Daniel in the lion’s den, particularly em
phasizing the fact that the lions were very
hungry and were expected to eat the
prophet. The child burst into tears.—
“Why, what makes you cry, my dear?’’
inquired the astonished mother. “ That
poor, hungry lion ’way off yonder in the
oorner,” sobbed the susceptible child,
pointing to the figure of a lion in the
background, “ he can't get any!"
We are afraid, if any of these illegal
and fraudulent bonds to save onr credit, are
paid, the little, poor, hungry lions “’way off
yonder iu the comer” will start from every
bush, and their roarings will be terrible.
To carniverous animals a single drop of
blood only increases and multiples the
appetite until the whole carcass is man
gled and eaten up.
The Catholic Bishop of Georgia
Father Wm. Gross who has been ap
pointed and confirmed as the Catholic
Bishop of Georgia is in his thirty-sixth
year, having been born in Maryland on
July 12th, 1837. He received a common
school education and at an early age en
tered the petit Seminary of St. Sulpice—
known as St. Charles College—at Ellicott’s
Mills, Maryland. He made his profession
of religion in the Order of Ttedemptorists
on the fourth day of April, 1858, and was
ordained by Archbishop Kendrick, March
21, 1853, so that he has been scarcely ten
years a priest. He went immediately on
a mission, has traveled all through the
South, was stationed quite a while at Sa
vannah, and from there went to and
through Florida. He was for some time
connected with the Church of St. Alphon
sus, in Thompson street, in New York,
but was almost always out attending to
religious calls or working up the exigen
cies of the missions. Immediately after
his ordination he was stationed at Cum
berland, Maryland, and until his appoint
ment, in the summer of 1871, as superior
of the convent of his order at Roxbury,
near Boston, where he is now stationed,
he was continually going about doing
good.
Many in Columbus have heard him
preach. Ho is of medium height, rather
slender, has a clear strong voice, and an
effective delivery, quick, sharp and strik
ing. His thoughts are bold and original
and his reasoning of the first order of
talent.
At the fair, last year, in St. Louis, the
prize of SI,OOO for the best bale of cotton
was awarded Mr. John G. Yeiser, of Jack
sonville, Mississippi. The bale was after
wards sent to Memphis, and won the first
prize there, and subsequently it appeared
at Jackson, whsre it also won the first pre
mium. Having been thus adjudged to be
the best bale of cotton by three different
setH of judges, this lucrative bale was sold
by its former owner for fifty cents a
pound, and thus realized him, in addition
to the premiums, probably one thousand
dollars. Its new owner desiring to press
its career of triumph still further, intends
to send this famous cotton bale to the Vi
enna Exposition, to showthe world assem
bled there what Mississippi can do in the
way of cotton raising.
llon. R. P. Tbippe. —This gentleman,
we learn by telegraph, has been appointed
and confirmed Judge of the Supreme
Court. Mr. Trippe is a most excellent
gentleman—generous in disposition and
possessed of fine common sense. We
know less of his legal learning than of
his gonial companionship and his political
abilities and integrity. He was for many
years a representative in Congress, and at
one time the youngest member of the
House.
The New Telegraph Line. —According
to the report of the President of the
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany, the organization has completed and
in operation 1,603 miles of line w'ith 3,002
miles of wire. There are offices in twen
ty-three cities and towns. The company
is represented as in a very prosperous
condition.
Mr. Fred. Myer is the operator of the
office in Columbus.
Error Corrected. —Gentlemen tell us
that the partnership existing between
Messrs. W. U. Garrard and Thompkins,
in Savannah, was dissolved some months
ago. Perhaps we did see the statement,
but we did not recall it when comment
ing on the special dispatch received Tues
day, announeiug that the Senate had re
fused to confirm the appointment of the
young men as Solicitor of the Eastern
Circuit, and did confirm Col. A. R. La
mar. Both are talented young lawyers.
The Pat.— We hear it stated that the
income of the Solicitor-General of the
Eastern Circuit, which includes Savannah,
amounts to from five to seven thousand
dollars per year. We do not know what
truth there is in the statement.
Reommended for Pardon. —Brad Olive,
from this place, uow among the peniten
tiary convicts, has been recommended to
Executive clemency. He was sentenced
to the penitentiary for shooting a man in
Augusta.
Marriages. —They are now the talk of
the day and the sensation of the season.
Among the latest gossip is that two beau
tiul sisters are to be married on the same !
evening in the Spring. Hymen is report
ed as having made arrangements for fes
tivities in several other quarters.
(J. S. Commissioner. —J. Clarke Swayze
has been in the city several days, procur
ing, we are informed, the evidence in cer
tain claim cases.
Returned Home. —Representative Pea
body returned home yesterday. We are
informed Representative Watt and Sena
tor Crawford have also returned.
The stockholders of the Muscogee Man
ufacturing Company hold their annual
; meeting on March Sth.
D. T. Hallidav offers a reward of SIOO
for the negro, Seaborn Walker alias Sea-
I born Richardson, who murdered his son
jon the 12th of February. See notice.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Correspondence of the Columbus Dally Sun.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Feb. 12, 1873.
AMES VS. COLFAX.
Y ice-Preaident Colfax, through his coun
sel, Mr. Hall, yesterday made a final tilt
with Mephisto Ames, in which Mr. Colfax
failed to explain satisfactorily where he
got the $1,200 from that appears in his
bank account. The story that he receiv
ed SI,OOO of it from Mr. Nesbitt as a con
tribution towards his election expenses
when running for the Vice-Presidency,
would be good enough for his friends to
fall back on, were it not that, unfortunate
ly, Nesbitt is now an angel and his letter
destroyed, all of which is bad for the
story. Mr. Hall put the tempter through
a severe course of sprouts, but he fell back
on the oft-quoted memorandum-book
which he produced for the first time, and
during his examination verified his pre
vious statements from it. Ames thought
it was a trifle rough on him that those
whom he had tried to let down easy by do
ing a little prevarication for at first in
their cases should come before the com
mittee and try to make him out a liar.
The public may judge how bad is Colfax’s
case to-day, when the Chronicle, the de
fender of the Credit Mobilier lame ducks,
could say no more than the following in
defense of him: “He makes out a case
that will commend itself to the cnosider
ate as having every appearance of the
truth." The italics are mine. The “con
siderate” may be satified with “the ap
pearance of truth,” but that class of peo
ple are so few that it won’t count for
much. In the evening Mr. Colfax made
a long explanation before the committee
when Judge Poland stated that the evi
dence was all in, and the committee would
commence on its report to-morrow. From
what I have gleaned of the opinion of
members, there will be no expulsion of
the dabblers in Credit Mobilier; a few
words of censure may be meted out to
them, more in condemnation of their stu
pidity in not owning up like little men,
that they bought the stock in good faith,
than for any wroug they have been guilty
of.
POMEROY.
The committee appointed to investigate
“Subsidy Pom” on the charge of bribery
are Messrs. Frelinghuysen, Buckingham,
Alcorn, Thurman and Vickers. They
have determined to go to work at once,
and have telegraphed to Kansas for wit
nesses, including Mr. Yorke, Pomeroy’s
bete noir. The investigation will be pub
lic; the committee purpose making it
thorough, and yet in time for the action
of the Senate before it adjourns. From
the partizanship displayed by Senator
Frelinghuysen on several occasions, and
Senator Buckingham in the New York
Custom House investigation, together
with the sudden fall in Christian states
man stock, I have not the liveliest faith
that the efforts of the above-named Sena
tors to get at anything damaging to
Brother Pomeroy will result in a severe
strain on their suspenders. However,
without the least disparaging the high
honor, integrity, ability or desire for full
justice on the part of Senators Vickers
and Alcorn, I may be permitted to say
that the word of Judge Thurman will
suffice for the country. Such is the esti
mation in which he is held that Radicals,
as well as Democrats, will be guided in
their opinions by his conclusions. “Pom”
will have full justice done him, and any
effort to whitewash will be shown up by
Judge Thurman very quickly.
LOUISIANA.
While Senator Trumbull was cross-ex
amining Marshal Packard, of New Or
leans, in the Louisiana case yesterday,
Senator Carpenter, with all the zeal and
officiousness of a hired advocate, accused
the Senator of putting words in the wit
ness’ mouth. Mr. Trumbull turned to
the burly Wisconsin politician, and in his
sharp, biting manner, said that Mr. Car
penter’s remark was discourteous, but im
proper, and if the investigation was to be
conducted iu uartizan interests he wished
to be out of it. Mr. Morton, Chairman
of the Committee, stated that he tried to
conduct the investigation fairly and im
partially. Morton is just as partizan as
Carpenter, but the latter in his haste to
do the dirty work cut out for him by his
masters outruns discretion aud exposed
his designs to every eye. This man Car
penter came to the United States Senate
with the highest hopes formed of his fu
ture career as a statesman, but he speedi
ly took rank as a mere servile tool of the
powers that be, and he stoops to any depth
to serve the administration. His case
would excite commiseration if it did not
cause disgust and loathing. From this
specimen of Louisiana judges, but little
hope of justice exists among those who
are familiar with these matters.
PORTAL CAB SERVICE.
The great advantage to the people gen
erally, and the business community espe
cially, of the railway postoffice cars can
not be computed. These expensive ears
were built and run by the different rail
road companies under a promise from the
; Postoffice Department that they should be
paid for their pse but not a penny has yet
been received by the railroads. Isaac
Hinckley, Esq., President of the Phila
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road Company, was before the Appropria
tion Committee, representing a number
of other roads also asking for a remarka
bly low rate of compensation for carrying
the mails by this improved method. It is
hoped that Congress will act fairly in this
! matter and not deprive the public of the
j great advantages of the postal mail cars.
THE SECRETARYSHIP OF IHE TREASURY.
Things in this connection are rather
mixed. Senator Wilson remains in the
Senate until March 4th. Boutwell will
not resign until elected Senator, which
cannot take place until after March 4th.
The President cannot appoint a Secretary
without Boutwell running the risk of be
ing defeated. Assistant Secretary Rich
ardson, who has looked upon himself as
booked for Bontwell’s place, is on eggs as
to what may happen. Senator Wilson,
by his action in putting off his resigna
tion, has rather jumbled matters among
tbe aspiring ones and the chief.
OUR VIRTUOUS SOLOMON.
Senator Harlan, of the Chronicle, in de
fence of corruption, bribery and perjury,
i e Credit Mobilier dabbling, says “the
people are heartily sick of this cry about
the corruption of those members who were
inveigled into the purchase of a little
Credit Mobilier stock the amount being
so insignificant, Ac., &c. This pleading
reminds me of the story of tbe girl who
was “inveigled” into a maternal difficulty
and made the excuse “that it was such a
little baby.” Asa contrast to the above,
this Reverend Brother, in speaking of the
new postal bill, just passed by the House,
by which letter postage is reduced to two
cents, says that he doubts the wisdom of
the change, there being no public demand
for it. I wonder if be has heard tbe
“public demand” for his resignation on
account of them SIO,OOO. It is difficult
to determine whether Harlan is most vir
tuous or wise, or both.
Average Receipts. —Since the war Co
lumbus has received 410,038 bales of cot
ton being an average of 68,339 bales for
each of the six seasons. This cotton has
realized to planters over forty millions of
dollars, the vast proportion of which has
gone to the West to pay for meat and
i com.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1873.
A DARING BURGLARY!
A TROY PLANTER ROBBED! ! —NEARLY $lO,-
000 IN SPECIE TAKEN ! ! !
We learn from our traveling corres
pondent that a most daring and premedi
tated burglary took place on Saturday
night last at the residence of Mr. David
Caskrey, an old and wealthy planter, liv
ing about two miles from Troy, Pike
county, Ala., by which nearly ten thou
sand dollars in specie and currency were
abstracted from the honse. The night
was very dark and stormy, and the burg
lars being familiar with the premises, the
whole transaction took place without
alarming the family. This was no doubt
owing to the sickness of the watch-dog,
who failed to be at his post. No traces
of the robbery were discovered until the
next day, when Mr. Caskrey went to the
room in which he kept his trunks, and
found that the one in which he had placed
his money was gone. After searching the
neighborhood for some little time, Mr. C.
and his sons discovered the empty trunk,
and also found a considerable quantity of
gold and silver coins scattered about on
the ground, indicating that the trunk had
been opened and robbed of its treasure at
this point. The matter was kept quiet by
the family during the day, but at night a
son-in-law of the old gentleman, assisted
by several of his friends, patrolled the
city and suburbs of Troy, and succeeded,
through information furnished by a ne
gro. in securing the burglars, and subse
quently recovering $8,750 55 in specie
and $544 in currency, leaving about SIOO
unaccounted for.
The parties implicated in this daring
robbery, which has created intense ex
citement in Pike county, are two negroes,
the eldest named George Snell, a trifling,
shiftless fellow, and the youngest, about
seventeen years old, bearing the name of
Jerry Caskrey, he having been a former
slave of the man he robbed, in whose
employ he had been, off and on, up to the
present time. After removing the trunk
from the house to the place above alluded
to, it was broken open and the treasure
removed. Snell picked up a bag of specie
and started with it to find a hiding place,
but the shot-bag being old and rotten, the
specie commenced running out at the
bottom. This led him to throw it down
in an out-of-the-way place and cover it up
with leaves and brush. He then went
baok, aud assisted by Caskrey, who had
already secured the greenbacks, removed
the other four bags of gold and silver to
a place, where they dug a hole and buried
it. So far all was safe from detection;
but they very unwisely brought some of
the loose specie aud currency into the
city, and during the day made a too free
use of it among their colored frirmds of
both sexes. This led to their speedy
arrest during the night, and their lodg
ment in jail on yesterday morning.
During the afternoon the prisoners were
arraigned before Judge B. YV. Starke,
charged with burglary and larceny, but
owing to the absence of important wit
nesses the case was postponed until Thurs
day morning next, at which time a pre
liminary examination will be had. The
prosecution was represented by Henry C.
Wiley, Esq., County Solicitor, and Hon.
John P. Hubbard appeared for Snell,
Capt. L. H. Bowles for Caskrey, and Capt.
J. D. Gardner for a negro aud his mother,
who are implicated as receivers of a por
tion of the stolen money. By the pay
ment of a reward of SSOO, and other ex
penses, Mr. David Caskrey’s loss by this
burglary will be over one thousand dollars.
He speaks of Jerry as an honest boy in
the past, and one in whom he had full
confidence; but the boy was led away by
older and more dishonest negroas.
ALABAMA ITEMS.
The main building of the machine shop
at the foot of College Hill in Eufaula, was
burned Sunday morning and machinery
damaged by intense heat. Mr. John Mc-
Nab owned building, boiler and engine,
and was insured for $2667. Mr. F. L.
Robertson who had ao insurance valued
the property at $22,000.
Grounds have been purchased in Clay
ton for a plaoe of recreation and amuse
ment, and on which it is designed to have
a floral and fruit exhibition about the Ist
of August next. Over 100 shares of
stock have been taken at $lO per share,
and the books are still open for another
100 shares—s2,ooo being necessary to pur
chase the grounds and improve the n.
Thß new iron bridge over the Tombig
bee river on the Alabama Central Rail
road has just been completed.
The artesian well in front of the Selma
Council Chamber, is now discharging 8,-
000 gallons an hour, and is increasing dai
ly in volume.
Mr. Mabry of Eufaula, caned N. S. Mc-
Afee for insulting words uttered in the
House.
Mr. Jones, tax collector of Walker coun
ty, is the only tax collector who has set
tled in full for the taxes of 1872. ‘
AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR.
State of Alabama, Auditor’s Office, >
Montgomery., Feb. 7, 1873. >
Circular No.
The following is published for the in
formation of all concerned.
Information having been received at this
office that in several instances the Court
of County Commissioners had levied a tax
upon the Sinking Fund, the legality of
such action was submitted to the Attorney
General for his opinion.
He has decided that the Sinking Fund
having been created for a special purpose,
and that purpose being full} 7 defined in
the act providing for it, the Court of
County Commissioners have no right to
levy a tax upon the same for county pur
poses.
The Courts of County Commissioners
will govern themselves accordingly.
R. T. Smith.
It is supposed that several thousand
dollars have been collected illegally in
this county, and that other counties have
also suffered. Citizens who have paid
this tax should at once apply to have it
refunded. — Montgomery Advertiser.
A little negro and a horse were drowned
in Montgomery on Monday between the
Eufaula depot and the city. The other
horse and driver of the hack were saved.
A well-dressed man, giving his name as
Edwards, and representing himself as a
merchant from Greenville, made heavy
purchases at Mobile, but before delivery
he was discovered to be a dead beat.
Four persons, arrested as a Ku-Fluxes
are in the Madison jail, where they are
denied pens and paper, and refused com
munication with their families.
The citizens of Eufaula, on Monday
night, nominated the following municipal
I ticket: For Mayor, Wells J. Bray; City
Clerk, G. H. Sporman; City Marshal, T.
1 D. Patterson.
The Courier says not less than 6,000
fruit trees have been sold in Clayton and
the country immediately surrounding
during this season from the Atlanta and
Georgetown nurseries. They were gene
rally sold in lots of twenty-five to fifty,
but in some instances as *many as four
hundred trees were bought by one person.
On the 13th, Mr. Daniel A. Hixon, of
Perote was married to Miss Juliet E.,
daughter of B. F. Petty, Esq., of Clay
t°D. ,
The capital stock of the Pea River
Manufacturing Company, $35,000, has
been made up. The location is twenty
miles southeast of Clayton and ten miles
from Brundidge in Pike county. pie
i company will spin yarns ana weave plain
I domestics and consume 600 pounds of cot
i ton daily, at present.
John V. Trammell has been elected
! Surveyor of Chambers connty.
The Radical Governor has informed the
Legislature of his approval of the act im
i posing a tax of three-fourths of one per
cent, on all property in the State, for
i State purposes.
TELEGRAPHIC
Special to the San
Colonel A. R. Lamar Confirmed as Solicitor-
General of the Eastern (Savannah) Dis
trict. „ „„
Atlanta, Feb. 18, 18.3.
After the rejection of Wm. U. Garrard’s
nomination as Solicitor of the Eastern
Circuit, Governor Smith nominated Henry
B. Tompkins. Garrard’s partner, which
was tabled. The Governor then nomi
nated Albert R. Lamar, who was con
firmed. “W.”
FOREIGN.
Madrid, February 16.—Hon Daniel E.
Sickles, U. S. Minister to Spain, to-day
called upon Senor Figuero, and addressed
him as follows:
“Pursuant to orders from my Govern
ment, I salute your Excellency upon the
establishment of a Republic in Spain.
The wisdom and dignity with which the
change of government was effected is a
happy auspice of the glorious future for
Spain. The United States, occupying a
large tract of continent civilized by Span
ish faith and valor, cannot contemplate
unmoved the spectaole of the Empire of
Ferdinand and Isabella transformed into
a Republic. The American people re
joice to Ree Spain imitating their exam
ple. and establish prosperity and power
upon sound foundations. In expressing
to your Excellency the fervent good wishes
of President Grant, and recognizing your
authority, I accomplish the most agree
able duty of my mission to this noble and
generous country.”
Senor Figuero, in reply to Mr. Sickles,
said, “All my grave responsibilities would
overwhelm me were it not for such mo
ments as the present, when you so elo
quently confer the robust voice of the
American people in blessing and acclaim
ing the advent of a Republic which mod
erate energy achieved, and precedence
will preserve. If the United States is in
debted to Spain for the discovery of the
American continent, Spain is indebted to
the United States for being the founder of
new social order. Spain will remember
the worthy example set her by the United
States.”
Madrid, Feb, 17. —Castellar is about to
send a circular to the foreign powers to
prevent their intervention in the affairs of
Spain.
Gen. Pavia, on taking command of the
army in the South, issued a proclamation
appealing to the insurgents of the Basque
provinces and Navarre to lay down their
arms and return to their homes, promis
ing that they shall not be molested for the
past if they will oomply.
Madrid, Feb. 18. —The official Gazette
will, on Thursday next, contain a procla
mation offering amnesty to the Carlists
now in insurrection in the northern prov
inces, if they will, within two weeks, lay
down their arms and submit to the au
thority of the Government. If the insur
gents refuse to accept the offer they will
be energetically prosecuted, and decisive
measures will be adopted by the Govern
ment for the suppression of the insurrec
tion.
The question of sending representatives
to South American Republics is under
consideration by the Government.
London, Feb. 19. —It is rumored that
some of the great powers have notified
Spain of their disapproval of the forma
tion of a Federal Republic. Austria will
recognize the Spanish Republic.
The Spanish Minister at Vienna has
resigned.
Paris, Feb. 19. —Satisfactory progress
in negotiations between France and Ger
many.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 17. —York, of Kan
sas, testified to the effect that he persuad
ed Pomeroy to place money in his hands
for corrupt purposes, in order to betray
Pomeroy.
The majority committee reported in fa
vor of the expulsion of Caldwell.
The Star says Secretary Boutwell feel
ing confident of his election to the United
States Senate, to succeed Mr. Wilson, has
tendered his resignation, to take effect cn
the 4th of March next. On February 3d
he wrote a letter to the President, resign
ing the Secretaryship, his resignation to
take effeot February 15th. That resigna
tion has not yet been withdrawn, but has
been verbally modified at the request of
the President, so as to take effect without
condition, March 4th.
House.—Under the regular call Mr.
Miram introduced a bill to provide for
free banking and the resumption of specie
payments.
Mr. Hoar made the point of order that
no notice had been given of the introduc
tion of the bill.
Mirarn said that notice had been given.
He admitted he had changed the title
since giving notice. This was fatal, and
the bill was withdrawn.
Mr. Packer, of Indiana, from the Com- j
mittee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill
to encourage and promote telegraphic
communication between the United States I
and Asia, and moved its passage nnder a |
suspension of the rules, which was agreed i
to —yeas 136; nays 52. The bill confers i
upon the East India Company authority |
to lay cables between the two countries, j
providing the laying be commenced in two i
years, and direct, the Secretary of the Na- ;
vy to place at the disposal of the compa
ny for soundings and the transportation
of material and supplies, the government
to have priority in the use of the lines
which shall at other times be open to the
publio upon payment of regular charges.
Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, moved to
suspend the rules and pass a resolution de
voting the evening sessions of Wednesday
and Thursday to debate upon the bill to
refund certain taxes collected on raw cot
ton. Rejected, ayes 93, nays 9.
Senate.—Morton presented a resolution
rescinding rule 22, regarding the counting
of electoral votes.
Naval appropriation bill passed. Goes
back to the House for concurrence.
Sawyers, from the Committee on Edu
cation and Labor, reported, without
amendment, a bill appropriating SB,OOO
to the Leland University, at New Orleans,
La., and $5,000 to the Augusta, Ga., In
stitute, to be expended in the erection of
school buildings for freedmen.
Poole, from the Committee on Judicia
ry, reported, with amendment, the House
bill declaring it to have been the true in
tent and meaning of the Act of June, 1872,
amendatory of the Bankrupt Law, that
the exemptions allowed the bankrupt by
said amendatory act should be the amount
allowed by the Constitution and laws of
each State respectively, as existing in the
year 1871, and that such exemptions be
valid against debts contracted before the
adoption and passage of such State Con
stitution and laws as well as afterwards,
and against liens by the deoree of any
State court, notwithstanding any decision
since rendered.
Washington, Feb. 18.—The majority of
the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions will, it is understood, report in favor
of anew election in Louisiana. There
will be two minority reports—one sustain-
McEnery as Governor of that State and
McMillan as Senator; the other sustaining
Kellogg as Governor and admitting Ray
to the Senate. This is the present condi
tion of the committee, although they may,
before making their report, unanimously
recommend anew election in Louisiana.
Boutwell has not resigned.
Hon. Francis W. Sykes, of Alabama,
will this week present his credentials to
the Senate as Senator from that State for
the term commencing the 4th of March,
accompanied by a memorial setting forth
the grounds of his claim. He is attended
by his counsel, E. A. O'Neal and General
John T. Morgan. Mr. Sykes was elected
by what is known as the Capitol Legisla
ture. The points to be presented involves
the legality of both bodies claiming to be
the Legislature of the State.
The Claims Committee agreed to allow
Mrs. Dahlgren $75,000 for her husband’s
patent. She claimed $250,000.
David D. Smith was nominated for Su
pervising Inspector General of Steam
boats.
In the House to-day, Poland, of Ver
mont, chairman of the Credit Mobilier
Committee, made a long report, reciting
in detail all the facts in the evidence as
against each one of the members impli
cated. The Speaker was entirely excul
pated from ail connection with the mat
ter, he having declined to take any inter
est in the Credit Mobilier stock. In re
gard to Dawes, Garfield, Kelly, Bingham
and Schofield, the facts in each ease are
stated with more or less severe criticism
on their action, and commending to the
consideration of members approached un
der like circumstances the letter of the
venerable Senator from Delaware, Mr.
Bayard, declining to take pecuniary inter
est in any matter that might come before
him as a* legislator. In regard to Ames
and Brooks, their conduct is severely re
probated, and resolutions of expulsion in
reference to each of them were reported
to the Honse.
The report having been read further ac
tion on it was postponed until Tuesday
next.
In regard to the Senators involved, the
report states that the evidence implicat
ing them has been sent to the Senate for
its action.
After Thursday next it will be impossi
ble to get any bill through the House
which cannot command a majority at two
thirds, because from then until the end of
the session motions to suspend the roles
are in order, and can be made as against
any pending matter, and the time can be
consumed in calling the yeas and nays on
such motions. This may be important as
implying to any legislation that may be
attempted for Louisiana, or other matter
that has not a clear two-thirds majority in
its favor.
Lewis’ bill for the promotion of educa
tion in the Southern States. As amended,
the bill provides for distributing $22,000,-
000 to Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Distriot of Co
lumbia, in the ratio of their population,
for the education of children from six to
sixteen years old, irrespective of color or
previous condition.
Spencer introduced a bill providing a
Circuit Court for Alabama.
The House bill declaring that the ex
emptions allowed by the bankrupt law
shall be the amounts allowed by the con
stitution and the laws of each State in
1871, and that such exemptions be valid
against debts contracted before the adop
tion of sueh statutes and constitutions, as
well as to those contracted afterwards,aud
against lien, judgment or decree of any
State Court, was taken up and passed.
Many private bills passed.
The bill giving the reporting of debates
to Murtaugh, of the Republican, failed by
a vote of 64 to 72. This continues the
printing with the Globe.
Washington, Feb. 19. —The Committee
on Privileges and Elections will probably
report to-morrow.
Farther inquiry confirms the opinion of
the Committeemen as stated last night.
Gen. West authorizes the statement
that, in his opinion, the present Congress
will not be able to solve the Louisiana
problem.
Washington, Feb. 19.—Grant, Fish
and Boutwell visited the Senate to-day.
Speaker Blaine and Garfield were called
to the President’s presence. Garfield is
Chairman of the Committee on Appropri
ations. It is supposed there is money in
the matter.
Senate.—Bill removing the disabilities
of ex-Gov. Smith, of Virginia, (Extra
Billy, God bless him,) passed.
Sherman, from the Committee on Fi
nance, reported, without amendment, the
House bill providing that upon all Impor
tation of sugar, molasses, pig iron and
railroad iron, the amount of bond re
quired shall only be in a penal sum of
double the amount of duties on such ar
ticles, and that upon all other importa
tions it shall be in a special sum, equal to
the invoice value of the merchandize im
ported, with duties added.
Wilson introduced a bill authorizing
the President to appoint three commis
sioners to revise the bankrupt law and re
port amendments thereto.
Stewart, from the Committee on the
Pacific railroad, reported with amendments
the bill supplemental to the act incor
porating the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company. It authorizes said Company
to consolidate with or lease any railroad
in Texas or California connecting with its
main line, on such conditions as may be
prescribed by the laws of those States;
and also to construct branches from its
main line north to points in Utah and
Colorado, or to the State line of Nevada
and south to the Mexican boundary. Ono
branch north aud one south to be so con
structed from the main line in eueh of
the Territories of New Mexico and Ari
zona.
NEW YORK.
Albany, Feb. 17. —Win. Lowry, Jos
Stewart aud Robt. Hays Mitchell, Ku-
Klux prisoners, were rele.i- . : t'rom the
penitentiary to-day. Fifty of ,uch pris
oners remain.
New York, Feb. 18.—Archbishop Me-
Oloskey has appointed ltev. Father Pres
ton, cf St. Ann’s Church, Vicar General,
in the place of the late Father Starrs.
New York, Feb. 19.—A steamer has
arrived at Punta Arenos with 654 China
men. Thirty-one died during the pas
sage.
A milk train ran into a passenger train
near Harlem, killing one passenger and
wounding many.
New York, Feb. 19.—A box containing
SIO,OOO worth of North Carolina bonds
were stolen from a store in Brown street.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Pittsburg, Feb. 17. —Recent heavy
rains caused a rapid rise >n Monongahela
river at two o’clock this morning. The
current is too strong. The coal fleet, con
sisting of thirty boats and barges, broke
from their fastenings at Smithfield street
bridge and moved off in the current. The
alarm was instantly given by blowing
whistles and other signals, and efforts
made to save the lives of the unfortunate
men who wore on board of the coal fleet.
Some were saved, but reported some lost.
It is impossible to ascertain the damage
done and the number of lives lost. The
river is still rising rapidly, and at 10:40
had risen seventeen feet; but no further
danger is apprehended.
Pittsburgh, Feb. 18.—The flood in
creases ; it is the heaviest river disaster
ever known. It is reported twelve persons
were drowned. A clean sweep was made
of barges and rafts.
MISSISSIPPI.
Sardis, Feb. 16.—William Baylea, a
farmer iivingnear Batesville, was attacked
yesterday by a party of negroes, one of
whom shot him in the baok, dangerously
wounding him. After Bayles had fallen
to the ground he raised himself on his
elbow and shot the negro who had fired
npon him with one barrel of his shot-gun,
and then fired upon another of the assas
sins, killing both instantly.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, Feb. 17.—The Democrat pub
lishes an extract from a private letter from
Berlin stating Bismarck s illness is due to
a poisoned letter, which was handed him.
He is so troubled with dizziness that he
scarcely ever leaves the house. His wife,
who reads his correspondence, is troubled
with unaccountable feebleness.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Feb. 18.—Heavy rains are
reported from all sections of the State,
during the past iwo days, and heavy land
slides on several of the railroads, causing
a detention of trains. The river at Lynch
burg is about 14 feet above its usual level.
At this point, about 10 feet, which will be
greatly increased by the flood from above.
CONNECTICUT.
Haetfokd, Feb. 19.—The Democratic
State Convention convened. Col. D. W.
I. O’Morris, formerly a Republican, was
made temporary and finally permanent
Chairman. Chas. J. Ingleson was nomi
nated Governor, and Geo. G. Sill, a Lib
eral Republican, Lieutenant Governor.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Feb. 19. —A petition is in cir
culation asking the Legislature to expunge
its vote of censure of Senator Sumner for
his action in regard to battle flags.
ALABAMA.
Selma, Feb. 17. —It is thought that the
trains, after a suspension of three months,
will be resumed on the Alabama Central
road.
CALIFORNIA.
San Feancisco, Feb. 19. —No tidings
from the Geo. S. Wright from Sitka,or Ne
vada from Australia, over due.
UTAH.
Salt Lake, February 18. —Snow is 20
feet deep on the mountain. Slides appre
hended at Little Cotton Wood.
MAINE.
Augusta, Feb. 18. A resolution in
favor of woman suffrage passed the House
by a vote of 64 to 59.
LOUISIANA.
Sheevepobt, Feb. 18.— B. Jacobs &
I Bear’s building burned. Loss about
1 $500,000.
The Killing by a Negro of Mr. A. C. Halli
day in Russell County, Ala., Last W eek.
We gave an account of the transaction
from the very best information at our
command. The act was perpetrated on
Mr. Abe Halliday’s plantation, near
: Hatoheohubbee, on Wednesday of last
I week.
j Mr. D. T. Holliday, the father of the
; deceased, has written ns an account of the
affair, which in substance is as follows.
It differs very materially from the aocount
which has been published. The reporter
knows none of the parties, and gave the
information as he received it:
On Tuesday, of last week, the deoeased
was going to the bouse of his brother, Mr.
Abe Haliiday, to see his father off. His
route lay by a patch where the hands were
ploughing. On a mnle that a woman was
driving, he thought he recognized gearing
which had been stolen from him, and be
gan to question her concerning it. A ne
gro (we are informed his name is Seaborn
Walker), who was at work some distance
off, came up and told deceased the gear
ing had been given him by Mr. Abe Hal
iiday, and that deoeased should not have
it. After some trouble, Seaborn was in
duced to leave, and deceased went home.
Thinking of the insolence of the negro, he
returned, when fur ther words ensued, and
the throwing of brickbats, one of which
struck deceased on the head and knocked
him down. The negro then jumped upon
and beat him considerably. After deceas
ed got away, he walked to the front of the
house, and soon saw Seaborn with a gun
which he had taken from a negro cabin,
waiting for him. Deceased made no
threats about killing the negro the next
day.
Wednesday, about lla. m., deceased
went again to the plantation to get a mule
for a negro to whom he had rented land.
The negroes were engaged in cleansing
the stables. Seaborn, that morning, had
borrowed of Mr. Abe Haliiday’s wife a gun,
under the pretence of shooting a hawk,
promising an early return of it. He
loaded one barrel with a Minnie ball, and
bid the weapon iu a horse trough. He had
been absent from the stable for sometime
before deoeased came over, and as the lat
ter passed the dwelling house in that di
rection, Seaborn was seen running from
the woods to the back end of the stable,
and afterwards took a seat on the front
plank of the trough, in which the gun was
hid, in a menacing attitude. Deceased
had stopped, and was talking to a negro
outside the fence. He told him to tell
Seaborn not to let the fuss of the day be
fore turn him a fool, but to go on with
his work, as he (deceased) did not intend
to have anything more to do with it.
When deceased walked to the stable
door, the firing soon began—so near to
gether as not to tell who fired first. The
negroes refused to tell what waR said or
done previous to the firing. Deceased, os
a matter of precaution had taken his
pistol along. So soon as deceased was
shot, he returned to the gate, firing as he
stepped backwards, and the negro shot
him a second time. Deceased did not go
far before he fell; and when ho was down,
Seaborn ran and got a negro’s gun, and
wanted to shoot him ttgain. The weapon
having been taken away, he secured a rail,
and would have beaten deceased to death
at once. In telling of it the negro said
he took good aim, and fired the ball bar
rel when deoeased was about ten feet dis
tant, aud that he, (the negro) had the
devil in him.
The negroes were very reticent, and Mr.
H. thinks they were cognizant of the
slayer’s intentions.
The deoeased was perfectly sober.
During the war he was a member of Capt.
Strother’s company, 20th Georgia regi
ment; was captured at Sharpsburg, and
after exchange, a substitute was sent for
him; and on account of ill heath he did
not afterwards rejoin the army.
Seaborn has disappeared. Mr. H. has
offered a reward for him.
Items from Washington. —The follow
ing were telegraphed ou Tueiday to dif
ferent papers:
Ex-Governor Samuel Bard has returned
to this place from Chattanooga. Bets
are freely offered that he will get an of
fice.
Next Tuesday is set for the considera
tion of the Credit Mobilier report. Ben
Butler will defend both Ames and Brooks
in a set speech.
The Senate Committee to-day found
Nesbit’s draft for SI,OOO, of Vice-
President Colfax. When Colfax heard
this, he sent a note to the committee, say
ing that in his testimony the other day he
forgot mentioning the draft in addition to
the cash subscriptions. This story is re
garded as “thin.” An effort will be made
for his impeachment.-
Marion Bethune is still nosing about
Congress, with a view to getting a dona
tion of $5,000 or so of baok pay. It is
not thought he has any legal right to it,
and it is doubtful whether Congress will
make the donation. He will probably
abandon the idea of contesting Harris’
seat, now that Congress has decided not
to offer any further pecuniary induce
ments to undertake jobs of this kind.
Sale or Guanos.— One warehouse has
already sold some five hundred tons.
Judging by this and the ratio of last year,
some twenty-five hundred tons must have
been purchased this seasou. We truly
hope much will be applied to corn fields.
The country will be in a sad plight next
season if plautors have an abundance of
cotton and no corn. The price of the
staple will bo reduced to such a low figure
that it will not pay for the bacon and corn
which must oorne from the West, and
farms must be mortgaged for bread. A
stranger, seeing the immense train loads
of corn and meat now coming South,
would think onr country was suffering
from a famine. The South should be the
riohest country ou earth, and yet is the i
poorest.
The Atlanta Sun of Sunday prints a
card signed by James Deveaux and J. H.
Anderson, the negro Senators from the
Twenty-first and Twenty-third Districts,
and Revs. Paul Barnett and Thomas
Crayton, advising against the proposed
negro convention in Macon on the 26th.
They conclude as follows:
We, therefore, advise all our people to
remain at home and save the time and
money which they would uselessly and
foolishly spend at such a convention, and
use it for the support of their families
and the education of their children. Let
us cultivate kind feelings between the two
races. Let both the whito and colored
people of our noble old Commonwealth go
actively to work to build up our waste
places, develop our material resources,
organize and support our public schools,
and elevate the moral, mental and social
condition of our people.
The Atlanta Constitution has this :
Norcroas walks up to the front and
claims a bounty from the State. Last
May, Mr. Windsor, aged eighty-four, was
married to the widow Payne, aged eighty
three. The youthful couple were blessed
i a few nights since with two big bonneing
1 boys. Several members of the General
Assembly are negotiating for town lots in
j Norcross.
The Chattanooga Times, of Saturday,
says that all the wheat at the levee in its
city was sold on the previous day at from
; $i 15 to $2 85 per bushel, and that the
I owners made a good thing, having bought
from farmers at only 75 cents to $1 per
bushel.
NO. 3.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Col. Lamar thus gives the status of the
Legislature: The party in Legislature
opposing the Bond compromise stands up
on the Nutting bill and increased taxation
to meet the financial necessities of the
State. The Governor is opposed to the
increased taxation and is strongly backed,
upon this point, inside and outside the
Legislature. It is conceded that if the
session is not prolonged, that an extra
session will be held within a short time.
Lydia Thompson and Troupe were com
pelled to remain at the Kimball House
Thursday night. Col. L. says Mr. A., of
Savannah, bet Mr. 8., of tue same city,
that he could go into the latter’s room
that night and take his watch and money
without his knowing it. Wine wagered.
A. made a mistake and entered Lvdia’s
room through awindow. He was fumbling
around, when the screams of the fair
blonde made him aware of his mistake.
Noise, confusion, uproar, explanations
and wine to be drunk in Savannah. A. af
terwards succeeded in getting Bs. pants.
Mr. Johnson, of Quitman, was attacked
by meningitis and lived but thirty hours.
A Sandersville minister travelled thirty
miles on Sunday and preached three ser
mons.
Mr. M. E. Parramore, an aged citizen
of Quitman, died on Monday, from being
thrown from a wagon—the horses having
taken fright and run away.
Clifford Puckett, a depraved white girl,
generally known in Quitman, was found
dead on the edge of a swamp near Boston,
Thomas county, last week.
Pleasant Moon’s gin house, in Madison
county, has disappeared in the flames. No.
74.
Marcus Arrington, of Jefferson county,
took four hundred grains of chloral hyd
rate, and as a matter of necessity died.
A cow on the plantation of Mr. John
Roberts, in Terrell county, beoame the
mother of five calves at one birth.
A corps of engineers, headed by Major
Gordon Gardiner, have arrived in Haw
kin9ville, fully equipped and prepared to
survey and locate the route of the Haw
kinsvilie and Eufaola Railroad.
As soon as Dr. Myers discovered that
he had small-pox, he insisted on being
moved from Wesleyan College bnildingat
once.
The rice mill, opposite Savannah, under
lease to Mr. Chris White, was burned
Friday night with .100 bushels of seed
rice. Loss $5,000. Insurance SB,OOO.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New
York, Democratic candidate in ’6B, for
the Presidency, arrived In Savannah Sat
urday, en route for Florida.
A negro hired a negro to kill another,
in Savaunah. Assassin failed. Woman in
the case.
Richmond county has 7,175 children of
school age.
A lady is reported to have been mur
dered in Edgefield, 8. 0., by a man to
whom she had refused to lend money.
Tiro energetic Marshal of Lumpkin, in
announcing to the publio that the new
calaboose is finished, requests a continu
ance of the liberal patronage heretofore
bestowed.
The time of holding Superior Courtb
have been changed to the first Monday in
May and November.
Mrs. Rev. C. Dowe and ex-Bheriff and
ex-Marshal Dewberry, have died in Griffin.
All professions are represented in the
550 penitentiary convicts except law and
journalism.
The total amount of wheat brought to
Chattanooga by the flat-boats on this rise
is estimated at about GO,OOO bushels.
The Catoosa Courior has reported some
damage to the wheat crop. In its last is
sue it says the damage is not so great as
was supposed; that level lands and har
rowed in was frozen out, but that plowed
in and on hill sides is all right. From 25
to 50 per cent, more area is now sown in
Catoosa county this year over last.
The store house of Disheroon & Son, at
Stilesboro, Bartow county, was burned on
the 4th inst—loss $4,u00, insured for
$2,000. It is a rat.
Rome was fearing a deluge Saturday
night as rain was falling in torrents and
the rivers rising rapidly.
At Chattanooga the same day the water
lacked six feet of being as high as in 1847
and twenty-eight feet of the great flood
of 1867, when nearly all of Chattanooga
was submerged. Some families had moved
to higher The river was rising
an inch per l.«,ur. The water lacked
twelve ieet of reaching the city. The
railroad companies were moving their
froight cars, of whioh there were about
five hundred blockaded there, to the high
lands on the Western and Atlantic Rail
road near Ringgold, and also, at White
sides.
The Memphis Railroad authorities have
ordered all freight trains stopped at Ste
venson until the crisis is over and the
flood abated.
Tbo following (says the Atlanta Sun,)
is the bill passed Saturday by the Legis
lature. Considerable discussion was had
on the merits cf the bill, and some stric
tures were made as to its discriminating
in favor of cotton. Several Senate amend
ments were voted down, and the bill
passed the Senate as it left the House :
A bill to be entitled an act to protect agri
cultural products from taxation by mu
nicipal corporations, and from charges
for same by factors and commission
merchants in this State :
Section 1. Be it enaoted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That
from and after the passage of this act,
municipal corporations of this State shall
not levy or assess a tax onany agricultural
products raised in this State, or the sales
thereof (other than cotton,) until after the
expiration of three months from the time
of their introduction into said corpora
tions.
Sec. 2. Be it further enaoted, That no
commission merchant, factor or other
salesmen in this State, shall, in his bill of
expenses for the sale or handling of cot
ton or other produce, as aforesaid, include
or collect, directly or indirectly, any tax
or assessment, levied or attempted to be
levied, upon the sale of cotton or other
produce, by any of said corporations, in
violation of the provisions of the first and
second sections of this bill; and, in case
of violations of the same, he shall be lia
ble to the party damaged by such viola
tion in the sum of fifty dollars for every
dollar so collected in an action of debt by
said party.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That all conflicting laws are hereby re
pealed.
Ex-Governor Seymour, when In Savan
nah, spoke in hopeful tone of the im
proved state of public feeling in the
North toward the South, expressing the
belief that the reign of power, hatred and
malignant partisanism, even among the
Northern Republicans, is well nigh over,
and that a better and sounder state of
feeling is beginning to pervade the mass
es, irrespective of old party ties. The
impression produced upon his mind by a
two weeks’ sojourn in Washington, was
that a better feeling was also developing
itself there.in administration circles, and
that the proposed Southern tour of Presi
dent Grant and his Cabinet was based
upon that feeling, and the desire of mani
festing it to the Southern people. He
also believes that good fruits may arise
from that tour, should the President be
met in a liberal spirit.
The deaths, in Savannah, of Mr. S. li.
Papot, aged 18, and E. M. McDonnell,
Sr., aged 62, are reported.
A paper mill is to be established in Sa
vannah, under a charter granted by the
Legislature.
Mr. Jesse Woodward, of Carroll oounty,
has killed sinoe December Ist, fifteen wild
turkey gobblers. Five of these were
killed in one day.
In Carroll county Andrew Sims was
shot by David Gray through the abdomen,
i The wound is considered a serious one
i and may result fatally. Gambling.
The Macon Telegraph has this:
The Small-pox. —There has been no
case of the small-pox reported in the last
I eighteen days, and no case of the varioloid,
except that of Dr. Myers. As was inti
mated two or three days ago, the case of
conductor Bass is neither small-pox nor
varioloid, but a violent attack of measles,
from which he continues very ill. The
doctors freely give it as their opinion that
there is no case of small-pox in Maoon,
and they arenot apprehenaiveseeds enough
of the infection remain here to develop a
case of the disease.
Education—" University of the South."
The late visits and appeals of that ex
cellent man and devoted Christian, Bishop
Qnintard, to this and other Southern
oitiea has created and aroused an interest
in the publio mind to know more about
the history and progress of the “ Univer
sity of the South.” In the absence of
lesa-important subjeots—such as railroad
bonds, and canals to be cut through the
mountains of the moon, to begin nowhere
and end everywhere—we propose to-day
to shortly gratify this interest and to
speak of thut , the loss of which nothing
earthly can supply: the religious aud in
tellectual improvement of the human
mind and soul, and especially to this end
the means employed by the “University
of the South.”
It is well known that the “University of
the South' originated in the clear, great
mind, and pious and patriotic soul, of
Leonidas Polk, late Bishop of Louisiana
the brave Bishop-General, who wore the
mitre unstained and meekly on his brows,
and wielded a sword never polluted by
wrong and cruelty. He proved his faith
by his works, and fell near Marietta fight
ing for God and truth, and in the defence
of the ashes of our sires, our altars and
native land. His body rests in Georgia
soil—his soul in the bosom of the Divini
ty. His illustrious life and heroic death—
his purity as a Bishop and his sad fate as
a General—should ever keep alive in every
Southern heart the memory of his grand
character and noble example and works.
Bishop Polk first conceived the idea of
uniting the several Southern Dioceses of
the Episcopal Church upon one groat
school. He addressed, in 1556, the ten
Southern Bishops, who, in a few months
later, issued an Address to the clergy,
laity and friends of the Church. The
proposal was received with general favor,
and the Bishops and delegates assembled,
for the first time, on Lookout Mountain,
Tennessee, on the 4th day of July, 1857.
On that day an eloquent Address was
delivered by Rt. Rev. James IT. Otey, D.
D., Bishop of Tennessee, from which we
have space only for this short extract:
So, then, the security of society, the
supremacy of law, the preservation of
liberty regulated by law, (the liberty to
do, not wliat we list, but what the law
allows,) all these are dependent, at last,
upon the prevalence of a sound moral
sense among the people. This is the great
balance-wheel in our government, the
want of which will uot only render the
movements of the maohinery unsteady
and irregular, bnt endanger its very exis
tence.
This loads us to consider a danger not
always obvious, but of real importance.
In a popular government, public senti
ment not only originates and sustains the
law, but in many cases becomes superior
to it, rendering it virtually null aud void.
The statutes of the Legislature is noth
ing more than the will of the people, as
suming a particular shape, by passing
through the forms of legislation. Let the
current of popular favor set strongly in
favor of some specific object, as for ex
ample, the construction of a road, the
laying of a new county, or the founding of
a college, and this measure will presently
assume the shape of law.
These wise words have multiplied in
value since 1857, and the lipH from which
they issued have been sealed by death.
What is the worth of Divine or human law'
without “a sound moral sense” and an en
lightened popular sentiment ? The his
tory of all nations from the infancy of the
world to our ow'n day and generation,
proves that without the restraints of a
true religion and “a sound moral sense,”
lifg, property and rational liberty fly, and
are carried like chaff before a whirlwind
and lost, at last, forever under the furious
passions and brute blorvs of a wicked and
ignorant multitude. Look now at our
progress in crime and its costs to the Re
public—its jails, gibbets and investigating
committees, for bribery, robbery, murder
and perjury, from the lowest sneak-thief
to U. S. Senators and Vice Presidents!
Let the patriot, in view of such wide
spread and vile corruption, ask himself if
we are not in want of schools and a reli
gion whioh will give us at least better, if
not wiser offloials. The experiment should
arrest serious attention and demand a
united, zealous and faithful trial nn.t
judgment, without worldly prejudice, fear,
favor or affection.
“Sad U that land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where vice accumulates, and men decay.”
Where gold, office and a wicked ambi
tion are valued of more worth than a God
like intellect influenced by Christian sin
cerity, honesty, charity and integrity.
We believe the “University of the
South” is planted on *the eternal rock of
these virtues. The storm of war may
sweep over it and #hake it from turret-top
to foundation stone. Its books may be
scattered and its most sacred memorials
be stolen and desecrated by a ruffian
soldiery; still, the materials are of that
essence which will live amid the wreck of
matter and survive the beatings of the
tempest. To use one of Bishop Quintard’s
beautiful similes—“ The hurricane alone
can prove the wing of the eagle. ”
In 1866, the great work of Bishop Polk
and other benefactors was revived. Under
able and learned Trustees and Faculty,
the University is rising like the young
phoenix from the aromatio ashes of its
immortal sire. Students, by hundreds,
from every Southern State are crowding
its halls. Oxford, in the old, may find a
rival teaoher in Sewanee of the new
world, and the fame of the founder of
the one—the Bishop-General, be coeval
with the great Cardinal Wolsey, of whom
and his works it is sung:
Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with
him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did It;
The other, though unfinished, yet so famous,
So excellent In art, and still so rising,
That Christendom shall ever speak his rlrtuo.
Cotton at Intebiob Towns—Five Gais
62,499 Bales, Thbee Lose 33,449 — Total
Gain 29,050. —The comparison of the re
ceipts of this and the last season to last
Friday show that eight Interior townshave
increased net receipts of 29,050 bales, the
largest proportion of whioh comes from
Columbus and Augusta.
The gains are as follows: Augusta
26,845; Macon 6,630; Eufaula 5321; Co
lumbus 15,267; Montgomery 8406—total
gain 62,499.
The losses are as follows: Selma 12,-
370 ; Nashville 4,093 ; Memphis 16,986-
total loss 33,449.
Hence the net gain is 29,050.
The stocks on the 14th were only 693
bales greater than last year.
Business oe Columbus in IS72.—Sev
eral business men, basing their estimates
upon the returns, thus estimate the prin
cipal sales of the city during the past
year:
Hard ware .’ $ 450,000
Groceries 3,000,000
Dry goods and clothing 1,000,000
Furniture 75,000
Guaao 50,000
Drugs 140,000
Shoes 200,000
Cotton manufactories 1,800,000
Foundries and machine shops.. 400,000
Total $7,115,000
From January to January Columbus re
ceived 61,584 bales of cotton, which real
ized some $4,638,060 to planters. There
are many other articles which bring large
sums. Columbus pays over $30,000 for
butter alone.
The Bond Compbomise.— Senator Nor
wood has written a letter to the Atlanta
Constitution. He thinks it wise to delay
aotion on the question until it can be fully
considered. The matter is very deficient
ly understood. It is a subject of vast
magnitude of proportion, and labyrinthine
complication of fact and result. It in
volves many nice questions of law as well
as matters of fact. The question has but
recently been presented.
Col. Wadley endorses the views of Mr.
Hall, of Augusta, in opposition to the set
tlement.
Col. Fielder seems vor the payment
of the bonds.