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rIEHOAV MOBNIMO, MVUCII 4.
Gone North.—Many of our merchants
have gone North to purchase spring and
summer dry goods. Home of the articles
bought have already arrived.
♦ ♦
A Whits. Partridge.—Some gentlemen
killed, yesterday, a partridge with a brown
head and snow-white body. It must have
been a beauty when alive. Though torn
by shot, it is still very pretty. It can be
seen at Dr. Ware’s drug store.
Wkbi.f.y Ciiapf.l.—Ground was broken
yesterday preparatory to the erection of
the new church for Wesley Chapel. The
lot is located on Broad street not far above
tho Planter's warehouse. Wo hear the
el ection will be pushed ahead rapidly.
Death of Mrs. Lottie Snow.— This
lady, the wife of Mr. William M. Snow,
died iii Opelika, Ala., Monday morning,
after a brief illness. She was a most es
timable lady. Her remains were brought
to Columbus for interment.
Quite Cold.—Since Sunday the atmos
phere has been very cold. Tho ground
has been frozen so hard as to have shipped
ploughing temporarily, and prohibited the
thought of planting. Farmers, judging
from the cold winter, are predicting a
splendid crop year.
Lost a Hand. —On Mr. Joe Huff’s place,
three miles from the city, last afternoon,
a gun which a negro man was firing burst
and blew off all the Angers of bis left
hand. A little darkey had loaded the
weapon and half tilled the barrel with
powder and shot. Dr. Terry amputated
the hand.
Broke a Leo. —While going home early
Saturday night, Col. W. O. Hodges fell
down an embankment between the West
ern depot and Linwoodand broke his right
leg below the knee in two places. One
break occurred near the ankle, and this
makes the case more painful and tedious.
The night was very dark, and the Colonel
mistook his pathway. The accident, we
fear, will confine him to his home for a
long time.
Dea th of a Former Citizen of Colum
bus. -Mr. Lewis J. Davies died in Nash
ville, Term., on the 22d of February, in
his seventy-first year, of heart disease,
lie came to Columbus in 1830, and for a
long period was proprietor of a large dry
g Is establishment. He was burned out
in the great lire of 184(1. We are inform
ed that Mr. Jordan L. Howell, a well
known citizen, was a clerk in the store at.
the time. At the date of his death ho was
proprietor of a coal mining company in
Pennsylvania.
The Millirons Bigamy Case. —The de
fendant was up before Judge Johnson, of
the Superior Court, yesterday at 10 o’cl’k,
the examine!ion having been continued
from the 24th nil. The hearing took
place at the office of the Solicitor General.
The prisoner was discharged, it not ap
pearing that any offence had boon com
mitted in this State. Alex. C. Morton and
Blandford & Crawford, Esqs., were coun
sels for Millirons. Win. A. Little, Esq.,
the State officer, represented the State.
Money for the Colored Schools. —Six
hundred dollars have been received from
the agent of the Peabody fund for the
Colored Public Schools of Columbus.
This is some help, ’there are some two
or three hundred pupils at these colored
schools, which are taught by negro teach
ers. They are under the supervision of Su
perintendent Dews and the Trusteesof the
Public Schools of Columbus. Temper
ance Hall has been rented and fitted up
for their use. They are progressing finely.
Money Saved. —We refer our readers to
the advertisement of W. H. Robarts A Cos.,
and J. M. Rennet & Cos., under the above
heading. They offer to sell the Elevated
Oven Sieve, sometimes called “Fanner"
stove thirteen dollars cheaper than travel
ling agents, and better stoves at a still
lower price. Doth are responsible houses,
and they mean what they say. Each has
a full stock of first-class stoves, which are
being sold at very low figures, leaving but
small margin for profit. They advise all
to call on or write to them before pur
chasing, and guarantee all they promise.
The Diocese of Georgia. —At the Con
vention held last year it was resolved that
the next meeting bo considered a semi
centennial jubilee, and that it be held in
Christ church, Savannah. Bishop Beck
with was requested to preach the Conven
tion sermon, and Bishop William Bacon
Stevens, of Philadelphia, to preach a dis
course upon the early history of tho Geor
gia Episcopal Church. A circular letter
from Bishop Beckwith gives tho informa
tion that the time of the meeting of the
Convention has been changed from the
7th to the 21st of May, to suit the engage
ments and convenience of Bishop Stevens.
The Convention last year gave him the
authority so to do.
Thirty-Three Joined in Two Weeks.
riiirty-three persons have united with
the Baptist church iu the last few weeks —
twelve by letter, and twenty-one by ex
perience. On Sunday night fifteen were
immersed by (he pastor. Rev. C. A. Ken
drick. The church was crowded to over
flowing. The pastor as yet has had no
assistance. He feels encouraged and
hopeful. The meetings evince increased
interest, and will be continued. This
week. Rev. C. C. Willis will lend assis
tance. A glorious revival is promised,
and we hope may result in the accom
plishment of great good. The attendance
at the afternoon and night meetings is
very large. Os the fifteen persons im
mersed Sunday night, eleven were fe
males— two married —aiul four young
mem
Report of the Board of Health.
Office of Roabd of Health, f
Columbus, Ga., March 3d, 1873. i
To th, Honorable Mayor and Council:
ii i a «.i Health have the pleasure
ifal there is not at this time a
■ ise ~i , ,]| urcerebro-spiual-menin
pitis m ilie eii \or its vicinity ; nor has
there been one for several years.
We again promise that should a case of
either disease ooeur we will report it im
mediately. The health of the city is fully
is good as usual at this season of the year.
John E. I>acon, M. D ,
President;
T. J. Word, M. D.,
T. P. Chafin, M. D.,
J. W. Pitts, M. D..
Carlisle Terry, M. D.
Dave W. Appier, Cashier, advertises
cortaiu articles in the Southwestern Rail
road Depot will be sold unless the owners
call for them.
Hulstead & Cos. advertise plautiug pota
toes and onion setts, Summer flowering
bulbs, Ac., for sale. Call on them.
VOL. XY.
HON. A. H.STEPHENS.
We rejoice that Mr. Stephens has been
retnrned by his neighbors who know best
how to appreciate his private worth and
political independence, firmness and in
tegrity to the scene of his former tri
umphs. We rejoice not because of per
sonal and party associations and friend
ship—nor merely that he is a Georgian
and Southerner, but because he is a pure
man and an unselfish patriot, and with
his experience and gifted intellect, he will
appear in the House of Representatives
like a spotless dove among carrion crows—
a triton among minnows.
We well remember, what now we would,
if we could, willingly forget, how lately
Mr. Stephens was represented by some of
our new departure Democrats as an irn
becile old Fogy, too feeble in mind, as
well as body, to comprehend the situa
tion or add any thing to the interest and
honor either of the State or our common
country. Such slanders, since his appear
ance on the public stage, have become
“small by degrees and beautifully less,”
and many who were ready to curse are
now equally eager to bless. They see
since time and truth have taken the scales
from their eyes and the further develop
ment of the tyranny, ruiu and anarchy
(the results of the Radical reconstruction
of the Southern States) that Mr. S. was
right iu his undying opposition to the
acceptance of fraud and force instead of
law and liberty.
It is said that Z.ska, the brave leader of
the Hussites, the hero of one hundred en
gagements and fifteen pitched battles, or
dered his skin to be made into a drum
when dead, so that, even then, he could
speak fear into his enemies. Many war
riors have had their dead bodies carried
in front of the armies thejfc gallantly led
when living, to inspire their followers
with bravery, loyalty and devotion. If
Mr. Stephens never opened his lips—if
compelled to find his seat on crutches,
supported by a friendly arm, still a patriot
so wise and brave, so faithful among the
faithless, and pure amid corruption, would
send a terror among the Ames’, Butler’s,
Colfax’s and Wilson’s, and tear the mask
of piety 7 from the thieves, perjurers and
hypocrites, who esteem it no crime or dis
grace to sell their country for gold and
official position.
Even the New York Times is becoming
virtuous. We make an extract—the con
clusion of a leader from its issue of the
27th ultimo:
One of the gruvest dangers this coun
try was ever threatened with was the dan
ger that hung over it a year ago—the dan
ger that the honest sentiment of the coun
try for pure government would be enlist
ed in behalf of a set of political tricksters,
who cloaked evil designs under the pre
tense of reform. That, danger is a con
stant one. It was averted then, partly 7
because there was no convincing evidence
developed that, the Republican party 7, as
at that time led, was not honest, and part
ly because the nomination of Mr. Greeley
by the Democrats brought anew set of
issues into the canvass. If there shall be
another opportunity to make the Republi
can party appear corrupt, we may be sure
it, will be eagerly seized by the same class
of politicians who conspired to overthrow
the party last year.
Rut there is a quiet feeling in the pub
lic mind that the Credit Mobilier is a bad
business, and that a House which will not
treat it as such is certainly cowardly, and
possibly corrupt. We should be sorry to
seethis feeling disregarded. It is an houest
feeling, and it is strongest where tho Re
publican party is strongest. It is the feel
ing of Shat portion of tho public which
lias supported our party in its best work.
If the House deals with it dishonestly or
evasively, the party will surely be crip
pled. It will be in danger of being not
only crippled, but destroyed.
Death of an Alabamian in the Albany
Penitentiary. —Mr. J. D. Young, of Tal
lapoosa, who was sent to the Alabany
Penitentiary by the United States District
Court, died there on the 14th nit. Mr
Shotwell, Hospital Steward, sent to a
friend of Mr. Young’s the following ac
count of his illness :
J. D. Young has been in poor health
ever since he came here. He was brought
up to the hospital several weeks ago with
the symptoms of jaundice, which sub
sequently became strongly developed. He
received 'every attention from the physi
cian, the nurse and myself, and was quite
cheerful up to the evening preceding his
death. On Sunday lie received a letter
from his wife and daughter, which I sent
to him, and which gave him strong hopes
of pardon. He expressed much affection
for his wife and family.
About 3 a. m. on the 14th he sent for
me and told me he was dying, and en
deavored to send some message to his
family, but lost his voice so fast that I
was unable to understand him. In a few
minutes he was dead—dying without any
appearance of pain.
It may be a consolation for his friends
to know that he suffered for nothing in
the way of nursing and attention during
his last illness.
Mr. Young bore a good character among
his neighbors, and his death will be re
gretted by a large circle of friends and
acquaintances.
Sale of It ait, iio ad Securities.— The
Charleston News says the ißxtensive sale
of railroad securities which has been adver
tised for some time by Mr. S. C. Black
took place on Thursday, and was numer
ously attended. Many capitalists from
Columbia, S. C., and Augusta, Savannah
and Atlanta, Ga., were present. Most of
the stocks and bonds of the South Caro
lina and Georgia Central railroads were
purchased by Charleston gentlemen. The
following is the statement of the sale:
Twenty-five hundred shares South Car
olina railroad stock sold at prices varying
from S3O 50 to $24 per share.
Two hundred shares Georgia railroad
stock sold at $95 50 per share.
Three hundred shares Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta railroad stock sold at
$lO 50 per share.
One hundred and seventy-one shares
Savannah and Charleston railroad stock
sold at $lO 25 per share.
Six hundred and twenty shares Mem
phis and Charleston railroad stock sold at
figures varying from $lO to $3 per share.
Seventy-five shares Georgia Central
railroad stock sold at s9l 25 per share.
One hundred and ten shares Southwest
ern railroad of Georgia stock sold at
$32 02i per share.
Six thousand dollars South Carolina
railroad first mortgage bonds sold at 33
cents on the dollar
Eleven thousand dollars South Carolina
railroad second mortgage bonds sold at 05
cents ou the dollar.
Twenty-one thousand Georgia Central
railroad first mortgage bonds sold at 9(>i
to 934 cents on the dollar.
Five thousand dollars Charlotte, Colum
bia and Augusta railroad first mortgage
bonds sold at 804 cents on the dollar.
The Morris Cotton Bill. —The follow
ing very important bill is before the Presi
dent for approval. If adopted as a pre
cedent, Southern people will get much
money:
Be "it enacted by the Senate and House
of llepresentives of the United States of
America in Congress asnembled. that the
Secretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby authorized and directed, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise ap
propriated, to make the proper payment
to earn - iuto effect the decree of the Dis
trict Court of the United States for the
Middle District of Alabama, bearing date
June Bth, '7O, in the case of Jos. Morris
and J. F. Johnson, claimants of one hun
dred and twenty bales of cotton, appell
ants, vs. United States for one hundred
and twenty bales of cotton illegally seized
by the United States, which decree was
made in pursuance of the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States pro
nounced at tlie December term, 1808;
such payment to be made to the person
named in decree or his legal representa
tive, the sum therein awarded to him, be
ing $30,509.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Correspondence of the Columbus Daily Sun.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Feb. 2G, 1873.
the great sensation.
The curiosty and excitement attending
the last act of the Credit Mobilier drama
is intense, and the desire to see the clos
ing scene drew to the Capitol, yesterday,
a greater crowd than ever before assem
bled in its marble walls. The House gal
leries were crowded to suffocation: a num
ber of ladies fainted and were carried out.
At 11 o’clock scarce one half of the peo
ple in the House wing had gained admis
sion, when Sunset Cox very gallantly mov
ed that those ladies who failed to get into
the galleries should be admitted to the
floor. This was agreed to, and, in a few
minute*, like so many bees “lite’n” on a
rose bush, the fair ones, with a rustling
like the wind, swarmed the Chamber and
soon occupied every sofa and chair that
was vacant, encroaching even on the seats
of the members and sitting on the steps
leading up to the Speaker’s chair. The
members soon discovered that their cour
tesy to the ladies was a source of great in
convenience to them in the transaction of
business.
Messrs. Brooks, Dawes, Kelley, Garfield,
Bingham and Schofield were in their seats.
Ames changed his base from his own seat
to one in front of the Speaker. As usual,
he was totally unconcerned, his stolid face
giving no sign of what was passing with
in. Mr. Brooks’ face was tha color of
death, his thin, shrunken form plainly
telling that the destroyer is at work. He
listened most attentively to all that was
said, and took frequent notes. When
Ames’ defence was read he seemed moved
at the portion that told of his patriotic
liberality during the rebellion, but it was
debated among the reporters whether Ben
Butler’s partial and flattering picture of
him (Ames) had moved him to tears or
laughter.
When the resolutions were read, Fer
nando Wood inquired how much time
would be allowed the speaker.
Judge Poland said that the committee
had no desire to limit the debate.
The Judge is probably the most remark
able gentleman in Congress. He is digni
fied and eloquent, dresses peculiarly,
sports a swallow-tailed blue coat, with
bright brass buttons, which, by way of
contrast, shows off to good advantage.
His snow-white hair and leg-of-mutton
side whiskers, also white. He spoke for
an hour and a half, and claimed that the
evidence showed that Oakes Ames, under
the guise of a legislator, was really a ped
dler in Credit Mobilier stock; that he un
dertook to bribe members—a penitentiary
offence--and it was immaterial, so far as
Ames was concerned, whether the mem
bers received the stock with corrupt in
tent or not. If Ames—a millionaire, and
a ten year member of Congress—was ig
norant of doing anything immoral, as
claimed by his friends, or if his moral
perceptions had not reached so high an
elevation it was no excuse for his crime.
Judge Poland contended that Mr. Brooks
accepted his stock while he was a Govern
ment Director, knowing full well its effect
and what it was worth ; that Neilsou, his
son-in-law, was a mere figure head was
undoubted.
In answer to a question, Judge Poland
said he had no doubt but that Mr. Brooks
was liable to expulsion.
In his closing remarks, Judge Poland
said: “Will it be said that a murderer
even, who could hide his crime, could be
elected to Congress, and come in here and
sit beside even such a Christian gentleman
as General Butler ?”
This sally created great laughter, and
Benny was very much annoyed, judging
from his manner, and half rose to reply,
but changed his mind and sunk back into
his seat. When Butler gets upon the floor
to-day, he will be very apt to repay Po
land back with interest. There are very
few in the House who are Butler’s equal
in retort and personalities, and it is dan
gerous to wake him up.
Mr. Farnsworth made a very able argu
ment—one that w 7 ill be appreciated by
the people who cannot get it through
their skulls how a man cau be guilty of
bribery and yet no one be bribed. Mr.
Farnsworth argued that as one person
cannot commit matrimony, he deduced
that it takes two to commit bribery.
Mr. Merrick, of Maryland, one of the
committee, created quite a sensation by
his remarks, which held his hearers in
close attention while he drew a terrible
description of the “ Satanic skill ” with
which Oakes Ames interested men (the
poor greenies) in his nefarious schemes.
Mephistopheles never was pen-painted
more artistically than was Ames by Mr.
Merrick. This gentleman scarce knows
Mr. Ames, but is the personal friend of
Mr. Brooks; yet he sunk his friendship,
and in his capacity of judge condemned
him as guilty beyond question. During
his remarks he was frequently interrupted
by Messrs. Eldridge, Farnsworth and
others, but he answered them readily and
with dignity, saying, on one occasion, “ I
can bear interruption, for I am an old
law 7 yer.” His was decidedly the most
powerful argument of the afternoon ses
sion.
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening the galleries w 7 ere again
crowded, it being expected that Messrs.
Voorhees and Butler would orate, but
they did not. Mr. Wakeman saw no fraud
in the evidence and could not vole for the
resolution. This being a clear case of
obtuseness of vision, Congress should
provide him with “a pair of double-bestra
magnifyin’ glasses,” w 7 hen by their aid he
might see a mite of it somewhere. Several
speeches were made, both for and against
the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Con
yer was particularly severe ou the com
mittee, and be spoke directly at Judge
Poland very sharply. He contended with
great force that the committee did not
carry out their instructions, which was to
enquire if any members had been bribed.
It bad only reported that Oakes Ames had
attempted to bribe someone. The debate
to-day, previous to the vote being taken,
j will be most exciting. It is generally
conceded that no expulsions will take
place. The feeling is that full justice has
not been done by the committee, and de
spite the legal and technical reasons ad
duced by them in defence of their action,
the public mind is far from being satis
fied ; and whether Ames and Brooks are
expelled or not, if the other lame ducks
escape, the people's confidence will be
destroyed and great harm done thereby.
One of the humors of this expose is the
introduction of Credit Mobilier cocktails.
“ to be placed where they do most good.
LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
For business and agricultural reasons,
the people of Louisiana do not want a
new election, as has been suggested. The
President is anxious to avoid all responsi
bility in tins nasty muddle, and is urging
Congress to arrange the matter iu some
way or other, being disenchanted with the
Kellogg crowd : it is said he does not care
how it is fixed up. Senator Morton is the
only one of the committee who favors the
recognition of the Kellogg government,
even while admitting it to be a usurpa
tion. .
A BAD LOT.
The Pomeroy investigation shows a
fearfully corrupt state of affairs in Kan
sas, and “Old Pom.,” bad as he is, does
not appear to be much worse than his ac
cusers. and Heaven knows they can’t be
much worse than they are. Taking them
all through (I mean the politicians), the
good with the bad, and they will rate as a
bad lot.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11,1873.
TELEGRAPHIC
WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 2.—The following
bill passed the Senate yesterday. That it
shall be lawful for the Texas and Pacific
railroad Company to connect with, con
solidate with, or lease the railway of any
company in the State of California, char
tered by the State of California, or by the
l nited States, or by both, that may be so
authorized by the State of California, and
that may be necessary to form an exten
sion of the line of the Texas and Pacific
railway to the city of San Francisco, on
such terms and conditions as may be pre
scribed by the laws of California, and be
agreed upon between the Companies, and
be approved by such a majority in the in
terest of their stockholders as may be re
quired by the laws of said State. That
the said Texas and Pacific railway Com
pany shall have all the rights, powers and
franchises, in relation to the construction
and operation of the road with which it
forms the State extension to the city of
San Francisco, that the laws of California
may allow, including a right of way
through the public lands 200 feet wide for
such connecting road; but nothing in this
Act contained, shall be construed to create
any land grant, except said right of way,
or authrize any donation or any liability
of any kind w’hatever, on the part of the
United States, nor to authorize a consoli
dation with any through line of railroad
to the Pacific ocean, nor shall it in any
wise affect the obligations of the Texas
and Pacific railway Company to construct
its line as now authorized to the city of
San Diego, and as such railroads connect
ed with, or consolidated with, or leased
by said Texas and Pacific railroad Com
pany.
Under this act the limitations and re
strictions as to freight and passenger
rates, and as otherwise provided iu regard
to the Texas and Pacific Railroad in the
original act, shall apply in all respects
prescribed, that nothing iu this act shall
be so construed as to interfere with, or
impair in any way, the rights and duties
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
pany of California; and said Southern
Pacific Railroad, or any other road which
may happen to be constructed with, or
leased by, the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company in the State of California, shall
be open to the traffic of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad at the same rate per ton
per mile, and per passenger per mile, and
with equal facilities for the movement
thereof that are given to the traffic of the
Texas and Pacific Railroad over said line.
Provided, that this act shall be subject
to amendment or repeal at the will of
Congress.
The Secretary of War is authorized,
and if deemed consistent with the public
service, to furnish to the engineering par
ties of the North Pacific and Texas Pacific
Railroad Companies, supplies of provi
sions and such things as maybe necessary
for their protection, at their cost to the
Government at. tho place where issued.
Washington, March 3. —The city is full
of visitors.
Congress is rushing matters, confining
its business to appropriations, with a
good prospect of passing all.
The Vice-President laid before the Sen
ate a dispatch, addressed to him, from
John McEnery, claiming to be the Gov
ernor of Louisiana, and announcing the
election of Win. L. McMillan as Senator
from Louisiana, and that his credentials
have been forwarded.
West said that while he would not ob
ject to the reception of the credentials if
regularly presented, he must object to the
reception of this irregular notification.
Edmunds said it was in the nature of a
petition, and might be received as such.
Trumbull said he did not attach much
importance to the matter, but thought it
ought to be received.
Morton—That dispatch is merely an
announcement that McMillan lias been
electod by a Legislature. Ido not think
the information is important. If it was
so regarded it might have been sent to the
Evening Star, but certainly it has no busi
ness here.
Sherman moved to lay the communica
tion ou the table, which was agreed to.
Ringgold was confirmed postmaster of
New Orleans.
Bill appropriating for Southern Claims
Commission awards passed the Senate
with a few 7 amendments, and goes to the
House for concurrence.
Bill for the relief of Josiah Morris,
Montgomery, Ala., passed and goes to
the President. This is for cotton illegally
seized by the United States.
Washington, Mar. 3. —Conference re
ports on all the great appropriation bills
were read and agreed to.
In the sundry civil appropriations bill,
the item for the sale of the Marine Hospi
tal grounds and buildings at, New Orleans,
and the purchase of a more healthy site,
and the erection thereon of a pavilion
hospital, was retained.
Also, the item of SIOO,OOO for a Gov
ernment building at Raleigh, N. C.
Also, the item for the purchase of a site
for military depots in Texas.
The Agricultural College bill, and the
bill for steamship lines between New Or
leans and the Mexican ports, w ere laid on
the table.
In the Legislative Appropriation bill
salaries were fixed as follows: President,
$25,000; Chief Justice Supreme Court,
$10,000; Justices Supreme Court, Cabinet
officers, Vice President and Speaker,
$10,000; Senators and Members of Con
gress, including the present Congress, in
lieu of mileage and all advances, except
actual individual traveling expenses, $7,-
500.
The Morrill amendment suspending the
judgments of the Court of Claims in favor
of disloyal claimants was stricken out.
The Pomeroy Committee reported that
l r ork’s charges of bribery against Pome
roy are not sustained. There was much
positive swearing pro and con.
Christian people who have visited
the Inaugural Ball room have been
shocked by the sacred legend Ecce Homo ,
over Grant's seat at the ball.
Col. Casey arrived to-day, making near
ly a full Louisiana court circle here.
The deficiency in the New Orleans post
office is now stated at about $34,000.
Washington, March 3.—A bill releasing
the Treasurer from responsibility for
money stolen from the Treasury, passed,
and goes to the President. It involves
$90,0(X) expense to the people.
A bill authorizing the unloading of ves
sels at night passed the House.
Washinton, March 4.—lt is very cold
but there is a fine display. The following
is President Grant’s Inaugural Address :
Fellow-Citizens: Under Providence I
have been called a second time to act as
the Executive over this great nation. It
has been my endeavor in the past to main
tain all the laws, and so far as lay in my
power, to act for the best interests of the
whole people. My best efforts will be
given in the same direction in the future,
aided, I trust, by my four years’ experi
ence in the office. When my first term of
the office of Chief Executive began the
country had not recovered from the effects
of a great internal revolution, and three
of the former States of the Union had
not. been restored to their Federal rela
tions.
It seemed to me w ise that no new ques
tions should be raised so long as that con
dition of affairs existed. Therefore, the
past four years, so far as I could control
events, have been consumed in the effort
to restore harmony, public credit, com
merce, and all the arts of peace and pro
gress. It is my firm conviction that the
civilized world is tending towards Repnb
licauism, or government by the people
through their chosen representatives, and
that our own great Republic is destined to
be the guiding star to all others. Under
our Republic, we support, an army less
than that of any European power of any
standing, and a navy less than that of
either of at least five of them. There
could be no extension of territory on this
continent w hich would call for an increase
of this force, but rather might such ex
tension enable us to diminish it. The
theory of government changes with general
progress. Now that the telegraph is made
available for communicating thoughts,
together with rapid transit by steam, all
parts of a continent are made contiguous
for all purposes of government, and com
munication between the extreme limits
of the country has been made easier than
it was throughout the old thirteen States
at the beginning of our national exist
ence. The effects of the late civil strife
have been to free the slave and make him
a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the
civil rights which citizenship should con
vey with it. This is wrong and should
be corrected. “|To correction I
stand committed, so far as Executive
influence can avail. Social equality is
not a subject to be legislated upon, nor
shall I ask that anything be done to ad
vance the social of the colored
man. except to give him a fair chance to
develope what there is good in him—
give him access to schools, and when he
travels let him feel assured that his con
duct will regulate the treatment and fare
he w 7 ill receive.
The States lately at war with the Gen
eral Government are now happily rehabili
tated, and no executive control is exer
cised in any of them that would not be
exercised iu any other State under like
circumstances.
In the first year of the past adminis
tration, the proposition came up for the
admission of San Domingo as a Territory
of the United States. It was nota question
of my seeking, but was a proposition
from the people of Santa Domingo, and
which I entertained. I believe now as I
did then, that it was for the best interests
of this country, for the people of Santa
Domingo and all concerned that the prop
osition should be received favorably. It
was, however, rejected constitutionally,
and, therefore, the subject was never to
be brought up again by me in the future
while I hold my present office. The sub
ject of acquisition of territory must have
the support of the people before I recom
mend any proposition. I say here, how
ever, that I do not share in the apprehen
sion held by many as to the danger of
governments becoming weakened and de
stroyed by reason of their extension of
territory. Commerce, education, and
rapid transit of thought and matter by
telegraph and steam, have changed all
this. Rather do I believe that our
Great Maker is preparing the world,
in his own good time, to become one na
tion, speaking one language, and when
armies and navies will be no longer requir
ed. My efforts in the future will be di
rected to the re-establishment of good
feeling between the different sections of
our common country ; to the restoration
of our currency; to a fixed value as com
pared with the world’s standard of values
in gold, and, if possible, to a par with it;
to the construction of cheap routes of
transit throughout the land, to the end
that the productions of all sections may
find a market, and leave a living remuner
ation to the producer; to the maintenance
of friendly relations with all our neigh
bors and with distant nations ; to the re
establishment of our commerce and share
in carrying trade upon the ocean; to
the encouragement of such manufacturing
industries as can be economically pursued
in this country, to the end that the export
of home products, and industries may pay
for our imports.
The only sure method of returning and
permanently maintaining a specie basis,
is the elevation of labor,and, by a humane
course, to bring the aborigiuees of the
country under the benign influence of
education and civilization; anditis this, ei
ther this or war of extermination, wars of
extermination, engaged in by people pur
suing all sorts of industrial pursuits, are
expensive, even against the weakest peo
ple, and are demoralizing and wicked.
Our superiority of strength and advan
tages of civilization should make us leni
ent towards the Indians. The wrong in
flicted upon him should be taken into ac
count, and the balance placed to liis
credit. The moral view of the question
should be considered, and the question
asked, Cannot the Indian be made a use
ful and productive member of society by
proper teaching and treatment? If the
effort is made iu good faith, we will stand
better before the civilized nations of the
earth, and in our own conscience, as hav
ing made it. All these things are not to
be accomplished by one individual, but
they will receive my support; and such
recommendations to Congress as will, in
my judgment, best serve to carry them
into effect, I beg your support and en
couragement.
It lma been, and is now, my earnest de
sire to correct abuses that have grown up
iu the civil service of the country. To
secure this reformation, rules, regulations
and methods of appointment and promo
tion were established and have been
tried. My efforts for such reformation
shall be continued to the best of my
judgment. The spirit of the rules adopted
will Ik: maintained. I acknowledge before
this assemblage representatives, as I
do every section of our country
the obligation lam under to my coun
trymen for the great honor they have
conferred on me by returning me to the
highest office within their gift, and fur
ther obligations resting on me to render
to them the best services within my
power. This I promise,, looking forward
with the greatest anxiety to the time when
I shall be released from the responsibili
ties that at times are almost overwhelming,
and from which I have scarcely had a
respite since the eventful firing upon
Fort Sumter, in April, 18G1, to the pres
ent day. My services were then tendered
and accepted under the first call for troops
growing out of that event. I did
not ask for place or position, and
w 7 as entirely without influence or the ac
quaintance of persons of influence, but
was resolved to perform my part in a
struggle threatening the very existence of
the nation. I performed a conscientious
duty without asking promotion or com
mission, and without a revengeful feeling
towards any section or individual. —
Notwithstanding this, throughout the war,
and from my candidacy for my present
office, in 18G8, to the close of the last
Presidential campaign, I have been the
subject of and slander scarcely ever equal
ed in political history, which, to-day, I
feel that I can afford to disregard, in view
of your verdict, which I greatfnlly accept
as my vindication.
The Senate bill to place slaves who en
listed in the army on the same footing
with other soldiers as to bounty and pen
sions, was passed.
The deficiency bill passed. Schurz
presented a memorial of McMillian asking
the Senate to take notice of his election as
Senator.
Judge Durell, Marshal Packard and
Mesi-r-. Ruilliugs and Norton had an in
terview with the President and Attorney
General to-day. Nothing is communicat
ed by these geutlemeu beyond that the
President expressed his determination to
adhere to the policy indicated in his
message, unless Congress takes action.
No accident adds interest to the real
magnificent inaugural display. There
were some 9,000 troops in line. Pyro
technics make the sky glare to-night from
water to zeuith.
FOREIGN.
London, March 3. —Bank of England
has been swindled on a gigantic scale by
an American named Horton alias Warren,
by skillful forgeries on Rothchild and
other famous financial houses.
It is supposed the fraud on the Bank of
England was perpetrated by a Ring of
American swindlers. A reward of .£25,000
is offered by the bank.
Madrid, March 3. —A majority of the
Assembly have' determined to carry
through the bill for the abolition of sla
very.
London, March 3. —lt is believed the
frauds on the Bank of England will amount
to a million dollars.
London, March 4. —Viscount Enfield,
Under Secretary of the Foreign De
partment, in answering an inquiry from
Mr. Whitehall, stated it was (he unani
mous opinion of the Cabinet that no gov
ernment admitting of recognition had
been established in Spain.
Paris, March 4. —Thiers has issued
rigorous orders to prevent the introduc
tion of arms into Spain, through access
of the French frontier.
The L’Figaro reports that two bands of
Carlists (insurgents) have entered the
province of Madrid.
Bayonne, March 4.—Nows received here
from the northern and northeast provin
ces of Spain, mostly from Carlists sources,
show that the insurrection is growing
stronger every day. The situation at
Pampenula is critical. The rising of the
Federalists is apprehended in the city.
National troops were withdrawn on Sat
urday into the citadel, and the comman
dant threatened to bombard the town if
the Federalists revolted. Carlist chiefs
Oloand Dowegaway, with 4,000 men, were
within three miles of the walls. The gar
rison numbers 500 men. Reinforcements
sent by Gen. Pavia, deserted on the
march.
The Carlists, under Seballo, recently
defeated the Government force comman
ded by Cebinelty, near Tornero; the latter
lost several officers, and twenty privates
killed. Cebinelty retreated to Barcelona.
The Insurgents are rapidly organizing
their increasing forces iu the Basque pro
vinces of Novorne, Atavia, Catalonia, Va
lencia and Arragon.
The army at Vitteria, formerly under
t the command of Gen. Marronez. has been
I reduced by desertions from 12,000 to 7,IKK)
men.
j It is reported that a Carlist band has
penetrated to the vicinity of Arangriez,
. 28 miles southeast of Madrid.
Madrid, March 4. —In the Assembly
to-day, a bill was presented by Seuor
; Gastello, re-establishing Spanish legisla
tion at Berise.
The Imperial says: A column of troops
while pursuing the Carlists in the provin
i ces of Serbia, suddenly mutinied and re
fused to continue the pursuit,
j London. March 4. —The case of the
i Memphis & ElFaso railroad bonds, is to be
tried before the criminal Court March 4.
i Fremont and six others area rraigued for
fraudulent sale of worthless bonds,
i amounting to $(>,((00,000. Fremont has
! been cited but cannot answer in time.
1 London, March 4. —The frauds on the
| Bank of England amount to $2,000,000,
i and of this amount $350,000 were drawn
I upon Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Cos.; $200,-
| 000 on Rothschild, and a large amount,
j the exact figures are unknown, upon the
Barings. Some of these houses are said
to be making strenuous efforts to suppress
the details of the transactions. It is
stated on what appears to be good author
ity that one of the members of the house
of Rothschild went to Newgate to-day,
and had an interview w 7 ith Noyes, the al
leged accomplice of the swindlers, and
startling revelations concerning their op
erations w 7 ere made, the nature of which
is kept secret.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, Mar. 3.—lu the Supreme
Court to-day two of the Judges decided
that the late Court-house Legislature was
a legal body. Justice Saffold delivered
the dissenting opinion, based upon the
ground that the only legal Legislature w 7 as
the one organized under Attorney-General
Williams’ plan.
Mobile, March 4. —-Colliers, of West
Virginia, Barney Campbell and Harny
Hickman fought 36 rounds; fight lasting
one hour and ten minutes, w 7 hen a most
unsatisfactory termination took place.
Soddons and notorious Ned O’Baldwin got
into a quarrel and in a few minutes one
hundred pistols drawn,and after apromis
cous fight, in which all present indulged,
it was discovered that the Irish Giant had
been severely handled. The ring was
pitched at 8:30 a. m., and when Seddon
and O’Baldwin, referees, got in the fight
the principals skedaddled, and there has
been no decision. The fight will again
take place tw 7 o months hence.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Mar. 3. —Gen. Edward John
son died here yesterday. He served with
distinction in the Florida and Mexican
wars, as an officer of the U. S. A., and,
during the late civil war, linked his fate
with the South. His remains are lying in
state. The funeral will take place to-mor
row afternoon, with military honors. He
was 57 years of age.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Supreme Court has decided* that
the county authorities may, without the
recommendation of the Grand Jury, levy
a tax of 50 per cent, upon the State tax for
ordinary county expenses. Upon the re
commendation of the Grand Jury, they
may levy an additional fifty per cent, for
extraordinary expenses, such as the erec
tion and repairs of public buildings, etc.;
but the object of the additional tax must
be distinctly stated. Beyond this one
hundred per cent, tho county authorities
cannot go. The Court sets aside a judg
ment against the sureties on a defaulting
Tax Collector’s bond on the ground that
the Ordinary, having levied a tax of 150
per cent, ou the State tax, the tax was il
legal and void, and the sureties were not
liable for it.
The State tax of Tennessee is sixty
cents on the hundred dollars’ valuation,
which is twenty per cent, heavier than the
Georgia State tax.
“ Sir, it fatigues the indignation,” was
Robert Toombs’ reply to one who asked
him about reconstruction.
Palmetto boasts of a hen that lays eggs
shaped like powder gourds.
Rev. H. M. Turner, a well-known col
ored minister of the Methodist church iu
Savannah, is just forty years old, and has
received into the chin. !. 38,744 professors
of religion. For the ' twenty years
this gives an average nearly 1,938 a
year, and half a dozen :
The gin-house of Mi. -I. L. Ruff, of
Cobb county, with three bales of cotton,
was burned on Monday of 1 t week.
A chimney to a sash and blind factory
in Marietta, seventy feet high, fell last
week, treating great noise and excite
ment.
In 1870, the property of Atlanta was es
timated at less than $5,000,000. Two
years later it was $13,515,585. As to the
population, in 1865 it was in ruins. Five
years later—in 1870 —it could boast 25,-
000 inhabitants. If the census man
should come round and count noses now,
it is thought he would find between 30,-
000 and 35,000.
The house of Mr. Bryant Cash, in At
lanta, was burned Saturday morning. In
sured for $1,200. Won’t cover loss.
Atlanta wants her houses numbered, so
she can have mail carriers. Congress al
lowing them to all cities with a population
of over 20,000.
John H. James is advertising for bids
for building a Baptist College in Dalton.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company have now nearly seventy effec
tive engines, twenty-five or thirty in first
class working order. They have purchas
ed about twenty new engines, between
three and four hundred green-line cars,
and nearly laid a continuous rail from At
lanta to Chattanooga. The Company has
expended in improvements over $500,000.
Mr. Toole, in Miller county, was killed
by 7 a falling branch of a tree.
Savannah is going to build a railroad to
Thunderbolt and along the coast. John
Foley has been elected President of the
Company.
Hon. A. H. Stephens was serenaded on
the night of the 2Sth. He made a happy
speech, and treated the crowd to Bour
bon. He highly complimented General
Gordon, our Senator elect.
Mrs. Polly Hay good, mother of Rev. F.
M. Haygood, of Maeon, died iu Clarke
county on the ‘Jii th nit., aged 815 years.
Nine of her children were with her, the
youngest of whom was forty-five years
old, and the oldest sixty-live.
The Southern Mutual Insurance Com
pany,since June Ist, 18fir>, has paid Macon
policy holders in losses $43,1 It!, and in j
dividends $12,000.
A negro woman nursed her child while
smoking,wrapped it in quilts and attend
ed to her work. The child was roasted.
Happened near Macon.
Rev. Dr. Boring's health has so far fail
ed him that he has been compelled to give
up the pastorate of the M. E. Church j
in Albany for the present.
Raphael Jackson, of Perry, is dead.
J. A. Holtzclaw, Atlanta Collector of
I nternalj Revenue. has sold his residence
in Perry for $.‘1,000 ami sold his store for
SOOO.
Preparations are being made to build a
Presbyterian Church in Brunswick; cost
between four and five thousand dollars.
The Episcopal fair at Brunswick
brought in over one thousand dollars.
The Augusta Medical College graduated
fourteenstudentslastPriday. Hon. Win. 11.
Hull and Rev. Dr. J. E. E vans deli veredad
i dresses.
Dr. Camillas A. Hilliard, only surviving
son of the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of
Augusta, died at Crawfordville on Wed
nesday, of pneumonia.
Gov. Smith has decided the election of
Sheriff in Randolph county, which was
contested by W. J. Barry, by signing the
commission for Lovett A. Smith.
Burwell Winston, a well-to-do farmer
in Jackson connty, has been missing for
i ten days.
The Macon Telegraph prints this:
Arkansas Heard from. —-The following
letter from one of the late emigrants to
Arkansas explains the situation out there.
, It is not so encouraging as was hoped for
I by those who still contemplate emigrating,
but, nevertheless, it is doubtless a true
statement of the condition of those who
I have gone thither to find a better place
than Georgia, in which to make a sup
port:
Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 15,1873.
Dear Brother Ben: —l have tried to
get a chance to send you a letter since I
got out in Arkansas. I had a mighty bad
tune coming; I like to froze to death, and
not much to eat. It is true that the land
-is rich in some places, but it is sickly in
them places. As we come down on the
boat from Memphis, the small-pox broke
out, and a good many died. I have es
caped so far, but it is all around me, and
you can’t get a doctor to tend on yon, un
less you pay him aforehand. Tell all the
folks howdy for me. Tell Joe lam going
to write to him as I promised. lam sor
ry that I sold my place, and am going to
go back to old Georgia next winter. Tell
Mas. Lewis and Mas. Sammy howdy for
me. Be sure to write soon, and tell me
all the news. I wish I was back in old
Houston. Your friend till death,
Allen Plant.
On Friday last there were eleven ves
sels in Brunswick harbor loading with
lumber.
Mr. Henry Hunter, who left Calhoun
county some two years since and located
in Arkansas,returned last Monday to Dal
ton, and expresses now a decided prefer
ence for Georgia, where he expects to live
and rear his famiiy.
Dalton haa the heaviest snow storm of
the winter last night week.
Macon passed an ordinance requiring
owners of stock bringing animals for
sale to that city to deposit one
dollar per head with the city treas
urer said deposit to be refunded if
no sales were effected. The horsemen
combatted the ordinance, and it has been
declared unconstitntional. The Telegraph
says 1,000 mules have been sold in Macon
this year.
The Telegraph says the cost of con
structing the Macon and Cincinnati Rail
road, via Knoxville, will be about six
million dollars. The State gives $15,000
per mile aid. Five hundred thousand
dollars are wanted from Georgia. It is
claimed the road will produce a revolu
tion in Western freights and cheapen
coal. Route has been surveyed to the
Chattulioochee river. Aid from foreign
capitalists is promised. Central Railroad
has no control over the enterprise. A
road now running out from Knoxville,
including a $1,200,000 bridge has been
offered to the company at a low figure,
to he paid in capital stock and bonds.
In the Macon Board of Trade provision
dealers pay $lO a month dues; others
$2 50 per month. Initiation fees SSO.
There were one hundred and thirty-six
interments in Laurel Grove Cemetery,
Savannah during February—the largest
number for any mouth since 18GG. There
were eight deaths from meningitis, and
the Advertiser says there are a large num
ber of cases of that disease iu the city at
present.
Judge D. F. Hammond, of Atlanta,
known to sinners as “old Ten and Costs,”
bias been acting as Recorder for two
months, and has paid $1,500 cash into the
treasury as “fine” money during that
time. He is set down as good for SG,OOO
by Christmas.
Reducing her police force has reduced
the yearly expenses of Atlanta $25,000.
There are some 523 meu employed on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
There arc three negroes on the U. S.
District Court jury iu Atlanta.
Gov. Smith lias appointed Hon. Wm. A.
Reid Judge of the County Court of Put
nam county, anti Robert A. Bacon Judge
of the County Court of Mitchell county.
In 1871-2 Atlanta received 20,000 bales
of cotton. This year sho will get over
30,000.
The Kennesaw Mills made 90,000 bar
rels of flour last year and sales were one
million.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
lias refused to publish the advertisement
of a cock fight about to take place in that
city. The match is for SI,OOO a side.
The surveying party of the Hawkins
ville and Enfanla Railroad have advanced
to within twelve or fourteen miles of
Americus, iu the eastern direction. They
are expected to reach Americas in the
course of u few days.
ALABAMA ITrMS.
Hon. AV. 11. Parks, Senator from Pike,
has introduced a bill iu the Senate re
stricting (he courts of county commis
sioners iu the several counties iu the State
to one-half of one per cent, for levying
taxes for county purposes. This is a move
in the right direction.
A Washington dispatch says the non
action of Congress in the Louisiana trou
ble indicate that the Sonate will seat Spen
cer, of Alabama, who was elected by an
admittedly bogus Legislature.
The Montgomery Advertiser says old
farmers predict that the cold weather,
freezes and floods predict an unusually
good crop year. We hope so. Corn
should be the main thing thought of.
President Grant has approved the bill
removing all causes from the District
Court of Alabama to the United States
Circuit Court of the same State. This
will effectually’ murder Judge Bus eed,
who has gone to New York in great dis
gust.
The Supreme Court finished the labors
of the January term Saturday, except a
few eases that require more time for con
sideration. The judges will adjourn until
the June session.
The Eufaula News hears of numerous
deaths that have occurred recently in the
southeastern portion of Henry county,
but failed to learn the names or other
particulars.
The Montgomery Advertiser says : “The
Auditor has given notice, by an official
circular, after having first consulted the
Attorney General, that the County Com
missioners have no right to order the col
lection of the rinking fund tax for county
purposes! Notwithstanding this official
notification by the Auditor, the County
Commissioners have, in many counties,
authorized the illegal collection of this
tax. Wherever the Courts of County Com
missioners have erroneously ordered the
tax collector to collect this sinking fund
for county purposes, they should proceed
at once to revoke such mistaken orders.
We are informed that citizens are being
daily required to pay this tax, and the col
lectors say, when remonstrance is made,
that they are in duty bound to execute the
orders ol' the County Commissioners. This
annoyance and illegality should at once
be stopped. What we want to know is
whether Judge Eiy and his Court of Com
missioners have not yet taken proper no
tice of the Auditor’s circular? If not,
they should instantly attend to it.
Os the school fund for Greene county,
$2,018 goes to the whites, and $(>,081 to
the negroes.
The woman who enters the tiger's cage
of the Eastern Circus was badly paw’edby
the animal in Selma Saturday and rescu
ed with great difficulty. She is terribly
lacerated but not seriously injured.
Presence of mind saved her.
Mr. G. M. Crouch, near Gadsden, killed
Ills own son one night last w r eek. The
grown son thought he heard chicken
thieves and went to examine. Mr. Crouch
went out for some purpose afterwards,
mistook his son for a thief, shot and kill
ed him.
Gitano. —One house has sold thus far
seven hundred tons of guano. Making
this as the basis, and estimating from the
rates of last year, some three thousand
tons must have been sold in Columbus
thus far this season. Much more will be
sold before the latter part of March. The
demand for fertilizers is as great as dur
ing a few seasons ago, when 4,000 tons
were sold by dealers in Columbus. We
hope the corn fields will receive a goodly
supply.
L. Pierce A Cos. advertise Epping’s Bu
chn, one of the best medicines extant.
They have no agents. L. Pierce is sole
proprietor.
The revenue secured to the United
States Government by the Key West Cns
tom House, footed up for the past current
year something like $200,000.
The town of Greenwood, in Jackson
| connty, Fla., is said to be surpassing Ma
i rianna in thrift and business generally.
NO. 5.
The Religious Amendment to the Constitu
tion.
Change seems to be the order of the
day, and we hope onr people will soon
realize that change is not progress and is
not always from error to truth, from evil
to good. Not satisfied with the political
patches on the Constitution until all the
original material is almost covered, some
of onr pious Northern brethren are anxious
to complete the work in an orthodox Chris
tian way. TUfe national convention, in
behalf of a religions amendment to the
Constitution and recognition of Christian
faith in the organic law, commenced its
session at Cooper Institute a week ago.
They urge “the necessity of preserving
the Christian features of the nation's life, - ’
and for this purpose desire the securing
of “such an amendment to the Constitu
tion as will suitably acknowledge Almighty
God as the author of the nation's exis
tence and the ultimate source of its
authority; Jesus Christ as its ruler, and
the Bible as the fountain of its laws, and
thus indicate this is a Christian nation,
and place all Christian laws, institutions
and usages in onr government on an un
deniable legal basis in the fundamental
law of the land. ”
These gentlemen forget that the Consti
tution of the United States is a political
document, though permeated in every
principle with Christianity or some other
religions system. The framers of the
Constitution were good men and patriots,
and many of them professed Christians,
but no bigots. The wisest thing they did
was to refuse to do the very thing now
demanded, and to leave every man free to
worship God agreeably to his own con
science and convictions, without any dic
tation from the civil power. Christ said
“ His kingdom was not of this world,”
and the since experience and history of
the human race to unite what He has put
asunder has only resulted in hypocrioy
and pride, revolution and bloodshed, ty
ranuy and the worst kind of slavery—the
enslavement of tho soul and intellect.
If the Constitution, under a wise and
honest Administration, will do what it was
intended to do, viz: “To form a more
perfect union, establish justice, ensure
domestic tranquility, provide for the com
mon defence, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessing of liberty,” Ac.,
wo should, as a people, be content to leave
our future, eternal destinies in the wise
power of the “King of Kings, and Lord
of Lords. ”
We loarn from Blackwood's Magazine
that the Protestants of France assembled
qiider a public docree of M. Thiers, Pres
ident, on the 6th of June of last year. At
the very opening of the Synod two parties
divided in the sharpest contrast with each
other. Tho Liberals claimed to be free,
to bo exempt from all obligation to auy
authority, to be fully entitled to form any
conception they liked of tho Christian re
ligion, and to preach it as Christianity.
M. Guizot said: “As for me, lam a Chris
tian ; I know what my symbol is. There
are men sitting by my side who do not ac
cept tho Christian religion. They have a
sincere belief in God. I shall be careful
not to deny that these men have a reli
gion. Let them form a Deistical Church.
[ shall be glad of it; but assuredly the
difference is great between them and the
Christians.”
“ What is a Christian Church?” was the
uext- subject of perplexing inquiry. One
contended that men who had nothing in
common but a belief iu God, and a pious
feeling towards Him, were all entitled to
be regarded as Chi-istians, and might all
be included in one common ecclesiastical
organization. M. Colani denied that any
specifically Christian belief was necessary
to the Christian religion. M. Bois argued
that on the one side there was a super
natural revelation ; on the other, a simple
utterance of the human conscience. On
the one side Jesus Christ, only Son of
God, perfectly holy, infallible as to re
ligious truth, who died to save men and
rose again u.i the other, Jesus a mere
nan, uio best of all men, who died and
remained in the tomb. One believed in
a material, another in a spiritual, resur
rection of Christ. These were the ques
tions grappled with and to be solved by
men of whom M. Guizot said: “I have
been present for more than sixty years at
many parliamentary struggles, in which
the first orators of France were engaged.
I have never seen any which had a more
elevated or a more dignified character,"
Ac.
Will we expect these questions, which
have baffled the best intellects of France,
can be ever settled more satisfactory by
fanatics than by the Constitution as it is f
Can John Alexander, of Philadelphia, and
others of his ilk, tell better than indi
vidual conscience where Christianity be
gins, and Deism and Infidelity ends ?
The New York Tribune of the 27th ul
timo has this to say on this important
subject:
In reality, it is a sectarian interpreta
tion of the Christian idea of God which
the Constitution is believed to need. And
against such an interpolation thoughtful
persons should protest. If all men were
evangelical believers, such a change would
still be superfluous. But what right have
ninety-nine Christian citizens to offend a
Hebrew citizen ? Or by what claim of
higher loyalty to the laws of the land may
a score of Calvinists affront a Unitarian, a
Positivist, a Deist, an Infidel or a Pagan ?
The simple fact is that the Constitution is
a civil contract, designed to compass cer
tain civil ends. It was deliberate care—-
not ungodly haste—that kept all theologi
cal allusion out of it. The compact w'as
meant to bind together in a common pa
triotism hoHts of men of utter and un
compromising differences in all matters of
speculative opinion. And, as if to empha
size this wise toleration, the first amend
ment, passed iu 1791, absolutely forbade
the establishment of a State religion.
It )s not only because the proposed
amendment contravenes the spirit of the
Constitution, however, that we oppose it.
The emphasis laid upon it suggests an evil
featuro of the time. There exists, just
now, in the minds of professedly Christian
men, a dangerous tendency to divorce re
ligion and morality. Most of the gentle
men whose word was dishonored at Wash
ington, the other day, were church mem
bers. One of them was received with gra
tuitous enthusiasm by Young Mens’ Chris
tian Associations, after proved falsehood
and probably perjury had attainted him.
To them, his profession of faith outweigh
ed his transgression. Yet that scripture
which both parties believed to be inspir
ed, remands to exile from God’s mercy
whoever loveth or raaketh a lie.
Wilkes County Item. —The Washing
ton Gazette of Friday has the following :
The devil of tho Gazette office fell in
the fire on last Saturday night, and burned
bis hands severely, so that ho has set no
type this week. We wish it distinctly
understood that the accident was not
brought about in the usual way, for the
Gazette office is now the only thoroughly
temperance establishment that we know
of in these parts.
The devil was subject to a natural
affinity and wished only to find his proper
element. We hope he feels hap pier.
Gen. John B. Gordon. —He has been
sworn in and taken his seat in the United
States Senate. The Senate is now con
vened in extra session.
The President’s carriage in the inaugu
ral procession was drawn by four horses,
and he was accompanied to the Capitol by
Senators Cragin, Logan and BayarjJ.
Atlanta spent $113,035 47 for public
schools last year, including $51,357 74 for
buildings.
MORE SIGHTS AND INCIDENTS-
New Orleans, Feb. 28th, 1873.
The street car system of New Orleans is
perfect. You can go anywhere in the city
for five cents, except Carrolton, seven
miles distant. To go there you pay seven
cents.
ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
A pleasant trip is that down the river
to Balize. There are a number of orange
groves and handsome collections of tropi
cal fruits to be seen; the Forts and the
broad Gulf that the skies touch so lightly
on the far distant horizon. The Missis
sippi is a miserably dirty stream, a mile
wide at New Orleans, and expands grand
ly as it nears the Golf, into which it emp
ties by many mouths. The Gulf, if we
are not mistaken, is the highest surface of
all salt collections. While on the river
one might as well cross into Algiers and
see the botanical and zoological gardens,
which are represented as w orth a visit.
CANALS.
One formerly extended through the
principal portion of Canal street, and one
still exists in the upper portion, which is
crossed by many others. The principal
one is now being rapidly filled up by the
corporation and street railroads substitut
ed. There is a very large canal which
connects Lake Pontchartrain with the up
per part of the city. We are told that
large steamers navigate it. The channel
is now being widened. The only fear of
INUNDATIONS
to the city are from the lake. The river
is higher than New Orleans, but the levees
are ample protections. The lake is lower.
A levee has now been commenced to be
built all around tho city on the lake side,
and the idea is to have a handsome shell
road on top. This will reclaim much
valuable land, but the undertaking is an
immense one as can be seen from the
work already effected near the Lake
House—the terminus of a delightful drive.
We were about writing an account of an
interview with Foster, the noted spiritu
alist, when we heard the bell clanging a
fire alarm. Like any countryman, we
put off Foster until next day, and started
for the conflagration. Citizens went about
their business as usual. The fire was a
long ways beyond the Custom House from
the hotel.
THE FIRE
consumed nearly six squares in the Frenoh
quarter. Two hundred dwelling houses
and their contents were burned; two
thousand people made homeless, and a
loss of $250,000 sustained. Water was
scarce. A large steam pump from the
river sent streams of water into gutters,
into which the suction pipes of the steam
fire engines were placed. Several steam
ers were quickly disabled by the muddy
water. To us it was a novel way of get
ting water. The fire was fought well.
New Orleans has tho old-fashioned res
ervoir water works, but they do not ex
tend over the whole city. The water is
badly filtered, perhaps not at all.
LOADING SHIPS.
The countryman is interested by seeing
how quickly and deftly a bulky 500 bale
of cotton is compressed into a small pack
age, and put on board a ship. The com
press part does not take more than two
minutes, seemingly. Everything is kept
moving lively.
EASY FORTUNE.
One man here lias made a heavy for
tune by erecting a small fancy temple,
with fountains, Ac., iu the centre of
Canal street. It is nothing more than a
bill board, however, and dollars are re
quired for room on it.
THE CUSTOM HOUSE
is a large fonr-story granite building,
which covers an entire block It has boon
building twenty years, and it is now just
being finished. The foundations consist
of the strongest of pilings, yet the buil
ding has sunk since erected a foot and a
half. The postoffice and U. S. offices are
located therein, and the Kellogg Legisla
ture used it until that body was forced
out by the Washington Government.
The Condition of the South.— One of
the most curious and suggestive revela
tions of the census is the statement of the
estimated valuation of real and personal
estate in the States of the Union compar
ed with the taxation in each State. It
seems that the whole country showsa very
large increase in wealth in ten years—al
most a hundred per cent. In 1860 the
total valuation was $16,000,000,000, and
in 1870, $30,000,000,000. Almost half of
this great sum was accumulated during a
period of ten years, half of which time
was devoted to a devastating war. This
is why the North and South shows differ
ent results. The former increased $16,-
000,000,000, the latter lost $12,100,000,-
000. The latter figures do not fully rep
resent the losses of the South by the war,
because for five years, that is from 1865
to 1870, it was recuperating. The most
noteworthy point brought out by the cen
sus relative to the condition of the South
ern States is, that while their wealth has
decreased immensely, taxation, under the
military reconstruction and carpet-bag
governments has increased with still great
er rapidity. Excluding Delaware, Mary
land and Missouri, which from their prox
imity to the North shared in the prosperi
ty consequent upon a triumph of the
North in the war, the Southern States
were taxed by their own authorities $21,-
000,000 more in 1870 than in 1860. In
other words, while property has depreci
ated almost one hundred per cent., taxa
tion has increased nearly three hundred
perjeent. No wonder the South is sick of
Radicalism.
The Burning of Columbia. —Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, publishers in Charles
ton, S. C., have sent us a pamphlet copy
containing the testimony of Generals
Sherman and Howard before the Mixed
Commission on British and American
Claims in Washington, D. C., in addition
to extracts from depositions of claimants.
The Federal Generals bitterly deny their
soldiers burnt Columbia; but that it was
done by Confederates. This pamphlet,
however, proves that if the Yankee lead
ers did not order it done, they certainly
aided aud encouraged the destruction.
To show this is the principal object of
this pamphlet, which can be secured of
the publishers at fifty cents per copy.
Many of the witnesses of this tragedy
are scattered over the South, and it is the
desire of the attorneys engaged in the
case to attract notice to the pamphlet,
draw tho attention of these witnesses, and
induce them to contribute their testimony
to the vindication of onr Southern charge,
that the Federal army burnt Columbia.
Since the statements have been made
which are embodied in the pamphlet, the
cause has passed beyond tho limits of a
mere cause for certain English claimants,
and has assumed the broad basis of de
fending Carolinians and Southrons from
the base assertion that they either through
carelessness or design burnt Columbia.
Good Hunting. —Four gentlemen, in a
hunt the other day, killed 102 doves.
Another gentleman reports that in the
ante helium days a party of six killed in
twenty-four hours 1,175 doves, nine owls,
three squirrels and one possum. The in
formant swears to it.
Another tells how, in two shots, in Flor
ida, a buggy load of brent was killed and
captured.
Dr. J. H. Carriger gives notice that he
has resumed the practice of medicine
and surgery in this city. The Doctor is
well known here, where he formerly prac
ticed. He has been for the last ten years
a resident of Russell and Lee counties,
Ala. His many friends will be pleased to
hear of his return to our city. Office next
to the Sun establishment. See card.
A special meeting of stockholders of
the Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing
Company will meet on March 20th. See
notice.