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Council Meeting Last Night. Full
Board witli the exception of Aldermen
McGehee and Blanchard.
Ordinance exempting the capital of
cotton and woolen factories from taxation
for three years was read a third time and
passed.
The Special Committee reported the
water works plan feasible. They, there
fore, recommended that a permanent com
mittee he appointed to take the subject in
charge. The cost to supply Front (so as
to protect the warehouses) and Broad
streets, and some of the cross streets, as
far as the Fuldie Schools, would he $40.-
000. The proposition of the Fugle and
I’liemx Manufacturing Company is, to do
nate in perpetuity a water_lot and plenty
of water, pumps, Ac., with awheel of 115
horse-power. If it is objected to build
ing a lower on the streets, to also furnish
space for it. The tower will hold 80,000
gallons of water. This will supply 25,000
people. If wooden pipes are used the
cost will be SII,OOO less. Pipes can be
extended, when necessary. The estimate
includes tittering apparatus, lteport was
adopted.
The plan is to issue $50,000 of water
bonds to raise the required $40,000.
Board of Health reported the city very
healthy.
The Columbus Industrial Association
asked for an appropriation of $5,000 to
tho next Fair. Committee consisted of
John King, ft. A Ware and G. L. Mc
(lough.
Aid. Brannon moved to lay the petition
on the table. Lost. Aldermen Brannon
and Joseph only voted for it. The peti
tion was referred to the Finance Commit
tee. It should have been granted utonce.
Aid. Salisbury offered a resolution in
viting President Grant, on Ins Southern
tour, to visit Columbus and bo the guest
of the city, was adopted.
A resolution of Aid. Schueasler that the
Court House grouds be plowed up, level
ed and walks raised, was adopted.
Committee on contracts was instructed
to obtain estimates for building house
ill llie cemetery to protect visitors from
rain.
Now' accounts were referred.
The tux digest, almost identically the
same as that of last year, was read first
time No tax reduced or raised.
Adjourned about 10 o’clock.
The Warm Scuinos in Meriwether
County A Humor Corrected. Humors
often times have something of correctness
about them, and serve to elicit true
statements. Now, the one Saturday miss
ed the amount offered for the Warm
Springs by $(!(),000
Tbe gentlemen who desired to purchase
are possessed of enterprise and means,
and our section is already indebted to
them for material aid rendered the North
aud South Railroad. They visited our
city at the request of the officers of this
company, and during an excursion met
Col. Mustian. So much was said concern
ing the Warm Springs that one of the
party asked Cel M. his price for the
property, lie replied that he hud refused
$50,000 once, blit would take less than
one-third that amount now A tour of
inspection whs at once arranged, and
despite the severe cold weather of last
week and the terrilde roads, the property
was visited and examined, and $15,000
offered, upon which Col. Mustiau is yet
to decide. If purchased, seventy-five
thousand dollars will be . expended itpou
the property at once.
The many thousands who have enjoyed
visits to this charming spot will join us in
the hope that such steps may be consum
mated as will secure its improvement.
When I lie North and South Road is
completed to the depot north of Pine
Mountain, say ten miles further, it will
be only nine miles from the Springs,
over a ridge road, and we are informed
that a branch road can be laid at an in
significant cost, over and above the price .
of iron and crossties.
With such an arrangement, the wonder
ful attractions of the place would make
the Warm Springs the most popular resort
winter as well as summer in America. To
seo the property utilized is an end devout
ly hoped for by Columbus.
Howk Sewing Machine.—An agency of
this celebrated machine has been estab
lished in what is known as Epping’s build
ing, nearly opposite this office. The
agency is permanently located here, and
Mr. J. P. Reeves, the agent, has already
become identified with our city. The
Howe is one of the very best machines in
this country. Mr. Howe is the inventor
of the modern sewing machine, and those
of his design have ever sustained a proud
pre-eminence. Immense numbers of them
have been sold. In simplicity, conve
nience and durability it is unsurpassed.
The agent lias elegantly furnished rooms,
where the ladies are invited to call. They
will be cordially received, and every at
tention shown them, by the courteous and
accommodating agent. Call and examine
for yourselves. It
Baptist Cuukoh—Sixteen Immersions.
—The Baptist church was tilled to its ut
most capacity Sunday night. After an
eloquent Sermon by Rev. l*r. J. Iv. Ken
drick, Rev. C. A. Kendrick immersed six
teen persons—twelve females and four
males. These make forty-four persons
who have united with the church in the
last three weeks- thirty one by immer
sion and thirteen by letter. The meet
ings continue.
Poor Cotton.—There is said to be more
poorcotton this season than auy time in
-7 years, and it weighs like an incubus
on the market. If these poor cottons are
held much longer, and the growing crop
looks favorable, they will hardly be sale
able at any price m quantities.
Returned Home. Col. T. M. Hogan,
postmaster at tins point, returned to Co
lumbus Saturday, lie was in Washing
ton at rla- inauguration of Grant, It is
prol..ii,ic that Mr. Walter Johnson will he
po.sioj,. the term of Col. 11. ex
po., . . „,i| „,„k no change in the
employees of the office.
Stole Three Hundred Dollars. —Mr.
J. S. Clark had stolen from him, last
week, three hundred dollars. Saturday a
negro woman came to a store at Nance’s
and proffered a one hundred dollar and a
live dollar bill for a six dollar dress. She
thought the large bill was a one dollar
one. This led to enquiry, and yesterday
she was sent to jail.
Building.— Mr. Williams, jr., is to do
the brick work of Wesley Chapel, or, as
it will be called, Broad street M. E.
Church. The carpenter contract has not
yet been awarded.
Columbus Ice Manufactory. The
manufacture of ice will be commeuced
to-day and continued throughout the year.
VOL. XV.
NATIONAL MORALS-HYPOCRISY.
Each age, individual and nation have
their standard, true or false, of what in
manners, customs, morals, literature and
religion is right or wrong, just or unjust,
pure or impure. The stem, ancient Ro
man deemed it the greatest act of pa
triotism, when deserted by fortune, to fall
on tbe point of his naked sword. The
modern Turk thinks his soul Hies at once
from the battle-field to Paradise, there
forever to be happy amid black-eyed
liouri sand peri's, aud hence ho rushes to
death as gladly as a bridegroom goes to
the nuptial chamber. The “Heathen
Chinee and Hindoo regard suicide a vir
tue when influenced Ly caste and super
stition- the one hari-kari’s by ripping
open his bowels, and the other flings
himself under the ponderous wheels of
juggernaut. The Spartans were taught
that to steal was no crime, hut to be de
tected in the theft was a most heinous
offence, and worthy of the severest pun
ishment. The story of the Spartan boy
who, rather than be exposed, suffered a
fox to gnaw through his shirt, bloody
with its sharp teeth, has come to us
through centuries as au example of the
sublimest fortitude, piety and devotion to
conviction.
Each age, individual and nation is
partial to its own standard of truth and
falsehood—of right and wrong—its mor
als, manners and religion. In this is ex
hibited a commendable spirit of patriot
ism—for the man must be dead to every
noble emotion who tiuds not some good
in his native land and in obedience to an
all wise,all-powerful aud benevolent Being,
whether named “Jehovah, Jove or Lord.”
We, too, have no doubt that the honest
hut ignorant man who is true to his errors
will be sooner justified by the Eternal,
than he who speaks with lying lips and
wears a masked face and heart.
If wo were asked to name the ruling
vice of our age and country, we would
cry out hypocraey—an ambition to seem
what we are not —to imitate the Spartan
youth in concealment without his genuine
ami hardy virtuos. This is exhibited in
dress and manners, in Church aud State.
Without the blunt honesty of the En
glishman and German, aud none of the
art, which covers art, of the polished
Frenchman and Irishman, our wit is too
often caurse; our independence, rudeness,
and our manners, politics, friendships
and religion a mere sound without lungs—
a shadow without substance. That our
individual and national character hits
changed for the worst in the last fifty
years, aud especially in the precedingten,
cannot be the conclusion of age, disap
pointment, prejudice and false judgment,
but the convictions of soberness aud
truth. With all the aids and appliances
of steam, lightning and multiplied church
es and schools, according to our prfoes
sions and standard of morals aud religion,
w« are far below the average of the now
civilized nations of Europe.
Our public men are our representatives
and examples of our morals, manners and
religion, and where on earth can we look
aud find Vice Presidents, Senators, Judges
and members of Legislatures and Con
gress, who pretended to au excess of pie
ty, temperance, and other moral and re
ligions virtues, occupying the position of
admitted and proved criminals before the
world, for offences which even barbarians
would scorn aud punish? Men, since the
days of Adam, savage aud civilized, have
committed crimes at which humanity
shudders, but their standard of truth was
low: but where else will we find the
morality and religion of Christ reduced to
that of the meanest bribers, perjurers and
robbers, when they hold in sacred trust
the interest and destinies of millions?
Where else can such crimes go unwhip
ped of scorn and justice and be treated
by public opinion as merely venial, and
excite no special wonder?
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the
following letter. How indignant and sor
rowful must be his spirit, if it is permit
ted to feel and know the now' degeneracy
of his once glorious and honored country
men and country:
Philadelphia, March 18,1793.
Dear Sir —l received your kind favor
of the 20 th ult., and thank you for its
contents as sincerely as if I could engage
in what they propose. When I first en
tered upon the stage of public life (now
twenty years ago), I came to the resolu
tion never to engage, while in public of
fice, iu any kind of enterprise for the im
provement. of my fortune, nor to wear any
other character than that of a farmer. I
have never departed from it in a single
instance; and 1 have iu multiplied in
stances found myself happy in being able
to decide and to act as u public servant,
clear of all interest, in the multiform
questions that have arisen, wherein I
have seen others embarrassed and biased
by having got themselves in a more iuter
esled situation. Thus I have thought my
self richer iu contentment than I should
have been with any increase of fortune.
Certainly, I should have been wealthier
had I remained in that private condition
which renders it lawful and even laudable,
to use proper efforts to better it.
The American Cromwell in Boots and Spurs.
History repeats itself. If the country
needed more proof as to the analogy iu
many particulars between Oliver Crom
well and ITlysses Grant, the telegrams
of last week from New' Orleans furnished
full confirmation. It could not be more
conclusive from the lips of one, though
rose from the dead. Disguise it as we may,
our government is now a Military Despot
ism instead of a constitutional, confede
rated, representative Republic. The steps
to this result are similar in the loss of the
British Constitution and liberty in the
days of Cromwell, and the United States
under the rule of Ulysses, the Lord Pro
tector. The}’ both aimed at supreme
power and both employed the same means
—force, fraud, deceit, and the excuse of
necessity, the tyrant’s plea—to effect their
ends. Worcester, where the English dy
nasty went down for a time iu blood un
der the iron blows of Cromwell, and Ap
pomattox, where civil liberty perished in
the United States by the surrender of
General Lee, were the eras when the two
military captains established their supre
macy over laws and constitutions.
On April .10, 1053, Cromwell drove the
remnant of the long Parliament out of
the House of Commons by- force—Grant,
with a more servile Congress at his back,
after setting up and pulling down States
by the bayonet,now drives the lawful Leg
islature of a sister State from their hall
at the mouth of cannon, and imprisons
the Speaker of the House and other mem
bers and representatives of the sovereign
people. It is said the city is now quiet,
but it is only the quiet which reigned at
Warsaw when the Polish spear was shiv
ered, and the last sigh of a brave and
helpless nation was breathed in tears and
groans. It is the quiet of the lamb when
in the bloody jaws of the wolf.
Cromwell’s usurpation was cut short by
a wise aud patriotic people. His fiery
soul lied in the midst of a most terrible
storm in 1058, aud, in a few years after,
his remains were disinterred aud gibbeted
at Tyburn, and then buried under the
gallows, the head being placed on West
minster hall. Such was the fate of a
bloody tyrant who ruled over England and
Ireland with a rod of iron, and the sic
semper of Cromwell should be the cry of
all who deserve treedom. tjraijt may not
profit by the illustrious example. Like
poor Ophelia, he may yet exclaim, Lord
THE WEEKLY SUN.
v>9 know what we art , but know not what
we may be.
In the famous Rhode Island case, in the
opinion delivered by the Chief Justice, it
was held that “the Constitution of the
United States, so far as it has provided
for an emergency of this kind, and au
thorized the General Government to in
terfere in the concerns of a State, has
treated the subject as political in its na
ture, aud placed the power in the hands
of that department. * * * And
its decision is binding upon every other
department of the Government, and
could not be questioned in a judicial tri
bunal.”
Grant suffers Judge Durell to make an
illegal decision in a case outside his juris
diction, itud then, like Cromwell, after his
creation of a necessity, pleads his own
wrong in justification. He first intro
duces anarchy in Louisiana aud then uses
the bayonet to cure the wounds he inflict
ed. As in the Carolinas, Alabama and
other Southern States he kills and im
prisons for lawlessness the result of his
own tyrannical, reconstruction,[so-called,
laws.
The New York World thus answers
Grant’s plea for the shedding of the blood
of Southern citizens at New Orleans :
In all this gross violation of law, jus
tice, aud decorum, the President has
nothing to stand upon but one vain tech
nicality. He maintains that it is his duty
to enforce the decrees of the Federal
Courts, aud that as the establishment
of the Kellogg Government xvas a con
sequence of Judge Durell’s judicial ac
tion, he is bound to support it. This de
fence is not even specious. If the judge
of an inferior court should have a dement
ing epileptic fit on Tuesday, and make a
glaringly illegal decision on Wednesday,
would the President be under an inexora
ble obligation to enforce that f If a
judge should go on the bench in a state
of maudlin, beastly drunkenness, aud
rum, should make a decision at which law
stood aghast, would the President have to
enforce it ? If it should come out, the
next day after a flagrantly illegal decision,
that the judge was bribed, would Presi
dent Grant be bound ? If the decision
of an inferior court is scandalously ille
gal, the President may properly decline
to enforce it until after it is reviewed by
a higher tribunal. Had he disregarded
Durell s action in Louisiana, the present
unfortunate difficulty would not have
arisen.
ALABAMA TeGISLATURE.
SATURDAY.
SENATE.
Following were passed:
Mr. Hewitt’s bill to suppress murder,
lynching, assaults and batteries, etc., as tw
certain counties.
Mr. Hewitt —A bill to repeal an act to
suppress murder, lynching, and assaults
and batteries, so far as the same relates to
the county of Chambers.
To regulate the fees of the Sheriff of
Bullock county.
For the relief of George W. Williams,
Tax Collector for Barbour county.
To amend sections 13, 14 and 15 of the
new charter of Union Springs.
For the relief of D. 41. Zorn, of Bar
bour county.
For the relief of James D. Williford, of
Tallapoosa county.
To confer jurisdiction upon the Chan
cery Courts for the relief of minors over
eighteen years of age from the disabilities
of non-age.
House bill to confer upon Chancery
Courts power to make married ivouieu
free dealers.
To repeal an act to remove the adminis
tration of Oliver P. Bassinger from Coosa
to Pike county.
To amend section 1 of au act to pro
hibit the sale of liquors within three miles
of the Methodist church at Warrior Stand.
To prohibit the sale of liquors within
tw r o miles of Spring Hill station, on the
Montgomery and Eufaula railroad.
To amend section 393!) of the Code.
To suppress murder, lynching, Ac.
Following were referred:
To prevent the sale of liquor within
three miles of Franklin church, Macou
county.
Committee reported adversely to the
bill to amend section 1 of an act to pro
hibit the dealing in county claims by pub
lic officers.
The following bills were introduced:
To protect any person or persons being
arrested upon any supposed act in viola
tion of the law in Bullock county.
For the protection of agricultural labor
ers.
To authorize executors, administrators,
and guardians to sell real estate at private
sale.
The following bills were reported on fa
vorably, and ordered to third reading
Monday:
For the protection of jurors in the Cir
cuit and City Courts of Barbour county'.
An act to authorize the Commissioners
Court of Russell county to levy an addi
tional tax for the payment of the debts
due by said county.
To consolidate the fine and forfeiture
fund of Barbour county with the general
fund.
The Governor transmitted a message
approving the act.
To authorize the Governor to fill Judi
cial vacancies by appointment.
HOUSE.
The following were passed :
The Election Bill.
Senator Gillmore’s funeral expenses,
11-'B.
To provide for repairs on the State Cap
itol.
Resolution of Mr. Greene, of Jefferson,
that no more repairs be made on or about
the State Capitol, as it is the sense of the
General Assembly that the Capitol shall
be removed to a more suitable looality,
was tabled by- au almost unanimous vote.
To incorporate the tow r n of Ozark, Dale
county.
Senate joint resolution making an ap
propriation for defraying part of the ex
penses of the Alabama Commissioners to
the World’s Fair at Vienna.
Following were reported favorably on
and made the special orders for Monday
and Wednesday, respectively :
To incorporate the Opelika and Talla
dega Railroad Company, and to amend
the same.
To provide for the substitution of $4,000
per mile, straight bonds of the State, iu
lieu of the State’s endorsement for Rail
roads.
Following were introduced:
By leave, Goldsby introduced a bill to
punish Tax Collectors, for failure to pay
over to Tax Assessors the fees due them.
Ways aud Means.
The Revenue bill was then taken up
aud many sections adopted, among which
are these:
Section 3 exempts the following proper
ty : (1) AUU. S. property; (2) all State,
town, city or county property; (3) all
State or U. S. bonds; (4) all public school
houses and grounds, not above ten acres,
on which such houses are located ; (5) all
churches used exclusively for religious
worship, the books and furniture therein,
the grounds on which the same are or
may be erected, not exceeding ten acres;
((!) the property of literary, scientific and
benevolent institutions employed in no
other business than that belonging legiti
mately to the line of the institution ; and
‘mechanical aud agricultural associations;
(7) cemeteries aud places of burial; (8)
ministers’ libraries and all religious books
kept by- ministers and colporteurs; (9)
S2OO of personal property- to heads of fam
ilies; (10) one thousand dollars worth of
property to alt blind or insane persons;
(11) all disabled persons, whose taxable
property does not exceed SSOO, from auy
poll tax; (121 all family portraits ; (13) all
the wealing apparel of the person requir
ed to make the return, and of his family-,
not exceeding SIOO in value to each mem
ber thereof ; (14) all shares of the capital
stock of auy company or corporation
which is required to list its property for
taxation in this State ; (15) all lauds do
nated by Congress to railroad companies,
where the roads are yet incomplete from
terminus to terminus, and over which
trains do not run regularly—provided that
both termini are in Alabama, but the
State line, when reached by any- road, is
to be taken as a terminus, remaining un
sold aud uncultivated; (1C) the buildings
and machinery of iron furnaces, found
eries, rolling mills, machine shops, nail and
axe factoriess, tanneries, manufactories of
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH IS, 1573.
leathern goods and cotton, woolen and
silk factories, after they commence opera
tions, for a period of three years ; (17) all
hogs under six months old."
Section 4 imposes $1 30 poll tax on all
males over 21 anil under 45, for school
purposes.
Section 11 fixes the uniform rate of tax
ation at three-fourths of one per centum
ad valorem.
Monday, March 10, 1873.
SENATE.
Mr. Pennington, by leave, introduced a
resolution that the Judiciary Committee
be requested to report a bill providing for
a State Board of Equalization, and that
the Governor's message in reference to
the same be referred to the Judiciary
Committee. Adopted.
Also, to admit American citizens who
have studied law iu the legal institutions
of France, Germany or England, aud who
have been admitted to practice in the su
preme courts of either of those respec
tive countries, to practice in the several
courts of Alabama. Referred to the Ju
diciary Committee.
Mr. Hamilton, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported favorably (with amend
ment) to the bill to establish a City Court
for Lee county.
Mr. Pennington favored the amend
ment. He did not think the desire of the
people for the establishment of the court
extnuded outside of limits of Opelika.
He offered an amendment to the third
section of the bill, providing for an elec
tion for judge at the next general elec
tion, aud authorizing the Go\ r ernor to fill
the office by appointment, to hold over
until the next general election. The
amendment was tabled.
The amendment reported by the com
mittee (to bring on the election on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, 1873, in place of first Monday
in May, 1873,) was adopted.
HOUSE.
A resolution requiring tho Committee
on Ways and Means to report at 12 111.
Tuesday, fixing a day for the adjourn
ment of the General Assembly.
Mr. Bruce moved to lay the resolution
on the table. Lost—yeas, 38; nays, 39.
special order.
The hour of 12 m. having arrived, a
motion was made that tho penitentiary
committee report on the penitentiary
farm bill, when Mr. Bruce called atten
tion to the fact that the message of the
Governor, uotitying the General Assem
bly that $1,500,000 of bonds would not be
sulficient to meet the debts of the State,
anil asking for additional legislation, was
tho oldest special order, aud it was taken
up.
Mr. Bruce, by leave, introduced a bill
for the relief of the school fund of Ala
bama. (Authorizes the issue of bonds to
the amount of $750,000, bearing six per
cent, interest anti running thirty years,
to meet the deficiency now due the school
fund, and to accrue from the State.)
Mr. Cloud offered a substitute for the
bill to provide for the issue of bonds to
the amount of $1,000,000, expi-essly for
public school purposes, to be known as
Alabama school bonds, and to require the
Treasurer to keep such school fund sepa
rate, to be used only for public school
purposes. The bill proposes a school tax
of one-twentieth of one per cent, on all
property of the State for the purpose of
meeting the interest falling due on the
bonds issued and sold.
The bill and substitute were finally re
ferred to the Committee on Education.
By leave, Mr. Lawreuce called up a
joint memorial relating to amending the
Constitution of Alabama, by abolishing
the school board.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
REVENUE BILL.
Mr. Bruce moved to recommit the reve
nue bill (o the Committee on Ways aud
Means, which was agreed to.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL,
being the special order, was taken up, the
question being on concurring in the report
of the Judiciary Committee, which sub
mitted a substitute for the original bill.
Mr. Lewis moved that the House do not
concur iu the adverse report.
Mr. Wilkinson called for the yeas and
nays. The vote resulted, yeas 48, nays
29, and the Speaker announced that the
report of the committee adverse to the bill
was sustained, and the bill was lost.
Mr. Cowan moved to reconsider the
vote just taken, and to lay that motion on
the table, and the yeas and nays were
called. Yeas 43, nays 31.
Mr. Manning offered a resolution in
structing the committee on the A. & C. It.
It. to report on the bill in reference to the
sale of said road, by 12 m. to-morrow.
Adopted.
Mr. Williams, of Barbour, introduced a
joint resolution that the General Assem
bly adjourn sine die on to-morrow at 12
o’clock.
Mr. Ellsworth moved to lay the resolu
tion on the table. Carried: Yeas 50,
nays 22.
senate bills.
To change the lines between the coun
ties of Barbour aud Russell. Passed.
For the relief of Peter and Judy Mene
fee, of Lee county. Passed.
To declare the jurisdiction of Probate
Courts in this State. Referred to the Ju
diciary Committee.
To amend section 3,73 G of the Code.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
To repeal in part the act approved Dec.
IC, 1867, to incorporate the Mobile and
Girard Railroad Company.
Mr. Murphree moved to amend that fu
ture Legislatures may impose restrictions
on charges, etc. Referred to the Commit
tee on Internal Improvements.
To fix the time of holding the Chancery
Courts in Barbour county. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
To authorize the Commissioners of Mad
ison and Pike counties to pay a certain
claim therein mentioned. Passed.
To repeal an act to establish a Civil and
Criminal Court for Russell county. Re
ferred to the Judiciary Committee.
To repeal au act to exempt from admin
istration property of decedents and vests
titles in widow and children. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
To regulate the publication of legal no
tices, etc. Referred to the Committee on
Printing.
To amend an act regulating the pub
lication of legal anil other notices, etc.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
House bill amended by the Senate,
amending the charter of the town of Clay
ton. Concurred in.
Joint memorial asking the payment by
Congress for cotton unlawfully seized.
TUESDAY.
SENATE.
Following bills wore passed :
A bill to amend section 2032 of the
Code.
To codify aud revise all Statute law’s of
a general nature.
For the relief of the Alabama Central
Railroad.
To amend section 3704 of the Code.
To prohibit the public officials of the
State from dealing in State claims.
To repeal the inspection laws of the
State.
To repeal au act to suppress murder,
lynching aud assaults.
For the protection of sheep.
To repeal au act to secure complete
records in the Courts of this State, ap
proved December 10, 1808.
To repeal the act repealing an act to
authorize writs of garnishments against
incorporated tows, cities aud villages.
To amend section 1383 of the Code.
To prevent an improper use of fire
arms.
To authorize the collection of debts for
labor and service rendered for the bene
fit of Trust estates.
To amend section 87 of the Revenue
law.
To allow persons whose property is
alleged to have been injnred or destroyed
under sections 3733, 34, 35, 3(i aud 37 of
the Revised Code, to be comptent wit
nesses.
To empower the Register iu Chancery
in the 4th District in the Southern Divis
ion to make reports of the sale of lands
made by former Registers.
To repeal an act to incorporate the
town of Youngsville, in Tallapoosa coun
ty; tabled.
To amend section 2925 of the Code.
To repeal an aet to regulate the Chan
cery Courts in the f>th District of the
Southern Chancery Division.
To secure the different counties in this
state a propel donate share of the Public
School Money.
See advertisement of Geo. Woods &
Cos. ’s organs.
TELEGRAPHIC
WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 9. —It is supposed
that the debate on the Caldwell case will
continue two or three days, as four or five
Senators are prepared to make speeches.
The debate will be under the management
of Senator Morton, chairman of Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections. This is
different from any other case of disputed
election ever considered or determined by
either House of Congress. There are no
precedeuts in American parliamentary law
relating to buying out an opposing candi
date and his followers to secure an elec
tion to Congress, and therefore this case
attracts much interest, particularly among
political lawyers.
Not only are many personal applications
being made for office, but uumerous let
ters are received daily by the President
and general heads of departments. On
Saturday the mail brought more than one
hundred letters to Secretary Fish. It is
known, however, from official sources,
that there will be but comparatively few
changes, and these for satisfactory reasons
to the appointing power.
Much of the time of the President
during the past week w r as occupied in re
sponding to the congratulations of large
numbers of the visitors who attended the
inaugural ceremonies.
It is held by the Postoffice Department
that the recent decision of the Attorney-
General, that double postage should not
be collected at the office of delivery on
the unpaid portion of letters partly pre
paid by at least one full rate, does not ap
ply to mailable matter of the third class,
namely: pamphlets, occasional publica
tions, magazines, unsealed circulars,
books, book manuscripts, etc. By the act
of January 9tU, 1873, all mailable matter
of the third class must be fully prepaid
by stamps at the office of mailing, and if
not thus fully prepaid, should be held for
postage, arid not forwarded to its destina
tion. If, however, through the inadver
tence of the postmaster at the mailing
office, such matter should be mailed with
out such full prepayment, hy section 152
of the postal code, the postmaster at the
office of delivery must charge aud collect
double the prepaid rates.
The Postoffice Department, in a circu
lar, requires postmasters to carefully ob
serve the following instructions, based on
the amendments to tho 133d section of the
new postal law: Packages of seeds, roots,
bulbs and scions, not exceeding four
pounds in weight, are to he mailed at a
prepaid postage of one cent for each two
ounces or fraction of an ouuce. Said
packages must bo put up so that the con
tents can be readily examined without
destroying the wrappers. Sealed bags,
made of material sufficiently transparent
to show tho contents clearly without open
ing, may be used for such matter. This,
as well as all other third class mail mat
ter, must lie fully prepaid by postage
stamps affixed, otherwise the same shall
not he forwarded.
Washington, March 10. —The Supreme
Court, to-day, in the case of Humphrey
et al. against Preugh, from the Circuit
Court of South Carolina, decided that the
Cheraw aud Darlington Railroad Company
in South Carolina is, by the laws of the
State, exempt from taxation, and that the
law of 18(18, enacted to repeal this exemp
tion, is void. The Court says: “It is too
late to raise the question whether a State
has the power to bind itself against im
posing taxes ; for it has been held iu this
court that a State has the power to biud
itself in relinquishing the taxing powers,
and such a provision is a contract, which
the State may not subsequently impair.”
Other cases involving the same principles
were decided in favor of the anti-tax.
A Republican Senatorial caucus met
after tho adjournment of the Senate this
afternoon to consider the demand of the
Democrats for increased minority repre
sentation 011 the committees, and, after
some discussion, the matter was referred
to a sub-committee of five for report at
au adjourned meeting to-morrow. The
sub-committee consists of Stewart, Conk
ling, Scott, Wright aud West. The cau
cus reconsidered Saturday’s vote regard
ing the case of Patterson, and decided not
to take it up for consideration in the Sen
ate, no action being possible for the rea
son that Patterson is no longer a member
of that body.
Nominations—John Q. Clark, postmas
ter at Savannah, Ga.; Edwin Belcher,
postmaster at Macon, Ga.; James L.
Dunning, postmaster at Atlanta, Ga.; R.
S. Taylor, postmaster at Athens, Ga.; W.
W. Holden, postmaster at Raleigh, N. C.;
Elizabeth L. Van Lew, postmaster at
Richmond, Va. ; Wm. L. Scruggs, Geor
gia, Minister to Colombia.
Confirmations.—Winston Plato, Collec
tor at Corpus Christi; Nicholas V. Brood,
Postmaster at Marshall, Texas; Hughes,
Attorney-general for the Middle District
of Tennessee ; W. 11. Smythe, Marshal for
Georgia; Col. Parker, Surveyor of Cus
toms at New Orleans; Gass, Collector of
Customs at St. Augustine, Ela.
Gen. Dent, for the past four years in
charge of the Reception Room at the
White House, has been ordered to his reg
iment. Qrs n. W. H. Crook succeeds Dent.
Senate.—Caldwell case dismissed. No
action.'
The Comptroller of the Currency, in the
blank statements which have just been
sent out, has abbreviated, to a consider
able extent, the schedules which accom
pany the reports, and required the banks
to report the average daily reserve for the
preceding thirty days, and the highest
rate of interest paid on daily balances.
The reports of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, and of the National Banks’ Exam
iner, upon the condition of the Freed
mens’ Savings and Trust Company, of
this city, were intended to furnish Con
gress information with reference to the
technical violation of law under which
the Institution was organized.
The Secretary, upon w'hich the loans
were made, is considered the Comptroller
and the Examiner, with few' exceptions,
and good for the amount loaned. There
is nothing in the report which conveys the
impression that the bank cannot respond
to the demand of the depositors. The
Examiner states that the officers are, in
his opinion, men of the most undoubted
integrity of character, who have educated
themselves to a practical knowledge of the
business of the institution, which prom
ises a prosperous future. The Comptroller
of the Currency states that the bank will
be able to correct the mistakes already
made, and continue a business of great
usefulness to the class of depositors for
whose benefit the institution was organ
ized.
The Diplomatic Corps, in full court
costume, called on the President to-day
to congratulate him on reinauguratiom
Many of them w T ere accompanied by the
ladies of their families. Several ladies of
the Cabinet officers, the household of the
President, and nearly all the members of
the Cabinent were in attendance. After
formalities between the President and
the foreign representatives, Blacqne Bey
made the following address :
Mr,. Pkesident :—I have the honor to
offer you the congratulations of the Diplo
matic Corps upon this, the occasion of
your reinaugnral. I feel both pleased aud
flattered that the duty has devolved upon
me to express to you the sincere wishes of
my colleagues and myself for the preser
vation of your life and the consequent suc
cess of your Administration.
To this, the President replied:
Mr. Dean: —l receive with sensibility
the congratulations which you offer on
behalf of your colleague, accredited to
this Government. My intercourse with
you all has hitherto been agreeable, and I
trust it may so continue. It is my wish,
and it shall be my purpose in the future,
as it has been in the past, to keep up with
the countries which you represent those
cordial and friendly relations which are
essential to the general prosperity aud
happiness.
The mail route from Shreveport to
Monroe, La., has been aw'arded to F.
Sawyer, of Texas. Daily service. The
Texas route has not yet been awarded.
The Republican Senatorial caucus this
evening agreed to add two more members
to each of the committees on appropria
tions, public lands, postoffice, privileges
and elections. Each of these committees
will have two opposition members, as will
also, each of the committees on judiciary,
naval and military affairs. Several of the
committees may have three opposition
members. The committee on foreign re
lations will have only one opposition
member. The Republicans will leave to
the opposition the filling of the reserved
vacancies.
The President to-day reappointed the
present Government Directors of the
i Union Pacific Railroad Company for one
j year from to-day. They are Hiram Pierce
j and James F. Wilson, of Iowa; J. S. Har
; rison, of Indiana; J. H. Willard, of Ne-
I braska, and D. S. Ruddock, of Connecti
cut.
Nominations—P. G. Henderson, Regis
ter of Land Office, Montgomery, Ala.; P.
Finley, Receiver of Public Money, Mont
gomery, Ala.; J. T. Wilson, Lynchburg,
Va.; R. B. Nichols, Norfolk, Va.; J. E.
Whittlesey, Houston, Texas; E. S. Moore
j Key West, Fla., Postmasters.
Confirmations—Clark, Collector of the
2d Georgia District.
The Senate is occupied with Caldwell.
Edgar Needham, Assessor of Internal
Revenue at Louisville, is dead.
The President answers invitations from
the South: 1 have been compelled, by
public duties, to indefinitely postpone my
visit to the Southern cities.
FOREIGN.
London, March 11.—A special dispatch
from Berlin, to the Daily News, says the
German papevs ridicule and sharply crit
icise the address of President Grant, de
livered on the occasion of his second inau
guration. The papers ask whether the
monarchial States ought to keep United
States diplomatic relations with a power
whose Executive thus insults them.
Paris, March 11.—Tho Court Martial
has sentenced the Communist Forade to
death.
London, March 12. —The House of
Commons to-night, after a protracted de
bate, rejected Mr. Gladstone’s Irish Uni
versity bill. The result of the division
was announced as follows: For the bill,
284 ; against it, 287; majority against it,
3. The announcement of ihevote caused
great excitement.
The House adjourned till Thursday.
Later —12 p. in. —Gladstone waited ou
her Majesty, Queen Victoria, at Bucking
ham Palace at noon to-day, to tender his
resignation.
It is probable that Mr. Disraeli will be
summoned to form the new ministry.
The scene iu the House of Commons
last night, when the defeat of (lie Minis
try on the Irish University bill was an
nounced, is indescribablo. The excite
ment iu the gallery and on the floor was
intense; wliilo the opponents of the
measure indulged iu tumultuous cheers
over its rejection. Among the distin
guished personages iu the Stranger’s gal
lery, which was crowded during the de
bate, were the Prince of Wales, Princess
Louise aud Prince Christian. The Scotch
and Welsh members supported the bill,
but the Catholics were unanimous iu their
opposition to it.
After the announcement of tho result,
Gladstone arose and said: “The vote just
givou, is certainly of grave character. As
the House never wishes to continue its
deliberations when the existence of the
Government is in doubt, I move adjourn
ment until Thursday. ” Motion was car
ried.
In consequence of the late hour at
which the result was reached, the edito
rial comments of the London morning
journals are meagre.
The Irish University bill did not receive
the vote of a single Conservative member
of the House of Commons. Forty-seven
Liberals, of whom 3t> were Irishmen,
voted against the bill. Fifteen Irish mem
bers voted for it. Seventeen members in
the House, including Dr. Isaac Dull,mem
ber for Limrerick, were absent. Forty
members participated in the debate.
Right John 11. bright, Jacob bright, his
brother, and the Marquis of Lome, sup
ported the Government.
NEW YORK.
Nbw York, March 10. A meeting of
journeymen shoemakers to organize a
strike was slimly attended. It is thought
it will be a failure.
Commodore Edmund W. Henry, of Co
lumbia, South Carolina, late Information
from Laurens county, proves the Ku Klux
outrages reported to have been committed
there to bo base falsifications by Radical
officers.
New York, March 11. —Employers and
working men are now beginning to dis
cuss the proposed movements in various
trades in reference lo wages and hours of
labor. Conflicting opinions prevails on
both sides. Employers seem to be unani
mous in opposition to the ret 1 action of
hours, while the working men are not
united, and many regard with favor the
ten hour system now publicly changed.
Mrs. Putnam, wife of ih« victim, re
ceived #15,000 from a i. r. relative of
Foster, the car-hook 1-..1 lerer, for
writing a letter to Govern.., Dix asking
for commutation of his sentence.
New York, March 11.—Pr., lessor John
Torry, of Columbia College, 1 , dead.
The suspension of C. B. Camp A Cos.,
cotton merchants, is announced to-day.
New York, March 13.- —The Directors
of the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
Railroad, to-day, elected George Dennis
President; Samuel L. Post, jr., Vice
President ; John J. Howell, Treasurer.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, March 10.—This morning,
in the Annual Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, the Trial
Committee, in the case of Rev. ,T. F.
Clark, of White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia, of which Committee Rev. N
Head is Chairman, reported that the
charge of immorality was sustained, and
Clark was expelled from the Church.
The Committee, in the case of Rev. Dr.
Houston, are taking testimony.
Baltimore, March 12.—A short time
since, John Hopkins, a Well-known mil
lionaire of this city, deeded to trustees
thirteen acres of laud, bounded by Wolfe,
Monument, Broadway and Jefferson
streets, for the erection of a hospital for
the relief of the indigent sick and orphans.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees,
last evening, they were uotilied by Mr.
Hopkins that he had further dedicated
$2,000,000 worth of property for the sup
port and maintenance of the hospital.
The building will be built on a magnifi
cont scale, and will be commenced in the
Spring of 1874.
Baltimore, March 12.—The Superior
Court of this city’ yesterday, in the case
of Elizabeth Gellermau, administratrix,
against the Knickerbocker Life Insurance
Company of New York, receiver, the
policy issued to hor deceased husband,
under the rulings of the Court, plaintiff
submitted to a nol. pros., which conclud
ed the case. The policy contained a pro
vision that the insurance should be void
in case the insured should become so far
intemperate as to induce delirium tre
mens. During the trial it was in the evi
dence that the deceased died of delirium
tremens.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Concord, March 11.—Henry A. Bellows,
Chief Justice of New' Hampshire, is dead.
Concord, March 12.—Returns from 141
towns state that the net loss for the Re
publicans is 000. There is a probability
of no election of Governor by the people.
No figures ou the Congressional vote can
he given, as they have not been returned.
The Democratic candidates are undoubt
edly’ elected in each of the three districts,
Ellery A. Hibbard from the Ist, Sam’l N.
Bell from the 2d, and 11. W. Paikerfroru
the 3d. In the Legislature the Republi
cans will have a strong majority, and also
a majority’ in the Senate aud Council.
2:30 a. m. —Returns from 145 towns
give Straw, Republican, 27,47(1; Weston,
Democrat, 24,45!); Blackmer, 804; Mason,
503. Republicans gain 1,022, Republi
can loss 1,937. The remaining 90 towns
gave last year, Straw’, 7,488, Weston 9,-
058. This defeats the choice by the peo
pie in the city election. Jno. Kimball
was re-elected to the Mayoralty by a large
majority.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, March 12. —George S. Bout well
was elected U. S. Senator to-day, in a
Convention of the two houses of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature. Whole number of
votes cast 275, of which Boutwell received
152; H. L. Davies, 115; Geo. B. Loring,
2; J. K. Torbin, 2; Wm. Whiting, 2; C.
G. Greer, 2. Boutwell was declared
elected.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, March 11.—The special
deposit safe of the Falls City Tobacco
Bauk was robbed. The entrance was
made from the floor above. The bank
loses nothing.
Gen. Gordon. This gentleman was
sworn in as United States Senator from
Georgia on the 11th. The press agent has
the matter correct this time.
OUR LEGISLATIVE WISDOM.
Oxenstiern, the learned chancellor of
the great Gnstavus Adolphus, of Sweden,
said to his son who was about leaving
home—“Go and see with what little wis
dom the world is governed!” If the illus
trious man could visit the United States
he would see a large territory and a popu
lation of forty millions of souls governed
with no wisdom, but by force of circum
stances. We are very much like Topsy,
who, when questioned about her existence
aud education, answered that she was
never born, but just growed so. If asked
concerning our political origin and his
tory, and the secret of our progress iu
national power aud prosperity, we should
certainly receive little or no explanation
from our legislative wisdom. We are
seemingly powerful aud prosperous, not
from, but in spite of, our professed ser
vants, but actual rulers aud oppressors.
The time was, w hen tho representatives
of a free people assembled to consult aud
enact wise and just laws suited to protect
life, liberty and property, aud stimulate
and develop the natural, mental, moral
and material riches of the country. Each
member was supposed to be familiar with
the wants of his own immediate constitu
ents and the public generally, and to
possess the disposition aud ability to sup
ply what was missing or defective by leg
islation through forms sanctioned by tho
w'isdom and authority of ages. Tempora
mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis.
The times are changed, and w’e
have changed with them. Now, grave
Senators and wise Representatives, and
even tho President, himself, pleads ignor
ance as au excuse for disgraceful delin
quencies and crimes, forpisurpations and
robberies. The personal statements, un
der oath, of representatives of States and
people are ignored as unworthy of credit,
and extra committees, at great time, labor
and expense, are went over the country to
supply the missing liuks of au eternal
chain of lying, perjury, bribery aud theft.
The committees, after a long pursuit of
knowledge under difficulties, assemble
with all the gravity of owls aud hold high
carnival like solemn buzzards over the
carcass of a horse. For a moment the
stench of corruption comes forth and of
fends the nostrils of all liouest men; the
couuoil disperse after tho application of
whitewash, and the people go to sleep
again only to be sucked to death by an
other set of political and official vampires.
The substantial interests of the country
iu the meantime are neglected, agricul
ture, commerce, manufactures aud
schools sicken and die, life and liberty,
protection and security are sacrificed that,
by open violence and secret fraud, a few
legislators and lobbyists aud railroad
sharpers may grow fat and kick on the
sweat of tax payers without the fear of
jails, penitentiaries or gibbets. What a
country! aud what Legislators!
GEORGIA ITEMS.
A strong corps of engineers were to
have commenced the survey of the Atlan
ta, Mouticollo and Macon railroad, Mon
day morning, at Covington. Major Camp
bell Wallace will push the work forward.
Governor Smith has ordered an election
to be held in Pulaski county 011 the lirst
day of April next for a representative to
till the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Hon. Thomas J. Bark well, t
bill Arp is to write another humorous
wink, to be illustrated by a famous Geor
gia cartoonist.
The Georgia Baptist Convention assem
bles at Rome on April 28tli.
The ladies of Atlanta have received
enough money to authorize the erection
of 11 Confederate monument 111 Oakland
Cemetery, the stone to be furnished from
Stone Mountain granite.
James Oscar Collier, son of Judge John
Collier, died in Atlanta of meningitis.
General Gordon returned to Atlanta,
Friday, from a visit to Texas, and left im
mediately for Washington, where he has
not been since his election as Senator.
Governor Smith offers a reward of $250
for the arrest and delivery to the Sheriff
of Forsyth county of Wm. J. Bone, who
murdered Thomas J. Burton, iu that
county, ou the Ist of March.
Atlanta is to have anew bank, with
f200,000 capital. Mr. Gofer, late of Ame
ricas, will be President; Mr, Dell, form
erly of Tennessee (more lately of Chica
go), cashier, and Mr. Otis Jones, of At
lanta, receiving teller.
The Atlanta jeweler, Sharpe, tells the
Herald that his sales in 1872 in sterling
silverware alone, were nearly thirty thou
sand dollars.
Mother Mary Vincent Mahoney, a na
tive of Ireland, of the Convent of the
Immaculate Conception in Atlanta, died
on Sunday of heart disease.
The oat crop of North Georgia is a
failure. With good weather wheat may
turn out fair.
Heavy sales of guano are reported in
every place in Georgia.
Mr. Josiah Vinson, an old and respected
citizen of Houston county, died Wednes
day, of heart disease.
Mr. Samuel Stevens, and old and re
spected citizen of Quitman, and one of
the proprietors of tlie cotton factory at
that place, died on Tuesday last of ery
sipelas, aged sixty years.
A remarkable story is going tlie rAunds
about a girl of Northeastern Georgia who
dreams of tinding coin buried in certain
spots, and then sends out her relatives
who discover it iu the very place indicated
in the dream.
Hon. A. H. Stephens addressed the
people of McDuffie, on the 2(»th ult., at
Thomson.
At Cuthbert, a son of Mr. Slappey,
went into a raving delerium after a foot
race.
William Harden and Mrs. Catherine
Shaw, aged people, died near Cuthbert
last week.
The surveying party of the Hawkins
ville and Eufanla Railroad, reached
Americus last Thursday. Officers report
ed they expected to commence grading
the road in about six weeks, and would
have a sufficient force at work at both
ends of the roads to complete it as rap
idly as possible.
A malady, in which the marked fea
tures are large swelling under the neck,
and bloody discharges from the bowels,
is affecting fatally the the cows in Early
county.
Last nigbt, at Blakely, on the S. W. li.
R. extension, Mr. Sluder, the overseer
over the wheelbarrow gang, was shot and
severely wounded by Mr. Charles John
son, a sub-contractor on the road. Diffi
culty arose about position assigned in
work.
Mercer University’ re-opened Monday,
and has now about 130 students. One
named Stafford, from Dalton, returned
Wednesday and died Friday night of men
ingitis, contracted by exposure on his
trip. The exercises of the institution will
not be interrupted. No fears of further
cases.
Five thousand dollars reward is offered
by the Southern Bank of the State of Geor
gia for the arrest of the defaulter Jones.
It is said the Bank loses over $60,000 by
him. Jones was as pious a Yankee as
Colfax.
Augustus Holland, Sr., of Savannah, is
dead.
It is currently reported in Washington
that Mr. Atkins, the United States Collec
tor at Savannah, is to be decapitated.
The ground of this terrible calamity, it is
alleged, is official incapacity.
From October Ist, 1871, to December
31st, 1872, the total cotton exports from
Savannah were 710,939 bales of upland
cotton, valued at $65,201,019; 6,463 bales
of Sea Island cotton, valued at $1,118,-
480, aud lumber valued at $1,700,665;
making a grand total of $68,1)10,164.
The barns, engine-house, steam saw
mill, stables, farming utensils, and 2,000
bushels of seed rice on the Butler estate,
on Butler’s Island, opposite Darien, were
burned on the 4th. Loss, $25,000; in-
i surance $5,000. The estate is very wealthy.
| The fire originated in some straw, proba
-1 l»ly from spontaneous combustion.
Mr. Slade, of Savannah, connected with
the Singer sewing machine agency, with a
friend, has drawn a prize of #7,51X1 from
tlie Georgia State Lottery at Atlanta.
A rock fish, weighing 455 pounds,
caught in Florida, has been brought to
Savannah.
Savannah burglars, on Sunday night,
robbed the residence of Mr. Hamilton of
#llOO in jewelry, Ac., and Mr. Solomon
Cohen of S4OO. Mulattoes suspected.
The “cold snap "of last week killed
nearly all the early garden truck arouud
Savannah, and will necessitate a general
replanting thereof. Old gardeners say it
beats anything in the last twenty-five
years.
A communication in the last issue of
tlie Washington Gazette urges the sale of
the Western and Atlantic railroad if tlie
lessees can be induced to give up then
lease, and the author of the article thinks
they can. The writer wishes the road
sold in order to pay up the debts of the
State, and to leave nothing for the fat
tening of future Bullocks. He recites
the cost to the people of keeping up the
property before the lease, and declares
that the tax-payers of the State are too
poor to " indulge longer in this luxury.”
He thinks (hat by this plan the State can
relieve herself of all financial embarrass
ments, snap her fingers at Wall street and
bid defiance to the holders of the bogus
bonds.
Mr. McCord, a citizen of Upson county,
was frozen to death last Saturday night,
while 011 his way home from Thomas! on.
He was drunk and laid down within a
mile of his house, where he was found
dead the next morning.
Mrs. Maggie, wife of James Watt, of
Baiubridge, is dead.
The Macon Telegraph states that Cap
tain A. O. Bacon has in his office an Eng
lish will, which is supposed to be a fair
sample of how some things are conducted
in that country. The document is written
on six sheets of parchment, each sheet
about a yard square, and it is burdened
with seals and ropes until the whole appa
ratus does not weigh much short of six
pounds. The testament is one bequeath
ing property to the amount of one million
of dollars. It was sent to Captain Bacon
to be used by him in the settlement of a
part of the estate, which is located in this
city.
Mercer University students are per
fectly healthy.
The Cathedral Association in Savannah
lias $25,414 24 safely invested.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Strack buried two sons
in Savannah, Tuesday.
Florida has sent to Savannah a 511
pound rock fish.
The Port Royal Railroad will not be in
thorough running order to Augusta until
the 15th of May. It is stated that Ihe
backers of this road have a pledge from
parties in England, to establish a line of
steamships between Port Royal and Liv
erpool as soon as the Southern Pacific
Railroad is completed.
Mrs. De Graff, the clairvoyant, is suing
a gentleman in Augusta for SIO,OOO dam
ages, charging him with knocking her
from a chair, which caused her to fall and
break a leg. She was telling his fortuuo
and, among oilier things, made his virtue
and morals very low. His witnesses testi
fy ho did not strike her, but that she fell
from the chair while rocking her body lo
and fro.
Carroll county comes up with a gourd
18 inches in diameter, 50 inches in cir
cumference and 11 inches high, and holds
pounds of shelled corn.
Three negroes were drowned in Heard
county recently.
Mr. Wm. M. Bozeman, son of Judge C.
M. Bozeman, of Pulaski county, was
drowned in the Ocmulgee river last Satur
day.
The residence of Mr. R. P. Crowder,
about nine miles from Griffin, w’as burned
last Friday uigbt. Nothing was saved
except a couple of beds. Loss $2,000,
aud no insurance.
Two amateur sportsmen, members of
the Atlanta Bar, were hunting in the
Oconee swamps in Johnson county, sev
eral days ago, when they came upon a
flock of eight, wild turkeys, aud firing si
multaneously, one shot each, killed seven
Hue gobblers, aggregating ninety-six
pounds in weight. How is that for a shot?
A man named James Taylor, a tobacco
dealer from Mt. Airy’, N. C., attempted to
commit suicide at Sp irts, on Monday
night, by swallowing a laudanum cocktail
of about two ouuces.
Geo. W. Adams has been elected Presi
dent of the Macon and Cincinnati Rail
road Company, vice Col. W. K. deGraf
fenreid resigned, and Col. deG. has been
elected attorney.
Grant, Alexander &, Cos. propose to the
Macon, Monticello and Atlanta Railroad
to grade theroad for $300,000, half in cash
and half in stock. The grading w’ouhl be
from Covington to the connection with
Macon and Augusta Railroad, 12 miles
from Macon.
Mrs. Ann JMcCarty, a lady formerly in
good circumstances, was discovered on
Tuesday wandering, deranged, about the
streets of Atlanta with a baby iu her
arms.
alabamT news.
M. M. Stanton, for several years con
nected with the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad, has been appointed Assistant
Superintendent of the South and North
Railroad.
A Washinton special of the Bt,h to sev
eral papers has this :
Senator Sykes and his counsel have
no idea of abandoning their contest be
cause of Spencer’s having been seated.
Governor Lewis’ signature to Spencer’s
credentials was the point relied on; and
because his being seated w'ould give him
an unfair advantage that was considered
to be sufficient. The Northern papers
denounce the partizanship manifested by
the contrast between the delay in accord
ing Senator Goldthwaite his seat and the
haste exhibited iu seating Spencer with
out referring his credentials to a com
mittee. The justice of Spencer’s claim
was not thought of; his party jKilitics
was the open sesame which gained him
admission. P.
Mr. Frank Wadsworth, civil engineer,
has an important position on the South
aud North Road.
Gol. J. F. Whitfield, formerly of the
Montgomery Mail, is now general claim
and damage agent of the South and North
Alabama Railroad.
The Legislature of Alabama lias a bill
before it to repeal all the exemption laws
of the Revised Code, with , a few excep
tions, and fall back on the constitutional
exemption, which allows each resident
citizen one thousand dollars W’orth of
personal property and eighty acres of
land, or a lot in the city, provided it is
not worth more than two thousand dol
lars. This bill has passed the Senate by
ft large majority, and from present indi
cations will pass the lower house and
receive the approval of the Governor, and
become a law.
The town election in Midway last week,
resulted in the choice of Gol. R. D. Thorn
ton as Mayor and M. E. Pruitt, J. W.
Smith, E. L. Jenkins, aud I. B. Feagan,
Councilmen.
The directors of the Memphis and Selma
Railroad have elected Gen. N. B. Forrest,
President; Samuel Tate, Vice President
and H. D. Bulkley, Treasurer.
New Books. —J. W. Pease and Normau,
advertise for sale Clifford Troupe, by Mrs.
Westmoreland, author of Heart Hungry;
and Middlemarch, by George Elliott, au
thor of Adam Bede, &c.
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Robber. —There is said to boa negro
who escaped some time ago from Colum
bus that is trying to turn highway robber
iu Uchee swamp. He robbed a gentleman
who had sold some cotton of $l2B one day
week before last.
The Kentucky Public Library advertises
another grand scheme by which $500,000
of cash gifts are to be distributed to the
holders of tickets. Single tickets $lO
each. Capt. Charlie Klink is tho agent
at Columbus.
John M. Sapp, Sheriff of Chattahoochee
county, gives notice that the advertising
of his otfice wilt be published in this paper. ;
THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 13.
LETTER FROM UNION SPRINGS.
BtrLhocK House, March 8, 1873.
Kd.i. Sun: —Although we have nothing
startling to report to your readers, a few
lines in regard to this lively little city may
not prove uninteresting to them, as we
think we discover here numerous eviden
ces of a kindlier feeling for Columbus,
which give promise of good results in the
immediate future. It is not necessary, in
this connection, to refer to the causes that
have alienated the two during the past
few years, but rather to rejoice iu the
prospect of a partial, if not full, return of
the old-time fellowship. Columbus gave
Union Springs her first railroad commu
nication with the outside world, and laid
the foundation of all the substantial
growth that has, come to her during her
riper years as a vigorous and growing city.
It is very right and proper, therefore, that
your merchants and capitalists, who have
invested their money in this euteprise,
should reap a portion, at least, of the
profits, growing out of the trade of this
immediate section, without taking issue
as to where the balance shall go, or who
is to be benefitted by it.
Notwithstanding the dullness iu busi
ness here—as elsewhere —aud the presence
of empty stores on the main street, signs
of progress and improvement meet the
eye on every hand. We have before
spoken of the elegant brick Court-house,
with its handsome towers, which is slill
in an unfinished state, aud also referred to
several new brick stores, which are now r
finished and opened for business. These
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stores offer great security to merchants,
and reduce their rates of insurance, ow
ing to which fact several wooden stores
are now without tenants, their former oc
cupants having removed to the brick
buildings. Quite a number of these brick
buildings are two stories in height, and
have handsomely finished fronts, so that
the main business street presents quite a
city-like appearance. 111 the secoud story
of one of those lirick buildings we found
the new and commodious quarters of tlie
Union Springs Herald and Times,by whose
genial aud accomplished editor, Col. R.
H. Powell, we w’ere most cordially receiv
ed. From him we learned that his excel
lent paper is largely increasing its circu
lation in Russell county and oil tlie line of
the Mobile and Girard Railroad, which
should make it a desirable aud valuable
advertising medium for the merchants of
Columbus to make known their establish
ments to the people of this section. By a
proper use of printers’ ink, aud tho culti
vation of a more intimate acquaintance
with tho planters and merchants of Bul
lock county, you* business men call re
gain much of the trade that formerly weut
to Columbus.
Among the rumored changes bore, two
are worthy of notice. Judge Thomas
Pullum, an old and highly esteemed citi
zen, proposes to remove to Atlanta, where
lie already has an interest in a drug store.
Ilis removal will deprive “Union Springs
of one of its most enterprising and public
spirited residents, and the church and
society of a most estimable member. His
loss will be partially supplied, however,
by Col. B. Dunham, the energetic Super
intendent of the Montgomery and Enfaula
Railroad, who, with his family, is soon to
take up his residence here. This change
will enable him to view his road daily
from a central point, as the morning trains
from each terminus now meet for break
fast at the Bullock House.
Mr. R. B. McDonald, assisted by his
father, has built up in this city a flue
little book store and nows depot, in con
nection with the post and express offices,
which are under his excellent supervision,
and lias made his establishment quite a
popular resort. We are glad to inform
the friends of the Daii.v and Weekly
Bun in this section, that Mr. McDonald is
authorized lo take subscriptions to either
paper, audio collect bills for unpaid sub
scriptions in the past. Sample copies can
be seen at his news depot, with circulars
containing club raets.
Si I INKY 11ERRERT.
Mrs. Westmoreland and Her New
Novel. —We have received from Messrs.
J. W. I’easo A Norman, who have it for
sale, “Clifford Troup, a Georgia Story,”
Mrs. Westmoreland’s new novel. As all
know she is a resident of Atlanta and tho
author of tlmt popular book, “Heart Hun
gry.” We have not bad time to glance
through it. We have seen criticisms in
the New York Herald and many of the
leading Northern and Southern journals
in which the highest praise is awarded
the volume. Hon. A. H. Stephens warm
ly commends it iu his paper. Wo advise
each 0110 to buy and read and judge for
himself. The work is published by G.
W. Carleton & Cos., of New York. It is
dedicated to Mrs. B. S. Story, (La Su
perbe,) of New Orleans, La.
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Then and Now’. —Apalachicola, in 1805-
0, received I.>O, (XX) bales of cotton. Then,
the river trade w’as Hush, aud at one time
the boats w r ere doing such an immense
business that pilots were paid $2,000 to
$2,500 per month. For a short time one
man is said to have been paid $3,000.
We have not seen any statistics of tho
port for this season, but doubt extremely
whether 10,(XX) bales will be received
there.
The city of Apalachicola now contains
1700 inhabitants. The fish and oyster
trade amounts annually to $25,000.
The large saw mills being established
there may again bring the port into im
portance. Almost all tho former promi
nent business men have moved to other
quarters, and by this change Columbus
has gained many valued citizens.
The Sux’Ply op Cotton. —The Financial
Chronicle, of last week, estimates the sup
ply in Europe, in January, 1873, at 1,-
500,000 ; imports during the year, 5,525,-
000; showing the total supply of 1873 to
be 7,025,000 bales—total consumption
during the year 5,G12,000 —leaving a
stock on hand January 1871, 1,413,000
bales. The Chronicle further argues that
prices must come down or production
diminish.
Washington Letter. —Ou our fourth
page will be found an interesting letter
from Washington, giving a full account
of tho Inaugural ceremonies, display of
the military aud civil processions, fire
works and the ball. The graphic account
is from the facile pen of a gentleman
formerly a resident of Columbus, but now
of Washington City.
After Lost Property. —United States
Commissioner Swayze is again iu our city
taking depositions to prove the “loyalty”
of people who lost property by “Wilson’s
Raid,” and who Lave claims instituted
thereupon, lie was here once before, for
about a week, on the same business. We
have not sought the number of applicants,
or their names.
Rush of Western Goods. —Twenty-five
cars loaded with provisions for Columbus
merchants arrived ou the Western railroad
Tuesday. Tlie accumulations have been
so large that the agent, Mr. Bacon, has
been compelled to commence storing
goods. Merchants should be prompt to
move their goods.
Good Pay. —The papers say Hon. 11. R.
Harris paid all the expenses, and gave a
worthy youth sl2, who brought from Tal
botton, a letter from Gen. Bethune, stat
ing the latter had abandoned tho contest
for Congress. One could well afford to
pay the bearer of such good news.
Price of Hay.—-Ellis and Harrison sold
at auction yesterday, twenty-seven bales
of slightly damaged bay, at $1 50 to $1 SO
per hundred pounds.
The Jail.— The institution now num
bers fifteen inmates, including the chain
gang, which now numbers one individual.
Seven prisoners are to be tried the present
term of the County Court.