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TUBS PAY WOKiIHIK) HARCH 35,
Death ok Mu. David Hudson. — This
gentleman died at his residence Sunday,
aged sixty-nine years. A native of New
Jersey, he came to Augusta in eavly life
and after remaining there several years
came to Columbus, in 1835, thirty-eight
years ago, uud since has been a resident
of our city. He was once associated in
merchandising with Mr. Win. P. Malone,
the firm name being Malone & Hudson.
The greater portion of the time he lias
been connected with several banks and
agencies, and at the time of his death was
book-keeper of Mr. Win. N. Hawks, in
surance and real estate agent and secreta
ry of several Building and Loan Associa
tions. Mr. Hudson was quite an unas
suming gentleman, who attended faith
fully to his duties. lie has been married
twice, the first time in Augusta. Two
children by this union survive him. He
married the second time in this city sev
eral years ago. He was a man of unim
peachable honor and integrity. The fu
neral took place Monday morning from
the Presbyterian church, with which de
nomination he has been connected for
years. Thus gradually are we losing
those who were associated with the early
history of Columbus.
A Sharp Trios.—A well-known railroad
official was very anxious to get a bill in
troiluced into the Alabama Legislature
during the present session, but the mem
ber from the county in which the pro
posed road is to be located declined to
give his support to the measure. A few
days ago the said member was called out
to see u gentleman in the rotunda, who
kept him in conversation about a half
hour. Imagine the surprise of the un
suspecting member when, on his return
to his seat in the House, a friend informed
him that (he railroad hill above named
had just been introduced and referred to
a committee. That legislator says he
can’t be fooled again in the same way
during the present session.
One Hundred and Eight Accessions in
Pour Weeks.—lii the last four weeks the
Baptist Church has received by letter ill
members, and by profession 49, making a
total of 62. Five were immersed Sunday
night, and one has yet to be baptized.
In two weeks St. Luke’s M. E. Church
has gained 39 additions—all hut four by
profession. Eleven wore received Sunday.
St. Paul’s M. E. Church numbers nine
gains in the same time —fivo joining Sun
day.
These figures show the total accessions
to he 108. The meetings aro now pro
gressing at all the churches with gratify
ing promises of success.
Mobile and Girard Railroad Pros
sering. —There is a large increase in the
business of this road over that of last
year. The ootton business now shows
the receipt of 6,750 more Laics to this
date, and 6,019 more than the whole of
last season. Os the total, bales, 19,899,
which tho road has transported, 17,015
came to Columbus and 2,884 went through,
en route for Savannah and New York.
After this date last year tho road brought
5(13 hales to Columbus and 108 of through
cotton. Travel and other freight has in
creased with our main staple.
Guano. —All over the State there has
been and is still a heavy demand for fer
tilizers. At many places the supply has
been exhausted and the demand is very
great. In Columbus, it is probable the
sales will reach beyond four thousand
tons. Last year hardly one thousand
were sold. Very little of this manure
will ever find its way to a com field but
all will go to cotton lands. We really be
hove if a farmer should highly fertilize
his corn lands he would be regarded by
many planters as a fit subject for the lu
natic asylum.
Our Lawyers and tiie Churches. —A
rather close count gives about thirty-six
lawyers to Columbus. Os this number,
ten are members of churches. This is
not hud—one-fourth the whole number.
Asa rule, however, and with the fewest
possible exceptions, the members of the
legal profession in the city are among the
most moral of our people, and furnish
most excellent examples for the imitation
of the young in regard to their duties to
society and the world.
Death of an Estimable Lady. —-We re
gret, indeed, to record the death of the
wife of Mr. George W Brown, a young
but prominent merchant of Columbus.
Her father was Mr. Street, whom all our
readers know. She was loved and es
teemed by a large c ire hr. Thus it is with
life —youth and tho gifted are taken while
those who desire peace and rest linger on
in torture. Mr. Brown lost his mother
by death last week.
The Old Story.—A Northern geutle
luan, himself engaged in manufacturing,
who has visited every part of the country,
on Saturday remarked that Columbus pos
sesses the best and most available water
power in America. AH things considered,
he claims for our city superior advantages
for manufacturing, that no Northern or
Western city can ever hope to attain, and
as compared to Southern cities, her supe
riority is too evident to admit of a com
parison.
A Touching Testimonial. —We learn
that all the passenger engines on the West
ern Railroad are draped in mourning, as
are the cars, as a tribute of respect to the
memory of the late conductor Charlie
Crowder. So general a manifestation of
regard, covering as it does the entire road,
with all its trains, is a tribute to the de
ceased that should be tenderly appreciat
ed by the wide circle of friends who
mourn his loss.
Planting in Lee County. —ln passing
over the Western Railroad between this
city and Opelika, on Saturday last, we
noticed that extensive planting operations
have been commenced along the whole
line, m l there is every indication that the
lan !- w.tii.e 1 prepared and diligently
attended tu. bis to be hoped that the
energy displayed in the preparations
already made, if continued, will finally
result in good crops at paying prices.
Foundations. —The brick work on the
foundations of the Broad street M. E.
church, now Wesley Chapel, was com
menced yesterday by Mr. Williams. The
house is to be of brick and w ill cost about
$5,000.
J. I. Griffin has just received from
Paris a variety of choice perfumes, and
brushes, combs, toilet articles, and fancy
soaps of all varieties. His display of
choice goods is very full.
The N. & S. R. R. —This road, whose
trains only run twenty miles, has brought
to Columbus 1601 bales in less than four
months. Doing well.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
VOL. XV.
ADVERSITY AND PROSPERITY.
The great expounder of human charac
ter has said, “Sweet aro the uses of adver
sity.” He then compares it to a toad
which, ugly and venomous, still bears a
“precious jewel in its head.” Whether
tho “jewel” is trtith or fiction, the com
parison is beautifully poetic. “Adversi
ty,” says the Eastern sage, “is like the
season of the former and the latter rain,
cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and
animal. Vet, from that season have their
birth the flowers and the fruit, the date,
the rose and the pomegranate.” This ap
plies as well to nations as to individuals.
Prosperity, too, has its “precious jewel” -
—its former and latter rain, and like ad
versity, it has a glorious mission. Both
are schools of good discipline to develop
the moral and mental faculties—to warn,
to instruct, and direct. Adversity tends
to reveal and exercise the more active en
ergies of the mind, prosperity (he passive
and noble functions. It is a grand ex
hibition of heroism for a man to rise after
he has fallen, but it is a grander never to
have fallen. Lord Bacon was great when
he acknowledged and repented that his
hands were soiled with bribes. Lord
Hale was greater that his ermine was
never even suspected of impurity. Wash
ington was noble when debated, disheart
ed, he gathered around him his little band
of heroes and prepared again and again to
fling off British domination—he was still
nobler when in the plentitude of power
and affection and confidence, he gave up
all dreams of royal ambition and retired
to his farm with the consciousness that
the glory and honor of his country
was never tarnished by any private or
official baseness. Alexander the Great
could undergo with cheerfulness the
rigors of the camp, hut not the seductions
of the wiue cup, and the Roman legions
could cut their conquering way through
granite mountains and icy roads and
rivers, until the world shivered at their
valor, and yet the mighty rivals and con
querors of these veterans, under Hanni
bal, could not for a single season preserve
their bravery amid the perfumes and de
lights of Capua.
Adversity, if resisted, invigorates the
nobler qualities of character—prosperity
vitalizes the meaner. It is easier for a
man to battle with the fickle goddess,
Fortune, until she falls under his sturdy
blows, than escape destruction when
fallen into her soft, poisonous embraces.
It is better to struggle and suffer for want
of a supposed good, than to possess that
good if accompanied with certain evil.
Adversity humbles, prosperity exalts. The
one purifies and the other is too apt to
puff up the heart and make it the recep
tacle of pride, insolence, tyranny and
vain glory. The Spartan, with his free
dom and black broth, was better and hap
pier than the Persian with his luxury,
slavery and jewels. Anteus, the famous
wrestler, every time he hit the ground his
strength was redoubled—the fat knight,
full of sack and capons, if down, could
only rise to his knees.
THE CONGRESSIONAL GRAB.
The Columbus Sun, without intending
it, does tho News an injustice when it
says it is “the only paper, North or South
which wo have seen, which attempts to
justify tho late Congressional grab” with
out giving our entire article, which is
short. True, wo said the salaries were
poor, and people objected to anything
looking to au increase of salary, but our
idea was, that the Treasury was a subject
of piracy to lie plundered by every lot of
froe-booters, and as it was likely to be
stolen out, we wanted our share down
South. We are as much opposed to this
indiscriminate plunder as we can he, but
while the general stealing is going on,
and if it is to continue as at present—
without limit and subject to no law, we
want every dollar of it to get down this
way that possibly can. We stick to our
original proposition, that this country
pays poorer salaries to officials than any
other on earth, and while it is true
that “the President and members accept
ed the trusts with the salaries as fixed,”
yet it has always been the case that these
officers, together with those of the Cabi
net, who did not have large private for
tunes, have been forced to live very nig
gardly. We are no advocates of an in
crease of salary at this time, but favored
Southern Congressmen grabbing all they
could, as the Treasury seemed to be an
object of plunder, and that no stop could
be put to it. In other words, as it had to
be p uceled out, we wanted our share down
tins way.
We clip the above from that sprightly
Daily, the Griffin News, merely to say that
it does us but justice when it declares we
intended no “injustice” to it in our arti
cle on the “Congressional Grab.” We
would have copied the “entire article" if
we believed the omission had in the least
misrepresented the position of the News.
We are opposed to the ethics of the
News as then and now expressed. We
cannot admit that the Treasury is a sub
ject of piracy except to be condemned by
the press in the strongest language and
its plunderers marked and branded in
each individual foi'ehead with public
shame and disgrace. We cannot recog
nise either the logic or morals that a
theft by A is a justification of the same
crime by B. We do not further agree
with the News that while “tho general
stealing is going on” that Southern Con
gressmen should grab all they can. We
wish tho Southern members to exhibit a
different and better example than the
robber law and piety so well described by
Wordsworth :
For ivhy 7 Because the good old rule
Suffice! li them; the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.
If wo once admit that because others do
wrong their wrong is au excuse for us,
then there is no sin in a violation of each
and every crime denounced in the deca
logue and given by God to Moses on
Mount Sinai. How can we expose crime
in others when wo are ready to commit it
ourselvesi 1 Besides, if the grab game is
the fashion we, tho weaker, will suffer
most by the operation, as it estops us to
complain it we are robbed of property
and character by every Butler and Bul
lock, every Colfax and Holden outside of
a penitentiary or gallows.
if the salaries are too low (which we
seriously doubt from the great number of
office-seekers) increase the pay according
to law, but never let it be made a pretext
to rob the public. We submit the follow
ing article from the N. V. Tribune to the
calm consideration of the Griffin News:
We have already said that we deny the
existence of any moral right of members
of Congress to vote to increase their own
salaries. We regard the act to be robbe
ry. It affixes a stain of dishonor upon
every man who is guilty of it. We care
not who he is, whether he be Republican,
Liberal, or Democrat—we denounce him
all the same, and invoke the public con
demnation upon him. We say, let every
man who engaged iu it be driven from
public life ; whether they wish to make
themselves partially even with colleagues
who by hook or by crook have got rich
while they have not,' or whether they be
South Carolina representatives whose con
stituency live by thieving, and who would
as soon vote themselves seventy-five thou
sand dollars as seventy-five hundred; in
whatever scale or company they are found,
we say, Out with them. That there is
here and there a respectable name among
them is only so much more a reason for
the punishment. No name is respectable
enough to authorize fraud or shield rob
bery. No name is respectable enough to
be plead iu abatement of the sentence.
Unless there is a stand to be made here
against public prolligaey, it is as well not
to attempt to make it anywhere. We ask
for no partisan judgment. It is no ques
tion of party. Men of all parties are
alike implicated. It is a queation of up
right conduct. It is a question of honor
able action— of personal probity— of man-
liness and public decency. There are in
dividual men in public life who are des
titute of these qualities. They are al
ways there. But this action is not the ac
tion of a few such; it is the deliberate
action of a majority of both branches of
the Congress of the United States before
i the face of all the world. It is a public
| robbery, deliberately committed by the
whole political body wherein is centered
the national authority. It is not individ
uals only who are disgraced. The na
tion is disgraced by its representatives.
S If the people stand calmly by and do not
resent thiH conduct, they have, in the dis
grace, shown themselves as demoralized
as their representatives.
Judicial Ignorance and Corruption.
• •'*
The fairest flowers and most medicinal
plants and gums may he converted into
deadly poisons. The greatest blessings,
by abuse, become the worst of curses.
Friendship betrayed, affection destroyed
and confidence gone, is like wine mingled
with wormwood, bitter and nauseous in
the extreme. A pure and learned judici
ary, where law is expounded and justice
is administered and executed promptly,
impartially and truthfully, will survive
and protect life, liberty and property, long
after the political institutions of a coun
try have, from corruption, sunk into noth
ingness. If, however, it falls from its high
estate and becomes the tool of cunning,
ignorant and unprincipled politicians—if
it listens to party or personal passions and
prejudices, bends and panders to base
power or baser gold, then, and not until
then, may a nation or people exclaim,
with Cardinal Wulsey, “ Farewell , a long
farewell, to all mg greatness !*
Every intelligent school-boy knows that
all well ordered States are divided into
Executive, Legislative and Judicial De
partments. To secure, confirm and per
petuate the harmony and prosperity of the
governed, no one of these departments
can he permitted to encroach or usurp the
prerogatives of the other. Like the sun
and planets, when confined to their proper
orbits, all is regularity, light and life, but
let one, or all, shout madly from their
spheres and chaos and night and death
would come agaiu. It is the function of
the Legislature to make and amend law,
the Executive to see that law is obeyed,
and the Judges to expound and adminis
ter the law'. The pow'ers of the two first
are usually employed on general subjects,
such as charters for roads, bridges, towns
and schools, and everything which tends
to develop the moral, mental and material
wealth and good of a commonwealth.
The Executive cannot make or amend
law except in a negative way, by
veto or by a pardon or commutation
of punishment when expressly authorized
by the constitution. The Judges deal
with persons as individuals and their de
cisions, until reversed by a superior tri
bunal, act immediately upon life, charac
ter, liberty and property and when exe
cuted, their good or evil is irrevocal la.—
They come homo to the bosoms of men,
for each judgment and decree whether
right or wrong must bring happiness or
misery, peace or war, ruin or prosperity
to both citizen and community. When this
power is abused and usurpation takes the
place of rightful and legal authority it is
then the greatest of curses. We have seen
it consign innocent men to distant dunge
ons on perjured testimony. We have
seen it when backed by military consent
or command override constitutions and
conventions and a drunken, ignorant
.trulge prostrate at his feet the laws, lilrer
ties and interests of a sister State. We
have again witnessed another judge con
strue a plain written Constitution and
statute so they might conform to his pas
sions and prejudices ami thereby place
ignorance and vice into the jury-box to
determine the rights of person and prop
erty of the citizen.
If these things cannot excite the con
tempt and condemnation of the nation,
then W'e have lost the spirit, of freedom.
Then the day has arrived when govern
ments are made only that power may be
prostituted to oppress and not protect,
to enrich and ennoble the governors, and
enslave and debase the governed.
LETTER FROM TALBOTTON.
Rocky Head, March 20, 1873.
Editors Sun: Through the generous
hospitality of our old and popular friend,
Col. John B. Gorman, of the Standard,
we are enabled to date this letter from his
attractive and delightful country-seat—
appropriately called Rocky Heacf—which
is located in a romantic section of Talbot
county, yet only about three miles from
town. The scenery is varied and far
reaching, and the bracing air from the
adjoining hills is quite invigorating. Al
though the domestic affairs of this pleas
ant home are presided over by a most ex
cellent lady, the honored mother of onr
friend, we cannot but think that it would
be much more attractive if those duties
were shared in by one of the many “P.
G’s of G.,” whom Gorman has discovered
in his wanderings about the State. But
rumor says this “ consummation, so de
voutly to be wished,” will soon be accom
plished, as the proprietor of this exten
sive domain and beautiful residence is
now in search of a domestic young lady—
one who will prove herself worthy of a
noble-hearted follow like our editorial
friend.
This being our first visit to Talbot coun
ty, we have seen much to delight the eye
and please the fancy. More beautiful and
attractive residences, or a finer display of
floral adornments, we have not seen iu any
portion of the South, nor have we con
versed with a more intelligent and ener
getic class of people. With minds well
trained and developed, and physical ener
gies in active use, the men of this county
are worthy tile high reputation which they
have secured for themselves abroad. Wo
have conversed to-day, accidentally, with
students of old Harvard, the time-honored
Princeton, beloved Columbia, as well us
of other Northern and European colleges
of the highest character, which shows that
home and foreign travel and culture have
had an opportunity to spread their benefi
cial influences throughout this communi
ty. The youth of Talbot county are well
provided with educational facilities calcu
lated to prepare them for the best colleges
of the laud. The old and well-known
Colluiswortk Institute, for the past twelve
years under the direction of Prof. J. T.
McLaughlin and his esteemed lady, is still
iu successful operation, although, like all
other similar schools, it does not boast of
the prosperity that characterized its oper
ations before the war, when the abun
dance of wealth made it an easy matter
for a planter to give all his children the
best educational advantages of that peri
od. This popular Institute is delightfully
situated, being about two miles from the
town, and has an abundance of good wa
ter, bracing air and attractive scenery.
The boarding pupils are members of the
family of the Principal, where they find
all the comforts of home, and enjoy the
society of a very attractive family circle.
Le Vert Female College affords similar ad
vantages to the young ladies, and we no
tice among its pupils several from your
city. The music department is ably pre
sided over by Mrs. Yandeuberg. formerly
of Columbus, who seems to give general
satisfaction to her patrons.
Since writing our last letter from here,
it has come to our knowledge that consid
erable cotton has gone to your city from
this county during the past season, al
though Macon is certainly covering this
section with the footprints«of drummers.
With a branch railroad"from this place to
some point on the North and South Rail
road, the entire trade of this whole re
gion of country, rich iu its productive
ness, would naturally flow into your ware
houses and stores. Columbus is destined
vet to become a great commercial as well
as manufacturing city.
Sidney Hebbebt.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 1,1873.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Georgia (real nigger) Minstrels
were unable to obtain hotel accommoda
tions at Decatur, Illinois. The landlord
informed the sable musicians that his
rooms were full.
Miss Ella Chevers, of East Macon, died
, Saturday of meningitis. She had been
ill for a number of weeks.
There are three candidates for Repre
sentative in Pulaski county, in the place
of Dr. Thomas J. Barkwell, deceased.
General O. C. Horne, ex-Sheriff R. G.
Eulgham and Mr. W. I’. Head have en
tered the race.
Mr. Jeff. Daniels, of Hayneville, Hous
ton county, died of a congestive chill on
Sunday last.
The grand jury of Bartow county re
commends a ehauge in the Constitution,
amending the homestead law, and reduc
ing the amount from $3,000 to S7OO.
Judge Buchanan sentenced eight ne
groes last week at Coweta Court —two for
twenty years and two for ten years; the
rest shorter terms. Mostly for stealing.
Corn is worth seventy-five ceuts per
bushel in Dahlonega.
B. C. Jeter, of Opelika, Ala., in the last
issue of the Griffin News, “ rises to ex
plain ” that (he statement in a recent
issue of that paper that Ben Hill, for the
first time in his life, is now' engaged for
the prosecution in a ease where life is in
volved, is not strictly true. He says that
he himself was prosecuted by Mr. Hill,
for the murder of James Taylor, at the
Fall term of the Circuit Court of Cham
bers county, Ala., in 1800, for which Mr.
li., as he was informed, received a fee of
SI,OOO. Mr. H. prosecuted a similar case,
a year or two before that before the same
court.
Jordan F. Outlaw, Clerk of the Supe
rior Court of Johnson county, is dead.
The Surrency sensation is again revived.
This time hot nails fall on the head of
visitors^
In Cuthbert sweet potatoes are worth
$1 25 per bushel.
Fire in Lumpkin last Wednesday de
stroyed the furniture establishment of A.
H. Simpson and an adjoining residence.
A young sou of Allen F. Hall, of Cuth
bert, received a painful wound in his left
hand, from a shot gun which lie had in
his possession.
Mrs. Wm. Colly and Miss Shivers were
burned to death in Early county. Clothes
caught lire from burning brush.
The negress who whipped her daughter
to death is in jail at Perry.
The Houston Manufacturing Company’s
building was erected in 1843, burned twice
and now numbers 2,500 spindlesin opera
tion and sixty looms; sixty additional
looms are to be put in shortly.
Xhoinasville had a tire Saturday morn
ing which destroyed two large frame
buildings in rear of the stores of Harda
way, McKinniou & Cos., and J. T. ICott
man.
Major Ely, of Albany, by a fall from his
buggy, broke his left leg.
Deputy U. S. Marshal, ami Postmaster
C. W. Arnold, at Albany, arrested one Hen
ry Smith, alias Henry Gilliard, on a war
rant charging him with passing counter
feit United States Treasury notes—bills of
the denomination of ten dolilars.
Col. A. R. Lamar has given the requi
site bond and been sworn in as the Solici
tor General of the Savannah Circuit.
Ex-prize fighter and Congressman John
Morrissey has passed through Savannah
an his way to Florida.
Ju Richmond county there are 834
whites and 552 blacks who attend the
public schools.
John M. Gannon, Esq., at one time pro
prietor of the Globe Hotel, in Augusta, is
dead.
T. J. Blackwell, of Elberton, reported
as missing, has turned up all right, in New
York.
Some of the “baddish” boys in Augusta
moved Ihe iron pins holding the handles
of six pumps, shutting off the water sup
ply-
The Colored American Conference in
Augusta has elected L. H. Holsey, of
Sparta, Ga.; J. H. Beebe, of N. C.; and
Isaac Lane, of Tennessee, Bishops.
A rather significant and quite a pleasing
circumstance is observable in this confer
ence. Bishop Pierce, General Colquitt,
W. Watkins Hicks, and a number of oth
er eminent Southern churchmen, have
been in attendance upon this conference,
and Bishop Pierce has, on two or three
occasions, given advice and encourage
ment to the movement.
A streak of lightning on Wednesday last
shattered an old oak tree in front of the
residence of Hon, J. <J . Jones, in Waynes
boro, and melted the glass in the windows
of his house. The family escaped injury.
A cenotaph to the Confederate dead of
St. James’ Sunday-school and of Rich
mond county, is to he erected in Green
street, Augusta.
Fulton county jail holds 39 prisoners—-
20 held by the State and 19 by United
States.
The Atlanta Herald tells how i ,rty Ger
mans were duped by unprincipled agents
of a Georgia Company. They were in
duced to come South on the promise of
receiving two dollars per day, ami after
many delays, were paid only $1 25. All
have departed except a few', who as they
were walking off, were arrested by the
sheriff for breaking contracts.
The Atlanta Herald has this from Wash
ington:
Hill, Robinson, Snyder, Burnett, Os
good, and Jeff. Long, are here making a
bitter and telling fight on’Farrow, White
iy, and the Georgia postoffie appointments
for Macon, Atlanta and Savannah, and
against their confirmations.
The appointments of Clark, Belcher and
Dunning were withdrawn to-day. The
charges against Dunning are his holding
a municipal office, retaining Democratic
clerks, and using money to gef the ap
pointment.
The following is said to be the sub
stance of a letter, which two witnesses
seem to have seen, written by H. P. Far
row, of Atlanta, to the postmaster of Dal
ton, and dated a short time since, with
the heading of “Republican State Central
Committee Room” at Atlanta. In this
document Farrow says:
“I have waited a reply from yon to my
former letter If a reply is not received
immediately, you need not be rurprised
if another fills your place. Money is
needed at Washington. All others have
complied, and you must too.”
Sam Hart, of Pulaski county, went to
Liberia. Sam writes back to his old mas
ter as follows : I will here state to you
the truth of my new country, as I fore
told you 1 would before I left. Tell my
dear father to send me seventy-five dol
lars, so that 1 can make a start in the
world. Mr. H., please send mo twenty
five dollars, if you please. Tell my mother
I am doing well, but I want to come back
home. Mr. 11. please send me that money
as soon as you can. Send thirty dollars,
and I will give you thirty-five dollars.
This country is not the place for us, that
were raised in America, without money.
So I will depend on you and my father
for getting the same help I ask for.
The railroads will pass delegates to the
Medical Convention in Atlanta for one
fare, various excursions are being plann
ed for the Doctors.
Dr. E. P. Starr, of Savannah, is dead.
James Weather, aged thirteen years,
made last year by farming, clear of ex
penses, $1,115 75.
Captain Jack White says the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama railroad will
be completed to Carrollton by midsum
mer.
J. H. Coleman's dwelling-house, kitch
en, smoke-house, household furniture,
provisions and three bales of cotton were
burned last Friday night, near Louisville,
Jefferson county.
Mr. Joshua Riggins, of Upson county,
on the 11th, was attacked with toothache.
After the tooth ceased to ache, his tongue
swelled up and filled his mouth. The
tongue assuaged, the throat began to swell
and projected as far out as his chin, thns
producing death. Three physicians were
in attendance, but could not designate the
disease. So reports the Thomaston Her
ald.
The entire family of Mr. Nathan W.
Haines, of Sandersville—mother, father,
and two daughters—are seriously ill with
pneumonia. The eldest daughter died on
Thursday.
The following are the Directors of the
new Macon Bank and Trust Company: C.
M. Wiley, E. Winship, G. Nussbaum, L.
W. Rasdal, H. T. Johnson, Geo. S. Jones,
and R. H. Flanders.
The Telegraph says:
The Committee of the City Council to
whom was referred the proposition made
by the Macon Canal and Water Works
Company, have agreed to report in favor
of the follow ing: The stock company put
in the 075 acres of land at $40,000 and
$75,000 in cash, and the city put in the
Armory at $30,000 and a cash subscrip
tion of $70,000. The company will be
required to furnish 200 hydrants for
$12,000 per annum; also complete the
armory building at once for a cotton fac
tor}', and fit it out with the necessary ma
chinery. The company is to put in water
works, and build the proposed canal to
furnish power for the factories.
Cotton Growing in North Georgia.—
The Atlanta Constitution of Saturday
says on this subject:
The impediments heretofore in the way
of cotton growing on our gray loam up
lands have been the sterility of tho soil
and the shortness of the season. It is
now fully ascertained that fertilizers are
a sure remedy for both. Major Austin,
of Oak Grove, had three and a half acres
of land that would not grow oats or wheat
high enough to cut, and that would not
make any corn. He tried cotton, using
200 pounds of guano on au ucre, and
cleared $47 75 per acre, alter charging to
the lot everything pertaiuiug to "it. In
the samtf way Col. Baugh, of East Point,
secured thirty bales from thirty-eight
acres of as poor land as lies above Atlanta.
Before the completion of the Air Line
Railroad to Gainsville, only a few hundred
bales of cotton were growu on the Chat,
tahoocheo Ridge. Between 7,000 and
8,000 bales of the crop of ’72 have al
ready come in from the same territory;
and good judges think that from 12,000
to 15,000 bales may be expected from the
crop of ’73, if it is an equally good sea
son. And there is no finer upland cotton
than that brought in by the Air Line Rail
road.
An average of forty four immense
trains pass over the entire length of the
State road every day.
A prominent Atlanta banker reports
money never tighter than now as the de
mand for it in this and adjoining States
is without precedent. This is awing to the
losses in cotton futures. The South, it
is reported, has lost eleven millions in a
few weeks.
State Treasurer Jones reports that in
three days he sold $50,000, of the Nutting
$1,200,000 eight per cent bonds at par.—
Elbert county invested $3500 of trust
funds in them. The report from Macon
is eneouarging.
An old gentleman by the name of Henry
Wade, a citizen of Athens,.was found
dead near Jefferson.
The citizens of Spalding, Pike and
Meriwether counties are to meet at Sand
town on the first Saturday in April to take
initiatory steps for the building of the
Sandtown Railroad.
Mr. Gns Moon was badly mashed by the
cars at Milner, on tho M. & W. R. R.
It is positively assented that the Chero
kee Railroad will change hands in a few
days, and be completed to ltockmart
broad gauge.
The Macon Enterprise pronounces Dr.
Jones, tho oceulist, &c., a quack, and
says ho made $19,700 in Macon clear of
expenses.
There is an old negro man living in
Harris county 102 years old, who can
walk fifteen or twenty miles on a stretch,
with very little fatigue, and can thi'ead a
cambric needle. His hearing is also good,
lie formerly used spectacles, hut now en
joys his second eyesight.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Bob Moseley, of the Talladega News
and Mountain Home, who recently turned
Radical, has been appointed Postmaster
of Talladega.
Mr. Ezekiel 11. Pickens, aged 75 years,
died in Butler county, near Greenville, on
the 12th inst. He had been a citizen and
resident of Butler county for 53 years,
and had been clerk of (lie circuit court for
20 years of the time.
Alabama’s share of tho present cot
ton crop of the South will be about
$35,000,000, estimating her crop at 400,-
000 bales.
Stokes & Collway’s store in Abbeville,
Henry county, was robbed on Saturday
night last of all in its drawer money, by a
negro named Dan Williams. He spent
the money too loosely the next day, and it
led lr> his detection, arrest, and imprison
ment to await trial.
Mrs. Dr. J. T. Robertson, of Eufaula,
has been willed by an aunt who recently
died in St. Louis property to the amount
of at least $30,000.
Death of Commodore Faruand. —This
venerable patriot died at Attala, Etowah
county, on the 17th inst. He was for
many years au officer of the United States
Navy, but when hostilities between the
North and South commenced he united
himself with the South and did valiant
service during the entire term of the war.
He had charge at one time of the impor
tant defence of Drewry Bluff, the key by
way of James river to Richmond. For
several years Commodore Farrand resided
in Montgomery, where he was universally
respected. lie bore the loss of wife,
children, fortune and country with a
heroic firmness, and in his entire bearing
gave indication of the noble heart that
beat within his breast. Peace to his
ashes!— Montgomery Advertiser.
The Northern Division of the Selma,
Rome arid Dalton Railroad has been placed
in the hands of a Receiver. Hon. Thos.
A. Walker, of Jacksonville, and at one
time President of the road, is appointed.
Col. J. R. Powell, the founder of Bir
mingham, has been presented by the citi
zens of the place with a knife manufac
tured in Birmingham, England, which
cost $l3O in gold.
“In the manufacture of this knife, the
four quarters of the globe have been made
tributary. The gold is from Australia,
(he silver from Pern, the mother of pearl
from Africa, the steel from the mountains
of Alabama, and the chaste design of a
French artist has been carried out by a
skillful English workman
“On one side of the knife is the enam
elled crest of the city of Birmingham,
England, with the coduceus of mercury,
surrounded by a wreath, typifying the
triumph of commercial enterprise. On
the other is the inscription, and a shield
with the monogram of Col. Powell, sur
mounted by an eagle, to symbolize the
far-sightedness of the distinguished found
er of Birmingham, Alabama, and the no
ble aspirations of its citizens.”
One Levy has entered liis protest against
a bill which has passed the House of Rep
resentatives, of which he is a member
from Montgomery, the other day, in ref
erence to the Mobile and Girard Railroad.
The substance of it is, the road is con
trolled by Georgians, and is used in build
ing up Georgia cities to the detriment of
those in Alabama; and that it has already
discriminated in favorof Columbus against
Montgomery.
The negroes in Alabama have a way
of tacking on bills for railroads a provis
ion that no distinction shall be made be
tween races in the carriage of passengers.
Meriwether, a negro member, said the
other day, there was nothing unmanly iu
offering these amendments to bills pro
posed by Democrats because it compelled
the Democrats either to vote against their
own bills or to vote for the principle in
corporated in the bill Jjy virtue of the
amend. He felt that his people—the
colored people—was superior to the white
race, especially in respect to those quali
fications which constitute the pillars of a
State—its bone and sinew. They were
-superior in the building of cities, the
clearing away of the forests, the cultiva
tion of the soil, and in various other
matters tending to build up a State: and
they intend to assert their rights—here
and everywhere. The gentleman from
Marshal had characterized iheir amend
ments as stepping stones to something
beyond. They ice/'# stepping stones, and
the colored people intended stepping
along upon them until they stood side by
side with the gentlemen who oppose them.
The sale of real estate belonging to the
delinquent tax-payers of Barbohr comity
begins at Clayton on the first Monday in
April, and will continue from day to day
thereafter, between the hours of 10 a. in.
and 12 in., until all is sold upon which
the State, county and railroad taxes for
the year 1872 have not been paid.
TELKUR APH IC.
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WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 22.—A report pre
vails that Senator Caldwell will tender his
resignation to-morrow' morning before the
■ discussion in his case shall be resumed,
I but the Senator himself, having been in
| terrogated on the subject to-night, denies
| its truth, saying, however, that his course
j is altogether controlled by the advice of
his friends. The question before tho
| Senate seems thus: First, the resolution
! of the Committee on Elections and Privi
leges, declaring that Alexander Caldwell
was not duly and legally elected to a seat
in the Senate by the Legislature of Kan
sas. Second, Ferry, of Connecticut, pro
poses to amerd the above resolution so as
to read, “That Alexander Caldwell be and
he hereby is expelled from the Senate of
the United Statesand third, Ferry, of
Michigan, proposes to amend the amend
ment so as to declare Caldwell to have
been elected Senator. The first vote will
be on the last-named proposition, but if
this fails, the next will be on that of Fer
ry, of Connecticut. If the requisite two
thirds should not be obtained for it, then
the Senate, will be brought to a vote on
the resolution of the committee.
Tiie Senate on Saturday was unable to
agree upon an order of voting on the
pending propositions different from that
above stated. There seems to be no doubt
that a larger vote will be obtained for ex
pulsion than for the other propositions.
According to a decission of the Treas
ury Department, damage allowance should
only embrace the actual, substantial dam
age to merchandise. No allowance can
be made for what is termed commercial
damage, where certain imported sheeting
metal was used in constructing two steam
ers built before tlqyiassage of the act of
June 6th, 1872, for an agent of the Japa
nise Government.
Tho President received no visitors yes
terday, as he suffers from tiie effects of a
heavy cold taken on inauguration day,
and aggravated by subsequent exposures
to the weather.
Geu. Spinner yesterday entered upon
the thirteenth year of his service Us Treas
urer of the United States.
Washington, March 24. —Tho Senate
proceedings came to an abrupt close to
day by the resignation of Caldwell, to
take effect immediately.
The charter of Greenwood Cemetery
provides that no executed criminals shall
sepulchre there. Foster’s interment there
excites comment among lot holders.
Washington, March 24. Confirma
tions—Georginson, Collector of Customs,
Petersburg, Va.; North, postmaster, Bruns
wdek. Ga.; Medical Director James Beale,
appointed Inspector General of Hospitals
and Fleets.
Senate Upon the presentation of
Caldwell's letter of resignation to Gov
ernor Osborne, of Kansas, Mr. Morton,
Chairman of the Committee on Elections
and Privileges, considered it his duty to
state that his connection in the matter
was at au end.
The case of Senator Clayton, of Ar
kansas, was then taken up, and ihe vote
stood 38 to i 4.
Washington, March 25. —A full Cabi
net discussed tho threatened withdrawal
of postal cars.
Gou. Gordon, Senator from Georgia,
was called to the chair, and presided over
the Senate for a short time to-day. The
courtesy was extended to him by Vice
President Wiljjpn. This is tiie first time
an ex-Confederate has been called to pre
side over the Senate.
Several leading lawyers think the l’ost
master-general has the authority to com
pel trains to continue postal cars.
Senato resolution congratulating Spain
upon the ♦abolition of slavery in Porto
Rico, passed.
The Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions were excused from further consider
ing the charges of bribery against Bogy,
of Missouri.
Confirmations.— Stearns, Register of
Public Lands, Mobile.
Nominations.—!. A. Summerville, Re
ceiver of Public Monies, Mobile.
Washington, March 25. —The Clayton
ease was discussed. A resolution that tho
charges were not sustained, was passed by
a vote of 33 to 6.
Gen. Whittlesey, formerly of the Freed
men’s Bureau, was taken to the insane
asylum to-day. He inis been long a suf
ferer from paralysis, and goes by the ad
vice of liis physicians and friends.
Washington, March 2<i. Yesterday,
when (he Georgia appoint -tents came up,
Mr. Sumner, who favors ;; ‘ her for tlyj
Macon postoffice, request- is appoint
ment. Gen. Gordon vim .•! tho Presi
dent, who promised where was evident
corruption had been u lto : e.-ure nomi
nations to Federal offices i . Georgia,
either by use of money or by forgeries,
such nominations would be withdrawn.
The indications are that the Georgia ring
will be beaten, but the anxiety of the
Senate to adjourn precludes the proba
bility of a change in the collector of cus
toms at Savannah; and it is likely other
Federal incumbents will remain in office
by default of Senatorial action, subject,
however, to Presidential suspension dur
ing the vacation of Congress.
Washington, March 2ti. —Senate.—
Carpenter was elected President pro tern.
of the Senate, and tho secretary directed
to notify the President of the fact.
The Select Committee on Transporta
tion was ordered to enquire what legisla
tion is necessary in connection with postal
cars.
Alcorn called up West’s resolution au
thorizing the Committee on the Missis
sippi Levees to sit during recess at Wash
ington or elesewliere.
Ferry, of Connecticut, objected to giv
ing this authority, and raised a point of
order against the resolution.
Mr. Chandler insisted that nothing
practical could come out of this subject,
and opposed giving the authority.
After further discussion, the point of
order was overruled by-25 to tit, and the
resolution was adopted.
The Senate adjourned sine die.
Confirmations. —Taylor, Collector Third
District of Texas; Prouty, Collector of
Customs, Sabine, Texas; Eggleston, Col
lector Second District of Miss.; Cass, Ke
ceiver of Public Monies, Jackson, Miss;
Harris, Collector of Internal Revenue
Fourth District of North Carolina; Som
merville, Receiver, Mobile.
There is some confusion about the
Goorgia postmasters. Clark, of Savan
nah, is confirmed, a motion to reconsider
his confirmation having failed. Dunnnig
for Atlanta, Belcher for Macon, and Tay
lor for Athens, arc confirmed as postmas
ters.
The Court of Claims has adjourned to
Monday.
Colonel Scruggs, of Atlanta, (la., was
rejected as Minister to Bogota.
Some months ago the claim of Admiral
Farragut, and his officers and men, for
prize money for the destruction of the
rebel vessels at the capture of New Or
leans, during the rebellion, was referred
to the following arbitrators: -Mtfssrs. H.
W. Paine, of Boston, G. V. Fox, formerly
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Thus.
J. Durant, of this city. To-day the arbi
trators filed their report awarding the
sum of $203,000. They found that on the*
rebel vessels there were 1,313 men, and
they allow the claimants S2OO for each
man engaged on the enemys boats.
GEORGIA.
Augusta, March 20. —Jos. T. Curry, a
so-called prophet and apostle of the new
dispensation, is being tried at Appling,
Columbiacounty, Judge Gibson presiding.
He is charged with adultery and fornica
tion. He came from Massachusetts with
a colony of about one hundred persons
(men and women), over a year ago;
they bought laud, and settled in Columbia
county; lived in tents, and held the prop
erty in common. Cnrrv called himself
Elijah, and prophet Jehovah— supreme in
things spiritual and temporal. The colo
ny went along swimmingly for a very
brief time, but the Prophet took to him
self too many wives; jealousy and insub
ordination followed, and many returned
home, having to be provided with free
passage to the nearest seaport; others to
Charleston or Savannah. Finally, the
colony became so demoralized, and Curry
so licentious, that the Grand Jury indict
ed him and his Queen paramour.
Curry, robed in white linen, with head
and feet hare, in imitation of the Saviour",
appeared before the Court. The Queen
appeared in the same attire, with white
stockings upon her feet, and a white bow
upon her head.
Curry, speaking in his own defense,
maintained that men amt women could
live together as man and wife without co-
habiting, and that by humiliation and
prayer they could become perfect. He
repelled the charge of insanity, display
ing much erudition and familiarity with
the Scriptures.
V urry had revelation after revelation
that anew era had dawned, when men
aud women should come out of the natu
ral order of things to a higher state of
purity.
After speeches for the prosecution and
defence the jury retired, aud after a half
hour’s absence returned with a verdict of
guilty, and with a recommendation to
mercy." Sentence will be deferred for
four weeks.
It is thought the Prophet and his fol
lowers will be given an opportunity to
find auother Canaan far away from here
iu which to pitch their tents.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, March 24. —The bill passed by
tho Assembly, on Saturday, abolishing
slavery iu tho Island of Porto Rico, pro
vides that abolition shall follow immedi
ately upon the promulgation of its pas
sage. The emancipated slaves will, how
ever, be obliged to serve for three years
with their present masters or other resi
dents on the Island, and will enjoy the
political rights of Spanish citizens, after
five years shall have elapsed. The indem
nity to be paid the slave owners is to be
charged exclusively to the account of the
Porto Rico budget.
Soon after the adoption of the Porto
Rico abolition bill, tbe dissolution of the
Cortes was unanimously voted, and the
House broke up amidst great excitement
in the building and on the streets, but
there was no disorder, and the city has re
mained perfectly’tranquil.
The French anil German Governments
have exchanged ratification treaties for
tho payment of indemnity aud exaction
of French territory.
The Spanish Cortes passed the Porto
Rico emancipation bill. Slaves have
political rights.
London, March 26.—Dispatches from
Madrid say that Seuor Castillo, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, aud Gen. Acosta, Min
ister of War, will probably retire from the
Spanish Cabinet. It is also stated that
a general Ministerial crisis is imminent.
The garrison at Barcelona is in open
mutiny, and the officers are powerless to
effect a restoration of discipline.
A band of Carlists have entered the
town of llipolli, in the Province of Gem
ini, and are committing many excesses.
NEW YORK.
Elmira, March 26.—An incendiary fire
burnt the Opera House aud other houses.
Loss $60,000.
New York, March 25.— Marshal Magru
der, charged with shooting with intent to
ki 11, has been sentenced to ten years hard
labor.
Streets are slippery from sleet, and
many accidents have occurred from falls.
The steamer Crescent City was sold at
auction for $60,000.
A man and wife at Jamaica, Long
Island, bled each other, preferring that to
death from starvation. Both will proba
bly die.
Antonio Soambram, a member of the
Cuban Congress has arrived here, and re
ports the Insurgents as having an abun
dance of arms and in good spirits. They
are making steady progress in the eastern
department and will very soon compel the
Spaniards to wholly withdraw from that
department.
Seam brain secretly loft the Island in an
open boat.
Bridget McSpenan was found dead in a
tenement house Friday, on Scammel
.street. She seems to have been murdered
by auother woman, named McNamee, in
a brutal drunken brawl, by the latter frac
turing the former’s skull with a bottle.
A child was burned to death in tho same
tenement house the same night.
It has not been definitely decided to
send Train to an asylum He said yester
day that he should quietly submit, if the
outrage was attempted, trusting to the
people to right the wrong. He added:—
“Lei them do their work; Geo. Francis
Train will still live.”
DOMESTIC.
Rev. E. T. Bowles, ihe newly appointed
Peace Commissioner to the Modocs has
gone to Van Bremens. Capt. Jack sent
a squad to tho Klauiath Indians inviting
them to join him:; He says that as soon
as (lie grass grows he will leave the lava
beds, burn ranches aud kill the settlers.
Tiie message to the Klamath Indians
causes fears of trouble with the Indians
on the lower Klamath river, who belong
to quite a formidable tribe. There is no
new movement, of troops reported beyond
the arrival of recruits. Capt. Casiot, of
Oregon, lias gone to Warm Springs, to re
organize Iris famous Indian scouts as vol
unteers and against the Modocs.
The suit in Kentucky, growing out of
the California diamond swindle has been
compromised and dismissed. Dent, the
complainant, gets $15,000 cash. The suit
was for $350,000.
A fire at Waco, Texas, destroyed $50,-
000 worth of property.
George Francis train goes to the lunatic
asylum.
The new directory shows the.population
of San Francisco to he 188,323, being an
increase during the year of 10,000. The
directory also shows that their are 1,100
Chinese and 11,550 negroes in the city.
- VIRGINIA.
Richmond, March 26. —Tiie joint reso
lution endorsing Governor Walker’s plan
for the assumption by the Federal Gov
ernment of the debts of the several States,
has passed both Houses of the General As
sembly, and the Governor has been in
structed to forward copies of the resolu
tion and his message on the same subject
to tho Legislatures of the several States.
The Senate passed the joint resolution
to amend the State Constitution so as to
provide for biennial sessions of the Gen
eral Assembly.
[KENTUCKY.
Louisville, March 24.—Near Bards
town, G. W. Holtz, an old aud most es
teemed citizen, was in a room with an un
married son (I. Iloltz), when a married son
entered aud shot the younger in the left
breast under the shoulder, and in the
head. The fratricide fled.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Anew class of lions has been intro
duced into Palatka. Their superior value
over the common hen fowl is that they
lay eggs all the year round and never set.
Eggs of these fowls sell at the price of
$0 per dozen.
The Town Council of Ocala is defunct,
and the joyous citizens amuse themselves
on the public square by shooting at each
other's hats.
Tampa lias raised a lemon weighing
twenty and one-half ounces, fourteen and
one-half inches in circumference and four
inches in diameter.
Since November 2.3 th, 3,800 visitors
have stopped at four Jacksonville hotels.
Resides these, there are over thirty-five
smaller hotels and boarding-houses, all of
which have been and are well filled.
The Florida Sentinel publishes the fol
lowing correspondence :
Tai.lahassef, March 11, 1873.
Jfon. A. Qilbtrl, U. S. »S., Washington
I do not want the office of Register at
this place Mr. Taylor should he retained.
John N. Stokes.
Washington, 1). C., March IC, 1873.
John A Stokes, Tallahassee:
It is reported here that you decline the
office of Register. We desire that you
accept by all means. Answer immediately.
S. 15 Conovee,
W. J. PURMAN,
J. T. Walls,
Ebbitt House.
Tallahassee, March 18, 1873.
S. li. Conover, Ebbitt House , Washino
ton:
I positively decline the office. I am not
for sale. John N. Stokes.
The old-established dry goods firm of
John McGough & Cos , advertise this
morning the receipt of a large and ele
gant stock of staple and fancy dry goods,
gents’ furnishing goods, &e., <tc., which
have been selected with splendid taste
and adapted especially to the wants of
this section. A call from all is solicited.
Paper at Apalachicola. —Dr. B. F.
Saurmaud intends publishing a weekly
paper at Apalachicola, Fla.
THURSDAY TO OUTING, TO A It. 27.
Making Ice —The Columbus manufac
tory is now turning out six to seven thou
sand pounds of ice per day, and have a
number of tons stored away for the warm
months. The machine works very
smoothly. We can have cheap ice this
summer, and the consumption will be en
ormous.
The Average Estimate. —From the Au
gusta papers we learn that in the cotton
pool of that city 357 estimates of the crop
were received, including ten from news
papers publishing the official notice. The
average estimate is 3,774,880 bales. He
is to win who comes nearest to the figures
reported by the N. T. Financial Chronicle
of September Ist.
Planting in Chambers Counts', Ala.—
A note from a subscriber bus this : “ The
farmers are generally nearly through
planting corn, and employing enough laud
to make their bread at home. Many fer
tilizers are being applied this year—more
than ever before in this section—and a
quantity has been used on corn. This
section will make corn enough if there
are good seasons. As for cotton, I guess
all will go it heavy, as usual.”
Our Fair. —The premium lists will be
out in a few days in pamphlet form.
Liberal ones are offered for all classes of
industry, and some $1,500 for horses and
races. Private purses will also be made
up outside. The grounds are being much
improved. Our Fair will commence on
the Tuesday after the State Fair at Macon
closes, and continue through the week.
It has been decided to have the principal
races on Wednesday and Thursday; the
tournament on Friday, aud the grand
fox chase on Saturday. The time will be
the latter part of October and the first of
November.
Court Matters Quiet.— Since tho ad
journment of the County Court all seems
very quiet around the court-house. The
negroes who have appeared there in such
crowds no longer linger around tho yard
or perfume tho corridors with essences
totally unlike those of Araby, the blest.
They now lack amusement, and are ar
dently desiring an election or some othor
amusement. .
The County Court has adjourned to the
next session—the second Monday in June.
The following were drawn to serve as
the persons from whom to select jurors :
R. M. Davis, James M. Fletcher, J. W.
Brooks, S. O. Lloyd, Frank McArdle,
James McGovern, William Greer, W. T.
Wynn, It. W. Jaques, J. N. Embry, M. D.
Hood, J. K. Arnold.
Orator for the 20th of April. —The
ladies of the Memorial Association met
yesterday, at tho residence of Dr. It. A.
Ware, to make arrangements for the dec
oratiou of the Confederate dead, on the
20th of April. This custom originated
with the ladies of Columbus. Various
committees were appointed to attend the
different work.
Col. Mark 11. Blandford, one of the
leading lawyers and politicians in the
State, w'as elected orator. tTio selection
is eminently proper. The Colonel has
tho highest talents, is an impressive ora
tor, and lost an arm at the battle of Mc-
Dowell, in Westorn Virginia, while lead
ing on his men. After that misfortune,
he still remained in the army until elected
to Congress, of which body lie was a mem
ber when the Confederate cause was lost.
We hope he will accept, as he would make
a brilliant speech.
The ladies earnestly desire that the
three military companies should join in
the procession on that day. They would
make the display much more imposing,
and the scene more impressive. Probably
the Governor might loan guns sufficient.
The New'Feature Very Popular. —lt
is a gratifying symptom of financial health
to know that our people appreciate and
have cointn'ii md to "avail themselves of
the liberal orraugement provided for de
positors by the Eagle and Phenix Savings
Department. We have always contended
that there was much idle capital in the
hands of the people, which only needed
the feeling of security and promptness to
be made available and useful for trade
purposes. With undoubted financial
strength and the stockholders individually
responsible, and paying such liberal in
terest, to depositors, who can draw their
deposit without notice, the Eagle and
Phenix Savings Department offers just
the desideratum that a largo class of our
people have long needed. The wealth of
nations is measured by the independence
of the masses. Independence is the hand
maid of self-reliance, which begets es
teem. Many are unearthing their hidden
coin and currency and converting “the
idle talent” into deposits drawing inter
est. We are pleased to know that the
beginning of this enterprise is so auspi
cious, and can only feel it will grow into
the immense proportions it deserves.
Georgia Medical Association.
This body will convene in its 24th
annual session in Atlanta on the 9th day
of April, 1873.
This meeting promises to be one of un
usual interest. A large amount of scien
tific matter will be presented. It is ex
pected the meeting will be the largest
held since the organization of the Asso
ciation.
The physicians and the citizens are
making liberal preparation to render the
stay of the members agreeable.
The railroads of the State have agreed
to extend the usual half-faro courtesies—
full fare to be paid going, and return free
on the proper credentials from the officers
of the Association. The hotels have also
promised reduced rates.
The physicians throughout the State
are urged to be present, and make reports
of whatever may be of interest to the
profession.
By order of the President.
J. T. Johnson, M. D.,
Assistant and Acting Secretary G. M. A.
(1A wit
The Montgomery and Eufaula railroad
is eighty miles long. The State endorsed
its first mortgage bonds for $1,280,000
($1(1.000 per mile), and loaned the road
$300,000 of her straight bonds and $30,-
000 of three per cent, bonds—making the
total indebtedness to the State $1,(110,000,
on W'hich the yearly interest is $128,000
in gold. In addition, the State is indebt
ed as ultimate endorser $152,000 of in
terest paid by holders of bonds. There
are also $24,000 due for engines, and it
will require $25,000 to repair the road
this year, SIO,OOO the next, and $30,000
the year after. The road can’t pay this
great indebtedness. The receipts fail by
many thousand dollars to do so. A com
pany proposes to lease it for a long term
of years, but at a lass figure than the in
terest. A bill is before the Legislature
which has passed the Senate, providing
for the surrender by the State to the road
her indebtedness of the $300,000 of
straight bonds, and the $30,000 of three
per cent, bonds, for which the State has
no security except the second mortgage
bonds of the company—worthless, in con
sideration of the great amount of first
mortgage bonds previously issued regis
tered against the road —on condition that
the road return to the State all of its first
mortgage bonds endorsed by the State.
If the bill is passed the road will at once
lie rented by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, and made a part of
its main line, and will finally extend it
through Georgia to the Atlantic. So re
ports the Eufaula Times.
Immigration to Georgia,
In the last number of the Savannah
Abend Zeitung, the German paper pub
lished in this city, appears an elaborate
article on immigration, intended for cir
culation in the “Faderland.” The article
is from the pen of professor Bansemer,
the editor, and is calculated to do much
towards enlightening Germans as to the
material advantages and resources of
Georgia. We append some extracts from
the artiole, regretting that we have not
room for the whole. —Savannah AVw.
“I ery lately there has been much said
in our city papers in regard to emigration.
It seems, therefore, that the importance
of the subject is attracting attention, and
that thoughtful men are giving it serious
consideration. How the large stream of
immigrants, or even only a branch of the
same, can be directed towards Georgia is a
question which has, as yet, not been
solved. The formation of ail Immigra
tion Bureau has been proposed; but this,
according to our idea, w ould hardly fill
the necessity. It surprises us that private
citizens have not long ago opened a busi
ness of this kind. If the reasons given
were that tho returns would not pay for
the labor expended, the answer eonid ho
made, that the same labor would be of
less service to the public if tiie State
would pay a regular salary for the same
object. There is certainly no lack of can
didates for office, but we do detect on all
sides a decided lack of knowledge and
practical ideas. To assist in the very de
sirable solution of the question is tire ob
ject of the following article. We are de
sirous of giving a true representation of
the nature and characteristics of our coun
try, aud then give the thoughtful man his
choice of a home. We will first speak of
tho climate.
no. a
“The State has a splendid climate.
Georgia lies between the thirty aud thir
ty-fifth degrees of latitude, amt between
eighty and eighty-five degrees of western
longitude. This will impress the Euro
pean with an idea of the scorching heat of
the African Desert, or the oppressive heat
of East India. He would be surprised to
learn that the people clothe here as warm
ly as they do in Europe, carrying over
coats, or shawls and furs. Yes, we have
a winter, but while in the North and West
it extends full six or eight months of the
year, it lasts with us scarcely more than
six weeks. During the remainder of the
fall and winter months we may occasion
ally have a cold day, but as a general
thing we may call the temperature that of
spring. Residents of Northern Europe
who spend their first winter with us,
could, with the exception of a few weeks,
do almost entirely without fires. Flowers
bloom in the open air until December,
and the middle of February already her
alds the advent of spirug. The pines,
water oaks aud other trees remain green
throughout the whole yeur. Niue months
out of the year are pleasant, for our sum
mer mouths are not as oppressive as the
stranger might imagine. The warmth
keeps up longer, but the heat is not as in
tolerable as at the North. In the North
aud West it is not unfrequent that people
suffer aud die from the effects ol sun
stroke, aud there have been seasons when
ovon horses and cattle have died, over
powered with llio heat. Occurrences of
this nature wo do not know of herein the
South, or if they do, are rare and isolated
cases. * * * The mild temperature
permits field culture through s lie wholo
year, aud makes at least a second harvest
possible. •
“Tho iuflueuce of our climate on the
health and length of life is a highly favor
able one. Who would surmise that
Charleston was one of tho health.est cities
in the United States, aud in this respect
only excelled by Portland, Me.? We can
say the same for Savnnnah, if the same
precautions are taken in regard to clean
liness as has been done during the past
three years, and the lives of its citizens
are not rnude the sport of a misdirected
economy on the part of our city authori
ties. Luug diseases, consumption, typhus
aud intermittent fevers are not nearly so
frequent, as severe, obstinate or fatal as
in the North and West.”
We pass over the paragraph devoted to
the political status and finances of the
State, full of iutere.sting facts for the em
igrant, to give some extracts from tho
paragraph on the trade in produce.
“The next question for the immigrant,
and a very important one, too, is whether
lie can easily dispose of the products of
his labor. In the far West, he cannot do
it, and only at certain seasons at the
North. In the West, there is u lack of
communication for barter, of railroads
and trading places; and even in the North,
during the winter, the communication is
difficult, and at times impossible. On
account of rain, snow storms aud ice
travel is blockaded for weeks and months.
This is not the case in the South. Geor
gia is traversed by important streams,
which are available ail the year. The
Savannah river is accessible as far as Au
gusta; the Flint river as far as Albany.
Steamboats go up the Altamaha, <>n one
of its tributaries, the Ocmulgee, to Macon,
an important city, almost in the centre of
the State; then, on the other, the Oconee
to Milledgeville, the former capital of the
State. A few miles south of the month
of the Savaunah, the Ogeochee plows into
the sea, navigable thirty or forty miles
for barges. All of these rivers flow into
tiie Atlantic Ocoan. On the Chattahoo
chee steamers go up to Columbus, while
railroads traverse the State in almost
every direction, so that there is no section
which is better provided with the con
venient means of access to the markets.
In the West and North, in the first they
lack altogether, and in the latter, they
are inaccessible for months, on account of
the seasons. Os what seryice is his crop
to the farmer, if he must deliver three
quarters to the railroad to get tho value
of the remainder? where the price of his
produce is so low that it does not repay
the labor? where the lack of fuel is so
perceptible that he is compelled to use his
corn as fuel? Os what service is the free
pasturage on the unbounded prairie and
the dense forest to him who is compelled
to feed his stock in the stables for nine
months in the year? With justice does
industry complain of the theft of its re
ward, when over night the severe snow
storm shuts him up in his cabin, and for
bidding access to tho woodpile compels
him to make fuel of his furniture to keep
from freezing. What returns for all of
these advantages is the boasted freedom
of the chase on the boundless wilds with
the thermometer sinking to forty degrees
below zero, whore the wolf howls around
his dwelling, where the evil disposed per
sons are conspiring, where sociability
loses its attractions, where the dreary
loneliness shakes the very foundation,
and would erase even the traces of reli
gious feeling? Causes and evils of this
nature the immigrant need not fear in
Georgia.”
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“Our rivers invite the manufacturer to
invest his capital in our State. We have
sufficient water-power to put in motion
the most extensive factories, but we lack
laborers, artizans and capital. Therefore
-do the citizens invite settlers to settle in
their midst, under the condition, however,
that they will respect our law’s, customs
and habits. We are no uncivilized people.
In regard to religion, morals, and educa
tion, in love of country and true honesty
we areas noble as any people. The char
acter, honor and principles of our ances
tors we respect, and what we do respect
we hope long to keep hallowed. He who
would, knowing these sentiments, offer
us his hand, shall meet with a hearty
welcome.
“The contract with tho native South
erners is a pleasant one. Their character
has at times been represented in a false
light, but (hc-se misrepresentations ema
nated from persons who had never come
in contact with the better classes. Imper
fect we find mankind everywhere, but he
who has lived among the Southern people
would give them the preference above all
others. He who makes Georgia his home
comes within reach of the highest civili
zation. There is no lack of schools,
churches and social gatherings. Life and
property are protected with a strong arm,
and friendship here is less selfish than
with our Northern neighbor; the dangers
which threaten the emigrant in the Nor
thern States are not known here. Wilful
neglect of politeness, courtesy and good
manners are not popular with us. The
poorest meet with respect if they deserve
it. Now and then we find some fault
finders but they cannot be honest in their
fault-finding if they still remain among
us. The most esteemed citizens of the
State have expressed the desire to aid in
the introduction of industrious settlers,
and we believe that every one who does
come, if his desire be not unreasonable,
will do well and prosper.”
The Vienna Exposition.— An interna
tional patent rights congress is to be held
in Vienna during the World's Exposition,
to be composed of manufacturers, scien
tific men and other experts. Three Ameri
can gardeners will be allowed to raise veg
etables on Austrian soil to compete for
agricultural premiums.
Dix Lets Another Man Hang.—Syra
cuse, N. 1., March 25. —Governor Dix
declining to interfere, Frolieh will be
hanged on Friday.