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H I.SOAV HWBWIIWI, MAY U.
The Superior Court—List of Jurors.
—The Muscogee Superior Court meets,
next Monday.
The following is a list of the jurors
drawn to serve at the term:
(!rand Jurors. —J. Walker, A. J.
Floyd, J. W. Barden, James Kent, W. G.
SVoolfolk, M. Barringer, Z. T. Jenkins,
\V. D. Amyet, J. T. McKinzie, G. A.
Buckaba, J. M. I.ayfield, It. T. Young,
/ A. Willett, Oscar Smith, W. A. Bar
den, R. A. Munroe, J. K. Dinton, It. E.
Stockton, A. A. Dortch, W. A. Cobb, J.
Kurniker, A. W. White, C. G. Holmes—
total 23.
Traverse or Petit Jurors. Henry
Burk, G. M. Venable, W. H. Blanken
ship, J. W. Edwards, C. It. Gunn, J. E.
Brantley, Walter Dortch, J. S. Dozier,
David Wolfson, G. W. Briggs, J. S. Mat
lliews, A. 0. McGehee, John Mahaifey,
J. A. Shiugleur, J. H. Shorter, A. C.
Flewellen, Jas Wilson, H. F. Abell, W.
P. O'Brien, D. P. Dozier, W. A. Me-
Dougald, J. C. Moore, Phillip Filler,
.lessee Kimbrough, T. D. Fortson, Jas.
Vernoy, It. A. Bacon, J. AI. Stark, W. P.
Turner, A. J. Odom, Andrew Williams,
E. Allen, W. D. AfUock, Zeno Garrett,
Emanuel Reich, Richard Turman. Total
30.
The Sohellinger Pavement and an
Old Citizen. —We notice that the Schel
liuger stone pavement is being laid in
front of the store of Mr. 11. Middlebrook.
We understand that arrangements have
already been perfected for laying this
pavement from that front to Abell’s cor
ner. Then we will have a decent pave
ment that will last for years. Brick pave
ments do not last in any sort of condition
twelve months. So the Schellinger, though
costing more at first, is by fur the cheap
est in the end.
Mr. Middlebrook told us, yesterday, he
came to Columbus in 1834, and has been
engaged ever since in the saddlery and
harness business. Since 1837 he has oc
cupied the present stand. He bought the
property, then a one story brick house, in
1831). He was burned out in 1847, when
lie erected the present two story building.
So lie has been thirty-nine years in Cos
1 limbus, in one business, and thirty-six at
one stand.
When he first came here he occupied a
wooden house where our office now stands,
and subsequently a house on Broad street
where Rooney & Warner’s furniture ware
house is. It is seldom, indeed, that we
find men who have been in Columbus so
many years.
Mr. M. is a New Yorker by birth. He
spent a few years in Wilmington, N. C.,
before he came to Columbus.
The Manufaoturino Spirit—What we
would Make by it. — The manufacturing
spirit is fairly aroused again in Columbus.
The Eagle and Phenix company will build
another mill in a year. The Columbus
company’s prospects are very flattering.
The success of tho enterprise headed by
J. Rhodes Browne is assured.
The production of cotton yields (he
South annually three hundred millions of
dollars, and the manufacture yields the
manufacturing localities three hundred
millions more. There is no reason why
the South should lose this vast amount.
She can make it all, and thus secure an
annual income of six hundred million
dollars. Columbus is manifesting the
proper spirit. Those who erect cotton
mills in our midst should be looked upon
as true patriots and public benefactors.
They are adopting the right course to at
tract. capital and labor. Show the North
practically that we can manufacture eot
tou and make money, while her mill own
ers are not paying expenses, and capital
w ill come here in quantities to erect mills
along our river, and labor will follow.
When we have convinced the world we
need no help, millionaires will come here
in numbers aud make investment.
The New Catholic Bishop of Savan
nah. As the Catholic church in this city
is embraced in tho Diocese of Bishop
Win. Gross, the fifth Bishop of the see of
Savannah, all that relatos to him is of in
terest to many of our readers. Ho arrived
in Savannah Friday, ami was met by a
tremendous delegation. Capt. John 11.
Dillon made the address on part of the
Catholics of Savannah.
In the course of his reply, according to
the report of (ho Advertiser, Bishop Gross
said he had seen immense processions in
New York, Chicago, Boston and other
large cities in the United States, hut he
had never seen anything to equal the
present, for which he thanked the people
cordially. In referring to his appoint
ment to a Bishopric he said that ho was
at first somewhat movod by the responsi
bility that he knew such a position would
bring to him, but now, as he saw so plain
ly that it was the will of God that he
should till the position, he felt that the
Almighty Ruler would give him strength
and ability to discharge the duties of his
exalted position, aud that it had become
a pleasing satisfaction to him. He did
not feel that he was a stranger to the peo
ple of Georgia and the South, for, being
of Southern birth himself, ho felt a pecu
liar affectiou for the people of the South.
He knew the people of Savannah, among
wlioiu he had been before, and he already
loved them. He was glad that his lot had
fallen among them, aud ho hoped with the
aid of the Almighty God to be able to ac
complish some good. He had come among
them to serve them, and he would endea
vor to do so to the best of his ability.
He was delighted to see the little child
*vn, tlie orphans, come out to meet him,
and he asked for their prayers and the
prayers of all, to the Great Creator to aid
him in performing the great work before
him.
Bishop Gross then thanked Bishop Per
ah'o and the clergy of Savannah for their
kindness and attention to him since his
arrival.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Bish
op ii loss blessed the people.
Having a Uniform Day.—Most of the
dailies in Georgia approve the idea sug
■‘-1, I by ns of postponing our annual
No rial Cay until MayTOth, so that the
custom may Ihi uniform throughout the
late Confederacy. Let us have one day
known as the “Southern Mourning Day.”
As we said before, the 26tli of April is too
early for the blooming of flowors in lati
tudes a little north of our own, and a suf
ficiency cannot be obtained for the deco
rations of the graves. Let the South have
one general day. The 26th day of April
cannot do for all. The 10th of May, the
date of Stonewall Jackson’s death adopted
by Virginia and all the cities anil towns
north of our latitude will suit all locali
ses. Jackson’s death was one of our
greatest calamities. After it, we did not
gum a decisive victory. So the anniver
sary will he equally suggestive of the
“Lost Cause.”
VOL. XV.
GLASS RUBIES.
The article we republish to-day from the
New Y T ork Tribune, headed “Glass Ru
bies,” is a severe but truthful criticism on
the shams and gentility of the age.
Hood’s poor woman with eyelids heavy
and red and dressed in unwomanly rags,
is a sad picture of honest toil, but not
half so much to be pitied as she of the
“sleazy ruffled silk, and a hat piled high
with Spring roses, picking up wood and
hiding it not from the guilt, but false
shame of her poverty under her shawl.
The one makes no vain effort to conceal
the wretchedness of her earthly condition,
but in humility of spirit weaves her own
shroud with fingers weary and worn. The
other realizes the fable of the Spartan
boy and fox, and rather than be honest
with herself and practice the truth, hugs
to her bosom a false pride until it eats in
to the very vitals of her peace and purity.
Ignorance and penury may he evils, hut
when associated with integrity will bring
more real happiness to their possessors
aud fewer curses on a community than
wisdom perverted and directed to bad
onds, and riches acquired by frauds and
exercised in acts of crime and cruelty.
Wisdom and wealth may be power, but
the power may be wielded in a manner is
not to command either imitation, respect
or reverence. Nero was rich, and his
name aud fame is stained with every
crime. Draco was wise, and his laws were
written in blood. The affectation of
wealth, riches or any other posssession es
teemed valuable by the world, is the vain
est and poorest of ambitions. To seem
to be what we know we are not, to attempt
to palm upon others tinsel for gold, paste
for diamonds, is the thinnest and most
ridiculous of shams. The play is not
worth the candle, for at length experi
ence will teach us that it is easier to be,
than appear to be, and in clutching after
the shadow, we let fall the substance. We
wake from our delusions only to find that
we are neither rich, wise, good or happy,
but might have been one or all if our time
and talents had been employed to secure
the sometimes ugly and unwelcome truth
and reality instead of the beautiful and
flattering falsehood and imitation.
“Ignorance,” says Shakespeare, “is the
curse of God. ” It may be a misfortune
for want of education, or a crime if oppor
tunities are neglected. There is, however,
a greater curse than ignorance, viz: to
assume a virtue when you have it not,
and when you know the right in religion,
politics, morals, manners, dress, conver
sation, or auything else, to fail in the
practice of that right through mental and
moral cowardice. This is the most trans
parent of shams, aud the most wicked of
dissimulations. Christopher Sly wan sim
ply an honest drunkard and a fool when
he fancied he was a lord; he who knows
that he is a drunkard and a fool, and yet
affects the airs of a lord, adds hypocrisy
and presumption to folly and crime.
THE SCALP POLICY.
It is reported upon good authority that
General Sherman has expressed himself
strongly in favor of lighting the Indians
by Indian methods, aud especially by of
fering a bounty for Modoe scalps. Un
doubtedly the proposition will excite great
opposition in some quarters; but after all
to this or to some analogous means it ap
pears that we must come. The scalps are
not perhaps an indispensable part of the
programme; hut it is pre-eminently nec
essary that some plan should be devised
for calling out tho frontiersmen and friend
ly Indians, aud stimulating their zeal by
liberal rewards payable only upon full
proof of actual service. In other words,
we must hunt the Modocs down with trap
pers and half-breeds ; we must pay these
men, and we must see that wo get a full
equivalent in services for our outlay.
Tho above is part of an article which
appeared in the “National Republican,”
the organ of the President. The New
York Herald advocates the same scalp pol
icy, but suspects the sincerity of the
Warm Springs Indian allies of our Gov
ernment. The Herald thinks if in a pinch,
these dusky Braves may desort to the Mo
docs, in spite of the fact that all the Mo
docs killed, none liavo perished by the
hands of onr soldiers. It is alleged that
want of knowledge of the whereabouts of
Captain Jack’s band led to the latest mas
sacre, and such knowledge the Warm
Spring Indians should have supplied if
they were properly used aud not unfaith
ful to the whites. Careful watch must
be kept over them, so that if they should
entertain any intention or make any ef
fort to betray the troops it may be pre
vented and punished. The Government
is evidently perplexed in the extreme as
to the best mode to exterminate the sav
ages. To scalp them they must he first
canglit, and just hero is the difficulty.
Jean Jaquos Pelissior, afterward duke
of Malakoff, became somewhat notorious
in Algeria in 1845. He entered the ter
ritory of the Ouled ltiahs, an Arab tribe,
who took refuge in one of the caves in
which their country abounds. Like the
Modocs, from the inability of an enemy
to penetrate to their secret hiding place,
the tribe began to think it was invincible.
It would not surrender, and gave the
messengers for such a purpose, a discharge
of fire-arms. Pelissiar applied burning
fagots to the mouth of the cave, and suf
focated nearly 600 of the Arabs. The
.transaction excited great horror, as well
in France as in other countries. Marshal
Soult, then minister of war, condemned
the act formally, while other military
men justified it as a necessity of war.
We believe it will compare favorably with
Sheridan’s small pox warfare against In
dians, and his crow-ration policy in the
valley of Shenandoah. Some Western
editor suggests the virtue of “Costar’s
Exterminator,” for ridding the lava beds
of their blood-thirsty tenants, as it has
proved good in feather beds.
“My poliey" will, we think, be adopted
by the President on his return from the
Sandwich aud Feejee islands. We are
satitied that the genius of the colored
“friend and brother” has not been suffi
ciently appreciated and rewarded in a
military way. The truth is, he has been
badly treated in the army and at West
Point since he “fought so nobly.” The
President has tried the regular United
States soldiers and the Warm Springs In
dians on the Modocs aud failed. The
scalp, Pelissiev, Costar, and Sheridan pol
icy is cruel and savage. Now is the time
for the President to exhibit his gratitude
to the colored brother. Let him first
gathev the Braves of Colfax and Arkansas,
mount them on mules aud arm them with
pitchforks, and we predict that so soon as
the news reaches Oregon and California
that the conquering heroes are on the war
path, the red Modocs will drop their
feathers and rub off their paint, and
scamper from the lava beils like rats from
a burning house.
GOV. SMITH AND SUSAN EBERHART.
We have no doubt that Governor Smith
will be severely denounced for his refusal
to commute tho sentence of Susan El>er
bart to imprisonment for life instead of
death on a gallows. He has already been
oompared to the notorious George JeL
freys of bloody English judicial memory,
aud possessed of a heart as stony as Robe
spierre, one of the infernal French trium
virs.
We think Governor Smith has grievous
ly erred, but we are charitable enough to
believe that the error was one of the head
and not of the heart. In our opinion, he
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permitted the example of Bollock, who
prostituted a merciful power to the basest
of purposes, to lead his judgment astray,
and in the effort to escape the extreme
whirlpool he has run on the opposite rock.
Bullock perverted to selfish ambition the
humane maxim that better many guilty
should go unpunished than a single inno
cent person should suffer. Smith, we
fear, in an effort to administer strict law
and justice to the guilty, has forgotten
the heavenly essence and mission of a
pardon—to temper biting statutes with
that mercy which blesses as well the giver
as receiver.
A pardon or commutation of a penalty
annexed to an offence operates in criminal
jurisprudence very similar to the rules
and practice of equity as distinguished
from item law. It presupposes that the
wises, of men are fallible and that no
knoivledge can foresee, no prudence guard
against, and no repentance will avail when
life has once been taken from the inno
cent. It breaks the force and turns away
the edge of the sword of public justice
and adjusts the balance of the blind god
dess according to individual human weak
nesses, ignorances and temptations. Law
is a hard master and administers stripes
without much regard to circumstances or
condition. Mercy, when law demands
blood, makes herself a sacrifice and comes
between the uplifted knife and the wretch
ed victim. Shylock, in the Merchant of
Venice, when he claimed a pound of flesh,
to be cut off by him nearest the mer
chant s heart, was the personation of the
line Portia and the Duke, when they ex
tended a pardon of life before it was ask
ed, were fit representatives of the other.
Governor Smith writes to the Hon S
Bell:
I have examined with great care the va
rious applications made in behalf of Miss
Eberhart, hoping that I might gather
therefrom some reason which would justi
fy me in interposing to save her life.
Under the law, her guilt is fixed by the
verdict of the jury, and the suggestions
offered in her favor do not create even a
suspicion of the correctness of the finding.
Gov. Smith says further :
The evidence shows, beyond all ques
tion, that she Avas sensible both of the
moral and legal guilt of the crime of mur
der. If allowed by my duty to the public
to base my official action upon my feel
ings as a man, I would not hesitate to in
terpose executive clemency to save a
woman from the extreme penalty of the
law; but, as a magistrate whose sworn
duty it is to see that the laws are en
forced, I cannot intervene to prevent the
execution of tho judgment of the Court
in this case.
The Governor seems impressed with the
idea that the laws of Georgia, like the
laws of the Medes and Persians, could
not be changed and must be executed to
the letter, although his prerogative to
pardon is as much a law as a ‘■'■verdict of
the jury." He thinks his feelings as a
man, and his sworn duty as a magistrate,
are in judicial conflict and that the laws
must, be enforced, however their cruelty
may be mollified and mollified by an
equally legal pardon or commutation.
We have no mawkish sensibilities on
the subject of capital punishment. We
believe that pity for the guilty individual
is often cruelty to the public, but if in
every case the law must he inexorably ex
ecuted without regard to age, sex or con
dition, then the criminal law of Georgia
is like Draco’s written in blood, and who
is safe? Let us not, in swinging around
the legal circle, go from one extreme of
pardon to another and forget that in
sticking to the bark (the .letter) we may
sacrifice both justice and mercy in the
spirit.
If as is alleged, the people of Ameri
cas, the neighborhood and the jurors
who tried and convicted Miss Eberhart
endeavored to have the sentence com
muted and that she was influenced by
slavish fear of Spann was certified to
Gov. S., surely her sex, age and ignor
ance coupled with these facts, must have
appealed strongly in her favor and if they
created a doubt the poor, wretched girl
should have had the benefit of that doubt
and the State oeased to cry for her blood.
Like Laura Fair she may have been cursed
with the fatal gift of beauty, but resem
bled her in no other particular. The one
was deeply and desperately base aud pos
sessed, coupled with a vain, corrupt heart,
cultivated manners and a fine intellect.
The other, was a poor, ignorant and
friendless girl only nineteen years old
and the victim of the brutal passions of a
man regardless of social duty and des
perately wicked. The one, exhibited on
trial the malignity of a fiend in the garb
of an angel and since, as one lost to shame
and virtuous womanhood—the other bore
herself like a heroine, asserted her inno
cence with dying lips aud breathed a
prayer for enemies and persecutors. Sure
ly if such a creature, sinful though she
be, caunot receive that pardon from
Heaven denied her on earth, then may
even the purest despair that no recording
angel will ever drop a tear on tho records
of guilt and blot them out forever. Sure- *
ly Georgia did not demand such a victim
on the gallows to influence her women to
virtue and her men from murder.
We understand that a United States
army officer will arrive in this city, within
the next two or three days, to enlist col
ored troops to fight the Indians. The ne
groes will be called upon to demonstrate
their loyalty by going for Captain Jack.—
Selma Times, 2nd.
We thought “My Policy” would suc
ceed as soon as the President reached
Washington from the West Indians and
Sandwich Islands. Nothing like negroes
on mules, armed with pitch forks to scare
Modocs.
' Our merry- and usually judicious friend
of the Enquirer suggests balloons. We
think this flighty, as it would take a keen
eye to see a Modoe from the air under
ground for several yards. We say again,
we go in for negroes, mules aud pitch
forks.
An exchange thus vividly describes the
manner in which the Modocs are being
looked after in Washington : “The intel
ligence of the slaughter in the lava beds
throws Shermau into a ‘state of mind.’
Straightway he rushes to the acting Secre
tary of War, and tells that official that
something will have to be done. The act
iug Secretary of War ‘sees’ Sherman, and
goes him one better by suggesting that
they telegraph the actual Secretary of
War, who is in Texas. Shermau covers
the ‘go’ by adding that they’d better tele
graph the President also, who is in Colo
rado. Accordingly, Sherman drafts a tel
egram. The acting Secretary of War
does the same. Then they pitch both
drafts into the same pot and boil 'em
down. A satisfactory despatch is precipi
tated, and copies are immediately prepar
ed. One goes off toward the Rocky Moun
tains, and the other toward the Gulf of
Mexico.” Capt. Jack and his thirty-five
warriors, being savages, and, consequent
ly, a disorderly set of individuals, have
not learned how advantageous it is to have
system iu all things, and to proceed lei
surely ; and they, therefore, pounce upon
our soldiers against all established rules,
aud use them in a manner that laughs
Hardee's tactics to scorn. How the Mo
doc chief will chuckle when he hears of
the pleasant little piece of circumlocution
that has acted so much in his favor.
There’s nothing like leather—except red
| tape.
, Mrs. Gen. Canby is hopelessly sick.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MAY 13,1873.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
J. T. Philips, who lived near Social Cir
cle, w’as killed by his step-son Turner,
aged sixteen. Philips was a brute, and
was terribly abusing Turner's sisters.
Turner asked him to desist, when Philips
turned on him, got him on the floor and
was beating him, when the boy stabbed
and killed the man.
Judge Hopkins, at Atlanta, fined Hon.
Cincinnatus Peeples ten dollars, Thurs
day’, for not having his papers ia Court
when a case was called.
Messrs. Jonathan Button and Berry
Forrest, two old citizens of Lumpkin coun
ty, are dead.
On the 25th of April there was consid
erable frost in Wilkes county. Dryness
saved vegetation.
Albany has a 104 year old negro who
walked the other day twelve miles in four
hours.
Gus Peters will he hung for murder in
Albany on the 30th inst., and Martha
Ann Merett (white) goes to (he Peniten
tiary for the murder of anothor woman.
Mr. J. J. Robertson, an old and influ
ential citizen of Washington, Wilkes coun
ty, died in Savannah Friday.
A rice mill belonging to Mr. J. B Bis
sell situated on the Savannah and Charles
ton railroad, w’as destroyed by fire on Fri
day. The fire was caused by lightning.
Loss about $7,000, on which there was no
insurance.
A farmer in Pierce county lost fifty
sheep by one depredation of dogs.
All the debts agamst Richmond county
have been paid, and there is a cash bal
ance on hand of over ten thousand doL
lars.
The ladies of the Memorial Association
of Augusta have $1,837 73 drawing 12
per cent, interest.
Miss Lovelace, sister of the Lovelace
Brothers, of Rome, died of measles, near
LaGrange, on the 30th ult. Two of her
little brothers died of the same disease a
few days previous.
Susan Eberhart, the unfortunate wo
man who was hanged at Preston, on Fri
day, while in prison waiting the execution
of her awful sentence, whiled away the
solitary hours by making friends with the
rats that had access to her cell.
Macon, Saturday, by a vote of 419 to
23, ratified the'subscription of $200,000
to the Macon and Cincinnati Railroad.
The Telegraph says eleven men in Ma
con pay tax on $934,700. One pays on
$125,000; another $106,000; a third $105,-
600; a fourth $94,000; six others SBO,OOO
to $87,500.
The Herald says the wholesale business
of Atlanta has increased forty per cent,
over last year. A. A. <fe B. F. Wiley sold
$268,000 of groceries last quarter; Cook
& Cheek, $193,000 of flour; and Henry
Banks & Son, $78,000 of shoes.
No more true hills have been found liy
the Federal Grand Jury against the “Ma
con Intimidators,” so-called, and the jury
has adjourned. Os the thirty-eight bound
over, only five have been indicted; but
not one indictment Avas found, even by
that selected Grand Jury, after a little
fair aud impartial testimony got before it.
At Augusta, the Stale Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
organized by the election of the following
officers ‘
President —Janies W. Davis.
Vice Presidents —Rev. Dr. Robert Ir
vine, of Augusta, Henry Grady, of Atlan
ta ; Charles Green, Sr., Savannah, aud
Alderman Reese, of Macon.
Counsel—Salem Dutcher, who was also
elected Secretary, Treasurer, Benson.
The -Executive Committee: Messrs. H.
P. King, John S. Davidson, Joseph B.
Cuiuuiiug, James W. Davies and Salem
Dutcher, the latter two, ex ojjicio , Miss
Lou King and Dr. DeSsaussure Ford.
The officers of the Society are a Presi
dent, a Vice-President for each incorpo
rated town in the State represented in the
Society; a Counsel, a Secretary and Treas
urer, anil in addition an Executive Com
mittee of seven, to consist of the Presi
dent, Counsel and five members. New
members may be admitted at any meeting
by a majority vote of the members pres
ent, and the annual fee is fixed at $2.
The objects of the Society are declared to
be “to provide effective means for the
prevention of cruelty to animals in the
State of Georgia; to enforce all laws which
are now or may hereafter be enacted for
the protection of animals; and to secure
by all lawful means the arrest, conviction,
and punishment of all persons violating
such laws.”
The Washington telegrapher of the New
York Times sends the following to that
paper. Avery interesting civil rights
case has grown out of the recent trip of
Samuel Hooper of Boston, to Florida. Mr.
Hooper went to Savannah in company
with William Smith, colored, the Assistant
Librarian of the Houseofßeprosentatives,
aud another gentleman. They purchased
first class tickets on the Georgia Central
Railroad between Augusta and Savannah.
The conductor caused Smith to leave his
companions and to enter a car occupied
by colored people. Smith has made ar
rangements to bring suit against the rail
road and will be supported in the suit by
Hooper.
The following are the officers and Di
rectors of the Macon and Knoxville Rail
road :
President, G. W. Adams ; Secretary and
Treasurer, E. L. Strohecker; Directors,
G. W. Adams, E. L. Strohecker, Benj. C.
Smith, W. K. de Graffenreid, John C.
Curd, Geo. Burdick, J. Holmes, S. G.
Bonn, Henry J. Lamar, Jerry Cowles.
Three negroes confined in the Cuthbert
jail made their escape last Wednesday.
There are twenty-two couples seeking
to be unyoked at the present term of the
Richmond Superior Court.
The Rome Courier says the late frost
played havoc with the peach crop of that
county—hardly one peach in a hundred
escaping destruction; and the Catoosa Cou
rier reports a similar disaster in that sec
tion, and in many cases where wheat -was
iu the boot damaged it also very seriously.
Big hail fell on Tuesday of last week.
The Home Journal says in that county the
hail t tones averaged as large as a hen egg,
and there were many larger than a goose
egg ; that several, accurately measured,
were from ten to thirteen inches in circum
ference, and one that was weighed pulled
down nearly three quarters of a pound
A negro in Upson county gave birth to
triplets; and a negro girl was so badly
burned at Judge Warren’s as to die.
The Thomaston Herald has this:
A Human Turtle Born. —On Monday,
or Tuesday last, we learn that a colored
woman in Pike county, gave birth to a
child, by her brother. The breast and
abdomen of the child and the back makes
a complete turtle, the former being cover
ed by a soft white shell and the back by a
hard one. This is the second child by
her brother.
A question that now’ agitates the public
mind with equal importance of the fa
mous query, “Who struck Billie Patter
son?” is, who struck Potash Farrow? The
eminent Federal attorney states he was
viciously assaulted whilst pensively pranc
ing on his homeward way down President
street, in Savannah, on Saturday night
about eight o’clock. No damage was
done, and the foul fiend, after failing in
his purpose, vanished in the air. The
attorney yelled police, aud catch him, and
other people took up the cry, but no party
was seen. His eminence had on his
double magnifying- glasses, and only he
saw’ a fugitive. Now, some good citizens
of Savannah happened to be in sight of
the hero -w hile he walked through his im
aginary pad. Their evidence proves that
the whole thing was a petty contemptible
farce, gotten up by Farrow himself to en
deavor to make cheap capital.
•Tuesday morning, a row of six frame
buildings situated on Peachtree street in
Atlanta, near Broad, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, about $6,000.
A. E. Griswold, of Hartford, Conn.,
died at the American Hotel, in Atlanta,
Monday. He had lost his wife, his chil
dren, and his all in the last few’ weeks,
and took to drink.
Monday morning, four houses were de
stroyed by fire in West End, near Atlanta.
Loss, $5,000 to $6,000.
Eugene Guimaria, aged eighteen, died
in twenty-four hours after an attack of
Atlanta meningitis.
Monday night last a married woman of
Athens left her home and husband and
went off with a single man. Report says
the husband went with them to the cars,
| gave her money, and rendered any assist -
ance he was able to start her on her down
ward course. They had no children.
She was a Northern woman.
Judge W. W. Montgomery has resumed
the practice of law in Augusta.
The Washington Gazette announces
that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will
make a political speech in that place dur
ing the present court week there, if his
health will permit.
Drue Lawrence, John Littleton and
John Stanfield had a fight near Perry,
Houston county, Thursday evening, in
which Lawrence and Littleton were se
verely stabbed; the former in the hack,
| and the latter in the face and neck.
Lawrence is not expected to live.
! Bishop Gross was installed as Bishop of
Savannah by Bishop Persico, in the Cath
edral Sunday morning. Bishop Gross
preached to an immense audience at night.
Mr. Alfred Haywood has presented Mr.
Henry Miller, of Savannah, with a hand
some gold watch chain, as a token of his
gratitude to that gentleman in rescuing
his little son at the risk of his own life.
The case of C. D. Greer, charged w’ith
the murder of Mr. Joseph Middlebrooks,
about eighteen months ago, has been
transferred to Putnam county, because of
the impossibility of getting a jury in
Munroe county.
A merchant of Carrolton tells the Times
that last week there was behind his coun
ter at one time, one lady with triplets,
one with twins and three single ones,
making altogether eight of the little folks.
Hon. James 11. Blount w’ill appoint
that candidate to West Point who stands
best in a competitive examination, which
will be held in Macon at any time between
the first and fifth of July.
Jeff Long has received a dispatch from
Washington, stating that the Macon post
office is not to be interferred with.
Under the head of executions for last
j year’s taxes, fully $9,000 is due the city
j of Macon, mainly as taxes on real estate.
The list of tax defaulters is very full, in
cluding the names of some very promi
nent merchants, and covering almost
every department of business.
On April 29th, in Lumpkin, C. J. Tuck
er, Esq., and Miss E. O. Graham, were
married. Rev. A. J. Dean officiated.
Sarah Harrell, col., lodged in jail for
failing to pay the fine and costs imposed
upon her by Judge Johnson last week,
was brought before Ordinary Latimer
last Tuesday under a writ of habeas cor
pus, and discharged, it appearing that
she was unable to pay the fine, and had
been in jail for seven weeks before trial.
So reports the Lumpkin Independent.
A petition signed by many of the best
citizens or Stewart county and farmers of
high standing, says the Independent, has
been presented to the Ordinary, seeking
the benefits of the act. The law requires
that officer to publish a notice of the
filing of such petition for twenty days
and in the event no counter-petition is
filed, he is required to order an election
by the people who will be required to
vote for, or against “fences” in the coun
ty. If however, a counter-petition, sign
ed by fifty freeholders, is presented to
the Ordinary within twenty days, suffh
election will not he ordered unless twenty
five others petition for it.
The Kimball House at Atlanta has a
new’ gas, known as the “Mixin Gas Ma
chine.” It gives a brilliant light, and
costs about $1 60 per one thousand feet,
with a guarantee that it shall not cost
over $2 per thousand feet. It is the first
machine put up South of Washington
city. Gasoline oil is used in the manu
acture.
There have been only two white women
hung in Georgia, but about a dozen ne
groes.
Mr. J. F. Nutting, of Atlanta, -was
married in Marietta on the Cth to Miss
Cattie Morris.
Cobb county has spent $175,000 for
fertilizers this season.
Last Friday a Mr. Ellison shot and
killed James Coker, oil Lookout Moun
tain, in Chattooga county, four or five
miles from Summerville. Old difficulty.
Mr. Andrew Rav, of Hart county, died
very suddenly, a few days ago, of paraly
sis.
During the recent dry, windy weather,
much property, in the shape of fencing
and timber, was destroyed by fire in Hart
county, and tho dwelling house of Mrs.
McAllister, near Franklin Springs, was
burned by an incendiary.
Trion Factory, near Rome, employs
over 300 operatives.
On the 15th of June a laboratory for
the chemical analysis of -iron ores, coal,
etc., is to be opened at the Rome Female
CollSge,
ALABAMA ITEMS.
A destructive tornado passed over the
southern portion of Dallas county, on
Thursday evening. The Presbyterian
Church and several out houses were blown
down, and the residences of Dr. Lee, Mrs.
C. M. Bibb, and other buildings were un
roofed and other damage done to build
ings in Carlowville.
On last Friday, the engine attached to
the passenger train on the Pensacola and
Louisville Railroad, exploded near Pensa
cola, and killed the fireman, tore up the
train generally, aud frightened the pas
sengers to an alarming extent. It seems
as if the engine had no water in the boil
er, and that fact was known to the en
gineer, who, when he got to the tank and
put on his pumps, jumped off the engine
and ran, leaving the fireman to take care
of the train and himself.
Three hundred shares of Mobile and
Ohio Railroad stock were sold, Wednes
day, at Columbus, Miss., by order of the
County Court, and brought 50J.
The stockholders of the Alabama Cen
tral Railroad elected Directors in Selma.
Major Lanier and the other officers remain
in charge.
Barbour Circuit Court convened at
Clayton to-day—Judge J. McCaelb Wiley
presiding.
Last Tuesday morning Mr. John P.
Lyles, fireman on the northward train on
the A. & C. Railroad, was run over near
Hook’s station, and instantly killed. It
appeal’s that he had been on the tender,
arranging the wood, and when returning
to his place on the engine, he slipped and
fell under the wheel of the next car.
Wednesday his remains were taken to
Meridian for interment.
About one thousand mortgages and
liens on the present crops recorded in the
Probate office at Eutaw.
A party of Northern capitalists and rail
road bondholders are on a tour of inspec
tion to the coal fields, iron works and
railroads of the State.
The next meeting of the South Alabama
Presbytery of the Presbyterian church
will be held in Selma, beginning the
Thursday before the second Sunday in
October next.
Some Barbour county planters made
excellent sugar last winter. Among them
is Mr. W. L. Cooper.
Rev. Chas. Cely, late assistant of the
Bishop of Georgia, has accepted a call to
Trinity Parish, Demopolis, and will soon
enter actively upon the discharge of his
duties.
Mobile is in a stew over the action of
the present City Council disowning bonds
issued by the city in aid of the Northwest
ern railroad.
S. H. Paro, former City Attorney for
Mobile, and convicted of attempt to burn
the store of ex-Mayor Parker, was tried
in Baldwin on a change of venue, and
the jury found him guilty. Sentence de
ferred for a few days.
• The German- colony lately settled near
Tuscumbia, consists of tw-elve families.
They bought the Deshier place contain
ieg 1200 acres.
The United States Revenue Collector
has recently been playing havoc with the
illicit distillers of Jackson county. He
has destroyed seven stills, 100 tubs, 11,700
gallons of beer, 460 gallons of singlings,
and arrested two prisoners, and it was a
bad time for still hunting at that.
At the election, last Monday, for the lo
cation of the county seat of Jefferson
county, Birmingham triumphed over Ely
ton by a large majority.
Father Ryan, the poet priest, returned
to Mobile, Sunday, from Europe, much
improved in health. His arrival was un
expected.
The Mobile papers report that in April
there were sixty-four deaths from cholera
in New Orleans.
TELEGRAPhiC
FOREIGN.
St. Petersburg, May 6.—Hon. Jas. L.
Orr, U. S. Minister, died unexpectedly
aud suddenly of inflammation of the
lungs. He had been suffering from a
severe cold.
Vienna, May 6—American exhibitors at
the Exposition, together with the honora
ry commissioners and several suspended
commissioners, held an informal meeting
yesterday, at which searching inquiry was
demanded into the charges made against
the suspended commissioners. The new
commissioners suggested holding another
meeting at an early day, at which they
could promise Mi-. Jav,*the United States
Minister, and Baron Schwarz, the Direc
tor General of the exhibition, would be
present.
The American exhibitors have gone to
w’ork in an earnest manner to arrange
their department and secure the proper
exhibition of goods. The United States
frigate Congress and- a transport, with
goods on board for the Exhibition, have
arrived at Trieste. It W’as impossible to
delay redistribution much longer.
St. Petersburg, May 7 —Official dis
patches state the Kahn of Khiva off ers an
unconditional surrender to the Russian
demands.
Lisbon, May 7. —Senors Figueras and
Sardol, together with many radical con
servative and monarchial Spanish politi
cians have arrived in this city from Spain.
Madrid, May 7. —A band of Carlists,
commanded by Don Alphonso, is sur
rounded by the Republicans near Iguala
da a town 33 miles northwest of Barcelona,
and it is thought will, together with their
leader, be compelled to surrender to the
national forces.
Vienna, May 7.—Twenty-one persons
were killed and 40 w’ounded by a railway
accident near Pesth. Six cars were de
molished.
London, May 8.-—A Rome dispatch
says the condition of the Pope is preca
rious.
A Vienna correspondent of the Daily
News, in a letter to that journal, ridicules
the American Department of the Exhibi
tion, and gives the following as a correct
list of the articles to be seen in the sec
tion assigned to the United States : “Two
cases of Colt’s tire arms, three binnacles,
one stuffed eagle, tw’o salt cellars, a den
tist’s chair, and six bottles of water taken
from the Mississippi river.” An explana
tion of this meagre display is found in the
former mismanagement of the American
section. It is hoped, now that the new
Commissioners aud exhibitors have gone
actively to work, to repair the evil effects,
that goods from America wfill be speedily
unpacked, and the exhibitors from that
country will come up to the standard ex
pected.
Vienna, May 7. —The Minister of Com
merce gave an entertainment last even
ing to the officers of the exhibition.
Among the toasts given on the occasion
was one by Bayard Taylor to the Indus
tries of Austria.
WASHINGTON.
AVashington, May 4.— The committee
from the two well-known Chi Phi frater
nities of the North and South, held ses
sions in this city Friday and Saturday,
and have agreed upon terms of consolida
tion. The committee present on the part
of the Northern order were Wm. Sulpher,
of New York, Chas. F. Henderson, of
Cooperstown, N. Y., and Otis C. Tiffany,
of AVashington, and on the part of the
Southern order, AV. F. Bishop, of Peters
burg, Edmund Bland, of Mellville, and
Mead Haskins, of Richmond, Va. The
fraternity is the .oldest college fraternity
in the country, having been organized in
1824, but a separation took place at the
commencement of the late civil war, and
the present movement is to again unite
the Northern and Southern parts. There
are in all about 5,000 members, with
two chapters of past graduates, one of
which is in Philadelphia and the other in
New York.
The first case before the American and
Spanish Claims Commission which came
up for adjudication yesterday, was that of
Perfecto He Rajas against Spain. The
petitioner was a Spanish subject, and on
the 28th September, 1870, declared his
intention to become a citizen of the Uni
ted States. The convention for settle
ment of claims of American citizens
against Spain was ratified February 12th,
1871. The arbitrators for Spain take the
ground that, Rajas is not a citizen of the
United States, and can not become such
till the time fixed by our laws shall expire,
and therefore he does not come within the
terms of the convention. Judge Otto,
arbitrator for the U 1 <>d States, takes the
opposite position, 'j! • being a divsion,
the decision of the cm. ■; is left to an um
pire, Baron Lederer, i: Austrian Minis
ter. The decision of this case will deter
mine the decision in e qht similar cases
pending before the Commission.
This precise question, it is claimed by
the Spanish advocate, has been repeatedly
tried by a mixed Commission on British
and American claims, to the effect that
notwithstanding the claimants had ex
pressed their intention, they still remained
subjects of their mother country, until
the necessary formalities having been
completed. They acted upon the inten
tion so expressed.
AVashington, May 5. —Gens. Sherman
and Howard testify before the American
and British Mixed Commission that Co
lumbia, S. C., was not fired by order or
by Federal soldiers.
The importation of coffee from Mexi
co to United States is beginning to assume
large proportions. -
The merchants expect great advantages
from the line of steamers to be establish
ed between Vera Cruz and New Orleans.
Congress is discussing amendments to
the Constitution, making further re
forms.
Gangs of workmen on the Texas and
Pacific railroad have reached El Paso.
AVashington, May 5. — The Court of
Claims to-day rendered only one judg
ment, namely, in favor of Chas. AVilson
and others, of Savannah, for twenty-three
bales of upland cotton, taken by agents
of the United Stales, amounting to $4,-
032.
AVashington, May o.—The President
comes Friday evening, and leaves Monday
for Connecticut.
Fifteen million postal cards have been
ordered.
Four applications already for Orr’s
place, including John M. LangstOD, col
ored.
A. A. Caston succeeds Lindsay, Pension
Agent, suspended for irregularities.
The number of Mexican claims against
the United States before the Mixed Com
mission is 224; number of American
claims before the Commission 758; num
ber before the umpire, being Indian dep
radation claims, 336
On the reassembling of the Commis
sion it will be necessory to select an um
pire in the place of Dr. Liebert, who
lately died.
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, May 4. —Forty of those mem
bers of Congress representing part of the
States of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois,
Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York,
Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee
and AVisconsin, have already accepted in
vitations to participate in the Congres
sional conference which is to meet here
on the 13th iust. Only six of those in
vited have so far declined, and they'
solely because of important business en
gagements.
Capt. Jas. B. Eads, Capt. AV. Gould,
Capt. John A. Scudder, and G. B. Allen
have been appointed a special committee
to report the wants of the Mississippi
A T alley requiring Congressional attention.
A request has been received from New
Orleans, that chambers of commerce or
like organizations of the Mississippi ATal
ley be invited to send a delegation to the
conference.
It has been decided that Jas. Brown,
Mayor of this city, shall be president of
the conference.
St. Louis, May 5. —A terrible accident
occurred yesterday afternoon at a bridge
being erected on Lalune river, on the
Northwestern extension of the Mis
souri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad,
fourteen miles from Sedalia. The false
works erecting the construction of the
bridge sunk in the quicksand upon
which it rested, carrying with it the bridge
timber and twelve workmen, and precipi
tating all into the river below. AVra. Mc-
A er, Peter Conner and Fynch were killed'
outright/md eight weTe wounded, two of
whom are not expected to recover.
St. Louis, May 7.—A meeting of the
Executive Committee, having the Con-
gressional Convention matters in charge,
was held this evening. Twenty-five Con
gressmen have accepted invitations so far.
Some difference of opinion having been
expressed by Congressmen as to whether
they would be expected to discuss ques
tions brought before it, it was decided
that the third session should be given
them to be used as they might deem best.
It being stated this movement was for the
benefit of the entire Mississippi Valley,
and that New Orleans would be benefitted
more than any other city. Mayor Brown,
President ©f the Executive Committee,
was directed to confer with the authori
ties of New Orleans to ascertain if they
will take charge of the excursionists at
Galveston and bring them to New Or
leans, via Belize, so that the Congressmen
can see the real obstructions to the devel
opment of the valley.
A committee was appointed to reply to
Parson Browulow's letter declining the in
vitation, which was published iu the
Knoxville Chronicle, it being believed he
totally misapprehended the objects of the
Convention.
ILLINOIS.
Dixon, May 5. —The iron bridge gave
away with 200 persons, including many
women, who were witnessing a baptising.
Thirty-two dead bodies were recovered.
Twenty-four of the rescued were injured,
some fatally. It is feared there are oth
ers under the ruins. Bodies w’ere found
six miles below’. Loss about ninety.
Dixon, May s—Evening.—Every house
in the city is in mourning. Several of
the w ounded have died.
Derricks are being erected to lift the
wreck. It is thought many persons from
the country around, not reported miss
ing, will sw ell the loss terribly.
The bridge, torn and broken, hangs
from the piers and is an appalling sight
in itself. At each end men, women and
children W’ere crushed into the river,
while at the north end, where the loss of
life was the greatest, the bodies were held
firmly to the bottom of the river in the
net work of iron.
Dixon, May 6.—The derricks are in po
sition. Five bodies recovered. It is
thought twelve more are in the river.
Forty bodies in all recovered.
NEW YORK.
New York, May 5. —Members of the
Darien expedition were on the steamer
Rising Star, which arrived yesterday.
They having surveyed a practicable route
for a canal w’bich will be only twenty
eight miles long, at an estimated expense
of $70,000,000. The route involves a
tunnel of three miles.
Albany, May 6. —The sale of the New
York Central Railroad locomotives by U.
S. Collector Bailey, for government tax,
has been postponed until the 13th inst.
It is said that owing to Judge Woodruff's
decision against the company they will
now pay the tax.
Albany, May 6. A local prohibition
bill, not excepting cider or lager, passed
the Senate.
New York, May 6. —A Providence dis
patch says several other mills have closed.
It is thought the crisis of tho strike will
come Thursday or Friday.
Judge Woodruff decides the United
States Courts have no jurisdiction in the
suit between Collector Bailey and the Cen
tral Railroad, both being citizens of the
same State.
Jno. R. Broailhead, author of the His
tory of the State of New York, and naval
officer at this port from 1853 to 1855,
member of the IJ. S. Legation at The
Hague iu 1847 and well known for liter
ary studies, died to-day. Aged 59.
Chief Justice Chase died this morning
of paralysis. Both of his daughters and
Senator Sprague were at his bedside.
Fowler Jfc Slocum’s dry goods house
failed; liabilities $500,000.
The Superior Court denies anew trial
to Stokes and affirms judgment.
The late widow of Gen. Jno. E. Wool is
dead. Aged 86 years.
Ames is gradually weakening.
New York, May 8. —The horsoshoers
of Fourth avenue road joined in the strike
inaugurated by those of the Sixth and
Eighth avenue roads.
All the gambling houses within the Fif
teenth Police precinct were closed by the
police this evening.
Stokes received the decision of the Su
perior Court with indifference, saying to
his father, who was present, “My case
will now go to the Court of Appeals.”
Chief Justice Chase left Washington
last week for New York and Boston, and
expected to remain in the latter city two
or three weeks and then return to Wash
ington, and after a short stay there go to
Colorado, where he proposed to locate for
the summer with a view\o the restoration
of his health by the pure and bracing air
of the mountain region. The Chief Jus
tice was in unusually good healtji and
spirits, and continued so during Sunday
and Monday. On Tuesday morning, be
fore rising, he was stricken with paralysis
and remained unconscious until this
morning at 11 o’clock, when he peacefully
died, surrounded by his sorrowing rela
tives.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, May ti.—A large meet
ing was held this morning at the Clay
statue, on Canal street, and addresses by
Gen. H. J. Campbell and others. The
object of Ihe meeting was to endorse the
action of the people of St. Martinsville.
Another batch of fifty Metropolitans, it
is stated, leaves this morning to reiiiforce
St. Martinsville.
The evening papers report that Kellogg
offers $250 in State warrants as bounty
for the Metropolitans to go to the coun
try.
The commander of the Metropolitans
at St. Martinsville appeals to Kellogg for
a mounted" force to assist them.
New Iberia, May G.—lt is reported the
Metropolitans attacked Dr. Blanche’s
forces near St. Martinsville, and were re
pulsed with a loss of three killed and two
wounded. Dr. Blanche has 200 men and
one cannon. It is stated the Metropoli
tans were driven back to St. Martinsville.
Later advices from St. Martinsville re
ports the position of the Metropolitans as
precarious. They may at any mement be
overpowered by the tax resisters. The
people of this section seem determined to
pay no taxes to the Kellogg Government
unless compelled to by U. S. troops.
New Orleans, May G.—The news from
St. Martin’s and adjoining parishes cre
ated much excitement in the city. It is
understood there is a movement on foot
to seize the police stations; while the
Kelloggites aver that all opposition has
disappeared.
New Iberia, May 7, 11 a. m.—Firing
heard this morning. A courier from the
citizens’ camp reports 3 Metropolitans
killed and 4 wounded in a skirmish. The
citizens pickets advanced within a square
of the courthouse, where Col. Badger was
concentrating his forces. Citizens are
coming from every portion of Attakapas.
Most of the recruits are of the better class
and well mounted, and generally armed
with breech-loading shot guns. So far,
principally the young men have gone to
the field. Kellogg’s troops can only reach
St. Martinsville by fighting their way up
the Bayou. It is generally supposed an
engagement took place last night, but no
reports received to present hour.
New Orleans, May 7. —The Grand Ju
ry passed a resolution to have Kellogg and
his officers appear before them on charge
of usurpation of the Government of Lou
isiana Judge Abell ordered the reports
filed and subpoenas issued for the parties
to appear before the Grand Jury. They'
also report against the Metropolitan po
lice.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, May G.—Oakes Ames is insen
sible from paralysis. His symptoms are
extremely dangerous.
Doctors have little hope for Ames. He
has had five years kidney trouble; C!)
years old.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, May G. —Os a family
consisting of father, mother, and three
children, on the steamer Nevada, from
Liverpool, all died except the mother. No
disease aboard the steamer.
NOVA SCOTIA.
Halifax, May 7.—The Atlantic has
been completely blown up. Fourteen
bodies were recovered Monday and Sun
day. Few valuables were found.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, May 7. —The entire busi
ness portion of Paris, Tenn., burned.
Loss SIOO,OOO.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, May 7- —The Insurance
Company of this city ha's suspended.
NO. 14.
Crops on the Big Uchee, in Russell County-
Cut Off One-Tenth,
Seale, Ala., May 3, 1873.'
Eds. Sun: Does your reading public
know that we poor unfortunate creatures
along the line of the Big Uchee Creek,
one of Russell county's best portions of
farming country, are so seriously injured
by the rains of this week ? AVe hear a
great deal said in regard to the present
cotton crop. The press argues that there
is very extensive preparations being made
this year for an unusually large crop of
cotton; that corn is getting but little at
tention; and the idea seems to be already
hatching out that the present cotton crop
is to be an overwhelming one. My chance
for knowing what proportion of acreage
has been allotted to cotton in this part of
the country is good. If you will allow me,
I will inform you that corn is receiving
due attention this year; and the young
corn, as a general thing, looks prosper
ous, the plant bearing a green and flour
ishing color, and the stand is unusually
good.
I believe the rains of this week are ae
knowdedged to be the severest aver wit
nessed by the oldest inhabitants. The
creek has undoubtedly been higher this
week than it has been during my recollec
tion. The land is seriously washed—in
fact some say their lands arc ruined.
These rains at the lowest possible estima
tion have certainly cut off the crop one
tenth; for there are numbers of acres of
our best bottom lands, from which all the
loose soil has been sweeped entirely.
Yesterday morning the rains ceased, and
the weather became cooler. Last night
was too cold for young cotton to be
healthy; this morning was cool with a
brief wind blowing from North to AA 7 est,
which was evidently poison to the cotton
plant. On light, sandy land the plant is
dying almost as though fire had passed
over the whole face of the earth, and
great fears are entertained that the stand
of cotton will be poor indeed. Some
planters are already talking of planting
over. Subscribes.
A Georgia Invention.— AVe learn'from
the Commercial that tw'o gentlemen of
Rome—Col. B. F. Sawyer, of the Cou
rier, and Dr. R. J. Hampton—have in
vented anew printing press, which prints
both sides of a sheet simultaneously, and
which will throw off from two to ten thou
sand impressions per hour, according to
the paper used.
The machine consists of a frame, ac
commodating two (upper and lower) type
beds, platens and inking apparatus, and is
operated by a simultaneous movement of
both beds, working in opposite directions.
The motion is imparted by a driving
wheel, to which is attached concave and
convex segments operating upon a pinion,
which, by a rack and pinion, gives mo
tion to the lower bed. Motion is convey
ed to the upper bed by a simple arrange
ment of arms and cams. The impression
is made by an eccentric cam in the driv
ing wheel operating upon arms, connect
ing the upper and lower platens.
The press is fed by a series of rollers
and tapes clasping the sheets and convey
ing them under the upper platen, when
the first impression is made; after which
it is instantly released and carried over a
registering clamp to the rollers for the
lower platen, under which it is carried
and receives the second impression, from
which it is passed out and thrown off by
a fly—both sides of the paper being print
ed during the process.
The inking aparatus iH a rack and screw',
but arranged in a novel and superior com
bination. For this they have applied tor
a separate patent.
A patent has been issued at AVashing
ton, and Messrs. Sawyer & Hampton in
tend to apply for European and Canadian
patents, with an assurance that the merits
of their invention will command prompt
attention from the patent department of
those countries.
Crop Reports.—\Ve have conversed
with many farmers during the past few
days. They appear universally to concur
in the opinion that the heavy rains of the
past week badly beat and pressed the cot
ton seed in the ground, and hail, in some
localities, made the condition worse.
Some have rustled around and secured
seed for replanting. Cotton is essentially
a sunny plant, and it is difficult to tell
what has been the damage until we have
had some days of real warm weather. As
yet com has been but little affected, be
sides the knocking about and chilling it
has sustained. Cool rains have again
commenced, and the damages to cotton
are expected to be greater. A subscriber
writes us that crops on the Big Uchee, in
Russell county, Ala., have been cut off
one-tenth.
Promise of Good Bread Crops. —Those
who have been through the West and re
turned home state that if the season con
tinues favorable the greatest crop ever
produced will be harvested next Summer.
This is some satisfaction to the southern
consumers, who keep their granaries in
the great Western cities. These travelers
report immense quantities of wheat await
ing transportation and being held at
home.
Getting Well. —Mr. James Sharrott,
the young man who was cut so badly in a
difficulty with Mr. J. J. Bull, in Mariana,
Florida, has, we are informed, passed the
critical stage and is now reported on the
fair road to recovery. Mr. Bull, we hear,
is now in Columbus. All accounts concur
in the statement that he acted solely and
purely in self-defense thoroughout the
whole difficulty.
Strange, but True. lt is indeed
strange to see wagons from the country
leaving town laden with bales of hay
brought all the way from the North and
West, and then reflect that the buyers
will have to work hard the remainder of
the year to keep grass out of his crops.
There is a ludierous side to most ques
tions and this is the funny aspect of
Southern farming. Why don’t planters
secure their own hay. It will save two
dollars to two dollars and a half per hun
dred pounds. Surely that ought to pay
for gathering grass.
We leam, says the Nashville Union and
American, from a reliable source that
twenty-three granges in Charlton county,
Kansas, have 2,700,000 bushels of corn
for sale. Farmers are still burning this
grain for fuel; and large quantities are
being shipped toSouth Carolina and other
cotton raising States. Granges in the
West find good customers in Southern
granges whose members cultivate other
staples. Producers in many branches of
industry are exchanging commodities
without the intervention of middle men.
This practice is susceptible of indefinite
extension. Granges that now buy their
coffee at wholesale prices of merchants
will soon purchase it directly from the
planters who raise the coffee. We live in
an age of progress; and before a man gets
a dollar, he must produce something that
is worth it. •
There was shipped on the Jacksonville,
Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, from Au
gust 1, 1872, to April 1, 1873,18,325 bales
of cotton. This is the total shipment on
this road of the crop of 1872. About as
much more was shipped from the State
Pj Other routes.
WEDNESDAY MOKSIAA,, <f t
Hurricane in Chattahoochee County?
—Last Thursday afternoon, about thfiee
o’clock, a very heavy hurricane passed
over the northeastern part of Chattahoo
chee county, six miles from Cusseta.
Every house on the plantation of Mrs.
Ally Duncan was demolished, including
the mill house. In its fall, Mrs. Duncan
and Mr. Le Mack were so severely in
jured that their lives are despaired of.
Mr. Robert Duncan and a Mr. Royals
were also hurt, but not so seriously. The
tornado was so terrible that pieces of the
plank were found eight miles from the
mill. This establishment was in full ope
ration as the storm approached. Mr. Le
Mack had time only to stop operations,
when the house came down with a crash
on him and the other parties named, who
happened to be there.
The neighbors came together on Fri
day and Saturday and repaired the houses
temporarily.
The storm in its course laid waste a
a wide track—blowing down fences and
snapping off and whirling into the air the
largest trees, and leveling houses wherev
er they were found. The destruction was
very heavy. It seems as if desolatioh had
been left wherever the tornado passed.
AVe have heard of no other accidents
other than those mentioned.
Real Estate at Auction. —At Ellis &
Harrison’s auction sale yesterday the fol
low ing prices were realized:
City lots 521 and 522—Dr. Flewellen’s
property brought $2,100, J. Rhodes
Browne being purchaser. There are some
$2,500 of mortgages on the property,
which increases the price that much.
Two lots, sold by Sheriff Ivey, were bid
in by County Commissioners for just
enough to cover taxes.
The Rumph lot, improved, on Ogle
thorpe street, near the North common,
brought $1,310, Mr. Biggers being pur
chaser.
Lots 600 and 610, on Mercer street,
fronting the east commons—both unim
proved—were knocked down to J. J. Da
vid for sllO and $l2O respectively.
The sale clearly demonstrated that
money to invest in real estate is very
scarce.
Yesterday was regular sale day, but no
property was disposed of other than that
mentioned. The stringency in the money
market prevents anything from realizing
anything like its value.
Large European Fortunes—Reported
an Heir in Columbus. —AVe have often
read in the papers of these tremendous
European fortunes to which American
heirs become entitled, but we had no idea
that such a roport would so soon originate
in Columbus. Now the talk is of an es
tate of four million dollars in Ireland,
with five years of interest, for which heirs
are being sought. It is also stated that
Bailiff Charles Ferguson, a clever man
and officer, is entitled to one-lifth of the
whole. A letter has been received by
him from a gentleman in Augusta the
last few days offering one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars cash for his
claim. This letter has been shown to
several gentlemen, from whom we heard
the details mentioned. That far, the in
formation appears authentic. AA r e truly
hope all the report is correct and that
Mr. F. may get his money. AVe, too, are
told that lawyers in Augusta have charge
,of the family claim, and thit they are
pressing it forward.
Presented Slowly. —The coupons on
Columbus bonds are being presented very
slow'ly to the City Treasurer for payment.
This is somewhat singular, considering
the stringency of money and the high
rate of interest it commands. It shows
too that holders of our bonds put great
confidence in the ability and promptness
of Columbus to pay her debts. Knowing
the security to .be so good, they are in no
hurry to collect interest, feeling assured
that when coupons are presented, they
will bo at once paid. AVe venture the as
sertion that there is not a city in this
country so prudently and economically
managed as Columbus, and w’hose obliga
tions are so promptly met. Had it not
been for the burning in 1865 by the Fed
erals, of the cotton which the city had
bought and was holding for the payment
of bonds and interest held by Northern
parties, the city finances would now be in
the easiest and most prosperous condition".
A\ r ith thetorchof the incendiary, Gen. AVil
son and his horde of burners in few
moments destroyed the savings of a
four years—property reserved for his own
people.
Bridge Building—North and South
Railroad. —Capt. Grant AVilkins’ force,
under Mr. Lewis, is beginning to make a
considerable show on the North commons.
The Mulberry bridge is rapidly being
strung out, and as soon as it is perfectly
fitted it will be carried to the creek and
put into position. The piers of substan
tial masonry have been completed some
months. The completion of the bridge
has been delayed by the recent heavy
rains and the high water in the creek,
which has prevented the construction of
the necessary false work upon which to
raise the span.
Picture of Captain H. T. Hall.—AVe
saw, yesterday, a well executed, large col
ored photograph of Captain Henry T.
Hall, for many years the Chief Engineer,
and who is regarded as the founder of the
Columbus Fire Department. Certain it
is, he was one of the originators, and was
ever, to the day of his death, among the
most zealous and active of its promoters.
The photograph was executed in fine style
by Mr. G. T. AVilliams, and was ordered
by No. 1, to occupy an honored place
among the decorations of their new hall.
The likeness -is excellent, and the execu
tion creditable as a work of art.
Columbus Medical Society.— At the
annual meeting last night in the office of
Dr. Urquhart, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President, Dr. J. A. Urquhart; Ist \ T ice
President, Dr. Jno. E. Bacon; 2d Vice
President, Dr. J. J. Mason; Recording
Secretary, Dr. G. J. Grimes; Correspond
ing Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. D. AV.
Johnson.
Board of Censors—Drs. F. A. Stan
ford, Carlisle Terry and T. J. Word.
More Rain.—A slow cool rain com
menced early yesterday morning and con
tinued at intervals throughout the day.
The skies have more the look of mild win
ter than like that which belongs to the flow
ery month of May. Such weather is com
fortless and exceedingly discouraging to
farmers. AVe have not seen a planter with
a cheerful face in some time. Doubtless
variations and sudden changes in the at
mosphere will continue forsome time.
Asbury Chapel. —The revival of reli
gion at this colored Methodist church con
tinues with unflaging zeal and earnest
ness. The pastor, Rev. AVm. H. Noble,
received twenty-seven into the church
Sunday, making some two hundred who
have joined in the last few weeks.
Crop Reports. —Our friends will confer
a favor on ns by sending brief accounts
as to the progress of farming operations
and the prospect of the crops. Such in
formation is earnestly desired by the
whole country.
Accessions to the Methodist Church
es.—Three united with St. Luke’s, four
with AVesley Chapel and three with .Trin
ity Church in McAlisterville.
Hay at Auction. Ellis & Harrison
sold at auction yesterday ten bales of hay
at $1 60 to $1 75 per hundred pounds.
Sealed proposals for repairing Bull
creek bridge, on the St. Mary's road, are
advertised for by Ordinary Brooks.
Onions in Key West are worth fifty doL
lars a barrel.