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Talbotton Branch Road--Meeting atWav
erly Hall.
Waverly Hall, May 17, 1873.
At a meeting at this place to-day, on
motion of Col. Wm. McCullohs, Judge
O’Neal was elected chairman, and James
i< Marshall Secretary.
'1 he object of the meeting was stated
by the chairman to he the building of a
brauch railroad from the North and South
Kailroad to Talbotton.
(.'apt. Cbiploy, Treasurer and acting
Superintendent of the North and South
Kailroad, being called upon, responded in
a few remarks, fully explaining the condi
tion of the North and South Railroad and
the practicability of building the Talbot
tou branch, suggesting as an initiatory
measure that a survey of the route he
made.
Capt. (!. A. itedd, of Columbus, being
called for responded, urging the impor
tance of a railroad through this section.
Among other things, he said the beauty
of the country, the health of the climate,
the character of the soil would induce
(were the road built) emigrants to come
in amongst us and build up our waste
places, thus enhancing the value of real
estate three-fold, giving us a cotton mar
ket more accessible and bettor than others,
and furnishing us supplies through Co
lumbus more cheaply than Montgomery
or Macon. Asa representative of Colum
bus, bo thought he could safely pledge
Columbus to do her duty, if Harris and
Talbot will show a determined spirit in
the matter.
Capt. Thomas E. Blanchard, of Colum
bus, endorsed Capt. Itedd in his state
ment that Columbus would do her duty.
On motion, the chair appointed the fol
lowing committee to solicit subscriptions
for a survey of the route : J. H. Pitts, Mc-
Neal, 8. J. Noal, J. W. Murphy, Win. Mc-
Cullohs, M. O’Neal, W. 11. Ellerson and
James Marshall.
Meeting adjourned in excellent spirits.
M. O’Neal, Chairman.
J. F. Marshall, Secretary.
The Meoting at Talbotton on Friday.
TALBOTTON ALIVE TO HER BRANCH ROAD.
A meeting was held Friday in Talbot
ton in the interest of building a brauch
road from that point to connect with the
North and South road.
Judge E. L. Worrell presided, and Mr.
James McNoal was secretary. Brief talks
were made by judge Worrell and Col. T.
A. Brown, of Talbotton, and by Capt. W.
I). Chipley and Aldermen Blanchard and
Kedd, of Columbus. Great interest was
manifested in the enterprise, and Talbot
tou seems to be awake to the importance
of the undertaking, and of being connect
ed by rail with the outside world. Co
lumbus and the N. JcS. R. It. were pledged
by their representatives to do their duty,
if Talbot and Harris would do their’s.
The importance of raising money for a
survey was urged. To do this $(>00 are
required of Talbot and S4OO of Harris.
The pooplo seem to have no doubt about
their ability to do this, aud also to con
struct. the road.
A committee of seven, consisting of J.
H. Dennis, Henry Persons, T. A. Brown,
W. J. Weeks, W. A. Daniel, Dr. Water
man and Judge Worrell, was appointed to
solicit subscriptions. A list was com
menced on the spot, which Judge Worrell
headed with fifty dollars.
Talbot, we believe, once subscribed
$•.0,000 towards building a branch to the
S. W. It. R. This project fell through,
and the amount is now to be turned over
to a connection with the N. AS., and
thus connect Talbotton and the rich val
leys around with Columbus by the firm
ties of iron rails.
Russell Circuit Court. —This Court
adjourned on Saturday, 17th, The Grand
Jury adjourned on Thursday, after a ses
sion of eight days and the transaction of
a large amount of business.
in the ease of The State vs. Fields, for
the murder of Dumas, a continuance was
had, only two witnesses present of more
than twenty subpoenaed. His bond was
reduced to $750, which he has given.
Slate vs. Aleck Walker, for the murder
of Jordan Hunt (colored), the defendant,
a youth of 12 years, the jury returned a
verdict of manslaughter in the first de
gree, and sentenced him to twelve months
hard labor for the oouuty.
In the case of The State vs. Seaborn
Walker, for the murder of Mack Halliday,
continued by defendant.
A large amount of unfinished business
left undone upon both the civil and crim
inal dockets.
Iu the caso of the State vs. the negroes
who attempted last June to rescue a pris
oner, charged with murder, from an offi
cer, seven were tried (nine were engaged
hut seven had bon arrested) and six found
guilty of assault with intent to murder,
and sentenced to three yearn hard labor
for the county. The seventh one acquit
ted. The case will go to the Supreme
Court.
American Railway Bonds Abroad. —
The statement is made iu New York jour
nals, that of the one thousand XAjillioun of
railway bonds held in Europe, there are
$40,000,000 which are in default for the
non-payment of interest. A writer in
the New York Bulletin makes the follow
ing classification:
Alabama ami Chattanooga Kailroad 4 4,700,000
Hast Tennesaee, Virginia aud Geor
gia .....7 4.500,000
fort Wayne, Monroe and Cincinnati 1,800.000
Ueorgia aid bonds (Brunswick aud
Albany Kailroad) 3,880,000
bes Moines Valley 7, 000, (XX)
Oregon and California 10,000,000
Peninsula 1,800,000
Kockt'ord, Rock island and St. Louis 0,000, (XX)
fort Royal 2,500,000
Besides these, there are $5,000,000 of
first mortgage bonds of the Chicago
Southwestern Railroad held abroad, the
interest of which was tendered in cur
rency instead of gold.
Little Delaware Protest's Aoainst
Despotism in Loulsiana. —Before its ad
journment the Delaware Legislature pass
ed a series of resolutions condemning the
Administration iu interfering with affairs
in Jiouisiuua, and closing as follows : “In
ohedience 1., a souse of duty to the people
we represeut, we hereby solemnly protest
against the action of Executive brauch of
the Federal Government over the people
°f Louisiana, aud express to the people of
that State assurances of the deepest sym
pathies of the people of Delaware in their
effort to maintain their just rights against
usurpation, despotism and tyranny.’
Crops only in Moderate Condition.
—We made a hurried trip to Griffin Sat
urday. i u Middle Georgia corn and cot
ton are better than iu this section. The
plants are backward. Wheat very poor.
*mm here to Macon corn looks well
cotton very small and scattered. A good
heal of sour land on which ootton ap
pears dead. This section reminds us of
1 Maund’s story. He owns a good
‘ eal of poor land. A traveler remarked
tie man who owned that laud must be
~ff.Poo r - so poor as you think,”
ephed the Colonel, “he has a partner'”
VOL. XV.
Bank Shinplasters Taxable Ten Per Cent.
The Committee of Banking and Cur
rency, at the last session of Congress, re
ported a bill in relation to the issue of
bills of credit by States, cities and railroad
corporations, to pass as money. In one
or two Southern States they have a scrip
that represents money. It is receivable
for taxeH and payable for salaries. It
passes current, but in some places at a
discount. It evades all laws. The oities
of Selma, Macon, aud others have issued
small hills payable as a bank would re
deem its money. There is nothing in the
laws, as they are interpreted here, pro
hibiting New York, Philadelphia, or any
railroad company from doing the same.
But a bank iu Alabama undertook, under
a State charter, to issue notes, and the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, un
der the act intended to tax out of exis
tence the circulation of State banks, has
determined to collect ten per cent, tax
upon these issues. It is believed that this
will have the effect of checking all such
innovations on the national currency sys
tem. But the Banking jind Currency Com
mittee was not called, its bill failed to
pass, and there does not appear to be any
check on States issuing bills of credit, or
on corporations, except banks, issuing
small notes and shinplasters.
Comino Sectional Issues.— The sparse
attendance of Eastern Congressmen at the
recent HI. Louis Convention is to be as
cribed to the growing fear and jealously
of the influence and power of the West
by the representatives from the East.
Several New England members who have
been here within the last few days have,
in speaking of the objects of the conven
tion, evinced scruples as to the domain of
the Federal government which they have
not heretofore shown much evidenoe of
possessing. For some time past a tenden
cy to sectionalism between the East and
West has been developed in Congress
which promises to result in a division as
to material interests more bitter and un
compromising than the political issues
whioh so long antagonized the North and
the South. Great stress was laid by the
projectors of the St. Louis Convention on
the announcement that thero was no in
tention by it to seek to inflneneo the ac
tion of Congress. Yet there is positive
knowledge that the convention is the in
itial of a concerted movement to be made
in Congress to commit the General Gov
ernment to certain gigantic schemes of
internal improvements. These schemes
are not looked upon by members from
the East as likely to redound to the ad
vantage of their section, and this feeling
accounts for their indisposition to take
part in any proceeding calculated to fur
ther them. In view of what is known to
be the plans of the Western members,
and the fact that they have a very large
support from the South, it is probable
that before the next meeting of Congress
there will lie a consultation among the
Eastern members to determine upon their
line of action iu the premises.
Rev. Dm. W. P. Harrison in Philadel
phia.—This distinguished divine was
present at the 57th anniversary of the
American Bible Society at Philadelphia,
held on the 16th. The press thus reports
a speech he made: “When he was intro
duced the entire audience rose, in com
pliment to him. He began by saying that
we are now one iu Christian love, and
this is the work of the Bible. Politicians
and statesmen may make laws and revolu
tions, but theße will pass away and leave
the living Word of the Lord to the end.
He observed that there were many now in
the world who knew that there is such a
thiug as sin, and that there must be a
creator, but he wants some knowledge of
God. Give to such the Bible and they
will find it to be in itself the absolute
demonstration of its divine origin. Un
der all the assaults of science, the Bible
stands unharmed in the slightest particu
lar. In conclusion, he said he hoped to
see the day when, under the banner of
the great American Bible Society, the
Episcopalian, Lutheran, Baptist, Presby
terian, Methodist, Moravian, Congrega
tional ist, all Christians, wouid advance
throughout the four quarters of the globe
to spread the gospel and the glorious news
of salvation vouchsafed to us in the Bible.
(Applause). 'I am an American,’said the
speaker, ‘and I love the East, the West,
the North, and, of course, I love the South.’
(Great applause).”
A Strange and Sad Affair—Ought it
Not to be Investigated. —Mr. Moore, for
many years a citizen of Alabama, but re
cently of Opelika, was found, last Satur
day two weeks ago, in his room at the lat
ter place insensible, with two very severe
blows upon the head. He lingerod per
fectly unconscious until the following
Friday, when death ensued. His son, Mr.
Stephen Moore, an assistant engineer on
the North and South Railroad, and his
son-in-law, Mr. Battle, of Chunnenuggee
Ridge, fear there was foul play. Mr.
Moore was seen with nearly S2OO, about
0 o’clock, and when found, he was uncon
scious aud not only was his money gone,
but also his clothing and other articles
about the room. It is not probable that
he fell in a fit, and thereby inflicted the
fatal injuries which caused his death, as
he was never known to have one before.
His extremely physique renders apoplexy
very improbable. We have seen no men
tion whatever of this sad affair, but think
it is one which will very well bear inves
tigation. The deceased aud his family
have many friends aud acquaintances in
this community.
Postal Cards. —Inquiries have been
made as to the inviolability of postal cards.
It is well to state for public information
that the Post-office Department holds that
they are to he regarded precisely as seal
ed letters. No Post-office official has any
right to inspect what is written ou a pos
tal card than he has to break the seal of a
letter for the purpose of acquainting him
self with the contents ; after the delivery
of a postal card, if left at public places,
hotels, boarding houses, Ac., there is no
means of preventing dishonorable persons
from peeping at its contents if so dispos
ed, unless it should be placed directly in
the hand of the person for whom intend
ed. When the Post-office authorities dis
cover that the postal cards are put to im
proper uses, they will decline to deliver,
just as is done in case of letters.
Probate Court in Russell County.—
A term of this Court will be held on the
2d Monday in June.
The only case of importance is that of
Margaret V. Starke vs. John T. Ware,
adm’r ex-officio, Ac. This case has been
tried once adversely to the administrator.
Anew trial was granted upon the ground
that the verdiot was a compromise one.
The following are the names of tho jurors
drawn in this ease: M. M. Glenn, J. C.
Brown, J. R. MeMakin, H. H. Dudley, L.
S. Thompson, A. G. Jones, T. S. Mabry,
W. J. Porter, A. J. Putnam, Charles I>.
Moody, George W. Long, E. 0. Perry, B.
I. Smith, David W. Ingram, J. J. Wynn.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) voted, ou Satur
day, on sundry propositions to go into
debt to the additional extent of $125,000
in beautiful pictures called bonds and
ooupons. The vote stood 129 for the pic
tures, and against them 013. Sensible
people. Especially when the Chattanoo
ga Times is now advertising over a hun
dred sales of city property for taxes.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Byington’s Hotel, Fokt Valley,)
Saturday, May 17, 1873. >
The proceedings of the Press Associa
tion, our reception by the ladies and citi
zens, in spite of the rain on Wednesday
and storm on Thursday morning, was a
glorious success. The Association was
called to order at the City Hall in the
evening (Wednesday) by Col. EstelL of
the Savannah News, President of
sociation. In the absence of the regular
Secretary, O. C. Willingham, Esq., of the
Atlanta Sun, T. M. Peeples was appointed
Secretary pro tem., and G. H. Hancock
Assistant.
The following gentlemen now compose
the officers : Estell, Savannah News, Pres
ident ; (!. W. Styles, Albany News, Ist.
Vice President; W. A. Hemphill, Atlanta
Constitution, 2d Vice President; T. F.
Smith, Brunswick Appeal, Corresponding
Secretary; J. R. Christian, Thomasville
Times,Recording Secretary; C. C. Willing
ham, Atlanta Sun, Treasurer. Executive
Committee: A. F. Andrews, Washington
Gazette ; C. W. Hancock, Sumter Repub
lican; W. D. Stone, Monroe Advertiser;
J. B. Gorman, Talbotton Standard ; G. A.
Miller, Columbus Sun. The invitation of
Gov. Smith to attend the Convention of
Governors and others, on the 20th, was ac
cepted.
The President received an invitatiou
from D. S. T. Douglas, President of the
Furlow Female College, to be present at a
Musical Soiree at the Chapel, at 8 o’clock.
The Chapel was crowded with the beauty,
wealth, talent and fashion of Americus
and the surrounding country, and was
pleased and instructed by one of the best
musical entertainments we have ever en
joyed. The fine brass band, led by T. E.
Eden, Esq., discoursed most excellent mu
sic. It was, and could only be equalled
or surpassed by the hundreds of young fe
male voices directed by Mrs. F. H. Doug
las and her accomplished assistants, as
Dryden says—
From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame bogan—
and it never oould have been complete
but for the mingling of sweet, angelic,
young female throats and lips. There is
a music in tho roar of thunder when—
“Jura answer* from her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps that cry to her aloud.’’
Sweet, too, is the sound of old ocean as
his waves break gently on a sandy shore
under a sky thick inlaid with patines of
bright gold, through which the full moon
walks a queen. Sweet is the song of birds
and the murmur of the May brook as it
sings and dances in its way over moss and
pobbles to the grand old sea, but neither
tho voice of God as hoard in the storm, or
the stillness of the great waters, nor the
music of the spheres, the bird or brook,
can compare to the human voice when
attuned to heavenly harmonies.
The invitation speech was delivered by
Mr. MoCluskey, a young lawyer of Ameri
cus. It was eloquent, but, like the mercy
of God, we thought it would endure for
ever, and unlike his wisdom, it was not
past finding out. Speech-making, how
ever, is a special American institution,
and no occasion would be perfect without
a small touoh of a sucking Tally or De
mosthenes. We know Mr. McCluskey
and many other of our young orators
would greatly profit by the following rules
of Daniel Webster: First —Never speak
unless you have something good to say.
Second—Always quit when you are done.
We will add that these rules were not in
tended for Btrong-minded women, as it is
their divine prerogative to use their
tongues when, where, how, and as long
as they please. We love that rattle and
the tickle of that hollow straw. We do !
Col. Estell responded in a short, sensi
ble speech, when, at the request of the
two Presidents, the writer, not gifted with
the set phrase of words, and slow of
speech, w as suddenly inspired by wine or
women into a sort of oratorical wit —the
best he had at short notice. We know
that not much was expected
From one of our youthful age
When called in public on the stage,
aud nobody was disappointed! !
Col. Styles, who is a natural orator, was
then called on, and we felt sad how harsh
were the words of a Mercury when fol
lowed with the songs of an Apollo—the
croak of a raven when contrasted with the
warble of the mocking bird, which, as
we write, pours its native wood notes wild
into our ears, mingled with the glad laugh
ter of beauty, and the music of poetry
aud song.
After a short social commingling, ac
companied by Col. Thompson (Major
Janos of humorous memory) and Col. Es
tell, of the Savannah News, we sought our
virtuous bed at the French House, only
for our slumbers to be disturbed and our
bright vissions to start like guilty ghosts
at the tattoo of doors and window shut
ters lashed into fury by the fiend of the
storm. It was a wild scene, this conflict
of elements. The rain it rained, the
thunder it thundered peal after peal, the
lightning did its best and the wind did
it worst to eraek its lungs, and like vain
man, to blow itself inlt> r respectable no
tice. It succeeded. On the next evening
we saw hail stones brought from the coun
try and exhibited in the Barlow House,
which, iu the presence of a dozen of the
“Press Gang,” measured seven inches
around. This is not a hail-storm edito
rial puff, lmt on it we will take our cor
poral, let who dare “swear to the contro
verse and refund on the other side.”
Much business was dene on Wednes
day evening and Thursday morning, the
most important of which was a preamble
and report in relation to the treatment of
the press by the Legislature, aud a call
for a National Press Union. R. L. Rogers,
of the Sandersville Herald, introduced the
resolutions and moved their adoption in
an excellent speech. We seconded their
adoption in a few words. Several remarks
were made, and the resolutions were re
ferred aud reported upon by a committee
and unanimously adopted. They will be
published, and we hope be wisely accept
ed by the press of the whole country.
On Thursday, Col. E. T. Clarke, of the
Atlanta Constitution, delivered a very
witty and good Address on Dead Heads
and Puffing before an appreciative audi
ence of ladies, members of the Associa
tion, citizens and strangers. The Ad
dress, by request, will be hereafter pub
lished. We do hope the personal hits at
one or two of our editorial, European j
tourists will not bo expunged, but be :
translated iuto French and Modoc.
The ball and banquet ou Thursday night
was the crowning occasion. The hall was
crowded with the virtue, beauty, fashion
and talent of Amerious, aud invited guests.
Here, again, the gems of beauty and
genius moved in unison with music and
the poetry of motion. The overflowing
hospitalities of our Americus friends here
culminated. Everything that could de
light the eye. tlie ear, the taste aud heart
was bountifully exhibited. The hall was
profusely decorated with flowers and ever
greens, and the banquet table Utterly
loaded with the luxuries of every clime.
Iu the centre, proudly pre-eminent above
the rest, shone resplendent the beautiful
pvrauiidial cake, ornamented with artistic
leaves and roses iuS-estal purity to be pre
sented to the Association. The ceremony
was short and literally sweet The pre
sentation speech was made by President
Douglas, and the ladies, in view of our
failure at the College, selected this fatb-
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY", MAY" 27,1873.
erless and motherless orphan, away, too,
from home, to respond. This did honor
to the sympathiesof the ladies—Mrs. Han
cock, Mrs. Douglas and others—but it
made the poorvietim orator shake all over
like an aspen leaf. We predicted the
cake would prove a lively white elephant
and what to do with it would puzzle the
Association. We suggested that it be
embalmed and preserved under a glass
cover as an ornament to the College.
Others thought it should be the subject of
a raffle and the proceeds be given by way
of charity. One matter of fact member,
somewhat spiritually influenced, was for
slicing it in pieces to be emboweled and
embalmed, secundem iiaturam, by the
school girls. It was, after eloquent de
bate, ordered to be presented to the pupils
of “Furlow Masonio Female College,”
and that S. W. Baker, Esq., of the Black
shear Georgian, be the orator of the Asso
ciation. Col. Baker, a fine looking
bachelor, acquitted himself handsomely,
in the presence of some beautiful ladies,
and the cake was received by President
Douglas, in behalf of the pupils, in an
elegant and classic response.
We must bring this communication to
a close, for to tell of all we saw and felt,
we would be much like the Queen of She
ba when she visited King Solomon. We
feel grateful to the proprietors of the
French House, Mrs. and Mr. Felder, Dr.
and Mrs. Hinkle, Mr. and Mrs. Hancock
and married daughter, for kind atten
tions, and to Dr. Fogle, formerly of Co
lumbus, for a delightful ride around the
beautiful city. We visited with pleasure
the large Warehouses of Tool & Price and
Harrold, John & Cos., Cotton Warehouse
and Commission Merchants —the latter of
whioh, for extent aud neatness, far ex
ceeded anything of the kind we saw on
our late visit to New Orleans.
The valedictory of the Press to Ameri
cus greeting, was delivered at the office
of that Prince of good fellows, C. W.
Hancock, Esq , by several members in
bumpers of champagne. It was answor
ed with the same spiritual manifestations
by the Mayor, the “silver tongued,”
Charles T. Goode, Mr. McCluskey, Willis
Hawkins, Esq., Col. Cutts, the brave
here, and several others distinguished at
the bar especially, and in the Senate
and Field. We write hastily and without
a note and therefore our sins of omission
and commission must be excused. We
take our ease to-day at Byington’s, ono
of the best inns in the United States,
and go to morrow to Atlanta. The next
Press Association will assemble at Colum
bus and we hope it will be as pleasant as
the last.
We were glad to find Col. Jack Brown
(our old commander) and family iu good
health. G. A. M.
Cotton--Liverpool Vißws--T!ie Next Crop.
Smith, Edwards & Cos., of Liverpool,
have this in their last Liverpool circular:
At the date of our last issue, few per
sons on this side believed that more than
millions total crop, and some still lean
ed towards 3,000,000 bales; but now the
prevailing belief is in 3,800,000 to 3,900,-
000 bales, and there are some iu America
who hold that 4,000,000 of bales have
been made, though so much have not
been delivered, owing to the planters re
taining some portion on plantations until
next year.
It must be admitted that the outturn of
the crop has completely falsified the early
estimates, and especially those of the Ag
cultural Bureau, which up to its last issue
in January, adhered to 3,450,000 as total
crop, including Southern consumption.
This mistake as to the size of the crop has
involved holders iu very serious losses
this year, and has given a very unlooked
for complexion to the aspect of the trade.
Another feature is also ooniing into prom
inence now, and is acting seriously against
the market. We allude to the immense
efforts to plant a large crop for the next
season; the accounts reaching us all as
sert that never were so many efforts made
to raise a large crop, and already we hear
of estimates of 4,500,000 for next season,
provided the weather is at all favorable.
Our own view is that a difference of a
million bales may be made in next crop by
weather alone, and it is therefore absurd
to take anything for granted about it; but
in the present weak state of the market
everything that goes against it is exagge
rated, and there is no doubt that if the
crop escapes accidents in the summer, the
public mind will run in the direetiou of
heavy estimates. Further, the severe
losses that have fallen on importers have
demoralized them, and almost killed the
speculative elemets here. The imports
of last year left very heavy losses, those of
this year will almost certainly do the same,
and the effect is shown in the great pres
sure to sell on the spot. Under these cir
cumstances it is difficult to see where any
improvement in our market is to come
from. At the same time the figures of
visible supply look strong. The amount
of stock in Great Britain and afloat by
last circular is 237,0(10 bales below lastyear,
aud prices are 2d lower. These figures
seem irreconcilable with the excessive
weakness shown here, aud were it not for
the expectation of a large crop in America
next season, a rally in the autumn might
be safely predicted. If any serious acci
dent happens to the growing crop it will
soon be found that our supplies for this
year are not excessive, and American cot
ton at 9d would appear very reasonable,
but if all goes well with the next crop the
expectation of very low prices for next
year will weigh upon the market and pre
vent any effectual rally.
High Doings op a Judge of a National
Court. —Judge Bryan, of the National
Court iu South Carolina, has been show
ing his teeth to a grand jury. The
Charleston News and Courier states the
case thus:
“The facts are these: On Monday last
the grand jury of the United States Court
submitted a paper, as their presentment,
in whioh it was charged in very plain En
glish that the subordinate officers of the
court were guilty of blackmailing and
other like offences. Judge Bryan was ex
honerated from complicity in the ‘whole
sale plunder,’ and the jury expressed their
unlimited oonfidence iu the ‘integrity and
purity’ of his official life. The paper was
read, and, according to common report,
the oourt refused to receive it. Judge
Bryan euphemistically says that he ‘re
ferred it back to them (the jury) instant
ly; not simply because it was open to ob
jection, so far as the court was concerned,
in point of language, but because it did
the court violent injustice.’ The jury
conferred together. Their understand
ing was that Judge Bryan declined to ac
cept the paper in question as their pre
sentment. They, therefore, resolved to
make no presentment whatever.”
Khiva. —What disposition to make of
insurgent Khiva is a momentous question
in Europe. No doubt is entertained of
its final subjugation by Russia. The
main difficulty seems to be to determine
the proper course to pursue after the con
quest. A retreat, implying weakness in
the eyes of the Khivans, would sacrifice
every advantage that had been gained.
Fresh outrages would immediately take
place. A protectorate can ill be afforded
by the bankrupt Toorkestan treasury,
and would be no lasting protection. Sub
jugation and annexation appear to be the
gurest cure. England objects to this
course, as it threatens the borders of her
Indian possessions, and is in direct vio
lation of the assurances of the Russian
Cabinet. A more alarming demonstra
tion has now been made on Bokhara, giv
ing still greater reason for suspecting the
sincerity of the Muscovites. Bokhara lies
directly north of India, and forms an ad
mirable substitute for Afghanistan, where
England had successfully opposed the de
sign which Russia entertained of gaining
a foot-hold in the East.
The movements of Russia, and the pos
sible solutions of the Khivan question ex
cite great interest abroad.
England spends about $20,000,00(1 an
nually on her navy.
TELEGRAPHIC
FOREIGN.
The Chamber of Deputies passed the
first clause of a bill suppressing Religious
Societies in Rome, by a vote 355 to 13,
and the second elause with an amendment
allowing the Pope 400,000 livres annually
for the maintainance of generals of the
order. Adopted by a vote of 220 to 193.
London, May 19. —A special dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph, dated Tiftis, May
17th, says the Russians have taken Khiva.
The Khan is a prisoner. The Russian
loss was slight.
A telegram to the London Times, from
St. Petersburg!), states that the Russians
reached Khivau territory without a seri
ous encounter.
There is talk in St. Petersburgh now of
the annexation of Bajhard and Khokand,
as well as Khiva.
The Russian press represents Turkey as
tottering under misgovernment, and pre
dicts that the time is coming when her
trouble will culminate, and Russia will
then be able to vindicate her interest.
Versailles, May 21. —In the National
Assembly to-day, Louis Buffet was re
elected President by 359 ballots against
289 cast for Martel.
The vote indicates the success of the
interpellation introduced by the Conserv
atives.
Madrid, May 21. —Later dispatches say
only sixteen of the volunteers captured
by the Carlists were butchered at Sana
hanga.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 18.—The Advisory
Board of the civil service will meet in
Washington on Wednesday next and re
main in session several days. All the
members will be present, with the excep
tion of Mr. Cattell, who is now in Europe.
The newly appointed members of the
Board are N. B. Eaton, of New York
City, in place of G. William Curtis, re
signed, and Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio,
iu place of Joseph Midoil, resigned, and
the other members are Alex. G. Cattell,
of New Jersey; Dawson A. Walker, of
Georgia; E. B. Elent, of New Jersey;
David C. Cox, formerly of the Interior
Department but now Pension Agent. The
last meeting of the Board took place
the 24th of February. Owing to the pro
tracted illness and subsequent resignation
of the Chairman, Mr. Curtis, and the de
lay consequent on appointment and issu
ing of commissions to two recently ap
pointed mombers, the meetings of the
Board have unavoidably been postponed
till next Wednesday. As the Board will
be a working one strong confidence is ex
pressed that deliberations will result in
improved efficiency to civil service.
Washington, May 19.—Judge George
Williamson, of Louisiana, has been ap
pointed Minister to the combined mission
of five Central American States.
Washington, May 19.—Judge Pierre
pont declines the Russian mission.
The Court of Claims also rendered to
day judgments in favor of the following
named parties, for cotton taken from
them aud sold by the United States:
Henry D. Weed and George Cornwell, of
Savannah, Ga., for $249,432; Alfred L.
Tyler, of Savannah, for $88,792; G.
Lathrop, of Savannah, for $5,011; Carl
W. Heinsins, of Savannah, for $42,842;
Wm. W. Nelson, of Mobile, for $9,025;
and Marshall, Breach & Cos., of Charles
ton, for $24,103.
Washington, May 20.—George William
son, of Shreveport, La.,has been appoint
ed Miuister resident to the Central Ameri
can States, in conformity with the act of
Congress of May 22d, 1872, which pro
vides that from and after tho 30th of June,
of this year, there shall be bnt one minis
ter resident accredited to those places, to
reside at some place therein to be selected
by the President.
Washington, May 21. —Judge Pierre
pont declines the Russian mission because
there is no great work to be done there,
and on account of professional engage
ments at home.
The Vice Regents of the Mount Vernon
Association have elected Madame Bergh
man. of Philadelphia, Regent, in the place
of Miss Cunningham, who has resigned.
The proceeds of the endowment funds
are to be held inviolate, and the interest
alone is to be used in defraying the ex
penses of the Association.
CALIFORNIA.
San Franoisoo, May 20.—Alexis is still
on his travels through the Chinese oities.
The Japan people are complaining about
the centralization of power in the govern
ment. The provinces of Etelizen, Preesks
and Forinero are rebellious on aeconut of
the government taking down the edicts
against Christianity. Much fighting has
occurred. Forty-four acres of Hong-Kong
houses were cleared by fire on the 22d ol
March. Five thousand people are house
less. There was a terrible lire at Osaka
on the 29th of March, and many lives
lost. It raged all day and night. There
were two violent shocks of earthquake at
the same place ou the 12th of March.
Work on the Southern Pacific Railroad
is progressing steadily as far South as
Deer Creek.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, May 20. —A case of peti
tion to place a party in bankruptcy be
fore the United States District Court in
this city, some weeks ago, aud which was
denied on the ground that the cotton
losseH occurred when there was to be no
actual delivery, was taken, on petition
for review before Judge Woods, of the
United States Circuit Court. He gave an
opinion dismissing the petition for re
view. The counsel for the petitioner
allege that his dismissal was on points
that can be remedied by taking the case
to the same court on a writ of error,
which they propose to do, and an opinion
covering the whole ground of liability of
futnres-losses will bo rendered in Decem
ber. In the meantime the refusal to
adjudge the party a bankrupt for losses
in futures stands.
NEW YORK.
Two more suicides reported in Brook
lyn—making four since Thursday last.
Mr. Hardwick, aged 05, took laudanum
Saturday night while laboring under de
pression from an unknown cause; and
Hippert, a young man, cut his throat with
a razor yesterday, because charged, un
justly, as be affirmed, with having robbed
his employers. Both leave families.
The jury in the Geo. Francis Train
case, for indecent publications, returned
a verdict of not guilty on account of in
sanity. Dr. Cross says if this insanity
continues Train must be asylumed. Train
replied excitedly: “I protest against the
proceedings. Here I have been five
months in jail without being granted a
trial.” Then addressing Judge Davis, he
said: “Before I leave here I move your
impeachment in the name of the people.”
Judge Davis ordered him to sit down, and
an order was made out to send Train to
the State lunatic asylum.
Those rescued from the Folaris believe
Capt. Buddington abandoned them pur
posely, and that Capt. Hall was poisoned.
An Esquimaux says some of the rescued
and those aboard quarrelled every day.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore. May 20. —The Assembly
convenes in the First Presbyterian Church
in St. Louis, next year.
The Conference finally decided to par
ticipate in the Centennial.
The report of the Committee on Foreign
correspondence, relative to improving the
friendly relations between tho Synod of
the Reformed Church and Assembly, was
unanimously adopted.
The Presbyterian printing house at
Richmond, was the special order for to
day.
A communication was read from the
Scotch delegates, statiug the reason for
their non-attendance, in which they re
gretted that the Assembly met so far away
as Little Rock. They extend iheir con
gratulation to the Assembly.
The assembly took up the question of
naming the next place of meeting, and
the second ballot resulted in the selection
of Columbus, Miss.
1. In view of the reunion of the differ
ent branches of the Presbyterian Churehes
in the North, neither of which was re
sponsible for the conduct < f the other, all
action before reunion touching the South
ern Assembly, or the Old School Synod of
Missouri, is not null and void.
2. The Assembly expresses confidence
in the soundness of the doctrines and
Christian character of these brethren, and
hope more intimate communication will
tend to remove the barriers that time has
established between them.
3. With regard to civil magistrates and
relations to Church and State, the set-
forth declaration contained in the confes
sion of faith and form of government of
the Church.
4. Recommend the appointment of tw T o
committees to confer with similar commit
tees from the General Assembly of the
Church South, and the Old School Synod
of Missouri.
The report and recommendation were
unanimously adopted.
The Board reports the receipts under
expenditures a trifle over ssoo.o<>o, leav
ing the Board in debt $30,000. The total
debt of the Board $120,0(H).
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Panama, May 19. —President Correaza
arrived in Panama on the sth from Costa
Rica, and the revolution which has slum
bered since President Neira was banished,
has broken out afresh. The day follow
ing the arrival of Correaza he convened a
meeting, declaring the national troops
who were placed here for the protection
of foreigners, as acting treasonably tothe
General Government as well as State, by
interfering in the State revolt which de
posed Neira, and expressed his intention
of disarming and compelling them to
leave the station to-morrow.
At '2:30 o’clock p. m. on the 7th fight
ing with shell aud small shot commenced
on the Plaza San Jose by the State troops
advancing upon the National forces. Af
ter a desperate fight of two hour# the
former were repulsed and ninety captured.
Both sides claim they attacked for safety.
The fighting continued, with slight inter
mission, until late iu the evening, when
Correaza signified his desire of the Con
suls meeting to arrange some plan for
peace, but they refused to interfere.
The United States flag ship Pensacola,
with Rear Admiral Steadman, arrived in
the Bay during the afternoon, and the
foreigners are protected at the American
Consulate. Fifty men from the U. 8.
steamers Pensacola and Tuscarora and
one hundred and fifty men from a U. 8.
war vessel guard the property of the Pana
ma Kailroad, which has not yet been
molested.
At daybreak this morning firing was
commenced and continued with slight in
termission until one o’clock, when a truce
was agreed upon. Correaza and Arrazo,
for the State, are to arrange terms of
peace with Neira.
On May 9th Correaza states that the
negotiation has ended satisfactorily and
the trouble is over. Both sides have des
ignated Col. Juan, Puera’s former prefect,
as Provisional President, until Col. Neira
can be recalled.
A half dozen mon were killed in the
fighting. Citizens feel Becuro under the
protection of the U. 8. troops.
Burr and Madame Jumel.
AARON BURR’S STYLE OF LOVE-MAKING AND
OF MARRYING OFF-HAND —AN OBEDIENT
WIFE.
A New York letter says : Most of yonr
readers have noticed the “Madame Jumel
oase” which has been litigation so long in
tho United States Courts. But many of
them may not be aware that this Madame
Jumel was at one time the wife of Aaron
Burr. She became his wife in a very ex
traordinary way. After his return from
Europe in hisold age,a disgraced, a dread
ed man, Mademe Jumel,then perhaps fifty
years of age, called at the office on Nausau
street in great style for those days, with
her carriage and liveried servants, to con
sult him, as the best authority iu New
York, concerning her real estate, which
was very extensive. Burr treated her with
courtesy,of which he was a perfect master,
and plied to his utmost his arts of com
pliment and flattery, through which he had
snared so many victims. Madame J umel,
according to the customs of the times,hail
been very superficially educated, and was
the more easily duped by such a man as
Burr. She was accompanied by her
nephew, iu whose interest Burr at once
manifested the most lively concern. The
two were flattered aud fascinated. Af
ter a few weeks, Burr, though then nearly
or quite eighty years of age, made a pro
posal of marriage to the wealthy widow.
He was refused, lie manifested none
of the mortifications of a jilted swain,
but went ou with his suit as if nothing
had happened. Madame Jumel was aston
ished aud bewildered at such love making.
At last he drove up to her door one fine
morning, bringing a clergyman with him
aud declared that he had come to be mar
ried. Madame was directed to prepare
herself without any unnecessary delay at
the toilet, and, fairly overborne by min
gled courtesies and commands, she at last
stood up by the side of her ancient beau
and spoke the fatal words, while every
door and window was crowded with the
faces of the wonderim; household ser
vants. Burr thus becau.. master of an
immense amount of proper- v, with a lady
thrown in. They atari ml at once on a
wedding trip to Hartford, (Jt. Madame
was the owner of shares m a bridge,
which was then regarded a wonderful in
vestment. The stock was iu great de
mand. Burr persuaded her to sell it,
and when the proceeds were brought to
her she said, with true wifely submission :
“Give it to my husband !” The tradition
is that Burr stuffed the bulky package of
bills into his pocket and sewed them in,
or got his wife to. On his return to
New York he coolly deposited the money
to his own account in the bank, and soon
afterwards invested it in the locality of
his early dreams of treason and conquest,
the Southwest. Os course the money was
never heard of again. He disposed @f
large sums subsequently in the same man
ner, till at last, Madame Jumel, to save
the remainder of her fortune, was com
pelled to sue for a divorce on the ground
of infidelity.
Maryland has a Claim to Philadel
phia.—Tho States of Maryland anil Vir
ginia have for a long time been at logger
heads in regard to their respective boun
daries, and have from time to time ap
pointed commissioners to confer on the
subject; but the commissioners have
never been able to agree, for neither
would yield the other’s right to any of
the disputed territory. The last commis
sion included somo of tho leading lawyers
of tile two commonwealths, such as ex-
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, and ex-Attorney
General Jones, of Maryland. In this
commission the Marylanders piled up the
proof so high on their sides that the Vir
ginians declined most abruptly any fur
ther conference. Last night, at a meet
ing of the Maryland Historical Society,
Attorney General Jonos stated that he
had discovered that Maryland originally
was northward fifteen miles beyond the
present line, and thus has a just claim to
own Philadelphia, aud up to a line from
Philadelphia westward toward the Ohio
river; that to the southward Maryland
has an indisputable title to the thirty
miles below the present line; that on the
east all Delaware was fraudulently taken
from her, and that on the west she has
been robbed of hundred thousand acres
of land by running the line erroneously
from the Fairfax stone, which was not
within a mile of the right point. When
the discoveries of Mr. Jones are all made
public, it is probable that there will result
a very acrimonious historical controversy,
but it is not very probable that Maryland
will ever get any of the stolen land back
Brief Sketch of the Pope’s Life.—
John Mastai Ferretti—Pope Pins IX—was
born on the 13th of May, in the year 1792,
at Sinigagha, near Ancona. He received
minor orders in the church on the sth of
January, 1817; subdeacon’s order, 20th
of December, 1818: deacon’s, oth of March,
1819; and was ordained priest on Holy
Saturday, the same year, at the hands of
Mou.signor Caprana. He celebrated his
first mass on the loth of April, 1819. In
early life he served in the Guard of No
bles, during the Pontificate of Pius VII.
When a young priest he was engaged on a
special mission to Chill. He was subse
quently Archbishop of Spoleta and of
Irnola. He was proclaimed Cardinal on
the 14th of December, 1810, and was cre
ated Pope on the 10th, and crowned on
the 21st of June, 1840. His crosses and
trials have been many and severe.
Crops in Bullock County, Ala. —As is
well known this is one of the richest sec
tions in Alabama. A gentleman who has
just been over the county and along the
line of the Montgomery and Eufaula
Railroad, reports stands of corn and cot
ton good. They are well up and look
promising, aud have not been injured by
the heavy rains. The proportion of cotton
to corn planted is as two aud a half to
one and a half—that is if 400 acres were
planted 250 are in cotton and 150 iu corn.
The latter promises splendidly
WESTVILLE EXPLOSION.
: THE DRUMMOND MINES CONVERTED INTO A
HUGE FURNACE—FRIGHTFUL SOUNDS EMA
NATING FROM THB SHAFTS —GENERAL
MOURNING, AC.
Westville, N. S., May 15, 7 P. M.
Another day has passed over this sor
rowful village, the people of which are
only now beginning to realize the extent
of the calamity. Before they were like
so many stupefied mortals, not knowing
whither to go or what to do, so stupend
ous had been the shock that turned so
many happy homes iuto houses of mourn
ing. The grief of the women who lost
their husbands would move the stoutest
heart. Those who remain in their houses
near the mine sob and cry incessantly,
wringing their hands iu wild despair as
they turn their weeping eyes towards the
pit, expecting to see those whom they
loved in life, but whose bodies are now
burning in the fiery furnace below. Save
the sobbing of the mourning ones all is
still as death iu the village. Most of the
houses are closed, the inhabitants having
fled when the great explosion occurred
yesterday morning.
FILLING THE MINE TO SUBDUE THE FIRE.
A large force of laborers worked last
night tilling up the burning slope with
earth, and directing streams of water in
to the air and pumping shafts. Notwith
standing their exertions the fire burned
as fiercely as ever this morning, although
no apprehensions of another explosion
were entertained. Large sulphurous
flames continued to issue from the mouths
of the slope for a distance of thirty feet
occasionally through the day. As the air
shafts were filled up immense volumes of
black smoke would issue from the Blopes
aud hang like a heavy cloud ove the scene.
During one of these intervals I approach
ed to the edged of the slope.
SAD REFLECTIONS ON THE LOST MEN
The roar from the burning mine was
terrible to listen to, and to think that far
down that slope the bodies of more than
seventy men were lying, probably burned
to crisp ere this, was sickening; and I
hurried from the sceue with sad reflec
tions. By hard work all of to-day the
tire ha# been got well under, and to-night
there is very little flame or smoke to be
seen or noises to he heard. By to-morrow
it is thought that all the pits will be damp
ened up, and it is further expected there
will then be sufficient carbonic acid gas in
the mine to dampen up all the tire.
The loss of property by the burning
of the min* will be enormous, all the
wood work in it having been burned.
Doubtless it is a mas# of burning rums
below.
THE INQUEST —CAUSE OF THB DISASTER.
At the inquest, which dosed this after
noon, it was adduced in evidence that
from the time the first alarm was given
there was plenty of time for all the men
to have got out of the mine had they
obeyod the order to leave. The direct
cause of the disaster has proved, on in
quiry, to have been the use of powder
for blasting in the level where it had been
prohibited.
Mr. Coxon, the mining engineer of the
Albion mines, gave as his opinion on
oath, after having heard all the testimony
of other witnesses, that McLeod, tho
miuer who fired the shot that set fire to
the mine, had tapped a “blower” (tho
term used in the North of England), and,
not havingready applianoes at hand, was
unable to put out the fire caused thereby.
He also stated that, in the North of Eng
land, miners are not permitted indiscrim
inately to fire off shots; there are proper
ly authorized persons for this duty.
DREADFUL FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION.
To give some idea of the extent of the
explosion from the several air shafts, it
may be stated of an old one close to the
miners’ residences, and distant from the
mines some six hundred or seven hundred
yards, that huge pieces of timber were
driven through it up into the air, some
falling on the roofs of the houses and
crashing through them.
A SAD SIGHT.
It was truly heartrending to pass
through the square of buildings where
the families of the lost miners reside.
The window blinds are drawn, and the
stillness of death is over the place. No
merry time is to be heard, the prattle of
little ones is hushed and there is nothing
bnt weeping and wailing. Poor widows
of men, whoso charred remains are far
down in the burning sepulchre, mourn
incessantly and piteously the loss of those
who have been so suddenly snatched from
them. As you pass close to the saddened
homes of these families you can hear
them sobbing and crying.
All About Women.
Girls scarcely ten years of age work in
the Lawrence Mills from half-past 0
o’clock in the morning till 10 o’clock at
night.
Algernon Glydon Grisworld carries
bricks up a ladder in Chicago all day, and
when the peaceful evening shadows fall
he goes home and mauls his wife.
An unreasonable woman in London
wants a wine merolmnt there, named Me-
Ostrieh, to pay SSOOO for writing 244 love
letters to her, aud then cooling off in his
rhetoric.
A lady asked her doctor if he did not
think the small bonnets the ladies wore
had a tendency to produee congestion of
the brain. “Oh ! no,” replied the doctor.
“Women who hare brain# don’t wear
them.”
The Pittsburg girl has sent back those
two barges of coal, which her father gave
her for a bridal present, and she guesses
she can make it hot enough for “hubby”
without any outside help.
“I’m not in mourning,” said a young
lady frankly to a young lady querist, “bnt
as the widow# are getting all the offer#
we poor girls have to resort
to artifica”
Earth know# no fury like a woman
corned.
A lady recently applied to the office of
a life insurance company for a situation
as agent. When asked what her qualifi
cations were, she answered that she had
had considerable experience in soliciting
contributions from tradesmen for fancy
fairs. She was engaged.
The young poet who went about sigh
ing for “an angel in the house,” got mar
ried recently, and now he sighs worse
than ever.
The last exploit of Judge Durell, of
New Chians, in attempting to force the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
Railroad Company into Bankruptcy on a
putt for some $250, is likely to result dis
astrously to that individual, who is believ
ed to have realized enormous spoils from
the estates of citizens whioh have fallen
into his clutches. The road is under the
control of Henry 8. McOornb, whose
dealings with the late Oakes Ames have
made hisname familiar to the American
public, and he propose# to make it ex
ceedingly for the Judge who, with Presi
dent Grant’s assistance, has succeeded in
overthrowing the legal government of
Louisiana. The New Orleans Herald
says that Mr. McOomb has retained Gen.
B. F. Butler and Hon. Jeremiah 8. Black
as his counsel. There is a prospect of a
tight which may expose to the public the
manner iu which the administration of
the Bankrupt law in New Orleans has
been made the cover for a long series of
suceessful and stupendous villainies.
Back Pay Returned. —Senator Casserly
has returned his back pay, amounting to
$970 40, to the Treasury. Heand Senator
Corbett, of Oregon, are now the only
members from the Pacific coast who have
not kept their back pay. After deducting
his mileage, Corbett had about $l3O com
ing to him, which he donated to that
chronic eye-sore, the Washington monu
ment. The increased pay i# at any rate
of small account to the Pacific coast mem
bers. It will not add to the compensa
tion of any of them more than a few
hundred a year, and with some, as in the
case of Senator Kelley, of Oregon, its
effect is to reduce the amount received
heretofore.
There are people in the world who esj
teem it so extremely vulgar to express
emotion that, if an earthquake were re
ported to have happened in their neigh
borhood, they would consider it a proof
of their good breeding not to have been
moved by it.
NO. 16.
GOVERNORS’ CONVENTION,
First Day’s Proceeding.
A PERMANENT OBOANIZATION PERFECTED —
ADDRESSES FROM GOVS. SMITH AND JOHN
C. BROWN AND COL. THOMAS —FOURTEEN
STATES REPRESENTED.
Wo make np our report from tho Atlan
ta papers' Tuesday’s proceedings.
Crowds on streets, national flags flying,
salute of thirty-seven guns fired by U. S.
troops.
Long before the hour for the assembling
of the Convention, the galleries to the
House of Representatives were filled to
overflowing, with gentlemen and lady
spectators, and the delegates filled the
body of the hall to its utmost capacity.
At 12 o’clock m., Gov. James M. Smith
came into the House, which was already
filled to its utmost capacity, ascended the
Speaker’s desk, and spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
It was settled by the Committee that I
should call the Convention to order, and
they have made it my .duty to extend a
welcome to the visiting guests and dele
gates representing our sister States. It is
unnecessary to detain you by any extend
ed remarks. Your presence here express
es the interest you feel in the object of
the Convention. In behalf of the people
of Georgia, we extend to yon a warm and
hearty welcome. We are glad to see yon
in our midst ; you shall share our hospi
tality, and we hope that your visit may be
the means of great benefit to our entire
country. Probably my views on the
questions which we are to disouss are too
well known to you all for me to say any
thing on the subject at this time. There
fore I will not further trespass upon your
time, but in conclusion will again wel
come you to our State.
After a prayer by the Rev David Wills,
D. D., Major B. W. Frobell, of Georgia,
nominated Hon. Lew'is A. Thomas, of
lowa, as temporary chairman of the Con
vention. He was unanimously elected
and ascended the Speaker's desk amidst
the applause of the Convention. Upon
being introduced by Governor Smith, he
said:
Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens:
Permit me to return to you my sincere
thanks for the honor you have done me
in calling upon me to act as your ternpo
rars chairman. My heart Jias long been
interested in this great cause. I came
from the far Northwest, that beautiful
and highly favored section whose fields
are overflowing with the products of the
Great West, yet a sad gloom hangs about
the hearts of our people. We have 5,-
000,000 buslielH of corn, the products of
tho two last crops, which are entirely
worthless to us, because we have no mar
ket to sell it. Thinking men of all that
country are asking if there is no remedy
for this evil. Is there no way in which
we can find a market for the sale of our
produce whioh will bring to the producer
some compensation for his labor ? You
can understand, to some extent the disad
vantages under which we labor. The
Southwestern portion of the country, the
great cotton belt, are likewise Buttering
from the want of proper transportation
for their products.
Between us is an impassablo barrier.
We cannot get our produce to your mar
kets. How is it this is so ? It is because
we lack proper transportation. There
is a remedy for the evil, and it is in the
words cheap transportation. Settle upon
some plan that will bring about this thing
and we have overcome the difficulties. I
trust this Convention will act harmonious,
and I believe it will, and we shall be able
to congratulate ourselves that we will
accomplish some practical solution.
Mr. L. C. Carrington, of Baldwin conn
ty, was elected Secretary pro tern.
On motion, the Press Association was
enrolled as delegates.
On tho call of States, Alabama, Geor
gia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, North Caro
lina, Virginia, Florida and the District of
Columbia presented the credentials of
delegates.
On motion, a committee to consist of
one delegate from each State represented
was appointed on permanent organiza
tion.
The Convention then took a recess till
three and a half o’clock p. in.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the hour agreed upon the Conven
tion reassembled, when tho Committee
on Credentials through its Chairman,
Hon. L. N. Little, of Georgia, made a re
port. The report showed that some four
hundred delegates were in attendance on
the Convent ion, representatives of four
teen States.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT OR
GANIZATION.
Hon. D. M. Dußose, Chairman of the
Committee on Permanent Organization,
submitted the following report, which
was adopted unanimously:
For President —Gov. John C. Brown,
of Tennessee.
Vice-Presidents —Hon. E. G. Richards,
of Alabama; Hon. E. A. James, of Ten
nessee; Hon. 11. W. Walter, of Mississip
pi; Hon. Josiah Quiney, of Massachusetts;
Hon. Thos. Taylor, of South Carolina;
Col. John Martin, of Kentucky; Hon. C.
C. Carpenter, of Iowa; Hon. James M.
Smith, of Georgia; Col. J. L. Morehead,
of North Carolina; Hon. C. S. Carrington,
of Virginia; Col. D. H. Armstrong, of
Missouri.
Secretary—L. Carrington, Georgia.
Assistant Secretaries—G. E. Merrill,
Kentneky; J. A. Dacus, Missouri; T. B.
Kirby, Tennessee; W. H. Weems, Geor
gia.
ADDRESS OP GOVERNOR J. O. BROWN.
Governor Brown was then introduced to
the assemblage, in a few neat and appro
priate remarks, by Hon. Lewis A. Thomas,
and the Governor then addressed the con
vention in substance as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: In re
sponse to the invitation of the Governor
of Georgia, I came to the convention ex
pecting to be a spectator. I did not Hat
ter myself to think that I should be called
upon to preside over its deliberations.
Notwithstanding the abiding interest in
the objects of the Convention which I feel,
I thought I should not take any promi
nent part in its deliberations. Allowing
me to thank you for the honor you have
done me, I will not consume your time
further.
On motion, a committee of one from
each State was appointed to report busi
ness for the Convention, to whom should
be referred all resolutions without debate,
after reading.
The Committee consist of Col. Tom
linson Fort, Tennessee; Gen. H. T. Fisher,
Mississippi; J. V. Gould, Kentucky; W.
H. Face,North Carolina; Louis A. Thomas,
Iowa; Herbert Ratcliff, Massachusetts;
B. W. Frobell, Georgia; John Appleby,
Alabama; Mr. Erman, South Carolina;
Mr. Villipigue, Florida.
On motion Gov. Smith was appointed
chairman of this committee, and Gov.
Woodbury, of Missouri, added to the
committee.
Hon. Mr. Price, of Georgia, offered the
following:
lienolved, That the deliberation of this
convention be confined to t.ubject of
elieap transportation, which was adopted.
Various resolutions in relation to this
subject were then road and referred to
the Committee on Business.
Letters from the Governors of Minne
sota, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, New
York, Kentucky, lowa, Nebraska, Massa
chusetts and the Histrict of Columbia,
regretting their inability to be present,
were read and referred.
Also, letters from the Senate Commit
tee on Inland Transportation, the Engin
eer of the Department at Washington,
and the chairman of the Committee on
Commerce.
BEBENEDB AT THE KIMBALL HOUSE.
At an early hour Tuesday night the
people began to assemble at the Kimball
House. By eight o’clock the arcade was
densely filled. The walks around the ar
cade on the several floors were also
crowded with ladies and gentlemen.
SENATOK JOHN B. GOBDON.
General Gordon welcomed the members
of the Convention to Atlanta. This was
an era in the life of city, State and
South. The idea of the Great Western
Canal had its origin in the brain of
George Washington, illustrating the real
greatness of that illustrious man. He
provided for the future by anticipating
the necessities of the future. The neces
sities of the future anticipated by Wash
ington has become our immediate ne-
ceßsity. The voice of twentyfy, fuiUioua
of the producing classes « but the echo
of that necessity. That voice calls for
immediate action. The demands of com
merce is for eheap transportation; the de
mand of cheap transportation is for water
lines. It is tho spontaneous outburst of
public opinion.
The question is of present, vital and
pressing necessity to the West —one of
life or death. The South is locked out
from her stores; tho West is locked in
and stifled with the smoke of the teem
ing products of her fields. The burning
of com was for the want of cheap trans
portation.
Bnt the question has a higher and a
grander aspect. Deep antagonisms grow
out of the want of commercial relations.
Commerce is the medium for re-uniting
estranged sections. Commerce is the
apostle of Christianity, the white winged
messenger of peace, whether it sails on
the ocean or traverses a canal. We must
tread the same pathway if it is the tow
path of a canal. We propose to build
the caual, and unite the extreme South
and West by the only plan possible. We
will build the canal and plant the olive
branch of peace on its banks where it will
grow perennial and immortal. He con
cluded by extending a hearty welcome to
the convention to Atlanta.
The crowd became boisterous and vo
ciferous. Cries were made for Governor
Brown, of Tennessee, B. 11. Hill, and
Governor Woodson. Governor Brown
had retired.
GOV. SILAS WOODSON
began by stating that he trusted that he
made no mistake in addressing them as
fellow citizens; for althouge not a citizen
of Georgia, he was a citizen of the United
States. He was a Kentuckian by birth,
and a citizen of the Empire State of the
valley of the Mississippi. He favored
that policy that looked to giving equal
rights to all and exclusive rights to none.
He wanted no sectionalism, no monopo
lies. no proscription. The producer as
well as everybody should be rewarded.
HON. LOUIS A. THOMAS
was next called out, and responded iu a
speech that drew forth frequent applause
ALL SORTST
Tho heaviest brain on record was re
cently found in the skull of a London
bricklayer, who could neither read nor
write. Its weight was sixty-seven ounces.
A Natchez coroner put in claims for
fourteen more bodies than he had sat on,
stole four hogs, forged a note, borrowed
money, and lias gone to Washington to
live.
Lincoln used to say that if he had a son
who would part his hair behind he would
maul him to death with a squash.
Bayard Taylor is the New York Tribune’s
Vienna special correspondent. Iu de
scribing the opening festivities of the fair
he says that all European languages were
heard, German predominating, English
coming next.
Laura D. Fair has instituted a suit
against the lessees of Platt’s Hall, in San
Francisco, to recover damages for their
refusal to permit her to lecture on ‘'Wolves
in the Fold.”
The New York Evening Post under
stands that Mr. Edwin Booth is now study
ing the character of Lear to add it to his
well-known list of Shakesperean represen
tations.
The Hun estimates that two thousand
young men are thrown out of employ
ment by the sudden spasm of virtue in
New York, which closes the gambling
dens.
Parasols are unusually knobby this sea
son.
Captain Jack, who was to be kept mov
ing until he and the last of his braves
were exterminated, has now cut off Davis
and Gillem’s supply of water. If he
should take it into his rascally head to cut
off their supply of whisky too, the Lord
only knows what would become of them.
The secrecy which is promised by the
British ballot bill is not to be violated with
impunity. A magistrate at Cork having
been asked by an ignorant voter to pre
pare his ballot for him, subsequently made
known how the man had voted. He was
thereupon arrested and sentenced to a
week’s imprisonment.
The publicity given to messages written
on postal cards may lie avoided by the use
of invisible ink, the direction to “hold to
the fire,” being written with common ink.
This checks the inquisitiveness of post
office clerks, who have not the time to
make applications. In France invisible
ink is sold for this purpose.
The people of Bamberg, South Carolina,
are singularly blessed. They have a ne
gro postmaster who can neither read nor
write, bnt he is n very accommodating
darkey, and when a man comes for his
mail the Postmaster very politely refers
him to the pile of letters and papers and
tells him to help himself.
Mr. Thomas Scott, who has won a rep
utation in commercial circles as a grain
statisiician,writes to say that the grain pro
duction of England this year will be ex
ceedingly low, and that she will be com
pelled to import more than half her food
supplies. It is a remarkable fact that the
production of England in this respect has
steadily declined during the last three or
four years, as shown by her importations.
In 1871 her foreign food purchases
amounted to $803,(140,000; in 1872 to
$338,185,000, an increase of $34,540,000
iu one year. Her imports during the
proseut year will, it is thought, run as
high as $450,000,000.
The New York Herald, in the course of
some speculations upon the Presidential
contest in 1876, says: “We have only,
then, to consider the possibilities of a
Presidential scrub-race from a breaking
up of the Republican party upon rival
Presidential candidates. But these rival
candidates have not yet appeared, although
Mr. Speaker Blaine, Gen. Butler, Jioscoe
Conkling, Oliver P. Morton, and others,
are named as having set their caps forth®
White House. But the President is
stronger than any Senator with his party,
and the party is stronger than its leaders.”
The Canadian Pacifio Railroad Compa
ny propose to build a railroad whose main
line shall extend from Lake Nipissing
across the continent through uninhabited
regions by a route not yet determined to
some place in the wilderness on the Pa
cific Ocean not yet designated. There
are to be branches to the northwest shore
of Lake Superior, and to Pembina. It is
estimated that the trunk and branches
will constitute a continuous line 2,685
miles long, costing $105,815,000.
Hiring a penitentiary is rather a queer
kind of speculation. That of the State of
Missouri (with all the inmates there at
present and likely to come) has been leas
ed to four gentlemen, who agree to pay all
the expenses of the prison and a bonus of
SI,OOO to the State, which retains, we sup
pose, the appointment of most of the offi
cers of the prison. The convicts will be
worked for the benefit of the lessees, and
it is estimated that Missouri will save
over SIOO,OOO annually by this convenient
arrangement.
A Profitable Investment for
Capitalists.
A Cotton. Factory
TO BE BUILT ON THE
Water Site of the Palace Mills,
Columbus, Ora..
It is proposed to build on the water
site of the Palace Mills, a COTTON
FACTORY for the manufacture of Cotton
Goods. . The Capital Stock will be $250,000,
which will Include an ample floating capital.
The building and machinery will be erected
and arranged under tho direction of J. Rhodes
liiiowss, Esq. The building will be a sub
stantial structure, and the machinery of the
most approved patterns.
The capital of the public is invited to thi3
enterprise as one promising sure, speedy and
profitable results. No subscription will be
binding until $200,000 is secured, when the sub
scribers will he invited to convene for the pur
pose of organizing the Company, and the work
will be commenced.
NO TAXATION, either State, County or
Municipal, attaches to this Investment for
Ten Years. The BEST water power on the
river is secured; the warehouses of cotton are at
the door; the railroads radiate from the city to
every market for the goods; and operatives are
soliciting employment. With such advantages
Is It unreasonable to promise a profit of 20 per
cent, per annum on the Investment.
Subscriptions will be received at tho Chatta
hoochee National Bank; the Banking House of
John King, Esq.; the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank, and the Banking Office of the Georgia
Home Insurance Company.
J. RHODES BROWNE.
RANDOLPH L. MOTT.
JOHN KING.
JAMES F. BOZEMAN.
W. L. SALISBURY.
JAMES RANKIN.
JOSEPH KYLE.
EPPING & HANSERD.
JNO. L. MUSTIAN.
CHARLES WISE.
SWIFT, MURPHY & CO.
myl ALLEN, PREER & ILLGES