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Address, Thos. (In.belt & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
Stocks of Cotton on August 31st.
At that date tho Columbus warehouses
had, by actual count, 1,177 bales ol' cot
ton divided as follows: Planters, 330;
Alston, 54; Lowell, 10; Alabama, 49(5;
Fontaine, 28L
Surveyors at Work.
The surveyors went to work on Fine
Mountain two days ago to arrange Home
portion of the line. If this road were ex
tended beyond the mountain much of the
cotton which now goes to LaGrange and
West Point would soek this as the best
and most convenient market. Wo hope
soon to report progress on tho lino. Our
merchants should use efforts and money
to see it extended.
election of Teachers.
At a meeting of tho Trustees of the
Columbus Public Schools yesterday, Prof.
Henry W. Hattie, of Union Springs, Ala.,
was elected principal toaelier of the male
school, and his accomplished lady princi
pal teacher in the music department.
These elections were caused by the res
ignation of Prof. Fuller and tho marriage
of Miss Doida Patten.
Negro Murderer Captured,
it will bo remembered by many of our
reader-; that Prank Galloway was killed
by a negro, about two years ago, on the
Jianks plantation, near Jamestown, • Chat
tahoochee county. On Saturday morning
last, Sheriff John M. Sapp, of that coun
ty, arrested the murderer, who was found
on tho plantation of Mr. Warren Huff, in
Muscogoo county.
The Kidnapper Caught.
Tho Macon Telegraph, of yosterday,
says: Gus Johnson, whose operations as
a kidnapper we noticed a few days ago,
has arrived in this city from Columbus.
Ile was arrested on a warrant sent over by
Jiulgo Weems, and Sheriff George F.
Cherry went over and escorted him to
Macon. His preliminary trial will take
place this morning.
The Virginia Store.
Tho old and well-known “Virginia
Storo” cries out to us, as tho local editor,
and exclaims, in tlio language of Daniel
Webster, “I still live." The late firm of
Origler & Gordon passes away, and the
junior partner crosses over not the river,
but the street, and opens anew dry goods
establishment. But the senior partner
remains at the old stand, and announces
In his numerous friends and patrons that
lie is opening a now and elegant stock of
dry goods and will be glad to wait upon
them at all times. Ilis goods and prices
are warranted to suit.
Novel by a Columbus Lady.
A handsome and accomplished married
lady of this city wo hoar lias written a
novel, which is soon to bo published by a
New York house of prominence. Compe
tent critics have examined tho manuscript
and give tho work unqualified praise.
Moral, plot and execution are of a high
order. It. is a story of Southern life, and
the object is under tho guide of interest
ing fiction to impress important truths
upon our people as bearing upon their
future prosperity. II will bo out -h, ♦re
many months, and we have no doubt will
have a brilliant success, and be sought
with avidity.
Keep Vo in-Old Records.
A. C. Morton, Esq., who has been ad
vertising with us to procure pensions and
bounty land script for old soldiers and
tlicir widows, recently established the
claim for pension of a widow of a soldier
of the war of 1812, where the proof of
marriage had to depend upon an “old faul
ty hililo.” All witnesses to tho marriage
wore dead; the court-house where the
record was, had been destroyed, years
ago, by lire, and nothing existed but the
“old book,” which Mr. Morton paraded
l»-fore the authorities at Washington.
Thu old widow has received her backpay
amounting to over S2OO, and is rejoicing
that every month she is to receive eight
dollars more.
Meetings To-morrow.
Tho County Court, Judge Williams pre
siding, convenes at the Court-house in tho
morning at 10 o’clock.
A Grange for this county is to be or
ganized at nine o'clock, by Deputy Geo.
W. Adams, in tho large room over Dr. E.
0. Hood's store. All who expect to be
come members of this excellent order are
urged to attend.
Talbot Superior Court, Judge James
Johnson presiding, meets in Talbottou.
Session will probably continue a week. —
Daily Fan, Ulk inst.
Knocked From Hie Track.
Mr. of Leo county, Ala., while
walking along the track of the Western
Kailroail, last Thursday night, became |
very tired and sat down on the end of a
cross-tie to rest. While there, he drop
ped off to sleep. A train came dashing
along, and knocked him some distance to
one sido. lie was considerably bruised,
but not seriously hurt. Those on the
train thought for a while he was killed.
A Grange at Crawford, Ala.
A Farmers’ Grange was organized at
Crawford, llussell county, Ala.,on Friday,
by Gen. Law. Quito a number of planters
from the surrounding country were pres
ent. The meeting was presided over by
Judge Brinson. Squire 1 lays was elected
Secretary. We learn that the Grange was
organized with some twenty males and
live female members.
Attempt to Commit Suicide.
As the down freight train was nearing
Auburn. Ala., Friday night, a man nam
ed Mellhonuy, living in the neghborhood,
was seen on his knees at the sido of the
road. When the train was within a few
feet of him he jumped upon tho track
and extended his body on the rails. Tho
engine knocked him off, and bruised him
badly, though he walked home uuaijed.
We are told his mind is affected.
Whisky vs. Caterpillars.
A member of a large house in a Western
at\ said he sold a man one hundred bar
rels of whisky to kill worms. The buyer
reported, after a trial, that the worms
died as soon as they got a strong whiff
of the stuff, and ho recommended it for
general use.
Not in Our Dispatches.
The New York Herald of Sunday
ffuotos Georgia 7's, new bonds, at 80; Ala
bama o s, 1883, 45; Alabama s's, 18S(>, 45.
in Chicago, on Monday, wheat was in
fair demand, but at lower rates —heavy
receipts depressing the market. Satur
day h receipts were the largest ever known
there in one day. No. 1. Spring is quoted
nt - 1 IS|; No. 2if l 14.
hffhor wheat markets unchanged.
~ Lie Superior Court met in the present
Court House in October, 1840.
The Cotton Situation.
Deports from this section are very con
tradictory. Some say the caterpillare are
ruining them; others report crops as great
ly exceeding that of last year. Some
endorse Paris Green; others say it is
not worth a cent and merely adds to the
rapacity of the worm. Col. W. S. Shep.
herd showed us yesterday two bolls which
the boll worm had punctured. He gath
ered thorn casually. Caterpillars have
completed webbing and will soon be ready
to commence their work of destruction.
In the meantime commission merchants
loport that a very large crop will be gath
ered and 55,000 bales are calculated to be
the lowest number of bales that Colum
bus can receive. Tbe probabilities are
that tho receipts of the year will exceed
those of tho last, certainly the crops north
of Columbus are much better The end
of tho season will tell. A prominent
member of a Savannah commission house
reports that in many southern counties
the caterpillar fiad eaten one-third of the
crop and that the remaining two-thirds
would produce twice as much as the yield
last year. Tho figures at the end of the
season tells.
Letters report that tho caterpillars
“cleaned out West Florida some fifteen
days ago. Such general statements are
very apt in some measure to be exagger
ated.
LoUon Receipts at Columbus for the
I‘ant Season.
i rotn August o Ist, 1872, to September
Ist, 18715, Columbus received 58,108 bales
of cotton, agaiust 40,050 the previous
season, showing a gain of 17,458 bales.
Os this amount 1,127 bales were received
direct at the factories.
The following shows tho modes of re
ceipts:
H. W. It. it. 2,040; M. & G. It. It.
18,4150; Western It. It. 2,010; river 0,838;
wagons 20,305; N. & B. It. It. 1,825.
The total shipments wero 57,998
49,001 byß. W. it. It., 7,428 for home
consumption.
The sales to shippers amounted to 57,-
998 bales.
Our factories took 7,428 bales against
0,830 the previous year, showing a gain
of 598.
The stock countod on August 31st
amounted to 1,177 halos.
lteceipts of now cotton 05 bales, against
134 last year.
Wo will give an annual statement by
weeks in oni circular to be published next
Saturday.
Sustain Southern Manufactories.
A prominent citizen, himself a South
ern manufacturer, in giving us his hearty
endorsement of our Sunday article on this
subject, tells us that quite a number of
wealthy English manufacturers are mov
ing their works to this country and locat
ing at the North, as there has been a
large failing off in their American orders.
Ouo of these manufacturers brought with
him over fifteen hundred employees.
Now, this case of removal of English cap
ital and labor to America, like many oth
er similar cases, was the direct result of a
withdrawal of tho trade of our merchants
from England, and the bestowal of it up
on manufacturers in this country. As we
said on Sunday morning, this is the true
plan by which Northern capital and labor
can be induced to come South and locate.
Our merchants and planters must patron
ize and sustain the factories and enter
prises that have been started hero, many
of which to-day loudly appeal to them for
their patronage, without which they will
bo compelled to suspend operations and
close their doors. When this patronage is
bestowed, and prosperity dawns upon our
manufacturing enterprises at the South,
there will be no need to solicit Northern
capital and labor to move hero, as it will
come of its own froo will, and for its own
best interests.
fiamlMomc Samples of Ragle anil IMicnix
Goods.
We saw yesterday at tho Eagle and
I’lienix Manufactory some elegantly fitted
up samples of many styles of goods man
ufactured at this celebrated establishment.
The samples, each of its kind, are ar
ranged between covers which are held by
rubber string;:. They thus form very con
venient packages, on which appears tho
number and price. All tho buyer lias t«5
do is to select what he desires, send for
ward tlio money and secure it. These
mills manufacture a very wide range of
articles. Everything is made, from
thread through all varieties to the cotton
blanket. Os these articles, checks,
ginghams, Ac., all of the most elegant de
scription, handsome cassimeres, jeans
and other woolen goods were exhibited.
It is well worth a visit to those sales rooms
just to see the immense amount and va
riety of goods these mills aro producing.
Any place would be proud of them. Mr.
Wm. Martiuere presides in tho sales room
and treats all with such courtesy and at
tention that the buyer foels highly hon
ored at tho pleasure of being enabled to
buy from him.
Another mill is to bo erected next year
when this giant manufactory will extend
wider ils arms in tho struggle for Southern
independence for which it has done so
much.
Crop Reports.
A city official of Guerryton, No. 5 Mobile
and Girard Railroad, writes us that tho
worms are already at work in that vicinity,
and threaten to strip the cotton fields in a
few days. The bottom land cotton is
much later than usual, and has but few
bolls, though it has attained its ordinary
size, while a great deal of upland cotton
is not more than half as large as it should
be, and in many eases is a complete
failure.
From Mr. Hubert Flournoy, one of the
largest and most energetic planters in j
llussell county, who lives about six miles
from here, on the lino of the Mobile and
Girard Railroad, we leant that tho worms
have commenced ravaging the cotton fields
about his section of tho county. By the
free use of Cotton Worm Destroyers, over
his entire plantation, he thinks ho has
been able to save a portion of his crop,
which is on low ground. Still, it is re
potted that the cotton on the high lands
is also being attacked and stripped by this
dreadful pest. As these reports are from
reliable persons, it is evident that crop
prospects are now bad.
Oapt. C. A. Redd is homo from a tour
through Russell, Macon, Bullock and
Bike counties, Ala., and while he reports
corn crop generally good, his idea of the
cotton prospect is a most gloomy one. In
some parts of‘Macon, Russell and Pike,
the cotton is badly damaged by tho cat
erpillar and boll worm, while Bullock
county, especially on the bottom lands,
will lose nearly her entire crop. Pike
countv has about the best general outlook
for a medium crop of any of these coun
ties. The cry is becoming too general,
now, to ho unheeded, that the cotton crop
is doomed to an almost total destruction
; this year.
I’asserf Through Two Wars.
Wo saw' yesterday in the office of Maj.
; J. J. Bradford, Clerk of the Superior
| Court, a handsome sword w hich has quite
| an interesting history.
Col. W. 0. Ilodges, then a Lieutenant
in the Columbus Guards, wore it during
! the Mexican war. After tho late unpleas
antness between the States commenced,
he gave the weapon to Major Bradford,
just after the latter had raised a company,
and by him was carried through the cam
paigns of the Army of Tennessee. While
absent on a furlough, Major B. left the
sword iu charge of Mr. John Schnoll, now
Assistant Superior Court Clerk, then of
the command. Ho loaned it to Gen.
llains, of Nashville, Tennessee, a gallant
officer, who, while leading his troops and
i brandishing this same sword, was killed
! the first battle at Murfreesboro. Could
this weapon speak, it could tell many a
pleasant story of the bivouac, and narrate
many a scene of bloody carnage and heroic
I valor.
Society News.
Wednesday, in St. Paul's Church, by
Eev. Arminius Wright, D.D., Miss Deida
Patten, the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of Mr. R. Patten, deceased, was
married to Mr. Henry Bruce, the book
keeper of the Eagle and Phenix Manufac
turing Company. The church was well
filled with a large and fashionable audi:
ence, and seldom is a handsomer appear
ance presented than that of the happy
couple and their attendants.
The attendants were Aleck Young and
Miss Mary Patten, W. S. Uolstead and
Miss Annie Patten.
An elegant reception was afterwards
given at the residence of the brides
mother.
Every happiness to tho wedded pair
wish we.
In the Episcopal Church, Thursday
morning, Miss Rebecca Chappell, of
Wynnton, was married to Mr. J. H.
Toomer, of Norfolk, Virginia. The Rec
tor, Rev. W. F. Hunter, officiated. No
cards were issued. The bride, a lovely
and highly accomplished lady, is the
daughter of our honored and distinguished
citizen, Col. A. 11. Chappell.
Arrival of Another Narrow Gauge En
gine—The “John King.”
The second engine for the North and
South Railroad arrived Tuesday night on
the Western Railroad. It came via Lou
isville. It now can bo seen on the North
and Soul*’, track near the depot on the
North Common.
It was built by Wm. Mason, at Taunton,
Massachusetts. The engine and tender
aro connected. Thero aro no leading
whoels ou trucks. There aro four driving
wheels, two on each side, and four wheels
in the truck frame under the tender.
The engine is very powerful, much more
so than the “Estes ’ andbetter constructed.
The cylinder is ten inches in diameter,
with a fifteon inch stroke; tho drivers are
of thirty-three inch diameter; fire box is
nine square foot on grate; tubes are
eighty-one in number and of two inch di
ameter, and eight feet two inches long;
the tank is of eight hundred gallons ca
pacity.
Internal Revenue Searchers at Seale, Ala.
Mr. Ileyman, assessor of internal revo
nue, accompanied by J. I). Williford,
Deputy U. S. Marshal, wero at Seale on
Thursday, ou business connected with the
revenue department. They examined the
books of the Probate Judge, and took the
names of all persons who had taken out
State and county license. They examined
also tho books of the M. & G. R. It. Cos.,
to ascertain who had shipped to them any
whisky or tobacco. The names of evon
tho smallest farmers wore taken down,
who had received over tho road a keg of
whisky or a box of tobacco.
Many of the best citizens of Russell
county aro “spotted.” The revenue laws,
Mr. Ileyman says, require every person
selling whisky or tobacco, before com
mencing to do so, to take out license, and
a failure so to do subjects them to heavy
penalties. They go to all tho principal
points in tho county.
More Railroad Swindling.
In our account of Union Point, Ga.,
some weeks ago, we alluded to tho elegant
residence of P. W. Frintup, Esq., which,
from recent developments, it now scorns
was built with the funds of the Georgia
Railroad Company. Mr. P. was Road
Master, and, in connection with two other
prominent officials, has kept up a series
of swindling operations for years. Tho
report that he has turned over all his
property to tho Company, needs confirma
tion. The three officials, however, have
been removed from tho employ of the
road. lion. J. P. King, the President,
says the system under which they have
kept up this swindling for years past, was
originally intended to be operated by
honest mon, and is not suited to the
present demoralized condition of the
country. This is a very significant re
mark, and starts the fearful question
“Ilavo wo an honest man among us?”
Sidewalls Notes.
We hear authoritatively that the Mus
cogee manufactory has increased its con
sumption fully thirty per cont. in the last
few months.
Eighty-six marriage licenses were re
corded n tho Ordinary’s Court last month.
Over two-thirds wero issued last fall and
the early part of this year, and tho parties
married; but the parties failed to return
them until last month. Duties ought to
bo attended to sooner.
The Southern Stovo Works of this city,
Messrs. J. W. Dennis & Cos., aro making
four sizes of coal grates, from 12 to 18
inches. Call and see them.
The caterpillars iu some quarters having
stripped off the leaves, are now reported
as going for tlio roots of the cotton plant.
Montgomery and Eufaula editors wear
suits of Eagle amt l'lienix cassimeres and
brag thereon. One of tho former created
quite a sensation with his suit in Augusta.
They did not bolievo such elegant cloth
could be made in Columbus, or any other
Southern city, until they saw these goods.
Funeral of Mr. David Urquliart.
Impressive funeral services were hold
at St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church,
on Wednesday, over tho remains of
Mr. David Urquliart, brotliorofDr J. A.
Urquliart, Mrs. W. VV. Garrard, and the
wife of L. T. Downing, Esq;, of this city,
who died at tho residence of his sister, in
Wynnton, on Monday morning last, aged
about sixty years. The opening services
were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Wright,
of St. Paul’s Methodist Church, after
which a brief address was made by the
pastor, Rev. Dr. Key, whb alluded to the
early advantages of the deceased, his sub
sequent ill health and discouragements,
and his later retirement from the busy
scenes of life.
LeVert and Wesleyan Colleges.
It is hardly necessary to do more than
refer our readers to the annual announce
ments of those two excellent Female Col
leges, tho former at Talbottou, and the
latter at Macon. Our letters from these
institutions, during Commencement sea
son, which daily filled column after
column of the Sun. fully and clearly set
forth tho peculiar advantages of each of
these educational establishments. We
simply endorse, therefore, what we then
so fully and emphatically said, and refer
our readers to the cards above mentioned
for official information as to terms, dates
and other needed facts.
The Augusta Cotton Fool.
Quite a number iu Columbus are inter
| ested in this pool which amounts to some
$1,700. The Augusta Chronicle states
! that no decision will be made until the
New York Commercial and Financial
; Chronicle's report of the total receipts has
been received. The Chronicle is the rec
ognized authority regarding cotton move
i ments. Tho Chronicle's report will not
! be published until to-morrow and be re
ceived iu Augusta some time next week,
j Those whose crop estimates were not over
I 3,900,000 bales might as well cease their
1 enquiries,for the returns will exceed those
| figures.
Receipts at Interior Towns.
The following shows the receipts of
tho named interior towns from August
! 31st to September sth. Their united
j stocks ou the sth were 10,437 against
; 4,787 last year ;
1873 1572
! Augusta. 3(>o 985
Macon 95 4(10
Eufaula 122 '-’7(l
Columbus 1 - < 3(13
Montgomery 103 909
I Selma 88 4<9
Nashville 220 140
Memphis 709 2S,>
1824 38(57
A Kansas dispatch says: “The Govern
ment stables and corrals at Fort Riley,
; Kansas, were burned ou Sunday' night.
I The horses were saved, but the buildings
j were entirely' destroyed.
Death of a Venerable Lady.
Many’of our oldest readers will be star
tled at the sudden announcement of the
death of Mrs. Annie Davie, mother of Gen.
J. P. Phillips and the late Mrs. Henry
Moffett, of this city, which took place on
Saturday, 31st ult., at the residence of
her grand-daughter, Mrs. Robert Flour
noy, in Russell county, Ala., about six
miles from this city. The old lady was
in her usual health, and but a short time
before her death was talking and laugh
ing with the family. After this, however,
she felt a pain in her head, and feared
she was going to have a chill. In about
two hours from the time she retired,
death ensued, but from what cause it is
difficult to fully determine. Having
reached the period of four score years, it
did not require a lingering sickness or a
terrible shock to “loosen the bilvor cord
and break the pitcher at the fountain."
In an hour that she knew not of, the “Son
of Man” came, but found her ready and
waiting for tho summons to go home to
the dear ones in heaver:. Her remains
were brought to this city on Sunday af
ternoon, and buried from tho Baptist
Church,to which communion she had been
attached since 1834. In the absence of
the Pastor, the funeral ferviccs wero con
ducted by the Rev. J. S. Key, D.D., of
St. Luke’s Methodist Church, whose re
marks were very appropriate to the solemn
occasion, and full of comfort to the wide
circle of bereaved relations and friends
present.
At tbe time of her last marriage, Mrs.
Davie was the widow of General Charles
Phillips, to whom she was married at the
age of twenty years, at Guilford Court
House, N. C., where she was born in
1793. They subsequently removed to
Jones county, Ga., where they remained
about ten years, after which they camo to
Ellerslie, Harris county, where General
Phillips died in 1830. All the early set
tlers of this section remember “The
Bkick House,” as it was called, at Ellerslie,
which was then so widely known as a
most hospitable way-side inn for tho weary
and dusty travelers of those days, it being
situated on the old stage road from Co
lumbus. Gen. Phillips was a prominent
citizen of the county for years before his
decease, and represented it in the Legis
lature. dFour years after his death, the
widow was married to Col. Ambrose Davie,
and went to Christian county, Ky., to re
side. This gentleman died iu 1803, and
as there wero no childron by this union,
Mrs. Davie, in 1800, camo back to Geor
gia, and rosidod with hor son, Gen. Phil
lips, and her daughter, Mrs. Moffett.
Since the decease of this lady, Mrs. Davie
had spent a portion of her time with her
grand-daughter, Mrs. Flournoy, at whose
residence she closed her long, happy and
oventful life, dying in tho triumphs of a
pure Christian faith, and going forth
from the flesh to join, in the spirit-land,
father and mother, husband and daughter,
and the other dear ones who had “gone
before,” and who stood waiting to wel
come her j oyous spirit to its long pre
pared eternal rest.
Death of an Old Settler.
It is gratifying, in these days of changes
and disregard of old things and early as
sociations, to record the death of ouo who
has remained steadfast to the old home
stead of his fathers, and whose mortal re
mains are tenderly laid to rest beside tbe
graves of his kindred in the old family
burial place. Such was the case with
Capt. Thacker Y. Walker, brother of Dr.
A. M. Walker, well-known iu this city,
who died at the old family place, in Harris
county, on the 27 th of August, at tho ad
vanced age of sixty-eight years. The de
ceased was honored by his neighbors, and
respected by all who know him, as justice
and equity wero the rule of his lifo.
Thus has passed away another of the old
and time honored citizens of Harris coun
ty, who was identified with her early
histories.
Sudden Death.
Mrs. M. A. Johnson, wife of Mr. Rob
ert G. Johnson, died at her residence in
Muscogee county at half past 1! o'clock
Thursday morning, September 4tli, 1873.
Mrs. J. appeared to be in her usual
health, and was up until late tlio evening
preceding her death attending to tho
wants of a sick grandchild. She went to
bed at a late hour, fatigued from her care
and anxiety for the sick child. There
was no one in bed with her. Her hus
band, daughter and several othor persons
wero in the same and adjoining rooms
watching and nursing tho sick child.
Yet so sudden was her death that life
was almost extinct before her condition
was discovered. She has had symptoms
of disease of the heart for some years.
Mrs. J. loaves a husband, a son, a
daughter, a mother, brothers, sisters, and
grandchildren, and numerous other rela
tions, with many devoted friends, to
mourn their irreparable loss. Sho was an
intelligent, devout Christian' lady, much
beloved and esteemed in all tho relations
of life.
A Sail Bereavement.
It was but a few months n;;>, wo be
lieve, that Mr. Elbert W. Peabody lost
bis youngest child, an infant, and on
Sunday last his eldest boy, Henry Mooro
Peabody, aged about four years, died of
congestion of tlio brain, after a brief and
sudden illness. The funeral services were
held on yesterday afternoon, and were
conducted by Rev. Dr. Wright, of St.
Paul’s Methodist Church. Another sad
feature of this bereavement, is tho severe
illness of the father, who, we are told, •
was in a most critical condition at the
time his dear child wan dying. We are
glad to know, however, that ho is now
much improved, and will no doubt soon
recover his usual health.
Death of an Ex-Folleeman.
Mr. Charles Morris, formerly a police
man of this city for several years, died
late Wednesday night. Ilis ago was some
thirty six years. He was a good officer
and clever man. He leaves n wife and
several children.
Mr. Morris died possessed of little or no
property. City officers Deputy Marshal
Robison and Capt. Cash took up a collec
tion, to which citizens responded very
liberally. The officers named secured
enough funds to give the deceased re
spectable burial and give tho family fifty
dollars. This action is very meritorious.
Death of a Colored Citizen.
Joe Clark, the well-known barber, died
at his residenc in this city on Monday
morning, after a brief illness, and was
buried Tuesday afternoon, his funeral
being attended by a large number of col
oied people. He formerly belonged to
Michael N. Clark, Esq., but acquired his
; freedom before the war and accumulated
j means sufficient to purchase a plantation
j and slaves. He was in the Indian War,
j as a servant, and received a wound, from
j the effects of which he suffered more or
1 less, up to the time of his death. Although
j he lost his property by the war, he was
not discouraged, and by a strict attention
to his business he succeeded in again ac
cumulating a handsome little property.
Our citizens will remember him for his
polite and respectful manners, and
strict attention to his duties. He has
i left a good example for tho colored people
j of this city, who will do well to profit by
it. The deceased left a wife and two chil
dren to mourn his death.
l’lkc Committed for Trial.
We learn from Capt. J. E. Dense that
| the examination of L. B. Pike, lor the
murder of 0. F. Bear, was concluded at
Macon on Monday, before Justices Heath,
Adams and Simmons, and resulted in tho
committal of the prisoner to jail for trial
before tbe Superior Court. The proposi
tion of the Justices to admit Pike to
$•■>,(•00 bail, was resisted by Lofton, who
explained that the Court had no right to
bail the prisoner under existing circum
stances. He was-, therefore, committed,
j The prosecution examined but one wit
: ness, and the defense decline to call any.
Grand Jury Presentments of 1838—A
Clear-H tailed Body.
We found in an old record yesterday
the Presentments of a Muscogee County
Grand Jury in 1838. Then Judge M. J.
Wellborn, now a loved Baptist minister,
was on the bench, and Gen. Henry L.
Benning was Solicitor General. Os the
body we know of only two, Messrs. Norris
and Johnson, who live in the city.
The Grand Juries of those days appears
to have spoken their opinions more freely
than those of the present day. In those
times there must have been some grand
rascality in high places, judging from the
words of the document which we give be
low :
Muscogee Superior Court—October Ad
journed Term, 1838.
We, the Grand Jurors, selected and
sworn for the present term of said Court,
iu closing our labor deem it a duty to
make some presentment of a general
character.
In common with every good citizen, we
have become alarmed at the great increase
of crime in tho county, and hold it to bo
the duty of every friend of social order j
to aid iu bringing the offenders to justice. j
While we are active to prosecute small 1
offenders, we should be careful that large j
onesdo not escape. Tho public net should 1
be so constructed as to catch the large i
fish as well as the minnows. We consider
the stealing of a pony an offense of much j
less magnitude thau extensive banking or
mercantile frauds, and wc bolievo that it
is owing to a want of moral courage in
tho community, that so many of the latter
class go unpunished. Men seem afraid
to striko at vice in high places. Persons
who sport dashing equipages and dress j
finely commit crimes with impunity
which would send a man with his elbows ]
out to the penitentiary. This should not
bo so. It is in vain to crowd your books
with pennl statutes, unless those statutes
are enforced. A community should have
no sympathy with offenders. Individual
fooling should bo sacrificed for tho public
good; nor should offenders against the
laws escape in consequence of tho wealth
and standing of thomselves, friends and i
relatives. Orimo should bo prosecuted [
wherever found, and we aro happy to see
a disposition on the part of the people to
set about this in good earnest. And it is
not by prosecutions alone that crime is to
bo put down. Wo must frown down all
unpunishod offenders, where wo have in
our own knowledge such evidence of their
guilt as would satisfy us as jurors in find
ing them guilty. Let every man in tho
country refuse to associate with tho viola
tors of the law, and it will do rnoro for
the promotion of good order and morality
than all the penal statutes from the days
of Alfred to the present time. No com
munity, sinco the days of Lycurgus, was
ever niado moral by legislation. Wo aro
convinced that the laws now in force,
when correctly and properly administer
ed, are competent to secure us in life and
property.
There is another evil which we deem
a very great, and we believe a growing
one—the frequent elevation to the first
offices in the State, of men notorious for
their want of moral worth. Members of
tho church, of temperance societies and
anti-gambling associations vote for gam
blers and libertines for executive and
judicial offices, and thou complain that
tho laws aro not enforced, as if they ex
pected offenders would prosecute or pun
ish one another. So long as this exists
we may expect to see violations of the
law. Tho people, who are the fountain
of all honor, can and should remedy this
evil.
There is also another evil to which we
beg leave to cal! tho attention of the com
munity. Wo allude to tho election of
subordinate magistrates and peace officers.
There is too little attention paid to this
matter by the orderly and business part
of your citizens. The consequence is we
seldom see theso offices filled with those
who’aro qualified for tho post; and in
some districts, owing to this apathy, the
elections are made by the idle and profli
gate who take care to place in office such
persons as will either aullhem in tho com
mission of crime, or secure them after it
is committed.
Without intending to arraign tho mo
tives of those members of tho present
Legislature who voted against tho bill to
organize a Supreme Court, we must regret
its failure. Independent of the constitu
tional obligation to organize a court, we
think justice and policy require it.
Strangers in passing through the United
States are often astonished at the diversity
of laws in tho different States, all having
the same central government. This in
not strange as every State is a separate
and sovereign community. 'But hero within
our own limits we have tho same diversity.
What is laWriii one circuit is not law in
another, and what is law to-day is not
law to-morrow in the samo circuit. This
should bo remedied.
Wo likowiso present as a grievance Uio
too great number of our Legislature, and
hope that our delegates in the contempla
ted convention to revise the constitution
will use their exertions to lessen the num
ber, and render more equal the represen
tation. Individuals and property and not
territory should form the basis of repre
sentation.
Wo present Wm. H. Lewis, Nicholas
Lewis and R. J. Wade for the offence of
affray in tho tho streets of Columbus in
November last. Witness, Emanuel Eze
kiel.
Wo present R. J. Wade for carrying an
unlawful weapon, to-wit: a bowie-knife,
iu November last. Witness, W. S. Chip
ley.
A true bill having boon found against
Jacob Cunningham for burning the Court
house and Clerk’s office of this county, we
recommend to the Inferior Court and
City Council of Columbus to offer a suita
ble reward for tho apprehension and de
livery of said Jacob Cunningham to tho
jailor of the county.
Wo cannot close our presentments with
] out warmly commending tho promptness,
| zeal an;l orderly conduct of those of our
| fellow-citizens who aided the officers of
| justice iu arresting a portion of that gang
of desperadoes who have so long infested
j our community, and tho thanks of every
i good citizen is duo to tho Sheriff, his
Deputy and the Marshal of the city of
j Columbus for their unremitting efforts in
I bringing those violators of law to condi gu
| punishment.
Though opposed to tho practice of
thanking public servants for doing what
they are not only paid to do, but sworn to
■ do, we take pleasure in returning our
thanks to his Honor Judge Wellborn, for
his strict attention to business during the
present term—more business having been
transacted than we have ever known dur
! ing tho same time.
We likewise present our thanks to the
Solicitor General for his attention to busi
ness and for his courtesy to this body.
We request that these presentment he
published in each of tho city papers.
Mansfield Torrence, Foreman; Thos.
lloxey. Anderson. Hunt, Wm. 8. Chipley,
Wm. P. Malone, Henry K. Hill, Wm. L.
Jeter, Geo. A. Norris, John D. Jordan,
1 James M. Russell, Jonathan P. Jackson,
Hiram Fuller, Johu Johnson, Jeremiah
McCoy, Augustus Hayward, Wm. Clark,
Emanuel Ezekiel, Frederick Toby, Henry
Mims, Goo. Smith, Theophilus Bryan,
Willis P. Baker.
On motion of Henry L. Benning, Soli
i citor General, ordered that the above pre
sentments, of a public nature, be publish
ed iu the several newspapers of jbo city.
For losh of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, Depression of Spirits and Gener-
I a! Debility, in their various forms, Ff.kbo
j Phospocated Euxir; of Calisya made by
oaswei.t., Hazakd & Cos., New York, and
sold by all druggists, is tho best tonic.
Asa stimulant tonic for patients recov
! eriug from fever or other sickness, it has
no equal. If taken during the season it
prevents fever and ague and other inter
-1 mittent fevers.
VTliat our Manufactories Have Done—
The Future.
The Columbus manufactpiies during
the season of 1572 3. took 7,428 bales of
cotton, an excess of .'.OS over the previous
: year, anfl 2,3**! Mure than the season be
for that. At 27}c., a low price, this cot
: ton cost $67 50 per bale, or a total of
§640,950. This cotton, without our mills,
would have brought this and nothing
more. The shipper could have made but
small commissions. The staple was pass
ed through our inanufactors, and its val- j
ue enhanced three-fold—advanced from
•$649,950 to $1,949,850. This gives to Co- j
lambus $1,299,900 abovo»the price which ;
she paid the planter, and she has all the
advantages of the latter's trade. This j
tells a truth of which Columbus can be i
proud, and gives a clue to the path which '
leads to the financial independence of the
South. Other places may have built
more housos since the war and construct
ed with State aid more railroads, but w hat ;
one in the Stato can show such a not gain |
from all sources as wo can from one ,
branch of industry alone ? If there boa I
class of men whom Columbus should
thank most warmly for what prosperity j
we enjoy, and to whom the greatest obli- I
gations should be felt, it is the public
spirited, far-seeing citizens, who project !
and build these grand industries.
The matter of greatest pride,too, is that
the capital invested came almost exclu- j
sively from our own section.
The Federal soldiers destroyed four cot
ton factories for us in 18C5, burned 60,000 |
bales of cotton and ruined millions of j
other property, but everything almost has j
been restored by Southern money and j
brains. Hardly any outside help has j
been received.
The strong probability, almost certain*
ty, is that threo more mills will be built
boro before another year rolls around.
The Eagle and Fhenix Company have
already contracted for the flooring for
Mill No. 3.
It is another pleasing fact that one of
our mills is manufacturing largely The
finer grades of cotton and woolen goods.
Here, too, is made the cotton blanket,
which is turned out by no other establish
ment in the United States. Productions
are sold in all parts of tbo country, and
are in groat demand.
The manufactories in Columbus now
run 32,000 spindles and 900 looms. If j
tho same progress is made in the future, |
as the last seven years have manifested, we I
will have in ten more falls over 70,000
spindles and 2,200 looms in operation.
Tho power of our river is sufficient to.
run millions of spindles at very little
cost. The present dam at lowest water
will keep going 180,000. Lowoll, herself,
may yet bo complimented by being called
the “Columbus of the North,” as it is now
tho pride of Columbus to have won the
title of the “Lowell of tho South.”
School Exhibition in Talbot County.
A letter informs us that on the 22d of
August occurred the anuual exercises of
Matthew’s Chapel. In tho morning Rev.
R. Dixon, of Talbotton, preached an ex
cellent sermon.
After this our correspondent, with
many others, feasted on one of tho finest
of country dinners.
The school exhibition was of tho most
interesting character. The exercises took
place in the Chapel. Those of tho Junior
class were excellent. Miss Laura F. Itel
lum road a poem entitled “The Poet’s
Miseries.” The composition and tho mode
of delivery received the highest praise.
John W. Hall delivered an address,
written by his teacher, upon the “Wrongs
of the Indians,” telling how unjustly the
red man had been treated by tho whites.
Tho declaimer is a very intelligent young
man.
Peter J. Crawford addressed tho school
upon “American Snobs.” This composi
tion was also written by the teacher. Dec
lamation very commendable.
After the declamations were finished,
Rov. Mr. Dixon was introduced, who vci'y
appropriately presented to Master John
Yv\ Hall a prize for being the most intelli
gent and industrious pupil in the school.
Our correspondent especially commends
the ladies of Talbot to look after their in
terests as regards the young gentleman
named. He fails to give the names of the
instructors. Wo believe the school is not
very far from Talbotton.
MA It KE TS It Y TIC ISC ORA VII.
Money Market.
New Yoyk, Sept. (!—The Wall street
market was excitedto-itav,with considera
ble activity and wide (' i nations, money
is active at 7to gold ii. . t. Exchange
has advanced to 108 for to
The bank statement;, ~vs the follow
ing changes: Gold was active and fluct
uating. opening at till, !. an declining
to 1131, with a subsequent rally to 113~;
rates paid for carrying were 5 to 2 per
cent. The market w.is excited at inter
vals. Southern bonds are weak, with
further decline in simpathy with gold.
Southern Slates securities are dull and
steady. Stocks opened firm and then de
clined.
Cotton Markets.
Liverpool, Sept. (i.— Noon. Cotton
strong; Uplands Bjd; Orleans Old : sales
12,000; speculation and export 2,000;
shipments, now cropb,asis goodjordinary,
Sept, delivery, 8 13-10d.
New York, Sept. 6 —Evening.—Cotton
quiet and steady; sales 675 bales, at 20|@
not receits 182.
Futures closed firm; sales 12,100 bales:
September 18 31-32(5)18 9-16; October
18. j; November 18; December 17 15-16@18.
Savannah, Sept. 6. —Cotton, middlings
18c; net receipts 318; solos 160; stock
1,914.
New Orleans, Sept. o. Cotton very
firm; middlings low middlings 17|;
good ordinary 151;net receipts 515; sales
150; stock 1,874.
Provision Markets.
Cincinnati, Sept. 6. Flour firm at
$7 52; rye firm at 78@S0. Provisions
firmer. Pork firm at 16, held at sl6 25.
Lard steady; steam 7J@B; summer 7J;
kettle Bacon firm at, 10 ; j. Whisky
steady at 91.
Louisville, Sept. 6.—Flour unchanged.
Grain unchanged. Pork easier. Bacon,
clear rib sides 10J packed; hams steady
at 13@14 for sugar cured. Lard steady ;
tierce B|@9 ; }; keg 101(5)10] ; steam 8;
small lots ,I@:{ higher. Whisky declining,
90e.
St. Louis, Sept. 6.—Flour firmer and
in fair demand. Corn firm. Whisky
lower at 95c. Pork quiet at sl6 75.
FERILS OS' JIALLOOXIXG.
! A large balloon was started some days
ago from a pleasure garden in San Fran
cisco, an acrobat named Buislay perform
! ing various feats on a trapeze suspended
! where the car usually hangs. As the bal
loon rose, and was passing away from tho
j garden a gust of "wind drove it on a tali
pole, the sharp point of which tore out a
large strip of the silk making an opening
three feet across. The rest is thus de
! scribed by the local papers: “Notwith
standing this huge opening the balloon
continued to ascend, and must have re
mained up at least ten minutes. The
aeronaut, nothing daunted by the disas
ter, went through all his perilous per
formances on the light trapeze The
balloon now began to drift rapidly toward
tho bay, slowly frilling as it was driven on
by the wind. Buislay’s position then
became perilous in the extreme. The wind
was pretty strong, and the large iuilated
mass was wholly uncontrollable, swaying
in every direction and swinging the gym
nast about in a manner that was feaful to
witness. Ever falliug lower and lower
the balloon rapidly approached tho ex
tremity of Long Bridge. Here tho situ
ation of the man became fearfully dos
perate—the balloon would evidently dash
tho trapeze and its human freight against
tho high poles or tho telegraph wires that
were strung to them. There was but one
chance of escape. Taking one glance at
his position, Buislay flung himself from
the short bar of the trapeze into tho wa
ters of the bay, u distance but little less
than forty feet. Accoutred as ho was, in
his gymnastic dress, his movements were
unimpeded, and after a short struggle he
reached the mud-fiats, and at last suc
ceeded in reaching the shore, though in
an exhausted condition. The balloon
meanwhile had struck, tearing down sev
eral poles and twisting up tho telegraph
wires generally. It finally caught on
some loose piles a short distance off, and
anchored on the mud-flats.
TUJS It SC A t OF THE DAY.
There must be those who bear tlie heat
Anil burden: on with weary feet
They toil along the noontide way,
Nor rest when comes the fall of day.
Through dewy morns, through tender eve-.
Love’s labor keop3 them binding sheaves,
Which no man oares for. One on high
Will count their earnings by and by.
O patient heart.' heroic will!
That bends to work such strength and skill!
The angels sometimes stop to ask
Tho meaning ol their daily task.
trod knows, beyond an angel's kun,
The grandeur that's bestowed on man
Whom sorrow, failure, pain, and loss
But crown anew at every cross.
[Harper’s Lazar.
THE RATTLE OF RUEXA VISTA.
General Taylor’s Account of It.
Judge Butler, a colleague iu the Seuate
of Mr. Calhoun, calling to pay his respects
to the President, begged him to describe
tho manner in which the battle of Buena
Vista was fought. His brother, Pierce
Butler, commanding the Palmetto Regi
ment, and a very gallant officer, fell in
the battle, and the Judge was naturally
anxious to learn tho particulars of that
desperate contest. “Well, well, Judge,
you want to know how the thing wasdone.
Come and dine with me to-day and I'll
tell you ail I know about it.”
Judge Butler was a hasty, impetuous
man, and tho words flowed from his
mouth in a torrent whenever ho had oc
casion to speak, no was all impatience
during the dinner, and the moment they
were alone ho brought up tho subject of
the battle.
“Y r es, Judge ; your brother was a brave
man, and behaved like a true soldier. But
about tho battle—you want to know how
it was fought?”
“Yes, General, if you will be so kind.
I wish to know how your troops wero dis
posed on the field, and how you posted
them to resist a force so overwhelming.
Santa Anna must have outnumbered you
four or five to one. ”
“The difference was greater than that,
I think, but we didn’t stop to count the
Mexicans. I knew there was a laosivy
force, and longed for a conplo of regi
ments more of regulars.”
“Undoubtedly,” said the Judge, “but
what was your order of battle.”
“Why, why, you see, Judge, wo went
to fighting early in tho morning tho first
day, and wo fit all day long, losing a good
many men, and nt night it looked pretty
bad. ”
“Well, what next?”
“YYhen it got dark I roclo over to Sal
tillo to look after our stores and to pro
vide against a surprise.”
“Why did you go yourself? Why not
send ono of your aids?”
“You see, Judge, everything depended
on not having our supplies cut oil, and I
wanted to see after things myself.”
“How was it tho next, morning when
you came on tho field?” inquired Judge
Butler.
“Not much change since the night be
fore.”
“Who was the first man you mot?"
“General Wood.”
“What did he say?”
“All is lost.”
“What was your reply?”
“May be so, General—we’ll see. And
upon that ho went to fighting again, and
fit all that day, and toward night it looked
better.”.
The Judge, looking rather blank, asked,
“Wliat next?”
“Well, tho next morning it was re
ported to mo that Santa Anna and all his
mon had disappeared in the night, and I
was devilish glad to bo rid of thorn so.”
Richmond Whig letter: Tho newspa
pers have already had accounts of a cir
cumstance that occurred after bloody
Gettysburg. Now without any parade or
indelicate comment, I will here give the
verbatim language of an eye witness of
the touching scene: “Gen. Kemper, when
shot from his horse in the charge of Pick
ett’s division at Gettysburg, was being
carried in a bloody blanket to the rear
when he was met by Gen. Lee, and the
following dialogue ensued : ‘Gen. Kem
per—Gon. Lee, thoy say I am dying, and
you sec tlij last of mo. Beforo I go I
have one thing to demand: I havo seen in
the fight what you have not soon—l havo
seen the splendid heroism of my boys;
when you make up your reports do them
justice and cover them with glory; they
havo won it.’ Gon. Leo (speaking with
deep emotion) —‘I will. I will do all you
ask, but I trust God will spare your life
and yet restore you. I hope you will live,
Gon. Komper, for Virginia to honor and
reward you, as she will.’ ”
Thd Objects op tre Patrons op Hus
bandry.—General Deputy N. Garretson
states the ob jects of the order, which wo
find in the Pacific, Rural Pram, to ho as
follows:
X. The ennobling oi' labor and the fra
ternizing of the producing classes.
2. llringing tnoro closely together the
producer and consumer.
3. Mutual instruction. The lightening
of labor by diffusing a better knowledge
of its aims.
4. Social culture.
5. Mutual relief in sickness and adver
sity.
fi. Prevention of litigation.
7. Prc\ ention of cruelty to animals.
8. The overthrow of the credit system.
9. Building up and fostering home in
dustry.
10 Mutual protection to husbandmen
against sharpers and monopolists.
Artificial Seas. —The conversion of
the Colorado desert into a great inland
lake is not tho only project of the kind
now before the world. All deserts have
at some time been the beds of seas.
Somewhere there has bean an inlet
through which tho water flowed as it runs
now through the Stiaits of Gibraltar. An
upheaval in the narrow pass would con
vert the Mediterranean bottom into a
desert. Some such phenomenon lias al
ready interposed the Sahara between
Northern and Southern Africa. A Cap
tain Bouldiu has found that this desert, in
Algeria, at least, is below tho waters of
the Mediterranean. He has brought the
subject before the Geographical Society
of Paris. That body has opened a cor
respondence with tho Government of Tu
nis, and proposes a survey of a canal
route from the Gulf of Cabas to tho La!;p
Faraoun, and from thence to Lako Mei-
Bhir. If this is accomplished, and the
waters of the Mediterranean once swal
low the northern edge of this formidable
desert, who can toll whore they will stop,
or foresee the strange possibilities of tho
project ? — Exchange.
TUTS WEEK'S STATEMENT.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 5, 1373.
Financial.— Exchange or New York, buying
par, soiling % premium. Currency loans
I@l% percent, per month.
Tun Cotton Situation.—Tho crop of the
past year has not been telegraphed as yet. It
is generally supposed that it will be in the
neighborhood ot 3,950,090 bales. The indications
certainly point beyond that amount the present
season.
In this section the corn crop lias been good,
and enough grain secured to iced the people
until Spring. Regarding cotton there aromany
and coullieting reports, hut tho majority of
opinion lavors the view that Columbus will re
ceive fully as much the p; out Season as she
did the last—a wry !ltt*e in excess of 33,000
bales. Catorpillars haw done much damage
to the lowlands, and will oilect sou,.what tho
uplands, but thecondili u. usual, is exag
gerated. Last year tilt .same ere as plentiful
Planters almost universally declare they
wili not make as mucli cotton as last year.
They admid that more seed wa3 planted, but
the season has been very severe. There was
a iiard light to kill grass, a very’ backward
start was obtained, the plant has too much
weed and is poorly fruited, and now the cater
pillar is stripping the stilt lands. They admit
complaints of worms were made last year,
but allege all the other conditions at that
time were very favorable. The nest informed
beliovo that our receipts will fall ten to
fifteen per cent, short of last season. The i
plant in many quarters, they say, though look
ing well is pooriy fruited. Time will show
which viaw is right.
Our crop is certainly a week, probably two
weeks, behind hand. The comparative receipts
prove this. The majority ot the cotton which
wohavo received came Irom the lower river
The prospect is that the staple will bo hur
ried to market very rapidly. Planters think
that the crop will be a heavy one, and that tho
most money will be realized during the Fall.
Tiie experience of years lias demonstrated that
as a rule those make most who market their
cotton as soon as it is gathered.
Picking is progressing rapidly and next week
most of our factors believe our receipts will
equal those of the corresponding period oi last
year. Some farmers have used Paris green as
a destroyer of worms and with good eilect. The
agency has not been generally employed and
that much cotton not saved.
Xt will be noted, too, that tho through cotton
is loss than last year. All tho receipts are now
cotton.
The weather now is very favorable—hot and
dry.
Koine reports reacch us of boll worm.
Few buyers have yet entered the market.
The sales of the week have, however, been
large.
The Wkatiier.— Thermometer for the week
averaged 82°. Hot and dusty.
Same week last year the thermometer aver
aged 81°. Dry and dusty.
The Markets.— The following shows the
price or middlings in Mew York and Liverpool,
gold at Mew York and Low Middlings in (Jo
lumbus each day of the woek:
. Up. Or. Up. Or. Gold. Col
Saturday... | — 1 @_
Monday | B%j 9% 20 120% 1115% 116 %hi>
Tuesday.... 8% 9% 20% 20% n5%;16%£«
Wednesday.: s%| '-As 20':, 20% 116%jie->,«IT
Thursday... 8% »%i20% 20% 115%|16%@17 j
Friday I B%| 9%.20% 20% H4%il6%<ffil7 I
On tho wook Liverpool unchanged; New
York advanced •C(numbus-%e.
Bluets Past Tear. Liverpool Uplands
10% ; Orleans 10%d ; New York, Up
lands 22> jC; Orleans 22|%c. Gold 11314. Colum
bus Middlings 19e.
Market to-day quiet. Sales 17 bales.
lnforlor 8 @lO
Ordinary 12%@13
Good Ordinary 15%k)H6
LOW Middlings 16%@17
Middlings 17%@17%
Good Middlings 17%@18
Week's sales 201 bales—66 Northern spin
ners, 35 homo consumption, 0 for New York,
0 to Savannah, 0 for speculation, 0 for
Now Orleans, 0 for Charleston.
Week’s receipts 127 J bales, against 31 the
previous one, and 363 the corresponding week
fast season—o by SW R K,’.19 by Mis G K
R, 1 by Opelika RE, 72 by river, ‘J9 by wag
ons,6 by NitS RR. Shipments 203 bales—
-168 by S W R K, 35 for homo consumption,
o by W K It to Charleston.
WEEKLY STATEMENT.
1573 137-
StOCk Aug. 31st 1,177 158
Received past week 127
Total received 127 303
Total roccivod, in’dlng stock. 1,204
Shipped past week 203
Total shipped .*. 203 2p9
Total homo consumption 35
Stock Sept. 6 l,oul 202
Sales 201 285
Year's receipts f'3,loB
MODES OP RRCEITTS.
1873 1872.
Southwestern Railroad o 1
Mobile and Girard Railroad.. 19 190
Western Railroad 1 1
River 72 12
Wagons 2r, 204
North and South Railroad 6 0
127 303
STATEMENT PRECEDING YEAP.S.
I ISOS-9 1800-70 1870-1| 1871-2
Stock, Aug. 31, | 280! 125! 1572; 1550
llec’d to Sept.s.. 1 452 j 1186! 475 53
Stock Sopt.|6 | 664 j 6231 1207 I 1430
Year’s roobipts.. 48500 67274 75007 40650
U. S. Crop J 226055713295000 j 4362317 j 2974351
Through Cotton. —By Mobile and Girard
Railroad 0, against 5 ; by Western Railroad
212, against 235 last year.
Interior Towns.—Thoy havo received this
week 1,701 bales, against 3,507 last year and
have stocks of 10,153 bales, against 4,764.
Freights.—Per 100 S>s cotton: To Savannah,
70e.: to Now York, Baltimore and Philadel
phia, -1 15; Boston 41 25.
futures. —September 18J£; Octobor IS 3-16;
November 17%; December 17%.
The United States Pours.—Receipts for
tho wook 11,656 bales, against 8,438 Inst week
—12,618 the wcelt before and 13,664 same
week last year. The total movement is as
follows:
1573 1872
Stock Aug, 31 110,053 45,920
Week’s receipts 11,056 13,554
Total 11,656 13,554
Week’s exports to (>. 1! 6,840 2,055
44 14 Con 381 0
Total exported to G. 15.... 6,840 2,055
44 44 Oon 381 . 0
44 44 7,22 1 2,00 5
Stock 54,804 54,401
Year’s Receipts
From L’verpool the following is telegraphed
for the week:
1873. 1872.
Stock 775,000 839,000
14 American 275,000 106,000
44 Afloat 281,000 200,000
44 44 41.01)0 8,00 0
Week’s receipts : «4,000 30,000
*• 4> American.. 17,000 7,000
Sales 78,000 106,000
Exporters 6.000 14.000
Speculation 7,000 13,000
General Remarks. —Business opens slow
ly. Bagging is now chiefly sought. The pres
ent supply is sufficient for the demand. Moats
are higher. Country produce is scarce—espec
ially eggs. Merchants are receiving install
ments of fall goods. Business to any great
extent will hardly progress before two weeks.
THROUGH COTTON.
1872-3 1871-2.
By M.&G. R. R 3,500 2,182
By W. R. R 07,707 37,670
SHIPMENTS.
The total was 57,089 —48,005 by S. W. R. K.,
1,096 by Western 11. R., 7,428 lor home con
sumption.
FACTORY TAKINGS.
Tho total for the year loots up 7,428 bales,
against 0,830 the previous year. At Culum bus
the river dam has four thousand horsepower
and is capablo of controlling 180,000 spindles.
Race complete with rock walls. In Columbus
are six cotton manufactories running 32,009
spindles and 900 looms. Directly above the
city, power enough to run a million and a half
spindles can bo obtainod a t small cost. The
stream falls over sixty feet in less than a mile.
Hock linos tiie river and forms its bod. This
is excellent for building purposos. Before 1875
it is thought three more manufactories will be
completed. Our mills have been built upon
the ashes of those burned by the Foderals
in 1865.
SALES OF COTTON.
They are tints reported by shippers: Total
58,557—f0r spinners 36,665; speculation 1,485;
New York 4,908; Savannahs,s99; Mobile 1,459;
Now Orleans 1,000; Charleston 122; homo con
sumption 7,425.
COLUMBUS COTTON STATEMENT BY WEEKS
FROM AUG. 31ST, 1872, TO SEPT. IST, 1873.
Rec. Tot. Ship. Stock. Salos.
Aug. 31 158
Sept. 6 363 363 259 262 285
44 13 1126 1489 027 761 490
44 20 1851 3340 1231 1381 899
44 27 1678 5018 1654 1405 1022
Oct. 4 1990 7008 1389 2006 1331
44 11 2242 9250 1385 2853 802
44 18 2525 11775 1768 3620 1872
14 25 2251 14029 2312 3562 2119
Nov. 1 3253 17282 2569 4246 2150
44 8 2099 19381 827 5513 1107
41 15 2459 21840 2248 5729 1836
44 22 2600 24440 1 648 6681 2551
44 29 3070 27510 1802 7942 1699
Dec. 6 2451 29961 2262 8148 1772
44 13 2904 32865 1638 9414 1420
44 20 2778 35643 1828 19304 3292
44 27 3056 35699 1715 11705 1163
-lan. 3 1217 39916 2553 10389 1833
“ 10 2079 41995 2207 10241 2108
14 17 2125 44120 1299 11007 1177
“ 24 2091 46211 1239 11919 898
44 31 1587 47798 1508 12000 2065
Fob. 7 1659 49467 1955 11704 1548
44 14 1213 50670 1179 11738 1016
44 21 722 51392 852 11008 1189
44 23 880 63272 310 12178 276
March 7... 690 62902 262 12600 321
44 14.. 387 53349 1064 11929 921
44 21.. 282 63031 10-17 10564 12C4
44 28.. 264 53895 1134 9694 1028
April 4 343 54238 820 9217 640
44 11 214 54452 078 8755 1462
44 18 231 54683 812 8174 450
44 25 347 55030 1)78 7843 563
May 2 325 65355 931 7237 760
44 9 241 55596 211 7267 484
44 10 153 55749 790 0630 1196
44 23 137 55880 1352 5415 705
41 30 • 65989 873 4645 870
June € ... 1-7 6.3'- 950 3846 822
44 13 82 56228 352 3570 338
44 20 63 *07357 169 2714 199
44 27 52 57409 300 2400 330
July 4 02 57401 220 2292 217
44 11 102 57563 117 2277 212
44 18 92 57655 400 1983 391
44 25 89 57735 272 1771 404
Aug. 1 74 67809 296 1549 147
44 8 78 57 887 288 3339 207
44 15 11 57928 42 1338 64
44 22 28 57950 103 1263 83
44 29 SI 58057 131 1232 92
44 31 *Ol 0810S 106 1177 15
* Added 1,076 and 51 bales, which went direct
to manufactories.
MODES OF RECEIPTS.
1872-3 1871-2
Southwestern Railroad 2,640 1,285
Mobile and Girard Railroad.lß,43o 11,698
Wastern Railroad 2,010 1,674
River 0,838 4,909
Wagons 26,385 21,078
North and South Railroad... 1,825 6
58,108 49,050
NEW COTTON.
1872-3 1871-2.
Total receipts 61 i3l
RECEIPTS OF PRECEDING YEARS.
Tho following aro tho receipts at Columbus
as far back as wo can obtain them. Tho first
bale was sold in 1830:
bales. bales.
1857- 75,664
1858- 115,885
1859- 122,110
1860- 83,160
18612- 70,000
1865, A’ll7, 69,000 burn
ed by Wilson’s raiders
1865-U 31,486
1888-7 44,725
1887-8 85,685
1868- 48.500
1869- 67,270
1870- 75,007
1871- 40,850
1872- 58,108
1842-3 54.822
1813-4 69,287
.1844-5 82,419
1845-6 51,726
1853-7 04,211
1847- 56,878
1848- 58,291
1849- 60,035
1850- 55,461
1851- 43,609
1852- 55 775
1853- 71,730
1854- 65,739
1855- 100,628
1856- 80,245
GENERAL BUSINESS.
Trade has been moderate during the year—
very dull during the spring and summer. Tills
condition is duo to tho difficulty in obtaining
credit and tho necessity lor economy. This
sumo statue will not be so heavy during the
next tour months. In ten months by one road
an average per day of seven thousand car loads
of corn of three hundred bushels per car, and
twenty-one and a half thousand pounds of ba
con has been received from the West. Tho
corn crop this year is good but not near enough
to feed tlic country. Few failures have mark
ed our progress and if ample provision crops
were raised fivo years in succession the country
would assume rank, importance and wealth
Farmers will insist however in planting large
cotton and very little grain crop.
Tho following tabic shows the price of Mid
dling cotton at the close of each Friday at Co
lumbus, New Y’ork and Liverpool, and also
the rains and thermometer of the week at
Columbus:
Col. N. Y. Ltv.
Mid. Mid. Ups. Gold. Itain. Ther
Sept. 1 19 si
" 13 18 % 21% 9% 12% 1 78
“ 20. .17 19% 9% 12% 1 76
“ 27..16% 18% 9% 13% 5 76
Oct. 4..17 19% 9% 14% i 70
“ 11.17% 19% 9% 12% 2 74
“ 18..17% 19% 9% 12% frost 04
“ 25. .18 19% 9% 13% 2 69
Nov. 1. .18% 19% 10% 12% 1 Cl
“ 8.. 17% 19% 9% 12% 5 85
“ 15..17% 19% 9% 13% 5 & icc 60
“ 22. .18% 19% 9% 13% 1 fit sno’ 50
“ 29.. 17% 19% 9% 12% 0 61
Dec, 0..1S 19% 10 12 1 61
“ 13.. 18 19% 10% 12% 1 snow 43
“ 20.. 18% 20% 10% 11% u 55
“ 27.. 18% 20% 10% 12% 2&.1 sno’ 40
Jan. 3. .19% 21% 10% 11% 1 40
" 10.. 19% 20% 11% 12% 2 46
“ 17.. 19 20% 9% 12% lit 1 sno’ 50
“ 24..19 20% 9% 13% ISt lsno’4s
“ 31..19% 21% 10 13% 3 46
Feb. 7.19 21% 9% 13% 2 58
“ 14.. 19 20% 9% 14 2 56
“ 21.. 19 21% 9% 14% 4it hail 65
“ 23.. 19 20% 9% 14% 2it lsno’47
March 7. .18% 20% 9% 15% 1 45
“ 14..18 19% 9% 15% 2 65
“ 21..17% 19% 9% 10% 1 60
“ 28..17% 19% 9% 16%24t2fr05t558
April 4..18 19% 9% 17% storm 68
11.17% 19% #% 19% 1 70
“ 18..17% 19% 9% 18% 2 61
“ 25..17% 19% 9% 17% 0 68
May 2. .17% 19% 9 J 6% 3cthail 67
“ ‘■'••lX 19% 8% 17% 1 70
“ 16.. 17 19% 8% 17% Sithail 70
“ '-“-IX W% 8% 17% 3 82
“ 30.. 17 19% 8% 18% 4 85
June 6.. 17 19% b% 18 5 81
“ 13-.17% 21 8% 17% ! 35
“ 20..18 21 8% Id 6 83
“ 27.. 18 21 8% 15% 3 58
July 4..18 21 8% 15% 2 88
“ 11.18 20% 8% 15% 1 90
“ 18..18 21 8% 15% 3 88
“ 25..18 21 8% 15% 4 84
Aug, 1.. 17% 21 8% 15% 6 83
'• 8..17% 20 8% 15% 4 82
“ 15 .17% 20% 3% 15 5 81
“ 22.17% 21 8% 16% 5 33
“ 29.. 17% 20% 8% 15% 1 83
WHOLESALE PRICES (.
Bacon— Clear Sides r?i ft l- , cleat Rib
Sides Shoulders u ; toug.tr-Cured
Hams 16@18c; Plain Ham3 ls@uo.
Bagging— lndia $ yard 180; Scotch Flax — c;
Kentucky 18c; Piocol6c.
Bulk Meats None in market.
Butter—Goshen fl ft 50c; Country 35c.
Brooms—doz $2 25@3 50.
Candy —Stick %) ft 19c.
Canned Goods —Sardines ?) case of 100 bxs
*24; Oysters, 1 lb cans ?! doz, >1 75.
Cheese— English Dairy « ft, 18c; Western
7c; N. Y. Stato lgo.
Candles —Star ?) ft 22c; Sperm 45c.
Coffee—Rio %) ft 22@2SC; Java 39@3Sc.
Corn—Yellow Mixed %» bus 87c, White
92e, car load rates In depot.
Cigars—Domestic ?! M *18@50; Havana *9O
@IBO.
Flour— Fino ?! bbl *S; Superfine *9 00; Ex
tra *10; Double Extra *10; Fancy sl2 lio.
Hardware —Wide Iron ?! 1b sc; Refined 6c,
Sad Irons 8c; Bar Lead 14c; Castings 6%c; *
Plow Stool 12%; Cast Steel 30c: Buggy Springs
20c; Horse and Mulo Shoos lb uc; Horso
Shoo Nalls 33%@35c; Nails ?! keg *0 60; Axes
?! doz *15@17.
Hay—?! cwt*2 00.
Iron Ties—?! ft loc.
Lard—Prime Leal ft ll@u%c.
Leather—Whito Oak Solo ?! ft 15 C; Horn
lock Solo 33c; French Calfskins s2fi>4 ; Ameri
can do *2@3 50; Upper Loathor s2@3 50; Har
ness do 60c; Dry Hides 11c; Green do 6c
Mackerel— No 1 3,1 bbl *25; No 2*ls;’No 3 $9;
No 1 ?! % bbl *10; No 2 *9; No 3*o: NolWktt
*3.
Meal—s bus *1 00.
Molasses —N. U. ?! gall 85c@—; Florida 05
@7oc; Cuba 15@60c; Golden Syrup *l@l 35.
Oats—%! bushel 7oc.
Oil -Kerosene ?! gall 36c; Llnscod, raw *120;
do bollod *1 25; Laru *1 60; Train *1 26.
Pickles—Caso pints ?! doz *2 5o; quarts
*3 50.
Potash—s oaso *9 50.
Potatoes—lrish, ?! bl *4 60.
Powder—?! kog *7 50; % lccg *4 00; % keg
*2 50, in Magazine.
Rope —Manilla %! ft 28c; Cotton 4i)e; Machine
Made 11c.
Rice— & ft 9c.
Salt—?! sack *2 25.
Tobacco —Common ?! ft 50c; Medium bright
70c; F’iuo 76c; Extra *1; Navy 6U@oio; Maecaboy
Suufi 85c.
Shot—?! sack $3.
Soda—Keg 7c ?! ft; box 9C.
Sugar —Cuba ?! ft 13@13%; A 13%; li or
extra C 13; C 13; N O yellow clarified 13@13%
do white 14@14%c. "
Starch—?! ft ye.
Tea— Green and Black ?! ft *1 lo@2.
Vinegar—?! gall 40c.
Whisky—Rectified ?! gall *l@2; Bourbon *2
@4.
White Lead—?! ft 12@13%c.
Factory Prices Wholesale—% shirting at
11%C.; 4-4 sheeting at 13c.: bleached do. 14%c.
bleached drilling 14%C; stripes ami tashions 14@
15c.; hickory shirting 16%e.; ticking 13@33c.;
checks and ginghams 10@220.; pantaloon goods
(cotton) ls@33c.; cottonadcs 33@35c.; osna
burg, plaids and stripes 18%e.; woolen goods
40@650.; cotton blankets *2 26@*6 oo; yarns
*1 60; sewing thread 60c.; knitting tbread
60@050.; wrapping twine 60c.; rope 32@350.
osuaburgs, 7 oz., 16c
Dry Goods—7-8 Brown Domestics 12c; 4-4 do
14c; 10-4 do 35@42%c; 4-4 Sea Island Domostics
15c; 3-4 Bleached Domestics 10c; 7-8 do 11c; 4-4 do
14@20c; American Prints 7(folic; Furniture
Prints 12%@200; American Dolainos lb@2lc;
Black Alpacas 40c@.|l; Ticking *lo@4oc; Got
ten Flannels, bleached 20@40e; do brown 15@
35c; Plaid Linsoys 12%@30c; Gorsot Joans 12%
@l3;%c; Colored Gambrics 12%e; Rolled do 13c;
Crash Toweling 10@12%e; Red Flannels, wool
20 @45; W hito do 25@60c; Opera do 67%@65e;
Wool Blankets, colored *2; do 9-4 white *3@3 75;
do 80—4 $3 50@5; do 11-4 *4 su@7; Kentucky J cans
15@ 45c; Ladies’ Hose per doz *l@6 00; Ladles’
L. O. Handkerchiefs per doz "OcifofJ 75; Corsets
62%e@*3 75; Goats’ Spool Thread 80c per doz.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Wholesale. Retail.
Goshen butter * 40 * 50
Country 44 so 40
Eggs 25 40
F’rying chickens 25@30 35@4t>
Grown 44 30(n>35 40@50
Irish potatoes 60 p’k 60 p’k
44 44 4 50 bbl 4 60 bid
Onions 75 p’k 75 p’k
44 5 50 bbl 6 00 bbl
Cow peas 1 25 bu 1 50 bu
The Best Music Books
For High and for Grammar
Schools!
THE HOUR OF SINGING!
SSy L. (f. EmcrNon & W. S. Tildcu.
Urice, SI.OO.
Tho High School Singing Book is admir
ably fitted for its work, containing a good ele
mentary cour6o and a largo quantity of tho
best vocal music well-arranged in two, throe
and four parts, lias boon received with the
greatest iavor by practical teachers.
Just Ready. THE TRiO; a col lection ol
three-part songs, arranged especially lor High
Schools and Seminaries. An excellent com
panion or successor to tho HOUR OF SING
ING.
cheerful" voices.
t’l'icc 50 Gouts.
By L. O. Emerson.
The new, sprightly, and very musical Com
mon School Song Book is by a gentleman
who ‘‘hits the mark every time,” and never
tails in satisfying the musical taeto oi tho poo
pla. Os his previous School Song Books, about
300,000 havo been sold.
AH school-teachers aro intitod to give this
new and popular book a trial.
Any book published by Ditson 18 Go., will bo
sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of Retail
Price.
OLIVER DITSON 6c GO , Boston.
CHAS. li. DITSON 6c GO.,
_au29 711 Broadway, N. Y.
1873- 4.
Agricultural and IVScchanical
College,
Oi' Alabama.
rplIE next session begins Wed- VTT>v
X nesday, first day of Oct. 1873, -Sijt',
and closes July Bth, 1874.
Tuition for tho entire session (%
in advance.) *SO. WSif
Surgeons 100 lor tho year in ad- fsß*§r
vancc
Board from *l3 to *lB per month, paid monthly
in advance.
Uniform for tho year, (one fatigue and ono
dross suit,) about *4O.
One student from each County will bo re
ceived in tho Agricultural course by jwying on
entrance ono hundred dollars for his Board,
Tuition and Uniform, lor the year.
Two students from oach County nominated
by tho county Superintendents of Education
will be admitted freo of Tuition foes; also the
sons of Ministers in active service, and young
men studying for tho Ministry.
For further information, apply to E. T
Glenn, Treasurer.
I. T. TICHENOR, D.D., Pres.
Auburn, Ala., Aug. 4, 1873.
9.U12 ' cod&wtoct
MONUMENTAL MARBLE
WORKS,
No. 40 Broad St.
COLUMBUS, Ca.
rplIE undersignod rcspcctluily calls tho at
X tontion of his friends and tho public In
general to his stock of lino
fflomirrionts.Hcadstones.Tombs
Tablets, Vases, See.
Also, a large and splendid stock ol
IVlstalic Burial Cases, Rosewood.
Mahogany and Pine Coffins,
all of which will be sold cheap for cash or on
time.
Call on or address
UENKY MoOAULEY,
jyg eod&w .'ill! Columbus, Ga.
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
WILL bo sold in front of Ellis S. Harrison’s
auction house, on Hroad street, In Colum
bus, in said county, on the iirst Tuesday in Octo
ber next, within the legal hours of sale, the
following described property, to wit:
Two-thirds undivided interest in and to
a tract or parcel of land commencing whore
tho west line of land, supposed to belong to
Phil Pryor, crosses the Express road, thonce
In a westerly direction on F. C. Johnson’s line,
and thence along Col. Stark’s line to the mid
dle of Hull creek, thence up Hull creek to A.
Gammel’s line, thence along Gammers lino
cast to the northeast corner, thence on tho
original line to tho beginning lying in tho
Coweta Kcserve, containing 115% acres more
or less. Levied on as the property of John F.
Cleghorn, to satisfy a ii fa. issued from the
Superior Court in favor of Frederick ft Burrus
vs. John F, Cleghorn.
Also, at same timo and place. Lots of Land
Nos. 93 -and 94, in tho Ninth District of Mus
eogco county, containing 250 acres, more or
less. Levied on as tho property of J. F. Al
mond, to satisfy a ti ia. issued irom tho Supe
rior Court of said county in favor of P. J. Dig
gers vs. Calvin li. Almond and Jesso F. Al
mond.
sc2 K. G. IVEY, Sheriff.
Scale in Boilers.
J WILL Remove and Prevent SCALE In any
Steam Hollers, or make no enargo.
Address, GEO. W. LOUD,
nirfl dfiwtf Philadelphia, Pa
W. A. Farley,
A.ttorjioy-at«Xja,w
CUSSETA, Chattahoochee Cos., Ga
•ftS-Spoelal attention given to collections.
S2O REWARD!
QTOLEN from the subscriber on 29th inst.,
O ono new BUGGY and HARNESS. Bug
gy box-body, with morocco leather over boot,
dasli leather a little old; spring behind, has
been welded and painted, but not striped.
Stripes on buggy small yellow. Above reward
will bo paid lor tho buggy and thief, or one
half for buggy.
T. K. LESLIE, Smitii Station,
au3l (Ilt6iw2t Leo countv. Ala.
'l’llC Howe
Sewing Machine
STILL IN GOOD DEMAND.
CIALL and see tho now style Drop leal and
) Extra Drawer at tho "COMPANY’S OF
FICE,” Randolph street.
tfd 'Six good Canvassing Agents wanted at
once. J. F. REEVES,
au29 dlwfkwlm Manager.