Newspaper Page Text
C () L TT M B IT 8:
J. H. MARTIN, Editor.
Til i: WEEKLY SUN.
$1.50 Fays to January 1,1875.
The Cheapest Paper ever
published in the South!
Aft the business season is now opening, we take
this occasion to incite a comparison of The Sun
with its cotemporarles, and to solicit of our friends
a little
EXERTION IN ITS BEHALF.
iVe make no boasts of what we intend to do—we
stand upon our record in the past, and onlg promise
to do the best we can for our patrons. The sub
scriptionprice is very low, and we trust that our
readers find the papier worth its cost to them t with
out catchpenny inducements. A little iffurt would,
we are confident, not only strengthen us in our
determination to maintain the prelent interest of
the paper, but enable us to udd to it.
The times are agpritful, as well as critical, and
tary man ought lobe fully and continuously in
formed of the progress of public events. II is our
duly lo give such information, as will as miscella
neous entertainment, to our subscribers, mid this
duty we shall as zealously try to perform in the
future as in the past. 'Try us !
, f : c -_. Persons subscribing and paying now
"**“ will receive the. Wkkkly Sun until the
Ist January, 1876—a period op over four
teen months—for One Dom.ar and Fifty
Cents. For terms lo Clubs see rales al head of
columns on first and third pages.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 20, 1873.
Leander H. Rice, of Lauderdale coun
ty, is the new Secretary of the State of
Alabama, appointed by Gov. Lewis.
Alabama eight per cent, bonds were
quoted in New York last Monday at 65,
and live per cent, bonds at 35 cents.
The Atlanta Constitution speaks of the
author of “Morton House.” Ac., as Mr.
Christian Iteid. It may be as well to
state that Christian Reid is the nomine tie
plume, not of a gentleman, but of a gift
ed young North Carolina lady, Miss Fish
er, whose father fell at the head of his
regiment, at the first Manassas.
In Newt York city, on Sunday evening,
Giles Taylor, Jno. Donobu, Thomas
Magin and Michael Capers drank what
they supposed to be sherry wine, but
proved to be a solution for rheumatism.
Taylor and Donohu died Tuesday, but it
is supposed Capers and Magin will recov
er.
The Hooper Case.
lii the Circuit Court of Lee county,
Ala., ou Saturday, an order changing the
venue in the Hooper Phillips case to Rus
sell county was granted, on application
made by the counsel for tbo defendant.
This removes the case from the place of
residence of both parties and their fami
lies, and the presumption is that an un
prejudiced jury can more easily be em
panneled in Russell than in Lee.
Uud« r dale of October 28th, Comptrol
ler General W. L. Goldsmith issues the
following circular to tax cllectors: Nu
merous applications to extend time for
collecting tax calls forth this circular. If
) saw any prospect, for better timeß in the
near future, I would gladly consent to
snch extension, but do not. The tax
payer, who fails t<> pay his tax in Novem
ber will, 1 fear, regret it, as the money
stringency, I think, will last some time
yet. Planters should sell sufficient cotton
to pay tax, or store some and draw against
it, if they do not wish to sell.
Thu Culumbns Sun says that neither
horses or mules can be sold at any price
in that market. No wonder; you don’t
raise much cotton, and you don’t pay
enough for wliat you Jo raise.—How can
a planter buy a mule ? — Mont. Journal.
Our cotton receipts are considerably
ahead of those of Montgomery, and as
much of our cotton has come from locali
ties, nearer to Montgomery than Colum
bus, the fact is apparent that Columbus
pays the best price.
«|» a
“New York, Oct. 30. The associated
Banks to-day gained $730,000 in legal
tenders.”
What is the full significance of the
above ? From what sources did they
“gain the $730,000? We fear that it was
from the iuterior Banks, whose resources
are being drained to strengthen those of
New York. Should it turn out that the
large New York Banks resume currency
payments iu a short time, after nearly de
pleting the interior Banks, and should all
the funds of the latter continue to gravi
tate to New York as soon as put in circu
lation, it may bo found out that a gen
eral suspension a month ago and a simul
taneous resumption all over the country
would Lave been the best policy.
Why the people of the United States
of America pay interest to the National
Banks ou nearly four hundred millions
(100,000,000) of government bonds, while
the banks have the use of that amount of
national bank notes, on which they pay
no interest.
Notice — All the newspapers and peri
odicals, daily, tri-weekly, semi-weekly,
monthly and quarterly, in the United
States, are requested to puolish the above
until a satisfactory answer is received
then present their account at this office
for payment. —Nashville Banner.
As our pay for the above is dependent
upon a “satisfactory” answer, that in
ducement is not a very tempting one.
We will not nttempt an answer, for fear
that we might bungle the proposition by
extending the inquiry iu this foolish man
ner : Why pay nearly all the gold col
lected by Government from the people
over to the bondholders, when the latter
employ it for the purpose of speculation
and usury, periodically unsettling the
values of the Government’s securities,
causing damaging fluctuations iu the
prices of produce, and interfering mis
chievously with the business interests of
the people ? The people will soon take
all these matters into consideration.
i'hiliiclcliitiia Centennial Commission, j
The Centennial Commission is now j
visiting Macon. In this view, it be- j
comes interesting to know who are the
members. The Commission is composed
of ex-Mayor I). M. Fox, of Philadelphia;
ex-Governor J. M. Patton, of Alabama;
ex-United States Minister to Sweden J.
H. Campbell: H. J. Smith. Esq; J. H.
Zeilin. Esq : \V. R. Fox, Esq ; Gon. C. B.
Norton, Secretary of Committee.
At Macon, they were banquetted, and
welcomed by Mayor Huff and Gov. Smith.
Messrs. Fox and Campbell and Gov.
Patton made speeches about the Centen
nial Celebration at Philadelphia, and kirnf
feelings for Georgia.
That evening at the City Bauk. objects
were more fully explained, and another
meetiug of the Mutual Admiration Socie
ty held.
MOKE St SC EXSIOXS.
hiiovt Time—Docked Wages!
These are the alarming reports that con
tinue to come to us by dispatches from the
North. They show how sorely the panic is
affecting honest labor and distressing the
poor. The next stage will perhaps be an
attempted resort to mobs. The people
know that there is plenty of money in the
country, and that the interests by which
they live have been overwhelmed iu a
crash produced by gamblers in the money,
stocks and produce of the country. They
will demand that a curt) be put upon the
practices that haye caused all this mis
chief and demoralization. And they ought
to demaud it. We look for social disor
ders next, to lie followed by a political
revolution which will strike at the root of
the evil, and we hope extirpate it. The
people may be long suffering and slow to
.arouse, but there is now fire on the back
pf the terrapin.
rim burro democracy.
We have at length the full vote of%hio
iu the recent election, which foots up aa
follows: Allen, Dem., 211,803; Noyes,
Rad., 213;5t7, Stewart, Prohibitioniii.
10,010; Collins, Lib. Rep., 9,991. 'fliis
is the vote for Governor. It imitated:'that
the Radicals elected the balance of the
State ticket by Kiuall majorities—that for
State Treasurer being 177 for Isaac
Welsh.
A significant showing of this 'election
is the sifiall vote east for the Liberal Re
publican candidate for Governor. lie
received less than ten thousand votes,
and nearly half his vote came from Ham
ilton county, including Cincinnati. Not
only did the Ltemocrats, and Liberals
hold special State Conventions and nom
inate distinct tickets, but Hon. George E.
Pugh, one of the trusted loaders of the
Ohio Democracy, took the field iu advo
cacy of the Liberal ticket, giving as a
reason the hoplessncss of achieving any
thing under the Democratic organization.
Though the Democrats have done much
better this year, with their own distinct
candidates and platform, than thoy did
last year supporting the Liberal nominees
and platform, we are not prepared to say
that they would not have done as well
this year if they had coalesced with the
Liberals. In our judgment, there is noth
ing sensible or patriotic in their separate
organizations- they ought to act togeth
er, for they are in political accord in re
gard to all practical questions of the pres
ent day, and we believe that they will
act together.
The result in Ohio shows that the Lib
erals, small as their vote is, hold the bal
ance of power, and are still in a position
to command the respect of both the old
parties. But their severenee from the
Radical party must bo complete and final,
and now that they have made a showing
of their strength, it is to be hoped that
hereafter no extravagant demands of
theirs will prevent their offering, and no
vain consciousness of superior strength
will prevent the Democrats from accept
ing, an alliance upon principle and poli
cy-
In New York the Democrats and Liber
al Republicans have effected an alliance
nearl/ complete ; but unfortunately there
is still a disagreement and lack of co-op
eration between the Tammany and Apol
lo Hall Democracy—the latter going so
far in the city (where they are strong) as
to unite with the Radicals in support of a
Republican for Congress agiust Hon. S. S.
Cox, the regular Democratic nominee!
Still we hope for a good general result in
New York, in November.
COMFI D EXCE — M V CCA I. HE I. V.
Our telegraphic reports continue to tell
of the depression of business of the in
dustrial establishments of the North, and
of their expedients to protect themselves.
Some suspend ; some work ou short time;
some discharge a part of their force ; and
some cut down wages. These measures are
not encouraging. They may enable them
to weather the storm, but what is to be
come of their employees ? How are they
to live if the panic continues? The hard
ship with many of them is aggravated by
the fact that they had deposited money in
the savings banks with a view to meet
any emergency that might deprive them
of work ; and now they are thrown out of
employment and cannot draw their money
deposited ! They are made double suffer
ers by the panic; and the panic exists
simply because men will be distrustful
and timid without a reason! What is
there to be distrustful of? Tlie curren
cy ?—Then why hoard it? The wild spec
ulatiuos that precipitated the crash?—
Then why re-engage in them ? There is no
compulsion. Tlie time that has elapsed and
the inquiries that have been instituted
since the first suspensions, have been
sufficient to show the country w hich bank
ing and other institutions are hopelessly
involved by these speculations, and which,
standiug unhurt, w ill do to trust and de
posit with again. The solvent have been
distinguished from the insolvent —the
prudent from the imprudent. What is
now wanted is a restoration of confidence
in men and corporations that have stood,
the test a renewed trusting of money to
them. This would at once revive busi
ness and restore the activity of the indus
trial establishments. This would quickly
supply a sufficiency of money again to the
purchase and moving of the crops of the
country, and a revivification of its trade.
The following remarks of the veteran
banker and financier, John Thompson, in
bis Bank-note Reporter, seem to be emi
nently sensible aud well-timed :
It is now quite certain that we shall
get, during the fall and wiuter, near $50,-
000,000 of gold from Europe. If it could
be lodged in the Sub-Treasury, and gold
notes of smalt denominations obtained
against it, it would be a vast relief in
moving the crops.
If the savings’ banks that have timidly
locked up millions of currency would let
it out in some judicious manner, so that
pay-rolls can be paid, those banks will be
much more likely to run smoothly through
the wiuter than by hugging the currency,
to the derangement of labor. There are n
good many millions that must have em
ployment aud bo paid, or they will, if
possible, havo their deposits out of tin
savings’ banks.
This panic will be of short duration,
and wilt be called in future the Great
Scare. They will be the lucky ones who
buy aud invest before (lie tide turns.
Contraction of business without any con
traction of currency, liquidation, econo
my, and stagnation, are sure to he fol
lowed up with cheap money aud advanc
ing prices for good property and sound
bonds. The balloons must all burst and
the wrecks all sink out of sight; then the
track will be clear for another good run.
Economy, retrenchment, and sober
common sense, are now in order. About
1,000,000 of the population of the Uuited
States have fallen from the top to the
bottom of fortune’s ladder in a month.
Those who have not fallen can well afford
to set the example of economy and re
trenchment, and in many cases go fur
ther. and help some poor deluded swell
who has gone railroading to utter destruc
tion. It required just such a panic ami
just such downfalls to bring daring aud
giddy fortune-hunters to common sense.
More good than harm will follow. Reli
gion and morals wilt be elevated when
the newly-made millionaire returns to an
honest livelihood.
Champion Cotton Picking. —The two
sons of E. A. Morris, Esq., of Douglass
county, Wm. L., aged near 14 years,
weighing 100 pounds, picked 434 pounds
of cotton. Thos. E., aged 11 years,
weighing 71 ponnds, picked 410 pounds
in one day, from a field that had been
thrice previously picked. These splendid
little fellows did this work on the ltith
inftaut. To-day on their way to the city,
passing Ben. Williford s place, they saw a
field of cotton from w'hich they say they
could have picked 500 pounds each in a
day. If you know of any boys of the
age of onr littla heroes that can excel
them, speak out. C. H. Strong A Cos.
gave the boys a premium of $5, and other
gentlemen ou hearing the fact presented
them with as much more. —Atlanta Con
stitution.
The Raleigh (N. C.) News says: It a
said, with how much truth we know not,
that there is a can or glass jar of nitro
glycerine, or some other explosive com
pound, buried in the southwest corner of
the Capitol Square, near the old Arsenal,
which has been there many years, having
been secreted there prior to the surren
der, and the place of its concealment hav
ing been lost. No one dares to dig for it,
as a blow from tho pick might send the
enterprising digger to roost on the Pres
byterian Church steeple. And so it will
sleep until a lqippy chance or some dread
ful accident shall reveal its resting place,
The Seneca Falls ladies are singing
about “the moth-eaten bustle, the old
iron bustle, the cloth-eaten bustle that
hung on so well.”
Thomas f. Ridgely. once a member of
General Grant’s staff, was sentenced to
three years in tho State prison for burgla
ry at Boston, Thursday.
Hartford, Oct. 30.—Railroad t hops
have reduced hours wages 20 per
cent.
YELLOW FEVER A SI) CHOLERA.
i' We remotnber a remark m|fle to &by
Lone of our physician*' last sirring, to the
effect that the disqiies of the previous
fall and winter had. in hiqjjftpinion.rieft
people in a couth rifle that would Aake
tlwffii more than ilfually liabletoTfiseases
in summer. Whether the disorders of the
fall and winter had anything to do with
them, or with the conditions that caused
them, or not, unusual diseases of the
1 stimmer came, ami many thousands fill
! victims to them. The extraordinary dis
ease of last fail and winter was the ,“epi
zooty that attacked universally,
and extended all over the continent, fol
lowed closely by a kind tod influenza, that
affected people generally and proved
more troublesome and obstinate than com
mon influenzas. The extraqrdiuary dis-
I eases of tho summer and fall have been
cholera and the yellow fever—-both be
lieved to have been indigenous to several
localities of this country, Conti ary to their
customary corns©. There are physicians
who contend that neither tho cholera of
the summer nor the yellow fever of the
fall were precisely the same disea
ses as those heretofore imported
from abroad. They point to distinctions
—too astute and technical for our hand
ling—which make a difference in types or
conditions from the similar exotic dis
eases, or in other words, indicate that the
diseases of this year are of American and
not foreigu origin. And this is tho fea
ture to which attention should be direc
ted. Have these diseases originated in
this country, established a lodgment or
left germs here, and may we look for them
again when the climatic conditions are
favorable to their re-development ? Mont
gomery’ had yellow fever three years in
succession, some twenty years ago—we
believe the years were 18.73, 1854 and 1855
—and for ouo of those years at least, its
origin could not be traced to communica
tion with any other fever-infected place.
This year the cities that usually suffer
most from yellow fever—the imported
disease—have been almost free of the fe
ver that has devastated Shreveport, Mem
phis, and a number of interior towns of
Texas, and is now raging at Bainbridge.
We need hardly’say that the cities this
year exempt, which have commonly
been the headquarters of imported
yellow fever in this country, are New
Orleans, Mobile and Galveston. It is n
very remarkable fact that no seaport city
has this year suffered from yellow fever
to an extent to create any alarm, while
many interior towns, heretofore strangers
to it, have suffered dreadfully. This is a
phenomenon that may have much signifi
cance and should receive due attention. !
If American types of cholera and yellow 1
fever have been engendered, and have es- i
tablished a germinating base here, like
the cholera in Asia or the yellow fever in
South America, or like the seventoen-year
locust, nature seems to have developed j
new maladies for science to combat, and j
every fact connected with them may aid
in their future prevention or successful,
treatment.
II OX. li. 1. BRUTOX.
By the death of this gentleman, South- I
western Georgia loses one of its most en
terprising, sagacious and valuable citi
zens. Ho was a ir.aa of caution and de
liberation in the determination of his j
course upon any public question, but en- ;
ergetic iu the prosecution of what his j
judgment tohl him to be tne best for his i
people. We know that lie incurred cen
sure for his snppoi t of and participation i
iu tho forced “reconstruction” of Geor- |
gia, but we are fully convinced he “did
what lie did” from good motives —not
from the. selfish, vindictive or sordid feel- j
ings that actuated most of the leaders of
the Reconstruction party. Mr. Bruton |
thought that those measures would be j
forced upon Georgia, that resistance ,
would be not only unavailing, but would ;
aggravate a doom which we could not I
avoid, aud he therefore gave his support
to “ reconstruction ’’ as an unpleasant
necessity, not as a matter of choice. If
he differed from the great body of his !
people, it was not in feeling, but iu judg- j
ment, and he had no share whatever in \
any feeling of exultation over the oppres- I
sion or humiliation of his section.
Knowing this to have been his position,
we, who differed with him and condemn
ed his course, feel it oik duty to say this
much iu justice to the memory of a man
who, had he lived a few years longer, j
would doubtless have proved that liis
State and section had no truer friend than
B. F. Bruton.
GEORGIA A L 11,8.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad lessees
have paid their monthly rental for Oct©
tier into the State Treasury.
The Gainesville Advertiser of Friday
reports the mast in its section as the hea
viest crop for years. It also says that in
portions of Banks and Franklin counties
many fields of cotton look as if they had
not yet been touched, so white are they
with the fleecy staple.
Fowell Owens, an old and well known
policeman of Atlanta, and formerly one
of the Justices of Inferior Court, died
iu that city ou Friday.
Dr. R. D. Moore, one of the most dis
tinguished physicians of Athens, died on
Friday afternoon.
The Atlanta Constitution says that
many people are saving persimmon seed
for coffee, on account of file high price of
the genuine article and the scarcity of
greenbacks. Perhaps most of ns will
find our Confederate experience valuable
in the suggestion of “substitutes” to
help us through this panic.
The contractors complain of difficulty
in getting bands to work on the Augusta
canal extension, while there are in the
city hundreds of able-bodied negroes idle
and without visible means of support.
Five Bales of Cotton on One Acre.—
Mr. Columbus Warthen, of Washington
county, produced. Ibis year, five bales of
cotton on one acre of land. Some of the
stalks made as high as six hundred boils.
One replant stalk, planted oil tlie oth of
June, was exhibited at Sandersville last
week with four bundled and thirty-seven
bolls on it. The manure cost about sl4l.
Say the working, picking, etc., cost $34
more, in all $175. The five bales at 13
cents —allowing that tlie bales averaged
500 pounds—would yield $325, or a net
profit of $l5O. — Atlanta Constitution.
Rev. Samuel H. Smith, late one of the
editors of the Cartersville Standard, died
in that place on Friday. He was Chaplain
of the doth Georgia Regiment during the
war, and was a good and popular man.
JLAIt AMA XE WS
The Ozark (Dale county) Star of the
30th ult. reports the killing of Jack Cole,
of Coffee county’, by one of his neighbors
named Tom Nobles. They had a diffi
culty’ arising from Cole’s killing Noble’s
dog. A reward of $1,500 has been of
fered for the arrest of Nobles.
The Montgomery Journal learns that
Mnj. Tom Oliver, who planted 900 acres
of cotton aud expected to gat her 350 bales,
will not gather over 30 bales, and he is one
of the best farmers.
Montgomery.— -The interments yester
day were Mrs. Rosa Sloraji, yellow fever ;
Edward Haley, aged 58 years, chronic
diarrhoea: James Alexander, aged 19, yel
low fever; Malinda Jnnier, (col.) aged 21,
consumption— Advertiser. Ist.
Died —near Aubnm on Wednesday the
27th inst.. Judge John. Brown. He was
one of the first settlers of East Alabama,
and for fifteen years Probate Judge of
Macon connty.
The Meridian Mercury, 31st ult., says:
“ W’e learn, not officially, but authoritive
ly, that Messrs. Murdock and Elliot, re
ceivers, take charge of the Alabama an I
Chattanooga Railroad, to-day. We can
only presume, this does not work a final
sale and transfer to the M. & O. li.
R. Company, as the parties concerned
have been discretely reticent in all mat
ters pertaining to pending negotiations.
The Purest and Sweetest Cop-Liver
Oil is Hazard A Casweli’s, made on the
sea shore, from fresh, selected livers, by
Caswell, Hazard A Cos., New York. It
is absolutely pure aud sweet. Patients
who have once taken it prefer it to all
others. Physicians have decided it supe
rior to any other oils in the market.
THE PAYMENT OE SILVER.
- W 1 ... "**l
Surpfi.se was no doubt felt at The tele
graphic announcement that after all the
good results predicted to follow the meas
ure, tho Secretary of the Treasury had
determinecFto pay no more than five dol
lars in silver at one any person.
, This determination no doubt finds expla
nation in the following remark, which the
Secretary is reported to have made on
Monday last: “He was very much afraid
that tLe agitation which had occurreiTln
I consequence of the announcement of the
I intention of the Treasury Department to
place the currency on a silver basis had
defeated the object he had iu view and
would prolong the time for resumption.
1 The demand for coin is much greater than
was anticipated, and it is clearly evident
that all the silver iu the Treasury would
i. lie absorbed in a very few days if a policy
of exchanging it for currency were now
| carried out. He believed that if the in
tention of the Treasury to place the cur
rency ©n a silver basis bail not
public, nor been discussed by the public
press, the silver on band, together with
what the mints can coin, would have been
sufficient for this purpose.”
Tho plain import of this is, that tho
Government could have successfully car
ried out its policy of paying silver, if the
sharp money changers had not gotten wind
of its design and made their preparations
to profit by it. A great Government like
onrs must conduct its financial operations
secretly to avoid damaging interference
by gamblers in coin and currency! The
design of tho Government ought not to
have been made public, nor have been
discussed by the press, beeause by such
publicity the Sfiylocks of the country
wore advised of what was going to bo
done, aud they at once adopted measures
to thwart the Government’s policy.
The apprehensions of the Secretary
have been fully verified by tho masked
advance in silver coin since the announce
ment ot tho policy of the Government.
Silver was at par with greenbacks when
the announcement was made, and our
latest New York quotations show an ad
vance to s@B per cent. This evidences
operations by the money sharpers. They
contemplated a considerable increase in
the supply of silver to be put into circu
lation-enough to make it an object with
them to buy it up— and they commenced
operations to that end. It is now appa
rent that if the Government should pay
out a million of dollars in silver every
month, the money changers would get
possession of it, to speculate upon just
as they havo long been speculating in
gold.
Now the serious question arises, ought
the Government to endure sharp practices
of this kind, carried on to the detriment
of its credit, to the thwarting of its poli
cies, and to the loss of the people? We
are clearly convinced that it ought to put
a stop to them, even if it be necessary to
fill the Albany penitentiary with tlie
gambling money changers. If the opera
tors are not in conspiracy against the Gov
ernment and against the interests of the
people, it would be hard to establish the
fact of a conspiracy by any overt acts.
The cry of “disloyalty” is raised when a
tax-payer objects to the paying of the in
terest on the bonds in gold, or demands
the taxing of the bonds. But how much
more does it savor of disloyalty for a
“syndicate” of brokers or gamblers to
watch every operation of the Treasury
with a view to turning it to their own
profit, al the expense of the Government
and tlie people ? It was their operations
that produced tlie present embarrass
ments, and their operations will be di
rected to the thwarting of every measure
for their alleviation, as long as they' are
permitted to carry them on.
MONTGOMEK Y, ALABAMA.
Our Correspondent Makes a Tour of Ob
servation—Finds Matters Worse than
Reported, but Hopes tlie Disease is
Over.
West Point, Ga. , Oct. 29, 1873.
Eds. Sun: Having heard so much of
tho great fever parfic in Montgomery, I
determined to go and see for myself the
actual state of affairs. Leaving this place
at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, I reached
the Alabama headquarters of Yellow Jack
at 9:1(1. I was greatly surprised at Opeli
ka to see a large number of gentlemen,
residents of Montgomery’, get on board for
the avowed purpose of going into town ;
and my surprise was further increased
upon being informed that it had been the
custom of the business men during the
“rule” of the epidemic to go down every
morning aud return in the afternoon. This
was in accordance with the belief that
there is little, if any, danger during the
day time —say from it a. in., to sp. in.
As the train continued its course the num
bers were increased at each station by an
influx of ladies aud gentlemen, until the
coaches were full.
At Montgomery I saw a number of car
riages aud omnibuses, and people on foot,
all hurrying to the city, as if there was no
such thiug as the terrible plague iu the
vicinity. Occasionally I would see a store
with doors all closed, and no semblence
of life about il, and upon inquiry, would
be informed that one or more members of
the firm, or families, had either died of
yellow fever, or was at that time down
with it.
Business of course, when compared to
what it generally is at this season of the
year, was at astand; hut still there was a
abundant evidence of a healthy reac
tion, iu the appearance of money. La
dies on the streets shopping, and a num
ber of cotton and hay wagons in from tlie
country. You can hardly realize though the
scarcity of money. “There is none here,”
is w hat several old friends replied in an
swer to questions concerning the finan
cial condition of the city. The merchants,
I was told, had Ixmght heavily this sea
son, and in consequence of the panic,
still had their goods on hand, and with
out any chance of paying for them.
Without doubt the fever has raged
more terribly than the city papers ac
knowledged. This I gather from bus
iness men on Market street, who remain
ed in town, and were therefore competent
to jugde, I was told by a gentleman that
there had been in all several hundred ea-,
scs, with over one hundred deaths—a
great many having had it and died with
out being reported to the medical board.
I found Screws, of the Advertiser pretty'
hot with the outside world generally, for
listening to, or believing, as he said, “the
infernal lies that had been told about the
town.” He expressed great astonishment
at seeing a visitor to the city. The dis
ease confined itself, not to any particu
lar locality, but skipped from one extreme
of the place to the other, and so created
more consternation than it would have
otherwise done.
Market aud Perry streets have lost a
number of good citizens, being in the
very heart cf the business part of the
town. Considerable dissatisfaction is ex
pressed at the manner in which the pro
visions, Ac., that had been contributed
by sister towns, were distributed. Strong,
able-bodied negroes, who were too mean
to die if they should take the fever,
would come in regularly with their bas
kets and draw rations wrth all the bon
homme nonchalance of colored voters.
Returning at 5 p. m., I had the pleasure
of meeting Col. Ball, Superintendent of
the Western Railroad, who informed me
that iu a few days there would be an
important change in the schedules. A
day passenger train will Jeaye West point
at 5:45 p. ul. immediately upon arrival
from Atlanta, and arrive at Montgomery
about 10:20 —Columbus about 9:30 ;
thought no positive arrangement had been
made concerning the branch to your
place.
Plenty of ice last night—No new cases
of fever in Montgomery when I left,and the
doctors hoping there would be no more.
Sandy Merlin.
A HEtV VALYAIIOX.
In the daysfef slavery a negro. Child had
something like a fixed valuation, but it
ban bean reserved for an lowa court to
I fix the value of the white “cha|tle. ” The
L-resuUjis told fcj a coteaaporary ms follows:
. ‘ “rwreasli VStrnr of - nhirild haS®J!lst been
determined by an lowa court, iu a suit
! brought against the Chicago and Rock Is
land Railroad, for causing the death of
one, two or three years old. near Da van
port. In the first trial the plaintiff en
deavored" to prove the probable duration
of the life of a child of that age from the
tables of life insurance actuaries. The
court off Original jurisdiction refused to
admit testimony on that point. On an
appeal, the Supreme Court granted a now
trial on.the ground that the prosecution
had a light to make the showing denied
by the court below. The verdict ou the
first trial was for the probable loss to the
father of the child’s services during mi
nority. The sum assessed was $750.
Upon the second trial the jury took into
account the loss which the estate of the
child had suffered from its death, this es
tate commencing at 21 years aud contin
uing for the probable duration of its life.
Its services, or earnings, during minority,
were not considered. This was in ac
cordance with the ruling of the Supreme
Court. The amount brought in was $4,-
000. This makes the entire damage $ 4,-
750, that being the valuation put by au
lowa jury, from a strictly monetary point
of view, upon a child two years of age,
over aud above the cost of support.
Illinois statutory law places the value of a
person killed by rail at $5,000, irrespect
ive of age.”
FEVER AT BAINBRIDGE.
Special to the Constitution.]
Bainbridge, October 30,—Mr. Frank
Greene died last night. He was a promi
nent young man, and his death is gener
ally regretted.
Mrs. George Pearce is now very’ sick
with the fever.
I have found it impossible to see every
physician to-day. Dr. Butts reports four
new cases, only one of which is considered
hopeless.
Mr. Lewis Ehrlick is somewhat better
this morning, though his case is consid
ered doubtful.
Dr. Morgan reports only one new case
to-day’.
Mr. W. D. Maxwell is very sick ; and
Mr. W. C. Hines, a young gentleman, who
was with Mr. Bruton during his illness,
is very sick to-day with what is supposed
to be the yellow fever.
deserting the town.
There are not more than seventy-five
white men in town ; and business being
suspended, nearly all liave left.
LATER.
Bainbridge, Ga., Oct. 30, 8:30 p. m.—
The situation here grows worse and worse.
Mr. T. J. Williams, another one of our
most prominent citizens, is dying.
Dr. Harrell reports four more new cases
since my last dispatch of 1 o’clock p. in.,
and Dr. Jones reports three—Mr. John
Watt, a son of John P. Dickerson, banker,
and a colored child.
A colored waiter at the Sharon House
was taken violently sick with fever at
sunset.
W. D. Maxwell and a Mrs. Smith are
very dangerously ill.
Mrs. Swearengin, the wife of H. J.
Swearengin, whose death has been report
ed, died in the country to-day.
Mr. Lewis Ehrlick continues to im
prove.
The Mayor has established a hospital,
and from appearances it will not lack for
oeeupnnts.
So far the cold weather seems to have
had no effect iu abating the ravages of the
disease, lvuin, more rain, is what we
want.
Decidedly’, this is the most terrible
point, of the plague; and, no doubt, to
morrow will witness a still greater exodus
of our people.
New cases since my dispatch at 1 o’clock
this evening, 8; for the day, IS*
B. E. R.
Savannah, Oct. 31. —Thirteen now yel
low fever cases at Bainbridge Thursday;
four to-day. Since the development of
the disease there has been fifteen deaths,
among them ex-Seriator Bruton. Three
deaths since yesterday!
A special to the Morning News at noon
to-day says, tho situation is more hopeful.
The dangerous cases are all improving.
Heavy’ white frost in that section lust
night - .
IO II'A EL EC TIOX.
The Des Moines State Register of tho
23d, publishes returns from eighty-three
counties, lifty-eight of which give Car
penter, (Rep!) majorities aggregating 2?!,-
20!), and twenty-six gave Vale, (Opposi
tion) majorities aggregating 8,014, mak
ing Carpenter’s net majority in the eigh
ty-three counties 18,195. Tho Register
thinks that the returns for the remaining
fifteen counties will bring Carpenters ma
jority up to 20,000, as they’ gave him a
majority of 4,849 in 1871. Os the Legis
lature the Register say's :
Twenty-eight Senators hold over, and
twenty-two were elected at the late elec
tion. The Senate will stand 35 Republi
cans to 15 Opposition. The joint ballot
will be as follow's:
Senate. House.
Republicans 85 51
Opposition 15 * 49
Republican majorities!... 20 2
This gives tlie Republicans a majority
of 22 on joint ballot. The last Legisla
ture elected two years ago, stood as fol
lows : iii
Senate. House.
Republicans 42 78
Democrats 8 22
Republican majority 34 58
This gave the Republicans a majority of
90 on joint ballot.
Last year Grant carried the State by
80,370 majority.
How many such victories as they
achieved this year, could tlie ltepubli
eaus of lowa stand ?
IE TIER FROM SA I tXX A 11.
Pulaski House, Oct. 27, 1873.
Editors Sun : We left your city yes
terday afteruoou on Conductor Jeter’s
train, which brought over a crowd of Co
lumbus people to the Macon Fair, includ
ing quite a number of charming young
ladies.
We arrived here at 8 o’clock this morn
ing, after a safe and comfortable trip,
and found the weather damp and cloudy,
with a brisk wind blowing, and plenty of
dust flying. You can readily understand,
lhereto:e, that our pedestrian excursions
about the city, have been anything but
agreeable. Cotton is now coining in
moie rapidly than it has been for some
time past, yet business is dull and money
awful scarce. The Savannah Bank and
Trust Company have issued certificates
similar to the Eagle and Phenix, which
are quite a relief, although the country
people do not like to hold them more than
twenty-four hours or lesß. Notwith
standing the hard times, however,
Col. Owen, President, and Estell, of
the Morning News, Secretaiy of the Sa
vannah Fair Association, assure us that
they are pushing ahead the arrangements
for I heir Third Annual Exhibition,to com
mence on the 17th of Nov., aud contin
ue five days. Already a sufficient number
of entries have been made to guarantee a
successful exhibition, and to this end
they propose to lend all their energies.
They are live men, clear-headed and
swift to execute what they so well plan,
aud if there is a failure in any depart
ment, as we trust and believe there will
not be, it will not result from any ineffi
ciency or neglect ou their part. They
fear nothing from the success of the Ala
con Fair, but rather believe that it will
have a tendency to add to the attractive
ness and success of their own exhibition,
iu which belief we fully share. But we
must reserve something for another let
ter to-morrow, and will close here, with
thanks to Capt. J. A. Roberts, for favors
shown ns. Sidney Herbert.
The Macon Telegraph thinks it quite
appropriate that the “Hon. A. A. Snod
derly,” who heads the delegation from
Union county. Tenu., recently arrested for
dealing iu and passing counterfeit money,
was the trooly loyal representative from
that county in old Satan Brownlow’s in
famous Legislature of 1885 and 1888.
In Galloway large crags are met with
having ancient writings on them. One
on the farm of Knockieby has cut deep
on the upper side, “Lift me up aud I’ll
tell you inqrej’ A number of people
gathered to this orag and sucoeeded in
lifting it up. in hopes of being well re
paid. Instead of findiug any gold, they
found written on it, “ Lay me down as I
was before.”
An Iliinois county clerk refused to is
sue a marriage license because the man
was only four feet high, while the woman
was six.
GEORGIA FARMS AND FARMERS.
Some Gossip About Opr Planting Princes.
Talbot county cultivated this year 29,-
000 acres in cotton Mid 20,000 in corn.
J. B. Parker, of Tolbot, cultivates 600
acres in cotton and 400 in corn;
Davie, 40(4 acres in cotton : W. K. Gor
man, 495 acres in cotton and 150 in corn;
Jas. Allen, 525 in cotton and 250 in corn ;
and W. A. Daniel 500 in cotton and 250 in
corn.
Ninety farmers of Tolbot county culti
vate each exceeding lUO acres, in cotton,
twenty-one each over 200 acres, thirteen
each over .'too acres, and four each over
400 acres.
Mark A. Hudson, the champion joker
of Georgia, and well known in this com
munity, is planting in Terrell county. He
cultivates nine hundred acres iu cotton,
sixty-five in oats and three hundred in
corn.
Terrell county cultivates 25,000 acres
iu oof ton and 20.000 in corn.
J. It. Jones, of Terrell county, culti
T. K. and S. K. Taylor own jointly a
farm in Terrell, on which they cultivate
550 acres in cotton, 150 iu oats and 425
in corn.
Next to those of Col. Lee Jordan and
Lee, and John A. Cobb, of Sumter, and
Jerry Walters and T. It. Willingham, of
Dougherty, the plantation of Messers.
Tarvor & Bros., of Twiggs county, is the
largest in the Slate. The Tarver Bros,
cultivate 1,800 acres iu cotton, 100iu oats
and 000 in corn.
Twiggs county plants more cotton iu
proportion to wealth than any county in
Georgia.
G. W. Paulk, of Twiggs, cultivates 750
acres in cotton and .800 in corn.
Twenty-five planters iu Twiggs culti
vates each, over 100 acres in cotton; forty,
each, over 200 acre--; twenty, each, over
500 acres; ten, t toil, over 400; four, each,
over 500 acres, two, each, over 000; and
one over 1,800.
D. G. Hughes, of Twiggs, cultivates
550 acres in cotton, and 025 in corn;
Lemuel Burkett 500 acres in cotton and
175 in corn; Win. Paulk, 550 in cotton
and 500 in corn; C. R. Paulk, 400 in
ton and 400 in corn; and James F. Glover,
580 acres iu cotton aiul 500 in corn.
Twiggs cultivates 28,000 acres in cot
ton. — Atlanta Herald.
General Joe Johnston on the War. —
At last we are to have from one of the
greatest of Southern Generals his account
of the war. We refer to Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston, whose history of his campaigns
is soon to he published in an octavo vol
ume by the Appletons. It is to be em
bellished with portraits of distinguished
officers and maps of the various scenes of
operations. Beferriug to the forthcoming
work the New York World says:
This is a careful and deliberate account
from the pen of Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, of the Confederate army, of the
events which preceded his removal from
the command of the Southern forces
operating against Gen. Sherman in Ten
nessee and Northern Georgia. Military
men have long been aware of the deci
sive effect of that removal in favor of Gen.
Sherman and of the Union cause. It was
the personal act of Jefferson Davis, re
solved upon and carried out by him in
defiance of the counsel and in contempt
of the remonstrances of the ablest sol
diers of the Southern army: and as Gen.
Johnston can have no motive now for
with-holding the whole truth in regard to
the matter, the story he has to tell will
have a real value far the political as well
as for the military history of the great
American conflict.
FIENDISH OUTRAGES IN LOUIS
IANA.
lielioyy’s Minions the Perpetrators or lu
stif/ators —A Horrible Stul l/.
New Orleans, Nov. I.—A letter from
ex-Judge Merill, dated Colfax, Grant par
ish, Oct, 29th, says: “Iu haste, and with
feelings of horror, I write to inform the
public of the action of the Metropolitan
Polico sent here by Lt. Gov. Antoine dur
ing the absence of Gov. Kellogg. On
Saturday night last the house of a most
respectable widow lady on Red river was
fired into near this place, doors were bro
ken open, and the unfortunate lady and
her daughter of seventeen summers were
taken out, anti horribly to relate, violated.
Neither of the ladies could be found un
til late Sunday afternoon. An infant, 18
months old, and a’grand child of ex-Gov.
Wells, was found out in the woods, some
half mile from the house and near the
spot where the fop) deed w-gs perpetrated.
The infant was the niece of the lady and
the child of Mumford Wells, the oldest
son of ex-Gov. Wells. The negroes up
here all say that it was the soldiers, and
we alt believe if they were not the perpe
trators they instigated negroes to the
horrid deed of infamy. It. is said here
that when Col. Deklyne was informed
of the outrage lie smiled, and said his
troops were up hero for a higher purpose j
than arresting men for such petty offence. 1
Antoine is believed to have sent these |
creatures up hereto give negrops a chanco t
for revenge, and one of them told the |
writer that he bed the right now, under
Hie protection of tho United States to j
shoot any white limn lie wanted to shoot
and violate any woman he met. He said !
to him that those were Slate troops and
not United States, and he replied that the
Colonel had said at a negro ball the uight .
before that he wanted all colored poople
to come and see him, that now they could
do as they pleased, as they were under
the protection of his soldiers.
The greatest herdsman in the world is
the title claimed for Samuel W. Allen, of
Texas, who owns 225,000 cattle. He has
one rauehe eighty miles long and forty
miles wide between the Nevada and Colo
rado rivers, the largest on the continent,
which pastures 120,000 cattle, Two oth
ers accommodated respectively 70.000 and
35,000. These cattle all subsist on native
grasses of a part of Texas. His herds
require the attention of at least 400 herd
ers and branders and the use of 3,000
horses. He brands 00,000 calves every
year to keep up the supply. The value of
his stock, exelnsinat:of the ]nud, exceeds
five million and a half. He is the chief
meat purveyor of New Orleans and the
neigh boring counties of the Golf coast.
As an evidence of the suffering in our
city, we state that wo know of ladies w ith
families, who have money due them suffi
cient to keep them above want or charity,
who are compelled to ask charity of the
Mayor. We have seen the blood mantle
their cheeks, the tear drop in their eyes,
as they accepted aid to keep their little
oues from starving. Montgomerians
abroad think of thm, and open yonr
hearts and purses too. — Stytf Journal
The Memphis Avalanche gives the fol
lowing item : Asa part of the hißtory of
the ravages of the scourge in North Mem
phis, vve place on record the fate of the
inmates of the boarding house known as
the Mississippi House, corner of Market
and Front streets. The landlord is -Toe
Sanford, whose family consisted of a
wife and two children. In this house
were eighteen boarders. Os all these,
there were only Joe Sanford and one j
boarder who survived. All the rest, twen
ty, died.
Montgomery —There were four burials
in our cemetery on Sunday, October 20ih,
as follows : I'edro, Gam-made, aged 34.
yellow fever; Emma Bartelot, aged lfi, yel
iow fever; John C. Jones, aged 2(i, yellow
fever. All white. There were Seven bur
ials in our cemetery yesterday, as fol
low’s: Ira Moses, white, aged 20, typhoid 1
fever; Fannie Schields, white, aged 37,
yellow’ fever; Ruth Britton, white, aged
19, yellow ; A. G. Fawcett, white, aged
33, yellow fever; Mary Ann Padgett, !
W’hite, aged 33. abscess: child of Ander
son Moufee, white, nonresident; Levinia,
colored, infant.— State Journal , 28 th.
The Colorado papers are bragging over i
the wonderfully restorative effects of tbcii 4
climate upon an Ohio lady, who could not
sweep her room at home, but shortly after
her arrival in Colorado was able to chase
her husband a mile with a pitchfork.
A Chinaman came down one of the
main streets of Millerton, California, on
election day, in a state of exaltation, ind
thus delivered himself: ‘‘Hoop, la! me all
same Melican man. Hair cut short and
drunk like h—ll. Hoop, la!
An Ohio woman lately traveled with
one ticket., four trunks, two bandboxes, a
flower pot, poodle dog. umbrella, jug of
milk, lunch basket, a paper sack full of
peaches and a boy of fifteen whose age
she gave as nine.
A lady of thp shoddy aristocracy at St. 1
Joe found, on returning from a walk,
some call cards on her table. She called
a servant in great haste, saying : “Tom, i
Tom, take these and run quick! Them
ladies is forgot their tickets. ”
A dispatch from Calcutta, Oct. 30th,
says: “Advices from all parts of Bengal
show the failing crops and famine is in
evitable.”
A. & W. SPRAGUE,
AFFAIRS EEX tINSEi'TLEV.
Their Assets Sl9,49Bf437—Linhilßies
SI 1.473,443—Pr0per'!/', to 1,0
J’laved- in the iSond* »*/
Th ree Tru s tees.
Providence, K. 1., Nov. 1. — An ad
journed meeting of the bank representa
tives was held at noon to-day, when the
i report of the committee appointed to ex
amine tho affairs of A. A W. Sprague, was
! presented.
The committee say they consider the
assets of A. A W. Sprague, manufacturers,
to amount to $19,495,427, and the liabili
ties to $11,475,445, leaving a surplus of
$8,081,084. A detailed statement of the
property accompanies the report. The
committee further say it is difficult to de
termine whether a mortgage on the prop
! orty would be solid and free from ob
j jections under tho provisions of the
Bankrupt Act. They were compelled to as
certain whether the amount of aid asked
would, in all reasonable probability, be
sufficient to enable the Company to meet
i its maturing obligation in its regular
I course of business. The unsettled coudi
; tion of financial affairs and of business
I at tho present time, and the large amount
of obligations of tho Company nia
| turing during the next ninety days,
| precludes the possibility of your com
mittee reporting that the sum of
$1,000,000 would enable the Company
; to meet its engagements regularly in
■ the future; and as iu event of
i failure to do so the solidity of the security
! might be questioned. Your committee,
| under advice of counsel, are of the opin
i ion that the sum asked for cannot he
| safely furnished. Upon coming to this
conclusion your committee were reqnest
! ed by tho Company to express their
i recommendation of a course to he
‘ taken, under the circumstances, to enable
the company to secure to its creditors
payment of their claims and preserve, as
far as possible, from shrinkage this vast
available property ,in the hands of the
company. They, therefore, recommend
that the" A. A W. Sprague Manufacturing
Company, and individuals comprising
| that corporation, mortgage all their prop
! erty to three trustees, who shall praeti
! eally have all control and management of
the entire property, these trustees to issue
notes to an amount which shall fully
cover the amount of the present indebt
edness, these obligations having three
years to run, and drawing semi-annual
interest at the rate of 7 3-10 per cent, per
annum, with the right reserved to pay five
per cent, of the debt as often as in their
judgment shall be practicable.
It is believed that all the creditors will
accept these evidences of indebtedness,
and if the trustees have the full authority
asked for them, they will be able to avert
a great calamity to thousands of opera
tives, make the mill property valuable,
prevent an immense further shrinkage of
values, and pay’in full the indebtedness of
the A. A W. Sprague Manufacturing Com
pany, together with that of all its depend
ing establishments. It being the duty of
trustees to convert property and pay debts
at as early a day as possible, and it is not
unlikely that the whole indebtedness may
be cancelled in much less time than three
years.
[Signed] James Y. Smith, A
Rufus Waterman, [ .
Zeth Padelford, j
Geo. F. Wilson, J
A meeting is now in session, and will
probably adopt the suggestions of the
committee iu some form.
LATER.
A report has been received from the
counsel of Sprague’s corporation, an
nouncing that trust deeds were being
made to Gov. Henry Howard, Rufus Wa
terman and ex-Gov. James Y. Smith.
The deeds would be submitted to a meet
ing of the creditors, and if not accepted
the alternative would bo to go into bank
ruptcy. The feeling generally prevails
that the deeds of trust will he accepted.
—
tt: 1.1: ait aphi c item s.
Copper works iu London, valued at
three hundred thousand pounds, have
been destroyed.
The Ohio, with 1,058 bales of cotton,
252 passengers and assorted iron costings,
has sailed from Philadelphia.
Trustees of Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn., have made Spaulding, Bishop 'of
Colorado, a D. D.
The Rank of Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
has gone into liiquidation.
Sir Wm. Bovell, lord chief justice of
common pleas, is dead.
The police authorities of Now York
have ordered that boxes be placed at
various polling booths throughout the city
on Thursday next, for the purpose of re
ceiving subscriptions in aid of Memphis
sufferers.
Amount of coin iu the Treasury is over
$82,250,000; currency over $4,7,59,000.
The President has apointed Isaac H. |
Sturgeon, of St. Louis, to examine the |
complete portion of the Texas A Pacific
Railroad, some throe hundred miles.
The Secretary of the Treasury has just
issued his seventh call for the redemption
of five-twenty bonds of 1862.
One thousand dollars was subscribed to
the Centennial Stock, in Macon yesterday.
The Schooner, H. G. Hand, from New
York to Jacksonville, Fla., with a full |
cargo, is ashore off St. John’s bar; goods |
a total wreck.
New York,
sand working girls ousted from the dis- 1
fereut factories of Newark, N. J. The !
Zinc Works at Trenton discharged thirty
h^nds.
pO US T D’CHAMUORD.
Pa uts, Oct. 31.—C0q;4 DeChambord
has written a strong letter to a delegation
of the party of the right. He owes the
whole truth to the country. He is asked
to sacrifice his honor. He retracts noth
ing, curtails nothiug, of his previous de
clarations. He cannot inaugurate a
stormy reign by an act of weakness.
“Were l enfeebled to-day, I should be
powerless to-morrow.” The Count resis
ted urgent appeals to modify his letter,
but insisted upon its publioatiou verba
tim. Furloughed officers of the Freuch
army have been ordered to return to their
posts. The Royalist’s committee consid
er Chambord’s letter fatal to a Monarch
ical coalition. Chanibord declines con
cessions. His letter concludes: "France
cannot perish, because Christ loves her.’
There was a special Cabinet meeting
at Versailles last night.
RES TOR A TIOX OB .VOX ARV li Y
A RAX DOSED.
Paws, Oh. 31.-It is reported, that in
consequence of the position mentioned
by DeChamhrd, in his letter to M. He
Oheeuelong, all tropes of restoring mon
archy has been abandoned. It is prot>.
ble the conservative deputies in the as
sembly will vote in favor of prolonging
the term of Vice-President McMahon.
SIX ACRES BURXED OVER.
About Eighty Houses In Ruins.
Syracuse, N. Y. Oct. 27. —A fire broke
out in Cauastota last uight, which was
quenched this morning, after burning
over six acres of territory, destroying
three hotels, thirty two dwellings and be
tween forty and fitir places of business
The total loss is estimated by insurance
agents at $150,000 ; total inserance sllO,-
000. The tjre was undoubtedly iucen
diary. The business portion of the town
w’as all destroyed, except the Beecher
Block. The citizens held a meeting to
night and passed resolutions inviting pe
ouuiary aid of the charitable everywhere,
and appointing Mr. D. 11. Rasbacht,
Cashier of Conastota Batik, to receive anv
contributions. A committee was also ap
pointed to investigate the cause of such
frequent fiiys.
TOH SCOTT'S LOASS.
New York, Oct. 20. —Tom Scott, who
has re:urned from Europe, confirms the
report of his having effected a loan of
ten million dollars for the Pennsylvania
Railroad. He likewise effected arrange- :
ments so that work will not have to be
suspended on the Texas and Pacific Rail
road, although he was unable to close suc
cessfully negotiations for the sale of
bonds.
SOUTH CAROIIXA STATE FAIR.
Columbia, Oct. 29.-The Stale Fair
of South Ooaoliua opens on the 11th and
closes on the 14th of November. Prepara
tions are being made for a large crowd.
The exhibition promises to be tbe best
ever made in tbe State. The turf will bo
well represented. ,
SAFE TO RET URX TO VOX TCI OV
ER Y.
Montgomery, Nov. I. — The Board of
Health announces that it is safe for refu
gees to return, and those who have busi
ness can visit the city with impunity.
Memphis, Nov. I.—Five yellow fever
deaths and one from other cause.
‘ THE STATE FAIR.
tit I RE EAY.
Immense Croirit Fresent ! I
Exhibition a Complete Success !! !
[Special Correspondence Sun.]
National Hotel, >
Macon, Oct. 30th, 1873. >
Editors Sun: We reached this over
crowded city yesterday morning, from
Savannah, in company with the boat club
of that city, who are to enter the contest
here to-day. Up to this time we have not
been able to secure a room. but. with
about fifty others, slept in a chair in the
office of this hotel last night. Hundreds
were unable to get lodgings, and many
could not obtain even a chair in which to
sleep an honrortwo. Trains are carrying
home crowds daily, yet greater crowds
surge in to fill their places to overflowing.
Distinguishedgentlemen and well-known
planters are here from all parts of the
j State, and the greatest enthusiasm pre
vails over the grand display in all the ag
! ricnltural and mechanical departments.
Wo sent you a brief dispatch last night,
of yesterday’s proceedings, and have but
j little to add, except of an unimportant
character.
! The Great Eastern Mammoth Circus
! and Menagerie, with its twelve tents,
, looms up amid the forest trees like a
j smalt canvass city. Its street pageant is
| most magnificent and imposing, and its
j like was never before seen iu this section
lof the country. It made a grand inarch
! through the Park yesterday morning,
with two bauds, in golden chariots, and
a steam piano in full blast. Added to
these was the attraction of wild beasts
loose on the top of their carriages and
seven elegantly dressed female eques
trians. The procession was of such
length that one portion was constantly
passing another portion. The effect was
quite imposing, and resulted in drawing
an immense crowd to the tout perform
ances. The balloon ascension at noon
was quite successful, and was witnessed
by a great concourse of people.
The races are quite spirited and attract
ive, and the regatta to-day is already
much talked about. The arrival of the
Governor’s Guards, of Atlanta, in tlieir
handsome uniforms, has created a great
excitement in military circles here, and it
is expected that Friday and Saturday will
he the grand days of the Fair —that is, so
far as the fair sex is concerned, to whom
citizen-soldiers are always “such dear,
handsome fellows."
Sidney Herbert.
FOURTH DAY.
Macon, Ga., October 30th.
The day has been fine. Fifteen thous
and people have attended the Fair.
Cobb county makes a great display of
horses and will take the one thousand
dollar premium for the best county dis
play.
In tho luppudroui stallions, mares,
colts jacks and jennets and Georgia raised
mules were exhibited. A number were
splended animals. As entries are only
announced by numbers, I can not give
any particulars.
Tbe running race, mile heats for $350 —
$250 to first and SIOO to second, »>as won
by Frank Hampton iu 1:48] and I:49k*
The contest was a splendid one—being
almost nick and nick with Marapoosa.
There were three entries for the two
mile heats —best two in three—for S3OO.
The race was won by' W. G. Hardin’s
mare Moselle, iu 3:46, and 3:45. H.
Wood’s Jim Hinton made a close contest.
The boat race was a failure. The seat
of the boat in which the Empire boys
rowed, broke, ami the Forest City crew
went over the course alone.
Governor Smith, Senator Gordon, Ex-
Governor Johnson, and other distinguish
ed men are here.
The Governor’s Guards, from Atlanta,
arrived to-day.
FIFTH DA K.
Fine Day— lmmense Crowd —Magnificent
! IU Hilary Display—Boat ltace not yet
| Decided.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 31.
I Six foil companies and detachments
from several others are here.
The Atlanta Cadets, Savannah Cadets j
and Governor’s Guards, of Atlanta, went j
through the prize drill to-day. The Sa- \
vannah Cadets did splendidly and called I
forth applause on every side, and it is |
freely admitted that they will win the J
prize. The Macon Volunteers and Geor- j
gia Zouaves, drill to-morrow.
Hammond defeated Titcomb iu the
scull race.
The Empire Club and Forest City Club,
rowed again to-day. After half a mile
pull the Empire boat run into the Forest
City and they claim a foul. It has not
yet been decided by the judges.
The Macon City prize of $250, for best
buggy horse, was awarded to Heggie. of
Augusta.
The display was large and magnificent.
Sidney Herbert.
SIXTH DAY.
Thu Croted* I.rtttint/ — Brize*—Saeattaah
Cadet* Carrie* Off Brize Tar be.it Drill
iny — E.eeititttj Rare Tar the stiaO Bar*e,
Special dispatch to the Sun.]
Macon, Ga., Nov. 1.
Notwithstanding immense crowds left
last night and this morning by every train
leaving the city, yet there is a full at
tendance at the Fair grounds.
PRIZES.
There was a tine display of horses and
mules to-day. Col. Salter, of Dougherty
county, was awarded the prize of $250.
for the best six-mule team.
THE BRUNSWICK BRASS BAND
took the premium as the best brass band.
The prize was $250, and SSO extsu per
day for their music.
THE SAVANNAH CADETS,
for being tbe best drilled company on the
Fair grounds, was awarded the $750
prize.
GRAND MILITARY DISPLAY.
There was a grand military display of
all tbe companies contesting for the prize
at the close of the drill by the “Atlanta
Zouaves”and “Macon Volunteers.” The
contest was close between Macon and Sa
vannah.
TROTTING RACE.
The s(>so prize for trotting horses, best
three in live, was run this afternoon. A
horse named “John Chambers,” won the
third, forth and fifth heats, time 2:3(»j,
2:40 and 2:57. Prize SSOO. "Little Mack”
was second, winning the SIOO prize; ami
“Basil Duke” third, taking the SSO prize.
Sidney Herbert.
GREAT REDUCTIOX 111 COT I'OX
MU.IS.
\ Thirty-Five Mills at Fall River, Massa
chusetts, to Run Prvr Hays KacU
Week and Right Hours
tier Hay.
i Fall River, Mass., Oct. 30.—A meeting
of the representatives from the different
cotton manufacturing corporations in
this city, was held at the Board of Trade
rooms last evening, for tbe purpose of
considering the question of reducing
the working time in the mills.
The various mills were represented.
After hearing reports from the different
establishments, ami discussions on the
subject, it was voted, on and after ’lues
day, November 4th, to run nulls on halt
lime—four days of each week aud eight
hours a day. All tLe mills, thirty-nine
j in number, came into this arrangement,
except Mechanic and Border City, which
have contracts for the month of* Novem
ber, and the Robeson and Fall River Piint
Work Mills. These mills employ 14,000
operatives, and w’hen trt full operation,
the monthly pay-rolls amount to about
$450,000.
Osw’ego, N. \ Oct. 31 -Hoyt, Sprague
A Co.’s woolen mills closed; 500 ousted.
Providence. 11. I , Oct. 31 —The notes
of A. A W. Sprague went to protest this
afternoon.
THAT DEE A UITIX O CASHIER.
New’ York, Oct. 29. —Judge Benedict
decides in the T*iliter case that the evi
dence by the defence, that ’lVinter act
ed by advice of the President and Direc
tors of the Bank, is inadmissable. Tain
ter is the defaulting Cashier of the Atlan
tic Bank.
THE BO BE AX It THE KAISER.
London, Oct, 29.—Sir Henry Holland,
author and physician is dead.
The Time* has a special which says that
the Pope has written a second letter to the
Emperor of Germany. Its contents have
not yet transpired.
BODGE ,t- CO.
New Fork, Oct. 29.—Proceedings in
bankruptcy commenced against Dodge A
Cos. prominent in last summer’s lumber
combination, which placed six millions
of paper on the market.
London, Nov. 1.-—Mount -Etna is ac
tually erupting, with violent eaithquakes.
ji, 11 15 CLAFLIX k CO.
—.- -
THE tit RUMORED SUSPENSION
la a Tight—But “Failure Impossible.”
New To’.k. Nov. I—Consequent upon
the rumor of tho sus|>etisiou of II p
Chitlin A Cos., a reporter called at thcii
establishment ibis morning and received
■ thefollowing information from Mr. Deaim,
one of the junior partners. He said : \V 0
1 desire the phlilie to know everything. \v,.
Ido not wish to screen a single fact. It j s
true, we are suffering a little embar a.s
! meat by having allowed some accounts tu
, mature, but as regards notes they have all
! been promptly' met. We don’t sell our
1 own paper, but we do that of other houses
with our endorsement. Perhafw one of
* the principal causes that have led to (>lil
| present embarrassment, is that we over
1 reached ourselves in our endeavors to
assist Hoyt, Sprague A Cos. I don't cam
jto say we purchased of them to n 1( .
amount of a million this week, but we
| bought very heavily. We are now nego
: tialing for assistance from some batiks
and other corporations, and if such assis.
■ tanceisnot obtained, the firm will ask f,. r
; nil extension upon open accounts; notes
will he met at maturity, current receipt
j being ample for that purpose. Failure
lis sitnplt/ impossible. Our assetsaiv far j. t
i excess of our liabilities.
Later.—H. B. Claflin A Cos., notified the
associated hanks at their meeting to day.
through one of its members, that they
were not in need of any assistance.
WESTERN CROPS, HOGS, *C,
Jacksonville, Ills., Oct. 51.—Crop re
ports indicate, as compared with 1872
Corn, lass of 26 per cent.; Wheat, gain of
6] per cent.; Oats, loss of 9 per cent.;
Hay, loss of 7 per cent. The proportion
cf soft corn is very heavy. This indicates
light hogs this winter. lowa and Indiana
report increasing of hog cholera.
MEMPHIS- CITIZENS RETURN 1 \ t,
Memphis, Oct. 31.—Three yellow fever
deaths, four from other causes. The in
ward bound trains are crowded. Weather
clear and cold. A splendid gold cross,
presented to Miss Lula Wilkerson. as a
testimonial of her devotion to tho afflict
ed, was stolen from her last night on
her departure from the city.
DECISION ON THE BANKRUPT
LA W.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 31.—Judge Bond
decides that a suit in bankruptcy must hu
governed by the laws existing when pro
ceedings are commenced. This defeat-.,
in many cases, large exemptions allowed
by State laws and recent amendments to
the bankrupt act.
S TOKES’ S ENTENCE\
New York, Oct. 3ft.—ln the Stokes’
case, a verdict of manslaughter iu the
third degree was rendered. He was sen
tenced to four years hard work. Judge
Davis said -.
“In recording this verdict, Stokes,
the jury have exhausted, and more than
exhausted, all mercy in your case. No
appeal to the court can diminish the sen
tenee, for the highest penalty affixed by
the statute in the degree in which you are
convicted, and that is too light and ap
parently trifling as compared with tho
great crime you have committed.”
Stokes was surrounded and embraced
by his male relatives, and then hurried to
the Tombs.
THE INDIANA KU-KH \.
Fil/litinft for u Court-house.
Richmond, Ind . Oct. 29.—A mob of
disguised (Kuklux) men, sixty strong, at
tacked a party of seven deputy sheriffs,
guarding the jail at Centerville, which the
workmen were tearing down to remove
from here to the new county’ seat. After
firing 10ft shots from small arms, without
serious results, a six-pounder camiou load
ed with spikes, nails and scrap iron was
tired at the doors, which being demolish
od, the mob occupied tho Sheriff’s resi
dence, which forms a part of the jail
building. After a parley the deputies
surrendered conditionally.
Thirty men occupied the jail to-night,
when another attack by a large party with
a small connon from Cambridge City, is
expected. Richmond is threatened with
an attack for the purpose of taking the
county records back to Centerville. One
hundred armed men with a captured can
non from Centerville, are now here await
ing the Sheriff's order.
THE RAZAIXE TGI At..
Paris, Oct 30. -In the Bazaine trial
to-day, Mr. Flohant, a messenger, testi
i tied tliat under fear of capture by tbe en
! emy he swallowed a dispatch which lie
i was carrying from Tiiiunville to Metz
| The dispatch was received and delivered
I to officers at headquarters in Metz on 291 h
; August, but was by them thrown in the
; fire unread. Lieut. Nognrs swore tfiAlt he
: fruitlessly attempted to deliver tho lia
I zaine dispatch entrusted to him on the
| 23d of August by the Empress. He ml
j mited, after much prevarication, that ho
was also bearer of a dispatch to_Genera!
Bourbok.
EFFECT OB THE FAILURE OS TUI
MARKETS.
New York, Oct. SO. —The failure of
Hoyt, Sprague A Cos., caused a heavy dc
cline in the values on the Stock Exchange
and Uepre*iiou outside. The restoration
iif confidence previously going mi-has
f received a check, which can only be looked
! upon as a public calamity in the present
| condition of the market.
The advance of the rate of discount to
: day has caused a decline hero in both gold
I and foreign exchange.
1 SUSPEXSIOX OF RE AST FIRS I
CBS.
I ~
j New York, Oct. 30. —A dispatch from
' Pittsburg, Pa., says the blast furnaces ot
1 Morehead ACo , on the Monongohaluriver,
have suspended, ami said suspension fore
shadows the closing up of the remainder
i of such furnaces in this city, and Mahon-
I ing and Shenaugo Valleys. There an-eight
, of these furnaces employing about to Oi-n
' men.
IIE AII II OF SA VA XXA It
The Fever at Hainl>ri<4(e.
I Savannah. Oct. 30. —The mortinu vie
I port shows Savannah to Ue more healthy
i than any previous season, there ben
i only sixteen deaths this week from all
causes.
' Reportsfrom Bain bridge state that there
j are live new cases of fever. Bainbridgo
. is 232 miles southwest of Savannah.
H SIIIXG TOX I TEMS.
Washington, Oct. 30. —Tire Prescient
has accepted an invitation to lay the cm
ner stone of a Now Y'ork museum.
Saville, chief clerk in the Treasury I'
partmout, goes to Europe on business con
nected with the Syndicate.
Secretary Richardson says if the forth
cuniing debt statement does not show
over s'.,oo<l,(M)o increase he will not be
disappointed.
AUOUTTHE BUaiLISTS—OSE S U>>‘
St. Louis, Oct. 30.—Patsey Mulrey, «l •
was to have a mill in and same ring with
Allen and Hogan, was fatally shot in float
of McCool’s saloon. MeCool has I•. n
arrested. Fitzgerald saw McCord shoot
Mulrey. Several others have been sne
ted. The Allen and Hogan fight has been
adjourned to Canada.
EA II VII ES IX BEXXS VIYA -V T I
Philadeli hia, Oct. 20. The iiewrf
per Age is advertised for ssle. Morgan
Young, proprietor.
A. L. Tennis A Cos , ilrv poods mer
chants, have sii'gendf and. Liabilities >»••*’
000. They will be able to pay 75 or M 1
The house sold two millions annually.
Wm. M. Lloyd, banker, of Allentown,
suspended. Lloyd has half a dozen offices
throughout the State.
El All RE OF A EOXDOX HOl*'
London, Oct. 30. —The failure of i
house which has been dealing in Fri- I!
R-, shares is announced. The Pull !/>'
(fazette, alluding to the occurrence in |IH
financial article, says: The house late!'
leceived orders from Jay Gould to s*-9
50,000 shares of Erie, and took the st'>' >■
personally as buyers.
MORE SUS BENS IOX S.
New York, Oct. 30.—Suspensions "I
Williamson, Schmidt A Cos., produce
porters, aud Hoyt, Sprague A Cos., an
aunouucod.
SBA XlSir ABBA IRS.
Madrid, Oct. 31.—Troops are besiegin'
Cartagena, which has been reinforced 1 ?
5,000.