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Mr. Gcokue Martin ha.-
of the Demosthenian Society, of
University.
The Carteraville Car Factory furnished the State
road twent,-seven now can during the past two
weeks.
Mu. Kniohtley Stewart baa become pro
prietor of the JBlackshear Georgian, Mr. H. W.
Grady retiring. Mr. B. T. Allen remains as edi
tor.
Tub Executive Committee of the Agricultural
Society oi Cobb county instructed their delegate
to Augusta to enter Cobb county for the SI,OOO
premium, offered by the State Fair to be held at
Macon in October, for the best county display.
An election will be held at the court house in
February 20th instant, to determine
whether or not the city shall appropropriate $25,-
000 in bonds to the University, to be used in the
construction of a building for the College of Ag
riculture and Mechanical Arts.
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A private telegram received in Atlanta last
week from Senator Norwood, announced that the
Senate had relieved the disabilities of Hon. J. W.
11. Underwood, Hon. L. J. Gartrell. Hon. A. Iver
son, Gen. LaFayete McLaws, Hon. R. J. Crawford,
Hon. B. C. Yancey, and General Goode Bryan.
Mu. Stephens delivered an address in Augusta,
Wednesday, before an immense audience. A mo
tion was made by Mr. T. C. Bridges, at the con
clusion of his speech, that Mr. Stephens be the
candidate of the Democracy ol Richmond county
tor Congress was received with deafening ap
plause, and carried unanimously.
Tub Eatouton Messenger has lost the adverti
sing of the Ordinary, who hss transferred it to the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger. We don’t see
that the Eatouton man can help himself much.—
Havannah Advcrlurr.
We cannot see how, under the code, the Ordi
nary of Putnam could do any such thing.
The Legislature of Georgia lias appointed a
committee to consider the subject of establishing
jan asylum for inebriates, to report at the next
session as follows : Rev. L. R. Gwaitney of Rome,
Dr. It. D. Arnold of Savannah, Dr. W. E. Dearing
of Augusta, Dr. Bam White of Milledgevalle, Dr.
W. W. Flewellen of Columbus, Dr. H. H. Carlton
of Athens, T. G. Holt, Jr., of Macon, Dr. J. P.
Logan of Atlanta and Dr. J. L. Hamilton of De-
Kalb.
The President having signed the act of Cor.
gross, Atlanta is certain fo get Government build
ings, provided the city fills the requirements made
on her. The bill provides that “ the City Council
of Atlanta shall donate to the Government some
lot or lots of land in said city, suitable for the
purpose of erecting a convenient and durable
building to be used as a post office, U. 8. Court
room, etc., The material to be brick or stone,
and the sum total expended to be one hundred
ami ten thousand dollars, all under the supervision
of the Secretary of the Treasury.”
Tub Columbus Sun says: A lady informs us
that ou last Friday a negro woman died in Col
umbus aged 116 years. A daughter 84 years old,
ami a graudebild of titty or sixty winters lived with
her. The name of the centenarian was Littie Ter
ry. She was once the slave of the father of Col.
F. G. Wilkins’ first wife. She reported that she
had cut her third set of teeth since six years ago.
After using spectacles for a long period her sec
ond eyesight returned, and in her later days she
could see as well as when a child. She said she
was quite a large girl during the revolutionary
war; was stolen by speculators flora Maryland,
brought to this section and sold to a gentleman,
in whose family she remained until after the sr
render in 1865
Coi- Alexander, one ot the firm that has the
Penitentiary convicts hired, informs the Griffin
News that Dr. Harrison Westmoreland, convicted
of an assault with an intent to murder some
months siuce, in Fulton Superior Court, and sen
tenced to six years’ imprisonment, is now a per
fect wreck, having lost his mind, and the Colonel
Is of the opinion that the Penitentiary is no place
for him. He has all the characteristics of a gen
tleman, aud has exhibited the noble traits of hu
man nature to a greater extent than any man he
has under him. He is now an object of pity, and
is perfectly useless in his present place, and it
would doubtless be a relief to the officers, to him
self and family, and the ends ot justice would have
beeu lully meted out if he were released.
This Legislature has passed one bill for the pro
tection of the planting interests. Section 1 pro
vides that municipal corporations of this State
shall not levy or assess a tax on any agricultural
products or the sales thereof until after the expi
ration of three months from the time of their in
troduction into said corporations. Section 2
cuacts that no commission merchant, factor or
other salesman in this Slate shall, in his bill of
expenses for the sale or handling of cotton, or
other produce, ae aforesaid, include or collect,
directly or indirectly, any tax or assessment,levied
or attempted to be levied, upon the sales of cot
ton and other produce, by any of said corporations
In violation of the provisions of the first and sec
ond sections ot the bill; and in case of violation
of the same be shall be liable to the party damaged
by such violation ' ?. the sum of fifty dollars for
every dollar so collected in an action of debt by
s:iid party. Section 3 repeals conflicting laws.
Tub Herald iulorms us that among the “1001”
interesting features ot the Young Men’s Library
Association, Atlanta, are to be found a file of
Timarthy and Maiou’s Gazette Extraordinary,”
printed in Savannah in 1764. The leading article
in this paper is a letter from John Milligan, on his
travels in Charles'on, to his brother in Savannah.
There is, also, a yaper, published in 1796, in
Washington, Wilkes county, called the Monitor;
published for Savannah Hillhouse, widow ; also
the largest paper ever published iu the World. It
is called the Constellation, and is eight teet by six
feet, being one piece of payer. It is about the
size of a bed sheet, and contains eighty odd en
gravings and about one hundred and sixty col
umns ot reading matter. It was published in
Boston in August, 1559. Only one number ever
appeared. That was enough. Every body who
had anything to do with it died before the next
number was ready. It ain’t ready yet. '
urging t:.
Is understood General Toombs Opposes
his usual emphatic earnestness. ,
How the conflict will end none can foreeee with j
the least degree of certainty. We are sure to
witness an able discussion of the questions in
volved, and with the lights that will thus be pre
sented the people will be able to make up their
minds. When they do this we shall expect ac
tion on the part of their servants, pro or con, as
the case may be, and not before.
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The National Swindles.
In discussing the several points connected with
the Credit Mobilier revelation, at Washihgton,
the Radical press engaged are unanimous in ma
king light of the heavy transactions, and support
ing the members of the ring, while the Democrat
ic journals are eqally as united in bringing the
lads belore the public, and exposing the actors.
Between the two there is quite as much strife as
ther<j*has been in any partisan question; and the
probability now is that through this antagonism
we shall yet have a full exhibit ot ail the manoeu
vers and profits ol one ol the most extensive rings
ever organized in the country, if this does turn
out to be the case, the public must be benefited
provided, of course, the teachings of the school olf
experience is heeded.
8o lar as the investigation has progressed it in
volve* several of the big political fish ot the coun
try, who apparently swallowed the golden bait
freely and often. And in addition a host of the
smaller lry ulbbled to some profit—the scale of
pecuniary reward having been graduated accord
ing to the influence or importance of the specula’
tors.
Commencing with the Vice-President in power,
at the time, and the one in prospective, tLc list
grades down through a list of Senators of the
United States first; then the members of the
House come in for a share; next the lobby secures
a dividend ; the hangers on pick up a few crumbs;
and finally the money ring of the n£tbn
up the lien’s share.
The spectacle is a humiliating one for a nation Of
freemen to contemplate. The eflect cn the public
pocket has been universally felt. And the end is
not yet reached. It will take years of heavy taxa
tion to recover from the robberies perpetrated. If
this last ventilation of official dishonest peculation
fails to arouse the public to a greater carefulness
in selecting their servants, aLd watchfulness over
their actions, we shall despair of an improvemen l
and begin to think that the public Is a goose that
every adventurer is authorized to pluck.
Thb Columbus Sun records a complimen t to
Georgia, in the following paragraph:
During his recent visit to Bavannah our travel
ing correspondent had an interview with the Rev.
Daniel March, D. D., of Philadelphia, author of
“ Night Scenes of the Bible ” and other popular
works, as well as a most excellentw riter for the
press. This distinguished divine is making a tour
ot the South—partly for the benefit of his invalid
wife and partly to take notes of the condition of
things here at the present time. He expressed
himself highly pleased with what he has already
seen of the South, and thought the people here
had exercised remarkable patience and fortitude
under the despotic and rascally rule of unprinci
pled carpet-baggers and scalawags. Of the State
of Georgia he spoke in high terms of praise, and
gave it as his opinion that a glorious iutnre was
opening up before her, and that her success
would light up and cheer the darker pathway of
her less favored sister States. Nature, he thinks,
has made her what her gifted sons are determined
she shall proudly remain, the “ Empire State of
the South.”
The cotton receipts at all ports to the night of
the 7th, for the previous week, were 126,521 bales
against 114,616 bales last week, 135,493 bales the
previous week, and 136,225 bales three weeks
since, making the total receipts since the first of
September, 1871, 2,379,826 bales against 2,008,053
bales for the same period of 1871-72, showing an
increase since September 1, 1872, of 376,773 bales.
The receipts at the interior ports were 24,992 bales
and 19,970 for the corresponding week of last year
—shipments 20,691 against 21,208—stocks 85,036.
The cotton trade of the week was dull and de
pressed-growing out of the efiect of the heavy
receipts upon the European markets.
The Baltimore Sun, in an article on “Domes
tic Bervice,” says: “ There is nothing degrading
in any honest occupation; the only possible deg
radation connected with any, being possible to
all, whieta is attainable when those who follow
it neglect their duties or are faithless to their
trust. It is a great mistake to suppose that ill
manners and disobedience and faithlessness are
essential to liberty. Whether as regards the rela
tion of children and parents, or servants to those
who employ them, or of employees as any kind,
subordination is an essential virtue, and to over
throw it would make society intolerable to it
self.”
It is to be hoped that the efforts made in New
York to break np the gift concert business, will
succeed in ridding the metropolis of these great
evils. One of them was broken up by the police
last week, and several of the parties engaged in
the sale oi tickets were arrested and committed to
prison. These entertainments are nothing more
than shallow gambling operations, and in many
cases they induce persons to spend their money
whe cannot afford to be swindled of their narrow
means. If the public and the press would every
where nnite in their condemnation, they would
greatly aid the course of justice In its present at
tempt to crush them out.
Thb State Agricultural College has taken an
othei start. The Chronicle A Sentinel says:
M e are gratified to learn through an annonnee.
tnent from the President, Proiessor W. Leroy
Broun, that the State College of Agriculture is
now organized under the charge of Professor E.
M. Pendleton. A large and elegant hall baa been
fitted np for the quarters of students, who will
live in the same building with the Professor. Fifty
students who desire to enter upon their studies
immediately, will be appointed, upon application,
by the President. The tuition is free and board is
furnished at nominal rates. Appointments will
be made without regard to the counties in which
the applicants may reside.
Tub editors and publishers of newspapers in
Maine have held a meeting to prutest against the
payment of postage on newspapers sent from the
office of publication. Dispatches were sent to
Speaker Blanc and the Congressional delegation
nrgiig them to see to it.
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to sell these bonds at
eighty.‘dve or ninety cents, and pay our past due
bonds * It can now be done.
Georgia mortgage bonds are worth in New York
to-day, 88 to 90 cents, and new bonds, issued last
year, are selling at 85 to 87 cents, nearly as high as
they have ever been since the war; and much
higher than the bonds of any other Southern
State. It is, therefore useless to tell me we can’t
Bell Georgia Bonds. All these rumors about be
ing unable to sell Georgia bonds are simply in the
interest of the “compromise party.” All the
money in the world is not controlled by this com
promise party. There are parties who hold genu
ine bonds and they are interested in keeping
Georgia credit good.
Besides, there are other moneyed men that are
not afraid to loan us money. I bad an order in
New York for a month trying to get Georgia bonds
at 18>£, but did not succeed. Then tell me Geor
gia’s credit is gone. The cities of Georgia have
as good credit to-day as they ever had since the
war, and most of their bonds sell from 75 to 85
cents, while Georgia bonds are higher than the
best of them. The same may be said of railroads,
with the exception of a few that have issued too
many bonds. Why have we a half million of dol
lars idle in the treasury ? Why not use this to pay
the four hundred thousand past due bonds ? But
you say this belongs to the school fund. Cannot
one department of the State credit the other?
Again, you say there is no law for this. I say
make one to meet the case. Or you can use this
money to pay the interest on your gold bonds.
In conclusion, after reterring to the several
plans that have been presented, Mr. James adds :
Of course all these propositions and all the men
writing about this matter, are houest and are do
ing as I am—what they deem to be the interest of
Georgia. At the same time it will be well to look
out for “grease” when you hear so much about
policy and innocent bondholders. I have no
Georgia bonds, except treasury notes of the same
issue, amounting to two millions, which Andy
Johnson, in 1865 and 1566, asked us to repudiate.
I could afford to divide these bonds liberally in
order to get new orders for them; and I will
promise to loan the Legislature two millions of
dollars, at seven per cent., if they will give me
new bonds. Of course, this proposition is cot in
earnest, but siinplyt to illustrate the other.
Members of the legislature, you are not sent
here by the people to pay these bonds, ntH if
pay them, woe unib you. As I get no pay, I
not discuss the legal points.
American vs. India Cotton. —According to an
article in the Boston Globe of recent date, the cost
of growing cotton in India is said to be about sir
cents per pound, and it can be laid down In Liver
pool at B>£ cents, whereas it is claimed that the
average cost to the planter in this country is con
siderably more than that, and hence the American
artioKfin Liverpool has this disadvantage com
peting with its rival from India. The fluctuations
of the English market now regulate the amount of
cotton planted in the United States, and if India
cotton is to be made still cheaper the American
culture will, it is assumed, have to look to its
laurels. American cotton, however, is very much
superior to that of India, and hence its better
price and the greater demand for it. During the
period of lessened supply of American cotton by
reason of the civil war, the production of the
India article was greatly stimulated, but the mo
ment the American cotton was on hand freely
again and prices came down to a proportionate
standard, the inferior India article had to give
way to a very large extent. But it is now held
that the lowest limit in price and the highest
range in grade of India cotton have not yet been
reached, and the fact is cited that the recent vast
expenditures of the East India government fo r
improving and increasing the growth of this
staple have not had time to bear their full fruits.
Siuce 1860 nearly five thousaud miles of railway
have been built for developing the cotton lands ©
India, and about one-quarter of these improve
ments have been made within two years, and in
addition great expense has been bestowed upon
the river navigation of the country.
Thb Rome Commercial gives a flattering ac
count of planting prospects in that section. The
last issue says:
A drive into the country yesterday afforded us a
great degree of pleasure to witness the general
tbriftiness and cleanliness of the farms along the
roads. Plows were running, hands were cleaning
out fence corners and repairing fences, burning
brush and a general clearing up and getting ready
to take advantage of the first season to put seed
in the ground. From conversation with several
farmers, we;learn that farm work is farther ad
vanced than last year at the same season, and that
the success attending a few farmers from deep
plowing and well prepared lands has induced an
almost universal adoption of deep plowing. We
saw great heaps of cotton yet unginned and sold.
It told Its own tale—no debts to force it on the
market.
Mb. RcssbllSage, of New a jrk, a large holder
of Georgia Bonds, baa addressed a communica
tion to Hon. C. A. Nutting, Chairman of the
House Finance Committee, relative to the bill
now before our Legislature authorizing the issue
of 11,200,000 of eight per cent. State bonds In
which he says: “ The bill is unobjectionable, but
the stain of repudiation must be removed before
the State bonds of Georgia conld be disposed of
either in New York or Europe at anything like a
price that the great and influential State of Geor
gia is entitled to command.” John A. Stewart,
Duncan, Sherman A Cos., Morton, Bliss A Cos.,
Drexel A Cos., concur in the views of Mr. Sage.
Thb Columbus Sun Bays that emigration agents
have appeared in that city, and advises the peo
ple to have them arrested. One of them bae left
six hundred dollars with a Columbus negro to
work the thing up with. The Sun lnrther says
on the subject:
Several negroes who have worked their way
back, report that they were led to Arkansas by
the flattering promisee which, upon their arrival,
were not fulfilled to the least degree. The high
est wages they conld secure, on being landed on
Arkansas plantations, was sixty dollars per year,
meager rations, and an agreement was enforced
that the passage money should be refunded. These
negroes addressed several hundred, the other
night, who were going to Arkansas. After hear
ing them, they concluded to stay at home.
Thb sacks for the California grain crop last year
cost California farmers $2,450,000, or about one
eleventh of the value of the wheat crop of the
State. These sacks are made from India jute
worked np in Scotland, and the President of the
California Agricultural Society is of opinion that
the bottom lauds of that State are abundantly
capable of producing all,the jute Irequired, and
that there is enterprise enough in California to
manufacture it into bagging material.
°I Mr. Bouiweil to the Senate. In
there seems to be little, if any,
Judge Richardson will be Mr. Bout
successor, and that a successor to Judge
has already been indicated.
The Georgia Radicals after public pap, from
Grant, are numerous. The Washington corres
pondent of the Herald brings a number of them
to the front as follows :
The scramble for Georgia affairs still goes
“ bravely on,”and their is such a “mingling of
the spirits,” as would cause the old hag of Mac
beth to lay aside her hobbling stick and wonder
“ can such things be.” Farrow is here, Atkins is
here, Bethune is here, a well scented delegation
of colored brethren are here, and hundreds more
are on the via felitt. the happy way. The Presi
dent is overrun with Georgians, calling to “ pay
their respects,” Whitley is besieged with appli
cants who only want the “ scratch of his pen,” to
make them happy, and in short, the whole canopy
of the office-holder’s heaveu is so crowded with
Georgia Eu Klux slayers, with Georgia patriots
and Georgia statesmen that the President has
sagely arrived at the conclusion that the whole
State of Georgia voted en massd for him; that
Tom Hardeman alone stands, like some tall clifl
in ocean’s bed, with his life dedicated to anew
history ot the Macon massacre (?) not by Henry
P. Farrow or any other man. We can’t tell you
all of the Georgia office-seekers, but will give you
a short synopsis. For the Augusta Post office,
Prince, Benj. Corley, and William C. Dillon.
Prince will stick. For the Macoa Postoffice,
Bond and Belcher. Bond will stick, dead sure,
although tho “ colored troops ” swear that he
“ acted cowardly on the day of the not, and re
fused to protect them.” For Bpecial Agent of the
Postoffice Department, vice P. H. Howard, trans
ferred temporarily to the “ home of his fathers,”
Connecticut, Wm. C. Dillon, recently turned out
(by Prince) of the Augusta office for “cause.”
For anew District Court and 'Judgship, Henry P.
Farrow. No show. For LaGrange P. O. Loftin,
turning out the present incumbent. Fair pros
pects of success. For Collector of the Post of Sa
vannah, James Atkins, undisturbed until Robb
gets back from Texas. For Minister to Bogota,
Wm. L. Scruggs. Well indorsed and fair pros
pects for success. For Governor of Dakota, Wm.
Markham. Chances slim. Atlanta will retain
Dunning, and Columbus will keep Hogan. For
Minister to Liberia, Craft, colored, with good
prospects. For Minister to Japan, Judge Fisher,
of Augusta. No chance. These are a “ few ” of
the applications on file in the various departments
and hunted out by your correspondent For the
benefit of Georgia office-seekers, it would be well
enough to state in the Herald that the names of
Freeman and Whiteley are indispensable to attain
success. Forrow helps to run the machine, but
the Departments are disposed to inquire for Con
j first
The TtiaTmonJ*' Dispatch takes Tof promised’
visit of President Grant to the Southern States in
evidence of the improvement in the feelings and
purposes of the Administration towards the
whites of the South, aud ventures these sugges
tions :
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Gen. Butler, a few days since, proclaimed the
proffer of the hand of brotherhood and peace to
the Southern people, and the President’s official
paper ro-echoed the sentiment of Gen. Butler. This
is very significant; and Gen. Grant, it is stated, is
about to go through the Southern States to judge
for himself of the condition of the public feeling
of their citizens. He should be frankly met and
treated with the courtesy and distinction due to
the office he holds. And give ns leave to say that
he should be, moreover, treated with the regard
due to one whose harsh treatment, in many cases,
was the result of misinformation. We have al
ways believed that his natural disposition was to
be fair-minded, and had he correctly understood
the South he would have acted differently. Had
his avowed policy when he entered the Presiden
cy been carried out he would have won the sup
port and heartfelt gratitude of the whole South,
and would have had no opposition to his re-elec
tion. But his counsellors misled him, and hence
the cause of much distress and injury to the na
tional welfare.
But all these things have passed—Gen. Grant is
about to enter upon his second and last term—he
has no inducement to resentment towards any of
the people, or to use his office for his own ambi
tion, and we should by no means throw the slight
est obstacle in the way of his natural Inclination
situated and circumstanced as he is—to the side of
friendship and brotherhood between the sections
and confidence between the Government and the
people.
Therefore we suggest that it would be proper
for our city authorities to extend to Gen. Grant
the invitation to take In his route, and to receive
him the courtesy and decorum due to his high
office and to the reputation of this State and this
city. We are sure the whole people will heartily
unite in the propriety of prompt measures for this
purpose.
The Rbv. Mb. Mosheb laid a plot to bring an
Omaha gambler to a knowledge of the wickedness
of his vocation. It was to go to the gambler’s
den, and after winning all his money, to shame
the gambler by returning the money to him, and
tL*n preach a little discourse on his iniquities.
The full carrying out of the plot was interfered
with by the gambler’s winning all the money, and
the delivery of the discourse was interrupted by
tbs gambler, who pitched the Rev. Mr. Mosher
gut of doors before he had fully announced his
text.
Matob Hatembtbb of New York City was the
reform and Radical candidate for that office
against Lawrence and O’Brien, Tammany and
Apollo Hall democrats, and was elected by over
majority. He has been inside the Radical
“ring” and found out all his allies, bnt not mnch
that is good. In a recent speech he stated that he
had voted for both Grant and Dix, bnt that the
party in that State “ was led, influenced and ad
ministred by a coterie who gamble all night to
cheat each other, and intrigue all day to cheat the
people.”
Pokbb vs. Bbibbbt.— The Mexican Congress
men have a better way of managing things than
the Credit Mobiliers in the United States. A
story is told that in Mexico some representatives
of a railroad scheme lost $300,000 while playing
“ poker’’ with a party of Congressmen, and that
the Echeme immediately went through Congress.
The inference is that the game was a screen to the
bribe transferred from the pockets of the railroad
men to those of the Congressmen.
A lbttbr from Commodore Maury’s daughter to
a gentleman of New Orleans, dated Lexington,
Va., January 24, 1873, states that the Commodore
had for some time past been too ill to write or at
tend to any kind of business, bnt that then he was
considered convalescent. His death within a
week from the date of this letter must have been
wholly unexpected by his friends and relatives.
Thbbb is a livery stable keeper in New Orleans
who won’t let his horses to anybody without
exacting a promise that “he will drive slow.”
One day a youth, who wanted to go to a funeral,
applied to the livery man for ahorse. “My friend
you can have one if yon will agree to drive slow.”
“ Well, see here, I’m going to a funeral, and I’m
bound to keep up with the procession Uit kills
the horse!”
Dcarao December last Robertson county dis
tilled 33,503 gallons of proof whisky, the govern
ment tax being $23,542.
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will be ex-
Upon
HWrsioner of Inter-
IBRir Department to
H in the protection
■ned to sign the bill
he children of the
irginia, for injuries
• the United States
; the war, and not
Jongress within ton
:eiving it, it has be
fore.
he Secretary of the
ility of an immediate
• vjaomec, ana mis well depend cn
ia r-vv. :.Uy a; R.o
is 10,000,000.
HH|HKeion? are otiered Tor sale in Tampa.
grown in that place daring tlie
Bonth of January and February.
The Supreme Court has refused anew trial
to E. F. Spann, the Webster county wife-mur
derer. He will hang.
The only chance for Stokes is delay until a
full bench tests the constitutionality of the
jury law of 1872.
General Cook reports the satisfactory kill
ing of 200 Apaches since the commencement
of his campaign.
The Architect of the United States Treas
ury thinks the public btfildings in Atlanta
should be built of Georgia stone, instead of
brick, as called for in the bill recently passed.
The Lutheran estimates the number of mem
bers of the Lutheran Church in the world at
forty or fifty millions, of whom about half are
in the various Germanic States and Prussia.
Col. Benjamin May, a Representative of
Stewart, former Treasurer of the State Road,
and a late lessee, died at his plantation in
Webster county on the 11th inst
It is estimated that over 15,000 strangers
have visited Jacksonville this winter, and it is
probable that the number will be swelled to
20,000 ere the season is over.
A bill has been introduced in the Legisla
ture of Wisconsin, making it a misdemeanor
for a State officer or member of the Legisla
ture to accept a free railroad pass.
On Friday last the -whole of the Florida
State code was repealed in the House, and on
Saturday went to the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee.
Mr. Robert J. Hill, while using a log-split
ting powder machine, near Americus, was
dreadfully burned. He may lose his eye
sight
California eclipses the centenarian records
of humanity with a live frog, lately set free
from the centre of a stratum of sandstone,
which, according to Sir Win. Thompson’s
cronology, must be several million years old.
The New York Herald has sent a corres
pondent to the Modoc battlefield, named Fox.
Ke arrived in S a n Francisco last Friday, and,
after filling up with water, bought a gross of
lead pencils, and started for the front.
General Sickles has informed our Govern
ment, in a dispatch just received, that it is not
the purpose of Spain to take any steps for the
suppression of slavery in the Island ot Cuba
until the insurrection has been put down.
The coldest day, except one, for a hundred
years, was Thursday, the 30th of January, ac
cording to the averment of Professor Loomis,
of Yale College, who has kept a record that
extends back for that length of time.
The post-mortem of Governor Geary
showed that he died of syncope, caused by
nervous prostration, the result of overwork
and malarial cachexy. His brain weighed
fifty-six and a half ounces.
Several new laundries are to be established
in Washington, now that members of Con
gress can no longer send their soiled linen
home by mail to be washed, without paying
postage.
The total number of hogs slaughtered in
Cincinnati since the commencement of the
packing season—lst November—is five hun
dred and ninety-two thousand eight hundred
and eleven.
There is a religious sect at Bristol, Vt.,
who wash each other’s feet. There is also a
sect at Washington who whitewash each
other’s reputations, but it isn’t a very religi
ous sect.
Joaquin Miller is generous to his rivals —a
rare quality among poets. He has just spent
abocrt'six weeks Tennyson’s house, and is,
it is said, willing to recommend the latter
gentleman as a poet.
The late snow storms prevailed generally
throughout the North. In many sections the
railroad trains have been much interrupted,
and the people have suffered considerable
from the cold.
The New York Times says: Inquiry hav
ing been made among many members of Con
gress, it is ascertained that only a few of them
favor an extra session to be organized on the
4th of March.
The Charleston News says: “Letters re
ceived in this city, dated Alexandria, Decem
ber 29th, state that Egypt’s cotton crop will
be one hundred thousand bales less than last
year.”
The Queen’s speech, recently delivered to
Parliament, in its allusion to the complications
between England and Russia on the Khiva
question, is not indicative of as peaceful a so
lution as has been imagined, while the tone
of the English press is unmistakably warlike.
A Mr. Castela, a gentleman lately from Ha
vana, whose design it was to join the patriot
army—though he had hitherto served on the
side of Spain—committed suicide on the 25th
ultimo., at Key West, being driven to it by
the suspicions of both Cubans and Spaniards.
Right Rev. Bishop Verot has recently had
the site of the church of “ Our Lady of the
Milk,” built by Father Bias Deßodriger, in
the sixteenth century, just north of the old
fort at St. Augustine, neatly enclosed, and in
tends erecting a memorial chapel thereon.
The St. Augustine Press says: “ Mr. Kem
ble, of the United States Treasury Depart
ment, is expected here immediately, charged
with the inspection of the old custom house,
which is to be immediately repaired and fitted
up for a Federal court house.”
The total taxes of the State of Ohio for
1871-72 were $23,587,664 24; the total taxes
for 1872-73 will be $23,720,971 97, which is
more than any year of the annual expenses of
the Federal Government previous to 1832,
except during the war of 1812.
In naming the Anchor Line of steam ships
only sixteen letters of the alphabet have been
left out, the names of the thirty-four vessels
of the fleet commencing with A and ending
with V. In marine circles the line is known
as the “alphabetical line.”
Hunters ere having a lively time at the head
waters of the St. John’3. Last week a fine lot
of skins was shipped North from Palatka con
sisting of 123 otter skins, 43 bear skins, 96 ali
gator skins, 455 coon skins and 323 mink
skins.
The New York papers contain the opinion
of the surrogate admitting Horace Greeley’s
will of 1871 as his last will and testament.
Under that will all the legatees save the Child
ren's Aid Society has relinquished their
claims. But from all accounts this legacy will
take the lion’s share of the Greeley estate,
which is much whittled down by unprofitable
real estate.
The bill passed by. the United States Sen
ate on Tuesday, fixing the custom-house val
ue of the British sovereign, provides that it
shall be deemed equal to four dollars eighty
six cents and six and a half mills, and this
valuation shall be the par of exchange be
tween the United States and Great Britian,
and after January Ist, 1874, all contracts
based on an assumed par of exchange with
Great Britian of $4 44 4-9 to the sovereign
shall be null and void.
The text of Judge Davis’ decision granting
a writ of error and stay in the case of Stokes,
says that the exceptions were of such grave
importance, and their being no doubt as to
the correctness as to one portion of the charge
to the jury, it became his duty to give the
prisoner an opportunity to present-them to a
higher court The case will now go to a full
bench for a hearing. This will probably in
volve a delay of a couple of months. The
news had a cheering effect on Stokes.
Thb Confederates deetr oyed, in 1864, at Pilot
Knob, about half a million dollars worth of prop
erty belonging to Mr. Bogy, the new Democratic
Senator from Missouri. His “ loyalty” has, there
fore, cost him probably more than all the Repub
lican Senators pnt together.
l ‘ro]t<>l (i 011
IVHrproposition which 1 have submitted to the
Governor on the part of certain holders of Geor- '
gia bonds is simply this :
11 the State wiil agree to pay to the holders of
the State bonds which have been declared null i
and void, the sums which these holders have ac
tually and in perfect good faith, advanced upon
or paid for these bonds (that is to say, about sl,-
500,000 and interest,) these parties will guarantee :
that such action of the State will completely re
establish the credit ot Georgia, and enatde it to
borrow at seven per cent, a year, all the money
which it may need.
They also ask the Legislature to declare the
readiness of the State to carry out its promises as
bo ttc indorsement ot the first mortgage bonds of
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company, and
the Cherokee Valley Railroad Compny, so far,
md only so far, as the State is now constitution-
Blly and lawtully bound by such promises, when
these companies shall have complied with all of
the requirements o: the Constitution and laws ot
Georgia, and shall have also completed their re
spective roads.
If the State accept this proposition, it will have
to issue about #1,600,000 seven per cent, currency
bonds to the holders of the outstanding gold, and
currency bonds, who undertake to thereupon, re
turn to the Treasurer for cancellation :
#1,850,000 gold bonds and interest,
equivalent to $2 450 000
Currency bonds 1 500 000
Guaranteed bonds of the Bainbridge,
Cuthbert & Columbus Railroad 600 WO
Guaranteed bonds of the Cherokee Val- M
ley Railroad 300 000
Guaranteed bonds of the Cartersville St
Van Wert Railroad 275 000
Guaranteed bonds of the Brunswick &
Albany Railroad.... 3 300 OCO
IS 425 COO
This includes every bond that has been declared
null and void.
This proposition is made on the part of banks
and capitalists who own more ol the valid bonds
of Georgia than of its discredited—one of them
alone (Mr. Russell Sage) holding over $1,000,000
of good and acknowledged bonds, while he owns
only $50,000 of those which have been declared
null and void.
In this matter I represent the Foreign as well
as the American bondholders, and am authorized
to pledge the acquiescence of the holders of every
one of the discredited bonds in the proposed set
tlement. Thomas L. Skbad,
Agent of the Bondholders.
Atlanta, February YZth, 1873.
James Wilson, a heoric was
Off duty at Calmar, lowa, during one of the fierce
snow-storms, when the mercury was from twen
ty-five to thirty degrees below zero, and the wind
blowing a gale, took thirty pounds of crackers
and cheese to a blockaded passenger train seven
miles distant. He walked, and badly froae bis
face, ears and nose. John Lowler, of Prairie du
Chien, a passenger, placed upon his neck a heavy
gold chain in recognition of his self-sacrifice. The
passengers had been without food for more than
a day and a half.
Thb movements in New York to punish mur
der, do not, thus far, appear to have produced a
very profound moral effect. The Tribune of Sat
urday says, editorially:
Three new murders since one o’clock yesterday
afternoon ! A jealous husband wreaking hts ven
geance on his wife, a hot-headed boy killing his
playmate after a childish qnarrcl, and a laborer
brutally assaulting another in Hoboken. Such Is
the startling array of crime for the last twelve
hours. When is all this to end ?
A large spring has suddenly gushed out In lb e
middle of a Memphis street.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ER. . LA WSRE,
®WATCIIES,
Jewelry,
Silver Plated Ware
WATCHES AND
ALSO, AGENT FOR
Lodge and Notary Public Seals,
CANCELLATION, STAMPS, ETC.
No. 50, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
feblß-3m
TOMMEY, STEWART & BECK,
Hardware Merchants,
Cor. Decatur & Tryor Sts. fronting Kimball House,
ATLANTA, GA.
Dealers in Iron, Steel, Hoes, Chains,
Grain Cradles, Builder and Carriage Material,
Powder, Rope, Belting, Etc.
feblß.Bm
CHAPMAN, RUCKER & CO.
Wholesale Grocers
AND
Commission Merchants,
COR. ALABAMA & FORSYTH STS.,
ATLANTA, GA.
feblß.3m*
COUNTY PHYSICIAN,
GEORGIA MONROE COUNTY.
ON opening the sealed proposals for medical
attention to the inmates of the County poor
house, for the remainder of the year 1873, it ap>-
pears that Dr. R. L. Roddey has made the lowest
bid. Accordingly it is ordered that he be and Is
hereby appointed County Physician for said time.
Done Saturday, February 15, 1873.
H. G. Bban,
W. B. Mkek,
feblß.lt County Commissioners.
Dissolution.
THE FIRM OF PYE AND FLYNT IS THIS
Day dissolved by mutual consent. All who
are indebted to the firm must make payment to
the undersigned. G. G. FLYNT.
feblß.lt
Cotton Seed For Sale.
BUSHELS OF COTTON BEED, MORE
U lees, at the gin bouse two miles West of
town. Apply to R. F. Little, or Capt. E. 6. Riley
at Dan. G. Proctor & Co’s store.
feblß.lt R. F. LITTLE.
P. 11. HILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
|3T" Office in the Cffurt House, Up Stairs.
Application for Homestead.
GEORGIA MONROE COUNTY:
Ordinary’s office of said county.—Whereas
Mrs. Annie H. Martin, wife of John W. Mar
tin, applies to me for setting apart and yalu
ation of a homestead in realty and personalty,
her husband refusing to apply for the same,
and I will pass upon the same on Wednesday,
"the 25th, inst., at 10 o’clock, a. m., at my office.
feblS.td* E. DUMAS, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA, MONROE COUNTY.-Court of Or
dinary, January Term, 1873.
Whereas, Mr. Wm. O. Rawls has applied to
me for letters of administration on the estate o
Pheby Rawls deceased, all persons concerned
are hereby notified to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted
on or oefore the first Monday in March next.
C. A. KING,
jan7.td Ordinary.
Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA MONROE COUNTY :
Will be sold before the Court House door in
the town of Forsyth, on the first Tuesday in
March next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following property to-wit: Two hundred
acres of land, bounded as follows, to-wit: On
Ea3t by W. F. Thurmond, South by Mark
Maddox, West by .Mrs. S. Alexander, North
by Mrs. R. F. Wright Levied on as the prop
erty of Davis Smith to satisfy a fi fa in favor
of H. G. slappey against Administrators of
Davis Smith. * C. M. MoCUNE Sheriff.
jan4td.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
©. mm & son.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
GROCERY MERCHANTS
FORSYTH. : ; : . GEORGIA-
Having located in the east room
of their
New Brick Block, on Main Street,
On the East siJe ol the Public Square, keep con
stantly on haud and are daily receiving, a full stock
of all kinds of
GROCERIES A\■> PROVISIONS
Which we oiler to the public as low as auy bouse
in Forsyth.
We have now on hand and to nrri.e
30,000 lbs BULK MEAT.
2,000 Bushels BEED OATS.
1,500 • CHOK E WHITE CORN,
(50 Hhd MOLASSES,
25 Bbl MOLASSES,
and everything isually kept in a first class grocery
store.
We are also prepared to accommodate our
planting friends on time.
Standard Fertilizers.
They are also prepared to furnish the beat
qualities of FERTILIZERS, for cash or on time.
jan2l.ly
THE PIONEER CONFECTIONERY!
PAI.ETIIORPK & TURNER,
On Main Street, opposite The Advortiaer Office,
Forsytii, Georgia.
WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT BY OUR
recent arrangements we are enabled to
LARGELY INCREASE
Our former excellent stock ot
CONFECTIONS ol all kinds!
TOYS for the children—an ample atoekl
FRUITS! NUTS! PICKLESI
PRESERVES, Etc., Etc.
All of which willbe sold at as liberal rate* aa
can possibly be afforded. In addition we ofler
dally
Fresh Family Tabl% Supplies
Such as BREAD, CAKES, Etc. Wedding Par
ties supplied on order.
ESfWE DEFY COMPETITION ALWAYS !_
Excelsior is our motto. Give us a call. If we
fail to please we shall be disappointed,
PALETHORPE & TURNER.
jan2B.3m
1 GOOD JUILIBi
JJAVING THOROUGHLY TESTED THE
eureka fertilizer.
For three years pa6t, I can confidently recommend
it to the planters of my county, as a good and
reliablefGuano. Having been appointed.
AGENT FOR THIS SECTION,
I arn now prepared to sell the same on reasonable
terms, either lor cash or on time.
B. H. NAPIER.
feb4 3m.
Chambers & Thomas,
(Iu Tub Advertiser Building,)
MAIN STREET, FORSYTH, GA.
WE beg to announce that we have on hand
and will continue to keep
The Best Stock of Boots and Shoes
In this Market I Our stock will embrace • lull
line—from the finest pump soled boot to tha
heaviest brogan. We will sell 48 cheap as the
cheapest, and warrant all first-class goods. Wo
nteDd to build up a 6
First-Class Boot and Shoe Store,
Therefore you may expect to get good good*
whan you buy from us. ” K
Thankful for past favors we invite tbeir contin
„ CHAMBERS & THOMAS.
jau2l.3m
New Enterprise-New Advantages.
C 1 ONBTANTLY on baud on the North side of
/ Public Square.
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS,
And Fresh Beef, Steak, Pork and Sansagee.
Also—A full line of CONFECTIONERY.
GEO. W. BENNETT.
janlt.lm
WM. D, STONE,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, FORSYTH, GA., WILL
xY practice in the Courts of the F'lnt Circuit,
and the Supreme Court of Georgia.
trf} Opficb—Second door to the right, and
opposite office of The Advertiser.
jan2l.tf
To Contractors.
I OFFER FOR RENT THE BRICK YARD
formerly owned by Rev. W. C. Wilkes. Tb®
Yard is well located, being within the corporate
limits of Forsyth,” plenty of water, easy of access.
Parties wishing to engage in the brick business
would do well to call on the undersigned.
febll,2t. U. MILLEDGE.
Justice of The Peace.
The undersigned having been
qualified a* Justice of the Peace for the 480th
District, G. M., is prepared to transact business.
Office in the Ordinary’s room, in Court
“Sf*. T.tf.msa.
Marshall House.
BAVANNAH, QA.
A. B. LUCE, Proprietor.
octao.ct
E. G-. SIMMONS,
at
septlO.ly THOM ASTON, GA.
JOB PRINTING of every description neatly ex
ecuted at Thb Advbktueb office.