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She ilontcc Advertiser.
G A KING, B.T.KIKG, W D.SIOSE,
PROPRIETORS. *
WILLIAM D. STONE, Editor.
[FORSYTH :
TUESDAY. : : : : MARCH 11, 1873
Mr. Stephen i wm in AUr.nra on Friday last.
\V H. Smythi: ta* been reappointed U. 8. Mar
shall for Georgia.
Mku( i:r haj> bad another death fr in ineningilla.
sir. Allred Stafford, a student l:cm Dalton, died
Fiidaj night.
Ano Mi Ih- monthly raic tifc*vaonab, on lues
day, were thi.'leeu slums < 1 Central Railroad stock
at s'Jl 7. r > per share, two, ditto, at SO2 per share.
Am ok,lib 1 -.g.cal curiosity i. on exhibition at
lid. liitk’a, in Macon. It i- a silver-spangled Po
land r KXti r, weighing eighteen pounds and sport
ing tin toes on each loot.
A (,range <>( the order ol Patrons ol Husbandry
has been established ii. \ -Id :ta and ie rapidly
growirg in numbers. Whtt are the Forsyth
“ Patrons” doing ?
Major Jos.iau Kvkkittk, a well known and
popular ciliz n ol i hotnss county, diid last week.
He Lad friqueutiy repr< rented the county In the
i.i gisiature.
A Strung corps of engineers commenced the
eii'iy ol tin louie of the Atlanta, Monticello and
Macon Railroad ye'u rday morion';, at Covington.
Muji r Campbell VValiac* will j usli the work for
ward.
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ViKiii . r University has nburned its exercises,
with go< and promise lor the future. Tne Telegraph
ibjs that v. iib about ten exceptions the former pu-
I ils lia\ •• all returned, and new ones are coming in.
The “ F.ig'n Slate Company” was organized at
Atlr i ts or. Thursday wltli u capital stock ot $23,-
500. <> A. Locbrane was elected President. The
comp: y control the quarry ia I’o'k county, for
merly i weed by the Blanoheville Mining Compa
ny, and will go to work at an early day.
Tub Griffin Star says the farmers of Spalding
have made hut little? pr< gif ts in preparing their
lands for n cro| . Veiy little land has been broke
y t, and what has been, the hard and continuous
,sins have beat It down until it is about ns hard
as ever.
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From i •(•toiler Ist IKTI, to !Hember hist, 1873,
the total cotton exports from Savannah were 710,-
‘'lift I!• sof up'tnd cotti n valued at $05,281,010;
0,14:’, hales c l sea island cotton, valued at $1,118,-
•I*o, at il lumber valued at 81,700,065—making a
grand total ot $(18,100,104.
Mr. Thomas. Blauksheas, ot Americus, in re
turning home on bulurday nigtP, heard the growl
of a dog near him ; lie out with his pistol and shot
at an object, the night being d-ik. He shot a
negro who was leading a deg, and who failed to
make himself known bmoie Mr. B. fired. The
wound wn ii. tl.i- leg, ! ■;? not serious.
IHi i.ti were one Lum . and and tblrty-slx iuter
iiuiub in Laurel Grove met cry, Savannah, dur
ing Fel t nary—the iurg • t number lor any month
slnci There wcri eight deaths from menin
gitis, m.ii tin Advertiser says there are a large
nurnm i c>f eases of that disease in the city at pres
ent.
Mao n pissed an ordinance r< quirlng owners
ot st< ek, oihtging animals for sale to that city, to
de; it it one dollar per Lead with the City treas
urer— raid deposit to be refunded if no sale? were
efli eted. The bon-emeu combatted the ordinance
find it has been declared unconstitutional. The
Telegraph says one thousand mules have been sold
iu Macon this year.
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The Rome Commercial is informed that where
evi r wheat lias hern overllowed by the recent
floods it is almost ruined, and that the ground
would tie more profitably n- < and if it were ploughed
up ami planted in corn, oats or cotton. The far
iners ou the Coct.a have futtered very heavily In
less ol fencing laid time, and in having their
wheat, which was looking well, stand under wa
ter for so long a time.
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'i nn Columbus Sun says one house iu that city
biiG sold to date 7U) tons ol guano this season.
Making this as the basis, and estimating from
the rates of last, year, some three thousand tons
must have been sold in Columbus thus far this
s< ason. .Much mi re w ill be sold before the latter
past o! Mmeb. The demand tor fertilizers is as
great as during a few seasons ago, when 4,000 tens
were sold by dealers in Columbus. We hope the
coin tie Ids will receive a goodly supply.
The Enterpiise announces the death of Judge
Allied Iverson, ou Wedne. day hint, at his reai
den ■ in East Macon, from u sudieu attack of iu
tlaiuatinn of the bowels. Mr. Iverson was au ola
and respteted citizen of Georgia, and had been a
resident of Macon for several years. He was a
member of the United States Senate, for two or
thtee terms, and was among the brightest minds
of that time. He was beloved and respected by
all who knew him, and his loss will be sorely felt.
His remains were taken 1o Columbus, h's former
home, for burial.
Asa legal cariosity the Telegraph and Messen
ger notes r.n English will, which is supposed to
be a fair sample of how some things are conduct
ed in that country. The document is written ou
six sheets of parchment, each sheet about a yard
square, and it is burdened with seals and rope*
until the whole apparatus does not weigh much
sLort of six pounds. The testament is oue be
queathing property to the amount of oue million
of dollars. It was sent to Capt. Bacon to be used
by him in the settlement of a part ol the estate
which is located in Macon.
Tub Telegraph says the cost of constructing the
Macon and Cincinnati Railroad, via Knoxville,
will be about six million dollars The State gives
15,000 per mile aid. Five hnudred thousand
dollars are wanted from Georgia It is claimed the
road w ill produce a revolution in Western freights
and cbespen coal. Route has been surveyed to
the Chattahoochee river. Aid from loreign cap
italists is promised. Central Railroad has no con
trol over the enterprise. A road now running ont
from Knoxville including a $1,200,000 bridge has
been otl.-red to the company at a low figure, to be
paid in capital stock and bonds.
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1 us last Union and Recorder notes having re
ceived a call from Mr. Geo. W. 11-rnsou, of At
lanta, who, having business near Milledgeville,
embraced the chance to pay bis respects to his
old home, and adds: Mr. Harr son is Assistant
Clerk of the Supreme Court, and a man of prom
ise. He is the youngest of the four sons of the
late George W. Harrison, former Secretary of
State—all of them intelligent and useful men.
Ml.ledgevjlle can point with pr.de to the large
number men reared and educated here, who are
now prominent and Influential citizens in other
portions oi the State.
The Bibb planters are goii g to have another
fair, and the Telegraph says all the preiimicarie*
have been arranged, premium list completed,
committees and judges appointed, and every step
taken to assure a tlrst cia-s exhibition of the
probucis of old Bibb, at the Annual Fair iu June
utxi. The managers have gone to work lu dead
earnest, and intend to make such au exhibition as
will challenge the admiration oi the stale coun
try, m.l prove beyond peradveuture that this is
the banner county of Georgia in agriculture, the
flue arts, sud all that appertains to mateiial prog- ,
res:. The premiums are bjnaf.de] aud will all be !
paid in specie.
Scrimmage in \en Orleans.
On the 6th ins!., the political muddle in Lou
ls!*na came to a head. Tae dispatches infoim us
that there were five minutes sharp musketry when
the police unlimbered the cannon and fired three
shots down Cbarle? Btieet. The militia retreated,
but Were being strongly relntoiced when the stall
officer ot General Emory a; peared on the *c* ne,to
whom the commander ol ih - militia surrendered.
General Emory acted, srd the militia General,
Waggamaw, surrendered in obedience to the fol
lowing :
" Washington, March 5. W. H. Emory, Com
manding: The President directs you to prevent
ny violent interference with the State Govern
ment of Louisiina. Acknowledge receipt.
(Signed), W. T. Sherman, Gen.”
Gov. McEnery disavows having ordered the
demonstration against the police. One was killed,
several wounded.
The fallowing correspondence explains itself
ard shows that the mastery of the situation rests
with the Federal forces:
Executive Office, i
New Orleans, March 6, 1873. f
Major-General Emory, Commanding DejMrtrnent
of tKt (rulf: General—X have the houor to submit
to you the inquiry, whether or not the action of
the Metropolitan police force ot this city, ia the
seizure of the Odd Fellows’ Hall, this morning,
and the armed prevention by said forees of the
Assembly of tbe Legislature of this Stale, in the
State Hall, meets with your countenance and ap
proval, and whether or not the United States for
ces under your command will support this armed
occupation of that building? I have the houor,
General, to remain your obedient servant.
John McEneht,
Governor of Louisiana.
Head Quarters Department of the Gulf, )
New Orleans, March 6th, 1873. |
Hon. John McEneht—Sir: —I have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of your communica
tion of this date, in which you ask, (here follows
tbe contents of McEnery’s letter). In reply, I
have to state that the seizure ct the said building
by the Metropolitan police was without my know
ledge, and made without conference with me.
In regard to any expression of opinion as to the
act, having no authority in the premises, I must
respectfully decline to make any reply.
Iu answer to that pari of your letter which asks
whether my command will support this armed
occupation ot that building, I have tbe honor to
enclose to you a copy of a telegram received last
night, from which yon will see that it is made my
duty to prevent any violent interference with the
State Government of Louisiana. Previous instruc
tions have directed me to recognizs the Govern
ment ol the State ot Louisiana, to be that repre
sented by the Hon. Win. P. Kellogg.
If tbe act referred lo by you in ycur letter is
tbe act of Governor Kellogg, and of the govern
ment ot the State of Louisiana, represented by
him, and if any violence is used to interfere with
this act, I shall, most assuredly, consider It my
duty, under my instructions, to use the whole
lorce ot the United States at my disposal, to pre
vent such violent interference.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully,
vV. 11. Emcry,
Colonel Commanding, Brevet Majr-General.
The telegram alluded to Is the one received
from General Sherman.
About fifty citizens of the malHia, who partici
pated in last night’s affray, were arre ted, charged
with violating the act of Cougress, passed April
20th, 1871, section two of an act to enforce the
provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, and for other
purposes, volume seventeen, United States stat
utes at large. They were taken before a United
States commissioner, and released on a thousand
dollar bail each.
Death of Hon. John Schley of Savannah.—
We find the following sad announcement In the
Savannah Republican, of Wednesday:
The startling intelligence was announced in the
city yesterday that Hon. John Schley, a gentle
man long and favorably known in Savannah, had
suddenly died at his residence on Perry street,
between Barnard and Whitaker. For some time
past Mr. Schley had been residing at his place at
Beulah, near the city, and had anly last week re
turned lo his former home ia Savannah. Always
active and energetic, he had gone to t is wood pile
yesterday about noon, and, taking an axe had
been chopping tor some time when, experiencing
a strange sensation iu the region ot his breast, he
went back into his residence, and teiiing his sis
ter, Mre Nulew, lhat he felt qmte badly, asked
b6r to have a fire built in the parlor. While Mrs.
Nafew was superintending tfie building of the tire
bereelt, Bhe heard a sonud as of someone strug
gling for breath, and turning to her brother, who
was seated on a chair, saw his head had fallen on
his breast. Immediately running to his asssist
ance, she aided bill) in down, Olid without a
word he expired ere she could cal) any one else or
render him oiher help. His physician’pronounc and
that congestion of the heart was the cause of his
death.
Mr. Schley was the eldest son of the late Judge
Schley, who far a long time and ably occupied
the bench on the Augusta circuit, and was born
in the city of Augusta on the 18th day of Februa
ry, 1808— being at the time ol his death sixty-five
yeurs oid. He vras a brother of the Honorable
William Bobley, the present able .fudge of the
Eastern Circuit, and ot I)r. J. M. Schley, one of
the most prominent physicians in Savannah. In
early manhood Mr. Schley studied law and for
some years prcticed his profession in Columbus,
subsequently returning to Augusta, and thence
before the war removing hit her During his life
he was public spirited, and was often honored
with positions of responsibility and trust by his
fellow citizens, and was several times a member
of the Georgia Legislature.
Southern Appropriations.—Sunday civil ap
propriation bills lately passed by the House con
tain the following items : Appropriating $72,-
081 52 for tbe completion of the Custom House at
Charleston, including $23,220 Cfi for constructions
and repairs of wharves; for continuance of con
struction of the building for the Court House and
Post Office at Columbia, $SOO,GOO; for a screw
pile light house at the entrance of St. Andrew’s
Bay, Florida, $22,000; tor completing the first
ordered sea coast light house at Alligator reef,
Florida, in addition to former appropriations,
$25,000; of appropriations of $25,000 for day bea
cons on the Savannah river; for a screw pile light
house to replace light ship at Ty'oee Knoll, Savan
nah river, SIB,OOO ; for completing sea coast light
Hunting Island, South Calolina, in addition to
former appropriations of $50,000; for commencing
the rebuilding of the first order sea coast light on
Morris Island, 8. C., destroyed during the war,
$60,000; for continuing the survey of the Atlantic
Gulf coast of the United States, including com
pensation of civilans ergaged in the work etc.,
$41,000; for surveying public lauds in Florida,
$12,000; for expenses of the office of Surveyor
General of Florida, $1,500.
Such of our readers as contemplates investing
in the Augusta Cotton Pool, will watch statis
tics. The latest figures are that the total receipts
ol the seven days ending February 28th, were 105,-
528 bales against 109,153 bales last week, 122,052
bale* the previous week and 126,521 bales three
weeks since, making the total receipts since the
first of September, 1872, 2,715,515 bales agains*
2,244,058 bales for the same period of IS7I-72,
showing an increase since September 1, 1572, of
471,757 bales.
The reports from the interior ports show re
ceipts of the week 20,003 against 116,093 last year
—shipments 12,835 against 16,907—stock 97,921
against S6,BSS at same date last year. The Chroni
cle’s table of visible supply foots up 2,421,329
against 2,428,119 at same date last year—being
decrease in the cotton supply ol 1,770 bales. The
mercury averaged at Macon and Charleston 60,
Columbus 47, Montgomery 46 and Selma 59. The
New York market was dull—quotations irregular
and a decline ot au eighth during the week.
The Telegraph and Messenger admires (?) the
financial wisdom o! some of car Georgia members
of Congress lately defunct, lor it has this para
graph.
Upon the adoption of the report of the Confer
ence Committee upon the bill raising the salaries
ot the President, Vice-President, members of the
Cabinet, judges of the Supreme Court, and mem
bers of C ongress—the increase as to the latter to
members ot the forty-second, or last Congress—
the Georgia members voted as follows: For the
increase—Messrs. B gby au i Whiteley (Radicals),
and DM Bose, Price, and Young (Democrats).
Against it—Mclntyre (Democrat). Mr. Beck, the
member trom the 4th district, was absent or did
uot vote. Those members of the House whose
le.ms expired ou the 4th instant—Messrs. Bigby,
Price, and Du Bose—wifi thereiore come home
with a nice little consolation lor not being re-elec
ted in the shape ot $5,000, and about as easily
earned as any similar sum la onr knowledge.
The Sun mentions a report that a wealthy man
ufacturer, on a visit to Columbus, intends selling
oat his Interests in Massachusetts and erecting
new establishments in Columbus. Another rumor
is that the Warm Springs, iu Meriwether county,
are to be purchased by a Northern company, and
extensive improvements made.
Another Big Swindler Abroad.
Tae Bank of the State Ot Georgia, Savannah,
has met with a loss cf about $30,000, by the ab
squatulition of Mr. Allen G. Jotes, general book- ;
keeper. Falling to return, bis accounts were ti- ;
amined, and tbe result la thusstaUd by’one of the
City paper*:
The prctracted absence of Mr Jones and no ti- |
dings ot him, not withstanding diligent search and
inquiry in the direction of his ostensible destina
tion, induced tbe officers of the bank Monday to
begin overhauling his accounts. The first dtacov- j
ery of any ii regularities happened about six
o’eiocK, Monday evening, when it was found that j
be varied in checking near tbe first of last month.
A teiegram was immediately tot warded to the
New Fork agency ot the bank, giviDg warning of
the missing bo >k-keper and advice of tbedtscov- i
ered irregularity; when a reply was received, it
stated that Mr. Jones bad already called at the
New York Agency with a certified check and
drawn six thousand dollars on it.
It seems that Mr. Jones had been gradually ac
cumulating funds ot the balk during February,
keeping the postings of his books behind so as to
avoid detection, at the same time telling the bank
officers that he lacked oniy three or four days in
being up with them. Tais appears to be the stat
us of matters when he left lor bis four days tour
to Carolina.
Tne officials of the batik say lhat the defalcation
of their late book keeper, Allen G. Jones, may
reach thirty thousand dollars, and that the reserve
fund of the bank is more than sufficient to cover
the loss; and that the capital stock of the institu
tion will remain unimpaired.
The latest news proves that Mr. Jones was an
adroit operator. A New York dispatch cf the Bth
says:
Allen J. Jones, late clerk ef the Southern Bank
of Georgia at Savannah, came to this city with
fraudulent drafts lor $32,510 which were endorsed
by Kissim <£ Cos. He drew money lrom tbe Park
Bank, in tLis city, with which tbe Southern Bank
of Georgia is a expositor. The fraud was discov
ered to-day. Jones has absconded.
Liberal Promising.—A correspondent inform*
the public, through the Montgomery Advertiser,
that an “ English Company of ample means,”
etc., has made a promissorial purchase of the
railroad and lauds ol the Alabama and Chattanoo
ga Railroad Company, from Gen. Louis, of Ala.,
and undertake to pay down at cnce to the State
(whenever the Governor is luthorized to make
a good title to the same by the Legislature) two
hundred and thirty-five thousand dollar*. They
also assume payment of the indorsed bonds and
one million and a half of straight bonds when
they mature; to pay the Georgia debt, amounting
to one hundred and ninety six thousand dollars,
and the interest thereon in the future; also the
interest on all the bonds as above stated, half
yearly, commencing on tbe first day ot July, 1874.
They acknowledged the lien of the State on the
road, whenever they shall make default in the
payment of interest for one term, and assume the
liability of what the receivers, under Judge Brad
lsy’s order, have expended on the railroad,
amounting to, it is understood at present, upward
of three hundred thousand dollars, and are cow
grading a line connecting road between New Or
leans and Meridian. The directors of this road
reside in New Orleans and are men of respectabil
ity and wealth, as has been certified to by leading
bankers in New Orleans. They are also indorsed
by Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Cos., bankers, New
Xork, and late financial of the State; by Messrs.
Forstall & Cos., financial agents of Messrs. Baring
Brothers & Cos., who, next to Rothschilds, are
probably the wealthiest financial house iu Eng
land. These gentlemen propone immediately on
obtaining possession of the railroad to put it hi
perfect rnnnii g order and stock it with sufficient
rolling stock for Us efficient working. They fur
ther propose to bring capital and immigration
from abroad to develop the lands of the company
along the line of tbe railroad, and have made ar
rangements for a thorough survey of these lands
with this purpose in view.
The Republican Frolic.—The correspondent
of the Charleston News ha* this to say of the lo
an ru ration dance at Washington:
Tne ball was a brilliant success, and the scene
on the lloor of the improvised ball building is a
gorgeous one. At the Northern end of the hall
there*is a platform or dais, one hundred
feet, long, and thirty feet wide lor the President
and ms iamlly ; the Vice-President and the most
prominent of the invited guests. Back of this
whole wall is a blaze of glory from tbe dais to the
roof. An enormous rising sun represents the
morning, and contains in glittering gas jets, the
initials “U. 8.” From the sun a series of brill
iant rays diverge until the noon is reached, and
here a semicircle bears the legend, “ Grant and
Wilson,” also in gas jets. Beyond the rays, made
brighter by golden rods, culminate in the blue
sky of evening, studded with stars, and from this
arch of blue the colors of tbe nation follow the
lines of the sun’s rays until a stone areh —the out
er arch of all, representing strength—is reached.
Iu the centre of the ray s composed of the national
colors composed of tbe national colors, the word
“Union,” in gas jets, is seen. In the stone arch
the word “ Washington” is spelled, with stars al
ternating with each letter. At the top of the areh
is the shield of the United United States. Direct
ly opposite this, at the south eud of the hall, is
the entrance door for the President, Vice-PresS
dent and invited guests, and the reception,
dressing and supper rooms for them. The wall
inclosing these rooms, seen from the ball room,
has draperies, aud “ Puace” aud “ Grant and Wil
son” in gas jets.
The decorations of the 6ides of the hall com
prize a dazzling* combination cf national colors,
State coats of arms, and gas brackets, in vatiou*
designs. The festivities will probably be pro
longed until long after midnignt.
Disgusted with Texas.— The Hawkinsville
Dispatch of Wednesday says : It was only three
weeks ago to day (Wednesday) that John K. Par
tin, Seaborn Manning, and Remus R. Woods, all
young men ot Hawkinsville, left here for Texas.
They arrived in the “ Land of Premise ” in due
time, and two of them, Remus and John, obtained
work at their professions. Seabe Manning, how
ever, took a decided dislike to Texas, and deter
mined to return to old Georgia. He astonished
his acquaintances by making his appearance in
Hawkinsville last Sunday. It required just eigh*
teen days for him to make the trip to Texas and
return disgusted with the country. He rec)t?3
many amusing and apparently incredulous inci
dents ot his brief sojourn in Texas. He says one
farmer engaged him on his farm for sls per month.
Another farmer agreed to give him S2O. Beabe
made contracts with both farmers, but soon after
ward another farmer offered him $26. This was a
good offer, and Seabe accepted it also. He told
the farmer to send his wagon after him on Mon>
day, but when Monday came Seabe was on his way
to Georgia. He left the other boys at Waco,
Texas, and made his way to Galveston. When
he reached that city he had bat $32 75. He gave
the $32 for a ticket to Macon, Ga., and invested
the ~5 cents in cheese and crackers, up.Qa which
he sulsisted until he arrived home.
A Man of Frugal Mind.— Ex Hop, John B,
Alley, of Credit Mobillier renown, is said to he
very wealthy; and no wonder. Having to testify
before two of (he congressional investigating com
mittees in one day last week, he frugally drew
mileage and per diem compensation from each.
That’s the way to pile up a competency against
a rainy day.
It is related of Alley that when he left Congress
the “D. H.” ticket he held on the Avenue street
cars expiied with his Congressional term, and in
order to utilize it to the utmost, he rushed from
the Capitol two minutes before the close of the
session, and, hailing a car, reached it in breath
less condition, holding his watch in one hand and
his ticket in the other, to 6how the conductor
tuat the latter was yet “ good.” An acquaintance
in the car hailed him with the inquiry, “Halloo,
Alley, what’s your hurry ? Anything up?” Alley
replied, still glancing nervously at his watch, “ I
must go down town. My ticket expires at twelve
o’clock, and I must get down town before that
time.” The late saved by Mr. Alley was live
ceuts, but he lost somethiug in perspiration.—
Washington Star.
The first cotton mill ever established iu the
Northwest was established in Jonesville, Mich,
a few days ago. The occasion was celebrated by
a ball and banquet which was attended by 600
persons. The company has a capital ot SIOO,OOO,
and is engaged in the manufacture of brown
sheeting.
Troubled Conticieum.
A few days since a fanny ini id -lit occur.ed ia
Congress between O.kes Am sand Judge Pidtnd
which Is worthy of note The Judge, it will be
remembered, made tbe cu-todiau by Kelley
of the ten shares of Credit MobUier stock which
he demanded from Ame 6a* hi- pr perty. During
the investigation Judge Pul .ml deposited the stork
with the Sergeant at Arm-. Since he approached
Ames and asked him what he should do with it.
Ames replied lhat it belonged to Kelley, and be
had handed it over to him when he demanded it;
that Kelley bad handed it ov.r to Poland, and it
was immaterial to him what Reposition was made
of it. “ You had better consult Kelley if you are
anxious to get rid of it,” sai l Ames. There are
due on this stock dividends in securities of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company worth about
$5,000 which Ames had withheld subject to the
determination of tbe McCotnb suit. The ques
tion is, what Is to be done with it ? Kelley swears
that he wiil hive nothing to do with it, and Po
land gays he doesn’t went to be investigated for
holding Credit Mobilier stock. In the event of
neither ot them demanding it of the Sergeant at-
Arrns, that officer fears he may be investigated
also, and avows that if somebody doesn’t claim
it ho will turn it over to the conscience fund of
the Treasury Department.
The Northern Methodists.—The Northern
Methodist Church in the past few weeks have be. n ;
mightily stirred up with the spirit of inquiry as to
the causes of their manifest declension in pres
tige, influence and power. Tne New York Sun of
last Monday, hits the nail on the head, aud gives
6ome good advice in the following :
We lately took occasion to show that the real
trouble with the Methodist church is the lack of
religion in its members, their failure to keep the
commandments of God, the immunity of rich aud
raseally Methodists from uLcipline, and the gen
eral worldliness which drowns and smothers the
church. Tais view was adopted at the conference
of preachers last Monday morning and advocated
with encouraging earnestness. “ Tae two things
necessary for revivals,” said the Rev. Mr. Bradley,
“ are inward prayer aud holy living. The church
disciple should be enforced without distinction at
to worldly condition. It. is not right to enforce
ceremonial discipline upon the man has not a cent
in his pocket and leave the millionaire our in the
cold.” It was also said that “ the greatest hinder
ance to God’s holy word Is, too much for a good
investment for their spare capital. A minister of
the gospel cannot preach self-denial when this
love of money engrosses so much of his time.
Look at Washington, at New York, aud you will
come to the conclusion only too soon as the root
of the difficulty why God's word is not not better
practiced and praeched.”
That is the true doctrine. If the Methodists
would save their Chnreh trom destruction they
must root out the loves of the world and of the
flesh which have taken possession of it, aud once
more live up to the spirit of their old hymn:
“ Let worldly men, from shore to shore,
Their chqgen good pursue;
Tbv Word, O Lord, we value more
Than treasures from Pern.”
The Methodist ministers owe it to themselves,
as well as to their brethren and to their God, to
purge tbeir chucii of the lust of lucre and of
worldly gain which is now eating out Us very life.
This pandering to the domination of riches and
the pursuits of politics has degraded the preach
er*.
The New Yoik Sun says that Joseph T. Curry,
the leader of the “ New Canaanites,” the sect
whose’settlement in Columbia county, not very
far from Augusta, we have heretofore noticed was
“formerly a preacher in good standing among the
denomination called Second Adventists, and had
eome reputation for scholarship. About eight
years ago he was seized with a fever which re
sulted in a permanent derangement of his mind.
Then he became possessed of the idea that he
was the prophet Elijah, and found in Springfield,
Mass., a congregation crazy enough to accept him
as such. Having founded anew sect, he went
abroad iu search of proselytes, and succeeded in
gaining them in Boston, Philadelphia, Maine, and
some of the Western States. Several of his dis
ciples contributed considerable sums of money to
carry rut bis purposes, one man giving $3,500,
while ail sign* and a promise to o'rty the prophet
implicitly and receive his interpretations of Scrip
ture.
During the last days of the session of Coagrjss,
Butler assailed Mr. Whitthorn, a member of Cou
gress ft om Tennessee, charging him with having
fraudulently abstracted moneys belonging to cer
tain banks of Tennessee. Mr. Whitthorn deter
mined to test Butler’s capacity to stand up to his
words. He accordingly selected a friend, General
Cross well, of Kentucky, to wait on Butler, and
ask if his allusions had been correctly reported.
To make the matter more formal, and to clothe
It with all the incipienc-y of a thieatened duel,
Crosswell was armed with a lette? in which Whit
thorn quoted the offensive r?marks, and explained
that he denied the truth of the assertion as ap
plied either to himself or cx-Goveruor leham G.
Harris, of Tennessee, on whose staff ho served at
the time the abstraction of moneys is alleged to
have occurred.
Old “ Ben ” was too wily, however, to be en
trapped by such an emissary a.-, Crosswell, and
declined to answer in writing. So the Kentucky
General was compelled to report to his principal
the utter failure of his mission. He did this in a
note addressed to Whitthorn, in which he states
that Butler had admitted that he intended no per
sonal allui ions, and, farther, had promised to
make the matter rignt in his corrected speech.
Very Full Indeed.—Doun Piatt and Edmund
Yates, the English novelists, both wrote descrip
tions of the situation at Washington, the day be
fore and the day of the inauguration for the New
York Herald, and capital both were, too. To
show how full Washington was, the former tells
the following:
“I called upon the Hon. Jeremiah P.lack, at the
Arlington. I found him in a so-called bath room,
with not only a bed therein, bat a cot. The
venerable jurist was stretched upon the first
named, and I hailed him frum the outside.
“ Hullo !” cried I, “Do you mean to say that
more than one occupies this den ?” “ Only two,”
he responded. “land my fifteenth amendment;”
meaning thereby his colored servant, George
Washington. “Climb over and speak,” ke 60ft>
tinned. “ Why, Judge, this is St crowd.” T gai(J
“Tes, Indeed," he replied. "I wake n e d up
Just night to know if I R”' u lq not accommodate
Dick Yates. I rp aponded that he could sleep with
George. He has done fo much for the nigger,
the nigger ought to do something for Dick. But
he did not respond.” From all this you. may
learn that a fearful crowd is gathering in the na
tional capital.
The Hon. L. W. Love, a member of the North
Carolina Benate, writes as follow *to the Athens
Watchman:
1 have just got a bill through both houses char
tering the “ Rabun Gap Short Line Railway Com
pany.” The charter has extraordinary privileges
in it. By necessary provisions every vestige of
the “Blue Ridge Railroad” is wiped out, aud the
way is now opened to capitalists who may ish to
connect the railroads of Georgia with those of
Tennessee, through this remarkable passage in the
mountains. It is the oniy line that can cross the
Blue Ridge without a tunnel. Here the cut is not
thirty inches. I think I will write you again on
this line, which has been locked up in the hands
of “ speculators” and “rings” since 1851., It is
now open.
“ Sharp and Quick.”—The Columbus Enquirer
of the 7th reports the latest instance thus :
We hear the report that a gentium an. from a
neighboring village eame to town a night or two
ago. He told a friend he believed he Would like
to marry, and asked him if he believed be could
find him a wife on short order. The friend re
plied that he thought he could. Alter supper the
twaiD called upon a“gherl,” communicated the
nature of their business, and asked if she could be
considered “ in.” Said “ she didn’t care if she
did.” They sent for a ’squire; the little busiutss
was fixed up, and the loving couple next morning
departed for the home of the bridegroom.
This, from the Columbus Sun, shonld serve to
stimulate capital in every available section in Geor
gia :
We heard competent authority say that the
pre6ect has been a most, propitious season for tbe
manufacture ot yarns. A pound ot cotton for
which eighteen ceuts were paid, costs, when work
ed into yarns, including labor, twenty-five cents
while the yarns have averaged thirlv-tive cents!
After paying taxes and insuianee, the manufac
turer realizes a profit of forty per cent., or in tbac.
neighborhood. Such statements, coming from, a!
trustworthy source, should have the effect uo
stimulate tue erect’on of cotton minufactories.
Fock negro children were burned to dea tU. jn
Talbot coQßty laet week.
I,me Item* nail
An average of 200 barrels of cotton seed oil
s shipped weekly north from Nashville.
A single saw-mill at Muskegon, Mich., cut
21,124,909 feet of lumber last session.
Sixty million pounds of cheese are annually
exported from this country.
George William Curtis, editor of Harpers
Weekly, is seriously ill of typhoid fever.
Senator Conklmg will contest with Senator
Morton lor the leadership of the new Senate.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has deci
ded that a railroad must be located belbre a
subscription can be voted.
The legislative committee on the Revision
of the laws of Alabama is composed exclusive
ly of negroes.
A Wisconsin editor offers a bottle of stomach
bitters as a premium for every new subscriber
to his paper.
One hundred thousand pounds of oil cake
were recently sent to Liverpool from Nash
ville.
A young Irish girl in Jacksonville, Illinois,
has refused if 100 ;or her hair. It reaches the
floor when she stauds erect.
The Federal Collector on the Bth seized the
property of the New York Central Railroad
lor non-payment of nearly $500,000 taxes.
The total number of acres planted in cotton
in 1872 is set down at eight million four-hun
dred eighty two thousand nine hundred five.
A report from Madrid that the great powers
will jointly withdraw their diplomats from
Madrid, if a federal republic is proclaimed, is
denied.
A La Crosse (Wis.) girl rubbed her cheek
against her sister’s husband's hand to get tip a
healthy glow for a bail, aud she has been turn
ed out of the house lor it.
The Republican general committee in New
York has passed among other resolutions one
disapproving conduct of the administration in
Louisiana matters.
The Mississippi River at Muscatine, la., at
last advices had been closed by ice a fortnight
longer than in any preceding winter for thirty
eight years.
The snow is so deep in the forests of Ver
mont that wood cutters cannot ply their v 3ca
tion, and farmers in many parts of the State
are reduced to burning their fences for fuel.
The Houston (Texas) Union says that more
cattle have perished in that State, this winter,
by cold and starvation, than in any former
etjual duration of cold weather.
Vermont—where, is well known, no liquor
is sold—has 10,000 drunkards, 4,01*0 habitual
“hard drinkers,’- and 20.000 young men just
beginning to drink.
Maine proposes to stretch its legislatorial
prerogative by an ex-post facto enactment de
claring all places where liquor is sold to be
amenable to the existing statutes against nui
sances.
The Senate ha s ratified the treaty with
Meacham for the O ontinuance of the Mexican
mixed commission for the adjustment of claims.
The action of the Mexican Government is yet
required.
In the suit brought by Mrs. Fisk, Judge
Blatchford enjoined the Credit Mobilier from
taking any proceedings for its own dissolution
appointment of a receiver, or transfer of
effects.
A female shoplifter in Syracuse, New York,
who has recently been pardoned out of jail, is
said to have accumulated a fortune of SBO,-
000 by stealing. It was securely invested and
could not be discovered at the time of convic
tion.
The General Assembly of Virginia has ap
pointed a special committee of five to invests
gate the charges of mismanagement against
the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association. The
charge is unauthorized speculation upon visi
tors to the tomb of Washington.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th states
that Members of Congress have been excited
over their extra pay which they voted them
selves—some $5,000. Comptroller Taylor has
finally decided that there are technical objec
tions to paying them.
In 1872 Cuba pnoduced GOO,OOO tons of sugar
and two-hundred thousand tons of molasses.
Out of this amount the United States took
four-hundred forty-one thousand six hundred
tons of sugar and one-hundred eighty two
thousand tons of molasses.
Mr. Gladstone is rated thus for the wording
of the Queen’s speech at the opening of Par
liament : “It is strange that accomplished and
scholistie statesmen should year after year,
ascribe to the Queen phraseology which might
be pardoned it it. were composed by a washer
woman.”
The Naturalization Treaty between Ger
many and the United States will probably be
amended so as to provide that Germans who
have returned from America and remained
two years at home shall be considered to have
renounced their rights as naturalized Ameri
can citizens.
The Louisville Courier Journal, commenting
upon the fact that New Yorkers want rapid
transit, says: “If they will hitch the Custom
house officials to a train of cars at one end of
the city and tell them there is something to
steal at the other they will have about as lap
id transit as they can possibly want.
The Pope, replying to an address presented
to him on the Bth said that reconciliation with
the Italian government was impossible. God
would punish the invader of his dominions.
As the Catholic* were ever unshaken in their
faith, he had the utmost confidence in the ulti
mate triumph of the church.
Comptroller Taylor, of the United g tateg
Treasury Department has been prev-^J'
to reconsider his first opinion the extra '
question. He has now co; ne roun(J anJ
f the five thousand dol
ars’ v hnch our economical Congressmen voted
to themselves at the close of the recent ses
sion.
President Thiers lately remarked to a friend,
as he touched the movable head of a grotesque
Chinese figure, and sent it wagging irorn right
to left; —“ The magot says No,” then, mak
i ing it nod up and down, “Now it says Yes.”
He added, “Well, that is what the Committee
(of Thirty} wants to make of me.” He con
tinued, smiling, “But I do not think they will
succeed.”
A special dispatch from Berlin to the Lisbon
Times says the government of Prance has offi
cially given Germany financial guarantee for
the payment, at the designated time, of the
last milliard of francs of the war indemnity,
and that negotiations between the two gov
ernments for an entire evacuation of French
territory by the German troops at an early
day, have already commenced.
A meeting was held in New York, on the
evening of the 7th, of a large number of
Southern gentlemen, including the most
prominent Congressmen from the South re
siding here. Ex-Gov. Lubock, of Texas, and
Col. Hart of Georgia, delivered addresses. The
object of the meeting was to form a Southern
association, for social, benevolent and other
purposes, which should include all gentlemen
connected with the Southern trade.
The Illinois woman suffrage convention met
at Chicago, last week. The attendance was
small, and Miss Anthony, who was the lead
ing spirit, attributed this to the fact t.iat the
down-trodden women of Chicago didn’t dare
ask their husbands for the 50 cents admission
fee. One solitary man lifted up his voice and
spake, but a sister informed him in a loud
whisper that he had better “dry up,” for they
had too little time for the much they had to do.
But they didn't do anything.
The President signed on the last day of the
cession of Congress a bill so construing the
"bankrupt law as to allow bankrupts the exemp
tion provided by the constitution and laws of
each State in 1871, such exemption to be valid
Against old debts, and any judgement, lien, or
■decision of a State court to the contrary not
withstanding. Southern Republican Senators
notified the administration tnat for Grant to
defeat this bill would annihilate the Radical
white party m the South.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
|>7::: ISAAC WINSHTP. ' 1873
EXCLUSIVE DEALER IN
Hides, leather and Shoe Findings.
„ r ., L pAY TaE HIGHEST MARKET MUCK >S ALI. DESCRIPTIONS OF
Hides, in large or Small Quantities.
KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND
, , oi.inc •KM tun ore New York, Cincinnati and I.oui-ville Uk
r* r-nch and American Un and kip S*. °. k ’soie Ml qualities. Harness bridle and Upp-r Lea’her.
Sole Leath r ; Fbii and 1 r o;>ped Uemlotk sme E , c Qf whicb will be sold ,s low as iu
Shot* findings, L-i-ls, Lining*, I 'Vp.>'!-s U 7,’,, , rl^r s'uud Mauufietuier-. All of my friend
anv Southern citv. a- 1 get m> good- . om orders, or call aud see -nr Stick,
qnaintrtuce' and the rest ot mankind are invited to sen ISAAC WIXSHiP,
Send for Price List of Leather amt .-kw-* (q.erry Sire- f, Macon, (la
lii-rli.ly
ARRANGEMENTS!!
,nsro. A. STEELE
Has opened in the elegant Store Room, lortnerlv occupied by ' "• Ancer.-mn, a Large and
varied Stock ot
SEASQNA£IE SKY COOUS t
And lave on hand the following winter Stock, which will he sold AT COST ’
CASSIMERS, WORSTEDS. JEANS, DELAINES, FLANNELS,
AND
/. PULL STOCK OF STAPLE GOODS
And will also keen on hand an extensive SPRING STOCK. The bn-iins- wi!i lie under the
immediate supervision of Mr. R. P. BROOKS. CALL AND SEE ME.
feb‘Js-tf ■’*'(). A. STEELE.
CHESAPEAKE. GUANO.
WE are siill agents for the above TRIED and RELI ABLE Fertilizer, and alter FIVE Vi'AKS
experience in gelling ii, unhesitatingly recommend it to oar planting friend* as to any
manipulated Fertilizer made.
IT Ift TSTO EXPEIUMENT.
In no case has it tailed to give catire satisfaction. N im- roui testiinonit’s in our p i-.se- u>a
from some of oar most successful planters, wiil satiny any one as to its a erils.
10\F,§ & KWTER,
febll.tf 100 Cherry St., Macon, Cx
DOORS,
gjaslT &: B T/nuf
Mouldings, brackets, stair
Fixtures, Builders’ Furnishing Hard
ware, Drum Pipe, Floor Tilts, \\ ire Guards,
Terra Cotta Ware, Marble and Slate Man tie
Pieces.
Window Class a Specialty.
Circulars and Price Lists sent Lee on
application, by
P. P. TOALE
2(1 Hayne and 33 Pinckney sts.,
* Charleston, S. C.
oovl). ly
EXL . Xj ZS. fit XX ,
J ewelry. j
WATCHP.S ASD
Jewelry Repiircd.
L°d§ e -iui Notary Public Seals,
CANCELLATION, STAMPS, ETC.
No. 50, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
feblSSm
THE BROWN
COTTON GIN.
PLANTERS should examine the above-named
old and reliable Gin before buying any other.
It combines the required qualities ol Simplicity
Strength and DurahiliU. It gins fast and clean,
makes excellent lint (often bringing R'e. to 3Y’-
per lb. above market ) and is universally admitted
to be the lightest running gin made. We have had
thirty years’ experience i:i the business, and war
rant every gin perfect. Gins constantly in tbs
hands of our agents, to which we invite inspection
(Jiiculars, with testimonials and full particulars
may be bad bv addressing
ISRAEL F. BKOW.V s’re*..
Brown Lofton Cin (
ieb2s.4m. New Lordon, conn.
G Ti A N O S.
GUANO. PHCENIX GUANO
Wf LCOX, GIB2S & CO.'S’ MANIPULATED
(jUi.NO. These celebrated guan <s imported
aud prepared by Wilcox, Gibbs & Cos., Savannah
Ga., anil Charleston, S. C., are for sale :or cash,or
on credit on accommodating terms, payable it.
cotton, by B. PYE <K SON, .Agent-, Forsyth, Ga.
LaP’ Special attention-is called to the use ot the
Piiienlx (iuano composted with Cotton Seed. Send
or apply as above lor circulars giving testimonials
from planters, prices, terms, Ac. feb2s.6w.
For Saio or Rent.
A VALUABLE HOUSE AND LOT LOCATED
at the lootol Main street, plastered and ceiled.
The lot contains about one acre and three-quar
ters. The above described premises will be sold
for a reasonable sum, or rented cheap. Persona
desiring to purchase or rent cm call upon Col.
A. D. xiamuiond. ALEX. M. SPEER.
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Dissolution of Partnership.
rpHE copartnership heretofore existing between;
JL the undersigned has been dissolved by mu-,
tual consent —Mr. Davis retiring. The business;
will hereafter be conducted by 8. F. Wilder &!
Son. 8. F. WILDER,
F. N. WILDER.
A. B. C. DA Via. 1
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Builders’ asd Contractors’ Special No- !
tice. —Door , Sashes, Blinds, Window and Plate;
Giass, Buildeis’ Furnishing Hardware, Mouldings,:
Stair Fixtures, Marble aud Slßte Mantlepieets,;
Encaustic Floor Tib-, Drain Pipe, etc , at lowest!
wholesale prices, at the great Southern Factory ol;
P. P. Toale, Charleston, 8. C. Send tor his price;
list.
2m |
B. PYE & SON,
Vv Y\ % ,
XiAi* Nil ..i -til'd :ii hi out fa.*. W ..■
FORSYTH, GA.
O; oVlNij r in v,d our nßice in Hie avxr txcf
ot liie Earl loom ot our Is ii V, BKTCK
BLOCK. o*i tbo South side o* tbe Public * quart
itid having piocured
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES,
Are prepared lo receive DEPOSITS,
Bay and sell EXCHANGE. GBLD.
SILVER, STOCKS, BONDS!
And URCuiii-iit !nn<R ColieetioriH niomptls
ittcr.ded to.
COLLECTIONS
Made on all acce-silde joint-
OFFICE l al * uc , ra of the day..
ii. PYE A 30. TANARUS„
, ~ Bn.Lers, FORSYTH, O-i-
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
Ta My Old Friends and Customers.
I BEG to announce to the public generally
.that I have told my stock ot goods, etc., to Mr.
! John A. Steele, who will hereafter conduct a gen-
Ltml mercantile bus ness at my old stand.
| In taking leave of mv friends and customers i
[de-ire to Tinder them the. expression of my warsa
jest thanks tor their long continued support. Also,
j o commend my successor, Mr. Steele, as a gen-
ItlemftE who will be found deserving ol all tbe
'patronage the house has hitherto enjoyed. Ilia
stock is cow a large aud unexceptional one, and
will be tully replenished for the early Spring
:rade. Respect!uliy, W. W. ANDERSON.
To the Purchasing; Public.
HAVING purchased tbe meicantile interest of
. Mr. W. W. Anderson, I respectfully solicit a.
continuance ot support from his old patron.-, and
the citizens of Monroe and adjoining counties*
generally. By pursuing a liberal course in as ’i
business operations I intend to at least deserve a
liberal patrouage. Very respectfully,
feb2s.3i JOHN A. STEELE.
TOMMEY, STEWART & HECK,
Hardware l^erchantsy
Cor. Decatur & Pryor 3ts. fronting Kimball House,
ATLWTA, GA.
Daalets in Iron, Steel, Hoes, Chains,
I Grain Crad’es, Builder and Carriage Material,
Powder, Rope, Belting, Etc.
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CHAPMAN, RUCKEIt & CO.
"W holesale Gr rocers
ANI)
[Commission Merchants,
COR. ALABAMA & FORSYTH STS.,
1 „ . ATLANTA, GA.
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W. L Carmichael & Cos.,
Having replenished tiieir stock
since the tiie, now offer tor sale an good a
‘stock ot PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES DYE
•stuffs, paints, oils, tobacco, cigars.
‘and every article usually kept in a tir&t Drug
'.Store —all cheap, lor cash.
: Aiso—a full assortment ol fresh I.andretL’s ana!
iPmking’s Garden Seeds.
! Gall and see us; you owe don't fail
jto settle. Our old books mast be balanced.
| fsblly.
P. H. KILLER,
\ TTORNEY AT LAV/, FORSYTH, GEORGIAN
I 7A- Wiil practice in the counties comprising tie
Flint Circuit, in the Supreme Court of Georgia,
l S. Supreme Court, and elsewhere per special
contract. Office tn the Court House, Up Stairs
feblS.ly