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Visitor I BY D. W. D. BOPLLY. fRIDAY MORNING. AUG. 1873. I©“ The Sn Franciseo Examiner “Some of the prtstended friends >f the farmers deprecate their med l&ng with the question of the tariff. |Tkis is the just question that con perns the farmers most of all. It is j* rational t demand transportation Wf milroad and at the same time iii pst on maintaining in force the pres ent dnties on iron, of which the rail roads are built. Everything that inters into the construction of rail loads is enhanced in cost by the ex jfetions of the tariff, and this fact fur ishes an argument to the railway i nuiagers for retaining their present Schedule of freight and fares. While üblio demand is being made upon ic railroads to reduce their rates, t it be made entirely possible by lowing them to procure cheap tna irial for constructing their lines.” IST The Albany Argus sajß: “It ; gratifying to know that the feeling I New York city is strongly in fa or of hearty union. The people ill follow where leaders in whom icy confide shall indicate. There is disposition to dictate; only a earning for hearty and effective co >eration. There is no reason not to ad confident that this desire for unity ill be gratified. Complications will b smoothed away, and no differen ?* allowed of a nature perilous to ccess. In the full assurance of this spicious result the Democracy of te interior confidently prepare for te coming campaign. Sound princi es have been steadily gaining rengtb for years. Give them vigor td vitality by careful preparation, id the issues of tho conflict will not i doubtful.” COLLI'HK IS Til* FaSHMNS.— A iris correspondent assures the fasli nuble world Hint “ there has boon a gular collapse in the fashions; the is tie has exploded, and now the omen cannot coax their skirts to i too fiat. The trimming is all at e bottom of the skirt, and put on ns ;i! as possible, so as to stand very ff. The sash is worn around the ess, just above the knee, tied on e sides with a bow and ends. No ess is considered elegant that has | a sweeper at the bottom of the rt for evening robes; it is made of co and other rich quillings. ‘ The viking costumes are' still worn ert, and jest escape tho ground, bicli, to Bay the least, is a clean diion. The New York Journal of •mmerce says:.“Thor* was scarcely ’ourth of July celebration in all I West where the Patrons of llus ndry did not make themsolves fell, eso are clover taotios. Tho only in tlie harmony of the new move nt is the appearance of veteran iticians as spokesmen, if not as di •tors. Both of tho old parties send their jest men to take tho lead, I It is amusing to note how adroitly ijr adapt themsolves t* the feelings r Incensed farmers. It is impos to exclude wholly these inge us, unscrupulous persons, but the rons of Husbandry must bo care bow they trust them, or the now ty will be wrecked.” HSNEr'ICIART ScUOLAHtmIPB FOR ibioAt Students. —The Tmatnes of | Louisville (ivy.) Medical College • created a number of beneficiary \ tolarships, for the benefit of poor ■ ♦ deserving young men seeking a t-olass medical education. One icficiary student is received from ! h Congressional District of the brent States. Sons of physicians t clergymen are very properly iorded Beneficiary Scholarships. | ch Scholarship is worth to the re [ ient of it #2OO, and those receiv h such aid are known only to the ! an. Mode of obtaining a Benefi [ ry Scholarship learned by applying Dr. K.S. Gaillard, Dcau, Louisvillo, L. As the uext session begins in [ Member, all young men needing I, should apply as early as possible. ||Tbb Cholera ik Vikxaa.—The I 'respondent of the Loudon Times [jftes: H ln spite of the atremiou* I rial in the Neue Frele Crease, I tre is as I learn from wall-informed | trees, no doubt of the fact of sev -111 dearly-defined cases of Asiatic 1 >lera having appeared. It is well I own that nlf accounts of epidemic jkuesss are systematically suppress | in the public papers through the I lout fiar of injury to the cvhibi |n, in which so many and snch Rge peeuniary interests are at IJteports from Texas say the crop Rfspcet in that State is gloomy in A Warning. A man died in Worcester, Mass., tho oilier day, whose career ought to be for young men the most effectual of temjierawe lecture*. Twelve years ago he was a young lawyer in Con necticut, of uncommon abilities and brilliant promise. -He entered the army and rose to the rank of colonel, but he became addicted to drink and rapidly sank to the grade of a drunk aid. While intoxicated otic night? in a low den in that city, he was “ shanghied ” aboard a bark hound for China. The vessel was wrecked off St. Helena, and lie, with several others, was rescued and taken to Cape Town. Here, while engaged iti a debauch,he was arrested and im prisoned, and afterwards hired to a Dutch farmer; where lie worked with Hottentots. Escaping, lie shipped on a trading vessel through the straits of Madagascar, where ho de serted, and lived lor some time among the natives of the island. Narrowly escaping murder, lie after wards put to sea in an open boat, was picked up and taken to Cape Town, and then to Singapore. For several years lie wandered about in China and Japan, a poor, drunken vagabond; finally landed in San Francisco in a state of beggary, and made his way across the continent. His friends heard of |Km as a bar tender in a miserable saloon in Eliza beth, N. J., sick arid broken down, and took him homo to die, a worn out debauchee, at the ago of tliiriy six. Important to tiiic I.vsuhkh. —Tho Hartford Times states that the /Etna Insurance Company of that city, had been obliged to pay $2,000 on a pol icy which never was issued, and which it never intended to issue. A special agent took tho application of a man named Tall, at Prairie Du Cliien, Wis.,aml sent it to the general agent, who sent it to the homo office. The home office declined the risk, writing upon it “not approved,” and it was returned to the general agent, who notified the special agent. Hut the latter neglected to notify tho ap plicant. The Judge of the United States District Court of Wisconsin ruled that it was their duty to notify Tuft w ithin u reasonable time of his non-acceptance, so tliulhe might have obtained insurance elsewhere; that tho failure of the agent to notify Taft that he was not insured, was the fuilure of the company likewise. #-??“ Northwest Georgia lias a hu morist who, under tho pseudonym of “Sandy Higgins,’* is very foolishly confining himself to a small field. For natural humor, vivid and sponta neous, Borne of the sketches are entitled to rank with the best of that kind of literature. Whoever “Sandy Higgins” may be, it is certain he is not very ambitious. We fully agree with Harris, of the Savannah News, ns to “Sandy’s” qualifications. “Sandy,” however, is a resident of Alabama—Randolph eouuly, we believe—instead of Geor gia- _ IST The Commencement exersises at Mercer University, Maoon, just concluded our pronounced by tho Telegraph & and Messenger quite a success, then on tho auspices of a very able faculty, of which the Rev. A. J. Battle is the President, tho Coliege is making maternal advance ment in tho arts, aud appliances of modern education. Tho above, from tho last Talbot ton Standard, wo print “ according to copy.”’ Tim paragraph is not ex actly dear to us, but we like the idea of a malo college malting maternal advancement, on account of its novelty. Hotiftiin.i: Death. —The Washing ton Garotte says: A young man named Turner, liv ing near Diuihurg, in this county, died on Saturday after a few days ill ness, and it is supposed from (lie lot lowing singular cause: Some days previous to his attack he assisted in the disintermeut of a corpse, for the purpose of removal to another place of burial. The body had been buried some months, and was exceedingly offensive when the grave was opened. Young Turner began to complain of head-ache and other symptoms soon after the removal, and in a few days became seriously ill, and died on Saturday. He complained during his entire illness of smelling and even lasting the horrible eflluvia nrising from the corpse. It is supposed that this eftluvia or exhalation penetrated and saturated his entire system, thus poisoning his blood and causing death. We hear that a brother of his is also very ill from the same cause, though wedo not know that the report is authentic. tST"" Before the war of 1812 the pay of Congressmen was $0 per day. It was raised after the war, and then reduced. In 1858 the pay was raised to >I,OOO per year, members taking their back pay for that Congress. In 1868 it was raised to >5,000, the mem hers again taking their back pay. In 1871 the pay was raised to #7,500, with accompanying “ sa ary graU” Matters in Georgia. It is said that a negro in Forsyth won $1,200 in the Louisville Lottery. Major Stephen F. Miller, well known from his connection with the Georgia press, and as author of ’‘Bench and liar of Georgia,” propo ses soon to publish a work entitled “ Forty Years Ago.” In the case of Griffin k Hoffman, of Baltimore, vs. J. Clarke Swayze of Macon, for libel, tried in Bibb Supe rior Court, the jury rendered a ver dict of $2,500 damages for plaintiffs. The Methodist Church at Granl villc has bought anew organ, and the rush has since been so great that it is difficult to procure a seat. A gentleman of Griffin has brought suit against the city council of that place for SIO,OOO damages—false im prisonment. “ Blind Tom,” the negro pianist, has settled near Warrenton, Va. Ilis former owner, Gen. James N. Bethune, of Columbus, Ga., who brought up Blind Tom from infancy, and took special pains in his musical training, is living near Warrenton on a farm. Judge Hopkins, of the Atlanta cur ett'd, has decided that Conley’s par don of Foster Blodgett is of no effect. He says that no man can be pardoned before confession of guilt or convic tion. Mrs. Charlotte Harris died at Stone Mountain recently, aged one hundred and four. There are, within six miles of Nor cross, seven men and three ladies, averaging from 70 to 85 years of age, all in the enjoyment of very good health. Whidby, of the Atlanta Constitu tion, states that a lady of that city has discovered that kerosene oil will exterminate bed bugs, Wo heard of the remedy long ago. Harris, of the Savannah News, says: “Tho stockholders of the At lanta and West Point Rond will be held in Atlanta on Fridny.” We gen erally nnderstand all we read in Harris’ column, but after reading the above item, we are led to ask, to wdiat will the stockholders bo held? W. F. Ivey, one of Grant Alex ander & G'o.,s convict guards has been arrested for causing tho death of a negro prisoner by unmercifully whipping him with a leather thong. A littly boy in a Columbus bar room, last week, threw a lighted match on tho floor, amongst tho drip pings from a barrel of spirits, which ignited. Ho tried to put out the fire by turning the faucet and letting out somo liquor on it, but instead, it caught and exploded the barrel. The fire was put out after the explosion of three kegs and two barrels of li quor. Tho La Grange Reporter offers to publish original poetry for twenty cents a line. If this brings no money into tho treasury, it will at least keep out of the paper sundry unpoetioul effusions. Tbc Augusta Constitutionalist is shortly to bo revived, with Mr. Jas. It. Randull as editor. A correspondence has just closed between Gov. Smith and Hon. 11. V, Johnson, in relation to some remarks made by the latter at the Macon din ner, which tho former considered reflecting upon him, -Gov. Smith has expressed himself satisfied with Mr. Johnson’s explanation. KMer Win. Davis died suddenly, in Heard county, a few days ago. lie was sitting on his piazza, feeling unwell, when he concluded to lay down. lie died in n minute after getting in bed. He bad said he would dio that day. Searching the World for the Kansas Murderers. —An agent of the Spcoial Detective Agency of New York, is now iu Paris in pursuit of the Bender family, who are charged with being the authors of the whole sale murders lately discovered at Cherry valle, Kansas. Detectives from the same agency have been sent to London and all the leading Kuropean cities. One of the accused, Johanna, or, as she is commonly known, Kate Bender, is quite young, has red hair, and is a person of rather repulsive features, with a furtive and distrust ful expression. She was seen on a steamer which left New York for Havre, and it is supposed that the whole family are at present concealed iu the French capital or in the envi rons. Kate Bernier is possessed of some education, and is said to be able to speak a little French. If they are really in France, now that the police are on their track, it will be impossible for them long to escape detection. It appears that the world is to he ransacked that these murderers may bo caught. It is most singular that, w ilh the strongly marked character istics of all four members of this in famous family, they have escaped de tection so long.— Paris American IkgitUr. Matters in General. The fire in Baltimore on the 25th extended over ten acres, destroyed two churches and one hundred other biiildingg, and rendered sixty fami lies houseless. Loss nearly one mil lion dollars. Capt. Willis Warley, of Tennessee, drew $50,000 in the Louisville lot tery. Five fires occurred in Norfolk, Va., during the twenty-four bouts ending on Sunday morning last. Lightning struck a house in Girard, Ala., last Saturday, notwithstanding tho building was supplied with two lightning rods. No harm done. An engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on the 27th, lost con trol of his engine, and while going over forty miles an hour, it ran into a freight train, scattering the con tents in every direction, killing three men, and badly injuring three others. A. T. Stewart’s will, made before going to Europe, shows him to be worth one hundred million dollars. L. 11. Keith, of Massachusetts, drew SIOO,OOO ill the Louisville lot tery. The negro who was hanged at Suffolk, Virginia, the oilier day, re marked, as he was going to the gal lon’s : “ I wish dey had put it off Hill after watermillion time.’’ Fourteen years ago a young man, residing in Lewiston, Me., sustained spinal injuries which resulted in an inability to walk, move his body, or lie down, Ever since then he has set in a chair, unablo to move without excruciating pain, and a mirror be fore him affords him his only glimpses of affairs beyond the limits of his home. During the late cholera epidemic at Gallatin, Tennessee, many mocking birds and canaries sickened in their cages and died, while those which frequented the gardens instinctively fled to the woods, and did not return until the cholera took its departure. The Fourth of July tornado which visited the Weft came upon a mar riage ceremony in Wisconsin, and killed the preacher just as he came to tho words : “ 1 now pronounce you —” Louisiana expects this season to have the largest sugar crop since the memorable harvest of 1850. Thirty women are employed on the New York city dailies at salaries varying from S2O to SSO per week. An Illinois boy, who went upon tho housetop to fly his kite, was dragged oft' by the toy and killed. A dispatch from Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, to Attorney General Wil liams, says they collected in June from the city of New Orleans alone $1,100,000. The monthly traveling** expenses of tho Shah of Persia are said to be $250,000. A monster lobster has been caught in Portland, Me., which measured three feet ten inches from tip to tip of tho extended claws. While tlie daughter of the Czar of Russia was recently in Rome, a mar ble statuette belonging to the collee tion of tho Capitoline Museum was presented to her by the city author ities as a memento of her visit to tho Museum. It is a Venus of exquisite workmanship, and was originally dug up in tho Printorian camp. A young wife at Lewiston, Me., lately disobeyed her husband, and felt so badly about it that she took twenty grains of strychnine. Tho dose was too large, and she recovered; but she wiil know better than to dis obey her husband another time. Her i case should be a warning to all young wives who are tempted to do this great wrong. They mustn’t feol so bad about it. When a crowd of jayhawkers star ted a disturbance in a Texas church, the other day, tho preacher raised up a Bhot gun and said: “ William Dollo, ait down or I’ll make it pain ful for you.” William sat dowu and was as quiet as a lamb. On the steamship Virginia, that arrived in New York Saturday, were a man and a woman who lmd met, loved aud married on board the ship. The most interesting feature of this hasty affair was that the hap py couple would not permit a minis ter to perform the ceremony, but in sisted on the captain marrying them, which he did. A Baltimore clergyman writes to a friend concerning the frequency of fires in Boston as follow*.: “In the rapid whirl of events,the motion of the uuiverse becoming accelerated, the bub is evidently overheated by fric tion,” hence tbo numerous conflagra tions. A Hamer's Ferry man owns a whole mountain, and offers to trade it for a shot-gun. Vienna InAel-keepers mistrust Amer icans, so it is reported, and present their little bills ,l exact'y on time.’’ Brought Back to Life. A curious story of the bringing to life of a man who had committed sui cide by hanging at Val-de-Grace, Canton Friburg, is told by the Con feder'e. On the first "diagnosis the doctors affirmed that asphyxia was complete; the body gave not the slightest sign of life, it being blue and rigid. One of the physicians present, however, would not leave the corpse without making a final experiment on it. He uncovered the breast, and attempted for some time to jnduce respiration by artificial means, but without result. He then applied the pole of an electric bat tery to the passage of the pneunio grastic nerves, and caused a strong current to pass at intervals of foiir seconds. Almost immediately feeble signs of respiration reappeared. Five minutes afterward the radical pulse and the cardiac pulse again became perceptible. The epiglotis was tu mified, and it was necessary to pull the tongue out of the mouth by means of a pair of pincers, in order to ren der the respiration freer. A few ounces of blood were then drawn from the mediocepbalic vein. The dilated pupils contracted gradually, and the signs of life became more and more manifest. The patient was then able to swallow a small quan tity of alcohol Finally a slight muscular contraction was perceptible without the intervention of electric ity; the sensibility of cornea re-ap peared; then the fee\ became warm again, and soon after the regular pul sations of the carotid arteries were easily perceptible. Singular Depravity. —The Chol era at Greenville, Tennesse, has de veloped a few cases of monstrous dc pravity, of which the following is oue f An old gentleman, probably nearly seventy years of age, who lived a mile or two in the country, and noted for his recklessness and utter defiance of the laws of God, came into town one day, and passing down the street, cried out that he inteuded to spread the cholera over the town. He then went to an undertaker and wanted to know if he could make him a coffin, and what he would charge. The re ply was, that if he wanted it before his death lie would charge him twen ty-five dollars, but if after, he would only charge fourteen dollars. He told him to proceed with the matter, but to be sure to make it out of two inch plank, and leave it open at both ends, so that if the devil came in at one end, he could escape at the other. That night lie was stricken down with the cholera, and by morning was a corpse. J® 1 ” It is stated, says the London Daily News, that the experiment of light cables to the United States will shoitly be practically tested, arrange ments to enable Mr. 11. Ilighton to lay a cable across the Atlantic being in active progress. Mr. Ilighton’s cable is not to cost above .£IOO,OOO, and if it be successfully laid, telegrams between Europe and this country may in future cost less in pence thatl they do now in shillings. THE PEOPLE’S PAPERI THE A TLANTA C (INSTITUTION, DAILY AND WEEKLY, WITH GREAT EIGHT PAGE SUNDAY EDITION. Every family should linvc the Constitution —l. is full of carefully selected general read ing—Poetry, literature, Stories, News. Every farmer should have it—lt makes a specialty of erop and faim news. Every lawyer should have it—Tlie Supreme Court Decisions are exclusively reported for it, Immediately when rendered. Every Merchant should have it—lts cele brated weekly cotton editorials contain facts and figures to lie lmd nowhere else. Every lady wants it—lts famous Fashion Letters are eagerly sought. Everybody should take Tho Constitution— It is a newspaper looking after the iutcrest of all classen. Its Correspondence Department is not ex celled in the United States, embracing ■ ‘ Round the World,” European, ami letters from Georgia and the American States. Largest Editorial Staff in the South—l. W. Avery, Political Department; J. T. Lump kin, News ; W. 0. Whidby, City ; N P. T. Finch, Howell C. Jackson, Associates; E. T. Clark, Managing Elitor. Hon. A. H. Stephens, Corresponding Editor. Oapt. Henry Jackson, Supreme Court Re porter, furnishes daily proceedings of the Court, and the Decisions. JSP~ Spleudid new features aro soon to be added. -4® Term*—Daily, sto.oo per annum ; $5.00 for six months; $-.50 for three montlis; SI.OO for one month. Weekly $2.00 per annum ; 1.00 six months, CLUBS- CLUBS! For the Mammoth Weekly—containing the cream of the Daily—sls.oo for ten annual snbsuiibert, and a paper to the getter-up of the club. On editorial matters, address “ Editors f'rHiskitution,” on business matters, address W. A. HEMPHILL* CO., Atlanta. Ga. f’mm a Georgia Exchange. 1 lii Atlanta Sim has merged into The At lanta Constitution, wittaflion. A. H. Ste piiens' t'oirwpouiijug Editor. The Constitu tion, already one of the best journals in the United States, witTWoubtless.' with this acces sion, become the leading journal iu the South.- THE GOOD TIME HAS COME When no good Housekeeper can afford to do without'orie of the celebrated 'That arc sold and warranted by W. It. ROBARTS k do., CdlumliUs, G& ; Sianufacturers of Tin, Sheet Iron arid Copper Ware of every description. Wholesale and retail dealers in Stoves, Hardware, Wood and Willow Write, CrockeVyi Cutlery, and House-furnishing Goods generally. We are prepared to furnish Goods in our line as LOW as the LOWEST, with a GUARANTEE ON EVERY ARTICLE SOLD Call and sec us before buying elsewhere. Columbus, Ga.j Aug. 1,1873—3 m Wi Hi ROBARTS & CO; L. M. BURRUS. Gi M, WILLIAMS BURRU3 & WILLIAMS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, ALABAMA WABEIIOUSE, Ciolumtous, G-a. Special attention paid to storage and sale of Cotton; I-arge lot of Bagging and Ties on hand and for sale at the lowest market price; . We also sell the Brown Cotton Gin. augl-3m MOUND CITY Commercial College, Formerly called Rice & Stewart’s, 210 and 212 N. FOURTH ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. - Established 14 Years. Students admitted this year 215. The mound city COMMERCIAL COLLEGE —is A— model Business school. The Principals and Professors are men of thorough literary and scientific education, of eminent ability as teachers, and accountants of 15 years’ experience. The Commercial Course'is confined exclu sively to those branches applicable to busi ness. The latest and most approved methods of teaching are used. A strict morality is taught by example and precept. By our new and improved methods, under talented teachers, the student becomes, in a short time, a rapid and fine penman, a quick and accurate accountant, a thorough book keeper, a fluent speaker and writer, a wide awake busine.-s mau. With a corps of teachers equal to that of tlie best university, the Mound City offers to students uncqualed facilities in the following Commercial Course: Butiness Penmanship, Commercial Arith metic, Mercantile Law, Grammar and Busi ness Correspondence, Book-keeping and Com mercial Law. TO YOUNG MEN SEEKING EMPLOYMENT, we offer extraordinary terms. It has-always been one of the main features of this institu tion to provide employment for graduates. For this purpose we have labored for years to establish air acquaintance and reputation with business melt in all sections of the West. We now are able to guarantee to furnish a situation on completion of course, or to refund one half of the entire fees. References to students from Northern Ala bama aind all ports of Mississippi, will be fur nished on application. Board can be had in the family of one of the Professors, at reduced rates. bend for circular of this Great Rnsincss School, to THOS. A. RICE, augl-lyr President. GEORGIA— Harris County. James Fortes makes application for tetters of administration upon the estate of John Westwood, late of said county, deceased: All persons concerned are hereby notified to show cause, if any they have, by the first Monday in September next, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand nnd official signature, augl-at J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord'y. GEORGIA — Harris County. Sterling S. Jenkins, exerntor of Wilder Phiiii|ie, deceased, makes application for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of said deceased: All persons concerned are hereby notified to show cause, if any they have, by the first Monday in September next, why said letters should not be granted said applicant. Given under my hand and official seal, r augl-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y. (with latest improvements.) FOR 20 YEARS THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Over 800,000 in use. If you think of buying a Sewing Machine/ it wiil pay you to examine the record* of lho;-e now use, and profit by expeiience. The Wheeler & Wilson stands alone a b the osfiT Linux Running Machine using tub Rotary Hook, making a Lock Stitch alike oil both sides of the fabric sewtd. Ail shuttle machines waste power iu drawing the shuttle hack after the stitch is formed, bringing dou ble wear afid strain upon both machine and operator; berice. while other mtuiliines rap idly -wear (tut, the Wift*Lkß & Wilson lasts A LIFETrSiF,, afid proves a tl economical invest ment. Do Hot belifeve' all that is promised by so-called ‘cheap’ machines: you should require proof that years of use have tested their value. Money once thrown away can not be recovered. Send for our circulars. Machines sold on easy terms, or monthly payments taken. Old machines putin order or received in-exchange.- Wheeler & Wilson Mf’i i Co.’s Omasa: Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Columbus, Ga. IV. B. CLEVES, Gen. Agt., augl-lyr Savannah, Ga. E. F~ & A. C. LANIER, Successors to Lanier, Bafidle & Coi,- WHOLESALE GROCERS and* Commission Merchants, West Point, Ca., Keep on bawl a full assortment ©I Groceries, Which they offer at prices that defy com pel P tion. They possess unsurpassed facilitits lor selling goods cheap, and will make it to the interest of their former patrons, and the pub-' tic generally, to buy of them. They ask a continuance of the patronage extended to that old firm. Ro2->yr