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CkDamiltmiDisttcr BY I). W. D. DOULLY. FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 2, 1874. * No person is authorized to collect money for this paper without a written order from the proprietor. Do Your Duty. Before another inane of this paper, the election for members of the next General Assembly will have trans pired, and upon its results depend many of the sacred interests of the people of Georgia. Every white voter of the State should be at his post of duty, and by his ballot and iiiilueneo sustain the gloiious reputation of ear good old commonwealth in her tuftwOTiag fidelity to democratic principle*. This is the only path of duty poialed out for every patriotic citizen to walk in who loves his countiy anil the great fundamental principles ol con stitutional liberty. Vox popuii, vox Dei, is no empty sound to the Amer ican ear. It is full of meaning, and significant of that high and onward march in Christian civilization which was vouchsafed to the noble defend ers of our liberties in the days of ’7O, and hallowed by their sacred blood. And we, their noble descendants, should verify this great truth, that this is the white man’s government, and that the chivalrie blood ol Amer icans will rule America. The genius of our institutions is concentrated in the sovereign will of the people, and the prosperity and advancement of our national integrity finds its Herculean power in the di rection of that will, sublimated by llio benign influence of au enlightened conscience. Let there bo no lethargy among the poople on the day of the election. Let every man turn out and do his whole duty in holding up the hands of our standard-bearers, Hudson, Moss nnd Kilpatrick ; and when tho polls aro closed and the ballet is as certained, let tho loud huzzahn go up for tho largest democratic triumph that has over been known iu our county. To do this, all must act in noble oonoert. There must bo no apathy, but every mau must feel it his duty to do something on that day. Lay asido all prejudice, and ooine bravely up to the work, like tho Roman co horts, determined to conquer or per ish nobly in the breach. And, our word for it, you will feel proud of yoursolves, and your wives and chil dren will sing preuns of praise that will fairly make tho mountains of old Harris reverberate with the melody of ten thousand iEolian harps. Then “ Strike for yonr altars, God aiul your native land." . ■ ■ —m Cotton has been steadily de clining for Bovdral weeks. Deaths in Columuus. —Mr. Win. Snow, ono of tho oldest and best cit izens of Columbus, died iu that city lust Sunday. Mrs. Bontrite, wife of Mr. A. V. Boatrito, a merchant of Columbus, also died there on the same day. IW Brooklyn sustaining her reputation. A case of rape nnd an other of Beecherism aro the latest sensations. — 2-2*" Wo met up with a mau in Columbus, last week, who said ho never advertised. Tho sheriff may advertise for him some day. £37* Columbus, at this time, is a city of movers. A Typhoon.—A frightful typhoon passed over Hong Kong, ou the 27th. Ten vessels were wrecked, and many lire missing. A largo number of houses were destroyed, and 1,000 persons are reported missing. The damage to property was immense. Saw a Vision.—Butler was mak ing a speech at Essex, the other day, and while urging all men to pay their debts, some wag lowered a spoon through the roof by moans of a string, mid there it huug suspended. The crowd first laughed, then roared, and for once iu his life the “ brass ” of the Beast deserted him, and ho was un manned. *es“ Judge Clark, Radical, declared iu a recent speech at Somerville, Ala., that before he would execute such a law as the civil rights bill proposes, Ite would go to the penitentiary. Dkaiv —Mr. J. -It. Johnson, of Waco, Texas, from whom a letter appeared in the Visitor some mouths ago, died on the 13th nit. lie was a coumu of our townsman, Mr. Joel. T. Johnson. 17" By the recent explosion of the boiler of a steam thresher at St. Paul, four persons were killed, and several miters more or less injured. In a Tight Flack. —The Jessup Georgian says that a teamster lately discovered a snake in the road, and stopped to kill it. He struck at it with a small limb, but the stick was rotten. The snake began to coil for an attack, and the man found himself hemmed in between the wagon and a large log. lie has a wooden leg, and this he placed between the snake and himself, and threw bis other leg some distance behind. The snake struck his wooden leg, and went its full length beyond. Before it couid recover from the spring, the man had it grasped tightly by the neck. lie pnt his other hand in his pocket, took out his knife, opened it with the assistance of the arm which held the snake, and cut off its head. It was a very largo rattlesnake. Firs. —Fin s occur more frequently at this season, particularly gin-house burnings. Head the card of D. F. Wtfleox, in to day’s paper, and call on him tight off and have your prop erty insured, before it is too late. IT-3?* A few days ago a boy in Sa vannah drank some carbolic acid, mistaking it for alo. Ho had asked, his mother for ale, and been refused; and during her absence from the •room he went to the closet where the ale was kept, and took a drink from the bottle of acid. When his mother returned ho told her he had had some ale, and showed her the bottle he got it from. Medical aid was summoned at once, and his life was saved. ■ ■ ii if Saddlery. —lf you need anything in the saddle or harness line, call on W. R. Kent, in Columbns. 110 has an excellent stock, well adapted to the wants of farmers, and sells at pri ces which will give satisfaction. See his advertisement in this issuo. VWA negro shot and killed his wife Boston, Mass., on the 20th. Groceries.— Head tho advertise ment of J. <fc J, Kaufman, in this number of the Visitor. They are doing a large wholesale business, keep a big stock of everything in their line, and guarantee that no house in Co lumbus shall undersell them. Mr. J. W. Ilodo, of Harris county, is with this house, and would ho glad to see his old friendst IT??” A recent negro meeting in Thomasville broke up in a row. Whittle)’, who was present, sloped hurriedly through a window. The matter was brought before the mayor, nnd ono witness, on being asked why he was there, said bo heard Mr. Whiteloy was to issue bacon rations to them. I®* The Atlanta Musical Eclectic asks: “ Have we a Peabody among us?” Wo can’t say as to that; but you have several Shylocks in your midst. E'i.7" A singular ease of hydropho bia is reported from Chicago. Charles Haake, a hoy six years of age, was bitten on the hand by a cat about five weeks ago. The wound was so slight that tho child did not complain of it at all, hut on Saturday morning he was taken with all tho symptoms of hydrophobia, and died before night. The oat has never at any time exhib ited any signs of madness, and the physicians regard it as a most re markable case. £37" .Jackson, of tho Columbus Dispatch, has known us for several years, but ho hasn’t learnt to spell our name correctly yet. £ •?' A man was recently run over and killed by a Pennsylvania railroad train of which his son was conductor. Highwaymen. —Last Sunday night, as a limlman from Mr. Kyle’s plan tali >n, at Woolfolk's bend, was re turning home from Columbus, bo was halted nt Hull creek bridge by two white and two black men, who de manded his money, lie wheeled his horse, and dashed back to Columbus. They fired at him, but missed.' $r A telegram reports Grant as being in Now York last Monday, and leaving that night. Just as if the Southern people cared to know of Grant’s whereabouts. £ Tho Columbus Baptist Asso ciation closed its session at Liberty Hill last Monday. There was a good attendance each day, and a large one on Sunday. The next session will be held in Columbus. I’nufAVMKNT. —Alter tho Ist day of January next subscribers will have uo postage to pay on printed matter —all postage being prepaid by the publisher. J i?** A sheriff at Ellsworth, Kan sas, was shot through the head and killed by a Texas eow-loy reoently. The cow-boy was then shot and killed by eilicr officers. Matters in Georgia. Chas. De Lyon, a youthfulnegro thief, who was being carried , from Jessup to Brunswick, lately, jumped off the train and broke bis neck. The Americus volunteers have de termined to arm themselves, as the Government cannot furnish thorn arms. The dairies around Savannah fur nished that city with twenty thous and pounds of fresh butter during the past year. A heavy rice crop is anticipated by planters near Savannah. The deaf and dumb institution at Cave Springs has seventy pupils. A negro woman aged 60 years, who lives on Mr. Sam Smith’s plantation, near Saudersviile, has cultivated this year, the Gazette says, ten acres in cotton, ten acres in corn, a potato patch and a garden. She will make about three bales of cotton and near ore hundred bushels of corn. Dur ing the year she hired two days’ work to aid her in cultivating her crop* otherwise the work has all been done by herself. About oiie-fourth of the business part of Bainbridge was burned on the 20th inst. Loss nearly $30,000. This is the fifth disastrous fire that has visited Bainbridge in three years. The Thomaston Herald mentions the Lillnisr of an owl last week, meas- V 7 uring four feet ten inches from tip to tip. Mr. W. C. Eason has left at the Thomasville Enterprise office a cotton stalk with over 400 large bolls. It is of the Dickson improved variety. Mr. E. has 25 acres of it, which he says will make 30 bales. Mr. Wm. Howard, aged 69, died recently in Thomas county from inju ries received by the falling on him of a heavy portion of a cotton screw. A young lady at Grooversville, Thomas county, recently received, through the post-office, a letter from a buck negro, proposing elopement and marriage. The citizens are much excited, and are hunting the writer, for the purpose of showing him his mistake. A negro school-teacher tried to spit on. a young man in Talbotton, the other day. llis head has not yet sufficiently healed to remove the bandage. The Atlanta custom house is to be built on the Westmoreland lot, oppo site the capitol. The night train on the Selma, Home & Daltou H. 11. went through the bridge at Waxahatchie creek on the 24th. The engine and six ears were wrecked, four persons killed, and eleven seriously and fourteen slightly wounded. Jeff. Long, a negro politician of Macon, said, in a late speech to his race, that the white man who would vote the radical ticket was too mean to he trusted—ho would steal. ■ Tho News reports some four or five more deaths from diptheria, in the no’gliborhood of Franklin, since its last issue, and says there are yet a number of malignant cases. The'dairies around Savannah fur nished that city with twenty thous and. pounds of fresli butter during the past year. Mr. John G. Butler, of Savannah, who went North last April, and was returning to the city on the San Sal vador, when nearly in sight of home,; stepped on a lady’s dress, who was stauding near the rail, apologized, threw himself into the sea, and was drowned. The Constitution says two hundred and fifty cases have been brought to tho present term of Fulton Superior Court, the heaviest being that of Re becca 11, Davis vs. tho Central Rail way Company for $20,000 damages for personal injuries. The Appeal says that Mr. Wash. Smith, of Wilkinson county, was as saulted, a few evenings ago, while driving nlong the road in his buggy, by a persou dressed in womau’s elothes, who sprang up behind his buggy and attempted to cut his throat with a knife. He warded off the knife with his band and received a slight wound, and, seizing his whip, struck the assassin a blow’ with ‘the staff, knocked her out of the hitggv, and, whipping his horse, made his escape, the persou running after tho buggy some distance. The Board of Aldermen of Sanders ville, charge one thousand dollars for a license to retail spirituous liquors within the incorporate limits. Tho Columbus factories pay out $24,000 per month to their employes. Tho books and furniture of tho Co lumbus Library Association were sold at auction last week, and brought $l3O. Tho engineers of tho United States Coast Survey have Commenced the erection of buildings for a permanent .post on Lavender’s Mountain, near Rome. Matters in General. A collision occurred on (he Balti %iore and Ohio railroad on the 23d. The mail car took fire and was de stroyed, and a clerk therein was burnt to death. The baggage car was also burnt, and some of the plat forms demolished, but none of the passengers were injured. A boy fell from a swing, in New York, on the 25th, and died .soon after. A woman in Rhode island drowned herself, on the 25th, because her hus band had rebuked her for getting drunk. The widow of “Stonewall ’* Jack son lives in Charlotte, N. C. She is reported to be not more than 25 or 30 years old, and quite handsome; And now the members of Plymouth church, not content with “ white washing ” their hypocritical, villain ous pastor; speak of increasing his salary to $30,000. Such a church is stench in the nostrils of the Al nP-Shty 1 . There are more white women in fif'-nnessee than negro women who can neither read nor write. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania has declared against the third term, and favoring Ilart raiift for President. Admiral Scinraes is a candidate for Congress in Mobile (Ala.) district. His disabilities were removed by Congress last winter. The colored troops of Evansville, Ind., met a short time since and pass ed resolutions denouncing the Radi cal party as corrupt and no longer worthy of trust. It is stated that a person can live cheaper and better in San Francisco than in any other city in the country for tho amount of money expended. The silk factories of New Jersey employ 7,000 girls. A spectacular drama, founded on Webster’s dictionary, unabridged, is in course of preparation. A New York doctor figures it out that an average woman will shed a barrel of tears in forty years. At Richmond, near London, the ants, red and black, and without wings, have suddenly assumed the character of a plague. The grasshoppers have gone into Mississippi to finish the work of the Citvpet-baggers. In LawreucO county they fiy so thick that it 13 impossible to see through them, and they devour every green leaf that comes iu their way. The consumption of the flesh of horses, mules and asses is decidedly on the increase in Paris. Returns show that the flesh of 2,111 horses, asses and mules was sold to the Parisian public during the first quar ter of the current year, against 1,275 in 1872, and 680 in 1870. The total state debt of Texas is $8,384,336, which includes the new issue of $1,000,000. A portion of the latter has not been negotiated. Charleston reports a curious varie ty of rice. It has the stalk, the blades and the cob of the ordinary corn, but the cob is covered with grains of lice. Tho seed was obtained from Georgia, where a pond which had been planted in rice for years was drained and planted in corn, the result being a crop of the hybrid vice above de scribed. .. * . A lightning rod, which was put up under the personal supervision of Benjamin Franklin, in 1762, remains still upon a hotel in New Hampshire. In Kansas an extra session of the Legislature is called to relieve the people who are suffering from grass hoppers. A sun dial on one of the forts in Texas, the actual value of which was originally sl7, is said to have cost Government $4,000. The post-office department has lately issued an order w hich is of in terest to persons in the rural dis tricts. The order requires country post masters to keep their offices open every day during the usual business hours and to attend at all other times that may be required to receive and dispatch the mails; and also requires them to open their office one hour on Sunday morning if a mail arrives at the office on that day. The yellow fever is said to be on the increase in Pensacola. There were fifty cases in the city and thirty at the navy-yard on the 21st. Jn Coosa county Ala., the white folks raise their own corh, cotton, rye, oats, etc. They tau the leather, and make their own shoes. George L. Cornell, a wealthy citi zen of Rye, N. Y., was trimming o tree, recently, when he fell from the ladder and broke his neck. A steamer recently made the trip from San Francisco to Yokohama, I Japan, in seventeen days and thirteen 1 hours, the fastest or.ssatre oil record. SADDLES AND HARNESS! HOME-MADE WORK A SPECIALTY! o W. R. KENT, Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds of SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, WHIPS, BITS, SPURS, CURRY-COMBS and BRUSHES. CARRIAGE, BUGGY, EXPRESS WAGON, CART and BRAY HARNESS, both Single and Doable Wagon, Buggy and Plow Bridles. "Wagon, Buggy and Plow Lines. Wagon and Plow Haines and Trace Chains. Ladies’ and Gents’ Trunks Valises, Satchels and Carpet Bags. Baby Carriages. The best Axle and Harness Grease. Harness, Sole, Upper, Lace and Hame-string Leather. Also, patent Dash and Enameled Leather. Enameled cloths, Saddle and Horse Blankets. Saddlery and Harness Hardware. Any kind of new work made to order, and old work repaired at short notice. Call and examine, and be convinced that I am determined to sell as cheap as any other house, regardless of cost. My stock is complete. \ Satisfaction guaranteed. W. R. KENT, oct2-3in 102 Broad st., Columbus, Ga. J. S. J O N E S’ CASH DK.Y GOODS HOUSE, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FALL PURCHASE. Especial attention is called to large additions mking to stock adapted to present season. A largo line ot new Hamburgs. Anew and desirable iot of Ladies’ Ties. An immense line of Shawls, all grades, at exceptionally popular prices. Ladies’ and Children’s Hosiery, Men’s and Bovs’ Half I Tot e. Men’s and Ladies’ Merino Vests. Full line of Black Alpacas. A superb quality of silk-warp Alpaca. Many desirable Black Mourning Dress Goods—the Colonna Cloth deserves especial iileii tion in this line. Several grades Black Cashmeres and Merino*. Anew tidng in Embroidery is presented in I’ique Edgings and Insertings. Beaded Trimmings and Beads in end'ess quantity. Beaded Scarfs, Fislius Barbs, Veils and Veilings. New lot of Buffs, Ruchings, etc. Immense lines of JEANS and CASSIMERES. BLEACHED and BROWN SHIRTINGS at Satisfactory Prices. Mr. Robert Spivey is again with me, and will be glad to see and serve his friends when they visit the city. sept2s-lm J. S. JONES. J. H. H A M I LT O N, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN, SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, &0., &&. FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR! A Large Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition. ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF Plantation & Family Groceries & Provisions. Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts, COLUMBUS - - • GEOEG3A tigQr* No charge for Drayago. feb2l-lyr GRAND ATTRACTION. NEW CLOTHING STORE. THORNTON & ACES, 78 BROAD ST., COLUMBUS. GA-. Having received their new stock of SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, For Men’s. Youths’, Boy s ’ and Children’s wear, offer superb r inducements to the trade!; Having carefully selected their goods with an eye to ttie wants of the trade, and the finan cial condition of the country, and having purchased their entire stock for Cash, they are enabled to offer great bargains to all buyers of good clothing. Their stock of Furnishing Goods is complete, new, novel and cheap. Give them a call. aplo-6m J.W. PEASE & NORMAN, COBTJMBXJS, GA., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN isoDOtfssk u>nisr®s a ®ns®ik£JS buheeip j&rcrsircb ira Axcjssb ipiKDSJTinMBBs &©<> Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Co s & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos, month havps, sheet music, etc. We make orders for sheet music and music books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock,‘will D'e ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. nov7-ly A- WITTICH- C- M- KINSEL. WITTICH & KINSEL, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS, iIWILIIS 111 BSf Bit 11$, NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. iBBt EramMiia All of tlio Latest Manufactures- An entirely new stock of the beet goods and the kites! stj leg hog been recently bought in New Yoik, and is hereby offered at the Lowest Casu Prices. Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles and Kve-fliasses, (told and silver Thimbles, ladies and gents' Chains, plain and fancy Hold King* of beautiful woi kin airship, and every variety of article found in a i'irst-c'ars Jewelry Store. Stencil Plates of every description cut at shoit notice. Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Peb'Jed Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agents , for the Arundel Pebble Speed s which are slightly colored, end iu fegh favor with every body using specks or eve-glasses. Watch, Clock and Jewelry repaiiing in all its i'ranches. Hir Jewelry, Society Hodges, Diamond setting, or auy new wnk made to order .U reasonable charge*. 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